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O O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iveryono in Southern Orecon Head The Mail Tribune" Fu'bluhe'3 Daily Except Saturday by n MZDrORD PRINTING CO w r7-29 North Fu St. Phone 2-!41 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HZRB GREY Advertuinf Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager KRIC A1XXN JR. Managing Editor ZAAJ. H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper tered as second clam matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATE? My Mall In Advance- Per Copy lOe Daily and Sunday One yea' $15 GO Dally and Sunday fits months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mca 4-25 Sunday Only One year (420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra) Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold H1H. Phoenix. Shady Cove Roru River. Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday One year 118 00 Dally and Sunday On month 140 carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance 6fflrtaj Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County L' n 1 led Preas-rull Leased wife MEMBER Of, AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative- WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. 3a n Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vanfouvfr BC NATIONAL EOlTOIIAi. I ASJOcfA'ieN Ntwsrirti PUSMSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 12. 1947 (Sunday) Air Force General Ira C. Eak er, vacationing here, terms uni fied national defense legislation "the most important since coloni al days." From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: All the new laws passed by the last legislature went into effect the past week, and no results, good or bad, were immediately appar ent. 20 YEABS AGO July 12. 1937 (Monday) Elmer R. Goudy, state relief administrator, to be here Wed nesday to confer with the Jack son county relief committee. A ball at Dreamland dance hall ends 29th annual Spanish War Veterans state encamp ment here. 30 YEARS AGO July 12. 1927 (Tuesday) An old-fashioned county fair will be welcomed back to Jack son county this year according to plans of Grange members and county farmers. Two twittering sparrows at tempt to establish home in courthouse rafters. 40 YEARS AGO July 12. 1917 (Thursday) Large crop of cantaloupe is forecast for the Valley in three weeks. Ashland and Medford Choral societies open Chautauqua at Ashland in new building. What's Your I.Q.? Mn or tn correct Is superior: seven or rlcbt U excellent: five or Is ts (ond 1. 1670: Colony settled on the neck of the Ashley and Cooper rivers: where they later estab lished as Charlestown or Charleston? 2. Who wrote the words and the music of the comic opera, "H.M.S. Pinafore '? 3. Bible: Is Apocalypse the ancient or modern Greek word for Apocrypha? 4. Why were strips of tinfoil dropped from planes during World War II? 5. What State has supplied the most Presidents? 6. ame the capital of North ern Ireland. 7. How many feet are in two rods? 8. What does "fait accompli" mean? 9. Should "and" be used be fore "etc."? 10. "A jug and a book and a dame. And a nice shady nook for the same," Said Omar Khayyam, "And I don't give a darn What you say. it's a great little game." E. M. Robinson. What is the "game"? Answers: 1. Charlestown. 2. Libretto by W. S. Gilbert, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. 3. No. It is another title for Revelation. 4. To confuse enemy radar re ception. 5. Virginia, (birthplace of 8 Presidents). 6. Belfast. 7. 33. 8. An accomplished fact. 9. No. 10. Love. TV. HUSBAND GO Chicago ilPi Things will be quiet for at least a month at the home of Mrs. Audrey Cor bino. Her husband, Frank, agreed in divorce court Thurs day to leave home for 30 days during which time Mrs. Corbino will turn off the TV set. His wife sued for divorce on grounds he had the television set on all the time. "I'm just dying for a rest fxom TV," she said. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York, July 8th: Down to reservations. We are due to leave ford. 111., Denver and good old We hope it will be cool. We have had enough heat and humidity to last us all summer. In fact we are back where May during an unusual heat wave, and we are departing in July in a USUAL one. We would like a penny for cones that have been sold in Greater Manhattan during our stay That would allow us to buy they might ask. Something new at the Grand is the most interesting and exciting railroad station in the world Right in the middle bisecting the in the Adirondacks bigger than the screen of color in "80 Days is one of the U.S. Army's ballistic missiles known as "Redstone.' It reaches from the tile floor commissioned will have a grand old time its propulsion fluid being alcohol and liquid oxygen (Imagine what "ETT" would do on a diet like that'). But he might not fancy the is hydrogen peroxide to generate ternal equipment." Needless to supersonic-atomic missile is not e This missile is automatic, that is it is not controlled from the ground but is self-controlled. It may surprise some to learn that 100 German V-2 experts headed by a certain Dr. Werner von Braun did the research and development work which resulted in the largest and most powerful aerial destructive weapon in the U.S. Army arsenal. The "Redstone" will not only greatly exceed the speed of sound but will fly above the earth's atmosphere. Its target is decided upon before the "fire" signal is given, and according to the army's announcement, it can't be deviated from that target by any counter media now known. Returning to the hotel, passed the Soviet Embassy building at the corner of Park Avenue and 68th street. Two N.Y. policemen are on duty at this corner night embassy from attack or inmates informed. The usual flag masts I iranrf hut thpv urprp harp anrl were in evidence as far as we could see. In fact the former mil lionaire's mansion looked cold and deserted. Perhaps all the staff were down at the Grand Central looking over the "Redstone '. Well our idea of a waste of time and energy is the long drawn out Stassen mission abroad preaching disarmament while none of the governments in the world velopments as Redstone going on night and day, it seems to this department the height of wishful thinking and folly to expect anything really important and material to happen in this field. Say some agreement with Russia country (or any other) have any would be carried out? With nations as with individuals when there is deep seated and mutual fear and distrust, what might be written down on a niece of paper, can have very little real effect. The present program Mr. Stassen is effective in preventing the development of armaments, as scrap ing off the rash of a measles victim would cure the disease. As we view it the race in armaments the cause of the trouble is the trust and confidence. R.W.R. Civil Defense, oince mid-June the United States has been sup posed, theoretically, to be in "an assumed period of heightened international tension and deteriorating international relations." At ficials responsible for the fourth annual national civil defense exercise have been working on that assump tion. The lack of publicity on the exerise seems to emphasize, if anything, that civil defense is a baby no one wants on his doorstep. There will be no repeat performance this year of the 1956 exodus from Washington of top government officials taking part in agencies will not move to secret relocation centers as they have in the past, though some federal workers will be evacuated. The House aides and 16 newspapermen will leave Wash ington bv helicopter for a is intended only to test copter operation. He will stay away from the execu tive mansion less than 24 hours. ..... A S if to make concrete civil defense, Congress has just finished whack ing the Federal Civil Defense Administration appro priation down to $39.3 million from the President's budget request of 130 million. The paring of funds this year was not surprising from a Congress bent qn making an economy record. But the timing was ironic, coming as it did when a Joint Atomic Energy subcommittee was holding headline-making hearings on the nature of radioactive fallout and its effects on man. President Eisenhower's budget message this year pledged "increased activity ... in the public civil defense education, information, and training pro grams, research activities, and operational capabil ities." In his State of the Union Message he had promised "future messages" on, among other con siderations, "our military and civil defenses." E.R.R. Communications Letters to the Editor muit bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ail letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words On Welfare Files To the Editor: In reference to the welfare case recently re ported in your paper. There are other cases that need to be weeded out of our welfare files. There are quite a number of cases where women have two or three babies and th welfare pays their doctor and medical expenses, as well as supporting them afterwards. Why can't these women get jobs and sup port their children? If those women had to come home to their children and wash, iron. cook and keep bouse for them, Friday. July 12, 1957 the Grand Central to see about tomorrow for home, via Rock and cool San Francisco. we started from. We arrived in all the soft drinks and ice cream the Brooklyn bridge for anything Central which in our opinion cinerama picture of a lake resort nearly to the glass roof and when rest of "Redstone's" menu, which steam for operation of its "in' say the internal equipment of this what might be called HUMAN. and day, whether to protect the from liquidation we were not were protruding from the en- nn rH hammpr.anri.sirklp flaps practice it. And with snch de WERE signed, how could this confidence that the agreement presenting will prove about as is not the cause of the trouble absence of good will, and mutual More or Less least, key government ot- .the play-acting, ifederal President with, zi White secret location, but his trip the mechanics of the heli the general apathy towards they wouldn't have time to be running around with some man all night and bring more babies into the world for the taxpayer to support. We need to take care of our old people and the little ones, but not able bodied people that can work. Come on Tax Payers, get behind this, lets hear from more of you and clean up our welfare files. (Name on file) Medford, Ore. Arabian Crown Prince On Rood To Recovery New York (W Crown Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia was re covering today from a success ful operation for removal of an infected gall bladder. A medical bulletin issued by New York Hospital said "an un eventful recovery" was antici pated for the 52-year-old prince, who underwent surgery Thursday. I THOUSUr yOU TOLD MB YOU WBZEttT SCARED OF CRABS? Clean Elections Bill Trapped1; Likelihood Of Passaqe Seen Dim By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington OPl The Senate's new clean elections bill to keep politicians honest is trapped be hind the civil rights dispute. The bill prob ably is dead for this ses sion. Its death would not be an occ a s i o n for nati o n a 1 m o u r n i ng. Congress has l.yl. c. Wilson been legislat ing to keep politicians honest for a great many years without much success in preventing a great many politicians from be ing about as crooked as need be to win. Not all politicians, of course, or even half of them. But plenty. The Honest Ballot association calculated a couple of years ago that 50 individuals at that time were holding relatively high elective office won under cir cumstances regarded as, at least, suspect. Spending Control Difficult The entrapped clean elections bill probably would not change that situation much nor impose honesty on the dishonest. There is for 'that a solid reason. A United States election is confus ingly all-inclusive with thou sands upon thousands of local and national candidates. It has proved so far to be impossible to control spending under such circumstances. The purposes of the pending bill would be to control campaign spending. In the Day's News By FRANK Because what happens in Rus sia affects the f u t ure of all Americans, I suppose more or less everyone is interested in these questions: What is happening in the Kermlin? Will whatever it is that is hap pening turn out to be better for us or worse for us? A S TO what has been going on in the Kremlin for the past week, it is a fair guess that it is another ' STRUGGLE FOR POWER, such as goes on unceas ingly in despotisms. Sunreme nower hplrl in a few hanfas is a never-ending chal lenge to ambitious men. Those who hold supreme power seek to retain it. Those who yearn for supreme power seek to GAIN it. Always the man on top must watch the men below him. When ever he suspects that any of them are plotting to get rid of him. he must get rid of them first. In that particular case, it looks like Kruschev moved swiftly to get rid of Molotov and Malenkov and Kaganovich be fore they could get rid of him. THAT brings us to Question For a possible answer, let's turn back through the pages of history. T?OR more t h a n a thousand years, while England was ruled bv Divine Riuht Wines with despotic powers over their subjects, this strupelo for sun reme power went on unending ly. Over all these centuries, someone whose fingers itched for power was always reaching for the crown. As a result. E n a land's re sources were frittered anrav in dynastic wars that occupied her whole attention and she had little time for foreign wars. CURIOUSLY enough, in the J later years of this long dynastic struggle, England devel oped a weapon that was then al most as potent as the atom bomb is now. This weapon was the long bow. It was the long bow and its cloth yard arrow that put an end to the armored knight, Congress could clean up con gressional and presidential elec tion practices in a jiffy if these elections were separated from all the local elections with which they now are -complicated. It would be for the states to fix new and separate election days, which isn't likely. Neither is it likely that Con gress would go all the way in the matter of clean elections and spending as, for example, the British have done. British par liamentary elections take place under the strictest kind of rules, so strict that they would be wilder an honest American poli tician and almost surely entrap a crook. The British rules were in tended to limit or to abolish any campaign advantage a rich can didate might have over a poorer opponent. Car Use Restricted The rules are enforced. Use of automobiles to haul voters to the polls is limited to one car for every 2,500 registered city voters and one car for every 1,500 in the country. If a car breaks down on election day, it may not be replaced. "Treating" by a candidate is forbidden. No election cigars. It is not against the rules to kiss babies. But don't lend a voter money if you intend to run for office in the British Isles. Among the penalties for yio lating British campaign and election day rules is disqualifica tion of the candidate if he is elected and punishment of his campaign manager or agent. JENKINS who had hitherto been supreme in warfare. Used first abroad at Crecy, the long bow van quished the chivalry of France. It did it again at Poitiers. And AGAIN at Agincourt, Only the English possessed this weapon, along with the skill ot the archers who wielded it. With the aid of the long bow and the new striking power that it brought into warfare, England could have conquered all of Europe. WHY didn't she? The answer is simple. England was so busy with her dynastic wars, with her palace intrigues, with her STRUGGLES FOR SUPREMS POWER that she never had the time or the resources to wage, wars of con quest on the continent. It wasn't until England settled down to business under a fairly stable government in which the PEOPLE wielded a very con siderable power that the world wide British Empire was built. J For purely selfish rea sons Let's hope that these palace intrigues, these struggles for personal power, these liquida tions of the opposition that fol low every successful group go on and on in Russia. Indefinitely! Hl'AYBE. in that event, the communist big shots will be kept so busy liquidating each other that they will have no time left to try to liquidate us. Texas Trio Has Unique Way of Leaving Town . ' Kansas Citq, Kan. OP) A trio of Texans who held up the Santa Fe El Capitan for 25 minutes while they reclined across the tracks told officers today they were trying to get out of town. Ray Hickox, the arresting of ficer, said they "were not only trying to get .out of town, they were trying to get out of this world." They were fined S35 each for vagrancy and drunk violations, j Various Aspects of Shake-Up In Kremlin Top News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russian orators and propaganda organs spent the first part of this week build- jsywuttjmisi ing up grave charges against three ousted leaders. It looked as if Georgi M. Malenkov, es pecially, would face trial and possible execu tion for com- Cbarles HcCano pllClty in purges of the Stalin era. Then the Moscow Radio, in a broad cast that had a sort of "April fool!" tone, denounced "Western propaganda" reports that the ousted men "are being perse cuted and are in prison." On the contrary, the broad cast said, Malenkov has been appointed manager of one of the largest electric power stations in the Soviet Union. Vyachelsav M. Molotov has been made a "political expert" in the foreign office, which he headed for years. Lazar M. Kaganovich was named a factory manager. Malenkov's new job is in Ka zakhstan, about 2,000 miles from Moscow and not far from the border of Communist China and Outer Mongolia. In that remote area, Malen kov will be available if his former colleagues in the Com munist Party Presidium decide to try him. His victory over the "anti party" men consolidated, Com munist Party chieftan Nikita S. Khrushchev paid a state visit to satellite Czechoslovakia, accom panied by Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. It was a whistle-stop, "meet-the-people" trip by train from rlsM tt ftssj Babson Sees Cycle in Future Labor Supply By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Like it or not, labor is a commodity de pending on suoply and demand Labor unions can raise wages tempo rarily just as a dam crisis can raise the height of a stream. But the dam does not d e s t r oy the water Koeer W Bab sooner or later the water flows over the dam, or the stream dries up During the thirties, birth rates in the U.S. had been running about 17 per thousand. Just before World War II, in 1938, the birth rate was 17.6 per thou sand, and in 1943 it was 21.5 Then it began to fall, and slipped low through the rest of the war years. This was accompanied by a scarcity of men due to the draft, with a surplus of women workers. While normal manu facturing was greatly curtailed, the war created an excessive demand for labor for war indus tries. Therefore, labor adjusted itself fairly well. The war had two closings, but the boys began to return from Europe in May 1945 and babies began to arrive in 1946. This means that the postwar crop of babies is now under 12 years of age. The birth rate is now run ning 24.2 per thousand and the schools are becoming crowded, esrjeciallv' in the elementary grades. As the women who went to, work during the war Became older, they are dropping out of the job market. This accounts in part, for the shortage of la bor, the increased wages, and the inefficiency of much of the labor. What About the Outlook? As the oldest of this postwar crop of babies is now under 12 years of age, no relief can be expected (without a severe busi ness depression) for at least five years. The situation is being tinkered with ' still further by minimum wage and other labor legislation. In the meantime, business is prosperous and pro duction is close to an all-time high. This means that the sup ply of labor is low and the de mand for labor is abnormally high. I repeat that barring a business depression I see no LK: CITY MARK North Hiway 99 OPEN UNTIL Ice Cold Watermelons the Czechoslovak frontier to Prague. At one station Khrush chev said: "We had some black sheep in a good flock . . . we took the black sheep by the tail and threw them out." In another speech, in Prague, Khrushchev accused President Eisenhower of talking "stupidi ties" in -discussing progress to ward producing a hydrogen bomb that would be free of radio-active fallout. "How can there be clean bombs for dirty Editorial Comment MODERN TECHNIQUES CAN HELP LUMBER Lumbermen scrambling to overcome the effects of falling consumption in their primary market, the home construction industry also are becoming generally aware of another in road being made in their busi ness. This is the campaign be ing waged by aluminum, steel, plastics, and ceramics industries to take a bigger share of the house builders' dollars. This campaign by individual companies and by trade associa tions is having a telling effect on the long-run future of lumber-producing areas, not only in the Northwest but in the South and the Lake states. One pro ducer of "substitute" building materials, for example, feels justified in spending more in promoting its products on a sin gle television show than is be ing spent by the entire West Coast lumber industry in pro motion of all kinds. For several months, this sub ject of product promotion has been a popular topic among lum bermen. Producers and whole salers associations, such as West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. and the Western Pine Assn., have relief until after 1960. As a result of the above con ditions, there is constant de mand lor labor-saving machin ery of all kinds. This especially applies to all forms of office la bor-saving devices. We hear much talk about automation, that is the running of a factory or office automatically with very few employees; but this is for some time in the future. Changing to automation is both a slow and an explosive process and requires considerable capi tal investment. The most practical means of bridging the next five years is to take greater care in the selec tion of employees and to treat them well. There seems to be a natural average wage for given work in a given community. There is no use attempting to buck this wage during the next five years and little point in ar guing as to the efficiency of the worker. Wages, however, are not all. Workers have pride and self-respect. They like reason able hours, good clothes, and a comfortable place to work. Fur thermore. the location of the plant or office often demands the expense of an automobile. Just now the new graduates are "sitting in the driver's seat. It will be fairly easy for most of this year's graduates to get po sitions. Moreover, many or them will be paid more than they are worth. This is no rea son for them to be careless or to think that their job is secure, They will be watched most care fully. With the idea of a big weeding out after 1960. Every reader should remem ber that the labor cycle is con stantly revolving the same as the stock market cycle, the money rate cycle, and the hous ing cycle. Many June graduates who now find it easy to get ods will be out of jobs or be "sitting on the tailboard of the cart" in about five years. Therefore parents, as well as June gradu ates, should realize that the pres ent labor situation will not con tinue unless their "darling" makes good. The present "hon eymoon will coniinue ior a few years more. But it win surely be followed by a period when employers will "clean house," trim down their person nel, and keep only the most ef ficient. This applies to both men and women. Half Way Beetween Medford and Central Point 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS WEEK END SPECIALS Your. Favorite Ice Cold Beverages things?" he asked. Khrushchev also said Russia seeks a "broad front" of aU socialist Communist countries, including Yugoslavia. One important result of the Kremlin shake-up apparenUy was to raise Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, defense minister and No. 1 soldier of Russia, to status equal with Khrushchev's in So viet leadership. Zhukov threw his support and that of the army to Khrushchev against the "anti-party" men. made some tentative steps to ward a beefed-up promotion pro gram. At least one trade maga zine, the venerable and some times testy Crow's Digest, for several months has cajoled and needled industry readers into a greater awareness that the battle must be joined with the pro ducers of "substitutes." Fight them, or sit back complacently and watch the business go to the manufacturers of metal studs and window frames. That is the choice given the lumber indus try. Advertising, intelligently and consistently used, can create a public appetite for a product. It is a necessary part of any battle for the building and mainten ance dollar. There is another im portant flank, however, on which the lumber industry also is vul nerable. To appeal to today's market in competition with other in dustries will require more than pretty pictures and modern pro motion. It also will require a modern product. Too much lum ber these days is still being made and sold as pieces not compon ent parts but just pieces of half finished raw material only a step better than the "jap squares" of the old days. The plywood industry has made some begin nings toward producing .mer chantable parts: sheathing pan els, box beams, and embossed panels are examples of products which come on the building site ready for placement without ad ditional manufacturing. Studs vhich have been pre-cut to standard lengths and the efforts at prefabrication made by some individual mills are other ex amples of the first primitive at tempts to meet the competition. But the industry has a long way to go. To hold its own certainly if it is to gain on the producers of substitutes lum ber is going to have to overcome the resistance of buyers to such situations as these: You want to build window screens for your house. If you make cost comparisons, you'll find lumber is less expensive than aluminum for the" frames. But. if you use wood, you'll find yourself handling eight, possibly nine, separate pieces; counting both frames and molding, you will have to carefully cut and fit eight corners: then you must stretch the screen straight and taut; you'll have to nail cautious ly to avoid splitting; and you must paint the 16 surfaces at least twice to protect the wood. "Or, you can cut and bend one piece of aluminum channel, fit the screen and press it into the channel by using two previously-formed clips. You may paint it, or simply hang the Drigni, weather-proof screen without finish. The conclusion for most pur chasers is obvious, whether they are making one screen or enough for a development of 100 homes: take the easy, time-saving way. At stake in this contest be tween building-materials pro ducers is a multi-billion dollar business. On one side are a few large manufacturers who learned long ago the advantages of offer ing a brightly-packaged product which requires little, additional work and which is preceded on the market by thousands of dol lars of advertising. i On the other side is our lum ber industry made up of hun dreds of businessmen. Many are too busy to see the threat. Too manv think that grandpa's pro ducts and grandpa's methods of merchandising still are adequate. Lumber today has the edge over other products. It's tradi tional. It feels and looks and smells good. It's versatile enough to meet the challenge provid ed the hundreds of individual ists in the industry will rally behind a few far-sighted indus try leaders. Eugene Register Guard. PICNIC SUPPLIES ET A
