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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xveryone In Southern Oregoo Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Dally Exceot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO r?-2 North fir Sv Phone 2-141 ROBERT W BL-HL Ullm HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDOrta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent newspaper Entered aa second claaa matter at Medlord Oregon under Act o March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10e. Dally and Sunday One year f 15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday Only One Tear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year (18 00 Dally and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford raper ol Jackson County United Presa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANTf INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL D 1 1 0 1 1 A i I ASSOcSVliN I U I - T r.ini.,ir.inj NIWSFAPE PUIUSHdt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 16, 1947 (Wednesday) In observance of the first flights here tomorrow of the new West Coast Airlines, Inc., several southern. Oregon resi dents are being taken on cour tesy rides today. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The UN will conduct a survey of the needs of Europe. Fewer Rus sians would be nice. " 20 YEARS AGO July 16. 1937 (Friday) Program for the CCC water carnival to be staged tomorrow at the Twin Plunges in Ashland is announced by Capt. William Ryan, district officer. " . Rogue River Canning compa ny completes its cherry packing operation and starts on canning beets. 30 YEARS AGO July 16. 1927 (Saturday) Medford Girl Scouts will hold their first court of honor at the Applegate Scout camp Saturday. First peaches of the season are on sale today at the public market. 40 YEARS AGO July 16. 1917 (Monday) Temperatures of 107 Sunday is hottest in Medford since 1911. From Local and Personal .column: Charles L. Witt re places Lee M. Hall as clerk in the Medford post office depart ment. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight ta excellent; five or six is good. 1. Did the Franco German War terminate with the "Reign of Tears" or "Reign of Terror"? 2. Name the capital of Brazil 3. Bible: "Thou shalt not be afraid of the bugges at night. Should "bugges" be replaced by terror, dark, or insects? 4. Which State is nicknamed "Granite State"? S. Does the value of an old coin depend upon its age? 6. How many members would be in the U.S. Senate if Alaska nd Hawaii became States? 7. Hydrophobia is a medical term for rabbit fever, rabies, or dropsy? 8. Earwigs are ornaments, In sects, or a type of wig? 9. Is "you all", as used by Southerners, grammatically cor rect? 10. "Friends, I am with you all and love you alt." Said An thony in "Julius Caesar" by whom? Answers: I. Reign of Tears (or Thiers. 1871). 2. Rio da Janeiro. 3. "terror". "Bugge" is incor rect in the "Bug Version" (I SSI). 4. New Hampshire. S. No. (it depends upon its rarity). 6. One hundred. 7. Rabies. 8. Insects. 9. Yes. They use it in a plural sense. 10. William Shakespeare. Taylor Named President Of Insurance Company Salem 'IP Robert Taylor, former state insurance commis sioner, has been named presi dent of the Mill Owners Mutual Insurance Company of Des Moines. Iowa. He will assume his new du ties August 1. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . Denver, Colo., July 13i When we first visited Denver it was a crude but bustling mining town. The big attractions were Cripple Creek and Pikes Peak. With our Uncle Hamilton as ?. guide we visited both, and car ried home as mementoes a gold nugget (phony) and a rattlesnake skin hatband with 8 rattles. Gambling was wide open, and other diversions popular with the rough and ready miners were conspicuously available. Uncle Hamilton was a G.A.R. veteran, volunteered in Wiscon sin in "61 and "fit and bled" for the Union cause for four years. He was very proud of this naturally so and the undersigned unlike Uncle Hamilton's two daughters and their children, was fascinated by the old boy's war tales. We considered him far more interesting than anything we found in Denver. Not that we did not enjoy our visit we did but it was pretty rough and tough for a callow youngster, nurtured on the pastoral and peaceful banks of Rock River, Illinois, morever the place was alive with victims of what was then called "consumption," who had come to Colorado to recover their health, but the impression we got at the time was few of them did. e e a e Uncle Hamilton the family name was Brown has long since departed, and none of his descendants live here now. But we have a few (by marriage) who do, and they certainly live in a very different town and a highly modern and civilized environment, with all vestiges of that frontier mining camp completely gone. In fact the only community in our recent travels that even re motely resembles in spirit and growth this Colorado metropolis is New York City. Of course Denver is a village in comparison as far as population goes the latest estimates fall short of a. mil lion but we refer particularly to the noisy process of tearing down the old and replacing it with the new certainly vastly big ger if not vastly better as before remarked. e Skyscrapers are springing up all over the place, huge hotels and business blocks in the down town area, apartment houses and apartment hotels in the residential areas. Even the ancient and honorable Brown Palace hotel is building a glass and stainless steel "annex" across the street, which will be connected with the original hostelry by a second story bridge. Did someone mention shopping centers and "free-ways"? Both are thicker than fleas on a Tobacco Road hound dog, especially the latter, which practically encircle the city, and one can get everything from meat and gro ceries, to dental care and the best legal advice. Again after a "look see" motor trip the best word we can conjure up to describe the situation as of today is fabulous. The only modest structure pointed out to us was the unassum ing dwelling where President Eisenhower spent the summer and suffered his cardiac thrombosis, also where Mrs. Eisenhower, we believe, was born, or if not spent her youthful days. The current report is both President and Mrs. Eisenhower are partial to Den ver as a summer White House spot but are following medical ad vice and planning to sojourn this year where the elevation is less, and they can enjoy salt sea air. The present family connections have one thing in common with Uncle Hamilton and his kin. Uncle H always deplored the fact he had not staked out a Cripple Creek mining claim in the late '70s when he arrived. The present membership as are so many oth er post world war arrivals are deploring the fact they did not buy a few surrounding farms when they arrived instead of putting what surplus they had in stocks and bonds. They pointed out a place not far from the golf club where "Ike" spent so much of his time where a close friend of theirs bought a ten acre truck garden for $10,000, made it into a show place residence and has been of fered $800,000 cash for the lay-out. But as the head of the family, remarked, there is a fly in that "I told her with the capital gains and income tax setup she just couldn't afford to sell and she can t, unless she is content to live much more modestly than she does NOW." e e Just a word about the rash The down town business men don't seem to be alarmed by such a development. One of the oldest and largest department stores is building one of the largest and most modern department stores in the country, and it is in the business district. They can hardly White Is a lie always bad? Parents usually tiy to that it is and then find little later on, when the found to be used by the parents themselves. All or almost all of truth and honesty. And and say "pleased to meet care two whoops about; or something we re convinced e "THE magazine Changing truthfulness about our Don't use the truth, it admonishes, when it would injure someone else needlessly; don't worry about the truth if the "truth" is merely a matter of your opinion versus someone else s opinion ; and if a little white lie would make someone happy and do no one any harm, then go ahead How about this? Is honesty ALWAYS the best policy? Are we hypocritical if we preach unswerving truthiulness and then, to avoid injuring someone, we lie lie blatantly and with a straight face and with no shame? TT may be that the sad fact is the human race is not yet ready for complete honesty. Perhaps, if human frailty persists and we can as yet see no end to it the time will never come when it is the safe and kind thing to do to tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." ' We suspect we shall continue in our course, telling fibs when it is the better part of valor or diplomacy. And we cannot consider that it is dishonest to do so, not when truth is observed in important things. We recall wearing a bright and gaudy sport shirt of which we were greatly enamored, some months ago, and asking an acquaintance how he liked it. "Wouldn t be caught dead m it, he replied. See what we mean? E.A. Tell Your Councilman Not for months, if reaction is any indication, has anything aroused public opinion as strongly as the dispute over whether the city council-should or should not rezone acreage for a shopping center to include a Seal's, Roebuck store. The reaction we have heard is preponderantly fa vorable, and we have been asked repeatedly, "What can we do?" The answer is simple: Call your council man and tell him how you feel. And do it before the matter comes up for decision Tuesday, July 18, 1957 who is a lawyer and tax expert, ointment too. of shopping centers hereabouts very center of the down town be building to go BROKE. R.W.R. Lies teach their young children themselves, in difficulty a "white" or "social" lie is us preach the virtues of then we turn right around you" to someone we don't say "isn't that nice !" about is perfectly horrible. e Times calls for more untruthfulness. and tell it. Thursday evening. E.A. . . . AND TUAT& HOT ALL HBOIDH Matter of THE REAL DISARMAMENT London The latest turn in the interminable and confusing disarmament conference finally seems to have revealed the primary Soviet objective. It has not been d i s armament at all. It has been "limiting the nuclear club," to use the . conferees Joseph Alsop cant phrase. The "club" at present has two full members, the powers pos sessing a full panoply of nu clear and thermonuclear weap ons, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. It has one halfway member, Great Britain. Halting further nuclear and thermonuclear weapons tests will close the club books, to further members, since no nation can hope to become a serious member of this fearsome club with exhaustive weapons testing. Closing the club mem bership books without further delay is in fact the single point on which an absolute identity of interest now exists between the United States and the Soviet Union. No doubt there are a good many people in Washington, like Admiral Lewis Strauss, who are strangely blind to this identity of American and Soviet inter ests. Remember the kind things the Eisenhower Administration said about Adlai Stevenson when he first made the suggestion that bomb tests be suspended. e TUT American nuclear weapons development is still ahead of Soviet weapons development. So it is the ,Soviets who' will lose, if either giant power loses, by an immediate stoppage of weapons testing. And .both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and indeed the world as a whole will gain by the prevention of the night mare situation which must oth erwise arise. This is the situa tion in which great numbers of nations will possess the abso lute weapons, and Swiss manu facturers wiU be mass producing model T style A and H bombs for sale to the Eqyptians, Syri ans and the like. Undoubtedly the Soviets went into the disarmament confer ence with many other possible objectives in mind. But judging by Valerian Zorin's latest out bursts, they started with the thought that the talks had at least one truly practical and at tainable objective. They saw the identity of U.S. and U.S.S.R. interests which Admiral Strauss and friends have so strangely failed to see. They were un doubtedly much influenced by their fear of Germany as a nu clear power. Therefore they hoped to stop the weapons tests and so to close the nuclear club. But the Eisenhower Adminis tration was afflicted by divided councils. More important still, the United States delegation in London could not speak for all the other western powers, as Valerian Zorin can speak for all the nations of the Soviet bloc. In truth, there was Identity of interest between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. but a sharp conflict of interest between the U.S. and the other western 'allies. TPHIS conflict of interest has produced a good deal of be hind the scenes drama. In the British government, for in stance. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd have held that Britain would gain on balance if the nuclear club were closed now, despite the very . incom plete stage of British weapons development. But 'his decision has been bitterly disputed by Defense Minister Duncan San dys. Again, the French delegate, Jules Moch, has consistently taken the view that France should agree to being excluded from the nuclear club in return for (but only in return for) a solid agreement on general dis armament. But the French gen eral staff, certain French perma ment officials and several lead ing politicians, including Prime Minister Bourges Manoury him-very Fact by Joseph Alsop self, have the gravest doubts about Moch's view. About ten days ago, there fore. Prime Minister Bourges Manoury attempted to alter Moch's previously agreed in structions. Moch immediately offered his resignation as French delegate to the disarmament meeting. The difficulty was not overcome until Moch had made an emergency trip to Paris and returned with his original in structions fully confirmed. THUS, in effect, the views of Admiral Strauss and his friends in Washington played in with the quite differently moti vated views of America's Trans atlantic allies. The result was the final Stassen proposal. In this proposal, halting nuclear tests and so closing the club was firmly linked with a broader system of disarmament and a very full and inclusive system of inspection and control. In the circumstances. Valer ian Zorin's indignant, intran sigent roars are altogether un derstandable if the Kremlin's true primary aim is considered. But despite the check that has been experienced in London, the great common interest of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. still re mains. The problem of prevent ing the nightmare of general atomic armament has nothing really to do with the problem of disarmament. The problem of preventing the nightmare can well be solved independently, with only two provisoes. Admiral Strauss must somehow be cured of his curious delusions of atomic monopoly. And the American administration must make the rather modest transfers from our vast stocks of nuclear weapons, which will Dersuade our allies to join in closing the atomic club's membership lists. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc.. Editorial Comment IMPORTANT PARK DEVELOPMENT Announcement that the Hilton DroDertv. once known as the Dixie ranch, has been acquired by the Josephine County Park Commission and will be devel oped as a river camping spot, is weleome news for this area. The property is on the north bank of the Rogue, 7V4 miles from downtown Grants Pass. It will mean an attractive spot where tourists may just rest and relax for several days or even several weeks, if they so desire They will be able to fish, take boat trips on the river, swim at an excellent sandy beach, and generally enjoy the "life of Riley." The 15-acre tract, which has about three-fourths of a mile of river frontage, will be engineer ed and facilities will be installed to accommodate over-night and vacation trailers. This will pro vide an answer to the question, asked repeatedly at service sta tions, motels and sporting goods stores: "What can one do around Grants Pass?" It also will mean that many tourists, who for merly sailed right through Grants Pass en route to the Ore gon coast or Cascade mountain resorts, now will have an in ducement to linger a while. A great deal of the credit for this important improvement rests with two far-sighted local agencies, the Josephine county court and the county budget committee. They made the de velopment possible by including $25,000 in the 1957-58 budget for park purposes. Nine other parks, of various sizes in Josephine county, also are scheduled for improvements as a result of the budget appro priation. One of these, Schroe der park, also will be improved for overnight camping by trailer parties. Some others will be continued merely as picnic and recreation areas. Now if the state highway com mission parks department only will give Josephine county some consideration it has done well with counties both Communications Letters to the Editor must 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 all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Masonry and Wood To the Editor: I was much in terested in your editorial of July 7, "Wood Industry Changing" and found myself in general agreement with your analysis with one exception. You imply that masonry at one time was a substitute for wood for building purposes but that now it is a "full fledged competitor." I realize that this is a "wood conscious" state, but aren't you a little turned around on that comparison? Masonry is one of man's old est building materials. If it ever was a substitute for wood you'd have to go back a long, long time into history to find out when. The ancients built their homes and temples, the Great Pyramids, the Chinese Wall and many other of the world's won ders of masonry. They used ma sonry, because masonry endures as no other building material can endure. Remember the story of the three little pigs? More recently, new types of masonry products, new and im proved techniques of installa tion and other factors have tend ed to reduce the cost of masonry to the point now reached where masonry structures commer cial or residential can be erected at a per square foot cost under that of its leading com petitor, wood. There always has been and always will be a place in our building industry for both wood and masonry. Each has inherent advantages and differences in personal tastes will always mean use of one or the other. Your editorial correctly points out that "there will always be a need for lumber" and your analysis that the lumber indus try's most hopeful outlook lies in the direction of greater wood utilization certainly is sound. Thanks for the opportunity of sounding off on these few reflec tions about masonry and wood. Oregon is in a fortunate position indeed to have great quantities of both of these fine building products, plus skilled workers to manufacture and install them. Paul Nutt, Unit Masonry Association, Portland, Ore. The Old Prospector ' To the Editor: Around 35 years ago, we met up with one of those pack animal prospec tors you read about, or see their caricature printed in lost mine adventure tales of the old west. This desert born prospector of Arizona at 72 years of age made a seven year long pack animal trip through southwestern parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, landing in the Rogue river valley. He was a robust man of six feet with long brown hair and keen blue eyes. The most unfortunate obsta cle was, he could neither read nor write, but possessed a won derful memory. He knew the miner's rights and privileges of each mineralized state and how burros were confined as exclu sive property with the state of Nevada for prospectors use, When he crossed the Oregon state border he was obliged to buy a range pack horse. He admitted that he had never become actually wealthy in all his adult years of exploration with pick, pan and shovel, al though he had satisfied a won dering curiosity he could not have gained in a normal life except by his travels and first hand observation by personal experiences. We often marveled at his giant physique and his uncanny intui tion to guide him through the uncharted wide open spaces that lured him in search of the pre cious pot of gold. We have long forgotten his name, but at the time he bid us adieu, he had outlined his plans to prospect his way back home to Arizona through the Sierra Nevada range of mountains of California. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. On Humane Bill To the Editor- The Pnmmit. tee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives has given a favorable report on a good hu mane slaughter bill, HR 8308. It is still much needed to get the bill through the Rules Commit tee to the floor and to a success ful vote. Everyone can help by writing Rep. Charles O. Porter at House Office Building, Wash ington, D.C. Ask him to support the bill and to urge the Rules Committee to bring it out promptly. Time is short before Congress adjourns. Please help so that animals will be protected against the j terrible cruelty in slaughter houses. Terry Addison, 1840 Childers ave., Medford, Ore. to the north and south of us our park situation will be well in hand. We really feel that this county has been neglected by the state, in the matter of parks. Grants Pus Courier. French Civil Rights Battle Could Topple Government Shortly United Press Correspondent France is engaged in a civil rights battle which could cause the fall of the cabinet this week. Premier Maurice Bour ges - Maunoury is trying to get the Nation al Assem b 1 y, the controlling house of par liament, to give his gov ernment spe cial powers to Charles McCana suppress terrorism by Algerian nationalist rebels. The trouble is that the special powers would be operative not only in Algeria but in France itself, where 400,000 Algerians live. Members of parliament are afraid that if a tough govern ment got into office the special powers might be used against Frenchmen as well as Algerians. Most Are Against Nearly every party represent ed in parliament is against the special powers bill for that rea son. A two-day debate on the In the Day's News By FRANK This is written in San Fran cisco. The editors are rolling in from all over the country. It is obvious that they have all read the advice given to them by us Westerners, for they are load ed down with heavy clothes, furs for the ladies and topcoats. And So far There has been only a smidgin of fog. And it was HIGH fog. None of it down at street level. None of it dragging on the house tops at it moves in from the ocean. Already the Easterners are beginning to kid us about our weather prognostications. The weather is a fickle jade. IT COULD be worse, though. The high fog cooled it down to at least an approximation of San Francisco's normal summer climate, and the visitors seem to be enjoying it. Anyway, this is a normal con vention, with nobody getting out of the hotel long enough to know . whether the mercury is high or low. AS PREDICTED, the children are getting a break. Families with three or four of them are reasonably numerous, and it looks like nearly everybody has one or two along. In a notice able number of cases, the older ones have brought their grand children. V Many have driven out, and the 1 ellowstone Park route has been popular. Judging by the accounts of the younger generation, the Yellowstone bears put on a good exhibition. ATER in fact, three days later. This gathering of the editors of America has turned out to be a busy one. There has been so much to listen to that not much time is left to write about it. rpHE annual meetings of the - American Society of News paper Editors have been held for many years in Washington. As has been mentioned hitherto in these chronicles, the idea has been growing up in the Society that perhaps we have been per mitting ourselves to become too deeply enmeshed in the nation's political life. Manv of the mamharG nnv been saying that we need to get awav from the atmosnhere nf the Potomac and just "talk Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 : MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. measure opened today In the National Assembly.- Bourges Maunoury is expected to follow up the debate by demanding a vote of confidence on it. The vote would be taken Friday. - It is being predicted freely that unless Bourges-Maunoury agrees to amend the bill radi cally, he will fail to win his confidence vote. That would mean he would have to resign. Fear Terrorism Behind the government's re quest for special powers lies the belief that the terrorism which has kept Algeria in turmoil since Nov. 1, 1954, is going to be extended to France. Police estimate that there are 2,000 active Algerian rebel agents in France. They force their fellow Algerian residents, under threat of death, to con tribute to rebel funds. It is indicated that the police have reason to believe that the rebels may open a big campaign of terrorism in France in an attempt to force the government to give Algeria independence. There have teen many incidents of terror so far. So far, how ever, only Algerians have been the victims. JENKINS shop" for a change. This session in San Francisco is the result. WHAT do professional editors talk about when they talk shop? Well, in genral, they discuss the techniques of bringing fac tual information to the people. How shall we GET THE FACTS, uncolored by propaganda and self interest? How shall we tell the people exactly what is going on, and what it means? it sounds easy. But it isn't as easy as it sounds. If you doubt that, pick up the next rumor you hear and try to run it down to its source and find out what really happened. You vill get many different versions before you finally arrive at the truth of the matter. rpRYING to get the TRUTH about what is going on IN 1HE WORLD is an even more difficult matter. But it is the newspaper's job. How to do the job as well as it can be done is what editors talk about when they get to gether to talk shop. DON Q Finest Rum for you 86 Proof Schleffelln iCo.New York, N.Y. Importer Since 1794- When men decide to drive at safe. As they instruct their wives, These little rhymes, And warning signs, Will save a let of lives. Bill Fish 1 s J M"