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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Kvcryon In Soutnern Oregon Bxtdt Th. Mall Tribune" tubliMhea Dally Excem Saturday b MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-28 North fir St Phone 8-S141 ROBERT W BUHL Editor HERB GREY Adveruaini Maneier GERALD LATHAM Buaineis Manager ERIC ALXX.N JR. MeoaKinf Editor EAJiL H ADAMS Clrj Editor HARRY CHIP MAM Telegraph Editor RICHARD lT.WY.Tt Soorta Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mar. An Independent Newapaper Entered aa aecond claaa matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday- Six montna 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 25 Sunday only one year 4-2'j fly Carrier In Advance Mediord Aahland Central Point Eafle Point. Jackaonvllle Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorue River. Talent end on motor routes: - Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1 SO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terma Cash In Advance Ifflrlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANV DMC Offices In New Yorli Chicago, da rrein San Francisco Loa Anffelea Seattle Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver B C 3ja NATIONAL IDITOIIAt 3fc I ASsbcU'liN I5 Nf WSPAPEt PUBHSHEtS 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 19. 1947 (Sunday) Southern Pacific railway orders embargo on shipments of livestock or perishable freight effective tomorrow. From Arthur Perry's column Ye Smudge Pot: Fewer "Flying Saucers" are sighted locally than fish caught last week. 20 YEARS AGO July 19, 1937 (Monday) Fire guts warehouse of the Rogue River Valley Canning company. Postmaster Frank DeSouza re ceives request to help procure three white guinea fowl. 30 YEARS AGO July 19. 1927 (Tuesday) Rattlesnakes are reported plentiful in the rural districts now; one killed on the Rogue measured five feet. Bad teeth and rickets found more prevalent in towns than in county areas, county health of ficer reports. 40 YEARS AGO July 19. 1917 (Thursday) Local citizen arrested by po lice cheif for permitting water to run through an open hose at his home. Medford couple and guests stopped by armed citizen guards near Klamath Falls as IWW troubles reach their peak there. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or elcht is excellent: five or six Is good 1. Lenten Fridays Dedica tions: To spear and nails', five wounds; precious blood; seven dolours; Good Friday. Name the missing dedication. 2. Ceramics is the art of mak ing pottery, rugs, or watches? 3. Bible: The modern commu nity of Konia was the 1 m of Paul's missionary activity? 4. What is John L. Lewis' mid dle name? 5. If 32 degrees Fahrenheit is the freezing point of water, what is the melting point of ice? 6. Is nicotinic acid classified as a poison, a stain remover, or a vitamin? 7. Sir Water Raleigh, Christo pher Columbus, or Captain John Smith is reputed to have been the first European to see to bacco? 8. Berne is the capital of which European country? 9. Is it correct to use the term "movies" in a formal sense? 10. "This lass so neat, with smile so sweet, Has won my right good will, I'd crowns re sign to call her mine, This lass of Richmond Hill." Is Rich mond Hill in Virginia or Geor gia? Amwerf: 1. Holy winding sheet (the 2nd Friday): 2. Pot tery; 3. Iconium; 4. Llewellyn; 5. 32 degrees Fahrenheit; 6. Vi tamin: 7. Christopher Columbus; 8. Switzerland: 9. No. Moving pictures; 10. No. London, Eng land. U.S. Turns Base Over To German Luftwaffe Freising, Germany OP The U.S. Air Force has turned over its first base to the grow ing new German Luftwaffe, it was announced today. The change took place at Freising Air Base Thursday. Former Air Force non-commissioned officer academy and radar training school the base occupies 43 acres and has 39 buildings. MAIL TRIBUNE Counties The chamber of commerce of Sandy, Oregon, a community in Clackamas county, has endorsed a pro posal (whether it's serious or jocular we can't judge at this distance) to "secede" and form Oregon's 37th county. A spokesman wa3 quoted in the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier as saying, "The people in this out lying district of Clackamas county are fed up with being the county's step-children. We've been treated like the 'country cousins' of the city folk who come out for a good meal whenever they please, politically speaking." "THE PLAN would take the southeastern portion of Multnomah county, western portions of Wasco and Hood River counties, and the eastern portion of Clackamas county, and form them into a new unit. It would take legislative action to accomplish this, for the counties are the creations of the state. , Whether serious or not, the movement tends to point out what we have maintained for years: that the present form of county government is not as re sponsive as it should be to the needs of the people. In Clackamas, it is the rural areas which are criti cal. In Jackson county, it seems to be the other way around, for more and more city folk are complaining that the county government and its officials "have forgotten that Medford and Ashland are part of the county too." A FTER all, about three-eighths of the county's as " sessed valuation lies in its incorporated commu nities, and over a quarter of it is in Medford alone. Yet, the complainants declare, the county hab itually ignores the cities, and concentrates most of its activities in the rural areas. This is the general charge. One of the specific ones is that the county's road funds are spent outside the cities, despite the fact that a considerable per centage of the tax base is in the cities. In at least one instance along Stewart avenue the county has in the past even refused to cooperate with the city in eradicating the dangers created by the big irrigation ditch alongside the road, which is half in the city and half outside. THIS type of criticism leads one to think that the organizational setup of the county might well be revised. It is true, of course, that even the worst kind of government can be effective if it is run by good men, and the best kind can be ineffective if ran by poor men. But, as has been shown by the success of the city manager plan, a better organization, has a better chance of being effective, everything else being equal. The recent legislature recognized that the time is coming when county governments will need an overhaul and modernization. It passed a bill which will be on the general election ballot next fall calling for a greater degree of home rule for counties. If it is approved by the people, counties themselves can then determine, within limits, how they wish to be operated. OUNTY manager plans have been turned down on several occasions in both Clackamas and Lane counties. Whether this resistance to change was caused by lack of understanding, or because the plans presented had defects, we don't know. We do not advocate change simply for change's sake. However, if a well-thought-out plan for a county managership were to be presented here in the future, we would support it, for it is our conviction that the division of authority, the inadequate representation, and the multiplicity of duties represented in the pres ent system no longer are conducive to good, efficient and responsive county government. We would like to see a board of at least five com missioners, elected from definite districts of the coun ty and serving without pay, become the governing body, with a paid employee serving . as executive officer or manager. This most certainly would not solve all the prob lems facing the people of the county. But it would be a long step in the right direction. E.A. Safety Once in a while, one wall make the startling dis covery that something with which we are intimately familiar has an interesting stoiy to it. Such is the case with the safety pin. The familiar little gadget which is so important in the lives of women, babies and seamstresses was first invented something like 9,000 years ago, and was known to the primitive lake dwellers in Switzerland. Throughout the ancient world it was used, fre quently as a decorative item of apparel, as in a brooch or figured pin. In Rome, it was widely used to fasten the togas of the day. COMEHOW, however, during the Middle, or Dark Ages, safety pins vanished from the scene. Why this happened is unclear, and so is the reason that for about 1,400 years nobody thought to revive the safety pin and its many obvious advantages over the straight pin. It was only 111 years ago, in 1846, that an Ameri can inventor recreated the safety pin, and then sold his rights in it for $400 rights which would have made him a wealthy man if he'd held on to them. It was patented a few years later. The source of this information, an article in a company magazine, doesn't give the answer to the question we found uppermost in our mind. ; What held babies' diapers together during those 1,400 years that the safety pin wasn't around? E.A. Friday. July 19. 1957 Pins Aty dad's got a bigger mm than your dad; Canadian 'Bargains' Discussed By ROGER W. BABSON Toronto, Canada I am get ting so many inquiries regarding cheap stocks listed on the Tor onto Stock Exchange that I have come up to Toronto to make some in quiries. There cert ainly is great interest in these cheap stocks. So much money is being sent to Canada by Koeer w Bahsun American in vestors that the Canadian dollar is now worth a premium of 5 per cent over the American dol lar. The safest is probably an in vestment in the producing oils which are more or less controll ed by the larger American com panies. These are selling on a fair basis and should have even greater growth; but they should be bought for income rather than for speculation. There is no question but that there is a lot of oil in Western Canada; but most wells are waiting for trans portation to good markets. To build pipe lines takes time and money. The wells will not be allowed to produce much until these pipe lines have been con structed. There are also large fields of natural gas; but these also are awaiting pipe lines. Oil can be put in barrels and trans ported by truck; but natural gas is absolutely dependent on pipe lines or else upon very expen sive compression. The most popular investments are in metal-mining companies, including gold, copper, zinc, lead, uranium, and even the rare metals. Most of these stocks do not now represent producing properties, although some of the non-producers are building mills or refineries. There are probab ly many that are now selling for less tnan a dollar a share which will some day sell for many times this. But only experts can pick them and this time. For the ordinary investor to buy them at random is a good deal like betting on a horse race. Some horses will surely win; but which one is another matter. Price and Reserves Even if mining stock is sell ing cheap, that is, below a dol lar per share, yet one should first find out how many shares are outstanding. ' The brokers here tell me that most of the buyers look only at the prices and do not consider the number ft; -M m Communications Letter to h Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. ' Disillusionment To the Editor: Many of us are slow to be attracted, much less to be entranced, by the portraits painted in glowing colors, and the positive words used to per suade us. It may be that the brain-washing we are all and sundry sub jected to by the painter and talk er hasn't taken effect as yet! It may be we were born a few years too soon, and born again a happy memory a few years ton soon, and reared in an atmos phere too freighted with truth and freedom, and that we have b?en taught those ever-enduring words of the Prince of Peace, 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free!" This was newly impressed upon us by a visit to friends re turned from a winter's trip to the Southeast. By the way, these friends of ours are abstemious, and abstainers from the products so highly recommended as com ing from "subterranean wells" and from others that "leave you breathless," and are "used by men of distinction." Our friends had rented their country home to a man and fam ily whom they supposed depend able, but who proved to be a 'man of distinction," whose brain had apparently been wash ed of "old prudish notions" that by Babson of shares outstanding. Of course. the number of shares should be multiplied by the price to see what the mine or the prospect is selling for. Certain stocks which now pay no dividends are probably the best buys The most important thing for the investor to know is the amount of real ore reserves, whether iron, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, nickel, or whatever the metal may be. These ore re serves can be determined pretty well by diamond drilling. An honest broker will tell you ap proximately the amount of the reserves. In addition to know ing the quantity of the reserves. one should know the percentage of ore to a ton of earth. With this information the investor can divide the price at which the mine is selling by the reserves and secure a rough estimate of the price that he is paying per ton for the ore. Other ' Factors There are other factors to con sider, such as distance from a railroad, a navigable river, or even highways. Before a metal can be marketed, "the ore must be brought to the surface and refined and the metal transpor ted to market. Each step is ex pensive, but very important. Then, of course, the amount of "overburden" is important; that is, how much earth must be re moved before the ore can be taken out. The diamond drilling will give the figures on this. The main thing to keep in mind is: Buy reserves of ore and study the price you are paying for these reserves. Forget the stock market and imagine that you are merely a metal merchant buying copper or one of the oth er metals. For instance, if you are studying a coal company, in stead of figuring too much on the price of "the stock, figure how much you are paying for a ton of coal. Investors who take the troub le to get this information should really be able to make a lot of money. Sometime in; the next 30 years most metals will be selling at several times their present prices. There are only so many tons underground of ev ery metal, and the amount is being reduced every day. I real ly believe that $12,000 invested properly in Canadian Oils and Metals, will, at some period dur ing the next 30 years, be worth a million dollars! Such an in vestment, however, requires much care in the selection and supervision of the companies. "virtue is its own reward," "hon esty is the best policy," and "do as you would be done by." The finding of a bottle cap at our friend's home which had crowned a bottle which had con tained the magic water, we said jocularly, "This at the home of our friends?" Then they told us of the antics of the "man of distinction," the departed rent er. Whiskey and beer bottles, caps and covers littered the plan tation. He left these. He also left bursted water-pipes and the bursted electric pump. He took his family and goods, and part of our neighbor's goods and de parted. The destroyed and stolen goods put our neighbors in the red to the tune of over two one hundred dollar bills! We had heard that alcohol is a remover, Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" now we know sympathetically with our neighbors that it is so! We are also convinced of an other melancholy fact, namely, that the brain - washing tech nique works too well on some folks. Our friends' renter is gone, so are their goods, and so is over $200 in hard-earned cash. Was it "the water?" Was it the liquid that "leaves you breathless?" Was he a "man of distinction?" Mrs. and H. R. Bulman, Route 1, Box 316A, Medford, Ore. Wants Opinions To the Editor: The following letter was addressed to the Grants Pass Courier and was published in that paper. I would appreciate it if you would pub lish it for the information of Medford members of the union. Walter H. Prince Jr., 512 N.W. Savage St., Grants Pass, Ore. To the Editor: In reading the Letters to the Editor and the editorial of June 29 entitled, Help May Be Necessary," as a member of Local 962 Grants Pass, I agree with the editor, "Help Is Necessary." Brothers and Sisters of Local 982, are we going to just keep quiet and allow the present of ficers to remain in our local here in Grants Pass, Medford and Hoseburg, and have the public getting down on the Teamsters, Grocery clerks and service sta tion employes? Or are you going to help and try to get an election of officers in our local that the majority of our local members would like to have as our lead ers? I feel that the election held last December was not legal, ac cording to our International con stitution, and it seems from the paper reports from Southern California at the Western Con ference of Teamsters, that Mr. Beck is trying to keep his men in office, at least for a while. I think that the Brothers and Sisters could help put these men out of office and elect our own "officers and have a Brotherhood of Teamsters nationwide, not separated as it is now. I hope the president of our International Union in Washing ton, George Meany, and the Con gress of the United States can find a way to correct the mis takes that have been made. I hope to see other letters to the editor in the near future from Brother Teamsters of Local 962 to hear their opinions on the subject. A Truck Driver, W. H. (Walt) Prince. Democracy in Action? To the Editor: Last Friday night at. the Medford city coun cil meeting we saw what is com monly termed "democracy in action". If that is what democ racy in action has degenerated into then God help our country The big argument was focused on that old Nemesis Off Street Parking. Proponents talked up a big storm of wind as to how Medford badly needs off street parking. What they were really pushing for, was to retain the $50,000 in the budget to be the nucleus for their Off Street Parking "Plan". Now the word "Plan" proved to be quite a word. These pro ponents of the "Plan" were asked numerous times to des cribe this so-called "Plan", to explain it in plain, simple English. We believe Mr. Fred Robinson was appointed top banana for the "Plan" some months ago, so we fully expected to have him finaUy give us the low down on the "Plan". What happened? Mr. Robinson sat on his coat tails in a fog probably men tally fighting Mr. Sears and Mr. Roebuck. Mr. Lovejoy and Mr. Manno both gave sweet-scented, flowery speeches which were supposed to prove why the Council should approve the budget with the $50,000 Intact. Mr. Manno laid great stress to the fact that private enterprise would sell out their parking lot property for a price whereas parking lot property owned by the city would be dedicated for parking as long as needed. Is it not as logical and much more economical for private enter prise to lease city property and run the lots for the city? Mr. George Goodman pointed1 out that he owns a number of downtown parking lots, which incidentally cost 10c a day less to park in than the present street meters and the proposed city-owned meters in city owned lots, also the fact that you can not overpark in his lots as you can at meters, thus receiving a ticket and a fine. (Incidentally, LK CITY NARK North Hiway 99 OPEN UNTIL 3 JOYS CANNERY SIZE Orange and Fruit Punch 35 Matter ot Fact HISTORIC MOMENT Washington For hardened habitues of the Senate galleries, there is a certain wry amuse- ment to be gained from watching the faces of the casual visitors the touriss in their flow ered shirts, the hippy ladies in shorts, the carefully hcrd- j i t 1. : i fitew.it Alioo SL-nuui tiiu- dren. For, as the visitors peer down on the scene below them half dozen aging men chatting in a desultory fashion their faces betray a single thought: "Is this really what the United States Senate is like?" It is not what the Senate is like, of course, because the Sen ate's real work is done off the floor. But once in a very long while, there is a real debate on the Senate floor, a serious dis cussion of a serious subject. Then the Senate almost lives up on its advance billing, as the "great est deliberative body in the world," and the faces of the tourists in the galleries are not disappointed. This happened the other day, before the Senate broke all re cent precedent, and voted to make civil rights the business before the Senate. The debate which preceded the vote had real meaning, and even moments of mute drama. THE drama came in quick flashes, when a ehnst from the tragic past would suddenly rise on the Senate floor, as when Byrd of Virginia compared Earl Warren, the genial Chief Jus tice, to Thaddeus Stevens, the hate-filled evil genius of the ter rible reconstruction days. The ghost rose up again when Ives of New York remarked that he "could not imagine" that "any Republican administration' would ever use troops to enforce its will on the South; and the Southerners, remembering re construction, laughed hollowly in unison. But the meaning was to be found in the three brief speeches of Minority Leader William Knowland, who opened the de bate, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, who supported him for the Northern Liberal Demo crats, and Richard Russell of Georgia, who spoke for the Southerners. For each summed up, as a sort of symbol, the political meaning of the civil rights struggle to the three ma- isn't the issuing of fines a good way to attract and satisfy down town shoppers?) Mr. Goodman also pointed out that only in a few days before Christmas be tween 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. has he had to turn down customers because his lots were full of cars Where then does the city expect to obtain its customers for lots where higher parking fees and very possibly fines are its chief attractions? Last fall we saw democracy in action when the people had a chance to vote on Off Street Parking. They turned thumbs down on it then because they didn't like the smell of it. How ever, when the council voted on approving the budget with the $50,000 for "The Plan" intact. only one member had the good old-fashioned guts to vote No. Democracy ir. action? We wonder. Ray DeMarrs 708 West Second st. Medford, Ore. M. J. Olsen Route 1, Box 325 Medford, Ore. tas iff 5) 1 WaBffl Half Way Beerween Medford and Central Point 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS WEEK END SPECIALS Fresh Ground Beef ib. By Stewart Alsop jor blocs of which the Senate is composed. The Knowland speech was typical, massively earnest, with out ornament or eloquence. But it served to underline a simple fact that the bill which is now certain to pass, the first such bill since reconstruction, will be a Republican biU. It will also be the Republican party's bid to recapture the minority vote, and thus become again the na tion's majority party. . HUMPHREY'S speech under lined the irony of this fact. For if there is a "Mr. Civil Rights" in the Senate, it is Hum phrey. He and his Northern Democratic cohorts have been fighting for a decade to get a civil rights bill to the Senate floor and they have always failed, blocked by the Republi can alliance with the Southern conservatives. Yet now all Hum phrey could do was to say "me, too," praising as "moderate and reasonable" the bill for which the Republicans will predictably get the political credit. It must be a bitter pill for men like Humphrey to swallow, but all they can do is to grin bravely, and swallow hard. The pill must be bitterest of all for Russel and those he spoke for. As he spoke, there was no mistaking how real and deep is the feeling of such men, who genuinely believe that their way of life is threatened. But Russell spoke sadly, as a man who knew that, on the central issue, he was already beaten, and as a suppli cant: "We appeal that Senators will not take action here which, would deal unjustly with us." The vote which followed dem onstrated just how badly Rus sell was beaten. The Republi cans voted as a bloc, but the real significance of the vote was the way the border states, which had generally supported the South in previous such strug gles, sided solidly with the North Maryland, West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, even Texas. THE motives of the Senators from those states were mixed, of course, especially in the case of Lyndon Johnson of Texas. But the fact remains that the vote was a striking tribute to the political power of the . Ne groes, who now vote in decisive numbers in such states. And that suggests the real meaning to the South of the current strug gle. Russell and his friends are brilliant parliamentarians, and they will no doubt succeed in watering down the Administra tion bill. But almost any bill which passes will greatly in crease the already heavy pres sure on the South further t3 enfranchise the Negroes. 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