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Newspaper Page TextIt r FOtt-JMBtS7ORD (OREGON) UNE Re The Mail Tribune' Putfciiea Dally Except Saturday try North Fw Sit Phona 2-911 mr):m w bchl Editor J96B (JtiEY Advertising Manager vMRAi-B LATHAM Buaineaa Maniftf C ALX.EN JR Manarm Editor f AD AMR CkCy Editor C&WRY CHIP MAN feievraph Editor AtLfiARD JE.WETT Sporta Editor 'UVT: ST ARCHER Society Editor ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. . An Independent Wewipaper Entered as second claaa matter at Afedlord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali Id Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday -One year S15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.2Q By Carrier In Advanca Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Roirue River. Talent and on motor routea- Daiiy and Sunday Ona year $18 00 umiy and bunday one month I -30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash in Advance Offirlai Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, da trolt San Francisco. Lot Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EOlTOKIAt I ai$ocFaim f UillSHf t ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 24. 1947 (Tuesday) Southern Pacific trains run several hours behind schedule ' because of short-lived strike of locomotive engineers. Little opposition voiced at hearing on proposal to establish a sustained yield on Oregon and California revested lands. 20 YEARS AGO July 22. 1937 (Thursday) Apricot . harvest gets under way in the Rogue valley; crop is fair and of good quality. A resume of the formation and aims of the recently-organized Associated Farmers of Jack son County, Inc., presented to Lions club. 30 YEARS AGO Jjily 22. 1927 (Friday) A new corporation known as the Shady Cove Development company - takes an option on property for summer resort de velopment. A thousand people gather at Llthia park in Ashland for rec reation night planned by South ern Oregon State Normal school. 40 YEARS AGO July 22. 1917 Men requested to battle blazes in Prospect area; all available manpower is also requested for Foster district. Flat rates abolished and meter rates established following in vestigation by the state public service commission of California-Oregon Power company properties and service in south ern Oregon. What's Your I.Q.? Sin. or ten eorrret ! superior; y or rlcht U oxcellent: flvo or six la good 1. Which has been generally held to be the most magic and the most sacred number? 2. Is It possible for ice to at tain a temperature lower than freezing (32 degrees F.)? 3. Bible: Antioch, Iconium. Lystra, and Derbe belonged in Paul s dav to which province? 4. Dutchman's pipe is the name of a musical instrument, large leaved vine, or beer stein? 5. Name the first President to live in the White House. 6. The kindergarten system of education for young children , originated in Russia, Germany, or the United States? 7. The pioneers of Utah were saved from the ravages of grass hoppers by what kind of bird? 8. Informal dances, an ingredi ent used in brewing and the leaping of frogs, are called ? 9. Should "honorable" when used as a part of a title be cap- ; italized, when preceded by "the," and followed immediate ly by the given name? 10. "Old Tubal Cain was a man of might. In the days when the earth was young." C. Mackay. Was Tubal Cain a fic- titious person? Answers: 1. Sevoa. 2. Ym. 3. Galaiia. 4. Vine. S. John Adams. 6. Germany. 7. Gull. 8. Hops. 9. Yes. 10. No. Biblical charac ter. TOULOUSE TRAIN LOSES Toulouse, France IIP An ! iron hosse met its match near here and had to be rescued by some shaggy dogs. An enraged tP bull challenged the Foix-Tou-louse passenger train Saturday night charging and running at the engine repeatedly. The pas sengers and crew did not dare step outside to drive the animal off but several dogs appeared and finally chased the bull. MAIL TRIBUNE The Jury System "There, but for the Grace of God, go I." This is a not-uncommon feeling among those who watch the procedures of the lower courts in this country. He is rare indeed who has not "gotten by" with something, and then suffered a few pangs of conscience when someone else is caught and punished for an identical offense. This may have something to do with the reluc tance of juries to convict in some traffic cases. In addition it may be that the public at large, from which juries are drawn, have not yet grasped the fact that in this day and age a traffic offense is a serious one, dangerous to the life and property of others. ' fN THIS problem in general, and in regard to the recent death of five people in an accident near Bend, where the killer car was driven by a 16-year-old boy, the Albany Democrat-Herald recently had this to say: "Law enforcement officers have been handicapped in attempts to enforce laws, particularly in apply them to teen agers, by sentimental jurors. We recall among such local cases one in which a 10 to 2 conviction was procured. But one of the two dissenting jurors insisted, without respect to the evidence, that 'I don't believe such a nice looking young man could have committed such a crime.' "Our own prosecutor has met discouraging difficulty in getting involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide convictions arising from traffic accidents. Even when appar ently sure-fire evidence is presented the juries seem to be more often than not on the side of the offender, more zeal ous ii seeking out the 'reasonable doubt' than in protect ing society." yhe editorial then continues: 'This situation, which extends also into other crime fields, has in recent years given rise to questions as to the adequacy of the jury system. It is quite common to hear one say things like this: 'If I'm innocent I'd rather trust myself to a judge, without a jury. If I'm guilty, I'll take chances on a jury trial.' That is not complimentary to the . system." TVia innr sTOtpm is rlppnlv ronterl in our tradition of justice and jurisprudence, and is a strong safe guard, if properly used, for the protection of people in their rights. It is unthinkable that it should ever be abolished. But there is no bar .to doing what can be done to improve it. E DISCUSSED this one an attorney for whom we have great respect, the other a person who recently served, for the first time, on a jury. One thought that was advanced was the possibil ity of making greater use of "blue ribbon" juries, especially selected for stability and intelligence. But the trend is away from that now. Indeed, the recent legislature passed a law which will make it more difficult for court officials to pick and choose in drawing up juiy panels. This was to get away from the "professional jurors," who are called to serve time after time while others are never called, to ex ercise this privilege and duty of jury service. The neophyte iuror discussed it from the point of view of the first-time juryman, who knows little or nothing of court procedures and rules, the laws ol evidence, or the rights of jurors, and who often is frightened, or nervous about the responsibilities sud denly placed in his inexpenenced nanas. OVER the next year and a half an interim commit tee created by the 1957 legislature will make a comprehensive study of judicial administration and procedure, and we hope that some thought will be given to the role of the jury. Why not, for instance, have compiled a pamphlet which sets forth, in plain English, exactly what is expected of a juror, what his rights and duties are in court, court procedures, and other information which would enable him to do a better job? There are other questions which might well be clarified in such a study. How, and under what cir cumstances, is a juror permitted to ask questions of either the attorneys, the judge, or witnesses? What is the reasoning behind the prohibition against taking notes, either as regards evidence, or on the frequently long and complicated instructions given the jury by the judge before they begin their deliberations? I TNDER our constitution, a man accused of a crime is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers. But there is no reason why the system cannot be so de signed that these "twelve good men and true" will have some knowledge of what is required of them, and how they should do it. It is possible" that, with these confusing questions explained and answered in advance, a juror could better give his attention and consideration to the judgment of the evidence, which is his prime re sponsibility. This, in turn, should be a step in the direction of preventing miscarriages of justice. The jury system is the best one ever devised, we believe, for ascertaining guilt or innocence. If, by study and revision it can be made even better, so much to the good. E.A. Miss (or Mrs.) U.S.A. The Miss Universe contest has been plagued (or is the word blessed?) with difficulties eminently Page 1 difficulties since it was started. We view the whole thing with unmeasurable ennui, and we'd be just as happy . if the contest, which is a stupid insult to intelligence in the first place,.folded its tents and (to mix metaphors) sank without a trace. ' The latest contretemps, involving a Miss U.S.A. who turned out to be the mother of two, and the Peruvian Miss Universe, who was too voune. con firms this sourpuss opinion Monday, July 22. 1957 recently with two people, of ours. E.A. - v ! Lit. ' ' S ' MfS A 10T OF FOOD FOR N Y. City Welfare Unit Also Debating Negro Rights for By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP For the rec ord it should be noted that the United States Senate is not the only political forum in which rages a dispute over the rights of Negroes to equality and integration. It may sur prise some per sons, including the embattled lorlo C. WiUon southern Dem- ocratic senators here, to learn that the other forum in which such a dispute prevails is the General Welfare committee of the Municipal Council of the city of New York. Strange, but true. A considerable part of the pressure on Congress to enact the pending civil rights bill without any softening of its pro visions comes from New York City and similar great urban areas outside the South. Even so, New York's General Welfare committee has been troubled since last May 21 by a simple pr6posal. The proposal would make it unlawful to discrimi nate for reasons of race, color, religion,', national origin or an cestry in the rental or sale of dwelling space. The proposed ordinance is intended to open to Negroes dwelling units evident ly now closed to them by reason of such discrimination. Opposition Strong Newspapers and individuals which long have championed such a civil rights project as now confronts the Senate have been less enthusiastic about the anti - discrimination project in their hometown. The real estate boards of all five boroughs of New York City vigorously op posed the proposed ordinance. After public hearings in mid June, the project was sent back to committee. The mail count against the proposition was 3 to 1 at City Hall. Some councilmen said that their mail was 4 to 1 against. What happens next is anybody's guess. The ordinance already has been substantially amended. It originally provided fines up to S500 for discrimination in the sale or rental of housing units. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.-N.Y.) was among those staunch advo cates of the civil rights bill now pending in the Senate who urg ed modification of the New York proposition to eliminate certain punitive provisions. The $500 fine provision has been abandoned. Javits opposed the fine provi sion. He urged, instead, resort to "mediation, conciilation and technical assistance, with court injunctions as the primary en forcement medium to back it up." Charles Abrams, head of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, took the same stand. The New York Times reported the Abrams-Jav-its action in this language: Softening Amendments "Two champions of civil rights called yesterday (July 7) for amendments to soften proposed city legislation to outlaw dis crimination in private housing." If, indeed, the proposal was to soften, then Javits' position to ward the civil rights legislation pending in the Senate is sub stantially different. He opposes any softening there. The committee also amended the bill to eliminate all coopera-! tive apartments. As introduced j last May, the bill exempted only one and two-family houses ex cept those sold in developments of more than 10 units. Councilmen Joseph T. Shar key, of Brooklyn, and Earl Brown, of Harlem, both Demo- ! crats, sponsored the ordinance with Councilman Stanley M j Isaacs of Manhattan, described i as a Liberal-Republican. Brown, j representing one of the great 1 TWO PEOPL5.' Housing Negro constituencies, has bitter ly protested the handling of the ordinance and the activities of Sharkey and of some of their fellow Democrats. Neither the sponsors nor oth ers who might know will ven ture now to predict what may happen to this anti-discrimination project in the capital city of civil rights. Sharkey could offer no more than a "hope" that he could get the ordinance out of committee and before the council for final action. NOVELIST DIES Kennebunkport, Maine Wl Kenneth Roberts, Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned historical novelist, died at his home Sun day after a brief Illness. He was 71. In the Day's News By FRANK Continuing the fascinating story of wood chemistry that was touched upon in this space yesterday, a Forest Products Laboratory chemical engineer named Roger Lloyd started fool- ing around several years ,ago with distillation of wood chips. Out of his experiments came a sweet, sticky material, some thing like molasses. For a while it was thought that this might become a useful ingredient of livestock feeds, but it couldn't compete in cost with blackstrap mollasses, which is what is left after the refineries have taken all the economically available sugar out of the boiled-down syrup of sugar cane. ABOUT that time, wood chem ist Lloyd heard of a new type yeast with the teeth-rattling name of "torulopsis mag noliae." So he went to work with it on his wood-chip syrup. The results were quite sur prising. The yeast digested the molasses-like syrup derived from the wood chips and turned part of it into alcohol. From what was left, Lloyd and his fellow chemists succeeded in ex tracting glycerin and acetic acid both valuable and widely used products. Glycerin is used in products varying all the way from cos metics to explosives. It is pres ently made from petroleum gases and as a by-product of soap. It appears from laboratory studies that it can be produced as cheaply from wood chips as from the present sources. Acetic acid is an important ingredient of rayon, various plastics and such common products as vine gar. THE Forest Products Labora tory, along with the research departments maintained by some of the larger pulp and pa ner concerns, has been working for a long time on lignin. Lignin is the substance that binds the fibers of a tree together to make wood. far. lisnin has been a cost ly nuisance. It makes up a con .Uonhls nart nf the bulk of the waste material of pulp plants Getting rid ot Mis wasie maie rini i nnp nf the too tiroblem3 of the pulp and paper industry, for the stuff pollutes the water The Price God Paid What did the holy God, that sinful man might become one of His people? Sinful as man was, God loved him and sent Christ who had no sin, to take man's sin and die for him. So Christ came to us, healing the sick, raising the dead back to life and proving who He was.- Then, nailed to the cross. He died and His sinless blood blotted out our sins. So-far all who have Him as dving for them. Receive Him as your Lord and Saviour and God becomes your heaven, ly Father. Then by daily Bible reading and prayer, grow up. Geo. N. Taylor, 2385 87th St., SW Portland 1, Oreg. Letter Campaign Aids Postal Pay Bill; Approval Doubtful By Congressional Quarterly Washington The most inten sive letter-writing campaign that Congress has seen since the "economy drive" early this year seems certain to. : bring House passage of a postal pay raise bill this week. Senate and Presiden tial approval, however, are far from assured. Postal union leaders predict ed an easy victory in the House today for the bill granting a flat $546 a year raise to each of the 510,000 Post office field work ers. The cost to the government will be somewhere around $300 million a year. Their optimism is based on the fact 'that 218 members a -Communications Hay Baler Wanted To the Editor: Lay the num ber of $1 bills represented by the national debt end to end around the world, and they would go around 1,041 times 217 feet wide. Let a 'man try to bale them at 30 miles a day, 365 days a year, 25 feet wide. It would take him over 20 years. And yet there-are people going hun gry, not only overseas but here in the United States. There ought to be better ways to spend the taxpayers money than the way they are doing. This soil bank is all wrong. The big wheat growers never did farm but -half of their land, they summer the other half for next years crop. Why pay tnem for something that they have always been doing? To those that have shall be given, from those that have not shall be taken away. If the' government is going to help, why not have an old age pension that amounts to some thing? C. E. Smith Route 1, Box 73 Central Point, Ore. JENKINS of the streams into which it is pumped and has unfavorable ef- fects on fish life if returned to the streams in too large quan tities. The Forest Products Labora tory has been working with Ca nadian interests to perfect a way to - salvage lignin by bubbling carbon dioxide gas through pa per making waste liquids. The result is a -product that can be blended with more costly resins to make glues of various kinds for various different pur poses. Out of it is also made a synthetic vanilla flavoring. It is useful in the manufacture of th paste used to fasten linoleums to floors. It is also useful in re tarding the "setting" of cement, so that workers have more time to work with it before it hard- ALL this comes from lignin which in the past has been a pestiferous substance which has cost the pulp and paper plants a lot of money to get rid of, but now is showing up as a valuable product in its own right. It reminds us of jackpine, the Cinderella of the timber family which for years we tried to get rid of by burning or any other way to get it off the ground so that grass would grow in its place. Because of its rapid re production, it now looks like jackpine may be one of the most valuable of our Western pulp woods. rpHE moral of all this? A This is it: Don't sell southern Oregon and . far northern California short. Our great forests which now contain probably more MERCHANTABLE timber than they contained half a century ago are a resource of fabulous value. Not only do they supply lum ber and plywood and other building materials. Not only do they supply the raw material for the rapidly expanding pulp and paper industry- If these research chemists are right, they may supply the raw material for a chemical industry that in the not distant future may rival the vast chemical in dustry that is now based on petroleum and coal. M- majority of the 435-man House have put their signatures on a discharge petition to bring the pay raise bill before the House. The discharge petition is a rare ly used device to force House action on a bill that has been stalled in committee. This one was signed by the necessary 218 members despite the strong opposition of the Eisenhower administration and the Democratic chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service committee. Rep. Tom Murray of Tennessee. They claim a pay increase at this time would be inflationary. There is no accurate account ing of the number of letters and the amount of money that went into the campaign to bring the pay raise bill before the House. But Congressional Quarterly's spot check of Congressional of fices makes 50,000 letters look like a conservative estimate. What Union Spent Five of the leading unions in the drive officially reported spending a total, of $55,166 on lobbying in the first three months of the year. Not all that went for the postal pay bill, of course, but neither does that sum cover the period of greatest activity on behalf of the bill. The finesse of - the unions' campaign has drawn admiring comments even from opponents of the pay raise bill. Filing of the discharge petition May 15 by Rep. T. A. Thompson (D.-La.) was timed to coincide with a Headlines Eyed by U.P. Writers United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Hard Going The administration is having a rough time trying to find an other industrialist to take over as defense secretary when Charles E. Wilson quits. Main trouble: He'd have to give up his stock holdings, as Wilson did. And it would be just for a three- year lame-duck term. All indi cations are that steel magnate Clarence N. Randall turned down an offer of the job last week. The betting is that some one already in the Eisenhowar official family will get it. Men tioned are Deputy Defense Sec retary Donald Quarles; Gen. Al fred M. Gruenther, head of the Red Cross; Secretary of Interior Fred Seaton and Army Secre tary Wilber M. Brucker. Inside Buckingham Palaca . Buckingham Palace hopes that the London newspapers will drop the report that Princess Margaret may marry Lord Pat rick Beresford, her present steady date. As of now, appar ently, she doesn't intend to. But she is romantic-minded and an avid newspaper "reader. Palace feeling is that if the reports keep up, she may convince her self she's in love again. An in side source says that is what really happened when the news papers kept insisting she was in love with divorced air force hero Peter Townsend. Time of Decision The course of the civil rights bill may be determined by a se ries of Senate votes expected early this week. If controversial Part III is knocked out, there will be a better chance of pass ing the bill and avoiding an all- out filibuster. The bill then would be limited largely to pro tecting Negro voting rights. But you can expect civil rights back ers to try again to stiffen it if that happens. , Tunisian Coup North Africa experts believe Tunisian Premier Habib Bouf guiba may try to force the Bey of Tunis off the throne soon and proclaim a republic. It is rumor ed in Paris that Bourguiba is keeping the Bey virtually a pris oner. Plans for a coup may be .FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 meeting of the AFL-CIO Gov ernment Employees' council, which brought about 2,000 dele gates to Washington. One postal union reported to its members that "the galleries were filled with delegates to the conference who delightedly watched as 107 Representatives signed the peti tion the first day it was avail able." In their follow-up campaign, the postal unions addressed re peated plans to their members to "contact your Congressman by letter, telephone or tele graph.." Additional local delega tions were brought in to lobby reluctant Representatives. Infor mation kits were distributed to newspapers and other opinion makers. The big argument in the post al workers' arsenal was their plea that the 1955 pay raise was not enough to keep postal work ers abreast the rising cost of living. Although House passage of the bill seems assured, the gen eral outlook for a raise this year is dark. A similar bill has been reported to the Senate Post of fice and Civil Service commit tee, but action in the Senate awaits the outcome of the civil rights debate. And there is a widespread be lief that President Eisenhower, who has steadily opposed a pay raise, will veto the bill if it reaches him. (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) of Future discussed at a meeting of lead ers of the Tunisian Neo-Destour Party tonight. Red China Red Light It looks as if Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will finally give permission for some American re;irters to visit Com munist China. But Washington sources say he will hold the line firmly there. He expects a flood of applications from mission aries, educators and others for passports. The word is that Dulles win reject them, and is trying to figure out how to frame the rejection without rous ing too much resentment. No Disappointment Friends of .Aly Khan say there's no truth in those stories about Aly Khan's "furious dis appointment" at - not being named to succeed his father the Aga Khan as the spiritual leader of the world's 20 million Ismail! Moslems. On the contrary, the friends say, - Aly breathed a sight of relief at finding out that he could continue his playboy life without worrying about spiritual leadership. Replacements Travellers returning from Al bania report that for some rea son Czechs are replacing the ap proximately 5,000 Russian tech nicians in that tiny Communist satellite. But the Russians pre sumably still man what is re ported to be a monster subma rine base on Saseno Island. 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