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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MHKWk.TRIBUNI -Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Publlsried Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North Ftr St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W BUHU Editor HZRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporu Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediard Oregon under Act of March 2, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year (1300 Dally and Sunday ! months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sundav Only One rear 8420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sundav One year SIB 00 Dally and Sunday One monta 140 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official paper of the City ef Medford ymciai raper el aacasoa county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising ReDresentativ WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAN7 INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland SL Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EOITOIIAi I ASSOCfA'ieN miiruMi.v NEWS PA PER PUSUSHEtS 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 25, 1947 (Friday) Medford officials reassured In effort to obtain Camp White sewage disposal plant. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Woodyards are displaying an early fall en semble of stove-woods, artistic ally cut and neatly piled in popular lengths. 30 YEARS AGO July 25. 1937 (Sunday) Col. Jacob Fickel, air officer of 9th Corps area, refuels obser vation plane here. First dress rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet" held in Ash land's outdoor theater. 30 YEARS AGO July 25, 1927 (Monday) Forty-four fires threaten Jack son county area forests. Shortage in other districts in creases demand for southern Oregon pears and apples. 40 YEARS AGO July 25. 1917 (Wednesday) Seventh company, Oregon Coast Artillery, National Guard, mustered into service. Grants Pass man receives threatening note from IWW at tached to mail box. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ts superior; sevsn or eight Is exceUent; five or six Is good. 1. 521 B.C. A horse decides who is to become King of Persia. Darius I (the Great) wins by a "neigh." Is this a recorded fact? 2. In the nursery rhyme, what did Old King Cole call for? 3. Bible: "and the flood was forty days upon the earth." Did the waters increase or decrease? 4. Barring China, which na tions have permanent seats on the United Nations all-powerful Security Council? 5. Was Goethe a German poet, novelist, playwright, or scien tist? 6. Is a carafe a Mohammedan official, an eating place, a glass water bottle, or the litter bear ers of a Sultan? 7. Name the capital of Maine. 8. Can rifle bullets penetrate an adult alligator's hide? 9. "I saw today that whicn I've never saw before." Is "I saw" or "never saw" incorrect? 10. "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz . . ." Shakespeare: What does "coz" mean? Answers: 1. Yes; 2. His pipe, his bowl, and his fiddlers three; 3. Increase; 4. United States, So viet Russia. Great Britain. France; 5. All of them; 6. Glass water bottle; 7. Augusta; 8. Yes; 9. "never saw." It should be "never seen"; 10. Cousin (an ab breviation). Bus-Aufo Crash Hurts Four Persons Vancouver, Wash. W A car was struck by a Greyhound bus about three miles north of here late Wednesday, injuring four members of a Racine, Wis., family. Injured were Mr. and Mrs. Homer Johnson, Carol J. John son, 17, driver of the car, and Ellen Johnson, 10. No one on the bus was hurt. The State Patrol said the ac cident occurred when the John son car slowed to make a left 4urn from the highway. MAIL TRIBUNE x Editorial Correspondence . . . San Francisco, July 22 Opportunity has knocked on our door but we don't believe we will open It. It would mean a lot of money, but it would also mean a return to New York City with the mercury in the gaudy nineties. And we have had enough of that for one year. It would also mean leaving San Francisco and this cool ocean fog is delicious. The angle it this: Since we left New Yoyk the Brooklyn Dodgers have won steadily until as of now they are only one game behind the Mil waukee Braves. We don't know the manager the magic potency of the jinx Brooklyn baseball club we feel certain he would not only give us a round-trip ticket back to Greater Manhattan but a splendifer ous expense account. All we would have to do would be to attend every game and have Milwaukee will show in our stay in New York we saw the Dodgers play over a dozen times, saw them lose two TWICE. As before noted the moment we entrained on the "Com modore" and got out of greater lose. What would it be worth Milwaukee to have that record re peated? They might even give us Of course come to think might pay us a retaining fee and a movie star's salary to stay away. Heads we win, tails we can't lose. Why didn't we think of that in the first place? We shall drop "Peewee" a line at once. Here is a puzzle and there isn't a CROSS-word in it. Why is it that a few years ago when we walked down Geary we were continually pestered by these candid camera bandits, clicking their shutters and handing us a card. heed to our presence even when we narrowly escape running them down. Anyone solving that mystery in ten words or less will be given a prize if they include their name and street number, address Hotel Clift, San Francisco. Speaking of the Clift, it's a nice hotel and we have been stay ing there when in S.F. ever since the Panama-Pacific exposition. But now it holds too many conventions. We arrived in the midst of the Elks fiesta, and now the Lions are holding forth, with the usual extra-curricular activities. After breakfast this a.m., a man slipped into the elevator, was slightly jarred by the automatic closing door, and with a jerk of the thumb toward the lobby packed with luggage, inquired if another convention had arrived. To our reply in the affirmative he declared, with gestures: "I left the Palace because of this damned conventionitis busi ness, and now I guess I will have to leave this place. They're ok in THEIR place but my hotel is not their place. I am going to find a non-convention hotel even if I have to move out to seal rocks." The speaker wasn't as old as Methuselah either. In short, here is another easy way to get rich establish a NON-convention hotel in the center of San Francisco. (Subscriptions for stock may be sen to P. O. Box P.D.Q., Medford.) Too bad the Prime Minister of Pakistan did not visit Oregon in his search for the difference between the two major parties in the USA. We are indebted to a clipping from the Ashland Tidings which shows the quality of one major party as it is now organized in Oregon. We quote: "The state chairman (James F. Short), who indicated that he personally favors development of private power, told the group that 'we should work to make power avail able on an equitable basis that will keep us in competition with other states.' " That can only mean one thing to-wit: i Chairman Short doesn't believe in public power but for the sake of votes he believes his party is not against it, just as he and his co-workers again according to the Tidings believe there should be a stronger appeal made by the Republicans for the Oregon labor vote. Ho hum so it goes! The Democratic party in Oregon IS, and for years has been definitely and unequivocally for public power, and just as defi nitely in sympathy with the legitimate aims of organized labor. With his quick intelligence and discernment we feel sure the Prime Minister of Pakistan would, if he made a few hours re search, at once detect a difference between the two major parties in Oregon and throughout the country, and make a note to that effect. R.W.R. Bonus Army 25 Years Ago Sunday, July 28, is the 25th anniversary of the dispersal of the "Bonus U.S. regular army forces led by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur as Chief of Staff. The 15,000 or so veterans, practically all unemployed, had migrated to the cap ital in May and June of 1932 from all over the coun try to ask Congress to pay in full the adjusted com pensation voted- in 1924 for payment after 20 years. In many states the veterans had been transported by highway department trucks to shift them into an adjacent state. In Washington the group took pains to organize, on a miltary basis, ejecting members without honorable discharge and cold-shouldering Communist propagandists. Some of the Bonus Army settle in disused Gov ernment buildings along. Pennsylvania Avenue, others in makeshift camps along the Anacostia river. The House passed an immediate bonus payment bill, the Senate rejected it. . Congress then voted fares back home for the bonus seekers (but most of them stayed on), increased the loan value of the bonus certificates to one-half the face value, adjourned on July 16. TThe District of Columbia authorities ordered the camps evacuated, and the District police enforced the order on the morning of July 28. There was only a little trouble at the Pennsylvania Avenue build ings, but resistance at the Anacostia camps produced some bloodshed and several fatalities. The local au thorities were reported to have asked President Hoover for help. In the afternoon the regular army dispersed the veterans around the Capitol, used bayonets and tear gas to evict them from the Anacostia camps, which were then burned. The President, explaining that Communists and other radicals had been inciting the Bonus Army to disorder, declared that the Gov ernment had to meet "overt lawlessness" and could not be coerced by "mob rule."-3-E.R.R. Thursday. July 25, 1957 of the Braves, but if he knew our attendance casts upon the pay on the results. As the record double-headers, and win exactly New York, the "Brooks" couldn't a cut on the World Series take about it Captain Peewee Reese Now the same "hucksters" pay no should tell the voters the GOP Army" in Washington by ffEFE'S YOUR PAPBP, Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop TROUBLE IN OMAN There is an obscure tribal up rising in the remote British pro- leciea AraDian auuanaie o i Muscat and Oman. The Foreign nffirp cpnHc intfi artinn its unique private army, the trucial scouts, while the war uince fmmsafspxm! alerts the reg- u 1 a r British troops in the area. And the whole ambiti ous structure of the new American pol icy in the Mid dle East be gins to quake and tremble Joseph Alsop like a boy camper's pup tent in a nign wina. This, surelv. is a fairlv alarm ing sequence of cause-and-effect, uniii very recenny, an ouiciai fineers. both British and Ameri can, were rather desperatesly rrnssprl Th hnne was pvprv. where voiced that this disorder in Oman nan hia lnrallv hanrilprl" for which read "handled by the oDscure ana irregular anc mnlnlv AraK trurial crrmt5 with out the importation of regular British troops. But that honp is all but dead Rritich Fnrpipn Minister Selwyn Lloyds statement on Monday to the House of Com mon's foreshadowing active Brit ish intervention in Oman. As a result thp little trouble in Oman can mean bie trouble, both in the Middle East and in the Anglo-American alliance. And while saying a prayer for a good out come, it is well to understand the reasons why such small trouble may produce such Dig trouble. In brief, the last old style Brit ish out nosts in the Middle East are the Persian Gulf coast Sheikhdoms and the Aden pro tectorate, which together com promise the whole Southern and Eastern shores of the Arabian peninsula. The two most valu ahlp nieces of totallv arid real estate in the world are the Sheikhdoms of Kuweit and Qa tar -nrith their trulv fabulous nil' riches, and Sheikhdom of Bahrein, while less wealthy, is also a respectable oil producer. The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, in contrast, has not in recent memory produced any thing hut camels and headaches. Tii. Sultan is one of the local claimants to the tiny oasis of Buraimi, to which Saudi Arabia ha a counter-claim. The Sultan, whose capital is at Muscat, also has a rival in the person of the Imam (or Archpriest) of Oman, In both these quarrels, me aui tan ha heen stoutlv supported by the British, who have pub licly broken with bauai Araou over Buraimi. This local friction had imie until the Suez crisis forcibly pro pelled the reluctant American policy makers into tne nuasi m the mess in the Middle East. A vital part of the new and thus .nr-raccfii American policy was to encourage King Saud of c.iuii Arahia to spnarate him self from Egypt and to give his support, as he did in Jordan, iu the West's friends among the Arabs. While King Saud was the chief llv of Eevnt's venomously anti-Western Gamal Abdel Nas ser, it did not matter greatly that he was rowing with the British over Buraimi. But as soon as King Saud abandoned Nasser and became the key fig ure in the new American Middle Eastern policy, Buraimi began to matter very greatly. Efforts were made at Ber muda by President Eisenhower to straighten out the tangle. A second effort was made here in London, after the grave Jordan nian crisis had demonstrated Kang Saud's vital importance. On this second occasion, the State Department sent Loy Hen derson to London for prolonged negotiations with a special Brit ish representative, the former Ambassador to Cairo. Sir Hum phrey Trevelyan. Rnth efforts ramp tn nothing for three reasons. First, the Brit- isn saia tney couia not let aowii a friend." and as the sole Arab ! UK. Wl VZOHl By Joseph Alsop leader who publicly endorsed the Suez venture, the Sultan of Muscat and Oman certainly comes under that heading. Sec ond, the British said that if they showed weakness anywhere on the Gulf Coast, their good faith would be questioned everywhere meaning in the really import ant Sheikhdoms of Kuweit, Qa tar and Bahrein. Third, some of the British did not say but certainly felt that they could not trust either the United States or Saudi Arabia. Thus they also felt they must stand firm now, lest U.S.-linked King Saud later reach out his hand for their oil interests on the Arabian Coast. rphe British intransigence over --Buraimi gave a golden chance to the Egyptians and the many powerful advisers of King Saud who bitterly opposed his break with Gamal Abdel nasser. me tribes of Oman have therefore hppn na irl to rise against the Sultan, in favor of the exiled Oman The real aims are to in flame the row between King Saud and the British; to force the British into overt "imperial ist" action which win lniiame tho whnlp Arab, world: and so to cause a break between King Saud and United States. TVirtnnatelv the British seem to be handling the ugly little crisis with great sobriety, aui the danger is still grave that tho npw American Middle East ern policy will be defeated by the oubreak of trouDie peiween King Saud and a third party, in this .asp the Rritish. And this will in turn help to suggest the explosive possibilities or. me (-iif nf Anaha where the Egypt ians are encouraging another Saud-third party fight, in mis case with the Isrealis, wmcn win again embroil the United States, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment GOOD FUTURE AHEAD . It is true that our lumber in dustry is in a serious economic slump. The slump; is created be cause not enough lumber is being used. If more lumber could be channeled into school and church buildings, it would help materially. Public groups in the Northwest, I believe, should give thought to the use of as much lumber as possible. But, by the time plans for churches and school buildings using wood are drawn, it would be my expectation that lumber production again will be going full blast and prices will be back up to levels causing questions of economy in the use of wood over other materials. Statistics show that there will be a continuing demand for more homes. Factory construction will remain at high level, according to all predictions. By next year, it would seem, we should begin to feel the impact of the sensa tional road building program now being engineered. Throughways, such as indi cated in the national road pro gram, require numerous struc tures. Every few miles there will be bridges, traffic dividers, cloverleafs, and other such structures. They usually are of concrete. But the great majority will, if the lumber industry is smart, use timbers, boards and plywood for form material. Here will be a tremendous mar ket during the next few years, provided the lumber industry doesn't permit its light metals competitors to get the jump. And here in Douglas County, where we can produce such a large volume of dimension and other structural wood, the high way program should spell an early revival of our timber boom and assure continuance for a long time to come. Roieburg News-Review. Plattsburg, N.Y. (IB Specifications issued to bidders for a housing project at Platts burg Air Force Base weighed 3,000 pounds. The Air Force said it had prepared 75 sets of the specifications. Each set weighed 40 pounds. Japan Feeling Toward Better; Russ Bitterness By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Japanese feeling toward the United States has taken a decid ed turn for the better. At the same time, there is growing re sentment against Soviet Russia. The biggest d e v elopment, in J a p a nese American re lations was the decision of the United Charles HcCui States to let a Japanese court try American GI Wiliam S. Girard for killing a Japanese woman. This was a matter of national pride. Before the final decision came, there was heated talk that the United States was trying to trample on Japanese rights. But there has been another de velopment resulting from the United States decision to with draw American combat troops from Japan. The "Yankee go home" slogan was long popular with a lot of Japanese people. Will Miss Dollars Now, people in Japan are talk ing about the millions of dollars which the GIs pour-into the Jap anese economy. It has begun to occur to them also that the withdrawal of the troops jeopardizes the jobs of Reform, Treatment Replacing Punishment For Young Offenders By HELEN B. SHAFER Washington, D. C. Accom plishments of state work camps for delinquent Boys have been attracting wide attention. Cali fornia operates 21 forestry camps or ranches for delin quents, and nine other states have started similar programs The camps so far established can take a total of only about 1,500 boys of the 40,000 boys and girls who have been com mitted to training or industrial schools what used to be called reform schools. But the camps are a significant reflection of the shift away from mere in carceration toward treatment aimed to make delinquent young sters useful members of society. Interest Spurred Growth of juvenile ' delin quency, and a tendency of of fending youngsters to become repeaters, have spurred interest in how the training schools handle their young charges. The public usually is of two minds on the question. It often com plains about the "softness" of juvenile correction systems and utters ringing demands to "get tough with young hoodlums. At other times the public has been stirred to vigorous protest by reports of harsh conditions in training schools. Professional workers with de linquents hold that old-style re form schools increase the bellig erence of youthful delinquents and breed adult criminals. The specialists are concerned to de tect sources of a young offend er's hostility to society and find ways to make him want to be have. If such methods are called soft, they defend them on the ground that they work. Welfare Services Expansion of child welfare services in general has tended to keep out of training schools the youngsters who are more neglected than delinquent. As a result, today's institutions for delinquents contain a high pro portion of inmates who are emo tionally disturbed to some ex tent. It is therefore contended that young people sent to train ing schools should be classified, not according to the seriousness "In some sections of the country the practice of holding a viewing Is quite com mon. The viewing gives friends and relatives an opportunity to show their sympathy and solidarity with the bereaved. Men are social creatures and need to stand by one another in times of crisis. The viewing may even ease th. parting for some, for at least there is the body and the beloved features." (Quoted from an article by the Rev. Joseph E. McCabe In the June 8th issue of "Presbyterian Life") DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS a lot of Japanese people. Since the troop withdrawal decision was made, about 6,000 Japanese employed at American troop bases have been dismissed. Another 7,000 are expected to lose their jobs by the end of Sep tember. About 127,000 Japanese are still employed by the American forces. Of these, about 70,000 work for the ground forces which are to be withdrawn. Provincial and?ity authorities face the loss of the various pay ments made by the United States forces for the use of firing ranges, drill grounds and other military establishments. Resentment toward Russia is growing largely because of the refusal of the Soviet government to enter into a fishing agree ment. Fishing is a basic part of the Japanese economy. Negotiations for a treaty which would permit Japanese fishing vessels to oper ate in waters off the Siberian coast have been stalled again and again. Close Off Area To make the situation worse, Russia announced last Saturday that an area of more than 6,000 miles off the naval base of Vladi vostok has been closed to for eign ships and planes. There has been a suggestion that the Russian decree was linked up with military security. But the area in question has of their offenses, but according to the nature of their personal ity defects. Relatively few of the schools are prepared now to make such classifications or to give the in dicated treatment The 186 pub lic and 133 -private training schools in the United States fall roughly into three general groups: (1) Prison-like institu tions aiming chiefly to punish; (2) custodial institutions operat ed on the theory that kindly supervision will have pervasive effects for the better; and (3) "clinically oriented" schools which apply psychotherapy and other modern techniques on an individual basis. Are Expensive Schools in the third group have to be staffed with special ists and naturally are expensive to operate. A survey by the Children's Bureau in 1953 of 109 state training schools dis closed that only 47 of them sought personality data on new inmates, and that only 42 re quired psychiatric information. The fact that annual expendi tures per inmate in a profession ally staffed school reached $4,399 in one institution, in con trast to an average of $1,985 for all reporting schools, indicated how far many of the schools have to go to attain targets set by professional workers with de linquents. The public is inclined to be skeptical of the psychiatric social worker approach to de linquency, but advocates of the new methods emphasize that in dividual control remains a basic objective of the new, as of the old, approach. The major inno vation is an attempt to develop in the delinquent a healthier out look on life, not simply to sup press anti-social impulses tem porarily. Langley Conspiracy Trial Set for Sept. 4 Portland (IP) Circuit Judge James W. Crawford Wednesday set Sept. 4 for the trial of ex- District Attorney William Lang ley on a charge of conspiracy to obtain a telecommunication. U.S. Grows been effectively closed to for eign shipping and aircraft with out any decree. It appears that the decree really was intended to exclude Japanese fishing vessels from an exceedingly valuable fishing grounds. Japanese Foreign Minister Ai- ichiro Fujiyama announced Tuesday that he proposed to send a strong protest to Moscow. Japanese newspapers are de nouncing the Soviet decree as a gross violation of international law. Japanese people never forget. either, that Russia still refuses to account for thousands of prisoners who are believed to be still in slave labor camps nearly 12 years after the end of World War II. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the tele types are practically bare of BIG news. For that, I suppose, we should be grateful. BIG news so often is BAD news. But, we newspapers claim, we don't make the - news; we just print it. So let s take a look at what there is. UNITED Business Service of Boston says food prices this fall will be the highest since 1952 because due to weather conditions the total 1957 food crops will be the smallest since 1951. As Emerson tells us in one of the most famous of his essays, there are compensations. If we have to dig up more to pay the grocery bill, we may not have to dig up so much in the way of taxes to pay the subsidies on a big crop. QHUCKS! I reckon that s a will the wisp hope. The spenders will find some thing else to spend the money for. THAT raises a question: How can reckless spending of tax money be stopped? I have a notion that if the voters got together and voted all the spenders out of office we'd get economy QUICK. HAZARDS of modern life note: The director of the Na tional Cancer Institute says in an interview in a national maga zine that , the odds are one in ten that a heavy smoker who is 45 or older will die of lung cencer. Then he adds: . "These odds are about the ' same as the smoker's chances of being hit by an automobile." Reach for another fag. BACK in Brunswick, Georgia, the other night a man and his wife went out on the town and took in the taverns. When they got home, the lady aug gested that a good way to top the evening off would be to play Russian roulette. The gentleman took her at her word, put one shell in his gun, spun the cylinder, pulled the trigger, the gun went off and he departed for the happy hunting grounds. H-m-mm-m. One can't help wondering if a citizen with a mentality of that sort will be much missed in his community. LET'S close this symposium with the tale of Katie the Kangaroo. Katie is a member of circus that is playing in Memphis. At feeding time she got careless and flipped her tail through the bars of her cage. The cage adjoining was occupied by a tiger. The tiger promptly bit off about a foot and a half of Katie's" tail. Moral for Katie: Eternal vigilance is the price of safety.