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I FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Every or.s m Southern OragoB Beads The Mall Trtbun" Published Daily Except Saturday D7 MEDfORD PRINTING CO 27-29 Norm rtr St Phone 2-814,1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Uuim GERALD LATHAM Builnea Manages EK1C ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARL'HER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Clrcution Mgr. An Ind ependcnt Newspa per Entered aa seeond claai matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mull In Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six monthi 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mna 4-25 bundav Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold HIU Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor route- Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 DalJy and Sunday One month 1.S0 -airier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Term Cash in Advance OffVlal Paper of the City or Medford Official Paper of Jatksun County jUnited Preaa rull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising ReDresentarlve WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAfTV tNO Offlcea In New York Chicago de troit San Pranciaco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louia Atlanta Vannttver B C NATION', f D 1 1 0 1 1 A i x I aj'$ocFain Vif UlUimiM'lHIII NIWSPAPEt PUtllSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mai Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 29. 1947 (Tueiday) Applications are received for giving home to 13-year-old de pendent boy. From Arthur Perry', column Ye Smudge Pot: The wild black berries of the Applegate are coming along fine and several have been seen carrying pails, natives report. 20 YEARS AGO July 29. 1937 (Thursday) Across the country to the rockbound shores of New Eng land has traveled the fame of the Rogue River Lodge, newest of the tourist and sportsmen's centers. Gold Hill residents prepare for the Northwest Jackson County Fair slated Sept. 18. 30 YEARS AGO Julv 29. 1927 Main floor of the M. M. De partment store, the basement of which was damaged by fire several weeks ago, has been braced for the fire sale. Cafeteria and general store to be ready at Crater Lake next year. 40 YEARS AGO July 29. 1917 Medford men train at Hugh Aviation camp at San Antonio, Tex. Firemen unable to find weed covered fire hydrant so two houses burn. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ! superior; seven or eight Is excellent: live or sis Is good. 1. Is Scotland Yard in Glasgow or Edinburgh? 2. Name the two islands on which Napoleon Bonaparte was successively confined. 3. Bible: The "Prudent man" in Acts 13:7 is proconsul P S? 4. What is the length of life of a Congress? 5. Can swans fly? 6. In what army did Gurkha troops serve? 7. Is Niagara Falls receding? 8. Which President of the U.S. was shortest In stature? 9. Give the correct spelling of the phonetically-pronounced Indo-Chinese country "Louse." 10. How did "Jimmy" Walker went to be loved when he wrote "Will You Love Me In Decem ber as You Do In May?" Answers: 1. Neither, London. 2. Elba and St. Helena. 3. Paulus. 4. Two years. 5. Yes. 6. British Indian Army. 7. Yet. .8. James Madison. 9. Laos. 10. "In the good old fashioned way." Astoria Girl Named Miss Oregon of '57 Seaside (IP Judith Hansen, 19-year-old blue-eyed blonde from Astoria, will represent Ore gon at the Miss America pageant at Atlantic City. Miss Hansen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Hansen, As toria, was crowned Miss Oregon of 1957 by Gov. Robert D. Holmes in ceremonies here Sun day afternoon. The girl, who attends Bethany college at Lindsberg. Kan., mea- sures 36-24-35' a. is 5 feet 8 in ches tall, and weighs 130 pounds. Runnersup in the contest to select Miss Orefon were Miss Roseburg, Judith Henlsey, 17, and Iiss Eugene, Doreen Mor asch, 18, of the University of Oregon. MAIL TRIBUNE Pride In School got out in California two weeks later this year than it did last year. So what? Does that resident of Medford? Yes. Because it meant ists, a majority of whom are Calif omians, didn't start this year until about the first of July, instead of around the middle of June as usual. The chamber of commerce reported this week that the number of tourists tion has doubled in the past two or three weeks, and is now at about the same level as it was last year, which was a good tourist THIS late-developing season caused some concern 1 earlier in the year, and there were reports that the tourist trade was "off In view of what the chamber reports, however, it can be hoped that it is iust late, not too much down. For a great many people in Medford (which has been hit and hurt by the a real stake in the tourist business. I he principal bene- ficiaries, of course, are the hotels and motels, the restaurants and the service stations. But tourists also purchase other things as general level of business ot the tourist-service con cems is also reflected throughout the community. THE Rogue valley generally is more fortunate than other sections of Oregon pendent on lumber production and manufacture. Ag riculture, including one of industries, is important income, tourist service is This is what is known as a diversified economy, and when one of our economic bases is hurting, the others tend to take up some Therefore, if there is anything which can be done to stimulate tourists to visit periods, it is important to CPECIAL efforts are being made to do just that. The Oregon Motor special emphasis on informing our paying guests of what to see and do, both highways in Oregon. The local chamber of with the Oil Information service stations, this year welcoming tourists, giving or suggestions as to what the information changing THE Portland Kiwanis club has started a program called "Operation Twenty for One," which has been picked up by other clubs in the state. It is built around the fact that it each tourist visiting uregon could be persuaded tq stay one more day, the state would benefit by $ZU,uUU,uuu in "new" money. It is based on this calculation, in round figures: Nearly 3y2 million tourists came to the state last.year; spent an average of six days and $40 each, for a total of $141 million. That is at the rate of $6.50 per day, and if each stayed one day longer that equals $20 million. Gasoline taxes alone last year brought $212 million into the state's coffers which means just that much less for residents to pay. ITE can't beat tourists over. the head with a club to make them stay longer. But we can all be aware of the importance of this economic fact, be familiar with what tourists might like to see and do in our own area, treat them courteously as we come into contact with them, and keep our communities as attractive and pleasant as possible. This is a case where the easy casting of bread upon the waters can be of benefit to all our people. Oregon, as a "product" to sell tourists, is one of which we can all be proud. Our "merchandise" is of the best. We must keep it that way. E.A. For Successor to McCarthy Seven Republicans are contesting the primary in Wisconsin tomorrow for the G.O.P. nomination in the election on Aug. 27 to fill the Senate seat of the late Joseph R. McCarthy. The Republican primary winner will be also the election winner it recent po litical history in the Badger State is a reliable guide. Last year the venerable Alexander Wiley (R) was re-elected to the Senate by 265,000 votes, though he had been opposed in the primary by the state G.O.P. organization. This had backed out-and-out McCarthy ite Glenn R. Davis, now again after the nomination. McCarthy himself had been re-elected in 1952 by almost 140,000 votes. "NE of the two Democratic primary candidates, William Proxmire, ran within 60,000 votes of being elected Governor last year. But when it comes to national elections the state has usually been lop sidedly Republican since 1944, when, it was one of the 12 voting against Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is true that in 1948 Wisconsin went for Tinman, but that seemed chiefly a protest against what the "isolationists" in the state termed the "internation alism" of Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate. The state gave Eisenhower majorities of 358,000 in 1952 and 370,000 in 1956. Yet the Demo crats like to remember that in a special House election in October 1953, the Ninth Wisconsin District chose a Democrat for the first time in the history of that dairy ing area. E.R.R. j Monday. July 29, 1957 "Product" make any difference to a that the big influx of tour dropping in for mforma year. markedly from prior years. lumber market slump) nave they go through, and the in that it is not wholly de the nation s toremost pear here, and, based on dollar third. of the slack. us, and to stay for longer everyone in the valley. Court association is placing on and off the interstate commerce, in cooperation committee and individual is placing many posters them current information to do and see, and keeping Irom week to week. ' I DON'T LIKE POTATOES ivTH U.P. Correspondents Eye Future Headlines United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Adjournment Adjournment of Congress hinges on the Senate's vote on the jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill. If the amend ment is adopted, the southerners are expected to call off their fili buster plans. That would permit adjournment toward the end of August. Otherwise, a talkathon by southern senators could tie up the session for weeks, even months. Whenever the adjourn ment comes, it wiU leave a big part of the Eisenhower legisla tive program on the junk heap including federal aid for school construction, an increase in post al rates and statehood for Alas ka. The civil rights issue can't be blamed for that. None of these measures would have been passed anyway. Sub-Summit Conference Don't be surprised if the sud den visit of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the Lon don disarmament conference re sults in a "sub-summit" confer ence of foreign ministers. The Russians have been plugging for a real summit conference which President Eisenhower would at tend, for months. But they'd set tle for a conference on the sec ond level Dulles, British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, trench Foreign Minister An- toine Pinay and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By a very close vote 208 to 203 the house of reDresenta- tives kills the billion and a half dollar federal school construc tion bill. The action camp on a motion by Representative Howard amitn, Democrat, of Virginia, to strike out the enacting clause. So the question was whether to kill the bill or to let It live. On the final vote. Ill Re publicans and 97 Democrats voted to kill it and 126 Demo crats and 77 Republicans voted to keep it alive. The point is that the bill's defeat was not a partisan enterprise. It is a reasonable conclusion that the voting represented, hv a narrow margin the ponciHamd judgment of a majority of the memDers ot the house of repre sentatives that it will be better for the United States if the fed. eral government keeps its hands off the schools. IVITH that conclusion I am in " complete agreement. We have sent to Washington in the past couple of decades a very large share of what were once the exclusive functions of our states, our cities and our coun ties. Washington has hecomo fn a surprising extent the state house for all the states, the courthouse lor all the counties and the city hall for all the cities. Rsnnu nV what has happened along that line, we nave seen too much of our government GET TOO FAR rnOM US. We havp soon the government in Washington uetome so nuge and so unwieldy that no single livine man can comprehend it. Along with this trend toward concentration of government in the national capital we have seen a fabulous increase in the COST of government. I'm per sonally sure it will be better for all of us and for our children after us if we keep the admin istration of our schools as close to home as possible. IN THESE days, every state has 1 C 4n n,ntila. X-. ty has its tax oroblems. Evprv city has its tax problems. This being true, it is understandable why a federal appropriation for school construction has its ap peal. But we must rpmpmhpr that ALL tax money comes out of the pockets of the people. . In the long run, it makes little THEIR CLOTHES ON! Devaluation European financial experts be lieve that devaluation of the French franc is imminent. Near ly everybody in Paris is talking about it except the two men who must decide Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury and Finance Minister Felix Gaillard. They refuse to talk. Naturally, they would not even hint in advance if they planned such a move. But their failure to deny deval uation reports is taken to mean that it probably is coming. De valuation would be strong medi cine. Those in favor of it say it is necessary as an austerity mea sure to strengthen the currency. Officially valued at 350 to the dollar, it takes 420 francs to buy a dollar in the free market. Atomic Power A controversy is building up over the proposal that the Unit ed States build an atomic plant modeled on Britain's Calder Hall, the world's first big nu clear power station. A bill ap proved by a congressional sub committee would require the Atomic Energy commission to build one. The AEC doesn't want to says U.S. models hold more promise. But Calder Hall uses natural uranium while the American stations use enriched uranium, which calls for costly separation plants. Those in favor of the Calder HaU type say it is attractive as an export item to undeveloped countries. They fear Britain will grab the mar ket potentially a big one un less the United States acts. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear trie name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a oen name or Initial tor publication la permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the light to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Concerned Over Procedure To the Editor: The judge's verdict in the case of Ora Lee Adams seemed to most of those who attended the hearing a fair and wise one. But, even though the case of the little old lady on Oakdale has a happy ending it has raised a question that chills the spine of the average citizen. Namely, have we any real safe guards against illegal committal to the insane asylum? Several of us who were dis turbed over the committal of Mrs. Adams last March made in quiries at the court house and were told "everything is in proper order." It was Impossible for a private citizen to examine the pertinent documents. When Mrs. Allison Adams arrived in iown and attained access to them through her attorney things did not look proper and it has taken her a two month legal fight and great expense to secure" the little old lady's re lease and break the guardian ship the guardianship which difference whether the tax money is taken out of our pock ets by the federal government or the local governments. It does, however, make this difference: When we send our tax money to Washington and expect Washington to send it back to us, we discover in the end that it has shrunk consider ably in the transfer back and forth. Up Before Day GEO. N. TAYLOR A great while before day, Christ arose to pray Mark 1:35 BIBLE.. Then He went on Into Galilee where He spent much of the next three years. There He proved His God-hood by many a miracle. Later He died for all who will have Him as Lord and Saviour. Believe that He died for your sins and God gives you new days for here and now and eternal life also. This mesage sponsored by an Oregon dairy family. Adv. Lack of Grass Roots Support Seen School Bill Loss Cause By LYLE C. WILSON United Presi Correspondent Washington (IP) President Eisenhower is being accused of scuttling his own bill for federal aid to schools, but that seems not to be wh it actually hap pened. What hit the school- aid billl last week was a blast of grass roots indigna tion against the I.yU C WUsob high taxes and high levels of government sDend- ing. There were other factors, of course, in the five-vote margin which the House refused to ap propriate funds for school con struction. Racial integration had a big part. Both major parties met last summer in national nominating conventions which also drafted statements of political principles commonly known as platforms. These wordy documents, read by few and understood by fewer, each bore one strong resemb lance to the other. That resemb lance was that each tried to pro mise a little something for every body, more, if possible, than the other promised. tsy sucn Devices both major parties formally committed themselves before the 1956 pres idential campaign to spend a lot of federal money on local schools. Came the whopping new Eisenhower budget last January and things began to happen Get New Chairman , On Jan. 22 the Republican party got a new national chair man, hand-picked by the Presi dent and his advisors. The new man was Meade Alcorn, of Con necticut, tagged as a modern Re publican evangelist. Alcorn proceeded immediately to a series of huddles with con gressional Republicans from whom he heard qad news the Eisenhower administration was in serious trouble with the vot ers. The new chairman hustled to the White House to talk it over. He subsequently received from Eisenhower a letter which, the judge declares never legally existed at all. Stlil more terrifying is Judge Millard's statement to the affect that "we aren't being critical because counsel knows wp handle these things as a matter 01 course." When, pray, did we cease handling them as a matter of law? No less than 'five officials must have checked and signed some part of the illegal guard ianship and committal papers. Is a life spent locked in the insane asylum so trivial a matter that our officials do not even bother to read the documents before they sign them? How many others were wonder are incarcer ated similarly "as a matter of course." If there can be "many irregularities" (judge's words) in the one case that has been placed before the public, what about the others? Unless they are fortunate enough to have a Jane or Allison Adams their records we assume are proper and very secret. From the attorney who drew up the original guardianship through judge, county doctor, sheriff's officers and admitting officer at the asylum, no one was at fault that due process of law was neglected. Everybody seems to have trusted somebody else. If you as citizens of Jackson county are willing to stake your personal freedom on the propo sition that "we can all trust Henry he knows John," let the case of Ora Lee Adams drop. If in addition to the good offices of Henry and John you want the legal protection the constitution guarantees you, it's time for an investigation. And please, one in which Henry and John are not the determining factors. . Jane Gillaspie 636 Fourth st. Medford, Ore. Digest Tails All To The Editor: Everyone who wishes the true picture of the Hells Canyon Dam" contro versy should read the article in the August, 1957, Reader's Di gest on Page 89, 'titled, "Pacific Northwest Stands - on its own feet." Leila A. Morrow 531 North Bartlett st. Medford, Ore. A LOT OF WATER . Memphis, Tenn. TIP) Morris Baker says it takes at least 700,- 000 gallons of water to grow one 500-pound bale of cotton. If; the United Press was informed, stated bluntly that the people should have the greatest and most effective voice in determin ing party policy. The letter instructed Alcorn to go forth among the people to discover what was wrong.. He was to return to tell the Presi dent how things stood. There followed regional Republican meetings in five cities, Omaha, Neb.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Louisville, Ky.; Cincinnati, O , and Trenton, N. J. The grass roots participants in those meetings came later last May to Washington. The regional meetings were closed to the public. The assembled Re publicans spoke frankly of their troubles. A digest of their jeers, gripes, and cheers was compiled for presentation to Eisenhower by Alcorn escorted by Sen. An drew Schoeppel (R-Kan.), and Rep. Richard M Simpson (R-Pa.). Not Made Public This report has not been made public. The United Press was Informed, however, that Eisen hower's school-aid spending was Matter of Fact ay sewn ai,p THEY WON'T WORK FOR IKE Washington Top officials of the Eisenhower administration including the President himself, are spending a good deal of their time these almost literally on their knees, pleading with leading busi nessmen to take jobs with gov ernment, And about 19 Stewaif Alsop times out of 20, they are getting a flat re fusal. If the implications were not so serious, the situation would be downright farcical. Take the search for someone to head the International Cooperation Ad ministration, the agency which handles billions of dollars in for eign aid, and which is a vitally important instrument of Ameri can foreign policy. When John Hollister decided to resign as chief of the ICA, the search for a successor began with James Smith, the extremely able former Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Smith turned it down. Since then, the fantastic total of 21 leading (and not-so-leading) businessmen have been offered the job, and have refused. Re cently, the refusals were coming in at the rate of three a day. TT is now hoped that Smith, the a. first choice can after all be nprsiiariprl to take on the job. But the fact that 21 men turned down one of the most interesting anrt influential iobs in the gov ernment suggests that something is very wrong somewhere. So does the well-publicized and thus far futile search for a cuccpssor to Charles Wilson as Secretary of Defense. The De fense Secretaryship is, after an, the third, ' perhaps the second, most important post in the Amer ican oovcrnment Yet three in dustrialists hand-running have turned down the job iiar enpa Ka nrlall of Inland Steel, vmpf Tirppch of Ford Motors, Ralph Cordiner of General Elec- trlc- . Bankers are apparently just i- reluctant as Industrialists to take a government post. Enough bankers were ottered tne gov ernment's number two fiscal iv, thp iindPi-seeretarvshiD of the' Treasury, to make a small bankers' convention. But a law yer- Assistant Secretary of tne Trp'asnrv Fred Scribner. had to be promoted by default. . . IT is often said that business men rpfnse to serve the gov ernment because they fear ex posure' to Congressional badger ing. Retiring Secretary of the Trpasnrv Humnhrev's 14-day or deal before a Senate committee cited as the sort of thing that scares off the businessmen. This N I ? .9 if j FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Rane Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 - the most aggressively challeng ed of all of his policies. The grass rooters repudiated both the President and the party plat form on that Issue. . The President's enthusiasm for some big time spending to build schools probably began to wilt about the time he got the Alcorn-Schoeppel- Simpson re port and it did not thereafter stiffen. The word around town shortly before last week's House vote killed the school bill was that Eisenhower would make a sudden and dramatic appeal for its approval. There was no such appeal and persons familiar with the back ground of the controversy were not surprised when it was not forthcoming. It has been said of some poll ticians that they detect grass .roots trends by the unlikely method of simultaneously put ting both ears to the ground. Eisenhower did not have to ac complish that feat to hear what Republican grass rooters thought of building local schools with federal funds. is no doubt part of the explana tion. But it is certainly not the whole of it. Two of the most interesting jobs in the government are now going begging, and neither in volves any painful contact with Congress. One is the soon-to-be-vacated post of chief of the State Department's policy planning staff, now headed by Robert Bowie. Secretary of State Dulles wants someone from outside the government to take on the policy planning staff. But although the job involves the most fascinat ing kind of high-level policy making, there are no takers so far, and the post may go instead to a Foreign Service profession al. Robert Cutler, special assist ant to the President and Secre tary of the National Security Council, has in some ways the most interesting job in the gov ernment. He deals in all the highest issues of national policy, and he briefs the President daily on such issues. Cutler wants to go back to his Boston bank and repair his private fortunes. Yet, so far, he is staying on, because no qualified man to replace him has been found. A ND so it goes. President Tru man used to complain almost daily about the difficulty of get ting good men to serve the gov ernment. In fact. President Ei senhower, heading a strongly pro-business administration, is having a lot more trouble than Truman did. Part of the trouble is money. of course. There are the compar atively low government salaries, and the conflict-of-interest prob lems, but the fact is that many businesses ruthlessly penalize any executive who leaves to work for his government. One of the President's closest advis ers, for example, who has no private means, has already lost half his pension rights in the firm in which he was formerly an executive. Businessmen who work for the government also tend to lose their place dh the corporate ladder, and when they return they find that they have been'shoved down several years. Perhaps Congress ought to have another look at the conflict-of-interest statutes, and at salary rates and income tax ex emptions in the executive branch. But business also ought to have another look at its prac tices in respect to those who take government jobs. For it' is cer tainly in the interest of busi ness that the President's experi ment in staffing the top levels of. government with businessmen should not fail. And it will fail if the government can draw only on second raters, the independ ently rich, and the elderly and ' retired. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) j4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services for every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. 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