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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfordtribuke "Everyoiw in Sou Ui era Orefoe Read! The Mall Tribune" JubiMhed Dally Except Saturday by MEDfOKD PKIWTING CO 17-29 Norm rir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W BUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manage ERIC ALA-EN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN TeleifrsDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OUVE STARCHEB Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. AnIndependent Newspa per Entered as second clan matter at Med lord Oregon under Act oi March 3 1&07 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance.: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 la months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4.25 SMdiv Only One year H-20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1-30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All TermajCaah in Advance dfflriai Paper of the City of Medford Offlrtal Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANV INC Offices In New Ynrg Chieago .de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vanrojiver B C NATIONAL IDITOIlAi x'r I UsfbcSVieN rjCQXQ 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filei of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 30. 1947 (Wednesday) Signatures of about 4.000 reg istered Medford voters are placed on petition for state acquisition of Camp White hospital site. From Arthur Perry's col umn Ye Smudge Pot: Joe Naumes is again a grandpaw. He reports the first time it was a thrill, but the second time it reminds him of his age. 20 YEARS AGO July 30. 1937 (Friday) Eddie Nugent and Page, popular motion actors. George Hunt at Craterian theater. Final rehearsals are Ashland for the three be presented by the Shakespearean Festival tion. Bradley picture his New held in plays to Oregon associa- 30 YEARS AGO July 30. 1927 (Salurday) One of the prosperous, grow ing sections of the city is the Berrydale district on North Riverside ave. Public Service commission hearing on the protest against the increase in irrigation rates closes today. 40 YEARS AGO July 30, 1917 (Monday) Sunday morning First Com pany entrains for the Columbia river forts. Seventh company. 109 men and officers entrain Sunday morning for Ft. Stevens. What's Your I.Q.? Nln or ten correct Is tnperlor; even or debt it excellent; five or six Is good. 1. The Ranters, believing too much attention was paid to for mality, and not sufficient fer vor "was manifested, seceded from which Church? 2. What is Pennsylvania's State motto? 3. Bible: '"But the hands are the hands of Esau." But to whom belonged the "voice"? 4. The Women's Reserve of the U. S. Coast Guard is popu larly called ? 5. A picture of Thomas Jef ferson is on what denomination victory bond? 6. Who was known as "The Father of Pennsylvania"? 7. Of which city is a cockney a native? 8. Is the grave of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt guarded by members of the armed forces? 9. Are "fiord", fjord" and 'fyord" all English words? 10. "I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me. How blest the hours pass'd away With" whom? Answers: 1. Methodist (18 th century). 2. "Virtue. Liberty and and Independence." 3. Jacob. 4. SPARS. 5. $50. 6. William Penn (because he took such an active part in founding and set tling this colony). 7. London, England 8. No (by civilian guards ofthe Interior Depart ment. 9. Yes. 10. "the girl I left behind me." BIRD CAGE THIEVES Kansas City, Mo. OP) Thieves discovered Monday that a bird in the hand isn't always worth two in the shrubbery. Police interrupted the robbers as they stole S200 macaw from a drug store. In thoir haste to flee the fugitives wrecked their car but continued on foot with the bird in hand. However, police found the macaw abandoned a short distance away. MAIL TRIBUNE "IS" a Great Country Its a time-honored booster "cliche" but like many other "cliches" it is true. This IS a great country! We fail to see how anyone can take a trip from coast to coast and back again, without being im pressed with that fact we don't mean above the clouds of course but on the ground. From Portland to New York and from New York to San Francisco it is a continuous panorama of peace, plenty and promise infinite promise in the way of the nation's obvious potentialities. THERE are exceptions of course but they only prove the rule. There are a few arid spots such as the drought on now in rural New England, but the na tional picture as a WHOLE not only from the Pacific to the Atlantic but from the Canadian border to Mexico, is a heartening and thrilling one. Certainly all Americans including the 100 ones, have good reason to take time out now and then, and express their eternal thankfulness that they are fortunate enough to be citizens of a country, of which they have so many valid reasons to be grateful and proud. AS THE present writer viewed the bustling cities, ' the peaceful villages, the productive farms and ranches and even more striking the thousands mil lions in fact of acres of untilled land and uncut forests, which in most cases only need water and bet ter roads to enter into the stream of profitable com merce; the theories of Professor Malthus and his doctrine of ultimate starvation, became even more academic and unrealistic, than it appeared in the far away salad and college days. MEEDLESS to say, we can't speak for ether coun- tries, famines in China, India and other distant lands have taken place from time to time for many centuries, and in spite of Uncle Sam's foreign aid generosity they may continue. But we can state our opinion regarding this country, and with all due re spect for the Malthusian disciples, we simply don't believe a word of it. Not in the foreseeable future at least, and after all newspapers should not be much concerned about a future that can't be foreseen. For example: One of these days, most scientists agree, the sun will cool off, and no satisfactory substitute can now be foreseen. But we do not feel such a catastrophe is sufficiently imminent to justify the journalists in making it a burning or cooling issue at the PRESENT time. So with the theory that unless something drastic is done, the population of this country, will exceed its ability to produce adequate nourishment, and therefore millions of American citizens will starve. "IXELLi if Professor Malthus were alive today and could take such a "swing around the circle" as the undersigned has just taken, and at the same time would do some careful researching into the latest methods of increasing food production per acre, as well as synthetic substitutes, he might still believe in more emphasis on birth-control, but it is hard to believe he would devote his time and talents, to sounding three-alarm fire signals as to the dangers of famine or even mild malnutrition, in this part of the world, and we would include all the land from the north pole to the Panama canal. MO, IT just doesn't add up, as we see it. There are many dangers facing the world and this country as an important part of it, but starvation physically at least is not one of them. There are plenty of dangers psychologically and spiritually, dangers of greed, selfishness, intolerance, avarice, bigotry, the nationalistic urge and the racial "will to power" ; but as things stand today, the dan gers emanating from an empty stomach or an empty cupboard, in this broad and productive land at least, should not be included among them. R.W.R. Editorial Comment Remarkable Organization A remarkable organization ex ists in Josephine county. It has been publicized . in numerous newspaper and magazine articles and its operations thus are famil iar to most persons in this area. We are referring to the Smoke Jumpers, who operate from the U.S. Forest Service base near Cave Junction, under the leader ship of James Allen. Now num bering 28 young men, the jump ers are in constant readiness to land by parachute in isolated for est areas, and start fire fighting. We were given an impressive demonstration of what fast ac tion can mean, in preventing a small blaze from developing in to a potential conflagration. Dur ing an aerial reconnaissance of the forest area the veteran For est Service pilot, Ed Scholz, pointed out a brown patch on n ridge beneath the plane. It was here, he said, that an unattended campfire had spread. An alert lookout turned in the alarm and within 15 minutes the Smoke Jumpers were on the scene and had the blaze under control. To have made the trip by truck would have required several hours. By then a major forest fire might have develop ed. The Smoke Jumpers love their work. Many are college students, who spend their summer vaca tions in this manner. Some of the jumps they make, to the layman, seem incredibly hazard ous. Yet, we were informed, there never has been a fatality Tuesday, July 30. 1957 in local operations. The jumpers are given 160 hours of training, before they are dropped from planes. The parachutes are maneuverable, to a certain extent, and the jump er usually can manipulate them so tree-top landings can be av oided. Each jumper, however, is prepared in case the chute catch es in branches of a tall fir or pine tree. Nylon rope is carried in each pack for just such an emergency. Given just right humidity and wind conditions, it still is pos sible for a conflagration, such as the Tillamook and Bandon fires, to occur in Southern Oregon forests. The chance of such dis asters is decreased many-fold, however, by the availability of Smoke Jumpers, and aerial equipment to transport them al most anywhere in Oregon or Northern California. Grants Pass Courier. FACTS ON FLUORIDATION Dr. Louis Israel Dublin, for nearly half a century head of the Metropolitan Life insurance Co.'s Statistical Research branch, amassing data from the health records of 30 million policy holders, recently retired, but still continuing research work, has written, after a year's inves tigation, a pamphlet report en titled "Water I'luoridation Facts, Not r'yths," published by Manhattan's Public Affairs Com mittee. It is the final answer to the long controversy raging over fluoridation of public drinking AV horse's name is speedy ! Matter of Fact IKE AND CIVIL RIGHTS Washington As the civil rights drama boils to a climax, the man to watch is President D w i g h t D. E i s enshower. The outcome of the fight on how firm ly and openly the President wt f llljeuuj liwiacn UllU lb. r unb is p r o b a b ly more import- i Tt : Stewait AIiob "". ev ent's personal prestige on Cap itol Hill will be profoundly af fected by the stand he now takes. As strongly pro-Eisenhower "Time" magazine has reported, the President's standing with Congress is at a new low. The Administration's amazing back ing and filling on the defense budget has alienated those who supported the President in the budget fight. What "The Wash- Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Sees Discrimination To the Editor: They are at it again. We have another effort of private interests of down town Medford that are attempting to secure "off street parking" by over-riding the voice of the peo ple with city council action. The merchants association through one of its officers, has advised the council that they want a more equitable business license tax, and at the same time secure some 535,000 more revenue to be used for off-street parking. If one would look into it they would find total discrimination in favor of big business at the expense of small business to secure by connivance, most of the expense for "off-street park ing," even from those that would have no benefit from a down town parking lot whatever. Do you know that a little hotel with 17 rooms on Front St. would pay $79 business tax against the larger hotels with 100-rooms $167? The little bus iness would average about $5 per room tax and the larger one about $1.67 per room tax. I ask is that fair and equit able? Ray O. DeMarrs, 708 West Second st., Medford, Ore. water. He compares the bitter opposition to it to the persecu tion of advocates of vaccination against smallpox, and the fanat iscism and persecution of health workers favoring chlorination of waters early in this century. "Next to the common cold," concludes Statistician Dublin, "tooth decay is probably the most universal disease suffered by mankind." He continues: "Men'and women aged 40 to 44 who have spent their lives in areas with naturally fluori dated water average only three missing teeth; those in non fluoride communities average 14. Tooth decay has declined 54 to 60 among youngsters in city after city where fluori dation has been practiced for about 10 years." Dr. Dublin admits fluorides are poisonous but in "a same way are common salt, oxygen and water, which can kill you if you get too much of them. But to absorb a lethel amount of a fluoridated water would require drinking even the mild est symtoms of fluoride poison ing would require that the vic tim swallow 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting ... To produce two-and-a-half bathtubfuls . . . dur ing a single day. Searching for cases where any harm to health has resulted, even among the aged and ailing. Dr. Dublin was unable to find a single case. Salem Capital Journal. 2- WfWnA vou call wjr row? , By Stewart Alsop ington Post" called the Presi dent's "vacillation and inertia" on his own School Aid bill is credited with the defeat of the bill in the House. By the same token, his equivocal position on section three of the Civil Rights bill certainly helped to kill that part of the bill. IN THESE circumstances, as "Time" reported, the feeling is growing in Congress that the President "need no longer be feared, can often be ignored, occasionlly flouted." That is one reason why some of those around the President reportedly in cluding Vice President Nixon, who feels deeply that the civil rights fight must be won be lieve that the President should intervene firmly and evea dra matically in the battle. It has been proposed to the President, for example, tha'. he should write a letter to Minority Leader William Knowland, out lining in the strongest terms his reasons for opposing a jury tril amendment to the Civil Rights bill. Knowland could then read the letter on the Senate floor, attracting maximum national at tention and stamping the Presi dent's position firmly as the Re publican Party position. Rough drafts of such a letter have even 'been made. But it now appears unlikely that the Presi dent will adopt this course. Knowland himself reportedly feels that it would smack too much of White House "dicta tion" to Congress. Even so, a strong and open stand by the President in the fight ever the jury trial amendment is still not to be ruled out, if only be cause of the political realities of the situation. FOR the President's apparent reluctance to fight hard for his Civil Rights bill has fitte perfectly into the brilliant stra tegy of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. It was clear to John son from the start that the Re publican administration's deci sion to press for serious civil rights legislation represented a desperate danger to his party. It threatened to split the party ir remediably. And it threatened the very political existence of northern Democrats heavily de pendent on the Negro vote. In the face of this danger, Johnson did what he always does he sought the common denominator of mutual interest, between the various factions of his party. He found it in weak (or, if your prefer, "moderate") civil rights legislation. The southerners want a weak bill for obvious reasons. But the northern Democrats also want desperately to be able to charge that the Eisenhower administra tion has "sold the minorities down the river," as a result of the President's failure to fight hard for his bill. In fact, when the. President equivocated on section three, northern Demo crats like Neuberger, of Oregon, and Douglas, of Illinois, instant ly and happily seized on this battle cry. AS A result, the danger to the Democrats inherent in Re publican advocacy of civil rights iegislation is already far less than it was. If the jury trial amendment passes, while the President stands aloof, the im mense political advantage which ought to have been gained by the Republicans, as a result of passing the first civil rights leg islation since reconstruction days, will largely evaporate. But if the President intervenes open ly and strongly, making the jury trial fight a party line issue, the Republicans will score a de cisive political gain, even if the fight is lost. Such, (at least, is the reason ing of those who favor firm and immediate personal intervention by the President in the civil rights struggle. It is hard to see a flaw in their reasoning. But the odds are probably against the President injecting himself forcefully into the fight all the same. For he is a man with an instinct for remaining above the battle, and a tendency, unfortun ate in a politician, to see both sides of every question. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Procedure in Disarmament Talks Seen Dulles' No. 1 London Job By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles' No. 1 job in London will be to get the Western Allies together on d i s a r mament procedure. Ne gotiations be tween Western Allies on one side and So viet Russia on the other are being empha sized in the Charles McCann reports 8D0UI the London disarmament talks. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The livestock industry of the Far West, including both grow ers and processors, faces a ser ious threat to its future if freight rate reductions on fresh meat and packing house products from the Midwest to the West Coast, which are scheduled by the In terstate Commerce commission to go into effect on Aug. 15, are made permanent. Those reductions are based on the principle of the one-way street. That is to say, they rpply to westbound shipments but not to eastbound. They win open up the West Coast market to Mid west shippers but they offer no corresponding opportunity to West Coast livestock producers and packers to get into the Mid west markets at reduced rates. This proposal is so utterly un fair to West Coast livestock in terests that it must be presumed that before it is permitted to o into effect hearings will be held in the Far West area to enable those who will be in jured by it to protest. At these hearings the Far West must pro test sharply this one-sided attack on one of our principal indus tries. rpHIS is the situation: The growing West consumes more meat than it produces. That means that on balance the Far West producer of meat gets the Midwest price PLUS the freight. If the freight rate is sharply reduced, enabling the Midwest to sell its meat in the far Western market as competi tively lower prices, the differ ence will come out of the pockets of far Western producers of meat animals. rpHE proposed one-way street reduction is a sharp one. The present rate from Denver to West Coast points is $2.73 per hundred pounds. The proposed new rate will be $1.67 a differ ence of $1.06. Let's put it his way: The price of meat in the Far West is governed by supply and demand. Under this proposed new preferential rate, Midwest meat can be delivered to West Coast points for $1.06 per hun dred less than now. You can bet your bottom dol lar that $1.06 per hundred will come out of the pockets of Far Western producers of meat. The Eastern producer will BENEFIT to the same extent on all the meat he sells in the Far West. 1I7HAT of Western meat pack- ers? The markets will be sharply limited, because under this one way street proposal they will bet no reduction in rates to Eastern markets. Presumably, they will have to curtail their output, thus reducing the number of indus trial jobs available in the West. To that extent, the industrial economy of the West will be injured. NE more point: Here in Southern Oregon and Northern California we have reason to hope that in the not too distant future we will be able to develop an important meat packing industry. We pro duce a lot of livestock. We are favorably located at the geo graphical and transportation cen ter of the 11 Western states. The market of the' north Pacific Coast and the south Pacific Coast are equally available to us. Meat packing plants would be an im portant addition to our industrial economy, and at the same time by reducing length of haul and shrinkage losses in transit they will benefit our livestock grow ers. But ' If this posed new rate struc ture which will open up the markets of the Far West to Mid west packers on highly preferen tial terms goes into effect we can kiss good-bye to all hope of de veloping a meat parking indus try here. ALL of this brings into sharp focus a highly interesting fact. In the early days of the West, high transcontinental freight rates handicapped us seriously. The East was then our market. The more it cost to get our pro ducts there, the less chance we had to sell them. With the fabulous growth of the West Coast market, all that has changed. High freight rates from the East are now BENE FICIAL, to us, rather than other wise, because they give us a competitive advantage in our own rapidly growing Western market. The fact is. however, that be fore any further progress can be made toward reaching a "first step" agreement with Russia, the Western Allies have got to reach agreement among them selves. The London negotiations have been in progress since March 18. Represented are the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Russia. These five countries constitute a subcommittee of the United Nations Disarmament commission. Pessimism Succeeds Optimism At the outset of the talks, there was an atmosphere of opti mism. Russia for the first time agreed in principle to a system of inspection to guarantee com pliance with any disarmament measures. A the months passed, pessi mism succeeded optimism, and optimism succeeded pessimism again. Recently. United States chief delegate Harold Stassen has been the chief optimist. Britain and France have been pessimis tic. At the moment, while the Western Allies are seeking agreement with Russia on the Malheur. Welfare Chairman Resigns in Political Squabble Salem M Gov. Robert D. Holmes said today he was eo cepting immediately the resig nation of Malheur County Wel fare Chairman Noah Richards of Ontario. Richards, a registered Demo crat who Holmes said was close ly associated with Republican campaign efforts in 1956, re signed by letter received Mon day in which he protested the governor's appointment policies. Richards said he resigned after the appointment of a Democrat, Leslie E. Downie, Ontario, to the welfare commission to succeed Republican L. J. Kinney, also of Ontario, whose term expired June 30. Richards, an appointee of Govs. Paul Patterson and Elmo Smith, had served on the com mission since Nov. 11, 1953. His present term would have ex pired June 30, 1960. Says 'Used' by GOP "It is regretable for public service of his home county that Mr. Richards has permitted him self to be used in an obviously Republican-inspired attempt to discredit appointments by a Democratic governor," Gov. Holmes said. "In his letter Mr. Richards in dicates high regard for the capa bilities of Mr. Downie, his fel low townsman, and apparently 1 Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Milwaukee Assistant City Attorney Robert Anderson, on the effects of a wild rock 'n' roll show on a group of Milwaukee teen age girls: "Those kids just lost all their inhibitions and sense of moral responsibiilty. Four girls even solicited a member of our office staff outside the theater." New York Evangelist Billy Graham, suggesting a possible way out for mankind: "Human nature needs a revolution." De Land, Fla. Defense attorneys for Dr. Sam Sheppard in the celebrated murder case of three years ago, after grilling the latest person to "confess" the crime: "Donald Wedler is guilty of that murder. The confession made to is in the main fits in with the details we are familiar with and convinces us that he is guilty." . . Brockton, Mass. Senior guard Charles Burgess, rejecting charges thai other prisoners at Plymouth county jail had attacked Raymond F. Ohlson, accused mutilation slayer of two young brothers: "There was some grumbling whan he was brought here, but no one threatened him." Counsel With . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan clad Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. area which would be covered by a system of inspection in Western Europe, they are far from agreement themselves. But the big factor in the nego tiations for some time has been the position of Western Ger many, which is not even repre sented in the London talks. Western Germany has become the key country in disarmament negotiations and in the North AUantic Treaty Organization de fense system as well. Unification Poses Problem West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer faces a national parliamentary election on Sept. 15 He is meeting a strong chal lenge by the Socialist Party, which opposes German rearma ment and Adenauer's close co operation with the Western powers as against Russia. Adenauer is afraid that any disarmament agreement at this time might hurt the chance of attaining German reunification and help the Socialists. He does not want to see any agreement reached in London before the election. And Aden- auer's agreement to include West Germany in an aerial in spection plan is essential. the only basis for criticism was that Mr. Downie was a Demo crat. This seems strange com ing from another registered Democrat and would indicate, I think, that Mr. Richards had lent his name to a political contriv ance of his Republican friends'," the governor continued. The governor said Richards' resignation was the first of its kind he had received . "By and large the county com missions have been almost solid ly Republican. My appointments of Democrats have not been po litical rewards service on wel fare is a difficult, almost thank less duty," he said. Carmella James Gets Special Recognition Miss Carmella James, 313 Maple st., has been awarded a 10-year certificate of service and a lapel pin for work -with the United States Department of Ag riculture, it was reported today. Miss James, secretary for the Jackson County Agricultural Stabilization . and , Conservation committee, also received a letter of commendation from Albert Straus, chairman of the county committee. What's up? Mostly build ing values look at these increases since 1952 and be sure you have suffi cient coverage. From buildings, 15 masonry buildings, 16.7. Better check your policy against replacement costs. Your In dependent insurance agent will assist you. v - - . m 4 V. . Jr " Bill Fish use
