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roTO MtPrpRp (oregoni "r7on , fa, Southern Oregon Read Tha Mail Tribon" PuhlUhjd Dell, ejtcfol Saturday by MZDJORD PRINTINO CO OT-2S North rtr Bt. Phon. jltl , ROBERT W RUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertising Minim VfyraAJ Busineu M.nsrai JJRIC ALX.EN JR. Manadnc Editor SLHDAM3. Orator CmPMAN Telegraph Edtte K'vSS JEWETT Sporta Editor SyF7,?,CHER Socwr. Editor PAU ERICKSON. Circulation MaT. - An Independent Newspaper Xntered aa second class matter at aaawiorti Oregon under Act o Marcn a. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION oiTri T MU In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday Ona year $13.00 Pally and Sunday U montha ( 00 JDaily and SundaT Thr m a Sunday Only One year M-20 sy Carrier In Advance Medtord. Ashland Central Point Eaxle Point. Jackaonyille. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS. 60 Daily and Sunday One month ISO Carrie; and Dealers 10c per cosy All Terms Cash In Advance PJ?r ' th C'W ot M.dford Official Paper of Jatfcsoa Cannty united Press TuM Leased Wire uaatR or audit bureau W ClJtCULATlON - - "Mi-cuuuAi tUHrART. DtC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San rrandsco. Los Angelea. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B-C NATIONAL IDITOIIAa ASS0CUlN NiWSPAPIK PUBllSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medtord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 3, 1947 (Sunday) American Defense medals and World War II Victory medals are presented to 69 Navy veter ans at a ceremony in city park. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Peace rages throughout the world, with, eight or ten wars under way. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1937 (Monday) One and one-half pound loaves of bread advance to 15 cents today. Oregon tomato growers join other western farmer seeking chain-store aid in meeting a sur plus crop crisis. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1927 (Tuesday) Owens-Oregon Lumber com pany plant makes a test run and cuts about 215,000 feet. Sept. 23 to mark celebration of Medford's Industrial- progress and completion of new city water system. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 2. 1917 (Thursday) Fires around Applegate still cause smoke in valley. Fruit growers watch demon stration of new roller conveyor for distributing fruit boxes. What's Your I.Q.? Nfna or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is axeeUent; five or six Is good. 1. Was private possession of the Bible ever prohibited by a Christian ruler? 2. Has a cappella choir any musical accompaniment? 3. Bible: Did Pilate have the power to prevent the execution of Jesus? 4. Is linseed oil made from the seeds of buckwheat, flax, or soybeans? 5. Is it possible to distinguish race color by blood types? 6. Is the use of private auto mobiles prohibited in Bermuda? 7. Did Eden, Chamberlain or Churchill say that "Hitler has missed the bus"? 8. Beaufort's scale indicates the temperature of the atmo sphere, weight of precious stones, or strength of 'wind? 9. How do you pronounce "cache"? 10. Smedes, Miss., Nov., 1902: Roosevelt on h un ting trip; reaches camp. He refuses to shoot a small bear. Incident car tooned by Berryman, which started what vogue? Answers: 1. Yes. By several. 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. Flax. 5. No. 6. No. 7. Churchill. . Strength of wind. 9 "Cash". 10. "Teddy" bear (toy for children). Air Force Changes Mind oil Yanporl Portland API The Air Force Thursday backed away from its proposal . to turn the Vanport J site into a ' munitions storage It offered to swap sites with the city for similar acreage else where on which ammunition fa cilities could be located in the future. Ciy Commissioner Ormond R. Bean suggested immediate pro ceedings be started to acquire the 640-acre Vanport site. Many civic leaders, including Mayor Terry Schrunk and Gov ernor Robert Holmes, protested the plans of the Air Force that earlier called for turning the Vanport site into a munitions dump primarily for storage of rockets. - 2T mail tribunz o Mexicans Due Soon A group of sftveral hundred Mexican farm work ers, under contract to Kogue valley fruit growers, will start arriving here soon to assist in the pear harvest This fact, coupled with slightly higer-thah-average unemployment in the county, has caused considerable resentment this year. But that isn't the whole story. No local people will be placed at a disadvantage by tRe arrival of the Mexicans. An estimated 5,000 or more people will be em ployed in the harvest this year, which is now just getting under way. John Patton, manager of the state employment service office here, says more will be employed in the packing houses and 'canneries than in the orchards themselves, and that just about every one in the county who can do the work wijl have a chance for a job. In all cases, qualified preference over the Mexicans. TOR the past several enough workers here to reason, the fruit growers, ment of labor, have contracted to employ Mexicans. Because in prior years employment levels at this time of year have been high, there has been little criticism, The contracts must be workers arrive, and it is far in advance how many able. That was the situation this year. But even with unemployment up this year, it is still doubtful if there would be enough to handle side help. "THE fruit growers,' who ucoit banc anvuici iu xuipiujui uic-iucAivai4i9 for they must pay them whether onot they, work, and they cannot work if there are qualified local workers available. A department of labor the program for employers. says the following: "A United States agricultural worker may displace a contracted Mexican worker in any agricultural' job. for , which the domestic worker is qualified. If the domestic worker is unemployed, or if he is employed and is looking for a job that takes greater skill, or pays higher wages, he must be given preference Over contracted Mexican workers, wherever they may befempl6yed and in any kind of agri- -cultural activity for which the dorrjgstlc worker is qualified. "An employer must release all Mexican workers before releasing domestic worker if it becomes necessary to cut down the total number qf workers in his employ. "An employer who employs both Mexican and domestic workers must offer his dqgaestio) workers the opportunity to work as many hours per day and as many days per week as he offers the Mexican workers.". THE rules'under which here are equally, stringent in other regards, ihe Mexicans are fully protected in their rights, as are the domestic workers. As a result, most employers: would far prefer to use only domestic employee's. But since there have; not been enough in recent years, they have been forced to agree to the strict terms of the agreement covering the Mexicans, simply to protect their harvests. In view of the safeguards provided in the agree ment, it is difficult, to see .how there could be any legitimate resentment against thiseprogram. . Local people are protected in their jobsthe Mex icans are protected in their rights; the growers aft assured enough help to harvest the erop, and the entire economy of the county is given its annualstim ulus. E.A. Q Diets'' o Some years ago a diet was, all that a person ha bitually ate; now it's just as apt to be what a person doesn't eat " It has progressed to a point where the word has almost lost its original meanings of an "habitual course of living or eating," or a$"prescribeti allow ance of food with reference to a particular state of health." More and more the word is being used to mean only the fact that the dSeter is trying to lose weight. THERE are all sorts of diets. There are high- and low-protein diets; low cal orie diets; diets guaranteed to slim one a little HERE and others to slim one' THERE. . Walter Slezak, the actor; prescribes a diet com posed entirely of food you can't stand. There are "health" diets of "natural" foods. There are "quickie" diets to starve you rapidly, and long-drawn-out diets to starve you slowly. . .Q. IT IS statistically true that overweight is unhealthy, and on some people unattractive, which is presum ably the reason for the rapid rise in the fad-diet tendency these days. Another reason probably is that Americans ftda are eating more and richer food, and fattier food, than any people ever ate before., 0 In our own feeble and weak-willed way, we too have attempted to use dietary measures to counter the growth of that portion of file anatomy euphemis tically known as the "corporation." Thus far, it has been a losing battle. Food just tastes too darned good. Ask anyone on a diet.1 They're apt to agree. E.A. Tigard Killer Given Two Life Sentences Hillsboro W John W. Gil more, 49, confessed killer of two Tigard, Ore., women June 16, was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences Thursday. Gilmore had pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the deaths of Mrs. Eleanor Peters, 48, and Mrs. Myrtle Cooley, 42. TAUt. Aufutt I. 1157 local workers will be given years there have not been handle the harvest For .this through the U. S. depart signed months before the impossible to estimate that local workers will-be avail the harvest without out , a are in a risky business at pamphlet which outlines the Mexicans are brought Gilmore safi he shot the wom en after Mrs.. Peters had told him to get out of her house dur ing an argumgit that climaxed a several day drinking bout. There are about 200 varieties of soybeans grown throughout the world. p '6flfcJG OK THE V0TOOGS I GOT Alt THE CHARCOAL M THE W8YCUIU Devaluation, Savings Discussed By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Statis- tics can be used to prove what you wqrtt to prove or they can be u s e d tg snow w n a i they do prove Money is used u n i v e r sally and its flue tuitions must always be con sidered in all c a 1 c u lations. The problem is to find a Roger W Babsun stable unit, of value. On the basis of a dollar worth 100 cents in 1939, it is now worth 50 cents and is going lower, The money unit whether it be a dollar, pound, or franc has a tendency to , become less and less valuable. Money is al- ways a problem to every one, from the paper boy to the Presi dent of the United States. The Government has debts even . as apu and I. As the dollar , be comes of less value, so do our savings accounts and life insur ance. The National Debt - Wars are , the Govcernment's most expensive cflst item. They destroy wealth, - take the best youth of the nations, settle noth ing, and are supported by bor rowed money. This debt must be paid by the youtjj of the country yet unborn. These Gov ernment obligates are known as the National Debt. In 1914, the- National Debt was a little overeone billion dollars. Today it is around $275 billion and it costs about $4 billion annually to pay the interest on the debt. We have foiftht wars to end all wars, but the next gne may end everyimng eise: There are many pepple who think that the National Debt ajd the money problem could be solved by printing more money. When you stand in ?he balcony of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, watch a worker hold up a blank sheet of paper, push it into a machine; pull a lever, hold the sheet of paper up again transformed into $1,000 bills, you can readily see how tney get that idoa.The end of print ing such money .may be com plete repudiation and catas trophe. Labor Unions In 1933, Labor Unions had a membership , of around 3 mil lion; today it numbers around 18 million. Since we have a civilian labor force of almost 70 million, this means that less than 30 per cent ofthe workers are unionized. However, the leaders f this 30 per cent prac tically set the standards for a large majority of the nation's workers. Some of the union ac tivities are harmful both to the general welfare of the nation and to ,heir own members as well. Labor should get a fair wage but its production should increase in line with "its wages. Otherwise, these workers reduce the value of your savings and life insurance. The Union demnd is always for higher vtjages or shorter hours. Employers are willing to grant increases so long' as pro duction is being increased, but otherwise such raises are just like printing-press money ' and are foUowed by a rise in the prices of consumer goods. In creased prices are soon met by another demand for an increase in wages, " and the spiral goes round and round. Ttgj vicious circle continues: Increased wages, increased costs of produc tion, increasSa prices, then in creased wag. This will go on until tlft consumer ceases' to buy and we have unemployment and depression. " Creeping Inflation This prarliial increase in orices ffessens by so much the value of the dollar and of your savings deposits and life insurance. This situation is going on at the pres ent time, and unless it is con trolled it wiS causeotrouble in time. The Federal Reserve Board is trying to stem creeping infla tion with tighter money. We should all Encourage the Board in its effort to protect the dol-. by Babson lar, our savings, and our life in surance. Inflation does not ; in crease the volume of business; it just increases, the number, of dollars necessary to carry on business. The Administration likes to speak of the Gross National Product, which .is measured in dollars, because it probably makes everybody feel .better; but remember that it is measured by a 50ent dollar rather tha j by amounts of food, clothing, and shelter. " Johtjson Seems To Be Winning Civil Rrghts Battle in Selnate By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington Jfl Bill Know land won the first' battles, but Lyndon Johnson is winning the war. : These rival party lead&s in the Senate have been pitted against one another in every ftnajor test since the -civil rights bill, which was passed virtually intact by theeHouse, was brought before the Senate. Knowland, GOP floor leader and commander of a bi-partisan coalition determined to ' pass a civil rights bill this year, won the opening rounds over proced ure. Johnson taped his mcon spicuous wounds and moved in to win t bigger Rattles over the substance of the bill. ' - After Johnson's climactic mid? night victory Thursday night in his fight for a jury-trial amend ment, the Senate is now on the verge of passing a civil rights bill for the first time since the Reconstruction years just about as Johnson visualized it would when the battle was joined. Two Johnson Victories Forces backed by Johnson have handed two defeats to the President and Knowland, kill ing a part of the. bill that -toiuld have given the Justice Depart ment sweeping and somewhat vague powers to get injunctions to protect a broad spectrum of civil rights and winning the jury trial amendment. It is early to assess the im pact of he Senate contest on the political futures of Knowland and Jonnson. In the Day's News By FRANK Preview of the future: - On a concrete pavement in the grounds of the Pentagon build ing in Washington this morning a new-type plane called the Ver tijet sat erect on its tail, with its pilotit the controls. A command was eiven. The Vertijet rose into the air nose first and REMAIN ED THERE with apparently nothing between it and the eround to hold it up. It was sup ported by column of hot gas. The pilot leveled, off his triangular-winged plane and circled the city of Washington. Then, tcej prove that the gas column would work on landings, as well as take-offs,' he swished back over the concrete platform, stood the plane on its tail and eased it down to a landing. . The world moves swiftly these days. SPEAKING further of speed: The U. S. Air Fore? cele brating its 50th anniversary this week predicts that within a feg- years ?ts jet fighters will be roaring through the skies at bet ter than 2,000 MILES PER HOUR. At that rate assuming that they can carr$ fuel enough for the round trip they will be able . to circle the world in less than half a day. Page the shade of Jules Verne, Disarmament Parley, Germany, Argentina Vote In Week's News , By CHARLES M. McCANN . United Press Correspondent ' The . week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: President Eisenhower' sent Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to London this week to untangle the snarled dis a r mament ne gotiations. . The United States, Can ada, Britain, France and So viet Russia are trying to reach first step" Charles Mccma agreement which would be a start toward eventual general disarmament. The Western Allies and Russia were farm from agreement oik the first step. Dulles went to London, how ever not to seek an Allied agree ment with Russia but to get agreement among the four West erns powers themselves on a plan for aerial inspection which would guarantee fulfilment of any "first step" treaty. Hence Dulles spent most of his time conferring with the Western delegates and ' with British Premier Harold Macntil lan, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French For eign Minister Christian. Pineau, who was called over' from Paris. 'Agreement among the Allies proved difficult, and meetings of the disarmament delegates constituting a subcommittee Of the United Nations Disarma ment commission - were post poned from day- to day. ; But it -was hoped that United States chief delegate Harold Stassen would be able to start by Monday outlining to Soviet chief Knowland it viewed as a prob able candidate, for governor-? of California next year and, if he wins, for the GOP presidentisl nomination m 1960. He hat stood with th uncompromising cup- porters of civil, rights legisla tion in tune with Republican thinking in' popufcus state's whose national convention dele gations and electoral votes swing great weight in the selection of a president.. Johnson Also a Possibility Johnson is also regarded as a possible - presidential candidate despite his 1938 neart attack, and although, he probably does not even know himself whether he will try for the 1960 nomina tion. His success now could make him a hero to admirers of legislative skill. However,' ,this admiration may not be shared by Democratic National Conven tion delegates from New 'York, Illinois and similar states where there is much, courting of the Negro vote. And if Johnson nails down his victory - by getting the pres ent bill passed m the' Senate, Knowland still may have the last word. A much-amended Sen ate bill goes back to the, House, which .could accept -the Senate version or insist - that the dif ferences be settled by i joint conference committee. A biU sent to conference could die there or die later in a Senate filibuster . this year or next. Johnson crosses one bridge at a time. He has managed to cross two long ; ones. JENKINS CONTINUING the'speed theme: If jet fighters can travel at that speed, it must be assumed that jet passenger planes will be able to travel at somewhat simi lar speeds. If, when that time comes, you are able to command the price of a ticket, you can take off on a Friday afternoon, spend the week end ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD YOU CHOOSE and be back in time to go to work on Monday morning. GOING on with predictions: The atomic energy commis sion forecasts today the develop ment of tiny atomic batteries that will be powerful enough to run equipment in guided mis siles and SPACE CRAFT. It says in its semi-annual re port that it already has an atom ic battery SMALLER THAN A DIME but powerful enough to rmn a wrist watch for five years. w -M-M-M-Jd-M. That means that the time will come when travel to the moon will be a cinch which doesn't interest me, because there isn't supposed to be any air on the moon and I like to breathe. -But If a rudimentary atomic bat tery the size of a dime wUl run a wrist watch lor live years, it stands- to reason that ft PER-1 delegate Valerian A. Zorin an agreed Allied inspection plan. In West Berlin, the United States, Britain, France and West Germany issued a joint declara tion asserting that a free elec tion to reunify all Germany must be a part of any general Euro pean settlment of cold war issues. It is certain that Russia will continue to refuse an election, knowing it would mean the ab sorption of Communist' East Germany into Western Germany. Hence the chief effect of the declaration was to give West German Chancellor K o n r a d Adenauer fresh material in his campaign for the West. German parliamentary election to be held Sept. 15. Argentina held its first nat ional election since the over throw of Dictator Juan D. Peron in September, 1855. The election was held to choose a 205-member constituent assembly. The assembly is to decide whether to alter the 1853 More Office Space For Congress Coming By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CO) Coneress plans to spend over ?150 million for more elbow TOom. ' 1 The result is a face-lifting of Capitol Hill that is putting tour ist guidebooks out of date. Tourists1 now. streaming into the. city puzzle' over a new mar-' ble building going up on one side of Capitol Hill and an exca vation going down in the other. The white marble structure is the $23.4 million sister to the ex isting Senate Office building, while the huge hole is the site of a $100. 'million third House- Of fice building. ' The given reason for' this ex pansion project is that Congress needs , Increased working space to- fulfill Its increased responsi bilities. As House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) outs it: "We need this additional room in or der-for the Congress of the U.S. to perform its functions to serve Itself and to serve the American people." The new buildings and altera tions Of existing ones will give committees more space, each sen ator will get a five-room instead of a, four-room suite and each representative a three-room suite instead of two rooms. Dissents Dissenting remarks about the expansion plans range from a comment by Rep. Edward P. Bo land .(D-Mass.) that congressmen need another room "as much as ihey need another hole, in their heads," to a suggestion by Rep, Clare I. Hoffman (R-Mich.) that the House building excavation be filled up with foreign aid money because "at least we will know where it is.' ; When-Rep. Roy VT. Wier (D- Minn. learned that ' the hotel where he lives was going to be taken over by the government so representatives would have place to work while their two ex isting office buildings were be ing altered, he said, "May I sug gest that if you are going to give all of us three rooms, would the committee provide me with a sleeping room in that third room where your receptionist Is sup- Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer although under, certain circum stances the use ct a pen name or initial for publication is permia lbl. The Mail Tribune reserve the richt to edit all Utters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Want Parking Vote ' To the Editor: I have a com ment to make in reference to this $50,000 Offstreet Parking item.. $50,000 is . a lot of tax money from a large number of persons. I - belie ve that the tax payers should have a say so on how it is spent.: Therefore. I propose that the City Council indicate to the peo ple their plan for a specific off-, street parking area and also the general location. Then show that plan tothe people whose money will, be spent, for the purpose and- ask for their general ap proval by way of a vote as was done a short: 'time ago.- I do not favor council action on a matter that was defeated by vote of the people less than seven months ,ago. Especially when there is no specific plan either good or bad. I ask you what is wrong with letting the taxpayers decide the issue? This question was asked at the city budget meeting and no answer was given. As a city tax payer, I would still like an an swer. - . William Doembach, 143 Mace rd., Modford, ' Ore. . FECTZD atomic battery the size of a spare tire might run an au tomobile for a year. That's more intriguing. A NYWAY If all these predictions come true, the coming generation won't suffer from "boredom, s Argentine Constitution so as to Jimit the powers of the presi dent and, if possible, prevent the rise of another dictator like Peron. Moderate parties supporting the government of provisional President Pedro Arambuiy won 118 seats in the constituent as sembly. Theywil try to amend the Constitution. Opposition parties; who oppose constitu tional reform, won the remain ing 87 seats. A feature of the election was that about 2 million blank bal lots were cast, , or about 25 per cent of the total. Dictator Peron. in exile in Venezuela, had urged his supporters to cast blank bal lots. Soviet Russia, seeking better relations with independent Communist President Tito of Yugoslavia, agreed to extend him credits totaling 250 million dollars. Russia had agreed pre viously to extend the credits, but reneged when Tito criticized its brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. posed to sit in her lonesome- ness?" Such remarks had little effect and the building goes on as plan ned. . The Senate Office build ing is expected to be finished next spring and the House one early- in 1961. Details of the House plans are not completed but the Senate ones are. The new Senate Office build ing will house everything from a gymnasium to a school for the 76 pages who run errands In the House, Senate and Supreme court. Each senator within his five room and three-lavatory suite will have a private office 21 feet square. He can furnish it with anything from a bear rug to an $800 vibrating chair. Furnish ings are not being bought through competitive bidding, each senator selecting his own. Vibrators Until -recently, sample furni-- ing-Senate Office building. A chair equipped with three sep arate switches, each ooked up to a vibrator in a different part of the -chair,' was among the items on display.. The special chair set off some vibrations in the House cham-. ber when the bill to authorise furnishings for the Senate build ing came up for . a vote. Said Rep. J. Harry McGregon (P j Ohio): "I am sure that the me- bers of the other body are .x pendable the same as are the members of this body. Maybe when a new member of the other body comes in he might not like the vibrating chair his predeces sor had and, such being the case, Lwe might again have to pay an other $800 in order that the new member of the other body may hav the right vibration in the right spot." The bill passed in tact. The subway system which hooks up the Senate Office building with the Capitol so sen ators can ride to vote easily will be extended to the new office building. The same type of rap id transit will be built on the House side. Other face-lifting authorized by Congress includes a $40 mil lion alteration and extension of the east" front of the Capitol building itself. This is a source of intense debate among the art- conscious. . In addition, there is a bill pending to buy $5 million worth of more land on Capitol Hill for" future expansion and overall Beauty. (Copyright 1957, Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Burns Girl Saves Boy From Death Bend W A five-year-old boy was rescued Thursday after noon after he fell into the Deschutes river at Mirror park here and police credited an 18- year-old Burns girl with saving his life. David Rasmussen. son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Rasmussen of Bend, fell into the stream while fishing from a footbridge. David's brother screamed and Gail Hannan of Burns dashed to the bank ,dove in and swam out to the boy. The current carried her down stream but she managed to keep a grip on the boy. : - ' Police, who also had been summoned, heard her cry out and city officers Dean Hunt 'and Bob Lubcke swam to the rescue. They managed to get them into a boat which had gone to their aid. Ray Hasstad, a state police man who lives nearby, applied artificial respiration to the boy who was half conscious. The youth -was taken to a hospital where his condition was pro nounced satisfactory. Police said that if the girl had not jumped into the rescue tha ' boy probably would, hava drowned.
