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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone in Southern Orecoe Beadi Th. Mail Tribune" . MEDFORD PRINTING r.O W JT-29 North fir St Phone J-B141 RHDrDT 111 " UrTrVT- ... ??5f GREY Advertising Manager rlV?.?1 Buuie Manager KiS Managing Editor JLH ADAMS City Editor riclbSJSi TeleP Editor "59S2 JEWETT1 Sooru Editor Sy.X?-SJ,CHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulaaon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Er.tJrT'1 V "eeond eln nutter at Medlord Oregon under Act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES- By Mail In Advanca: Per Copy 10c : , . 2""oay uni year lis 00 Daily and SundaySix months 8.00 - - auuuaj inre mos 4.23 Sunday Only One rear 14.20 By earner In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: : Dajjy and Sunday One year $18 00 J?" ed Sunday One month 1 M . Carrier and Dealers loe per copy All Terms Cash In Advance pJfer " tb c,t of Medford "K wwp Luuniy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or IIKCULATIUN 3 WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAN"? tNC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San r"randsco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOIlAi ! A $$ 0 Cl-AM CN 3 U I iniii.n.'.rm NEWS PAP E PUBLISH! tS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1947 (Wednesday) rRpes rise for early construc tion of city park swimming pool. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: After the recent UN cease-firing order what the world needs is a cease talking order. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1937 (Friday) Acting secretary of the cull nary union of Grants Pass re ported kidnaped early Tuesday by masked and armed men. Some Bartletts will be ready for picking by Aug. 15, tests show. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1927 (Saturday) Patrons of Crater Lake com munity house dance to four piece band played by young sters ranging from five to eight years old. Eagle Point people attend wa ter meeting in Medford to re quest use of city water. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1917 (Monday) Local committee campaigns for water district to increase yields. Forest fires of serious dimen sions break out Saturday in sev eral different county locations. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good x 1. June 5, 1790: First passenger-freight boat propelled by steam makes 80-mile trip be tween Philadelphia and Trenton. Name the inventor. 2. Is the bat a night or a day bird? 3. Bible: Did Terah. Abra ham's father, live in a house, tent, or a cave? 4. Is nationality determined by Federal or State law? 5. Shylock is a character in which of Shakespeare's plays? 6. Name the author of "Cass Timberlane." 7. To what country does the port of Vladivostok belong? 8. Jn Post Office usage, what is a "nixie"? 9. What is the plural of cup full? 10. "Humanity must perforce prey on itselfj Like monsters of the deep." Shakespeare. Is "prey" also the British way of spelling. "pray" such as Grey is to Gray? Answers: 1. John Fitch. Nei ther (it is a mammal). 3. House. 4. Federal law. 5. "The Mer chanf of Venice." 6. Sinclair Lewis. 7. Soviet Russia. 8. A dead letter, (one that cannot be delivered). 9. Cupfulls. 10. No. Airplane PropeHor Kills Young Worker Salt Lake City W A young Western Air Lines employee was killed early today- when he backed into the whirling pro peller of a DC6 passenger air liner. Western officials promptly cancelled the Los Angeles-bound coach flight. No. 763. : The victim, Arthur Manning, 23 Salt Lake City, had worked for Western about three months. A spokesman said Manning had just finished operating a battery power device, or "energuer when he stepped backward into tHe' spinning blade. " " MAIL TRIBUNE R.R. Magazing Scores S.P. Policy In one direction the "FRIENDLY" Southern Pa cific propaganda has been a great success. It has, by persistent misrepresentation and sup pression of the facts, convinced a large number of the innocent bystanders,' that in abandoning aU pas senger service, on its important Siskiyou line, it has merely followed the example of practically all other railroads, forced by increasing air competition and heavy financial losses, to abandon rail passenger service in large areas entirely. THIS just doesn't happen to be true. A Not only is the Siskiyou area, the largest, most populous and prosperous area 'in the entire "Billion dollar S.P. system" to have been deprived of all passenger service, but it is probably the largest in the country,'. Passenger service has been modified and cur tailed in many areas, but its abandonment, where such action meant no passenger service WHAT EVER, for a prosperous ,and productive area of 250,000 people, there is no precedent for what the "Friendly Southern Pacific" has done to this section of Oregon. MOR is it true that "the public be damned" policy A of the "S.P." has been followed by American rail roads as a whole, or that the reactionary defeatist view of President Russell, that passenger service in 10 years is doomed anyway, so why not drop it. now has any standing in responsible and progressive rail road circles. . - IN FACT the magazine of railroads "Trains" in its A issue of this month, has" a most interesting article entitled "The Passenger Keep him happy." It is by Edward G. Budd Jr., and we would recommend it highly to' President Russell, for it knocks him and his entire railroad - philosophy into the well-known "cocked hat." We regret we haven't the space to print it, in its entirety, but here are a few pertinent paragraphs: "We divide the whole passenger business into four parts the long haul, the heavily traveled overnight service, . the shorter travel between important points like New York to Washington, and commuter service. These four categories . have one thing in common. Each can be improved, each can be enlarged and each can be operated at a PROFIT." (The emphasis is ours.) - - There IS a challenge for the SP's pennywise and greedy policy. The author moreover supports his claim with evidence. I ESS than a year ago the "Burlington" overhauled its always popular "Denver Zephyr" running from Chicago to Denver, with Vista Domes, Slumber Coaches, "Chuck Wagons," sleepers and coaches. During its first full month of operation it enjoyed an increase of more than 1000 passengers and in its second month 1700, while during its first five months 10,000 persons enjoyed the economical comfort of the "Slumber ' Coaches" this latter not being Pullman service but RAILROAD service and on coaches, so that for the cheap coach fare the passenger can have a private room, bed and toilet at a small fraction of me iii&t ciass cubu THE Santa Fe, the Boston and Maine, the Burling ton, B&O, the Pennsylvania, have made similar modem improvements and with equally profitable results. Meanwhile the S.P. wails and weeps about losing $40,000 or was it $400,000? on the "midnight rattler" service it once begrudgingly supplied be tween Ashland and Portland. Here is what Mr. Budd has to say about the "rattler" type of service so dear to the heart of the antiquated S.P. management, quote : "The expensive car is not the deluxe coach such as one of the new hi-level cars on the Santa Fe's 'El Capitan.' Sup pose it did cost as much as $300,000. People like to ride in it and are willing "to pay the price. No, my friends, the expensive car is the 'old rattler,' eating its head off in - - operating and maintenance costs and hauling a handful of . people who are aboard under duress and in the meantime driving patrons to .the airlines, busses and automobiles." "OULD a better description and indictment of the SP's policy toward Southern Oregon be imagined than THAT? And it is not in any unfriendly press, but in a magazine devoted exclusively to modern railroading and its perplexities and problems. Certainly if the facts in this article misrepresented the passenger traffic problem, or distorted the picture as a whole, a magazine like "Trains," read almost entirely by railroad men, would never print it. - ' 'I7'E DON'T know whether -or not the author had " President Russell and his Board of Directors in mind, but he might well have, when in elaborating his theme "The Passenger Keep Him Happy," he declared: "The secret, of course, is . giving the passenger first class or coach the most attractive and comfortable equip ment plus the best service possible. The trip itself then becomes a thrilling experience to be long remembered and talked about. . "You cannot compete in TIME with airlines on trans continental runs but you can outstrip them in comfort, safety, dependability of service and also show the pas senger the country. This we believe is a permanent market. (So) let's quit complaining. The American public doesn't ' like a loser' Let's make people want to travel by TRAIN." , ; THERE is much more to the article including a boost for what this department has so often rec ommended, "the single self-propelled car" such as the Boston and Maine has installed as well as its "R.D.C.'s" which have replaced 357 old standard cars, 72 steam locomotives, and today "carries 91 per cent of all passengers on the road." 117'E WISH the S.P. management would read this article'and profit by it R.W.R." -" " ' ; Tuesday, August 6. 1957 I DtiNNO. Friend of RuffS. i guess, Matter of Fact Washington There are times they are very rare when a scene worth remember ing, a moment of real drama and meaning, occurs on the Senate floor. There was such a mom m e n t last week when the Senate, in the . small hours of the morning, pass- stewait aisod ed, the jury trial amendment to the Civil Rights bill a vote which will surely affect the political bal ance of power for a long time to come. It was a scene of a sort that occurs only once or twice in a decade every fit senator on the floor, and the galleries chok ed with spectators, as the hands of the big Senate clock crept on past midnight. All present, spectators and senators alike, were caught up in the excite ment of the great Senate game. A man's pulse can be quick ened, after all, by a close con test at chess, or on the golf course. But there' is nothing quite like, the Senate game, in which great issues can be de cided by a sudden parliamentary maneuver, or a quick, sure sens ing of the Senate mood. THE game that was played out on the Senate floor last week was, moreover, a pecul iarly personal contest. There were many speakers, but the floor was wholly dominated, by two men, stationed cheek by jowl on the center aisle big, chunky, earnest Minority Lead er William Knowland and lanky Majority Leader Lyndon John son, the shrewdest Congression ional leader of this generation. They made a fascinating con trast. Knowland sat stolidly, like a great cornered bull, his enormous forehead furrowed in parallel wrinkles, fore-tasting defeat. Johnson sat back easily, his long legs negligently cross ed, when he was not moving restlessly about. ' Once, when Everett Dirksen, of Illinois, rose to support Knowland with his special brand of empty grandi loquence ("I have been thinking much of Runnymede") Johnson half-yawned, and lazily scratch ed his chest, in a magnificent gesture of casual confidence. ONLY a few hours before, Knowland thought he had won the game. He had the votes to beat off the crucial amend ment, and everybody knew it. But Knowland, like an over anxious golf player on the last hole of a close match, began to press too hard. By insisting on 12-hour ses sions, and by other means, he brought pressure on the Senate for a quick vote. The Senate, a leisurely body, does not like being subjected to pressure. Johnson, - the master player of the Senate game, sniffed the Senate air, and played his hole card a further amendment carefully tailored to attract the last of the waverers. In the atmosphere of irrita tion created by Knowland's pressure, this was enough. John son soon knew that he and not Knowland, had the votes. With brilliant timing, Johnson turned the tables on Knowland, when he rose to support Knowland's own motion for limited debate and an immediate vote. Know land was checkmated, and there was nothing he could do. Johnson had predicted . 50 votes for the jury trial amend ment. He got 51. On one issue which has divided his party as no other, issue, he held all but nine Democrats, while Know land lost twelve Republicans. The vote was a tribute to an authentic legislative genius, and for Johnson a moment of su preme triumph. e AND yet, how solid was the trinmnh? Whn reallv won? Johnson won the great Sen ate game hands down.Yet in terms of national politics, it seems quite possible, that John son, in winning, lost and Know- land, in losing, won. '.. j For those'wnb"bec6me "caught . By Stewart Alsep up in the excitement of the Senate game, it is easy to for get what the civil rights fight is all about. In hard political terms, the civil rights fight is all about the Negro vote in the key northern industrial states, where that vote can be absolute ly decisive. Negro voters interest them selves no more than white vot ers in the substleties of parlia mentary maneuver, or the com plex legal and moral issues in volved in the jury trial amend ment. And yet, as a result of Lyndon Johnson's triumph, they have been treated to a spectacle which they are likely to inter pret in only one way the spectacle of the great bulk of the Senate Democrats siding with the bitter-end southerners, while a heavy majority of Re publicans went down to defeat against them. The Negro vote is the swing vote in a whole series of big states New York, Pennsyl vania, Illinois, Michigan, Cali fornia, to name a few. That is why one cynical observer re marked as the vote was count ed, "the Democrats may elect a President again in 1980 but not before," and that could be the real meaning of the mid night scene on the Senate floor last week, and the real measure of Johnson's triumph and Know land's defeat. (C) New York Herald Tribune Inc. Jews Forced Out Of Russian Posts London hp) a new upsurge of anti-Semitism in Russia is forcing . Jews out of key posi tions in Soviet political and eco nomic life, it was reported here today. A survey issued by the Con gress for Cultural Freedom a i non-Communist study ' group said Communist Leader Nikita S. Khrushchev appears to regard Russia's Jews as potential traitors. Despite some minor recent im provements in the lot of Jews in Russia, the survey said, the gen erally anti-Semitic trend estab lished by the late Premier Josef Stalin appears to be continuing unchecked. The survey said Russia's new anti-Semitism has not yet reach ed the level it attained during the last years of Stalin's life, when "cosmopolitan" Jewish in tellectuals were persecuted and Yiddish newspapers, theaters and clubs were closed down. Battleship Iowa Due for Mothballs Washington (IP) The power ful battleship Iowa last of the nation's active battlewagons is going into mothballs along with 59 other ships as part of the ad ministration's overall military reduction program. The Navy announced Monday the 60 ships will be withdrawn from the Atlantic and Pacific fleet and decommissioned with in the next five months. All three services are making reductions in line with the mili tary economy drive to cut spending $2,200,000,000 in the current fiscal year. The decommissioning of the Iowa may mark the end of an era in naval history. A battleship may never again "sail under the flag of the United States. The capital ship of the Navy is now the aircraft carrier. APPROVE COWBOY MUSEUM Washington OP) The House has given final congressional recognition to a planned nation al cowboy haU of fame and mu seum at Oklahoma . City. , T h e House approved a Senate-passed resolution expressing Congress' formal recognition of the hall as a memorial to persons who made "outstanding contribu tions" to opening and develop ing the West. Nashville School Man Some Troubles With Integration By HAROLD JONES United Press Correspondent Nashville, Tenn. (IP! One day this summer W. A. Bass, superintendent of schools in Nashville, called the phone com pany and ordered an unlisted number. Bass figures he will be a troubled- man come next month. Nashville's schools are going tq be integrated. It is one of the main places to watch this au tumn in the South's desegrega tion controversy. This Tennessee capital city will start with integration in the first grade, the idea being the transition will least affect six year olds who have not yet built up racial predjudice. Will Retire Had the courts waited six months longer to order racial barriers dropped in Nashville, it would have been a problem for someone else than Bass, now 69, he retires in January. He is a former state commissioner of education who has been super intendent here for 20 years. There are approximately 1,250 Negro children to enter the first grade here in September. Esti mates by school authorities are that approximately 5 per cent between 60 and 70 children will seek admission to schools now exclusively white. There seems to be a sincere effort here to avoid another clash such as the one at Clinton, Tenn., but it is by no means certain there will not be. John Kasper is her now, free on appeal after conviction for contempt of court in stirring up trouble at Clinton. He is at tempting -to organize opposition to Nashville integration. Kasper Cold-Shouldered Kasper started off here about as he did at Clinton doorbell ringing to urge attendance at pro-segregation rallies. But he Communications Letters to the Editor must beer the name and address ot 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 rirht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Wanted War on Mosquitoes To the Editor: Why don't you advocate in your paper to get the health department to do something about the mosquito hazard? We in Gold Hill are being eaten alive, even in daytime we cannot work on our place. The creeks (Sardine-Galls Creek, etc.) need to be sprayed and sprayed to deter these pests and give us residents a break. Some friends came from Cali fornia (L.A.) for vacation (one week). They stayed two nights and FLED. Our taxes overpaid by 2V4 million the needs of the county, why not advocate this (a small part) be used for spray ing these creeks and bushes on edge of Rogue? We have to be given some help, we don't have equipment or money to. do these things and pay the excessive taxes demanded. What help are you willing to give? Virginia Plummer Route 1, Bex 107 Lampman rd., Gold Hill, Ore. Regrets Incident To the Editor: While driving through your town in the late afternoon of July 29 I ran into a dog which I think was a red cocker spaniel. It was in what I would regard as the north end of town and I was heading south on a one way street. Due to one way streets and dead end roads it took me several minutes to return to the scene where I could find no trace of dog or owner. However, I would like the owner to know that I'm very sorry about this incident as I am very fond of dogs and hope this one recovered from the accident. K. A. Little 2537 Ridge rd. Berkeley, Calif. Boy Scouts Flee Flood in England Sutton Coldfield, England iff) Hundreds of Boy Scouts were evacuated during the night from the World Jamboree park near Birmingham when thunder storms flooded the area. One inch of rain fell during a one-hour period, sending min iature rivers pouring through the tents. There were no casual ties among the 34,000 Scouts. About 600 boys were lodged in private houses, town halls and schools. James H. Gelswick, of New Brunswick, N.J. director of the 1,700-Scout American conting ent, reported after an inspection tour this morning that not one U. S. boy was evacuated. - A few boys were forced to shift tents, he said, but a gener al evacuation was unnecessary because the American camp site was on higher ground. . ' - Gelswick said there was "not even a case of sniffles" among the Americans as a result of the storm and the boys were planning to- take - sightseeing tours today as scheduled. has been getting the cold shoul der, here from most segregation groups. These groups are calling on school officials to use laws pass ed in 1957 that allow "volun tary" segregation and give schools broad pupil assignment powers. Ford Motor Claims Seat Best Safety By ROBERT J. SERLING United Press Correspondent Washington opi A Ford Motor Co. officials said today use of seat belts in all cars and trucks would cut the nation's highway deaths by more than 50 per cent. Moreover, he said use of the controversial belts1 in all cars and trucks would cut in naif the number of serious injuries re sulting from traffic accidents. Ford Vice President Robert S. McNamara said in a state ment prepared for the House traffic safety, subcommittee: "It is our opinion that the use of seat belts in all cars and trucks on the American road to day would reduce the 40,000 fa talities annually to less than 19,000 and would reduce the 1,000,000 serious injuries to no more than 500,000." Belts Most Effective Alex L. Haynes, Ford ad vanced product study director, said in presenting McNamara's statement that "tests and expe rience have proved beyond all McElroy Discusses Post With Wilson Washington (IPI Soap man ufacturer Neil H. McElroy plan ned another conference with De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son teday to talk about suc ceeding him. , Sources here believed McEl: roy, $285,000-a-year president of Procter and Gamble, has the $22,500-a-year job sewed up if he wants it. An aide to the 52-year-old bus inessman told the United Press McElroy is considering the change that taking the position would require him to make "what he has to do to take 't on, the conflict of interest" prob lem and other matters. ' "This is the nature of the con siderations that are going on," the spokesman said. He added "it's obvious some consideration is being given to him," for the post. The administration was be lieved to be giving top priority to finding a successor for Wil son so the nomination can be confirmed before Congress ad journs. Wilson has indicated he wants to end his government career this fall. . - 'High Living' Ended For Youth in Texas Houston,. Tex. (lPINew Jer sey horse trainer John Leyland Sr. arrived in Houston Monday to retrieve his son, John Jr., from juvenile authorities in Houston after the 14-vear-olri boy "lived it up" at the' Sham rock Hilton Hotel with $1,400 of stolen money. The boy flew to Houston seve ral days ago after he took the money from a sleeping foreman at the Monmouth Race Track in Ocean Port. N.J. But his nrefab. ricated tale of being a training jockey didn't work with a hotel clone, wno called police. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLIY ST. Expecting But Bass and his school board contend the Supreme Court de segregation ruling -kills the ef fect of such laws. "The sooner we get this prob lem out of the way, the sooner we can carry out the main aim of our schools: teach children," Bass says. Company Belts Device reasonable doubt that seat belts are the most effective single item available in reducing traf fic injuries and deaths." "Ford Motor company strong ly recommends the use of seat belts in all cars and trucks," he said. Haynes said seat belts are not a panacea for all accident injuries." i But he said they will "mate rially reduce critically forces imposed on vehicle occupants at any speed whether the seat belts remain intact or not." He said they also "tend to keep the pas senger inside the car" where chances of serious injury are cut 50 per cent. i- Haynes said in prepared testi mony that Ford has sold more safety belts than the rest of the automobile industry combined; Installation Falls Off He said since 1956 Ford sold 160,000 vehicles equipped with seat belts and supplied 200,000 more to dealers for installation. However, he said the company is disturbed because the rate of seat belt installation has fallen off in the last few months. . He blamed 'the reduction in part on opposition from a "small vocal minority." He said the op position was based on "misin terpretation of data from a rela tively small number of acci dents and tests." ' Col. John P. Stapp, an Air Force flight surgeon who trav eled 632 miles an hour on 'a rocket sled and stopped in one and a half, seconds, endorsed seat belts Monday before the subcommittee. "I wouldn't be caught dead without them," he said. Stapp's testimony added more evidence piling up before the subcommittee that seat belts can lessen or prevent injuries and save lives. However, the sub committee also -expects to hear from at least one independent researcher who claims belts are dangerous. Be Proof Schieffelln &Co.rMewYork,N.Y. Importer Since 1794- If you live in constant worry You'll find no drug to cure it So if we may We'd' like to say . Don't worry, let us In-, sure it. t ' try ' Bill Fish DON Q LA$L
