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Newspaper Page Texto FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Twjom ta Boutnern Oregon . Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturdaj b7 MZDFORD PRINTING CO . 17-28 North TU St Phone t-tUl " . it " bUIHA HERa GREY Aderuint Manager GJRAi-D LATHAM Busmen Manager ERIC UIN JR. Manairine Editor KARL H ADAMS Cltjr Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. DnRWT III inn v.!. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of aiarcn 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday ix months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Adrance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 2 oc per copy m xerms v.asn tn Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices Id New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOsMAt, v Ias$ocFai?n WmiltHM'H'llf NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 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. 8. 1947 (Friday) A contest to determine a slo gan for the Medford Safety Counul Inaugurated today. Frdfn Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot Column: "Spirfcch shines like an emerald in mac aroni ring." (Newspaper head lined Even so the kiddies don't like it 20 YEARS AGO . Aug. 8. 1937 (Sunday) Improvement of the west side road at Lake of the Woods starts. Kiwanis International presi dent to address meeting in Port land, local Kiwanis club Is o ti tled. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 8. 1927 (Monday) , Fire of undetermined origin destroys Freeman and Wijpy warehouse and freight car. , Earle Emlay or E. R. L. Pro ductions to photograph pear in dustry. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1917 (Wednesday) Eggs and salt used by miner for rattlesnake bite. , Jackson County Fire Patrol association considers possibility of closing woods to early hunt ing season due to forest fire dan ker. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior! seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1." In 1832 hosiery was first manufactured in the U.S. by waterpower. Did this occur in N.C., N.Y. or Mass.? 2. How many Secretaries of State have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace? 3. Bible: To whom did Pilate reft-r to when he said "I finjj noEault with this man"? 4. What unit of measure de- noflrs 12 dozen? 5. Who wrote the novel "Kid napped"? 6. In which State is the fa mous "Painted Desert" of the Southwest? 7. Is a gibbon a gallows? 8. Are chocolate and cocoa ob tained from the stalks, beans. . leaves, or tree sap of the cacao tree? 9. Does flair or flare mean an an outburst of flame? 10. "If you would not a doc tor pay Leave your flannels off in May." . "Change not a clout Till May is out." Both maxims have the same meaning: has "clout" the same meaning as "flannel"? Answers: 1. New York (Co hoes). 2. Three, (Cordell Hull, Frank B. Kellogg and Elihu Root). 3. Jesus. 4. Gross. S. Rob ert Louis Stevenson. 6. Arizona, f. No, (it is an anthropoid ape.) 8. Bean. 9. Flare. 10. No. Formosa Students See American City Portland W A group of 21 Chinese students from For mosa saw their first American city Wednesday when they ar rived on the vessel Chungking Victory after a 14-day trip. The students . departed for various part of the United States for studies. Two will remain in Oregon, one going to Oregon State and the other to Univers ity of Oregon. Attending Oregon State will be William Hsu, who has a brother there. Rosalie S. A. .Yang will attend Oregon. MAIL TRIBUNE The G.O.P. "Pitch" for Labor We note from the Oregonian that "G.O.P. poli ticians" are making a pitch for the labor vote in Ore- ernn. o One of their associate Ul.U. convention in Klamatn alls declares secretary oi btate Mark Hatlield set the tone for this drive when he urged the delegates to beware of "a closed-shop mind on politics and support candidates on the basis THIS "Ditch" which dates dinner pail" days of William McKinley and Mark narma we tear will not A.F.L.-C.I.0. It is a oerfectlv sound has followed, to the best of years. But the trouble is, as when it comes to election cidence, the most "able" me j.Kj.r. iaDei. THIS was particularly true in the 1956 election. As usual the Ore v . v&Wa.AU.A vv 1 t rr r-f r . i -. , iv xwjo ior tne urarm i im Democrats scored a sweeping victory. As a result the Portland paper had to eat crow, as the saying goes, and in answer to the DemnfrntiV "cat calls and horse laughs" ... O anu magnanimiiy, in part, One gathers from reading the letters from victorious Democrats "to the editor" ranging in tone from gleeful to abusive that there exists some misapprehension as to editorial policy of this newspaper. It is not our intent, as in betting on a horse race, to try to pick the winner in advance, so as to cash in on the vic tory. Our intention is to approve and assist those candidates we think to BE BEST QUALIFIED, in the light of our own belief in government principles and policies. It so happens that we lean toward the Republican party and the Eisen hower administration, though differing on specific issues , as the need seems apparent to us. IT WOULD be interesting to have the Oregonian point out just WHEN AND WHERE, during the last presidential campaign or since, it differed with the Eisenhower administration, in any single"impor tant particular. It would also be interesting if the paper would document its claim that regardless of the party label it hews steadily to the line of approving only those candidates it thinks to be best QUALIFIED for the offices they seek. XTE FEEL quite sure " T offered, for having been a fairly steady reader of h.e Oregonian for many years we fail to recall a presidential election when the Oregonian did not find ALL the qualified national candidates oh one side of the party Jme, and ALL the unqualified and dis qualified ones on the other. R.W.R. Lets' Have More Light Somewhere in the Bible it is said: "Love of money is the root of all evil." In other words it is not but the lust for it. It is not the money one of it, or the extremes one 1E WERE reminded of many other quotations contains a germ of truth but takes in too much territory when perusing an in teresting report of "lobbying" compiled by the ever reliable Congressional Quarterly Inc. In the first half of 1957 it seems sums paid by lobbyists m Washington slightly less than $2,000,000 or approximately $4,- 000,000 a year, .or an average of over $6000 a year for each member of the House and Senate. ..- MOW as this department has often pointed out, there 1 is nothing any more lobbying than there is with money. It is the way, in both cases, the money is used. As far as is known there are no registered lobby ists in Medford, but there quently visit Washington and do what they can to facilitate legislation which they believe desireable for their business andor for the community. We can't speak from exact knowledge, but our strong conviction is they are given generous expense accounts, but there isn't a dime paid out that is not perfectly proper. - Such lobbying in fact is not only a legitimate but an essential factor in a free democracy. DUT when it comes to the "Big Business 'groups" we are not so sure. According to this report, for example, these "Business is Business" corporations account for an expenditure of $867,925 out of the total of $1,800,000 for only 6 months. That seems to us quite a lot of dough for legiti mate expense accounts and merely presenting facts for the consideration of our lawmakers. However there may not be a tainted penny in it. We don't KNOW. . And that is the point we wish to stress. We think we and the people of the ET there be light. 1 Forcing the lobbyists their total expenditures was a big step in advance, but until the people know not only how much money was spent but. HOW it was spent, the lobbying picture from the good government obscure, suspected and questionable one. R.W.R. Thursday, August 8, 1957 editors attending the A.F.L.- buck rnuo-hlv to the "full cnange many votes in the doctrine nnrl nne this naner its ability, for a great many ,the Oregonian well knows, time, bv snmp strano-P rm'n- candidates invariably carry iiiy u.WVVll tvlC HilC ll aisiyiuai- - - . x HarMr hut i tha ctafn tha it rnnnfprerl -arith Aicmiur Ui6iui,jr as loliows : . no such evidence will be money per se, that is evil, may have, but the use made may go to get it. this quotation which like and REPORTED totalled INHERENTLY wrong with are several people who fre country SHOULD know. to register and publicize standpoint, remains an Bo 1 Have 1 got something id mi. dad WrlEM HE'S W A GOOD AAOOD Matter of Fact PITY THE POOR PRESIDENT Washington As a result of his newly acquired habit of stag ing public debates with himself f iniiiiai!ii on a whole se ries of issues the budget, dis armament, the school bill, and civil rights bill the resident is being in creasingly ac cused these days of being Stewair Alson unaoie xo mase up his own mind. And yet, if you consider the dnkfoi merci less pullings and hauluigs the President is daily subjected to, on an infinite variety of complex issues, you can understand and sympathize with his position. Take, as a vivid example, the background story of the release by the House Appropriations Committee of certain closed "ses sions testimony by Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. If the English language means what it says (which Mr. Wilson has now denied) Wilson told the committee that an Administra tion biU for a drastic change in budget procedures might en danger the national security." . The bill, as Wilson of course knew, had the full, unequivocal, public support of the President. Thus the testimony release by the House committee placed Wil son in direct opposition . to the President a position from which Wilson has rather hastily backed down. Now consider the back ground story of this latest Pres idential trouble. THE bill embodies a Hoover Commission proposal oblig ing Congress to appropriate mon ey ahead only a year at a time, instead of making appropriations to .be spent over a number of years, as at present. The idea is that the new system would fores a yearly re-examination of all expenditures, and thus restore to Congress tne control of over spending, especially defense spending, which it has largely lost. Hoover Commission publicists have claimed that this simple re form would save $3 biliion a year. The claim is almost cer tainly wildly inflated. But it much impressed the President who is no expert on fiscal mat ters. He accordingly came out strongly for the bill, and the Senate passed it unanimously. Then the ' bill ran into the fierce opposition of two power ful old men Chairman Clar ence Cannon of the House Ap propriations Committee, and the Committee's senior Republican, Rep. John Ta,ber. Cannon and Taber unquestionably know their way around the fiscal jun gle, and they both concluded that the Hoover proposal was bad legislation' and bad fiscal policy. As a result, the bill was stalled in the House. - THEREFORE, ex - President Hoover, who has a passion ate pride in his handiwork, called on the President, to' persuade him to give the bill a big Presi dential push. The President, who has an almost filial respect for his predecessor, amiably agreed, and a strong letter to the House supporting the bill was prepared for the President's signature. When Taber learned of this planned Presidential interven tion, he asked for an appoint ment with the President, and got it. Crusty old Taber argued fiercely against the bill. His main point was that, far from saving money, it would have pre cisely the opposite - effect. Be cause the first year's installment on some costly project might be small, Congress would approve it. Then the country would ulti mately be stuck with the cost of the whole project. Besides, Tab er said, the procedure was un workable. - The President was much im pressed, and allowed that what Taber had said was "an entirely new point of view" to him. Soon thereafter, Rep. Clarence Brown, a sponsor of the bill and a mem- j ber of the original Hoover Com mission, got a White House call. The chances were that, the President would not send his i I I '' ' By Joe arid Stewart Alsop letter to the House after all, Brown was told. i BROWN was furious, and tel ephoned ex-President Hoover in New York. Hoover telephoned the White House, and White House Press Secretary James Hagerty hastily issued a state ment to the effect that the Presi dent was all for the bill. This in turn stimulated Cannon and Taber to counter-attack. Then counter - attack took the form of releasing Wilson's closed ses sion testimony against the bill And Wilson, in turn, had to deny the plain meaning of what he had said. There the matter now rests. Whatever the ultimate fate of the bill, what happened tells a lot about the position in which the President so often finds him self. No one, least of all the President, would claim that he is an expert on everything. Yet he is called upon to make firm decisions about everything under the usn oil imports, the budget, the clean bomb, the line between civil and criminal contempt, and heaven knows what all. When all his advisers tell him the same thing, his problem is easy. But what is he to do when men whom he respects; who claim to be experts tell him flat ly contradictory things? He is then rather in the position of the beleaguered- Horatius - on the bridge "Those behind cried 'Forward,' and those '-before' cried 'Back'." The moral of the story, in short, is 'pity the'poor President." For he is a much over-burdened man. (c) 1957 New York Herald .Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' A big story told in black deadlines in print and .repeated summaries over the air: Mrs. Eisenhower (known af fectionately to all of us as Mamie) was operated on at Wal ter Reed hospital in Washington. The White House says the opera tion was performed, for what it termed a "benign ', condition." That is to say, it wasn't can cerous. Asked by newsmen about the precise nature of Mrs. Eisen hower's ailment, White House press secretary Hagerty pointed out that the surgeon who did the operation is a gynecologist. A gynecologist, he added, special izes in women's ailments. He said the operation involved "nothing serious and was not an emergency" that the surgery had been under consideration for some time. He reported that it disclosed "nothing malignant" and that ' the 60-year-old First Lady, of the Land is in good condition. AH, the fierce white lighfthat beats upon the great of the world! For them there is no such thing as privacy. It is pleasant to be able to re port that in this particular case it isn t mere morbid curiosity that prompts our intense inter est. It is deep and abiding affec tion. ''.-. Mamie Eisenhower is more than respected. She is BE LOVED, i r'S-a-strange-world note: In the heart of Miami, one of the nation's great metropoli tan cities, a father saved his small son's life by wrenching a savage ocelot (an ocelot is a member of the jaguar family) off the child's back and wound ing the big cat with a rifle. The father found his 18-month- old son sprawled on his face in their back, yard with the big South American jungle cat on the boy's back. He tore the cat loose with his bare hands . . . carried his son to safety . . . and chased the cat to the bank of a nearby canal. He shot at it and beat it with a pick ax and it fell dead in the canal. The authorities said the ocelot wore a collar and apparently was a pet. The police were un able to locate its owner. . IT'S a weird story. What isn't weird is the qual- Bankers See Housing Stimulus In New Mortgage Regulations By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH United Press Financial Writer New York (IP) Uncle Sam's new mortgage regulations will pep up the housing industry by bringing new funds into the nr.ar ket, bankers said today. However, they noted that in stead of pouring out of the big eastern financial houses, the money will rise mainly from the local level and from small pension and welfare funds. The big financial houses still are just about where they were before the string of recent changes. Last Monday the FHA lower ed down payments and raised the interest rate from 5 to 5Vt per cent on agency-insured mortgages. But the move also set discount limits on mortgages backed by the FHA and Veter- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nsme and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the rieht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Asks Better Response To the Editor: This letter is an attempt to bring attention to a situation which seems to me to be of public concern. We are all very grateful to the American Legion for its work in sponsoring baseball teams all over the country. The local posts in this valley are to be commended for the back ing they have given youngsters .in this community in participa ting in the great American sport. However, why can't the individual members of the Le gion be more responsive in giv ing recognition to these boys? Last week when a banquet was held in honor of the local Junior American Legion baseball team there were only five Legion members present. Does it not seem reasonable that there should have been a greater re sponse on the part of the Le gionnaires? - Even though this team was defeated by Roseburg, during the regular season its perform ance was very creditable. We should all be proud of these boys . and those who assisted them to have a very successful baseball season. I am sure that the individual members of the Legion are ' very happy to have had some part in making it pos sible for boys to participate in a good, clean sport during the summer months. These men could have actively expressed their interest in the wholesome development of better citizens il they would have taken the time to attend the banquet given Li honor of this year's team. Charles W. Tennant, , 1008 Winchester ave. Medford, Ore. ity of this 34-year-old father's courage. IT is the stuff that MEN are made of., CJAD note In the news: Th a defense rlpnartmpnl re ported in Washington this morn ing that more than 1800 service men were, killed in auto acci dents Jast year. The department's report to a house appropriations - subcom mittee added that more than 17,800 other servicemen were in jured in highway accidents dur ing 1956. VLfE can say with the Judge, in " the poem Maud Muller: ' ' "Of all sad words "Oi tongue or pen, "The saddest are these: "It might have been." If more of the operators of America's automobiles had been BETTER DRIVERS, most of these young men might stiU be alive and whole. "As funeral directors, we herewith fully acknowledge our individual and collective obligations to the public, especially to those we serve, and our mutual responsi bilities for the proper welfare of the funeral service profession." From the Code of Ethics of the National Funeral Directors' Association ' DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary ans Administration. Discounts essentially are pre miums paid for mortgages. Be-. fore Monday neither the FHA nor the VA programs had limits on discounts and they ranged as high as 8 points for some paper on the West Coast. The new FHA ruling placed maximum discounts at 2V4 points for government - backed mort gages. So in effect there is not enough change in the actual in terest rate to attract the big financial houses who can get higher yields on other invest ments. However, the flow of funds for local banks into local mort gage market should be stimulat ed, the bankers say. The big rea son for this is that the Vt per cent service charge that the big lenders have to pay for out of town mortgages usually can be absorbed by the local financial unit. Survey Shows Oddities A W e . . I ' Among New state Laws Chicago HPI State legislators in one of their busiest years have found time to pass laws affecting minnow pickers and moss gath erers. Legislative oddities such as these were turned up in quantity $3300,000,009 Outstanding in Credit To Farmers Berkeley, Calif. (IP) R. B Tootell, head of the Farm Credit Administration, reported today the Cooperative Farm Credit System had $3,300,000,000 out standing to farmers and farmers cooperatives at the close of the fiscal year June 30. Tootell said credit extended to farmers was at a record high Loans outstanding at the close of fiscal 1957 were $360 million more than for fiscal 1956. "Increased cost of farm sup plies, farm machinery, livestock and. hired labor has increased farmers' needs for short and in termediate-term credit," Tootell said. 'Farmers are also borrow ing more to refinance debts, im prove land; erect new buildings and remodernfce old ones." ' Tootell said, some 367,000 farmers had borrowed $1,900 000,000 in land . bank loans and 260,000 borrowed $960 million from local production credit as sociations. . Federal intermediate credit bank discounts, for' financing other than through production credit associations, amounted to $70 million. The balance of the $3,300,000, 000 went to 2,393 farmers' coop eratives, Tootell said. U. S. Agrees To New Red China Quotas Washington (IP) The United States has reluctantly agreed to new Allied quota on shipments of about 20 strategic items to Communist China. The State Department said Wednesday the quotas, which apply for the remainder of this year, were agreed to at a recent meeting'in Paris with 14 Allied nations. The exact quotas were not disclosed. , . Officials said only that they covered about 20 items such as chemicals, machinery and trans portation goods. The'yJ said the agreement will not result in further easing of controls. It simply is an agree ment furthering steps already taken by Britain and other Al lied nations. Across from the Courthouse . : Frank Morgan Harold Sneiclgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS SaVaN Wednesday the FHA announc ed a change in its regulations designed to open the way for investment of the resources of pension and other funds into the government - insured pro gram. The change permits owners of the FHA-insured mortgages to sell a partial interest in them by issuance of notes or certifv cates backed by the mortgage. Bankers say the new regula tion will widen participation in the government program by al lowing small trusts, which pre viously couldn't afford to buy mortgages, now to buy deben tures secured by government- backed mortgages. These debentures, they point out, will be similar to equipment trust certificates in the railroad industry. Instead of being back ed by a locomotive they are secured by a mortgage on a home. ssff ffaf am a in a survey by Commerce Clear ing House, national reporting au thority on tax and business law. Now you can be fined $25 to $100 in Nebraska if your clock doesn't show standard time. Picketing a cemetery during a funeral is illegal in Ohio. Giving out trading stamps is a crime in Kansas. In Tennessee it's- illegal to use the telephone to embarrass some one. Indiana passed a similar law bui made the offense punish able only if it occurs repeatedly. Prizes Barred Cash or liquor prizes at ba zaar or raffles are illegal -in Con necticut, i New Hampshire has estab lished a navy militia. ' Trying to kill wild birds with salt is illegal under, a new law in Michigan, but it's legal now to use firecrackers to frighten birds away from fish hatcheries in Florida. A legislative committee in Massachusetts is studying the fairest way to tax machinery used for gathering moss. In Minnesota, dealers in pickled minnows must now com ply with the state's require: ments for licensing regular min now dealers. And Indiana amiably passed a law permitting persons and corporations who are not subject to tax to donate whatever they wish to help pay the state's bills. sere Good Reading for the Whole Family News Facts . Family Features The Chrlstlon Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 1 S, Mass. Sand your newspaper for the tim checked. Enclosed find my check or -money order. I year 518 Q 6 months 9 3 months J4-50 Q . I "CifT Zon" ra-u ! !