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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL THI3UNE Friday, August 9, 1957 UNE cmyona to Southern Orecon Rcada Th MjU Tribune" .1.D,U Exceut Saturday Zl2NorUirir St Phone 2-141 ROB FT? T ur d i -tT; riTVlVB"'"- ? KARl ofA. Manapn lull tor ARL H ADAMS Cltj Editor RHRaH,?J TWrPb Editor ,59.JEWET Suoru Editor nAt.EJ5SHEH Society Editor DALE ERICKSO.N CirculaUon Mgr. An Independent NewroaDer jnitered aa second cla atodlord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In AHniiM- n t- . m- DalJy and Sunday One year $15 00 DaljJ and Sunday Sn montha 8 00 J ana aunaa y Three moa 42J Sunday Only One year M-20 JJy Carrier In Advance Medford Aamand Central Point Eafle Point cZ.m a Hm Phoenix. Bhady Cove Roirue River. Talent end on motiw Mnta- gaily and Sunday One year $18 CO mUy and Sunday One month 140 in - "eaiera ioc rer eooy All Tfrm. raH am i i w fuucc Official Pan,, or the Cliv r Paper ef Jackaon County Offi'f of tn c,t Medford Official Paper of Jackion L'onn United Preaa Full MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Adverrlaing Renreaentative: wtbT-HOUDAY COMPAfTJ "'c In New York Chicago, de V:, SanFranciaco. Loa Angelea Seattle Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION Al I 0 I T 0 1 1 A i NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHEK ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 9. 1947 (Sunday) Formation route and Instruct tions for the V-J day celebration parade announced. From Arthur Perry's Ya Smudge Pot column: To keep goldfish from fading feed them paprika. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1937 (Monday) James Stevens, one-time na tionally famous opera baritone dies in his home here. Pinball games ordered re moved by District Attorney Frank J. Newman. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1927 (Tueiday) First carload of Rogue River valley Bartlett pears will be shipped by H. Van Hoevenburg this evening to the eastern auc tion market. The Medford Merchant's asso ciation agrees to donate $500 to the Jackson County Products show during their regular meet ing last night. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 9. 1917 (Thursday) Medford s Cookpany 7 re quests plenty of canned fruit from Rogue River valley while in training. The annual skinning of the Rogue Kiver valley farmers is in progress by grain and hay speculators; wheat in Portland is selling as high as $2.50. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior; even or eight la excellent; five or tlx la rood 1. The novelty play, "Polka Mania" resulted in the populari zation of which famous dance? 2. In what city is famous "Newgate Prison"? 3. aiDie: wno said " In my Fathers house are many man sions . . ."? 4. Who was the founder of fa mous Hull House, in Chicago? 5. Whose airplane was called the "Sacred Cow"? o. is tne farthingale a species of bird? Plant? 7. Gherkins are small wooden tubs, small cucumbers, or gnomes? 8. Which American college is named for two English rulers? 9. Is "slick", in the sense of slippery, a provincialism?" 10. "I live on broken wittles and I sleep on the coals." Dickens, in "David Copperfield' Is I a miner, poor man, or janitor? Answers: 1. Polka. 2. London; England. 3. Jesus. 4. Jane Ad- dams. 5. The plane used by President Truman. 6. No. (it is a hoop-skirt). 7. Small cucumbers. 8. William and Mary. 9. Yes. 10. Poor man. Responsibility for Retarded Child Told Salem (W Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today that the primary responsibility for educating mentally retarded children rests with local school districts. The attorney general also held that where a retarded child has been committed, but not admit ted to Fairview home in Salem, it is still the responsibility of the school district where the child resides to educate him. However, if the school board feels the child could not possibly benefit from regular classes or special instructional facilities, it can exclude him, Thornton said. 4 Lets Look Ahead There's a story going the rounds about the man whose friend said to him, "Cheer up, things could be worse." So, the man said, "I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse." ( This is a sort of reverse slant on an attitude which appears to be fairly prevalent these days in southern Oregon that things seem to be worse than they really are. 1 No one is going to be Pollyannaish enough to claim that there isn't a slowness in the lumber market, or that prices are down. And no one is going to con vince someone who's had trouble finding a job that everything is rosy. But a look at the facts should convince the most critical cynic that southern Oregon is NOT going through a depression, and that the future is promising. - e e e e THE painstaking job of research performed by Mayor John Snider on what is good about our situation, and why it is bound to get better, is based on facts facts which can be documented and proven with no difficulty. It was not intended to be a rounded and compre hensive picture of the economy, and' made no pretense of being such. It simply was a survey of what is ahead in the way of development and construction in this area, of why there is reason for optimism, and of whv there is reason to believe that the picture is far from I being as bad as it is now so often painted. Eyed from a short-range viewpoint, one of the most crucial facts developed by the mayor's study is the fact that carloadings of lumber from the Medford area are virtually on a par with last year, down only cne or two percentage points, and that the indications are that August will go above the figure set for that month in 1956, which was in some respects a near- record year. "THIS is important, for it indicates that lumber pro 1 duction is not down seriously. Prices received are, of course, another matter. - But the individuals most seriously concerned with prices are the owners and operators of the firms, not the employees, most of whom continue to bring home their paychecks steadily. And it is not lumber profits which keep an area's economy moving along nearly as much as it is the pay roll checks, which are used to buy the groceries, the j shoes and the automobiles on which retail trade is based. fJEMPLOYMENT is, at the moment, virtually non- existent in Jackson county, except for a few peo pie who are physically unable to work in the fruit harvest. Last week, before the harvest began, an estimated 800 people, out of a total labor force estimated at about 28,000 persons, were out of work. Some of these were "between jobs," and others could accept only certain types of employment. The employment service reports that there just isn't anly labor "surplus" this year, and that some of the fruit growers are short-handed for harvesting or packing-house help. THE magazine U.S. News and World Report, in its current issue, makes some population forecasts which indicate the west coast is due for phenomenal growth, with Oregon gaming more than 66 per cent. Jacksori county, situated about mid-point between the population centers of the Pacific coast, is in a highly strategic position as a distribution center, and the added number of people here and in this service and trade area is going to add to that importance, The mayor's survey pointed out the development of highways. The money put into highway construc tion will be a helpful "shot in the arm," of course, but more important will be the opening up of more and better arteries of transportation and communication, which are the life-blood of trade and commerce. 'YOU PROMISED MB A CAKE ON AW BIRWVAY. Retirement Aspects Discussed by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. The present system of retiring faith ful and efficient workers is prob ably good for the junior .em ployees. It gives them better chance for promo tion. But the younger ones must indirect ly contribute to the support of those being W Babaun Roger yiTE ALSO have the feeling that the full signifi- " cance of the Talent project, which will be com pleted in another few years, has escaped many peo ple's notice. Not only will it increase the number of irrigated acres on existing farms, and add to supplies available to those now irrigating, but it will also make possible more and more of the "small farm plot" type of development, ,where people in seasonal work can supplement their income and their larder by small crops grown on their own property. It will broaden the opportunities for a wider variety of crops, and permit greater concentration of specialty crops. And the increasing population m the west will virtually guarantee a market for everything that can be raised here. A LL this is entirely aside from the fact that a back " log of more than $70 million in construction is now or soon will be under way in this trade area, which is a graphic illustration of the confidence which investors and the government have in the area's future. All these factors can add Up to only one answer that growth and prosperity are inescapably ahead, barring only a major catastrophe. The lumber market is down; there's no blinking that fact. But it is bound to improve. The only way it can go is up. And -in most other segments of the economy, the facts are on the side of the optimists, not the pessimists. E.A. Bomb Scare Grounds Passenger Airliner Chicago (IB A Northwest Airlines DC6 with 53 passengers aboard was ordered to return to Midway airport early today fol lowing an anonymous phone call saying a bomb was hidden on it For two hours detectives and airline employees went through the baggage of all passengers. No bomb was found. The plane, bound for Seattle, was over Rockford,, 111., when recalled. The airlines contacted its Minneapolis office which ra dioed the plane to return to Chicago. retired through paying one half of their Social Security and oth er benefits. Some one must pay the bills. In many cases compulsory re tirement is a blessing to all con cerned. Many "workers are phy sically unable to continue at their usual manual labor or even at office work. This, how ever, does not justify children putting such parents into nurs ing homes. This procedure is be coming too common. There money in nursing homes for the operators; but they are sad places to visit. When I see children ruthlessly put a parent into nursing home, it makes me feel very sad. It seems as if some semi-retirement, or half-time plan could often be used instead of full re tirement. When I discuss this with employers they state that such an arrangement would up set their "streamlined" produc tion system and their efficient office systems. This may be true in a few cases; but if this half time arrangement were applied to all competitors", no one con cerned would be handicapped. Longer Vacations Another suggestion is that re tirement systems be based upon longer vacations, in both sum mer and winter. Instead of worker going on half-time by working half a day every day, he could work all day when Officials Predict Trend Back To FHA Loans in Prospect Washington (IP) A govern ment housing official predicted today that changes in FHA rules will reverse a strong trend away from financing of homes by use of FHA-insured mortgages. The Federal Housing Admin istration announced Monday it will cut down its down payment requirements on government in sured home loans almost in half. But with the cut it raised interest rates to 514 per cent, plus one-half per cent compul sory insurance on the loan. The FHA is counting on the "more realistic" interest rate to attract money-lenders back into its mortgage market and boost FHA back into an important role in the housing picture. The FHA itself does not lend money. The federal agency, which once insured about half of all the nation's home loans, has been quietly drifting out of that pic ture. Not Attractive Its 5 per cent interest ceiling and other rules were not attrac tive enough to builders and po tential lenders on lower priced homes and offered little or no advantage to borrowers on mid dle and high priced homes. In a recent month, only about 8 per cent of all money bor rowed on home mortgages across the country was under the FHA system. The Veterans Adminis tration, through its "GI" loans, guaranteed 20 per cent, and the remaining 72 per cent was con ventional mortgages negotiated with banks and other lending institutions without government assistance or backing. Government housing experts believe the new higher interest rates and lowered down pay ments will bring the public and the money lenders back to FHA. They hope the agency will be participating in about one-fourth of all home mortgage arrange ments by next year. going to the plant or office but take two months off in summer and two months or more off in winter. With some businesses this would be a less disrupting meth od of adjustment; but with other industries it would be more of a handicap. Therefore, why not amend the retirement regula tions to give corporations their choice? Undoubtedly, labor unions would want to be a party to such decisions; but that, too, could be worked out. An Important Warning The most valuable advice which I can give to readers who are approaching retirement is to avoid the temptation of going into business for themselves. If you want to take a salaried job with some other concern this is OK, provided it is not a com pany competing with the one from which you are retiring. Certainly it is bad ethics to re tire from one company on a pen sion and then work for a com petitor or start in business your self as a competitor. In my opinion, this comes close to plain dishonesty. I issue a special warning against starting or putting any money into a new business of any kind. I have seen thousands of cases where able retired per sons have lost, after retirement, the money which they had earned and saved before retire ment. This applies equally ' as well to successful businessmen as to employees. They have thought that because they made a success of one business, they could make a success of some other business. This has often proved a costly mistake. Luck vs. Ability Although these men had busi ness ability when operating the business from which they had retired, their success was not due entirely to business skill. Other factors contributed to that suc cess. A man may have entered his former business when the industry was young. The times, political atmosphere, or tax system, may now be very differ ent. They may have operated at different period m the busi ness cycle, but styles ana de- mad for the product may by now have completely changed. The person himself may be less vigorous or progressive due to advanced age; while competition is now such that more vigor and capital are needed. I especially warn retired per sons not to go to California or Florida or to some other boom ing state unless they can . count on a check of at least $200, be sides Social Security benefits, coming from home each month as a pension or as interest or dividends. Also, before you take any job anywhere after retire ment, ascertain how it will affect your Social Security and other benefits. In most cases, if you earn more than $1,200 per year you will lose your bociai se curity. New Jersey Governorship Race Seen as Crucial Straw-in-Wind ' Raymond Lahr now hold the By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (ID The admin istration and the national Repub lican organization are showing extradordinary interest in win- ning the New Jersey gover norship next November. A victory would return to Republican control one of the statehouses in pivotal states where Democrats governorships. State house provide the patron age sinews for state party organ izations. Coincidentally GOP victory" in New Jersey would kill off one of the potential candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. It would mean the defeat of Gov. Robert B. Meyner, the incumbent Democrat seeking reelection. Malcolm S. Forbes, state sen ator and Republican nominee for the governorship, visited Wash ington Thursday to see Vice President Richard M. Nixon, members of the New Jersey con gressional delegation and Presi dential Assistant Sherman Ad ams. He saw President Eisen hower during another recent visit. Ike Offers Help Nixon offered to make a cam paign appearance. Forbes said he would be invited. Eisenhower has offered to give any help he could. In bringing the national party into the picture, however, the New Jersey GOP must guard against fanning resentment over outside intrusion in a state cam paign. But New Jersey voters will no doubt be reminded that the state election will be watched nationally as a barometer fore telling future political weather. The adjoining states of Penn sylvania and New York, both politically important ones with Democratic governors, will hold state elections next year. So wiU the weathervane svate of Con necticut and more heavily popu lated Massachusetts and Michi gan, which also have Democrat ic governors. President Eisenhower carried all those states in 1956 even though the rival party controlled the statehouses. But his name will not be on the ballot -in 1960. Look For Trends Among the so-called pivotal states whose electoral votes are most prized in presidential elec tions only California, Illinois and Ohio now have Republican governors. The New Jersey election will be one of three 1957 state con tests which will be carefully watched for signs of a trend. The first will be Aug. 27 when normally Republican Wisconsin elects a successor to the late Re publican Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy. Even if the Republican nomi nee is the favorite. Democrats will analyze the Wisconsin re sults to see if there Is still evi dence of farm ' discontent with the administration in the Middle West. A governor also will be elected in November in normally Demo cratic Virginia where the GOP is more optimistic than usual. Their nominee is Ted Dalton. He ran for the same office four years ago and polled 45 per cent of the vote, the best showing by a Republican candidate since the Reconstruction years. Only one special election has been held this year in New Mexico-to fill a vacancy in the House of Representatives. A Democrat was elected to a seat formerly held by a Democrat. ' Action1 Program to Chop Government Size Sought in Meetings By TOM NELSON United Press Correspondent Hershey, Pa. (in State and federal officials today sought an "action" program to cut the size of the huge federal government. A joint 17-man committee of governors and high-ranking rep resentatives of President Eisen hower opened a two-day meet ing to launch a study of whether some federal functions can be turned over to the states. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstarifces the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Census Estimates Said Due This Year Salem (IP) The State Census board will be required to file new census estimates for both cities and counties this year un der provisions of a new census act which goes into effect Aug. 20. That was the opinion today of Attorney General Robert Y Thornton. The former census law re quired only city estimates and there was a question as to whether the count might not be put off until next year. - The estimates are used in dis tributing state funds to cities and counties. STICKY PROBLEM SOLVED San Diego, Calif. qPI Detec tives didn't have to go far to solve the vending machine tap per mystery. William Paul New ton, 47, was arrested Thursday on charges of tapping the candy machine at the central police station of $3.85. Newton worked in the building. . ... Suspicious of Zoning To the Editor: Attention, Mr Staley of Eagle Point. I have read with a great deal of attention your articles on the zoning of Jackson county and am interested enough to reply to your plea for support. I assure you. you have mine in full measure. I have been a resident taxpayer in this county for more than 30 years. And feel that some one must come forward to do something to pre vent something we shall always regret if it should come to pass I agree with you that the Big Business of Medford will stoop to almost anything to hamstring the growth and prosperity of the country dweller. Especially if he does not profit in . every thing the producer on the farm brings forth to market. There is a point that I must mention in connection with the 'Zoning'. In the first place the city nor the county can proceed with such ' a plan except the state has provided for such a contin gency by statute, regularly en acted. Has it done so? And by what . representation, and by whom presented? Why was it presented? Who wanted the zon ing badly enough to start pro ceedings to bring about such a result? How will he, or they, benefit? There is a 'nigger' in the woodpile somewhere. You can bet your last dollar on that, too. 1 have a smattering of law, having studied it for some three years. And, as of now, 1 cannot see how it can be done. How ever, I am ignorant of the late statutes of the state in which we live. Should it be that such a .aw is now on the books it could be a different story. In such a case then a strong opposition must be built up from scratch. That will take time and work. Gazing at the thing from the sidelines, it looks to me to be a filthy and yet a bold attempt to gain control, and I mean CONTROL, of all business car ried on in the county be it pub lic or private, and thus be tanta mount to full ownership. And the real owner might just as well move out. if he can get permission, or walk out with out it. Andy L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania Ave.. Medford, Pre. by saner thinking, can and wiU destroy America's great land of wealth, health, beauty, useful ness to mankind Greed for wealth and power has stripped America of forests, soil, streams, woods, water and wildlife; far too much of her wealth and beauty, and is too fast creating a land of drouths, floods, deserts, famines. Perhaps lew peopls will want to see such a land on an automobile trip! Every billboard along -.- the highway is a potential casualty, excessive billboards mean extra death traps. And a billboard alley not only is extremely dan gerous, but deprives all travel ers, especially out-of-state-travel- ers, seeing, enjoying and getting the health benefits they may have made a long trip to realize. Not all users of America's highways are speed demons nor people bent on getting to the other end of their trip just as fast and quickly as possible. Automobile travelers, I believe, want to see, enjoy all the nat ural scenery they pass through and by. I doubt if any make a long trip just to see such adver tising as too often disgrace com mercial billboards. T drove 35.000 miles on our U.S. highways, through every state, into Canada and Mexico. Wo saw America all the way, blocked nobody's desire to go faster, nor were we obliged to drive through a biUboards alley like tunnel. Let us Save Our Scenery, our natural resources for posterity; it's up to us, we who are here now. John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood Ave., Medford, Ore-. A key question was where the states would get the money to pay for any federal functions they might assume. Lane Dwinell of New Hamp shire, chairman of the 10-man governors' delegation, said enough research has been done by the Hoover Commission and others to lay the groundwork for some action. "I don't think anybody is opti mistic that we're going to set the world on fire," DwlneU told a reporter. "But the mere fact that this project is being undertaken makes me confident we can achieve some success." ' Dwinell said he found "gen eral agreement" among the na tion's 48 governors that it was "desirable" for some federal pro grams to be shifted to the states. "There are many fields which the states can operate more ef ficiently if they have the reve nue sources which have been preempted by the federal govern ment," he nid. ', Dwinell conceded it was dif ficult "to turn back the clock and reverse yourself." But he said if the joint committee suc ceeded only in being a "deter rent ..influence on going farther in respect, to federal aid" it would be a success. . ' President Eisenhower set the stage for today's meeting at a Pennsylvania resort hotel in a speech to the annual governors' conference at Williamsburg, Va., June 24. Eisenhower proposed the crea tion of a joint state-federal com mittee to determine whether the states can take over some fed eral aid programs and whether the federal government can re linquish some revenue sources to the states. The governors' conference ap pointed 10 governors to work with seven Eisenhower ap pointees. The governors wera scheduled to meet separately to day and join the federal ap pointees headed by Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson later today. Dwinell said the two-day ses sion here would decide on the agenda for further sessions by the joint committee. MOVIE STARS WED Gibraltar (IB British stage and movie stars Margaret Leigh ton and Laurence Harvey were married Thursday night in a brief ceremony aboard a passen ger tender. Not Billboard Alleys To the Editor: By all means let us not destroy the main pur pose for which our automobile highways are built, not billboard speedway alleys. (Take the jet plane for speed.) Let's make the hignways so the auto traveling public may use and enjoy them, see ' the natural , scenery by and through which they go, breathe the pure healthgiving air and return safely to their homes, not with an unforgettable hideous nightmare of having passed through a dark tunnel bordered with disgraceful decorations of commercial billboards. Let oar visitors return with pleasant, sweet memories of the trip and what they saw. ' The dollar-greed craze of commercialism and its accom panying ills, unless checked soou PRE-SCHOOL n BINDERS With 5 Year Guarantee ONE LOT ax OFF STOCK UP NOW-SAVE! 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