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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everyone tn Southern Oregoo Read The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except turria tvw rnLNilTsCi CO 7-2a North rir St Phonei 2-141 ROBERT W RI-Hi uiin. HERB GREY Advertising M.n. CJRALD LATHAM Business Manaia nir..' i n. jnaaaiinc riiTor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA-V, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soort. Editor OIJVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mrr. An Independent Newspaper E?.tI?d f la matter at Mediord Oreron under Act ot March j, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION OITTC By Mail In Advance: Per Cony 15c Daily and Sunday One year 15 0 Daily and Sunday Si month 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mo. 4.23 ounaay Kjmy une year 1420. By Carrier In Advance MHfimi Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. t"iur iwe nojrue cuvez. Talent and on motor rrmt. Daily and Sunday One year tlgOO Dally and Sunday One month 1J0 -ner ana Dealer ioe per copy -" 1IJ t-aga m Advance PJ?" ' c,t M.dfora Official Paper of Jackion County V nlted Pre Full Leased Wire " MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU " w t-lKCULATlON Advertising RenrexntAtfv. WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANT WC Office in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Anwlea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAt. EDITOIIAt I A$$ocfieM N, f imjiirw.u-i h.m NEWSPAPEt PUtUISHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mali Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 16. 1947 (Sunday) ' A ladies' side-saddle event has been added to the program of the Jackson County Ladies Mounted troop show. Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Thursday and Fri day were the first dog days of the year. A Majority felt the dogs should have them." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 16. 1937-(Monday) County schools open Sept. 6 following general cleaning and renovating of the buildings. Peace-time accomplishments of the United States Army are sketched by Army sergeant be fore Kiwanis club here. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 16. 1927 (Tuesday) ; Two surveying crews show further signs of railroad develop ment in timbered district be tween Butte Falls and the up per Klamath lake. Local Japanese give more-than $50 to local playgrounds. 310 YEARS AGO jVug. 16. 1917 (Thursday) ? A concert to be given by the oldiers' auxiliary of the Seventh company is planned for Labor Day evening here. Local surgeon invents "Yel low Jaundice fly" for fishing Rogue River. -- What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct la superior; seven er elebt is Excellent: five or six I good 1. In what mountains did Rip van Winkle have his long slum ber? 2. Who wrote the novel "West ward Ho?" 3. BIBLE: Which "king" "killed James the brother of John with a sword"? 4. Which two U.S. Presidents died on the same day? 5. What island in the Arctic region is famous for its hot springs? 6. What is the maximum weight which may be sent by first-class mail? - 7. Salsify is another name for what vegetable? 8. All bottled-in-bond whisky produced in the U.S. must be at least three, four, or five years old? 9. "Egotism" is the result of the philosophy of self - interest i (conceit), termed what? 10. "And cow-boys and dough boys, We'll follow his drum, boys. Who never said, 'go, boys!' But always said, "Come, boys.' "A. Answers: 1. C a 1 1 1c i 1 1 s. 2. Charles Kingsley. 3. Herod. 4. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 5. Iceland. 6. Seventy pounds. 7. Oyster plant. 8. At least four years old. 9. Egoism. 10. Theodore Roosevelt. Malheur Jury Rules Death as Accidental ' Nyssa, Ore. IW A six-member Malheur county coroner's jury ruled Thursday that the death of Darrell Butcher, 17, Parma, Idaho, in a boating mis hap Monday was accidental. Butcher was killed when he drove his motorboat under a mooring cable on the Snake river near here and was struck across the neck by the wire. SCHOOL FOUNDER DIES New York (IP) Mrs. Helen C. Mansfield. 97, who founded a number of music school settle ments, died Thursday after a long illness. 1 MAIL TRIBUNE Unlucky Mr. Gluck We don't envy Mr. Gluck, if and when he takes his recently tendered post as Ambassador to Ceylon. For even though he is another millionaire, owning a retail store chain, and a racing stable, he will, we fear, still have difficulty in pronouncing the name of Ceylon's prime minister whose name on examina tion he couldn't recall and admitted -he couldn't pronounce or spell. "We can't blame him so much for the name is Solomon W.E.D. Bandarsaaike, and his successor spells his name Katelawala. As Ambassador, however, it may be assumed he will have to learn how to spell and pronounce both names of such prominent officials' in the government to which he will be accredited. That will take some doing for Maxwell Henry Gluck admits he is no linguist, in fact far from it and also no student of the Far East. MOW Secretary of State Dulles declares Ceylon is, ' diplomatically speaking, a "sensitive spot." :It has notonly recognized Russia and Red China, but has welcomed trade and cultural relations with both and has two avowed communists in its present cabinet. According to all reports Ambassador Gluck is not the sensitive type but he will find, we believe, that on these issues, the people of Ceylon, as well as his own country, are. CO MR. GLUCK'S future doesn't look so bright. There was one ray of sunlight in the gloom when Mr. Gluck was informed the Ceylonese are crazy about horse-racing. As the owner of a large racing stable he assumed, no doubt, there would be a bond here of understanding and sympathy. But it also appears the Ceylonese take horseracing seriously and have little use for those who fail to live up properly to jockey-club regulations and rules. On the same day that Mr. Gluck was confessing his ignorance of Ceylon language, customs and mores, one of his horses won a race at Saratoga, New York only to be declared, after objection and inquiry, dis qualified. There is no luck visible for Mr. Gluck. R.W.R. Oregonian Scores R.R. Tax We so seldom agree with the Portland Oregonian on public issues, that is a refreshing pleasure to do so. In its issue of Thursday bang out of its editonal entitled "Unjust Freight Tax but stood in awe and admiring amazement, as we read its implied endorsement of our junior Senator Richard L. Neuberger. a- This-may not be the first time the Oregonian has had a good word to say Democratic Senators, but been exceedingly frugal in their praise, m this par ticulary area. We think this change is less extreme partisan attitude on the part of the state's leading daily, but as strong evidence of the growing sTature arid increasing popularity of Senator Morse's young colleague in the Upper House. Here is the editorial in question : How Uncle Sam helps drive the West out of the na tional market through a 3 per cent federal freight tax is shown by Oregon's .Senator Richard L. Neuberger in the current Railway Progress magazine. Oregon canners, hep oints out, pay almost four times as much in transportation excise taxes as do Midwestern shippers on a carload of canned goods to the Pittsburgh area. The tax on Oregon grain is more than 3V4 times that-' on grain from tine central states and on livestock nearly o four times. The Oregon lumberman is taxed 40 per cent more than the Georgia lumber shipper. The senator might have added that every time freight rates are raised, as they were a week ago for the second time since last December, the federal penalty for living in the West increases proportionally. Federal transportation taxes should be repealed out right, as Senator Neuberger has urged in the Senate. Ship ping cannot by any stretch of the imagination be termed a luxury. Neither can traveling, which is taxed 10 per cent. "Amen" to that! MOW might w?e respectfully suggest that the north west's most powerful searching on the freight charges for the haul from at the same time look up and the law regarding public utility discrimination against any area it can serve. Then for good measure we wish the Oregonian would rule whether or not the abandonment of all passenger service between Eugene and Ashland was a violation of the SP's clear cut obli gations as a public utility? There are over 200,000 citizens in this area who would greatly appreciate the help of the Oregonian, in securing the rail service to Portland and to San Francisco, to which they are morally and we believe legally, entitled. R.W.R. Oregon's Water Problem In the same issue as noted above, the Oregonian also by implication commends another prominent Democratic official in Oregon, none other than How ard Morgan, former state Democratic chairman, and now the efficient and hard hitting Public Utility Com missioner in this state. This time the vital water issue in Oregon is con sidered. The Oregonian goes on record in part as follows: Northwesterners, generally speaking, are little aware of their present dependence on limited upstream storage for their kilowatts in the low-water periods of late sum mer and especially in winter when run-off is stopped by freezing in the Rockies. In a letter of protest to the Fed eral Power Commission from Howard Morgan, Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner, this dependence and this Friday. August 18. 1957 the 16th we not only got a for either one of Oregon s through the years they have a good sign, not only of a newspaper do a bit of re rates the Southern Pacific Portland to Medford, and the terins of its franchise 'ITS NO FUN PLMH' HIDE W HE VOP5HT EVEN Liability Insurance Discussed by Babson By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. A friend of mine has a small retail store with two or three clerks. He has worked hard and accumu lated a work ing capital of $15,000. Re cently a cus tomer suffered a peculiar ac cident in the store. A jury awarded the Borer W Babson customer $20,000 damages. This not only wiped out the savings of a life time, but it put the owner into debt which may result in bank ruptcy. Insurance Agents We are solicited continually by life insurance agents. And if we have a mortgage on our store, or owe the bank anything, we must show in our statement how much fire insurance we carry. In fact, both life insur ance and fire insurance are rec ognized by every retailer and home owner as "musts." The only question seems to be as to the friend to whom we will give the business and the amount which we are to carry. I especially recommend what is known as the "comprehen sive" policy! This includes most casualty risks other than life insurance. Unfortunately, less than 10 per cent of the people use these comprehensive poli cies. My appeal today, therefore, is for every retailer to take out a liability policy and to make it large enough. Stores vs. Wives Not only should retailers take out liability insurance for their 1 stores, but also for their wives and children. A woman neigh bor of mine had a hat with a protruding feather which put out the eye of another woman during a crowded retail sale. The jury awarded the woman $25,000, and tried to involve the retailer. In another case, a par ent was awarded $10,000 be cause his boy got hurt by run ning into a person while sliding down a hill in winter. A milk man who stepped on a broken board collected $5,000. I could give scores of similar illustra tions! The point I especially want to make is that you will prob ably have to ask for such jnsur ance. Telephone your agent to day for prices and a sample pol icy. Read this policy carefully, especiaUy the fine print. If the price seems too high, ask an other agent to submit his price and a sample. Life insurance pre miums are very competitive and vary little; fire insurance pre miums are fixed by state com missions at very low rates; but sflsMMssttfsHisW danger were emphasized in relation to Snake river proj ects. Mr. Morgan encvlosed stream flow figures of last win ter, which was not a particularly bad water year. In that cold period when peak power demand and lowest flow coincide, "the actual flow of the Columbia river dropped to a point at which it was capable of generating only 2,000,000 kilowatts out of a total demand of 5,500,000 kilowatts." This left a margin of 3,500,000 kilowatts, or more than three fifths of total demand, which . was attributable to downstream generation made possible by the release of upstream storage, principally from Grand Coulee and Hungry Horse dams. "It is easy to imagine the calamity which could have befallen this area if the period of cold weather had per sisted for only the few weeks which would have been nec essary in order completely to exhaust the limited upstream storage behind those two dams," Mr. Morgan wrote to FPC. The observation applies as well to Bruces Eddy and other postponed storage projects as to Plesant Valley. If the Northwest does not get some big storage projects in Idaho, Montana or Canada, the Northwest one of these winters is going to have a power blackout which, as ex Treasury Secretary Humphrey said about another phase of the economy, "will make your hair curl." - Again this paper agrees completely with both Public Utilities Commissioner Morgan and the Oregonian. It is not quite clear to why considering the vital age on the bnake, the Oregonian opposed Hells Can yon and so strongly favored the low dams of the j Idaho Power Company 'BBBK WITH MSZ. WllSOti. FIND M5 liability rates vary considerably. Insurance Stocks Stocks of life insurance com panies are the most popular and have had a great rise in price during the past few years. Stocks of most fire insurance companies are selling below their book values. Owing to the tendency of state commissions to hold down rates (perhaps un fairly sometimes) they are not making the money they should. However, they have excellent managements and ample re serves and I believe will some day be treated fairly. For this reason I am now buying fire insurance stocks while they are cheap. I have never liked acci dent insurance stocks. Juries and Gravity Probably the most money might be made (or lost) from the stocks of casualty companies. Their gross business will con tinue to grow. While thus far we have hated to sue our friends or neighbors, it is fast becom ing the thing to do! Most law yers will take such- suits on a retainer basis, perhaps for a two-hundred-dollar fee but with the understanding they are to receive 25 per cent if they win the case. Juries are becoming constantly more generous in their awards, due to the rise in the cost of; living, increased wages, and the depreciation of the dollar. There is litUe argument about life insurance awards; a person is either dead or not dead. Dam age from fire can also be fairly well ascertained. Moreover, "wonder drugs," new hospitals, and tetter doctors are constant ly working to help life insur ance profits; and sprinkler com panies, fire - alarm companies such as GameweU, and others are working to prevent fire losses. Furthermore, the Gravity Research Foundation, in New Hampshire, is working to pre vent accidents, 80 per cent of which come from falls. Occupa tional accidents are generally covered by compulsory insur ance with fixed standard rates and compensations. Pickup Truck Accident Near Roseburg Kills One Roseburg HP) A pickup truck overturned south of here Thursday night, killing a pass enger. The victim was identified by state police as Clyde S. Brady, 48, Roseburg. The driver, Arthur J. Gilbert, Roseburg, was, hos pitalized. AUTO BUILDER DIES New York (IP) H. Jay Hayes 88, who built the first all-metal body automodile and was be lieved to have introduced car fenders, died Wednesday night. this department, howrever, importance of greater stor R.W.R. . . --sj Communications Lettert to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial tor 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. The Pomegranate Seed To the Editor: We Christian girl babies "Rose," "Lily" "Daisy," "Violet," even "Pansy." None of our flower names, how ever, is as often poetically se lected as the Arab's "Anarkali," (Pomegranate B 1 o s s o m). The Arabs enjoy pomegranate's flow er, its iruit, also sherbets from its fruit juices. (The word In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At the multi million - dollar new Johns-Manville plant that is nearing completion over east of the mountains on the Wil liamson - river, a huge yellow truck loaded with jackpine pulp wood moved at a given signal the other day across a wide, flat space at the northern end of the factory site and stopped beside a big crane. The slings were adjusted around the logs. The long arm of the crane moved over. The steel cables came down. The hooks at their ends, were fitted into the loops on the slings. The crane flexed its steel muscles, grunted and then swung the slingload of pulp logs over and deposited it beside a - stake driven into the ground. The stake marked the outside limit of what a few months hence will be a stockpile con taining 8,000 cords of jackpine. This stockpile will be raw ma terial for the big new plant that is expected to be in opera tion early in 1958. IT WAS an epochal event. It was epochal for this rea son: This was the first load of jackpine ever delivered to a commercial plant west of the Rockies for full scale manufac ture of consumer products. . Hitherto jackpine has been" a worthless weed tree, cluttering land that might have -been de voted to the production of some thing worth while. Now it is a valuable commercial product. IN THIS new plant and in other plants that will follow it jackpine will be treated as a CROP. It will be clear-cut, in long narrow strips so as to allow the greatest possible amount of natural reseeding. As each strip is cut off,s it will be left to reseed.'As the new growth comes on, it will be thinned, if necessary in order to provide for a maximum stand of good trees for the next crop. The idea is that by the time the last strip . has been harvested the first strip cut will be ready for another harvest. Thus the yield will be sus tained. TTOW long will it take to pro- duce a new crop of Western jackpine? Nobody knows. Nobody has ever paid .any attention to the stuff .v It has simply grown up and died and fallen down. It is estimated that the present stand may have taken a hundred years to grow. But, based upon observation of new growth at the edge of new highways and elsewhere, it is believed that a crop of jack pine, properly handled, can be grown about every 40 years. SO MUCH for jackpine which is totally new in our picture. There are other species that in the past have been regarded as more or less worthless. But they are known now to be com mercially valuable for their fi ber. They are all RAW MATE RIAL FOR A GROWING IN DUSTRY. This we now KNOW: The old days of cut out and move on are gone for good. The timber industry is now a PER MANENT industry. It is here to STAY. I'D LIKE to repeat a prediction made recently by Dr. Edward G. Locke, chief of the division of wood chemistry at the Forest Laboratory at Madison, Wis. "We are about 10 years away from extensive use of wood AS A SOURCE OF CHEMICALS. In another 50 years, wood that is now discarded MAY OVER SHADOW PETROLEUM AND COAL as a source of industrial? chemicals." Our timber industry is DEFI NITELY here to stay. Southern Oregon and far northern Califor nia have a lot of timber. Our industrial future is bright. LK CITY. GUAR North Hiway 99 OPEN UNTIL Your Favorite ICE COLD BEVERAGES "SHARBAT" is Arabic. "SHA RIBA" is their word for "to drink.") One finds indeed the prized pomegranate on ancient Egyptian and Babylonian sculp tures. We too, were not surprised, therefore, to find it in high favor in North Africa. As President, World Recreation Survey a half century . ago, writer was re searching as to primitive play. On camel trips, as "down the Trail Toward Timbuctu," we discovered the game little girls call "Jacks". It was played with date seeds. These feel smooth or ridged. On more than one oaisis, both girl players would own to the name "Anarkali." Color 'always has appealed to Desert folk. Green is first. One who made Mecca pilgrimage within the year may wear a turban of the color of well watered palms. Near Khyber Pass into Afganistan, where pomegranate grows wild, we found a Pathan who stained his beard green. Thus, lieu the hen na often used to disguise the gray of advanced years. In Soma liland we found pint-sized Ne groes dyed their kinky wool canary or Vermillion. There, also, occasional green locks evi denced the trip across Arabia's sands. The pomegranate is prized for, not only its flame-red bloom, but for its fruit. The juice makes a welcome drink. From it is made a pink liqueur. This is utilized by the French through their long contacts with Arab Africa. There oncu was a Paris restau rant whose specialatie was a pink omelette. It was prepared AFL-CIO Gives Party Boost in Assault on Tight Money Policy Editor's note: While Lyde C. Wilson is on vacation, special dispatches are beingwritlen by other members of the UP Washington staff. Today'? it by the head of the - Senate ' Staff. ...... By RAYMOND IAHR United Press Correspondent Washington -j- (IP) The AFL CIO has given the Democrats a big assist in their continuing assault on the tight money poli- 1 cy of the, Ei sennower aa- ministration, In attacking the policy of rising interest rates, the AFL-CIO Ex ecutive Coun cil went about as far as Sen. Raymond Lahr Roberts. Kerr (D-Okla.), the most acid tongued critic of that policy. At their Chicago meeting the labor .chieftains listed a series of administration decision and said they were "designed ' to hasten a recession as the best means of adjusting to the para doxical situation of rising prices and declining production." Recall Douglas Statement This was Kerr talking in a statement last week end: "A big issue now raging with in the high council of high fi- nance and government is whether to tell the people that a 'moderate recession' is being planned." Few Democrats have gone as far as Kerr in charging the ad ministration with a calculated plan to bring about a recession to check the boom. Some of them may be mindful of the fact that Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) is still being accused of predicting depression in 1954 when he says he was only sound ing a warning. But the idea of a planned re cession has been given attention by some financial writers. Kerr said a recession is already being felt in parts, of the country. If his fellow Democrats are more cautious many of them are trying to get all the mileage they can out of criticizing tlie administration's "hard money" policy. They view it as a hard ship for home-buyers, farmers and businessmen who may be hurting because of scarce credit. To these arguments admini stration spokesmen have replied Half Way Between Medford and Central Point 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS WEEK END SPECIALS ICE COLD WATERMELON Mi 71 2 Lb. in longhandled pan over an open fireplace. The University of Paris professor, with whom we co-labored was our host. He insisted anyone who had never tickled his gustatory nerve with this pomegranate-flavored ome lette was "socially immature." We discovered afterward that restauranteur charged for that omelette, and nothing else, as much as most restaurants did for a whole French dinner, "soup to nuts" and vin compris. . C. M. Goethe, 7th & J streets, Sacramento 14, Calif. Help Wanted To the Editor: I have Just received news of the destruction by fire of the cabin home of Mr. John M. Payne, Rt. 2, Box 442, Gold Hill. This happened during the afternoon of August 6th while John was away on a prospect. He lost everything in the fire including the groceries he had purchased the day be fore. This has hit John very hard, he being 75 years of age and the cabin had been his home for many years. John is of a pioneer family dating back to the Oregon Trail days. My interest in this disaster of John Payne is this through your newspaper, could you and your staff interest various or ganizations enough to give John a helping hand at building him a new comfortable cabin? His family are not in a financial position to do so. I am sure that if you made the necessary in quiries you would find that such is the case. His late brother Frank B. Payne, who was buried last month in Medford, had been a fifty year member of the Mac cabees lodge of Albany, Calif. John's son, Guy Payne, lives in Medford and another son, How ard, at Gold Hill. Natalie Warrington, 1476 Kelly Ave., San Leandro, Calif. that higher interest rates were needed to curb inflation and to balance the supply and demand of credit. - But even Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va), who "has never been known as an "easy money" man, is asking if higher interest rates are not inflationary in raising business costs and leading to higher prices. And he worries that higher interest charges in crease the federal b u d g e t through the. increased cost of servicing the national debt. . These questions have drawn the reply that interest rates tre an insignificant factor in busi ness costs and higher rates on government bonds are a small price to pay for holding down inflation. . , - At "this point in- 1957,' how ever, the Democrats expect to be making a big issue of tight money through the 1958 politi cal campaign- and possibly on into 1960. Boston (IP) A small for eign car displayed this sign in the rear: Hit Somebody your Own Size." , - HAPPY HARRY "Borrow The ... American Way" LOANS $25 to $1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose Payments To Fit Your Budget! American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. 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