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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ;u?re TtverroTu i m Southern Oregon mi ami inOUJU Published Dally Excecrt Satur-tav bv ,, MEDFORD PRINTING CO NorthFlTSt. Phone 2-6141 BOBKRT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager ERlNTlJJBul,n S.iJ: ALJ-N Managing Editor JARL H ADAMS Cttj Editor VDCIV'MAN Telegraph Editor P'CHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent .Newmantr entered aa second class matter at ueaiord Oregon under Act of inarcn 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' in Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 pally and Sunday Three mo 4-25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot Column: "Huckle berries are so scarce in the high hills a citizen reports a bear mistook him for one by a nar row margin." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 21, 1937 (Sunday) Medford becomes golfing cen ter of the wcOd as four of the me's greatest professionals gather to pay homage to the late H. Chandler Egan. Pinball machines must be re moved by next Thursday, Sher iff Syd I. Brown orders. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 21. 1927 (Sunday) Gin Peddler seized with 18 quarts of liquor in -his car parked on North Grape st. Baby show is staged in local theatre. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 217 1917 (Tuesday) Mail Tribune staff writer Charles Edward Russell returns to work after visit to Russia on Root Commission. Choice heavy hogs sell at $20 per hundred-weight today mark ing an advance in price of $3 in the last 11 days. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or ettht Is excellent: five or six ts good 1. Whose likeness is depicted on the newly-designed U.S. half dollar? 2. Was Zane Grey, a prolific writer, a man or a woman? 3. Bible: Is a censer an ani mal, mineral, or vegetable? .4 Is Iowa located east, west, or at the sides of the Mississip pi river? 5. Kohlrabi is a disease of dogs or a religious teacher, or a kind of cabbage? 6. When a person has had mumps on both sides, he would not be susceptible to the dis ease again; true or false? 7. The limbs on a tree do, or do not, remain the same height from the ground as the tree grows? 8. Is Portland, Maine, farther north than Portland, Oregon? 9. Is it always proper to use a comma within figures in the thousands? 10. "I am not a politician and mv other habits are" what? A. Ward. Answers: I. Benjamin Frank lin. 2. A man. 3. Mineral. 4. West of the Mississippi! River. 5. A kind of cabbage. 6. False. 7. Do remain the same height. 8. No. 9. No. (not in a street num ber, dates, etc). 10. "Good." Senate Authorizes Bill To Sell Naval Vessels Washington W The Sen ate Tuesday passed and sent back to the House legislation authorizing sale or loan of sev eral Naval vessels to friendly nations. The House approved bill in cludes authority for sale of not more than three destroyers and one submarine to Venezuela and loan of two submarines to The Netherlands. The measure goes back to the House for ac tion on Senate changes. MAIL TRIBUNE Living Outdoors There are various stages, or degrees, of "living outdoors." At one end of the spectrum is the apartment dweller whose outdoor experiences are limited to climbing in and out of hi3 car between home and the office. At the other end are the hardy souls who pre pare a tightly restricted list of the bare essentials, place these on a packboard, slip it on, and take off, on foot, for a few days or weeks far from the end of the road. In between are the various stages of golfing, gar dening, patio or back-yard loafing, walking, picnick ing and in increasing numbers those who find relaxation and rest by bundling together a sufficient quantity of civilization's amenities, tossing them in the family vehicle, and taking off on a "camping trip." THEEE are subsidiary degrees of ruggedness with- in this category, too. There are those who haul along house-trailers, which have such things as hot and cold running water, iceboxes, and inner-spring mattresses. There are smaller trailers, ranging down to the collapsible ones which fold out into tents. There are gadgets which fit on the' bodies of pick up trucks, forming sturdy but cramped housing. There are tents of various sizes and complexity. And there are those who find their pleasure in un rollirig bedrolls beside the car, and sleeping under the stars. ' I IKE WISE, there is a vast amount of equipment available to make life outdoors not only bear able, but comfortable. There are sleeping bags of many different designs, air mattresses and air pil lows to smooth out the ground, folding cots, beds, There are gasoline stoves and lanterns tor cook in? and lichtine: there are many types of battery- powered flashlights and ice-boxes and coolers, and a variety ot jugs and Dot' ties which will keep liquids hot or cold. These impedimenta, plus a few elementary tools, a supply of clothespins, line, and an ability (at the level) to light a fire, make doors" in relative comfort, tive cleanliness. CO MUCH for the equipment available. What of u the benefits? Here again each must For hardy citizens in nothing is quite so rewarding as the long, burdened- down hike; the sleep on the smell of campfire smoke, and coffee, and bacon frying. The tired muscles, bed, the sand and cinders ly add zest to his adventure. The utter lack of civili zation and its encumbrances, and the freshness ot the air, the smells and "feel" of the outdoors, are his reward. The other stages and are only steps, tempered by and comfort, toward this ideal. DEFORE World War n, reserved for the rugged souls willing to put up with hardship and inconvenience for the sake of re turning to nature periodically. But since then, with the joyed by so many more Americans, plus the develop ment of equipment to cater has had a tremendous boom. It is parallel to the boom in boating, in handicraft hobbies,' and in other forms of off-duty activity. Forward - looking governmental agencies are straining to provide for this tremendous and growing demand for outdoor facilities. Those which do not are going to find themselves "out on a limb," both with their own constituents and with tourists who are attracted to such accommodations. o UTSTANDLNG among svstems of Oregon and bor to the south, off-shore oil prvides the lion's share of the funds for the state park camps, although mod est fees add to this income. As a result, the camps are adequately staffed, beautifully maintained, and laid out with care and imagination. As a result, they are often filled to overflowing during July and August, and even in the colder months have a steady clientele. Oregon, with far less money, has done a highly creditable job, as far as it goes. It is expanding the system just as rapidly as available funds will allow, and highway department figures reveal the Oregon parks have about as high a per capita use as those of any state in the nation. pOUNTIES, and even cities, power companies and lumber firms, too, are getting into the act. No table in Oregon are the county parks in Lane and Douglas counties, which operate on budgets substan tial enough to provide both adequate maintenance and growth for the future demand. (Counties such as Jackson, which ignominiously bring up the tail end of the procession, do not speak well for the foresight of their governments.) The Forest Service, the National Parks system, gnd to lesser degrees other federal agencies, are doing their best with limited funds to provide for the present campers, and the millions more who within the next few years will be swarming into the outdoors. "Outdoor living," including patio, city park, pic nic ground, and camp ground, is one of the larger ripples in the "wave of the future." And, for our money, it is a clean, wholesome and desirable one, too. E.A. Wednesday, August 21. 1957 bumps and hollows 01 the stools, chairs and tables, lamps; there are portable enough rope for a clothes Second Class Boy Scout it possible to live out relative safety and rela write his own ticket. good physical condition, the ground under the stars; the knots and stones in his in his food all these mere degrees of "camping out the need for bodily ease camping out was" mainly added hours of leisure en to their desires, camping these are the state park California. In our neigh TM 0 AH rights reserved Ifcp' Jl ff yeah, Dennis cam really closber a saseball. w fact, I FOR HIS AS....6AV. WHATAffE VNGETTINQ AT,lVlL60N? Defense Department To Probe Deaths of Three From Cance Washington (IP) The De fense department has agreed to make a formal investigation of the deaths from cancer of three youths after exposure to nuclear radiation of tests in Nevada. The action was announced by Rep. Thomas L. Ashley (D-O.), Tuesday after he received assur ances from Assistant Defense Secretary Frank B. Berry that "a full inquiry" would be made. Two of the youths came from Toledo in Ashley's district and the third from New York. The three were close friends in the Army and each died from cancer within a year of each other. None had reached the age of 30. Strange Coincidence AshkJ said that Berry told him he was "extremely interest ed" in the "strange coincidence" of the three deaths. Ashley's office said the two youths from Toledo were Pfc. Dale B. Mock and Larry H. Fitz. Ashley's office did not know the name of the New Yorker. Last week Ashley wrote De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son suggesting that a thorough study be made of the health of the former servicemen who were exposed to the effects of nuclear testing. Believes Study Needed Ashley said today he still be lieves the study is needed. Ashley also wrote' to Army' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Senator Bill Knowland (he is the Republican leader in the U.S. senate) says in Washington this morning he will give the open skies disarmament Dlan a helping hand IF CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL SAFE GUARDS ARE INCLUDED IN WHATEVER ARGEEMENT IS REACHED. These safeguards, he added MUST include prior search of any Soviet inspection plans to make certain that the Russians aren't preparing a sneak nu clear attack on us. The Senator knows his classics A anil riP nhtriniiclv 1 nrnnp wnn virgu who said in his Aeneid 2,000 years ago: "I fear the Greeks, even when they come bearing gifts. Some 500 vears later. Kiirini- des put the same thought into tnese words: "Put not thy faith in anv Greek." The reference, of course, is to triP Placcir ctmlaffam am. ployed by the Greeks at the siege of ancient Troy. They built a fabulous-lookins hnrsp pushed it up before the walls ot the long-besieged city and then took to their ships and went away. The Troians. resardinsf it as a gift by enemies who had given up the game, pulled it inside their walls. It was hollow, and was filled with Greek soldiers who came out during the night, opened the city's gates and let in "their countrvmen who came back in their ships in the dark ness and took the city, burned it to the ground and put its in habitants to the sword. fne of the first objectives of of war, from the time when wars were first fought, has been to hit your enemy when he isn't looking. If you can do that, you have a splendid chance to WIN. If the Russians could kid us into thinking that they are beat ing their swords into plow shares, and thus could lull us into relaxing our vigilance, they might be able to hit us with AN ATOMIC ATTACK some dark night when we weren't looking AND THAT WOULD BE THE END OF US. Lefs keep our fingers crossed ' and our powder dry. Secretary Wilber M. Brucker protesting the Army's handling of the cases. Ashley said he learned about the cancer deaths of the two Toledo men and the New York er "some time ago." "When I learned that the three youths had participated in the 1952 tests near Las Vegas, Ne vada," Ashley told Brucker, "I directed a routine request to the Army for verification of the various stations where one of the Toledoans had served. Officially Informed "I was officially informed by the Army that the youth, Pfc. Dale B. Mock "was neversta tioned anywhere near Las Ve gas, Nevada'." Ashley said, however, that he subsequently received letters and postcards written by Mock to his wife and family bearing the postmark April 20, 1952, Las Vegas, Nevada. "I also have sworn statements from the boy's relatives and friends," Ashley said, "which describe his account of how he felt as he lay in a slit trench within range of the nuclear explosion." Forests Earn Record $56.5 Million in '56 Portland (IP) The 19 national forests in the Pacific Northwest earned a record-breaking $56, 500,000 in net receipts during the last fiscal year, according to figures from Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone. He said the total was some two million dollars higher than that for the previous year which was also a record breaker. Biggest money-maker in the region was Oregon's Willamette National Forest with receipts to taling nearly ten million dollars, Five other forests in Oregon and three in Washington had re ceipts of more than three mil lion dollars. They were, in Ore gon, the Umpqua with $5,396,' 000; Siuslaw $4,84,000; Mt. Hood $4,190,000; and the De schutes 53,022,000. In Washington they were the Gifford Pinchot Forest with $6,- 705,000 and Mr. Baker $3,770,00 105,000; the Olympic with $4,705,000 and Mt... Baker $3,770,000. uuik oi the revenue came from timber sales. Only one per cent came from livestock, graz ing, power fees and fees from other land uses. The law re quires that national forest funds returned to local government be used for public roads and schools. Hatfield Leaves for Boston Meeting Salem HP! Secretary of State Mark Hatfield left here Tuesday for the annual meeting of the Association of Secretaries of State in Boston. Hatfield will also attend the American Political Science As sociation session in New York as a panelist in a discussion be tween public officials from vari ous states and the federal gov ernment. The secretary also has a se ries of conferences scheduled in Washington, D.C. An earthquake in Assam, In dia, disturbed 1,750,000 square miles. DRAMATIC SAVINGS SUNDAY Watch Sunday's Tribune Eisenhower Ineffective By DONALD J. GONZALES United Press Correipondent Washington HP) The Eisen hower Doctrine is ineffective for dealing with the current pro Communist crisis In Syria. Worry talk and hope in large amounts seem to be about 'all the United States can do in the immediate emergency. Moscow and its Syrian puppets are call ing the grab-for-power tune and probably will continue to do so for some time. When Congress approved the Eisenhower Doctrine last March there was some faint hope it might deflect Syria and Egypt from their policy of cuddling up to Moscow. The idea was that the two anti-Western nations might at least be forced to re turn to a more neutral course in their East-West relations. Trial of Girard May Determine If U.S. Troops Will Stay Abroad By JOHN ZIMMERMAN United Press Correspondent Tokyo, Japan (IP) An Ameri can soldier-diplomat said today the Japanese trial of Specialist 3rd Class William S. Girard may determine whether the United States will continue to station ground forces in foreign coun tries. Col. Alvin M. Owsley, of Dallas, said most Americans be lieve the Supreme Court went too far" when it consented to permit a Japanese court to try Girard for an offense committed while on duty. The 68-year-old Texan, who is an attorney in private life, ques tioned the constitutionality of the "administrative agreements" that enable foreign courts to try U. S. soldiers. Owsley, a former commander of the American Legion, will sit in at the Girard trial at the re quest of the Legion's present chief, W. C. Daniel. In addition to his military ca Regular Television Season Seen As Lump of Medium-Tedium by Ewajd By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York AlP) The regular 1957-58 TV season seems to be shaping up as a lump of medium-tedium. It'll be up to the one-shots" to shoot some juice into the schedule. At NBC-TV, those one - shots used to be called "spectaculars," a word coined by President Pat Weaver. Weaver has since de parted and so has the word. NBC-TV now calls them "spe cials." Over at CBS-TV, they're offi cially called "special shows." Unofficially, however, everyone at CBS calls them spectaculars. You figure it. ABC-TV has no problem at all. It doesn t call them any thing. That's because it doesn't have any. That is, unless you stretch a point and count two spectacular special one - hour shows that Frank Sinatra will do in addition to bis regular half-hour series in ABC-TV. Something For Everyone Like smorgasbord, the NBC CBS spectacular - specials will contain something for every body this season. The specs that'll catch the most eyes should be NBC-TV's "Annie Get Your Gun" Nov. 27 with Mary Martin and CBS-TV's "Aladdin" (no date) with a book by S. J. Perelman and a score by Cole Porter. CBS-TV's first spec will be "Crescendo," Sept. 29, a 90-min-ute extravaganza that will offer everything but Asiatic flu. Lined up so far are: Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Ma halia Jackson, Dinah Washing ton, Eddy Arnold and the Turk Murphy outfit. CBS-TV also has scheduled Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" Oct. 8, and a musi cal version of "Junior Miss" (no date). The network also will pre empt Ed Sullivan on Oct. 13 to offer "The First Edsel Show" with Bing Crosby, Frank Sina tra, Rosemary Clooney and Lou is Armstrong. Along with these, CBS-TV also will beam out five other dramas and one musical (no properties selected yet), five one hour Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz shows and a repeat of the movie, Wizard of Oz. NBC-TV will carry the bulki est schedule. The "Hallmark HaU of Fame" series will offer Maurice Evans as star of Shake speare s "Twemn wignt- eo. 9, and "Dial M for Murder' Doctrine Declared in Syrian Crisis Nothing of the sort has hap pened after five months of Ei senhower Doctrine operations. Egypt is on its most anti-American propaganda binge. In Syria pro-Communist army and intel ligence officers are in command of the Soviet equipped military. This development may well threaten the Syrian government itself. Syria would have been elig ible for American economic and military aid under the Eisen hower Doctrine if it had sought American help. But the Syrians berated the whole idea from the beginning and kept on receiving arms from the Soviet Union. Syrian propaganda denounced the American move to promote stability in the Middle East as a plot to stamp out Arab neu trality and strengthen Israel. reer, Owsley is a former U. S. minister to Romania, Ireland and Denmark. He noted that the manslaught er trial of the young American soldier by a Japanese court made up entirely of judges would deprive him of his constitutional right of trial by jury. He added that a great deal may depend on the verdict. "There are responsible author ities in America who advocate the withdrawal of all U. S. ground troops from foreign coun tries throughout the world," Owsley said. "They are saying that we need only the Air Force and Navy and a token ground force stationed abroad to curb the Communist menace." "The outcome of this so-called Girard case may determine whether U. S. ground forces are removed from this and other countries of the world." Killed Japanese Woman Girard, while on duty as a April 25. Hallmark also seems set on a TV version of "Green Pastures." There's also a chance it may repeat "Cradle Song." Decision Near on Visits fo China Washington HP) The state department was reported near a decision today on whether to permit a limited number of American newsmen to go to Red China. If the decision is affirmative, as expected, the next question will be whether the Communist Chinese will admit .American newsmen. American passports have been marked invalid for travel to Red China since the Reds took over the China mainland seven years ago. A group of American stu dents Is en route to China now despite the state department's strenuous objection. A year ago Red China invited a number of American corre spondents to visit the mainland. The state department however stood by its travel ban. This de cision has been protested dur ing the last year by the press, radio, television, members of Congress, private organizations and others. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his advisers have been quizzing news media to find out how many organizations would like a correspondent to go to Red China for a trial period of six months. The survey is understood to be complete. Juveniles Go About Advertising Wrong Way Tacoma P It always pays to advertise but police said here Tuesday some juveniles were going about it the wrong way. The last two days trunks of several automobiles have been painted with these words: "Get your shoes shined at Trailways." The Better Service Only lady assistant in Ashland Organist and Soloist (No charge) C M. Litwiller Mrs. Litwiller has been our mate for nearly 22 years. This is especially services. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close In its broad outlines the Ei senhower Doctrine was designed to strengthen friendly nations In the Middle East to resist Com munist penetration. Millions of American dollars were doled out to strengthen Middle Eastern military and police units, for communications development, irrigation, flood control, hous ing, education and other proj ects. This feature of the doctrine seems to be having some suc cess. The doctrine, however, was not tailored to counter direct moves inside a Middle Eastern country to set up a Communist or pro-Communist regime. The administration told Congress the aim was to deal with Red aggression when it was launched gainst a peaceful neighbor ex ternal aggression in other words. guard at a U. S. firing range. accidentally killed a Japanese woman who was scavenging scrap brass from the range. An empty cartridge case fired from his grenade launcher as a warn ing struck the woman in the back. Japanese authorities waived jurisdiction today in a generally similar case, involving a U. S. flier whose light plane hit and killed a Japanese woman bicylist. The Mito district attorney's of fice said it is up to U. S. au thorities to determine whether Lt. John L. Gordon, of Erie, Pa., was guilty of negligence. A 5th Air Force spokesman would say only that "the case is being reviewed." Gordon was taking off when his plane suddenly lost altitude, either because he retracted the flaps too soon or because they were defective. The tail wheel dragged along the ground for several feet, hitting the cicycle and killing the Japanese woman. NBC-TV has "Pinocchio" Oct. 13, set with Mickey Rooney and Walter Slezak and "The Pied Piper of Hamlin" with Van John son and Kay Starr. Shirley Temple will make her debut as hostess and sometime star of 16 fairy tales that will open on Jan. 12. NBC-TV has two anniversary musicals on the boards Stand ard Oil, Oct. 13, will celebrate its' 75th and General Motors, Nov. 17, its 50th. Texaco is back ing a special one-shot tribute to Ed Wynn Sept. 19. NBC-TV has five opera dates in the offing including a two part "Die Meistersinger" in the spring. It's also blueprinting the Emmy and Oscar awards, three musicals from Las Vegas, con versations with such elder wise men as Picasso and Stravinsky and six specials each by Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis. All in all, a pretty appetizing selection and one that should help spice the leaden fare of the regular season. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worthwhile purpose on your FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay In monthly Install ments. You may choose the terms most suitable to you up to 24. months. Loam may be paid In ad vance or in full at any time. Crater Finance CORPORATION 135 Pine St. - Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking constant and competent help 3 , , , , v& if j . -i vii ' ff L Mrs, Litwiller appreciated for ladies' and children "It is better to know us and not needus, than to need us and not know us."
