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f o o FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Augui 22. 1957 UNI Iveryon tn Southern Orecon Readi The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday bjk MEDFORD PRINTING CO r?-28 North Fir St Phone 5-S141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALX LATHAM Buuness Manafa ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond cUm matter at Medioxd Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 The Mountain Moves to Mohammed? If thp Riants and Dodeers move to San Francisco and L.A. respectively, as now seems likely, there is one thin? for sure, dyed-in-the-wool iaseball fans nere aDOuts win rejoice iiugnuiy. For over 50 years the only way aforesaid fans could see a Big League game "in person" was to. take a trip" of from two to three thousand miles and back again. 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Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL fDITOIIAt ASSOCff'ie NEWSPAPEl PUIHSHf tt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. i 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1947 (Friday) "It's fun to be alive, take It easy and you'll arrive," was se lected as winning slogan in the Medford Safety council contest. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "For sale Two milk cows, one extra fine, one extra sorry." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1937 (Sunday) Commercial section of the Northwest Light and Power as sociation will hold its annual spring convention in Medford next March. Twenty -five trained forest fira-fighters are drafted from Wimer CCC camp Friday to help fight Glendale fire. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1927 (Monday) Icel Edwards, Kiwanis candi date for jubilee queen, leaps far Into the lead since Saturday with 94.700 votes. First frog iound in Cter Lake causes arguments. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1917 (Wedneiday) City council considers selling rnst to Drevent fleecing of people by wood dealers and ranchers. Walter and Henry Schumann Heink, sons of Mme. Schumann Heink prima donna, enlist in U. S. Navy. Until recently were residents here. William E. Smith harvests 65 bushels of wheat an acre at Ross Lane ranch. Sn thpv have had to be content with the news papers, radio and once-a-week "T.V.", which for either a real Dodger or uiam ianauc was ama a poor substitute for being present. DUT now if present plans do materialize, it will take - nnv a fpw hours corrmarativelv (depending upon the medium of transportation) for any baseball en thusiast in Southern Oregon or JNortnern oauionua, to see not only one Big League game, but many of them, during each and every baseball season. Another thing is also lairiy certain, rernaps uic nf nf f if p-bnvs who have to attend their grand mothers funeral on a sunny afternoon will not greatly increase, but the number of busy businessmen wno will find business trips to S.F. and L.A. necessary from April to October, surely WILLI k.w.k. How Can the S.P. Know? Every now and then we receive a note from a r,,rf,'Mn trio "FHendlv Southern Pacific" who never signs his name. Nor does he give an address but the post mark is always "Medford" and the paper and printing are similar if not identical. It is reasonable to assume the writer does not ex pect his blast to be published, but sends it largely for purposes of information and irritation. He usually succeeds in uie laiuei, ui a 10 uouaiV the case, the "information" is incorrect. FOR example, the last missive received contains a clipping enumerating the number of passenger trains that have been abandoned during the last five years throughout the country, and claiming the is merely following the example of most first class railroads, in cutting off the losses sustained in passen ger operation on its Siskiyou line. The conclusion is: "Why curse the SP when it is only doing what practically all railroads are doing, and anyway when it did run passenger trains through here no one would ride on them anyway? . WELL it just happens that "practically all rail rnnds" nr "all first-class railroads" are not doing 1 Solly, i havent sebu a cap like THAT SlNCe I WAS A LITTL5 KID; Matter of Fact v Stewart Alsop Wilson, On Eve of Departure, Still Center of Controversy By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press Correspondent Washington HP) Charles E. Wilson is winding up his color ful career as Defense Secretary the way be began it at the cen ter of a storm over military cuts. With only about six weeks to go, he is giving the Pentagon a final shakedown, squeezing out two billion dollars and thousands of men to fit the nation's armed Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann this. Ao Trauinnclv .minted out in this column the Sante Fe railroad, one of the most prosperous and best managed railroads in the country, tne union Stewait Alsop rTVIL RIGHTS: THE las of Illinois, wno owes bdoui I i r nsA i.. i . oriT tTiril. AT.ITY bU per cem, oi nis yiuiaiiij Washineton Behind t h e to tne wego voie. out me ;fti,,r rnmnlpx. often fascin- is clear enougn. xi uie xiepuuut- ating drama of the struggle over ans can attract something ap- . . , :.u. AnnV.inrt Violf iVa Mourn wntp in there is one the Northern states, the Repub simple politi- lican party will then be the cal reality normal majority pariy in mose the Negro vote states, in the kev in dustrial states TIE AD the role ol Dig states in the North. in which the Negroes can That is, of be expected to poll 5 per cent course, in hard or more of the total vote not political terms, only New York, Pennsylvania what the fieht and Illinois, but such states as has been aU Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, about. California. It then becomes clear To understand just how cru- what is at stake in the civil t.hp Ntsro vote is. consider rights struggle nothing less three such key states New than the future balance of po York, Pennsylvania and Illin- litical power in the nation, nis Tt is almost inconceivable What is not clear is just how that any Presidential candidate the Negro voters themselves could lose those three states and have reacted to tne complex, win an election. And in all shifting struggle over civil three states, the Negro vote can rights. Have the Democrats been be absolutely decisive. badly hurt in their eyes, and Arrnrrline to the estimate of tne xtepuwicans greauy neipeu: Louis Harris, a reliable politi- or is tne result a siana-oiir in r-al statistician - analyst, the an attempt to sense the answers Negro vote in these three states to these questions, tbis report ranges from about 6 per cent er shortly plans an expedition ... .... , i tTnclfim Vi rt umil4'c efreatper oi tne total in Pennsylvania, iu i" im, about 7.5 per cent in Illinois, Negro city, to talk about the with New York in the middle civU rights issue with the Negro with about 6.5 per cent. Trans- voters tnemseives, THE REBELLION iwe can say that It is aooui IN CONGRESS equal to -last year s total nin- The cuts made by the House tary and economic aid to boutn in the appropriations for foreign That doeg not mean of coursej aid are big. But their true signi- that there wiU now be no ficance cannot money for South Korea and For be measured mosa. But it does mean that in in terms of order to subsidize them at some money. For thing like the level to which what the their civil and military officials House has have become accustomed, money done is not will have to be squeezed out of merely to in- our contributions to the NATO sist in spend- alliance, to Iran, Pakistan, and ing less money. South Vietnam, . and to others It has reject- among the 50-odd nations. i ,,.4i1 TV.;. ,.r;n qemrte Iho Prpsi mental conception of the func- dent, seriously delay the mod tion of foreign aid in our cur- ernization of their military rent fnrpien riolicv. and it has forces. It will compel them to voted its lack of confidence in reduce the size and effective tvio PrpsinVnt's iudement of ness of their forces. It will what is necessary for national "make impossible" important security. Unless the action o capital assistance tnrougn looiia the House is clearly reversed, for development, in suuswrn-c the world will be on notice that what the House had said to this the policy of maintaining our argument is that it is probably alliances by subsidizing them no not a vital interest of the United longer has reliable public sup- States that our military allies p0rt should have modernized forces j.i.... cv,mir that are larger than they them- that there is a preponderant selves can afford to pay for- I What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct it laperlor; aeven or eisht Is axcoUent: Uva or six is (ood. 1. 'D. A." is an abbreviation for which prosecuting officer? 2. Name the five boroughs of New York City. 3. Bible: Is "Cleanliness is next to godliness" in the Bible? 4. Is squirrel fur more, less or just as durable as muskrat? 5. The Post Office recom mends what abbreviation for Pennsylvania? 6. A major-domo is a drum major, a master of ceremonies or the steward of a household? 7. What Is caliology? 8. An 18-kat ring contains what percentage of gold? 9. Is it proper to capitalize the names of college degrees when thev are written out. 10. "Said the pot to the kettle 'Get away blackface." Cer vantes. "The raven said to the rook 'Stand away black-coat. T. Fuller. Do both proverbs have the same meaning? 1. DisBict Atloriy. 2. Man hattan. Brooklyn. Queens. Bronx and Richmond. 3. No. 4. Less durable. 5. Pa. 6.Steward (or butler). 7. The study of buds a. Seventv-five per cent. 9 No. from a sermon by John Wesley. 10. Yes. Cbufe for Freeway in Portland Is Approved Portland im A route for bringing the new Highway 99 freeway into Portland and tying U to Harbor drive was approved here Wednesday by the city :i I The proved project, includ-J ing overpasses uu covers that section of the free way from Burlingame to South west Montgomery street. Por tions of Hood and Macadam ave nues will become one-way routes for local traffic. Burlington, Baltimore and Ohio Great Northern, Northern Paciiic all exceiiem rauiudua- bash", "Southern", the "Coast - Line", the "Milwau kee " "Denver Rio Grande" and many others, are NOT abandoning their passenger service, moreover many of them increasing it, ana nuw uujmg CAtCi. and up-to-date equipment for new air dome and "coach-dome" accommodations. THERE is no denial mat ran passenger civics m the USA as a whole since World' War II has been curtailed. But REDUCING passenger service where conditions justify it is ONE thing, abandoning it en tirely and leaving a growing and prosperous area as large and weli-popuiatea as me ouu ume o""". -r Eugene to Dunsmuir, with no passenger rail service WHATEVER, is quite another. WE HAVE stated our belief before and do so again, that this is the largest and most rapidly deyelop ine section in the country today, that has no rail pas oil via the SP or anv other railroad. So if residents wisn 10 travel mey mc iv.u u u 0,v hnoinr hitch-hike. This in spite of the fact that by the terms of its original franchise the SP nledeed itself morally to supply me peopie ui ouu ern Oregon with CONTINUOUS service. MOW ns to the second point, so often made by the IN g p an(i its spokesmen, that there is no justi fication for giving the 250,000 people in this area passenger cars for they will reiuse 10 rme m um xi, An TTTRY know? i,lU n - - , Thev have never provided passenger cars, that any self respecting numan Deing wouiu w aim : V rv cVio nnnlrl ripln it. As the Sante Fe, Burlington and otner a-i u have demonstrated if first class and comfortable ac commodations of a MUDifiKW type am pioviuu o.noVvio nnVps thp nponle in the areas served DU take advantage of them and in larger and larger numbers. . . " Ti,a travplino- miblic in California, Colorado, Ne braska, Illinois and Iowa can't after all, be very differ- ent from tne traveling puuut ui J 1Z. Porter asked President Russell of the SP tn nut on iust a ONE car Diesel service between Dunsfnuir and Eugene as an experiment for one : year only it was haughtily declined witn tne same um o "wheeze" "we can't afford it." HOW does he know, until he TRIES it? Both the Boston & Maine and the Canadian Pacific run such cars on a fast daylight schedule be tween Boston and Montreal. How can THEY afford to do it? We believe we know the answer to that one. The operation may not be highly profitable, but they have what the "Friendly Southern Pacific' hasn't, and never has had a keen sense of their obli gations as privileged public utilities to see that the public is SERVEDJ R.W.R. lated into actual votes for 1960, rthe next Presidential year, this works out to be about 450,000 Negro votes in New York, 350, 000 in, Illinois and 385,000 in Pennsylvania. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS yPrredTce fogn Vid VuC to Uerest of the United States they . x. -j Tei ,.,ir are not willing to accept the this way: "I would support any niucii unmc !rrJirr j a. After aU. how, "modern" witnarawaT o? endiiu would be aernized" force j: x Unt T am imwil I- in OUULll aw L " tng toVppW plans to perpe- What is the tuate the present program." - - . Mr. weal, wno rerieciea me r.nmmunist nowers? I 1 J MAAM I "& ' majority opinion, r NnhnHv pan answer these aues- quite correctly, that this year s assurance cer- proposals were designed to es- &e President himself tablisn loreign am as a conuim- - sharnlv dif- 5S."?1S rS ferent estimates of the money mill Id 1 y am woo w - j j tC. 4. twc needed. tne UGym uncut wiwiin.. toZ oi a baling operation TN VIEW of the state of mind ,v,ior. it was hoDed. would not A in Congress and in the coun- need to be examined and voted try, the Mesiaent woum oe vei upon by Congress each year. badly advised, u, m uieu tt u T,nna manner oi last wema l lie nuuae wuiuu iiovc uuut , . c iu:. -t i kan9cA oc Drommu press okuhbiu:, Mr Neal said, it wants to wind caUed a special session of Con up and not to perpetuate the gress The cnces re nw basic policy. . , ?-at and would be mvi ting Oil C V Cll anvA - 4rinn ha VtQB 9ll09r.V CI if. measure ui OW consider what has been Three years ago the post office department began keeping care- N' vote. In 1948 Harry S. Truman ful saf records on twQ groups got at least 80 per cent of the rf ou of 3500 Negro vote accoraing to reiia- painted red) white and blue and Die raiiiliaira, .ii, oenn na ntH n VP rtrab. . The proposition could ' , , wanted What the postal people wanted to know was whether the bril liantly painted ones had fewer accidents than the drably paint- more reasonably be defended that Truman owed his amazing tri umph in that year to Sen. Hu . . TT 1 - Dert numpnrey oi . tVl!1T wpr harder to see. who forced a strong civil rights ,... . u J?L?Z The drablV painted (presumably V-.., ,;j at harder to see) group naa aiv man wuu an aimwu tv t,,; Tho gro vote. ... . ., tril(.ks had In 1952, Adlai Stevenson new """" . .. the bulk of the Negro vote , on ly J2S ! .ccjd ente ,25 than Dolling better than three out of four votes among Negroes. But m a,,tnmohile industrv has by 1956, partly in response to X been working along some- tne supreme ouri uiu, whaj. the same iines but has there was a sharp drop-off in be(m more interested m what it the Democratic pluralities. In veflPCtorized" Daint that New York state, for example f mt that will make the Democratic Negro vote feU a' caeasily visible at night off to about 63 Per cent The wWle stm retaining its beauty KepuDiicanb um Vuu an(J durabUity in the sunlight. umu ui e,,ni manufacturers are 1 S a rough size of the cut by the House, monolithic Democratic considering making this "re- fered. For a special session, caUed without his having first recovered his leadership of the nation, would be askmg for a show-down oh whether his for eien policy is still the national policy. If he were rebuffed by Congress, the policy of our aUi ances would be gravely injured. Roseburg m Three lumber . - . . . . thi. mills in the Dillard area were th the president wUl closed by "roving pickets Wed- . . exDerience but later reached an forces into a tighter budget. There is a distinction between the economy program Wilson is waging now and the one he car ried out in 1953. He frankly concedes today that he is put ting budgetary considerations first but says the nation will retain adequate military strength to prevent or win any kind of war. In 1953, he denied that the dollar sign was controlling and insisted he was providing more defense, more efficiently, for the money spent. Then the adminis tration had a slogan for it: "Mors bang for a buck." Life Not Dull A man of 67, who would "rather look forward than back-' ward," the often impish Detroit ' industrialist confided to news men the other day. He said that . life hasn't been dull in his 4V4 years of running the world's most powerful armed forces. That makes it unanimous, lor his presence has certainly made life in the capital livelier. And it apparently will continue that way to the end of his regime, as critics accused him of conduct ing one-man disarmament cam paign and defenders insist he is : actually strengthening America's hand in the disarmament talks. Wilson's own uninhibited re marks have caused most of his trouble in Washington. But there are many who agree with his wife, Jessie Ann, that he mainly spoke "simple truths in a place where politics is more generaUy the native tongue." Quiet obscurity in retirement' is not his likely fate. When he leaves Washington, Wilson will ostensibly lead a triple life of Michigan cattle-breeder, Louis iana plantation owner and ilor ida farmer. Mixed Emotions" He says he will leave with "mixed emotions" about a job that has been challenging with-, out question." He has held the defense post three times as long as any of his four predecessors and almost as long as all 01 tnem combined. He probably made the great est material sacrifice of any American who ever came to hign government service. Under Sen-- ate pressure, he parted witn $4, 700,000 in stock in General Motors Corp., of which he had been president. The gain in mar ket value of that .stock since . early 1953, the capital gains tax he paid on the sale, the divi dends it would have paid, and the $600,000 annual G.M. salary he lost all these add up to an apparent sacrifice of something like four million dollars to serve' in the $25,000-a-year cabinet post. Mill Workers Reach Wage Agreement nesday agreement with Local 2949, Lumber and Sawmill Workers learn from his bitter experience during this session of Congress. But he will have to do more than read speeches and state- . n . i mail xcau for a pay increase 01 tvz ceiiu. . ... ,..,:, f v, an hour pending industry-wide ld plead at tfle last moment negotiations in October. The Roseburg Lumber com pany, one of the largest in Doug- with the leaders of Congress He must learn to believe in his own recommendations to almost vote. tit,;,on" Tiaint nntinnal eauiP- Now suppose that, as a result I" ' of the Administration's decision a the public Ukes the bill, the Republicans succeed in laea attracting half, or even some- NYTHING that adds to high what less than half, of the Ne- A,. commendable. gro vote in the key Northern Lnd this brilliant paint notion states. For the devastating ei- . d one fect on the political position of j hav(J aa idea though, that tne uemocraxs, coiiamCl ririv.rs eenerallv were in less couple of specific examples. . hurrv. to get somewhere rand mavbe loaf around for an TN 1954, Averell Harriman was hour tg, getting there) it would - elected Governor of New beip m0re than anything eise, YorK Dy less roniD.uuu VUL" I ttttTt,. ot rirh Sen. Irving Ives. Accord- L vmix . x tt tToT-r-i. nnirlr without tOO DIUCD man polled a whopping 79 per work, and many weird ways of cent of the Negro vote, wegro accomplishing 11. i J. minnliad TToi-rim QT1 I OVBTYlfllPT voters uiua auntu v e . . with his margin of victory sev- A 24-year-old Englishman got eral times over. Two years la- into ail a wnue w". -rrv-ter, the Democrats had dropped his time in the pokey ."g1"11 some 90,000 Negro votes to the out a way to make a quick bucK Republicans or about six when he got out. wnen 11 11 u -,,kr nt votes Ives rolpaspH he eot a job and talKeo tiiiica uic iiuiiiui.. . . j . . needed to defeat Harriman. his employer into advancing him r- A-i,- nnsvtViAi- r1n;p rare I SSR. m&c ouu a 11- - , the victory of Sen. Josepn He used tne money o-1-11, conncvivania over the nnsit on a S187 motorcycle. Then iaixv ul a -" " if , J Republican incumbent, Sen. he used the motorcycle as a de- James Duff, in 1956. Again, p0sit on a car. He swapped we r-i-,rr ict smipaked in. wim smaller car lor a more i""- a plurality of less than 18,000 sive one. His final step was to votes. Clark despite the Supreme swap the more expensive car r,rt oarripH the Neero vote Vir a rhearier one and pocket the by a huge 76 per cent margin, $70 difference for spending which was worth about 150,000 m0ney which got him back votes to him. Suppose the e- mt0 jail for selling mongageu gro vote had dropped off as property, .kmiir in Ppnnsvlvania as it I '"V.' " riWE moral: did in minoib, wucic 11. ---- ... j; a IS nor rent in 1952 - 11 ne nau uscu u',cu and in to as per icent in ioov. iucu cuci6J, 7 , , ij Duff would be in the Senate, itiative HONESTLY he wouM by a comfortable majority, and have been much better ort m larK WOUIU uc n. -a -" na11v , . .aiiM ho pit. 1 Thatc me way u ""- ed, like that of Sen. Paul Doug- works, glas county,' was still idled with c0ngress which means, to rec a walkout however, with 1,200 ommend to Congress only what men out. An official said com- ne himself understands and be pany and union representatives iieves The collapse of his would meet this week with a ieadership in this Congress federal concilator, in an effort stems fr0m his failure to take to end the strike. sufficient trouble to understand The three mills reaching "in- and then to defend his own terim agreements" yesterday great measures: the budget, civil were Round Prairie Lumber rights, and foreign aid. company, Mt. Bette Lumber com- No doubt the country is big pany and Hult Lumber company. and strong, and we shall some Before the agreement was reach- how muddle through. But there ed, the three plants were closed is no use trying to pretend that by what observers called "rov- the indecision and the vacilla ing pickets" who picketed the tion, the ambiguities and the plants without warning. moral generalities, are an in Observers said some of them spiring spectacle for the world uj honn idanTifisrl as comine to watch. uau wt- I . - Q from the states of California and (Copyright 1957, Washington. I New York Herald Tribune Inc.) HERE'S TIP! 1(5 HAPPY HARRY "Borrow The . . . American Way" LOANS $25 to $1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose Payment! To Fit Your Budget! American Finance Corp. Phono SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford "TO THE PUBLIC WE PLEDGE: vigilant support of pub lic health laws; proper legal regulations for the members of our profession; devotion to high moral and service standards; conduct befitting good citizens; honesty in all offerings of service and merchandise, and in all business transactions " From the Code of Ethics of the National Funeral Directori' Association DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass , FUNERAL DIRECTORS
