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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, August 23, 1957 UNS "Xveryon In Southern Oregon Read Th Mail THhttn" Published Dally Except SatuMay b North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor BZRB GREY AdvurtuinB Uin.Mf GERALD LATHAM Business Managei cm nuj.fl Jit. Managing bauor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph EdltOC RICHARD JEWETT Snorta Editor OUVE STARCHZB Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clam matter at Mediard Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mdll In ArfntnM. D tfu Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Bia months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mas 4.23 o una ay only One year 14.20 B7 Carrier In Arivanr MMtfiml Ashland Central Point Eagle Point "tuouvuit. Cioid Hill Phoenix. Ehady Cove Rotrue Elver. Talent and On nutld, rmitmm- gaily and Sunday One year lg00 J?ii? na Sunday One month 1 50 -?na "ealera loo per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of Jackson Count United Pn Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU UHIULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-BOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offleee in New York Chicago, de- Fror. Cisco. Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL iOITOIIAt ASSOCM'ieN sWliillMUfU'llsB NEWSPAPEt fUtllSHEtS 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. 23. 1947 (Sunday) Horse owners and lovers from Southern Oregon gather at the fairgrounds yesterday for the Ladies' Mounted troop show. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Signs of all such as woodwagons and cowboy shirts have shown up the past week." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 23. 1937 (Monday) Permit organization of a four state association was completed in Grants Pass Saturday when the Northwest Gladiolus associ ation elected officers. Twenty acres of cucumbers are being harvested on the E. H Taylor farm on the Big Apple- gate. Is Off Street Parking a Dead Duck? if one is a bit confused about the situation with regard to the city's connection with off-street parking if any one can be excused. Let's do a bit of reviewing. About a year ago, the city administration drew up an ambitious "capital improvement" program, which it felt was a minimum necessity if the city were to keep up with the improvements required by its growth, actual and potential. This included four phases a 10-year program for construction of an arterial (or "through") street sys tem; a storm sewer improvement system, a sanitary sewer improvement system, and a program for the creation of qty-owned off-street parking. . as THE first three of these passed by substantial mar gins when presented to the voters in the November election. They will ultimately call for an expenditure of some $2,150,000. Work has started. The off-street parking proposal was defeated by a vote of 4,867 to 4,518 a margin of 349 votes out of 9,385. ' - Why 349 more people voted against the plan than for it has been much debated since then. It may have been the magnitude of the program (more than $500, 000 in bond obligations to be paid out of revenues over a penor of years) ; it may have been a fear of in creasing general taxation if revenue were ever insuf ficient to pay for the bonds; it may have been a mis understanding of the fact that it was intended to be a wholly self-liquidating project; it may have been a feeling the city, as a city, had no business in the park ing business; or it may have been a combination. WHATEVER the reasons, it was defeated. f As a result, it left the city without any organized off-street parking plan. And the city administration, fully aware that this is one of the big problems, in all growing cities and not wanting to be left hopelessly behind, began casting around for an alternative. In long discussions between the city council, the city administration, the city budget committee, and a group of interested downtown businessmen, a new plan, far more modest in its objectives and one all in volved felt to be entirely acceptable, was evolved. It called for allocating a total of $50,000 in the 1957-58 budget for off-street parking. This would come from general fund monies. To make up for this new outlay, meter-types and hours were revised to bring in an estimated $15,000 additional, and it was planned to revise the business license fee schedule to raise an additional $35,000. j MAYg OUB OF THE NBMdO&S SUPPBO HIM A TRANQUILLIZING PILL.' 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1927 (Tuesday) Petitions are circulated for appointment of Miss Alice Hoefs as postmaster in Jacksonville. Rodeo is planned to be added to Jackson county products show. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 23. 1917 (Thursday) Company 7 of Medford re mains at Camp Stevens to take over steam-heated quarters. First car of Bartlett pears shipped out of the valley brings $3 in Omaha. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or elent ts excellent; five or six Is iood 1. Name the only U. S. Presi dent ever to have been impeach ed. - 2. Without actually counting would you guess that "t" is the 18, 20th, or 22nd letter in the English alphabet? 3. Bible: Which Old Testi- ment book pictures Jerusalem as a lonely widow sitting by the wayside? 4. In which State is Washing ton and Lee university? 5. Indigo is what color? 6. What are the meaurements of standard-size (letter-size) type writer paper? 7. The Bessemer process is used In the steel industry, radio manufacturing, or baking in dustry? What is the English transla tion of the Latin phrase, "cav eat emptor?" 9. Is it good usage to avoid "pejiods" in capitalized abbrev iations of more than two letters? 10. "Poverty is the reward of honSst fools."' "Richard III," by Shakespeare, C. Cibber or Merideth? Answers: 1. Andrew Johnson (whoso trial resulted in acquit tal). 2. Twentieth. 3. Lamenta tions. 4. Virginia (Lexington). S. Reddish-blue. 6. SVixll. 7. Steel industry. 8. "Let the buyer be ware." 9. Yes (GOP. etc.). 10. C. Cibber. Television Broadcast Industry Has Good Year Washington OP) The tele vision broadcast industry had its most profitable year last year with the three major networks taking in nearly half the reven ues. The Federal Communications commission said Thursday net work revenues last year climbed to 896 million dollars a lusty 20.4 per cent gain over 1955. Broadcast profits before taxes also jumped to a record $189. 600,00026.2 per cent higher than the previous year. THE latter plan had been "in the works" for a long timo Innor ripfnrp nff-strppf nnrldna was rnntpm- plated, for the old business license fee (a flat $20 per business) was inequitable and of questionable legality. During public hearings, however, merchants sub ject to the business license but who would not benefit from off-street parking directly, voiced objections. An attempt was made to meet these objections by creat ing a rate differential between downtown businesses and those in the area outside the downtown area. Even this did not meet unanimous approval. Chief objectors were a barber in the downtown area who felt off-street parking would be of no benefit to him, the operator of a nursing home, the operator ot sev eral parking lots, and a few others. THEY kept harping about the defeat last fall of the ; entirely different and vastly more expensive off street plan, declaring the voters had decided against ANY kind of off-street parking. At any rate, members of the council apparently were convinced, and when it came to voting cm the new business tax, many of them qualified their vote by declaring they voted "yes"' only with the under standing that none of the money raised by the tax would go for off-street parking. Mayor John Snider, in considering whether to ap prove this action, came to the conclusion that the bus iness tax increase sought by those downtown mer chants who would pay the bulk of it with the under standing it would go for parking, would be unduly hurt of the relatively high rates" were collected but not used for purposes which the merchants sought In his veto message, he suggested a downward re vision, which would accomplish the long-range ob jective of revising the tax on a more equitable basis. He also urged the council to continue to cooperate m planning for off-street parking. 1 - i ... . i THE council, after it thought it overy agreed witn Vn'm ard TV11nwpd his recommendation for a "re- lllill y UiiV m vised revision" of the tax schedule So, as it stands now, the council is not committed to any off-street paring plan. However, it will have available $15,000 in. parking meter funds which are avowedly for this purpose, and some $16,000 in in creased income from the business tax revision, and although it has more or less indicated it will not use the latter for this purpose, it would be within its rights to do so. ..... ' : . , So what of off-street parking? Is it a dead ducK.' Tt had better not be. for if the council completely ignores it, it will be breaking faith with the merchants who want it and who stand ready to pay for sub stantial portions of it; with those 4,518 voters who ap proved a vastly more ambitious plan, and with the hundreds of others who approve off-street parking in principle, but did not favor that specific plan. There are a number of possibilities, including or ganization of a "parking district" as enacted by the 19o7 legislature. But to let off-street parking go is to place another strike against the downtown business area, which so vitally affects the prosperity and tax liability of all Medford citizens. E.A. Babson Eyes Inflation Threat During Fall By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. What is really causing the inflation buildup and how can it be ar rested? Among causes suspected are the un checked wage demands of la bor, and the government's earlier mistake in pressing for easy - money policies. The way to check the in flation spiral, Boter W Babson many say, is through credit re striction. Certainly, without the willingness of business and con sumers to assume debt, there could not have been the kind of spending which has led to the expansion and production seen in recent years. Without these tonics neither production nor prices could have risen as they have. Gradual inflation may con tinue to the point where the turnover of money will have finally,' reached its limit. Should too many businesses or consum ers become suddenly pessimistic with regard to conditions, an about-face could occur rather quickly. My personal poll of bus inessmen gives indications of waning confidence. Labor's Share Increasing Both businessmen and . con sumers should understand that unbridled spending cannot help but intensify the inflationary threat. Is it possible that the only solution is tighter direct government controls for all? But even if both the businessman and the consumer should become frightened by the inflationary spiral, I believe the full effects need not be felt for several months to come. Despite the current business sentiment, production in June and July about equaled tile April and May levels. Employment is up, retail sales are ahead of to tals for last year at this time. The factory work week, though slightly longer at latest report, falls short of that for the same period in 1956. The increased number of hours worked pushed weekly earnings in manufactur ing up about 80c in June over May to an average of $82.59, re sulting in a year-to-year gain of more than $3 per week. Con struction activity, which had been lagging earlier in "the year, is picking up. Chemicals, rubber, and utilities are on the uptrend. Gross national product has passed the $430-billion mark. Even with due allowance for higher prices, all of the forego ing suggests continued heavy spending. Important Statistic! Let us not forget certain basic ingredients of our economy. To day, we see about one million new family formations per year, with all the resulting wants and needs. This compares with a fig ure of 500,000 in 1940. The long er life span of our oldsters is adding a large non-producing segment to our population at one end; while the high birth rates following World War II are cre ating another big group of de pendents at the other end. In the middle are the workers, shrunk en abnormally in numbers by the low birth rate of the depressed 1930's. Upon this relatively small worker force falls the burden of production. The solution to the problem lies in a vastly increased rate of output per worker or in a decline of total demand. Stepped-up automation may be the real answer but this change will come slowly. I therefore conclude that labor leaders hold the reins; they must be respon sible for the ultimate results. They, and the politicians who fear them, will surely cause a smash-up unless they stop de manding constant wage in creases. Remaining 1957 Months Bonds are selling lower than for over 20 years. This is not a good sign. Stocks are not hold ing ujfc Many commodities are slipping in price. Investment can t i mcnt artH ror-rtt Anrnintrc show up well so far. I, however. believe that readers will do well to take profits and deposit the money in banks where they can get 3 per cent to 4 per cent awaiting a good break in the stock market. Businessmen should gradually get out of debt and prepare for very severe and unprofitable competition during the remain ing months of 1957. Either as sured peace or another war could start a collapse. I "f eel-in-my-bones" that something unexpect ed may at any time happen. I especially have in mind the fear of either fallout or disarmament. Russia's best defense at the pres ent time is -using the threat of fallout id trying to force disarmament. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of to writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Eisenhower-Truman 5-Yea Feud Shows No Signs of Dimin shing 'By D&NALD J. GONZALES United Press Correspondent Washingtor (IP) President Eisenhower and former Presi dent Truman have spoken out individually to try to save the foreign aid program from deep slashes. jBut the two men still aren't speaking to each other about foreign aid or anything else."- Observers believe that the feud, after more than five years, is intensifying instead of dimin ishing. Many efforts to patch up their differences have failed. Eisenhower made it clear a few days ago that he isn't mak ing any new move to clear up things with his Missouri prede cessor. When he called newsmen into his office to make his for eign aid plea, the President talked about how successful the foreign aid program had been since its start back in 1947. "Greece and Turkey," he re called, "started it." Truman Not Mentioned The President did not men tion that the aid program was initiated by the Truman admin istration, or that the Greek Turkish aid program has long been known as the Truman doc trine. The Eisenhower-Truman split goes back to the days before the 1952 campaign when Eisenhow er decided to take a shot at. be ing, the Republican standard bearer.. This startled .Truman, who once pictured Eisenhower as a possible Democratic candi date. , Truman's memoirs bring back a meeting between the two men at the White Hous in 1948. Tru man asked General Eisenhower whether he might ever run for the presidency. According to Truman, Eisenhower prompUy ly sorrj .hat you have allowed a bunc' of screwball politicians to corr between us." He signed the c ptic note, "From a man who nas always been your frier and who always intended to ' !" ,: le two men have met each o ir only twice in the last five j irs and those meetings were most five years ago. They met ov. 18, 1952, at a White House oriefing session after Eisenhow- produced a copy of one of hi.' r was eiected, and again on In. letters wmcn reaa, ine necef ( anuuratinn rtair ior-j sary and wise subordination .. , the military to civilian pow r will be best sustained when 1 e long professional, soldiers ib stain from seeking high poli xal office." ; - When Things Got Worse , Confidants of both Eisejhow er and Truman believe ' fheir split - really shifted into second gear in August, 1952., This was in - advance of the elections, which Eisenhower won. Truman invited Eisenhower to the White House for a conference... Eisen hower turned down the invita tion. He said he wanted to be "free to analyze. publicly the policies and acts of the present administration whenever it ap pears to me to be proper and in the country's interest." In. a long-hand letter, Truman shot back saying, "I'm extreme- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Owen R. Cheatham, president of the Georgia-Pacific Lumber Corporation, told reporters . at a news conference in Portland the other day that Oregon's tax structures "STINKS." He added: "Oregon's tax structure is so bad that eventually it will have to be changed. "It's the worst in the United States. ' "It definitely is a HANDICAP TO EC6NOMIC GROWTH.!' - Great Opportunity Missed Following is a copy of a letter recently sent to Senator Wayne Morse by - Dana McBarron, wholesale lumber specialist, of Rogue River: "I am amazed and somewhat downcast that the State Depart ment would allow Moscow to take such a march on them on this Youth Festival now going on. v "I read in the papers where the State Department demands that these youngsters do not go to Peking, and I can lust see the headlines in Pravda and the oth er newspapers amongst the satel lite nations stating that our State Department, or the U. S., does not want our youngsters to see the magnificent progress being made in the so called "workers paradise". It , seems to me that Mr. Dulles has not only done a frightful job of bungling, but the whole unimaginative staff of the State "Department, as this Youth Festival could have been turned into a magnificent propa ganda display for the free vorld, rather than against it. "Had they have had the least bit of foresight, which is exer cised by business every day, they would have at least briefed a sizable group of American youth who would answer and re fute the many suestions that this small delegation is being asked over there. And furthermore, it would not have .cost the Ameri can taxpayer one red cent. ."I read that President Eisen hower's Foreign Aid Bill is al most four billion dollars, and frankly, an intelligent group of representative American youth, in my opinion, would be worth at least a billion of this in first hand effect upon the Russian and the Chinese people, where they would be evidence of the concrete hope of America our youth. "It is just another example of the unimaginative approach to this ideological war evidenced by Mr. Dulles' lack of .foresight, which in turn is reflected all the way through his State Depart ment administration." Dana McBarron . Rogue River, Ore. Citation Awarded To the Editor: I believe in the principle "love your friends and brimstone your enemies" and I practice the former to the ex tent of my capabilities and pur- rjphose are rough words. They may turn the hair up on the back of your neck. They may prompt you to say: "Well, if he thinks Oregon's tax structure is so terrible,, why doesn't he take 'his Georgia Lumber Corporation and get the heck out of Oregon?" there they're cutting pine trees for more than 40 years at a ter rific rate, and they now have MORE MERCHANTABLE TIM BER than they had four decades ago when the pine lumber boom began. That is proof of the timber growing capacity of Far South ern Oregon and Far Northern California which are a part of the fabulously valuable timb er belt of the North Pacific Coast. ' - - - ' In his session with the reporters at ' Portland, Mr. Cheatham answered that question. He, said: i "Georgia-Pacific is in Oregon BECAUSE THE TIMBER IS HERE. Georgia-Pacific now owns 250,000 acres of Oregon timberland and WESTERN OREGON IS THE BEST TIM BER GROWING AREA ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH." He might have added that the Klamath Basin, which is partly in Oregon and partly in California, is no slouch when it comes to timber growing. Over Dr. Virgil H.Moli r Announces The Removal of His Dental Offices From the Fluhrer Bldg. to 1 924 E. Main MEDFORD Phan. SP 2-2414 sue the latter as far as the law will allow. The other day the city water department tore up the street, blocking the approach tp my mail-box where your much en joyed paper is delivered daily. I came by the mail box to pick up my paper at the usual time; it was not there! Disappointed and irritated I continued on my way, coming to rest finally, in my easy chair. I turned on TV: Too many singing advertise ments; cigarettes that take you into the sylvan silence of the Cascades! Tooth paste that forms an impenetrable enamel on your teeth! Bread, so flavorable that it makes bologna taste like T bone, by just looking at it! In the meantime the street had been reopened. At about 8 p.m. I heard a knock at the door. Under . my breath (so the missus wouldn't hear) I mumbled: Wonder who that scissorbill is and what HE wants?" I open ed the door. There was the young man with the Mail Trib une! "Thought you'd ' like your paper," he said, so I brought it up as soon, as I could get through." That young man de serves a citation' for thoughtful action beyond the normal realm of duty, which I accord him herewith! ' Franklin Girand , - 1070 Emma st. i Ashland, Ore. Petting -back to tax structures, what Mr. Cheatham was say ing up in Portland the other day amounts substantially tp this: In its operations in Oregon, Georgia-Pacific is for- all practi cal, purposes a CAPTIVE in dustry. It has become a captive because of the depth to which it has sunk its roots in Oregon in the way of timber ownership. It can't pick up its quarter of a million acres ' of timberland and take it somewhere else. It has to stay here aad operate as best it can, regardless of whether the Oregon tax struc ture is favorable or unfavorable. I think we must all agree that a captive industry, chained to land and unable to move, is less desirable than a FREE industry that is here because, it wants to be here and feels that operating conditions, including taxes, are as desirable in Oregon as any where else in the country. A free industry, operating in Oregon because it WANTS to operate in Oregon and feels that its operations here are- on as favorable a basis as they would be anywhere else, will be in the mood to EXPAND as markets for its products expand. It will be in a mood to EXPAND ITS OPERATIONS IN OREGON. A captive industry, chained to a tax structure that it re gards as abominable, will be in clined to do its expanding ELSEWHERE, where the tax climate is more favorable. Basic raw material for the pulp in dustry is EXPORTABLE. Cord wood and chips are already be ing hauled hundreds of miles. We have enough pleasant econ omy (shipping raw materials away for processing elsewhere) in Oregon now. Let's not pro mote MORE of it by an unsound tax structure. ' As things stand now, . it ap pears that only a real national emergency will heal the rift be tween the two. to Tt's high time for Oregon give . intelligent, thoughful study to a, taxation system that will ATTRACT industry and population instead of scaring them away. We can't afford what Mr. Cheatham terms sp bluntly "the worst tax structure in the United States." Editorial Comment WHERE THE MONEY GOES - We aren't always against Sen. Neuberger. We're with him, for example, ' in his - stand against cluttering the nation's highways with billboards. And we're n his side in criticism of Portland for grumbling about necessary defense- installations in that city. We also now find ourselves on his side in the four-way wrangle among the Eisenhower adminis tration, the Defense Department,' Gen. Douglas MacArthur and himself. The general, now retired and chairman of the board of Sperry Rand Co., a big maker of instru ments used by the military as well as civilian customers, has been" hacking away at Ike and Secretary of Defense Wilson. They're spending money fool ishly and wastefully in the mili tary, the five-star hero of the Pacific and Korean wars says. It should be recalled that Eis enhower used to be an aide to MacArthur, that Ike didn't like the haughty old-timer then and that the feeling has been mutual for many decades now. But Neuberger, generally a defender of the President's and. a proponent of strong, global de fenses, pointed out a small set of figures before the senate, with out comment. The figures, taken from Defense Department rec ords, are these: . Gen.. MacArthur, as a retired top-ranker, is 'being paid a pen sion of $1,070.40 a .month, a quarters allowance of $171 ' a month, a subsistence allowance of $47.88 a month,, and an un marked spending allowance of $416 a month. The government also pays for a. furished office for him in New York and sup plies him two "aides," a warrant officer paid $6,298 a year and a master sergeant making $5,220 a year with allowances. Yet the general is not on duty in any way. What use in the in terest of the government - he could put his assistants and his office to is a mystery. But all these benefits are given to any five-star who re tires, whether he hoes his gar den or takes a $100,000-a-year job. We agree with Neuberger's implication, and we even find the agility to agree with the gen eral, too; there is too much waste in- the military. Capital Journal, Salem. 3 Starkville, Miss (IP) Farm ers had a special interest in tour ing an' experimental farm here. 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