Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 28, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDfORDyTRIBUNB "Zveryon In Soutbern Oregon Reads TBa Mali Tntjune Publishes Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RCHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EAitL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-23 Sunday Only One rear $4-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra) Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Cold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and oo motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Ierma Lash m Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Haper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC 'Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EOlTOIIAs lSSOCD-A NEWS PA PER PUBIISHEKS 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. 28. 1947 (Thursday) Sales and cigarette taxes are to be voted on Tuesday, Sept. 6 From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Valley pumpkins, indispensible to the Hallowe'en festivities, are now gaining rotund obesity." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1937 (Sunday) The forty-fifth annual reunion of Southern Oregon soldiers' and sailors' association will be held next Friday at the armory. Seven-mule pack train takes food to forest fire fighters on Halifax creek. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1927 (Sunday) Installation of the $12,000 Reuter pipe organ, purchased by the local Presbyterian church, is scheduled. A 70-year-old man tries to take out marriage license in pre paration for a bridal search. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1917 (Tuesday) . Local man fights arrest for not dimming auto headlights. From the Local and personal column: "C" company remains in camp today putting in time with bayonet drill. What's Ycur I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight ts excellent; five or six Is good 1. Does the Coast Guard oper ate airplanes as part of its stan dard equipment? 2. The fall of Constantinople occurred in 1453, 1492, 1516, or 1620? ' " 3. Bible: Name the twin broth er of Esau. . 4. Ibn Saud is king of which country? 5. The New York Stock Ex change was founded under a tree: Was it a beech, oak, ash, or buttonwood tree? 6. Reinhard Heydrich, assasi nated in Prague in 1942, held what position in the Nazi organ ization? 7. How many children did George Washington have? : 8. Did Neville Chamberlain resign as British Prime Minister in 1938, 1939 or 1940? 9. Is "hopeing" the present or past participal of "hope?" 10. "What I ha' seen since ocean steam began leaves me na doot for the machine: but what about man?" Did G. S. Lee, Burns, or Kipling write this? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. 1453. 3. Jacob. 4. Saudi Arabia. 5. But tonwood tree. 6. He was chief of the Gestapo. 7. None, (al though his wife gave birth to four by a previous marriage, two of whom died in infancy). 8. 1940 (May 10). 9. No. "Hoping" is. 10. Kipling. Charge Dismissed in Massachusetts Court ; Natick, Mass. HP An 18-year-old speeding charge against Carl Altmais, 58, was dismissed by Judge H. Edward Snow for lack of prosecution. Altman learngd of the viola tion when applying for a Massa chusetts driving license. He told the court he had been residing in Florida for 18 years and knew nothing of the infraction. Judge Snow tossed the case out when police reported that the com plaining officer had retired from the force 15 years ago. MAIL TRIBUNE Driver Improvement Course Sometime next week, Miss Noreen Kelly, Med ford's municipal judge, for the first time will assign some traffic offender to attend the city's new "driver improvement school." This is a departure for this city, and it is a means of traffic improvement not much used in this part of the country. But elsewhere, in parts of California and the east, it has proven successful in its objectives of improving the attitudes of drivers, and of helping them to im prove their skill. IT IS also, hoped that substantial numbers of those 4 taking the class will be professional and expert instruction m the art of driv ing, and knowledge of the factors good drivers should know, are important," and take advantage of the course sort of as a "refresher." It would also be an excellent idea for those plan ning to obtain a driver s license to attend the course. In the nature of things, however, it must be assumed'that the bulk of the students will be traffic offenders whom the judge persuades to take the classes. T7ACH session of the course will have two meetings, and there will be two instructor will be Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner, but he will call on other traffic experts and officials from time to time. The course will be fairly flexible, and can cover as many different phases desirable. . . The principal objective will be to instill and encourage an "attitude" acknowledges that driving on crowded streets is a privilege, that each driver has a high responsibility for the life and property of his neighbors, and that by more skilled and careful driv ing, our accident rate can be cut down.' lM'UCH of the success of the experimental course A"1will, of course, depend on the manner in. which assignments to take it are made, and much will depend on the skill, tact and attitude of the instructor. But, too, as in all situations, public acceptance and support can make the program a significant suc cess; opposition could defeat its purpose and make it worthless. We will watch its progress with interest and optimism. E.A." We 'd We read with an almost unprecedented lack of enthusiasm about the "stunt man" over at Klamath Falls who proposes to go over the Klamath Falls on the Link river in a barrel. Our first reaction was a noise which no one has ever learned how to spell. The second was the more temperate reflection that people have been making blankety-blank fools of themselves for several thousands of years, and there's no real reason to expect any change. THE thing that really cooled us off, though, was to learn that this silly tomfoolery was actually being sponsored by the Klamath County Chamber of Com merce. Frank Tucker, a normally level-headed and per sonable young man, the manager of the KF chamber, told the newspaper there that "We are embarking upon a campaign to make Klamath Falls the Niagara of the Northwest," and added that he expects honey mooners from all parts of the nation one day will consider Klamath Falls the "traditional destination of their wedding trip." He foresees considerable tour ist traffic resulting from the chamber's publicity program. If we were a member of the Klamath chamber, and saw our good dues money going for such hog wash, we'd get out so fast it'd make their head swim. E.A. Auto Of all major crimes, automobile theft is probably the most prevalent. Some of it, of course, is done with the ancient profit-motive of crime in mind. But even more than this, the stolen automobile offers fast transportation to a criminal- And the prevalence of cars, and their unique advantages, sometimes - make auto theft a "challenge" to young people, whose objective is simply a "joy ride." Despite this, all of which is well-known, many peo ple do not take adequate precautions against theft when leaving their car. " THE wojjst offender in this regard is, of course, the uuvci iiu leaves ma t key in the ignition. This is to have it stolen, and by stolen cars were so left. Even the lack of keys the knowledgeable thief so locked. By switching wires with mechanical "know-how" can start a car without one. But locking the car windows and doors will discourage all but the most determined thief who has plently of time to work In cases where it is necessafy to leave the car for long periods unattended, some authorities recommend removing a small but important part of the mechan ism such as the distributor head which will pre vent anyone from starting Wednesday, August 28. 1957 "volunteers," who feel that sessions a month. Principal of traffic safety as seems toward driving one that a high-powered vehicle Resign Thefts - ai uiiiutrvcu aim wiui tiic practically an "invitation" far the largest number of will not seriously hamper long as the doors are not under the hood, someone at the job. or driving it. E.A. J0- ''M ' l :V f Did ion know these time In the Day's News By FRANK The department of agriculture announces in Washington that farmers received the highest prices in three years for their marketings last month. The new price figures extended a steady climb that got under way last February. Farm commodity prices in mid-July reached 247 Great Propaganda Effort by Russia Seen by Observers By K. C. THALER United Press Correspondent London (IB Diplomatic sources cited evidence" today that Moscow has embarked on its greatest propoganda war, in a bold attempt to bluff its way through a host of internal and external troubles. The Soviet strategy which has begun to unfold in recent polit ical, military and economic moves was said to have been in itiated personally by Commu nist party boss Nikita Khrush chev. Khrushchev, smuggling for supreme power in the face of considerable internal difficulties, apparently has decided to launch a "steamroller" strategy to bluff his opponents at home and abroad into submission. New Tactics This was the 'conclusion today of an authoritative diplomatic assessment of Russia's latest pol icy and military moves, based on the results of an on-the-pot study of the Kremlin's new tac tics. It was feared that the initial success of Moscow's latest prop aganda war might encourage its strategists to expand it still fur ther, in order to exploit the in itiative which the Kremlin has wrested at present from the West. The assessment suggested that Russia has played its cards well so far by recklessly exploiting international grievances, nation alist emotionalism and the lack of experience of leaders of some of the underdeveloped countries. Guiding Principle The guiding principle of the., campaign appeared to be: "Prom ise the sky and meanwhile reap th earth," the informants said. The new propaganda strategy was thus ready to promise any thing under the sun, making Rus sia appear as the selfless friend of the oppressed, willing to share its own crust of bread. This was held to be behind the sweeping Soviet aid offers which Moscow has extended in the past fortnight on a scale which Soviet affairs .experts consider as in compatible with Russian re sources. The Soviet propaganda attack was regarded as an attack on all fronts at the same time. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Milwaukee, Wis. William Proxmire, first Democrat to be elected U.S. senator from Wisconsince since 1932: "After 25 long lean years, the Democratic party of Wisconsin has finally hit the comeback trail." Washington Rep. Frank L. Chelf (D.-Ky.) on House passage of a bill to help the FBI protect its secret files: "If we err, let's err on the side of America." Los Anaeles Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa, on being told the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices committee brought new charges against him based on Senate Rackets committee disclo sures: . - "I can't imagine what new pared to say anything about them. know anything about?" Nashville, Tenn. Segregationist John Kasper. on integration of public schools in the South: "We're going to talk to the 'niggers' and tell mem it tney wanl to avoid the shotgun, dynamite and rope they had better get out of the white schools." Washington Rep. Emanuel Cellar (D.-N.Y.) on the charge that airplanes are becoming flying saloons: - "The minute you prohibit drinking on the planes, you win en courage the bringing of bottles on the plane. This was the experi ence in the prohibition era, but there are some who never' will learn." round wings screw right tw JENKINS per cent of the 1910-1914 aver age. But The department notes PRICES PAID BY FARMERS HAVE RISEN EVEN MORE THAN THE PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS. AT this point the commerce department gets into the picture. It says this has been a banner year for Americans. Personal income during 1956, it adds, was up 7 per cent over 1955. That figures up to a rec ord 354 billion dollars in per sonal income throughout the na tion. Personal income has CON TINUED TO RISE so far dur ing 1957. The commerce department's figures show that Delaware led all the states in total personal income gains BEFORE TAXES with a 14 per cent increase. Arizona with a 12 per cent gain and Florida with a gain of 11 per cent were the next two states in line. The only state in the Union that failed to show a gain in personal ' income in 1956 was Mississippi. SO FAR, so good. But Let's turn now to the depart ment of labor, which keeps the figures on living costs. It has been telling us for months that the cost of living' is higher than ever before and STILL RISING. CJT. MATHEW tells us: J "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" We might paraphrase his ques tion in these modern days and ask: What difference does it make if you have more money in your pocket than ever before if everything you buy costs more than ever before? rpHAT is the nub of the far mer's situation. It is the nub of the whole business of inflation. rriHE census bureau gets into -1- the more-and-bigger act to day with the statement that by 1960 the next Presidential elec tion year there will be three million more women of voting age than men. It adds that by then 55V4 mil lion women will be qualified to cast ballots, as compared to only 52 V4 million men. THE 64 billion dollar question: WTT.T. THEV TIT? ABLE THAN MEN TO RECOG NIZE THE BUNCOMBE THAT IS FED TO US BY THE POLI TICIANS? HASN'T HEARD SONS Washington (IPI Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said Tuesday he still hasn't heard the new song, "I Made A Fool of Myself Over John Fos ter Dulles." The State Depart ment received a transcription of the song Monday. charges they claim. Im not pre How can I deny what I don't Wisconsin For Senate By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington IIP) Wisconsin's senatorial election returns have hit the Republicans where it hurts. Thv counted on winning the Wisconsin Sen ate seat to keep them on the t h r e s hold of control of the Senate. They would take over if and when an act of God enabled a R e p u b 1 i can Raymond Lahx governor to ap point a senator to replace a Dem ocrat who died. Instead, the victory of Demo crat William Proxmire over for mer GOP Gov. Walter J. Kohler gave Senate Democrats welcome On The Side (Distributed by King The New York City taxicab rates, regulated by law, are the lowest in the United States. They are "Twenty-five cents for the first fifth mile, and 5 cents for each fifth thereafter. In the old time cab the rate for a mile and a half was 75 cents. In the modern taxicab it comes to only 50 cents. And the cost of living today in New York City is four times higher than it was a half a century ago. No wonder the New York taxi skippers say they must have tips to acquire a living wage. Plump Infants How much did you weigh at birth? How about your first off spring? Mrs. Magdalena Lake of Johannesburg, South Africa, mothered 12 children whose total weight at birth was 159 pounds. The smallest at birth weighed 10V& pounds. The larg est at birth weighed 18 pounds four ounces. Three weighed lz'i pounds each at birth. All the rest were over"13 pounds when born. All are living. When Mrs. Lake had her first child she weighed 115 pounds. When she gave birth to her last child she weighed 275 pounds. Charming Place The other night we dined at one of those country inns which our feminine friends usually de scribe as "charming." It was charming insofar as the interior decorating was concerned. The view from the dining room was magnificent. Where we made our mistake was not in asking for a view of the kitchen. We sub sequently suffered from attacks of food poisoning. I have found that this happens more frequent ly in inns and restaurants de scribed as "c hi a r m i n g" or "quaint" than in other dining places. So when ,a restaurateur raves about the charm or quaint- ness of hii place agree with him but politely ask "Now may see your kitchen?" Sidelights Am asked the maiden name of Cyd Charisse. It was Tula Ellice Finklea. Charisse is the name of her first husband . According to latest report 95 per cent of New Yorkers are born in hospitals. I was born in New York. But at home. So my moth er knew for certain she got the right baby. ; Passing By Vincent Lopez. Dean of dance band maestros. Has been an out standing attraction on Broadway for nearly 40 years. And a hit on the airwaves, radio and tele vision, for 25 years. He began his entertainment career as the piano player for the great vaude ville act of Pat Rooney and Marion Bent. As a bandmaster he was a major factor in pop ularizing the rumba in this coun try. He began it with playing that lively tune titled "The Pea nut Vendor" written by Marion Sunshine, L. Wolfe Gilbert and Moises Simons. Record As previously noted, a player at Prince Rainier's Monte Carlo gambling joint is reported to have made 32 consecutive passes at the craps table. That is the world's record. Incidentally, be fore you play craps again at Monte Carlo, Las Vegas or Ha vana, read John Scarne's highly informative book titled "Craps." A study of that will decrease your gambling losses. Wedding Party What dancing are the fathers of the bride and groom expected to do at a wedding party? What dance does the bridegroom have with his mother-in-law- That is what a couple c Baltimoreans are arguing about. They ask for decision. The bride's father asks the bridegroom's mother for the first dance. The bridegroom's Frances9 Furs Formerly Frances Dallaira - 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Telephone SP 2-6526 Democratic Victory Hurts Republicans insurance that they would retain control of the Senate until after the 1958 elections. And they rate as favorites to stay in command after 1958. ' Kohler Backed Ike . The Republicans can blame their defeat on Wisconsin's strange breed of politics. Other wise, they must hunt for alibis based on a party split, stay-at-home voters, throat-cutting by conservative Republicans and continuing GOP trouble in the farm belt. Tuesday's special election in Wisconsin was held to fill the vacant seat of the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, who was no admirer of President Eisen hower. Kohler is an Eisenhower Re publican, a former three-term governor, who won the sena torial nomination by polling less By e. v. Durimg Features Syndicate. Inc.) father asks the bride s mother for the first dance. The bride groom's father also asks the bride for the second dance. The bride's father, if he hasn't pulled up lame by this time, asks the bride for the third dance. The bridegroom asks his motherin law for the second dance. 'Is that the way it went at your wed ding? If so, what kind of a dancer is your mother-in-law? AF Captain Awaits Court - Martial Agana, Guam ' (IPI An Air Force captain from Colorado awaited a court-martial today on a charge of breaking into a women's barracks and stealing seven pairs of panties and a swim suit. The officer is Capt. Norman K. Day, 40, Grand Junction, Colo., commander of the 43rd Bomb Wing at Andersen Air Force Base here. He was held under custody of the wing com mander. Col. Gilbert F. Friedericks, base commander, has ordered his subordinates "to throw the book" at Day for the alleged theft. Miss Jacqueline 1'ritz, a secre tary whose room was ransacked, said Day took two pairs of pan ties on a clothesline outside the oarracKs, then entered her room and took three more pairs and a swim suit from a locker., Another woman occupant of the barracks said she discovered Day while he was trying to break into another room. Air Force police arrested him. The barracks houses eight Air Force women employees. The Air Force said the incident oc curred Saturday night. . Day is the father of two chil dren. Congress Says Son Of Couple Is Legal Washington (IPI Congress declared Monday that four-year- old Michael D. Ovens is the legal son of Verne and Elizabeth Owens of Milwaukee, Wis. The child's adoptive father died in 1954 before the state adoption proceedings were final. and federal officials ruled that the child could not be considered Ovens' son for purposes of social security benefits. The bill, passed by the Senate Monday, goes to the president. OLCC Names New Enforcement Chief Portland (IPI A recently re tired Navy commander, 55-year-old Allan D. Curtis, Portland, has been appointed to the top en forcement position with the Ore gon Liquor Control Commission, according to Chairman Hugh R. Kirkpatrick. Joseph Kance, OLCC adminis trator, had said before that he favored hiring an enforcement chief, someone outside the pres ent list of OLCC employees.- . Curtis will take over early- next month. AN ARTY CREW , New York (IPI It was never like this- on the original May flower. Sixty art students climbed all over the Mayflower II Tuesday, using it as a model for their sketches. CONFIDENCE For over 22 have endeavored to merit your confidence, and your continued approval of our efforts is .most C M. Lirwiller- gratifying! interests 100 local, and with charges that are exception ally moderate, we confidently assume the next decade of service to and for the Rogue River valley. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close than a majority of the primary vote against a field of conserva tive or anti-administration Re publicans. Long before the primary, it was easy to find conservative Re publicans in Wisconsin who would argue that Kohler would be a weak candidate. Now they can say, "We told you so." A Different Story It has been less than 10 months since Eisenhower carried Wisconsin by a landslide major ity of more, than 60 per cent of the vote. At the same time. Sen. Alexander Wiley, an Eisenhower Republican, was reelected by polling 58 per cent. Now, 14 months before the 1958 congressional elections. Proxmire has polled close to 60 per cent of a much lighter vote and put a Democrat in a Wiscon sin Senate seat for the first time since 1932. While the Republicans may find it impossible to write "off the Wisconsin results as mean ingless, the Democrats may have trouble determining just why they won. Party managers had viewed the election without much optimism as the first test of the issue they think will over shadow all others in 1958. That issue is tight money and the ris ing cost of living. But they did not think that the Proxmire campaign had thoroughly- exploited the issue. Maybe it didn't need to be ex ploited. The Democrats also want to keep the farm issue alive against the Eisenhower administration and they may be doing just that. It was in Wisconsin four years ago that they elected a Democrat to a House seat from a farm dis trict where they had made an in significant showing for years. ' Without the Eisenhower name on the ballot Tuesday, Proxmire outpolled Kohler in most of the rural districts of Wisconsin. . Tacoma Woman Jumps From Medical Building Tacoma (IP) Hazel S. Carey, about 70, Monday leaped to her death from a doctor's office on the' 10th floor of the Medical Arts building here. She entered an inner office of Dr. James A. Benson on the pre text of using the telephone,, crawled through a partly open window and fell six stories to the roof of a fourth floor exten sion, officers said. San Rafael, Calif. (UV The Marin County Board of Super visors turned down a nudist or ganization's request to bathe in the raw on a secluded stretch of Marin Beach. It would "create a parking problem for spectators as well as a patrolling problem for the sheriff," Supervisor Wil liam D. Fusselman said. i Hi-Lite s 1 ...IN THE History Vharmacg by ED HALL In 1240, the German Emperor Frederick II issued an edict which ) was to create pharmacy ai an In- ; dependent branch of public wet- ; fare service. !. The three essentials were 1 Separation of the pharma- : ceutical from the medical profes- ' sion. 2 Official supervision of phar- ' maceutical prescription. 3 CompuUory use of a pre- f scribed formula. The first Pharmacopoeia pub- lished were not all uniform in : strength causing much danger to ' the public when powerful prepara- tions were ordered in one country and dispensed in another. ".!. It's unusual to be able to attend championship sports event with out buying an admission ticket, . but its possible this week at the Rogue Valley Country club. There is no charge for spectators at the big Southern Oregon Golf touma- merit which starts today and runs through Monday, Sept. 2. And, remember, for RELIABLE PRESCRIPTIONS it's CENTRAL REXALL DRUG at the corner of Main and Central. adv. ' years . we Mrs. Lirwiller With all our ' 1 t "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."