Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 30, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGOIT) "Xv7oiw tn Southern Orel on Bam xn Miu inmme Publuned Daily Except Saturday br MZOFORD PRINTING CO 17-23 North Til St Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AU-EN JR Mangin Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHZR Socl.tv Editor PALE gRICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aj aecond class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 189 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance- Per Copy 10c DalJ and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Aahland Central Point Eagle Point Jackaonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent nd on motor routes Daily and Sunday Ona year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terma Cash In Advance OfflHal Paper of tha City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Press F ull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANV INC Offices In New York Chicago de trolt. San Francisco. Loa Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL tOITOIIAt ASSOCU'ljCN trmiwiia.'.H.-i.ni NEWS PA PI PUBLISHES: 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 August 30, 1347 (Saturday) Folks planning Labor day pic nic trips need not get too opti mistic, says the weather bureau. Showers are predicted for the holiday. The Mail Tribune will not publish Monday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The buck wheat crop is reported larger than last year. -Hope is high among pancake devotees, some of it will show up later in the buckwheat pancakes." 20 YEARS AGO August 30. 1937 (Monday) Crews are mopping up a Rogue River national forest fire which kept 102 men busy over the week end in a remote area on Halifax creek about 20 miles east of Prospect. M-M Department store opens today for business at its new location at 220-222 East Main st. Stock hasbeen moved from the previous location at Sixtht. and Central ave. 30 YEARS AGO August 30, 1927 (Tuesday) School superintendent's office announces it expects enrollment in Medford schools to be up 8 to 10 per cent above last year. Winter bluegrass is sown by plane on the Hoover farm near this city. Herb Grey, advertising manager of the Mail Tribune, sowed the seed from a plane pi loted by Art Starbuck. 40 YEARS AGO A well-known Medford pool hall proprietor is arrested on the Pacific highway with 14 cases of bootleg whiskey in his car, the most important bootleg ging arrest of the summer. From Local and Personal col umn: "A large number of peo ple have been in attendance each evening at the religious meeting being conducted by Ro zella Douglass at the large tent on Tenth and Ivy sts. Interest is growing and those who hear the gospel as preached by this lady will wish to near it again." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior; seven or elsbt Is excellent; five or six Is good 1. Are the Philippine Islands subject to earthquakes? 2. What is a shohet? 3. Bible: In the New Testa ment, "and the twain shall be of one" what? 4. The Aleutian Islands are a part of the Philippines, Japan, Alaska, or Hawaii? Necrophobia is the exagger ated fear of what? 6. When a visitors says that his native land has a salubrious climate, he desires to convey that its climate is humid, health ful, or extremely cold? 7. Was John Barrymore mar ried, one, two, three, four, or five times? 8. During which war were Thrift Stamps sold? 9. Is the second vowel in "ven omous" pronounced as o, e, or 1? 10. New York, Oct., 1900: "Tell me pretty maiden are there any more at home like you?" L. Stuart. From which famous "Sextet as this first line? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. The of ficially licensed slaughterer of animals for use as food in ac cordance with Jewish laws. 3. "Flesh." 4. Alaska. 5. Of death or horror of dead bodies. 6. That it is healthful. 7. Four times. 8. During World War I. 9. "e." 13j Tloradora." "" T MAIL TRIBUNE Through We were pleased to read an item the other day which declared that sales have dropped sharply in recent weeks. This magazine, as practically everyone knows by now, is the sewer-oriented publication which makes its living by pandering to the public appetite for sordidness, sensationalism Some of its employees now on trial for criminal libel in California. Whether the trial, with its revelations of the shady methods used to dig up dirt, has any relationship to the drop m its newsstand sales or not we don t know. ... TTHE bribing, keyhole-peeping ways in which the salacious exposes were obtained are enough to turn any decent person s Some newspapers have "played up" the rather sensational developments at the trial. Others have completely ignored the publication in a family journal. Others including the Mail Tribune have taken the "middle way" and published sufficient amounts from the wire service stories to inform the public of the course of the trial, which is of some importance because of the implications involved, entirely aside from the allegations made against some of the prominent members of the movie colony. r FOR there are serious implications in the case. , Many papers are declaring that such filth-rags as "Confidential" and "Whisper" should never exist (with which we agree), and that they should be banned by law (with which we do not agree). They argue that no good mitting such junk to be published; that they are detri mental to morals and destructive of deceny. But to ban them by law questionable constitutionality, for one thing, and also raises the question of how an illegal publication is to be defined; and who is to decide. It would be a dan gerous entering wedge against the freedom of the press to publish", and therefore against the right of the people to know. ; America in the past has many other similar types of without any lasting harm, and there is no reason to believe that the present ones constitute any "clear and present danger" to the stability of the Republic. No, we feel strongly that the way to handle them is to force them into responsibility by actions such as the trial now under way. THE two magazines are civil libel suits totaling millions of dollars, it ana when these come to court (one or more of them have been settled out of court) , those who were damaged will have their chance to show just in what ways they were actually damaged. Punitive judgments of the size being sought might be enough to finish them. On the other hand, existing laws against obscenity and gratuitous libel are fairly rigorous, and the cur rent case, in which the state of California is seeking criminal action against the magazine, 13 the way to compel compliance not to set up some board of censors who in an access of zeal might make any read ing not suitable for 12-year-olds, impossible to obtain. lAKE no mistake about it we think this type of slush magazine is a blot on the fair face of America. But the way to get rid of them is not to limit the right to write and print freely a right guaranteed in the constitution to all men; but to hold them (and all men) responsible for what they write and print. The way to do this is in the time-tested and proven way of democracy through the courts. It takes longer, this way, and (like other demo cratic processes) is "inefficient." But any other way is risking the totalitarian method of telling everyone just what they can and can't do. That way, freedom dies. E.A. Flu " If you haepen to come down with influenza .this j fall or winter, it won't make much difference to you whether it s the old-fashioned kind, or the new Asiatic variety you'll feel about equally miserable. So far the new species, which originated some where in Asia and has afflicted probably millions of people by now, has not proven to be as serious as the type which swept the world in 1918. But it can still raise hob, both with the victim's feeling of well-being, and with the complicated and intricate relationships of our specialized society. ASA MATTER of fact, while doctors fear that " some people chiefly the very young and rela tively old will die from it or its complications, they believe the chief effects of a widespread epidemic this winter would be on those services which depend on a relatively few, highly-trained people. If, as seems possible, as much as 10 or 20 per cent of the population is bed-ridden with flu at one time, communications, transportation and other services could be seriously crippled. That's why it has been suggested that key workers in such enterprises be given priorities in receiving the new vaccine. P"ROM the standpoint of the individual patient, aside from a rather greater-than-usual chance of getting flu this winter, the Asiatic variety presents no undue problems. Symptoms are virtually the same as in other types of influenza, and so are the things to do if and when you become ill. A call to your doctor is a "must," to avoid compli cations; bed-rest as long as you have a temperature and staying at home until a full day of normal tem perature has passed, are the tiling to do. E.A. Friday, August 30. 1957 The Courts of ' Confidential magazine and sex. and suppliers of filth are stomach. whole thing as not fit for purpose is served by per would be a procedure of survived the brief life of undesirable publications defendants in a number of AW, WU'RB NOT FAIR! I SHOWED yOU HOW TO 9lkSmf?8lS ! ' Shopping Centers and Parking Are Discussed By RODGER W. BABSON Babspn Park, Mass. Merchants ask me as to the future of shop ping centers. My answer is that each must be judged on its own possibili ties according to 1 o c a t i o n, s u rroundings, and "back bone." They also ask wheth er we are fac- i n g either Borer w u.b.ua World War III or disarmament. " The first requirements is that each one must have a strong backbone or core in the form of a large successful, and" well- known department store or supf ermarket. The , second require ment is that each shopping cen ter should be able to support itself on the suburban develop ment surrounding it. The third requirement is that it must be well financed. . Certainly the well-established downtown stores of cities must wake up. These new shopping centers are started and operated by active young men. Too many of the leading stores in adjoining cities are coasting on the past work and policies of a father or grandfather. These older "Main Street" stores are also now benefiting from valuable locations selected years ago. But good locations, are not perm anent. Every city is slowly grow ing in some one direction. The most valuable downtown "four corners" is gradually moving. Even good will is- temporary The founder of the business could always be found at his store, but his children and grandchildren have too often "gone out to lunch" or are at some cocktail party. City and Town Governments Some shopping centers are profitable because of the jealous ies, stupidities, and shortsight edness of the nearby local city governments. . Different council men selfishly favor different sections. As a result, nothing is done until the shopping center draws business away from all sections. As all merchants are depend ent upon the production of the consumers of their community, so every consumer is dependent upon these , merchants. These merchants are the life blood of all. If the stores are profitable, every citizen should be prosper ous. If there are many vacant stores, then the entire commun ity, will suffer. I hope that no newspaper editor will say: "But this does not apply to us. We are too small." ' Let me reply that my comments are more im portant to the small communities because they can now avoid the trouble from which the larger cities are suffering, plus possible fallout threats. Parking, The Great Problem The automobiles may be rob bing your city of money by send ing away so much money col lected for cars and gasoline. These automobiles demand park ing privileges. If parking space is not provided, they can block traffic, handicap productive in dustry, and choke every other business. Small cities and towns have not yet suffered from this economic blight; but it is on its way. Every community will some day surely suffer from lack of parking space unless a cour ageous and farsighted local gov ernment now grapples with the' problem. Until the parking problem is solved, merchants should be given some relief from taxation. Merchants are the veins through which the blood of the city flows from producer to consumer. When merchants are not pros perous, the community suffers from "high blood pressure." In stead of reducing taxes on vac ant stores, the taxes thereon should be increased until the owner gets them rented. Every merchant should buy the build ing which he successfully occu pies. Capitalizing The Evenings ' The most practical way for communities to lick shopping S-io a centers is to capitalize the eve nings and encourage stores to keep open longer. Every live merchant should keep his store fully lighted throughout the evening. Next to good newspaper advertising, bright lights are the best "fertilizer"' for merchants to use. ; .' Some readers believe that old fashioned two-and-three-story of fice buildings may be demolish ed and our business streets may consist only of modern, one-story buildings without a basement. I don't believe this. I believe that the second and third stories will be developed into apartments for ambitious clerks who work in the stores below or nearby. These clerks will be responsible for,, their respective stores for the evening, perhaps up to mid night. In Europe many success ful bankers and merchants them selves live over their stores and are available at any time, day or night. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Straw in ' the political winds: For the first time in a quarter of a century,, Wisconsin sends a Democrat to the U.S. senate (to fill the vacant seat of ' the late Senator McCarthy.) ' His victory is decisive. As this is written, he is getting better than 60 per cent of the vote cast which, by the way; was rather light. " ' REPUBLICAN leaders are bad ly jolted. President Eisen hower admits he is "disappoint ed." GOP National Chairman Al corn says "our f arty will have to unite if it hopes to win in 1958 and 1960." Democratic National Chair man Butler hails the Wisconsin victory as "a repudiation of the Eis e n h o w e r administration's farm, labor and money policies." Y did it happen? I wouldn't know. But I'll risk a guess. IN A period of GREAT pros perity (perhaps the greatest since the world began) there is uneasiness. Incomes are rising BUT SO ARE PRICES. What if increases in income are SNOW ED UNDER by price increases? Where wiU we be then? This fear is particularly acute in the minds of people who are looking forward to RETIRE MENT on. a fixed income of some sort. If prices go on rising, how will they live on an income that DOESN'T rise? That is a hunting fear. And the number of people anticipat ing retirement on a fixed in come (say a pension) is growing steadily. THEN there is the national debt. It is huge. . And In this period of great pros perity, when we ought to be paying off our debt, we ARENIT paying it off. It continues ' to bump the ceiling. Instead of pay ing off our debt, we GO ON SPENDING. The accumulated experience of thousands of years tells peo ple such a course is apt to- be disastrous. Maybe they don't reason it out. But they feel it in their bones. ; ' It is an uneasy feeling. LET'S be brutally candid. The second Eisenhower ad ministration has done nothing to allay these uneasy fears. In stead of economizing and paying off debt it embarked on a new career of spending that threat ens to push the national debt to new summits. J think people have lost none of their affection for Ike, but they feel he is surrounded by ad visers who are pushing him in the wrong direction. These ad visers are a part of the ADMIN ISTRATION. SO When the people of Wis consin went to the polls yester day their uneasiness was re flected in their voting. Russia's Disarmament Signals New Period of By DONALD J. GONZALES United Press Corespondent Washington OP) Russia's gruff turn-down of Western dis armament proposals has the storm signals flying again in Washington. This could well mark a new period of tension in East-West relations. Government experts who are paid to keep an eagle-eye watch on Soviet affairs were uneasy about Moscow maneuverings even before the Russians said no on disarmament. A mass of Soviet statements and actions already had started to fall into place. Enough so, in fact, that the disarmament turn -. down wasn't much of a surprise. Soft to Hard Purely and simply, the un mistakable tone of Soviet words and deeds in East-West affairs has been switched from soft to hard. Evidence pointing toward a harder Soviet line in foreign affairs is impressive. - The Russians are boasting about new hydrogen tests and historic tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles said to be capable of striking any place on earth. They are 'stepping up Red penetration of Syria and are sending naval units into the Mediterranean. They have tor pedoed the London disarmament talks after making no new pro posals since June 14. They have taken a tough unyielding line during recent negotiations with West Germany. Reds Press Charges Soviet propagandists are step ping up their charges that the West wants war a theme that had diminished. Since the June- July shakeup in the Kremlin, the Russians seem to have' lost interest In cultural and technical exchanges. All this and more suggests that . the Russians have some more tough moves up. their sleeves. Many possible answers to the Soviet moves are under study. ' The Kremlin's words and ac tions aimed at the outside world may be a smokescreen thrown up to hide - internal problems. Nikita Khrushchev didn't boot many of his old Communist bud dies out of power without bruis ing some high-ranking official's feelings. The 'Soviets are busy with industrial and agricultural prob lems at home. They may be following the tougher . line to show the West that the Krem lin shake-up hasn't left tham with their guard down. There could be other reasons. The U.N. General Assembly is opening in New York next month and West Germans go to the polls on Sept. 15. The Russian Plans At the United Nations, Rus sians will have their hands full staving off an American attack Smokey the Bear Signs Pledge Washington (IP! Never a dull moment at the agriculture department: Smokey the bear came out Thursday in favor of safe and sane hunting. ' Agriculture - department offi cials held a special ceremony to boost the Izaak Walton league's campaign for a safe and sane hunting code. Smokey symbol of the for est service was the first fellow to take the pledge. The big bear smiled at news men before the ceremony and mumbled something to one of his handlers. "That's really not Smokey the bear," someone explained. "That's just a forest service em ployee dressed up as Smokey." . Smokey smiled again and flopped his paw on an ink pad. Then he pressed his paw on a safe - and - sane hunting pledge card. His handlers called on hunt ers everywhere also to sign the pledge: to prevent forest fires; to foster firearm safety; to re spect property rights; to con serve wildlife. Smokey nodded in agreement. The real Smokey never put in an appearance. He spent the day at his cage in the Washing ton zoo. Officials said he is too unre liable for paw-pledging cere monies. 2 31 MUTTON CHOPS 39 lb. On Russia's blonriv Intprvonlinn during the Hungarian revolt last faU. The Russians are sure to beat the drums for their "stop H-bomb tests" campaign and to charge, the West anew with war claims. .... In Germany, they may be sowing pessimism in an effort to show there is no hope of an East - West accommodation as long as pro-Western Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stays in power. At any rate, the foreseeable Thurmond Feels Tine1 After Long Filibuster; Gets Gallery Plaudits By WARREN DUFFEE United Press Correspondent Washington (W Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) stood on the floor of the Senate and stared at his fellow senators. He had been talking for near ly 24 hours in a futile one-man filibuster against the compro mise civil rights bill. "I expect to vote against this bill," he said. The gallery laughed. But Thurmond didn't. He was stand ing alone against overwhelming odds and he was fighting grim ly to the end. The greying senator, a state judge before becoming South Carolina governor, began his Lebratory Tests Only Sure Way of Diagnosing Flu Washington (IB The only way to make a positive diagno sis of Asian fie is by laboratory tests of secretions from the pa tient's nose or throat. Even to the practiced eye of a physician, symptoms of Asian flu are like thos of ordinary flu chills, fever, sore throat, head ache, general aches and pains. Public Health officials said 135 laboratories in the United States are equipped tq perform the necessary tests to diagnose Asian flu. The Health service has supplied all of these labora tories with reagents which can be used to detect the presence of the new flu virus iri a nose or throat washing. Physicians Alerted . Physicians all over the nation have been alerted to rush speci mens of the first cases to the nearest laboratory as soon as the presence of an Asian flu out break is suspected. Once it has been confirmed by laboratory tests that Asian flu is sweeping through a given community, doctors and health officials proceed on the assump tion that anyone who comes down with the characteristic cymptoms probably has Asian flu. Laboratory . diagnosis of each and every suspected case, in an area where an epidemic is al ready known to exist, would be pointless since treatment of Asian flue is exactly the same as treatment of ordinary flu. It consists of putting the patient to bed at once and keeping him there until 24 hours after his temperature is normal. A bland diet, plenty of liquids, and drugs like aspirin to relieve aches and reduce fever, round out the treatment of uncomplicated cases. " ir,lPRI!lTED PEIJCILS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL I Doz. in Gift Box .... .......... 98 I Doz in Plastic Pencil Case $1.39 I Doz. in Jumbo Pencil Case . . . . . $1.39 ORDER NOW!! Ample Stock Bui Printing Takes t Little Bit of Time EAST SIXTH ST. . 1 SMOKED Ham-Hocks BEEF HEART or TONGUE 1 IC Turndown Tension J future does not seem bright.' However, the Russians acting and talking a conflict is always possible. Chances of miscalcula tion increase as tensions in crease. . . But the general assessment here is that the situation does not mean the Russians are build ing up to a fight. Chances are they are playing for time. When the Kremlin gets its homefront problems tidied up a bit, maybe it will be better for the West for awhile. marathon att?ck on the civil rights bill at 8:45 p.m. (e.d.t.) Wednesday. The 1948 states rights presi dential candidate finished' 24 hours and 18 minutes later ai 9:12 p.m. (e.d.t.) Thursday, bet tering Sen. Wayne Morse's old filibuster record by 1-hour and 52-minutes. At times during the long hours he stood proud and erect, his voice ringing clear and loud. At others he sagged heavily on the lectern of his back row desk as his hoarse voice dimish ed to an inaudible whisper. At the end he appeared groggy with exhaustion. Galleries Applaud The galleries, which began filling Thursday evening" in anticipation of the finish, ap plauded twice once when he charged it would be "cruel and inhuman" to pass the bill with out an absolute jury trial guar antee and against when he said the measure was aimed against the South. ' Thurmond's pretty red-haired wife, a former college beauty queen, gave her husband moral support from the gallery throughout the long talkathon. Thurmond, who exercises regularly and takes great pride in his physical fitness, said afterwards he felt "fine." . Robert Allen Goes on Second Honeymoon Warington, England (TO Robert Allen honeymooned for the second time today. Ths time as a bridegroom. . The last time he was the bride. Allen was brought up as a girl and married a coal dealer in 1938.. The marriage was an nulled soon afterward. He changed his nr.me from Joyce to Robert in 1944 when he produced medical evidence to prove he was listed as a girl at birth by mistake and reared that way. Allen's bride is the former Doreen Mortmore, a nurse he met while working as a radiologist.-They were married Thurs day by the Rev. B. H. Seckett, whose wife said he was "stunned" when he learned of Allen's back ground after the ceremony. Dr. Virgil II. Mohr Announces The Removal of His Dental Offices From the Fluhrer Bldg, to 924 E. Main , MEDFORD Phone SP 2-2414 ft wares, aaa! SLICED BACON it ib. Ib.