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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except 3aturlaj bj MZDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor EXRB GREY Advertising Manager GERAi-D LATHAM Buainesa Manager IRIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN TelegTaph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHZR Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Et Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4.25 Sunday Only One vear Hu By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes'. Daily and Sunday One year SI 8 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1 JO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford ornclal Paper of Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO MP AN"? INC Offices in New York Chicago, de- troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOtlAi ASSOCfAl0N A WHiiinia.'.u.'.i.n.a 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 Sept. 6, 1947 (Sunday) Senator Wayne Morse and Congressman Harris Ellsworth to speak at a dinner meeting of Medford chapter of the Oregon Council of Republican Women. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Britain is still being pinched by the 'dol lar famine'. Several natives re port something is biting therri. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1937 (Monday) Jacksonville High school en tered by thieves sometime in past 10 days. Local driver robbed of ciga rettes, money and car after pick ing up a hitchhiker. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 1927 (Tuesday) Revival conducted in tent across from post office Sunday. Salem expected to send a cara van of 200 autos to the Jubilee of Vision celebration here Sept. 15. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 1917 (Thursday) Oregon spruce used for air plane frames, English and French representatives of the al lied aircraft commission note. General foreman for the state highway commission in Medford enlists 15 workers for Davis camp in the Siskiyous. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Which U.S. President served the shortest length of time? 2. The South Pole was first reached by Capt. James Cook, Roald Amundsen, or Adm. Rich ard E. Byrd? 3. Bible: Did Moses ever plan to march on Canaan from the south. If so, did he do so? 4. What important metal is produced in Netherlands East indies and Malaya? 5. Langston university for Negro students is located in which state? 6. During World War II, did Axis submarines ever operate in the Gulf of Mexico? 7. Do you associate the name Vyacheslav Molotov with Czech oslovakia, Soviet Russia, Ruma nia or Bulgaria? 8. Which city in the United States is the largest railroad center? 9. Is "Manuel" a handbook, or something done, made, or oper ated by hand? 10. From which direction did Scott's "young Lochinvar" come to woo his bride? Answers : 1. William Henry Harrison, who died in office, served only from March 4 to April 4, 1841. 2. Raold Amund sen. 3. Yes. No. 4. Tin. 5. Okla homa. 6. Yes. 7. Soviet Russia. 8. Chicago, 111. 9. No. It is a man's name. 10. West. Medford Man Appears In Municipal Court Richard Victor Mealy, 1605 West Main st., pleaded guilty in municipal court Thursday to charges of selling produce from a vehicle inside the city limits. City Attorney E. A. Bashaw said no further action would be taken in the "test case." The ordinance provides that selling produce from a vehicle is legal when the vehicle is moved once each five minutes a distance of one-half block or more. Mealy was not fined after entering his plea because it was a "test case." MAIL TRIBUNE The Vanishing Bell Bells those clarion-voiced have all but faded away. Bells have been replaced by buzzers and honkers and tooters and clangers and whistlers. Only a few real bells remain. There's a big one mounted outside the main fire station at the corner of Front and Third sts., but it is no longer in use, and serves day when the clear tones things. I7IRE Chief Gordon Barker say3 it was purchased with money out of the pockets of the volunteers of Medford's first two fire companies "way back when." For years it was mounted Hall, but has not been used since about 1929, when a compressed-air whistle 1937, it was moved to its Bells on fire vehicles American La France, one of fire vehicles, still puts Barker, but they're more else. One truck at the west side station has one. Time was when firemen clanged them as a warn ing when returning from a fire, but today the big red trucks modestly obey all "home." pOUNTY School Superintendent Alf Mekvold re- ports that in Rogue River, the school still has a turret and bell, and that it is still in use to summon children to their studies. used at Butte Falls, and that there may be one or two others in schools throughout the county. At Griffin Creek school, the old bell came down a few years ago, but instead of being sold, tossed away or junked, was mounted outside the school as a memento as was the big fire bell. There may be others of which we've never heard. Perhaps a few of the smaller churches still let the clear sound of a bell summon its members to worship. But if so, we don't know where they are. TP IN Salem, the editor of the Statesman (a one- time school teacher), writes nostaligically of bells, too, but points out that quite a few still remain in the Willamette valley on some of the smaller schools, although they are getting scarcer, and their value has gone up among collectors of antiques. In Europe, which clings more stubbornly to tradi tion than do we in our new land, bells remain, prin cipally in the churches, but also elsewhere. We under stand that the famous bell at Lloyds is still rung to signal the sinking of a ship. It is interesting to note how bells have entered into our language in many connotations. They have been the subjects of song and poem and story, of legend and tradition. DELLS have been used and marriage. They have called to study and to worship. They have warned of trains and fire eigines, and of ships and of shoals. They have summoned ranch-hands to dinner and monks to their labors. They have decorated the necks of horses and camels and elephants and yaks. They have amused babies and solaced the aged. It seems sort of too bad rapidly, for, in beauty or in be replaced successfully by ers. E.A. ' Progressivism. Some of the schools week, and the rest most day. We get a special sort of sters trooping: back on the hesitantly entering the strange new world for the first time. There's always something hopeful about the sight. Some few of them will fall grow older, but the majority will grow into useful citizens. And the schools, as much as any force outside the home, will help show them the way. AS IS inevitable, the debate of "traditional" (or vives each year about this time. A debate on the sub ject was staged over in Coos Bay recently, with Med ford's School Superintendent Leonard Mayfield tak ing part. "Progressive" education has, in many instances, gone too far in getting away from the fundamental necessities of education. (As a product of a progres sive high school to whom the mysteries of algebra and square root are still mysteries, we can personally testi fy to that.) But if nothing else, it has succeeded in giving new life, new direction, new imagination to the eternal job of pedagogy. And in most schools these days, the issue is no longer a live one.. "Progressive" techniques have been adopted and adapted to instruction in the funda mentals, and everyone has gained. f)NE educator is quoted in this week's Time maga- zine to the effect that the time has come for a new synthesis, embodying both fundamentalism and the antithesis of progressivism. To a degree, varying from school system to school system, his call comes after the fact. No one will argue that audio-visual aids, as an example of progressive techniques, are not good. Nor, on the other hand, can one claim that readin', writin' and 'rithmetic are being unduly neglected any more. - Progressivism isn t dead. It s just" assimilated. E.A. ' I Friday, September, 6, 1957 criers of the past It s too bad. only as a reminder of the of the bell could mean many on a tower over the old City was substituted. In about present location. are seldom used any more. of the larger manufacturers them on, according to Chief ornamental than anything the traffic rules on the way He also believes one is still to announce birth, 'death to see them vanishing so sentiment, they can never buzzers, honkers or toot Assimilated in the valley opened this of them will reopen Mon thrill watching the young' tirst dav ot school or by the wayside as they the thesis of educational 'SEE? I VOtiT LOOK 1957 Crop Prospects Better, Babson Says By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Miss. Except in a few more or less restricted areas, weather and crop condi tions have im proved mate rially in re cent weeks The outlook now is for total U.S. crop p r o d u c tion close t the relatively high average Roger W Hanson of the last five years. Here are a few highlight: in the over-all picture, as I see them. I look for a 1957 U. S. total wheat crop of around 915,000. 000 bushels down 8 rjer cent from the 1956 outturn and near ly 20 per cent under the 1946 1955 average. This is still a rel atively large crop, since in seven of those years production topped one billion bushels by sizable margins. The current crop comes on the heels of a total U. S. car ryover on July 1 of 905,000,000 bushels practically enough for a whole season's normal require ments. Most of this wheat, how ever, is in government hands and will not glut commercial channels. I do not believe the current crop will prove burden some. Mother Nature has been kind to several of the other grains Outturns of barley, flaxseed, oats, and rye may exceed the 1945-1956 average barley by 48 per cent, flaxseed by 7 per cent, oats by 3 per cent, and rye by 20 per cent. Total supplies of these grains for 1957-1958 will lean toward the easy side. Amer ican housewives should have plenty of new, clean-sweeping brooms this year because the in J : X 3 m i uicaiea crop oi Droomcorn is well above average. However popcorn devotees may have to curb their appetites for this item; planted acreage is 14 per cent peiow average. Corn, Dry Beans and Rice The outlook for the nation's corn crop is relatively good, but the outturn, which is estimated at around 3,066,000,000 bushels, may be about 10 per cent under last year and slightly below av erage. Weather between now and harvest time must, of course, be reckoned with. Sup plies will be easily adequate for the 1957-1958 season, since total corn stocks recently were at an all-time high for the date, at 1,963,000,000 bushels. If the hog corn feed ratio remains as favor able as it is now 16.7 to 1 a lot of corn will be fed this fall and winter. Meanwhile, old-crop corn prices may average some what higher, but I forecast some seasonal weakness in new-crop corn inis laii. . The outlook lor dry bean pro- ucuon is less favorable than a year ago. The crop, which is harvested in the fall, may be around only 16.300.000 bag: down 5 per cent from the 1956 outturn and 2 per cent under the 10-year average. Since the car ryover will be relatively small, total supplies for 1957-1958 should not be excessive. The in dicated U. S. rice cron of 40. 500,000 bags (100 pounds each) is 15 per cent under the 1956 outturn and the smallest crop since 1950. This could mean a fairly tight statistical position sometime next year. Cotton and Soybeans American . cotton farmers in recent years have learned well the art of intensive cultivation. Even on the smallest planted acreage in many years, high ner- acre yields this ear may give them a crop of about 11,900,000 bales. This would be sizable, al though considerably less than indicated , domestic consumption and exports in 1957-1958. This points to another substantial cut in the still big carryover next August 1. Prices may weaken moderately during the heavy marketing season in the weeks ahead, but should recover there after. Despite record-high soybean acreage, the 1957 U. S. crop currently estimated at 428,000,- 000 bushels is 6 per cent below "l I iiillli LIKE MB AT ALL' the 1956 record outturn, but 58 per cent above the 10-year aver age. Since stocks in all positions were recently at a record peak, there should be no' dearth of soybeans in the crop year be ginning October 1. There is no basis for sustained price strength at present, barring seri ous crop damage. Farm Income Outlook Farmers' realized net income in the first half of this year was at an annual rate of about $12,- 100,000,000 up 2V2 per cent from the corresponding 1956 figure. Whether the second half will record a further gain is doubtful, in view of the rising trend of production costs and the difficulty of offsetting them through the practice of further economies. The efficent farmer, with well-diversified crops, should, however, fare as well as the average manufacturer or merchant. , In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Queer - quirks - in-human-nature note in the news: A federal grand jury in New York accuses 46 men of con spiring to import drugs into the United States from Europe. The prosecution says the con spirators smuggled into this country 50 pounds of pure hero in which is alleged to have an ultimate consumer value (to drug addicts, that is) of MORE THAN THREE MILLION DOL LARS. rpHAT'S about $60,000 a pound which sounds like an astronomically high price. But Remember this: The price of heroin, like near ly everything else, is set by the law of supply and demand. An other way of putting it is that the price is what the traffic will bear." Customers are willing to pay that much for heroin so that is the price. WHAT is heroin? ' It is a derivative of mor phine which is a grayish-brown drug obtained from the opium poppy. Heroin has an effect similar to that of morphine, but it is more poisonous and much more habit forming. Its manufacture, importation and use in the United States are forbidden which makes it hard to get. Hence the high price. HI ANY drug addicts prefer iTX hornin to anv other dure. It undermines the emotions and morals of its user perhaps more than any other drug. At first, heroin merely expands the ego of the user and gives him a sense of exaggerated personal value and happiness. Later, it removes pity, re morse and all sense of responsi bility. Its habitual users become anti-social and criminal to a high degree. HM-M-M-M-M-M. Heroin is surprisingly like INFLATION, isn't it? INFLATION makes us feel WONDERRFUL. It eives us a sense of security. (At first, that is.) If we work for wages, it oners us ine rosy pro mise that whenever our wages won't buy all the things we need WE'LL GET A RAISE. If we're ir business for ourselves, it sug gests to us that whenever pro fits begin to fall we can raise prices. If we're speculatively inclined, it whispers to us that in an in flationary period PRICES WILL ALWAS GO UP AND CAN'T EVER GO DOWN. So Buy BIG and make a killing. INFLATION makes us feel simply gorgeous. So we're willing to pay a staggering price for it. - Human beings are strange characters. Ike's Administration Not Ready for School Integration By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (LP) The Eisen hower administration was not ready for the Arkansas school i n t e g r ation emergency. The boss left for a Rhode Is land vacation. White House staff chief Sherman Adams is off to a New Hamp shire speaking I.yls C Wilson e n s a gemem.. Democrats will be asking: Who was keeping the store? Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr., was -on the job Thursday but without any immediate strategy or policy to pursue. The battle of headlines had been favoring Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus who doubtless planned it that way. Eisenhower's vacation began at a lively pace. By telephone, he was prodding the Justice De partment for action. There was a feeling around town that Brownell was stalling for time or a policy inspiration. Stalling Looked Good Events in Little , Rock, Ark., made a stalling strategy look pretty good. The Negro students against whom Faubus imposed a National Guard lockout made no attempt Thursday to enter Central High school. That di verted a lot of heat from every one, especially Brownell. If the Justice Department actually was stalling or, as is likely, had no plans prepared for such an emergency, it must act soon. Something must give somewhere if the Eisenhower Good, Bad Reviewed By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia's insistence on unconditional suspension of nu clear weapons tests threw the London disarmament conference into a deadlock. Delegates of the United States. Canada, Great Britain, France and Russia, constituting a sub committee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission, had been negotiating since March 18 It had looked, at times, as if the five nations might agree on some proposal that would con stitute the long-hoped-for "first step" toward an eventual dis armament treaty. The four Western Allies had made numerous offers to Soviet Chief Delegate Valerian A. Zorin. The final one called for Congressman Seeks Teamster Office Washington (IP) Rep. John Shelley (D-Calif.) threw his hat into the ring Thursday for the presidency of the giant Team sters union. Shelley said he will formally announce his candidacy Sept. 10 when he attends the 11 -state Western Teamsters Conference in Seattle. Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa is the leading candidate to succeed Dave Beck ag president of the union. Hoffa has been accused by the Senate Rackets committee of using the help of gangsters and racketeers to gain power within the union. Shelley said he was 'invited to attend the policy meeting next week by William M. Franklin, secretary - treasurer of the West ern Conference. He said the meeting is to interview candi dates for the presidency. The teamsters president will be selected at the union's conven tion at Miami Beach, Fla., Sept. 30. ' . Other candidates for the office are Teamsters Vice President Thomas L. Hickey, New York, and Thomas J. Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of a Chicago Milk Wagon Drivers local. 2 31 SMOKED Ham Hocks IS i l I . ft ,vL MHMniil. 3 Emergency I administration is to obtain for political advantage from its overall effort in behalf of Negro voters. This Arkansas dispute over the enrollment of a few Negro children in a large white secon dary school is not directly con nected with the Eisenhower civil rights bill recently limited by Congress to voting rights. The President has not yet signed that bill, although he will do so shortly. In Easier Position Even so. Eisenhower probably is in an easier position today with respect to Arkansas devel opments than he would have been if Congress had passed his civil rights bill as he proposed it. Before the Senate began re jecting major portions of that legislation, the language very definitely committed the Presi dent to use federal troops in support of any civil right what ever. Committed is precisely what it did, although the adminis tration would not concede that to be a fact. The civil rights bill was the President'? personal project, however, even though he said he did not understand some of it. The bill was submitted by Eisenhower's attorney general to the Congress. And written into it by administration direc tion was a specific authoriza tion for the use of the land and sea forces against whomsoever denied a civil right. Little Rock is remote from the sea. Perhaps, however, the battle of Central High school between the Ar kansas National Guard and the U.S. Army was narrowly averted. News Is bv McCa nn M a 2-year suspension of weapons tests, coupled with a ban on production of materials for mak ing nuclear weaonns. Each time, after consulting site neaF the east city limits f his government, Zorin had re- Salem as the new location for jected the Allied proposals. He the Department of Motor Ve held out for an unconditional hicles was expressed Thursday ban on the tests. by James " F. Johnson, director. This week it became pretty Johnson said that after investi clear that Russia wanted to atlnS a11 of the 12 Sltes on throw the disarmament negotia- whlch bids were submitted to tions into the U.N: General . As- sembly, which opens its regular annual meeting on Sept. 17. Russia's object was to try to bring India and other "neutral- 1st" nations, which oppose nu- clear weapons tests, into the negotiations and thus strengthen its position. , In any event, It was apparent the London conference had fail- ed to bring about any real prog- ress toward the "first step." Loy Henderson, the State De- partment's No. 1 expert on the Middle East, reported that the situation in Syria, which is now unaer control of pro-Russian ele- ments, constituted a serious threat to the security of the iree woria jienaerson naa been sent on an urgent mission to the Mid die East for an on-the-spot inves tigation of Syrian developments, He conferred with Turkish, Iraqi, Jordanian and Lebanese leaders and with United States ambassadors to those countries Grim Picture His report to the State De partment gave a grim picture of the situation. No effective United States answer to the pro- Russian trend in Syria was in sight. Communist Hungary started seeking the support of the Arab countries and the East Asian "neutralists" in opposition to a United Nations resolution con demning Soviet Russian inter vention in the Hungarian revolt. The U.N Assembly is to open a special session next Tuesday on a report by a five-nation com mission denouncing the killing, imprisonment and deportation to Russia of Hungarian rebels. Henry Cabot Lodge, United States chief delegate to the U.N., is sponsoring a resolution which calls on the assembly to approve the report of the com mission. Countering the Hun garian campaign, Lodge con ferred in New York with dele gates of U.N. countries from all over the world asking them to vote for the resolution. EAST SIXTH . ST. PORK SAUSAGE BEEF STEAK lb. Editorial Comment TIME TO CHECK RAIL LINES Railroads serving 1 the West Coast are designed to operate as ' carriers between East and West. Since our railroads were built they have, for the most part, carried the raw products from the West to manufacturing cen ters in the East. Finished goods then were brought to the West. The ideal situation was to pre serve a balance of shipments, with full cars moving in each direction. " Now, because a great deal of manufacturing has moved West, railroads are bringing a high percentage of empty cars from the East. - . Industry is moving south and west. California is growing in population by leaps and bounds. California is the best market for lumber from the Pacific North west. Here in Douglas county we are heavily penalized by freight rates if we try to ship by rail to California markets. So long as we ship east we can ship on a parity, but we are denied equal access to West Coast ports or to West Coast markets. Rail road rate structures favor the long hauls eas. Yet our mar kets for agricultural products, for our lumber, and for many of our raw materials are to be found in a north-south direction. A revision of the transporta tion system and rate structure to the north-south remand rath er than to the obsolete east-west pattern is badly needed. Regu latory bodies such as Public Utility Commissions and Inter state Commerce Commission have been far too lenient with the railroads, in my opinion. Railroads have been permitted to gather profits without giving suitable service in the commu nities they serve. It is time that regulatory bodies started crack ing down with demands that areas be adequately served, and that transportation patterns be rearranged to fit modern mar ket conditions. Roseburg News-Review. East Side Salem Site Favored Salem (IB Preference for a tne department 01 nnance ana administration he felt that land southeast of the junction of state street and Airport road offered the department the best building location, He said he had made this recommendation to the finance department, which will make the final bid selection, Secretary of State Mark Hat field, in charge of space on the Capitol-Mall had directed the de- partment, and its some 450 em- ployees otrt of space It now oc- cupies in the capitol building. the nublic service building and the state office building. The move is being made be- cause of pressure of space in the Capitol Mall area. WANT SOME THING IN YOUR POCKET THAT IS BESIDES .- HOLES? Borrow The American Way . LOANS $25 to $1,509 Auto Salary Furniture American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford SLICED BACON
