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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Ml Tveryon in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fir St Phone 21141 ROBERT W RTJHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager , GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON . Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March mav SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF 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 O" NIWSPAPEt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION HATIONAl EDITOIIA A$$OCU'lN fHHIUfl.H.I HM Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1947 (Thursday) Prices paid for important food commodities in Medford range from 40 per cent on bread to 285 per cent on flour, according to study. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge pot column: "California hunters were hard put on the opening day of the season. In the state seven were arrested for refusal to fight a brush fire, and 20 were summoned for jury service." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1937 Sunday) Rogue River national forest receipts for the 1937 fiscal year totaled $33,412.47. The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce supports Curry county in its suit to enjoin desig nated mining in the Rogue River watershed. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1927 (Sunday) Marking the end of the first Grange fair ever attempted here, the Jackson County Products show closes following a three day run. Myron Carver, Portland, shot and killed while hunting in the Evans creek district. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1917 (Tuesday) County fair opens with a bar becue served on the Natatorium grounds. Four young men caught trying to evade officers in bringing-a quantity of liquor from Horn brook to Medford area. What's Your I.Q.? Nine of ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. Is the capital of the Domin ion of Canada located at Mon treal, Victoria, Quebec, or Ot tawa. 2. A starfish has four, five, or six points? 3. Bible: What kind of wood did Noah use to build the Ark? 4. A puck is- used in polo, hockey, or chess? 5. What was Mohandas K Gandhi's middle name? 6. The "Highland Fling" is a folk dance of which country? 7. Is there a known insulator for magnetism? 8. Who was Vice - President when Herbert Hoover was U. S. President? 9. Which of the following three words are misspelled: Accident- ly, geneology, privelege? 10. "A wondrous bird the peli can; His mouth holds more than his bellican;He takes in his beak enough food for a weekBut I'm damned if I see how the hellican." This was the favorite limerick of which Presi dent? Answers: 1. Ottawa. 2. Five. 3. "Gopher wood." 4. Hockey 5. Karamchand. 6. Scotland. 7. No. 8. Charles Curtis. 9. All three. 10. Woodrow Wilson. STOPPED BY DIME Milwaukee, Wis. HP) "Nei ther a borrower nor a talker be". advice that would s have helped James Harris, 27, who borrowed a dime to make a phone call. The lender turned out to be police detective Wil liams Brown who heard Harris mention "police" on the phone Brown questioned Harris and learned he was wanted for eight parking violations. MAIL TRIBUNE The Plane The news that three Roseburg men are attempting to salvage a wrrecked aircraft from the bottom of Little Fish Lake, a tiny body of water in the Umpqua river drainage area in the eastern Douglas county, brings vividly to mind the how the plane got there in In late January of 1949, an alarm was sounded for a light, two-place plane, piloted by John L. Krause Jr., of Antioch, Calif., a student pilot making his first cross-country solo flight. He was northbound out of Redding, had been sighted and beyond that no one AIR rescue units, using vehicles, moved to Medford from McChord field, and set up headquarters. ing old PBY amphibian, thousands of square miles of country where the miss ing plane could have gone down. Other private air craft joined the search. Five days passed, and bad weather and snow-covered forests, was unavail ing. The hunt was just about to be abandoned, on the theory that no pilot could winter weather, even if he A BOUT mid - afternoon search, a B-26 bomber, swung several miles east y-1 (wny it am so, no one was ever ioia), ana me tan gamer, idly looking down' at the snow-covered hills, saw a dot on a patch ot white. Curious, ne mentionea it to the pilot, who swung to takp Innk. As they roared over the paicii vl winie was a nuen larte, uie uui wao an an plane, and beside the airplane was a tiny figure, wav ino- bnfh nrms. The plane's crew knew radioed the CAA m Medtord to ask it a aownea plane had been reported. The bomber was asked to return, circle Medford, and then lead the big old amphibian over the lake. THE PBY lumbered after i . 1 L J.T- - minutes, ana just as uie eany winter uariuiess was falling, swooped low over the lake. With the last rays of the sun glinting on it, the and resumed its flight north, while the amphibian began its laborious circling around, down into the canyon over the lake, then straining every fiber to climb out of the canyon again. Sometimes it seemed to brush the tree-tops. ' On the first pass, a kit parachuted down. On the second, an Army doctor, looking like a man from Mars in his heavy clothing, burdened down by equipment, and protected by a helmet. and mask, plunged through the gun-blister of the plane, and floated down On the third turn, a corporal in the medics followed him. Those on the plane rushed to the side to watch, and nearly wrecked the with their weight. MEANWHILE, rescue parties had started by snow shoe and Sno-Cat for the lake, and "Lucky John ny Krause" was brought out, unharmed, the next day. He'd made a safe belly-landing on the soft snow over the frozen lake, and had found a ranger's cabin with stove wood and food, and "had been completely comfortable during the five The plane was burned lake, as it might cause confusion in any subsequent search flights, and since then has rested at the bottom of the lake. The Roseburg men who hope to salvage it believe its remains should be in good shape and worth their efforts. If they have as much luck as the pilot of the plane had in coming through a potentially fatal experience alive, they'll make it. E.A. Sunday Closures? Should all stores, industries, places of entertain ment and service industries close on bundayr This nuestion. or a modification of it. has been A ' much discussed in recent months. It was reinforced as a matter for debate by the recent Roman Catholic church decree, which restated its old rule against Sunday work of a non-essential character for its com municants. And another aspect to the debate was added by the Seventh Day Adventist church, which restated its position to the effect that while Sunday closings are a proper matter for consideration by church disci plines, it is not a matter for legislation of the "blue law" variety. HAVE absolutely no objection if the Catholic church, or any other church, wishes to remind its members of the church's rulings and beliefs in the matter. We have no objection to the Adventists' de sires to make their Sabbath, which is Saturday, a day of rest 'for its own members. But we do have strong objections to ANYone, ANYwhere telling other people what they should or should not do on Saturday, Sunday, or any other day. If a man who has no strong religious convictions, or differing religious convictions, regarding the Sab bath and its observance, wants to play golf, see a movie, mow his lawn or wash his car, or even keep his store open on Sunday and take his day of rest at another time, that should be his business. Any widespread legislation or even social coercion designed to force compliance for over - all Sunday closures is destructive to the freedom of those whose beliefs differ, including that large minority nearly half of the population which has no church affilia tion whatsoever. E.A. Wednesday, September 18, 1957 in the Lake dramatic circumstances of the first place. in the Klamath Falls area, knew where he might be. both aircraft and ground The rescue plane, a lumber flew over much of the the search, hampered by have survived the rugged had survived the crash. of the fifth dav of the bound for McChord field of its planned line of flight j 1 1 1 ll J " 1 the plane back ana aown steep hills, they saw the nothing of the search, but the swift bomber for 45 1 J 1 bomber dipped its wings, of medicine and food was into brush at the lakeside ancient craft by tipping it day search. before the party left the HAD VOHB THAT OH GOP Candidate Makes No Labor Concessions In New Jersey Race By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Republi can Malcolm Forbes is campaign ing for the governorship of New Jersey without any double talk to the leaders of or ganized labor in that heavily i n dustrialized state. r oroes ap peared last month before the state coun- I.yle C. Wilson cil of the CIO in Newark and toia the assembled union nf. ficials: "I am not your man." He also told them he rated as a phoney their invitation to him to appear before them prelimin ary to the CIO's public endorse ment of a gubernatorial candi date. He said the choice already nad been made. Called "Window Dressino" "The invitation to me to be present," Forbes said, "is mere ly intended as a bit of window dressing to imply that the de cision of some of your leaders was reached with an open mind after due deliberation." However that may be. the CIO heard Forbes and thereupon formally endorsed his Demo cratic opponent, Gov. Robert B Meyner. Forbes says he nevertheless expects a lot of labor votes in November. His blunt challenge to New In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For some time past, all the foreign news has been bad. Here, for a change, is some GOOD news: West Germany has eiven an OVERWHELMING vote of con fidence to 81-year-old Konrad Adenauer. SUNDAY'S elections gave his Christian Democratic party UNDISPUTED CONTROL of the West German parliament, with a majority of 43 seats. The Christian Democrats who stood pat for continued al liance with the free Western world and against communism in all its forms won 270 seats in the 497-seat parliament. The Socialists (who . pussy footed) won 169 seats. The Free Democrats (who in the past haven't been quite sure where they stood but in the pinches have voted with Adenauer) won 41 seats. IT TOOK COURAGE -on the part of the West Germans to vote that way. It took GREAT courage be cause from the beginning of the election campaign the Kremlin has practically threatened im mediate war if the West Ger mans backed Adenauer to the limit. They backed him to the limit. CONSIDER West Germany's position. It lies just across the fence from Russia. There can be no doubt that if Russia chose to do so she could . DESTROY West Germany. Half of former Ger many is under tne communist heel. These East Germans fathers, mothers, sisters, broth ers of the West Germans are held firmly in the grip of com munism. They are pawns in the game of communist world do minion. It took grim resolution on the part of the West Germans to vote as they voted on Sunday. But they went ahead and did it, knowing what the cost might be. LET'S give them a hand. Thev deserve it. The red badge of courage is the proudest insignia in the world. TtLt&SlOH I Jersey's labor elite was in the tradition of the Robert A. Taft who based his last election cam paign on related political the ories: That stay-at-home Republi can or semi-conservative , voters could and would win elections if they had someone for whom to vote if they did go to the polls That labor leaders could not deliver the labor vote. That no votes could be had by trimming and compromising principles into bait for independ ents already committed to the other fellow. Strategy Brings Victory From that general strategical position, Taft mowed down the opposition in Ohio's 1950 sena torial election. . umo ana rnew jersey are about equally industrial and Re publican states. New Jersey re turns next month may suggest to Republicans elsewhere a new approach to the perplexing prob lem of how to cope with the coalition of the leaders of or ganized labor and of the Demo cratic Party. Race for Space Getting Hotter as U. S., Russia Vie Washington - (IP) The East West race to conquer space is get ting hot. The Air Force announced late Tuesday it will attempt to fire a research rocket to the unpre cedented height of 1,000 to 4,000 miles late this month. Simultaneously Russia hinted, with the dramatic words "The assault on the universe has be gun," that it is about to launch its version of an artificial earth satellite. " From Balloon The four-stage U.S. Air Force rocket will be launched from a balloon supported platform 100,000 feet over Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific to help free it from the earth's gravitational pull. The Air Force said the rocket will be fired strictly as an "ex ploratory research effort" with no attempt made to have it swing into an orbit around the earth in the form of an artificial moon. But the rocket, if it reaches the desired height, would prob ably exceed the 300 to 1,500- mile altitude necessary to set an artificial moon circling the earth in a fixed orbit. During IGY Both the United States and Russia plan to launch an earth satellite or several during the 18-month worldwide scien tific discovery period known as the International Geophysical Year". While this country has .dis avowed any race with Moscow, the world is watching with in terest to see which of the major East-West powers puts the first artificial moon in the sky. Radio Moscow, in a broadcast Tuesday, did not actually say when the launching will take place. It said only that Russia "will shortly take the first step into cosmic flight" by launching an artificial satellite early next year. 1956 VOLKSWAGEN In very good condition. Former owner needed the economi cal, larger Rambler to haul prospects around to various property deals. We are told it should sell for more, but we like to keep things moving along, so we are $ CQ COO offering it at this Special Low Price of I V V V LEA MOTORS 5th at Bartlett Military Coup in Thailand Seen As Bad News for United States By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The military coup in Thailand is bad news for the United States and its allies in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organ ization. Premier Lu angPibul Song gram, who was overthrown in the coup, has cooperated closely with Thailand's fel- rharies McCann low members in the alliance. Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, the army commander-in-chief U.S. Defenses Don't Rely Only on A-Bombs Seattle (IP) It may be axio matic in this Atomic Age that everyone's a loser in a nuclear showdown. But those responsible for the defense of North Ameri ca aren't counting on it as a mar tial cure-all. One of the top brass jn the newly-organized North Ameri can Defense Command told why Tuesday in a briefing session with approximately 50 newsmen from Oregon, Washington, Brit ish Columbia and Alberta. Army Brig. Gen. Tom V. Stay ton said, "we cannot assure our selves there will never be anoth ed Hitler." He added that North America is safe when the leader ship of Russia is not clearly in the hands of one man. The job of the new defensive partnership between Canada and Child Guidance Clinic Supported By Funds ofUMC Editor's note: This is another in a series of stories describ ing activities of various organi zations -which receive funds through contributions to the United Medford Crusade.) The Southern Oregon Child Guidance Clinic is another agency supported either wholly or partially by contributions to the United Medford Crusade. The clinic assumes responsi bility of a maladjusted child and helps his normal development into a happy, useful citizen. One of the chief means for helping such children " are psychiatrist Dr. Harry K. Danielson's play sessions conducted at the clinic An example of such work would be the fictitional case his tory of Johnny Smith. Johnny was emotionally disturbed and withdrawn from the world. His mother mourned his father's death, forgot a small boy's needs and focused her attention on her infant daughter. Through the play sessions he was encouraged to express his angry, hurt feelings. Now he is just beginning to trust, like and be happy in the world around him. Through a psychiatric social worker his mother was helped through her grief to find a happy, wholesome life for herself and her children. The money contributed to United Medford Crusade helps ennnnrt. the clinic. Its other means are fees based on a fam ilv's ability to pay, a sum from federal funds, purchase of ser vice hv schools and member ships. GOP Women Urged To Help Weld Party TT.stes Park. Colo. IT) Three Republican congressmen urged delegates to the National Federation of Republican Women at Estes Park Tuesday to heln weld the party together to insure victory over the Demo crats in 1958. The addresses were delivered hv ton reoresentatlves irom Colorado, William S. Hill and J. Edgar Chenoweth, and Kep John Rhodes of Arizona. "The Democrats have maae up- their minds they must con trol the next Congress in oraer to elect a president in 1960, Chenoweth said. He urged the women to spread the word on Republican accomplishments. VIENNESE LAWYER DIES Miami Beach (IP) Dr. Ar- mond Eisler, 77, a leading Vien nese lawyer until his imprison ment in Nazi concentration camps, died Monday after a long illness. Phone SP 2-6185 who overthrew him, is represent ed also as pro-Western, though he has not been very assertive about it. But there have been indica tions that there is a growing trend toward neutralism in Thailand. Weak SEATO Link Whatever happens, Thailand at the moment appears to be a somewhat weak link in the SEATO alliance. Thailand is one of eight mem bers of SEATO, an alliance was formed in 1954 to combat the expansion of Communism in Southeast Asia. Bangkok, the capital of Thai land, is the headquarters of the United States is to guard some 15,000 miles of North American sky. Both countries are equal partners in the enter prise with headquarters at Colo rado Springs, Colo. Interceptions Frequent The three United States and one Canadian air defense offi cers agreed identification is the continent's prime problem in de fense. Maj. Gen. Harvey T. Alness, deputy chief of staff for the de fense command, pointed out more than 600 international flights take off from or land in North America daily. He indicated frequent cases of doubt require interceptors to go up and take a look to make cer lam no enemy aircratt is en route to a target "Besides defense, our job at Colorado Springs," Alness add ed, "is to determine when the war is on." Command Orders Bomarcs Prior to the briefing on the new defense setup, formalized Sept. 12 after inter-governmen tal agreement, newsmen were shown Boeing Airplane Co's Bo marc, an intermediate range grouna-to-air missile now in production. Alness said the Bomarc, a 47 foot supersonic rocket capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, would be incorporated into the defense command's arsenal "within the next fiscal year be ginning July 1, 1958." Portland Mayor Freed of All Vice Charges Portland (IB Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland was free to day of all charges brought against him by a vice-probing Multnomah County Grand Jury, The last remaining Grand Jury vice indictment against him was dismissed Tuesday in Multno mah County Circuit Court. Assistant Attorney General Arthur Higgs asked for dismissal of an indictment charging con spiracy to commit subornation of perjury against Mayor Schrunk and three others. In each case he said not one of the 24 acts alleged in the indictments con stituted a crime. He added, "not one was a conspiracy." Schrunk 'Very Happy Mayor Schrunk said, "I am very happy that the entire situa tion has been resolved through the judicial system after it was looked at objectively by im partial deputies of the attorney general's office and the duly con stituted courts of law." All other indictments against Schrunk have also been dis missed and he was found inno cent of the one charge for which he was tried. Indictments against Deputy Sheriff George Minielly, former District Attorney William Lang ley, and former Deputy District Attorney Howard Lonergan were also dismissed. NAVY -CROSS HOLDER DIES Atlantic City, N.J. IP Murry Wolffe, 70, holder of the Navy Cross, senior national vice com mander of the Legion of Valor and veteran of three wars, died Tuesday a few hours before he was to have addressed the Amer ican Legion convention. THE HAND OF HELP In the hour of need . . is extended here to all who grieve, regardless of race, social position or financial standing. : yJ' f t C. M. Llrwiller For over -22 years, Mr. and Mrs. Litwiller have sought to make the final tribute one of beauty and dignity, as well as one cf real solace and comfort to those left behind. "Night or day" dial MU 5-4541 LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chape Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close SEATO. Only a few weeks ago, on July 1, Pote Sarasin, Thai land ambassador to the United States, was appointed to the new post of secretary general of SEATO. Hence any big political upheaval in Thailand is an un welcome development. One encouraging thing is that the new leaders as well as the old ones appear to be firmly anti- Communist. Election Turbulent The political situation in Thai land has been getting more tur bulent since the parliamentary election of last Feb. 26. Pibul's Government Party won 85 of the 160 contested seats for the Na tional Assembly, the single-cham ber parliament. Under the Thai land election law, the govern ment appointed an additional 160 members. Pibul's political opponents charged that the election was stolen. Last week a group of army of ficers led by Sarit demanded the resignation of the entire govern ment. Pibul refused. His over throw followed. Applications Available For Civil Service Jobs Examination applications are now available at the Medford post office for the civil service positions of vessel and aircraft sanitation inspector, quarantine border inspector and quarantine inspector trainee. The jobs to be filled are for duty with the public healtn service at quarantine stations within the United States and at certain foreign stations, the commission stated. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name ot initial tor 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 From Fair Board To the Editor: The Oregon State Fair Commission and its manager wish to express through your medium sincere thanks and appreciation to the people of your area who participated as exhibitors, workers or patrons of this year's 1957 Oregon State Fair. ' It is the feeling of the Com mission that the Fair belongs to the people of Oregon and the success or failure of the Fair is contingent upon your efforts. This year the support of the people throughout the State was enthusiastic and effective. The result was a most successful Fair. Already we are working on next year's Fair and the Com mission and its manager greatly appreciate any suggestions that they may have. Oregon State Fair Commission John H. Travis, Chairman Marguerite E. Berg Del Milne Ursel C. Narver . . V. A. (Am) Roush " Howard Maple, Manager tii-Litis IN THI mstoru m-t or - rnarmaiy by ED HALL The first Pharmacopoeia published under government authority seems to be the on published in Nuremberg in 1542 by a student named Valerius Cordu. This was a collection of medical receipts he had collected from the writings. of medical authori ties. The " College of Apothe caries at the University of Pennsylvania e s t a b I ished March 1821 was changed one year later to College of Pharmacy and it was the be ginning of the use of Phar macy in the drug trade of America. Phone SP 2-9431 for your PRESCRIPTION specialist . .. a registered PHARMACIST is here to serve you use a con venient CHARGE ACCOUNT . . . CENTRAL REXALL DRUG, Main and Central. adv. Ub?. & i "ire Mrs. Llrwiller Ashland. 1 'A' ' & r 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."