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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, September 20, 1957 He "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEUFORB PRUiTUiQ CO 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at MedXord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 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 Medlord Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix fchaeiv Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 JO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United tress 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 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOIlAi ASSOClTA'ieH 1 y J I 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 Sepl. 20, 1947 (Sunday) More than 80 parents and teachers attend informal meet ing sponsored by the Jackson ville PTA Wednesday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The Con stitution was 160 years old Wednesday. Some of the coun try's more liberal thinkers hold it is unconstitutional and needs rewriting." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1937 (Monday) Selection of jury in trial of local pinball agent charged with organizing and operating a lot tery under way. The Southern Oregon Sales, Inc., packing plant opens to public. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1927 (Tuesday) Surveyors working in the Butte Falls timber district com plete project and depart. James H. Owen, general man ager of the Owen-Oregon com pany, starts remodelling and re building the Frank G. Owen home on Siskiyou Heights. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1917 (Thursday) The biggest feature at the Rialto theater so far this week is Gladys Hullette in "Candy Girl." Nine fires of suspected in cendiary origins started in Jack son county timber. Whai's Your I.Q.? Nine ot ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. Is mate a substitute for spices, sugar, tea, or rubber? 2. Is acrophobia the fear of depths or the fear of heights? 3. Bible: Are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John within that term designating "the definite arti cle"? If so, name the article. 4. What position in the Armed Forces did Oveta Culp Hobby hold during World War II? 5. To which group of islands in the Western Hemisphere are the terms "Greater" and "Less er" applied? 6. With which large university was the name Nicholas Murray Butler associated? 7. Is the Welland Canal in Egypt, the Netherlands, Canada, or the United States? 8. Is tung oil obtained from the leaves, the fruit, or the root of the tung tree? 9. "He is a success and his painting is also a success." Is either "success" properly used in the sentence ?- 10. "An angel with a trumpet said, "Forevermore, Forever more,The reign of violence is o'er'." Did Longfellow, Whittier, or Poe write this reference to peace? Answers: 1. Tea. 2. Fear of heights. 3. Yes. (Writers of "The Four Gospels"). 4. Commanding Officer of the WAC. 5. Greater and Lesser Antilles. 6. Columbia University, New York City. 7. Canada. 8. Fruit. 9. No. (Suc cess applied to a person or iking is colloquial). 10. Longfellow. CORNY CHALLENGE Kokomo, Ind. llf) Iowa corn may be knee-high by the Fourth of July, but farmer John Cheek wants to know what it has done recently. Cheek has a 16-foot stalk of corn on his farm a South American import. Red Hats and UMC Two wholly unrelated projects got under way this week. They are the annual fund - raising drive of the United Medford Crusade, which began Tuesday, and the state-wide "Red Hat Days," which start today. They are unrelated in purpose, but they do have one similarity which is worthy of note. They are both organized efforts of a lot of unselfish people to ac complish something for the good of the community as a whole. ' THE United Medford Crusade should be well known to everyone in Medford, for it is an organization which has the double purpose of providing support for 25 worthy agencies, and only making one fund drive each year, rather than a separate one for each agency. It is not strictly a "charitable" organization, al though several of the agencies have charitable pur poses. Mainly, however, money raised by the UMC goes to groups which have the purpose of making this a better community and a better state. Who, for instance, can imagine an up-to-date and progressive city without a YMCA, without the ;Boy and Girl Scouts, without the Salvation Army or Camp Fire Girls or Red Cross? These are not "charities" exactly, in the sense that they customarily provide aid for the destitute. But they certainly are organizations which no city would want to be without. . IN ADDITION, UMC contributions go for the support A of more than a dozen other organizations which do classiiv as chanties groups which care lor : un wanted or dependent or orphaned children, for unwed mothers, for prison improvement, and so on. The third group assisted by contributions are the health agencies those which provide research and educational funds for cancer, rheumatism and arth ritis, mental health. If one has any interest at all in the well-being of the community, the UMC could be classed as a great bargain. And that s just what it is. i "DED Hat Days," with a differing objective, also works for the p-ood of the community ! the safety of Oregon's thousands of hunters, and for the well-being of the ranchers and loggers and the ret of us who depend on forests and fields for our basic economy. An unthinking shot fired, or a burning match or cigarette tossed away, can lead to tragedy. - The objective is to raise the level of thoughtful care of those who do use field and forest, to save lives, to prevent injuries, and to avoid fire. The Red Hat pledge binds one "to be law abiding, to respect the rights and property of others, and to be careful with fire and fire arms." In other words, use your head and follow the Golden Rule. It's simple enough, but it's extremely important. E.A. On Walking to Work In today's mechanized society, the man who walks to work is m such a minority as to be something 01 a phenomenon. , -' ' ' A man who works in our office, who has been waging a lackluster (and losing) skirmish against en croaching avoirdupois, recently joined the depleted ranks of those who walk at least in the morning. How long his resolve will remain firm is a question in the minds of his family and co-workers. OUT, for the nonce, he has the satisfaction of feel- ing self - disciplined and determined; he waves away rides with cheery abandon, and trudges happily through the fresh morning air. The proferred rides, however, may ultimately be his undoing. The first day he was offered three in the course of the two-mile walk; the second day it was four; the third day five. He sometimes wonders how his will power can persevere in the face of such gen erosity. ' . Meanwhile, he has discovered things. He has dis covered that one can get a really good look at a new building in the 30 seconds or so it takes to walk past it a far more detailed inspection than is possible in the brief moment it takes to drive by. LIE HAS found that other householders, too, have crabgrass and dandelions, and it somehow pleases him to know that he is not alone in that problem. He has watched the Fire Chief drive by on his way to work, casting a professional eye at the trash fire en route. He has seen the early-workers the garbage men, milk men, and others performing their matu tinal chores. As his brisk four-miles-per-hour pace .brings him into the downtown area, he finds pleasure in the window shopping which he is now permitted. These are all on the "plus" side of the equation. And another plus has been the beauty of the mid September mornings; cool, fresh, invigorating, color ful, and with the later heat of the day only a promise in the gleam of the sun. The minus side contains the aching shin-muscles in legs long accustomed to sedentary ease ; the damp glow of perspiration at the end of the journey; the generalized discomfort which he hopes one day soon may be translated into what his physician calls "good muscle tone." A ND what, he thinks forebodingly, of the winter days when darkness remains long after his arising and departing, and when pelting rain, or even snow, will dog his steps? What of those days when Roxy Ann wears a mantle of white, and gloves, eanhuffs and overcoat are near-necessities? That, he has decided, falls into the "we shall see what we shall see" category. E.A. 9-?o 57,we Hm.svmPE,''lc. . 'it's a good ume scooter. Mb sets about THIRTY FIVE MILES TO A PAlf? OF SVCee." amman, Armstrong resident of in Arkansas Accuse P Fumbling By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP! Such dis similar public figures as Gov Averell Harriman of New York and Sat c h m o Armstrong, the hot horn, are alike in accus in Pres i d e n t Eisenhower of f u m b ling the Arkansas inte gration ball. Armstrong is a Negro, talent Lyie c Wilson ea Deyona most men. Harriman is the Demo cratic governor ot a state in which the Negro vote is one of several powerful minorities They evidently are alike in de siring a federal crackdown on Gov. Orval E. Faubus who call ed out the National Guard in Little Rock, Ark. Harriman, with former Presi dent Truman, Adlai E. Steven son, Democratic National Chair man Paul M. Butler and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) accused Eisenhower of failing in duty in his relation with inte gration in. Arkansas. Harriman and the others are members of an advisory committee which states policy for the Democratic Party. Armstrong More Vigorous Armstrong disapproved of the President in more vigorous lan guage and, what with one thing and another, it appears that the Republicans have not yet made much political hay in the civil rights pasture. It is strange that this should be so because many persons be lieve more has been accomplish ed for Negro citizens' civil rights during Eisenhower's White House tenure than in all the years Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman lived there. Roosevelt never got around to a powerhouse effort for civil rights legislation. Tru man tried and failed. Equally strange is the fact that Vice President Richard M. Nixon has escaped, so far, blame for whatever the administra tion's critics dislike in Eisen hower's handling of Faubus. Nixon has been the administra tion whipping boy, especially in the area of rights and the alleged violations thereof. There has been over the years a substantial effort to get rid of Nixon before he could get his name on top of a Republican presidential ticket and, maybe, be elected. He probably would In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Senator Warren Gill of Leb anon tells a reporter that Ore gon Republicans have agreed to four-point program of action at the special session of the Ore gon legislature that will start on Oct. 28. These, he says, are the four points: 1. Reduce existing tax rates so as to eliminate all but 10 million dollars of the State's 69- million-dollar surplus. 2. Repeal the automatic state property tax law. 3. Pass no appropriation mea sures for new expenditures. 4. Oppose the introduction or passage of new general legisla tion not related to reduction of taxes or surplus. S a program, it is sound L enough. The big question is CAN IT BE CARRIED THROUGH? The Republicans are the min ority party in the Oregon legislature. They can't guarantee anything. be taking a public licking now for any administration sins of omission in dealing with Faubus but for the fact that the vice president long since has been firmly on record with respect to civil rights and Negroes. Ho supported last January the effort in the Senate to curb fili busters by changing Senate rules. The proposal lost, 55-38. Nixon and Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.) were chief administration strategists in the Senate maneuvers over the 1957 civil rights bill. Southern sena tors resented and denounced Nixon's show of sympathy for Negro voters. As of now, Nixon equally with Knowland, would be like- V to attract Negro votes if either were nominated by the T 1 i ; m . iiepuciicans ior president in 1960. Whether Eisenhower would attract or repel Negro voters is a matter of less im portance because he will not be a candidate again. It is possible, therefore, that to say the Republicans have not made much political hay in the civil rights pasture is to over state the case, The President may not have made much or any. Nixon and Knowland, how ever, may wind up with a full barn. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial ior 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 Family Doctor Needed To the Editor: Seldom has Dr. Alvarez offered more valuable advice than that given recently in his Mail Tribune column when he urged those in need of a physician to seek "a good family doctor." ' The Rogue valley has a con centration of able doctors, yet it is difficult to secure adequate medical care due to the unfor tunate tendency of so many to limit their practice. Thus, in stead of general practitioners, we have clinics abounding in which groups of doctors set up shop together, each concentrat ing on one special aspect of pa tients' maladies. Conceivably this has advantages. The doctor with limited practice can gain more knowledge in his chosen field than the general practi tioner can hope to acquire. It also has disadvantages in that no one in such set-ups ever seems to have time or interest in seeing the whole picture. Thus when John Doe enters the clinic, Dr. A. checks his heart condition; Doctor B. de votes his attention to John's di gestion; when in comes Dr. C. and decides surgery is indicated. Unless he is willing to take time to confer with his colleagues, which seems not to be custom ary, judging from a recent un happy experience in my own family, it is possible for the pa tient "to' die cured" since the surgery may be wholly success ful, yet other aspects of John's medical history which Dr. C. loftily chose to ignore as being outside his field, may well prove fatal, or at the very least, serve to greatly hamper John's recov ery. Unless we are very young, most of us are not so fortunate as to have had only one ailment or one injury. As these multiply, each leaves its mark in our phy sical make-up, and each reacts with the others and with each new disease or injury we ac quire. Hence the family doctor is better qualified to treat his patients adequately, precisely because he sees ill persons as complete human beings. If more knowledge is required than he possesses he refers his patient to a qualified specialist, but he does not step out of the picture. Instead he remains as the coor dinating element which is so sadly lacking in our local situa tion yet which is so highly essen tial if patients are to be restored to health. Name on File Greater Competition Foreseen by Babso By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Com petition will increase constantly and severely during the next few years. This "few years" prob ably means until a severe bus i n e s s de pression comes which will wipe out the weak concerns and leave the field only to Roger V Bans..n the Strong. The basic reason is that manu facturers in order to counter act increased wage demands are . constantly reducing their other costs of production. Al though the retail prices of most goods have gone up, yet, except for labor, the cost of actual manufacturing has declined. New machinery, electronics, automa tion, and other new develop ments are seeking to overcome the effects of higher wages. As a result, there is a constant struggle between the labor-lead er and the inventor. This results in increased production and a surplus of goods. Manufacturers then are forced to create more customers and sell more goods in order to keep their plants running at full volume. Only as a manufacturer is running at full capacity is he able to pay higher wages and produce goods at lower cost. Subsidies Certainly if farmers who are really manufacturers re ceive subsidies and other helps from Congress, many manufac- Maunoury sought desperately to work out a compromise that would win the support of his minority government by disput ing Conservatives and leftists on a home-rule plan for ,Algeria. The conservatives wanted the plan strengthened so as to safe guard French control over Al geria. The Socialists demanded enactment of the plan as writ ten. .-. If Bourges-Maunoury got over the hurdle on Algeria, he would be faced by another fight on his system of farm price controls, which he imposed last month as a curb on inflation. Farm interests, which have powerful representation in Par liament, demand that the con trols be scrapped. McC ann Balances Bad, Good News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news the international balance sheet: on Tough old Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of West Germany, won a big victory in a parlia mentary election. Adenauer's Christian Demo cratic Party and its allied Ger man Party won 277 seats out of the total of 497 in the Bunde stag, controlling house of Parlia ment, for a four-year term. This gives Adenauer a major ity of 67 votes over the com bined opposition the Socialists with 169 seats and the Free Democrats with 41. its own. I think everyone will agree that an overhaul of Oregon's tax structure is too important to be tackled at a special session of the legislature. All in all, it will be better, as Hamlet suggested in his immortal soliloquy, to J "bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of." It was a victory not only for Adenauer but for the Western Allies. It was a corresponding defeat for Soviet Russia. Russia had campaigned openly and savagely against Adenauer in its propaganda broadcasts be cause he has brought West Ger many into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and be cause he is a bitter foe of in ternational Communism. TUMPING from Oregon to the United Nations which is rather long leap India has opened a drive in the U.N. to oust Nationalist China and seat Communist China in its place. The United States and its allies hope to defeat the move as they have in the past. Premier Luang Pibul Song- gram of Thailand was over thrown as the result of a mili tary coup carried out by a group of army officers. internal political issues brought about Pibul's fall. But the overthrow was an unwel come development. Thailand is one of the eight members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organi zation. SEATO's headquarters are in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Pibul was firmly pro- Western. The United States had strong ly supported Pibul. Field Mar shal Sarit Tftanarat, who led the coup, is represented also as be ing friendly toward the West. But he and those associated with him may be influenced by a strong tide of "neutralism" which has been apparent in Thai land in recent months. The life of France's 22nd post war government was threatened on the issues of Algeria and farm price controls. Premier Maurice Bourges- I'D like to offer another sug gestion to Governor Holmes. CALL OFF the special session. The chances are strong that it will turn out to be another Pan dora's box. Nobody knows what will fly out. Once the special session is opened, it will be on Free Silver Dollars (FOR YOUR STAMPS! Get SILVER DOLLAR Trading Stamps at: OK MARKET Roxy Ann Market Craterian Beauty Salon Model Bakery Y Oil Station T Jiffy Car Wash Electric Shaver Service Bailey's Richfield Medford Muffler Co. The United Nations General Assembly opened its. 12th an nual meeting- in New York. On its program for discussion were disarmament,, Russian in tervention in Hungary, a Com munist and "neutralist" demand that Red China be admitted to membership, the future of Cy prus and the Algerian rebellion. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles opened debate with a warning that Soviet Russian am bitions in the Middle East might lead to aggression. He asked the assembly to ap prove Western disarmament pro posals, introduced at the recent conference in London, in hope that the pressure of world opin ion might induce Russia to ac cept them. turers are entitled to the same help. All of this, however, re sults in severe competition which is profitable to no one. To keep labor employed and the factory working at full volume, manu facturers have encouraged in stallment sales and other means of coaxing people to buy more goods than they really need, or to buy them before they need them. This means that when un employment begins, housewives will be so stocked with new furniture, electric utilities, and clothes that they will be able to stop buying almost everything other than food. Furthermore, the food bill can be greatly cut, probably resulting in better health for the family. The future of employment is therefore in the hands of the consumers. As long as consum ers continue to increase their purchases, conservative manu facturers will get on satisfac torily. When, however, consum ers begin to economize, then un employment will follow and most manufacturers will be headed for trouble. This means that retailers have a great re sponsibility. Although retailers are dependent on the consumers, who are the source of real pow er, yet consumer buying is large ly influenced by the attitude of retailers. Most retailers are now not doing their part to prolong pros perity. Golf courses, luncheon dates, bowling alleys, boating, and automobiling are taking the time of retailers who ought to be in their stores. Customers are not being given the indivdual attention which they like. Mer chants are making it harder to buy through self-service, poorly arranged stock, and careless ad vertising. What Retailers Should Do The next depression will be brought on by automobile con gestion or by the fear of Fallout due to the threatened Russian "tests." Parking meters are help ful in preventing all-day parkers from hogging the streets; " but parking meters may reduce the amount of merchandise sold. After I drop my coin into a parking meter, I cannot forget the meter. I have it constantly in mind as I am shopping. This worry about the parking meter causes me to buy fewer goods than I would buy if it were not for my parking meter worry. All of this means that downtown retailing is in a chaotic condi tion. Evening shopping may be an answer to the parking prob lem., I once asked John D. Rocke feller Sr. how a retailer could make more money. He replied, "Live over the store and be available to customers from 6 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night." This does not necessarily mean that the store will be "open," or that the re tailer will spend more money ; for more employees. (Mr. Rocke feller, of course, was a great be liever in better lighting, wheth er by candles, kerosene, gas, oil, or electricity.) Then he con tinued: ' "Next to well-trained employees and proper lighting and advertising, merchants should keep their stores open longer hours. Evening shopping is coming." JT There ere Mfow TWO 0tFFfZNT TYPES of M.G.F. PECTIN ...and THEY BOTH MAKE WONDERFUL UNCOOKED JAMS ANYTIME OF YEAR... 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