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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, September 25, 1.957 "Iveryone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published UaUy ExceM Saturrtav b 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager tKi(- au-l.-s, jk. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Itfedford Oregon under Act of March 3 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance' Per Codv 10c Daily and Sunday One vear $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sundav Three mcs 4.25 Sundav Only One vear $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River Talent end on motor routes Daily and Sundav One vear S18 00 Dally and Sundav One month 1 50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Hresa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY? rNC Offices In New York Chicago de troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C PUBIISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E 0 I T O I I A t AsToc5VieN iaiifiioariii.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 Sept. 25, 1947 (Thursday) Funds for construction of a store building in Eagle Point for a blind youth will be raised at a dance. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The first Californian from Lane county has shown up locally to warn the people against acceptance of the sales tax as proposed in this state." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 25. 1937 (Sunday) Ernest W. Winkle, past ex alted ruler of the Medford Elks lodge, elected president of the Oregon State Elks association at a business session here. Warrants charging proprietors of 14 Medford establishments with "promoting and setting up a lottery," served by sheriffs office. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1927 (Sunday) According to A. D. Helms, well-known valley resident, Hol lywood agents have been dicker ing with him for the use of his ranch for studio purposes. A large Fokker plane, carry ing both passengers and mail, flies through Medford on way to San Francisco. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 25. 1917 (Tuesday) The Third Oregon infantry, except C company and several other companies which remain on guard duty in the state, passed through Medford en route to Camp Green, Charlotte, N. C. To encourage youth to study state history, the Oregon Society of the Sons of The American Revolution offer prizes for the best essays on American Revo lution subjects. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct ts superior; seven or eisht is excellent: five or six is good 1. A centimeter is a French coin, measurement, or small in sect? 2. Do bananas or avocados have the higher food value per pound? 3. Bible: Was Joseph 24, 30, or 34 years old when he "went out over all the land of Egypt?" 4. The Roman numerals CCC indicate what Arabic equiva lent? 5.. Certain kinds of birds' nest are an article of food in which country? 6. Is it true that snow never falls in Florida? 7. What is the adjective de rived from the name of a rep tile, which describes develop ment of intersecting cracks and ridges, said of films, paint, var nish or the like? 8. Name the radio and TV ventriloquist who uses the character "Charlie McCarthy?" Taste and Judgement in Art Judging by the "letters to the editor" columns of the Salem and Portland newspapers, the art exhibit at the State Fair this year created rather more contro versy than usual. The bulk of the letters was from advocates of the more conservative type of art the representational, or "realistic" as opposed to "modern" or "abstract" or non-representational art. They complained that the admissions board chose too many of the latter type for exhibit, not enough of the former, and that in the awarding of prizes, the moderns had all the best of it. Wf OST of us these days tend to agree with the classic comment of the man who said "I don't know any thing about Art, but I know what I like." And what we like is what we are familiar with, and what we under stand. Therefore, since most people have had little in the way of an art education, and do not understand the methods, or even the approach, of modernistic art, they are much more apt to appreciate the quickly recognizable, the familiar, and easily-understood paintings and sculptures represented by the non- modern schools. All this is as it should be. But at the same time, it should be pointed out that with more time and thought and study, the moderns, many of them, have some thing to say, and many are saying it well. NE of the minority of the letters in defense of the moderns came from a Salem woman to the Oregon Statesman. She gives, clearly and concisely, a view which those interested in the subject could well con sider. Here are excerpts from her. letter: "I am not going to try to clarify what the painter is say ing in a modern abstract painting, but I wonder how many people who dislike distortion realize that the most conser vative landscape painting is a distortion . . . This distortion is accepted by people. They are mostly not even aware that they are not seeing as realistically as they imagine. If they will accept the idea then, that ail painting is in a sense a distortion of reality, perhaps they can begin to see paint ing as a language, whose symbols are to be learned. The paint and canvas themselves are a distortion in the sense that they are not air and light as we know them, and there fore a distortion of what we think is reality." The difference, she seems to be saying, is one not of kind but of degree, with the artist of one school using his media in a traditional manner, and the artist of another in an experimental, but equally valid, manner. And the point that she makes, that there is room for both, is a good one. ART in all its forms, and by its veiy nature, can be -in -l rrrA nnlir l'vi n cnKinnT ll7n momioi" TVl OVQ Ol'O n r universally-accepted "rules and regulations" as to what distinguishes good art from bad. One man can tell another what he likes, and why he likes it, but can't make anyone else like it. Only additional background and knowledge and study can qualify one person as more competent than another in judging the value of a painting, or a piece of music, or a sculpture. " Tastes in art, as in eating, are acquired. It is no more reprehensible to be fond of liverwurst or caviar, which are acquired tastes, than it is to like modern paintings, which is another taste that is acquired only by exposure and understanding. h.A. Pole-Less Neighborhoods Some of the accouterments of civilization, even the less lovely ones, come to be so familiar th.at little thought is given to them in their more objectionable aspects. An example is the tall pole, dipped in some sort of preservative, which carries telephone or power wires. We are so familiar with them that we hardly see them, and only when we visit a community which has done away with them are we almost subconciously aware that something different and pleasant is going on. According to the magazine Electrical Construe tion and Maintenance," an entire new community, Elk Grove Village, 111., will be the first complete town in the nation without either utility poles or TV an tennae.' THERE will be some 6,000 homes in this new 1,500- 1 acre residential suburb of Chicago, and each of them will be served with telephone and power inlets underground. The lower installation and replacement costs, plus the easier availability, probably mean that utility wires alwaj-s will be with us, particularly in rural and industrial areas. But most people would admit that a pole-less residential neighborhood is a far more at tractive one than a block where wire-strung poles dot the landscape. Trie magazine reports that installation costs are considerably higher, but that there are compensating factors to the utilities in lower operating and repair costs meaning trouble-free distribution without tree trimming or damage caused by wind, rain or ice storms. E.A. ' ig'psT ' ,-rnt MiLiMTe, 'SET 0UB RED HOTS' . .1 W0 PUTiustoo on IT. . . SET WK KtU...PcA( (T.KID;... 6ET YOUK...SnfV!IC0, In the Day's News Polish-Occupied Territory in East Germany Seen Future Issue By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The future of the East Ger man territory now occupied by Poland is likely to become a big issue before long. West Ger man Chancel lor K q n r a d Adenauer i s expected t o take the first step soon to ward eventual e s tablishment of formal dip lomatic relations with the "in dependent" Communist Polish government. When that time comes, the status of the 38,900-square-mile area of Germany east of the Oder and Neisse rivers will become a Chailes M. AlcCann topic for discussion and for ne gotiation. The territory has been occu pied by Poland since 1945. Then, at the Potsdam Conference, the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Russia put the rich terri tory under Polish administration pending the conclusion of a final German Peace treaty. Still No Treaty Twelve years later, no such treaty has been signed. But Rus sia and Poland regard the Oder Neisse line as the permanent frontier. The East German Com munist puppet government has formally "recognized" the area as permanently Polish. It lacks any authority to give such recog nition, of course. The United States, Britain and West Ger many still regard the territory By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, Little Rock, Ark., holds the center of the news spotlight. What happened at the Central High school there the other morning was unfortu nate because it involved vio lence. It was fortunate because the violence involved was minor rather than major. That is to say It resulted in BRUISES instead of bloodshed. Bruises are easier to forget than the spilling of blood. A lot of wise and tolerant for getting is needed at Little Rock. SOUTHERN governors are hnlrlinP a rnnfprpnpp nt. Spa island, in Georgia. Governor Faubus of Arkansas is there. Asked by reporters for comment on the happenings in the capital of his home state, he said the ra cial violence in Little Rock was the thing he acted to prevent when he called out the National Guard. He adds that he has no plans at this time to call out the Guard again. That sounds like he is ready to do some forgetting. AT the Sea Island conference, Governor Collins of Florida says: "If the South. wraps itself in a Confederate flag and con sumes itself in a racial furor, it will -bury itself politically for years. ' He was speaking on the sub ject: "Can a Southerner Be Elected President?" He says YES, but the "South erner must be "a man of compe tence and achievement whose alliance to the NATIONAL in terest must be forceful, absolute and unquestioned." AN a TOTE, please, that at this con- ' ference of Southern gover nors no bloody shirts have so far been waved. One reason is that as yet no blood has been spilled on any shirts. Let's hope it steys that way. less controversial but still rather interesting sub ject, we find in the news today this bit of speculation: The atomic energy commission fired the first known under ground nuclear explosion in Ne vada last week. THE BLAST MAY HAVE CREATED A TREASURE TROVE OF GEMS FOR SOME FUTURE GENERA TION. The heat and fusion of the underground explosion undoubt edly produced rubies and sapphires AND POSSIBLY DIA MONDS. H M-M-M-M-M-M ANYTHING that modern scien tific research may not yet be able to achieve? 9. Does "folk" properly re fer to relatives, friends, neigh bors, etc? 10. "How a minority, Reach ing a majority, Hates a" what? Answers: 1. Measurement. 2. Avocados. 3. 30. 4. 300. 5. China. &. No. 7. Alligatored. 8. Edgar Bergen. 9. No. "Folks" refers to people in the sense of a group. 10. "Minority." L. H. Rob-bins. Arab Advances To $8,000 Level New York (1? Kamal Mansour. a member of the Arab Druse sect from Isfia, Israel, an swered correctly the $8,000 ques tion on a television quiz show Tuesday night. In the "Islam, Christianity and Judaism" category on "The $64, 000 Question" Mansour named the city where Mohammed was born (Mecca), the city to which the prophet fled (Medina), and identified a "hadj" (a pilgrim mage to Mecca). Then Mansour, the son of a sheik, identified the largest Christian denomination in the world (Roman Catholicism); gave the name of the monk who sparked the birth of Protestant ism (Martin Luther); and trans lated a Jewish prayer. Michael Smele, 11, Flushing, N.Y., reached the $1,000 level on the program before time was called. His category is baseball. Market Overselling Said No Guarantee Against More Decline Elmer Vvaizer By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) Wall Street experts say the market has .over done it again that it's oversold r""! But that does not necessarily mean that there will be no further de cline. There's an old market axiom that the lows seldom are set on vol ume and Mon day's shakeout was accomplished on the great est activity of the year. This building up of a decline is a matter of public psychology, according to Mitchell of Canada, noted for his picturesque phrases on the ways of Wall Street. "One of the most amazing things you can see in the work ings of the stock market is the way very intelligent men may be taken down the line by peo ple with much lower IQs," he says. Try To Keep Calm "When their stocks start go ing down, they try to keep calm, but as they see others frantically selling on all sides the herd instinct suddenly takes over and they panic. It is just like a cattle stampede. "Then when they see a stock that's riding high, an irrestible urge compels them to do what everybody else is doing and climb on the bandwagon. "Chances are they buy a lot of shares from the smart op erators who bought the stock just after a recent panic at low prices and thus clean up a tidy profit. 'Blind emotions as a guide to picking stocks can onlv lead to one sure thing a howling wolf at the door. Best Way To Profit "Emotional reactions can never attain the high degree of rationality that is vitally neces sary for successful speculation in stocks." Mitchell suggests that in this market the best way to make money is to liquidate on rallies and buy back on reactions. He believes the market still is in a bullish long term move and advises against selling qual ity stocks because the market takes an intemperate turn for the worse. "Accumulate only the strong est stocks and short only the weakest," he says. "So no matter which way the market turns you'll continue to make money." Little Rock Dispute Only 'Preliminary' To Deep South Fight By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The dis pute over racial integration of Little Rock's Central High school is no more than a preliminary in cident in the developing contest over the educational comingling of white and Ne gro children. It is not likely i.yie c wiison to establish a quickly effective precedent. The showdown will not take place in Little Rock, no matter how- President" Eisenhower ap plies federal force unless, per haps he should proclaim martial law to place a military governor in charge. Arkansas is a border state, evidently substantially di vided on integration of the schools. The showdown will come if at all in a wholly southern state such as Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia or Mississippi. Virginia, for example, has eject ed a bulwark of state law against integration. There is no token in tegration in Virginia as there is in Arkansas. Interview With Byrnes before the Supreme Court. Thereafter, events in Little Rock, wherever they may lead, prob ably would be duplicated in greater stress in the deep South. as German, unaer roiish occu pation. There have been indications for several months that Aden auer thought it would be a good idea to establish relations with Poland. Adenauer has said repeatedly and emphatically that Germany never will go to war to recover the territory. Blow Against Adenauer But the West German govern ment was deeply disturbed when President Tito of Yugoslavia, welcoming Polish Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka to Belgrade for their conference this month, called for the estab lishment of the Oder-Neisse line as the permanent border. That development might have ended any prospect of early establishment of relations be tween West Germany and Po land. But Adenauer kept his head, and even took things a bit farther in a CBS television-radio interview in Bonn Sunday. When he made it known that he in tended first to seek closer trade and commercial relations and then "proceed step by step." Adenauer did not go into de tails. But he seemed to imply plainly that he might not insist on the unconditional return of the territory. bmmurticatiorBs Letters to the Editor must bear the rjme and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of s pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Oregon Senators Praised io the Editor: Here is a copy of a letter recently sent to Mr Art Pullen, U.S. National Bank, Grants Pass, Oregon Dear Art: I must protest the remarks which a member of your bank by the name of Baker Ferguson, made concerning our Senators Morse and Neuberger driving new industry away from Ore gon, when he apparently ad dressed a Real Estate convention in his capacity as representing your bank. As a lumber salesman, I have traveled through most of the States selling lumber, and in so doing, have talked with a num- South Carolina law is similar. ber of smaI1 and larSe business- Multnomah GOP Elects President Portland (IP) Alan Green, local battery manufacturer, Tuesday night was elected chair-1 which man of the Multnomah County I transferred and, also, all appro- U. S. News and World Report re cently interviewed James F Byrnes, former associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court who later served as governor of South Carolina. He was asked if South Carolina would close its public schools to frustrate inte gration. "It is already the law of the state," Byrnes replied, "that, if student be transferred from a Negro school to a white school or from a white school to a Ne gro school, by order of the court, all appropriations for that school shall immediately cease," The interview continued: Q: Wouldn't that be a violation of the Supreme Court order that no state shall take any action along the lines of preventing integration? Both Schools Affected A: "Well, I should add that the law says the appropriation shall cease for the school to the Negro student is Republican Central committee Green received 129 votes to 53 for Mrs. Elizabeth Sailor who was the only other contest ant for the position made vacant when Francis I. Smith, Portland attorney,, resigned A resolution passed by the group approved President Eisen hower's decision to use federal troops in the integration con troversy at Little Rock, Ark. School Absences High af Portland Portland (IP) School ab sences in three Portland high schools remained high today but officials said they still didn't know if Asian flu was respon sible. J. W. Edwards, superintendent of schools, said there were 331 absences at Wilson, 314 at Lin coln and 238 at Jefferson Tues day, more than twice the usual number at this time of year. There were 45 teachers absent. Tillamook (IP) About one fourth of the high school stu dent body was reported absent from classes Tuesday and school officials said they believed Asian flu was responsible. Some 163 students were absent. Salem OP) About half the onion crop of Malheur county has been moved into storage. priations shall cease for the school from which he comes." Q: Does the federal govern ment have power to cause South Carolina to spend money it does not want to spend? A: "The administrators would not be able to spend it." y: Has the federal govern ment any power to compel a state to appropriate money it does not want to appropriate?" A: "No, I can see no way by which a court could order a legis lator to vote aye' on an appro priation bill instead of 'no'." These state laws and any oth ers, of course, must stand or fall Sfereofypers Vote Strike at Portland Portland (IP) Stereotypers on the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian Tuesday night voted to strike if current contract ne gotiations are stalemated. - Jack Danforth, chairman of the scale committee, said con tracts have expired. Negotiations involved wages and working conditions, he said. Management and .union repre sentatives were to mftt today to continue contract talks. men, and also people represent ing corporations and industries of size. A year ago, when spending two weeks in Washington, D.C., appearing before the I.C.C. to obtain better treatment from the railroads for Oregon Lumber shippers, also when appealing our case before the Senate For eign Relations committee, which has jurisdiction with the I.C.C, I found our Senators cooperative in every way and they left no stone unturned to aid the Ore gon Lumber industry. I certain ly consider their efforts as con ducive to new industry after all, over 50c of Oregon's dollar is from lumber. While talking with lumbermen there, plus people in everyday walks of life in that city, which I may ob serve, are prone to look upon Senators with a jaundiced eye, I can assure you that both of our Senators from the State of Ore gon are considered amongst the foremost as men who have en couraged progressive legislation and have the interest of their constituents and new industry at heart in their own State. Throughout the United States I have further found them to en joy a good reputation as progres sive legislators, and they certain ly do not possess the stigmata in the eyes of the Arnerican public as being servants to the 'favored few'. Due to knowing you, I thus protest, as one of your deposi tors, the remarks oi this man, and may I inquire, what indus tries has the U.S. National Bank brought into the State that our good Senators haven't? I believe when he makes this criticism it should be pointed out what con structive efforts his organization has made that they haven't, and what results they have produced that our Senators have not. Dana McBarron Rogue River, Ore. i "A Little Old White Church" To the Editor: While driving around Sunday, we came upon the scene described below. I came home with a much hap pier feeling, and a prayer of thankfulness in my heart, be cause we selected this lovely valley, as our future home. Sgt. and Mrs. Owen Williams Rt. 2, Box 165-B, Central Point, Ore. The tall spire of a little old white church, standing stately and dignified, among the mighty oaks, on a quiet street, in a quiet little city. I step inside, purple lights shining down across the pews and carpets, fine old, yet lovely, stained glass windows, said to be shipped laboriously from It aly by boat, then by oxen, to its present site, a century ago. The exquisite beauty, and silence, broken only by soft music from an old organ. You feel God's presence very near. Outside, in a grove of trees, in lovely fall colors, tables set up. . Proud fathers, mothers, fine sons and daughters busily pre paring a banquet, in honor to the "salt of the earth" founders. One feels Heaven must be made up of "things and people" like this. I quietly drove away as a quartet sang "on a hill far away .' Fears Pay T.V. To the Editor: In regards to your "T.V. and Public Welfare" in tonight's paper, this pay for "special" programs for those who wish may be O.K. But what guarantee have those who may not care for it that sporting events such as Game of the Week, the World Series and pro football will not be placed in closed circuit for the "pay" view ers, and lost to those not caring for it? It would seem that others also among our most popular might be lost to us because of this slot machine T.V. S. J. Dodge, 504 Austin st., Medford, Ore. Fur Restyling Your furs get a real face-lifting here. We clean and repair ... restore- like-new looks. What's more, at a moderate price we'll com pletely remodel your fur eoaf, giv ing it all the season's fashion news. Frances' Furs Formerly Frances Oallaire 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Telephone SP 2-6526 Stops Heart Gas I O TIMCC CACTCD Ab amazing littlt black tablat containing tht fastest tctmt medicine known, is taking the country by storm. This famous BELL-ANS tablet for acid indigestion, us. heartburn, and sour stomach contains no harmful drugs, leiatives, aspirta or tranquilizers. 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