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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RLTHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A I.I, F.N JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord 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 Si months 8 00 O Dally and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 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 $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION W A T I O N A I E 0 I T I A i A I I a$TocITa'i"2n Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 4, 1947 (Sunday) Juvenile advisory committee meets to discuss further the hir ing of a juvenile officer. Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Citizens complain about barking dogs and honking auto horns at night, with the racket of both directed at noth ing in particular." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 4, 1937 (Monday) Two local golfers report see ing a large rat chasing a big cat down the road from the Rogue River golf club. Dr. A. E. Merkel, formerly connected with the Los Angeles county health department, named Jackson county health physician. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 4, 1927 (Tuesday) The largest clock in the state erected at Main "and Riverside sts. on top of the East Side pharmacy. Firemen's ball will be staged by the Medford fire department in a short time, depending on the current infantile paralysis epidemic. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 4. 1917 (Thursday) The La Scala Grand Opera company, which appears tonight in "Carmen" at the Page thea ter, arrived in special train. Henry W. Frame, president of the Southern Oregon Poultry as sociation states the price of poultry feeds has only forced out those less efficient poultry meg. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Is Ceylon a Crown colony? 2. Montevideo is the capital of which South American coun try? 3. Bible: Was Nahum a pro phet or priest in Judah or Is rael? 4. Name the author of the realistic tale, "The Man With out a Country." 5. Hypnophobia is the dread of breaking a leg, morbid fear or sleep, or desire to become unconscious? 6. Which bird is the tallest of present-day specimens? 7. The Indianapolis speedway is surfaced with brick, macadam or concrete? 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12; was it in 1944, 1945, or 1946? 9. Is it correct to say "the lady's jewelry glitters or glows"? - 10. (1) "No man can serve two masters." (2) '.'for no man can well serve two masters." (3) "Men cannot serve two mas ters." Does 1, 2, or 3, come from the OH Testament? Answers: 1. No, (it acquired self-governing status within the British Commonwealth). 2. Ur uguay. 3 .Prophet in Judah. 4. Edward Everett Hale. S. Morbid fear of sleep. 6. The ostrich, (some attain a a height of 7 to 8 feet). 7. Brick. 8. 1945. 9. No. Jewels, not jewelry, which is collective as a stock in trade. 10. One (1). PRIZE WINNER DIES Orlando. Fla. 0PI Walter Duranty, 73, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, au thor and expert on Soviet affairs, died Thursday. MAIL TRIBUNE New World Each Day "What a screwy way to make a living," we have heard one newspaperman say to another. But he says it in a way that lets you know that he wouldn't want to be doing anything else in the world. The best of them are intensely proud in their occu pation, for they honestly believe they are doing some thing of real service to. others. They believe the pub lie has a right to know what's going on in the world, and that it's their business to make that knowledge available. "THE Eugene Register-Guard, in commenting on National Newspaper Week now in progress, which is the motivation for these remarks, had this to say: "National Newspaper Week is not an occasion for self praise by newspapers nearly so much as it is an occasion for self-appraisement. It is a time for newspapers over the land to rededicate themselves to the trust placed in them by the vast, intelligent, progressive and enlightened Ameri can public." It might be added that newspapers also serve the unintelligent, the unprogressive and the unenlighten ed, hoping that by exposure to the facts of life they, too, might take a more constructive role in public affairs. COME people think that newspapers are nosy busy- bodies. Well they are. That's what they're here for. They couldn't do their job unless they were consumed with unending and unlimited curiosity about almost every thing, and equipped with the skills and the tools to go about satisfying that curiosity. One public official, not too far removed in either time or distance said: ". . . The press seems to feel that whenever two official county bodies get together its representatives must also attend any discussion." This public official knows perfectly well that the public's business is the business of the public, and that the press' only interest is informing the same public that elected the official. So we marked his comment down to momentary pique and exasperation. Of course it's more difficult to do business with the public looking over your shoulder. But if it is pub lic business, don't they haVe a right to know what's going on? They do. - UIDED bythis thought, we make an effort to print all the significant news of the community. We miss sometimes, God knows, because of human limitations, and the necessaiy limitations of time and staff. But we never stop trying. In addition we make a constant effort to improve your newspaper in accuracy, in readibility, in cov erage, in entertainment, in reporting, in overall con tent, in stimulation of thought and action. We try to provide information for everyone for the men and women seriously interested in problems of society and government; for the sports enthusiast; for the church-goer; for the farmer; for women and for young people; for the sewer and hobbyist; for the sick and the well; the active and sedentary; for the serious and the flippant. "IITE DO NOT always succeed in this rather ambi- tious program. Newspaper people are human and their faults and errors and deficiencies are those shared by everyone. But they try hard not always succeeding to their own satisfaction, or the satisfaction of the readers. On these days, they determine to try harder. The daily newspaper at your door or in your mail box is the result of a complete manufacturing process, new each day; the result of close-knit and friendly teamwork on the part of half-a-hundred men and women, and by a large group of carrier boys, each having his own important role in a highly complicated endeavor. They try to make it truly representative of the city, the county, the state, and in a necessarily limited way, the nation and the world every day. E.A. Taxes: Why and How Grumbling about local taxes is a common, and un derstandable, pastime. It will be heard between now and the property tax deadline Nov. 15 only six weeks from today. While it is common and understandable, much of it also is ill-informed. Many people who object to taxes which are admittedly high don't even know, ex cept in very general terms, how the amount is deter mined, and what it goes for. It is for this reason that we feel a distinct service has been rendered in the publication of a little book let giving the answers to these and many other taxa tion questions. pOUNTY ASSESSOR Ray Schumacher and Sheriff Howard Gault collaborated on the booklet. It is an inexpensively-produced paper, and should be well worth its modest cost, to anyone interested in know ing where his money goes and why. There's nothing really new in the booklet. It has all been published and made public before, in this newspaper and elsewhere. But the booklet has the value of assembling it all in simple and understand able form, and making it a sort of "ready reference" book for all taxpayers. Copies will be mailed out to all property taxpayers within the next week or so, along with tax statements, and while it won't ease the blow much, it will go far toward explaining why and how the blow falls. Schumacher and Gault are to be commended for their effort in producing the booklet. E.A. Friday, October 4, 1957 'fe WINS WStfKFSWEET, Statistics Give No Hint Why-Arkansas Scene of Violence BY BERTRAM BENEDICT The state of which Little Rock is the capital has the lowest per centage of Negroes of all six states of the Deep South. .In the 1950 census the Negro percent age was 22.3 per cent in Ark ansas. It was higher in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, (highest), South Carolina. It was higher also in North Carolina, usually not put in the Deep South. In two other South ern states outside the Deep South, Virginia and Flordia, the percentage of Negroes was about the same as in. Arkansas. Two -thirds of the Arkansas population is rural, as against Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for 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 Counts Out the Roosevelts And Ike To the Editor: When the his tory of our era is written in some far distant day by objective his torians, it is possible that in evaluating the contributions to dynamic change in our moral, social and political order, it will not be Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Ike Eisenhower or Earl Warren who will be given major credit for these progres sive changes. It wil be the bril liant strategists who modestly remained in the background, serving humbly as unofficial advisors. It will be men like Sir Char les Waldstein, benevolent men tor to rulers throughout the world and confidante of John Hay, United States Secretary of State under McKinley and Theo dore Roosevelt. It will be men like Theodore Marburg, the unrecognized gen ius who was the dynamo behind Cecil Rhodes and Andrew Car negie in their philanthropic en deavors throughout the world, especialy in England and Amer ica, and also the dynamo be hind the First League to En force Peace, of which William Howard Taft was chairman. It will be men like Justice Brandeis, who, like Waldstein and Marburg, cooperated so wholeheartedly with Cecil Rhodes and Andrew Carnegie, and who, together with E. Man dell House, influenced Wood row Wilson to initiate the League of Nations, the first World Organization to . enforce World Peace by intergating all the peoples of the world with out regard to race, creed, sex, nationality, customs, or prop erty. It will be men like Paul Lieberman and Dr. Louis Fink elstein, Dean and Chancellor, respectively, of the Jewish The ological Seminary of America, who in an almost unparalleled manifestation of ' unselfish and tolerant Brotherhood, are in structing Chief Justice Earl War ren in Jewish judicial processes dating back more than 2000 years, as contained in the "Mishnah," with its guiding emphasis on moral law, so that the Chief Justice will be more adequately equipped to inter pret the United States Consti tution for all Americans. And occupying a place second to none in this list, not even to E. Mandel House's hero, Mazzini, will be Bernard Baruch, the statesman and unofficial advisor to American Presidents and British Prime Ministers. I, therefore, agree completely with the suggestion made by Mrs. Noah Counts of Sherman, Texas, that Mr. Baruch should be afforded the honor of serving as chairman of Ike's civil rights commission, instead of General Lucius Clay. Ham Rider Moscow, Texas KIT IT SWBIS Timgi; about one-third for the nation as a whole. Only two states have a higher proportion of rural in habitants, Mississippi and North Dakota (195 census). Low Voter Turn-Out Arkansas imposes the poll-tax requirement for voting and in 1956 only 40 per cent of its vot ing age population cast ballots for President. That was the eighth lowest figure among the states, but higher than in any other Deep South state. Little Rock had a population of 102,213 in 1950. No other city in the state has as much as 60,000. Over 99 per cent of the people of Arkansas are native-born, as compared with slightly less than 90 per cent for the United States as a whole. The typical (median) White person in Arkansas over 24 years of age has had 8- years of schooling, the typical Negro 5V years. . The figure for the Whites is about the same as in the other states of the Deep South except Mississippi, where it is higher. The figure for the Negroes is a little higher in Arkansas than in any other Deep South state. School Costs Low The most recent figures avail able show expenditures on public schools per pupil lower in Ark ansas than in any other state ex cept Mississippi. That is true also of teachers' salaries. Figures of the U. S. Com merce Department for 1954 show personal money income per capita as $979 in Arkansas as against $1770 in the nation as a whole. The figure was lower in Arkansas than in other states except Mississippi ($837). As for Little Rock, the Negro percentage of the population (23 per cent) is about the same as in Arkansas as a whole (1950). It was lower than in any other city of the Deep South of over 100,000. So the outbreak of mob viol ence in Little Rock could not be laid to a preponderately large percentage of Negroes. Neither can it be laid to a relative lack of education, quantitatively, for Little Rock ranks higher than most cities in the Deep South and for that matter than some in the North in number of years spent in school. The 1950 Census figures show median family in come higher in Little Rock than in any other Deep South city of over 100,000 except Baton Rouge, La. In The Center The proportion of Negroes in Arkansas is higher in the east ern than in the western part of the state. Little Rock is in the geographical center of the state. Among the cities in the western part that have desegregated is Fort Smith. The University of Arkansas, which has admitted Negroes for some years, is in Fayetteville, in the northwest. From this- statistical picture no one could have predicted Little Rock as the scene of the most serious mob violence from school integration. Agriculture Aide To Attend Hearing Salem (IPl Paul T. Powell, market development chief of the state agriculture department, left Thursday for the Interstate Commerce Commission freight rate hearing in Denver, Colo. The hearing will concern the reasonableness of recent heavy reductions in westbound freight rates on dressed meats from Mid west packers to Pacific Coast points. Powell said the one-sided rate reductions were a serious threat to Oregon and West Coast live stock production and packing in dustries as well as to feed sup pliers and labor. Louisville, Ky. IP) William M. Bullitt, 84, former U.S. so licitor general and a veteran cor poration lawyer, died Thursday of a heart attack. Fail of French Government Tops Foreign News Events of Week By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Correspondent The. week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: France underwent another of its chronic cabinet crises this week. Premier Maurice Bourges- Maunoury was overthrown when the National Assembly, the c on tr oil i n g house of Par liament, reject ed his long studied plan to give limited home rule to Algeria. Political chart Mrcann erouDS raneine from the Communists to extreme right wingers joined to defeat the government by 279-253 on a vote of confidence. Had he survived the Aleeria vote, Bourges-Maunoury would have faced another critical test on domestic policies. About two million industrial workers went on strike from 2 to 24 hours in protest against the government's wage -freeze policy, part of its program to combat inflation. Farmers also struck. They refused to send foodstuffs to Paris markets in protest against another anti-inflation measure, a freeze on farm prices. Bourges-Maunoury's successor will have to face the same two issues. More and more, Frenchmen talked of a resort to radical meas ures to give their country stable government after seeing 23 gov ernments come and go since France's liberation in 1944. This solution would be to call upon "strong man" Gen. Charles de Gaulle, wartime leader of Free France, to lead the govern ment and to give him constitu tional power to rule firmly. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles invited Soviet Russian Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro myko to confer with him infor mally in Washington Saturday on such East-West isues as dis armament, the Middle East and the unification of Germany. It was arranged that Gromy- ko, who is attending the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, would visit Dulles at the secre tary's home. There was no indication that either Dulles or Gromyko was ready to make any concession that would bring them closer to gether on any big issue. Dulles' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written federal troops are still in Little Rock in spite of the fact that all re sponsible elements in our coun try, including all the moderates among the Southern governors, would like to get them out at the earliest possible moment. What is the trouble? Who is at fault? T ET'S review the circum stances. Late Tuesday President Eisen hower held a conference at the White House with four Southern governors. After the meeting, the President said he would withdraw the troops if Governor Faubus of Arkansas assured him he would prevent obstruction of integration and maintain law and order. 'Governor Faubus gave the President such assur ance, but qualified his statement that there would be no obstruc tion of court-ordered integration by adding the words "by me." The White House said the President objected to the qualifi cation. rpHE chairman of the four-- Southern-governor team Governor Luther Hodges of North Carolina said follow ing the White House conference it was his opinion that the addi tion of the words "by me" prompted President Eisenhow er's refusal to pull the troops away from the Little Rock high school. He added: "It is my hope that these words were an UNWITTING slip which can be straightened out." So he got in touch with Governor Faubus. Governor Faubus held a news conference Wednesday morning. Asked what he meant by the words, he answered that he used them be cause he was speaking for him self alone. TIE was asked if he would use the National Guard to pro tect the Negro children if fed eral troops leave. He replied that he didn't like to comment on "iffy" questions. He then added: "Basically, they want me to take troops and put bayonets -in the backs of students of my own state and BAYONET AND BLUDGEON MY OWN PEO PLE." THAT is an inflammatory state ment. Only dangerous dema gogues use language like that in explosive situations such as that existing in Little Rock. It is little wonder that Presi dent Eisenhower . refused to withdraw the federal troops. feeling seemed to" be that if the meeting did no good, at least it could do no harm and that its atmosphere would be friendly. Pro-Western Arab leaders made it increasingly plain that whatever they may think pri vately of the rise of pro-Russian elements to power in Syria, they want no interference by the United States or the U. N. in the situation. One reason is that they do not want their countries to be a dip California, New Jersey Republicans Testing Labor's Voting Power By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington Wl Two prominent campaigning Repub licans, more daring than most of their party peers, are test ing labor's po litical power and inviting labor's po litical repri sals in elec tions coming up. Both cam paigners are I.yle C. WUson touched with presidential politics. Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), is one campaigner. The other is Malcolm S. Forbes, Republican candidate for gover nor of New Jersey. Knowland announced Thurs day for governor of California. He will contest California's June, 1958, primary against Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, and a big issue in the campaign is expect ed to be Knowland's charge that Knight is soft on organized labor. Knight's spry answer to that has been that in recent e-ections no California candidate has won a state-wide contest on a plat form which contained what might be called an anti-labor plank. Knowland advocates a California right-to-work law such as already is in effect in 18 states. It would outlaw the union shop. Organized labor is dead against it. ' Forbes Opposes Meyner Forbes, the other Republican now defending himself against charges of anti-labor sympathies opposes Democratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey who seeks re-election next month. There is at least a touch of presidential politics in both the California and New Jersey situa tions. Knowland may have in mind stepping from the gover nor's chair to the White House and Meyner must win re-election to sustain his substantial eligi bility for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. In late August, Forbes ap peared by invitation before the New Jersey Council of the CIO. He ridiculed the idea that the CIO seriously was offering him a chance to qualify for 'its en dorsement. He charged that the CIO decision already had been made, although not announced, to endorse Meyner. "You seem more interested," Forbes told the CIO leaders, "in having a governor and legis lature who are rubber-stamped for some CIO leaders than in ' having a governor and a legislature which must concern itself with the welfare of all of the people of New Jersey." With that estimate of what a CIO endorsement would require of him, Forbes told the labor leaders, bluntly: "I am not your man." " Knight Goads Knowland Knight has been warning Knowland that a primary con test between them would wreck the Republican Party in Cali fornia. The governor, too, has goaded the senator with sugges tions that Knowland in 1960 hopes to oppose Vice President Richard Rf. Nixon for the Re publican presidential nomina tion. Knowland holds that a hot primary contest would be good, not bad, for the party in Cali fornia. He sought to scuttle charges that he would oppose Nixon in 1960 by asserting that he would serve out his term if elected governor. The next gov ernor of California will take office Jan. 1, 1959, for a four year erm. With, his Senate seat, to which he will not seek re-election, Knowland is surrendering the WORKER BURNED L. C. Young, no address given, suffered first degree burns on his arms and legs about 10:50 a.m. Thursday in a flash fire in a new but still vacant house at 423 Highland dr.. firemen re ported. They said that Young was applying floor filler at the residence owned by Robert J. T.nekwood. 15 Highland dr., and that the electricity was turned on at the house without his knowledge. An electric heater ignited fumes from the filler. Minor damage was reported to floors of two bedrooms, a bath room and closet and to the bed room and closet doors. lomatic battlefield in the cold war. Another is that they want to maintain a united front against Israel, which they hate and fear. Japan, elected to the United Nations only 9M months ago, was made a member of the Se curity t Council for a two-year term. Japan, sponsored by the United States, defeated Commu nist Czechoslovakia, sponsored by Soviet Rusia, by a vote of 55 25 for the seat. Republican leadership of that body to which he was named by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Knowland is counted a Taft Re publican but was not excelled by any Republican senator in the consistency of his support in the 85th Congress of Eisenhower administration measures. On the basis of 12 key issues, the left wing Americans for Democratic Action reported that Knowland voted "right" 58 per cent of the time. He has bucked the administration on foreign and spending policies. Dr. Erickson Raps Epidemic Rating Portland (in The state health officer today took issue with a U.S. Public Health serv ice report which classed Oregon as a "probable" epidemic state for Asian flu. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said "We certain ly have not considered that Ore gon has had a statewide epi demic of Asian flu." Dr. Erickson said there had been many flu reports but not all had been confirmed as the Asian variety. He said the Pub lic Health service probably based its conclusion on total number of flu cases of all types. However, Dr. Erickson said the Asian strain virus caused a recent siege of flu at the Chem awa Indian school north of Salem where some 285 students were affected. It was the first announce ment in which cause of an Ore gon influenza outbreak has been identified as Asian flu.- But there has been specualtion that widespread school absences throughout the state have been caused by the new strain. Chemistry Class to Be Televised at OSC Corvallis A chemistry class in the corner room of the Ore gon State college coliseum will draw more "viewers" next week than any championship basket ball game ever played in the 11,000-seat structure. The class will be part of an experiment in educational televi sion. The audience will be watch ing from four different college campuses and from homes ex tending from Cottage Grove to north of Salem. Chemistry will be only one of three classes presented this fall term over KOAC-TV, Channel 7, by the state system of higher education, A course in U.S. his tory and one in school and Amer ican life will originate on the University of Oregon campus this fall. The telecourses will begin Oct. 7. Taking the courses will be students at OSC, U. of O., Ore gon College of Education at Mon mouth and Willamette univer sity, which asked to be includ ed in the state system experi ment since it is within the rec eiving area for the telecasts. The chemistry course was of fered last spring term over a closed-circuit network on the Oregon State college campus as a "warm up" for the experiment this fall that will test the ef fectiveness of TV for college in struction. A special port able chemistry laboratory has been installed in the OSC studio, which is located on the second floor of the coliseum. No White House Role in California Race Expected Washington (IP James C. Hagerty, presidential press sec retary, said today he sees no likelihood that the White House will inject itself into California's gubernatorial primary race. Senate Republican leader Wil liam F. Knowland (R-Calif.) an nounced Thursday that he will seek the GOP nomination for governor of his home state against the incumbent, Gov. Goodwin J. Knight. UNLUCKY STICK Norwalk, Calif. (IP) Mrs. Ethel Kauffman allegedly threw a Good Humor ice cream bar into the face of Sheriff Deputy Kenneth Knoll after he arrested her Wednesday for speeding 70 miles an hour in a 15-mile-an-hour zone. She was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.