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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RLTtU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford 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 moa 4-25 Sundav Only One year 14.20. 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 trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWS PA P E k PUIllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IOITOIIAi ! AssociNneN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct.. 13. 1947 (Sunday) KYJC, the Mail Tribune's new radio station, resumes broadcast ing Saturday after sound-proofing of control room. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Reno has won the title of the noisiest city In the land. Some of the town's returned visitors are frequently that way too." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1937 (Wednesday) A $20,000 Community Chest campaign opens in Medford. Jackson county budget is be ing prepared in anticipation lhere will be no state levy on property this year. m TEARS AGO 13. 1927 (Tuesday) Isabella Rowley files suit f ainst Medford for $250,000 for alleged ownership of 'water jrifhts at Big Butte Springs, the jspurce of Medford's new water supply. At least 15 or 16 cases of in fjintile paralysis are under quar antine in various parts of Jack son county, health authorities say. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1917 (Saturday) New apple drying plant opens at Central Point with 50 people employed. Jackson county Hoover drive Is organized. Whaf s Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct ts superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good 1 . How many days were there In February, 1946? 2. Rosa Bonheur was a fa mous Belgian, Dutch, German, or French artist? 3. Bible: Who was responsible for '"The Massacre of the Inno cents" at Bethlehem? 4. Is the right side of a ship (looking forward) the starboard or the port side? 5. Adolf Hitler married his mistress shortly before their joint suicides name her. 6. How many ciphers added to the figure one (1) express a quintillion? 7. What is the name of the great fish market in London, England? 8. What did Napoleon say an army marched on? 9. What is the plural of axis? 10. "O Genevieve, sweet Gen evieve, The days may come. thee days may go, But still the hand of '.... weave The blissful dreams of long ago." What is- the exact spelling of the missing word? Answers: 1. Twenty-eight days. 2. French. 3. Herod 4. Starboard. 5. Eva Braun 6. Eighteen. 7. Billingsgate. 8. Its stomach. 9. Axes. 10. mem ry George Cooper; music, 1877, H. Wallace. Pythians Schedule Special Meeting Here A special business meeting will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Pythian building to vote on page rank applications, James P. O'Duane, chancellor com mander of Talisman lodge, Knights of Pythias, said. He said preparations are al most completed for the class of candidates to be initiated at Roseburg's Pythian hall Friday, Oct. 18. The "Rathbone Bible" under the jurisdiction of Su preme Secretary Mel Ewen of Portland will be used in the ceremony. MAIL TRIBUNE 'The King Is Dead" "The King is dead, long live the King:" "King Baseball" has been kicked from his throne, which King Football now occupies, both intercol legiate and professional, and the crack of the bat will be heard no more until Spring. But the 1957 baseball season will not be soon forgotten, not only in Milwaukee but the U.S.A. The ending was particularly a dramatic spectacular and undoubtedly to a majority of baseball fans, was highly satisfactory. For while the loyal Yankee supporters and they are legion lost their shirts, and their long-cherished prides, even some of them, when the headache eases will, we believe, admit, the defeat of the Yanks and the triumph of the Braves will be good for the game. And the vigor and health of our national game is important. For the Yanks have been league champions so regularly and world-champions so often, that public and sporting interest, except in Greater Manhattan, threatened to drop in the direction of zero. Now we have a new world, and league champion, fresh, vigorous, youthful blood has been injected into our leading national sport, and with the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively, there promises to be from now on, greater baseball interest from coast to coast, than at any time since the sport was bom some 39 years before the Civil War. '"THERE is another good thing about the final chapter of the season. The Yankees put up a good fight, but there is no doubt that the BETTER team won. The Milwaukee youngsters had in Burdette the best pitching, in Aaron, the best batting, in Coving ton, the best fielding; and in general morale, team play and grim determination, they topped the New Yorkers throughout. TTO this department there was one very interesting feature about this world series namely: how devastating the effects of "bad breaks" can be in a contest between relatively well-matched teams. If anyone questions the term "bad breaks" we are willing to compromise for "bad plays." At least in twro of the Braves most decisive vic tories, it was not. outside pitching, their good playing so much as the Yankees the turning point in each mans bobble and late throw of an easy grounder to first base, for example, "side-out," and there was Kubek s wild throw to second which should have meant an easy double-play, but instead of that both runners were. safe. Of course, it comes under the heading of specula tion, but it did seem that these two errors completely changed the tide of both games and from then on, there was little doubt about the ultimate- outcome. It gave the opposition a "shot-in-the-arm" that just couldn't be overcome. SO much for baseball. We fear John R. Scott of Jacksonville will pen another letter, taking "Ye Editor" to task for writing too much on subjects he knows "little or nothing about." We accept "little" but NOTHING, we reject. If we are to be limited by John only to subjects we know, "EVERYthing about," then, we fear, three times a week at least this space will be weak, if not vacant. (Loud cheers from the box-seats!) FINALLY, we congratulate "KBES-TV" on its world series coverage. There -was hardly a break or a failure (what there were, were due of course, to the telephone company). As to the commercials, the seven days wTere sufficient to change this department permanently from "Gillette" to "Gem !" R.W.R. Arizona Blocks the "S.P. We have received a letter from the dynamic "Flash" Fiddler, who is spending the winter in Phoe nix, Arizona. Apparently "the Friendly Southern Pacific" is trying to extend its unfriendly "penny-wise, pound foolish" policies to its main-line from Los Angeles to New Orleans. But it is not enjoying the success it did when the G.O.P. was in control of Oregon, according to Flash's uieiuu. On the plea of losing ruptcy (as was done in Oregon) this "billion dollar" corporation asked the Arizona Corporation Commis sion to allow it to drop two of its main line trains, running through the state from the Pacific to the Gulf. This would not deprive the Phoenix section of Arizona of ALL rail passenger service, as it has in Medford and Southern Oregon, but it would reduce the number of trains daily from 4' to ,2. A PPARENTLY, Arizona has more effective laws regarding public utilities than Oregon has or had for the Arizona commission refused to bow, scrape and comply to the demand, but said, in effect, "you maintain your present service or else !" As to the railroad's wail it was losing $1.5 million a year, the commission said "that loss would be less than the loss and inconvenience of the public by the cessation of operation of the two trains." EXACTLY! The people of Arizona are to be congratulated for having a Utility Commission, not only with the authority to place the public welfare above excessive private profit, but with the "guts" to see that this Sunday, October 13, 1957 bad playing, that marked contest. There was Cole- which should have been 99 money and facing bank Hg H5V&Z PAID MUCH ATTgNTlOM TO '0AD'. 3iiX NOW Tm JMTHB 'FAHGB 50SS'.... Matter of Fact THE THREAT TO SAC Washington A rather des perate expedient is being con sidered at the highest levels, in the wake of the mount in g evidence that the So viets have, or soon will have, o p e r a t ional long range missiles. It is p r o p o sed to keep more stewait aisod man a mira, and perhaps as much as a half, of the planes in the Strategic Air Command in the air at all times. The planes would be loaded with thermonuclear weapons, would be fully fuelled, and the crews would have standby or ders for a counterattack on So viet targets. The fact that this expedient is being seriously con sidered is a measure of the real meaning of the missile race. For the real target of the Soviet missiles is, of course, SAC. The Soviets themselves have virtually said as much, as for example when Nikita Khrushchev, boasting that the Soviets already had an opera tional intercontinental missile, said that henceforth manned bombers are "obsolete." PRESIDENT- Eisenhower has said that a long range mis sile is a "means of delivery for an explosive charge, and that is all that it is for." This is true, of course, as far as it goes. Yet there is one obvious difference between a ballistic missile and a manned plane. Even a super sonic plane takes several hours from take-off to target in an intercontinental flight. A bal listic missile takes only a few minutes. The Soviets could unquestion ably hit our bases and our great cities today with their powerful Strategic Air Force. But they could not possibly hope to catch SAC on the ground in an attack with their comparatively slow manned aircraft. Thus they could only attack with conven tional aircraft in the certain knowledge that they would pay the price of enormous retalia tory devastation. But with op erational medium missiles zero ed in on the SAC bases in this hemisphere, they could logically hope to knock out our ability to retaliate decisively if they could catch the bulk of SAC on the ground. The threat to SAC may not be as distant as is commonly supposed. Already, as has been officially acknowledge, it is as sumed by the intelligence ex perts that the Soviets have op erational 1500-mile missiles with which to threaten the forward SAC bases. And Khrushchev's boasts about the ICBM are taken more seriously than the blandly com placent official attitude would suggest. There is no doubt at all, for reasons already reported in this space, that the Soviets have missiles of intercontinental range. Most experts hope and V truly democratic principle is upheld and enforced. THHE details of the situation in Arizona are not con 1 tained in "F.F's" letter, but it is reasonable to assume the Corporation Commission, did a bit of researching into the bookkeeping of the SP to de termine just HOW a billion-dollar corporation that hasn't missed a dividend in a quarter of a century and pays tremendous salaries in its Upper Brackets, COULD not afford to maintain the service to the traveling public that its franchise pledged and has been maintained through such a prosperous period. (XF course, the SP's "million dollar lobby" is already hard at work along with a corps of high-priced lawyers to secure repeal of the state's control over railroads and other public utilities, or bring sufficient political pressure to bear to force the members of the state commission to reverse their decision. It will be interesting to see if the commission and the people of Arizona are able to do what to date, the people of Southern Oregon have been unable to accomplish. R.W.R. By Stewart Alsop believe that it will be at least a couple of years before the Soviets have enough operation al, accurately guided ICBMs seriously to threaten the SAC bases in this' country. BUT others are not so sure. The fact that the Soviets have cut back sharply on pro duction of their long range Bison bombers has been abso lutely confirmed by the intelli gence. And logic suggests that they would not do so unless they werevalready producing op erational intercontinental mis siles to replace the bombers. The proposal for keeping as much as half the SAC planes in the air at all times indicates how seriously the threat to SAC is taken. But this expedient is only a niakeshift. The only real an swer to Soviet missiles is Ameri can missiles. Back in 1955, a distinguished scientific committee, headed by Dr. James Killian, M.I.T., rec ommended to President Eisen hower an absolute priority for two kinds of American missiles the ICBM and the submarine- launched medium missile. The reason for the ICBM recom mendation is obvious with a sufficient number of ICBM bases in this country, the So viets could not hope to knock out our retaliatory capacity. But even in 1955, there was plenty of evidence that the So viets might beat us to the ICBM punch. The submarine-based missile was therefore proposed as interim insurance. Land- based medium-range missiles do not provide such insurance, for the simple reason that the for eign countries in which almost all our forward , bases are lo cated would exercise a veto power over the use of such missiles. VTO FOREIGN country can veto the launching of a mis sile from an American subma rine. Nuclear subs like the "Nautilus" and the "Sea Wolf" have unlimited range, can stay submerged indefinitely, and can carry up to 16 missiles like the "Polaris," which is designed to be fired under water. Thus, with only a few such missile-carrying submarines in service, the So viets could not hope to knock out our capacity to retaliate decisively. The Killian report was ap proved "in principle." But the Army-Air Force battle over the medium land-based missile shov ed the Navy's "Polaris" into the background, and it will not be operational for two years at best. Meanwhile, the whole mis sile effort has been slowed down by the budget-first policy And the essentially desperate expedient of keeping a huge pro portion of SAC's planes in the air at all times is the best meas ure of the real danger in which this nation finds itself, a danger which has been consistenly con cealed from the American peo ple by the American govern ment. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment WORDS NOT ENOUGH Is the missile research pro gram proceeding at all possible speed? Mr. Eisenhower's words imply that it is, yet his newly named secretary of defense, Neil H. McElroy, said in his first news conference this week that a speed-up in the ballistic missile program is being considered ser iously. The president wants to re assure his fellow Americans, and certainly they would like to be assured. If our military power still is sufficient to provide a strong deterrent to Soviet am bitions, and adequate planning is under way to make sure it stays that way, this knowledge would be comforting to all of us. But the assurances given thus far, in the light of the physical evidence seen in recent days and weeks, fail to do the job. If America is in danger, Mr Eisenhower should not try to shield us from the unpalatable truth. We can take it, and make whatever sacrifices are neces sary to improve our situation. If we really are in a good com petitive position, let's have some solid facts to back up the state ments to that effect. The Ore gonian, Portland. 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 White Man's Inhumanity To the Editor: Might a bit of Newspaper week be dedicated to editorially awaring us again of the U.S.A. Department of Inter ior Commissioner of Indian Af fairs May 16, 1955 orders to field workers and the dangers involved to America's home and world position, safety and se curity? Field . officials were ". . . ordered to ignore tribal interest in deciding whether to patent or open to sale to non Indians certain tracts of Indian land. The order specifically in structed officials to patent land even if it contained the Indian community's only source of wat er or was a key part of a tribal grazing unit." . . . "Area Direc tors must obey orders." In August, again in October, 1955 the Association on Ameri can Indian Affairs called na tional attention to this grave situation through its newslet ters. (How many read them?) April 13, 1956 UP reported plans for a Seattle office "to ex tend economic development into the Pacific NW; that opera tions have been made in 15 re servations; will be extended to 45 in the fiscal year and eventu ally to all 300 reservations. From Assn. on American In dian Affairs, Sept. 9, 1957, let ter: "The account of downright loneliness of the Omahas and Sioux in their home states is one of the saddest things I have read. These tribes have lived through military conquest only to be threatened by extinction from federal neglect and exclu sion from the life of the Dakotas and Nebraska." "One of the saddest and most tragi!: records in the annals of this nation is the list of broken promises made by our govern ment to the American Indians," said Mr. Bert Pausma, manager, Navajo Assistance, Inc., to the Gallup Rotary club. He pointed to 1848 when we took the coun try from Navajoland to and in cluding California, and of prom ises to the Navajos. Instead, we brought Civil War battles into N.M. and the Indians perceived the white man's destruction of lives, buildings, wagontrains of food and equipment far surpass ing any depredations they had been guilty of. From Mohawks and Senecas, Pottawattamies and Seminoles, to Yakimas and the Klamaths; everywhere; all have suffered more than words can tell, be cause of white man's insatiable greed not because he needed the Indian's lands or would im prove America for Americans, but to exploit, waste and destroy for dollar profits The nation's newspapers can help stop these tragedies. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. Quiet Please To the Editor: Being a family man I find a great deal of pleas ure, and also find it easier on my pocketbook, to take advan tage of the "Do It Yourself" ideas. But, my one problem is time. Through close friends I have learned that at the present time there is a City Ordinance in Medford that reads in effect, "that a home-owner can work on or about his property within the hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m." Since I am an average work ing man, with average working hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., how am I going to find time to use up my free hours during the week, As to improving my home, I will have to use my whole week end, without any free time for my family. To cite an example: I would like to build a patio or "extend out" on my home. So I purchased a building permit POTLUCIC (By M-T Staff and Contribution) We have often told of typo graphical errors, which are the occupational hazard of newspa per business. And we like to report on those in big-city pa pers, loo, to show we're not alone in our transgressions. The L.A. Times recently had a headline saying "Carriers Demonstrate in Exercises They Can Whip Anything But the Common Coed." Have von ever wondered what would haDnen if you drove right past the California quarantine (or "checking ) station ust over the border? The Ashland Tidings reports that an Illinois man did it. The siren sounded, but the man kept on going. Arriving at Weed, he was stopped by the California Highway Patrol, taken back to the quarantine station for check ing, and to justice court, where he paid a $50 fine. The minor inconvenience, as we see it, is better than a 50 buck fine. A man got his name in the paper twice on the same day not long ago. Once was for a citation for failure to signal for a left turn, and the other In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Retired defense secretary Wil son has something to say that is interesting. It is interesting be cause he knows what he is talk ing about. It is particularly in teresting at this moment because he has just RETIRED as secre tary of defense, and therefore has no reason to shade his pub lic utterances for policy or po litical reasons. Talking to reporters in Seat tle, he says the United States' long range missile program can KEEP UP WITH RUSSIA'S. But He adds "We must be careful that WE aren't the ones to intensify an armament race." THAT is to say: . We must make it clear to all the world that we aren't the ones who are beating the war drums. Our objective is to de fend ourselves against those who might seek to destroy us. Under no circumstances will we be the aggressors in an atomic world war. HE TELLS the newsmen that in the current "fuss over Rus sia's satellite and missile devel opment" we are tending to for get what our competition with the Soviet Union is all about. He adds: "IT'S ABOUT A WAY OF LIFE." THAT is supremely important. Russia's objective is to con quer the world for communism. Our objective is to maintain OUR way of life. Our big job is to dramatize that fact to all the world. A RKEf) if ho thinks the U. S missile program needs to be accelerated, he replied: "Our missile program now is good. It is quite speeded up, and I think it is ABOUT WHERE IT OUGHT TO BE. I view the Rus sian satellite Sputnik as a scien tific rather than a military achievement." LET'S forget missiles for a mo ment and listen to an ap praisal of another aspect of mod ern progress. Health Secretary Marion Fol- som asserts today that Ameri cans can knock out paralytic polio within a year by using the Salk vaccine now on hand. He says that millions of people un der 40 who have not been vaccin ated are "needlessly risking dis ability or even death. They should take advantage of this new discoverey, he thinks. He joins with Surgeon General Leroy Burney in a report that paralytic polio ALREADY has been reduced 89 per cent in the past two years through the use of Salk vaccine. MODERN progress, you -see, ISN'T all bad. It ISN'T all destructive. It is heading toward a BET TER way of life. with the idea in mind of mak ing use of my extra hours. Now, I find myself with my permit, my "Do It Yourself" plans, and no time to do it in. I could do without mv break fast and dinner, and nossibly get in one good hour each day, thus paying on doctor's bills what I have saved on labor cost. Just as a mere suggestion: Couldn't our city council amend this ordinance? To read in ef fect: "for the summer months hours to be from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and for the- school months from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.? Hoping for some action on this question. George Miller, 600 Mary Place, Medford. (Editor's note: The ban is part of the city's noise-prevention or dinance, and limits the hours during which noisy construction can be performed.) was when he applied for a mar riage license. We'd hazard a guess that nervousness from the latter caused the former. The "beep" of the Russian satellite, for some reason or other, seems to bring out the poet in people. Here's an offer ing which arrived on the Potluck editor's desk last week: I do not mind the little "beep" That's "beeping" way up high, 'Cause someday we'll have lots of them Up in the starry sky. My only wish, when the "beep" decides To take an earthward flop: It doesn't pick me out to be The one it wants to bop. A local 2-year-old boy has reduced football to its simplest form. He throws the ball, then falls down. Apparently that's the way it looks to him on TV. The 10-year-old daughter of a man we know has learned about diplomacy the hard way, accord ing to the way we hear it. One day when her father came home from the office, tired and a little cross, she commented to her mother, "When daddy asks me a question I don't know whether to answer him, or just play it safe and keep my mouth shut." Ernest Bingman, 85, of Jack sonville, dropped into the of fice for a moment the other day, and revealed that he'd just walked from his home lo the bank in downtown Med ford in a little less than two hours. "That should show these young fellers a thing or two," he declared. That ubiquitious doctor of philosophy, Elmo Stevenson, is a well-known man in the valley, and even better-known on the campus over which he presides, at Southern Oregon college. It is only natural, therefore, that some students have sug gested renaming the college's song the "Elmo Mater." A power outage hit this area last week, shortly after the announcement of the Russian earth-satellite. At one Medford school, as the lights flickered and went out, a youngster ex claimed: "That's the Russian satellite hitting the sound bar rier!" - Remember "Mac," the lazy, toperish St. Bernard dog at Tim berline lodge mentioned here last week? Well, we have been told he spent a summer at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvfn Lattie in Phoenix, but finally wound up at Timberline partly because he consumes a couple of dishpans full of dog food twice a day. He was once a fraternity house mascot, Mrs. Lattie says, and his full name is William McKinley III. And she added, "Why shouldn't he drink? He was raised by tha SAEs." The first day at school can be an upsetting one for some youngsters, but the first day at kindergarten gave one small Medford girl some definite ideas about her future educa tion. "I know one thing," she told her parents. "I'm not go ing to coilege." Police Officer Gene DeDuv spent a busy evening recently, handing out citations and warn ings to motorists about no tail lights, no license plate lights. headlights not burning, and so on. Later a short circuit on his ro- lice vehicle cut out his dash lights, headlights, tail lights, brake lights, red light on top and the siren. He crept back to the station. feeling lucky no state or county officer had spotted him. Sure sign of fall in the Rogue valley: When you have to wait until it stops raining so you can rake the leaves so you can mow the grass. An undetermined number of local attorneys left notes with their secretaries last week, in forming the latter that they, the former, had been summoned into circuit court. Later, it was discovered that a television set in that part of the courthouse was tuned in to the World Series games. The city police blotter is usually confined to reporting the crimes committed or sus pected in the city. Our city hall reporter declares that it was a welcome relief, recently, to note therein the birth-announcement of Randell Wil liam Renfro, son of Police Of ficer Elvin Renfro. A Salem paper reports on a man who visited the office of the Internal Revenue Service in that city. The man complained about the doormat at the office, which says "Welcome." He thinks it should say 'Thank You."