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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Mi "Xveryone In Southern Orefoo Read! The Mail Tribune" Cuhshed Daily Except Saturday by MXDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERA-LD LATHAJ4 Business Manager ERIC All FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON CircuiaUon 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 ar.d Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, fchadv Cove Roirue 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 Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford ijmciai raper or jacKson tooniy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU 0 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 NATIONAL EDITOtjAi I AssocSVieN 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 Oct. 14. 1947 (Tuesday) Stock rustlers continue activi ty in the Beagle district, reports show. . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Long, long ago, the board of aldermen of Canton, Miss., adopted the following resolutions: to build a new jail; to build it out of the materials of the old jail; to use the old jail until the new one is finished." (Prison World) Civic thinking hits peak. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 14. 1937 (Thursday) Maj. Ben Stafford, at present commander of the Redding CCC district, joins Medford district staff. Stockmen delegations from Butte Falls and other Jackson county sections urge employ ment of a federal hunter. B0 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1927 (Friday) General field day scheduled to smooth out the Medford air field. Real estate men suggest more playfields for Medford at meet ing of the Realty Board . 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 14. 1917 (Monday) Liberty loan committee for the Medford district organized with appointment of subcommit tees. Extension service plans organ ization of study clubs in home economics. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or elstat Is excellent; five or six is good 1. Did Leon Trotsky, woh was banished from the U.S.S.R., die a natural death in Mexico? 2. U.S. airmen well know the four-letter abbreviation for the German term "Flugzougabwehr kanone" what is it? 3. Bible: Are quotations from the Old Testament frequently used in the New Testament? 4. In which British Common wealth are there cities named Sydney, Canberra and Mel bourne? 5. "Pickett's Charge" occur red in what decisive battle of the Civil War? 6. Calvin Coolidge served as vice-president under which Pres ident? 7. Do common house flies breed in Alaska? 8. In the famous "Dartmouth College Case" who defended the college? 9. Are "other" and "other wise" synonyms or antonyms? 10. "Mistakes are often the best t s"? Answers: 1. No, he was as sassinated on Aug. 20, 1940. 2. "Flak." 3. Yes. 4. Australia. 5. Gettysburg. 6. Warren G. Hard ing. 7. No. 8. Daniel Webster. 9. Neither... 10... "teachers.".. Froude. CRURCH IN A PUB London HP) "If the people wont come to church, the church must go to the people." the Rev. Stanley Evans said Sunday. It was very successful." he said to day. "I am hoping to hold simi lar services quite often in the future." MAIL TRIBUNE WHAT'S Dying? Our nomination for the silliest statement of last week came from the man who referred to "this dying Rogue valley." We wonder how long he's been around, or how carefully he's surveyed the valley. We suggest he open his eyes to a few facts. The population has more than doubled in the past two decades, and while that rate of growth has slowed down, it will resume its climb again before another few years have gone by. A realistic look at our economic situation shows that there is a temporary slow-down, with some of the smaller mills closed, and unemployment higher than it was last year at this time. But in the long-range health of the valley, this is no more than a slight cold in the head certainly not a serious illness. T OOK around. There are signs of growth and activity and over all prosperity on every side. Compare business statis tics, not to record-breaking 1956, but to prior years. The lumber market, in the doldrums for more than a year, is beginning to show signs of perking up again, the forerunner of a slow and steady growth which probably will be capped in the early 60s by another lumber boom as the overwhelming generation of "war babies" starts to build its homes. The fruit industry is wrapping up a successful year not a record-breaking one, but a year of a good crop and acceptable prices. T OOK around again. Watch the $1V2 million shopping center in Med ford take shape. Watch the construction of new build ings in Medford doctors' offices, automobile dealer ships, a new 2y2 million hospital, and soon a o12 million retirement home. Take a look at bustling White City, where two new major installations are be ing put in for production of plywood. Consider the progress on the Talent project, with some $5 million in construction already under way, and another 4!2 million scheduled in the near future, and some $11 million more in the succeeding few years. Consider what this will do to expand agricul ture here. Think about the millions scheduled to improve our transportation and communication and utility sys tems roads, highways, electrical generation and transmission, telephone services. Get your head out of the sand, Pop. This valley's just getting a good start E.A. "Caveat "Caveat emptor," is the ancient Roman saying, meaning "Let the buyer beware." It's a handy phrase to remember, these days of telephoned solicitations for insurance, dancing les sons barely-legal coupon books and the Good Lord knows what all. Not to mention the door-to-door fly-by-nights who peddle everything from a new roof painting job, which disappears in the first rain, to "bargain" shrubs which cost more than those from a reputable local nurseryman. TT MIGHT be well to put a little sign, with that suc- cinct Latin phrase, on the door (as a reminder when an itinerant salesman drops by) or the telephone (which is a grand and glorious way for boiler-room salesmen to find new suckers) or the mail-box (which as often as not contains sales pitches not all of them from solid and reputable people). Hardly a week goes by without those hard-working people down at the chamber of commerce office calling us to ask that our readers be warned about some crews of questionable salesmen passing through Medford, or about some other gimmick which might be entirely legal, tout which is, to say the least, of ques tionable value. EOR instance: 1 - Last week hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of Medford people received an impressive-looking piece of mail offering Canadian stocks for sale. The cham ber received an inquiry about it, and they telephoned the Better Business Bureau in Portland to see if there was any record of it. Indeed there was : It was mailed out from a one-man office in Canada, which sent out these stock advertisements by the thousands through out the western states in the hope that they could in terest some low-sales-resistance types. Another example : A man who once "worked" Medford for a New Jersey nursery company, and who left after dissatis fied customers began to make life miserable, is report ed to be returning. The company for which he works has been cited by the Federal Trade commission for misrepresentation of its product which, incidental ly, costs more and grows less than shrubs purchased from local nurserymen, who stick around to make good on their sales. OUMAN nature being what it is, we've about given up hope that warnings, from newspapers, cham bers of commerce, Better Business Bureaus, or any where else, will ever do much good. Mankind is always on the lookout for a bargain, a fast buck, an easy way to make a killing. And repeat ed warnings will not change him into a smart buyer or a smart investor. But for whatever it's worth, we join the chamber in echoing "caveat emptor" to local folk, hoping that someone will be saved embarrassment or money by being "taken in" on some sales scheme, legal or not, which depends on the credulity and ignorance of the buyer. E.A. , Monday, October 14, I9S7 Emptor 9 "SlMk&rL 'GUBSS British Royalty Not Strangers to White House; Visits Told Washington (Special) Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Great Uritain arrive in the United States on Wednes day. On the following day they go to Washington, where they will be White House guests of President and Mrs. Eisenhower. You could almost call the White House a "home away from home" for the British royal family. It goes back to 1860, when Elizabeth's great grand father, who was to become Ed ward VII, made an informal tour of Canada and this country. As Prince of Wales, he traveled in technical incognito as the Duke of Rothestay or Baron Renfrew to avoid formalities, but at that, he stayed at the White House as the guest of President Bu chanan. Edward's grandson, who was to become Edward VIII and is now the Duke of Windsor, made the first of several visits as 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 From Baker County To the Editor: Since your fine editorial support of Wayne Morse in 1956, I have intended to write. As 1958 and another election isn't too far away, I feel that we who are interested in politics and what it can do for the future of Oregon and our na tion should get acquainted. I am especially interested in Jackson county. Both my parents were members of pioneer fam ilies there. My mother's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Wood ruff homesteaded at Union creek in 1887, and my father's father, George W. Beale, reached Jack son county in 1876. His old homestead and early-day sawmill were in the Butte creek area. My father, Christopher C. Beale, and mother, Pearl Wood ruff, were married at the U. S. Hotel in Jacksonville in 1888. Mother and her sister, Orie, and brother, Bird Woodruff, had a dance orchestra, the Woodruff Sisters Orchestra, which many of the old timers will, I am sure, remember. Aunt Orie died at Colusa, Calif., in 1951. Bird lives near Myrtle Creek in Douglas county, and mother lives here with my husband and me. Until 1952 she was an undefeated old time fiddler. She won many con tests until she had a stroke which ended her playing. She will be 84 Oct. 12. Mrs. Bea Thomas, New Bridge, Baker County, Oregon. Buzzard Roost To the Editor: Anyone ever hear of, or know of, a Buzzard Roost mountain? Well, neither have we, but some 50 years ago a man from a middle west state stopped off the train at Wood ville, Oregon, to make inquiry and also offered a generous re ward to anyone who did know. Could it be the stranger had been confused as to the actual name of the mountain he was searching for? We hardly think so, although no one at that time was able to give any help to such a question. That was a time when the maps did not show all "buttes" like better maps do to day. There is a Buzzard Butte about 14 miles southwest of Myrtle Point, in Coos county and two miles from the Curry county line. We do know it is not unusual to hear of gold being found in that area of Oregon. Could it be possible that "roost" was sub situted instead of butte? Per haps it was, and that may be the clue to another forgotten gold strike, yet to be rediscover ed. That remains a mystery. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford, Ore. 7 J X. Ml L-f i I I WHO "2 Prince of Wales in 1919. He did not stay at the White House, but called on the ailing Presi dent Wilson there. First Reigning Monarch Then in May and June, 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, paid a formal state visit to Canada and the United States. They were the first reigning monarchs to sleep in the White House, staying there on June 8 and 9, before spend ing a weekend with President and Mrs. Roosevelt at Hyde Park. There they were enter tained at a picnic at which the King with seeming relish drank beer and ate hot dogs. For all her preference for simple food, it's not likely that Elizabeth will be served hot dogs by President and Mrs. Eis enhower. They would be noth ing new to her, however, for the Queen herself served frank furters to visiting American at torneys at a party in London this summer. When Elizabeth and Philip were over here last, in the au tumn of 1951, their visit was entirely social. Even so, the heiress presumptive and consort stayed at Blair House, temporary residence of President Truman during White House repairs. And they were entertained at formal dinners and were shown Mt. Vernon (of course) and Ar lington National Cemetery. "Fairy Princess" Princess Liz made a brief ar rival speech after being met by President Truman at the Na tional Airport. "Thank you, my dear," replied the President of the United States, who later in troduced her to dinner guests as a "fairy princess" of the sort he had read about as a little boy. Most recent member of the family to put up at the White House was the Queen Mother, who stayed with the Eisenhow ers on Nov. 4 and 5, 1954. She had come over to speak and receive an honorary degree at Columbia University's Bicen tennial Convocation. Elizabeth II will be the fifth reigning queen to stay overnight in the Executive Mansion. The first royal visitors, according to the Library of Congress, were the Queen's parents. Then, dur ing World War II, Queen Wil helmina of the Netherlands stay ed there, to be followed, some time later, by her daughter, Queen Julian and consort Bern hard. Other Guests President and Mrs. Eisenhow er were hosts to King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece in October, 1953. Other royal visi tors not overnight guests, how ever have included King Al bert I and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium in 1919; Queen Marie of Rumania in 1926; King Praj adhipok and Queen Rambai of Siam (Thailand) in 1931; Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi and Queen Soraya, 1954. His "Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was enter tained at the White House by President Eisenhower in 1954 but stayed at the Ethiopian Em bassy in Washington. This year King Saud of Saudi Arabia stay ed at Blair House but was enter tained at the Executive Mansion. Pearson of Canada Awarded Nobel Prize Oslo, Norway IP) Form er Canadian Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson today was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1957. As usual, the Norwe gian Nobel Committee, gave no reason for its choice. The committee also decided not to give any peace prize for 1956, and the amount of money normally awarded will be re turned to the Nobel Peace Prize fund. Pearson's prize for this year is worth 208,628 Swedish Crowns the equivalent of 340,330.33. United Press Writers Forecast Stories Which Will Make News United Press correspon dents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Headlines And News Queen Elizabeth will be tak ing the headlines in the United States this week. But London in siders say Foreigne Secretary Selwyn Lloyd will be making the real news. This will be a secret, urgent proposal that the United States and Britain answer Russia's Sputnik triumph by re suming cooperation in the nu clear energy field. Lloyd will argue that the two allies are hurting themselves by, working independently on the same pro jects and that a single clue, given by one side to the other, might save months in a vital cold war race. Lloyd will serve as the Queen's minister-in-at-tendance in the United States But before she arrives in the United States Wednesday, Lloyd will be in Washington seeing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and probably President Eisenhower. Girard The word from Tokyo is that the defense of S-3 William S. Girard, on trial for killing a Jap anese woman scrap metal scav enger on a firing range, is go ing strong. A lot of evidence is still to be heard. But the betting is that the Ottawa, 111., GI will get a very light sentence and that it probably will be suspend- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Sputnik, the man-made moon, is still circling the earth and mut tering messages in a code that presumably only its makers un derstand. Because it was made by RUSSIAN MEN, it still dom inates the news. It even over shadows the fabulous victory of the under-dog Braves over the big shot Yankees. So I suppose we might as well go on talking about it. "QJPUTNIK." Where did that weird name come from? It's simpler than you'd think. It's Russian for "satellite." The Russian language experts tell us a more precise translation would be "fellow traveler" of the earth. That, in itself, is rather inter esting. In Kremlin double-talk, a communist is a "fellow travel er" who goes along with Krem lin ideas of world domination. Among the Russian Big Wheels, a "satellite" country is a country that does what Russia tells it to do and thus helps to advance Russian objectives. So, you see, "Sputnik" is a perfectly good name for Russia's artificial moon. M ORE incidental information: The Russians launched "Sput nik," thus gaining for themselves much kudos and leaving us with very, very red faces. But We were the first to deter mine the precise orbit of the third-staee rocket that launched ithe Russian satellite into outer space. That gives us something to brag about. H OW did we do it? That is interesting too. We did it with the help of a MECHANICAL BRAIN an IBM at Cambridge Massachusetts. In to this robot we fed information obtained from photographs and visual observations and the ro bot came up with the orbit meaning the path followed by the segment of the rocket in its revolutions around the earth. WE INVENTED THE ME CHANICAL BRAIN. That helps to save our face. B UT Let's not get cocky. Here are some disturbing fig ures: TUSSIA is outdoing us in pro- ducing scientific brainpower, j By the latest calculations, she is i educating two to three times as i many scientists as we are. In j 1955, the Russians graduated j 63,000 students from scientific and engineering courses. j At the rate we are going, we ; won't nave 63,000 NEW scien- tists and engineers until 1964 almost a decade behind the reds, j The U.S. on the average, is turn-1 ing out about 138 engineers per million of population. The Rus- j sians are graduating about 315 engineers per million of popula tion. That's about double our rate. SO let's not underestimate the Russian brainpower. Underestimating your enemy is always a bad mistake. TRUST TO DISTRUST Paris (ID Japanese en gineer Kitano Hiroo was quick ly transformed Sunday from a trusting soul to a doubting Thomas. A stranger offered to look after Hiroo's luggage in a hotel elevator until the engineer got to the lobby. When Hiroo arrived, the obliging stranger and the luggage, including $1,200 in travelers' checks and a round the world plane ticket, were gone. ed. 'Don't be surprised if Vice President Richard M. Nixon en dorses Sen. William F. Know land (R-Caliif.) in his bid to re place Goodwin J. Knight as gov ernor of California. Knowland insists he has no 1960 presiden tial ambitions which might put him against Nixon. Also, Knight backed a move to run Harold E. Stassen instead of Nixon for vice president last fall. Split Washington reports that con gressional Democrats are badly split on a big issue. They've got to decide whether to keep de manding federal economies and a tax cut, now that Sputnik is circling the globe, or to demand more defense funds. Arguments are waxing hot on both sides. Invitation London says it's about certain now that Queen Elizabeth will invite President and Mrs. Eisen hower to Visit her in London. The Queen will make the invita tion personally while she is in Washington, palace sources say. If the President doesn't want to go, he may be on the spot. He isn't ill, no election is impend iWcrffer of Fact CAN SPUTNIK SEE? Washington There is a moun ting body of evidence, taken most seriously in the Washington intelligence community, that the Soviet satellite is not blind, that Sputnik has eyes to see. If this is so, it means that Sputnik, which is cer tainly a major propagan da and scienti- stewait aisod c inumpn ior the Soviets, is a great military r: - j i m triumph as well. Last Wednesday, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksander S h e r b a n, let what Iooks like a very big and ugly cat out of his bag. Dr Sherban, who is vice president of the Ukranian Academy of Scientists, said proudly that Sputnik carried certain "ele ments" which made it possible in effect to record the terrain of the earth below. If what Dr. Sherban said is true and there are strong rea sons to believe that it is true President Eisenhower's hope ful statement that Sputnik has no military significance "in it self" is nonsense. On the con trary, if Sputnik has eyes to see, Sputnik represents a ma jor triumph of Soviet intelli- fence, with immense military significance. rpO understand the real impli cations of Dr. Sherban's boast, you have to understand one of the strangest and in some ways the most difficult of the problems facing the missile-ma kers. An intercontinental mis sile, to do its grisly job, must be fired several thousand miles, and land within five miles of a specified target. This is a tough enough job in any case. But what makes it very much tough er is the curious fact that all existing maps are unreliable. The reason is simple. Map makers use an instrument call ed a transit to determine latitude and longitude by celestial obser vation. The transit contains the equivalent of a carpenter's plum bob, used to determine the verti cal. In theory, the plumb bob points to the center of the earth. In fact, it is slightly diverted by local geographical formations, like high mountains. Moreover, it is slightly inaccurate anyway, since the earth, being flattened at both ends, is not a true sphere. THAT is why all existing maps arp lnarrnratp. And that in turn is why Dr. Sherban's boast was so immensely significant. For one might have supposed the FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 ing and the school integration situation is cooling off. Any re fusal would have to be made very diplomatically, including a convincing reason, to avoid a snub. Sign Of The Times? Motor experts say there's no mention whatever of horse power in the elaborate press package on the 1958 B u i c k which has been mailed to auto mobile editors throughout the country. But there are plenty of details on brakes, transmission, suspension and styling. Detroit recently has been playing down horsepower and playing up safety. Nehru Tokyo reports that Indian Prime Minister Jawharlal Ne hru is having a good time on his visit to Japan. He is likely to go home empty-handed econ omically speaking, however. Japan wouid like to build export markets in India. Trade expan sion is a chief aim of Premier Nobusuke Kishi. But India is in no position to pay for goods ex cept through a deferred pay ment scheme. This, Japan can not afford to accept. By Stewart Alsop Soviets, wishing to zero in, for example, on a strategic Air Force base in Maine, would simply locate the base on a good map, and aim their inter continental missile accordingly. In fact, given the enormous dis tances involved, the inaccuracy of existing maps would mean an error of several crucial miles. As first reported in the New York Herald Tribune, high in telligence officials suspected, even before Dr. Sherban's boast, that "The satellite is mapping the United States with infra-red devices to locate targets in Am erica." It is possible to use infra-red devices to locate cities, rivers, coastlines, and the like, by ' measuring the intensity of light. Telemetering instruments can then be used to communi cate this information by code. When it became known that Sputnik contained telemetering devices which were sending coded information to the Sov iet scientists a fact confirm ed by the Soviets themselves the suspicion that Sputnik was not blind was born. It was re inforced by the guarded hints in "Pravda" that "the satellite has light-sensitive elements." The weight of Sputnik, which am azed American scientists, was another element in the equa tion it is logical to assume that Sputnik is so heavy because it contains numerous "miniatur ized" instruments. And Dr. Sherban's statement seenwd to confirm the worst fears of the intelligence community. TF THESE fears are justified, it A means that Sputnik can be used to give the Soviets, for the first time, an accurate "fix" on targets in this" country. Suc cessors to Sputnik, which the Soviets have announced in ad vance, can be used to double check the accuracy of the Sput nik fixes by cross-triangulation. In short, the belief is grow ing in the intelligence commun ity that we have done it again that we have once more un derestimated the Russians. If Sputnik is very much more than a "neat scientific trick," to use Charles Wilson's blandly com placent phrase. Sputnik, is, in stead, a vital element of the Soviet intercontinental ballis tic weapons system, which the Soviets are clearly building with 'frantic urgency. For if Sputnik has eyes, Sputnik pro vides the means to zero in the Soviet instruments of total de struction on every important American target. In the cir cumstances, a little less bland complacency and a little more frantic urgency, might seem to be called for in this country. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. At PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. 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