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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iveryone in Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 RORTTtT w nr-m rniiAr HP.HH f.RFV IrivartiGina Manas GERALD LATHAM Business Manager x.xwu i j.r.-M jh. Managing tailor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT 6 porta Editor OIJVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICK5QN. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-23 aunday Only One year $420 ay Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Stockmen with barns bulging with hay have started wondering what they will feed their cows, and fear $30 hay." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 18. 1937 (Monday) Old Orth building In Jackson ville leased for storage of gladi- ola bulbs. Company 468, a fourth corps area CCC company from Mun ford, Ala., arrives in Medford by special train to ocoupy Camp Prescott on Roxy Anne. 33 YEARS AGO The short-lived Infantile pa ralysis epidemic becomes thing of the past, according to health authorities. Part of Medford police sta tion to be converted into a ga rage to house new patrol car, city council decides. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1917 (Thursday) A patriotic meeting will be held in the Presbyterian church tit Central Point Sunday de voted to the Hoover drive cam paign. Public spirited business and professional men initiate cam paign following informal city council meeting last night, to collect delinquent paving assess ments. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good. 1. Mother's day is celebrated the first, second, or" third Sun day in May? 2. Which of the Guianas is named Surinam? 3. Bible: Asshur is the epo nym of what country? 4. Is baseball a popular game in Japan? 5. Is the governor of Alaska elected by the people of Alaska? 6. What word means the op posite of "windward"? 7. Belmont Park race track is in N u county? 8. ''Cottqn-tail" and "snow shoe" are names for which ro dent? 9. In U. S. "depot" often means a railroad station: what is its proper meaning? 10. June 17, 1882: Which President's "last words" were: "Tortured for the Republic"? Answers: 1. Second Sunday in May. 2. Dutch New Guiana. 3. Assyria. 4. Yes. 5. No, appoint ed by the President. 6. Leeward. 7. Nassau county. 8. The rabbit. 9. Storehouse (as a freight de pot). 10. James A. Garfield. Nixon's European Tour Rescheduled Next Year Washington (IF) The White House has announced that a projected European tour by Vice President Richard M. Nixon has been deferred until next year. The White House said Nixon had planned to visit Europe this fall. The trip will be postponed, it said, until after the next ses sion of Congress. The WTiite House explained that the vice president could not make the trip this fall and still fulfill commitments in Washington. MAIL TRIBUNE Looking Ahead . . . Lane county established its Park and Recrea tion commission in May of 1953. The county court ap pointed to the commission 11 members from as many points within the county as practical. Briefly, the com mission's primary job is to survey potential areas, ac quire the land and develop park and recreation sites. Already some 24 locations are under the commis sion's supervision and 10 more have been acquired but are reserved for future development. These loca tions range in size from two of one-half acre apiece to the 281 acre Blue Mountain Park south of Cottage Grove. The average size of their parks would be in the neighborhood of 20 acres. I7ROM the point of view of park locations, Lane county has a tremendous advantage over Benton county because of the many lakes and rivers in the region and its extension clear to the ocean. Of their 24 parks, some eight have swimming, 22 have fishing, 12 have boat-launching ramps and four have boat moorage facilities. Camping is allowed in most of their parks but no special facilities are provided for the camper. The Douglas county park system ... is three years older than Lane county's and there they have also made tremendous strides. They have some 25 parks in addition to 17 state parks and 16 state forest camps. The county parks range in size from a half-acre to Britt Nicholas Park which contains 123 acres. Most of their parks are not very large and probably average about 15 acres. OERE again reaching to the sea, as does Lane coun- ty, they have many wonderful sites and a lot of water which can be utilized. Both these counties are, with a minimum expendi ture of money, making family recreation facilities available to their people. They have been wise in re serving excellent locations for parks, and setting them aside for the public before they are lost forever through a greater influx in people and cost. We feel that the Benton county court will be look ing ahead and providing a real service to the people of this county if they begin to act immediately in setting the machinery in motion to provide us with a county park system. Corvallis Gazette-Times. "Later Than You Think" The editorial quoted above expresses with clarity the ideas this page has been minimum of success for Twenty years ago there system. A family could picnic along the banks of the Rogue, or by one of our lakes, or in the Applegate valley, and nobody minded. But today, property owners take a dim view of the hordes of city-folk who traipse into the county for an outing and with con siderable justification. Barbed-wire fences and "no tresspassing" signs are found today where a decade or two ago was a good picnic or camping spot. i AND try visiting TouVelle State Park, or Casey ULdLC X O.L XV, OVJ111C DUllllllCl V CClV-CilCl. UllCllllllltd it is difficult to get a table, let alone use of a fireplace and enough room to stretch out and get the feel of being outdoors. The National Forest coming inadequate for the despite the best efforts of and expand them. If the people of this county, and its tourist visitors, are to be served, the county do something more than has been done. This is the time for those who dislike "federal bureaucracy" to get busy and "keep government close to home" by assisting the county in doing a job it is specifically authorized to do by state "HIS year, for the first time in history, the county budget committee allocated $3,000 for park pur poses largely at the prodding of County Judge Rodney Keating, who actually wanted to see a more realistic sum appropriated for the purpose. Now we'll grant that $3,000 is better than nothing, but it is the merest drop in to the 70-some thousand residents of the county, and the estimated half-million or more tourists who visit Southern Oregon each year, The old saying, "It's another one, "Too little and the almost complete lack son county. E.A. Logging Rails Vanishing The Astorian Budget, one day recently, mourned the passing of the logging railroad. Then, a few days later, backtracked when it was pointed out that there are, indeed, a few left. Alert readers pointed out to the editor that there still are logging railroads near Olympia, Longview, Klamath Falls and Shelton. To which could be added the Medco railroad, run ning between the Medford mill, and Medco's woods operation above Butte Falls. But the Budget's point is still valid that the logging railroad is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, succumbing to the greater speed, mobility and economy of logging trucks. E.A. Friday. October 18, 1957 plugging so far with a a long, long time. was no need for a park camps are increasingly be demands made upon them, the foresters to maintain itself is going to have to law. the bucket when service is considered. later than you think,1' and too late," both apply to of county parks in Jack 'Bey! Ha peopii as aussin'a soot picture; Consumer's Economy is By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. During most of this year business has show basic stability, despite the r eadjustments which many industries have e n c o untered and with which some are still hav ing to contend. The total phys ical volume of business is cur J Roger W Babson rently only trifle below the high range of recent months, and is just a few percentage points lower than the first-quarter peak for the year to date. During the summer, many businesses have been drawn downward because of seasonal influences such as hot weather and vacation ab sences. Therefore, I expect busi ness during coming months to be moderately upward, helped by the Russian satellite. However, the improvement de pends also upon basic consumer attitudes, which can change from day to day. Recent surveys on consumer behavior and attitudes indicate that buyers are becom ing more price-conscious and more selective. Nevertheless, manufacturers are hopeful that their plans and output schedules for coming months will tally closely with the purchasing plans of consumers, which are still continuing upward. The Auto Outlook The automobile industry is a bellwether of forthcoming trends. Dealers' stocks are cur rently near 600,000 most of them 1957 cars, with only a sprinkling of 1958 models. Thus far, there has been little appre hension regarding the size of automobile inventories, and deal ers are hopeful that October sales will at least approach those of a year ago. The slight degree of optimism among automobile makers is helping to buoy the steel in- ! dustry, which continues to hope for a strengthing of orders. Though such orders have been coming in gradually, nearby weeks may see a greater rush as the remainder of the plants change over to the production of 1958 cars. Appliance makers are also proceeding cautiously with respect to orders since sales have been disappointing so far this year. However, as inven tories in these lines register de clines, factory output should gradually trend up. Construction Industry Another major steel user, the construction industry, appears to have been taking a breather, although the latest month's fig ures show a more-than-seasonal rise after the disappointing ear lier weeks. Work stoppages in the cement industry caused shortages of concrete products in some sectors. There are, how ever, more basic reasons for the slower pace in building, such as scarcity of money and the partial fulfillment of demand for hous ing. Sustaining strength, how ever, should be evident in pub lic works, utilities, and road building. Beyond the conundrum of what the consumer is going to do with his income, some consumer-expenditure plans are al ready being affected by lower expenditures by the Defense De partment. Military cutbacks are beginning to affect whole com munities which are largely de pendent upon government con tracts, such as aircraft workers and others employed in these towns dependent upon military payrolls. The Russian satellite may, nowever. cnange au tnis. What About Employment Those who are laid off will be less eager to spend and will hesitate to go further into debt; while those who remain on the payroll may become more cau tions about spending. On the other hand, due to the long period of boom, the average con sumer has become accustomed to an increasingly higher stand ard of living. And it is far hard er to adjust personal incomes. However, these increases in pay rates are a cause for concern fl r f 'gT.t. W9 "fr." .T.l.& Role in Discussed to producers, since they add to the cost of doing business. Coupled with lower sales in cer tain lines, they further squeeze profits. Conclusion . All in all, coming months should show a modest improve ment over the lows of the sum mer months. But the degree of improvement is dependent of a revival of consumer expendi tures, which in turn are affected b: capital outlays and by chang es in Government spending, which could be increased as a result of the Russian satellite surprise. It may well be that all these factors have been merely hesitating in order to consolidate the gains of the past long boom. Much will depend upon adver tising appropriations and the ef ficiency of selling. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation, Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Doesn't Like Cartoons To the Edfior: I am so tired of the terrible cartoons that you have been putting in the Tribune about our President that I ai going' to express my sentiments. In the Best Book, 1 Peter, Chap. 2: verses 13 to 16, it says "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king as supreme; Or unto governors as ' unto them that are sent by him for the punshiment of evil doers, and for the praise of them ihat do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your ' liberty for a cloak of malicious j nes, but as the servants of God. Also read Romans chapter 13, verses 1 to 4, which starts out, "Let every soul be subject to the higher powers," etc. Mrs. Bertha Huson, 423 N. Grape st., Medford, Ore. John 8. Verse 7 To the Editor: Since the trou ble in the South, we seem to have become North and South, instead of a nation. According to Matthew 12, verse 25, can we stand? If the problem can be solved more peacefully, why aren't we an example for our Southern brothers (white and dark)? At one time, Mr. Morse and Mr. Neuberger were for integration, when one southern senator had a solution; they send the Negro population here. Wouldn't it help the South, especially eco nomically, if each community in the North would offer a per centage of the Negroes a job and place to live? We do this for people of foreign nations. "All men are created equal." If we read our newspapers, do some honest investigation, we must say, ' "Our nation, as a whole, must need more brother ly love very badly." L. W. (Name on file) Eugene, Ore. Story in Error To the Editor: We have taken your paper for a long time, and like it very much, or we wouldn't take it. But you do make mistakes. In the Sunday paper, the article about the Rogue river and its tributaries, you say the Coquille river is a tributary to the Rogue. Sorry, but you are mistaken. The Coquille empties into the ocean at Bandon, and the Sixes river and Elk river both go into the ocean between Bandon and Gold Beach where the Rogue reaches the ocean. E. A. Russell, 1030 North Bank, Coquille, Ore. Californian Hates Morse To the Editor: I read your very interesting editorial in Violent Red Propaganda Aimed At U.S., Turkey Tops Week's News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia built up a vio lent and dangerous propaganda offensive this week against the SSS?n United States and its ally Turkey. The cam paign was based on the allegation that the United States and Turkey were plotting an at- tnarles M. McCana tack on Syria. Syria, now being armed by Rus sia and controlled by pro-Russian elements, lent its support. Russia invoked every medium of publicity to air its charges. Nikita S. Khrushchev, acting in his capacity of first secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, ad dressed a letter to the socialist parties of seven West European countries asking them to help "prevent aggression , and pre serve peace in the Near and Middle East." Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles warned in turn that if Russia attacked Turkey, the United States would retaliate against Russian territory. The generally grim interna tional picture was lightened by the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and her hus band Prince Philip on a visit to Canada and the United States. From, Canada, the Queen and the prince flew to Virginia to at tend a festival commemorating the 350th anniversary of the founding at Jamestown in 1607 of the first permanent English settlement in America. They then flew to Washington and a triumphal reception, to be guests of President and Mrs. Eisenhower. France's cabinet crisis, still Tuesday's Mail Tribune in which you criticized Mr. Lucke's talk about Senators Morse and Neu berger. I don't know who Mr. Lucke is, nor am I an industrialist or representative of big business. I am a retired sea-captain having sailed the seven seas for nearly 50 years. I agree wholehearted ly with Mr. Lucke's regard for Senator Morse for the reason that I fail to see where Wayne Morse has done anything good for the state of Oregon or the country as a whole except when it happened to be advantageous T T v Indeed, I too, wonder why the people of Oregon keep on re electing him. Perhaps for the same reason that Jimmy Hoffa was elected to be president of the Teamsters' Union. I am in clined to believe Senator Morse belongs to the same category as Dave Beck and Hoffa. Have you forgotten, Mr. Ruhl, why Morse bolted the Republican party? If you will rake your memory you will find that it wasn't for the good of the coun try or the state of Oregon.. It was to avenge his own pftty jealousy. All through Senator Morse s career he has kept n eye open for Wayne Morse first, and may be the state of Oregon or the U. S. A. next. I wish you would print this in your paper and send a copy to Mr. Morse with my compli ments. I doubt if it will do any good. Capt. H. C. F. Beyer, Star Route 3, Yreka, Calif. Take Your Bearings To the Editor: We were told this story many years ago. This incident happened around 1907. A Wagner creek rancher was riding range for cattle some where in the vicinity of Horn gulch, possibly seven or more miles from Talent, when he ac cidentally picked up a piece of float quartz literally filled with gold. Never having any experi ence in prospecting, he decided to engage the services of a miner he knew as the "King" of pocket hunters from Woodville, Ore. The two searched diligently for two days without finding anoth er rich specimen of quartz. As the rancher had not marked the spot or made any landmark of Joseph W. Burba, D.D.S. Wishes to Announce The Removal of His Office From the Medical Center Building to 836 East Main Street, Medford Suite 2 General Telephone SP 2-9275 Dentistry unsolved after nearly three weeks, was complicated by a surge of labor unrest. Electricity and gas workers struck for 12 hours throughout the country and nearly paralyz ed it. Homes, office buildings, factories were without light, heat or machine power. All electrically-driven transport was idle, in cluding the Paris subways. President Tito of Yugoslavia shocked and angered the West German government by recog nizing the East German Commu nist puppet regime. West Germany had threaten ed to break relations with any country which recognized East In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Business forecast: The department of commerce reports that personal incomes of Americans declined slightly last month for . the first time since last December. At the same time, the federal reserve board reported a slight decrease in in dustrial activity. Government economists say these small drops are just tem porary interruptions in the .ex pansion of the American econ omy. LET'S go on from there. America's population is ap proaching the 172 million mark. The census bureau estimates there were 171,790,000 people in the United States as of Sept. 1 of this year. . That figure represents an" in crease of more than 20 MIL LION over the 1950 census or a rise of nearly 14 per cent in seven years. WITH the stock market slip ping, this thought is natur ally in the, back of every mind: IT SEEMS improbable. In fact, it seems UTTERLY improbable. LET'S look at the stock market first. ' Back in the late 20's the pub lic got so excited about specula tion that it paid little attention to the earning power of Ameri can industry. What people were interested in in those tragic years was buying low and sell ing high and making a potful of money QUICK. It's different now. Uncertain ty as to whether American in dustry can maintain its earning power at the high level that has prevailed during the big years of the post-war boom seems to be largely, responsible for the present stock market decline. That makes a LOT of differ ence. i THERE'S another big differ ence. In the late 20's and through out the 30's, America's popula tion was STATIONARY and it was anticipated that in the fu ture it might even decline. The belief was then prevalent that our American economy had reached the point of MATURI TY that is to say, it was get ting old and could grow no more. According to this theory, the best our economy could do was to hold its own. If population was to remain stationary, there would be no new generation to need new houses, new automobiles, new household gadgets, and so on. OW- With population growing explosively, the situation has .changed completely. The new tens of millions of population will need new millions of houses, new millions of automobiles, new millions of new gadgets. B ACK in the 30's, we had prac- tieallv accented the idea that we were living in a mature economy. Now we are certain we are living in a DYNAMIC economy. So It seems probable that the present slow-down in industrial activity is merely a pause while we catch up with ourselves and get our second wind. the find, he then concluded he was "lost" through excitement. But their two day search was not in vain, as the "King" of prospectors picked up a trace of a different character of gold that made a small pocket, about paid expenses. The moral to this story is, never fail to take bear ings when in a strange territory alone. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford, Ore. Germany. It now was consider ing whether to make good the threat by breaking relations with Yugoslavia. Editorial Comment A REPUBLICAN EX-GOVERNOR BEGS TO DIFFER When Meade Alcorn chairman of the Republican National Com mittee was in the state a week ago he put his foot in his mouth and kept it there. In the first place he took a crack at Sen. Richard L. Neuberger whom he accused of playing politics with civil rights and national defense. This brought the justified and somewhat needling retort from the 'senator that if Mr. Neuberg er were guilty of these things, so was the Republican President. Mr. Neuberger's record on these matters is quite in line with the wishes of President Eisenhower. The senator is open to attack from Republicans, to be sure, but on quite different grounds. Then, as if that were not enough, he told Young Republi cans in Coos Bay, that the par ty's "most important task" was the defeat of Senator Neuberger in 1960. This assessment of the jjob ahead brought a disclaimer from an unexpected source El mo Smith, the former governor who now publishes the Democrat-Herald in Albany. Governor Smith, himself burned in a cam paign in which the chief objec tive was td beat a Democrat, thinks Senator Neuberger is fine as an eventual target, but not as the first target. First, he says, in an editorial in his newspaper, is the election of a Republican ma jority in the Legislature. Upon this the party can build a return to power in other state positions, in the national House of Repre sentatives, and, finally, in the U.S. Senate where Senators Neu berger and Morse may be the targets. Governor Smith was wise to remember what Mr. Alcorn ap parently forgot that Senator -Neuberger's term runs until 1960 and that between now and that election, Oregon citizens will vote for a governor, five-sixths of a legislature, and four mem bers of Congress. And it is doubt ful, that a Republican can be elected governor or state senator on a platform of hate-Neuberger. Eugene Register-Guard. Educational TV Called Dangerous Portland (IP) ' Educational television carries a danger and should be used as a "last resort, desperation measure," Dean Louis W. Jones of California In stitute of Technology said here Thursday night. Jones, here to speak at the annual conference of Pacific Northwest Association of Inde pendent Schools, said Americans are becpming a nation of "re ceivers and non-participants" in the world of ideas. He said edu cational television, when used as a classroom substitute, would accelerate this trends . He said educational TV should be used only when all efforts to find enough qualified teachers have failed and schools are flooded with students. He said he believes the reason the nation is not producing more scientists"' and engineers is failure to pay primary and secondary teachers a "reasonable salary." -Jones, dean of admissions at Cal Tech, said the increased apa thy of students to engage in any classroom debate, plus the grow ing habit of Americans to sit unresponsive before television sets, is making the nation an easy mark for any demagogue who comes along with an idea. SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A NTED SANDER Easy to Operate Clean and Dustless Low Rental Rates We Handle Everything You Need for Floor Refinishing SPtCIALISTS IN HOMtWAttttj 3 West 6th St., Medford -. ! RE
