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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Tribune" PuSoshea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6l ROBERT W RCHL. Editor GREY Advertising Manager 4TERAU3 LATHAM Business Manager BRIC AlO-EN JR. Managing Editor EARJ. H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor EICHARD JEW ETT Sports Editor tUVE STARCH2R Society Editor AU ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper TEntered as second class matter at Uediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 3 Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Tiaily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4-20 Sir Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Steady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 CO Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy AH 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 NATIONAL EDITOIlAi ASSOcfA'feN frmiin.-r.H.MH.i Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1947 (Thursday) J. Frank Brown of Eagle Point widely known pioneer resi dent and former Jackson county commissioner, has sold his in terested in a store and retired. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Mr. and Mrs. Claude Chipmunk of Oaks Manor have received word their oldest boy is now employed as an artistic toucher of dyed mink on a Persian Lamb coat down south." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1937 (Friday) A miscellaneous shower for the A. R. Mansfields of Butte Falls will be held in the Derby school community hall at 8 p.m. Wednsday. The family was re cently burned out of their home and the family dog saved the 2V5-year-old daughter. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1927 (Sunday) Fate of the Jackson county public health unit will be con sidered by the county commis sioners next Tuesday. Then the commissioners will decide wheth er or not. after the next two months, the county health staff will he discontinued. Local youngsters celebrate re lease from quarantine by skat ing in the downtown business section contrary to city ordin ance which permits only one skate to be used. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1917 (Tuesday) The Utah -Idaho sugar beet company's factory at Grants Pass began its operations for this year, starting this morning. The John A. Westerlund lib erty bond fund for the school children of Medford has been extended by him to all children of the county, it was announced today. Whaf s Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. Is the Ruhr in western or in eastern Germany? 2. What is the name of the highest mountain on the North American continent? 3. Bible: For what unique dis tinction is the son of Enoch noted? 4. Osaka, Nagoya, Kyota, Kobe and Yokohama are large cities in which country? 5. Which floats more readily, a fat or lean person? 6. A garibaldi is a kind of hat, shirtwaist, or ' skirt worn by women? 7. Name the author of the noted '"Uncle Remus" stories for children. 8. Which country is called "the land of the Midnight Sun'? 9. Fit the proper word to "either" and "neither": or, nor. 10. "Marry, this is myching mallico, that means mischief.'" "Hamlet": Act 3. What does "myching mallico" mean? Answers: 1. Western Ger many. 2. Mt. McKinley. 3. Oldest Biblical character Methuse lah. 4. Japan. S. Fat person. 6. Kind of shirtwaist. 7. Joel Chandler Harris. 8. Norway. 9. Or . . . either; nor . . . neither. 10. Skulking misdeed. MAIL TRIBUNE Autumn Thoughts Sputniks, guided missiles, stock market declines, segregation outrages, lumber industiy woes, sabre rattling in Syria, and other assorted ills of the world to the contrary there are still a lot of things to be glad about. For instance : After one of the most perfect summers we have ever seen, the rains came pouring down, wetting the forests and ending the threat of forest fires. Then came beautiful autumn weather cool, crisp, fresh and invigorating. The leaves have turned, and brilliant yellows mingle with sober browns and greens. The crab-grass has died; the acoms have started to thump on the roof, bump-bump-bump downward, and then, after a pause, go plop ! on the lawn. THE coat of the black and white puppy has become thick and glossy, and he romps with heightened vigor on the dew-damp grass. In the mornings, the roofs across the way have been white with light frost, with a touch of it on leaves and lawn. If, by chance, there are a few stray clouds in the sky as the sun climbs over the eastern hills, they are lit with color, and .one knows why Homer referred to the "rosy-fingered dawn." The lower parts of the valley are covered with wispy fog-banks until the sun burns them away, but higher up, the blue-green hills stand sharp and clear and fresh. And when it rains, the windy wetness tosses and teases the leaves until they come whirling clown, flurrying and eddying on the damp ground. The smell of the rain is fresh and clean, and the indescrib able smell of burning leaves clings to the ground and to the clothes of passersby. "I17E HAVE renewed our acquaintance with the " fresh flavor of apple cider, we are again in the habit of wearing a jacket, instead of just a light sports shirt, and the click of the thermostat turning on the heater is again heard night and morning. The fireplace again knows the cheerfullness of a fine, brisk blaze. The early-birds are starting their Christmas shopping, and the rest of us are beginning to think about it. Fall is really here, and winter is coming soon. E.A. Two Cheerful Reports There are two other cheerful reports in the news these days. Forest fires in Oregon this past season were both few and small. And, over the long haul, Oregon's highways are getting safer. The fire-season of 1957, if the six-year fire pattern had been followed, would have been a "jinx" year, but it wasn't. The total number of fires was the fourth-lowest in the past 16 years, as was the number of lightning-set fires. The number of man-set fires was the eighth-lowest in that period. TTHE "jinx" year fire pattern was started with the 1 Tillamook blazes in 1933, 1939, 1945 and another bad fire year in 1951. Care in the woods, plus the lack of lightning strikes, paid off this season, for the acreage burned was relatively small for which we can all be thankful. The record is particularly commendable in view of the potential hazards this year. Spring rains brought out a lush growth of grass and brash, which dried to tinder late in the summer, providing a great quantity of dangerously flammable fuel. And in late August and early September, high temperatures and low humidities brought about some of the worst "fire weather" in years. The combination of luck, caution with fire by woods-users, and better fire-fighting organization paid off. AS TO the safety of Oregon's roads, the Oregon State Motor association reports that between 1951 and 1956, Oregon's traffic fatalities declined by 2 per cent from 431 in 1951 to 421 in 1956. And this was despite a larger number of automobiles, up 20 per cent, and increasing population, up 13 per cent. Elsewhere in the nation, the figure climbed 7 per cent throughout the country, and 10 per cent in the 11 western states. In only one other western state did the total decline. That was in Washington, where the drop was 1 per cent. Montana traffic deaths increased 47 per cent between the two years, and in others they climbed by smaller amounts. e TPHIS record is a commendable one, and can be A attributed to a number of things, such as better highways, efficient law enforcement, and better driver training and education. But still, it must be remembered that 421 persons did die in Oregon traffic accidents in 1956--which is just 421 too many. Oregon's program of traffic safety is paying divi dends in lives saved, but it must be continued and improved before any of us can be satisfied. E.A. Wednesday, Oclober 23, 1957 'MY cmiR suae? on. it sot Civil Rights Debate Keeps Democratic Policy Battle Going By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington IIP) That ques tion about who makes official policy for the Democratic Party keeps bobbing up for answers as the politic ians maneuver for the favor of Negro vot ers in the 1958 and 1960 elec tions. Chairman Paul M. Butler of the Demo I.yle cratic National Committee keeps the question hot and sizzling. Butler's strategy appears to be to keep the civil rights issue boiling within the Democratic party by public demands for more and better racial integra tion. Butler's latest maneuver brought here the members of the Democratic Advisory Council, an organization he created last year after President Eisenhower's lop sided reelection. Senate and xiouse uemocranc leaders re fused to join When a president of the other political faith occupies the White House, congressional lead ers traditionally have held that they were the official policy makers of their party It has been traditional, too, that na- tional committees tend to party housekeeping and fund-raising while policy was being made by elected officials. Butler Bucks Traditions Butler bucks both traditions. Twice in a short span of weeks, heh as arranged for the Demo cratic Advisory Council to pledge the Democratic Party to all-out support of the Supreme Court's orders ofi racial integra tion of the public schools. South ern politicians challenge, resent and defy the council's policy statements. The statements remain on the record, however, for such effect as they may have on northern Negroes whom the Republicans desperately hope to entice away from the Democrats in the com ing elections. The Republican bid for Negro votes, of course, consists, first, of the Supreme Court order, itself, and then of the spectacular fact that the United Statees Army by order of the Republican President is en forcing racial integration in Cen tral High school, Little Rock, Ark. Both parties for years have been playing politics with the Negro vote. Franklin D. Roose velt delivered northern Negroes to the Democratic Party. He Editorial omment U.S. NEEDS SHIFT IN VALUES Who gets the higher salary on the college faculty any Ameri can college faculty the head of the physics department or the athletic director? Who is the idol of the average red - blooded American boy, the scientist or the motion picture actor? The answers are obvious. Who, in fact, has the highest priority for Asian flu shots now becoming available to high schools and col leges? Why, the football squad, of course. Some Americans have been a bit hysterical about Sputnik and what it means to America. But even the calmest among us must realize the prospects . are not bright. There is no reason to be lieve that Russia's rulers have ever altered their purpose to dominate the world, by subver sion if possible, by force if nec essary. Sputnik is irrefutable proof that they have an impor tant part of the means to such domination. Unless Americans choose to alter some of their basic values, there appears to be a good chance that they may lose freedom of choice with respect to life's values and everything else. Oregonian. . , C Wilson ought in a fence. gave them better housing and job opportunities but not much more of civil rights. FDR's vote appear, however, still is strong. Republicans now offer firm if localized enforcement of racial integration of the public schools. Butler seeks to offset that en chanting Republican enticement by keeping on page one evidence of northern Democratic support for at least as much and maybe more civil rights than Republi cans might endorse. Negroes May Decide Negro votes in big, industrial states outside the South may de termine the winner of next near's congressional election and of the presidential contest in 1960. All hands, including the Negroes, know it. Butler is not' merely remind ing the nation of the great North South division of opinion within the Democratic Party. He is fol lowing the 1930 strategy of Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob who went over the heads of congressional Democratic leaders to demand repeal of pro hibition. That caused a blistering out burst . of party strife. But it worke'd. The 1932 party plat form junked prohibition despite the battle of Southern statesmen to keep the party tied to the so called drys. Southern Democrats accepted repeal of prohibition because the North forced the issue on them. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Outer space note: A sleek-nosed missile squats on its launching pad as this is written waiting for a green light from the weatherman. The mis sile is the Vanguard the one our scientists reportedly plan to use to launch America's earth satellite into its orbit. There will be no satellite in the Vanguard's nose if and when it is launched. The firing if it comes off will be merely a test run of the first stage en gines of the missile that has been selected to carry our midget moon aloft in March. H OW would you like to be one of the scientists who are waiting for the Vanguard's test? Of this we tan be certain: The weight of responsibility is rest ing heavily on their shoulders at this moment. If the American missile fizzles Well, in that event, their names will be MUD and Russia will have won another big prop aganda victory. The result of that will be that the cold war will get warmer. STRAW in the business winds: Hopes for a fourth quarter pickup in the steel industry have been dampened by a scattering of operating cutbacks. What that means is that in October, November and Decem ber of this year ls steel will be BOUGHT from the steelmakers regardless of how much steel may be USED. ANOTHER straw: Pittsburgh Plate Glass com pany will start construction soon on a multi-million dollar window glass plant near Decatur, Illinois. The new plant was announced two years ago, but has been de layed because of a SLUGGISH DEMAND for window glass. But They're going ahead now with 1949 PLYMOUTH FOUR DOOR Interior a little rough mechanically a dandy J"A We will sell it as is for I 3 W LEA MOTORS 5th at Bartlett Easing Turkish-S yrian Tension Strengthens SaucTs Influence By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Turkish - Syrian tension has strengthened King Saud's position as the chief moderating l n f 1 uence in the Arab world. From the be ginning of the dangerous sit uation which d e veloped when Syria charged Tur key with plot-1 Lliarles M. McCann ting aggres sion, the Saudi Arabian monarch has worked untiringly to prevent an explosion. Saud has conferred with the leaders of Turkey and of Arab countries. Finally, he offered personally to act as mediator between Tur key and Syria. The big contribution of Egypt ian President Gamal Abdel Nas ser, who likes to fancy himself as the No. 1 Arab leader, was to send Egyptian troops and war ships to Syria at the most serious stage of the dispute. Offered To Fight All Syria's pro-Russian leaders have breathed ,fire and offered to take on all comers presum ably including the United States, which was supposed to be in the alleged plot in event of war. The pitiful record of both the Syrian and the Egyptian armies in the Arab-Israeli war, and in last year's Israeli invasion of Egypt, did not seem to make a fight to the death likely against Turkey's powerful, tough army of 500,000 men. Soviet Russia, of course, was a prime contributor to the ten sion and helped build it up stage by stage with threats against Turkey. King Saud was not able to do anything as regards Russia. What he did do was to work with Middle Eastern countries them selves as an Arab and as a fellow Moslem with the Turks. Saud Sides With Syria As the situation developed, Saud promised to side with Syria, one of its colleagues in the Arab League, against any aggressor. Saud knew that neither Tur key nor the United States had any intension of attacking Syria. 'Citizens Now' Conference Set A "Citizens Now" conference for registered Explorers in the three-county Crater Lake Coun cil, Boy Scouts of America, will be held at Southern Oregon col lege for three days beginning Nov. 22, according to Dick Clark and Mike Forbes, cochairmen. The purpose of the "Citizens Now," conference is to give the Explorers a better understand ing of their privileges and re sponsibilities as citizens now in their home and community. Besdes Clark and Forbes, oth er Explorer members of the steering committee making ar rangements for the conference are Wilson Gilinsky, Glen Alli son, Kelly Somers, and Bill Ben son. Several adult advisors are also working on the conference with the assistance of Dillard B. Shipler, council field exec utive, Grants Pass. Features of the conference will include several outstanding speakers who have already been obtained to address the meeting, it was announced. the new plant. That is interest ing because it indicates confi dence in the FUTURE. NOTHER straw: jc (Jotton fabric prices are down to their lowest levels since price controls were removed shortly after World War 2. As a result of this situation, consumers have been refusing to make FORWARD COMMIT MENTS for large orders of cloth HOW come? , It's quite simple. When prices are RISING (as they do in inflationary periods) people buy unhesitatingly and in larger quantities than they need at the moment. They do- so be cause they're sure the price will be higher later. When prices are FALLING (or likely to fall) people are in clined to WAIT on the theory that the price will be lower. HPHAT could explain the pres ent "slowdown" in business. Buyers may be using up their present inventories instead of placing new orders hoping that prices may be lower later. If that is true, business will pick up again when inventories get low. Phone SP 2-6185 Under pressure, Saud alsc found it advisable to 6ay that he never had formally accepted the Eisenhower Doctrine against Communist aggression in the Middle East. That was true. But Saud had accepted the doctrine in fact be- cause with him Communism ommu Letters to the Editor must bear the rams 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 a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words- Disgusted With T.V. To the Editor: This is about our T.V. station. If they keep on like they have for the last month or so we might as well get rid of our machines. They advertise a program in the paper then when it is supposed to come on they come out with another pro gram not listed. Saturday night they had "People Are Funny" listed for 9:30 and then came out with, "Life With Elizabeth." That is not the only one either. Name on file. P.S.: I am not the only one around here that feels this way. P.S.: Please don't publish my name. BEM, , (Name on file) Rogue River. Calls Little' Girl A "Red" To the Editor: I note a letter from a little girl in the commu nications column in which I de tect a dislike for any one who objects to rather high-handed ac tions of State officials in pro socialist efforts to promote MORE controls all the time. I wonder who told her what to write. Thomas Jefferson is reputed to have said "That government is best which governs the least." Our State officials evidently be lieve the opposite. As far as reg istration of wells for domestic water is concerned, on the sur face it appears harmless. But on the other hand, what good would that do? Would that make the water any more pure? Would that increase the supply? Or perhaps Miss Walker or some one else can think of some other excuse for REGISTRATION OF WELLS. I personally consider it as another step toward totalitarian ism. Next they'll want us to reg ister the air we breathe. May I ask Miss Walker how the above could be considered as making the State any better? As for the game commission I don't give a whoop who kills game when it is killed nor where it is killed . . . The impor tant thing is, don't waste it. I, myself, struck a doe one time with a car and, though the State Police were notified immediate ly, it took them TWO WEEKS to come after it. Rest assured I wasn't going fo take it to them. I suppose they thought I'd leave it in the ditch to rot or pick up at their leisure. It is (the Game Commission) a racket. I think Miss Walker, or who ever told her what to write, has Socialist leanings as I cannot see how MORE CONTROLS, MORE REGISTRATION OF THIS OR THAT COULD BE A BETTERMENT OF THE CITY, COUNTY, STATE, OR NATION. Miss Walker says "Could he ap prove drilling an unregistered well just to spite everyone?" You're doggone right rest as sured I WILL NEVER REGIS TER ANY WELL I'll not knuckle down to any doggone politician. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Station Butte Falls Tennessee Man Heads Milk Industry Group San Francisco (IP) Hubert Garrecht, president of Klinke Reed Dairies Inc., of Memphis, Tenn., was elected president of the Milk Industry Foundation on Tuesday as the group ended its 50th annual meeting. A student judging team from the University of Connecticut won the 23rd annual Collegiate Students International Dairy Products Judging contest. Ernest Fleuette of the Uni versity of Connecticut won top individual honors. A Major Event One of the three major events in most everyone's life is mar riage. To make the ceremony more lovely, more beautiful. tniiirfiiirT'ii'ita 4 C. M. Litwiller outstandingly complete and free from cares and work, arrange now to have that wedding amidst growing palms, near a trickling waterfall . . in the home-like atmosphere found only at Litwiller's. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close r ranks beside Israel as an enemy. The Syrian-Turkish situation has been simmering down for some days, despite Russia's at tempt to keep it boiling. Saud seems, in the process, to have made it clear that he, not Nasser, is the leading among the Arabs. figure meat ions Why Fear the Officials? To the Editor: As a barber I come in contact with many citi zens of Medford. One just can't visualize to what extent our citi zens have lost sight of the pur pose of and protection provided each of us by our Federal and State constitutions. . On this matter of mine and others seeking adjudication of the present business license tax ordinance I give some of the statements and questions pre sented to me while discussing it. "I agree with you but you can't buck the city." "Aren't you afraid of what they will do?" "Do you think you can stand up to the city clique and , get away with it?" One wonders what is happen ing to the people. What makes them think that way in a sup posedly free country? Why do they think the government or its officials hold a club over their heads? Why should one be afraid to exert a right and question the doings or neglect to do things re quired of officials who represent us in government? After all they are working for the people. The people pay them for doing, so. These same officials take an oath of office to uphold the laws and constitution of the United States and of the State of Ore gon. If the time has come that our citizens fear the power of our city officials and the manner in which they use that author ity then I say it is time some changes should be made. As to myself If I didn't think that I could get justice in the city court I believe there are other courts for relief. After all it is my way of thinking we all the city officials and all con cerned want only a lawful or dinance and are striving to that end. Ray O. D. Marrs 139 N. Central Ave. Medford Hi-Lite s ..IN THE History "Pharmacy by ED HALL There never has been any def inite proof about the origin of the peculiarly shaped bottles (show glasses) filled with colored liquids which have been used as a sign of pharmacy. It seems they start ed in England Chemist Shops as an attractive power Of the myster ious product (the colored liquid) obtained by the new art of chem istry ... In 1712 the compound of tinc ture of gentian first appeared un der the name of "Stougtons Elix er" a patent medicine ... (More next week.) "To foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism" is a part of the creed of every Amer ican Legionnaire. Three million American Legion naires have a great pride in be longing to the organization. We are proud to salute the world's largest veterans organization dur ing the annual observance of American Legion Weeks October 20 to November 1 1. We at CENTRAL REXALL DRUG guarantee complete purity and accuracy in the compounding of your doctors PRESCRIPTION. CENTRAL REXALL DRUG, Main and Central. ' - i ' ,i f Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."