Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 25, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) rTRIBUKE "XYeryon In Southern Oregon Read! Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except 3aturia b- mxur uku etiutiia CO 21-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-5141 ROBERT W RL'HU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor EARRV CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 118 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy AJiierms 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 NEWS PA PES PUIllSHEtk ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAi SIR ! AsTocfVieN 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. 25, 1947 (Sunday) Only 63 per cent of quota as signed Medford for annual com munity and Oregon chest fund drive has been pledged, accord ing to Dr. C. H. Paske, drive chairman. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The city guardians were out directing traffic Fri. whistling at the auto ists. One of the back-country drivers whistled back." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 25. 1937 (Monday) Educational conference and county institute for teachers from Jackson, Josephine, Klam ath, Lake and Curry counties, will be held at Southern Oregon State normal school Oct. 29. The 1938 Jackson county bud get includes $3,000 for employ ment of government hunters, court announces. 30 YEARS AGO . Oct. 25. 1927 (Tuesday) At a meeting of the tax budget committee, a $6,720 appropria " tion for county health unit work . is allowed. Kincaid's Imperial orchestra, - well-known valley dance music . orchestra, will furnish music for the firemen's ball. - 40 YEARS AGO ' Oct. 25. 1917 (Thursday) Forty-one subscriptions taken for the Westerlund Liberty bond fund. '. According to plans made by " the Soldiers' auxiliary, birthdays of the men enlisted in the service are being remembered. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Is the hump on the back of ' a camel a storage reservoir for water? 2. Does the northernmost land in Maine, Idaho, Minnesota, or Washington extend furthest north? 3. Bible: According to Bishop! Ussher's chronology was Cain born after B.C. 4003, 4009, or 4039? 4. Does a white, or a red, car ration worn on Mother's Day denote that the wearer's mother is living? 5. John Keats, who was born in London. October, 1795, was a noted English poet, sculptor, or painter? 6. The wife of which U. S. President was named Lou Henry? 7. In what part of Canada is the Gaspe peninsula? 8. In homogenized milk is the cream always on the bottom? 9. "Flew" is the past tense of "fly." Is it also the past tense of "flee"? 10. "There is over" what? no use crying Answers: 1. No. it stores fat. 2. Minnesota. 3. No. 4003 B.C. 4. A red carnation. 5. A noted English poei. 6. Herbert Hoov er's wife. 7. Eastern Quebec. 8. No. it is mixed with the milk. 8. Nt t ledjv .10. ."?F-iU . voXO ," MAIL TRIBUNE Policies in City Affairs (The following editorial, and two other's to follow, 'are adapted from a talk made by the writer to Oregon mayors and councilmen at the recent convention of the League of Oregon Cities in Portland.) There is or has been which is, in effect, a "self ment. For years after Oregon was first opened up by settlers, the unincorporated self-service when it came to municipal services There was no planning, take the hindmost. Gradually, as usually way of life which was an unlimited freedom of action on one hand, and sine controls on the other hand. Today we are still somewhere in the never-never land between these two extremes. Smaller cities lean to the former; larger and palities lean toward the latter. RUT everywhere, in every community, big or small organized or unincorporated, rich or poor, wise or foolish, people look to certain men who have under taken the sometimes-thankless job of city leadership An observer builds respect for these men, for their problems, their labors, for ing to make their cities better places for their families their children, thir neighbors, and for generations yet unborn. It is to them, who have received the con fidence of their neighbors, that their neighbors look for guidance and leadership in municipal improve ment. TN THE days of "self-service" government, munici pai lLiiyi. u v cmciu3 iiicaiiL, xiiiijqi, cauusivcjj, aucii things as street improvement, sewage disposal and the police authority. Today we live in a more teracting forces of civilization bring to the top new problems, new solutions A city which functions where it is going. And its consist of policies. 1EBSTER'S Collegiate 1 " nitions for policy, but at the moment is the one which most readily comes to mind, namely: "A settled lowed by a government, vidual." In some cities, the birth of policy is a question: "Why don't those knuckleheads down at city hall DO something? This could happen in where the policies of the summed up as follows: Spend as little money as pos sible; do as little as possible and then only when forced into it; let someone fXN THE other hand, we w ministration meaning, officials assumes a holier-and-wiser-than-thou at titude toward the peasants that put them into places of authority; where they run an efficient city, but take no heed of the human needs of their constituents. In these cities, the wielding of power is done in the spirit of noblesse oblige the attitude of "We're doing wonderful things for you ; do them for yourselves; but noble and all-wise, we 11 take care of you. ' Neither of these attitudes is healthy in a city ad ministration. But those who have watched cities in operation have seen them and know that they do exist. Constructive, healthy where between the knuckleheads and the self-ap pointed "nobility." AND it lives on two levels. The first is the day-to-day solution of prob lems as they arise and which must be solved and dis posed of as routine business. The smooth functioning of a city depends on well-oiled this routine business in a courteous, efficient and con structive manner. But in a larger sense, the other level of policy making is the more important of the two. It looks to the future. It is akin to the omens from the entrails of a goat, or to crystal-gazing, or reading portents in the stars. Today we do not deal with signs and omens, but with graphs, statistics, projections, curves; with cen sus figures and estimates ; with tax rates and assessed valuations ; with personnel records and cost account ing, and the hundred-and-one other tools of the execu tive and administrator. ONE are the days of the omen and the portent. But how much easier things must have been in those days. If things went wrong, one could blame the gods ! Basic to policymaking this looking to the fu ture and preparing the way for it is an instrument which is virtually the same as it was 2,000 years ago. This is the human mind. This is not a non sequitur, nor is it irrelevant. No one knows better than city officials themselves that far too much of what goes on in public hearings and council chambers is based, not on logical thinking and facts; but on emotion often fear, often mistrust, often suspicion, often cupidity. These, too, of course, are products of the human mind, but they are not its highest and best products. These are not the qualities which can be used suc cessfully in guiding a city to its greatest good. They arc not the qualities which can satisfy constituents in the long run, at any rate in their justified demand that the leaders and the movers operate a "good city." E.A. ; Friday. October 23, 1957 a. form of governmen - service" type of govern communities were indeed little cooperation, and devi happens, men worked out a uneasy compromise between more complicated munici the efforts they are bend complicated age. The in and new challenges. well is a city which knows guideposts on the journey Dictionary gives six defi the one that concerns us course adopted and fol institution, body or mdi a "self-service" type city, administration could be else do the worrying. find cities where the ad in this case, the elected you don t know enough to because we are good and in one degree or another, policy - making lies some machinery to handle ancient practice of reading Tm tow' to rsgb? our why a sets ivwk.- Russian Educational Progress Said Making U.S. Effort Urgent New York, N.Y. (Special) Federal aid for school and col lege construction has been made more urgent than ever by the launching of the Soviet Union's intercontinental ballistic missile and its earth satellite, according to George J. Hecht, publisher of Parents' Magazine, 52 Vander bilt ave., New York. A recent visitor to the USSR, Hecht declares that unless the school situation in the U.S. is improved, the U.S. may fall even further behind the USSR in scientific development. As proof he contrasts the education pic ture in the two countries. Contrasts Told The Soviet Union operates its schools six days a week, and every child must take four years of physics and learn at least one foreign language. Qualified stu dents are virtually all given uni versity scholarships. As a re sult, the Soviet Union is turn ing out twice as many scientists and engineers as we are. Conversely, our schools are In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS New gadget note: The General Time Corpora tion (one of the top watch and clock outfits) is coming out with a clock that can run for DAYS on a few hours of sunlight. The new clock is called the solarion and requires no electric cord, battery replacement or winding It is powered by sunlight. npHE commonly used name for sun nowpr is solar enerev. Scientists have found that each square yard of the sun's surface gives off 70,000 horsepower of energy per second. The portion of this energy that reaches the earth is two horsepower, which adds up to 70 mile - tons per square foot per year. A mile-ton is the amount of energy needed to move a ton a distance of a mile. That is to say: If you have a lot 50x100 feet in size and if the sun shone ALL THE YEAR, you'd have power enough on your premises to move ton 350,000 miles in a year or to move 350,000 tons one mile in a year. UITE a lot of power, isn't it? And, presently, it all GOES TO WASTE. THE trouble with solar energy is that the sun doesn't shine all the time. And If you're thinking of. setting up a solar engine in your back yard and beating the power company's racket, maybe you'd better do some figuring first. Your figures will undoubtedly show you that your sun engine wold cost you a lot of shekels so many shekels, in fact, as to make the investment' highly un profitable. THAT, by the way, brings out an economic fact of the ut most importance: Whatever you propose to make and sell at a profit and thus make living for yourself and your family must be COMPETITIVE IN PRICE with other similar products. Otherwise, people won't buy it. That explains why the power companies use coal and oil and falling water, instead of solar energy, to produce the power customers buy from them. ANYWAY It's consoling to know that if, in the centuries that are now far off in the future, all the coal and oil are exhausted and all the uranium is used up and all the rivers go dry there will still be sun power to keep the wheels of industry turning. The pessimist likes to think of the time when we'll all be goners for sure. The optimist prefers to believe that, in one way and another, the world will keep on getting better and better. Let's be optimists instead of pessimists. . - deteriorating. School construc tion has lagged so badly that several million children have to attend schools In double or triple shifts. More than half the ex isting classrooms are so over crowded that effective teaching is impossible. We have had to employ about 90,000 emergency teachers with substandard quali fications. And the situation will grow worse as the schools age and population continues to in crease. Just to keep up with this growth, 50,000 additional class rooms will be needed in each succeeding year. Further Loss Cited The recently released report of he President's committee for Education Beyond High School shows a further loss of top brain power. Of the top third of our high school graduates only about one third go on to get college degrees, one-third apparently do not want to eo to college and one third cannot afford it. This situation will be further complicated by the fact that American colleges and univer sities are not expanding rapidly enough to handle the millions of boys' and girls who will be seeking enrollment. The answer to these problems is twofold system of Federal university scholarships for qualified but needv students, and Federal aid for college expansion, Roads, Not Schools The Federal Government now appropriates $3 billion a year to help the States build highways and secondary and feeder roads, hut in the last Congress the House of Representatives killed bv five votes the proposed Fed eral Aid for School Construction bill which would have authorized SI. 5 billion to heln the states build sorely needed schools A new Federal Aid for School Construction Bill will be pre sented to Congress in 1958. It is not too soon for parent-teacher associations and other civic groups to pass resolutions in its favor and send copies of these to Coneress. Education is the most basic need of our times. In a world of intercontinental mis- siles and earth satellites, we need all the brainpower we can get. Mayor io Assume New Duties as Director Mayor John Snider will as- sume several new duties as a director of the League of Oregon Cities. He was elected a director at the recent annual convention in Portland. Mayor Snider plans to attend one board meeting each quarter at the Eugene office of the bureau of municipal research of the University of Oregon. Needs and problems of Oregon cities, and the league's policies will be discussed at board meetings. Snider also is chairman of the committee for city-state high way relations. Committee mem bers meet with city officials in each region in the state to dis cuss problems and needs to form a better relationship with the state highway commission. He said a meeting of south ern Oregon mayors will be scheduled in the near future to discuss problems in. this area. Snider will then meet with other committee members, and a report, will be forwarded to the highway commission. 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 U.S.-U.K. Cordiality, Research, By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The United States and Great Britain opened a new and prom ising chapter in their historic alliance this week. Queen Elizabeth II went home aft er a triumphal visit to the United Stat e s which in it self served to strengthen re lations. A few hours later Charles M. McCann Harold Macmillan, her prime minister, arrived in Washington for a three-day conference with President Eisenhower and Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. There was every reason to be lieve that the Washington con ference would result in closer relations between the two allies than they had enjoyed for years. Soviet Russia tirelessley de veloped the blatant and danger ous propaganda campaign in which it seeks to increase ten sion between Turkey and Syria and threatens to attack Turkey. In its latest moves, Moscow made it known that it had ap pointed Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, its No. 2 soldier, as commander of the military district facing Turkey and that its troops had conducted maneu vers with nuclear weapons in the frontier area. In the United Nations, Russia and Syria together fanned ten sion further by attacking Tur key and the United States in a General Assembly debate. Russia's little Sputnik satel lite, still spinning round the world, stirred the United States to sharply accented concentra tion on its development of nu clear missiles. The Air Force shot a rocket at least 1,000 miles into the air possibly higher in a test over the Eniwetok Atoll in the Pa cific. The Army . successfully tested its 1,500-mile Jupiter in termediate range ballistic mis sile. The Navy with equal sue cess tested its Vanguard rocket which it is developing as an earth sattellite launcher. De 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 Identify 'Rover' To the Editor: School days are here again and as the children leave for classes the family pet will once again have to be taught to stay at home. It isn't easy for "Rover" to understand, since he has been the constant companion of the children for three months. Almost every community has an ordinance prohibiting dogs from running at large on school grounds. The numerous dog fights and cases of children be ing bitten have been responsible for the restrictive ordinances Many pets become overly excit ed when they see children romp and play on the school grounds The Medford Humane society reminds residents that dogs are not allowed on school grounds. Identification tags or licenses should be worn so that "Rover' can be returned if he attempts to follow the children. Medford Humane Society Mrs. S. W. Richardson, Mgr. Praise Goes to MT And the Dogs To the Editor: About six weeks ago I saw an ad in the Medford Mail Tribune which made it possible to contact Mr. and Mrs. Herndon of Central Point, Ore. The Herndons raise German shepherd dogs, and in spite of Mrs. Herndon's recent surgery, I must admit that they raise an excellent breed of dogs. I purchased one of them and have never been more pleased with a dog in my life. The pup proved to be exceptionally intel ligent besides being beautifully marked black and silver. Fact is I wouldn't take many times the price I paid for the pup. In view of the above mention ed facts, I want to express my appreciation to the Medford Tribune for having made this purchase possible and also to Mr. and Mrs. Herndon for tak ing such pains in raising the dogs. Capt. H. C. F. Beyer, Star Route 3, Yreka, Calif. Syria, Top fense Secretary Neil H. McElroy announced that some Navy planes in the Atlantic Fleet are now equipped with atomic depth charges for use against subma rines. While France continued its painful search for its 24th post war premier, Konrad Adenauer was elected to a third four-year term as chancellor of West Germany. Ike's Coattails Seen Lacking in Effect by GOP Congress Leader By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) President Eisenhower's proposed "chin's up" rally of public confidence looks from here very much like the opening of the 1958 Republi can con g r j s sional election campaign. The President s o m ewhat re sents the read ing of political I.yle C. Wilson motives Into his activities as the elected chieftain of all the peo ple. He is, nevertheless, the lead er and spokesman of the Repub lican party to whom its candi dates normally would look for a ' coat tail ride to victory on election day. The Republican party, how ever, is not now noted for a state of normalcy. Abnormal is the word for the state of the Republican party which in 1952 and 1956 elected a president by enormous margins but cannot wrst Congress from the Demo crats Abnormal means markedly or strangely irregular, which makes it a good word for a little noted speech delivered- last Sat urday before a Republican audi ence in Alamogordo, N.M., by Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa.) Key GOP Campaign Strategist Simpson is chairman of the Republican National Congres sional Campaign Committee which will supervise next year's campaign to regain control of the House of Representatives. He is a big man in the House and in his party. If and when Rep Joseph W. Martin Jr., (R-Mass.) decides to retire, Simpson is the man most likely to succeed him as Republican leader - of the House and as Speaker if the GOP ever again is able to win control. In his capacity as GOP Con gressional Campaign Committee chairman, Simpson told the New Mexican Republicans that there was no political future for their party's candidate in attempting to hitch a campaign ride on the Eisenhower coat tails. He coun selled Republicans to endorse in their campaigns only those poli cies of the Eisenhower adminis tration best suited' to their lo calities. "Not everything undertaken in Washington has met with gen eral voter approval," Simpson said. "This is to be expected, and it is up to the candidates for Congress within the ranks of the Republican Party to make known their dissents and to change or to eliminate unde sirable policies when elected.' Simpson is a regular Repub lican as distinguished from a modern Republican, and among administration policies to which he aggressively objects is big time government spending. He helped kill the President's pro posal for federal construction of public schools. Simpson has no use for "spenders in govern ment" and evidently believes Republican congressional candi dates should repudiate the Eisen hower spending-tax program in next year's campaign. Since the spending-tax budget is the foundation stone of all administration policy, Simpson would appear to be proposing real bolt. The congressman does not see it quite that way. "A Republican congressional candidate will not be breaking with President Eisenhower," he Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce P. O. Box 25 T, Medford, Oregon ENTRY BLANK Christmas Opening Parade Please enter. Opening Parade to be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, No vember 16th. Meet at Hawthorne Park. We will be in the. 5 Our theme Will be. You may contact our chairman. Address Phone. Medford Mail &.......... Rocket News List Since Adenauer was first elect ed eight years ago, France has had 14 premiers. Thus it emphasized ironically the contrast between prosper ous, unified West Germany, beat en into unconditional surrender in World War II, and France, one. of the victors, which has struggled through years of poli tical instability and of colonial wars which have drained its blood and money. said, "if he confines his cam paign to local issues and en dorses only those administration policies which meet the deniands of the candidate's constituents." Perhaps not. Simpson's out-of-the-way speech, however, points up the hard choice confronting Republican congressional candi dates in next year's campaign. Tey must choose whether to run on President Eisenhower's spending record or away from it. Voice of Democracy Contest Scheduled A community-wide Voice of Democracy contest will be held in the Medford area this year as part of the program's 11th na tional anniversary, according to the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. The contest ' Includes script writing and voice competition of high school students. Entries are judged on content, delivery and originality of five-minute scripts on the subject, "I Speak for Democracy." Students in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades are eligible to enter. Medford high, St. Marys, Phoneix and Jacksonville High schools are area schools parti cipating. Following school eli minations, a community winner will be selected to represent this area in the state finals. The state winner will be awarded an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., in February to the national finals. The contest is sponsored na tionally by the U.S. Jaycees, Electronic Industries association and the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcast ers. Don Carlon and Ted Mc Lean are co-chairmen for the project from the local Jaycees. VETERAN EDITOR DIES Dayton, Ohio OPl Walter Locke, 82, veteran editor of the Dayton Daily News, died Wed nesday night of a heart ailment. He was widely known for his editorial column, "Trends of the Times." Pussey Footing around for a Loan? Borrow the AMERICAN WAY LOANS $25 to $1,500 Auto Salary Furniture American Finance Corp. Phona SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford .In the Christmas -group (Youth or Adult) (Biblical, Christmas or Fantasy) Tribune . B - .......