Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 29, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xreryone to Southern Ore on ReacU The Mali Tribunt." Published Daily Except Saturrlay by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-ll HERB GRICV Advertising Manager GELRAXX) LATHAM Buaines. Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor IARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAJJ Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVZ ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa 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 and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper or the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United rTesa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU W CIRCULATION WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in N York Chicago, de troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOtlAt AsTbcfA'N 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. 29. 1947 District Attorney George W. Neilson reports a score of com plaints protesting reckless shoot ing by bird hunters in the val ley. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Fifteen hunters were trying to shoot the bird across the road out of the game preserve where 17 cars were parked." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 29. 1937 Carl A. Jorgenson, 35, of Utah Is in custody today because he tried to steal a sack of Irish potatoes from a fighting Irish man. The Jackson county tax levy for state and county purposes the coming year will be about 14.1 mills, or 7 to 8 mills less than last year. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 29. 1927 Sixty-five rabbit raisers gath er at Crater Lake rabbitry on Boss lane to eat canned rabbit. Roseburg post invited to par ticipate in Armistice Day cele bration in Medford Nov. 11. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 29. 1917 Prevention of. common cold subject of sermon-lecture on the "Power of Mind Over Body" last night. Grants Pass sugar factory is having a better run now than any previous year, it was stated by factory officials. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or el;nt Is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Are there approximately 2000, 4000 or 6000 coffee beans to a pound? 2. Bible: "Acts" gives an ac count of the establishment of Christian churches in which em pire? t 3. Did Shakespeare say "A juart of ale is a dish for a king"? 4. Names the longest river system in the United States. 5. ' What is the capital of Bo livia? 6. The vicuna is a bear, llama, or muskrat? 7. Is Mother's Day observed on the 1st, 2nd, or 4th Sunday In May? 8. Does the pigment in the skin or the meat of the grapes produce the color in wine? 9. When is Pan American Day? 10. Are young beavers called calves, kits, or pups? Answers: 1. 4000. 2. Roman. 3. Yes. 4. Mississippi-Missouri. 5. La Pax. 6. Llama. 7. Second. 8. Skin 9. April 14. 10. Kits. Photo Contest for Wheelchair Users A photo contest limited to persons confined to a wheel chair with disabilities of a per manent nature has been an nounced by Paraplegia News. The monthly publication is the official organ of the Paralyzed Veterans and the National Para plegia Foundation. The contest ends on Feb. 23, 1958. A total of 53 prizes has been announced for the black and white category and prizes will be awarded in other categories. Official entry blanks may be obtained by writing to Paraple gia News, Stroudsburg, Pa. A normal adult human has 26 bones in his spine. MAIL TRIBUNE "Those Without Vision If the "Salem Statesman" is correct and it often is then the railroads as far as passenger trains are concerned are going the way of the stagecoach and the buffalo. Well, of course, there is no doubt passenger service by rail is not the necessity it once was. Nor is there any doubt that because of increased competition, passenger service in the country as a whole has, for several years, declined. But decreasing passenger schedules by railroads, is one thing, abandoning them entirely in a growing and prosperous area like Southern Oregon is quite another. If there is any section in the country as large, secure and progressive, as this thriving district, where a billion-dollar railroad MONOPOLY has deprived a population of several hundred thousand people of ALL passenger service by rail, we have never heard of it. A ND it is our belief no such district exists, else " where. Moreover, if, as the "Salem Statesman" maintains, the "S.P." should not be blamed for this action, because passenger service by rail is on the way out and the people who refuse to patronize trains are really the guilty parties; then why is it that so many important and excellently-managed railroads, refuse to accept this "defeatist" doctrine, and are spending millions of dollars, in improving the quality of their passenger service, and thereby increasing their patronage and their gross revenues? Are they all misguided and mistaken, simply try ing to sweep back the flooding tide of the .gas-and-air-age with a broom? And is the "Friendly Southern Pacific" the ONLY railroad in the country with the brains and business sense to read the fatal "writing on the wall"? - WELL MEBBE so. We have no crystal ball, and in another 50 years there may be no railroads in the country and no country for that matter most of the people may have by then migrated by rocket to -Mars ! But as of today we don't believe it. And with its own and exclusive freeway by rail, its greater comfort and safety, with the increased con gestion and danger in motor travel we agree entire ly with those far seeing, public spirited and enter prising railroad executives, who refuse to cry "uncle" at the first sign of decreasing revenues, and instead set about ferreting out the causes and reducing, if not eliminating them entirely. THIS department has never suffered from any illu pi'ftTin op -o v o r c of f i w rf T-olr fVi r il vao rl1 rnr f n the "good old days" is concerned. Then Medford had half a dozen passenger trains a day running through to Portland and San Francisco. We don't deny "them What we do deny is road" that takes millions freight EVERY year, should be allowed to discon tinue all passenger service when it virtually admits it could supply such service at a slight percentage of its profits not its GROSS taken from the area concerned ! I N OTHER words, a railroad enjoying a monopoly and a mVhlv profitable one. should not be allowed to escape its obligations as a public utility, in such a larere area as Southern Oreeron and Northern Cali- fomia, particularly when there would not he the slightest danger of failure to meet its regular dividend requirements or reduce its "plush" salaries in the higher brackets, but would merely mean NOT adding a few MORE thousands of dollars to its present gen erous profits. A NY public utility enjoying a complete monopoly in its special field, also leges derived originally from the people. As a matter of common decency and justice such a utility owes certain obligations to the people other than simply taking as much money from them as they can. But the Southern Pacific denies any such obliga tion and in Southern Oregon where there is no rail competition, it ALWAYS has. Its basic policy goes back 70 years, as has often been noted, to "All the traffic will bear" and "the public be damned." S INDICATED we have ing order at least and 'seventh son ol a seventh son ; out we ao predict that long before the "SP", or any other railroad in the country, goes the way of the "stage coach and the buffalo", this doctrine of unprincipled "greed" will go before them, and into the ash-can where it prop erly belongs. R.W.R. "Cat Out of The Bag" Democratic criticism of the Eisenhower adminis tration isn't news. But Republican criticism is. And particularly when that criticism comes from one of the most important members of the present ad ministration to wit: Secretary of State Dulles. At least according to press dispatches in his recent press conference, our leading diplomatic "Sputnik" admitted that he had repeatedly tried to get more money for foreign aid and scientific research, but had been thwarted, just as repeatedly. Naturally he mentioned no names but to any in formed observers of the Washington "Merry-Go-Round" he did not need to. For the attitude of former Secretaries Humphiy and Wilson toward increased expenditures in these two fields was a matter of common knowledge. R.W.R. Tuesday, October 29. 1957 days has gone forever." that a "billion - dollar rail out of this 300-mile area in profits its NET profits enjoys tremendous privi no crystal ball in work are far from being any 'LITTLE KID GOT HIS FOOT CAUShT IN THE GLOVB COMPARTMBHT OF HIS DAO& CAR' Matter of Fact by THE NEW POPE JOAN Warsaw Much that has been mysterious begins to seem clear if you just assume that Nikita mM K h r ushchev s hold on pow er is somewhat tentative. And this is certain ly justified by the startling report here that Marshal Zhukov com bined leader ship of the Joseph Alsop armed forces with substantive control of the Soviet police. Consider, for example, recent Soviet policy. Its new aggressive ness is easily explained by the Eisenhower adraini stration's long, complacent neglect of the world balance of power. But of late, Soviet policy has also seemed to be both oddly hasty and marked by fits of bluster, which is not so easy to explain. Furthermore, the world has lately been treated to the . truly odd spectacle of Khrushchev hurling his thunderbolts of war from the , Kremlin ramparts, while Soviet Defense Minister Zhukov, who would have to fight the war, has been stolidly watching maneuvers and hunt ing wild goats a thousand miles away in Yugoslavia. "OUT what if Khrushchev really "is a man in a hurry, who is anxiously pressing for a success abroad in order to reinforce his position at home? And what if Zhukov feels himself very strong, and is now giving Khrushchev plenty of free rein while preserving his own future liberty of action, not only at home but also in relation to the West? Then do all the oddities begin to make perfectly good sense. Again, the Yugoslavs have just recognized the Communist East Germans. Thus, they have caused a break with the West Germans. They have risked their profitable West German trade. They have jeopardized a badly needed West German credit of 200,000,000 marks. In terms of simnle national interests, the Yugoslav step did not make sense. And it was not taken be cause of East German charm either. In fact, only a few mpnths ago, the East German govern ment actually seized a Yugoslav delegation en route for the West, and hauled them off in ordinary garbage trucks for interrogations about their papers and purposes. "OUT what if Marshal Tito be- lieved that recognizing the rude East Germans would, great ly strengthen Nikita Khrush chev? And what if Tito regards strengthening Khrushchev as an over-riding interest? Once again, the oddity begins to make per fectly good sense. Here, more over, we are approaching solid, wholly non-speculative ground. Khrushchev wanted Tito's help when they met in Bucharest in August. Tito wanted Gomulka s cooperation when they met in Belgrade recently. Both there fore had motives for painting the problem in vivid colors. The problem, In this case, was the growing strength of Marshal Zhukov. Hence, while it is true that the Yugoslavs told the Poles that Zhukov had now gained control of the Soviet police or ganization, the statement itself may somewhat overpaint the facts. But if this point is speculative, there's nothing speculative about the real special decision of the Polish-Yugoslav meeting in Bel grade. It can now be revealed that this was a decision to help Khrushchev in every way they could. INSIDE the Kremlin, those wicked dissidents, Marshal Tito and Wladyslaw Gomulka, have regularly been used as sticks to beat their friend Khrushchev. Thus they can help him now and they are helping him now, by proving that they are not dissidents but "good So cialists." The Polish contribution to the cause was the suppression of the student .newspaper "Po1 Joseph Alsop Prostu," which sparked brief dis orders here. In the end, "Gomulka would probably have suppressed "Po Prostu" anyway. But it is also certain that Marshal Tito strong ly urged him to do so. And it is further certain that the decision was taken with one eye on Mos cow, where free-speaking "Po Prostu" has long been consid ered the most scandalous phe nomenon in the whole "Social ist camp." The Polish-Yugoslav decision at Belgrade in turn confirms our first assumption, that Khrush chev's hold on power is at best somewhat tentative. But why should the Yugoslavs and Poles be so anxious to help him to hang on? HPHE first answer to the question is that Khrushchev has been their friend. The second answer is that Zhukov has not always been exactly friendly. About Poland's October revolution, the Marshal even said regretfully, "We could have crushed them like flies." But there is an even deeper reason why a very high Polish official described Khrush chev to this reporter as "not ideal but the best there is." The soldier, Zhukov, is a lay man, not a priest, in the eyes of all Communist hierarchs includ ing Yugoslavs and Poles. The comparison" may seem shocking but it is not inexact to say that the Kremlin is the Vatican of the world Communist hierarchy. Imagine then, the sentiments of the churchly, hierarchies in other -countries, if the Roman College of Cardinals suddenly made vulgar legend come alive by electing a Pope Joan, or even if they chose a lay Pope. There you have the best parallel for the sentiments of the Commu nist leaders in Poland and Yugo lavia while they breathlessly wait to see whether the Krem lin "will fall under Zhukov's con trol. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Communications Are Our Schools "Brain Washing?" To the Editor: For several years now our children have been taught by teachers and principals that the buildings that they receive their so called learning in are of prime import ance to their education. They have been "brain washed" into conveying the thoughts of school officials to their tax burdened parents on the prime import ance of getting more and more tax money for better and more lavish schools. The thought and teaching is pumped into their little minds that they must tell their parents to go out and vote for each and every school bond issue and given all kinds of ideas as to what will happen to their education if they do not. In other words they are making political couriers of our children to pro mote the idea of more . lavish schools and the passing of ill timed school bond issues on top of our already burdened property tax. .. Our current property tax is made up of an estimated 80 per cent school bond taxes and only 20 per cent for the county and other public services. The current 1957-8 tax on property is even more as the County tax is not assessed this year due to O & C timber revenue. Without this revenue the 1957-8 property tax would be even more. Before So Adam Struck Out GEO. N. TAYLOR, Wheaton, 111. "On the day you eat that fruit, you will surely die." So God warned Adam, our first parent. Yet Adam ate the forbidden fruit and so far as fellowship with God had to do, Adam was a dead man. "Wherefor as by one man sin came into the world and death by sin and so death has passed upon all men in that all have sinned." Romans 5:12. The world is filled with a people dead to God yet God loves them all and put their sins on his Son, Jesus Christ who died under their sins to clear them. God now stands with wide-open arms to receive you and adopt you as your Heavenly Father. This Message sent by God's people who want you to know. Significance of Zhukov's Release Lies on Control of Army Forces By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The most significant thing about the "release" of Marshal Georgi H. Zhukov is that control of the armed forces in Rus sia has chang ed hands. Mar shal Rodion K. M a 1 i n ovsky, Zhukov's suc cessor as de fense minister, is now head man over the Charles M. McCann 4 million men in the Red army, navy and air force. There are two powers in So viet Russia, the Communist Party and the armed forces. Many experts foresee the day when the army may be the su preme power. Nikita S. Khrushchev is first secretary of the Communist Party, and thus controls the party machinery which reaches into every city, town and village in the Soviet Union. A tip off to Zhukov's "re lease" may be that for several weeks the 15-man Communist presidium which rules Russia has been trying to tighten up party control of the most pow erful military force in the world. we contract for any more schools why not all read the Readers Digest article on the construc tion of schools at a minimum of cost for good schools rather than the "ginger bread" we are now receiving. Why is it that a good school cannot be made from local products rather than the expensive decorations that now mock our good intentions? We have been informed that a school was built and planned last year to last an intended five years' but already we are being told just one year later that they need additional funds for ad ditional rooms and repairs on this same new school. Let's ask ourselves who is it that makes the estimates of the need for new schools and who approves the plans for our new schools as well as the costs including architect fees. As taxpayers what do we have to say about these things are we consulted or do we just pay the bill! Last but not least why are our teachers allowed to influ ence the students in conveying their thoughts to the parents? Why do the teachers, as such, engage in politics and promo tion? I have gone to vote at a school bond election and have actually been told by a teacher that my vote didn't matter be cause the issue would pass any way this from a teacher of our students. They have told us at pre election gatherings that our taxes would not increase and the very next tax bill we get shows an increase in School bonds in direct violation of their promise and prediction. We are shown all kinds of statistics that are presented as being true which turn out to be predictions and estimates that just don't pan out. Let's all get together and join our ' local Tax Payers League and do a little investigat ing and checking ourselves be fore we vote "yes" on the next issue. " A Medford Parent (name on file) TV, Valley Grow Together To the Editor: Letters to the editor this weekend indicate that t.v. viewers are very unhappy. They don't find much good in local telecasting. It is not intelligent to offer criticism unless you can offer a remedy that will better the situation. Firstly, the complaining ones should realize that KBES does not have a wide choice of pro grams. Medford is considered Indian country by the large ad vertising agencies in the east. You get your programs thru agencies. In my travels I am often asked," where is Medford, and, sometimes, why? They are mildly surprised that we have radio, t. v. and an airport. I have twice announced an NBC t. v. spectacular and have not been able to convince the agency that the program should be beamed here. They said not enough customers for our pro duct. KBES has to take what they can get. The t. v. station along the net work does not control the traf fic. When changes are made at the key station the local station is advised of the change, often the same day. It is true that we do not have much local talent. We have had no experience along these lines. mere were indications six weeks ago that Khrushchev's prestige was diminishing. He had saved his job as party secretary only with Zhukov's help. Increasing emphasis was being put on Zhukov's rising prestige. There were even suggestions that he was now Russia's biggest man. On Sept. 10 diplomatic reports reached London that Khrush had ordered party control of the army tightened. These reports said that Khrush chev intended to reestablish par ty cells in army, navy and air force units. It was through these cells that Josef Stalin kept firm personal control of the armed .forces. Zhukov, though a Communist from boyhood, did not like them. They were abolished after Stalin's death. Little attention was given to these reports at the time.. But a United Press London dispatch which told of them suggested that they might foreshadow con flict between Khrushchev and Zhukov. Stress Closer Unity Since then, Russian newspa pers have been emphasizing the necessity for close unity of the Communist Party and the armed It is not fair to compare local talent with network people. Good talent costs more money than local t.v. can pay. The complaining ones should follow a time salesman one day thru Medford. See him try to sell spots and programs. Watch him try to explain why it costs so much money. Then watch him have to put up with the evil that all must suffer when the "owner of the store" wants to read his own commercial. This is a ludicrous situation, but it does furnish a certain comic re lief. The fact that you can see a television program in the valley is a blessing that should not be taken lightly. In the USSR you see what the government de cides. Do not blame KBES be cause there are not enough peo ple in the valley to warrant big time advertisers coming here all day. Maybe you should blame the idiotic tax structure that outstrips probably all others . . . to keep the parasites at the public trough, and prohibits in itiative and enterprise in the valley. Take your time...KBES will grow only when the valley does. Pete Logan Dark Hollow Rd. Medford, Ore. Politics In H. S. Sports? To the Editor: We're the par ents of four children and proud to live in the Rogue Valley. We're a sports-minded family and very happy to have our children in schools such as our Medford schools. A child has so much to work for. But my only peeve is too many boys are good enough for first string foot ball all through grade school and Junior high, and then when they get to high school where they can do something they aren't even used as substitutes. Many come from Junior high with the idea of making good or maybe as scholarship. What I want to know is on what basis are the favored few chosen? Not for daily practice turnouts. These boys practice to sit on the benches. I don't .blame the boys for giving up. They've got to Play to keep up their morale. We've attended all the games and very few substitutes are used unless you count the one play substitutes. As I've said before, do they practice to sit on the benches? I'm not the only parent who feels this way. Now that I've a boy in high school that can do something he sits. Maybe someone can tell me where the trouble lies. Some thing is wrong when so many boys are quiting a sport they love. Disappointed Mother (name on file) Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan ' Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. forces. It was pointed out last week that the treatment which Zhukov received on his visit to Yugo slavia indicated that President Tito did not regard him as a contender for top Soviet leader ship. During the 10 days which he spent in Yugoslavia in his ca pacity of defense minister, Zhu kov saw Tito just once. Zhukov got back to Moscow last Saturday, the day on which his "release" was announced. It may well develop that Khrushchev was getting some what nervous over Zhukov's per sonal popularity and over the reports that Zhukov was over taking him in Soviet leadership. All this is naturally highly speculative. But even if Zhukov is to be made premier, as has been suggested," another man now directs the armed forces. And Khrushchev controls the Communist Party machine. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In a column devoted to teen agers' interests, one finds this bit of philosophy: "Back in 1940, Frankie Sinatra was heaven's gift to teenagers. They showed their intense devo tion by shrieking, swooning, forming flying wedges to attack him, ripping his clothes, driv ing policemen to distraction. "Today the outcray has toned down to a whisper. Frankie's millions of fans ARE NOW GROWN-UP YOUNG LADIES. "They have more serious things to think about." AH! SO they do. For example: Labor Secretary Mitchell Is advising businessmen to start hiring women over 35 if they want to avert a threatened man power shortage. He told an audi ence at Harriman, New York, the other day that by 1965 the national economy will demand TEN MILLION additional work ers. He said HALF of these will be women. AND- In Portland, the city coun cil has just voted unanimously to hire 16 women to patrol its downtown parking meters, write out parking tickets and act as official advisers to tourists. The unanimous vote followed an attempt by some groups to block the program in favor of. handicapped persons and dis abled veterans. But the city council agreed, on the basis of experience in other cities, that ONLY WITH WOMEN could an effective program be evolved. In many other areas, the Port land councilmen pointed out, "meter maids" have kept over time parking down to a mini mum and have have freed male police officers for "more manly work." TT has been a man's world up to now or so they tell us. But times are changing. tTORE new stuff: A scientist Reuben Gus tavson, president of the Nation al Water Resources Council calls for a new research pro- jwater res0urces of the earth's atmosphere. He tells the council's annual meeting in Washington that the atmosphere contains SIX TIMES, the amount of water found on the earth. OAGE Southern California. Maybe, if all this comes to pass, they won't need our water from up here in the north. All that will be needed is to learn how to squeeze the water out of the air. ps. x At the right times And at the right places. Too much water at the wrong place and the wrong time is oft en as bad as no water at all. By tradition most of us look forward to TRICK OR TREAT NITE and are prepared for the many strange visitors. But when unwelcome visitors such as fire or wind visit our homes we don't stand a GHOST of a ch ance unless amply covered by INSURANCE. Bill Fish inm,. muni jiJMjw mi m, n.j 11. mum 1