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FOUR MEDFOBD (OREGON) UDFOSDwTRIB UNE Iveryone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturrlaj by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-14I ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALX) LATHAM Business Manager ERIC a i i fn JR. Managing lulitor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Edlto RICHARD JEWETf 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 $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4-23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 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 JO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy AJi Terms Cash In Advance Official -Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coonty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-BOLinAV rOMPAW7 PMC! Offices Tn Kew York Chicago, de- xroti. san mandsco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis AtUnta Vancouver B C NEWS PA PER PUIUSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fOITOIIAt ASSOCtA-feN 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 Nov. 1. 1947 (Sunday) o Crater Lake aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, will sponsor activation ceremony of Com pany A, 186th Infantry regiment, National Guard, Monday. From Arthur -Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The fed eral housing expediter has re signed, and was expedited right into a bigger job. O o 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1937 (Monday) Wonders of subconscious mind will be revealed tonight by Viola Sweet in resuming her series of lectures at St. Mark's Guild hall. Three Oregon Normal foot ball players admit they were in volved in the beating and rob bery Saturday night at Ashland of a Texas salesman. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1927 (Tuesday) The county tax budget for the year reveals an increase in population, a healthy financial condition, a reduction in the county bonded indebtedness and that the levy for the county will be at least 2.8 mills less than last year. The Better Homes Exposition and Holiday Jubilee scheduled at the armory for four days starting Dec. 7 will be the largest indoor exposition ever attempted in the valley history. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1917 (Thursday) After having been lost in the mountains 22 miles from Butte Falls since Sunday noon, Joseph Howard, 63, of Medford, is found exhausted in the woods near a trail. ( The Southern Pacific company has reported that subscriptions to the second Liberty loan by 15,000 employees of the system totalled $1,646,950. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What is the name for a male fox? 2. Bible: Which writings com prise the best of literature of the ancient Hebrew peoples? 3. Who is known as the "Fath er of Pennsylvania"? 4. On which island is the fa mous resort of Coney Island? 5. Haligonian is the name for the natives of what city in Nova .Scotia? 6. Who wrote "Early to -bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"4 7. Matter is or is not-iShde-structible? 8. Who is known as the "Im mortal Bard"? 9. Horses can or cannot sleep while standing? 10. The capital of which coun try is S. A. is named Quito? Answers: 1. Dog; 2. Old Testa ment; 3. William Penn; 4. Long Island. N. Y.; 5. Halifax; Ben jamin Franklin; 7. Is; 8. William Shakespeare; 9. Can; 10. Ecua dor. FAMED WALKER DIES West EnglewoOd, N. J. e HP! Centenarian James Horace Hock ing, famous for his featsas a walker, died Thursday of a stroke suffered two weeks ago. Hocking, 101, held many ama teur walking records and once estimated that he had hiked 275,000 miles in long distance walks starting in 1875. MAIL TRIBUNE It s More Than Just Money Local property taxes are fairly substantial this year. If the proposed bond issue for two new Medford schools plus additions at the high school is passed by the voters next Tuesday, the tax rate will increase slightly. Question: What would happen if the bond issue is voted down? The answers fall into several categories, each of them deserving of sincere consideration by parents, taxpayers, teachers and just plain interested citizens. OEE are some of the things which would happen: n 1. Education would suffer. Youngsters would have to continue using sub-standard rooms which have been pressed into service this year. Soon, addi tional and unsatisfactory measures, such as "double shifting" would have to be employed. Both teachers and students would be overburdened o? distracted. 2. Income to the school district from state funds which now accounts for about 30 per cent of the district's budget would be jeopardized. The state insists that certain standards be met, and if they are not, school monies can be additions are not provided a whole cannot maintain its standard rating. 3. Ultimately, taxes would increase proportion ately more. The proposed plan would solve school building reeds for about four years. If it is delayed, costs may well be higher and needs will be -greater, o o. "1X7E HAVE followed the development of the plans for this bond issue and construction program with interest. It has been done carefully and thought fully, with full realization of the fact that taxpayers should get their full dollar's worth. The total amount being asked for approval $1,786,000 sounds large, and it is if cconsidered solely as a sum of money. But it is more than a large sum of money. It is an investment in the future of the children of this community the most valuable re source we have. And, according to our way of thinking, the plans for this investment have been laid conservatively we hope not too much so. FUNDAMENTALLY, our school problems simmer down to just one big problem the increasing number of children. All the others arise out of the necessity to providefor their education. Construction of buildings is 8ne of the subsidiary problems brought up by the main one. And this pro posal does not call for "gilded palaces or "extra gingerbread. Medf ord's school-construction costs are lower than the average for Oregon as a whole, and5 Oregon's average costs are lower than any state oujtside the South. The present plan would be in line with this conservative approach, and the architects have been instructed to design buildings as economically as possible, gnd with maximum possible use of local materials. BUT school building costs involve more than con mmh'nnSMninfnn'inno rec! nf o nlnaari Tim lrll no. nver a neriod oi vears. often price of a m&re durable building. Taxpayers gain temporarily "hen a cheap building is built; they lose in the long run. We have heard criticisms 8f school board mem bers, teachers, PTA members and others interested ir?the schools for publicly endorsing and working for support of needed school measures. This is the most asinine argument of the lot. Who else better knows the need? Who else better knows the facts? And how are the taxpayers and voters to learn the situation if someone who DOES know doesn't? tell them? O I T IS a rare voter indeed who will take the time and trnnhlp. tn find out for himself all the details of any specific proposal. He waits to be told. And if he is not told, he's pretty likely to vote "no." The school administration this year has prepared a 27-page leaflet entitled "Questions and Answers on Medford School District's Building Needs." It is an excellent job of presenting the facts. It is not a "propaganda" job, but a factual presentation of just about every bit of inf ormation needed to make an intelligent decision on the bond issue. It goes into the present enrollments at the schools, school capaci ties, figures on enrollment, costs, and future esti mates, the plans and possible alternatives, and so on and so on. "THE district is to be commended for doing this job. Part of its responsibility is to keep school patrons informed. It would be remiss if it did not. Copies of the leaflet are available to any citizen of the school district. Operating Medford's schools is a multi-million dollar business. And for our money, it is being oper ated in a businesslike manner. Part of this is keeping the public the "stockholders," so to speak informed of the problems, the needs, and the proposed solutions. No one will deny that mistakes have ben made in the past. People, after all, are human The important thing, more important thaji worry ing about errors of the past, is to avoidhengin the future, and to keep the school system aljye, progres sive, responsive, and doing the best job possible for the citizens of the future. E.A. Friday. November 1. J957 withheld. If the needed for, the school system as the construction of either w briner total costs over the 'DONT HE SW HMDS GOOD, H. 1 - .ir- tifr HALMS! nun vuh hc 9rvN ivriww; The Record-A O Washington, D. C. (Special; The record a year after the 1956 election on performance fit the Eisenhower campaign promises is mixed, probably in evitably so. The President ran for re-election on a G.O.P. plat form that pledged, among other things, a strong national defense "the most effective guided and ballistic missiles" and "further reductions in taxes" when con sistent with a balanced budget. Well, a current Washington quip has it that the -radio signals Sputnik I is sending out transl ate as "No U.S. tax cut in 1958". The Republicans promised to "maintain the purchasing power of a sound dollar." In terms of the 1947-1949 dollar, the dollar in September 1957 was worth 83c 3c less than in September 1956. Back when the boast was "Everything's booming but the guns," the G.O.P. pledged "good business for all business" and full-time employment of 66 mil lion persons. In September 1957, employment stood at 65.6 mil lion, off 150,000 from Septem ber 1956. Agriculture had suf fered most, with bad weather causing a loss of 869,000 jobs. But gross national product reached a $439 billion rate in the third quarter of this year as against $416.7 billion in the third quarter of 1956. And the Congressional Joint Economic Committee predicted, Oct. 9, that the fourth quarter total would be $17 billion to $19 billion higher than the $426 billion of the fourth quarter of 1956. For some specific domestic is sues, the G.O.P. 1956 platform endorsed the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision but noted that "use of force or violence by any group or agency will tend only to worsen the many problems inherent in the situation." President Eisenhower In the Day's News By FRANK Here is some guesswork on the Khrushchev-Zhi&ov ruckus. The excuse for it is that when one can't get facts one has to guess and in Moscow FACTS are 6oncealed riy a fabulously rigid and efficient censorship. K. C. Thaler of the United Press says in a dispatch from London this morning that the "wily and iron-nerved Nikita Khrushchev" has won another bloodless coup that signifies a return to virtually unrestrained one-man dictatorship in the So viet Union. He reports that diplomatic sources in London think he has won a victory over Marshal Zhu kov that puts Khrushchev back into Stalin's shoes as the SU PREME POWER in the Krem lin which means the supreme power in Russia. He adds: "These beliefsQwere further borne out by Khrushchev's own statement yesterday described by diplomats as "arrogant" that he could now offer Zhukov a new job "in line with his ex perience and qualifications." THAT is to say (assuming that guesses are accurate) Khru schev can say to Zhukov: "OK Bud; you know now who's BOSS. Since you know who is the boss, I'll give you some jobs to do that will save your face." THERE is another interesting dispatch on the wires as this is written also guesswork. It reads: "Russia is believed to be ready NOW to let the Middle East war scare die a natural death. So viet Foreign Minister Gromyko made an unusually mild reply yesterday to the United States attack in the United Nations . . . and Khrushchev said in Mos cow last night that "the com pass seems to have swung toward peace in the Middle East." ff MR. WILSQN ? TRAT& MUD. jT? Year Later said on Oct. 29 a year ago that the civil rights question should be settled "to the greatest pos sible extent on a local and state basis." The use of federal troops in Little Rock, Ark., must be as sessed in the light of these state ments. The Republicans pledged "fur ther reduction in government spending," and the President on Oct. 16, 1956 described his gov ernment as "prudent in the use of the people's 3money." On Jan. 16 he submitted to Congress a $71.8 billio budget a peace time peak. Farm prices under the G.O.P. the President said on Sept. 25, had turned up "without a war." They're still up tax index stood at 245 per cent of the 1910-1914 average in September, as against 236 per cent in September 1956. cThe President, Oct. 11, 1956, insisted that "the opposition controlled Congress"- had killed his school aid bill. He took the same position this year when the school bill was killed, but Demo crats attributed its defeat to lack of administration leadership. The G.O.P. in 1956 would work to "end the injustices of nations divided 0 against their will. . . subject to foreign dom ination." The President on Sept. 19, 1956 listed the foreign policy gains of his administration and promised to try to "ease, for all men everywhere, the burden of arms and fears." In the intervening 12 months, the most striking foreign policy step has been the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East, but now Secretary of State Dul les says it doesn't apply to the present situation in Syria. Other wise the foreign record, mixed also, is highlighted by the re knitting of the nearly wrecked Anglo-U.S. alliance and the in ability to aidSthe rebels in Hung ary. Editorial Research Reports. JENKINS WHAT does that mean? Well, it MIGHT mean that the war scare in the Middle East (which consisted largely of rough and MENACING talk by Russia) was blown up deliberate ly by Khrushchev to distract at tention, in Russia and elsewhere, away from his0proposed bludg eoning of Zhukov. That, of course, is pure guess work, but it seems to make a certain amount of sense. If Rus sia continues to roar more gen tly in the Middle East and, if it appears that Zhukov HAS been broken and destroyed as an opponent of Khrushchev it will make more sense. rpHERE is still another inter esting little tale on the wires. A Paris newspaper says an EXPERIMENTAL Soviet earth satellite had disintegrated over France on Aug. 19 of this year. The newspaper story says the satellite was photographed by a French camera to record stray meteors. French astronomers say the experimental Sputnik exploded because it was launch ed improperly and began travel ing through friction-producing air. The report, if true, upsets the Russian claim that the current Sputnik was launched success fully ON THE FIRST TRY. It suggests also that the whole Sputnik enterprise might have been cooked up as a distraction to Jake world attention, includ ing?! RUSSIAN attention, away from Khrushchev's scheme to get3 Zhukov out of his way. ENOUGH'S ENOUGH Fort Worth, Tex. W Joe Long is ready to join the urban movement. Long, who reads water meters in suburban For est Hills, opened a meter Thurs day, reached down to brush off the cobwebs and a snake bit him. Doctors doubted if the suburban reptile was poisonous. Zhykov's Release Tops Weeks Balance Sheet of Foreign News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The "release" of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov as Soviet de fense minister got big headlines in newspapers all over the world this week. Mysti fied diplomats believed at first that Zhu kov headed for a bigger job, perhaps as pre mier. But it a p p eared in Charles McCanD creasingly certain as the days passed that Zhukov was ousted because he was a threat to Nikita S. Khrushchev, first sec retary of the Russian Communist Party, as No. 1 leader. In control of the armed forces, Zhukov was in a position of great power. Experts on Russia had speculated on the possi bility that one day the army might take over supreme au thority from the Communist Party. This thought apparently oc curred to Khrushchev, too. But he controlled the Communist Party machine, which reaches into every village in the Soviet Union, and he decided to act. 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 lor 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 Back To Radio To the Editor: I do not know who Mr. or Mrs. F. M. Z. or B. F. S. are but they expressed the feelings of a good many peo ple that I have talked to about the service we are getting from KBES-TV. I have been going to call them up or write them. It seems too bad that we have put so much money in a TV set and then not have any good out of it. I am 75 years old and I like to have a little enjoyment in my few years left so I got a TV and for the last 3 or 4 months the TV has been off and on so much that you can not tell how the thing came out and when it comes on the picture is divided in two by a black line or it is so spotted that you can hardly see it and that old alibi that it is the telephone company or the national hook-up is getting stale. Ii they can't run the station why don't they sell out or get someone that can and quit try inj to fool the people. We are getting wise and we will have to go back to an old radio. Ray Garland Box 81, Talent, Ore. P.S. Whoever F.M.Z and B. F. S. are, keep up the good work and maybe we will get real TV. Comments on F. R. McCabe To the Editor: This is in re gard to some of the publications that Floyd R. McCabe. has made. First off is his criticizing of someone else. How does he know quite so much? Other people people don't. They are not ig norant either. I myself, have lived around Butte Falls for 29 years. I have no comment, only for what I have brought upon myself. Secondly, about Qthe Jackson county workers working on the roads. They are doing a good job. As for Mr. McCabe, he doesn't get away from home often to see the county mainten ance on our roads, it's not all stockpiling either. As for me, I love my neigh bors and surrounding people. I also have a lot of friends. Ray Odin Butte Falls, Ore. O Holmes Urges Toll-free Interstate Bridge Salem (IP) Efforts to keep the new Portland - Vancouver bridge free of tolls were en dorsed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes today. In a letter to mayors of both cities, Gov. Holmes said "this! vital link in our interstate high way system should be toll free. I shall do all within my power to help achieve this result." I 2 31 I PURE I LARD I 191 191 He won out Bubbling over with good humor, Khrushchev turned up at a Turkish embassy reception. He told the foreign correspond ents who besieged him with questions Zhukov would get a job corresponding to his "ex perience and qualifications." By attending the reception, Khrushchev exposed the com plete falsity of the vicious cam paign in which Russia had ac cused the United States and Turkey of plotting to attack Syria. In the United Nations, Rus sian and Syrian spokesmen con tinued to blow up the alleged threat to peace. But it was an anti-climax. Russia's months-long stream of threats to western countries, combined with its testing of an inter-continental ballistic missile and its launching of the Sputnik earth satellite, spurred the mem bers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to action. It was announced that heads of state of the 15 NATO allies, including President Eisenhower, would meet in Paris on Decem ber 16 to tighten up their co operation for defense against Communist aggression. Smaller Cars Coming, Roger Babson Declares By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. The au tomobile business has had a rather poor spring and summer. However, I look for a good fourth quarter salewise. Also, I predict that total domestic production for 1957 will top 6,000,000 units. It may be as high as 6,200,- Roger W Babson 000, or 6.8 per cent above last year. However, that would still be" 22 per cent below the peak year of 1955. Many competent observers feel that last year's downtown in auto sales and this year's only moderate recovery indicate that we made too many cars in 1955. In that year we produced near ly 8,000,000 units. These people feel that the industry must now undergo a further period of ad justment while the nation "digests"- the overproduction of 1955. I think there is some truth in such reasoning. - However, I there are additional factors in volved in the dip in auto sales. The current rolling readjust ment in general business must also be taken into account as an adverse sales factor. There are increasing indications that the dip also reflects some sales resistance on the part of people who just do not like the car styling and performance being turned out by Detroit at the present time. ! What Do the People? Need? In their haste to turn the tide after last year's poor sales show ing, car makers concentrated on extreme-styling eye appeal. They came out with cars longer than necessary. They loaded them with gadgets designed to catch the eye. These longer, heavier cars require more horsepower. They burn more gas and most of them have engines which will operate efficiently only with high-octane gas. At a time when automobile congestion may choke out the very downtown life of our large cities, car makers have added to the problem by making cars which need more parking space and cost more to maintain. These giant new cars may fulfill the desires and ambitions of many people, but do they meet the needs of postwar America to day? Certainly they will be mar ketable only through intensive advertising. Make Smaller Cars Some United States automo bile manufacturers contend that they cannot build a small car that will compete successfully on a volume basis with a good used car of standard size. They may be correct. But the time will come when Detroit must face facts. The r.utomobile has con tributed much to our American way of life. It has led to the development of the suburbs. It has provided and it now pro vides employment for large numbers of our people, directly or indirectly. Ours is a wheeled EAST SIXTH ST. BEEF HEART WW! PORK LIVER 11 9V This was the last thing Rus sia would have desired. But it was thanks to Russian bellicosity that a long-overdue tightening was decided upon. In an interesting sidelight to the Zhukov-Khrushchev develop ments, President Tito of inde pendent Communist Yugoslavia announced that his lumbago was bothering him. Hence, he said, he would be unable to attend the big celebration in Moscow next Thursday of the 40th an niversary of the Bolshevik revo lution. Tito apparently foresaw that the speeches about Commu nist unity would have a hollow ring. France's cabinet crisis, which started on Sept. 30 with the ouster of Maurice Bourges Maunoury as premier, entered its second month. Candidate after candidate had tried vainly to get sufficient sup port to form a new cabinet. The latest candidate was Felix Gaillard, finance minister in Bourges - Maunoury's ministry. He planned to go before the Na tional Assembly, the controlling house of parliament, next Tues day to seek a vote of confidence on a new ministry. economy in the best sense of that term. A good deal of our prosperity today stems from our success in having mass-produced the au tomobile and having made it readily available to vast num bers of our people. However, that prosperity could be seri ously threatened if we continue to misuse the automobile. The car of tomorrow will be smaller, more functionally styled, though still beautiful. It will be cheaper to buy, to operate, and to main tain. And it will be safer to use. More Foreign Cars While going all out for size and flashy styling, Detroit is not entirely blind to the act that there is a market for small cars here. Only one major domestic producer does not have a for eign subsidiary making small, economical foreign cars for ex port to the U.S. Small car de mand has been doubling each year for some time now. If this trend continues, and I predict it will, U.S. car makers may be forced to revise their thinking on car size. Perhaps the European cars now being imported are too small to attract wide market sup port in the U.S. However, their reception has been encouraging. It proves that many motorists are not fully satisfied with what Detroit is now turning out. Somewhere between these mon sters of the road and the -toy cars of Europe lies the answer to our real needs. Within the next five years I look for stand ard American cars of smaller, though adequate, size at much less cost. I predict also that improvements in engine design will permit great savings in gas consumption. SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER Easy to Operate Clean and Dustless Low Rental Rates We Handle Everything You Need for Floor Refinishin" tPtCIAUSTS IN NOMIWAIfSfj 3 West 6th St., Medford MUTTON CHOPS lb. V o
