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" ODaiijyand SjndayOne er SlS-to wDallv anri Snrlitiuhnnili U!ft umer ana Dealers loc set OT All Terms Cash In (AdvanB) Official Paper of the City of fiodarS Official Paper of Jackson CgtiWy . United Press Fail Leased "WV5 MEMBER OF AUDIT BURjSiU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPACT 09C Officesyln New York Chicago, dtf) troit. San Francisco. Los Aneelea Seattle Portland St Louis (Axfap& Vancouver BC w NEWSPAPEI PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOITOIIAi lAisacU'ieN iTiiinninjr.ini 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 Nov. 3. 1947 (Monday) Three Medford youths drive off in a Greyhound bus each from company's parking lot at Ninth st. and Central ave. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Bow and arrow hunters got as wet. and) hungry as the blunderbus type, but had no luck They couldn't even hit a barn." 20 YEARS AGO q Not. 3. 1937 (Wenesa?) Stop and go trafrtc lights fr be installed at East n st, and Riverside ave., and $&St Wain O Or finance, governing dricydfc traffic adopted byj tag) cii COUn- CU. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 3, 1927 (Thursday) o Public 4i,brary authorities con cerned over the city-, council's budget for nftjtt year'sVperations which cuts the library fund re quest to the same amount as last year. After having been known as the Terminal hotel since its open ing Sept. 18,1926 on South Central ave., at the corner of Eighth st., the hotel is be given the offical name of Hotel Jack son. - U O 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 3 (Saturday) Mass meeting scheduled at Presbyterian church Sunday, to provide the right sort of social contact between citizens of war camp communities and soldiers. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Berger have purchased the Page and Star theatre from Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Which President said, "Don't flinch, don't fumblend hit the line hard." U 2. Bible Is Messiah a Hebrew, Greek or Roman word? 3. Is graphology (tQe study of graphite, maps, or handwriting? 4. Was Syria a former prov ince of the old Turkish. Empire? 5. Was Luther Burfefink a fa mous plant breeder, sculpturer, or poet? 6. Which man was President and also a Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. 7. Which U. S. President said, "Let no one falter who thinks he is right"? t 8. Percheron is the name of a horse- or cattle - (breed, or a swine? 9. Will bees sting a person while he holds his breath? 10. Is the cartoid artery lo cated in the arms, neck or thigh? Answers: I. Theodore Roose velt. 2. Hebrew. 3. Handwriting. 4. Yes. 5. Plant-breeder. 6. Wil liam Howard Taft. 7. Abraham Lincoln. 8. Horse. 9. Yes. 10. Neck. New Records Reached In Capital Visitors Salem (Ut The State Capit al Guide service continued to register new records in tourists during October w-jn 1,253 per sons signed the gUest book in the rotunda of the state capitol compared with 632 fop-ihe same period last year. W Secretary of State Mark Hat field said the special session of the Legislature may push the year's total to more than 40,000. Friday's Senate session drew an overflow crowd. 1 MAIL TRIBUNE Politicians Win in Russia The latest news from should relieve Secretary For according to the present "low down" it was General Zukoffs opposition to political infiltration of the army that led to his If that is true and it far as this country is concerned and other free de roocracies the danger of World Warlll, is materi ally reduced. And after all while communist infiltration is bad an&jn many quarters on has been, and is today, that toould trip over their own fifid fumble into a world With their control of no! so likely, to happen. SPHERE is another somewhat cheering angle to the ' litest situation. A politically-dominated army is Irlust in a. 'totalitarian dictatorship m time o hut gs history frequently demonstrated, if war breaks out, ahd tht control is not lifted, its effect is rg?eatly reduced. n (lso doubt Aikiti Khrushchev, and his pals m the Kremlin, had the revolution mgnist state 40 years ago they recalled' General Zukolf from "hunting junke to Albania and way-stations. For it was that revolt made their uprising and the his family, possible. Had either force remained loyal to the empire, the revolution of 1917, like many preceding it, might wel have died abornm. And it wasn't in either who led that revolt. It was sailors in the ranks. They used their guns to shoot their officers, and then march en masse on Petrograd. IT seems likely 'that against this background, the 1 Kremlin in secret session assembled, decided to take no chances. . There was the popular miles away, his opposition to political infiltration 61 his army, well known and Kussia internally and externally in a state of con siderable unrest and ferment. Why' not play it safe, and be sure that what hap pened FOR them 40 years ago, could not happen AGAINbf them, today or c THAT may not beca 100 accurate diagnosis no one catt be sure of ANYTHING when "the bear that walks like a man" is But up-to-date that appears to this department It) prognosis perhaps fairly We hope it is anyway. For with an army controlled, not by trained and experienced military men heve, not only the likelihood War 111 to be less menacing, but if hostilities should accidentally be started that the effectiveness of their army so politically controlled would be materially re duced K.W.K. Sports Move o To)Change from a subject we know "little or noth ing about" to one we know We have a suspicion that York Giants to San Francisco, and the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, is GreateManhattan, than most of us here on the coast realize. In both cases the reason given was poor patron age. And that undoubtedly But why with all their lation should neither the Brooklyn support their ball be because they were losers. Brooklyn has been at tne lop or near it ior nearly a aecaae ; ana wniie the Giants have beeia disappointment to their fans in the last two or three years, their record ior a gen eration has been outstanding. Moreover in spite of their present differences have always played a fighting and colorful brand of ball. o NO, that can hardly be the utp. ii iiaii 10 ii tiicii O Well our guess isit is as a sportingcenter Manhattan Island has started a decline. . And again gazing into ihe main reason is a change taste. TOR example the RESIDENT population on Man- hattan Island is steadily decreasing. More' and more New Yorkers are moving to the suburban areas Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. In "subur bia" these1 days more and more of the family are in clined to play golf, tend the garden, shop at the near est '""super-market" etc., 'etc., than attend ball-games iR! the city. "As a result only the dyed-in-the-wool, rabid fans remaining in town, have attended the ball games reg ularly and as statistics prove that does not add up to enough to insure an owner's profit. Baseball, like any other business of course, has to show a profit to endure. JUDGING by the experience of Boston in Mil waukee, the Giants and new geographical setup will Finally, as we view it, country is movij slowly but Moving the baseball "czar" from New. York toj Sunday. November 3, 1957 Russia as this is written Dulles' mind considerably. demotion and removal. sounds reasonable than as the increase the great fear theleaders in the Kremlin inflammatory propaganda war they really did not wish the army reinforced this is that launched their Com very much in mind when in the army and navy tha massacre of the Czar and department the officers the common soldiers and were still armed and they war-hero, General Zukoff, and stubbornily adhered to m the foreseeable future concerned. close to the target. but by politicians, we be of Russia starting World Westward less the departure of the New a far more serious blow to was generally true. millions in cash and popu people of New York nor clubs adequately. It can't m standings, both teams cause at least the chief the fundamental fact, that the crystal ball, we believe in population and public the Doderers," under the make a profit. the spoiling center of the steadily to the west. Sow svwro at his errnzR. she was a UV.'NQ VOW TALL AM 5fiAPSLV. . . SAY. WHtRZ 010 tfJU GT THIS COm 80DK, VtHHlS ? ' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. "Parent" Is Answered To the Editor: Recently you published a letter from a Med ford Parent (name on file) criti cizing the school board, teach ers, and administrators for their building needs program and the manner in which they are pre senting it to parents and voters of the school district. I, too, am a parent and to date am not aware of any attempt on the part of my children's teachers to influence my thinking on school building needs through my children. He states that our property tax is made up of an estimated 80 per cent school bond taxes and only 10 per cent for county and other public services. This statement is completely false. This year's school bond taxes are 1.8 mills. This is 4 per cent of our school district tax load. The school bond load in Med ford this year is only about 2.6 per cent of the total property tax load, not 80 per cent. If the writer meant to imply that the total school tax load in Medford was 80 per cent of the total property tax, he is wrong again. About 62 per cent of tho tax load eoes to the schools in this district. Med- ford's combined school tax is one of the lowest in the state. I, too. read the article in the Reader's Digest, and it was most interesting to me to note that Medford school costs are among the lowest in the nation except for those in the southern states. Oregon's average school cost was $965 per student. Washing ton's and California's were boin in excess of $1,300. He asks what do we have to say about school plans? Are we consulted or do we just pay the bill? All school board meet ings are open to the public. The school board and officials have invited representative groups in and have conferred with them before submitting a proposal to the voters. The school district has consistently presented vari ous building proposals, plans, and changes in the school pro gram to PTA groups at regular and special meetings. We have always found them cooperative and willing to explain, answer questions, and accept suggest ions. Did he attend any of these meetings and make his questions and criticisms known? He also stated that the school district is having to renovate and repair buildings constructed last year. Again, his information Is in error. The two newest buildings were constructed three years ago and school of ficials informed us that no part of the proposed bond issue is to be spent at either Jefferson or Hedrick schools. I do agree that more people should take time to be inter ested in our schools, their pro gram, their problems, and the solutions to the problems. If he had taken time to obtain facts on the proposed building needs and bond issue, he could not have conscientiously made the statements or reached the conclusions stated in his letter. Mrs. John Schroeder 413 North Columbus Ave. Medford, Ore. Chicago is now being seriously considered. When "pro" football first started numbered those in the West . Today it is just the reverse. Total crowds on the acific Coast are the envy of football "pros" on the Atlantic seaboard, and the market price for fran chises out here is steadily rising. bo it won t be long we Series will be played at L.A. or San Francisco one half at least. ERGO, and to-wit: To paraphrase the Bishop of Cloyne slightly: . "Westward the course of the empire of sports, takes its way! R.W.R, lcetiw wpwig. rj.f Be Thankful for T.V. To the Editor: More on TV! Some seem to think that the KBES TV staff consists of one girl to answer the phone and one man to run the control. For their information KBES-TV has a better than 30-man staff. If you don't believe it takes that-many to run a TV station, why not go out and take a tour. They are more than happy to show anyone through the opera tion. Does anyone also realize that they are getting a much higher percentage of top programs than most large cities with as many as 7 or channels? Look up the record! If you have poor reception, try getting your TV adjusted or a different aerial. We get good reception at all times ex cept on some network programs Perhaps you're one who does not believe in "cable trouble." While you are on your tour, you will notice there is one door they do ' not open. They can't The telephone company has the key. It's a small room full of wires, tubes and lights of all sizes, shapes and colors. This is where the cable comes in. If you will stop to consider how many miles, the terrain and the weather conditions this cable comes through you will think it a small miracle we get TV at all. There is at least one Telco man on trouble call day and night. Many times the trouble lies east of Los Angeles and if anyone cares to volunteer to find the trouble, go ahead. The station technician could twist, pull and push every button there before him and it would't help a bit. Do you think .maybe he isn't in a sweat trying to control the board and answer four telephone lines at the same time? You should try it some time and that's exactly what haDnens every time the TV flickers after hours when there is no one in the office to take the phone. The program schedule in the paper is donated by the Medford Mail Tribune as a public serv ice. It must be sent in a full two days ahead of time, which leaves much time for changes. The Tribune is usually phoned in event of change, but if type is set up who can fuss at public service? They don't have to print the schedule at all or make any changes from week to week if they so choose. Be considerate, be patient, be thankful for what you do have. Mrs. Marsha Schulz Rt. 2, Box 257 Central Point, Ore. Snow Under the Sponsors To the Editor: In answer to the letter in Tuesday's Tribune about why someone didn't offer some helpful suggestions as to getting better programming on KBES TV. rather than just criticizing, I should like to suggest that if a good many of the persons in the KBES-TV viewing audience would call the station and obtain th addresses of network spon sors oi snows xney aesire 10 see, and then would write these sponsors asking- for these pro grams, they might get wonderful results. Perhaps many remember, sev eral years ago, we were asked to write in about the World Series and when we did the spon- the crowds in the East out two and three to one. predict before the World Today and Tomorrov By Walter Lippmann IN THE CRYSTAL BALL On Tuesday Khrushchev went to a cocktail party at the Turk ish Embassy, and there he toast ed peace exuberantly and r e p e atedly. So It looks as if for the time being the heat has been let out of the Turkish - Sy rian crisis. This will con firm the opin ion o f those who have Walter Lippmann been saying that nobody has been planning to make war on any one else, and that if ws a misreading of the game of power politics to suppose that Turkey or Syria, that Russia or the United States, was getUng, ready to move. It would, however, fc(B(gferl ous mistake to conclude, from this that because war nofe im pending, the Syrian situation $ not a very serious onfr Syrte is a dangerous place for thg world because so much iff at stake for 11 the great powerC at a time when the Syrian gov ernment is weak, unstable, and not the master of its own house The controlling fact is that th Syrian government cannot b depended upon to maintain it independence and to hold to a policy of neutrality. If it could be depended upon to do this. Syria would break out of the vicious circle of great power politics. Because the govern ment is weak, the great powers have all concluded that Syria will fall either into the orbit of the Soviet Union or into the orbit of the United States. This being the basic problem. the Syrian plots and counter plots, abroad and at home, are full or dynamite. They should not be monkeyed with by any one who is not sure that he can control the consequences. TF, AS Khrushchev's gestures- -'at the Turkish Embassy indi cate, there is to be a lull in the cold war over Syria, would it not be the part of wifdom to regard it as en opportunity to attempt . fresh stert in thaj Middle East? If this is to be done, Mr. Dulles Vill have to overcome his own obsession which is reflected in the Eisen. hower doctrine, tbjt most of the Arab countries can Ae, or at least should be, aligned in $ common military front against ine soviet union. Mr. Dulles will have to open his mind to the idea that most if not all of the Arab countries do not wish to expel either Russia or the United States from the Middle East. It is evident to them that they have more to gain from the two great powers competing than from the ex clusive influence of either one of them. If this is correct, and I have no doubt it is, Mr. Dulles has no chance to succeed in the Middle East if he refuses to accept the fact that the Soviet Union is a principal power a power which cannot be ex pelled and excluded, which must be balanced and negotiated with. IITE SHOULD, it seems to me, " have it clearly in mind that we are on the threshhold of a new situation in regard to the oil in the Middle East. This is often taken to mean that the Arab countries, infiltrated by the Soviet Union, may attempt to ruin Western Europe by de priving it of access to the oil. Theoretically, that could hap pen if we take the simple view that Russia may conquer and occupy the oil countries. But in fact, this3 is not likely to happen since it would precipitate a world war. What is likely to happen is that the Arab coun tries, using Soviet influence as a lever, will attempt to force the Western oil companies to a radical revision of the existing contracts. The Middle 0Estern countries have no interest in cut ting off the export of oil to Europe. On the contrary, it is their vital interest that the trade should continue. What they will seek, both the oil-bearing coun tries around the Persian Gulf, and the transit countries like Syria and Egypt, is a bigger share of the profits of the oil business. THE time is not far distant when we should be well pre pared, first intellectually and then in ovg diplomacy, for what lies not far behind the current events. (c) 1857 New Yorl Herald Tribune Inc. sor -decided to sponsor boxing here, too. I wrote to this same sponsor, again thanking them for the Series this year and received a very nice letter in return. This person stated that he would al ways remember Medford se cause of the "sea" of letters he received. I have also written other spon sors, and in most cases, received a very nice letter in return, stat ing the reasons that the product did or did not wish to sponsor in ssMssssM..Bfcsaa ' 4- - - Jim BoJton. tha disttngtilsftrtuS looking chief of toe I&edfora Laboratories; last week taceied a crate of frogs, which: ef ns&4 In some of the tests puiica&eQ by the lab. fie was uJtvpee&ing the crate sear ias& If fijg second-story esta&isni&e&t && denly, one or tne Jorcetas s&a a leap, went sailing tffogfl tft& window, and 3owK efita t&& Qe walk below. Now these frogf eg Soc $7.50 each, sd Jim weet tesnfie down the stairs of the ttedic Center builifing, & feteigift i He caught; ug WtS on SigfJ st., and bent, ovee & gi6& ife up. The frog, pgreHUj uarSi by its faU, leapt ewa. tJu gu sued. Each fcm fea'd est) ua, to it, the ftog ejwulfl Ju. This) West; eft $11 $g gag) ug, www O jsSgifp Importance of (fijieniif) note: President Eisenhower is be lieve to be ready to launch a (great new crusade to reawaken America to science. This could mean mobilizing the entire nation . . . the fed eral government, the states, local communities and the aver age citizen .... to a new con centration on scientific learning and achievement. He is sQd to be deeply con cerned abou'i Soviet SCIENTI FIC gain) WHY IS he concerned? He9e 9re some challenging figures: According to the education department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Russia has 350,000 science and math teachers in her secondary schools (grades 5 to 10) as part of e "crash" program under which students are studying from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. six days a week. The U.S. has onlydUO 000 science and math teachers in high schools (grades 9 to 12) The Russians have an esti mated 1V4 million engineers and scientists, including technicians and medical doctors. In order to catch up with Russia, accord ing) to the U.S. Chamber's fig ures we need 200,000 more. CENTURY and a half ago that anight not have meant much. We were busy then con quering and settling and devel oping (b raw new world. Brawn and courage were then more im portant than scientific research, Now science including mathe matics, which is the handmaiden of science is ALL-important. In the world of the future, the nation that lags behind in sci entific research will fall behind in EVERYTHING including the comforts, the welfare and the SECURITY of its people. BEDAZZLED by the achieve ments of our mass production techniques, in which we surpass the rest of the world, we Amer icans have permitted ourselves to become cocky. We have al lowed ourselves to fall into the delusion that we can do EVERY THING better than ANYBODY else. Sputnik shocked us rudely. It taught us that OTHER peo ple are surpisingly smart. A LONG that line, there is an Vnteresiing straw in the news winds oitoday. Two young CHINESE-Amer- can scientists have been award ed the Nobel prize for physics Dr. Tsung Lee of Columbia uni versity and Dr. Chen Yang of Princeton received the $40,000 prize for their discoveries about the behavior of the tiny part icles that make up the atom. The Noble prize for chemistry went to Sir Alexander Todd, Scotch-born professor of organic chemistry at Cambridge univer sity in England for his studies of the fundamental procftses of life. It is true that the two Chi nese-Americans are AMERI CANS. They have thrown in their lot with us. But they CAME to us from China. Their ORIGINS lie beyond our bord ers. They furnish further proof that OTHER peoples are smart. THIS is a disturbing thought: In our sphonls. in renpnt (facades, have we laid too much stress or rah-rah stuff (includ ing, perhaps, athletic prowess), have we included too many mF , t X snap courses, nave we piacea too little insistence on the tough BASICS that in the world of to morrow are goiri? to be so TER RIBLY important? u I can't help thinking it would do us no harm to do some soul- searching along that line. , this area. I rather imagine that if many of hese tympanies would receive a number of letters requesting their program, they might think it would be worth their while to sponsor such a program on KBES-TV. Let's get busy, obtain these addresses and snow the spon sor under another sea of letters! It just might get results. Mrs. Tom Robnett, 2350 Meadows lane, Medford, Ore. & 09 Sorqer of Central ave., t&eft dui8 on Central almost the lull filotgfS) crowds gathered to w8tfc grey-haired, bespec t8clea tg:hnician, clad in a white lnBofgtory nock, chasing the 'e-Jftorou fr( from leap to leap. S?aSlly, Jim got his hands on right ia front of the Cgnteal ye. entrance to the U. national bank. At that mo- m&ni th gpor opened and a eomsri bank patron stepped out. $J lodged down in amazement t tl man and frog crouched before her. She drew herself up an declared: "WELL . . . !!" O fieposing on the desk of Po lice Chief Charles Champlin ridsfy morning was a large gumpkjn which officers had j4ceii up from the street rhgrgit had been left by cele brating) Halloweensters. Re ports indicate the officers ?Js too tired out by their big night even to carve a face in it. Policemeg) are traditionally tolerant of young people's activ ities Halloween, just so long as they don't damage property or create too much nuisance. But there comes a point ... Like Thursday night when a couple of youngsters started soaping the outside of the police station window. The desk ser geant dashed out the rear door and nabbed them. The boys, ob viously fearing a night in the poky, immediately started wash ing the soap off the window, and we are told th when they fin ished it was cleaner than before they started marking it up. On another occasion the same night, a patrol car stopped a car load of guilty-looking young peo ple on a routine check. One of the boys sneaked around and soaped the patrol-car windows. The officers had an answer for that one, too. They just held the girls in the party in "custody" until the boys had washed the windows of the car. And, as sometimes happens, a small tot out making trick or treat rounds, got confused as to where home was. A friendly officer gently escorted her from door to door looking for her proper place. Practical ly everywhere they went, both child and officer received Hal loween treats, although one householder was heard io re mark he thought the officer was sort of big for that sort of thing. i And one last Halloween-police tale this one about Officer Gerald Butler who turned cow boy when reportscame in of two calves which were munching flowers and shrubs in some body's front yard. He herded them back into the pasture from whichfthey came. A high school girl recently had an errand in the M-T newsroom, and came diffident ly in. After her business was completed, she explained she'd been a bit afraid for fear she'd hbe "thrown out," or that no one would have time to talk to her. She added that her im pression of newspaper people had come from TV and mov ies. We were happy to explain that, TV and movies to the contrary, we're really human down here, too. A subscriber called In last week to report that one of the little "filler" items, used to plug a small hole at the bottom of a column of type, stated that Cra ter Lake has never frozen over. That was wrong, he said. . Darn right it's wrong. It was only a few years ago that that event happened, and we had a big picture of it on Page 1. Need less to say, the "filler" came to us from an eastern syndicate, and the error somehow escaped the eye of the editors. Our sympathies go to our Eagle Point correspondent. Laura McFall. With some news items last week she included a note which said, "Due to nine in my-iamily having flu, I was unable to have all my items ready . . ." A plaintive note' from one of our reporters states that on Tues day morning last week he saw small, silver-covered Christmas tree in a store window. It was surrounded by Halloween mask?, treats and stuff. , , "Isn't this rushing the season little too much?" he asked. After all, the parade and street decorations aren't due yet." They are scheduled for two weeks before Thanksgiving. Russia's Sputnik has had its effect on the world of toyland. A nearby window is crammed with space stations, rockets, spacemen, and so on. Mayor John Snider promised, the other night, to try to get the salaries of members of the plan ning comai4ssion doubled next budget tinj. That won't do much good, of course, tor double nothing and you stm get nothing. Members of the council, other city boards and commissions, and the mayor himself, receive the same salary. O
