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o O O G oo FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Tveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO J7-29 North Fir St Phone 2-l41 ROBERT W RUHU Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A l.i .FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper kntered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dally 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 Hin. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Term 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 NEWSPAMI PUSMSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOHAi 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. 15. 1947 (Sunday) Architect Frank Clark and Portland associates have com pleted plans for Medford's new YMCA building. From Arthur Perry' Ye Smudge Pot column: "The apple cider, vintage '47 is reported vested with more authority than any time since Pearl Harbor." 20 YEARS AGO for. 15. 1937 (Monday) The Civic Music association enrollment went over the top at the close of the campaign Sat urday night. Hunting in Grant county over thi weekend .the Phoenix sharp shooter brought down a huge ai weighing 800 pounds. SI YEARS AGO cgor. 15. 1127 (Tuesday) Two teams of horses and five Jttn started work this morning fcavating on the lot at the Corner of Holly and Sixth sts. ffhich is reported to be the fu Jlirl location of a movie theatre. Members of the Medford Ro pry club enjoyed an impromptu address by a distinguished Ro tftrian visitor this noon when Archie Flower, Stratford-on-Avon, England, spoke. He said William Shakespeare would have made an ideal Rotarian. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 15, 1917 (Thursday) "People now demand utility qualities along with perfection of feathers. The show hen must lay," a poultry expert said, speaking on poultry shows here. Interest in the Red Cross day, at Central Point, is growing. Offers of all sorts of commodi ties are being received from sources. Whaf'c Your I.Q.? Nine ot ten correct U superior; seven or eight Is excellent: live or six Is good. 1. Name th first permanent fittlement in the United States. X Which noted American in lted the lightninj rod? . Bible: Did Noah condemn flam for disrespect, greed, or i4btry? (J. How many Presidents of the Unite States have been as sassinated? 5. What valuable medicine is obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree? 6. What does "Nisei'' mean? the word 7. Who was the founder of the Society for Ethical Culture? 8. The Kilkenny cats fought until nothing but what was left? 9. Which is the principal vowel in "abyss"? 10. "What at the top is a love ly woman, ends below in a black and ugly fish." Horace. Name the subject."" Answers: 1., St. Augustine, Fla.; 2. Benjamin Franklin; 3, Disrespect; 4, Three, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley; 5, Qui. nine; 6, Americans of Japanese descent; 7, Dr. Felix Adler; 8, Their tails; 9, "y"; 10, A mer maid. , . MAIL TRIBUNE Records of "Sumer Science has been much in the news since the two tiny, artificial moons took up their orbits in the skies. And, with the cold war being what it is, this em phasis on science has largely been on the physical sciences such things as physics, nuclear develop ments, ballistics, propulsion, and so on. But work in other sciences far less spectacular but of great importance in adding to mankind's knowledge of himself and his environment, and his tory goes on with less public notice. THE International Geophysical Year now in prog- ress has brought to the foreground many areas of research, too, but these also have been mostly in the physical sciences such things as meteorology, ocean ography, electromagnetism, astrophysics, geology and geography. But quietly, on many fronts, other sciences are making progress. One of the most fascinating of these is archeology, and its offshoot, which could be called archeo-history, or the study of mankind in the dim and distant days far before the recorded history we have heretofore known. Men are prodding through the ruins of Indian cul tures in Central and South America and Mexico, and, most notably, in the Middle East, the cradle of today's civilization. FOR instance, recent issues of the Scientific Ameri- have lived, with only a few interruptions, for some 100,000 years, and where their artifacts and. other objects give us added knowledge of our distant an cestors: and of recent discoveries about the bumen ans, who formulated "substantially every invention at the base of modern culture. The Sumerians, according to Samuel N. Kramer, professor of Assyriology at vania, were a people who lived in a wind-swept barren land, with no minerals, almost no stone, no trees and no building material of any kind. Yet, he says, the beginnings of our law, literature and technology can all be traced to them. ND Dr. Kramer adds: "In many ways, these people were like the pioneers who built the U.S. practical, ambitious, enterprising, jealous of their personal rights and technologically inventive. Having no stone or timber, they built with marsh reeds and river mud, invented the brick mold and erected cities of baked clay. "They canalled the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers into the arid fields and turned their land of 'Sumer' into a veritable Garden of Eden. To manage their irriga tion systems they originated regional government, thus emerging ahead of their fellow members of the world com munity, from the petty social order of the family and vil lage to the city-state. "They created a written language and committed it to permanent clay tablets. They traded their grain surpluses to distant peoples for metals and other materials they lacked. "By the third millenium B.C. the culture and civilization of Sumer, a country about the size of Massachusetts, had spread its influence over the whole Middle East, from India to the Mediterranean. There is hardly an area of our culture today in mathematics or philosophy, literature or architec ture, finance or education, law or politics, religion and folk lore that does not owe its origins to the Sumerians." THE archeologist finds it astounding that the ac complishments of this people had not been more widely known. But only in the last century have scien tists begun to recognize the Sumerians' stature in the ancient world, and more recently, rich finds of the clay tablets they used for their documents have been made, adding greatly to present knowledge of them. Recent translations show most of them are con cerned with economic, legal and administrative af fairs not unlike the commercial and governmental records of our own day. But there are also literary works, including myths and epic poems, hymns and lamentations, proverbs, fables and essays. They are man s oldest known litera ture, nearly 1,000 years older than the Iliad and the Hebrew Bible. They indicate, the scientists say, the Sumerians became an aggressive people, prizing indi vidual liberty, wealth, renown and social prestige. AND the article adds that their teachers seem to have been held in the same sort of regard as teachers in the United States today their salaries were low and they were looked upon with a mixture of respect and contempt. The tablets suggest the Sumerians were far more concerned with financial accounts than with academic learning. The finale of this civilization came about when their restless ambition led to bitter rivalry among their cities and kings, and Sumer itself disappeared into the Babylonian kingdom in the 18th century B.C. after they were invaded by Hammurabi. People don't seem to have changed too much, even in thousands of years. E.A. . . Disgust and Sadness Usually the marital pecadillos of the entertain ment world's great, near-great and would-be-great leave us with no emotion save a faint disgust. We do not feel quite the same about Ingrid Berg man, however. We feel a sadness. There are several reasons for this. For Miss Berg man is a wroman of unusual artistic and dramatic abili ty; a woman of beauty and obvious intelligence and emotional depth. But she never learned what all happily-married people know that there is more than one kind of love ; that a marriage lives on a combination of love and trust and compromise, and that a "sacred love" is a lot of hooey unless it is backed up by determina tion; good faith and plain hard work by both partners. Miss Bergman could have learned it if she would. The others generally just plain don't care. E.A. Friday, November 15, 1957 the University of Pennsyl 'Poor oi Ruff wanted Ike's Call to Adlai Reminiscent of FDR's Use of Opponents By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) It was the old maestro, Franklin D. Roose velt, back there in the year of the third term ruckus and fear of war, who rewrote an old saying to read like this "If you can't lick 'em, get 'em to join you." I.yle C. Wilson So President Eisenhower has invited Adlai E Stevenson to become an arms- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS 'A look at the future: A top American scientist calls this week for federal scholar ships to provide the United States with future scientists. He is Dr. I. I. Rabi, chairman of President Eisenhower's scientific advisory committee. . He thinks the U.S. must meet the new Russian challenge in the field of science and he thinks the best way to do so is to insure that American youths starting college are equipped with the essential mathematical tools. He says the federal govern ment should award a $500 schol arship to every high school sen ior who passes a properly de vised federal mathematics test and he would award a $500 scholarship to every college stu dent who passes a federal test in calculus (top bracket mathe matics) at the end of his fresh man year. As a top scientist, Dr. Rabi knows that mathematics is the handmaiden of science. WHAT is Russia doing? The U.S. office of educa tion savs a two - vear studv nf the' Russian educational system shows that more than half of a Russian student's first ten years in school is devoted to science subjects. The study reveals that durine this first decade of their educa tion Russian students are re quired to take 10 years of mathe matics, five of physics (physics is that branch of knowledge treating of the material world ana its pnenomena), five years of biology, four years of chemis try and one year of astronomy. That Drovides a Drettv cood scientific foundation. lyHAT do OUR students take? " Well, whatever else they take, they SHY AWAY FROM MATH. (Most of them, that is.) npHIS much is certain: -- The world of the future will be increasingly a technological world (technology is industrial science; systematic knowledge of the industrial arts.) Someone will ask: ' "Do you mean SPA C E TRAVEL?" I wouldn't know. Somehow I doubt it. It seems to me that space travel is more rewarding as something to TALK ABOUT rather than as something to DO. BUT The world of the future, which will be increasingly a technological world, must in clude such things as: Physical changes in the struc ture of the atom, resulting in new raw materials, new prod ucts, new kinds of power. New processes, foreshadowed by automation. New machines, foreshadowed by electronic brains. And so on. ALL these will make engineers and technicians, researchers, scientists, essential to our prog ress perhaps essential to our SURVIVAL in the world of the future. And All this will require mathema ticians. I think Dr. Rabi has some thing. - . - a coom. okay?' length participant in next month's consideration in Paris of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Stevenson knows his way around the world and possesses political prestige, perhaps enough to blunt some of the Democratic criticism of admin istration foreign policy and na tional defense achievement. All is not well with the administra tion on those fronts. FDR was a master hand at getting the enemy to join up with him. It was in June of 1940 that he shell-shocked the Repub lican Party by announcing two new members of his cabinet: the late Henry L. Stimson to be sec retary of war and the late Frank Knox to be secretary of Navy. Served Taft And Hoover Stimson had held cabinet of fice under Presidents Taft and Hoover. Knox was the Republi can vice presidential nominee in 1936. The 1940 Republican Na tional Convention was meeting in Philadelphia on the bright summer day that the Stimson Knox appointments were an nounced. The announcement jarred the assembled Republi cans, none more so than Alf M. Landon, the party's 1936 presi dential nominee. Landon thought he had an agreement with Knox that neither would enter FDR's cabi net. The offer had been made to them and had been rejected some months earlier. Your corres pondent caught Landon with the news by means of a telephone call which interrupted his lunch in the' coffee shop of a down town Philadelphia hotel. The man from Kansas was still standing there by the cash ier s desk, a far away look in his eyes when your correspond ent arrived from across town to discuss the Knox appointment further. FDR also kidnaped the late Wendell L. Willkie whom the Republicans nominated for president in that third term year. Willkie was painlessly in ducted into the Roosevelt team in 1942 almost before he knew it. FDR's later biographers claim the old master had political plans for his new boy, but noth ing came of that. Truman Chose Hoover Roosevelt's use of big-time Re publicans was as notable, how ever, for the man he ignored as for those he chose. Former Presi dent Hoover never was given an opportunity by Roosevelt to par ticipate in the war effort, des pite some obvious qualifications. It remained for President Tru man soon after Roosevelt's death to summon a living former president back to public life. And when Roosevelt desper ately was shopping around dur ing World War II for adminis-i trative talent he, somehow, over looked James A. Farley, the man who brought off the first Roosevelt nomination in 1932. Farley had what it took to run a big war agency but never got I the call. Back there in 1940 Far ley made ' a costly decision. It was to oppose a third term. FDR always was a better hater than forgetter. Savings Bonds Total Tops Previous Year Portland Jackson county sales during October of E and H series savings bonds were $1,705 more than the October 1956 amount of $107,239, or a total of $108,944 for October 1957, ac cording to George W. Mimn augh, state director. However sales totaled? for the year through Oct. 31 were $200,797 less than last year's total of $1,018,020. This year's total through Oct. 31 was $817, 233. October sales in 27 of Ore gon's 36 counties were above those of 1956, Mimnaugh said. October was the highest sale month in 1957, he added. Speed-Up in U.S. Missile, Arms Programs Marks News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance jsheet: The United States started this week to get into real competi tion with Soviet Russia in the n u c 1 ear mis siles field. Rus sia's Sput n i k earth satellites had provided the necessary stimulus to ac tion. President Eisenhower an nounced that the United Charles M. McCann States must face a "very considerable" in crease in defense spending to Babson Eyes Stock of Banks as Investments By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. A very popular book of 40 years ago was entitled "Acres of Dia mond s" by Russell H. Con well. The story was the true account of how a d i a mond exp e r t had sought the entire world over for the largest dia- Eoeer W Babson mond and it was finally found on his father's farm. So many readers are today seeking the safest good-yielding investment that it is a pleasure for me to suggest that it may be in his own city. I refer to your local bank stock as an invest ment. Your local bank will prob ably show an increase of 10 per cent in 1957 earnings, compared with 1956. Furthermore, banks are the only investment group showing such an advance in earnings un der today's competitive condi tions. I know of no banks which are decreasing their dividends; while most banks are planning some increase in dividends for 1957. Interest Increases The real reason for the pros perity of banks is the increase in the basic Federal Reserve rate. Since the middle of 1955, interest rates of the popular "3-to-5 year" U.S. Government is sues (the world's most conserva tive and most active bonds) have increased 55 per cent; while the rate on the "9-to-12 months" U.S. issues has increased 110 per cent. Rates on prime commercial pa per have increased about 90 per cent. Yet current indices of bank stock prices are practically un changed since mid-1955. Local bank stocks have a poor and irregular marketability. If you wish to buy ten shares, you will probably have to get them through the president or cashier of the bank. He likewise must find a buyer when you desire to sell. On the other hand, the stocks of big banks like the Chase Manhattan, the First Na tional City, and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York City are active and can readily Stray Notes, from Eastern Oregon By SAGE BRUSH SALLY Here in Eastern Oregon our Autumn weather is lovely But flu remains with us. I haven't heard any reports of Sputnik being seen locally. But we did get a good view of the eclipse of the moon. It seems to me if a passenger is required on each Sputnik it would be much more humane to give hu mans a chance to volunteer for the ride instead of using poor helpless animal's. Probably some of the one time big shots deposed from the Kremlin crowd would gladly exchange their uncertain places behind the iron curtain for Truck Drivers Cited For Safe Driving Portland Lon H. Smith, L. E. Stovall and J. L. Gish of Med ford were among 56 Oregon truck drivers recently awarded summer safe driving citations by the Pacific Motor Trucking com- i pany for driving without an ac-; cident from May 1 to Sept. 21 this year. The men work for the local office of the company located at 202 South Front st. The summer month's period is considered the high density traffic period of each year by the American Truck associations, according to the company. Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL You must be satisfied or your money cheerfully refunded. Get a bottle to day at WESTERN THRIFT., meet the grim challenge of Rus sian scientific progress. To offset this increase, the President said, spending in other categories of the federal budget must be slashed. He implied that any hope of a tax cut next year had gone. In a "flag-showing" exhibition that was part of the Eisenhower campaign, Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, vice chief of staff of the Air Force, piloted a jet stratotanker plane on non-stop flights from the United States to Buenos Aires and return. LeMay's plane flew 6,350 miles to Buenos Aires in 13 hours and 2 minutes at an average speed of 480 miles an hour. Returning, by a more direct route, he made the flight, of 5,204 miles in 11 be bought or sold at any time. Competition and Inflation Banks have very little compe tition. Their competition takes the form of getting deposits rather than the starting up of new banks. It will help your personal credit to try to get new depositors for the State or National Bank with which you are doing business. Also, try to keep a good balance yourself. Banks do not suffer from in flation. If money becomes "cheaper," they take in money of declining value and also pay out the same kind of money. The only way that inflation harms banks is in the decline of their long issues of Government Bonds; but wise bankers will buy only short maturities. Careful Examinations Banks are not only audited by their own communities, but also by state or national examiners, or perhaps by both. Stockhold ers can at any time get a finan cial statement, free of cost. You, therefore, can keep a constant watch on your bank's financial condition. Instead of bank statements be ing padded, they usually contain "hidden assets." Banks may be compelled by the examiners to treat as "valueless" certain notes or collateral; but these are not destroyed and may, again be come valuable. Bank Stocks Give Local Prestige It seldom helps one's credit or social standing in the community to own stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, even if they are of the highest grade. It, however, does help one's credit and standing to be a stock holder in the local bank. I espe cially advise young people men or women to acquire a few shares of their local bank stock every year. When I refer to such bank stocks, I have in mind the stock of State or National Banks. Most Savings Banks, Federal Loan Banks, and Co-operative Banks are mutually owned and hence have no stockholders. Let me say as a final thought: Banks are one of the few businesses which need not fear new com petitors. It would be hard for any group to secure a charter for a new bank in your city or town. ; the perls of a trip into space Our TV reception is very good here on both channels 2 and 7 from Boise, Ida. We listened as President Eisenhower spoke a few night ago. It was a fairly good speech. But as I heard him emphasize our need for higher and more thorough education, I was remembering that it was his administration, sanctioning the ideas of our then Secretary of Interior Doug McKay, that handed over to just a few states the offshore oil which had been earmarked by a former adminis tration to be divided among all the States as a fund for educa tion and more and better schools. This and other "give-ways" depleted fund's that should have been used for the good of all the people. The recent election returns in many States prove that many voters are remember ing. Sage Brush Sally New Bridge, . Baker County Ore. Why Suffer Longer? When Others Fail COME TO US ACT NOW! Our Nature's HERB remedies will help you to regain your good health. Our remedies havo been successful in aiding the sick all over the state for over 18 years. 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The United States fears that unless Tunisia gets weapons from western countries, it will turn to Russia. Premier Felix Gaillard con ferred with American Ambassa dor Amory Houghton Thursday on the situation. He was report ed to have protested vigorously against any move by the United States or Great Britain to arnO Tunisia. Then it was announced that Foreign Minister Christian Pi neau would fly to Washington to put France's case before Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. President Carlos P. Garcia seemed assured, on the basis of partial returns, of reelection in the Philippines national election. But his vice presidential running mate, Jose P. Laurel Jr., on the Nationalist Party ticket, seemed doomed to certain defeat by Lib eral candidate Diosdado Macapa gal. Proposed Big Dams Discussed at Hearing Portland (U Pros and cons of two big proposed Snake river dam projects were aired today at the final of a series of four hearings on proposed revisions of the Army engineers' "308 report" master plan for Columbia river development. The Pacific Northwest Power company, formed by four private utility firms, plugged for its pro posed Mountain Sheep and Pleas ant Valley dams on the middle Snake. 1 Public power spokesmen favor the larger Nez Perce dam, which was attacked at other hearings by fish and game spokesmen as salmon - threatening. The Izaak Walton League of America said it would oppose construc tion of Nez Perce. Students Initiated Into Phoenix FT A Talent Five members of the Talent high school Future Teach ers of America took part in initi ation ceremonies for eight candi dates in the Narcissa Whitman, chapter of the FTA at Phoenix high school recently. 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