Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 20, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Texto yOU HKDJOID (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. November 20, 1957 "Iveryone to Southern Oregon Keaas rue Mall Tribune tied Dally Except Saturday by BfLSJUFOKD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-t41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAi-D LATHAM Business Manager tiuu A I j jk. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act el March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Cony 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mas 4.23 bunday Only One year 94.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HID. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes:' Daily and Sunday One year 118 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1 JO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford wnciai faper of Jacuson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, ae- troit. ban Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fDITOUAi AssocrA'ieN giiinrunTTrrm 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 Not. 20, 1947 (Thursday) Persons collecting funds In Medford now in the name of the American Cancer society are op erating fraudulently, it -was warned today. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "A stage depot is under construction at ront and Fifth sts. This prom inent corner escaped being a gas (gjlo for three decades." M YEARS AGO (go. 20. 1937 (Friday) One of the biggest real estate Jials in many years in the Ash afrid area was completed when Ben Gerwick, of Berkeley, Calif., purchased the Wade Wallis stock rjneh. Wrs. Ruth Freed, child welfare chairman of the American Le gion auxiliary announced today that the Medford unit would dis tribute baskets of food to needy families next Tuesday. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1927 (Sunday) Medford is to have another new up-to-date business building on the corner of Main and Holly sts. The old brick Presbyterian church and the frame building to the rear will be removed. With more than 100 teachers from various districts of Jackson county in attendance, this year's institute closing at the high (School today was said to be one of the most successful. (40 YBARS AGO Jot.-gO, 117 (Tuesday) The Medford Red Cross chap ter with its eight auxiliaries in jtackson county have sent 20,666 JRTticles to the front in the last (jjx months, it was reported. A telegram from Cadet T. E. Scantlin Jr. to his father an nounces the trrival of his fly ing squadron af their concentra tion camp at Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. Wktft Ttir I.Q.? Nine or tea correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the famous fictional character created by Joel Chand ler Harris? 2. Bible: What garment was set in "ouches" woven with gold? 3. What is the name for the judiciaj bodies that try Army military offences? 4. In which city was President McKinley shot? 5. Among which class of work . ers was the industrial disease ' "phossy jaw" widespread? ; 6. Melitpol is the gateway to what peninsula in USSR? 7. On what island is Jogjak . arta? 8. The planet that can' most closely approach the earth is Venus, Mars, or Mercury? 9. What three-letter word means "passing through"? 10. "I envy them, these monks of old,their books they read, and their beads they" what? 1. Uncle Remus. 2. The Breast plate of Judgment. 3 Courts-martial. 4. Buffalo. N. Y. 5. Makers of matches (working with phos Opfcsious). 6. The Crimea. 7. Java. 8. Tenus. 9. Via. 10. "told. divas' "Monks of Old." , Christmas Before Thanksgiving The Holiday Season seems to be upon us. Thanksgiving, which we like to think of as the "most American" of all major festive holidays, is next week. Christmas decorations are up which is the sub ject of this piece. Many are the complaints we have heard that they are up as early as this, the earliest that anyone around here can remember. "Why do they need Christmas decorations so soon after Halloween, and long before Thanksgiving?" we have been asked. "Isn't that pushing it too much? Isn't that carrying 'commercialism' too far?" "IXELL, perhaps it is. But who is it hurting? Not us, certainly. We'll probably do our Christmas shopping at the last minute on Christmas eve, anyway, as is our usual slovenly custom. And "doing your Christmas shopping early" has its virtues, so that reminding patrons that the season is rapidly approaching probably has its advantages, too. The best argument we have seen for this position, while still not entirely convincing, is one published "m the interest of retailing by a nrm m Oaiiiorma. I T SAYS, in part: "Every successful store directs its best effort toward perfecting a helpful service to all its customers. And since many customers ask stores to make it easier for them to complete their gift shopping before the crowded post Thanksgiving period, Christmas merchandise and displays are brought forward early to accommodate them. "And scarcely a major store in the nation could cope with the store traffic that would be generated if any part of early Christmas shopping was postponed until after Thanksgiving. Even under present circumstances most stores are strained to capacity during the peak of the sea son, to maintain the kind of store service all shoppers have learned to expect . . . "Granted that the problem is not a one-sided one, it should be recognized that stores are faced with the prob lems of convenient service to customers, of maintaining helpful employee relations, of providing a place where those of the public who can not, or do not, plan ahead may select the traditional gifts for their loved ones and friends . . ." That, then, is the attitude many merchants take, and it makes a certain amount of practical sense. But, frankly, it still. disturbs us to see the Yuletide decora tions up before Thanksgiving. E.A. Hats Off to Douglas On our desk at the moment is a handsome two- color brochure entitled "Your Douglas County Parks." It is a publication of the Douglas County Parks Depart ment, and sells for 25 cents. It is well worth that modest price to anyone interested in picnicking, hiking, camping, boating, fishing, hunting, swimming or watching scenery in our neighbor county to the north. Dominant color of the brochure is green. And it turns us green with envy to think that Douglas county has made such strides forward in satisfying the needs of its citizens and visitors, while Jackson county, only after great and agonizing effort, came up with $3,000 for "park purposes." Peanuts! . HTHE brochure, the initial purpose of which is to give information about county parks, goes further, and lists state parks, forest service camps and recrea tional areas, and Crater Lake National park, as well as county parks. Each recreational area is not only pin-pointed on an excellent and easily legible map, but also is described on a list as to location, size, picnic and camping capacity, accommodations, facilities avail able, scenic values, and special features. The editorial hat is off to Douglas county and its park department. And we wonder if the day will ever come when Jackson county can be saluted with equal warmth for looking to the future and providing for it! E.A. Public Dramatics Under the heading, "Daily Drama," the Oregon Statesman in Salem editorializes on the dramatic qualities inherent in the meeting of public bodies the city council, the school board, the legislature. Every reporter who has covered meetings of such groups knows it to be true that, upon occasion, there is high drama in such gatherings. Not always, of course, for many meetings are routine, and others are cut-and-dried. But sometimes, and not infrequently, the clash of personalities and ideas, the outbursts of emotion and the cutting edge of logic, the collision of idealism and materialism, furnish the real stuff of drama. INDIVIDUAL citizens rarely, if ever, attend such meetings unless something is under consideration in which they have a real (usually a pecuniary) inter est. But when an issue at controversy does arise, they pack the chambers, and their presence adds to the electric atmosphere. Having attended rather more than our share of such gatherings, we can, as the saying goes, "Take 'em or leave 'em," and too frequently do the latter. But we cheat ourself when we do, for there is real enter tainment in watching the interplay of conflicts and personalities such meetings bring out. With all this, we agree with the conclusion of the Statesman, that "it's a wonder more citizens don't realize their government has a human character and take in an occasional public meeting without waiting for a television debut." E.A. , 1 SlIKE WISH Mi. WilOH WOULD BftfU VfXJ450Me 60UP. IA SETTIN' PRETTY SICK OF &AI& CCOKIH ' Negro Leaders Moving Toward Ballot Box In Civil Rights Fight BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Negro lead ers are directing the civil rights controversy away from the con- g r e s s lonal arena and into the poling places of the southern states. S o u t hern white Demo crats probably must shift . their attention from the schools to the ballot boxes if they are to meet this new trend. Regardless of the merits of the controversy, the Negro strategy appears to be sound and promising. I.yle C. Wilson Editorial omment WHY fVT $34 BILLION UNDERGROUND? J. ne recommendation by the federal civil defense administra tion that we spend $34,000,000, 000 for construction of under ground shelters is ridiculous. If this country ever sets in an '"underground" state of mind, it is writing the end to its own fu ture. There is good sense and in surance in providing protected control and centers of communi cation, but we could bankrupt ourselves financially, mentally ana morally by going for under ground shelters for everyone. There has never been any such thing as complete security. There never has been and there never will be. But the best "security" for this country is an active peo ple doing things, and that doesn't include digging holes in which to hide. Any money that we can spare in the national budget should go to education, research and sound experiments. The hu man mind and the human spirit were not designed to live in a hole. The mind and the spirit should roam free and unafraid. Superiority in skills, educa tion, determination, imagination and loyalty to ideals that is the security" of free men. Let's not crawl into any holes, or any "hole in the ground" philosophy! Oregon Journal. FLUORIDATION BENEFITS Suburban Maryland young sters who have - been drinking fluoridated water all of their lives show 80 per cent fewer decayed teeth than normal, ac cording to a study by the Na tional Institute of Dental Re search in Bethesda. The Institute has been mak ing yearly checks on groups of children in Montgomery and Prince Georges counties ever since, the Washington-Suburban Sanitary commission began fluor idating its water in January, 1952. Six-year-olds who have drunk nothing but the fluoride-treated water show 80 per cent fewer teeth with one or more cavities than children who drink untreat ed water. Thirteen-year-olds, who were 7 and 8 when the fluoridation began, show a decline of about 15 per cent in the number of de cayed teeth. Dr. Albert Russell, director of the survey, said that the cavity rate for the 6-year-olds is low because the fluoride delays some cavities which will develop la ter on. He said that as the chil dren grow older, the rate of de cayed teeth will run between 60 and 65 per cent below that of persons who drink untreated water. Although the study was con fined to Montgomery and Prince Georges, Dr. Russell said he was sure the same results would be noted in the District, where fluoridation of water began in June, 1952. Washington (D.C. Post and Times Herald. Rep. Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D Mich.) is a Negro who knows about politics. He recently coun selled his race, as follows: Says South Misguided "The South is misguided by white politicians competing with each other. The only language a politician" understands, especi ally a southern politician, is the ballot." Now comes Roy Wilkins, na tional executive secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People (NAACP) with a plan, Wilkins announced in Atlanta, Ga., that NAACP would attempt to get 3, 000,000 southern, Negroes to the polls. , . He will be aided in that effort by the voting rights guarantee enacted at the last session of Con gress. Wilkins said about 25 per cent of eligible southern Negroes were presently registered and that the campaign would seek to make it 60 per cent. Seek Complexion Change First objective of this get-out-the-vote campaign is to change the the complexion of the south ern legislatures. If that complex ion were changed so, too, would be changed the complextion of the delegations of southern states to the United States Congress The impact of such changes would be felt far beyond the bor ders of the old South. Southern members of the U. S. Congress who were more or less respon sive to Negro voters back home could and probably would team happily with northern Demo crats who comprise the left wing of their party not only on civil rights but on domestic questions generally. A more comprehensive wel fare state and a greater central ization of government in Wash ington would be expected to flow from that. Congressional con servatives, of whatever party label, would become a more or less permanent minority, large ly powerless to affect policy trends. System Discourages Voting The one-party system and the poll tax have tended in the South to discourage voting. The percentage of eligibles who trouble to go to the polls in some southern states is very low. The NAACP registration drive among Negroes should spark a Demo cratic registration campaign by southern whites. Out of that, of course, could come a two-party system in the old South. It has been coming, al though slowly. The use of federal troops in Little Rock generally is judged to have stopped the two-party trend cold. The drive of southern Negroes lor ballot box power may start it again. Only Mississippi among the southern states did not in 1956 record any votes for Republican candidates for the U. S. House of Representatives. Ten other southern States cast l,64b,uuu votes for Republican house can didates. The total vote for Dem ocratic candidates for the house was 4,746,000. Not a bad start toward two par ties. MOUNTAIN ROAD North Adams, Mass (IP) A toll road may be constructed over Massachusetts' highest mountain. The road, suggested as a tourist attraction, would run across 3,500-foot Mr. Grey lock between Williamstown and Lanesboro. It would be about 15 miles long and would cost about lO million dollars. Indonesia Claiming Dutch Area; Dispute Threatens More Trouble By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Indonesia is talking about con quering Netherlands New Gui nea unless the Dutch govern ment gives it up. The "neu tralist" govern ment of the re public, which attained its in d e p e n d e nee from the Neth erlands in 1949 has never hpen tnarles M. McCann able t(J control its own territory. Revolts are chronic in several areas. The army is unruly with its officers split into factions. The Communists have made dan gerous gains in recent elections. It might be thought that, faced by this situation and with its possession of 2,000 islands spread along a 3,000-mile stretch between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, the Indonesian gov ernment might be content to try to rule its own 82 million peo Demanding Possession But Indonesia is demanding in the United Nations this week that the Netherlands surrender the 151,000 square miles of its New Guinea territory which lies In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Well, the big hassel at Salem is over and the boys have gone home. All in all Everything considered They did a pretty good job. They certainly could have done a much worse one if they had let themselves get sweDt off their feet. Fortunately, they kept their feet pretty solidly on the ground. IlHAT was it all about? ' " This, roughly, is the story: When the Oregon legislature assembled in Salem last winter, it faced two principal jobs: 1. To determine how much money would be needed to run the state, for the next biennium (a biennium is two years.) 2. To levy taxes to raise the money. Somewhere along the line, somebody goofed. As a result of the goof, it became apparent that the taxes that were levied would produce MORE money than was needed. to the east. Indonesia calls the territory "West Irian." Indonesia's claim is based largely on the ground that it ought to inherit everything the Netherlands possessed in that part of the world. However, New Guinea is obviously a separate territory. Its people are of an entirely different racial stock than Indonesians. In recent weeks, as the time for the U.N. debate neared, In donesian leaders have been in creasingly threatening in their statements. Foreign Minister Subandrio said, in a statement during a vis it to the Philippines, that the New Guinea situation could lead to a world war unless the U.N. vote went in its favor. Threatens Use of Force "Indonesia must use force if the Irian issue is rejected by the U.N.," he said. The Netherlands has made It plain that it will not give up Its part of New Guinea. Also, it happens that Australia controls the remainder of New Guinea, part outright, part under U.N. trusteeship. Australia has made it plain that in no circumstances will it permit Indonesia to take over Dutch New Guinea. It is hardly likely that Indo nesia would get anywhere if it tried to take Netherlands New Guinea, or western New Guinea, by force. Nevertheless, the dispute is potentially serious, if only be cause any trouble areas helps Soviet Russia in the cold war. Thc-re is also the fact that the United States, for reasons of pjlicy, has said it would remain "neutral" in the U.N. debate. Wall Street Claims Easing of Money Not Magic for Business WHAT to do about it? Tfiprp cflmo lu tiiT- The governor got scared and called a special session of the legislature to give some of the money back to the taxpayers. When the legislature as sembled, two schools of thought arose among the members. The governor wanted to give only 10 per cent of the expected sur plus back. In this desire, he was joined by most of the Democratic members. The Republicans pro posed to give 30 per cent of it back. THE battle raged around that The governor and his party supporters argued that if too much was put back Into the tax payers' pockets now MORE would have to be taken out of their pockets two years hence. The Republicans based their position on the broad, general contention that if when the 1959 legislature assembled there was a big surplus in the treasury it would tend to pro mote . extravagance in the de mands (come 1959) of those who want money from the state. So They argued It will be better to give back a LOT of the surplus NOW so that there won't be so much in the state's treasury come 1959. As is usual In such situations, the result was a compromise. The figure finally agreed upon was 20 per cent to be given back to the taxpayers. ' THE big question: Who name out of the ruck- US with the most political credit? TAKING human nature into consideration, I expect the Republicans came out a shade ahead. They proposed to give the money back NOW. We can all use it NOW! We all have bills to pay, and we can use the refund to help pay them. Two years from now is a long time off. Maybe we'll all be rich and happy by then and won t have to worry about paying our bills. Hope, you know, springs eternal in the human breast. By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP! Now that Wall Street has had the oppor tunity to digest the import of the Federal Reserve cut in the discount rate in some of the banks, it has conclud ed an easing of money isn't magic for busi ness recovery. Market men Elmer Waizer hold that easi er money will help improve the climate for business but it isn't going to aid the profit squeeze which is likely to show up more severely in this quarter, and it isn't considered likely to boost dividends beyond the level they would have been without it. But the rate cut, it is held, might delay the test of the re cent lows in the stock market to next January or February. Many market men hold that there still is a prospect of a test and that the lows will be violated. The brokers continue to urge a cautious market policy and many are suggesting profit tak ing or selling to raise money to get into consumer goods issues or defensive securities. Market Surprised The market was surprised by the timing of the cut and by the method used to easy money Many had anticipated a move to buy governments by the Federal Reserve to increase the money supply at holiday time. The method used in reducing the discount rate, it is held, gives more publicity to the ac tion and not only improves morale here but also in Europe where some of the nation's allies have been having difficulty. Edmund W. Tabell, analyst for Walston & Co., holds that probably more than one step in money easing will be needed to reserve the drot in business pattern since mid-1957. Noting that it took more than two years for tight money to re verse the business boom. "It is probable that over the next year or so further downward adjust ments will be made before the business pattern finally consoli dates and adjusts and is ready A THOUGHT in conclusion: NEXT TIME let's be a little MORE ACCURATE in our fore casts of how much money will be needed just how much will be raised by a certain type of tax. Let's not goof again. w aSBpaper Sale! ffs 5 Bedford Paint & Wallpaper Store 6th and Holly Eighth Graders to Launch 'Satellite' Portland (IP) Eighth grade students at Chief Joseph school will launch a "satellite" Friday. It will be a weather balloon cov ered with aluminum foil and filled with helium. The students have built a transmitter and will track the balloon with a theodolite loaned them by the U.S. weather bu reau. They plan to make com putations on the aerial condi tions the balloon will encounter. Principal William E. Moore said the children plan a second "satellite" too, equipped with a transistor - powered transmitter that will send a continuous wave signal back to the students for tracking purposes. for another advancing phase. "In the meantime there will, be continued selectivity during the period of consolidation and adjustment." Gerald M. Loeb, a senior part ner of E. F. Hutton & Co., be lieves that it will take time to turn the earnings situation around and "hence that stocks which have decreased earnings probabilities ahead of them wUl only rally rather than complete ly cancel out their downtrends. "The news is encouraging but it will take more news and mora time to lay a base for a long lasting upturn." According to Walter Maynard, analyst for Shearson, Hammill & Co., it would seem wise for investors to continus to "pursue a cautious policy." Announcing the 1st truly practical completely 4 h Everything Is Completely ' Hidden Inside Newest HEARING GLASSES A boon to folks who want to hoar again, yd wear nothing in oar. Ideal for moderate losses. Espe cially wonderful for conduction losses. NOTHING IN EAR! No receiver button. No tub from glasses to ear. No ear mold. NOTHING BEHIND EAR! JVo special attachments of eny kind. NO CORDS -NO WIRES! Nothing dangles en neck or back. NOTHING TO HIDE . . in hair or clothes. SEEING IS BELIEVING SPECIAL SHOWING JACKSON HOTEL, MEDFORD Friday, Nov. 22nd 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Evening Consultation by Appointment HARRY L. MARX & ASSOCIATES Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport C. M. Litwiller The Better Service Only lady assistant in Ashland Organist and Soloist (No charge) Mrs. Litwiller Mrs. Litwiller has been our constant and competent help . mare for nearly 22 years. This is especially appreciated for lads and children services. I i-rAt I l CD t 1 i? Ll I YV I iiir. 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