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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) He PTUKTJ UNE Tveryone in Southern Oregon Read! The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except 3aturtay by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RLTfL Editor HERB GREY Advertising; Manager GERAUD LATH Ail Business Manager ERIC Al.l.EN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clas 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 mot 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford 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 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United tress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DTC Offices in New York Chicago, oe troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOIlAi "I ASSOCI4ieN Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 26. 1947 (Wednesday) Medford city council gave a formal "go ahead" light.to plans of the California-Oregon Power company to install mercury lights on Sixth st. between Riv erside ave. and West Main st. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "This is Civil War Week in Oregon, due to the OSC-Old Oregon, and high school titans clashing on the gridirons. Coaches of the in ttitutions of higher learning have not yet started singing dirges and the blues." ! tS TZARS AGO 26, 1937 (Tuesday) The first completed section of the new route through the Siski you mountains was formally opened in a celebration staged recently by Ashland leaders and highway offiicals. Taxable valuation of Jackson county property for 1938 is placed at $24,023,870, a reduc tion of only $39,750 under the current year, according to the county assessor. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 26. 1927 (Saturday) The two "Bills," Gates and Lydiard, recently celebrated their seventh anniversary in the Economy Groceteria. What is reported to be the largest shipment of Thanksgiv ing turkeys ever leaving Rogue River valley, "was shipped by local markets to San Francisco and points south. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 26. 1917 (Monday) G. R. Satchwell, Medford, participates in mediation of the strike against the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company. The beet sugar factory at Grants Pass closes down Satur day because of the lack of arri val of beets, Alexander Nibley said this morning. Whit's Your I.Q.? Nin or tea correct Is superior; seven or eight la excellent: five or six is good 1. How is "sachem" pro nounced? . Bible: David overcame Go liath armed with what weapon? . Is the modern birthstone for April a diamond, ruby, or emerald? 4. Which 4-letter word (slang) refers to a person who cuts up antics; a ludicrous person? 5. Is a "blue point" a type of dog, oyster, or drawing? 6. Did the Coast Guard par ticipate in any invasion during World War II? 7. Name the only former U.S. President tha was bald-headed. 8. Does the Statue of Liberty hold the torch in the right or left hand? o 9. Obverse is the back or the front of a coin? o 10. Name the source for the quotation "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou." 1. Say-chem. 2. Sling and peb bles. 3. Diamond. 4. "Card." 5. Oyster. 6. Yes. 7. John Quincy Adams. 8. Right. 9. Front. 10. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." MAIL TRIBUNE What's Wrong With The "SP"? What would you think if you were presented with a hard-surface right-of-way from Medford to Portland and from Medford to San Francisco? Then from San Francisco through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and on to that charming old post bellum city of New Orleans? Moreover there would be no competition in your own field. There would be no intersections om "stop lights," no detours, no wTaiting-in-line for road re pairs, no congestion, no wild-drivers, and ample park ing space WHEREVER you wished to stop. Wouldn't you decide you had unknowingly rub bed "Alladin's Lamp" and become a second "Lucky Baldwin" over night? Our guess is you would and with reason. For with the dangers and strain of motor travel increasing day by day and particularly night by night with the increase, also, of our population of "older boys and girls" who for physical reasons, CAN'T fly, here would seem to be a rare bonanza, not only to make money, but render in the U.S.A. a needed and beneficient public service. B UT, needless to say the doesn't so regard its by the way, which was received from the peoples of the states through which it passes with the solemn pledge that it would provide continuous service. For the SP, because only one department of its operation failed to get out of the red as fast as it would like, deprives one of the most rapidly grow ing and most productive sections of Oregon of ALL passenger service. This in spite of the fact, that while this abandoned service was being rendered, South ern Pacific profits over-all steadily increased, and it never failed, in that time or since, to meet its plushy payroll in the Upper Brackets, or its regular gener ous dividends to stock holders! HOW come? What is the matter with the "Friendly SP" any way? Doesn't it know that the railroad today is the most efficient method of mass transportation? Doesn't it know the underlying efficiency of a steel wheel turning on a steel RAIL has not yet been surpassed? Doesn't it know this lack of friction is such that the same amount of fuel will propel a loaded freight car five times the distance it would propel a truck carrying the same load? And finally, the same ad vantages in. different degrees extend to other forms of transportation? As indicated above, this superior efficiency ex tends particularly to the right-of-way. One of the oldest railroads in the country, serving the suburbs of Chicago, can carry 48,000 riders in one hour com pared with 6720 by bus and 2250 by motor car in the sanie time. A well known statistical institution, after a care ful railroad survey has declared it would take 20 "free-ways" of 4 lanes each, to carry the same num ber of persons that can be earned on two railroad tracks. D OES the SP or anyone else doubt this? Vp11 the facts above don't haDDen to be ours. They are verbatim the words of the chairman of the CrnVacm and Northwestern railroad, surmorted bv surveys of the impartial T 1 1 I mgs institute. So again "what's the matter with the SP?" 1X7ITH these facts established as to the railroad's " future and especially its potential why does the Southern Pacific management insist upon surrender ing before a shot is fired? It would be easier to understand if many other railroads adopted this discredited policy of the pub lic and public obligations "be damned!" But there are very few. And as far as our information goes, NONE that enjoying a monopoly in its field, has deprived such a growing and promising area as the 300 miles terri tory from Eugene to Duinsmuir, California of all pas senger service entirely. X7E ARE indebted to Charley Wing, large property owner, and former well-known Medford ranch er (wintering now in Honolulu), for adding to our list of important rail roads that have refused to quit the good fight, and deliberately kill their passenger service to make an extra dime. They have instead retained faith in their special calling and are now spending millions to wipe out the passenger deficit, not by reducing overhead but by increasing it, not by making passenger travel less attractive but more so. "IX7E LACK the space to go into details. But the vv heading of the "ad" from the Wall Street Jour nal, showing a relay runner at top stride reads as follows: "Union Pacific stockholders look forward not back ward. They own a railroad they are proud of but in much greater measure proud of its forward march." And how is this "forward march" to be main tained? Not by abandoning passenger service but quote : "By spending $26,164,675 in ultra-modern passenger equipment." This the UP adds, "is the way to ran a railroad." They don't deny much has been said about "di minishing passenger business recently," but they do not believe in just talking about it (like talking about the weather). They believe in taking off their coats and "DOING something about it." When faced with such a problem the SP doesn't take off its coat and go to work. It just leans back in its overstuffed "Pacific Union" chair and takes off some more passenger trains. R.W.R. Tuesday. November 26, 1957 "friendly Southern Pacific" inheritance, an inheritance and always reliable Brook- 'SHE'S SORB GOT A CRAZY got cub GREAT BIG ice Matter of Fact WE HAVE BEEN WARNED Washington The American government has recently been presented with just about the grimmest warning in its history. The warning took the form of a report to the President and National Se curity Council by a commit tee i n i t i ally stewait aisod headed by H. Rowan Gaither Jr., formerly president for the Ford Founda tion. When the Gaither Commuittee was appointed, its basic assign ment, as this reporter noted last August, was to study the means of defense against atomic attack. But as time went on, it became obvious that it was useless to consider our defense without al so considering the Soviet offense. The committee, moreover, was made up of brilliant men with wide experience in the whole de fense field men like former Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, his deputy, William Fos ter, and former Chief Policy Planner Paul Nitze. Such men could not be expected to confine themselves simply to essentially peripheral matters like civil de fense. TNSTEAD, the work of the com mittee broadened until it en compassed almost the whole East-West balance of power in the new weapons. In the process, the brilliant civilians on the committee closely consulted the country's leading scientists. Both James Killian, newly appointed Chief Scientific Aid to the Presi dent, and,Isidor Rabi, chairman of the President's Scientific Ad visory Committee, played a ma jor role in preparing the report. Dr. Jerome B. Weisner of M.I.T., who had the task of marshalling the views of the scientific com munity, also made a point of bringing in large numbers of the younger generation of scientists for consultation. Thus the report represents the consensus of just about the best scientific and non-scientific brains in the country. Their judgment was based, moreover, on all the most recent and most reliable intelligence on compara tive Soviet and American air atomic and missile power. The report considers many subjects, including such matters as the shelter program. But the really important conclusions which amount to a stern warning, may be summarized as follows. 'C'IRST, the Soviets are so far ahead of this country in the missile race that it will not be possible fully to overtake them before 1960-61, at the earliest. Second, this interval in which the Soviets will be ahead repre sents an unprecedented danger, not only to the civilian popula tion as a whole, but to the bases of the Strategic Air Force, which has been the shield of freedom. Third, every possible interim measure must therefore be tak en, to defend not only our civil ian population but our retalia tory power during this period of maximum danger. To over take the Soviets by 1960-61, and to take the necessary interim measures, will require additional outlays amounting to many bil lions of dollars. At another time, these authori tative but somber conclusions might have been filed and for gotten, as has happened before. But this time, thanks in part to the launching of the Sputniks which may well be the luckiest thing that has ever happened to this lucky nation the report may have real impact. Indeed, it has already had an impact, in the two weeks or so since it was filed. Secretary of Defense Neil Mc- Elroy has decided, since then, to go ahead with production of the intermediate missiles, well be fore testing is complete. He has also decided to start work on at least one ICBM base even before the first stage of the Atlas ICBM has been successfully test-fired. The report unquestionably play ed a part in these bold decisions. 'FfclSERATOR ! JUST Cuse in it By Joe and Stewart Alsop HPHERE are other reasons for believing that the report will have a continuing influence. McElroy, for example, has al ready impressed Washington with a decent respect for the facts, and an instinct for dealing with them. His simple statement "It seems rather obvious that we are behind the Russians" came like a fresh breeze in a city stale with the smell of soothing syrup. The report should help to silence the previously power ful dispensers of the soothing syrup. As McElroy's star has risen, morever, the star of his deputy, Donald Quarles, the Pentagon's chief exponent of the wait-and-see, test-it-first approach to the missile race, is rapidly declining. It is a good bet that Quarles will have left the Pentagon before many weeks have passed. An other rising star is that of Dr. Killian. His role is a different one, since he has no operational authority. But the Gaither re port, which he himself played a major part in preparing, will serve as a backstop and make weight for his views. All in all, there is beginning to be solid reason to hope that the American government will at long last get down to business in the life-and-death race with the Russians. The Gaither Com mittee Report, with its somber warning, should provide a pow erful impetus in that direction. But the race will not be short or easy. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stray Notes, from Eastern Oregon . By SAGE BRUSH SALLY Yesterday I spent most of the day in Baker. It was rather chilly, but nice for a November day. I visited a few minutes with the ladies at the library, enjoyed a cup of tea with my friend Grace Joy at Joys Hostess House. Spent some time in the lobbv of the Geiser Grand hotel discussing mining mostly, with friends. My husband Con, our mining nartner. Newt Bethel and I had a very nice dinner in the hotel cafe. Nearly everywhere I went some one mentioned Governor Holmes' recent appointment of Nadie Straver of BaKer to one oi the top places on the Board gov erning much of Oregon's mining. And thov wpre unanimous in voicing their approval. Nadie, who is the daughter of the late State Senator Strayer, who was himself interested in mining, is capable of doing a fine job on this assignment. I was pleased to read in a re cent issue of The Mail Tribune an article headed "Bend Girl to Tellof Experiences Abroad." It states Violet K. Klobas with" 57 other young people arrived home on the Queen Mary from a five month work and learn trip in Europe. These young people who go overseas as good-will am bassabors I am sure do much to create friendship and promote better understanding between nations. . I have known Violet Klobas ATE R k 1 RAZBER v is THE OQdmJ Of KENTUCKY BOURBON 86 Proof C'5i lATEEflll AHD FEAZ1EI DlSIIUEtT COMPANY. U10SI0WM. iEMTUCIJ Continuing Flow of Refugees To West Poses Blockade Threat By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The East German Communists are getting alarmed over the steady flow of refugees to West 4.:' .,'-- 4, B e r 1 i n a n d West Germany. There are in creasing indi cations that the C o m m u n ist puppet regime may soon try to stop the flight by isolat ing West Ber- Charles McCann m and tieht- ening control of the border between East and West Germany. If that happens, it may mean serious trouble for West Berlin, which is isolated from West Germany by a 110-mile stretch of Communist - controlled terri tory. Two Million Flee East Since 1949, when West Ger many's remarkable economic re covery got really started, about 2 million East Germans have fled the Communist part of the country. Most of them have crossed from East Berlin to West Berlin. The flight has reduced East Germany's population by more than 10 per cent. The flow of refugees con tinues at the rate of about 300,000 a year. Until recently the East Ger man Reds did little to stop the movement. One reason was that East German economy is in a bad state, especially since the Polish revolt, which sharply re duced the amount of raw mate rials available for factories. Another was that those who fled obviously were enemies of the Communist regime and potential trouble makers. May Weaken Industry But now the flight from Red rule seems to have reached the point where its continuance will weaken East German industry The refugees arriving in West Berlin and West Germany now include a big proportion of m tellectuals and skilled workers More than half of those who flee are under. 25 years of age Communist officials and mem bers of the militarized Red police are scattered among the older ones. Any determined Communist move to stop the flight would tend to increase the isolation of West Berlin. Western officials fear that, for one thing, the Reds as part of an isolation campaign would im pede railroad and highway com munications, between West Ber lin and West Germany. Communications Interference They also would be expected since she was a baby. She and her brother Johnny, were the children of Anna and Pete Klo bas who were our nearest neigh bors when we lived near Bend 20 years ago, and the fine friend ship that developed then still endures. Con and I visited Anna and Pete last May. Violet was teaching at Westfir, and Johnny is now married and living in the Willamette Valley. He studied radar and several other subjects while he was in the navy and is continuing his studies. While the parents complained of being lonely on the farm now, I could see that they were also very proud of the kids. As Thanksiving again draws near I feel that one of the things we should be thankful for is our many fine young Americans. Of course we do have many juve nile delinquents, but they repre sent a very small per cent of our young people. Sage Brush Sally. Packages to Overseas Must Be Mailed Now Washington (W Christmas packages for servicemen over seas must now be sent airmail in order to insure delivery by Dec. 25, the Defense Department says, i The heavy Yuletide mail load requires that air parcels be sent not later than Dec. 10 for Christ mas delivery. The deadline for mailing overseas packages pired Nov. 20. ex- FILL to interfere with allied airplane communications along the au thorized air lanes between Berlin and the western part of the country. Anxiety of Germans in the western part of the former capi tal is increased because of fear that the United States might not be willing to hazard a crisis with Soviet Russia by defending them. This is one of the repercus sions, now being felt throughout Western Europe, of Russia's startling successes in the field of nuclear missiles. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the rsme and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters wii a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Like to Have 'Em, Hate to Pay for 'Em To the Editor: Mr. Babson's dissertation on the evils of high taxation, which appeared in Fri day's Mail Tribune, is a sober ing warning. Careless use of public funds should never be condoned. There are so many services, however, that only the govern ment can perform adequately, that high taxes should not nec essarily be considered evil. If we want to have the advantages of certain services, whether pri vate or public, we can expect to pay for them. And there's the rub. We like the public services, but we hate to pay for them. We are like a family spending its wages on fine clothes and new cars but refusing to pay the gro cery bill. The Soviet government liqui dates the people's savings bonds whenever it sees fit. Do we real ly want to preserve democracy at home and promote it abroad as we say we do? Do we want peace and a rising standard of living for all the world? These goals cannot be attained with a "business as usual" attitude. Un less we, as a free people, are willing to sacrifice of our sub stance voluntarily and in con siderable amounts we cannot ex pect to compete successfully in this cold war. We have heard talk recently about hoisting the debt limit be cause the nation is in danger. This is all very well, but why not arrange to pay as we go? We could, you know. We could, with careful planning, even liquidate some of the standing debt from year to year. The rich should be willing to pay more taxes, and the poor should also pay. What man is there among us who would not be willing to dig deep in his pockets to save his home? E. Whealdoh, 804 Cedar st., Medford, Ore. On Going Calling To the Editor: The short edi torial on Nov. 22 by E. A. on the "pleasant old fashioned Calling custom" am: its extinction in Medford has already stirred up interest seemingly. Some folks credit that editorial for recent happy hours in their home, be cause of the fact their callers commented on it, and asked their opinions. To pronounce the custom de funct, must be 'erroneous be cause there is noticeable action, which no doubt will become ac celerated, and, perhaps pronto. As it has been frequently said good ideas are valuable, and should be shared." The editor's friend bringing up Medford's failing has proved that point, and thanks to the M.T. staff for passing it on. Why should we be inhibited after all? Our free country says we can speak up. I've sent my opinion on the subject to my home town in North Dakota, hoping to disseminate an out standing editorial. As a sugges tion more in that category would be apprepiated, I do believe. Emma Lou Carpenter 811 Sherman St. Medford. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. It was because of the fear that Berlin might be sacrificed that Willy Erandt, lord mayor of West Berlin, urged in an in terview recently that President Eisenhower make a sort of show-the-flag visit to the city when he attends the North Atlantic q Treaty Organization conference in Paris next month. There are reports that the East Germans may start an isolation campaign next week. Allied offi cials are watching the situation closely. That is about all they I can do until the Reds act. Capitalism Needs Education To the Editor: The Soviet "moons" have thrown light up on aspects of capitalist misman agement and inefficiency that have long been evident to mem bers of the Socialist Labor party. A specific example is capital ism's treatment of education. The capitalists boast of what their system has done for edu cation. Actually," in so boasting, they make a virtue of necessity. For capitalist industry needs a literate work force. It must havt a trained army of worker spe cialists such as chemists, engi neers, physicists, mathemati cians, etc. Therefore, the capital ist educational system is not the result of capitalist enlighten ment; it is the result of econolS ic necessity. Henry R. Korman, 2640 Garfield st., Longview, Wash. Hard Times for Birds To the Editor: This is the sea son of the year when one of man's best friends, the bird, comes upon hard times. To sur vive birds need help and they deserve it, because every bird that dies during the winter rep resents an actual cash lb?s to American agriculture and a de cline in the health of our fields, gardens and forests. Of all our wild-life the species that have the hardest struggle to carry through the winter are our non migrating birds, quail and pheas ant, because by natural instinct and physical build, theirs is a limited range. Both stay within about one mile of their original "yard." Quail and grouse are of great value to man and justify ny efforts to help them through the winter. The time and feed which it takes to help them is well spent. If you have never tried feeding birds you will discover a Jthrill equal to the effort it takes. Be sure and set out a shallow basin of water with a drop of two of glycerin to pre vent freezing. Spread out crack ed corn, beef suet mixed with coarse corn meal and pressed into compact lumps.' This can be hung in trees. And do not forget one winter essential, sand or ashes, for when the ground is frozen birds are unable to scratch up the grit which is their substitute for teeth. For robins and other ground eaters toss some raw hamburger, if you are rich, cooked spaghetti, too. Try it. Do it now. Southern Oregon Humane Society, Medford, Ore. EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRE SP 2-2333 POLICE SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 A OfVISKM 0F MCmC ffMHCC PACIFIC irinncrniAi IHWWIIUHIi 16 S. CENTRAL A REAL THANKSGIVING Will be enjoyed by those who have had us write their policies with a uni form expiration date. No longer will premium pay ments come due at such inconvenient times as the holidays. We'll gladly help you change your setup. Bill Fish
