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Newspaper Page Texto 0 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Ttveryone to Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Satur-lay by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fix St. Phone 2-gll ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAU3 LATHAM Business Manager Al t FN jr. Managing Editor vARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MA! Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medfoxd Oregon under Act of March 3, 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 81S.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Tal-snt and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms 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, ae troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAi AssocTA-ieN TUJnniJB'M'mi 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. 27. 1947 (Wednesday) Sky Trail, 12 miles south of Ashland at Siskiyou summit, will be opened for winter skiing as soon as sufficient snow falls, according to the owners. From Arthur Perry's column, Ye Smudge Pot: "Thanks for the drumsticks for good little boys and girls, and plenty of gizzards for Grandpaw." 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 27. 1937 (Friday) Program for the meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural Society at the Elks temple here on Dec. 2 and 3 lists many inter esting speakers. Climaxing a successful Series of district rallies. Crater Lake Area Council of Boy Scouts of America will stage a huge council-wide rally at v the Medford senior high school .gymnasium tonight. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 27. 1927 (Sunday) One local youth and three youths of Talent are arrested by the police around 8 p.m. yester day on moonshine charges. With snow reported to be on the Crater Lake highway some distance below the entrance to the Crater Lake National Park, a number of Medford people are planning to leave today on ski ing and sleighing parties. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 27. 1917 (Tuesday) The third Southern Oregon Poultry association's exhibition ,Uk now open to the public at the corner of East Main and Bartlett sts. A beautiful Thanksgiving feast has been provided for the boys of the 7th company, through the work of R. L. Wilson, owner of El Nido ranch on Beal lane. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good. 1. Does caviar come from one or various types of sturgeon or bass? 2. Bible: Which of these words are mentioned: impute; implac able; obsolete? 3. Was President F. D. Roose velt .-first inaugurated in Jan., Feb.,or March? 4. Name the seventh day of the week. 5. Are the planets Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter each of them larger than the earth? 6. Is a codling moth small, medium, or a large moth? 7. In which war did the Bat tle of Ypres take place? 8. Who was Vice President during Washington's 2nd term? 9. Is ocher a vegetable, min eral, or animal product? 10. "I never expected to see the day when the girls will get sunburned in the places they do now." Will B. Rogers: did he die in an airplane crash fh Alaska? Answers; 1. Various types of sturgeon. 2. Impute; implaca able. 3. March (4th). 4, Satur day. 5. Yes. 6. Small. 7, World War I. 8, John Adams (served both terms). 9. Mineral. 10. No. But Will Rogers did. MAIL TRIBUNE Science and Secrecy Secrecy, on every level of government, has little if any justification. In a democracy, based on the theoiy that a literate and informed public is the final authority, it is particularly abhorrent. In government, secrecy and the damage it does, is an old, old story. Time after time, when govern ments (city, county, state or national) have kept secret from the people what the people are entitled to know, it has worked to the disadvantage of all. This is as true of the big things as of the little things. And the sad fact is that it keeps happening, for it is easier for a public official to keep a damaging fact secret than it is for him to make it public, for all to know. In doing so, however, he is forfeiting his right to hold public office. "THIS tendency received a tremendous push during A World War II, the Korean war, and the cold war, when the necessities of "security" were often used as an excuse to keep secret things which should be known. The development of the Atomic bomb, conducted by the so-called "Manhattan Engineering District," was, of necessity, secret probably one of the best kept secrets of the war. Yet peacetime atomic development was kept largely under wraps still is, for that matter by the Atomic Energy Commission. And who knows how much this has held back additional discoveries, how it has hampered scientists in their vital work, and worked against the ultimate welfare of the nation? WE WOULD not go so far as to say that scientific ahead of us in the missile field. But there are a lot of well-informed men who would agree that it was one of several important reasons. Among those who should know is Gerard Piel, publisher of the Scientific American, who testified about scientific secrecy before a house subcommittee on information last March. His testimony was relevant then, but is far more so today in the hindsight of Russia's Sputnik successes. OERE are a few representative paragraphs from his lengthy statement to the committee : The problem of dealing with secrets is an old one in gov ernment, where the concern is with "state secrets," the kind you won't know unless I tell you; codes, wave lengths, caliber, horsepower, range, rate, and scale. The disclosure even of these secrets is only a matter of time. They become known outside a government through the use of them or by interception and capture. These are different from secrets of nature which are open to discovery by scientists everywhere. It is quite apparent that scientists in every nation work ing on fundamental research have to agree about nature. Ultimately they make the same discoveries. By concealing what we -know, we may delay discovery by others. But they will discover it no matter what we do. By concealing and by frustrating communications within science, however, we will surely slow up ourselves, not only in more discoveries, but in bringing new work into useful application. By an unhappy confusion in our semantics we have come to think of secrecy as security. We think of security, that kind of security, as an end in itself and not is the means to the larger end of national security. It is an old experience in our country that secrecy can be a shield for incompetence and corruption. Now we have a new reason to oppose secrecy in the operations of our government. It is the danger that secrecy places in the way of the advancement of science, and hence to the general welfare and to national security. LIE ALSO documented these general statements with specific examples of the things he had in mind, and he made a convincing case. And if the scientist finds his work hampered by a lack of communication with others working toward similar ends, he is just that much more likely to go into more fruitful lines of work. Thus secrecy, and the suspicion it engenders, has also fostered the "lack of trained scientists and engineers" about which there is so much breast-beating these days. All this does not mean that our latest technological developments in weapons should be posted on the nearest bulletin board for the next espionage agent to copy down. But it does mean that, as a general precept, secrecy is destructive both of efficiency and of democracy. And this is just as true at the county courthouse as it is at the White House. E.A. Whose Responsibility? Recent news stories out of Klamath Falls about a grand jury's indictment of a police officer and their recommendation that the police chief be replaced bring unhappy memories of a somewhat similar situa tion in Medford about four years ago. The grand juiy report is lengthy, and goes into considerable detail about the condition of the Klamath Falls police department. But one paragraph in the report struck us as unusual. Perhaps "odd" is a better word. It said : ". . . . These findings are not an indictment of the pres ent mayor and city council, as it is the opinion of the grand jury that many of these conditions are of long standing duration." X7ITH all due respect, we wonder how the fact that the conditions are "long standing" can in any way exonerate the council from responsibility? And if the situation is as bad as painted by the grand juiy, is it not up to the council and mayor to rectify it? If they don't, who will? The fact that the council assumed its responsi bility in Medford in our earlier problem wTas the thing that resulted in the outcome a well-trained police force worthy of the trust of its citizens. E.A. Wednesday, November 27, 1957 6HHHHH! Jt THAT Government Tries to Separate Personal, Business Expenses BY FRED DANZIG United Press Correspondent New York (IP! Many a corp oration has sought relief from the heat of taxation by seeking the shade of an expense account oasis. It remains for our tax collec tors to police the oasis and adjust the shade. In examining expense ac counts, the government tries to separate personal and business expenses. It's not easy, especial ly in the category of "travel and entertainment," otherwise known as "T and E." Some ex amples: An aircraft company in Cal ifornia owns a plane and a yacht. Company officers use the plane for week-end hunting trips. The yacht is used for company-sponsored fishing trips. A company assigns a deserv ing executive to a branch office conveniently located at a resort such as Miami Beach. He spends the winter there. Turns out the branch office is a myth. The va cation isn't. A company pays for an ex- Editorial Comment Medford Is First In Stats Closed circut television looms in Oregon. The Medford city council has granted a ten-year franchise to California-Oregon Theatres to operate such a sys tem. The franchise holders in tend to run feature-length mov ies which can be received in the homes of subscribers. Costs for the connections have not been announced but the city council reserves authority to set the rates. This may be the answer of movie houses to the competition of free television. Their view ing audience then would not be confined to the theatre but could extend to the limit of television coverage. The viewers could watch the movie without leaving home which is what they do now on free TV. The long campaign to allow subscription television is making progress over the stiff resistence of the networks which finance their operations through sale of ads. Of course closed TV could sell advertising time too but that might cost its subscribers. The Federal Communication Commission has invited applica tions for closed circuit television to be received next spring; but where the operation is local and the transmission is by wire no FCC approval is required. Bar tlesville, Okla., was the first to launch local closed circuit tele vision, but the idea is spread ing, witness the action at Med ford. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- JIM STRALEY tells a tragic tale about a Chicago wolf who persuaded a cute chick he had met at a party to accompany him the next afternoon to see the Cubs play. She never showed up5at the designated gate. What's more, she hung up on him when he phoned that evening. He rushed around to her apartment for an explanation, found her still seething. "You're a heel!" she said bitterly. "Make a date and. then for get about it and me wait ing all afternoon at the zoo!" Author Lynn Sumner uses this introduction to warm up his lecture audiences: "It's a great pleasure to speak in this auditorium a word derived from two Latin roots: Audio, meaning I hear; and taurus, the bull." An elementary school teacher asked her young charges to de scribe the taste of chocolate ice cream. She was particularly de lighted with one answer. "Chocolate," explained this promising student, "tastes the opposite of vanilla." 1957, by Bennett Cert .Distributed by King Features SyndicaU, MlTCtiBLl KlOf ecutive's country club member ship, gives him a home to live in, or pays his athletic club dues. Diner's Card Abused Many companies supply their executives with membership cards in the Diner's Club, a post war master credit plan now serv ing more than 500,000 members. Tax agents recently discovered four Diner's Club members who met for lunch every day and rotated the check, charging it off to business. This abuse of a legis timate service is what the tax collectors try to stop. No figures are available on just how much money is de ducted each year for "T and E." One studv of a medium-size corp oration revealed that about one fourth of 1 per cent of its ex penses fell under this category. According to the Tax Founda tion, 58,600,000 individual tax re turns were filed in 1956, along with 896,000 corporate tax re turns, for a total of 59,400,000. Of this total, 4,300,000 returns were examined by the govern ment and 2,400,000 taxpayers were called in to talk things over. Whopping Extra Revenue The government picked up an additional $1,100,000,000, from these audits. You get some idea of how much money is tied up in "T and E" in a tax agent estimate that about one-half of all people call ed into prove deductions have suspicious-looking "T and E" totals. "There must be a business pur pose for the expenses you de duct," said this official. "At the same time," he added, "corp orations have a wide range of judgment as to what expenses are calculated to advance the business. The government has no right to tell them how to spend their money. "I doubt if we'll ever reach a satisfactory solution to the problem," he concluded. Ike's Thanksgiving Proclamation Issued Washington (IP) President Eisenhower has issued this pro clamation for Thanksgiving Day: "As a nation we have pros pered. We are making progress in our efforts to translate our national ideals into living re alities; and we are at peace with the world, working toward that day when the benefits of free dom and justice shall be secured for all mankind. "For such blessings let us be devoutly thankful, and at the same time let us be sensitive and responsive to the obligations which such great mercies entail." His proclamation was issued at the White House Nov. 8. Stop Me Enclave Trouble Plagues Spain; Others Source of World Tension By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Spain has suffered an out break of enclave trouble in its little West African territory of Ifni. Moroccan guerrilla bands have attacked Sidi Ifni, the capital and half a dozen isolat ed Spanish Army outposts. Unconfirmed reports say the guerrillas have Charles McCano seized control of Sidi Ifni, its adjoining air field and three army posts. The guerrilla action is relative ly unimportant in itself. But it points up the fact that all of the enclaves scattered around the world are potential trouble spots and that two of them could explode into a third world war. An enclave is a tract or ter ritory, held by one country, that is enclosed within the territory of another country. Ifni, 741 square miles in ter ritory, is surrounded by Mor occo which has attained its in dependence from France. Mor occo wants Ifni. The euerrilas who have attacked it are not part of Morocco's forces. But Moroccans hardly can be expect ed to hate them. Other Enclaves In addition to Ifni, the world's enclaves include West Berlin, British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao and Portuguese Goa. West Berlin, isolated 110 miles inside Communist East Germany, is one of the world's acute dang er spots. Politically it is part of West Germany. The United In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign aid note: RUSSIA has started buying friends. . She has agreed to -lend Egypt 175 million dollars. THE Egyptian press, which leans heavily over on the So viet side, is all atwitter over the proposal. One paper says the loan will "usher in a new era of abundance, ranging all the way from telephones for all Egyptians to CARS for all Egyp tians." Another paper says: "This money from Russia means that every Egyptian will be able to get more income and live a better life." HMMMMMM . . . Let's remem ber this: The Egyptians have JUST BORROWED the money. That's the way EVERYBODY feels when he has just borrowed a lot of money. How the Egyptians will feel when the time comes to pay it back is a horse of an other color. You can bet your bottom dol lar Russia will demand repay ment. THIS Russian loan, of course, could do wonders for Egypt and her people. Suppose the money was used constructively to build power dams, to build roads, to build factories, and so on. Suppose these facilities were used ably and intelligently TO PRODUCE MORE THINGS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE who in the meantime would have been provided with jobs enab ling them to pay for all these desirable things such as cars and telephones and household gadgets and such. In that event, the loan would be a wonderful thing. B UT We must be realistic. Russia isn't interested In building up in Egypt a way of life that would be so pleasant as to cause the RUSSIANS to want a way of life just like it in their country. That would be bad business, for in Russia the people have been kept busy mak ing guns and other hardware to CONQUER THE WORLD WITH. The general run of them have been denied cars and telephones and household gadgets and such. It might make them pretty sore to learn that Russian money had been used to get things like that for the EGYPTIANS. ONE thing we an be sure of. This 175 million dollars won't be showered down in cash on the Egyptian people to enable them to buy scads and scads of the good things of life. It will come in the form of credits that must be used to buy Russian arms with which to help communism grab off the strate gic Middle East, with its fabu lous riches in the way of oil. THE Russian arms will be put in the hands of Egyptian common soldiers who will be commanded by communist of ficers whose business will be to turn Egypt over to communist Russia. When the showdown comes, the cars and the telephones and the gadgets will be OUT and the poor devils of Egypt will be right back where they always have been under SOME BODY ELSE'S thumb. States, Great Britain and France are committed to its defense. A Communist attempt to seize West Berlin could conceivably lead to war with Soviet Russia. Hong Kong, a British crown colony, is an island of about 32 square miles in area at the mouth of the Pearl river. Britain also holds 3V4 square miles of the Kowloon peninsula on the Chinese mainland. Hong Kong is surrounded, on one side by Communist China and China would like to have it. Britain is committed to defend it against any attack. That the Communists could take it can hardly te doubted. But an at tempt might start a great war. One reason why the Reds have let it alone is that it is a valu able outlet and inlet for foreign trade. Portuguese Macoa, only six Quotes From the Hewo By UNITED PRESS Washington Vice President Nixon, in saying President Eisen hower is perfectly able to make any decisions that might have to be made: "Any major problem on which the President alone can ct can be put to him. We see no decision that needs to be made . . . that would be in any way injurious to his health." Chicago Earl D. Eisenhower, the President's brother. o lee ing of the Chief Executive's illness: "By the sound of it, I don't believe it's too serious sothirw like his first (heart), attack." Boston Dr. Paul Dudley White, the heart specialist called in after Eisenhower's heart seizure two years ago, in saying h hj& not been contacted about the attack: "If my services were needed, I would expect to be inform. The President has competent physicians in Washington." " Washington Secretary of State Dulles, in saying that his first meeting with King Mohammed V of Morocco ent verf) T11: "It was a preliminary, friendly review of problems of mutual concern." o Washington Retired Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, In gyin Russia is certainly ahead of the United States in long-range bal listic missiles: "There is no room for complacency. We must sacrifice mor," Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the rams and addresc of the writs-, 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. Friendly Medford To the Editor: Being almost newcomers in Medford we lived here for a year, nearly six years ago I would like to re lieve your mind on your editor ial "Going Calling." As far as we are concerned, "Calling" has not suffered from TV or anything else. We have been here only two weeks and my neighbors have called and brought their children to meet mine. In fact I've found it dif ficult to get my unpacking done, because of the friendliness of the people here, and the un packing can glady wait for all the neighbors who will take time out of their busy lives to wel come a newcomer. For six years we have put our efforts into returning here be cause of the friendliness and neighborliness of the people of Medford. Ann J. Lynch 1525 Lenora dr. Medford, Ore. Weed Killing Doves To the Editor: Studies of the food habits of doves made in various localities show that it is one of the best bird friends of the farmer for it eats thousands of weed seeds every day. In vestigations made by the Biologi cal Survey (U. S. Dept. of Agri culture) of the food of tne aove prove this bird to be of incalcu able value. Of the grain eaten, most of it was wasted grain taken from fields after harvest or from roads and stockyards in summer. The principal and almost con stant diet, however, is the seed of weeds and shows very little variation during any month. The examination of the contents of the stomachs of three doves showed 23,100 weed seeds. Is there a farmer in the land who would not welcome as a friend the man who would offer to up root and kill 23,100 weeds? Yet, because the doves go about sil ently and unobtrusively, making no loud boasts about the good they do, they are thought of little or no value. In our valley this harmless CONFIDENCE For over 22 years we have endeavored to merit t your confidence, ana your continued approval C. M. Litwiller of our efforts is most gratifying! With all our interests 100 local, and with charges that are exception ally moderate, we confidently assume the next decade of service to and for the Rogue River valley. LITWILLER ISS Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close square miles in area, lies across the Pearl river estuary from Hong Kong. Red China would like to have it, too, but as in the instance of Hong Kong, has let it alone. Portuguese Goa lies on the West coast of the Indian peninsu la. It and the islets and other coastal territory held by Portu gal occupy 1,537 square miles. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh ru wants it badly. Only Tuesday the World- Court at the Hague, Netherlands, decided over In dia's objection to hear a plea by Portgual to rule against any Indian claim to it. The countries which surround the world's enclaves want no foreign country to hold a foot hold on their territory. Despite any questions of rights or wronj it looks as if the day of th en clave is passing. and gentle creature i consid ered a game bird fnd is 'Shot during part of tht year. Farm ers should not permit anyone to kill on their lands birds that an nually destroy tons of seeds of many noxious plants. It is a mat ter of dollars and cents to th farmer and its value consists in its weed destroying ctivie and not in the few ounces of food it may furnish. . IDA G. KEITHS Pacific Highvay, South, Medford, Ori. CHEBAB BAWKKD Damascus, Syria ( Leb anese Director of Security Farid Chebab has been banned from Syria on government orders, in formed sources said today. The sources said 'the government al leges that Chebab "encourages hostile anti-Syrian elements in Labanon." EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRl SP 2-2333 POLICE SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 A DIVISION 90 PACIFVC flMMCE PACIFIC, DUSTQIAIrT" U S. CENTRAL V Daly's U-Drife iiedford Airport Mrs. LitwiJIer v. 'vwa ?7m ? "It is better to know us and not need us. than to need us and not know us."