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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Dfuku UNI "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Publishes Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO J7-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W EUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GCRALO LATHAM Business Manages ERIC ALLEN JR Maii'ii" Editor EARL B ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, leietfraon 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 of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance-. Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year 9420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rosrue River. Talrat and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 118 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 JO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Eress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, oe- Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta () Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOIlAi assocU'i4n C.iiir,na,,.itmii Fligfef o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 (years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Ocf. 13, 1947 (Friday) Investigators from the state fire marshal's office in Salem are In Medford checking reports of a possible water failure in con nection with the blaze that de- ifrnvpf Fir Vwin 7? Trnrnn's home at 1913 Hillcrest rd. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; "Blizzards, ice and snow slowed down auto ists in the mountainous area. In the semi-flat country the same elements only made them go faster." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 13. 1937 (Monday) Business session of annual dis trict conference of the American Legion held at Medford hotel. Four special trains leave Med ford district carrying eighth corps area CCC men to Texas in a general shift on companies to replace eighth corps men with fifth corps area companies. a vr tip rr Dec. 13, 1927 (Tuesday) The state game board recently shipped 22 wild turkeys to the Pat Swayne ranch on the Apple . gate In hopes the birds will wander into the wilderness. A committee has made ar rangements with the forest ser vice to secure a large fir tree to transplant in the city for a live Christmas tree. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 13. 1917 (Thursday) The rush of young men of draft age to enlist before the time limit for voluntary enlist ment expired is over, local re- ' cruiting sergeants say. From local and personal col umn: "The schools of Talent . have been ordered closed for two weeks by County Physician T. J. Malmgren because of an epi demic of measles m the town O What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is exceUent: five or six Is good. 1. Did juvenile delinquency decrease or increase during World War II? 2. Bible: Did the betrayal of Jesus take place before or after midnight? 3. Correct the following: "Jim is the best of the two men." 4. In which island group, madeOfamous in World War II, is Bougainville? 5. Which two cities are re ferred to in the "Tale of Two Cities"? 6. What kind of tree grows from an acorn? 7. Name the famous Mace donian King, who was born in Europe, died in Asia and was buried in Africa? 8. In what part of England north, south, east or west is Cornwall? 9. Sound does or does not travel through a vacuum? 10. Complete the following saying: "Many a true word is spoken in ." Answers: 1. Increase. 2. After midnight. 3. "Jim Is the better of the two men." 4. The Solo mons. 5. London and Paris. 6. Oak. 7. Alexander the Great. 8. West. 9. Does not.' 10. Jest. 5 Yokota AFB, Japan OP) A U.S. Air Force C47 transport crashed and burned near Tokyo Thursday, killing all five persons boaxd. 1 MAIL TRIBUNE The "Over The Eagles Lodge has launched a nation-wide effort to gather signatures on petitions supporting its "Jobs After 40" campaign. Several such petitions are being circulated locally, with considerable success. The idea behind the Eagles' project is to get at the waste, the discrimination, and the essential stupidity of companies which refuse to hire men and women because they are past 35 or 40 or 45 and for no other reason. Specifically, the campaign is to support a pro posed federal law, prohibiting such discrimination. "IHETHEPw or not such legislation passes, the atten tion which will come to the problem is all to the good. For most of the reasons given by companies for their failure to hire older workers have, upon examination, been shown to be fallacies. For instance : The National Industrial Council reports that work ers of 40 or more are equal or superior to younger workers in many ways. The Bureau of Labor Statis tics says older workers have better records for dependability, a lower accident rate, and greater skill. A survey conducted by the University of Illinois shows that workers in the older age brackets get along well with other employees. "THERE is one aspect to the situation, entirely aside " from the personal feelings of the unhappy older workers themselves, and the personal tragedies which can result. This is the nation's growing need for skilled manpower. Despite temporary periods of unemployment, such as the minor one which the nation is undergoing today, economists are pretty well in agreement that before too many more years there will be more jobs than can be filled with men and women between the ages of 20 and 40. One figure quoted recently indicates that in the next eight years, some seven million more workers will be needed a total which cannot be supplied by the high school and college graduates of that period. As a result, all sources of skilled workers will be necessary including the handicapped, more women, and certainly those in the age brackets over 40. THE movement to have congress enact such legisla- tion was well summed up recently by Sylvia Porter, nationally-known writer on business and finance. She said: "No law can solve the problem of the over-40 worker who finds himself back on the job market. But a congres , sional move of this sort could do an immense amount of good by compelling firms which do business with the gov ernment and that includes most of our big ones to re vise their employment policies. Few, if any, will be able to justify them. - "The cruelty, the senselessness, the fantastic waste, the colossal stupidity of our industry's age barriers defy reason. This indication that congress is getting ready to tackle the issue is a bright spot in the grim picture." E.A. Notes and Dials The ubiquitous telephone! And how dependent we Americans have become on it, or them. One is reminded of this by a story from London that, in England, use of the telephone is decreasing, and letter writing is increasing. The story says the average person gets more than twice as many pieces of mail each day as he does telephone calls. And his reaction, if and when the instrument rings, is "There goes that thing again. If it's for me, tell them to drop me a note." JMAYBE this is what we need. Maybe it is the tele- phone which causes Americans generally to rush around too fast, try to do too many things, get infor mation too swiftly to be digested. The increased sales of liquor and tranquilizers may, after all, be tied to America's dependence on Alexander Graham Bell's achievement. But we could not do without it. Or so we tell ourselves. It sits on the desk at the office, and the moment a thought strikes, one picks up the phone and conveys the thought to the intended victim. THE reporter, Ernie Hill of the Chicago Daily News, " says that one reason for the lack of popularity for the telephone in England is that the proper English man does not like to be forced to make snap decisions. "Drop me a note about it," he'll say,, and then have a chance to think the problem over before com mitting himself. This has its advantages. It is surely a more lei surely pace. And one can think of it wistfully as the desk telephone continues to jangle out the daily quota. But would we like it? Probably not. We'd miss the knowledge that we can get in touch with any one of a couple of thousand people at the twist of the dial. E.A. Bloodmobile Success Despite the cold, foggy weather; despite a past history of frequent failures to meet the quota; and rather to the happy surprise of everyone involved, the Red Cross Bloodmobile this week received more blood than the "quota" called for. Perhaps it is the Christmas season. Or perhaps the vital need for adequate supplies of blood is finally getting home to people. Whatever the reason, those donors who made the visit a success are to be com mended, and others who are able to give blood might well take this example as something to remember the next time the Red Cross calls for blood. E.A. Friday, December 13. 1957 40" Problem 'lAfe'RE JUST WLLItf' TIME 'TIL MYM&H 0uVS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES. Matter of Fact by Joseph aisop THE UGLIEST CHOICE Beirut, Lebanon The Krem lin has already secretly prom ised to champion the Arab cause against Israel. If the Soviets keep this prom ise, the Amer ican policy makers will be a u t omatically faced with just about the ugli e s t choice in the history of American for eign relations. Joseph aisod -c or the long run, there are even graver facts than the crisis of confidence in the Western Alliance. The choice that probably lies ahead is so ugly because years of fecklessness and flabbiness have left the Western powers squarely over a barrel in the Middle East. If the Soviets pro pose the effective destruction of the state of Israel and we op pose Israel's destruction, the main result will almost surely be the progressive destruction of every Western vital interest in the Arab lands. The trouble is that the Krem lin's maneuver will catch all the friendly Arab governments be tween their own pro-Western policy and the incandescent anti Israeli passions of their peoples. These governments in Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and else where may accept the Kremlin's championship. Indeed, the Sau dis are already preparing to do so. Yet their Western associa tions will still tend to impair their positions in a fatal way, if the West is defending Israel while the Kremlin attacks it. "THIS, of course, is the Krem - lin's real purpose. The prom ised championship of the Arabs against Israel is only a lever, as it were. The lever is not intend ed to bring down Israel. It is in tended to bring down the Arab governments friendly to the West, and to replace them with new governments on the Syrian model. This crisis that looms ahead will be all the more dangerous, moreover, because it will arise in a way that will enormously encourage casuistry and self delusion. To understand why this is so, past history must be shortly recapitulated. In brief, the frontiers laid down in the United Nations Pal estine resolution of 1947 seem to have been traced in a lunatic asylum. They partitioned pales tine into little Arab bits and little Jewish pieces. The Arabs went to war to prevent parti tion. They were badly beaten, and the war ended with the Is raelis holding most of the bits of Palestine that the U.N. had allotted to the Arabs. Since then, "a return to the U.N. frontiers of 1947" has be come the prime Arab demand. It is just this demand that the Soviets have promised to sup port. This may seem legal and even reasonable, since what ap pears to be involved is merely the enforcement of the original U.N. resolution ' setting up a Jewish state. BUT - in the first place, some thing like a million and a half Jewish immigrants have poured into Palestine since 1948. Every inch of the territory Is rael now holds is already filled to overflowing. Thus a return to the 1947 frontiers will only aid the million tragic Arab refugees from Palestine, at the expense of creating a million or more equally tragic Jewish refugees. In the second place, a return to these lunatic frontiers will mean the effective end of Israel as a state. This is really why the Arabs want it. In these grim practical cir cumstances, a very large major ity of the American diplomats in Arab lands favor a "compro mise" policy. They recognize that an actual return to the 1947 frontiers is not feasible. But they still would like to pacify the Arabs by offering them fair ly large chunks of what is now Israeli territory. This is the sort of thing that Secretary of State Dulles and Sir Anthony Eden had in mind a couple of years ago, when they tried long and fruitlessly to ne gotiate a settlement of the Pal estine question with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. It did not work then. It is even less likely to work now, for a transparent ly obvious reason. TF WE offer the Arabs one - pound of Israeli flesh, the So viets will offer them two pounds. If we offer two, the So viets will offer three. And so it will go.- Unless we are in fact prepared to join the Soviets in advocating the effective elim ination of the state of Israel from the world map, we cannot hope to win this kind of bid ding competition for Arab favor. Since we cannot conceivably go so far, it will be better not to enter the bidding competition at all. This does not mean there are no measures which can be tak en and should be taken to soften the injustice that has been done to the Palestinian Arabs. There should be local, piecemeal terri torial readjustments to reunite the cruelly divided Arab fron tier villages. There should be a bold program for the refugees, including an offer of repatria tion, ample compensation and opportunities to find new homes. There should be a hard and fast guarantee to all the Arabs that the Israelis will not be permitted to extend their borders by another inch. But there is no use supposing that these things which can be done and should be done will in any way satisfy the Arabs. There is no way to satify the Arabs except by Israel's effec tive destruction. So the alterna tive of "compromise" is ruled out, and the question still re mains whether anything can be done to safeguard Western vital interests in the Middle East, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Good Will To the Editor: As we contem plate on Yuletide we invariably link it with good will. Speaking of good will in its own rights, it could be discernible at any time of the year, but when it's in evi dence 312 days of the year it surely deserves a good portion of credit. This statement is not exag gerated one speck. It concerns a certain Medford Mail Tribune newspaper boy (Melvin Hunt) who has given what I'd term ex treme consideration to his cus tomers, by making sure their newspaper can be picked up right beside their door. Over and over I've observed he will get off his bike and walk a good rfteny steps to be sure the paper is in easy reach. In my estima tion that is giving of one's self. Besides he is always courteous when spoken to. I feel confident this could ap ply to all the M-T newspaper carriers. It seems safe to say one could predict the future of boys of that caliber, as it coincides with what we read about great men who started as conscien tious newspaper boys like Mel vin Hunt. I sincerely hope they all have a Happy Christmas. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford, Ore. The World Is Mine To the Editor: Today upon a bus I saw a lovely Tfj&VUkuji DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. Feel Wet? Don't Fret The Village NATO Meeting Eyed Wfth Sfig Optimism; Russ Sabotage Fails By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The outlook for the big North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion meeting brightened consid- e r a b 1 y this week. Heads of government oi the 15 NATO coun tries are to meet In Paris Monday to try to strengthen their alliance against Com- Charles Mccann - munist aggres sion. Prospect for success had been growing dimmer for weeks. Complicated and controversial political and military problems, W - r" I Interest Rates Eyed As Aid in Bank Loans By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. During the past two weeks there has been much in the newspapers commending the Federal Re serve for re ducing its re discount rate from 3V6 to 3 per cent. Now you wonder how much this helps your local bank. First, let me explain just Roger w Babson what this "re duction" means. Your local bank may need temporary extra funds certain times of the year to loan to some local industries. These are those which must borrow seasonally to buy raw materials or merchandise but which are out of debt most of the year. To secure such extra funds your local bank may borrow of the nearest big city bank where it carries its main account. Upon the same principle, there are times when this big city bank may need extra funds. It then either sells government bonds or uses such government bonds as collateral to borrow from its District Federal Reserve Bank. There are 12 of these one for each of the 12 federal districts into which the U.S. is divided. Don't Expect Reduction If one of the District Federal Reserve Banks is temporarily short of funds, it borrows of the Central "Feds," located at New York and Chicago. It is the Fed eral Reserve System which has lowered the rate fr6m 3VS to 3 per cent on loans made not to your bank, or to you, but to one or more of the district banks mentioned above. These district banks, In turn, loan to the big city banks, which then may loan to your local bank. So you see it is a long time before this Vt per cent re duction filters through to your local bank, if any of it gets through. Certainly no reader can expect a reduction in local in terest rates on account of this small reduction by the Central Federal Reserve. More Deposits Needed Every reader of this column should realize that, in the long run, a bank can loan to custom ers only what it receives in de posits. When next in your local maid with golden hair; I envied her she seemed so gay and wished I were so fair. When suddenly she rose to leave, I saw her hobble down the aisle She had one foot and wore a crutch, but as she passed, a smile. Oh God, forgive me when I whine, I have two feet, the world is mine, And then I stopped to buy some ' sweets. The lad who sold them had some charm, I talked with him he said to me, "It's nice to talk with folks like you." You see he said "I'm blind." Oh God forgive me when I whine; I have two eyes, the world is mine. Then walking down the street, I saw a child with eyes- of blue. He stood and watched the others play; it seemed he knew not what to do. I stopped a moment, then I said, "Why don't you join the others dear?" 1 He looked ahead without a word and then I knew, he could not hear. Oh God forgive me when I whine, I have two ears, the world is mine! (Author Unknown) (Name on File), Medford, Ore. L at Genessea Stay Dry Just Try . . . Dairy-Smith including the establishment and control of missile bases in con tinental European countries, were on the program for solu tion in a mere three days of talks. Such developments as Soviet Russia's success with its Sput niks and the abortive test of the United States Vanguard sat ellite increased pessimism. The atmosphere started to brighten when it was announc ed that President Eisenhower would be able to attend despite his slight stroke. Then the leaders of the chief NATO countries decided to go to Paris well in advance of the opening, of the conference to talk over some of the tougher issues and try to reach agree ment on them before formal bank, ask for its last printed statement. You will quickly see that the bank's own money (shown by Capital and Surplus) is relatively small. The money which you borrow is not the bank's money, but it is your neighbors' money. When too many "neighbors" reduce their deposits, then the bank should reduce its loans. Banks, therefore, should work harder for deposits. The simplest way is to increase the interest rate on deposits. Another way is to spend more on advertising. To benefit from a higher rate on deposits or to make extra ad vertising pull, banks should "get off their high horse." Banks need lessons in public relations. Bank employees should be more courteous and be "salesmen" for their banks. They may need to keep their banks open longer hours and perhaps Friday or Saturday nights. Depositors facetiously remark that the bank charges interest just the same whether open for business or not! Other Sources of Aid Many investors who read this column noted how the stock mar ket jumped up when the Federal Reserve rate was reduced. When, however, people began to think through and see that this reduc tion would not help their com munity, the stock market fell off again. In other words, this re duction will not cause consum ers to buy more goods or manu facturers to employ more help. Therefore, wise investors are not buying more stocks now on the small reduction in interest rates by the "Fed."' The U.S. Government could, however, do three things which might help the stock market: (1) Lower the required margin which brokers are now forced to demand of speculators; (2) buy more governments from the banks, giving them more free money to loan; and (3) reduce the reserves which banks are re quired to carry. In an emergency, one or more of these could be done. However, no emergency now exists which would justify these steps. Of course, reducing interest rates has already caused bonds to go up. Get the most for your Dollar; Shop forhe BEST in performance . . . dependability. . . quality 1 raw svmjmn. " B5STV Best in Performance! new Super HORIZONTAL Chassis with extended band video amplifier for greater picture detail New "Sunshine" picture tube permits use of up to 350,000 more cycles of pic ture information for bright est, sharpest pictures in TV. 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Others repeated Russian O calls for East-West talks on cold war issues and disarmamentpro posals which already had been rejected. The letters fell flat. Their motive was so obvious that they made little impression. Indonesia steadily intensified its attempt to make TheOKether lands give up West New Guinea. It was indicated tht the gov ernment was determined to take over all Dutch interests in Indo nesia, and to force out most if not all of the 46,000 Dutch resi dents in the islands. In France bickering continued in Premier Felix Gaillard's coali tion cabinet over his anti-inflation program. Gaillard was forced to give in to Socialist demands that civil servants be q given salary increases. But Par liament approved his request for authority, to raise $238 million in new taxes. Holmes Sees Need To Change Attitude New York (IP) Gov. Robert D. Holmes of Oregon said Thurs day his state had the job of changing "wrong attitudes" re garding racial relations. Holmes, speaking at a meeting of northern governors, said "We must face tip to and immediately begin to solve our No. 1 problem which is discrimination in hous ing." The Oregon governor said "we have been doing very well and are doing better all the time, but we still have the job of chang ing wrong attitudes, a job not just for legislation but for edu cation in its largest sense.". He called upon chief execu tives of the 12 northern states represented "to speak frankly of failures and to plan programs that will move us ahead" rather than "to boast of any success with which we have eliminated discrimination in employment, education and social areas." For Oregon, he said, "there is every indication that great popu lation increase will augment the number of non-white Americans in our state. We must find ways to prevent trouble before it arises and to heal wounds be fore they appear. Our schools are already integrated. Our busi ness and cultural community is not." 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