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Newspaper Page Texto FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ktTRIBUXS "Xveryon tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except 3aturtay by MEDFORD PRINTTN-n CO 87-39 North Fir St. Phone 2-511 CERAU3 LATHAM Business Manager jah. ''' J K Mamfra? tell tor ZARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN TeleKfapn Editor I o.ivrLrtKu jtw tn boons taitor LJVK ST ARCHER Society Editor 'ALE E RICKS ON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Cntered as second class matter at Medfotrd Oregon, under Act ef March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mail Tn A .J.. - n Q- 1 Daily and Sunday One year SIVOO Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 ounaay umy un year S4.2U Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point ocuonTiue. ooia miu. fnoemx. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent Daily and Sunday One year S18.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 JO virrier ana ueaiers iuc per copy ah 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 Q 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. B.C. NEWSFAPEK PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOIlAi V ! ASSOCrA'ltN J Flight o' Time Medford Tfnd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 18. 1947 (Thursday) Police report two short-change artists in Ashland successfully work at least three local cafes. From Arthur Perry'g Ye Smudge Pot column: "A move ment is afoot to run Henry Wal lace, the little pig killer, for president on a third party ticket next year." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 18. 1937 (Sunday) "Work will start in spring on enlargement of building for Medford branch of the U.S. Na tional bank of Portland at Main st. and Central ave. A minimum of $30,000 re: quested by American Red Cross for the relief of 1,500 families made homeless by recent floods in northern California accord ing to George T. Frey, chairman of the Jackson county chapter. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 18. 1927 (Sunday) City Electrical Inspector Har ry) Rinabarger warns citizens to avoid using candles on Christ mas trees and to purchase elec tric lights instead. Pinnacle packing plant to ex pand headquarters with a 75 by 75 foot addition. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1917 (Tuesday) At least 400 members have signed in Medford for the Ameri can Red Cross. From local and personal col umn: "The home guard move ment is reviving all over the United States and in various parts of Oregon companies of men beyond military age are being formed." fWhat's Your I.Q.7 Nine or tea correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. "Buffet". The accent is on the second csyllable means what? 2. Bible: "Unto you is para dise opened." Is this from the Old Testament, Apocrypha, or the New Testament? f . What is the English trans lation of the name. Puerto Rico? Gifts for the 20th wedding anniversary should be made of tin, china, or wood? 5. Name the fruit that has the highest food value per pound. 6. Is pure lead normally hard, soft, or liquid metal? O 7. Is jade harder than a dia mond or flint? 8. Under the Jewish mode of reckon g, does the eve of a holiday begin at sunset or mid CD night? 9. Leif Erikson was the inven tor of the first submarine, a Norse explorer, or a Swedish Scientist? 10. Is Soccer a French, Eng lish, or a Dutch game? Answers: 1. A sideboard. 2. Apocrypha. 3. "Rich port." 4. China. 5. Avocados (1200 calories per pound). S. Soft. 7. No. 8. Sun set. 9. Norse Explorer. 10. Eng MAIL TRIBUNE Pride and Jackson county now tion home m the state of county. It is a cause for accomplished. The work has been the accusations from some people who have little under standing of its purposes, it is trying to accomplish. The best explanation of what a detention home is, and does, and what more is needed, is contained in the remarks made last Sunday at the dedication by Judge William S. Fort, who handles juvenile matters for the Lane county circuit court. DECAUSE of its timeliness and importance, his talk is reproduced here, "An occasion of this pride and satisfaction. Pride on the part of the com munity because the construction of this building testi fies to the reality df its interest in the problems of its delinquent and dependent youth. And satisfaction on the part of many individuals whose untiring efforts over a long period of time of this building a reality. "The building itself will be an inspiration to the personnel of the juvenile for the carrying on of the which is daily required of them. It is an awareness, too, of the fact that the juvenile phase of the work of the court is different from that which the public has come to consider as the job of the court. "Normally, the circuit with the problem of adjudication. In the juvenile Dhase. however, the adiudication as to whether a child be delinquent or dependent is not the termina tion of the responsibility of the court, but rather a recognition that the responsibility has only just begun. The court has a continuing duty and responsibility both to the child and to the "TJEnATTSF, .Taclcsnn r.ountv now has a mvenile lx litCliliy Ul VVIlltil lit tail vvcu JJC puuu, uuio not follow that its responsibility toward delinquent and dependent youth has been taken care of. There are a multitude of questions which the people must ask themselves and to which ultimately a satisfactory answer must be given. Such questions as : "Do you have adequate personnel to operate the department including this building? "Do the police agencies, the welfare department, the health department, the medical society, the bar association, the private agencies such as the YMCA, the Boy and Girl Scouts and the Parent-Teacher asso ciations, and the district attorney's office understand their relationship with the Does the juvenile department understand its rela tionship with each . of these agencies? "And are these agencies adequately staffed and equipped to discharge their responsibilities? - "I SUGGEST that this building is to the juvenile problem what a hospital is to the health problem. Like a hospital, the services which will be rendered here will be in the area of cure, rather than preven tion in its true meaning of immunization. "Neither the building nor the department can be devoted, save to a very limited degree, to preven tion in its true sense. This distinction between preven tion and cure is of great importance. "Juvenile delinquency and dependency arise out of many causes. Constructive action in the field of prevention is not possible unless the community understands these causes and takes constructive steps to cope with them. "Why in the span of a very few years do we sud denly find we have a serious, widespread juvenile problem in America? Are people today any different than they were 100 years ago? THERE are several important factors. Among them are: "1. The sociological changes accompanying the shift from a predominantly rural to an overwhelm ingly urban society; and a decrease in the size and importance of the family as a unit. "2. Working mothers. "3. The "dull normal" child, and all the problems associated with their schooling and development. "4. The rise in adult crime, and its effect on juveniles. "5. The strains which mental illness and serious emotional instability introduce into the home. ' "6. The motor car, the greatest source of juvenile crime, in the form of car thefts, stealing gas, car parts, and the like, and the instrument without which many juvenile offenses would not be committed. "7. Divorce and broken homes. ''T'HE factors which have been mentioned have all 1 become effective within the past 15 to 20 years. There are other causative factors which are still very much alive. One such is alcoholism. Sexual urges have not changed. Sheer brutality is still a part of some men's makeup. One could enumerate many more. "All of these factors, old and new, combine to present a great and continuing challenge. It will not be quickly solved, for some of them will always be with us, and new ones will appear. Sound solutions will be found for most, if not all of them, only at the community level. "It is apparent from the existence of this building that the people of Jackson county are indeed mindful of the problem. They have already accepted the challenge. "I feel sure that your youth will be better served than will those in many, many communities, because of the spirit, the intelligence, and the interest to which this building so eloquently testifies. May God speed you in your work." E.A. Wednesday, December 18, 1937 a Challenge has the best juvenile deten Oregon outside Multnomah pride that the job has been basis for jibes and even and little concern for what somewhat condensed : nature is properly one for have made the construction department and to the court difficult and exacting task court is concerned only community. j - . juvenile department? 1 yoU HAVE NO BUSIES SACK W5 UIFF&Tf I WOKK&&- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the rvame and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances.the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves tie right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Crater Lake Missiles To the Editor: Crater Lake National Park can easily be made into an ideal site for launching test rockets. It has combined desirable features which cannot be matched any where else in the U.S. The surface of the lake is over 6,000 feet in elevation, which, to rocket engineers, is a valuable asset. The higher the site, the less fuel required to get out of the dense and higher-resistant atmosphere. The launchings from high-flying balloons duly ex emplify the experts' considered worth, of every elevated foot. The area is gifted with con stantly clean air because it is surrounded by 20 or more miles of tall timber. Coastal Florida and White Sands, N.M., are often plagued by fine sand stirred up by moderate winds. This sand sifts into delicate rock et parts unless costly precautions are taken. The lake surface rarely has any wind and visibly indicates this feature by its usual mirror surface. Some launching at pres ent sites have been repeatedly delayed because of surface wind conditions which, as yet, seem to be a hazard to initial control. Now these big birds weigh many tons,, and starting of mo mentum is obtained at a precious sacrifice in fuel. Why don't we copy from the roller-coasters and start our launchings down hill? Crater lake is rimmed by high bluffs. Inclined ledges could be cut along these bluffs and steel rails then be laid to produce a smooth railway for the rocket roller-coasters. The lofting sec tion of the railway could be in clined from the lake to the sum mit of Mt. Scott which is about 3,000 feet above the east side of the lake. For rockets so designed that they must be launched vertical ly, the steep bluffs can be an ideal support for vertical steel guides. The cold deep water of the lake could be a convenient place to store some of the rocket fuels. Some of these fuels, such as li quid oxygen, fare best when stored under stable conditions of temperature and pressure. It is almost needless to now state that the lake itself would afford ideal conditions for test launchings from floating or under-water pads. The water is pure and so would have little corrosive effect on critical parts. For all-around firings, the geo graphical location can hardly be matched. To the southeast there is over 1,500 miles of sparsely settled land continuing on to the southeast large urban area can be missed. With the cooperation of Can ada, firings can be fanned out in any northerly direction to test the effectiveness of our recently- completed "Distant Early Warn ing" line. The puny efforts of the keep ers of these Strang birds can barely deface the beauty of the lake. Now don't take this chatter seriously, for even a cuckoo knows better than to try for the moon by rolling down hill but I don't. H. Downes 1041 Southwest K St. Grants Pass, Ore. Washington Jobless Said To Total 58,643 Olympia (IP) Insured un employment climbed 4,886 in Washington last week as inclem ent weather curtailed outdoor activities, the State Employment Security Department reported Tuesday. The new idlenesses, caused primarily by seasonal layoffs in construction and logging, brought total unemployment to 58,643. Scientists have decided that the zebra is a light-colored ani mal witff dark stripes not a dark one with light stripes. HEf&.tfXJNG WHAT? Weil, Chicory Blooms To the Editor: Men-folk are not all-wise. Here's a masculine fraility item: Early one morning, writer motored to one of his ranches. More than 10 miles of the road were beautiful with chicory's blue blooms. Same stimulated memories of introduc tion of this European plant into California. This in pioneer days, when our first levees were built by mulepowered Fresno scrap ers. (No one then dreamed of a 250-foot-boom dredger, its clam shell biting a ton of earth.) San Francisco's French colony want ed chicory to mix with their coffee. One riverbank rancher planted experimentally. His ranch became "The Chicory Ranch." This alien became a roadside weed. It displaced na tive wild flowers. Thus, com plete displacement of native flora by this one outlander. In yesteryear's Sacramento, an attorney was Scottishly-thrifty. He yielded, however, to his wife's entreaties for money for a party. Discussing costs, she mentioned floral decorations. He said: "We can save THAT ex pense. I'll get something to star tle your guests." He decorated their home beautifully with arm fuls of blue chicory blooms. Bio logically illiterate, he did not grasp its flowers close at noon. At luncheon time, it was too late to substitute from the flor ist's. That mansion contained vases of wiry, stiff ugly stems, with withered, colorless blooms. C. M. Goethe, Seventh and J Sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Grateful For Dog To the Editor: No doubt news paper advertising is one of the greatest blessings of our times Three months ago I was for tunate enough to read an ad in this paper, offering German shepard dogs for sale. It gave a Central Point telephone number. Upon calling the number I con tacted Mrs. Herndon, owner of the kennel. I visited the home after having made an appoint ment with Mrs. Herndon. When I arrived I was immediately aware of the immaculate looking ken nel and the truly beautiful pups inside the kennel. I purchased one of the fe males and took it home. Ever since then it has been a constant source of pride and joy to watch Shela grow into maturity Her splendid physique and magnificent carriage are some thing to behold, as though she wanted ,all the world to know that she was prrjud of her an cestry. I wouldn't part with Shela for any amount of money. I sincerely wish v Mrs. Hern don the success she so richly deserves for raising such beau tiful dogs. Capt. H. C. F. Beyer, Star Rt. 3 Yreka, Calif. " . Ben-Gurion Set on West Germany Ties Jerusalem, Israel (IP) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion is so set on establishing diplomatic relations with West Germany he will throw the leftists out of his cabinet if necessary, informed sources said today. Ben-Gurion averted an immed iate cabinet crisis by backing down Tuesday on plans to send an emissary to negotiate diplo matic relations with Bonn. The Prime Minister has fa vored this as a way to strengthen Israel's ties with the North At lantic Treaty Organization. Left wingers claim it would endanger Israel's chances of pro moting friendship with the Com munis bloc. Informed sources said Ben Gurion plans to renew his cam paign at the earliest opportunity and wil if necessary, oust the left-wing (Mapam and Ahduta voda) parties from his coalition cabinet to achieve diplomatic re lations with Bonn. Adenauer At NATO; By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent West German Chancelor Kon rad Adenauer has emerged as the Key man at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Pans. It is clear that no big de cisions can be made at the 15 nation confer e n c e without Adenauer's full approval. The ramrod straight old man he will Cbarles McCann be 82 years old on Jan. 9 is the most forceful figure at the con ference table. And he speaks for Europe's most prosperous, and potentially most powerful country. Adenauer set the tone for the NATO meeting right at its start. President Eisenhower and Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les had gone to Paris thinking of the establishment of missile bases in Western Europe as the chief issue. Inserts New Question But. Adenauer put first the question of trying to find out just what measure of sincerity, if any, there may be in Soviet Russia's "peace offensive" the letters which Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin addressed, in advance In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Some interesting figures: The world's population is in creasing at the rate of 123 thou sand persons PER DAY. This is four times as fast as world population growth in the 17th and 18th centuries and twice as fast as world growth of population in the past 100 years. Modern medical and health measures have cut DEATH RATES, and this, rather than in creased birth rates, is the rea son for the burgeoning of world population. rpHESE figures are vouched for A by a private research group, the Population Reference Bureau which says the speed-up in pop ulation is threatening the eco nomic future of UNDERDEVEL OPED nations. Why? The answer Is rather simple. These underdeveloped nations (of which India is an outstanding example) can't produce food as fast as they are producing PEO PLE. IF THOMAS ROBERT MAL THUS, who was born in the middle 1700's, is sitting some where up on a cloud and listen ing to some kind of interspacial radio, he must be saying "I told you so." In his Essay on the Principle of Population (published in 1798) Malthus contended that popula tions increase more rapidly than food supplies. So, he claimed, there will always be more people in the world than can be fed. and wars and disease will be neces sary to kill off the extra popula tion. IN HIS day, Malthus' gloomy theory seemed rather reason able. But In Malthus' day, the United States of America and its great neighbor to the north the Domin ion of Canada, hadn't hit their stride. Both were then weak and struggling little colonies. Their way of life was then more or less the way of life of the Old World. Since then, they have devel oped a way of life of their own. In the United States and Canada of TODAY, populations are grow ing EXPLOSIVELY. But in the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada there is no longer any fear of starvation based upon inability to produce enough food to maintain our bur geoning populations. Our big problem is how to get our big food surpluses CON SUMED. Our big job is to increase pro ductive industry to the point where our industrial workers will be able to consume the abun dance of food that our farms are capable of producing. No longer are Americans and Canadians compelled to face the specter of ultimate starvation UNLESS WARS AND DISEASE CARRY OFF THE POPULA TION before too rapid growth exhausts the food supply. ALL this has come about be ranso nf h Ampriron onrl Canadian way of life. t It will do us no harm to re member that in this cold war we are now engaged in this way of life of ours is at stake. If the communists win, OUR way of life will be gone. (HEMORRHOIDS) 47 YEARS of successful practice in the treatment of rectal, colon and stomach disorders. NO HOSPITAL OPERATION FOR INFORMATION Write or coll for our fm descriptive booklet. Absolutely no obligation. Practice limited to Proctology Physiotherapists Chiropractic Physiciora 2026 N. E. Sandy Boulevard Phone BE 2-3918 Portland 12. Oregon V Emerging as Key Man Missile Solution Seen of the NATO meeting, to its lead ers and to the leaders of all coun tries which belong to the United Nations. Adenauer suggested that the NATO countries use normal dip lomatic channels to sound out the Soviet government on any specific ideas it might have for East-West talks to ease the cold war tension. Dispatches from Paris soon began to say that an agreement along the lines of Adenauer's proposal was being worked out. Adenauer said in his speech at the opening business meeting that, pending any possible agree ment with Russia, the Allies must be equipped with ad vanced weapons equalling those of our potential enemy." The United States wants to es tablish in western European countries bases for interconti nental range ballistic missiles and stock them with missiles. An Agreement On Missiles Thf Paris Hicrintnl-iiac cor enmo kind of an agreement on missiles Editorial Comment WATER RESOURCES Last week the Water Re sources Board held hearings in the Rogue River basin, at Med ford and Grants Pass. This has long been an ai-ea of sharp con troversy. -The conflicting inter ests include fishermen who re gard the Rogue as prime fishing water whose attractions are a great economic asset, irrigation ists who want more water for thirsty acres, advocates of flood control who point to ravaging floods in the Grants Pass section of the river, industrialists and miners who would like to use river water for their operation. The Reclamation Service spent several years making surveys of the basin, and came up with aler nate plans for development. The opposition, especially of conser vationists, was so strong that Sec retary Oscar Chapman of the Interior Department, put them on the shelf. The bad floods of two years ago led to appeals for relief so the Corps of Engi neers undertook studies for flood control and water use. Its report will be ready in 1958. Judging by newspaper reports the hearings at Medford and Grants Pass were not as acri monious as in the past. Clearly the 1955 flood when trout and steelhead were left stranded by the thousands on the upland has tempered the resistance of the fishing interests to dams across the Upper Rogue. Testi mony was offered too of im proved fishing on other streams because of the release of stored water in seasons of shortage of flow. Spur to this inquiry was the desire of those interested in in dustrial development to remove the ban to use of the river for such a purpose. Here the con cern was not only over diversion of water but possible pollution of the river through the return flow from industry. Presumably the Water Re sources Board will wait for the report of the Corps and then draft its own recommendations, seeking to reconcile as best it can the conflict over resource conservation in the Rogue basin. Having been an early advocate of such a state agency it is grati fying to this writer to see it be gin to function as a nonpartisan body, soliciting the opinions of informed persons and interested groups, but making its deter mination on the basis of the long i term, broad public interest. Its testing will come of course when ; it makes its determinations, but it is my hope and expectation that they will be wise and con structive. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Funds. Raised for Sucker Creek Election Cace Junction A goal of $3, 000 for a special election for the Illinois Valley Sucker Creek Ir rigation project has been reached. A contribution of $200 by the Illinois Valley Chamber of Com merce was announced Thursday, bringing the total donations for the Chamber to $500. Attorneys are now working on land descriptions. The election will probable be held early next year. jsBsjeemwi) CAREFUL ATTENTION to the individual dictates of every faith, the modern facil ities of Lirwiller's Mt. View Chapel and Funeral Home, and rates kept consistently low, are some of the reasons C. M. Litwiller so many prefer to call MU 5-4541 in time of need! Weddings by Appointment LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close rrr. " - tiVi - is being worked out. But undoubtedly the sounding out of Russia will come first in carrying out of any agreement. Adenauer shares the misgiv ings of some of the smaller NATO allies on the advisability of establishing bases equipped with weapons which would be used if a big-scale nuclear war broke out. Russia has warned re peatedly that these bases would be prime targets. Behind Adenauer's line of pol icy in the Paris meeting is his No. 1 objective in life the re unification of Germany. Obviously, reunification lies far in the future. Russia will not, in fact it can not, agree to reuni fication until the whole JSurope an picture has changedTo Rus sia, Communist East Germany is both a springboard for an inva sion of western Europe and a buffer against an invasion of Eastern Europe. But every move that Adenauer makes in foreign affairs is made with eventual reunification in mind. ADLAI STAYS HOME Adlai Stevenson has closed out his work as consultant with the state department on inter national affairs. He was invited by President Eisenhower to go to Paris for the NATO meeting, but declined. He was not in full accord with some of the ideas to be offered and didn't ant to jeopardize his own freedom of speech. Some writers have expressed the view that Stevenson should have gone, or that the Presi dent should have been more in sistent on his gqjng. We com mend Stevenson for his attitude. He has given Mr. Dulles the benefit of his viewsi but as the leader of the party out of pow er he can't become just & ser vant of the administration. The opposition party has the duty of criticising programs and pol-O icies of the party in powtr; and its leaders should not compro mise their independence The situation is not up im mediately grave as to all for a coalition government. -Ore- O gon Statesman, Salewn. Dr. Woodell Attendj Political Confcroneo Ashland Dr. Marshall Ifoo dell, professor of social Science at Southern Oregon college find director of the Oregon Citizen ship clearinghouse, recently at tended a political science confer ence for college instructor sseasiae. The two-day conference was based on the theme, "Inside Ore gon Politics." Major party and legislative leaders, public rela tion consultants and political writers of the major newspapers attended, according to Dr. Woodell. The Citizenship clearinghouse for Oregon sponsored the De cember conference. It is a non profit corporation with funds toO promote interest in and partici pation in government and gov ernmental activities. The clear inghouse sponsors conferences, legislative seminars and other ac tivities. Present plans are for a legislative seminar for college students similar to last year's project where students with their adviser visited the legisla ture for several days. State Republicans Call for Meetings Salem HP) A program to bring all county central commit tees to full strength before March 7, 1958, when all candi dates will have filed for office was announced today by Jam0 F. Short, Salem, Republican state chairman. Short requested all county chairmen to call a central com mittee meeting as soon as pos sible to discuss the program and initial action. Included are tentative plans to hold Republican conventions in all Oregon counties some time early next year. "No final decision on the scheduling oi conventions has been made," Short said, "but we are exploring the possibilities." Mrs. Litwiller Vt.7-.w . t v. iLV ami i -- iW7 m ;Wri' w -mm iiv.vv.;.. dm nil iiTT imtMmi "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."