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Newspaper Page TextO O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iveryona In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" fukUkfita Daily Except Saturday by EDFORD PRINTING CO. North Fir St Phone 3-gl41 ROBERT W HUHU Editor IB GREY Advertising Manager ?-ffi r LATHAM. Business Manager l H ADAMS Cir Editor t:CHRD JEWETT Sports Editor OI.IVE ST ARCHER Society Editor pALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three, moa. 4-25 Sunday Only One year (4-20. By Carrier In Advance Med fend. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, fchady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.60 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United VTess Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY" COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago, a. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOIIAt ASSOCtA-liN Z7 iTHiiimniiini Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 23. 1947 (Monday) " A total of 170 buildings placed on sale at Camp White by the war assets administration; in cluded are storehouses, mess halls, guard shelters and towers, administration and recreation buildings,- latrines, sheds and miscellaneous structures. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The tax muddle in Oregon indicates what the state needs is candidates for the legislature who will put up bonds they will not serve if elected." 20 YEARS AGO De. 23, 1937 (Wednesday) O Work starts on tearing down the residence bordered by South O Riverside ave., 13th st. and South Central ave. for Piggy Wiggly supermarket. "Old Saint Nick" is busy pre paring for his annual visit for children at the Salvation Army Thursday. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 23. 1927 (Friday) About 500 children attend an nual Christmas tree program at California Oregon Power com pany. Dairy problems discussed by experts from Oregon State col lege at a meeting at Ashland city hall of dairy farmers from Ash land and nearby districts. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 23. 1917 (Monday) About 1300 recruits added to local Red Cross membership as a result of recent drive in Ash land and vicinity. From local and personal O column: "An Army sergeant was taken off a train here while en route to his home for Christmas furlough after he became sick with measles, according to local medical authorities." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or 4)gnt is exceUent; five or six is good. . The Dneiper river is in Bul garia, Rumania, Soviet Russia or (Poland X 1IBLE: Who labored 14 yearf to marry a woman of his choice 8. Th name for a shrimplike Csenfoodls p n? 4. ,t the close of World War 3, Alsace-Lorraine were returned to wfct country? R. In what Chinese province Is the city of Harbin? . Where did the Wright brothers makt their first air plan test flights? 7. What is the national flower of England? .8. Correct the following: "He hadn't but one suit of clothes." 9. Wht is a "Soap Box Derby?" 10. Was William H. Steward Secretary of State under Jack son, Lincoln or McKinley. Answers: 1. Soviet Russia. 2. Jacob. 3. Prawn. 4. France. 5. Manchuria. 6. Kitiyhawk, N.C. 7. The rose. 8. "He had but one suit of clothes." 9. A race of home-built vehicles by teen-age boys and girls. 10. Lincoln. . MAIL TRIBUNE No Cause for Gloom The year 1957, somehow or other, seems to be drawing to a close almost before it got started. Do years always seem to go faster than the years before? "Time," a respected editorialist reminds us, "is neutral, indifferent to man's employment of it." So, w7hen we attempt to characterize a year as "good" or "bad," what we're really doing is describ ing whether mankind made good or bad use of the neutral and indifferent year. QN THIS basis, 1957 hardly merits a "good" rating. The quarrels of nations continued and got more acrimonious. Advantage in the cold war shifted to the Communist bloc of nations, largely because of the giant strides made by Russian scientists in the race for space. The President's illness cast a pall of gloom over the nation, not entirely dispelled by his apparently quick recovery. The booming economy began showing some thin spots. Unemployment climbed, and the panicky stock market reflected men's uncertainties. The failure of America's much -touted "Van guard" missile was a blow to our prestige, and caused such a flurry of denials, accusations, claims, counter claims and just plain, stupid comments that one wond ers if anyone knows what's going on, or why, and is inclined sometimes to doubt America's essential good health and stability. LOSER to home, the picture was somewhat better. But here, too, there were gloomy spots. The lumber market limped along all year, with prices far below those of recent levels. Several small mills closed, some of them permanently, others for varying periods of time. The ranks of those without jobs climbed. But as the end of the year neared, there were a number of more cheering developments. The lumber market began showing its first signs of stability in many months. It wasn't on the upgrade yet, but forecasts for 1958, because of increasing building activity nationwide, and other factors, were cautious ly optimistic. The orchards of the valley produced an excellent crop. Not a record-breaker, exactly, but a good one, and prices were satisfactory to good this year. The gift pack, now nearing its end, is probably the best in history. One major packer so described it, and others confirmed that their chief difficulty was in supplying the demand. IN NOVEMBER, for the second straight month, the sale of U.S. savings bonds in Jackson county ex ceeded the total for the same month the preceding year a sure sign that economic conditions are better than lots of people think them to be. This was near the end of a year where each other month was down. The voters of the Medford school district express ed their confidence in the future by overwhelmingly approving a big bond issue for construction of new school facilities. The United Medford Crusade, for the fifth straight year, exceeded its quota, and collected more than $123,000 for the support of those agencies and organi zations which do so much to maintain the morale and health of a community. After a slow start, hampered by heavy fog, Christ mas shopping in Medford took a sharp upturn, glad dening the hearts of merchants who otherwise had come through a year less good in many respects than the preceding two or three. ND what of the future? No one can predict an optimist can see signs that good things lie ahead. Irrigation water shortage problems in the three principal irrigation districts are nearing an end, as progress on their rehabilitation work, and on the Tal ent project, proceed. Valley folk are closer than ever before to agree ment on the necessity and practicability of an over-all development plan for the valley's water resources. There is hope that stumpage prices will fall, and the lumber market will pick up, enabling mills again to make a decent profit and employ more people. Better transportation is in prospect, with the con tinuing improvement of Highway 99, and the proba bility that improvement of the trans-Cascade, Lake of the Woods road, will begin soon. We see no cause for gloom about our future. E.A. Bus Company Fails Another experiment in mass transportation is fail ing, we are sorry to note. Up in Roseburg, a bus com pany has notified the city council it is going out of business after only a few months of operation. The company was organized this year to take the place of an earlier firm, that also failed. The new one made use of low-cost, low-maintenance Volkswagen buses. But even with these, patronage was not heavy enough to break even. With growing congestion in downtown areas, tran sit systems are a partial solution but only if people will patronize them. E.A. BLM May Withdraw Portland (IB A proposed withdrawal of 80 acres of pub lic land in Oregon Grazing Dis trict No. 5 in Crook county for use by the Bureau of Land Man agement as a source, of cinders for road material was announc ed today by Virgil T. Heath, Oregon State Supervisor for the bureau at Portland. The land is located about sev- ! en miles west of Prineville and is being used for grazing live Monday, December 23, 1937 it with any accuracy, but Land for Cinder Use stock. The withdrawal, if effect ed, will bar all appropriations of the land under the public land laws except mineral leases and grazing. For a period of 30 days after pubication. of the notice of pro posed withdrawal in the Fed eral register, expected shortly any interested persons may file comments for or against the proposed withdrawal with the Portland office. I 'I'M ORDEPIN'A B4LE OF HAV. Matter of Fact THE ICBM THAT ISN'T Washington When is an ICBM not an ICBM? The conumdrum is prompted by the proud Air iorce an no u n c ement that the Atlas inter- conti nental missile had been suc cessfully fired. The firing was certainly a no table achieve ment. There stewait Aisop should be no mistake about that Sending a thing weighing a hundred tons, twenty feet higher than Cleo patra's Needle, and stuffed with incredibly complex equipment, through space for five hundred miles or so, is nothing to sneeze at. Since serious work on Atlas started only in 1954, the Air Force and the Convair company which is the prime contractor for the "beast," (as it is known among those who work on it) can no d.oubt take a bow. Yet the question remains, when is an ICBM not an ICBM? And the answer is that the Atlas mis sile test-fired last week is not an ICBM. It has about the same relationship to an operational ICBM as a five-year-old old boy has to a full grown man. And it is important to understand this, lest the Atlas firing is used to lull the country back into the slothful sleep which it was en joying before the Sputniks so rudely awakened it. The "beast" that was fired last Wednesday is, in the words of one who knows, "just a helluva big rocket." A true ICBM is a lot more than a "helluva big rocket." To be sure, the initial stage of an ICBM is just that. But getting the "helluva big rocket" into space is only the first, and in some ways the easi est part of the job of creating a true ICBM. CONSIDER what the Air Force and the Atlas people still have left to do. First, they must marry the second stage missile to the "helluva big rocket," and what is more difficult, they must ar range for an amicable divorce between the two. The divorce must take place hundreds of miles in space, at a speed totally unimagineable to the finite hu man mind. The divorce must be so smooth and friendly that the second stage will continue on its predetermined course without being deflected so much as a hair's breadth from its predes tined target. The nose-cone of the second missile, must then swoop down from space through the atmos phere towards its target, like a meteor. But unlike most meteors, it must not be burnt up on the way by the friction of the air, which covers our earth like a protective blanket. The problem of getting the warhead in the nose-cone down to earth without burning up is the problem of "atmospheric re entry," of which the President talked in his "chins up" speech on November 7th. The President was conned the word is not too harsh into claiming in that speech that "our scientists and engineers have solved" the re entry problem, and into show ing the nose-cone of a Jupiter missile to "prove" it. TN FACT, the problem has not I - i i . m really been fully solved at all, certainly not as regards the ICBM. The problem of re-entry revolves entirely around the speed at which the nose-cone re enters. The nose-cone the Presi dent so proudly displayed to the television audience re-entered at less than 10.000 miles an hour. An intercontinental ballistic mis sile, to achieve its vast range of 5000 miles or more, must travel at speeds greater than 15,000 miles an hour. It is a very rough rule of thumb that the problem of successful re-entry just about doubles with every additional thousand miles of speed. So that is another hurdle that must somehow be overlept be fore we can claim to have an ICBM that really is an ICBM. And perhaps the toughest of all the hurdles ahead is truly ac curate guidance. For the range of destruction even of a hydro DCNT 0U I'M By Stewart Alsop gen warhead is not unlimited to be truly effective, the war head must be brought down within five miles of the target. To do this, at a range of five thousand miles, is distinctly more difficult than, say, to hit the exact center of home plate with a baseball thrown from way out in center field. WE CANNOT be absolutely sure that the Soviet ICBMs already tested are wholly ac curate, or even that their war heads have been successfully re entered; although we do know that the Soviet missiles, unlike the Atlas, are staged missiles with an "operational configura tion." But the available evi dence including the astonishing Soviet technical proficiency as demonstrated in the Sputniks suggest that the Soviet ICBMs will be operational very soon, if they are not already. Secretary of the Air Force James Douglas expressed a hope which sounded more like a slip of the tongue before the Johnson Committee that we should have operational ICBMs before 1960. If Douglas' hope comes true those closest to the situation will be jubilantly flab bergasted. Indeed, they are more inclined to agree with Gen, Curtis LeMay's doubts, also ex pressed before the Johnson Com' mittee, that we can ever catch up at all. The Atlas firing last week may be taken as evidence that LeMay's view is very prob ably too gloomy, if this country has the will to roll up its sleeves and get down to work. But the Atlas firing was no more than that. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc, In ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As you may have heard, we are supposed to be in the midst of a business recession a kind of catch-our-breath, get-our-sec-ond-wind period in which people are letting go of their money a little less freely. Hmmmm. Let's see. Rose Bowl officials have just disclosed that 3,500 . tickets of fered in a public sale, conducted by mail for the first time this year, were snapped up like free dollar bills. Remaining ticket requests, running into upper bracket num bers, are being sent back to dis appointed fans whose checks got in too late. JVfORE along the same line: Forty - Niner fans who can't get tickets for Sunday's big play-off against Detroit will be hitting the road Saturday. Thous ands of Forty-Niner boosters are expected to go to spots outside the so-called "black-out" area to watch the game on television. Most of them will go to Reno on special chartered planes and buses. Others will journey to Sacramento, Chico and Ukiah. S TILL more of the same: It is currently reported that the broadcast will cost the Reno TV station $1,100 which sum is said to have been put up by the Reno business district. The donors are alleged to be- lieve that 10,000 visitors will be attracted to the Biggest Little y-tJl . J.1 TXT 1 J X n,niAU 4-It A City in the World to watch the game on television. It is estimat ed that they will spend $100 each over the week end. Ten thousand times $100 totals up to a million dollars, which is quite a slug of new business. THE moral seems to be that If you offer peorjle WHAT THEY WANT they'll buy re- i$i$i$i0i0i0i$i$i0i$i0i$i$i0l$i0i$i$i$i$i$i$i 4SZ o at) 4 Pick Up Your Old Fashioned Ice Cream, Homemade Pumpkin er Mince Pie, Eggnog and Cranberry with your other Holiday Dairy Needs. at the VILLAGE DAIRY-SMITH East Main at Genessee mmmmmmmmmmmmmsk Wilson Says Administration Is Suppressing Important Facts By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) A fair ques tion to President Eisenhower right now would be: Who has a better right to know than the people of the United States if their lives may s o o n be f o r f e i ted in fiery warfare. That is a hor rible thought for the Christ mas season. I.yle Wilson The question arises, however, because of considerable evi dence that the administration is Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 Protest Against Wrecking Yard To the Editor: Medford was presented a Wrecking Yard for Christmas, to last for 365 days of 1958. Your estemed councils men, Jones, VanSickle, Dunlevy, Bradford and Meyers are the ones to thank. John Dellenback, attorney for the citizens (with homes around the gift) gave the council a com plete history of this residential area, starting early in 1952 when the adjoining property owners had placed on county records, restrictions reserving their properties, (comprising more than 100 acres) for resi dence purposes. The area joins the Rogue Valley Heights Sub divisions (approximately 400 acres) at Corona Avenue, near Highway 62. The County Court in 1952 went on record to say they would not approve a wrecking yard license in this area. This area was annexed to the city early in 1957 as Class I residential, and the application for wrecking yard was approv ed by the council at a Novem ber meeting, no notice of its consideration was being given to residents of the area. The residents contacted Mayor Sni der and their councilmen to learn what had taken place, af ter hearing a radio announce ment reporting council action. December 5, representative resi dents and the attorney attend ed the council meeting, and re quested that the council hear objections to the wrecking yard in the area. The council consent ed to hear objections at the meeting December 19th. The council reaffirmed their approv al of the license application De cember 19th. Three people at that meeting favored the wreck ing yard, a man, and a man and wife. Twenty or more property owners present objected through their counsel, plus a petition from the rest of the owners, totalling over 85 residents of the area, and 22 residents from nearby areas. These petitioners and resi dents own nearly 300 acres of land in this immediate area. They pay taxes on their homes as if they were in a first class residential area. Being taxed first class and treated as a slum area is not very fair. The councilmen suggested beautifying the wrecking yard, which was promised by the owner since 1952, to meet the satisfaction of residents in the area. Do these councilmen hon estly feel that the wrecking yard could be beautified to satisfy them if it had been built next to their established homes? Would the councilmen purchase a home near this beautified wrecking yard? If so, the resi dents of this area know of many fr sale. Interesting to note that not one home has been built in the area since the wrecking yard has been operating all were constructed prior to that time. Liberty vs. License???? John Benson, Box 1175, Medford, Ore. cession or no recession. TAKE it or leave it. But ' Those of us who live in the 11 Western states shouldn't ig nore the fact, brought out by the census bureau, that our area is growing TWICE AS FAST as the rest of the country. A fur trading post establish ed by John Jacob Astor in 1805 at Astoria, Ore., was the first real U. S. foothold in the Pa cific northwest. Sherbet along . J ! mm in mm. js c. suppressing . some national de fense facts of appalling impor tance. These facts are believed to be contained in what is called the Gaither report drafted by a com mittee headed by H. Rowan Gai ther Jr., a San Francisco attor ney. It is a roundup on the com parative production and strik ing power of the United States and the Soviet Union. The Gaither report is top se cret. The President has refused to reveal its contents to the Sen ate Preparedness subcommittee. There has been, however, the inevitable leak. Over the week end, the Washington (D.C.) Post and Times Herald printed a copyrighted story asserting that the Gaither report portrayed the United States in the gravest danger in all its history. 'Inevitable Catastrophe' The paper said the report foresaw inevitable catastrophe for the United States and its men, women and children. Ca tastrophe is a chilling word. Its dictionary meaning is: The final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature. There is something especially grim about that phrase: The final event. And, if the United States is, as reported, in a period of its gravest danger, then what great trials and personal tragedies does the future hold for the American people and how soon shall they be expected to come to pass. It is no reflection on the Washington Post and Times Her ald to report that the last satis factory way of presenting such complex information and ideas to the public is through what commonly is known as a leak. Leaked news is unofficial. The U.P. Correspondents Look Ahead at Hews By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Inside Labor AFL-CIO insiders report that two or three more labor unions may be charged with corruption before the new year is very old. The charges will be filed labor sources say, after new hearings by the Senate Rackets committee. Worry Privately, American diplor mats in London are very wor ried about British grass-roots re action to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Paris. Many Britons are asking whether their alliance with the United States is worth its pos sible cost in this missile age They fear that American mis sile bases would draw dire Rus sian vengeance. Left-wingers are saying that one H-bomb launched from East Germany 500 miles away could kill upwards of 10 million people in the tightly-packed London area, Dulles Vc. Stassen , And by the way, Washington reports that the results of the Paris meeting won't reduce the friction between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Presidential Disarmament Ad visor Harold Stassen. Backstage reports are that Stassen was purposely left off the American delegation because Dulles was determined to put all-out emph asis on missile bases. Stassen bucked vainly in private for a position combining Dulles' view with a recommendation for new disarmament talks. Despite Dul les, NATO did combine missiles and disarmament with dis armament first. The state of relations between Dulles and Stassen was tinder lined when Stassen showed up to greet President Eisenhower on his retura from the Paris NATO meeting but stayed away when Dulles, his immediate su FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 reporter who obtains and writes it usually has less than the time desirable for study of a com plex document. Report Has 'Factual Flavor More often than not, news which leaks appears in more extravagant terms than would be warranted by some of the qualifying fine print in the offi cial document. There was a sub stantial and factual flavor to the leaked version of the Gaither report, however, and the citi zens would be warranted now in believing the very worst of the nation's national defense and security posture until the situa tion can be proven to be other wise. The Gaither report evidently includes statistical material, mil itary estimates and defense data which properly must be top se cret in the interests of national security. But the public which, after all, is the proprietor of the United States, has a right to know the extent of its jeopardy. The President, in his TV re port to the nation tonight, prob ably will proclaim new defense spending needs accompanied by a call for the citizens to make sacrifices for the national de fense. How are the voters .to pass judgment if they do not know the national defense score? If the politicians who have been running the country now and before have put the people in jeopardy, who has a better right to know? Floodwater mosquitoes of the Mississippi river lay their eggs on a stream bank where they cannot hatch until floods raise water over them. Some eggs must wait years before the wa ters return. perior, flew in the following day. Thaw Look for a spate of nuclear weapons information previously withheld from the public. Af ter the Russians launched Sput nik I, the Defense Department put out non-classified informa tion on missiles faster than it could be digested. But the At omic Energy commission is for bidden by law to tell the tax payer anything about the size, weight, look and composition of A bombs and H bombs. The administration wants the law changed to permit release of more information. Tito European diplomats no long er say that President Tito's at tack of lumbago was diplomat ic an excuse to keep away from last month's Bolshevik an niversary in Moscow. He really is seriously ailing. His activities have been cut to a minimum. But fairly trustworthy reports say that the veteran Yugoslav leader is improving and should be able to return to Belgrade from his Adriatic retreat by spring anyway. Sports Outlook America should win a Davis Cup singles match from Aus tralia for the first time in three years in this week's play in Mel bourne. But the huge silver tro phy is expected to remain "Down Under" for another year. The Australians have shut out the Yanks 5-0 in each of the last two challenge rounds. EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRE SP 2-2333 POLICE SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 A DfVtSmi OF mcotc PACIFIC ItJDUSTRIAt 16 S. CENTRAL AT PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which pre in keeping with its means. 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