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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager 1 it n a T ti t r-r-i . . uciuuju i.n i rmji. business iigr. ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor AHii ti. A u a.ms. city Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Socletv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An IndeDendent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Cony 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sundav Onlv One vear 54.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. l.so Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ."All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO . INC., Of. flees In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, B. C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAt T r f ASSO 14' I I NEWS PAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, 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 Jan. 1. 1948 (Wednesday) : Because, of the preoccupa tion of the country by Arabs and because of the poor char acter of the land, occupation of Palestine by the Jews is fantastic, acordine to E. C. Dixon, retired Methodist min ister from Wisconsin. : From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudee Pot column: "Aug ust arrives as all calendars indicate. Picking of Bartletts starts, and industiral area gets a hustle on. Carless cig arette starts forest fire. Old Oregon and . OSC publicity men announce football teams are Rose Bowl bound again." 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 1938 (Sunday) - - .Retailers in Pittsburg re cently surveyed to ascertain why market for Bosc pears was not in better condition, the Oregon-Washington-Calif-. ornia Pear Bureau reports. Prisoners booked in the city jail during 1937 totalled 601, a new high record. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1328 (Sunday) The Oregon Game commis sion has installed a fish screen at the Savage Rapids diversion works on the Rogue river at a cost of $7,000. Final plans for construction I of the Ashland creek dam are being worked into shape. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1918 (Wednesday) Pennsylvania businessmen show interest in making sur vey of petroleum producing possibilities in Southern Ore gon, according to E. F. Smith of Ashland. 2 Oregon coast artillery now stationed at the mouth of he Columbia river will be transferred to the Atlantic coats this spring, says Capt. R. R. Knox, formerly of Med ford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or she is good. S 1. The bald eagle is or is not actually bald? U 2. BIBLE: When Lot's wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of stone or a sack of salt? Z 3. Metal canisters are used to store tea, potatoes, or coal? 4. How many wives did Henry VIII have? 3. "Maiden Blush; Rome Beauty, Northern Spy," are names for what commodity? 6. The President of the United States does or does not ,-er wear a uniform? - 7. Which country was sometimes referred to as "the sick man of Europe?" 8. Was Mary Pickford, ijian Crawford or Janet Gay nor frequently called "Ameri ca's Sweetheart?" - 9. What federal prison is known as "The Rock?" 10, In American political Kstory, who founded the ''Bull Moose" party? " Answers: Is not (it's shining white feathers give the bald appearance. 4. No. (a "pillar" - of salt). 3. Tea. 4. Eight 5. Ap ples. 6. Does net. 7. Turkey. 8. Mary Pickford. 9. Alca Jiaz. 10. Theodora Roosevelt., "Jimminy We gladly wish Press Secretary Hagerty a Happy New Year, for it seems certain the poor man will need it. More and more when tion gets in a spot, the baton is given over to Jim miny Crickets" to run the next lap. This was true last earnest and unsmiling stones concerning the The Washington Post and Times-Herald, for example, commented part as follows : The still top-secret Gaither report portrays a United States in the gravest danger in its history. It pictures the Nation moving in frightening course to the status of a secondclass power. It shows an America exposed to an almost immediate threat from the missile-bristling Soviet Union. It finds America's long-term prospect one of cata clysmic peril in the face of rocketing Soviet military might and of a powerful, growing Soviet economy and technology which, will bring new political, propagan da and psychological assaults on freedom all around the globe. In short, the report strips away the complacency and lays bare the highly unpleasant realities in what is the first across-the-board survey of the relative pos tures of the United States and the Free Wor d and of the Soviet Union and the Communist orbit. To prevent what otherwise appears to be inevitable catastrophe, the Gaither report urgently calls for an enormous increase in military spending from now through 1970 and for many other costly, radical measures of first and second priority. Only through such an all-out effort, the report says, can the United States . hope to close the current missile gap and to counte'r the world-wide Communist offensive in many fields and in many lands. Established as the first, over riding priority is the revitalizing of the American re taliatory offensive force, as principal deterrent to an all-out Russian attack. To meet all kinds of military threats, the report states, there must be: A rapidly rising military budget through 1970, reaching in the years 1960 and 1961 a peak outlay of about $8 billion a year in additional expenditures over and above the current $38-billion defense outlay. Another $5 billion a year', for several years, for a civilian shelter program, is recommended on a second-, priority basis. A sweeping reorganization of the Pentagon com mand system and of the current roles and missions of the armed services, both of which are regarded as completely outmoded in this nuclear age. A Budget Bureau study of such changes is already under way. THAT story, declared untrue but the exact he stated, are all newspaper stories to the same effect that as of today, position of weakness. It strong. WELL that is good news and a great relief to tVinca nrlin Tiorl Jacnmorl trio "Ws)sVlinot.nn Post and Times Herald, important newspapers in the country, were essen tially correct in their reports of what the Gaither Committee findings were. In fact these press reports caused a sensation and a scare throughout the country only exceed ed by the launching of Russias first "Sputnik." So what a relief ! There is one little fly ber, however. If there is nothing in an alarm then what possible objection can there be now to making it public? In fact wouldn t that o reassure the people heir doubts and fears, sible injury to the national morale the false news reports may have caused TNT .ESS there is something in the picture not discernible at this Press Secretary Hagerty to answer this Question. Certainly if the report nesses "as of today", m tact quite tne opposite, the claim that publication -would "give aid and comfort to the enemy" fails to stand up. It would, we believe, not be Soviet Russia that would be "aided and comforted" by such in formation, but the somewhat "shell - shocked" people of the United States. R.W.R. Up to Solomon "Guarantee the present boundaries of Israel," advise not only the Israeli but also certain Ameri can leaders e.g., Mrs. Roosevelt and Adlai E. Stevenson. They argue that with such guarantees the Middle East would be stabilized, that without them the Arab states will inevitably nurse, with Kremlin encouragement, their territorial designs on the Israel state. These Arab designs cal Ifor rolling back Is rael's boundaries to the lines proposed by U.N. General Assembly in November 1947. Those lines were then called completely unacceptable by the Arabs, partially unacceptable by the Israeli. QO CAME war in the early summer of 1948, a war in which. Israel drove the Arab armies back. When an armistice was arranged in the spring of 1949, Israeli troops were in occupation of almost one-third more territory than had been proposed by U.N. This additional territory re mains incorporated within Israel. These additions were along practically all the former borders and make Israel a little less of a territorial crazy-quilt than in the U.N. plan. Even so, hardly a spot in the north or center is more than 25 miles fro msome Arab state, hardly a spot in the Negeb area of the south more than 40 miles from a frontier. The Arabs say that these territorial additions , Wednesday, January I. 1958 Crickets 99 the present administra Sunday when the always James, denied the press Gaither report. on the Gaither report m Mr. Hagerty is not only reverse of the truth. So, the United States is m a is not he concluuded, it is as well as many other left buzzing m the am this report to justiiy sucn be the best possible way of the country, remove and cancel out any pos l distance, sooner or later, will be put on the spot reveals no U.S. weak- Vfe AH, HS SAID HAPFV VCtfT IOOX HAPPY' En the Day's News By FRANK I'd like to commend to the attention of the United States of America as a whole the proposal by Klamath Basin farmers and the Klamath county court to go as far as possible within the limits of our own resources toward taking care ourselves of our serious mouse infestation problem. If our nation had more of that rugged pioneer spirit, it would pull out of its present problems and troubles much more quickly. THIS, I think, would be a ennH iime in rite the ann- o -v " r cryphal story of the frog that fell into the milk can. The frog was in trouble bad trouble. But it didn't wait for SOMEBODY ELSE to come and get it out. It start ed kicking. It kept on kicking. By keeping on kicking, it wound up sitting pretty on a lump of butter. THIS is the moral: If the frnf had waited for somebody else to come and get it out of trouble, it would have drowned. -' Bv doine evervthine it could to HELP ITSELF, it came out OK. E ARE entitled, of course, some federal help. In Klamath county, about 67 per cent of the total area is owned by the federal gov ernment. More or less the same situation prevails in all the countries of tMe Klamath Basin. To a greater or less extent, it prevails through out all of Southern Oregon and Far Northern California. Since the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contarary thereof the landlord has been uder obli gation to take care of his own property, to defend it against damage by nature and the elements and to take care of his own property, to defend it against damage by nature and Unander's Move No Surprise To Hatfield Salem OF) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield said late Tuesday that Sig Unander's announcement that he would be a candidate for the Repub lican nomination for governor of Oregon came "as no sur prise," but that until the fil ing deadline is' reached it would be "inappropriate for me to express a personal pref erence among those who may become candidates for gov ernor or any other office." There had been talk in politi cal circles that Hatfield, also a Republican, was a hopeful for the GOP gubernatorial nomination although he de clared a month ago that he would not be a candidate "un der present circumstances." Hatfield said Unander's rec ord as state treasurer was commendable, and' that he was "particularly happy" that Unander announced he would refrain from "injecting per sonalities" into his campaign. Parisians Defy City Paris (IP) Thousands of merry making Parisians wel comed in the New Year to day by defying the city's three-year-old ban on auto honking. For at least an hour, begin ning just before midnight, cars rolled bumper to bump er along the boulevards toot ing their horns in an ear-shattering and illegal chorus. are simply the spoils of house the now homeless Arab refugees. Israel says it needs every single acre of its present do main to accommodate its growing population and j in addition the new immigration of oppressed Jews from other lands to whom Israel, by the very reason of its existence, must hold out a welcoming hand. . You take it from there, King Solomon. ; E.R.R. i MEW feAf?. 0UT HE JENKINS the elements and to save his tenants whole from such dam age. If we could tax ALL of our own area, we could take care on our own account of our mouse and other abnormal damages. Unfortunately, we can't tax all our own area. Uncle Sam owns a big chunk of it, and he objects to pay ing local taxes. BUT We've always been a self-reliant tribe here in what we laughingly call the State of Jefferson. We've believed in looking out for ourselves. Let's stay that way. Let's take care of our own problems TO THE FULL EX TENT OF OUR ABILITY Jae fore calling on somebody else for help. Decline in End, Indu By N. FLOYD McGOWIN President National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc. Washington The year now drawing to a close has been a sobering one for lum ber manufacturers in fact, for the entire lumber indust ry. Rocket Boys Face Possible Injunction Austin, Minn. (IP) Eleven high school boys and a Rom an Catholic nun today faced a possible court injunction that would take the mouse out of their "mousenik" .ocket pro ject. The Humane Society in Washington said Tuesday it would seek a court injunction to prohibit use of mice and other animals in rockets launched by the group which calls itself the Austin Rocket Society. The young rocketeers, coached by Sister Duns Sco tus of the St. Francis Order, Tuesday fired a mousenik successfully 800 feet in the air but with an artificial mouse. The boys were able to bring their rider "back "alive" when a parachute mechanism work ed perfectly. They were not as fortunate Sunday when the "mousenik" carrying a live white mouse named "Ulysses" fizzled on its launching pad. Road Construction Interrupts Traffic Salem (IP) Highway con struction and maintenance has caused traffic interrup tions in several sections' of the state, State Highway En gineer W. C. Williams said Tuesday. Work on the following highways were cited as traf fic slowers by Williams: John Day, Columbia river, Ump qua, Pacific, and Sherman. He also said that several highways were closed for the winter, including the Mt. Hood loop, McKenzie Pass highway, east and west Dia mond Lake highway, Century Drive secondary highway and Sun Mountain secondary high way. war, and are needed to Communications Lettert to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The New Year To the Editor: If the bounc ing iew i ear indulges in retrospection, pronto, he may rejoice to see the predomina tion of good will, as an after glow of his predecessor's Yuletide celebration. He will have to admit, the good will pendulum was swinging in an optimistic direction upon his arrival. Simulating that he scratches his newborn head, and thinks profoundly, con cluding that he has the record of all time records to make, one that will either be glo rious, mediocre, or a shameful failure. Can he produce a panacea? Anything less potent would be futile, he fully realizes. With agonizing appraisal of the goal set for him to reach, it appeared preposterous, un til two wonderful helpers (Faith and Hope) loomed up, changing his downcast atti tude to an optimistic view point. Faith and hope never fail. They always win, be cause their power is gene rated by that super-power that spins the universe. Taking over a New Year's duty, he nodded his head. To placate his own feelings a mental picture flashed on his mind, he could see himself gloriously victorious as a dig nified gentleman waving fare well on Dec. 31 at midnight, 1958, after handing over his office, and admonition to 1959 to not fumble the ball of earth, but carry it safely to 1959's first base and start the continuity of peace on earth for always. Shall we all pray before it's too late for little new born '58. Emma Lou Carpanter, Sll Sherman St., Medford. Lumber Output Near stry Official Says The year ahead is one to approach with cautious opti mism. It would appear that the decline in lumber output is about to end. This year's pro duction, at this writing, is ex pected to total about 34 bil lion board feet some 9 per cent below 1956. The prospect is that 1958 production will at least equal the level of 1957 and could very well exceed it. No more precise estimate is possible at the present time because of a number of factors which have yet to crystalize. Housing is one of the un certainties. Tight Money Tight money is expected to be the chief limiting factor to housing activity next year, as it was in 1957. Some easing of the mort gage market is likely because of increased savings and a leveling off in the demand for funds to finance industrial plant and equipment expan sion. Still, many builders and po tential home buyers will find it difficult to obtain financ ing. A reasonable estimate of housing starts both public and private in 1958 would seem to be about one million perhaps 1.1 million or even Talmadge Estate Goes To Sisters Las Vegas, Nev. (IP) Silent screen star Norma Talmadge willed the bulk of her estate, totaling more than a million dollars, to her sisters, Con stance and Natalie Talmadge. The will of the former film beauty was filed for probate Tuesday by New York attor ney Arthur Moritz who re fused to reveal the exact val ue of the estate. Miss Talmadge, who reign ed as a silver screen queen enuring the roaring 20s, died of a heart attack Dec. 24 at her home here. She was 60 years old. Her . widower, Dr. Carver M. James, was bequeathed 5200,000 in cash and a home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He also received community property held in Nevada. The couple was married here in 1946. -L DAIRY - East Main St. Driye Carefully . . . the life you save may be one of our custom ers .. . They're precious. Biggest Circus Will Be Going As Usual in 1958, Wilson Savs By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (ffl Emmett Kelly, the eminent clown, has been appealing to congress men to save the circus, meaning not any particu circus but all of them. Seems that circuses are in a cos t-price squeeze, like the farmers and you and I, Lyie c. Wilson and that they may just fold their tents and disappear unless somebody does something. That's pretty bad, but clown Kelly can re-1 lax. All of the other circuses may fold, but the biggest cir cus of them all will be in bus iness as usual in 1958 playing to capacity crowds. That will be the congressional circus which appears annually here m Washington. There is no other like it nor any chance that it will go out of business, come inflation, deflation, de- presion, peace or war. Three Rings Insufficient Three rings will not be enough for the congressional circus which opens here next week. Consider the high wire, aerial and acrobatic acts which must be put on and the clowns. The administra tion will require two or three rings, at the very least, for one of its new acts which it promised the voters some weeks ago would be part, of the show. This act is only slightly more dificult than the Indian rope trick which, itself, gen erally is regarded as impossi ble. It will- be to persuade congressmen facing a Novem ber election to make big econ omy cuts in programs espe cially dear to hard-boiled pressure groups, such as farm ers and veterans Another act which will be as many as 1.2 million, in view of the Federal Reserve Board's recent lowering of its discount rate the fee charged on loans to member banks. Apartment Units ' Assuming some sort of in crease from this year's prob able total of 950,000 to one million housing starts, it is likely that apartment units will account for a greater share of the total housing out put in 1958 than in 1957. TT l i now lumDermen rare in next year's housing market will depend largely upon how aggressively and how force fully they undertake to pro mote the advantages of lum ber and wood products to the builder, architect and pros pective home-buyer, XT.... 1 . . . iNever nas mere oeen a greater need for aggressive merchandising by the lumber Industry. The prospect of a signifi cant increase in home remod eling repair-expansion work next year should serve as an incentive to the industry to step up its merchandising-ad vertising efforts promptly. Encouraging Development An encouraging develop ment of late has been the leveling off of lumber inven tories at the mill level. Halt ing the steady rise in gross mill stocks has involved some shutdowns, and in many cases a shorter work week. But the industry is in a much better position now than earlier in the year to feel the full salutary effects of a pickup in new business. It will be no comfort to lumbermen to know that the Corps of Engineers now ex pects the dollar volume of its lumber purchases in 1958 to be some 25 per cent below 1957. However, military de mands are subject to constant change and the increased em phasis on guided missile-space satellite developments could alter almost all procurement schedules overnight. To sum up, 1958 would seem to be a year in which the lumber industry has an opportunity to strengthen its hold on present markets and acquire new ones. There will be many rough spots in the months ahead. But none of the problems will be of such magnitude as to defy solution by men of courage, vision and ingenuity. JL SMITH at Genessee followed closely by newsmen through the United States will be that one in which the ad ministration will attempt to relieve the anxiety of Con gress and the voters about the suppressed Gaither Report on national defense. It will be an effort to persuade the peo ple that the report did not say that the Communists easily could blast the United States back to the Dark Ages be cause U. S. defenses have lagged and Communist weap ons have burgeoned. Band Will Blare The circus band will play and on the high wire the ad ministration will put on its 1958 spectacular the effort to balance a Sputnik era budget without recourse to higher taxes in an election year. Best of all. the Democratic acts scheduled for the new Steel Optimists Hurt by Closing Weeks of 1957 Pittsburgh HP) Waning steel production rates in the closing weeks of 1957 have had a sobering effect on opti mists in the steel industry, but most steelmen look for ward to reasonably good busi ness in 1958. A top market expert of the U. S. Steel Corp., the nation's No. 1 producer, sums up the 1958 prospects by saying, "neither extreme optimism nor extreme pessimism about the outlook is borne out by any qualified analysis of the facts." Estimates of next year's out put range from 108 million ingot tons upward. Production in 1957 prob ably will be a little under the 115 million tons turned out in 1956. Current rated capacity of the industry is 133,457,150 tons, and it is expected to jump to about 140 million tops when the 1958 figure is reported. Interest Fails Most steel men had expect ed market conditions to im prove i n the final three months of this year after the second quarter doldrums. In stead customer interest in steel failed to pickup and op erations fell below 70 per cent of capacity. Complicating the steelmak- ing situation is the fact that some producers built up large inventories of semi-finished steel in anticipation of quick deliveries for the expected fourth-quarter upturn in de mand.. When the orders failed to materialize, furnace pro duction had to be cut below the delivery rate to reduce semi-finished stocks. But top steel market an alyzers say the gloom result ing from the failure of a fourth-quarter upsurge to ma terialize is unwarranted. B. E. Estes, U. S. Steel's di rector of staff administration, points out that the industry did not anticipate another 8 million-car year for the auto motive industry such as pushed steel production to a record 117 million tons 1955. Inventory Reduction fiant and equipment ex penditures could not reason ably be expected to match the 22 per cent increase recorded last year, he said, We would certainly not ask for another war, such as sparked 1950," Estes said. Estes said some inventory reduction will continue in 1958. I think we must expect that even though steel con sumption in 1958 approaches that of 1957, inventory reduc tion by steel consumers dur WEEKLY EDITOR DIES New York (IP) Charles F. Connolly, editor of the week ly newspaper Irish Echo, died last Monday at the age of 85. Connolly had owned and published the Echo from 1928 until about six months ago when he became ill. He sold the newspaper to a cor poration but continued to head the editorial staff until his death. Greeting 1958, the New Year, our senti ments are old, tried and true, yet ever C. M. Litwiller new best wishes to happiness, health, success. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy.' 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close M Congress is a juggling num ber by contortionists. It will be in pantomime to explain how to reduce agricultural surpluses by greatly increas ing price supports to high rigid levels which, inevitably, will persuade farmers to in crease production of surplus crops. Another good spectacular will be billed simply as "la bor." The script and action are not perfected but it should be a dilly. It is possi ble that it will deal with a situation created by recent legal action in which it was found that spending union money on political occasions with great political impact was not against the law which forbids spending union money for political purposes. And there will be clowns, scores, maybe hundreds of them. ing the year will be sufficient to reduce steel shipments; and therefore, steel production to a level at least 5 per cent be low the 1957 level," he said. The slack in the steel mar ket this year generally has been attributed to customers living off their inventories. While production is off from last year, officials of U.S. Steel feel that actual steel consumption during the year was at a new high. Red Skelfon Said To Be Improving After Seizure Santa Monica, Calif. Comedian Red Skelton greet ed the New Year today from his bed at St. John's hospit al where he rallied from the shadow of death following a severe "cardiac-asthmatic" at tack. Hospital attendants report ed that the famous redhead was in satisfactory condition and said he was able to "joke a little." He was stricken on Monday night at his Bel-Air home. Skelton's wife, Georgia, visited the comic Tuesday night on the eve of the New Year but then went home to be with their children, leav ing her husband resting com fortably. The couple's nine-year-old son, Richard, is suffering from leukemia and Mrs. Skelton said he needed her care. There were reports that the Skeltons received disturb ing news about their son's condition shortly before Skel ton's seizure. The comedian was reading a script for a coming program when he was stricken. His 10-year-old daughter, Valen tina, found him on the floor gasping for air. Unconscious his lungs filling with fluid Skelton was rushed to the hospital and placed under an oxygen tent. He showed rapid im provement and was resting , quietly a few hours after reaching the hospital. After tests Tuesday, Dr. Graham said there was "ab solutely no suggestion of cor onary thrombosis." He said that Skelton had suffered from asthma for years. 117 f ft Switzerland President Sworn In Bern, Switzerland (IP) Dr. Thomas Holenstein, 61-year-old corporation lawyer turned politician, today be- president. Holenstein, head of the public economy department since his election to the cabi net in 1954, was named presi dent last Dec. 12 by Parlia ment to succeed Dr. Hans Steuli, head of the depart ment for finance and cus toms. By tradition, the choice is made by annual rotation of members of the seven-man federal cabinet. you and yours, for all L' if , u i mm mSj Mrs. Litwiller -fj.tr -w 'V"': """i i " "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."