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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MfDFORDtTEIBUTfE "Everyone In Southern Oregon ncaua i lie .'iaii itiumit Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager ULKAlLI LAlflJUl, Business iwgr- ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor PALE 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: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Dally and Sunday 8 moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, ; Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv '. er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 I Daily and Sunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wlre , MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisine ReDresentative WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of - flees in New York, Chicago, De- troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, ; Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At- lanta, Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL rW I I asTocatiQn estfS I U U Tijjunia.'mm flight fo Time Bedford and Jackson County History from the files of The Wail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and j(0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1948 (Thursday) Ashland city crews work t$ deepen and widen Ashland creek to drain flood water from park and city streets. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The Willamette valley, where na tives reputedly pick spring Cowers all winter is now In undated." 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1938 (Sunday) zThe second meeting for par ents of Jackson county sched uled at the court house audi torium; Mrs. Maude Morse, extension specialist in parent education, will speak. T N. S. Bennett, owner of the Eden Valley Nursery, observ ed his 48th anniversary here by presenting fruit and cake to the Mail Tribune staff. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1928 (Sunday) The value of the 1927 fruit crop shipped from the Rogue valley totaled $4,199,820.80, according to C. T. Baker, sec retary of Rogue River Valley Traffic association. -As a future site for a high school, the board of education purchases 15 acres adjoining South Oakdale ave. north of Melrose st. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1918 (Tuesday) -This winter has been one of the mildest in the Rogue River valley for years. 3Lt. J. I. Simpson, of the Irish fusiliers of Canada, is now in charge of the British and Canadian recruiting of fice here. iWhat's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er a is good. -1. Which French ruler had the same name as a form of French pastry? Z2. Bible: Judah committed suicide by what method? ES- Anisette cordial is made torn the seed of what plant? 'A. What fur is often called "royal fur"? 15. Name the composer of Faust. Z$. Chevon is the meat of rabbit, goats, or deer? p7. Is shellfish the type of ffjpd that contains the great est quantity of iodine? 3B. Which U. S. President was called the "Great Eman chjator"? 39. The name of a male swan is cob, cod, or cog? HO. Was the first public building erected in Washing ton D. C. the Capitol, White Htsuse, or Treasury? Answers: ' 13. Napoleon; 2. By hanging; 3Anise; 4. Ermine; 5. Charles Francis Gounod; 6. Goats; 7 Yes; 8. Abraham Lincoln; ST Cob; 10. While House. Time Getting Short After two weeks away from Medford, much of the time spent in driving between and through the cities and hamlets of fast-growing California, we are convinced more strongly than ever about two things: v 1. Southern Oregon is a simply wonderful place to live. 2. It is going to require more effort than we're now devoting to the job to keep it that way. TO THOSE people who oppose planning and zoning and other types of advance prepara tion for orderly growth, we say this: "Go to southern California and look about you. You will see what happens when too many people come to a place too fast, and without the possibility of making plans to accommodate them. "You will see communities running out of adequate water supplies ; you will see smog cre ated by unregulated industrial and other types of combustion; you will see ugly, haphazard com munities, little better than slums; you will see traffic rushing along 10-lane superhighways already too small for the load they carry, and along boulevards which are only half completed in a hodgepodge pattern. "Talk to public officials, and you will learn of their struggles to control sanitation, to provide services, to cut down on air and water pollution all against almost insuperable odds, because the changes that created these things came too fast." "YREGON, for a number of reasons, has not grown as fast as has California. And we are fortunate in many ways that this is so. Most important, we have had our warning, and our sister state to the south offers us the "horrible example" of indeed has started to happen, in Oregon unless we get on the ball and Some steps we have and local levels. The creation of the Oregon water resources board and the state development department are providing useful functions in their own fields. In the county, a planning commission recently was organized, composed of high-caliber people, but at present it is authorized to do little more than make studies and then recommendations to a county court which too to take any action at all, let alone the bold and imaginative action this area needs. DY coincidence, upon communications waiting on our desk, each bearing on this and related problems. John Gribble wrote productive agricultural highways, residential velopments, and how this land ideally should be protected for the purpose for which it is best suited, with less-productive land around the val ley used for living areas. E. C. Gaddis, vacationing in San Bernardino, wrote to tell of the vast changes the new popula tion of southern California has made in that area, and the problems of school growth and financing m particular. There was a note from a friend enclosing a recent editorial from the Washington (D.C.) Post, dealing with population problems. And finally, there was a letter from Fortune magazine, calling attention to an article in its current series on "The Exploding Metropolis." FACH was thought-provoking, each was too long for successful reproduction in this space, and each confirmed our growing conviction that it is past time to get going on effective planning for the future our future and that of our children. Letting things "grow naturally" won't do any more. Let us then use the minds that God gave us and arrange, through the democratic processes we have developed, that our most valuable re sources be conserved. The Fortune letter, calls "urban sprawl," declares : "Sprawl is not only bad aesthetics, it is bad eco nomics. It is bad for farmers; it is bad for communi ties; it is bad for industry; it is bad for utilities; most of all it is bad for people. In some suburban areas there is already less park land than in. the heart of a great city, and the competition for available space is so great that in the New York area communities are posting police in their public golf courses and parks to keep non-residents out." The letter also pointed out that 3,000 acres are being taken in hit - in this nation every day, that "You and I and most certainly our children will very soon lose many of the things that make life in the U.S. a happy experience." "HE Post editorial declared: "If intolerable congestion in some regions is to be avoided, much better planning will be essential for the location of industries, the dispersal of urban satellites, the preservation of green spaces, and the conservation of farm lands. In the past, space has been plentiful and cheap. In the decades ahead it will be increasingly precious for the simple reason that, as numbers multiply by 2, 3, 4 or 5, the space actually available for living and for production of food will progressively shrink. It would be a tragedy indeed if the country should wait until an acute pinch is felt before waking up to the inescapable demands of the future." Time is getting short if we in Medford and Jackson county are to do the things that need to be done. Thus far the effort is far, far short of the necessity. E. Aj . . Wednesday, January 8, 1958 what could happen, and get ready for it. taken, both on state-wide often has been reluctant our return we found four to emphasize how rapidly land is being covered by tracts and industrial de growth and its attendant commenting on what it or - miss fashion this way and adds that this means I'D UKB TQ HAVE VOUfZ SHE RUNS In the Day's News By FRANK This screwball world note A special committee of the National Cotton Council re ports that the 1957 cotton dis ease toll was higher than the average for the preceding five years. It says diseases cut cotton yields in 1957 by an estimated 12 per cent. T SUPPOSE there are people still living who can remem ber when poor crops amount ed to a national calamity. All that is changed. Poor crops now tend to be regarded as a bit of NATION AL GOOD FORTUNE because they help to cut down the staggering surpluses that hang over the agricultural markets like a. dark thundercloud. Medical School Asks Approval For Building Portland (tPI The Uni versity of Oregon Medical school said today it had ask ed the National Institutes of Health, a federal organiza tion, to approve a grant of $1,250,000 for a medical re search building at the school. The state of Oregon would put up a similar amount to build the proposed $2,500,000 structure. Dr. David W. E. Baird dean of the school, said the need for the building resulted from greatly increased research ac tivity at the school in recent years. Space Squeezed ' He said that expenditures for research have increased from $17,000 in 1940-41 to $713,460 in 1956-57. A lot of this is from grants and from the federal government. And the space squeeze has been considerable. The 100,000 square feet in the proposed nine-story buil ding would increase research space to 148 square feet per researcher, nearly that rec ommended by the National In stitutes of Health, Dr. Baird said. The proposed site is adja cent to Multnomah hospital and also the present out-patient clinic, which it would connect with a two-story ov erhead ramp. If the project is approved, it must be scheduled by the State Board of Higher Edu cation, and matching funds must be provided by the Ore gon Legislature, presumably in its 1959 session. Try and By BENNETT CERF- SHOWMAN-WIT Abe Burrows, reports E. J. Kahn, Jr., had a Russian grandmother who never had uttered one word of English until minutes before she breathed her last at the age of 87 , she noticed her grandson star ing forlornly at her beside her death bed, and asked very clearly, "Why aren't you in school?" Burrows says he won a reputation as a wit by sim ply sitting at a table with a bunch of Hollywood char acters and admitting he came from Brooklyn. "All you have to do is mention .. . M- T , f ? tne worn jsrooKiyn in movie circles," Abe explains, "and everybody laughs him self sick. Some people at the next t .a saw me convulsing my friends, and the word spread that I was a real card a reputa tion I've been trying to live up to ever since!" Down in Greenwich Village a young hostess popped up with a new gimmick for a party: "Come As You Were Before You Were Psychoanalyzed." They say nobody left till five in the morning! O 1968. by Bennett Cert. Distributed bjr Kim Feature Syndicate. jgSPi A PNUY FOR V8y THAT THINS !" JENKINS LET'S look now at meat. The American Meat In stitute tells us that in 1957 total production was a little in excess of 27 billion pounds. This was a little under the total of 28 billion pounds pro duced in the record year of 1956. But In 1957, the average Ameri can ate only 159 pounds of meat as compared with 167 pounds in 1956. The drop in per capita consumption was due to GROWTH OF POPULATION, which is increasing faster than production of meat. It looks like the future of the livestock industry might be bright. SPEAKING of food One of our leading statis tical organizations got out its sharp pencils the other day and figured that if he lives to be 70 the average American individual eats: 150 head of cattle. 26 sheep. 310 swine. 225 lambs. 2400 chickens. 26 acres of grain. 50 acres of fruits and vege tables. Note, please, that the. list doesn't include seafood.' A THOUGHT: When our 11 Western states get 40 million people which .they are expected to have, about 1975 they'll eat a lot of food, won't they? Reports Given af Red Cross Meeting Reports covering activities in the various Red Cross serv ices were given at the regu lar meeting of chairmen and cochairmen Tuesday morning at the Red Cross chapter house. In the absence of Mrs. Al Littrell, chairman of volun teer services, Mrs. Ralph Bardwell, chairman of Gray Lady services at Camp White, presided. Reporting for other serv ices were Mrs. Robert Kee ney, home service; Mrs. Ber nice Poston, Gray Lady, com munity; Mrs. Lillian Salade, cochairman, Gray Lady, Camp White; Mrs. Frances Flinn and Mrs. Yvonne Da len, hospital service; Mrs. John Day and Mrs. Joe Hear in Jr., Red Cross; Mrs. O. A. Eden, disaster; Mrs. Marie Rehling, motor service; Mrs. Grace Fiero, canteen; Mrs. Martin Luther, recruitment; Mrs. Clarice Spatz, staff aides; Mrs. Frank Fairweath er, volunteer field consultant; and Mrs. T. R. Florey, home nursing. Sfop Me 1-8 Chance off teaching Compromise on Dutch New Guinea Editor's note: United Press Vice President for Europe Thomas R Curran has obtained an exclusive interview with Dutch Prime Minis ter Dr. WUlem Drees in which the prime minister expresses The Neth- erland's view toward Indonesia's claims to Dutch N'ew Guinea and the seizure of Dutch nropertv in Indonesia. Curran telegraphed his questions to Dr. Drees and the fol lowing dispatch constitutes the prime minister's reply. By THOMAS R. CURRAN United Press Correspondent London (IP) Dutch Prime Minister Dr. Willem Drees said today that Indonesia has destroyed all chances of a compromise solution on Dutch New Guinea and the United Nations will now have to act. Indonesians were seizing Dutch businesses "often at gunpoint" and so far without compensation, Drees said. The Dutch were in "gener al exodus that necessarily en tails great hardship," he said. "The Netherlands diplo matic representative in In donsia has officially been given to understand that all Netherlands subjects will have to leave the country," he added. "I sincerely hope that there will be no. cases of forced labor in Indonesia." This was a reference to re ports of an Indonesian plan to conscript foreign nationals if needed. "It is now the duty of the Communications Letters 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. Around and Er-Bout To the Editor: While we, through wise legislators, budg et compounders et al, ponder and appropriate millions of dollars for schools, and par ents buy expensive toys by thousands mostly used a few days, broken and dis carded I am impressed by a brief, simple letter from Alice Lloyd's Caney Creek Com munity Center school at Pip pa Passes, Kentucky. A few excerpts follow: "Visitors were at the settle ment visitors from the flat country; where a person watches the sun set straight ahead instead of straight up. . . .Maybe there's a strip of flat somewhere or t'other. But hit shore haint nigh our peaks and hills. . .Within the scope of hibernating Noey there is no flat strip; just peaked, baffling ridges. But for the mountain youth who are being, educated at Caney and for those in the commun ity who have accepted the vision theirs is a broadening outlook. . .While their sun still sets straight up; spiritual ly they have a horizon. "At Christmas, for instance, from our settlement were shipped 40,000 pretties sent to Caney from the flat coun try. . .From one of those cabins there came a letter: 'Caney Santa Claus sent me a green tie. I had before three pennies and seven marbles. . . When my log' cabin school goes out, in two more weeks and two days, I am going to Caney. And I'm coming with my green tie and my three pennies and my seven mar bles. Pappa says he'll travel as far as Defeated Creek with me and I can make it by my self through Bull Fork and Trace Branch and on to Caney. I KNOW you'll take me in and give me learnin. I crave it so.' "And thus. . . From around and about the mountain youth for forty years, have waded the creeks and climbed the ridges to Caney AND an ed ucation. Without a tie, with out three pennies and no mar bles at all the youth have come. . .Each year there trickles from Caney a stream oi mountain youth. . .educated for service to their deprived mountain folk. Through the help of our many friends we are able to carry on. Many little boys and girls of these hills who have entered Caney with less than seven marbles have emerged into teachers. public officials, leaders for righteousness around and about. "Also there is insidiously creeping into the fastnesses EVIL. So-called civilization is not ALL constructive. Some phases, destroy, around and er-bout." John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford, Ore. PUZZLED? Are you confused and puzzled by claims and counter claims in hearing aid advertising? Why not learn for yourself, first hand. Compare the hearing glasses by Maico with any other make for appearance, natural ness and hearing quality. Come in and make the test yourself at MAICO of MEDFORD - 242 South Central Tests Given FREE In Your Home Phone SP 2-7418 Henry . Myhre, Mgr. United Nations to act," Dr. Drees said. The prime minister gave his views in answer to questions telegraphed to The Hague. Compromise Difficult He said it was difficult to see how a solution of any kind could be reached with Presi dent Sukarno on Indonesian claims to Dutch New Guinea (which the Indonesians call West Irian). Indonesia, he said, has re fused to consider any pro posal "short of complete sur render of the territory" and was carrying out a "discrimin atory and hostile attitude" against the Dutch. In an interview with United Press in Jakarta Dec. 30, Su karno skirted a question on what ultimately will happen Russian Armed Forces Cut Seen As Empty By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia's announce ment of a cut in the size of its armed forces appears to be nothing but a smart propa ganda move. The Krem lin calls the reduction "a major new contribution to the cause of lessening tensions and creating trust in relations between states." But it still leaves the Soviet Union with the world's most powerful armed forces and still unwilling to enter a dis armament . agreement with guarantees which would pre vent it from cheating. wm ! r '' Charles M. McCann Conflicting Reports On U.S. Readiness Declared Confusing By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (IP) The taxpay- ing citizen is invited now to confuse himself further by at- tempt ing to reconcile the basic available information on n a t i o nal de fense with the simple princi ple that two-and-two-make four. Such basic Lyie c. wiison available in formation for example, as: The judgment of some leading military men that the national Defense department is a hodge-podge of defense nonsense. The top-secret Gaither Re port which apparently pic tures the United States as heading to the status of a sec ond class power and in its historical moment of gravest danger. The new Rockefeller Re port on national defense which clanged the alarm bell along similar lines. ( President Eisenhower's decision to hike defense spending by around 3 billion dollars in the next 18 months. The official White House party line that the United States is not "at this time" militarily weak compared to the Soviet Union. The White House party line was stated on Dec. 28 by Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, as follows: Stories that have been printed which indicate that the' United States is in a posi tion of weakness at this time are not true. They (supporting facts) are not in the (Gaither) report and are completely con trary to the report. The report says just the opposite." Brings Alarming Discussion This statement was in re sponse to questions asked after the Washington Post and Times Herald had published columns of alarming discus sion of national defense at tributed to the Gaither Report which had been submitted to the White House by a fact finding official committee. The President has law and precedent on his side in refus to congressional committees ing to make public or to re veal to congressional commit tees the contents of the Gaith er Report. Eisenhower has no Claimed Destroyed to Dutch property In Indo nesia and whether the Dutch owners would be compen sated. "All Dutch properties and investments are under govern ment control and supervision in order to safeguard the smooth running of economic enterprises," he said. Indonesia Tears Down Ties As regards future economic and cultural ties, Drees said that Holland wants them but that Indonesia had "step by step torn down this frame work for cooperation and thus unilaterally destroyed what ever basis there remained for good relations." Indonesia's claim to the Western or Dutch half of the huge island of New Guinea precipitated a d i p 1 o m atic Propaganda Gesture Hence from the practical viewpoint, the reduction is an empty gesture. In many countries all over the world, however, the Rus sians will be given credit for setting a good example to the Western Allies. Even in the United States the Soviet move got big head lines as a news story. Not everybody bothered to read in the dispatches and in edi torials the caution that for practical purposes the reduc tion if it is really carried out is meaningless. Increases Are Expected As part of the United States attempt to catch up with Rus sia in the nuclear missile field President Eisenhower is ex pected to ask Congress for in creased defense appropria tions. If he does, the Russians will such control over the Rocke feller Report which was fi nanced by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. That report, published last week end, substantially sup ports the broad inferences of the Gaither Report, including the urgent necessity to spend more for national defense and to spend it fast. The Rocke feller Report was especially critical of the national defense setup with its three competing still un-unified, armed serv ices. Outlines Differences There seemed to be, how ever, one difference between the two reports. Whereas the Gaither Report evidently found the United States al ready woefully lagging in de fense and vulnerable to catas trophic attack at this very mo ment, the Rockefeller re searchers believed that at the present trend the Soviets would not have the absolute upper hand until 1960. Hagerty may have had some such spread of two years in mind when he denied that the United States "at this time" was militarily weak compared to the Soviet Union. If so, Hag erty surely has indulged him self in a quibble which may return to haunt him. A quibble, says the diction ary, is "an evasion or a shift ing from the point of issue." Hagerty will be pressed to expand on his Gaither Report comment and expanding on it will not be easy. Red Skelton Claimed 'Getting Along Nicely1 Santa Monica, Calif. (IB Comedian Red Skelton is "getting along very nicely" at St. John's hospital but his return home is delayed pend ing further tests. The red-haired comic suf fered a cardio-asthmatic at tack Dec. 30 at his Bel-Air home and was taken to the hospital close to death, ac cording to his physician. From Far and Near.;. Lirwiller'i are called to serve an ever widening area, covering all borders of Jackson county. C. M. Litwiller The exceptionally moderate prices steady growtn. ftna rne arrennon given iu on (.... care and comfort of Mrs. Litwiller for lady clients, are also most appreciated! And night or day, these services are available to all. A call in need will convince you! LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close than crisis between Indonesia and The Netherlands. Unemploy ed Dutch citizens have already been ordered to leave Indo nesia. Dutch industries, plan tations, shipping and airlines have been seized. Indonesian officials state that these and other actions will continue until the Dutch surrender West New Guinea. West New Guinea or West Irian, was administered as part of Indonesia when Indo nesia was a Dutch colonial possession, although Indonesia won its independence in 1949. Dr. Drees asserted that the Papaun or native population of West New Guinea, "not the Indonesian government at Ja karta," should determine the ? political future of the terri tory. make the most of it in their . incessant propaganda broad- casts. They will point out that " while Russia is reducing its military forces, the United States is not. A lot of people In "neutral ist" and uncommitted coun tries perhaps even some in Allied countries will accept this. The Russian announcement was made in a carefully staged press conference in Moscow by First Deputy Foreign Min ister Vasily V. Kuznetsov and Deputy Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mikhail S. Malinin. They said the armed forces would be reduced by 300,000 men during 1958. Of these 300,000 men, Kuz netsov and Malinin said, Rus sia will withdraw 41,000 of its troops from East Germany and 17,000 from Hungary. But Kuznetsov and Malinin refused to say what the size of the Soviet armed forces would be after the reductions were carried out. This is in keeping with tra ditional Soviet secrecy. The new cut is the third Russia has announced in the last three years. A reduction of 640,000 was announced in 1955. A second one of 1,200, 000 men was supposed to be carried out last year. Nobody knows whether th first two cuts really were maae or whether the third will be. ....... In any event, the Kremlin has no reason to worry about weakening itself. Military ex perts estimate the present So viet strength at anywhere from 2,800,000 to 4,000,000 men. The United States armed forces totaled 2,789,642 last May 31. Thev are to be re duced to 2,700,000 by next June. Kuznetsov and Malinin said Russia's reduction was "an act of good will" and ex pressed hope that "the Allies would follow it." But any time Russia wants to Drove pood will all it hna to do is to agree to a cheat proof disarmament agreement. Mothers Leave for Shanghai, Peiping Hong Kong (W Three American mothers, in Com munist China to visit their im prisoned sons, left Canton to day by plane for Shanghai and Peiping. Mrs. Ruth Redmond, Yonk ers, N. Y., left for Shanghai to visit her son, Hugh Red mond, 38, who is serving a life sentence there on "spy" charges. Mrs. Philip Fecteau, Lynn, Mass., and Mrs. Mary Downey, New Britain, Conn., left for the Communist capital of Pei ping to visit their sons. They were accompanied by William Downey, another son of Mrs. Downey. The Communists have im prisoned John Downey, 27, for life, and Richard Fecteau, 30, for 20 years on espionage charges. They were American civilian army employees cap tured by the Chinese near the end of the Korean war. of course are a factor in this iv. ; t Mrs. Litwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, to need us and not Know us.