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Newspaper Page Text- FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE " Xveryone In Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager -GERALD LATHAM. Businesa Mgr. -- ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor trtni. n. ALiA.-via, uitv tailor "HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor - RICHARD JEWETT. Sports-Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor -DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaner 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 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. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Oificsal Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC., Of ' fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. seame. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver, B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EBITORIAl IasVocITatiQn U KJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1948 (Tuesday) Winter Cole, a principal va riety of pear grown in Tas mania, is one of the types be ing studied in the Southern HDregon Experiment station, "according to Dr. E. S. Deg man, superintendent. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The sec retary of agriculture endorses 'the plan of a Vermont sen ator for meat rationing with out price control. This will be quite a trick, like hoisting one's self over a fence, by the bootstraps without any boots." ;20 YEARS AGO :jan. 13. 1938 (Thursday) : Jackson County Retail Mer chants association, organized :at a dinner-meeting here. : Residents of the Sams Val ley district form Sams Valley iCoyote club, members of .which will be paid bounties -for coyotes killed. :30 YEARS AGO ;Jan. 13. 1928 (Friday) : The first "Hoover for Presi dent" club in Oregon organ--ized here. Possibilities for improve ment and needed requirements ;of the district will be called to the attention of the plan ning commission from time to time, according to the aims of the proposed East Side Im provement club. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1918 (Monday) The German spy-poisoned peanut butter scare in Phoe nix several weeks ago has ended; a Phoenix resident thought a substance in the jar to be ground glass. The Portland Telegram dis plays products of , Knight Packing company's Medford factory. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or ; six is good. 1. Which former baseball star was nicknamed "Bam bino"? 2. Bible: the "Edict of Cy rus" permitted the Jews in Babylonia to do what? 3. What is the proper name for the world's best seller? 4. Would it require four, eight, or sixteen, one - inch pipes to discharge the same volume of water as a single four-inch pipe? 5. Were Noah and Daniel Webster brothers or cousins? E 6. What does "Bo.-Jig the "Compass" mean? 7. Hikers well know that the 2,050 mile Appalachian Trail is in the eastern, central, or western U.S.? 8. In Vergil's "Aeneid," the colossal hollow figure of a horse was used by the Greek warriors to enter which city? 9. What is the possessive of "somebody else"? 10. In playing cards, a "pair royal" is how many? Answers: 1. Babe Ruih. 2. Return io Jerusalem. 3. The Bible. 4. Sixteen one-inch pipes. 5. Unrelated. 6. Nam ing its point in order, start ing from North. 7. Eastern. 8. Troy. 9- "Somer-dy else's." 10. Three cards of the same value (as three Kings). Good Business By this time, most landowners in the Med ford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts should be well acquainted with the facts con cerning tomorrow's election. So this is more in the nature of a reminder than anything else. We are pleased to leam that reaction among eligible voters so far has generally been favor able, and that the proposal is expected to pass. For, under examination, we can see no rea son why any of the water users of the two dis tricts should vote against it. It is clearly to the advantage of agriculturists in the districts to ap prove the proposal. DASICALLY, the election is merely an authori zation for the 'two districts to enter into a loan-contract with the United States government which will provide for a considerable amount of additional available water for use in the dis tricts, from the completed Talent project. The terms are exceedingly favorable to 'the two districts, for the loans are interest-free ; the pay-back period is extended, and overall costs as a result of the contract would rise negligibly. IXTHAT the added available storage capacity, plus rehabilitation work on existing distribu tion systems, will mean is best known to farmers of the two districts. Those who are fully familiar with the plan realize that it is their best chance for greater assurance of a dependable and additional supply of water, for more irrigated land, which in turn will assist in keeping down assessment costs, and for additional improvement work needed, par ticularly by the Rogue River Valley district. It will be good business for the districts' voters to approve the contract tomorrow. E.A. To Promote Wood Products In the past, we have pointed out what an ef fective job of industry promotion has been done by the steel, aluminum, masonry, glass and other building materials industries, and by the same token have criticized the lumber industry for its deficiencies along these lines. Therefore, we are glad to note that the Na tional Lumber Manufacturers association has taken a step in the right A wood promotion planning committee of the NLMA has approved "ground rules" for a pro posed $1,250,000 per year national wood mer chandising program. JJERETOFORE, only a few giants in the in Adustry, such as Georgia-Pacific and Weyer hauser, plus a few trade errouns such as the West Coast Lumbermen's association, have varied from the pattern of no widespread advertising at all, or, at most, sporadic and limited efforts. How much the increasing use of non-wood materials in construction motion (and the lack course debatable. So is on the lumber market, tempting to nose out of a uut it has not been inconsiderable. And if this proposed effort by the lumbering industry can do anything to counter the trend, so much the better for the lumber industry and for the areas so dependent on it, like south western Oregon. "THE proposal is still in the talking stage, and details must be worked out and funds pro vided. It is to be hoped this can be done. The objective, according to a release from the NLMA, is to "create nationally an atmosphere in which NLMA's regional associations and their members can better compete " And, at this stage, these objectives are set up : Advertising in trade journals and other opinion-moulding publications; informing building code and fire insurance officials in the uses and advantages of wood products ; expanding public relations activities, including texts, technical and promotional literature, films, and so on ; and en couraging high school and college students to follow careers in the technical wood sciences. We will watch with interest for some concrete progress on this project, which is so badly needed by wood-producing areas. E.A. Winter Scenes The idea for the Dae:e of uictures in Sun- AG? x r Hav's Mail Tribune, which we consider to be a minor work of art. had office for months the page could be devoted nature in wintertime. The nao-e was nrenared under the supervision I O A X A nf Mi's. Olive Starcher. women's editor: the layout was done by her assistant, Miss Peggy'ann Hutch inson, makeup was done bv veteran printer Ken Murray, and ideas and suggestions were provided by other members of the staff. BUT major credit for the page goes to Pho tographer Bob Vroman, who sought out, and captured on film, a few of the wintertime mys teries of this Rogue Valley. It was also he who wrote the graceful, and almost poetic, captions. VV C Cil C glttU til CI L, '-H mic ir flio midst: nf thp and entertainment to our Ulllig 01 Jjeaui cuiu cawc, j-i.-n.. Monday, January 13, 1958 direction. is due to industrial pro thereof for wood) is of the effect this has had now iust hoDefullv at year-long slump. been kicking around the idea that sometime a to showing the beauty of All CX w llJ.lt, W C tail tflsV nf brino'ino' npws readers, and bring some- 1 i y I m4P III 'SOV TgAKR SHE TEACH 'Who Goofed?' On Missiles Is Hot Political Issue By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Tucked away in the early passages of President Eisenhower's an nual message to Con gress was a gentle reminder of the adminis t r a t i on an swer to the question: Who goofed on the ballistic mis sile program? Lyie c. Wilson The admin istration's answer is that it was President Harry S. Tru man. Eisenhower, however, did not name Truman. He put it this way: "When it is remembered that our country has concen trated on the development of ballistic missiles for only about a third as long as the Soviets, these achievements show a rate of progress that speaks for itself. Only a brief time back, we were spending at the rate of only about one million dollars a year on long range ballistic missiles. In 1957 we spent more than one million dollars." Referred to Missiles The reference in that para graph to what Eisenhower called "these achievements" was perfectly plain. It re ferred to what has been ac complished in the Eisenhow er years with the Thor, Jupi ter and Polaris missiles which had been discussed in the preceding paragraph. The crack about spending only about one million dol lars a year on ballistics mis siles a brief time back re quired some research. The re search disclosed, as might have been suspected, that the one million expenditure was Truman's baby. It was spent in the fiscal year 1953 for which Mr. T. prepared his last presidential budget. The record shows that three years later, fiscal 1956, spending was $250 million In the Day's News By FRANK Hazards of agriculture note: The second cold wave of the season has locked Florida in a deep freeze. The Orange and grapefruit section across the central part of the state reports temperatures of 23 to 30 degrees. These lows may cause an other 100 million dollars of damage to the thousands of acres of citrus which are ly ing exposed to the frigid blasts. The Florida citrus in dustry suffered a hundred-million-dollar loss in the big freeze just four weeks ago. H mmmm. That brings up the subject of federal farm aid which is based largely on subsidized high prices "or certain so called "basic ' crops. It is cost ing the taxpayers biUions of dollars per year, and there are good reasons to believe that it may be wrecking the agricultural industry of the United States. At any rate, it is building up VAST surpluses that hang like a dark thundercloud over the markets of the future. Ef forts to dispose of these sur pluses abroad by cutting prices to foreign buyers are getting us into hot water with our friends who are hurt by this fire-sale dumping of our accumulated -agricultural pro ducts. I CAN'T help wondering if it wouldn't be better to scuttle our fabulously costly and dis astrously disruptive farm aid AeBbCcOiEJFfQIi J YA TO BUM 8U88l GlM? WW and that in fiscal 1957 which ended last June 30, it hit one bililon dollars. So, without naming names, Eisenhower sought to tag Truman twice first, for let ting the Soviet Union get a head start on missiles, and, second, for finally spending so little as to keep the United States in low gear in the mis sile race. The gentle way in which Eisenhower stated his indict ment of Truman administra tion missile efforts is typical of his reluctance to engage in name-calling political rows. Not Reluctant Former President Truman is not a reluctant political fighter. He's a slugger as would be expected of any veteran of the bare-knuckled political wars which pre vailed in Jackson county, Mis souri, when HST was coming up to county office and, to ward the U.S. Senate. Mr. T., therefore, is likely to be heard from on the sub ject of who goofed the missile effort. The annual message could not have found him un prepared. Vice President Richard M Nixon and the Republican National committee long since began contending publicly that the Truman administra tion . was responsible for the missile lag which enabled the Soviet Union to launch the world's first man-made satel lite. Some weeks ago the com mittee distributed nationwide comparative defense, research and development and missile spending figures for the Tru man and Eisenhower admin istrations. This information now has been circulated among Republican members of Congress. Republican officials and campaigners thus are being briefed ' for the national de bate which is inevitable in this election year on this question: Who goofed? JENKINS and substitute for it a rela tively simple crop insurance system. I'm pretty sure that in this present emergency these Flor ida citrus growers would much prefer such a system. It would cost money, of course, but it might do some real good. Whether the pres ent farm program does more good than harm is at least open to question. WHILE we're on that sub ject, let's take a look at our current mouse problem here in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California. It in volved heavy crop losses in 1957. It may involve even heavier losses in 1958-even if all the mice all die off next spring. It seems likely that our crop rotation system will be seriously disturbed. If our stands of pasture grass and al- talla are heavily damaged this winter, they will have to be plowed up and the land put to other crops. Most of these substitute crops are al ready in heavy overproduc tion, so the price return from them will be highly disap pointing. Besides, our rotation cycle will be badly upset for a period of years. In addition, there is the serious damage done to ditch banks. IF we are spending our agri cultural aid billions for a sound and businesslike crop insurance system, our farmers here in the Southern Oregon Far Northern California area would get some good out of Communications Letter 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. From Juvenile Council To the Editor: The Juvenile Court, the Juvenile Depart ment, and the Advisory Coun cil to the Juvenile Court of Jackson County wish to -express their appreciation for the valuable assistance rend ered to them by your news paper m publicizing the open ing of the new Jackson Coun ty Juvenile Detention Home. We believe that your gen erous support of this project aroused the public interest and acquainted citizens with the work of this Department to an extent which could not have been accomplished by any other means. In the short period of time in which the Detention Home has been used, we find that there is greater opportunity for our staff to get to know the children and to provide the Court with more complete information about them in order that better plans may be made. We do not expect miracles from this opportun ity to do closer work with the children, but we believe that over the long period of time this program will justify its existence. We thank you again for your cooperation and we hope that we will merit your continued interest. H. Dewey Wilson, Chairman, Advisory Council to the Juvenile Court of Jackson County Wicked To Talk to Russia To the Editor: I have just finished reading your editor ial about the man from Mars, etc., in today's paper and I feel that I must take issue with you. I have noticed that you have been writing about getting along with Russia for the past several weeks. I believe you are forgetting basic Americanism. You are recommending that we make a truce with unrighteousness. Also you forget that in order to get along with Russia we wmuirl hp endangering our freedom. One of our great forefathers said Give me lihertv or give me death, we believe any true American stands on that same premise today. Mr. Editor do you hon estly believe that we can have peace with Russia and sua etnv free? There is a right way and a wrong way. Might still does not make right. There are still men in the world who are ready to die for what is right. Only men who have a righteous heart will fight and die for what is right. The issue is not of getting along with one another. The issue is in the hearts of men. There are some Americans who have a righteous heart because they have come in contact with Jesus and now they have a new heart. They are ready to die for freedom or any other righteous cause. I, too, am concerned about the future of our nation. And I want to do all I can to help. I think it would be good if you would print this little letter in your "Communica tions." Carroll Powell, Box 233, Central Point. Courtesy Pays To the Editor: It is always with considerable pride that we read letters which point out the fact that Medford and Jackson county are con to huild a reputation for friendliness and courtesy. Because this quality seems to be growing in scarcity in many cities, it has far great er value when found in com munities such as ours. A letter of this type, re ceived here recently, follows. Don McNeil, Manager, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Medford Chamber of Com merce: The writer and his wife had to make an emer gency trip to California re cently with our schedule bringing us through your city on Friday, Jan. 3. It was about 11 a.m. when we were on the northern out skirts, at which position a young gentleman in a pickup attracted our attention to a front tire which was low. Im pulsively, we immediately headed for the first service station and I don't think we took time to properly thank this fine lad. This has rested on our minds, for after rendering this admirable service he turned around and headed back to ward the center of town, which was evidence that he was away from his course with his courtesy. We felt so warm in his ac tion that we expended some it as would these unfortun ate citrus growers in Florida. They will get no good out , of the present farm program. I Central European Nuclear Ban May Play Role in Negotiations By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A proposal that nuclear weapons be banned in three central European countries may play a big part in any Cold War negotiations.. Under the proposal, no nuclear wea pons would be stored or manufactured in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Oddly enough, the proposal has been kicking around for more than three months with out getting a great deal of attention. Also, it comes not from one of the big powers that would be primarily concerned in any negotiations but from semi independent Communist Po land. Polish Foreign Minis ter Adam Rapacki first pre sented it to the United Na tions General Assembly in New York last Oct. 2. The United States has been cool to the plan. It feels quite rightly that it would be to the advantage of Soviet Russia and especially that it would encourage "neutral ism" among some of the West ern European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. Allies Interested But some important Allied leaders, while objecting to its details, have shown consid erable interest in it. These leaders include British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, French Premier Felix Gail lard and West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer There also is strong support for it in NATO members Den mark and Norway. Those two countries are acutely aware of what might happen to them in a war if they permit ted the United States to es tablish missile bases on their territory. Polish Foreign Minister Ra packi has kept his proposal persistently alive since he first presented it in the UN. Just before last month's NATO "Summit" meeting in Paris, Rapacki called the am bassadors of several Allied countries to his office in War saw and reminded them of his proposal. Russia Endorses Proposal Soviet Russia naturally has endorsed it fully. Soviet Pre mier Nicolai A. Bulganin mentioned it in the letters and all UN members through out the world before the last NATO meeting. Rapacki roused further in terest when he said in a state ment to the Foreign Affairs committee of the Polish Par liament that his plan should include controls to make any ban on nuclear weapons ef fective. Bulganin mentioned the Rapacki proposal again in the letters he sent to the Western Allies and other UN mem bers last Thursaay. In say ing that Russia "proposes to call" a high-level meeting on cold war talks within the next two or three months, Bulganin said that he would bring up the Rapacki propos al then. Allied Replies Due Soon Border Attack Beaten At Yemen Aden, British Protectorate -tP) RAF planes and local tribesmen beat off a border attack by troops from the Arab Kingdom of Yemen Friday in a fresh flareup of desert warfare, the govern ment announced. The government said Ye meni troops using anti-aircraft guns attacked a truck convoy and routed the raid ers with heavy casualties, the announcement said. . It was the latest in a series of border incidents that start ed early last year with renew ed Yemen claims to owner ship of the oil-rich protector ate. TO GERMANY Bath, Me. (IP) The U.S.S. destroyer Anthony was built at the Bath Iron Work Corp. to fight Nazi submarines dur ing World War II. The An thony will form the backbone of the new West Germany Navy by being its largest ves sel. $24 in your city which wasn't entirely necessary and this is cited to expose the value of good citizenship in a mun icipality and appreciation. Frank L. Taylor, Reedsport, Ore. Do FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? FASTEETH. an Improved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plate, holds false teeth more firmly In plcse. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy, Kooev. pastv taste or feeling. FAS TEETH is alkaline (non-acid) Does aot sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath) . Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. cSrles M.'' McCann It is quite likely that the Polish plan will be mention ed in the replies which the United States and its Allies are now drafting to Bulgan- letters of last month. These replies must also take into account the letters he sent Thursday. There is of course no tell ing when or even whether any negotiations to ease the Cold War tension will be Matter of Fact WHY GAVIN DESPAIRED Washington Human mo tives are always mixed, and there may have been person al motives in L t. General James Gavin's despairing de cision to re tire from the Army. Gavin certainly aware, for ex ample, that President Ei senhower bit- Stewart Aisop terly resented Gavin's outspoken role in the Army's behalf. The President's resentment inevitably meant that Gavin could not be Chief of Staff at least as long as Eisenhower was President. Gavin is gen erally regarded as the Army's most brilliant senior officer, and the feeling of being block ed off from the top Army post cannot have been pleasant. But there were other, imper sonal, and far more important reasons for Gavin's despair ing gesture. One way to understand those reasons is to go back and examine the photographs which appeared in the news papers and magazines of the Darade of the Red Army in Moscow on Nov. 7, the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. With the space satellites already launched, all sorts of new surprises were anticipated. WHEN the Soviets failed to hit the moon with a hy- drogren bomb, or bring the doe Laika down alive on Red Sauare, there was a certain sense of anti-climax, and the parade was billed as "unsen sational." But to a profession al infantry soldier like Gavin, the parade was by no means unsensational. The Soviets actively en couraged Western photogra phers to take pictures of their tanks, troop carriers, tactical missiles, and so on, much as Hitler used to do in the pre .Munich days. The reasons were similar. In virtually every category the ground warfare weapons displayed by the Soviets were decisively superior to anything in the possession of the United States br its allies. One qualified military spec ialist, Garrett Underhill, has already described some of the Soviet infantry weapons in an article for the "Washington Post," To cite a few examples: During the Nov. 7 parade, the Soviets displayed huge "flak, tanks," each mounting a pair of powerful new anti aircraft guns. The- only Amer ican counterpart is a light tank mounting much less pow erful guns first designed in 1936. The NATO ground forces lack even this protec tion. The Soviets also displayed a new, improved heavy tank, with heavier armor and ar tillery than anything in the American arsenal. They are known to have several thou sand such tanks. This country is building 300 heavy tanks, the last of which will not be delivered until 1959. The tactical missiles dis played by the Russians were clearly both more powerful and more mobile than any- FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 held. One thing is certain. Pres sure in favor of some kind of negotiations is mounting steadily. Mindful of painful past experience, the United States wants to hold them only if it gets assurance that Russian is ready at last to negotiate in good faith. But to some other Allied coun tries, the big thing is to get talking. By Stewart Alsop thing in the American forces. The Soviets even have new. lightweight rifles and other infantry weapons, which ren der their individual soldiers far more mobile than Ameri can troops. I N short, the Soviet ground troops are unquestionably far better equipped than their American or NATO counter parts. The story does not end there. As Gavin said, there were 27 divisions in the American Army when he came to Wash ington, and there are 15 now. What he did not say is that only nine of these divisions - a ridiculous number for a great power are fully equip ped and combat-ready. The official estimate of 175 Soviet divisions is probably exag gerated. But the Soviets un doubtedly have 65 armored and mechanized divisions, ful ly equipped for atomic war, plus an equal number of in fantry divisions, all resting on a huge mobilization base. The Gaither report, the Rockefeller Fund report, and all other competent authori ties have stressed that the ability to fight limited wars is as important an element in the world power balance as the ability to fight suicidal all-out nuclear wars. Yet throughout the presidency of that product of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Army has been the Penta gon's stepchild. There have been no Sputniks to drama tize Soviet superiority in ground warfare, but that su periority is incontestable. IT MAY be charged that the Army leaders notably Gavin himself have been too eager ,to expend the Army's resources on such things as space platforms. It may al.o be charged with -justice that the Army's proportion of men to combat units is still much too high. Yet if one examines such facts as those listed above, it is easy to understand Gavin's despair, which is shared by many other dedicated of ficers. For the rest of us, it might be well to remember that the world has not seen its last in fantry battle, and to remem ber also Gen. Gavin's warn ing: "These are your sons and brothers. -We don't bring them into the Army to die. If anyone is to die, we want It to be the other guy. We've got to give them the equip ment they need." (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Free Book on Arthritis And Rheumatism HOW TO AVOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES An amazing newly enlarged 36 page book entitled "Arthritis Rheumatism" will be sent free to anyone who will write for it. 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