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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDtTEIBUIfE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads 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 GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor IARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor JtlCHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor .OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Creeon 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 mm. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 JSunday Only One year $4.20 -By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle -. T'oint. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv 2 er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 t Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance jOfflrlal Paper of City of Medford j Official 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, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At- anta, Vancouver, B. C. O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION STATION A I EDITORIAL associiatpoJn Tlighf 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. a 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 17. 1948 (Sunday) 2 : Dr. Elmo Stevenson, presi dent of Southern Oregon col .lege, inaugurates graduate J extension course in pnnoso- - nhv at Klamath Falls. - Arthur Perry, reporter and columnist for the Medford Mail Tribune, taken to local hospital. T 20 YEARS AGO ! Jan. 17. 1938 (Monday) Rogue River National for- 'st headquarters moves from federal building to the Liber ' ty building at West Main and South Grape its. ' Candidates for constable ' for Medford district will be V - r z 'i w a ,t i .m. I l: . .11 i voted upon at the primary ,' election Friday, May 20. 30 YEARS AGO Jan.' 17. 1928 (Tuesday) '.: A new motor sled, the in . vention of E. M. Tucker of ' Tucker's garage, is being per- - f ected here and will be given a series of tests. ' First announcement of a candidate for a political of- - fice for the county this year " Is that of A. J. Crose, for : county clerk. ; 40 YEARS AGO : Jan. 17. 1918 (Thursday) " California Oregon Power company turns on electricity . for the first time from its new J. power plant and dam at copco. ! City Electrician L. E. Hin man proposes that Medford have an automatic fire alarm system. I What's Your I.Q.? 5 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. X 1. What does "C. O. D." signify? 5 2. Bible: Does Paul's abid- lng "hope" deal with the past, present, or future? 1 3. If your watch has been ' hypothecated, would it have been cleaned, stolen, or pledg ' ed as security on a loan? - 4. Name the legal docu- ment, used in land transac- tions, that is spelled the same ; forward and backward? 5. The Roosevelt dime was : released to the public in 1934, Z 1940 or 1946? 6. Would a termagant wife be meek and mild or boister- ous and quarrelsome? ' ; 7. Manila is the capital of .; which country? -. 8. Are State bonuses for war service exempt from Fed - eral income tax? ! -9. What was the middle i name of former Senator Rob 1 ert A. Taft? 10. How many days after Easter is Ascension Day? Answers: 1. "Collect on de- livery. 2. Future. 3. Pledged f 'as security on a loan. 4. Deed. 5. In 194S. 6. Boisterous and quarrelsome. 7. The Philip- pine Republic. 8. Yes. 9. Al-Z- phonso. 10. Forty days. EXCHANGE STATE VISITS Belgrade (IP) President Tito and Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar wil exchange .State visits, reliable sources Sources said Thursday. They 3aid the exchange was ar ranged through diplomatic channels in Budapest and here, but no' date for the vis its has been set. , - Hopeful Signs Although construction on the Pacific coast in 1957 was lower than any year since 1954, and nationwide it fell below previous years, there is mounting evidence that This, of course, is industry, which has a large stake m construction generally, and a particularly big one in residen tial construction. For, despite the encroachment of masonry, steel, aluminum and glass, wood still furnishes the bulk of residential materials, and substan tial quantities also go into the building of con crete bridges, frameworks and scaffoldings, and other structures for heavy construction. IN AN article elsewhere on this page, Washing ton Correspondent Richard Spong says that in the construction industry, "happy tunes have replaced the blues," with forecasts that a 5 per cent or more rise in construction over 1957 is confidently predicted. He reports that contracts for future construc tion, in total, are up 14 per cent from a year ago, with housing contracts up 8 per cent. And, he adds, a two-year slide in home con struction one of the big factors in the bad lum ber market last .year seemed to be checked in mid-1957, with the results due to show up strongly early in 1958. If these figures are correct, and thre is no reason to doubt them, it is to be expected that things should Start picking up soon for Oregon's economy, so much of which is based on logging and lumber manufacture. E.A. Winter Sunsets Glancing through the Venetian blind slats over the office window the other afternoon at about 5 o'clock, we were startled to see a sort of roseate glow touching everything in sight. It was beautiful, but almost ominous, so dif ferent was it from the light of day to which we are accustomed. Others in the office saw it, too, and one observed it looked sort of like "the end of the world is coming." An editorial writer for the New York Times saw a similar phenomenon at about the same time, and he described it as that "evening light which is often so spectacular in January." H E ADDED: "It slants over the western hills and seems to bathe the whole world in a glow as different from summer dusk as winter itself is different. This seems to be a redder light, almost rosy at times, especially on a snowless landscape . . . This is no warm glow, as the rose light from the hearth fire is warm; this light is cold, cold as the sky itself. And it lingers only a little while, then fades into dusk; the brittle, echoic dusk of winter." This weird light, differentbut related to the strange yellow-light sunsets sometimes seen in spring and fall when cloud formations are just right, seems peculiar to'- this part of the year, when the sunsets are gradually getting later, and the sunrises staying at about the same time. Even winter has unsuspected beauties. Hj.A. Masculine Musings As a mere male, and one whose worries about clothing largely end after the fundamentals of comfort and warmth are with "fashion" evidenced times baffles us. So, too, does their some of the creations that the arbiters of fashion ability dictate from the salons of Paris, Rome, New York and Hollywood. Our most recent puzzlement along these lines arises from the so-called sack dress, which one writer described as looking as though its wearer were standing in the dram pipe. MOW that we have confessed our inability to understand why women put up with such things, we also should confess that there always seems to be a vast difference between the pic tures which show how the new fashion "should" look after it is first revealed, and the end product, as visible on the well-dressed matrons and misses on the streets of Medford. For there is a filtering-down process, a cer tain modification presumably prompted by the innate good sense and taste of the normal, well- dressed American woman. Through this the new fashion undergoes a change, and emerges into the light of the every-day resembling what the designers had in mind, but also vaguely and subtly different. WOMEN, we are told, Up to a point, this may be a valid statement. But beyond that point, we are convinced, women DO take into consideration the judgments and desires of their men-folk. Evidence indicates that men prefer to see a woman dressed so that her recognizably a woman are still detectable, even though half -concealed. And perhaps this is the reason that the pure horror of the sack dress is modified, belted, hiked up here and buttoned down there, before it streets. All of which, we aver, Friday, January 17. 1958 19o8 will improve. good news for the lumber satisfied, the concern by the fair sex some willingness to climb into middle of an oversized , don't dress to please the things which make appears on small-town is a Good Thing. E.A. nm Oont close rr. I Things Looking Up In Construction, Reports Indicate By RICHARD SPONG Washington, D.C. The construction industry is one major segment of the econ omy, at least, where happy tunes have replaced the blues Some gay notes: Govern ment forecasters are saying that spending on construction in 1958 should come to $49.6 billion. That would mean a rise of about 5 per cent over the 1957 total of $47.3 billion as carried in preliminary esti mates of the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce And the Eisenhower budget for the next fiscal year calls for more federal financing aid for special housing proj ects for the elderly. Also, the President recommends raising the ceiling on home mort gages insured by the Federal Housing Administration to help in the purchase of "lar ger and better houses." And he would add $3 billion a year for the next five years to the F.H.A.'s mortgage in surance authority. Contracts Up Moreover, F. W. Dodge Corp., construction news and marketing agency, reported on Jan. 13 that contracts for future construction totaled $298,327,000 in November up 14 per cent from a year ago. Contracts for the first 11 months of 1957, the agency reported, showed nonresiden tial building up 19 per cent; residential, 8 per cent; heavy engineering, 19 per cent. Con tract awards are a reasonably reliable indicator of future building activity, inasmuch as there usually is a long lag in time between the awarding of a contract and the actual cash outlay. Mid-1957 saw the apparent checking of a two-year slide in private residential con struction. Outlays for private home building adjusted sea sonally rose steadily through the end of the year. Over the entire year, how ever, private housing activity was down about 10 per cent to Babson Sees Fewer Jobs for Graduates By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. The big-paying, easy-to-get first job out of college is something we shall see less of this year. Company recruitment of ficers are say ing that "this year for the first time in a long while we shall find Dlenty of June Roger W. Babson graduates around at prices we want 'to pay." Babson studies of busmess activity have for some months now revealed a mild softening in both employment and pay rolls. The cause of this slow down in the cycle can be at tributed to a number of things; among these are ris ing productivity through tech nological advances, automa tion, and declines in govern ment spending. The reason I am writing this article now instead of in the spring is to try to make both young people and their parents aware of this changed condition. If a college educa tion teaches nothing else, it should make individuals aware that survival of the fittest is a law of nature not likely to be repealed in a hurry by any congress, soviet, or college placement officer. Unemployed College Graduates You may be surprised to know that there are a number of last June's graduates who have not yet been able to find j lK men air ' $12.2 billion, about the same relative decrease as occurred in 1956. The falling-off was attributed to a shortage of mortgage funds. The situa tion was relieved somewhat in August, when the Housing and Home Finance Adminis tration raised the maximum interest rate on F.H.A.-in-sured loans and lowered down payment requirements as au thorized by the 1957 Housing Act. Then early in December, Norman P. Mason, F.H.A. Commissioner, quietly noti fied field offices to go easier in applying their standards as to how large an income a fam ily must have to qualify for a loan. Charles K. Rieger, vice president of General Electric, called this action "the best news I've heard in a long time, good for build ers, good for home-buyers, and very good for us manu facturers." More recently, on Jan. 8, Mason announced two fur ther steps designed to stimu late the revival in home building. Home-buyers will no longer be required to fur nish their own cash to cover the closing costs on purchase of a house. And discount rates on F.H.A .-insured mortgages were adjusted regionally to encourage lending. Housing Steadies Private housing starts, ac cording to "Construction Re view" edged down in October to 87,000 but even this figure represented a seasonally ad justed annual rate of 1 mil lion private dwelling starts, about the same as for each of the previous five months. Value of work on new pri vate units in November re mained above $1 billion con tinuing the better-than-sea-sonal ' strength evident since mid-1957. Meantime, Novem ber data show continuing in creases in spending for high ways, public utilities, office buildings, private hospitals, public schools, and conserva tion and development projects. full-time employment of the kind they want. I learned from one large eastern uni versity recently that better than 26 per cent of its last June graduates had failed to find employment to their lik ing by Labor Day. Some are still working at part-time jobs; some have' gone back to college for graduate work. While this figure may be somewhat atypical, it does, nevertheless, point up a trend. Did you know, too, that a fair sprinkling of last June's graduates who did get jobs have already been "excessed" by their employers? This word "excess" is a lovely new personnel word which means "you are a nice enough indi vidual; you have done well on the job; we would like to have you around, but we just don't need you any more." In short, he has been fired. Start Job Hunting Now One well-known college placement officer has stated that he expects the number of campus visits by companies this year to be cut by 50 per cent. I cannot agree with this; but, I do say there will be some shrinkage. . If, therefore, you expect to graduate from school or col lege this year, and want a job, start hunting now. Include these things in your prepara tion: (1) Make an appraisal of yourself.- Know your voca tional interests, strengths, and weaknesses. (2) Find out what kinds of jobs can best use your abilities, education, and experience: working with peo ple, with numbers, or with 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. T.V. Weather Reports False To the Editor: At 2 p.m. to day (Thursday) our KBES television station on "News of the Hour," in announcing the Medford and Klamath Falls weather, stated "the Medford weather was foggy and cloudy no temperature given." As at that time the sun had been shining brightly for sev eral hours on Medford, I im mediately went outside. Out side the sun was shining brightly enough to cast a dark shadow back of me, and a slight breeze was swaying the small branches of an ever green tree. So there was no fog. It is true that there was a light film of clouds, but here and there overhead blue sky was discernible. Also in the foothills and mountains sur rounding the valley, a haze was to be seen. From such a poor report of our weather at that time, a prospective trader living in say a 10, 20 or 30-mile radius of Medford would say to him or herself "Why go to Med ford this afternoon to trade, for it is foggy and cloudy there." In the interest of civic pride and business welfare, we all hope and trust in the future that station KBES-TV covering southern Oregon and northern California, will be more accurate in their hourly "News of the Hour" weather reports. Otherwise, for the sake of Medford merchants, they should do away with them entirely. Subscriber, (Name on File). Ra, Sol, Sun To the Editor: As to enjoy ing winter sunshine: Ra was the Sun God of the early Egyptians. Without the smile of this supreme God, grain did not grow. Without it, man shivered. (Writer can testify his greatest suffering from cold was, not in Iceland nor in Alaska. Neither was it on the Siberian border of Man churia. It was on a North African desert. He once felt a drop there from 120 degrees at 3 p.m. to 20 degrees next 3 a.m.!). Shamash similarly was ven erated as Sun God by the Assyrians. Merodach was hail ed by the Chaldean shepherds. Up in Persia, original home of what we today call the "Sunworshippers" or Parsees of Bombay, the Sun ancient ly was venerated as Ormudz. The Greeks, who were care ful not to offend any deity, adopted Ra of the Nile as their Helios. Of him Apollo was a manifestation. The Ro mans, always ready to bor row from Egypt via Athens, called their fiery God Sol. (We materials and things? (3) In vestigate your college library to find out what companies offer what kinds of jobs. (4) Go to a good financial source book and check specific com panies for growth potential and product diversification. Study Companies (5) Have a general knowl edge, before you go into the interview, of each company as well as of the industry it represents. (6) Be able to tell a prospective employer in a general way why you are in terested in his particular in dustry and his company. (7) Set up a contact schedule for yourself, and send a resume a day to companies you think you would like to work for, asking for the privilege of an interview. (8) When interview time "comes, be able to talk intelligently about yourself, indicating again, in a general way, the kinds of things you think you might be able to do on the job. (9) Send a follow- up letter after the interview. Sure, this is a lot of work, and it takes a good deal of time.. But the, person who fails to take minimal steps of this sort is mentally lazy. Time spent now in getting ready for interviews is far better employed than time wasted in interviews from which you will obviously be "washed out" because of your lack of preparation. It is also far better than time spent later on a job for which you have neither the interest nor the aptitudes. Job hunting is serious business, more so this year than at any time since the war. DAIRY - East Main St. Our eggs are so fresh the hen's haven't missed them yet. I I I. Eisenhower's Reply Tops Week's Foreign News By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent Good and bad news of the week in balance: President Eisenhower laid before Soviet Russia this week a detailed plan aimed a t reducing world tension. As part of his nlan. the President of fered to at tend a "sum mit" con fer ence on cold war issues pro vided that Soviet leaders could convince him they were ready to negotiate in good faith. Eisenhower made his pro posals in reply to a letter which Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin had sent him last Dec. 10. He called on Russia to help restore confidence by carry ing out the promise it made at the last "summit" meeting, in July, 1955, that Germany should be reunified through free elections. As regards the new "sum mit" meeting which Russia still have helio-graphs and sol ariums, have we not?). In our own Western Hem isphere the Aztecs honored the Sun God as Tezcatlipoca. Down in Peru, the Inca him self wasa direct descendant of the Mighty Sun God. Our own Nordic forebears bowed down before Sunna. We still call the first day of our week "SUN"-day and the next one MON"-day, after his wife the Moon. Old English wrote "sun" as "sonne," as it still is lettered in German. "Die Sonne strait am ersten hier" is one boastful line of the Swiss folksong, "The Mountain Boy." C. M. Goethe Seventh and J sts. Sacramento 14, Calif. Way To Heaven is Simple To the Editor: Since the Jacksonville reader d i dn't sign her or his name in Fri day's Mail Tribune, I shall ask to use this column to' state my views. In order to bring deliver ance to mankind, or to save the souls of condemned sin ners, we have to teach and preach the Gospel. It is not enough to state as a fact that Jesus is the Son of God, nor that He became our Brother when He was born in Beth lehem; neither is it enough to say, the crucified Lord is the gap between God and us. I like to think of it this way, "Christ, born, crucified, and risen." I believe the Lord Jesus Christ is true God be cause He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, He- was true man because He was born of the virgin Mary. He was pun ished, suffered, was nailed to a cross, died, and was buried, in my place for my sins, not for mine only, but also for yours and for the sins of the whole world. The third day He rose victoriously from the dead and thereafter ascended visibly into heaven, to pre pare a place for us, "That where He is we may be also," if we will but acknowledge our sinfulness and believe He has paid the ransom for us. The way to heaven is that simple; now let us, Go and tell," all of it, because you cannot separate the star of Bethlehem, the cross of Cal vary, and the empty tomb. Mrs. Arthur JannKe ' P. O. Box 94 Central Point, Ore. A Plug for Dempster's To the Editor: I want to use your column to publicly thank the Dempster Furniture peo ple for their enjoyable win dow displays during the holiday eason. It's the first time in all our years in tnis area mat any store has bothered to dress their windows to delight the eyes of the children and to remind us all that Christmas IS a sacred time of year. . We'll keep this in mind when the time comes for us to reinvest in household fur nishings. Mrs. J. W. Stevens, P.O. Box 966 Central Point, Ore. Loretta Young Play Praised To the Editor: Hats off to KBES-TV and the sponsors of the Loretta Young show for the excellent play presented Jan. 12, 1958. As usual Miss Young gave society a jab where it might do the most SMITH at Genessea Ill Charles M. McCann has long sought, the Presi dent said it would be useful only if careful preparation gave promise of its success First, he said, there must be exchanges through diplo matic channels. Then negotia good. Her punch line, "Re form, like charity, begins at home," should shock a few viewers from the apathy and indifference that grips so many of us. If the "message expressed by Miss Young's portrayal arouses parents, PTA work ers, church workers, youth directors and civic leaders to the seriousness of the prob lem confronting our town and every town in America it will have been worthwhile. (Mrs.) Ruth B. Simmons Secretary, Jackson County Council for Children and Youth. Copco Worker Explains To the Editor: In answer to H. E. Braunig of Talent, how about electricity , appearing Jan. 4? There were two cases of trouble. This company has equipment, as good as any private or public utility in the U.S. The trouble was caused by ice on wires. I have worked quite some time for the California Ore gon Power company, and there was no time wasted in restoring service to this 12,-000-volt Gistribution line. There are certain safety fac tors in restoring service. The safety rules were made by the employees, the company and the state of Oregon, and are applied to all work on hot lines. Ray Linn (District lineman) 60 Fifth st. Ashland, Ore. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ACCORDING TO BILLY GRAY, chickens out San Fernando valley way have perfected a thrilling new game. Th line up along the state highway and wait for a car to come , tearing along. Then they dart across the road, prac tically under the wheels of the car. Any chicken who loses its nerve at the last moment is called a high school student! Some candidates for a Ju venile delinquency (home were tearing down a road in a dickety hot-rod at about 90 miles an hour. A goon In the the rear seat noticed the door on his side wasn't well closed. Hastily he opened and slammed it shut. The driver, without turning his head, snarled, "WHO just got in?" There's a line in the ocean where, by merely crossing same, yon can lose a whole day. There's one on most every highway, however, I where you can do even better. , - ' 1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Leon's TOTS -to -TEENS Continues . . Terrific Values! GOATS Sizes 3 to 6x $00 V UP IS DRESSES $2 $3 $5 JACKETS Including Car Coats $Q00 lin v up is BLOUSES sbo Many Other Wonderful Values! Leon's TOTS -to -TEENS 105 E. MAIN to Russia tions could be taken to the level of the foreign ministers of the countries concerned. Finally, if these negotiations proved fruitful, there would be the "summit" meeting. To strengthen the position of the United States either as a cold war opponent of Russia or in negotiations with it, Ei senhower submitted to Con gress a budget of $73,900,000, 000 for the fiscal year begin ning July.l. Of this, $39,779, 000,000 was earmarked for defense. Defense estimates called for big increases in spending in the nuclear mis siles field and for reductions in troop strength and conven tional weapons. French Premier Felix Gail lard, who took office last Nov. 5 as his country's 24th post war premier, faced a series of votes of confidence in the National Assembly, the con trolling house of parliament, at its new session. The 1958 budget, a. plan for home rule for Algeria and a proposal for constitutional reform which would make it harder for the Assembly to overthrow a government were the chief issues. A defeat on any of them could force Gail- lard s resignation. A government report issued in Washington estimated that countries of the Soviet bloc had promised loans and grants to free countries totalling $1, 900,000,000 in the last 2Vt years. The aid program, part of the Communist attempt to in filtrate free countries, was ex tended to 11 countries Af ghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Ne pal, Egypt, Syria, Iceland and Yugoslavia. Stop Me . SAVE NOW! Sizes 8 to 14 $700 f UP SKIRTS 5300 5400 SHOES ?2 $3 $4 SLIPPERS, $1.50 PEDAL PUSHERS 54500 $200 u
