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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "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 SERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 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: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 150 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 fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I A C r cITa T rYYM real i-y-j-o" ri31HMia..lluIH 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. 28. 1948 (Wednesday) O. H. Benetson, Medford at torney and legislator, leaves for Washington to appear be fore a .congressional commit tee on labor and public wel fare which will hear testi mony on a bill for acquiring Camp White hospital as a domiciliary- Ben Day, Sams Valley rancher, announced today he would be a candidate for no mination for representative from Jackson county in pri mary election. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1933 (Friday) Letter received by Ashland Police Chief Charley Talent requesting the birthplace, date of birth and location of burial of C. O. Johnson and Elvyn Dougherty, two victims of the D'Autremont train rob bery. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Pussy willows are reported to have made their vernal debut along Bear Creek." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1928 (Saturday) Harry Lindgren, livestock expert for Oregon State col lege, urges sheepmen of this area to raise the quality of their herd to make their product more easily salable. Considered one of the most successful of its kind, the third annual Owen-Oregon Lumber company employees' dance held at Oriental Gar dens. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1918 (Monday) Farmers in this area are urged to grow sugar beets. From local and personal column: "The Rogue River valley milling company is now ready to begin opera tions." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Jack Broughton intro duced the first set of boxing gloves and what else? 2. Bible: Who was the fa ther of the brothers, Gad and Asher? 3. The Jewish Day of Aton ment is known as ? 4. Is the former King George of Great Britain the V, VI, or VII George? 5. What is the motto of the U. S. Army? 6. For what purpose is the Bertillion system used? 7. What State of the union is known as "Mother of Pres idents"? 8. Does the Zodiac contain 11, 12 or 13 constellations? 9. What college is located at Hanover, N.H. 10. What national organiza tion is known as "Patrons of Husbandry?" Answers; 1. Boxing rules. 2. Jacob. 3. Yom Kippur. 4. VI. 5. "Duty, Honor. Coun try." 6. Identification of male criminals. 7. Virginia. 8. 12. 9. Dartmouth. 10. The Nation al Grange. E MAIL TRIBUNE "Blue Monday" This is BLUE Monday. Outside it can't decide whether to be foggy or rainy, and as this is written is making a sickly compromise by doing a little of both. Inside the news is not cheering. "llE have not yet recovered from the shot-gun T T suicide by one of our railroad favorites, Robert Young, former president of the Chesa peake & Ohio and more recently chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York Central. He was the man who told the world a hog could ride from New York to San Francisco with out changing cars but couldn t. By persistent and had all this changed and at least report many railroads were running through Pullmans from coast to. coast, without a transfer. UE was a man of great imagination, energy and nerve. He was perhaps, too much of a gam bler and promoter to suit the ultra-conservative financiers on Wall Street his inability to secure financing for his elaborate program of New York Central improvement and modernization, un doubtedly was a terrific blow to his pride and self confidence, and a contributing factor m the re cent decline of New York Central common stock, from 50 to 15. A CCORDING to reports from Miami, Florida, and New York this stock tumble in his rail road was not the cause of Young's break down, however, but the trouble was ill health which had recently pursued him, and resulted in extreme depression and melancholy. We have no inside information, so can't deny this report has some basis in fact. But we are convinced, nevertheless, that had there been no such recession in the stock market, and the New York Central had been able to se cure its financing and declare its regular divi dend as expected Robert Young would be alive today. We never knew the man personally. But we did correspond with him when the "Friendly S.P." first announced it would deprive Southern Oregon of all passenger service. And at the time we were greatly ipmressed by his clear understanding of the situation, and his enlight ened view of the place an up-to-date and progres sive railroad has or should have in the na tional economy. We don't mean he did not champion the rail roads' cause he did and strongly urged less gov ernment and state controls and restrictions. But at the same time, he maintained, with character istic vigor, that the railroads that were living in the past, refused to keep up with the times, and secretly yearned for the "good old days" of "the public be damned" had no place in the modern transportation picture, and better get out of it or if not make way for some younger, newer and more enlightened blood. TO those who lived through the stock panic of the Hoover administration this suicide of Chairman Young brought up some rather disturb ing memories. Later in that era it became a sort of vaudeville joke, the way the Wall Street brok ers were almost daily jumping out of windows like pieces of pop-corn out a lidless hopper. But it was no joke at the time and while latest reports from Wait Street indicate no collapse in New York Central stock or any special unfavor able reaction in the market as a whole, there were, no doubt, many of the veterans of that "1929 bust," who when they heard the shocking news from Miami did not sleep so well Sunday night wondering what the market would do on Monday morning. THIS was not the only news item contributing 1 to the traditional "Blue Monday." Someone was kind enough to send us a recent report by Economist expert, Professor Sumner Slichter of Harvard who like most Harvard pro fessors is a stalwart Republican in good standing. The Professor did not mince matters regard ing the present "state of the union." Far from questioning the existence of a sharp and nation wide recession, he blamed it all directly upon the "Federal government and the . Federal Reserve particularly." From such a source that statement can hardly be dismissed lightly. Comments accompanying the clipping supported this view, called attention to the fact "President Eisenhower had publicly urged consumers to buy less" and added that the recession wTas no surprise to the administration "chiefs of staff" for it occurred "as planned" and was endorsed by Big Business "to put labor in its place." IXELL, however that may be and probably any exact picture of what is really happen ing today economically, will have to wait for some future ,time when a proper perspective can be obtained the news picture as a whole this 27th day of January, certainly can't be called reassuring. And as indicated the Weather Man isn't helping any. But tomorrow when this is read will be an other day, and no dobt in all aspects a better one. We hope so. MEANWHILE we , would suggest that the words of the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt be recalled when at the time of his inauguration. Tuesday, January 28, 1958 YOU a human being expensive - advertising he Orink vou awuc.Soey. Then Wli GZOWUPQiGAH'&K)HQUKMl' Editorial Comment HOW TO POLICE MAGAZINE RACKS The district attorney of Lane county recently wrote distributors of magazines ur ging that they clean up the printed material they put out on news-stands with intima tion of prosecution if they failed to comply. The Oregon- ian calls this action "out of bounds." Proper procedure, in its opinion, is arrest and pros ecution. The Portland editor says he doesn't want some as sistant district attorney act ing as censor. The "Eugene Register-Guard commenting on the same prob lem, refers to the fact that some large grocery chain has an approved list of publica- Campaign Starts On Bike Licenses Medford police will start a 1958 bicycle license enforce ment campaign on Feb. 1, ac cording to Chief Charles P. Champlin. r. He said bicycle riders would be cited into municipal court for failure to display the 1958 license. He added riders will also be cited into court for failure to obey traffic laws, riding double, riding at night without lights and for failing to use arm signals when turn ing. The police department be gan a more rigid enforcement of the bicycle ordinance in mid-December, Chaplin said. He added bicycle's are being impounded by the court up to seven days when an offender is found guilty. Licenses for 1958 may be purchased at the police sta tion for 25 cents. Advanced Math Set For Adult Classes Advanced math will be taught as part of the adult education program in room 236 in the Medford senior high school tonight, high school officials announced. This is the first year for this course, it was explained. Approximately 12 persons have signed up for this course. School officials said they had tried to start the course .for two years but had received no response. From six to eight men working on the Talent irrigation project have signed up to learn use of the slide rule, officials said. A course in rocks and min erals will also start Tuesday night in room 226, Medford high school. A course for nurses aides will start Wednesday night in room 11 at the high school. Starting time for all of the courses is 7 p.m. Other classes starting this week are millinery, clothing, shorthand, typing and book keeping, lampshade craft, Spanish, public speaking and welding. and the Hoover depression was still fairly strong he told the country and the world "the only thing to fear is fear itself." WE believe it would There is certainly no ostrich-act and denying ecession. Of course there is. But it is nothing to pared with 1929 it is no ebb and flow of the sea is economically speaking economic process. In snort a necessary period 01 eadjustment. So don't rock the boat Remember and if Tuesday and Wednesday aren't, certainly Thursday and Friday will be MUCH better! R.W.R. fions which it permits to be offered on its racks. The R-G wonders if some citizens' com mittee coujdn't be set up that would prepare a list of ap proved books and magazines. Dealers would be free to fol low it or not, but those who did not wouldn't get to dis play the "seal" of committee approval. We don't think the Oregon ian is correct in scolding the Lane County DA. Experience here shows how hard it is to prosecute successfully. What the DA was doing was to encourage policing by the distributors, in the hope that would be more effective than yanking them into court, try ing them on particular issues of particular publications. All the case could do would be to punish the distributor for the single offense. The expecta tion would be that he would purge his products thereafter. Why not urge him to do it before staging a prosecution? From reports the DA's re quest has brought results. As for committee approval, that at least is an affirmative approach rather than Watch and Ward policing. The prob lem there would be to keep such an organization going, retaining persons of reason able tolerance rather than zealots. Who would have time to go through the monthly output of reading matter from the nation's presses? In the end "social security" must de pend pretty much on self-po-iicing within the industry, scrutiny by the vendor, and selection by the customer. Oregon Statesman (Salem) Tree Farm Group to Meet Friday Night Rogue River National for est officials will discuss the method of government stump age at a meeting of the South ern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, at the Rogue Valley Country club. A social hour will start at 7:30 p.m. Other business will include a report from the traffic com mittee, preliminary plans for a fire school, naming a nomi nating committee to select names for three directors, and awarding at least two new tree farm certificates. Hot A Candidate, Lilfrell States E. A. Littrell, Republican representative from Jackson county announced today he would not be a candidate for reelection to the Oregon state legislature. Littrell has served for the past two terms as a repre-" sentative from the Jackson county or district number 19. He will devote full-time to the operation of his business in Medford, Littrell Parts, a spokesman said. be a pious idea to recall point in performing the there is a nation-wide be alarmed about, com more alarming than the in fact that is what it a part of the organic boys and girls, or jump this is "Blue Monday Summit Meeting This Year Now Said To Be Inevitable By K. C. THALER United Press Correspondent London (IF) Highly-placed diplomats said today mounts ing public pressure in Europe has made a summit confer ence this year "inevitable." They said there no longer is a question of whether there will be a heads-of-government meeting. The question now is how soon and on what con ditions. The western governments Matter of Fact NIKITA'S LATEST Bonn Nikita Khruschev's brisk announcement of the suppression of the "machine tractor sta tions" that control the whole vast Russian coun try - side is even more ex citing news than the dra matic fall of Marshal Zhu i Jnsenh AIsod KOV. Machine tractor stations may . not sound like institu tions highly charged with hu man emotions. Many months have also passed to cool this correspondent's recollections of the Soviet Union. But the news is still so stirring that a comment is irresistible. It is stirring because the machine tractor stations were the rural command posts of the omnipotent Soviet party government. It is stirring be cause the abolition of the ma chine tractor stations and the sale of their machinery to the collective farms will almost unavoidably give Soviet peas ant life a wholly new kind of internal autonomy and local freedom. OF COURSE, there may be the biggest kind of hooker in this news. It may conceal a decision to adopt the much- discussed policy of transform' ing the collective farms them selves into "state farms." The collectives, as their name im plies, are at least collectively owned and collectively man aged by their members, of course with much state-guid ance. But the state farms are like ' huge Roman slave estates, state owned, state managed and worked by lab orers having no personal stake in the land. Khrushchev has lately been expanding the state farms at the expense of the collectives Yet both the terms and cir cumstances of his announce ment appear to indicate a bold change of course. He specifically mentioned the col lective farms as the prospec tive beneficiaries of the disap pearance of the machine trac tor stations. At the same time, "Pravda" published a grim warning to party "conservatives" who were erroneously clinging to "antiquated institutions" just the sort of people, in short, who would prefer state farm expansion of any other expedient whatever to the desperate expedient of giv ing more freedom to the wretched peasantry. THESE indications do not deceive, Soviet agriculture has started on another extra ordinary whirl on fate's strange merry-go-round. The oddness of fate is indeed il lustrated by the history of the very institutions now being abolished. The machine tractor sta tions were economic necessi ties in the early, terrible per iod of Soviet agricultural col lectivization and mechaniza tion. At that time machines and machinists were desper ately short. So the tractor stations were set up as pools of mechanical equipment and mechanically competent per sonnel, each station serving severai surrounding collective farms. Long since, the machine tractor stations lost this pure ly economic function, because of the Soviet success in pro ducing farm machinery and training many hundreds of thousands of poung people to use farm machinery. Long since, Soviety agriculture en tered a stage of contradictions described in the same way to this reporter by all the very able foreign agricultural ex perts in Moscow last winter. On the one hand, these ex perts agreed that abolition of the machine tractor stations and transfer of the machines to . the collectives would be the quickest, cheapest, surest Any Mail from Barker's? have, step by step, whittled down their terms for such a gathering, the diplomats said, and noiw are merely seeking an advance agree ment on the agenda for a "summit" meeting. Public Pressure The diplomats termed it a clear case of public pressure forcing a course of action on the Western governments de spite skepticism by some lead ers of the usefulness of a rushed top-level get-together. By Joseph AIsop way to obtain a large, immedi ate increase of Soviet farm production. Plenty " of ma chines and , plenty of men to run and care for them were now available. If the collec tives were allowed to own and run their own machines, the results would surely be greater pride of work, greater incentives to get the best from the land, and consequently much greater farming effici ency. On the other hand, the foreign experts also agreed that abolition of the machine tractor stations, while eco nomically so desirable, was politically absolutely impos sible. rpHE tractor stations were the government's eyes in the countryside. They were the government's hands holding the collectives in a tight grip, through their control of the machines the collectives need ed to till their fields. Abolish these command posts, said the experts, and the Kremlin would suddenly be confronted with collective farms almost like true agricultural coopera tives of the Western type. Judging by the fragmentary evidence that is as yet avail- able, Nikita Khrushchev has now accepted the economic reasoning of the foreign ex perts, while defying their po litical reasoning. Reasons for this bold gamble are not far to seek. Continuing the policy of extending the state farms demanded great additional outlays of capital. . Then too, the weather in the virgin lands last summer failed to follow the party line (borrowing the wonderful phrase of a party official in terviewed in the virgin lands by this reporter.) There were drought conditions and dust bowl conditions in large areas of Kazakhstan. Seemingly. this partial failure of Khrush chev's first great agricultural gamble in turn demanded a further, even bigger gamble Maybe, as stated above, the gamble conceals a hooker that will make the Soviet peasant's even worse than before. One must wait and see. But if there is no hooker" then this is the biggest demonstration to date of the degree of which the supposedly all-powerful masters of the Kremlin are mere servants of the great industrial-economic revolution which they have achieved in the Soviet Union. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Holt Orphans Due . To Arrive Thursday San Francisco (IF) A plane load of 85 more Korean or phans, brought to this coun try by Harry Holt, Creswell, Ore., farmer, is scheduled to arrive here Thursday night. Included will be 12 orphans suffering from tuberculosis. Immigration authorities is sued visas for their entry after the National Jewish hos pital at Denver promised to care for them. ATTACKS CLAIM PAIR Bronxville, N.Y. OP) Heart attacks claimed the lives of Frank X. Gilg, an ex ecutive assistant in the boil er division of Bobcock and Wilcox Co., and his wife, Mrs. Helen Tatnal Gilg, with in an eight-hour period. Gilg, 57, died Sunday at his home. Mrs. Gilg, 56, died early on Monday morning, also at home. Brightens Woolens, Silks and Similar Fabrics We Retex All of Our Dry Cleaning at No Extra Cost Medford Gleaners Hale & Kathryn Wheeler 34 No. Holly, SP 2-6500 Free Pickup and Delivery UETBl Pressure from public opin ion on European governments including Britain was in turn considered to be forcing the pace of a reluctant United States in drawing closer to a heads-of-government parley. This authoritative appraisal of the West's position follow ed Communist Party Leader Nikita Khrushchev's renewed call for an urgent summit ses sion over the weekend and latest reaction from European capitals. It cited mounting signs of a Western "climbdown" re flected in a progressive whit tling down of Western terms for a summit parley. Advance Gesture The West at first firmly de manded an advance gesture from Russia of good will and sincerity, of careful prepara tions of a meeting through diplomatic channels and a foreign ministers conference. Now, the West was held to have dropped tacitly many of these prerequisites. At least, this was the impression which was emerging from of ficial Western pronounce ments. Britain was reliably report ed to be prepared to drop her earlier insistence that a for eign ministers conference, prepared by advance diplo matic consultations precede any summit gathering. Preparation Recommended Instead, Britain now would be satisfied with careful ad vance preparation of a sum mit by ambassadors, or mere ly through diplomatic chan nels. Diplomatic sources said the United States also appeared reluctantly prepared to accept such a course of action, and so did France. Moreover, the West's earlier demand for an advance good will gesture from Moscow also appeared to be fading. The West's terms at pres ent centered, according to the sources, largely on an ad vance arrangement of the agenda of the projected top level talks. The sources suggested that at any rate the West would not insist on "too many pre conditions" for a meeting, to avert the charge that it is anxious to avoid East-West talks. 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. Kindness Is A Good Deed To the Editor: Recently our dog jumped out of a pick-up in Jacksonville. At the time he was not missed until later in the afternoon. My husband immediately phoned K-BOY for an an nouncement, giving the need ed information; wonderful cooperation was quickly giv en. In less than 24 hours our dog was back home again. -1 wish to extend our many thanks to Mrs. Josephine May for calling me for Mrs. James Hicks (both of Jacksonville), who had the dog in protection and care. It does one good to know that there are such people that not only take an interest but who are so kind to ani mals, instead of doing the many things we see being done daily to animals and birds of all breeds. Again we have a happy family and two children that wonder how they got him back without having the same feeling as they. Elinor Johnson, 109 Elk st., .Medford. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Y 1 1 Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. In ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you have been reading about British and American experiments aimed at harnessing the H-bomb re action to produce Industrial electric power. Perhaps you wonder why the H-bomb reaction is so im portant. Why not just rely on the good old A-bomb reactor, which is ALREADY produc ing power in usable quan tities and is expected to pro duce vastly more power in the not too distant future? YUELL, it's like this: In the A-bomb reac-,, tion, energy is released (that" is, power is produced) by the fission (splitting) of certain atoms. In the H-bomb reac tion, energy is released (and power is produced) by the FUSION (going together) of certain atoms. The big point is this: The world doesn't have an inexhaustible supply of the atoms that will SPLIT, thus releasing energy. Presently, uranium is our chief source of them. It is estimated that all of our reserves of fission able atoms would give us energy equal only to from 10 to 100 times the amount of all the world's remaining coal. The supply 'of FUSIBLE atoms is practically inex haustible. Sea water, for ex ample, is a source of the atoms that release energy in the pro cess of fusion. rpHERE is another important point. The splitting of atoms cre ates highly dangerous radio active ashes which are becom ing more and more trouble some to dispose of safely. Presently, the idea is to put them in special containers and take them out and dump them in the deepest known seas. Presumably, if that went on indefinitely, the time might come when the waters of all the oceans might become radioactively con taminated. "Indefinitely" is a long time, but the risk still has to be taken into consideration. The process of FUSION pro duces in itself no radioactive ashes. THE British are supposed to be a little ahead of us in the production' of power by the fusion of atoms. How far? This seems to be the answer: At their laboratory at Har well, British scientists have succeeded in fusing TWO hydrogen atoms. In the pro cess of fusing two , atoms, a microscopic amount of energy was released. The big job that lies ahead is to produce a CHAIN RE ACTION that is to say, to find a way to keep the process of fusion going on and on and on and thus producing de pendable power. How to do that isn't yet known, but it IS known that it will require al most unimaginably high tem peratures exceeding, prob ably, the heat in the interior of the sun. The encouraging part of it all is that we and the British appear to be CO-OPERATING in the research that is re- quired instead of keeping everything we learn SECRET from each other. By that kind of co-opera tion the process of finding a way to create a chain reaction of atomic fusion can be hast ened immeasurably. I T WILL take time, of course. But A lot of time intervened between the moment when watching steam lift the lid of his mother's teakettle James Watt got the idea of the steam engine and the time when the steam engine was actually turning factory wheels in Eng land thus bringing on the Mechanical Revolution. BUDGETS MADE EASYI Package your personal in surance. Have your insur ance budget invested in a single policy covering dwelling, furnishings, per sonal theft, family liability and property damage and your car. WE CAN ALSO BUDGET THE PREMIUM. Bill Fish f - M I
