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EOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE VilEWORDTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon - Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO - 33 North Fir St. Ph. SPJ-6141 : ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor SERB GREY. Advertising Manager .txuL.u LAituut, Business oigr. -ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor iHARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor ilCHARD JEWETT. Sportt Editor :DLTVE STARCHER, Society Editor 5ALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. Entered as second class matter at . Medford Oregon under Act of aiarcn 3. ma SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Jjauy biiu juuuny u jnu.. .w Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 - 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: T-lotlv an4 CunHav 1 VaT 18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnitPrcss Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClgtULAllUJ ii-TTCT.TjriT mAV r-n IXC. Of- " Jices in New York, Chicago, De i troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, -Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At- . Janta. Vancouver, a. - NEWSPAPER V PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdlAT Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. !l0 YEARS AGO 'Feb. 21. 1948 (Sunday) ; Lloyd G. (Shy) Morthland, 'files candidacy for county commissioner on the Republi can 'ticket. -.-', Between 90 and 100 log :and lumber truck operators of : Jackson and Josephine coun ties vote to affiliate closely iwith the Southern Oregon :Conservation and Tree Farm association. :20 YEARS AGO :Feb. 21, 1938 (Monday) Public invited to meeting at Medford hotel to hear Art hur M. Geary, Portland at torney, speak on the current railroad situation. " From Arthur Perry's Ye ismudge Pot column: "The pitchfork is coming to the Ifront as a weapon in Oregon politics and its use on any thing but a balky cow is held ;fflonious by orators." 30 YEARS AGO 1 Feb. 21, 1928 (Tuesday) The second annual winter 'carnival featuring the 42 trhile ski race to Crater lake -and return scheduled tomor row at Wood River valley. : - From local and personal column: "It was nearly a ;year ago yesterday that heavy "rains and melting snows caused a nearly record-breaking flood for this section, following a continuous rain ;for over two days." :40 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1918 (Thursday) A hundred thousand cut throat trout eggs are shipped to the Butte Falls hatchery .for hatching and liberation in Big Butte and tributaries. : From local and personal column: "Tom Flinn of the ;Medford Electric company, is in the next draft and is navmg a big sale to close out the stock of 'electric fixtures." I What's Your I.Q.? ' klimm n. ton rnrwct is suDerier; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. ; 1. Name the prolific song- "writer and composer of ."White Christmas." 2. Bible: Which body pro elaimed Herod to be King of Judea? ; 3. Is Decalcomania the name iof a newly-discovered mental disease? i 4. There were three U.S. presidents who wore mus taches; name them. . 5. A patent does, or does not, expire when the inventor Idies? : 6. The name of what flower fits in the following phrase, ;"as fresh as a "? 7. Do all the planets re tvolve around the sun in the Same direction? : " 8. Dungarees are a kind of rboat, overalls, or prison? I 9. Name . the capital of Alaska. 10. Will a white horse be ;easier to see in total darkness :than a black horse? ; Answers: 1. Irving Berlin. 12. The Roman Senate. 3. No. I(An art transferring pictures 'to glass, china, etc.) 4. Grover Cleveland, Theodore R o o s e v e 1 1 and William Howard Taff. 5 Does not (title to a ;palent passes to the inven tor's heirs). 6. "daisy." 7. Yes. 18. Overalls. 9. Juneau. 10. 3ither will be visible in TO TAL darkness. ... When Spring Starts It's almost here spring, that is. The men who figure tell us that in Oregon it March 21 just four But even with another month to go, the signs of spring a wet one are all around. The grass, a few weeks ago brown and dull, is already grow ing like crazy, bright and green, and pushing up clumps which cry (in vain) for a lawnmower. The family secretary of health, education and welfare f mmd the first violets the other day, grow ing under a dead leaf & CTREAMS were brim ter last week end as the ram cascaded down on the hills. -And the hills' are turning green again after months of looming up brown and sere. It isn't really spring yet, despite yesterday's sunshine, and the rain still has a chilling bite to it. But the frogs, who chorus night and morning, know that it is coming soon. These are just symptoms. How we know when it is really spring is by the smell the indefinable, gentle, fresh, verdant smell which most years is not in the air one day, but is the next day, and that is the day spring starts, no matter what the stars say. For us, anyway. E.A. Oregon Charles Porter, the energetic congressman from the fourth district of Oregon, who is inter ested in just about everything, from fighting dic tatorships in Latin America to investigating the possibility (shudder) of putting aerial tramways down the rim of Crater Lake, thinks that the state's song, "Oregon, My Oregon," should be better known. According to the Mail Tribune's Washington correspondent, Bob Smith, Porter finds it irritat ing to listen to "The Eyes of Texas," or "California-Here I Come" at a meeting, and then a few anonymous oompah-oompahs when someone from Oregon is introduced. DORTER is taking steps to rectify this situation in Washington. But the sad fact is that the song is not very well known right here in Oregon. It's been a long time since we've heard it at any public meeting (although we have heard what we consider to be a superior song, "Down the Oregon Trail," but that's aside from the point, for it isn't the "official" state song). "Oregon, My Oregon" is taught in the schools at least the schools in Medford in the fifth or sixth grades, and is sung on occasion later on. But it is seldom heard by most people other than ele mentary students. HERE, for those who are curious what the song in lilrfl nrn fVia Trrnrrlc tf tllO vorSPQ Land of the empire builders, land of the golden west; Conquered and held by freemen, fairest and the best. Onward and upward ever, forward and on and on; Hail to thee, land of heroes, my Oregon. Land of the rose and sunshine, land of the summer's breeze; Laden with health and vigor, fresh from the western seas. Blessed by the blood of martyrs, land of the setting sun; Hail to thee, land of promise, my Oregon. Since Oregon will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of statehood next year, it is appropri ate that attempts be made to revive the song in popular esteem. E.A. x Highway 99 Progress Each time we drive north into the Willamette valley these days, we are pleasantly surprised by the progress being made in bringing Highway 99 up to a high standard. Last fall we reported that only a few sections of sub-standard road remain between Medford and Eugene. Last week there were only three. "THE worst of these is the section between Myrtle Creek on the north to a spot just east of Riddle on the south. Here the road is slow, winding, and dangerous, passing through several spots in the "tri-city" area where uncontrolled access and roadside businesses make it hazardous. But construction on the new stretch is well along some of it all ready for paving. Another sub-standard section which will be ready by mid-summer or sooner is that from the bottom of Sexton mountain to within a few miles of Grants Pass. The new four-lane highway goes straight as an arrow across the valley, and the old, twisty road off to the west will soon be aban doned as a highway. THE third is the highway between Gold Hill and Grants Pass, which will be completely by passed in another few years when the new high way is built along the north bank of the Rogue river. Meanwhile, it is rather slow and thing at least by today's standards. And one more improvement should be report ed in Grants Pass itself, where the highway through town has been divided into two one-way streets from Caveman bridge to the north of town. It's not ideal, but it's better, and it sends a travel ler through town more rapidly than was possible in the past ELA ,.. .. ... Friday, February 21, 1958 the seasons by the stars will arrive at 3 :06 a.m. on weeks from today. left over from November. - full of muddy brown wa- s Song ....... 'I'LL BET LOTS OF PBOPLB WOULD lKE PINK GOLF CLUBS!" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often the case. An Appeal to the People To the Editor: Since your Sunday's editorial and since I heartily agree that the "open forum" is a necessary and sound policy for - our times, I wish to use this means of thanking you for a recent public service. I refer to the almost full- page advertisement which you published Monday, Jan. 13, 1958, on the nuclear age. It was timely and worthy of the citizens' gratitude and support. After long and care ful gathering of information on the present dangers of nu clear testing and the nuclear arms race, I found this one article best combined the facts and interpretation, and urged a sound program of action for citizens. Not every editor pays the bill for this expensive form of citizen edu cation. Portland friends have written asking contributions to help cover the $1600 cost of the same advertisement in the Oregonian. Through this column I would like to extend the op portunity provided by you in that January advertisement which carried coupons to be filled out and sent to the President and to the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. I will repeat here the sum and substance so that in dividuals who wish to write at this date may do so. First, write your President and Congressman in your own words of your deep un easiness concerning the pro spective April bomb tests in the Pacific, your fears of the reactions of Asian countries whose waters we use for testing and without consulta tion; and the chance we take in alienating those very na tions that we hope to win for our allies. Second, urge that President Eisenhower go before the United Nations and propose: (1), That nuclear test explo sions, missiles and outer space satellites be considered apart from other disarma ment problems; (2), That, as there is now agreement on the need for supervision and inspection necessary to verify a cessation of tests, all nu clear test explosions by all countries be stopped im mediately and the UN then proceed with the mechanics necessary for monitoring this cessation; (3), That, missiles and outer-space satellites be brought under the United Na tions' monitored control, and there be a pooling of world science for space exploration under the United Nations. Third, help friends and neighbors to understand the graveness of the danger that we force upon ourselves as a nation and other nations. You can discuss in your church, your club, your school, your Labor Union and your Great Decisions group. I hope you will use this column, also. Fourth, send for information and 'or send a contribution to "Sane Nuclear Policy," P.O. Box 1750, New York, N. Y., for copies with coupons attached. Mrs. H. P. Boswoth, Jr. 2425 E. Main St. Medford A Two-Edged Sword To the Editor: I read with great interest an article in last Tuesday's Tribune en titled: "Public Relations Di rector Urges Republicans to Read". Wallace Hunter, "Pub lic Relations Director of the Republican party, pointed out that "some of the worst in formed people in Oregon are the so-called 'good ' Republi cans' ", and that the trouble with Republicans is that they "don't have the facts ". Reading will, of course, help registered Republicans be- come better informed of the facts of good government, and we heartily endorse this com mendable and courageous rec ommendation by Mr. Hunter. There is one danger to the Re publicans in all this, however a rising literacy rate always increases Democratic registra tions. James A. Redden Jr., Chairman, Democratic Central Committee of Jackson County. "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" To the Editor: As a gesture of our appreciation, would you please print the follow ing: "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" . . . although we are comparative strangers in your city, we have come to know that this title is significant of the people of Medford. It was through a friend of ours that radio station KBOY learned that our little toy kit ten had died, and subsequent ly sent out an appeal to their listeners for a replacement. Imagine our delight when the calls started to come in. We were overwhelmed, not only at the generosity of the sta tion staff, .who took the calls and screened them but at Salesmanship Seen As Employment Aid By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Every one is aware of the fact that employment has recently been falling off. De spite attempts at rationaliza t i o n of in creasing un e m p 1 oyment as "seasonal" or as occur ring only in certain indus t r i e s," w e Roier W. Babion shouij face the fact that it is already more general than is healthy for our economy. It is important that this negative movement be checked as soon as possible. Among many suggestions com ing to me, I especially recom mend the following by one of the Babson Institute profes sors, Louis Foley. There is only one way this mounting unemployment can be checked. That is by in creasing consumers' demands for the goods and services that industry can produce. Factory wheels cannot keep on turning, and jobs for work ers cannot continue to exist, unless their product is being continually sold. Successful salesmanship is vital to the prosperity of - all, including those in occupations not di rectly connected with selling. So the thret of growing un employment becomes primar ily a problem for salesmen of goods and of advertising. No "High Pressure" . In the buyers' market in which we now find ourselves, salesmen will need to exert themselves more strenuously than they have been accus tomed to doing. This is not, however, a call for "high pressure" selling in the un favorable sense. It is neither honest nor effective salesman ship to mesmerize people tem porarily into buying what they do not really need or desire, or what they cannot truly afford to pay for; in other words, what they ought not to buy.. The best salesmen are not necessarily "fast talkers." They use .their intelligence in analyzing the situations of possible customers and in de- ( ciding whero genuine ealei Editorial Comment THIS IS AN EDITORIAL This is an editorial. It is written by an editorial writer. Editorial writers are uppity members of the newspaper fraternity. They sit in an ivory tower and pontificate. ' They are not made of clay. They criticize, suggest and urge lesser beings on to greater things. That's what they some times think, at any rate. But sometimes they are in for a letdown. Like last week, when a lady called to say that her child had been told to bring an "ed itorial" to school. Her ques tion: "What is an editorial?" Which drove editorial writ ers hereabouts out of their ivory tower, at least for one day.-r-(f.w.a. in the World of Coos Bay.) the personal interest of aU those wonderful people who kept calling when the line was busy. After the first 10 or 12 calls, we took a count, and to our amazement, there were over 50 that afternoon and evening and all from people with long-haired cali co kittens! It may not seem important to you no doubt you take this sort of thing for granted in your community and rightly so but WE think it's a wonderful place to live when people feel and act as kindly as this. You have made our life a little warmer and richer . . . and so to KBOY, Uncle Rick, and all the kind hearts in Medford, our most grateful thanks. ( Mrs. George W. Hoyt, Jr. 240 King st., Medford. Dwindling Wilderness To the Editor: I am sending copies of your February 19 editorial "How Much 'Wilder ness'?" to our Washington and Regional Offices'. I am sure they will appreciate your rec ognition of the National Park Service's efforts to preserve the wilderness areas and to provide for adequate recrea tional outlets as planned by the Service's MISSION 66 pro gram. I would like to add my per sonal commendation for the editorial. Certainly, you must have experienced the wilder ness in order to have written as you did. I believe you and your paper are doing a service to the American people in calling attention to the dwin dling wilderness areas, and I am sure it will eventually pay dividends. Thomas J. Williams; Superintendent Crater Lake National Park. possibilities exist. They have the imagination and the in genuity to demonstrate to the prospect how their product is fitted to his requirements and can furnish him real benefits. These he will appreciate when they are shown him and will want. Salesmanship is fast be coming a profession, actuated by professional standards. Good Salesmen Required More than ever before, it is necessary for the salesman to have thorough knowledge of what he has to sell. In many lines nowadays it is in dispensable to have an ex tensive technical acquaint ance with the products offer ed, in order to explain ac curately' just what kind of service they can be depended upon to render. We have evolved an economy in which success in salesmanship re quires an amount of prepara tion and continuing study that our ancestors would not have dreamed of as requisite for being a "mere salesman." We have come a long way since the time when "persons of quality',' found it obviously natural to look down upon those who were engaged "in trade." Salesmanship has be come a completely respectable occupation because countless intelligent salesmen are tak ing their vocation seriously and dedicating themselves to it. They are realizing that they are performing a great service to the nation as a whole. Not So Simple Now One of the saddest plays ever produced in the theater was "The Death of a Sales man" sad, that is, as the story of an individual who went down m to utter defeat. Perhaps quite unintentionally, however, it symbolizes some thing that need not be con sidered sad at all the "death" of a certain concep tion of salesmanship. It makes us realize the day of the "drummer" who depended for success on backslapping, tell ing funny stories, and being "well liked" is truly past. Not, of course, that personality is unimportant; it has always counted and always will in salesmanship as in everything else. That, however, must be ike's 'Put Up or Shut Up' Letter Tods News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: President Eisenhower ask ed Russia's leaders this week to start negotiations for a "summit" conference instead of just talking about one. . He also suggested that Rus sian charges of American war-mongering were due eith er to ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation. Eisenhower set forth his views in a letter to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. Controversial Fund Will Be Used to Pay Republican Debts By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IPI -That unwanted wad of Texas oil and gas money bundled to- gether in gratitude for past and an ticipated Re publican votes to ease federal control over natural gas pr o.ducers will find solid political em ployement Lyle C. Wilson after all. President Eisenhower spurned tne money as un clean. So did Chairman Meade Alcorn of the Republican Na tional Committee. The chair men, respectively, of the Re- publican Senate and congres sional campaign committees did not quite go along with that. Texans. however, are in genious as well as rich. Find ing themselves barred from spending their hoard to help Republican candidates in this year's congressional election, they decided to pay off some old Eisenhower presidential campaign debts in Texas. Organization Owes Money The Republican state or ganization owed $240,000 after the 1956 presidential election in which Eisenhower won Texas' 24 electoral votes from the Democratic candi date, Adlai E. Stevenson. Some of that deficit had been paid off from time to time but there remained a substantial red figure. Most and perhaps all of that indebtedness will be re tired from the spurned pro ceeds of a $100-a-plate dinner at Houston, Tex. The Feb. 10 get-together was in honor of Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., (R-Mass.) and raised a kitty of approximately $100,000. H. J. (Jack) Porter, Repub- Montana Prison Warden Resigns Helena, Mont. (IF) . F. O. .Burrell has resigned as warden of the trouble-torn Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge because of "political interference" by two top state officials. Burrell, who has served as warden for five years, said he would step down as soon as Gov. J. Hugo Aronson ap pointed a successor. "No man, no matter how talented, can succeed as war den if political interference of the attorney general and the secretary of state continues," he said. Burrell said Democratic Attorney General Forrest H. Anderson and Secretary of State Frank Murray were to blame fo his troubles since a riot last July 30. a factor added to actively in telligent devotion to one s business and all that it re quires to be up to date. We cannot be saved by se curity." which can be only relative and temporary at best. We can be saved only by faith. In the final analysis, it is faith that makes a great salesman a humble faith in his own ability, faith in the value of what he labors to sell, faith in our economy and, most important of all, faith in God. Salesmen may well be proud of their occu- nation. for the maintenance of our way of life is depend ent upon them, we need more praying salesmen. y Builders Supply 3 QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fluei, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrewi Ph. SP 2-4107 S sMI It was the latest in a series of exchanges which Bulganin started last December in the Kremlin's campaign for a "summit" conference on means of reducing world ten sions. In suggesting that Soviet leaders choke off their bom bardment of propaganda statements, the President re ferred both to Bulganin's let ters and speeches by Commu nist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev. France and Tunisia accept ed an offer by the United States to help them settle their dispute over the bomb: lican national committeeman for Texas, sparked the show and accidentally jinxed it. Porter circulated over his own signature a letter announcing the "appreciation dinner" to Martin whom he acclaimed for rallying Republican votes last year in behalf of the angrily controversial gas bill. Eisenhower vetoed the bill in protest against the crude lobbying of one of its sup porters. The President was agree able to re-enactment of the legislation, however, and that fact led Porter to a politically fatal error. His letter said: "It will be up to Joe Martin to muster at least 65 per cent of the Republican House votes in order, to pass- the gas bill again this year. He has put Republican members from northern and eastern consum ing areas on the spot political ly because the bill is not popular due to the distortion of facts ty newspaper column ists and others." This frank and substantial ly accurate appraisal of the situation startled Washington and shocked Eisenhower. It equally pleased opponents of the gas bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex.) favors the bill but he was wholly realistic m his judgment of the effect of Porter's letter on the pending legislation. Rayburn told the United Press Porter couldn't have done a better job if he had set out to defeat the gas' bill. The legislation is dead for this session and, probably, for "good. None was more surprised than Porter by the political impact of his letter. Mount FAIRFAX COUNTT, VIRGINIA Home of GEORGE WASHINGTON Fefc. 22. 1732-Dee. 14. 1799 Situated high on trie south bank of the Potomac river with a magnificent weep of the Virginia countryside in the foreground. Mount Vernen is one of America's most stately homes. The cherished possession of Washington, all of his efforts beyond hfs enormous contribution to public service were directed toward improving this prop erty. Man's achievements are too often judged in terms of the end accomplishment, when to truly appreciate those achievements, the personal sacrifices incidental to them should be weighed. Washington was de votedly attached to his family, his home, and Virginia. Still, when those principles which he held paramount the rights, the integrity of man were placed in jeopardy by British colonial policy, he stepped for ward to be among those to defend those rights: realizing full well that everything he held dear might fall sacrifice, that the result could easily involve his having to retire with his family to the wilds of Ohio there to elce a precarious living at best perhaps to perish. For seven long bitter frustrating years Washington denied himself the joy and comfort of his own fireside, not once seeing Mount Vernon: unable to lead the farmer's life he loved so well. - Mount Vernon has come to symbolize somewhat the greater ideal Washington would not ignore, PERL Funeral Home LADY ATTENDANT Phone SP 2-6675 ing of a Tunisian border vil lage by French Air Force planes based in Algeria. The immediate result was to avoid a United Nations de bate which would have made the situation worse and would have benefited only Communist propaganda. . A local French comman dant had ordered the village bombing after months during which machine guns set up on the roof of the Tunisian administration building had fired on planes of the French Air Force in Algeria. French troops have long been angry over the help which Tunisia has given to the Algerian rebels. . In an obvious propaganda move, Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai an nounced that Chinese troops would be withdrawn from North Korea this year and suggested that the United States pull its troops out of South Korea. The United States prompt ly announced that its troops would remain in Korea, until the Reds agreed to free elec tions, supervised by the Unit- I ed Nations, to unite North and South Korea. Withdrawal of American troops would be of obvious advantage to the Commu nists. Chinese troops would re main on the Manchurian fron tier, in position to invade Korea again at any time. As the United States no longer maintains combat troops in Japan, it would have to move forces from Okinawa, the island base between Japan and Formosa to meet any new Communist attack on South Korea. Soviet Russia followed up the Chinese Red move by sug-; gesting that nuclear weapons be barred from North and South Korea and an interna tional conference be called to get the two parts of the country together. The government of the Su dan, Egypt's neighbor on the south, accused Egyptian Pres ident Gamal Abdel Nasser of trying to grab two small areas on their frontier. Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub flew to Cairo to discuss the situation with Nasser. Their talk ended in dis agreement. The Sudanese gov ernment announced it would ask the U.N. Security council to take up the dispute. ; .-, The two areas in question have been under Sudanese ad ministration since 1902. Egypt, though agreeing 'to this, always has laid formal claim to the territory. Vernon
