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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medfords.Thibune Tveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail xnDune 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. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 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: Dally 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 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 assocItATiQn ZJ KJ Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO February 24. 1948 (Monday) Gov. John Hall, after in specting Camp White, hospital, stresses that whether the fa cility would be taken over as a state institution depends on a vote of the people. Purchase of dairy equip ment of Southwest Oregon Dairy Cooperative, 1722 Riverside ave., announced by J. E. Jorgenson of Jorgenson's Dairy Products. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 24. 1938 (Thursday) Ed B. Hanley and Joseph E. Most of Seattle have ob tained 1,500 acres of land on Pleasant creek, in upper Jack son county to dredge for gold. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; "Farm families in the Northwest spend more money on their auto than their clothes, a fed eral survey shows, no matter if either one, or both, be old." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 24, 1928 (Friday) " Mysterious happenings In the 'Willow Springs district have caused considerable ex citemeixtf one man found a bullet had killd his cow; an other was plowing when a bullet whistled by his head. From local and personal column: "A. W. Rommel of San Francisco, photographer for the Southern Pacific, took scenes of the second annual winter carnival at Fort Klam ath and the ski race there this week." 40 YEARS AGO FEB. 24. 1918 (Monday) Directors of Medford ir rigation district send report of Engineer Hammett on water resources to state en gineer for approval. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or she is good. 1. In 1776, what day was the birthday of American In dependence? 2. Bible: Were the books of the N. T. (which were writ ten at various times) compil ed for the use of a single community? 3. Will a four-inch pipe discharge as much as four one-inch pipes or ten one-inch pipes? 4. Who was the first indi vidual to hold the rank of full Admiral in the U. S. Navy? 5. What does the phrase "pro tempore" mean? 6. Name the smallest mam mal native in North America? 7. The solar plexus is lo cated in the neck, abdomen, or brain? 8. Can an object ever be wider than it is long? 9. Which constitutional amendment is called the "lame duck" amendment? 10. Pure alcohol will, or will not, freeze? Answers: 1. July 4. 2. No. (For use in different commun ities). 3. Neither. (As much, as 16 one-inch pipes, disregard ing the factor of friction). 4. David Farragut. 5. "For the time being." 6. Shrew. 7. In the abdomen (behind the sto mach). 8. No. 9. Twentieth. 10. It will (at -130 degrees C). Good Job, In this space we have called and .will con tinue to call for improvements to the down town area to save it from the fate of other cities which have'let their major shopping areas deter iorate. The biggest lack, we is that of adequate parking space,, both for pres ent needs, and for the needed many times more. Because of this it would be easy to assume we have been blind to the improvements which have been and are being made. But this would be an incorrect assumption. rVOWNTOWN Medford is a far more pleasant place than it was 10 years ago. And the credit for this must go to many It should go to the progressive merchants who, over the years, have "dressed up" their stores, inside and out, to pect. Some of the modernization jobs have been of major consequence, and cannot but make Med' ford a nicer place to work and to live and to go shopping. Credit must go to which designed, among, street program which is just now getting started, and which in another few years will make travel ling in, through or around town far easier. DUT a good share of the credit must go to the people of Medford, wTho, by their votes, ap proved the street program, who have kept good men in office over the patronage, have rewarded those progressive mer chants who know that business entails a lot more than just setting up shop and then waiting for customers. Improved streets, better street lighting, better traffic signals and control, modem stores all these are progress in the right direction. Take a bow, Medford. But let us not forget that progress means movement, and that because we have come so far we should not be satisfied. Much more (including better parking) remains to be done. E.A. Billboard Rule Hopes This may be the year when Congress finally gets around to making a start toward some rea sonable regulation of billboards on the 41,000 mile federal highway system now under con struction. A modest start was defeated in a Senate com mittee last year, but there is a chance it may get to a vote. If it does, we have a hunch it will be a pretty close one. For, despite the fact to support the claim that motorists, generally, would like to see billboards on the highways they're paying for with their taxes subjected to reasonable limitations, the outdoor advertising lobby and its allies have powerful voices. Oregon s Dick Neuberger is leading the fight for the current measure, limited as it is, and could use all the help and encouragement he can get, through letters from his Tree Rings and Weather Tree rings are the circular layers of wood which build up the size of a tree, one being formed each year on the exterior of the trunk under the bark. They are what furnish the "grain" in a piece of lumber. In slow-growing hardwood trees, they usually are thin, tough layers ranged close to gether. In softer woods they are further apart, separated by layers of soft material. The rings can reveal history. For in years when growing conditions are good plenty of moisture and sunshine the rings are thick; in bad years of drought, they are thin. CCIENTISTS and others have found it f ascin ating to study the records left by the annual growth rings. They have been used to determine weather cycles, and thus often can offer clues to archeologists and historical anthropologists. In the American southwest, it was discovered that by finding pieces of trees of varying age, a chronological record of the weather can be ex tended back for many years. Recent weather "history" is recorded in the trunks of old but still living trees. Older records come from the trunks of long-dtad trees in pueblo roofs. These records can often explain why a tribe of Indians moved from one place to another a series of bad crop years due to drought, for in stance, could make an area uninhabitable. DUT these rings provide more than historical clues. They offer evidence of weather cycles, showing a period of diy of wet years following. In big trees several cycles can be traced students believe they can tern of weather cycles. Others disagree, and while they acknowledge the cycles, they declare there is no pattern. If those who believe by further study and correlation, graphically establish it as a fact, they would have some basis for believing that the pattern would be recurring, and that future weather cycles could be predicted with some certainty. E.A. Monday, February 24, 1958 So Far have stated repeatedly, future when it will be persons. make an attractive pros the city administration, other things, the arterial years, and who, by their ' that there is evidence constituents. E.A. years and then a period hundred years old these and charted, and some discern a regular pat there is a pattern can, ANO TEtL 1H SAKOMAN TO Matter of Fact HAS IKE LOST HIS LUCK? Washington President Eisenhower, having fled the Washington he hates for some z zm days of sun I i shine and shooting i n Georgia, was greeted by the nastiest weather in a couple of gen erations. This suggests that it is time to Stewart Alsop asK some what mystical question: Has the President's luck run out? However unanswerable it may be, the question is an im portant one. For the President has always been a marvelous ly lucky man not for him, in the past, such ordinary dis- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Cause and effect in politics: In Minnesota the other day, in a by-election to fill a va cancy in the U.S. house rep resentatives, a Republican just barely nosed out his Democratic opponent in a dis trict that had been solidly GOP for' years on end. His narrow-squeak victory was ascribed by the politicians to farm belt dissatisfaction with Secretary of Agriculture Benson, who leans toward lower subsidies for farm .crops that are now in heavy surplus. SO MUCH for the cause. Let's take a look now at the effect. IN WASHINGTON, a couple of GOP congressmen Rep resentative A. L. Miller of Nebraska and Representative Walter Judd of Minnesota called on Secretary Benson as representatives of a group of farm belt congressmen and laid it on the line. They told Benson he has become a. serious liability to the Republican party that "right or wrong" he has be come a symbol of low farm prices. They say they didn't ask him in so many words to resign but add that they "made their meaning plain." Their meaning, they ex plained to the reporters, was that Mr. Benson was being asked to STEP OUT for the good of the Grand Old Party. They told him further that "Democrats are using him as a weapon to beat Republi cans." TTMMMMM. The farm program has been anything but a howling success. It has cost billions of dollars which have come out of the taxpayers' pockets. It has piled up huge surpluses that hang over the markets of the future like a dark thundercloud. Consumers are disgruntled. Taxpayers are getting soured. Even the farmers aren't happy. ALL Mr. Benson is trying to do is to IMPROVE the situation. He thinks it would be better if we quit subsidiz ing overproduction because, he reasons, as long as we sub sidize overproduction heavily we will have vast surpluses on our hands. As long as vast surpluses hang over the markets, farm prices will re main low. Most clear-headed thinkers are coming around to agree ment with him. BUT m These GOP political farm ers say . "He may be right but we've got to DITCH him if we're going to win." A THOUGHT: Might it. no be better for the Republican party, over the long pull, to lose with a GOOD man than to win with an anything - for votes demagogue? . . . After all What good is a party if it has no PRINCIPLES it is will ing to fight for? IZME AASA BUCKET FULL, By Stewart Alsop appointments as a vacation spoilt by the weather. And in an odd, indefinable way, the Eisenhower lucky star has been a vital factor in the American political scene for a good many years now. There has been about the President an aura of success, an emanation of ultimate triumph. The Eisenhower aura was the X factor which ensured Adlai Stevenson's crushing defeats. It has been the great central Republican asset. And now it has begun to fade so rapidly that it is hard ly there any more. I F YOU consider the political scene from which the Presi dent escaped to Georgia, you can hardly blame him for wishing to escape. Just before he left, record unemployment figures were announced. When he made, an aptimistic statement about a coming economic upturn, the nation yawned skeptically, and the stock market fell. ' Since he left, a little-known Democrat has come within a tiny margin rof taking a Minn esota congressional seat which has been heavily Republican within living memory. The main issue was the recession and the Eisenhower farm policy. And a Congressional inquiry has suggested that the behavior of some of the Eisenhower-appointed members of the Federal regulatory agencies has been somewhat less clean than a hound's tooth. ; - , Such small troubles have been only the last in a whole sea of big troubles which have plagued the President, like some latter day Job, through out the last 12 months. It is possible to pinpoint rather exactly the beginning of the President's time of tribula tion. rpHE President's bad time -- began early last year, when his Georgia host, form er Treasurv Secretary George Humphrey, attacked the Ad ministration s budget, and tne President failed to respond vigorously. That episode sparked the famous budget revolt, which disastrously eroded the President's au thority on Capitol Hill. Since then, everything has cone wrone for the President Little Rock, to which the President reacted too mucn and too late, the Sputniks, which challened the myth of his infallibility in defense matters, and now, worst of al, the threat of a serious reces sion. At least in a symbolic sense, the lead paragraphs in the current issue of "Time" magazine may represent a more significant political event than the Minnesota elec tion. For "Time" sharply criticized the President, at least by implication, for his inattention to his duties, which is rather as though the "Osservatore Romano" had suddenly attacked the Pope. The President has had, quite literally, the most favor able press of any President in American history, not ex cepting George Washington. His admiring press has been a major factor in the Presi dential aura (though the President's e x t r aordinarily attractive . .personality has been, of course, the central factor). But especially since Little Rock, the Sputniks and the onset of the recession, the President has been far less immune to press criticism than in the past, as "Time's" Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teetb drop, ilip or wobble when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicaps. PASTEETH. an alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives confident feel ing of security and added comfort No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feel ing. Get FASTEKI3 today t ADZ rui cougar Brains, Political 'Muscle' Back Proposed Atlantic Federation By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) There is more muscle than one might suspect in the movement for some kind of world federa tion in which citizens of the U.S. of Amer ica would be come citizens of the U. S. of the Atlantic. A 1 1 a nticans, for short. Lyie c. Wilson For exam ple, the average citizen more likely than not would be sur prised to learn that the U.S. Secretary of State is substan tially committed to such a plan. At least he was so com mitted and still is listed as an advocate of a'n international conference with something of that sort in view. In the same category are former President Harry S. Truman, former Secretary of State George Marshall and a host of others. Secretary John Foster Dul les is listed by the Atlantic Union committee (AUC) Inc., with 50 past or present mem bers of the U.S. Senate who supported one or more of three resolutions proposing an exploratory convention looking toward a political and economic combination of the Atlantic nations. . Stevenson Signed Up There are 159 names on the list of former and present members of the House who supported that idea. More over, AUC proudly lists 700 members of the Atlantic Union committee. There are representatives in every state of the union, including 65 college presidents. The report of last week that Adlai E. Stevenson had sign ed up as a committee member brought from Justin Black welder, secretary of AUC, an illuminating letter. "You might be interested in knowing," Blackwelder wrote, "that there are two na tional organizations in the U.S. interested in closer eco nomic and political ties among the Western democra cies. "The organization support ing a federal union (U.S. of the Atlantic) is Federal Union, Inc., whose president is Clarence Streit. "The program of our At lantic Union committee is somewhat less, ambitious. We. unprecedented criticism sug gests. . . A DD that ithe Democrats (while many Republicans privately agree) are predict ing a landslide of 1936 pro portions in November. Add all the evidence of a mount ing Republican revolt in Con gress against the President's policies. A real and present danger then becomes ap parent. It is the danger of a two- year period of headlessness, a period when a lame duck President,' his aura lost, his authority disregarded, his leadership challenged, will serve out his time in isolation and frustration. . Perhaps the danger is not real and present after all. It will not become a reality if the responsible Congressional leadrs can help it. Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon John son, for example, is fully aware that Congressional gov ernment simply cannot be made to work in these times. And all sorts of things, an economic upturn, for ex ample, or above all a firm re assertion by the President of his leadership at home and abroad, could transform the situation. But one cannot help won der if the President does not sometimes regret his decision to run again; if he does not sometimes think longingly of the happy, untroubled days he might now be living at Gettysburg, loved and respect ed more even than Jefferson at Monticello or Washington at Mount Vernon. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO MENTAL ILLNESS! Mental illness isn't choosy. It pays absolutely no attention to vital statistics like age, sex, wealth, occupation, etc. No one is immune to the darkness that is mental illness. ..ro one I You who read this and we who write it have been lucky. The 16 million people mentally ill at this very moment haven't been lucky. They need our help. ; They need it badly. Medical progress has cleared away much of the mystery about mental illness. In fact, with what doctors know today, 70 of all mental patients could ' improve or recover completely. Why don't they? Simply be Published as a public service in co-operation with The Advertising Council and the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association. are not sure what degree of integration in political and economic fields will prove to be necessary for democratic survival, as well as democrat ic prosperity, but we are sure there will have to be a great deal more than there is now. Exploration Convention "Our proposal, therefore, as embodied in the various resolutions which have been before Congress, is simply that a convention be called to explore the idea thoroughly and make specific proposals to the citizens of the countries involved for their considera tion." . .. a This adds up to the fact that Streiffs organization would proceed at a faster clip than Blackwelder's. Both would be headed in the same direction, however, which, for better or worse, appar ently might in time make Americans the fellow citizens Svro-EavDtian Union May Hinder Russian Mid-East Progress By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The new union between Egypt and Syria may hinder further Soviet Russian pene tration of the Middle East. D i spatches have empha sized that the "United Arab Republic" merges the the two Arab countries i n which Russia has obtained a foothold. Hence the natural interpre tation has been that from the Editorial Comment r CRATER LAKE , It should be ' of some con cern to us that Crater Lake National park last year was one of the; few national park areas that showed decreased use, compared with the previ ous year. At the same time the number of overnight visi tors and the use of restaurant facilities increased. But the decline in ".local use" brought down the total figure. Some of this may be at tributed to the" fact that many of us misunderstood, what there is to see and do at Cra ter Lake. It's too easy to view the national park only as a place where one gets out of his car, walks across the road to the rim, looks at the blue, blue water and Wizard island, says "Huh!" and then drives home. Once seen, Crater Lake holds little attraction for those who take this narrow view of the offerings of this large national park that is so few hours drive from Eugene. Actually, it is sort of place a person of inquisitive bent could spend many days, even months. Geologically it is one of the wonders of the conti nent. And because it is a na tional park where hunting is forbidden, it is also a game refuge, teeming with species rarely seen in the "open" forests that surround it. And plant life is as varied as the fauna. Nor is this sunken lake, which is the main attraction, the only place in the park worth visiting. The pumice desert on the north, the pin nacles on the southeast, the canyons on the south, the peaks that rise up from the lake rim are all worthy of more attention than we give them. Fortunately or unfortunate ly, the lake itself is so re markable that we neglect the other features nearby. And that may account in a meas ure for this decrease in lo cal traffic. Eugene Register-Guard cause most mental hospitals do not have the staff, the equip ment and the facilities they need to put this scientific knowledge into everyday prac tice! That's where we come in. Our understanding and sup port can help people suffering from mental illness get well . . . help them return to their fami lies, their jobs, their lives! We who have never faced . the darkness of mental illness can do much to bring others out of it! Today, please work with and support your local Mental Health Association. narles M-McCann of have-not Asiatics, for exam ple, or the Arabs of North Africa. . This may be good or bad, necessary or u n n e c e ssary. However that may be, it cer tainly is different. Harry S. Truman was the 600th mem ber of AUC. Stevenson who sought to succeed him in the White House was No. 700. There is muscle and brains behind these similar move ments and not much later than now would be a good time for all good men to con sider whether they do or do not like the idea. The first step would be merger that's the word of the U.S. with the British Commonwealth and Western Europe, the others to join la ter. In delightful understate raent, Blackwelder's letter contained this sentence: "I suppose our proposals do not seem exactly revolutionary to us." viewpoint of the United States and its allies the merger was an unfavorable development. But advices from the Mid dle East suggest that it may, instead, prove to be unfavor able to Russia in its determ ined attempt to make its in fluence dominant in the Arab world. Political Parties Split These advices come from sources which are friendly to President Gamal Abdel. Nas ser of Egypt. But the informants also are responsible Americans who share the view that Russia's drive is dangerous. They say that Nasser nego tiated the merger because he was alarmed ovep the possi bility that Syria might fall almost completely under Com munist domination. They assert that Syrian political parties were split and were under strong pres sure from pro-Communist ele ments. The army also was split, they report, between Pro-Rus sian and anti-Russian officers, They say that President Shukri Al-Kuwatly of Syria agreed to the merger, even though it means handing over his powers to Nasser as presi dent of the new republic, be cause he felt that Communist influence -endangered both his own country and his own job. Reds Reported Angry It may be noted that late dispatches speak of increas ing Syrian enthusiasm for the merger with Egypt. This enthusiasm, the dis patches say, is shared fully by anti-Communist elements who had watched with grow ing anxiety the growth of Russian influence. Informants who put for ward the argument that the Egyptian-Syrian merger will prove to be a break on the Communist penetration say that the Soviet government really is angry over it. But the Russians have pre tended to welcome the mer ger, they say, first because they are not in position to" do anything about it and secondly because ." it gives I y Almanac ( If your neacJ is wax don't walk in the sun. As a Public Service, we will be happy to make announcements for any group concerning their coming activities or events over our program on KBES-TV Saturday nights at 11:30, or over Radio Station KMED. Drop a card or phone Perl Funeral Home with your request. PERL Fiineral Home LADY ATTENDANT Phone SP 2-6675 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 jmtial 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. The letters printed in this jolumn do. not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Out-of-Staters? To the Editor: As a paid-up union member, I am wonder ing why out-of-state men are put to work and the local men are not? We are making our homes here. We pay for protection from the union, but we don't get it. And why should out-of- state people live here and not have to change the licensed on their cars? And trailer houses? There has been quite a lot of complaint made to the un employment office, and the union. All we get is "We will look into it." . So to the public, what is wrong with our unions and the unemployment in our county? Our people in the county can go on relief and make out with any little thing, but the jobs are here, the tunnels and construction, have out-of-state men. So why? A worker's wife. (Name on file) Humane Traps To the Editor: This Is to advise Mr. McCabe.that the information he wants may be obtained from the Associa tion for Protection of Fur Bearing Animals, Vancouver, B. C, Box 274, They now have a humane trap in gen eral use. J. Dorman, Lake of the Woods rd., . Ashland. Secret Service Guard Enlightened Phoenix, Ariz. (IP) :. A man wearing a sports shirt insisted on following Presi dent Eisenhower on the golf course Sunday even after a crowd of 200 had been asked' not to do it. ' On the 10th hole, he was stopped by a local Secret Ser vice man' who said: "I'm sorry, you can't fol low the President." ' "Yes, I can," the man re plied. . "No, you can't," aid " the agent. ',' ' "- ; "Well, I'm a member of the party," the man replied. Someone informed the Sec ret Service man at this point that the man in the sports shirt was the President's phy sician, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder. He follows the Chief Executive wherever he goes. CARBINES FOR INDONESIA Singapore (IP) A "large consignment" of modern American carbines was ship ped through here to Jakarta a few days ago, the Singapore Standard reported Sunday. The report said the carbines were equipped with telescopic infrared target viewers and were addressed to the chief of the Indonesian police. them more freedom to de nounce the federation of Iraq and Jordan which is a counter to the Egyptian-Syrian union.