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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEFOWkTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD FHLMLMi tU 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manure GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor AKL 21. tailor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD jewett. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Societr Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewsDaper Entered as second class matter at . Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Fr Mail In Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford . Ashland. Central Point. Eagle - Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. ; Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford - Official paper or Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC, Of fices m New Yorx. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. 0 NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION - NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTodrATI0N 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 Feb. 28, 1948 (Saturday) Four Naval jet fighter planes land at Medford air port because of bad weather, James C. Collins, Medford city council chairman, ap pointed mayor, succeeding the late Clarence A. Meeker. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 28, 1938 (Monday) More than 1,000 people visit Crater Lake National park yesterday, setting new one- day total for winter. Jirom Arthur ferry s xe Smudge Pot column: "An Easterner offers the President $5,000,000 to resign, and leave the White House. It would be worth as much to have his oldest boy quit trying to act like a Crown Prince." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 28. 1923 (Tuesday) Annual report of the Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany shows steady progress and development. A. A. Walker elected presi dent of newly organized Com mercial club in Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 28, 1918 (Thursday) : Large crowd greets Med ford soldiers aboard two spe cial trains en route to Ft. Stevens. ; From Local and Personal column: "Ben F. West of Salem, candidate for the Re publican nomination for state treasurer, has returned home after a week's visit in the city and vicinity looking after his candidacy." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the first English King of the House of Wind sor. - 2. Bible: During which of his years of ministry did Je sus choose and train his disciples, or the Twelve? . 3. In bullfighting, which kills the bull the picador or the matador? 4. In which country is the Yangtze river? 5. Complete the saying "Blood is thicker than ." 6. What was George Wash ington's middle name? 7. In which city is George town University located? 8. What is a crozier? 9. Are the Leeward Islands in the East or West Indies? 10. Does Iceland lie east or west of Greenland? Answers: 1. George V. 2, The first (Yeir of Obscurity"), 3. Matador. 4. China. 3. Wat er. 6. He had none. 7. Wash ington D.C. 8. The staff sur mounted by a crook, borne by bishops and archbishops on ceremonial occasions. 9. West Indies. 10. East. AIRLINER SETS RECORD San Francisco (IP) A Unit ed Airlines DC7 knocked four minutes off a 15-month-old commercial record Thursday Company spokesmen said the night when it flew from New York to San Francisco in Seven hours and 32 minutes. Company spokesmen said the plane, piloted by Capt. D. E. Tobie of Los Altos,- Calif., av eraged 375 miles an hour across the country with the help of a mile-a-minute tail wind. The previous record was also set by United. 9 V Kapers and Clinics The Kiwanis Kapers come to be something ford over the past 10 years. The reason is twofold. Not only do Kiwanians and their friends put proceeds of the Kapers the hearts of everyone. Crowds over the years ciate the mixture of songs, dances, horseplay and jokes which, in loose continuity, make up the Kapers, flavored by the performers are well-known friends and neighbors A ND, while the Kapers type of entertainmen " is not to the taste Kiwanians do with the tainly is unexceptionable. This year, a major portion of the funds wil go to revive the county-wide dental clinic to be operated in the courthouse five afternoons each week, for the benefit of youngsters wno other wise might have to go without dental care. This is just another things we like best about Medford a friendly town where people like to do things to help oth ers, and have a lot of fun doing it. And there's still time to see the Kapers if you've not already done again tonight and tomorrow night at the high school auditorium. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m both nights. Have fun ! E. A. Lighthouse Dream A newspaperman over at Coos Bay was work ing away the other day writing a news item about the Bandon lighthouse, which some time ago had been abandoned, and which was being put up This newspaperman"1 name, but his initials are ears m routine work the a lot of the reading interesting to small portions of any newspaper's readership and was tired and dispirited. But the lighthouse item set him to dreaming dreams of buying the lighthouse and setting up (he asked pardon for the pun) light housekeeping. ARTS of his dream we feel constrained to "There on the. north bank of the Coquille river, opposite downtown Bandon and fronting the Pacific, we would sojourn in a. seaside sanctuary. There would be no deadlines. In fact we would read the newspaper two or three days late, only to vaguely sympathize with those people struggling outside our retreat. The lighthouse should have well-stocked libraries of books and records, a bar, and a freezer full of choice meats. "We would fish, become intimate with the sea and sky, write the one book that everyone might create of his life, and laze about a good deal of our unscheduled time. People? Once in a while we'd cross the river to Bandon, but mostly we'd be content to wave at people on the opposite jetty. "We'd rekindle the light and get the fog signal going again, softly. Oh, we know the Coast Guard has branded the lighthouse obsolete, but getting it work ing again would keep our social conscience quiet. Satisfying our own wants no small art in itself would be the reason for bsing of our lives." THAT'S a nice dream. know, "R.F." is still battling the daily battle of deadlines and routine and is correct, he's enjoying But even newspapermen, in common with the rest of mankind, enjoy dreams of peace, and quiet, and solitude, and unlimited time to do all those worthwhile things that one never quite finds time to do. It is good to dream, sometimes. But it is prob ably just as well that most dreams don't come true. If they did, who'd get things done? E.A. Getting Things Done Speaking of getting things done, it is inter esting to note that this is getting less and less of a physical chore. A research organization, engaged in study ing the past and future potentials of the American economy, came up with some figures showing the sources of work-energy of 100 years ago as compared with today. A century ago, human and animal muscles provided a majority of work-energy; today it is almost all done with mechanical energy. JERE are the figures: Human Energy Output 13.3 Animal Energy Output 52.4 Mechanical Energy Output 34.6 Horses, mules and oxen have been sup planted by motor vehicles and tractors; ma chines dig ditches, pave highways, cut trees, wash dishes and clothes. It's quite a change in just 100 years. And much of the change has been in the past 50 or 30 years. , They haven't supplanted the human mind, though not yet. E.A. Friday. February 28, 1938 have (or is it "has"?) of an institution in Med on a lively show, but the go to causes which touch have shown they appre fact that many of the of everyone, the job the money they make cer symptom of one of the so. It will be presented when he found himself for sale. . (we don't know his "R.F.") was up to his trivia that makes up N were so appealing that share them, as follows : trivia, and, if our guess it. 100 Years Ago Today 0.9 0.6 98.5 VouteA Only child J THATs vw voufeg such a " Nice 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often Defends Trappers To the Editor: This is an open letter to all it may con cern. I would like to take the part of Mr. McCabe as for my views on trapping. In the first place, when a professional trapper makes a set for an animal such as a muskrat, beaver and mink, he sets his traps so they can be dragged out into the water, but cannot come back to the bank. When the animal steps into the trap his first instinct is to jump into the water, which drowns the victim im; mediately. The reason for this is: first, it keeps the animal from suf fering; second, to keep the pelt in good condition. Once in a while if you catch an ani mal and it breaks the bone in his leg, he will chew off his foot to get free, but in these cases the trap is too big for the animal, such as catching a raccoon in a number four beaver trap, the bone has to be broken before he will chew his foot off. Let's say an animal of any kind steps into a trap and breaks its leg The first few minutes he is too scared to think of the pain it causes him; by the time he calms down a bit the trap has shut off the blood circulation in his foot and it is numb, so when he chews his foot off he feels no pain whatsoever. Mother nature has a won derful way to take care of an animal that has lost a foot in a trap. I've caught animals that had lost a foot previously. It would be all healed up as well as if a veterinarian had am putated it. Also, wild animals do not have as highly devel oped nervous systems as hu mans, so all of our so-called do gooders cannot measure how much pain it causes the victim. Traps that are big enough to kill a wolf or beaver will kill your pet dogs, smaller ones will kill your cats, larg er ones might kill your chil dren. I say keep what we have. These old "busy bodies," who want a new fur coat don't seem to realize that they are responsible for the animals being trapped in the first place. - I also believe those plan ning to vote on this bill should familiarize themselves with the facts and conse quences completely. S. K. (Name on file) Gold Hill. Humane Bill Due To the Editor: I'm an inter ested party in getting the Hu mane Slaughter Bill No. 8308 passed on the final reading when it comes up before the Senate in the near future. It has already been passed over whelmingly by the House of Representatives. I wish to urge every person interested in this humane slaughter of our meat ani mals to write your senators of Oregon, Richard Neuberger and Wayne Morse, to support this bill when it comes up be fore the Senate. I'm enclosing herewith copy of a letter which appeared in the "Open Forum" of the Den ver Post recently. If possible, could you run a copy of this article in your communica tions column soon? F. T. (Name on file) Medford. Humane Slaughter Bill H. 8308 was overwhelmingly approved on Feb. 4 by the House of Representatives and sent immediately to the Sen ate. Figures from our Nation al Humane Society show that every year more than 100 mil lion animals will be " saved from great suffering if this bill is passed by the Senate- WO." the case. It is urgent that all hu mane persons write or. wire their two U. S. senators and Senator Allen J. Ellender, Chairman, Senate Agriculture Committee, and to Senator Lyndon Johnson, Senate Ma jority Leader, asking their ac tive support. These senators can be addressed at the Sen ate Office Building, Washing ton, D. C. Lucille Sloan, Denver. Esperanto To the Editor: Will Russia beat us with the universal lan guage too? For many years Russia suppressed Esperanto but now she encourages it and is making good progress while we lag complacently. Esperanto is only 70 years old, but 5,000,000 people throughout the world know it, and it is widely used in business, transportation, tech nical and cultural circles. It can be learned in a tenth of the time required to master any national tongue, and is the logical choice for the in ternational "auxiliary" lan guage. - Because of the great in crease in air travel and other scientific advances, Esperanto is now gaining rapidly all over the world. It is time we woke up! For more information about the universal language, you may write The Esperanto League, Meadville, Pa. Mrs. Lee W. Gibson, Route 1, Box 13, Mulino, Ore. First, an American To the Editor: With the keen interest being shown by the whole country, well aroused as usual at approach ing election time, may an old timer express the thoughts ac cumulated over a period of 50 years of amazement, while watching the most amazing bunco game about to start its four-year cycle again. This time it is with a hope ful note appearing, with the help of the educational effort for better schooling, which is already starting to scare those politicians whose great est asset is their ability to flaunt the libel and scandal laws when charging their op ponents with everything in the book, just so they get elected. Under the new. school pro gram, these youngsters will learn to reason and p. t two and two together and prob ably come up with the answer that the man to elect will not of necessity be Democratic or Republican but first an American. A. J. DeLisle . 146 South Ivy st. Medford Land of the Jews To the Editor: I was inter ested in Dr. Mehdi's com ments concerning the Jews and displaced Arabs. While sympathizing with the latter, perhaps we need an under standing from God's stand point for a proper perspec tive. . During Israel's 'disfavor, the Gentiles were" given a lease of power beginning with Babylon, to be termin ated by God's earthly king dom through which, in Abra ham and his seed, ". . . the families of the earth (would) be blessed". In 1878 International Law granted Jewish settlement rights to Palestine; England resumed a protectorate; the Turks, by ameliorating condi tions, encouraged Jewish emi gration. Thus came the turn ing point in Jewish favor, and the beginning of their home land trek prophesied in Jer. 16 which refers also to cer tain fishers and hunters. Zion ism's bait attracted symbolic fish to Palestine. Pinsker in West Coast Names District Manager Seattle L. W. (Rusty) Ros tad, former Portland resident station manager, has bean named district sales manager of West Coast Airlines, ac cording to company officials. The district headed by Ros tad includes Medford and the southern Oregon area, accord ing to the company. He has served with the airline about 10 years. The first commercial use of the Fairchild F-27 nroDiet- liner will be put into opera tion later this vear. the com pany said. The airplane is specially designed for use by local service airlines, they said. Babson Eyes Plight Of Small Business By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. ' I very seldom refer to political matters in this column, but I do wish there were some way I could interest read ers in writing Dr. Arthur F. Burns, co the White House in Washing ton, how seri ous t.hp situs- Eoser W. Babsotion g for many worthy businessmen. When money is tight: as it has been during the past year, the small businessmen are the greatest sufferers. Bankers are human and loan monev first to their largest deposi tors, unese, naturally, are T?ig businesses." Further more, the majority of failures are among small businessmen, rather than large concerns Hence, your local banker pre fers to loan to the big com panies and you cannot blame him. I am not much for more government aid. I believe that the country would be better off in the end to cut it all out to farmers contractors, home owners, and veterans For a good many years our country prospered on a lais sez-faire system. I fear that the present aid to pressure groups will continue, until there is one grand collapse, when we must all start over again without government aid However, that time has not come yet. The contractor and small home owner, because of increased costs, are aided by government guarantee of a 1882 began preaching the comfort of Isa. 40: 1, 2. Sub sequently came others, in cluding Dr. Herzl, who, pub lishing his "Jewish State", envisioned Palestine as a free homeland; and, with associ ates, frantically appealed to Jewish pride, patriotism, to establish Zionist societies, to educate, to enthuse Jewry. The first Zionist Congress met 1897. In 1889 appeared a book, "The Time is at Hand," indicating 1914 as the end of the Gentile times, marking important Israelitish change. In 1891 another book, "Thy Kingdom Come, told of "The Restoration of Israel". Widely circulated publications, lec tures followed. Thus Zionism served influentially (still does) symbolically fishing for Jerusalem's rehabilitation. At the expiration of Gentile lease, came World War I, fol lowed by a miraculous wrest ing of Jerusalem from the Turks 1917, during which not a gun was fired nor an iota of destruction done. Zionistic hopes were thus further in tensified. As to the hunters of Jer. 16, they've never ceased contrib uting also to Jewish repatria tion. For we need only to re call the 1878 persecutions in Roumania, Galicia, Russia, the Kishinev massacre, World War I blanket of flesh, num erous pogroms, unspeakable atrocities. Since World War I, Israel's progress has continued. In 1948 it became a state; in 1950 its gates were thrown open as never before. The rec ent victory over Eygpt was history-making and although its present position remains precarious, it is suggested events indicate the Lord de sifes the Jews to return to Palestine from where " . . -they shall no more be pu up out of their land which I have given them . . . ". Amos 9; Zeph 3, etc. Mrs. Irene Moreland, 3146 Hanley rd., Medford mm iW. Tfu& Vtttorje DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. You can whip Our Cream but you can't beat Our Milk Ike-Nixon 'Understanding' On Disability Not Enouah By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (CI Presi dent Eisenhower surely ac complished one solid end when he told this week's news confer ence that he and the vice pres ident have an understanding about what should be done if the head man be comes dis- abled. Lyie c. Wilson me end ac complished was to provide portion of their loan when they build a new house. In the same way, the govern ment would be justified in guaranteeing reasonable loans to small businessmen to cover needed inventories, improve ments to stores or factories. Washington is responsible for inflation and should protect worthy business against its evil results. Prices Which You Pay In addition to urging your Senators . and Representatives to help small worthy business men, every reader can help by patronizing them. I would strongly oppose boycotting "big business." Both big busi ness and small business have their usefulness. Each group keeps the other on its toes and provides real competition. The hope of the consumer is to keep both big business and small business alive and pros perous. This means we should divide our trade between them.: The lawyers and lobbyists who are paid to represent "big business ' claim that the new inventions come from the big concerns. They point to the large amounts of money which big business is spend ing on research. Much work may be charged to research for tax purposes. I personally have been very close to the Patent Office in Washington and believe that a larger per centage of new inventions come to the Patent Office from small business than through big business. A man will naturally work harder to invent something for his own little business than he will as an employee of a large con cern. Actually, big business watches the new inventions and buys the good patents that small businessmen have taken out. Furthermore, many patents are bought up by big business in order to smother thenu We consumers would be better off if the small businessmen, who invented them, had the money to ex ploit them. Pay Compared Big business can afford to pay . a young man more to start than can small business. Big business goes to a college and hires three young men at $400 a month, with the idea of keeping one and letting the other two go. Small business cannot afford to do this. Col lege graduates should be very careful not to be misled in this respect. Young people who lack the ambition to ever become independent business men will be happier working for big business. But the young man with initiative, courage, and independence is far better off working for the small businessmen and ulti mately becoming owner of a business. I believe there is a place for both big business and small business. I am merely ureine that our government and we, ourselves, do what we can to keep both groups prosperous. Trying to run a country without small busi ness is like trying to run a Church without a Sunday School. Let me further say that if big business becomes too big, it will lead to social ism; while, without big busi ness, the small businessman will go to sleep. Finally, all Trustees should be required to put 10 per cent of their funds in "risk'! investments, both for insurance to the bene ficiaries and for the good of the nation. Karachi. Pakistan (TO The Karachi Morning News today summarized the highlights of the new Pakistan budget as: Fresh taxes. 2. More taxes. Still more taxes." at Genessee LL-J Richard M; Nixon with some much needed protection against cruel needlers and snipers. Nixon has been peculiarly vulnerable to the pot shot marksmanship of his numer ous enemies ever since Eisen hower's 1956 heart attack. He has been vulnerable because he has found himself in the" uncomfortable position of be ing unable frankly to defend himself against charges that he was eager to seize and to enjoy the presidential office on something other than the provocation of actual emer gency. The vice president ap parently has considered such accusations better ignored than answered, and he prob ably is right on that. Accusations Continue ' The accusations have con tinued, although with dimin ishing force. Their force prob ably has diminished by rea son -of a general acceptance and public approval of Nix on's conduct under trying cir cumstances, y " . Now comes the President's news conference statement this week that he has a clear understanding with Nixon as to what should be done in case of the former's disability. The nature of their under standing was not disclosed, nor was it disclosed whether it was written or merely a conversational pact. It will serve substantially, however, to relieve Nixon of the un friendly questioning - of his motives which has accompan ied the President's several ill nesses. That, however, did not ap pear to have been Eisenhow er's purpose in disclosing ex istence of an understanding with his younger friend. The Difficult Situation In North Africa Top News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press' Correspondtnt The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet. Robert Murphy, United States deputy undersecretary of state, undertook this week to try to set tle the dispute between France and Tunisia over the bombing of a Tunisian village by French planes France and Tunisia had accepted the offer by the United States and Great Britain of their help in avoiding a threatened com plete break in relations. Mur phy, a diplomatic trouble- shooter of note, was chosen as negotiator. Murphy conferred first in Paris, then in Tunisia. His talks with French Premier Felix Gaillard and Fdreign Minister Christian . Pineau in Paris, and with President Ha bib Bourguiba in Tunisia, served chiefly to show the dif ficulty of his task. Bourguiba insisted that the Algerian rebellion, of which the village bombing was an offshoot, must be taken into consideration in the negotia tions. Gaillard and Pinean re fused. They insisted that Al geria is a French internal issue. The North African situation was complicated by an out burst of fierce Algerian rebel attacks on the French forces. Dispatches indicated that French losses totalled about 142 killed and rebel losses about 400. Some of the clashes occur red close to the Tunisian bor der. Many rebels base them selves in friendly Tunisia, and cross the border to attack the French. The French said it was only after rebel guns had LJL Charles M. McCann S USING WELL WATER We Now Stock Glass-Lined PRESSURE TANKS 42 gallon - $40.00 SISKIYOU HARDWARE Phone SP 2-2939 - Medford 225 West Main WE GIVE S & H GREEN STAMPS President was seeking (A) to emphasize again his desire for action toward a constitu t i o n a 1 amendment dealing with disability in the White House and (B) to assure the public of the fact that he had done what he could to make ready for the, emergency which may come. Understanding Not Enough It was obvious to the Presi dent, that his understanding with Nixon was not enough, that it had no legal nor con stitutional standing whatever and that Congress should get going on something more substantial. That should be obvious to anyone. How .necessary that could be may be easily understood by the briefest consideration of the conditions which con trol the use of A and H bombs. Suppose, for example, the radar warning network alerted Strategic Air Com- mand (SAC) headquarters in Omaha that a hostile missile was on the way. SAC bomb ers always are revved up, engines hot and ready and they're off! Between the moment of that take-off scramble and a time well before near ap proach to the supposed enemy target, the President of the United States must act. By se cret signal to those winging SAC bombers the President must authorize or forbid the , actual dropping of the A or H-bombs. . The President must do that, not an acting president or a vice president with a friend ly and mutually agreeable un derstanding about what to do in a disability emergency. Such a situation may never come. But, it could and it may. fired repeatedly on French planes from the rooftop of Tunisian govewiment build ings in Sakiet-Sidi 'Youssef that a local French command ant ordered the bombing. It was made known that the United States, Canada, Great Britain and France are consulting on the- of breaking the deadlock with Soviet Russia on disarmament talks. Disarmament negotiation had been ' conducted by the five countries named, acting as - a subcommittee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission. Russia broke off negotiations, demanding that the whole 82-member U.N. conduct them. An agreement in rraima disarmament n e g o t i ations would constitute a big step to-' ward the "summit" meeting of the big powers which the Soviet government lone has sought. Arturo Frondizi. 49-vear-oM lawyer, representing the left-of-center intransigent Radical Party, was elected president oi Argentina in that country's first really free national elec tion in 30 years. Frondizi won a landslide victory with the help of sup porters of dictator Juan D. Peron who was overthrown in 1955. Peron, himself in exile, had ordered his sup porters to vote for Frondizi. In 'an attempt to embarrass President Fulgencio Batista, agents of Cuban rebel chief tain Fidel Castro kidnaped Juan Manuel Fangio of Ar gentina, world auto racing champion, on the eve of the great Grand Prix automobile race in Havana. Fangio was released unharmed after the race. The. race itself was called off after one of the competing cars hurtled out of control into the crowd of spectators, killing 8 and in juring 32. To All People
