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4 Sunday, April 6, 1 938 MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MedfordTribune "Everyone in Southern 'Oregon Reads The MaJ Tribune' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CKIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewsDaner Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Py Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mot. 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: Daily 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 Ciiy 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 ASSOCHTPOfN U 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 April 6. 1948 (Tuesday) Camped at Breitenbush riv er last night, "Operation Sno Cat Cascade" set Clackamas lake as its goal today. Special election for patrons of Phoenix-Talent school dis trict called Wednesday to se lect a site for a new high school. 20 YEARS AGO April 6. 1938 (Wednesday) N. D. (Nick) Brophy filed as a candidate for county commissioner on the Republi can ticket. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "But she Is at her best when writing of the shortcoming of her hus band." (Eugene News.) 30 YEARS AGO April 6, 1928 (Friday) Special committee takes steps toward securing a larger airport field for Medford. Stormy weather makes it difficult for shoppers; sale of pianos, Victrolas and radios at Palmer Music House con tinues, however. 40 YEARS AGO April 6. 1918 (Saturday) The most unique patriotic parade and demonstration in Medford's .history, followed by addresses in the city park, opens Liberty loan drive. Members of different churches met at the library Friday to form a union of their different missionary so cieties. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In which South Ameri can country is the city and port of Coquimbo? 2. Bible: When Lot's wife looked back, she turned into what? 3. The nickname of Tip pecanoe was applied to which U. S. President? 4. A barge employed in ports for loading and unload ing cargoes of ships is called a 1 5. The' United States has, or has not, issued a $3 bill? 6. Plato was best known for his comic, or serious, poetry? 7. What was the vast terri tory purchased by the United States in 1867 that for many years bore the names, "Sew ard's Folly" and "Seward's Trog Pond"? 8. Both male and female Kangaroos have pouches; true or false? 9. Florence Nightingale was noted for nursing, singing, or knitting? 10. The longest Major League baseball game (by in nings) occurred in Boston on May 1, 1920; how many in nings were there? Answers: 1. Chile. 2. A pil lar of salt. 3. William Henry Harrison. 4. Lighter. 5. Has not (continental notes of $3 were issued). Comic. 7. Alaska (Price $7,200,000). 8. False. 9. Nursing. 10. 26 (Brooklyn vs. Boston). - x - Editorial Correspondence . . . San Francisco, April 4th "Into each life some rain must fall." - But how about a cloud-burst for 40 days and 40 nights? Fortunately our hotel is situated on a slope or we would have taken to the .life boats long ago. Yesterday morning dawned bright, cold and clear but having been fooled once we resolved not to be fooled again. So we took a rain-coat with us. So did all the boys and girls going to work. We finished breakfast at 7:30 a.m. April fooled us againhowever. We returned to our base of opera tions without taking aforesaid rain-coat off our arm. Can ij be the storm is over? ', All San Franciscans, particularly the downtown mer chants, are cursing out the weather man. If he refuses to clear things up before the Easter week-end he'd better get out of town before he is kicked out. Put on our spiked shoes and meandered to the top of Nob Hill. A brand new white marble palace greeted our astonished gaze opposite the Pacific Union club. Getting a glimpse of colorful murals through the plate glass front ave wondered if the UN had opened a branch-office here. Finally found one of the many glass-doors unlocked and ventured in. A uniformed janitor was swabbing the marble floor and in answer to our query told us it was the new Masonic Hall. Well this is only a guess but we should say this is the most elaborate and imposing Masonic Hall in the USA. Another new item since a year ago. The big center sand pile in Huntington park has been replaced by a huge Crocker fountain encircled by green benches. One lone woman was resting on one, busily knitting in spite of the cold. "That terrible fountain has spoiled things here," she volunteered, "it was ok at the Crocker mansion or would be in Golden Gate Park, but not here this is a quiet place principally for nurses and children." Where the lawn used to be on the north border, there are a couple of sandpiles, and a few nurses with children mostly babies were trying to keep warm. The sandpiles were prac tically under water however another demonstration of what the weather the past 10 days has been. One of the cigar-girls here at the hotel is quite perky. Joining in the prevailing conversation about the weather, she said she woke up this morning with pains in her shoulder blades and upon examination ing. Not bad not very good either. Well ok for a starter. Another change. Herb Caen, who started his popular San Francisco column in the Chronicle and then was lured to the Examiner via a bigger salary is back again on Mike de Young's daily. We are curious whether the Chronicle topped the raise or met it. Of course it may have been neither. After reading his column in the Chronicle for 10 days, it is not inconceivable he was fired. Since leaving Tucson we have been following the S.F. Giants and the Cleveland Indians in the sports pages. The Giants have won the Cactus. League title easily but Cleve land since our departure has been doing better. We would consider a wager, if Thorndike would give his usual generous odds, that both will finish in the first division. . , This year of the "Big Flood" reminds us somewhat of the year of the "Big Fire" over 50 years ago. Of course there is no comparison in one sense, the fire and quake was a major national catastrophe and these rains are not. But in spite of the present grousing anent the weather, San Fran ciscans do take "ill-winds" with a smile. They take mis fortunes in their stride. We will never forget the spirit of the place when we arrived at the Ferry Building in April, 1906. We were selling "bundle-hose" then no cracks please! wholesale only to the big jobbers. From that Ferry Building as far as the eye could see there was nothing but smoldering ruins, twisted steel and wires, bricks, stones and ashes mere complete desolation and destruction could hardly be imagined. Yet in shacks, tents, dry-goods boxes or what have you, up in Golden Gate park all the jobbers on our list were operating, buying if not selling, as if the city that was no more would, like the ancient Phoenix, rise triumphant from the ashes not next year or the year after, but that week end. They put all sorts of crazy signs on their temporary habitations, like "Barbary Coast," "Poodle-Dog," "Fly-trap" and "Delmonicos" while many of them had to stand in line for coffee and doughnuts at the U.S. relief stations. Soldiers of Funston's army were patrolling all the way to Van Ness, and shooting down anyone who dared try a hand at pilfering. But on all sides, instead of one finding any dismay, discouragement, or complaint there was a spirit of bounce, comraderie, good humor, and enterprise, that was simply astounding. The beautiful weather, sunny, stimulating, fresh from the salty Pacific, we always felt had something to do with it (And we believe still has for that matter, if Old Sol ever gets a chance.) We never got any medals of merit for our salesmanship but we know we sold several car-loads, when we (having read of the catastrophe) expected to do no business at all. There was no place in San Francisco to stay, of course, but we finally got a hall-bedroom over a grocery store in Oakland, and as is not unusual at 26, enjoyed quite a lark. That was our first impression of San Francisco and it is one we will never forget. Our only regret has been we didn't buy a few acres of that debris on Post or Sutter streets. We had a few hundred dollars in a Rockford bank for a first payment. But while that Golden Gate spirit was inspiring, with our usual keen business acumen and prophetic insight, we thought they were a lot of crazy 49'ers, whistling in a grave yard, and it would be a decade before 'Frisco would be rebuilt if with that earthquake menace hovering over them it EVER would. Thus endeth today's lesson in recollection and humility! Add changes: Geary Street Solaris has closed up another old land mark "gone with the wind!" And across the street we were surprised to learn that Edward G. Robinson's "In the Middle of the Night" reviewed in this department folded up a few days after the matinee "we attended. Called it a day and the cast scattered to the winds. Wonder why? They claimed a three week's sell-out in LA and the performance we took in was well attended. It must be the depression that DOESN'T exist. If it IS a depression and not merely a recession, one thing is for sure: before it ends, a price level such as San Francisco now maintains in all directions INCLUDING THE HOTELS will have to come down. People who are scared simply won't ouy at least much at present prices. A word to the wise should be sufficient but judging the future by the past, it won't be. We have had our say about modern .styles in ladies' dresses the "chimiserables" in particular but we don't in clude their Easter hats. The hats in the store windows we have seen, are most attractive gorgeous, fresh Spring-like MASSES of color. , Speaking of store window displays, we believe the Union Square section of San Francisco runs a close second to New York when it comes to the chic, stylish note, and original, and attractive even to the older boys creations. Of course at Easter the flower stands and flower stores led by Podesta and Baldocchi are something to write home about. Inci dently Macy's had P & B do the Easter flowers for their store, and it is another something that 'some artist SHOULD paint. It is afternoon now and still no rain. It is cold and windy but the sun actually is shining. However if we had an umbrella, and were going out, we would take it. R.W.R. found water wings were sprout Dennis the Menace " ' 'I FINALLY MET THAT NEW Matter of Fact TAX CUT MIRAGE Washington America's durable wise man, Bernard M. Baruch. has boldly spoken B'fwfflMHffr! the words in public that are having very great influ ence on the E i s e n hower administration in private Even' now, he has said, in- f la ti on is a Joseph Aisop greater danger until prices come down. The really Draconian Ba ruch prescriptions ' an actu al increase of taxes to cover the prospective rise in Federal spending, for instance have no visible support in the Eisen hower economic high com mand. But the basic Baruch order of priorities has very strong support indeed. For this very reason, the happy vision of a big Administration-sponsored Federal tax cut is expected to prove a mere mirage, at least' for the month of April. The word now is that the White House will cling , to its wait - and -see policy until May produces a new crop of statistics on the American economy's spring time performance. If the May figures are at all encouraging the tax cut stimulant will probably be withheld again. THIS negative forecast is surprising because a big tax cut seemed so certain only a few weeks ago. It also needs to be hedged with one big "if." On the one hand, the Ad ministration's proponents of a prompt tax cut are just as con vinced as ever that the econ omy needs a prompt pickup. They have mobilized impor tant allies, such as the Presi dent's former chief economic advisor, Dr. Arthur Burns, who was in Washington dur ing the week to press his views upon Secretary of the Treasurer Anderson. The tax-cutters have been and will be good soldiers. They will accept the Presi dent's April decision, as they accepted his March decision, without grumbling. But when the decision has to be made after the Easter Congressional recess, Secretary of Labor Mitchell, Vice President Nix on and the other tax-cutters will speak their pieces at the council table, with such addi tional authority as Dr. Burns and others like him may mean while have given them. .. ON the other hand,; there is one source from which the tax-cutters can perhaps .de rive very great authority in deed. The Senators and Rep resentatives are- already" tak ing their trains and planes, to conduct their customary ex amination of the grass roots. The powerful and able Chair4 man of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Wil bur Mills, has already made Try and -By BENNETT CERF- HONUS WAGNER, baseball at first base with the use his position, he reached into of tobacca His hand was so big it got stuck in the pocket ana ne couian t pun it out. v Nonchalantly, . the Flying Dutchman pulled in three throws at first base, and fled to the dugout where they had to cut out the pocket to free his hand. A U. S. Internal Revenue Department agent phoned the head of a big charitable or ganization. "I Bote," he said, "that a manufacturer named Ignatz Zilch reports he do nated $10,000 to your charity last year. Did he?" "Not yet," was the jubilant reply, "BUT HE WILL!" State Department official has this reminder posted on his office: -"If you could kick in the pants the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for six months." . KID ACROSS THE STREET. " By Joseph Alsop his own tests among the Ar kansas home folks, and he re ports no great demand for tax-cutting. But many other Senators and Representatives may re turn from the grass roots with the report that their constit uents are in a fever about bad times, and want a tax-cut right now. In that case, Speaker Rayburn and Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson may have to inform Secretary of the Treasury Anderson that they must take action on their own despite their agreement witn him to wait for the Adminis tration. Or, indeed, the Presi dent may decide to bow to the sentiment in Congress. Right there, is the big tax cut "if." As to now, however, if you consider the situation inside the Administration itself, the tax-cutters plainly have little chance of persuading the wait-and-see factions of the need for action in April. . The figures on the econo my's performance in March are certainly not encourag ing. The final statistics will show high unemployment, combined with a rise of 10,- 000 to 20,000 in the number of those having jobs. Normal ly, March should show a sea sonal increase in the employ ment total of about -200,000; and the very slight '' increase in the March total is really far less significant than the failure, by a wide margin, to achieve the month's normal seasonal job rise. A LL the same, the White House staff is eagerly pointed out that the President only said he was counting on an increase "of job opportuni ties" in March. Literally, therefore, events are said to have confirmed the President's prediction at the famous press conference which gave the im pression that emergency ac tion to stimulate the economy would be taken if the March showing proved to be poor. This word-picking and hair splitting in turn conceal a perfectly serious viewpoint, of which the President him self and Secretary of the Treasury Anderson appear to be the chief advocates at. the council table. In brief, this is the view, based on the Baruch priorities, that prices have got to be adjusted downwards un less the business depression is to be transformed into a ser ious inflation, taking off from the present high price level and spurred by a heavily un balanced budget. - In recent weeksmoreover, both the White House and the Treasury have been addition ally disturbed by the higher estimates of the rate of cash expenditures in the next fiscal year that are coming in from the departments, and especial ly from Defense. So the bet ting, which used to be for an April tax cut has now changed sharply. . Stop Me immortal, played one full inning of only one hand. On his way to his rear hip pocket for a chaw r-v vmjv Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE ESCAPE FROM REALITY It was an ordeal for Sec retary Dulles to have to face a big press conference a few hours after 1 1 h e morning papers had carried the story of the Soviet suspen sion of nu clear testing. He chose to treat the So- Walter Lippmann Viet move as a tricky and meaningless propaganda stunt, which they with their closed society can exploit, whereas we in our open and free society are un able to match it. This theory may comfort him but it is, I venture to believe, a dan gerous form of escapism from the hard realities of the world situation. For it rests on the notion that our many reverses and the decline of our influence are due not to defects in our policies but to the superior advantages of the Soviet Un ion in propaganda. That is to say, when our products do not sell, the trouble lies not with the engineering in the quality of the product but in the pack aging and the advertising. The whole world would agree with John Foster Dulles if it were not that the world is so gullible that it is being taken in by the Russians. This is flattering to our pride but it is not true. Consider, for example, the subject of nuclear testing which Mr. Dulles was discuss ing. He pointed out, quite truly, that the Soviet Union has just completed a series of tests whereas we are pre paring to make a series of tests this spring and summer. The Soviet trick is, he says, to suspend the tests which they do not now need for some time to come, hoping to prevent us from making our tests which we very much need to make. But -is this such a difficult trick to deal with? The nat ural way to deal with it would be to say that when we, like the Soviet Union, have com pleted our tests, we too will suspend further testing pro vided the Soviet Union does not resume testing. The world is not so gullible that it would not understand the common sense of this retort. ' ' rpHIS retort is not, however, -J- open to us because the con trolling fact is that our mili tary position in the world is built upon the deterrent pow er of nuclear weapons. It hap pens that Mr. Dulles spoke of our desire "to eliminate nuclear weapons effectively from the international arse nals." But why he said this, why he made so Utopian a remark, I cannot imagine. For the elimination of nuclear weapons would make quite impossible the strategic con tainment through a network of alliances to which he is committed. This is the real reason why American propaganda works badly. If we cannot or will not revise our policies, Mr. Dulles would do better to be candid and to tell the- world frankly that we cannot suspend tests because we cannot abolish nu clear weapons without a revo lutionary change in our for eign policy. He could then argue that the Russians with their massive conventional forces and their interior lines cannot be contained without nuclear weapons. This would not make him beloved in the world. But it would make him believed. ALL this applies to much mn th.-in trip nartimlar issue of nuclear testing. Amer ican propaganda is in trouble not because the Russians are able to lie with impunity but because in so many critical areas American propaganda is trying to sell policies which for one reason or another are obsolete, are fictions, are pro foundly unpopular. There is the central fiction in the Far East that Formosa is China, and that the actual government of China on the mainland ought to disappear. No propaganda can make a policy based on that fiction credible, much less convincing and inspiring. In South Asia there is the fiction, which de fies strategic geography, that we are arming Pakistan to defend the Middle East against the Red Army. This is a fiction which has earned us the deep suspicion of In dia. In the Middle East there is the fiction that the Arab states will remain with the West if only we can prevent the Soviet forces from invad ing them. And in Europe, there is the fiction that Adenauer's Ger many will absorb East Ger many and that in some un known way the Red ' Army will roll itself back out of Eastern Europe. The fact of the matter is that the mass of the people do not like these r a ......yjLw.uitB fictions and the informed leaders of opinion know that they are fictions and do not believe in them. That is why our propaganda works badly. A WISE' and experienced man said to me in Paris that the Western world was in a political decline, not so much because the Soviet Un ion was ' so strong and so shrewd, but because the West ern democracies made so many mistakes and lacked the political courage to rectify them. Listening to Mr. Dulles at Tuesday's press conference, I wondered whether he was not trying to escape from that bitter truth. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Ike came down from his living quarters in the White House to greet reporters as sembled in his office for a news conference the other day. He had looked out of the window when he awoke and wonder of wonders in this Year of the Storm the clouds had cleared away and the sun was beaming down from a blue sky. So he dressed accordingly. When he entered his office he was wearing a light gray spring suit with a gay neck tie. There was a flower in his buttonhole and on his face was a smile that was good to see. He greeted the assembled scribes with this lovely gem from the Song of Solomon: "For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." . THAT was in Washington. In Washington a few days before the winds, were howl ing and the snow was blow ing and the drifts were piling up and this at a time of the year when such things hadn't oughta be happening. As Ike spoke in the lilting words of Solomon back there in Washington, the winds were pouring down in tor rents and in the higher coun try the snow was falling like feathers out of an up-ended pillowsack. It was rugged and still-IS as this is written. A H, WELL, my children, let us have patience. If we will but hold our horses and WAIT, the time will come when we will be able to say with the immortal Bard of Avon in King Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious by this sun of York." Or so we hope. Communications Pin-ball Taxes To the Editor: For the past few months it seems as though there has been much concern shown on the pro and con of( the pin-ball machine. I wonder how many people in Oregon realize the state taxes that are derived from these machines. Just to cite one short example: an opera tor has to pay $50 per pin-ball machine to the state for a state tax stamp; $1-0 to the government for a Federal tax stamp; and price varies as to a city or coynty tax stamp de pending on location. Some people have the mis taken idea being that an oper ator can get rich overnight if he happens to be in a finan cial position to set up busi ness. Only a small minority know the actual overhead that an' operator hasi Each pin-ball machine is purchased at the approximate cost of $650, which depreciates 50 per cent the first year. Phono graphs run $1,300 and depre ciate one-third the first year. Most pin-balls have been put in taverns, night clubs, etc., and consequently adults are the majority players. Since persons 21 years or old er are considered adults by law and competent as such, doesn't this include amuse ment and recreation, too? Until these machines are de clared illegal by the state and as such a gambling device, why all the fuss? It makes no difference to me personally one way or the other, but one thought comes to mind and that concerns taxes. Theer is much talk nowadays about cutting both state and federal taxes. How can this come about if approx imately $50,000 state tax money derived from pin-ball tax stamps is erased? The so lution is simple, if a cut is impossible, we will have to make up this difference per year. Should this happen how many of us can afford the tax increase? Mrs. William Harris P. O. Box 206 Butte Falls, Ore. j IPTlUa (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A young man who was married not loo long ago reports that other couples contemplating such a step maybe should wait a bit. He says that here, in the heart of the lumber coun try, one Medford furniture store reports a serious shortage of bed slats. Mayor John Snider is no more immune than the rest of us from getting overtime parking tickets. He received one of the new yellow jobs last week, and was observed in the city hall as he was fill ing it out and inserting 50 cents in the envelope. Rather than walk across the hall to the treasurer's desk to hand it in, however, he de clared he was going to walk outside and try out one of the new parking meter fine boxes. Two members of the dist rict attorney's office saw the film, "Witness for the ; Prosecution," which is about a criminal trial in an English court. After watch ing Marlene Dietrich on the witness stand, they de clared that Jackson county law doesn't have a leg lo stand on. The telephone people have come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful gadgets. In the county court's office, for instance, is an innocent looking box. But if all three members want to listen to an incoming telephone conversa tion, the box will broadcast it all over the office some times to the surprise of the caller. And, to the person on the other end of the line, it sounds as though the court were talking from the bottom of a rain barrel. One member of our staff sort of an outdoor type says he's placed his old suit under lock and key. He says his wife has been after him lo buy a new suit for spring, but that he'd rather spend the money on something more useful say fishing equipment. Tuesday was April Fool's day, and this column would not be complete without some reference to it. One our friends in the back- shop swears that he persuaded a friend to call his wife for him, say it was the telephone company, and ask her to put a dust-proof bag over the tele phone instrument because they planned to "blow the dust out of the lines." He says that when he got home that evening, tne tele phone was wrapped up tight in a plastic sack. And up in Salem, a col umnist reports lhal a wife placed an April 1 paper in front of her husband, who read it with increasing puz zlement until he suddenly discovered lhal it was the issue of April 1, 1957. Actually, the news wasn't TOO different, he said. . One of our correspondents reports a conversation be tween an atheist who lives in the valley, and an acquaint ance. The atheist was declar ing that all things in creation Congress at Easter Half-Way Mark; CQ Appraises By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) The Easter recess, traditional half Tvay mark of the session, finds Congress with some of its ma jor work finished and much of it started. . The triple threat of sputnik, recession and fall elections has spurred Congress on to an unusually fast pace for the first half of the 1958 session. The Easter recess started on Ap'ril 3 and will end at noon, April 14. The work-done list includes a price freeze on farm sup ports and acreage allotments, special tax treatment for in surance companies, an emer gency housing bill to provide more jobs and to make it eas ier to buy a house, anti-pay TV resolutions, the establish ment of the first Congression al committees in history to deal with outer space proh lems, and a bill to speed high way construction and limit billboards. Major legislation already well on the way to becoming law includes a bill to improve rivers and harbors and one to raise the price of postage stamps so the Post Office de partment does not- lose so much money. Both measures have passed the House and Senate. On the eve of Easter recess, they were being stud ied by delegates from both chambers to iron out differ ences. ; resulted from some type of electrical phenomenon. . His friend replied, "Well, then, you must be Mr. Reddy Kilowatt!" That stopped him, our cor respondent reported. We know a man who spe cializes in buying up fairly ancient vehicles, driving , Ihem for a while, then dis posing of Ihem. A friend of his reports that the last time he wrote the motor vehicle department for licenses, he specified "upper and lower plates." We often wonder if some-, thing couldn't be done to in crease the efficiency of the log-hauling business parti cularly when we see two load ed log trucks, passing each other going in opposite direc tions. Something new, however, was reported by one of our young men who drove to Port land the other day, and saw a transport truck carrying a load of new Fords southward pass another transport truck carrying a load of new Fords northward. Oh. it's still a pioneer land we live in. all right. The Mail Tribune has re ceived notice of final proof on the filing of , a home stead the firsl such thai our veteran office person nel remember, and Ihe first thai long-lime deputies in the county clerk's office re member. A relative newcomer to the ministry told one of his pa rishioners that one of the toughest hurdles he's had to surmount is what apparently is a pre-conceived notion of what a minister should be. This notion, he said, seems to be that he should always speak in a deep, preaching type voice, always seek dis counts, and always look for contributions for church charities. Our friend "T.M.." who writes ihe birdwalching column, surprised us by re porting lhal one of Ihe big gest items of business dur ing ihe wintertime, at feed and seed stores, is the sale . of feeding shelves, packets of suei, and bird seeds, which houeholders put out for their feathered acquain- -lances. With all the news about the nasty weather in southern California, this story is no surprise, but just tends to prove that the Rogue valley is a pretty good place to live, atfer all. Public Works Director Ver non Thorpe reports that the airplane which was to do the aerial mapping photography of the Medford area was de layed in arriving for about a week because of rain in Long Beach, but that after it got here, it completed the photo graphic job in two days. The office philosopher (jg) declares lhal if there were lo be a sudden gaso line shortage, a lot of lawns . would go unmowed but lhal it would help Ihe peo ple who like lo sleep late on Sunday mornings. Progress In the committee - hearing stage as of recess time were such knotty legislative issues as the foreign aid program, re ciprocal trade, procedures to follow if the President be comes disabled and liberaliza tion of unemployment bene fits. No work has been done at all on bills to provide Federal health insurance for people receiving social security checks, overhaul our Immigra tion laws, reorganize the Pen tagon so it can make the split second decisions needed in the missile age. The hottest issue of all whether or not to reduce in come taxes has a mixed his tory and outlook. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D.-Ill.) March 13 tried to cut both individual and excise taxes by tacking an amendment on to the insur ance company tax bill. His amendment failed by a vote of 14-71 (D 12-29; R 2-42). The next day Sen. Ralph W. Yar borough (D.-Tex.) tried to in crease personal income tax ex emptions from $600 to $800. It too was an amendment to the insurance bill and was de feated (D 18-21; R 1-43). The depth of the recession will determine the fate of tax cut proposals as well as many other economic bills pending before Congress. (Copyright 1958, Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
