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4 Friday, April IT, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtfSISwrRIBUNE fXveryone in Southern vyregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Socierv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circnlation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 189 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Conv lOe Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 bunday Only On year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er laient, 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 City of Medford oinclaJ Paper of Jackson Connty 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, ban rrancisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL asTocPatiQn U J 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 11. 1948 (Sunday) Vacating papers were filed last week for the township of Mountain View, near Eagle Point in Jackson county. Majority and minority re ports of the Jackson county chamber of commerce study ing the proposal to build dams on the Rogue river were beard Friday. 20 YEARS AGO April 11, 1938 (Monday) The petition of a Gold Hill orchardist was upheld for a foreclosure under the Fraz-ier-Lemke act. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The golf fever again runs high locally. Several victims plan to file for homestead rights." 30 YEARS AGO April 11, 1928 (Wednesday) Regular meeting of the state game commission was held in Ashland this morn ing. It was the first meeting of its kind to be held in Southern Oregon. Grand jury in session for over a month investigating handling. of county prohibi tion fund. 40 YEARS AGO April 11. 1918 (Thursday) B. G. Harding of Medford, recently resigned his position as principal of the Rogue River high school and left last week for Washington, D. C, where he has accepted a position in the war depart ment. From local and personal column: Edgar Hafer has pur chased six carloads of box shook lumber from the old Warren box factory at Grants Pass. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. The , name of which month, when spelled back ward, is the name of a vege table? 2. Bible: How many sons did Jacob have? 3. Rip van Winkle went to sleep for 20 years in the Adir- ondacks, Great Smokies, Cat- skills or Blue Ridge moun tains? 4. Name the Revolutionary War hero who is noted for these immortal words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." 5. Which of the following are not citrus fruits lemons, oranges, pineapples, grape fruit? 6. Who was the noted evan gelist who was once a big league ball player? 7. Who was President of the Southern Confederacy during the War between the states? 8. There are three states in the Union whose names con tain only four letters; can you name them? 9. Does the Bill of Rights consist of the first five, ten, or fifteen amendments to the U. S. Constitution? 10. Which great pitcher had a maimed hand, to which many persons attribute his pitching skill? Answers: 1. May. 2. Twelve. 3. Catskills. 4. Nathan Hale. 5. Pineapples. 6. Billy Sun day. 7. Jefferson Davis. 8. Iowa, Ohio and Utah. 9. Ten. 10. Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (Chicago Cubs). Breakthrough Nearing The casual newspaper reader can be forgiven if he is somewhat confused over the progress of research about cancer. With increasing frequency, new developments are reported. This results 'from two factors better reporting and more research. And the stories seem to have little relation ship with one another, other than the fact that they all report on efforts to solves the terrifying riddle of cancer. But many scientists are working on the riddle, and they are using different ap proaches, any one of which may be productive. THIS much is certain : Sooner or later, in one or more laboratories, a scientist or scientists are going to come up with one or mora answers which will place cancer on the "conquered" list, along with smallpox, tuber culosis, infantile paralysis, and the dozen or more dread diseases which now are either vanished or of much less consequence This may happen next week, or it may take another decade of labor. But it is going to happen 1MEANWHILE, what do we, as ordinary citi zens and non-medical laymen, do? -We inform ourselves as much as possible about the signs and symptoms, we consult with our physicians, both- on a regular basis and when we have some suspicious much cancer can be cured NOW if caught early.) And, not least important, we see that cancer research is continued, the American Cancer Society, which is financing much of the work which, cancer as a threat to human life and health. E. A. Students Who Smoke The Medford Hi-Times, the newspaper pub lished at Medford -High words to say in its current issue about students who smoke. ' ' ' An editorial reported "An average of 24 to 30 students gather in back of the Oakdale market before, after, and during school to smoke. These students are not only a disgrace to our alma mater, and are ruining their own reputa tions, but they may force school officials to enforce rigid rulings upon all students." These are pretty strong words for a student editor to voice about other students. But it-is no more than the truth. LAWS both state and xiuiii aiiiumiig, aim piu-uiun, aiijuiic num own ing cigarettes to minors. (Incidentally, they're tough laws, too. They'd make interesting reading for police officials and the district attorney, to find out what penalties they risk by not enforcing them. A minor under the city ordinance is a person under 21; under the state law, 18.) But as a practical matter, they are hard to en force. For one thing, cigarettes are obtainable almost everywhere through machines and you can't police machines all day long, nor can you prosecute them. Also, police officers have been reluctant to enforce the no-smoking laws for minors because it seems, somehow, a relatively trivial offense. DUT is it trivial? The law is, after all, the law. And like all laws we feel should be enforced, at least in token, or repealed or amended. Why clutter up the books with statutes that no one pays any attention to? Up in Albany, not long ago, the police de partment tried an experiment. The Albany Demo crat-Herald reported : . "Agreeing that an unenforceable or unpopular ordinance should be repealed, the police undertook to find out just how unenforceable or unpopular the long dormant local anti-smoking ordinance was, and they proceeded to enforce it. Surprisingly, they found it to be both enforceable and not very unpopular. In fact; the repeal movement they expected to spark did not develop. So now the ordinance remains unscathed. The minimum age limit for legal smokers may be low . ered to 18 years, but there is no talk of repeal." AXTHICH brings us back to Medford, and the " problem with high school students, who are subject to the flat rule : "Smoking . . . within three blocks of the school grounds is positively pro hibited. Students failing to follow the above rules will be dropped from school." And, according to the Hi-Times, if it doesn't stop, all students may lose their so-called off campus privileges, and be required to remain .on the school grounds during school hours. The editor of the school paper is understand ably irritated that a few students would thus threaten the privileges of all. IT CAN be stated, flatly, that cigarette smoking never did anyone any real good. To the addict, it is both a pleasure and a curse and an expen sive one, at that. On top of that is the suspicion that it may increase susceptibility to lung cancer. To the non-smoker, it is an unpleasant nuisance. And believe us, boys of a lot easier never to start than it is to quit once you have the habit. We know of no inveterate smoker- (including ourself ) who would not give his eye-teeth to be able to shake the habit. Minors who smoke, in Times said) damaging their own reputations, they are doing themselves possible physical damage, they are doing an injustice to their fellow - stu dents, and they are breaking the law. E.A. than they once were. symptom (it is a fact that through our donations to sooner or later, will end school, has some harsh : ' ' ' , ' , r ' . .i. city prohibit minors and girls, it is one heck short, are (as the Hi- Dennis the Menace Nuclear Test Ban Exchanges Top Foreig By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: President Eisenhower told Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev this week that the best way to stop tests of nuclear w e a pons would be to establish an inspection sys- tern which would prevent cheating. Eisenhower McCann to a letter in which .Khrushchev last week end asked the United States to follow Russia's lead in sus pending tests. ' ' ' The President made no at tempt to hide his belief that the Russian action was frau dulent. , "It seems peculiar," he said, that the Soviet Union, hav ing" just concluded a series of tests of unprecedented inten sity, should now, in both head lines, say that it will not test again, but adds, in small type, that it may test again if the United States carries out. its already long-announced and now imminent series of tests." Returning to Moscow from a trip to Communist Hungary, Khrushchev said in a speech that the results of his visit were "simply outstanding." He had gone to Hungary, apparently, to strengthen the regime of Janos Kadar, the Hungarian Communist leader, and puppet Premier Ferenc WmMJ Depression-Wise Citizens Discount Ike's 'Buy' By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower s summons to the public to buy, buy, buy will not con vince those d e p r e s sion- wise citizens who have cause to sus pect that something good may, be happening to their dollars Lyie c. Wilson in the bank. That something good, of course, would be an end to the inflationary shrinking of the value of those dollars. Something better would be a start back on the long road toward the dollar value of 20 or, even 10 years ago. The penny-pinching man of a saving disposition and his accumulated dollars have been having a tough time. He and his money have been eaten up over the years by the galloping inflation. The dollar has skidded in value since 1939 from 100 cents to 49 and none can say for sure that it will be worth a nickel 20 years from now. The dollar accumulated infla tionary gas pains through the boom times of the 1920s. 'These pains were relieved, finally, by the calamity of de pression. If that cycle is to be re peated it behooves the depression-wise citizen to consider carefully before he goes off today on a buying splurge as suggested by the President. If a depression really is on, then the citizen can expect to get next week, next month or next year more for his banked dollar than he could get to day. Except as a statistical or bookkeeping device, the 100 cents value attributed to the 1939 dollar is strictly phony. The 1939 dollar is used, mere ly, as a standard for compari- j See now flat they are? n News During Week Muennich Dispatches from Budapest indicated, however, that the visit was something less than a sensational success. The workers who were herded to listen to Khru shchev's speeches in indus trial towns were cold. Some of them walked out on him. ' Khrushchev also commit ted a blunder. He said Hun gary could not depend on Russia to intervene if another revolt broke out. Apparently Hungarian and other sattellite leaders feared the statement might give encouragement to their restive workers. So, in another speech, Khrushchev said that "bourgeois journal ists" had twisted his speech. Russia would intervene if ne cessary, he said." Cuban Rebel Fidel Castro declared "all-out" war against President Fulgencia Batista, including a nationwide gen eral strike. . There were, many violent incidents in Havana, the capi tal, including bombings and gunfire. Electric power was cut off by saboteurs in part of the city. More than 30 reb els were reported killed in the capital area. But it was far from "all- out war." The general strike failed to materialize, despite Castro's threats that workers who failed to take part in it would be shot and that buses would be bombed. The situation was explo sive. But Batista s strength lay in his control of the armed forces, including the national police. A United States-British at Advice son of the value of the dollar in subsequent years. The standard once was the 1913 dollar, or thereabouts. New Standard Set So many things happened to the dollar during World War I, in the 1920s and 1930s, however, that a new stand ard had to be set to keep -the current purchasing power value of the dollar from being wholly ridiculous. - If the inflationary destruc tion of the U. S. dollar con tinues at the present rate it shortly will be necessary to establish a new standard of comparison whereby, presto, the 1958 dollar arbitrarily could be assigned a value of 100 cents and subsequent dol lars be measured against it. Citizens with money in the bank would be sorry, then, that they had not followed Eisenhower's April, 1958, ad vice to spend their money while it still would buy some thing. The citizens were having dollar trouble 25 years ago, but of another kind. The dol lar was too dear, would pur chase too much and too few persons had either dollars or jobs. That was in April, 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt was fresh in the White House with a program of government economy which was to make things better by cutting fed eral spending by 25 per cent. Economy, however, was not easily achieved nor did it ob tain desired results quickly. FDR took another track. On April 19, 1933, he took the United States off the gold standard. A week later the Senate approved FDR's plan to devalue the dollar in terms of gold. That was part of an inflationary amendment to the pending farm relief bill which also authorized 3 bil lion in bogus printing press money, rne lniiauonaiy mea sure became a law on May iz, 1933, and the dollar has never been the same. 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. THfe letters printed in this column do not necessarfly represent the views of the Daper; in fact the contrary is often the cass " Why Lakes Closed To The Editor: We are obliged to inform the public that the privileges hitherto ex tended to them at Squaw Lake will have to be denied them this coming season or until some workable p l a n with the state can be put into effect. For ten years we have kept the lakes open at personal sacrifice and financial loss. While other enterprises have been subsidized at public ex pense we have been subjected to the bite of inflation, and legislation which makes the program we have tried to fol low impossible. Fishing must be suspended until natural propagation brings the lakes back to nor mal. In the meantime we tempt to negotiate a settle ment of a serious dispute be tween France and its former protectorate of Tunisia seemed to be at the point of failure. The dispute arose from the French air force bombing of a Tunisian border village from which Algerian rebel gunners had fired persistently at French planes. France asked establishment of neutral control of the Tu nisian - Algerian frontier to prevent the Algerian rebels and weapons convoys from using Tunisia as a basis for their operations. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A question: Did you find any enlighten ment in the long-awaited March figures on employment and unemployment that were announced by the commerce and labor departments of the federal government the other day? If you did, you're good. TOR example: The report started off by stating that unemployment rose by 25,000 in March. This rise, it went on to say, took the unemployed total to 5,198,000 the highest figure in 16V& years. UT The report went on to state There was a RISE IN EM PLOYMENT if? March of 323, 000, bringing the total of those AT WORK to 62,311, 000 approximately the same number of people who were at work in March, 1957 be fore anybody had discovered that a recession was in the offing. THE report went on to say: "The March unemploy ment figure, rose 25,000 to 5,198,000 The February figure was 5,173,000. Employment increased by 323,000 from 61,988,000 in February to 62, 311,000 in March. That is to say: Between February and March 25,000 people LOST jobs. But In this same period 323,000 people GOT jobs. W1 HAT'S it all about? I wouldn't know. But I think a lot depends on wheth er your SELF-INTEREST in clines you to look at the doughnut or at the hole. If you are an office-holding or office-seeking Republican, hoping that your crowd will go on sitting in the driver's seat and running the business, you will LOOK AT THE DOUGHNUT. Not only will you look at it. You will point to it with pride, insisting that everything will turn out all right if "nobody rocks the boat. If you are an office-holding or office-seeking Democrat, hoping to throw the ins out and take over in your own right, you will be apt to LOOK AT THE HOLE, insist ing that things are in a bad way and certain to get worse as the present ins are bossing the job. That's about the long and the short of it. 1 -L TfvB VlEEaqe DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. Want that 21 - Drink our milk . only for I I I shall continue to welcome by pre-ar rangement, free of charge, chaperoned school groups, Boy or Girl scouts, Sunday school classes, and such organizations. We wish to use this means of expressing our appreciation to the many kindly souls who have co-operatea with us in our efforts to maintain a clean, safe, and decent recre ation spot at a cost that could be met by anyone. We very much regret that we are forced to post "No Trespas sing" notices upon the en trances to the property. Some of the blame for this action must in fairness be laid at the feet of those of our patrons who made our work unnecessarily hard by throw ing their refuse behind bushes or into the lake instead of into the trash cans provided, by continuing to bring liquor knowing it to be against the regulations, by leaving blaz ing camp fires for us to ex tinguish. It wouldn't have been so bad to get out in the middle of the night to tow stalled vehicles hither and yon if one could be sure of a mur mur of thanks, let alone more substantial pay. What do you think ought to be done about those who pay to camp one night and have such a good time they stay another with out paying? Maybe it wasn't even being kind to the two Jacksonville boys to overlook their theft of a little green flatfish from the store in exchange for our courtesies. Maybe the public really won't care very much if the lakes are closed. If that be the case that is the way it will be. If you really want to come back tell the State Game Commission about it and arrangements can be made. It is up to you. Bert Harr Christine Harr Box 77, Copper Rd. Jacksonville Ore. Blames it on the Fish To the Editor: your editor ial, "Who Drinks the Most" would indicate that "E.A." might wish to throw an edi torial barb at Clatsop county because of the state liquor sales in that county based upon what he terms a "latest population estimate." May we say that his summation is very, very inaccurate and mis leading. Clatsop's population is aug mented throughout the entire year by thousands for sport or for business. During "Fish derby" time many hundreds of them purchase their "fish- bite" remedies from the state liquor stores in the county. Of course every fishing boat should have some of this liquid aboard for . medicinal purposes. Then there are the many thousands of inlanders who are "tide watchers" and who come to the coast to dig clams. Now clam digging is an arduous task and as often as not done during continued rainfall, and what is better to warm the innards, at a time like this, than a swig from the bottle that cheers? These thousands of visitors would add to the "per capita con sumption" of Clatsop county There was. a time when Clatsop county was the salmon fishing capitol of the world, These activities attracted many thousands of tourist visitors each year from all over the world. Aside from viewing the beauties of nature and look ing over the activities of the fishing industry, there is little in the area to amuse and, oc cupy their time, so we can assume they also would be patrons of our state liquor stores. Tourists must await the ferry at Astoria which carries them across to the Washing ton shore. We can assume there are those among them who wjuld also "make the jump" to greet "Jim Beam" or some other popular named liquid individual whose face and name may be upon what the state liquor stores have for sale. Of course we will admit that many of the residents of Clatsop county have their origin in foreign countries and it is a well know fact that they have an aversion to water and other less potent beverages than hard liquor. Now, who would deny these at Genessea year - old feeling? . . . (Guaranteed teenagers) I I I Mid-East Instability Discussed by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Usu ally I do not comment at length on foreign affairs. However, re- cent develop ments in the Middle East could have far - reaching effects upon U.S. business. Theref ore, I think readers may be help- Roger W. Babson ed to know my reaction to these happen ings. The formation of the Unit ed Arab Republic, consisting of Egypt, Syria and, eventu ally, Yemen, is a feather in the cap-of President Nasser of Egypt. It -will enhance his bar gaining power with both East and West. The new Republic is born of the traditional Arab hostility to the State of Israel and of Nasser's fear of the power of the feudal Arab kings of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Jordon. This new Union means that Nasser may have nearly abso lute power over both Egypt and Syria and perhaps over Yemen as well. It means that he can exercise a greater con trol over shipments of oil and J other goods through the Suez Canal and that he can stop, at will if it becomes desirable, the flow of oil through Syri an pipelines to the West. Single Arab Oil Empire? Many observers believe Nasser's dream is to create a united Arab oil empire To do this, the Egyptian leader must break the power of the feudal Arab kings. Nasser is still a popular figure in the Arab world. He has tangled with Israel, Great Britain and France and come out fairly well. Although he has not been able to better the lot of the average Egyptian, he has captured the imagination of the masses. It is just possible that he may break the power of the Arab kings and effect, for a time at least, a single federation of all the Arab states This would be due to their common interests in oil and their common fear of the State of Israel However, for the moment, Nasser s dreams of an oil em ne people their love and re spect of the customs of their homelands? Now if "E.A" would recall his sojourn in the area, he would probably come up with the answer that the per capita consumption -in Clatsop county was just about the average of the rest of the state. Peter W. Walch 201 East 5th St. Medford. GET THE AUTO INSURANCE PROTECTION YOU NEED NOW, AND Ml IN HUB No need for you to lay out heavy cash for auto insurance protection. Allstate's Easy Payment Plan lets you buy the insurance protection you need now . . . and make the payments over a period of months. And with Allstate's low rates, you may be able to make substantial savings in auto insur ance simply by switching to Allstate. 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III. pire have been jolted by Iraq and Jordan, whose kings have proclaimed a secarate Arab Federation To such it is pos sible that King Saud of Saudi Arabia may eventually ad here In agreeing to form this federation with Jordan, Iraq may defect from the Baghdad Pact which binds her to the West No Early Stability Nasser will drive hard bar gains with European and American oil interests oper ating in those areas over which he can exercise some control. During the next few years, tensions in Arab lands will.be high. The flow of oil to Europe may again be cut off or be slowed to a. trickle. Certainly, it will cost more' There will be no early sta bility in the Middle East. The two chief Arab factions will jockey for position, versus each other and Israel. If Nas ser should come out on top in his struggle with other Arab interests currently resisting his climb to power, he could become a most important oil dictator. However, much will depend upon how long it takes the world to develop an economically feasible means of harnessing nuclear power. forecast that We will some time find a cheap way to pro duce power through fusion, or through harnessing gravi ty. Then Nasser's, or his suc cessor's power, based on con trol of strategic oil supplies, could vanish. Could Be Rich Land Studies show that Egypt's soil contains elements which would favor vegetation if only her fields could receive suffi cient irrigation. Unlike Euro pean countries and much of our own farm land,. Egyptian topsoil is still intact and the life-bearing minerals remain in her good earth. On the oth er hand, her people are very ignorant and poor. Some day, Egypt will have her Aswan dam and other vast irrigation projects which will assure her sufficient wa ter for good farming; but there first must come an en tire change in her people's character. They are not yet using properly the water now available. 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