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4 Monday, April 14, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. ! MedfordTribunb "Everyone 5n Southern 'Oregon Keaas ine auui TriDune Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. HtmL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAM, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendent Newsoaoer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Codv 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year f 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. i-noenix. bnady cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford mnciai raper or Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDITEUREAU 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 35-1 jAsToCTgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Oregon Section The New York Times has published a tabloid sized section devoted entirely to Oregon. It's a good job. If we weren't so thoroughly sold on Oregon already, the section would go a long way toward selling us. The section, which was bought and paid for by the Oregon Planning and Development Com mission, and a number of advertisers, was dis tributed with the Sunday issue of the Times on April 6. Through the Times' circulation, plus special mailings, it will go to about a million and a half people in all parts of the nation. Dennis the Menace 10 YEARS AGO April 14, 1948 (Thursday) Ben Day spoke on disease control and range seeding as part of the program at the Jackson Co u n t y Livestock Growers association Monday night. Voters of Jackson county will have an opportunity to meet the top ranking democ ratic candidates for nomina tion Thursday at Hotel Med ford, The Democratic Central committee announced. 20 YEARS AGO April 14, 1938 (Thursday) It is time for Oregonians to assume an optimistic outlook and a spirit of pride in their state such as manifested by Californians, Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, told a banquet audi ence in Ashland last night. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Prt column: "Sixth st. is coming to the fore as a speedway for lady motorists." 30 YEARS AGO April 14. 1928 (Friday) Parent-Teachers association will serve a chicken dinner at the old Eagle Point school building Saturday noon for visiting teachers of the insti tute. Plans are complete for the opening of the relgious work ers training school next week in the Presbyterian church. 40 YEARS AGO April 14, 1918 (Saturday) Liberty bond subscriptions made up to noon today put Jackson county over the top. Rainier Quicksilver c o m pany has taken over 40 min ing claims in the Meadows mining district north of Gold Hill. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. Quote the line that fol lows "What is so rare as a day in June." 2. What was name of Judas?. the second 3. W. S. Gilbert wrote the words of the operetta "Pa tience;" who wrote the music? 4. Name the Old Bolshevik leader who was assassinated in Mexico? 5. Did the German battle ship Bismark survive World War II, or was she sunk dur ing the war? 6. It is illegal to send coins through the mail? 7. What is the name of President Eisenhower's per sonal secretary? 8. Who gave the rule "Speak softly, but carry a big stick?" 9. The Davis Cup is an award in what sport? 10. What Constitutional amendment provides for free dom of speech, press and as sembly? Answers: 1. "Then, if ever, come perfect days;" 2. Iscar iot; 3. Arthur Sullivan; 4. Leon Trotsky: 5. Sunk during the war. (May. 1941); 6. No; 7. Ann Whitman; 8. President Theodore Roosevelt; 9. Tennis; 10. First. A BOUT the only faux pas we spotted in a casual glance through it was on the colorful cover which, among other things, shows a passenger train - (presumably S.P.) rushing through south western Oregon. The rest of it appears to be competently and attractively done. ' Of particular interest in this area are pages 22 and 23, just inside the back cover. One of them is an advertisement of the Travel Informa tion division of the state highway department, and shows a half-page, four-color picture of a fisherman wading out of the Rogue River (it looks as though it was taken just above Trail) to be greeted by wife and child. The other page is a full-page ad by the Call fornia Oregon Power company, showing in black and white a picture of Crater Lake, of the Rogue River at Hells Gate, a camping scene at Diamond Lake, a coastal scene, John Day's buffalo graz ing with Table Rock in the background, a high way scene, and a view of the Shakespearean Festival stage m Ashland. THE Portland area, naturally enough, tends to wit 4-1-1 r tftr4- r - r cfn-rm fftl if 10 Humiliate iiic iroi ui uic ocluuij, iui m w there that industry m Oregon is most heavily concentrated. The section is a frank and open invitation to people to come to Oregon both tounsts and those seeking industrial sites and much of the text is devoted to the natural resources and ad vantages of Oregon to these groups of people. . Sections include those on lumbering, water and power, labor resources, agriculture, plans for the Oregon Centennial observance next year, natural gas, the city of Portland, soft goods manu facture, brewing, recreation and travel, fisheries, aids to industry, taxation, sports fishing, health, ocean ports, and minerals. FROM the standpoint of plain amusement and guuu leaning, cue auvciuaciucub ui cue uiiiii- Weinhard company, Oregon s, only brewery, walks off with top honors m the entire section. The ad is pitched to the company s campaign to spread Douglas fir seedlmgs around the world, to bring a "little comer of Oregon" to less favored spots. The ad starts out, Keep Times Square Green !", and goes on to label it "A Modest Re forestation Proposal from Oregon's Largest & Only Brewery as a Fitting Prelude to Oregon s Glorious 1959 Centennial Celebration." It adds that Blitz beer can be purchased only in the Northwest, and suggests that people from far and near come to visit Oregon to see its at tractions and (incidently of course) purchase some Blitz. Matter of Fact THE ROUGE AS SYMBOL Dearborn, Mich. In all the world, there is only one other experience to compare with a day spent 'I'LL HELP V4, LAW.' LET TRV THIS OH5 OH FOR SIZg " Joseph Alsoo Out of Central Asia, over high mountains, you fly into the Western Chinese province of Szechuan, which is as big as many a great nation. Twist ing between the mountain flanks, deep in their wild gorges, the Gold and many other rivers show as silver ribbons. Then, quite suddenly. the mountains end, the rivers seem to end too, and you are flying over a wide, flat, bril liantly green plain. And again quite suddenly, the green plain ends, and the third of the mighty rivers of our earth, the Yangtsze, appears in an- I T continues: "We realize that some of you may not be able to come to Oregon right at this minute. To you stranded unfortunates wherever you are we will send, abso lutely free, an Oregon Do-It-Yourself Kit: an Oregon Fir tree and directions for planting. If you don't have a yard or a window box you might set them out in in pots on the street, though not under marquees; they grow to be a couple of hundred feet tall . . ." This light-hearted approach is complemented by other more serious ads, many of them from cities, port authorities, or large manufacturers, all of them extolling Oregon. It s a fine piece of promotional matenal, and we suspect that Oregon will be reaping the re sults of it direct and indirect for years to come. E.A. Solar House We have mentioned here, from time to time, developments in various forms of energy in cluding "solar" energy direct from the sun. We can now report that yesterday, in Phoe nix, Arizona, the first house in the nation de signed to obtain all its heating and cooling energy direct from the sun was opened for public inspection. It uses only equipment now generally avail able and the sponsors, the Association for Ap plied Solar Energy, say that the system used would be effective in about two-thirds of the United States. ENERGY from the sun, trapped and stored for use, will provide winter heat for the house and swimming pool ; and will heat the domestic water supply throughout the year. It uses a com binatipn of "heat pumps'' .with collectors and storers of solar energy. The house and equipment are still pretty ex pensive but one purpose in building the house was to make practical use of the knowledge now available, so that modifications can be made whereby eventually the cost will be within the range of even modestly-priced homes. E.A. -- , iets Trying to Force U.S. Into Immediate Summit Talks By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is trying to force the United States into immediate negotiations for a summit con ference on its own terms. In its latest move, the So v i e t govern ment has call ed'pn the United States, Britain and France to. start talks in Moscow Thursday on prepara tion for such a meeting. It also insists that the sum mit meeting must be held, re gardless of the success or failure of any preparatory talks. '. ' In this new step, the Krem- Charles M. McCann lin seems clearly to be trying to take advantage of the growing worldwide pressure for any sort of conference which would offer hope, how ever slight, of reducing world tensions. Reds Jump Guns The Russian proposals were made in a note last Friday sent in reply to a United States-British-French note of March 31. The Allied note proposed that diplomatic exchanges should start in Moscow in the second half of April." Russia seized on this sug gestion to call on the Allies to start the talks in Moscow this Thursday, thus allowing the Allies hardly any time to formulate a common policy, Russia and the Allies now agree tliet the preliminary Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances, the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view, to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often 'the case r On Spending To the Editor: I have sent the following letter to the President of the United States: Sir: Your stress on spend ing to overcome the existing depression caused by unem ployment of 5 or 6 million wage earners. Please advise how these people can spend, when they have nothing to spend, and must conserve what little they have, to use in case we go into another Hoover ca tastrophe. I well remember that tune when I bought a car to help, when such another remark was made that spending would help. I was then a Re publican. Then a president was elected who took the bull by the horns, and we came out, and I changed my poll tics. A World War I veteran, re ceiving $78.50 per month. C. W. Busby 111 B st. Ashland About Ore. Tech. To the Editor: As Chair man of the education commit tee of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, I would like to invite you to Klamath Falls to make a thorough evaluation of Oregon Technical Institute. To us in the Klamath Basin this institution represents much more than a profitable payroll; or a political plum to be wrestled and fought for by different areas of the state; educators, office-holders, cer tain segments of organized labor; and others. Perhaps this is because we have seen the development of this institution from a voca tional type school only, into one of the nation's outstand ing producers of technical as sociates. A school whose graduates are eagerly sought after by all industry. . . .many of whose graduates enter fields so classified and vital to our country's defense that we are not allowed to know their exact work or even their ultimate destination. There are many facts and problems in developing this type of school. . . . J wonder how many of you know or realize that we are ten years ahead in our anticipation of Sputnik's arrival and in the training of people qualified to work in and handle re search of this nature? Education is breaking the barrier of complacency. . . . we are realizing that we do not compete with the nations of the world when we train our youth to think only of the small area in which we live. New techniques, -imagination and daring are required to meet the challenge of the age. We feel that we have be gun to meet the challenge, with the development of our technical institute. Granted, it is not perfect. However, how many of you are com pletely satisfied with an educational i n s ti t u t ion on local or state level? How many of you take the time to interest .yourself in the af fairs of education, to inspect these plants? To consider the problems of the state as a whole, rather than the some times rather selfish desires of an area. School costs are rising. . . . let us be practical. . . . im aginative. . . .and fair. We will take our chances on your fair opinion, when you have paid us a visit. We will also send you complete material on Ore gon Technical Institute and its accomplishments. You have only to ask. (Mrs.) Josephine Kittredge, Chairman Klamath County Chamber of Commerce Education Committee The Woods Baby To the Editor: It's a balmy day and you're out in the woods for some quiet fun. Dad is practicing his fly-casting down by the stream. Meanwhile, you're looking for flowers or just any woods souvenirs. Oh, there's a green chunk of moss for the dish garden. Hmm, my it's com fortable here, be nice to sit on that log. The kids sure are having a time over close' to the road. x And then you spy that little shape. Its ears are folded down and those white spots make the brownish lump barely visible. You've made a breath-taking discovery it's a fawn! Your very own well, that is the way you feel at the moment. And your first impulse is to hurry and call the kids to sneak over quietly to see the baby deer. You're practically torn in two with the ecstasy of your thrilling discovery. How well do you know your kids, or even yourself. Can they and you just leave the woods baby alone? He looks so-o-o lonesome and little by. that log. Maybe his mother has lost him. Better let your head rule, Mrs. Softheart. Better not let the kids see the baby if you're going to end up pack ing him out to the car in a fit of "overwhe Iming love." Take him home and then wonder what to feed him. Milk, you say? Yes, a formula of canned milk every few hours may agree with him. But he may get colic and talks should lead to a meeting of foreign ministers. The for eign ministers, in turn, would arrange for the summit con ference. The Russian note made one apparent concession to the terms which Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has laid down for a summit meet ing. More Apparent Than Real This is that, as the Soviet note put it, the foreign minis ters could "exchange opinion on some of the questions" which might be put on the program for a summit meet ing. At the start of the tedious negotiations for a summit meeting, now in their fifth month, the Soviet govern rejected the idea of any meet ing of foreign ministers at all. r The Russian concession is more apparent than real. While Russia agrees that the foreign ministers might "exchangej opinion" on some issues, it says that such an exchange could be held only "by common agreement." The State department lost no time in saying that the Russian note was unacceptable. Prices Said Same For Fir Lumber Fir lumber prices continued at the same rate as last week with some, slight increases due to log shortages, according to several weekly lumber mar ket news services from Port land and Eugene. Prices on utility and econ omy grade fir have moved upward by a shortage in pro duction and most mills have been able to balance their in ventories to take care of any future volume of buying, they said. Pine lumber also show ed a slight upward trend dur ing the week. The plywood industry is the only dark spot in the pic ture with increased produc tion in the past three weeks in the face of falling markets. Most mills are still operating on a basis of $68 but a price break, is likely if production is not curtailed, the reports said. have tq have something else. wnen rauno gets Digger ne may need as much as two quarts of milk a day. Better not go any closer, Mrs. Softheart. He'll outgrow you and you'll have to part with him after he's learned to trust you and your friends. You'll have to take him back to the woods. For what? For hunters to shoot at. For starvation or for a prey to his enemies. Fauno won't know about hunting his own food while keeping a wary ear alert for danger. Unless you have a real wise family, Mrs. Softheart, you'd better just walk away from Fauno this minute and not tell about seeing him until you get clear home. By that time his mom will have him in tow and he'll have a sport ing chance come hunting season. Naomi Fredenburg Butte Falls, Ore. Joseph Alsop other, even vaster gorge. It was rather more than 2,100 years ago, when a Chi nese emperor impounded the rushing mountain rivers, made at Ford's gi- their waters flow over the gantic River green plain in a multitude of Rouge plant. Mfe-bringing channels, and Curiously n collected the waters enough, it is again to pour into the Yang- the sight of tsze gorge. For fifty or more the most an- generations, the green plain "cient of the has nourished the people of world's great the myriad little villages irrigation sys- percnea upon the channel mar- tems. gms a people numbering ten millions at the last count. IIHO would not marvel at " this wonderful work of men, which is surely the best symbol of China's glorious and immemorial civilization. In the same way, the Rouge plant is also a marvel, the work of only three generations, yet the prototype and symbol of mod ern American industrialism. And in these bad times for in dustry, a visit to River Rouge gives almost too much food for thought. I went with an old-timer in the company, who pointed out the landmarks. There was the old executive building with the famous corner office "which we used to call the tor ture chamber," because there "were some pretty painful scenes there" when Edsel Ford took over his father's desk and began his struggle against Harry Bennett and the rest the struggle which revivified the Ford company. There was the even more famous overpass bridge, the scene of "The Battle of the Overpass," in which Walter Reuther's union was effective ly born. There was the im mense worker's car - park, which the Russian visitors had thought a fraud. And finally, there was the Rouge plant it self the wide harbor, with its ore-ships; the mountains of red-stained iron-ore; the blast furnaces and fuming coke ovens and power plant pierc ing the sky with its tall stacks; the glass plant and tool and die works and assembly plant and so on seemingly forever Every building is close to a quarter of a mile, long, and each huge space has its own sound and rhythm. The re lentless, repetitious downward push of the huge stampmg presses make the rhythm of the stamping plant. In the as sembly plant, there is the end less, continuous, intricately planned convergence of all the finished parts that make a fin ished automobile. All are over whelming, but the most over whelming is the vast plant where Ford engines are made. This is a fantastc place, with its long automated lines where a cylinder block, for instance, goes in at one end in the rough and comes out at the other end machined to a toler ance of three ten-thousandths of an inch. rpHE overhead monorails that -- carry parts from one une to the next look like vast pro cessions of gently agitated mo biles. In the noise and grey ness, the color code system strikes notes of brilliant light ness Thunderbird engines are peacock blue, for instance, while the engines for the Ford Fairlane are jade green. And there are miracles, like the fantastic lathe that simultan eously machines all the many counter-slanted surfaces of a crankshaft the lathe that made Chris Bowles, the young plant manager, burst out in admiration: "They said it couldn't be done, but by God it was done, and I like just looking at it." But among the miracles, there was another thing one noticed. All the men on the lines, all the men tending the machines were at least middle aged, and some seemed almost too old for their tasks. Under the seniority system, oniy these workers remained; for there have been layoffs at Ford, as there have been lay offs in all the motor com panies; ana ine yuungei have been the first to go. It was when I noticed tne vnimo men were gone, anai ascertained the cause, that I first thoueht of the compari son between River Rouge and the Szechuan irrigation sys- tem. Both, in tneir amerem, ways, teach what great tri-un-mhs are within the range of man. But as I went through the big gates again, I could not helD wishing that we in America could find "a way to make triumphs as placidly, fruitfully and unremittingly Wilson Notes Big Differences Between Thirties and Today LrL Lyle C. Wilson Open 24 Hours Every Day SELF SERVICE 20c per 8 lb. Washer Load Drying le Per Minute COIN OPERATED 2E0i6 516 W. Sixth St. Large 50-Lb. Dryers LAUNDRY 516 W. Sixth St. Agitator Supplies Type Washers . Available Really Hot Water ' By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington OPl The old timers who were around for the big depression which began about 30 years ago will note some differ ences between then and now. The princi pal difference is that now it is more a mat ter of politi cal debate than a matter of fact whether there is or is not a depression in the works or on the way. Not so in the early autumn of 1929. The big depression began then with a bangety bang which blew the cellar of the New York Stock Ex change down somewhere into the rocky sub-structure of Manhattan Island. That's how hard and fast stocks fell on the black Thursday and black Friday which marked the end of the Coolidge boom. That was only a beginning, however, and when the real market collapse came some months later the panic was on. Rich men caught in the market were rich no more, and many of them left their plush offices by high windows instead of the elevator to plump dead on the sidewalk below. F.D.R. Closes Banks Shoestring speculators were wiped out by the multi-thousands. Country banks began to fold. City banks folded, too. In the fourth year of depres sion, the governor of Michi gan decreed an eight-day bank holiday to prevent wholesale closings. Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as president within a month and immediately closed all of the banks to protect them against withdrawals by frightened de positors. Congress In special session got busy and passed in a single day March 9, 1933 a complex banking bill designed productive as the incredible maze of water-channels in the Szechuan plain. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. to effect some reforms and to enable the reopening of sound banks. There were nearly 13 million unemployed in the U. S. in 1933, and F.D.R. soon was off on what looked like a massive govern ment spending campaign to create jobs. F.D.R. either spent too little money or the policy of mas sive government spending is no unemployment cure. The record will support one con clusion or the other. By 1936, F.D.R. had unem-. ployment down to a little more than 9 million which was 16.9 per cent of the avail able labor force. By 1938 it was up to more than 10 mil lion 19 per cent of the labor force. The Boom Came F.D.R. spent on, but unem ployment refused to wither and go away. There remained 5,500,000 unemployed in 1941, 10 per cent of the labor force. Then along came World War II and unemployment began to taper off. The jobless in 1946, after long years of war production, numbered 2,270, 000 or about 4 per cent of the labor force. The least unemployment on record since the big depres sion was 1,600,000 in 1953. That was 2.5 per cent of the labor force. In the boom-boom years of 1955-56-57 unemploy ment was, respectively, 2,650,- 000 and 2,690,000, ranging from 4 to 3.8 and back to 4 per cent of the available labor force. These figures somewhat il luminated the present situa tion in which unemployment is counted at 5,198,000 which is 7 per cent of the 1958 labor force. F.D.R. never was able to bring unemployment to so low a figure. That is small comfort to the man or woman without a job today. It may bear, however, on a current question: Is there a depression or is this a buyer's strike against high prices? TV SETS INCREASE Washington OP) More than four out of five house holds have a television set and about one in 14 has two or more sets, the Census bu reau reported on the basis of a sample survey in January. - If Do Not Be Misled! Only Such Cases Coming Under the Jurisdiction of the County Coroner FRANK PERL WHEN THERE IS NO FAMILY PREFERENCE would be ROTATED MONTHLY lo EACH of the FIVE MORTUARIES IN JACKSON COUNTY The ROTATION PLAN is 100 SUCCESSFUL in KLAMATH COUNTY after 16 our of 18 years of a One Firm Monopoly! IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE IN JACKSON COUNTY! I ask for your support in the primaries FRANK PERL Frank Perl For Coroner Committee C. M. Litwiller, Frank Morgan, Harold Snodgrass Co-Chairmen Paid Political Adv. Frank Pert Perl Funeral Home, Medford, Ore
