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4 Friday, April 18, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE Medfordtributo Everyone in Southern 'Oregon Reads The Mail Trihiin' Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-6141 1J I LU1 IU1 HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor TADl II AnilfC r:. pA RHRTOT TV DTTTTT 1-.!;.- HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newsoaoer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 189T SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 5 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle j-oini. Jacksonville, liold MiU Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Roeue 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 Ail .terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford mnciai fa per or 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 I asTocTatiQn 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 18. 1949 (Sunday) The annual spring luncheon for all Jackson county teach ers will be held April 24 in the Rogue Valley Country club. The Medford Air Reserve training flight has been grant ed unlimited flight training. 20 YEARS AGO April 18, 1938 (Monday) Registration for the May 20 primary, which closes to morrow at 5 p.m., continued steady at the county clerk's office. ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Young men with air guns are report ed creating havoc. They are shooting at objects of all descriptions." 30 YEARS AGO April 18, 1928 (Wednesday) The city council voted last night for a sale of city water Improvement bonds at 5 per cent interest. From local and personal column: The Medford and Ashland high schools will have the same speager at then graduation exercises Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi dent of the University of Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO t April 18. 1918 (Saturday) From local and personal column: "For the first time in months there was no Jun ior Red Cross or other special food sale at the public market this morning." The Seventh company, 32 of whose members were transferred to the 65th artil lery now in France, is to be split up further, according to letters received here. Vhai's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Montpelier is the capital of which state? 2. Bible: What was the name of Simon's brother? '3. Complete the quotation, "Tis better to have loved and lost" 4. Which of these is a mam mal armadillo, eel and whale? 5. The inventor of the first practical reaping machine was Eli Whitney, Cyrus McCor mick, or Henry Ford? 6. Nothing can exceed the velocity of light; true or false? 7. Name the author of "The Foxes of Harrow" and "The Vixens?" 8. Turnips, tomatoes, or truffles were once called love apples? 9. Is anthracite or bitumi nous coal ciassed as soft? 10. What is the name of the first atomic-powered sub marine? Answers: 1. Vermont. 2. An drew. 3. " than never to have loved at all." 4. Arma dillo and whale. 5. McCor mick. 6. True. 7. Frank Yerby. 8. Tomatoes. 9. Bituminous. 10. Nautilus. PREMIER TO BE INVITED Tel Aviv, Israel HP) Moshe, Kol, chairman of Is rael's middle-of-the-road Pro gressive Party, said today he would invite Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit Israel during its 10th anni versary year. Our Prizewinning Ladies The men in the newsroom bow to the ladies this week. We're proud of our gals. Each of the two women regularly employed in the Mail Tribune news department has won a high honor for herself, and thus for the news paper, during the week. Mrs. Olive Starcher, our women's editor, pulled a "repeat performance' and again won honors in the statewide competition of the Press Women of Oregon for her column, for her Sun day society page, and for a feature stoiy. Her column will be entered in national competition for excellence. AND on Page 1 today is announced the fact that the Mail Tribune has won an award of merit from the National Religious Publicity Coun cil, one of only three in the nation. The award is chiefly almost entirely, in fact due to the, efforts of our church editor, Miss Peggyann Hutchinson. "Peg" has taken a real and sincere interest in the work of reporting the religious news of the community, and has worked hard at it. The samples of her work which were sent in to the NRPC competition gave ample evidence that she has provided the Mail Tribune with rounded, in teresting and complete coverage of the news of the churches in Medford. . IKE every other working newspaperman, or woman, on a small daily paper such as the Mail Tribune, both Mrs. Starcher and Miss Hutchinson have a multitude of duties and tasks. Miss Hutchinson, 'for Starcher in writing stories for the Sunday society section, in laying out the pictures for the section, and in the coverage of some social events. She is also a regular reporter for the paper, covering both the city hall and the courthouse at various times during the week. She has covered public hearings as well as church conventions; criminal trials as well as weddings ; new commercial con struction as well as new church buildings. Mrs. Starcher, likewise, does a job that goes much further than is implied in her formal title of "society editor," which really is a title which is more and more meaningless as the interests of women broaden in today's world, and encompass politics, music, drama, international affairs, the arts anything, m fact, which occupy the time and attention of well-informed people. . TPHE society section or women's section, as V some prefer to call it with perhaps greater accuracy has long been a regular part of most daily newspapers. On the Mail Tribune, as it has grown, the women's section under Mrs. Starcher's guidance has grown too, and now on a regular basis cov ers far more than the parties of "the 400," the current weddings and engagements, or the activi ties of the lodges and clubs of the city although these are not skimped, either. Her Sunday picture wide variety of subjects, from wild flowers to water skiing, and from homemaking to the activi ties of the Great Decisions groups. HTHE church section is relatively a more recent A development. And on the Mail Tribune, only in recent years has it had the growth to which we feel it is entitled representing, as it does, a major area 01 interest ana acuvny ui an cas ing number of our readers. At the ceremony in New York last night at which Miss Hutchinson accepted the award for the Mail Tribune and a citation for herself a brief message from the newspaper, outlining its beliefs about religious news coverage, was read. It said : A good newspaper is, in effect, a mirror held up to the face of the community it serves. It prints the news which is to say that it tells the story of what happens to people, and what people do, what they think, what they believe, and what they hope. An important part of this responsibility to mirror the community is the obligation to report the spiritual . life of the community, largely through the activities 'of its religious institutions, for they are the outlets through which people give expression to their re ligious beliefs. We plan our church coverage in the belief that church news is, in truth, NEWS; that it should extend beyond the simple listing of services and sermon topics, and that our readers are better served when we make the effort to make religious news coverage a significant part of our day-to-day operation. 1IE ARE proud of our girls. They certainly v" deserved the awards they have received. We are equally proud of the people who work, mostly anonymously, to turn out the other parts of the paper the sports pages, the farm page, the general news pages for both local and tele graph news. It is no secret that we make mistakes, both of commission and omission. But that is true of all newspapers, despite the most conscientious efforts to avoid them. What this editorial is all about, really, is to say that it is the constant endeavor of the Mail Tribune to bring its readers the best, most com plete, best - written and best-edited paper it is within our power to produce. When our people win awards such as those which Mre. Starcher and Miss Hutchinson have won, we are delighted, pleased and proud. But our objective, of course,- is not to win awards it is to bring our readers a constantly improving daily newspaper. E.A. instance, assists Mrs. pages have covered a Dennis the Menace 'YOU SURE GOT A NtC,SOFT DiVAM.lAOyi " In the Day's News By FRANK Speed note in the news: Dr. Wernher von Braun, who rates as perhaps our top missile expert, says it is def initely possible to shoot a man across the Atlantic ocean, using a rocket-like inter continental missile. He adds, in testimony be fore a house committee in Washington, that such a trip to Europe would take about a half hour. "PRIVOLOUS comment: What would the passen ger look like when they took him out of the missile at the other end of the trip? It isn't speed that kills, you know. It's what happens when the speeding vehicle STOPS. "TiOOD for very, VERY seri- ous thought especially . if you happen to lean toward the idea that America should call off development of nuclear weapons, regardless of what Russia does: In an article in Look Maga zine entitled The Cold Peace and Our Future, Sir Winston Churchill says: "In former days, no coun try could hope to build up in secret military forces vast enough to overwhelm a neigh bor. Now the means of de struction of many millions of people can be CONCEALED IN THE SPACE OF A FEW CUBIC YARDS." THE 64 trillion dollar ques tion: , Can men like Khrushchev be trusted not to make nu clear weapons and CONCEAL them? THAT'S enough of such stuff. Let's get closer home. IN an advertisement signed by its president, D. J. Rus sell, the Southern Pacific Company says: "In the first three months of 1958 Southern Pacific built or acquired 1345 freight cars costing over $14,800,000. "In the next three months, April, May and June, South ern Pacific will build or otherwise acquire 1108 freight cars costing over $15,400,000. "In 1957 Southern Pacific built or acquired 6,990 freight cars at a cost of over $75, 900,000." THE advertisement contin ues: 'iThese expenditures for freight cars at this time evi dence our CONFIDENCE in the continuing long-t e r m growth and prosperity of the territory we serve. In the Golden Empire the Southern Pacific serves "Trees are continuing to grow "Crops are continuing to ripen "Expanding industries are continuing to produce Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE CHILDREN in a certain school in Boston instituted a drive for funds to build a new statue of Paul Revere. The father of one of the kids was a celebrated ex-jockey and, though he was far wealthier than most of the other parents, he refused to contribute a single cent. "It's not that I'm stingy; you know that," he explained to his boy. "It's just that I never had much use for Revere. He gave his horse a bad ride. He went wide at Lexington." Desl Arnaz tells about a long telephone conversation he had with Producer Sara" Gold wyn. It was full of charm and the best intentions, but there was one slight draw back: neither principal was able to understand one word the other was saying. An hour after the frustrated pair hung up, Goldwyn's secretary phoned Desi's secretary and implored, "Will you please tell me just what it was Mr. Goldwyn promised to do for Mr. Arnaz?" ,Jp .95?.by Bennett cW. Distributed by King Feiturei Syndicate. t JENKINS "And more freight cars are going to be NEEDED." rriHAT is to say: -- Southern Pacific operates in the WEST. The future of the West is golden with promise. It justifies confidence. Editorial Comment LET CUSTOMER DECIDE One of our columnists i couple of weeks ago was quite irritated because his favorite TV program, "Meet the Press," was pre-empted by a commercial program. The columnist said, he has two TV sets in his house so that no one can cheat him out of wit nessing and hearing the pro grams he likes by "tuning in a cowboy who must kill villain, the way cowboys have been killing villains on the stage forever and a day." But two TV sets were of no avail, nor would a dozen be, when the network substituted pro grams. This led the columnist to a discussion of pay TV and to his conclusion that it is the only way he can escape the torrents of words and kaleido scope of pictures in which he has no interest. That goes for radio, too, but in the field of radio one has some escape. There are many commercial-free, purely entertaining or educational programs available via radio, particularly in the realm of frequency modulation. FM stations generally appeal to a selected audience because they are often much less de pendent on advertising. Some, in fact, are subsidized in whole or in part by contribu tors who are willing to pay for high class music programs that they may be spared the trash with which most stand ard programs are cluttered. Some standard broadcast sta tions, it is True, devote por tions of their air-time to worthwhile programs, but by far the most must make com mercial concessions to stay in business. FM would be preferred any way by these people to whom FM stations aim their appeal, particularly music lovers, since the wider FM channels permit broadcasting of the en tire audible range of sound, which cannot be done on standard broadcast bands be cause they are limited to 10 kilocycle bands, in contrast with the 15,000 cycles re quired to produce the full tonal range. Then, too, FM is static-free and relatively lm mune from interference. It is not being consistent to permit radio broadcasters to fcA7 I PAUL IREVgBS Summit Step, French Political Crisis, Top Foreign Events By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The United States, Britain and France agreed this week to start negotiations with Rus sia for, a sum- mit meet i n g on world ten sions. In joint notes, the Western allies accepted a So viet proposal that the nego t i a t i ons be ctartoH in McCann MOSCOW at once by the ambassadors of the four countries. It was the first positive step toward a meeting of government, Including Presi dent Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev, which now appears to be almost inevitable. ' But the Allied and Soviet governments were still far apart on even the preliminary negotiations. Russia had proposed that the ambassadors discuss mere ly the physical arrangements time, place and composition for a meeting first of the foreign ministers of the four Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Objects to Shows To the Editor: It's an insult to our integrity these "Adults only" shows that the theaters are running. Is this supposed to be entertainment? How many juveniles see these shows? Many, I'll bet. And I'm sure these shows do harm to adult morality as well. Naturally, you will get an audience to such trash but if you run a good, clean type show the audience will be as good. It is up to you, the oper ators of these theaters, to sup- ply us with good food for our minds, not poison. It's up to us,, the . supporters, not to patronize such trash. . We have so few places of entertainment in this town especially for the . younger folks. Let's supply . good whole some general patronage shows and I'm sure the com munity will benefit by them Mrs. Robert Messer 817 Broad st. Medford "Will To Win" Needed To the Editor: What a pity it was to see dear ole Medford Hi take a weak seventh place in the annual Hayward Relays here in Eugene last Saturday. For neary 20 years Medford has been recognized, by track lovers all over the state, as the breeding place of track champions. For example in recent years Jack Morris, D.C. Mills, Jack Mode and others have gone on to earn college letters after being a part of Medford Hi's championship track teams. I realize that Bill Bower- man left a. terrifically large pair of shoes to be filled when he left as track coach, but Bob Newland filled them and con tinued to enhance Medford's reputation as a center of track stars. Surely something can be done to reinstill that "Will To Win" that Medford High School track teams have al ways had, so that her teams in future years will continue to enjoy that wonderful reputa tion of being a winner. It took a long time to establish it but it can be lost so quickly. Herb Nill (Class'47) 2624 Baker st. Eugene, Ore. operate as pay stations and deny the privilege to TV broadcasters. .We think tele vision . should receive the same treatment as radio. Let the commercial stations com pete if they can, and we're sure they can, with pay TV, that the people, who support both, may make their own choice. As things are, you don't have free enterprize in TV. We fully agree with our columnist. Albany Democrat-Herald. Syrian Forces Fire Upon French Planes Istanbul, Turkey in Three French planes were fired upon by Syrian forces on a flight from Beirut to Is tanbul. Iskenderun airport ot- ficials said Wednesday night. One of the planes, sent to fight locusts in southeastern Turkey, was forced down in Syrian territory, the officials said. The other two landed safely at Iskenderun.- countries, then for the sum mit conference. The Allies insisted that the ambassadors must discuss the problems which would be tak en up at the summit meeting, in order to insure that it would not turn into a mere stage for propaganda speeches. France was plunged into another cabinet crisis, demon strating once again that it is arithmetically impossible to find a majority in the French National Assembly for any policy good or bad in North Africa. . Premier Felix Gaillard re signed after five months and nine days in office. The As sembly voted 321 to 255 against his . proposals for re opening negotiations with Tu nisia on the status of French forces in the country, airfields and Bizerte naval base. Gaillard had left the way open for taking the question of control of the Tunisian-Algerian border to the United Nations. Right-wing elements in the Assembly, led by Gaul- Babson Suspicious Of Economic Tricks By ROGER W. BABSON Babscn Park, Mass. I am! writing this after a visit to Florida and should be more optimistic. April is a wonder- f ul month there. The former cold weather and f r e e z es are now over. The cold and rains are entirely forgotten. In fact, they will Roter w. Babson give Florida better crops and more tourists next win ter than ever before. My time there enabled me to read more newspapers than usual, and it seems as if eco nomic history may report, in years to come, that the 1958 "recession was started in Washington. Many Congress men there seem to be void of all reason. Like people in a hall where a fire has started, they are panicky and rushing headlong. Only they are look ing for a way to "get in," rather than to "get out"! . I know nothing about poli tics, but I do know my "sta tistics." The current figures on unemployment art very deceptive. They compare with only the past few years when both husband and wife have been working. This, however, has been an abnormal situa tion. I have roughly complet ed statistics for the number of families today without a wage earner compared with previous years. Although 5 per cent or more persons may be unemployed, my estimate is that less than 1 per cent of the families today are without waee earners, is tms a de pression? What About th Cures? Before the Franklin Roose velt era, every depression was allowed to "take its natural course." I -personally have been through four such de pressions. They developed be cause of (1) inefficiency, (2) careless spending, (3) dishon esty, (4) high living costs, and (5) unprincipled labor leaders. These five fundamental evils resulted in a business decline with increasing unemploy ment until the nation had a "spiritual awakening." Then those evils were replaced by (1) efficiency, (2) thrift, (3) honesty, (4) lower living costs and (5) reasonable labor lead ers, and prosperity returned. To bring us out of the last Great Depression, various quack 'medicines, pills, and plasters" were used. Among these gimmicks let me men t i o n unemployment insur ance, veterans' payments, fed eral building loans, old age pensions, minimum wages, unsound taxes on business, unfair labor legislation, farm price support, and finally the NRA fixing of retail prices. This last was declared uncon stitutional by the U.S. Su preme court and the house of cards collapsed. Then busi ness aeain improved and we soon entered another period of prosperity. No Congress man knows yet whether the "New Deal" or the Supreme court decision created the new prosperity; but we do know it was at the expense of our dollar value, which de clined to fifty cents. Now Too Hasty From recent interviews with Washington officials, these men seem very con fused. I point out to them that the present recession has oc curred notwithstanding the fact that practically all the above New Deal "remedies" are still in force. If they had worked in the "Thirties," why have they not already pr vented this business reces sion? The Congressmen up for election are unable to an list Jacques Soustelle, stood firm in their refusal to allow further internationalization of the Tunisia dispute, which is inextricably linked with the war in Algeria. The 100-seat Communist bloc, which echoes the Al gerian rebels' demands for in dependence, also voted against Gaillard. Indonesian gov e r n m e n t forces landed in rebel-held Sumatra in a land and sea operation. Infantry and paratroopers, covered by - warships and planes, made their landing on the west coast and attack ed the rebel stronghold of Padang, hoping to crush the army elements who had re belled against the central gov ernment. In Cuba, the rebel forces of Fidel Castro failed dismally in their bid to overthrow President Fulgencio Batista by organized uprisings and a nationwide general strike. The rebel movement suffer ed from lack of central con swer this question. Yet, they want these gimmicks increas ed and others added. They want more synthetic "cures" put into effect at once, with a cut in taxes added. Never before has such an economic panic existed in Washington, arising in so short a time with such little definite leadership. I believe President Eisenhow er feels in his heart as most economists do, but that he is not a free man. I wish when reading his Bible he would seriously note the 14th chap ter of First Corinthians, the 8th verse. Now to conclude by little sermon: The truth is that no one knows whether these pro posed "cures" will bring back prosperity or not; you, my readers, know as much about that as anyone. But we do know that further devalua tion of the dollar, will follow, During the 180 years of U.S history, the New Deal "cures have never been applied so early in a depression or reces s i o n. Therefore, increasing them now cannot logically be based , upon any . previous tests. Furthermore if these panicky congressmen were not running for office, they would not now be calling for pain removers, plasters, and tranquilizers. Finally, let us all remember that even to day, with the "terrible unem ployment," less than 1 per cent of our families are with out a wage earner. ROGUE VALLEY CRUSADE for CHRIST In Cooperation with the Following Churches .... MEDFORD FIRST BAPTIST, FRIENDS, ASSEMBLY OF GOD, BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD, CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, PILGRIM HOLINESS,- FREE METHODIST, MEDFORD COM MUNITY. EAGLE POINT COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH. WHITE CITY BEREAN BAPTIST. CENTRAL POINT COM MUNITY BIBLE CHURCH. Invites you to SPIRITUAL LIFE CRUSADE April 27 to May 4 Wl ith ARMIN GESSWEIN JESSIE LEISE MEETING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, APRIL 27 - 2:30 p.m. & 9:15 p m. TUESDAY, APRIL ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH APRIL 30 to MAY 4 -7:30 p.m. trol. Batista remained com pletely in control of the arm ed forces. Castro was reported running short of weapons in his eastern - Cuba mountain stronghold. c 1 nil i i rwtWiint liV it' VOTE FOR BYE Republican For State Representative EVE NYE believes In GOOD, SOUND GOVERNMENT plain and without frills or extravagance. State government, to be truly rep resentative and responsive to the needs and wishes of the people, must be controlled on the LOCAL LEVEL. The BEST government is the CLOSEST to the people! So, a vote for EVE NYE is a vote AGAINST bureaucracy. EVE NYE also believes that a GOOD state government must be run like a family. It must spend its money wisely live within its means. It must NOT work to death the " breadwinner the taxpayer! Every effort must be made to as sure a fair and equitable distribu tion of the cost of good, progres sive government. Paid Adv. Eve Nye for State Rep resentative Committee, Eugene Thorndike, Chairman, 55 South Berkeley Way, Medford. IN 29 -7:30 p.m. Iwi v w ii miii mm itjifm Hi i ir ,i r, EWE
