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o A Friday, May 2, 1938 AIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medford&Tribuke "Everyone in Southern '-Oregon iLraua 111c mail a.uuv published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 Serth Fir St Ph. SP .2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Managei GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN, JR Managine Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 139". SUBSCRIPTION, RATES P- Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Snnday 1 year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carner In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Golfl Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 no 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CICy 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 r ASOOHATJOjN frlJiliriig.'TJTTTTC 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 Mar 2. 1958 (Sunday) Republican presidential can didate, Thomas E. Dewey, will be here Friday, May 7, and Harold E. Stassen on Fri day, May 8, it was announced. Actual construction of the Medford YMCA building on Sixth st. near Main st. start ed, foundations and sewer in stallations almost complete! 20 YEARS AGO May 2. 1938 (Monday) A man who says he was an aerial machine gunner in the Chinese Army and was wounded in a dogfight with a Japanese plane was in Med ford today thinking of set ling in the Rogue River val ley. ' Work to start soon on plant ing 9,000 three-year-old pon derosa pine trees in the old Cathill burn section of the Rogue River national forest. 30 YEARS AGO May 2. 1938 (Wednesday) From local and personal column: "Many Chinook sal mon are entering the Rogue river and are making their way to the headwaters of the stream to give sportsmen gplendid fishing." Medford to take an active part in the Klamath Falls railroad celebration May 10, 11 and 12 when the golden Spike is driven to mark com pletion of the Great Northern railroad, system. 40 YEARS AGO May 2, 1918 (Thursday) Failure of the Jackson county draft board to provide adequate accommodations for the Jackson county draft con tingent resulted in the men being herded like cattle into the day coaches. Medford and Ashland mili tia companies invaded the county court to demand that the county purchase uniforms for the companies. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fen correct is superior; sven or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. Was Singapore, while under British control, ever invaded before its capture by the Japanese in World War II? 2. Bible: Silas was a com panion of Jesus, Peter, , or Paul? 3. What fruit grew in the Garden of Hesperides? d- Of which State is Boise tha capital? 5. Which New England State is represented in the U. S. Senate by Senator Ken oedy? 6. The heroine of the novel "Gone With The Wind" was ? 7. To which country does Prince Edward Island belong? 8. Correct the following sentence: "One hundred and eleven people were killed in the mine disaster." 9. What is guayule? 10. The State University of New Jersey is Princeton; true of false? Answers: 1. No. 2. Paul. 3. Golden apples. 4. Idaho. 5. Massachusetts. 6. . Scarlett O'Hara. 7. Canada. 8. "One hundred and eleven persons were killed in the mine dis aster." 9. A rubber-bearing planl 10. False (Rutgers). 'Monday's School Elections One of the things that can be said about the school laws enacted at the 1957 legislature is that they're complicated so complicated they need the talents of a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out. But one ray of light is the fact that if and when school reorganization is accomplished, as was the intent of the legislature, there will be fewer districts, and the relationships between them will be more easily understood. "1X7ITH that much out of the way, let's teke a look at the school elections which come up throughout the county next Monday. ' First of all, there are three types of districts in the county. One is the first class district (there are five in the county) and its smaller counter part, the second and third-class districts. These are the units with which we are all familiar, whose board members we elect, and whose budgets we vote on annually. No problem there. The second is the "non-high" district, which in this county includes nine of the smaller dis tricts' without high schools, banded together solely to provide for the tuition and transporta tion of high school students from their home dis tricts to others were high schools are available. The third is the county rural school district which is something of a misnomer, for it in cludes the entire county. '"THIS district is set up purely for administrative and financial purposes. It educates no stu dents, hires Ro teachers, builds no buildings. But it does serve as a central agency for the schools of the county. And, under the provisions of the 1957 law, it must levy a tax which is for the pur pose of equalizing the financial burden of tax payers, collecting the levy on taxpayers in all districts equally, and then distributing the money back again to the districts on a formula which provides more for the "poor" districts than it does for the "rich" districts. This levy is required by law to be an amount equal to 50 per cent of all the local district budgets for operating purposes, not including amounts for construction or other expenses. This sum in Jackson county this year totals $2,004,303. Voters of the county will have a chance to vote on it Monday. The vote is necessary, be cause the amount which could be raised inside the 6 per cent limitation is about $334,000 short of the amount of the required levy. . TF THE voters approve, the $2,004,303 will be allocated among all school districts in the f orm of tax levy reductions, not in cash grants, and thereby will increase the published budgets of some, and decrease those of others. In any case, the amount of difference in the tax bills of indi vidual voters would be insignificant. If the proposed levy is not approved by the voters, the equalization provisions of the law will not take effect, except insofar as they can be met by the levy permissable inside the 6 per cent limitation, or in this case, $1,669,925. If this happens, the local districts must make up the amount lost to them by a negative vote. In effect, then, Monday's election on the rural school district levy is to approve the equalization measure, and to authorize the levying of an addi tional $334,377 in taxes for the purpose. HTHE non-high budget election is solely for the purpose of raising funds for transportation and' tuition of high school students from districts which have no high schools. The non-high vote will also be on Monday in those , nine districts. Tuition rates are established by law, and arc based on the per capita cost of high school edu cation. These, then, are the issues involved in Mon day's county-wide school elections other than the election of members of the. various boards. If it all seems complicated, remember that it is much less so in Jackson county than it is in other upstate counties, where union high school districts, joint districts, county high school dis tricts, and others create an overlapping and con fusion of organization. "llHERE is the money coming from to run the schools? Obviously, some of it comes" from property taxpayers of the county, about 59 per cent of it (it varies slightly by district), through their con tributions to the regular school district tax col lections, as well as the rural school board tax levy, and the county school fund, levied by the county court. Another 2 percent (about) comes from the federal government in the form of school lunch and vocational funds, anfl other programs. About 39 per cent of it, on an average, domes from the state, in the form of distributioa of the basic school support fund, and the common lrn ducible school fund. DECAUSE the school laws are so complex, many voters have been willing to let their school ad ministrators do the worrying and the figuring for them; and. have voted on budgets and bond issues with too little to go on except, perhaps, a feeling about personalities, orfcbout the tax level generally!. ' The only advice .we can offer is that which we have stated time and time again before that investment in good schools is -probably the best investment that Americans can make toward their own f uture, and that of their children. E. A. Denn.3 fhe Menace Xt -tAti t . 7C. Mat do vou mkan 'cxtKm wort how in mis garden' ? Inn? irVyyoioyou Tjts'TMif"? kxni? isaX AS1...'.. Sofinmunioatso Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen rjame or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter with 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 saper; in fact the contrary is often the caw Praise for Walter Munlef To the Editor: In July, 1958, I spent two weeks in Med ford, covering the Billy Jun ior Nunn murder trial for the Klamath Falls flerald and News and the Associated Press. After the trial, I made the statement that in my 35 years in the newspaper bus iness, during which I covered a large number of murder trials, I had never seen one in which the prosecution pre sented a better prepared case, i Some time ago here in Boise, I made the same com ment to a resident of Medford", who is a former newspaper man. I was, greatly surprised when he told me that Mr. Walter Nunley, who tried the Nunn case, was 'no longer district attorney in Jackson county. He also told me that Mr. Nunley, was a candidate for circuit judge and was be ing opposed chiefly on the grounds that he lacked legal experience. To me this seems rather strange. Mr, Nunley, certain ly conducted himself like a thoroughly experienced law yer in handling the Nunn prosecution. It is significant that after he completed the job, the defense attorneys made no attempt to disprove first degree murder and con centrated on trying to save their client from the gas chamber. Later I was told by auth orities in Klamath County, that they were so impressed by Mr. Nunley's performance at the Nunn trial, that they were considering engaging him as special prosecutor at a Klamath County murder trial. I never met Mr. Nunley, be fore the Nunn trial started and I never saw him again after the trial ended. I want to repeat that Mr. Nunley, did one of the best prosecu tion jobs I have witnessed and I am sure he has a great fu ture ahead of him, even if he isn't elected circuit judge. Lyle Downing, Idaho Statesman, Boise, Idaho. More on Foster Case To the Editor: At Mr. James Redden's suggestion in his recent letter, I did check the District Court records concerning Henry Anastashio Foster. I found that the orig inal complaint charged him with unlawful possession of marijuana, and -had been signed by the state police of ficer who arrested him. I am informed that this is a felony and can oaly be handled to a conclusion by the circuit court. The record also shows that after Foster got aa attorney, he asked for a preliminary hearing which was et for Sept. 9. Two days later by agreement with the district attorney and ttie defense at torney, it was set over until Sept. If. Oa Sept. 19 the rec ord shows that by agreement with Foster's lawyer a new complaint was filed by the district attorney, charging at tempted escape from lawful arrest, a minor crime com pared to the narcotics charge. Foster pleaded guilty antl re ceived six month suspended sentence, and $100 fine, less than the penalty for drunk driving. On that same day, the nar cotics charge was dismissed for lack of sufficient evi dence in spile of the fact that there were two eye witnesses besides the officer. Anyway you look at this case, it makes for very- interesting . reading. John H. Chaney, 45 Nortfe Ninth .st., Central Point, Ore. Iorlr Replies To Ann Lynch To the Editor: In public life you have to expect criticism of public officers as an indis pensable part o our political system. ; However, criticism should be based on accurate facts.; I'd like to take this op portunity to correct errors of fact made in a letter by Ann J. Lynch of Medford, appear ing in your issue of April 20, 1958. 1. Miss Lynch says: "Con gressman Charles O. Porter's suggestion that this country cease testing atomic weapons might carry more weight if Mr. Porter could suggest how Russia could be made, to cease and desist also." The bill I filed last July, essentially A d 1 a i Stevenson's proposal, p r o v i d es for a suspension only if other nations, includ ing Russia, also suspend such tests. I've never proposed unilateral suspension. 2. Miss Lynch's references to my "flirtations with com munist groups and their affiliates" and my represent ing "the friends of Russia in the Americas" is pure smear, without foundation in fact, and the sort of thing the "old Nixon" and the late Senator McCarthy sought to popula rize. - :; 3.. Miss Lynch says: "For further evidence of where his heart lies, he recently recom mended that our strategic Air Command r em ove atomic bombs from their planes that are always ready to strike at Russia on a moment's notice if the U.S. is attacked." I have never made such a recom mendation. The right of fair comment does not include the right to misrepresent the facts. No doubt I have made many mis takes and will make many more, but none of my mis takes has been or will be the result of any lack of loyalty to the 460,000 people I am privileged to represent and to the great nation in whose Congress I have the honor to serve. ( ; Charles O. Porter, 1 Memberof Congress. Easter Seal Thanks To the Editor: I would like to say "thank you" to every individual who contributed to the annual -Easter seal appeal. Through your generosity $3,487.33 has been raised in Jackson county. Ninety per cent of, this money remains in Oregon to assist our crip pled children and adults, peo ple who do not benefit from any other furd. It is really inspiring Ao visit the Children's Hospital school in Eugene, as I did two weeks ago. Yes, yo"u are welcome to visit it too. Camp Easter Seal allows handicapped . children to experience summer camp ing activities. If you know of a youngster, who would benefit by this experience, please contact me, as camp erships re available to those in need. A "thank you" also to tfie press, radio and television, for the wonderful publicity they gave, the Medford YMCA, and volunteers from Boy Scout Troops 6 and 9, for their help cn the Medford Lily Day sale, and the post office department and letter carriers for delivering the seals and information to you. The drive was sponsored by Alpha Kappa and Alpha Lambda chapters of -Epsilon Sigma Aloha international sorority, whose project is aid to handicapped . people. This required many long hour Apha Lambda chapter mem bers spent 375 hours on East r eal work this yeai. Te gssmgjiuynienT, Dig usmess Discussed By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. It is clear that ' unemployment re sults from the recession. But it is not suf ficiently clear what is the cause of the r e c e s sion. H o wever, no one can doubt that it is due to some im balance in the economv The Koeer W. BabsoDreaction ig from some, previous action. Because c e r t a in excesses have existed too long or been too great a correction must come if we are to regain nor mal economic balance.. Our economy, when free, is like the children's seesaw or "tee ter." A fat boy pushes down one nd and raises a skinny boy at the other end. In our economic seesaw, the exces sive weight at one end may be over-expansion of production in relation to consumer de mand. In an -ideal economy, pro ductive capacity should al ways be geared to consumer demand. But actually, such gearing is not automatic. Either plant capacity is ex panded faster than consumer demand; or demand drops off after temporary excessive consumer buying as in install ment purchasing. Moreover, our economy is not eo free as many would like to believe. In the market place, prices no longer respond quickly to conditions of supply and de mand. Big business has given our economy many benefits, in cluding making available to the many by mass produc tion and mass distribution necessities, comforts, and lux uries. In boom times, how ever, big business and big organized labor together give consumers wage-and-price in flation, driven upward by an nual wage-and-price increases unrelated to the annual rise in productivity. Plant capacity is expanded without relation to consumer demand. Unbalanced Seesaw The government has the ability to balance too great or too long-continued imbal ance by standing at the center of the seesaw and inclining its weight -either to the right or the left. But the government can also restore the balance in other ways, by assuring even weights at both ends of the seesaw, or by making the weightier force (supply or de mand) move up nearer the middle. ... But government 'should not and must riot be expected to operate ' a managed econ omy. There still remains Top News Features Proposal for Arctic I By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The United States proposed this week that an internation al inspection be established in the . arctic to allay fears of attack by H bomb planes flying over the north polar route. The pro posal was made in an swer to Rus- McCann s l a ii cudieo that flights of American nu clear planes over the Arctic in the direction of the Soviet Union constituted a danger to peace. President Eisenhower made the proposal in a letter to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Following up the letter, the United States introduced a proposal for aa inspection system in the" United Nations Security Council. ' Soviet U. N Delegate Ar- 19 active members (six have outside jobs), have 32 chil dren (many are pre-schoolers) The saying, "If you want a good" job done, ask a busy person", surely provas true here. " Mrs. C. C. Peterson, i Jackson County Chairman, 1958 Easter Seal Drive., 907 East Beal Lane, Medford DAFffif'SMITH Bast Main HELP WANTED Two headeal vnan for our carnivfcl of values . . . mwst he able to attract attention. i i r enough self-reliance in our politico - economic system to restore the ability of private, competitive small business to do the balancing if small business is unfettered. Re storing competition in big in dustry will break down too rigid administered prices. These prices have been fixed too long and too much. Too great monopolistic power by Big Business and or Big Labor must be curbed by Big Government. Re member that 5 per cent of our American businesses em ploy fewer than 20 people; about 80 per cent of our busf nesses are unincorporated. Seven Recommendations As a result of the two World Wars, Big Business and Big Labor were granted too many artificial and pow erful special privileges in the name, of Defense. The time is overdue to remove these privileges and give the 3 mil lion small businesses with a total of over 8 million work ers a chance to cure the re cession. Proposals to this end have recently been made to the Senate Committee: 1. A tax deduction for all concerns which reinvest prof its in their operations. This would provide the necessary capital for those small con cerns. 2. Equalization between large and small companies in regulations for depletion and depreciation. Used machinery and ' equipment, which the smaller concerns usually buy, should be given the same rates of depletion and depre ciation as new. 3. Deductions, for the self employed and. other persons not members of qualified pen sion programs, for their own retirement. 4. Provision for the pay ment of estate taxes in in stallments so that businesses need not be liquidated simply to accommodate the Federal Government. 5. Federal grants to small concerns, for research and development requiring that all patents secured from re search at taxpayers' expense be made available freely to all concerns. 6. More credit : for small business firms by the Small Business Administration in order to offset the one-sided power of large - corporations to extend credit to customers by practically ' shipping on consignment. 7. Elimination of labor's exemption from the anti-trust laws. More advertising dollars are invested in newspapers than in radio, TV, magazines and outdoor combined. kady A. Soboley rejected the American plan. He called it a diversionary move to dis tract attention from the American arctic flights. Sobo- lev 'said the inspection plan should be taken up at a "sum mit" conference of heads of government. Sweden suggested that countries which have territory above the Arctic Circle study the question and that the re sult of the study be put be fore the summit meeting. The United States said it was agreeable. . President G a m a 1 Abdel Nasser of Egypt was the guest of honor at Russia's tsadition al May Day parade through the' Red Square in Moscow. Nasser heard defense min ister Marshal Rodion Y. Ma linovsky accuse the United States in a speech of "using unheard-of methods" in "send ing Air Force planes carrying H-bombs to the Soviet front iers." Malinovsky said Soviet armed forces were . ready to repel any attempt "to violate the people's peaceful labors." T)e military section of this year's parade took but 12 minutes to pass the reviewing stand. Foreign military at taches saw no new weapons. ' While the Russians buttered up Nasser with the highest honors at the start of his 18 dy visit to the Soviet Union, there ? wre indications that Egyptian relations with the Western powers were improving- fei Rome, Egyptian dele- at Genessee "1 r ui Woman Passport Chief Revamps, Speeds Division By LYLS C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington OH There isn't much good news going these days, so how would it be to hear a word of cheer from Miss Frances G. Knight? Miss Knight is the director of the Department of State. She suc c e e d e d the LbmI f I fabulus Mrs. Lyle c. wuson Kutn u. amp ley who was a civil servant of great charm and stature in the federal hierarchy. The good word from Miss Knight is that she has re vamped the methods and mod ernized the equipment of the passport office to the consid erable relief and convenience of the U.S. taxpayer. The government's General Service Administration esti mated that these services last year amounted to $386,000 which is not a great sum when posed against the multi-billion dollar spending " which ap pears now to have been sad dled on the taxpayers until the end of time. More To Be Dona Neither is it hay, however, and the conserved sum looks even more attractive by rea son of Miss Knight's informal explanation that additional savings were obtained because the Passport Office averaged an increase of "5.5 per cent in work productivity per em ployee in 1957. News of such administra tive economies is scarce in Washington despite assur ances from the top executive officials that waste shall be wrung from the operations of the government. ' , While she was about it, Miss Knight modernized and improved the conditions un der whih the citizens can ob tain a passport. For example, the citizen applying for a pass port no longer need be ac companied by a witness to testify to his identity. And, if he desires, the citizen may pay his passport fee by per sonal check. No 'Partner Needed The Passport Office now will accept for identification purposes about what a bank would accept in cashing a check, such as driver's license or a government security pass. Miss Knight explained that anyone who would fradu lently apply for a passport would not hesitate to produce a phony witness, so why clut ter the counters and corridors of. passport issuing agencies American nspection gates signed a preliminary agreement under which stock holders of the Suez Canal company would be paid about $81 million as compensation for Nasser's nationalization of the waterway. In Washington, the Treas ury Department announced the release of about $26 mil lion in Egyptian government funds which the United States had kept "frozen" since Nas ser seized the canal two years ago. if New WASHINGTON Columnist Willicm S. White Noted newspaperman, war correspondent, political cor--respondent and author . . . Formerly Chief Congres sional correspondent for Tha New York Times . . . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize fpr his biography, "The Taft Story" (1955). Look for his clear, concise column, reporting and analyzing the important news developments, direct from Washington, three times each week Starts S(jNDAY.t MAY 4th In The with two persons for each passport involved. , Miss Knight's methods have reduced from many weeks to 4V& days the time necessary to issue a passport. Miss Knight's reforms and modernization of the Passport Office make a lot of sense. A taxpayer might think it a good idea to expose other agencies of government .to Miss Knight, especially any in which the productivity per employee has diminished in stead of increased. . . Vote for James M. MAI W for CIRCUIT JUDGE Position No. 1 JAMES M. MAIN " Is' .Qualified BILL ACKER ,'VSeveral years ago I served as a juror and observed many attorneys in action, one of whom was James Main.e I was impressed with the fair and able manner in which he presented his client's case and. ' chose him as my personal attor ney. From that time until he was appointed Judge, he was my attor ney and l became well acquainted with him: - I can assure you that he is, in every way qualified to be your Circuit Judge." . . Signed Bill Acker (Note, ask anyone who has ap peared before Judge Main as juror, witness, litigant or attorney about his qualification.) Ben Day, Chmn., Gold Hill Pd. Pol. Ad. K'NisV rP' JILL- mm 1,
