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4 WJiieifay, May 28, 1958 MAU. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. KedfordTribuke Iveryone in Southern vregon Keaa rne Hau in Dune blished Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manage! GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing 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 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail Jn Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 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 Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. j-noenlx. bftady Cove. Rogue Riv r 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 (fficial Pbper of CICy of Medford wmciai t-aper or daemon County United Press Full Leased- Wire MEMBER OT AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ftd vert i sin i R epresentative : EST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of. ices in New York. Chicago, De troit, san rrancisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta, Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocItATiQn flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. &6 TEARS AGO mT 28, 1948 (Friday) Jackson County Chamber erf Commerce, as a result of a poll, will take no definite eUnd as an organization on ogue river basin develop ment. The Jackson county can vassing board's count of Dem tacratic ballots in last Friday's primary shows that W. H. yiuhrer was nominated for $Ute senator on the Demo cratic ticket as well as on the Republican. tfl TEARS AGO 3at It. 1938 (Sunday) Memorial day will be ob served with special services mi 11 a m. today in the Eng ligh Zion Lutheran church. from Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The 1Tung Grangers will shake ffce festive hoof at Central JPoint Wednesday." 0 TEARS AGO MT 28. 1928 (Monday) Distribution of Bosc pears aJUbject of meeting of local jgrowers in Medforfl hotel. Southern Pacific has organ ised a new department of de velopment and colonization to lelp develop agriculture in area it serves. . ftO TEARS AGO May 28, 1918 (Tuesday) The Foley and Burk com pany carnival, after having pent Monday and most of today in getting settled to open tonight. From local and personal column: "J. W. Roberts of San Francisco, supervising super intendent of public buildings for the treasury department, i in town to inspect the re painting of the post office building interior." Hhal's Your I.Q.? tim r fen correct is superior; mmm or eight is excellent; five or a good. 1. Denmark was overrun y the Nazis early in World War II; can you name the JarT 1. In what country is there jpottery manufacturing cen "y called Stoke on Trent? . Which of the planets is Jled the twin of the earth? . Ophelia is the heroine 1 which of Shakespeare's Jitys? S, From what root vegeta ble crop does the U.S. pro duce sugar? i. Darwin. Brisbane and "Melbourne are important pities of .what country? 7. Twenty-four carat gold 3? pure gold; true or false? 8. What is the English translation of Ave Maria? 9. Is a laughing jackass a Ttjrd. mule, reptile, or insect? i 0. On what date this year oes the United States fiscal year start?. Answers: 1 1940. 2. Eng land. 3. Venus. 4. Kamlet. J Beets. 6. Australia. 7. iru. "Hail Mary." 9. Bird. . July 1. (Every year.) r-riTJ FOR THEFT Saltash, England (UPI Yvonne Clements, zu, naueo. rt for stealing S14 from her mother, said she took the money to nave removeu xi" - -She said the tattoo "I love men"3-kept ter 1101X1 a job. Editorial Correspondence .. . Rice Mountain Lodge, N.Y., May 24 We certainly miss the Rogue climate. It feels like snow tonight and perhaps a blizzard, for the wind is blowing directly from Hudson's bay at around 50 miles an hour. Quite a contrast to a year ago at this time when the tourists were starting to arrive. No tour ists this sort of weather the fishing season has opened but no fishermen. Maria's papa caught a couple of trout yester day after he returned from work but he has a lake all his own. We could catch a trout in our own lake or we would sell the lake to someone who could. Perhaps tomorrow we can fish through the ice! Speaking of fishing it is very different here from what it used to be at Lauderdale lake, Wisconsin. In the Gay Ninties the No. 1 game-fish was the black-bass, small mouth and big. The pike and pickerel were better eating but they stuck around in the deep water, while the bass were usually under the lily-pads near shore. And when they struck whang! everyone including the bait knew it. But when son-in-law caught a bass in the lake the other night he was horrified. For bass have a yen for small lake trout as they used to have for Wisconsin chubs and shiners. A few black-bass can clear a small lake of trout in a very short time, so an anti-bass campaign has started. The air-mail from Medford has arrived in good time, some in 48 hours, but the Mail Tribune coming by regular mail has not arrived yet. This is Friday and last Sunday's paper is still somewhere en route as a result the exact re sults of the primary are still in doubt. We assume except for the District Judge the judicial races came out as the MT recommended. Sorry to learn that Harold Stassen was so badly beaten by the Pennsylvania Pretzel King in the race for the guber natorial nomination, but that was the outcome all the experts predicted. As before remarked this will mean the end of Stassen's political career for a fong.time, but probably not forever. He is a persistent and stubborn Scandinavian, never backward about coming forward, and is comparatively speaking a young man. He says he will practice law in Philadelphia and still "take an active interest" in GOP politics. This defeat may save the former Minnesotan some time and money, for in all likelihood Mr. McGonigle, the Pretzel millionaire, will go down to defeat at the capable hands of Mayor David Lawrence, Democrat of Pittsburgh, in November. " What little news comes in from France can't be depended upon for a strict censorship has been established. Our guess (fathered by the hope) is that De Gaulle will not stage his "return from Elba" and the Fourth Republic (under a new government, perhaps) will carry on until the next crisis. Crises in France are about as frequent as showers are in New York state this season. ' All doubt has been removed that the undersigned is en joying EITHER a second-blooming or second-childhood. It seems the oldest of the grandchildren is just recovering from measles and now No. 2 is down with it. The family doctor came over to the "farm" to see them and gave the other two (aged 18 months and five weeks), shots also. This seemed ridiculous but of course Grandpappy ISN'T the doctor. He did express his minority report to the young MD, however, and quipped "the next thing I suppose you will want to inoculate me." "How old are you?" asked the doctor in his coldest pro fessional manner. We told him. "Well," said the doctor, "I would advise you not to take a chance. One of my- children had measles a few months ago and I inoculated the other two. I overlooked my grand mother, who is 94. The next morning she came down with a terrific case, red as a lobster, including the eye lids. She recovered, but it was a close squeak." ' As bad luck would have it, the rest of the family (only one male included and he asleep) overheard the conversation and you know the answer! Your correspondent has one arm in a sling as this is being written on the Smith-Corona via time-honored "pick and peck" technique. Yes, we surrendered just always thinking of ourselves, no shot-in-the-arm changed the doubt whatever that had we not, at a BILLION-to-one-shot, struck an MD with a 94-year-old freak for a grandmother, the verdict would have been exactly the reverse. (How about it D. I.?). As far as climate is concerned Tucson, Arizona, and Saranac, New York are as far apart as the poles. But medi cally they have had similar experiences as far as TB is con cerned. Forty or 50 years ago victims of this disease were sent by the thousands to these two places for treatment and many cures. Then according to local lore one of the most famous "TB" specialists in the country, who with scores of his contemporaries had established a large and for years very prosperous sanitarium at Saranac Lake decided "TB" could be as successfully treated at home as in Arizona or Upper New York. That was the blow that killed the goose that laid the golden eggs here, but thanks to the climate and the tourist trade, it failed to stop the sensational growth of Tucson and Phoenix. Motored over to Saranac this afternoon for a bit of shop ping and to mail some letters. Had a brief talk with a clerk in one of the drug stores. Like the taxi-man in Utica he was very pessimistic about business conditions in spite of Mr. Eisenhower's "unprecedented prosperity." The taxi-man said the textile industry, one of the major sources of income there, had practically quit and moved south, while the factories (largely electrical appliances) only worked three days a week, and were chock full of inventor ies. He was convinced the next census would show a marked drop in population Iti Utica. The drug-clerk feared the same result as far as population is concerned. But his chief concern seemed to be Woolworth had closed out and moved away. He said Woolworth only moved away from a chosen site when the town failed to grow or had started to go down hill. We noted that the A&P and Newberry's were still going (strong, apparently,) but that did not seem to cheer him noticably. Exactly 50 years ago in 1908 a terrific forest fire destroyed the timber in this area covering 60,000 acres. No sign of it today. In fact it takes a pine tree about half a cen tury to mature, which accounts for the rehabilitation. Even so the forest looks skimpy and rather forlorn compared to those around Medford and Southern Oregon. A factor must be the shallow and sandy soil. The banks along the paved highway show no signs of dark or even light brown or red rish loam, solid sand and gravel banks mile after mile. Not far away, however, particularly to the north, there are some very prosperous looking farms. We wager there isn't one in a hundred without large and impressive looking TV antennae. Speaking of "TV" most of the sports programs here come via Montreal and as previously remarked in this column, we skip most of TV except sports. Last Wednesday there was a fairly good light heavyweight go between the champion of France and England, and some promising and very tough fisherman from New Foundland. The latter won by sheer brute strength and ignorance. As usual we were rooting for the under-dog, outweighed and sporting of all things a handle-bar mustache!! Too bad K-B-E-S misses the Wednes day night fights. They are almost always good perhaps under the new dispensation they will get them. I That arm doesn't feel so j measies, a smy disease. K.W.K. to stop the "talky-talk" about not the rest of the family. But editorial mind. There is no good, but as yet w sign of Dennis the Menace I'll SMSOmUlNQ IN lr IT OUT Of THfil Big Victory for Tito In Latest Feud with By CHARLEES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst It looks as if President Tito of Yugoslavia has won a big victory in his latest feud with the Soviet Russian Com munist party. It looks also as if the rea son is that Soviet Pre m i e r Nikita S. Khrush chev has won a victory over the "Sta Charles M. McCann linists" in the ruling Russian Communist party presidium and central committee. 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. . ' An Earthquake Needed? To the Editor: I have no de sire to boast as an "I Told You So" with a slight exag gerated ego. But the gospel truth is that 21 years ago I visited a slaughter house and the cruelty I observed forced me to think deeply. "Why should I, as a Christian, do something which is the direct cause of this terrible cruelty," and from that . time to date, no meat has. entered my mouth. (21, years). I am 78, I look, feel and function 25 years less. Person ally, I cannot visualize how we can call ourselves Christ ians and continue to do that (eating meat) which is the di rect cause of all meat animal cruelty. About 7 million de fenseless meat animals are1 brutally slaughtered each work day. The worsf mass cruelty the world has ' ever known. Now, can you and will you as Christians of God stop eating meat for 30 days? For the purpose of forc ing all packers to kill hu manely and painlessly. If your first 30 days does not have the desired effect, try 60 days next. You will force the pack ers to kill humanely as sure as you are born. This is posi tive success. The Senate has stalled for three months on passing the Humane Bill. What are they waiting far an earthquake to wake them up? " , John Jackson Taylor, . 1479 Fifth ave., Troy, N.Y, Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AN OLD FRIEND of Ed Gardner complained bitterly that his wife was making his life a hell on earth. "How long have you been married?" asked Gardner. "Twenty horrible, unbear able years," groaned the friend. "Why don't ' you leave her?" asked Gardner. "I'd have walked out long ago," admitted the friend, "but I just can't bear the thought of kissing her good by." ' . A movie producer, anxious to place a writer under con tract, gae him a personal tour" of the studio, concluded his pitch with, "Besides everything else you rate a substantial pension when you reach 65." "How," speculated the writ er, "do you live to be 65 in a madhouse like this ?" ; Replied the producer, "Overnight." ' Then there was the saloonkeeper who discovered some choice liquor he had imported from Russia was way below par. He just poured ale on the troubled vodka. 199$, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. THIS EAR ANO YOU See Only a few days ago, there were indications that Tito might be drummed out of the world Communist movement because he persisted in his re fusal to conform to the party line that is, to put himself again under Kremlin domina tion. Tito Receives Greetings But now Khrushchev has sent Tito a surprisingly friendly message of congrat ulation on his 66th birthday. "... Accept my cordial con gratulations and wishes for happiness and the flourishing of the brotherly Yugoslav people," Khrushchev said. "I express the hope that ex isting misunderstandings be tween the Communist league of Yugoslavia and the Com munist party of the Soviet Union and other fraternal parties, which are not secret, will be overcome." It was Khrushchev who patched up party relations between Russia and Yugosla via after Josef Stalin's death, v Khrushchev made an fum ble pilgrimage to Belgrade and told Tito that Stalin was to blame for ostracizing him because he revolted against Kremlin domination. But the "Stalinists" in the party leadership those who feared Khrushchev's attempt to liberalize conditions in the Soviet Union and its satel lites never really accepted that action. Blamed Lack of Discipline To them, Tito's revolt was unforgivable. They wanted no independents in the Commu nist movement." From their viewpoint, they were right The revolts in Poland and Hungary, and the general loosening of discipline in all Communist countries which followed Khrushchev's liber alization campaign showed how dangerous a relaxation of Red dictatorship can be. The latest Tito-Kremlin feud broke out in April when the Yugoslav Communists proclaimed a party platform emphasizing Tito's determi nation to keep his independ ence. Savage attacks were made on Tito by the leaders of Communist countries. There was talk that Russia might end all economic aid to Yugo- LIKED RIDE Copenhagen (UPI) U. S. Ambassador V a 1 Peterson, known here as the bicycle riding ambassador, is now the flying ambassador also. Peter son Tuesday broke the sound barrier as a passenger in a F-100F Super Sabre jet. After wards he said "it was a-fine ride." iCAtf'T In the Day's News By FRANK San Francisco, where this is written, is changing as is all the West. The change, in part, is due to the rapidly ris ing tide of population that is transfiguring the West as a whole, shrinking down the wide opens paces and swelling the cities. In other part, it is due to the fabulous change that has been wrought in all of America by the automobile, which make it possible for Americans todo their living miles and miles and miles from where they do their working. This change isn't confined to the West: It is go ing on all over America. It is beginning to make itself felt in Western Europe, where au tomobile ownership is rising swiftly. WHERE was a time and it wasn't very long ago when San Franciscans were an apartment-dwelling tribe. In those days, they bought their groceries in little corner Seen Kremlin slavia and that Tito might be formally read out of the world Communist movement. Tito remained defiant and met attack with attack. Editorial Comment PROTECTIONISM RUN WILD Workers are idle in the Pa cific Northwest because Japan has reduced its exports of hardwood plywood to the United States. Producers of decorative' panels and doors report they have had to cur tail operations because they cannot obtain enough suitable material. At the same time Congress has before it bills seeking to cut supplies of this material imported hardwood plywood by imposing import quotas. This is a good example of how an effort to protect one group of American producers from foreign competition dam ages other American produc ers. Japan reduced its exports to forestall a possible increase of the American tariff, now set . at 20 percent. Such an in crease was denied by the Tar iff Commission after thorough investigation. But agitation for for cutting imports has continued. s It is also an example of fa miliar protectionist tactics. For the impression is con veyed that the whole Ameri can plywood industry is in peril. Actually it has been ex panding at a rapid rate. More over, the great part of it softwood plywood is used for entirely different purposes and is not touched by hard wood imports. Imports are competitive with a small frac tion of the American business domestic hardwood . p 1 y wood but in the sense that Volkswagens compete with Cadillacs. Another too familiar fea ture of this protectionist drive has been scare stories. One had it that 28 plywood plants had been shut down following failure to get Tariff Commis sion help. A careful check showed 9 still operating, 3 de stroyed by fire, 3 never exist ed, 4 had been consolidated with other operations and pro duction increased; others had closed because timber supplies were depleted or because of labor trouble or lack of capital. Yet the facts have not yet caught up with some people taken in by such stories. The plywood case may be an ex treme one. But Congressmen who tend to be stampeded into opposition to the recipro cal trade program would do well to examine other protec tionist pleas for similar fallacies. Christian Science Monitor. CAREFUL ATTENTION to the individual dictates of every faith, the modem facilities of Litwiller's Mt. View Chapel and Funeral Home and rates kept con sistently low, are some of the reasons so many pre fer to call MU 5-4541 in time of need! J C. M.' Litwiller Weddings by LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ' ASHLAND We Never Close JENKINS stores and carried them home in a paper bag. They either walked to work or came down town in the street car. Now they live in suburbs all the way from Santa Rosa in the north of San Jose in the south and fight their way in to the city over freeways crammed with whizzing, whirling, fender-banging traf fic, and they buy their gro ceries out near where they live. ALONG with the automo bile and the freeway and the overflowing parking lot has come the five-day week which perhaps, is changing what up in the State of Jef ferson we call "The City" as much as all the other influ ences put together. There was a time when in San Francisco, as out in the sticks, Saturday night was Binge Night. Not any more. In all but the retail places, the doors are closed at 5 o'clock on Friday. When comes that magic hour, the factories, the wholesale establishments and the offices shut up shop and the occupants thereof stream out of the town for a bit of relaxation. The net result of it all is that the entertainment spots are crammed until the walls bulge on Friday night. The reason for the change in binge nights is that when the sub urbanites get home to their lawns and their gardens and their week-end accumulation of do-it-yourself chores they're much to weary come Satur day night' to dress up and go out for a night on the town. So ... in the Big Towns . . . Saturday night is coming to be almost Quiet Night. SO MUCH for the fluffier side of life. There are changes also in the business side of San Fran Cisco's life. They are SIGNIFICANT changes. UOR example: In the first three-quarters of a century of its existence, the life of the city of San Francisco centered around the fantastically won derful PORT of San Francis co. To the Great Bay came the ships of all nations. Here they could lie safe at Anchor while they discharged the cargoes they had brought and took on the cargoes they were to take away. The cargoes they took away in those days were basically RAW MATERIALS h ides, grain, timber, etc. The cargoes they BROUGHT BACK were finished products. That is to say: Those were the days when the West was in effect a COLONIAL DEPENDENCY. It sold raw materials at low prices and 'bought back fin ished products at high prices. Its selling prices were low and its buying prices were high because it had to PAY THE FREIGHT BOTH WAYS. THOSE days are past. The west now has a bal anced economy of its own. San Francisco bay is now ringed by factories that use the raw materials of the eleven Western States, and sell their products in the elev en Western states. The clus tered millions that live around the bay provide mar kets for Southern Oregon and Far Northern California. A new economic day is dawning in the Far West. Road Ban Removal Set for Warm Springs Portland (UPI) The In terior department said today a notice of intention to re move a ban on road building in a large area of the Warm Springs Indian reservation will be published soon. The department shortly be fore World War II ruled the 105,000-acre area in the Mt. Jefferson region should re main in wilderness condition, with roads and trails prohibit ed. The Indians have urged that roads be permitted in the area to improve fire protec tion. - Mrs. Litwiller. Appointment 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us." ' Truman-Stevenson Relationship On Pleasanter Plane Washington (UPI) Harry Truman should have added one more item to his stock of reading 'mat ter on that M e d i terran ean cruise. He should have with him, to read and to relish, the text 0(f a speech deliv ered last week Lnj tyle C. VilMi m nicago Dy Adlai E. Stevenson. In it, Stevenson seemed to be trying to make amends for the slights, and indignities which Truman thinks he suf fered at Stevenson's hands in the 1952 presidential cam paign. That was the year Tru man hand-picked Stevenson to be the Democratic president ial nominee, and what hap pened? . What happened is set down in plain words in the second volume of Truman's memoirs. There are paragraphs of real praise for Stevenson in that book, and for some of his cam paign performance. The praise goes flat, however, under pressure of other Truman paragraphs of which these two are a sample: - , "But, Stevenson's attitude toward the President (Tru man) whom he hoped to suc ceed was a mystery to me for some time, and I believe Ste venson made several mistakes. Whether this was due .to- the urgings of his advisers or bad information or perhaps to the contagion other good citizens were suffering as a result of reading the anti-Democratic press, I do not know. First Mistake "The first mistake he made was to fire the chairman of the Democratic National Com mittee (Frank E. McKinney of Indiana whom Truman had put in that job) and to move his campaign headquarters to Springfield, 111., giving the im pression that he was seeking to disassociate himself from the administration in Wash ington and, perhaps, from me. How Stevenson hoped he could .persuade the American voters to maintain the Demo cratic party in power while seeming to disown powerful elements of it, I do not know." There was more, adding up to evidence that Truman felt that Stevenson was brushing off the Truman administra tion as unfit and unclean. Tru man also faulted Stevenson for failing to cooperate with thfc big city Democratic ma chines for a slip of the tongue in which Stevenson had referred to "that mess in Washington!" FIRST Furnish Your Home! Buttons belong not on your on a vest! I WE CARRY I OUR OWN FREE Customer Parking i 341 North Central ASHLAND MEDFORD The then president felt that Stevenson had failed to come out fighting against Richard M. Nixon's 1952 campaign charge that the Truman ad ministration was soft on Com munism. That must have hurt Stevenson's powerful sponsor. as much as the manner in which the nominee waved the President out of the campaign picture. Pro And Con Averill Harriman. in 1952, was the only 100 per cent I-love-Truman candidate among the Democrats. But Truman would have none of him in 1952. Four years later Tru man shell-shocked the 1956 Democratic national conven tion with a Harriman-for-president effort designed basi cally as a stop-Stevenson movement. He might have gotten away with it, too, but for the political maneuvering of AFL-CIO's Walter P. Reuther who practically single-handed broke the 1956 convention deadlock in Ste venson's favor. Perhaps Stevenson was thinking of all that in Chicago last week when he went out of his way in a speech to pay the highest kind of tribute to Truman's presidency. Perhaps, even, Stevenson is thinking about 1960 and a third presidential nomination. Stranger things have hap pened. And if Stevenson has such a thing in jnind it would be good for him now and here after and continuously to speak well of Harry S. Tru man. HEED MONEY? FOR YOUR VACATION? TO PAY BILLS? 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