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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1958)
o o 0 Editorial Comment OBSESSED WITH AN IDEA! He or more frequently, she always arrives in the newsroom shortly before the day's deadline, sidles up to a . reporter who is working feverishly to get his last story out, and produces a sheaf of clippings from ob scure, poorly-printed publica tions. "Now I want you to read these carefully," says the visi tor, directing a reproachful glance at the reporter. "The public isn't aware of what a grave problem this is. We need action. Right away." So the reporter, with whom tactfulness is an occupational hazard, scribbles a hasty end ing to his story and turns his attention to the visitor. The clippings turn out to be docu ments explaining, in exhaus tive detail, the satanic rela tionship between Darwin's theory of evolution and Marx's theory of world com munism. . The visitor, and every newspaper has its own collec tion of them, is the Vacant Mind Obsessed With an Idea. Such people make up only a fragment of the population, but they're always on the move. They maintain active correspondence with like- Tninrifrt cnnlc Thpir distin guishing Qiark is the sheaf of clippings, which thgy produce as positive proof that their ideas "are valid. The zaniest argument appears to take on .dignity after it has found a place on a printed page. Many of these idea-crazed individuals are motivated by the highest of impulses: The lady who worries about pris oners in the penitentiary, the elderly gentleman with a See Page 6 Main Section TODAY'S PAPER FOR BROOKS NEW Wholesale PRICE POLICY 1S TERRIFIC!0 brand-new plan for ending poverty, the intense house wife who wants to tell the world about her religious dis coveries. Others are leas agreeable. One is sure that the Commu nists have planted an agent with each newspaper in the country how else could the news come ou so garbled? Another announces that the Medical Trust is bribing the press to ignore the news of Dr. Quack's anti-cancer mira cle drug; look here, it , ex plains all about it in this clipping. With such visitors the "reporter tries to look as un-Red or as unbribed as pos sible, meanwhile keeping a wary eye on the nearest exit. The most pleasant, and by all odds the most persuasive, of the visiting idea specialists are the food faddists. They don't start by assum ing the reporter has a grudge against them. On the con trary, they sympathize with him for his ignorance of the benefits to be gained from sunflower seeds or Bulgarian yogurt or blackstrap molasses. "I used to look almost as wretched as you until I dis covered what proper diet can do," says the yogurt fan, smil ing cheerfully and radiating good spirits. "But now I feel fine. I haven't got a worry in the world. Life is wonder ful. See, it explains all about it in this clipping." Unlike the worrier over communism or vivisection or eternal damnation, the food faddist seems to get pleasure out of the idea that has seized him. He gains few converts, but at least he enjoys himself. Albany Democrat-Herald. Two Big Fires Consume Sagebrush Sunnyside, Wash. (UPI) Two large brush fires Thurs day consumed two-thirds of the sagebrush on Big Snipen Mountain and for a time threatened the Granger water supply before the blaze was brought under control. A powder house belonging to the Granger Clay Products Co. also was endangered by the flames before they were controlled. Fire departments from Sunnyside, Outlook, Granger, Villa and Toppenish fought the fire. Cause of the blaze was not immediately known. Flexible rubber electric blankets are spread on the floors of brooder pens at Joe Davis' farm to prevent baby turkeys from suffering , from cold feet." The new system keeps turkeys alive and healthy during the first few weeks of ther lives when the mortality rate is high. Try and Stop fvle -By BENNETT CERF- WHERE ELSE but in Texas could this happen? A little bar was devouring an ice cream cone when a lady swathed in mink walked by. He boldly wiped his dripping cone against His 10-year-old sister was aghast "Junior!" she shrill ed, "you're getting fur all over your ice cream'." Broker drove his wife to Idlewild airport and put her aboard a non-stop plane for Denver. Driving back to town, he hit the peak of the morning traffic, arrived at his office in a state of ex haustion. Propped up on his desk was a wire from his wife: "Arrived in Denver. Perfect trip. Love and kisses." Comedians were discussing' the fame and foibles of out of their most successful contemporaries. "One thing you've got to hand him," admitted one. "He never says anything bad about the dead." "Nor," added another, "anything good about the living." 1358. by Bennett Cert. Distributed bj Kiaf Features Syndicate r Railroad Bill Draws Criticism Washington (UPI) Com merce Secretary Sinclair Weeks criticized the Senate's pending railroad bill Thurs day, branding certain of its provisions unwise and dis criminatory. He sent a letter with pro posed changes to Chairman Warren G. Magnuson (D Wash.) of the Senate Com- Youngsters Face Juvenile Action Norwalk, Calif . (UPI) Two; 10-year-old boys, who said they tied 7-year-old Mi chael Evans near a railroad track "just for fun," faced possible juvenile action to day. . The two were released to their parents Thursday after explaining to sheriff's . depu ties they were only having fun when they tied the Evans boy within five feet of a rail road spur and 20 feet of a main line. "We wanted to scare him," deputies quoted them as say ing. Michael's father ran a mile and pulled his son away from the tracks moments before a freight train went by. He had been warned by two companions of the bound boy. Sheriff's deputies said Mi chael never was in danger but might have suffered psy chological damage if the train had rumbled past while he was tied. merce Committee which draft ed the bill. The letter said in effect that the measure goes too far in some respects and not far enough in one regard. Weeks said one of the bill's provisions would be of great benefit if it allowed one type of carrier, railroads for ex ample, to exploit its cost ad-, vantages in setting its rates. The section is designed to per mit such rate making with out requiring the Interstate Commerce Commission to con sider the effect on other modes of transportation. But Weeks said the commit tee version endorses ICC poli cy of keeping the rates of one carrier above a certain level to protect another. Moreover, said Weeks, the committee bill would not permit rate reduc tions to encourage competi tion between different types of transportation. Grange News Phoenix Grange Phoenix Grange meets Tues. June 10 at 8 pjn. The program, sponsored by the Home Economics club, will be open to the public, and will precede the regular meeting. Mrs. Harland Glas cock, chairman of . the pro gram, will also have charge of the display table. Gertrude Lewin Publicity Chairman Type metal is usually made of lead with a hardening of antimony. AAEST1 NG HOUSE 1958 REFRIGERATORS AT LESS THAN 1948 PRICES I G Modal WIN $$ WIN $$ WIN It s Easy! It s Fun! If $ Free! WEST1NGH0USI $50,000.00 REFRIGERATOR CONTEST 466 Prizes... lit Prize Golden Dreams Kitchen or $5000 CASH Come in for FREE Entry Blank! . WESTINGHOUSE FROST-FREE REFRIGERATOR with 75 lb. SEPARATE HOME FREEZER For 56000 less Over 2 cu. ft. BIGGER with almost twice the frozen food capacity. Refrigerator DEFROSTS AUTOMATICALLY. Giant VEGE TABLE CRISPER holds bushel. STORAGE DOOR has 2 EGG SHELVES, roomy CHEESE BUTTER KEEPER, spacious BOTTLE STORAGE. Drop-down FREEZER LOADING DOOR. 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YVER the years, this has " ' been the situation in Al geria: About a million , French have been running the affairs of about nine million Mos lems. But If De Gaulle makes good his pledge of EQUAL rights and duties (including, presu mably, FREE elections) the nine million Moslems WILL RUN THE AFFAIRS OF THE ONE MILLION FRENCH. THERE'S where the rub will come. Will the French stand for it? We'll have to wait and see. At the moment, it looks a lit tle doubtful. If De Gaulle can make good his pledge and can MAKE THE FRENCH LIKE IT he will be entitled to a place in history among the world's GREAT leaders. Cape Canaveral (UPI) A speedy test version of the Navy's solid fuel Polaris mis sile roared into the sky on a zigzag course today and tum bled back into the ocean when its engine burned out. EAST EVANS CREEK Holiday Visitors Named BY NELLIE BERGMAN East Evans Creek-Meadows Memorial Day visitors in the Lloyd, Beers home were his cousins, . Mrs. Iral Moore of Portland, Mrs. George Rod man, Mrs. Lou Hibbs, James Owens and Mrs. Frank Bruhn of Yakima, Wash., and Jerry Owens of Clarkia, Idaho. The Amos Maplesden fam ily visited in Yreka and Horse Creek, Calif., over Memorial Jack Webb Plans To Wed Miss U. S. A. Hollywood (UBD-l- Jack Webb, TV's dead-panned Sgt. Friday of "Dragnet," plans a new venture into marriage. " The hard - working producer-director of the Los Ange les cops-and-robbers drama disclosed Thursday night he and Jackie Loughrey, 28, Miss United States of 1953, would be married before the end of the month. They met when the actress was trying out for a role in a picture produced by Webb. Miss Loughrey was married to crooner Guy Mitchell. Webb, 38, was married pre viously to singer Julie Lon don and actress Dorothy Towne. He and Miss London had "two children, Stacy, 8, and Liza, 5. 4-H Club News St. Mary's Cooking Club St. Mary's 4-H Cooking club met June 3 at the gym annex for their last meeting until this fall. Fourteen mem bers were present. We all made brownies again. The finer points of b a k i ng brownies were pointed out to us by our leader and from the mothers who served as aides. Meeting was adjourned. Terri Calhoun, Reporter Day weekend. In Yreka they visited the Robert Head fam ily and the W. E. Callick fam ily. - ' In Horse Creek they visited the Ben Maplesden family. Sunday afternoon another brother-in-law and sister of Maplesden from the Apple gate, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hu kilL visited the Ben Maples dens' home. A number of children has had the mumps in the Meadows. Dr. Guy W. Bishop Jr. and family of Aberdeen, Idaho, were visiting in the valley with Dr. Bishop's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bishop Sr. and Mrs. Bishop's parents, the Ben Dawsons of Valleyview, Ashland. Dr. Bishop was in the graduating class of Wash ington State college and re ceived his degree as doctor of philosophy in entomology. He attended Oregon State col lege. He was a member of Phi Sigma national honorary biological society. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, June 8, 1938 5 For the first time in nearly 100 years, there was not a sin gle case of diphtheria in Nor way in 1957. . New timber grown in the nation's forests each day makes enough lumber to build 15,500 one-family homes. Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Coul ter spent memorial day in Grants Pass visiting their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John Lichtenburgur and spent the evening with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Coulter of Rogue River. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Beers attended the graduation at Prospect High school last Wednesday evening. Their niece, Patricia Sanderson, was one of the graduates. Emery Stingley spent sev eral days in Crescent City, Calif., visiting his sister, who has been in a hospital there. 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