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o O o o O O O o 4 FrMay, Jm 13, Tf MAIL TRIBUNE, M IP "D KJ l&DFORDt&TlIIipi "Everyone Jn Southern vregra Keaai ine miui xnpune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. Sf.2-6141 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 Medlord Oregon under Act of March 3, 1801 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Jn Advance: Copy He. Daily and Sunday 1 yer $1440 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. .00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4M Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. OGold HiU. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medfor4 Official Paper of Jaclcson County United Press Full Leased Wlre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C 0 NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocITatiQn U J Flight ro Time .Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 0 10 YEARS AGO JunA3. 1948 (Sunday) Talent city council accepts bid by Sullivan Brothers for painting the city hall and fire hall. Franklin Gebhard, World W?r II Naval veteran, elected commfihder of Myrs-Hoiland American Ljjion Post, Cen tral Point, Thurd4J. - - 20 YtfAfif A3 Jun IS. MVls tr ) Posgbl 94 projects dis-, cussed ith city and county official by fcenneth C. Legge, en JSrieer ftom ' th$ Portland office. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudse Pot column: "A num- bereave returned from the hill where they served as beef au is for mosquitoes. 30 YEARS AGO June 13. 1928 (Wednesday) Medford business firms and local residents urged by the Medford American Legion post to observe Flag Day to morrow. From local and personal column: "Since Bybee bridge on Rogue river is being re- decked, it will be closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 40 YEARS AGO June 13. 1918 (Thursday) Elks start placing chairs and benches in the city park to accommodate the crowd ior Flag Day exercises. From local and personal column: "The high school com mencement Exercises at the Page the&tagr . flfill ftfrt tt 8 p.m.(Jb8a0." t saserior; 1. Vhich rtlijiout bo Ay has the laett memberahig in the Dominion oj Ctntflt 1 2. Yehudi If tHuhin i fs mou9a9 cornetia, ctllift, vi olinfit otgitit . $ ffii$ country did PilH3fc?fc, fct utto, spend (f A JunTyt !s Ufm used M boettf, Jidminton, thtss, o . 1 ftt vtlority in ftaromeier, hy- i" mm. (opeomfltr, or Rcflnecntter? $. flio4ltMfltr tne Great ' ntei inflii ea Ms eon- V. ttt t& timples fbnnu la, finding the total sur face Fa of cub. 9. all?nton i the capi tal of Australia, Union of South Africa, or Mev Zea land 9. irt the Liberty Bell cast In Lonfton, Jngland, Philadel phia, P., Wev York City? 10. 1$ aison the meat of bear, r8bftifc fleer, or ostrich? &BsM 1 Catholic, t VieliflfeA -4Elia. Chest. $ Asejaeeft. e Yes. 7 sXaaax ee ? d mulii- -k. 4. Mev Zealand. WMBftb Ulsl r 5B Two Plus Two Equals... Some years ago (let's face it, it was nearly 30), one oi our greatest pleasures was 10 aon roller skates, and tear around on tne little wneei In those days,' in streets were not nearly as cluttered up witn auto mobiles as they are now, and important pursuits like skating and tin can hockey could proceed in relative saiety. On other occasions, our bike, and go off across-town to one of the two hill-top water reservoirs, both ot wnicn were covered witn concrete, ana DOtn oi wmcn a oene ficent city left open for use by skaters. The wide, smooth vistas of concrete were i skater's dream. TTODAY, we do not allow our children to skate, x except in the cramped quarters of a neigh bor's driveway. For streets today are no place for children. And, except for the unsafe streets, the limited driveways, and the bumpy sidewalks, where can one sro to skate : Nowhere. These ruminations two relatively recent events. The first was 'the appointment of a city rec reation committee. The second was the water department that there are plans afoot to roof over the uncovered reservoirs on Capital avenue. . DECREATION committee, meet the water de nartment. Citv administration, need a place to skate occupation. h.A. Teen Age The employment service recently issued its annual reminder to employers that there is a lot of good talent looking for work in the persons of the graduated seniors of It is true that many ates are m the job market, and that many of them would make fine that during the summer months there is. a pretty fair-sized Tabor pool composed of their, younger colleagues the teen agers who have not yet graduated, but who are looking for sumer jobs and who have the youth, enthusiasm and ability to make good workers. .' TO ADD emphasis' to this, we have received a copy of a little booklet put out by the state bureau of labor entitled "Handbook for Teen Age Wage Earners." It is a clear and concise presentation of the various state and federal laws and regulations governing the employment of minors", and should be a big help to those youngsters who are uncer tain as to their status as employees where they can work, what hours, what permits are needed, and so on. Youngsters are vaguely aware that there are limits to what jobs they are not acquainted with THOSE over 18, for adults, as far as employment is concerned, and can work at any job I he 16 and 17 year ardous occupations and in certain others which are specified in the state and federal laws and regulations. Work permits are required except in certain fields' (including some agricultural work, baby-sitting, yard work, newspaper carry ing or vending, or working for the family) . Those aged 14 or 15 work permits for most jobs, and are barred from hazardous occupations, work in canneries and factories, as messengers, categories, including many occupations involved in interstate commerce. are open to them. The youngsters under hazardous farm work, work for the family, carry or sell papers, do domestic work m a pnvate resi dence, or work in youth camps or as a golf caddy. They are-restricted as to hours of work, and can not work in factories, workshops, mercantile es tablishments, stores, businesses, offices, restaur ants, bakeries, hotels or apartment houses, or the jobs prohibited for older minors. NO MINOR can work i. : i um special permissiuii, aiiu, wiui ceiLuu exceptions, thev nr& limitpH to an A honrVJav tmd r 7 j - " j a 44-hour. 6-dav week. There are other protective regulations concerned with rest ..periods, ; meal times; wages and overtime pay. - ihe booklet points out that 95 per cent of all occupations are legally open to 16 and 17 year olds, and 45 per cent to 14 and 15 vear olds. Those under 14, while ox), are more . limited.- In any event, it is necessarv to have a birth certificate, or other suitable nroof of aw . to obtain a vwork permit!" IN TIMES when unemployment of adult wage fiomiAt i It i sv V m l i coincio 10 mguei uiaa usuai, many employers will give them preference, and rightly so. But it is well to remember, too, that work ex perience is a real part of every young person's ed ucation, and that m many cases they can fill jobs effectively. It's good business to hire them if you have a spot for them. As the booklet says, "Oregon's child labor law backs every teen acer's nVht. to hnvp hpnlth. ful growth and a basic education when he tries 1 Jll11 a.. . I to estaonsn ms place in another .Oregon city, the we'd lash the skates to were brought, to mind by announcement by the city meet the vounesters who a wholesome and healthy Workers local high schools. of the high school gradu employees. It is also true can hold, but usually the specific provisions. instance, are considered without,restriction. olds cannot work m haz years must also have and in various other Most other occupations 14 years can do non- during school hours with- : 3 .ji.l there are jobs they can - " ' -;75 the working world." E.A. ! Dennis the Menace De Gaulle's Assertion of Top Authority By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Gen. Charles de Gaulle, France's new premier, struck back this week against a challenge to his authority by right-wing extremists. The extrem ists are mem bers of the so called Commit tee of Public Safety in Al geria, where the y engi Charles M. McCann neered the army revolt that put De Gaulle in power. 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Train Scheduling To the Editor: As one of many who are often seriously inconvenienced by the timing of the passage of log trains on the Medco tracks on the North Pacific Highway, I would like to publicly suggest some plan be made to. sched ule these train crossings at other than peak traffic pe riods. On Wednesday afternoon, at the peak of 5 o'clock traf fic, a derailed Medco train on that crossing backed up traffic for many blocks in both directions, and incoming employed persons are con sistently delayed during the to 8 o'clock morning pe riod. . Surely it would not be too serious a problem to schedule these crossings at times when traffic is a bit less congested, with a resultant minimum of confusion and inconvenience. I have debated long on the presentation of this subject, for since I am only one of hundreds who are affected, I feel it should be presented publicly and one little voice carries so little weight. How ever, I do not present it in an antagonistic spirit, but as an idea deemed worth considera tion for better public relations for one of our major indus tries. Mrs. Jack C. Petterson, 268 Second ave., Gold Hill ' Terminology Challenged To the Editor: Being a reg ular subscriber I enclose two clippings from your paper. One, from page 13 Friday, May 23, 1958, referred to Dr. Lemley as an osteopathic physician'and surgeon and to me as an osteopath. The sec ond clipping is from page 1 of June 2, 1958 referring to Dr. HowaM as an osteopath. The allopathic profession is licensed in medicine and sur gery only and are correctly referred to as physicians and surgeons. The osteopathic profession is licensed in medicine, sur gery and osteopathy, having had training in and having been examined' inall tnree divisions of therapyT" - The term osteopathic phy sician and surgeon is correct. The term osteopath is ante dated and incorrect. , : If there is any doubt about it, try referring to every allo pathic physician and surgeon as an allopath and see how far you get with them. . Why not bring your termi nology up to date and at the same time be- correct? Edward V. Chance, D. O., 4880 S. Pacific Highway, Grants Pass. -P.S. The above may be printed provided it is used verbatim and in full. Leads News of Week They sent De Gaulle a de mand that he ban all activi ties by French political par ties and set up in Paris a French Committee of Public Safety Obviously aimed at dictating policy to him. De Gaulle retorted that the committee's demands were "annoying and intemperate." He ordered Gen. Raoul Salan, whom he had named supreme military and civil authority in Algeria, not to meddle in politics. De Gaulle made his first move in the foreign affairs field by inviting Secretary of State John" Foster Dulles to confer wth him. , Dulles accepted promptly, He will fly to Paris on July 4, Silver Ore To the Editor: There was never a truer saying, "Gold is where you find it." The idea that all the quartz gold has been mined out is not true, according to present day au thorities. Around the year 1911 a man from Medford during hunting season picked up a piece of high grade ore in the vicinity of Grey Rock mountain near the Douglas county line. A year or so later a hewed out water trough from a tree trunk was reported discovered nearby. That all points to the same locality where the Klam ath Indians were supposed to have found some high grade silver ore in 1914. One of the chief reasons given for lack of time devoted to prospecting was that it took an unlimited sized "grub stake" to determine results, and most of the early day searchers were on what ' is termed "a shoe string" budget. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. Bloodmobile Success To the Editor: On Wednes day, June 11, the people of Jackson ..county donated 352 pints of blod through the Red Cross Bloodmobile. This was the most blood ever to be do nated in one visit in the entire history of the blood program in this county. On behalf of the Red Cross and everyone else concerned, I would like to express my thanks to these people and to all of the news media for their tremendous part in the outstanding success of this visit. Ken MacDonald, 512 Fairmont St., Medford. Golden Agers To the Editor: We oldsters are now meeting at 1 p.m. every Friday at the Red Cross building east of Hawthorne Park. We named our Golden Age club "The Fifty-Plus Club." Old timers, new comers, the well-to-do and those who must work for " their " bread, have joined; just friends who hadn't met before. Men as well as women enter into the fun. of dancing, sing ing the old time songs. All sorts of games are played. I believe we have about 80 members and we welcome vis itors galore. Come on in folks the coffeee is waiting. We always leave our meet ing place clean, so I am daring to state our one problem: - Our dues are low, so we really cannot afford to pay $5 a week for about four hours use of a building. I am won dering whether there are civic Washington Report By William S. White COMPACT OF COMPETENCE Washington The life of the Southern - Democrats within their party in Congress is, and has been for two dec ades, largely a lonely and negative one. Nearly always they are in a defensive, no saying posi tion against the Northern wiitem s. white D e m o c rats. Nearly always they are seen as clinging to the past against the demands of the present. And sometimes they are al lied by political necessity with the Old Guard Republi cans. Such a time of temporary liberation a rare and poig nantly welcomed opportunity to be the spokesmen "for" rather than "against" a great President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan conferred for three days in Washington. They discussed a wide range of international prob lems including the prospect for a "summt"( conference with Soviet Russia, disarma ment, the Middle East and means of stimulating world trade. They discussed also the possible course of De Gaulle's foreign policy. Eisenhower proposed to So viet Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev that technical talks by experts representing the al lied nations and countries of the Soviet blpc meet in Gene va, Switzerland, about July 1 to discuss-a possible agree ment in suspend nuclear wea pons tests. Khrushchev's acceptance was regarded as certain. The test suspension talks and the forced landing of an American Army helicopter in East Germany confronted Dulles with diplomatic prob lems involving the, Chinese Communist government and the East German Communist government, . which are not recognized by ihe United States. Dulles said at a press con ference in Washington that it might be necessary to set up inspection posts in China as part of any agreement to sus pend the nuclear weapons tests. This would mean bringing the Chinese Reds into nego tiations without committing the United States to recognize the Peiping regime. ' As regards the helicopter, Russia refused to arrange the release of the nine officers and men who occupied it and who are held in East Ger many. Dulles said if necessary the United States will deal direct ly with the East German Reds to free the Army men. He emphasized that any ne gotiations would not imply recognition of the East Ger man regime. ' "When you have people kidnaped," he explained, "you deal with the kidnapers." Students from Area Get Commissions Corvallis Three students from the Medford area were commissioned in the armed services this week at Oregon State college upon graduation and completion of the ad vanced training program- They include Carl E. Mohr, 12 Black Oak drive, Medford, who was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army; Darrel Richard Brown of 1203 Queen Anne ave., Air Forcesecond lieutenant; and Orlin Marvin Stansfield, route 2, box 381c, Navy en sign. The . commissioning .was a part of the college's 89th an nual commencement exer cises. . ; : A total of 179 OSC senior men were commissioned this year including 80 in Army ROTC,' 29 In Navy, 26 in Air Force, and four in the Marine corps. All will be called to active, duty for varying pe riods of time within the next year. - OSC is. one of only 35 col leges in the country that of fers advanced ROTC training in all branches of service. minded building owners who care about the welfare of old sters to the extent of finding a large meeting place for us? I mean one at a less cost. : P. F. Morava, 1109 Niantic sL, Medford. measure has come to them now. For on the most critical is sue before Congress and the country it is Southern Con gressmen and Senators who are the indispensable leaders for the future, and indeed for the free world. ... THIS issue is that of extend ing the reciprocal trade, or tariff-lowering, program to promote more and more world trade and to raise a powerful retort to the Soviet economic offensive. ' It is the Southerners who will bring this grand enter prise safely through House and Senate, if it is to be brought through. And ali who believe in internationalism, and in the true liberalism of helping others to live so that we, too, may live, will be in the debt of these men from the South. , An ultimate victory for re ciprocal trade : will not, of course,, wash away all their sins, as these sins particu larly on civil' rights are weighed by the Northern lib erals. But it will do much by way of atonement. Certainly, it will have been an act of rarely excelled re sponsibility in behalf of a stronger West. In the meantime, what is develpoing in Congress is an exhibition of the matchless Southern parliamentary and human skill within that old forum. Often it is a Southern art applied only in melan choly resistance against the will of a majority. tUT this time it is an art used in high morale in behalf of a majority which has desperate need of 'this Dixie leadership and could never win without it. And when the Southern heart, as well as Southern tal ent, is in action, as it is in this case, the results are some thing to see. Two months ago no realis tic estimate . could give re ciprocal trade more than a thin chance 'to live as more than a shadow of itself. Now, in the afterlight of the first tests in the House, the pros pect is that it may yet sur vive through the critical Sen ate debates and lengthy Sen ate-House negotiations. The sharp change in cli mate has largely been created in the House by such brilliant figures as Speaker Sam Ray- burn of Texas and Represen tative Wilbur D, Mills of Arkansas. The Eisenhower Ad ministration, too, has played a part, but an off-and-on part, Ravburn is a fiercely faith ful "regular" ' Democrat who would stay with his party if required to sniff the sulphur ous fumes of Hell itself. He is allied with a man long dis enchanted with the Demo cratic party as a whole, Sena tor Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia. Byrd has not really ap proved of any Democratic President since Woodrow Wil son. Rayburn looks upon any Republican Presidency as a sad national mistake. IjTACH of these Southern patriarchs knows that time is running against the one vision of the South's proper role upon which both can agree an agricultural, wide shipping region, loving good manners and hating, the high tariff. For the graph of Southern support for the reciprocal trade program, though still high, ' is declining year by year as new factories smoke up the Southern sky. So each Rayburn at 76 and Byrd at 70 is resolved that not in his span, at least. will the South betray the first article of its old political faith free trade or something close to it. This, and not bi partisanship, is the real drive. For bipartisanship is only su perficially strongnow. A Rayburn-Byrd combina tion is not easily drawn up. But once drawn up, it is not easily broken. It is an opera tion of quiet, immensely pro fessional competence by men who talk little and do much. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) North Carolina Struck by Tornado Wilmington, N.C. (UPI) A tornado swept in from the sea, narrowly missed two crowded resort beaches, and caused heavy damage near here late Thursday. No in-; juries were reported. The twister damaged 20 frame houses in the rich truck farming area of Masonboro Sound between Wrightsville and Carolina beaches. Roofs were torn off two unoccupied homes and other buildings lost shingles or were damaged by falling trees. The twister overturned and sank about 25 small boats in the sound. Wilson DiscusGtiQ Taxation Facts &Q Life; 'Suicide' G$n By LYLE C. WILSON United Prets International Washington (UPI) Not a tear will be shed nor much political oratory uttered in this campaign year for, tax payers other than the vast multitude of those usually d e s cribed by vote - hungry politicos as the little fel lows. There Lyie c. wiisoa are. more lit tle fellows than big fellows and there are more small businesses than big .busi nesses. So the politicos usual ly make it their business to shed their tax tears where the most votes are likely to be irrigated.- . - That probably is good short haul politics although it may not do full justice to the tax facts of life. There are, how ever, other tax: points of view. One of the mosj start ling stated since U.S. taxes have become really oppres sive and . in some areas ac tually confiscatory came from T.' Coleman Andrews of Vir ginia, who used to be the boss U.S. tax collector. . ; Andrews was President Eis enhower's first commissioner of internal revenue. The jolt in what Andrews had to say was this: "Whether you believe it or not, everybody is being over taxed and the middle class is being taxed out of existence. Things are mighty serious. largely Because of ; the in come tax, big business gets bigger and little business and 'substantial folks' are begin ning to disappear. Time's a wasting, and the enemies of the way of life that .we cher ish rejoice as we are obliging ly led closer to national sui cide." . . . . V r The Middle Class Where the middle class be gins and where it ends is not exactly definable. The middle class, itself, however, accu ratily can be defined as the1 basic human structure of any modern, free nation. If that basic structure is being taxed out of existence,' then' the phrase national suicide as Andrews used, it is not too strong. , The June issue of The Free man, published by the Foun dation for Economic Educa- tfon,. Inc., contributes some statistics which relate largely to the' middle class and its taxes. "Inflation has aggravated the (tax) situation," says The Freeman, "with the result that to have the same buying power after income tax on individual's $2,000 income earned in i4U would now have to be nearly 2.3 times as great; but a $10,000 income would have to be '3.2 times and a $5D,000 income would have to be 9.8 times as great." The Short Week r The Tax Foundation, Inc., of New York examined the tax ' plight of the man who earns $85 a week, $4,420- a year; under this headline: "A 27,6 hour work week?" "This 3i day work week sounds Utopian," the tax foun dation observed, "but a lot of Americans do work now about 27 Vi hours of their 40 hour work week to provide food, clothing, housing, etc., for themselves and their fam pty v fit ii Could bo vour family in your own Esther Williams Swimming Pool! Think of the great fun and healthy exercise your fam ily could have in your own pool! Think again now it is possible: The, Esther Williams Home Swimming Pool costs far less than you i think. .. ' . ' i All concrete... in several ' sizes," 16'x30' to'20'x40' 7.it's complete with all the EASY FINANCING AVAILABLE ' Phone SP 3-1 839 or SP 2-4798 ilies. ' "The rst of the woj: week a little over IVi days or 12Vfc hours goes to pay the cost of government. Goes for taxes! ' Tax Foundation, Inc., research shows a man earning $85 & week works all day' Monday and slightly more than half o Tuesday to pay taxes to his federal,' state and local government." ? So that's the way it is with taxes. Worst of all, however, is the fact that these taxes, now so crushingly heavy, are not enough to pay the bills. The alternatives seem to be even higher taxes on endless deficit financing followed by deadly all-out infjption. '' q In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs note: Nikita Khrushchev is "ex pected to call the communist central committee into ses sion soon to complete the "downgrading" of Former Premier Bulganin. Mean- while, a London . newspaper says that ex-Premier Malen kov, previously in exile, may have been slain on Khrush chev's order.' SPEAKING ofo Russia, the National Industrial Confer ence Board comes up with this statistic: - An average New Yorker -needing an average new suit has to work just a shade more than three' days to earn it. But, when he needs to blos som out in a new outfit, His counterpart in Russia has1 to work about 37 days. It takes somewhat better than 25 days to earn enough to buy a radio in Moscow, whereas in New York a radia set can be bought with about 6ne day's pay. t That's one reason why so few Americans move to Rus sia. . ...... . " ' 3 P; WASHINGTON, the own ,er of a St. Louis TV sta tion tells house of representa tives investigators he ' saw nothing improper in sending certain ' "items"; ta : Federal Communications - Commission members, while they were; in process ' of making up their minds whether or not to give him an improved TV cTiannel. The items .included letters, telegrams and TURKEYS. . Well : ": In private business the giv ing of little items that might come in handy to people you want to do business j with' is fully sanctioned by custom: But, ' ". :J:'t The Federal . Communica tions Commission has Im mensely valuable little pieces of paper to GIVE AWAY. That changes the picture, s BUSINESS note: - : '! Iron Age Magazine, which is the bible of the steel industry, says heavy steel or dering for June delivery is JAMMING steel mill sched ules. It relates that some steel buyers are having trouble get ting mills to accept orders for June delivery and some buy ing will spill over into July. It adds: .. : I "Steel producers' are ex pected to RAISE BASE PRICES six dollars a ton on July 1." finest equipment ...filter, " ladder, diving board, under 1 " water light and many other ' Z items at no extra cost . " .". Let us talk to you about it Phone for free descriptive : booklet today. - . " TOUR ASSURANCt OF OUALITY fit "!!i"WSr