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o o 4 Wdnct4j?, ttt MAIL TRlQudl MQI, "Everyone in Soutkent VMM Reads ThecAlail Tribune" published Dailyxcept Saturday 1 MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 Korth Fir St. Ph. SP.-fltl ROBERT W. RtJHL, ditor HERB GREY Advertisir VimAi GERALD LATHAM. Busins Mgr. BRIC ALLEN. JA Managing fditor EARL H ADAMS. Cicy faitor HARRY CHIPMA Tele SdiUk RICHARD JEWETT. SporTs.lditc OLIVE STARCHER, Soaety'IdJtcr DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Hy. An Independent Nesrpr Entered as second class matter k Mceford Oregon under c m March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES fj Mail In Advance: Copy He. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. o8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 455 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Paint, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Taleu and on motor routes: Daily ana Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1J0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AU Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of MedforJ 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 Francico. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portlan St JLouis, At lanta. Vancouver. B. IS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOflj ASSOCtAf I Flight 'o Tifne Mord and Jackson County History from the ftfes of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 1 tjfeB-J 10 YEARS AGO June 18, 1948gfFriday) The Medford Safety Coun cil has arranged jwitft local garages to provide a free safe ty inspection of cars Sunday. : Persons telephoning raclio station KYJC between 7:30 and 8 p.m. tonight will re ceive a box of chocolates in. exchange for contributing to the Salvation Army building fund. 20 YEARS AGO June 18, 1938 (Saturday) " Lars E. Bladine, publisher of the McMinnville Telephone Register, elected president of the Oregon Newspaper Pub lishers association at the an nual convention here. The Oregon State Grange closed its convention at Kla math FIs today with fl "bill of rights'' aimed & ltbo un ion encroachment into far mers' jejiviti 30 YUtt V9 Jln3 19. If a (Tvestt?) ThO roafi to Crater Lake Lodge ha bn cleared of smgv ant a9 optntd to au tomobiles tflty on day earfer then tsjjtcled; to date 4,000 visitor hvt tntered the park. ? From Arthur Kerry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Corn in the vallQy $ prospering and will run the usual three gallons to the cr.", 40 YEARS fc.Ce June 18. 191) (TusAa.?) Two long military trains passed through the city this forenoon without stopping. ,: Up to this afternoon only two German alien women have registered with Chief of Police Hittson. Vhal'o Yep I.Q.! Nine or ten qyrtet is. superior; seven or eight is ceelleat; five or six is good. 8 0 1. Nairobi is th Capital of which country? 2. 'The diameter of th bore of a gun is termed its c r? 3. Windows usually burst outward as the result of an explosion outside the build ing; true or false? j 4. Who portrayed the char acter, "Clarence Day," in the film version of "Life With Father"? 5. Fleas require the blood of birds or animals (including man) in order to "reproduce; true or false? 6. Was the Appian Way a famous Roman highway or a political thesis? 7. Which coin contains more copper, a nickel or a cent? : 8. Was it Demosthenes or Aristotle who put pebbles in his mouth to correct a speech defect? : 9. The average hjaman head contains 10,600, 110,000 or 510,000 hairs? 10. Poipris is the proper name of which star? . - Ansvfkia to the. Daily Quiz: 1. Kenya. Center. S. True. (The exgigeion creates a vacuum.) 4. Villiam Powell. 5. True. 6. Beanaa highway. 7. NickeL 3. Semoclkenes. S. 110,000. 1 Us. Our "Mountain Springs We visited the lookout at the top of Anderson Butte the other day (it's a pleasant drive and a magnificent view when you get there), and in our discussions with the nice couple who operate the station, we inquired as to how far he had to jjp to get his water. He told us that he got his water in Medford, whenever he drove in for supplies every two or three weeks. Medford water, he explained, is so pure that it can stand in a tank f ot weeks without going bad. Some of the spring or stream water, much closer to the lookout, tends to get brown or green, and sour; from the growth of algae, if it stands for a day or so. SHORTLY after that conversation, we ran across a booklet given us some time ago by Earl C. Gaddis, one-time mayor of Medford, m which the history of Medford's water system was recounted. At first, after it was 1883, Medford had no shallow open wells and become evident that this would ne longer be sat isfactory, and a community system was organized. This utilized an open ditch, carrying water some three miles irom iiear ureex to a Dig open well. From there, it was pumped into two big wooden storage tanks in a water tower, located oh the present site of the THIS system lasted, with some changes, until 1910. The open ditch was abandoned in 1902, and a pumping station was erected on the bank of Bear Creek, to the south of the present Main Street bridge. As the population grew, however, and as Bear Creek water became increasingly unsuitable for human use, other sources In 1908, the city contracted with the Fish Lake Water company, and started in 1910 bring ing Fish lake water to stave pipe. - The water was diverted from Little Butte Creek. The system soon was found to be unsatis factory, however. The water from Fish lake, be cause of the trees and brush left in the water when the level was raised, was unpalatable, and algae growth gave it a rapid growth of the city including the planting of many lawns and gar dens, rendered the supply inadequate to meet Jie demand. TN 1919, the city charter was amended to auth . orize the appointment of a water commission, which began a study of possible alternative sources of water, A report was prepared, recommending use of water from Big Butte Springs, located 31 miles from Medford, above Butte Falls. In October of 1925, a bond issue to cover construction costs was approved by a vote of Medford citizens, and work began shortly thereafter. The job was done on July l, 1927, just 31 years ago, and Big Butte water started flowing into the Medford system. "A Mountain Spring in Every home" was the slogan of the water department and one which remains true. .," DIG Butte water is particularly clear and pure, " compared to other waler systems. There is no organic material, and only traces of mineral elements. The water originally falls as snow on the slopes of Mt. McLoughlin. As. it melts, it filters through- the volcanic rocks and soils of the area, which provide a highly effective filtering system. When it flows from the springs it is clear, cold and pure. D ACK in 1927, when the booklet containing this information was published, it seemed that the pipeline just completed would be adequate for many years to come. But this forecast reckon ed without the phenomenal growth of Medford in the ensuing years particularly the 1940s. ' During that period it became evident that an other pipeline would have to be constructed. An other bond issue (this time for S2.800.000. com pared to the $975,000 for the earlier one), 'was approved m 1950, and the hew line was complet ed the following year, more than doubling the capacity of the system. The two lines tno-etripr should nrnvp arfonnnfe -O - for years to come unless growth is more than ex pected. THE original bond issue has been entirely paid off, and the second one is due tn hp naid hv about 1983. r ' The water system has been an expensive one, totaling nearly $4 million. But it has been worth it to the city to have an ample supply of clear, clean water. Perhaps because of this, tier canita wafer use in Medford is well above the national average. And it is the reason that Mr. and Mrs. Stone, on top of Anderson Butte this summer, prefer to wait and haul up a tankfull of Big Butte spring water, rather than use more readily accessible supplies. It is a long way from the open wells and ditches of the early days of Medford. E.A. 99 established as a town in water system at all only pumps. By 1889, it had public library. were examined. the city through a "wood- pungent smell. Also, the between 1900 and 1910,. Dennis the Menace ejntstwems.e .rm g - 6-a Wilson Sees Parallel Between Vaughn, . Adams Situations By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent . Washington (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower seems now to be following the precedent of Pre sident Truman, each having had a close White House associ ate who came under severe attack by'con g r essional in vestigators. Harry S. Lyie c. Wilson iruman s as sociate was World War I bud dy Harry H. Vaughan, a ma jor general by 1949 and mili tary aide to the President. When Vaughan's name be came associated with the so called influence peddlers and five per centers, a Democratic-controlled Senate moved to investigate. It was rumored then that Vaughan would re fuse to testify; that he would reject a subpoena, and that he would be supported in that action by his great friend. Truman squelched those ru mors well before the Senate investigation began. Later, he appealed to the press "'in common fairness" to suspend judgment on Vaughan until the general haa a chance to Hoffa Retrial Seen Near End New York (UPI) The re trial of Teamster President James R. Hoffa and two co defendants on wiretap con spiracy charges neared an end today. Final witnesses for the de fense were expected to com plete their testimony today. Following summations by both prosecution and defense, the case could go to the jury Fri day or early next week. Hoffa along with Owen Brennan, president of Detroit Teamster Local 337 and Ber nard Spindel, a wire-tap : spe cialist, are accused of illegally tapping telephone lines at the Detroit 'headquarters of the Teamster's union. The government has charged that Hoffa was in Detroit on July 10, 1953, with Brennan to recieve a demonstration of the wire-tap equipment by Spindel. Hoffa has denied the allegation claiming that he was in Seattle at the time at tending a Teamster conven tion. . ' Try and -By BENNETT CERF- FROM CHICAGO comes the story of the husband, worried by a fall-off in his business, who suggested that, for the time being at least, his wife fire the maid and do a little house work herself. "I think you're the ene who's going to have to fire her," pointed out the wife. "After all, she's your mother." Zsa Zsa Gabor, Budapest bombshell, has come up with the first really sensible de fense I've heard yet for those horrible new fashions in female apparel. "I love to wear a chemise dress," ad mits Zsa Zsa demurely, "be cause I look so good when I take it off." A department store ad featured a "manufacturers' closeout of 1884 girdles and panty girdles" and "you can imagine how long it took the "About Time Editor" of the New Yorker to latch on to that! O 1958, by Bennett Cert DUtributed by King Features Syndicate.. - 'WELL, 'M SOLDI0. tell his story to the Senate investigators. Truman Backs Aide When asked in his news conferences before Vaughan testified to comment on his aide's alleged actions, Tru man simply replied that he was. not aware that his asso ciate had done the things charged. When it was all over and Vaughan had been shown to have extended and re ceived some remarkable fa vors, Truman was asked if he intended to fire his mili tary aide. His answer was: "I do not." Vaughan's willingness to appear before congressional investigators and Truman's desire that he do so now have been precisely matched by President Eisenhower and presidential assistant Sher man Adams. The fact seems to be that there was no other choice. Anyway, no other feasible and satisfactory choice. Last week end's sunburst of bad publicity for Adams and the Eisenhower adminis tration persuaded most inter ested parties that Adams would have to talk. It was obvious that he would have to talk before one of three forums, all difficult and two potentially hostile. Adams could do his stuff on TV, be fore a news conference of 100 or more reporters, or be fore the House subcommittee which turned up favors re ceived from his friend, Ber nard Goldfine. Most Effective Appearance before the House investigators was chos en as the most effective and, perhaps, also because sub committees have established rules of procedure and a chairman to ; whom appeal may be made in .extremity. The committee also had offi cial status and it had been the vehicle for the original charges against Adams. ( Such an appearance before congressional investigators is not with any guarantee that the witness' troubles will ease away. The Senate sub committee which investigated Vaughan made a report repri manding him, for association with "an outright fixer" and for accepting deep freezes for himself and friends. Presi dent Truman was uncon vinced, however, or, anyway, he was content. Vaughan stayed on. . r The Republicans made a lot of votes from that with their phrase "that mess in Washington." Stop Me In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For Americans meaning all of us, not just Americans who happen to live or travel abroad there are two hot spots as this is written. 1. East Germany, which is a Soviet satellite. 2. Lebanon, a little country in the Middle East, which is under pressure to BECOME a Soviet satellite." THE trouble in East Ger many started about 10 days ago when a helicopter carry ing nine American soldiers was blown over East German territory by a storm. The com munists interned them, and we started negotiations for their release. The East German communist authorities de manded that American nego tiators hold official U.S. state department credentials. . Why the demand? It is assumed that its pur pose is to force the United States (in order to obtain re lease of the nine American soldiers) to recognize the com munist puppet regime in East Germany. Our state depart ment calls it "diplomatic blackmail" and refuses to pay. VlfHAT is the right and the ' wrong of it? , It's a complicated problem. These nine soldiers are Americans. Our every instinct cries out to secure their re lease at any cost. But they are SOLDIERS.' A soldier's job is to risk his life for his country. There are times when a soldier has to be ordered to take risks that involve the possible loss of his life or his liberty. A soldier is a DEDICATED citizen. It is his duty to accept such hisks when they are ne cessary for the welfare of his country. IN THIS particular instance, backing down before the communist demand for AMERICAN RECOGNITION as the price of negotiations for the release of these nine, in terned American soldiers would amount to an American DEFEAT in the cold war. That's what the state depart ment means when it refuses to pay diplomatic "black mail." IN HOT war or in cold war, many difficult decisions have to be made. This is one of those times. S O MUCH for East Germany. What of Lebanon? LEBANON is a different ket tle of fish. In Lebanon, the present gov ernment is FAVORABLE TO US. Soviet Russia, working through its Egyptian puppet Nasser, is seeking to over throw the Lebanese ' govern ment 'favorable to the West (which includes the U.S.). , Actual shooting is going on in Lebanon. In Cairo (capital of Egypt) an "influential newspaper" warns this morn ing that any U.S. "meddling" in the Lebanese crisis would be regarded by ' the United Arab Republic (Nasser's tool) as a DECLARATION OF WAR. SUPPOSE, in the face of that threat (which may be a bluff, but may not be) we run for cover. PersonaUy, I think w have no business trying to run that part of the world. It is cer tainly possible to defend the thesis that we have no bus iness there. . BUT WE ARE THERE. If we run for cover in the face of a communist threat, American prestige will, be gone where the woodbine twineth. . That's about the size of it. Jaycees Convene in Los Angeles Los Angeles (UPI) Mem bers of the Junior Chamber of Commerce from the 48 states, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico and Canada paraded today in the heart of the city. ; . Twenty-three floats, six marching units and numerous other groups traversed the paraae route, enaing aiane Shrine Auditoriuh, where spe cial ceremonies were held for the opening of jaycee ex hibits. Thousands of jaycee mem bers and their wives, attend ing Los Angeles first Junior Chamber of Commerce con vention, heard a speech Tues day by Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi, former Hungarian minister of finance. Nyaradi, now dean of inter national relations at Bradley University in ' Illinois, told delegates the execution of leaders of the Hungarian rev olution reveals a fatal Rus sian weakness. ' Nyaradi said Russia is bank rupt politically,' militarily, economically and ideological ly. .1 Indications Hint Red Crisis In Russia, China, Satellites By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst The Communist world ap parently is involved in its biggest crisis since the Polish and Hungar ian revolts of 1956, The cause of the crisis, it is indicated, is that the Soviet Russian and Chinese Com munist re gimes have reason to be the situation Charles M. MeCann alarmed over both in their countries and in the Soviet satellite states. One indication of the crisis is the execution of former Pre mier Imre Nagy and Gen. Pal 2 Senators, Porter Show Vote Positions On 100 of Roll Calls By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) When they started counting noses in Congress, how many times did your Senator and Repre sentative show up to vote on roll calls? .The average Senator and Representative voted on 88 per cent of the roll calls in the first four months of 1958, Congressional Qua r t e r 1 y's survey of Voting Participa tion reports. . The survey was based on 30 House roll calls and 63 Senate roll calls between Jan. 7 and May 1, 1958. The 88 per cent figure ex- Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the nam 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 tetters 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 lent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the ease. Community Poorer To the Editor: Although I am certain that I cannot put my true feelings into words, it was with considerable shock and sorrow that I read of Paul Throne's death. I met Paul approximately eight years ago nd during that time I never did hear an unkind word or criticism against him. Every morning he picked up our children in the school bus to take to school and re turned them in the late after noon, always with a cheery hello or a short visit, time permitting, and always a big wave if within seeing dis tance of the bus. Paul always had time for the little girl who had lost her lunch box or the boy who had misplaced his pocket knife t or school book. The first thing he taught the first graders in the fall was to obey him on crossing the road to get to the bus. He watched for cars very close ly, and we never worried about our children when Paul had them. He took a personal interest in each child and I believe he loved every child that ever rode on his bus as if they were his own. Last fall he told me that he was going to quit driving school bus and work at home in a small woodworking shop, ahd also be caretaker at the Boy Scout camp at Lake of the Woods during the sum mer months. . I am sorry that he did not get to enjoy these things longer. Our community ' is much poorer this day in the loss of Paul Throne. Kenneth Lamb, , Route 1, Box 305, Central Point. AEC Officials Probe Radiation Oak Ridge, Tenn.-UPI) Five of eight atomic plant workers exposed to excessive radiation are being held in a hospital for observation, i. Plant and Atomic Energy Commission officials said they are launching an investigation Into the incident which was the first of its kind in the plant's 14 years of operation. Officials said the accident occurred when a workman in the uranium recovery room of the huge plant dumped a con tainer of enriched uranium into a larger drum. " ' A nuclear reaction took place which raised the radia tion level in the plant. Officials would not release names of those exposed, but said ' they are receiving the best of medical attention by leading specialists in the field of radiation medicine. Maleter, leaders of the Hun garian revolt. Another is the current sav age attack by the Russian and Chinese Communists on Presi dent Tito of Yugoslavia be cause of hisdetermination to maintain his independence. That these two develop ments are linked is made evi dent by the indirect allegation that Tito permitted Nagy to continue plotting against "The Hungarian People's Republic'' while he was a refugee in the Yugoslav embassy in Buda pest after Russia's Red army intervened to crush the re volt. The most plausible explana tion of the executions and the new attack on Tito is that they are due to the state of affairs actly matches the ' annual average for every year since 1955. Republicans have voted more often than Democrats 90 per ceht to 86 per cent so far in 1958. Voting participation scores are based on the percentage of all roll calls on which a member casts "yea", or "nay" votes. - These are the only votes that affect the outcome of a roll call. But even if a member can not be present, he can go On the Record by pairing with another absent member, announcing his stand or ans wering the Congr essional Quaterly Poll, so that his con stituents may learn his posi tion. In the first four months of 1958 the average member waJfOn the Record 95 per cent -0? the time, either by votag""yea" or "nay" or by declaring his stand on the roll calls he missed. Local Scores In Oregon, Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D) has a voting parti cipation score for "yea"' and "nay" votes of 87 per cent. These votes, together with his declared, stands on the roll calls he missed, put him On the Record 100 per cent of the time. Sen. Richard L.xNeuberger (D) voted "yea" or'nay" on 100 per cent of the first four months' roll calls and thus was also On the Record 100 per cent of the time. By way of comparison, the average Senator had a Voting Participation score of 89 per cent and an On the Record score of 95 per cent. In the House, Rep, Charles O. Porter (D) had a voting participation score of 87 per cent for the first four months of the session. He went On the Record on 100 per cent of the issues. The average Representative had a voting participation score of 88 per cent and went On the Record 95 per cent of the time, ' . Fifteen Senators and 121 Representatives had perfect voting participation scores for the first four months. Spelling Champion Wins on TV Quiz New York (UPI) Jolitta Schlehuber, the 14-year-old McPherson, Kan., girl who won the National Spelling bee last week, capitalized on her talent to win $2,000 on a tele vision quiz show Tuesday night. Appearing on the CBS 'The $64,000 Question," she correctly spelled the follow ing 13 words without hesita tion: Catarrh, poltergeist, infal lible, - indefatigable, devel oped, entrapped, travelled, penicillin, , aureomycin, brace, brays, braze and braise. Jolitta, v who won the Na tional Spelling bee ' by cor rectly spelling "syllepsis," will return to the show next week to try to increase her prize money. CONFIDENCE- For over 23 years we have endeavored to merit your confidence, and your continued approval of our efforts . . r t C. M. Litwiller is most ' With all our interests 100 local, and with charges that are exceptionally moderate, we confidently assume the next decade of service to and for the Rogue River valley. , LITWILLER FUNERAL- , ...HOME , Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND ' ; "It is better to know us and not need us, We Never Close than to need us and not know us. in the Communist-ruled coun tries. Remains Mystery Just what this state of af fairs may be remains a mys tery. It has been reported that both Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and the Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse Tung are under attack by the "Stalinists" in their parties, the men who favor a harsh dictatorship. . Both Russia and China are facing difficult economic N situations. Part of the Russan Situation is Khrushchev's agricultural and industrial program. But the party dissensions and the economic situations are not alone sufficient to ex plain the present develop ments. It may well be that the at tack on Tito and the execu tions are due to political con ditions in the Communist ruled countries. , There is no doubt that there is a surge of dissatisfaction not only among the people at large but in the Communist parties themselves. That is due primarily to Khrushchev's disastrous action in repudiating the policies of Stalin, and in promising the Russian people a new deal, and Mao's action in following his example. Unrest Widespread This dissatisfaction extends to all of the Soviet satellite countries. In ordering the executions, Khrushchev must have allow ed for the shocked reaction to them from countries all over the free world, including "neu tralist" India. He must have foreseen that the brutal action, a reversion to the worst type of Stalinist terrorism, might profoundly prejudice his chance of get ting' President Eisenhower and ether allied leaders into a "summit" meeting. Whatever lies behind the executions and the attack on Tito there is every indication that there is a real crisis. Editorial : i Comment ANOTHER UNHAPPY j READER We made one of our reader angry yesterday. j This is probably a more common occurrence than we realize, but there was no mis take in this case. The reader told us over the telephone that he was angry, and then Dunctuated his sentence b; T hanging up. There are two ways a news paper can make a reader angry. It can leave out some thing he thinks should be pub licized, or it can put in a story that he thinks should be left out. Yesterday's unhappy reader was unhappy because we were publishing a story he didn't want published. And he has lots of company. We make someone unhappy every time we report a police arrest. Peo ple who go on 'trial would prefer not to have their jiames in the paper. We report car wrecks and divorces and busi ness closures and . council meetings and controversies over taxes and just about every time we do, someone wishes we hadn't. This is an apology. Our job is to tell the news, and we publish bad news as well as good news. ' To those who think every one wpuld be better off if this newspaper, or newspapers in general, spent a little more time looking the other way, the only reply we can make is the one we tried to give yesterday's angry reader: Ru mor travels just as fast as news, and in most cases it's nastier. Newspapers that make agreements to suppress news find that the news gets out anyway, and those who circu late 'it ' aren't restrained by ethical considerations, libel laws, or professional pride in getting the story right Albany Democrat-Herald Mrs. Litwiller gramyinai
