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C5 4 TutiJay, July 1, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordsTbibuke "Everyone- in Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. BP3-gl41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr BRIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle fomt. Jacksonville, uold Mm Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- er Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford urnciai Fa per or Jacmon county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, seame. Portland. St Lotus. At lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAMt !S2 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL octQn ASS Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 1. 1948 (Thursday) A Jackson County delega tion has appeared before the state highway commission re questing that Highway 99 be tween Ashland and Central Point be widened to four lanes to relieve traffic con gestion. The Federal Communica tions Commission has re affirmed its decision that if Mrs. W. J. Virgin sells radio station KMED and her con struction permit for a new FM station, she must sell to the Medford Radio Corporation of Medford, not to Gibson Broadcasting of Vallejo, Calif. 20 YEARS AGO July 1, 1338 (Friday) Prominent Medford citizens will perform Sunday in "Death Takes the Steering Wheel," a temperance play ' sponsored by the Anti-Liquor league of Oregon. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Cities throughout the state celebrat ing the Fourth of July have served notice the seats along the parade line of march are for tiie old folks if they can beat the kids to them." 30 YEARS AGO July 1, 1928 (Sunday) Crater Lake's official sum mer season opens today, with stages of the Crater National Park company meeting the trains at Medford and Klam ath Falls. Pears look better this year than ever before, with indica tions for a record crop, ac cording to Elmer Oatman, fruit inspector. 40 YEARS AGO July 1. 1918 (Monday) Smoke from local forest fires settled over the breeze less valley in a thick haze to day. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. The ports of Colombo and Trincomalee are on which island in the Indian Ocean? 2. Complete the proverb, "Beware the fury of a .... man." 3. Does the phrase "bib and tucker" refer to the rig ging of a yacht, a species of fish, clothing, or a kind of mental conditions? 4. Which scientific bureau of the Federal Government announced that diamonds are a better measure of radio activity than any man-made counter? 5. How many legs do house centipedes have? 6. From where did the Moors emigrate to Spain? 7. Paganini was a composer of opera, a famous violinist, or an orchestra conductor? 8. Which of these does not grow on a bush or tree: wal nut, butternut, doughnut, hazelnut? 9. The Armed Forces have dental charts of every person in the services; true or false? 10. In which field of art was Mrs. Harry Payne Whit ney notable? ' Answers: 1. Ceylon. 2. Pa tient. 3. Clothing. 4. National Bureau of Standards. 5. IS pair. 6. North Africa. 7. Vio linist. 8. Doughnut. 9. True. 10. Sculptue. -1 Toward Uniform Driving Code A new "rules of the road" law part of a nationwide effort to make traffic regulations uni form goes into effect in New York State today. New York's new "rules of the road" law, en acted by the state legislature last year, is based on Chapter 11 of the Uniform Vehicle Code. This is a model traffic law for the states, orginally draft ed in 1926 by a committee appointed by the first national highway safety conference. It is revised from time to time by the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances, an arm of the White House Conference on Highway Safe ty. As its name implies, the new law sets up stan dards of highway conduct. For example, it lists as violations opening the door of a parked car on the side paralleling oncoming traffic, or "riding" the bumper of the car in front of you. Some other violations, calling for fines of up to $50 and 15 days in jail: leaving keys in the ignition of parked cars, hanging boxing gloves, baby booties, or other paraphernalia over rear view mirrors, tossing waste paper and refuse from cars. - "THE New York law accepts the recommenda- tions of the Uniform Code "almost in their en tirety and almost in verbatim," according to the national committee on uniform laws. So do a Nev ada law adopted last year and, with certain ex ceptions, a recent Wisconsin law. , Most states have adopted a large part of the "rales of the road" recommendations of the Uni form Code. Listed as notable exceptions are Ken tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Neb raska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia. The "rales of the road" section, of course, rep resents only one of many (19) chapters of the Uniform Code. Others cover proposals for inde pendent state motor vehicles departments, uni form treatment of accidents and accident reports and the like. The American Automobile Associa tion has long advocated uniform traffic laws, as have the National Safety Council, the Governors Conference Committee on Highway Safety,, and official or quasi-official bodies such as the Am erican Association of Motor Vehicle Administra tors and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. P0R the first time in recent years, the traffic toll in 1957 decreased. Auto-accident deaths to taled 38,500 1,128, or 3 per cent, fewer than in 1956, when the loss was the heaviest in history.' Traffic deaths had declined steadily for more than a year until the recent Memorial Day holo caust. A record 371 persons for a three -day week end were killed. The National Safety Council attributed the reversal of trend to "im patience, intemperance, Significantly, toll roads and pay turnpikes across the northeast section of the country, from New England to Chicago, recorded not a single Memorial Day fatality. for each 100 million vehicle miles has been drop ping steadily from 16.7 in 1934 to 5.9 in 1957, turnpikes have -shown even better progress. The national pike rate for 1957, as noted in a special New York Times report was only 2.6 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles. The new 41,000-mile system, now building, will be toll free. But the construction standards and safety factors will be substantially identical with those of turnpikes. If the new high-speed roads are policed as ade quately as the toll roads, the fatality rate 5.2 per 100 million miles so far this year ought to continue downward. E.R.R. For Safer Pleasure Boating Now it's National Safe Boating Week, this first week of July. Pleasure boats have prolifer ated in recent years in the United States much as automobiles did some 30 years ago. That's largely because outboard motors have become more easily available to moderate-income families, and more dependable. It wasn't too long ago that your average boat-owner thought it par for the course if he managed to get the blankety blank thing into operation over one day of a two- day week end. No fewer than 28 million Ameri cans, it is estimated, will be put-putting around in 7 million boats this year. AS THE highways become dangerous when iiitnmnliilos Korron n rrof fVnflr f Vt a nofinn'o waters are now becoming full of danger from the plethora of boats. And, again as in the early days of automg, regulations are scanty. Outboard-motor boats under 16 feet in length don't have to be registered at present, except in a few localities. No license, not even an age quali fication, is required of their operators or even, in most cases, of operators of the larger registered boats. v The 1940 federal motor boat act, the latest on pleasure boating, does carry penalties for reck less or other illegal operation, but they are sel dom imposed. Now a House committee has report ed favorably the Bonner bill (HR 11078) to con trol boats of over VA horsepower (originally 5V) and their operators. If the House and then the Senate pass the bill, its advocates predict that fewer accidents will mark pleasure boating on America's lakes, bays, rivers and off - shore waters. E.R.R. and indifference." While the fatality rate federal-state highway Dennis the Menace S0T ANY" MORS BREAD CRUMBS? ' Matter of Fact TROUBLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE Washington It is hard to see how an explosion can be avoided at this week's meet- i n g between the President and the Repub lican Congres sional leaders. No doubt the p r o g r e ssive collapse of the Western posi tion in the Mid dle East and Jos-pb Alsop o"ier m i u a i matters can be dealt with ami ably enough, or simply passed over as undeserving of much notice. But there is still the case of Sherman Adams; and this all-important matter is plainly moving toward the explosion point. On the one hand, the Presi dent is bitterly, unforgivingly angry with the Republican senators and representatives who have called for Sherman Adams' resignation or dismis sal. According to those who ought to know, Eisenhower has taken the "Adams-must-go" statements as so., many personal affronts. In the hey day of Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy, one was always being told how "McCarthy made the President see red." But if he saw red then, he is reported to see crimson, scarlet and ma roon now. On the other hand, the most prominent member of the "Adams-must-go" school of Republican thought, Senate minority leader William S. Knowland of California, will be on hand at the White House leaders' meeting, unless he is prevented from attend ing by some unforeseen de velopment. Furthermore, Sen. Knowland has now gone an important step furthsr in his position on the Adams case. ABOUT 10 days ago, he made a rather careful statement, merely suggesting that both the President ana Gov. Adams ought to consid er whether Adams' usefulness tin the" White House had not been too badly impaired. On last Thursday, however, Knowland went the whole hog, forthrightly calling oh Adams to resign for the Presi dent's sake and the party's sake. At last week's White House leaders' meeting, Knowland's previous statement on the Adams case was of course in every mind. Adams himself at tended, sitting by the Presi dent's chair as is his custom. But no word passed between Adams and the leaders of Congress, and the case of Adams was never mentipned. It must have been like one of those ghastly parties at which everyone desperately avoids the only really interesting subject, because discussing the only interesting subject would be impossibly tactless. The coming meeting will convene with Knowland's sec ond, stronger statement again in every mind. Any other President, in these circum stances, would feel called upon to have the matter out with his Congressional chief tains. This particular Presi dent, -to be sure, has always dealt rather cavalierly with his second role as leader of his party. But even if the Presi dent continues to treat the Adams case as a strictly per sonal and private matter, there is still a rather strong possibility that Sen. Know land will bring the matter up on his own initiative. Altogether, this confronta tion between Eisenhower and his Congressional grandees ought to be an interesting fathering. Furthermore, if the issue of Adams is not thrashed out this week, th?re will still be next week, and the week after that, and maybe the week after that. SOONER or later, in truth, the President can hardly avoid discussing this unhappy By Joseph Alsop case that has already inflict ed such deep wounds on the Republican Party with the other men who share the re sponsibility of party leader ship. Thus far, he hag not done so. The 'Adams case has been handled in the White House, by the White House, for the White House. Meanwhile the Republicans who must go before the vot ers this fall are unanimously clamoring for Adams' resigna tion. "Adams-must-go" cries have been heard from Barry Goldwarer of New Mexico on the extreme right, Robert Kean of New Jersey in the party's liberal wing, and from men in the middle like Knowland and Charles Potter of Michigan, Behind these cries, there is the soreness that comes from a feeling of having been badly let down. Meanwhile, too, the Adams case continues to unfold. Above all, the celebrated Ber nard Goldfine, that friend, of all the world, has yet to be heard from. He has yet to be 'asked a whole series of ques tions, and especially the cen tral question, whether he took income tax deductions for Gov.; Adams' hotel bills and vicuna coat and Persian car pet. So it will be a long time before the Adams case can be marked "Closed," and in such cases, unfortunately, party spirit makes time more of an inf lamer than a healer, (c) 1958. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Editorial Comment FLUORIDATION OK'D Fluoridation was approved by the United States Public Health Service in 1951 after a thorough examination of all scientific evidence relating to its safety, effectiveness and practicability. Since that time, many com munities throughout the na tion have instituted local fluoridation programs. Care ful study of their experience with this measure plus con tinuing scientific research have provided additional evi dence of the dental health benefits of fluoridation. Fluoridation causes no bod ily harm; it is remarkably ef fective in reducing the inci dence of tooth decay by two thirds; and its cost is mini mal about ten cents per per son per year. The Public Health Service, has therefore, recommended the adoption of fluoridation to all communities interested in progressive health mea sures. Dr. Leroy E. Burney, Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service, quoted in Bul letin of Oregon Department of Health. Hoffa Group To Study Beck Home Washington (UPI) In ternational Teamster Presi dent James R. Hoffa an nounced Monday he - would head a committee of three to . determine the future of Dave Beck's palatial living quarters in Seattle. A decision will be reached by the three-member group after they meet with Beck, former Teamsters president, to work out a mutually agre able plan to dispose of the home. The decision will be announced at the next meet ing of the general executive board of the Teamsters, prob ably next fall. Beck's home has been the subject of much controversy following the Seiate investi gating committee's probe into his financial affairs. The portly former union boss sold the home to the Teamsters for $163,215 in 1955 and has continued to live there since that time In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What people want from government note: 4 A San Francisco citizen has asked that parking meters in the city provide a place to park your foot as a part of the service they give in return for the fee they charge for per mission to' park your car. He suggests that small plat form be placed at each meter for people who want to. tie their shoelaces. TT'S an idea. V And of course, it his some merit. It is most annoy ing to have a shoelace come untied when you're making your way along a crowded street such as Market at a busy hour. And It's undignified to lean over in a crowd and tie your shoe. Besides unless you've been going the' bends regularly every morning to keep your self limber you may have have trouble reaching that far down. If you tried it and failed, it would be humiliat ing. Your face would be red. I think we will all agree that it is a part of the duty and the responsibility of gov ernment to uphold the dignity of citizens. Human dignity is a precious thing. It mut be preserved. CO- Maybe this San Francis can has something. Maybe government in this case city government owes" it to its citizens to provide platforms on parking meter posts so that the citizen may lift up his foot in a dignified manner and tie his shoelace when it comes untied. It all depends on what we conceive to be the duty of government. AT this point, another con sideration enters the pic ture. . Ajax Foundation, Incorpor ated a private research or ganization that spends its time delving into tax problems- has just come up with an in teresting figure. ' It reports that in the U.S.A. there are some eight million civil work ers on federal, state and local levels. That is to say, there are some eight million civil ian employees of government who are paid with tax money to serve the citizens in one way or another. These eight million employ ees of the taxpayers receive an annual total stipend of ap proximately thirty billion dollars. Tax Foundation says it takes the total income taxes of 19 average taxpayers to pay the salary of one govern ment worker. It adds that government workers now account for one out of every eight employed persons. That is another way of saying that every eight em ployed workers in our nation hire a government flunkey to provide them with govern mental services ranging all the way down from protection of life and property to provid ing platforms on parking me ter posts where the citizen may put up his foot to tie his shoelaces in a dignified man ner. SUMMING up: If we're going to clamor for more public services, we are going to have to have more government employees. If we are going to have more government employees, we will have to pay more taxes. The dollar government reaches into our . pocket and takes for taxes a dollar we don't have to spend on our selves. That's the nub of the situa tion. Polar Bear Found On Newport Beach Newport, Ora. (UPI) Bodies of a polar bear and her cub washed up on the beach here Sunday afternoon. The usually Arctic dwelling animals were first sighted by Mrs. Flora Lauritsen, New port motel owner. The cub was later swept out to sea again on a high tide. Witnesses estimated the badly decomposed bear to be about seven feet long and to weigh about 600 pounds. Possible reason for the ap pearance of the bodies, one Newport man said, was the onshore movement of the Japanese current, now con sistently about 400 yards off the Newport beach. Gomulka Criticizes Tito, But Disapproves Execution of Nagy Br CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign Nsws Analyst Polish Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka has sav ed his job by criticising Presi dent Tito of Yugoslavia. In doing so he also has pre served at least some measure of the inde pendence from Russian dicta tion which he won as the re suit " of the 1956 revolt. For months, Go mulka had resisted demands that he join Russia, Red China and the East European satel lite countries in their savage attack on Tito as a Commu ist renegade. Cbarlet M. McC&nn Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AT AN AMUSEMENT PARK last summer a college student who had wangled a vacation job on the scente railway noticed that one sickly, shaking old gent made no effort to get out .oi nis iront seat wnen a ride was completed, but sat huddled down waiting to go 'round again. Furthermore, the ticket taker never both ered to ask him for his fare. The student approached him after five rounds and said, "Pardon me, but do you get a particular thrill out of this ride?" "Thrill?," sneered the old man. "I hate it! It makes me acutely sick to my stomach." "Then why do you. like the music, go 'round and 'round?" asked the student. "The skinflint who owns this concession," explained the old man, "owes me 10 dollars, and I'm going to take, it out on him in rides it it kills me!" !A minor operation," explains Melinda Drake, "is an operation performed on somebody else." 0 1M, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. President's Program Faces Uphill Road, CQ Analysis Shows Washington (CQ) Presi dent Eisenhower's 1958 leg islative program faces a stern uphill battle in Congress this year. As of June 12, only 9 per cent of the President's 221 specific requests had received final approval, a Congression al Quarterly analysis shows. About a fourth of Mr. Eis enhower's requests have re ceived no attention at all and 12.7 per cent have already been rejected. With Congressional elec tions facing members this No vember, both the House and Senate, controlled by the Democrats, are taking a hard look at every request made by the President and, in many cases, proceeding with programs of their own. Record Low Last year, the first of the 85th Congress, the Eisenhow er boxscore fell to a record low only 36.9 percent of his 206 requests were approved by Congress. When the Re publicans controlled Congress in 1953 and 1954, Mr. Eisen hower's programs did very well; 72.7 per cent approval in 1953 and 64.7 in 1954. The recession and the re action to the Russian sputniks have helped to make this year unusually busy in Congress; House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.), has called it the most active Congress since the "first 100 days" of the Roosevelt administration 25 years ago. But the activity in volves Democratic plans as much- as those submitted by the Administration. Despite the Congressional coolness to his over-all 221 point program, President Eis enhower may win some im pressive victories this year. . Here is the Eisenhower box score on his 221 requests as of June 12: - - 20, requests had been fi nally - approved by both houses and either are law or awaiting the president's sig nature 9 per cent. - 10 had passed both hous es and are in conference 4.5 per cent. 37 had passed one house but not the other 16.7 per cent! - 15 had been reported from ; committee to the floor He had made it plain, too, that he strongly disapproved the execution of Hungarian revolt leaders. Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter. k It is now disclosed that Gomulka was told last week that he must either come out against Tito or face over throw. There is one report that Russia gave him 72 hours to make up his mind. Forced To Give In Gomulka was forced to give in. Had he refused, not only would he have been forced out as Poland's leader but his country would have been giv en over to the "Stalinist" ele ments in his party. Gomulka has been under increasingly strong pressure from Moscow ever since Com- of either the House or Senate but had not come up for a vote 6.8 per cent. . 58 had received commit tee hearing but had not been reported 26.2 per cent. ' 53 had received no ac tion at all 24 per cent. . 28 had been rejected, either by unfavorable floor action or in committee 12.7 per cent. (Copyright, 1958, " Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Labor Council Backs Bargaining Plan Portland (UPI) The Multnomah . Central Labor Council Monday night voted unanimously to endorse a plan for collective bargaining for Portland city employees. The vote followed a report by Harry E. Williams, presi dent of the fire fighters un ion, that there is "definitely a move to hold down salar ies" among Portland city em ployees. x The Council also urged that organized labor and the Portland Chamber of Com merce join in an effort to keep Bayly Manufacturing Company from leaving Port land. Mrs. Jettie Lebor of the garment workers union re ported that the firm, will move, to Yakima, Wash., be cause of lower labor costs there. Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brannan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. mumst reversion toward the harsh rule of the Josef Stalin era started. He has resisted as stub bornly as he could. He refused to join in the anti-Tito cam paign. He has tried to stop the general trend toward Stal inist policy in the Communist world. He has been compelled to give in bit by bit, and to tighten up his own liberalized rule. Finally came the demand that he come out against Tito. The alternative was that Russia would take every pos sible means, political and eco nomic, to overthrow him. There was no direct threat of Russian military interven tion against him. But innr. ently authentic reports sav that in recent weeks strong forces of Russian troops have been moved close to the East German and Russian frontiers of Poland. The implied threat arjnar- ently was that Polish "Stal inists," if necessary, would engineer an uprising that would give Russia an excuse to intervene. Poland Depends en Russia Gomulka's problem is that Poland cannot get along with out Russia. Its economic situa tion is difficult. And nearly all of the raw materials used in Polish industry come from Russia. " Gomulka made his sur render in a speech last Friday at the Polish Baltic sea port of Gdansk. "The guilt lies squarely on Yugoslav- shoulders," Gomul ka said of the dispute be tween Tito and Soviet Rus sian leaders. But he qualified hii criti cism by saying that Tito sin cerely desired to strengthen peace. In speaking of Nagy, Go mulka criticised his policies. But he still refrained from giving his approval to Nagy's execution. That, he said, was an internal Hungarian affair, and it was not for Poles to judge on its fairness. Thus, though Gomulka has been forced to comply with Russian demands, it is clear that he did so grudgingly. The Russians cannot be too pleas ed with their victory. Both Gomulka's resistance, and So viet pressure on him, undoubt edly will continue. WISCONSIN COLLEGES . Madison, Wis. flPI Wiscon sin has 80 privately and pub licly controlled colleges which enroll a total of 49,698 stu dents, the state coordinating committee for higher educa tion t reported. Publicly con trolled institutions constitute nearly two-thirds of the en rollment. With the state-supported University of Wiscon sin accounting for 37 per cent. The Strait of Belle Isle, between Newfoundland and Labrador, is between 10 and 18 miles wide. Growtli Fund Series K-2 A Mutual Investment Fund i composed of securities se-, lected f or thsir possibili ties of future GROWTH J and increased income. The Keystone Company' SO Cmi.rt.i Street, Bottoa 9. MM. PleaM send me prospectus sad deserlp. live material on the Keystone Growth Fund. VS6 ' Asm. Addrtu City- .Stats- Fred Brennan ARE YOU SUFFICIENTLY COVERED? If you think you have enough fire insurance read ' this. A smokestack built in 1921 for, $8,740 was re-' cenfly dismantled. The cost, $13,470. Protect your or iginal building costs with : ample fire insurance. Bill Fish
