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Newspaper Page Text4 Wednesday, Auguit 6, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDF0RDt8TRIBU?iE "I very oct in Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RTJHL, Edit 7 HERB GREY Advertising Mi- ajei GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Indevendent Newspaper Entered as second elai matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3189 SCBSCRTPTION HATES B- Mail In Advance: Copy 10e Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Dailv and Sunday moi 8.00 Daily and Sundav 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Centra! Point Eaeie Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of" City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnitedPress FullLeasedWire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertifire Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisuo Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver 3 C. NEWSPAPEI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL f DITOBIAl AsTocfATlQN Z7 KJ 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 Aug. 6. 1948 (Friday) The Jackson County Pro gressive party will launch its 1948 campaign with a picnic Sunday in Lithia park, Ash land. The community fair at Fred .Ingle's ranch south of Ashland drew 400 visitors. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1938 (Saturday) A cooperative pear-canning agreement between the Rogue River Valley cannery and Bear Creek Orchards an nounced today. From Arthur Perry's "Ye .Smudge Pot" column: "Mos quitos continue quite plenti ful and rapacious, but are bit ing the female shank at their own risk." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1928 (Monday) The Medford Electric com pany opens four-day cooking school here. The state highway commis sion will be asked to run its magnetic sweeper over Med ford's streets to remove tacks scattered during the Ameri can Legion convention. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1918 (Tuesday) Men, mules and machinery arrived at Gold Hill Saturday for work on the Foote's creek irrigation district. Forty-seven sailors bound from California to Washing ton and 27 draftees - bound from Washington to Califor nia passed through town to day. What's Your I.Q.? Nint or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or ix is good. 1. What is the singular form of the noun "scissors"? 2. Samar is an island in which group of Pacific Is lands? 3. Which is the better insu lator for electricity: glass, rubber, paraffin? 4. Who wrote the book "I Never Left Home"? 5. In what month in 1945 did the atomic bomb fall on Hiroshima? 6. Is chives something to eat," or a disease? 7. Was Jefferson, Franklin, or Madison the nation's first Secretary of State? 8. Plato or Pluto was a Sreek mythological charac ter? 9. There are two, three, or four umpires at World Series games? 10. Would you say that fin gernails or toenails grow faster? Answers; 1. Scissors. 2. Philippine Islands. 3 Paraf fin. 4. Bob Hope. 5. Au gust. 6. Something to eat. 7. Thomas Jefferson. 8. Pluto. 9. Four. 10. Fingernails. Cuban Army Claims Defeat of Rebels Havana 'ITI The Cuban army says it has inflicted a "decisive defeat"' on the rebels in a three-day battle in the eastern mountains, causing "very heavy losses" to the anti-government forces. A communique issued late Tuesday said rebel forces which swarmed in from moun tain hideouts to attack a "lost battalion"' were decimated in an ambush by loyal troops. Couplet The opening of the one-way couplet in down town Medford with Main street traffic going west and Eighth street traffic going east is the first major, tangible result of the "arterial street program'- approved by the voters of the city two years ago. We believe it will go a long way toward speeding cross-town traffic, as with other parts of the program, as they are completed. If all goes well (and it's a rare day when a major undertaking such as this doesn't have a few "bugs"), traffic congestion will be eased, the flow of traffic will move along through the series of stop lights on a progressive basis, and everyr one will be pleased. "IITE FORESEE one possible bad spot the block on. Riverside between Eighth and Main streets, where traffic going north, ., and traffic which ultimately will go east on Main, will be "doubled up" for a block. If that isn't a nightmare at peak traffic hours, we'll miss our guess. We hope we're wrong, vand that it moves smoothly along. " Even if it is bad, it's only temporary until the new Eighth street bridge across Bear creek can be completed, probably next spring. WTe are in a period of growth and change, and the temporary inconveniences which result in the city's trying to keep pace are but part of the price of that growth and change. E.A. R umors Rumors are funny, persistent things. Half a dozen times in the last month or so, we've been solemnly assured by people who claimed they knew that Mexican nationals would help pick the pear crop this year. Now the people who are in charge of bringing them here if they come know nothing about it. Neither do the orchard operators. . And, they declare, so long as there are enough people to pick this year's fine fruit crop, no Mexi can nationals will come here. And, if they are found to be needed, the fact will be reported. Perhaps the presence of some pickers of Am erican citizenship, but of Mexican derivation, who ARE helping with the crop, started the ru mors. But then, on a newspaper, . one gets used to tracking down rumors. It happens all the time. E.A. Length of a Meter How long is a meter? The answer depends on how precise one wants to be. If a child asks, the answer is apt to be "about three feet," or "about a yard." The next degree of precision, culled from the World Almanac, tells us that a meter is 39.37 inches, or 1.094 yards. ' That, surely, is sufficiently exact for most purposes. But there are purposes for which it is wildly inadequate particularly in those realms of science where a gnat's eyebrow is roughly as wide as a six-lane freeway. CROM the encyclopedia we leam that, for scien tific exactness, a bar of platinum-iridium al loy is kept at the bureau of weights and measures near Paris. One meter is the length of this bar at a temperature of 32 degrees Farenheit. Eveiy principal nation has a copy of it. ; The length of the meter is based on one ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the north and south poles of the earth. The other measurements of length or distance in the metric system (millimeter, kilometer, and the others) are all based on the meter. This system, far more logical and understand able than the hit-or-miss system of inches, feet, yards, miles, and so on,' has been in use in the scientific community for many years, and up until recently has been sufficiently accurate. -n B UT no,Ionger. The accuracy of the maintained at present within two parts out of 10 to the seventh power that is, 2 parts out of 100, 000,000. But this degree of exactitude "no longer meets the -demands of the most precise metrol ogy," according to the advisoiy committee for the definition of the meter, of the International Com mittee on Weights and Measures. The advisoiy committee came up with ,a rec ommendation that the meter "be defined by means of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the levels of 2d10 and 5d5 of the atom of krvuton 86." and that the meter ought to be defined "as equal exactly to 1,650, 763.73 times the wavelength of this radiation in vacuum." THIS recommendation will be considered in A October by the International Committee on Weights and Measures, and if approved, it will be recommended for adoption to the 11th Gen eral Conference on Weights and Measures which will meet in Sevres, France, in 1960. If the new standard for the length of a meter is adopted, it will increase the precision factor between 10 and 100 times probably the latter, according to the president of the advisoiy com mittee. Quite a difference from the offhand defini tion, "about a yard." E.A. Due "international meter" is Dennis the Menace AW, CAST LBS ARB OLD build AMorei.r Khrushchev's Ahout - Tip on Chinese Red Dominance Editor's note: Nikita Khru shchev's sudden backdown from the summit T u e s d a y night shocked the world. It may mean more than a mere diplomatic change of wind it could be the handwriting on the wall for Khrushchev's future. This possi bility is assessed in the following dispatch by U.P.I.'s chief Eu ropean diplomatic correspondent, a veteran of the first summit conference and an expert on the twisting of Soviet policy since then.) By K. A. THALER UPI Correspondent London (UPD Soviet Pre mier and Party boss Nikita Khrushchev has been over ruled by Red China's leader Mao Tse-tung. This was the verdict today of diplomatic quarters and So viet affairs experts on Khru shchev's dramatic somersault on the summit theme. It aroused speculation that Red Propaganda Net Now Being Tossed At Latin America London (UPD The Com munist diplomatic offensive has been officially and form ally extended from the Mid dle East to Latin America. The propaganda war is now officially on in America's "backyard." The new move stems from a joint decision of the Krem lin and the Red Chinese re gime in Peiping. It was taken at the secret three-day talk last week in Peiping between Soviet Pre mier and Party Boss Nikita Krushchev and Red Chinese Leader Mao Tse-Tsung. What can be expected from it is an all-out propaganda as sault on the Latin American nations with the UniteS States as the chief target of. the at tack. ' Peiping Fires Away Within 48 hours of the de cision, Peiping in fact opened up its guns with a broadside attack on the- United States, alleged "enslavement" policy on the Latin American conti nent. The Red bloc's decision emerged from the joint Sino Russian communique issued in Peiping Sunday at the con clusion of the Mao-Krushchev secret talks. Red China and the Soviet pledged themselves formally then and there to "give firm support to the just struggles of the peoples of 53 United Arab Republics, the Republic of Iraq, and the other Arab countries as well as the na tional independence move ments of the peoples in Asia, Try and -By BENNETT CERF- HORACE DODGE had an old gatekeeper on his estate who neglected his duties shamefully, but had been around so long nobody dared criticize him too severely. One day, how ever, JJoage's ire was ar oused to the point where he hollered, "You're fired!" and drove off in high dudgeon to Detroit. When he drove home that evening, how ever, there was the old gate keeper big as life.' "Con found it!" roared Dodge. "Didn't I discharge you this morning?" "You did," agreed the gatekeeper cheerfully, 'but I forgive you." In Providence, a thirsty soul fnnnrt an unorthodox use for a Gideon Bible. He entered a hotel room occupied by one of his Scottish associates and slapped the book on the bureau. "Put your hand on this -Bible," he commanded, "and swear you haven't got a drop of whiskey in the room." He got two old-fashioneds. ' Heard about the tiger who cornered Mr. Aesop and ate him for Sunday dinner. "Well, Aesop," said the tiger pleasantly, "I suppose you'll be making a fable about this now, too." 135S, by SenaeU Cert Distributed by King reiturei Sjndiute. FASHIONED. IET& the Sovet leader may not be the strong man after all that he appeared to be. The defeat may have reper cussions nearer home where a hard core of Stalin-type pol iticians and personal oppo nents have been biding their time for a possible day of reckoning. No Imminent Danger There was no question of an imminent danger to the burly Soviet leader; but some experts felt there' was writing on the wall. The key to the events of the past 36 hours lies' in the sec ret talks between Khrushchev and Mao in Peiping during the weekend. What happened there is a well guarded secret and is likely to remain so. Africa and Latin America," the communique announced. The listing of Latin Ameri ca in line with Arab nations left little doubt of what is in the minds of the Red leaders. Word It Out Soviet affairs experts have read into the blunt announce ment a sort of declaration of a propaganda war by the Unit ed Reds in the "backyard" of the United States. Soviet designs on this sphere have been increasing ly evident for some time past; but nothing or little was said about it officially in Moscow. Now, the word is out. Latin America has been formally and officially included in the "sphere of operation" of the Red propaganda machine, call ing for "independence" from American "domination and exploitation." Significantly, R edChina has given its backing to the move just as it has become a prime backer of the "inde pendence" campaign in the Middle East. Mao Taking Over More people "demonstrat ed" in Peiping against the United States and Britain's in tervention in Lebanon and Jordan than did in Moscow last month. This tends to confirm the growing impression that Mao is taking over gradually the leadership of Communist ide ology and its application from Moscow. Latin America has for some time past been confined large ly to more discreet behind-the-scenes infiltration tactics. Stop Me Battle for the Pocketbook: Fair Trade Fight Shaping, Merchants vs. Customers Washington The outcome of a lobby battle now building up in Washington will help decide how much you pay for everything from automobiles to toothpaste. The issue is whether Con gress, through a Federal law, should let manufacturers de termine how much the con sumer shall pay for their products. Bills to allow such price fixing are before Congress now. . If passed, the legisla tion would amount to a fair trade law for all 48 states, District of Columbia and the territories. It would not make any difference if the state did not want a fair trade law. The Federal law would still apply. About the only thing volun tary in the proposed law con cerns manufacturers. They could decide whether they wanted to set wholesale and retail prices on their goods or not. Once the manufacturer set Face Seen But the suddenness of the trip and the secrecy surround ing it suggested at once that sornething went wrong. The signs now are that Khru shchev dashed to Peiping to appease an irate Chinese chief who has been assuming quiet ly an increasingly important role in the leadership of world Communism. How To Bow It appears that Khrushchev had to bow to Mao's terms in cluding the abandoning of his cherished idea with a summit meeting with the Western leaders. The precedent has estab lished a virtual Red Chinese veto over Russia's major pol icy decisions in the interna tional field. The conclusion drawn from this development by diplo matic sources today was that Russia no longer can do it alone. This development followed earlier indications that Peip ing has been increasingly as suming the lead in the ideolo gical sphere of Communism. Officially, Mao has been paying lip service to Moscow's lead in the Socialist camp. But in effect it was Red China that forced Khrushchev to revert to the tougher Stalin-type pol icy line in recent months. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. "Let's Get Interested" To the Editor; After read ing the article in Sunday's paper showing circulation of petitions for nomination of city councilmen it causes one to evaluate our city govern ment and the manner in which it is formed. This is in no sense an accus ation, but only to point out a potential. -We, the people, by our choice of city manager council form of government gave up most of our electoral rights in that we no longer choose city officials with the exception that we do vote for mayor and city councilmen. We must get full advantage of that vote. The councilmen and mayor are the only ones that represent us' voters in city government. - Under "home rule," as our city government seems to operate, it is very important that we the people make our own choice of representatives and not accept "hand picked" candidates that could be more interested in a city manager's or some other influential fac tion ambition or wants rather than that of the electorate. A matter in point upon recommendation of the plan ning commission and the city manager our councilmen chose to act for the people and .approved the annexation of Kenwpod-Grandview dis tricts ana thereby saddling the citizens of our city with some S141,000 bonded indebt edness that we all must pay and the annexed districts hav ing an assessed value of but 812,514. Why was this done? Why did they decide not to let us, the ones paying the bill, vote on it? I would like for those interested in the an swers to ask our city manager. My present interest is in who should be our representa tive in city government. I am not " personally ac quainted with the nominees for wards 3 and 4 as filed with the city recorder by Councilman Meyers and past Councilman Jones, I know his prices, any wholesaler or retailer who charged less for the branded items could be haled into court. This means discount houses would risk a court suit every time they ad vertised a bargain. Under the proposed law, anybody hurt by cut prices could sue the discounter in state or Federal court. Lobby Pressure , There is tremendous pres sure on Congress to pass a Federal fair trade law. The National association of Retail Druggists, representing 36,000 members, is the most vocal proponent. They are support ed by national trade associa tions representing appliance dealers, photography shops, tobacco wholesalers, gasoline stations, hardware stores, hab erdashers and book sellers. These proponents say a Federal fair trade law is the only way to save small busi- nessmen from extinction. They contend retailing will end up in the hands of a few giant chains under the present set up. Then, they say, the consumer will be at the mercy of the giants. There will be no corner druggists or grocer to worry about. The giants can then charge whatever they want. Proponents point to the rising number of bankrupt cies among small retailers as ample warning of the onrush ing disaster. Typical Complaint In hearings before the House committee considering a Federal fair trade law, a photography store owner voiced a typical complaint. He said he did such a fine job of promoting a, camera that his customer went right out to a discount house and bought one. Then the customer brought it back to the nice guy in the small shop to learn how to use it. Retailers com plain discounters are cashing in on the small businessman's salesmanship. They claim dis counters only give bargains on a few bait items and make it up on other ones. Many manufacturers large and small are pushing for a Federal fair trade law, too. Coty Inc., General Electric, Johnson & Johnson and Sun beam Corp. are among them. They claim they have a right to protect their investment of research and national adver tising by setting prices on their products. - Discounters, who sell branded products be low cost cheapen them in the public eye, manufacturers contend. Hot Item Cools Off The small manufacturer is especially upset about what discount houses are doing to his distribution system. Take M. R. Bissell III, president of the relatively small Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co Bissell told the House com mittee that his company came out with what looked like a hot item a rug shampooer to be retailed at S14.95. One of his retailers promoted) it through advertising and face- lo-face persuasion. The retail er's sales started' to roll. Then a discounter in the area sold the shampooer below cost. The small retailer, since he nothing of their qualifica tions. However, I look at them questionably . because they seem to be "hand picked" as favorable to the desires of the city fathers and I am inclined to believe that they may fol low the "home "rule" rather than what is to the best inter ests and wants of the people. It is worth your while to look into what the cost of our city government is today in comparison to what it was three years ago. Allowing for inflation and expansion we have had enormous increases. So once again I say to you "let's choose our own nomi nees for city councilmen" and not take just what is of fered to us. Let's get interested in our city government and welfare of our citizens. Ray O. DeMarrs 708 West Second st. Medford Editor's note: The bonded indebtedness of the Kenwood Grandview districts at the time of annexation was $151, 000, not $141,000, and the as sessed valuation was $866,680, not $12,514. Actually, resi dents of the city will benefit in the long run on a purely tax basis, due te the overall increased assessed valuation of the city created by the an nexation as was explained in detail at the time of the an nexation. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat. talk, laugh or sneeze without fear of insecure false teeth dropping. slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH holds plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at toy drug counter. could not meet the price, j stopped selling Bissell's shampooer. The same thing happened in other areas because dis counters sold the shampooer for as low as $8.88. Bissell claimed he lost so many small retailers this way that over all sales of his shampooer dropped. He ended up laying off factory workers, even though he was convinced there was a big public de mand for his new product. Opponents View But there is another side to the story. This comes from the American Farm Bureau Federation, national consumer organizations and General Federation of Women's Clubs. They say the Federal fair trade law would make it a crime to give the public a truly fair price. Several econ omists, the Justice Depart ment, Federal Trade Commis sion and Commerce Depart ment Are on their side. Opponents see the fair trade law as the biggest disaster ever, to befall the consumer. They say it would lead to the monopolistic cartels which wrecked the European econ omy. They claim the proposed law offers little safeguard against manufacturers getting together on prices. No matter what the retail price, the con sumer will have to pay qr go without. Formerly competi tive stores would all have the same prices. Penalize Efficiency Opponents also claim the fair trade law would reduce the retailer to a dumb vend ing machine. No matter how low his rent was, or how effi cient he was he could not pass on his savings to the con sumer. And why. opponents ask, should the Federal Gov ernment put a protective um brella over one segment of the economy? The farmers would not get a set price for their tomatoes but .would have to pay a set price for a can of tomato juice. And, op ponents continue, the law forces the retailer to do the manufacturer's bidding, whether he signs a contract or not. This arrangement, they point out, has been de clared unconstitutional. In the Day's News By FRANK Good news if true: The defense department is expected to confirm the belief that the U.S. HAS MATCHED RUSSIA IN POSSESSION OF AN INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE CAP ABLE OF CARRYING A NU CLEAR WARHEAD. Missile men believe they proved it over the week-end in the successful testing of a fully powered Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral. One source said the test put our nation A YEAR AHEAD OF SCHED ULE in development of the missile. WHY is that so good? Wel-1-1-1 If Russia has such a weapon and we haven't, Russia may decide at any moment that now is the time to start a war. If we have such a weapon ALSO, Russia WON'T decide that now is the time to start shooting. That's about the long and the short of it. TAD NEWS in any lan- guage: A missing eight-y e a r-old boy was found suffocated in an ABA.NDONED ICEBOX in Weymouth, Mass. The victim was Dennis Dalrymple, who vanished Saturday. B lood hounds finally led police to the icebox. Police say Dennis apparent ly slammed the door on him self after climbing inside. An investigation is now under way to find out who aban doned the icebox without re moving the door hinges as re quired by law. AFTER all the tragic deaths of children here and there throughout our country in the past few years, it is certainly A NEW AMBULANCE . . has recently been added to our auto fleet. It is fully equipped with first aid and oxygen, to render C. M. Litwiller an even better service than ever before. v . - For over 23 years we have tried to serve you faithfully and promptly, 24 hours of every day. LITWILLER F Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main .ASHLAND We Never Close than The Consumers Information Bureau in New York charges that support for the Federal fair trade law is coming prin cipally from drug manufac turers, wholesalers and retail ers who are "making enor mous profits and want to con tinue this situation forever." The Bureau listed for the House committee profits drug gists normally make on brand items. The list showed a box of 200 aspirin that the drug gist bought for 25 cents sell ing for 89 cents and a bottle of 100 vitamins that he bought for $4.60 selling for S9.45. Lobby Battle Subcommittees of the House and Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Commit tee have held hearings on the proposed Federal fair trade law. But with adjournment so close, there is -little chance that the bill will become law this year. - However, the adjournment battle will not put an end to the fight. "If anything," says Maurice Mermey, director of the druggists' national infor mation bureau, "lack of Con gressional action in 1958 will step up our efforts. We won't rest until a Federal fair trade law is on the books." Mem bers of the National associa tion of Retail Druggists are being urged to fan out over the country during the Con gressional recess to talk fair trade to their Senators and Representatives. Already the lawmakers are shell-shocked from a steady bombardment of letters and telegrams demanding a Fed eral fair trade law. To combat this giant lobby effort, a new organization is being formed in Washington. Called the National Anti-Price Fixing Association, it is being organized by 'Alex Akerman, Washington lawyer and for mer executive director of the Federal Trade Commission. He said his group is fighting to protect the millions of con sumers in the country who have the most to lose but have had the least to say on the fair trade issue. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) (Copyright 1958, JENKINS had news that ANYONE would be so thoughtless as to put out one of these death traps. JUST for a change, let's talk today about NEWS ITSELF. What is news? How should one read it or lisen to it? Is what we read (and hear) truthful and Reliable? If not, why not? IN GENERAL, there are two kinds of news: 1. Factual news. V 2. JAWBONE news. Factual news concerns what actually happened. Jawbone news concerns WHAT SOME BODY SAID and why. Fac tual news is generally accu rate and dependable. Jawbone news can be utterly inaccur ate and undependable de pending on the motives of who said what. NEARLY all the cold war news is jawbone news be cause it is normally based on what somebody said for a pur pose. The purpose is usually to MISLEAD an opponent as to what is going on so that he can be hit when he isn't look ing. Most of the "summit" meeting stuff is jawbone news because if a "summit" meet ing is held it will be used chiefly for propaganda. Nearly all political news is jawbone news. The exception is the way the voting turns out at electons. That is factual news. I S THIS sum-up too cynical? I don't think so. If you will keep these defi nitions in mind, you will ex perience less difficulty and less mental confuson in read ing and interpreting the news of each day. , Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us, to need us and not know us.