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Newspaper Page Text4 Wedneida- Sept. 17, 195S MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtrTRIBUKS . "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RCHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION KATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 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 Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily 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 United Press International Full Leased Wire 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. NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL NATION Al 3Si ASSOCtATCCXN J lJJWf-B 3z 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 Sept. 17. 1948 (Friday) Dr. Leslie Kent, Eugene, will be installed as president of the Oregon Medical society at its annual dinner tonight at the Rogue Valley Country club. Motorists and other gas users are urged to cut down on their fuel consumption as the strike-caused shortage grows. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 17. 1938 (Saturday) The Lake of the Woods re sort will remain open for the hunting season .this year for the first time. From Ar t h u r Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot," column: '.'The European war scare and the purge elections at home, oc cupied the heavy thinkers of these parts, most of the past week." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1928 (Monday) The Rogue River academy opened its sessions today with an enrollment of 90. One of the most complete exhibits of Rogue valley pro duce ever shown at the state fair in Salem is being readied. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1918 (Tuesday) Women are urged to help in cannery work as the re opening of school depletes the ranks of workers by more than 50 per cent. The "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" company departed by train after last night's per formance, for Redding, Calif. Vhai's Yonr I.Q.? Nina or fen correct it superier; even or eight is excellent; five Of ti is good. 1. What kind of fruit is a Rhode Island Greening? 2. A fortnight includes how many days? 3. Which of these are light wines: claret, champagne, port, sherry, sauterne, bur gundy, muscatel? 4. The morbid fear of pas sing near high buildings and structures is called b . ophobia? 5. Poi, a favorite Hawaiian dish, is made from pineap ples, taro or coconuts? 6. The capital of Belgium is Antwerp, Brussels, or Liege? 7. Name the president of the International Brother hood of Teamsters. 8. What is a "yellow dog" contract? 9. The Rules of Racing re quire .that names for race horses be limited to 12, 14, or 16, letters? 10. In which New England state did Shay's Rebellion, an insurrection against the State government, occur in 1786-87? Answers 1 Apple. 2. 14 days. 3. Claret, champagne, saulerne. burgundy. 4. Balo phobie. 5. Taro. 6. Brussels. 7. James Hoffa. 8. One in -which a worker agrees not to join a union. 9 14 letters. 10. Massachusetts. A Problem of Gravity What 13 gravity? Shucks, everyone knows what it is. It is the force that makes objects fall when they are dropped ; it is the force which keeps us from float ing off into space, or the earth from scooting away from the sun. But the exact nature of the force how it is generated, how it works, why it works is one of the major unsolved mysteries now facing science. And, up to this point, science isn't much near er a solution than was Aristotle, who contended that materials fell because of a quality of "heavi ness," or rose because of a quality of "lightness." This described the effects, all right, but did no more to explain the nature of gravity than dp tiie descriptive computations of today's physi GRAVITY can be defined in terms of what it does, and it has been, ton, the "discoverer" of of gravity many years ago, and most of them are applicable today. And before him, Galileo's experiments had formed the basis of the But still, gravity is LIT i 1 1 1 saving, ii sucn-ana-sucn will happen." No one as yet can say M OSTLY, man's efforts have been to counter gravity, not to negate it. From the first time stick or stone to use as started carrying home game on his shoulders, he has been in a ceaseless battle against gravity. This battle has resulted in the sled, the wheel, the rails and surfaced roadways. It has resulted in most of the basic inventions, the pully and lever and in clined plane. This battle, however, has been against a force which is just as necessary to life as is the air we breath more so, for in fact without gravity, there would be no air on earth, and no earth either, for that matter. ' COME men have given thought to negating gravity. Roger Babson has even set up a foun dation to study it and to seek an anti - gravitic force so far without success. Will it ever be conquered? We'll simply have to wait for the answer to But it may be. As scientists probe ever deeper into our universe, and' learn more about what makes it the way it is, they may some day stumble on to the secret of the force that holds everything together. And it may well be related to the bind ing force of the atom and the still imperfectly- understood force of magnetism. Perhaps all of them are just different embodiments of the same force. IF AN "anti-gravitic force" is within the realm of possibility, and if its secret ever is dis covered, it will make more changes in human life than any single discovery so far, more than fire, or the wheel, or steam, or electricity, or even atomic energy. ? It would make mankind undisputably the master of his worldly environment, and probably, too, master of the solar system or even t1 uni verse. This is exciting speculation. But it remains, at this point, nothing but spec ulation. And how much more productive it would be if mankind had equal hope, and expended equal effort, in the problem of how to get along as human beings. E.A. . Needed: Bigger Hoops We don't like to brag-... But we've outwitted if not mastered the hula hoop. We admit we're exhausted. We admit that now that we've successfully kept it in orbit for a minute we never intend to again. We admit also that a three year old does it better the first time out. But we have a message for adults. Nobody else should have to go through this to find out. It isn't the same for youngsters and adults. Though thickish of middle we studied the neighborhood youngsters and decided that we could, after all, wiggle fast enough to keep the hoop flying. After all, the kids don't strain them selves. They revolve the hoop at the rate of about 30 r.p.m. ... FOUND we could keep up the same pace but the hoop fell repeatedly. Not even one orbit. ... With a coronary-inviting effort, though, we finally learned the secret. An adult needs more r.p.m. to do the job because he's thicker. A tad with a 20-inch waist can manage fine. An adult with a 36-inch waist, because of some law of centrifugal force, needs about 50 r.p.m. if he uses the same size hoop. It' has something to do with the ratio of the axis to the radius of the orbit. The greater the ratio, the less the speed needed for orbiting. Because of this a waist-line in the mid 30s is about the limit for even a fairly short effort. What's needed as long as young ones are going to keep daring their folks is a diet, or, bet ter, a bigger hoop to give the adults the same axis radius ratio as the small fry. Of course a little more wind wouldn't hurt, either. Salem Capital Journal. I in detail. Sir Isaac New gravity, wrote the "laws" theories of Newton. described, in effect, by A 1- . . ll 1 is uie case, tnus-ana-so why. in the physical sciences that a man picked up a a weapon'; after he first that question. Dennis the Menace 'HOW tJOttJU VUG OUR NEW CLOBHOUSelCJM? 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 saper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Hip. Hip, Hoopsray To the Editor: Today, aU the boys and girls have Hono lulu hip hoops. We used to have the same thing, when I went to school, only we didn't call them Honolulu hip hoops. We called them barrel staves, off the old cider barrel. We didn't roll them around our hips, we rolled them down the railroad tracks. Every body had hip hoops, but we didn't have hoop hips. With out hoop hips, you can't hip hoops, but I don't give a hoop. Everett Acklin Box 233 Ashland Asks Action To - the Editor: I was shocked when I read Sunday of the Gestapo tactics being used by the Teamsters' union right here in Medford in an attempt to ruin a small, family-owned, local business. I made a thorough personal in vestigation of my own, con tacting employees, customers and union members, and find that the actual situation is even more disgraceful and un fair than indicated in the pa per. I decided to try to do something about this appall ing situation and there must be hundreds of others who will join me. I like my present dairy products supplier, but now I am switching to Gilman's. I understand they have had sev eral cancellations all from union members who sincerely "regretted" quitting but who were frightened by the Team sters' threatening letter. Wives of union members said they were afraid their hus bands would lose their jobs if they continued to use Gilman products. There are hundreds of us in this valley whom the Team sters or any other bunch like them cannot intimidate. We can easily make up for aU Gilman's lost customers. Let's do it! Talk to your neighbor. Call Gilman's today! We all look with horror at the Hoffas and their thugs but somehow we never feel that it can happen to us. It can. The situation at Gilman's proves it. By the same token, this is where the thugs and racketeers should be attacked right here at home, before they are so entrenched that they can tell us all what to do. Moral support and lip serv ice are all right, but action is better. Let's act! Wallace G. Iverson, 1316 Queen Anne, Medford. Try and By BENNETT CERF- SAM BTMMELL, who delights that sound incredible, submits 1. David, King of Israel, was country in the world. His wealth, in present-day pur chasing power, would equal $120,000,000,000. 2. Albert Einstein flunked the entrance exams of the Swiss Polytechnic college, Zurich, when he was 16. 3. Lindbergh was only the 67th man to make a non stop transatlantic flight Al cock and Brown were the first in 1919. " " 4. George Washington was not our first President It was John Hanson of Mary- . - land. , 5. Thanksgiving Day originally was a fast day. The Pugnms, until 1631, celebrated their annual day abstaining from food. I have checked none of Mr. Himmell's facts (maybe some TASM reader will), but I am convinced that S. H-'s secret am bition is to be the MC. of a TV quiz show! 19 y Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins restarts Syndicate. . 'Statistical Reporting' To the Editor: With refer ence to the "Potluck" item last Sunday, in which it was pointed out that the proposed subdivision ordinance has a sentence with 144 words, 20 commas andf 1 period, the section refers to "Penalties." . To keep the record straight, this section was written by le gal authority and not by the planning technician. It would seem the reporter is wasting his talent, he should be a statistician. Since Jackson county is in need of statistics in many fields he might find this business more profitable than reporting. Jack Eaton Planning Technician Jackson County Planning Commission From 4-H'ers To the Editor: The Jackson County 4-H Leaders Associa tion takes this opportunity of thanking you for the splendid cooperation that you have given the 4-H and the fine section that was devoted to the fair this year. : 4-H Leaders Association, Lucile Frmk, Secretary, 3067 Linden Lane, Central Point. "Quit Shovin' " To the Editor: Perhaps many of the newcomers to this valley do not understand how we old time residents feel in this section. We are fiercely independ ent. Our parents and grandpar ents came to this part of a new country and wrested a living and built homes by backbreaking work. Now the unions come in with their organizers and goons and teU us what we can do and what we can't do. We - don't like it-and we won't take it. If you want to come into our valley and live peacefully, you are more than welcome. But- "Quit your shovin', Broth er!" , (Name on file) Medford. HE DOES SO HAVE THEM Knoxville, Tenn.-flJPD-Alli-son Laugherty was in City Court Tuesday on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses, forgery, escape from jail and failure to pay alimony. "In fact," said Detective P. P. Irwin to the judge, "he has had every kind of trouble ex cept fallen arches." "Judge," Laugherty inter rupted, "I even got them in my right foot." Stop Me in digging up off-beat items the following: ' twice as rich as the richest HERES A BABE 'Happy Days ... Again' Seen Ike's Theme As Recession Fades, By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington -(DPD- The word today is that President Eisen hower will be singing that old time Dem ocratic pros perity song when he goes cam paigning coast to coast this fall. . The song was "Happy Days Are Lyle C. Wilson Here Again," and none ever will forget it who attended the 1936 Democratic national convention at which FDR ac cepted his second term nom ination. If labor leaders and Demo cratic strategists are quick to challenge so optimistic a cam paign theme, the President might counter that it is at least as appropriate now as it was back there nearly 25 years ago when the New Deal chorus was singing Roosevelt on his wayMore appropriate, perhaps, in terms of unem ployment, which is the basic political measure of prosperi ty, recession and depression. There are fewer than five million persons unemployed in this campaign year where as the unemployed numbered slightly more than nine mil lion in 1936. , Unemployment was a nut which FDR was unable to crack. It took a world war to crack it for him, despite pump priming and jobmaking federal spending which seem ed extravagantly large at the time but which was not much compared to current govern ment outlays. Eisenhower Resisted Eisenhower resisted, in the last session of Congress, Dem ocratic efforts to spend the nation out of recession and unemployment. FDR's, record was pretty good evidence that it cannot be done, Year - long, . Eisenhower has been telling the public that the current slump would be temporary His economic advisors are telling him, now, that the worst is well over, that since June most economic indicat- Medford Realtor Elected Director Corvallis - (DPD - Charles L, Paine, Portland realtor, was elected president of the Ore gon Association of Real Estate Boards at the group s conclud ing business session Tuesday. He succeeds A. A. Hersfeldt, also of Portland. Other officers named were George N. Meyer, Portland, first vice president; C. . C, Bates, Corvallis, second vice president; Sprague H. Carter, Pendleton, third vice presi dent; William W. Barendrick, Portland, treasurer and Tay lor Treece, Portland, secre tary. Directors named included Kenneth Johnson, Vale; Bur ton Gray, Klamath Falls; C. C. Vandergrift, Medford; L. Christian Culp, Eugene; Jess M. Parker, Sweet Home; Ed Kelsay, Redmond, and Larry Moore, Oceanlake. The terms expire in 1960. Seawolf Appears To Hold Undersea Mark Washington-dJPD-The atom powered submarine Seawolf apparently has eclipsed all undersea endurance records; The Seawolf, second nucle ar sub built by the United States, left New London, Conn., Aug. 5 for extended undersea operations and the Navy has made no announce ment since on its progress. That was 43 days ago. A high Navy source said today it was a "good guess' 'the sub has been submerged the en tire time. There were indications the Navy is shooting for a 60-day underwater record. The record for submerged operations heretofore has been held by the Skate, third U. S. atomic submarine, which com pleted a run of 31. days, 5 hours completely submerged last May. . .. . GETS RUSSIAN PLANE London - (UPD - Russia has presented a two-engined Ilyu-shin-14 airplane to the King of Yemen in a ceremony at Taiz, Yemen, Moscow Radio reported today. r 3L ANNOUNCING . . . NEW WINTER HOURS! VILLAGE DAIRY SMITH Now Open 9:00 AM. TO 6:00 PJVL EFFECTIVE TODAY L ors have shown a substantial slowing of the decline and the beginning of the rise. These advisers are confident that by late October the encouraging signs will have multiplied in number and in degree, thus enabling the President, if he desires, to tell the voters that the United States is on the way back to recorcKprosper- 1958 Farm Income Rises 19 Per Cent Over 1957 Period By BERNARD BRENNER UPI Correspondent Washington -(UPD- The Agri culture department reported today that farm income for the first nine months of ,1958 will top the same 1957 period by 19 per cent - -. This reminder that farm in come Is still running well ahead of last year's rate was expected to be particularly heartening to GOP candidates fighting for farm belt seats. Farm price levels have been declining since mid-April. Top administration farm hands, headed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson, have been claiming' that an upturn in the farm economy this year will produce a GOP .gain in farm areas in the con gressional elections this fall. Early 1958 Rise A spectacular rise in the early part of the year shot the farm price index up to 266 per cent of the 1910-14 aver age oh April 15 and. brought In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . ' Foreign affairs which are getting hot again: Diplomatic representatives of the U.S. and Communist China are sitting down in Warsaw for talks on the For mosa crisis. American Ambas sador Jacob Bean will confer with Red Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping-Nan. The talks will be held in a fabulous ' 18th century palace. The Soviet press is predict ing that little will come of it. TM AFRAID that for once the Soviet press is right Personally, I'd feel better about it - if this man Robert Murphy of ours were doing the talking for our side. He has a REALISTIC out look on world affairs. TtflORE foreign affairs: Secretary Dulles says in New York' this morning the next United Nations General Assembly session (which is scheduled to begin tomorrow) may be the most important session in several years. He adds that there will be vital problems of consolidat ing peace, disarmament and economic development to deal with. TpHERE will be something else: Red China isn't gunning for just the insignificant offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. She isn't gunning merely for FORMOSA. I What is she gunning for? - She's gunning to BE CHI NA. She's gunning for Nation alist China's seat in the United Nations organization, which is now held by Nationalist Chi na. Nationalist China is very small. Communist China is very, VERY big. Secretary Dulles is certain ly not overstating the case when he says the session of the U.N. General Assembly that will open tomorrow will be one of the most important in several years. ON THE U.S. integration front, all four of Little Rock's high schools closed this morning on orders of Arkan sas Governor Faubus. In Virginia, the Front Royal high school is closed. Virginia authorities hint this morning that before the day is over eight more Virginia schools in Norfolk and Charlottesville -will be closed. A QUESTION: In this rlnsinff nf sr-rinnls in the South, who will suffer most? The answer is simple. The CHILDREN, who will be the next generation, will be the sufferers. Can the South afford that? I doubt it. Election Hearing ity. There will remain the tough and dangerous problems of currency inflation rising pric es, shrinking dollar purchas ing power. All will be a long way from well on the do mestic front. But Republican tacticians are hopefully con fident Ciat recession will not be so damaging to them in average farm prices on that date to 87 per cent of the "fair earning power" parity price. . By mid - August, however, the price index was down to 251 and prices were averag ing 83 per cent of parity. . The income report today was contained in the regular September issue of the depart ment's periodical "The Farm Income Situation.' Department economists es timated farmers realized net farm income from January September 1958 at an annual rate of about $13 billion com pared with about $10,900, 000,000 for the same period one year earlier. Estimate Basis The estimate was compiled by using preliminary figures for July and August and adopting a guesswork figure for September assuming it will show the usual seasonal change from August. The 19 per cent increase for the nine-month period was due, economists said, to high er average prices, increased marketings, and larger soil bank payments. These factors more than offset a further ih crease in production ex penses. For the first eight months of 1958, the report added, farmers' cash receipts totaled nearly $19,500,000,000, 10.5 per cent more than in the same period last year. Deadline Tonight For West Coast Pilots' Strike Chicago -DPD- The Air Line Pilots association in Chicago has set a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Wednesday for a strike of its member pilots against West Coast Airlines in a con tract dispute over pay rates and other factors in flying the line's new turbo-powered F-27 aircraft. The ALPA said 88 pilots would be involved in such a walkout against the . , line, which operates in Idaho, Ore gon and Washington. C. M. Sayen, president of the ALPA, said the line had tried to get the pilots "under threat of discharge" to fly the new aircraft without raise in pay and without establish ing rules or working condi tions. Efforts Deadlocked A statement from Sayen said: "The company was fully acquainted with the pilots' po sition and very clearly in formed that attempts to force the pilots under threat to fly their aircraft without an agreement would precipitate a cessation of service on the entire airline." The ALPA said negotiations to cover the rules for flying the new aircraft, as well as a pension plan, began last Nov. 19 under the Railway Labor Act, and "normal" , ef forts became deadlocked on Aug. 1. He said iilots have been free to strike since Aug. 18 under provisions of the Railway Labor Act. BRITISH SHIPS WARNED London-flJPD-The Admiralty has warned British ships to steer clear of the Formosa Strait during the current crisis, an Admiralty spokes man said today. WE NEVER CLOSE C M. Litwiller For nearly door (downtown) has never been locked. A real personal service. Not always easy but cheer fully given to all, regardless of social position or financial condi- tion. To merit your confidence is our aim. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close November as they had feared m May. Main Issue Economics is not an area of discussion in which Eisen hower feels most at home. He is likely to enter it, however, because Democratic leaders and their labor associates evi dently intend that business conditions shall be a prime 1958 issue. It will not be "as some of them expected. Nine months ago Leon H. Keyser ling predicted that unemploy ment would be seven million in the first quarter of this year. Keyserling was chief economic advisor to President Harry S. Truman. Eisenhower, of course, will depend wholly upon his eco nomic advisors in his 1958 compaign speeches. He is ho economist, himself. Confront ed on taking office in 1953 with the ' economic controle enacted after outbreak of the Korean War, Eisenhower abolished them after discus sion at the first business meet ing of his new cabinet. The big decision having been tak en, the cabinet meeting broke up. As Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey came by, Eisenhower caused him to pause. "George," said the Presi dent "I hope to heaven you know what you are doing." Edilorial Comment EXPENSIVE FINANCING The Medford school board this week sold a $1,000,000 bond issue to finance construc tion of schools and school ad ditions in the district. The ef fective interest rate on this is sue will be 3.7409, according to the Medford Mail Tribune. The cost to the school dis trict of servicing this bond is sue will be $452,995, or almost half the amount received from sale of the bonds, according to the Medford newspaper. That makes the proposed school project really expensive. But why, some may ask, a 3.7409 rate on; tax-exempt bonds? Most of us can re member when 2V4 or 2V4 per cent interest on such gilt edged' issues was considered tops If a municipal corpora tion had to pay more it was regarded as too expensive. The answer lies in the crash , that has occurred in the bond market since last July. Liter ally billions in bond values have been erased in this de cline, which still has not been fully checked. A wide variety of really high grade bonds to day can be purchased for as little as 90 cents on the dollar. Conversely, the stock mar ket is at an all-time high in some categories. Stocks on the New York and other exchang es today are selling at prices so high that dividends, do not equal the revenue from bonds. This is because the majority of investors now have become convinced that further serious inflation is inevitable. With the government committed to another $12 billion deficit, and no real attempt to curb fed eral, state and local spending, it begins to look as though the sky is the limit. So invest ors now are seeking hedges, and the purchase of common stocks is a traditional means of beating dollar declines. : , Bond buyers, however, have taken a terrible beating over the past 15 or 20 years. They have received low interest in return for the assumed "se curity" of their investments, then have been paid off on maturity with 48-cent dollars. Only a real sucker takes the same bait twice.-Grants Pass Courier. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$3 NEED MONEY! come to I PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL a "MONEYLAND " -where it's almost fun to bor- row money for Fall expenses. perianal loans and new or used ear financing $ S 16 S. Central SP 3-5308 JIM ELBERT, Manager ji$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$s$$$s$s i V4 r-1 "v' Mr. Litwiller 24 years, our 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."