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4 TaWay, NwvmiW 25, 1951 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Zveryone in Southern Ore go Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-8141 "oTS'ffOT W RfTTTT. Editor HERB OtUiX, AQVtrruaiiig uiouibgs GERALD LATHAM. Busmen Mgr. ZK1C W. AU-l" Managing Editor KARL A ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Teleg. Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE EHICKSUJ. circunmm aigr ii iuusi."r". -- - i Entered as second clam matter at Alec 1 or jregon uno wi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION HATES a VT , . 1 Tn Advance: ConV 10e iaily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 jjauy ana aunoaj n mv.. o.w Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $420. rmmwr In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor route: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail lerma vaan in nnfawg Official Paper of City of Medfor United Press International Full Leased wire jCTMBER'OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION IdirMttn, Renrexentjltive flcea In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. .- Cr? NEWSPAPER i PUBLISH! IS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS0C5.N 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 Not. 25. 1948 (Thursday) Approximately 800 people attend the annual Medford firemen's ball. Ben Nelson and son, Med ford, have established a rec ord with their registered Guernsey cow, Cloverlawn's Betsy, whose production of milk and butterfat is high for the state. 20 YEARS AGO Hot. 25, 1938 (Friday) The state and country tax levy for Jackson county is to be from 1.3 to 1.4 mills lower this year than last. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "For these things, and many more, thanks can be given today: For August heat that would feel much better now, and for wind and frost, when they fretteth not the pear growers." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 25, 1928 (Sunday) Medford police and county sheriffs officers taking advan tage of unsuspecting hospital ity seize a sizeable haul of monshine, gin and alcohol. New street lights have been installed at 19 residential lo cations in response to citizens' petitions. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 25. 1918 (Monday) Local canneries report sub stantial increases in their out put of fruits and vegetables over last year. Music lovers look forward with ears a-tingle to Leopold Godowski's piano concert here Wednesday. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five i six is good. 1. What was the name of the Irish peer who owned and raced a number of yachts in an effort to capture the Amer ica's Cup? 2. What name, derived from that of a famous portrait painter, is given to a trim, pointed beard? 3. The number of members specified as necessary to con duct business in a parliamen tary bodys is known as a q m? 4. Is the unit of electric power the volt, watt, or am pere? 5. In which State of the U. S. is Mammoth Cave? 6. Is Rocky Graziano well known as a football player, boxer, or jockey? 7. Boiled food is cooked in water; when food is broiled, how is it cooked? 8. Is it legal to conduct lot teries in the United States? 9. The department of med ical science that deals with children is called p. ? 10. If an Englishwoman re fers to a pram, what does she mean? Answers: 1. Sir Thomas Lip ton. 2. Vandyke beard. 3. Quorum. 4. Wait. 5. Kentucky. 6. Boxer. 7. By direct heat. 8. No. 9. Pediatrics. 9. Perambulator. Looking Forward Walter Lippmann, in a long article on this page last Sunday, attempted an analysis of the over-all " meaning of the election earlier this month. Blessed with high intelligence and a record of studious observation of the political scene for many decades, Lippmann can perhaps see further through a stone wall than the next man. His con clusions are persuasive, but they leave some questions unanswered. LIE CONCLUDES that the voters rejected the ""older generation" of politicians, and wel comed the new; that they voted to move on, and encouraged political leaders to eliminate the "lag" in public services, and "the human strain which this lag subjects our people." ' And he adds: "For the future . . . will be greatly concerned with this lag. It will be concerned with the lag in the pro vision of schools and colleges, with the lag in hospitals " and medical services, with the deficiency of highways and the backwardness of much of our transportation, and with city planning and slum clearance. The future will be concerned with the conservation and develop ment of our natural resources, with the water supply of large areas of the country, with the contamination of the air, and with many other consequences of the extraordinary growth of our population, its conglom eration in big urban masses, and with the shaking up of the people's habits due to the application of modern science." IN EYEING the election results the naming to office of young, relatively "liberal" candidates, who are concerned with these and other real issues of the day the people undoubtedly did express themselves as disenchanted with the stodgy, stand-pat and often reactionary "older" generation of politicians. Mr. Lippmann's observations, speaking na tionally, have validity, and he is corroborated by other astute observers. In Oregon, however, the picture is less clear. In three of the four congressional districts, the voters sent back to congress candidates who generally are associated with the liberal, forward-looking attitude; those who President Eis enhower identified as the "sDenders." In the fourth case, they reelected a man who identified himself as an "Eisenhower Republican," which at one time, anyway, meant the more liberal seg ment of the party. - fXN THE other hand, Oregon voters decisively elected a Republican as trovernor. and the fact that he had made state government undoubtedly had something to ao witn ms election. Also, the voters turned down, almost with out exception, those measures which would have cost money, or raised taxes, or even which had the sound of increasing How do these things logic? .Perhaps there is none, ously unaffected by logic. (Witness the famous case in Marion county a few years ago where a decisive vote majority was cast in favor of a. new courthouse, and a decisive majority was cast against the bonds to pay for it.) IS THIS paradox? Or . is it simply a partly- unthinking acknowledgement of the need for improvement of public services, represented by the vote for young, forward-looking men and women (a classification in which the Republi can governor-elect also can be fitted), coupled with the natural reluctance to vote more expense upon themselves? We lean to the latter view. It is human nature to want something, but to be reluctant to pay for it. And it is doubly true in the confused world of political maneuver ing, where black often seems white, and vice versa and where the truth often lies in various shades of gray. DUT it seems to us that Lippmann's main thesis is a valid one. He puts it this way: "Because of the great cost of the second World War and the very large cost of the cold war, this country, which is a very different country from what it was 29 years ago, is in a predicament. It is rich in the things that money can buy and. it is, speaking comparatively, poor in the services and the facilities that private enterprise cannot supply. "From now on, barring a great war, our internal politics will be dominated, we may be reasonably certain, by this predicament. "In it lies the real problem of 'spending.' The prob lem is whether the productivity of our economy can be increased so that public spending can be increased without forcing a decrease in private spending, per haps even while permitting an increase in private spending. This will be the subject of a great debate in the years ahead of us." fUR first concern in the years ahead, obvi-. ously, must be to remain strong in a world divided a world which bobs along on the brink of disaster. But strength is composed of many things. Military strength is imperative. Beyond that, however, strength is composed of a .healthy, and growing : economy, of a nation of people who are devoting their energies, not only toward mak ing an ever-better living, but also toward making life itself a better and richer thing. Strength is looking to the future, and to mak ing provision for generations to come. This cannot be done by solutions of the past, or, as Lippmann says, acting "like the old cronies of Colonel Blimp, fighting -in the present battles of their youtL"E.A. .' noises about economy in state expenditures. square? Where is the for the voter is notori Dennis the Menace ....... , - i9S?vwoJnr-0oc..r.tA.fel ''iilJl'llfi!1'. fl-25 Nonce how pbppv Ruff isactin' sihcb I 8EEM GMN' HIM VITAMIN PlUSV Washington Report By. William RARE BREED Washington Four political monuments in the Anglo American world seem happily to go on for ever. They are changeless in a time of cease less change, rock like and im movableas the tides of elections rise and recede unin.m g wh'.ta ana an man ner of crises come and pass away. There is the British crown. There is the American Con stitution. And there are Sam Rayburn of Texas and Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachus etts Rayburn and Martin are in stitutions as well as men; to gether they embody the House of Representatives of the Con gress of the United States. Indeed, between them, they are the House. Or, at any rate, between them they have run it and its affairs longer than any other two men in all its history. WHEN the 86th Congress as sembles in January they will go absent - mindedly through a long-accustomed ritual. Rayburn, not to his immense suprise, will be re elected Speaker of the House, the Democrats having retained control of Congress. He will then go on setting records for service in that high post. Already, he has held it for 15 years, whereas his closest rival, a gentleman named Henry Clay, had held it for 12 years. And Martin, not to his as tonishment, will again be chosen by his colleagues to be Republican leader of the House. (When the Republicans are in control he becomes the Speaker and Rayburn steps down onto the floor to be the Democratic leader. When party control of the House changes they change places like in a game of musical chairs.) Not in all the world's parl iamentary life is there another such durable and Inevitable pair as this. ' Rayburn, who is short, blocky and massively bald, will be 77 years old on Jan uary 6, the day before the new Congress meets. For 46 years he has been a member of the House. And though in his laconic, grumpy, scowling way he loves the old place, he never turns up here from a Congressional recess until the last minute. He always swears that it is a terrible trial to tear himself away from his farm-ranch to come back. Thus he is still down in Texas, nerving himself to re turn to this dreadful capital. Try and BKS an -By BENNETT CERF- THE AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL tells of an admiral who watched a cruiser in his flotilla being tied up at her berth, and blew his top over the sloppy manner in which the work was done. The cruisers captain suspected a sound dressing down in the offing, but the message from the Admiral was reasuring. It consisted of just one word: "Good." A few minutes later, how ever, he received this sup plement: "To the previous message please add the word God." Somerset Maugham, author of "Of Human Bondage," and now at an age (84) where he no longer cares whose toes he steps upon, observed recently: The four greatest novelists the world has ever known Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky wrote their respective languages very indifferently. It proves that if you can tell stories, create character, devise incidents, and if you have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write 1" . O UK by Beuttt Cut Distributes by Kinc Features Syadkat S. Whit TVf ARTIN, a mere 74 years old, is short, too, but still dark of hair. He is already on hand here. He has been in the -House only 34 years. Conse quently, Rayburn, when he is very put out, will sometimes treat his colleague with the trace of a suggestion that he is dealing patiently with a Johnny-come-lately. Rayburn likes books, par ticularly old ones. Martin is not hostile to them, but might be said to be neutral on the subject. Rayburn, though the top of these two bosses, main tains by choice the smaller of the two personal offices pro vided by the House for its party patriarchs. Martin, per force, hangs his hat in the larger one. Rayburn speaks with a rare, clipped gift for the English language; he scorns polysyl labic words and glowers at any ghost-written material. Martin is not much of an orator, and is cheerfully aware of this fact. He is far better at marshaling Republic an votes in the lobbies and at this he is very good, in deed. T1AYBURN, though a South ern, is basically a liberal Democrat, a close and unfor getting friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Tru man. His descriptions of Dem ocratic bolters from the party any Democratic bolter, any time are arrestingly terse and unprintable. Martin, though a Yankee by geogra phy, is a million human miles from the artistocratic wing of the New England Republican party His views of the Boston Brahmins is one of infinite pain. He does not hate them, exactly, but one could say fairly that he does not regard theirs as the country's finest political minds. He is just an unhyphenated, unhesitatingly loyal, indes tructible Republican, who would have been faithfully Republican equally under Wil liam McKinley or Theodore Roosevelt. Liberal . . . conser vative . . . left-wing . . . right wing ... all such terms are simply curious words to him But these are merely super ficial differences between Rayburn of Texas and Martin of Massachusetts. What is real, what is enduring, in common between them is a complex of these things: both are old bachelors, lonely men whose true lives are lived and ab solutely centered, in the stone and marble of the Capitol. Both are men whose personal word it would be unthinkable to question. They are of a rare breed; they are lawmakers of a very old school; they are Men of Congress. (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me I In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Oregon, there is a tan gle over who can appoint whom, and when. It arises out of the fact- that the in cumbent secretary of state was ' elected governor. He thinks he has the right to appoint his successor as sec retary of state. The incumbent governor thinks otherwise. He thinks HE has the right to fill the impending vacancy in the sec retary of state's office. The controversy revolves around the state board of con trol, which in Oregon has a lot of authority-and, of course, a corresponding amount of responsibility. yHAT shall we the people Here's a thought: Lefs sit tight until the courts untangle the snarl. Under our system of govern ment, the courts are the IN TERPRETERS of the law. THERE'S a mess - in West Berlin. What shall we do about that? Here's a suggestion: Let's wait till the Russians decide what they are going to do. They may not do any thing. They may just be test ing us out to see what they can get away with. If they do nothing, our worrying would be wasted. CO MUCH for the big stuff. Let's turn now to smaller things. Do you like persimmons? Do you have a hard time find ing them along about this season of the year, when they are at their best? If so, here's a tip. The next time you're passing through Cottonwood (down in Shasta county, a few miles south of Redding) turn east on the town's Main street. In a cou ple of blocks, you'll come to the railroad. Cross the tracks to the right of the station. This will lead you onto a nar row gravelled road. Follow it about a mile, until you come to a gate. Go through the gate, and you will be in Northern California's largest persimmon orchard. ITEEP following the road, and you will come to the home of the owner. The own er is Moss Feigenberg. If you are not too early or too late in the season, he will see that you get persimmons. All you want - and VERY good. When you get your persim mons, don't dash off in the normal, hurried manner of these high-strung modern days. Stop and chat a while. You'll find Moss Feigenberg a charming character. TIE HAS led an interesting " life. He came to Amer ica from Lithuania 54 years ago. He landed in Boston. Fortunately, his father had taught him the weaver's trade, so he had no trouble landing a job. In his first week, he earned $19 - which then was not hay in America and to a. Lithuanian immi grant looked like wealth. He worked industriously at his trade,- and saved his money. He was young and unat tached. He made a friend, who was also young and un attached. The time came when the friend wanted to GO WEST. They came to Cali fornia. Moss went on work ing and saving his money. In the course of time, he saved enough to buy some land -the land he still owns. A LSO, he acquired a liking for persimmons. And, he noted thriftily, persimmons as a crop seemed to have not TOO much competition. So he started his orchard. He kept acquiring more land. Learn ing by experience that there are good persimmon years and bad persimmon years, he acquired some cows. The cows" help out in the bad years - the years when for one reason and another the persimmon crop isn't so heavy. This, incidentally, is one of those years. Too wet back in April, he says. BUT - the rains that weren't good for the blossoming persimmons were good for grass and grass was good for his cows. So he's getting along OK. He's con tented. You'll hear no griping from him. TN conclusion You WILL hear grip ing from a lot of Americans - NATIVE Americans. But Moss Feigenberg has memor ies. He has memories of his native Lithuania. Lithuania is now an unwilling captive of . COMMUNIST RUSSIA. Moss Feigenberg knows the fix he'd be in if he were still in Lithuania. So he's happy. He has no quarrels with the American way of life. He thinks the American way of life is WONDERFUL. New Missile Site Can Launch Polar Orbit Satellites Los Angeles-(DPD-The Unit ed States' new Pacific missile range at Point Arguello is planned so that it can serve as the launching site for manned satellites possibly armed with nuclear weapons. Rear Adm. Jack P. Monroe, USN, commander of the new range about 140 miles north of here, Monday also revealed Talent Show Date Changed By DAV, Now Set Dec. 10 The annual amateur talent show, sponsored by Jackson County chapter No. 8 of the Disabled American Veterans, will be held on Nov. 10 at 8 p. m. in the Medford high school auditorium instead of at the previously announced time, according to Patrick Graham,, chapter commander. The show has been changed from the Dec. 5 date because of a conflict in the schedule of events planned for the high school auditorium, Gra ham said. "The annual event promises to be better this year than formerly," Graham said. "A special feature will be a run off of all winners including the former and present. A grand prize will be awarded. 25 Acts Scheduled Approxmiately 25 acts are scheduled so far, Graham noted. All entrants are urged to register as soon as possible to avoid last minute confu sion. No auditions are plan ned unless the number of con testants becomes too large to be included in the alloted time, he said. Applicant's q u a 1 ifications must be under 18 years of age, amateur, and able to pre sent theatrical entertainment, Children under 10 years of age will be classed by them selves. They will not have to compete with the older chil- ren, Graham assured parents Tickets dated Dec, 5 will be honored, he added. Those wanting tickets or to enter the show should contact Pat Graham at 175 Jeanette st. or call SPring 2-4192. Research Grants Awarded Oregon Washington -(UPD- The awarding of seven grants to scientists at Oregon institu tions for basic research proj ects was announced Monday by the National Science foun dation. The grants, first to be awarded by the foundation in fiscal 1959, total nearly $116, 800. Three of the grants went to Oregon State college scien tists, three to the University of Oregon including one at the Medical School in Port land, and one to Reed college in Portland. Recipients at OSC were Vernon H. Cheldelin, Chemis try Department Scientific Re search institute, $dl,0U0; Frea W. Decker, Physics depart ment, $5,000, and Allen B. Scott, Chemistry department, $16,400. University of Oregon biolo gist Sanford S. Tepfer was awarded an $11,000 grant. A $17,000 grant will be shared between Bertram Yood and Paul Civin, both of the Math ematics department at Eu gene. H. S. Mason of the U. of O Medical school received a $27,000 grant. Biologist Gilbert F. Gwil liam of Reed was awarded a $9,400 grant. Strafofanker Crash Kills Five Airmen Loring AFB, Maine -(DPD- Five airmen were lulled today when a jet stratotanker crash ed and burned at this air base while Dracticine "touch-and- go" landings. Two men sur vived. It, was the second similar mishap at this Northern Maine airfield in four days. A B47 crashed on takeoff Saturday, killing four crew men. The three million dollar KC135 had taken off at 4:45 a.m. (e.s.t.) and had been prac ticing touch-and-go landings and takeoffs. It crashed at 7:27 a.m. at approximately the same place as Saturday's jet bomber. - ' Causes of the crashes have not been determined. Too Many Pheasants, London Paper Claims London -UPD The Laborite Daily Herald complained to day that the 600 pheasants Prince Philip and half a dozen friends shot at Windsor Mon day were too many. at a Chamber of Commerce meeting that the adjacent Vandenberg Air Force Base was "designed to fire in an ger at Russia" with intrrrnn. tinental ballistic missiles if war ever broke out. Monroe said satellite launched from Point Arirupllr. can be placed in a polar orbit wnich would allow them to scan all of the earth's snrfano Only Place Point Arguello is the nnlv place in the U.S. where a satellite safely could be nut in such an orbit, he said. If it ever becomes rlAsir. able to have an oDerational bombing satellite, this (a polar orbit) would make a good platform since it again covers trie entire world." Mnnrn said. The range commander while deploring as expensive and unnecessary the missile race between the U.S. and Russia, conceded that a tre mendous capacity to destrov an aggressor is today's "only guarantee of survival of the free world." Monroe said the 90.000 missile range had the added advantage over such ranees as at Cape Canaveral, Fla. secrecy. He indicated a new national "clam ud" Dolicv has already gone into effect re garding the firing of rockets, missiles, space probes and satellites. Said Necessary For manv nroeramx se crecy is necessary because we do not want our enemies to know either what we are fir ing, the rate of firine or anv information about successes or failures which would assist them in analvzine our caoa bilities and preparing defenses against them." Another advantaee of the West Coast ranee. Monroe said, is its location on the large Pacific Ocean. "There is nothing between Point Arguello and the South Pole except water. This pro vides a fine fall area for the booster and also a large safety area for the destruction of missile in-case it does not go into orbit properly." Editorial Comment INVITATION HERE'S AN INVITATION to visit Oregon in 1959. Emma Lou Carpenter, of Medford, Ore., who has contributed to this column on several pre vious occasions, sent out the invitation. "Would like to tell my old home state of North Dakota and especially Graf ton, that Oregon is getting ready to tell the world it will be 100 years old in 1959," Em ma Lou says. She then adds: "Portland, the city of roses, is planning centennial exposition trade fair from June 10 to Sept. 17. Their slogans will be "Oregon Welcomes You" and "Oregon, Host to the World." Medford, Oregon's fourth larg est city, a little over 25,000, may even lead in enthusiasm. Our young and vigorous may or has already started a cru sade to make Medford beauti ful, backed up by the Mail Tribune." Mrs. Carpenter, speaking like a Chamber of Commerce, then goes into length to tell of the beauties of Medford. Her description sounds so good that we couldn't reprint the rest of the letter without charging adver tising rates.. Her letter sounds so convincing, however, that we've just about decided to spend a -summer vacation in Oregon, Walsh County Rec ord, Grafton, N. D. Counsel With . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan J??' Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. Southern Leaders See State Rights Upheld in Opinion By LEON BURNETT UPI Correspondent Atlanta -(UPD- Most South ern leaders expressed hopa today that Supreme Court ap proval of the way Alabama worded its pupil placement law has given the doctrine of states' rights a new lease on life. Alabama Att Gen. John Patterson, who will be sworn in as governor early in 1959, rommeniea: "I hooe the der-isinn reflect a trend toward letting us han dle our own domestic affair without outside interference, wnicn is the only way things can be handled without rhara and disorder." Patterson expressed fear, howtver. that "race agitators' might pose a future threat to tne law's application. On Face The Supreme Court said in its ruling Monday that the Al- i i i i . auaum ujiUie is constitution al "on its face," since there is no provision in it for separ ation of the races. The ruling would not. neoes- sarily apply to all applications of the law, however, the court said. If administered in such a way as to keep Ne groes from white schools be cause of race, it could be struck down as unconstitu tional. The case was taken to the court on behalf of four Ne gro students turned down in efforts to transfer to white schools in Birmingham, Ala. The Supreme Court said a lower court correctly ruled that the pupils failed to show their exclusion was in con flict with their rights. Georgia Gov.-elect Ernest Vandiver did not share Pat terson's optimism. "This rul ing does not hold any signifi cance for Georgia or any oth er state dedicated to maintain segregated schools," he said. "It has held only that the Ala bama assignment law is valid on its face, which means that when the law is applied to preserve segregation, it will fall at the hands of the same court which today upheld it." NO OTHER VODKA IN THE WORLD LIKE IT Oregon Products Build Oregon's Econom, THANKSGIVING SEASON Many who have Increased their fire insurance are truly thank ful. Especially when they realize replacements costs on shingles are up 65, insulation 52 and painting 50 since 1946. Bill Fisb f swing j V Is to jggj .-Co i
