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Newspaper Page Text4 Friday, December 5, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDSiWrBIBUNB m a. "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" , Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City 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 PATES Bv Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. "Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 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: , Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance orri.-ial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press International FulT Leased Wire MEMBER OF" AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCiILATION 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 . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION U J Flight 'o Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec 5, 1948 (Sunday) Medford firemen report they have already run out of toys to repair for Christmas gifts and ask again for more. Medford police report an "epidemic" of bad checks in this area, at least 25 having been reported in the last three weeks. 20 YEARS AGO Dec 5, 1938 (Monday) A one-day district meeting of the League of Oregon Cities 1 is in progress here, primarily to dis'russ a proposal that cities receive a share of state gasoline tax receipts for street work. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Democratic 'crying towels' are ;.now dry enough for use by basketball coaches." , 3f YEARS AGO Dec. S, 1928 (Wednesday) The fog that appeared Mon day lingers on, denser and colder than ever. . Mann's department store wins the prize for the best window display at the Christ mas opening. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 5, 1918 (Thursday) Traffic is held up on the Bullis railroad after a carload of machinery and lumber comes in contact with a street car post at the Main st. cross ing. Businessmen petition the county court to provide a new fairgrounds for county ex hibits. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. v 1. The Bible story tells that f Samson's hair was cut by De- ? lilah; true or false? 2. What is the name of the temporary residence used by President Truman while the White House was -undergoing reconstruction? 3. What does the given name "Christine" mean? 4. From which of these lan , guages is the name "Eliza beth" derived: Greek, He- brew, Teutonic? 5. The famed movie actor, who was known as "the man of a thousand faces," was L C ? 6. What is the principal in gredient of snuff? 7. What is the W.C.T.U.? 8. In which of these does the wind blow spirally: hurri cane, cyclone, or tornado? - 9. Should crabs be cooked alive? 10. King, Queen, Knight " and Pawn are terms applying ." to what game? Answers: 1. False.- 2. Blair House. 3. Belonging to Christ. 4. Hebrew. 5. Lon Chaney. 6. Tobacco. 7. Women's Chris- tian Temperance Union. 8. All three. 9. Yes. 10. Chess. NUCLEAR EXPERTS MEET Vienna - (UPD - Nuclear experts from nine countries are meeting here to discuss .- ways to prevent contamina : tion of oceans by radioactive : waste. " ' " - - Military "Fire Insurance A multi-million dollar "SAGE" installation was opened near Corvallis the other day an other lmk m this nation signed to warn of the approach of enemy aircraft SAGE means semi-automatic ground en vironment," a fancy name for a highly complex, vastly expensive electronic network including ra dar, communications, teric devices to sound craft ever cross our borders. It is tied in with the warning) line across with such installations facility at the northwestern corner of Jackson county. ASA warning against aircraft, this network probably is the finest, slickest and fastest-act ing thing ever devised man. But it is obsolete or obsolescent almost before it is fully placed m service. For the age of aircraft in warfare is ending, The sky giants, which can carry nuclear destruc tion in their bellies, are fast being replaced by missiles. One defensive squadron alreadv is scheduled for the Willamette valley. And offen sive missiles are at a stage of development where they soon will replace bombers. AN ATLAS intercontinental ballistic missile " the other day was given its first full-range test. It flew more than 6,000 miles across the south Atlantic, and landed within 30 miles of its target. The Russians are (dependine; on whose esti mates one reads) slightly behind, equal, slightly ahead, or far ahead of the United States m de velopment of such "ultimate weapons." As a result, the long-predicted era of the "missile deadlock" is at ade, it has been an atomic or nuclear deadlock. Now this is combined with missiles which cannot be successfully detected, and cannot be destroyed even if they are detected. ..-' rjETECTION and destruction systems for guid- ed missiles may be developed eventually. In warfare, actual or potential, most weapons in time produce their own defenses, and vice versa. It may be that the end is not yet. But, with the weapons of today, we cannot conceive of anyone be he Russian or American pushing the . button which will set m motion automatic weapons of destruction which will kill millions of persons, and, perhaps more important from the button pusher's point of view, auto matically set off retaliatory weapons of equal potency and destructiveness. DERHAPS we are too sanguine. Perhaps an imbalance in the "deadlock of terror" will make it possible for one side to start a missile-nuclear war with some hope of winning. (It is this possibility which has so exercised Jo seph Alsop and others.) Perhaps new weapons troy the balance, and make one side so far ahead, technologically, that the afford even to continue All these things are with the space age already in its lusty infancy. IT IS also possible that our own short-term opti- mism about the chance of general war is due to lack of information.' Our government has been less than candid with its own people as to our progress in military arts, and in many cases far too pollyanna-ish in what it has reported. But, in balance, we believe that the U.S. is at least sufficiently on a par with Russia, mili tarily, that neither side can afford to start any thing major. And we must work to maintain our techno logical progress, simply to keep the balance, let alone forge ahead. This will take sacrifice. A RMAMENTS are unbelievably expensive, and it is into these that by far the largest part of the federal tax dollar is poured- If it were not for armaments, the federal government could do all those things which so many citizens be lieve are important and necessary if our nation is to move ahead in the things which it needs, and which only government can provide. But some of them, at any rate, must be post poned until the day when the fear of a major catastrophic war abates. . Armament expenditures are like fire insur ance. One hopes it will never be needed, but one cannot afford to take the chance to do without it. ... 1MEANWHILE, this fat, rich, materialistic America which at the same time is de veloping so rapidly in non-materialistic ways must make-do with perhaps fewer of the ameni ties which we would like, simply in order to pay for the fire insurance. Never before in history have so many people lived so well as in America today. - It would be nice to believe that this will con tinue, and even improve. But it is the cold war which deters this prog ress in material things, and, to an. extent, in the non-material. For if ever there were to be an all out nuclear-missile war or one fought from the depths of nearby space our comforts, our luxu ries, our "progress" in all lines, would be gone. We don't see it happening, as long as we keep the fire insurance until the house is fireproofed. --.' " E.A. 99 s electronic system de computers and other esO' the alarm if hostile air "DEW" (distant early Alaska and Canada, and as the "gap filler" radar by the mind and hand of if not obsolete, at least hand. For the past dec developments will des opposing side could not the race. possible particularly Dennis the Menace tie, MOM'. YotfO 8ETTK WMV OF VMBRi Washington Report By William THE GRAND MANNER Washington - A sturdy old man who has just passed his 84th birthday has every rea- son to say aloud now what he will never in fact say - "I told you so." The o mi aous Russian press u r e on t h e Western position in William S White Germany would not exist today had Sir Winston Churchill not been overborne 15 years ago at the wartime Teheran Conference by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin. This conference produced a Big Three decision, with Churchill's reluctant assent, that the one supreme Allied operation of 1944 was to be a cross-cnannei invasion 01 Hitler Germany. For months the Prime Minister, whose long view of history was not matched on the Western side, had wanted to conduct action in the Balkans as well. HE WISHED to make cer tain thereby that Ameri can-British military power would be standing there at war's end to prevent a Soviet absorption of Southern and Central Eurorie. Churchill's nlan would have altered the postwar world immeasurably. As things were allowed to de velop, Russian troops reached Berlin simultaneously with the Allies. The terribly expos ed western salient in Berlin today-a salient lying a hun dred miles back of the Iron Curtain-is one of the results. Another is that all Europe from Berlin eastward and most of it southward through the Danube basin is in Soviet or satellite hands. Reviews of what might have been are rarely useful. The only justification for this is that it might throw some light upon current Allied problems. Too, it might in a small way point out. that all wishful current thinking of a possibly "reasonable" Soviet attitude about Germany is a most perilous kind of think ing. The days of 1943 are being relived now in other minds than Churchill's. Vainly he tried to convince Mr. Roose velt that it was one thing to welcome Russian aid against Hitler and quite another thing to suppose that we could do business with the Kremlin after the war. THESE were both great men. But Mr. Roosevelt persist ed in a sunny confidence in the Soviet Union which the wiser partner, Churchill, knew to be as unsound as it was attractive. And these were both gay men. But Mr. Try and By BENNETT CERF- TO GIVE YOU a rough idea of what newspaper" editors in frontier towns were up against in the days of the "Wild and Wooly West," Harry Oliver tells about a subscriber who was stopped at the entrance of the Wahoo City Bugle. "Where's the editor?" he. roared. "First," insisted the clerk on duty, "you gotta tell us what you want to shoot him in reference to." Alfred Hitchcock conjured up the most ingenious "lead in" for a TV commercial I've heard in years. "When I was a lad," recalled Mr. H 1 had an uncle who often stood me to dinner. He always accom panied these dinners with in terminable stories about himself. But I listened carefully because he was paying the check. I don't know what reminded me of my dear uncle, but we are about to have one of our commercials." O 1353. bjr Bennett Cert Distributed by Kiss Features Syndicate, S. White Roosevelt's gayety was truly that; Mr. Churchill's gayety overlay a deep philosophic skepticism. And because of his martial gusto he had the hab it in Allied war councils of throwing off grandiose ideas, if only to stir laggard minds. Because of this, because he was unashamedly a Tory and because he behaved in a grand manner that seemed to take little account of the cost, his advice, even when given in mortal seriousness, was some times discounted at the wrong time! ' , His personal acts 'tended further to foster the notion that "Winston" was as erratic as he was brilliant. Both the American and British high commands were in terror on and after D-Day in Normandy that "The Old Man" would come over and insist on tak ing personal charge. There was an amiable conspiracy "to keep the P.M. at home." For a little while, he submitted. But a few weeks after the in vasion beachheads had been driven in, he could stand it no longer. ONE day, in August of 1944, this correspondent happen ed to be at a British fighter base in Normandy. Word spread across that part of the front: "Churchill is coming over!" Soon, as we all anxious ly watched the skies, a cap tured German observation plane, a Storka, began a wob bly descent. ' Out stepped the pudgy fig ure in his square black hat and with something in his pocket, which may have been a bottle of brandy. The Prime Minister's pilot was an air vice-marshal, who did not suc ceed in his earnest efforts not to look disapproving at this adventure. After all, to fly over an active British front in a German aircraft was, so to speak, a little dangerous. But Churchill himself was in high good humor. He an nounced hp had come to brief the troops on the attempt that had been made on Hitler's life in Germany in July. "They missed the old bahstard," he said with a grin to the airmen sitting in a semi-circle around him. "But," he added, with a great wave of his cigar, "there's time yet." (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Make Favorable Report Warsaw (UPD A Polish parliamentary delegation just back from a visit to the United States reported favor ably today on America's know-how in construction of one-family houses. Members of the group, which included state planning commissioner Boleslaw Jaszczuk, said they believed some American home-building methods might be applicable in Poland. Stop Me Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer, altoougn under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor 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 If Other Person Pays To the Editor: I see by your paper that the council wants the taxpayers educated on the coming city election. , Mr. Robert Duff gave me a thorough education on aU Medford pity elections. When I complained, follow ing a former election when we voted a great dear of money and continuing levy, that the money was not used as we were told it would be, Mr. Duff informed me that it did not make any difference what we were told by news papers, radio or any person. The only thing they were forced to do, was just what it said on the ballot that we cast. These ballots are very brief and rather indefinite, pro viding many loop holes. We are told that it will not cost the taxpayers anything. The cost will be assessed only against those who will bene fit. Why not let the people who are to pay and benefit decide if they want the off street parking? Why should people who are not even tax payers vote this expense on them? Many people will vote for anything if the other person is to pay for it. Mrs. Edward Canoose 555 Ross court Medford Sixth Grade Visits To the Editor: Thank you for the exciting and education al visit to the Medford Mail Tribune. This visit gave us the infor mation we needed for making our own paper, the "Oak Grovian." Not all of the pu pils in bur class are going to work on the paper but we all understand the production of the newspaper better and its use as a valuable means of communication. Sixth Grade Oak Grove chool Medford Make Medford Beautiful To the Editor: The drive by our daily to spur all to definite action in making our city and vicinity beautiful should be approved by all, for even for our own viewing as well as possible settlers an at tractive city and vicinity is inviting. Heartily, success to the effort. However, the same urge prevents us allowing in our selves the likeness of the ostrich who by hiding his neaa in me sand supposes himself hidden from view, The basic moral and spiritual conditions should be on a par if not in better trim than phy sical appearances, and should give us more concern. Dis criminate tourists, visitors, ana possioie settlers major most seriously in judging these basic qualifications. In this respect we also need to make Medford beautiful. Quite recently the word pictures of undesirable, even shocking things existent in Medford, made all our faces red and stunned our minds with astonishment. A juvenile sex club in Med ford! Liquor consuming, sex promiscuity, youth parties in homes with parents absent! Aghast . we ask, how come? But a little matter-of-fact re flection gives us the answer. How can we rule out these disastrous enemies of moral and spiritual values? Can the atmospheres in our homes, and., the general aura of juvenile surroundings be improved? Are we allowing pitfalls to plunge our youths to disaster? Are not the following ever fruitful pitfalls? Pornographic movies and television shows. Unclean literature In cheap form fed by news stands and other sources to our unsuspecting and plastic teenagers. Pro grams, in our schools that feature leg-shows and shame ful exposure of the body. Par ents who consider modesty old-fashioned and prudish -and since fashion says undress and get tanned turn their teenage daughters out in warm weather on streets and elsewhere half or less than half clothed. And alcoholic beverages! Note the plenty sufficient outlets we have: Grocery markets, resturants, clubs, and vending stores make intoxicants easily ob tainable. What spurs youth to wrong doing? No one who has his head hidden in the sand can answer, neither can he who says, "My mind's made up, don't confuse me with facts." Every agency that contri butes to the demoralization of our populace should be ex cluded from our midst. -Let's get back to God and to right standards of living. Let's make Medford beauti ful in these basic respects also. H. R. Bulman, . Route 4, Box 316A, Medford Music on Radio To the Editor: I am usually not inclined to writing letters to the editor, but feel that it might be interesting to answer Mr. McCabe's letter regarding radio station music program ing. In general I agree with what Mr. McCabe has to say about the music that is avail able to radio stations on rec ords through normal channels. However, the selections he lists I am sure do not strike a responsive cord to program directors who must keep in mind the varying tastes of his vast audience. We at KMED recently com pleted a study and made cer tain investments to organize. through program director Ed Lewis, a music policy by which the station is now pro gramed, and designed to ap peal to an adult audience. I invite Mr. McCabe to listen critically to KMED's hour by hour music plan, and I am sure he will find that much is being done to improve the quality of music available to the listeners of southern Ore gon through our station. I further invite Mr. McCabe to sit down with me in my of fice to discuss music on radio, for I think it would be inter esting to both. Ray Johnson General Manager KMED Parking Is a Problem To the Editor: I have been asked on numerous occasions lately whether there is really a parking problem in Med ford, and I thought I should write a letter setting forth what I have observed con cerning the parking situation in Medford during my two years as municipal, judge. Approximately one-half the violations in city court over the past two years have been connected with parking, ei ther improper parking, meter tickets, overtime parking, or moving violations connected with view obstructed by park ed cars, such as, failure to yield the right of way. After having listened to hundreds of these cases and talking to people who have come in, it is very apparent to me that the lack of adequate parking and congestion in the downtown area are responsible for the great majority of these cases. There has been an increase in the number of these cases from month to month. In the month of October, 1958, for example, there were 160 im proper parking citations, 25 warrants issued on overdue meter tickets, 71 overtime parking citations in one or two hour zones, and 7 failure to yield the right of way cita tions. Noreen A. Kelly Municipal Judge Medford Vote for Progress To the Editor: We have an important election in Medford next week on the City Off Street Parking Proposal. This will be a special election on Dec. 10-and very "special" for the city of Medford as it speus i-KULfrtuiSB ior our city. What we will really be say ing by voting "yes" on this proposal is: "Yes, Mr. Mayor and City Councilmen. We elected you because we knew of your con cern for our city's problems and your good judgment in solving them. "Yes, because we know what is good for the business of Medford is good for all of Medford. "Yes, because being the fourth largest city of the state of Oregon, we have an obliga tion to provide for its further growth. "Yes, because we under stand that this formal approv al of the charter amendment will enable us to solve our own problem. . . Yes, because this plan will make 4t more convenient for us to park our cars when shopping. "Yes, because our tourists and guests will- see further proof that Medford is among the most up-and-coming cities of the state of Oregon." Let s vote for confidence in our future! Vote "yes" on the City Off-Street Parking Pro posal on Dec. 10. Mrs. Frank Bash 1325 Bundy st. Medford ' Ha Says "Vote No" To the Editor: The promot ers, of this vicious off-street parking bill have had over four years to work out at least some of the details and what do they have to date? The only sure , thing they know is that they want the voters of Medford to hand them a signed blank check for a half million dollars. A few questions If they are so careful and saving of public funds, why wasn't this bill put on the regular ballot a few weeks in the Day's News By FRANK Interesting note in the news: The armed forces told a house subcommittee in Wash ington on Tuesday that the government owns nearly one and a half BILLION dollars worth of industrial plants that are producing nothing. Reports submitted to a house armed services subcom mittee by the army, navy and air force showed that the un ago instead of calling a spe cial election? Elections cost money and tax payers pay the bill. They evidently decided that the tax payer was fed up with spend, waste and more spend and their pet bill would be defeated. (This decision was sound as the results of the November election proved.) So they decided to hold a special election which would draw relatively few voters, thus giving them a dis tinct advantage. This delay also allowed them to determ ine if their men would be elected to the city council. Present taxpaying private parking lots are used less than half of capacity. One owner of three downtown private park ing lots was forced to sell one lot because of lack of patron age. Incidentally, he offered this lot for sale at a fair price to the people who are so urg ently pushing this controver sial bill, but they were not interested. Instead they have visions of getting their hands on lush public funds to do with as they please. It "would be interesting to know what distress property would be sold to the city (at a fat profit) if this bill should pass. Any private taxpaying prop erty sold to the city becomes tax free with the resulting deficit added to the already overburdened taxpayer. Is there a genuine need for off-street parking? When Port land felt a need for off-street parking, private capital rushed in and established tax paying lots which proved fi nancially sound. But I repeat, the need was there and the taxpayer was not asked to finance' the government in this venture. What government-run project ever proves anything but a waste and a rat hole for public funds? Keep your taxes down. Vote No!!! M. J. Olsen, Route 4, box 325, Medford.. From the Teachers To the Editor: On behalf of the teachers of Jackson county I wish to express our appreciation for the voters' affirmation of Proposition 13. This proposal, enabling school employees to serve in both legislative sessions of an elective term and to teach during the interim, was pass ed by every county in the state. It parallels the decisions of thirty-three other states. Viola Pomeroy, President, Jackson County ' Teachers Association, Medford i You, too, Can Achieve These Measurement Changes! Charlene Vanes, 21-year-old Secretary Made These Remarkable Improvements in Her Measurements Before 32" - a .r f'24" waist A 38" MEDFORD SPECIAL! JOIN NOW! Just $69.50 yearly srso 5! PER MONTH ONLY Hours: 10 to 10 daily, Saturday til 6 ( ' ! ; 2 W - HEDFORD HEALTH CLUB Neir'the Holland Hotel 3 WEST 6TH SP 3-6686 JENKINS used plants originally cost the federal government $1, 409,392,221 but would cost much more than that to re place now. The reports said the gov ernment is spending about 31 million dollars a year to main tain the plants. TTOW did it come about? ; li. Well, one must presume that it came about because our federal government has become so UNIMAGINABLY big that mere trifles like a billion and a half dollars worth of industrial plants are FORGOTTEN - much as an ordinary citizen lays a pack age of cigarettes aside in a seldom used drawer of his desk and forgets all about it. That's the trouble with big ness. It gets unwieldy. WHAT to do about it? ' ' That brings up an in teresting story. The McNary dam site, up on the Columbia river near the town of Uma tilla, has just been leased to a couple of California indus trialists - Robert and William Schultz, owners and operators of the R. S. Engineering and Manufacturing company Of . Los Angeles. ' The Schultz brothers- will hold a five-year lease, with an optional renewal clause. They will pay $1,200 a month for the site, which includes homes built by the government for dam construction workers. These homes have stood emp ty since the McNary dam was ; completed. The new owners presently i plan to build a house trailer manufacturing plant on the i 344-acre site. Under their con- ; tract, they can in the future sublease any part of the town site to other industries The J homes now standing idle will ? then be occupied by workers in the new private enterprises ! that may be attracted to the ? location. - ? fFHAT'S good business. Letting a billion and a half dollars worth of indus trial plants, owned by the ' federal government, stand idle at an annual maintenance cost of 31 million dollars! ISN'T good business. J,, It is sheer careless over sight. This carelessness, we must remember, if we are to-: be fair about it, arises NOT; out of dishonesty or incompev tence but out of the fact that our federal government , hasft become so big and so wciMM wieldy that it can no longer be managed in a businesslike manner. SWEETS FOR CYNICS f Chicago (UPD The Retaif Candy Store Institute is send-1 ing 50 pounds ; of candy to Stillwater, Okla., where cyni-1 cism runs high among the town's youngsters. The move is aimed at restoring the city's faith in Santa Claus, who was roundly booed by the small fry when he paraded down the main street dispensing Yuletide cheer-but no candy. : & '-3, r, r- ) V' 'It 1 . , After Bust - 36 -22'' : -Hips -36 For Free Trial Call SP 3-6686 Because you're different, FREB FIGURE ANALYSIS and TRIAL TREATMENT ... NO OBLIGA TION of course. 3 Months Free If we fail to get the follow ing results in 60 days: OVER WEIGHT: Lose 15 lbs, 3 in. off hips or waist, take 1 in. off an&ei. UNDER WEIGHT or AVERAGE: Add 2 inches to bust, i m p r ove posture and repro- pot body ortion y mea- TTT-ffments. SUN LAMPS AND MASSAGE Free Baby Sitting ) 7; 4; M -'A ' y . ft A fcjP "''fA,.