Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 26, 1958, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text.4 FrMiy, December 26, IMS MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone la Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MXDFORD 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 JEWKTT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE ERICKQN. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Aledlora Oregon under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 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 c opy 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 4 fices In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver B.C. I". NEWS PA m ESS k rUBLISHEIS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocVat c3T8N Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years age. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1948 (Sunday) . Visitors are invited to the Jackson County Model Rail road society's weekly meeting, but reminded that trains will not necessarily be running. : A third baby born on Christ mas is reported. 20 YEARS AGO Dee. 26. 1938 (Monday) " Postal authorities are faced with 1,200 inadequately ad dressed Chris tmas cards whose addresses must now be tracked down. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: " "It won't be long now -until the robin who has been here all the time, will be heralded as the first harbinger; of spring." SO YEARS AGO : Dee. 26. 1928 (Wednesday) Delegates representing Med ford and Jackson--county de part for Portland to attend the annual meeting of the Oregon State Teachers soci ety. '. The Eagle Point Grange plans a gala dance on New Year's eve. 40 YEARS AGO Dee. 26, 1918 (Thursday) ' Delayed Christmas pack ages are still keeping postal employees well occupied. - The "day after" at the pub lic market finds little business as most families are subsist- in? happily on left-overs. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or itx is good. 1. For what sea mammals are the Pribilof ; Islands the protected breeding grounds? 2. During which war was "John Brown's Body" a fam ous marching song? 3. Complete the followng pairings of names: Gilbert and ... . Anthony and . 4 Where is the body of Abraham Lincoln buried? - 5. Insert the middle names of these two men: William . Bryan, Alexander Bell. 6. Who wrote the novel "Ivanhoe"? 7. Interest charged beyond the legal rate is called u 8. If a person was born in the year 60 B.C- and died in the year 17 A.D., how old was he at death? "- " 9. For what do the letters B.T.U. stand? 10. What is a person who models new styles called? Answers: 1. Seals. 2. The War between Ihe States. 3. Sullivan-Cleopatra. 4. Spring field, 111. 5. Jennings-Graham. 6. Sir Walter Scott. 7. Usury 8. 77. 9. British Thermal Unit. 10. A mannequin. Car Damaged When .Hit on Griffin Creek - A car operated by Ira Im hausen, route 3, box 180, was damaged and forced off the road Wednesday night by an unidentified vehicle, accord ing to a report made by Im hausen to state police. V Imhausen said an unidenti fied vehicle tore off the left front fender of his car while he was driving on Grif fin Creek rd. near the Pioneer rd- intersection. Police are in vestigating the incident, Denial of House Seats ; Keep Dr. Dale Alford from his seat until a further check is made on how he beat Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark.) for it, the new House will be asked by a special committee under Rep. Clif ford Davis (D-Tenn.). The committee so decided by 3-2. It voted no recommendation on the defeat of Rep. Cora Knutson by Odin Langen (R-Minn.) Unless actual fraud is proved in the casting or counting of votes, the House usually accepts an election result. Hearings on a contest take many months. And any member with a tainted seat must go before the voters in- two years in order to retain it . e . .. TTHE Senate with" its six-year term is a little more prone to withhold a seat for improper cam paigning. In 1947 it refused to let Theodore Bilbo (D-Miss.), accused of intimidating Negroes from voting, take the oath of office. Two decades earlier it declared vacant the seats won in 1926 by Frank L. Smith (R-Ill.) and William S. Vare (R-Pa.). Each was charged with acquiring and spending huge campaign funds unethically. On the other hand, in 1953 the Senate seated Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.) though a majority of its Rules committee found widespread fraud in his re-election. In 1942 it let Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) keep his seat though a special committee called him politically unfit to occupy it. IN 1951 Sen. John M. Butler (R-Md.) got his seat despite the distribution in his campaign of a faked picture purporting to show his opponent, Sen. Millard E. Tydings, chatting with Earl Browder, Communist leader. ' Butler, Langer and Chavez were seated "with out prejudice." This left the door open to reject their elections later by a two-thirds vote is needed to expel a member once seated. E.R.K. State Birth The constitutionality of the anti-birth control law of Connecticut is under challenge in the state courts. This is the strictest state law on the sub ject in that it forbids the use of any "instrument for . . . preventing conception." And anybody aiding m the use is made user. In 29 states the law some way. However, 13 the restriction meaningless by letting doctors and or druggists give contraceptive information for medical necessity. In actual practice lnforma tion" includes service or a device. . -.71-. . .v- IN THE other 16 states, with one exception, court 'IrtrtlOlAVICl AVAAIlfltfA Y-V i-N 1 "I AIT V O TTA I J 1 I the law with loopholes by for health reasons as outside the obscenity which the laws are designed to prevent. The ex ception is Massachusetts, strict enforcement. The New York City tember authorized city hospitals to give contra ceptive data and devices to patients. But two doctors must first certify that pregnancy will jeopardize the patient's i ill l 1 ii possioie ner nusoana, If current experiments veloping a contraceptive contraceptive device contraceptive "device" Structure of As the liberals draw up their battle lines for the new session of Congress, they are caught on a dilemma of three horns al two: (1) More Government spending will hike the deficit. (2) A higher deficit means, other things equal, a trend to more inflation. Yet (3) increases in tax rates are politically unfeasible just now. So many liberals are more revenue by changing the tax structure rather than the tax rates. One part of the structure under scrutiny is the present dividing line, in computing income tax, between long term and short term capital gains (or losses) . . TTHE line has been, since 1942, six months of ownership. That is, gains or losses from sales of capital assets securities, real estate, etc. are short term ones if the assets were held six months or less, long term if held over six months. Only 50 per cent of long term capital gains needs to be listed in taxable income. An alterna tive in computation advantageous on individ ual returns over $18,000, joint ones over $36,000 in effect fixes a maximum rate of 50 per cent on this 50 per cent. In other words, gross long term capital gains are taxed no more than 25 per cent DROFITS from an asset held a long time that V is, profits spread out should not, runs the principle, be taxed as heavily as profits from an asset held briefly. That's true enough, many lib erals agree, but call it unrealistic, if not tax-dodtr- ing, to specify that anything over six months is a longtime. bo there s a move on line between short term and long term assets from six months to two years, or at least to 18 months. From 1938 through 1941 the tax was 100 per cent on gains from assets held less than 18 months, 66 23 per cent if held 18 to 24 months, 50 ner cent if held over 24 months. E.R.R. . majority vote. Otherwise Control Laws equally guilty with the restricts birth control in of the 29 in effect make classifying birth control which has had fairly Hospital Board last Sep health and then she, and . 1 must consent in writing. prove successful in de pill, will this be held a under the laws" under the laws? E.R.R Gains Taxes instead of the tradition wondering about getting foot to raise the dividing: Dennis, the 'I'M GOIH'CMRTD THE WlSOMS. Four Congressmen Find No Room for Them at Washington Washington-nJPD-Four newly elected House members have no place to hang their hats, In a drawing for office assign ments they came in last, and as of today, there wasn't enough space to go around. Reps. John Brademas (D- Ind.), Seymour Halpern (R- N.Y.), Robert W. Kastenmeir (D-Wis.) and J. Edward Roush (D-Ind.) wUl . be cared for eventuaUy, but probably not before the frantic climax of what may turn out to be a hectic game of musical chairs. The game wiU be played- some members say fought might be a better word in the two House office buildings in the first few days of Janu ary. - . Hundreds of moves are In volved. Moving men wUl out rank and may outnumber con gressmen as defeated and re tired members move out, hold over members grab choice of spots, and 81 new members including the four who so far don't know which way to turn take whatever is left. Moving Day Rugged Moving day in the House Office Building is rugged with the start of every Congress. This time the turnover was bigger than usual. And com pounding the complications is the fact that House leaders ordered four of the fanciest, choicest, biggest suites with held from the shuffle. These offices, all being va cated by outgoing Republi cans, reportedly are to be saved for chairmen of addi tional committees which so far haven't even been created. That means they may not "be assigned until the first round of musical chairs has been played and their assignment may start the whole mad game going again. Choice of office apace Camp White Man Kurt in Mishap Axel William Raski, 50, of Camp White, was treated at Sacred Heart hospital Wed nesday night for a bruised left hip received when he was struck by a car, according to a report given state police by the driver, Ronald Babb, 18, Jacksonville. , ' Babb, who took Raski to the Hospital, told officers the car he was driving struck the pe destrian when he 'moved into the left-land -lane to pass a car while driving west on the Jacksonville highway about 6 pjn. Raski was released follow ing treatment, according to,re- ports.. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- AN EAGER-BEAVER press agent was engaged to publicize a new after-shaving lotion and dreamed up the device of a pretty young model calling on prospects with a live, honest-to- goodness tiger in tow. Trouble was no animal trainer would guarantee the behavior of a tiger. "First thing you know," warned one, "there'll be no more pretty young model." Sud-; denly, however, he had hopeful idea. "Tell you what we can do," he proposed while the model made for the nearest exit, "we can paint stripes on a lion for you!"' Clifton Webb says he has ; . r "lost the girl" in so many mo tion pictures in the past five years, he's having new cards printed that read, "Clifton Webb, General Futility Man." T - , -; - ' "The first lesson," notes Emily Kimbrough, "that a child learns at his mother's knee nowadays is to be C 1954 fey Seuutt Cert Distributed Menace: I. GOTTA 6STG0M5 among House members is by an elaborate picking order. based mainly on seniority and including appropriate tie- breaking devices for use where members of equal rank fixed an eye on the same space. Low men in the shuffle are the first-timers.- This group drew lots on Dec. 5 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In a recent issue, the Grants Pass Courier prints a piece en titled "No More Free Christ mas Trees." It starts it off with this nostalgic lament: "There was a time, only a few years back, when Dad could go to the nearest wood ed hill, select a likely looking fir, and harvest the family Christmas tree without both ering to ask permission from anybody. Nowadays, however, Pop is likely to end up in the hoosegow, clink, bastile whatever term one prefers to use for durance vile -if he tries such a thing." Agreeing that it HAS TO BE, rugged though it is. : it winds up its editorial with this statement: "The day when Christmas trees were as free as the air definitely iS.no more." IITELL- ' That's the way it is And that's the way it has to be.' TTERE in Southern Oregon and Far Northern Cali fornia, we have two great as sets water and trees. There was a time when our water was a nuisance, to be got rid of, if possible. The Klamath river offers a good example of that. The first proposal to divert it away from its natur al basin had as one purpose to DRY UP ITS BED so that the gold in the riffles could be more easiy recovered. That would have been won derful then, but it would be TERRIBLE 'now. If it had leen done, the valley of the Klamath would now be anoth er Owens vaUey. 17ARLY forest conservation - programs were sharply limited by the fact that tim ber was worth so little that the . early protectors of the forest had to be VERY care ful not to spend more on fire protection than the timber was worth. - In those days, there was a big to-do about "Indian for estry.'? Indian forestry con sisted in burning off the for ests every year. It was argued that in that way the brush Stop Me very careful of her stockings." bjr Kiss restarts Syndicate. ...j ' Opera Star Helen Traubel May Get Letter from Harry Truman By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington-fiJPD-Opera Star Helen Traubel should be get ting a letter any time now from Harry S. Truman. It could be quite a document, but scarcely in the pattern of the holograph communique the former President dashed off to Paul Hume, music critic of the Washington Post and Times Herald. Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel, the former President's daughter, was a professional singer before her marriage. Hume caught Miss Truman's act here on Dec. 5, 1950, and reported in his critique that she was flat a good deal of the time and had no professional finish. The President did not like that and fired off to Hume the same day a letter which was reported, a follows: Pegler Comment . "I have . just read your lousy review ... I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below. Westbrook Pegler, a guttersnipe, is a gentleman compared to you." Peg's comment on that was: Large Scale Bloodshed Possible In Cuba Shortly, Writer Notes (Editors note) The revolu tionary situation in Cuba ii growing increasingly : tense. United Press Interna tional has collected reports from correspondents in Cu ba, Washington and New . York and Miami, centers of . rebel activity. Their findings were summarized by a re porter who also spent some time in Cuba earlier this year. By JACK V. FOX United Press International The once gay Cuban capital of Havana is a somber place today. It appears quite possi ble there could be large scale bloodshed in the city and throughout Cuba within the next 60 days. The revolutionary army of Fidel Castro has swelled in two years from a band of 25 men to something like 10,000 They control large chunks of the eastern end of the island President Fulgencio Batista dominant figure on the Cuban political scene for 17 of the past 25 years, has made Ha vana almost an armed camp. Military police prowl cars roam its strees, each carrying five men armed with five tommyguns. Tank reinforce ments arrived this week at nearby Camp Colombia. Batista's term of office ends Feb. 24. His hand - picked successor, Andres Rivero Agu ero, is to take office then. But Castro and other opposition elements have refused to rec ognize the validity of his elec- was kept down, the duff was got rid of and fire was thus prevented. TNDIAN forestry was all right in its day and in its way. It did just what was claimed for it. It did protect the big, mature trees. But, at the same time, it DESTROY ED THE YOUNG GROWTH. Thus it took care of the present, but wiped out the future. The future of South ern Oregon and Far North ern California is all bound up in keeping the timber crop growing. The timber crop MUST be kept growing if there is to be a continuing harvest of FIBER. Just as the vines must be kept growing if there is to be a harvest of potatoes and the stalks must be kept growing if there is to be a harvest of corn. The only difference lies in the fact that if this year's potato crop or this year's corn crop is put out of commission there will be anotner crop cycle SOON. Another forest crop re quires generations of time. rCS TOO bad that people can no longer go out and cut Christmas trees with the happy abandon of the old days -when one might cut as many as half a dozen, one after an other, before one that was JUST RIGHT was finally spotted and cut and carried away. The old ways of forestry- including the reckless cutting of Christmas trees-w e r e a good deal like going into a watermelon patch in early summer and pulling melon after melon until one of the exactly right degree of ripe ness was found. That was a lot of fun, but it resulted in an eventual shortage of watermelons. FT WE keep our timber crop GROWING, our future will be sound. If we don't keep it growing, the time will come when we'll wish we had. - But- , '- It will then be too late. - Let us pray," For Peg, that was like turning the other cheek and mighty considerate, to boot, because Peg is a very handy man with words. He would butcher Truman in an exchange of public communi cations and, moreover, Peg would keep it-clean. Peg could and did lick the late Harold L. Ickes in a duel of words, which should . be enough to warn aU amateur word sling ers out of Pegler's way. What critic Hume said of Miss Margaret's voice was not a patch on the report of Miss Traubel who was her voice teacher but who quit in de spair. Miss Traubel has writ ten a book, "St. Louis Wom an," wherein she relates that when she began tutoring Miss Margaret in 1948 her voice was "inexperienced and real ly rather bad." A Real Amateur Against Miss Traubel's ad vice, her pupil undertook a public singing career five or 10 years short of being pre pared for it. Miss Traubel heard her young charge sing in Carnegie Hall and in her book reports rather harshly that "It was so bad from the first note, that for the first tion several weeks ago. It is believed they may strike be fore Batista leaves the presi dency. Danger Of Snipers The central highway which bisects the island from west to east can no longer be tra velled past the mid-way point because of snipers. It is im possible to go. by railroad across the country. Some 300 railroad and highway bridges have been dynamited. In the three eastern prov inces of Cuba. Batista's army garrisons patrol the towns by day, then hole up at night. Then the rebels take over. In Oriente, the eastermost province, large Castro forces are fortified in the mountains. Many of the sugar planta tion operators have made a "deal with Castro. It is esti mated 75 per cent of the crop will be harvested with his permission. The sugar men are paying Castro 10 and 15 cents per, bag of sugar as royalty in return. The crop is the backbone of the nation's eco nomic life - a $630 million business this year. Half the island has no phones - the poles were cut down. So daring is the rebel movement that it seizes air liners at gunpoint: kidnaps and holds American citizens, Hotels Losing Money The lavish luxury hotels and gambling casinos like the Riviera the Habana Hilton and the Nacional, are losing as much as one million dollars a year. December is the be ginning of the tourist season but it will be an abysmal one. Porllander Gets Airplane as Gift Portland (UPD Dr. A. J. Daack, Portland, got a real surprise Christmas gift from his wife, and one he hopes eventually to do something about. His wife got him an air plane for Christmas. Dr. Daack saw it on the front lawn of his home Thursday morning, under a large tree. Dr. Daack doesn't fly an air plane. Neither does his wife. But she thought a Piper Pacer would be just the thing and so she bought him one. Now flying lessons are In order for the doctor. Mrs. Daack made arrange ments for purchase of the plane Wednesday. She talked her husband into going to bed early Wednesday night, and she sat up practicing her mu sic loud enough so that no one in the house heard work ers taxi the plane to the front yard of the Daack home. PROTEST FILM SEIZURE Paris- (DPD -Pathe Newsreel protested to police today against the seizure of a news- reel containing allegedly of fensive remarks about the heads of state of France and other countries. The newsreel, in which comedians Poret and Serrault Guy discussed world politics, was confiscated after it was shown to a few audi ences. SPECIAL BIG Double Load DRY WOOD McGinly Fuel Co. Phone SP 3-6297 ' ." TO time in my life I spent all evening behind the curtains of my box . . . The funny thing is that Margaret really has a nice voice-nothing great but good enough. She never knew what a real amateur she was." Well, friends, that should get Miss Traubel a letter, even with stamps at four cents a copy. Your correspondent is not in Peg's class and does not fancy himself as being able to cope with HST by mail or otherwise. . , So be it recorded that your correspondent knows little of music and heard Margaret sing only once, at a White House correspondent's dinner. I thought she sang pretty good and I know it was a gracious gesture, typical of the sill American girl that she was, for Margaret to come to our dinner and sing as a surprise to her father, who was our guest. Margaret Truman was as nice a person as ever lived in the White House and our town liked her a lot. We all ad mired the closeness of the Truman clan, too, their love and respect for each other, They are real nice folks. Batista has put about JO 000 teenagers under arms in the past year and sent them into rebel territory after 30 days training. The Castro men call them "bocaditos" - little mouthfuls. There is talk among Cu bans of asking U.S. help , to end the fighting, which has already taken thousands of lives. Both Batista's govern ment, and the rebels profess to abhor any hint of outside interference. But some sort of mediation to avert a widening of the qivil war may be a last resort. MUM k-V a WW w w kWVW H A X X 1 1111 Ml JW X XVI 1111 I I If IS S L X1 V 1111 Ii X Records , have sounds --J I you've " n never -- . . until you've played them on Hoffman Stereo Fi. Now the busy Christmas season is over, visit Home Appliance Co. and leisurely enjoy a dem onstration concert of Stereo-phonic music. You'ra welcome anytimel ' APPLIANCE CO. fira ill Spanish Pilot Plans Balloon Trip Madrid- (LTD A veteran Spanish pilot said today he would attempt to cross the Atlantic in a balloon next spring, following the trail of the adventurous English crew of the balloon Small World. . Jose Maria Ansaldo. a di rector of Spain's Iberian air lines and an experienced bal loonist, said he began makinsr plans for the trip before the bpanish Civil war broke out in 1936, and that he hopes to be able to fulfill them next year. The three men and one woman aboard the Small World left Tenerife Dec. 12, out no reports from them have been received here since Dec. 16. when their last radio report was heard in the Ca nary Islands. Try To Remove Air Crash Victims Anchorage, Alaska-KJPD-The Air Force planned today an attempt to recover the bodies of 15 men killed when their C54 transport crashed into the side of Mt. Ilianna, 130 miles south of here. A raging storm Thursday prevented a helicopter from landing in the area, but vet eran bush pilot Don Sheldon, of Talkeetnan, Alaska, got close enough to the wreckage to positively identify it as the C54 and say that there was no sign of survivors. The crash debris was first spotted Wednesday by Air Force planes searching for the C54 which had been missing since Monday en route from Elmendorf Air Force base here to Shemya in the Aleu tian Islands on a routine supj ply mission. ALL CHARGED UP Palm Springs, Calif. - (CPD -Frank Patencio, 70, waa booked on suspicion of drunk driving Thursday when police saw him allegedly driving an electric golf cart erratically in the middle of a mala thoroughfare here. i wmim - SssW m 1 111 I Ml I J I II 1 1 If X A