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Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE THE ISSUES CHANGE Washington-There are clear signs that next year's Presi dential struggle is going to be fought out ov- I er a batue ter i r a i n totally I different from d what both par ity "es nad C0IU1" ITSW & d!ntly, cxpv.ect; Xwr v3 ed onlv short e months ago. It is now nrnhahlp i n- whita deed, that "statesman issues," meaning how to deal with the cold war, will overshadow "gut issues," meaning jobs and business conditions, as they have rare ly done. The campaign's pre-conditions are shifting' rapidly be cause of the rising strength of the national economy and a great and progressive na tional gain against unemploy ment. Only last year the issue of joblessness was the most pow erful weapon in the armory of the Democrats. Primarily with that weapon they gave the Republicans a tremendous beating in the congressional elections of November. . IT HAD seemed to all realis tic .politicians in both par ties that 1960, too, would be a year of economic unrest. The Democrats, in the old phrase, were widely prepar ing "to run against Herbert Hoover," whom they have long used as a symbol for de gression and unemployment. Now, however, two of the most authentic pro-Democratic liberal economists have confidentially warned leading party men specifically cer tain liberal Democratic Presi dential aspirants-that 1960 is much more likely to be a good year for business and jobs. This correspondent knows from the participants them selves that this message has beea passed, though he is not free to name names. You Do, Don't It! When your Cherry Fudge Ice Cream appetite drags you toward tre refrig erator, do the right thing and just give up Most families lucky enough to have Cherry Fudge Ice Cream keep their refrigerator safe with a lock and chain. If you've lost your key, we'll gladly send along enough "Soup" (burglar ' talk for TNT) to blow the door off so that you can get to your Cherry Fudge Ice Cream. One effect has been a fun damental alteration in ap proach by ' all Democratic Presidential candidates and "availables." The accent now is being heavily put not upon plans to save the domestic economy but on plans to save the world. The immediate consequence is to improve the prospects of three aspirants and at least slightly to darken the pros pects of two others. Those be ing promoted are Adlai E. Stevenson, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and, in a less clear-cut way, Sen. Her bert H. Humphrey of Minne sota. STEVENSON and Johnson are helped, first of all, simply because they are not open seekers of the nomina tion and thus are in positions of comparatively greater dig nity. And both are being pre sented as men less interested in comparatively small do mestic questions than in the vast issues of peace or war. Stevenson is being put for ward in this posture because of his world travels and his long-demonstrated interest in foreign policy. Johnson's ba sic claims heretofore have lain in his negotiating skill in keeping the Democratic Sen ate prima donnas in operating unity. Heretofore, in deference to the senior members of his par ty on the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee, he. has- al lowed other Democrats to speak first and loudest on world affairs. Now he is mov ing strongly to establish his own competence in that field. This was one of the purposes of his recent public call for a summit meeting of all non Communist nations. ' All over the country, Johnson men are sayms this: Lyndon is the only Democrat who is a nego tiator tough enough and able enough ' to meet Soviet boss ever A Snider Cow Pigeons Can Cover 500 Miles Per Day in Good Conditions All the 500-mile classics aren't held in Indianapolis, according to Jesse Calvert of the Grants Pass Racing Pigeon club. While they might not keep abreast of the roadsters on the famous Speedway, fleet- feathered racing pigeons move along at a smart clip as fast as ordinary motorists anyway. Calvert, a Grants Pass at torney, said pigeons under good flying conditions can cover 500 miles the average for long-distance races be tween dawn and dark. They attain an air speed of 50 miles per hour, he said. Dttcribcs Sport Calvert described the sport of "poor man's horse racing" Monday at the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce round table luncheon. He said he was hoping to interest peo- BIRDS IN HAND Paul Hoff (left) and Jesse Calvert of the pie here in becoming pigeon Grants Pass Racing Pigeon club display two feathered speed fanciers, sters at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce round Pigeon racing, he explained, table luncheon. requires an intricate system 01 control lesi someone sieai a march on the field. This sys tem includes secret numbers on slips of paper attached to the birds' legs and time clocks into which these slips, or countermarks, are put when the birds reach home. In addition, he. continued, special surveys are required to establish the exact distance I u i t V each home loft. Logarithm tables are used to arrive at the bird's speed in yards per minute. Placed ' . Crates Th- birds, he said, are placed in a sealed crate and shipped by truck or air ex press to the starting point. The shipping agent there is in structed to open the crate, re lease the birds, and then tele phone ahead collect to report the release time. By the time that call gets through, the birds are already flying their low-a 1 1 i t u d e, curving course across plains, up valleys and . around hills and mountains. Many theories have been ad vanced, Calvert said, to ex plain how these pigeons find their way home. One theory is based on in stinct. The rock dove, an an cestor, was wont to nest among high crags and fly down into the valleys for food. By the process of elimination, the fittest those able to find their way back to 'heir nests were able to feed heir off spring and insure their sur vival. This knack for naviga tion is said to survive as an instinct in present-day birds. Concerns Sun's Angle A second theory concerns the sun's angle. The pigeon gets his bearings from observ ing how high the sun is above the horison and at what point it is in its east-west journey. Supporting this theory is the established , fact that pigeons fly faster on sunny days, while when clouds are low they may not make it home for weeks. The sense of smell is anoth er reason given for a pigeon's powers. As an experiment, a group of birds were released with plugged nostrils a n d many failed to return. The coriolis force - defined as, that exerted by the revolv ing ea l upon a body moving with re.' tion to its surface, causing the east rail of a north-south railroad track to wear out before the west rail is the basis of a fourth ex planation. Sensitivity v Sensitivity to magnetic fields is still another theory, Calvert reported. But, he not ed, his radio transmitter an tenna does not appear to af fect birds returning to his home. Nor does the polarized light theory advanced in other quarters appear to be a fully satisfactory answer, Calvert said. Still another hypothesis is Khrushchev face to face and get away with it." HUMPHREY, too, is increas ingly emphasizing his for eign affairs interests and with modified success. That this is only such a partial suc cess is due to this circum stance: he has been associat ed, unlike Johnson or Steven son, with past Democratic clamors for extreme Federal expenditures to cure a reces sion that now appears to be curing itself. The two net-if not yet dramatic-losers in the Democra tic Presidential field in this changed pre-1960 situation are Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Stuart Symington of Missouri. Ken nedy's appeal by necessity has been mainly domestic, specifically on labor and al lied questions. He is not a member of the foreign policy leadership of his. party and has had to make-do with the issues open to him. The same is true of Symington. His big issue has been military preparations-missiles and the like but this is not and cannot be foreign policy as such. (Copyrights 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) nown as "landmarks and training." This, he explained, involves a bird's familiarity with the terrain over which it must fly through knowledge gained in training flights. But it does not explain cases in which birds have found their way over utterly unfamiliar country. Calvert reported that a Ger- man experiment proved prac- tically all birds when released . . . . fr.m h. starting point within 2 or 3 degrees. It followed that those who did not reach home must have given out along the way. Self-Confidence For this reason, he said, physical conditioning, deter mination and self-confidence are considered necessary traits graph wires, hawks, and hun for racers. He noted that ters who occasionally mistake Grants Pass fanciers breed a pigeon for a dove. Revised Maps of County Available Revised maps of the Jack son county general highway and transportation series are now available from the State Highway department in Salem. ' ' The. series was revised by the highway department in cooperation with the U.S. bu reau of public roads. The maps, consisting of four base sheets and eight supple mental sheets, are available at a scale of approximately 1 inch to 1 mile, or in a reduced scale of Vz inch to one mile. Conventions Leave Millions in Chicago Chicago (UPD The Chicago Convention Bureau estimates that 200 million dollars is pumped into the city's econo my each year by conventions held here. t The Bureau figured out that the average convention goer spend- $160, with hotels getting about 30 per cent, res taurants almost as much, re tail stores 16 per cent, night clubs and sports events al most seven per cent and bev erages more than six per cent." Transportation, sightseeing and auto expenses account for the rest of, the money spent by the 1,150,000 convention-goers who visit Chicago each year. SF Policemen Don Plain Clothes San Francisco-UPD-On two unannounced nights a week, 50 specially selected San Fran cisco policemen don plain clothes, pair off in unmarked squad cars and1 tour the city's trouble spots looking for "crime before Ji starts." They are members of the police department's "Opera tion S," inaugurated last Oct. 24 by. Police Chief Thomas Cahill who says that major crime in San Francisco has since shown a marked decline, 15.9 per cent in January, 1959, alone. The "S" in "Operation S" stands for selected officers and the selected areas they tour, according to Deputy Chief Al Nelder, who is in charge of the program. The men are picked for their ex perience, quick judgment and their ability to question peo ple without antagonizing them, he explained. "The primary function of 'Operation S' is to stop street crimes," Nelder said. "They're not out to' sweep vagrants off the streets or to harass citi zens. But they can-and have -stopped crime in the mak ing." INEXPENSIVE CAMPAIGN Indianola, Miss. (UPD John Hough, a candidate for Sun flower county's seat in the Legislature, tossed some cam paign literature into the air on balloons with the promise of "SI reward" to anyone re turning the balloon. He got just one reply from another county. and train their birds especial- ly for flying over the rough, mountainous Oregon terrain, "I'm the first to say I don't know how a pigeon gets home," Calvert admitted. One factor he said is important is love for nest and family, A young lady pigeon brought from California for mating to a Grants Pass bird didn't take to her selected spouse, Calvert reported, and fW hnrn n mnthpr" ovpt country she had never set eyes upon. The presence of eggs, or fledglings, in the nest at home proves a powerful incentive for racing birds, he remarked. Major hazards in races he said, are obstacles such as tele- WIMER School Banquet Held By MARJORIE BAKER Wimer The annual ban quet for the graduating class of the Evans Valley Union school was held in the annex of Wimer Community church Monday evening, May 11. Guests were members of the eighth grade class and schol faculty members. Two girls and teacher, Mrs. Musa Hagbery, couldn't attend. Speaker for the banquet was Miss Maxine Gordon of Berean Mission, Inc., who is home on furlough from her station in the Belgian Congo. Miss Ggrdon gave a talk and showed curios from Africa. The banquet was prepared by members of Wimer Com munity church and served by high school girls. Miss Gordon spoke at the evening service of Wimer Community church May 10, and showed , slides taken in Belgium and Africa. She stayed at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. H. R. Hol singer while in. Wimer, - and spent Sunday afternon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Orvis. Graduation exercises for the eighth grade class of Ev ans Valley Union school were held at the annual school pic nic May 10 at the school grounds. Students graduating were Barbara De Roboam, Robert Machado, James Starbuck, John Rigel, Betty Mitchell, Jerry Wilson, Dan Brown, Paul Davis, Marvel Lichten stein, James Davis, Linda Stone, Patricia Hitson, Kathy Johnston, Roy Ernest, Keith Damon, William Cooper, Wil liam Meeker and James Slo man. The diplomas were present ed by the chairman of the" school board, James Martin. The school band and chorus gave several selections and after the picnic the eighth grade fathers and sons played a game of baseball. Another event of the after noon was the presentation by Grange Master W. C. King, on behalf of the Grange mem bers, of the newly completed tennis court to James Martin for the school and commun ity. 1 Mrs. Amy Hodge, formerly of East Evans creek, is now living in San Jose, Calif. She is employed at the home of fice of the World Mission to Children, where she does typ ing and filing. The mission has stations in Japan, Austria, India, Ireland, and Brazil and is especially Permit Issued for Underground Work at Copco A permit for constructing underground facilities valued at $38,000 for California Ore gon Power company on South Grape st. north of Stewart ave. was issued Tuesday by the Medford building depart ment. The permit was issued to M." C. Lininger and Sons, Medford contractor. A permit Wednesday was .issued to the Texas company for a $30,000 service station on the northwest corner of East Main st. and Hawthorne ave, replacing the Texaco fa cilities now at that location. . Three permits for construct ing residences were issued Wednesday to Douglas' L. Pic kell. The three are to be sit uated at 1680 Roberts rd., 325 Stanley ave. and 2741 Ruth dr., and are valued respective ly at $11,000, $14,000 and $14,000. Residence Permit Caulkins Construction com pany was issued a permit Tuesday for erecting a resi dence at 2217 Woodlawn dr. Permits issued for other res idences last week include one Monday to D. A. Parker for a $17,000 structure at 888 Olympic ave., one Wednesday to Oral W. Tucker for a $13, 000 structure at 748 Ellendale dr. and one Thursday to Jor dan Construction company for a $12,000 structure at 2408 Obispo dr. A permit was issued Thurs day also to Carl Timmerman for placing a building on a foundation at 867 Wabash ave. and remodeling it, a project valued at $8,000. concerned with helping chil dren in unfortunate circum stances. Mrs. Neily Sund has ex pressed thanks to her friends for the cards and letter she received from them while she was undergoing treatment in the University of California hospital. The Women's Missionary circle of Wimer Community church met Thursday, May 14, at the church annex. A busi ness meeting was held, and a potluck luncheon was served at noon, with a work session following. Miss Sharon Hoyt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hoyt of Pleaeant creek, and Gay lord Slack, son of G. . Slack, also of Pleasant creek, were united in marriage May 16 by the Rev. Henry R. Holsinger at Wimer Community church. Following the ceremony there was a reception in the church annex. The last report on the Sun day school attendance contest at Wimer Community church had the grens ahead, though the yellows were gaining on them. The contest has been extended a couple of weeks. The Evans Valley Cub Scout Pack 84 is planning an overnight hike to Jim Martin's cabin June 5. The Rev. Hen ry R. Holsinger will be in charge of the group. Miss Leona Cooper, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Coop er of Lewiston, Calif., and David Buchanan were mar ried .May 20 in Reno, Nevada. Accompanying them were Mr. Buchanan's children by a former marriage, Pat, Mar garet, Marlene and Wilton. They returned to Wimer Sun day, May 24. t Mrs. Minnie Baker and grandson Charles Davis, son of Mrs. Ruth Davis, have been visiting Mrs. Baker's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Soffall, in Red lands, Calif. They made the trip with Mr. and Mrs.,Mike Tepovac of Gold Hill. MONTY POST HINTED London -(LTD- Retired Field Field Marshal Viscount Mont gomery is "a hot favorite" to succeed Vincent Massey as governor general of Canada, the Laborite Daily Herald said today. Massey retires next September. Montgomery had no comment on the report. The Shrimp Measures Up: Important to Man, Fish - It is unfortunate that the trite synonym for insignifi cance is the word "shrimp," for this marine animal plays an important part in the lives of both men and fish. Man has sought and eaten shrimp for many centuries; fish have been eating them for millions of years. , The crude likeness of this crusta cean was engraved on the wall of Egyptian temples, and was used on Grecian coins several hundred years ago. Aristotle, one of the earli est naturalists, wrote about this interesting denizen of the shallow seas. His observations have been substantiated by re cent discoveries, proving that the old gent was a keen ob server. The female shrimp, during the span of her short life, lays about a half million eggs. From this greaf number, probably not over a single pair ever reach maturity. The other thousands of eggs and young go to feed other hungry creatures of the sea. Small shrimp, comprise a great per centage of the plankton of the ocean. Spawn in Spring Spawning occurs in early spring. The newly hatched young move immediately to ward shallow water. They are Subdivision Bill Reviewed by Group Medford Attorney Robert Boyer explained the new county subdivision ordnance at a meeting of the Medford Realty board recently at the Rogue Valley Country club. It was suggested that a Realty board member attend each planning commission meeting. President Donald E. Her ried was in charge. Guests in cluded Ray Ryan and Robert Stokes. Discussion of newspaper ad vertising and cooperation of members on certain ads fol lowed the regular meeting. Herried reported that Frank Sweeney, representative of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, will be in Medford June 30 and a special meeting will be held on that date. Is there a GRADUATE in the house ? Graduation Day is one of the most exciting days' a family has. It's the day when so many dreams come true . . . and so many pfans are made for the future. Whatever YOUR Graduate's plans are . .'. college, a career, a family . . . there's one way YOU can help ASSURE a good future. For your graduation present give a savings account at JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL. Those EXTRA EARNINGS on a Jackson County Federal savings account will give your son or daughter a real helping hand towards making Grad uation Day dreams come true. ' IT 126 East Main Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins prey to countless predators. It is a delicate balance that Na ture maintains, whereby she continues to support the right proportions c fish and of shrimp. If mor.e' than a single pair should survive, from each female, and their off spring did likewise, the oceans of the world would be come so full of shrimp that no other life could find a place to swim. Yet. if that single pair fail ed to live the seas might be come "shrimpless' in a very short time. This natural bal ance becomes more compli cated when we realize the average life span of the shrimp is so short it gives the shrimp industry a vulnerabil ity unique in fishing. Too se vere seining program could easily upset the balance, and "shrimping" could almost be come a "hobby" instead of the major industry it is today. Scientists Handicapped Scientists are handicapped in their studies of the life his tory of the shrimp. The only way, so far found, is observa tion in the open sea. The shrimp is of a roving nature Pen him up and he dies. Re strict his movements and he fails to respond. The actual hatching of shrimp can be done successfully, but from then on the little fellows must have the freedom of the seas. In this vast laboratory they are difficult (o observe. The lowly shrimp is delec table; of this every connois seur of seafood is agreed. But of his life history and inti mate, habits "very little is known. Behind his black, beady little eyes, and sensi tive feelers are unsolved mys teries as profound as the enig ma of life and death. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) 24 TROOPERS HURT Ft. Bragg, N. C.-(UPD-Twen- ty-four paratroopers were in jured this week in a mass air drop during Army-Air Force maneuvers staged by 20,000 regular and reserve servicemen. Army officers de scribed the parachute drop of some 1,500 men as "good" but said 17 of the 24 injured were hospitalized with injuries ranging from sprains to sim ple fractures. DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHERE YOU SAVE! SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOC ATION Sine HO MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Fridiy, May 29, 195 1 Lumber Price Index In Slight Uptrend Portland - Crow's Lumber Price Index for the two week period ending May 28 contin ued to show a slight uptrend, despite leveling off in green coast Fir dimension prices. Most of the market strength came from kiln-dried Fir and Hemlock dimension, which has advanced in the past two weeks, and from cargo dimen sion, according to Crow's Lumber Market News Serv ice. Plywood Drices held t th $85 index level for sanded stock, despite a noticeable slowdown in sales. 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