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. Rough ply
wood sheathing lost
ground, with W inch CD off
$2 m straight cars.
The industry averase shows
a net change in the two-week
period of 94 cents higher, up
$15.38 in 12 months.
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