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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MaJforJ, Or. - Wt4it4ay, July 22, 1959 MEDFORDckTBIBl "Xveryone la Southern Oregon) Reads Tha Mail Tribune" Published DhIIj except Saturday by CUrOKD PRINTING CO 83 North fix St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBKHT W RUHL, Editor ITERB GREY Advertising Manager GEHA-LD LATHAM. Business Ugr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL B ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JBWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper -Entered as second elan natter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 - SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a i k In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0b Dail? and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only -One year S420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eif le 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 copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson) Connty United Press InternationaJ Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De- , troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At lanta. Vancntrver B.C. NEWSPAPEK UtllSHEES ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOIfAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of Tht VUil Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO - ; r July 22, 1949 (Friday) Bob Bosworth, 2325 East Main st., wins first prize in the "best painting by an art ist under 17 years of age" class -at the second annual South- era Oregon An exnroiuon. j Medford Mayor Diamond Flynn appoints eight-man cit izens' committee to advise the cuy council saieiy cuiuuuucc and the police department on traffic control matters. 20 YEARS AGO July 22, 1939 (Saturday) Mail Tribune circulation department shows population! trena in county on own qw initely away from city to the rural districts. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Auto . ists who were in no hurry to , get their operators licenses, ' now are." SO YEARS AGO July 22, 1929 (Monday) r Horseshoe tournament spon sored by American Legion be gins. ' General Electric stock sells , at 362 on the New York stock exchange for an all time high. '40 YEARS AGO July 22, 1919 (Tuesday) The strike at the Home and Pacific Telephone and -Tele graph companies end. An editorial entitled "Ex pensive Economy"r denounces .federal government spending in some areas while the local office of the U.S. Employ ment service . closes due to lack of funds. 50 YEARS AGO July 22. 1909 (Wednesday) No injuries reported when Eagle Point Limited-express train is derailed north of the Pacific and Eastern junction. New Yorker -leases Moore hotel and announces plans to build modern hotel on west side at Seventh and Fir sts. What's Your I.Q.? Mina a tan eamet is suMrlar; seven or eight is excellent; five at Six is good. - , - 1. Would a miter box most likely be used by a butterfly collector, carpenter, druggist or church? . 2. How many sheets are in a quire of paper? 3. Is it the Atlantic, or the Gulf, coast of Florida that of fers winter resort facilities? 4. Who was the last Presi dent of the U. S. to be inaug urated on March 4? -- - 5. Which branch of Congress Is called the upper, and which is called the lower? 6. Which has the greater tensile strength; nylon fabric, or wool fabric? 7. When a measure is sub mitted to a popular vote for approval or disapproval, that is said to be a r m? 8. How many Stomachs has a cow? 9. Persons 65 years or older receive extra exemption cred it on Federal income tax as sessments; true or false? - v 10. Which is nearer to the United States, Brazil or Ar gentina? ; Answers: 1, Carpenter. 2. 25 sheets, (sometimes 24). 3. Both. 4. F. D. Roosevelt. 5. Senate, upper,- House of Rep resentatives, lower. 6. Nylon. 7. Referendum, t. Four. 9. True.. 10 BrasiL The Hurrfan "Jungle Are we, as President 0. Meredith Wilson of the University of Oregon told the graduating class there recently, living in a "jungle of moral, political and diplomatic confusion"? Yes, we are. The moral confusion is seen every day in the police records and courts (including divorce courts) of the nation, among many other places. Moral confusion is a confusion of values. It is an inability or an unwillingness to tell right from wrong, or to choose right rather than wrong. . AS TO political and diplomatic confusion, any literate person is fully aware of this, and, per haps unhappily, has made his own compromises in order to be able to live with the confusion. Confusion will be with us as long as human beings remain the fallible and imperfect things they are today. . Every human being, to a "greater or lesser degree, has his own prejudices, his own biases, his own "blind spots" in. learning or humility or understanding. But, just because this we should not contmue better, more orderly, more humane world. '.' JTOPIA isn't just around the comer. There is, in fact, no Utopia. But despite this, mankind will do itself an injustice if it gives up Each step forward, in the human condition, is something to be hailed and cherished. And, imperfect and confused as is the "jungle" in which we live, still the "jungle" is not quite so personally menacing, quite so starkly brutal, quite so unthinkingly inhumane as it once was. Our progress has been achingly slow. But it has been progress. It is up to each individual, in his own way, to contribute to,that progress if he has in him the stuff to do so. E.A. Clubs Grow Rapidly One of the fastest-growing phenomena in the financial world these: days is the so-called "in vestment club." ; - Throughout the nation there are thousands. In the Medf ord-Ashland . area alone it is esti mated there are about twenty or so. The clubs are a way in which a wage-earner can invest in the stock, market, or in bonds, or in real estate, without the painful necessity of socking away a substantial sum in advance. And their popularity shows they have great appeal. CUCH a club is an association. of men (or, as in several cases, of women) who meet regularly, operate under a well-defined set of rules, and who contribute a stated amount each, each week or month. This sum is pooled and used to pur chase whatever shares or other securities the membership decides upon. Thus, a group of ten has ten times the invest ment potential of a single person. If the group meets each month, and each puts up $10 each meeting, the club has some $100 to invest each month a not inconsiderable amount. The members then have a feeling of partici pating in the nation's financial life, without hav ing to scrape and scrimp to do it. - I JSUALLY the club is designed to operate on a long-term basis, with no expectation of im mediate financial "killings." Investment in solid, growth stocks is the aim, and reinvestment of dividends, plus a diversity in holdings, is the usual practice. - Some of the groups are more speculative, and will "play the market" in attempts to obtain a fast return on stocks which have a tendency to fluctuate in price. Almost all of the clubs, however, at least ostensibly, have "education" as a chief objective, and in this they are largely successful, for they do make the members pay more attention to the economic picture than they would without a per sonal stake in it, however small. A NEWS release the other day from the Na tional Association of Investment Clubs re ports that, for what is believed to be the first time, one club has amassed a clear profit of $100,000. The club, in Detroit, Mich., has twelve mem bers. It meets monthly, and each member puts in $10 each month. Except for a few years during the war, it has been meeting regularly for more than 19 years. Total deposits have been $37,145. The profit has come from dividends reinvested, from the sale of securities at a higher price than when purchased, and from the present value of stocks held over their purchase price. The clubs assets now total $146,283.75. IF OUR arithmetic is right, each member has deposited around $3,000 in the club's treas ury, and now, after 19. years, has an accumulated share interest of a little over. $12,000 or about four times the amount he put in." - ; And at no time, at $10 Tier month, has anv member put himself into a precarious financial position, or subjected himself to a loss he can't aiiora to sustain. .;, : :;. All-in-all. the investment clubs' erowth con stitute an interesting, and xdttui iu me American 99 is so, is no reason why the eternal striving for a the struggle to find it. each small improvement increasingly important, economic picture. rj.A. Dennis the Menace I'll get rr; Sommunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for opublication must not exceed 400 words.' The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the eaa. Swimming Pool Site To the Editor: I think a swimming pool in Central Point would be a very wel come addition to the commun ity. It would offer both a means of recreation and be of educational value if in struction in swimming and life saving were offered. We need only read the daily papers to see how many trag edies could be prevented by such instruction. As to location, I feel we would be overlooking an ad ditional value by not consid ering the possibility of locat ing it at Crater High school. With the addition of a "plastic bubble," it could be used as part of the physical education facilities during the nine months that ordinarily - it would stand unused. This too might be a solution to some of the financial problems, to share them between school and community. It would offer every student in high school the opportunity to learn to swim. The Crater staff already has a man who is doing an outstanding , job . in just this activity. I feel strongly that we need to encourage activities and sports in which every student can participate, rather than become spectators watching a chosen few. No wonder the new Opera House to be con structed in New York is go ing to have wider seats due to the fact that our American males are larger than their grandfathers! - As a second choice I feel that the ball park area has more to offer as a sight than the others mentioned. Mrs. Eileen Schmidt, Route 1, Box 292B, Central Point. Her Sentiments To the Editor: Excellent! Your editorial of Friday, July 17, re: Rogue River controv ersy and the request for some intelligent thinking and an swers, was splendid, and it is good to .see one of your in fluence take this position. First line, paragraph three, contains my sentiments exact ly! ' For though I fish -with a vengeance I get nothing but 3-inch ones which are difficult to remove and replace in the stream, and that only until about time for the big ones to bite and the swimmers take over my hole. And I cast aside fishing gear and join them in disgust and envy. If that 8 per cent was being Caught it would be understand able this furor over 'pre servation of our fish', but not Try and By BENNETT CERF- BERGEN EVANS, word expert,, frowns on the use of "pass on"' in place of "die." "'Pass on,"' observes Evans, "is, of course, a euphemism of 'die. And the trouble with all euphe misms is the unpleasant fact cannot be brushed aside. It will, in fact, infect the eu phemism in time. Take the word 'cemetery,' now fre quently : replaced by 'me morial parkj 'Cemetery, which means 'sleeping place,' originally was- a eu phemism itself for 'grave yardbut the grinning face showed through." .-' The great Montaigne, four ' centuries ago, wrote: "I guard 'myself now against temper ance as I used to against pleasures. For it holds me back too much, to the point of stupidity . . . Prudence has its own excesses, and it ha3 no less need of moder ation than folly." Joe E. Lewis (an admirer of Montaigne) had a tough crossing aboard the United States. The third day out the sea kicked up so he bad to be lashed to the bar. o 193. by Ssfiaett Distributed by King features Syndiota. I think rr asoutmb l 8 per cent of Jackson county is catching 1 per cent of the fish. Reasonable thinking of aver age intelligence, it does ap pear, would see the only alter native is Rogue River develop ment, with more recreation for the evening bathers, and leaving room for the fisher man; with a pool large enough to contain the fingerlings which will grow into legal size fish; with fish ladders, the success of which has not been Questioned since it was ques tioned if the auto would re place the horse and buggy successfully and with safety provided for the thousands of families downstream -who yearly stand a chance of drowning. Shasta Dam has proven much to those who have left the valley and gone far enough to learn how others live. Their recreation area is unsurpassed i n swimming, boating, fishing, but yet there is power for the industry that is coming-must come because there is no other available land in the U.S. left for place ment of those industries. Each year as I fill in and return my salmon card with nary a hole punched ' out, wonder, what in blue blazes makes anyone think they have any fishing to protect in the Rogue River the way it is at present, and frankly, a fishing license is just not worth $4 to anyone who lives in the Rogue Valley at this time! Virginia D. Card, Jacksonville, Ore. Deplores Selfish Attitude To the Editor: We wish to take this opportunity of show ing our appreciation for the splendid editorial regarding the attitude of the Fish and Wild Life Service toward a dam on the main stem of the Rogue. Some of the undersigned have fished the Rogue for nearly 50 years, and knew this stream as one of the best steelhead and salmon streams in the world. It is now rapidly becoming the worst. . It was stated at the meeting on July 12 in the Court House that if 8 per cent of the salmon were forced to spawn below the proposed dam " at Lost Creek, the riffles would be overcrowded. We have, con servatively speaking, seen as many as 100 times as many salmon on the riffles as there are now, and there was room for all. We believe it is a selfish attitude to deprive the people of this valley of the right of Stop Me NOW TAKE QgJnT THE WORlt. 1NLRB Examiner Finds Bloomer As Articles of Apparel for Today s Girls By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -(UPD When the news broke that the National Labor Relations Board had held up ladies bloomers as a declining style I could hard ly believe it. I always fig ured NLRB as dealing more with labor re lations. Union suits, Frank Eleazar yes. JUt wom en's unmentionables, never. Here was their finding, though, all about the rise and fall of the bloomer. Carribean Area Unrest Said Worst in the Past 20 Years By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Just as Cuba's Fidel Castro served to dramatize the revo lutionary spirit existing in the Caribbean, so it has become the fashion of Caribbean na t i o n s where unrest breaks out to blame it all on Cas tro. Castro is the avowed Phil Newsom enemy 01 me dictatorships of the Domini can Republic and Nicaragua, both of which have been the scenes of abortive uprising at tempts within the last few months. But unrest in Latin Amer ica is as many-colored as the rainbow and has as many dif ferent causes. - protection from floods, for the generating of power, for irri gation, and for recreation. It just doesn't make sense for all the flood waters to go to waste, doing no one any good but creating damage, when it could be held in storage to be used when needed. We do not believe one agency should have this much power. Again we thank you. Milt Steinmetz Mayor of Gold Hill, Fred Lester, President, City Council and President of Lions Club, Gold Hill, Delos Walker, Member of City Coun cil and Past President of Lions Club. H. D. Force, President of Gold Hill : Rod & Gun Club. Credit Ambulance Men To the Editor: In regard to the article about the Prospect youth in the Sunday, July 19, paper. It seems to me that the ambulance drivers are not given the due credit for their work. The Prospect youth was not brought from where he fell over the cliff by any of the forest service men. For your information, the two men, Lee Clark and Jim Hall of the Medford Ambulance Service, weni down to where he had fallen and carried him up to the ambulance on a stretcher with aid of others. These men actually carried him up to the ambulance. Please put credit where credit is due. Mrs. K. W. Kohn, 1533 South Columbus ave., Medford. Excuses To the Editor: I was a trav eling salesman for many years but I never was able to get away with excuses for not wanting the Mrs. along with me on certain occasions. I may have a peculiar sense of humor, but I got a real hearty 'belly laugh,' while reading this quote from a Dallas, Texas paper: IThe Dallas, Texas, cham ber of commerce announced that the winner of it's mem bership drive would receive a week end in Monterey, Mex ico.; The SECOND price win ner would receive a week end in Monterey . . . with HIS WIFE." At least the chamber of commerce was nonesi aooui the prizes given to the win ners of their, contest. I'm laughing yet. Owen C. Gearnart, Camp White, Ore. Wonderful People To the Editor: We wish to take this opportunity to thank all the wonderful people of Prospect who assisting in get ting Paul out of the canyon PAINT WITH Vs According to these august gentlemen they soon will be forgotten. Bloomers Are Out In short, they divulge that the girls now aren't wearing bloomers. They are wearing something caUed panties, with which the bloomer must' not be confused. The bloomer, we learn from the agency's 78-page finding, is a longish kind of thing, loose, and gathered in at the knees. The panty apparently is not, although the board did not see fit to go into that. All of this came out in an NLRB story about seven bloomer girls and , some of In some instances the hand of Moscow is apparent. But the seeds "of unrest lie also in these statistics: Little Land Cultivated Half of the inhabitants of Latin America are illiterate. Though two out of three make their living from the land, only 5 per cent of the land is cultivated. Average food consumption is about one fifth less than in the U. S., and in some coun tries, 1 per cent of the popu lation control 20 per cent of the wealth. The 1950 census for Hon duras showed 'that only about In the Days News By FRANK, JENKINS Foreigh affairs:. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev abruptly cancels a scheduled tour of four Scan dinavian nations. A formal Soviet note said the surprise decision was due to a bitter Scandinavian press campaign against the visit and threats of anti-Soviet demon strations if it is made. THE proposed visit was less than three weeks away from the date when Mr. K was to have begun a grand swing through Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The trip had been planned down to the final details. Top-level Soviet officials, including chiefs of security : and protocol,- had gone over the ground, and presumably the final OK had been stamped on it. The move is described in the dispatches as a "diplomat ic shocker." It threw the Big Four talks at Geneva into turmoil. Western diplomats had no way of knowing wheth er it indicated the Soviet chief might be ill (which, of course, would be startling news) or whether some important new cold war move mighf be in the making. 1IHAT does it mean? " Nobody knows. Mr. K is an unpredictable character. But - Anti-Soviet feeling has been growing in Scandmavia. Anti- Russian groups have been forming in Sweden. Included in these groups are refugees from the Baltic countries that were forcibly taken into the Soviet structure. The four Scandinavian countries have been leaning much farther of late toward the West. They have reached virtual agree ment on joining with Britain and other Western nations in a trade alliance. All this is significant. It is particularly significant be cause of the long-established neutralist policies of these countries-especially Sweden. A NATURAL guess is that the foulness of the com munist system has been com ing home so forcibly to the freedom - loving people of Scandinavia that they find it impossible to be wholly neu tral toward Russia-that their horror of communism and its practices is overcoming their desire to play it safe. That may be wislif ul think ing. But at least the change in Sweden's attitude is signifi cant. and to the hospital. Also all the well wishes and prayers. We also thank our friends in Medford for all their kind nesses toward us. . May the Lord richly repay each one. Mr. and Mrs. Uther Rogers and Paul Box 298 Prospect, Ore. MEDFORD PAINT and Wallpaper Store 6th & Holly Diagonally Acres hem Post Office PHONE SP 2-9321 We Giva SfcH GREEN STAMPS their friends and cutting and fitting at the Marion Mills, in Guin, Ala. A trial examiner, James A. Shaw, who wrote it, said some parts might have been better told by Balzac than by a mere NLRB trial attorney. I don't know ' about that. Author Shaw obviously" la bored long and hard over his manuscript, and I guess the board members liked it Any way, they included it all in their . final report, including Shaw's passing respects, in a footnote, to the late Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894), the dress reformer and wom en's rights leader for whom 30 per cent of the population had shoes. In April of this year, some 80 men made an invasion at tempt on the coast of Panama. Their leader reportedly was Dr. Roberto Arias, former Panamanian ambassador to Britain. Later, the Panamanian gov ernment quoted some of the captured invaders as saying they had set sail from, Cuba. Accuses Castro . The "invasion" later was dismissed as a quarrel among Panama's traditionally ruling families, and Cuba largely was absolved. . In mid-June a 112-man air borne force attempted an up rising in Nicaragua. This month, the second at tempt in the last six months was made against the govern ment of Honduras. Whatever the cause, wheth er uprisings are born from within or without, the Carib bean is seething with nnrest as it has not for more than zo years. Next month, In Santiago, Chile, foreign ministers of the 2 J. American states will meet to study the broad problems of "unrest in the Caribbean: It will be the most import ant meeting of the OAS in its 11 years, and its problems the most delicate. Yreka Limits Use Of Wafer to Help Prevent Shortage Yreka - Irrigation with Yreka city water has been limited to two hours, three days a week by action of the city council. The move is an attempt to stand off a growing water shortage. Owners of even numbered houses may irri gate from 6 to 8 P.m. Mon days, Wednesdays and Fri days, and odd-numbered houses from 6 to 8 p.m. Tues days, Thursdays and Satur days. Sunday watering is pro hibited. The council decided to in stall immediately a Hill pipe line to provide more pressure for the higher elevation of the northwest residential area. Critical Stage Tests of water supply in dicates the local water level is at a critical stage. The city hall well is already so low that it can only be pumped 12 to 14 hours a day. The mam city wen contained only 5V& feet of water when measured Friday and the cemetery reservoir is almost completely empty. Officials hope that limiting water use to two hours a day three days a week will be sufficient for the wells to re cover enough to supply the town for all water uses the rest of the summer. Limited irrigating in 1955 proved that six hours irriga tion weekly is sufficient to carry a lawn an entire sum mer without any ill effects. BEAUTIFUL Mountain View CHAPEL Nestled near overlooking hills. Quiet, C M. Litwiller surroundings with adequate off-street parking. Serv ing all who call, with dignity and reverence. Super ior funeral and ambulance service since 1935. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND Wa Naver Close than to Vanishing the soon-to-be outmoded gar ment was named. Girls Join Union The plot briefly was hat the girls, and their friends, joined a union and shortly thereafter the bloomer line wa shut down. What with one thing and another, in cluding conflicting reports about an alleged amorous maintenance man who also was fired, the whole thing wound up before NLRB as a. case of alleged unfair labor practices. Evelyn Sandlin was a grad uate of the Mill's panty line. She transferred to the bloom er line a year or so before it was halted. Evelyn not only joined the union but dis played such enthusiasm for its organizing campaign the oth er girls named her as spokes man to break the news to the boss. The news the boss broke to her, Evelyn said, was that if he ever caught her talking union she would be fired. When the bloomer line was closed down, she said, he told her that's the way it would stay until "the union mess"' was all over. But Howard Sembla, a com pany official, said economics, not union trouble, prompted the decision to quit making bloomers at Guin. A Declining Market "It is what you might call a declining market," he said. "The people who like to wear bloomers are ones who were bloomers ever since 1900." Sembla's testimony im pressed Shaw as so reasonable he was moved to some com ments on his own. "What is past is prologue,'" he observed. "To the under signed, at least, bloomers as articles of feminine apparel will soon rest in the hallowed quiet of the past, alongside other fancied foibles of yes teryear, such as the bustle, , high button shoes,' and the hobbleskirt." On the strength of this and other literary flights by the trial examiner, . the board found that it was indeed the harsh dictates of changing fashion, not anti-union bias on the part of the company, that put Guin's bloomer girls out looking for work. As for the rest of the story, including the part about the allegedly amorous mainte nance man, you'll have to get your own copy for that. I feel reasonably sure the postmast er general will let this docu ment go through the mails. Dr. Stevenson on Boy Scout Council Ashland-Dr. Elmo N. Stev enson, president of Southern Oregon college, was recently elected a member at large of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, ac cording to Hugh Simpson, SOC director of information. Election was made in San Francisco at the 49th annual meeting of the National Coun cil. Long active in southern Oregon Scout activities, Stev enson has given outstanding Scout leadership during the past 30 years. Before his cur rent appointment, he served as both a regional and na tional councilman. , Stevenson's election pre cedes plans for the Jubilee year of the Boy &couts or America. Approaching its 50th anniversary, the Nation al Council has selected at its year theme or uoa ana My Country." Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed br loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling wnen you eat, tallc or laugn. jus sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your pistes. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding pistes mora nrnuy. iso gummy, gooey, pasty tasia or frellne. it's alkaline (non-add). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. the pines. the eternal I peaceful - 1 stA naV i'f Mrs. Utwiller I "It is batter to know us and not need us. need us and not know us."