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Flight or Time
Mediord and Jackson County His
tory front the filet of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 end 34 yean ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 20. 1940
(It Was Saturday)
Fish lake road said In good
condition, but Lake O' Woods
road still impassable.
Medford high easily defeats
Ashland and Jacksonville in
track meet here.
About 180 women conclude
state convention of AAUW held
in Medford.
Southwest Oregon Presbyte
rlal society annual meeting to
open at local church April 24.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fitch is teacher
at Forest Creek school.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 20. 1930
(It Was Sunday
Water turned into main canal
of Medford Irrigation district
system; 35 second feet flows
through.
Legion drum corps to make
first appearance in several
months as part of auxiliary pa
rade tomorrow.
Joe Hasklns purchases Nye
apartment house building.
Emily F. Brown and Dorothy
Young, both of Medford, to grad
uate at Willamette university at
end of summer.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 20. 1916
(It Was Thursday)
Mrs. George Andrews and
Miss Geraldine Theiss to sing at
Good Friday service at the Cath
olic church.
Physical education to be add
ed to list of subjects taught at
local schools; Miss Anna M. Brit
ton named instructor.
Phoenix high school annual
assured by receipts from senior
class play.
COMMUNICATIONS
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and addrrsss of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the nie of a pen name or
Initial for publication Is permis
sible. The Stall Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarlflratlnn and conden
sation, letters submitted for pub
lication mint not exceed Ifto ffnrrtt
Substitute for D. S. T.
To the Editor: Here Is a copy
of a letter I sent to Mayor Dia
mond L. Flynn;
"I believe that I read in The
Mall Tribune that you would
welcome constructive sugges
tions regarding the question of
daylight saving time.
"It appears to me that ad
vancing some of the clocks is a
very immature, in fiict rather
childish way to accomplish a
flood result. The good result be
ng getting town people out of
bed earlier in the morning so that
merchants can open their stores
an hour earlier in order to per
mit their employees to get out
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NATION A
in the afternoon In time to en
joy more daylight.
"My suggestion Is to lenve the
clocks and the schools alone nnd
to announce that beginning May
1 all stores and other places of
business who wish to cooperate
will open at 8 o'clock and close
correspondingly earlier. Country
folks get up early enough any
way and would be glad not to
have to wait around in the morn
ing for the stores to open.
"I remember that merchants
In Chicago used to close early
Saturday afternoons during the
summer without having to
change the clocks. (This was
years ago, however, before D. S.
T. was invented along with other
silly things.)"
Horace W. Thompson
MAIL TRIBUNE
Hawthorne Park
"Hawthorne Park"
it 7
On first consideration, the advisory committee
choice, and the city council's approval of the name
"Hawthorne" for the new city park didn't seem to
have either memorial or euphonious basis. After a bit
of reflection, however, the
TXHILE many names were suggested in the poll
" conducted by the committee, it was interesting
to note that there was no particular concentration on
any certain one. Hawthorne, for instance, was advo
cated by three, while four
This writer had favored "Bear Creek Park" as
the proper designation but
be some objection to that,
one side, being in somewhat bad odor at least during
the low water season. b.C.F.
City Government Problems
The city manager form
at least, would seem to
possibly more economical,
Oretron it appears to be the
cipal squabbling.
THERE is seldom a time
brewing or actually going on in one or more of
the 10 or a dozen cities of
prevail.
Latest and most violent
field, Lane county's fast-growing industrial center,
where the city manager was sacked by the council a
few days ago.
e e
AN EXAMPLE of how much bitterness may be gen
" erated in such disagreements as that at Spring
field may be seen in the aftermath which brought the
resignation of nine city employees. The resignations
were preceded by an unsuccessful attempt to recall
the mayor. The city's business was described Monday
as at a standstill with no one present to conduct muni
cipal affairs.
The manager had long been between two fires.
The mayor favors establishment of a public power
administration to compete with the Mountain States
Power company, while a sizable segment of the citi
zenry is opposed.
A NY evaluation of the merits of the two adminis
" trative systems as found in Oregon the man
agerial form, and the mayor-city council form with a
city superintendent, such as exists in Medford must
include a number of considerations.
One of the major items is the desirability if not
absolute necessity of avoiding civic turmoil if real
efficiency and progress are to be enjoyed.
TN THE course of executing policies and orders
A mostly formulated by the mayor and council, city
managers are contacted by a large number of resi
dents. Some want this, some don't want that. The
pressure builds up terrifically and in course of time,
unless the manager is unusually diplomatic and en
dowed with more than average finesse, a lot of people
are after his scalp.
Under the other system, where the pressure of
special interest or politics is directed against the coun
cil itself or committees thereof, there is undoubtedly
less likelihood of yielding. There is also less likeli
hood that the party or parties exercising the pres
sure will be tempted to make an issue of the matter if
the disliked decision is rendered after due considera
tion and vote of the councilmen. The pressure users
realize they cannot hope to "get somebody's job" in
such a case, and therefore drop the matter.
THIS line of reasoning may be only partially cor
it Villi fVtrt -Pnil Hnmninn fVinfr n .-ir-nl n f yiiMtra
idi, uub me .Lent tciimuio tiiau a (.ret uoai ui iicwo-
papers of the state reveals more frequent civic tur
moil where the managerial form prevails than in
places where a mayor and city council formulate all
policies and issue the orders.
THE mayor and council
where there is much municipal business requiring at
tention. It is becoming more and more apparent that
the duties of a mayor can be adequately handled only
by a man able and willing to devote a major portion
of his waking hours to the job.
It is hard to find a man with sufficient income
so that his private business can be neglected in favor
of the city's work. Most of the larger cities recognize
the fact that a mayor should receive some compensa
tion, beside the honor which goes with his office, and
pay a salary which while not large enables the execu
tive to carry on without actual financial hardship.
IMEDFORD is one of the state's few larger munici
palities where neither mayor or councilmen re
ceive salaries. We have been very fortunate so far in
having men willing and well qualified to handle the
work. But the affairs of the growing city are becom
ing increasingly demanding and complex and there
is no assurance that we may be able to go on inde
finitely with the present system. E.C.F.
CARD Or THANKS
Wa wbh to express our thanks to
all our nelshhors and friends who
were so helpful and kind In our lima
of sorrow.
EirrlMlly do we wish to thank
Rev. Siitterlield for his eomforunn
words, tha F.hevs for ihetr musical
selections, and thoaa who war pall
bearers. Your thmiahtfulness and kindness
will be remembered alwas.
Mrs. Ethel Hnckett and family.
Mrs. Kmlna Clark
CARD" OF THANKS
To those who expressed Ihetr sym
pathy In so many beauliliil and prac.
Ileal wavs durinit our recent bereave
ment, wa extend our heartfelt thanks.
Mrs Klla McKlnney
Mr. Curlls MtKinnijr
and lanill.
Thursday, April 20. I ISO
sort of grows on one doesn't
selection has more appeal.
favored Pear City Park.
we must admit there could
Bear creek which runs along
of government, in theory
be the most efficient, and
but in actual practice in
most conducive to muni
when a battle isn't either
the state where managers
such f lareup is in Spring
set-up also has its draw-
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Washington Report
By Bob Dickey
Washington. Aor. 20 Sen.
Guy Cordon's fight against the
Columbia basin account was cli
maxed last week when the sen
ate rejected the O'Mahoney
amendment to the rivers and
harbors bill.
The defeat of the O'Mahoney
amendment is doubly significant
to the northwest. While the real
fight was over the Basin account,
the O'Mahoney amendment also
had in it the authorization of
13 Columbia basin reclamation
projects.
Included were the five Oregon
projects: Hell's Canyon dam,
Canby project, Crooked River
project. The Dalles project (west
unit) and the Bully creek ex
tension of the Vale project.
In addition to deteating tne
O'Mahoney amendment, the sen
ate also out the kiss of death
on the Cordon amendment which
would have authorized the Id
projects as a single unit for sub
sidy purposes but left out the
overall basin account.
An authorization amendment
for the 13 projects was also sub
mitted by sen. rayior dui h tuo
was killed.
Senate Suspicious
The real reasons for tne sen
ate tossing out the O'Mahoney
amendment was the suspicion
that aueust body had for tne
administration's basin account.
They simply were not sure what
the overall impact of the proviso
actually would be.
At least partial credit for the
defeat of the proviso is due to
Sen. Cordon. He probably had
more to do with creating the
senate's suspicion of the measure
than any one other person.
Sen. Cordon rarely takes the
floor on the senate in active and
open support of or in opposition
to any legislation. He is known
to operate chiefly in committees.
But when Oregon's senior sen
ator does verbally present his
position to the senate chamber
he is always notoriously well
versed in the problem at hand.
Such was the case in Ihe basin
account fight of last week.
Cordon probably understood
the proviso more completely
than those who were speaking
in support of the amendment.
The net result was that even if
Cordon didn't sway the senate to
his point of view, he was able to
create enough suspicion in the
minds of a good many members
that they rallied behind him to
defeat the legislation.
Basin Account
But what is this basin account
all about? In the past this re
porter has cited to you what
various groups have said the
basin account actually stood for.
But the most accurate appraisal
of its significance can be made
bv saving that most likely no
one really knows what the effects
of such a procedure wouia ue.
Sen. Cordon, by his own con
fession, concedes this.
Stripped of all its legalistic
trappings, the basin account
could mean just this; It would
provide a medium for averaging
power rates in tne wiuih
basin. On this point everyone is
agreed. Secondly, it would trans-!
Or the burden of providing irri-
gation subsidies from the power
revenues to the taxpayers of the
nation. ,
In other words, the real sig
nificant part of the basin account i
is that it is a method, though I
long and tortuous, for getting i
a direct irrigation subsidy. !
Intention Of Drafters
Perhaps this is not the true ;
interpretation of the basin ac-1
count. Nevertheless, it can be
reliablv reported that this is
what the drafters of the proviso .
interpret it to mean. ,
And quite obviously there is
a method to their madness. Po-,
tential reclamation projects,!
which are in themselves reim-1
bursable no longer exist in the ,
northwest. Now the problem is
A nrm.irit. nme medium of sub-!
sidy. But the reclamation people ;
feel that they can t get a oirrtv
by Roland Co
t'iako fiddle lesionsi"
subsidy from congress. Conse
quently, the basin account was
developed to provide the direct
subsidy in an indirect fashion.
In keeping with this is the
army engineers viewpoint to
wards the proviso. In the past
there has been a tendency to
look to power revenues as a
source of subsidy for irrigation.
Even now on power producing
reclamation projects a part of
the power revenues has been
said to be applicable as an irri
gation subsidy.
So why do the BPA and the
army engineers support the ba
sin account? Simply because they
have been informed that the
irrigation subsidy provided for
in the account, while it looks
like it would come from the
power revenues, actually comes
out of the pocketbooks of the
nation's taxpayers.
ORC Summer Camp
Scheduled for June
Maj. Walter C. Fingerhut, or
ganized reserve corps instructor
here, today announced that sum
mer camp duty for 60 to 90 days,
at Ft. Lewis, Wash., will be avail
able to army reservists starting
in May this year.
Application for duty may be
made to ORC camp headquar
ters at Ft. Lewis, as headquar
ters commandant, or billeting,
mess, assistant operations, per
sonnel or supply officers.
The ORC here can give infor
mation on the summer duty, for
which full pay and allowances
are given.
Washington, Apr. 20 (U.R)
President Truman today pro
claimed May 14 as Mother's day
and May 1 Child Health day.
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In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
In a sharply worded note de
livered in Moscow by our am
bassador, the United. States
charges that RUSSIAN FIGHT
ERS SHOT DOWN THE MISS
ING U. S. NAVY PATROL
PLANE OVER OPEN WATERS
OF THE BALTIC SEA.
A supplementary statement
accompanying the note asserts
that Russia OSTENTATIOUSLY
DECORATED the Soviet airmen
who did the shooting "in a man
ner calculated to give the im
pression that they are being RE
WARDED for shooting down an
American plane."
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HAT does it mean?
Suit yourself. When I read the
dispatch on the teletype, I shrug
ged my shoulders and put it
down as another move in the
"cold" war. This term "cold"
war, by the way, stirs memories
that aren't too pleasant. Do you
remember the so-called "phony"
war that preceded the German
blitz into Belgium and France
that ended at Dunkerque?
The phony war became real.
This cold war could get hot.
THERE'S an interesting dis
patch from New York by
AP's William Ryan pointing out
that Moscow has announced in
the past half year the deaths
of 15 Russian generals and ad
mirals some of them, Ryan
adds, "rather young."
Mr. Ryan wonders if the
Kremlin may be carrying on
another "purge."
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HAT is a purge?
"Well, they've been fairly com
mon in Russia. The last big one
was in the mid-thirties, when a
large number of generals and
admirals were whisked off to
firing squads. By this pleasant
little device, Stalin managed to
forestall AN ATTEMPT TO
SEIZE POWER FROM HIM.
Purges and dictatorships, you
will probably recall, go together
like ham and eggs. Hitler sprung
several of them always with
the idea of getting rid of people
who, he thought, might be toy
ing with the idea of GETTING
RID OF HITLER.
The idea of the ruling dictator
is always to PURGE FIRST.
YOU will note, naturally, the
similaritv between these
purges and what used to happen
in Chicago in the days when the
municipal authorities had more
or less abdicated and turned the
town over to the gangsters.
When the top gangster began
to suspect that some of the un
derlings were mulling the idea
of purging him, with the thrifty
thought of getting his share of
the swag, he started purging.
These purgings were often
done with machine guns In the
open streets.
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THE uual rule Is for the ruling
dictator to purge first. There
was a notable exception in
Louisiana. Down there, a few
years back, Huey Long was a
dictator of sorts. He had armed
bodyguards and all the rest of
the trimmings.
In his case, his OPPONENTS
pureed first.
Huey's body lies In a grave in i
the grounds of the state capital ,
at Dotnn Tn..na When T tact caw
it, some years ago, it was target
ed spectacularly by a huge spot
light placed high up on the
tower of Louisiana's skyscraper
capitol building. Huey's planting
there was then comparatively
recent, and the blazing finger of
light that poured down on his
tomb illuminated strikingly the
flowers that his followers (or his
henchmen, if - you prefer that
term) brought every day to his
bier.
It was an imposing sight.
WE HAVE a comforting saying
in this country that DIC
TATORSHIPS CAN'T HAP
PEN HERE. I think that is true.
Still, the fact remains that Huey
Long did happen to Louisiana.
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Washington, Apr. 20 !U.R)
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San Francisco, Apr. 20 (U.R)
Tokyo Rose will have to stay in
prison while she appeals her con
viction as a traitor.
Mrs. Iva Togur! O'Aquino,
who earned the nickname Tokyo
Rose for her wartime broadcasts
over radio Tokyo, is serving a
10-year sentence in the federal
women's penitentiary in West
Virginia.
Her attorney, Wayne Collins,
said 'nobody "seems both able
and willing" to put up $50,000
bail. He said Mrs. D'Aquino ia
"flat broke" and receives no let
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