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tory from 'ha riles of the Mail
Tribune 10, 20. 30 a4 40 yaara
go.
10 YEARS AGO
March 5. 1942
(It was Thursday)
Medford Milk Producers' and
Distributors' association an
nounces policy of every-other-day
milk deliveries in move to
conserve tires.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The rumor
situation is improving. For 10
days now there have been none
worth repeating.
20 YEARS AGO
March 5. 1932
(it was Saturday)
Rogue valley agriculture and
business men meet to discuss
possibility of obtaining federal
funds to finance production of
1932 pear crop.
"Snow bergs," some 20 feet
square, reported floating in Cra
ter Lake; first such occurrence
in local records.
30 YEARS AGO
March 5, 1922
(It was Sunday)
Edison Marshall, Medford au
thor, receives O. Henry award,
sponsored by New York Society
of Arts and Sciences, for best
short story written during 1921.
Medford police chief claims
most drunkenness here result of
drinking extracts and medicines
with large alcoholic content, in
stead of "moonshine."
40 YEARS AGO
March 5. 1912
(It was Tuesday)
First colonists of 1912 arrive
in Rogue valley looking for
home sites; 1912 expected to be
biggest year for colonization
here in history.
Presidential straw vote taken
here results in "election" of
Theodore Roosevelt by narrow
margin over President William
H. Taft: Woodrow Wilson runs
fourth behind William Jennings
Bryan.
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The School Meeting
To the Editor: I would like to
advise the reporter who attend
ed the "town meeting" last Fri
day at Lone Pine school that he
did not give all the facts in the
account of the story and he made
some misstatements. First of all,
each person present did not have
the welfare of the school children
as their only ultimate objective
many of the people present had
no children attending school
and their only reason in being
present was to uphold the men
they elected to the school board
to keep their taxes down. Others
attending had as their objective,
retribution for hurt feelings.
We were informed at the meet
ing that our community was in a
"bad shape" by Mr. Hoover and
advised to let the school board
handle the situation. Inasmuch
as a petition bearing 140 signa
tures, representing two-thirds of
the families with children at
tending our school, petitioning
the board to disregard the resig
nation of Mr. Dodge, had been
ignored by the schoool board this
was indeed poor advice and lead
Ptl
MAIL TRXBTTKE
Weather
While there is wide divergence of opinion in the
Rogue river valley as to the advisability of attempting
weather control, farmers and ranchers of Umatilla
county apparently are pretty generally agreed that
such efforts should be undertaken in their region.
- o a o o . o
AT THE hearing held here last week by the legisla
tive interim committee on weather control, Jack
son county fruit men testified that their hail preven
tion project has paid big dividends since inaugurated
in May, 1949.
Farmers, stockmen and lumbermen who appeared
at the hearing were just as positive that precipitation
has been interfered with, that their .lands have been
denied normal moisture for the past three years, that
they have thereby been subject to financial loss and
that legislation should be adopted either controlling
weather interference or banning such attempts en
tirely. e e
DUT over in IJmatilla county the Blue Mountain
Weather Research association has been formed,
articles of incorporation filed and plans made for ac
tive operation of cloud seeding devices to induce rain.
The Umatillans propose to set up stationary gen
erators at various points where, it is calculated, they
will do the most good. From the generators silver io
dide particles will be wafted aloft by charted air cur
rents during the period from March 1 to June 30.
It is estimated that the rain making project will
cost those participating around 15 cents per acre for
crop land and three cents per acre for range land.
o e
TPHe apparent agreement among the eastern Oregon
land owners as to the benefits which may be ex
pected from weather control is undoubtedly due to the
fact that there is no such wide diversity of crops there
as prevails here. In the Rogue valley we have, on one
hand, the $11,000,000 fruit crop, garden truck, seed
crops and other important products which can be in
jured by hail. On the other hand there is the pasture
land, dry farm land and forest areas which benefit
from any form of precipitation.
LJERE, there can be no
and desires in weather control and it may be saie-;
ly predicted that the legislative interim committee will
find it extremely difficult to draft laws which will
please all. E.C.F.
Cleanup Needed
A man who lives in a nearby town came into the
office Monday with a suggestion which we are glad
to pass along. Our caller said quite a few people, en
ticed by Sunday's nice weather, were out riding about
the valley. He said he loaded the family into the car
and joined the parade. Saw a lot of new homes going
up, almost every country road being dotted with new
construction. The towns from Rogue River to Ashland
are growing too, he noted,
construction in some places.
DUT what he came in to talk about was the need for
a general cleanup. Many of the valley's towns
need a face washing, he declared. And he was mostlv
perturbed by the frowsy appearance of his own little
burg.
Debris in yards and along the streets and roads,
unsightly, old long-abandoned sheds and other build
ings, trees cut or blown down and left to rot where
they fell ; old automobiles and other unsightly machin
ery and junk rusting in fence comers and even in resi
dential areas, he mentioned as among the things lend
ing an unlovely touch, y
"UR visitor agreed that the countryside always
looks less inviting after taking a winter's beating
and before the leaves and grass come out to cover up
some of the unsightly scare. But, said he, now is the
best time to inaugurate a cleanup while the unsightly
spots are most visible to the eye.
Many communities have a cleanup each spring as
part of their fire safety campaigns, our caller pointed
out, with local fire authorities encouraging household
ers to undertake an annual repair and cleanup be
cause it gets rid of fire and health hazards. A cleaner
and safer town or city may be expected to have lower
disease rates, he added.
He suggested a valley-wide campaign for beauti
f ication with city councils and civic organizations tak
ing the lead in each town and seeing to it that their
particular bailiwick is spruced up.
COUNDS like a very worthwhile project and one
which should be undertaken as early as possible
for good weather will soon be here and with it will
come the usual large number of visitors. In addition
to washing outsiders to gain a good impression of our
area there is a certain satisfaction in living in a clean
and attractive community.
Some elbow grease and a few cans of paint can
do a lot of beautifying if applied by enough people.
us to wonder if this if what Mr.
Hoover does in regard to nation
al government.
The school board has had a
meeting and we have lost a prin
cipal who did a wonderful job
an4 whiua nnlv fault ivflt n 1arlr
of tact. i
We all hope sincerely that the;
man the school board hires will
have in addition to a great deal:
of tact and diplomacy, the abil-j
ity to teach and administer the;
affairs of the school and -be-j
cause we are parents and our
first and only objective is the
welfare of the school children,
we will give him aU our support
and consideration. .
Mrs. Bernadette Seitz
Route 3, Box 155
Medford, Oregon.
Wednesdar. March S. 19S2
Control
such unanimity of interest
with quite a bit of business
Seattle Leads in
Enforcement of Laws
Against Prostitution
Seattle U.R) Seattle leads all
large American cities in the en
forcement of laws against prosti
tution, according to the Ameri
can social hygiene association.
A report received Monday by
city officials from Dr. Charles
Clarke, executive director of the
association, praised the "consid
erable improvement" shown
since 1943 and said that surveys
since 1946 showed prostitution
had been brought to an irre
ducible minimum in the city.
' Dead line Sunday Classifieds la at
noon Saturdays.
Crosstovn
"I read about where people
savings banks last year. What's the use of bain'
thrifty if everybody's doin' il?"
Role of Underdog in
New Hampshire Race
Pleases Taft Guides
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Robert A. Taft's managers are
happily confident that their man
is establsihed in the public mind
as underdog in the March 11
New Hampshire presidential pri
mary. That has been part of the Taft
New Hampshire strategy from
the beginning. There is much
professional political talent in
the Taft headquarters. The pro
fessionals know Taft's greatest
liability as a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomina
tion is a widely accepted idea
that he is mighty poor shakes as
a vote getter.
Right Setup
A weU publicized contest in a
state regarded as Eisenhower
territory was just the setup the
Taft camp was looking for
with one qualification. If the
state was a bona fide Eisen
hower stronghold, neither Taft
nor any other opponent would
want to contest it.
To Taft's managers, Ike did
not seem (,uite so strong in New
Hampshire as all of that, despite
the early popular impression that
the general had New Hampshire
in the bag.
Eisenhower's managers are do
ing what they can to overcome
'Soft Underbelly' of
Europe Is Toughening
By PHIL NEWSOM
UP Foreign News Editor
The area once referred to by
Winston Churchill as the "soft
underbelly of Europe" is tough
ening its mus
cles. Greece, Italy,
France and
Spain, all are,
or soon will be,
allied with the
West to assure
the defense of
the Mediter
ranean. But, so far
as the West is
I'hil Newsom c 0 n c er ned, a
soft spot remains. That spot is
Albania, the little mountainous
state across the Adriatic from
Italy. It is the eyes and ears of
Russia on the Mediterranean and
its great bay of Valona, 100
square miles of sheltered water
protected by the Soviet-fortified
island of Saseno, could be one of
the largest naval bases in the
Mediterranean basin.
No Albania Representation
The United States has had no
representation in Albania since
November, 1946, when a nine
man mission departed after fail
ing to reach a basis for U. S
recognition of the Communist re
gime. The only western representa
tion there now is maintained by
the French at the capital, Tirana.
But the French are restricted to
their villa and a half mile radius
around it. .
First step, in the sovietization
of Albania was to create a bustl
ing naval base at Sesano. Heavy
fortifications were built on the
island and the port of Valona
was sealed off to the Albanians.
Storage Tanks Created
- At Sesano the Russians arei
supposed to have created mam
moth underground storage tanks
for petroleum and to have built
virtually impregnable submarine
pens. Many Soviet submarines
have "visited" Valona in the past
few years. Tirana, the capital, is
a Soviet camp surrounded by
Russian artillery emplacements.
Civilians are forbidden to use
roads from the capital except on
designated buses. The airport
outside Tirana is completely cut
off by security guards.
Russian Planes Arrive .
Russian MIG jet fighter planes
arrived at Tirana in the spring
I
By Roland Co
plunked S800.000.000 in the
the popular impression that Ike
is a sure winner next week. But
across the country many persons
expect Ike to win and to win
rather big.
If underdog Taft breaks even
or better some glamor will peel
off Eisenhower's c a n d i dacy
Some powerful arguments will
be added to Taft's campaign
plea. Taft, himself, established
his New Hampshire party line in
January when he announced he
would congest the state.
Machine Pledged to Ike
The senator remarked that
"the political machine of the
present state administration is
openly pledged to General Eisen
hower." He added that the New
Hampshire situation evidently
was "peculiarly to the liking of
the Eisenhower committee." But
he said he would contest the
state despite "unfavorable fac
tors." "Win, lose or draw," said Taft,
"I feel I should permit the pref
erence vote to be taken in New
Hampshire "
Taft has much to gain in New
Hampshire, less to lose. The pop
ular belief that he lacks political
vote appeal is a heavy burden to
his candidacy. New Hampshire
offers a chance to shuck that
burden.
of 1951. Russian vessels kept Va
lona busy, bringing in Soviet
personnel and military equip
ment and taking out the lion's
share of Albania's scant stocks
of olive Oil, timber, wool, hides,
furs, dairy products and cattle.
Strict rationing was imposed on
Albanians.
Albania's tough mountain men
tried to revolt in 1951, but Rus-rian-led
troops put down the up
rising.
More than 5,000 persons have
been executed in the past five
y.ars at least 1,000 of them
during the 1951 disorders. At
least 15,000 are reported in jail
for political crimes. Thousands
of persons are just "missing."..
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I've just finished reading a
statement by an official very,
very high up in the brass. It
includes these biting words:
"Corruption has penetrated
into our political life to such a
degree that some use it as a vul
gar trade which they regard as
a means of getting rich without
regard for decency.
"Power, therefore, IS EXER
CISED IN AN ATMOSPHERE
OF DISTRUST."
TsTO, YOU'RE wrong.
It wasn't an American , of
ficial who said that.
It was Hilaly Pasha, EGYPT'S
suddenly new premier, who was
heaved into office the other day
a few minutes after the former
premier had been heaved out
by King Farouk.
But if these words HAD been
spoken by an American they
would have been accepted by a
fairly large segment of our popu
lation as TRUE. Corruption HAS
penetrated into our political life
to a degree that shocks and hu
miliates vast numbers of us.
And power IS being exercised
in an atmosphere of distrust.
One of the things worst wrong
with us is the fact that we are
coming to DISTRUST our lead
ership. ,
If we can't trust our leaders,
where are we headed for? -
I
FEAR there can be only one
answer to that question. .
Eisenhower's Political tm&
At Columbia: Background for Good Government
By KEVIN McCANN
. President. Defiance College
(These articles ere based oa
the book. "The Man From
Abilene", by Darin McCann.
lo be published by Doubleday
and company.) " -
In two and one half years of
intensive work as the active
president of Columbia Univer
sity, General of the Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower initiated
several projects which are basic
to good government.
He halted the trend toward a
chronic annual deficit in the
university's finances and revita
lized the attitude of the alumni
and the public toward financial
support of Columbia. In the Co
lumbia fiscal year of 1949-50
governing a $200,000,000 invest
ment with an annual budget of
about $19,000,000 General
Eisenhower showed a surplus of
$974,000.
This he did after allowing for
debt interest and amortization of
debt. And it was done without
wartime subsidies from the fed
eral government for special pro
jects that Columbia, like so
many other colleges and univer
sities, had received.
Against this surplus General
Eisenhower, for the first time at
any university, made provision
for depreciation of plant and fa
cilities. This allowance, $1,391,
000, had the effect, on a book
keeping basis, of converting the
surpuls into a deficit of $417,
000. He launched these major proj
ects to increase the university's
usefulness to the American pub
lic: 1. The American Assembly,
located at Arden House, in the
Ramapo Hills, a program of con
tinuing conferences which bring
together representatives of busi
ness, labor, the professions, po
litical parties, and the govern
ment for the purpose of throw
ing impartial light on the major
problems confronting the United
States.
2. The Conservation of Human
Resources, an extensive, scien
tific study of the major areas in
which wastes of human capaci
ties occur and of the means for
If we don't trust our leaders
and if we lack the capacity to
get together before it is too late
and GET LEADERS WE CAN
AND DO TRUST we can and
MAY go the road that Egypt has
gone.
Egypt, as you know, was once
very great and very rich. It had
(and still has) the richest soil
on earth the valley of the
Nile. It had (and still has) a
strategic location at the cross
roads of the commerce of the
Old World.
What Egypt has LACKED
through these long centuries has
been leadership that the people
could and did trust. It is this
lack which has brought Egypt to
its present low estate.
THE other day FRANCE threw
out a premier her SEVEN
TEENTH since World War II,
(Under the European system, a
premier is the approximate
counterpart of our president.) In
a nation that has had 17 prem
iers since 1945. leadership must
be distrusted. There can be no
other satisfactory answer to such
a state of affairs.
F SIZING up the situation,
Paul Reynaud lashed out
against deputies (members of
France's chamber of deputies,
corresponding to our house of
representatives) "who want to
vote expenditures without ac
cepting the responsibility of
raising revenues to pay for
them."
He was referring to the action
last week of the French cham
ber, which approved a requested
outlay for European defense re
quirements - and then VOTED
DOWN a request for a 15 per
cent increase in taxes to meet
the outlay.
QUESTION:
y How can vou have eonfi
dence in leaders who vote mon-
anit thPii refuse to acceDt the
responsibility of levying taxes to
RAISE THE MONEY?
WeU ' '
For lo these many years WE
have been voting money and
then have been refusing to levy
sufficient taxes to RAISE the
money. As a result, our national
debt has risen to approximately
a quarter of a TRILLION dol
lars. What is that but poor leader
ship? EGYPT was once a great na
ation. France was once a
irroat nation. Both came to their
present pass through lack of
leadership that the people couia
and would trust.
It's high time for US to get
leadership that the people can
and will trust. The lessons of
history can not be disregarded
without terrible loss to the peo
ple. - " . ' ,
WEATHER
By UNITED PRESS
North California: Partly
cloudy, with scattered showers
north portion Wednesday and
occasional rain Ukiah-Red Bluff
northward Wednesday night.
Thursday increasing cloudiness.
their reduction or elimination.
Based on his World War II ex
perience, Gen. Eisenhower felt
that "the ineffective use of our
manpower jeopardizes the secur
ity of the United States in war,
and represents a major drain on
the efficiency of the economy in
peacetime.'
War. Peace Institute
3. An Institute of War and
Peace, to study the causes and
consequences of war and the ef
fective management of a huge
democracy in the tragic circum
stances of war.
4. The Citizenship Education
Study Project, now running in
eight Eastern school systems
with the purpose of conducting
research in methods of teaching
citizenship.
For 1954, when Columbia will
mark the 200th anniversary of
its founding, Gen. Eisenhower
has projected a convocation of
educational leaders from many
lands to promote "the ideal of
full freedom of scholarly in
quiry and expression, the right
of mankind to knowledge and
to the free use thereof."
Only three days after his in
auguration at Columbia, Gen.
Eisenhower spoke out on a ma
jor national issue, that of Fed
eral aid to higher education:
Dangerous Situation
"Because I believe that the
Federal government has no right
to tax money out of our pockets
and give it back to us without
some form of supervision, there
fore I say that they cannot give
Federal money for the support
of higher education. When Fed
eral money comes into that field,
we are entering a dangerous
situation.
"So that no one wilf misun
derstand where an old soldier
stands on that question I will
have no Federal money in high
er education as long as there is
one single iota of federal control
coming with it."
He told a member of Congress,
Representative Ralph Gwinn,
Republican, New York, that
"unless we are careful, even the
great and necessary educational
processes in our country will
become yet another vehicle by
which the believers in paternal
ism, if not- outright Socialism,
will gain still additional power
for the Federal government.!'
Gen. Eisenhower said he
would support Federal aid for
education in areas where it was
needed "under formulas that
would permit no abuse, no di
rect interefernce of the Federal
authority in educational proces
ses.' Speaking to educators on an
other occasion, he remarked:
"What you are essentially talk
ing about is this: 'Can we make
the public wake up and see that
the education process and the
expenditures therefor go up in
priority over the expenditures
for the paving of new streets,
new pretty buildings, etc., and
certainly above grafting in the
local administrations.' I don't
believe we have to go to the
Federal government to get it
done."
Post. Offered in 1946
A group of Columbia Univer
sity trustees, led by Thomas J.
Watson, persuaded Gen. Eiesn
hower to accept the Presidency
of Columbia University in 1947.
The post had been offered to
him in 1946; he was reluctant
to enter a field in which he had
no experience, and he was still
Chief of Staff.
He had other offers one as
head of he Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, another from friends in Kan
sas who assured him a seat in
the Senate. The first was most
appealing. The second held no
interest. He took the third after
careful consideration. On July
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3, 1947, he wrote his old friend.
Gen. Walter . Bedell (Beetle)
Smith, that it "was almost the
first decision I have ever made
in my life that was directly
concerned with myself ... I had
to struggle against every instinct
I had ..."
And to an old Navy friend,
"Swede" Hazlett, on July 19,
he placed his basic philosophy
on the line:
Headquarters Changed
"From my viewpoint, going
to Columbia is merely to change
the location of my headquarters;
perhaps it would be more ac
curate to say that I am changing
the method by which I will con
tinue to strive for the same
goals.
"I believe fanatically in the
American form of democracy
a system that recognizes and
protects the rights of the indi
vidual and that ascribes to the
individual a dignity accruing to
him because of his creation ia
the image of a Supreme Being
and which rests upon his con
viction that only through a sys
tem of free enterprise can this
type of democracy be preserved.
"Beyond this I believe that
world order can be established
only by the practice of true co
operation among the sovereign
nations and that American lead
ership toward this goal depends
upon her strength her strength
of will, her moral, social and
esonomic strength and, until an
effective world order is
achieved, upon her military
strength. It is these simple con
cepts that I will take to Colum
bia. If by living them and
preaching them I can do some
good, I will hope to stay on
indefinitely."
Help for Answer
The compelling consideration
in his acceptance was the fact
that he would be among schol
ars and experts who could help
provide answers to the problems
constantly on his mind. He ar
rived on Morningside Heights
on May 2, 1948.
In Gen. Eisenhower's mind,
universities could not fulfill
their mission "if they concen
trate their efforts only on the
material betterment of their
graduates."
He wrote to an old friend in
Texas:
"They must be aware of what
the human soul craves, socially,
politically and economically. In
our case, at least, we find that
individual freedom, all the basic
rights of free speceh, worship,
self-government are the very
core of all our deepest desires
and aspirations. The universities
must, therefore, point the way
to perpetuation of these and be
alert in warning us against all
the insidious ways in which free
dom can be lost."
Plugs Academic Freedom
In the same letter Gen. Eisen
hower plunged right into the
current national issue of acad
emic freedom and put in a plug
for it in non-academic language:
"I do not mean to say that
universities should be dogmatic,
nor that they should be intol
erant of opposition. On the con
trary, I believe that they are all
the better and the sronger for
healthy argument, and, if our
system is as correct in its basic
principles as you and I believe,
it can well stand the most piti
less and searching examination
even by our enemies. But if
the things we fear as threats to
our venerated system are trends
brought about by faulty leader
ship, by shallow thinking, and
by sheer neglect, it seems to me
that only through education, led
by our great universities, are we
going to get back on the right
track."
Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
MOM
March 9
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