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Flight o' Time
Medford ana Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tritune 10. 20. SO and
40 year ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 13, 1943
(It Was Friday)
City tax levy of 40.4 mills to
be slightly under last year.
From Arthur Perry's 'Ye
Smudge Pot column: Barbers of
the Pacific coast want to be call
ed "chirotonsors," on the
grounds it will uplift the chin
whacking profession. In these
piping times of 75c shaves and
$1 haircuts a $7 word is out of
place. '
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 13. 1933
(It Was Sunday)
Pair confesses setting fire to
Applegate store.
Minimum price of $20 per ton
set for cling peaches.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 13. 1923
(It Was Monday)
More than 10,000 tourists reg
istered in city last month. -
Pear shipments to date total
256 cars.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 13. 1913
(It Was Wednesday)
. Trout fry for distribution in
local streams arrive.
Don Rader. Medford baseball
played, making good with Chi
cago White Sox.
Ordinance Recognize
Trend for Hospitals
Chicaeo (U.PJ Zonins? ordi
nances in the nation's largest
cities recognize the trend toward
letting general hospitals provide
for patients with communicable
and mental diseases.
The American Society of Plan
ning Officials reports that New
York, Boston, Detroit, Philadel
phia, Washington and Baltimore
permit hospitals to care for sucn
patients in any zone where gen
eral hospitals may be located.
Most up-to-date zoning ordi
nances govern hospital location
on the basis of size and function,
rather than The type of patient,
the society said.
It said the exclusion of spec
ialized hospitals for many partic
ular location in an urban area
solely on the basis of danger to
public health cannot be justified
in the light of medical findings.
Army Called To Quell
Red Riols in Ceylon
Colombo, Ceylon (U.R) The
Army was called out today by
Premier Dudley Senanayake and
volunteers were mobilized to
quell Communist inspired riots
in which five persons have been
killed and 69 injured in the past
two days.
The premier said military
units have been ordered to pa
trol all main roads and that ma
chine guns have been installed
at key points.
Several fires have been start
ed by the rioting demonstrators.
Police fired on one mob in
downtown Colombo early today
as Communists swarmed through
the streets in the second day
of violent disorders.
Charles Town, W. Va. (U.R)
Forty-nine votes were cast in a
recent municipal election in this
town of 2,500. But one vote
would have been sufficient Only
one candidate filed for each of
four council posts.
What a Picnic!
Political picnics should not be taken too seriously.
Thev are of course strongly partisan and usually
somewhat convivial gatherings where tha "circus
lemonade" may even have a stick in it.
Sn the manv claims
Republican picnic in Portland Sunday last, should be
taken with a grain of salt
Hnwevpr w were trenuinelv surmised bv the
statement credited to our
went somewhat as follows:
"Democratic leaders who yearn for a return to the two- .
party system, should first offer principles that the people be
lieve in, and the leadership that Oregonians can follow, then
it might be time for the people to consider a change."
e e e e
BUT how about Republican leaders offenng pnn
.;niAa pv.PTTRT.TPAMS ran "helieve in and
VllVO U1C UUi WV"V"W
follow?"
The record of the recent congressional session
will show that time after time, the "principles" of
fered by President Eisenhower would-have been
defeated overwhelmingly, if only Republicans had
voted.
They were saved solely by Democratic support.
Would that indicate the Democrats believe in
NO principles that the people of Oregon can believe
in?
-. It would seem to be, to a man up a tree, that
Governor Patterson was as Mr. Shakespeare once
remarked "raised by his own petard."
e e e
OOW can any rational human being agree with
the governor's implication that Oregon has aband
oned the two-party system.
Or that such a condition will remain, until the
Democrats can offer SOMETHING Oregonians CAN
follow.
Does our new Governor REALLY believe no
Oregonians CAN follow the State Grange for ex
ample, in its opposition to the Republican stand re
garding "Hells Canyon?;'
How about conservation
including oil?
Then there is the recent demand of the Old
Guard" in congress that the country return to isola
tionism, while ' the Republican delegation from
Nevada urged a return to
Hawley tariff abomination.
Can Mr. Patterson, .even with the use of the ex
ecutive chamber's G.O.P.
ians not even ONE who
ship of a party that would renounce and denounce
the ultra-conservative Republican stand?
AS above stated, the table
aim viewing Willi aiami, willUl ilatUlall
characterizes political picnics Republican or Demo
cratic should not be taken too seriously.
But after all there should be a limit
And it seems tt this department, in the "exuber
ance of his verbosity" our new and very amiable
Governor passed it R.W.R.
How About Ikes Cabinet?
In reviewing recently the accomplishments of his
administration President Eisenhower had surprising
ly little to say about his department of defense and
Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson.
Probably there is a reason. Perhaps very little
of a complimentary nature to date could be said.
Secretary Wilson, since his statement that the
Korean truce would result in a sharp reduction in
the draft, has been significantly and benevolently
silent
He was as wrong in that, as he was when he
claimed that for half as great an outlay, our air force
could be made doubly effective or words to that
effect-
TN further explanation he said he was for economy
A first, last and all the time.
So are we all, THEORETICALLY.
The best answer to this, however, was made by
Senator Symington of Missouri, former head of US
air force, quote:
"I want economy too. But I want a record of national
security first. There is no economy in too UtUe security.
We have no right to gamble with our security. The best
economy imaginable would be to be so strong no possible
foe would think of attacking us."
e e e e e
PENALLY there was that unfortunate, but most
revealing statement, that whatever "might be
best for General Motors would be best for the
United States."
When Mr. Wilson realized he had nulled n nrettv
terrible boner, politically,
wnac ne reany meant; but no one or practically
no one swallowed that belated "alibi," with or with
out salt
CO it goes!
It would be unjust to make any final judgment
as to the real caDabilities of anv memher of President.
Eisenhower's cabinet so early in the game.
TJ..4- -t. -i 1 nir l i ..
u, wnen me writer was last m wasnmgion uie
wagering in length of tenure, placed Secretary of
Labor Durkin as nrobablv the first tn trn Secret rv
of Defense Wilson, second,
uur guess is Durkin
strong hunch the former
gaining on him fast as they
WITHDRAWAL
East Hartford, Conn. (U.FD
Crime stories are not mnfliwri in
books in the Hockanum Library.
m a . -
wo Doys, agea n ana 13, Mtere
seized for taking $11 from the
librarian's desk.
Thursday, Angus! IS. 1SS3
made bv SDeakers at the
present Governor, which
of our natural resurces,
'
the principles of the Smoot-
binoculars see NO Oregon
could follow the leader
- thumping - pointing - with -
he claimed he had not said
Dulles, third.
still leads, but we have a
head of General f ntnra ir
approach the finish.
K.W.K.
NO ONE'S SAFE
New Haven, Conn U.R) A
fire caused several thousand dol
lars worth of damage at the roof
ing company of Frank Dahill
Mew Haven fire commission
president. ., .
Crosstovn
6-I3-S9
It's not every course you play
All Editors Urged To Read
McCarthy-Wechsler Case To
Decide if Freedom Menaced
Washington U.R) An 11
man special committee of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors has urged that all edi
tors read the transcript of the
McCarthy-Wechsler hearings last
spring and make up their own
minds whether press freedom
was menaced.
The committee, as such, reach
ed no conclusions. It said in a
report published last night that
it was "not our function" to, do
so. But a four member minority
said congressional investigations
like the McCarthy-Wechsler
hearings, "if frequently repeat
ed, would extinguish, without
passage of a single law," free
dom of the press.
Editor Made Request
The special committee was
named by Basil L. Walters, exe
cutive editor of the Knight news
papers and president of the
ASNE, at the request of James
A. Wechsler, editor of the New
York Post. Wechsler made the
request in connection with' his
appearance last April 24 and
May 5 before the Senate Per
manent Investigating subcom
mittee headed by Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy, (R-Wis.).
The group at the time was in
vestigating State Dpartment li
braries overseas.
In New York, Wechsler said
he hoped the ASNE study "will
deter Sen. McCarthy from con
ducting any similar expeditions
against other independent news
papers and editors."
McCarthy Comments
McCarthy, asked for comment
in New York on the committee
report, said editors should read
Congressional Quiz
Quettions and Answers en What Gees On at the Capital
Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features
Q Sometimes the Senate
meets when the House is not in
session. Which chamber has been
meeting more often this year?
A From Jan. 3, ' when Con
gress convened, through July 31,
this year, the upper chamber was
a little ahead of the lower cham
ber in the number of meetings.
The Senate was in session 123
days; the House, 115 days. The
Senate held much longer sessions
too. It devoted 743 hours and
three minutes to floor wojk, the
House 492 hours and 41 minutes.
Q How many times did Sen.
Taf t try for the office hit father,
the late President Howard Taft,
held?
A The late Sen. Robert A.
Taft, (R O.), unsuccessfully
sought the Republican nomina
tion for the nation's highest of
fice three times in 1040, 1048
and 1952.
Q What's happened to the
Administration's proposed postal
rate raise? Will I have to pay
more for stamps this year?
A Probably not this year.
Tlje House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee July 28 post
poned until 1954 consideration
of the Administration's requested
legislation to hike postal rates.
But the issue is expected to come
up again next year, since the
Administration put it on the
"must" list for enactment
Q What wUl be done with
the revenues from mineral leases
on submerged lands of the outer
continental shelf which Congress
placed under Jurisdiction of the
U.S.?
A As specified in the so
called Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act passed by Congress
July 30, "all rentals, royalties
and other sums paid to the (U.S.)
under any lease in the Outer
Continental Shelf for the period
from June 5, 1950, to date and
thereafter shall be deposited in
the Treasury of the United
States and credited to miscell
aneous receipts." A provision to
devote the revenues to, first, na
tional defense for three years,
then grants in aid to education,
was dropped from the biU.
Q -I hear we need more Judge
all ever the country. Has Con
,0y Roland Cos
r -aa- m
that adjoins a watermelon patch!
not only the McCarthy-Wechsler
hearing transcript but also the
transcripts of all congressional
hearings "in connection with
the digging' out of crooks and
Communists."
The 11 -man ASNE committee
was headed by J. R. Wiggins,
managing editor of the Wash
ington Post. The committee's re
port said most editors disagree
on whether the hearings "consti
tuted a threat to freedom of the
press; and members of this com
mittee disagree also as to the
extent to which this threat ex
isted." '
The four man minority com
prised Wiggins, Herbert Bruck
er, editor of the Hartford, Conn.,
Courant: William M. Tugman,
editor of the Eugene, Ore., Reg
ister Guard, and Eugene S. Pul
liam Jr., managing editor of the
Indianapolis News.
Their supplemental report
said "a press put to the frequent
necessity of explaining its news
and editorial policies to a United
States senator, armed with the
full power of the United States,
is not a free press whether
the senator be a good or bad
senator."
They said Wechsler was pres
ent "by compulsion and under
the necessity to -answer what
ever inquiries were propounded
to him or face prosecution for
refusal to do so.
"Action under these laws, or
under any other laws that have
been made or could be made by
Congress, in abridgement of
freedom of speech or of the press
was barred by, the inexorable
command of. the first amend
ment." gress created any more Judge
ships this year?
A Both Houses this year
passed bills for additional Judge
ships but they did not become
law because members said, the
House refused to make any con
cessions to the Senate. The Sen
ate passed a bill providing for 33
new Federal District judgeships
and four Circuit judgeships. The
House bill called for 23 more
District and three more Circuit
judges. But conferees failed to
work out an agreement. '
(Copyright 1953.
Congressional Quarterly)
Reds Hot Surgeons,
Released POW Feels
Inchon, Korea (U.R) An
American released from a Com
munist prison camp told today
how he nearly died from a badly
performed appendix operation
and careless treatment.
Cpl. Robert Hammelsmith, 26,
Lynwood, Calif., said Chinese
medics removed his appendix in
a 20-minute operation on Dec. 1,
1951.
"The spinal anesthetic didn't
take too well, and it hurt," Ham
melsmith said.
"The stupid Chinks took only
three stitches after the operation.
The stitches didn't hold."
He said the 'incision broke
open nine days after, and
the Chinese did not bother to
sew it closed.
"They put a bandage on it
snd taped it up that's all,"
Hammelsmith said.
Dr. Andrew G. Webster
, Announces
the opening of an office for the
practice of general surgery in
PASCO, WASHINGTON
In the Day's l!evs
By FRANK JENKINS
President Eisenhower calls for
VIGOROUS REDUCTION OF
SPENDING by the federal gov
ernment. He asks all govern
ment leaders to attack waste
and inefficiency with renewed
vigor and to make substantial
cuts in EVEY new appropriation.
I WAS SURE you'd do it sir.
When you asked congress
last week to go to the bank and
arrange a longer line of credit,
you were impressed by two im
portant facets of our national
fiscal situation:
1. Knowing your history (a
General of the Army must be
one of the most SOUNDLY edu
cated men in the world) you
were aware that under the sys
tem set up for us by the Found
ing Fathers congress is the keep
er of the purse. Since congress
had appropriated more money
than our existing tax- system
will produce, you felt, quite pro
perly, that it is the responsibil
ity of congress to arrange for
whatever loans at the bank may
be necessary, to cover the defi
cit that must ensue.
2. Being an able diplomat (a
General of the Army must be
a diplomat as well as a soldier)
you knew that when the Presi
dent of the United States and
the congress of the United States
indulge consantly in disgusting
little quarrels and tiffs and spats
our country is WEAKENED in
the eyes of the world. Were had
ample evidence of that fact in
the past dozen years or so.
Being one, of the world's
greatest leaders
You DEFERRED to congress
as the keeper of our national
purse and courteously requested
congress (as the keeper of the
purse) to arrange for the bor
rowing of enough money to
meet the commitments that had
been made by congress.
I think you were quite right
in doing so.
BUT
The congress, although it had
overspent our anticipated na
tional income, chose to disre
gard your request and refused
to go to the bank and arrange
for a loan to cover its overdraft.
That left you no choice. As
the administrative head of our
government, you had to order
DRASTIC reduction in spending.
I think your order, is fully
justified, and I think the people
will understand that under the
circumstances there was noth
ing else for you to do.
WOULD YOU mind, sir, a
little well-meant advice and
backgrounding (briefing is what
you would call it in the Army)
on the fundamentals of political
life in America?
You have led a soldier's life.
A soldier's life is a clean life
and a rather simple one. A sol
dier sizes up the situation and
makes the necessary decisions.
If the decisions are wrong, the
soldier takes the consequences.
If he is of the higher echelons,
he takes the TERRIBLE conse
quences of sending men to death
needlessly. If he is of the lower
echelons, he dies in the perfor
mance of his duty.
In any event, there is no buck
passing. F POLITICAL life, it is dif
ferent. There one of the first
and most generally accepted
principles is to claim the credit
for everything that is good and
to PASS THE BUCK for every
thing that is bad.
That, sir, is what the congress
was doing when (after having
overspent anticipated income) it
refused to make the necessary
arrangements for a loan to meet
the deficit that had been creat
ed by its overpsending.
It was passing the buck to
you.
Hidden TV Cameras
Aid Thieves' Capture
Hollywood (U.R) Police
used hidden television cameras
to capture four men suspected of
taking some $40,000 worth of
electronics parts from a ware
house. Detectives said the company
had been missing radio tubes and
electronics parts for several
weeks. '
They said they hid two televi
sion cameras in the warehouse
stockroom, installed a receiver
upstairs and screened loading
dock activities. '
What they saw and heard re
sulted in the arrest Tuesday of
stock clerks Alamo Mason, 45.
and Fred Porter, 23. The two
implicated Kirk Hockner, 49,
and Milton Syde, 42, officers
said.
Traditional Month of
France Labor Truce
Falls by WAYSIDE
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Pros Foreign Analyst
August is a traditional month
of "labor truce" in France:
It is a time when Frenchmen
suspend their
differences and
go on vacation.
This August,
however, more
than 1,000,000
French work
ers are out in
the worst
strike since
1947.
Thousands of
Amprtnnn anri
Phil Newtoa. other tourists
are stranded, trains are halted,
hospitals are short staffed, gas
and electricity cut off and gar
bage rots in the, streets. And the
situation inreatens to get worse
before it gets better.
Now, as in the 1947 strikes,
the walkout Is the result of
France's stumbling efforts to
cure her never ending financial
ills. Nok, as then, the Commu
nists are doing their best to
profit through a national catas
trophe.
In Protest of Plan
The strike - began last week
with a walkout by 220,000 gov
ernment postal and communica
tions workers in protest against
Premier Joseph Laniel's plan to
bolster the national economy by
slashing government spending
15 per cent.
The strike was called by the
Socialist-dominated Workers
Force (TO), and supported by
the Catholic OFTC and an inde
pendent Postal Workers Union.
The Communists, caught by
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What do You Think?
To the Editor: The District
Attorney's office, the County
Court, the Mail Tribune, and the
Medford City Administration
should unite behind a most
worthy and badly needed cause.
This area desperately needs a
receiving station to take care of
all people who are injured or
found ill on all -public roads or
public places. It is almost im
possible to get a doctor in an
emergency and a sick or injured
person can very easily be sent to
jail by persons who are unable
to properly diagnose a physical
condition.
The station could be staffed
to a great extent by trained
people who would take turns. By
so doing each doctor would have
less emergency calls and I am
sure the Medical Profession
would co-operate. The work
could be under the guidance of
the Public Health and Red Cross.
Expenses could be handled by a
small city and county tax levy.
I believe some real good can
be accomplished by the earnest
cooperation of the organizations
above named.
What do your think?
JAMES C. COLLINS.
104 West Main,
Medford, Ore.
Camp White Man Protects
To the Editor: They're at it
again. One of your readers
lumps all the veterans at this
station in one category drunks.
In any community having eight
hundred or more males, there
is bound to be a certain per
centage of a so-called undesir
able element. We at Camp White
don't like them either.
The attitude of some citizens
of Medford, just like that of cer
tain employees at this station,
is dead wrong and must be
changed. Not all of us, nor even
a majority by any stretch of the
imagination, can be classified as
drunks, or fools, or as being be
low the average in intelligence.
This smug pose of superiority
betokens a lack of understand
ing as well as false rating of
one's own ability and character.
David Frisch,
Company One,
Camp White, Ore.
Frank Morgan -
m
I -AN
surprise, gave it onlv tartt .
proval.
Laniel's plan was to increase
the retirement ano fmm itn
62 years, to fire some of the esti
mated 4,000,000 government em
ployees and to hold the line oa
pay increases.
Cold Price Jumps
The immediate effect of the
strike was a boomerang. The
price of gold shot skyward and
the value of the French franc
fell.
Meanwhile, the nnmm..nirf.
seeing an opportunity, joined the
strike in full force.
Their objective is to topple the
government and brirnr ahnut
"popular front" such as existed
in the 1930's.
As yet. the Laniel eovernmont
has refrained from any sweeping
oacK to work decrees such as
were used by Premier Robert
Schuman to break the 1947
strike.
But. allowed to rontinm in.
definitely, the strike could fin-
lsn ine wreciting oi uie r rencn
economy, wiping out not only
the franc but savings and insur
ance policies as well.
Disabled Veleran
Saves Life of Boy
Portland (U.R) A disabled
war veteran was credited today
with saving the life of a six-
year-old hoy who suffered se
vere shock when he plugged in
a floor lamp.
The boy's mother, Mrs. Wal
ter H. Hunter, said her neighbor,
Frank Leary, rushed to her aid
when she called for help. Leary
applied artificial respiration un
til the lad could be given medi
cal attention.
Six-year-old Eugene had plug
ged in a loose cord of a floor
lamp at his home Tuesday night
and suffered an electric shock
that left him unconscious.
Yoncalla Lumber Mill
Destroyed by Flames
Yoncalla (U.R) Fire yester
day destroyed most of the Yon
calla Lumber company mill here,
largest of several in and around
this northern Douglas county
town.
There was no immediate estl
mate of damage.
lumber, and the resaw
and planer units were saved.
The mill was closed last week
for 10 days to allow installation
of an electric motor.
i
O'Dwyer Marriage
Fale Up To Church
Mexico City (U.R) Sloan
Simpson and former U. S. Am
bassador William O'Dwyer both
fnrnpH Ihpir backs today On the
civil divorce which ended their
four year marriage.
They said the fate of the mar
riaff rpsts with the Catholic
church, despite a decree issued
at Cuernavaca, Mexico, oivorc
inc the former fashion model
from her 63 -year-old husband.
Tele-fun
by Warren Goodrich
"Hello-Sorry I
answering, but I'm sttO fust
little horse!"... You won't
risk missing important calk if
you always answer your tele
phone promptly ... Pacific
Telephone.
Harold Snodgrass
was to totra
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CHAPEL MORTUARY
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