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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. SO and
40 year:, ago.
10 YEAHS AGO
Aug. 17, 1943
(It was Tuesday)
Stanford university quits foot
ball for duration of war.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Upstate res
idents, particularly in the metro
politan area, are worrying about
what will happen to Oregon
when the war is over. At least
they are not laying awake nights
fretting about the future of In
dia or the Utopian happiness of
the Hottentots.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 17. 19S3
(It was Thursday)
Price of Bartletts jumps to
$27.50 a ton in valley.
Jacksonville "Gold Rush" cel
ebration starts.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 17, 1953
(It was Friday)
Travel record to Crater Lake
park to date 33,605 people.
Ashland - Klamath Falls high
way to be finished soon.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 17. 1953
(It was Sunday)
Pair arrested at Ashland
charged with decoying young
Medford girls.
Several Medford people vaca
tioning at Colestin springs.
Crash fakes Life
Of Idaho Motorist
Jordan Valley, Ore. flJ.R) A
former resident of Burley, Ida.,
Robert Eujne Dick, 21, was
killed and his companion, a Bur
ley serviceman, was injured
when their car upset 20 miles
north of here yesterday.
Oregon state police said Dick's
last residence was listed as Sac
ramento where he was manager
of a shoe store.
Donald L. Deleski, 22, station
ed at Mather Air Force base,
Sacramento, was taken to a
Caldwell hospital,- where he was
treated for head injuries and
shock.
DISOWNED Theodore Zanowiea,
21, bows dejectedly as he leave
Federal Court in Cleveland, O.,
where he learned he can never
regain the citizenship he forfeited
by fleeing this couctry to Mexico
to evade the draft Re win be da
ported after serving two years in
prison.
iuj issu - i
ftmf
What Will The Council Do?
A troubled kind of peace has settled over the city
hall.
The storms and fury have calmed down to breezes
and arguments, as the city council debates what to
do.
We sympathize with the city council, individually
and collectively, and with other members of the city's
official family. For look what happened:
e e e e e
EVERYTHING was going along smoothly; streets
f"- were being paved; negotiations were in progress
for a settlement of the East Side fire station ques
tion; the budget had been approved without major
difficulty; the airport-terminal . building was com
pleted; the parks were operating for the benefit and
a a AT 1 0 1 1 s J 11 i.1
enjoyment 01 ivieaiora residents, ana au me many
faceted operations of the city appeared to be in good
shape.
Then, without prior warning, a man died. It was
reported that he had suffered a fractured skull, and
was confined in the jail over the week end without
medical attention. I
THE PEACE and harmony of city government
was momentarily disrupted, but quiet began to
settle again. Then the Mail Tribune picked up the
incident and demanded, editorially, that steps be
taken to insure that nothing of that nature be permit
ted to happen again.
And the county grand
struck hard at the present administration of the city
police department. It recommended that the present
chief of police be replaced with a trained officer, pre
ferably from another city.
As Snuffy Smith says,
jar."
TEMPERS FLARED, some pretty wild statements
were hurled around. This newspaper and the grand
jury were assailed. The council split wide open, but
pulled itself together sufliciently to assure the chief
that it had no hard feelings, and that it thought he
was a good guy.
The mayor, ever the
gather his warring councilmen together, to get them
in' a mood where problems could be talked over sen
sibly and without rancor, with a program of action
formulated.
"Can you lay off us for
us a chance to get together'
At lT -l ist 11 a
Acknowledging mat me council is a aenoerative
and legislative body of eight men of highly different
temperament and personality, and that to get any
thing done a semblance of harmony is necessary, the
Mail Tribune did "lay off."
IT IS NOW awaiting with hopeful expectation the
meeting 'of the council Tuesday evening.
What can the council do?
It has several alternatives:
(1) It can do nothing, operating under the as
sumption that the "Hurley incident" was the result
of a "regretable error," and that it won't happen
again for a while, anyway.
Or (2) It can acknowledge the fact that a situ
ation which permitted a mortally injured man to lie
in jail without attention is not a good one (to say the
least) and may be indicative of other police deficien
cies, or (3) It can ask
to continue its investigation (as its chairman has in
sisted it should), or (4) It can authorize the em
ployment of an outside trained investigator to exam
ine the department, and propose a plan of remedial
action.
Police Committee Chairman John Snider feels
the investigation started by
continued that the city should take care of its own
problems- He believes that the Beall report furnishes
an expertlv-prenared outline for the Dolice deDart-
ment, and that the council is capable of seeing that it
is followed, with the present police administration if
possible without if necessary.
Other councilmen feel, however, that only an
"outside" man that is, an expert who has not been
involved in the local controversy in any way could
make the proper investigation with the needed objec
tive and non-controversial, approach.
WHILE The Mail Tribune has "laid off," it has not
forgotten the incident or the lesson that should
be learned from it. Nor will it permit the city council
to forget it.
However we seriously doubt the council will shirk
its responsibility again- It is a fact that several of the
councilmen are sincerely concerned over police de
partment conditions. Perhaps all are, despite indica
tions to the contrary.
By Tuesday evening, tempers may have calmed
and the matter can then be approached temperately
and constructively. We hope so.
We are not convinced that all is sweetness and
light in the police-department. Neither are many Med
ford people, who have reported their feelings to this
paper.
DUT WHAT to do about it, is the city council's job.
We suggest it be given a chance to DO that job.
So, Mr. Mayor, we continue to "lay off" until
Wednesday, anyway. E.A.
Major Entertainment
Salem U.R) Topflight pro
ducers will be repsonsible for
I two major entertainment events
at the Oregon state fair Sept.
5-12 here the rodeo and night
stage revue Manager Leo Spitz
bart said today.
Helen Hughes, who has pro
duced many fair revues, will be
in charge of the nighUy show in
the grandstand. Spitzbart said
Monday. Angus! 17. 1153
jury issued a report which
"That put the lid on the
peacemaker, attempted to
a while?" he asked. "Give
its own- police committee
his committee should be
Events at State Fair
she is considered one of the top
producer! of the 20th Century
Fox organization of New York
and Hollywood. Theme of her
1953 revue will be "Welcome
Hawaii."
The rodeo will be supervised
by Christensen brothers of Eu
gene and Roseburg.
Dead tine for Sunday '-'-rr'flrl fc
at soon Saturdays,
Crosstovn
"I told the boys they'd find us on the beach at three o'clock
it someone else hadn't found us first."
Best. Dam
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail-Tiibune Correspondent
On the last day' of the first
round with Hells Canyon hear
ings before the Federal Power
Commission, a reporter walked
in with a card the size of a driv
er's license which he said had
been left by some unknown
partisan on his typewriter.
It said in bold type:
"COME TO THE DAM GIVE
AWAY. Not too far from Teapot Dome
Place: Niagara Falls first, then
Hells Canyon
It is nobler to give than to re
ceive Money is the source of all evil
Low cost power makes only
the people richer
So. come see the Republicans
purify you by giving your
water power resources to
the power trust monopoly
Come and see the best dam
giveaway yetl
(signed)
Th Cadillac Crusaders."
Another reporter suggested
that possibly Sen- Wayne Morse,
who calls the Eisenhower admin
istration a "Cadillac Crusade"
was printing these cards in his
basement or out in his hen house
to keep the pot boiling with poli
tics. On the back of the card were
the following words:
"P.S. Any statement that we
will also give away your rural
electrification and rural tele
phone programs at this time is
positively premature."
Even Idaho Power President
Thomas E. Roach grinned when
he read the card, for its entrance
informally into the proceedings,
last Friday was virtually the
only moment of levity during
five weeks of very wearying
hearings.
Recess For Hells Canyon
The Hells Canyon case is now
in recess until Sept. 21, when at
torneys for the FPC and public
power advocates of the high dam
will begin to peck away at what
they consider weak spots in the
utility's case for its three small
dams.
. During the past five weeks of
daily sessions, Idaho Power com
peted the presentation of its
direct case for the three dams
and against the high dam. Al
though it was expected that the
Boise utility would lambast the
proposed federal projects in
Hells Canyon as inferior to its
own scheme, Idaho Power went
well beyond that contention.
White Elephant
It argued that the high dam
would be a "white Elephant"
that would never pay for itself.
If it can make that point stick,
the contest between the high
dam and the small dams is over
with its scheme the victor by de
fault
What made this contention an
unexpected one was that the
present administration takes no
such view toward high Hells
Canyon dam. Secretary of In
terior Douglas McKay, in his
Hells Canyon announcement of
May 5, declared: "We do be
lieve the Hells Canyon project is
generally feasible from an en
gineering viewpoint."
His doubts about it, McKay
added, were caused by the ad
ministration's effort to cut gov
ernment expenditures; he didn t
Gunshot Wounds Fatal
To LA. Bank Robber
Los Angeles (U.R) Bank
robber Lewis Hemmert, 35, died
early today of gunshot wounds
suffered last week when he at
tempted to hold up the Calif
ornia bank in downtown Los
Angeles.
Hemmert, who served a pris
on sentence at McNeil island
for a series of bank robberies in
Oregon and Washington, was
wounded in an exchange of gun
fire with a bank guard.
Caring for the tourists who
come from aU over the world to
see the Leaning Tower of Pisa
is now a major industry in that
Italian city. .
By Roland Cot
Giveaway
see how funds could be ear
marked for Hells Canyon in the
near future. So he withdrew the
advocacy of the high dam by
Interior insofar as the FPC con
sideration of the Idaho Power
case was concerned.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I suppose you must have been
reading about the dozen or so
American prisoners of war who
were so "teched in the haid"
that they were converted to com
munism and chose to stay be
hind with their red brothers.
And I reckon, like everyone
else, you were shamed and
humiliated.
(YK, well, there have to be a
be rotten apples in every bar
rel and bad potatoes in too many
sacks. Let's not -g et to thinking
of . ourselves as members of a
SUPER race.
We're just people
Taking us by and large, we're
GOOD people.
TlID you notice that freak story
tVio ntfiAi. rlav in th offset
that according to the census bu
reau and its mechanical-brain
robot the population of the
United States of America hit
exactly 160 million at 11 a.m.
(EDT) on the 8th day of August
in the year of our Lord 1953?
That was what the statisticians
call a "projected curve." That is
to say, it was calculated that if
births and immigration and
naturalization proceeded at the
average rate at which they have
been proceeding for a given
period of time our population
WOULD BE DUE to reach the
160 million mark on the day and
at the hour stated.
IF nobody tinkers with it, it's
surprising how close statistical
research based on averages can
get to the actual facts. A good
example is the political polls
that have fallen into disrepute in
recent years. When you come
right down to it, the surprising
fact about them is how CLOSE
they came to the actual result,
rather than how far they missed
it.
The trouble with this statisti
cal research business, when con
ducted by government, is that
sooner or later politicians get to
tinkering with it How much at
tention, for example, do you
pay . to the government cost of
living figures when they are
issued and get printed in the
papers and broadcast over the
air waves?
Not much, I imagine. We're
all too prone to suspect that the
politicians juggle the figures to
fit their own particular purposes.
Personally, I don't KNOW they
do, but I'm AFRAID they do.
So I don't put much faith in the
figures.
CJPEAKING of communists
which we're always doing.
In Canada's general election
the other day, 100 communists
were entered as candidates. As
a result, the Dominion came out
about $20,000" ahead.
It happened like tnis:
Canada requires a deposit of
200 from each candidate who
wants to run for office. If he
fails to get half as many votes as
the winner, he forfeits his $200
In this case, the 100 communist
candidates got hardly enough
votes to count.
These Canucks are smart.
HERBERT Hoover came to his
"79th birthday the other day
and let it pass without a cele-
and let it pass without a celebra
tion.
WE'RE the ones who should
have done the celebrating. When
a wise, smart, conscientious,
humble man who has held the
highest offices in our govern
ment still goes on working hard
for his country at 79, it is good
cause for celebration by the
people of his country-
En-FBI Agent Identifies Wife of
Federal Employee as Red Worker
Washington (U.R) A former
FBI undercover agent told Sen
ate investigators today she knew
the wife of a Government Print
ing Office employee as an acUve
Communist worker.
The ex-agent, Mrs. Mary S.
Markward, identified the woman
as Mrs. Esther Rothschild, wife
of a bookbinder at the printing
office.
Mrs. Markward and Mrs.
Rothschild met face to face to
day at a hearing before Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy's Investi
gating subcommittee
McCarthy said Mrs. Roths
child had testified under oath in
previous secret hearings that she
had never met Mrs. Markward.
Today Mrs. Markward said "we
met about 12 times."
Member In 1945
Mrs. tMarkward, an attractive
brown-haired woman, said she
had known Mrs. Rothschild in
1945 as a member of the Com
munist Political Association in
Washington.
"The Communist political
assiciatlon was the Communist
party?" McCarthy asked.
"That is correct," Mrs. Mark
ward replied.
When McCarthy asked if here
was any question about whether
Mrs- Rothschild was a party
member, Mrs. Markward an
swered: "She could not possibly have
attended these meetings if she
were not a member."
Handled Secret Work
McCarthy also asked if she un
derstood Mrs. v Rothschild's hus
band, Edward, to be a party
member. ,
Mrs. Markward said Mrs.
Rothschild never said he was,
but Mrs. Markward added it
was her impression he was not
"hostile" to Communism.
Mrs. Markward said Roths
child was in military service at
the time. McCarthy added that
he handled secret work for the
Navy's hydrographic office.
Mrs. Markward said she first
met Mrs. Rothschild "as a mem'
ber of the Thomas Jefferson club
of the Communist Political Asso
ciation." She also identified Mrs,
Rothschild as secretary of the
Civil Rights Club at the Com
munist organization in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Face Each Other
At the outset, McCarthy said
the hearing would be "one of
The Grange
Gold Hill Grange
Gold Hill Grange H.E.C. held
the regular potluck dinner Aug
ust 12 at Grange hall with two
brothers and six juveniles at the
table with the sisters. There were
also three visitors present.
Two of the visitors were Mr,
and Mrs. Walter Armstrong of
Great Falls, Mont. Mrs. Arm
strong is a sister of Mrs. Shaw
and Mrs. Ganong. The Arm
strongs have visited Gold Hill
previously.
Plans were discussed for the
bazaar late in October, also a
food sale.
Lucy Edington reported on her
visit to Eagle Point H.E.C. comp
limenting the Eagle Point group
on efficiency in conducting their
meetings.
Flora friends remembered
were Elinor Ganong, Selma
Kelly and Lily Dusenberry.
Shady Cove Grange
Shady Cove Grange met Aug'
ust 12 with Master Phil Mot-
schenbacher presiding. Attend
ance was smaU as this is a busy
season for many members.
We were pleased to have as
guests Mr. and Mrs. Reed Mc
Kay of Gold Hill Grange.
First and second degrees were
conferred on Mr. and Mrs
William Jackel and Mrs. Ted
Conway. Mr. and Mrs. Edward
O'Neal were given third and
fourth degrees.
Mrs. Lula B. Clark was elected
secretary and Bert Clark gate
keeper. Both offices were va
cated when Mr. and Mrs. D.
Chaney moved to Estacada. Mrs.
Marjorie Jackel was elected Po
mona.
Cecil Kee asked for volunteers
to help finish ceiling the school
gym. The sides and stage are
completed but there is still some
work to be done on the ceiling.
Anyone who can help is asked
to please contact Cecil Kee.
Henry Rogers reporting on ag
riculture recited a humorous
poem.
Plans were made for Booster
Night to be held Saturday, Sep
tember 26.
H.E.C. chairman Alyce Cross
read a communication from
Eagle Point H.E.C. inviting the
ladies of Shady Cove Grange to
their next meeting August 26 at
"Sunset - on - the - Rogue." There
will be a potluck picnic starting
at noon. Anyone attending
should take a covered dish.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rogers
served ice cream, cookies and
coffee at the close of the meet
ing.
the most important we have
ever had" and "if the testimony
we have' heard (at earlier closed
hearings) Is correct there is a
very serious case of espionage-"
Sen. Everett M. Dirkson, (R-
IU.), asked Mrs. Rothschild to
step forward for identification.
Mrs. Rothschild faced Mrs.
Markward from a point "nly a
few feet distant
8am Woman
'Is this the same Mrs. Roths
3-D Movie
Seen Possible Cause
Of Eye Infections
Washington (U.R) Offic
ials of the Public Health service
said today widespread eye in
fections may result from careless
re-use of polarized glasses for
3-D movies.
They said local health author
ities in several cities already
have received - complaint and
some are taking vigorous steps
to meet the danger. In Chicago,
for example, the Board of Health
has invoked an outright ban on
issuance of used 3-D glasses.
In other cities, many theaters
featuring 3-D movies have acted
on their own to avoid the risk
of infection. They seU or give
the customers plastic or paper
glasses which can be thrown
away or carried home by the
Eagle Point Man
Hurt in Accident
One man was injured in a
weekend traffic accident in
Jackson county, state police re
ported today. .
Ernest Edward McCune, 23, of
Eagle Point, suffered cuts and
bruises, in an accident that oc
curred at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday
on Highway 99 south of Phoenix.
McCune was the driver of a
car which collided with a vehicle
operated by Lawrence Edward
Edmonds, route 2, box 416, Med'
ford, police said-
McCune was taken to Com
munity hospital by Conger Mor
ris ambulance. Extensive damage
was reported to both vehicles.
In another accident, cars driv
en by Charles Ernest Wright,
Hombrook, Calif., and Wayne
Alvin Folger, Grants Pass, col
lided Sunday evening south of
Siskiyou summet on Highway
99, police said.
Investigating officers said the
Folger car hit a cow, knocking
it into the path of the Wright
vehicle, and the two cars collided.
Folger was blinded by the lights
of an oncoming vehicle, police
stated.
Mrs. Folger received minor
cuts in the accident.
Hardtop Race Driver
Suffers Severe Burns
Portland aj.P.) Don SinslL
21-year-old hardtop race driv
er, died here today from se
vere burns suffered in a spec
tacular collision at Portland
Speedway yesterday.
Portland (U.R) A 21-year-old
driver was in critical con
dition today in Emanuel hospit
al here, from severe burns suf
fered in a spectacular collision
and fire during the mid-season
program of the hardtop racers
at Portland speedway yesterday.
The seriously injured driver
was Don Zinsli, West Linn, who
suffered first degree burns.
Zinsli's racer was involved in
part of a three-vehicle pile-up.
Two cars collided on the track
in front of Zinsli's speeding
racer. One of the vehicles began
dripping from the tank. Zinsli's
car struck the vehicle and a
towering column of flame spurt
ed from the machines. '
Zinsli got out of his machine
and ran for the infield, his clo
thing afire. Track attendants
managed to smother the flames
after about a half minute.
now
much should a
funeral cost?
There are those who assun.e that
funeral coeta are baaed on ability to pay.
This is not so. We welcome an opportunity
to acquaint you with our funeral prices,
which are plainly marked and within
range of all, and the services provided
with a funeral.
As members of the National
Selected Morticians, an international
association of funeral directors of
high ideala, ethical practices and
buaineas integrity, we meet definite
high atandards of service. Your
inquiries are welcomed.
Cong
er-Morris
MEDFORD
Member of NmtioruMlSdtdedUortieimiit
child you knew in the course of
your activities as a member of
the Communist partyr Dirkson
asked.
"It most certainly Is," Mrs.
Markward said-
During the course of the
closed hearings, McCarthy said
the sub-committee had beard
testimony that a printing office
employee had stolen secret docu
ments from the plant including a
"secret code."
Glasses
patrons after the show.
Permanent Glasses
But there are soma theaters
which have permanent, compar
atively expensive glasses which
are given to patrons, collected
after the movie and later re
issued after sterilization. It is
this type that has come under
official scrutiny.
In Chicago, Board of Health
tests of 15 permanent-type
glasses showed that only- six
were really clean after going
through the sterilization pro
cess. The rest contained organ,
ism which could spread trach
oma or other eye infections.
Purely Local Problem
Officials emphasized that the
regulation of glasses is strictly
within the jurisdicition of local
authorities.
But they said that if any ser
ious eye epidemic should be
traced to 3-D glasses, the Public
Health service would investigate
the glasses thoroughly in its re
search laboratory here. Officials
said the results of the tests
would then be forwarded to
health boards throughout the
country for their guidance.
So far, they added, no city or
state has asked for research aid
or advice on the B-D glasses
problem.
Prentice Band Wins
At NcCloud Fiesta
A group of Eve Prentice's Ac
cordion band yesterday won
first prize for the best band in
the parade at the Lumberjack
fiesta at McCloud, Calif. This is
the second first prize won by
Prentice accordion groups in less
than a week, the other being a
first prize last Wednesday for a
float entry at Oreeon Gladiolus
festival, Grants Pass.
As winners at McCloud they
won $50- After the parade they
played an hour and a half con
cert in the grandstand there.
The group also was invited to
participate in the next year's
fiesta.
Why They Turn
Geo. N. Taylor
Most folks must see them
selves eternally lost before they
ever turn to God to be saved.
Seeing themselves lost, a vast
company has turned and re
ceived Christ into their heart as
the Son of God who died for
their sins. By that they are set
right with God and he gives
them eternal life with new ways
and days for
here and now.
No matter how
busy the hour,
God will prove
h i m s e If and
make up to you
for the time you
take out for
prayer. Jeremi
ah of old perse
cuted and
hounded, said to
call upon God c.0 w. Taylor
ana ne wovua
answer with great and mighty
things that no man could of
himself, bring through Jeremi
ah 33:3. Most saved folks have
been prayed for. So pray" and
keep praying, for your unsaved
that they may be with you over
in the land of eternal glory.
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