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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the filet of The
Mail Trillins 10. 20. SO
40 year. ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19. 1943
(It Was Thursday)
Rent overcharge in Medford
area totals $11,500.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Many
municipalities are now making
post-war plans. In not a single
Instance have arrangements been
made to transform social centers
into soup kitchens.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19. 1933
(It Was Saturday)
Mr. and Mrs. A.S.V. Carpenter
returns home after visit in Cali
v fornia.
M. N. Hogan installs ticker
service.
80 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19. 1923
(It Was Sunday)
Prof. Irving Vining of Ashland
named president of Chamber of
Commerce.
Rattlesnakes reported plenti
ful along Rogue river.
40 YEARS AGO
(It Was Tuesday)
Total of 2,761 visitors at
Crater Lake park smashes
record.
Cole auto representatives,
driving 1914 model car, visit
Medford on testing and good
roads observation tour.
State Cancer Deaths
Total 2092 in Year
Portland (U.R) More than
two thousand persons died of
cancer in Oregon last year.
The State Board of Health said
today the total of 2092 deaths
compared with 2088 in 1951. The
over-all rate dropped from 133.2
per 100,000 estimated population
tc 130.6-
Of the victims, 1150 were men
and 942 women.
Heaviest loss of life occurred
'among persons 75 years of age
and older. There were 501 deaths
in this group. There were 55
cancer deaths among children 15
and younger.
Cancer follows heart disease
as Oregon's worst killer.
Gordon Dean Seeks
Divorce in Nevada
Las Vegas (U.R) Gordon
Dean. 47, former chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
sought a divorce today from his
wife of 24 years on charges of
mental cruelty.
The atomic expert filed suit
for divorce in district court here
yesterday against Mrs. Adelaide
Dean.
The suit stated a property set
tlement had been reached as
well as an agreement regarding
custody of the couple's two chil
dren, Martha, 20, and Franklin,
14. The Deans were married in
Pasadernt, Calif., Aug. 9, 1929.
A trainload of coal one mile
long contains 8,334 tons.
Americans ate three billion
pounds of frozen food in 1952.
The U.S. produced 55.7 per
cent of the free world's oil in
1952.
About 21 of 100 rail workers
are in train and engine service.
The Washington monument
rises to a height of 550 feet.
About 28 per cent of the na
tion's school children are trans
ported by bus.
MAIL THTSIJsTE
A Good Start
The Medford city council last night voted to live
up to its responsibilities.
It was a decision which
been stated here before, the job of councilman is a
thankless one, and sometimes it is difficult to separate
the wheat from the chaff and decide with any cer
tainty what is right.
THIS THE council did. It acknowledged that ques
tions unanswered questions have been raised
about the administration of the police department
It voted 6 to 2 to obtain as soon as possible an out
side, impartial and competent investigator or agency
to review the operation of the department
It indicated that it will be willing to act decisively
on the findings of that investigator or agency.
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RIEANWHLLE, it has assured itself that steps have
v been taken to prevent any possible reoccurrence
of the situation which more than a month ago per
mitted a badly injured man to lie, semi-conscious,
miserable and dying, in the jail for 41 hours without
comfort or medical assistance.
Councilmen are elected to represent the citizens
of Medford, to pass ordinances and set policy not
to sweep the streets or make arrests themselves. They
. 1 1i a M ! a A. 1
Dear tne ultimate responsioiuty ior sweeping me
streets and for making the arrests, but must depend
upon paid employees to see that it is done.
In last night's action they reaffirmed their posi
tion as a policy and legislative body, and called for
the services of an expert or experts to tell them the
non-experts what needs to be done.
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THERE WAS considerable discussion throughout
Vi a ovotiiTirf oKnnt voriAiia rtriQeoo nf frta rttvtHlom
bill; 1VlUlig MUVUW 11MUU VA V f AWAS.WM.,
about clarifying the position of the chief of police,
about work needed on the
hospital care for indigents
Our frank 'Opinion is
window dressing, pure and simple. The basic fact is
that police services in Medford have been sub-standard.
This was acknowledged by virtually every coun
cilman, including one who voted against retaining an
investigator (but who later stated he favors it as long
as the council made the decision)
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THE administration responsibility now lies with the
rr o trr. nrVir. mncf -fiTil or iviIi io 1 ni a cram rv
AAXCwJT VI TTUV AAAVSOU Amu
sufficiently impartial and
do a real job and present a real report, which will
neither "whitewash" anyone nor damn anyone with
out reason.
LJAVING been critical of the council (or, rather,
some of its members) in recent weeks, it is a plea
sure for the Mail Tribune to acknowledge that the
members have taken an important first step in bring
ing to this community competent high-caliber police
service for which the citizens are paying and which
we believe, they have not been getting.
It should be pointed out here that no individual
officer has yet been charged publicly with any wrong
doing, and it should be remembered that the laws of
our nation presume a man innocent until proven
guilty.
IF THERE is wrongdoing, if there is incompetence,
if there is maladministration and fumbling and
favoritism, let it be weeded out If there is not, let
the citizens of Medford know so, in no uncertain
terms.
We await future developments with hope and
optimism. E.A.
4-H'rs Achieve Ideals
Farmers are probably more prone to idealism in
their calling than are the men and women in most
other lines of endeavor. They strive always for more
productive fields, trees and vines; more cattle, swine
and poultry with the perfect lines and utilitarian traits
which go with careful breeding.
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THOUGH few, very few, farmers ever achieve any-
where near full realization of such dreams, they
come the nearest in their younger days through their
work in the 4-H. The girls and boys who feed, groom
and pamper a calf, a pig, a lamb or other animal
or bird for competition in a 4-H fair are idealists of
the first water and in their eyes, their pets are per
fection, no less. True the young 4-H'rs have learned
through their affiliation with the organization how
to properly judge the good and bad points of farm
animals but that knowledge is for application to
someone else's stock.
Anyone that has ever visited the annual Jackson
County 4-H Fair will understand what we mean for
there the youngsters parade their pets with all the
pride and satisfaction an adult exhibitor might take
in showing off a super-super blue ribbon winner.
The animals are escorted into the judging ring only
after having undergone a full beauty treatment from
hair-do to pedicure, and when it is all over the pet
remains the apple of the young owner's eye win,
lose or draw.
ITS interesting and heartening to watch the young
store: nrif Vi tV.ai mnnail Kiii4niitr A .tl..
o naua uicu juucu 11CSIUVA cum tllCl C cue UUld
Shases of the fair which likewise gve visitors a lift
Ixhibits in the home economics division, for instance.
reveal a surprising knowledge of cookery, preserving,
canning ana ine otner Kitchen arts and in the sewing
displays the eirls prove that they can do almost as
well as their mothers.
The fair, which opens
fairground for a four-day run is well worth visiting.
Those who have become somewhat skeptical as to
the future of the world what with the increase in
delinquency will tret a new and encouratrintr nicture
of American youth. E.C.F, i
Wednesday, August If, 1U3
demands respect As has
jail, about who pays for
in custody who need care.
that most of them were
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sufficiently competent to
todav at the Jackson count
In the Day's Neva
Br FRANK JENXINt
If you were to make an off
hand guess, who, would you say,
was the most distinguished son
of the State of Jefferson the
state that never was and never
wiU be but has lived in men's
minds for a hundred years?
HOW about John C. Fremont
the Great Pathfinder, or, as
Historian Allan Nevin terms
him, the Great PathMARKER?
If you think of Fremont in
terms of 1843, you will call him
Lieutenant Fremont If you
think of him in terms of 1846,
you will speak of him as Captain
Fremont If your memory picks
out a later period in 1846, he
will be Colonel Fremont
In 1850, he was Senator Fre
mont of California. California's
first senator. In 1856, he was the
first candidate of the Republican
party for President (he was de
feated by James Buchanan.) In
the war between the States, he
was General Fremont At a later
period, he was governor of the
territory of Arizona.
Quite a distinguished citizen,
wouldn't you say?
IITHERE does Fremont come
" into the history of the State
of Jefferson?
It's a long story and there is
space here for only the barest
outline of it. Fremont son-in-law
of Senator Benton of Missouri,
one of the early American ex
pansionists who saw the vision
of a republic reaching from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, held as
one of the chief objectives of his
1843 expedition Klamath lake.
He missed it Coming south from
The Dalles, he got kissed off by
the Klamath marsh, which he
termed in considerable disap
pointment a "vast savannah,
but nothing like the lake he was
seeking.
He went south through Ne
vada and crossed the summit of
the Sierra at an elevation of
14,000 feet in mid-winter with
horses. Quite a feat
TJE RETURNED to the Pacific
AA Coast in 1846, with a strong
armed party. His instructions
were secret and the mystery of
them has never been cleared. He
is believed to have been sent
here to be on the spot when the
time came to take over Califor
nia from Mexico.
It was here that he came most
spectacularly into the State of
Jefferson. He spent as much
time as he thought he dared at
and around Sutter'a Fort now
Sacramento. When Mexican Gen
eral Castro began to get queru
lous and threatening, he depart
ed suddenly for Klamath lake.
stopping en route at Peter Las
sen's ranch on the upper Sacra
mento.
He was camped at Denny
creek on Klamath lake when
Lieutenant Gillespie of the Ma
rines rode into his camp, pre
sumably to teU him the hour
had struck. He and Gillespie
talked far into the night and
when they turned in Fremont
failed for the first time in 20,-
000 miles of Western explora
tion to post sentries. That night
the Klamaths attacked and kill
ed three of his men.
Pausing only to chastise the
Klamaths the next day, he and
his party departed for Califor
nia finding as they crossed
Lost river' the traces of a party
of white men. The party was
that of Jesse Applegate, who
was pioneering the Old South
Road. Applegate waa another
distinguished citizen of ours. He
was seeking a route to bring
immigrants into the State of Jef
ferson, being put out by the fact
that most of them were coming
into the Willamette valley of
Oregon.
FtEMONT paused again at
Peter Lassen's ranch to refit
his party. Leaving there, he
plunged into the dramatic series
of events that included the Bear
Flag War, with the raising of
the Bear flag at Sonoma, the
capture of Monterey, the Mex
ican capital of Alta California,
and the eventual taking over of
the California country by the
United States.
SO. YOU see, the State of Jef
ferson can lav claim to hav-
ins been the birthnlace of the
American state of California
for it was here between the 41st
and the 43rd parallels of north
latitude that the decision was
marie in Fremont's mind to
TAKE OVER from the Spaniards
the remainder ol tne lana mat
had been Spanish from 1542,
when it was claimed for Spain
by Bartolomeo Ferrelo.
I use the word REMAINDER
for the reason that, the once
Snanish land IvinB between the
42nd parallel (the present bound
ary of Oregon and California)
and the 43rd paraUel (just south
of Rosebure) was taken over
from Spain by the Treaty of
Florida, negotiated try rresiaeni
Monroe and his secretary of
state John Quincy Adams.
r' WAS thus it came about that
the State of Jefferson, lying
roughly (in men s minds) be
tween the 41st and the 43rd
parallels of. north latitude, be
came the meeting and the min
gling place of Spanish and
American civilizations on the
Pacific Coast
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Not Original With Jvilla
To the Editor: In the Mail
Tribune Sunday, Aug. 16, there
was a quarter page paid ad, ad
vising Jacksonville taxpayers to
thoroughly examine the proposed
charter before voting.
There was nothing wrong
with the ad. I, too, would advise
everyone to read the proposed
charter before adopting it. How
ever, the inference was that
there was some "joker" in the
charter. There is not It is one
recommended by the League of
Oregon Cities and has been
widely adopted by the cities of
Oregon.
There is nothing in the pro
posed charter prohibiting any
thing not now prohibited by
ordinance, as the ordinances
now in effect are brought for
ward in the new charter. As a
matter of fact, the old charter
prohibits a number of things,
such as livestock, not prohibited
under the proposed new one.
The ordinances now in force
cover this phase of the law and
wiU probably need some chang
ing. The best recommendation is
that other cities have already
adopted the proposed new. char
ter. It it not original with Jack
sonville. H. L. Markwith
P. O. Box 131
Jacksonville, Ore.
Veterans Deserve Help
To the Editor. I don't agree
with some of your communica
tors. Medford had a skid row
long before the veterans ever
arrived here, and I refuse to be
lieve it is maintained and op
erated for their benefit now.
Why aU this animosity toward
the vets? They gave their best
years fighting to maintain the
home life, and peace you now
enjoy quit kicking, and knock
ing them around, and branding
them as drunks. Let the blame
faU where it will, but never on
their shoulders. Shifting the
blame has always been the use
ful way of avoiding the effort of
cleaning un one s own back yard.
These veterans in their de
clining years deserve au the
kindness and care one can give
them. This is God's world, you
are in it to help make it a pleas
ant one to be in. So open up
your heart and let the glow of
a welcome light greet these tired
vets, many who are hungry for
the clasp of a friendly hand.
I know where of I speak, as I
came in contact with many of
them in a business way. I see
them at their best and at their
worst; and at their worst they
are far better than many of those
on the outside looking in.
Why knock, knock, knock . . .
Throw away your hammers and
try giving a kind word and a
smile to your fellowman now
and then. "God Bless our men
who fought for Our America."
Alexandria Trimble,
310 E. Main,
Do Your Canning in Comfort
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Wants City Charter Observed
To the Editor: Even . though
our mayor and council do ignore
our City Charter, I fail to under
stand how any grand jury could
recommend such a policy on the
part of any city administration.
Chapter 2, Section 10, of the
Medford City Charter says:
"No person shall be eligible
to any office in said City who
Is not a qualified elector there
of, and has been a resident of
said City for more than six
months preceding his election
or appointment; and no per
son shall be eligible to the of
fice of mayor or councilman
who, including the above qual
ifications. Is not a taxpayer in
said City, other than a poU
taxpayer."
Mr. mayor and council why
not teU the people how many
are on the city payrolls, who
are not even residents of the
city of Medford.
Perhaps the fact they are not
residents of the city, wiU pre
vent any other man from being
interested in the city welfare
enough to want the men hired
that are shown on the budget
for his department
After all the taxpayer cannot
complain of his high taxes. If he
does not demand that the City
Charter be foUowed.
Mr. Mayor and Council, have
you ever found out the differ
ence In our credits for our insur
ance rating we will get for the
discarded police call boxes we
got instead of the fire alarm
boxes we were to get when we
voted that bond issue? Why
not tell the taxpayers?
Yours for a better city govern
ment
Cleo Canoose,
55 Ross Court,
Medford, Ore.
Guard at Camp Dances
To the Editor I am writing
you in regard to dances given
here at Camp White by different
veterans auxiliaries and fratern
al organizations.
As chairman of the entertain
ment committee of Camp White
VFW Post 6412, I would like
to say we members here appre
ciate the ladies coming out and
try to show them the utmost
respect. In case one of the mem
bers does not 'do so he i at
once removed from the dance
floor as we have a guard on
hand at all times.
Please place this in your
paper.
John E. Unger,
Camp White, Ore.
Kingsport Tenn. (U.R)
Restaurant owner CardweU
HouncheU told police burglars
drank his orangeade and ate his
ice cream, then used his tools to
break open a safe and steal
$1,500.
Washington (U.R) Chairman
Stephen A. MitcheU has issued
a formal call for a meeting of the
Democratic National committee
in Chicago, Sept 15.
101 South
Riverside
Matter of Fact
THE COMING CRASH
Paris A great crisis, capable
of shaking the Western Alliance
to its roots, seems to be shaping
up nere. A
head-on clash
between France
and the United
States on two
vital issues
the Indo-Chinese
war and
the European
army now
appears almost
inevitable.
ft thee twn
issues, the P
Indo-Chinese .war may well pre
sent the most dangerous possi
bilities. This is true, paradoxi
cally, despite the fact that the
French government has commu
nicated to Washington the most
hopeful program yet put for
ward for bringing the war to a
successful conclusion. This plan,
jointly conceived by Prime Min
ister Joseph Laniel and General
Henri Navarre, French com
mander in Indo-China, can be re
liably outlined as follows:
First for their part, the
French promise to send nine
fresh battalions of troops from
metropolitan France, to strength
en the existing French forces in
Indo-China. Gen. Navarre origi
nally asked for twelve battalions
about 20,000 men in all. But
after a good look at the bare
French military cupboard, Lan
iel countered with an offer of
nine battalions, which Navarre
accepted as a reasonable mini
mum.
e
QECOND, the French govern-
f ment is ready at last to oner
genuine, rather than mere paper
independence to the associated
states of Indo-China. The Laniel-
Nayarre plan calls for actually
turning over power from French
to Indo-Chinese officials, as rap
idly as possible, in order to make
independence real and visible to
the Indo-Chinese.
Third, the French promise to
make a really serious effort to
build a genuinely independent
Viet Namese nationalist anti
Communist army in Indo-China,
modelled on the ROK army in
Southern Korea. The theory is
that such an army plus the
strengthened French army, will
be able to defeat decisively the
Communist armies in Indo
China, short of direct Chinese
Communist intervention, within
two years or less. Thereafter, the
evacuation of the French army
from Indo-China can begin.
So much for the French part
of the bargain which Laniel has
proposed to American Ambassa
dor Douglas Dillon, and through
him to Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles and President
Eisenhower. The American part
involves paying the cost of creat
ing the nationalist Viet Nam
army, which the French, of
course, cannot possibly afford to
do.
The best guesses on the
amount involved range between
$300 and $400 million. This is
over and above the $400 million
recently appropriated for Indo-
China by Congress. This sum is
considered only sufficient to
maintain the status quo there. If
the Laniel-Navarre plan is to
have a chance of working, more
over, this extra sum must be
made available as soon as possi
ble. On the face of it the Laniel
Navarre plan represents, at long
last a serious proposal for heal
ing the running sore of the Indo
Chinese war. But the fact might
as well be faced that this plan
is a last chance and not a very
good chance at that.
LANIEL must be given credit
for extraordinary political
courage for proposing this -'lan
to Washington in the first j-Tace.
He has the legal power for the
time being to send more troops
to Indo-China, but such a move
will be explosively unpopular.
French colonial and economic
interests, moreover, have suc
cessfully opposed for years a
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grant of genuine independence
to Indo-China.
Laniel'a rightwing government
is partly dependent on such in
terests. And in any event the
growing ahakiness of Laniel'a
position has been amply demon
strated by the crippling strikes
here, and by the threatened re
call of the Parliament Most ob
servers believe that the Laniel
government is not long for this
world. They also believe that
the trend is all in the direction
of a government more to the
Left, headed by Pierre Mendes
France or another like him, and
dedicated to liquidating the
Indo-Chinese war at almost any
cost.
The plain fact is that the Laniel-Navarre
plan flies straight in
the face of the mounting tide of
sentiment in France for getting
out of Indo-China, on the basis
of almost any conceivable face
saving device. It is no use pre
teding that this tide does not ex
ist Its existence was dramatical
ly demonstrated when Mendes
France, who promises a way out
of Indo-China, missed the pre
miership by a handful of votes.
The tide has risen even higher
with the Korean truce. The
Americans have liquidated Ko
rea," the French say. "Why
should we not liquidate Indo
China?" They also say: "If Indo
China is to be independent and
we are to lose it anyvu:y, why
fight for it?"
s
PVEN in Laniel's own cabinet
there are those who would
be delighted to quit Indo-China,
if any face-saving formula could
be found, or to dump the Indo
Chinese problem In the Ameri
can lap, if such a formula ran.
not be found. Put against these
tacts two further facts. Ameri
can leaders, most notably Presi
dent Eisenhower himself, are
convinced with good reason that
Indo-China simply cannot be al
lowed to fall. But the American
government is also determined
not to send American troops to
Indo-China.
In such circumstances, one
does not have to be a Cassandra
to foresee the possibility of a
head-on clash between France
and the Uaited States. The Indo-
Chinese problem is not the only
issue, moreover, which can bring
on such a clash.
Copyright 1953
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
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