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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the filet of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 aod
40 year- ago.
10 TEARS AGO
Aug. 28, 1943
(It Was Saturday)
Earthquakes rock southern
California.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Word now
comes to "save the butter," as a
shortage thereof looms. In these
times slicing butter is a fine art.
Many can slice it so thin they
piactically miss it altogether-
20 TEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1933
Deer hunting season to start
September 20.
Increasing cloudiness and
cooler. High 89, low 48 degrees.
30 TEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1923
City ordinance passed prohib
iting keeping more than two
horses in city limits.
Brush fires rage near Jackson
Hot Springs.
40 TEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1913
Warmest night In history of
valley as mercury hovers around
70 degress. Warm wind worries
fruitmen.
1
Frederick H. Hopkins, valley
orchardist and ex-mayor of Cen
tral Point, visits in Portland-
Potluck
By M-T Staff and Contributor
What's Happened to Little
Daisy?
She has vanished from her ac
customed spot on the Mail
Tribune's comic page. And her
alter ego, John Snider, simply
sneers and refuses comment
when asked Wha' hoppened?"
The news room of the Tribune
has received several queries
about the amiable columning
cow, but has as yet discovered no
answer. Is she gone? If so,
where? Will she show up in the
beef quotations on the market
page?
We should, perhaps, hire an
investigator.
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It Finally Happened Hera.
Two people went to the blood
collection unit at the Elks temple
Wednesday. As they stepped in
side the receptionist took their
names and other information and
told them to sit down.
They looked puzzled and the
receptionist said "Aren't you
here to give blood." The two
answered, a la Joe Miller's joke
book, ?No, we're here to get
some."
And they were. They were
technicians from Community
end Sacred Heart hospitals, sent
to pick up several pints of blood
when it could net be furnished
by the Portland regional blood
center.
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The Impending Start Of The
School year is starting to bear
- down on Jackson county's prin
cipals and teachers.
One phoned in the other day to
check on a story- A question
came up concerning the day of
the week. "Wasn't yesterday
Tuesday?" he asked. "No, it was
Wednesday," we answered.
There was a brief silence.
Then, -just before he hung up,
we could hear him say, almost to
himself, "My gosh, I've lost a
day." 1
MAIL TMBUHK
With a Grain of Salt
Our recent reference to bedbugs in Jacksonville's
historic old U.S. Hotel has drawn a hpt protest from
a reader in the neighboring city.
a e a a e
ACCORDING to the legend, which we quoted, Presi
dent Rutherford B. Hayes stopped overnight in
Jacksonville back in 1880 and, the next morning
remarked that more than the excessive bill presented
by the proprietress, Madam Holt, he objected to
having to sleep with the "entire Republican party."
Although this unfortunate anecdote has been
bandied about for years, it has no basis in historical
fact, according to our critic who points out that the
hotel was brand spanking new at the time of the
President's visit. In fact, says she, no one had occu
pied the suite of rooms prior to the arrival of the
Hayes party and if he played host to any bedbugs he
must have accumulated them in Yreka, Calif., where
he stopped the night previous.
e e e a a
1IHILE we are without evidence to refute the claim
that there were no bedbugs in Madam Holt's fine
hotel at the time of the President Hayes incident, we
do have evidence that Jacksonville like most other
early day communities had its share of the detestable
insects- Because their presence brought a degree of
stigma, people mostly suffered them in silence. Bed
bugs were never mentioned in polite society and the
few more fastidious housewives who fought them did
so almost furtively. It was probably due to this fear
of disgrace that history now has so few references
to what must have been an important problem of the
contemporary life.
are indebted to Ned Harlan who was man
ager of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce 27
years ago, for proof that the pestiferous little pests
flourished in the pioneer mining community. Some
time ago Ned, who is now in business in Boise, Idaho,
sent us a clipping from the Boise Statesman's 75-
years-ago column. The clipping included the follow
ing letter to the Statesman editor:
"While I was living in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Ore.,
in the year 1863, a lady friend, Mrs. Mary A. Sharp, wrote to
me from Henly. Siskiyou county, Cal., of an important discov
ery that she had made, namely, that salt scattered over the
floor of a house, swept into the cracks and aUowed to remain
there would exterminate cinches, more commonly known as
'b.b.'s' And that a bedstead once washed with the brine was
forever clear of them.
"Soon after I had occasion to test the utility of salt for
that purpose and found it to be a perfect success. Immediately
after purchasing the Willett House I discovered that the bed
room was infested. I scattered salt over the floor and all the
cinches in the house swarmed to the outside and remained
there in rows close to the battens'. I believe there were twenty
thousand of them and of all sizes and descriptions. I im
mediately made strong brine and used it profusely on the
floor and furniture and not a cinch was ever seen thereafter
inside of the house during the three years time that I owned it,
"A person who is traveling, if thoughtful enough to dip
their underclothes in strong brine and let them dry without
wringing them, while they are wearing those salty under
clothes, wiU never be accompanied by cinches.
"Yours truly,
"Elijah Chaney."
APPARENTLY the salt treatment although used
for a great many years was not altogether de
pendable, according to Harlan who accompanied the
CfotoamoTi .Hnnincr with a letter in which he stated
that as late as 1926 when he arrived in Ashland,
MaAfnrA npnnlp were still usine ereat quantities of
salt and still suffering from
Mr. Harlan claimed tnat wnue ne was wun me
Ant,ii Akotnhar ha rover rnntinnprl MpHfnrd's rtre-
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dicament though he felt sorry for newcomers settling
in this city and was oiten tempted w urge mem w
locate instead in Ashland which, he declares, was
free of the pests.
Those who remember Ned Harlan, however, will
be tempted to take not only the latter statement but
his whole letter with a grain of salt E.C-F.
Destroy the Death Traps
The recent series of icebox deaths five in
ArVunsao. fnnr in VirrHnia. and two in Massachusetts
have prompted safety-minded officials to urge more
thoughtfulness and prudence on the part of parents
to the end that unused refrigerators, old trunks, snap
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iock closets ana otner places wmcn cnuuren may
enter in play may not become death traps.
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CUCH tragedies can be avoided if parents will see
to it that handle and hinges are removed from any
discarded icebox or refrigerator. Better still, is the
advice of the National Safety Council, destroy the
discarded receptacle or turn it in on your new one, if
you have no further use for it
Several states including New Jersey, Illinois,
Massachusetts, Nevada and Pennsylvania have laws
requiring that doors or locks be removed from aband
oned refrigerators.
THHE father of the five Arkansas children who were
trapped and suffocated in an old icebox smashed
and burned the box afterward. No law should be
needed and no further tragic evidence should be re
quired to prompt action against any such booby traps
which parents may find. E.C.F.
Three Cars Involved In
Three cars were involved in a
rear-end collision on Highway
99 just north of Phoenix last
evening, according to state po
lice. A car driven by Phillip D
Pangrac, 610 South Centrol ave.,
slowed suddenly and was struck
from behind by a car driven by
FJwood Gordon Deras, 504
Pennsylvania ave., Medford, and
a third car, driven by C. A. M.
Stothers, 412 East Main St., also
was involved, the officer's report
aid.
Friday, August St, IMS
a "B.B." superfluity.
Highway Collision
Pangrac told the officer he
slowed to avoid hitting a dog.
There were no injuries and dam
age was relatively minor, police
reported.
Forgetful motorists are on
the decline. The Automobile
Club of New York reports that
1,272,000 drivers in the United
States ran out of gas on the road
last year and 424,000 lost their
keys or locked themselves out
of their cars. In 1951, 1,393,000
let their gas tanks run dry and
733,000 had key troubles.
CrosstowiT
II GRANDSTAND
IT PreVYce a
"We can guarantee plenty of the old chatter that wins baU games
if you'll give us seats in she home team's dugout."
Babson . . Businessmen
By ROGER W. BABSON that father loses a tax exemption
Gloucester, Mass. (Special to
Mail Tribune) It's a shame that
so many young people have been
deprived this
past summer
of the privi
lege of vaca
tion employ
ment. About
the only plen
tiful jobs this
summer were
in sales. Unfor
tunately, all
Jtega w. aiiaa, young people
do not have aptitudes for selling.
xoung people ask me how they
learn to swim if no one will even
let them near the water. So what
do they do after a while? They
lie about the facts and present
themselves as full-time job seekers-
On that basis, they get jobs.
Then there is hard feeling when
they leave for school again after
Labor Day.
There seem to have been sev
eral reasons why more students
havn't worked this summer: (1)
not many companies have hired
young people for summer work;
(2) the tax structure penalizes
father for letting son work; (3)
union pools of unemployed have
been given preference over sum
mer job seekers; (4) the unreas
onable labor laws of some states.
Many Young People
Don't Know How to Work
Many businessmen complain
that our young people don't
know how to work. Often it is
these same businessmen who
give the cold shoulder to young
summer job seekers eager to
learn how to work. Reports from
employment agencies, from col
lege and high school placement
offices indicate that there were
fewer summer jobs this year
than last Incidentally, business
also failed to respond in the
spring to a project to give sum
mer work experience to college
professors. I have been told that
euards had instructions to bar
summer job hunters from manyl
plants.
I know that in recent years,
with higher costs, mounting tax
es, and union contracts, many
company work-schedules have
been arranged to eliminate sum
mer jobs. Perhaps the plant
shuts down completely- for the
vacation period so that no fill-
ins are required. Or maybe the
union contract compels manage
ment to fill vacancies from the
pool of unemployed union work
ers before it can go outside to
hire other workers. These are
facts we have to face, but I feel
that the company who doesn't
hire a few carefully screened
young people for summer work
is both shirking a patriotic re
sponsibility and short-changing
itself. Any company intent upon
fulfilling this obligation will
find a way, summer work
schedules and unions notwith
standing. Can Be Advantage
For Small Businesses
Actually the summer employ
ment of young perjple can work
very, much to the advantage of
small businesses that seem most
hesitant about summer hiring.
Summer employment can give
management the chance to size
up the young person, to see the
kind of character stuff he has.
how well he works, and how he
gets on with fellow workers. In
these days when it is so difficult
to fire, it is good to know what
kind of worker you're hiring.
If a worker has what it takes,
then the boss has a direct line
to a tried and tested fuU-time
employee when he graduates
from school or college. And if
he does not pan out during the
summer it costs much less than
hiring him as a full-time worker
later on. These are the findings
of companies that are using
summer employment as a trial
work period.
Father Penalised
For Son's Employment -
Another distressing problem
of summer employment of min
ors is the tax situation which
penalizes father for his chil
dren's job success. , It happens
mora often than you'd suspect
f?&i
fiy Roland Cot
because son earns more than the
allowed $600 during the year.
For example, it would cost a fa
ther with a $10,000 net income,
after exemptions, $174 in taxes
if his son earns over the $600 ex
emption limit and the son would
then become a taxpayer too.
It strikes me there is some
thing moraUy and economically
unsound about a system that
dicourages the industry of
youth, whether it be a policy of
taxation, summer employment
procedure, or clauses in a union
contract Part-time jobs, and
especially summer jobs, today
are important influences in the
molding of the leaders of tomor
row. Perhaps, too, if we had
busier "teen-agers", we might
have fewer "teen-age" problems
Businessmen ought to begin now
to make plans so that in future
summers our young people will
find valuable work experiences
available for them.
Americans Seized
In Attempt To
See Czech Wives
Waidhaus, Germany (U.FO
West German border police
seized two Americans yesterday
when they tried to slip through
the Iron Curtain to rescue their
wives and children from Czecho
slovakia. Peter Dudlach, 25, Chicago,
and Benjamin Kienzysky, Gary,
Ind., were turned over to Ameri
can intelligence agents and later
released.
Tried Everything
We tried everything to bring
our Czech wives to the West but
the Communists wouldn't let
them out," Dudlach said. "We
decided to take the gamble."
Dudlach said he was married
in 1948 while living in Czechoslovakia-
He has a four year old
son.
Kienzynsky said he married a
"pen pal" in 1949 but the Czechs
forced him to leave the country
after the honeymoon. He has
never seen his three year old son.
The two men met in Chicago
three years ago and started
plotting to free their wives. They
came to Germany as tourists.
Border guards stopped them a
few yards from Czech territory
near the frontier station at Waid
bsus. After their release, Dudlach
and Kienzynsky left Waidhaus
for an unknown destination.
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Another Vote for Merkel
To the Editor: Due to the res
ignation of Dr. Vogel as County
Coroner and because the public
voiced a choice for a doctor to
fUl this position, I feel that Dr.
A. Erin Merkel would be the
man to fiU this vacancy. His
qualifications more than fulfill
the requirements as he has serve
ed the public so efficiently dur
ing the past years.
W. D. Steadman
612 W. 11th
Medford, Ore
He Also Calls it "Rat Poison"
To the Editor Your paper re
ferred to a certain speaker on
fluoridation as an expert We
presume you meant an expert
on fluoridation. This is interest
ing as research scientists say not
enough is known about fluorida
tion to constitute any one an
expert.
As to " 'crusaders' trying to
hinder progress," is it possible
this "expert" has become so ultra-scientific
he has lost sight of
public right, health, and wel
fare, in his scientific maze?
The statement relative to
"spreading lies and half-truths,"
seemingly applies well to some
proponents; let them tell all the
truth; the withholding of perti
nent facts is equivalent to
"spreading lies and half-truths."
Does the author of letter in
August 18th issue intend to
classify amany research medical
scientists, chemists, medical doc
tors, and dentists as "ignorant"
and "emotional," just because
they are opposed to fluoridation,
having reached conclusions by
research and observation?
Those advocating fluoridation
have not told you that: many
good doctors, dentists, and sci
entists oppose fluoridation; as,
Dr. Phillip, Canadian Minister
of Health; Dr. Smith, University
of Arizona; Dr. Robert S. Harris,
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology; University of New Mex
ico Bulletin; W. A. Albrect, Uni
versity of Missouri; V. O- Hurme,
D.M.D., of Forsythe Dental in
firmary for children; A. R.
Gould, M.D.; Leo Spira, M.D.;
Charles Dillon, D.D S., etc.; Dr.
Ginns, securing signatures of
119 dentists, thwarted fluorida
tion. The Council on Pharmacy and
Chemistry and the Council on
Foods and Nutrition have not un
qualifiedly approved fluorida
tion, according to the Journal of
the American Medical association
sodium fluoride has been con
sidered a carcinogenic chemical;
cooking with fluoridated water
may produce concentration of
10 to 15 parts of fluorides per
million; mottled teeth have ap
peared in Newbury, N.Y., a test
city; results upon some children
and adults may be quite bad;
heart disease and diabetes have
greatly increased in some cities
having fluoridation.
Flourinated city water pro
duces pathological teeth; about
three tenths of one per cent of
expense is for those who may
benefit; there is a difference be
tween fluoridation and chlorina-
tion; fluoridation is mass medi
cation, illegal, and beyond Po
lice Powers of the state, and un
constitutional. Let's not have rat poison and
cockroach killing chemicals in
our city water.
A. R. Hedges.
339 So. Central Ave.
Medford, Oregon
RAKISH
Sydney, Australia U.R) Mol
ly Keily, who sells stamps at
Sydney's main post office, found
a novel gadget to get the coins
placed on her counter. She uses
a croupier's rake.
Dead Una for Sunday nasal fled it
at noon Saturdays.
British Find Costs
Off Malting
Come High in Malaya
wit ra ft wmm v t i . a
By WALTER O. RUNDLE
United Press Foreign Analyst
In the steaming jungles of
Malaya, when Red machine guns
spit death from ambush at
British and Malayan troops, it's
axiomatic that "The only good
Communist is a dead Commun
ist" Trouble is that it costs so much
to make "good Communists."
Britain, who's been engaged in
that project for five years now,
places the cost at 250,000 Straits
dollars, or about $80,000, for
Air Force Plans
Combat Training
Near Russia Base
Tokyo U.R) The U. S. Air
Force today announced a major
combat training exercise in the
Far East, where some American
and Russian air bases are only
two minutes flying time-apart.
The exercise involves huge
B36 Superfortress. Jet fighters
and reconnaissance planes also
are to take part- '
The announcement, released
here in the name of Gen. Nathan
F. Twining, new Air Force chief
of staff, cleared away some of
the mystery surrounding the ar
rival of "a number" of the 10
engine B36s on nonstop flights
across the Pacific from the
United States.
The Air Force gave no details
of the exercise except to say that
it "involves realistic combat type
training missions from bases in
the Far East theater."
The Air Force disclosed Tues
day in Washington it has de
veloped a system that enables
the B38, the world's biggest
bomber in active service, to
carry an F84 jet fighter plane
slung beneath it, release the
fighter for fast bombing or re
connaissance missions, and pick
it up again for the return to the
home base.
Thus the F84, capable of carry
ing an atomic bomb, could strike
enemy targets some 500 miles
beyond the 4000 mile combat
limit of the slower, more vulner
able big bomber.
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'Good Red
each Red eliminated.
High Costa
Those may sound like abstract
figures to Americans. But there's
more than a little probability
that the high cost of mak
ing "good Communists" of Red
rebels in Malaya soon may be
translated into higher prices for
everything from rubber auto
mobile tires to sponge rubber
falsies.
Britain has laid its cards on
the table. The shooting war
against the Reds in Malaya is
being won. But Malaya and
Britain are in grave danger of
losing the struggle in the final
go around at the economic level.
Ironically, the threat of eco
nomic disaster, i which might
wipe out the military gains, has
arisen in Malaya as an indirect
result of the end of the Korean
war.
Desperate Situation
Rubber and tin prices, the
things on which Malay's economy
depends, have taken a disastrous
slump on the world markets.
The speculative boom that ac
companied the Korean conflict
has collapsed-
As a result, the price for tin
has skidded from $175perpicul
(136 pounds) to $98.
Rubber prices have toppled
from 57 cents per pound to 21
cents.
To Malaya, with a budget tied
directly to the price of those two
major sources of income, the
situation is close to desperate.
it's a way of life!
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