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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 3. 1944
(It was Friday)
Adjutant and Mrs. Charles
Rosnick arrive in Medford to
take over duties as leaders of
Salvation Army corps here.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Final re
turns from the Halloween front
are drifting in. There were many
innocent jokes, but what some
of the pranksters need is
spanksters.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 3, 1934
(It was Saturday)
" Entertainment Chairman A.
O. Soderberg announces plans
for big Community Chest, rally
and parade to be held in Med
ford.
New officers of Central Point
Grange include Victor Bursell,
master; William Foley, overseer;
Evelyn Hamilton, lecturer, and
Mrs. Betta Pankey, chaplain.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 3, 1924
. (It was Monday)
Rosino and Frances Gallatin,
Talent, leave with County Agent
Ada Brewster to take part in
bread baking contest at Pacific
International Livestock exposi
tion in Portland.
Veteran Republican service
league plans big torchlight pa
rade on Laurel and Main sts. in
Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 3. 1914
Applegate team, composed of
Jose Wright, Edith Kubli and
Bessie Head, and Ruch team,
made up of James Rice, Frank
Boone, and Lois Rice, debate
subject, "Resolved, That Wood
Is More Useful Than Iron."
From the Local and Personal
column: Seemingly the local
high school football team has
lost the season's honors while
their opponents, many inferior,
strut forth with the colors. Be
cause of their attitude townrd
freshman parties the local team
will probably, be drawn from
the field.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr 1954. Editorial Research Report
ll The U.S. pays less than one
fourth, or about one-fourth, one
third, or one-half, or more than
half the budget of U.N.?
2. Of all youngsters who en
ter high school, more or less
than half are graduated?
3. Dave Beck is president of
the longshoremen's, steel work
ers', electricians,' teamsters' or
textile workers' union?
4. More or less thn half of our
Presidents have seen active serv
ice in war?
5. Before the Reds took over
Russia in 1917, most Russians
were Orthodox Catholics, Ro
man Catholics, Mohammedans,
Jews or Protestants?
5. Who is the oldest: British
Prime Minister Churchill, West
German Chancellor Adenauer,
U.S. ex-president- Hoover, or
U.S. ex-Vice-President Barkely?
7. The typical U.S.. hospital
has about one nurse available
for every two, three, four, five,
six, or seven patients?
The Answers: 1. About one
third. 2. Less than half. 3. Team
sters. 4. More than half. 5. Orth
odox (Greek) Catholics. 6.
Hoover. 7. About one for every
three patients.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
What An
Yesterday's election takes the writer back over 40
years when the late S. S. Smith, then business man
ager of the Mail Tribune, and an ardent and tireless
Republican put on a plug-hat, armed himself with a
cigar he only smoked on election night a wash
boiler and a club, and paraded up and down Main
Street celebrating the election of Charles E. Hughes,
Republican, over Woodrow Wilson, Democrat. He of
course had a group with him, but not Doctor Keene! ,
IT WAS a great night for the GOP. But it was a
terrible 'morning after. For as the records now
show President Wilson was reelected in the final
count due largely ttf Hiram Johnson and the defec
tion of Sunny California. ,
This ancient reminder is reinforced by the fact
that the leading Democratic paper in the country then,
the New York World, acknowledged the defeat of
President Wilson early election night just as Senator
Ives of New York when 200,000 votes behind last
night acknowledged his own defeat, only to have
late returns pu him a few thousand votes from vic
tory! WHAT an election!
Contrary to expectations the election was one of
the closest, most hard fought and most confusing in
many years, and as this is written the final results are
still in doubt in this state and several others.
However on one issue there can be general agree
ment, Dick Neuberger demonstrated once and for
all Oregon is no longer a one-party state. He failed
to defeat Senator Cordon but he scared him to death,
and reduced Cordon's normal majority by thousands
of votes. And Dick rati a clean, intelligent and vig
orous campaign, of which he can always be proud.
CVEN more emphatically did yesterday's election
demonstrate there is no danger of this becoming a
one-party country.
What a cat-and-dog fight from coast to coast and
from the Great Lakes to the Mexican border, one
side ahead then the other, often only a few hundred
votes separating them. ,
There is no doubt of Democratic control of the
House, and the Democrats may even win a'margin of
one or two in the Senate in which case Senator Morse
will be the most sought after and powerful member
of the Upper Housewhich if it happens will raise
the blood pressure of certain powerful Republican
stalwarts hereabouts, to the danger point.
One of the most pleasing election highlights to this
department has been the apparent come-back of Sen
ator Case, Republican of New Jersey which -if it
proves to be true, will deliver a deserved slap
to the McCarthyites and Old Guard Republican re
actionaries in that state, who worked night, and day
to defeat and falsely discredit him.
iSo all in all it was a memorable afld thrilling mid
term election that demonstrated that the apathy that
was feared and so often characterizes mid-term elec
tions, need not apply if the people are awakened in
due time. R.W.R.
Repeal or Enforce It
' There is a law in Oregon against newspapers
printing political propaganda on election day. ?
The afternoon papers have observed the law fair
ly well but the morning papers have not.
On election day morning one of them was full
of political propaganda, one lay-out telling the people
exactly how to vote for certain candidates with the
ballot marked accordingly.'
We doubt if these violations of the law . do any
great harm politically or any particular good for
that matter.
But the law is the law. And it should be observed
by all the press of the state, morning and evening or
it should be repealed.
"IITE suggest at the next session of the Legislature
the matter be cleared up.
If the people don't want such a law let it be re
pealed. If they do let it be enforced.
This half-and-half business is demoralizing, tends
to create disrespect for law enforcement in general
as well as giving the morning papers an advantage to
which they are not entitled R.W.R.
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FAMILY AFFAIR The family came along when Con
gressman . George H. Bender (right) cast his -ballot at
Chagrin Falls, O. He is Republican candidate for the Sen
ate seat of the late Robert Taft Left to right: Daughter
Barbara Stevenson, grand-daughter Nancy Stevenson, son-in-law
Ernest Stevenson, grandson Jimmy Stevenson,
daughter Virginia Bartlett, son-in-law Joseph Bartlett, Mrs.
Bender and grand-daughter Linda Bartlett being held by
Bender.
Wednesday. November 3, 1954
Election!
Yoshida's Visit To
United States May Be
Pleasant, Profitable
Bv CHARLES M. MeCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Japanese Premier Shigeru
Yoshida's visit to the United
States is likely to be both pleas
ant and prof
itable. Communist
China and So
v i e t Russia
are making a
vigo r o u s at
tempt to lure
Japan away
from its close
ties to the
United States.
It is becom-
Charles Mrlann Ulg evident
that the United States has got
to dp something about it, and
the something means additional
aid to Japan in. one form or
another.
The big lure that Red China
and Red Russia have to offer
Japan is the prospect of a huge
market in cnina tor its exports.
Japan's economy has been
getting steadily worse for
months. Janan desperately needs
foreign trade, and the thought
of the Chinese martet must be
appealing.
Japan in Trouble
Washington dispatches said
early in August that the admin
istration . was getting alarmed
over Japan's plight and was
giving priority to a study' of
means to better it.
Direct American aid to Japan
ended in 1951. But American
military spending, which had
totaled up to $80u,uuu,uuu a
Is That So?
Many are the imaginary, won
derful and mostly horrid crea
tures that have been invented,
the only limits being the writer's
imagination and the reader's
credulity. So, today, we'll deal
with unnatural natural history
and populate a zoo with crea
tures that lived only in men's
minds.
PHOENIX: Accounts vary but
most agree that this fabulous
bird of Arabia was of enormous
size, resembled an eagle with
feathers partly red and partly
golden, and had a lifespan of
around' 500 years. Sole example
of its species, it assured its own
continuity by building a funeral
pyre of spices on which it died
fragrantly and then arose again
from its own ashes, first as a
worm, which later changed into
a bird. -
UNICORN: A four-footed un
tamable creature, about the size
of a horse sprouting a lion-like
tail, and possessing a long single
horn growing straight from the
middle of its forehead. It in
habited the wilds of Syria,
Arabia, Ethiopia anil India and
according to the ancients, per
ished in the great flood.
BASILISK: This creature,
"King of the dragons and ser
pents," was said to wither all
vegetation with its awful breath
while its glance was fatal to mor
tal man. Supposedly born of an
egg laid by a decrepit cock but
hatched by a repulsive snake,
this hideous monster could only
be killed by holding a mirror be
fore it, whereupon its own death
striking -glances would be re
reflected upon itself.
BARBERRY LAMB: This was
half-animal, half vegetable. In
old woodcuts, it is a lamb-like
animal hanging, from the
branches of a tree with the pos
terior swatched in foliage. ' An
other illustration shows it
sprouting from the top of a
broad-leafed plant. Because the
stalk was flexible, the animal
luckily could graze off the grass
within reach but when that was
exhausted, it died.
Bristles On Spine
SEA WOLF: A ferocious crea
ture inhabiting the sea, bearing
an erection of bristles on its
spine, from head to tail.
SEA SERPENT: No imaginary
zoo could exist without this crea
ture accounts of which are still
frequently heard. Some report
it friendly, others extremely fer
ocious. The latter usually claim
a length of more than 100 feet.
When raising its head above
water, its height of course over
tops masts of ships. It has been
said to attack and devour both i
ships and sailors.
MERMAIDS: Upper half worn-
an, lower half fish, usually with i
long flowing and greenish-grey
hair, disporting themselves in
the sea. If -a sailor had been et
sea long enough, their charms
were said to be irresistible. Some
land-lubber, versions gave them
two tails, and a few endowed
them with animal ears. A more
popular sea-going version was
the siren. This girl-fish had the
power of singing with such magi
cal effects that she could charm
to their doom all persons who
heard her.
year, had helped to keep Japan
going.' This spending has been
slashed drastically since the end
of the Korean war, and soon
may drop to $200,000,000 a year.
The Japanese foreign trade
balance is more than $1,00Q,
000,000 a year on the adverse
side.
On Oct. 11, at the end of their
big conference in Peiping, Red
China and Soviet Russia made
a joint declaration "concerning
relations with Japan."
Japan, the declaration said,
would strengthen itself by tak
ing the path of "establishing
normal relations, broad eco
nomic cooperation and cultural
ties with other states, in the
first place with her neighbors."
Reds Are Busy
"The governments of the So
viet Union and the Chinese Peo
ple's Republic . . . stand for the
development of extensive trade
relations with Japan on mutual
ly profitable terms and estab
lishment of close cultural rela
tions with her," the declaration
continued.
The Communists have follow
ed this up actively in their pro
paganda. It may aU be very
transparent but Japan, which
now restricts its trade with Red
China as an aUy of the United
States, cannot be deaf to such
appeals.
Yoshida may be expected to
ask President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles in Washington what they
suggest as the alternative to
closer economic ties between
Japan and Red China.
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
Kidnaped People
Less attractive female-animal
forms were harpies, chimaeras,
lamias. Harpies were ugly wing
ed females with long claws who
kidnaped people. Lamias, no im
provement, were four - footed
men with animal heads, and
flowing hair and scaled bodies
who spent nights sucking the
blood of little innocent children.
The chimaera, a fire-breathing
gal, was forepart, lion, middle
part goat, and hind-part dragon.
Her gainly daughter, a sphinx,
possessed the winged body of a
lion, the upper part remaining
woman.
MERMEN: The male counter
part of the mermaid was this
marine Pan model of the sea. He
was usually garnished with
horns. Variations of this charm
ing male were centaurs, satyrs,
gorgons. The centaur was a man
from head to loins, the remain
der the body of a horse with tail
rampant and four legs. The
satyr was a man with a goatlike
head, replete with horns, the up
per part of the body a man, the
tail of a fish. To complete the
get-up, rear feet were, webbed.
Last we have the gorgon which
again mixed human male and
animal form. His head was cov
ered with scales like those of a
serpent, the hands were clawed,
the tusks were those of a boar,
and he was girded with serpents.
An altogether prepossessing,
creature.
(Copyright, 1954. by Eugene
Burns.)
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BETTER STREET LIGHTS
Portland U.R) Portland vot
ers approved a measure to im
prove the city's street lighting
system, but they turned down
three other tax proposals in yes
terday's election. The street
lighting measure will place a
levy of $1,000,000 a year for the
next 10 years on Portland tax
payers. FAST TIME LOSES '
Seattle (U.R) Washington
voters yesterday defeated a pro
posal for daylight saving time
with late returns from rural
areas sending it down to defeat.
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HENRY DWORSHAK
Dworshak Wins
Over Glen Taylor
Pocatello, I d a xx o (U.R)
Guitar-strumming Glen H. Tay
lor, one-time candidate for vice
president on the Progressive
Party ticket, failed today to win
his way back to the U.S. Senate.
He was soundly defeated by
the Renublican incumbent. Hen
ry Dworshak, former Burley
publisher. .
Taylor long has been one of
the most colorful figures in
Idaho politics. He tried for elec
tion several times before mak
ing his way to the Senate after
a campaign that featured his
guitar and his talented family.
In Washington, he rode a horse
up the Capitol steps to attract
attention to his troubles in find
ing a home.
In 1948, he was the Progres
sive Party's unsuccessful candid
date for vice-president on the
ticket with Henry Wallace.
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Aid For Hungry in Europe
To the Editor: Think of being
able to deliver 4,000 pounds of
dried milk, cheese, or butter to
hungry people in Europe, the
Near East and the East for only
$10! Any one of us can do this
now through the American
Friends Service Committee's pro
gram of distributing donated gov
ernment surpluses. At wholesale
prices this means $480 worth of
dried milk or $1,000 worth of
cheese, or $1,600 worth of but
ter. ;
The low cost of delivering
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programs of the American
Friends Service Committee in
Austria, France, Germany,
Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Ja
pan, Jordan, Korea and El Salva
dor. In most of these areas distri
bution arrangements have al
ready been operating, utilizing
foreign as well as American vol
unteers. Here social welfare
work is balanced with long-range
programs of rehabilitation and
social and technical assistance,
all impartially administered.
There are many reasons why
we should avail ourselves of this
opportunity the high . cost of
continuing to store the surpluses
(now $700,000 per day), the
threat to world peace that comes
from alluring promises made to
the hungry two-thirds of the
world's people. It has been dem
onstrated over and over again in
relief fields and proven in scien
tific laboratories that the hungry
gravitate to an authoritarian
form of government. Perhaps the
primary reason for most of us
is that it is simply an expression
of our religious concern and of
our faith that deeds of mercy do
make a difference in human rela
tions. Your gift may be sent to the
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Douglas Beats Meek;
Demands FBI Probe
Of GOP 'Slow Count'
Chicago U.R) Sen. Paul H.
Douglas, a liberal Democrat,
won reelection to a second term
nHair nvr RemihliVan .T,K I
T. Meek , and promptly demand
ed an FBI investigation of "slow
counts."
Meek, a conservative) Repub
lican making his first bid for
elective office, gave a virtual
concession early today and said
S. F. Beats Down
Cable Car Issue
San Francisco U.R) Cold,
hard economy won a victory
over sentiment here yesterday.
San -Francisco's voters flatly
turned down a proposal to re
store a city's clanging little
cable cars to their former glory.
The picturesque but tax-gulp
ing dinkie system was slashed in
two last January by economy
minded city fathers. .
This caused a wail of anguish
from a minority group of senti
mentalists who claimed the
move had left the city a dreary
and charmless place.
The pro-cable car clique put
up an initiative measure to re
store the system to its former
status and hang the expense.
They found, however, that
the majority of their fellow citi
zens were a little more hard
hearted. Final returns early to
day showed the measure was
voted down by a whopping 128,-
482 to 78,466.
The situation had some conso
lation for the cable-lovers, how
ever. Still in effect is a proposi
tion passed by the voters last
June to spend $1,000,000 to re
furbish and modernize the re
maining half of the system.
In other wards, in spite of all
the hoo-raw, youican still ride a
cable car in San Francisco. But
not quite as far.
Republicans Sweep
Election in Kansas
Topeka, Kan. (U.R) Re
publicans swept Kansas, a state
they normally control, in yester
day's election, regaining the one
seat in the House they lost two
years ago. ".'
Lt. Gov, Fred Hall, who buck
ed the Republican organization
to gain his nomination, was
elected governor over Democrat
George Docking, and U.S. Sen,
Andrew F. Schoeppel won a
second term over George McGill,
a former Democratic Senator
and recently a federal tariff
commissioner.
In the 1st Kansas District,
which Democrat Rep. Howard S.
Miller won in 1952, he was beat
en by state Rep. William H.
Avery, a Republican. Republican
incumbents retained the other
five seats they held in the 83rd
Congress. y .
EARTH SLIDE FATAL
El Limon, Colombia (U.R)
Rain-loosened earth that cascad
ed down on this mountain rail
town Monday night, killed at
least 31 and perhaps as many as
40 persons, authorities said to
day. The landslide buried 15
homes and other buildings and
blocked the railroad linking Me-
dellin, Colombia's second city,
with the river port'of Berrio..
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UnPcted Strength
""W a wiuie-uiaitneu vet
eran of two world wars, took
heavily Democratic Chicago as
expected and showed unexpect
ed strength in the traditionally
GOP downstate area.
Shortly after claiming an "ap
parent victory" early today,
Douglas mgrily accused Repub
licans of engineering a "slow
count."
He sent a telegram to the FBI
charging "all indications point
to the fact that Republicans are
holding out large numbers of
precincts in Dupage, Kane and
McHenry counties in an effort
to manipulate the election. -
Douglas asked Guy .Bannister,
chief Chicago FBI agent, to send
agents to the three counties "to
check for possible fraud."
Most Races in Doubt
Illinois voters also chose 25
Congressmen, but most of the
races were still in doubt early
today. Victors included four
Democrats and four Republi
cans, with no major upsets yet
recorded.
In state and Cook county races,
however, Democrats showed re
surgent strength. Anions? the
I Democratic Cook countv win
ners was sheriff's candidate Jo
seph T. Lohman, who was at
tacked by the Republicans on
charges that he said policemen
tend to marry prostitutes.
Dewey Orders Guard
Over Voting Records
New York (U.R) Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey today ordered
police and sheriffs to guard all
voting records of New York
State until an official public re
canvass of the vote is made.
In a statement issued - this
morning, he said:
"By reason of the extreme
closeness of the vote for state
offices I am directing the com
missioners and chiefs of police in
all the state and , all sheriffs
forthwith to place patrolman or
deputies in charge : of 'each vot
ing machine as well as all regis
try books and voting records,
and ; to maintain uninterrupted
custody thereof until completion
of the official public recanvass
of the vote." .
JUST IN TIME
Knoxville, Tenn. : (OR) :
Mrs. Susie Badgett was Knox-
ville'3 first voter. Tuesday; ; She
marked an absentee ballot at 4
s:m., and then left for a hospital
where she gave birth to a baby
girl. ; .- ';
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