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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
Nor. 12, 1944
(It was Sunday)
Nancy - Ellen Wilson, whose
daughter was the first white girl
born in Klamath county, dies in
Medford after brief illness.
- From Arthur Ferry's Ye
Smudge . Pot column: The FBI
plans an inquiry Into the ciga
rette and cigar "shortages" on
.the Pacific coast. "There is a bad
odor in both situations," a San
Francisco paper reports.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12. 1934
(It was Monday)
Secretary of Interior Harold
Ickes gives approval to - work
next spring on road to Crater
lake.
Medford high school football
team defeats Chemewa Indian
6chool, 47 to 0, to remain one of
the few undefeated teams in the
state.
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 12, 1924
(It was Wednesday)
Eight cases of liquor found in
automobile that plunged off Pa
cific highway in Siskiyous, kill
ing driver. -
Georgia .Minstrels open at
Medford's Page theater.
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 12, 1914
(It was Thursday)
Total of 35,000 cans of Rogue
valley fruit canned by R.-D.
Hoke cooperative "cannery in
Medford.
From the Local and Personal
column: The matter of enforc
ing the city ordinance prohibit
ing the sale of tobacco, cigarettes
or the "makins" to boys will be
taken up at the next meeting of
the city council. The ordinance
was passed a year ago and en
forced for about three days. The
youngsters and the dealers soon
recovered from their scare, and
the ordinance has been lax ever
since.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 br ibe 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial BesearehBeport
1. Which of these governments-
favors negotiations now "with
Russia on ending the Cold War
American, British, Italian,
trench, or west German? .
2. The Senate has' never , be
fore met in special session with
out the House; right or wrong?
3. More than three-fourths of
all U. S. farms now have elec
tricity; right or wrong?
4. The unemployment compen
sation tax in social security is
paid equally by employer and
employee, all by employer, or
all by employee?
5. More women s shoes are
sold of the AAA, AA, A or B
width?.
6. Greece is or isn't one of the
countries behind the Iron Cur
tain?
7. In the city of Chicago there
are more TV sets than tele
phones, or more phones than TV
sets?
The Answers: 1. French 2.
Wrong. 3. Right. 4. All by em
ployer. 5. B. 6. Isn't. 7. More TV
sets than phones
Playing cards rank among the
oldest printed matter on earth
Block-printed playing cards were
in use all over Europe by 1400,
more than half a century before
the Gutenberg Bible was printed.
ssaKMssasaaMi
MAIL TRIBUNE
Illinois River Dam Opposed
Another chapter is being written in the long-,
drawn-out feud between those who would dam our
streams for power generation and those who would
keep the waters free of hinderances to fish life. This
time the battle is fairly close to home, the Coos-Curry
Electric Cooperative, Inc., having applied for a pre
liminary permit to construct a power dam on the
Illinois river a few miles above its confluence with
the Rogue river, and the State Game commission hay
ing announced that it will oppose the project.
.. -The proposed dam would have a maximum height
of 100 feet and aiength of 400 feet and would divert
water into' a tunnel approximately four miles in
length.
''.
EXPLAINING its opposition to the plan, the State
Game commission has pointed out that the Illinois
is the most important spawning tributary of the Rogue
system. It is popular for steelhead as well as silver
salmon angling. ' .
The commission said it has expended considerable
money in screening irrigation diversions on the stream
and that plans are under way to improve the Illinois
for fish passage. ;
Such a development . as proposed would raise
havoc with the runs of fish in the Illinois and would
have an adverse : effect on the fishery resources of
the entire Rogue basin, the commission contends.
EC.F.
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Kids-Learning About Cops
Medford kids are learning that policeman aren't
the blue-clad-ogres they are sometimes thought to
be and that, instead, the officers are really their
friends, more interested in helping them to avoid
accidents and trouble in all xf orms than in giving them
a bad time when they get out of line.
.
TPHE new conception is being helped along by the
safety program which the local police department
has been carrying on in cooperation with school au
thorities. Four members of the force have been visit
ing classrooms in each of the city's grade schools,
giving brief talks on bicycle safety, the necessity for"
observing traffic rules and, among other things, the
advisability of refusing to accept rides, candy or
money from strangers.
In the course of the talks perhaps visits with the
students would more accurately describe the police
officers' classroom calls the youngsters have not
only heen given some highly valuable advice but also
been encouraged to discuss any safety or deportment
matters concerning which they feel the opinion of the
law men might :be helpful.
According to Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin
the students have shown so much interest in the talks
by officers that he is now planning to invite groups
to visit the police.station, watch operation of the short
wave radio, the various routine duties of the force
and inspect the extensive filing system by means of
which records arekept of every incident coming under
police attention, ... ; .
The program will undoubtedly help to make the
children more safety minded and should also prove
to be a helpful influence in promoting desirable be
havior patterns. E.C.F.
A Song
Have you ever wondered who dreams ud the so-
called popular songs one
shouted on radio, juke boxes and TV? The songs
are blared into the public c'onsciousness almost over
night, are repeated over
thoroughly sick and tired
denly-as they came, they
know who wrote them or
OUT of curiosity we read through a press agent's
just to see who wrote the ditty, and discovered that
it was none other than Stuart Hamblen, - the 1952
candidate for president on
Hamblen, according to his press agent, has had a
somewhat fabulous career having been a school
teacher, cow puncher, rodeo champion, radio singer
and race horse trainer, in addition to his excursion
into politics. ? . V , .,
The "Ole House" song was born about four years
ago when its author was returning from a hunting
trip in the- Highierras. Riding along a trail, he
came on a little old cabin, that looked like it, was just
about to cave. in. On the porch was an aged hound
dog, just lying there , and not barking. Hamblen,
being a hound dog man himself, sensed something
was wrong so he dismounted and went into the broken
down shack. There he found debris all over the floor
and cans that the poor old dog had been gnawing at,
trying to find some food ... . and in the bedroom, an
old prospector lying dead. " ' : ,:
: The song writer, took the dog and rode into town
and notified the sheriff and while on the way home
jotted down the words of "This Ole House" on the
paper sack in which he had brought his lunch.
"VF course, that wasn't the only song hit from Ham
len's pen,: his ."It Is No Secret" has been a big
favorite' too. He has written hundreds of songs since
starting in show business way back in the early days
of radio.
...... In addition alLthis, is according to the press
agent Hamblen for some years had whatever in
spiration one may gain from the flowing bowl, hav
ing been a confirmed alcoholic until joining the pro
hibition ranks. : :
-: So now we know how at least one popular song
came into being, if the press agent's version is ac-cepted.--E.CF.
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Friday, November 12, 1954
Is Born
; hears .played, sung and
and over until everyone is
ot them and then, as sud
are gone and few people
care, for that matter.
the Prohibition ticket.'
Is That So?
Answer 12 out of these 15 na-i
ture quiz questions correctly and !
you are an expert; nine is good; ;
six only fair. Answers follow
questions. .
1. When squirrels . lay up a
larger store of nuts, beavers put
on a heavier coat of fur, and bees
put up more honey, a hard win
ter is in store. Is this' true?
.2. Which of these animals
cats, sheep, .hogs, cows can
supply all of the following pro
ducts: catgut, lanolin, drum
heads, beeswax? ' - .- :
3. All professions have their
jargon. As for us naturalists,
what do these words have in
common: sett, redd, form? . ,
. 4, Does the vampire bat suck
blood from its victims?
5. Do monkeys form chains to
swing across raging torrents? "
6. Do animals such as' the
snowshoe hair, ermine and
Arctic fox change the color of
their fur from brown to white
to fit the appropriate season?
7. Which of these creatures is
able to assist plants in cross
pollination: bees, bats, humming
birds? : '
8. In the bat family,-which of
these statements is false? It can
not walk on all fours?. It cannot
mate in the fall of Ihe year and
avoid pregnancy until spring? It
does not have a supersonic radar
system which assists it in flying?
It cannot see by daylight?
9. Which mammal has longer
front legs than hind ones? Which
has no hind legs at 'all?
10. Do vines north of the
equator twine from left to right;
and south, right to left?
Work of Human Heart
11. In the course of a day, the
numan neart pumps approxi
mately the following amounts of
blood: enough to fill'' a 500-gal-lon
tank; to fill a railway tank
car; to fill an oil tank on a tank
farm?
12, When a day old, which of
, the following animals can ex
ceea a speed of 20 miles an hour;
antelope, megapod, rabbit?
13. In which of these animal
groups does the male predomi
nate beyond the mating season:
wasps, deer, pheasants?
14. What do these animals
have in common: phoenix, uni
corn, basilisk?
15. Which of these attributes
are true of . the hummingbird
family: It can fly sideways? It
is native alone to the New
World? It can eat twice its own
weight in a day? Its wing beat
exceeds 3,000 vibrations a min
ute? It flies 500 miles nonstop
over water? Only the -female
which is larger sits on the eggs?
Answers Listed
Answers: 1. No animals are
clever interpreters of the pres
ent, and the immediate future,
but they cannot predict what is
going to happen months ahead
2. Sheep alone can supply all
Editorial Comment ; L
DETENTION HOME FOR '
JACKSON COUNTY
You will remember that Mar
ion County voters decisivelv re
jected a proposed detention
home in the May primary. Jack
son County in Southern Oregon
iws juii voiea ior a similar proj
ect and bv a ripoisiwn m-itni-ifiF
v ,unjvii,j.
The Jackson project is modest
sized compared with the one we
voted on, but not far off -when
population differences are con
sidered. The conntv inri
one county commissioner-"made
iiu imiucuiar secret ot tneir
DOSition." thf TJ!tAtnr HIT
Tribune said after the election.
It suDDorterf the
Of course an important factor,
m ivianon county's opposition
was that we had already spent a
good deal of money providing
such a. facility in the new court-
V. . T ;
uuuse, wiutu was not yet oc
cupied then. We might have
voted differently under other
circumstances.
" Meanwhile we are glad" to see
another Oregon county go ahead
with' the idea. Its experience
wUl be helpful to other counties,
for we aU have substantally the
same , problem. Salem Capital
Journal.' ,
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- The seal refuge on the Pribilof
Islands in the Aleutians is ad
ministered by the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service. .
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LIVER
By Eugene Burns '
. . . Ranger-Naturalist
these products. ' " ' - -
3. These are all nests: the sett
is a 'den; redd a fish's nest .
such as salmon's; the form is a
rabbit's hollowed out resting
place, and sometimes its nest.
4. No. The vampire bat laps
up -its blood. The bite, inflicted
with its razor-sharp teeth, is al
most painless a person can
sleep through it, and its saliva
contains a - noncoagulent so the
blood keeps flowing. .
5. No, Monkeys like most ani
mals, are good swimmers. Be
sides, think of the poor "end"
monkey, supporting that impos
sible chain.
6. No. These animals erow
two sets of hair shedding each
in the appropriate season.
All Members Assist
7. -Members of all these ani
mals assist in cross-pollination
of some plants.
8. In the bat family, every one
of these things is possible.
9. The giraffe and moose have
longer front legs than rear,
Among those having no rear legs
are whale, porpoise, and dol
phin.
10. Right, vines north twine
left to right; south, right to left.
11. The human heart pumps
approximately the equivalent of
a railway tank car full of blood
every 24 hours.
12. Only the rabbit cannot
cover 20 miles an hour within
24 hours of birth. The antelope
can make about 24; the South
Seas megapod flies the day it is
born. i
13. Only the pheasant the
cock dominates the roost.
.14: AH are imaginary animals
and never existed.
15. Members of the humming
bird family can do all these
things. '
(Copyright, 1954, by
Eugene Burns)
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For Easing
ews
' ' : By ' CHARLES ' M. McCANN . ;
United Press Foreign Analyst
. The week's good and bad hews
on ' the " international Jbalance
sheet:" '
THE GOOD - . - . .
1. A few hours after a. United
States reconnaissance, plane was
shot down by Russian MIGs over
northern Japan, Soviet Premier
Georgi M. Malenkov . suggested
to the American and British am
bassadors in Moscow that old-
fashioned practical diplomacy be
used to ease East-West tensions.
Later President Eisenhower dis
cussed the attack on the B-29
with great moderation in a press
conference. He said also that he
detected a softened attitude in
a Soviet reply to a State Depart
ment protest against the attack.
As a result, it was expected that
a new American note will be
tempered down considerably.
There seemed some reason to
hope that the Kremlin '. itself
might try a little moderation for
a change. v
I 2. Premier Pierre Mendes-
France won a vote of confidence
by 320 to 207 on the budget in
the French National Assembly
with the aid of the Socialists,
who hold 104 of the 627 seats.
Two days later the Socialists
threw their support behind the
arming of Western Germany.
Their , decision practicably en
sures French ratification of the
Paris .and London . treaties by
the assembly.
3. The United States and its
allies, with the aid of free coun
tries aU over the world, moved
in" the United Nations to get
President Eisenhower's "atoms
for peace" plan going. The West
ern atomic powers- introduced
a resolution calling for an inter
national scientific conference on
the plan to be held not later than
next August. Russia's participa
tion was not yet sure. At least,
the momentary attitude of Soviet
Delegate. . .Andrei- Y . ..Vishinsky
was friendly.
EAST SI XTH ST.
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ROAST
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Calls It a Crow Sandwich
To the Editor: Do you recall
the VMorseburger" sandwich the
Republicans were having so
much fun talking about before
the election?
Well it turned out to be a
Hamburger sandwich filled with
crow, made especially for Re
publicans. ;' ' v
C. T. Hamilton,
Route i; Box 790,
Central Point "- ,
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Paper Drive ' '
To the Editor: Local Voiture,
No. 165 of the 40 et 8 will hold
a paper drive Sunday, Nov. 14.
Paper is desperately needed to
fill present orders. The 40 et 8
has made arrangements to fur-
nish aU the paper for Bliss Hei-
nie's junior drum corps. Many
of his pupils earn the money for
their tuition by . bundling and
shredding this paper. .
All . the money earned from
the paper is used for child wel
fare in Jackson county. These
funds go into a special bank ac
count administered by our child
welfare chairman, Clyde Ficht
ner. In order to carry on this pro
gram we must have more papen
AU . residents of Medford are"
urged to bundle up their paper
and have it on the front porch
or at the curb. '
If you have a large amount
stored in a garage or some such
place call us on the phone and
we wul pick it up. All calls
should be made to Weeks and
Orr Furniture Company, phone
2-9351. If you live outside the
city limits and have a sizable
amount of paper we will be glad
to pick it up on your cau.
' A paper club.wUl -be set up
in the near future and papers
wUl be picked up at all homes
registered every two months,
However, it is urgent that we
have paper now to ful the pres
ent orders and to replenish our
child welfare fund.
The 40 et 8 is the honor or
ganization of the American Le
gion and has as its sole program
the child welfare project.
Gene Orr, ,
Chairman.'
Suggestion
Tension
for Week
THE BAD
1. Six Arab ; nations accused
the United -States and Great Brit
ain of a "flagrant breach9 'of
U.'N. resolutions by permitting
their new ambassadors to Isreal
to present their . credentials in
the holy city of Jerusalem. The
Arab governments pointed out
that the U. N. has decided re
peatedly that Jerusalem shall be
an international city under U. N,
control. The Israelis nevertheless
have established their capital in
Jerusalem. Heretofore, the Unit
ed States and Britain have re
fused to recognize this action.
2. Chancellor K o n r a d Ade
nauer was stiU beset by. West
German parliamentary opposi
tion to the concessions he made
to France over the Saar terri
tory in order to get French ap
proval of the agreements to re
arm his Bonn Republic. It was
indicated that Adenauer would
be able to forge through ratifi
cation of the treaties, but only
after a big fight.-
3. The situation in Indochina
was complicated when the new
Communist government of north
ern Viet Nam, in violation of
agreements, tried to keep Catho
lics from fleeing to southern
Viet Nam. France sent warships
to rescue refugees who managed
to escape in small boats along
the Red river delta. The Reds
protested angrily.
BALDOCK REELECTED
Seattle U.R) George T. Mc
Coy, California state . highway
engineer, was yesterday 'elected
president of the American Asso-.
ciation of State mgnway umc-
ials for next Sear. Oregon high
way Engineer R. H. Baldock was
reelected to- the Executive -committee...
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Four years after the American
flag was . raised. ; at Monterey,
Calif ornia was admitted' into the
Union, thereupon becoming the
31st state:
SLICED
BACON
Babson ...Monte Carlo
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., (Special
to Mail Tribune) Last week the
Babson Organization celebrated
its 50th anni-
versary. Fa
mous speakers
and about
2,000 cli e n t s,
friends; and
guests- were
present. Read
ers have seen
references to
these addresses
onr W. Babssa m the press,
but I have saved my remarks
exclusively for this column of
my 418 newspaper clients. Here
is the story:
When I last visited Monte
Carlo, Monaco, to look on as
a spectator, I was required to
give my business card before
entering. The only card I had
referred to me as a statistician.
As a result, I did not get into
the gambling casino. I tried a
second and third time, but with
no better results. I then went
to the general offices of the com
pany to find out the reason why
I was not admitted. This is what
I found:
The French ' government 'had
learned that the German Chiefs
of Staff, just before the German
armies collapsed in 1945, had
made marked studies in what is
known as psychological strategy.
It is said that this is what en
abled the Germans to nearly
break through at the time of
the famous "Battle of the Bulge,"
which was stopped by Mont
gomery and Patton. The super-
super mathematicians of Ger
many had figured out in advance
that it would be possible to
break through at that time, in
view of what the American gen
erals were thinking and count
ing upon.
What -the French,
Russians Are Doing
. . The French are. now making
great progress in such studies. It
was because of these known
studies that the "Bank" at Monte
Carlo was becoming frightened
of statisticians and mathemati
cians. I now learn that the U.
Navy and Air Force have taken
up these studies, with the help
of the Princeton Institute for
Advanced Study. In fact, from
this Institute, President Eisen
hower has just taken the super
super - mathematician John von
Neumann and appointed him to
the Atomic Energy Commission.
While these 'super-super math
ematicians have been studying
how to ascertain in advance what
the Chiefs of Staff of enemy
armies are thinking and plan
ning to do, a group of younger
statisticians led by J. C. C. Mc
Kinsey has have been studying
games from poker to chess. Mc
Kinsey has even written, a book
on the subject entitled "Intro
duction to the Theory of Games."
Next to the possibilities of urani
um, -this ability to figure out
in -advance what your enemy is
going to do is the hottest sub
ject in Washington today.
Forecasting Business
And the Stock Market -
The past 50 years I have given
to the study of charts, tables,
earnings, and other tangible rec
ords of past events. From now
on my able associates, who now
know more about such things
than I do, will carry on this
orthodox work. I will devote
the next 50 years to the study
of the fundamentals. .'
While the super-super mathe
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Without..
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There's one fragrant above oil ethers that
she's hoping for.. .Tweed, of course. Be sure
to Include it amongst her very-special presents.
WainscottV
Pharmacy
Main and Riverside
maticians are learning how to
tell what enemy admirals, gen
erals, and strategic boards are
thinking and going to do, I want
to learn what consumers, in
vestors, and labor leaders are x
thinking and what they are go
ing to do. This will enable me
and my successors to forecast
correctly what business, com
modity prices, and the stock mar
ket will do. It will also enable
the forecasting of style changes,
political events, and even crime
waves. '' - -'
National Business - ":
Cycle To Flatten
Most present forecasting will
be scrapped. The stock market'
will then fluctuate only a little'
more than the bond market does
today. Individual corporations.
separate industries, and even
some localities will continue to
suffer from the law of cycles.
These will have big ,"ups and
downs" but, with this' advanced
knowledge, the national business
cycle will be flattened out. :
Remember: Newton's Law of
Equal and Opposite Reaction
does not state when the reactions
will come or -how big they will
be. His law simply says that
to the extent that we go above
normal mechanically, chemical.
ly, socially, politically, and eco
nomically we must rest a cor
responding amount in area. This
will continue to be true.
Merger of Oregon
Lumber Firms Told
Portland U.R) Merger, of
Oregon's two oldest operating
lumber firms was reported yes
terday in Chicago.
Charles M. Hines, president
of the Edward Hines . Lumber
company, announced that his
firm this year would purchase
the capital stock of the Oregon
Lumber company. Financial
consideration was not re
vealed.
The Hines firm will acquire
four Oregon lumber installa
tions, a hardboard plant and
douglas fir sawmill at Dee in
Hood Rriver county; a ponde
rosa pine sawmill at Bates and
a fabricating plant at Baker. '
Ford Boosts Most
Automobile Prices
Detroit (U.PJ Ford Motor
company hiked the prices of
most of its models today in an
nouncing prices for its 1955
automobiles. . ' ,
The price of two of Ford's sta
tion wagon models was cut .
slightly. . But the - low-priced
Mainline and Customline passenT
ger cars were hiked' from $30.66
to $36.97. Biggest price jump
was on the eight passenger coun
try sedan station wagon which
was boosted $64.32. -
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