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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago. .. ,
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 23. 1944
(It was Thursday) '
Alva Perl Bonney, mayor, of
Central Point, dies at his home
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Today
Thanksgiving feasjing ends for
the year. Small boys amazed by
their gastronomical feats. Even
dieting ladies partook freely,
and on many a male vest buttons
flew. .
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 23. 1934 -.
(If was Friday)
Eugene Thorndike named head
of Medford's Community Chest
campaign. ;
Pabst Brewing company pur
chases large . part of hop crop
grown in Applegate valley.'
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 231924
(It was Sunday) :,-.
irans ieri. arrives nome lor
Thanksgiving ' vacation from
Oregon Agricultural college.
Rogue River valley flour mill
on South Front st. destroyed by
fire; loss estimated at $25,000.'
40 YEARS AGO x
Nov. 23. 1914
(It was Monday)
Medford city charter commis
sion completes work on new
charter which includes city man
ager plan.
From the Local and Personal
column: The Country club will
institute a cross town golf match
Thanksgiving, starting from the
University club at 9 a.m.. and
finishing at the ninth hole on the
Country club links. The course
will be north on Fir to Jackson,
east on Jackson to Riverside,
norm on Riverside . to McAn-
drews ford of Bear creek, thence
down the county road to- the
links. Six entries have been filed
to date for the match. ..
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of thm 7?)
Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report
1. "Discount houses" now ac
count for almost five, ten, 15, 20.
cr 25 per cent of all U.S. retail
business?
2. Sanatoria for tuberculosis
victims are increasing or decreas
ing, or staying about the same
In number? 1
3, The Nobel prizes ' were
founded by a newspaper pub
lisher,; producer of explosives,
British mine developer in .South
Africa, or Swedish match mag
nate?;: - r , .. .....
4. Cadillac plans to make 15,-
000, 50,000, 115,000, 150,000 or
500,000 cars next. year?.
5. Has any out-and-out Social
ist ever been elected to the U.S.
Senate?
. 6. Men who haven't gone to
college have on the whole a
higher or a lower income than
men who have or about the
same? ."' ' V" ' .
7. The largest city where Span
ish is generally spoken is Barce
lona, Buenors Aires, Madrid,
Manila, Mexico City or Rio de
Janeiro?
. The Answers: 1. For almost 20
per cent. 2. Decreasing. 3. A pro
ducer of explosives. 4 150.000.
5. No. 6. Lower. 7. Buenos Aires.
Dead-' line Sunday Classified is at
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Two Great Actors
The sudden death of
tuc xvuBsiaii ueiegauon 10 me united .Nations, re
moves another great actor from the world stage of
POLITICAL drama, very much as the sudden death
of Lionel Barrymore only a few days ago, removed
one of the great American actors, from the American
stage of the CREATIVE drama. .
Mr. Barrymore was in person a most kindly and
considerate GENTLEman, and according to those
newspaper men who knew A. Vishinsky best, the Rus
sian delegate in the realm of personal relationships,
was one of the most charming and ingratiating indi
viduals ever sent to this country by Moscow. All, the
press, they say, liked him . personally and liked his
jokes and banter but officially "no thanks."
JUST as Mr. Barrymore's favorite roles, however,
-. were always the repellent, unpleasant, or even evil
types, so Mr. Vishinsky was always cast as the "Old
Man Debbil" in the UN and officially he never had
to get out of character for he took his orders from
the Kremlin and followed them as faithfully, as
Lionel Barrymore took his role and his script from the
management and followed both with the fidelity of
the truly creative artist.
1X7E DON'T wish to carry the similarity further or
7 imply in any way that there was any REAL kin
ship in character or nature between one of Americas
most beloved actors, and one of America's most heart-itly-hated
foreign emissaries. . .
But they were both by NATURE GREAT actors,
and neither could have succeeded so well, or for so
many years, in their respective careers, had they not
been.
The unfortunate thing, from the standpoint of this
country, and the world (perhaps even Russia) is that
Vishinsky did not follow the Barrymore example and
go on the Russian stage instead of entering the law
and Soviet Russia's politics and taking such an im
portant role in its foreign relations. R.W.R.
Stung!
The reaction to the recent election has been al
most as curious as the campaign was before it. :
And nothing "more cunouser" than the comment
on the defeat of Senator Cordon by one of the most
prominent political observers .in the country, none
other than Raymond Moley, former head of FDR's
"brain trust but of late a conservative political col
umnist in the conservative and factual "News Week."
TPHE reaction is the harder to understand, because
A1 Mr. Moley apparently made quite an extensive'
study of the Oregon situation, and talked with many
of the Senator's intimate friends about it, prior and
subsequent to the election. .;
But here is a portion of his verdict as republished
in The Oregon Voter, quote: , r . 4
: "Cordon was incapable of advertising himself What
was especially serious was that Neuberger had all the bet- -'
ter of the newspaper publicity. The Portland papers did
weU for Cordon but apparently some of the other papers.
gave Cordon an editorial or two and then gave.aU the;.
news to Neuberger." .
We wish the pontificial Mr. Mbrley would, in his
next installment, name some or bne-df the papers
and also point out the lack of advertising on the part
of our senior Senator who toured all over the state,
and when he wasn't on the radio was on TV hour
after hour, as the weeks went by, as everyone in Ore
gon knows. '
Would that indicate any "INcapacity for adver
tising," self or otherwise? And how about the Sen
ator's published expense account and the thousands
of dollars allegedly spent for advertising each day
did it go. to advertising for Cordon or to the aid of
the Korean babies? "How foolish can we get?"
TTHE "alleged lack of newspaper support is even more
1 preposterous. As was pointed out during the cam
paign, there were only 3 or 4 papers in the state that
failed to support Cordon and the GOP; ticket.
The Oregon press in fact was close to 90 for
Cordon and against Neuberger.
And if any of the press gave our former State
Senator the best of it in its news columns we failed to
see them and are quite certain Mr. Moley. would, if
called upon, be unable to name them. The simple
truth is there was none. x :
FOR evidence of the situation, that is familiar to our
1 readers for it isn't far away, we would cite the
"non-Portland" ' Klamath papers. They went all-out
for Cordon editorially and in news columns, day after
day in every way. So did all the other papers in our
exchange, list, except over in Coos Bay, here in Med
ford and in far-off Pendleton. ; ?
And yet, according to the News Week expert,
Cordon lost because he couldn't advertise himself and
had no newspaper, support outside of Portland at
least none that was effective.
We wonder what -could have happened to Mr.
Moley or. to his informants, or. both.
Someone or something must have slipped up badly
between here and New York to get such a farcical ex
planation of the Cordon defeat as that. ., . r . .
v To make such a claim which is so directly contrary
to the facts, and facts known by practically every
one here in Oregon, is difficult to understand.
It can't be the presidential bee that has also, stung
the distinguished Raymond Moley. '
-But SOMEthing must haye--and badly! R.W.R.
Tuesday, November 23, 1934
Andrei Vishinsky, head of
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ACCEPTS INVITATION H. L. Krekeler (right), German ambassador to the U. S., bids
former President Herbert Hoover goodbye as latter prepares to board presidential
plane "Columbine" at Idlewild Airport. Hoover is flying to Germany on invitation of
- Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. 4 " . - v
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Genius Seldom Recognized
To the Editor: Of all the low
down, depraved; and downright
cruel ways that the human race
seems heir to, that of making
light of the mentally deficient
surely is the worst. E. A. points
it up most pointedly in his edi
torial in Friday's Mail Tribune,
wherein he also quotes the let
ter from a mother of a mentally
unf ortuhate who tells how cruel
children can be to such a one.
To me, such actions of thought
less children might stem from
the "jokes" they hear their eld
ers tell of what the hair-lip guy
replied etc., - etc. . .Such beUy
laughing things never were
funny to me,' being too remind
ful of my own nervous and em
harassed stuttering of childhood
days and stubborn refusal to an
swer questions was my only re
course. A hermit's life was my
long-planned haven of refuge
from the mimicking of school
mates and even members of my
own family.
A Scotch lad who came to
teach in our farm neighborhood
saved me from that lonely ex
istence. Maybe it was because
,he was in love. with my sister,
but he got me quieted down and
reading from my old dog-eared
McGuffy with such pride of ac
complishment ;. that going to
school lost much of .its snake-
pitish complex. '
Plenty of children have
trouble going to school, not be
cause they are mentally defic
ient, but often because they want
to do their own thinking, like
Edison, Luther ;. Burbank and
Henry Ford who were consider
ed quite off-the-beam at one
time-Machine' shop workers told
me howthey and, others refused
to sit with Henry at lunch-time
and listen to ids :"crack-pot''
ideas of a horseless carriage.
Yeah, we njust. remember that
the genius we applaud and shout
hozzanas for today, is often the
"fool" we snickered at and shied
away from, yesterday.
F. H. Clifford,
, 1211 W. Main,
Medford, Ore.
Lady Lioni Apprtciatiy "
To the Editor: The Medford
Lady Lions wish to thank all
who helped in making our
"cake and candy" sale at the
Liods Club carnival a success.
The Medford ;Mail Tribune for
cooperation and publicity,' and a
special thanks to Olive Starcher;
to those who donated cake and
candy,, the business houses for
their donations, the High School
for use of a popcorn machine.
We . certainly appreciated the
help. Money we received from
this sale will be used to buy
dolls and toys f or - underprivil
eged children at Christmas time.
Our Christmas toy project
carried on jointiy with the Med
ford Fire department each year
is becoming ; widely . k n o w n
throughout the state. It has been
so well thought of that several
other' Lions club auxiliaries are
starting the same project. This
makes us proud, and happy that
we are instrumental n having
Christmas brought into homes
of children; that might other
wise, not have a Christmas.
The church groups, business
houses, and .clubs that have had
Christmas parties in the past
and exchange toys instead of
gifts, then turned the toys over
to our club and firemen to be
distributed to needy children,
will be -welcpmed this year.
We : plan -to have a - working
party on the night of December
20, arranging the toys for dis
tribution December 21 and 22.
Medford Lady Lions,
Mrs. Dwight R. Johnson,
' Publicity Chairman
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MdttGr Of FdCt
The Radiological Haiard:
Washington A grave debate
the gravest since the debate on
whether to make the hydrogen
bomb is now
going on be
hind closed
doors in the
highest govern
ment circles.
Primarily,
this debate is
concerned with
whether the
"Super-Super"
a hydrogen
hnmb exnected
to develop sev- Joteph Alsop
eral times the monstrous
power . of the great bomb ex
ploded at Eniwetok last spring
should be tested. In a more
general sense, the debate is also
concerned with .whether this
country is right to rely on the
hydrogen bomb
as its principal
offensive weap
on.
Both Issues
are related di
rectly to the
danger to hu
man life inher
ent in the radi
ological side
effects of the
new type of
Stewart Alaop
hydrogen
bomb. There is nothing proper
ly secret about this radiological
danger. Anything known in this
country on : the subject is cer
tainly known- in Russia, where
the new type of hydrogen bomb,
with its heavy, noxious radiolog
ical side-effects, was first tested.
Indeed, the real trouble is that
no one, in Russia, in this coun
try,: or anywhere else, really
knows enough about this sub
ject. The most distinguished ex
perts hotly disagree about the
nature and the extent of the
danger. -These
reporters have recently
beens in voluminous correspond
ence with phsysicists, geneticists
and other experts on this matter
of the radiological hazard, and
have yet to find two who wholly
agree. On the official level also,
there is a wide variation be
tween the estimates of the dan
ger made by the Atomic Energy
Commission and the Defense De
partment. The A. E. C.'s conclu
sions are less frightening than
the Pentagon's although the A.
E. C. in its secret studies is by
no means as reassuring as " its
official statements on -this sub
ject. -'
THE radiological hazard falls
info three parts local fall
out, distant fall-out, arid general
radioactivity. The phenomenon
of local fall-out, which trans
forms the hydrogen bomb from
a city-destroying to a state-paralyzing
weapon by blanketing
an area of 4,000 square miles
with radio-active dust, has al
ready been ' described in this
space. ';;.:-"-''- 'V!
Distant fall-out is caused by
the lighter particles radio-activated
in the explosion. These
particles enter the upper atmo
sphere and they then fall out
capriciously anywhere on earth.
Wherever this fall-out occurs
there is a temporary, local in
crease in the level of radio-activity.
After the Eniwetok tests,
there were a number of such dis
tant fall-outs at scattered points
in the United States, notably in ;
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Most experts believe that dis
tant fall-out causes no immedi
ate danger to living persons,
since,' on its voyage round the
earth on the high winds the radio
active material loses much of
its power. Some experts, how
ever, like Dr. A. xi. sturtevant
of California, do believe that lo
cal increases in the . radiation
levels may lead to "an increase
in the probability of malignant
growths."
Distant fall-out may also pre
sent a danger to the human foe
tus also here again the experts
disagree. In this case, the .'.'bad
actor" is radioactive strontium,
produced in massive quantities
in the fireball of the new type
of hydrogen bomb. Strontium
has the characteristic of settling
in the bone structure once it
enters the body, radio strontium
therefore becomes a permanent
part of the body, and constantly
irradiates the body, cells.
The human foetus is peculiarly
sensitive to radiation, particu
larly before the twentieth week,
since its cells are increasing at a
prodigious rate. A particularly
Lheavy fall-out of strontium thus
might reach and harm or destroy
the - foetus through a compli
cated cattle -milk-mother-foetus
chain. . . . . :
Some experts, to be sure, hotly
deny that there is any danger of
increased incidence of cancer or
stillbirths from distant fall-out;
But there does seem, to be gen
eral agreement that a long-term
"biological . hazard" exists, in
that, at some point, increased
levels of radioactivity will dam
age the genes. This in turn will
increase the production of hu
man mutations, or monsters, to
use the word to which some
geneticists object. The .danger
here is not to living persons, but
to future generations.
.
TIN ALLY, there is the univer-
- sal hazard the danger that
"repeated atomic explosions will
lead to a degree of general radio
activity which no one can tolerate
or escape," to use the words of
the British Nobel Prize winner,
Dr. Edgar Adrian. It is this dan
ger, which will be examined fur
ther in another report, which has
particularly obsessed British
Prime Minister Sir . Winston
Churchill, since he learned the
facts about the Eniwetok tests.
All this is enough to suggest
why there is a debate in pro
gress in the inner circles of the
government. No one can really
be sure what radiological side-
effects a testing of so terrible a
weapon as the. Super-Super
might have. The A. E. C.'s radi
ation experts grossly underesti
mated the radiation hazard for
the Eniwetok tests, and thus the
Marshall Islanders and the Jap
anese crewmen of the "Fortun
ate Dragon" , were endangered.
The - experts could "be wrong
again.-: :-- ,';;' ;v:v1:
no one can reauy be sure,
moreover, at just what 'mega-
tonnage level" (repeated explo
sions of) the hydrogen bomb, cur
principal offensive weapon,
might destroy, hot only the ene
my, but all life on earth. Indeed,
this is the most terrifying fact
about this terrifying weapon
that no one really knows what it
will do. '
(Copyright, 1954, New York
" Herald Tribune Inc.) .
One of Adolf Hitler's
Biggest; Headaches
May Plague
By CHARLES M. McCANN
- United Press Foreign Analyst
The man who was the No.' 1
trouble maker for Adolf Hitler
before' World War H may soon
return to Ger
many to be
come trouble
maker No, ' l
for the Bonn
republic. ;
' It is bad
that Otto
Strasser, who
has been in
exile in Cana
da for years,
may ' soon, be :
permitted, t o . cnarie mci ann .
go back to t Western Germany.
He has been trying to get back
ever since the end of the war.
Allied occupation officials re
fused to admit him. " " ',;
But now, with Western Ger
many . about to become a ; soy
ereign nation,. the, West German
Supreme Administrative. Court
has. finally restored his citizen-
Two
Added to
Of Northwest Area
Two new television channels
to the Pacific Northwest were
placed in service today by the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company, according to Jack
Creager, local PT&T manager,
They bring the total number , of
channels available here to three.
All are able to transmit color.
Creager -said; They can pipe na
tional and Pacific coast network
programs north from Sacra
mento to TV stations in Oregon
and Washington. - -
Creager explained that the ad
dition of two channels will give
a . wider choice of programs to
communities which have only
one TV station. The four TV out
lets in Oregon are KBES, In
Medford; KVAL, in Eugene, and
KPTV and KOIN in Portland.
Costs Told ::. :;... ; ;-;'.;- -
The project cost $1,254,000
Creager, said, with $694,000 of
this spent in California, $480,
000 in Oregon and $80,000 in
Washington. The job took a year
and a half. : - v .
To bring the new: channels
north, PT&T constructed a radio'
relay system 'between ft Sacra
mento . and Chico, " with : a ' 20
foot tower a$" Chico.' Between
Chico and Portland, amplifiers
were, added every eight miles at
47 repeater points along the 540
mile route of the coaxial cable,
and additional radio relay equip
ment was installed at the termi
nals and the four relay points
of - the - Portland-Seattle ' micro
wave relay system; -The
coaxial cable follows
Highway 99 most of the way.
There'are three kinds of dikes
in Holland, the National . Geo
graphic society says, uig ones
standing in the sea, the "watch
ers," fend off the first assault
of the waves. If they crumble,
the "sleepers" behind them
take over. Finally come the
"dreamers," last-resprt defend
ers of individual farms. -
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ship to him. The Nazis had taken
it away. ; ' - ' , '
Dispatches from Germany say
it is likely that Strasser will be
permitted to go back home soon.
If he is, and. there seems no
way to keep him out, it may be
taken for granted that despite
any possible attempts to keep '
him under control,. Strasser will
be mixing in politics. .'.
Despite : his . 21-year absence
from Germany, Strasser still has
many supporters there all en
emies of the government of
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
Will Try To Revive Party
Strasser has announced that if
he gets back he will try to re
vive the "black Front" : which,
he organized after he broke with
Hitler in 1930.
In his- absence, he managed
to form by long-distance intrigue
"Federation for the Rebirth
of Germany" which draws its
support from extreme right-wing
nationalists, of whom Germany
already has too many. .
Strasser may be able to -unite
nationalists, including many for
mer Nazis, under his leadership.
Strasser joined the Nazi party.
of which his brother Gregor was
a member, in 1925. .
His background was Socialist,
and it was not long before he
began as did his brother; also
a Nazi leader to disagree with
Nazi policy. '
For one thing, Otto Strasser
wanted the Nazi party to de
pend more on the working peo
ple and less on big business.
Fled in 1933 ' '
, After his break with Hitler,
Strasser remained in Germany
until the Nazis attained power
in 1933. Then he prudently fled
to Czechoslovakia. Gregor, who
remained, was murdered in the
great "blood purge" of dissident
Nazis in 1934. - -
Otto Strasser became the arch
enemy of Hitler, organizing op
position to the official Nazi party
from Czechoslovakia and other
countries in which he lived. He
moved about as the Nazis tried
to extradite him in one country
and another. He turned up in
France in 1940 and in Canada in
1941. There he has been living,"
in enforced quiet, a Bridgetown,
Nova Scotia. '
Canada will gain if he leaves.
Germany will lose.
For Strasser may have been
an enemy of Hitler but he also
is an enemy, of today's demo
cratic. Germany. ; r
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