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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 6, 1944
(It was Wednesday)
Tackle Dean Sheldon, Med
; ford, only unanimous choice on
Southern Oregon Conference All
Star football team; other Med
ford men named to first team
are End Darrell Rises, End Bill
Plaskett, Back Bob Watson,
Back Marvin Doty, Back Glenn
Bostwick,- Center Jim Cave, and
Guard Bob Cahill.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Juveniles
are now down with the measles.
All will soon be all over what
has been all over them.
20 YEARS AGO
Dee. 6, 1934
(It was Thursday)
Stuart and Sons of Medford
low bidders on road contracts in
Coos and Douglas counties.
Medford apity council starts
preliminary negotiations on
plans for new sewage disposal
plant.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 6, 1924
(It was Saturday)
Rogue River residents vote to
obtain city water supply from
Grants Pass.
Winter lyceum course planned
at Central Point
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 6, 1914
at was Sunday)
Medford Attorney B. F. Mul
key delivers principal address at
Medford Elks lodge annual me
morial services.
From the Local and Personal
column: Ed Helms, owner of the
Helms bar in the county seat,
where thousands of old relics
are stored, telling plainly the
history of the early days, spent
Sunday in Medford. What will be
done with the relics has not been
decided upon, although it is the
consensus of opinion that they
will be sent to the Panama ex
position. What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of Ihe 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
1. Many more men than wom
en work for the federal govern
ment, or many more women than
men, or about the same number
of each?
2. One million Americans
probably have diabetes without
knowing it; right or wrong?
3. Who was the only man
elected President with more than
three syllables in his' last name?
4. Mocha coffee comes from
Arabia, Brazil, Central America,
Ceylon or the East Indies?
5. A parity price for a farm
product is changed every week,
mouth, three months, six months
or year?
6. Pocahontas did or did'nt
marry Capt. John Smith?
7. Prof. Albert Einstein was
born in Austria, Germany, Po
land, Russia or the U.S.?
The Answers: 1. Many more
men than women. 2. Right. 3.
Dwighl D. Eisenhower. 4. Ara
bia. 5. Every month. 6. Didn't.
7. In Germany.
Mints of the U.S. have turned
out more than 4,500,000 nickel
coins since 1866 when they were
authorized. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
It All Depends. . .
Tuberculosis, once called the "white plague," is
on the wane, fortunately. It is now far down the list
of fatal illnesses, where not many years ago it was
near the top. :
One famous TB sanitarium in the east is closing,
because three developments have made it unneces
sary: There is a lack of patients; new drugs have per
mitted home and out-patient treatment of the disease,
and a high climate is no longer a necessary corollary
to treatment.
DUT, hidden in the successful fight against tuber
" culosis lies a danger that people can become too
complacent, too unworried about the dangers of TB.
It is this danger that is one of the things the Jack
son County Public Health association has set out to
fight
The familiar Christmas Seals (now on sale, by the
way) are the association's only major source of in
come, and with them they are waging a continuous
battle to educate, to inform, to warn people that TB is
still a dangerous illness, despite the advances made m
its treatment.
TN addition, the association has initiated a significant
A new development in TB detection the installa
tion in Community hospital (to be followed next
month at Sacred Heart hospital) of equipment to take
chest x-rays of all new patients, plus anyone else who
wants this "insurance."
The days of the mass chest x-ray surveys, using
mobile units, have passed, largely due to government
al economy measures, and the new plan is designed to
fill this gap. . . -
Since by far the greatest number of tuberculosis
cases are discovered among patients entering hospit
als, it was decided it would be logical to equip Med
ford's two larger hospitals for easier and faster de
tection. A NUMBER of cases of tuberculosis have been dis
" covered in Jackson county this year, and it is esti
mated that there may be 100 or more cases in this
area which are unknown to anyone, even the victim.
These people are dangerous to themselves and to
their neighbors. ,
The Health association recommends that every
one get a chest x-ray at least once a year, and those
who smoke should do so twice a year. In this way,
if anyone does contract TB, it will be in the earliest
stage when treatment and cure are relatively easy and
certain.
The charge at the two hospital x-ray units is nom
inal, covering only the cost of the film. The satisfac
tion of knowing one doesn't have TB is worth the
price of admission a hundred times over.
(This writer once got a "call-back" after a routine chest
x-ray to have a bigger picture made. He spent a miserable
. few days before the appointment, wondering and worry
ing. When the. trouble turned out to be nothing more than
old pneumonia scars coupled with a chest cold the relief
was overwhelming. Even with modern treatment, TB is
nothing to laugh at.)
ANOTHER phase of the battle against TB is under
way through the county public health department.
It is conducting tuberculin skin tests in about one
third of the school children in the county this year.
Another one-third are to be tested next year, and the
job will be completed the following year.
Ihe tests,' while not conclusive, do show uo in
stances where TB can be suspected, and then further
tests are made. The tests, of course, cannot be made
without the consent of parents, but we can't imagine
l j - : it. j i , i i .i i
any paieiib uenyiiig mis. opportunity to niS Cnlia.
TUBERCULOSIS can be wiped out. Developments
" within the past few years have proven this. Treat
ment has improved to a point where a case discovered
soon enough is no longer a serious medical problem.
How long TB will be a killer depends on how well
people choose to protect themselves and their neigh
bors by taking advantage of the excellent programs
of detection and prevention available to them. E.A.
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
This changing world note:
A hefty mail carrier in Port
land again has won the national
men's crocheting championship.
Fifty-three-year-old Anthony S.
White won the top award with a
fancy tablecloth entered through
the Multnomah county fair. He
did the same thing in 1950 and
1952.
White says his hobby is a good
cure for ulcers- j.
QUERY:,
Why should a mail carrier
need a cure for ulcers?
Are ulcers an occupational
hazard in the mail-carrying busi
ness? I'm asking strictly for in
formation. .No nasty cracks in
tended. INCIDENTALLY, I'm all in fa
vor of the women moving
over increasingly into the jobs
formerly supposed to be reserved
for V men. The ' men," goodness
knows, have, made enough of a
mess of things. Maybe the wom
en can do better.
BY the way; have you noticed
the increasing number of
women who are becoming deer
hunters? During the season re
cently closed, I heard of at least
a half dozen who got their buck,
skinned it .and dressed it out
There was a time when that
would have been looked at as
kance as a task for women's
lily-white hands.
Even in deer-hunting, 1 think,
Monday, December 6, 1954
News
women can be useful. Maybe
they can teach the men to be
more careful about what they
are shooting at before pulling
the trigger. .. .
So far, I haven't heard of a
woman hunter mistaking an
other hunter for a deer, with
fatal results.
EFORE- getting clear off the
subject, I'd like to add that it
might be a splendid idea if more
men took up this Portland mail
carrier's hobby of crocheting ta
bleclothes. Especially, those who
have been taught how. to handle
guns.
It might decrease the inci
dence of ulcers among wives.
Husbands . sitting at home and
crocheting on. a tablecloth are
comparatively safe.
A NOTHER note on this chang
"ing world:
A bulletin from Eugene con
veys the" information' that 1 the
average income in 1953 of grad
uates of the University of Ore
gon school of journalism was
$130.74 per week, ora" total of
$6798.47 per year. .. . t s
The figures come from a sur
vey made among all living grad
uates of the Oregon, journalism
school from 1916 through 1953.
Replies came from 31 states, the
District of Columbia and eight
foreign countries.
T think perhaps George Putnam,
editor emeritus of the Salem
Capital-Journal, and I can re-
Matter of Fact
AFTER CENSURE
Washington The Democrats
have already decided on the
strategy they will adopt in the
matter of Joseph R. McCarthy,
now that he
has been cen-
itT 1 sured. It is to
leave mm lie
where they
flang him."
Logically, of
course, McCar
thy should now
be forced to
answer the
Stewart Alsop questions
which he was censured for re
fusing to answer. A few Demo
crats those who believe that
McCarthy should be expelled
favor making the attempt to
force him to do so. But the
great majority want to avoid
any revival of the McCarthy is
sue, when the Democrats take
control of the Senate. '
The reason is simple. The pol
icy of Sen. Lyndon Johnson, as
Minority Leader, was to let the
Republicans fight among them
selves about McCarthy. This
policy was much attacked in lib
eral quarters, but it has now
been triumphantly vindicated
by events. x
Johnson and a majority of his
fellow Democrats see no reason
to alter a policy which has
work so well. Any further in
vestigation of McCarthy by the
Democratic - controlled Senate
would simply keep his name in
the headlines. And, by giving
the McCarthy issue a party colo
ration, it might tend to halt Mc
carty's steep political decline.
"jyfOREOVER, Sen. Thomas
Hennings of Missouri, the
logical choice to head a commit
tee to finish the unfinished Mc
Carthy business, has no stomach
for the task. "I don't want to
make a career out of investigat
ing McCarthy," Hennings says
and many of his colleagues
warmly sympathize with this na
tural reluctance. Thus it has
been rather easy for the Demo
crats to agree on a "leave him
lie" policy toward McCarthy.
But there is nothing easy
about the problem that now
confronts the Republicans. The
censure vote revealed, as noth
ing else could, how deep is the
split in the Republican party.
The vote on the Mundt resolu
tion was particularly . signifi
cant. This resolution,, slapping
McCarthy's wrist for "intem
perate statements," got only 15
votes. This was because the
hard-core McCarthyites, like
Jenner, Malone, Welker, and
Dirksen, joined the Eisenhower
Republicans and the Democrats
in voting against it. In short,
for the real McCarthyites there
is no middle ground at all. They
are the true irreconcilables.
Moreover, Senate Republican
Leader William Knowland has
seemingly gone over to the anti
Eisenhower wing of . the party
with his votes against censure.
Knowland's position, taken to
gether with the implacable fury
of the right-radicals, make it
difficult to see how the Republi
can' party can - operate in the
Senate as an organized political
grouping with an agreed central
strategy.
rpHE McCarthy battle has also
badly damaged the grass
roots ; party organization, espe
cially in the Middle West. Most
Democratic party workers are
professionals they have city
hall jobs or useful city hall con
nections. Most Republican party
workers are amateurs. And in
the Midwest, many of these
amateurs are McCarthy fanatics.
.Thus the cleavage of the Mc
Carthy issue is complete, from
top to bottom of the Republican
party. And now, on top of every
thing else, there is more and
more talk of a pro-McCarthy
third party movement. This talk
seemed until recently, an empty
threat by the McCarthyites. Now
it begins to look serious, simply
because the irreconcilables have
nowhere else to go.
This third party talk has
caused much gleeful anticipa
tion in Democratic circles, just
as the Communist-run Progres
sive party movement caused
much delight in Republican cir
cles in 1948. But there are per
fectly genuine reasons for be
lieving that, even if a McCarthy
third party movement does de
velop, the Democrats nowadays
may be counting just, as many
unhatched chickens as the Re
publicans in 1948.
HHAKE, for example the New
Jersey vote this year, which
has not been generally under
stood. In New Jersey, a tavern
keeper and perennial candidate
called Henry ; Krajewski got
himself on the ballot.. He ran as
an. all-out pro-McCarthy candi
date. He got close to 30,000
votes,-almost ten-times the mar-
member about as far back into
the newspaper business as any of
them hereabouts;"
' I'd like to put this question
to George:
What would your editor have
thought and doubtless said
if in your cub days you had lean
ed back in your chair and de
livered yourself of the prophecy
that the time would come when
newspaper reporters would go to
college and- wind up earning
$130.74 a week, or a total of
$6798.47 per year?
r i
Is. :
By Stewart Also
gi nby which Republican Clif
ford Case beat Democrat Charle
ford Case defeated Democrat
Charles Howell.
But the extraordinary aspect
of the Krajewski vote is this.
The bulk of his votes came from
normally overwhelmingly Dem
ocratic precincts in Jersey. City.
The conclusion is obvious and
it is the conclusion the New Jer
sey Democrats . have drawn.
Krajewski beat Howell. Or, to
put it another way, McCarthy
elected Case. r
A further conclusion is also
obvious. A defection of' the
right wing radicals would not
only end the long agony within
the Republican party. It" might
actually help the Republicans at
the polls. For in many areas
where McCarthy is strongest, a
McCarthy party would split the
Democratic vote far more than
the Republican vote. Moreover,
as the 1948 vote suggested,
there is an underlying self -compensatory
rule in American poli
tics. A party gains, rather than
loses, by shuffling off its radi
cal extremes.
(Copyright, 1954,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Is That So?
Before m a n domesticated
plants and animals, his prog
ress was pitifully slow. Then,
perhaps 10,000 years ago when
he . began bending plants and
compliant animals, insects and
birds to his own uses, suddenly
he shot ahead at a phenomenal
pace.
Quite likely, man's first part
ner was the dog, then the pig.
Next in order, came cattle and
reindeer. Then, sheep before
goats; ass before horse; horse
before camel and elephant.
. THE DOG: It is th only domes
tic animai common in both the
old and new world since ancient
times. Evidence indicates that
the'dog associated with man 10,-
000 years ago. The fact that wol
ves and dogs interbreed readily
and have fertile offspring indi
cates that the wolf is the dog's
most immediate ancestor. s
SWINE: Of great antiquity, its
origin is shrouded in obscurity.
Its remains have been found in
the pre-historic ;- lake cities of
Switzerland. It may have deS'
cended partly from the Euro-
pean wild boar or the Indian
wild pig.
CATTLE: They have served
man well for meat, milk, butter,
cheese, hides, draught, and trans
port. Cattle may have come
from the steppes in Asia, the
valley of the Euphrates, and the
forested parklands of Europe.
Its European ancestor may have
been the aurochs, a wild bison,
which once grazed , in Britain
and was still abundant in the
Black Forest of Germany during
Caesar's time.
In the Far East India and
China, and Madagascar and Afri
ca cattle are distinguished by a
humD. indicating perhaps a dif
ferent source. In Tibet, there is
yet another version the yak, a
lone-haired animal which be
came the beast of burden and
source of meat and milk.
Ancestry Seen Close
Because air these cattle inter
breed : and produce . fertile off
spring, their ancestry must be
close. ,
Ancient Egyptians, good breed
ers of animals, developed a long
horn and hornless . strain. As
early as the 28th century before
Christ, Egyptians milked from
the right side and tied the cow s
legs to ' protect 'the milker.
(Which reminds me: a boy in the
20th century, A.D., once tied a
cow's tail down in fly-time with
a brick! Only- once. I know,
because I was that skull-whacked
cowhand). The goat, on the con
trary, was milked from behind.
REINDEER: Although it has
been used for many centuries in
Northern Europe, I Asia ; and
America as a draft ! animal and
the supplier of wonderfully rich
milk, meat and hides, it is still
in a wild - domesticated state.
Men of the northland may still
camp alongside a .wild herd,
single out individuals for their
use, as they desire.
SHEEP: Their breeds are so
diverse it is quite possible that
several kinds may have shared
in producing today's domesti
cated animaL Yet notable differ
ences exist between the tamed
and wild. For one thing, most
domesticated sheep, have" long
tails the wild 'are short; the
wild have hair most of the do
mestic grow wool.
The closest animal to the do
mestic sheep seems to be the
wild sheep of Corsica, northwest
India, and mideastern Europe.
But then in domestication,
changes in the animal may be so
great that their origins are dif
ficult to recognize. Certainly, in
fairly recent times the changes
made in various breeds of dogs,
horses, cattle, cats and pigs are
tremendous. j
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Nurserymen Elect
Elwood Stansfield
Elwood Stansfield, of Stans
field nursery, Medford, has been
elected president of the Rogue
Valley Nurserymen and Grow
ers association, according to
members of the organization.
J. Vernon Marshall, of Marsh
all Nursery and Florist, was re
elected secretary - treasurer and
business agent. Other officers
named were Ruth Walden, vice
president, and Mary Hanley,
sergeant-at-arms.
Members of the board of direc
tors are Mrs. Tom Carter, Ash
land; Jack Williams, Ashland,
and D. R. Morgan, Grants Pass,
together with the officers and
Kenneth Meadows, past presi
dent, Medford.
Most Rogue valley nursery
men and grawers are members
of the association, which was
formed four years ago to estab
lish minimum prices and " to
create, mutual understanding
among growers.
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
GOATS: The domestic goat,
smell and all, probably originat
ed from the wild goat of Persia.
They have been kept, by man
since ancient times they were
dwellers with man in the pre
historic lake cities of Switzer
land. -
: CAT: Kept by the ancient Egy
ptians, they probably descended
from - a common wild cat of
Egypt. Whether the present day
domestic cats of the rest of the
world descended from this caf-
fre is debatable. As for the so-
called Persian cat, it is a variety
of the Siamese, Russian and
Manx cats all of which, quite
likely, are derived from the
same stock as the other , cats. As
with dogs, distinct breeds have
been attained through careful
breeding and selection.
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; by Eugene Burns
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n's Sky
By 3.
HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer,
Extension Division
Oregon Higher Education System
"During the time the moon
was full in November, it came
up so far north that I was sur
prised. I had never seen it m
that location before. What was
wrong?"
This query came from three
different sources. There was
nothing wrong with our lunar
neighbor. During every month
the moon rises and sets far north
for a few 'nights, but most of
ii. j - n
inc lime inis occurs ai an nour
when it is not noticed. But when
it takes place at full moon arid
with a clear sky it is widely
observed. ; . ' ' '
Simple Rule
i : Let us state a simple rule for
the location of the full moon.
Practically everyone knowslfrom
observation that in our latitudes
during the longest -days of the
year the sun rises far over
toward the ; northeast, slants
toward the south as.it climbs the
sky, and by noon is only a little
south of the,, zenith. Then it
slides down northward and fi
nally sets toward the northwest.
It is above the horizon about 23
of a 24-hour period. During the
shortest , days Old ; Sol rises
toward the southeast, crosses the
heavens low in the south and
sets in a general southwest di
rection. Thus it is- above the
horizon about half as long as in
the summer.
The full moon, at any time of
year, rises at about sunset ana
is in the opposite part of the
sky from -the sun. This means
that in June the full moon is far
to the south and crosses the sky
in about the way the sun does in
December. The December full
moon, still opposite the sun, very
nearly repeats the sun's antics
for June. In other words, the
full moon rises and crosses the
sky in practically the same loca
tion that the sun did six months
earlier.
Relieve Se-fferiog
Fast-Effectively
with
Moo
Many Changes Noted
Since Pearl Harbor
Date 12 Years Ago
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
It is almost incredible how the
world picture has changed in the
13 years since ; Pearl Harbor. ;
. There will
be a simple
cere mony on
Tuesday, on
the hulk of the
battleship Ari
zona which
lies on the
muddy bottom
of Pearl Har
bor to mark
the anniver
sary. A I
Cbarlo McLann Amen cans
generally will remember that it
is Pearl .Harbor day, and many
of them may take time to read
the . brief dispatches . telling of
the ceremony.
But the big news m the Paci
fic probably will come, from
Tokyo, where Premier Shigeru
Yoshida faces a vote of confi
dence that may overthrow him.
Officials in the State Depart
ment will be pulling for Yo
shida. A Japanese cabinet crisis is
bad news in Washington these
days. Yoshida is a good friend
of the United States and also,
administration officials w a n t !
nothing to happen which might
interfere with their program of
building. up a strong Japanese
army.
Who could have foreseen on
Dec. 7, 1951, that the United
States today would be arming
the most detested enemy in its
history, an enemy far more bit
terly detested than Hitler Ger
many or Fascist Italy?
- Who could have foreseen that
for the same reason Japan is be
ing armed, the United States
would be. trying to build up a
German army.
It is necessary to - remember
that on Pearl Harbor day Soviet
Russia became an. ally of the
United States.
Russia was a strange ally. The
Kremlin had betrayed Great
Britain and France by entering
a "non-aggression" pact actu
aly an aggression pact against
Poland with Nazi Germany
one week before World War II
started. . -
But Hitler had betrayed Stalin
in turh and had marched against
Russia on June 22, 1941.
Russia did not declare war
against Japan when that coun
try attacked Pearl Harbor and
swept through southeast Asia.
Russia was fighting for its very
life against Germany. It is ques
tionable -whether it would have
survived,' as a Communist dic
tatorship, had it not been for
American aid.
China also became an . ally of
the United States. It had been
fighting a Japanese invasion
Position
A simple rule can also be
given for the location of the
crescent moon. It appears in the
same general region of the sky
as does the sun at that time not
six months earlier. In June this
location is far north; in Decem
ber, far south.
, One inquirer stated that the
November moon about the time
of full phase rose farther north
each successive evening.". This is
correct If the sky is clear dur
ing this coming week, anyone
who cares to observe can prove
this for , himself. Full phase is
reached on Thursday, Dec. 9. Be
fore, that time moonrise will oc
cur before sunset, but the moon
can be seen then. December 4
the rising point will be a little
north of due east; Sunday, still
farther north. By Thursday eve
ning Luna will "pop above' the
sky line almost over the north
east but not quite.
The December full moon this
year will, be unusually fine, and
bright since it will be, nearer the
earth than usual. .. . . - .
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And now, . Russia, . our war
time, ally, has imposed its Red
rule on ; all of Eastern Europe.
The Communists have overrun
the Chinese mainland, Russia
staged the Korean war, and the
Chinese Reds fought us in it as
stooges of the Kremlin.
; The free world is arming
against the threat of Russian
and Chinese Communist aggres
siona threat more dangerous
to Western civilization than any
since, the barbarians 'swept over
Europe centuries ago.
.The years have passed swiftly
since Pearl . Harbort, and they
have been crowded with events.
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What Christmas Is ,
To the Editor: On page three
of the. second section ofTues
day's Mail Tribune the question
is asked: "What Is Christmas
really?"
We feel the answer is to be
found largely in the gospel of
John, which has been called the
gospel of the love of God. John
3:16 is often quoted; John 3:17
quite logically follows:
"For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God sent
not His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be
saved."
. John 20:31 sums up John's
reasons for His message: "But
these are written, that ye might
believe that Jesus is the Christ,
and that believing ye might have
life through His name."
-Wouldn't you say then that
Christmas is our. rejoicing for,
and . recognition of our. benefits
from God's gift to us? :
Helen Messecar,
Trail, Ore.
SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING C
The. American Bibl So
ciety, the Medford Ministerial
Association and the Medford
Council of Church . Women
are cooperating in sponsoring
daily Bible reading in the
period between Thanksgiving
and Christmas. . . . . -
. . The suggested scripture
reading for today is:
Isaiah 53. -
Wild Men & Tame
GEORGE N. TAYLOR
At the coming of day, wild
men in the jungle and we culti
vated folk also, begin to stir-
around to get
our daily bread.
And beyond
our little day
God has his
plans. He plans
to win you for
bis eternal
home. ; But you
say you are not
good enough to
be a Christian
and go to heav
en; Quite true.
t i
Your curses, lies and hates and
all the rest of your sins, stamp
you as unfit. But for all that,
God will not throw you out. Re
ceive Christ into your heart as
dying for all your sins and God
counts them as blotted out Then
he gives you eternal life. -The
Bible pictures God as standing
with wide-open arms waiting tc
receive you. "Reconciled is tCe
word." 2nd Corinthians 5:18.
Having enternal life, stay by the
Bible, pray and grow up. This
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