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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
;Mail Tribune.: 10, 20, 30 and
u years ago. ,
10 YEARS AGO-. ,
Jan. 7. 1945 .' '
ij ' : (It was Sunday
;: Hal. Rickman. scores 15 points
to lead St. Mary's basketball
i team to 43 to 31 victory over
Sacred Heart, of .Klamath Falls.
From Arthur .Perry's Ye
- Smudge Pot column: The solar
' system has started the elongation
of the days. y .
; ' . '
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 7. 1935 .'. .. .
(It was Monday) ..
Bill Bowerman, head coach
" at Franklin High school in Port
' land, visits in Medford, where
he was prominent in high school
athletics. .... '"'.i
- Ashland city council instructs
: City Attorney Frank Van Dyke
to work out contract for pur
chase ' of Pompadour Mineral
springs. : . - . ,-" '" ' . " . . ,
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 7, 1925 ''i-U'
jfft was Wednesday) r
Ben Plymale first ; Jackson
county veteran of World War
I to receive veterans insurance
certificate.
No out of state cars registered
at Medford state registration bu
reau for first time in more than
a year, Secretary Lee Garlock
reports. . ..
40 YEARS AGO -Jan.
7. 1915
(It was Thursday) - '
3 Medford's starting lineup for
basketball game with Grants
Pass expected to be Beacpm,
center; Thomas and Williamson,
forwards, and Pelouze and Cow
gill, guards; special effort to be
made to have building warm
for game. v:"
;' From the Local and Personal
column; Three of the toughest
looking citizens the, police have
come in contact with- this winter
sojourned in the city yesterday.
They ' were bewhiskered, . and
ragged - and tattered' and torn;
and not an article of theif wear
ing apparel . was . whole.- - They
were ordered out of town after
they had frightened a number
of housewives ; in the western
part of the city. .
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?) f:
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
: 1. The Congress , which con
'vened on Jan. 5, is the 74th,
80th, 84th, 90th or 94th? v . A
i 2. On security grounds Wolf
Ladejinsky lost his post in the
Army Dental Corps, State De
partment Ft Monmouth ; Re
search project. Agriculture De
partment, or Voice of America?
3. The average worker in :thev
U.S. loses about. 5, 74, 10, ; 12
15, 17, or 20. days ofwork.a
year because of illness? " '
4. A general sales tax is im
posed in . most states; right or
wrong?
. 5. Average age of men. now
being drafted into the Army is
19, 20, 21, 22, or 23? 1 j .
6. Until the new House elected
a Speaker, it was presided over
by the old Speaker, Vice-President
Nixon, its chaplain, clerk,
or member of longest service?-
7. Nicosia is the capital of
which disturbed ; area of the
world' much in the news lately?.
The Answers: 1. 841h. 2. Agri
; culture Department. 3. About
7Yi work day a year. 4. Right. 5.
21. 6. Its derk. 7. Cyprus.
MAIL TRIBUNE
State May End Flax Fiasco
Flax, Oregon's perennial problem child,-will again
be up for consideration during the forthcoming ses
sion of the legislature. This time the question will be
whether to continue operating, the prison flax mill.
- .
MEMBERS of the state flax and linen board, meet
.'ing recently with the board of control, told the
board that the flax operation is no longer tied to ag
riculture' development in the Willamette, valley, as
was the intention when the 1915 legislature authoriz
ed establishment of the prison flax mill.
Although for the past several years the flax mill
has been a losing proposition the flax board chair
man stated his belief that installation of some inex
pensive machinery would make it possible to carry
on for tie next two years in the black, in any event,
Governor Patterson has made it clear that the peni
tentiary mill will be continued through, this year.
It has' been estimated that about two years would
be required to wind up operations should the legisla
ture decide to get the state out of the business.
TT;WAS many years ago
v flax5 mill was authorized that Willamette valley
interests,, believing that,
grown and processed in that region, sought state aid
in getting started. With the help of experts, some from
this country and some imported from abroad, flax
was successfully grown, but misfortune and mishand
ling seemed to dog the project from the outset. Time
after time huge stores of flax straw burned myster
iously. The processing often went awry, there were
bitter battles for the jobs created by the state aid,
"and much wrangling over administrative procedures.
Year after year it was necessary to use state funds
to bail the flax project out. Ultimately the suspicion
grew in other parts of the state that those mainly in-
. , I'l IV l 1 '11 1
terestea m tne venture were more concerned witn od-
taining the state money for salaries and land leases
than they were in actually producing and marketing
the product. . ;. . ,
IF THE 1955 legislature decides to close the prison
: flax mill, and the convicts., hope it will fori they
hate to work in the mill's dust laden air, the state
will be finally, taking an action which many believe
should have. been taken years ago. E.C.F. A
Diet Education Needed
: - Good eating habits - are more the result of how
much you know than of how much money you make,
according to a study conducted by Cornell Univer
sity. . " - ' v" ' . ' . ''i '
The university's researchers "who interviewed 1,
640 employed people found that diets improved stead
ily among older folk as their educational level in
creased, while Only slight, improvement f ollowed. in
come increases. i ' v ' ' . '
A less than desirable milk usage was found to be
one of the most important
employees though as the
was a steady increase in the
used at least some milk.
The survey showed that
dent need to encourage the
its products. ; -
THE study should be of
ducing and distributing of
ment agencies having to
of the price supports program. ' -
: , The department of agriculture, for instance, has
long been struggling with
present time it is planning
of dried eggs to feed children through , the , school
lunch program, as one means of reducing the storage
pile. -
While the milk producers' organizations and the
dairy industry in general have been making some
progress: in educating the public as to the value of
milk in the diet,1 little or no similar effort has been
made in behalf of eggs. -Eggs
by themselves- not only supply some of the
basic, vital food values but
less combinations with other foods. Because of their
nutritional importance, ease of distribution and com
parative low cost eggs lend themselves admirably to
exploitation.
."':....'.. -. ,-. '
t ' :
IF Uncle Sam would inaugurate a campaign to edu-
cate his nephews i and nieces particularly 3ie young
er ones, as to the advisabili of using more, milk and
eggs it might be that he would be able to save some
of the support money now going into more or less
useless storage of these fine foods.
Such a nation-wide campaign in behalf of Savings
Bonds has been outstandingly successful. Through the
use of donated newspaper space, radio time, and
other advertising methods people have been made
savings conscious arid vast sums have been put into
Savings Bonds, insurance against a possible time of
need. Surely the American people could He induced
to take as much interest in their health, and proper
diet as they are in taking carof then financial well
being. E.C.F. .
4-H Club
Eagle Point Club r -Eagle
Point 4-H Dairy club
held its Christmas-New Years
party at the Mongold residence.
Next regular, business meeting
will be held Jan. 11 at the Eagle
Point Grange hall.
, . -Sally Mongold,
Friday, January 7,-1955
long before the prison
flax could be V- profitably
faults in the dtet of older
education Uevel rose there
percentage of those who
there is still a very evi
use of eggs, and milk and
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interest not only to those
eggs, but to those govern
do with the administering
a huge egg surplus. At the
to buy two million pounds
are also usable in count
DETECTIVE PINCHED
Montreal (U.R) Red-faced
police reported today that a uni
formed constable arrested a mor
ality squad detective he found
loitering to observe the comings
and' goings at a suspected house
of prostitution The constable
thought the detective was a
phony. , y r ; -
Presidents
On State off
Tops News
By CHARLES McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst.
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
THE GOOD "
1. President Eisenhower struck
a hopeful note in his State of
the Union message to Congress.
"In the past year, there has
been progress justifying hope,
both for continuing peace and
for the ultimate rule of freedom
and justice in the world," he
said. "Free nations are collec
tively stronger than at any time
in recent years." The President
warned : that Soviet Russia re
mained a menace. But he said
that if Communist rulers under
stand that America's response
to aggression will be "swift and
decisive," they will be "power
fully deterred from launching a
military venture." , : y
2 . U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold began talks in
Peiping in an - attempt to win
freedom for 11 American air
men jailed as spies and for U.N.
war prisoners still held by Red
China. An announcement that
Russia that it would free two
Americans held in. Soviet slave
labor camps may have been a
hint to the Chinese Communist
government. There are indica
tions Russia believes the Pei
ping regime blundered far con
victing uniformed airmen as
spies. It was announced the eight
nations of the "new Southeast
Asia Treaty - Organization wiU
meet in Bangkok, Thailand, on
Feb. 23 to organize means of
meeting any Communist aggres
sion; '
- 3. Premier Pierre Mendes-
Francer set r out. ; for ; Italy . and
Babson: 'Finding Fortunes'
' Br ROGER W. BABSON
New York- City, (Special to
Mail Tribune) I have just been
asked by a WaU Street banker
to help him
get some so-
called "worth
less" securities
away from the
readers of this
column for a
few cents a cer-
tificate (not
per share); I
hear that for
Soger w. Bsbsoaf every 50 certi
ficates which this broker buys,
he finds that 49 are now :worth-
less; but one is' worth perhaps
$1,000. This would be A certi
ficate which ' some .company
needs in order to dissolve or
consolidate without any out
standing . obligations or -compli
cations. ; . . ; , . .
Of course, it would be unfair
to my readers for me to advise
them what to do. .But, I do urge
you - to i throw nothing away
which looks like a stock certi
ficate '. even 'if your father or
brother says it is "valueless and
just cluttering up his desk or
safe deposit box." Please do not
send me any certificates to look
at, but show them to your, regu
lar banker, if you wish.
Uranium Is Recovering
Values of Some Lands . r
Most of these "worthless" cer
tificates in- your attic or desk
drawers are -of old mining com
panies.. They may never have
been any good, or are of mines
which have completely "petered
out." The company did not have
the money to dissolve .legally,
but some rancher has paid the
taxes for the privilege of using
the land for pasture. Hence, the
company was forgotten after the
stockholders were told it was no
good.
The' land Is still useless for
getting gold or silver, copper pr
lead; but uranium . . may - have
been found! As a result, the land
could "increase in value in one
week from $5 per. ace to $50,000
per acre! Some old-timer who
remembers the old company
has found a list of the old stock
holders and has written them
a letter offering $10 a share. As
the envelope containing these
certif icates was marked "valued
lessi". the family sold them for
$10 per share while today they
are really worth $1,000 a share.
Always Notify Company
Of Your New. Address .
When you move, from one
house, to another and especially
from one city to another, be
sure to write the company in
which you hold any stock of
your new address. Don't ; ever
look at a ."valueless" certificate
and say it is hot worth a three
cent postage stamp and the time
required for-writing such a let
ter. After too many changes of
address, . your - envelope comes
back marked -"unknown" and
the company marks you "dead."
One of the companies m which
my-family has very large hold
ings (United Stores. ".Common,
selling on the. American Stock
Exchange for $3 to $4) has near
ly . 100 such ;! stockholders who
cannot be located. Perhaps you
are one of these stockholders.
There probably v are. .hundreds
of other' companies just like
United Stores. This stock could
easily double or treble in value.
Message
Union
for Week
Germany on a tour which could
lead to closer European unity,
He planned to propose to Ital
ian Premier Mario Scelba and
German Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer a French, Italian, German
"arms pool" aimed at standard
izing weapons and coordinating
their production.
THE BAD
1. The gunmen who cut down
President Jose Antonio . Remon
of Panama threw that country
into a crisis. The identity of the
assassins remained a mystery.
The crime pointed up the fact
that the elements of crises also
exist in the other, five little re
publics which lie between Mex
ico and the South American
continent. ;
2. The Russians and the East
German Communists started a
campaign of harassment which
rouse some fear, of a new Ber
lin blockade in retaliation for
the . allied Western, European
Union Defense Pact. The Reds
refused to renew, an agreement
which permitted barges to move
through the Soviet zone to West
Berlin. They also started de
manding special passes for West
German motorists traveling
through the Soviet zone from
Berlin to. Western Germany.
3. Britain was threatened with
a series ; of - crippling strikes.
There was hope the government
might succeed in postponing, at
least, a nationwide strike by
400,000 railroad employees set
for Sunday night by negotiat
ing the Wage demands. There
still was threat of a strike by
engineering workers for the
eovernment-owned British Air
lines which girdle the world.
This dispute stemmed from the
dismissal of a union organizer.
Price of Defaulted Bonds
May Some Day Return
When a stock stops paying
dividends the price of the stock
may gradually decline, but no
one gets panicky. The stockhold
ers hope for a resumption of
dividends. When, however, a
bond defaults especially a for
eign bond most bondholders
think" this, is the' end. The price
of the bond then suddenly drops
from 'around par to 50 cents on
the dollar. . Discouraged bond
holders have rushed to sell their
bonds and the price has dropped
to 20 cents or even less. But,
in the course of years, many of
these bonds returned in value to
$1,000
Some of the hotels in the fam
ous Sheraton chain were1 built
in the gay 90s. The bonds were
sold for $1,000 each. Then they
defaulted and kicked about at
perhaps $200 for years. Finally,
one of Boston's most courageous
financiers, Ernest Henderson,
had faith in the hotel business
and bought up these bonds. They
have since bqen paid off at par.
Before selling any "worthless
stock" or defaulted "bond, you
can send $2 to the Information
Center at New Boston, N. H.
This gives no investment advice
but has lists of 40,000 such
stocks and will pass along to
you what report it has on file.
This is a non-profit educational
association to help deserving
people on business problems. The
$2 will cover a full year's in
quiry, in other words, you can
write again about the same stock
or bond anytime within 12
months without further cost to
you. . i
6C School Board
Site
' 1 Central Point About 15 acres
of land on East Pine st., former
ly owned by Fred Patterson,' was
purchased this week by -the Dis
trict 6 school board at Central
Point for future construction of
an elementary school, according
to Supt. H. P. Jewett. "
; The land is located within, the
city. About 12 to 13 acres wiU
be used ' for school purposes,
with the remainder to be sold.
The latter includes the Patter
son house. Cost of land retained
will be about$l,000 an acre.
:" The board is considering plans
for immediate construction of a
unit of a new elementary build
ing, which would eventually be
expanded to about an 18-room
school. ,
i: Jewett pointed out that the
present elementary school popu
lation is 955, which is 30 per
cent over the state standard for
the size of the school grounds
now in use.
The board is also considering
increased enrollments in the
Gold Hill school, where it is ex
pected at least four more rooms
wiU be needed within two years.
Best-Known Home Remedy
wrsuffenngof
AVapoRob
RubpaRe!ieftreatlin 8eltet .
Matter of Fact v i
Moscow's Great Debate a
Washington The American
and, Soviet governments appear
to have .one thing, at least, in
common. Both
g o v e rnments
are internally
divided about
the direction
their foreign
policy should
take, now that
the basic deci
sion to rearm
Western" Ger
many has "at
long last been
made. "
suggestion, that
Stewart Alsop
The evident
the, Soviet government is di
vided on this question is, as al
ways, fragmentary and incon
clusive. But it is a good deal less
so than usual.
When Ambassador Charles E.
Bohlen returned to Moscow re
cently, he : reported back that
the sense of tension had mea
surably increased there in the
few days since he had left. The
British Ambassador, Sir William
Hayter, who also returned to
Moscow at about the same time,
reported back to London pre
cisely the same thing; .
One obvious reason for this
tension in Moscow was, - of
course, the French voting on the
German rearmament issue. But
another reason also' appeared,
when long editorials about the
future of the Soviet policy were
published just before Christmas
in Pravda and IzvesUa. ,f ,
Izvestia is the organ' of the
Soviet government, and is thus
accounted : the mouthpiece of
Premier Georgi Malenkov. Prav
da is the organ of the Soviet
Communist party, and is thus
accounted the mouthpiece of N
S. Kruschev, Secretary of the
Party. The two papers took al
most diametricaUy opposite
lines.
Izvestia caUed for a continu
ation of essentiaUy the present
policy increased emphasis on
production of consumer goods,
and a "co-existence" policy
abroad. Pravda called, in effect,
for a "hard" line abroad, and
a return to 1 aU-out priority for
heavy industrial , production.
which means arms production.
The next day, Pravda publish
ed another long r editorial, and
this time Pravda feU in line
with Izvestia. By knowlegeable
Russians; as well as foreign ob
servers, this episode was univer-
saUy taken to mean- that there
had been a basic disagreement
on policy as : between Malenkov
and Krushchev,' and that this
disagreement "had f been settled
in Malenkov's favor.
rriHE episode was further taken
-to, mean that the . Russian
rulers wished to .make known
the existence of the . disagree
ment The L.purpdse ,. was ' pre
sumably, partiy .remindl the
West that- the Soviets .could
adopt a tougher line" if they
wanted to. But another purpose
certainly was . to, give - Krush
chev, as it were, - his . day in
court ; and to remind ' the . Rus
sian people that no one had in
herited, aU, the powers of -the
dead Stalin. r ;
It is quite genuinely true, in
the view of Bohlen and all oth
er foreign observers, that there
is stUl no single absolute ' dic
tator in " post-Stalin Russia.
Moreover, , the ; extent to which
the Soviet rulers though nop
ably not the ruled feel free to
disagree with each ' other is re
markable, l-y V . ; "
. -For examplej there was a re
cent' meeting between certain
"neutrals" and a number: of the
Russian leaders, including Mal
enkov, Krushchev, and . Foreigndischarge.
4 -
Inveshnanrs m a l e
by the 10th of the
month am divi--dend
as of the
lit.
Minister V. M. Molotov. Malen
kov and Krushchev engaged in
a lot of free-wheeling about So
viet policy. Molotov quite, ob
viously felt that his special
province was being invaded by
amateurs, and made no attempt
to conceal his irritation from the
foreigners. The meeting very
nearly became a sort of . three
cornered argument between the
Russians.
There is a good deal to sug
gest, In short, that a "great de
bated of sorts is in progress with
in the Soviet government; No
one, of course, believes that the
essential objectives of .the Soviet
regime have changed. But it is
natural that the Soviet rulers
should debate whether, the
"soft" policy which achieved a
triumph in Asia and t: almost
achieved a greater triumph in
Europe, has not about played
itself out, now that the French
have at last agreed to the re
armament of West Germany..
Malenkov's recent equivocal
remarks about the desirability
of a four-power "meeting at the
summit further suggests that the
issue has notyet been fully de
cided. The Soviet rulers, appar
ently, simply have not made up
their minds whether such a
meeting would serve Soviet pur
poses, since it is now seemingly
impossible further to delay mer
man rearmament. . ; -- ".
A; GREAT - debate, is also, of
course, in nrocress within
the American government. This
debate also concerns whether it
is worth trying to negotiate with
the Soviets, now that the Ger
man rearmanent issue is pre
sumably settled; and if so
whether this is the time to try
it. On one side are those who
believe that the Soviets at least
share the West's interests in
avoiding . mutual incineration;
and that it is worth trying to
agree on a set of ground rules
to this end. At least to some ex
tent, President Eisenhower in
clines to this view as doe3
British Prime Minister Sir-Win
ston ChurchUl.
- On the other side, are those
who have strong doubts about
the value of any . negotiation
with the Russians except on the
most limited and specific issues
Secretary, of State DuUes enter
tains these doubts and British
Foreign Secretary Eden shares
them. Thus a kind of . global
0rat debate is coins . on, in
Washington, in Moscow, in Lon
don. No doubt it wil be . settled
one way or another before this
year ends. - .
Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune,; Inc. ;
Public Speaking Class
Will Be Opened Monday
J. N, Tobin wiU open classes
In public speaking here Monday,
he announced today. The classes
will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m,
each Monday and Thursday.
He is associated with the Rob
ertson School of Business, 40-42
North Riverside ave.; and the
classes wiU be conducted there,
They are open to both men and
women. : : r ?f-
Tobin, who comes here after
28 years of instructing at the
Emily Griffith Opportunity
school in Denver, Colo., said the
public' speaking training is an
aid to leadership, poise and self
confidence.. . x
Washington (U.R) "Rep.
Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), has
warned that many, volunteers
signing up in the current mili
tary enlistment boom may be
doing so in the false belief they
still can get a free education on
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In the Day's Hews
; By FRANK JENKINS
. Here's a sample of the day'a
offerings in the way of news:
The wife of the fabulous Aga
Khan says he is improving after
an. illness in Egypt His spouse
who has the title of Begum
says the' old gentleman has a
high fever, which might . be
caused by the flu, but his condir
tion isn't serious.
THE Aga Khan, by the way, is
.77. .. . : : 4 ,
Britain's Grand Old Man, Win
ston Churchill, is 80 and still
going strong. Clement Attlee,
former Laborite prime minister,
and still (by a narrow squeak)
leader of the British Labor party,
is 72. i West Germany 'a; Aden
auer is in his middle 70s.
Ike, comparatively, speaking,
is still in knee pants: " And
Mendes France well, he's hard
ly out of diapers. :
YOU know the old saying
- OT.Ti MTCN FOR P.OTTK.
SEL;;YOUNG MEN FOR; WAR.
Maybe this is a time for coun
sel, rather than a time for war.
Anyway, Jet's hope so.
GETTING , back - to the Aga
Khan, he's the head of a Mod
ern sect that has some 20,000,-
000 adherents. -, They have a
pleasant little custom of weight
mg the old boy. every now and
then, and taking up a collection
and . paying him - his .weight in
gold, or diamonds, :'or whatever
precious substance . happens to
catch their fancy at the moment
At least, he s one person who
just can't afford NOT to be fat.
SPEAKING of diamonds
are saying that diamonds worth
about $1,500,000 were lost in
the recent crash of a British air
liner in Scotland. The diamonds
were in registered mail pack
ages, and were insured..
When somebody's houiie burns.
it's a more or less trajic loss,
even if it is insuredy When a
factory burns, it's a more tragic
loss because in addition to the
destruction of the factory itself
the jobs of the men who work
there are temporarily lost -
DIAMONDS used for Jewelry
are another, matter. f-r,fi-i)
They have no economic .value. ;
Their sole use is for adornment.
They have no INTRINSIC value
their worth being governed py
their SCARCITY. If they be
came as abundant as sand, their
value would be little more than
that of sand. .-
The shrewd gentlemen :who
control the syndicate, that pro
duces and markets diamonds are'
fuUy aware Of this fact, and so
they feed to the markets just
enough diamonds to keep them
high-priced and' therefore precv
iOUS. ' ;
In many ways, it's ' a queer
world, isn't it?' . .'. ,.v -? '
Dead line Sunday CUKlfled Js'at
noon Saturday : 10 ajn. rlonday for
Monday: other days y.30 M evlousday.
USE THE SERVICES OF
'Safe Repair
t Experts and
Consultants" .
The Portland
Safe Company
332 S.W. 11th Ave., Portland
Will be doing bank work here
SATURDAY, jAtt eth
Through TUES., JAN. 1 1th
Contact: Mr. Clifford Ilont,
eo-First Nat Bank of .Pert-
land, -Saturday and Sunday.
Either new v or old branch.
Monday and Tuesday, old
branch only:
I - v
3 -
2 - 9H7
2.917 CSfS -
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