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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
Jan. 13. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Medford High school basket
ball team runs its winning
streak to 10 straight games with
46 to' 21 victory over Grants
Pass; Jerry Ross and Dick
Fawcett star for Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smude Pot column: Quite a few
of the younger married girls
have started rolling their own,
due to the cigarette shortage.
For the most part they turned
out worse than their first bis
cuits." 20 YEARS AGO
January. 13. 1935
(It . was Sunday)
Medford's Mayor George Por
ter issues safe driving procla
mation. Medford Kiwanis club instal
lation committee includes Ted
GeBauer, chairman; and Sebas
tian Apollo, Frank Perl, and
Charles Butterfield.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 13, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
A. S. Rosenbaum attends
meeting of "Go Ahead club" in
Gold Hyi with Robert Boyl, sec
retary of chamber of commerce
The Rev. J. W. Angell and his
family leave Medford to make
their home in Glendale.
40 YEARS AGO - - -Jan.
13, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
New city charter, proposing
city manager form of govern
ment, defeated by voters; V. J.
Emerick defeats C. E. Gates in
race for mayor, and Frank Amy
defeats C. L. Scheffelin in con
test for councilman from Ward
2.
Caribou Dan and two trained
bears featured performers in act
scheduled at Medford's Page
theater.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. In the recession of a few
months ago, greater unemploy
ment occurred in manufacturing
or in nonmanufacturing estab
lishments? 2. The Democrats, in control
of Congress in 1955, voted in
1954 for higher, lower or un
changed federal income taxa
tion? 3. Does any state pay unem
ployment compensation as high
as S50 a week?
4. The percentage of working
women who are domestic serv
ants has been rising or falling,
or staying about the same?
5. The number of cigars
smoked in the U. S. every year
works out to about 6, 16, 60,
160 or 600 for each adult?
6. U. S. public high schools
as a whole have more men or
more women teachers?
7. Tony Trabert is an out
standing golfer, baseball player,
jockey, tennis player or football
star?
. The Answers: 1. In manufac
turing. 2. For lower. 3. No. 4.
Falling. 5. To about 60 por adult
per year. 6. More women. 7.
Tennis player.
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Ike Should Knew
We can't go along with those who fear President
Eisenhower's proposed reduction in the draft will en
danger our national security. '
In these parlous times there is some risk in almost
any action taken.
But in the field of MILITARY preparedness, we
feel the President rates as an expert. He is also in a
position to know more about the actual dangers of a
Third World War than anyone else in the country
and we don't exclude the general staff or the Secre
tary of Defense.
So when the President recommends a reduction
in the size of our army, and a consequent reduction
in government expenses, this paper would put the bur
den of proof to the contrary heavily and directly on
the shoulders of his critics.
It is ok to have a full and free debate on the issue.
, But there will have to be far more evidence than
has been presented to date to sustain the claim that
in this department, the leader of the American forces
in World War II, and how our chief executive, in the
matter of military defense doesn't know what he is
talking about. R.W.R.
Liberalism and Morse
The Oregonian doesn't see how Senator Morse can
quit the Republican party and join the Democratic
party, for it claims neither party qualifies as a per
fect vehicle for "liberalism." :
Not "perfect" perhaps, but as liberalism is gener
ally understood we don't see and haven't seen for
some time why Senator Morse hasn't joined the
Democrats, and our prediction is he will.
For as was so clearly demonstrated in the recent
election, the two parties are directly opposed on most
of the important national issues, which come, under
the general heading of liberal and conservative.
For example there was the, issue of foreign aid
versus isolationism, here in Oregon between Cordon
the Republican and Neuberger the Democrat. Also
there was the issue between public power and private
power: between Tidelands oil and oil for education;
between lower tariffs or higher ones, between Theo
dore Roosevelt's theory of conservation and Secre
tary McKay's and so on
We fail to see how the
knowledge that Cordon represented the ultra-conservative
view point, and Neuberger the progressive and
liberal.
We can see, however, why the Oregonian support
ed the Republican and opposed the Democrat.
That has been the Oregonian s policy since the
Battle of Bull Run or thereabouts.
But why not admit that on the. basis of political
liberalism the Democratic party has, to say the least,
the better claim to the title? R. W. R.
Why Object?
In view of the prevailing political psychology in
this state we are surprised the Oregonian should hes
itate to accept the fact the GOP is the conservative
party and the Democratic party isn't.
We are equally surprised the Oregonian should
not welcome the entrance of Senator Morse into the
latter party on these, or any other grounds.
For our Portland contemporary has as low and
contemptuous an opinion
can renegade," as the membership of the GOP Old
Guard it so faithfully represents, and surely can't
wish him to remain and contaminate the Republican
ranks.
lyfOREOVER, throughout the country and especial
ly in this state the title "liberal" in conservative
circles has ceased to be a term and become an epithet.
To be called a "liberal" is
the higher brackets as to be called a Communist.
So why not admit Wayne Morse is a liberal, and
belongs in the liberal or Democratic party and should,
as soon as he can, get into it?
That would seem the consistent and logical course,
instead of "waiting and wondering" which way this
wild Oregon bronco will jump.
Get him out of the party and good riddance.
If the Democrats are as illiberal and badly split
as the Oregonian claims they may be no happier with
him than the party the Oregonian represents.
R.W.R.
Small Potatoes
The opposition of the Oregonian to Senator Morse
is Understandable but the opposition and hostility of
the Oregon Journal isn't unless of course, the switch
in the recent election means our once leading liberal
and democratic paper has gone over to the Grand Old
Party for keeps.
. lhat this hostility exists, no one who reads the
Journal can deny.
This even extends into censoring its news columns
something we believe the Oregonian has never
done.
For example the Journal runs Drew Pearson's col
umn daily. But recently when Drew Pearson gave his
New Year's salute to various prominent figures, in
cluding Oregon's senior Senator, the editor or who
ever handles the editorial page cut it out :
Here is the item that was blue-penciled, quote:
"Salute to Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon who despite
bitter attacks from politicians in both parties never slackened
his battle for the public good, never lost his sense of humor,
never lost the earthy touch. After an all-night filibuster he
went out to his farm next day to pack up his chickens for the
Gaithersburg (Md) Fair, where they won 37 prizes."
Salutes for all the Others hut none fnr trip spnfnr
Senator from the Journal's
Thursday. January 13. 19SS
and so forth.
Oregonian can fail to ac
of this so-called "Republi
almost as insulting from
own state! R.W.R.
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Pickin' Pears
By SID HOLLINGSWORTH
There is a certain grace about
the way they do things in the
south, even when the incidents
involve transgressions of the
law. George Tallmadge has met
this challenge several times.
There is the time he acted the
good neighbor to tow a stranded
tourist into LA, and later to es
cort the party oi ouriy men
through police lines, only to find
the beneficiaries of his assistance
to be Al Capone and his gang.
A year ago George went down
to Mexico to stay at his ranch
across the border. He prizes this
place very much, and while he
doesn't stay there long, he likes
the atmosphere for a while. He
tells a story of the time he and
the boys who run the place dis
covered a plot to steal the ranch
by preempting ownership by
possession. . .
"The oldest boy and I were
in El Paso at the time, when I
learned that certain parties were
desirous of taking over our place
thinking that with no one there
to protect the women and stock
they could get away with it.
"There were two ways to ap
proach the ranch, one by a 14'
mile trail up the side of a can
yon, and the other was by air,
Fortunately we were able to ne
gotiate the distance in our plane.
So that there were about 30 of
us 'at home' when five rough
looking fellows arrived at the
entrance.
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Job Needed
To the Editor: This is my first
ume to write to a paper but I
have tried every other way to
obtain a job b:f. so far have been
unsuccessful.
We have been in the Medford
area since the last of July. Work
ed in the fruit and about a week
before the fruit harvest ended
my husband became seriously
ill and it took all the money we
had made. He was unable to
work for three weeks and our
three children and I were sick
with flu for two weeks. The
weather has been so bad he has
been able to make little for food
and gas to go to work.
I am not asking for charity
but thought perhaps someone
would read this and be able to
furnish information as to where
I could obtain some kind of
work.
I worked for 2i years for
Thrifty Drug, Inc., in California,
for 1V4 years was manager of
the candy department, also with
the Gail Richard Cosmetic com
pany of Los Angeles for nine
months. I can do housework and
sewing.
I helped out for a while at a
dry cleaners, worked on the puf
fers. I worked as a nurse's aide in
the Lindsay hospital in Lindsay,
Calif. I am not an expert cook
but can prepare good wholesome
family meals, and with three
children of my own, I feel that
I am qualified to take care of
children.
I can work at a full time job
or part time, but of course would
prefer a full time job.
Perhaps you are wondering
why I don't place an ad. I could
not pay for it. So if you can find
space for this you can print it
any way you see fit. I don't
hava a phone but we live just
back of the Pan-cakehouse in
Talent.
Ruth Pettitt
General Delivery
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News and Notes
From Camp White
"I decided to he kind to them
when we took them in, and itJ
was kindness in their sort of
way. We simply tied the five up
in the corral and did not give
them any water to drink, owing
to the fact that in the altitude
it is not advisable to drink water
or eat to excess or move around
too rapidly.
"It just so happens that the
place where they were tethered
was right where six of our pitch
ing boards were located. About
that time it was, the best light
for the boys to practice throwing
knives. I could see no reason for
them to delay practice. It was a
little discomforting to the five,
I'll admit, but as long as no one
was hurt, what was the harm?
"Now I was pretty sure the
fellows were getting a little im
patient to leave, ' and besides,
their folks would worry about
them if they were out too late
so I had my oldest boy take
them home. But we did not know
just where their homes were
located,' and as they would not
talk we had ttf do the best we
could.
"Two of these visitors were
taken east, two north and the
fifth flown south. This all took
time and it was not until the
next morning that I asked the
boys if they got out OK, which
they told me they had. To be
sure, I forgot to inquire how
far from the ground the plane
was when they alighted.
"You know, it has always
made me feel bad that after all
I had done for those five hom
bres they were not thankful
enough to write me at "least a
post card showing their appre
ciation for all the kind treatment
we had given them."
Federal Job Vacancies
Listed by Commission
A number of federal jobs are
open, and civil service examin
ations have been scheduled to
fill them, according to the civil
service commission.
Information regarding the
jobs, and examination applica
tion blanks, are available from
Chester W. Sffliman, local ex
aminer for the commission, at
the post office.
The jobs include student
trainees, $2,500 to $3,175 an
nually; bacteriologist, biochem
ist and serologist, $4,205 to $8,
360 annually: and for positions
with the U.S. Army corps of
engineers, as quartermaster,
dragtender, second mate, boat
swain, launch operator, fireman
watertender, and marine oiler,
paying from $1.92 to $2.92 per
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Matter of Fact
SOUTH ASIA'S DRAMA, .
Bangkok, Thailand Here In
Bangkok, it is easy to summarize
the plot of the grand future
drama of
South Asia.
Will world
com munism
be able to
cross the
Great Divide
that separates
the Chinese
Com munists
and their
Viet Minn al
lies from the
rest of this
Joseph .Alsop
s t r a t e gical
ly vital region? Or will the Com
munist advance be halted at this
natural border line?
These are the questions that
have to be answered, in quite
large part by American policy.
The answers will determine the
future, not of Thailand only,
but of the whole trend of his
tory in our times. But before
anything else, the nature of this
Great Divide in South Asia has
to be understood.
In brief, the Vietnamese, who
inhabit the coast of Indochina,
can properly be regarded as
southern Chinese. In language
and in race, they differ less from
the Cantonese across the border
than the Cantonese differ from
the people of Peking. Their cul
ture, from the most ancient
times, has always been imported
from China. And for more than
two millenia they have usually
been either subjects or tribu
taries of Peking.
Thus the Viet Minh conquest
of the Vietnamese states of
Indochina, Tonkin, Annam, and
Cochin China in the South, may
be regarded as a flowing back
of Chinese power, into regions
where Chinese power has al
ways predominated.
The other nations of South
Asia the two other Indochinese
states, Laos and Cambodia, this
rich and smiling country of
Thailand, Burma, Malaya and
Indonesia have an altogether
different character. "
Chinese imperialism has often
in the past been felt by these
peoples, as it is being felt today.
But the culture of all these na
tions is basically Indian, import
ed at different times reaching
back into the remote past, begin
ning perhaps with the mission
aries that the Emperor Asoka
sent to all quarters of the world
to spread the holy word of
Gautama Buddha.
rfiHE peoples of all these. n&
- tions also differ from the sub
jects of the Viet Minh in an
other important way. They not
only lack close racial links with
the Chinese. They also have
good reasons for being bitterly
anti-Chinese.
The history of the Thgi people
begins 2,000 years ago, for in
stance, in central China. Thence
the expanding Chinese pushed
them first into South China. And
again, about a millenium later
they were driven out of South
China by another wave of Chi
nese expansion into this fertile
valley of central Thailand.
The frontier that runs along
the Chinese borders, and down
the borders between the Viet
namese states and Laos and
Cambodia, is thus a major divid
ing line in every possible sense
India's Prime Minister Nehru
recognized this, and also em
phasized India's cultural con
tribution, on his famous visit to
Ho Chi Minh.
Nehru told Ho Chi Minh, in
effect, that the Viet Minh vic
tory on the Chinese side of the
great South Asian divide was
natural "and acceptable to maia.
He added, however, that India
would take it very ill indeed if
there was a further push into
the culturally Indian area into
Laos and Cambodia, for in
stance. Ho Chi Mlnh's degree of re
spect for Nehru's warning is in
dicated by the violent Viet
Minh push that is now going on
in Laos. All the same, world
communism has now reached
the line where it is no longer
possible to exploit the famous
colonial issue for the Laotians
and Cambodians hate the Viet
namese much more than they
hate the French. And world
communism in this part of the
world is more generally re
earded as a Chinese product,
which sets the other peoples of
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South Asia naturally against it.
Thus in theory it should not
be impossible to halt world com
munism's onward march at the
Great Divide of South Asia. But
there are, unfortunately, some
three practical . difficulties of
great magnitude.
FIRST, Thailand, . Cambodia
and Laos,- the three countries
most immediately threatened,
are all soft and easily penetrable
or at least easy to bully. Thai
land, for instance, is an easy
going Asian nation, in which
the old forms of Asian society
have utterly broken down. An
amiable, money loving junta
now rules Thailand as a sort
of benevolent police state. But
there is no unity between gov
ernment and people, little
enough unity within the govern
ment itself, and no visible na
tional power to make a long,
hard, grimeffcrt of resistance.
Second, the keys to the Thai
position are the even weaker
nations: Laos and Cambodia,
Cambodia being absolutely vital.
The French naturally attached
Laos and Cambodia to the rest
of Indochina, transportwise and
in every other way. Thus if
either Cambodia or Laos is to
be saved, a major, urgent and
coordinated effort is needed, to
render these two countries in
dependent of Saigon and Hanoi,
and to reorient their communi
cations, economies and every
thing else towards Thailand. No
such effort is being made.
Third, and most important,
all three of these countries are
now liable to fall before mere
military menaces, as Jericho's
walls fell to Joshua's trumpet.
The only safeguard against this
is to give these countries an
ironclad Western guarantee with
such strong teeth in it that they
will feel there is no danger of
attack. And the Thais and Cam
bodians are quite astute enough
to see that SEATO as at present
constituted is the emptiest sort
of fraud and fake.
The first of the three diffi
culties can only be surmounted
and perhaps disaster might thus
be averted, "by wise American
policy. But alas, at the moment,
there does not seem to be any
American policy in this area ex
cept to float, to drift, to talk
big, and to hope for the best.
(Copyright, 1955, -
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
SWEET WOODCHUCK
Allentown, Pa. (U.PJ A state
policeman reported seeing
woodchuck sitting up alongside
a nearby highway eating a lolly
pop which it held between its
paws. William A. Moyer, district
game protector, said the wood
chuck has a taste for sweets and
that the candy probably had
been tossed from a passing auto.
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I2D GUIS''
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS S
A new congress the 84th
is just getting under way ia
Washington. V
What is its mood?
What is it thinking about?
What does it plan to do in the
way of providing, continuing
improvement in government for
the American people?
HERE is an Interesting al
thnilCTrl norriane nnt 4aa m.
assuring little item in the grist
of news from the nation's capi
tal: "So many investigatons al
ready have been proposed in the
house of representatives of the
new Congress that if all of them
were approved THERE MIGHT
NOT BE ENOUGH CONGRESS
MEN TO HANDLE THEM
ALL."
IITHAT do they want to invest!
cate? Well, more or less everything,
it appears.
One member proposes an in
quiry into the "conduct of hear
ings by house committees." That
is to say, he wants .another in
vestigating committee to investi
gate the investigators.
That's little like hiring a
watchman to watch your place
of business on nights and holi
days and then hiring a super-
watchman to watch the watch
man and a little later hiring a
super-duper watchman to watch
the super-watchman and the
common, ordinary watchman.
VlfHY this yen for more in-
" vpstifatinff rnmmittees?
Why not just let the ordinary
committees of the congress,
which are varied and numerous,
do the investigating and the
studying?
I'M AFRAID this is the answer:
'The ctnhlibpH rftntin
taken-for-granted committees do
their work quietly and unos
tentationsly and their reports
get comparatvely little play in
he news
The special investigating com
mittees GET THE HEADLINES.
IS THE current rage for spec
ial inwKtiatrtff rnmmittw a
trend toward better or isn't it?
It's hard to say. But this, X
think, is true: .
HEADLINITIS is the most dan
gerous disease to which a poli
tician can be exposed.
It has made headline hunters
of a lot of men who might other
wise have been excellent legisla
tors. WHO knows but what even
Senator McCarthy might
have made a pretty good law
maker if he hadn't got TOO
MANY HEADLINES?
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