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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
Feb. 19, 1945
(It was Sunday)
Mrs. Missouri May McCredie,
resident of Jackson county for
52 years, dies at family home on
Old Stage rd. after prolonged
illness. Survivors include four
children, Clatous McCredie, Clell
H. McCredie, Mrs. Vetris Enders
and Mrs. Velma Lull. ;
From A r t h u r-Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The sheriff
who has been under the weather
is out in it again.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 19, 1935
(It was Monday)
A. E. Brockway, president of
Jackson County Cooperative,
and Frank Hull, manager, leave
for meeting of cooperatives in
Walla Walla.
County clerk's office reports
that Jackson county finished
1934 with a balance of $1,032
with all major offices remaining
within their budgets.
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 19, 1925
(If was Wednesday)
John C. Mann elected second
vice-president of Oregon; State
Merchants association, which
pledges ''opposition to govern
ment meddling in business."
Seats at a premium for Med-ford-Ashland
basketball series;
Jimmy Allen, Mervyn Chastain,
Gilbert Knips, Williams and
Reichstein to start for Medford;
Ashland coach bars girls from
gymnasium during practice ses
sions. 40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 19. 1915
at was Thursday)
Officials of Medford Asso
ciated Charities announce they
need $50 to carry on relief work
during the balance of February,
and to pay Dr. Hill for money
out of his own pocket.
From the Local and Personal
column: Warren Butler, a high
school student, was knocked un
conscious when he ran into a
door while racing out of the Nat
last night after a ' basketball
'game. He "rapidly regained his
wind and suffered no ill effects.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?) ...
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Quemoy island in Formosa
Strait is nearer to Formosa or
to the China mainland, or about
equidistant?
2. The average yield of com
mon stocks today is somewhat
higher or lower than at their
1929 price peak, or about the
same?
3. In which state of the West
ern Hemisphere Is-French the
official language? ;
4. Wages of trade union mem
bers as a whole went up more
than living costs in 1954, or less,
or about the same degree?
5. More: persons in the six
New England states are employ
ed in agriculture or in. manu
facturing? ' ; 6. The total installment credit
outstanding now as against this
time last year is up or down,
or about the same?
7. Sir Leslie Knox Munro
represents Australia, Canada,
Great Britain, or New Zealand
in the U. N.?
The Answers: 1. Near to the
mainland. 2. Somewhat higher.
3. Haiti. 4. More. 5. In manufac
turing. 6. Up. 7. New Zealand.
MAIL TRIBUNE
S.R Anniversary
The Southern Pacific's observance this month of
the 100th anniversary of the start of construction of
its first lines in the west has special interest in this
part of the company's territory. It was in February,
1855, that work started on that first small segment
23 miles between Sacramento and Folsom from
which the great rail system eventually developed. It
wasn't until August of 1855 that the first rails were
laid and Sacramento's civic dignitaries were escorted
onto flat cars for a short ride on the first railroad op
erated west of the Rocky mountains.
THE stretch of rail was projected to tap the rich
mininff redons of the lower Sierra sloDes and
link them to shipping on Sacramento's river route to
San Francisco. The initial terminal objective was
Marysville and it was planned to construct branches
later to Coloma and Nevada City, and to San Fran
cisco by way of Stockton.
Financial problems and . difficulties connected
with shipping rolling stock 18,000 miles around Cape
Horn from eastern manufacturing centers brought
construction to a halt for a time.
In 1865 the California and Oregon Railroad was
incorporated to build from Marysville to Portland.
The project was taken over by the Central Pacific, the
parent company of the S.P., in 1870 with the right
to build north to the California line.
TN the meantime, the Oregon Central Railroad, later
- known as the Oregon and California Railroad, had
been formed by another group of rail-minded citi
zens at Portland and work started in building south.
Progress on the latter project dragged along and
it wasrft until 1884 that the steel reached Ashland.
As a result of a topheavy debt load and stockholder
squabbling, the Oregon and
ceivership and m 1887 the
Southern Pacific under lease.
THE California and Oregon had continued to push
17 of 1887.
Joining of the north
neighboring city to the south was completed with
much ceremony and celebration. Portland and inter
mediate Oregon cities to the south were at last linked
by rails with the Southern Pacific's California lines
and the rugged journeys by stage or ocean vessel were
a thing of the past E.C.F.
N.P. To Try Light Train
- Railroad men, from track walkers to company
presidents, mostly learn the business the hard way.
Besides actually laboring in the various departments
and skills, they, come to. know and respect the tradi
tions which surround their
the principal reasons why
augurate or even to accept
their work in a long-practiced way or with certain
machines and they are loath
But red ink can be a powerful persuader and
continued heavy loss of passenger patronage to the
private automobile and to
explain why at least some
periment with new and more economical type equipment.
THE Northern Pacific railway has purchased two
of Philadelphia which it expects to place in service in
a short time.
1 Starting March 1,
weight and of stainless steel, will run between Spo
kane, Wash., and Lewistgn,
proximately 100 miles. The
passengers, will have a baggage compartment and
will be air-conditioned. The other newly purchased
unit will operate between
starting later in March.
Because the initial cost
is comparatively low, large tram crews are not re
quired, and better time can be made than with the old
lumbering and heavy standard equipment, it may be
that the railroads will be
schedules which will give
real competition.
THE "Northern Pacific's
equipment will be watched with interest here for
the Spokane-Lewiston run, particularly, may serve as
an example of what could
Pacific m transporting
Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland, and Dunsmuir,
Calif., to, the south, for connection with main line
trains to San Francisco. The distance between the
Rogue valley towns and Dunsmuir is about the same
as that between Spokane
At present there is
service south from this valley, a peculiar situation for
a territory which provides a vast amount of freight
traffic, boasts three good sized towns and numerous
smaller ones along the right
Blizzards Sweep Western Europe
London (U.R) Blizzards
swept across Western Europe to
day from Sweden to Italy and
snow whipped by 70-mile an
hour winds isolated, villages in
Scotland for the second time
this year.- : . Y :
A whirlwind mixture of snow
and rain kept Italian and Amer
ican planes from resuming the
search for the Belgian airliner
with .29 persons aboard missing
since Sunday night. Four of the
passengers were Americans. :
The British Navy alerted heli
copters to stand by for-another
Friday, February 18, 1955
California went into re
line was taken over by the
and south rail ends in the
calling. Perhaps these are
railroaders seem slow to in
changes. They learn to do
to try something new.
the air and bus lines may
roads are planning to ex
one of the units, light in
Idaho, a distance of ap
car will accommodate 70
Duluth, and Staples, Minn.,
'
of this type of equipment
able to offer rates and
the air and bus lines some
-
experience with the light
be done by the Southern
passengers between say
and Lewiston.1
no railroad passenger train
of way. E.C.F.
mercy airlift to areas of Scot
land where food supplies were
already low as a result of . last
month's five-day assault by the
elements.
Winds of 70 miles an hour
piled up 20-foot drifts and cut
road, rail and : telephone links
in hundreds of square miles of
Scotland. .
Atlanta ' (U.R) Alderman Ed
A: Gilliam was fined $4 on the
first offense of speeding. Gill
iam is chairman of the City Po
lice Committee
British Announcement
Of Bomb Development
Heads News off Week
B7 CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
THE GOOD
1. Great Britain, America's
closest aUy, announced that it
intends to start production of
hydrogen bombs. It was a mo
mentous development in the nu
clear weapons race. The British
government, in announcing the
H-bomb program, said that the
terrible power of this weapon
would act as a deterrent to War.
Before the British . announce
ment was made. Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson had
expressed confidence that the
United States was "out ahead"
of Russia in the production of
nuclear weapons.
2. Secretary of Slate John
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, the dispatches
inform us, major Capitol Hill
attention is centered on a bill
to hike the salaries of senators
and representatives from $15,
000 a year to $25,000 a year.
The bill was passed by -the
house of representatives, and
you can bet your bottom dollar
that every senator and every
representative was watching it
with close attention.
I would be watching it with
close attention if I were a sen
ator or a representative. ; So
would you. We're all interested
in the emoluments of our jobs.
That's what we pay our bills
with.
rPHE big question:
Should they get the raise?
Or shouldn't they?
T ET'S put it this way:
It would be a great bargain
for the taxpayers (in these days
everybody is a taxpayer in one
way or another) if we could get
in the congress enough men
WHO ARE WORTH $25,000 A
YEAR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS
who are the people. .
rpHAT raises another question
- How can we get that kind
of men into the U.S. congress?
This, I think, is the answer:
BY BEING MORE DISCRIM
INATING IN OUR VOTING AT
ELECTION TIME.
QJUPPOSE you were . hiring a
man to mnw vour vard. In
looking over his qualifications,
what would interest you most
His ability to get up on a
slump and convince you by the
power of his oratory that black
is white?
Or his ability to run a lawn
mower? ' .
PERSONALLY, I'm in favor of
men who can run our nation
wisely, efficiently and econom
ically rather than men who can
make me believe that black . is
white.
I don't WANT to believe .that
black is white.
rTHAT brings up an interesting
situation much closer home.
We pay- the members of our
Oregon legislature $600 . a year.
or $1200 per biennium (the leg
islature meets every two years )
Out of this sum, they must pay
their expenses in Salem while
the legislature is in session.
Everything considered, it's
pretty small pay. It's a tribute to
me quality of citizenship in
Oregon that we don't get more
small caliber legislators. As a
matter of fact, the quality of the
membership of the Oregon legis
lature is VERY high.
T1HE members of the U.S. con
1
gress have the power to set
their own. salaries. The members
of the Oregon . legislature do
not. We voted heavily against
such a proposal at the last elec
tion. (As a matter of fact, I voted
against it myself, partly as
matter of principle and partly
because I didn't think the mem
bers of our legislature should
be put in the embarrassing posi
tion of saying how much money
they should take out of the tax
payers' pockets to PAY THEM
SELVES WITH.)
TJAVING said to the legislature
L that we .don't think it should
say how much its members are
to be paid, I think we should
now take steps to pay our legis
lators a fair and reasonable
stipend. .
We shouldn't be niggardly on
that point. It just doesn't pay.
We need good men in our legis
lature, and we should pay them
at least enough to meet their
living expenses during the time
they. work for us.
I'm pretty sure that an initia
tive measure to pay our legisla
tors a fair and reasonable salary
for their services would be ap
proved by a substantial majority
of our voters.
PICKLE TO MALENKOV
Chicago (U.R) The National
Pickle Packers "Association has
voted to award a hand carved
wooden pickle to former Russian
Premier Georgi Malenkov. He's
been named "Man In The Big-
jgest Pickle." -
Foster Dulles invited Commu
nist-China and Soviet Russia
to renounce the use of force in
their international relations. Ad
dressing the Foreign Policy As
sociation in v New York City,
Dulles expressed hope that the
Chinese Reds would give up
their idea of taking Formosa by
force. He implied that if the
Reds attacked the ' Nationalist-
held island groups of Quemoy
and Matsu off the China coast,
the United States might regard
the action as. preparation for a
direct attack on Formosa, which
it is pledged to defend. As re
gards Russia, Dulles called the
downfall of Premier Georgi M.
Malenkov "an extraordinary
demonstration of despotic disar
ray. He said the time may come
when "Russians of stature" will
come to the front and make pos
sible "worthwhile negotiations
and practical agreements" with
the United States.
3. Communism in Latin Amer
ica received a blow when the
People's Progressive Party of
British Guiana demoted B. Ched
di Jagan and his Chicago-born
wife Janet, its extreme leftist
leaders. Forbes Burnham. an
anti-Communist, was made party
leader. Citizens groups are now
circulating petitions asking, the
deportation of Mrs. Jagan.
THE BAD
1. France seemed doomed to
go through a further period of
political instability. Socialist
leader Christian Pineau organ
ized a cabinet to , succeed that
of Pierre Mendes-France, which
fell on Feb. 5. But there was no
indication that Pineau could
stay in office long, or that he
could exert any authority as pre
mier. 2. Spain, which has granted
the United States defense bases
on its territory, complained that
it was not getting sufficient
American aid. As one of the
strongest anti-Communist coun
tries in the world, Spain feels
that it ought to be given a big
ger share of United States aid.
There have been hints that Span
ish cooperation with the Ameri
can defense program may be
endangered unless the aid allott-
ment is increased.
3. Prime Minister Gamal Ab-
del Nasser of Egypt and Prime
Mmister Jawaharlal Nehru of
India issued a joint statement
saying that military alliances do
not increase a country s security,
Nasser, who is trying to block
the Turkish-Iraqi defense agree
ment, seemed emerging " like
Nehru as a "neutralist" who op
poses Western defense argree
ments against Red aggression.
Is That So?
My biology class wants to
Know u a chameleon can ac
tually turn colors to match a per
son's clothes?" writes J.B.S.
"How do parent birds keep
nests so clean?" asks Mrs.
T. R. F.
"Our hot stove league wants
to know: Can foxes climb trees?"
asksB. S. A.
That well-entrenched myth
about the chameleon' changing
its complexion . to match a per
son's attire, sad to say, just ain't
so.
Like a good many other kinds
of lizards, however the chame
leon can undergo several very
quick changes but the colors
don't necessarily harmonize with
the background. Even on a fresh
green leaf, it may change to
earth-brown, on a red blossom
to sky-green.
As for control over- its color
changes the chameleon has just
about at much control as a hu
man has over his blanching or
blushing. Essentially, it is due
to heat and cold, sunlight and
darkness, and, more important
to excitement.
Carry Droppings Away
Nest sanitation: Perhaps so as
not disclose the location of its
nest to any enemy, or for sani
tary purposes, most parent birds
carry away their young one ;
droppings as scrupulously as
they carry away fragments of
eggshells. Next time, if you'll
watch a nest closely Mrs. T: R,
F., you'U see that at almost
every parental feeding, one of
the youngsters usuauy the one
that's just been fed raises it
self and voids. Before the drop-
nine can touch the nest, the
watchful parent catches it in
stantly and carries it away..
Climbing foxes: The question
about foxes climbing has been
making the - hot stove circuit
ever since Towser was a pup.
Depends on your fox, B.S.A.
Now, red foxes seldom if ever
climb trees. (I hesitate to use
such a positive word as never.)
Gray ones do in fact, they will!
Babson . An Amazing Story
By ROGER W. BABSON . 1
Babson Park, Fla. (Special
to Mail Tribune I am back here
again for the winter and wish
to tell oi a
tragedy occur
ring during my
absence, al
though you
may have read
of it in your
local news
paper.
This story
involved: (1) A
Boger W. Babson
w e 1 1 - known
and able law
yer living for many years in pur
community: (2) Two very re
spectable and intelligent well-
to-do friends of mine: (3) Two
wills prepared by the said law
yer; and (4) A "trigger man" al
legedly employed to murder one
of my above two friends.
Now for the tragedy. The law
yer had apparently drawn up
wills for these . two friends.
When he submitted them to the
makers, they suggested certain
corrections, asking the lawyer
to have the wills retyped, and
they would come in again short
ly thereafter for signing. Fatal
mistakes were apparently made
by these intelligent people for
not again reading the wills be
fore the final signing and wit
nessing, and for nqt initialing
each page. Nor did they take the
signed wills with them to a
place of deposit, so that they
might be reread once each. year.
This would have entailed some
bother, but this would have been
nothing compared to the trou
ble which followed.
Importance of Executors
In Wills Brought Out
The lawyer, or someone, al
legedly slipped into the wills
clause leaving, him a large 'sum
of money. This could have been
done during the retyping before
the parties finally signed; . or,
being typewritten wills, a page
could have been rewritten and
slipped in after the signing. If,
however, each will had been
read again, finally signed, and
taken home, the. tragedy would
not have taken place.
The lawyer also made himself
the executor of. the two wills,
This would give him advantage
in coUecting the money alleged-
ly willed him and for controlling
the balance of the money. Yet,
to make an attorney executor is
a common practice where banks
with trust departments .are not
easily available. . ,
Murderer Now Needed ;
To Obtain Money
As the wills had allegedly
been "fixed" to leave the attor
ney large sums of money and
he was to be fexecutor, he needed
only to wait until one of my
two friends should die to get his
By Eugene Burn
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Tribune, Box 575, " Sausalito,
Calif. -
Ashland JP Court in
Remodeled Quarters
Ashland Remodeling of
of-
fices for the Ashland justice of
peace headquarters were com
pleted this week. Mrs. Nelle W.
Burns, the present justice, has
moved to the new location at
341 East Main st. The three
room suite includes a court
room, a room for records , and
the front office for general
business.
Raised platforms have been
built in the courtroom for the
jury and benches are furnished
for witnesses or spectators.
DIRTY TRICK
South Bend, Ind. ,(U.R)
James Barry, 21-year-old . Uni
versity of Notre Dame student,
was a little late for a court ap
pearance so he thumbed a ride.
He got to court in time for a
$1 fine on a hitchhiking charge
by Judge George Farage the
man who picked him up. - .
INVESTIGATE
whether you are earmarking your
savings to provide security for
later life, extra cash income now,
or are just starring to accumulate
an emergency fund, it will pay you
to investigate hare.
FIRST FEDERAL
SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N
of Medford
27 North Holly
An Institution Dedicated
To Those Who Save
money. Both were apparently, in
good health. Hence, if the law
yer were in a hurry for his
money, a murderer would seem
necessary. To complete the
story, I now depend upon wit
nesses at the trial just ended.
The County Prosecutor claim
ed the attorney employed a sup
posedly respectable contractor to
secure the "trigger man" to mur
der one or both of my friends.
This .contractor who has been
found guilty (although he has
appealed, claiming his inno
cence) is alleged to have em
ployed a Negro to do the killing.
This Negro suddenly turned
state's evidence.
Owing to the above or other
reasons, the attorney was found
shot, near the door of his home
here in Babson Park, on the
morning of June 9, 1954.
Whether he committed suicide,
or was shot by someone who
feared exposure, I do not know.
At any rate this death elimi
nated the attorney from the pic- L
ture. Thereupon the able County
Prosecutor concentrated upon
finding the "trigger man" and
any others connected with the
deal. This was the status when
arrived here recently before
the convictions.'
Important Questions "
Asked of Readers"
Apparently my two friends
had a very close call. If one had
first been killed, without in any
way connecting the "attorney
therewith, the attorney would
have probated the will, collect
ed the money, and legauy closed
the case. He was supposed to be
brilliant lawyer in our com
munity and, of course, may have
been' innocent. I leave to God
the final verdict. ;
I tell this story in order that
my many readers may ask them
selves these five very important
niipst.ions
- ... ... i
(l) isnouia i every sign a
paper without reading it before
signmg?
(2) Should I sign a typewrit
ten document without signing or
initialing each sheet so that no
one sheet can be taken out and
changed? j
(3) Should I leave my will in
possession of any single individ
ual, however honest?
(4) nouid I let a year pass
without rereading my will?
' (5) Should I fail to encourage
in every way newspapers, banks,
colleges, and information centers
to teach about wills and their
great importance?
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Against All The Tax Bills
To the Editor: Have just
looked over the nine proposals
offered by the legislature to bale
ance the .budget Each proposal
either bears upon the power , ter
produce, the power to consume;
or money that would be used
as capital for the production of
wealth. .
These proposals remind us of
the braintrust of the New Deal
days. Not a single proposal
would pass the close-up of even
second rate economist. They
all attack the basic fundamen
tals of our economy, and would
only temporarily shift the seen?
ery around the same old hag
gard face. No doubt they all look
good on paper to the man of the
street, but. they all wage war
against the forces of natural law
and this cannot be done and
escape injury. . ,
. We . have been trying it for
quite a spell now, but we simply
cannot tax wealth af er it is pro?
duced, nor, can we tax money
that is to be used as capital to
aid labor and machine in pro
ducing more wealth for con-
sumption. Last but not least we
cannot tax wealth after it is pro
hands of the consumer which
represents that so much wealth,
has been created, and is to be
used for, or as a medium to ac
quire that wealth. :
This country did not become
great through the power to pro
duce wealth, but its greatness U
due. the -power to consume!
wealth after . t has been pro
duced. If Oregon's ' legislature
knew the ' difference betweerj
money, capital, and ; wealth,
virgin field of potential taxatiorX
would be opened up. ; .
Let s - face facts. If Oregon.
cannot balance its budget in
1955, how will it be -done in
1965. Our present outlook on)
taxation will " drive r industry
from Oregon, it will extermin
ate the middle" class, and we will
still be wandering in thd
wilderness. " ' ' -
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