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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20,. 30 and
40 years ago. ,
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24, 1945
o v (It was Saturday)
Jerry Ross, leading scorer in
Southern : Oregon conference,
leads Medford High basketball
team to championship, in Dist
rict 4 tournament by scoring 17
points in 46 to 33 victory over
Ashland.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Yesterday
was a fine early spring day,
even for hereabouts, and caused
pangs to autoists with gas tanks
dry enough to grow a cactus.
20 YEARS AGO '
Feb. 24, 1935
(It was Sunday)
C. E. (Pop). Gates, past presi
dent of local Boy Scout council,
to be honored guests" at" Medford
district father and son banquet;
the Rev. E. S. Bartlam 'to be
"principal speaker.
Telephone company linemen
find huge black widow spider;
insect to be turned over to
Prof. K M. Hussong of Medford,
High school biology department.
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Two Medford men fined $75
each for possession of a pint of
moonshine whiskey. : .
Three men, suspected of be
ing DeAutremont brothers want
ed for the Siskiyou tunnel mur
ders and train robbery, are
cleared by police in Mexico and
are released.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Entire state mourns passing
of C. C. Beekman, pioneer Jack
sonville banker.
. Medford's Page theater se
cures the services of Prof. J. B.
Hunt of Oakland, Calif., "to per
form at ' the keyboard of the
giant Wurlitzer." ;
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. When and where a politi
cal party holds its national con
vention' is decided' by its mem
bers in" Congress, national com
mittee, or state governors? -
" 2. The number of tenant farm
ers over the last 20 years de
creased, : increased, . or; stayed
the same relative to whole popu
lation? . ; ! f -
3: Most- money in circulation
is in Federal Reserve notes;
right or wrong? -
4. Coffee., drunk in the U.S.
comes to about one, two, three
or four cups a day per adult? "
5. More cotton is grown in a
normal year in Arkansas, Calif
ornia, Georgia, Mississippi or
Texas? . " . .
6. A . man named Duryea was
a pioneer in developing movie
acting, anesthesia, automobiles,
aeronautics, or, modern steel
making? 7. The Isle of Man is in the
English Channel, North " Sea,
Irish Sea, St. George's Channel,
or Straight of Dover? .
'" The Answers: 1. Its national
committee.. 2. Decreased consid
erably. 3. Right. 4. About two
cups a day per adult. 5. Texas.
6. Automobiles. 7. Irish Sea
PROBE MATERIAL
Stamford, Conn. (U.R) A' few
hours after the state legislature
launched an investigation of the
possible effects of "comic" books
on juvenile delinquency, three
youths broke into a store and
swiped 23 of them.
MAIL TRIBUNE
$25,000 Is Too Much
We realize it can't be done but wish it could be,
namely: that salaries in congress could be adjusted
to the individuals earning capacity if he had to work
for a living, outside.
For then there would be more citizens of outstand
ing business ability who would be willing to run for
the congress and go into politics and fewer cit
izens who would become candidates solely because
of the benefits, financial, social and otherwise.
IF THE present attempt to raise salaries in both
4 houses to $25,000 a year, succeeds, we hope it
doesn't then every citizen without a good job, but a
good line of talk will be out early to build up fences
politically, and somehow, someway, gather in the
votes.
We have enough of that breed already without
offering a bonus to get more.
LJOW many members of the House , of Representa
tives, for example, could earn $25,000 a year, if
they had to compete in the world of business, instead
of the world of politics.
Off hand we can't think of ONE ! And we could
think of a dozen who in business would be lucky to
draw down a thousand dollars a month.
The Senate has a much higher average of ability
and earning power. Some of the Senators no doubt
could in their professions or established business en
terprises, make 4 or 5 times as much, but they repre
sent a decided minority.
And we could name half a dozen Senators one
in particular who at salaries of $15,000 a year, are
shockingly overpaid, for the services they render.
OOWEVER as stated we realize the proposal is
purely academic it can't be done. Salaries must
be uniform regardless of competence. And they
should be increased particularly in the Upper House.
As we see it, however, $25,000 a year is too much
our idea would be $20,000 as a maximum for the
Senate, and around $16,000
;..:-:;:'
17E CAN'T be sure however that our instructions
T to the Oregon delegation to this effect will be
carried out. . :
In fact the liklihood is,
wealth" in the congress, is
is printed, the altitudinous
passed, and nothing can
add another item to the national debt. K.W.R. .
; Senator Byrd ls Right
Why is the effort to lower federal income taxes
for the benefit of those in the lower brackets purely
political: while the effort to lower the same taxes
solely for the benefit of those in the upper-brackets,
a combination of high integrity and enlightened
statesmanship.. . ; , .... '
We can't see it. , " ';
We can-understand those who oppose cutting
taxes at all, until the budget is balanced. That makes
sense. For tax-cutting of any kind reduces the federal
income, and thus puts the date of budget-balancing
farther and farther away. ..
But to favor reductions at this time for those best
able to get by WITHOUT them, and to oppose re
ductions for those LEAST able, to do so, .doesn't as
we see it make sense, add up to sound finance, or good
democratic procedure. .
AS FAR as this paper is concerned however we are
opposed to this straight $20 income tax reduction,
as proposed by the Democrats as we , were opposed to
the straight reduction only for those who receive
corporate dividends, as advanced by the Republicans.
Both procedures would benefit one class, rather, than
the people as a whole. :
Taxes should be based fundamentally on the abil
ity. to pay, and should be fair and uniform for, all.
That is why the income tax is so desirable and
fair, in spite of the cries of. pain, that always accom
pany "payment. The higher the income the higher the
taxes, and vice versa. That is as it'sEould be. But be
cause' of those cries of pain few politicians have the
courage io say so, or act accordingly.
AS FAR as the problem of tax reduction in the f ed
n eral government at this time, by either party are
concerned, we agree 100 with Senator Byrd of
Virginia. , v . . ..
- Byrd opposes ANY tax reductions, which means
any materialreduction in.income for Uncle Sam un
1 the, budget is balanced.
Were it not for politics in both parties, that is
what would be done. Certainly that is what would
be done by any individual citizen of good business
judgment, heavily in debt, and with 'expenses exceed
ing income.- -, '
The last' thing he would do would be to deliber
ately, and needlessly reduce his income and thereby
reduce his ability to pay off that debt, and get on his
feet again financially.
DUT taxes are unpopular. Uncle Sam fought a war
because of them. And probably there will be a big
fight in next year's campaign for the same reason.
So-o-o-
The result promises to be a compromise, not based
on business principles but political ones one of the
prices we have to pay as Walter Lippmann recently
pointed out, for the luxury of living in a democracy!
R.W.R. '
Thursday February 24, 1955
or $17,000 for the House.
the promise of "sudden
so popular, that before this
salary boost will have been
be done about it except
Taxpayers Finally
Get Relief Through
O&C Land Payment
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. MC
Washington At long last the
taxpayers of the land-grant
counties of Oregon have re
ceived substantial relief to their
local tax load by the distribution
to them of the money due the
counties from funds impounded
in the treasury for more than
12 years. The money is from the
sale of timber on O & C lands.
It has been held in "suspense"
pending the settlement of a dis
pute between the departments of
Interior and Agriculture. Last
year Senator Cordon and I suc
ceeded in securing passage of
the bill, since known as the Cordon-Ellsworth
bill, which set
tled the dispute by law.
The payment of this money
has been delayed several months
because of a suit previously
filed by one of the counties. This
legal action accomplished noth
ing and in my opinion was little
more than a meaningless gesture
after the law was passed. How
ever, it had the effect of block
ing the payments to the coun
ties and even now, until the case
is finally disposed of, $800,000
of the money, due the coun
ties is withheld. The reason
for that is the - fact that
the attorney handling the
litigation have demanded a fee
of $600,000. Assuming the
money is worth 3 per cent inter
est to the counties, they are still
paying $24,000 per year or $2,
000 per month because of these
suits. That money could be saved
and the remaining $800,000 dis
tributed if the suits were now
withdrawn and the record
cleared.
Checks sent to the counties in
our Congressional district were
as follows:
Curry county $ 157,217.36
Coos county
307,711.60
1,311,523.74
815,047.88
630,938.08
794,878.55
137,048.03
Douglas county
Jackson county
Josephine county
Lane ' county
Linn county
Some people may recall that
during the election campaign
last fall, I was suffering from
severe pains in my knee and
ankle. .The trouble started last
August ' and has continued. Al
though I had the opinion" of
good orthopedic doctors that the
cndition was due to a severe
sprain or strain and with care
and treatment would clear up. I
thought it was not getting well
fast enough and that there
might be something seriously
wrong. I decided to have a
thorough going over and another
opinion on my trouble by the
famous - Mayo Clinic. . It took
some valuable time, and some
money but was well worth it.
Their opinion was about the
same as given me by other doc
tors. What pleased me about the
experience, though, ' was that
they went over me from head
to toe, took numerous x-rays and
made every conveivable test
and then reported their findings.
The result was that I was re
ported to be a much healthier
specimen of humanity than I
thought I was and haven't a
health worry in the world. That
is really worth knowing, isn't
it? - - .-; . .
Wage Discrimination
Bill Passes Senate
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Senate yesterday passed and
sent to the House a bill to pro
hibit wage discriminations based
on sex.
It upholds the principle of
equal pay for equal work for
both men and women. But it
does allow higher wages to men
for. work that cannot be per
formed as well by women.
Sen! S. Eugene Allen (R-Port-land)
said women frequently are
paid less money, than men for
doing the same work. He said
it would also , benefit men be
cause it would assure a man that
a woman working for lower pay
wouldn't take his job.
Violation by an employer
would-make him liable to col
lection of damages equal to the
difference between the proper
pay. and pay received. It also
would be a misdemeanor.
Low operating cosfs, conservative ad
vertising expense, and no employee
payroll result in savings for YOU.
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LegSslatflve letter
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tribune City Editor
Salem The past few days has
been for me a time of renewing
eld acquaintances.
For instance, Bill Force, Uni
ted Press correspondent here.
and son of H. D. (Bud) Force.
Gold Hill t-ostmaster. is a close
friend and co-worker. A former
Mail Tribune reporter. Bill's bv-
line is frequently seen on legis
lative stories, on which he con
tinues to do an outstandingly
successful job as he did on the
Mail Tribune.
Don Lane, former secretary
and manager of the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce,
now executive secretary of the
state. Water Resources commit
tee, another old friend, was an
other legislative visitor today.
Visits Lee Bown
In the afternoon I had a few
moments to drop in on Lee
Bown, deputy superintendent of
state police, who is well known
in Medford from the days he
headed the state police detach
ment there, in the early 30s. He
is the brother-in-law of Mr. and
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Public power item:
" Congress will be asked this
veek ,to authorize FEDERAL
construction of Hells Canyon
dam. Supporters are expected to
make their pitch for the contro
versial Snake rive project.
A senate bill will be intro
duced by Oregon's (now) Demo
cratic senator Wayne Morse and
a number of other senators ad
vocating the measure will be
listed as co-sponsors. Co-spon
sorship of bills is against the
rules in the house of represen
tatives, and there at least four
Democratic representatives from
the Pacific Northwest are ex
pected to offer identical Hells
Canyon proposals.
T ET'S put it this way:
If the rest of the country is
willing to put up the money for
big government dams in the Pa
cific Northwest, we of the Pa
cific Northwest certainly
shouldn't object. -
The effect of. these federally
financed dams has been- and
will continue to be to provide
cheap tax-subsidized power with
which to ATTRACT INDUSTRY
AND EMPLOYMENT AWAY
FROM THE REST OF THE
COUNTRY AND TO THE PA
CIFIC NORTHWEST.
If therest of the country is
willing to stand for that, we but
here can't afford to complain
about it.1 - "
"PRESIDENT Eisenhower J has
designated May 21 as Armed
Forces day, and in a proclama
tion he says the Armed forces
have always served as an instru
mentality of a free people who
cherish peace and security with
honor.
He directs the armed forces to
give public displays and demon
strations on May 21 of their
teamwork and technological ad
vancements and he calls on the
American people to display their
flag on Armed Forces Day.
IlfHAT are our armed forces?
" Thev are the POLICE
FORCE that protects our nation
against international crime and
banditry and disorder.
How ' could you run a town
without an efficient police force?
How can you run a. NATION
without efficient armed iorces?
A QUESTION: .
If the forces of disorder ever
come to the conclusion that they
can run over the forces of law
and order, what will happen? -That
one's easy
The result wiU be anarchy
and confusion. ".
ANOTHER question:
IF COMMUNISM DECIDES
IT CAN SAFELY RUN OVER
THE FREE WORLD, WHAT
WILL HAPPEN:,
THAT one also is easy.
In SI ich an event., this will
soon become Communist
world.
Come. May 21, let's show. our
honor and our respect-for, the
members of our armed forces;
They stand between us and those
would destroy our iree way w
life. ...
Mrs. V. Ward Hammond, Med
ford. "
Last night I got my first
glimpse of Ed Branchfield, who's
spending a couple of weeks here,
and had a good discussion of
legislative matters with him.
(An announcement of his job
here with the Oregon State bar
is forthcoming.)
Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president
of Southern Oregon college, was
his usual cheerful self this after
noon, despite the threat of cuts
in his operating budget at SOC.
He was accompanied bv Dr.
John Richards, chancellor-elect
of the state system of higher edu
cation.
I also caught a elimose of
Capt. Irving Larson, who recent
ly took over as head of the game
enforcement department of the
state police, and who is another
occasional official visitor to
southern Oregon.
One of the penalties of the un
happy financial situation in
which the state finds itself this
year is the cutting down of
planned expansion of various
services which many oeoDle
feel to be important.
An example: Hal Randall, di
rector of the state department of
parole and probation, reports
that his department's original
budget request this year in
cluded provision for regional
headquarters to be set up. The
headquarters of one of these
would have been in Medford;
the other two in Salem and Port
land. . ' -
Follows Recommendation
The regionalization of the de
partment followed the recom
mendation of the governor's
committee which investigated
the operation of the department,
and would, it ' was f elt,- have
greauy improved tne . service
which this over-worked unit of
government performs. It would
have put three or four men
under the supervision of the
Medford office, which now is
under the charge of Joe Dis
penziere. In addition to supervising
prisoners paroled from the state
penitentiary, or given probation
from the bench, the department
in recent years has made more
and more ''pre-sentence investi
gations." These are case-work
checks into the background of
a prisoner awaiting sentence, to
find out about his prior record,
his attitudes, his chances for re
habilitation, or his chances of
staying out of ; more trouble if
given a light sentence or a sus
pended sentence.
Save Money -
Circuit judges swear by the
value of these reports, and they
have saved the state thousands
upon thousands of dollars, just
by making it unnecessary to send
a man to prison if he shows a
good chance of staying on the
straight-and-narrow otherwise
to say nothing of his own dig
nity and self respect.
One bill in the legislature
would extend this service to dis
trict courts, and, if passed, this
would more than double the
load of the department.
But, if no money is forthcom
ing for such expansion, it will
continue on the present basis.
Nobody's complaining, particu
larly that's just how it, is. .
WIN
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Picked by France for
Nuclear Research Job
By CHARLES A. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
France has just appointed
Frederic Joliot-Curie, its No. 1
security risk, to a new post in
in the field of
n clear re
search. .
Joliot-Curie
is a dedicated
and even a fa
natical Com
munist. ' ;
.The govern
ment was com
pelled, as the
result of popu
lar protest, to
Charles McCano lire' mm in
1950 from the position of French
high commissioner for . atomic
energy.
Nevertheless, he has been per
mitted since then to occupy po
sitions which have kept him act
ive m nuclear science.
And now,- it is disclosed, Jol
iot-Curie has been appointed a
French adviser to the European
Organization for. Nuclear Re
search, a new international cen
ter which has been set up in
Geneva, Switzerland.
The 12-nation organization was
sponsored by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cul
tural Organization. It is to spe
cialize in research on the be
havior : of high-energy nuclear
particles. This, it is hoped, will
throw new light on the funda
mental nature of matter.
Joliot-Curie's appointment was
made last month by Premier
Mendes-France, who has since
been overthrown.
The appointment slipped by
almost unnoticed. A decree cre
ating a scientific consultative
committee accredited to the Gen
eva center was published in the
governmental office Journal. .
Members of the committee
were identified in the decree, for
some reason, not by name but
Dy xneir. official, titles.
One of the members, it was
announced, would be "the presi
dent of the, corpuscular atom
physics section of the National
Scientific Research Center."
That's Joliot-Curie.
A French government spokes
man, asked about the appoint
ment, said that the committee's
role would be a consultative
one.
Joliot-Curie's appointment "in
no way means we' shall make
any secret information avail
able to him," the spokesman
said.
Low Flying Jet Plans
Brings Birth of Calf
The Dalles (UJ!) A blast
from a low flying jet plane
caused a cow to give birth to a
calf r which died, the sheriff's of
fice here said today.
Mrs.. W. H. Moore, a farmer's
wife, told sheriffs deputies yes
teiday the blast from the plane
also caused the cattle to stam
pede and she thought the world
was coming to an end.
Manager Larry Moore of The
Dalles airport said the blast ap
parently was caused when the
jel's pilot turned on the after
burner to clear a range of hills.
WW
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But nobody seems able to
answer the big question. That is
why the French government In
sists on giving its official bless
ing to a man like Joliot-Curie.
It is true that he is France's
outstanding nuclear energy ex
pert. But he has been a card
carrying Communist since 1941.
Communications
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eye to clarification and condensa
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Doesn't Seem To Like Wayne,
To the Editor: Looking at the
dictionary we find the word
"demagogue" defined in part as
"an unprincipled and factious
mob orator or political leader."
WelL our Senator Morse hasn't
reached leadership yet, but my,
oh my, in his egotistical mind
how he thinks he is about there.
So finally our oft-called able
Senator Wayne L. Morse has
now qualified especially as a .
turncoat and as a speech making
rabble rouser that aspires to po
litical leadership where he can
tell our Congress just how to
run our government, also to at
tempt to convert the Democrats
so he can instruct them along
that line also. '
The thousands of Oregonians
wno voxea 10 sena mm 10 j.o.
t J A a 1- TTf.
Senate were assured he would
conscientiously represent' Ore
gon's -interest and hardly had
the ink on his certificate dried
and he took his seat, until he
assumed the role of a super
iorly intelligent profressor, who
was there to teach the other 95
Senators in Congress just how
to conduct the affairs of our na
tion according ; to his ideas and
despite their many years of ex
perience as legislators. ,
So. with his greauy superior
brainpower he tried to take over
and entirely repudiate the
teamwprk by which our Senate
has operated since the time of
our first President. He seems to
think that the other 95 Senators
are mostly wrong and if they
would just let him exercise his
superior knowledge he could
show them how things should
be done. ' ;
Isr there any . Oregon voter
who helped send him to the
U.S. Senate that can state he has
ever, since sworn in for his sec-
to perform his Senatorial duties
for our state and nation? It
would seem that in these last
years he has become chagrined
because he could not ring the
class bell each morning for Sen
ate sessions where he could in
struct the other 95 Senators
what bills to vote for and how
to conduct the .government and,
of course, the armed forces. .
How long must we tolerate
such egotism from Wayne? Giv
en time, our Democratic friends
will get '.'fed up" with him too.
E. C. Gaddis,
815 East Jackson st., ,
Medford, Ore. :
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