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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
March 1, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Mrs. Bert B. Lowry, state re
gent of the Oregon chapter,
Daughters of the American Revo
lution, returns to Medford from
state meeting of DAR in Salem.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column; Word ca
bled from London advises Prin
cess Elizabeth of England is
over the mumps. Any number
of Jackson county kids are all
over the mumps, or the mumps
are all over them.
20 YEARS AGO
March 1, 1935
(It was Friday)
Ruth Slencynski, 10-year-old
prodigy pianist, receives a cor
sage f r om Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce during
brief stop at Medford airport
Roscoe Turner, famed airplane
speed pilot, forced down in Med
ford by bad weather, praises
Medford and vows to return on
the first chance he gets.
30 YEARS AGO
March 1.1925
(It was Sunday)
Floyd Young, government
frost expert, scheduled to arrive
in Medford for start of orchard
heating season.
Eagle Point radio fans report
receiving radio address by Presi
dent Calvin Coolidge.
40 YEARS AGO
March 1. 1915
(It was Tuesday)
W. H. McGowan exalted ruler
of Medford Elks lodge, with
Charles B, Gay as tiler and C.
E. Gates as trustee.
Ashland announces plans for
"cleanup day," and Ashland resi
dents vow to clean up on the
editor of The Mail Tribune un
less he quits calling the city "the
soda pop town."
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. "Where do the ashes used on
Ash Wednesday come from?
2. The city of Chicago usually
votes Republican or Democratic
or about 50-50?
3. Which of these ranks in the
Army is highest; Brigadier gen
eral, m3jor general, lieutenant
general?
4. A child who has had one
rheumatic fever attack is in no
danger of another one; right or
wrong? ,
5. President of -the West Ger
man Republic is Konrad Ade
nauer, Theodor Heuss, Erich Ol
lenhauer, Otto Grotewohl, or
Wilheim Pieck? - .
6. More tobacco is grown in a
normal year -in Kentucky, Mary
land or North Carolina?
7. The name of Simon Lake
is associated with development
of color printing, submarines,
explosives, nuclear fission, or
high-power telescopes?
The Answers: 1. Burning of
palms on Palm Sunday of pre
ceding year. 2. Usually Demo
cratic. 3. Lieutenant general. 4.
Wrong. 5. Heuss. 6. North Caro
lina. 7. Submarines.
ATTENTION. MOSCOWI
Maiden, Mass. U.R) Resi
dents here have a personal
grievance against Russia. Their
city, listed in the latest edition
of the Great Soviet, Encyclo
pedia as a suburb of Boston, is
spelled "Molden.M
MAIL TRIBUNE
Repeal Emergency Prohibition
No one can deny that the state faces a real em
ergency in the field of taxes and finance.
But also no one to date has come up with any solu
tion, that can meet the emergency, when it should be
which is as soon as the proper legislation can be
passed.
TOR there is practically no doubt, that whatever the
final decision, the measure will be held up and
rendered null and void by five per cent of the voters
invoking the referendum.
This adds up, not to majority rule which is the
corner-stone of democracy, but rule by a minority,
and a very small one at that.
OOWEVER the emergency clause can't be used, of
course, until the constitutional provision against
such action regarding taxation measures is repealed.
The Medford Chamber of Commerce urges such
a repeal, and we agree. That action should be taken,
but unfortunately there seems to be no way such a re
peal can be accomplished in time to affect this ses
sions legislation.-
Which is unfortunate. For a genuine emergency
does exist, and yet there appears very slight hope that
any satisfactory taxation measure can or will be de
vised that FIVE PER CENT OF THE VOTERS won't
hold up for over a year at least by invoking the ref
erendum. THIS adds up to an all around mess.
However, better late than never. Oregon should
as soon as it can be done, follow the leadership of
most other states, and allow emergency law action
when a GENUNE emergency exists whether it relates
to taxation or any other problem facing the people of
the state. R.W.R.
Why
Speaking of taxes,
them.
We know a taxpayer, for example, who cheerfully
pays $5000 for a new automobile, and never bats an
eye.
But, if and when he has to pay $5000 for taxes,
he cries to high heaven and curses out the wasteful
and profligate government, responsible for the "outrage."
THERE'S a reason.
ixc ccco w iiao lie uujra w licit 11c gcw5 a, new iiiului
car. He likes it or he wouldn't buy it. He swells up a
trifle perhaps with pride
ing it, down the avenue.
thinks he does.
'But, when he gets his
Just a piece of paper.
He doesn't see what he has to pay for. There is no
value received visible. He doesn't SEE the fire and
police protection he gets, the nice highways and pav
ed streets to his front door; nor what may well be
involved in the money he pays out, the freedom he
enjoys and the peace and security of his home and
his country. So he raves and rages ad infintum.
THEREFORE why not have on every tax bill, local
or federal, a list of the benefits received as a re
sult of that payment?
It might not solve the complex tax problem entire
ly but it certainly should render it less painful.
R.W.R.
Why Not Scatter the Fire?
We have had nothing to say about Joe McCarthy
since he went into seclusion or wherever he is.
But we still get some of the same abusive letters
apparently from the same sources, condemning this
paper for opposing McCarthyism.
We are flattered, of course, by so much attention
for so long a time. Our campaign against McCarthy
and McCarthyism must have done some good and
hurt those who have fallen for his phoney propaganda
or they wouldn't be so persistent, and so continuously
vituperative.
DUT why pick on us ONLY?
Why don't the local McCarthyites scatter their
ammunition a bit and pick on bigger and better pap
ers which have done more to show up the junior Sen
ator from Wisconsin in his true light and his "rule or
ruin" policy than we have been able to do.
Why don't they write insulting letters to the New
York Times, for example, the Chicago Sun, the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, the Washington (D.C.) Post,
or why don't they pick on "Time," or "Harpers," or
a dozen other magazines and newspapers that saw
through the demagogic fraud, at the outset and in
the interest of TRUE Americanism, have been against
him ever since?
1MOREOVER, in their insistence upon calling every
AY1 one who opposes McCarthy and McCarthyism a
Red or fellow-traveller; why don't they apply some
of the same epithets to Joe's fellow Senators, who by
overwhelming vote censured him and his methods
the same to stand as a condemnation of him and his
record in that "greatest deliberative body on earth"
for all time?
Or they might even register a protest to President
Eisenhower for refusing to include Jumping Joe in
his dinner-guest lists.
AS STATED such constant interest and attention is
" flattering to this department but to divert some
of it at least toward more influential circles engaged
in the same campaign, would, we are sure, have far
greater and more satisfactory results. R.W.R.
fuel day, March 1, 1955
Not?
"people are funny" about
when he sees himself driv
H gets value received, or
tax bill, that's all he gets.
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HEART FUND SUPPORT URGED Twelve - year - old Sandra
Hackenberg, Portland, who knows first-hand about the work of
the Oregon Heart Association, uses an over-size envelope to demon
strate how simple it is to contribute to the current Heart Fund
Campaign. Contributions are mailed to HEART, care of your
local post office.
Neutral Nations
Supervisory Team
May Be on
By CHARLES MC CANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The Neutral Nations Super
visory Commission in Korea is
about to undergo an important
and possibly a
decisive test.
The Commu
nists have
agreed that
three teams of
the commis
sion may in
vestigate Unit
ed Nations
charges that
fighter planes
have been sent
i -t li. Tr
Charles McCann ""u Jn.o
rea in violation of the armistice.
There is no doubt in the world
that the planes Russian-built
MIG-15 jet fighters have been
sent into North Korea in quan
tity. The only question is whether
the Reds will let the NNSC teams
make a real inspection of six air
fields at which the MIGs are
known to have been stationed.
May Be Abolished
If the teams are kept from
making the inspection, the com
mission may be reduced to the
level of a token force or it may
even be abolished.
Under the armistice signed on
July 27, 1953, the combatants
were forbidden to send in rein
forcements in men and material.
The Neutral Nations Super
visory Commission was set up to
investigate complaints of viola
tions of the reinforcement ban.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On
By HARMAN
United Prett
Washington U.R) What's
new in Washington:
Members of the Congress have
tj hppn aslrpri to
submit their fa
vorite inspira
tional poems to
the legislative
reference serv
ice in the Li
brary of Con
gress. Idea is
publish a little
booklet. A lot
already have
harman Nichols come in. John
Howard Payne's "Home Sweet
Home," Edgar Allen Poe's "The
Raven" and a lot of things from
Longfellow and Keats. But what
I want to see are some of the
originals by the law givers them
selves. You can't teU.
Vice-President Nixon and his
lovely wife, Pat, got themselves
stuck in an elevator in Mexico
City. That prompted a manufac
turer of elevators in Virginia
to drop the V.P. a line. He said
he had an elevator which was
guaranteed not to stick.
Nixon hasn't answered the let
ter yet. He is un-stuck but un
back from his trip.
It's getting close to tax-paying
time, and the internal rev
enue commissioner has a timely
warning for dodgers. He reports
that his department has tagged
1417 evaders the past two years.
There are two Kilgores in the
Congress, one new and one old.
Sen. Harley Martin Kilgore of
West Virginia has been around
for some time. Rep. Joe M. Kil
gore of Texas is pretty new.
But what happens?
There is a mix up in laundry,
phone calls and mail. Joe had to
wait a couple of weeks before
he got his household furniture.
It was sent to Harley's place.
Same thing with laundry and
dry cleaning. "Harley's wife and
my wife are not the same size,"
Joe said.
, Piano playing Liberace, he
.;k j v.-v,-,-.-'
Way Out
It consists of delegates of
Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and
Czechoslovakia. The Swedes and
Swiss, who are really neutrals,
were nominated by the U.N. The
Poles and Czechs, who are Rus
sian stooges, were nominated by
the Reds.
Reds Violating Truce
Ever since the armistice was
signed, the Communists have
been violating it. When they
complain that the U.N. has vio
lated the armistice, the commis
sion is given full facilities to in
vestigate throughout South Ko
rea. But when the U.N. complains
of a Communist violation, the
Poles and Czechs block every
move the Swiss and Swedes try
to make.
What may be the decisive test
for the commission resulted
from an attack by MIG fighters
on a United States reconnais
sance plane Feb. 5 over the Yel
low Sea, west of Korea. Two of
the MIGs were shot down.
Formal Complaint
The U.N. made a formal com
plaint that MIGs were being
based in North Korea. After
stalling for a week, the Reds
gave permission for three NNSC
teams to inspect six fields at
which MIGS are known to have
been based. Undoubtedly the
Reds will have to remove all
trace of the presence of the
MIGs. If they also keep the in
spection teams from making a
leal investigation, the neutral
commission may finally be on its
way out.
This and That
W. NICHOLS
Future Writer
do, thought he was getting the
tops when he signed a contract
for $150,000 for three weeks
tinkling at the Riviera Hotel in
Las Vegas. But "Libby" thinks
he now has'topped that. He has
been invited on March 19 to
play here for the President of
the United States. For zero dol
lars. And if brother George and
his violin and mama and her
charm come along, they'll have
to pay their own way, too. It's
part of a command performance.
There are, of course, 96 mem
bers of the Senate and that
caused Sen. Bob Kerr, the Okla
homa Democrat, no little pain.
Said he, in his letter back to his
voters: "Just as I thought I was
doing all right with my added
seniority and new committee po
sitions, I discover that the 95
best dressed senators have been
named and identified, and I
didn't make it." The senator, by
the way, always looks well
pressed and well dressed.
State Salary Hearing
Scheduled Next Week
Salem (U.R) Hearings on
proposed changes in state civil
service salary scales, as embod
ied in the Barrington report,
will begin next week.
Charier. W. Terry, civil ser
vice director for the state, said
the hearings are expected to
take 30 days. The Barrington
report, compiled by Barrington
and Associates of New York
City, was a study of the state's
salaries and job classifications.
Rep. Orval Eaton, chairman
of the salary subcommittee of
the ways and means committee,
said further consideration of the
report would not be undertak
en until the hearings have end
ed. ;
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
n?on. Saturday; 10 a.ra. Monday for
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington the house of
representatives approved unani
mously the compromise (house
senate conference committee) bill
boosting the pay of members of
congress to $23,750 a year an
increase of $8,750.
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W-e-e-1-1-1-1-
"The laborer is worthy of his
hire." (Luk 10:7).
"For the Scripture saith:
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn. And,
the laborer is worthy of his re
ward." (I Timothy 5:18.)
I CHERISH the pious hope that
the members of our congress
will read and ponder those words
from the Scripture and give
heed to them.
It is true that the laborer is
worthy of his hire. It is true that
one must no muzzle the ox that
treadeth out the corn.
When this pay boost bill goes
through the remaining formal
ities and becomes the law of cur
land, we shall have loosened
quite liberally the muzzles that
restrain the laborers in our con
gressional ' vineyards and grain
fields.
It will then be up to them to
prove to us that they ARE
worthy of their hire.
TTOW can the members of con
gress go about proving that
to us?
One way would be for ALL
of them to join in BALANCING
THE NATIONAL BUDGET, so
that our country may be kept
solvent and our children may
not be saddled with a CRUSH
ING burden of debt oiled UDon
their shoulders by their spend
thrift elders.
VlfE ARE now in a period of
great national prosperity
that appears to be merging into
a period of great prosperity
throughout the free world. In
Great Britain for many years
socialist, but in recent years
turnmg back toward free enter
prise the increase, in national
prosperity has been so impressive
that a month or so ago Britain's
fiscal authorities became worried
that this rising prosperity might
get loose from restraint and re
suit in a runaway boom.
After the British manner
They took steps to nip the
swelling inflation.
rpHE steps included curbs on in-
stallment buying (so much
down and so much a month in
the purchase of consumer goods)
and a boost by the Bank of Eng
land (the Old Lad of Thread-
needle fatreet) in the interest rate
on loans." ; T-
The interest rate boost was a
rather stiff one. It started on
Jan. 27 with an up of one-half of
one per cent for Zvz per cent
to 4 per cent. That wasn't suffic
ient to stop the inflationary rise,
so this week the rate was boosted
to 4Vfe per cent.
THE result was a speculators'
n r i . , . .
iiurry. snare prices vwe can
them stock prices) slid off rather
sharply in the "City," which is
me ijonaon equivalent of what
we caU Wall Street.
But it didn't last long. Later
prices on the London Stock Ex
change took a turn upward, and
at the close there was "wide
spread buoyancy throughout the
market."
That is to say, the British
HAVE CONFIDENCE in their
new prosperity.
PWERYONE who has ever bal
anced a checkbook or met a
payroll on time or went into debt
to acquire a business and PAID
OUT ON IT knows that prosper
ous times are the times to PAY
OFF DEBT and put one's finan
cial house in order.
That goes for GOVERNMENT
as well as for private business.
Hal Roach Jr.
Buys Studio Assets
Hollywood (U.R) Hal
Roach Jr. said today he has pur
chased from this father the as
sets of the Ral Roach Studios,
estimated to be worth $10,000,
000. The amount of purchase price
was not announced. The young
er Roach said his television cor
porations would be consolidated
into the studio properties under
a single, newly formed corpora
tion, Hal Roach Enterprises.
The e'ier Roach began pro
ducing movies in 1914 and in
cluded some of the industry's
top stars on his roster of per
formers at various times.
Why Suffer
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Matter of Fact
LETTER TO A
PRO-COMMUNIST
Washington Was the recan
tation of self-confessed liar Har
vey Matusow carefully stage
managed by the Communists?
There are signs
that it was.
For example,
as noted in a
pre vious re
port on t h e
Matusow turn
about, Cam
eron and
K a h n, the
pub lishing
firm which is
sponsoring the
Matusow con
decidedly pro-
Stewart Alsop
fession, has a
Communist coloration. And be-!
cause it bears on this point,
it may be worth reproducing,
slightly shortened, a letter from
this reporter to Publisher Al
bert Kahn, written after a tel
ephone conversation some ten
days ago:
"Dear Kahn:
"When I talked to you on the
telephone the other day, you
declined to say whether you
were a Communist. You said you
would take the Fifth Amend
ment if asked this question by
a Congressional committee. And
you indicated your true political
position in other ways. Accord
ingly, I think I ought to make
my own position clear, in the
matter of Harvey Matusow's
self -exposure, and the issues
which it involves.
"It is fashionable nowadays
to say that McCarthyism is the
greatest threat to American
freedom. This may be so, but
the fact remains that McCarthy
ism owes its existence to Amer
ican Communism. Communism,
moreover, presents a most seri
ous issue to those who respect
our liberties, however much this
issue, to the delight of the Com
munists, has been ' distorted by
McCarthy and those who ape
him.
The issue is this: Should we
grant full political rights to
those who owe their first al
legiance to a potential enemy?
On the telephone you denied
that your first allegiance was to
the Soviet Union. Maybe so. But
as I said on the telephone, only
a fool could doubt that the first
allegiance of the disciplined,
hard-core Communist belongs to
Russia and not to his own coun
try. Therefore the issue posed
above is a real one, which needs
to be answered. To anyone sensi
ble of the American traditions,
it is as prickly and difficult an
issue as there is.
A NYONE so sensible, for
"example, will defend
against all comers your right,
or anyone else's right, 'to take
the Fifth Amendment. McCar
thy's public contempt for this
constitutional safeguard is sub
versive, in the real sense of that
word. But this does not mean
that it is necessary to admire
the motives of those who take
the Fifth Amendment.
"When I made this point to
you on the telephone, you com
plained that people who are not
Communists, and so swear
under oath, are likely to be
jailed for perjury. Asked to
name one such, you cited your
friend Clinton Jencks of the
Mine, Mill, and Smelter Work
ers. Now it may be that Jencks
was not a formal member of
the Communist Party, when he
swore that he was not a Com
munist, to comply with the
Taft-Hartley law. And there is
also no doubt that Matusow lied
about Jencks on the witness
stand. But this is no sort of evi
dence that Jencks has actually
changed his true political al
legiance. "And there is a most real and
present danger in the control of
labor unions by those who owe
their allegiance to another coun
try. The danger was greater, to
be sure, when the Communists
in 1947 and 1948 almost suc
ceeded in seizing control of the
C.I.O. and I am proud that my
brother and I played a part in
exposing that effort. But the
danger is still real.
This leaves unanswered the
question of how to deal with
this danger of Communism in a
free society, without creating
a greater danger. But one thing
I am sure of. Nothing plays
more into Communist hands
then for the government to ac
cept the word of any ex-Com-munist
like Matusow who hap
pens along. In taking at face
value the testimony of such a
man and he is not alone
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By Stewart Alsop
without a serious attempt to ex
amine his credibility, the Jus
tice Department and the Con
gressional Committee were in
excusably at fault.
"Your taking the Fifth Amend
ment will not excuse the fault.
Nor, indeed, will the fault be
excused if it turns out that the
whole Matusow turn-about was
carefully planned by the Com
munists, as I am rather begin
ning to believe it was. Your
Communist friends may think
that they have brought off a
major coup. But they will be
wrong.
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"pVDR if only the Congress
and the Justice Depart
ments have the courage to
undertake a serious examination
of the new profession of the ex
Communist political informer
Matusow's self-exposure will in
the end be good for the political
health of the United States. And
anything that is good for the
political health of the United
States is hardly in the long run
to the advantage of communism.
"Yours sincerely."
Perhaps two footnotes to this
letter need to be added. First,
in, all fairness it should be said
that Kahn vehemently denies
that there was any Communist
plot to exploit Matusow. Sec
ond, a few days after this letter
was written, Kahn did take the
Fifth Amendment.
(Copyright. 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
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the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 weeds.
Parks; Speedways! -
To the Editor: David Fairchild
said: "Progress means the de
struction of forests." Unplanned,
short-sighted "progress" destroys
other greatly valued and cher
ished resources; parks, ancient
landmarks even humans. Might
we wonder, are we "progressing"
too fast, even in urging our "way
of life" upon the rest of the world
particularly commercially,
militarily?
Are we "progressing" too fast,
or are we planning too jtlowly
with parks, speedways, covering
acres of our tiny valley's great
ly limited best soil with rocks
and concrete; coping with sani
tary needs, etc. May we be for
given for mentioning fog banks
at times in our valley, and that
they do greatly interfere with
traffic near the creek, while
along the foothills there may be
little or no fog, from where non
stop tourists might get an unfor
gettable glimpse of our beautiful
valley?
As population increases might
a narrow park be desirable part
or all the way fsom Ashland to
the Rogue River, when Bear
creek might be kept clean?
Arthur Brisbane said, "What
man can imagine, man can do."
The Good Book tells us: "With
out vision a people perish." Shall
we perish? A moot question.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood Ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Woman Cheated
Out of Savings
Portland-OJ.R) Portland nc-
lice today were searching for
two women who Monday cheat
ed an elderly woman out of
savings of $5400.
The woman, Victoria Chorek.
of Portland, said she met the
two bunco artists on a down
town street. They induced her
to draw the money from the
bank and give it to them as
security."
In return, they said they
would share with her a larger
sum of money which one of the
women said she had "found." .
Detectives described the de
ceit as a version of the
pidgeon drop" game.
Matusow Doesn't Lie
In Formosa Strait
Washington U.R) Harvey
Matusow, who says he lied as
a government witness at Com
munist trials, was inadvertently
addressed by Sen. Herman E.
Welker (R-Ida.) Monday as "Mr.
Matsu."
Matsu is an island held by
the Chinese Nationalists, where
an attack by Communist- forces
has been considered a- possi
bility.
wibu mc niuuuauia uu jau- Monday; other day 5:30 previous day,
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