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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 8, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Funeral services held for
James A. Perry, early day Jack
son county banker and orchard
1st. Survivors include his wife,
a daughter, Mrs. Frances Flinn,
and a son, Allan F. Perry.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Quite a
number of valley cows have in
creased the alleged beef short
age the past week by having
twin calves.
20 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1935
Big gold dredge scheduled to
start twork in ; near future in
Grave creek region.
Bill Bates fires highest score
In trapshoot at Medford Gun
club.
30 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1925
(It was Sunday
Crater club, leaders announce
organization will erect brick
markers at both city limits of
Medford on Pacific highway.
George Gates tells members
of Medford Kiwanis club about
his visit to Ford plant in Detroit.
40 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1915
(It was Monday)
Col. Frank L. Ray,, with
"moral support" by Jackson
county court, ouUines plans for
construction of resort at Lithia
springs in Ashland.
. From the Local and Personal
column: Almond trees through
out the city are beginning to
blossom, and many kitchen
gardens are being spaded. Ram
is badly needed. The sky is over
cast with clouds, but the weather
bureau is flying the white flag,
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Defense Secretary Wilson
says the U.S. is behind or ahead
of Russia in nuclear weapons,
or about on a par with it?
2. Statehood for Hawaii is
suDDorted chiefly by the Repub
licans or Democrats, or about
equally by each?
3. Eggs have been bringing
at the farm much or slightly
more than the parity price, much
or slightly less, or exactly
parity?
4. Normal temperature during
March is highest in Albu
querque, Atlanta, Dallas, Los
Angeles or New Orleans?
5. The 1955 big-track horse
racing season in the East opens
in March: in Kentucky, Mary
land, New Jersey, New York
or Rhode Island?
6. The Ukrainians live in
southeast Asia, northwest Siberia
southwest Russia, Asia Minor or
northern Africa?
7. Typists have averaged as
many as 175 words a minute
correctly in a lengthy piece of
copying; right or wrong?
The Answers: 1. Ahead o
Russia, he says. 2. Chiefly by
the Republicans. 3. Much less
than parity. 4. New Orleans. 5.
Maryland. 6. Southwest Russia.
7. Wrong.
The United States uses 42 per
cent of all the electricity produc
ed in the world, and its power
industry has 50,000,000 individ
ual customers.
"W1
MAIL TRIBUNE
Time To
WE have received a complaint about the giant
atomic explosion in Nevada coming at an hour when
everyone was awakened
A.E.C. should, it is indicated, choose a better hour
and a more distant and isolated place.
Sorry but we can't second the motion. We only
wish the atomic 4 flash " Monday morning had extend
ed even further and awakened more people.
For the people of Medford, of Oregon, the people
of the country in fact the people of the world need
to be awakened to the terrible tragic reality of this
atomic and hydrogen age. '
'THE scientists are doing all they can.
The Federation of American Scientists, 2000
strong, have issued an appeal asking for a confer
ence of nations to prevent coming to a point where
"we can not be sure that we will not make the whole
world a laboratory and all living things the experi
mental object."
A careful check, it is
qualified experts as to the results of these present
nuclear tests, just how dangerous they are, and how
far those dangers extend, with a view to their limita
tions and control.
As to the atomic war itself, practically all scien
tists are agreed that would be the end wholesale,
if not complete destruction.
DUT the scientists can't do the job alone. Nor can
the statesmen. As for the politicians they won't
do anything unless some one forces them to.
i And the only force they will recognize is the peo
ple. So the more atomic flashes that awaken the peo
ple ALL the people from their indifference and
lethargy, the better for them, the better for this tur
bulent and troubled world. An aroused public opin
ion throughout the civilized world may well be the
only salvation. R.W.R.
it
'Migrants"
One suspects that more Oregonians might vote, selfish
ly, perhaps, to discourage the flow of migrants than would
vote to make Oregon the industrial giant of the West. But
that state goes right on advertising its "unspoiled" re
sources, the sooner to despoil them. Portland Oregonian.
This is a most extraordinary statement for the
highly practical and respectable Oregonian to make.
The idea that prompted such a heretical comment
was presented by Senator Warren Gill of Lebanon
who recently suggested in the Upper House at Salem
that instead of spending $20,000 to advertise this
state the sum should be used to urge migrants to set
tle elsewhere. ' r
IXT'HAT'S wrong with migrants?" Weren't we all,
" at one time or another? And the pioneers for
that matter. )
Why should it be assumed that an increase in pop
ulation as a result of advertising our "unspoiled re
sources would result m despoiling them?
The Mail Tribune has, and always has been,
strongly in favor of preserving the state's "unspoiled
resources." But surely there is ample room in this com
modious commonwealth for such preservation, and
also for "migrants" coming into the state at a far
greater rate than they are
of advertising, or their own curiosities, impulses or
inclinations.
This department has never taken the "Humding
er Inc. creed with great seriousness but to advocate
spending money to keep people AWAY from the
state, instead of inviting them to come here, and stick
around, strikes this writer
REGON needs more people and should try in every
w legitimate way to get them.
Not to make the state any industrial giant, or even
another California which it can never be but to in
crease its value, so the system of conserving our natur
al resources can be more effective, so that the state
could do many things it can't do now, among them
adding to the beauties of our state parks, the increas
ed improvement of our natural attractions, fishing
streams and highways.
. That would take more money well more people,
would mean more taxes and taxes are money.
.-
A LL this of course is primary C of C stuff. In fact
"we would dismiss the entire editorial as just a
joke if the Oregonian did not take pains to declare
it is not. To assume, says the Portland paper, the
"Gentleman from Lebanon" had his tongue in his
cheek when he advocated spending money to keep
people- away from Oregon would be a great mistake.
Wouldit? "
Well how about changing the metaphor to putting
his foot in his mouth? R.W.R.
Milwaukie Woman
Dies in Aulo Mishap
Milwaukie, Ore. U.R) A 50-
year-old Oak Grove woman was
killed last night when her hus
band lost control of their cut
down car which left the road
and careened across a yard just
outside Milwaukie.
Mrs. Laura May Cranston was
thrown from the vehicle to the
pavement. She was dead on ar
rival at Milwaukie hospital at
7:10 pjn.
Her husband, Ralph "Earl
Cranston, 46, driver of the car,
was treated for face lacerations.
The vehicle had been cut
down and modified for use as a
tractor.
Tuesday, Much 1. 1955
Wake Up
and alarmed by it. The
advised, should be made by
Not Wanted?
now, whether as a result
as plain crazy.
Extension Division
Dean May Be Named
Portland (U.PJ Dr. Philip G.
Hoffman today was expected to
be named as dean of the general
extension division of - the state
system of higher education to
succeed Dr. J. F. Cramer, who
yesterday was named first presi
dent of Portland State college. .
Dr. Hoffman came to Oregon
two years ago for the newly
create job of vice-dean of ex
tension. The State Board of
Higher Education also hired. Dr.
John Richards at the time as
vice-chancellor and Richards re
cently was named to succeed
Dr. Charles D. Byrne as chancel
lor next June.
6"
NEA Tatepheta
LEAVES MOSCOW Rev. Georges Bissonnette (center)
shown with newsmen at Moscow Airport as he left Soviet
Russia for New York. The American priest who had min
istered to foreign colony in Moscow since 1953. was ex-
Belled from Russia in an apparent reprisal for refusal by
S. to extend the temporary visa of a Russian Orthodox
priest.
Complete Purge of
Malenkov Rumored in
Capitals of Europe
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Rumors are circulating in Eu
ropean capitals that Georgi M.
Malenkov, who resigned as Pre
mier of Soviet
Russia one
month agp to-
day, may soon
be really
purged.
The sugges
tion is that
not being sat
isfied with de
moting Malen
kov and humil
iating him, his
Charles McCann leiiow leaders
may decide to throw him out of
the Cabinet entirely and pos
sibly to execute him.
There is no substance to the
reports. They are purely spec
ulative and may be completely
incorrect.
It could, of cour.se, be possible
that, as represented by Moscow,
Malenkov resigned voluntarily
because he felt that he had failed
to give satisfactory leadership
Certainly somebody failed to
give that leadership, and Mal
enkov was head man in the cab
inet.
A Lonely Figure
But Malenkov right now is a
lonely and isolated figure. He
holds the minor cabinet post of
Minister of Electric Power Sta
tions and is a deputy premier,
not even a first deputy premier.
His position, in fact, is so
singular that the Russian ex
perts seem to feel it almost im
possible to believe he can stay
in it.
Other Russian leaders have
been demoted, and have even
disappeared from public life,
only to come back. - , ....
Malenkov, however, had risen
to a position as both a govern
ment and party leader where he
had his own group of supporters.
That is his danger. He had
become so prominent that his
fellow leaders may feel that it
would be dangerous to keep him
in circulation very long as a
semi-purged figure.
Abnormal Situation
Malenkov . was chosen as
Premier when Josef Stalin died.
It was made plain from the
start that he was not going to
be dictator and that there was
to be group rule instead of in
dividual rule.
Portlanders Protest
Transfer of Fleet
Washington (U.PJ A four
man delegation named by Mayor
Fred L. Peterson of PorUand
was in the capital today to pre
ent arguments to the Commodity
Credit Corporation against the
proposed transfer of 75 ships
from the mothball fleet at As
toria, Ore?, to Puget Sound.
The delegation arrived yester
day. Members include K. C.
Conyers, vice-president of West
Coast Transoceanic Line; Tho
mas P. Guerin, general manager
of the Portland dock commis
sion; Bill Way, president of the
PorUand labor council, and
Peter Cosovich, mayor of As-
Man Driving Car With
Feet Avoids Collision
Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R)
In most cases police would have
a ticket or a straightjacket ready
for anyone they spotted driving
a car with his feet, but they had
only praise when Rollie W.
World, 47, pulled the stunt.
World was thrown to the rear
seat of his car when another car
rammed him from behind. Peer
ing from the back seat with his
legs still dangling in the front
seat, World saw a large tree loom
in front of the windshield.
Using his feet he navigated
the car back to the highway and
regained control.
yep
That was an abnormal situa
tion for a Communist police
slate. Group rule works in
democracies; a police state is a
dictatorship and needs a dicta
tor. It seems likely that sooner or
later a new dictator will emerge
in Moscow. He could be Nikita
S. Khrushchev, the No. 1 Com
munist party leader. He could
be one of the army men.
But, the men who now are
running the Kremlin show are
pretty sure to make it certain
that the dictator will not be Malenkov.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Trivia from Washington via
the teletype:
The House postoffice commit
tee has approved and sent to the
House floor a bill that would
give 500,000 postal workers pay
increases averaging 7 per cent
It is estimated that the bill, if
it is enacted into law, will cost
the government $150,000,000 a
year.
T DON'T doubt that the postal
A workers need the raise. Every
body needs a raise. I could use
one myself. '
But
D'ya reckon Congress, if it
legislates the up in pay, will
have the courage to raise postal
rates?
Or will it figure that it's easier
to take it out of the taxpayers'
pockets?
1 ORE trivia:
ATX xhe same committee of
the House of Representatives will
begin hearings within two weeks
on pay raises for 1,200,00 other
federal workers under civil serv
ice. "IMTORE of the same:
A House armed services
sub-committee has unanimously
approved a pay raise for the
armed forces after hearing
three young service wives testify
that they need more money to
meet their expenses.
I imagine they DO need more
money.
Who doesn't?
The stuff comes awfully
handy.
THE same House sub-committee
is expected to approve a bill
increasing pay in the military,
services. The bill if it becomes
a law as presently drafted will
provide pay increases for 2,000,
000 members of the armed forces
who decide to make a career out
of military service.
AND so on.
All nut toeether. thev con
stitute quite a mess of pay in
crease bills.
THESE pay increase bills have
all shown up in Congress
within the past few days.
It was only a few days ago
that the members of the Con
gress both senators and repre
sentatives VOTED THEM
SELVES a stiff increase in pay.
Do you suppose there could be
any connection between these
two sets of circumstances?
Could it be that EVERYBODY
in government service came to
the conclusion all at once that
since the senators and represen
tatives have just voted them
selves a hefty boost in wages
this would be a good time to
jump them for a hike for the
rest of the crew?
I WOULDN'T know.
Mavhn it'u Inet ornnrl.
dence.
But
I think this is a good time for
everybody to remember that
every time the expenses of gov
ernment are increased THE IN
CREASE HAS TO COME OUT
OF THE POCKETS OF THE
TAXPAYERS.
There isn't any other place for
it to coma, from.
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For Sales Tax
To the Editor: The argument
that the sales tax taxes those
least able to pay doesn't hold
water. In most states necessities
such as food, rent, medicines
and services aren't taxed.
The low income family is not
apt to spend more than $200 a
year on clothing (many low in
come families buy most of their
clothing at rummage sales,
where there is no tax). The man
of higher income probably
spends about $2,000 a year. The
low income man pays a tax of $6
at 3 per cent for the whole year,
and the man of higher income
pays $60.
People who can buy expensive
cars, fur coats, etc., of course
pay the heavy tax and therefore
it is the fairest tax there is. Also
there is no way of avoiding it as
sometimes people find ways of
avoiding income taxesj
The great advantage of the
sales tax, and one which should
be stressed, is the fact that part
of the burden is lifted from the
shoulders of Oregon taxpayers
and placed on visitors from oth
er states, and the thousands of
trailer-occupant transients and
others who avoid our taxes but
enjoy all the privileges of our
state.
Do you realize that the tour
ist business in Oregon is the sec
ond largest business in the
state? ' ; :
I am always indignant after
a trip when I; "go through state
after state helping to support
their governments with high
sales taxes (as well as city sales
taxes) and then return and see
many residents from the states I
visited pouring in here and not
paying one cent. I heard a man
on the radio a few weeks ago
say that Oregon had approxi
mately 1,000,000 more tourists
last year than the year before.
Just figure that out, if each one
spent only $10 in the whole time
in Oregon. And that is just the
increase over other years.
If this tax is such a hardship
to the low income people in the
states on either side of us, why
don't they come pouring into
our state?
It seems , to me that in our
straitened state finances this
tax is also the only alternative.
At present we have one of the
four highest income taxes in the
whole country. If these are
made still higher we will drive
away people with capital to in
vest and thereby have fewer
jobs for everybody. '
: Edith W. Braley
245 Valley View Drive,
i Medford, Ore.
Senate Approves
Multnomah Division
Salem U.R) The Senate
State and Federal Affairs com
mittee yesterday voted unani
mously to recommend passage of
a bill to subdistrict l&ultnomah
county for the election of state
representatives.
The measure is scheduled for
consideration on the floor of the
Senate tomorrow morning.
Marion and Lane counties
were included in the original
measure, introduced by Sen. Ru
die Wilhelm Jr., of Portland.
After opposition was expressed
by Marion and Lane county
delegations, the counties were
excluded.
The proposal would subdis
trict Multnomah county into five
areas, on a population basis.
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First.
Matter of Fact
THE JOB NOBODY WANTS
Washington To judge from
the way the Democrats are talk
ing nowadays, they are going to
have to" hit
somebody ov
er the head
and drag him
unconsci
ous into . the
c o n v e n
tion hall, in
order to find a
candidate to
r u n against
President Eis
Stewart Alsop
enhower in
1956.
All or nearly all, the leading
Democratic professionals be
lieve that the President is sure
to run again. AIL or nearly all
believe that he is sure to win.
According to reliable reports,
both beliefs are largely shared
by Adlai Stevenson, who is ac
counted way out in front for the
Democratic nomination.
Those who know Stevenson
well believe that he really has
not made up his mind whether
he wants the nomination, and
that, characteristically, he will
not make up his mind until he
has to. They also believe that,
if Eisenhower still looks as
strong then as he does today,
Stevenson will try to avoid being
nominated if he can honorably
do so. There is, after all, noth
ing very tempting about being
Eisenhower's sacrificial lamb
twice hand-running.
But is it difficult to see how
Stevenson could avoid this fate
without being made to look tim
id, or silly, or both. Stevenson
could, for example, simply an
nounce that he was not a can
didate and throw his support
to his friend Averell Harriman,
Governor of New York. But
this would immediately have
two effects. Stevenson would be
accused of running out when the
going gotv tough, with fatal ef
fects on his political future. And
his backing the Fair Dealing
Harriman he could hardly
back anyone else would start
an unholy row in the Democratic
party.
There are, . to be sure, ways
in which Stevenson could be
beaten even if he wanted the
nomination and made a fight for
it. If Harriman tries for the
nomination on his own, for ex
ample - and as Governor of
New York he has a legitimate
claim the loss of New York's
90 delegates votes might block
Stevenson.
a
OR Sen. Estes Kefauver. might
block Stevenson in1 another
way. If Kefauver decides' to
make a second try for the nom
ination, his strategy is already
clear. He will challenge , Stev
enson to primary contests in
such states as Oregon, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, and even Stev
enson's native Illinois. If Stev
enson ducked the challenge, this
would hurt him badly. But if he
were beaten by Kefauver (who
has a real following in the
party) the wound might well be
mortal.
Yet the odds are still high on
Stevenson all the same. Kefauv
er, who will be only 57 years
old in 1960, is just as doubtful
as Stevenson about the wisdom
of running in 1956, and for pre
cisely the same reason. More
over, Stevenson has the biggest
name in the party, and he is far
more acceptable to all sections
of the party than Harriman, Ke
fauver, or any other presently
visible candidate.
Some new figure may emerge,
of course - Stevenson himself,
after all, was practically un
known 18 months before the
1952 convention. But as of to
day, it looks .like Stevenson,
DiWEST now.
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even if he has to be hit over the
head first. ' .
There are a minority among
Stevenson's friends and advis
ers who seriously believe that
he can beat Eisenhower in 1956.
For one thing, peace and pros
perity of which the Republicans
boast may not last for 18
months. And Wen if there are
no small wars and no haH ec
onomic troubles, there are im
portant political differences be
tween 1952 and 1956.
A number of states notablv
the wo Eastern giants, New
xorK ana Pennsylvania -which
were in Republican hands
in 1952 will be Democratic con
trolled in 1956. Moreover, evan
the Republicans are inclined to
agree that Eisenhower is un
likely to carry the Southern
states he took in 1952. And,
after all, the hopeful Stevenson
adherents point out. a chanee
of only one vote in 20 in the
1952 voting would pull Steven
son equal to Eisenhower.
WHERE are even Democrats
who claim (their voices audi
bly vibrant with hope) that Eis
enhower is determined to retire,
full of honors, at the end of this
term. They profess to believe
that the thing is already settled
(that the President has tapped
Chief Justice Earl Warren for
the nomination; and that it was
to make sure that Warren would
accept the poisoned chalice that
Attorney General Herbert
Brownell flew out to California
to see 'him before his appoint
ment was announced). ,
Yet this sort of Democratic
speculation has a certain, hol
low, whistling-in-the-dark sound.
It - contrasts sharply with th e
sound of happy confidence in
the voice of one of the .House
Republican leaders, who remark
ed recently: "Of course Ike will
run, and of course he'll win.
He's the greatest politician in
the country, as great as Frank-
er, because nobody's sore at
Ike." f .
York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Rule To Contain
Secret Testimony
. Washington ' (U.PJ Sen.
Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah)
urged last night that testimony
taken in closed sessions of Sen
ate committees be kept secret
until a majority of the com
mittee votes to release it.
""It seems," he said, "that pres-
Ant ovomiinrA fAceiAns arA lrvfr
secret until the first Senator
reaches, the committee door." .
Reforms Urged
Watkins, -speaking before the
Student Bar Association of
George Washington University,
recommended severe! reforms
for committees. He was chair
man of the Special Senate Com
mittee that recommended cen
ure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
(R-Wis.) last year.
He said that two members of
each committee should be pres
ent when any testimony is taken
under oath. .
Watkins, a law graduate of
Columbia University, also urged
that the dispensing officer of
the Senate be given the right to
withhold committee funds if
committee members break rules.
Watkins also told the law
students that he thought tele
vision or radio have no place in
Senate or committee sessions.
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