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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 13, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Jack Matlack, former Med
ford resident now with J. J.
Parker Theaters in Portland,
wins national Quigley War
Showmanship award for third
consecutive year.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Spade han
dles and male backs creaked last
week, as Victory garden projects
started in many backyards, to be
menaced later by the neighbor's
dog and chickens. Spring is offi
cially to arrive Wednesday.
20 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Rogue River Valley Irrigation
district bondholders get Recon
struction Finance corp oration
loans at Medford bank.
Forty five boys turn out for
spring football practice at Med
ford high school.
30 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1925
(It was Friday)
Franklin high school basket
ball team defeats Medford high,
32 to 16, in first round game at
state basketball tournament in
Salem.
Afternoon rally conducted by
Salvation Army attended by 400
Medford area children.
40 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Charlie Chaplin to appear at
Medford's Page theater in mov
ing picture "The Champion."
George R. Hammersly, 74, a
resident of Jackson county since
1888 and founder of The Gold
Hill News, dies at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. W. P. Chis
holm. What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Thomas Jefferson did or
didn't help draft the federal Con
stitution in 1787?
2. About 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70
per cent of all coffee imported
into the U.S. comes from Brazil?
3. The President of the United
States does or doesn't have an
official flag of his office?
4. Is more of the total road
mileage in the U.S. under state
or local control?
5. An American spending
some weeks abroad may bring
back duty-free up to $100, S200,
S300, $400, or $500 worth of
articles?
6. Which of these has the
largest assets: Carnegie Corpora
tion, Duke Endowment, Ford
Foundation, Rockefeller Foun
dation? 7. On shipboard 11 o'clock,
a.m. or p.m.., is signalized by
two, four, six or eight bells?
The Answers: 1. Didn't (he
was abroad. 2. About 40 per
cent. 3. Does. 4. Much more
under local control. 5. Up lo
S500 worth. 6. Ford Foundation.
7. Six bells.
WRONG MAN
Norwich, Conn. (U.R) Po
lice Chief Joseph L. Gendron re
ported that during a raid on a
gaming house a woman ap
proached him to place a bet, took
a closer look and fainted.
California has a greater vari
ety of valuable mineral deposits
in workable form than any area
of equal size in the world.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Congratulations
Medford and Oregon are making up in basketball
what they failed to do last year in football.
Medford High is rated No. 1, in her class in the
state, while Oregon State won the coast conference
title in two straight, from UCLA.
What the final outcome will be is not known as
this is written, but it is a safe bet both teams will give
good accounts of themselves in the final stanzas; win,
lose or draw.
THHE people of Medford, naturally, are proud of
their High School team, not only for skill, aggres
siveness and excellence in team-play but their con
stant and consistent good sportsmanship. Basketball
is a great game, and while football still ranks tops
in this department, basketball can boast greater na
tional attendance, broader public interest and far few
er casualties.
"XTE take this occasion to congratulate both Med
" ford Hi and Oregon State, and wish them both
the best of luck in their remaining contests. R.W.R.
Was There a Deal?
CCORDING to the Oregonian there is no conflict
between England and the United States regard
ing Formosa they are
sides of the same street.
In fact the Oregonian
ned that way." The west, in short, is playing two
hands in the international poker-game, the aim of
both being for peace, but England by conciliation and
a cease-fire deal, and the United States by calling
the Chinese "bluff," and risking war.
"IXE hope this is true for any serious split between
this country and England over Formosa, or any
other important international issue, would be cata
strophic. This is a time for the English-speaking na
tions to stand shoulder to shoulder in opposing com
munist aggression, regardless of minor differences.
ior it is once more a question ot nanging together or
hanging separately, with what might be termed
"Reverse English."
DUT it is hard to believe it was "PLANNED this
way."
England wants a cease-fire, with Chiang Kai-shek
abandoning Quemoy and the Matsus, while Red
China, as a result of this concession would abandon
any immediate designs on Formosa. If Red China
should agree then England thinks she would be admits
ted to the United Nations.
If such a program should be accepted by Red
China, and such a deal has been made, as the Oregon
ian suggests, then the United States would have to
acquiesce.
DUT the Eisenhower administration has declared
L time after time, it does not and will not favor the
admission of Red China to the UN. And it does not
favor any deal whereby the off-shore Nationalist is
lands would be handed over to the Reds, for any con
cessions from them.
Would Uncle Sam eat his words and for the sake
of a temporary truce go along with John Bull? It
seems highly unlikely.
QN THE other hand, if the Chinese should meet the
U.S. challenge and launch an all-out attack on
these islands, thereby causing an outbreak of hostil
ities in the Formosa straits, would England join with
the United States, with men and ships? " j
There would, if such an agreement HAS been
reached, seem to be an inescapable moral obligation.
Yet leaders of both parties in England have stat
ed repeatedly, that if the United States should en
gage in a war with Red China over Formosa and
Chiang Kai-sTiek, she will have to go it alone, as far
as British aid is concerned.
CO WE can't believe there has been any such agree-
ment reached. There is no doubt of the countries
fundamental friendship ; no doubt of their mutual de
sire to avoid war at "ALMOST any cost;" but it ap
peal's to this department that to attain such an end
England has adopted one course, and the United
States another, and conflicting one.
We believe the people of neither country, how
ever, would strongly object to adoption of either pol
icy, or any other SELF-RESPECTING policy, that
would prevent war and bring to them and to the
world a decent period of peace.
That is the big, over-all objective, not precisely
how it may be obtained. R.W.R.
More Foolish Business
How silly can we get?
A few weeks ago the state department barred
Russians visiting this country from enjoying tourist
priveleges, and put them in bounds an absurd and
childish performance.
Now they have barred the circulation of the Mos
cow newspapers, including Pravda, in the U.S.A.
In other words, Soviet Russia is setting the pace
on silly iron-curtain exclusions, and "the land of the
free and the home of the brave," is sheep-like follow
ing her example.
THERE is some sense to Russia's "iron-curtain," for
Russia has something in fact a great deal to
hide. The less the free democratic world knows about
the true conditions over there the better for Russia.
But there is, as we see it, no sense at all in exclusion
of foreign visitors to this country, including the Rus
sians. The more they come over here and look around,
the more they will know of free democracy, and the
Sunday, March 13, 1955
merely working different
is convinced it was "plan
less they will think of their own form of government
when they return home.
In other words it is pro-American propaganda of
the most effective type.
As for "Pravda," the more the people in this
country read that paper, assuming they can read
Russian the more they will know about what is really
going on over there, what the temper of the country
really is, what its current problems are, etc, etc.
The state department apparently acts upon the
principle that the less you know about your enemy,
potential enemy at least the better you are off. In
other words they have come to such a pitiful pass that
they have to fall back upon the antiquated and dis
credited ostrich policy in foreign relations.
If, as some claim unreasoning fear is a sure sign
of weakness, then our state department must have
had its morale so undermined by the Russian scare,
that it is close to collapse! R.W.R.
Too Much Peress
So they are going to hold more hearings on the
Peress case. We are tired of the Peress case and be
lieve most Americans are.
It was blown-up for political and personal rea
sons only by Senator McCarthy, far beyond its worth
and should have been dropped and forgotten long
ago.
However, as the hearing-time has been set there i
is no way of stopping it now, so the whole tiresome
affair will have to be hashed over again, at a cost of
many thousands of dollars.
There is one consolation. Perhaps this time the
entire matter will be cleared up, so even the man who
runs can read and understand it. If so then proper
action can be taken, and the curtain pulled down on
a controversy that was little more than a personal
fued between "head-line hunter" McCarthy and cer
tain officials of the U.S. army, in the first place.
R.W.R.
Matter of Fact
SNARK AND NAVAHO
Washington Within the last
year there have been vitally im
portant technological break
throughs in the art of the long
range missile. These break
throughs have made possible a
sudden spurt of progress in the
missile art progress described
as "fabulous'' by one authority
not given to exaggeration.
As a result, there are now
serious plans for launching an
artificial earth satellite, if pos
sible in two years. But the
break - throughs have also
brought nearer the time of the
true push-botton war the time
when one continent can inflict
a murderous hail of nuclear de
struction on another.
Clearly, the whole national
future is bound up in our pro
gress in the missile art. This re
port and another to follow will
therefore be devoted to the basic
facts about our long-range mis
sile program. What follows has,
incidentally, been vested by
competent authority to make
sure that it contains nothing
useful to Soviet intelligence.
The long-range missiles fall
conveniently into three cate
gories the jet-powered pilot-
less aircraft, the ram jet, and the
intercontinental ballistics mis
sile, respectively known as
SNARK, NAVAHO, and AT
LAS.
With SNARK we have put at
least a big toe over the thresh
hold of the age of the push-button
war. SNARK has interconr
tinental range 5,000 miles.
And SNARK exists. The "bird"
to use the word of art of the
missile men has flown. The
trouble is that it is not really a
very useful war bird, although
it is an impressive technical
achievement.
SNARK 30-odd feet long,
built by Northrup Aircraft
flies just under the speed of
sound, which is barely lumber
ing along in the missile range.
It flies high, over 50,000 feet,
but not too high for the best
Soviet fighters. A machine fly
ing under the speed of sound on
an undeviating, trackable course
over hundreds of miles of heavi
ly defended enemy territory is
hardly a sure thing to reach the
target even assuming that it
could be guided to the target
with absolute accuracy.
T70R such reasons, there is a
" minority view in the Pentagon
that the attempt to develop
SNARK as a war weapon should
be abandoned. This view has
been over-ruled. But it is clear
that, even if SNARK were fully
operational and in quantity
production which it is not
the main striking job would
still have to be done by Gen.
Curtis LeMay's Strategic Air
Command.
SAC's job will soon be made
easier, incidentally, by RASCAL
another missile name worth re
membering. RASCAL is the
short-range air-to-ground missile
which will greatly complicate
the task of the Soviet air de
fense. With NAVAHO, we will step
right over the threshold, into
the age of the push-button war.
NAVAHO is a ram jet and true
guided missile unlike its big
brother ATLAS, it is guided aU
the way to the target, by the
stars. Also unlike its big brother
it cannot leave the earth's sur
rounding envelope of air. It
flies, or will fly, at 6,000 to
80,000 feet, and at slightly under
three times the speed of sound.
By Stewart Alsop
This bird, too, has flown. At
least, the air frame of NAVAHO
has been air-tested. But there is
a long way between testing an
air frame and fitting the frame
with ram jet engines capable of
pushing both frame and war
head from one continent to an
other. Moreover, although there
have been big break-throughs in
the guidance problem the
toughest in the missile art the
problem of bringing NAVAHO
roaring down precisely on a tar
get half a world away has by no
means been solved.
Even so, an informed private
guess is that NAVAHO could
be made operational, given a
major effort, within three years
this is not, it should be said,
the official scheduling, which
would, of course, interest Soviet
intelligence. When NAVAHO is
operational and in quantity pro
duction we will have taken a
huge step forward in the missile
art.
But NAVAHO will, not be the
final step. Even at three times
the speed of sound, such a mis
sile will give some warning of
its approach. And a missile
which travels within the atmos
phere on an undeviating course
can be tracked, and it can very
probably be brought down, if
not with existing weapons, with
weapons of the future.
iLmfcOVEK, since every
U pound of weight in the war
head sharply reduces the range
of a ram jet, there is some doubt
that NAVAHO will be able to
carry a bulky hydrogen bomb
for the distance required. For
such reasons, NAVAHO is not
the final, decisive weapon.
The decisive weapon is AT
LAS, the intercontinental bal-
istics missile, simply because
there is no known defense what
soever against intercontinental
ballistics missile. This is why
the I.B.M., which will be de
scribed in another report on the
long-range missiles, will finally
determine the balance of power
in the age of the push-button
war, which is now almost upon
us.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Guaranteed Wage
Attack Dismissed
Detroit (U.R) Walter Reu
ther, preparing to open his
drive to win a guaranteed annual
wage for his United Auto Work
ers CIO next week, shrugged off
the latest attack on the plan Sat
urday as the "purely academic'
remarks of a "paid propagan
dist." Reuther said the attack on the
union's wage plan by Frank Ri
sing, general manager of the
Automotive Parts Manufactur
ers Association, was "a reflec
tion of an antequated and irre
sponsible social philosophy which
fortunately on the whole is a
part of the dark past of labor
management relations."
Rising, in a speech at a con
ference on the guaranteed annual
wage sponsored by the Society
for the Advancement of Manage
ment in New York City, said
the union was attempting to
destroy the belief that a man
working for a living should ex
pect and get more than a man
who is not working for a living.
Dead line Sunday Classified la at
noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for
Monday; other daya 5:30 orcvious day.
Is That So?
By Eugene Burn
Ranger-Naturalist
Every other family has
at
least a dog or a cat. To help you
avoid needless heartache and
perhaps save the life of your
pet, a piece on recognizing the
symptoms of a sick cat or dog
and what to do, particularly in
an emergency, seems in order.
To recognize a warning symp
torn is quite simple there
nothing mysterious about
know your pet when it
healthy and the chances are you
will spot any danger signals.
A dog's best barometer is his
tail. If it is full of vigorous
wagging, he's usually up to par.
If it droops dejectedly, he's not
up to snuff. Should he remain
huddled in a corner when he
usually bounds at your approach
suspect illness. Ill health is us
ually further confirmed by loss
of weight and lack of appetite
for a second day. Sometimes
too, his eyes will seem dull. But
should he keep his eyes closed
with a prolonged, heavy dis
charge, suspect a bad scratch or
a foreign body in the eye. If he
rubs his ears against the ground
or furniture or shakes his head
continuously, chances are he has
ear trouble.
Regardless of what you've
been told, a cold nose is not an
infallable sign of good health
in a dog but if his nose or the
back of his ears remain hot for
more than two hours, the
chances are you have a sick dog.
But most, important, suspect
your normally frisky pooch of
being sick if he suddenly be
comes listless.
Many of Same Signals
With your cat many of the
same warning signals hold. If
its appetite remains poor longer
than three days it's usually
sick cat but don't forget that
some cats are good foragers and
supply themselves with food
But should its normally sweet
breath become offensive and its
rough tongue furry, you'll know
something is amiss.
Another thing: if its fur be
comes rough, dull and lifeless
and sheds excessively, it's usual
ly in poor health.
Should your cat's eyes dis
charge excessively or be red
rimmed, the chances are it is
not well. Closing the eyes, which
water, may also mean a bad
scratch. And, like the dog, if it
tries to rub its ears on the car
et or furniture, you'll know
something is wrong with its
ears.
In both cat and dog, watch
any diarrhea if it persists more
than one day. Also suspect any
lump larger than a pea if it con
tinues to grow.
Take Pet To Vet
As with a sick child to the
doctor, it is best to take the pet
to a vet at once when you have
recognized a danger signal all
too often the pet is brought too
late when it is dying.
Sometimes emergencies call
for immediate first aid: perhaps
your pet has been burned, a
bone broken, gotten a bad cut,
suffered heat exhaustion, or
been hit by a car.
With a broken bone, if the
break is in the leg, apply a
splint to keep the jagged bones
from tearing the muscle or
slashing a main blood vessel. Tie
the splint both above and below
the break and wrap it in a soft
cloth before going to the vet.
Should your cat or dog come
home wounded from a fight,
don't rush to it with bandages.
Whenever it can reach the
wound with its tongue, it can
do the job better than you. But
should the wound be in a place
it cannot reach, then trim away
the matted hair, clean the area,
and put on an antiseptic and
bandage it but not too tightly.
Aspirin Prescribed
If the animal is burned, trim
the hair around the burn and
apply petroleum jelly. Give
aspirin twice a day. For cats
and toy dogs, the dose should
not exceed a quarter tablet;
medium sized dogs, a half tab
let; a large dog, a whole one.
Dogs are subject to heat
stroke. During hot weather,
feed him lightly and give him
plenty of water. When the heat
actually bothers him, wash his
face and mouth with cold water
and let him lick cracked ice.
Should he collapse and go un
conscious never give him a
liquid call the vet.
Finally, auto accidents. Lift
the cat or dog as gently as pos
sible preferably on a warm
supporting surface, and put a
coat or blanket over it and go
at once to an animal hospital.
(Copyright. 1955,
by Eugene Burns)
Released by
McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
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It
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Harry Nordwick, The Mail
Tribune's swan, small-dog, fire
department and log pond expert,
is leaving us for what he con
siders to be greener fields in
Golden California, specifically,
Madera, which is in the "great,
green, greasy" San Joaquin val
ley, "aU set about with fever
trees."
The news staff will miss Harry,
So, we assume, will the city of
ficials of just about every val
ley town, whom he has badgered
and bothered at one time or
another in his quest for news.
Good luck, boy. And we hope
you enjoy the cotton fields, the
grape orchards and the mos
quitos of the San Joaquin. The
latter, we learned from personal
experience, are in the same class
as man-eating sharks.
(And don't forget the house
cooler for those 114-degree
days.)
Somebody told somebody
else who told us about the
couple who arrived here from
the east, and who went out to
pan gold one day. Somewhere
along the creek they met up
with an old prospector, who
helped them get started, and
who put a supply of dirt in
the pan.
The woman panned and
panned and panned, slowly
washing the dirt away. At the
bottom, she found someone's
old tooth.
It had a gold filling.
We have a proposal to solve
the tax problems of the state
and federal governments. It's in
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In his nationwide broadcast
State Secretary Dulles
Told the Chinese Reds that
U,S. sea and air forces in the
Formosa area are equipped with
weapons WHICH CAN DE
STROY MILITARY TARGETS
WITHOUT ENDANGERING
CIVILIAN CENTERS. (That, if
true, would remove from us the
odium of destroying whole civil
ian populations in order to get
at military targets.)
Told US that the whole defense
of free Asia against Communism
will fail unless we are willing
to USE OUR GREATER FORCE
in response to a military chal
lenge from Red China.
THOSE are flat statements.
down is in the wind.
"QEFORE the Dulles speech
The stock market broke
sharply, with losses running
from one to SIX points in some
areas of the market. How far
the recovery movement will go
hasn't been disclosed as this is
written.
rN the Chicago Board of Trade,
" grain prices ROSE in what
the teletype describes as a "high
ly nervous market," with deal
ings active in all pits.
The market opened strong,
propelled by RENEWED APPRE
HENSION ABOUT THE INTER
NATIONAL SITUATION follow
ing Secretary Dulles' talk. Gains
ranged to nearly four cents in
wheat.
This rally uncovered a large
number of selling orders and
prices skidded back quickly al-
tnough remaining ABOVE the
previous close in most cases.
WHY are- these market move
ments siffnifirant?
The answer is simple. Histor
ically, prices of industrial secur
ities tend to fall in the face of
heightened possibilities of war.
Grain prices tend to RISE in
the face of such possibilities.
THE reason for that is simple.
notion that war was good for
business (remember it used to
be believed that wars. were pro
moted by munitions manufact
urers who wanted to sell guns
and planes and ships and tanks)
business men have learned by
hard experience that war ISN'T
good for business. So thev are
inclined to reduce their holdings
of industrial stocks when war
threatens.
On the other hand, war stimu
lates tne consumption of foods,
including grains. So, in the face
of heightened prospects of war,
grain prices tend to rise.
That's the long and the short
of it.
IS a showdown coming in the
Fnrmnsa area
I wouldn't know.
But
If we back down at Formosa,
we might as well crawl in a hole
and pull the hole in after us.
for the Reds will then think they
have us on the run and if they
think they have us on the run
war will be practically in
evitable. judges will award each week to
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Please address your questions
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to, Calif.
the nature of a withholding tax.
The federal government (un
der our plan) will withhold 100
per cent of everybody's income,
and will keep what it needs,
passing the rest along to the
state governments, which "will
keep what they need, passing the
rest along to the counties and
cities nd fire districts and
school districts and sanitation
districts and water districts and
any other districts that need
money, which will each keep
what they need.
The rest, if any, we can get
refunded to us every April 15.
Simple
Leaders in the church cen
sus undertaken in Medford
last Sunday commented on the
"good record" compiled by
Medford. Only 135 persons de
clined to give the needed
church information.
Recalling a similar census
taken in another city, one of
them remembered that one
man, when asked to state a
preference as to church mem
bership, explained: "I am a
fifth amendment Christian."
- Stopped the census taker
cold.
Two staff members have dif
ferent reasons for remembering
the A-bomb explosions last week.
One of them, all primed to
watch the Friday explosion, set
his alarm for 5:15 a.m. It went
off, he got up, went to the door,
looked out, saw it raining heav
ily, went back to the bedroom,
reset the alarm, went back to
bed and to sleep.
The other staff er was less for-'
tunate. Her plan was to watch
for the Tuesday explosion, which
was widely seen in the valley.
She arose at 5 a.m., put on a
bathrobe, andwent out into the
front yard. She waited patiently
for 15 long, cold minutes, went
into the house to warm up a"
bit, and went back outside, only
to learn the display had gone off
while she was warming up.
We understand, unofficially,
she was so mad she never did go
back to bed.
Mrs. Jane Snodgrass, it is
reliably reported, lost or mis
laid a skiing boot recently
while at Union creek. She
looked everywhere. She wrote
to the resort, asking them, if
it was found, to hold it for her
and she'd pick it up another
week end.
Two weeks later, the Snod
grass family drove to Crater
lake for another skiing ses
sion, and stopped at the re
sort to inquire about the miss
ing boot. The resort was
closed, but the boot was there
firmly planted on top of a
post in front of the store.
California Paper
Calls M-T Reporter
Harry A. Nordwick, 204 Van
couver st., who has been a re
porter for the Mail Tribune for
the past three years, leaves this
week to accept a job on the
daily News-Tribune at Madera,
Calif.
He will do combined duties
as reporter and photographer.
Nordwick, who was born in
Medford, is son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. F. Nordwick, 919 Reddy st.
His wife is the former Janet
Anderson of Salem. They are
parents of a baby son, Brian.
While with the Mail Tribune,
Nordwick has covered both city
and county affairs, and has been
a "regular" member of the aud
ience at many of the city coun
cil meetings of valley commun
ities. His last day of work was
Saturday.
His replacement on the
staff will arrive next month.
Lonergan Favors
Primary Date Change
Salem U.R) Sen. Pat
Lonergan (R-Portland) said Sat
urday he will introduce a sub
stitute bill for his measure to
change the primary election
date from May to August.
The substitute proposal is to
hold the primary on the fourth
Tuesday in June.
Leaders of both the Demo
cratic and Republican parties op
posed the measure. Lonergan
already has introduced because
it would abolish the presidential
preference primary and the el
ection of delegates to national
party conventions.
With the June Primary, Lon
ergan said, the people still could
elect delegates and express their
presidential preferences.
State Awards Contract
For Applegale Bridge
Salem (U.R) A Jackson
county bridge contract has been
awarded to Frank Watt Con
struction Co. and S and D Con
struction Co., Portland, on lcw
bid of $25,450.
The job calls for construction
of a 110 foot bridge over the
Little Applegate river and a 70
foct span over Star Gulch on
the Upper Applegate county
road. There were 12 higher bids.
Dead line for Sunday Claatified la
t noon Saturday.