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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 15, 945
(It Was Thursday)
Burdette L. Dodge, Medford,
commissioned second lieutenant
at Army officer candidate
school, Fort Banning, Ga.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A special
election has been set for June
22 by the legislature. It was a
cute trick for the longest legis
lative session in state history to
pick out one of the two longest
days of the year for the man
date. 20 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1935
(It Was Friday)
T. E. Daniels reelected presi
dent of Medford Gun club; Ed
Pease reelected secretary-treas
urer.
Fred Hock and Willard Horn,
caretakers at Diamond lake re
sort, unable to return to lake
because of storm; made trip out
on skis to get the mail and sup
plies. 30 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1925
(It Was Sunday)
Medford Attorneys Peter J.
Neff and George M. Roberts
leave for Salem to argue before
state supreme court.
Rogue valley orcharists pre
,pare for first smudging of sea
son. 40 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1915 .
(It Was Monday)
Forty-seven members of Med
ford Hikers and Outing club
visit Opp mine, near Jackson
ville. Medford band scheduled to be
reorganized in spring.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Which carries most passen
gers most miles every year: the
airlines, buses or railroads?
2. Is more the total U.S. farm
debt held by private banks, life
insurance companies, or federal
land banks?
3. Auto prices have gone up
relatively more than auto in
dustry wages since World War
II. or auto wages have gone up
relatively more, or is it 50-50?
4. Alcoholism is ground for
divorce in most states: right or
wrong?
5. All 16 major-league base
ball teams are doing their spring
training in Florida: right or
wrong?
6. Which of these mountain
ranges is highest: the Alps of
Europe, Andes of South Ameri
ca, Caucusus of Asia Minor or
Rockies of North America?
7. AFL president George
Meanv started out as a brick
layer, cigar maker, machinist,
plumber or steel worker?
The answers: 1. Railroads. 2.
By life insurance companies. 3.
Auto wages have gone up rela
tively more. 4. Right. 5. Wrong:
the Giants. Cubs- and Indians
are in Arizona. 6. The Andes. 7.
Plumber. -
SP MAN PROMOTED
Portland (U.R) Frank C.
Nelson, freight traffic manager
for the Southern Pacific here,
has been promoted to freight
traffic manager at San Fran
cisco, vice president W. G. Peo
ples said today.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Oil Fiasco
During the recent national campaign- one of the
frequent arguments against the proposal to hand over
tidelands oil to the 48 states and the government
instead of only four and then to the private oil. com
panies, was that this oil, particularly out beyond the
3-mile limit didn't amount to much anyway.
In fact it was claimed that the values were so
problematical and the costs of development so, high,
that probably only the richest and most powerful pri
vate companies would be in a position to bear the ex
pense even of preliminary exploration.
Therefore the sensible thing to do wTas to give this
oil to the four fortunate states having evidence of
such oil, and they in turn could of course sell leases
to the private companies and all would be well in "the
land of the. free" and the home of free enterprise !
..
AS a result, Senator Morse's effort'to have the prof
"fits from this oil or a part of them go to the
48 states, including Oregon, instead of only to Cali
fornia, Louisiana, Texas and, Florida, and from them
to the half dozen largest oil companies, was defeated.
DUT now what do we see?
The tidelands oil-fields are fairly alive with pri
vate oil companies having all sorts of new-fangled J
super barges fitted with the
ment which are busy as
time. These operations have barely started but al
ready Secretary McKay is
the Interior Department on
predicts profits to the government of billions, as a re
suit of the private enterprise arrangement.
IN the current fiscal year ending June 30th, the fed
eral revenue from this
$150,000,000, and as this
of the total profit then
must be going elsewhere
panies of course.
This certainly comes
work if you can get it!
If the efforts of Senator Morse and Senator Hill
had succeeded, other billions going to the states, as
a whole, would be added, and Oregon would today
be getting the share to which it is rightfully entitled.
As a result the problem might not be how Oregon can
balance the state budget but
particularly in the direction of bigger and better
schools and more satisfactory public education, as
well as other public improvements.
DUT the Big Oil Lobby, as usual, won.
The "Big Boys" knew what the so-called tidelands
oil bill would do for them if the people didn't, and the
politicians, particularly in California and Texas knew
also. Such a combination
beat under the best circumstances, but in the political
climate prevailing in the 1954 campaign, it was
and proved to be impossible.
DUT all hope is not lost.
It may be too late to do anything effective about
this "oil grab" this year, but eventually it is safe to
predict, a real effort will be made to at least have
some of these billions from our national oil resources,
go to Oregon and the other states as it should, instead
of to only four of them.
As has been remarked in this department before,
nothing is really settled until it is settled RIGHT.
And the tidelands oil problem settlement was, in
the opinion of this paper, 100 wrong. R.W.R.
No Tipster?
Walter Winchell has never been one of our fa
vorite news broadcasters but we have listened to him
enough to know that one of his favorite stunts is and
always has been, to give "tips" on the stock market,
also tips on horse-races and even prize-song contests.
But over the air Sunday night under the vigorous
cross-examination of Senator Capehart of Indiana,
Winchell denied ever giving tips as that word is gen
erally understood on the stock market.
No, he only gave the facts simple information
much of it taken from the newspapers, particularly
the front page of the staid reliable and unsensational
New York Times !
TO support this surprising statement Mr. Winchell
called in the evidence of the President of the
American Stock Exchange who said that as far as
Winchell's remarks on one particular stock was con
cerned, Winchell stated only the facts.
Time and again the "Broadway Broadcaster" par
ried all inquiries as to his tipster habits, by referring
to this one corroboration of one particular item in
one broadcast. . ,
AlE fear that "line" wall not be sufficient to con
VT vince Winchell's "millions of listeners" that he
never has given "tips" on the stock market and else
where. A tip on a stock, a horse or a prize-song, .may be
entirely factual true in every respect, and yet
broadcast over the country, the implication will not
only be generally regarded as a tip, but a hot one
from the horses mouth often the trigger for all sorts
of financial plunging by small operators which may
or may not be profitable to the plunger more fre
quently the latter.
Why the double-talk Walter?
Perhaps if and when Mr. Winchell appears be
fore the Senate Investigating committee his angle
may be more clearly apparent. We hope so. R.W.R. J
Tuesday, March IS. 1955
latest oil-pumpmg equip
so many bees at swarming
boasting of soon putting
a self-sustaining basis, and
oil he says, will add up to
represents only one-sixth
five sixths or $750,000,000
to the private oil com
under the heading of "nice
how to spend its surplus,
would have been hard to
!n the Day's News
. By FRANK JENKINS
Time: The earlier hours of the
morning shift. Place: An office
chair in front of a typewriter
Person of the drama: ME
staring off into space and won
dering what the hecks worth
writing about today.
It's a glum situation.
gUDDENLY
The telephone rings.
It's Bing, of Bing's Cafe,
has a story to tell me.
I'll pass it on.
He
TWO BIG busses puUed up in
-- front of his place a little
while ago. They were loaded
with young people from San
Francisco University, on their
way to Corvallis to take in the
big NCAA basketball playoff.
They'd been traveling most of
the night and needed nourish
ment. One of them was a handsome
blond blue-eyed youngster in
nis early s. tie was a
DOUBLE AMPUTEE both
arms gone at the shoulder. His
seat companion took off the
armless boy's shoes, washed his
feet with a damp cloth, and he
then proceeded to feed himself
with his right foot, using his
great toe and the second toe as
a thumb and finger.
His companions took it all in
stride, laughing and chattering,
paying him no heed, giving him
no cause to feel that he was do
ing something out of the ordi
nary, making him feel that he
was just one of the crowd. That's
true and thoughtful courtesy
a shining example of the Golden
Rule in action.
"DREAKFAST over, they play
ed the juke box for a few
minutes, then trooped back into
the busses, gay and cheerful
and, Bing says, the handsome
blond blue-eyed double ampu
tee perhaps the gayest and
lightest-hearted of them all.
fJiHANK YOU, Bing.
I needed that story. It did me
a lot of good.
I hope it does everybody a
lot of good.
PS:
If YOU see something like
that . . . some example of
GREAT human adversity being
accepted with light-hearted good
humor and high a.nd ' deathless
courage . . . some incident of
true and thoughtful courtesy on
the part of people generally
toward some fellow human be
ing who NEEDS true and
thoughtful, courtesy and . help
. . . call me up and tell me about
it, won't you?
I'd like to print it.
I
HAVE the feeling that our
newspapers and our radios
and our TV's have acquired
somewhere the notion that the
shady side of life is the side that
people want to hear about.
So
I fear
We of the newspaper and we
of the radio may be OVER
EMPHASIZING the shady side
of life. WE AREN'T ALONE IN
THAT. Get into any good gossip
session men or women and
I think you'll find that incidents
WITH A BITE IN THEM pre
dominate in the conversation
over incidents with a kindly
flavor.
ASA result, I fear, we're fall
ing into what I believe to
be the DELUSION that the
world is a rather wicked place
in which the bad predominates
over the good.
I don't believe that's true.
I'd like to get some proof to
back me up.
Bills in Legislature
Salem (U.R) The House
has approved unanimously a bill
that would extend the time lim
it for repaying veteran loans on
farms from 20 to 25 years. The
bill now goes to the Senate.
; Action on a bill relating to
libel actions against newspapers
and radio stations was held over
to permit absent members to
discuss it. Rep. George Layman
(R-Newberg), chairman of the
Judiciary Committee which re
ported the bill to the floor, said
Rep. Fat Dooley (D-Portland)
wished to oppose the libel meas
ure. It would limit libel judg
ments against newspapers, peri
odicals, radio and television sta
tions to special damages in cases
where ' the libel resulted from
and innocent mistake.
The House also approved a
bill that would create a judicial
council composed of Supreme
and Circuit Court judges to im
prove the state's judicial proc
esses. Rep. Al Loucks (R-Salem)
ccmmended the Judiciary Com
mittee for bringing out a bill
that would solve some of Ore
gon's problems without creating
a new board or commission and
without asking for a money ap
propriations. , .
Also passed in the House were
two bills to permit taxpayers
to change their tax filings from
the accrual to the cash basis
without double taxation.
The Senate approved its full
calendar without debate. The
agenda included a House-passed
IKIEILIP
GIVE 1
Mario Scelba, Italy
Premier on Shaky
Pins as Party Leader
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Premier Mario Scelba of Italy,
who is coming to the' United
States next week on an official
visit, may be
come former
Premier Scel
ba soon after
his return
home.
Scelba has
made an excel
lent record
during his 13
months in of
fice. He has
reached a set
tlement with
Cbailes Mccann
Yugoslavia of the long, bitter
Trieste dispute. He has succeed
ed in getting both houses of the
Italian Parliament to approve
ratification of the treaties pro
viding for West German arma
ment.
During Scelba's prime minis
try the Communists, who right
ly regard him as their enemy
No. 1, have lost steadily in party
membership and labor influence.
But the. coalition which has
enabled Scelba's Christian Demo
cratic Party to remain in office
shows signs of coming to pieces
Ambitious Rival
Further, Scelba has an ambi
tious rival for leadership in his
own party in the person of Amin-
tore Fanfani, who represents the
younger element with his "demo
cratic initiative" faction.
The two houses of parliament
are to elect a President of Italy
in May, to succeed Luigi Einaudi.
The Scelba government must
resign then, as a formality, and
it is being predicted that Fan
f ani may be able to grab the post
of Premier.
Fanfani is secretary general of
the Christian Democratic Party,
and thus in control of the party
machinery. He succeeded to that
post after the death last August
of former Premier Alcide De
Gasperi.
Scelba, 53 years old, is short,
plump, bald and deceptively
smiling. But he is a tough man.
When other anti - Fascist leaders
went abroad during the Musso
lini era, Scelba remained at
home.
Headed Anti-Fascisis
His law office became a na
tional anti-Fascist . headquarters,
memorial to Congress asking for
federal funds for water re
sources investigations.
Salem (U.R) Rep. Al Loucks
(R-Salem) has declared he was
prejared to fight for a bill that
would authorize state deductions
from paychecks , of state em
ployees for United Fund contri
butions. Loucks, former mayer of Sa
lem, professed shock at the de
mand from Rep. Loran L. Stew
are (R-Cottage Grove) that the
United Fund be tithed for such
service.
Stewart warned in a State
and Federal Affairs Committee
meeting that he would fight the
bill on the floor of the House
unless the state was reimbursed
for its administrative costs in
making the United Fund deduc
tions from pay checks.
Rep. George Layman (R-Newberg)
said he was disturbed at
the proposal that the slate per
form such services for a private
charity. He said he had no ar
gument with the merits of Unit
ed Fund causes.
The committee approved two
bills relating to disposal of ob
solete and worn out equipment
owned by the State Board of
Health and the state police.
The Golden Gate Bridge at
San Francisco has a 60-foot
roadway carrying six . lanes of
traffic and two 10V foot side
walks for pedestrians. .
and a secret liaison center for
communications with men in
exile.
Under De Gasperi's prime
ministry, Scelba became minister
of interior. Communism then
was a real threat. Scelba, with
control of the national police
forces, at once opened a relent
less anti-Red campaign. He orga
nized the police flying squads,
called "celere," which charged
into Communist demonstrations
all over the country in jeep3
and broke them up with enthu
siastic force.
But as Premier, he has a shaky
rule. The Christian Democrats
have a majority in the chamber
of deputies only by reason of the
support of the Liberals, Social
Democrats and Republicans. The
Liberals, who have 14 seats, have
been threatening to leave the
coalition. If they did, Scelba
would lose his majority.
Fanfani, who is 47 years old,
was premier for 11 days in Jan
uary, 1954, but the Chamber re
fused to confirm him because he
sought support from the Monarchists.
Portland Airport
Bonds Authorized
Portland (U.R) Portland
school directors last night ap
proved the purchase of the city s
12th high school site for $50,999.
At the same time, the board be
gan considering the site for a
13th high school. ' -
The .approved site is near
Southeast 86th ave. and Bush
St., and is 20 acres. The school
would be completed in 1960.
Other projects under way by
the board include Woodrow Wil
son High School which is due to
be finished by the fall of 1956.
Another school located in the vi
cinity of Northeast 82nd and -the
Rose City golf course would be
opened for the 1957 school year.
Australian, Dulles
To Discuss Problems
Washington (U.R) Austra
lian Prime Minister Robert Gor
don Menzies and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles sched
uled a mid-afternoon meeting
today on mutual problems in
the troubled Far East.
The top-level talks on Korea,
Southeast Asia and other tinder
box areas in the Orient came
near the close of a busy day for
the visiting prime minister. Dur
ing the morning Menzies laid
wreaths at the Tomb of the Un
known Soldier at nearby Arling
ton National Cemetery and at
the tomb of George Washing
ton at Mount Vernon and then
planned to attend a lunch given
by Foreign Aid Director Harold
E. Stassen.
. Menzies arrived here Sunday
for a three-day state visit ex
pected to concentrate on Allied
defense strategy in the Far East.
He met with President Eisen
hower Monday.
Ike Expected
Be 1956 Candidate
Portland U.R) Under-Secretary
of Commerce Walter Wil
liams said here yesterday
"there is little doubt but that
President Elsenhower will be a
candidate in 1956." r.
Williams, former ' national
chairman of Citizens for' Eisen
hower, was interviewed after he
addressed the Chamber of Com
merce forum luncheon meeting.
He said that from his. own obser
vation and knowledge of Mr.
Eisenhower's keen sense of re
sponsibility "I think it highly
unlikely that he will not run."
He said he did not believe
there would be serious opposi
tion to the president for the Re
publican nomination.
Matter of Fact
NOT REALLY SO
MYSTERIOUS-
Editor'i note: This report ky
Stewart Alsop on American policy
in the Formosa crisis as seen from
Washington will be followed by
further reports by Joseph Alsop on
this policy as seen from Asia.
American policy in the pres
ent crisis over Formosa and the
eff-shore islands has been much
criticized a s
fuzzy and ob
scure. But it
is not really
so mysterious
after all--ex-cept
in one
vitally im
p o r t a n t re
spect. In the first
place,, there is
not the slight
est doubt
Stewart Alsop
about the real underlying ob
jective of American policy in
the Formosa area. The objec
tive is a cease-fire in the For
mosa Strait.
No one imagines, least of all
Secretary of State Dulles, that
the Chinese Communists are go
ing to sign a formal treaty
abondoning their claims to For
mosa. Such a treaty would
hardly be worth much anyway.
What is hoped for, instead, is a
kind of de facto, informal un
derstanding a private deal.
backed by force and realities of
geography, and thus having
some real meaning.
Secretary Dulles, when he
met British Foreign Minister Sir
Anthony Eden in Bangkok,
made it perfectly clear that he
would accept this sort of deal.
He also made it clear, without
spelling it out , in so many
words, that in order to get such
a deal the United States is pre
pared to "persuade" Chiang
Kai-shek to withdraw his forces
from Quemoy and Matsu." But
this cannot be done rudely or
suddenly. A lull of several
months is needed to make it pos
sible to do the unpleasant job of
persuasion gradually and with a
saving of faces all round.
The almost simultaneous
speeches by Secretary Dulles
and Foreign Minister Eden were
thus two sides of the same coin.
Neither was in the least sur
prised by what the other had to
say. Indeed, the whole thing
was something ,of a Tweedle-
dum-and-Tweedledee act, with
Tweedledee Eden offering the
carrot to the Chinese donkey,
while Tweedledum Dulles bran
dished the stick. '
'
TN his replies to questions after
his statement to the House of
Commons, Eden dropped the
broadest possible hints that. his
carrot the offshore islands in
return for a de facto cease fire
in the Strait was offered the
full approval of Secretary Dul
les. But the Dulles stick was
real too also no one knows just
what sort of stick it may . turn
out to be.
For if the Chinese Commu
nists are unwise enough to . at
tack' the offshore islands in
strength, this country will sup
port the Chinese . Nationalist de
fenders, with air attacks on mil
itary positions on the Chinese
mainland. ' This much was de
cided in principle even before
Secretary Dulles left for Asia.
Thus repeated statements that
"President Eisenhower will de
cide" are somewhat specious.
They are partly designed to al
low future freedom of action,
but partly also to restrain some
of the more impetuous spirits
in the Pentagon and on For
mosa. It may be, of course, that if
the Communists do launch an
attack on the offshore islands,
some excellent reason for back
ing down will be found. But
at the moment it is the over
whelming majority view in the
White House, the State Depart
ment, and the Pentagon that this
country cannot stand aside in
case of an all-out Communist
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attack, without risking the rap
id loss of all Asia.
What really is mysterious
about American policy is thus
whether we will defend the off
shore island in case of Com
munist attack, and how we will
defend the islands.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff be
lieve unanimously that , the
islands can be held, if the Unit
ed States is prepared to mount
heavy air attacks on mainland
military installations, using nu
clear weapons if necessary. The
planning in the Pentagon and
on Formosa as well is on the
basis that small atomic bombs
will be used if needed.
But there has never been a
formal decision on this noint
the issue has never really been
faced up to. This' is the decision
and a nightmarish one which
is quite genuinely un to the
President. The President natur
ally devoutly hopes that it will
never be necessary to make this
decision, and that some such
tacit understanding as that de
scribed above can in the course
of time be worked out.
pERHAPS it will. But recently
the British Ambassador in
Peking, Sir Humphrey Trevel
yan, visited the Chinese Com
munist Foreign Minister Chou
En-lai to feel him out on the
islands-for-cease-fire deal. For
his pains, Trevelyan was told
flatly that the Chinese Com
munists meant to take not only
Quemoy and Matsu but the
Pescadores and Formosa this
year. This is precisely what
Chou En-lai has told Burmese
Premier U Nu, and U Nu in his
turn reported to Secretary Dul
les when Dulles was in Ran
goon. It is precisely what the
Chinese Communists have been
telling all comers, public and
private.
The whole thing may be some
curious, illogical Oriental bluff.
It is faintly encouraging that
Chinese Communist propaganda
about retaking Formosa has
slacked off in recent weeks. But
it would surely be unwise to
proceed on the assumption that
the Communists are bluffing, or
that the time of decision will
never come. -
(Copyright, 1955. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Ontario Auto Crash
Leaves Two Dead
Ontario, Ore. (U.R) Two per
sons were killed and one injured
when their car struck the Ore
gon end of the interstate bridge
near here early today. e
Sgt. Russell Haynes of the
Oregon state police, said the
dead were Mrs. Pat Hendrix,
about 23, of Nyssa, Ore., and
Norman Dale Stathopolos, 24,
of Nampa, Ida. Injured critically
was the driver of the car, 24-year-old
Ted Crosby ; of New
Plymouth, Ida. - - ;
Haynes said the Vehicle hit
one side of the bridge, swerved
across the road and rolled for
more then 80 feet.
The accident occurred about
2:30 a.m., Haynes said.
Vacuum Tube Inventor
In California Hospital
Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R)
Dr. Lee De Forest, 81, the in
ventor of -the vacuum tube
which made modern radio pos
sible, today was reported" criti
cally ill in St. John's hospital
here. ' - ' '
De Forest was rushed lo the
hospital yesterday with bronch
ial pneumonia. His physician,
Dr. W. L. Marxer, said the in
ventor's amazing vitality gave
him a "good chance of surviving
the attack.
De Forest has more than 300
patents on ' his various inven
tions. His vacuum tube has
made radio, television and mo
tion picture sound tracks possible.
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