(fOTJH MEDFORD (OREGOIf) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, March 23. I9S5
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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 23, 1945
(It was Friday)
Mail Tribune announces that,
due to wartime newsprint short
age, the newspaper will be re
stricted to four pages each day
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Trea
sury department announces it
will crack down on the "free
spenders" of the nation. There
are no signs that, like charity,
this will begin at home.
20 YEARS AGO
March 23. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Record depth of 13 feet
of
snow reported at Crater lake
him.
Ernest Neidermeyer catches a
thief stealing gasoline from his
tractor.
30 YEARS AGO
March 23, 1925
(It was Monday)
Large crowds attend closing
out sale conducted at Eagle
Point by F. J. McPherson.
Grand jury called to investi
gate dry agents entering a Jack
son county home by mistake.
40 YEARS AGO
March 23, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
RusSfell Edmeades and party of
boys set off skyrockets on top
or Roxy Ann after traveling
minister predicts that the peak
will erupt.
May 11, 1916 announced as of
ficial opening date for new Med
ford Federal building being con
structed at Sixth and Holly sts.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Gat 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Cash income per person is
highest in New England, the Mid
dle West or the Pacific Coast
states?
2. Number of business merg
ers these days is relatively high
or low, or about average?
3. Are there more Baptists,
Lutherans or Methodists in the
U. S.?
4. Which one of these was not
in President Roosevelt's Four
Freedoms: from fear, to worship,
of speech, not to- incriminate
one's self, from want?
5. Bill Graham is a well
known jockey, basketball player,
TV commentator, evangelist or
Navy commander in the Far
East?
6. The N. Y. Yankees are
spring training at Tampa, St.
Petersburg or Orlando, Florida;
Phoenix, Ariz., or Havana,
Cuba?
7. Mrs. Roosevelt is or isn't
still on the U. S. delegation to
the U. N.?
The Answers: 1. Pacific Coast
states. 2. High. 3. Mors Baptists.
4. Not to incriminate one's self.
5. Evangelist. 6. St. Petersburg.
7. Isn't
Kiwanis Club Division
Meeting Set Sunday
The Medford Kiwanis club
will be host Sunday, March 27,
to a spring conference of Div
ision 15 of the Kiwanis clubs.
About 50 persons from clubs
of the area are expected to be
here. The session will be held
East-West Traffic Bottleneck
If population in the Medford area continues to
increase in the near future as it has in recent months
it may be necessary to speed up plans for providing
additional traffic links between the east and west
portions of the city.
THE study of Medford's traffic which was made
by the Oregon State Highway Commission's traf
fic engineering division in cooperation with the city
and released last fall rated the east-west problem as
second only in importance to the need for a change
in the route of Highway 99 which now runs through
the center of the city.
Traffic counts made in the course of the highway
commission engineers' survey revealed that Main
and Sixth streets, the two principal east-west arteries
are carrying around 16,000 vehicles per day in the
central business district. The figures wrere obtained
by automatic counters in 1953 and at that time it
was estimated that because of the continuing growth
in population the city's overall traffic will increase
93 per cent by 1970.
That the growth estimate was probably too much
on the under side, at least for 1954 and so far in 1955,
is attested by the already experienced large influx
of people in recent months. The Mail Tribune's aver
age paid circulation, for instance, has zoomed from
14,617 in February of last year to 15,271 in the same
month this year, a 4.47 per cent hike.
THE engineers recommended that the city extend
Sixth street over Bear creek by constructing a
viaduct over the stream and across Hawthorn park
to connect with Mam street m the neighborhood o
Almond street. It was further recommended that
Sixth street then be used for westbound traffic only
as far as the Sixth and Mam street intersection a
Mistletoe, and that Main street from Mistletoe to
Almond streets be restricted to eastbound traffic.
It was recognized that construction of the viaduc
would entail considerable expense, but the engineers
pointed out that Medford cannot expect Main street
to carry the growing load on a two-way basis indefi
nitely.
Residents who have occasion to drive from one
side of town to the other during the heavy traffic
hours, or in fact during most any of the daylight
hours, will agree with the engineers that steps to
relieve the situation should not wait too much longer.
E.C.F.
Oregon Attractions Listed
Oregon visitors, and natives too, looking for an
excuse to go some place this spring and summer will
find plenty of attractions m the schedule of celebra
tions and other activities just published by the Travel
Information Division of the Oregon State Highway
Department at Salem. Over 300 events of more or
less state-wide interest are included, among them
many in southern Oregon.
In the list are such major attractions as the White
Water Parade, McKenzie River, April 24; Fleet of
Flowers, Depoe Bay, May 30; Portland Rose Festival,
June 8 to 12 ; Timber Carnival, Albany, July 2 and 4 ;
Water Pageant, Bend, July 2 and 4; Miss Oregon
Pageant, Seaside, July 15 to 17; Shakespearean
Festival, Ashland, August 1 to 31 ; Oregon State b air,
Salem, September 3 to 10; Astoria Salmon Derby,
August 27 to September 5; Pendleton Roundup, Sep
tember 15 to 17, and Pacific International Livestock
Exposition, Portland, October 17 to 22.
AMONG the events expected to bring many visitors
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Falls region are:
Oregon Open Golf Tournament, Medford, March
24 to 27; Three-State Barbershop Quartet contest,
Klamath Falls, April 2; Spring Festival and Hobby
Show, and Southern Oregon Rabbit Show, Grants
Pass, April 2 and 3; Pear Blossom Festival, Medford,
April 23 ; State DeMolay Convention, Medford, May
6 to 8; Oregon Collegiate Golf Conference, Klamath
Falls, May 21; Josephine County Sheriff s Posse
Rodeo, Grants Pass, May 28 and 29; State Elks Con
vention, Ashland, June 2 and 5; Third Southern
Oregon Mineral Show, Medford, June 18 and 19;
Oregon State Life Underwriters Assn., Convention,
Medford, June 24 and 25; Klamath Basin Roundup,
Klamath Falls, July 2 and 4; Old Fashioned Fourth
of July Celebration, Ashland, July 3 and 4; Grand
Pacific Trapshoot, Medford July 20 to 24; Building
Trades Council, Medford, July 23 and 24; Oregon
State Federation of Labor Convention, Medford, July
2o to 30; Rogue Valley Round-up, Medford, July 29
and 30; Izaak Walton League Sportsmen's Show,
Medford, August 9; Shakespearean Festival, Ash
land, August 1 to 31 ; Gladiolus Festival, Grants Pass,
August 17 and 18; Josephine County Fair, Grants
Pass, August 17 to 20; Jackson County 4-H and FFA
Fair, Medford, August 17 to 20; Klamath Junior Fall
Fair, Klamath Falls, August 21 to 23; Southern Ore
gon Golf Championships, Medford, September 1 to 5 ;
Southern Oregon Dog Show, Medford, September 4;
Womens Christian Temperance Union State Conven
tion, Medford, September 7 to 9; Tri-State Dokk Con
vention, Medford, October 7 to 9 ; Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge Ceremonial, Medford, October 9 to 11.
A complete list of presently scheduled events
throughout the state may be obtained by writing the
Travel Information Division at Salem. E.C.F.
Is That So?
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
It's an amazing world! ... A
tree continues to grow as long
as it is alive although after it
reaches a certain size depend
ing upon the species and the
food supply the rate of growth
slows. But some trees continue
to grow for thousands of years.
Perhaps the world's oldest
living tree is in the village of
Santa Maria del Tule, Mexico.
at the Jackson hotel. The
meetings will open at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, and will close with a
noon luncheon.
AU club officers and directors
will attend and all Kiwanians,
particularly committee chair
men, are invited, officers point
ed out.
THREE-WHEELER
Taunton, Mass. U.R) Dis
trict Judge John E. Welch fined
a Pawtucket, R. I., motorist $25
on a charge of negligent driving.
Police said Everett Wiechert, 38,
drove from Taunton to Dighton,
Mass., at a speed of only 30 miles
per hour but on three wheels.
3-JJ-Jf
It is a bald cypress with a
trunk diameter of 41 feet.
Three specialists have estimated
its age at close to 5,000 years.
Some of the giant redwoods in
California run it a close second
they are estimated to be
around 4,000 years.
The mangrove has a remark
able way of reproducing its own
kind. It grows heavy long seed
lings on the branches of the
parent tree and these drop off
when they are from six to eight
inches long. Most drop straight
down into the mud at the base
of the parent mangrove or are
carried a few feet away before
lodging to grow and branch and
in time transform a solitary
tree into a dense mangrove for
est. Because it grows in salty
marshes which are covered with
water when the tide is in, the
mangrove gets part of its oxy
gen from roots that grow upside
down toward the sun, actually
out of the soil and into the air.
These roots have tiny minute
breathing holes. The air is con
veyed through these to the
spongy interior and through this
spongy mass it descends to the
roots which are enveloped in
water.
The bald cypress of our south
land swamps solves its oxygen
supply in yet another way. It
also has a habit of growing in
swamp-land where the ground
may be flooded at least a large
portion of the year. What to
do? To provide breathing organs
out of water, it grows "knees"
which project up from the roots
and above the surface of the
water. Through these roots, it
breathes.
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
These words are written in
Reno (not a gambling fling; just
passing through.) The weather is
nippy. The weather bureau re
ported ten above this morning,
and hazards the guess that it
will be at least that cold come
daylight tomorrow.
Possibly because of the bite
in the air, there is no dearth of
accommodations in this business
capital of the state of Nevada
this evening. "No Vacancy"
signs are almost as numerous
as shrines of the Goddess of
Chance which is another way
of saying they are by no means
scarce.
Yalta Papers Put Sobering Light
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Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575,
Sausalito, Calif.
OVER the air waves during the
day, the weather experts
have been explaining the current
cold snap. There is a "ridge" of
high pressure along the Pacific
Coast, they say. The weather
moves from west to east. Ahead
of a high pressure area (which
means to the east of it) the winds
blow clockwise around the cen
ter, which means thataa high
pressure area is preceded by
north winds coming from the
icy arctic parts.
In the case of a low pressure
area, the helpful weather bureau
says, the winds blow counter
clockwise around the center,
which is thus preceded by warm
winds from the south.
I can't say that all this scien
tific jargon keeps your ears any
varmer when you step out into
the cold north wind, but at least
it is interesting. And, I suppose,
every little bit of knowledge
added to what you have now
makes just a little bit more.
If one could live long enough
in these days, he might eventual
ly become educated.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Careful
examination of the Yalta papers
r" e- : -i p enhorinrf 1 i U 4- 1
ns "6iu me cur
rent hullaba
loo about a top
level big pow
er meeting.
The Yalta
conference left
the United
States and the
free nations in
a perilous spot
for a number
of reasons, in-
Lyle C. Wilson eluding the So
viet Russian policy of running
out on any agreement at any
convenient time.
But another cause was the fail
ure of the late President Roose
velt and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill to do their homework.
They went to Yalta unprepared,
on the evidence of the written
record, and far from agreed on
several basic issues which they
were to discuss.
Another Yalta?
If the United States govern
ment is prepared now to send
President Eisenhower properly
briefed to a meeting with the
heads of the Soviet and British
governments, there is mighty lit
tle evidence of it here. Secre
tary of State Dulles has been
busy with other matters, all of
them related in one way or an-
ormer Hitler Enemy
ay Become Thorn
For Bonn Government
fFHE great interior basin is dry
A this year. The ground from
Tulelake to Alturas has only oc
casional patches of snow. To the
west, the high Sierra glistens
white along the summit, but to
the east the lofty ridges are just
nicely powdered with snow and
not much more.
To the south of Alturas, the
Madeline plains are as dry as
they ought to be in midsummer.
The ground has that crackly
look that betokens not much
moisture under the surface. The
chilly wind whips up dust
clouds that go scooting off to
ward the hills like bands of an
telope.
Down toward Susanville,
Honey lake is bordered by wide
patches of dry ground instead
of lapping clear up to the edges
of the surrounding pasture land,
as it should be doing at this
season of the year.
All in all, it looks like the
dry cycle that according to the
tree ring record is considerably
overdue might be in the offing.
A LL of which brings home to
us of southern Oregon and
northern California where
water lies at the root of all
values that it is high time
for us to be giving serious
thought to the necessity to
STORE UP in the seasons of ex
cess precipitation the water we
will need so sorely in the sea
sons of deficient precipitation.
We can't do much in the way
of influencing the rain gods to
shower down upon us any more
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Otto Strasser, who once was
Adolf Hitler's bitterest enemy, is
likely to become enemy No. 1 of
the West Ger
man Republic
before long.
Strasser has
just managed
to get back to
Germany after
22 years in
exile.
He had been
trying to get
back ever
since the end
Charles McCann of World War
II. For years, Allied and German
authorities, who regard him as a
political menace, refused him ad
mittance.
But last November, Strasser
finally won a long court fight
to get himself declared a Ger
man citizen the Nazis had de
prived him of his citizenship in
1934 and there was no longer
any legal way to keep him out
of the country.
Party Already Waiting
So Strasser went back to
Germany from Canada, where
he had been living since 1941.
Strasser arrived back in Ger-
water than they have it in mind
to pour out of the jug, but we
can take steps to SAVE UP the
water that does fall in the win
ter season so that we may use
it in the dry summer months.
Our economy depends so
COMPLETELY upon an adequ
ate supply of water that we
can't afford to neglect any steps
that we can take to conserve
our water supply and put it to
the fullest possible beneficial
use.
TT is, as everyone knows, too
" early to be getting scared. The
veather is a temperamental
creature. When it chooses to do
so, it can go from a period of
deficiency to one of water sur
plus with surprising speed.
But at least this spring is a
reminder to us that we'd better
be doing some serious thinking
about the future.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment1 On This and That
By HARMAM W. NICHOLS
United Press Pasture Writer
Washington (U.R) In nearly
half a century, Elton Howard
Brown probably has looked over
more inven
tions than any
man who ever
lived.
Brown
(Brownie to
patent lawyers
and other inti
mates) will
complete 50
years with the
U.S. Patent Of-
iiarman fcicnois IlCe tnis y-ar-
tie is head of
the patent reference branch of
the system, which will be 165
years old April 10.
'I may retire and invent
something myself," the old ex
pert said.
Hopeful inventors. youne and
old, flock to Brownie everv
working day of the year, dream
ing or inventing a better flea
trap or anything else that would
make the world "beat a path to
their door."
"You'd be surprised what dpo-
ple don't know about inventions,
inventors, even," he said. "Every
uute in awnne some clown
comes in carrying a whittled
stick of wood and tries to sell
us the idea he invented the tooth-
picK. me toothpick surely was
invented, hut the person who
did the inventing must have
died broke for it never was
patented."
Brownie has watched progress
One of the latest gimmicks is
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MORE?
100 Tablets 43c
a pair of eye glasses with which
you can hear as well as see.
Some of the inventions, on
which there now are more than
26,000,000 patents didn't make
the owners of the patents very
much money. Like the fellow
who thought up a device that
was supposed to determine
which hen laid which egg.
"I'll bet you don't know who
invented the safety pin,"
Brownie said. "It was a fellow
named Walter Hunt. It was in
1849, and Hunt went on to pro
duce America's first sewing ma
chine, paper shirt collars, an ice
plow, and a pair of shoes that
enabled a circus performer to
walk up walls."
There is no record here that 1 door of the Patent Office
inventor Hunt ever got very
much. You'd think the safety pin
would have done it, but appar
ently his notion didn't catch on
right away. A patent expires af
ter 17 years, Brownie said, and
after that anybody can manu
facture the product.
The old fellow has looked at
some pretty odd contraptions.
In 1903, some farmer who had
a near-sighted rooster in his
flock invented a pair of eye
glasses for him, and got a patent
on the specs.
. During the Civil war, some
person came up with a combina
tion plow and gun.
Thomas Ava Edison probably
held the most patents among in
ventors of all time. He received
some 1100.-
Abraham Lincoln called the
patent system "the fuel of in
terest to the fire of genius," and
his words are carved over the
many last week with a ready
made extreme right - wing poli
tical party awaiting him.
He had organized the "League
For German Revival," and kept
in touch with it, in correspon
dence with his suDnorters in
Germany during his years of
exne on a farm near Bridge
town, iMova Scotia.
Strasser took back with him
some ambitious plans. He an
nounced he would work for the
unification of Germany qnd for
me restoration of all the terri
tory it lost as the result of the
war.
Germany, he said, should be
come an "armed neutral." align
ed neither with the Western Al
lies nor with Russia.
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"We need armed neutrality,"
he said. "A neutrality not linked
with either Wall Street or the
Kremlin but one which would
cooperate strongly with Sweden
and Switzerland."
As a one-time Socialist, Stras
ser still believes in state owner
ship. But Strasser says he now is a
"solidarist." ,
"Solidarism," he explained,
"is basically opposed to Marx
ism as well as to capitalism. I re
ject Marxism, centralism and
bureaucracy."
It was with meaningless gib
berish that Hitler worked him
self into power. What Strasser
really wants to do is to build up
an extremist movement in hope
that some day he can grab power
as Hitler did.
other with the cold war, it is
true.
That would not be sufficient,
however, to establish U.S.-Brit-ish
accord and give great prom
ise to a Big Three or Big Four
meeting soon. Another Yalta
easily could come from such a
meeting unless the American
president and the British prime
minister who sat down with the
Russians were well briefed and
agreed on what they wanted,
how much they would trade to
get it and the actual limits of
compromise to which they would
go.
'Good Faith' Missing
There was no such understand
ing at Yalta. Mr. Roosevelt and
Churchill more or less disagreed
there on the status of Asia colon
ial states,- on methods of f?pa liner
with Germanv aftr
whether to whack up areas of
influence with the Russians in
the Balkans, on territorial con
cessions to get the Russians into
me Japanese war, and, finally,
on edequate supervision of post
war Polish elections.
There was little else in the
way of specific problems on
which Mr. Roosevelt and Chur
chill could agree or disagree.
Generalissimo Josef Stalin often
was in a position to play one
against the other, and did.
Mr. Eisenhower, himself, has
made certain stipulations in the
past with respect to any big
power meeting. He has insisted
that the Russians give some evi
dence of good faith acts, not
words before he undertakes to
negotiate directly with them.
There is ample opportunity for
Moscow to meet that condition.
If there has been any Rus
sian move to meet the Presi
dent's conditions, it has not been
publicly reported in Washington.
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