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Flight of Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 24. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Medford Musical society
meets at home of Mrs. Richard
Payne; Medford trio, made up
of Margaret Husan, Jean McAl
lister, and Catherine Wendt,
presents several numbers.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The last
legislature concocted 800 new
laws in 69 days. Moses, the
greatest lawgiver of all time,
eould only think of 10.
20 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1935
(It was Sunday)
Moving pictures showing
in
Medford include "It Happened
One Night," with Clark Gable
and Claudette Colbert, at the
Studio; "Flirtation Walk," with
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler,
at the Roxy; "Now and For
ever," with Shirley Temple,
Carole Lombard, and Gary
Cooper, at the Rialto, and "Life
Begins at 40," with Will Rogers
at the Craterian.
I. E. Foy resigns as manager
of Medford liquor store, and
'Mrs. J. R. Reddy appointed to
serve as temporary manager.
30 YEARS AGO
March 24. 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Medford residents to join with
Ashland in celebration over re
establishment of state normal
school.
Coach Callison of Medford
High school predicts "Medford
will either have a state cham
pionship football team or the
best set of dancers in the west
during the coming season."
40 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
First smudging of the season
reported following general but
light frost.
Court Hall announces that the
Hall Taxi company will operate
a motor stage line to Grants
Pass during the summer months.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Most cars in fatal highway
accidents have some major
mechanical defect; right or
wrong?'
2. Special delivery o'n a letter
mailed first - class costs 10, 15,
20 or 25 cents?
3. The dollar has declined in
retail purchasing power about
one-third, one-half, or two-thirds
since World War II broke out
in 1939?
4. Ski jumpers have covered
more than 300 .feet; right or
wrong?
5. New Salary of Congress is
$15,000, $17,500, $20,000, $22,
500 or $25,000 a year?
6. Ethel Zimmerman is the
real name of which well known
stage, radio and TV star?
7. What is the real name of
movie star James (Jimmy) Stew
art? The answers: 1. Wrong, says
a leading insurance company. 2.
20 cents. 3. Almost one-half. 4.
Right. 5. $22,500. 6. Ethel Mer
man. 7. James Stewart.
ROSE TO BE MAYOR
Hobart, Ind. (U.R) Voters
h' can nominate a Rose for
i zr. Fred Rose is a Demo
cratic candidate and Lee Rose is
a Republican hopeful in the
coming mayoralty primary election.
ASSOCIATION
MAIL TRIBUNE
Double Talk in Washington
One of our contemporaries in Washington, D.C.
reports that the boys in the press gallery of which
he is one are having a tough time these days,
wading through the double-talk.
He blames it on the 1956 political campaign
which he says is starting earlier than usual in fact
for him, too early.
He cites a couple of examples.
)NE was the release of the Yalta papers.
It was regarded by him, and most of his
colleagues as a Republican political move to em
barrass the Democrats.
But when this was state d, it was emphatically
denied by the State Department. The 'department
claimed the papers were released only because copies
of them had been obtained somehow by the N.Y.
Times, and it was thought best to have the press as
a whole, get the documents officially before any one
paper could print them unofficially. It was also
stated the White House had concurred in this view.
DUT when the matter was taken up at the White
House, not only was it denied that the White
House had concurred m
ficially stated President
informed that such a move was even contemplated
and knew nothing about
THE explanation for all
presidential election, the
the vital importance of- party unity, and while there
is real and serious intraparty friction, and serious
factionalism at times, the
the political board-of-strategy to deny it, and at least
keep up the appearance of 100 party harmony at
all costs.
ITEM No. 2, was the
George of Georgia that
Relations committee he
"Big Four" immediately
Pans agreements, m a final effort to avoid the ulti
mate catastrophe of war.
Senator George admitted that such a. meeting
might result in no beneficial results, but the time had
come to at least make the
hot to TRY.
PROM such a source this was a big stoiy and was
played up as such. Once more the State Depart
ment was consulted, and it was there stated, that
although Secretary Dulles was not available then,
it would be safe to say that the department was in
perfect harmony with the
mental views.
The following day, however, after a Visit to the
White House Senator Knowland of California, came
up with a very different story. President Eisenhower,
he said, did not favor the
opposed any such meeting
some definite evidence oi
THIS looked like another good story a definite
V.Ao"lr l- a iiTflfln Vi Pvoci r cinf on1 f Via nVioirmori
KJi. CLi UtlVV W-lJ. . Ll.lt; A. A
of the Foreign Relations committee on foreign policy.
It was even stated by one
Knowland had persuaded
proval of the George proposal, on the ground that
such action would give the
Republican party, credit
world peace.
A LL of which is about as clear as mud.
We sympathize with our colleague in Wash
ington, in his effort to report what is really happen
ing there, and what isn't.
But we see little hope of improvement until the
Republican party admits there is a factional split in
that party, just as there is, particularly when financial
and tax matters are concerned, in the . Democratic
party.
This would clear the atmosphere, and place the
political conflict on a sane and factual basis.
But that apparently would not be "kosher" ac
cording to the political wiseacres who unfortunately
pretty much control things, when another presidential
campaign approaches, even if as in this case, it is
over 20 months ahead! R.W.R.
P. s.
It is hard to keep up with the kaleidoscopic chang
es in Washington. Since the above was written, Presi
dent Eisenhower has condemned publication of state
papers for political or personal purposes while Sen
ator Knowland has upheld the practice, and frankly
stated he will continue to make the Yalta disclosures
a political issue as long as he pleases. The President
has repudiated the Knowland claim that the adminis
tration would agree to a 4-power conference only after
Russia had shown good faith by signing the Austrian
treaty, agreeing to free elections in Germany, a united
Korea, etc., etc. He also declared he would offer con
cessions to Russia for Russian agreement to explora
tory talks, while the senior Senator from California
called this appeasement, and if such a policy were
adopted, Russia would merely chalk up another dip
lomatic victory and gain more territory.
Once more the time has come when President Eis
enhower and his leader in the Senate should have a
heart-to-heart talk and, decide who is speaking for
the Republican party and who isn't. They both can't
be! R.W.R. :
Forest Patrol Budget Hearing Held Today
A public hearing on the 1955
56 budget of the southwest Ore
gon forest patrol distict opened
at 10 ajn. today at fores patrol
Thursday, March 24, 1953
this decision, but it was of
Eisenhower had not been
it.
this, according to our in-
administration is stressing
order has gone out from
announcement by Senator
as chairman of the Foreign
favored a meeting of the
after the signing of the
attempt. Better iail than
Georgia Senator s funda
George proposal, in fact
until Russia had shown
good laith.
t - OXVAXll CV11VA Ul VliWll AXACAA
newspaper that Senator
the President to refuse ap
Democratic instead of the
for initiating the move for
headquarters on Table Rock rd.
Ted Maul, district forest war
den, said the budget totals about
$218,000, or approximately the
same ai last year.
Matter of Fact
ON 'KEEPING
THEM GUESSING
Hong Kong With President
Eisenhower's full authority, the
British ahve already sounded
the Chinese Communists on a
1 in tho TTnrmnc
Strait
Peking's an
swer, thus far,
has been a flat,
indignant re
fusal even to
consider relin
quishing their
intention "to
liberate Tai
wan" in ex
Joseph Alaop
change for the
offshore islands
now occupied
by the Chinese Nationalists
As previously reported in this
space, the pattern of Commu
nist preparation to attack the
offshore islands is now complete.
All competent authorities here,
British as well as American,
agree that an attack impends
this spring, probably some time
after Chou Enlai has made pro
paganda hay at the Bandung
conference.
Judging by every sign that
has been given, the Peking lead
ers still think that the Eisen
hower administration will either
duck the defense of the offshore
islands at the last minute; or,
worse still, that the American
defense effort will be so ginger
ly and "limited" that another
shattering victory for the Com
munist cause can be achieved
after American prestige has been
thoroughly committed.
One cannot blame the Peking
leaders, either, for suspecting a
bluff in the big talk in Wash
ington. They remember the ex
traordinary American vacilla
tions and tergiversations that
preceded the Asian Munich at
Geneva. They recall the Admin
istration's haste to make the
weak truce in Korea which is
the root of all the present
troubles in Asia.
They have followed, no doubt
with delighted interest, the
vacillations and tergiversations
which have also marked the Ad
ministration's handling of the
public of Quemoy and the
Matsus. And in Peking, further
more, they are fully aware of
the grave weaknesses in the
American position.
fpHERE are three of these weak
nesses. First, American power
in the Pacific at present is gross
ly inadequate to insure a suc
cessful defense of the offshore
islands without using nuclear
weapons.
Second, this fact has appar
ently been recognized at last in
Washington, judging by the pub
lic statements of President Ei
senhower and Secretary Dulles
that tactical atomic bombs are
now "precision" weapons, which
would normally be used in any
military operation. But , world
public opinion and especially
Asian opinion does not recog
nize the fine distintion between
different types of atomic bombs.
The use of any kind of atomic
bombs to defend Quemoy and
the Matsus will, in the present
circumstances, raise a stormn in
Asia surpassing anything yet
seen. One of Chou En-lai's pri
mary objectives at Bandung will
be to insure that such a storm is
raised if need be.
Finally, and much the most im
portant, the Westen Alliance is
split wide open on the issue of
the offshore islands. And this
split can be fatally dangerous, if
atomic bombs are used, as they
may well have to be used, to
beat off an attack on Quemoy
and the Matsus.
Communist China's intensive
preparations for military action
in the Formosa Strait were di
rectly preceded by the long visit
to China of the new and more
belligerent team that now heads
the Soviet government. The So-
(M3
Editorial Comment
Sportsmanship
A great Eugene High School
team, after its third straight try,
won the state high school bas
ketball championship with con
vincing wins over four good op
ponents. The team s sportsman
ship and fine play is. a tribute
to the players and its coach
Henry Kuchera.
However, the fact that the
student body won the sports
manship trophy does not set so
well after the exhibition put on
at the final whistle Saturday
night. When the Eugene students
swarmed onto the floor and
finally were frantically waved
back to their seats, they left
two girls sprawled motionless.
If their injuries had been fatal,
which they might well have
been, the tremendous victory
would have been hollow indeed.
It is our understanding that
this was not the only rush to the
playing floor by the Eugene
student body during the tourna
ment. How this can be termed
a demonstration of good sports
manship is difficult to under
stand. It was mob action and ex
tremely dangerous. We have
seen many teams win the cham
pionship since the tournament
came to Eugene but this was the
first time in our recollection that
the student body of any win
ning school roared en masse onto
the floor.
To win is wonderful, . but to
win with humility is the essence
By Joseph Alsop
viets have affirmed their sup
port of Chma on the Formosa
issue. The Sino-Soviet pact still
stands.
But if a serious war starts over
Quemoy and the Matsus, the
United States cannot now count
on the support of Britain, where
the vital forward bases of the
Strategic Air Command are situ
ated. There is even some doubt
about the support of Canada,
which is the vital key to what
passes for the American air de
fense system. And for these
reasons, no one can be quite sure
that the Chinese and Soviets do
not want a big war on this
divisive issue.
TN THESE genuinely appalling
circumstances, there is no vis
ible excuse for the policy of
"keeping them guessing," except
perhaps that it leaves the Eisen
hower administration an opening
for a last minute retreat such as
the retreat that ended at Geneva.
If retreat is seriously intended,
however, the best thing to do is
to prepare the Generalissimo for
the worst, which is only fair;
and to cut our losses, which
will be staggering enough any
way. If retreat is not intended, on
the other hand, then it is essen
tial to convince the Peking
leaders that the big talk about
the islands is not a bluff like
the big talk at the time of Dien
Bien Phu. If the enemy can be
dissuaded from attacking, this
is the best and probably the
only way to dissuade them.
And if the enemy is not dis
suaded, it . is also desperately
necessary to heal the breach in
the Western Alliance insofar as
this may be possible. Both aims
can be attained at once, more
over, by a single simple action.
Let the President state Ameri
can intentions publicly and clear
ly, about as follows:
"We regard the offshore is
lands as vital advance positions
for an attack on Formosa (which
indeed they are). The Peking
government has made no secret
of its intention to attack For
mosa, which America is com
mitted to defend.
"On the other hand, we also
recognize that indefinite occu
pation of these islands by the
Formosa government is and will
always be a serious cause of in
ternational tension. Hence, if we
can obtain serious guarantees
that the Peking government
does not intend to attack For
mosa and the Pescadores, we
will not assist in the defense of
the offshore islands, and we will
do everything in our power to
persuade the Generalissimo to
evacuate his troops.
"On the other hand, if this
fair and reasonable arrangement
cannot be made, we see no rea
son to surrender vital advance
positions when we know very
well that an attack on Formosa
will follow. In these circum
stances, we shall defend the is
lands with everything we've got,
and we hope our allies will un
derstand our motives."
SUCH a statement would pub
licly express the policy which
the nation has been pursuing
behind the scenes. It would make
an electric change, according to
the highest British authorities,
in the whole situation in London.
It would justify the American
position before the rest of the
world. And it would warn the
enemy clearly of what he was
getting into, as Secretary Dulles
himself used to argue the enemy
should always be warned, in the
old days when he was denounc
ing the Truman administration
for "keeping them guessing.
Indeed the only known objec
tion to this move, which might
conceivably save us from the
disaster we seem to be drifting
into, is that it would make ser
ious trouble in American domes
tic politics.
(Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune.)
of good sportsmanship. We shall
hope school officials and the stu
dents will discuss this incident
in a manner that will prevent its
ever happening again. Eugene
Register-Guard.
Oregonian Owner
Buys St. Louis Paper
St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Pur
chase of the controlling interest
in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
for a reported $6,000,000 by
Samuel I. Newhouse was an
nounced Wednesday by E. Lan
sing Ray, publisher of the morn
ing newspaper.
Newhouse also owns the con
trolling interest in the Newark
(N.J.) Star-Ledger, the Syracuse
(N.Y.) Post-Standards the Port
land (Ore.), Oregonian, the Long
Island Press, Long Island Star
Journal and the Staten Island
(N.Y.) Advance.
The Globe-Democrat, now in
its 103rd year of publication,
has a daily circulation of about
295,000 in Missouri and Illinois.
AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP
Salem U.R) Thomas
Schrock, Bend, a senior at Wil
lamette University here, has
been awarded the Elihu Root
Samuel J. Tilden scholarship to
New York University of law. He
was one of two students from
seven western states to receive
the award.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Women's fashions note:
This spring hosiery manufac
turers are giving women plenty
of variety in the previous lineup
of skin-toned nylons. Pastel tints
are shown in every color of the
rainbow delicate shades of
pink, lilac, gold, blue, gray and
green, so sheer they make a
mere shadow on the legs.
WEIRD?
IT
Ultra-modern?
Scandalous, perhaps?
WAIT a minute.
" It:
may intrigue you to know
that colored stockings have
been popular with the ladies
ever since early 1500s. Along
about this time a young French
man by the name of Francois
Rabelais wrote that the ladies
were wearing "scarlet or crim
son stockings reaching three
inches above the knee and the
edge thereof finely embroidered
or cut out."
Somewhat later,-in 1596, to be
exact, an Englishman named
Philip Stubbes made note of the
fact that "ladies stockings were
oi silk, jarnsey, worsted, crewell
thread or cloth in aU kinds of
changeable colors such as green,
red, russet, tawny,, white and
else what, cunningly cut and
curiously indented at every
point with quirks, clocks, open
seams and everything else ac
cordingly," r
T WOULD appear, you see.
that for a long, LONG time
men have been watching worn-
Uen s stockings. -
And
One suspects
For a long, long time women
have been studying the subject
of wearing the kind of stockings
tne men would want to watch.
rPHEN there are the play
- clothes the women wear, in
cluding the bathing suits they
play around in on the sands of
the seashore taking care mean
while to see that they don't get
the pretty things wet.
Those, you'd say, must CER
TAINLY be STRICTLY modern.
IIAIT another minute.
" Awav hark in tho Him ticsin-
nings of things, when man had
just come down out of the trees
and started living in caverns in
stead having just discovered
fire, which, when built in front
of the cave door, kept the wild
animals away, there was a pre
cocious race known as Cro-Mag
non man.
The Cro-Magnon ladies appear
to have worn away back then in
the pleasant summer days along
the banks of the rivers adjacent
to the caverns a "ceinture"
(French for belt) of leopard skin,
or something of the sort, that
was apparently a very, very
early model of what a few years
ago knocked our eyes out in the
form of the Bikini bathing suit.
TTOW DO we know these things
-"about -'the people who lived
so long ago?
Well, Cro-Magnon man had an
amazing artistic touch and he
spent a lot of time drawing pic
tures on the walls of the caverns
in which he lived.
These pre-Bikini ceintures are
prominent arnong the pictures,
which have been preserved
amazingly in the dry air of the
Cro-Magnon caverns.
So far as women's fashions
are concerned, we are almost
forced to believe that there is no
new thing under the sun.
TN CLOSING, a word about this
Frenchman Rabelais. He was
a physician who wrote as a
hobby. He is famous in litera
ture 'for his robust and out
spoken style, and "Rabelaisian"
has become a synonym for bois
terously satyrical, grotesque, ex
travagant and licentious lan
guage. Even Ernest Hemingway, you
see, didn't start that. There was
somebody still earlier for him
to copy.
Communications
Letter! to the Editor mult bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is Dermis
ible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with, an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion. Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
He Favors Printing More Money
To the Editor: When we went
to school our study of "civics"
informed us that congress had
sole power to coin money or
print currency and regulate the
value there-of. That is all good
and well.
Then why not the congress
issue real money when a big
project comes up, like building
a nation-wide highway system?
Would it not be more frugal
to pay as you progress,, than to
issue more bonds or add more
taxes to the national debt?
We cannot see where a distri
bution of new highway funds
pro-rated to each of the 48 states
would cause any more inflation
as the rate of work progress
would naturally take care of any
fear of that ordeaL
Then some of our former
taxes could be reduced accord
ingly. In all emergencies, seems
necessity is always the mother
of invention.
We would like to hear more
on this subject. It may be in
teresting to read about. There
are more wonders yet than man
has discovered.
Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman
t, Medford, Oregon.
Control of German
Rearmament Presents
Problem for Allies
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
West German rearmament
seems to be in sight at last, and
the Allies will face a new prob
lem soon how
to control it.
A lot of peo
ple in France
and Britain, in
cluding some
who agree that
German rearm
ament is nec
essary, are ask
ing whether it
will lead to
the revival of
German mili
tarism. Charles McCann
The German
armament trea
ties on which the French Senate
is to vote Friday provide for
West German armed forces total
ling 500,000 men. -
At first, the problem will be
to get the armament program
going so that German trooDS mav
take their place with those of the
Allies in the line of defense
against possible Russian aggres
sion.
Government Democratic
The present West German
government, under Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer, is safely
Democratic.
But Adenauer the one
Patricia Lee
Oregon Princess
At Cherry Festival
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. MC
Washington The leaves are
beginning to put in their annual
appearance on the numerous
trees which beautify the Capitol
grounds here. I am reminded
that the time for the blossoming
of the famous Japanese cherry
trees which rim the tidal basin
is not long hence and that means
of course, that the City of Wash
ington's annual "Cherry Blos
som Festival" is about due.
Each state selects a "Cherry
Blossom Princess" to take part
in the festival. We were mighty
proud parents a few years ago
when our daughter Janie was
named the princess for Oregon.
This year Miss Particia Lee,
daughter of Dorothy and Scott
Lee of Portland, is our princess.
Her mother, Dorothy McCul-
lough Lee, was formerly mayor
of Portland. The Lees live here
now where Mrs. Lee is a mem
ber of the Federal Parole Board
Bill To Aid Schools
The House of Representatives
has just passed a bill which is
of considerable interest to school
and public health officials. This
legislation will restore the right
of local schools and public
health agencies to receive as do
nations such government surplus
property as medical and dental
supplies, chemical items, cloth
ing, electronics parts and a score
of other items.
Congress passed laws in 1949
and 1950 providing for that
method of disposing of certain
surplus property. However, in
1954 the Department of Defense
which controls most of the sur
plus items issued a regulation
which removed numerous classes
of common-use items from such
distribution. The action of the
Defense Department was taken
purely for accounting and budg
eting reasons. The Department
has assured Congress that its
regulation was not intended to
interfere with the school and
public health participation in
the surplus -program and wel
comes the passage of this new
law which will clarify the situa
tion. I have received numerous let
ters complaining of the situation
which the regulation caused so I
know that these lines will be
welcome news to many people in
Oregon. -1
Frank Morgan
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strong man in the entire German
political picture is 79 years
old. He can not last forever, and
when he goes the German arma
ment problem could become a
serious one.
Germany is traditionally the
most militaristic country in the
world. Its new fighting forces
will be under the command of
professional military men,
naturally eager to build up as
strong a military organization
as possible.
In the background, increas
ingly active, will be German
right wing militaristic elements,
awaiting any chance to get into
power.
There was a little incident, the
other day that was reminiscent
of what happened in Germany
after World War I.
Dispatches from Bonn, the
West German eamtal. said th
British Navy had bought three
fast motor boats whjch the West
German government had order
ed. Cheat Us Again?
These boats, 114 feet long,
were ordered by the West Ger
man Interior Ministry in 1952
for coastal patrol work. The
Germans said they would speed
45 miles an hour. Allied inspec
tors said their three diesel mo
tors of 2,500 horsepower each
would push them faster than 50
miles an hour.
The Allied Military Security
Board refused to approve con
struction of the ships. Neverthe
less, the Germans started work
on them. The work was stopped
by the Allies after the boats
were finished, and their partly
completed hulls lay in a Bremen
shipyard until the British de
cided to buy them.
This was just a minor inci
dent. But London newspapers
gave it some prominence they
remembered clearly how the
Germans had cheated on dis
armament after World War I
even before Adolf Hitler got into
power.
The London Daily Express
quoted a Londoner as saying:
"West or East they're the
same old Germans." The head
ilne on the story asked: "Will
They Cheat Us Again?"
Mediators, Butchers
To Meet in Portland
Portland (U.R) Federal
mediators were to meet with
employers and meatcutters here
again this afternoon in an at
tempt to settle a wage dispute
that threatens a strike here this
week end.
Mediator Leroy Smith said af
ter a session yesterday that there
was nothing to report "but both
sides have agreed to come back
Thursday."
Meatcutters have threatened
to strike about half the city's
meat markets. They seek a $3.50
per week raise while employers
have offered $2.
About 40 per cent of all Am
erican families own one or more
musical instruments of which pi
anos are in the greatest number.
NEW CLASSES
Starting March 28,
7:00 to 10:00 P.M.
Business Math.
Business English
Spelling and
Vocabulary Building
Robertson School
of Business
40-42 N. Riverside
Medford Phone 3-4264
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Harold Snodgrass
Directors
1 KING STREET
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