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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 29, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Manager Bud Conlin an
nounces plans for Medford base
ball team; talent already lined
up includes Paul "Hoosier" Hof
ford, Harry Dunn, George Gib
son, Pete Montgomery, Steve
Crippen, Harry Foley, Don Faw
cett and Ralph Cook. .
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Convicts in
a California prison are staging
"race riots." It appears some
hoodlums got mixed up with the
regular prisoners.
20 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1935
(It was Friday)
Roberta Ward Bebb to sing
part of Lady Allcash In St.
Mark's Altar Guild production
of opera 'Fra Diavolo."
E. H. Hedrick, Medford super
intendent of schools, receives re
port' that city schools will re
ceive $22,000 in Public Works
administration money for con
struction work.
30 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Otto DeJarnett of Medford
postoffice force, reported recov
ering from mumps.
Craters club to hold parade
tomorrow night to advertise the
"Crater Frolic" at the Armory.
40 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1915
(It was Monday)
Ashland police arrest elderly
German man and announce they
will hold him "until he can prove
he is not a Teuton spy."
Two Jackson county residents
return from Panama Pacific ex
position. One reports Jackson
county exhibit "is a beauty,"
and second says "it is a dis
grace." What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. A new Dust Bowl in the
Southwest is or isn't threatened
this year?
2. Which two of these are not
among the Four "H"s" of the
Four-H Clubs Home, heart,
health, hands, head, hygiene?
3. Minimum special delivery
charge on a parcel post package
is (a) 15, (b) 20, (c) 25, (d) 30 or
(e) 35 cents?
4. A perfect score of 300 has
been made at duck pin bowling;
right or wrong?
5. Women drink about (a) 10,
(b) 20, (c) 30, (d) 40 or (e) 50 per
cent of all beer consumed in the
U.S.?
6. "The Hill" means in Wash-!
ing the Capitol, White House,
State Dept.. Pentagon Bldg., or
baseball park?
7. A shibboleth is an Irish
cudgel, a letter with a hissing
sound, a watchword, a thin
metal slip or too much vibration
in the front wheels?
The Answers: 1. Is, say the
Agriculture Dep't. 2. Home and
hygiene. 3. 35 cents. 4. Wrong.
5. About 20 . 6. The Capitol. 7.
A watchword.
About 4,000,000 kilowatts of
hydro-electric capacity were in
stalled by the U. S. Bureau of
Reclamation during its first 50
years of operation.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Golf Anonymous
The annual Oregon Golf "Open" held here the
past week end was, thanks to a lot of hard work on
the part of the membership, a great success.
So many did so much, there is not space to men
tion them individually, but "we might state at this
point that if it had not been for ONE member there
would have been no tournament, and no 18-hole
course for that matter.
That one person refused to quit when everyone
else did.
He took the risk and deserves the success he has
had, although now the boys always so wise AFTER-the-event,
claim it was just a smart business deal.
r.
TT PROVED to be. But no one thought so then. This
one person alone was willing to take a chance on it,
and back the chance with time and money, his motive
being not what he might get out of it or might not
but what the community would what Medford need
ed in this direction at the time.
We are not going to mention his name for he is
the only 100 "humdinger" in existence who doesn't
like publicity, and is really uncomfortable when he
gets it.
Yes, this man did the job and he deserves the
credit. Although when things got going there were
plenty of willing hands and heads to help, as there
are today.
AND those "willing hands and heads" now deserve
special mention with a giant orchid for the hard
working and capable manager and his aides. Mr.
Manager was the "spark plug" for the drive
to get the "Open" and then, made it one that will al
ways be a credit to Medford, and all Southern Ore
gon. "1X7E GRANT there are always nice things said by
visitors on such an occasion, and they can be
discounted somewhat. But anyone who mixed around
in the tournament gallery or among the players at all
during the tournament we are sure will agree, that
the way things were managed from the first day to
the last, made a big hit with all the visitors, also the
warm hospitality, as did the new course, its scenic
beauties, its sporting qualities, and the beauties and
attractiveness of the entire valley.
IN SHORT it was a great "ad" for this part of the
state and one that will pay off in various and sun
dry intangibles as well as tangibles as time goes on.
Even the Weather Man, went all out to give the
visitors the best climatic offering available in the
state, during the week-end period. He slipped up a
bit but only during the final hours of the final day.
The gallery complained then but the players didn't
for the "golden dew" made the greens less tricky,
the atmosphere more stimulating and improved the
scores.
So the venture ended, as all similar ventures
should end, but so seldom do with EVERYBODY
happy! R.W.R.
The People Should Know
There is one question about the release of the
Yalta papers that has never been answered. It should
be.
A certain newsman asked Secretary of State
Dulles when he departed for Canada shortly after
the release was ordered why the decision had been
made at that particular time.
It .was a perfectly fair question and a timely one.
But instead of answering our Secretary of State
lost his temper, jutted out nis jaw pugnaciously at
the inquirer, and then strode off to his plane, forcing
his companion to run to catch up with him.
He has not answered yet.
LIE SHOULD. Or someone in authority in the state
department should. For there is no question
some official gave the OK, or the papers would never
have been released. Who was it? Or did they just
"leak out" through some unknown subordinate? If
the latter is true, then some employee in the state de
partment was responsible for the "leak." That is
even more serious.
Who was it, and why?
The people are entitled to know. R.W.R.
Only One Churchill
It is reported persistently in London that Sir
Winston Churchill will resign in a few days from his
official position, as head of the government.
But Sir Winston has stated to his constituents
that he hopes to serve them for some time in Parlia
ment, as he has for so many years.
"llE HOPE this diagnosis is correct For the world
' drama would just not be the same without Sir
Winston Churchill taking an active part in it, nor as
hopeful.
He is a many-sided man, but his outstanding char
acteristic, we think, has been his wisdom, not after,
but before the event. Another name for it is fore
sight, an ability not only to understand the lessons
of the past, but to apply them, with an uncannily ac
curate instinct regarding the future.
As a good example here is Churchill's brief com
ment on Yalta, quote :
It is easy, after the Germans are beaten, to condemn
those who did their best to hearten the Russian military
effort and to keep in harmonious contact with our Great
Ally, who had suffered so frightfully. What would have
happened if we had quarrelled with Russia while the
Germans still had three or four hundred divisions on the
fighting front? Our hopeful assumptions were soon to be
falsified. Still, they were the only ones possible at the
time.
R.W.R.
Tuesday, March 29, I9SS
Sen. Knowland Said
Becoming 'Mystery
Man' of Republicans
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Big
Bill Knowland rapidly is becom
ing the mystery man of the Re
publican party. It is fair to as
sume that President Eisenhower,
among many, is baffled by the
young man from California.
Big Bill is Sen. William Fife
Knowland, the 46-year-old Re
publican leader of the Senate.
He was hand-picked for that im
portant job by the late Robert
A. Taft, whose illness forced
By FRANK JENKINS
In this series of little travel
tales, I've been spending a lot
of time on Las Vegas. The place
is curiously interesting. Not be
cause of the Arabian Nights
palaces that it calls hotels. Not
because of its fantastic gambling
casinos. Not because of its night
spots, which so far outbid Broad
way and Hollywood that the sure
sign of success in the entertain
ment world of today is a Las
Vegas engagement.
It's the weird ECONOMICS
of it that are so intriguing.
TN AMERICA, we've proceeded
on the theory that growth and
development are based upon
PRODUCTIVE enterprise. Upon
the belief, that is, that wealth is
created by the application of
human labor to raw materials.
We've always insisted that if
a hamlet is to grow into a city it
must have within its range of in
fluence rich soil and plenty of
water for the growing of crops.
Or it must have minerals. Or
timber. Or a deep water harbor
at the mouth of a river, where
the ships of the world can take
on cargoes. Or a spiderweb of
railroads.
Something tangible. Some
thing that can be weighed or
measured.
I AS VEGAS has none of these
"tangibles. Its only PRODUC
TIVE industry is a relatively
small metals reduction plant, es
tablished in wartime to provide
sorely needed strategic metals
and continued intermittently
since.
Yet the town is growing like
a weed. It is steadily covering
the " surrounding desert with
handsome buildings. It is only
a few years since its population
was 10,000. Then, suddenly, it
leaped to 25,000. Now it claims
50,000 and has its sights set on
100,000.
TTOW DID all this happen?
Well, here's the way it works:
People keep pouring in, and
there must be houses to house
them. That makes work for the
builders. These incoming
throngs must be fed, and that
makes work for cooks and dish
washers. Their shirts must be
washed, and that makes work
for laundries. They come in
automobiles, and these automo
biles must be fueled and main
tained. That makes work for
service station men and me
chanics. People eat too much and
drink too much and stay out too
late at night and get sick as a
result, and that makes work for
doctors. And so on. I could go on
like this for pages. '
THE POINT I wish to make is
that here in T.as Vpoas urhin h
with the exception of the Hen
derson metals plant 20 miles
away hasn't a single smoke
stack, hasn't an acre of farm
land anywhere near, has only
the sketchiest kind of a cattle
industry and hasn't water enough
to keep its lawns green, tens of
thousands of people are kept
busy as bees just taking in each
others washing, cooking each
other's meals and doing each
other's chores.
What the economists call
SERVICE occupations.
LAS VEGAS, of course, DOES
Via vo a nrinial in1iirfr
upon which its prosperity rests.
That industry is gambling
gambling in all its forms: roul
ette, craps, faro, blackjack, keno,
bingo.
But principally it has slot ma
chines, acres of them, shoals of
them, clacking and clattering
like a vast assemblage of auto
matic looms. Just servicing this
gambling industry makes a lot
of jobs.
"PVERY growing city, of course,
has to have something that
keeps on bringing in NEW
money. Money from elsewhere.
Money to be added to what is
already there.
In the case of Las Vegas this
new money comes to town in the
pockets of the thousands who
come here to play, to show off,
to have something to go home
and teU one's neighbors about.
But principally to gamble.
Take the gambling away and
Las Vegas would wilt and die
and the desert would take over
again.
pEOPLE do win at gambling.
- We came away with a gambl
ing profit of 40 PER CENT
40 cents winnings on a total in
vestment of a dollar.
Here's an interesting thought:
If EVERYBODY did that well,
Las Vegas would shrivel up and
die.
In the Day's News
him to step down from the lead
ership. Knowland is in a position to
give the administration more
trouble than most Democrats
can dish out, and he frequently
does so. The question before the
puzzled Republicans is:
"What's Bill shooting for?"
Gunning for Nixon?
There are competent observ
ers of the political scene who
believe Knowland is shooting for
next year's Republican presiden
tial nomination. Others think he
would like to displace Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon on the
Republican ticket next year.
There are indications that the
state is not large enough to hold
both of these ambitious and able
young men. Nixon is 41. Both
are in a position to aspire at
some time to the White House.
Whatever Knowland wants, he
is going after it with fists often
flying to Mr. Eisenhower's chin.
Over the we'ek end, Knowland
repeated on a television panel
his belief that Mr. Eisenhower
was not necessary to a Republi
can election victory next year.
He has said previously that he
was against the Draft-Ike move
ment on the theory that a man
who was reluctant should not be
prodded into a presidential cam
paign. That is mighty close to politi
cal heresy from the standpoint
of most Republicans who have
sounded off on the subject. But
that's not all. Knowland refused
to tell the television audience
whether he will support the
President's foreign trade bill
when it reaches the Senate some
weeks hence.
Own Yalta Campaign
Mr. Eisenhower made it plain
last week that the disclosures
in the Yalta papers should not
be made use of politically
against the Democrats.
Knowland challenged by be
ginning his own campaign
against the Democrats with Yalta
ammunition. He will not be alone
on that. You will hear Nixon and
others on the subject of Yalta
as the election campaign devel
ops. Knowland is for a hard policy
toward Red China. He urged a
China blockade, but Mr. Eisen
hower would not agree. Know
land is quick with doubts about
the value of any top level inter
national conference which would
include the Soviet Union, where
as the President now seems to
be leaning much in that direc
tion. Knowland not only disagrees
with the administration but
stands up in meeting and says
so. He has been a White House
breakfast guest several times of
late. But the hospitality has not
stilled his voice. Nor is there
any indication that Knowland
has told the President what he
is up to.
Forthcoming Asian-African
Talks Declared Unlikely
To Cause Trouble for U.S.
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
It appears to be increasingly
unlikely that the big Asian-African
conference to be held in
Indonesia will cause any trouble
for the United States and its
allies.
In fact, the conference might
even bring the Chinese Commu
nists around to a more reason
able attitude..
The two big figures at the con
ference will be Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru of India and
Premier Chou En-lai of Red
China.
Nehru, the leader of the "neu
tralist" movement in East Asia,
is most likely to raise the issue
of the admittance of the Chinese
Reds to the United Nations.
Chou on Spot
It is likely also that he may
bring up the question of South
Africa's race segregation laws.
But the conferences can mere
ly talk about these issues.
It is difficult to foresee what
Chou En-lai will do. Certainly,
he will have to make sure that
he plays a leading part. He will
be the voice of the Communist
world and further it is not often
that the Chinese Red govern
ment is invited to any general
conference.
It will be surprising if Chou
does not put himself upon his
good behavior.
He and Ho Chi Minh of North
ern Viet Nam in Indochina will
be the only Communist chief
delegates among the 28 who will
attend the conference at Ban
dung. West Has Spokesman
One reason many diplomats
believe that Red China is un
likely to force the United States
into war at this moment is that
Chou will want to make a good
impression in Bandung, and rep
resent his government as one
that seeks peace.
Either Carlos P. Romulo or
Carlos P. Garcia will represent
The Philippines. Romulo, who is
President Ramon Magsaysay's
personal envoy to the United
States, would be about as safe a
spokesman for th views held by
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Gym Use Protested
To the Editor: There is a ques
tion we would like answered.
Just why was the New World
Society (Jehovah's Witnesses)
permitted to hold a meeting in
our Jackson school gymnasium
on March 24 when they are
against the teachings and prin
ciples which we promote and
want our children to learn and
uphold?
That was a clever bit of strate
gy on their part giving the im
pression that our school board,
district and principal are in ac
cord with their theories.
We know all of them are not.
Permission, we know, was
granted and in accordance with
the regulations set up. Cannot
these rules and regulations be
changed to eliminate the use of
our public school building by
groups and organizations who do
not and will not salute our flag
which flies before it, nor protect
the country which it represents?
Mrs. Walter McPherson
Donald C. Wilson
Ned L. Chinn
Mrs. Darrell C. Wilson
Jim Stephenson
Mrs. Don Herbert
Mrs. Jim Stephenson
Mrs. Ned L. Chinn
Mrs. A. N. White
Mrs. John P. Jones
John Paul Jones'
R. W. Colpitis
Mrs. R. W. Colpitis
She Favors Sales Tax
To the Editor: Your commu
nications column is a fine thing
a safety valve where people
may Voice their likes and dis
likes and I too have a "beef"
about the Oregon 6tate double
tax.
I own property in California
from which I derive a livable
income, and when I paid .the
Oregon state tax this month I
paid $84, while to California,
where my source of living comes
from, the tax was 92 cents. Is
that fair? It is not. I lived in
California for many years and
never in aU that time was the
state tax over $7.50 for both
my husband and myself.
The sales tax is the only logl
cal way to increase state funds
We are taxed to the limit here
as it is now but somehow one
never misses the sales tax. Thou
sands of tourists travel through
this beautiful country each year,
and they spend money here.
They will spend no less, even
though the 3 per cent tax is
levied on their purchases. It is
done in so many states now
no one thinks anything of it, anl
tne tourist trade alone would
bring in many thousands of dol
lars to our state treasury. How
ever, I don't think food, meat,
milk and such, should be taxed.
I wish someone would tell me
why Oregon is so slow (or stub
born) in adopting the modern,
and better methods of living in
general, of her sister states.
In talking to one "dyed-in-
the-wool. Oregonian I asked her
that question, and I said, "Do
the Western Allies as Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles
would be. Garcia, who is vice
president and also foreign minis
ter, is a firm friend of the West
also.
In addition the delegates will
include Premier Mohammed Ali
of Pakistan, Foreign Minister
Wan Waithiakon of Thailand
and Premier Adnan Menderes of
Turkey. They may be depended
upon to oppose any move in the
conference which would react
unfavorably against the Western
Allies.
NCAAP Convention Set
In Klamath Falls Soon
Klamath Falls (U.R) The
Northwest area conference of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
will hold its biennial meeting in
Klamath Falls this year.
NCAAP chapters in Oregon,
Washington, California, Idaho
and Alaska are expected to send
delegates to the meet which is
set for April 23 and 24.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
. Brennan
It is embarrassing when jun
ior's baseball crashes the
neighbor's picture window,
or when my TV aerial falls
onto the neighbor's car. Can
my Personal Liability Policy
be modified so I can volun
tarily pay for such property
damages?
For Information Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phono 2-4940
you people really want to keep
Oregon in the horse and buggy
age?" She answered, "We like
it that way." "And the quicker
the California-Oakies go back
where they come from the bet
ter it will suit us." Perhaps that
is the answer to my question.
But I love this valley of the
Rogue and have purchased a
home here, and have met some
very wonderful people and I am
staying regardless, but I would
like to see this lovely state bring
itself up to date.
Three cheers for the sales tax!
Nina M. Chandler,
917 Newtown
Against Fluoridation
To the Editor: Since Medford's
water supply is too Dure for
healthful living, steps are now
being taken to have it hopped
up with fluorin to prevent tooth
decay.
I understand that fluorin is a
poisonous element, similar to
chlorin (which was used in
World War I as a deadly poison
gas). An element such as fluorin
when taken into the body is
there to stay and is stored up
in the system as a foreign mat
ter. If enough is accumulated in
one place it could cause serious
illness, even paralysis.
Very few sensible people
would stand in the way to pre
vent a child from his rightful
heritage of strong teeth, free of
caries. But if there was a pos
sibility that the method used to
stop tooth decay would eventual
ly cause that child to become a
cripple or a victim of some dis
ease the situation would be
looked upon in a different man
ner. Instead of taking the easy, but
uncertain and perhaps danger
ous way of correcting bad teeth
why not turn to the sensible,
sure and natural method; which
is proper nutrition. I'll admit it
is a difficult problem in this
modern age of refined, pre
cooked, homogenized, sugared,
buttered, distorted and guess
what's-in-it foods, but if a per
son WORKS at it his efforts
would bring about the desired
results.
The foundation of all tooth
misery could very easily be the
excessive use of refined sugar
and bleached flour, leaving very
little room or appetite for the
real body-building foods such
as fruits, vegetables, proteins
and whole grains. Health author
ities are both willing and able to
help cooperative parents in their
nutritional problems.
Just one more thing before
turning this off and that is a
word about the solid teeth of the
Eskimo, before the white man
invasion with candy for the kid
dies. It is a well-known fact that
the Eskimo women made a prac
tice of chewing their mates'
shoes which were made of ani
mal skins, not to get even, of
course, but to make the skins
soft and pliable. It would take
teeth of stone to chew out a job
such as that. And THEIR water
supply was it spiked with
fluorin? No, Dennis, it was snow
water as pure and clean as our
own Medford water.
Mabel Vroman
1006 So. Grape St.,
Medford, Ore.
Grunewald Convicted
On Tax Bribery Charge
New York (U.R) Henry
Grunewald, Washington influ
ence peddler and tax fixer, was
convicted last night of fraud and
obstructing justice in a $160,000
tax bribery case.
Grunewald was freed on $30,
000 bail until his sentencing Fri
day despite a government warn
ing that "the mystery man" has
more than one million dollars
in hidden cash and might try to
flee the country.
Grunewald could be sent to
prison for five years and be
fined $10,000.
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Bills in
Legislature
Salem U.P.) The Senate
State and Federal Affairs Com
mittee headed by Sen. Mark Hat
field (R-Salem) Monday voted
out with a favorable recommen
dation a memorial calling on
congress to name the lake back
of McNary Dam "Aldrich Lake,"
in honor of E. B. Aldrich, late
publisher of the East Oregonian
at Pendleton.
The committee also considered
a package ox racing bills, but
took no action.
It tabled a House Joint Me
morial passed by the House to
call on congress to funds for
the Green Peter and Cougar
Dam projects in the Willamette
Basin for licensing of hydroelec
tric installations by local ag
encies.
Salem (U.R) The House
Monday passed a bill providing
for the subdistricting of Multno
mah county, despite scattered ob
jections that the measure should
have been considered at the
same time as subdistricting pro
posals for Marion and Lane
counties.
The bill, which has already
passed the Senate, would pro
vide that populous Multnomah
be cut into districts for the elec
tion of each of its 16 representa
tives in the state Legislature.
They are now elected from the
county at large.
Similar bills for Marion and
Lane counties are now in Senate
and House committees.
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