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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 6, 1945
(It was Friday)
Maj. George E. Andrews, for
mer Medford resident stationed
with the Air Corps in Kansas
City, plans visit here.
From Arthur Perry's ye
Smudge Pot column: Horticult
urists report that "wooly aphis"
is late in making his annual ap
pearance. It is suspected the
"wooly aphis" is not wooly en
ough for the current weather.
20 YEARS AGO
April 6. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Jerome T. Boshears, 51, well
known Medford man, dies while
working at local market.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Upton Sin
clair of California, plans a new
political party, and is figuring
on the Jackson county folks, who
will join anything once.
SO YEARS AGO
April 6, 1925
(It was Monday)
Ashland first, Medford third,
in state auto registrations since
Jan. 1.
New building scheduled to be
constructed at Main st. and Riv
erside ave.
40 YEARS AGO
April 6, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Chinese woman from Yreka,
wearing a blouse and floppy ki
mono trousers, attracts wide at
tention on Main st. near Nash
hotel.
George W. Dunn, Ashland,
named president of Southern
Oregon Stockmen's association.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Easter this year comes very
late or very early or at about the
usual time?
2. The U. S. this year is spend
ing more on the Air Force than
on the Army and Navy combined;
right or wrong?
3. Do more or less than half of
all Americans now live in the
states where they were born?
4. The federal deficit estimat
ed for this fiscal year is much
higher ;or much lower than in
the last full fiscal year under
Truman, or about the same?
5. The Girl Scouts of America
was founded in the North, South,
Middle West or West?
6. About half, more than half,
or less than half of all U. S. hos
pital beds are now occupied by
the mentally ill?
7. Margarita C. Cansino was
originally the name of which
prominent screen star?
The Answers: 1. At about the
usual time; 2. Wrong; 3. More
than half; 4. About the same; 5.
In the South (Savanah, Ga.; 6.
More than half; 7. Rita Hay
worth. Baseball-Size
Hailstones Reported
Newport, Ark. (U.R) Hail
stones "as big as baseballs" hit
Newport during the night, but
authorities said today most of
the damage reported was to win
dows and signs.
The sheriffs office said today
total damage had not been esti
mated, but most of it was brok
en glass. There were no injuries.
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mail tribune
School
Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby and the
National Congress of Parents and Teachers apparent
ly do not see eye to eye on the nation's need for addi
tional school classrooms.
'THE secretary, testifying last week before the House
Education and Labor committee on President Eis
enhower's school program and' other proposals for
federal aid to education, said an estimate of the pros
pective classroom shortage by 1960 has been revised
downward from 407,000 to 176,000 as a result of
studies by the states. She added that the president's
program could eliminate any shortage by 1960.
Mrs. Hobby contended that the rate of classroom
construction has been stepped up since 1953 from
50,000 to 60,000 classrooms a year.
fN the other hand, the PTA regards most of the
school construction aid bills introduced in the
84th Congress including S.968, the plan proposed
by President Eisenhower in February as inadequate
to meet the requirements for a "realistic program that
can, and will, aid the critical situation facing the
country as a whole."
Mrs. Newton P. Leonard, national president of
the PTA, has called upon local chapters of the organ
ization to press their representatives in Washington
for immediate preparation and passage of an emer
gency school construction bill. The situation, she told
the nearly 9,000,000 members of the PTA, "has gone
far beyond meager measures; the classroom shortage
is critical in nature and national in scope." E.C.F.
Passing of the Crank
The folks out Central Point, Table Rock, Old
Stage road and Blackwell
new dial telephones more
won't find them half as
mate-like as were the old crank-em-yourselt instru
ments they have used so long. .
TELEPHONES first came to Central Point back
around 1900 when one
Table Rock road, and another out the Willow Springs
road.
There wras no switchboard to connect the two lines
at first. The nearest the wires came together was the
telephone on the town end of one in the drygoods
department of Kobnette's store and the phone on the
end of the other in the grocery department of the same
emporium.
If a subscriber on one line wished to get a mes
sage to someone on the other circuit he called the
store and whatever clerk answered would trot back
and forth between the phones in the two departments
to relay the word.
The first switchboard came into use in 1909, a
year after formation of the Central Point Mutual Tele
phone company. The latter concern carried on
throughout the ensuing years until it sold out to the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company recently.
The parent company was mutually owned, each
subscriber holding a share of stock. The subscribers,
being the owners, didn't kick too much when the
somewhat shaky wires went down or other troubles
interrupted service.
llIO ST everyone had known everyone else on the
line for years and years and if a caller couldn't
raise the number he wanted there was usually some
one on the wire to tell him the neighbor had gone to
town, was out in the lower forty, or to offer to deliv
er a message when the family returned.
The fact that a caller succeeded in getting through
to a distant number sometimes took on the importance
of high emprise. First there would be the rapid twirl
ing of the generator handle, then the loudly-voiced
instructions to the operator and finally the yelling
directed at the party on the other end.
'The switchboard operators, most all of them un
believably patient and long suffering, knew better
than anyone else in the neighborhood what was going
on and often were able to give advice or be helpful
in ways which the impersonal, strictly-business little
dials can never duplicate.
Now the PTT company says it won't be long be
fore a Central Point subscriber can pick up his receiv
er, dial Uncle Elmer in New York, or wherever, and
get the connection in a matter of seconds without the
aid of an operator. Wonder what those Robnette
store line patrons would think of that?
ONLY those whose acquaintance with the telephone
dates back to the earlier models of Mr. Bell's in
vention can realize how many interesting though
sometimes frustrating experiences the old instruments
provided. Subscribers of the Central Point area will
undoubtedly have more efficient service but they will
find that the coming of the dials has taken some of
the zest out of telephone use. E.C.F.
Japanese Stunned By
Tokyo (U.R) Japanese of
ficials were stunned today by
Russia's refusal to hold peace
talks in New York.
Prime Minister Ichiro Hato
yama said the latest Soviet note
proposed the talks be held eith
er here or in Moscow.
This was a reversal of the
previous Soviet willingness to
meet with Japan any place the
Japanese wanted. As a result of
a previous Soviet note express
ing this attitude Japanese offic
ials had almost taken it for
granted the negotiations would
be held in New York.
The Prime Minister said Jap-
an will not send its answer until
Wednesday, April 8. 1935
Needs
Hill way may find their
effecient but we bet they
neighborly and sort of inti
line was Strang out along
Soviet Refusal
it gives the Russian note care
ful study.
Mapping Program
Salem U.R) The House yes
terday passed a Senate memorial
urging Congress to set up a topo
graphical mapping program on
a priority basis.
Rep. C. Allen Tom (R.-Rufus)
said that only 30 per cent of the
land area of Oregon has been
mapped topographically and
that at the present rate it would
take until the year 2008 to finish
the job.
He said principal benefit of
complete mapping would be in
the field of property appraisal
for taxation purposes.
Britain Will Have
Period of Collective
Leadership With Eden
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Great Britain will have
period of collective leadership
with Sir Anthony Eden as Prime
Minister.
There is
doubt tha
Eden win be
the boss, he is
a much more
forceful
man than he
appeared dur
ing the years
when he was
overshadowed
by Churchill
Eden may be
Charles Mr.C:ann eXDeCiea aiSO
to maintain personal direction of
foreign policy.
The foreign affairs field is
Eden's specialty, and in these
tense days the head man of any
government has to keep a close
watch on world developments,
But Richard Austen Butler as
Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Harold MacMillan as For
eien Secretary will be fellow
members of a directing team.
Churchill was a one man
show. He was expert on practi
cally everything. He had held
every important post in the cab
met but that of Foreign Secre
tary. He was a combat veteran
of four wars and a Nobel prize
winning historian.
Enraged Colleagues
Also, in the years before he
was Prime Minister, Churchill
used to enrage his colleagues 'by
making helpful suggestions on
how to run their departments
The fact that the suggestions al
most always were valuable did
not mak him more popular.
Eden is not like that. Like
Churchill, he is a man of cour
age and competence. He knows
how to xight. He risked his en
tire career when in 1938 he re
signed the foreign ministry be
cause he felt the government
was knuckling under to Hitler,
But he knows how to compro
mise. Eden played a big part in
bringing East and West together
in the Geneva Conference which
ended the Indochina war. It was
he who toured European capitals
after France killed the European
Defense Community plan, and
played the major part in prepar
ing the way for the Paris treaties
under which Western Germany
will be armed.
Impeccable and Tough
Eden is 57, handsome, impec
cably dressed and suave. But he
can be tough in an argument. He
flies into blind, fuming rages.
Butler is 52. As Chancellor of
the Exchequer, which corre
sponds to Secretary of the Treas
ury, he has brought Britain out
of austerity and into solid pros
perity. "Rab," as he is called
from his initials, is a pale, frosty
looking intellectual. In debate
he is quick and sharp. He is
Eden's No. 2 man and political
heir.
MacMillan is 60. He is a hard
headed Scotsman with a near
walrus mustache. He became
well known to President Eisen
hower during World War II
when he was minister-resident at
Allied headquarters in North
west Africa. Before he became
Defense Minister under Church
ill, MacMillan was Housing
Minister. He took the housing
program ball away from the
Laborites and made his name by
building 300,000 homes a year.
With MacMillan in the gov
ernment, tne United States is
Churchill, Eden
Backed for Prizes
Oslo, Norway (U.R) In
nuentiai persons in various
countries are actively support
ing Sir Winston Churchill and
Anthony Eden for Nobel Peace
Prizes, informed sources said to
day.
The Nobel Prize committee
has two peace awards to bestow
this year because it postponed
the 1954 prize.
Until recently Eden and form
er French Premier Pierre Men-des-France
were considered the
most likely choices for their ef
forts at the Geneva conference
which brought the Indochina
peace. But Churchill's chances
improved with his resignation,
Now He'll Have Good
Story for Little Woman
Downey, Calif. (U.R) Police
finally stopped salesman James
Munro Sowell's speeding car
Tuesday by blocking the road
with a hay truck.
Police estimated that during
the wild chase, in which the
salesman left a patrol car far
behind, Sowell traveled 13 miles
in eight minutes, averaging al
most 100 miles per hour.
Sowell, described as a "model
citizen," explained to officers
who booked him for evading ar
rest: "I told my wife I'd be home
at 2 a.m. and I was two minutes
late."
Water-sport enthusiasts are
now offered a 200-pound plas
tic boat, half the weight of con
ventional boats of similar size
and with 10 times their impact
strength.
still represented in the cabinet.
Like Churchill, he had an Amer
ican mother, Helen Artie Belles,
daughter of Dr. J. Tarleton
Belles, of Spencer, Ind. He is a
member of the great MacMillan
publishing family.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I'd like to bounce back today
to New Mexico. It can be de
scribed with reasonable accur
acy as America's oldest white
settled area. Seen first by white
men in the latter 1500s, it slum
bered in the sun for nearly four
centuries.
It is stirring in its sleep
stretching and yawning and
coming awake. Albuquerque,
claiming a population in excess
of 150,000, calls itself the fastest
growing city in America. I
reckon that isn't far from the
truth. Albuquerque gives every
appearance of bursting out at
the seams.
Santa Fe, old, quaint, artistic
and literary, is perking up and
beginning to feel growing pains.
It has been a capital city since
the beginning of the 17th cen
tury, and for the most of these
350 years it has been content to
remain a capital city.
B'
UT
Of late-
Santa Fe is beginning to talk
of becoming the financial and
industrial center of New Mex
ico's burgeoning' uranium in
dustry.
W
THAT makes' New Mexico
tick?
Well, in its earlier centuries
as a country dominated by white
men, the cattle industry was the
big motivating influence in its
economy. The Spanish have al
ways leaned toward the cattle
business. Those years when the
cowbrute was king were glam
orous years, and they left their
glamorous mark on the region.
The big ranches, operated by
Spanish dons up at the top and
by Mexican vaqueros down at
the bottom, must have been fabu
lous affairs.
There was some copper. There
was some silver. More recently,
oil and gas have been brought
into the picture. There never
was much commercial agricul
ture. There is very little as yet.
It is probable that there never
will be much, for agriculture re
quires water and New Mexico is
water-short.
THERE is, of course, the fed
eral government, which is a
big item in New Mexico's econ
omy especially since the atom
bomb was first conceived in the
minds of the physicists.. New
Mexico's wide-open spaces have
lent themselves admirably to
atomic experimentation, and
that, has meant the spending of a
LOT gf money.
But let's leave that out. Gov
ernmental expenditures AREN'T
natural resource.
AT this point, I'd like to quote
an aVilp vmins 'Mow lWoviV-in
a New Mexican by adoption,
not by birth.
"This state," he says, "is at
tracting a surprising number of
young men from elsewhere. It
isn't the glamor of the past that
is bringing them. It is FAITH IN
NEW MEXICO'S FUTURE.
"They think this is going to
be a young man's state that is,
state where smart and able
young men can carve out careers
for themselves. Personally,
think they're right. That's why
I m here.
JD
a. ari
xiKe to aaa, on my own
account, that no state can have
a more valuable asset than smart
and able young men who are
seeking to carve out careers for
themselves.
S0,
far, I've been listing New
Mexico's assets. At this point
must mention a liability. The
liability is LACK OF WATER."
This able young man I've been
quoting isn't worrying about ag
riculture. He shrugs it off on the
ground that there never has been
much of it and probably never
will be much.
What he's thinking of is the
almost certain lack of sufficient
water for LARGE INDUSTRIAL
GROWTH. He says flatly: "With
out sufficient water for industrial
purposes, our future can't be
everything we want it to . be.
Water is a primary raw material
for industry."
'D like to close with this
thought: In Southern Oregon
and Far Northern Californiavwe
have given comparatively little
thought to the use of water for
industrial purposes. Yet, in ad
dition to other possibilities, we
have immense resources of fiber
upon which to build a great pulp
and paper industry. , That will
require water and lots of it.
It's high time for us to begin
to think of our water as a raw
material of the UTMOST im
portance. I think it can be said
with flat certainty that the ex
tent of our industrial growth
will depend on the amount of
water we have available for in
dustrial processing.
FINAL WORD on the Issuance
of passports to Americans is
authority of Frances G. Knight,
new chief of this State Depart
ment division. (International)
Is That So?
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
What's that again! . . . The
largest animal that ever lived,
past or present, on the face of
the earth or in its waters is the
sulphur-bottomed whale, still go
ing strong today.
The longest sulphur - bottom
ever measured with a steel tape
was 111 feet. Quite likely there
have been larger ones.
Like all other whales a special
nasal passage connects directly
from blowhole to lungs this
permits it to gulp food beneath
the surface without getting water
in its lungs.
The whale's skin is soft. Tem
perature - regulating sweat
glandsliave been eliminated and
instead there is a very warm
thick layer of blubber from
eight to 20 inches thick between
skin and dark flesh.
It has a few hairs usually
a cluster of short, brittle chin
whiskers numbering around 32
and ocassionally a dozen or two
on top of the head.
Along the throat, breast and
belly it has from 80 to 100 great
accordion-like pleats which per
mit the great lungs to expand
and fill up their entire capacity
before sounding, sometimes go
ing down where the pressure is
1,400 pounds to the square inch.
Ears are two knitting - needle
sized openings about a yard be
hind the eyes.
The brown eyes are about
twice the size of a cow's.
The largest sulphur-bottomed
whale ever to be weighed, in
1947, was an 89-foot female. (Fe
males are always larger than
males.) She weighed 300,707
pounds more than 150 tons.
The heart weighed 950
pounds, almost a half ton; the
liver, 2,000 pounds; the flabby
tongue, 6,000 pounds three
tons!
In whales the hind limbs have
completely disappeared external
ly, and exist only as rudimentary
bones, buried deep in the body
the longer, the femur, being
perhaps four inches in length,
the lower leg bone, the tibia,
being about the size of a walnut.
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Freedom and Taxes
To the Editor: Some real
praise to Mr. E. A. on the sub
ject "Why Freedom?"
A Mr. Sharp wrote about the
nasty treatment of Jehovah's
Witnesses, barring them from
using public buildings."
Freedom is getting to be far
from what it was 66 years ago
in this U.S.A. as I was nearing
12 years of age. And I still say
this was a better place to live
than today. Of course we did not
have things so handy but people
were 100 more friendly,
money was not the American
God. Today, everything is com
mercialized and most all types
of religion. The man with the
money is the one that is looked
up to.
I have had lots of dealings
with people of all kinds, as I
have been a master workman
and an architectural engineer,
and as far away as Panama for
the U.S. government. I grew up
an orphaa since the age of six
years, just so you can see I have
learned a lot about people 'and
our U. S. government.
Our head men in government
are butting into all countries and
private business trying to run
everyone's business. Sixty-six
years ago that did not happen.
The farmer raised what his land
would produce best, other busi
nesses likewise. Every time you
turn around nowadays, there is
a boss at your heels and what
burns me up is taxes and no end,
then give it away to some other
country. If we want highways
or bridges or anything for our
own people, try and get it. Our
U. S. and the different states
only find "economy" in the dic
tionary. History tells me taxes and
militarism have destroyed all
nations so we are in line next,
and as these conditions. get hard
er our freedom will disappear,
and at the rate we are going I
will yet live to see it. if I live
near the 100 mark as some of my
people have.
Please write more on freedom.
I read the editorials each day
as I take the Tribune. There is
plenty to write about.
William Ross Sharp,
26 Portland Ave.,
Medford, Ore.
To Clear Up Confusion
To the Editor: I would like to
write a few lines that may clear
up some of the confusion about
the Jehovah Witnesses. I at one
time was proselyted into their
cult. Theyt forbid you to read the
Christian Bible. (Just their new
world translation) but in study
ing the Holy Bible I found that
u one becomes a Christian he
must give his heart to the Lord
Christ told Nicodemus "except
a man be born again he cannot
see the Kingdom of God." John
3:3. With this new birth "he is
a new creature; behold all things
are become new." 2 Cor. 5:17.
To receive this new birth we
must confess our sins and He is
faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:19.
We become dead in the things
of the world, but seek those
things which are above, your
life is hid with Christ in God.
Col. 3: 1, 2, 3. We are redeemed
through His blood, even foregive
ness of sin. Col. 1:4. And having
made peace through the blood
of His cross." Col. 1:20.
The Jehovah Witnesses do not
believe in this new birth nor
the cross (they call it a torture
stake). The Bible says we must
seek Christ by the way of the
Cross and are kept under the
blood. How can they call them
selves Christians and deny all
this?
This week, Christians (follow
ers of Christ) celebrate the resur
ection of a living Christ. The
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selfstyled Russell (Jehovah Wit-
ness founder) said Christ was
dead and forever dead, and arose
a spirit. I Couldn't take this
false doctrine.
Thomas doubted. Jesus told
him to put his finger in the nail
prints of His hands. John 20-25-29.
Another time "behold mT
hands and my feet that this is I
Myself, handle Me, and see Me,
for a spirit hath not flesh and
bones as ye see Me have." John
24:36-43.
America offers freedom of
worship. . Jehovah Witnesses do
not respect "Old Glory" enough
to honor her.
Second Tim. 3:5-7 says "from
such turn away." 2 John 9, 10, 11
says "if any come and bring not
the doctrine of Christ hath not
God, receive him not unto your
house."
Rev. 22. 18-19. Says we can
not take away or add to the
scriptures." This they have done.
The Jehovah of the Watchtower
is not the Jehovah of the Bible.
Ernest F. Santo,
204 Lozier Lane,
Medford, Oregon.
Virginian Sympathizes
With Tax Collectors
Norfolk, Va U.R) L. W.
Shafer sympathizes with Inter
nal Revenue department officials
even though he never worked as
a tax collector.
His telephone number was list
ed by mistake in a published ar
ticle on income tax collections.
Shafer said he has been
plagued by callers, each calling
him a different name.
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