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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
April 8, 1945
( It was Sunday)
Mrs. Ella Gore Wortman,
whose parents came to Jackson
county in 1852, dies after brief
Illness."
From Arthur Perry's Ye t
Smudge Pot column: The na
tion's press, in its war head
lines, continues to refer to Gen.
Eisenhower as "Ike." No kraut
editor ever called Adolf Hitler
"Ad."
20 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1935
(It was Monday)
Deah and Golda Higdon, for
mer Medford residents, now ap
pearing with Al G. Barnes cir
cus as equestriennes.
Jackson County bank build
ing at corner of Main st. and
Central ave. sold to Al Littrell.
80 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Special Easter services to be
held in all Medford churches,
with Easter band concert at Cra
terian theater under direction
of F. Wilson Wait.
J. R. Crews catches 47-pound
almon at Savage Rapids dam.
40 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1915
(It was Thursday)
Grizzly Hiking club, under
leadership of Cole Holmes, to
climb Table Rock in effort to
"toughen up" for climb to top
of Mt. Ashland.
Band of Gypsies, traveling In
"prairie schooner," camps along
Bear creek and city police for
bid any fortune telling.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Business conditions today
have been found better or less
good in rural districts than in
urban areas, or about the same?
2. More auto deaths occur in
daytime, with tits relatively
heavy traffic, or at night, with
its relatively light traffic?
3. Aneurin Bevan, British la
bor leftist, was or wasn't once
a Cabinet member of a Labor
Government?
4. Aphasia is loss of speech or
of memory?
5. About half the population
of New York has a Roman Cath
olic, a Jewish or a Protestant
background?
6. Lions today inhabit Asia as
well as Africa, or only Africa?
7. Sarah Fulks is the real
name of Judy Garland, Judy Hol
iday, Ethel Merman, Jane Wy
man or Grace Kelly?
The answers: 1. Less good.
2. At night- 3. Was (minister of
health, then of Labor). 4. Loss
of speech. 5. Roman Catholic.
6. Asia also (in n. w. India). 7.
Jane Vyman.
HOLD YOUR HORSES
Waynesburg, Pa. OJ.R)
Maurice Helphenstine filed a
claim for $139.89 in damages
he contended was caused to his
cr when a horse ran into it. He
said the horse, grazing along
side the highway, became fright
ened as he drove past and leap
ed cnton the hood of his car.
7h2 ccrr.pl-int charged that the
c 'rnt horse should have been
uucier control of the owner.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Surplus Solution Offered
At least some farm
merit in the plan advanced by the Izaak Walton
League of America to conserve and improve some
50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres of land and at the
same time do away with the farm commodity surplus
problem.
The league contends that we have enormous and
growing surpluses of basic commodities because -"we
are using our land resources as if we were faced with
imminent starvation." In the race between population
growth and food production, says the league, the Am
erican farmer is far in the
he is cultivating some
acres of which perhaps 20
cultivation.
'J'HE league sizes up the
We have 70,000,000 acres of class 1 land (USDA classifi
cation system) not subject to wind and water erosion; 170,
000,000 acres of class 2, capable of protection by simple
measures; -232,000,000 acres of class 3 land that requires
cautious handling if kept in constant production; 95,000,
000 acres of class 4 land capable of only intermittent culti
vation; and 224,000,000 acres of classes 5 and 6 land that
should be kept under permanent vegetative cover. Unfor
tunately, we are farming considerable acreages of land in
classes 4, 5 and 6. Land of classes 7 and 8 are suited only
to forestry and wildlife.
The Department of Agriculture has estimated that sur
plus production represents the output of 40,000,000 acres.
If this means acres of average productivity, it is roughly
equivalent to the output of 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres
of classes 3 to 6 land. Thus, we are using too much of our
production potential, and misusing and degrading a sub
stantial share of our total land resources.
The Izaak Walton League figures that if a workable
method can be found to remove 50,000,000 to 70,000,000
acres of class 3 and up land from cultivation, and put it in
a self-restoring land reserve, the balance between produc
tion and demand can be restored and the country would
have one of the most effective soil and moisture 'conserva
tion programs imaginable.
TN order to attain such objectives the league propos
es that the USDA lease from the owners, and re
move from all agricultural
acreage of cultivated land
demand in line. It is suggested that leases be for a
minimum of five years in humid areas, ten years in
areas that are semi-arid or cyclically arid, and twenty
years where reforestation
use. '
It is estimated that after
ports would no longer be
have been reduced sufficiently through the with
drawal of land from production. Cost of the transfer
of 60,000,000 acres from production to restoration
would run around $7.50 per acre, or $450,000,000 a
year, the league believes.
A DMITTEDLY, it is hard to estimate the actual cost
"of the present price support program, due in part
to the fact that some of the costs are involved m otn
ed USDA activities. Last September the magazine
Newsweek figured the loss on the 1954 crop would
be $450,000,000 and that
the Commodity Credit Corporation would have near
ly $10,000,000,000 invested
that the figure is about $8,000,000,000, it is probable
the combined interest, storage costs and deteriora
tion losses were near $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 a
year, just to hold the surpluses.
Any program which would eliminate the surpluses
and at the same time give soil conservation benefits
to 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres most in need of con
servation, might well be considered a bargain, even
at a cost of $1,000,000,000 a year.
"fl". E. HAMILTON, research director for the Am-
y erican Farm Bureau Federation, has stated that
the Waltonian plan appears to be "sound, practicable
and workable," though he saw the possibility of some
objection because of its costs.
A spokesman for the National Farmers Union
commented that he liked the basic plan and its ob
jectives, but that he differed with its backers on the
suppostion that it would erase price supports.
The latter possibility continued price supports
would seem to be the main weakness of the plan
set forth. Despite the land leasing proviso, as long as
support" money remained attainable there would be
an incentive to place other marginal land in cultiva
tion or to stimulate the productivity of land currently
in use. E.C.F.
There'll Always Be a Downtown
While population growths and other considera
tions have brought considerable movement of some
types of business to the suburbs, cities and towns will
always have their downtown sections. This is the op
inion of Henry G. Waltemade, president of the Na
tional Association of Real Estate Boards as express
ed at a recent meeting of the San Francisco Real
Estate Board.
THE real estate expert told his hearers that alarm
" ist predictions of decentralization should not cause
too much worry, that changes are to be expected in
the downtown area of any city or town but that the
"downtown" is going to stay and is going to grow.
Waltemade cited downtown New York City as an
example of such growth despite the crowded condi
tions which have long prevailed. There, he said, the
downtown section is still growing and new air condi
tioned office buildings, renting for $7 to $8 per square
foot, are under construction.
More important than the changes in the business
location picture, Waltemade stated, is the boom in
home modernization and improvement now sweeping
the country. This trend, he declared, considered in all
its phases, represents nearly as big a business as new
home production. E.C.F.
frfday, April 8, 1935
experts agree that there is
lead but to attain that lead
360,000,000 to 400,000,000
per cent is not suited for
situation this way:
production, a sufficient
to bring production and
would be the required land
the third year price sup
necessary as crops would
at the end of the crop year
in surpluses. Assuming
Winston Churchill's
Semi-Retirement Tops
World News for Week
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet:
THE GOOD
1. A long-awaited administra
tive turnover finally came to
pass in Great Britain when Sir
Winston Churchill stepped down
from the prime ministry in favor
of Sir Anthony Eden, who had
been his political heir for years.
Churchill went into semi-retirement
heaped with honors. His in
tellectual powers were undim
med. But he was an old, tired
man. The change' in leadership
puts a younger, more vigorous
and more resilient team of men,
led by Eden, in charge of British
policy at this critical time in
world affairs.
2. Tension in the Far East les
sened suddenly and materially.
The Chinese Communists toned
down their bellicose threats to
start a war by attempting to "lib
erate" the Nationalist stronghold
of Formosa, which the United
States is pledged to defend. At
the same time, dire predictions
that the Reds planned an attack
on the Matsu and Quemoy island
groups about mid-April seemed
to be without foundation. Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
said at a press 'conference in
Washington that if there is to be
a war, the Reds will have to
start it.
3. Great Britain joined the
new Turkish-Iraqi alliance and
Pakistan was invited to join it.
There seemed reason to hope
that Iran might join it soon. The
alliance promised to - develon
into one that would strengthen
defense against Communism over
the whole area between Egypt
Babson and Stock
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special to
Medford Mail Tribune) Al
though the Fulbright Investiga
tion of the stock market is over
probably to the benefit of all
concerned I
c o n t inue to
have questions
from readers.
Most of these
are in regard
to the Dow
Jones Indus
trial Average.
This is what
seems to
trouble read
Soger W. Babson
ers most. First, they note that
the Dow-Jones Industrial Aver
age has "gone up" or "gone
down" four points for instance
and yet not one of the 30
stocks included in this "Aver
age" has varied this amount.
They say: "Wall Street account
ing is worse than Truman ac
counting." Another thing bothering stock-
minded readers is that from one
day to the next this so-called
Average will move faster and
further than what they claim to
be the "honest Average." They
write me: "No wonder Bernard
N. Baruch is reported to have
indicated that readers had better
forget following the newspaper
accounts of Wall Street, because
by the time the market makes
the front page all the wise guys
have left the premises with the
money."
Reasons Given for ,
Wall Street Arithmetic
The day-to-day changes in the
Dow Averages are magnified. In
the case of the Industrials, if
on a straight mathematical aver
age the market prices of the
stocks were up one poinl, the
net change shown by the Dow
Average release would be up by
more than five points. The rea
son for the magnification of
changes is that the Dow Aver
ages are no longer arithmetic
averages. That is, instead of
taking the aggreate value of the
30 stocks in the series and- then
dividing the sum by 30, they now
take the aggregate value and use
an adjusted divisor which at the
present time is 5.76. Thus, the
daily change in the average is
actually magnified in a ratio of
30 to 5.76, or about 5.2 to 1.
This method of computing the
daily Average is to save time,
yet preserve the historical con
tinuity of the Average. Under
the old method they adjusted
each stock in the series for stock
splits before computing the daily
Average. Under the present
method, no such adjustments are
made for the individual stocks
the adjustments are made in
the divisor. In this way, there
is no need to make a great many
computations to adjust for the
various splits that have taken
place over the years.
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and Pakistan, it would weaken
the "neutralist" campaign of
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru of India.
THE BAD
1. United States-Japanese rela
tions were somewhat snarled
when Japanese Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigemitsu suggested
that he visit Washington at once
and Secretary of State Dulles de
clined to receive him. As a result,
the Japanese government of Pre
mier Ichiro Hatoyama Vlost face"
prestige and its position in
parliament was weaxened. Shige
mitsu wanted to seek a reduction
in Japan's contribution to the
cost of maintaining American
troops in Japan. Opinion in
Washington seemed to be that
Shigemitsu invited the rebuff by
suggesting his visit so abruptly.
2. The West Germans decided
to ask the help of the United
States, Britain and France in
forcing the Communists to end
what seemed to be a new threat
to blockade West Berlin. The
Reds had increased ten-fold the
tolls charged trucks which move
through the Soviet occupation
zone with supplies for West Ber
lin. They even threatened to
make the increase retroactive.
3. The danger of civil war in
southern Viet Nam in Indochina
increased steadily. The powerful
religious-political sects, which
maintain - their own armies,
threatened to besiege Saigon, the
capital, unless Premier Ngo Dinh
gave them more power in the
government. Gen. J. Lawton Col
lins, President Eisenhower's spe
cial envoy, managed to arrange
a truce which is supposed to last
until next Tuesday. But tjhe sit
uation threatened to get worse
rather than better.
Market Reports
The present method is satis
factory and simple the divisor
itself is changed from time to
time as splits and stock dividends
occur. In fact, when this "di
visor" idea was first used, the
figure was 12.7, whereas the fig
ure now used is 5.76. They first
computed the sum of the market
prices of the 30 stocks in the
series adjusted for splits. The
next step was to compute the
Average by dividing this adjust
ed sum of the prices by the num
ber of stocks in the series (i.e.,
30). Then the next step was to
add together the market prices
of the 30 stocks (with no adjust
ments), and divide this figure by
the adjusted Average. The net
result was the divisor. The di
visor now used to determine the
Average at the various times of
the day has been computed in
this fashion.
Facts Regarding
Margin Requirements
Letters have also come to me
asking how and when margin re
quirements have been changed
during the past 20 years. Here
are the facts regarding these:
April 1, 1936, through Oct. 31,
1937, General Rule 55 per cent;
Nov. 1, 1937, through Feb. 4,
1945, General Rule 40 per cent;
Feb. 5, 1945, through July 4,
1945, General Rule 50 per cent;
July 5, 1945, through Jan. 20,
1946, General Rule 75 per cent;
Jan. 21, 1946, through Jan. 31,
1947, General Rule 100 per
cent; Feb. 1, 1947, through March
20, 1949, General Rule 75 per
cent; March 30, 1949, through
Jan. 16, 1951, General Rule 50
per cent; Jan. 17, 1951, through
Feb. 20, 1953, General Rule 75
per cent; Feb. 20, 1953, to Jan.
4, 1955, General Rule 50 per
cent; Jan. 4, 1955, to date, Gen
eral Rule 60 per cent.
Margin requirements are set
by the Federal Reserve Board,
and are therefore an instrument
of overall control." Changes are
made as part of a broad Federal
Reserve Policy.
ATTEMPTED COUP FAILS
Cairo, Egypt (U.R) An at
tempted coup against King Ah
med of Yemen by army forces
favorable to his brother, Prince
Abdullah, has failed and order
restored throughout the isolated
Arab kingdom on the Red Sea,
according to reports here.
Taste
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Spring Garden Suss
To the Editor: It is most dif
ficult to stay with traditional
ways of life. We've been eating
our own home grown radishes
the past week and do relish them
so much, even though we could
have had them from the markets
all winter. Ours were sown in
what was supposed to be a hot
bed. It did generate measurable
heat for about ten days, then
cooled down very very dead.
The fissionable powers of our
"manuromic pile," 3 feet wide
by 12 feet long must have been,
mostly wasted in some barnyard
before being hauled here. But
we kept the glass-wire frames
on them at night, covered with
canvas that kept the frost away,
though it killed the tender flow
ers just starting. But the rugged
radishes, a little dark and glassy
those 14 degree mornings, sur
vived and flourished. So d?d the
lettuce and swiss chard soon
ready for transplanting. All
these will have to make way for
melons sprouting in house win
dow trays. We do hope and plan
to have melons ripe before next
frost time, and tomatoes too,
decently early.
The last of our new potatoes,
planted tail end of last August
and early September, were dug
a month ago. We've also had our
own carrots and parsnips fresh
from the ground all winter. And
the other day, we dug a bunch of
horseradish that went grand
with hamhocks for dinner (.noon)
though there was a deal of
weepin' in the grinding of the
roots and fixin' with vinegar.
Fragranted the house just like
it used to do in Michigan, back
on the farm when we waited so
eagerly for the deep frozen
ground to thaw enough to dig
for the horseradish and parsnips
that grandpa warned not to use
too late in the spring for too
much sun. would "put pizen in
'em.
Here in the west, Indians,
especially the old-ones, got their
vitamins of spring from pine
trees, hacking away the rough
bark and scraping up the white
life-giving cambium layer. Their
very earliest products of the
earth were the sun-flowers.
Whole families would gather on
warm south hillside ' slopes io
feed on the tender sprouts. Later
on they would gather wild
sweet-clover and, placed in a
puddle of water, hot rocks rolled
in and covered with blankets,
they had their steamed greens.
F. J. Clifford
1211 W. Main .
Darrell Miller
Picked for Meeting
DarreU MiUer, head of the
Darrell Miller Co., 415 South
Riverside ave., Oldsmobile deal
er here, has been chosen as one
of 22 Oldsmobile dealers in the
nation to attend a dealer-factory
council meeting in Lansing,
Mich., later this month.
He and Mrs. Miller will leave
by plane for the east on April
25. The meeting will be the 26th,
27th and 28th, and afterward
they will go on to Washington
and New York, returning by
way of Los Angeles.
The meeting is held to discuss
retailing problems from the
dealers' viewpoint and produc
tion problems from the factory
viewpoint, Miller said. He was
chosen to represent the Portland
zones, which includes Oregon,
Washington, Montana and Idaho.
There are 22 such zones in the
country.
Miller has been associated
with Oldsmobile ' for some 18
years. He came to Medford from
Klamath Falls about 2V4 years
ago, and purchased the Edgerton
Motor company, the name of
which has been changed.
'BAD RISK' DIES
Winchendon, Mass. (U.R)
Edward D. Blackwell, who was
refused insurance in 1878 as a
"bad risk," died Wednesday at
the age of 102.
In TKe Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
In a previous installment of
this series, I spoke of the contrast
in ways of life and standards of
living when one crosses the line
that divides American Nogales in
the state of Arizona from Mexi
can Nogales in the state of So
nora. f
The contrast is sharp enough
to be instantly apparent, but as
a matter of fact Nogales isn't a
good example of the point I was
seeking to make that in areas
identical in climate and soil and
natural resources available for
development the kind of govern
ment that has been enjoyed or
disenjoyed over a considerable
period of time can make a tre
mendous difference.
Mexican Nogales is a big tour
ist trading pont where Ameri
cans come to buy at quite rea
sonable prices the interesting
Mexican products in the stores
on the Mexican side. The stores
are clean arid bright and pleas
ant, the merchandise is attrac
tive and the sales people are
courteous and efficient. They all
speak excellent English.
As a result, shopping there is
an agreeable experience.
A BETTER example is provided
by Mexicali, across the line
from Calexico in American Cali
fornia. For whatever reason,
there is relatively little across-the-border
trade at these twin
towns, and the bulk of what
there is is accounted for by Mexi
can people who come over the
line to buy American goods.
In the block nearest the in
ternational boundary in Calexi
co, prices on goods displayed in
the windows and offered for sale
in the stores are quoted both
in pesos and in doUars. The signs
and price tags are in Spanish
and English.
In Mexicali, the prices are
quoted in pesos only and the
signs are.m Spanish only. The
rate of exchange is 12Vfc pesos
for a dollar, and when you ask
what the price is in dollars most
of the salespeople have a cur
iously roundabout method of ar
riving at the quotation. They
pick the price in dollars out of
their minds arid multiply it by
eight. If the resulting computa
tion comes out the same as the
marked price in pesos they tell
you what it is, and if it doesn't
come out even they do the prob
lem over again.
riNE can't help being reminded
" of the ancient tale about the
tourist who was riding through
Nevada in the parlor car with a
Nevada cattleman. They 'passed
a vast herd of cattle, and the
tourist, asked . the native how
many animals did he reckon
were in sight. The cattleman did
a quickie on his fingers and an
swered: There are exactly 4,
822, counting a couple of runt
calves."
"How did you count 'em up
so quick?" the tourist asked. .
"Oh, that was easy," the cat
tleman explained. "I just count
ed the feet and divided by four."
IN Nogales, they are anxious
visiting Americans aren't given
any rush acts. I state this as a
general rule, but it has its ex
ceptions. The exceptions are the'
small fry who swarm all over
the place with boxes of chewing
gum and importune one to buy
at anywhere from a penny up to
whatever they think the prospect
is good for. They have discover
er that nine times out of ten the
Americans will shell out to get
rid of them. So they crowd the
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technique hard, sometimes fol
lowing you for a block. Other '
small fry join in the game; and
one soon has a queue of Mexican
children following him like the
tail that follows a comet.
In Mexicali, it is fairly obvious
that the sales people don't like
to be bothered by Americans. It
is equally obvious that the mer-.'.
chandise displayed is for Mexi- ..
cans only. In Nogales the streets
are full of Americans, but you
can walk all over Mexicali and
see not over half a dozen for- -eigners.
- 1
TN Mexicali, the contrast be-
tween the two ways of life are '
sharp and striking. Yet. as in '
Nogales, the soil, the climate and
the available natural resources '
are identical.
Government, you see. has a lot '
to do with the welfare of the 1
people: If government is cood. '
the plight of the people is good. '
And vice versa. There is every '
reason to believe that the pres-J
ent government of Mexico is'
good. But there were long cen-
turies when it was cruel and un- -
feeling and altogether terrible. ;
The scars of those centuries still 1
remain. v ,
SHOT BY CAR
Rushville, Neb. U.R) Gene
Scott reported to authorities he 1
was "shot" by his car door dur-
ing a recent hunting trip. Scott ,
: j i ...
iia ne was getting out of his
snowbound car when a gust of
wind blew the door shut. The
door caught his coat pocket, dis-1
charging a .22 caliber rifle shell.
Scott, struck in the abdomen,
walked to the nearest farm home. v
Milwaukie, Ore. OJ.R). '
Olin. O. Nichols, who recently :
retired after 30 years service
with the state police, has been
appointed Milwaukie chief of'
police. J
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