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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 12, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Medford and Jackson county
residents stunned when the na
tion's news services flashed
word shortly before 3 p.m. that
President Roosevelt had died at
Warm Springs, Ga.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Com
mercial club building on the
Espee right-of-way will soon be
no more than a thing of the past.
For nigh onto 40 years it was a
hotbed of civic dreams where
farseeing humdingers predicted
Gold Hill would have 50,000
population in 1930.
20 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1935
(It was Friday)
Extermination of squirrels Is
now in full swing in Jackson
county, both the government and
county participating in the ac
tivity. Residents of Medford and
Jackson county discuss a public
works bill which would set aside
$900,000,000 for elimination of
dangerous grade crossings in the
United States.
80 YEARS AGO
April 12. 1925
(It was Sunday)
Two University of Oregon
education department experts
study sites for a new Medford
High school building.
A group of Vernonia residents
Interested in backing the Kel-mar-Vanpet
Mining and Devel
opments company financially in
spect mines at Gold Hill.
40 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1915
(It was Monday)
From News From Our Neigh
bors column: Herman Meyer, our
mail carrier and contractor, has
purchased a Ford so as to ac
commodate the travel on the
line between Eagle Point and
Lake Creek.
Bishop Sumner, of the Epis
copal diocese of Oregon, paid
his initial visit to Trinity church
at Ashland on Sunday.
What's (he Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 77)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Unauthorized wiretapping
of phones is less or more com
mon than a few years ago, or
about as common?
2. Chicago usually votes Dem
ocratic in both national and
local elections, only in national,
only in local, or in neither,
3. A Caesarian operation is
done in connection with kidney
stones, eye cataracts, breast
cancer, childbirth, or strangu
lated hernia?
4. Commander Robert E.
Peary discovered the North Pole
on April 6, 1889, 1899, 1909,
1919 or 1929?
5. Cranbrook was until re
cently a type of car put out by
Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Pack
ark, Plymouth or Studebaker?
6. Mauritius is an island south
east of Africa, west of Formosa,
east of Florida, due south of
India, or in the Arctic Circle?
7. Which of these are artifacts:
tricks, Indian relics, blood ves
sels, synthetic gems, works of
art?
The Answers: 1. Mora com
mon. 2. Usually in both. 3. Child
birth. 4. 1909. 5. Plymouth. 6.
Southeast of Africa. 7. Indian
relics.
MAIL TRIBUNE
A Deserved Rebuke
President Schmitz of the University of Washing
ton has been taught a much needed lesson intoler
ance and bigotry in education don't pay.
Several months ago President Schmitz withdrew
the name of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, as a lecturer
before a gathering of American scientists to be held
at the university.
He would give no explanation except he did not
think the appearance of this famous nuclear expert
would "be in the best interest of the university."
When both students and faculty protested Dr.
Schmitz referred his action to the Board of Regents
and was sustained.
SO UP to that time the Seattle educator was sitting
pretty. But this action which was clearly based
upon the McCarthy view of guilt by suspicion and
prejudice unsupported by the facts, did not go so
well elsewhere.
In fact so many prominent scientists in the coun
try rebelled that the proposed convention had to be
abandoned no scientists of any note would en
dorse such educational, bigotry by their attendance.
Protests even came from educators abroad. The Un
iversity of Washington and its President suffered a
severe loss 01 prestige, popularity, ana respect
throughout the academic world.
AST week the Washington faculty took a vote on
the President's action and while they risked their
jobs and good standing with the powers-that-be not
only the President but the Board of Regents they
voted 56 to 40 to condemn it.
The cancellation of another scientific meeting at
the university did not help any.
The faculty majority then passed the following
resolution :
"We earnestly hope that our colleagues from other insti
tutions will again feel free to join us from time to time for
scholarly discussions on our campus."
This hope will be shared by all right-thinking
people and particularly by all loyal friends of aca
demic freedom, and supporters-of the theory that
the search for truth must never be halted or diverted
by prejudices or passions in the field of education, no
matter how popular such intolerances may be in cer
tain political circles, at any given time. R.W.R.
War Still Not Likely,
President Eisenhower's latest move regarding For
mosa renders an all-out war over the Matsu and
Quemoy islands less likely than ever.
For, a,s reported from the White House, the most
recent order is thatin case there should be an attack
on these islands, the Chinese Nationalists will be giv
en the job of defense, while U. S. forces will stand
aloof, until the chief executive determines whether
or not Formosa is actually threatened.
If Formosa is not threatened then the United
States will not participate. '
And, of course, if the Nationalists should be able
to repel an invasion Formosa wrould not be threaten
ed.
GO there are two chances no large scale war will
occur not in the near future at least.
One: The Nationalist defense, in case of attack,
might be sufficient.
Two: Even if not, the Chinese Reds might an
nounce that they would abandon any attempt to take
Formosa and agree to a cease-fire if the United States
would allow them to hold these off-shore islands.
TO SOME the latter may seem very unlikely, but
according to reliable sources Britain's new Pre
mier, Anthony Eden, is trying to persuade Mao to
do that very thing. '
The Chinese lobby would be horrified. But Presi
dent Eisenhower might consider the fact of avoiding
an all-out war, without allies, would be sufficient
compensation.
Finally Secretary of the Army Stevens returns
from a two-weeks tour of the Far East including a
stop in Formosa and sees no liklihood of any major
offensive by the Chinese Reds in the near future.
CO, all in all, this department sees no reason to modi-
fy its prediction of several weeks ago that while
there promises to be a great deal of tough talk by
China, and war-talk by statesmen, both in this country
and abroad, there will, in the foreseeable future, at
least, probably be no World War III, for the simple
basic reason that no chief participant in such a war
really wants it. R.W.R.
"Play
The opening of the baseball season is a welcome
change from war-alarms, the renewed fulminations
of Joe McCarthy, and the various and sundry hassles
preliminary to another presidential election.
From today until the football season opens the
stirring call of "Play Ball" will resound throughout
the land, and the competition particularly in the Big
Leagues, promises to be unusually keen and exciting.
As usual the Mail Tribune will maintain a strict
neutrality, doesn't care what team wins, so long as the
New York teams DON'T.
The Giants and the Yankees have had too many,
national pennants as it is. The winning honors should
not be confined to the island of Manhattan so ex
clusively, but should hereafter be passed around at
least as far west as Cleveland, and perhaps even f ur
ther to Milwaukee. R.W.R.
Tuesday, April 12, 1955
Ball!
99
Matter of Fact
Hong Kong The visit to Sai
gon from which this reporter has
just returned, has inspired two
pretty unhappy questions.
First, have
we not reached
almost the
same state in
Asia that was
reached in Eu
rope when
Britain so des
perately guar
a n t e e d Po
land? And
second, does
not this con-
foMpb Also nect rather di
rectly with the vital decision on
Quemoy and the Matsu Islands?
Trying first to answer the
first question, the crisis in Sai
gon still drags on, but the out
come wiU surely be bad. Wheth
er there is more shooting or a
lame compromise, the prevail
ing condition of non-gover-ment
in Southern Indochina is
bound to get worse,, not better.
That means that the already
heavy odds in favor of the Com
munists are being substantially
increased.
If Southern Indochina falls to
the Communists, even the local
consequences will be bitter in
deed. We shall have an advance
taste of them no doubt at the
impending discussions with the
French about the Indochinese
future.
The French will ask, for ex
ample, a question we must an
swer. What does the American
government propose to do with
the 700,000 tragic refugees from
the Communist North, f cr whom
the United States has a direct
moral responsibility? Are these
poor people to be left where
they are, to swim for it or die,
after being exploited as a kind
of ghastly public relations stunt
by the authorities in Wash
ington? It is already high time to
think about this problem, and
about the many French prob
lems, such as the 50,000 or so
French citizens and passport
holders in South Viet Nam.
Thinking of them may lead to
some very unpalatable results,
such as an eventual French re
quest for American ground
troops. But these essentially lo
cal problems fade into insignifi
cance, when compared to the
wider consequences of the new
Communist victory that now
neems to loom ahead.
11HESE wider consequences of
the loss of Southern Indochina
vi first be felt, of course, in
South Asia. And all the evidence
suggests, unfortunately, that the
position in South Asia has wor
sened a lot since the pompous
Bangkok conference that was
supposed to draw so many un-
crossable lines.
In Laos, chaos reigns; and the
Communist-led Pathet lao are
creeping nearer and nearer to
a place in what passes for the
Laotian government.
In Cambodia, the doughty lit
tle king is out, leaving confusion
behind. And the Cambodian
Democratic party, the only party
having links with the all import
ant villages, now seems to be
successfully infiltrated by cryp-
to-Communists.
The party machinery has late
ly been taken over by a group
of young Cambodians returned
from studies in France. The
French Communists have long
maintained a special trapping
system for such colonial student?
and there are good reasons to
believe that the new Cambodian
Democratic party leaders are
among those who were trapped.
In Thailand, finaUy, there is
now hard evidence that the Com
munists have full scale, classical
"lioerated areas" in the Betong
salient and elsewhere along the
Malayan border. These Commu
nist areas in the far South will
usefully support the number one
Siamese Communist stooge, Pri
di Phanamayong, whose person
al base is also in Southern Siam.
Meanwhile, in the northeast,
across the border from Laos, the
number two stooge, Teing Siri
kohond is also organizing on an
extensive scale.
In short, Laos, Cambodia and
Thailand more than ever look
like set ups for the Communist
Walls-of-Jericho trick. By this
trick, a country is made to faU
by mere internal subversion and
external threat, with no coarse
border crossings to make the
Manila pact inconveniently ap
plicable. The fall of Southern
Indochina will be the first blast
of the trumpets of the Commu
nist Joshuas.
Laos and Cambodia are the
keys to Thailand. Thailand is
the key to Malaya, Indonesia
and Burma. Southeast" Asia, in
turn, is the key to India and
Japan. And the loss of South
Asia will surely produce grim
reprecussions further afield, in
the Middle East, North Africa
and even Europe.
SUCH is the unending prospect
of disaster that is beginning
to open out. No one can be cer
tain that these disasters will hap
pen, since the future is never
certain. But they are just about
as foreseeable, let us say, as Hit
ler's progress was foreseeable
after Munich, from the Sudeten
land to Prague to Danzig and to
Poland. In other words, there
are the best reasons to think that
the progressive upset of the
Asian balance of power has not
reached exactly the stage that
the same process reached in Eu
By Joseph Alsop
rope post-Munich.
In. these circumstances it is no
use saying that fighting for Que
moy and the Matsus is militarily
illogical. The British guarantee
to Poland was both militarily
illogical and morally dubious.
Britain could not contribute to
Poland's defense and did not
honor the guarantee, even in
victory.
It is no use saying, either, that
these dreary rocks in the For
mosa Strait are a poor pretext.
We missed the best pretext to
deal with the Asian problem in
Korea and the next best at the
time of Dien Bien Phu, just as
the British missed five superior
pretexts before taking a stand
on Poland.
These arguments are not valid
for the same reason that the ar
guments against the guarantee
to Poland were not valid. What
ever its defects, the guarantee to
Poland saved Britain on the
naked edge of an abyss. It was
Neville Chamberlain's last
chance to take a stand. If he had
waited even a little later, it
would have been too late. All
Europe would have been lost,
and Britain would have had to
beg for terms from Adolf Hit
ler. TN THE present case, if all Asia
is lost, we may not have to
beg for terms. But if we do not
beg, we shall surely have to
fight a much worse war with in
finitely heavier handicaps.
There are other good reasons,
of course, for taking our stand
on Quemoy and the Matsus.
There is the strong possibility
that Formosa itself can be lost
on these little islands. There is
the absolute certainty that the
world Communist leadership
will never again believe the
American government until the
shooting actually starts. Why
should they, if we once more
repeat the Dien Bien Phu pat
tern of big talk foUowed by a
quick backdown.
But those who oppose taking
a stand on Quemoy and the
Matsus must above all suggest
practical means of holding South
Asia or indicate how the free
world is to survive after the loss
of all of Asia. Otherwise their
pleas for just one more back
down are like saying a man
should wait to use his fist until
his legs have been cut off, so
that he can be quite sure his
enemy really is his enemy.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Strangely
Men To Be
Asia-Africa
By CHARLES MC CANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Four strangely assorted men
will be the stars of the big Asia-
Africa Conference which meets
next Monday
in the resort
town of Ban
dung in Indo
nesia
Two of them
are Commu
nists. The other
two are neu
tralists," who
do not want to
take sides in
the East - West
Charles McCann com war dux.
who, at the same time, vigorous
ly oppose Communism in their
i j i i.
own countries.
All four nave one thing in
common, they are revolution
ists. Three of them are profes
sionals, who have made revolu
tion a career.
The fact that they are repre
senting their countries at the
Bandung conference means that
they have been successful revo
lutionaries and that they now
frown on revolt.
The two Communists are Premier-Foreign
Minister Chou En-
lai of China and President Ho
Chi Minh of the Republic of
North Viet Nam in Indochina
The 'Neutralists'
The "neutralists" are Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of
India and Prime Minister Gamal
Abdel Nasser of Egypt.
Chou speaks for 600,000,000
Chinese and Nehru for 360,000,
000 Indians.
Nasser is spokesman for about
10,000,000 Egyptians and Ho for
about 12,000,000 North Viet
Namese. But they are pretty cer
tain to keep themselves in the
Bandung spotlight with Nehru
and Chou.
From the world viewpoint
Nehru is the outstanding figure.
He . dedicated his life, ' in his
youth, to winning India's inde
pendence from Great Britain.
He is a Hindu patrician. He was
educated at Harrow, Winston
Churchill's school, and at Cam
bridge University in England,
and bis tastes are western. But
his outlook . is Asian, and as a
non-Communist "neutralist" his
is probably the most effective
voice against "western colonial
ism." Nehru is 65.
Noted for Brilliance
Chou En-lai is 56. He, like
Nehru, has a background of cul
ture and his ancestry like
Nehru's is patrician. Chou be
came a revolutionary in his
youth against, the Manchu
Dynasty. He is smooth and wily.
He ranks No. 4 in the Peiping
Communist leadership but ranks
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Tolerance and Education
To the Editor: I have been fol
lowing with keen interest the -issue
raised of freedom for minor
ity groups, brought on by Je
hovah's Witnesses having use of
a public school to show an edu
cational film. Especially appre
ciate your fine editorial of April
4. In this regard, a recent issue
of Look showed in an article on
a census of tolerance and intole
rance, that the more education
one has, the more tolerant they
are. ,
Regarding Mr. Santo's preju
diced letter of April 6. He made
the statement "They forbid you
to read the Christian Bible, (just
their New World Trans"). This
New World Trans, was only pub
lished in 1950. What did they
read all the years before that?
The reason Jehovah's Witnes
ses call on the people is to en
courage personal Bible study in
their homes. They encourage
theme to read any and all of the
many excellent translations
available.
As accurate Bible students,
the witnesses realize that in
copying the inspired original
manuscripts by hand, the ele
ment of human frailty entered
in and so none of the thousands
of copies extant today h the
original language are exactly
alike. But the differences are
slight and one with a humble
heart can get the truth from any
one of them.
The reason for the modern
language New World translation,
is that the progress of modern
living language with its changes
in meanings of words and in
forms of expression, calls for a
new, up-to-date presentation to
make the scriptures fully alive
and appealing to the understand
ing. f
In the publications of the
Watchtower Society there is a
list of symbols of twelve Bible
versions, among which are
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
translations. A footnote says
"Unless otherwise stated, the
Bible used is' the King James
Version."
The above information is
ample proof that Mr. Santo has
been greatly misinformed. It is
Stars of
Parley
with Mao Tse-tung, the No. 1
man, in his brilliance.
Hp Chi Minh of Northern
Viet Nam, at 63, is still an up
and coming man. Unless South
ern Viet Nam can get itself out
of its present chaotic state, Ho
probably will take it over with
in the next year. He has his eve
also on the other Indochina
states of Laos and Cambodia.
Nasser, at 37. is the "iunior
of the Bandung big four. He
came to the front in the revolt
which unseated Kine Farouk in
1952. Gen. Mohammed Naguib
was the leader then, but Nas
ser's personality and forceful-
ness put him in front. Nasser
started to be a rebel, against
parental authority, in his child
hood. He took part in a' riot
against Egyptian and British
authority when he was 16, and
later he decided that both Far
ouk and the British must get
out of Egypt.
Helser Had Own
Stock Averages
San Francisco (U.R) Attor
neys for the Securities and Ex
change Commission charged
yesterday that the J. Henry
Helser Investment Company cre
ated its own stock averages
which "gave better performance
than Dow Jones."
The SEC has filed an injunc
tion suit against the Portland,
Ore., investment firm charging
fraudulent practices. The case is
being heard by Federal Judge
Louis E. Goodman without a
jury. ' l
SEC attorney Frank Kenna
mer read into the record an ex
cerpt from the official company
publication in which Helser's
chief statistician, Charles Zulin-
den, claimed the company's
averages used as a yardstick to
gauge stock had risen 9.97
points higher than the Dow
Jones figures for a comparable
period in 1954.
J. Henry Helser, president of
the company, took the stand for
the third day and testified that
he did not know the Helser
averages had been disclosed to
anyone outside the company.
The trial has been in progress
for six days and was expected to
last at least another week.
Each year the U.S. army Corps
of Engineers removes from New
York harbor about 2.5 million
cubic yards of sand and silt
carried down the Hudson mostly
by the natural currents..
Dead line Sundav Classified is at
nnnn fiatnrrfav 1 am Mnnriav for
Monday; other days 5:30 previous day.
Assorted
Actress Has No
Plan To Wed Schine
Hollywood (U.R) Actress
Piper Laurie said today she has
no plans right now to marry
Pvt. G. David Schine, the center
of the stormy McCarthy - Army
hearings, or anyone else.
Miss Laurie issued a state
ment after it was learned an
unsigned marriage application
for Rosetta Jacobs, 21, her real
name, and Gerald David Schine,
26, was on file at anchorage,
Alaska, where the former in
vestigator for Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy now is stationed.
Schine, serving as a military
policeman at Fort Richardson
near Anchorage, was not avail
able for comment on the appli
cation, which was dated April
5. The document requires sig-.
natures by both parties before
it becomes official.
Miss Laurie, in a statement
issued through her studio yes
terday, said "David Schine and
I have been friends for several
years and we have dated in
termittently during that- time.
But right now I have no plans
to marry him or anyone else."
only reasonable that if he has
falsified his first statement, the
rest of his accusations would not
be valid.
In closing I ask, "Would you
ask prejudiced' scribes and
Pharisees what Jesus believed?
Then why ' listen to prejudiced
sources on what the witnesses
believe. Let the witnesses them
selves tell you.
Velma M. Groshong
P. O. Box 957
Central Point, Ore.
Sm S. Central , Phone 2-6241 S
FoSlhlDODIl
SPRING '55 STYLES
HOW GREATLY REDUCED
COATS AND TOPPERS
MISSES' AND WOMEN'S
WERE 16.98 $13
WERE 19.98 $15
WERE 24.75 ...... $20
WERE 29.98 and 35.00 $25
RAYON WOOL SUITS
MISSES' AND WOMEN'S
WERE 12.98 $10
WERE 16.98 $13
WERE 19.98 ..... $15
SPRING DRESSES
JUNIOR'S, MISSES', WOMEN'S
WERE $4 $3
WERE 5.98, 6.98 $4
WERE 8.98 . .......:...... $5
WERE 9.98 $6
WERE 12.98 $0
WERE 15.98 . $9 '
Permit To Kill Deer
Denied for Farmers
Portland (U.R) The State
Game Commission yesterday de
nied a permit to Leslie and Ever
ett Lee, Cherry Grove farmers,
to kill more deer on their land.
The Lees killed 32- deer that
invaded their pasture land last
month, starting a - controversy
that spread over the state. They
indicated they would abide by
the decision.
Mrs. Everett Lee said her hus
band and her father-in-law felt
that an either-sex deer season
this fall would help solve the
deer problem in the area.
I MR.
I INSURANCI IJOV
Fred
Brennan
One of my cow got outside the
fence, was hit by an automobile
and had to be destroyed. I car
ried a farm liability policy, and it
combined by public liability and
property damage coverages.
Will my policy cover the damage
to the automobile as well as the
cow and pay me up to $200 for
the loss of the critter?
For Information Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phone 2-4940
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