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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 13, 1945
(It was Friday)
City hall offices will be clos
ed all day and court house of
fices will close at 1 p.m. To
morrow, a day of mourning
throughout the United States in
respect for the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The fish
ing season opens tomorrow, and
many piscatorial enthusiasts can
hardly wait. The annual argu
ment over where the caught fish,
if any, shall be cleaned in
the backyard or the kitchen
sink is underway.
20 YEARS AGO
April 13, 1935
(It was Saturday)
Drastic action is contemplat
ed by the Medford city police
in the enforcement of the city
ordinance against dogs, licens
ed or not, running loose in the
city during April, May and
June.
From the Local and Personal
column: The forest service re
ported a severe thunderstorm,
the first of the season, was re
ported at Elk Creek, Huckleber
ry mountain and near Butte
Falls, but timber was too wet
to be set afire by lightning.
90 YEARS AGO
April 13, 1925
(It was Monday)
The first $100 bond in the
Lithian Hotel corporation at
Ashland subscribed for by Dav
id Barron of Ashland.
Local residents urged support
of the Crater Lake Temple band
when it starts a tour of eastern
seaboard cities next fall.
40 YEARS AGO
April 13, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
The Ashland city council
makes agreement with contrac
tors to develop Ashland's miner
al springs at a cost of $175,000
financed through auxiliary
water bonds.
From the Local and Personal
column: The weather bureau
mast this morning was flying
a black and white triangular
flag, indicating cold and clear,
a sign that smudging will be
necessary in the morning unless
there is a sudden change in the
10 days are the most critical
for the fruit grower.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Gel 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. "Fair trade" (retail price
fixing) laws are more or less
effective in most states than
five years ago?
3. More or fewer than half of
our Presidents have been Ma
sons? 3. Average incomes have gone
up more over the last 15 years
for doctors, teachers, or law
yers? 4. Ulcers from worry have
become more a man's or a wo
man's disease in recent years,
or is about 50-50?
5. More Supreme Court just
ices have been named from New
York than from any other two
states combined; right or wrong?
6. In the last 10 years total
U.S. mortgage debt outstanding
on homes has gone up sharply,
or slightly, down sharply or
tores
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MAIL TRIBUNE
For Brucellosis Control
Members of the county court and stockmen of
Jackson county rate a word of commendation for
their action in bringing about reorganization of the
brucellosis control program here on a basis which
should assure efficient and frictionless operation.
THROUGH cooperation of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, the State Department of Agriculture,
the county court, the stock raisers and veterinarians
the plan as agreed upon should soon rid the area of
all reactors.
The U.S.D.A., through its bureau of animal indus
try, is shouldering not only the cost of veterinarian
service in testing cattle throughout the county and
administering vaccine, but the cost of the vaccine
itself.
This will mean a considerable saving for beef
cattle raisers, the county and for dairy men too. The
latter, once the disease is cleaned out, will benefit
because their herds will no longer be subjected to
the occasional contamination which was always pos
sible while there was insufficient testing of beef cat
tle. In localities where the number of beef cattle ex
ceeded the dairy type there has been no compulsory
testing before.
DRUCELLOSIS, or Bang's disease, is not particu-
larly prevalent in Jackson county actually, the
testers are finding fewer reacting animals than ex
pected but it is highly desirable for both economic
and health reasons that this county get in step with
the nation-wide campaign for its complete eradica
tion. E.C.F.
Congress Added To Tax Headache
Income tax payers trying to whip their reports
into shape for filing before the April 15 deadline
wonder how in the world the Internal Revenue Serv
ice ever managed to get the rules covering dividends
so complicated. The tax relief voted by the 1954 con
gress is welcome enough, but to take advantage of
the cuts citizens must go through a tedious additional
process of bookkeeping and mathematics which takes
much of the joy out of the saving afforded.
Those fortunate enough to have any dividends to
take into consideration must:
First, list by name of corporation and amount, all divi
dends received before August 1, 1954. Then list all divi
dends received after July 31. Then apply the $50 exclu
sion, first to the income from the first seven months of
the year, and then, if any is left over, to the income from
the remaining months.
From there on they can forget about income from the
first seven months of 1954. But on income from the re
maining months they are allowed a four per cent credit.
Only, this credit cannot be higher than two per cent of
their taxable income (next year it goes up to four per
cent). Nor may the credit exceed the taxpayer's total tax
liability, without the income credit, less credit allowable
for foreign taxes.
AS a matter of fact the Internal Revenue Service
" isn't to blame for the complications. It was the
Congress which voted the cuts and it was the Con
gress which by compromising here and there, also
fouled up the law.
The legislative history of the 1954 tax revision
law explains part of the complication. The bill was
considered under a closed rule of the house. It called
for exemption of the first $50 of dividend income in
1954 and the first $100 in 1955, accompanied by a
credit of five per cent of dividend income in 1954
which would rise to ten per cent in 1955. The Demo
crats, in a crack at the dividend relief provision,
moved to have the bill returned to committee, with
instructions to substitute for the dividend relief a
$100 increase in the personal income tax exemption.
This move was defeated, 210 to 204. The Senate,
after a series of compromise votes, struck out the
five per cent credit, leaving only the $50 credit for
1954 and succeeding years.
The Senate-House conferees then restored a four
per cent credit for five months of 1954 and for suc
ceeding years. The final compromise was estimated
to afford $204,000,000 of income tax relief to stock
holders in 1954 and $340,000,000 in succeeding years:
e
THE aggravations of the present act and the divi
dend tax relief, too may not be around long,
however.. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) has already
announced that he will introduce an amendment re
pealing dividend tax relief to a House-passed bill
eliminating "loopholes" in the 1954 tax law and the
amendment could not be thrown out on a point of
order, for it would be germane to a tax revision bill.
E.C.F.
Downtown OK Rubber
Formal opening of a down
town OK Auto Welders tire store
at Ninth st. and Central ave.,
with Harvey Brandau and Walt
Kingman in charge, will be to
morrow. All new, modern equipment,
including an air jack and bump
er jack, and truing, balancing
and siping equipment has been
installed.
Personalized service will be
constantly stressed, according to
the operators. The new store
slightly, or stayed about the
same?
7. Herbert Hoover's job be
fore becoming President was U.
S. Secretary of State, Com
merce, the Treasury, War or
Interior?
The answers: 1. Lets effective.
2. Slightly fewer than half. 3.
For doctors. 4. More a man's
disease. 5. Wrong (but more than
from any other one stale). 6.
Up sharpjly. 7. Secretary of
Commorco.
Wodnoiday, April 13, I95S
Store Sets Opening
will have a complete stock of
rayon, nylon, tubeless and OK
recap tires. There will be coffee
and donuts for adults and bal
loons and bubble gum for the
children Thursday.
4-H Club'News
Howard Club
The Howterd Healthy Handy
Hands club meeting was called
to order by Nancy Barnes. We
discussed where we want to go on
a tour and decided to go to the
Jacksonville Museum and to the
rock gorden in Central Point.
Maryln Walden gave a dem
onstration on how to fold a
sweater. Sonja Hansen gave a
talk on how to hang a skirt. Val
erie Ottoman will give a demon
stration at our next meeting.
Lela Crocher and Sonja Hansen
wUl serve refreshments at the
next meeting which will be May
9 at Mrs. Walker's.
Inez Viers,
Reporter.
Three Developments
In Fight for Health
Told To Scientists
San Francisco (U.R) Three
startling developments in man's
constant fight for better health
were disclosed yesterday at the
annual meeting of the Federa
tion of American Societies for
Experimental Biology.
The first came from Dr. Wil
liam Fry, University of Illinois
physicist.
Fry told some 6000 scientists
that a radically new technique
for brain surgery has been de
veloped, using ultra-high fre
quency sound waves instead of
conventional cutting tools.
The waves, built into a ma
chine more than two stories
high, can be focused into any
section of the brain with almost
incredible accuracy, Fry said.
The only surgery necessary
when using the sound waves,
Fry said, is removing a portion
of the skull itself.
He said brain surgery by
knife or wire electrodes often
destroys healthy tissue between
the diseased area and the sur
face. Also, brain surgery is often
fatal because blood vessels are
necessarily severed and hemor
rhages can result.
"Both these difficulties are
eliminated," Fry said "because
the sound waves can hit an area
the size of a pin prick without
harming the surrounding tissue.
So far, the machine has been
used exclusively on animals, but
Fry said it is now ready for the
serious business of saving hu
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Hidden Riches
To the Editor Around the
second week in October, 1914,
I was returning from a season's
employment in Klamath county.
A friend was driving over to
the Rogue valley for a supply
of apples a lumber wagon load.
As the trip would take two days,
he suggested I go along and view
Crater Lake. We camped there
near the superintendent's office.
We arose early to expedite
travel at that season of year and
when we were nearing a wide
place near Union creek on the
dirt road, we met up with an old
time "hoss trader," who wanted
to swap his lone gray to the
wagon master, so each would
have a color-matched team. After
a short exchange of trader's vo
cabulary, the dicker was closed,
my friend getting some cash to
boot. (I always will think my
friend got the best deal, because
the gray horse he got in the
exchange, was a typical camp
horse and would eat left-over
camp victuals or biscuits as
readily as grain or hay.)
When we reached the sign of
the Rogue "Natural bridge" we
rested awhile. A few moments
later a posse bf nine or ten In
dian braves off the reservation
on a deer hunting expedition on
horse-back rode up alongside
the wagon. Afterwards I learned
most of them were college
grads, some lawyers, doctors,
teachers and prospectors.
The spokesman ask me if we
had any smoking tobacco. Want
ing to be polite, before my friend
had time to nudge me, I reached
in the boot for a sack of "Geo.
Washington" brand which the
leader generously passed along
until the little bag was emptied.
(I wasJeft holding the bag then.)
But I learned more, a pros
pector showed us a piece of
white float quartz alive with
native silver. Upon questioning
the finder where he discovered
the specimen, he pointed with his
hand and said, "mebbe 9 or 10
miles due west of the Natural
bridge of lava."
We have often wondered about
that story linked with the fa
mous river landmark. How much
to believe about it? We have
never gone in search for the out
cropping yet, for the main rea
son that there had always been
places that had a more definite
description of location to look
for lost or hidden treasures. Far
as I know the territory is quite
likely mineralized.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford, Oregon.
We did it and we're sad ! We left you in a mess, up
to your elbows in hot, soapy water trying to get
those dirty wood floors clean simply because we
thought everyone had heard about Bruce Cleaning
Wax. How in one neat 'n' easy operation Bruce
Cleaning Wax thoroughly cleans and waxes floors
without messy, harmful floorwasblng of any kind.
And how floors sparkle with joy for
months afterward. Try Bruce Clean
ing Wax for wood floors or Bruce
Floor Cleaner with lighter wax
base for both linoleum and wood.
Just remember those wonderful
easy results are our fault too !
man lives.
In another report, a team
of biochemists and pathologists
from the University of Chicago
said they have used female sex
hormones for the successful
treatment of hardening of the
arteries. .
They said estrogen, secreted
by the female ovaries, was used
experimentally to relieve the
disease because research showed
that women almost never suffer
artery hardening prior to meno
pause. However, after that period,
women have the same lack of fe
male hormones as men and are
just as susceptible to the disease.
In a related paper, a Harvard
University research group dis
closed that artery hardening and
excessive eating in later years
go hand in hand-
They said they put four young
men on high calorie diets with
fat intake kept normal and bal
anced the food intake with
heavy exercise. They did not
gain weight and the fat level
remained normal.
Then exercise was stopped,
but the, same calorie intake con
tinued. They all got fat.
The group's conclusion is that
while people are young and ex
ercise heavily, a high food level
is not harmful, but in later life,
with less exercise and the same
amount of food, fatty tissues col
lect in the blood stream and be
gin hardening of the arteries.
No Rocking Chair Salvation
To the Editor: In Communica
tions, April 10, Mr. Wisham in
ferred to be aborn-again Chris
tian, was to "hate his brother."
On the contrary, it causes one to
love their souls (but not their
doctrine). When I renounced the
Jehovah Witness doctrine, and
was redeemed by God's Son, I
had such a love for my fellow
men, I promised God I would do
all I could to help save a lost
and dying world.
John 1:7 "If we walk in the
light as He is in the light we
have fellowship one with an
other,, and the blood of Jesus
Christ His Son cleanseth us from
all sin." There is joy in the fel
lowship of Christians, and their
desire to help others find peace
in their- hearts through Christ.
"Now is the accepted time," 2
Cor: 6:2.
In one of the recent Watch
tower papers, all other denomi
nations were condemned by
name, and that Jehovah Witness
was the only one religion. John
10:16, Jesus said "Other sheep I
have which are not of this fold."
I have "The New World trans
lation" at hand, it is far from
being 99 King James Version.
Taze Russell (founder) requested
his followers to read his books
(Scripture studies) and to ignore
the Christian Bible for two
years, Recently two women came
to our door, when we quoted
scriptures to them, one said,
"you must use. the King James
version." We said, "surely."
They turned away.
Jesus did not teach a rocking
chair Salvation, neither do Chris
tians of today. Luke 4:16-20 and
John 18:20 tells of Jesus preach
ing in the synagogues. Acts 11:26
and 1 Cor. 12:28 tells of the as
semblying with the church. "A
laborer is worthy of his hire. Go
not from house to house," Luke
10:7.
They oppose voting or paying
taxes, but rush to the supreme
court when in trouble, as Russell
did,, with the "miracle wheat
scandal" and his imaginary audi
ences on the Tropical Islands,
Jan. 1913 'Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
on file). "Russell vs Ross," which
he also lost (on file in high court
of Canada, Mar. 1913). His one
aim was to make money. He had
no education to interpret the
Scriptures, and had to admit in
court he didn't know Greek. He
was never ordained, but assumed
the name of Pastor.
2 Peter 2:1; Matt. 15:14.
Ernest F. Santo,
204 Lozier Lane,
Medford, Oregon.
cleaning
Is That So?
ly Eugene Bums
- Ranger-Naturalist
One of the earliest flags pro
posed for the U.S. was that of
a rattlesnake with the caption:
"Don't Tread on Me!" In today's
facts vs. faUacy, we're going
to tread on some snake tales.
Fallacy: The huge constrictors
of South America can swallow
deer, horses, and even cattle
with little difficulty.
Fact: According to a lot of
folk zoology, . yes; but experts
state that the largest constric
tor might manage a goat, an
antelope or a small deer at best,
or a good-size pig.
Fallacy: Some snakes will
milk cows.
Facts: In almost every land
where cattle and snakes exist,
this belief is current. In Amer
ica, one beneficial little gray
and brown snake has been given
the popular, though dubious
name of milk snake, this snake,
like all others accused of the
crime, does not have moveable
lips nor a broad, flat tongue.
Without these, it would be phys
ically impossible to create the
0Nt TtEAD M
necessary suction to draw from
a cow. Too, the snake's jaws
are armed with needle-sharp
teeth and show me the cow
that would stand placidly by
while these jaws were clamp
ed on to a tender part of her
anatomy. Finally, the stomach
of the largest snake would hold
less than a cupful of liquid
it would take a whole herd of
snakes, working in relays, to
make a dent in a cow's supply.
Fallacy: Tropical snakes may
attain 50, 60, 70 to say nothing
of 100-foot lengths.
Fact: First, it must be borne
in mind that the total length
of a snake's skin means little,
if anything. By nature, the rep
tile's hide can be stretched and
a 20-foot specimen can very
easily be pegged out and dried
as a 26-foot skin.
Recognized herpetolo
gists (snake experts) say that the
longest snake ever reliably mea
sured was a reticulated python
from the Malay peninsula and
it was only 32 feet long. How
ever, one snake specialist whom
I consulted said that 36 feet
was perhaps the probable maxi
mum length of any snake.
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Comptroller of Currency
Requests Bank Statements
Washington (U.R) The
comptroller of the currency to
day called for a statement of the
condition of all national banks
as of April 11.
The Federal Reserve Board
-called on all state banks which
are members of the reserve sys
tem to report their condition as
of April 11. - ,
"
Western Allies To Be
Well Represented at
Asia-Africa Conclave
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The United States and the Al
lies will be pretty well repre
sented at the Asia-Africa con
ference which
opens next
Monday on
Indonesia.
Undoubtedly
the meeting
will be made
a sound i n g
board for a lot
of anti-W e s t
ern propa
ganda. Chou En-Lai
Cbarles McCann OI communis
tic China and Ho Chi Minn of
Communist Northern Viet Nam
are hardly likely to pass up the
opportunity to denounce West
ern "imperialism" and "war
mongering."
Jawaharlal Nehru of India
and his fellow "neutralists" may
urge that Red China be admitted
at once to the United Nations.
Further, nearly all the coun
tries which will attend the con
ference have a background of
opposition to "colonialism" the
exploitation of Asian and Afri
c a n territories by Western
powers.
Western "Friends' Attend
But there need be little fear
that the conference will result
in any action which could
cause serious trouble for the
the West.
The chief reason -is that the
Western Allies will have four
valuable friends at the Bandung
conference.
They are Brig. Gen. Carlos P.
Romulo of the Philippines,
Prince Van Waithayakon of
Thailand, Mohammed Ali of
Pakistan and Adnan Menderes
of Turkey.
Romulo, Wan, Ali and Men
deres are all good men, able to
hold their own in any confer
ence. Any one of them would be
a safe spokesman for the free
world in its defense against
Communist aggression.
Romulo is as good a friend as
the United States has in all the
world. P u b 1 ic i s t, diplomat,
statesman and soldier, Romulo
is a veteran in world affairs.
Aware of Red Threat
Prince Wan, 63, is Thailand's
foreign minister. He has served
as ambassador in Washington
and as his country's chief U.N.
delegate. He is thoroughly alert
to the Communist danger in
Southeast Asia.
Mohammed Ali, Pakistani for
eign minister, is 46. He is strong
ly pro-Western and anti-Communist.
He has served as Pakistan's
ambassador to the United States
and to Canada.
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The Philippines, Thailand and
Pakistan are all members of the
new Southeast Asia Treaty Or
ganization against Communist
aggression.
Menderes is 56. He is Turkish
prime minister. He and Presi
dent Celal Bayar brought Tur
key into the North Atlantic
treaty alliance. Turkey is also
allied with Pakistan and has
just dealt a big blow to Arab
"neutralism'' by signing a treaty
with Iraq.
Bankruptcies Seen -To
Surpass Record
Washington (U.R) Bankrupt
cies during the year ahead are
expected to surpass the record
set during the depression year
of 1932, the House Appropria
tions committee reported today.
- It said the fiscal year starting
July 1 is expected to bring "the
highest number of bankruptcies
recorded in the history of the
country."
The committee made the state-
ment, without elaboration, in ap-
proving a $450,398,227 appro
priation bill. It is to finance the
State department, Justice de
partment, federal judiciary, and
U.S. . Information service in the
coming fiscal year. The total
represented a cut of about seven
per cent in administration mon
ey requests.
Balance of Tax Biff
Depends on Conscience
Chicago (U.R) The Internal
Revenue Bureau received from
a conscience stricken taxpayer
today $400 on an overdue tax
bill of more than $1,000.
"If I still can't .sleep, I will
send you the balance," he wrote.
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