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Flight or Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1945
(It was Thursday)
The city council has author
ized a call for bids to remove
four old dwellings on East Main
st. for a new city park.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Rural resi
dents are cutting next winters
wood. This is admirable long
headedness, and beats national
milliners, who generally have
the Older. Girls buying next
fall's the last week of April.
20 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1935
(It was Friday)
B. E. Harder was re-elected
president of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce.
The finest work of art in Med
ford, the Palm memorial, was ac
cepted by Mayor George Porter
,as a gift to the city in dedication
ceremonies.
30 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1925
(It was Sunday)
Residents of Ashland circulate
petition asking the county to im
prove Dead Indian road to the
Lake O' Woods.
Snow was falling at Crater
lake today, adding to 17 feet
reported at the rim and almost
12 feet at Anna Spring camp.
40 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1915
(It was Monday)
From the Local and Personal
column: Sunday was the ninth
anniversary of the San Fran
cisco fire and earthquake, one
of the most devastating holo
causts of modern times.
Figures from the county trea
surer's office show thaj; about 65
per cent of the total assessments
have been collected this year.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The British colony of Hong
Kong is on the Chinese main
land, just off the mainland or
some distance from it?
2. Has food on the whole or
clothing on the whole gone up
more in price in the last 15
years?
3. Fulton is the name of the
steamboat inventor, a proposed
new TV A plant, a New York
fish market or a Missouri town
where Churchill made a speech?
4. Records prove that middle
aged workers are on the whole
less efficient than young ones;
right or wrong?
5. Leader of the British Labor
party is "Nye" Bevan, "Ernie"
Bevin, "Clem" Attlee, "Herb"
Morrison, or Sir Stafford Cripps?
6. All gaps in the inter Ameri
can Highway from the Rio
Grande to the Panama Canal
are south of Mexico; right or
wrong?
7. ' Perry Como, singer, was
recently signed to a long-term
contract by the American, Co
lumbia, Mutual or National
Broadcasting system?
The Answers: 1. Just off the
mainland. 2. Food as a whole.
3. All four. 4. Wrong. 5. Attlee.
6. Right. 7. National.
VSjASSOCIATIOM
A recent survey showed 74
per cent of all U.S. families
' owned pianos.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"To Be or Not To Be?
The only certain thing about the situation in For
mosa and its environs is the uncertainty.
There is plenty of information, but the informa
tion is so contradictory that no clear picture can be
obtained.
"JNLY a week ago, for example, -President Eisen
hower announced the threat of war in the Far
East as pronounced by Admiral Carney, was a
phoney. He felt he had as good sources of informa
tion available as anyone, and in his judgment any
attack by the Chinese Reds, looked as of then more
remote than ever.
DUT over the recent week end,, the President called
Secretary of State Dulles to Augusta because of
the alarming increase of military strength in China,
especially in the air and on the mainland - opposite
Formosa. The conclusion generally drawn by the
public was that Admiral Carney might not have been
so off the beam as previously supposed.
How will the picture
do is guess. No one can KNOW.
A GAIN Only a few weeks, ago Chiang Kai:shek
announced that not
Chinese mainland inevitable (even if he had to go it
alone), but the "zero hour" might come almost any
time.
But now according to
mosa "all idea of a return
future in an effort to reconquer China alone or
otherwise by force has
The idea of the Nationalists now, it seems, is to
await a counter-revolution in Red China, to stimulate
same by political propaganda and infiltration in every
wav then iom with the
triumphal march on Pekin,
psychological time comes.
Who is right? Who is
it is impossible to tell.-And yet to have any clear
idea about what is likely
near future or in the world one must know the
facts, at least some of them.
THE picture is not much
clear or as clear and certain as anything in this un
certain world can be are:
No. 1 : The American
Formosa, Quemoy the Matsus, or any other islands
in the Pacific 8,000 or 10,000 miles away. They don't
want another world war ANYWHERE m which they
would have to participate
No. 2: The same American people don't want
Red China to get these islands, to extend their con
trol further over Asia, and nothing they would like
better than to see Chiang Kai-shek return to the main
land drive out Mao, and
cratic and civilized regime to that.vast overpopulated
and suddenly awakened country.
"IlHICH sentiment is the stronger? The sentiment
against war or against Red China. Ah, there
is the rub who knows? '
Only the future and its
mine. '
But just as eventually
the property of Chiang OR
in this struggle in the Far East between the commu
nist and the free world, one side or the other must
back down, or there will
Which will it be? Retreat or catastrophe?
DROBABLY President Eisenhower will have more
or as much to do with making the final deci
sion, than any other one individual.
We don t envy him his
And not very long ago
world:
"There is no alternative to peace."
One need not question the President's sincerity
and still grant that there is an alternative, there is also
no doubt that circumstances which the President can't
control may force him into
alternative to peace a war in self defense even if the
alternative would be unsatisfactory.
Hamlet under somewhat similar circumstances
observed that the world was out of joint, and cursed
he fate that he should have the task of setting it
aright, then concluding as
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."
Fortunately however for himself and for the
world, President Eisenhower is no Hamlet!
When the time comes
edly make the decision for he is fundamentally a man
of action. One can only hope and pray that decision
will result in peace, but as of today the odds, all real
ists must grant, are against it.
"We the people can
he patience and fortitude
Larger Pay Raise tor Postal Workers Seen
Washington (U.R) House pro
ponents of a pay increase for
postal workers larger than the
proposed 7.6 per cent expressed
confidence today that the House
would go along with their views.
Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calil),
leader of a group that wants to
lift the boost to an average 8.2
per cent, said he was hopeful
that the House would endorse
his amendment to that effect
Tuesday. April 19. 1955
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look tomorrow? All one can
only was his return to the
the latest report from For
to the mainland in the near
been abandoned.
counter revolutionists, in a
when and only when the
wrong? At this distance
to happen over there in the
clearer here at home.
people don't want war over
period I
restore a respectable demo
developments can deter
Formosa will have to be
Red China! So eventually
have to be war.
job.
he declared to a listening
waging war. For there is an
follows:
the President will undoubt
only wait and see, with all
that can be mustered.
R.W.R.
I feel that my amendment
has an excellent chance to
pass," he told a reporter.
But Moss' opponents on this
issue said they are confident
President Eisenhower would
veto any wage increase above
the 7.6 per cent approved by
the House Post Office Commit
tee. They also said they have se
rious doubts the House and Sen
ate could override such a veto. ,
RECOMMENDS CHARTER
REVISION Former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman as he
appeared before Senate for
eign relations subcommittee
on recommendations for re
vising UN charter. He called
on U. S. to bring "the current
threats to world peace" be
fore the UN General As
sembly. Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
rible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
High Praise for Lowry
To the Editor: Thomas Law
son McCall writing recently in
The Oregonian, and Olive
Starcher, society editor of the
Mail Tribune, have written of
the ability of Senator Philip B
Lowry of Medford, who at 36
years of age, is. the most out
standing of the freshman legis
lators of this the 48th legislative
assembly at Salem.
However, the glowing tribute
to - Senator Lowry comes from
the veteran legislator from
Multnomah county, Pat Loner-
gan, who has been a member of
the Oregon Legislature since
1945.
Senator Lonergan said "I con
sider Senator Lowry the prize
acquisition of the 1955 Senate
membership. . I have never
known a freshman member of
either the House' orSenate who
measured up to Senator Lowry
in quick grasp of legislative pro
cedure or one having a keener
mind in detecting legal flaws in
legislation under consideration
In my opinion, his future attain
ment of political or judicial
honors is only limited "by his
personal desire or inclination.
Senator Lowry is a member
of the committees on assessment
and taxation, elections and privi
leges, judiciary, and roads and
highways. He has been called
upon by President Smith to pre
side during his absence.
I respectfully submit the fore
going for your approval and use
in my favorite southern Oregon
newspaper.
Lmn W. Nesmith
Box 31,
Camp White, Oregon
Overpopulation the Problem
To the Editor: There is con
siderable argument about peace,
disarmament and communism
It is all futile argument and use
less, as long as they aU ignore
the greatest enemy of all which
is overpopulation.
Nobody will dispute the fact
that there was over 20,000,000
people on earth 3,000 years ago,
If the population had doubled
every 300 years, there would
have been 10,240,000,000 on
earth today.
We had a 16th part of the
earth's population in 1950. If
the rest of the earth has kept
pace with us we will have at
least 4 billion people at the end
of this century.
If we cut down the increase
to one per cent a year by 2500
we wUl have 128 billion people
on earth. Can any of your em
pire builders show how the earth
can support that number?
The man who wrote Genesis
and Eden teaches that man is
responsible for conditions on
earth and woman is responsible
for the safety of humanity.
Birth control is mandatory on
woman. Neither God nor man
can save humanity, it depends
on woman.
History is full of saviors of
humanity, as a consequence
humanity is, in graver danger
today than it ever has been.
. The only way to save it is
universal birth control. No wom
an should be allowed more than
two children from now on un
less you are determined to throw
your grandchildren and great
grandchildren into an earthly
hell that you are preparing for
them now.
G. S. Ackerlund
Camp White A-l-4
Ore.
About 40,000,000 immigrants
fame to the U.S. between 1820
and 1952.
Neutralism Takes
Beating at Opening
Of Bandung Conclave
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Neutralism took something of
a beating at the opening of the
Asia-Africa conference at Ban
dung in Indo
nesia. Things were
going along
nicely until If
the .chief dele
gate of South
ern Viet Nam
took the op
portunity to
bring up the
facts of life
about Commu
nism. Charles Mr.r.ann
Nugyen Van Thoai asked the
conference to support his gov
ernment's demand for an exten
sion of the period during which
people who live in Communist
Northern Viet Nam may migrate
to the free territory of Southern
Viet Nam.
Under the Indochinese cease
fire agreement signed in Geneva
last July 21, about 12.000,000
people in the northern part of
Viet Nam passed under Commu
nist rule.
These people were given 300
days in which to flee to South
ern Viet Nam. ,
May 16 Deadline
The deadline has now been set
for May 16.
People in Southern Viet Nam
are free, until then, to move to
the Red North. But there has
been no traffic jam on the
northbound routes.
During the opening session at
Bandung Monday Viet Nam
delegate Thoai, not awaiting his
turn to address the conference,
made the text of his speech
public.
He said that 1,000,000 people
had fled their homes in the north
to escape Communism, and that
many more are awaiting trans
port southward many more
than can be moved by May 16,
"They refuse to live under a
dictatorial regime which com
pletely disregards human values
and the basic rights of man."
Thoai said of the refugees.
They do not want to stay, he
said, under "a so-called national
government which is servile to
a foreign ideology and a foreign
people who several times in the
course of our history have dem
onstrated their imperialistic
designs.
The ideology, of course, is
Communism. The foreign people
Chrysler Testing
Gas Turbine Auto
" Detroit (U.R) The first car
ever to be powered by a gas tur
bine, the engine many believe
will power 'the cars of the fu
ture, now is being tested on city
streets under actual driving con
ditions for the first time, Chrys
ler corporation revealed today.
Chrysler said it has been test
driving a 1955 Plymouth, equip
ped with a gas turbine, on De
troit streets to find out what
the car can do under actual driv
ing conditions.
Chrysler, which became the
first auto company to mount a
gas turbine in a standard car 13
months ago, said many metallur
gical and manufacturing prob
lems still remain to be solved
before such an engine could be
put in actual production.
But announcement that de
velopment of the engine had
progressed to the point where it
could be driven on city streets
in regular traffic was a signifi
cant development in gas tur
bines. Chrysler said the car had es
caped detection by most motor
ists. Only a few things distin
guish it outwardly from stand-)
ard production cars. In place of
the usual hum of a motor, the
gas turbine has a characteristic
whistle and whirring sound. In
place of a normal exhaust pipe,
it has a special exhaust duct in
the rear center of the car, built
right into the rear bumper.
Underweight Bread
Charged to Bakeries
Portland (U.R) Managers
of nine Portland bakeries have
been charged with baking and
keeping underweight bread for
sale in a complaint filed in Dis
trict Court here by the State
Department of Agriculture.
Norman E. Vaughan, Depart
ment of Agriculture investigator
said that in many cases standard
large loaves were only a frac
tion below the weight required
by law.
Investigators said that bakers
had not been allowing tolerance
for air in trying to hold the
loaves to the minimum weight.
Named as defendants in the
omDlaint are H. R. Billman,
Ann Palmer bakeries; Paul
Stein, Stein's bakery; M. G.
Smith, Judith Carol - Bakery;
Glen Day, Fred Meyer Bakery;
O. L. Thomas, Davidson Com
pany, R. L, McMurray, Fairfax
Bread Company; Casper Miro,
Buy Rite Pastry shop; Walter
Ilk. Moreland bakery, and Rudy
Kappell, Kappell's Old Holland
bakery. .
are the Chinese, now under Red
rule.
Knows Communism
It is significant that of the 25
governments invited to Bandung
by the five sponsor nations,
Southern Viet Nam is the only
one that knows at first hand
what Communism is like. No in
vitations were issued to South
Korea and Nationalist China,
which also have been its victims.
It will be interesting to see
how things develop at Bandung,
and what replies Premier Chou
En-Lai of Red China and For
eign Minister Pham Van Dong
of Northern Viet Nam may
make to Thoai.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru of India is the chief "neu
tralist" at the meeting. Presi
dent Sukarno and Premier Ali
Sastromidjojo of Indonesia also
are neutralists, and Prime Min
ister Gamel Abdel Nasser of
Egypt is leaning that way, for
the present at least.
These are all highly intelli
gent men. How long can they
continue to believe that it is pos
sible to be neutralists about
Communism? The Communists
themselves recognize no neutral
ism. To them, one who is not
pro-Communist is an enemy.
Greenspun Hails
Acquittal as
Victory for Press
Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R)
Newspaper publisher Herman
M. (Hank) Greenspun today hail
ed his acquittal on charges of at
tempting to incite the murder of
Sen Joseph McCarthy as a vic
tory for freedom of the press.
The 41-year-old publisher of
the Las Vegas Sun was found
innocent of the charges Monday
night by a federal court jury of
six men and six women. The
jury deliberated three hours in
reaching the verdict. The trial
lasted five days.
Law Violation Charged
The - government charged
Greenspun with violating fede
ral postal laws by sending copies
of the Jan. 8, 1954, issue of the
Sun through the mails. The issue
contained a column highly criti
cal of McCarthy. The govern
ment charged it tended to incite
the "murder or assassination of
the Wisconsin Republican." ,
Greenspun said his acquittal
was a triumph fpr free speech,
freedom of the press and the
American jury system.
Renewed Comfort
"All Americans can take re
newed comfort in the American
jury system," the publisher said.
In his column "Where I stand"
in the Jan. 8, 1954, issue of the
Sun, Greenspun wrote "Sen. Joe
McCarthy has to come to a vio
lent end. Huey Long's death will
be serene and peaceful compared
to the demise of the sadistic bum
from Wisconsin."
"Live by the sword and you
die by the tword," the column
read. "Destroy people and they
in turn destroy you.""
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In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
On the political front:
v Republican Senator Thomas
Kuchel of California predicts
that President Eisenhower will
consent to be renominated next
year and will be reelected.
He made the prediction while
praising Chief Justice Warren
for disclaiming flatly any inte
rest in politics of the Presidency.
ON THE other side of the fence,
Senator Richard Russell of
Georgia tells a breakfast meet
ing of the Democratic national
committee in Washington that
the Democrats will SWEEP THE
COUNTRY in 1956, winning the
Presidency and control of both
houses of congress.
IN LONDON, the chairman of
the British Conservative party
predicts that the general elec
tions that have just been called
in Britain for May 26 will in
crease Prime Minister Eden's ma
jority in parliament.
He says Eden's decision to call
the elections "cleared away the
mists of uncertainty which hung
over the nation.
WELL
" As Mark Twain so succint
ly remarked in Pudd'nhead Wil
son's Calendar
It is a difference of opinion
that makes horse races.
THE BRITISH general elections
were called by Prime Minist
er Eden the evening of April
15. They will be held on May 26.
Our system differs in many
ways from the British system.
They think six weeks is long
enough for a political campaign.
We start the next political cam
paign the day after the last
one ends.
GETTING BACK to Chief Just
ice Warren, he read the re
sults of a poll which indicated
that he was first choice for the
Republican nomination in 1956
if President Eisenhower should
decide not to run for a second
term. He sat down promptly and
wrote out a statement in which
he said:
"I will not be a candidate for
President -of the United States
and I will not change this de
cision UNDER ANY CIRCUM
STANCES." ABOUT THE only time when'
such statement has been
made more flatly was back in
1883 when General William Te
cumseh Sherman, Civil War
hero, put it this way:
"If nominated, I will not, ac
cept; if elected, I will not serve."
Down through our political
history, nearly everybody' else
has played it coy including Cal
vin Coolidge, who Said: "I do not
CHOOSE to nm.",
SPEAKING OF straighforward
men, Senator George of Geor
gia a top rank Democrat and
chairman of the senate foreign
relations committee did some
straight talking the other day.
He stood up in the senate and
announced his support of Presi
dent Eisenhower's view that the
cause of peace will not be ad
vanced by public announcement
of the U.S. position on defense
of the Chinese Nationalist is
lands of Quemoy and Matsu, just
off the coast of Red China.
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tion, he asserted that if Eisen
hower is faced with a decision '
on defense of these islands the
President "will DO WHAT
GOOD MEN ALWAYS DO he
will go into his closet and, face
to face with his God, will make
his decision."
That's what I call statesman
ship. THIS FORMOSA business is
one of the biggest poker
games ever played and the
stakes are fantastically high.
In a big poker game, do you
announce to all and sundry what
cards you hold and how you are
going to play them?
I think not.
Leathernecks Hurt
By Exploding 'Dud'
" Camp Pendleton, Calif. (U.R)
A "dud" artillery shell dropped
by a Marine in a crowded chow
line exploded yesterday .and in- -jured
33 leathernecks, one of
them critically, base- officials
said today. '
In critical condition with up-
per leg and lower abdomen
wounds was Pvt. Dorman T.
Swann, of Winnsboro, Tex.
Twelve, other marines were hos-'
pitalized for check ups and the
remainder were released after
treatment for minor injuries.
Base -officials said the shell
was of "an undetermined caliber
and apparently had been picked
up by a Marine on the Camp
Pendleton artillery range as a
"souvenir." The man who drop
ped the shell was unidentified,
but officers confirmed it was no
Pvt. Swann.
The explosion occurred just
after members of the 3rd Bat- ,
talioh, 5th Regiment of the First
Marine Division, just back from
Korea," fell out in front of the
mess hall. -
The blast shattered mess hall
windows, but otherwise did not
damage surrounding barracks.1
BANK BILL KILLED
Salem (U.R) A bill that
would have forced banks in
Oregon to close on Saturdays
was killed by the House Rules
Committee yesterday. .
MR. : i
Brennan
TO ROTARY ANNS:
Rotary's Golden Anniversary party
will be held at the Elks' club be
ginning at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday,
April 27th A fine dinner and
dancing to a Name Band are only
part of the top entertainment.
Come and bring Father! Your
guests are welcome.
For Information Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phone 2-4940
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