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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 20, 1945
(It was Friday)
Government officials inspect
ed sites for a new federal buiid
ing, which probably will house
the post office.
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From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Spring,
slow in showing up this year,
has finally arrived. There are
two kinds of Spring: The Rogue
valley variety, and what the
rest of the world, and Califor
nia, think is Spring.
20 YEARS AGO
April 20, 1935
(It,was Saturday)
The first of several defendants
facing trial in justice court for
failure to procure dog licenses
found not guilty yesterday by a
jury which deliberated less than
five minutes. -
The Medford Active club, co
operating with the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce,
will sponsor a May day festival
which includes a car show, pa
rade and dance.
30 YEARS AGO
April 20, 1925
(It was Monday)
From Local Mining News col
umn; The Oscar Creek placer,
known for its large nuggets,
came back to true form this
year with several large nuggets.
The mine produced an $860 nug
get several years ago.
The rainfall up to this morn
ing since last September when
the rain year started measures
17.13 inches, and more rain fore
cast for the area.
40 YEARS AGO
April 20, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
From the Local and Personal
column: City authorities report
that Medford comes nearer be
ing a "spotless town" now than
at any time in the past five
years. People disposed of gar
bage themselves rather than
having it taken away by the
city.
The school board authorizes
pay increases for five principals
and four primary grade
teachers.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Gel 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
1. Total employment this
spring, says the . U.S. Labor
Dep't, will rise or fall slightly,
or stay about the same?
2. Iraq has upset the other
Arab states by making an al
liance with Great Britain, Israel,
Russia, Turkey or the U.S.?
3. Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn is from Alabama, Geor
gia, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Texas, or Virginia?
4. The speed of light is about
186,000 miles an hour, a minute
or a second?
5. The capital of Switzerland
is Geneva; right or wrong?
6. Ex-President Hoover's son
is now a high official in the U.
S. diplomatic service, State.
Justice or Interior department,
or in U.N.?
7. A widow is legally a relic
or a relict?
The Answers: 1. Rise slightly.
2. With Turkey; 3. Texas. 4.
18S.000 mile a second. 5. Wrong;
it's Berne. 6. State Department.
7. Relict, legally.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Have We Overlooked a Bet?
A southern Californian visiting in the Rogue val
ley recently wanted to know why, with all the scenic
country hereabouts, the comparatively cheap moun
tain land available and the numerous other advan
tages, there are no public guest ranches or, as they
are generally known, dude ranches in the Medford
vicinity. ,
INQUIRY at the Jackson County Chamber of Com
"merce, he said, had disclosed the surprising fact
that no such recreational facility exists nearer than
Wrenn, 11 miles out of Corvallis, where the H Bar H
ranch is located.
The visitor said his family has spent several sum
mers on such ranches in Colorado, Wyoming and Ari
zona and that the children, especially, enjoy the op
portunity for riding horses, camping out, fishing in
the small streams which are available m some of the
ranch localities, and otherwise enjoying a type of life
completely different from that which the city dweller
knows most of the year.
HTHE visitor's interest brought to mind a recent item
in the Roseburg News-Review which told of plans
for establishment near Roseburg of a recreation cen
ter along dude ranch lines. The Roseburg ranch,
which is to be opened around June 1, will be located
six miles south of the city in what is known as Happy
Valley.
Spread over 3,000 acres, the ranch will include a
nine-hole golf course, outdoor swimming pool, tennis
courts, a lodge to house fifty guests, a lounge and
dining room, a rifle range, archery range, landing
strip for airplanes, and a rodeo arena seating 3,000
people.
Special riding trails will be laid out and a string
of 25 saddle horses will be available for guests. Riding
trips will include chuck wagon dinners and break
fasts. The owner stated they are planning to make the
ranch the most outstanding recreational and enter
tainment center in the state as they believe the setting
is ideal for such an enterprise.
Expenditure of $500,000 is planned at the outset
and more may be invested as improvements and at
tractions are added.
PPARENTLY the Happy Valley owners are get-tine-
a head start on the rest of southern Oreeron
in a type of enterprise which, for some reason or other
has been overlooked up to now, but which should show
a good profit once its attractions become widely
enough known. ; E.C.F.
Please, Folks, No More
For several weeks past The Mail Tribune has been
deluged with letters for publicationattacking or de
fending various religious groups and beliefs. At first,
it was hoped that the flurry would soon run its course,
as such things usually do. But, instead of tapering
off, the debate seems to be rolling right along with
no end presently in sight.
THEOLOGICAL arguments are seldom if ever con-
elusive or decisive. If they do anything they prob
ably make for bitterness. For that reason it has been
decided that, all sides having had sufficient opportu
nity and space to cite chapter and verse and to air
their views, it is time to call a halt on publication of
such letters to the editor.
So, please, folks no more, for this time at least.
E.C.F.
Parking Proves Value
Receipts from parking meters in McMinnville are
helping to provide off-street parking areas in the
city's business section. A full block of free off street
parking was established there some time ago and
the McMinnville chamber of commerce recently
recommended that the city council spend some of the
accumulated meter receipts for additional space.
A CCORDING to the McMinnville Daily News
Register the need for parking meters has been
amply demonstrated since their installation. When
bags have been put over the meters, on special com
munity shopping days, immediate return of crowded
conditions has been noted in the main business area.
Persons wishing to park on the streets for short per
iods of shopping have found it difficult.
"It has been proved again and again," said the
newspaper, "that the meters accomplish the job for
which they were intended to keep the street parking
places available for ready use by the general public."
AT THE time meters were installed at McMinnville
the city officials emphasized that the devices
were not looked upon' as revenue producers but rather
to help solve the parking problem.
Construction of the big city lot for free parking for
all was the first fruit of the program. The city now
feels that the free off-street parking has been one of
the most valuable public relations moves the commu
nity has ever made toward people of the trade area
and expansion of the convenience is being urged.
E.C.F.
Portland Sheriff Suspends Deputies
Portland (U.R) Multnomah
county sheriff Terry D. Schrunk
suspended two deputies yester
day in connection with the
seven-man jail break at Rocky
Butte county jail last Saturday.
Deputy Roy Cunningham was
suspended for 10 days on charges
of violation of jail and depart
Wednesday, April 20, I9S3
ment rules and conduct unbe
coming an officer. Deputy Wil
liam Travis Jr. was suspended
for two days for failure to make
a head count when prisoners
were released from a cell block
to go to lunch Saturday noon.
The escapees all were recap
tured. '
HOLDING SPRAT OF FLOWERS presented by Indochlnese Premier All Sastrpamldjojo (right).
Red Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lal is greeted at Bandung on arrival for Afro-Asian con
ference. Sastroamldjojo was elected president as momentous parley began. (International)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Oregon's lawmakers are fac
ing a tax problem that accord
ing to Paul Harvey, AP's legis
lative correspondent at Salem
will keep them in session at least
two weeks more. That would
make the present session the
second longest in history.
This is the problem:
How to pluck the most
feathers from the goose with the
least squawking.
rPHE present plan is to hold a
- special election next fall at
which both a sales tax and heavi
ly increased income taxes will
be submitted to a vote of the
people.
That, it is believed, will give
a fairly accurate idea of which
plan will involve the most
squawking from the plucked
taxpayers.
T ET'S state it this way: '
"Whatever we feel we HAVE
to spend, in order to provide the
services we want from our state
government, will HAVE to come
out of the pockets of the people.
There is nowhere" else for it
to come from.
1 JNFORTUNATELY, a fsdlacy
has arisen in our country
over the past three decades. The
fallacy is that money provided
by government is manna from
heaven, falling alike on the just
and the unjust and COSTING
NOBODY ANYTHING.
If and when the fallacy of that
idea is exploded, we may be able
to stop the constant rise of taxes
that is presenting so many prob
lems aU the way from . the
smallest taxing districts clear up
to the federal government.
But not before.
THE problem isn't confined to
-- Oregon. Huge California,
just like smaller Oregon, is
scraping the bottom of the bar
rel and looking around for new
sources of tax money. California
is hoping to raise what is needed
out of new or increased taxes
on "luxuries" such as tobacco,
liquor, horse racing and such.
A LBERT Einstein dies in a
hospital in Princeton, New
Jersey. He ,was one of the
GREATS. The late George Ber
nard Shaw called him the great
est man in the world. He wasn't
carried away by a thunderbolt
from on high, as the Mediter
ranean ancients believed was fit
ting for exalted ones. He wasn't
taken up into Valhalla by the
Rhine Maidens, as the Vikings
thought proper for men of his
sort. The official cause of his
death is listed in the hospital
records as inflammation of the
gall bladder.
Death is no respector of per
sons. "PINSTEIN'S fame began with
the formula in his theory of
special relativity, which he pub
lished at the age of 26. This was
the formula: 'E equals M times
C squared." In his formula, E
stands for energy, M stands for
mass and C stands for the speed
of light. In simple terms, this
means that mass and energy can
be transformed one into the
other.
This formula came to be
known as the symbol of the
atomic age and out of it came
what we know as the principle
of atomic energy.
piNSTEIN was a curious char
acter. Among other things,
he dressed in what he chose to
caU "very comfortable" clothes.
His idea of "very comfortable"
clothes included an old sweat
shirt in place of a jacket.
He had a legendary disregard
for personal money. He is said to
have used on one occasion a
check for $1500 as a bookmark.
It is characteristic of him that
he LOST THE BOOK along
with the check and was wor
ried only by the loss of the book.
He never bothered to cram
his .mind with KNOWN facts.
Asked one time as to the speed
of sound, he replied: "I don't
know. I don't crowd my memory
with facts that I can easily find
in an encyclopedia."
. He wouldn't have got far in
a modern quiz program, would
he?
BUT he was great. The meas
ure of his greatness is that
he advanced immeasurably the
frontiers of man's KNOWLEDGE.
1
Matter of Fact
SHOWDOWN ON SECURITY
Washington A showdown
fight involving the government's
whole loyalty-security sytsem is
wnj now chaDine
!3 f&i ,,n Tk tirtht
will center
on a minor
official in the
9 Int ernational
Monetary
Fund, called
William Henry
Taylor.
Taylor was
one of those
named by Eliz
abeth Bentley,
Stewart Alsop
the famous former Communist
espionage courier, as a member
of the espionage group in the
Treasury Department during
the war. The Bentley charge
was repeated in substance be
fore a Senate committee by At
torney General Herbert Brown
ell in 1953, when he testified
on the case of the late Harry
Dexter White.
Taylor, who has never taken
the Fifth Amendment, has re
peatedly and flatly denied under
oath that he was ever a Soviet
agent or a communist. He has
now demanded, in letters to the
members of the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee, that his
case be investigated publicly;
that he be allowed to confront
his chief accuser, Miss Bentley;
and that his guilt or innocence
be finally determined.
At the same time, he has
asked the Loyalty Board, which
has been hearing his case to call
Brownell and FBI Chief J. Ed
gaa Hoover to answer questions
about what he alleges to be
demonstrable falsehoods in Mi?s
Bentley's testimony. , In short,
Taylor and his lawyer, former
Congressman Byron Scott, are
now determined to force a pub
lic showdown.
One result of the showdown
could be to prove that Taylor is
a former spy, as alleged by Miss
Bentley and BrowneU. ' Another
result could be to clear his
name. But if Taylor's name is
cleared, a heavy cloud of doubt
will be thrown over all Eliza
beth Bentley's testimony, and in
deed over the Justice Depart
ment's methods and the whole
security system. It is easy to see
why the Taylor case could start
a major row.
Taylor's position is extra
ordinary. He has, after all, been
in effect branded a Soviet spy
by the Attorney General of the
United States. Yet he still holds
a public position, and part of his
salary, at least, is paid by the
United States Treasury.
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HHAYLOR is, in fact, the last of
-- those namea oy jyuss .tsenuey
who still holds a public posi
tion. Very heavy pressure has
been broueht to bear on tne
Monetary Fund to get rid of him
quietly. Among other high offi
cials, both former Secretary of
the Treasury John Snyder and
his successor, George Humphrey
have written to the Fund urging
that Taylor be fired.
The Fund managers, however,
have quite properly taken the
nosition that the charges against
Taylor should first be heard-
His case was therefore assigned
early in 1953 to the International
Organization's Employees Loyal
ty Board.
This board has been holding
intermittent hearings for a year
and a half. During all this time,
despite the flat statement of tne
Attorney General to the Senate
committee, the board has been
f
EoTOciioini
We're terrible cads! We should have put you
straight ages ago on the easiest, prim 'n' proper,
way to take care of your wood floors. We should
have told you how in one oh-so-easy operation
Bruce Cleaning Wax thoroughly cleans and waxes
floors without one drop of harmful soap-and-
water touching your precious floors
... or precious you ! And how floors
gleam and gleam for months and
months. Now that we have told
you, try Bruce Cleaning Wax for
wood floors, or Bruce Floor Cleaner
for linoleum or wood. Well take the
blame for the easy results, too. .
By Stewart Alsop
unable to establish that Taylor
is guilty as charged, or even
that the "reasonable doubt" re
quired for firing as a security
risk exists. Accordingly, Taylor
still holds his job.
Taylor's defense before the
board has been , simply to chal
lenge the veracity of his ac
cuser, Miss Bentley, not only in
his own case, but in the case of
Harry Dexter White and others.
In a public showdown, he wiU
make the same defense.
Taylor and his lawyer have
prepared a dossier of more than
100 pages, which purports to
demonstrate that Miss Bentley's
testimony is a morass of contra
dictions. Some of the contradic
tions cited in this remarkable
document are trival, the sort of
small mistakes any human being
makes. But some do not seem
trivial. For example, according
to the dossier, Miss Bentley at
one point testified that Taylor
passed her documents, and at
another point she testified that
she : had never met Taylor.
Miss Bentley's testimony may
of course prove substantially
entirely accurate, and Taylor
guilty as charged. There is no
doubt that Communist spy nets
did indeed operate in .the gov
ernment during the war. Be
cause ex-Communist informers
like Miss Bentley have been
useful in establishing 'this fact,
there are fierce pressures to sup
press all challenges to their
veracity.
JUSTICE Department officials,
including Brownell, .' have
come precious close to taking
the ridiculous and profoundly
un-American position that any
one who would cast doubt on
the word of an ex-Communist
must be part of a Communist
plot. The best commentary on
this nonsense was supplied by
Brownell's own action last week,
in firing the Justice Depart
ment's whole coUection of pro
fessional full-time informers.
But just because Miss Bentley's
testimony has been so important,
and because Brownell himself
is committed on Taylor's guilt,
the pressures will be particular
ly fierce in this case.
Yet surely Taylor should have
a chance to prove, one way or
another, once and for all,
whether he .took part in espion
age, and thus betrayed his coun
try. It is monstrous and intol
erable that, in this free country,
a man- should be , branded a
traitor by the Attorney General
of the United States, and then
denied a chance to clear his
name.
(Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Drink, Firecrackers
Blamed for Defeat
Lake Charles, La. U.R) Re
search director Mark A. Lower
of the Louisiana Moral and
Civic Foundation blames the de
feat of an anti-gambling bill on
liquor and firecrackers..
Lower told a foundation con
vention Tuesday that a number
of the state legislators had been
drinking and five were "dead
drunk stiff" when the bUl was
defeated and that the popping
of firecrackers "made it impos
sible to carry on business."
In addition, he said, a "num
ber of known prostitutes from
Baton Rouge and New Orleans
were present."
clearing
Diplomatic 'Sleeper'
Possible in Russia's
Treaty With Austria
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Russia's strategy, in its offer
to sign a treaty restoring Aus
trian independence, is still not
clear.
One thing is
certain. The
Soviet govern
ment has not,
after aU these
years, sudden
ly become
eager to free
Austria.
It is obvious
ly trying, by
indirect
means, to keep
Charles McCann
Austria's neighbor, West Ger
many, from arming and joining
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tion must not exceed 400 words.
Mailmen and Dogs
To the Editor: I have been
reading a number of communica
tions in the Oregonian lately
about dogs biting people. And
I'm writing this for local reading
because I happen to be a local
mail carrier. In fact I happen to
be a sub, so must deliver mail on
a number of routes during a
month, and believe me I see my
share of dogs all kinds.
Of course none of them "ever
bit anyone" that is, not till I
happened along. And of course,
according to the fond owners, I
strode down the street tempting
their "friendly" dogs to get close,
and then attempting to kick h
out of them. " ' '.'
Now, anyone who bothers to
think this out, knows better than
that! A mail carrier must be
watching his mail sorting it as
he goes along, being careful not
to put Mr. Jones' mail in with
Mrs. Smith's or he'll hear about
it if he does. People don't realize
that we have little time for mis
treating their lovable canine
friends and specially not if we're
late getting around. -
My reason for writing is this:
I like dogs in fact I plan to get
a cocker pup for my kids as soon
as it's old enough. But I believe
that to have a dog in town, a per
son must have a mild mannered,
even tempered dog Who can , be
and must be taught to leave any
one passing their home alone.
There are foo many people,
who, in their regular duties must
approach the house, or pass it
by every day of the week. And
believe me it's no fun walking
block after block with yapping
dogs at your heels wondering if
or when one will decide to try
for a taste of fresh leg!
And there are those which j
don't yap, but make no secret of
the fact they d like to take a
piece out of you. Of course these,
according to their owners, have
been teased, and possibly kicked
by some mail carrier. That may
be, but I rather expect any dog
that gets. kicked was not ignor
ing the mail carrier as well as it
could be trained to do.
The general public fails to re
alize that a mail carrier is not
required according to postal reg
ulations to deliver mail at any
house where there is danger
from dogs. In fact some have
found to their dismay that this
is the case. '
So lets take care of our dogs
before we join the others who
call at the post office for their
mail, because of pets they can't
or won't control.
Steven J. Dodge,
813 Beekman St.,
Medford. Ore. .
Oregon Federal Judge
May Be Named in Week
Washington ttJ.R) Jess Gard,
Republican national committee
man for Oregon, said today after
conferring with administration
officials that a new federal dis
trict judge of Oregon probably
will be named in a week or so.
Circuit Judge William G. East
of Eugene has been prominently
mentioned for the post.
Mark Waddell
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the Western alliance against
Communist aggression.
On the surface it really does
look as if the Kremlin has of
fered to sign a reasonable Aus
trian independence treaty, and
to withdraw its occupation
troops from the country by next
December 31. That, if it turns
out to be true, is a surprising
development.
The Soviet government does
not customarily withdraw its
troops voluntarily from any
country in which it has man
aged to plant them.
That is one reason for suspi
cion as to the Kremlin's good
faith.
Another reason, of course, is
that the Kremlin seldom acts in
good faith in its relations with
the West anyway.
Hence there well may be a
diplomatic "sleeper" in the Rus
sian treaty offer.
When the time for negotiation
comes, the United States, Great
Britain and France may find
that the Kremlin will welsh on
the troop withdrawal offer
that it will cite West German
armament as a reason why it
must keep troops in Austria.
Alternatively, it may be that
the Russians will demand such
drastic guarantees of Austrian
neutrality as between East and
West that Austrian sovereignty
would not be restored.
In any event, it is generally
agreed that Soviet Foreign Min
ister Vyacheslav M. Molotov has
made a smart move.
Molotov failed in his desper
ate attempt to prevent the nego
tiation and ratification of the
treaties providing for West Ger
many's arming.
Now he is trying to sabotage
the armament program by offer
ing Austria its freedom.
Immediate suspicion was ex
pressed in Washington of the
good faith of the Russian offer.
But the reaction in Austria
was enthusiastic. Austrians are
quite willing to guarantee their
neutrality if only they can get
foreign , troops , out , of their
country.
The reaction in West Ger
many also was what Tlolotov
must have hoped. Many Ger
mans opposed bitterly, and still
oppose, the idea of rearming
and , joining the West They
would like to keep out of the
cold war and of any hot water.
These Germans asked at once
why, if Austria could get its
freedom by promising neutral
ity, Germany could not do like
wise. -
Bomb Scare Chases
School Students
Lake Stevens, Wash. (U.R)
About 470 Lake Stevens high
school students promptly left
the building yesterday after a
man telephoned the school a
time bomb was set to go off at
11:30 a.m. in the school cafe
teria. '
The students were given the
rest of the day off while Snoho
mish County Sheriff Bob Twit
chell and volunteer firemen
made a systematic search of the
schooL
fit's probably the work of a
prankster, but we can't take any
chances," Twitchell said.
Twitchell said a prankster
may have gotten the idea for the
call from the bombing of a Port
land, Ore., department store
last week.
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