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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
AprU 28. 1945 '
(It was Saturday)
Farm census of working per
sons 14 years old and over
being conducted in Jackson
county.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Little girls
have been manufacturing May
baskets all week. Some of them
look like baskets, and some like
Mama's new hat.
20 YEARS AGO
AprU 28, 1935
(It was Sunday)
Jackson county Homemakers
plan program for fourth annual
11-day session.
Sportsmen meet to propose
new names for Southern Oregon
Boat club to include all outdoor
ports.
0 YEARS AGO
AprU 28. 1925
(It was Tuesday) .-
' The Jacksonville museum of
pioneer relics - officially opens
with talk by Gov. Walter M
Pierce.
Jackson county officials con
fiscate a 15-gallon still, 200 gal
lons of mash and seven gallons
of moonshine in raid.
40 YEARS AGO
AprU 28 .1915
- (It was Wednesday)
The Hall taxi company, op
erating an auto stage line be
tween Grants Pass and Medford,
discontinues operation.
A new daylight Southern Pa
ciflc train through Medford
starts m anticipation of heavy
traffic to San Francisco . exposi
tion. -
What's the Answer?
(Cu You Get 4 ol th 7?)
Cop. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The fight between Sewell
Avery and Louis E. Wolfson is
to control Sears Roebuck, the
N.Y. Central, Washington, D.C.
transit, the A.&P. or Montgom
ery Ward?
2. The Kurile- islands near
Japan have been placed under
Russia, Japan, Red China, Na
tionalist China, the U.S. or a
U.N. trusteeship?
3. Average salary today for
college and university teachers
of all ranks is around S5000,
S6000. S7000. S8000 or S9000 a
years?
4. Filibusters to prevent a vote
on a . bill usually come in the
Senate or the House, or both?
5. Some states include em
ployers of only one worker in
their tax for unemployment
benefits: right or wrong?
6. Of every 10 U.S. families,
about one. two, three, four, five
or six have net incomes of $5,-
000 or more these daysi .
7. A man named Einaudi is
president of Ireland, Italy, Mex-
- :t.l..l rv Tiirkpv?
JCO, BWJUWloim -
The Answers: I. Montgomery
Ward. 2. Russia. 3. S5000. 4. Al
most always in the Senate. 5.
Right. 6 About four in 10. 7.
Italy. .
SURPRISE!
Washington 0J.R) Congress
men at the National Press Club's
party in their honor were told a
pianist who had been both a sen
ator and vice-president would
play his favorite tune. From the
stage came the familiar strains
of "The Missouri Waltz," the
curtains parted at the key
board sat Vice-President Richard
M. Nixon.
Neuberger Versus Morse
"This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
This excellent advice from Hamlet explains better
than any of the political wiseacres have to date, why
in the vote on the Upper Colorado storage project,
our two Senators from Oregon parted company,
Senator Neuberger voting against the "billion-dollar
project and Senator Morse m favor.
They were being true to themselves, voting their
honest convictions. Why did their convictions con
flict?
Because of their different personalities, natures
and points of view.
CENATOR Morse is essentially a lawyer. He is ruled
by his head rather than his heart. He undoubtedly
has normal emotions, but they are controlled by his
intellect, and particularly by its legalistic department.
For example two of the greatest speeches he ever
made in the Senate and he has made several were
against the Tidelands oil "give-away" and the "give
away to .President iusenhower regarding Wuemoy
and Matsu. The keynote in both addresses was that
the two actions were legally wrong.
In law, domestic and international, neither were,
when our senior Senator spoke against them, defensible.
CENATOR NEUBERGER on the other hand is es-
sentially an artist. Not the dreamy, impractical
sort, for he has a brilliant mind and a logical one, but
his nature is grounded more deeply in his emotions
than his intellect. He has excellent powers of reason
ing and analysis, but his feelings come first.
CO WHEN this Colorado River project came up in-
volving Dinosaur Monument and the protection of
the National Park system, it was natural that Ore
gons two senators should come to the parting of the
ways
To Neuberger this was the opening attack on the
sanctity of the national park idea, the greedy camel
putting his nose under the tent, with eventual com
mercialism and destruction of these reserves of nat
ural beauty, designed to be for the people's pleasure
inspiration and recreation, not only for this genera
tion but for those to come.
He felt the matter deeply, j'ust as he did the
squirrels on the White House lawn. He wanted their
freedom and continuation instead of their incarcera
tion and exile to parts unknown. He would much rath
er watch a squirrel enjoy its freedom in the Presi
dential preserve and have the people do so, than
watch the chief executive sink a one-putt on the
presidential- golf course, or 'listen to a technical de
bate as to whether a nationalist attack on the Chinese
mainland would be a counter-attack or an offensive
war. As stated this attitude is no "gag," although it was
expressed with a smile. Our Junior Senator is sincere
in his devotion to Nature and the great outdoors, and
when the preservation of same is threatened he will
always be on the firing line voting for protection
regardless of the wise cracks from the gallery and
the uninformed.
Stewart Alsop
We can't speak for Senator Morse but our guess
is he would never take up the cudgels for the White
House squirrels, unless some legal element were in
voived, sucn as trespassing, rodent . control or
violation of an ordinance against playing golf, within
range of the executive mansion windows!
But he voted as he did because after careful
analysis he found the flooding of Dinosaur however
regretable, was entirely withm the law. Also he is a
strong advocate of federal power as opposed to pri
vate power.
CO, as remarked, the two Oregon Senators parted
company, and according to Robert Smith this
newspaper's Washington correspondent, the split
caused considerable sensation in the press gallery.
It shouldn't have. Senators Morse and Neuberger
agree on vital political principles, but they are both
by nature, independent, as far removed from the yes-
mail ui ivo iuhuwci ijpc, as auuuc tuuiu illlagmc.
They each think things out for themselves, and each
has the courage of his convictions. . They have work
ed together thus far better than any two senators
Oregon has ever had, but they don't see eye-to-eye
on EVERYTHING, and no one informed regarding
them would expect or want them to. -
TTIE big mystery about this Colorado River proj
1 ect however, is not the technical disagreement be
tween our two Senators but the Republican agree'
ment to support such a proposal, and the failure of
the Eisenhower administration to oppose it.
What has become of the familiar GOP slogan
tnat iederal power proposals represent "creeping
socialism," the destruction of the American system
of free enterprise, and there is no federal money
available for such Communistic ventures as Hells
Canyon anyway. ,
This storage measure on the Colorado passed bv
the Senate will cost twice as much as Hells Canyon.
will eventually be repaid but it will take generations
and generations to do so, and the public benefits,
according to most experts, will not even come within
hailing distance of those certain to result from a High
dam on tne snake.
How the administration can favor this crip-antic
"boondoggling" venture and oppose Hells Canvon:
is something beyond the comprehension of this depart
ment and anyone else, as far as the record has .di
vulged thus far. R.W.R.
Matter of Fact
By Stewart Alsop
GUESSING GAME
Washington For those who
enjoy guessing games, the fol
lowing projection of events may
have some in
terest. It may
be, of course;
dead wrong
it might be
rather bitter
ly entertain
ing to read
what follows
six months
from now. Yet
it does rep
resent the best
guesses of
what are generaUy called "in
formed circles" in Washington,
First, the Chinese Communists
will not now attack the off-shore
islands of Quemoy and Matsu
The reasoning here is that, hav
ing made an ostensibly peaceful
gesture in Chou En-lai's care
fully imprecise offer to negoti
ate on the Formosa Straits crisis
the Chinese Communists could
hardly turn right round and kick
off a war. '
This may turn out to be a very
bad guess indeed, of course. The
Communists build-up opposite
the off-shore islands continues
unabated. Yet it is being rather
confidently perhaps much too
confidently assumed that the
Communists will not soon at
tack.
Instead, what is now believed
to be in prospect is a long feeling-out
period, a time of negotiat
ing aDout negotiating very
much the same sort of thing that
went on after Soviet Ambassador
Malik made his famous offer in
the United Nations to negotiate
a truce in the Korean war. The
feeling-out period is believed
likely to continue for months,
with many an alarm and excur
sion.
While it is going on, a rather
embarrassed but nevertheless
eventually effective effort will
probably be made to persuade
i-mang s.ai-sneic to . pun bacK
from the off-shore islands. This
of course, could be a bad guess
to-
"1HIANG will certainly resist
anH with ovnollant
especiaUy as he was first per
suaded by emissaries . of this
country to make his heavv com-
mjtmentof troops in the off
shore islands. But eventually, it
is believed, he wiU agree, simply
because he has no alternative
just as eventually Korean Presi
dent- Syngman Rhee agreed
under pressure to accept the Ko
rean truce.
The off-shore islands will thus
in time -be turned over to the
Communists, on; certain condi
tions.' Condition number one is
that the Communists will make
some sort of vague promise not
to attack Formosa, at least for
the present.
No one seriously believes any
more that the Communists are
going to agree to "any formal,
permanent cease-fire in the For
mosa Strait. Such a cease fire
would amount to abandonment
of Chinese Communist claims to
Formosa, and if anything is
clear it is clear that the
Communnists will not abandon
these claims. .
What is now hoped for, in
stead, is some sort of face-sav
ing formula. The face to be saved
is, of course, that of the United
States, simply because the
United States cannot easily agree
to abandon the off-shore islands
to the Communists without re
ceiving anything whatsoever in
return. But a vague statement
by Chou En-lai, promising to
seek a peaceful solution of the
Formosa question, or something
of that sort, will probably suf
fice. .
Another likely condition is
the kind of British commitment
on Formosa recently forecast in
this space. For British domestic
political reasons, no such com
mitment can be made before the
May 26 elections. But after that,
a carefully hedged British and
Commonwealth promise to come
to the defense of Formosa, if the
island is attacked by the Commu
nists, is more probable than pos-
siDie. as one aritisn spokesman
has remarked, "It looks as
though we'd have to get into the
Formosa act somehow.
rpHE purpose would not be to
please Chiang Kai-shek
who would not be pleased at all
but rather to put the best pos
sible face on the kind of settle
ment outlined above. The British
commitment would make it pos
sible to argue that a reasonable
deal had been made, since Brit
ish support would be worth more
to Formosa than the small and
exposed off-shore islands.
All this, it should be hastily
and rather nervously repeated,
is strictly a guessing game. But
if things do work out this way,
t least war will be avoided. And
at least there will be another
area in the world in which the
lines are firmly drawn, and both
sides know where they stand.
Moreover unless the Penta
gon grossly over-estimates . the
capabilities of the Seventh Fleet
-a de facto cease fire will be
imposed in the Formosa Straits,
and a cease fire has been the
object of American policy in the
area since the start of the crisis.
Yet there can be no disguising
the cruel fact that this kind of
settlement will be another big
retreat in the' face of Communist
pressure. The extraordinary.
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Musicians Carry On
To the Editor: Does the Rogue
Valley want a modern dance or
chestra? Are the people willing
to support it?, It has been quite
a while since the Valley has had
a large band, and now -that it has
one people don't seem to know
about it.
With the build-up given the
Hal Sheppard Orchestra, and the
subsequent difficulty exper
ienced by that leader, the people
of Medford seem to believe the
band itself no longer exists.
Quite the contrary.
The members of this group are
all local residents, businessmen,
teachers and students who are
stIU very much together; still re
hearse regularly ,and want very
much to provide for those who
like to dance to modern music.
Western music is fine but there
should be a brand of music to sat
isfy the tastes- of - the modern
minded. -
When Hal Sheppard was ar
rested the fellows decided to
stick together, and with the gen
erous help of the Medford Mu
sicians Union reorganized and
changed the name to The
Zephyrs. The first order of busi
ness was' to find out if there were
any bills outstanding and to pay
them. It was found that they to
taled nearly $750. Even with
the realization that their former
leader had absconded with their
uniform money, their union init
iation fees, and left so many un
paid bills, they were determined
to fight it out. They sacrificed
their pay on the first dance job
in order to pay some $243 in
debts. They returned the uni
forms to the store and each man
took a $16 loss. They accepted
scale on two other jobs so that
what was left could be used to
settle debts. They now have only
about $65 left to pay.
Last Saturday they put on a
dance at the Jackson hotel and
24 people showed up. You might
think this was the final blow.
but it wasn't. These fellows are
determined to stay together, dei
termined to keep intact a unit
that will be a credit to the com
munity, which in fact it al
ready is.
If only people would show
their interest, tl is now impossi
ble for The Zephyrs to sponsor
their own dances. They are
simply .going to have to wait
until some organizations ap
proach them and offer to spon
sor them. In the mearitime they
are going on with rehearsals, and
hoping that someday the .people
of Medford and vicinity will ac-fc
cept them. V."
Ernest R. Hood Jr., "
207 Vancouver Ave.,
Telephone 2-2150.
Passing of a Landmark
To, the Editor: "Nobody wants
that old house no more," the one
at 1307 West Main that's show
ing its aged skeleton under the
hammer and wrecking bar of a
young fellow who is carting it
away for his Long Branch ranch
style dream-house. There's a sort
of sadness in seeing these fine
old houses giving way to newer
ones, so like the old pioneers
who built them. But there's no
sadness over this one, at least
at the police station and fire de
partment headquarters. Both of
these safety and way-of-life con
trollers are most happy to see
the old house torn down. For it
has long been the rendezvous of
young hoodlums who destroyed
nearly every window and door
glass, kicked out the beautifully
turned rungs of the grand front
stairway and even built fires
that somehow failed to burn
down the ancient landmark.
Medford was not yet a gleam
in some anti-Jacksonvilliteeyes
when J. M.; Childers bought 13
acres there, dug the full base
ment with bricked up walls and
built the then mansion about
1890.
The curious may wonder how
come it. faces the Northwest.
Well, Pioneer Childers liked sun
shine; especially in the morn
ing, so he set his house cater-
wampus to the world so Old Sol
would be smilin' in each of the
four large bedrooms upstairs,
maybe helping to get up, and get
things going betimes.
Young : Homer 'Harvey ' and
pretty Lillian Weaver made
their marriage' vows, there Dec.
31, 1899, making it their home
many years.- Later .on their son
Elmer, built . the big wide ' ve
randa there, a sure sign of opu
lence them days, and a grand
culmination of its predecessors,
the porch and stoop, almost for-r
gotten words today and such
appendages so unwanted now.
: F. J. Clifford,
. 1211 W. Main;
Birds Misjudge Weather
To the Editor: From reading
your editorials we believe that
you, like some or the rest of us,
find nature far more interesting
and less controversial than poli
tics. It has been a generally ac
cepted belief that birds are bet
ter weather forecasters than hu
mans. But from some observa
tions this year, we have come
to the conclusion that birds need
long range weather forecasts as
well as men do.
For the last 35 years or more,
barn swallows have used our
barns for their home building
making their nests of mud.
They started arriving about a
month ago. First a few on their
usual scouting missions. But the
main flock of 75 or 100 arrived
about two weeks ago and soon
began their regular work of
surveying, measuring, and we
presume arguing over priorities,
etc. in their preliminary prepa
rations of building.
But here is where the weather
played a foul trick. As swallows
feed entirely on insects and take
their feed only while in flight,
they are faced with actual star
vation. For the cold weather has
kept the gnats and other winged
insects grounded.
We have been picking up six
or more dead ones each morning.
A rather saddening procedure.
As we have come to look upon
these little fellows as welcome
friends.
Out of the 75 or 100 that ar
rived there are only about 20
left, and they look like they are
about on their last wings.
And for the last three or four
years a pair of robins have
nested in our catalpa tree. They
now have young ones and they
are having a hard time keeping
them dry, warm and well fed.
So we feel that we could be
fairly accurate in saying that
this weather is definitely, not
for the birds.
John Nealon
Box 279, Rt. 2
Central Point, Ore.
Chinese 'Sanctuary'
Opposite Formosa
Topic of Discussion
(0
twistings and turnings of Ameri
can polciy in the last six months,
moreover, will have the effect
of making the retreat look even
bigger than in fact it is. -
Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
BUYS ELEVATOR
Portland (U.R) Condon
Grain Growers Inc.- has our-
chased the' half million bushel
Archer-Daniels - Midland grain
elevator at Condon, Henry W.
Collins, ADM vice - president.
aid today.
Litterbug .
To the Editor:' Sometime last
week somebody dumped (from
appearance in driving -by) about
50 large glass bottles between
the entrance to the disposal area
and the railroad track on the
Table Rock road. A lot of the
bottles were broken while they
were being dumped. .
These bottles and broken glass
sure makeja beautiful sights I
hope the person or persons that
dumped them reads this as I
imagine they feel rather proud
of themselves for making . such
a mess. "
I wonder why people like to
make a dump .ground of the
roadside? Is it because they don't
know or don't care or are they
just plain stupid? It surely can't
be that they are afraid of the
caretakers at the disposal area
as those people are congenial
and friendly.
Recently the county road
crews spent a lot of time clean
ing up the Table Rock road, but
that apparently doesn't mean
anything to some people. It is
bad enough for things that are
carelessly thrown on trucks and
trailers to fall off on the road
but when they dump them on
the road side on purpose, I think
that is just going too far.
E. L. Brown
- Rt. 2, Box 263
Central Point, Ore.
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
One of the things that must
have been discussed, in the latest
United States-Chinese National
ist negotia
tions, is the
fact that the
Commun i s t s
now have a
"p r i v i 1 eged
sanctuary"
opposite For
mosa. This singu
lar situation is
seldom em
phasized in the
Charles McCxnn neeotia tlOni
held by Adm. Arthur W. Rad
ford, chairman . of the Joint i
Chiefs of Staff; Assistant Secre
tary of State Walter S. Robert
son and Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek. .
Official sources in Taipeh, the
Formosan capital, where the ne
gotiations were held, said that
basic principles involved in ob
taining a cease fire were dis
cussed. ' .
Chiang Desires Attack
But the belief was expressed
in American diplomatic and
military circles in Tokyo that
Chiang's desire to attack the
Communist air bases played a
big part in the talks.
That sounds logical. Chiang
wants no cease fire, He wants
to attack the Communists
frankly hoping that the United
States will be drawn into war
on his side.
xne united states wants a
cease fire, not only to end the
present dangerous tension, but
to effect the freeing of Ameri
can war prisoners still held by
the Communists in flagrant vio
lation of the Korean armistice.
So far, the cease fire situation
is still in the diplomatic feeler
stage.
But the way things are shap
ing up, it looks as if the United
States eventually will have to
let Chiang start bombing the
Red-held mainland unless a
cease fire is arranged.
Of course the- Communists
the cease fire feelers fail, by at
tacking the Quemoy and Matsu
islands in preparation for an
attack on Formosa. ,
But they still do not know
whether the United States will
go into action to help Chiang
and his Nationalists defend the)
two island groups.
Reds Have Problems
The Reds do know that the
United States is pledged to de
fend Formosa itself. '
And if thy have any sense at
all, they will not lightly risk a
major war with the United
States. They have troubles
enough of their own notably a
chronic agricultural crisis which
leaves millions of Chines peo
ple hungry. ' '
One thing about cease fire)
talks is that, if they fail, the
situation which they concern
gets worse than it was before.
That undoubtedly will happen
if a Formosa cease fire proves
impossible.
The situation m that area is
perhaps the most tangled one in
the whole field of .East-West
issues. It can not continue for
ever and the United States can
not forever tolerate a Red "pri- .
vileged sanctuary" opposite For
mosa like the one in Manchuria '
during the Korean war.
Testimony Continues
On O&C Regulations
Portland (U.R) The Bureau
of Land Management says some
two thirds of O & C timber sales
have been handled outside the
framework of 1950 road regula
tions. BLM officials said at a hear
ing on the road rules here yes
terday that the basic right-of-way
regulations has been strong
ly augumented by the bureau to
achieve timber harvesting. ;
The hearing is on proposed
changes in regulations. Smaller
operators oppose the changes
Forestry
while" the Industrial
themselves could start things, if Association wants the changes
"si ttt:
Frank Morgan
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