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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 6. 1945
(It was Sunday)
A brief showing why High
' way 99 should remain Oregon's
. inter-regional highway prepared
. to-submit to state highway com-
mission. ' "
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: An eco
nomic advisor reports the war
cost the American people enough
to build an $8,000 home for eve
ry family in; the country, or a
new auto with a luxurious trailer
attached.
20 YEARS AGO
May 6, 1935
- (It was Monday) ;
Four rural Jackson county
schools close for summer vaca
tion. Irrigation water reservoirs of
Jackson county are rising from
spring run-off water.
30 YEARS AGO
May 6. 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Medford city council decides
to enforce dog ordinance, and
draft new measure requiring
dogs be tied during summer
months.
An 85-signature "petition sub
mitted to city council for crea
tion of post of "city policewom
an to give attention to the
morals and welfare of the
minors of the city."
40 YEARS AGO
May 6, 1915
(It was Thursday)
. Seven buildings destroyed by
Gold Hill fire, doing about $15,
000 damage.
At least one Medford resident
aboard the Lueitania, sunk by
German submarine torpedo.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7T)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Ksiart
1. Number of nations in, the
: U.N. is 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70?
2. Every large Southern city
has more whites than negroes in
its population: right or wrong?
3. Which two of these were
not among the 13 original states:
Maine, Georgia, Rhode Island,
Kentucky?.
4. Has any of the baseball
teams in the " present National
League failed to win the pennant
at least once?
5. Ethiopia is ' north, east,
south or west of Abyssinia, or
are the two the same?
6. Oysters are unhealthful or
simply less tasty during the four
months without the letter "r"?
7. Dr. John P. Peters was
fired in 1953 from his federal
job as ambassador, medical con
sultant. F.B.I. under-cover agent,
or Agriculture Dept. specialist?
The Answers: 1. SO. 2. Right.
3. Maine and Kentucky. 4. No.
5. The same. 8. Simply less tasty.
7. Medical consultant. .
Oregoncms Follow Party
Lines on Parity Ballot ,
Washington (U.R) Oregon
Congresmen followed party lines
yesterday in voting on a Demo
cratic-sponsored measure to re
store rigid high farm supports at
90 per cent of parity. The meas
' ure cleared the house 206-201.
Rep. Edith Green, Democrat,
voted for the bill while GOP
Reps. Sam Coon, Harris Ells
worth and Walter Norblad op
posed it. - '. I
MAIL TRIBUNE
Goodbye, Pole Lines?
The granting by the F e d e r a 1 Communications
Commission of permission for the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company to build a $4,812,000 radio
relay system between Portland and San Francisco
may be the first step in a development which will see
the eventual complete disappearance of the'long lines
of poles and crossarms which have carried telephone
and telegraph wires ever since Messrs Morse and Bell
invented their instruments of communication.
a
rIE P. T. and T. company's new radio system will
kaira nini T-aloir CTOTirkYIC VlOTWOttTl PfWlanfl OTTtA tr1i
California border. Located on promontories in the
vicinity of Carver, Silverton, Albany, Eugene, Cottage
Grove, Roseburg, Wolf Creek, Medford and Siskiyou
summit, these stations will permit the projection and
reception of microwave beams which will carry chan
nels for three network television stations and one
standby channel.
The San Francisco-Portland system will be hook
ed up at the latter city with microwave systems al
ready existing between Portland and Seattle and
Portland and Pasco, Wash.
I TSE of the microwave system enables transmission
of long distance conversations, radio and tele
vision chains without the use of poles and wires. "The
system is already in fairly general use in some of the
nation's more mountainous regions where maintaining
the long pole and wire lines is an expensive and haz
ardous undertaking.
Erection of microwave relay stations is not par
ticularly costly and once located on their mountain
tops upkeep is nominal, as compared with the old
style wire line installations.
IT would seem entirely possible that the microwave
nrineinle mav be adaDted before too manv years
to short line use in ways
i
ence of the unsigntiy pole ana wire lines aiong roaas
and highways no longer necessary.
Tt mio-ht even be in the realm of nossibilitv that
central telephone stations in towns and cities will be
connected with subscribers' homes or business places
by microwave, at least to a certain extent, thus doing
awav with the objectionable pole lines in residential
and downtown areas.
Such latter developments are probably still quite a
while off but it would be hard to think of any indus
try in which there has been more marked or more
rapid evolution thanhe communications business.
HJ.U.r .
The Old Prospector Drops In
Our friend the old prospector came in for a visit
yesterday, sidling in as unconcernedly and casually
as if he had only been away a day or two; Matter ot
fact we hadn't seen him all
one of the interesting things about the old prospector.
Without a word of leavetaking, sometimes not even
a nod of the head, he takes off with his packroll and
rock hammer for some far distant mountainside, may
be in the Applegate, maybe in Colorado, where, he is
sure, there is gold to be found.
Just as casually and unceremoniously he shows up
in the office some day, planks himself in a chair and
announces that the gold was there, just as he knew it
would be vast quantities of it, yes, sir gold beyond
the dreams of avarice. .
THIS time, though, it wasn't gold alone that had
beckoned him as the magnetic pole draws the com
pass needle. This time he had found uranium too
such vast deposits of the newly desirable metal as to
surpass all the stories of other recent finds of the ma
trial which some believe is destined to ultimately
either wipe man from the face of the earth or to pro
vide a new source of power which will practically re
lease him from all work harder than putting a finger
on a pushbutton.
The only trouble with the old prospector's dis
covery tales is their indefiniteness, their complete
lack of detail as to location. When questions as to di
rection or location become too pressing he simply dis
misses them with a wave of the hand, a wave in a
general direction which might indicate " the already
known ore values awaiting development in the Blue
Ledge country, or a thousand miles away.
.
COME day, though, our old friend is going to give
us the story of the century. We know we can trust
him to do that for he always promises to tell us first
that is if he tells anyone at all. Can't trust every
body, you know. -
He has never failed to find gold on his safaris to
far away fields and he has always let us know when
he has made a strike yes, sir, its always been there,
just as he knew it would be.
Maybe some day he might even take us with him
to the end of one of his rainbow trails and there we
will find the pot of gold, together.
THAT would sort of end things for ue oid prospec
tor, though, and for us too. There'd be no excuse
for further pilgrimages once he found the end of the
rainbow. And that story he has been going to give us
for so many years. We wouldn't really want to write
it once the old prospector reaches the end of his rain
bow trail. . E.C.F.
Upper Applegate Man
Edgar R. Sawyer, of the Up
per Applegate, was buried in
the Willamette National ceme
tery, Portland, with military
honors last week.
He died Sunday in the Veter
ans Administration hospital,
Portland.
A veteran of World War 1,
Friday. May 5. 1955
which will make the pres-
i i i i
winter, seemed like. That's
Dies in VA Hospital
Mr. Sawyer had been associated
with the U.S. Forest Service. He
was a member of the Upper
Applegate Grange.
He leaves his widow, Edna G.
Sawyer, and three sisters, Mrs.
Robert McCloud and Mrs. Golda
Scott, both Chehalis, Wash., and
Mrs. W. A. Jackson, Washougal,
Return of Germany
To Sovereignty Tops
Good News for Week
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad news
on the" international balance
sheet:
THE GOOD
1. The federal republic of
Germany became a sovereign na
tion, and an ; ally of the free
world, as the
result of the
ratification of
the Paris trea
ties. It was a
momentous de
feat for So
viet Russia in
the cold war.
The occupation
of West Ger
many, with its
50,000,000 peo-
it w
Charles McCann Pe, Dyxne uni
ted States, Britain and France
formally ended. The approxi
mately 550,000 American, Ca
nadian, British, French and Bel
gian troops in West Germany
will remain as guests and part
ners in a common defense
against Communist aggression.
West Germany became a mem
ber of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and prepared to
contribute to it a fighting force
of 550,000 men.
2. Russia, having lost its des
perate fight against West Ger
man armament, appeared pre
pared to sign a treaty to restore
to Austria the sovereignty it lost
when Nazi Germany seized it in
1938. In the treaty negotiations
in Vienna, the Soviet delegation
gave up its insistence on two im
portant points. Allied authorities
now hoped that the treaty might
be signed, after years of Soviet
obstruction, about mid-May. Rus
sia's motive in its apparent de
cision to sign the treaty was to
try to sabotage West Germany's
rearmament. The Kremlin would
hold out hope to West Germans
Is That So?
Who Am I?
I rarely taste what I have not
killed, myself; my home may
weigh a half ton; when unmo
lested I may live near humans; I
am plainly dressed in browns
and' whites 'with darker trim
mings. I live in most lands but never
any great distance from water,
t. Despite my sturdy legs I can
not walk or hop on the ground.
)
My eggs usually number three,
measuring 2 by 2V& inches, and
are endlessly varied in color,
splotched irregularly with many
shades of brown against dull
white.
My telescopic vision is far bet
ter than man's. My toes are near
ly equal and have highly curved
claws with spicules underneath
for holding my slippery prey.
My hooked beak is for tearing
flesh.
Full-grown, the female may
weigh 4V& pounds and be 25
inches long the male being con
spicuously smaller. Wing tips are
pointed, giving us power and
grace in flight.
In diving upon a silvery shad
ow in the water, I churn up to 80
miles an hour, and I usually
some up with my wriggling vic
tim in my Immensely powerful
talons.
.My life is one' of domestic
bliss couples pair off and re
turn year after year to add more
junk to their eyrie. We make no
bones about hiding our huge and
unsightly nests and you'll fjnd
them in broken treetops, on rock
ledges, along low shores or sandy
beaches; when not molested by
man, perhaps in belfries, the
roof of a shed, the crossarms of
telegraph poles and on a cart
wheel fastened on a tall pole. I
never pick sticks off the ground
to build iteither finding them
afloat or breaking off dead limbs
from a tree by diving upon them.
In most areas I am protected,
hence in many regions I am one
of the few large birds on the in
crease. My diet is exclusively
fish.
I am: A. Bald eagle. B. Con-
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that they, too, could have a peace
treaty and end the occupation of
East Germany by Russian
troops, if they would be neutral
3. Military experts of the eight
Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza
tion countries agreed upon a
master defense plan to meet any
Communist aggression in South
east Asia. The 10-day secret
meeting of the experts was held
in Baguio, summer capital of
The Philippines. Recommenda
tions to be made by the experts,
including defense of Thailand
and the Indochinese states of
Southern Viet Nam, Laos and
Cambodia, will be considered at
a higher level meeting to be held
in Bangkok, Thailand June 6.
THE BAD
1. The political crisis in South
ern Viet Nam, which threatens
to explode to open civil war,
became even more tangled. For
the moment, American - support
ed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem main
tained supremacy over the re
ligious political - religious sects.
But Diem's own supporters split
over a new issue whether to de
pose playboy chief of state Bao
Dai, who was sitting out the
crisis on the French Riviera.
2. It was announced that dele
gates of Soviet Russia and its
European satellites would meet
in Warsaw, Poland, next Wednes
day to establish a unified mili
tary command." This was Rus
sia's first retort to West Ger
many's entrance to the North At
lantic alliance. The Communists
also intensified their threats to
WesBerlin, hunting at a block
ade. 3. The Himalayan Mountain
kingdom of Afganistan announ
credit was mobilizing because of
a dispute with Pakistan over a
big tribal area on their frontier.
A conflict between the two coun
tries could only benefit Soviet
Russia, which adjoins Afganistan
on the north.
By Eugene Burns
Hangar-Naturalist
dor. C. Falcon, b. Osprey. E.
Skua.
I am: D. An osprey, more com
monly known as a fish hawk.
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IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail
Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito,
Calif.
Communications
Viaduct Protested
To the Editor: The following
is a copy of a letter which- was
sent to Mr. R. H. Baldock, state
highway engineer, at Salem, a
copy of which was also sent to
the Medford City , Council. As
this letter, covers a subject which
deeply concerns all who appre
ciate the beauties of Medford and
its vicinity, we are hopeful that
you will print it.
"Dear Sir. We, the Phoenix
Garden Club, wish to protest any
re-routing of Highway 99 by way
of a viaduct over Hawthorne
Park .in Medford.
"Although most of the mem
bers of our club do not reside in
Medford, we tdo our shopping
there and our families use the
park facilities. Such a viaduct
would not enhance the beauty
or peacef ulness of the park.
"As a Garden Club, we are
especially concerned over the
certain destruction of the horti
cultural beauties in and around
the nark which would result
from the proposed freeway.
"We are certain another route
could be found for Highway 99
which v would, not destroy ; the
trees and shrubs of Hawthorne
Park, and which would preserve
its beauty and restful atmos
phere. ........
"Very truly yours,
(Signed) Dorothy A. - Grocho
cki, Secretary, Phoenix Garden
Club.":
Mrs. W. A. Grochocki
Route 1, Box 479D
Medford, Oregon
Ph. 3-4264
Medford
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Political note:
In Washington, the house of
representatives is heading as this
is written toward a showdown on
a bill to scrap the flexible farm
support program that was voted
by Congress last year. Presum
ably, the scrapping of the flexi
ble supports program would be
followed by a bill to return to
the former system of rigid, high
suports for the six basic farm
crops.
The Washington correspon
dents report that the bill to do
away with the flexible support
system is generally backed by
house Democrats. House Repre
sentatives are reported to be
generally opposing it.
AND-
xx The dispatches continue
The senate has indicated it
will NOT consider a farm bill
this session. Even if both houses
should pass a high price support
bill, President Eisenhower has
indicated quite clearly that he
will veto it.
IF THAT is the case, why spend
the time of the house of repre
sentatives in passing a bill that
has no chance of becoming a law
this year?
The answer is rather simple.
It is believed to be good poli
tics. It MIGHT result in winning
over the big wheat states to the
Democrats next year. As you
may have heard, there will be
another Presidential election in
1956.
TN THE interest of fairness and
accuracy, I'm obliged to add
that in a similar situation the Re
publicans might act in exactly
the same way. I can t help wish
ing we had more statesmen and
fewer politicians in Congress.
CJPEAKING OF surpluses, here
is the wheat situation in a
nutshell:
In mid-1952, the wheat sur
plus was about 235,000,000 bush
els. A year later, it stood at 562,-
000,000 bushels. In July of last
year, it rose to 903,000,000 bush
els. It is expected to pass the
billion-bushel mark by July of
this year.
Why we should go on subsi
dizing such increases in the
wheat surplus is a question that
only politicians can answer.
1MORE ON the atom bomb tests
and the weather:
Dr. Oppenheimer, lecturing in
Portland, says he doesn't think
the atomic bomb tests that are
being held in Nevada have any
thing to do with the kind of wea
ther we have been having.
. He adde:--'" .-"'. ' -'. - ;,J
"The atomic bomb is impres
sive, but it is peanuts as com
pared with the force unleashed
by a hurricane or a typhoon . . .
The weather does appear to be
changing, but there is no reason
to link the changes to A-bomb
tests."
II7ELL, that's that. ,
" But
A lot of us know nothing what
ever about nuclear physics will
snort scornfully at this opinion
from one of the foremost author
ities in the world, citing the fact
that we are having rotten wea
ther and at the same time we
are having atom bomb tests on
a big scale down in the Nevada
desert. ,
So, we will contend, the bomb
tests, just HAVE to have some
thing to do with it.
THAT'S all right, and Im glad
it's that way. If the time ever
comes when we Americans ac
cept obediently the WORD OF
AUTHORITY and have no opin
ions of our own, this will no
longer be America.
Prospect Church
Dedication Set
Prospect The Prospect As
sembly of God church congrega
tion, plan a dedication service
for their new church Monday,
May 9, the Rev. Harold C. Cas
per, pastor, announces. Members
of Assembly of God churches
from southern Oregon will par
ticipate. In the service at 2:30 p.m.
Rev. Julius Jepsen, a former
pastor of the church will be the
speaker. The Rev. Lester Gibson,
a minister from the Oregon dis
trict headquarters at Brooks,
Ore., will be the speaker for the
dedication service at 7:30 p.m.
A lunch will be served at 5
p.m. in the Community hall for
the visitors. Visitors are invited.
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Babson ..Public Enemy
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., (Special
To Mail Tribune) We have
an enemy in this country eating
away at us from within in a way
that may be
very- destruc
tive to our na
tional well-being.
That ene
my is competi
tion, which for
ces us to put an
employee's loy
Boger W. Bafcioi
alty to the
business ahead of his loyalty to
his family. When praising the
American Way" of free enter
prise, let us not forget that it
has serious dangers.
Big Business is surely contri
buting to juvenile delinquency
by the high priority it claims on
a man's evenings and week ends.
When father should be speding
time with his wife and children
he is entertaining customers or
whittling down the paper work
on his desk. He is a stranger in
his own home. This almost hys
terical pursuit of company busi
ness at any cost to family life
is evidence of the decline in nor
mal values that has hit too many
business executives.
There are . millions of vsad
homes across the land, homes
where fathers have awakened
with a jolt to find sons already
grown un. Sons have gotten into
serious difficulties because they
never received the kind of guid
ance and discipline they needed
from father. I recall a plaintive
cry from a "corporation wife"
which appeared in Fortune maga
zine a couple of years ago. She
particularly condemned the type
and amount ol entertainment
that she, as a corporation wife,
was expected to offer to her hus
band's business associates.' In
this case, the corporation left
little time for either parent to
spend with the children.
Constant Change Is Dangerous
It is a. mistake for companies
not to allow sales managers to
slay in any one place long
enough to become part of their
community. They must move
every two or three years. Of
course, the wives become irri
tated; children have a hard time
in school; and husbands develop
ulcers. Marriage and the family
don't have a chance.
Graduates of Colleges of Busi
ness Administration have been
criticized in recent years for be
ing unwilling to be away from
home five nights a week for their
dear old employer; but these
graduates may be justified. The
present generation of fathers and
mothers of teen-agers haven't a
very good record. Perhaps the
new crop of prospective fathers
and mothers will do a better job.
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Parental Guidance Lacking
la Hearing ox cniidren
A father tells about the very
good prep school to which he is
sending his teen-agers. Says he,
"Why I don't have to be bother
ed with the kids at all. This
winter the school taught my boy
how to ski and to skate. Saved
me a lot of time and trouble!"
School and college guidance of
fices are filled with records of '
young people who are emotional
ly unstable because their parents
never played with them enough,
never gave them the understand
ing and guidance they needed.
A friend recently stated that '
when he suggested a plan for
fathers and sons to raise money
together by planting and mar
keting certain garden crops, he
was nearly booed out of the
meeting. "Whoever heard of such
a ridiculous idea? We re all too
busy," vas the reply. Don't
blame the schools for all the
shortcomings of the younger
generation!
Responsibility of
'Big Business'
How often have you heard
business executive say that he
doesn't want his children to
work as hard as he has had to?
So he hands them out fat allow
ances, automobiles, expensive .1
education, and perhaps even sub
sidies for marriage. This eases
his conscience; he can say he has
given his children everything,
"everything," the children will
tell you, except what they really "
wanted most ocmpanionship.
Such prolonged wet-nursing
can - develope a generation of
young people who are egocen
tric, emotionally immature, anoY
who believe the world owes
them a living. Who is to blame?
I have a hunch that the pace .
business sets has something to
do with the situation. In fact,
when asked as to what will bring
on the next depression, I fore
cast: . "Employers, - executives,
wageworkers, and even custom
ers will some day get tired and
just quit the struggle. Many par
ents are now reaching this stage.
Donor of Koyf Cup Bid
To Junior Week End -
Charles W. Koyl, Ashland, has
been invited to attend Junior
Week End festivities at the Uni
versity of Oregon May 13 to"15.
The invitation came from the
junior class. .
Koyl is donor of the Koyl cup,
presented to the outstanding
junior student each year, and
he was asked to make the pre
sentation this year during an in
termission at the annual Junior
Prom the evening of May 13 in
MacArthur court.
The event is the 65th annual
Junior Week End.
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