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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1945
(It was rriday)
Jackson county court consid
ers appointing service officer to
serve veterans organizations.
From Arthur Perry' Ye
Smudge Pot column: Another
farmer reports he beat approxi
mately 2800 pounds of the al
leged meat shortage to the barn
the first of the week.
20 YEARS AGO
May 11. 1935
(It was Saturday)
The Rogue River Baptist as
sociation holds 59th annual
meeting at First Baptist church
in Medford.
Preparations start for. observ
ing Decoration Day, May 30.
30 YEARS AGO
May 11. 1925
(It was Monday)
. Jackson county court pub
lishes paid advertisement urging
residents to consider before
signing petitions against state
tax on commercial busses and
trucks.
. Interest becomes more intense
in campaign between Holly st.
and Pacific and Easter sites for
new Medford High school. .
40 YEARS AGO
May 11. 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Medford's mail from the north
delayed because of washout at
Kennett.
Rogue River Fruit and Pro
duce association elects Col. , R.
C. Washburn of Table Rock
president.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 19S5. Editorial Research tenet.
1. V-E Day ten years ago
marked the surrender of , Ger
many,, Italy, Japan, Germany
and Italy, or Germany and Ja
pan? 2. Mother's Day has been cele
brated on a nation-wide basis, for
about 25 years, for considerably
less or more?
! 3. Most of the people of Aus
tria are - Roman . Catholics, or
most are Protestants, or is it
about 50-50?
4. Eisenhower was or wasn't
chosen as presidential nominee
Jby the 1952 G.O.P. convention on
its first ballot?
5. Now that the Salk vaccine
has proved effective against po
lio, the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis says it does
or doesn't need new funds?
6. The great race horse, Man
o' WarYonfa Kentucky Derby,
or was defeated in one, or never
ran in one?
7. Which two of these didn't
-write one of the four New Testa-
mnt Gospels: John, Luke, Mark,
Matthew, Paul,. Peter?
The Answers: 1. Of Germany.
2. For more than 40 years.- 4.
Was. 5. Says it does. 6. Never
ran in one. 7. Paul and Peter.
Join Day Cattleman
Winner of Swift Award
:. Corvallis (U.R) Verman
Oliver, cattleman from John.
Day, has been presented the G.
F. Swift Centennial Founders
award for leadership in the
growth and development of Ore
. gon's cattle industry.
The award was a feature of
the annual Oregon Cattlemen's
association convention here.
MAIL TRIBUNE
What Is One
The uncertainties which surround the value of
the Salk anti-polio vaccine
use on a nationwide basis have a counterpart in the
arguments which have attended efforts to modify
weather conditions.
I7R0M some parts of the
. reports and conclusions
while results have been
tional precipitation in the
the other hand just as positive opinions have been
voiced that weather modification efforts have not
proved worthwhile.
The latest adverse conclusion to come to our no
tice was issued by the Canadian government weather
service.
TN a statement made public at Toronto the Canadian
weather service declares that commercial rain
making experiments in parts of the prairie wheat belt
caused less not more rain to fall. Confining his
conclusions to the conditions that prevailed m the
tests, the Canadian government meteorologist esti
mated that one-seventh less ram fell in areas where
clouds were seeded than
if man hadn't prodded nature.
The Canadian report covered experiments carried
out in May, June and July of 1953 and 1954 in part
of the southwest Manitoba and two areas in west
central Saskatchewan. Cloud seeding with silver
iodide from ground generators was done by Canadian
affiliates of the Water Resources Development Corp.,
of Denver, Colo., working under contract for farmers
in the area.
TTHE cruel let-down and eventual complete bewil-
derment which followed the initial announce
ments concerning the Salk vaccine could have been
largely avoided had the government and the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis permitted less dra
matics in announcing the favorable results from the
1954 tests.
Even if the vaccine had
efficacious and if no trace
the picture the build-up and ballyhoo given the vac
cine1 would have created such a demand that pharm
aceutical companies would have been swamped with
orders for months and orderly distribution would
have been almost- impossible under- such circumstances.
As it transpired the doubts which have arisen and
the off-again-on-again attitude of the politico-med
ical men have served to
such an extent that anxious parents and the public
in-general finally do not know what to think. E.C.F.
Unique Celebration
With arrival of the summer season there comes
also the numerous fairs, festivals, "days," "weeks,"
and other occasions set aside for civic and community
celebration of everything from the appearance of
blossoms in the surrounding orchards to completion
of a new city hall. It doesn't take much to stir the
desire to celebrate. But of all the countless festivities
planned in the state this year historic old Oregon City
staged a celebration a few days ago which was in a
class by itself.
TN Oregon City the business section is strung along
a narrow shelf with the Willamette river on one
side and sheer rock cliffs on the other.
Steps were built against the face of the bluff back
in 1874 and the pioneer settlers of that time panted
up the long stairway when they wished to reach the
hill section of the town.
It was in this higher section that Dr. John Mc
laughlin, Hudson Bay company factor and for many
years virtual ruler of the wide area, built his home
in 1845.
IN 1913 a municipal elevator was finally, installed.
The apparatus was actuated by water power, how
ever, and as a result of the community .squabbling
which broke out over the use of water from city mams,
andover other details, perspiring citizens continued
to climb the stairs until December of 1915 when the
lift was at last actually placed in service. Apparently
there were still some mechanical bugs in the ma
chinery and the Enterprise-Courier of Oregon City
reports that at times it became necessary for pas
sengers to work their way out of the stalled cage by
way of an emergency door in the back and get back
to terra firma by clamboring down a ladder on the
steel framework. With ankle skirts and, later on, the
hobble skirts, this required a bit of doing for the fe
male passengers. .. ... .
Complications continued to develope until the un
usually severe winter of 1924 when the elevator was
put completely out of business. The following sum
mer the city council voted to install electric power
in the lift and with this change the conveyance per
formed well until it was decided to build a new steel
and concrete 129-foot tower shaft at a cost of $160,
000. ;
COMPLETION and dedication of the new elevator
was made the occasion for a four-day general civic
whoop-de-do which" was attended by an estimated
10,000 people.
Practically every city, town or hamlet in Oregon
will celebrate something or other this summer but old
Oregon City is the only one able to base civic jubila
tion on the dedication of a new elevator. E.C.F.
Wednesday, May 11, 1S5S
To Believe?
and the advisability, of its
country there have come
that definite and worth
attained in producing add
form of snow or rain. On
could have been expected
proved to be completely
of doubt had entered into
foul up the whole deal to
Ike's Agreement To Big 4 Talks
Concession To British, French
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower's agreement in
principle to a top level Big Four
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Important agricultural news:
Americans are shifting from
HIGH CALORIE foods to more
of the PROTECTIVE foods. The
U.S. department of agriculture,
reporting this changeover after
a comparison of our diets in the
years 1953-1954 with those in the
years 1935-1939, says it's because
we're learning more about the
values of vitamins, proteins, iron
and calcium.
T SUPPOSE it's true that the
reason we're changing over
from the high calorie foods
(which tend to make us fatter)
to the protective foods (which in
general are supposed to make us
slimmer) is that we're learning
more about the life-extending
qualities of the so-called "pro
tective foods."
Still t
It could be that this change
in our diet is the result of the
general disesteem in which fat
ness is held in our day and age
and the consequent almost uni
versal yen for slimness. We're
approaching the point where the
fat gal must reconcile herself,
at the worst, to a life of single
blessedness and at the best to
the prospect that she'll have to
choose a husband from a list
that has been picked over by
the slender ones who can afford
to pick and choose.
AT ANY rate
This change in our diet is af
fecting our whole agricultural
economy. During the last two
years, the department of agricul
ture says,, each of us consumed
an average of 18 per cent more
dairy products EXCLUDING
BUTTER, which got too high-
priced, and so lost ground to
oleomargarine 25 per cent
more eggs, 37 per cent more meat
and 16 per cent more citrus fruit
and tomatoes.
During the same period, we
ate 26 PER CENT LESS POTA
TOES and .21 per cent fewer
grain products!
WONDER about potatoes
which in Southern Oregon and
Far Northern California are a
highly important crop.
Is it true that potatoes are IN
EVITABLY- fattening? Is it a
FACT that if one' eats potatoes
he must resign himself to the
inferior status that in this period
of the world's history seems to
go with overweight?
Or does INCONVENIENCE
have something to do with it?
Anyway, a decline of 26 PER
CENT in consumption of pota
toes (as reported by th depart
ment of agriculture) is something
that can't be laughed off in the
areas of our country where po
tatoes are a highly desirable
crop.
LETS TAKE a look at this busi
nacc nt TM.nnM?TNJTir'Mr'Tr
Processing and packing have
been making tremendous strides
in the case of fruits and vege
tables other than potatoes. The
freezing process alone has more
or less changed the whole pic
ture. When comes the grim hour
at which the housewife must face
the problem of WHAT THE
BRUTE IS GOING TO EAT, she
can solve it easily and more or
less painfully by reaching into
the refrigerator or the freezer
and retrieving therefrom an eye
pleasing package that needs only
to be broken open and dumped
into some cooking utensil that
will heat the stuff up and make
it appetizing.
But in the case of the potato
it is still too likely that she will
have to go down to the basement,
choose whatever number of po
tatoes she needs, bring them up
to the kitchn, wash them, peel
them, and then cook them more
or less slowly and tiresomely.
TN SUCH a case, what would
you do? You'd probably do as
a lot of other cooks are obvious
ly doing. You'd pick the QUICK
AND EASY, way. Who doesn't,
in these days?
In this connection, we mustn't
forget the statistic that informs
us that some 40 per cent of
American women work outside
the home. After doing a day's
work in office or factory, they
can Hardly be blamed for choos
ing the quick and easy way when
mealtime comes.
1IHAT CAN the potato indus
" try do about it?
Among other things, it better
PUT THE FOOD RESEARCH
ERS AT WORK ON THE PROB
LEM. It will do well to join in
an industry-wide study of why
people are eating a quarter less
potatoes than they ate only a
few years ago.
So far, the potato industry has
been giving too much thought
to PURELY COMPETITIVE AD
VERTISING AND MARKETING
and too little thought to funda
mental research concerning the
use of potatoes as a food and the
possibilities of marketing them
inmert convenient forma.
conference is known here to
have ben a reluctant concession
to French and British t public
opinion, especially to the British
who are in an election campaign.
But Mr. Eisenhower is , com
mitted to the project now. The
word in Washington was that he
would go all out to bring about
the conference and to make it a
success. The President's firmly
held preference was for careful
preliminary planning leading to
a foreign ministers' conference.
The top level meeting was to be
last, like the frosting on a cake,
if at all.
Concession To Democrats
There is a whiff, too, of con
cession to Democratic political
opinion in Mr. Eisenhower's
agreement to seek a meeting of
the Big Four heads of state.
Chairman Walter F. George (D
Ga.) of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee revived the
Big Four conference idea in the
United States last March 20.
George said the time had come
when the real hope of avoiding
war was a top level meeting.
Mr. Eisenhower's steady oppo
sition to the Big Four meeting
"a the summit," which Sir Win
ston Churchill so urgently and
eloquently urged while he was
prime minister, suggests that he,
also, is uneasy in his mind about
a top level meeting of the Yalta
nations.
The President said last March
30 that "there are many dangers"
in a top level meeting without
an agenda and adequate lower
level preparation. He added:
"There are all sorts of things
Is That So?
Over Baffin's Island, With
SAS (Delayed) Every land
has its quaint animal lore and
Baffin Island, the world's fourth
largest, is no exception. In dis
cussing some of these romantic
folk tales with three of my fel-
low passengers, they concen
trated their fire upon perhaps
the most completely misrepre
sented animal of fthe Arctic
northland, the wolf.
Fallacvs- The V wolf u i no-
aood father, killing his young.
Facti The wolf is perhaps tne
most loyal father in the mamma'
lian kingdom, bar none. He la
bors long and hard hours to care
for his offspring a rarity
mammalian fathers. He
will brine home small rodents,
rabbits and other game for the
Dreenant female or their young.
Also, he protects and neips train
his offsorme.
Fallacv: Wolves howl e a c n
nieht at exactly the same time
Fact: Observations conducted
with wolves at the Cincinnati
zoo failed to reveal any synchro
nized time for recurrent howl
ing.
Fallacy: Wolves run in huge
packs. .- ' .
Fact: Wolves do not run in
nacka of 50. 30 or even 20. The
pack, as such, is merely a small
family group mother, father,
growing cubs and an occasional
in-law an aunt or uncle. But no
outsiders. So close is this family
relationship that an orphaned
youngster may . be mothered by
aunts again, a rarity among
wild mammals; and further
more, uncies may pucn in w
help train the offspring. .
Fallacy: :r Wolves will attacic
humans, even laying siege to a
city,
Fact: According to our Bio
logical Survey in Washington
which has investigated every
published account of humans be
ing killed by wolves in the U.S.
and Canada, "without a single
exception they proved to be
purely imaginary."
Those best acquainted witn
wolves insist they are extremely
shy one of the shyest of mam
mals. In fact, I have worked m
areas in Alaska, Canada and the
Rockies where wolves were
once considered quite common
and I have occasionally heard
the mat night and found their
trails and evidence of their
presence the morning after, but
I have never caught more than a
fleeting glimpse of them.
But myths fostered by Lit
tle Red Riding Hood, Aesop's
Fables and Walt Disney's ver
sion in The Three Little Pigs
die hard, if at aU.
Even now, with more Arctic
explorers having- taken to
planes, you'd think stories of at
tacks by wolves . would be a
thing of the past, but no. Not
long ago a romantic narrator
had a "great pack" of wolves
"gather their, forces under a
low-flying plane: and race hun
grily below, leaping and bark
ing at the bird-like machine!"
So, as far as wolves go, fic
tion persists, and the unknow
ing love it!
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for the peace of the world."
Conservative Chances Improve
Conservative chances in Brit
ain's May 26 elections are con
siderably favored by Mr. Eisen
hower's agreement in principle
to meet at the top. As recently
as March 28, when he still was
foreign secretary, Conservative
Prime Minister Sir Anthony
Eden, seemed to side with Mr.
Eisenhower and against Church
ill on the way to approach the
Big Four meeting, if it was to
take place at all.
But British Socialist cam
paigners have been banging
away at the Big Four conference
idea, to the embarrassment of
Eden's conservatives. Not only
does Churchill want a meeting at
the summit, the British people
want it, as well. Conservative
campaigners have been given a
popular argument why their par
ty should remain in office.
Promise To French
Premier Edgar Faure got the
Paris agreement on re-armament
of Germany ratified only
by promising that a Big Four
meeting of some kind would take
place. The French people are al
most unanimously for such a con
ference and Faure is now pro
portionately strengthened in of
fice. -
Likewise is Konrad Adenau
er's Western German govern
ment bolstered by Mr. Eisenhow
er's very great concession to Al
lied unity and Allied public opin
ion. '
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Government Rests
Bryson Perjury Trial
San Francisco ttJ.R) The gov
ernment rested its case in the
perjury trial of former union
leader Hugh Bryson yesterday
and Federal Judge William C.
Mathes excused the; jury until
Friday to allow two days for
arguing defense motions.
The government charges are
based on an affidavit signed by
Bryson Jan. 21, 1951, in which
he denied being a member of the
Communist Party or affiliated
with it. ' ;
The final three witnesses for
the government presented evi
dence to show that Bryson, then
head of the defunct National
Union of Marine Cooks and
Stewards, said in 1951 he was a
Communist and "proud of it."
All three said they heard Bryson
make the statement after he
signed the affidavit. , T
Washington Attorney
Seeks Governor's Job
. Tacoma U.R) There appear
ed to be no doubt today that
Washington s Attorney General
Don Eastvold is campaigning for
governor.
Financing of Eastvold's cam
paign already was under way.
Pledge cards, asking $120 from
each contributor, were being cir
culated in the state in a drive
sponsored by 25 Tacomans. The
goal is Eastvold s hometown, Ta
coma, and Pierce county was
$12,000. v
The "Eastvold for governor
Committee", met here last night
to announce the goal already had
been reached.- The committee
said the drive would be con
tinued in other counties, with
Spokane the next major area of
concentration.
PROBABLY RIGHT .
McMinnville, Ore. (U.R)
Dr. Albury CasteU, head of the
philosophy, department -at the
University pi Oregon, was wait
ing on the rostrum to give a
chapel lecture at Linfield col
lege when the student choir be
gan singing. They sang "Give
us Courage, Give us Wisdom, for
the facing of his hour."
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Free World Pressure
Prompts President To
Agree To Conference
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
President Eisenhower's deci
sion to meet his fellow leaders
of the Big Four powers has come
only after
months of
mounting pres
sure on the
United States
govern m e n t
from all over
the world. ,
The pressure
has come di
rectly from
leaders of Al
lied govern-
Charles McCann n nas stem
med, however, from the fear of
ordinary people aU over the
world of what might happen to
them if the United States and
Soviet Russia clashed in an atom
ic war. '
The pressure started as long
as two years ago when Winston
Churchill, then prime minister of
Great Britain, called for, a Big
Four meeting "at the summit" in
an attempt to ease world tension
It increased after the crew of
a Japanese fishing boat were af
fected by radioactive ash which,
fell on them as the result of the
United States H-bomb test at Bi
kini 800 miles away on March !
1, 1954. ;. , J
Resisted Pressure
The United States resisted the
pressure firmly. ,. President Ei
senhower and Secretary of State
John Foster DuUes saw no sign
that the Soviet government was
disposed to end the cold war
which it started not to mention
the hot war which it instigated
in Korea. , :
But now there has been a
change. The ratification of the
treaties for the arming of West
ern Germany has put the -free
world in a position of great
strength. Communism is on the
defensive,
The situation now seems to be
that even if the Western Allies
gained nothing as the result of a
Big Four conference at the sum
mit" at least they could ,lose
nothing
Whether there is any real
chance of major agreements as
the result of a meeting of the
Big Four leaders is in the field
of speculation,
"It looks as if any big conces
sions made in the interest of
world peace would have to come
from the Rusisan side. v .
Change Needed
Russia's policies have put the
world in Jts1 present position.
Only a change in these policies
can give hope for improvement
There is also the question
whether Russia's representative
at a top-level Big Four meeting
will be able to talk with any
authority.
; Certainly Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin is not the No. 1 Rus
sian leader. If there really" is a
No. 1 leader right now, it may be
Nikita S. Khrushchev, first sec
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There is increasing evidence,
however, that the Kremlin lead
ership is a team business. ,
But if President Eisenhower,
Marshal Bulganin, British Prim
Minister Anthony Eden and
French Premier Edgar Faure
can meet for a few days and
maintain a cordial atmosphere
while they talk things over,
some good may result.
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Indianapolis ' (U.R) , - The
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an Indiana "air princess." "All
entries become the property of
the judges," the publicity release
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