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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 13. 1845
( It was Sunday)
Jackson county officials at
tend meeting of highway com
mission in Portland to state rea
son why Highway 99 should be
the state's main inter - regional
highway.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The United
Nations are firm for "A Sound
Peace." They strive to avert the
errors of 1918, when in the final
analysis, there was more sound
than peace.
20 YEARS AGO
May 13' 1935
(It was Monday)
Capt. M. Milton Potter, with
me incuiuiu aiinc
transferred to Ft Sam Houston,
Texas.
Eagle Point irrigation district
starts running water in the An
telope district.
30 YEARS AGO
May 13. 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Medford planning commis
sion lists price of school sites:
$26,000 for 16 acres at P and E
site: $28,250 for 10 acres on
Holly st. i
A new Medford Ice and Stor
age company building, large
enough for 5,000 tons of ice, the
largest In Oregon.
40 YEARS AGO
MarlS. 1915
(It was Thursday)
From Local Personal column:
T. F. Drake, special weather ob
server during the frost season
for the Rogue river valley, left
last night for Portland, his work
being ended for this year.
Estimates of 1915 fruit crop
placed between 800 and 1000
acres, small amount because of
lack of rain.
What's the Answer?
(Caa You Gel 4 of the 7?)
Ceer. It55. Editorial Research Reset
1. U.S. imports of residual oil
generate power chiefly in the
East, South, Middle West or the
West? .
2. The Ford Motor Co. says
it will spend for expansion in the
next three years about six, 60.
160 or 600 million dollars?
3. The term "windfall prof
its" is most often used today of
operations - by airplane cos.,
builders, interstate trucks, TV
studios, or power cos.?
4. About one, two three, four
or five per cent of all Air Force
officials are Negroes, or less than
one per cent?
-5. What foot race is a little
over 26 miles?
6. In the last previous British
election some Communist candi
dates ran well; right or wrong?
7. A herpetologist studies
birds, emotions, rocks or snakes?
The Answers: The East. 2.
About $600 million. 3. Builders.
4. About one per cent. 5. A mara
thon. 6. Wrong; every one made
a bed showing. 7. Snakes.
OVERDOING IT
Memphis, Tenn. (U.PJ Henry
Hurley has a hen that believes in
delivering the goods. Gertrude,
a white leghorn, laid an egg sev
en and one-half inches around
the middle, 10 inches around the
long way. The egg is about four
times larger than the large eggs
sold in stores.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Success Stories Start on Farm
There are some very heartening itories in the suc
cesses achieved by some of the state's young people
who seek a farming career. Heartening not only be
cause of the evidence of character, determination to
get ahead and willingness to work hard, but as prac
tical demonstrations of the rewards awaiting those
who have and apply those qualities.
THE attainments of Roger A. Dumdi furnish a con-
vincing example of what can be accomplished
where heart, head and hand are set to the task. Dum
di, 34-year-old operator of 1,200 acres of land near
Yamhill, was selected recently by the Oregon State
Junior Chamber of Commerce as the state's outstand
ing young farmer. His selection in Oregon makes him
eligible in a further contest sponsored by the United
States Junior Chamber of Commerce, to find the na
tion's four outstanding farmers between the ages of
21 and 35. Second place winner was Bruce Nicholes,
32, of Madras. Lloyd Forster, 31, of Tangent was third
place selection.
Roger Dumdi started his farm career at the ten
der age of 10, when he borrowed $12.50 from his
father to purchase a milking shorthorn heifer calf.
Seven years later, he had increased his holdings until
he owned a foundation flock of registered Hampshire
sheep and a herd of registered shorthorns.
The contest winner was a farm manager in the
early 1940's and he struck out on his own on 260 acres
of rented land in 1943. He was a partner for a time
after 1945 in a dairy.
Then, in 1951, he purchased 108 acres of land near
Yamhill and installed an irrigation system sprinkling
the entire farm.
That acreage is planted now to improved varieties
of legumes and grasses for pasture.
Dumdi's livestock now consists of 12 registered
Hampshire sows, 55 head of milking shorthorn cattle
and 73 head of commercial ewes with lambs. In ad
dition to his home place, he rents 1,100 acres of land
near Yamhill, with 925 acres in diversified crops. He
owns all farming equipment in operation on his own
and the rented acreages.
rjUMDI, who is married and the father of three chil-
dren, had some' other qualities to his credit which
were considered in his selection by the Oregon State
Jaycees. Among these are his community spirit which
has been exemplified by his service as a director of
the Oregon Cattlemen's association, director of the
National Milking Shorthorn Breed Society, Yamhill
County grassman for the year in 1952, as past presi
dent of the county agricultural extension planning
council and the holding of office in other state and
county farm organizations and in lending assistance
in civic endeavors in his home town.
THE accomplishments of second-place winner Bruce
Nicholes prove even more conclusively the oppor
tunities in farming awaiting ambitious young people.
Nicholes never had lived on a farm until 1949 when
he and his wife borrowed money to purchase 160 acres
in Jefferson county. His assets consisted solely of a
1948 model pickup truck.
Since that time he has increased worth of his as
sets to approximately $120,000, and net worth of his
properties is $100,000. He is now operating 240 acres
and is the father of four children.
Forster, the third-place winner, is recognized as
one of the top Jersey breeders on the west coast. He
also started his career early, building up a dairy herd
from a Jersey heifer his father gave him when he was
10 years old. He bought his present farm of 145 acres
in 1945. His investment then was $24,300. In 10 years
he has built valuation of his operation' to nearly
$80,000.E.C.F. -
Edward Strohmeier
It was a shock to see his name in Wednesday's
obituary column for we hadn't known our old friend
Ed Strohmeier had been ill. He had always seemed so
sort of permanent like. You could depend on him to
come in' from his little place this side of Central Point
about every so many days. Always with his market
basket on his arm and a clipping or two from some
magazine or the old home town newspaper for you to
read.
PD first started coming into the Mail Tribune office
" way back when he was writing up the Central
Point Grange doings for the paper. That was a long
time ago for he was a charter member of Central
Point Grange. He and the other members used to get
a lot of fun out of reading about some of the Grange
meeting incidents as Ed described them for print.
a
TTS been somewhat lonesome out at the old Stroh
meier place in recant years what with Mrs. Stroh
meier gone and all and so Ed liked to come into town
as often as he could and chat a spell with old friends.
As we said Ed ha always seemed sort of perman
ent around here. He came to these parts in 1897 and
had never been away very long at a time. Never could
think of any place he wanted to go more than to stay
right here, he often said.
Nationalist Planes Sink
Taipeh,,Formosa (U.R) The
Nationalist air force announced
its fighter-bombers sank a Com
munist Chinese armed motor
junk and damaged two other ves
sels near Ma tsu island.
The attack was carried out
against what was described as a
junk concentration.
Returning pilots described the
Friday. MaT IS. 1935
E.C.F. -
Chinese Junk
weather as very bad along the
coast.' . '-.-.--
This was the first report of
activity of any sort around the
Nationalist held islands off the
coast of China this week.
The last reported Communist
activity was last week when Red
artillery dumped 150 shells on
Quemoy island.
By S.fMeaA4,
Sondre Stromfjora, Greenland
via SAS (Delayed) Our four
motored airliner the only com
mercial - plane to call at - this
northern airbase has just let
down upon this Danish posses-
sion in North America, the
world's largest island if Aus
tralia is reckoned a continent.
As we step on Greenland and
board a bus for the small hotel
while our airliner is serviced,
questions are fired at the chief
purser:
- Just how big is Greenland? It
is 1,660 miles long and at the
widest 800 miles. About three
and a half times the size of Texas.
How far are we from New
York? The minimum airline dis
tance, is 1,840 to La Guardia
Field in New York. ActuaUy, we
are closer to Copenhagen, our
destination.- To Kastrup airport
in Copenhagen is 1,440 miles. Ice
land, with its airfields, is 200
miles away. Actually, we are
never more than 80 minutes
away from an airport on this
run.
Are there other airfields in
Greenland? Yes, the U.S. has sev
eral but most are secret.
Is there much animal life in
Greenland? Yes, along the shores
particularly the southern part
which is warmed by the Gulf
Stream. The waters literally
abound with life.
Has it always been cold here?
In times past, the climate was
mild. In the coal and peat bogs
we have found the fossil remains
of former forests containing wal
nut, magnolia, laurel, and even
figs.
' 'Any forests in Greenland to
day? Shrub Growth
Yes, in the sheltered fjords and
valleys there is a forest-like birch
and willow shrub growth, reach
ing up perhas 15 to 20 feet. Hills
are covered with heather and
alder scrub. Higher there are yel
low poppies, crowberry, alpine
rose, ana a few dwarf, trees.
Any fishing? Greenland has a
wealth of marine life from sar
dines to whales. There are about
100 known species of fish but
cod and halibut are the principal
commercial varieties. Perhaps
the world's largest prawn bed
was found here in Disko bay re
cently. And there is exceptional
trout and salmon sport fishing.
Any insects? There are more
than 700 known species with
perhaps again that number wait
ing for identification. There are
mosquitoes during a month of
summer unfortunately myriads
of them. And bees for honey.
Any animals? Besides the wild
Arctic foxes we saw on the run
way taxiing to the ramp, there
are musk, oxen, polar bear, cari
bou, arctic hares and lemmings.
Good Eating Bird
What kinds of birds are those?
They are ptarmigan, a wonder
fully good eating bird, much like
your American grouse. But un
like any other bird in the world,
the ptarmigan changes into white
feathers for winter. That calls
for two complete feather changes.
Besides this, one species of ptar
migan has three leather changes
a year, an in-between change, a
sort of mottled, grey-brown.
Any minerals? Yes, there is
lead and cryolite the latter is
used in the production of alumi
num. He was interrupted: "AU
aboard. Next stop Copenhagen!"
And after we were all safely on
the bus, he said: "I might add
that uranium has been found
near .King Oscar Fjord, but I
thought it was best not to men
tion that until you were all on
the bus . . . you see, I must ac
count for every passenger!"
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CATTLE RUSTLER FOUND
Mexico City (U.R) Jose Ce
dillo Hernandez was under ar
rest today for cattle rustling.
Police said a neighbor's missing
cow was found hidden in Her
nandez one-room flat.
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Possibility of Big 4
Meeting Tops World's
Good News for Week
By CHARLES M. McCANH
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
THE GOOD
1. The United States, Britain
and France invited Soviet Russia
to take part in a meeting of the
Big Four chiefs
of state. Par
ticipants would
be , President
Eisenho w e r,
British Prime
Minister An
thony Eden,
French Pre
mier Faure and
Soviet Premier
Nikolai A. Bul
ganin. In a
Charles McCann noie lO xtuisia,
the three Allied governments
said they "believe that the time
has now come for a new effort
to resolve the great problems
which confront us.". The Allied
proposal is that the chiefs of
state meet briefly to discuss the
global situation. Then the four
foreign ministers would start
business negotiations on specific
issues. Mr. Eisenhower said at
a press conference Wednesday
that he thought three days would
be long enough for the chiefs of
state meetings. He said he
As We Live
By ELIZABETH HUUOCK, PH.D.
Children Must Be Trained
To Take Responsibility
It is human nature to take the
line of least resistance. A child
will try to "get away with" as
much as he can. It is the respon
sibility of his parents to set lim
its to this.
(Q) "I simply cannot under
stand the new generation. When
I was a boy. I felt it my respon
sibility to do as
much as I
could to help
my parents. I
did heavy work
around the
yard to free
my Dad of this,
and I took jobs
after school to
contribute to
Dr. Hexlock
the family in-
come. My only son is 15 years
old. All he thinks about is run
n'ng around, spending money
and having a good time. At
home, he watches television in
stead of doing his lessons, and if
his mother or I ask him to do
anything in the house or yard,
he complains and acts as if we
were the meanest parents in the
world. Whet is the matter with
the kids of today?"
((A) The young people of today
who behave as your son does are
the product of parental training
thai does not develop in them
the feeling of responsibility your
parents developed in you. The
trouble is more with the parents
than with the children.
Have you ever, from the time
your son was a little child, train
ed him to carry his load? Have
you ever set limits to his plea
sures and said he could not go
beyond them? Or, have you been
so lenient that he did as he
pleased?
Take the matter of television
No child would sit in front of a
television screen all the time if
his parents had rules relating to
how much time he could watch
television and if they enforced
them. You and your wife could
limit the television watching to
a reasonable time every day and
set times far different tasks and
for his studies.
A 15-year-old is quite old
enough to understand explana
tions. Why not talk to him about
the matter of responsibility?
Don't talk in ' general terms.
Make your discussion specific
so he will see what you mean.
Then, together, work out a plan
of duties and responsibilities for
him. Give him a choice, but see
to it that he has his . share and
carries them out before he gets
privileges.
(COPYRIGHT 1955,
GENERAL FEATURES CORP.)
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thought it ought to be held in a
neutral country. The President
had resisted for two years pres
sure by Allied leaders to attend
a Big Four meeting. He said at
his press conference that he did
not believe it would be possible
to settle the Cold War in a few
weeks. But some good might
come of a conference at this
time, he said.
2. The West German federal
republic, now a sovereign coun
try, was formally admitted to
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization ai a ceremony in Par
is. West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer pledged that his
country will be "an able and
reliable partner" in the commu
nity of free nations.
J. V. K. Krishna Menon. In
dia's top - ranking diplomatist,
arrived in Peiping to discuss the
Formosa issue with Chinese Pre
mier Chou En-lai. Chou invited
Menon to visit him after announ
cing, at the Asia-African confer
ence in Indonesia, that he was
ready to negotiate directly with
the United States. The possi
bility was seen that Menon's visit
might be a step toward such ne-gotiations--and
toward freeing
of Allied war prisoners held by
the Reds in violation of the Ko
rean armistice.
THE BAD
1. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles and French Pre
mier Edgar Faure reached a
patchwork agreement in Paris On
policy toward the state of South
ern Viet Nam in Indochina. It
was a victory for Dulles insofar
as Faure withdrew his opposition
to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem,
whom Dulles favors. But it was
increasingly plain that the Viet
Nam crisis was chronic.
2. The chances for American
Chinese Red negotiations on For
mosa were endangered as the
result of a clash between United
States Sabrejets and Communist
MIG fighters over the sea be
tween China and North Korea.
At least two and probably four
Red planes were shot down. The
American planes suffered no
damage. A protest from the Pei
ping government made it clear
that the Red planes were Chi
nese. ,
3. Relations between India
and Pakistan, never good, were
made worse when 12 Indians
were killed in a fight with Paki
stan police near the border of
Kashmir state, which is in dis
pute between the two countries.
Pakistan is an ally of the United
Slates.
Council for Blind
Plans Souvenir Sale
Sale of souvenier white canes
is being planned by the Jackson
county chapter of Oregon Asso
ciated Council of the Blind it
was announced today. The sale
will be conducted on downtown
Medford streets Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 17 and 18.
Funds derived from this sale
will be used to help provide job
training and promote, jo oppor
tunities for blind persons.
The Council of the Blind is
an organization founded by a
group of visually handicapped
persons in an attempt to work
out their, own social and econo
mic problems. , . .
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Babson and
By ROGER BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
to Mail Tribune) If you should
lose your job tomorrow, how
much of . a financial hardship
would you and your family suf
fer? Are you up to your neck in
installment payments? Have you
borrowed too heavily on your
insurance? What if serious ill
ness should strike your family?
A 30-year-old worker of a
small New England machine-tool
producter was laid off the other
day. He had
been making
$96 a week.
That is $416 a
month before
taxes. He has
fixed month
ly install
ment commit
ments: S63 (in-
1 terest and
Bojer W. Bsbsoa mortgage) on
his new house; $61.25 on a 1953
automobile; $13 on a set of en
cyclopedias; $18.75 on a TV; $32
on a trip to Bermuda for his
wife; $19.90 on a food-freezer,
that I know about. In addition,
he has several hundred dollars
outstanding .with department
stores. He owes a winter fuel
bill of $135. He is behind in his
telephone and light payments.
The local grocer, dry cleaner,
milkman, and other merchants
whom he owes have put him on
a cash basis. He has borrowed
$250 on an insurance policy, and
now finds he cannot pay the
quarterly premium due.
Perhaps this young man is an
exception and not typical of most
young workers. But I believe he
is more typical than many of us
want to believe. He could get
along, and might even work him
self out of his financial diffi
culties, if he could keep fully
employed and not get involved
in strikes. But he has seriously
overextended himself. What if
he could not quickly get back
to work?
Wageworkers' Debts
May Prevent Strikes
This man is a product of our
postwar wave of prosperity. In
a way I cannot blame him. He
has been encouraged yes,
even bullied by radio, maga
zine, and TV salesmen, to over
load. This young man had more
money to spend than ever be
fore. What has happened to him
might happen to you. Here is
why.
Right after the war, in 1946,
people were spending only about
45 per cent of their incomes for
life's necessities, leaving about
55 per cent for. whatever took
their fancy. Since 1946, fixed
charges such as rent, food, and
installment commitments have
been taking a larger share of the
income. Last year, 53 per cent
of the average consumer's in
come was spent for fixed
charges, leaving 47 per cent for
discretionary buying 8 per
cent less than in 1946. As long
as business booms, there is little
need to worry. But should
strikes this summer, or overpro
duction or layoffs, catch up with
us, the heavy load of fixed
charges which many consumers
are carrying could be serious.
When labor leaders realize this
situation, they may not call
strikes this summer.
Savings Accounts
Good Insurance
I am concerned about this be
cause I know that major cycles
of prosperity and depression will
always be with us as a result of
the unforeseeable and inevitable
vagaries of human judgment.'!
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Planning
am concerned about the present
degree of installment buying. For
example, on February 28 total
consumer credit outstanding was
$29,500,000,000 the highest
February on record, and almost
$1,500,000,000 higher than in
February 1954. Most people are
unable to spend their money
wisely; many undervalue it and
spend it carelessly. In times of
prosperity, just as a matter of
good financial common, sense.
one ought to take advantage of
the times and increase financial
reserves. Savings accounts
should be built up, careful in
vestments made.
This period of prosperity is by
all means the time to build pro
tection for future unemploy
ment. Certainly in a period of
great prosperity one ought not
to go into needless debt. I will
be the first to admit that money
in the bank is not. doing much
good, except as insurance, but
this kind of insurance is as im
portant as any other. Pride of
ownership in a house, the satis
faction of a new xar, the com
fort of air conditioning, the joy
of TV all of these things bring
satisfaction and contentment.
But what will happen to that
contentment if tomorrow, the
pawnbroker moves in? It takes
intelligence, courage, and . will
power to plan for tomorrow as (
well as to spend for today; hut
every reader whether land
lord, employer, or wageworker
should now plan for tomorrow.
Crooked River
Project Studied
Washington (U.R) A re
port on the proposed Crooked
river project to supply irriga
tion water to 20,210 acres of
land near Prineville, Ore., has
been sent to interested federal
and state agencies, Interior Sec
retary Douglas McKay said to
day. .
McKay said the $6,339,000 to
tal cost of the project is beyond
the ability of the . water . users
to repay in 50 years. For . that
reason he said the plan proposes
using revenues from The Dalles
dam to pay $2,171,000 of the
cost.
McKay : said the reclamation
bureau, estimated that net rev
enue from the dam, now under
construction by the Army en
gineers, would repay - this am
ount in about 74 days.
The Crooked river project is
in the Columbia river basin.
When comments are received
from all interested parties, Mc
Kay said, recommendations will
be sent to the president and con
gress for possible authorization.
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