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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 18. 1945
(It was Friday)
About 450 students from Jack
son county participating jn an
nual music festival at Medford
High schooL
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Eugene is
aroused by the desecration of a
tiny Jewish synagogue, in an
outbreak of racial and religious
intolerance. There is no evi
dence any of the hoodlums wore
S16 nightgowns with masks as
tached. 20 YEARS AGO
May, 18. 193S
(It was Saturday)
Medford CCC district camp
commanders discuss administra
tion, welfare and education pro
grams for summer in meeting
here.
Eighth district 20-30 clubs, of
which Medford's is one, sched
ules annual convention in Med
ford.
30 YEARS AGO
Mar 18, 1925
(It was- Monday)
Third reunion of Siskiyou
lodge of Perfection of Scottish
Rite Masonry ends with confer
ring 32nd degree of Masonry. '
Hundrdes of delegates ex
pected in Ashland, scene of the
IOOF and Rebekah encamp
ment. 40 YEARS AGO
Mar 18, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
From Applegate column: A
large number from this and
nearby communities met at the
creamery Saturday to get the
grounds in order for the annual
creamery picnic and field meet.
Washington Parent - Teacher
association holds last meeting of
year.
What's Ihe Answer?
(Can You Gat 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1935. Editorial Research Raaett
1. Most substitute teachers in
U.S. city school systems are or
aren't college graduates?
2. The last previous President
to wear a beard was Lincoln,
Grant. B. Harrison, Cleveland
or McKinley?
3. The Johns Hopkins Univer
sity is in Baltimore, Boston,
Cleveland, New Orleans, Phila
delphia or Washington?
4. Who was the Democratic
vice - presidential nominee in
1952?
5. Hell Gate bridge is over
Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay,
San Francisco Bay, the East
River in N. Y., or the Mississippi
river?
6. There are two, four, six,
eight or ten full cups of granu
lated sugar in a pound?
George Washington was first
inaugurated president in Phila
delphia, New York, Boston,
Washington, Richmond or at Mt.
Vernon?
The Answers: 1. Most are: 2.
B. Harrison; 3. Baltimore; 4. San,
John J. Sparkman (Ala.); 5. East
River in N. Y.; 8. Two; 7. New
York.
INJURIES FATAL
Portland CU.R) David
Van Handel, 20, Oceanlake, died
at a local hospital yesterday
from injuries suffered May 10
when his car overturned near
Kernville. Van Handel was part
owner of the Van Handel Lum
ber company.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Welcome, Kids
We are looking forward to the visit in Medford
tomorrow of eight students
school.
We hope they thoroughly enjoy their visit, which
was undertaken because a majority of them had never
seen a "large city" like (ahem) Medford, and the ap
purtenances of civilization like elevators, stop lights
and so on.
FORKS of Salmon is a little old logging community
tucked away in the coast range in Siskiyou county.
The letter from Mrs. Katherine George, who is sort
of organizing the trip, explains that one of the 14
school students, a girl of 10, saw Yreka, the only
town of any size within a long distance, for the first
time last fall.
As we say, we hope they get a lot of fun out of
riding in elevators, watching the planes land at the
airport, seeting the SP freights go by, and stopping
at stop lights.
Actually, we're just a tiny bit wistful, thinking
about the idea of seeing these commonplace things
for the first time. Sometimes (usually about the time
of the homeward rush at 5 o'clock, when the traffic
piles up for blocks ahead) we think that the kind of
life which must be led at Forks of Salmon is for us.
ANWYAY, we're glad that it is going to be possible
for them to come to Medford on their first visit
to a sizeable community. Medford's a pleasant town,
and it shouldn't be too overwhelming, even for the
girl whose first visit to Yreka was last year.
If it were Los Angeles now, which scares most
people, they might be tempted to rush back to Forks
of Salmon, quickly and for keeps.
We hope Medford will exert its famous hospi
tality for these kids, and make their trip one they'll
long remember with pleasure. E.A.
Congratulations, Phoenix
The little community of Phoenix to the south is
to be congratulated on the overwhelming vote its
residents cast Monday to lift the town, almost liter
ally, from the filth which had been infiltrating its soil.
Phoenix was founded as "Gasburg" long before
the turn of the century, and is one of the four oldest
communities in the valley. But never in its long his
tory has it had a sewer system. The first sanitary
arrangements were primitive affairs, and later the
addition-of septic tanks and cess pools didn't help too
much, particularly as the town grew and grew to the
point where on man's cess pool was practically in an
other man's front yard.
"THE city council there has given assurance that the
project, which will connect Phoenix with Med
ford's sewage disposal system, and which will put in
sewer lines to be paid for through property assess
ments, will be pushed ahead just as rapidly as possible.
The principal threat, of course, was to health.
School authorities were rightly concerned, for the san
itary facilities of the school were being used at more
than their capacity.
THE situation is not confined to Phoenix, unf or-
tunately. And some areas are in an even worse
plight than that of the little community, for it at least
had sufficient assessed valuation to permit the issu
ing of bonds for the needed construction.
Some of the highly-populated semi-urban areas
outside of cities have problems 'just as crucial, but
don't have the assessed valuation to support the
necessary bond .issues.
Much thought has been given to this problem, and
there is no single "right" answer. For some areas,
annexation to existing munipalities will be the solu
tion. In other areas, the formation of sanitaiy dis
tricts can solve the problem. But m some others, the
only long-range solution
of the "metropolitan" type
of which was made possible by a new law passed at
the 1955 legislative session.
m w m m m
IT IS greatly to be hoped that work and plans on
whatever solution seems best for any particular area
can be speeded, for the health of the people through
out the valley is menaced by inadequate sanitation
in any section. .
And in the meantime, congratulations, Phoenix.
E.A. - v
Woman Awaits Sentencing
For Hogging Phone Line
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. OJ.R) -A
housewife convicted of refus
ing to let a neighbor break in on
her telephone line to report a
fire today awaited sentencing as
the first person to violate New
York's new party line law.
A jury of seven men and five
women found Mrs . Mary L.
Kayes. 43. guilty Tuesday night
of willfully delaying the report
of a grass fire. The blaze des
troyed a shed and a barn before
it was finally extinguished.
The plump Rhinebeck, N. Y.,
housewife faces a possible maxi
mum penalty of a year in jail
and a $500 fine. She will be sen
tenced Tuesday. Until then she
will remain free on $500 bail.
Donald Townsend, a Clinton,
N.Y., farmer provided the most
damaging testimony against Mrs.
Kayes. He said he picked up his
telephone to report the fire and
heard Mrs. Kayes and another
woman talking. He said he recog
nized Mrs. Kayes' voice and ask
ed her to give up the line so he
could report a fire.
"Let the damned thine burn,"
Wednesday, Mar H. 1 !
from the Forks of Salmon !
seems to be the formation
of district the creation
he quoted her as saying.
Mrs. Kayes denied in her testl
money that she had made the
statement. But she admitted she
had a bad temper and that her
refusal . to hang : up was "the
wrong thing to do."
"I wouldn't for the world
have kept the line if I'd known
there really was a fire," Mrs.
Kayes told the jury.
But Townsend's wife. Mrs. Sue
Townsend, said Mrs. Kayes had
refused once before to give up a
line so a fire could be reported.
She "said a friend asked Airs.
Kayes to get off the line so she
could report a fire in July, 1954.
"Like hell I will," she quoted
Mrs. Kayes as saying. "You had
the line and now it's my turn."
Mrs. Kayes is the wife of a
camp caretaker and the mother
of an army private-stationed at
West Point. She was the first
person to be charged under the
"model" law signed last year by
then Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
The law makes it a misdemea
nor to refuse "wilfully" to relin
quish a party line in an emergency.
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not exceed 400 words.
Valley Musical Revival
To the Editor: I wish to public
ly thank your paper for its fine
spirit of co-operation in publiciz
ing the efforts of the Philhar
monic Society to present the Or
chestra in concert with myself
as Guest Soloist. I am indeed
proud to have been chosen the
first soloist with the re-organized
group. -
Naming the ones who have
been inspirational and helpful to
me in my attempt to become a
singer would require a list as
long as my arm. However, my
Medford friends will know the
one directly responsible for my
start, was one of the great Amer
ican baritones of his day, James
Stevens. It was "Jim" who dis-
covered my voice and forced me,
literally, into the Atwater-Kent,
Contest which started me on my
way. His beautiful voice and su
perb sense of showmanship filled
each lesson with instruction and
inspiration which served to pro
tect my voice and myself from
the pitfalls of the professional
field. Not that I did not get
caught on occasions, but Jim's
memory and the things he taught
me helped to pull me out of the
quicksands in several instances.
The bond of personal friendship
which developed between us
made the few short years he
lived after our first meeting an
even greater personal loss. It
seemed that the passing of James
Stevens brought to an end a
particular era in the Musical
World of the Rogue River Val
ley. It was the closing of the
book on a group of showpeople
of a type which is just not de
veloped in this age.
Everything represents growth
and it is my sincere hope that
the Philharmonic Society and its
associated working groups will
mean the beginning of a new and
even greater musical interest
and development in Southern
Oregon. Mrs. Richard D. Werner
and - Mr. Bruno Pellegrini are
certainly fine musicians and
wonderfully co-operative. The
Rogue River Valley is to be con
gratulated on having .'them, as
well as all the other fine, music
ally talented and artistic people,
as residents. To the Members
of the Philharmonic Society, on
whom will fall the responsibil
ity of organizational work, I say
"Bravo" and mean it whole
heartedly! So see an area the
size of the Rogue River Valley
putting aside individual and
group problems with real Com
munity Spirit and Teamwork to
make Musical Harmony is one
of the most heart-warming as
pects of my recent visit. I believe
that community interests in
musical activities and the avid
support of local Talent and Art
ists is as vital to growth as any
enterprise I can think of. A
musical community is a happy
one.
My heartfelt wish for the co
operative effort of the entire
valley to support all forms of
musical and artistic endeavor
and may the fame of the Rogue
River Valley be extended as far
in the musical field as it has by
the wonderful Shakespearian
Festival in the Dramatic Field.
George Peckham,
704 Bellevue Avenue N.,
Seattle 2, Wash.
Chetco Project Needs Help
To the Editor: I am writing
this letter to you as the chairman
of a committee of citizens of
Southern Curry county. I believe
we are a group of people over
here who, if you asked us for
assistance, would be pleased to
give it to you. 'We are people
who are trying to make a living
and doing the best we can.
Some fifteen years ago a de
velopment at the mouth of the
Chetco river at Brookings was
recommended and approved by
the Corps of U. S. Army Engin
eers. This proposition was pre
sented to Congress but during
the intervening years nothing
was done about it. The matter
is now before Congress to secure
an appropriation to construct the
Chetco Project.
This project calls for the build
ing of a jetty at the mouth of
the river. Therefrom it is pro
posed that a haven for commer
cial and sports fishing boats and
other small ocean going craft
be constructed in the river basin.
If this can be accomplished, it
means a great deal to us who
live in this area and to every
citizen in the State of Oregon.
It will create a recreational area
which may be enjoyed by all of
us and it will open up offshore
ocean fishing upon the best fish
ing waters along the west coast.
This development is proposed
to be constructed and then turned
over to the people for their free
use. Will you please permit us
to ask that you give us a helping
hand by publicizing our efforts
and what we are trying to ac
complish therefrom, as above
stated. If your readers will write
a letter to me endorsing and ap
proving the Chetco development,
we who live in Southern Curry
county shall be most grateful to
you.
Wilson Freeman, Chairman,
Citizens Committee,
Brookings, Oregon.
More than 90 per cent of the
pulp and paper manufactured
in the United States is made from
wood.
Denies Morse Is Honest
To the Editor: It's difficult,
almost impossible, to believe that
your paper could be as political
ly naive as would be indicated
by the Sunday editorial prattle
about the honesty of Senator
Morse.
As a matter of record, Morse
hasn't an ounce of political in
tegrity or honesty in his make
up. No matter how you twist
them, the facts don't change.
Your protege, Senator Neu
berger, seems to have a firm
grasp of the important issues of
the day. After all, what more
important issues face us than
keeping squirrels on -the White
House lawn and making it a
crime for politicians to use make
up for TV appearances?
Carl E. Wimberly Jr.
PO Box 28
Medford
i
Praises Morse and Neuberger
To" the Editor: After reading
Robert Smith's article in the Sun
day, May 15 issue of the Medford ;
Mail Tribune concerning William
Costello's decision on Hells Can
yon; I realized that it is only too
obvious that the philosophy of
the greatest good for the great
est number has been outmoded!
Here is a man who after
examining all the facts present
ed in this case gathered during
FPC hearings that began nearly
two years ago states that a
government high dam at Hells
Canyon offers the superior plan
for development of the water
resources for the middle Snake
river. He continues by saying
that the high dam would be dol
lar for dollar the better invest
ment and the more nearly ideal
development for the middle
Snake river. BUT he recom
mends that the Idaho Power Co.
be granted a license for one
dam without prejudice to later
approval for' the other two proj
ects! His excuse is what he
terms "the curent political cli
mate which is unfavorable to
Federal power development!"
J l might say at this point that
the political climate which he
speaks of is the responsibility of
the people of this Northwest. Af
ter all we did elect to office the
Langlies, the Pattersons, the
Ellsworths and the McKays. Mr.
Costello's decision was very
frank and I admire him for that.
It seems that the old tirade about
the Republican party being the
party of Big Business isn't as
hackneyed as it sounds. Idaho
Power Co.'s ten largest stock
holders are Powerful Eastern in
vestment houses and affiliates.
When our Secretary of Interior
Doug. McKay was asked who
the Idaho Power Co. Stockhold
ers were, he Replied "THE PEO
PLE"! They may.be the people
McKay knows but they don't
fit the definition of the rest of
us! McKay, Ellsworth, Patterson
and Langlie arguments against
a High dam at Hells Canyon has
been refuted time and time again
not only by Democrats but by
Fellow Republicans as well. But
still they persist in sending the
Northwest down the river the
Middle Snake River!
Another example of give away
was the -Tidelands Oil question.
Oregon is now confronted with
a tax problem and a school ex
pansion program. When our EX
senator Cordon co - sponsored
this bill he co-sponsored Ore
gon out of l48th share of esti
mated BILLIONS of dollars for
our educational system. Now we
the taxpayers of this state must
dig still deeper into our pock
ets while one or two oil com
panies grow considerably more
prosperous.
I guess we all don't pay too
much attention to these things
until it is almost too late to act
upon them. It is not too late
to act on this Hells Canyon dam
issue! We can write our repre
senatives and urge them to repre
sent us not the Idaho Power Co.
We can write Senator Morse and
Neuberger and give them added
support by congratulating them
on the wonderful fight they have
been waging against this give
away.
Ken Coaliss
1564 Meyers Lane
False Labelling of
Seed Charged To Firm
Portland (U.R) E. F. Bur
lingham and Sons, a Halsey
warehouse firm, was accused
yesterday of false labelling of
three 600 bag shipments of rye
grass seed sent to Alabama.
The information was filed by
assistant U.S. Attorney James
Morrell with Federal Judge
Claude McColloch. It charged
that the firm failed to state on
labels that the rye grass seed
also contained seed of sheep
sorrel, a noxious weed.
Jacksonville Selects
Dr. Stephenson to Talk
Jacksonville Dr. Elmo Ste
venson, president of Southern
Oregon college at Ashland, will
be principal speaker at Jackson
ville High school' commence
ment exercises in the school
gymnasium June 2.
Also speaking will be Sydney
Kay Sutherland, valedictorian,
and Doris Wall, saluUtorian.
In the Day's Hews
Br FRANK JENKINS
Let's concern ourselves for the
day with some of the little news
of our country.
THERE'S little Ada Hollie, of
-- Altadena, who got lost while
hiking in the nearby hills. She
had quite an adventure. She
tripped and fell 60 feet down a
slope, but landed on a ledge near
a stream. A fisherman spotted
her and phoned the sheriff's of
fice and a rescue squad reached
the ledge where she lay and by
means of a basket attached to a
rope lowered her to the canyon
floor 50 feet below, where she
was met by an ambulance.
She . was suffering from a
broken arm, a sprained ankle
and shock and bruises.
AT the hospital, after she had
been fixed up and made
comfortable, she told them:
"I wasn't a bit scared.
"I just spent all the time sing
ing that song about Davy Crock
ett!" OACK in 1703, old Andrew
"Fletcher of Saltoun, in his
"Conversation Concerning a
right of Government for the
Common Good of Mankind," of
fered this sapient thought:
"Give me the making of the
SONGS of a nation, and I care
not who makes its laws."
He had something, didn't he?
T DON'T know what you think
of the current crop of song
hits.
Personally, I don't think much
of them. I'd say that by and
large they're no better than the
"comic" books of which we're
hearing so much. Even at their
best, they are trash of a very
low order.
The exception is what little
Ada Hollie calls "that song
about Davy Crockett." It's good,
clean folk music. I can under
stand how little Ada. was com
forted and sustained by it in the
hours of her tribulation.
I think . it's a good sign for
our country that the Davy Crock
ett song soared up from the bot
tom to the top of the hit list
in record time. Maybe, as a peo
ple,, we aren't as shallow as our
recent popular songs would in
dicate. THE teletype tells us:
The career of Oregon's Dem
ocratic Senator Richard L. Neu
berger will be made into a movie
to-be called "The Man From
Snake River." Allied Artists
Productions reports it already
has a screen writer in Oregon
gathering material to supple
ment Neuberger's recent book
"Adventure in Politics."
T HAVEN'T read Dick's recent
book.
I reckon now I'll have to. As
a resident of Oregon, I need to
know what our junior senator
thinks about his "adventure" in
politics.
T CAN'T help wondering at
times what leads people to
run for the U.S. senate in these
VERY, modern days.
Is it to get raw material for
books?
Or what? v
TIfELL, in a democracy, what
" the people WANT is what
they will get.
And who am I to carp and
criticize?
Maybe Dick will turn out to
be one of our GREAT senators.
Living in Oregon, I hope so.
I if"" --ii
limn llalmalhi
Copenhagen, With SAS De
layed Random thoughts while
traveling.
Wouldn't you think a seal
would drown with a 16-pound
load of stones in its stomach?
And why? Of course, everyone
is familiar with the gravel in a
bird's gizzard. It is there be
cause birds do not have teeth
and the sharp gravel help's f he
muscular stomach grind up the
whole grains.
And like these grain-eating
birds, some animals also resort
to the use of gravel or rocks in
the stomach to help mill their
food. Among these are seals, sea
lions, and walruses. Lacking
broad-crowned molars to crush
and grind their food, they gulp
their prey down whole for thaf
matter, often while it is still
kicking. Then the rock crusher
begins working.
In earlier days, sailors believ
ed that the heavy stones were
there for ballast, perhaps jok
ingly. Others thought that the
stones were indigestible matter
picked up by the voracious seals
while gulping their food picked
off the ocean floor. But today
we know that the rocks art
Polish Communists
Probably Worried
Over Soviet Action
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Polish Communist leaders
probably are a worried bunch of
people right now.
Little mention
has been made
of Poland in
the surge of
diplomatic ac
tivity that has
resulted f rom
the ratification
of the West
German arma
ment treaties.
It is true
that the Iron
Curtain gov
Charles McCann
ernment met in Warsaw last
week to conclude their new mili
tary set-up. That was merely a
formality.
But Poland may be much more
prominent in the news in months
to come.
There have long been indica
tions that Soviet Russia would
be willing to betray the Polish
Reds in an attempt to prevent
the materialization of the Ger
man armament program.
It would be a most logical
move for Russia to hold out hope
that if Germany made itself a
neutral country, Poland would be
forced to give up the rich Ger
man territory it now occupies.
It is most unlikely in fact,
it is incredible that Germany
ever will accept neutral status
for good.
Not Neutral Type
Germany is a world power
and it is certainly not the neu
tral type. Its men are born sol
diers.
Also, Germans most likely fig
ure privately that they will get
Dining Wall Streeters
Keep Up With Market
New York (U.R) Wall Street
financiers won't have to worry
any more about missing the
latest market information while
taking their coffee break.
Chock Full O'Nuts, a restaur
ant chain, said its new cafe open
ing today in the financial dis
trict would feature a stock tick
er to keep bankers and brokers
informed.
there to aid digestion. And they t
may constitute quite a heavy
load one sea lion's stomach,
for example, yielded 16 pounds
of stones, some larger than hen's
eggs. : ' '. ;
Why the hare's 10-year cycle
in the northland?
Actually, this is one of the
most baffling mysteries of the
northern latitudes and it holds
for other animals, too.
Every ten years or more ex
actly, every 9.6 years there is
a tremendous upsurge of popu
lation, followed inevitably by a
dramatic "crash" or decline.
This is particularly true of the
Arctic- hare. From teeming mil
lions, quit suddenly, there is a
great shortage and animals
once in gret profusion seem to
disappear from the face of the
earth, before increasing once
again as the cycle comes half
circle.
With the rabbit's upsurge, or
decline, all other northland an
imals seem affected, even the
grouse but particularly foxes,
lynxes, and wildcats, because
the rabbit plays such an import
ant role in their diets. In so
many northern animals' lives,
the hare is an important food
link and whenever the low point
occurs, and the chain breaks, a
phenominal wave of death
sweeps the country.
Many theories have been ad
vanced to explain this 9.6-year
cycle. Weather, hormones, sun
spots, vitamins. But just what
brings it on, still remains an un
solved mystery of the north.
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back their territory from Poland
sconer or later, one way or an
other. '
But there is nothing to keep
Russia from trs'ing the neutral
ity dodge.
It will . be remembered that
Nazi Germany invaded Poland
from the west on Sept. 1, 1939,
to open World War II, and that
the greedy, Russian Reds invaded
it from the east on Sept. 17. Hit
ler and Stalin then partitioned
the whole country between
them.
At the Yalta conference in
February, 1945, the United
States, Great Britain and the
Soviet Union agreed that after
the war Poland must be given
substantial territorial conces
sions from Germany.
This was decided upon to com
pensate Poland for the 70.000 ,
square miles of territory Russia
had grabbed.
Potsdam Conference
At the Potsdam Conference in
July-August, 1945, the Big Three
agreed that, subject to a final
peace settlement, Poland should
administer that part of Germany
lying east of a iine drawn from
the Baltic Sea near Swinemuen
de along the Oder river to the
Western Niesse river, and thence
along the Western Niesse to
Czechoslovakia. This territory to
tals 40,000 square miles.
There has been no final Ger
man "peace settlement." But the
Soviet and Polish governments
have, treated the Gferman terri
tory as if its fate had been settled
irrevocably. Its people have been
expelled to Germany proper."
The German population of the
area totaled 8,000,000. Of these,
5,000,000 fled to West Germany
before the Soviet advance in the
closing days of the war, leaving
3,000,000 to -be expelled from
their homes, stripped of their
possession, and deported.
- Both Premier Josef Cyrankie
wicz and party , leader Boleslaw
Beirut of Poland are veteran
Communists. They know just
how good a Communists's word
is, and they must b e worried
now.
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