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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 19. 1945
(It was Saturday)
State Sen. Earl T. Newbry of
Ashland named as member of
Tax Study commission.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A special
city election will be held June
12, and a special state election
June 22. There is some doubt
the tired voters will make it to
both.
20 YEARS AGO
Mar 19. 193S
(It was Sunday)
Large crowds watch Medford
sisters, Golda and Deab Higdon,
perform with Barnes circus
here.
More than 80 artists enter
Chamber of Commerce spon
sored art exhibit here.
30 YEARS AGO
May 19' 1925
(it was Tuesday)
From Local and Personal col
umn: The county court by reso
lution has reduced the load limit
to 450 pounds per inch of tire
and all police and highway of
ficers have been instructed to
arrest drivers hauling loads in
excess of the limit.
West Virginia couple, hiking
across country, arrive in Med
ford after being on road 14
months.
40 YEARS AGO
May 19. 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Women's delegation appeals to
Medford city council for police
matron.
Governor J. F. Fielder of
New Jersey and Governor Phil
ips Lee Goldsborough of Mary
land to visit Medford.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rtpert
1. Strikes in public utilities
are forbidden by law in all, no,
or some states?
2. New York City has many
more or slightly more persons
of Jewish than Protestant back
ground, or many more or slight
ly more of Protestant back
ground?
3. Claret is red wine from
southwestern France, northeast
ern France, the Rhine valley or
Germany or northern Italy?
4. In what game is the term
"eagle" used?
5. There is land at -both the
North and South poles, at
neither, only at the North or only
at the South Pole?
6. Okinawa, one West Pacific
island under full U.S. armed
forces control, is now unforti
fied, or lightly or heavily forti
fied? 7. Tula Finklea is the real
name of which dancer and screen
star?
The Answers: 1. Some states.
2. Slightly more of Jewish. 3.
Southwestern France. 4. Golf. 5.
Only at the South Pole. 6. Heav
ily fortified. 7. Cyd Charisse.
Jacksonville School
To Wecome Newcomers
Jacksonville First graders
at Jacksonville school will be
hosts at visiting day tomorrow
for district students who will be
entering first grade next year.
The visiting hours will be be
tween 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
A program demonstrating ac
tivities and games learned dur
ing the past year is being ar
ranged by the first graders. ,
MAIL TRIBUNE
Has The Climate Changed?
The weather is always "unusual" because so few
have good memories. Even fewer people keep weather
records. And those who do so often fail to look them
up.
This is especially true in the spring and early
summer, April, May and June. Most of us mortals
in the winter look forward to these vernal months
as the end of snow and ice and frost, to the warm
and happy reign of old King Sol a few April show
ers, of course, but nothing to really mar the frolic
some season of the great and salubrious out-of-doors,
just enough to make the garden and the wild flowers
and the new babies grow.
"THEN when it comes to frost, worse than that when
it freezes and snows, the long-suffering citizen,
swears and curses, wants to lynch the weatherman
and is absolutely certain of one thing the climate
is changing and "the good old days" of his particular
"Garden of Eden," have gone forever never to return.
It would be helpful at such a time, and save con
siderable wear and tear on the human frame of Mr.
Citizen if he would call up the Weather Bureau and
get a few facts.
He would then find that through the years on the
average, the frost season seldom ends here until
around the first week in May that at least is the
seasonal average, over the years.
He would also discover that there have been kill
ing frosts in June and there have been snow-flumes
in the hills as late as the Fourth of July.
In fact seldom do we have unusual weather in
the sense of unprecedented weather, and as far as
the climate changing is concerned, the weather rec
ords in contrast with certain "old wives tales," fail
to furnish the slightest supporting evidence. Weather
on the average is and has been, as far as the records
show, much the same year after year.
.
THIS comment may not be particularly timely, as
the weather man is doing a wonderful job out
side as this is being written.
However there might be a blizzard on Mt. Ash
land, and hail in the valley with mercury falling like
a stricken sparrow, tomorrow it probably won't
happen, but it could. It has in the past.
In which case those who have bothered to read
this offering would be better prepared, than if they
had not, and would refuse to get mad about it and
claim the good old climate had gone, never to re
turn ! R.W.R.
Better Late Than Never
Better late than never, and better to close the
door after the horse has been stolen than not to close
it at all, one reason being there might be other
horses, therein.
But it is regrettable that over 2,000,000 acres of
timberland here in the Far West, have been secured
via false mining claims when the wooded areas should
have been conserved by the government for future
generations, or sold at a
operators for the timber thereon.
In a majority of cases,
lators have never produced
mercial scale, have sold off the timber for large
sums for which they paid practically nothing. It has
been a bunco game from the start, and the pity is,
that a stop to the flim-flam procedure was not ac
complished many years ago.
However that is, as the saying goes, "water over
the dam."
CEVERAL bills have now been introduced into Con-
gress, one of them by Congressman Ellsworth, to
plug, what the Oregonian calls, "the gaping holes"
in our federal mining laws.
The committee hearings are now on, the bills have
the backing of both conservationists, the mining in
dustry as well as the American Forestry Association,
which is something.
Needless to say Senators Morse and Neuberger
are on the side of the proponents of this greatly
needed reform, although some criticism has been
made of certain details of the Ellsworth measure,
and in the El Serena case Mr. Ellsworth was on the
side of the mineral claimants, he maintains prop
erly so.
OOWEVER that too is "water over the dam."
The Mail Tribune called attention to this
piratical practice several years ago, but nothing was
done about it.
As of today we don't care what the bill is called
or who gets credit for it, so long as the highway
robbery by fraudulent mining claims here in Oregon
is stopped and stopped completely and without
delay. R.W.R.
What Is "Playing Politics?
When is opposition to a political action or meas
ure legitimate and when does it come under the op
probrious title of "playing politics?"
We note that criticism of the "administration's
administration of the polio vaccine distribution, is
sharply criticized as "playing politics."
.
WE agree it should be a
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method adopted, is not as effective from the stand
point of the public welfare and nartiwilariv trm
health of the children, as
trie tormer should not be criticized?
That, as we see it would not be nlavino- nnlitfrs.
but merely taking proper
people ana tnis would be true whether the critics
happen to be members of the opposition or not.
R.W.R.
Thursday, Mar 19. I9SS
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Japan To Australia
Flight Gives Soviet
Food for Thought
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The flight of four American
fighter-bomber planes from Ja
pan to Australia points up the
amazing prog
ress of Allied
Defense organ
ization in that
part of the
World.
It was a dra
matic illustra
tion of Ameri
can striking
power and
it ought to
make both the
-ii-
Charles McCann cninese com
munists and the Russian Com
munists do some thinking.
Dispatches emphasized that
the planes could have carried
atom bombs.
The Thunderjets flew 4,820
miles from Tokyo to a . point
near Sydney, Australia.
Though they were refuelled
three times in the air by tanker
planes, it is still interesting to
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More about water:
Clarence Davis, undersecre
tary of the interior department,
tells the Omaha chamber of com
merce that the great long range
problem with which the United
States is confronted is the supply
of water.
HE SAYS we have lived for
200 years on this continent
without knowing that a water
problem exists.
But
He adds
The tremendous growth of the
last 75 years, or even the last 25
years, has brought to the fore
the FUNDAMENTAL FACT
THAT WATER IS THE ONE
GREAT BASIC RESOURCE ON
WHICH ALL ELSE DEPENDS.
THAT IS to say
The time is at hand when NO
AREA no matter how great
may be the total of its other re
sources can develop and ex
pand UNLESS IT HAS WATER
ENOUGH.
THAT FOCUSES the spotlight
on another situation.
J: D. Zellerbach, head of the
Crown Zellerbach Corporation,
tells the Portland chamber of
commerce that a bright future
lies ahead for wood products in
dustries in the Pacific North
west.
He says paper production
should increase 55 per cent IN
THE NEXT TEN YEARS, pro
viding the Northwest with a pay
roll of $175,000,000 per year.
WHAT DOES that mean?
" First let me point out what
it DOESN'T mean.
It doesn't necessarily mean
that the areas that have plenty
of wood have a guaranteed fu
ture in the way of pulp and
paper development. Wood is only
ONE essential ingredient of pulp
and paper products including
wallboard and fibreboard con
tainers and rayon and all the
other fascinating things that can
be made of wood fiber.
THE OTHER essential ingre
dient of pulp and paper de
velopment is WATER. It takes
PLENTY OF WATER to make
pulp and paper. No area that
lacks water is going to get exten
sive pulp and paper products
plants. Its wood fiber will be
shipped to some place that HAS
PLENTY OF WATER.
HERE IN Southern Oregon and
Northern California we have
PRESENTLY plenty of water.
But
The fact that we have enough
water NOW doesn't mean that
our future is guaranteed. Cal
ifornia is full of projects to ship
water from the North to the
South. The Feather River proj
ect is one of them. The Trinity
project is another. It seems quite
likely that in California the
counties-of-origin law, which has
given the counties in which the
water originates priority in the
use of their water, may be re
pealed. .
The demand for water in Cen
tral and Southern California is
practically unlimited. If the
Feather and the Trinity projects
do not provide enough, the
water of the Klamath river will
be next in line for exportation
to the south.
After the Klamath is tapped
if water exportation continues
the headwaters of the Rogue and
the Umpqua will be under con
sideration as an export source.
r THE West, at least, water is
the PRICELESS ingredient.
Without it, all other resources
will be valueless. Water, in the
future, is going to be sought
wherever it can be found, and
whenever an UNUSED water
resource is found exportation of
it will be sought.
TTOW SHALL we of Southern
"Oregon and Far Northern
California protect our water?
There is only one answer.
WE MUST PUT IT TO USE.
We must put it to COMPLETE
USE.
And we must commit it to
complete use as rapidly as pos
sible .
note that the distance from New
York to Moscow is 4,665 miles.
Pearl Harbor day found the
defenses of the Western world in
the vast Pacific ocean area woe
fully weak and completely unor
ganized. Australians and New Zealand
ers then and also Americans
and Canadians on the Pacific
coast had long been alert to
what was then called the YeUow
Peril.
Now we have the more dan
gerous Red peril of Communism.
But the defenses of the free
world are no longer either weak
or disorganized.
The Pacific area is so great
that a compact organization like
that of the North Atlantic
Treaty is not practicable.
The European defense prob
lem is one of land warfare. That
of the Pacific is one of covering
enormous expanses of water.
In the Pacific, there are the
"ANZUS" pact and the "SEATO"
pact, binding together eight free
countries against aggression.
Australia, New Zealand and
the United States signed the
United States signed the ANZUS
defense treaty in September,
1951, after the signing of the
Japanese peace treaty.
These three countries are now
allied with Britain, France, the
Philippine Islands, Thailand and
Pakistan in the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization pact, con
cluded last September.
Eighty-six military experts of
the eight countries met late last
month at Baguio, summer capital
of the Philippines, to organize
their defense plans.
Power which the Tokyo-Sydney
jets illustrated has been
shown also by the 7th Fleet.
In the evacuation of the Chi
nese Nationalist garrison and
thousands of civilians from the
Tachen islands, and in the evac
uation of Indochinese civilians
from Communist northern Viet
Nam, the 7th Fleet showed what
it can do in a cold war.
It was certainly not because
he thought the United States
was weak in that area that Chi
nese Communist Premier Chou
En-lai made his offer at the
Asia-Africa conference at Ban
dung to negotiate directly on
problems which are causing ten
sion. The jet flight should make
Chou and his fellow Reds less in
clined to start anything.
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Wrens In the Radio Set
To the Editor: Undoubtedly
everyone has heard of "bats in
your belfry," and "bees in your
bonnet," and now, how about
"wrens in your radio?'"
The dwelling of the senior von
Steins, west of Eagle Point on
Long Mountain was, they felt
sure, mouse proof. Yet early last
year the family became aware
of the indoor presence of a small
critter which occupied it's energy
primarily in disappearing 'flashes
of movement which prevented
identification.
Soon, however, the mysterious
beastie lost' it's wilderness suffi
ciently to be identified as a
wren.
She perched upon the teacups
and bugged the flowers in the
picture-window box, and at night
took up sleeping quarters in a
fold of the sleeve of a coat hang
ing in a closet, which was thence
forth left undisturbed for that
purpose.
Came the spring. What with
nearly everybody building
houses with new ideas and all,
Jenny became enthused.
Henry Wren appeared at this
point. Henry disapproved with a
valedictorian vehemence it was
entirely unnecessary to be a
wren to understand. While Jen
ny stuck like a burr to the arm
of the dining room chair and
extolled the color scheme of
what she saw in the interior of
the radio, Henry stood spraddle
legged on the carpet refusing to
come up and look. He had prom
ised "for better- or worse," but
not for anything like this!
To the discerning eye, how
ever, it was obvious aU that was
needed was three, or perhaps
four, last year's oak leaves; some
of those long black hairs which
the saddle-mare had rubbed off
on the oak post out at the corral;
some snips of yarn from Edna's
knitting, and a few mouthfuls of
down from that white goose's
nest, from which she had now
departed with her goslings.
Henry appeared, during con
struction of the nest, with an oc
casional wisp of dried grass,
limply in his unwilling beak,
and Jenny made over him as
though he were doing all the
work.
Now she appears most fre
quently with Martin Agronsky,
to go out for . a breath of un
tainted air, returning to the busi
ness of hatching five infinitesi-
Rosalind Russell, star
"Wonderful Town,'
with her son, Lanct
If you have,
then surely you've felt that surge of warm feeling
spread over you ... as I have.
"Maybe it's hii wide-eyedj .
absorbed expression 1 1 1 perhaps it's the happy feeling I get just at
being in church with Lance and my husband, Fred and knowing we've
already introduced our son to God. As we attend church each week
with Lance, we see his heart grow bigger with the qualities of love,
friendship and tolerance. Because Faith has made our lives so
much richer we want Lance to grow up in its wisdom."
Rosalind Russell
Light their life with Paith ffflsK . ;
Contributed to The Religion in American Life Program by
Naming of Trustees for Old
Cemetery Opens Future Use
Recent action by the county
court in appointing a board of
trustees for the Rock Point
Cemetery has paved the way for
reestablishment of the historic
old burying ground, supporters
of the project reported today.
The cemetery is located two
miles north of Gold Hill.
On Saturday, May 28. a clean
up day will be held at the ceme
tery, and anyone interested is
invited to attend. They may lo
cate lots in which ancesters may
be buried, and can help in iden
tifying unnamed graves.
Those attending should bring
clean-up tools and their lunches.
Coffee will be served by the
committee in charge, of which
Mrs. A. A. Walker, Gold Hill, is
chairman. A business meeting to
discuss future plans will be held
at noon.
The cemetery property was
mal beads of eggs when Frank
Goss has disposed of his last gal
lant Seventy Six Hundred, at
which time a click of the switch
brings soothing silence instead
of the troubles of a confused
world. .
H. M. Von Sten
Box 609, Medford
Frank Morgan
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MEDFORD
. bring them to worship this week
Medford Mai
deeded by J. B. White of Rock
Point to three trustees, Ben Hay
mond, Fred Birdseye and J. L.
White, on Feb. 9, 1874, for inter
ment purposes. Birdseye later
resigned and George Lance Jj.
was named to succeed him.
. The trustees later died, and
no successors were appointed.
For years the cemetery was a
sort of "no-man's land," until
interest in it was revived recent
ly, and a petition to the county
court was circulated among pio
neer families who have relatives
buried there.
The completed petition was
presented to the court, together
with an application requesting
the appointment of new trustees
to fill the old vacancies, and re
establishing proper cemetery reg-.
ulations.
The court cited favorably on
the petition, and named W. L.
Wright and Mrs. Nora Wait, both
of Sardine creek, and Charles
E. White, Rogue River, as trus
tees. They will have charge of all
future burials, surveying and re
plotting of the grounds, and will
work toward the establishment
of a fund for maintenance of the
cemetery. ,
Harold Snod grass
Directors
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