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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1345
(It was Sunday)
Five Jackson county men re
leased from prisoner of war
camps in Germany, Red Cross
announces.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The end
of the war in Europe brought
changes in the fields of romance,
and lawyers are as busy as the
preachers were, right after Pearl
Harbor.
20 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1935
(It was Monday)
; Voting indicates that referen
dum on wheat production con
trol plan will be carried in Jack
son county by "a substantial. ma
jority." Group of . Medford members
of the Church of Naiarene at
tend annual district assembly in
iplympia, Wash.
SO YEARS AGO
May 20. 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Medford City eounciL tables re
quest for employment of police
matron.
Siskiyou Heights residents to
vote on annexation at a special
election next month.
40 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1915
(It was Thursday)
School board to study cost of
furnishing Bibles to pupils af
ter ministerial " association asks
Bible be read daily in public
schools.
Greater Medford and Commer
cial clubs send eight boxes of
roses and azalias to battleship
Oregon for a reception and ball.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cost. 1955. Editorial Research Report
. 1. The peak of polio infection
in the past has been around
Christmas, near Easter, in Au
gust, or just before Thanksgiv
ing?
2. A self-employed business
man is under social security vol
untarily or involuntarily, or isn't
eligible7
3. Most residual oil imports
into the U. S. come from Arabia,
Iran, Mexico, Russia or Venezu
ela? 4. There are many more TV
than radio sets in the U.S., or
many more radio sets, or about
the same number of each?
5. Russia is 'geographically the
same as the Soviet Union; right
or wrong?
6. Most scientists believe that
man has lived on this planet for
over a million years; right or
wrong?
7. Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S.
delegate to U. N., is the nephew,
son, grandson, or great grand
son of the Sen. Henry Cabot
Lodge who helped keep the U. S.
out of the League of Nations?
The answers: 1. In August.
2. Under social security invol
untarily. 3. Venezuela. 4. Many
more radio sets. 5. Wrong, it's
one state in the Soviet Union. 6.
Wrong. 7. Grandson.
POPE'S CHAIR ON AUCTION
- Paris U.R) The chair used
by Pope Pius VII for the coro
nation of Napoleon will be put
on sale at a local auction May 24.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Come Again,
It would be difficult to say who got the biggest
kick out of the visit here yesterday of eight youngsters
from Forks of Salmon, Calif. the kids themselves,
or the Medford adults who had a part in making the
event a big one for them.
Seldom have we seen an event so completely cap
tivate the imagination and cooperation of people as
this visit by the shy, well-behaved, intelligent youngsters.
ND WE'RE right proud of Medford and the show
she rut on for the kids. From the chamber of
commerce office, where the local itinerary was sort of
planned, all the way along the line, the youngsters
met interest, courtesy and enthusiasm.
A special mention should be made of Police Ser
geant Clyde Fichtner and Fire Chief Gordon Barker,
who chauffeured the youngsters around. (Judging by
their big grins, they enjoyed every minute of it.)
"THE OCCASION for the trip, as most people know
by now, was the fact that these boys and girls had
never seen a "large city" before, and wanted to come
to Medford to see the sights. Well, large city or not,
they saw the sights from taxicabs ("What are those
yellow cars?") to milkshakes, and from airplanes to
laundries.
- And perhaps it is fortunate that Medford, while
it was able to show them these sights, was not, in fact;
too large a city. For we have not yet entirely lost the
"small town" touch, the friendliness, the interest in
each other's affaire that are too often missing in a
really big city.
Because of the visit, we feel Medford is a friend
lies, happier place. Thanks for coming to see us, kids.
Come again sometime anytime. E.A.
Let There Be Music
Truly, yesterday was a day for young people !
. Last night we went out to the high school stadium
to watch the annual elementary school music festival,
"Let There Be Music." It was quite a show.
There was little it lacked to make it a really mem
orable evening, from the antics of the high spirited
kids doing their dances, to the real drama when the
evening was solemnly dedicated to the honor of E. H.
Hedrick, long-time superintendent of schools, who has
long striven to make sure that no child in the Medford
school system must go without the blessing of music.
1I7E WENT with what we suppose was a normal
y adult expectation of an evening of off-key sing
ing and belabored songs. I
We couldn't have been more wrong.
It was a treat musically as well as in other, per
haps more important, ways.
From the first strains of the combined string or
chestra of all the elementary schools on through the
more-than-two-hour program to the five last stirring
numbers, where the high school chorus and brass en
semble joined in to add power and strength, the event
wasa delight
WE HOPE that those responsible got the thrill out
at "5 fViof ura fliirilr flimr wiiof Ileum Tn rorimil ov
Mrs. Lorraine V. Evensen, director of vocal music for
the schools, must have been truly stirred to hear the
smooth and melodic and happy outpouring of music
which is the culmination of a year's work for her.
Others, more than can be mentioned here, should
be saluted for their part in the occasion.
Next year, when this time comes around again, we
recommend it to you for an evening which will be well
and profitably spent. E.A.
And the Budget Passed
As a conclusion to what seems to have turned into
a column about youngsters (and what more important
subject is there?), we'd like to express our pleasure
at the overwhelming vote of confidence almost 7 to
1 the Medford school system received in yesterday's
budget election.
Only 400 voters in the distict took the trouble to
turn out to vote. But of those that did, 349 had a suffi
cient understanding of the budget problem and of the
work of the schools to cast a favorable ballot. The
51 who voted against it, we have a hunch, were either
dyed-in-the-wool "voters-against," or didn't under
stand what was at stake.
IN ANY event," the budget was approved, the school
board and budget committee and administration
ancHeaching staffs were given a good, strong vote of
confidence, and life will go on not, it might be add
ed, as in some areas where schools have run into
trouble in getting approval for their continuing need
for money.
It would be nice (and maybe it's true) to think of
this election as a friendly and respectful sendoff to
Superintendent Hedrick, whose long service to the
schools comes to an end this summer.
THE APPROVED budget will permit the system to
operate as it has, with a few added services and
with an expanded staff needed by -the two new
schools. It will permit such things as the music festi
val, mentioned favorably above, to continue, and for
other worthwhile activities to add to the richness of
life for our children.
What better way is there,
than in making our kids' lives as rich and fruitful and
productive as possible?
Friday, May 20. 1955
Youngsters!
anvwav. to snerid monev.
- - - E.A.
Matter of Fact
HAS SOVIET POLICY
REALLY CHANGED?
Washington Is it possible
that the Russians really do want
a general European settlement,
on terms which
Ik ' i'i-JM iha Woe -.miIH
accept? For the
first time in
many years,
American dip
lomats and policy-makers
are
s e r i ously de
bating this
question with
each other.
The heart
Stewart Alsop and soul of any
general setUement must be, of
course, a German settlement.
Agreement on Germany, on
terms acceptable to the West,
would require a drastic change
of policy in the Kremlin. As pre
viously reported here, the ma
jority official view is that any
such basic change is highly un
likely. Yet some officials have been
having second thoughts on' this
score. There have been intrigu
ing hints that the Russians might
arrive at the forthcoming meet
ing at the summit prepared to
negotiate seriously about Ger
many. Some of these hints have
been public, like Soviet Foreign
Mininster V. M. Molotov's crip
tic remarks on the occasion of
the signing of the Austrian
treaty. But there have also been
private hints, and these have
been a lot more specific than
anything the Soviets have said
in public.
Soviet diplomats and officials,
whether in Russia or Western
Europe or the United States,
have been talking to Western
ers with far more freedom than
at any time in at least a decade.
These unofficial chats have re
sulted in some surprises. Here,
for example, is the formula for
a German settlement outlined by
a Soviet diplomat in one such in
formal conversation.
First, staged withdrawal from
Germany of all foreign troops.
The Soviet troops, it was said,
would be withdrawn behind the
borders of the Soviet Union. But,
the Soviet official remarked, if
the United States insisted, Amer
ican troops could be stationed
elsewhere on the continent,
rather than withdrawn across the
Atlantic.
Second, supervised free ' elec
tions throughout Germany
though just how the elections
would be supervised, or how free
they would really be, was left
very much up in the air.
THIRD, an advance agreement
by Germany and the Western
powers to regard the Oder-Neis-
se line as "settled." Much em
phasis was laid on this point.
Fourth, in every other respect,
full sovereignty for the new all
German government resulting
from the elections. Specifically,
the Germans would .have the
right to join NATO, although
the confident's belief was ex
pressed that the Germans would
be "more sensible," and that
they would form a "third force."
This, of course, was the most sur
prising item on the list.
Finally, there would be some
rather vaguely defined all-European
security arrangement, of
the sort already proposed by
Molotov, to guarantee this ar
rangement. Both the United
States and the Soviet Union
would be included.
If this sort of Soviet proposal
were formally made at the meet
ing at the summit, it would cer
tainly require some serious ne
gotiation despite its ambiguities.
No German government could
Legal Move Delays
Smith Indictment
Portland (U.R) Arraign
ment of Mrs. Marjorie Smith
and Victor Laurence Wolf for
the bomb-slaying of Mrs. Smith's
husband was delayed by legal
manuvering yesterday.
Attorneys for Mrs. Smith filed
a motion to set aside her indict
ment on the grounds that no evi
dence had been presented to the
grand jury connecting the wo
man to the slaying.
Wolf's attorneys filed a demur
er attacking the indictment for
failing to specify the nature, acts
and descriptive circumstances of
the slaying.
. The murder" victim, Oliver
Kermit Smith, was killed April
21 by a bomb that exploded as
he attempted to start his auto
mobile. Malheur Growers
Approve Budget
Ontario, Ore. (U.R) Mal
heur county potato and onion
growers approved a tentative
$10,000 a year advertising bud
get Wednesday to offset increas
ing competition from Idaho.
This action followed passage
of a bill by the recent Idaho leg
islature setting up a trademark
for Idaho potatoes. Local ship
pers who have in years past
marketed Idaho and Malheur
county potatoes as Oregon-Idaho
potatoes said the measure was
a move for squeezing Eastern
Oregon and Eastern Washington
growers put of the market for
Idaho potatoes.
By Stewart Alsop
afford to reject such proposals
outright. And although informal
chats commit no one, it is at
least interesting that Soviet of
ficials should be talking in this
vein. It could even mean that
the Kremlin has been making its
own agonizing reappraisal.
The Western alliance, after all,
is no longer a house of cards
which threatens to collapse at
every Soviet puff. The Soviets
are having real economic diffi
culties at home. The Kremlin
might thus logically conclude
that the time had come for a
limited disengagement from Cen
tral Europe.
Even supposing this country
retained the right to keep forces
on the continent, the disengage
ment would be by no means uni
lateral. If they were denied Ger
man bases, probably five-sixths
of the American forces would
have to go home, simply because
there is nowhere else for them
to go. And four British divisions
would also go' back across the
Channel.
"FOR the rest, it might seem to
' the Soviets that there was not
a great deal to lose, and much
to be gained. Most of Germany
that matters, above all the in
dustrial Ruhr, is already in
NATO and preparing to rearm.
A new all-German government,
with the neutralist Socialists
strengthened by East German
votes, might indeed be "sensible"
and stay out of NATO, however
anti-Communist the government
might be. At least German re
armament would be indefinitely
delayed.'
For such certain or possible
gains, restless East Germany
might well be deemed expend
able. Even the loss of the East
German uranium mines, and the
disastrous and embarrassing de
feat of the East German Com
munists at the polls, might not
seem an impossibly high price.
Again and again in recent
years, there has been half-nervous,
half-hopeful speculation
that the Soviets were at last
ready to negotiate seriously for
a German settlement, and to
withdraw from the heart of
Europe. Always in the end the
speculation has proved wrong,
and most informed officials be
lieve that the Russians are not
yet really ready to take the great
risks involved.
Yet some wise officials now
think it possible that the Soviets
at last may be willing to pay a
high price for a settlement a
price so high that we ought to be
thinking seriously about accept
ing it. Otherwise, they believe,
the Europeans, especially the
Germans, may accept it whether
we like it or not. ?
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
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Babson . . Parking Nuisance
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., (Special
To Mail Tribune) The only so
lution now known for the park
ing nuisance is
for people to
stay at home
and use the
telephone. In
fact, the pres
ent increase in
auto accidents
and the lack of
parking space
will drive peo-
Boger w. Bibwi pie' to greater
use of the telephone. Otherwise,
congestion will so increase that
we will, travel "bumper to
bumper." When one car stops,
then all must stop.
Every storekeeper should at
once install an extra telephone
which should be used only for
incoming calls. No one in the
store, not even the boss, should
be allowed to make calls on this
extra phone. It should be re
served for "customers' calls
only." When customers complain
of finding it "busy," then a sec
ond such phone should be in
stalled. Merchants should advertise
more and solicit telephone or
ders more. Many customers now
dread going downtown to shop
on account of the .parking prob
lem and the general congestion.
Hence, they stay at home and
the merchants lose customers.
Buying is being constantly post
poned. Therefore, in their ad
vertising, merchants should urge
people to use the telephone, stat
ing that special phones exist for
incoming calls only.
Habits of Shoppers
Will Change Slowly
The present method of shop
ping has been the custom , for
centuries. It has become an in
stinctive habit which will change
only slowly, but the sooner
shopkeepers determine to change
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this habit, the better off all will
be. Otherwise, our downtown re
tail sidewalks may .become de
serted on week days as they are
now on Sundays.
As they have a virtual mono
poly, the telephone companies
seem to be little interested in
helping shopkeepers in ' their
present dilemma. This criticism
is said to aDDlv especially to the
big Bell Companies. These are
rich and ruled by self - satisfied
bureaucracies. These telephone
companies claim that they have
not phones enough to take care
of all the demands. This is non
sense. If they would be willing
to buy more telephone equipment
from outside manufacturers ana
develop more efficient installa
tion crews, all demands could
be filled.
Use Telephone To
Avoid Being Killed
My appeal for a greater use
of the telephone is not solely to
help businessmen keep their
customers. The telephone can
also help us to keep a life. Hu
bert L. Kerr has recently stated
that while only two persons per
100.000 die from. polio, yet, in
the same ages, 50 young persons
per 100,000 are being killed by
automobiles. As these figures be
come recoenized. I forecast that
oeoDle will visit less by automo
bile and visit more by telephone.
People will remain home more
and travel less. Travel by auto
mobile except for business
may now be near its peak. Even
Lousiness calls will be made more
by telephone and less by auto
mobile. It takes time to change
habits; but the present habit of
making both personal and busi
ness calls by travel may become
a thing of the past. All habits
can be changed.
More Families Will
Prefer Television
Television is already taking
the place of the. movies. When
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television gets over Its "teen
age" period of "sowing wild
oats" and gets settled down to
decent programs, many more
families will prefer TV to going
out evenings to a movie. When
television is hooked up with the
telephone so we can see with
whom we talk, then automobiles
may be used only in emergen
cies. In fact, the time is coming
when most of the better auto
mobiles will carry telephone!.
These will be used not in case
of care trouble but also for busi
ness and social calls.
In short, I believe -that the
telephone industry, is headed for
a great future with tremendous
growth ahead. This will come
both from an increase in popu
lation and from a much - in-
creased use per capita, espe
cially among the younger gene
ration. The telephone can create
greater sales, can save more
time, and can protect us from
unnecessary accidents and other
losses. I believe that telephone
securities are among the safest
of all securities which give
good income.
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