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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 27. 1945
(It was Sunday)
Marine band from Klamath
Falls to parade here Memorial
day.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The sen
iors of Old Medford, get their
sheepskins this week, and step
forth into the cold, cruel, and
some say, crazy world.
20 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1935
(It was Monday)
Development of co-ordinated
horticultural research and ex
tension service planned in Jack
son county.
Jackson county farmers vote
continuance of wheat adjust
ment program.
30 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Oregon State Motor associa
tion recomemnds Pacific high
way along west side of Rogue
River, cutting off Gold Hill.
fYmntv natholnffist nrpdicts
1500 cars of pears will be
hipped from Rogue valley in
1925.
40 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1915
(It was Thursday)
Sixteen high school seniors
pull weeds as penalty for tearing
down and hiding business signs
here.
- From Local and Personal col
umn: Farmers of the Talent and
Phoenix district report that dur
ing the last week their chicken
coops have been visited by
thieves, and the roosts raided.
The crimes are laid to hungry
tramps, who are camped in the
"jungles" along the railroad
tracks.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Raft
1. About one-fourth, one -half,
or three-fourths of U. S. tariff
duties have been lowered under
reciprocal trade agreements?
2. More older men remarry
than older women, or more cider
women than older men, or is it
about 50-50?
3. Japan now has a peace trea
ty with the U.S. Does she also
have one with Russia?
4. About one-fifth, one-fourth,
cne-third or one-half of all young
persons of college age are en
rolled in colleges?
5. A person who has fainted
should have his head placed
higher or lower than the rest of
bis body, or level with it?
6rOne-third, one - half, two
thirds or all the British House
of Commons was elected yester
day. 7. Chief Justice Earl Warren
was once or never the Republican-nominee
for Vice President?
The Answers: 1. About three
fourth. 2. More older men re
marry. 3. No. 4. About one-third.
5. Lower. 6. All of it. 7. Was (in
1948).
SHOWN TO QUARTERS
Peru, Ind. (U.PJ John H.
Harrison, 58, found in the may
or's office at an unlikely hour,
said he was trying to get to his
room to go to bed. Police book
ed him on an intoxication
charge and showed him to his
quarters.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
- Mr. Nyun and Mr. Oo
Two pleasant and friendly Burmese gentlemen
have created minor havoc in the newsroom of The
Mail Tribune the past weeks. It is a matter of spelling
and pronunciation.
We, who are familiar with Oriental names, have
been guilty of misspelling their names (at least three
different ways, we are told) in one news story or an
other. The matter of pronunciation applies to those
of us who occasionally make radio broadcasts.
I ET us hasten to assure Mr. Nyun and Mr. Oo that
we are sorry if we have been thus inaccurate.
For the record, the gentlemen in question are Ko
Tun Oo and Maung Thein Nyun.
They are in Jackson county visiting under the
International Farm Youth Exchange Program, one
of a number of exchange
believe are among the most effective efforts now be
ing put forth on behalf of world peace and under
standing. 1VIR. Oo is the older of our two guests. He is a
farmer in his own country, and has a 20-acre
farm, raising rice and poultry. He has been active in
youth organizations, and his major hobbies include
outdoor sports, among them tennis. He is a Buddhist.
Mr. Nyun is an accountant, but has had farming
experience, and also has had some organizational
work. He too is a Buddhist.
Both men speak English and Mr. Nyun also speaks
Japanese. Both are married.
1VIR. NYUN is living at the home of the Don Minears
and Mr. Oo with the John Ousterhouts. We have
a strong suspicion that the Minears and the Ouster
houts are getting about as much fun, and as much
education, out of the visit as their guests".
They have learned, for instance, that their guests
do not have "family" names, but each child bears its
own name which is not the same as that of its father
or mother. Their titles of respect change from time
to time, as their age and social status varies.
As for the visitors, they must have had many
startling experiences in our young civilization. Per
haps some of our customs seem barbaric, perhaps
some of them crude. Certainly the majority of them
are different.
DUT it is our hope that after their extended visit to
the "western world" they will have a better under
standing of us and our motivations. This, after all,
is what the exchange programs are for, basically.
You have a hard time being mad at .a person if you
can understand him, and see his point of view.
We wish for Mr. Oo and Mr. Nyun a highly satis
factory and pleasant time in our country, and in their
later journeys to the world Boy Scout Jamboree,
which they will attend late in June.
We hope they carry back with them to Burma an
impression of America which is not all gangsters and
Hollywood and automobile accidents and politics.
We know that if they come to like us and respect
us, for what we are and not for some distorted picture
of us, the cause of world peace and understanding
will be served, and served well.
We're glad to have you with us, gentlemen.
E.A.
Be Careful
Tomorrow starts the first of 1955's four "long
week ends."
The Memorial day week end will offer the city
bound a chance to head for the wide open spaces,
and throngs of motorists are expected on the high
ways. ;
The other long week ends are Independence day
(July 4 is Monday this year), Labor day, and Christ
mas (which falls on Sunday so that Monday will be
observed as a holiday.)
fLi AY those who are heading for the beaches or the
mountains or away to visit friends and relatives
return home safely.
Hundreds of autoists will be killed this week end.
We hope it's not you. If you're careful, it probably
won't be. E.A.
Little Green Tents
The late Arthur Perry, for many years identified
with The Mail Tribune, each year at this time pub
lished in his column, "Ye Smudge Pot," the famous
verse commemorating Memorial day by the late Walt
Mason, whose column appeared in this paper for many
years. Because it tells the story so well, it is republish
ed here without further comment.
THE LITTLE GREEN TENTS, WHERE THE
SOLDIERS SLEEP; AND THE SUNBEAMS PLAY, AND
THE WOMEN WEEP, ARE COVERED WITH FLOWERS
TODAY; AND BETWEEN THE TENTS WALK THE
WEARY FEW, WHO WERE YOUNG AND STALWART
IN SIXTY-TWO, WHEN THEY WENT TO THE WAR
AWAY.
THE LITTLE GREEN TENTS ARE BUILT OF SOD,
AND THEY ARE NOT LONG, AND THEY ARE NOT
BROAD, BUT THE SOLDIERS HAVE LOTS OF ROOM;
AND THE SOD IS PART OF THE LAND THEY SAVED,
WHEN THE FLAG OF THE. ENEMY DARKLY WAVED,
THE SYMBOL OF DOLE AND DOOM.
THE LITTLE GREEN TENT IS A THING DIVINE;
THE LITTLE GREEN TENT IS A COUNTRY'S SHRINE,
WHERE THE PATRIOTS KNEEL AND PRAY; AND THE
BRAVE MEN LEFT, SO OLD, SO FEW, WERE YOUNG
AND STALWART IN SIXTY-TWO, WHEN THEY WENT
TO THE WAR AWAY.
Friday, May 27. 1955
programs which we firmly
Russian Acceptance
Of Big 4 Proposal
Tops News of Week
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet:
THE GOOD
1. Soviet Russian formally ac
cepted the proposal of the West
ern Aliles for a Big Four meet
ing "at the
summit." De
tails of the
meeting, first
of its kind in
10 years, will
be worked out
later. The pos
sibility was
mentioned that
President
Eisen howei
and the other
Big Four chiefs
Charles McCann .
of government might meet July
18. The United States will insist
that the meeting be limited to a
few days. The foreign ministers
of the United States, Britain,,
France and Soviet Russia will be
left to negotiate on specific is
sues later.
2. There were strong indica
tion that any attempt to swing
Italy away from loyal coopera
tion with the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization would fail.
Considerable anxiety was felt
over Italian policy after the elec
tion of leftist - tinged Giovanni
Gronchi as president. Gronchi
favors a policy of "co-existence"
with Soviet Russia. But dis
patches from Rome suggested
that the danger of an Italian
swing to the left was now re
mote. The Italian Communists
continued to lose strength. They
have been losing their grip on
labor unions in northern and
central Italy for several months.
This week they lost an import
ant union election in southern
Babson . . . Agricultural Research
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
To Mail Tribune) Industrial
and Chemical Research not
federal aid
is the farm
er's best bet.
Although-most
Amer ican
farm ers ap
pear to be do
ing pretty
well, I am
keenly aware
of the drop in
Bojer w. Babion farm income
which has occurred during the
past two years. Despite the best
intentioned government price
support program or perhaps
because of it we still have a
farm problem in this country
which could easily erupt mto a
serious social cancer.
I remember well what hap
pened to the farmer in the 30s
and what happened to the rest of
the economy as a result of the
decline in the farmer's economic
position. In those days, the farm
problem was seemingly a more
arresting public issue than it is
today. At least, it evoked more
discussion in business and politi
cal circles.
How The Chemurgie
Movement Began
In an effort to improve the de
mand of that era, the National
Farm Chemurgie Council was
organized at an historic confer
ence held in 1935 at Dearbqrn,
Mich., under the auspices oi
Henry Ford and Francis P. Gar
van, president of the Chemical
Foundation. Another leader in
the movement was Wheeler Mc
Millen of The Farm Journal. The
idea was to encourage research
which would lead to an expan
sion of markets for American
farm products to be used as in
dustrial raw materials! From the
beginning, I supported the aims
of this council.
Since then, the whole move
ment of allying chemistry with
agriculture has grown tremen
dously. In March of this year,
the old National Farm Chemur
gie Council was superseded by a
new and larger organization
called the Council for Agricul
tural and Chemurgie Research.
The new organization will con
tinue to encourage individual re
search projects looking toward
the discovery of new crops and
new characteristics of old crops.
In 'addition, it will set up the
machinery to co-ordinate the
various agricultural-chemical re
search projects which are being
undertaken. Farmers' sons
should learn of this work before
leaving the farm for the city
employment.
Farmers Must Diversify
Their Production
I hope that the activities of
this scientific farm research will
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Italy.
3. The National assembly,
lower house of the French parlia
ment, approved by a vote of
404-210 a motion to revise the
constitution of the Fourth Re
public. It was the first step to
ward strengthening the authority
of French prime ministers and
ending the series of cabinet cri
ses which had weakened France
ever since the end of World
War II.
THE BAD
1. Allied leaders were agreed
that whatever happened as the
result of the visit of Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and
Communist Party Leader Niki
ta S. Khrushchev to President
Tito of Yugoslavia, it would not
be favorable to the West. Tito
has 'said that he will continue to
cooperate with the Allies. But
the Allies felt better while Tito
was still feuding with the So
viet bloc of nations.
2. Terrorism in French North
Africa reached the crisis level.
The French government sent re
inforcements by " air, sea and
highway to help combat terror
ists in Algeria. It was reported
that France might even with
draw about 10,000 of the troops
it now keeps under the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
command in order to strengthen
its North African forces.
3. American - supported Pre
mier Ngo Dinh Diem of the state
of Southern Viet Nam in Indo
china delivered an ultimatum to
the rebel leaders who threaten
to plunge the country into open
civil war. Diem demanded that
they surrender by Saturday.
Whatever , the result of the ulti
matum, the situation In Viet
Nam continued to get progres
sively worse. The danger inten
sified that the country might
fall into the hands of the North
Viet Nam Communists.
have the wholehearted support
of science, industry, and govern
ment. It takes time to expand
any research facilities; it es
pecially takes time to co-ordinate
research activity in so large a
field as agriculture. This wider
approach to the problem is not
being undertaken any too 'soon,
for there is now a great need for
American farmers to diversify
their production and look more
to industrial, rather than food,
consumption. Such diversif ica
tion should lead to more stable
economic conditions
This need for diversification
of farm products is so apparent
that the Council chose "New
Crops" as the theme of its March
meeting in Columbus, O. It may
seem odd to be concentrating on
new crops when we have such
heavy surpluses of old crops, but
such research has paid off hand
somely before, as in the case of
soybeans. There is every reason
to believe it will again pay off.
New crops now being studied in
clude timber bamboo, a good
source of paper pulp which has
been grown successfully in the
Southeast; dioscores, a plant
source" of cortisone-like drugs;
new varieties of " castorbeans;
canaigre, a wild root plant of
high vegetable tannin; and acer
ola from Porto Rico or phylan
thus enblica from the Hawaiian
Islands, both of which have
miraculous vitamin contents.
Marine Research
Is Also Needed
In addition to their work in
the agricultural field, the Coun
cil could encourage further
studies of the mineral and other
wealth cradled in the two great
oceans. These flow up to the
very doorstep of our land along
more than 4,800 miles of coast
line. These oceans are a store
house of organic and inorganic
matter of great actual and po
tential importance to industry.
As our soil is getting poorer with
every hard rain, our oceans, into
which the rivers empty, are
getting richer.
For example, a large number
of chemical elements are found
in crab meal and fish meal. Fish
products contain aluminum, bar
ium, calcium, chromium, copper,
fluorine, lead, lithium magnes
ium, manganese, nickel, phos
phorous, potassium, silicon, sil
ver, sodium, strontium, and zinc!
Truly the resources of the sea
provide plenty of opportunity
for, the College of Fisheries at
Gloucester Mass.
THE SHAME OF IT
Memphis, Tenn. " (U.R) Lee
Bolen Jr., great-great grandson j
of Confederate General Nathan i
Beford Forrest, has been offered
scholarships to attend! three
'Yankee" universities,' Prince
ton, Yale and Harvard.
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Pheasants and Hay Making
To The Editor: Hay making
time is here again which brings
a serious problem to the mother
pheasant and her brood of young
chicks. If a hen pheasant is kill
ed with 'a mower, the young have
to take care of themselves and
usually never reach maturity.
During the hunting season last
year l shot a male pheasant
which had no feet and the only
way I could figure out that this
could have happened was by
being cut with a mower in a
hay field.
If the farmer would make
some kind of a Hushing bar,
that would extend from six to
eight feet ahead of the mower,
this would flush the birds and
save many from being killed or
crippled, to later die from star
vation or unable to protect them
selves from their natural ene
mies. Ranchers and farmers in this
area who are interested in mak
ing a bar of the type mentioned,
I will be glad to furnish them
with needed information to
build one. Sportsmen and Gun
clubs in this area may be in
terested in building these bars
and. furnishing them free to
farmers cutting hay.
Yours for better relations' be
tween farmers and sportsmen.
Roy N. McKee
Box 85
Eagle Point
Missing Mother, Sons
Said Cause of Concern
Portland (U.R) Police today
expressed concern about the dis
appearance of Mrs. Paula Naza
rian, 31, and her two sons, age
12 and 8.
They were reported missing
by the husband and father,
Harry Nazarian, 39, who said
they failed to return from a
movie at the Sellwood theater
May 16. He said they liad a mi
nor argument over money mat
ters but that he hardly felt this
would be reason for her to leave
Police were checking with au
thorities in Sacramento where
Nazarian said there was a pos
sibility his family might have
gone.
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a foreign city, I go to the local
zoo. Stockholm's Skansen Zoo,
which has 2,000,000 visitors a
S-17-SS
year, was no exception. This
time the discussion with the ani
mal keepers dealt with the lar
gest of all living, animals, the
elephants, which may weigh up
to 12,000 pounds. And I learned
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FOOD: Elephants are strictly
vegetarians and in their natural
state eat grass and leaves mostly,
up to half a ton a day.
BRAIN: Because of their mas
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clude that an elephant's brain is
large. That simply isn't so. The
great size of their heads is
caused largely by the thickness
of the skin and the heavy skull
material. Considering size, the
brain is small.
LIFE SPAN: Although a few
may live to be 100, the life span
is about that of a human, from
60-80 years.
TEETH: During its lifetime,
an elephant grows but one set
of teeth but these teeth come
in early and remain late.
TUSKS: The elephant's ivory
tusks growing up to 200 pounds
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vision poor; their hearing is not
particularly keen; but their
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hide, rought, grayish hide ap
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most sensitive and highly vul
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SWIMMERS: Despite their
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swimmers, crossing deep rivers
easily. Mothers carry their
young on their backs or else
carefully guide them across the
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TRUNK: Thanks to some 40,
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SPEED: Despite its tremen
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ground rapidly, trotting for long
distances at five miles an hour,
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Portland U.R) Union dairy
plant workers and drivers here
have rejected an employer offer
and will resume negotiations un
der auspices of a federal media
tor next week, a union official
said today.
George Park,- secretary of the
Dairy, Ice and Ice Cream drivers
local 305, said the union seeks
15 cents an hour pay boost and
other benefits. He said the union
has taken a strike vote. About
500 employees would be involv
ed is a strike should develop.
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