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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 31. 1945
(It was Thursday)
Highway 99 officially desig
nated as inter-regional highway
by state highway commission.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It is now
feared the lack of legal fire
water will bring about the re
turn of the moonshine still. The
illegal product would be cheap
er and look at the fun the cus
tomer would have going after
it.
20 YEARS AGO
May 31, 1935
(It was Friday)
Small fruit yields indicated
in Jackson county as result of
"curley leaf and an edrly frost
Bill Bowerman, former Med
ford and University of Oregon
athlete, holds lead in interest
for coaching at Medford High
school.
SO YEARS AGO
Mir 31. 1925
(It was Sunday)
Eighty-two Medford High
school seniors receive diplomas.
Ashland city council takes no
action regarding purchase of
land for Southern Oregon
Normal.
40 YEARS AGO
May' 31, 191.
(It v Monday)
Steps taken toward formation
of district irrigation and Water
Users' league made at meeting
of Rofue Valley residents.
Travelers from Portland to
San Francisco at Ashland ex
hibit building will be given
flowers during summer season.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copt. 19SS. Editorial Research Repeat
1. A two-door station wagon
costs new, on the average, about
$150, $250, S350, $450, $550, or
$650 more than the correspond
ing four-door sedan?
2. Passports for U.S. citizens
are issued by the State Depart
ment, Commerce Department,
White House, Supreme Court or
F.B.L?
3. U.S. airlines do or don't
get a government subsidy in ad
tion to payments for carrying
mail?
4. Cellophane comes from pe
troleum, wood, soya beans, milk,
cotton, or silk worms?
5. Ia the Electoral College
that chooses a President, the
District of Columbia has one,
two, three, four, five or no
votes?
6. Rifht-wing members of a
legislature are radicals, conserv
atives? 7. John B. Hollister of Ohio
is to be the new Army chief of
staff, foreign aid administrator,
presdent of U.S. Steel, polio vac
cine checker, or head of Mont
gomery Ward?
The Aaewers: 1. About $350
more. 99 the average. 2. State
Department. 3. Do. 4. Wood. 5.
No vetes. Conservatives. 7.
Foreig sad administrator.
TOO MANY FINGERS
Oklahoma City, Okla . (U.PJ
Police had to use a little in
genuity Monday when they finger-printed
Oran Telford, 54. He
has six fingers on either hand.
Authorities solved the problem
by printing one finger on the
back of the card. P.S. He also
has 12 toes.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Secretary Stassen & World Peace
In an interesting interview over the air the other
night Secretary-of-Peace Stassen, said among other
things, that the Russians just as sincerely fear the
Americans are determined to destroy them and their
form of government, as the Americans fear the Rus
sians or the Russian government at least are de
termined to destroy them and the democratic form of
government, so disarmament has a hard row to hoe
or words to that effect.
This is entirely correct.
And we would go further and maintain until this
fear complex is eradicated, any real progress toward
disarmament is highly improbable. The whole busi
ness might as well be forgotten in fact until there is
a radical change in the attitudes of the two strongest
countries in the world, and the 'only two capable of
waging war alone on a world-wide scale.
DUT that, as we see it, does net mean World War
is inevitable.
In fact it is our belief that such a war is less like
ly today than it was a year ago, and in all probability
will be even less likely, a year hence.
And the reason for our optimism is simply this
to wit:
We believe the fear of WAR and the desire
somehow, someway to maintain peace is growing
steadily stronger, not only in this country but through
out the world, and what might be termed the "will-to-war"
is growing steadily weaker.
So while we don't see much chance of any dis
armament program getting to first base, with inter
national tensions and fears as they are today, we do
see a chance and a good one of war on any large
scale being avoided because of the growing realiza
tion that war in this atomic age, has ceased to be a
temptation to any nation,
such a war and to that nation's self-interest.
And when all is said
that controls the policies of
of self interest will become
nations including Russia as
v
In other words the hope of world peace, in our
judgment, does not rest in
or in any pious pronouncements or non-aggression
pacts, but on the destruction of faith m war, on the
part of the people and eventually their leaders, as a
practical or profitable medium of settling interna
tional disputes.
There is the one best hope.
And the more Secretary Stassen can bring the
horrors of a large scale war and its futilities in this day
and age clearly before the people, not only of his own
country but of the world, the greater the chances of
success in his mission to advance the cause of world
peace. R.W?R.
We Second The Motion
Senator Joe McCarthy has Written to the Presi
dent suggesting an expeditionary force of Marines be
sent to China to release Americans held by the Com
munists there. -
We'd go for the idea under the following circum
stances: 1. McCarthy, a Marine reservist, would be the
only member of the force.
2. The Chinese wouldn't hold it against us and
make such an expedition an excuse for a new war.
3. The Chinese would keep him when they caught
him. BEND BULLETIN.
June Graduates in Demand
A few months after Commencement, the new
graduate stops observing that he's willing to consider
a position and begins to admit that he's looking for
a job, says the old cliche. Well, that may still hold
good for the 1955 non-scientific graduate, but the
young men and women today with good training and
records in many or most of the scientific fields should
be able to pick and choose.
Especially in demand, say reports from the busi
ness world, are physicists, chemists, electronics en
gineers, geologists, also men with training in sales
and retailing. Women trained in the above field
should find their sex less of a handicap than their sis
ters found it a decade ago. Also clamoring for women
are teaching and social work jobs and, of course,
nursing.
All the 1955 graduates should find the outlook
for a good job with good pay more favorable than did
the 1954 graduates. Unemployment today is about
one-third less than a year ago, and factory payrolls
are eight per cent higher. The chances for a job "at
the entry level" are good also, says Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell, for those of this year's 1,400,000
high-school graduates who are looking for work.
Most of the 1955 college graduates were born in
the early Thirties, when a low birth rate went along
with dire depression. Later, as economic activity and
employment rose, so. did the birth rate. This means
that 1955 is providing relatively fewer college grad
uates and, other things being equal, relatively less
competition for jobs than will be true five years from
now. E. R.
Government Camp Snow Jams Traffic
Government Camp (U.PJ
Hundreds of cars full of Me
morial Day homeward - bound
travelers jammed up five miles
east of here yesterday when
eight inches of snow fell. It was
the first Memorial day snow
storm in the area since 1948.
Many of the cars were stuck
for as long as five hours before
Tuesday, Mar 31, 1955
cognizant of the realities of
and done it is self-interest
any nation, and the facts
clearer and clearer to all
time goes on.
any disarmament program,
tew trucks could work them
free. The jam lasted from mid
afternoon to about midnight.
Snow fell in the Government
camp area and also at Snoqual
mie pass all day and caught
many fishermen who attempted
to drive the . road without
chains.
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Matter of Fact
ISLANDS RARELY VANISH
It is just a bit bewildering to
return to Washington after six
months in Asia.
Judging by the
r e percussions
on t h e other
side of the
Pacific, the
Asian crisis
was producing
paroxisms o f
alarm in the
United States
until only a
few weeks ago.
But in Wash-
Joseph Alsop jngton today,
it is pretty bad form even to
mention Asia, let alone ask em
barrassing questions about
American policy in Asia.
Meanwhile, however, the out
lines of the crisis in Asia have
not changed a bit. The tempo
may have altered slightly. We
may have a few more months to
reach decisions, or to prolong
our indecision, as the case may
be. But all the facts that made
the crisis are still right there,
ugly as ever, staring us in the
eye as grimly as ever, and basi
cally every bit as critical as ever.
The best case history is the
situation in the Formosa Strait,
which was the immediate cause
of the recent war scare in Amer
ica. It has to be remembered
that the real cause of the scare
was not Communist words, but
Communist acts. Peiping's
threats to attack in the Formosa
Strait would have been mean
ingless and empty, if Peiping
had not been making active, ex
tensive and costly military prep
arations to launch an attack.
When Admiral Carney turn
ed the country upside down by
saying there would be danger of
war from mid-April onwards, he
meant that these Communist mil
itary preparations would be far
enough advanced by mid-April
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Hazards of modern life note:
In Kansas City a car stalled in
water backed up from a clogged
sewer (there had been a cloud
burst.) Three young men in the
car took off their shoes and
started to wade out. They
stepped into water CHARGED
BY 2300 VOLTS OF ELECTRI
CITY from a power-line that had
fallen in the storm.
They died instantly.
CJ AVE this thought:
There were hazards in the
olden days.
These boys' great-great-great
grandfathers might have started
to wade a Missouri creek whose
banks were lined with ambushed
redskins. They would have died
just as suddenly under the en
suing barrage of arrows.
Tiff ODERN safety note:
iTA Oregon's state health depart
ment has issued its annual warn
ing about marine mussels and
clams from coastal waters in the
spring and summer. State
Health Officer Ericksorf" says it
is unsafe to eat ANY portion of
mussels or the digestive organs
of clams at this time of year be
cause they might contain a
strong alkaloid poison similar to
strychnine.
Clam diggers, he says, should
remove all black portions before
eating the bivalves. White meat
and muscular tissue of clams, he
adds, do not contain the poison.
THERE are OFFSETS, you see,
to the hazards of modern
life.
In the olden, golden days we
would have eaten the clams with
out the precautions described by
Dr. Erickson. If we had got sick,
we would have said: "I must
have et sumpin that disagreed
with me."
SPORT note:
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
HISTORY, three runners, in
ONE event, have crossed the
finish line of a mile run in less
than four minutes each. A Lon
don crowd of 25,000 saw Laszlo
Tabori of Hungary win the race
in three minutes and 59 seconds,
followed by Brian Hewson of
Britain and Chris Chataway
eight-tenths of a second later.
lOR centuries, men have striv-
en to run a mile in less than
four minutes. Englishman Rog
er Bannister, OF OUR TIME,
was the first to do it.
It isn't just MACHINES that
are getting better. Human bodies
are getting better too.
WELL, why not?
" Modern diet is increasing in
available quantity and is im
proving in QUALITY. Cars run
better and last longer as the
quality of gasoline improves.
It stands to reason that hu
man bodies should run better
and last longer on better fuel.
rpHAT suggests a potent
thought:
How about human minds?.
They must improve also if we
are to keep up with the grow
ingly complex modern world
I'm speaking, of course, of AV
ERAGE human minds. We can't
depend wholly on far-above-average
minds, such Einstein's.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
nnon Satnrriav- in n m Trr. c
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Monday; other days 5:30 devious day.
By Joseph AIsop
to permit an attack being launch
ed at any time. And he was of
course entirely right.
Since mid-April, moreover,
the Communists have gone right
on stretching their potential at
tacking force. More IL-28s, the
twin jet bombers that are the
great threat to the 7th Fleet's
aircraft carriers, have been re
deployed into the Shanghai area.
MIG-15s, which can be beaten
by our F-86s, have been replaced
by MIG-17s, which appear to be
markedly superior to he best
American fighter plane in the
Pacific area. Reconditioning has
started at the important Chang
ting and Kienow airfields.
TN THE last two weeks, too, the
enemy has made a series of
small, careful, undramatic prob
ing attacks on Quemoy and the
Matsu Island, exactly like the
probing attacks on the Tachens
that preceded the invasion of
Yikiangshan. Me a n w h i 1 e our
own alarmingly inadequate
strength in the Formosa area has
not been increased in the slight
est. On balance, therefore, the
basic military situation has
grown distinctly worse, rather
than better.
In these circumstances, what
has changed the climate in Wash
ington, must be the change in
Communist talk. The drumfire of
threats to Formosa has been
muted in Peiping. At Bandung
and thereafter, Chou En-lai has
said that he would be glad to
discuss the situation in the For
mosa Strait with representatives
of this country. As long as you
manage to forget the enemy's
continuing military preparations,
Chou's change of tune seems
hopeful if you do not study it
too seriously.
At Bandung, however, the
more astute observers were par
ticularly struck by the way Chou
made his offer there. It was a
very peculiar offer. He said he
was willing to talk. But he made
it very clear indeed that one
point he was emphatically not
willing to talk about, was Pei
ping's claim that Formosa be
longs to Communist China as a
matter of right.
The Chiniese Communist mood,
in short, appears to resemble
the mood ascribed to Adolf Hit
ler by Sir Winston Churchill, in
his great speech after Munich.
If one may paraphrase Chur
chill, "The Chinese Communists
instead of snatching victuals
from the table, will be content to
have them served up course by
course."'
Apparently the Eisenhower
administration is now ready and
even eager to serve up the first,
course, in the form of Quemoy
and the Matsu islands. But Chi
ang Kai-shek has told Admiral
Radford and Assistant Secretary
of State Walter Robertson, in
plain terms, that he will fight
for the offshore islands no mat
ter what the United States may
do. If the Generalissimo means
what he says, where does that
leave the Formosa Strait crisis?
rpHEN again, if the General
issimo does not mean what
he says, and the islands are han
dled without a fight, the Com
munists will then be able to
move their airpower into Fukien
province. Once the Fukien air
fields are. strongly occupied, the
enemy can demand the second
course of the banquet, Formosa
and the Pescadores. But is the
Eisenhower administration rad
ically altering its defense policy,
in order to be ready to contest
control of the air over the For
mosa Strait with the extremely
strong Communist air force?
These questions are enough to
suggest the phoniness of the cur
rent complacency in Washing
ton. (Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
RICKSHAW
"Something New
Qudint and charming coordinates with
the exotic colors of the Orient Toy
Pink, Ming Turquoise and Chinese
Black ... all with harmonizing
colors.
In Ruff 'N Tumble
"NO IRON"
MATERIAL
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British Laborites
Expected To Swing
Sharply To
Bv CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Prime Minister Anthony Ed
en's victory in the British elec
tion undoubtedly means that
that Labor
party will have
to swing to the
left whether it
wants to or
not.
The feud be
tween Clement
R. Attlee, the
Labor party
leader and left
winger Aneur
in Bevan is
sure to be in
quiries Mccaan tensified.
Bevan is certain to say that
Labor lost out because it failed
to offer the voters a forceful
socialistic policv contrasting
sharply to the Conservative plat
form on every big issue.
Attlee may find that argument
hard to answer.
The victory of Eden's Conser
vatives was impressive. Not only
did they more than triple the
House of Commons majority
they held in the last Parliament.
They also won a majority of the
popular vote for the first, tune
in 20 years.
Re dVole Increases
It is interesting to note, too,
that Britain's tiny Communist
party increased its popular vote
by nearly 50 per cent as com
pared to the last election, in
Carp
enters Union
Prepa
res for Vote
Portland . (U.R) The Port
land district council of AFL car
penters and 10 local unions vote
tonight on whether to continue
working for three contractors
associations without a contract.
The Portland carpenters have
asked for 10-cent hourly wage
increase.
Clell Harris, secretary of the
district council, said the vote
would be a strike vote against
the three associations two chap
ters of the Associated. General
Contractors and the Portland
Home Builders association. He
said it would not affect carpen
ters already working under
signed agreements with inde
pendent employers.
About 4.800 out of 7.50O car.
penters will be affected by the
voting, he said.
The employer group said
vote to stop work "could affect
virtually all projects employing
union carpenters in five north
western Oregon counties." These
are Multnomah, Clackamas, Co
lumbia, Yamhill and Washington.
Caille Spilled Out
As Truck Overturns
Cascade Locks, Ore. (U.R) A
truck driver was injured and
34 head of cattle were spilled
out on the roadway when a
truck and trailer overturned
near Bonneville dam yesterday.
Eight of the cattle were kill
ed and the rest took off over
the countryside. Driver Gnv Ed
ward Campbell, 43, Ontario, suf
fered hand injuries.
Sheriff's deputies said Camo-
bell took a wrong turn off of
the Columbia River Exnress
highway. His rig jumped a curb,
rolled across a lawn and plung
ed down a 33-foot embankment.
The frightened cattle scatter
ed through the Bonneville dam
parking lot and across the high
way.
FASHIONS
Under the Sun"
Left
1951. The Reds polled more than
32,000 votes as compared to 21,
640 in 1951.
Numerically, these figures are
insignificant. But Bevan will be
able to say that the Communist
vote was increased by the de
fection of votes which Labor
formerly got.
Labor will have plenty of
time to make up its mind as to
its future course. The new par
liament was elected for five
years.
Attlee, the Labor party leader.
is now 72. Bevan is 57.
There has been no indication
in London dispatches that Bevan
is yet a menace to Attlee as a
rival for Labor Party leadership.
Attlee is exceedingly popular
in the Labor party. He is a quiet,
retiring sort of man. Like Eden,
he can be tough when necessary.
But the election held last week
is certain to increase Bevan's
prestige in the Labor party, and
it can hardly help but tarnish
Attlee's.
More Assertive
It seems likely that Bevan
will be even more assertive in
Labor party councils, and even
more a rebel against the official
party line when he disagrees
with it.
Bevan's comparative youth,
his great vigor and his oratori
cal gift will aid him in trying
to force the party to veer fur
ther leftward.
Whether Bevan can win the
leadership of the party at some
future time is problematical.
Waiting to step into Attlee's
place are Herbert Morrison,
deputy party leader, and Hugh
Gaitskell, former chancellor of
the exchequer. If Attlee retired
they would be candidates to
succeed him.
But from now on, Bevan may
be expected to bid more and
more openly for the party lead
ership. Whether he gets it or
not, he will be able to sharpen
a party swing toward the left.
Ashland Man Hurt
In Highway Crash
Claude D. Silverwood, Ash
land, suffered minor injuries
early today after the car he was
driving collided with a truck
and trailer on Highway 99 south
of Ashland, according to state
police.
The investigating officer said
that Silverwood's car, going
north, hit the southbound truck
on the driver wheels, elanced
into the trailer, then went 168
feet further down the road and
up on a bank. Both vehicles had
to be towed away.
The truck driver, Leslie Ed
win Timms, 859 East Ninth st.,
Medford, was unhurt, police
said. The accident happened at
about 2:15 a.m. today.
Another accident near Shady
Cove occurred at about 10 p.m.
Monday, officers reported, when
a car driven by Elija Earl Davis,
49, of 509 Fourth st., Phoenix,
hit a shoulder, flipped across the
highway arid, over the bank. Da
vis was uninjured, but the un
derpart of his car was consider
ably damaged by rocks, officers
said. .
KINDLY LAD
Houston. Tex. (U.R) Hous
ton policeman G. V. Andy said
today that a teen-aced bov he
found kneeling beside a car with
a loose hubcap in his hand gave
this explanation: I just found
the hubcap laying there and was
putting it back on the car for the
man when you walked up."
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105 EAST MAIN
Coffee Delegates
Eye Stabilization
New York (U.R) Delegates
from 16 of the world's largest cof
fee producing countries met to
day to draft the constitution of a
proposed International Coffee
Bureau designed to stabilize
world coffee market conditions.
Representatives of 15 Latin
American nations and the Bel
gian Congo agreed earlier to cre
ate the bureau to stabilize coffee
prices which have plummeted
from $1.50 a pound last summer
to 79 cents last week.
The drafting committee, com
posed of Brazil, Colombia, Mexi
co and El Salvador, is expected
to draft resolutions to the consti
tution today calling for each
country to contribute a certain
percentage of its annual export
able coffee production. The
amount would be determined by
world coffee market conditions
after normal demands have been
met.
The coffee pooled bv contribu
tors will be held in reserve for
delivery to consumers as condi
tions demand. It will be held off
the market when coffee produc
tion is normal to keep prices
from falling. The reserves will
be put on the market when cof
fee is scarce to keep prices from
increasing.
The new organization will also
strive to create new markets and
increase the demand for coffee.
Draft Advisory
Committee Formed
Portland (U.R) An Oregon
selective service advisory com
mittee for scientific, engineering
and allied activities has been an
nounced by Col. Francis W. Ma
son, denutv state director of se
lective service for Oregon.
It will advise local draft
boards and state appeal board
on essentiality of Oregon regis
trants who request selective
service deferment by reason of
employment.
Haskell C. Carter of Carter
Manufacturing, Portland, has
been elected chairman and L. R.
Hussa, president of Albina En
gine & Machine, Portland, vice
chairman.
Other members of the commit
tee are J. O. Julson, manager of
the Weyerhaeuser's pulp mill at
Springfield; the Rev. J. A. Molt
er, dean of science at Portland
university; Dr. W. E. Caldwell,
professor of chemistry at Oregon
State College; Fay Brainard, as
sistant to the vice-president of
Hyster Co., and Walter Durhan,
secretary-manager of Lumber
man's Industrial Relations com
mittee, both of Portland.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
I belong to a flying club of four
members. We fly our own plana.
If any member had an accident
with the airplane, damaging prop
erty or perhaps killing someone,
could we all be sued for the di im
ages? Would airplane liability in
surance protect us?
For Information Call
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AGENCY
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