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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
Juno 1. 1945
(It was Friday)
Guerine Brothers of San
Francisco low bidders for con
struction of new city reservoir.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There is
talk of reviving the old-fashioned
county fair. They were
great institutions. It took all aft
ernoon to start a stud-horse race,
and there were more ticket
takers than customers.
20 YEARS AGO
June 1, 1935
(It was Saturday)
More than 400 pieces entered
in Jackson County Chamber of
Comemrce art show June 4.
Chamber of Commerce com
mittee studies possibilities of or
ganizing Junior Chamber of
Commerce here.
30 YEARS AGO
June 1. 1925
(It was Monday)
Phoenix school wins Jackson
county school day music mem
ory contest.
Chamber of Commerce seeks
cars to haul 3,000 National
Guardsmen to Crater Lake from
encampment here.
40 YEARS AGO
June 1, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Forty-six Grizzlies hike to
summit of Grizzly peak.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Big Pines Lumber
company was fined $5 this
morning for carelessness in "the
keeping of a horse barn.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 195S. Iditorial Rasaarcli Res
1. The most typical salary of
a full professor in a large state
university today is around
$6000, $7000,- $8000, $9000 or
$10,000 a year?
2. Claustrophobia is hatred of
dogs, cigarettes, Jews, liquor,
foreigners, women, or narrow
spaces?
3. The Preakness race at Pim
lico, Baltimore, is for 2-year old
colts, 2-year old fillies, any 3
year old, 3-year olds and older,
or fillies and mares?
4. The 48 states as a whole
spend much more for education
than for roads, much more for
roads, or about the same for
each?
5. The Henry J car is still be-i
ing produced; right or wrong?
6. Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad
dress was delivered in Illinois,
Kentcuky, Maryland, Pennsyl
vania, or at Washington, D. C?
7. Helen Gahagan, former
stage star and member of Con
gress, is married to Clark Gable,
Robert Taylor, Paul Douglas,
RIelvyn Douglas or Humphrey
Bogart?
The Answers: 1. Around $7000.
2. Hatred of narrow soaces. 3.
Any 3-year old. 4. About he
same for each. 5. Wrong. 6. In
Pennsylvania. 7. Melvyn Doug
las. SURPRISEl
London (U.R) Film exec
utive Sol Schwartz and his wife
could hardly believe their eyes
Tuesday when the polite, uni
formed chauffeur who had driv
en them 20 miles from London
Airport to a London hotel took
off his sun glasses. The "chauf
feur" was comedian Danny Kaye
who "wanted to surprise them."
MAIL tribune
How Much
The "flu" which has hit people hereabouts this
year has been of a particularly virulent type, reminis
cent of "la grippe," which was the popular name of a
similar malady some years ago.
Those who have suffered from this malaise this
year have not only been very sick its taken them
long periods of time to get over the effects weeks,
even months, have been spent in gradually regaining
strength and well-being.
Some of the illnesses this year have been tagged
as "virus infections," of which Bernard DeVoto, writ
in Harper's, has this to say:
"I have been hexed by what the passionately exact
medical profession calls a virus infection, meaning an af
front to human dignity and physiology the nature of which
it does not understand and for which it has no therapy."
CO severe have some of the illnesses been that some
of the victims have become convinced that no
measly little bug could have been responsible, un
aided. Some of them are of the opinion that they
have been poisoned by some diabolical secret agent
or another.
This is going a bit too far, but the point-of-view
is understandable. For a little research leads to the
conclusion that there is a great deal which is not
known about some of the chemical agents now in
wide use pesticides, insecticides, and other chem
ical preparations which have done so much to assist
farmers in their eternal battle to raise bigger and bet
ter crops.
AN article entitled "How Much Poison Are We Eat-
ing?" by Ralph G. Martin, in the April Harper's,
goes into the question in some detail, and comes up
with the conclusion that it
der present conditions, to
do take in with our food,
on us.
He points out that in
pounds of insecticides were manufactured, including
about 30,000 formulas and about 100 different chem
icals. These have worked a revolution in agriculture,
making possible greater yields. . . .
But, he concludes, there
fully explored, possibility that we're, poisoning our
selves in the process.
pHARLES W. CRAWFORD, former U.S. Food and
Drug Commissioner, is quoted as saying, "In
many cases we do not know whether the insecticide
after application is absorbed into the body of the food,
whether it is destroyed on weathering, whether it de
generates perhaps into a more toxic substance. There
were even insecticides put out for which no chemical
method of identification or
lhe picture is not all black, of course, lor research
and experimentation are continuing, and the food and
drug authorities are becoming more alert and aware
of the potentialities of the situation.
DUT it might be pointed out that in Jackson county,
where orchards and field crops are regularly and
generously sprayed with a variety of preparations
which make for better crops and a healthier economic
future, we are in a position of constant contact with
the sprays and dusts whose effects on the human body
are not completely known.
There have been no serious results reported to
date. But we can reasonably ask that all so-called
chemical agents be treated with care and respect, un
til more of a conclusive nature is known about them.
E.A.
Infectious Hepatitis
Statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company report, in a mailed release, that infectious
hepatitis has emerged as "an important health prob
lem in the United States."
The disease, so little known a few years ago that
the name was'hardly ever heard, hit about 50,000 per
sons throughout the country last year. This was about
three times the total number who suffered from it in
1952, and about V2 times the number in 1953.
The rate in 1955 so far is slightly below thatNof
1954, but still above the level for 1953. This rate of
incidence rates infectious hepatitis among the leading
communicable diseases.
FIGURES in Jackson county provide an interesting
r corollary to the national figures. In 1950, there
were 16 cases in the county; in 1951 it had dropped
to 7; m 1952 it was only 2. In 1953, however, the
number jumped to 48, and in 1954 there were 73
cases. So far in 1955 there have been 20 cases report
ed, a rate of four per month or 48 per year.
The highest incidence is in school-age children,
although no age level is spared. The death rate is
low, fortunately, although the disease itself is highly
unpleasant, being described as an acute virus infec
tion usually accompanied by jaundice.
CONTROL measures are largely those of sanitation
and personal hygiene. The increase incidence in
recent years may be related to the tremendous growth
of suburban areas, with a resulting rise in septic tanks
and cess pools, which cannot be as effective as muni
cipal sewage systems.
Control is better than treatment, for knowledge
about the causative organism is limited, and it does
not respond to drugs, antibiotics or, as the release
says, "any other specific therapy." E.A.
UO Building Plan Funds
Washington (U.R) Rep.
Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) yester
day said the Housing and Home
Finance Agency has approved a
' Wednesday, Jan 1, 1953
Is "Poison?
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s just about impossible, un
know how much poison we
or what effect it is having
1954 some 2,000,000,000
is a strong, and as yet not
analysis is known.
Said Approved
loan of $6000 for advance plan
ning for a new administration
building at University of Oregon.
The Droiect still waits annrnval
by the state legislature.
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"Both Sides Get a Laugh"
To the Editor: I should like
to commend you for your fine
editorial of May 15, 1955, en
titled, "Both Sides Get a Laugh."
It is time that an Oregon news
paper emphasized the fact that
this present Republican nation
al administration has urged ap
proval of a federal power and
storage project on the - Upper
Colorado river which will cost
the taxpayers many times more
than the proposed Hells Canyon
Dam. The bulk of the Oregon
press has been strangely silent
about these very salient facts,
and the people of Southern Ore
gon owe a debt to the Medford
Mail Tribune for pointing them
out so cogently.
In May of 1954, Secretary of
the Interior McKay, a former
governor of the State of Oregon,
delivered an expensive statewide
TV broadcast telling us that we
could not have further power
projects in the Columbia River
basin because of the great fed
eral debt of $275 billion. There
just wasn't the money available,
said Secretary McKay. Thus, it
should be extremely significant
to the people of this state that
the same McKay who said there
wasn't any money available for
our Columbia River projects now
urges the Congress to authorize
exactly $1,815,000,000 worth of
projects in the Upper Colorado
region.
I think these facts speak for
themselves. The people of Ore
gon are intelligent and well edu
cated individuals. They cannot
be fooled as to facts. I have re
peatedly pointed out in letters
and on the floor of the Senate
that there is absolutely no rhyme
nor reason to an Administration
which says it has no money for
power projects in the Columbia
River Basin but it has $1,815,
000,000 for power projects in the
Upper Colorado area.
Why the reason for these dis
crepancies? In my opinion, the
explanation is simple. The pow
er projects in the Upper Color
ado area are at dam sites which
are marginal, with low and un
reliable stream flow and far
from" good .transportation. No
utility executive in his right
mind would want to develop
these sites. Therefore, Secretary
McKay is glad to urge extensive
use of taxpayers' funds to de
velop such marginal and low
grade power sites. By contrast,
the power sites of the Columbia
River Basin are the finest on the
North American continent. Nat
urally, many private power com
panies covet these sites. That ex
plains why the present national
administration is quite willing
to abandon these sites to the pri
vate power companies. Thus,
the people of Oregon are told,
there isn't any money in the
federal treasury to develop these
line sites in the Columbia Basin.
Richard L. Neuberger,
United States Senator,
Washington, D.C,
Red China Prodded
To Free Prisoners
Washington (U.R) The
United States has prodded Red
China again to release Americans
still imprisoned behind the Bam
boo Curtain it was revealed to
day. Authoritative sources said Am.
erican and Red Chinese consular
officials had conferred within
the last few days at the Hotel
Beau Rivage in Geneva, Switzer
land, on the prisoner problem.
The meeting was held over the
holiday week end at about the
same time the Communists an
nounced they were freeing four
American airmen.
There was no sign that th
new move had produced assur
ances that any more American
would be released. The Chinese
apparently only drummed on the
theme that the four fliers
being released to ease tensions
between the two countries.
But while there has been no
direct indication that the other
prisoners will be freed, admin
istration officials expect they
will be from time to time when
the Reds feel such action will
suit their international purposes.
Petitions Protest
Bridges Prosecution
San Francisco (U.R) Offic
ials of the International Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union claimed today they have
obtained the signatures of nearly
60,000 union members on peti
tions protesting the current pros
ecution of ILWU President Har
ry Bridges.
A nine-man delegation of
ILWU members will present the
petitions to President Eisen
hower Monday.
On that day, an estimated
17,000 longshoremen up and
down the Pacific Coast have
scheduled a 24-hour work stop
page protesting government at
tempts to strip Bridges of his
citizenship. j
Mmnmi Materallaf
Oslo, with SAS Delayed
Sooner or later in Norway the
subject is bound to come around
to fish the chief industry.
Quite logically, therefore, a
group of us discussed the vora
cious appetites of some fish-eat
ing creatures.
To begin with, birds consume
vast quantities of fish. A mem
ber of the Kon Tiki raft expedi
tion to the South Pacific told us
that off Peru cormorants move
in cloud-like flocks a square
mile island harboring at least
10,000,000 cormorants.
Now a cormorant can devour
7 pounds of fish a day, he said,
but to be on the conservative
6-1-55
side, he said, it would take
roughly about 10,000 tons oi
fish daily. A dozen such colon
ies could easily eat more fisn
than the entire U.S. population
eats. And along the Peruvian
coast, there are many such bird
colonies, many even larger. And
besides cormorants, there are
many other rapacious fish-eat
ing birds.
Someone mentioned seals, sea
lions, walruses all heavy fish
eaters, but even these, it was
conceded, do not consume a drop
in the bucket as compared to
fish-eating fish.
10 Billion Destroyed Daily
One man estimated that the
blue fish of the Atlantic must
number at least one billion an
nually and allowing a ration
of only ten fish per day to each
bluefish a rapacious butcher
-that would be no less than 10,-
000,000,000 fish destroyed daily.
Among the fish killers, too
one must consider the sharks
accomplished killers. One of
these, the thresher, preys upon
shoals of herring and pilchard.
With a body designed for the
job, he pursues tactics of. nis own
to capture and kill incredible
numbers.
As he closes in on the little
fish, he swims round and round
a shoal in ever-decreasing circles
violently beating and splashing
the water with his greatly elon
gated tail hence his name,
thresher until his victims are
huddled conveniently together
and then he gulps them down by
the mouthful.
But perhaps the palm for fish
voracity should go to the swal
lower. This weird-looking fish
lives at a depth of a mile or so
in the sea. There food is scarce
and when chance brings a meal,
however large, he swallows it
quickly.
To accomodate the swallower,
he has an expandable stomach.
It has been known to become ex
tended far beyond the size of its
own body. In fact, its swallowed
prey may actually be four or
five times its own former size.
That's a mouthful.
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Haymes Wins Point
In Deportation Fight
Washington (U.R) Crooner
Dick Haymes, Argentine born
husband of Actress Rita Hay
worth, has won at least a tem
porary victory in his legal fight
to avoid deportation.
Federal District Judge Burn-
ita S. Matthews held that Haymes
is "not deportable" because he
didn't legally leave this country
when he went to Hawaii on a
visit in 1953. '
The government may appeal
the ruling to higher courts.
It had sought to ship the sing
er back to Argentine on grounds
he illegally entered this country
from Hawaii on his return from
the 1953 visit. Haymes was also
accused of having claimed his
privilege as an alien to avoid the
draft during World War II.
Judge Matthews held that Ha
waii legally is a "geographical
part of the United States."
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Russians Probably
Disappointed Oyer
Yugoslavia
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
No matter what they may say,
the Russians must be pretty dis
appointed at the outcome of
their talks in
Yugoslavia.
Some agree
in e n t s have
been announc
ed. Undoubted
ly others will
be announced
before the
Russians leave
for Moscow.
But the big
development is
Charles Mccann mat tresiaeni
Tito has declined to resume the
intimate relations which once
existed between Yugoslavia and
Russia.
The Russians went to Belgrade
hoping to induce Tito to make
Yugoslavia the southern anchor
of a central European "neutral
belt" and to resume full co
operation with the Soviet bloc
of Communist nations.
Tito refused. He made it plain
from the outset that he intends
to maintain Yugoslavia's posi
tion as a completely sovereign
country.
There is evidence that the
Russians were prepared to pay
a big price in cash as well as
other concession for Tito's co
operation.
As it is, the prospects for the
"neutral belt" seem very dim.
There are two gaping holes in
the wall the Kremlin had hoped
to set up Yugoslavia at the
southern end and Germany in
the middle.
Khrushchev Top Man
Another interesting develop
ment in the Belgrade conference
is the clear emergence of Nikita
S. Khrushchev, first secretary of
the Russian Communist Party,
as the Kremlin's top man.
From the moment of his arri
val in Belgrade Khrushchev
went out of his way to shove
Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin to
one side
Presumably that means that
Khrushchev will be the No. 1 So
viet delegate in the forthcoming
conference of the Big Four heads
of government.
It will be a singular situation
In past such conferences, Josef
Stalin was both premier and
head of the Communist Party
His official position was quite
clear,
Krushchev, however, has no
official position according to
Western standards. He is head of
a political machine.
Unknown Quantity
Khrushchev is still an un
known quantity as a negotiator.
He certainly did not get off to a
good start in Belgrade. He
started off, on his arrival, by an
noying Tito with an appeal to re-
1954 Forest Fire
Damage $3,700,000
Washington (U.R) The
Agriculture Department esti
mated today that fire in na
tional forests caused damage of
$3,700,000 in 1954.
Forest Service field offices
said 73690 forest fires burned
107,656 acres of national forest
land last year. Timber damage
amounted to $1,062,489. The de
struction of ground cover, such
as grass, trees, and shrubs, re
sulted in damages of $2,227,455
to watersheds which supply a
large part of the water used in
the West for industry, irrigation
farming, and in the home. Dam
age to other non-timber resourc
es such as wildlife, recreation
and forage was $447,033.
The 1953 forest fire damages
totaled a record $14,489,594.
Mill
by rha lOrh f Mm
mssrii asm Yri-
daads at the
First.
milt
(TsMt
Meeting
turn to his old position in the
council of international Commu
nism. When Khrushchev involved
himself in an argument with the
American ambassador at a state
dinner in Belgrade and made
some bad-mannered remarks to
the Belgian minister at a recep
tion. Khrushchev had made himself
something of a name as a man
who talked too much before he
went to Belgrade.
But he may be a lot smarter
than he appears. Certainly,
there must be something smart
about him or he never would
have risen, to the leadership of
the Russian Communist Party
and the leader, in that capacity
of 200,000,000 Russians.
Khrushchev's ability will
undergo a real test if he leads
the Soviet delegation to the Big
Four conference.
29,976 Children
In Oregon Given
Salk Polio Shots
Portland U.R) First sketchy
figures released, yesterday by
the State Board of Health show
ed that 29,976 Oregon school
children already have received
their first shot of Salk polio
vaccine.
State health officials said they
were very pleased with the turn
out, considering the difficulties
experienced in getting the mass
program under way. However
the total is less than half the
eligible numbers.
Second Shots Authorised
At the same time, Dr. Harold
M. Erickson, state health offi
cer, said he had received a let
ter from Dr. Hart E. Van Riper
medical director for the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis, giving Oregon the go-ahead
on using vaccine remaining from
first inoculations for second
shots or booster shots.
In counties where vaccine re
mains after the second shots, it
will be returned to the State
Health department for redistri
bution to counties short of the
vaccine. That, combined with fi
nal counts on the number of
children administered shots, will
enable health officials to order
enough additional vaccine to
provide second shots for all eli
gible children.
No 111 Effects From Wait .
Some counties will have to
wait longer than others for the
second shots, but Dr. Erickson
received a letter yesterday from
the office of Dr. Jonas Salk dis
counting any ill effects from the
wait.
"Although the recommended
interval between the first and
second inoculations with polio
vaccine is two to four weeks,''
the letter stated, "Dr. Salk has
indicated that the effects of the
vaccine are cumulative and that
if more than a four week inter
val must elapse between first
and second injections that will
not negate the effects produced
by the first."
Six New Cases Reported
The board revealed that six
new cases of polio had been re
ported in Oregon last week,
bringing the year's total to 48.
Last year at this time, 33 cases
had been reported. But officials
stressed that it was too early to
determine whether totals for the
whole year would be high or
low.
Make up clinics are being set
up In counties over the state to
take care of children who
missed their first needling.
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Flashlight Said
Possible Weapon
In Sheppard Case
Cleveland (U.R) The wea
pon which clubbed Marilyn
Sheppard to death in her bed
July 4 could have been a red
lacquered flashlight.
That theory was advanced to
a court of appeals considering
the requested reversal of a con
viction of second degree murder
against her husband, Dr. Sam
uel Sheppard. The murder wea
pon was not produced during biatrial.
Defense chief William J. Cnr.
rigan said in a brief filed yes
terday with the court of
that the flashlight was the prob
able murder weapon.
Marilyn Sheppard, 31, mother
of one and an exrjectant mnthsp
was bludgeoned to death in her
bed in the Sheppard home in
Suburban Bay Villaee sometime
during the early morning of last
July 4. Her osteopath-husband,
30, was convicted last January
and sentenced to life imprison
ment, a sentence he seeks now
to escape.
The appellate court was con
sidering Corrigan's request to re
verse trial judge Edward Blyth
in's refusal of a new trial on
grounds of "new evidence" when
the flashlight theory brief was
filed.
The flashlight theory is not
new. Dr. Paul Kirk, California
criminologist who combed th
house for "new evidence," said
me murder weapon could have
been a flashlight.
The brief argued the weapon
was not more than one foot long
and "not similar to an alleged
surgical instrument ..." Auth
orities said orthopedic wrenches
found in Dr. Sheppard'i auto
could have been used. And
the state had submitted a blood
stained pillow case in the trial
with what appeared to be the
imprint of a heavy pair of pin
cers in the blood.
LAWYERS OMITTED
Washington (U.R) Three
Oregon lawyers, Owen Panner
and George Newton of Bend and
Lt. Col. Robert Renfro of Port
land, were admited to practice
before the U. S. Supreme Court
yesterday.
Strange Days Due
GEO, N. TAYLOR
God sent Noah's flood to wipe
man from the earth all man
kind except Noah and his And
so God show
ed his wrath
at the sins of
that day. And
Christ said that
j u d g ement is
again to come
by the hand of
God Luke
17:26-27. Is that
j u d gement to
come by God
permitting -the
Reds to drop
their bombs and turn our cities
into dust and to kill off our
people?
A few weeks ago in Chicago,
Lt. General Harrison of the
canal zone, told a packed house
that as Americans, we must ex
pect great and terrible suffering.
Whether General Harrison had
in mind the bombs of the Reds,
we know not. But we do know
that God's eternal purpose
changes not. Since Christ died
for our sins and ascended back
to heaven, God has been calling
out people on whom to spend
his love in the ages to come. And
by that, may you turn and re
ceive Christ as your own Lord
and Saviour. So God gives -you
eternal life. Then by Bible and
prayer, grow up. This Message is
sponsored by a Beaverton fam
ily. Adv.
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