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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
June 7, 1945
(It was Thursday)
A public hearing on Jackson
county's budget to start tomor
row morning.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The pro
posal to make the old courthouse
' at Jacksonville a pioneer relic
museum recalls when it was
dedicated, a Bible and a $5 gold
piece were buried in the corner
stone. It would be interesting to
know if both objects are still
there. Besides 12 years have
passed since it was legal to look
at a $5 gold pieces without pull
ing down all the blinds.
20 YEARS AGO
June 7. 1935
More than 10 forest fires al
ready reported in Jackson and
Josephine counties as summer
becomes drier.
Special election called in Wil
low Springs district to decide
whether or not stock should run
at large.
30 YEARS AGO
June 7, 1925
(It was Sunday)
More than 25 special trains
carrying Shriners home from
Los Angeles convention pass
through Medford. . .
Almost 500 people die from in
tense heat wave throughout the
country, while Medford's tem
perature is 75.
40 YEARS AGO"
June 7, 1915
(It was Monday)
Medford divided into districts
to conserve irrigation water to
prevent shortage.
From Ashland and vicinity
column: Last Thursday night
twenty-seven carloads of sheep
in double-deckers, reached here
and were unloaded for rest and
feed, afterwards being reloaded
into fifty-four standard stock
cars which had been cleaned out
and disinfected preparatory to
interstate shipment across the
border. It took some likely
work by Bates' transfer men and
the regular attendants to get the
sheep off on schedule Friday
afternoon.
What's the Answer?-
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Reset
1. The Chinese Reds say they
will discuss Formosa with the
U. S. and Nationalist China, or
only the U.S., or only National
ist China, or neither?
2 Republican national chair
man is Leonard W. Hall, Sen.
Knowland, Rep. Joseph W. Mar
tin, Jr., Vice President, or Pres
ident Eisenhower?
3. Ad valorem tariff duties
are based on weight, value,
quantity, or country of origin?
4. The last previous Virginia
born President was Tyler, Mc
Kinley, Taft, Wilson or Cool
idge? 5. A holographic will is one
dictated to a priest, all in the
testator's handwriting, signed in
pencil, mimeographer, or not no
tarized? 6. Krishna Menon is a politi
cal leader in Viet Nam, Japan,
India, Puerto Rico or Israel?
7. jfmmy Durante has a re
trousse nose: right or wrong?
The answers: 1. Only with lhe
U.S. 2. Leonard W. Hall. 3.
Value. 4. Wilson. 5. All in testa
tor's handwriting. 6. India. 7.
Wrong (that's a turned up one).
MAIL TRIBUNE
Don if Interfere
According to the Oregonian, Secretary of the In
terior McKay now "touring Europe in a top-hat," is
planning some speech-making in Oregon late this
summer or fall "probably coincidental" with the
scheduled debate on the John Day partnership power
project between Representative Sam Coon and Sen
ator Dick Neuberger.
We trust this report proves to be incorrect. Secre
tary McKay's views on public power are well known
throughout the state and, of course, he has a perfect
right to express them in Oregon or anywhere else.
But it would be very poor timing and worse taste
to stage a series of talks in this state during the Coon
Neuberger debate and on the subject under considera
tion in that debate by such a radical, partisan of one
of the contestants and such a a bitter opponent of
the other.
What would the American people have thought,
for example, if during the Lincoln-Douglas debate,
Jeff Davis had decided to tour Illinois giving his well
known views on slavery, or Senator Seward his con
trary views on the same subject?
TTHIS debate on public power with special reference
to the "partnership-plan" for "John Day," has
been the result of a challenge by Oregon's junior
Senator which has been accepted by Congressman
Coon. The controversy is between them and them
only. They should be allowed to fight it out without
interference by partisans on either side. If Secretary
McKay has such an urge to air his views on public
power in Oregon that he can't resist at this particular
time, then let him join in the debate, and make it a
four-sided affair, with Senator Morse joining with his
junior colleague. (One thing for sure, such a quartet
would put out the SKO
B
UT far better for all concerned to allow this verbal
duel to take place as
cording to the rules, regulations and traditions of
of such affairs, with hands off and mouths shut, on
both sides.
1X7E have some doubts about Congressman Coon
ever appearing to answer the call for action,
but we may be mistaken.
Hope we are, for the more discussion on this im
portant subject the more light shed on the problem,
the better the chances of a final decision that will
contribute the maximum benefits to this state and the
undeveloped areas of the entire northwest. R.W.R.
It Isn 9t the Leadership
According to reports Democratic Leader Lyndon
Johnson is far more popular with the Eisenhower
Republicans in congress than with the Democrats
back home.
The Democratic rank and file claim their party,
due to its passive non-aggressive leadership or lack
of any leadership has. muffed the ball time after
time, and thus abandoned all chance of returning to
power next year in the face of another Eisenhower
popularity landslide.
AXELL such a reaction is understandable. The
" Texas Senator is of the mild and conciliatory
type, and the record during his regime will show in
many cases, stronger support for the President and
his policies from the Democrats, than the Republi
cans. But it is doubtful if this can be justly blamed on
Senator Johnson or his leadership.
The plain truth seems to be that the Eisenhower
program, particularly as it relates to foreign policy;
is favored generally by the Democratic party. It is
also true the strongest opposition in the Upper House
particularly, comes from the Republicans especially
those that follow the isolationist leadership of Sen
ators like Knowland, Jenner, Malone and McCarthy.
This is simply a matter of FACT.
It could be changed if the Democratic leadership
wished to abandon its principles for partisan profit,
but that has not appeared to be the majority party's
aim and that happens to be this departments defi
nition of good statesmanship.
A LL may be changed when the 1956 campaign real
ity opens.
But as of today we fail to see how one could ex
pect, the Democratic leader, or the Democratic ma
jority in the congress, to join in with the Knowlands,
Jenners and McCarthys, and thus repudiate their own
party principles' and convictions.
The complaint, in fact, should come from the Re
publicans who claim that General Eisenhower didn't
know which party he belonged to four years ago and
doesn't know now.
Like "Brer rabbit" they are lying low and not
saying much. Unless all signs fail, however, they will
say a good deal when the time for the convention to
nominate a new candidate, comes up.
As things look today the GOP opposition to Ike
won't get to first base. But that doesn't mean they
won't TRY! R.W.R. .
New St. Mark's Priest Greeted
St. Mark's Episcopal church
greeted its new assistant priest,
the Rev. Robert Franz Burger,
at a parish reception last Sun
day. Mr. Burger, a native of
Missouri, arrived recently to be
come assistant to the Rev. George
R. V. Bolster, rector of St.
Mark's.
Unmarried and an ardent
mountaineer, Mr. Burger has I
Tuesday, June 7. 1955
sign early!)
originally planned, and ac
served the past two years as as
sistant Priest at St. James's Epis
copal church in Los Angeles. He
is a graduate of the Church Di
vinity School of the Pacific at
Berkeley, Calif.
The new assistant priest will
be in charge of St. Mark's during
June, while the Rev. and Mrs.
Bolster vacation in Canada.
Mr. Burger resides at 620
South Oakdale ive.
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Matter of Fact
Dear Commissioner
Washington. Dear General
Joseph M. Swing:
As Commissioner of Immigra-
tion and Nat
uralization you
are of course a
f very important
person nowa
days no less,
in fact, than
the keeper of
the keys of the
gates of the
United States,
with n m p
Joeeph Alsop help, naturally,
from that fine, vigilant, active
man, Mr. Scott McLeod, over at
the State Department.
None the less, I dare to ad
dress you on behalf of a Chinese
friend, Mr. Lung Shun-wen, be
cause I think just possibly you
did not really understand .his
case when you ordered him de
ported from this country. The
reason you gave for not letting
Mr. Lung stay in America was
the position now held by his
father, old Governor Lung Yen,
as a vice chairman of the Nation
al Military Council of the Chi
nese Communist government
Mr. Lung's father's position
sounds bad, of course, but some
how it still seems wrong to me
to put automatic labels on hu
man beings and decide their
fate by the punch card svstem.
So let me tell you a little bit
about Governor Lung and the
.Lung clan. I used to know them
rather well when I was working
for General Chennault in the
Fourteenth Air Force. In those
days, old Governor Lung was
the last astonishing survivor of
the true race of Chinese war
lords.
The first thing you have to
grasp about Governor Lung, if
you really want to understand
him, is that he was basically a
primitive. I must admit that he
had every modern gadget his
vast fortune could buv in. his
big palace in Kunming: and he
had bought modern weapons,
too, for his private army of 70,-
uuo men.
Yet his gadgets didn't make
him any less primitive at heart
He always used to deny having
tribal blood, because that is a
disgrace in China. But I rather
think there was truth in the
Kunming gossip that Governor
Lung was part Lolo. As late as
the middle 1930's, the Lolo
chieftains were really inde
pendent rulers in their mountain
fortresses in Southwest China,
and the lesser hill tribes were
their slaves. The Lolos were Dar
ticularly strong in Yunnan, and
I suspect his Lolo connections
helped Lung Yen to rise to the
Yunnan warlordship.
Anyway, when I knew Gover
nor Lung he was one of the last
truly feudal rulers in the mod
era world. He let Mr. Y. T. Miao,
a brilliant, Western educated
banker, handle problems that
needed Western education. But
he ran the , province, with his
cousin, General Lu Han, as his
deputy. He was really absolute,
except that General Lu Han's
mother, Madam Lu, who must
have been about eighty, exercis
ed something of the authority of
a family elder. When she stamp
ed her bound feet, even Govern
or Lung used to jump.
Naturally, as warloard ofVYun
nan, Governor Lung made a lot
of money. In his best days, he
must have owned a substantial
percentage of the good farm land
in the province. And in 1945,
when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek finally sent his troops in to
break Governor Lung's power,
one of the things they found was
a sort of private Fort Konx
a whole cave out in the Western
Hills heaped to the ceiling with
stacks of gold bricks.
Of course, that was really the
end of Governor Lung's life,
when his hold on Yunnan was
broken. The Generalissimo put
him under house arrest in Nan
king. Then he escaped to Hong
Kong on one of General Chen
nault's airplanes he got on
the plane disguised as an old
woman. And then the Commu
nists defeated the Generalissimo,
and made Lung Yun a lot of
promises, and so he went back
to China to become one of their
puppets.
.
The trouble was, all the time,
that he was a primitive with his
roots in Yunnan. He didn't un
derstand the Chinese Commu
nists any better than your friend
Mr. Scott McLeod does, although
of course his mistakes about
them were of a quite a differ
ent kind. The Communists just
gave a tempting tug on his roots
in Yunnan, and back Lung Yun
went, full of foolish hopes; and
now he is under house arrest
again in Peiping, with an emotv
title that is meant to encourage
turncoats on Formosa. So you
see. you really don't need to
worry because mv friend l.nn
Shun-wen is the old Governor's
son.
You ought to remember, too.
that the younger generation of
Lungs behaved very differently
from the old man. One of my
friend s brothers. Lunsr Shun-
tseng, was the anti-Communist
guerilla leader in Southwest
China until the Peipine govern
ment caught and shot him. All
the other brothers are refugees
1
1.4 a? if
me eiaest escaped from the
By Joseph AIsop
mainland only the other day, and
Generalissimo Chiang gave him
a big welcome.
GAL 2 MATTER OF FACT ....
As for my friend, Lung Shun
wen, very few young men, sure
ly, could make the transition
that he has made, from being a
twenty - year old lieutenant
colonel and the son of one of the
richest men in the world, to
getting their living in a strange
land. -Lung Shun-wen finished
college here, although his allow
ance from his father stopped in
1949. He has managed very well
ever since, and now he is doing
nicely with a Chinese restaurant
here in Washington. I would
think that a fellow who can get
out and scratch like that would
be the best kind of citizenship
material.
So I hope you will put away
your punch cards for once, and
reexamine his case as a human
problem. Even when you achieve
200 per cent Americanism, like
Mr. Scott McLeod, it is very un
wise to forget that human prob
lems really matter a lot.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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As To Bible Prophecy
To the Editor: The physical re
turn of the people of Israel to
Palestine never to be plucked
up out of it again is prophesied
in the Bible. A spiritual applica
tion of such prophecies there
may also be but that in no way
prevents- the physical fulfill
ment. Up to now these prophec
ies have not been fulfilled as pre
vious regatherings have been
followed by scatterings. But the
present regathering will no
doubt have a different result. In
the new world or age ruled by
Jesus Christ, under His Father,
Jehovah, will be glory, honor
and peace to every man that
worketh good, to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek, for there
is no respect of persons with
God. The new age is now upon
us. See Amos 9:14,15, Matthew
24, Mark 13, Luke 21, Zechar
iah 14, Romans 2: 9 ,10, 11 and
Revelation 21.
A. R. Stewart,
67 Ocean St.
Rochester, Mass.
Use Surplus for Peace
To the Editor: "Feed thy en
emies" commands our Heavenly
Father. Do we miss His grace by
this omission, failing to qualify
as His children? Is Peace there
fore withheld from the earth?
"Peace cometh from me said the
Lord."
Hundreds of people are starv
ing behind the iron curtains.
Their leaders have made them
our enemies. In reality they are
our brothers. We have surpluses
of food that are plaguing our
economy and welfare. Should
we not give it to those who
hunger? Is our defense such
that we can defeat only starved
people? The blame is partially
ours considering that the money
that should feed them goes to
build armaments to subdue us.
Starving people are danger
ous They constitute a reason for
war. They must fight to allev
iate their distress. Feeding those
people would do more good than
reducing armaments
Using up our surpluses would
be a stimulus to our economy,
prompt more production, bring
more prosperity. The good of
preventing another war cannot
be measured. Why then do not
we Citizens buy up the surpluses
from our government and give
them to the people behind the
Iron Curtain? Each of us can
spare something.
Write your Senators and Con
gressman today asking for im
mediate legislation so this can
be done in our Christ's name.
Frances Ray,
Ralston, Wash.
A Grandmother Comments
To the Editor: Would like to
comment on the graduating ex
ercises last night. I saw my
daughter graduate from Med
ford High school with the class
of 1934 and last night my grand
daughter with the class of 1955.
Have seen other ones graduate
but never have seen . a more
beautiful setting, with the col
ored lights, the blue caps and
gowns, the colorful school band
in front and the sky above with
a few patches of clouds. It was
a picture no artist could do jus
tice to. Even a little yellow dog
liked it. May the Father above
bless them all in their different
walks of life.
Mrs. A. W. Sullivan,
2201 East Main St.
- Medford, Ore.
EX-COACH DIVORCED
Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R)
Former professional football
coach Earl L. (Curly) Lambeau,
55, was divorced yesterday by
his wife, Grace, 54, who received
half interest in their. $150,000
cattle ranch here and $3000 in
attorney fees. The couple mar
ried June 13, 1949, and separated
two years later.
In the Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
This weird world note:
The neutral zone in Korea is
providing an object lesson in the
ways of Mother Nature. This
territory, three miles wide and
150 miles long,' stretches across
Korea where two years ago sol
diers fought bitterly and blood
ily. NOW THIS NEUTRAL STRIP
HAS BECOME A FABULOUS
WILD - LIFE REFUGE. ALL
MANNER OF BIRDS AND ANI
MALS HAVE SWARMED INTO
IT PROTECTED FROM MAN
BY THE ARMISTICE AMONG
MEN.
.
rD LIKE to go off the deep end
and point out in lilting words
that when MEN CEASE TO
FIGHT EACH OTHER peace
reigns throughout nature and all
is happy and serene.
But the story from Korea
won't let me. Its last paragraph
adds:
"Foxes, wolves and mountain
cats have moved in. There is
even the famous Korean tiger
almost as dangerous as gunfire."
rpHESE dangerously f anged and
-- clawed carnivores the foxes
and the wolves. and the moun
tain cats and the Korean tigers
slay and eat the lesser animals
such as the rabbits and the
squirrels and the deer and even
the birds.
And
When they are crossed in their
purposes and angered THEY
FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES!
That's why it's a weird world.
rTHIS CHANGING world note:
In Britain, which is tied up
with a railroad strike, one of
Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers,
the Evening Standard, offers this
suggestion:
Why not seriously consider
doing away with the railroads
and building superhighways on
their roadbeds?
It would never do, of course,
n our country, which is
HUGE. Here the railroads are
indispensable for long-distance
hauling on land. But Great Brit
ain is small. The total land area
of England, Scotland and Wales
is less than that of the state of
Oregon. The greatest length of
the island of Great Britain . is
600 miles. Its greatest width is
320 miles. No part of it is more
than 70 miles from the ocean
and Britain is a great seafaring
country. Much of its domestic
commerce is carried by coast-
wide ships.
Besides
In Britain the railroads are
owned by the government, and
it is the government that builds
the roads. The change from rail
foads to superhighways could
be made quite simply.
rj A SPEECH at Custer, South
Dakota, Air Secretary Harold
Talbott says today the United
States has the most powerful
air force in the world and
WILL CONTINUE IN THE
LEAD.
Reassuring, isn't it?
But y
I suspect that about a couple
of days from now somebody is
going to get up m Washington
or elsewhere and allow as how
the Russians are so far ahead of
us in air strength that it's pitiful.
I'm afraid our public servants
talk too much.
And
Every time ANYBODY says
ANYTHING our fantastic mod
ern communications system car
ries what he has to say to the
eyes and the ears of everybody
in the world.
No wonder we're confused.
OREGON CADETS GRADUATE
West Point, N. Y. (U.R) Two
Oregon cadets graduated today
from the U.S. Military Academy
here. They include Edmund Vul
gas of Portland and Reginald
R. Davis of Klamath Falls.
I.
SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT he made It! Fellow class,
mates hoist Roy B. Freeman, Jr., on their shoulders following
graduation at U. S. Naval Academy, Freeman, "anchor man,1'
graduated 741st In class of 741 midshipmen. (International)
Russia Certain To
Be Questioned on
American Prisoners
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
It will not be surprising if the
United States asks the Russians,
at the accroaching Big Four con
ference, about
the Americans
who are known
to be imprison
ed in Soviet
slave labor
camps.
In recent
months, em
phasis has been
put on Ameri-
can prisoners
of war held by
Charles McCann
'the Chinese
Communists.
But long before the Korean
war even started, it was known
that the Soviet Union was hold
ing many Americans prisoner.
It is known right new that many
still are being held.
The Chinese Reds hold Ameri
cans in violation of the Korean
Armistice. At least the Ameri
cans were combatants.
But the American slave labor
ers in the Soviet Union are not
held in violation of any armis
tice. They are being held, in
violation of fundamental hu
man rights, by a presumably
friendly nation and a war-time
ally.
There always has been some
suspicion that American fliers
who made forced landings in Si
beria during the war against Ja
pan were kept prisoner by their
Russian "allies." - .
Bomber planes which landed
on Russian territory became
models for Russian bombers.
Russians Hold Civilians
After the end of World War II
there were intermittent reports
that the Russians were holding
many American civilians.
In addition to reports ot
Americans held in slave labor
camps, it was known that Russia
was refusing permission for some
American citizens to leave Rus
sian territory.
The United States made repre
sentations to Russia in October
and December, 1949, about 38
American citizens who were be
ing detained. Russia denied that
these 38 were Americans.
The State Department assert
ed a statement on March 3, 1950;
that approximately 2000 Ameri
cans were being held in the Sov
iet Union. Most of these were in
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Lithuania and Eastern Poland
when the Russians seized those
territories.
At that time Russia denied
that Americans were being held
as slave laborers.
Letters Received
The State Department retort
ed that letters from American
slave laborers had been received
by relatives in this country. The
letters bore return addresses as
labor camps. Some of them de
scribed conditions in the camps.
The United States government
continued to receive reports of
the imprisonment of Americans,
some of them soldiers seized on
the West-East border line in Ger
many. In 1953, Austrian and Dutch
war prisoners freed by the Rus
sians started giving details of the
imprisonment of Americans.
They were able to identify a few
of the Americans. These, the Rus
sians released later.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles announced on Nov. S,
1953, that he had demanded the
release of all Americans impris
oned in Russia.
Americans still trickle back
through the Iron Curtain from
Russian labor camps.-, v
The Big Four conference gives
an opportunity for further in
quiry about the rest."
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