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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 8, 1945
(It was Friday)
Jackson county ranked sixth
among top 10 Oregon counties
in "E" bond sales of current war
loan drive.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Astronom
ers estimate the average heat of
the sun at 10,382 degrees. Oth
er than the astronomers' word,
there is no proof. There is no
demand for shade and no eggs
have been fried oh prominent
sidewalks this year.
20 YEARS AGO
June 8. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Jacksonville starts construc
tion of new water system.
Ashland starts plans to at
tract between 15,000 and 20,000
for biggest Fourth of July cele
bration in city's history.
30 YEARS AGO
Jun 8, 1925
(It was Monday)
Several hundred Rogue valley
residents visit Camp Jackson, en
campment of Oregon National
Guard.
Parent Teachers Institute
planned at Ashland July 1-3.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 8, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Blue Ledge bridge over junc
tion of Elliot creek and middle
Applegate fork completed and
open to traffic. .
From Local and Personal col
umn: The present itinerary of
the Liberty Bell on the journey
to the San Francisco fair, calls
for its departure from Roseburg
at 8 o'clock p.m. July 15, which
will bring the treasured relic to
this city in the early morning
hours of July 16
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of tha 7?)
Coat. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. U.S. church memhrshiri in
the last 25 years has gone up
less or more than the population,
or about the same?
2. First state giving women
full voting rights was Louisiana.
New York, Ohio, Wisconsin or
Wyoming?
3. More new housing units
are being built in cities or in
rural areas?
4. The term "spare" is used
in which game?
5. Many more men than worn'
en are in hospitals getting medi
cal care on a typical day, ' or
many more women, or about the
same Tiumber of each?
6. For Mohammedans the Holy
City is Baghdad, Cairo, Damas
cus, Istanbul, Jerusalem or Meo
ca?
7. The Aleutian islands are
part of Japan, Russia, Formosa,
Red China, the U.S. or Great
Britain?
The Answers: 1. More. 2. Wyo
ming. 3. Slightly more in cities.
4. Bowling. 5. Many more men.
6. Mecca. 7. The U.S. (off Alas
ka.)
PINBALLS LEGALIZED
Vancouver, Wash. (U.R)
The city council voted 6-1 last
night to legalize pinball mach
ines for amusement only. The
machines will be licensed at $40
a month.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Sno-Cat Chosen Again
It's good news that the Tucker Sno-Cat has been
chosen as the principal vehicle for four Antarctic ex
peditions, j
" Rogue valley people who have long-been familiar
with the versatile contraption have never had much
question about its potentialities, but it has taken a
long time for W. M. Tucker and his sons and associ
ates to gain the full international recognition which
goes with the Sno-Cats being picked by France, Eng
land, the United States and Australia for: a major
assault on the Antarctic continent.
THE 'Cats have proven themselves in practically
every kind of . snow-covered terrain. Their suc
cess is based principally on the design of the equip
ment which conveys the power of theengine to the
ground.
This is done through the use of the unique "pon
toons," which are the invention of the president of the
firm. These are large, flat-bottomed metal contriv
ances which almost literally "float" on the snow.
Around these go an endless chain, propelling the
pontoons forward rather in the manner that' a swim
mer is propelled by his hands while doing the Aus
tralian crawl.
"NLY the Sno-Cat, out of a number of over-snow
vehicles, has this type of propelling mechanism,
which gives it an advantage both in weight, for the
pontoons need not be heavy, and in maneuverability,
for the front pontoons in a four-pontoon rig are flex
ible, and are used for steering.
It is obvious from the fact that these important
Antarctic expeditions have chosen the Sno-Cat that
it is now achieving its place as the premier over-snow
vehicle.
For which all of us in the Rogue valley can be
glad, for it means more jobs, more money and better
times for southern Oregon. E.A.
Highways
Why all this talk about highway construction?
Isn't it going ahead pretty
The answer to the second question is "no." The
answer to the first lies in the fact that the United
States is not building highways fast enough to keep
up with (1) the growing number of cars, and (2)
the fact that people take good roads pretty much for
granted, even , when they aren't there. As a result
people get killed.
ONGRESS is now considering ways and means of
federal participation in highway construction. We
are not arguing here how this should be accomplished
simply that it must be, one way or another, .
, A large group of leading citizens recently form
ed what they call a "Highways for Survival Com
mittee," which is dedicated solely to urging this need
ed highway construction, and to pointing out how
vitally necessary it is to us in all our day-to-day living.
THIS committee declares
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needs. Here are some facts which it quotes in support
of its thesis: . 1
i
Out of the 3,366000 miles of roads in the United States,
only about 919,000 about one quarter are paved, and
only one out of every three miles is adequate for the job
it is supposed to do.
There are now an estimated 58,000,000 vehicles on
America's roads, and the total is growing by the millions
each year.
The traffic death toll in 1954 was 36,300, with more than
a million injured. Except for the wartime gasoline rationing
period, the death toll has been over 30,000 for the past 22
years. If traffic volume increases by 50 per cent in the next
10 years, -as is estimated, the death rate will be about
55,000. V
Safety experts estimated that an adequate system of
highways would reduce traffic accidents from 40 to 50 per
cent, and that one life would be saved for every 10 miles of
adequate highway constructed in a proposed interstate
system.
The money-cost alone of accidents in 1954 (not figuring
the loss of life) was estimated, at $4,300,000,000. Money
wasted in gasoline, wear and tear on tires and brakes, in '
accident damage and in time lost in traffic jams on out
moded highways is estimated to total $3,000,000,000 an
nually. DDED up, the committee says, the facts mean :
"We are paying more in lives and money for bad
roads than good roads would cost us."
What is this cost?
The committee estimates that for the. proposed
"interstate highway system" the cost would be $23,
200,000,000, with slightly more than half for the rural
portion and slightly less than half for the urban por-,
tion. Another $4,000,000,000 would be needed to
bring this, system up to the 40,000-mile limit proposed
initially more than 10 years ago. Other federal-aid
road needs total $44,900,000,000, and needs of
non-federal-aid roads would require some $28,700,
000,000. u
The total cost, then, is estimated at some $100,
800,000,000 for a 10-year program.
TF THE cost is high, so is the cost of inadequate
roads, for, in addition to other economic and mili
tary and safety factors, the committee points out
that one out of every seven workers in the nation
earns his living from highway transport industries,
which move 77 per cent of the nation's total freight
load.
This, briefly, is what the talk is all about. It's a big
problem, and an important one. E.A.
HAS THE ANSWER
Columbus, O. (U.R) A first
grade teacher asked her class
Tuesday why the ugly, old troll
wouldn't Jet the three billy goats
cross bis bridge. "You have to
pay money to cross a troll
bridge," one 6-year-old answered.
I95S
well?
that improved highways
POLICE TAVORED'
Troy, O. (U.R) John Weaver,
33, West Milton, O., admitted 12
burglaries and three arson cases
because "I was getting such good
treatment at the jail I thought
I would return the favor and confess."
Wednesday,
Matter of Fact
IN FAIRNESS TO A LADY
Washington In all fairness, it
is time , somebody spoke up for
Mrs.'.Oveta Culp Hobby, be-lea-guered
Secre
tary of the De
partment of
Health, Educa
tion and Wel
fare. It is fashion
able nowadays
to beat Mrs.
Hobby over
the head, edi
torially and
oratorically, as
solely respon
Stewart Alsop
sible for the confusions and de
lays in the polio vaccine pro
gram. Adlai Stevenson, who
knows a good issue when he
sees one, took up the cudgels
the other day when he said that
he "didn't think it required any
special clairvoyance to estimate
the demand for the vaccine, the
supply, and the hazards of pro
duction." Yet the truth is that the blame
really rests far less on Mrs. Hob
by than on a mysterious polio
virus, which for reasons yet un
explained refused to die when
it should have died. Stevenson
to the contrary, it would have
required clairvoyance of a re
markably high order to forsee
this particular hazard. '
The facts are simple enough.
On April 12, the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis
announced the success of the
field tests of the Salk vaccine.
On the same day, Mrs. Hobby
licensed six manufacturers to
distribute the vaccine, and the
polio foundation went ahead
with its free vaccination pro
gram for all first and second
grade children.
Mrs. Hobby has been much
criticized by hindsight for "not
having a distribution plan
ready." In fact, a distribution
plan was ready the polio foun
dation's program for vaccinating
first and second graders, which
is still incomplete, and which
will use all available vaccine
until it is complete. It never
occurred to anyone in Mrs. Hob
by's department to move in and
take over the foundation's pro
gram, simply because there was
no visible need whatsoever for
doing so.
What, then, really went
wrong?
WHAT went wrong was that
virus that refused to die.
On April 27, the Surgeon Gen
eral, Dr. Scheele, received re
ports of six cases of polio among
children who had received vac
cine from the Cutter Labora
tories in California. The polio
had apparently . resulted from
live virus in the vaccine. Dr.
Scheele immediately asked Cut
ter to withdraw all its vaccine.
The scientists of the Public
Health Service then descended
on the Cutter Laboratories to
try to determine why the virus
had not died. And even now,
they do not really know for
certain.
Making the Salk vaccine is
a tricky business. To put it in
the simplest and most unscien
tific terms, the vaccine has to
be strong but not too strong.
It must be treated with formal
dehyde for a certain length of
time in order to make sure that
no killing polio virus remains.
But it cannot be immersed too
long, or the immunizing effect
is lost.
A standard operating proced
ure the best the scientists of
the Public Health Service could
formlulate at, the time. for
achieving this life-and-death bal
ance, had been. laid down for
all six laboratories, including
the Cutter Laboratories. And
even now, the scientists have
been unable to determine why
the polio virus survived in the
Cutter vaccine. It should have
died.
It was the tragic incident of
the Cutter vaccine that threw
the whole polio program into
turmoil. The stubborn virus has
also come rather close to de
stroying the reputation of the
able Mrs. Hobby.
The stubborn virus is not the
whole story, of course. The polio
foundation is dependent on pub
lic contributions, and it has the
usual public relations setup of
such foundations. Thus the suc
cess of the Salk vaccine was an
nounced with the maximum bal
lyhoo (something Mrs.' Hobby
had no control oyer) ; and the
impression got abroad that the
scourge of polio had been con
quered completely overnight.
In fact, of course, the vaccine
is only partially effective, and
supplies were unavoidably lim
ited. THE press relations of Mrs.
Hobby's department are also
even more stupidly handled
than most, and Mrs. Hobby's
famous statement that "no one
could have foreseen" the de
mand for the vaccine was no
help. Perhaps the worst fault
of all was the failure to explain,
simply and understandably, that
using the vaccine could in rare
cases be dangerous which is
still true but that on balance
its use vastly increases a child's
chance of avoiding the terrible
disease. .
Any such admission it was
thought, would scare the living
daylights out of the American
people, and thus destroy the
value of the life-saving Salk
vaccine. Lack of confidence in
the American people's common
sense is a besetting sin of this
Administration. Yet in fairness
By Stewart Alsop
it is hard to understand how Mrs.
Hobby, clairvoyant or not, could
have forseen what some of the
best scientists in the country
did not foresee and cannot
wholly understand, even now
that it has happened.
(Copyright. 1955,
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.)
By Si sa sua ?"ftiM e
Umti llsinnlK
Helsinki, With SAS How
often have you heard such ex
pressions: "That horse has a
mean look in his eye." Or, "that
dog has an intelligent look."
Last night a group of us were
sitting in my room in the Palace
Hotel, overlooking the harbor,
and our conversation dealt with
these animal character reading
signs and gradually came
around to the discussion of' the
traits of the human being. As a
result here's a fact vs. fallacy on
reading the "inner human being
from outward signs.
Fallacy: A high bulging fore
head is a sure sign of superior
brainpower; a low hairline, in
turn, indicates a less advanced
stage of mental development.
Fact: The appearance of the
face, the shape and size of the
forehead have nothing whatever
to do with a person's intelligence.
Fallacy: A receding chin de
notes a lack of will power. A so-
called "lantern jaw" shows de
termination. A pointed chin
points out a penny - pinching in
dividual. A dimpled chin usually
belongs to a charming, highly
affectionate person with gener
osity to spare.
Fact: the chin, whether re
ceding, pointed, or forward
thrusting, has nothing whatever
to do with a person's inner
character.
Fallacy: Lone slender finsers
belong to artistic temperaments
and, to be sure, their posses
sors make the best pianists.
Fact: The shape of the fineers
has nothing to do with a per
sons' artistic temperament.
Neither does a cold hand have
anything to do with a person'
state of affection. Circulation
That's another matter.
Fallacy: Red headed people
are more temperamental than
blondes; blondes are apt to be
less trustworthy than brunettes;
curly hair is an outward manifes
tation of vitality.
Fact: Red-headed people are
no more temperamental than
any others blondes are just' as
trustworthy as brunettes; curly
hair does not proclaim vitality
in fact, it is due to the shape
of the individual hair, and one
side grows faster than the other.
Fallacy: You can read a per
son's true meaning by looking
him "straight in the eye."
Fact: Small eyes, large eyes,
bright eyes, dull eyes, smiling
eyes, sad eyes even if they did
exist could reveal nothing
about a person's character. Even
the. crow's feet may be due to
weak eyes or overpowering sun
light. And, despite what many peo
ple say, neither can one judge
the "character" of a wild animal
by reading "outward signs."
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Oaklander President
Portland (U.R) Harry Di
mond, official of the John Bruen
er Furniture Store of Oakland,
Calif., yesterday was elected
president of the Western States
Traffic Managers' Association.
Dimond succeeds Robert Ma
loney of Portland.
Maloney, at the opening ses
sion of the 33rd annual three-day
association meeting, said retail
stores in the West were able to
avert a crisis during the current
long-haul trucker strike by using
substitute modes of transporta
tion. However, Maloney said that
despite the excellent job of rail
roads and steamships during
the labor dispute, the need for
long-haul trucking was strongly
felt
t i M ll..tiC I, ,
Scelba's Job May
Have Been Saved by
Sicily Vote Results
M
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Italian Premier Mario 'Scelba
may have saved his job by his
victory in the Sicilian region
al election.
If so, it is
good news for
the United
States and its
allies. Scelba is
a firm friend
of this country.
He hates the
Commu n i s t s,
and the Com
munists hate
him.
Scelba has Charles McCann
been in trouble for several
months The coalition which he
leads is shaky. Rebels in his own
Christian Democratic Party have
been gunning for him.
He suffered a loss of prestige
when Giovanni Gronchi, one of
his party enemies, was elected
president of Italy on April 29.
Gronchi is a member of the
left wing of the Christian Demo
cratic Party. Scelba's leadership
is opposed also by a strong group
of right wing members of the
party.
Everybody agreed to let things
rest until after last Sunday's
election in Scelba's native Sicily
for a regional assembly of 90
members.
No Confidence Threat
Had the Christian, Democrats
suffered a defeat, Scelba's ene
mies planned to introduce a mo
tion of no confidence against him
at the opening of the Italian
Parliament next Monday.
In the old Sicilian assembly,
the Christian Democrats held 30
seats and the Communists and
left wing Socialists held 30. The
Christian Democrats ruled with
the support of small groups.
The Communists, who are los
ing strength steadily on the Ital
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
More cold war stuff:
Moscow propaganda guns are
booming claims of a Soviet tri
umph in the Russian-Yugoslav
talks . . . But our state depart
ment in Washington sees Tito
remaining independent.
fpiTO is a Communist.
Personally, I wouldn't trust
ANY Communist any farther
than, I can throw a big Southern
Oregon Hereford buU by the
tail.
But
If we can keep the Commies
talking long enough, maybe
they won't start shooting. So
let's keep on talking.
VLTHILE the Russian big shots
were in Belgrade (Yugosla
via's capital) an incident occur
red that should provide us
Americans with some serious
food for thought.
Among the foreign diplomats
seeing the Russians off at the
Belgrade airport was American
Ambassador Riddleberger.
When Russia's Rruschev came
to Riddleberger in the line of
dignitaries he pumped the
American's hand up and down
cordially.
Riddleberger said in English:
"Have a good trip."
Kruschev UNDERSTOOD,
beamed, and replied in Russian.
His reply floored the Ameri
can, who neither speaks nor
understands Russian. Later,
Riddleberger told the corres
pondents: "I don't know what he
said. But he certainly was say
ing something."
Fr we Americans are going to
try to run the world( we'd
better learn at least to UNDER
STAND the languages of the
people we're trying to deal with.
rpHE teletype tells us: :
A situation reminiscent of
the '49 gold rush has developed
in Caliornia. It will be high
lighted in a few hours from now
by the opening by the federal
government of nearly 3000 acres
of public land for persons who
want to stake out claims in a
search for uranium.
The area lies in Kern county,
where California's richest ura
nium strike was made recently.
DCWE
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BEFOBIS YOU DECODE
ian mainland, threw everything
they had into the Sicilian cam
paign. The election, however, proved
a clear victory for Scelba. The
Reds kept their 30 seats. But the
Christian Democrats gained sev
en at the expense of splinter
parties to make their total in
the assembly 37.
Also the Communist popular
vote declined for the first time
since World War II.
Scelba's pro-American, anti
Red policy has been strength
ened, and he has been strength
ened personally.
Future Looks Bright
There is to be a Christian Dem
ocratic Party caucus Friday.
What will happen there remains
to be seen. But the stocky, smil
ing, 53-year-old premier may be
expected to face his critics bold
ly and to ask no favors. At the
moment, his chance of riding out
a threatened crisis looks good. '
Scelba has had a long, spec
tacular career in politics. He at
tended his first political rally
when he was 13. He was a pro
tege of Don Luigi Sturzo, founder
of the Popular Party which has
now become the Christian Demo
cratic Party.
Little Mario went to an oppo
sition meeting. He reported so
efficiently on the meeting that
Don Sturzo said:
"Young man, if you keep on
listening so intently to what peo
ple say you will become police
chief."
Scelba did just that he be
came police chief of all Italy, as
interior minister, in the critical
year of 1946. Communism was at
its peak. Revolution was a clear
threat. Scelba reorganized the
entire national police and formed
the famous anti-riot squads.
Every Red riot was smashed,
The Communist threat was over
come, and Scelba later became
premier.
News
As this is written, several hun
dred' men and quite a few
women many of them toting
shootin' irons are awaiting the
signal for the rush, which is ex
pected to be given at 10 a.m. A
sheriff's posse is on hand, and
the sheriff says the situation is
explosive.
T THINK , the reporters got a
little tangled up in their his
tory. The situation down Bakers-
field way is much more remini-
cent of the opening of the Chero
kee Strip in Oklahoma back in
the Gay Nineties.
On Sept. 16, 1893, a motley
mass, of people estimated all the
way from 50,000 to 100,000 was
lined up along the border of the
Strip waiting for the opening.
which was signaled by a pistol
shot from a detachment of U.S.
cavalry.
On horseback, in wagons, on
foot, in "little, old surreys with
the fringe on top" any way to
get there t he homesteaders
streamed in and when they
found a spot that looked good
they staked out a claim. There
were battles galore over choice
quarter sections. There were
cheaters. These slickers had
sneaked into the Strip ahead of
the opening and hidden in the
brush alone the streams. On the
morning of the opening, they
emerged from their hiding
places and staked out claims in
the richest spots.
When the more honest ones
arrived, they found these sharp
ies in possession which led to
many shootings. These early
birds were called "sooners," and
from them Oklahoma took its
sobriquet of The Sooner State.
On that one day, 50,000 claims
were staked out in the Strip.
AS this is written, more of the
Pacific Northwest's surplus
grain is getting water borne.
Loading of reserve (mothball)
fleet cargo vessels is starting at
Longview, in Washington. Half
a dozen ships will be loaded
there by the end of June and
eight more will be filled in July.
Four ships previously loaded at
Astoria have been berthed 3t
permanent anchorages in Cath
lamet bay.
The dispatches explain that
the idle reserve fleet is being
used because of LACK OF
LAND STORAGE SPACE for
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To the Editor: School's out
Now, comes the time for tha '
school boards and the Depart
ment of Education to start fig
uring on what additional rooms,
buildings. ' and equipment will
be absolutely necessary for the
coming school year . . . and how
to raise the money for it all.
Having three school children
and also being a property own
er, I'm interested in schools and.
the money angle too.
I've thought of a simple
method to help raise some
money for our Oregon schools
without involving taxes and
would like to present it for the
consideration of the people of
Medford.
First take a look at The Mail
Tribune you're reading now. You
paid only five cents for it and
bought news, entertainment and
information. The Tribune is still
in business after many years be
cause its' run like a business. If
it weren't it would have long 6
ago gone bankrupt . . . or, we
would be paying 50 cents or
more per copy! Circulation alone
couldnt' give us this size "paper
for five cents. It's advertising
that helps pay for our daily
paper.
Take a look at magazines . . .
any magazine. Without adver
tising, even the Reader's Digest
had reached the point of either
having to raise the price or tak
ing selective advertising.
Now, look at the books our
children are using in the schools.
Theres' no advertising to even
help pay for the books them
selves. Taxes have to pay for
school expenses. Why? Just be
cause they always have. .,
Why shouldn't advertising pay
for some of the school expenses
in Oregon? Selective advertising
surely wouldn't hurt any; child!
Our children are always cutting
out ad pictures of foods, meats,
dairy products, etc. To take to
school. Why not put such ads in
the school books and let them
earn money for our schools? '
Mrs. L. C. Fowler, 1
Route 1, Box 332, -Talent,
Oregon.
Attorneys Attack
Smith Indictment
. Portland (U.R) ; The first
degree murder indictment
against Mrs. Mar jorie . Smith,
who was accused in the bomb
slaying of her husband, Oliver,
was attacked by defense attor
neys here yesterday.
A demurrer attacking the in
dictment was taken under ad
visement by Multnomah Circuit
Judge Charles W. Redding. It
charged the indictment failed to
clearly state the facts' of the
slaying.
The defense action was similar
to a move by the attorneys for
Victor Laurence Wolf, 45, who
later confessed to the slaying in
open court. Wolfs petition was
denied.
. Yesterday's action delayed the
entering of a plea by Mrs. Smith.
the big carryover grain crop
held by the government
question!
. What will happen when there
isn't any more room ON THE
WATER to store surplus wheat?
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noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday (or
Monday: other day SAO previous day.
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