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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 9. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Early summer surveys indi
cate large pear crop for Jackion
county.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "What is
so rare as a day in June?," tang
the poet. So far this June there
have been better June days in
January.
20 YEARS AGO
J June 9. 1935
(It was Sunday)
New motor vehicles moving
to area CCC camps to equip new
companies moving into county.
Twenty-two Jackson count 4-H
club members attend meeting at
Oregon State college.
SO YEARS AGO
June 9, 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Equipment and 110 Oregon
National Guardsmen arrive, to
put Camp Jackson in shape for
encampment.
Arrangements to start con
struction of new high schol at
Holly st. site under way.
40 YEARS AGO "
June 9, 1915
(It was Thursday)
From Local and Personal col
umn: Samples of sugar beets
grown in the Rogue river valley
will be sent this week to the lab
oratories of the Utah Sugar com
pany at Salt Lake City for exam
ination. The beets are from seeds
planted last spring at the Jtermi-
nation of the campaign for a
beet sugar factory, and according
to the report of Soil Expert
Storey, they show an above the
average amount of sugar.
Fourten parties plan study
trips to Crater Lake this sum
mer. What's the Answer?
(Caa You Get 4 el the 7?)
Coat. 1955. Editorial Research Resort
1. Which has the highest factory-delivered
list price for a
corresponding model: Cadillac
62, Lincoln, Chrysler New York
er, Buick Roadmaster?
2. More U.S. homes have elec
trical washers or mechanical re
frigerators, or do about the same
number have each?
3. A rutabaga is a form of po
tato, parsnip, turnip, beet or
radish?
4. Americans have been keep
ing more or less money in the
postal savings system in recent
years, or about the same
amount?
3. Number of shares traded on
the N.Y. Stock Exchange the
last four months was higher or
lower than in the previous four
months, or about the same?
6. Average charge for tuition
alone in U.S. medical schools is
now about $500, $600, $700,
$800, $900 or $1000 a year?
7. Emanuel Goldenburg is the
real name of which well known
movie actor?
The Answers: 1. Cadillac 62.
2. More have mechanical re
frigerators. 3. Turnip. 4. Less. 5.
Lower. 6. About $800. 7. Edward
G. Robinson.
IKE SIGNS BILL.
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower signed into law
yesterday a bill extending until
June 30, 1956, authority to im
port duty free all types of metal
scrap except lead and zinc
W1
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Supreme
There is considerable
Supreme Court decision favonng the Portland blec
tric company in its request for a power site on the De
schutes river.
The Oregonian declares this means "Oregon loses
its waters." Attorney General Thornton refuses to go
into details, but fears this decision deals a staggering
blow to state sovereignty throughout the northwest.
One of our contemporaries even goes so far as to
claim this action means we haven't a government by
the people, but a government by "Nine old men on
the Supreme Court." (Where did we hear that be
fore?) a e
TPHIS department hasn't received the text of the de-
cision as yet, and would probably have to get a
couple of Philadelphia lawyers if we had, to know
exactly what the decision does mean as far as Ore
gon and its water is concerned.
But we can't share the alarm over this decision,
or any other by the U. S. Supreme Court.
In the first place the decision was 8 to 1, only Jus
tice Douglas dissenting, and we are quite sure such
a high percentage of unanimity would be unlikely
if the decision should be as far reaching in its destruc
tive effects' as these public reactions indicate.
As far the Supreme Court ruling the country is
concerned, that of course is nonsense.
TTHE Supreme Court merely decides what the law is.
The people through their congress decide what the
law should be and when they don't like any Su
preme Court interpretation
overrule it.
If this were not true, slavery would still prevail
in this free and unenslaved land. There would be no
federal income tax. The off-shore oil lands would be
long to the people of the United States, not to the
people and ultimately
of 3 or 4 states.
In all these important
Court ruled one way, the
sentative government ruled another the latter of
course prevailed.
In other words, if this
un-American as the complainants claim we seri
ously doubt it, the injustice can easily be corrected
by legislation, and will be. " .
1MEANWHILE we suggest the populace, including
the fish and game interests, keep calm and re
fuse to ship any "H bombs" to the Supreme Court
until at least they know exactly what the decision
means, and what it doesn t.
In the opinion of this department when the smoke
has cleared, it will be reasonably apparent, that a
change in federal law is not so imperative, as a change
in the personnel of the Federal Power Commission.
However we are quite willing to wait and see.
Meanwhile that command which we believe was
issued at Bunker Hill "Don't shoot until you see the
whites of their eyes" seems to be in order. R.W.R.
Q.E.D.
During the recent congressional campaign the
claim was made that if the voters failed to return a
Republican congress, it would be like having two men
at the wheel of the ship-of -state leading to chaos,
confusion and probable disaster.
The Mail Tribune at that time denied this. We
predicted that if Dick Neuberger should replace Sen
ator Cordon, for example, the Eisenhower adminis
tration might well get more support on important
issues than if the reverse happened.
-That was our honest belief at that time.
But we did not expect to have the prediction ful
filled quite so soon as it has been, or so emphatically.
TN thV short time Neuberger has been in his senate
seat he has supported President Eisenhower on the
following important national issues:
1. Extension of reciprocal trade. .
2. Mutual Security.
3. Opposition to the Bricker Amendment.
The record shows that Senator . Cordon opposed
the President on all three issues in fact our former
Senator was one of the co-sponsors of the crippling
Bricker amendment. ' . x
What would the critics of the Johnson leadership
have had Oregon's junior Senator do vote against
principles of national policy in which he believed just
because he happens to be a member of the opposition?
Apparently.
Well we are glad the Senator didn't and commend
him for it
That sort of narrow partisanship, disregarding
what the individual believes to be best for his coun
try to gain a selfish political advantage, is one of
outstanding threats to the survival of this free de
mocracy. THERE are plenty of Republican party principles
which we feel sure Senator Neuberger will oppose,
when they come up for a vote, so that he need not
stultify himself by voting against those he honestly
favors. R.W.R.
Portlanden Husband
London (U.R) The English
husband of a Portland, Ore.,
woman was created a knight by
Queen Elizabeth today in her
annual birthday honors list.
The Queen knighted Ivison
Stevenson Macadam, . director
general of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs since 1946.
Thursday, June 9, 1953
Court Decision
dismay in Oregon over the ,
they have the power to
the large oil operators,
cases the U. S. Supreme
people through their repre
decision is as wicked and
Knighted by Queen
Macadam became Sir Ivison
and his wife, the former Caro
line Ladd of Portland, became
Lady Macadam.
They were married in 1934
and have two sons and two
daughters. Lady Macadam is the
daughter of Portland business
man Elliott Corbett
Adenauer in Strong
Position To Dicker
With Kremlin Bosses
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
the "old fox" of the German
Federal Republic, is sitting on
top of the
world.
Due largely
to Adenauer's
own statesman
ship. West Ger
many has be
come a sovere
ign nation and
has been made
a full partner
in the North
Atlantic Treaty
cnaxies McCana Organization.
And now Soviet Russia, in an
attempt to head off West Ger
man rearmament, is trying to
curry favor with him. "
To what extent the Russians
may succeed is something for
the Western Allies to worry
about during the next few weeks.
But it seems safe to predict
that Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles and other Allied
diplomatic leaders will not lose
any sleep over the situation.
The Kremlin's invitation to
Adenauer to go to Moscow and
negotiate a treaty for the estab
lishment of full diplomatic and
trade relations quite naturally
caused a diplomatic sensation. -Logical
Move
It was, however, a logical
move and one- that Western
leaders had foreseen.
Dispatches from Bonn, the
West German capital, say that
Adenauer is practically certain
to accept the Kremlin's bid.
His position is so strong, how
ever, that it seems possible he
may tell the Russians he will see
them in Berlin intead of Mos
cow. Russia had two things to of
fer Adenauer. First is the pros
pect of uniting the 18,000,000
people of Communist - ruled
East Germany with the 50,000,-
Today and
By Walter
Mr Menon and Formosa Policy
Mr. Krishna Menon, who is
Prime Minister Nehru's roving
ambassador, has been to Peiping
and then to
London and is
now on his
way to Ottawa
and Washing
ton. His pur
pose is media
tion, and pre
sumably he is
bringing fresh
information on
the attitude of
Red China to
Walter Lippmann
ward the situation in the For
mosa area.
In defining our position it
would help, I think, to distin
guish between a provisional ar
rangement for a cease fire in
the Formosa region on the one
hand, and, on the other hand, a
permanent settlement of the
status and regime of the island
of Formosa.
At the present time we are
co-existing without hostilities
under what is in fact, though not
in explicit form, the Eden for
mula. The firing has virtually
ceased though none of the three
principal parties directly con
cerned namely the two Chi
nese governments and the Unit
ed States has renounced any of
its legal or political claims in
the final settlement.
The immediate question be
fore us is whether it is neces
sary or desirable to turn this
provisional arrangement, this
undefined, unavowed, tacit cease
fire and political stand-still into
a formal public agreement. Mr.
Krishna Menon may be bringing
information which might make
it useful and desirable to nego
tiate such a public agreement.
But without prejudicing the is
sue, it is hard to see why the
public negotiation of a cease fire
is desirable just now when so
much has been accomplished by
unadvertised diplomacy. All
three parties in the area have
been able to assent to a virtual
cease fire. It would, on the other
hand, be difficult for any of
them to sign an agreement to
do . what all of us are in fact
doing.
e
fTHE existing situation in the
Formosa region is the result
of two fundamental decisions of
policy taken by the President
within the past eight or nine
months One is the formal com
mitment, authorized by the For
mosa treaty and then again by
the January resolution, to defend
Formosa against military assault
from the mainland. JThe other is
the informal but nonetheless
proven decision of this govern
ment not to support, and not to
encourage, Chiang's aim to re
conquer the mainland. The de
cision to defend Formosa has
made it impossible for Red
China to contemplate seriously
the conquest of Formosa; the de
cision not to support Chiang's
f t
000 people of Adenauer's free
West ' Germany. Second is the
prospect of restoring to Ger
many the rich territory, extend
ing eastward of the Oder and
Neisse rivers, which is now oc
cupied by Red Poland.
That is tempting bait. But Rus
sia's price would be a pledge by
Western Germany to stop re
arming, drop all its ties with the
Western democracies, and accept
the status of a neutral nation.
A weak neutral nation, of course,
which the Red armies would be
free to overrun at will.
Strong Position.
Adenauer is not the man, on
his record, to pay that price.
Ramrod straight, with a sharp
featured poker face, West Ger
many's leader is as strong an
anti-Communist as is any West
ern leader. Further, he knows
Germany's strength, he knows
Russia is afraid of a rearmed
Germany and he knows Ger
many will become a world power
again. - ! '
Winston Churchill, a tired old
man of 80, has just retired from
active politics. Adenauer, who
was 79 on Jan. 5, is at the peak
of his career and is the strong
est figure in West Germany.
Adenauer has devoted his en
tire adult life to politics except
during the Nazi regime. He was
unknown internationally until
he was made chancellor on the
formation of the West German
Republic in 1949. Since then he
has won the respect of the free
world and the enmity of the
Communists.
Adenauer knows that Russia
will have to recognize his West
Germany Republic sooner or
later whatever may happen
right now.
OLD GLOVES FOUND
Durant. Okla. (U.R) Elec
trician Johnnie A. Moore went
to rewire a house near here and
found a pair of gloves he lost in
1930.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
return to-the mainland has re
moved the main incitement to
attack. Even the off-shore is
lands, which are highly vulner
able, have been in effect neu
tralized as we have induced
Chiang to stop using them of
fensively.
The basic term of this tacit
bargain has been promoted in
Peiping and Washington by the
diplomatic efforts of our allies,
of the Soviet Union, of India,
and of the United Nations. For
the time being the bargain is
convenient for all concerned
The Red Chinese government
has been relieved of a fear that
they were entitled to take ser
iously: the fear that the policy
of the United States would be
for that war against mainland
China which Chiang desires,
which so many admirals and re
tired generals have preached,
which the extreme right wing
of the Republican party sup
ports. As a result of having purg
ed our policy of provocation the
President has extricated this
country from a dangerous en
tanglement from which the de
cision for war might have rest
ed not in our own hands but in
the hands of Chiang and his
American supporters. And this
disentanglement of American
policy has brought about the vir
tual cease-fire and political
stand-still in the Formosa area.
THE arrangement is in the very
nature of things temporary,
and therefore, it is time to begin
to make up our minds about a
permanent settlement. Our For
mosa policy today consists in
supporting and defending
Chiang in Formosa and of con
taining him within Formosa.
There is a time limit on a policy
of this kind. We have no right
to count on it beyond the life
and the rule of Chiang himself.
The foundations of the policy
are, therefore, fragile and inse
cure. For we do not know who
would in fact be Chiang's suc
cessor, or what would be his pur
poses or his relations to the
mainland. If we call things by
their right name, we must note
that Chiang is a despot, and that
the succession to a despot is us
ually, as in Moscow today, tur
bulent with intrigue.
Yet the interests of the United
States and Formosa are secured
today only by our relations with
Chiang. On what are they to rest
after Chiang goes? It is not too
soon to begin clarifying , t h e
issues, as we see them, of a last
ing settlement in Formosa.
OUR strategic interest in For
mosa is that the island shaU
not be the military base of an
unfriendly power, that is to say
of Red China. Our political in
terest in Formosa is in perform
ing our obligations of honor to
the anti-Communist Chinese. It
is our obligation to provide them
with a place to live where they
are safe and free, we have no
strategic interest in holding For-
SenMorse Tells
Provisions of Bill
Aiding Small Firms
By SEN. WAYNE MORSE
Washington, D.C. As chair
man of the banking and cur
rency committee's subcommittee
on small business it was my
pleasure, during early May, to
conduct extensive hearings on
legislation concerning the small
business administration. This
agency makes loans to" those
small businesses that demon
strate that it is not possible for
them to get adequate private fi
nancing. Based upon the testimony
given in the hearings, our sub
committee recommended the fol
lowing legislation: (1) That 'the
small business administration
be extended for two years from
June 30, 1955, its present expira
tion date; (2) that the maximum
on individual loans be raised
from the present ' $150,000 to
$250,000; (3) that loans be made
available to small businesses in
drought areas; (4) that the small
business administration be given
the authority to grant extensions
up to 10 years on loans where
borrowers have run into diffi
culty. There were some minor
technical changes, also.
These recommendations were
adopted by the full committee
and incorporated into a bill
which I reported on the floor of
the Senate on June 1. This legis
lation will help strengthen the
hundreds of thousands of small
businesses which, despite the
fact that we have some giant
corporations, are the real back
bone of our competitive free
enterprise society. It will help
make it possible for small busi
nesses to compete with these
giants. Without a strong small
business community there can
be no competitive economy.
Two-Price Wheat Bill
Several days ago I testified
before the Senate agriculture
committee in support of my two-
price wheat bill, S. 1770, which
is co-sponsored br Senators Neu
berger, Magnuson and Jackson.
The two-price plan is not new
but it offers a real solution for
the wheat surplus problem. It
was included in the McNary-
Haugen bill which passed con
gress years ago under the lead
ership of the late Senator
Charles McNary of Oregon.
That biU was vetoed by Presi
dent Coolidge. (Under the two
price plan growers would re
ceive 100 per cent parity prices
on approximately 500,000,000
bushels of wheat going into the
domestic market for human con
sumption, but the balance of our
national production approxi
mately 400,000,000 bushels
would be sold at competitive
prices for export and other re
maining uses. The ; plan .offers
an enormous savings to the gov
ernment in the handling of
wheat surpluses and it would
forestall serious reductions in
farm income threatened under
the present flexible wheat sup
port plan.
Farm Disaster Loans
Recently the Senate passed a
bill, S. 1755, which provides that
the rate of interest on produc
tion disaster loans made to farm
ers shall not exceed 3 per cent
per year. I strongly supported
the bill. Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson, under previous
legislation which gave him the
discretion to set the rate of in
terest within certain limitations,
has raised the rate from 3 per
cent to 5 per cent. Those of us
supporting this bill could see
no justice in saddling the farm
ers with this extra 2 per cent
of interest at a time when the
Department of Agriculture it
self admits that farm income is
dropping. I hope that the House
of Representatives will take
speedy, favorable action on this
measure.
mosa ourselves: our interest is,
in the language of the military
theorists, to deny Formosa ef
fectively to Red China. And we
have no obligation of honor or
interest to do more than insure
the safety and the freedom of
the Chinese on Formosa. We
have no obligation to go to war
ourselves in order to reverse
the defeat they suffered in the
Chinese civil war.
Our interests and our obliga
tions would be satisfied if For
mosa became an, independent,
self-governing state, neutralized
and guaranteed by. the United
Nations. This should be, I be
lieve, our post-Chiang Formosa
policy I say post-Chiang for it
is asking too much, after au
that has been said' In this coun
try about him, that Chiang him
self should formally agree to
such a setUement. It is not nec
essarily an impossible' solution
from the point of view of Red
China. The solution would com
m a n d widespread support
throughout Asia.
I might say that the first time
I heard this solution advanced
was about five years ago, and by
an Indian diplomat of the first
rank.
(Copyright, 1955, New
York Herald Inc.)
INJURIES FATAL
Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) Mrs.
Inez G. Corning, 66, Forest
Grove, died in a loca lhospital j
yesterday from injuries suffered ,
Sunday evening in a two-car ac-!
cident near Forest Grove.
Matter of FactBy
CENSORSHIP WARNING
Washington For a great
many years, American corres-
pondents in Moscow have wisely
warned that
their own dis
patches are
slanted, be
cause of the
Soviet censor
ship. In the
opinion of
these report
ers, it is now
time for Wash
ington corres
p o n dents to
send out a
Joseph Alsop
similar warning.
This being peacetime, the Eis
enhower administration is not
yet using the conventional blue
pencils. Yet this administration
is Dracticine a widespread cen-
sorship, which is no less elec
mm
tive in slanting the news De-
cause it is insidiously indirect.
The censor's pressure is felt
by every Washington reporter
who still bothers to wear out his
shoe leather
to do his real
job which
is to transmit
facts of vital
n a t ion a 1
mean ing to
the American
public.
. Facts of
really vital
meaning
are precisely Stewart Alsop
the facts that
are " now under interdict. And
the stage has now been reached
where honest reporters really
have a duty to confess this novel
pressure
As an example of the sort of
thine that is now a matter of
course, consider the curious epi
sode that led these reporters to
the rather grave decision to give
a censorship warning. It hap
pened not very long ago, when
one of us had just returned from
a six months trip in Asia.
After this long absence, two
of these reporters' best and old
est friends in Washington pro
posed a happy family reunion.
The ladies of the three families
laid agreeable plans. The logis
tics of the party, although some
what elaborate, were smoothly
completed. And then, on the
very eve of the reunion, there
was a somewhat embarrassed
telephone call.
Messrs A. and B, as we may
call our two old friends, both
hold high posts in the same gov
ernment agency. They had. been
bluntly told that their official
positions would be compromised
if the party were held as
planned.
DEHIND this extraordinary
JLr episode, there was "- another
no less extraordinary. During
that week, we had published a
report on the - problem of an
American satellite. The Soviets
have already ' announced their
intention to build an earth-
satellite, and have placed their
leading physicist, Peter Kapitza,
in charge of the project. For this
and other obvious reasons, the
satellite problem seemed to us
reasonably fateful, and there
fore we felt it was in the public
domain.
This 'view was not held, how
ever, by . the National Security
Council. That Thursday's N.S.-
C s meeting turned, apparently,
into a prolonged outburst of
righteous indignation. Here, once
again, the American people
were being told facts of the ut
most national importance but
facts which the N.S.C. wanted to
cover up.
It did not matter, of course,
that these reporters had had no
access whatever to classified in
formation. That point was not
even tested. The chief of the
agency that employs Messrs. A
and B had been at the N.S.C.
meeting. Without further ado, he
returned to his office and issued
the edict that led, in turn, to the
embarrassed telephoned call al
ready noted. He did this, more
over," with a full understandin
of the rules that have always
governed, our friendship with
Messrs. A and B. ;
We have never talked to these
friends of ours about their work
in their agency, or indeed about
any "sensitive" matters. This has
always been understood be
tween us. In present day Wash
ington, which is more zoo than
metropolis, wise men keep busi
ness and friendship strictly sep
arated. If any official is your
friend, -and you feel you must
discuss public questions with
him, you ask formally for an
Frank Morgan
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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V "The Chapel of
Cherished Memories
CHAPEL MORTUARY
, Across from the Courthouse
Joe and Stew Alsop
appointment, and you go formal
ly to his office.
You do not talk business at
family reunions. And you do not
talk business, either, with very
old and valued friends whose
official duties are genuinely not
in the public domain.
The agency chief knewA of
these rules. He told Messrs: A
and B, and he later told these
reporters, that he was confident
the rules had always been and
would always be most strictly
enforced. He did not fear iny
improper disclosures. But ?he
greatly feared the attack that
would develop on his agency, if
it became known that important
subordinates of his dared to con
tinue an old friendship with per
sons who dared to write about
facts of the highest national im
portance. NO DOUBT he was right He
had observed the scene at
the N.S.C. meeting. He is one
of the finest men in Washington. ,
He and Messrs. A -and B had no
course open to them, in the cir
cumstances, except to put the
welfare of their agency first.
What is not right, however, is
the mephitic, the almost psy
chotic atmosphere that forces
this kind of invasion of private
life, to carry out , reprisals
against reporters who are doing
what they conceive to be their
public duty. What is not right,
either, is this indirect censor
ship by reprisal which is now
being carried so far that re
porters who still do their jobs
must expect any kind of harass
ment, from old-fashioned secur
ity investigations to separation
from their oldest friends and
quite probably wire-tapping and
bug-planting,
What is involved here, in fact,
is a radical change in the Ameri
can political system, and very
nearly an amendment to the
American Constitution, that is
being shoved through behind
the backs of the American, peo
ple. And this is so serious a mat
ter that it will be the subject of
several subsequent reports.
Copyright. 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Medford Newsman
Still Hospitalized
E. C. Ferguson, managing
editor , of the Mail Tribune, re
mains in serious, though not
critical, condition in the Good
Samaritan hospital in Portland,
following recent serious opera
tion. Friends who have visited him
say he is conscious a good part
of the day, and has greatly
appreciated having notes from
friends in Medford read to him
by members of his family.
Mrs. Ferguson' is with him
most of the day, and their
daughter, Mrs. Ford Kmitsen,
Astoria, comes to Portland sev
eral days each week to be with
her parents. Mrs. Ferguson has
asked that their friends be ad
vised of their appreciation of
friendly messages, but that
under present circumstances it
is impossible for her to acknowl
edge them all.
Portland Swelters
In 96 Degree Heat
Portland (U.R) Portland
sweltered in 96-degree heat yes
terday, the warmest day since
August 14, 1953, while Medford
recorded a reading of 101.
However, the weather man
held out some hope of relief.
East winds were expected to
change to westerly and bring in
moist, cool air from the Pacific
tomorrow.
Seaside, on the coast, reported
an unofficial 97 degrees. But at
Coos Bay, further south, it was-
a cool 58.
The - hot east winds lowered
humidity and created a fire
hazard.. They also slapped Port
land power lines together caus
ing minor outages in tome parts
of the city. The humidity got
down to 17 per cent at Portland,
28 per cent at Eugene and 36 at
Astoria.
A number of logging camps
suspended operations in the Cas
cades because of the below 30
per cent humidity.
BILL ACTION COMPLETED
Washington (U.R) The
Senate completed congressional
action yesterday on a bill to con
tinue the suspension of the two
cents a pound tax on copper im
ports until June 30, 1958.
Harold Snodgrass