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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 13. 1945
(It was Wednesday)
Six civic projects costing
$825,000 approved by Medford
residents in special election.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The coun
try is now facing inflation, ex-
perts figure, due to shortages.
It means more cost and less prod
uct. For instance, a ham sand
wich will cost more than a hog,
and the bread thereof will be
cut thinner than the ham.
20 YEARS AGO ' "
June 13. 1935
(It was Thursday)
Disposal plant bids exceed
estimate and amount of funds
approved by voters for improve
ment. C. D. Bean opens new electric
appliance and houseware store
In Medford.
SO YEARS AGO
June 13. 1925
(It was Saturday)
Four persons arrested for il
legal possession of moonshine
near Camp Jackson National
Guard encampment.
William-Von der Hellen's bid
of $27,250 lowest submitted for
grading and surfacing portions
of highway between Grants Pass
and Crescent City.
40 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1915
(It was Sunday)
Medford opens baseball sea
son against Yreka: admission is
40 cents for grandstand; 25 cents
bleacher seats.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The regular mid-month
meeting of the city council will
be held at the city hall tomor
row night. Among the matters
to be discussed will be auto
and water regulations, and the
plan to build a new city hall.
Steps towards enforcing a law
for the dimming of electric head
lights on autos will be taken.
What's the Answer?
(Caa You Get 4 of tta 7?)
Capr. 153. Editorial Rataarch Raaarl
1. Most letters to the F.C.C.
on paying a fee for special T.V.
programs in the home are for it
or against it, or are they about
50-50?
2. Mrs. Oveta C. Hobby on
joining the administration was
a Wac officer, trained nurse, oil
well executive, newspaper edi
tor, or housewife?
3. Which one of these states
joined the Union before 1900:
Arizona. New Mexico, Okla
homa, Utah?
4. MoSt unions in the newly
combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. will be
organized by specific crafts or
by whole . industries, or will it
be about 50-50?
5. No veto by President Eisen
hower of a major bill has yet
been overridden by Congress;
right or wrong?
6. The Plains of Abraham are
in the Holy Land; right or
wrong?
7. Sukiyaki is a Chinese, Ital
ian, Armenian, Japanese, or Rus
sian dish?
The Answers: 1. Most for it.
2. Newspaper editor. 3. Utah.
4. Most by crafts. 5. Right. 6.
Wrong: they're in Quebec. 7.
Japanese.
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The 'District' Plan
It was in the mind of Col. Del Harvey that the
idea for a big sanitary district on the floor of the Bear
creek valley came to life a year or so ago.
Harvey, a professional engineer with years of ex
perience in many phases of his profession, is person
ally concerned in the matter, for he has watched the
attempts of small, local sanitary districts to meet their
problems and fail, for a variety of reasons.
UARVEY brought his idea into public view about
1 a year ago with an article in the Mail Tribune.
The idea was discussed, debated, and found valid by
a variety of citizens who
state ben. Fml Lowry, when the legislature convened,
spent long hours digging into the Oregon statutes to
see if there was ample provision for such an organiza
tion, and, finding there was not, spent more hours
working out a comprehensive bill to set up the needed
permissive machinery. ' .
The bill passed, and, early in August, will become
law. It gives the people of Jackson county the organ
izational framework on which to build a solution to
the problem of sewage disposal which is bad, and
is rapidly becoming worse.
TODAY, on Page 1 of the
first of a senes of three articles prepared by Col
onel Harvey in which he voices his view on the pros
and cons of a "Metropolitan" sanitary district, or
authority.
The Mail Tribune is glad to publish these articles,
for, while there may be disagreement among those
interested as to the best way to go about solving the
problem, Colonel Harvey has probably done as much
as any one man (with the possible exception of Phil
Lowry) to make'it possible for it to be solved.
Harvey's views, at any rate, are entitled to respect
ful consideration, and might well serve as the jump-
ing-off point for organization of a sanitary authority.
AT one point, Harvey discusses the proposed annex
ation of some 3,000 acres into the city of Medford,
and how this would affect the sanitary district plan.
It is a point which will need further study, before a
final decision can be made.
The Mail Tribune proposes to support the annexa
tion plan, because it believes the benefits to all would
outweigh any drawbacks, and at the same time it
sees in the sanitary authority proposal the outline of
a solution to the sanitary problem in which we all
have so vital a stake. We do not see why they need
be mutually exclusive, for each has something of
benefit to offer the people of this area.
And the well-being of the people of Jackson
county, all the people, is the thing which is important.
E.A.
A Welcome Visitor
A visitor of more than usual interest, and one who
was warmly welcomed here last week, was Werner
Baecker, a young German radio man now on tour of
the United States.
He particularly asked that Medford be included
as the only small town on his itinerary because 11
years ago he was a prisoner of war at Camp White.
DAECKER talked freely of his wartime experiences
how he and his fellow POWs were at first
afraid of the Americans', but later came to like and
respect them but, naturally enough, his chief inter
est these days is in' international events and the fu
ture of his young nation.
He is confident of that future, barring a war, and
if the government of that nation falls into hands such
as his, and those of other young Germans we have
met in recent years, we have little to fear.
Democratic ideals have a strong hold on many,
probably a majority, of Germans, and in Baecker's
enthusiastic discussions of how democracy is grow
ing in Germany, despite many obstacles, one gains a
renewed faith and hope.
OIS enthusiasm, too, for the exchange programs
which permit peoples of different nations to be
come acquainted, to understand each others' motives
and ideals, is one we share.
You can't very well stay mad at a person if you
understand, and sympathize with, his point of view.
E.A.
Bill Thomat
It was with a real sense of personal loss that we
learned of the death of big Bill Thomas Saturday.
The woods boss of the Medford corporation, Bill
was a fixture among men who make their living in
the tall timber. He was as craggy as the knottiest pine
in the hills, as tough as a lumbercamp beefsteak, and
as friendly a man as you'll find.
AT 56, Bill Thomas was far from an old man and for
"this reason it is hard to believe that a heart attack
cut short his useful life. For he was one of those for
esters who believe that the woods belong to the future
as well as the present.
He was an up-to-date logger, who mixed the skill
for cutting 'em down and dragging 'em out with the
long-range view of the dedicated conservationist.
And he was one of the nicest guys in the world. E.A.
Girl Wants Long Hair; Runs Away From Home
Hempstead, N.Y. (U.R) Po
lice searched today for a 12-year-old
girl who ran away from her
Long Island home with her nine-year-old
sister because her par
ents insisted her hair be cut
short.
The older girl wanted a "so
phisticated" hairdo.'
Monday, Juat 13, 1955
have a stake in the problem.
Mail Tribune, appears the
The two girls had only about
S3 between them when they dis
appeared Thursday morning on
their way to school. They were
identified as Diane Eaton, 12,
and Carolyn, 9.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday. 1 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days 130 rrtvioua day.
Matter of FactBy j
The Censorship Syndrome
Washington In the langu
age of the psychiatrists, the Ei
senhower administration is now
51 suffering from
a severe cen
sorship s y n
drome. The
worst sufferer
seems to be
the President
himself. The
resulting lo s s
of contact with
democ r a t i c
reality is only
too easy to
prove.
Not longago, for instance, the
President complained long and
loudly at a , National Security
Counql meeting because the De
fense Department had published
pictures of launching sites of the
Nike guided missile. Yet any
kid with a Brownie camera can
go out to Arlington and take
the same pictures.
Again, the President has told
the able Assistant Secretary of
Air Force. Trevor Gardner, to go
stand in a cor
ner because of
a speech about
the Air Force's
Falcon missile.
Yet the speech
contained n o
fact that had
not been' pre
viously pub
lished, a n d it
had even been
given the most
elaborate
Joseph Alsop
clearance by the new American
chief censor, Secretary of De
fense Charles E. Wilson.
Or, again, the Civil Defense
agency was shockingly ob
structed and the American peo
ple were kept in dangerous ig
norance for over a year by Adm.
Lewis E. Strauss' suppression of
the facts concerning radioactive
fall out from the H-bomb. Yet
all these facts were fully known
to the Soviets even before they
were learned by Admiral
Strauss.
In a remarkable piece for
"The New York Herald Trib
une," Walter Kerr has tried hard
to explain this "seemingly inex
plicable urge to keep from the
American people even those
facts that the enemy quite surely
knows.
Explanations were sought
from Defense Department infor
mation chief Herschel Schooley:
from U;S. Information Service
chief Theodore Streibcrt; and
from R. C. Honaman, the new
Assistant Secretary of Defense
who has the special task of
hiding the lif e-and-death facts
of their national situation from
the American people. The offi
cial rationalization of the Presi
dent's desire to keep the people
in the dark was summarized as
follows by .Kerr: " . . . '
j
rpHE President - recognizes
(that) many items of. mili
tary information . . . become
known to the military' tacticians
Of other countries of Russia
for example. He believes, how
ever, that these technicians are
unable to influence their coun
try's top officials. (Their infor
mation) is buried in a report and
forgotten. .....
"Then, the reasoning goes, the
same information ... is released
to the American press. .It is
widely published. It is com
mented on at length. . . soon the
item which was originally tech
nical, is no longer technical. It
has political significance. It
comes to the attention of politi
cal leaders. Then, and perhaps
only then, the Soviet leader . . .
Translates into action a technical
proposal that had been safely
buried."
According to those who have
worked intimately with the
President on the censorship
problem, these interesting state
ments genuinely represent the
Eisenhower viewpoint. As a de
scription of Soviet planning
methods, they are of course in
accurate to the point of being
downright alarming. They are
directly refuted, in fact, by the
whple history of Soviet military
technology from the T-34 tank
to the new heavy bomber.
In the last twenty years, all
out development of all the bril
liantly successful Soviet new
weapons produced in this period
was quite certainly started be
fore the readers of the American
press or any other press had
heard about such weapons. The
fact is proved by the develop
ment times, unless you preferto
assume that . Soviet engineers
are ten times quicker than
American engineers.
On the other hand, the Presi
dent's theory of Soviet behavior
is highly applicable to the be
havior of his own Administra
tion. As so often happens when
syndromes are serious, there has
been a tansference of symptoms.
The Eisenhower administration,
not the Soviet government, has
the habit of ignoring technicians'
warnings until they cease to be
technical and become political
because of publicity.
THAT was most recently prov
en bv the true story of the
Moscow overflights, previously
told in this space. Long before
the overflights, ihe technicians
had been warning that we were
lagging behind the Soviets in air
development. But the warnings
were - ignored until the over
flights occurred, the attempted
censorship failed, and the facts
became known. -After that, our
z t
Stewart Alsop
ee and Stew Alsop
lag in air development was a
political issue, and corrective
action was taken.
Such incidents in turn reveal
the roots of the censorship syn
drome. It is rooted, obviously, in
the Administration's eagerness
to cut taxes, balance the budget
and do other popular things.
The people are not to be told
the life-and-death facts because
the facts would stir up the peo
ple to demand necessary Defense
Department spending, which
would in turn make the Trea
sury Department program hard
er to carry out.
Unfortunately, however, the
diagnosis of the disease does not
make the symptoms more at
tractive or the disease less
dangerous.
(Copyright, 1955, New
York Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's ..turn ..our ..eyes., today
toward London, where as this is
written Queen Elizabeth is for
mally opening the British par
liament with the traditional
speech from the throne.
This opening of the parliament
is a rather unusual one. It got
under way FIVE DAYS AHEAD
THE TRADITIONAL SCHED
ULE so that the lawmakers may
act promptly, as is required by
law, on the national emergency
proclamation issued by the
queen because of the railroad
strike.
THE customary pageantry of a
parliamentary opening has
been influenced on this occasion
by the strike that caused the law
making body to assemble five
days early. Elizabeth rode from
Buckingham palace to the parlia
ment buildings which, inci
dentally, are an ancient royal
palace in an automobile in
stead of the traditional slow
horse-drawn coach.
The reason for that is that the
strike has stopped the suburban
trains which Londoners normal
ly use to get from their homes
to their places of business in the
city. So those who have automo
biles are using them to drive to
work. The result has been a ter
rific traffic congestion which
would have been aggravated if
the queen had ridden through
the streets, in accordance with
custom, in the traditional coach.
T'HE British are bound by tra-
dition in a way that is un
familiar to us. But, you see, they
are capable of BREAKING
WITH TRADITION when ordi
nary common sense calls for the
break.
ITEEP this in mind.
Queen Elizabeth presented
the Conservative party's pro
gram to ihe parliament. She
didn't write her speech. It was
written for her by the Conserva
tive party.
If the Labor party had won
in the recent elections, she
would have presented the Labor
party's program to the parlia
ment at its ODenine. Her sneech
would have been written for her
by the Labor party.
THAT being the case, you may
ask, WHY HAVE A QUEEN?
This is the best answer I can
think of:
Elizabeth is a charming young
woman. She has been schooled
since her birth, IN THE HARD
EST KIND OF SCHOOL, in the
principles of winning friends
and influencing people. Her job
is to keep the British people
LIKING THEIR GOVERNMENT
and believing that it is the best
government on earth.
When you come right down to
it, that is VERY important.
TUT let's get back to her
speech.
She pledged a British Common
wealth struggle for peace. She
said the British government will
whole-heartedly support the
United Nations, the Atlantic al
liance and the new Western
European Union. She announced
government plans to keep Brit
ain prosperous.
Then she WARNED THE LEG
ISLATORS of what she called
THE GRAVE SITUATION CRE
ATED BY THE RAILROAD
STRIKE. .
That was her only reference
to the strike emergency that
caused the parliament to assem
ble five days early.
LET'S watch very closely these
British strikes, of which the
railroad strike is the most men
acing because it is handicap
ping British industry in the
midst of an industrial boom that
is tremendously heartening to
the British people after all these
years of austere scarcity.
Because in Britain the govern
ment OWNS THE RAILROADS,
the British government will have
to handle the railroad strike.
Maybe it will be able to do a
good job of it.
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Walter F. George said Saturday
Japan should be allowed to
trade with Red China in all no
strategic materials to avoid
"cut-throat competition" against
American producers.
Tokyo .U.R) Tibet's first
four hydro-electric stations along
the Lhasa and Brahmaputra riv
ers are expected to begin operat
ing by the end of this month,
Peiping Radio said today.
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London, With SAS Sharpen
your wits, time for another rang
er naturalist quiz. This one
deals strictly with making
friends of small woods' ani
mals. Score 80 and you are an
outdoor expert; 60 -is mighty
good; 40 fair to middling.
If you want to make friends
with the small animals in your
woods, you must observe some
basic rules. Select the best an
swer in each of the five follow
ing groups and score 20 if you
are correct.
1. Wait for the animals to
come to your tent naturally? Or,
go to their natural quiet resting
place? Or, go to their gathering
places such as waterholes and
feeding areas?
2. Let the animals get ac
customed to you the day around?
Or, don't press matters, meet
them only occasionally? Or, go
regularly each day, early morn
ing and later afternoons?
3. When you go into the
woods, stroll very slowly? Or,
walk normally? Or, pretend cas
ual indifference?
4. When you reach a rendez
vous, sit down and whittle? Or,
read a magazine. Or, slowly
carve a figure?
5. In the animal's presence, re
main silent? Or talk baby talk
but make it understandable? Or,
talk naturally?
Answer: 1. To tame wild an!
mals it is best to go to their
gathering places such as water
holes, or a salt lick, or feeding
places.
2. It is best to go regularly,
each day, and preferably early
morning and latek afternoon
when most animals are feeding.
3. It is best to stroll slowly.
looking carefully. In fact, let's
make it stroll very slowly.
4. Sit down and carve a fig
ure the flashing of a whittling
blade or the turning of magazine
pages may frighten them. Easy,
slow movements are best.
5. Talk to the animal natural
ly, preferably " at the animal's
own tone level which sometimes
may be higher than your natural
voice.
With it, bring with you an
understanding of wild animals.
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Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575,
Sausalito, Calif.
Nine Small Forest
Fires Extinguished
Nine small forest fires start
ed by Thursday evening's light
ning storm were extinguished
by forest patrol crews, accord
ing to the patrol office. Some
18 men were dispatched to ihe
blazes. -
The largest, approximately an
acre, was in the Thompson creek
area, 2Vi miles east of Thompson
creek road. Six others in the
area were situated in the Burnt
Peak lookout, Morine creek,
Lewis creek, Hawk creek, Buck
Rock and Ash homestead areas.
Eugene Peterson, district for
ester for the Bureau of Land
Management, and two officials
of the U. S. Park service, dis
covered a small fife within a
few hundred yards of the road
to the Lake O' Woods while on
an inspection tour in the Griz- j
zly-Soda springs area. A forest j
patrol crew was called and the j
blaze was quickly extinguished. !
Yreka, Calif. (U.R) Light-'
ning strikes in unusually dry
timber stands along the Calif
ornia-Oregon border have set
more than 200 forest fires in
the past two days, the forest
service said Saturday.
Fathers Day
and
Gifts
READY FOB SOLO FLIGHT to Havana, Cuba, Mrs. Zaddie
Bunker, 67, great grandmother of Palm Springs, Cal., waves from
plane in Washington before start of Women's International Air
Race. Oldest contestant, she will fly sola (International)
Molotov Acts Li
Man Expecting To
Keep Job for Awhile
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Soviet Foreign Minister Vy
acheslav M. Molotov is acting
like a man who expects to keep
his job for a
while.
There were
reports early
this month,
during the
Russian pilgri
mage to Bel
grade, that the
veteran Molo
tov was on his
way out. :
But at the
a. r
Charles McCanb momenx, ivioio-
tov is on his way to the United
States to attend the 10th anni
versary meeting of the United
Nations in San Francisco.
There he will confer infor
mally with the foreign ministers
of the United States, Great Brit
ain and France. The four diplo
mats will make preparations for
the Big Four -meeting "at the
summit" which probably will be
held in Geneva, Switzerland July
18.
There is no reason' to believe
that Molotov will be replaced
before the Geneva meeting.
After President ' Eisenhower
and the other "summit" leaders
have finished their talks in Ge
neva, the Big Four foreign min
isters are to conduct prolonged
negotiations on specific issues.
In all, the way things are shap
ing up this seems to be rather
an awkward time for any
change in the Soviet foreign
ministry.
Molotor Getting Old
It is true that Molotov is get
ting old. He is 65. It is true also
that Soviet foreign policy has
found the going rough these last
months.
But Molotov is the brainiest
man in the Kremlin hierarchy.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles said of him: .
"I have seen in action all the
great international statesmen of
this century ... I have never
seen such personal diplomatic
skill at so high a degree of per
fection as Mr.. Molotov's."
Molotov is one of the handful
of "old Bolsheviks" who were
not liquidated by their comrade
Josef Stalin. For nearly 30 years
since the Bolshevik revolution,
Molotov has wriggled his way
safely through the countless
plots and purges which seem
an inescapable part of the Krem
lin struggle for power.
He is small of stature, seems
to have no sense of humor, and
is a poor speaker. He has been
compared, in his looks,- to a
well-dressed bookkeeper.
People have referred to him
as "Aunty Molotov." Stalin is
Frank Pari
f J
FINER
FUNERAL
SERVICES
said to have called him "the
best filing clerk in Russia."
btaiin's Right Hand Man
But he was Stalin's right hand
man, and Stalin always called
upon him when there was a
hard job to do.
Molotov entered the revolu
tionary movement when he was
15 years old. At the time of the
Kerensky revolution in Febru
ary, 1917, Molotov was the chief
Bolshevik figure in Petrograd,
then the capital. He handled
things for the party until Lenin
and Trotsky returned from ex
ile. He and Stalin played the
chief part in organizing the No
vember, 1917, Bolshevik revolu
tion. The reports that Molotov
might soon be pushed into re
tirement were based in part on
the fact that he was not included
in the Soviet delegation which
visited President Tito of Yugo
slavia. But Molotov's position may
have been strengthened when
Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Com
munist party boss who led the
delegation, made a spectacle of
himself in Belgrade. Maybe now,
Khrushchev will stay home for
a while and let ' professionals
like Molotov do the visiting.
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Weak and Scared
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Hear Peter boast. Even if all
the rest deserted Christ, Peter
would not. - Hearing his boast,
Christ said that
before morning,
Peter would
deny Him three
times. And so it
was. On thru
the night, as the
soldiers warmed
themselves b y
the fire and as
the serving
maids went
about their
tasks, Peter de
nied having known Christ or
that He ever had a part with
Him. At the third denial Christ
looked over at Peter and their"
eyes met. At that, Peter went
out and wept bitterly. He knew
himself to be a weak and scared
nobody.
After Christ arose from the
grave, He sought out -Peter and
what He said to the man is not
known. But from that hour,
Peter was one of Christ's strong
men. And if you would also
speak for . Christ who died for
your sins and arose from the
grave to give you new life, make
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