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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 14. 1945
(It was Thursday)
Thinning of pears under way
in Rogue Valley "orchards.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A survey of
the state press shows more
cities are interested in parks
than getting Bonneville Dam
power. The people seem to be
more interested in a place to sit
down than having electric lights
in the woodshed.
20 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1935
(It was Friday)
CCC company sets up site
three miles east of Medford to
start work on Roxy Ann park.
Oregon State Trapshoot opens
at Medford Gun club with 175
participants.
30 YEARS AGO
June 14. 1925
(It was Sunday)
Members of the 42nd Infantry
brigade, Oregon National Guard,
start two-week training at en
campment here.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Fishing in the river and
smaller streams hereabouts is
reported as good. There is a run
of steelhead on, and lots of these
gamey fish are at the Savage
Rapids Dam vicinity.
40 YEARS AGO
June 14. 1915
Flags displayed throughout
Medford and Rogue Valley in
observance of Flag Day.
Three Jackson county boys se
lected to be delegates to Uni
versal Corn convention in San
Francisco August 5 and 6.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Revert
1. The President has or hasn't
sought more power over use and
distribution of the Salk anti
polio vaccine?
2. The IX.D. degree is award
ed on graduation from law
school; right or wrong?
3. Agriculture Secretary Ben
son says rigid price supports,
which he opposes, have kept
farm prices up. down, or un
changed in the past?
4. Multiple sclerosis usually
strikes before or after the age
of 40?
5. Many persons go to Florida
for a vacation in mid-summer;
right or wrong?
6. Switzerland, guaranteed as
neutral by European great Pow
ers, does or doesn't have Univer
sal Military Training?
7. A seraglio is much the same
as a harem; right or wrong?
1. Hasn't. 2. Wrong: that's the
LL.B. degree. 3. Down, he says.
4. Before 40. 5. Right. 6. Does.
7. Right. VtA Va
Patrolman Attacked
By Irate Rooster
New York (U.R) Patrolman
John Spagna reported that the
man he arrested, on the com
plaint of the neighbors for keep
ing a noisy rooster didn't give
any trouble but the rooster did.
Spagna said he bent over to
inspect a box in which the
rooster was to be taken away
when the fowl attacked from
behind .Spagna was so startled
he fell down a flight of stairs.
He was treated for bruises and
peck wounds.
MAIL TRIBUNE
What Is A
We once had a doctor and a good one who
was not only a registered Democrat but had a sense
of humor.
He surprised us once
he did not like Harry Iruman.
His reason was not political, however, but profes
sional. For he maintained
delivered a speech he was
chase because some venerable member of the Union
League Club feared he was about to suffer a stroke of
apoplexy, and wanted our MD to check up on his
blood pressure.
Our doctor didn't know why exactly, but there
was something about the Truman style of political
oratory that got very much under the skin of the ILL.
club members. '
Dr. X had more than
v. ,k hot -e
au iic uiuii i imc 11.0.1.., num a pciBuiicti, ji uie&siuiicu
and perhaps somewhat selfish standpoint!
"1X7E can't believe there were many calls on our med
" ical friend however after the Truman speech at
Portland Saturday night.
For that seemed to this department, at least, a
very fair and factual presentation of the public vs pri
vate power issue here in Oregon and the northwest.
Our former President went out of his way, in fact,
to state he had no doubt of President Eisenhower's
absolute sincerity in his opposition to federal power
projects like TVA or Hells Canyon. Mr. Eisenhower
believes, as does his Secretary of Defense, that what
is good for General Motors is good for the country and
vice versa. He honestly regards all this federal pow
er development as a form of "creeping socialism,"
and along with present Hoover, if he COULD turn
such projects as Bonneville and Grand Coulee back
to the private power companies he would do so and
the sooner the better.
"117E believe that diagnosis is essentially correct.
" There is nothing wicked in such a belief.
Thousands hundreds of thousands of entirely re
spectable and law-abiding citizens share it. it is the
accepted G.O.Pcreed in fact.
All that Mr. Truman mentioned was that he didn't
share this' belief, that he thought the facts and our
national experience disproved it. He might also have
said the doctrine was contrary to the "general wel
fare" clause in our fundamental law, but he didn't.
a
IN short, while our ex-president was direct, vigorous
and outspoken he couldn't be anything else he
was comparatively speaking, in a mild and concilia
tory frame of mind, rather than in one xf his more
pugnacious and combative moods.
He always says what be believes and believes
whot he says, he pulls no oratorical rabbits out of his
sleeve and pulls no punches; but there was nothing
in the speech, as we heard it, that would justify throw
ing any apoplectic fits, or resort to more name-calling.
VET we have already been informed that this was
only a cheap appeal for votes, typical of the
"country's No. 1 demagogue." . v
Well, so it goes!
But instead of calling Mr. Truman names, we
would like one of these days,
his arguments.
What, for example, did our former President say
that was not factually correct?
We would be glad to
our readers would. As to the No. 1 demagogue charge
Mr. Truman has his limitations and his faults who
hasn't? but a demagogue he certainly ISN'T.
Of all men in public life in recent years, H.S.T.
has less subtlety and less guile, less of the agitator and
shrewd manipulator, and more of the straight-shooting
and hard riding leader, calling the shots as he sees
them, than anyone that can be called to mind.
He may be right or wrong, but he is never sitting
on the fence, he is never appealing to passions or ig
norance or prejudices, but to the facts as he sees them
and interprets them.
As far as trying to deceive the populace is con
cerned or any one else whether the topic is public
power or his daughter Margaret, he couldn't deceive
anyone if he wanted to and he doesn't want to
that just isn't his type.
So why not agree to drop that "demagogue"
charge at least. It just doesn't fit. R.W.R.
Demo Convention
Washington (U.R) Demo
cratic leaders recommended to
day that voting at the party's
1956 convention be speeded up
to keeD the TV-watcher from
clicking off his set in exaspera
tion. An 82-inember advisory com
mittee proposed specifically that
the televiewer be spared from
watching the tedious process of
polling state delegations. That is
the time consuming procedure
where there is a demand for each
member of the delegation to an
nounce his vote individuaUy
rather than having the total vote
announced by the delegation
chairman.
The committee also formally
recommended that the 1956 con
vention abandon the controver
sial "loyalty oath" wiich caused
an angry North-South split in
1952.
Instead of a loyalty oath, the
advisory group adopted a three
point resolution, made public
previously, setting forth the re
sponsibility of state organiza
tions in naming convention dele
gates. It provides for the ouster
of national committee members
who bolt the party ticket. This
Tuesday, June 14 1955
Demagogue?
during a campaign by saying
that every time Mr. Truman
called out on a wild-goose
he could attend to anyway
i i.c.- i
to have some one answer
know and believe many of
Vote Speed Asked
would have no affect on 1952
defectors.
Talent Irrigation
Limits Still On
Talent Irrigation limita
tions are still in effect here to
conserve this year's critically
short supply of water.
The water commission report
edly plans to secure the services
of an engineer to aid with the
problem.
The present city well does not
refill enough during the night
to allow unlimited use during
the day.
Irrigation of lawns and gar
dens west of the Southern Pac
ific tracks will be permitted only
between 5 and 8 p.m. Tuesdays
and Thursdays, and east of the
railroad tracks between the same
hours Wednedays and Fridays.
Violators of the watering
hours will be subject to fine on
conviction, Mrs. Nona McAbee,
Talent city recorder, said.
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MRS. NEUBERGER MEETS HARRIMAN
Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's
junior senator, talks with Gov. W. Averill
Harriman of New York and Adolf A. Berle,
East German Papers
Changing Attitude
Toward Adenauer
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The East German Commu
nists are being very polite to
West German Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer
these days.
Newspapers
in East Ger
man cities re
fer to him as
"Herr Konrad
Adenauer.
chancellor of
the Federal
Republic."
Until recent
ly, in the same
Charles McCann news papers,
Adenauer was called puppet,
Svar monger" and "imperialist
lackey."
In fact, the Reds referred to
Adenauer by these epithets as
late as last Tuesday on their
mside pages, that is. The first
pages of the same editions has
tily revised reported the fact
that Adenauer had been invited
to Moscow.
What happened, it developed,
was that the Kremlin had failed
to notify the East German gov
ernment and East German Com'
munist party in advance that
their arch-enemy's favor was to
be courted.
Leaders Worried -
This means that the. East Ger
man leaders have good reason
to be worried.
iney unaouDtecuy nave, as
companions in misery, the Polish
communists.
It was suggested three weeks
before the Kremlin invitation
to Moscow that the Polish Reds
were a worried bunch of neople.
They must be more worried
today.
There can be no doubt that
the Soviet government would
betray both the East German
Communists and the Polish
Communists if necessary to
make a deal with Adenauer.
That betrayal would involve
the unification of Germanv and
the restoration to Germany of
xne more than 40,000 square
miles of its eastern territory
wnicn nea roiand now occupies.
Butler Tackles
Texas Factions
Lubbock, Tex. (U.R) Demo
cratic National Chairman Paul
Butler takes on the monumental
job of trying to reconcile Texas'
two warring party factions when
he makes his first of a series of
week-long state speeches in Lub
bock tonight.
Butler arrived in Dallas last
night on the heels of a challenge
from Gov. Allan Shivers. Shivers
called upon Butler to "settle"
during his visit which of the two
factions, conservative or liberal,
will be seated at the 1956 na
tional convention.
The two groups have been at
odds since the 1952 presidential
election when Shivers, as leader
of the so-called conservative
group, failed to get a promise
from Adlai Stevenson for state
control of the tidelands. Shivers
turned to Dwight Eisenhower
and Texas went Republican.
The Democratic Advisory
Council, representing the state's
"loyalist" or liberal faction, is
sponsoring Butler's visit. Shivers
has, therefore, announced he will
boycott the dinners scheduled
for Butler and so have National
Committeewoman Hilda Weinert
of Seguin and state Democratic
Chairman George Sandlin of
Austin.
INTO THE RED
Melrose, Mass. U.R) The
proud boast of this suburban
Boston community wUl have to
be shelved. Melrose has been the
only debt-free city in Massa
chusetts, but now the board of
aldermen has authorized a $600,
000 bond issue for building new
schools.. It's back to the red ink.
Russia has almost got to make
some kind of agreement with
Adenauer, if only a face-saving
one, for its own good.
It is inconceivable that Ade
nauer would agree to make Ger
many a neutral nation, as the
Kremlin desires.
Even if Adenauer did agree to
such an incredible concept, the
facts of life would prove too
strong to permit its consumma
tion.
Germany Is World Power
Germany is a world power, as
much of a world power as Rus
sia is. It can not be relegated to
the status of a minor nation.
As long as Adenauer is chan
cellor, its alignment with the
West seems certain.
Wilhelm Pieck, Otto Grote-
wohl and Walter Ulbright, the
East German big three, must be
thinking of these things with
some bitterness today, while
Adenauer is in Washington.
They are puppets and lackeys
of the Kremlin while Adenauer
is the head of a sovereign na
tion and the honored guest of
President Eisenhower.
Pieck is the president of the
so-called German Democratic
Republic. He is a figurehead
Grotewohl, as premier, heads
the government. Ulbricht, the
most hated man in Germany, is
the head of the Communist party
and the real boss.
Berlin advices suggest that all
three Red leaders may go to
Moscow soon to find just what
the outlook is. It -seems hardly
likely that any news they get
will be good.
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To the Editor: With Flag Day at
hand once more the writer is
delving in memories of almost
three quarters of a century, and
recalls what may have been the
very first time the "Salute to the
Flag" was given in 1892. .
It was not until 50 years later
an item m me lviaii iriDune
made me realize that the salute
was originated by a man in Mai
den, Mass., and it was there at
school less than 10 miles trom
Boston where these special "ex
ercises" were held. It wasn't on
Flag Day, which I think had not
been instituted then, but on the
first Columbus Day (then on
Oct. 21) that the flag salute was
a very special part of the pro
gram at this school.
The record says it was given
first at the Columbia Exposition,
but I remember we had been
drilled thoroughly at this school,
in preparation for this very spe
cial program, and as we march
ed out, all nine grades I think,
and formed a hollow square
around the flag pole in the yard,
I recall now the thrul it gave me
as we very solemnly and' very
correctly gave it in unison.
The wording is substantially
the same, though we said "My
flag" as we flung our arm
towards it; giving a feeling of
real ownership.
Of the rest of the program I
recall little.- Mr. Upham may
have been present, there were
visiting dignitaries, I'm sure,
and perhaps we were joined by
some other school, it seems to
me were a large number, maybe
250.
I recall the hymn we sang,
O worship the King,
O tell of His might,
O sing His praise,
Whose robe is light,
Whose canopy, space."
I wonder if there happens to
be any one reading these lines
whose recollections go back to
school days in Massachusetts in
the last century.
Mrs. C. L. Bergstrom,
Phoenix, Oregon. . ,
former Undersecretary of State, at a meeting
of Liberal party in New York City. Mrs. Neu
berger and Gov. Harriman addressed the
meeting.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A West German "spokesman"
(they have 'em overseas too, you
see) says Chancellor Adenauer
is willing to talk with Russian
leaders, but not for several
weeks and not necessarily in
Moscow. The Kremlin, you will
remember, sent lim the other
day what amounted to an en
graved invitation delivered on
a silver platter to come to Mos
sow and talk things over.
It is understood in Bonn, the
capital of the West German re
public, that Adenauer doesn't
propose to lay himself open to
charges of disloyalty playing off
the East against the West in an
effort to get Germany put back
together again. He regards the
West as his friends and the com
munists as a bunch of slickers
who are trying to take him into
camp. , .
So he is proposing to have the
conditions of a meeting put
down in black and white before
he undertakes to talk turkey to
the Russians.
WEST German officials in
Bonn explain that Adenau
er doesn't propose to fall into
trans that will perpetuate the
Russian grip on East Germany,
(Don't take any wooden nickels
is a good American, expression
for what he means.)
QOMEHOW I have tremendous
admiration for the craggy-
faced old septuagenarian. He
seems to be interested ONLY IN
WHAT IS GOOD FOR HIS
COUNTRY and his people. If
we had more heads of state like
that, this would be a better world
to live in. -
I think WE have one in Ike. In
purely political matters (where,
not being a politician, he has to
rely on the advice of politicians)
Ike sometimes gets off on the
wrong foot, but his instinct for
what is best for his country ana
his people is seldom wrong.
SPEAKING of instincts
A British investigating com
mission has just recommended
a new approach to the problem
of the Mau Mau terrorists in
Kenya, in British East Africa, of
which we have been hearing so
.much in the past year or so.
The commission says that farm
lands that are now limited to
WHITE ownership should be
opened up to NATIVE owner
ship. This restriction has been
one of the main grounds for the
anti-white campaign among the
Kenya natives.
THAT is to say
The idea of this British com
mission is that these Mau Mau
natives are PEOPLE and as
PEOPLE they are entitled to
their fair share, everything con
sidered, of the good things of
life. The right to possess land
that one may call his own has al
ways been one of the fundamen
tal rights that people prise most
highly.
Down through the long cen
turies of history, rivers of blood
have been shed in defense of that
right, when people have it, or
in an effort to GAIN it when
people' do NOT have it.
THE Britishers on this lnvesti
catincr rnmmlssinn noint out
o frt x
reasonably that the Mau Mau na
tives of Kenya DON'T HAVE
that right, and they WANT IT.
They advise giving it to them.
ALEXIS de TOCQUEVILLE,
nne nf fine rifstrri authori
ties on advancing rule of the peo
ple and at the same time control
ling its undesirable tendencies,
points out that since the early
Middle ages the ruling class Brit
ish have possessed an astonishing
talent.
This talent, he says, is an in
stinctive knowledge of the exact
psychological moment at which
it is best for all concerned to
take the people -into the lodge
by giving them at least a reason
able part of the things they want
and are justly entitled to.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days 530 previous day.
Matter of Fact By Jo and Stew Alsop
HOW THE CENSOR- .
SHIP WORKS
Washington In free societies,
great political changes at least
deserve to be publicly debated.
But the Eis
enhower ad
m i n is tration
has been try
ing to intro
duce a strict
peacetime cen-
s o r s h i p in
America by
methods
that are neith
er forthright
nor above
Joseph Alsop
ground.
The thing hardly came into
the open at all, in fact, until Sec
retary of Defense Charles E.
Wilson's extraordinary "batten
all hatches" order at the Penta
gon. But long before Secretary
Wilson told his generals and ad
mirals they must never give the
American people any uncomfort
able life-and-death facts, the ef
fort to keep these facts from the
people was already in full
swing.
The reason why the effort has
got and is getting so little no
tice is extremely simple. Re-
porters are
rightly taught
not to write
about them
selves. And
the main point
of impact of
this novel
American cen
sorship is . in
the sensitive
area of the re
lations be-
Stewmri Alsop tween news
papermen and government offi
cials.
How the thing works is sim
ple enough. A reporter obtains
and publishes nationally signifi
cant information about, say, the
grave lag of the American air
program behind the Soviet air
program. He has seen no secret
papers. He has written nothing
which was not already fully
known to the Soviet intelli
gence. He has merely posed a
major public issue, with a vital
bearing on the nation's future.
Nowadays, however, even the
most trivial information has
been classified by someone or
other, in some dim Pentagon
corner or other. Furthermore,
the reporter has given no pleas
ure whatever in high quarters,
by posing this, major public is
sue which the leaders of the
Administration had been hoping
to keep under the rug. So a "se
curity investigation" is ordered.
WHE fact that a reporter is the
subject of one of these se
curity investigations does not
mean for one moment that he
has broken the law. Even less
does it mean there is the slight
est danger of prosecution. Attor
ney General Herbert Brownell
has sometimes had ' the crude
gall to hint of prosecutions at
cocktail parties, but he has far
too much worldly sense to carry
cut his threats. The security
investigation, in truth, is noth
ing but a kind of indirect re
prisal against the reporter who
shows inconvenient curiosity
about facts of national interest.
The reprisal takes three forms.
First, while the investigation
goes on the reporter must as
sume that his telephones 'are
tapped and that listening de
vices may be planted in his
house and office. The federal
flatfeet deny that they indulge
in these gestapo-like practices,
but the denials are singularly
unconvincing.
Second, the reporter's official
acquaintances and friends are
subjected to the most shameless
harassment. It does not matter
whether there is a tittle of evi
dence that they are the sources
of the reporter's information. It
does not even matter if it is well
known that they have never dis
cussed the subject in question
with the offending reporter. The
real object is not to locate the
reporter's source, but simply to
strike at the reporter through
the men he knows in govern
ment. ' Then third and finally, the
word is passed in government
that the offending reporter lies
under the grave displeasure of
the powers that be; and that it
is therefore a risky thing to see
him. Thus the attempt is made
to prevent the reporter from
doing his job as a reporter there
after. .
The attempt has never yet
been absolutely successful. These
reporters have had at least five,
and it may now be six of these
security investigations. . But we
Father's Day June 19, 1955
MEDFORD'S FINEST MEN'S STORE
think we still get our fair share
of the news. So do James Res
ton of "The New York Times,"
Chalmers Roberts of "The Wash
ington Post & Times Herald"
and the other well known Wash
ington correspondents who have
experienced the same charming
attentions from their govern
ment. BUT while individual report
ers can still barely .manage
to do their jobs in Washington,
the new censorship is already
successful in the larger sense.
There are good reasons to be
lieve, for example, that Secre
tary Wilson's 1953 defense cuts
actually crippled the develop
ment of our more advanced air
craft models; and so these cuts
left the United States with no
adequate answer to the new
planes the Soviets have just
shown.
But whether this is true or
not, is an inordinately compli
cated question involving many
different factors. The fate of
America may perhaps depend
upon the truth. It is quite pos
sible that a real crash program
is now . needed, to repair the
1953 mistakes; and such a pro
gram will certainly not be or
dered without public pressure.
And since the Question is so
complicated, and the whole pres?
ent aim of the Administration
is to cover up the facts, the full
facts that are needed to convince
the public may be all but impos
sible to obtain.
Then - again, no sensible re
porter enjoys the highly un
pleasant experience of having
the local gestapo on his trail.
He thinks twice, he hesitates
and sometimes he decides not to
publish, when he knows the pub
lication of a piece of news will
anger the powers that be. And
so these reporters have issued
to their readers a censorship
warning, meaning that the news
from Washington is now serious
ly slanted by the Administra
tion's effort to conceal life-and-death
facts.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Residents Seek To
Restrict Airspace ;
Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) A
group of residents of the Cedar
Hills area west of Portland
sought through court action, to
day to close their airspace over
their homes to "trespass by
planes which take off from Ber
nard's airport at Beaverton.
Sixty-eight residents have) filed
a complaint in Washington coun
ty court in which it is charged
that airplanes taking off from
the airport create "loud noises
and strong vibrations" and that
they disturb reasonable use, en
joyment and occupancy of the
plaintiffs' homes and proper
ties." Attorneys for both sides said
the suit would help settle the
question of "who owns the air
space" in Oregon.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
A rubbish fire set my garage
on fire and it burned to the
ground. It will cost $1500 to
replace, but the insurance ad
juster will only, allow only
$700 on the old garage (it was
in bad shape). Does your
agency write insurance to pay
full replacement value?
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AGENCY
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