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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 17, 1945
(It was Sunday)
Gov. Earl Snell to speak at
Jacksonville in first step of cam
paign to make old courthouse
into museum.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Thi6 is Fa
ther's Day. He can spill ashes on
the living room rug if he wants
to, without fear of court martial.
20 YEARS AGO
June 17. 1935
(It was Monday)
C. Bi Cordy appointed assist
ant extension agent in charge of
horticultural work in Jackson
county.
Indications are that tourist
trade at Crater Lake will be best
in five years.
30 YEARS AGO
June 17, 1925
Roads east of Crater Lake
highway closed for firing of ar
tillery at National Guard en
campment. Petitions asking an election to
authorize erection of new city
hall presented to Medford city
council.
40 YEARS AGO
June 17. 1915
(It was Thursday)
A Congressional appropria
tion committee tours Rogue Val
ley on return trip from inspect
ing Klamath county reclamation
projects.
First queen of Josephine coun
ty caves crowned in cavern cere-,
monies. t
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research R.eart
1. The U. S. Flag has never
been more than 13 stripes; right
or wrong?
2. About one third, one-half,
two-thirds or three - fourths of
our World War I veterans are
still alive?
3. The Lucy Stone League
wants married women to keep
their maiden names, serve on
juries, get divorce more easily,
or vote regularly?
4. Which one of these coun
tries doesn't border on the Cas
pian Sea: Soviet Union, Iran,
Turkey?
5. Texas voted in 1952 for
Eisenhower or Stevenson for
President?
6. More or fewer small busi
nesses are now - being started
than discontinued, or about the
same number?
7. A Glaswegian is a native of
which large city in Europe?
The Answers: 1. Wrong; it
had 15 between 1794 and 1818.
2. About two-thirds. 3. Keep
their maiden names. 4. Turkey.
5. Eisenhower. 6. More being
started. 7. Glasgow, Scotland.
Mrs. Marjorie Smith
Enters Innocent Plea
Portland (UJJ Mrs. Mar
jorie Smith, 34, yesterday
pleaded innocent to a first de
gree murder charge in connec
tion with the bomb-death of her
lawyer husband, Oliver Kermit,
at a golf club here April 21.
She is scheduled for trial in
September. She 1 was arrested
along with Victor Laurence
Wolf,; 45, who confessed and im
plicated Mrs. Smith.
Dead line Sundav Classified is at
coon Saturday 10 am Monday for
Monday: other days 5;30 previous day.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Kids and
The orchard thinning, isn't going along quite as
rapidly as usual this year, and some of the high school
youngsters who are looking for summer work are
having a bit of difficulty as a result
But, other than this, the summer employment of
vacation-minded young folk is about as usual, accord
ing to John Patton manager of the state employment
service office here.
There's "no particular pattern" in summertime
juvenile employment, Patton reported, but he added
that there have been a good many work permits
issued, which is a good sign.
A CTUALLY, these many high school students who
are more or less at loose ends during the summer
constitute a big pool of workers with a generally
pretty high level of ability.
The Mail Tribune tapped this pool this summer,
and two recent high school graduates are working in
the newsroom where a high degree of responsibility
and accuracy is required. Thus far our hopes that they
will live up to expectation have been justified.
IT is the younger group which is having the most
difficulty in finding summer jobs, according to
Patton, those in the 14 and 15 year old brackets. In
a couple of weeks, however more agricultural jobs
are expected to open up, making opportunities better.
In any event, if anyone needs someone to do
chores around the house, or other jobs that never seem
to get done by themselves, the employment service
can send an eager kid your way. E.A.
Above Average
While we're talking about young people in Med
ford, it is encouraging to note a story (which appears
elsewhere in today's Mail Tribune) to the effect that
children in the first six grades in Medford elementary
schools are well above the national average in the re
sults of achievement tests.
Consistently, in all but one of the tests, and all
through the six grades, Medford students generally
made median scores almost a full point higher than
the national average median scores.
THE point in the report which interested us especial-
ly was that regarding spelling.
Medford students, apparently, are better spellers
than the nation's average, which we suppose
shouldn't be too startliner. although from some of the
papers of third, fourth and fifth graders we've seen,
the nation's average can't be too terribly high. E.A.
C-D Test Helpful ,
Yesterday we were talking with a friend, a state
police sergeant, who was discussing the local phases
of the nationwide test air raid alert conducted this
week. .
His office, he said, had been thrown off schedule
by the test, for the police took an active role in the
communications end of the job, in addition to their
regular duties.
He wasn't complaining, particularly. And, after
we'd discussed the plan generally he commented that
it was a good idea to try out such a plan "just in
case." .
IT is true that the widespread test, which involved
governmental officials from the President on down,
may be entirely needless. We devoutly hope that it
proves so. But "just in case" there is the start of a
nuclear war, the exercises this week will pay off in
thousands, perhaps millions, of lives saved through
out the nation.
It's a bit hard to get steamed up about the possi
bility of an H-bomb hitting Portland at the present,
but as we have seen only too distinctly in the last two
decades, the unexpected can and frequently does
happen. It is well to be as ready as possible.
A SIDE from a few minor mixups, the local phase of
the test, which was confined largely to communi
cations and the summoning of a skeleton organization
of civilian defense workers, went smoothly. ,
As has been before mentioned, civil defense here
is predicated on the theory that Medford would not
be hit by a nuclear weapon (except as it might be
picked as a secondary "target of opportunity"), but
that it would be a housing, feeding and relief center
for masses of evacuees.
It is not a role which has any particularly cheerful
aspects, but what role in warfare does? E.A.
Demonstration Set
By Vacation School
The Vacation Bible school of
the Church of the Nazarene will
conduct a demonstration pro
gram Sunday, June 19, at 10 a.m.
The program climaxes a 10 day
school held from June 6 to 17.
More than 200 teachers and pu
pils enrolled with an average
daily attendance of 180.
The beginners department has
been under the supervision of
Mrs. Orman Tompkins; the Pri
mary department supervised by
Mrs. George McUne, and the
junior - intermediate supervised
by Mrs. Clarence Starkey. Co
ordinator for the entire school
was Mrs. LoweU Shepard.
- At 9:45 a.m. the Youth tlepart
ment will present a. Father's day
program in the adult department
of the Sunday school. The Naz
arenes plan to honor "all fathers
on Father's day.
Friday, June 17, 19S5
Jobs
Klamath Jury To
Investigate Murder
Klamath Falls (U.R) Trial of
Leon Gale Pearson and Melvin
Chiloquin for the, death of John
Madrueno, originally scheduled
for Monday, has been continued
until after the Klamath County
grand jury completes an investi
gation of the case.
Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg late Wednesday ruled
for a new investigation of man
slaughter charges filed against
the two men., but he refused dis
trict attorney Frank Alderson's
request for dismissal of the case
and resubmission to the grand
jury for indictment on a lesser
charge.
The two are accused of fatally
beating Madrueno, Klamath
Falls railroad worker whose
body was found in a snowbank
near Chiloquin last February.
R r ussia n Accepta nee
Of Big Four Meeting
Date Features News
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet: '
THE GOOD
1. Soviet Russia accepted an
invitation by the United States,
Britain and France to attend a
meeting of the
heads of gov
ernment of the
Big Four pow
ers in Geneva,
Switzer land,
July 18 to 21
inclusive. Al
1 i e d strategy
for the con
ference was
d i s cussed in
New York by
Charles McCann secretary Of
State John Foster Dulles, British
Foreign Secretary Harold Mac
Millan and French Foreign Min
ister Antoine Pinay: They will
discuss arrangements for the
conference with Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov
during the 10th anniversary
meeting of the United Nations
in San Francisco next week,
which all four will attend.
2. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
of the West German Federal
Republic made it quite clear
that he will not permit Russia
to lure him away from his ties
with the Western democracies.
Adenauer has accepted in prin
ciple an invitation to confer
with Soviet Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin. But during a visit to
Washington Adenauer reached
complete agreement with Presi
dent Eisenhower on the policy
they will pursue in any talks
they may hold with the Rus
sians. They will make no agree
ment with Russia affecting their
mutual interests without consult
ing together beforehand.
3. A crippling 17-day strike
on Britain's nationalized rail
roads was ended when the gov
ernment appointed a referee to
settle points at issue. The strik
ers won at least a partial vic
tory in that some, though not all
Babson and
Babson Park, Mass. (Special to
Mail Tribune) So many read
ers are worrying about Formosa
and China that
at this time.
11 "when the
ft "World's Big-
- '
gest world is
being dedicat
ed here, I take
the liberty of
discussing Asi
atic problems.
First, let me
Baser w. Babsaa say that I have
never met Chiang Kai-shek, but
I have known Madame Chiang,
who attended Wellesley College,
which is only two miles from the'
Babson Great Globe and Insti
tute. She is a remarkable wo
man of the highest character
and keenest insight; she "has
great influence wtih him. He was
a poor boy when he married her;
but a determined type like the
late Henry Ford and a very great
man.
When forecasting the future of
any country, it is weU to recog
nize the history as well as the
present status. .Formosa is a
large island, about the size of
of Massachusetts and Connecti
cut, lying 100 miles east of Chi
na. A mountain range runs
north and south, with fertile
plains to the west. A combina
tion of heat and moisture gives it
marvelous crops it produces
gold, silver, copper, oil, coal,
and uranium. Population is
about 9,000,000, mostly of old
Chinese descent.
This great island was original
ly settled by the Dutch, who
were expelled by the Chinese
during the 17th century It was
taken by the Japanese in 1895,
who held it until the clos$ of
World War II, when, in 1945, it
was ceded back to China. What
ever our opinion as to the gov
ernment of China whether
Nationalistic under Chiang Kai
shek, or Communistic under
Chou and his gangsters we
must realize that Formosa in
herently is a part of China.
Whether the Communists want
to "liberate" it or "enslave" it
is debatable. From a strategic
viewpoint, the United States and
Japan should not allow Formosa
to get into the clutches of Com
munist China.
Importance of Patience
Learned From Madame Chiang
One of the chief lessons I have
learned from Madame Chiang
Kai-shek is the importance of
patience and of avoiding giving
ultimatums. Human nature is the
same on both sides of a conflict
and if "the ball can be kept in
the air" long enough most prob
lems . will solve themselves.
Many . serious problems are
solved by leaders becoming old
er and finally 5 dying. (Today's
Bible reading is Psalms, 49th
Chapter, which has given me the
inspiration to write this column).
To apply the above philosophy
to the Formosa problem, it may
be impossible to get a satisfac
tory settlement as long as
of them, will . get higher pay.
But they were forced to return
to work before specific pay in
creases were discussed.
THE BAD
1. A long dispute between
President Juan D. Peron of Ar
gentina and the Roman Catholic
Church turned into open war
fare. Peron expelled from Argen
tina two high-ranking Roman
Catholic clergymen, charging
that they instigated anti-government
demonstrations. The Vati
can retorted by formally ex
communicating Peron and aU
others concerned in the arrest
and expulsion of the churchmen.
A few hours later anti-Peron
rebels in the armed forces re
volted. Peron announced that
the movement had been
crushed. But sporadic fighting
was believed continuing outside
Buenos Aires. Peron for months
has accused the Roman Catholic
Church of interfering in politics.
The dispute may have profound
repercussions! Nearly all of
Argentina's 18,400,000 people
are Catholics.
2. The situation in French
North Africa, long torn by dis
orders resulting from National
ist demands for freedom, became
further complicated. A French
newspaper publisher, who sup
ports Nationalist demands for
home rule, was assassinated in
Casablanca, the capital of Moroc
co. He ws murdered, apparently,
not by natives but by fellow
Frenchmen representing the cl
onists who bitterly oppose na
tive self-government.
3. In Singapore and Malaya in
Southeast Asia the Communists,
who have failed to win victory
in the long guerrilla warfare,
have turned to infiltration and
subversion. Both officials and
private citizens in the two Brit
ish commonwealth territories ex
press fear that the Reds may win
control within three to four
years unless the government
takes firm counter-measures,
The Communists are active in
the schools, in the press, in the
trade unions and in the political
parties.
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek is in the sad
die. If, however, he should be
removed by death or become in
capacitated (he is about 70, and
has had a hard life), I forecast
that President Eisenhower could
bring about a settlement which
would both insure our position
and "save face" for the Peking
Government.
World War III
Not Now Feared
Although the present Big Four
International Conference will
probably amount to nothing and
the possibility of World War III
will be hanging over us for many
years, yet the best advices are
that World War III is not now
to be feared. None of the big
nations, including Russia and
China, now want World War III;
but the threat of using the H
bomb will constantly be used to
blackmail the Democracies. With
the cost of manufacutring H
bombs constantly becoming less,
every nation will have some,
enabling revolutionary forces in
these nations to get them. Some
crazy dictator may try to con
quer the world with them; but
if so, he would be quickly sub
dued. This would be an oppor
tunity for the United Nations to
fulfill its real mission.
AU the above means that our
defense program may gradually
be curtailed and this Federal
money be used for the building
of roads, hospitals, schools, and
especially the new industry of
Urban Redevelopment. Uranium
oxide is being found almost
everywhere) and could also help
stave off the so-called "inevi
table" depression. I still believe
in the business cycle; but its
duration is now determined by
politics. Therefore, let us forget
the troubles which we read so
much about. Let us concentrate
on our own business and make
better products for less money
and sell them aU over the world.
This is the most practical kind
of patriotic service .we can
render.
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Short but Sweet
To the Editor: Your editorial
June 14 was tops in my estima
tion. If more editorials were not
so partisan in the nation's papers
this U.S.A. would be a better
place for all of us.
Elwood Hussey, Mayor
ave Junction, Ore.
The longest and deepest un
derwater tunnel in America is
the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in
N far York. It is over VA miles
long and dips 115 feet below
the bottom of the harbor.
Today and
By Walter
II. THE TEN YEARS OF
THE U. N.
In a preceding article I spoke
of the United Nations as being a
universal society to which all
governments,
with no excep
tion, wish to
belong and
none wishes to
resign. There
is, of course,
another con
ception of the
United Na
tions, which is
to think of
them as a lea
gue to enforce
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peace against military aggres
sion. This second conceDtion
was invoked in the case of the
Korean war. It raises really
disturbing questions. In this
country at least they account
for much disappointment and
for such popular opposition as
there is to the United Nations.
The Korean war, which was
fought in the name of the United
Nations as a world institution to
enforce peace, was an unpopular
war in this country. For the
American people found them
selves bearing the brunt of a
nasty and bloody war in a dis
tant country. It was, moreover,
in the conventional sense an in
decisive war. In so far as the
American people had been
taught to believe in "collective
security," to believe that all the
United Nations would rise in
their might and their wrath
against aggression, they felt they
had been let down and were bit
ter. TT may be said, I know, that on
a commemorative occasion it
would be more tactful to forget
all this and to let bygones be
bygones. But, in my view, the
future of the United Nations will
be brighter and healthier if the
issues raised by the Korean ex
perience are discussed and are
not left to fester in the dark
Now ' the controlling fact,
which is often forgotten but
which it is necessary to remem
ber, is that the Korean war
could never have been fought
as a United Nations enterprise
but for a mysterious, as yet un
explained, accident. This was
the absence of the Soviet dele
gate to the Security Council
when the North Korean army
launched its invasion of South
Korea. Had Mr. Malik been
present, he could and he would
have vetoed the decision of the
Security Council to act against
the North Korean invasion.
There is no reason to think
that the Soviet Union, or any
other permanent member of the
Security Council, is likely in
other cases to be absent when
such a decision is being taken.
Nor is any government likely to
hesitate to use its veto if the
Security Council were about to
take military action against one
of its dependent states. If the
great power possessing the veto
has not already restrained the
dependent state, it has in fact
authorized it to commit the ag
gression. It is bound to prevent
the United Nations from crush
ing its satellite.
THE Korean War did demon
strate that the United States
and some of its allies would
under certain conditions go to
war against aggression. If we
are frank and objective about it,
we shall recognize that the
North Korean aggression threat
ened the vital position of the
United States in Japan and that
we had the military forces avail
able to resist it. . But the Korean
war did not demonstrate that the
United Nations will or can be
an institution for the collective
enforcement of peace against
military aggression.
The notion that the United
Nations is such a collective
agency is in fact a popular mis
conception. The charter does
not facilitate, in fact it all but
prevents, collective enforce
ment of peace. The system of
the veto by the great powers,
who are permanent members of
the Security Council, was at least
as much an American as it was a
Soviet condition for adherence
to the United Nations.- Now the
system of the veto means, and
was put into the charter in order
to mean, that military action can
never be taken against any of
the great powers, nor against
any small power which is under
the protection of a great power.
The common sense of the veto is
that military action by great
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powers against great powers is
nothing less than world war,
and it would make no sense to
try to establish a universal so
ciety which is organized to wage
world war.
What is left of the idea of the
collective enforcement of peace
is that if and when the great
powers are unanimous, small
powers are much less likely to
wage war. They are much more
likely to yield to the pressure
and influence calling upon them
to negotiate and to accept media
tion. rpHE idea of an international
- league to enforce peace be
came current during the First
World War. In the charter of
the United Nations the idea was
apparently adopted. But it was
in fact rejected. Thus there are
sections of the charter which
authorize collective action
against aggression. But they are
really fossils left over from that
earlier period, now long since
past, when the idea had not been
put to the test. For these sec
tions cannot be made to operate
except when the international
conflict is of little importance,
and does not involve the serious
interests of any of the great
powers.
In place of the concept of the
collective enforcement of peace,
we have developed in these ten
years an alternative. It is the
traditional way of preserving
the' peace. We have organized
the power to balance the power
of the Communist world. This
balance of power, now augment
ed with nuclear weapons, has
made improbable, because the
consequences are incalculable
and intolerable, wars of aggres
sion and crusades of liberation.
It is not the United Nations' al
leged role as an enforcer of
peace, but this balance of the
powers with their new revolu
tionary weapons, which has
brought the world to the point
where there is, as the President
has said, no alternative to peace.
m m m
-RELIEVING as I do that the
mission of the United Na
tions is to be a universal society
without sovereignty and with
out military power, but with an
increasing influence over all sov
ereignties and powers I think
it is a good thing for the future
that the United Nations should
cease to be thought of as a
league to enforce peace.
So far as we are concerned,
let us leave the enforcement of
peace, the resistance to aggres
sion, and the- protection of the
weak, to the armed alliance to
which we belong.
Let us treat the United Na
tions as the universal society to
which all belong, whether they
like each other or not, where
each nation can talk with any
other nation, where talks are
never finally broken off, where
the issues, however insoluble,
are never pressed so far that
they bring the ultimate doom
and disaster to mankind. -Copyright,
1955, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Port of Umatilla May
Buy Old McNary Town
Umatilla, Ore. -U.R) It is
practically certain now that the
Port of Umatila will buy the site
of the old construction town of
McNary city, Port Manager Gor
don Rowe said today.
Rowe said the district hoped to
convert the 344 acre townsite
into an industrial area.
The site, once used for homes
of McNary dam construction
workers, still has a complete
water system and more than 50
buildings. Rowe , said the fed
eral general services adminis
tration and the district were in
the "final stages of negotiations
for outright purchase of the
townsite." '
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The Opening of the Offices of
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T.nnrlnn. with -i .j...il
tn rtvtnrA T saw a North Amer
ican animal near Windsor castle
which has adopted this country
side. Who am I?
My kind is diverse I range
in size from a mouse to a cat.
A remarkable builder, most of
us have airy summer homes and
secure winter residences. Most
spend the greater part of our
lives aloft. Our young are born
naked'
We are found in every land
except Australia, although we
seldom roam far from home base
usually not more than two of
us defending our four-acre wood
lot zealously. As swimmers go,
we are fair I've crossed a 7-
mile lake.
I'm an inquisitive scamp
loudly proclaiming my findings.
On the whole I am unsociable,
yet I'm beloved by humans.
Despite wintry blasts, many of
use do not hibernate in our nests
but we do hang tight when
weather, is bad. Scampering up
trees, I gallop; descending, I run
head downwards. I land on all
fours with tail outspread.
My chisel-like incisors never
cease growing. In fall, I race
dizzyingly, taking nuts and
cones to my. middens. : ;
The tiny young, perhaps four,
are born late in spring or mid
summer and are naked, with
eyes and ears sealed. The moth
rr is affectionate, often strok
ing them fondly. When danger
threatens, she grasps them with
her incisors by the slack of the
belly and transports them to
safety. i
My enemies are foxes, coyotes,
raccoons; mink, weasel and bob
cats; plus birds such as hawks,
owls and gulls; and of course
there is man primarily my
greatest menace because he de
stroys our woodlands by burn
ing, cutting and cleaning up, the
brush. '.
I am; A. Tree bat; B. Squirrel;
C. Wood rat; D. Black bear; E.
Marten. - -,
I am B., Squirrel.
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ings are paid to our inves
tors. It's an unfailing thrill,
this attractive rate of pay for
the use of your hard-earned
dollars!
FIRST FEDERAL
SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N
of Medford
27 North Holly
An Institution Dedicatee1
To Those Who Save
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