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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 20. 1945
(It was Wednesday)
Chief Deputy Howard Gault
named to serve unexpired term
of Jackson County Sheriff Syd
I. Brown.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Upstate
newspapers published in or near
heavily timbered areas, have
started to advise subscribers, a
fuel shortage is likely next win
ter. 20 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1935
(It was Thursday)
County farm undergoing re
pairs by SERA help to remove
fire hazards and improve sani
tation. Oiling of county roads under
a 10-year program is under way.
30 YEARS AGO '
Juna 20. 1925
(It was Saturday)
Some 487 vehicles transport
2,000 National Guardsmen to
Crater Lake National park.
Ashland Board of Education
calls for election on $105,000 in
bonds for repairs to schools.
40 YEARS AGO
Juna 20, 1915
(It was Sunday)
From Local and Personal
column: The Medford band gave
its regular concert in the city
park Friday night, the attend
ance being lower than the two
previous concerts owing to a
threatening sky. The program
showed an improvement over
past performances, and was high
ly enjoyable.
Burial ground of Rogues un
covered while sewer trench at
Sleepy Hollow ranch being dug.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Gat 4 ot tha 7t)
Copr. 1955. Editorial feesaarcli Revert
1. Most women with TV set
on during afternoons do nothing
but look and listen, or do some
thing else at the same time?
2. To transmit race informa
tion across state lines does or
doesn't violate federal law now?
3. Most of the 21 nations de
nied UN membership have been
vetoed by the Soviet Union or
the democracies?
4. The late President Roose
velt died before the World War
II surrender of Japan. Was he
still alive at the surrender of
Germany?
5. Average size of U.S. farms
is about 20 acres smaller than
30 years ago, or the same, or
20, 60, or 100 acres larger?
6. Most persons sued for di
vorce do or don't contest the
suit?
7. An alewife is a widow, veg
etable, unmarried mother, fish
or divorcee?
Tha answers:
1. Most do something alsa at
tha sama time, reports an Ohio
Slate U. survey. 2.' Doesn't. 3.
Most by tha Soviet Union. 4. No.
5. About 60 acres larger. 6.
Don't. 7. Fish.
Salem Man Drowns
In Swimming Mishap
Salem (U.R) Paul E. Pear
son, 21, of Salem, drowned in
Mill creek behind the first con
crete dam south of State street
yesterday. He worked for. Blue
Lake packers. "'
Les Eitelgeorge, 21, of Salem,
MAIL TRIBUNE
Romeo and Juliet in High School
' In the worlds most famous love story, "Romeo
and Juliet," the hero and heroine were of an age
where today they probably would be in school. Juliet
was presumably 17 years of age, and Romeo only
slightly older.
During the last century, and even in the first four
decades of the 20th century, the community mores
dictated that marriage was not to be thought of until
the young people were adults, and ready to assume
all the responsibilities of adults.
DUT World. War II changed much of this, and
earlier marriages are now far from unusual. "Mar
ried housing" has become a standard part of prac
tically every coeducational university and college
campus. The problems of finding, baby-sitters and of
2 a.m. feedings are not unusual subjects for between
classes bull sessions.
To a lesser extent, the same thing is true in high
schools. This piece of comment, as a matter of fact,
was inspired by a story in the Bend Bulletin which
quotes the Redmond school board at length on the
problem of married students in high school.'
"Marriage and high school don't mix, the board
of Redmond Union High school agreed this week,"
the story began. It added :
The board strongly recommends that students do not
get married while still attending school, but that if they
do marry, they withdraw from school and assume their
adult responsibilities.
THE board issued a statement which indicated that
after marriage young people enter a different so
cial status, create attendance problems because they
are no longer under home and parental supervision,
discuss marital experiences with the unmarried stu
dents while often their marriage tends to bring them
a false popularity. It is also claimed married students
lose interest in school functions, they necessitate a
double set of regulations, and pose other administra
tive and teaching problems.
The board issued the statement with the thought
that the problem is one common to many schools, and
that legislative action might have to be sought. They
thought that opinions of other school-boards would
be helpful.
TN MEDFORD High school, the problem has been
- slight, and, in our view, it has been handled sensi
bly. Last year there were five students enrolled in the
high school who were married, and in Junior High
school there was one married student, who, however,
remained only part of the year.
The city school office reports that in some few
cases in recent years problems of the type cited by the
Redmond school board have arisen, but that by and
large the situation has been one which has given no
cause for any extraordinary measures. The young
people are treated on an individual basis, not cov
ered by a blanket policy or rule which might or might
not apply in any given case.
.
IN a few instances, students were interviewed, and it
was suggested that, for the good of everyone in
volved, the married student leave regular school,
and, if desired, complete his or her education through
summer school, night school, or other means. In these
cases,- no fuss nor furor has arisen, and each case has
been quietly handled to give both the individual stu
dent and the rest of the student body the best possible
solution.
In other cases, the schools office reports, married
students have had an attitude which not only per
mitted them to remain in school, but which made
them real assets to the school; leaders of a mature
type often needed. :
'J'HE moral, if any, would appear to be double:
1. That with our changing mores, we are apt to
see increasing numbers of young people getting mar
ried and either continuing their education together,
or striking out into the adult world.
2. That people are individual human beings, and
cannot all be treated by an arbitrary rule of thumb.
It is fortunate this is true! E. A.
Tourists Acomin
The tourist season, while hot quite yet upon us,
is drawing nigh. The chamber of commerce reports
that inquiries from those wishing to visit this area
during the summer are now arriving in large num
bers. Responses to an advertisement by "Southern Ore
gon Hospitality, Inc." are beginning to show up, in
addition to the regular letters requesting information.
.
THIS, then, is a god time to remember that the tour
1 ists who visit our valley bring dollars with them,
in such numbers as to constitute our third largest in
dustry. Hotels, motels, restaurants, service stations, shops
and stores all have a vital stake in welcoming our
visitors, making them feel at home, and keeping them
here longer.
'So, when that out-of-state car stops and asks di
rections this summer, be ready with a frjendly word,
and provide the visitor with the information and
hospitality he's looking for. If we all make a point
of this, it will pay off in a practical way, as well as
increasing the atmosphere of good-will which arises
out of friendly and pleasant contacts. E.A.
who cannot swim, had accom
panied Pearson to the area and
ran a mile and a half to state
police headquarters to report
that Pearson didn't come to the
surface after diving into nearly
eight feet of water. City first
Monday, June 20, 1955
aidmen recovered the body.
Pearson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Pearson, served in the Navy
in the Korean conflict and was
given a medical discharge after
being injured while his ship was
in Korean waters.
Matter of
THE MENON MISSION
(Note to readers: Having ob
tained a Soviet visa by writing
personally to Nikita Khrush
chev, Stewart Alsop has just
left for a month's tour in Rus
sia. Josaph will b writing
from Washington until his
brother begins to report from
Moscow.)
Washington According to re
port, no decisive business was
done between the President, Sec
retary of State
Dulles and V.
K. Krishna
M e n o n. But
only three
months ago,
this double em
issary of Pan
dit Nehru and
Chou En - lai
would have
been about as
nonular in
Joseph Alaop Washington as
poison ivy at a picnic. So the
amiable and even distinguished
reception that has been given
Menon can be said to speak
volumes.
In particular, it seems to prove
what has long been suspected.
If Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek can be cajoled or bully
ragged into cooperating, Que
moy and the Matsu Islands are
eventually to be given to the
Chinese Communists as the Ta
chen Islands were given on a
silver platter.
On balance, perhaps, this is
the best way out of a .bad busi
ness. But two things about it
must be clearly understood in
advance. In the first place, the
consequences are likely to be
appallingly unpleasant. And in
the second place, those conse
quences will be the direct results
of the most incredible misman
agement in the entire history
of American postwar diplomacy.
The chief consequences of
handing over Quemoy and the
Matsus are not to be looked for
in Japan and South Asia, as so
many people suppose. But there
will be grave repercussions on
Formosa, where the Generalissi
mo's regime will be shaken to
its foundations.
And above all, the conse-
extraordinarily dangerous. If
they get the offshore islands as
a present, the Chmese Commu
nists will be finally and unshak
ably convinced - that America
really is a paper tiger. Thereaft
er, nothing short of an American
bullet through Chou En-lai's
head will ever again convince
the Peipine leaders that the Eis
enhower administration means
business.
This is known of . a strange
drama of tergiversation in four
fantastic -acts. The first act
opened in January, 1953, with
President Eisenhower's dramatic
announcement that he had just
"unleashed" Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, all the offshore
islands were very lightly occu
pied by the Chinese Nationalists,
and all were frankly regarded
as entirely expendable. But the
heaviest American' pressure was
put on the unfortunate and high
ly reluctant Chiang, to make him
occupy the little islands in heavy
force. The purpose was to give
some substance to the much
touted "unleashing."
The result was to make Chiang
commit his own and his govern
ment's prestige to the hilt.
A CT two took place last sum
mer and autumn. The Chi
nese Communists were now vis
ibly preparing an attack in the
Formosa Strait. The question
therefore arose, whether we
would aid Chiang to defend the
islands where we had persuaded
him to commit himself. Three
of the four Joint Chiefs of Staff
said "yes." At the famous Se
curity Council meeting in Den
ver in late September, the Presi
dent said "no." The Formosa
treaty was therefore negotiated
to exclude any American aid
in defending any offshore is
lands. Act three took place in Janu
ary. For reasons which are still
mysterious, the September deci
sion of the National Security
Council was suddenly altered.
Now, instead of defending no
islands -at all, we were to help
in the defense of Quemoy and
the Matsus, if the Generalissimo
would evacuate the Tachens.
This change of American poli
cy was formally communicated
to the Formosa government by
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, through Chinese Foreign
Minister George Yeh. The For
mosa desolution, authorizing the ;
President to use American forces
to defend '-any area essential"
to the security of Formosa, was
then before the Congress. Dulles
told Yeh that if the Generalissi
mo would abandon the Tachen
islands, the President would
publicly declare that Quemoy
and the Matsus were "essential"
to Formosa's security as soon
as the Formosa resolution had
been passed.
DULLES further gave Yeh a
written minute of this
verbal communication, which
amounted to a promise of a
Presidential guarantee of the off
shore islands. On the basis of
this minute, when the Formosa
resolution was finally approved,
the American Ambassador in
Taipeh, Karl Ranking actually
told a press conference that
Quemoy and. tht Matsus would
Fact
Joseph Alsop
be guaranteed over the week
end. But meanwhile act four
was already beginning.
Almost as Rankin spoke to
the press, Assistant Secretary of
State Walter Robertson was ex
plaining to the dumbfounded
Yeh that there had been a little
misunderstanding between the
President and his Secretary of
State. The President, it seemed,
was not going to guarantee Que
moy and the Matsus after aU.
Meanwhile, however, nothing
was done to stop the big, bold
talk about defending Quemoy
and-the Matsus by other leaders
of the Administration. That bluff
went on till the famous Admiral
Carney dinner in April.
Consider this history. The
abandonment of Quemoy and
the Matsus would do little dam
age on Formosa, if it had not
been for acts one and two of the
foregoing drama. It would do
little damage in Peiping,, either,
if it had not been for acts three
and four. These acts repeated
the pattern of Rig, bold talk
followed by slow surrender that
was traced out by the Adminis
tration leadership in the Dien-bienphu-Geneva
period.
After this double demonstra
tion of phoniness, why on earth
should Peiping worry, no matter
what America says?
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Plywood Industry
Observes Jubilee
Portland (U.R) The plywood
industry was celebrating its gold
en jubilee today with some 1200
persons expected for the annual
meeting of the Douglas Fir Ply
wood Association which runs
through tomorrow here.
Mayor Fred Peterson yester
day unveiled a permanent memo
rial which contained the first
panel of plywood manufactured
here 50 years ago. It wiU be
for display at the Lewis and
Clark world's fair exposition.
Helping the mayor was eight-year-old
Christian Ann Autzen,
who is the great-granddaughter
of the late Peter Autzen, an own
er of the company here where
the first fir panels were made.
Mayor Peterson hailed the me
morial as symbolic of an . indus
try which has grown to where
it produces an estimated half
billion dollars worth of products
annually and employs 31,000
persons.
The National Plywood Distrib
utors Association is holding its
convention in conjunction with
the DPFA meet.
PEA CROP DAMAGED
Milton-Freewater, Ore. (U.R)
Last week's hot weather caus
ed considerable damage to early
peas in the Milton-Freewater
area, but left other crops rela
tively unharmed, according to
county agent Norton Taylor.
WEATHER By United Press
, Northern California: Fair to
day tonight and Tuesday but
coastal overcast.
Nixon Pipes Keynote
Of Peace, Prosperity
For 1956 Cam Dai an
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Vice
President Richard M. Nixon has
piped the keynote of the 1956
Republican presidential cam
paign with due, regard for an
issue designed to arouse boiling
Democratic anger.
Peace and prosperity will be
the affirmative basis of the Re
publican campaign effort. Nixon
would accompany that with an
all-out attack on the Democratic
Party as a socializes and nation
alizer of basic American institu
tions. And that is the kind of cam
paign the Republicans will wage
if as expected the party re
nominates the Eisenhower -Nixon
ticket next year. President Ei
senhower has indicated that
Nixon would be satisfactory to
him in every way as a running
mate.
Preview of 1956
That is the circumstance
which imposes much importance
on Nixon's week end Detroit
speech before the National con
vention of the Young Republi
can Federation. ..The speech
plainly was a preview of what
Nixon will tell the voters in
1956, and the slant of bis cam
paign will have considerable to
do with the whole Republican
campaign pattern.
"In 1956," Nixon told the
young folk, "we shaU have a
showdown battle between those
Announcing ...
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Hamburg, with ca wnile
hop-skipping around northern
Europe interviewing natural
ists, my traveling file is grow
ing fatter day by day, particu
larly my "did you know that
..." file. So here goes . . .
Did you know that . . . snakes
kill more people than aU other
predaceous animals combined!
Between 30.000 to 40.000 persons
die each year of snake bites, with
Burma leading. In the U. 5. only
about 2.000 nersons are bitten
annually with less than 50 deaths
resulting.
With the seahorse, the male
incubates the eggs in a pouch
just below his abdomen in which
the female places her eggs. The
male fish's pouch is much like
a womb. It contains blood ves
sels for feeding the developing
offspring which usually number
from 200 to 600. When his time
comes the father expels his tiny
but fully developed sons and
daughters by body contortions.
Although days are much short
er in December, they are not so
cold as the days of January and
February when there is more
sunshine. This is because the
earth, during December, still re
tains some summer's heat.
Ninety below zero is the low
est accepted temperature ever
recorded on earth. It was regist
ered in Siberia, February, 1892.
In North America, the lowest
recording is 82 below zero and
it occurred at an airport at Snag,
Alaska, February 1947. The all
time recorded low in the U.S.
is 66 below zero in Yellowstone
Park, February 1933. Note that
aU these records were made in
February!
Highest Ever Recorded
In the other direction, the
highest temperature ever record
ed on the face of the earth was
in Tripoli, with 137! The North
American record was only slight
ly less, 134 degrees, and record
ed in Death Valley, Calif ., July
10, 1913.
The cub of the huge Alaska
brown bear, although fully de
veloped at birth with fur and
claws, is only about the size of
a rat. Usually he is born while
the mother is denned up and
she often does not even wake.
Until the mother emerges, she
does not eat and yet her cub
may weigh 15 pounds.
Among animals, birds as a
whole have by far the keenest
eyesight with sharper and
farther vision than any others,
who would nationalize and so-
sialize basic American institu
tions and those who would con
tinue the American economic
policies which have been put
into effect by the administra
tion and which have worked so
well."
That is not only a challenge
to the Democratic Party. It is
the Republican bid for conserva
tive Democrats to break away
from domination of what Nixon
termed the left wing, big city
party leadership. That is the
weak spot in the Democratic
front. Nixon intends to force
the attack there.
Peace Vital Issue
The peace part of the cam
paign program depends, of
course, on the maintenance of
peace. Administration estimates,
as of now, are that peace will
be maintained well beyond the
election.
Prosperity used to be the Re
publican campaign trade-mark,
deserved or not. It flourished
from Mark Hanna's full dinner
pail slogan for William McKin
ley until depression struck it
down in 1932. The prosperity is
sue lay doggo for 16 years until
President Harry S. Truman re
vived it for a spectacular tri
umph in 1948. ,
"You never had it so good,"
Mr. Truman told the voters then
and they agreed with him. Nix
on's 1956 answer to that is to
be: "It's better with -Eisenhower."
. ..
Russ Diplomats Turn
Attention to Greece,
Japanese Peace Pact
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Staff Writer
Soviet Russia has just added
Greece to a long list of countries
with which it is trying to im
prove its diplomatic relations.
The Kremlin also is conduct
ing negotiations for a peace
treaty with Japan.
These new activities have
come after the sudden Russian
decision to conclude an Austrian
independence treaty and after
the humiliating pilgrimage of the
three top Kremlin leaders to
President Tito of Yugoslavia.
They come also while the
Kremlin is trying to get West
German Chancellor Konrad Ad
enauer to visit Moscow and
while Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru is .being lav
ishly entertained on a tour of
the Soviet Union.
The Greek and Japanese de
velopments clearly are steps in
the determined Russian . cam
paign to neutralize as many
countries as possible which lie
on the borders of the Soviet Un
ion or its satellites.
Improved Relations
Nikita S. Khrushchev, first
secretary of the Russian Com
munist party, made the first ov
ertures to Greece after he led
the pilgrimage to Belgrade.
Khrushchev called for better re-
lations between the Soviet bloc f
countries on one side and Greece I
and Turkey on the other.
This theme was taken up by
Russian propaganda organs.
At great heights, hawks, eagles
and vultures, particularly, can
see smaU prey on the ground
that a human couldn't begin to
distinguish with a spyglass.
Crows fly and hunt in flocks
and evidently are always pair
ed. At any rate, if you'll count
the flocks, I think you'll note
that there is never an odd num
ber at least, I've never count
ed an uneven number.
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judges will award each week
to the reader who sends me the
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or the best nature observation,
or the best question on nature
and wildlife a complete 30-vol-ume
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Grants Pass Man
Drowned in Rogue
Grants Pass Collis James
Dolmage, 41-year-old Grants
Pass contractor, drowned in the
Rogue river near here yesterday
when his boat overturned. His
brother and five children were
rescued.
Two fishermen helped Dol-
mage's brother, William, 29, and
the five children to shore after
the accident. Dolmage also was
pulled, ashore but was pro
nounced dead on arrival at a
local hospital.
Witnesses said the boat hit a
stump and overturned while
Dolmage was trying to lift the
engine out of the water.
FATALLY INJURED
Prineville U.R) Dale Krog,
31, a Prineville logger, was fa
tally injured early Saturday
when a log he was hoisting feU
on him. The accident occurred
at the Quant Logging Company
on Horse Creek, 40 miles north
of here.
Frank Perl
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FINER
FUNERAL
SERVICES
Then, on Thursday night, the
Soviet ambassador in Athens
gave a big banquet for Greek
Foreign Minister Stephan Steph
anopoulos and other officials.
The guests were subjected to
sugary conversations on the ben
efits of better Greek-Russian re
lations. ' This was followed up Friday
when the Academy of Sciences
of the Soviet Union invited the
Academy of Athens its Greek
counterpart to take part in a
meeting on the peaceful use of
atomic energy to be held in Mos
cow next month.
Moscow may be expected to
follow up these flirtatious over
tures by trying to weaken the
ties between Greece and the
Western democracies. .
Treaty Negotiations
An attempt to lure Japan into
neutralization likewise lies be
hind the Russian Japanese
treaty negotiations, which are
being held in London.
There is no indication that the
Kremlin will be successful in
getting either Greece or Japan
to desert the Western democra
cies and nut themselves in the
class of inferior nations by pledg
ing neutrality.
Japan, like German v. is a
world power whether it wants
to be or not. A permanent poli
cy of neutrality for either is in
conceivable.
Nor is Greece at all likelv t
take the Russian bait. King Paul
I and Premier Alexander Papa
gos know bitterly how Russia
Knuea Greece in the back after
World War n by fomenting the
civil war. Had it not been for the
United States aid, the Commun
ists who fought the government
then might have won.
It is interesting to recall that
Marshal Tito, as well as Russia,
helped the guerillas then. Tito,
however, found out that the
Kremlin was just as willing to
knife Yugoslavia as it was
Greece.
Carpenters Strike in
Portland Continuing
Portland U.R) A strike of
an estimated 1000 Portland area
carpenters was in its fourth week
today, with litUe prospect for
settlement reported.
The strike, called by the AFL
Carpenters local against two
builders associations, halted
work on $100,000,000 worth of
construction jobs when the bulk
of area contractors closed down
in sympathy for the associations.
Days of Power
GEO. N. TAYLOR
The Jerusalem leaders ever
eager for power, saw the people
going over to Christ At that,
the leaders ar
rest Christ so
as to bring
Him to triaL
Could they
prove that He
had said He
was the Son of
God, then He
must die. So
they put Him
on trial and
He not only
said He was
the Son of God but that they
would see Him come back to
earth on the clouds of glory.
Having so said to them, Christ
was guilty and must die. He
was then crucified. Having died.
He came from the grave the 3rd
day and after many more mira
cles, He ascended back to
heaven. From thence He is to
come to raise His own people
up to glory. The lost are then to
come under the wrath of God.
Having Christ as your Lord
and Saviour, then by Bible and
prayer, grow up. This Message
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