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NIWIAMt
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1945
Sams Valley Grange urges
Rogue Valley farmers close
lakes and fields to Izaak Walton
league members because the
group opposes U.S. Reclamation
bureau plans to build dam to
provide needed irrigation water.
From Arthur' Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow
Oregonians will struggle to the
polls, on the longest day of the
year, to vote on a couple of
issues, the legislature in the
longest session on record (69
days), fearlessly and fearfully
passed on to the people for a de
cision. All signs indicate more
voters will struggle -to the fish
ing holes than the polls.
20 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1935
Saving of $100,000 to Rogue
Valley seen in proposed reduc
tion of transcontinental freight
rate on pears.
About 3P.000 pounds of wool
shipped to Boston from Rogue
Valley after one of the best
quality clips in several years.
30 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1925
Economic survey of Rogue
Valley pear orchards starts.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Ladies' Aid of the
First Methodist Episcopal church
have presented the church with
a fine new bulletin board for
the lawn of the beautiful
church. It was purchased at De
catur, 111., and is the last word
in such boards. It is electrically
lighted and will make a very
attractive way of advertising the
church announcements.
40 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1915
(It was Monday)
Government loses suit in su
preme court that Oregon and
California railroad violated land
grant regulations, and about
$150,000 paid in taxes in past
two years is due Jackson coun
ty.
Flyer uninjured when plane
crashes before 2,000 people
watching air show in Medford
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Kesori
1. Time for first quartely in
come-tax payment this year was
extended from Mar. 15 to Apr.
15. Was second payment extend
ed from June 15 to July 15?
2. New York state has more
phones than any foreign nation;
right or wrong?
3. The college football team
called the Rams is Texas Georgia
Tech., Minnesota, Fordham, or
Purdue?
4. Waterloo, scene of Napol
eon's final defeat, is in Belguim,
France, Germany, Luxembourg
or The Netherlands?
5. More than twice as many
theaters now operate in New
York as 25 years ago, about as
many, or less than half as many?
6. Hodgkins Disease affects the
eyes, heart, appendix, lymph
glands and spleen, inner ear, or
bone joints?
7. First man to set foot on the.
South Pole was Adm. Byrd,
Adm. Peary, Dr. Cook, Roald
Amundsen, or Capt. R. F. Scott?
The answers: 1. No. 2. Right.
3. Fordham. 4. Belgium. 5. Less
than half as many. 6. Lymph
glands and spleen. 7. Amundsen.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Peters Case Again
The Bend Bulletin in its comment on the Dr.
Peters case, notes that, Oregon newspapers tended to
overlook this important decision but concentrated
upon the decision of the Supreme Court regarding
state water control in the Pelton dam case.
The Peters decision was important. But no one
would think so after reading the Bulletin's editorial.
For the fact that Dr. Peters was exonerated on
the charge of disloyalty, his right to reinstatement in
the government service upheld, and the blot on his
record officially removed, was not even mentioned.
In fact, according to the Bend paper, the only
important decision of our highest tribunal in this
case apparently was, quote:
I. The government retains the right to fire any person
It considers unsuitable for continued employment on se
curity grounds.
II. Accused need not be confronted by their accusers.
This is a strange position to take. For the court
refused to rule on the constitutional issue 01 "due
process" regarding loyalty dismissals, and until it
does the exact limits of such action can't be known
to the Bulletin or anyone else.
Moreover Chief Justice Warren did strongly im
ply in his decision that the rights of the accused in
such cases have been disregarded in the past, while
Justice Frankfurter in a previous opinion said:
"The problems of security are real. So are the problems
of freedom. The paramount issue of the age is to reconcile
the two. It is procedure that spells much of the differ
ence between rule by law, and rule by whim or caprice."
MOT only were the important facts in the case dis
regarded by the Bulletin, but so were the facts
of the Peters record dating back to January 7th, 1949.
Dr. Peters was then tried before the Loyalty Board
and was given complete clearance.
In 1951 the same charges again were filed and the
board again cleared him.
Here were two verdicts of not guilty, in two years,
in the same case.In the spring of 1953, four years
later, however, the Review Board of the Civil Service
commission reopened the case, and maintained the
evidence then sustained "a reasonable doubt" of the
defendant's "loyalty," so he was dismissed from gov
ernment service forthwith.
It was this decision that was appealed to the
Supreme Court, and . which the court overruled, not
on constitutional grounds, but because the Review
Board had, it said, exceeded its authority.
J--
rR. PETERS' lawyers did not maintain their client
enjoyed any special privileges or vested interest
in his government job, or that the government had
not the power to hire and fire much as it pleases.
But they did insist that when a person's loyalty is
questioned his entire career is jeopardized, and his
dismissal involves such severe punishment, that un
der the "due process" clause of the constitution he
is entitled to certain legal safeguards, which in this
case were not granted.
AS before stated we think it unfortunate the Su
preme Court did not rule on this important point,
but overthrew the decision of guilt purely on a tech
nical error.
However reviewing the entire case, taking into
consideration not only the majority but the minority
court opinions, and it seems highly improbable that
the Supreme Court will fail in the near future to
hold that when an individual or any individual
is accused of being disloyal to his country and there
fore deprived of his job, he is entitled, if he so desires,
to face his accusers, and have the evidence against
him placed in the record.
The fine legal points and red-tape aside, this
would seem to be only giving the accused, in view
of the gravity of the charge, a fair arid square deal.
R.W.R.
Another Hogan?
The defeat of Ben Hogan by an unknown and
unheralded "municipal golfer" from the great and
corny state of Iowa, has caused a great sensation in
the sporting world, and will probably go down in the
record books as the "big upset" of the year.
It may be that. But it should not have been un
expected by those who noted this chap Jack Fleck
when he pulled off two "birdies" on the last two holes
the day before, when he had to do that or better
to stay in the running. And if further proof were
needed his 69 on that Olympic course under pressure
the next day should supply it.
Any golfer who under such circumstances, can
make such a sensational finish, can, do anything
or almost anything, in that diverting but frustrating
game.
OOWEVER does that mean necessarily Fleck, now
in his 30's and a pater-familias, will proye to be
another Hogan?
He may, but not "NECESSARILY."
For we remember many years ago at Pebble
Beach, for example, when the then unbeatable Bobby
Jones was in his prime ran up against a then "un
heralded and unknown." This boy was also from the
corn and Bible belt, his name being Johnny Good
man. But Johnny failed to win that tournament, and
didn't win very many more important ones, although
he was in the upper brackets'f or a few years.
There are few Benny Hogans hanging around the
game of golf or any other sport these days or any
other day.
We are sorry "Bantam Ben" decided to quit so
soon after his Waterloo. For we believe he could have
still staged a come back in competition and might
well have topped his record with 5 open titles, as he
hoped to do, instead of only four. R.W.R.
Tuesday, June 21, 195S
Matter of
INVESTIGATING
INVESTIGATORS
Washington The cloud is
still no bigger than a man's
hand; but maybe Herbert Brow
nell, Scott McCleod, Lewis L.
Strauss and a few other people
had better start thinking about
what happened to the prophets
of Baal when Elijah's little cloud
grew to be a big one.
The cloud in question is the
unaminous report by the Senate
Committee on Government Op
erations of a resolution calling
for the appointment of a high
level commisison to review the
entire federal security program.
Senate Majority Leader Lyn
don Johnson and House Speaker
Sam Rayburn mean to pass the
resolution through their respec
tive bodies. Rayburn and John
son have a highly developed
knack of getting what they want.
Hence the resolution has an ex
cellent chance of becoming law
before the end of the session.
m
MEANWHILE, the circum
stances in which this resolu
tion to investigate the investi
gators was reported to the Sen
ate are highly significant in
themselves. In the novel style of
the Lyndon Johnson democracy,
it was co-sponsored by a Left
Right team, Senators Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota and
John Stennis of Mississippi.
It was then studied at pro
longed hearings, in the course
of which Attornty General
Brownell exhibited a marked
lack of enthusiasm for the pro
posed inquiry into his own se
curity practices. The Republican
members of the sub-committee
studying the resolution, Sena
tors Norris Cotton of New Hamp
shire, Thomas E. Martin of
Iowa and Margaret Chase Smith
of Maine, were at first inclined
to be suspicious of a measure
that looked partisan. But in the
end they enthusiastically joined
in presenting the resolution to
the full Committee on Govern
ment Operations.
The two senior Republican
members of the Government Op
erations Committee are Sena
tors Joseph R. McCarthy of
Wisconsin and Karl - Mundt of
South Dakota. No one can sus
pect either Mundt or McCarthy
of any desire for reform in Fed
eral security procedures. What
they want, if anything, is a
further debasement
Yet even McCarthy and Mundt
did not record their hostility
when the full committee report
ed the resolution to the Senate.
THE SIGNS are clear, then,
that there are increasing
doubts about the federal security
program. The doubts are no long
er confined to Leftwingers, in
tellectuals and obstinately old
fashioned persons who cannot
quite approve the back-door
abrogation of the Bill of Rights.
Grave concern is also beginning
to be felt by such good, horny
handed, orthodox, corn state Re
publicans as Senator Martin.
This shift of opinion was
bound to come, sooner or later.
Essentially, the existing security
program embodies a national re
action to the case of Alger Hiss.
It was a proper and natural re
action. But the result of the re
action, the security program it
self, is neither proper nor
natural.
It effectively deprives millions
of American citizens of the
ancient protections of our Con
stitution. It has worked horrify
ing injustices. It has bred among
us such novel phenomena as
hired informers, officially en
couraged poison-pen-letter writ
ers and federal f latfeet who ask
people whether their neighbors'
garbage includes an excessive
allowance of bottles. As present
ly constituted and administered,
in fact, the federal security pro
gram must keep the founders of
this Republic turning in their
graves like so many teetotums.
The Oppenheimer case, the
John Davies case and a few
other episodes have already dis
turbed a great many people. But
one can predict with confidence
that this security program will
eventually produce a sort of
Hiss-case-in-reverse a demon
stration -of injustices and mal
practice so final and so dramatic
that it will convusle the entire
country with strong indignation
and generate an irresistible de
mand for reform. Any one
familiar with the program can
already detect the stench of such
cases coming up, so to speak,
through the floor boards.
IlfHETHER the high level com
mission proposed by the
Humphrey - Stennis resolution
will really do the job, may per
haps be open to question. It is
to be composed of three groups
of four members, chosen by the
President, the Vice-President
and the Speaker. The Congres
sional appointees should be well
balanced, but Attorney General
BrowneU, who wants no serious
injuiry, has a chance to pack
the Commission through the
presidential appointees.
He will make the same mis
take if he does so, however, as
President Truman made when he
called the Hiss case a red her
ring. Already, the peculiarities
of the security program are be
ing somewhat fumblingly in
vestigated by the Post Office and
Civil Service Committee of the
Senate; and a subcommittee of
the Senate Judiciary Commit
Fact y iPh mp
tee headed by Sen. Thomas Hen-
nings of Missiouri is also start
ing a more promising investiga
tion. Sooner or later, the break
will come and the storm of in
dignation will follow, unless the
administration is wise enough
to forestall trouble by preparing
for careful reform.
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Thinks City is High-Handed
To the Editor: As a property
owner in the district proposed
for annexation, I am very much
concerned with the manner in
which the city of Medford pro
poses to "railroad" this plan
through.
Question 1: How can it be
possible for renters and non
property holders to vote on an
issue of this kind? You know
and I know how they would
vote. These people would natur
ally reason thus: "Why shouldn't
I vote for improvements that
will cost me nothing? Also, here
is a good chance to wield the
whip over my landlord, who
has charged me too much rent
for years."
Question 2: If the residents
of the present city of Medford
are charged a flat rate for water,
why shouldn't residents of the
annexed portion be accorded the
same privilege?
Many people outside of the
present city (including myself)
purposely bought in a rural area
to get away from high city tax
es. If this plan is voted in, a
good many of us are going to
be forced to sell, because we
won't be able to pay the cost
of sewers, paved streets, street
lighting, police protection, ad
infintum, plus an additional 22.8
mills assessment.
I think this is one of the most
"high-handed" plans for collect
ing revenue for the city of Med
ford that I've ever heard of.
Let's find out ALL of the ram
ifications of this plan before we
go to the polls, and, before we
vote think!
.'; Frank Gaster,
- 307 Jeanette ave.,
' Medford, Ore.
City Misleading?
To the Editor: Mr. Mayor, a
question the voters of Medford
are entitled to have you answer.
On Friday night June 17th at
a meeting held at the Jackson
Co. Courthouse auditorium for
the purpose of explaining plans
and problems involved in the
"South Medford" annexation
proposal, you were asked:
"Is it true that residents of
Medford will vote on an increase
over the 6 per cent limitation for
the budget at the same time res
idents outside the city vote on
annexation."
Your PUBLISHED reply in
the Mail Tribune Sunday, June
19th to quote the entire item:
"Yes. But Mayor Miller point
ed out that the city election on
financial questions has no direct
connection with annexation."
Your reply at the meeting
before a large audience was to
this effect: In a way, yes. The
City's financial abilities are very
good and that it did not need
any outside financial taxing aid.
That the City was the best man
aged and had the lowest tax
rate compared with any of the
cities of Oregon. That some
$60,000 increase over the 6 per
cent limitation, MOSTLY, was
being appropriated on account of
the annexation problem.
You forgot to mention that an
other item on the City's election
concerned a 3 mill continued in
crease through a projected char
ter amendment. This 3 mill
change, if voted in DOES con
cern the voters involved in the
annexation.
Mayor Miller was it you
or the Mail-Tribune who is mis
leading the people?
J. W. Stewart,
2715 Pacific Highway So.
(Editor's note: The answer re
ported in Sunday's story was an
accurate condensation of Mayor
Miller's reply to the question.
The mayor said Medford's tax
rate is one of the lowest, if not
the lowest of any Oregon city
of comparable size, and that the
city could operate on revenue
from within the present limits.
He pointed out that annexation
is up to the people within the
district, and that the city would
have to underwrite costs of an
nexation for. the first few years.
The city election to approve
Gospel Services
(Undenominational)
In Tent on Ross Lane
North of McAndrews
Sun.-Mon.-Tuer,
7:45 P.M.
"Gospel as it was in the
beginning."
NO COLLECTION
!ln TKe Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Leaving Portland on an offi
cial inspection tour that will cov
er state highways and state parks
on the lower end of Highway 30,
which follows the Columbia riv
er from Portland to Seaside,
Highway 101, which follows the
Oregon coast from Seaside to
the California border, the Oregon
part of the Redwood highway
from Crescent City to Grants
Pass, and Highway 99 from
Grants Pass north.
TI'S QUITE a party.
It includes all three mem
bers o f the Oregon highway com
mission Ben Chandler of Coos
Bay, Charles Reynolds of La
Grande and Milo Mclver of Port
land along with Sam Baldock,
state highway engineer, C. H.
Armstrong, state parks superin
tendent, and a full staff of engi
neers. There are six members of the
legislative highway interim com
mittee Senator McMinimee of
Tillamook, Senator Bingner of
La Grande, Representative Elis
trom of Salem. Representative
Littrell of Medford, Senator Leth
of Monmouth and Representative
Meek of Portland.
It includes three members of
the newly created state parks
advisory committee, three engi
neers of the U.S. bureau of dud-
lic roads and one angineer from
the Portland office of the forest
service. It is accompanied by
three newspaoer reoorters and
the manager of the Oregon Coast
mgnway association.
WHEN noses are counted, it de
velops that there are 30 of
us. We are to travel in a char
tered highway bus. The bus will
oe accompanied by a state high
way department car, which wiU
act as light scouting equipment,
permitting engineers and com
missioners to linger at construc
tion jobs reauirine their soecial
attention, enabling them to spend
what time is needed at these
points and then catch up with
the main body later.
rTHE BUS is a new departure.
Hitherto these inspection
trips have been made in passen
ger cars. The bus turns out to be
a splendid idea. It has loud-speak
ing equipment, which is used to
explain to all present the details
of all the various activities that
are under inspection,
This saves a great deal of time
in the dissemination of informa
tion about the various projects
that are being studied.
exceeding the 6 per cent limita
tion has no direct connection
with annexation. Of $66,510 in
excess of the limitation, $2,000
is only indirectly connected with
annexation. That amount is pro
vided in the engineering depart
met budget to provide for in
creased personnel necessary for
additional work loads for sewer
and street improvements re
quested by residents. The three
mill figure is not a "continued
increase." The levy, under the
charter, cannot exceed 12 mills,
but if the $66,510 addition to the
levy is approved, the amend
ment will be necessary to raise
the limitation to 15 mills. Stew
art, who was representing the
Charlotte Ann Water district at
Friday's meeting, lives outside
the area proposed for annexation.)
4 a H EAR I N G
fUWOM SERVICE
fmuMAmxi
Complete Service on
Dear Friend:
May we take this means of wishing you the very best for the summer
season and to invite you to attend our HEARING SERVICE CENTER.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd
Medford, Hotel
Mr. Ellsworth Breen, Factory-trained representative, Engineer and
Technician, will be at the hotel this ONE DAY ONLY for the purpose oft
1. Cleaning and adjusting your Hearing Aid for better performance
Any Make or Model.
2. Discussing your hearing problem with you if you wish.
' 3. Furnishing you with a FREE CORD for your instrument (one only
to a customer.) There will be absolutely NO CHARGE it is all freel
REMEMBER Free Cord Free cleaning and adjustment. Free counsel
en your hearing problem by an expert.
Our purpose is not to press the sale of new Hearing Aids but to be
come better acquainted with you people who have a hearing problem
of any kind. .
Come in bring a friend ... we will be glad to see you.
12 Noon -8 PM... June 23rd
v MEDFORD HOTEL
Medford, Ore.
Clip and Present This Public Letter to Mr. Breen
for Your Free Cord and Services
News
THE DAY'S schedule goes about
like tis:
Up at 6:30. Breakfast at 7. On
the road at 8. The time from 8
until noon is filled with inspec
tion of highway work and state
park installations, present and
contemplated.
Each day at noon, there is an
official luncheon at some town
or city. These luncheons have all
been planned ahead of time to
the last detail. First comes the
matter of food, which is excel
lent each community vying
with its neighbors in serving the
specialties of its area.
After that comes a brief speak
ing session, in which representa
tives of the community present
the hopes and the aspirations of
their area in the way of highway
and park development and the
representatives of the state gov
ernment discuss plans and possi
bilities within, the limits of the
money available.
THEN on the road again. The
afternoon is a replica of the
morning inspections and dis
cussions until 5or 6. Then an of
ficial dinner at whatever city the
stop for the night has been ar
ranged. The program at the din
ner duplicates the program at
noon.
The dinner breaks up about 10.
That is the routine of each day.
ORETTY soft, you say tour-
ing around at the taxpayers'
expense, seeing all the beauty
spots of the state and having a
lovely vacation.
I know it sounds that way.
But wait a minute.
The Oregon state highway de
partment spends about 50 million
dollars a year. It has from 2,500
to 3,000 employees. These em
ployees are scattered around on
jobs aU over the state. It is an ac
cepted principle of business that
foremen, superintendents and
managers must get around all
over the place at frequent inter
vals to see how the work is pro
gressing. That is what manage
ment is for. If management
SKIPS this important part of its
job, progress suffers and the
job costs a WHALE of a lot more
than it should.
When you're spending 50 mil
lion dollars a year, a VERY
SLIGHT increase in cost can run
into a lot of money.
So, you see, the taxpayer
ISN'T being nicked, instead his
money is being saved by careful
administration of the spending of
it. Hence this particular inspec
tion tour of which I shaU have
more to say later in this space.
Prisoners Escape
From Alturas Jail
Klamath Falls U.R) Two
prisoners escaped from the Mo
doc county jail at Alturas yes
terday and one was stiU at large
today.
Sheriff E. K. Sever said the
men were working on a hospital
project in Alturas when they
made their escape.
One of the pair, Nathaniel
Harden, 35, held on a reckless
driving count, was recaptured
last night. The other, Adelie
Webb, 30, accused of assault and
battery, was believed hiding in
the Canby, Calif., area. Sheriff
Sever said.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday: other days 530 previous day
m MoiAJWHtiUjoBB r
all instruments regardless of make or models
Employment Rules
For Packers Change
Effective Aug. 13.
Salem (U.R) Fruit and vege
table packers have been notified
by the State Wage and Hour
Commission that changes in the
minimum, standards on employ
ment of women and minors in
their firms will go into effect
Aug. 13. .
The commission has rescinded
the 1942 order governing the
employment of women and
minors in packing firms and has
brought the firms under regula
tions of a 1952 order which gov
erns employment in canning, de
hydrating and barrelling plants.
66-Cent Minimum
The order sets a minimum
hourly rate of 66 cents. It pro
vides that women be paid time
and a half after 10 hours and
double time after 12 hours each
day. Women working with per
ishable products are permitted
to work overtime under Ore
gon's wage and hour law. Minor
employees will be limited to a
10-hour day maximum.
Other requirements which
will newly affect women and
minors working in the narkintr
plants include a 10-minute rest
period after three consecutive
work hours and a sliding scale -of
women's overtime pay for
hours worked on the seventh
consecutive day.
The wage and hour commis
sion is made up of Mrs. Frederic
W. Young and Mrs. Mary L.
jacKson oi Portland, and Henry
S. Howard of Eugene, with Nor
man O. Nilsen, state labor com
missioner, serving as executive
secretary.
McKenzie Pass Opening
Scheduled Thursday
Salem U.R) The McKenzie
pass, closed through the winter
months because of snow, will be
open Thursday at 8 a.m.t W. W.
Stiffler, assistant state highway
engineer, said today.
The department's plows have
been working from either side
toward the summit since June
1, and wiU complete the 24-mile
job in time for the Thursday
morning opening, Stiffler said.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
Our office money and securities
could be burglarised, robbed in
side or outside the office, destroy
ed by fire, taken by employees, or
could fust plain disappear. Would
insurance to cover all suck losses
cost at little at $23 per yearr
For Information Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
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