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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
July 5. 1945
Eighteen deer found in Ash
land city reservoir believed
wounded by hunters and sought
water before dying.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A returned
holiday motorist reported that he
. counted 52 chipmunk casualties
on a five mile stretch of rural
highway. This proves the speed
idiots retain their pre-war ac
curacy, and the 'chipmunks are
not as nimble as claimed by wild
life experts and poets.
20 YEARS AGO
July 5. 1935
(It was Friday)
Between 10,000 and 12.000 at
tend Fourth of July celebration
t Ashland's Lithia park.
. Bermuda onions are being rais
ed in Jackson county for first
time in county's history.
SO YEARS AGO
July 5. 1925
(It was Sunday)
Available treatment facilities
indicates that platinum mining
in Southwestern Oregon and
northern California may out-pro-'
duce Russian platinum mines. :
Medford celebrates Fourth of
July calmly as 250 persons are
, killed and 400 injured in holi
day accidents across the nation.
40 YEARS AGO
July 5. 1915
(It was Monday)
Several Medford and Central
point men injured when second
section of baseball train from
Montague collides with helper
locomotives at Ashland.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Fines of $5 and costs were
assessed this morning by Police
Judge Gay to Medford people,
who allowed their dogs to go
unmuzzled contrary to city ord
inance effective July 1st. Four
more will be haled into court in
the morning to answer to a sim
ilar charge. The police announc
ed that the ordinance will be en
forced to the letter.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. About (a) 10, (b) 15. (c) 20,
or (d) 25 of U.S. families with
income over $7,500 have more
than one car? .
2. Cash income of U.S. farm
ers as a whole in first 5 months
this year was higher or lower
than in similar perjods of 1954,
or the same?
3. The number of Jews in the
world is around (a) 12, (b) 24,
(c) 36, (d) 48 or (s) 60 million?
4. Labor welfare funds are as
a whole financed chiefly by the
unions or employers, or about
50-50 by each?
5. Senate Foreign Relations
Committee chairman is Sen.
Knowland (Calif.) Wiley (Wise.),
George (Ga.), Johnson (Tex.), or
Fulbright (Ark.)?
6. An egret is something for
breakfast; right or wrong?
7. West Germany accepts or
rejects the present Oder-Neisse
eastern boundary of Germany as
permanent, or takes no stand on
it?
The Answers: 1. About 25.
2. Lower. 3. Around 12.000,000.
4. Chiefly by employ en. 5.
George. 6. Wrong; it's a feather
for a hat. 7. Rejects it as per
manent. -
Perhaps one of these days Independence Day will
be devoted more to upholding the spirit of independ
ence. In recent years the spirit of conformity has been
all the rage, not only on July 4th but through all the
months before and after.
In general "the best people" have been doing what
tne crowd, the majority, has been doing. Those who
have exhibited the spirit of '76 by joining up with the
minority, in the direction of politics or anything else
have come in for some extremely hard sledding and
severe criticism. '
DERHAPS the Declaration of Independence was
4 read in certain quarters yesterday, but it is doubt
ful if the trutn was stressed that those patriots who
signed it, were not in such good standing then as they
are today.
In fact the "best people" of that day. were the
"conformists." George Washington like Franklin D,
Roosevelt, was accused of being a traitor to his class,
he being a wealthy aristocrat with a grant from the
king. The people in the pre-revolution Blue Book were
running things then, and it was some time later before
they were called and condemned as tones.
As Benjamin Franklin remarked:
"If we don't hang together we will hang separately."
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But in the end for a variety of reasons, (regard
ing which there will probably never be complete
agreement). the independent minority won out, and
the United States of America was born.
TN VIEW of these, facts, the spirit of independence
should be more highly regarded in this country
than it is today. . ,
For thanks to that spirit the descendants of those
revolutionists are enjoying the tremendous privilege
of being citizens in the most powerful and most en
vied nation m the world.
But as so often happens few of them appreciate it
They have certain idea's of what should be done
and what shouldn't and those who don't agree with
them are consigned to the lower realms of oblivion
and darkness. They no longer belong. They are added
to the ranks of the pariahs, and the unclean.
THIS is not to maintain the majority is always wrong
It is to maintain that in view of the genesis of the
USA and the fundamental principles of this demo
cracy, Independence Day should be marked more by
a recognition of the value of the mdependent spirit,
and the desireability of tolerance toward minorities,
than by a free for all motor race to have a good time
to follow the crowd and keep up with the Jonses, with
the minimum of consideration for others and the max
imum casualty lists. -
It is just a suggestion.
We don't expect even a sizeable "minority" to f oi
low it. R.W.R. '
The Determination for Independence
The Declaration of Independence has been so in
fluential in world history as well as, central in the his
tory of the Umted States that it may be well from
time to time to correct any misconceptions about it.
For instance, that:
(1) It ushered in the Revolutionary War. In fact,
the first hostilities had begun at Concord and Lexing
ton more than a year before, m April, 1775. ;
(2) It committed the colonists for the first time
to freedom from British rule. Actually, the Continen
tal Congress hacl voted on July 2, 1776 for an inde
pendence resolution that had been offered by the Vir
ginia delegation, through Kichard xienry Lee. me
Declaration was really an explanation and defense of
the July 2 action.
(3) It was signed by the members of the Contin
ental Congress on July 4, 1776. It was signed on that
day only by John Hancock, president of the Congress
and actmg for it. Most other members signed on tne
following Aug. 2, a few still later.
(4) It enunciated new and startling ideas. Jeffer
son himself commented that it did not so much ex
press original ideas as voice sentiments that had be
come prevalent m enlightened circles.
(51 The Libertv Bell was rune in honor of the oc
casion until it cracked. No evidence. Most Americans
seem to have received the Declaration soberly rather
than exuberantly. '
(6) iThe Declaration was entirely the product" of
Thomas Jefferson. The red-haired Virginian was in
deed the chief drafter, as chairman of the committee
of five aDDointed to prepare a statement But he in
corporated suggestions from Franklin; and John Ad
ams, and drew heavily on the Virginia Declaration
of Rights, composed largely by George Mason. The
engraver of the original Declaration followed his own
ideas about spelling and punctuation, but refrained
from altering the eloquent phraseology. E.R. : ' I
Political Turmoil
On Latin American
Stations Increases
Highway Commission
On Inspection Trip
Portland (UJ!) Oregon's
three-man State Highway Com
mission wiU leave Monday on
1,200-mile inspection trip of
eastern Oregon highways and
state parks.
Commissioners Ben R. Chand
ler, Milo K. Mclver and Charles
H. Reynolds will be accompanied
by members of the legislative in
terim Committee on Highways,
the Parks Advisory Committee,
the state park superintendent, C
H. Armstrong, and other officials.----:
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The inspection will take four
days. : ; -
Union Pacific Trains
Return To Schedules
Portland U.R) All east and
westbound, trains were back oh
schedule today after a week end
derailment of the City of Port
land at Huntington, the Union
Pacific's chief dispatcher here
reported. r.---?--;.
The train smashed into a line
of empty freight cars Saturday
night and arrived here more than
13 hours late. No one was injured
in the accident.- r '
London More than 100,000
automobiles are ferried annually
across the English, channel."
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The "A-B-C" countries, the
three largest in Latin Ameri
ca, are all politically hot and
getting hotter. .
There has
just been a
brief, unsuc
cessful revolt
against Presi
dent Juan D.
Peron of Ar
gentina. Whether Per
on can keep
on top of the
situation
remains to be
Charles McCann Seen.
There are frequent reports of
a possible coup in Brazil some
time during the present cam
paign for the election of a Pres
ident next October. ,
In Cnfle, third of the Latin
American Big Three, a paralyz
ing transport strike started Fri
day. Sfrike Against Government
Workers on the railroads, in
the postal and telegraph services
and in transport services in the
big cities, joined in the walk
out. The postal, telegraph and rail
road services are all owned by
the state, so this was a strike
against the Chilean government.
A nationwide general strike
has been called for this Thursday
by the Chilean labor unions.
These strikes are all for high
er pay. They are a reflection of
a steadily worsening economic
situation is causing increasing
political unrest. As the result,
77-year-old President Carlos Ib
anez Del Campo must be a wor
ried man.
Some army officers, who like
strong-man rule, want to set up
Ibanez as a dictator.
Short Terms Common
Ibanez has . resisted that sug
gestion. But as soon as last Fri
day's strike started, the govern
ment declared a state of emer
gency in big cities and indust
rial centers.
Ibanez was elected in 1952 for
a six-year term. Chile has had 21
presidents since 1920. Eleven of
them have failed to fiU out their
full terms, in addition to two
who died in office.
Events may force Ibanez to
resort to ' a dictatorship again.
He ruled as dictator once, and
made a remarkable comeback 21
years later. This time he seems
disinclined to try one-man rule
if he can help it- -
Ibanez is a durable person.
They used to call him "the iron
man" in the old days. Then he
was a swarthy, handsome, robust
army man.
But inflation is a difficult
enemy to defeat.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written the CIO
steelworkers and U. S. Steel have
just reached a wage agreement
for an average increase of just
over 15 cents an hour. Other
major steel producers are ex
pected to fall into line promptly.
-. If so, the shortest steel strike
in history, less than 24 hours,
win have been brought to an
end.
It should be added, by way of
explanation, that the contract
under which the steelworkers
and the steel companies are oper
ating permitted opening this
year on wages only, That simpli
fied the negotiations
Matter of Fact y
Stewart Alsop
THE CHANGE
Moscow There has ques
tionably been a change here in
Russia. Everyone in a position
to judge agrees on that. But no
one really knows how deep the
change goes, or what it means.
Part of the change is wholly
superficial. The American and
British ambassadors, for ex
ample, recent
ly lost their
" tails, and there
is now no vis-
ible surveil
lance of West
erners. The So
viet, bosses, at
Western recep
t i o n s, now
mingle jovially
in the crowd.
Stwrt Alsop making small
jokes. One or two of them have
been known to attend, alone.
small private affairs in Western
embassies.
Old Moscow hands have been
particularly flabbergasted by
the kind of dispatches visiting
journalistic firemen have been
permitted to send out. But this
sort of thing has required hard
ly more than a simple adminis
trative decision. Has there also
been a change at a 'deeper level,
a change not so easily control
led?
Old hands some of tbem
claim to detect signs of a deeper
change. Even for the newcomer
there are experiences which are,
to put it mildly, unexpected.
Take, for example, the all-night
parties on Red Square, opposite
the Kremlin and the tombs of
Lenin and Stalin. '
These parties have been go
ing on for some nights past,
starting around midnight and go
ing on full swing till well after
fve in the morning. Strictly in
line of duty, this reporter at
tended two such parties. -
The parties are celebrations of
high school and college gradua
tions. They are by no means
saturnalia, or all - night drunks.
On the contrary, the boys are
well behaved, within reason,
and the girls are downright de
mure, wearing long white dres
ses and no lipstick. Indeed, aside
from the peculiar time and the
unexpected locale, the Red
Square parties nostalgically re
called the graduation dances of
a simpler era in America,
At any rate, they are wonder
ful fun or at least the first
one this reporter dutifully at
tended was. Everyone was ob
viously having a marvelous
time, with much singing,: danc
ing, balalaika-playing, shy hand
holding and bold, ogling.
The party goers found this re
porter and other visiting fire
men a welcome siaesnow. com
munication was quickly estab
lished somehow. So was the fact
that we were Americans. Then
we were soon surrounded, like
so many two-headed calves,' by
large groups of politely gig
gling teen-agers. They asked ques
tions about how we liked Mos
cow or what life was like in
America, and there was an oc
casional reference (favorable) to
peace.
Although the conversations
were not memorable, the spect
acle was the dacing and sing
ing and cavorting in Red Square,
before the handsome Kremlin
and, around the low dark tomb,
in1 the early, bright Moscow
dawn. It was a fine party; Ac
cording . to those who should
know, nothing like it has ever
happened before certainly, not
in Red Square.
rpHE next night, an even finer
party had obviously been an
ticipated. The word had got
round that dancing in the dawn
in Red Square was the thing to
do, and by midnight there were
long lines -of teen-agers troup
ing up the hill past the Krem
lin. A small knot of boys even
lugged the heavy instruments of
a brass band up the hill, and
set them up in front of the tomb.
But somebody in authority
had presumably . decided that
the thing had gone too far. The
night before, there had been no
security police. Now there were
a good many. They moved quiet
ly and politely through the
crowd, playing the role of wet
blankets with splendid effi
ciency. Little groups hung on till
daylight, but the heart had gone
out of the party. " Without playr
ing a note, members of the band
sadly lugged 'their instruments
down the hill again. -
Yet there were surprises on
this less happy second night as
well. A long line of boys and
girls were sitting on a wall near
the tomb, giggling. A youthish
cop ' walked along the line,
gesturing to them to stand up.
The boys and girls stood up, one
by one, with exaggerated smart
ness, as he came up to them-
and then sat down again, laugh
ing fit to kin, the moment he had
passed.
When an older, tougher cop
showed up, looking grim, they
got off the wall for good. Even
so, one of the older boys made
an uncomplimentary gesture,
iamuiar to Brooklyn, at the cod.
Does this mean a change? Old
Moscow hands say that this sort
of thing simply did riot happen,
even a short time ago. So per
haps there has been a change in
xne relationship between rulers
and ruled. But the old Moscow
hands are sure that the change
will not, and cannot, be permit
ted to go very deep. 1
(Copyright 1955, New York)
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Chicago About one-half of
the U.S. supply of beef and veal
is from dairy cattle.
PILLOWING the agreement
that ended the strike, both
sides issued statements. Clifford
Hood, president of the U. S.
Steel Corpoation, said:
"Accord with the union has
spared the nation and its econ
omy the consequences of a disas
trous steel strike, although the
shutdowns which did occur have
caused a loss of production and
wages."
He added:
"We have directed resumption
of production as quickly as possi
ble so as to minimize the loss
of shipments to steel consumers."
rjAVID McDONALD, president
J- of the CIO United Steelwork
ers, says:
"I want to congratulate he
representatives of the U. S. Steel
Corporation for working with us
in developing a basis for a fair
and equitable settlement qf the
issues in dispute.
"I hope the settlement wffl
provide for the ever greater mu
tual respect and understanding
and continued working together
between the company and union
which it has always been my pur
pose to promote."
OO MUCH for the views of the
principals. The views of the
public, I suppose, are reflected in
this dispatch from New York
which followed the announce
ment of the settlement: .
"The steel strike settlement
brought RISES .of SI to $2 in
steel shares on' the New York
Stock Market. OTHER SEC
TIONS of the market quickly
joined in the upward trend."
prices prevailing before the wage
increase " ,
Well, in that event,' EVERY
BODY wiU be happy and the
goose wiU go on hanging high
for all of us. It will be a sign that
technological progress in Amer
ican industry is reaching - the
pointjwhere we can hope that
wages will go on increasing and
at the same time' prices can go
on DECREASING.
That wiU mean a new era in
our world. , -
BUT" , ; ,.
If. steel prices have to be
raised , sharply to meet the in
creased wage cost involved in
the setUement, it will mean simp
ly that Old Man Inflation is look
ing us in the eye again.
That is about the long and the
short of It.
pt St.,
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The happiness that comes from
a well-ordered life, with wife
and children provided for, aad
the prospect of eventual retire
ment on income sufficient for
the enjoyment of your leisure,
can be yours through Life A-.
uranee. Let me sell you a share
of happiness today.
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COMPANY OF CANADA
Local
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t CHARLES
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rpHAT is to say:
- The steel companies, nat
urally enough, are pleased with
the outcome because- it means
that they can go on making and
selling steel, which is their busi
ness. .
The steelworkers are pleased
also naturally enough because
they can go on working at con
siderably , increased wages in
stead of having to go through
a long and costly period of unemployment.
ine- u&tKS of steel are
pleased, because they will, be
awe to gpm getting steel with
wnicn to make their products.
Without steel, they would have
had to shut down too.
The : investors in' steel secur
ities are pleased, because a strike
is very costly indeed .and, there
fore would have tended to reduce
dividends. v
WHAT .of the public In gen-
" eral the CONSUMERS of
the multifold products that are
made of steel? I think we'll have
to wait a while for the answer
to that question.
If basic steel prices remain un
changed If, that is, efficiency in the
steel industrv is INCREASED h
the friendly settlement that has
Deen arrived at to sucn an extent
that it will be nossible to, an an
producing and selling steel
at
Copper Producers
Union Resume Talks ;
Denver U.PJ Negotiations
were to resume today between
the union lucid three of the "Big
Four" U.S. copper producers
while 30,000 non-ferrous metals
workers remained on strike in
12 states.
The union employees walked
off their jobs last week at Ken-
necott Copper Corp., Phelps
Dodge Copper Corp., and the
American Smelting and Re
fining Co. plants after wage con
tracts expired. .
A majority of the strikers .are
represented by the International
Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter
Workers (Ind.), .which did not
strike the Anaconda company.
biggest of the Big Four.
The union is seeking a 20-cent
an hour wage increase plus wage
benefits. .
Federal Mediator S. Lyle
Johnson said at Salt Lake City
yesterday that talks between
Kennecott and, union local off i
cials would be continued today.
COOLING THEMOFF
Detroit (U.R) Police saicT' a
report that a man was sprin
kling passersby as well as his
lawn was typical of the holiday
madness. Police said they only
warned the sprinkler because
they felt his actions were "more
thoughtful than malicious."
Lyndon Johnson Still
In Serious Condition
Washington U.E Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson was "making ( satisfac
tory progress" but still was in
serious condition from a heart
ailment today at the Bethesda,
Md., Naval Medical Center. .
The 46-year-old Texan : w a s
stricken with a "moderately se
vere" heart . attack Saturday
while visiting friends in nearby .
Virginia. His 73-year-old mother
flew in. from Texas to be at his
bedside Monday.-:
The hospital said Johnson's
physicians "consider that he is
making satisfactory progress,
but his' condition remains serious."--
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The senator's aides said he
will be hospitalized for several
weeks and will not be able to
participate in the remainder of
the current congressional session-
Senate Democratic Whip
Earl C Clements (Ky.) has taken
over the post of acting majority
leader. ' '
Chicago Most meat pack
ers sell all their beef within 14
days after it is slaughtered.
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