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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1945
flt was Friday)
Jackson County Chamber 'of
Commerce outlines program lor
survey of housing accomodations
4 Viir infill nf families exDect-
ed when 27,000 servicemen .ar
rive at Camp white wiuun zew
months.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Upstate has
the jitters. Any object aloft any
bigger than a bluejay, and high
er than a church steeple, is im
mediately reported to the neigh
bors, and the police, as a Jap
ballon. The misconception also
Includes many of the larger lead
ing heavenly bodies.
tO TEARS AGO
July 183S
(It was Saturday)
cenerauy mua w earner yic
vailed throughout Rogue Valley
during June, according to me
teorologist with the lightest rain
fall for June on record.
Mrs. Bertha Coates of Medford
elected president of Eagle, aux
iliary at state meeting in Grants
Pass.
tO TEARS AGO
July S, 1925
It was Monday)
Owen-Oregon Lumber comp
any of Medford buys 680 acres
of O and C timber land In Butte
! Falls area for $24,301.
Item from Mail Tribune:
To Cut off Outside Water Con-
somen City Water Superin
tendent Davis has received in
struction from the city to dis
connect all water service to peo
' pie living outside of the city lim
its, in thirty days.
The residents of the district
'applying for admission into the
city will not as yet be affected
until after the special election
which will soon be called to de-
. cide whether or not they should
". be admitted, and if they are not
allowed admittance, they too,
"jWill lose the city water service
after a period of 30 days has
! elapsed after the election.
The disconnection of the wa
, ter service to outside consum
ers will be permanent, as. long
as they remain outside the city
limits.
40 TEARS AGO
July $.1915
(It was Tuesday)
Several forest fires along
Southern Pacific tracks between
Grants Pass and Rogue River
under control after rain falls.
From the Local and Personal
column: Have you tried one of
those 5c milk shakes at DeVoe's?
Indian Laborers Face
Manslaughter Charges
Portland QJ.R) Charges of
murder against two itinerant In
dian laborers were reduced to
manslaughter yesterday when
the pair pleaded guilty before
Circuit Judge -James R. Bain
here.
Joe Hayou, 32, and Lee Brown
34 .admitted beating and kicking
47-year-old John Goodwin to
death in his hotel room .here
May 4.
The judge warned them, how
ever, that they would be -dis
appointed if they expected pro
bationary sentences. He also or
. dered a . presentence investiga
: tion. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
Community Slump? Let's Hope Not
In the city of Eugene the other day, a turnout of
less than 4 per cent of the voters turned down a spec
ial tax levy of $165,000 which the city fathers had re
quested for operation of the city for the coming year.
In a rather exasperated manner, the Eugene Reg
ister Guard commented in an editorial entitled, "Our
Trouble: A Community Slump." .
It said: "What's wrong with our community?
We're in a terrific slump, that's what And our aver
age is about as low as it can get and still play the
game."
.
1XJTTH regard to the city election yesterday, in
" which a tiny percentage of the registered Med
ford voters lambasted a still tinier percentage who
had supported the city council in its efforts to main
tain city government on an even keel, we can't feel
as bitterly as did the Register-Guard.
But we still think that the vote was ill-advised,
and something which may well be regretted. We are
all for economy in government, but being stingy with
essential services is something else again.
Let us hope, anyway, that none of those who voted
against the modest, one-year levy (for $66,510) will
have the effrontery to say "why doesn't the city do
this or that ..." for awhile. ' .
e e e
AS for the annexation election we should like to
"suggest that the tiny majority of voters in the
Laurelhurst area have shown greater foresight and
clear thinking on the matter than their neighbors on
the other side of town.
As we mentioned before, the defeat of the annex
ation proposal is a setback to orderly progress not
a stop.
It is now up to all of us, including the city council
and the residents of the areas affected, to work out
the next-best plan to solve those many problems
which fringe development bring. Lessons learned in
this election will undoubtedly prove helpful.
We hope there will be no bitterness and no recrim
inations, for too much is at stake to let petty bickering
destroy our need for sound and progressive develop
ment. E.A.
So Long, Passenger Service
It comes as no particular surprise, but as an un
pleasant fact, to learn that the Southern Pacific has
finally given-up the ghost as far as passenger service
in southern Oregon is concerned.
The announcement is a logical chapter in the long
sequence of events which began with the completion
of the faster route east of the Cascades many years
ago.
CINCE that time passenger service on the Siskiyou
line has been whittled away and whittled away.
Now it vanishes.
"Next time take the bus," apparently is the SP's
advice to its southern Oregon potential passengers.
It has resisted all suggestions that new develop
ments in rail travel such
and comfortable cars be placed in service to com
pete with the speed and comfort of plane travel on the
one nana and the economy
The only answers these
been statements about how much money passenger
i J ii. i? i i i j i
services loses ana me continued curtailment oi wnat
little service was left.
THE timing of the announcement is unfortunate,
too.
Donald J. Russell, president of the SP, was on an
inspection tour of the division last week in his five
car special train. The train halted briefly at Ashland
for a service stop, and a representative of the Ashland
Tidings obtained a story from him.
"There has been a tremendous growth all through
the area served by Southern Pacific," Russell is quot
ed as saying in a story which the Tidings headlined
"Russell Sees Good Future for .Oregon."
"We are constantly placing orders for new freight
cars to meet the increasing needs of shippers and our
program of adding diesel power is being continued,"
he added. .-J .
The president :was accompanied by a group of
high SP officials, and received gifts from the Ash
land Chamber of Commerce during his brief stop
there. .
HTHE SP does a pretty good job of hauling freight
A out of this area. Its service has expanded. This
year the railroad has done particularly well in finding
scarce boxcars to keep the freight moving.
' And it should, for it is making a considerable
profit on ihe Siskiyou route, handling lumber and
other items in great quanity.
What it takes out in profits on freight will now
remain out, with no return "dividend" in passenger
service. ?
But we think that the railroad as a whole is giving
this area the short end of the stick, accepting our prof
itable freight business with one hand, and turning
away any chance of a decent passenger service or
any service at all, now with the other. E. A;
18 Powder Puff Pilots
Springfield, Mass, (U.PJ
Powder-Puff Derby pilots con
tinued to straggle In today as
the 6 p.m. deadline for qualify
ing beared.
Eighteen of the 46 planes com
peting in the ninth annual all
woman transcontinental race
have landed at Barnes Airport
in nearby Westfield.
I Some of the last-minute ar
rivals today might still cash in
on part oi the 52 000 prize money
Wednesday, July 8, I9S5
as light, self-propelled, fast
of bus travel on the other.
suggestions have met has
Arrive at Destination
since the race is run on a handi
cap basis. Winner of the race
will be determined tomorrow.
The first plane in yesterday
was piloted by Mrs. Lowanda
Lane and Mrs. Faye Scott, both
of San Diego. They, were the
vanguard of six planes landing
yesterday. Twelve arrived Mon
day. . '
The 2800-mile - race started
Saturday morning at Long
Beach, Calif.
Army May Decide
Presidential Election
In Brazil October 3
By CHARLES McCANN
' United Press Foreign Analyst
The presidential election to be
held in Brazil on October 3 may
be decided by the army, not the
voters.
It was the
a r my which
forced Presi
de nt Getulio
Vargas to re
sign last Aug
ust because it
did not like the
way things
were 'going.
Vargas shot
himself a few
Cm Mccan hourg iater
Two Vargas men seem to be
ahead, as of now, in the race for
the October election.
They are Juscelino Kubitschek
who is running for president, and
Joao Goulart, his running mate
as vice-presidential candidate.
Kubitschek is the 53-year-old
dynamic former governor of Mi
nas Gerais state. His achieve
ments are measured in such tan
gibles as dams, roads, bridges,
airports and industries. A mil
lionaire in his own right he rep
resents the conservative industry
interests.
Army leaders object violenUy
to Goulart. They object so vio
lently, in fact, that 'they have
warned they may intervene un
less he withdraws.
Iron Man Type .
Vargas was of the "iron man"
type of Latin American presi
dent. But he was supported by
leftists. Goulart was his minis
ter of labor. One of Goulart's
accomplishments, incidentally,
was to put . through a 100 per
cent increase in the Brazilian
minimum wage. Army opposi
tion compelled him to resign
shortly before Vargas was forc
ed out.
There is open talk in Rio de
Janeiro that unless Goulart
Matter of
U. S. A. 1955
Washington In the simpler
past, July 4 used to be a time
of flag-waving, patriotic oratory
and and , glor
ious orgies of
firecrack e r s.
Now a d a y s,
however, flag
waving is out
of place. In
stead, this In
depend e n c e
Day week is a
good time for
taking' stock.
In the opin
Joseph Alsop
ion of this re
porter, anyone who now takes
stock of the national situation
must first of all write down
1955 as the year when the Ei
senhower administration found
itself, and the American politi
cal process got back on the rails.
It was like discovering a new
country, to return to America a
month or so ago, as this reporter
did, after an absence of six
months on the other side of the
world. The venom, the suspicion,
the hatred that had so long been
poisoning American , political
life, were purged and gone. The
sewers of our politics were no
longer running in the streets.
. 1 The Congress, after all but
abandoning legislation in favor
of investigation, had once again
become a legislative body. Pub
lic, debate, after remaining for
years at the level of a mud sling
ing exchange of personal accu
sations, had once 'again become
reasoned and sober and factual.
The whole tone was different
And this vast change like com
ing from .darkness into light,
had happened in only six
months.
Partly, this immensely
healthy change in the tone of
American politics has to be at
tributed to Democratic Congress
ional leaders bent, on proving
their responsibility. Yet the key
figure is still President Eisen
hower. . . For ., the Democrats
would never be so much on their
good behavior if they did not feel
a ' respect ; almost approaching
awe for the President's standing
before the country. And the
President himself was the first
to set the new tone in which the
parties to our political dialogue
are at last responding to him.
Eisenhower " then, has ' got
what he wanted from the first
He now presides over ' a new
and desperately needed era of
good feelings. To this great gain,
moreover, another . has been
added.
A S LATE as last election time,
A the American economy seem
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agrees to withdraw his candidacy
the army may step in and force
the postponement of the election.
In that event, President Joao
Cafe Filho, who as vice-president
succeeded Vargas, might re
main in office subject to army
supervision until the situation
was cleared up. - :
Cafe (the "Filho" means jun
ior) is a moderate in politics.
Though he was elected as Var
gas' running mate, he had long
opposed most of Vargas' polic
ies. He vigorously opposes the
"iron man", or totalitarian type
of rule.
Under the Brazilian consti
tution. Cafe can not run for a
second term in October. -
Cafe is 56. He has long been
in politics after making a start
as a militant newspaper editor.
Cafe Honest Man
He Is a man of incorruptible
honesty. It is told of him that in
his days as a young editor a pol
itician whom he had attacked
walked into his office and si
lently put a bank note of impres
sive denomination on his desk.
Cafe reached across, took it, set
fire to it with a match and lit
a cigarette with it.
The United States State de
partment might be just as pleas
ed if some way were found to
keep Cafe in office for a while.
He seems to be a "safe" man. He
and the army which is under
stood to be the real power- at
the moment are chiefly inter
ested simply in keeping things
quiet. Brazil, like some other
Latin American countries, is suf
fering from inflation and a gen
eral economic crisis.
Brazil is important to the Un
ited States and its allies. It is
larger than the continental Un
ited States, with 3,287,842 square
miles of territory. Its population
of about 57,000,000 is by far the
largest in the western hemis
phere outside the United States.
Fact r j
ed to be faltering. But now the
record is clear. For two years,
prices have been held - almost
perfectly stable. In the same
two years, with a minor check
or two, productivity has steadily
increased. This combination of
inflation well controlled with
prosperity in fuU bloom isan
example to the world. You may
think what you please about
such matters as the Dixon-Yates
contract, but the - over-all eco
nomic achievement of the first
two Eisenhower years has' been
as important as the restoration
of reason and sanity to pur poli
tical life.
These ? two achievements, in
turn, have produced or perhaps
one ought to say they are pro
ducing another result that may
have the most far-reaching im
portance. When there was no
confidence, either political or
economic, the American govern
ment was all but incapable of
either thought or action. Ideas
were rigid. Attitudes were rigid.
The . facts of life in our time
could hardly be discussed with
honesty, much less responded
to with courage and decision.
-With the political and econom
ic confidence restored, freedom
of thought and freedom of. ac
tion have been restored too. The
Administration is no longer de
barred, by fear of the political
consequences, from dealing ade
quately with all the thronging
problems that confront it.
Every problem can now be
tackled without prejudice, from
the severe domestic problem of
adjusting the requirements of
internal security to the larger
requirements of a free society,
all the way to the overmastering
world problem of survival in a
time when men posses weapons
that may destroy the human
race on earth. -. ,
This restoration of the Ameri
can government's freedom to
think and act, this end of a long
paralysis, was the real drama of
the two recent Senate votes en
dorsing the President's journey,
to the summit conference and ap
proaching a high level investiga
tion of the prevailing security
machinery.
Only last year, these votes
would have been unthinkable.
Today they are accepted as mat
ters of course.
JUST BECAUSE freedom ' to
think and freedom to act have
at last .been regained, there is
of course no certainty that these
vital freedoms will be well and
wisely used. No chief of the
American state, not even George
Washington or Abraham Lin
coln, has ever been confronted
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PRETTY PROSPECTOR
Carol Hanson tries a little
uranium prospecting on the
slopes of San Francisco's
famed Twin Peaks. She's
demonstrating a Geiger coun
ter which will be displayed at
the Gem and Mineral Exposi
tion in San Francisco July
8-10.
Turncoats Due in
Hong Kong Friday
Hong Kong (U.PJ Authori
tative information received here
today said the three American
turncoats who want to return
home from Red China are en
route south from Peiping by
tram for Hohg Kong.
- These sources said the three
should reach Canton on Friday
and will be handed over to Amer
ican authorities in Hong Kong
at 1p.m. Saturday (9 pjn., Fri
day PST).
' Preparations have been made
here by U. S. authorities to give
the three men a cool welcome.
The U. S. Consulate here was
informed through Peiping diplo
matic channels of the intended
delivery of the Americans who
chose Communism after the Ko
rean war and then changed their
minds.
The American ex-soldiers are
Lewie. Gripp, William Cowart
and Otho Bell. They chose to stay
with the Communists after the
Korean war instead of being re
patriated. , .
Since then they have been
working in Red - China. Last
month, however, Radio Peiping
announced the Americans would
be sent out of China at their own
request because they could not
adapt themselves to life there.
with more complex, taxing and
difficult' challenges than now
confront President Eisenhower,
The fate of this nation and
the free world plainly depends
upon finding right answers to
such questions as "What to do
about Asia?" and "How to re
shape our world strategy in the
light of the new. H-bomb?" and
"What can be made of the new
Soviet Line?" Right answers to
these and other questions of our
times are not easy to find. Bui
at least it is vitally important
that the President now has the
power to give answers, which he
lacked before.
(Copyright, 1955, New ,
York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Portland (U.PJ John Rob
erts,' 7, Vancouver, Wash., died
Monday at a Portland hospital
from injuries received Saturday
afternoon when the bicycle he
was riding was struck by an'
automobile. x ' .
FIFTY,
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Investments and Securities
Cash on Hand and in Banks
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General Reserves
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Total liabilities
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By Walter
DISARMAMENT REVISITED
There is growing impres
sion that the Soviet Union would
like to talk seriously about
armaments. Mr. Molotov has
been saying so In private conver
sations, and in the Soviet pro
posals published on May. 11
there are some striking passages
which show that the Klemlin
has been taking a new look at
the modern technology of war.
This does not mean that they
are likely to accept the propo
sals which we haye been mak
ing during the past . 10 years.
There is no more chance of that
than there is of our accepting
their proposals. If anything at
all is to oome of the new dis
cussions, if they are to be lifted
above what Mr. Selwyn Lloyd
once called "the morass of dis
agreements," it will be neces
sary to rethink and to redefine
the problem of armaments.
TT SEEMS to me, if I may be
A sn hnM fVint in these 10 VPars
our proposals have been based
on a fundamental misconcep
tion. What have we meant by
the word "disarmament" and
what have we been trying to do
about it? In a United States
memorandum of 1952 we laid it
down that "the goal of dis
armament is . . . to prevent
war . . . by making war inher
ently . . . impossible." We have
assumed that the way to attain
this goal was under a system of
supervision ana control to re
duce armaments to some point at
which war would be inherently
impossible to wage. But is there
any such point? In effect these
schemes would, if they could be
enforced, reduce the military
establishment in being and the
stockpiles of munitions: the ad
vantage in war would then de
pend on the mobilization of re
serves and of manufacturing ca
pacity. .' ' '
The goal to make war "in
herently impossible" is itself
inherently impossible. For the
proof we have only to look at
how elaborate and Utopian are
the schemes put forward to at
tain the goal. As the powers are
to agree tei make themselves in
herently incapable of waging
war, they are to agree, as a West
ern memorandum of a year ago,
on "all types of weapons, all
types of armed forces, and mili
tary -facilities of all kinds.
Think of it They are to agree
even on the number of "military
rifles, carbines. - revolver and
pistols"; for wars can be waged,
wars - have been - waged, with
rifles, ' carbines, revolvers and
pistols.. ? -
. . ...
TO SUPERVISE - and control
-- these infinitely complicated
agreements we have been pro
posing that all the powers agree
to construct a little tin god, to
be known as the Authority with
a- capital A: . "The Authority
would be empowered to super
vise and control progressive and
continuous disclosure, and veri
fication of all armed forces, in
cluding - para-military, security
and police forces, and all arma
ments including atomic arma
ments." And what is the little
tin god to do if it finds a viola
tion of the agreement? The lit
tle tin god is to report to the
Security Council, to the General
Assembly, and to all states all
of them "inherently" incapable
of waging war "to- permit ap
propriate action to be taken." .
This surely 'is the;. sheerest
fantasy. For the Itasic principle
of the scheme is disclosure in
other words that all , military
secrecy is by agreement to be
abolished, that all the security
precautions and all the counter
espionage arrangements are to
be discarded, that Americans are
to inspect the Soviet defense es
FIFTH SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT
1ST F
Savings ft Losa Astcsfclfca cf
MEDFORD, OREGON O JUNE
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
ASSETS
-
' ' '
Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, less depreciation
Assets
LIABILITIES
.$159,203.74
. 16,559.79
Aa Lxlfclha DScd To Tta
CURRENT DIVIDEND 3 PER
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tablishment and Russians are to
inspect the American.
The Soviets, luckily for us.
would never look at these pro
posals, having no intention of in-
v i t i n g . Western intelligence
agents to see the inside of their
military and industrial system.
If we had been asked whether
we were ready to disarm and to
abolish military secrecy, our an
swer would have had to be yes
the Utopia where all Soviet
babies will be born with angel's
wings, and singing "God Bless
America." .
rpHE FALLACY of the concep--
tion we have been working
with is, . I believe, to suppose
that there is such a thing as abso
lute disarmament such a thing
as making war inherently im
possible. The alternative concep
tion is to recognize that each
nation's armaments are relative
to the armaments of his rival
and adversary no matter
whether the military forces are
at a high level or at a low level.
The true goal is not to deprive
nations of the capacity to wage
war. Men can fight with clubs.
The .true goal is to make victory
in war, to make profitable war.
improbable, and so to inhibit th
will to start the war. Wars can
always we waged. There will
long be men who are willing to
wage wars. What will inhibit
them' is not that everyone is
well armed but that they have
no plausible hope of winning a
wo.
''
THIS IS a feasible goal, which
is attained now and then
whenever military rivals ' find
they are in a balance of power
which makes it most unlikely
that they could win a war. As 'a
matter of fact the East and West
are now in such a balance of
power. The existence of this bal
ance of power is the reason why
they are beginning to negotiate,
and the preservation of this bal
ance of power can - be and
ought to be the guiding prin
ciple of these negotiations. - .
' When we talk about anna
ments, the ' leading question
should not be the size of the
armaments. It should be their
deployment In view of the de
structiveness of the modern
weapons, the great question is
what measures can be agreed, to
which will 'prevent the kind of
massive surprise attack which
could be decisive In the- first
assault For with both sides pos
sessing nuclear weapons, a pro
fitable, victory' is conceivable
only with a knockout by sur
prise. What the modern world
needs is not so much inspection
to see that armaments stay re
duced but a very early warning
system much earlier than the
one which we are building In
Canada against the mobiliza
tion for surprise.
The same consideration ap
plies to the conventional forces
on ;the European continent If
they were reduced to the level
where a surprise attack could
not be launched without the mo
bilization of reserves from the
Soviet Union itself, European se
curity would be much greater.
And Jt would not matter so
much how many divisions the
SmHot TTnlnn hoH at home. --
. . . ..
JWTE KNOW that the Soviet
High Command is now
greatly concerned with the prob
lem of surprise. We ourselves
have long been concerned with
that problem. It is the problem
to which we could now address
ourselves with a fair chance of
making some progress.
Copyright. 1955, ;
New York Herald Tribune Xae.
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neon Saturday. 1 a. ra Monday for
MtndaT- other day 530 oreriooa day. ,
Uzilzti
30, 1955
$2,4o3,053.46
139,500.00
177,795.1?
3,212.42
.$2,783,561.07
.$2,505,920.53
. 101,090.11
484.90
300.00
175,763.53 '
.$2,783,561X7
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