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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Vandals damage Buck Rock
lookout station near Trail when
lookout seeks medical aid for
snake bite.
Tram Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The hot
spell to date, has revealed no
young man unsuccessfully at
tempted to stop an electric tan
with his forefinger.
20 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1935
Oregon's agricultural adjust
ment act, with, codes and mar
keting agreements, held uncon
stitutional by Multnomah county
circuit court.
Cascade Gorge resort on Cra
ter Lake highway open for sum
mer season after renovation by
Roseburg business man.
30 YEARS AGO '
July 7. 1925
(It was Tuesday)
New York theatrical men
staying at Medford hotel boost
Rogue Valley as vacation spot.
Hubert Work, secretary of in
terior, starts Oregon tour of gov
ernment aid reclamation proj
ects in the northwest.
40 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Nine owners of dogs fined in
police court for allowing dogs
to run around without muzzles.
Automobile travel to Crater
Lake increases 100 per cent and
tourists trade increases 35 per
cent during past year.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. An average three-year old
car will cost in repairs about
two, three, four or five times
as much during the year as an
average one-year old car? .
2. Stenographers and typists
are reported, over the nation, in
heavy or short supply for the
jobs available? . .
3. If UN admits the Chinese
Reds, the U.S. would or would
not automatically have to give
them diplomatic recognition?
4. The U. S. Patent Office now
acts each year on fewer patent
application than are received,
or on about an equal number?
5. The average addict spends
about $2, $4, $6, $8 or $10 a day
on drugs?
6. The last previous chess
match between U.S. and Russian
masters was won by the Ameri
cans or the Russians, or was it a
draw?
7. A colporteur gives out traf
fic tickets, hat checks, religious
tracts, hand baggage, or fire
place fuel?
The answers: ' 1. About three
times as much. 2. In short sup
ply. 3. Wouldn't. 4. On fewer
than are received. 5. $10, says
U.S. narcotics commissioner An
dinger. 6. The Russians won
easily. 7. Religious tracts.
FLEET WINS OUT
Los Angeles U.R) Mrs.
Margaret Jean Donald, 32, re
ceived a divorce on the ground
she was playing second fiddle to
the fleet. She said her sailor
husband. Robert Donald Jr.; told
her he'd "rather stay aboard
ship with his shipmates than be
with me." .
MAIL TRIBUNE
"The Public Be Damned"
The Southern Pacific railroad announced about a
week ago that its freight business in the Medford
area, had established a new high record for all time
as far as lumber is concerned.
That can only mean that its profits in this area
are greater than ever before for certainly with Med
ford's recent rapid growth, the freight business in
fruit and other directions where the SP enjoys a
monopoly, could not have materially declined.
JUST how many millions the SP has taken out of
this valley in profits the past 10 years can't be
determined for the information requested in this field
has been denied.
But even the "friendly Southern Pacific" prob
ably would not deny its profits have been consid
erable, and that if a decent passenger service were
maintained north and south, a handsome profit
would still be enjoyed.
fXH the 'other hand it can't be denied that if pas
senger service losses sustained by the SP (com
mon to all railroads today), can be eliminated, these
prof its can be increased and upper bracket salaries,
dividends, cash reserves, etc., can be increased ac
cordingly. ...
So it caused no great surprise to those who really
KNOW the Southern Pacific, and its conception of
profits to itself versus public service to others, to
learn that starting August 7th this "largest, railroad
in the world" will abandon the one train remaining
on its passenger schedule, and provide this valley
which has given it so much profitable business over
the years and probably more today than ever be
fore with no passenger service at all !
a-.
THAT this action will work a real hardship upon
- many people in Medford and the valley, no one
can deny. This will be particularly true during the
winter when motoring so often becomes difficult,
and at times even air transportation has to be tem
porarily discontinued. -
Moreover there are some people who can't drive
their cars and are no longer able to fly.
In short this action will violate the fundamental
principle of "public convenience and necessity,"
and probably the terms, of the original franchise
granted the SP when it took over the Oregon & Cali
fornia lines, but judging the future by the past this
will make no difference to the Southern Pacific.
"THE "S.P." has done pretty much as it pleased in
this section of the state, through all the years, and
unless the people as a whole become more aroused
than seems likely and the state Public Utility com
missioner also this determination by 'the railroad to
increase prof ts by not decreasing but completely
abandoning all passenger service in this area will go
through as smoothly and expeditiously as similar
actions in complete disregard of the obligations of
service to the public, have before.
Through all the years the Southern Pacific has
not only "got away with murder" but made it pay.
Needless to say we don t refer to the local repre
sentatives of the railroad in any way. They are as
good as they come. We refer
of this billion dollar corporation and who determine
its basic policies.
These policies are the same today as they always
have been get all the traffic will bear. In fact here in
Southern Oregon is one of the striking examples of
how little the business philosophy of a powerful rail
road enjoying a monopoly can change in all the years
since Commodore Vanderbilt of the New York Cen
tral struck the keynote of monopolistic" selfishness
and greed, when in answer to a plea to grant what
the public wanted, hit the cuspidor bulls-eye, and re
marked "THE PUB
Asia Is the Big Problem
The Oregonian is deeply worried about North
Korea. And with reason for it states quote:
"The Communist nations never have changed. Hence
we had better provide the Korean Republic with what it
needs if we have in truth been holding back. Because the
United States will not stand aloof if another war starts
there."
But who is to determine WHAT South Korea
"needs" to maintain its independence? And just what
would "not standing aloof" add up to if another war
over there should start?
ITNLESS we are greatly mistaken the American
people are in no mood to engage in another war
in Korea or anywhere else in Asia as far as sending
an expeditionary force over there is concerned.
But if war should break out in Korea ships and
airplanes alone would not be enough to turn the tide
against North Koreans supported by Red Chinese
and the Russians.
Moreover where would Japan' come in? '
, e -e
WITHOUT Japan as an operating base, the USA
""would be practically helpless in such a war.
There is already a strong movement in Japan against
the small air and military forces we have stationed
in that country now.
.There is also strong sentiment in Japan in favor
of a reapproachment with both Red China and Russia
as far as trade is concerned. Trade is always a factor
in the genesis of war.
Tinally atomic war as a deterrent would not have
the effectiveness in Asia that it appears to have and
we believe it has in industrialized Europe. ;
IN short the real danger to this country and free
democracy as a whole does not, in our judgment,
lie in Europe but in Asia. R.W.R. .
Thursday, July 7, I9S5
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Both Have Disappeared
To the Editor: One of our old
friends, a gold miner of the sec
ond generation (now deceased)
who lived and mined southwest
of Grants Pass, Ore., until the
late nineteen twenties, gave us
much first hand information of
the early placer mines.
One incident we remember
very well, was when the usual
clean-up of a placer, once in the
Waldo district, when a small un
known piece of foreign ore or
metal was found in the sluice
boxes. No one reaUy claimed the
new discovery, although it was
so hard, a hammer never fazed
it on an anvil.
Another odd experience was it
lit up .the inside of a tent-house
at night. A Klamath Indian who
took a fancy' to the little speci
men decided he would quit his
job at the time, and when he
went away the little piece evi
dently had gone too. There was
no record of what became of
either one, after, that incident.
Bert Kissinger, .
520 Boardman St.,
Medford, Oregon.
Booby Trap or Parking Meter?
To the Editor: How often have
you found a nice parking place
in the congested area of down
town Medford, to note that it was
a 12 minute meter and of, no
useable value, for it was impos
sible to conduct any business in
12 minutes. The following re;
port of the City Manager to the
City Council of June 21st 1955
may help to explain your dilem
ma. I quote:
"In reply to request for a re
port on changing the existing
12 minute meters for lc to 30
minutes meters for 5c, we have
a quotation from the manufac
turers of these meters, that the
cost of the parts would be $5.00.
There would be some labor cost
for remodeling these meters, but
the meter repairman could per
form this work during his reg
ular hours at no extra cash out
lay to the city.
"The parking survey, indicat
ed that the 12 minute meters do
not accommodate any more park
ed cars per day than the 1 hour
meters. In fact, the average time
vehicles remained in the 12 min
ute metered zone was 25 min
utes. Apparently the 12 minute
time limit-is too short a time for
persons to use these meters with
out possibility of over staying
the 12 minutes and obtaining
a ticket!
"The 12 minute meters are
difficult for the Police Depart
ment to check carefully, conse
quently there are considerable
number of violations of over
parking in these areas. The 30
minute time limit meters would
be much easier to be checked
by the Police Patrolman."
Now this original request was
turned down on June 21 and I
reintroduced it July 5 and it
was turned down again. Now I
am not gunning for anyone but
feel as your elected represeta
tive and in matters of this kind
where the public interest -is so
much involved as there are 41
meters of this type, that you, the
public, would like to take the
matter up direct with your elect
ed representative, that these
spaces may be used in the best
public interest, and that the
booby trap may be removed
which is embarrasing to you and
the police department, who, are
asked to enforce it
Fred E. Qpbinson,
Councilman, Ward 1.
Bond Sale Approved
To Build Cowlitz Dam
Tacoma (U.R) The City
Council yesterday approved the
sale of $15,000,000 in bonds to
finance the start of a hydroelec
tric dam at Mayfield
Cowlitz river.
on the
Approval came despite the
pending restrainer against go
ing ahead with the project is
sued by Thurston County Su
perior Court. .
Tacoma Utilities Board Chair
man Tom Anderson said the city
would seek a "high level confer
ence" with Gov. Arthur B. Lang
lie regarding the long -standing
controversy over the city's Cow
litz dam project. Another dam
is planned at Mossyrbck. .
Frank Morgan
Matter of Fact
MOSCOW'S SURPRISES ' ;
Moscow This place is chock
full of surprises, big and small.
Consider a sampling of the small
surprises.
.The wall
paper in the
hotel room
turns out, on
close inspec
tion, not to be
wallpaper at
alL The elabo
rate, pattern is
painted on. "
You can
buy a bottle of
Stewart Alsop sweet and hor
rible drink shown as "Krem
Cola," in dual tribute, presum
ably, to Coca Cola and the Krem
lin.
A good many men here, as
soon as they begin to go bald,
take heroic measures. They
shave their heads bone clean.
The Kremlin cars have a spec
ial built-in honk, like the crow
ing of a rooster with laryngitis,
to warn lesser citizens out of
the way.
The Russians go in heavily
for roadside advertising, in favor
of toothpaste, peace, vodka,
kindliness to cows, ice cream
sodas, and so on. , The results
would not fmpress Messrs. Bat
ten, Barton, Durstine, and Os
borne. The commercial purpose
is mysterious anyway, since all
consumer goods are snapped up,
almost regardless of price, as
soon as they appear, in the
stores.
In the free market, for ex
ample, peasants do a brisk trade
at fat prices in what appears to
be ordinary roadside goldenrod.
The abacus is a universal sub
stitute for the adding machine,
even in the state banks.
This last surprise serves to
suggest what might rate as a
medium- sized surprise Russia's
odd old fashionedness. The fu
ture which John Reed professed
to see often looks remarkably
like the not too distant past,
preserved with fly -in -amber
fidelity.
Take one example. This re
porter, has just lunched in one
of Moscow's two or three most
expensive restaurants (all restau
rants are expensive, but this one
is hideously expensive). The res
taurant looks precisely as it
must have looked 50 years ago,
when the reporter's mother vis
ited Moscow as a young girl, and
no doubt ate decorously in the
same place. ..
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THE GREEN and gilt ceiling,
the frescoes meant to deceive
the eye, the vast chandeliers, the
Editorial Comment
S.P. SHOULD RUN
MODERN TRAIN
We do not believe that the SP
should run hundreds of thou
sands of dollars out of pocket on
a passenger service, but do feel
that the railroad owes it to this
growing, lucrative freight-producing
area to try a modern
train for a reasonable period of
time.
Ashland-Portland and inter
mediate points might not pro
vide sufficient revenues, but if a
schedule were tied in with main
line connections at Eugene and
Dunsmuir, and attention drawn
to the scenic features of the Sis
kiyou line, there should be a
fair possibility of a new train
breaking even or possibly re
turning a smaU profit.
Eastern railroads will soon be
experimenting with new type
trains, built with low centers of
gravity and capable of taking
curves at much higher speeds
than the conventional . equip
ment. Construction is being
aimed at $1,000 per passenger
seat for the new equipment,
which will be light in weight
and pulled by standard diesel
units.
A three car train coach, com
bination "buffet-lounge, and a
combination Pullman - observa
tion car, with whatever head
end mail or evnress snare misrht
Lbe required, would be an in
teresting experiment over the
Siskiyou line.
Of course the venture would
cost money, but SP enjoys tre
mendous revenues off tha Sis
kiyou line from its freight earn
ings and should be able to re
turn a small portion of this in an
effort to see whether a modern
passenger train would pay.
Ashland Tidings.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for
Monday: other days 530 previous day
Harold Snodgrass
I
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
The Chapel of
Cherished Memories
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Across from' the Courthouse
Stewart Alsop
heavy filigreed table silver, the
immense fake second empire
standard lamps supported by
smirking cupids nothing can
have changed. Nothing, that is,
except the food, the prices, and
the, guests, mostly dowdy fam
ily ' groups and tough-looking
types, eating alone, with no
neckties.
The Kremlin is another sur
prise. Americans are accustomed
to visualize the Kremlin as a
collection of ugly, toadlike edi
fices, cold, sinister, and forbid
ding Perhaps this mental image
was fairly accurate in the days
when it was state policy to keep
the Kremlin and its famous oc-v
cupant aloof and mysterious. But
a campaign has been underway
for some time to popularize and
de-mystify the Kremlin, and the
image is accurate no longer.
The elegant Czarist palaces,
including the small 18th cen
tury palace where Stalin used to
live, have been painted a bright
butter-yellow, with white trim,
and the roofs are a handsome
green. Now the Kremlin is pret
ty that is the only word for it.
At the same time, instead of re
maining mysterious behind its
handsome high walls, the Krem
lin has become a tourist attract
ion and one of Europe's most
rewarding. . '
Ivan the Terrible's coronation
throne, the 10-horse Czarist state
coaches with panels exquisitely
painted by Boucher, the imperial
emeralds considerably larger
than hen's eggs such things, are
worth the inevitable case of
museum feet. So are the gawking
crowds of "progressive delega
tions" and the coUective farm
ers peering round with a coun
tryman's awe. For that matter,
so is the unexpected sight of
President Voroshilov, a short,
neat, handsome, man, hurrying
along the sidewalk, obviously
late for an appointment.
Yet, in an odd and paradoxi
cal way, the really big surprise
about this place is that it is so
unsurprising.
Across the gulf of fear and
hate which divides the world,
those who detest the system here
which includes most Western
ers and almost all Americans
have come to think of Russia as
the other side of the moon, and
of Moscow as a miserable collec
tion of mud huts filled with a
strange and hardly human 'race
of people. Yet despite the sur
prises, Moscow is essentially a
city like other big cities, with
buses that run on schedule, and
big buildings; and a good many
automobiles and a great many
people of all sorts and kinds.
.
IlfESTERN diplomats complain
" that intelligent visitors with
no trace of Communist sympa
thies are apt to be favorably im
pressed, simply because Moscow
is not as bad as they expected.
Thus Moscow enjoys rather the
same advantage' as the Soviet
government abroad, when it
acts, for once, in a way like
any other government. What is
really most surprising of all,
however, is that this shabby and
essentially ordinary city, de
ficient in both gayety and con
sumer goods, should have been
for aU these years , a shining
Mecca, .a holy of holies,-to so
many millions of people in Asia
and Europe. '
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Ho hum!!!
That expression, I think, more
or less accurately describes the
attitude of most of .us after a
1-o-o-n-n-g-g holiday when we're
picking up the pieces and slowly
gettmg back again to worK
which, after all, is the REALi
part of this business of living.
I
T'S rather PLEASANT to gei
back to work. Now ISNT it?
Wise Thomas Carlyle said
something when he wrote about
a century ago: .
"Blessed is he who has found
his work; let him ask no other
blessedness."
NO BIG news after the long
holidav.
For which thank fortune!
The big news in these daysis
apt to be BAD news. .; - ;
BY MODERN custom, we cnauc
ud after the Fourth of July
the total of traffic accidents.
This year, the total was the big
gest in history a grim jsj.
WelL there are more people.
And more cars. ' . . "
RECKLESS driving?
I suppose so.
But let's not forget that over.
the holiday week end 239 people
died by drowning. The number
of deaths due to falling off step
ladders and slipping in bathtubs
hasn't yet been computecL-
THESE modern days are.sup
nnsed to be daneerous days.
r - w
I wonder.
There are more accidents, of
course. But tnere are more peo
ple.
And
Our communications facilities
are fabulously more complete
and perfect now than in ; the
olden, golden days. Maybe we
just HEAR MORE about the ac
cidents. QPEAKING of modern news.
& The stock market continues
its unward swing. The Wall
Street report says gains ran to
between four and five points.
13 THAT good news? " " .
Or is it bad news?
Is it the beginning of another
inflationary boom? .
Or is the mechanical revolu
tion just beginning to click?
WELL,
from
YOU can't stop people
from hoping.
Maybe we are approaching the
time when our conquest of the
machine will be so complete
that income can keep on going
up on technological improve
ment and prices can keep com'
ing down for the same reason.
That would be wonderful.
' It COULD happen.
T ET'S CLOSE on a more seri
"ous note.
Senator Lyndon Johnson of
Texas, who is the Democratic
leader in the senate, suffered a
heart attack on Saturday night
and is now in Bethesda naval
hospital in the outskirts of Waslu
ington. ;
His condition is described as
serious. .
He is only 46.
SENATOR Johnson shows every
sigh of being a STATESMAN
rather than a mere politician of
the type that counts the votes
first and then forms his opinions.
We can ill spare men like that.
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Unemployment Bill
For D.C. Described
By Senator Morse
By SEN. WAYNE MORSE
Washington, D.C (Special)
Several , months ago I intro
duced an unemployment comp
ensation bill for the District of
Columbia. It embodies the ma
jor Truman-Eisenhower propos
als. This District of Columbia
bill has national significance be
cause it can- set a pattern for
state action.
Its principal features are:' a
formula increasing minimum
benefits and providing for a max
imum of 67 per cent of the av
erage weekly wage for the area;
an increase of duration of bene
fits to 26 weeks.
The Senate District of Colum
bia committee has acted favor
ably on my bill. Because I was
able to arrange for bipartisan
co-sponsorship it should receive
favorable consideration by the
Senate. . " "
This bill is in sharp contrast
to the unemployment compensa
tion bill enacted by the Oregon
legislature and approved by the
governor this year. .The Oregon
act will disqualify thousands of
workers and will cause loss of
earnings to many Oregonians
thereby damaging business
throughout the state. The Ore
gon law is a demonstration of
the need for federal minimum
standards.
As expected, the Hoover com
mission proposals on natural re
sources and power would turn
over all economic hydroelectric
resources to the private utilities,
destroy low . public-power rates
and cripple rural electric co-ops.
public utility districts and dam
age municipal systems. ;
For example, the commission,
which was stacked with private
utility partisans, recommended
that no public tranmission lines
be built. That has been the policy
of the Eisenhower administra
tion where it was proposed to
bring public power to new areas
or public bodies. Yet, Secretary
McKay has announced studies of
plans for public transmission
lines to deliver private utility
power from "partnership" pro
jects to private utility distribu
tion centers. That is indeed a
strange way of promoting fed
eral economy.
First, Negro Gains
New York Court Post
' New York (U.R)-- Harold A.
Stevens today sat on the bench
of the state Supreme Court, the
first Negro to hold such a posi
tion in New York's history.
The 47-year-old jurist was
sworn in Wednesday by Secre
tary of State Carmine G. De
sapio. Gov. Averell Harriman
witnessed the ceremony.
The governor described the
new justice as a man "who has
won, the respect of the commu
nity and who will serve with
great distinction in the Supreme
Court."
. Stevens was appointed to a
term expiring Dec. 31, 1955. He
succeded . Judge Thomas L. J.
Corcoran who died Feb. 21.
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