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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 27. 1945
(It was Friday)
Plans being prepared for new
water distribution system for
.Central Point; preliminary step
in securing Medford water.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Several
Oregon burgs face water short
ages, as well as a a lack of
liquor for it to socially chase.
20 YEARS AGO
July 27. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Frank DeSouza of Medford
elected vice-president of Oregon
Association of Postmasters : at
Coquille. '
Air line pilots announce co
operation with forest service in
reporting fires spotted along air
line routes over Oregon.
80 YEARS AGO
July 27. 1925
(It was Monday)
Suncrest Orchards, a Califor
nia and Oregon Marketing or
ganization, leases plant of Ore
gon Growers Packing corpora
tion here.
Fourth Medford child welfare
clinic held in Library basement
40 YEARS AGO
July 27, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Medford city council postpones
action on Rogue River Public
service corporation to furnish
city with electricity.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Many out of town people
will be in the city Thursday to
hear William Jennings Bryan
peace apostle and best beloved
of American political characters,
The strongest following of the
Nebraskan in Jackson county is
in the country districts, many
of whom regard as a personal
insult any word against him.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. More students are graduat
ed from high school at 16, 17,
18, 19 or 20 years of age?
2. Which one of these has few
est votes in the Electoral Col
lege: California. Illinois, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Texas?
3. Are more persons protected
against surgical expenses by in
surance companies, or by Blue
Cross-Blue Shield plans, or is it
about 50-50?
4. The maple leaf represents
Alaska, Canada, Vermont, Nor
way, or Japan?
5. More than half, about half,
or less than half the present
members of Congress have
served in the armed forces?
6. The Post Office Department
is about to paint mail boxes a
new color: yellow, blue, green
and white, yellow and green, or
red, white and blue?
7. Eighter from Decatur, box
cars, snake eyes are terms used
in what game?
The Answers: 1. More at 18;
2- Texas; 3. More by insurance
companies; 4. Canada; 5. More
than half; 6. Red. while and blue;
7. Craps.
At an average rate of 30 miles
per hour, it would take an auto
mobile more than 11 years to
travel over the 3,012,520 miles
of rural highway maintained in
the United States today. '
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Modern Nomads
e learned from the society page "spread" on
Sunday a couple of weeks ago that some 4,000,000
Americans now make their homes in house trailer
although they prefer the name "mobile homes."
We learned even more
lite the other evening when we sat m on a discussion
of trailer life and experiences between two couples
who for several years now have been devoted to the
freedom possible when you take your house with
you.
"NE of the couples lives in the Rogue Valley most
of the year, but in the winter they hitch up the
trailer and take off for the warm desert country of
southern California, Arizona and New Mexico.
The other couple,
spend most of their time
another of their favorite stopping spots the High
Sierras part of the year; the lake country of northern
California for a while ; the desert and the ocean. All
they need is a mailing address from which letters can
be forwarded to them.
70R anyone with a trace of wanderlust, the con-
versation provided a temptation to throw up all
appurtenances of permanent living and take to the
highway.
For they chatted gaily of this or that national
monument; the advantages of one resort area over
another; the developments in highways leading to
or from favored spots.
And the conversation
modem highway nomads are truly members of a new
and widespread brotherhood. One of them said :
Why I have friends
in practically every state
interesting people and seen more interesting sights
since we've been traveling in the trailer than in all
the years before. I feel I have friends wherever I go."
THIS travelling around is done in comfort and ease
ittV i n Tiro o linf Vi rn rrVi f r o -Pairr lrnore o rrr
The trailers themselves range from small units,
designed primarily for sleeping and not much more,
up to behemoths of the highways, which have dining
rooms, sitting rooms, bedrooms, picture windows,
television, shower baths, and even upstairs compart
ments and patios.
Some of them are luxurious, some strictly utili
tarian, but all of them make it possible to be com
fortable while seeing America.
THE phenomenon of trailer life is one of the out
" growths of the changing population and working
characteristics of America. It reflects two things : The
increasing age of our people, with many more retired
folk, and the increase in leisure time.
Many of the trailer-travelers are those who have
a retirement income, and are using their leisure to
do the traveling they never have been able to do be
fore, and do it in relatively economical style. There
are many places to park a trailer which cost nothing,
and even the more pretentious trailer-parks, where
utilities, a common-room and a wash house are fur
nished, are much less expensive than even the most
backward motel.
Others of the traveling clan are those who find
that a few weeks of vacation are well spent in the
nomadic life with a mobile home.
OOBBIES and other leisure-time activities find a
ready growth in the trailer parks.
A mobile life is a "natural" for a rockhound, who
can poke and pry for rare and interesting stones to
his heart's content in a variety of states. One couple
we known makes a specialty of collecting pieces of
glass which have been given tints of color through
exposure to years in the hot sun. Fishermen can go
from one favored spot to another, as can hunters.
Some trailers have fully-equipped hobby workshops.
One trailer.resident we know delights in making at
tractive knickknacks out of a certain cactus wood,
and sending them to friends and relatives. (We have
one on our desk now.)
llHAT with travel, and visiting friends around the
nation, and "meeting up" with trailer-life ac
quaintances made previously (often groups travel in
regular patterns, and can confidently expect to see
other members of the group at some certain spot
later in the year), and with housekeeping, lishmg,
hunting, card games, parties, hobbies, car and trailer
repairs, and so on and so on, the trailer life is a full
one.
One member of the clan laughs that she has been
often asked what she does to keep busy. "
"Why, what with one thing and another, I'm just
as busy now as I've ever been," she says with satis
faction. E.A.
Two Vehicles, Brick
Decoration Damaged
A collision between an auto
mobile and a pick-up truck near
Talent about 5:30 p.m. yesterday
sent one vehicle into the brick
decoration of the Tally Ho rest
aurant. There were no injuries,
but both vehicles and the brick
decoration sustained minor dam
age, state police reported.
Officers on the scene said
a pick-up driven by Loyal Wil
liam Bates, 39, Ashland, was
traveling west on Valley View
rd. and entered Highway 99,
making a left turn. A car oper
ated by Guy Herschel Fletcher,
18, also of Ashland, was head
ing south on the highway and
struck the pick-up, sending it
into a skid ending against the
Wednesday. July 27, 1955
about this type of gypsy
originally from California,
on the road or at one or
also revealed that these
from one coast to the other,
of the union. I've met more
Comedian Joe E. Lewis
Said in Good Spirits
Las Vegas, Nev. U.R)
Comedian Joe E. Lewis was
reported "doing fine and in good
spirits" today at Rose De Lima
hospital in nearby Henderson
where he is recovering from a
diabetes attack.
A nurse quoted the fast-quipping
nightclub performer as
saying, "if I were alive I'd be
a mighty sick man."
Lewis, stricken between shows
at the El Rancho hotel last Sun
day night, is expected to leave
the hospital by the week end.
brick decoration at the Tally
Ho. officers reported.
Both vehicles were driven
away after the accident, state
police said.
Neuberger Changes Mind
About Military Reserve Bill
Washington. D. C. (Special)
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger re
cently told the Senate that he
thought he was wrong in voting
for the military reserve bill on
July 14 because it "presents a
radical departure, not only in
degree, but in kind of military
compulsion."
The Oregon Democrat pro
posed that educational benefits
similar to those once contained
in the G. I. Bill of Rights be
substituted for compulsion as a
means of building a peacetime
military reserve. He added that
if the House-Senate conference
report provides for enforcing
compulsory active reserve duty
on future draftees, "I wish to be
rendered in opposition."
Hadn't Read Hearings
Neuberber told his colleagues
that he had not had the oppor
tunity, until after the bill had
passed last week, to read the
393 pages of printed hearings
which were "not available to
members of the Senate until
noon of the day when the vote
took place."
"I regret having had to change
my mind, but I would rather be
open to conviction than to cling
to fixed opinions on any issue,'
he said
Neuberger said he objected to
asking the nation's young men
to give up substantial portions
of their careers, to fit years of
their civilian lives into the strait
jacket of periodic military ser
vice and its disciplnarian de
mands" at a time when "pro
fits on military and other de
fense contracts are soaring to
the highest levels in history.
Recalls Resolutions
He recalled that "there used
to be frequent resolutions from
veterans' organizations about
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Want to know how to estimate
the speed of wind without bene
fit of even an instrument? -All
it takes is careful observation.
When smoke rises vertically
from chimneys, without drift it
is blowing less than one mile an
hour.
When the wind is felt on the
face, when leaves begin to rustle
and the wind moves the vane,
then it is blowing from 4-7 miles
an hour.
When leaves and twigs are in
y-u-ss
constant motion and the wind ex
tends light flags, then it is blow
ing from 8-12 miles an hour.
When the dust raises and loose
bits of paper are picked up by
the wind and small .branches
begin to move, then it is blow
ing 13-18 miles an hour.
When the small trees in leaf
begin to sway, the wind is blow
ing at 19-24 miles an hour.
When the large branches of a
tree are in motion, telephone
wires begin to whistle and um
brellas are used with difficulty,
then it is blowing 25-31 miles
an hour.
When , not only the large
branches but the trees them
selves are in motion and walk
ing becomes inconvenient, then
the speed is about 32-38 miles.
When twigs break off and pro
gress is generally impeded in
walking, then it is blowing a
gale with winds about 39-46
miles an hour.
When the wind is beginning
to cause slight damage to houses,
tearing off slates and shingles,
then it is blowing about 47-54
miles an hour.
When trees are being uproot
ed, with considerable damage
being caused to homes, then it
is blowing a "whole gale" from
55-63 miles an hour.
When damage is widespread
such as is experienced around
the edge of a hurricane and tor
nado, truly a very rare exper
ience, then it is blowing 64-75
miles an hour.
Should the countryside be dev
astated with winds encountered
only near the center of hurri
canes and typhoons, very rarely
experienced anywhere, then it
is a hurricane and in excess of
75 miles an hour.
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capital as well as men being
drafted for the next war."
"While we are making addi
tional demands on the youth of
the nation, the income and shares
of the corporations that furnish
most of our defense materials
stand higher than ever," he said.
"All the fine talk about drafting
dollars as well as men seems to
have been totally forgotten."
Remarking that "our whole
sense of social justice seems to
have evaporated" in considera
tion of the military reserve bill,
the 42-year-old Senator urged in
clusion of the educational bene
fits of the G. I. Bill of Rights as
"a fair and effective incentive
tor voluntary participation in
the ready reserve program."
National Grange Head
Urges Price Changes
Portland (U.R) Now is
the time to change our national
farm support policies, according
to Herschel D. Newsom, national
Grange master.
Newsom arrived here by plane
from Washington, D.C. last
night and met today with
Grange leaders from the North
west states.
He said if the government
waits much longer to change its
policies "the decline in farm in
come will drag down the gen
eral economy as it did in the
1920s and 1930s."
"We have worked out a de
tailed commodity-by-commodity
plan," he said. "But the heart
of the problem is a new type of
income insurance for farmers.
Present price supports don't
work."
He said the so-called "flex
ible" support program is not the
solution. He said it is only
"flexible" once a year when new
support prices can be set.
Log Lack Blamed
For Mill Closure
North Bend, Ore. (U.R)
Lack of a steady log supply to
day was blamed by the Irwin
Lyons Lumber Co. here for
closure of its North Bend saw
mill operation.
General Manager John Haw
kins, said competition of ply
wood and veneer plants for
peeler logs forced the closure.
The firm's planing mill and
yard will continue in operation.
About 60 men were affected by
the shutdown. Hawkins said the
planing mill, employing about
50 men, would remain in opera
tion with lumber sawed by
smaller mills in the area.
Supersonic Sled Streaks
To New Land Speed Mark
Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.
(U.R) An unmanned rocket-
propelled supersonic sled has
streaked to a new land speed
record of 1,100 miles per hour
at this Air Force flight test cen
ter, it was disclosed today.
Radioplane Co., of Van Nuys,
Calif., builder of the 4,300-pound
sled, said it established a record
on a 10,000-foot rocket test track
of 1,608 feet per second, or
about 18 miles a minute.
The sled reached its peak
speed in less than five seconds.
The record was 60 miles per
hour faster than the pre.vious
mark.
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
What of the Geneva meeting?
Was it SOMETHING NEW in
the world?
Or was it just another cynical
diplomatic talkfest?
THESE are pertinent questions.
Down through the tragic cen
turies, there have been so many,
MANY of these "meetings at
the top" at moments when the
existing world was in a state of
flux and the people YEARNED
for the emergence of a new and
better world.
So many of them have ended
in grim disappointment.
rpHERE was the Congress of
Vienna.
It met at the fateful hour when
Napoleon, after making a bloody
hash of Europe, had come finally
to what seemed the end of his
string. After his disastrous re
treat from Moscow, he had abdi
cated. The greats of the world had
met at Vienna to decide what
to do. After months of wrang
ling, they could think of noth
ing better to do than to put an
other clumsy Bourbon king back
on a newly erected French
throne.
THEY hustled Napoleon off into
exile' at Elba, but the mess
they had made was so foul that
after 11 months Napoleon came
back for the fantastic Hundred
Days, which cooked his goose
for good, and they hustled him
off to St. Helena which end
ed him.
But the mess went on stew
ing. THERE was Versailles which
followed the bloody hash that
Kaiser Wilhelm had made of
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Protests Dropping of Train
To the Editor: I have sent the
following letter to Commission
er Heltzel:
Dear Mr. Heltzel:
I wish to protest most vigor
ously against the proposed
abandonment by the Southern
Pacific Railroad of all passengei?
service between Ashland, Med
ford and Portland over its so
called Siskiyou line into South
ern Oregon.
The Southern Pacific enjoys a
rail monopoly in southwestern
Oregon, which produces more
forest products than any other
area in the United States. Lane
and Douglas counties, in this
region, rank foremost among the
nation's more than 3,000 coun
ties in the production of lumber.
This serves to give some measure
of the Southern Pacific's profit
able freight business in this
area.
It is my understanding that
this is one of the most profitable
freight operations in the Pacific
Northwest. Indeed, the ship
ments of lumber in this area are
so extensive that the railroad is
frequently short of the neces
sary freight cars at the time of
heavy lumber orders in the saw
mills. A utility monopoly Implies ob
ligations as well as privileges.
I doubt if the Public Utilities
Commission should permit the
Southern Pacific to suspend its
last passenger train between
southwestern Oregon and the
metropolitan area in Portland,
while at the same time the rail
road company continues to prof
it from the operation of a rail
freight monopoly in that reg
ion. The people of southwestern
Oregon are entitled to some rail
passenger service from a com
pany which benefits from the
valuable freight business in
southwestern Oregon.
For these reasons, I urge the
Public Utilities Commission not
to permit suspension of the last
railroad passenger service on the
Southern Pacific between Ash
land, Medford and Portland.
Maurine B. Neuberger,
State Representative,
Portland.
Why Not a Day Train?
To the Editor: Speaking of the
untimely disbanding and loss of
the last two passenger trains,
namely, - the friendly Southern
Pacific's "Rogue River", would
be a tragic ordeal to all of
Southern Oregon citizens.
It is more pleasant to read of
a new rebirth than a notice of
suspension.
Why not reverse the two night
trains into daylight "runs," for
a railroad students school. We
know of no better suggestion for
an apprentices school for begin
ners in future railroading. We
do remember of hearing back
in the good times of railroading,
that the expensive part was the
stops that a train made. Com
pared to the automobile today,
there is the same factor regard
ing both. With new improve
ments a certain amount of the
old drawbacks may be elimin
ated eventually, anyway that
has been true of the past.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman
Medford, Ore.
News
Europe. Again the greats came
together, in the suburbs of Paris,
in the vast palace that Louis
XIV had bankrupted France to
build. They orated and they de
liberated. What they did sowed the seeds
of World War II which bathed
the world in blood.
THEN came the Yalta confer
ence, and later one at Berlin
which formalized what had been
decided at Yalta. 1
The upshot of that was the
RISE OF RUSSIAN COMMUN
ISM. That is so recent that we
all know about it..
And then came Geneva.
TOW
11 .
After the brief Geneva ses
sion
THE WORLD IS FULL OF
HOPE.
TS the hope justified?
I
think it is.
Why?
VlfELL, Geneva was brief and
" crisp. The others had been
long and wordy.
Then there is the atom bomb.
The atom bomb, with its grisly
brother, the hydrogen bomb, and
all their potentially GRISLIER
progeny, COULD end man's span
on this earth.
That sobers "us all.
In our sober moments, we
are wiser.
BUT
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Above all
A NEW WORLD LEADER
EMERGED AT GENEVA.
The new leader is Ike who
in the short four days of Geneva
captured the faith and the trust
of all the peoples of the world.
He did it by being simply his
wholesome self.
Adenauer Appears To
Have Nothing To Lose
By Visit To
By CHARLES McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
of West Germany seems to have
everyming to win and nothing to
lose by his de
cision to visit
Moscow in
September.
T he poker
faced "Old
Fox" certain
ly will be ne
gotiating from
what the dip
lomats call a
position of
strength.
cnaries Mccanu Adenauer has
Russia on one side and the
United States, Great Britain and
France on the other biddine for
his favor.
For very good reasons. Ade
nauer is now lined ud with the
Western allies and is likely to
remain so. Thev have more to
offer him.
But by visitine the Russians
before the Big Four foreign min
isters meet in Geneva in Octo
ber, Adenauer may at least get
a hint of what the Kremlin can
offer him.
Seeks Territory
Ihe Russians know as well as
Adenauer does what he wants.
That is a unified Germany, with
him as boss, and the German ter
ritory east of the Oder-Neisse
rivers which Russia and Poland
seek to annex.
Of course Russia could not
make those concessions to Ade
nauer at this time even if it
wanted to.
But Adenauer probably fig
ures that with the Big Four for
eign ministers meeting cominff
up in October the Russians might
drop some hints of future good
intentions.
Russia's position as regards
Germany has been getting weak
er for a long time.
The Kremlin made its first hia
move to regularize relations with
Adenauer's Federal Republic of
Oermany Jan. 25 when it ended
the state of war between the two
countries.
On May 5. the Western allies
recognized West Germany as a
sovereign nation and on May 9
West Germany entered the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Russian Invitation
On May 10 the Western allies
proposed the-Big Four meeting
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of heads of government which
was held in Geneva last week.
Russia accepted the proposal on
May 14.
Then on June 7. the Russians
invited Adenauer to Moscow.
They said they would be "hon
ored" if Adenauer went there
"to discuss the establishing of
diplomatic, trade and cultural re
lations" and to examine "ques
tions connected with this."
Adenauer disclosed on Mon
day that he has made up his mind
to go to Moscow before the Bis?
Four foreign minister meet.
it is expected that Adenauer
will make his visit during the
first three weeks of September.
mere seems to be no rpasnn
why the Wesirrn allies should be
worried over the visit. Adenauer-
is determined to arm West Ger
many and keep it allied with the
West. The only thing the allies
have to worry about is the fact
that Adenauer is 79 years old
and that, tough as he is, he can
not last forever. G
REJECTING petitions for a
venue change, habeas corpus
writ, Superior Judge C. W.
Snook orders Burton W. Ab
bott to remain behind bars in
Berkeley, CaL, on charge he
slew Stephanie Bryan, 14, kid
nap victim. (International)
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