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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
M YEARS AGO
August 2. 1945
w (It auras Thursday)
S?Me hundred German prison--&8
f war and 320 Mexican
Nationals to help in pear harvest,
According to County Agent Rob
(frt C.: fowler.
rroM At thur Perry's Ye
(fewdg Pot Column: The deer
4iinf eKcm has opened .m
(California in certain areas. Re
port mar Jnot Oregonians will
s (Unfit the season opens at
oi$0 4 be erroneously shot for
$icgt $ points than they have.
MO f AR KGO 4
(If was Friday)
eSta Bedford men named to
(fasktoo county planning board.
gjtt to open at 10 a.m. Satur
&f fdP40 tons of hay for use in
Jta Jtogue River national forest.
SEARS AGO '
August 2. 1925
Records show only three grass
i$ falls answered by fire de
partment in July, fewest in de
nt's July history.
Sfifotfi Local Personal col
She affiliated trades have
Established an office at Smith
hall, 123 North Grape st. They
have a representative in the
filding from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
veraay to handle all business
3haifmay arise. All , card men
(fire pasted to register with the
(8$ciary. . '
40 $EARS AGO
(August t. 1915
(It was Monday)
Strict Dane, dog of local doc
tgt fetches self how to .avoid
$$9 mizzle law by slipping muz
2& off and putting it back on
foe policeman approaches.
afer Users' association has
sigid up 11,329 acres of land
for Irrigation.
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What's the Answer?
Can 'You Get 4 of the 7?
(gppr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
3ou Get 4 of the 7?
g. The average U.S. family
(gpen more every year on medi
cines and drugs, alcoholic bev
raf a$ tobacco products, or auto
epaife?
What highly important
business has a high concentra
(fflon in Hartford, Conn.?
. 411 59 signers of the Dec
PaSion of Independence were
&orn in this country; right or
nfw"tnrs anrl dentists may
irafted for the armed forces
up So the age of 25, 35, 45 or
5Sf 0
J!; A king now sits on the
(hrcfi of Spain; right or wrong?
. The thistle, with its prick-
leaves, ithe symbol of .Ire
land, Canada, England, France,
Scotland or , Mexico?
7.Noah's three sons were Ham
(lhem. and (Uriah, Enos, Abso
m, Methuselah or Japheth?
The answers: 1. Alcoholic
beverages. 2. Insurance. 3.
Wrong; 8 were foreign-born. 4.
Up to 45. 5. Wrong. 6. Scotland.
7.GJaphfith.
TOUGH RABBIT
Princeton, Ind. (U.R) James
C. Stevens, Princeton, was treat-
ed at a hospital for a bite on the
head. He said he was feeding his
"tame" rabbits when one jump
ed atop him and bit.
15
MAIL TRIBUNE
More Double -Talk
We are getting a trifle weary of Congressman
Ellsworth's self-righteous alibis for voting against
every liberal proposal that is offered in the Lower
House.
His recent approval of removing all government
control of natural gas, contrary to the judgment of
US Supreme Court, is only one of many examples..
Instead of frankly admitting this action was in
favor of the Natural Gas Promoters, and in line with
his longest established policy of disregarding the
public interest where private interests are concerned,
our Representative in congress, maintained that he
voted as he did, because he refused to abandon prin
ciple, for political expediency.
LJAD he been politically motivated he would he
claims, have voted for federal regulation of the
natural gas business, but being opposed to "govern
ment interference' 'in the realm of private enterprise,
he voted against it.
This may lose him votes, he thinks, for some may
claim the absence of federal regulation will increase
gas rates to the consumers and profits to the producers
unjustly. As usual, however, where private profits are
concerned, Mr. Ellsworth can see.no basis for such
claims, as again as usual he goes down the line as the
GOP business-as-usual command dictates.
CONGRESSMAN Ellsworth is only correct in one
particular. '
He may lose votes. For his action . will, withoutrany
question, open the gates to unrestricted natural gas
sneculation and exploitation, and tend to make the
sky the limit as far as prices
cerned.
BUT as in other political directions, this sort of thing
can't go on FOREVER. One of these days the
worm will turn, General Intertia will be demoted
and denounced, and the people a majority of them
at least will pay some attention to the voting record
of their veteran Representative in the Lower House
and decide at the polls that they want no continuation
of it. R.W.R.
The SP Beats I -Horse-Power
The mourning in Roseburg over the defeat of the
"Pony Express" by the SP "Night Crawler" is under
standable no one likes to lose a race but it is not
very logical."
For what does Roseburg want, along with Med
ford and Ashland? A continuation of SP passenger
service, not its discontinuance. ,
And according to the reliable Oregonian, not only
did the "Night Crawler" arrive in Roseburg on time
but on the straight stretches the specially pepped
up engineer hit it up to "50 miles an hour and went
around curves like a "whip-lash."
CO WHAT?
Well one of the major claims of the SP has
been that the Eugene-Ashland section is so circuitous,
hilly and out-of-date that no proper passenger service
can be rendered anyway.
THE race demonstrated the complete falsity of this
, claim.
"Fifty miles an hour" and making the curves
"like a whip-lash," shows what the SP could do if it
really wanted to, and with its present equipment and
the. same old allegedly impossible road-bed. '
Imagine what it could do if it would spend a small
bit of its $70,000,000 annual profit for one of these
new single-unit streamlined super Diesel trains, such
as are in regular service today in Spain, and have
been tried out by the NY, NH & H, between Boston
and New York with such outstanding success?
The run between Portland and lvieaiora couia oe
made easily, in four or five hours, and undoubtedly
onthe present road bed, and at greatly reduced over
head as well as time.
H
AD the SP demonstrated it couldn't even beat a
type of horse power transportation that has been
outmoded since shortly after the Civil War, there
might be some basis for. its contention that the old
"Shasta Route" as far as passengers are concerned,
is out of date.
But to Win the battle at "50 miles an hour," and
defeat the one-horse power advocates by nine min
utes, knocks all that sort of propaganda into the well
known cocked-hat.
The fact that the SP can give Southern Oregon
decent passenger service if it so desires, and far bet
ter service if it wishes to spend some of its income,
is the lesson the defeat of the pony express clearly
brings out. R.W.R-.
Democratic Congress, Republican President
, a
As the first session of the 84th Congress adjourns,
no one can say that the national interest has really
suffered because the Congress was of one party while
the President was of the other. In fact, the two had
collaborated more closely on foreign affairs than in
1953-54, when Congress as well as the President was
Republican. Q
Several days before the Congressional elections
of 1954, the President had averred that a Democratic
victory would present "innumerable obstacles" to
progress, and would replace "certainty and confi
dence" with "uncertainty and confusion." Several
days after the election, he confessed that he had gone
too far in warning the voters against a "cold war of
partisan politics" if they elected a Democratic Con
gress. 6
He was right the second-time. E.R?
Tuesday, August 2, 1953
to the consumer are con
Matter of Fact
It would be nice to own a fac
tory in which the workers never
struck; worked very hard for six
straight eight-
hour days; left
the factory
only when
their work
cardswere
countersigne d
by the man
agement, and
and earned
their minimum
s u b s i s tence
Dav on a Diece-
Stewari Alsop work or speed
up, system.
These greedy c ap i t a 1 i s t
thoughts kept occurring to this
reporter as he toured two fac
tories, a steel plant in Dneprope
trovsk and a tractor factory here
in Kharkov. The steel plant was
like a scene from Hell, with the
terrible heat of the open hearth
furnaces and the endless clanging
of metal on metal. The tractor
plant was a clean and seemingly
well run place. But there were
more similarities than differ
ences. In the first place, the four
points listed above applied to
both factories, as they do to
every factory in the Soviet Un
ion. This reporter aksed a mem
ager of the tractor factory wheth
er the workers might not think
about striking for a 40-hour
week, for example.
. The manager looked genuinely
astonished. "But why should
they strike?" he asked. "If they
have ' any complaints they can
always discuss them with the
management."
Second, there was a marked
and visible difference between
the newly developed class of
managers and the manual work
ers. In both factories, the man
agers all wore clean white linen
smocks but the difference went
deeper than that. .The managers
were almost all engineers and
party members and they were
differentiated also By their bear
ing and manner of speech.
"You see," this reporter's in
terpreter remarked, "nobody
bows or scrapes before the man
agers" as though this lack of
servility would astonish the visi
tor from the land of capitalism.
HHHIRD, in both factories . the
average pay was about the
same 800 to 900 rubles a month,
according to the management,
which is a universal average for
Soviet factory workers. Put this
pay in dollar terms, and you get
some surprises. The official ex
change rate is four rubles to the
dollar. (The rate is wholly arti
ficial but accept it for purposes
of argument.) You then have an
average monthly wage of $225
not high for an American work
er, but not impossibly low. But
consider the prices the Soviet
worker has to pay.
Suppose, for example, an
American worker, living on $225
a month had to pay $250. for a
second hand suit, or, $80 for a
pair of boots, or $2.50 for a
pound of fatty meat (when he
could get it), or $850 for a tele
vision set, or $1.50 for a single
cucumber.
In short, when you consider
the real purchasing power of his
wages, it is astonishing that the
Soviet worker manages to live
at all. It is true, of course, that
the Soviet worker pays very low
rent and no doctor bills. It is
also true that he is not expected
to support a family -his wife is
just as important an earner as
he is.
Even so, it is clear on the face
of it that the Russian worker
lives below what would be re
garded in the United States as
the minimum subsistence level.
Yet it would be the worst sort
of folly to conclude from this
that the Soviet worker is ripe
for revolt, or that the Soviet in
dustrial system is on the verge
of collapse.
It is reasonable to assume that
the factories this reporter saw
were the best in their area. But
they were clearly not built just
to impress foreigners. And they
were clearly turning out a lot of
steel and a lot of tractors.
As for the workers, they were
certainly husky and healthy, and
they; were certainly working
hard. Those whom this reporter
chose at random to talk to seem
ed just as eager as everybody
else to propagandize the stranger
on the peculiar glories of Soviet
life. Propaganda is, in fact, an
important part of the Soviet in
dustrial system.
Both factories were festooned
with vast white-on-red banners,
bearing quotations from the
Marxist great and slogans like
"WEN YOU HAVE PROMISED
TO EXCEED YOUR NORM,
YOU MUST DO IT." "
rkNE official explained the the
" ory behind these exhorta
tions. He agreed that the work
ers simply disregarded them.
"But," he said, "the words are
present in their minds, although
they do not know.it." It is ap
parently no accident that Dr.
Pavlov, who invented the theory
of the conditioned reflex, was a
Russian. At any rate, whether
thanks to Dr. Pavlov or not, the
ruthlessly exploited Russian
worker is unquestionably pro
ducing more and more.
His rate of production is, to
be 'sure, still statistically far be
low the American or even the
By Stewart AIsop
European rate. But it is also sta
tistically true that the rate of
Soviet industrial production has
risen rapidly since the war and
continues to rise. The sight of
these two factories with their
thousands of hard-working, low
paid, propaganda-ridden, totally
disciplined workers, served for
this reporter to turn a meaning
less statistic into a vivid reality.
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
This is the third of a series of
reports which Stewart Alsop
brought out of Russia when he
left Moscow before the Geneva
conference.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Early the other morning the
teletype -threw all its watchers
into something of a tizzy by
spitting out the news that later
in the day President Eisenhower
would make a VERY IMPOR
TANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
W
OW! ! !
Was that something!
It gave us all the shivers. Be
ing professionals, we knew that
according to all the accepted
rules "very important" .news
would have to be BAD hews.
T1HE politically minded among
us promptly jumped to the
conclusion that the announce
ment would have to do with
Ike's plans for next year that
is to say, will he or won't he
run. , '
But
That conclusion didn't jibe
with the more or less accepted
rule that "very important" news
(the kind of news that gets
spread all over the front pages
under horsy headlines) has to be
very bad news. .
Among the professional Re
publicans, of course, a statement
from Ike that he WON'T RUN
would be bad news of the first
magnitude. But among the pro
fessional Democrats it would be
hailed with joy almost uncon
trolable. Sb that was out.
TT THEN occurred to us that
- maybe the Russians had ac
cepted without reservation Ike's
dramatic Geneva proposal. But
the teletpye spiked that a little
later with a bulletin to the effect
that the "very important news"
would not concern anything that
took place at the Big Four ses
sion. ,
WH
EN it came, this was it:
"President Eisenhower has ap
proved plans for launching plan
ned artificial earth satellites
These satellites will be unman
ned globes designed for purely
scientific purposes.
A LITTLE later the teletype
came across with the word
that the satellites will be about
the size of basketballs. They will
circle the earth once everv 90-
minutes at a speed of 18,000
mph. They will carry ONLY
instruments tor collecting sci
entific information. No guns or
bombs YET. They might re
main up for days or weeks, then
disintegrate and fall back down.
They are still in the planning
stage, out government scientists
say they think the first of the
satellites can be launched in
TWO years.
Oh, yes.
The project is expected to cost
two billion dollars.
0
H, YES again.
The White House savs infor
mation obtained from the proj
ect will be available to all na
tions including Russia.
VUHY is all this so important?
Well, what is little tends in
these days to become big and
what is big tends to become big
ger. These little melon-sized af
fairs could grow into balloon-
sized affairs. Unmanned now,
they might later be MANNED.
With tiny instruments now, they
mignt later carry big and com
plicated instruments.
Among other things, they
might carry instruments with
which atom-bomb-carrying ro
bots might be GUIDED ACCU
RATELY to pin-point targets
the Kremlin, for example. Or
Washington.
Assuming.that is, that the peo
ple of this earth are- nutty
enough to go on planning and
developing instruments for their
own destruction.
You see
It was quite a bit of news at
that.
0
NE minor detail in,conclu-
sion.
When the teletype first . chat
tered out the story, it said the
satellites would be UNNAMED.
Later, with a very red face, it
blurted out a correction. The
word should have been UN
MANNED, it explained.
Even robots make mistakes.
Highway Commission
Schedules Meeting
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
State Highway Commission to
day announced it will hold its
next reeular meeting in Port
land Aug. 11 and 12, for the pur
pose of receiving bids on 32 proj
ects estimated to cost $4,100,000.
Government Hits
Firms Chiseling
On Contract Work
Washington (U.R) The
government has blacklisted
more than 6,000 persons and
firms since beginning its drive
to eliminate chiseling on gov
ernment contracts. -
Last "July, the General Serv
ices Administration the gov
ernment's housekeeping agency
began to keep a list of private
firms that engaged in - under
handed dealings on government
contracts.
GSA doesn't decide which per
sons or firms are trying to make
a fast dollar through fraudulent
practices, but it gets reports
from government agencies hav
ing business with private con
tractors. From this information it set
up a blacklist for the confiden
tial use of all government con
tracting officers. This master
blacklist prevents an unscrupu
lous contractor, barred by one
agency, from working his wiles
on another.
Those on the dishonor roll
are barred from getting govern
ment contracts for definite pe
riods of - time, usually three
years.
Employes Inform
The 6,000 names actually rep
resent about 2,000 "cases," the
spokesman said, since the list
includes the' names of the one
or more persons who own or
operate the business as well as'
the firm name. -
There alsar is a second list of
about 4,200 : names called the
"refer" list. These names have
been referred for investigation
before a contract will be award
ed. Baron I. Shacklette, director
of GSA's contract compliance
branch, said" most of the infor
mation about crooked bidding
or contract chiseling" comes from
employes of the firms involved.
"They're scandalized when
they see something crooked go
ing on," he. said. O
, "The way the average citizen
looks at his' government is un
canny,' Shacklette said. "The
employers apparently think it's
all right for one commercial
firm to outwit another, but they
seem to have mother instincts
when it comes to the govern
ment." " ,
Shacklette said 60 per cent
of the complaints reported in
connection with government
contracts prove to be unfound
ed. He also said very few gov
ernment x contracting officers
have been found to - be un
scrupulous. Vr,-;:'
"But when one of them is,"
he said, "he certainly makes
headlines." '
Petition Asks OLCC
Files Be Made Public
Salem (U.R) Marion county
Circuit Judge , George Duncan
was expected to rule after 10
days on a petition by Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton to
force the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission to make public its
files on an investigation con
ducted by Gov. Paul Patterson.
The petition was presented
yesterday. Judge Duncan sus
tained a demurrer by Robert F.
McGuire and Howard I. Bobbitt,
Portland1 attorneys who con
ducted the investigation. They
were named defendants in the
petition.
The investigation centered
around allegations that some
OLCC employees had accepted
gifts from liquor distributors.
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Thank for Wheel Chair
To the Editor: We would like
to use this as a way to express
our appreciation and simple but
heartfelt thanks to our many
friends (too numerous to men
tion all) who have been so kind
to us during my husband's ill
ness. They have helped in so many
many ways, too numerous to
name, but mostly we would like
to use this way to thank each
and every one of you who so
generously gave money, to pur
chase this beautiful wheel chair.
So will all of you accept our
heartfelt thanks and God bless
all of you.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Gann
2928 Table Rock Rd.
Medford, Ore.
Mississippi Voters To
Nominate Governor
Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Voters
in Mississippi are naming their
choice, for the governor's office
today.
There are five candidates in
the Democratic primary . . .
each one a foe of racial integra
tion. Some 400,000 votes are ex
pected but only about 20,000 by
negroes. Party officials in one
county have warned Negroes
that any ballots they might cast
would prove worthless.
The" candidates are four men
and one woman. They are seek
ing the office now held by Gov
ernor Hugh White, who is pre
vented by state law from suc
ceeding himself.
Observers predict the out
come will not be decided until a
run-off three weeks from today.
The nomination is the same as
election in Mississippi a one
party state.
Pine Tree Mariner
Docks at Portland
1 Portland (U.R) The Pine
Tree Mariner one of. the two
vessels to be converted into pas
senger liners.for Oceanic Steam
ship company by Willamette
Iron and Steel company has
docked in Portland..
The second vessel in the 26,
000,000 conversion project, the
Free Mariner, is scheduled to ar
rive later this week. Both ves
sels have been docked in Oak
land, Calif.
The WISCO contract is the
first major shipbuilding work
to be done in Portland since the
end of World War II. Regional
Director Daniel Goldy of the
U. S. Labor Department's em
ployment service, predicts the
conversion contract will employ
enough men to remove Portland
from the federal government's
"critical unemployment" list
and bring it to the "moderate
surplus" classification.
New Executive Tains
Over Engineer Ooffca
Portland (U.R) Lt.' Col.
Francis G. McBride has taken
over his duties as executive of
ficer for the Portland District,
Corps of Engineers, the egineers
announced today.
Col. McBride succeeds Col.
David S. Parker, recently named
assistant district engineer. He
has served with a military ad
visory group in Holland for the
past three years.
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Cannibal Insects
Aid Cane Crops
From Louisiana
Washington (U.R) Go easy
with the fly swatter in Louisi
ana canefields; you may snuff
out two bits worth of cannibal
istic insect which is aiding the
sugarcane crop.
In a larva-eat-larva operation,
the Agricultural Research Serv
ice has introduced $6,000 worth
of Caesarean-born parasitic
flies at the rate of fie for a
dollar to help control infesta
tions of the sugarcane borer on
plantations near Houma.
The flies Amazon Meta
gonistylum minense and Cuban
Lixophaga diatraeae instinct-,
ively deposit their eggs at the
entrance of holes the borers
make in sugarcane stalks. The
eggs hatch almost immediately.
Each fly larva moves inJU) a hole,
penetrates a borer larva, and
feeds on its living tissue until
full grown and ready to emerge
from its cocoon as an adult fly.
The end result is death to the
borer and a new generation of
parasites ready to lay more
eggs to kill more borers.
Low-cost Control
Entomologists Ralph Matins
and L. J. Charpentier of the
Sugarcane Field Station at Hou
ma said that after two years of
research the parasites - hold
promise as a partial and low
cost means of borer control. A
year after a group of parasitic
flies had ben released on oneo
plantation, they had achieved 75
per cent borer control. New gen
erations of the flies had migrat
ed as far as two miles from the
original release point.
Aerial dustings of sugarcane
with insecticides costs about S9
an acre. Mathes and Charpentier
hope the .parasitic fly method j
can give considerable borer con
trol for about $1 an acre.
The parasites are produced in
quantity in a laboratory in Trin
idad. The Cuban and Amazon
flies are gathered there where
technicians perform Caesarean
operations on the female flies
and take the hatching . larvae
from them, one by one, with a
small brush. This operation is
coordinated with development of
laboratory-grown borer larvae
to serve as food. Each- fly larva,
placed on a borer . hog, begins
to feed at once.
After seven to nine aN(ys the
larvaeoare ready to be "shipped
by airmail to buyers. When the
adults emerge and mate,, they
are released in sugarcane field?,
about five to an acre. They're
ready for work. s
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INSURANCE
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Your insurance folder shows per
sons hurt in falls on slippery side
walks or waxed floors, tripping
over garden hoses or toys, being
hit by a bicycle, baseball or golf
ball, bitten by a dog, etc. Does a
mere $10 premium cover an en
tire family's liability for all such
accidents?
For Information Call"
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AGENCY
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