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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 10, 1945
(It was Friday)
Japan offers surrender terms.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Discovery
of the "atomic bomb" has caused
unfamiliar and horrific appear
ing and sounding words and
phrases to blossom rampant on
newspaper pages. Many reek
with villainy. Should any one
of 'them show up on a valley
pear, they will get arsenate of
lead squirted on them. The
"atomic bomb" scared the Older
Girls, but not enough to cause
them to hop on a chair and
squeal, as if they saw a mouse.
20 YEARS AGO
August 10, 1935
(It was Saturday)
Experts predict very costly
television available by 1938
perhaps.
Medford to receive $225
share of state beer tax.
as
30 YEARS AGO
August 10, 1925
(It was Monday)
Entire force of state and fed
eral fire fighters called out to
"fight 21 forest fires in county.
Morgan-McNeil sawmill burns.
From the Local and Personal
column: The heavy pall of smoke
which lies over Medford and the
valley comes from many forest
fires in the county and adjacent
territory and will probably last
until a rain or heavy wind blows
it away. The smoke is so heavy
that it completely hides the sun
an$; conceals the foothills from
view.
40 YEARS AGO
August 10, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Utah beet sugar factory and
Portland-Beaver Cement plants
promised for valley in coming
year.
Fifty men battle incendiary
fire in Applegate district. Fire
bug said active in that area for
two years, still at large.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Costs as a whole for the av
erage family not changing its liv
ing standards have gone up or
down these last three years, or
stayed about the same?
2. Neiman Marcus is a famous
Texas: Oil Co., political lead
er, department store, university,
or utilities magnate?
3. Most of the 21 U.S. (now 18)
Korean war prisoners who chose
to stay with the Reds came from
large cities or from rural areas
and small towns?
4. Milk thickened with rennet
rnakes what?
5. Carryover of cotton from
previous years is higher or low
er than the whole crop estimated
for next year, or about the same?
6. The Great Barrier Reef lies
off Cape Horn, Australia, Nor
way,, New Zealand, Nantucket
Island, Cape of Good Hope, or
Florida? i
7. Cornelius McGillicuddy is
better known in baseball circles
as ?
The Answers: 1. Stayed about
the same. 2. Department store.
3. Most from rural areas and
small towns. 4. Junket. 5.
About the same. 6. Australia.
7. Connie Mack.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Why Mexican Workers?
The fruit orchards of Jackson county bring an es
timated average of some $14,000,000 into the valley
each year. All the valley benefits from this fruit
growers, agricultural workers, merchants, white-collar
workers, or what have you.
The industry is most important, ranking with lum
ber and tourist services as our three most vital econ
omic mainstays.
DUT wherever you go in the valley, it is possible to
detect an undercurrent of resentment, sometimes
half-humorous, against "the fruitgrowers." This is a
simple fact. It applies at the time of "smudging,"
which orchardists prefer to call "orchard heating;" it
applies throughout the growing season when chemi
cal applications to the trees give rise to fears of pois
oning; and it applies at harvest time now rapidly
approaching when the labor problem comes to the
fore.
We have long felt that much of this resentment
could be dispelled if the fruitgrowers, as a group,
would simply take the rest of the populace into its
confidence, and explain its problems, and why it has
to solve them as it does.
FROM time to time attempts to do this have been
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adic, and much of their
lost.
There has been too
many of the fruit operations, from the fact that some
growers last spring used rubber tires for smudging,
to the negotiations for the use of Mexican Nationals
in the harvest.
It's easy to say, in effect, that what the public
doesn't know won't hurt it. But it is also a fact that the
fruit men are, to a large extent, dependent on public
opinion. Many of them recognize this, and have at
tempted to publicize their
feel that the less said the
gives rise to rumors and suspicion.
TXHAT brings. this to mind is the fact that Mexican
' Nationals again this year are to be brought here
to help with the harvest. No announcement of this
has been made by any of the fruitgrowing organiza
tions, although it is of general public importance.
With "outsiders" brought in to help in the fruit,
there is a quite natural tendency to ask, "Why don't
you hire local people?
The best answer we
a letter from one Rogue
sponse to just this question, posed by a teacher in a
local school. We are publishing parts of his letter in
the hope that the reasoning behind the decision, which
seems sound to us, will clarify the situation. We could
add that we would like
thoughtful explanations
"touchy" aspects of the industry's operation.
Here are excerpts from the letter:
The fruit industry requires about 2,500 people to harvest
and pack our crop of fruit. The season usually starts the
middle of August and extends well into October. In order
to handle the crop on time and before the fruit becomes too
mature, we must harvest a steady amount every day for the
full two months. ,
It happens that the national low period of employment
for farm migratory labor occurs in August. So even though
we are far from large centers of population, we find a con
siderable number of migrant workers passing through the
valley in August. Our growers have invested considerable
money in housing to encourage them to stay, because we
realize they can readily move north into vegetables and
apples for the longer job extending into December, rather
than accept the shorter period of work here.
During August, we also have the problem of employ
ment of local people, including students and women. Our
problem is, if we "load up" with too many local students
and housewives through August and do not make room
for migratory labor passing through, in early September
when schools start we suddenly find ourselves with no help.
The transients, not finding work here in August, have moved
out of the valley. September is the month of heaviest em
ployment of migratory labor along the coast.
There are three things our growers might do:
1. Pay higher wages to try to induce more people to
work in the orchards. Actually this valley is paying more
per hour for farm work than any other district we know
of in the country. We cannot economically go any higher,
because we must sell our produce in competition with the
same products from other districts.
2. Our growers could selfishly refuse to employ any
local students, families or persons whom they were sure
would not stay with them for the two full months necessary
to harvest the crop.
3. Employ Nationals from Mexico. That is what the
growers have been forced to do. These Nationals are expen
sive because the growers must not only pay the same wages
to them as they do local or transient help, but must in addi
tion pay for recruitment, transportation and maintain the
camp to house them. But we must have labor, especially the
last month of the harvest season, and there is no other
source.
Our growers are trying to cooperate with the local
people by attempting to analyze the local prospective labor
situation well in advance of the harvest, and to bring in the
, Nationals in two or three groups, timed for arrival when
they feel that local people and transient labor will be
quitting for school or other reasons. It takes time to recruit
and bring these people in, so planning has to be done well
in advance, and cannot always fit perfectly.
If the local people and students are not fully employed
at all times during the harvest. I believe from the above
they will have a little better r ' rstanding of the growers'
problems, and the efforts tht,. are making to be fair all
around.
"THIS sounds reasonable. We can see no reason why
anyone should take exception to the solution
which has more or less been forced on the growers.
The people of Southern Oregon are fair-minded
people and will accept reasonable solutions, when
they are- explained. It is almost always when facts
are not known that misunderstandings occur and un
founded suspicions are aroused. E.A.
Wednesday, August 10. I9S5
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effect has therefore been
much secrecy surrounding
problems. Others, however,
better an attitude which
have seen is contained in
Valley fruit grower in re
to see equally frank and
given publicly on other
Halt to Bogus
Declared No.
Of Past Session of Congress
Washington, D. C. The most
important conservation achieve
ment of the recent session of
Congress was a law to stop
bogus mining claims on the Na
tional Forests and other public
lands of the West, according to
the National Wildlife Federa
tion. The new mining claim law
permits a prospector to work
his diggings, but otherwise pre
serves the right of the govern
ment to manage the timber and
other surface resources. It also
sets up a procedure involving
public notices and hearings for
clearing up many false claims
that now clutter the public
lands,.
Under the old law it was pos
sible for a person to stake out, a
summer home site, post a good
trout stream for personal use,
or get control of valuable tim
ber all under pretense of look
ing for minerals.
Commended For Bill'
In a summary of the session,
the Federation also commended
Congress for passing a bill to re
lease $13V million of ear
marked wildlife funds that had
been tied up in the treasury for
10 years. The impounded funds,
collected from a tax on sports
men's guns and ammunition, ac
cumulated when Congress failed
to appropriate the full receipts
during the World War II years.
The $13Vz million will be al
located to the states and terri
tories during the next five years
in addition to regular federal
aid wildlife funds. The money
can be used for acquisition and
development of game lands,
wildlife research and manage
ment. The House Interior Commit
tee killed a plan for building
Echo Park dams as a result of
widespread protests by support
ers of the National Park system.
Echo Park dam, planned to im
pound water in the Green and
Yampa canyons of Dinosaur Na
tional monument, was one of
Editorial Comment
A WELL-BALANCED
EDUCATOR
The retirement of E. H. Hed
rick, city superintendent of the
Medford schools, closes a period
of 30 years in that position. So
far as our data goes this tops
the record for Oregon city super
intendents, the nearest approach
being J. A. Churchill's 22 years
as superintendent of the Baker
schools about a half-century ago.
Needless to say, Mr. Hedrick
has been an unusually efficient
educational leader, but not in a
spectacular way. He has a com
bination of administrative abil
ity and well-balanced common
sense, the talent of keeping
things running smoothly and in
the right direction.
Significant in this long period
of leadership has been the fact
that Superintendent Hedrick has
not been bowled over by educa
tional fads of a national charac
ter as they swept the country
from time to time. Nor has he
permitted extra-curricular activ
ities to dominate learning, like
the tail wagging the dog, al
though recognizing their value
and rightful place in the lives of
the children. He has steadfastly
kept in sight the fact that the
goal of our expensive school sys
tem is learning in the funda
mentals, plus the development of
good citizenship.. In this he has
put forth a more definite and
sensible goal than the vague ab
stractions which the National
Educational Association has
from time to time tried to set
up as ends of education.
Naturally E. H. Hedrick's suc
cess with the Medford schools
has not gone unnoticed. At
times he has been called to
larger fields with offers of more
salary; but the powers that be at
Medford have made induce
ments sufficient to keep him
right there.
We have had state superin
tendents of public instruction
who have not thus emphasized
the fundamentals. Some have
tended to relegate the three
'R's" to the days of the little
red schoolhouse. This looks like
educational suicide. How can a
high school or college student
learn anything else who has not
Questioning Planned
In Slaying of Woman
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R)
FBI agents planned to question
a sex offender today in connec
tion with the slaying of Mrs.
Wilma Allen, whose body was
found Sunday in a Kansas pas
ture. Police arrested the suspect
yesterday in Omaha on a charge
of drunkenness and vagrancy.
They said the 43-year-old man
had a record of sex offenses and
robbery and lived in Kansas
City within 10 blocks of the
murdered woman's home.
When arrested the suspect
had head bruises and deep
scratches on his neck and left
shoulder. Police here said before
his arrest that Mrs. Allen's mur
derer probably had been
scratched when she struggled
against him.
Mining Claims
1 Achievement
several big reservoirs proposed
in a bill to authorize the so-
called upper Colorado River
project. The Senate passed the
bill with Echo Park dam in it,
but the measure never came to
a vote in the House.
Appropriations Up
The Federation noted with
satisfaction 10 per cent increases
in appropriations for the Fish
and Wildlife service, the Na
tional Forest service and Soil
Conservation service. The Na
tional Park service got a 40 per
cent increase, mostly earmarked
for road .construction in the
parks.
The Federation predicted that
organized sportsmen and other
conservation groups would be
working for the following in the
second session of the 84th Con
gress:
I. Final passage of a water
pollution control bill.
2. Amendments to plug loop
holes in the Coordination Act of
1946, a law which requires study
and reports on the fish and wild
life effects of federal dams and
drainage projects
3. Legislation to halt federal
subsidies for drainage of water
fowl marshes.
4. Earmarking 40 per cent of
Duck Stamp (migratory bird
hunting license) receipts for ac
quisition of waterfowl areas.
5. Legislation spelling out mul
tiple-use management of the Na
tional Forests and providing ade
quate funds for wildlife and pub
lic recreation.
The Federation, an organiza
tion of State wildlife federations
and sportsmen's leagues, warned
conservationists to "take a good
look" at H. R. 6815, a bill re
ported by the House Agriculture
Committee, which' would force
early sale of some 7,000,000
acres of submarginal lands ac
quired under the Bankhead
Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937,
Some of these federal lands are
in Wildlife Refuges now adminis
tered by the Fish and Wildlife
service,
learned to read well, or who does
not continually increase his
ability to read? And is it enough
to teach girls to cook and serve
and sew and play basketball and
know little if any arithmetic?
"It has little value," said one
educational leader. Or was he an
educational leader?
It is a matter of satisfaction to
know that E. H. Hedrick's type
of educational leadership has
met with steady endorsement
over a long period of years. The
southern Oregon city and the
man are both to be congrat
ulated. WLA in Baker (Ore.)
Democrat-Herald.
Mystery of Bronze
Casting Cleared Up
Portland (U.R) A heavy
bronze casting found Monday by
Warren W. Hale in his driveway
here created something of a
mystery until D. A. Powell,
sculptor and Roosevelt high
school teacher, decided it was a
bas-relief he made of Dr. J. W.
Hill, founder of Hill Military
Academy in Portland.
Powell said he had made the
casting about 1935. It was set in
the base of a beacon light on
Rocky Butte just above the
academy grounds in Portland.
Police said they thought the
15 by 20-inch relief had been
removed and dumped by youth
ful vandals. Its face had been
scarred by .22-calibre bullets
and BB pellets.
Baruch Asks Soviets
To Accept Atom Plan
New York (U.R) Bernard
Baruch appealed to the leaders
of the Soviet Union last night
to accept a "safe and foolproof"
system of international nuclear
control before "atomic energy
becomes uncontrollable.
Baruch made his appeal in a
radio address on the Columbia
Broadcasting System's "Age of
the Atom" series.
He said the present confer
ence in Geneva on peaceful uses
of nuclear energy is a fine start,
but said without a system of
control of atomic weapons the
world cannot reach the heights
of possible development.
Klein Attends IFYE
Meeting in Michigan
Glenn Klein, 4-H agent for
Jackson county, recently at
tended the National Internation
al Farm Youth Exchange confer
ence at Michigan State Univer
sity in East Lansing, Mich.
Klein has been in Ithaca, N.Y.,
for summer studies at Cornell
University the past several
weeks. He returned there from
the conference.
The conference was held Aug.
4 to 7 for foreign exchanges and
IFYE alumni from every state
in the union. Klein was an IFYE
to New Zealand in 1951.
He is to return to Medford
about Aug. 22.
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although under certain circum
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initial for publication is permis
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eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The Timber Problem
To the Editor: Your August 5
editorial prompts me to present
another sample of daily, or not
infrequent news items, headings
or advertisments:
LOGS WANTED . . . LUMBER
WANTED . . .
Two Northwest Mills Tell
Closure Plans third one ex
pected soon. Once one of Port
land's largest and most modern
. . . probably never will operate
again. At Longview some 300
plywood employees handed dis
missal notices at Long-Bell Co.
Mill at Garibaldi to be Closed
Permanently. Firm employed
about 300 persons Linn Coun
ty Shortage of Logs Closes Mills
Top O&C Prices Paid. $70 per
1,000 board feet stumpage paid
for Lane county fir timber.
About $500,000 paid for timber
advertised at $193,720. $954,854
Did tor timber appraised at $454,
610. Record Timber Cut in NW
Area. Three-Sisters Wilderness
Timber Cutting Protested New
Attacks on Olympic National
Park. And so on.
More mills closing; SP stops
passenger service on 300 miles;
more hundreds of men, with fam
ilies, out of work; questionable
deals on Indian timber sales;
more beautifully timbered water
sheds left forest shambles rock
bound dustbowls!
Will these mean anything to
you, to me; to our children and
their children's children?
For more than 50 years many
have been warning: "Conserve
America's natural resources."
Gifford Pinchot, originator of U.
S. Forest Service, Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt, and many others,
warned of a timber famine. Yet,
"Timber-r-r-r foreverr-r-r," "In
exhaustible supply," was shouted
across America and destruction
went on. Now we are beginning
to see and feel the results and
other ills that go with the timber
famine.
Even while skimming off the
forest cream from their private
holdings, leaving watershed aft
er watershed a forest shambles
and scorched earth, big timber
companies urged more, faster
and closer cutting on National
Forests. Some of those same spe
cial interest groups now seek to
control America's electric power
producing plants and prices. May
a lew tycoons ere long control
America's farms, production and
prices, the masses share-croppers
or peons? Family-size farms are
becoming few and far between.
For nearly 50 years the U.S
Forest Service stood as a symbol
ior tne greatest good to the larg
est numoer, fought for the long
est time against special interests
ana political pressures and
threats. Infiltration of special in
terest tactics have more recently
Deen used, apparently, and with
increasing success.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford, Ore.
McKale Stations To
Be Leased by Union
Seattle (U.R) McKale's Inc
the oil company that originated
the gas-oil credit card, will be
leased Sept. 1 to Union Oil Co.,
it was announced today.
The lease "involving several
million dollars" will be for 10
.years ana inciuaes 17 service
stations in Seattle, 17 in San
Francisco and nine in Portland.
Tom Wise, McKale president.
said employee' termination for
about 400 McKale workers has
been arranged on the 'basis of
one week's salary or wages for
each year of employment.
The 31 - year -old chain of
coast-wise service stations was
founded here.
Fish Problems Said
Raised by Hells Dams
Portland U.R) The Oregon
Fish Commission said at a meet
ing here yesterday it was "too
early" to take a stand on Idaho
Power company's plans for three
low dams in the Snake river.
But State Fisheries Director
M. T. Hoy said after the meeting
that fish problems were "very
definitely" raised by the pro
posed dams.
Hoy said that all Northwest
public fish agencies were shown
the power company's plans and
met with company officials to
study fish migration matters.
Both the fish and game com
mission said they would have
data to submit to a public hear
ing on Idaho's application.
Mrs. Vega Burns
Joins Camp Staff
Camp White Transfer of Mrs.
Vega E. Burns as staff nurse
from Roseburg VA hospital to
Camp White to replace Mrs.
William Auel, who resigned in
June, was announced today.
Prior to joining the VA nurs
ing staff at Roseburg in 1949,
Mrs. Burns was engaged in pri
vate nursing in Tennessee. She
is a graduate of the Knoxville
General Hospital school of nursing.
Is That So?
"A swarm of honeybees scared
the living daylights out of my
family last week," writes J.R.P.
Jr. "Won't you give us some of
the more unusual facts flying
speed, life span, strength, etc?"
To begin, the honeybee is no
native of North America. Quite
likely, it was brought to New
England around 1640. Of the
afia
12,000 or more varieties of bees
in the world, only four or five
store honey.
By FRANK JENKINS
Weather stuff:
The Atlantic coast from Nor
folk, Va., to New York City
has been put under a full hurri
cane alert.
Hurricane warnings had al
ready been hoisted along sections
of the North Carolina and Vir
ginia coasts.
"DOTH the U.S. navy and the
-- Red Cross disaster specialists
are deploying along the East
coast against the possibility of
hurricane havoc.
Navy planes at Quonset Point,
in Rhode Island, are FLYING
INLAND (to get out of reach of
the blow) and the aircraft car
riers Tarawa and Antietam have
been ordered out to sea (also
to get out of the way of the
winds.)
Thousands of Red Cross vol
unteers have been alerted against
the hurricane all the way from
Long Island to the southern bor
der of North Carolina.
ALL THIS, you must under
stand, comes about as a result
of the wicked antics of a crea
ture known as Connie. Connie is
a hurricane. Some time ago the
weather sharps hit upon the de
vice of naming hurricanes. For
some' reason known to them
alone, they give these ruckus
raisers FEMININE names.
When comes the hurricane sea
son, they start off with a name
beginning with the letter A, such
as Annie, and go on down the
alphabet. Connie begins with C,
so it is immediately apparent
that she is the third of the really
nasty hurricanes of the 1955
season.
Simple, isn't it?
W
JE newspaper people go all
out when a hurricane heads
inward from the Atlantic toward
the coastal regions. Hurricanes
are dramatic affairs and when
they loom on the horizon we
drag out of the drawer our most
dramatic vocabularies our
PUNCH WORD vocabularies.
Here's a sample culled from
the teletype's offerings.
"Hurricane Connie's BREAK
NECK winds are CLAWING to
ward the Eastern seaboard and
WATCH OUT warnings have
been issued.
"She is WHIRLING north
northwest, which if this direc
tion is . continued could be a
SMASH against the seaboard in
the same general path where
three hurricanes caused such de
struction last year."
PRETTY neat, what?
You can bet your bottom dol
lar that the reporter who turned
that one out was proud of it.
It is what is called VIVID
writing and in these modern
days we newspaper folk set a lot
of store by it.
TROM the weather standpoint,
the news has been getting
a little monotonous lately. It has
been too universally concerned
with SIZZLING days and hot,
MUGGY nights. This has been
coming from all over the coun
try including our own area.
So Connie gives us a welcome
change.
IF you want more change, here
it is:
A harsh- winter is reDorted
from Southeastern Australia
zero temperatures and the
WORST BLIZZARD OF THE
SEASON.
That's one nice thing about the
weather news. If you don't like
one kind of it, you can always
search around a bit and find
some other kind.
TTERE'S another bit of news
of a kind that is beginning to
fall into a pattern:
Oregon's Hillcrest school for
girls had another riot the other
night the second in a month.
Eight inmates of the Salem insti
tution who went on the rampage
were finally quieted down and
put in the county jail.
WHAT to
" It's a
do?
problem, of course.
But I'm reasonably sure that if
the inmates of our institutions of
correction were kept busy at
least eight hours out of the 24 .at
CONSTRUCTIVE work there
would be fewer of these riots.
in the Day's News
Sy EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
Of the million or so insects.
the bees areby far the most im
portant to mankind particular.
ly in cross- pollinating fruit
trees, berries, some vegetables
and countless flowers.
For every pound of honey.
bees must make about 80,000
field trips a distance which
takes them as far as the circum
ference of the world.
During an average flight, a
young worker's wings beat about
250 times a second 15,000 a
minute. When older, the wings
are worn and require a faster
higher-toned beat.
A bee's lifetime varies-the
queen may live four to (five
years; the drone only Siting
enough to mate with a qCjeen
or for a few months lorjfer,
until winter comes along; ijthe
worker normally lives only six
weeks or so, literally working
herself to death. A very few
workers, born late in the sea
son, live through the winter with
the queen.
As for strength: An average
man during his prime does well
to raise his own weight; trans
lating this into traction power,
a bee could raise 22 times her
own weight- Put wheels under
her load, and she could pull'
about 300 times her own weight.
To sting, a worker bee brings
about 22 muscles into play. Her
stinger, two slender shafts notch
ed with barbs, is carried on her
abdomen. As she . drives these
shafts into her victim, she in
jects formic acid mixed with
other poisons.
Because the honeybee work
er's defense is to benefit the
entire colony; not only herself,
a sting is generally fatal to her.
(Drones have no stingers.)
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LeRoy Alma Starkey. overload. $S0.
Raymond Leslie McVay. switched
licensed plates. $15.
Lonzo Leonard Lown, violation of
basic rule, $12.50.
Alvin Donald York, failure to stop
at stop sign, $10.
Richard Wayne Imhausen. following"
too close. $10.
Ernest E. Evemden, Jr.. overload,
S41.
Margaret Mae Glass, passing on a
hill. $7.50.
Marvin William Betts, overheight.
Thomas Jefferson Short, truck
speeding. $12.50.
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Vella D. Camden vs. James E. Cam
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stop (sign), $5.
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