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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 31, 1945
at was Friday)
Klamath Falls to serve as
armed forces serration base for
"the northwest.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudfe Pot column: H. Flewher,
the demon baker, is now a It col.
He is overdue getting home and
will arrive when he gets here.
20 YEARS AGO
August 31. 1935
at was Friday)
Medford armory improvement
authorized.
Federal aid cut in 31 states to
end relief doles.
SD YEARS AGO
August 31, 1925
at was Sunday)
Qabe Ruth, "home run king,"
fined and sent home by Yankee
manager.
Bids for Ashland normal
school to be opened soon.
0 YEARS AGO
August 31. 1915
Ot was Tuesday)
' Bullis interests plans exten
sion of Jacksonville road up
Jackson creek.
Cholera cases in Switzerland
number 929.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
9. The Locarno nonaggression
treaties were signed after World
War II, during that war, between
It and World War I or during
World ar I?
2. Doctors are or aren't under
the social security system?
3. The air coach for plane
travel in the U. S. has been in
operation for five, seven, nine,
11 or 13 years?
4. Largest West Indies city
is Havana, Kingston, Port-au-
QPrince, San Juan or Trujillo
City?
-5. Farm value of. tobacco in
the average package of cigarettes
is about one, three, five, seven
0 or eleven cents? '
6. Romansch is spdften in Ro
mania, The Netherlands, Switzer
land, certain areas of Pennsyl
vania, or central Italy?
7. Daniel Boone, Davy Crock
ett, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson
or Gen. Sam Houston married a
girl named Polly Findlay?
The Answers: 1. Between the
two wars; 2. Aren't; 3. Seven; 4.
Havana; 5. About three cents; 6.
Switzerland; 7. Davy Crockett.
Derelict Vessel
Still Unidentified
Astoria, Ore. (U.R) The
"mystery ship" reported drift
ing unmanned some 500 miles off
the Oregon coast remained un
identified yesterday when heavy
weather prevented an aerial
check of the derelict.
A training plane radioed Mon
day that the boat, about 40 feet
D long, with gifting in the open
sea without wake and that there
appeared to be no life aboard.
The Coast Guard said no craft
was reported missing, but dis
i patched the) cutter Yacona from
Seattle to the reported location.
A plane was sent from Port
Angeles, Wash., but the pilot said
baj weather prevented his sight
ing the mystery ship. The Ya
cona was not expected to reach
the location before early today.,
MAIL TRIBUNE
On Being- Lonely
In a letter which was published on this page yes'
terday, an obviously intelligent and sincere woman
made a plea for a new column. She asked for what
amounted to a "clearing house" of information and
ideas about projects, groups, organizations and ideas
of a social or constructive
Her point was that in Medford, or any city, there
are many people who lack important human contacts,
whose interests and ambitions are frustrated because
there is no one they know
IITE hesitate to start such a column for three rea-sons:
1. The Communications column is open to all our
readers who have any legitimate purpose in seeking
publication of their ideas
itself is, or could well be,
for those interested in organizing groups, or calling
attention to projects.
2. The Local and Personal column is already used
by many of the several hundred organizations m the
valley, which exist for a multitude of purposes. In this
column announcements of meetings, projects and
special events are welcome.
3. Any such column as the one proposed would
depend entirely for its success on the number of con
tributions offered by readers. Past experience leads
us to doubt that the number of these would be suf
ficient to justify regular publication of such a feature.
DUT the problem which our correspondent describes
is a real one. Loneliness is not confined to those
who are away from people. Perhaps loneliness is most
poignant when it is suffered- among people people
whose interests are not your interests and whose ideas
and ideals are not your ideas and ideals.
bolution of the problem
matter, although work in
ternal groups, m hobby
types of mutual activity, is
followed.
lMANKIND'S essential loneliness in an interde
pendent world of people has been the theme of
many of our greatest artists and writers. (". . . Never
send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for
thee.") , . , :
Only kindliness and understanding can overcome
the great barrier between people, between their minds
and hearts. Every man has his worth, but sometimes
the task of finding it overcomes us and we withdraw
into ourselves.
It is a problem which
solved in full. Perhaps it
do is try E.A.
What Is A
VACATION, n. . . . a period of rest and freedom from
work, study, etc.; a time of recreation, usually a specific
. interval in a year: as, two weeks vacation. (Webster's New
World Dictionary.)
o There's a saying that it is necessary, to take the
first week back at work after a vacation to rest up.
And there's some truth in that, for a vacation, while
it may mean freedom from work and study, often has,
few elements of rest and recreation.
Editor Charles A. Sprague of the Salem Statesman
says: '
"A vacation . . . ought really to be a period for
refreshment of mind and body.' Instead, too many of
us put in the full time trying to go as far as we can,
seeing as many, of the wonders of nature that we can.
We return "exhausted from the strenuous travel, with
shallow and often muddled impressions of what we
have seen." ...
TT IS ever thus.. Watching Mail Tribune staff mem
A bers returning from vacations reminds us of a man
we know who decided .that the only real vacation
would be to pull down the blinds, take the telephone
off the hook, and stay in bed for two weeks (presum
ably to be waited on by his wife and what of her
vacation?)
A vacation is what you make it. One office worker
used his vacation to paint his house and found,
somewhat to his surprise, that the open-air working
with his hands, compared to the pressure-filled days
at a desk, actually provided "refreshment of mind and
body."
CHANGE is the important thing, a chance to upset
the routine and stand back for reassessment and
reorientation.
Whether this is done by sleeping or painting or
traveling is immaterial and is a matter of choice.
What is necessary is to find, somewhere and some
how, renewed interest and strength. E.A.
Alps Claim 787 Lives
During Past 72 Months
Salzburg, Austria (U.R) The
snow-covered Alps have claimed
181 lives including those of three
Americans since last August, a
United Press survey showed to
day. Some died quickly, smashed
against razor-sharp rocks after
terrifying falls. The less for
tunate died agonizingly, slow
freezing deaths on lonely peaks.
ADENAUER MEETS
Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer meets
with his cabinet today to dis
cuss West Germany's contribu
tion to NATO next year. Gov
ernment sources predicted West
Germany would refuse to in
crease its contribution above the
present figure of $2,142,000,000.
Wednesday, August 31, 1955
nature.
with whom to share them.
and suggestions. This m
a sort of clearing house
is essentially an individual
churches, in civic and fra
organizations, and in other
one avenue which can be
humanity has never really
never will be. All we can
Vacation?
Famed War II Pilot
Dies at Enterprise
Enterprise (U.R) Col. Gra
ham W. West, a flier famous
for his World War H exploits,
died -unexpectedly Monday night
at Wallowa hospital here after a
brief illness. He was 43.
Col. West, a graduate of Grant
high school in Portland and the
University of Oregon, was
wounded while fighting in Tun-'
isia in June, 1943. He lost both
legs,' but was fitted with artific
ial limbs and flew again with
fighting American pilots.
The famous Oregon pilot was
awarded many medals including
the Distinguished Flying Cross
from both the United States and
Britain.
He was highly praised by cor
respondent Ernie Pyle.
In the Day's News
Br FRANK JENKINS
Hopeful note in the news:
Atomic scientists of six na
tions have completed a prelim
inary study of methods to pre
vent fissionable material in any
world atomic pool from being
diverted to other than peaceful
uses.
The presence of the HEAD OF
THE SOVIET DELEGATION
was taken as an indication that
Russia is prepared to collaborate
in any such international pooL
rnHAT is hopeful because it in.
dicates that we are living in
a PRACTICAL era.
If we contributed fissionable
material to a world atoms-for-
peace pool and if the Iron Cur
tain countries could sequester
this material and use it for
ATOMS-FOR-WAR, the whole
business would be just plain
criminal nonsense.
QUIRK in human nature note:
State police have set up
road blocks in central and west
ern Massachusetts to bar sight
seeing drivers from flood-
stricken areas.
They warned that only the
most necessary trips should be
attempted.
NOTHING is more natural than
the desire to see devastation
and distress after a catastrophe
and nothing more greatly
hampers the work of recon
struction.
S1
IDELIGHT on the flood dam
age: The Connecticut Motor
club has this advice for motorists
whose cars were submerged and
FILLED WITH SILT in the big
flood which one writer " de
scribes as the "worst since
Noah's time."
"Don't bother to get it fixed.
Just make the best settlement
available and .forget it."
The club estimates the repair
job might run as high as $1,000
and there still would be no
guarantee the owner wouldn't
have trouble with the car.' Silt-
filled flood waters, it says, are
car poison.
THE Northwest pork industry
will hold a conference on
Sept. 26 and 27 at the Whitman
county fairgrounds in Washing
ton. The meeting will be spon
sored by Washington State Col
lege, the Washington Swine
Breeders association and the old
Union Stockyards. Attention
will be centered on current pork
problems and possible solutions
therefor.
Dr. M. E. Ensinger, chairman
of the department of husbandry
at Washington State, says one
trouble with the business is that
pork coming on the market in
recent years has been too fat.
As a result, he claims, modern
consumers - who, almost with
out exception, want to get slim
mer and slimmer and therefore
shy away from fatty foods have
been eating less and less pork
as the years pass.
Recent consumer preference
studies, he adds, show that high
er prices will be paid for leaner
pone xnis, ne says,, is con
firmed b ythe fact that for the
past five years the price of lean
er pork has been rising, while
the price of fatter pork has been
falling.
TTERE in the State of Jefferson,
-with potato prices scandal
ously low and quite a lot of feed
grade barley in sight, we need
to be giving careful thought to
feedipg out more of our live
stock.
It might be worth while to
give some thought to producing
more pork. Here in the West,
we're HEAVY IMPORTERS of
it. That is to say, we don't pro
duce anywhere near as much
of it as we consume. Therefore,
the price structure is relatively
favorable for as long as we im
port pork from the Midwest we
get the Chicago-Omaha price
PLUS the freight.
If we can learn how to produce
pork that will equal the corn
belt pork in quality and if we
can develop feeds that will com
pete in cost and results with the
feeds of the Midwest, we .might
be able to expand our hog pro
duction profitably.
We're reaching the point
where further diversification of
our agriculture is advisable.
St. Louis Publisher
Succumbs Suddenly
Rye Beach, N-H (U.R) E.
Lansing Ray, editor and publish
er of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
died late Tuesday during
a quiet celebration of his 71st
birhtday at his summer home
here. His body will be returned
to St. Louis for burial.
Ray, a lifelong newspaperman,
had been reported cheerful and
in excellent health just before
he died. Members of his family
said he read birthday greetings
with enthusiasm Tuesday mor
ning. He suddenly complained
of feeling ill while he was open
ing gifts at a birthday gathering
in the late afternoon.
Retired to Bedroom
He retired to a bedroom and
died before a doctor summoned
to attend him could reach the
Ray summer home. Death was
attributed to coronary thrombos
is. ...
TUGGING AT MOORING LINES at Newport News Ship
building Co. yards in Newport, Va., U.S.S. Forrestal is ready
. for six-day sea trials. Note enormous flight deck of America's
newest aircraft carrier. ' . (International Soundphoto)
Gloria Takes $16,000
In Television Quiz
New York U.R) "I'd rather
go away Gloria, the undefeated
champ, than Gloria the foolish
little girl who lost out."
With those words, perky Glo
ria Lockerman, the 12-year-old
Negro spelling champ from Bal
timore, explained her bow-out
from CBS-TV's "The $64,000
Question" and retired $16,000
richer today.
Marine Capt. Richard Sherrill
McCutchen, another contestant
on the big giveaway show, cor
rectly waded through a food-and-cooking
query to reach the
$16,000 level and earn a possi
ble shot next week at $32,000.
Gloria, a nlntn grade student,
had held TV audiences spell
bound for three weeks by
threading her way through such
orthographic toughies as "bel-
Communications
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tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The Radio Wrens Return
To the ' Editor: The article
printed some weeks ago in the
Tribune concerning the wren
which had built her nest in the
family radio of the senior von
Stein home on Long Mountain
has caused several to comment
to the writer, who was forced,
with some embarrassment, to ad
mit that both Jenny and Henry
Wren had disappeared, leaving
a fully constructed nest with
but one egg. Since the neighbor's
cat had been in evidence, the
conclusion was that the tiny pair
had. become part of the feline
diet.
This conclusion, seemed the
more valid because Henry never
had ceased to warn Jenny that
it would happen. All the while
the nest was a-building, though
he manfully ponied material to
the frieze arm of the diningroom
chair (beyond which he refused
to go), he brought with each
beak full of dried grass a cata
log of predictions, protests and
damaging arguments against
bringing up a family in the
midst of gadgeted surroundings
where they never would learn
properly to be afraid of danger
ous things.
It appeared certain Jenny had
finally been convinced of the
validity of his argument at the
cost of her life, and all summer
it has been a matter of tantaliz
ing conjecture as to whether or
not Henry lived long enough to
say: "I told you so!"
Mr. von. Stein even went so
far as to enclose the story of the
wrens as carefully as possible
in a moral, which aroused the
interest of the Nazarene youth
publication, "Standard, in
which it is to appear shortly. The
untimely passing of the birds
was a feature of the story.
Then, yesterday, at an early
morning hour, a ghostly flutter
greeted the householder as he
entered the kitchen. There was
Jenny! no doubt about it. . She
perches with perky familiarity
on the dishes, picks crumbs from
the drainboard and scrambles
among the flowers in the picture-window-box,
skittering fearless
ly underfoot as no other bird has
ever done.
Outside a bevy of other wrens
scold and twitter undoubtedly
Jenny's current family. One of
them surely is Henry!
And let it not again be said
that the persuasiveness of the
male as opposed to the vaunted
impressiveness , of .the female
power of influence is lacking!
Even after she had her nest and
an egg in it! -
She's still a man's world, boys!
H. M. von Stein
P. O. Box 609
Medford .
ligerent, astigmatic and an-
tidisestablishmentarianism."
Tuesday night, Gloria was of
fered the chance of doubling her
winnings of last week to $32,-
000. She and her grandmother,
Mrs. Bertha Key of Baltimore,
who has acted as Gloria's guar
dian on the show, turned the
chance down.
"The Lord has been very, very
good to Gloria," said Mrs. Key,
"and I've decided we'll stop
right here."
The producers of the show an
nounced that $15,500 of Gloria's
winnings would be placed in a
trust fund for her education,
The other $500 was given to
Gloria to spend as she pleased.
She also was presented with
a TV set, a bicycle, a tape re
corder and a subscription to her
favorite comic magazine.
McCutchen, a career officer,
correctly answered a question
dealing with the geographical
origin and composition of vari
ous breads. They were: tortillas
(Mexico or Central America,
cornmeal); pumpernickel (Ger
many, coarse bolted rye); pone
(Indian and Southern United
States, corn); graham bread
(United States, whole wheat)
and bannock (Scotland, wheat,
barley or oats).
Los Angeles Smog
Hearing Disaster
Br UNITED PRESS
Smog threatened to reach the
disaster point in Los Angeles to
day and an advancing cold front
ripped the Northeast with
storms.
The Sprawling Los Angeles
area expected its fifth smog
alert in six days and Gov. Good
win J. Knight offered to declare
a state of disaster if necessary.
Knight acted after Francis H.
Packard, chairman of the Citi
zens Anti-smog Action Commit
tee, wired him that causes and
remedies of the smog plague
must be found "before a dis
aster occurs."
More smog attacks were ex
pected for the next - few days.
The smog alerts banned' all com
bustible burning in Los Angeles
county and- citizens and indus
tries were asked to stop any
smog-contributing activities.
In the East, a vast mass of cool
Canadian air pushed into the
Gulf States and was approaching
the Atlantic Coast. It touched off
violent storms across the North
ern Appalachians and Lower
Great Lakes and an uncon
firmed tornado hit Townsend,
N.Y.
The possible twister swept up
garage but left the cars on tha
ground at Townsend, tne wea
ther Bureau reported. And at
Syracuse, N.Y., rains swept away
a section of a city street and put
other streets under a foot of
water.
Earlier, a single engine pri
vate plane crashed in a fog near
Dover Plains, N.Y., killing five
persons. '
Rotarians Approve
$500 Flood Relief
The Medford Rotary Club ap-
DroDriated $500 for flood relief
of New England states by unani
mous vote at its meeting Tues
day noon.
The regular program featured
big game hunt motion pictures
taken and narrated by Jonn
Day? Day's . movies included
shots of . Africa .game, Kodiak
bear and moose hunts in the arc
tic region, grouse hunting in
Scotland and Cougar hunting in
southern Oregon. x
Weldon Kline, Medford lum
berman, introduced Day. y
News About Pooks
S&m fltia i-irary
rerfc&se 4 net J---?eitll
"tired" ftuinina, weuU b
less fatigue it fee iersk eflven
taga of soma of t&e aesistence
offered by his put-lie library. In
stead f working out hi prob
lems during wakeful night hoursj
he could spend a few early eve
ning hours in reading of the ex
perience and solutions of other
successful executives as they are
outlined in recent books.
Two of the newest books for
the businessman to be added to
your library are produced hy
Jacob Kay Lasser, nationally
known for his practical manuals
on income tax computation. His
"Business Management Hand
book" is an equaUy practical
treatise analyzing the methods
and procedures of the nation's
outstanding businessmen. Mr.
Lasser examines business prac
tice department by department:
merchandising, credit, taxes, in
ventories, etc.; he suggests ways
of getting more from records
than mere bookkeeping and 0f
avoiding frauds and petty dis
honesty. In fact, "How to Run
Small Business" is an equally
valuable handbook for everyone
owning or planning to start a
small business such as a retail
store, manufacturing plant, or
commercial office. Conveniently
arranged for handy reference
use, it explains in very simple
terms the management, account
ing, financing, insurance, and
merchandising of the small bus
iness. Other titles on business organ
ization and management avail
able in your library include
Business Organization and Man
agement" by James Gemmell,
"Systems Analysis for Effective
Administration, by Barish, and
New Books
By Medford Library
A list of new books acquired
during August by the Medford
Public library was announced
today by the library. There are
39 volumes on the list, including
four of fiction but not counting1
a number of pamphlets and
other publications by govern
mental agencies.
The new books listed with
author and title, follow:
Fiction
Drago, Their Guns Were Fast;
Fenisong, Widows' Plight; John
son, Return to Ithaca; Lamond,
Dingo. .
Non-Fiction
Ferre, Making Religion Real;
McLaughlin, New Life in Old
Lands; Eichelberger, UN: the
First Ten Years; Fine, 1,000,000
Delinquents; Way, Pi lot in'
Comes Natural; Lum, Fabulous
Beasts; McKenny, Wildlife of the
Pacific Northwest; Hayes, The
Ape In Our House; Ford, Audu
bon's Butterflies, Moths, and
Other Studies; Schorger, Passen
ger Pigeon; Dumas, A Psychia
tric Primer for the Veteran's
Family and Friends; White,
Twentieth Century Psychiatry;
Hackett, Relax and See; Christo
pher, Pruning Manual; Lasser,
How to Run a Small Business.
Groesbeck, Invitation to Ad
Is That So?
Many mistaken beliefs exist
about the cooperative roles of
cocks and hens in selecting nest
sites, building the nest, etc. So,
let's have another Facts vs. F at-
larv Hpssion.
Fallacy: Males and females
select their nest sites together.
Factt With most birds, the
female makes the final selection
once ' shj; accepts the male's
chosen territory. However, in
the cedar waxwing, the nest-site
selection appears to be a cooper
ative project. In the prothono-
tary warbler, the male not only
selects the nest cavity before
the female arrives but also starts
carrying moss to it. In the house
wren, too, the male may already
have started the foundation work
of the nest before the female
arrives.
rallaert Host Kurd take, from
five to six days kwill their
nest the kogtfc tims it
usually takes Urn an c te be
formed witfein 'Hie Mvi..
Fact: The time taken to luilfl
a nest varies trtflseiwtewsly. The
field sparrow usually takes etily
three days eat keMvhed
stork ia Aire fetes- etout 1M
and the feitesta wff'y of
Australia any tafce vhole yetr
to seratch togetha His tremend
ous hot-bed of lefuse.
Although a robin may normal
ly tabe about sis dsyc a pir
Jhae been see ft buiUl oj in
Richrd Neufthel's "Streamlin
ing Business procedures." Each
of these tells you fcow to evalu
ate, design, and improve tech
niques. "The Art of Administration,
by Tead, is a realistic book by a
recognized authority in tne neia
of personnel leadership.
Dimock, in "The Executive in
Action" analyzes . the day-by-day
work of a top executive; Howard
Smith, in "Developing Your Ex
ecutive Ability" provides a self,
rating scale whereby you can
discover things about yourself
that will start you on the road
towards greater success as an ex
ecutive.
Personnel administration re
ceives the attention it deserves
in such books as Alfred Coop,
er's "How to Surervise People,
Fbl's "Human Relations and
the Foreman," and Halseys
"Handbook of Personnel Man
agement." Recognizing super
vision as a profession in itself,
these authors tell the reader how
to train subordinates, how to
develop leadership qualities, and
how to improve public rela-.
tions.
For those who are contemplate
ing a venture into business tha
library offers "So You Want to
Open a Shop" by Alissa Keir and
"How to Make a Home Business
Pay," by Arthur, with practical
suggestions for converting your
ideas into cash.
Kenneth Groesbeck's "Invita
tion to Advertising" shows, step
by step, how to produce the kind
of advertising that really sells,
how and where to spend adver
tising money.
How recently have you looked
over the business shelves of your
public library? Take another
look; it will be worth your while.
Acquired
vertising; Pop. Science, .IBS
Home Workshop Projects and
Ideas; Wright, The Natural
House; Yates, The Complete
Flower Hobby Book; Hunt, Peter
Hunt's Workbook; Yates, An
tique Reproduction for the Home
Craftsman; Hodges, Baseball
Complete; Powers, Baseball Per
sonalities; Herbert, On Upland
Shooting; Popowski, Hunting
Small Game; Young, Great Ne
gro Baseball Stars; Powers,
Baseball Personalities; Rooks,
Light Horses; Prochnow, Speak-,
ej-'s Handbook of Epigrams and
Witticisms; Sitwell, Portugal and
Madeira; Vanderbilt, The Living
Past in America; Corbett, Cape
Cod's Way; Crockett, The Ad
ventures of Davy Crockett; Hif
gins, News is a Singular Thing;
Schacht, My Own Particular
Screwball.
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CHURCHILL TO VISIT
London U.R) Former Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
plans a vacation next 'month on
the French Riviera in a villa at
Cap d'Ail owned by British
newspaper publisher Lord Bea
verbrook. It is expected that
Churchill and his wife will trav
el by plane. The villa, where
Churchill has vacationed many
times, is a few miles from Nice.
By EUGENE BURNS
Rsitfar-Nttaralht
single day. Working under the
pressure of a short breeding sea
son, northern birds usually take
less 'time than their southern
kind, sometimes only half. Nests
built early in the season are
usually built more slowly'
where a goldfinch's may aver
age 13 days in July, during
August it will seldom exceed'
six. i '-
With most, the nest is com
pleted the day before the first
egg is laid; -however, with a few
like the mourning dove, nest
building and egg-laying overlap.
Fallacy: Once nest building
starts, it proceeds steadily.
Fact: Normally, birds work
actively for a few hours in the
morning then cease work alto
gether in the afternoon. Rainy
weather usually halts all nest
building work and, if prolonged,
may even cause the desertion of
a partly or wholly-built nest.
Nests made of mud walls often
"set" a day or two before the
lining is added. (For birds that
use saliva in nest construction,
the speed of building may -de
pend upon the rate of its flow
thus a swift may take up to 41
days to produce its small nest.)
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