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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
ipi. 2, 1945
Japan surrenders formally on
Seckof battleship Missouri.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column:. Dime (10c)
Flynn reports spmething (js the
matter with his ornamental firs,
his mentally brilliant dog, and
dandelions have sneaked back
, on his lawn. Q
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 20, 1935
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State fair opens at Salem.
"Walnut crop in valley may set
production record.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 2, 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Gasoline sales in Oregon for
July break all records.
Carl Y. Xen8wald's stolen car
recovered.
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40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 2, 1915'
Large crowd to see L. O.
Barnes wild animal show now
in town.
The Medford Conservatory of
Music, Oratory, Expression, Pub
lic SpeakJrfg, and Physical Train
ing to open Sept. 6.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. The 1953 Refugees act al
lows about 100,000, 200,000, 300,
000, 400,000 or 500,000 aliens to
settle here outside of immigra
tion quotas?
2. The longer a couple have
known each,other before mar
riage, the greater or less likeli
hood of the marriage ending in
divorce?
3. Psoriasis is a disease of the
inner ear, joints, skin, lower
back, gall gladder or prostate
gland?
4. "GATT" stands for some
thing in electricity,- international
"trade, color TV, vaccination
against polio, or gangsters' wea
pons? !
5. Largest state east of the
Mississippi is . New York, Vir
ginia, Georgia, Florida, Wiscon
sin or Michigan?
6. A running horse takes about
10 seconds more to run a mile
than a trotting horse, or about
the same time, or about 10, 25
or 40 seconds less?
7. The Blackwood Convention
is used by tennis, bridge, chess,
polo, badminton or pinochle
players?
The Answers: 1. About 200,000
ever two, years; 2. Less; 3. Skin;
4. Tre.de (General Agreement on
Tariff and Trade.) 5. Georgia. 6.
About 25 seconds less. 7. Bridge
players.
BEER CANS DECIDE
Passaic, N.J. U.R) Raymond
McGillick denied his wife's
charges Thursday that he got
drunk and struck her during an
argument. "She goes by the
number of beer cans she finds
in the garbage," he said. "When
she finds enough, she decides
I'm drunfe: Magistrate H. Dick
Cohen fined him $25 anyway.
TRUMAN IS REPUBLICAN
Fort Dix, N.J. (U.PJ Cpl.
Harry Truman is stationed with
the 69th Infantry division artil
lery, here, the Army revealed
today. Unlike a more well
known Harry Truman, however,,
CpL Truman, of Northfield, Vt.,
is a Republican.
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The Need
. We've always known Medford was a generous
town. It's been proven again.
Gene Thonidike, chairman of the Red Cross
chapter here, called Wednesday afternoon while
"Tag Day" was going on, to report that advance gifts
for flood disaster relief would insure the fund cam
paign of going over its $1,650 quota. He asked that
we convey, editorially, the thanks of the Red Cross to
those who gave. ,
THE open-hearted gifts have not been limited to the
1 local Red Cross campaign, however, for a group of
Salvation Army adherents have raised considerably
more than $1,000 for the work of that splendid or
ganization; the Crater Lions club was to have raised
an estimated $400 last night (results were not in as
this was written) ; the Rotary club voted to send $500
for flood disaster relief.
The giving, 'during this prosperous summer with
the fruit harvest rolling in, has hurt no one, but it will
make the difference between renewed life and deso
lation for many victims of the floods in the east.
THE initial job here has been performed well, but
the need continues, and will continue for some
time. Those-who have not yet given could well give
thought to the assistance which will.be required for
months to come in getting families restablished in
their homes, in feeding, clothing and housing thou
sands whose sufferings from the flood were more than
theyv unassisted, could cope with.
The immediate need has been met, but more will
be needed. With this area's reputation for generosity,
it can be expected that this need, too, will be promptly
met. E.A.
A Whim Dies
"A sof isticated burocrat
about the tarif on soder, altho frate rates have drop
ped."
The sentence above, nonsensical as it is, is of a
type which will no longer
readers (and spellers) in
Chicago Tribune, that self -
Newspaper."
The sentence, now that
has passed to his reward,
burocrat tells of a thoroly
iff on solder, altho freight
fXNE of the colonel's foibles (there were many) was
what he called simplified spelling. Under the new
management, many of the simplified words will be
spelled the way they are in the dictionary. "Thoro,
burocrat and altho" are exceptions, and will be re
tained. We have always had some sympathy with Colonel
McCormick's bias on spelling, being one who has con
stantly to thumb a dictionary to make "sure we keep up
with the variables of the English language. But we
have had neither his brashness nor his supreme self
confidence in the matter of crusading for simplifica
tion of Shakespeare's tongue, even tho (excuse it;
though) G. B. Shaw did.
TIME magazine reports that spelling teachers in the
Chicago area are breathing sighs of relief about the
easing of the spelling code of the Tribune. That's prob
ably true,s for teaching students the higglety-pigglety
spelling of English is a tough enough proposition
without the overt subversion of the world's greatest
newspaper. ' V. .
We, too, welcome the change, for simplification
has its own hazards. Who would know, what "frater"
meant without thoro (sic) indoctrination from the
colonel? It was just his way of spelling freighter.
- E.A.
Windmills
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The windmill, we are pleased and surprised to
learn in this petroleum and nuclear age, is not entirely
a thing of the past particularly in areas where the
wind blows strong and long, and where electric power
is needed.
The "world's most powerful windmill" has just
been completed at Costa Head on the Island of Ork
ney. It will generate about 100,000 watts of power.
MO PICTURE of the new mill is at hand, but we sus-
pect it is a far cry from the picturesque creations
of the Hollanders (two of which can be seen in the
western part of the Golden Gate park in San Francisco,
by the way), or the familiar and utilitarian mills of
the farms and ranches of a couple of decades ago (how
long has it been since you've seen one of those ? )
G The description of the new mill, as given by "Elec
trical World," says it has three 17-foot long blades
attached to a hub, giving a sweep diameter of -50 feet.
The blades are of compressed Jaminated wood with
steel fittings. -
THE designer of the Scottish mill is confident that
many parts of the world, isolated from water power
and -sources of cheap fuel, could profit from wind
power, and is now at work designing a 250-kilowatt
model.
And there are spots where the wind would be a
steady and reaEable and cheap source of electric
ity. The north of Scotland is one. But with continued
development of other sources of power in less isolated
areas, and "with the prospect of atomic power looming
closer all the time, w,e doubt that windmills will come
back into general use, sad as it may be to those who
have a nostalgic affection for them. E.A.
Friday September 2, 1855
Continues
tells a thoroly graf ic story
burden the long-suffering
the circulation area of the
styled World s Greatest
Col. Robert R. McCormick
would be : "A sophisticated
graphic story about the tar
rates have dropped.
Babson . . . Consolidations
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
to Mail Tribune) Just now
"split-ups" and "consolidations"
are the fad on Wall street. The
two don't seem
to go together
too well; in
fact, they ap
pear to be con
tradictory. How
ever, many
other things
today are very
inconsistent.
Every reader
.Beger W. Sabsea knows that the
Hudson and Nash- companies
have consolidated into a new
company called "American Mo
tors." Also that the Sudebaker
and Packard companies have
combined. But all the consoli
dations have not been of "sick
babies." Remington - Rand and
the Sperry corporation have
been lively and prosperous; yet
they have just consolidated.
Many consolidations have
been due to the intensive com
petition of today too many in
the same business, resulting in
By. FRANK JENKINS
President Peron of Argentina
(he pronounces his name Pay
ROAN, if that interests you)
must be in - bad trouble. He
called his henchmen around him
in Buenos Aires and OFFERED
TO RESIGN!
When a demagogue politician
offers to resign, you can bet your
bottom dollar the situation
doesn't look too good.
TTE MADE quite a show of it.
When his gang had rallied
around, he struck an attitude
and said:
"I offer my resignation to
insure pacification. The time
for fighting has passed. The
time has come to work and con
solidate our revolutionary gains.
I do not want to be an obstacle."
TTIS crew came through nobly.
H They chanted in substance,
if not in actual words:
"NO! NO! NO! Boss! That
you MUST NOT DO!"
They might have added:
"If you quit YOUR job, well
lose OUR jobs."
qiHEY didn't, of course, utter
A this thought that was upper
most m tneir minds. It wouldn't
have sounded good and in af
fairs of this sort everything must
be made to sound good.
AT ANY rate, Peron didn't
resign. ?
Instead
"vOffices, stores and factories
quickly closed. The ministry of
war building, across from the
government headquarters (where
Peron put on his show) WAS
PROMPTLY SURROUNDED BY
FIELD GUNS AND COM
PANIES OF TROOPS.
There the situation rests as
this is written.
T EPS get back to the U.S.A.
Wholesale food prices as
measured by the Dun & Brad
street index declined this, week
to the lpwest level in more than
two and a half years. The index
stands at $6.15, down from $6.21
a week ago and $6.65 a year ago.
The department of agriculture
announced that lower prices for
livestock and grains were lead
ing factors in a relatively big
drop in the farm price index be
tween mid-July and mid-August.
The chart lost two per cent in
the 31-day period. Lower prices
for hogs, beef cattle, corn, wheat,
peaches and tomatoes were chief
ly responsible for the drop.
SO MUCH for basic economics.
Let's turn now to politics. A
Washington dispatch says:
"A new two per cent, drop in
farm prices has spurred Demo
"crats preparations for an all-out
attack on Republican agricul
tural policies.
"Announcing formation of a
nationwide agricultural advisory
committee, Deputy Democratic
National Chairman Clayton Frit
chey said his party expects to
start 'going to town' on the farm
issue this faU. He added:
"We regard the farm price
situation as one of the most im
portant issues that wiU come
up in the Presidential campaign.
We are getting ready to hit it
hard."
SO MUCH for the political end
of farming. Along that line,
it is just as well to remember
that the agricultural price slump
started under Democratic farm
policies. It has continued under
Republican farm policies.
It is BAD.
But I doubt if POLITICAL
FARMING (which means farm
ing'the farmers for votes instead
of farming the land for crops
that can be sold at a profit) will
prove to be the solution.
In the Day's News
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cut-throat prices. Such consoli
dations should benefit an entire
industry. Another reason is the
death of the founder. The heirs
find they must seU the business
to pay estate taxes." This ex
plains why certain banks are
consolidating, including the very
largest. A final reason is to et
the tax benefits which one of
the companies have accumulat
ed through losses.
Possible Chain
Store Consolidations
I expect some day to eee a
large consolidation of chain
stores of various kinds. The
present sight of a Woolworth,
McCrory, Kresge and some oth
er of the big "5 and 10 "cent"
chains close together on the
same street is silly. They have
the same colored signs, same
red fronts, and same show win
dows; yes,' and the same prices.
Such useless duplication re
sults in higher prices for the
public. As the best department
stores have . federated into, big
organizations, I forecast a simi
lar movement in connection
with many chains Fairness to
the public demands such a fede
ration with a Central committee
to pass on new locations and
encourage more warehouses.
Advertising Importance.
In Prosperity Cited
Advertising has been one of
the most important forces caus
ing and holding our present
prosperity. U n f o r tunately, a
large company has a great ad
vertising advantage. Not only
must a national advertiser be
large to afford $25,000 for one
week's ad in Life magazine and
corresponding costs for other
magazine, radio, television and
newspaper splurges; but there is
something more to remember.
The large company gets the
space or the radio and TV time
for the same price as a small
company. This is a handicap to
small companies.
- I go further and say that un
less some practical help can be
given these small companies,
our era of prosperity may slide
off. Color advertising came just
"in time to save the day in 1946;
while television advertising
gave business another "shot in
the arm" two years ago. Per
haps the able advertising agen
cies have something else "up
their sleeve" to use as another
stimulant to business when
needed. The only one I can now
think of is extending financial
help to small companies so they
can afford heavy advertising ap
propriations.
Banks Should Have Courage '
To AdTise Consolidation!
Forget the big consolidations
and think of vour own 'home
town. In everv one of the 405
cities carrying my weekly col
umn, there are concerns which
are entitled to. help. These may
be factories or garages or even
law offices. The banks know
the names of these concerns,
and thev should have the eour-
age to advife luch consolida
tions.
The small farmers now re
ceive helD. You may own a farm.
Although you feel in your heart
that the Benson price program
is sound, you know it will, re
duce your income and proms.
Put your pride in your pocket;
caU upon your neighbor farmer
and suggest that your two or
more adjoining farms atop cut
ting each other and cooperate.
Remember that of aU luxuries,
pride is the most expensive.
Pride is the chief cause of busi
ness failures.
In the last analysis, whether
you are big business, or small
manufacturers, or shopkeepers,
or farmers, your own welfare
will ultimately depend upon the
welfare of the nation's consum
ers. If President Eisenhower
were here, he would add, "Yes,
upon the welfare of the world."
Let, us all get behind the con
solidatipn program. Certainly it
must come about in order to
profit from automation or atom
ic power.
Three Plead Guilty
At Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls (U.R) Three
Klamath Falls persons yesterday
waived a Klamath county grand
jury investigation and pleaded
guilty to charges.
Harold Eugene Meyers, 30-year-old
ranch hand, and Mrs.
Marsaret Roeers Cobine. 41-
year-old housewife, pleaded
guilty to forgery. James D. itei
ley, 23, pleaded guilty to obtain
ing property under false pre
tenses. - Kelley was arrested recently
in Reno, Nev., after stealing an
auto from a Portland used car
lot, and using it as part down
payment on a new car at a Klam
ath Falls auto concern.
Mail call. "What is the long
est bird feather known?" in
quire! R.I.F.
"Are enakes afraid of each'
other?" asks Mre. F.W.P.
"My chum saye there it bot
tomless lake out in the west. Is
that so?" asks T.R. Jr.
I cannot verify the actual
length of bird feather but I
have seen a picture of a so-called
Japanese long-tailed fowl.
This bird has a curious history
and that long tail is man-made.
The bird looks like a game cock
and its domestic history goes
back over 2,000 years. Once, so
the story goes, the ordinary tail
feathers of this handsome bird
were first used by the Samurai
as a, decoration on ceremonial
spears. Rivalry among the Sa
murai to show the longest plume
resulted in selective .breeding
until, through the centuries,
cocks developed 18-foot long
tails. This necessitated special
high pens with high perches on
which to drape the long tail.
When exercised, the cock had
an attendant behind him to hold
the tail off the ground and keep
it clean and unbroken. It was
such a picture that I saw at Kew
Gardens, London, during a re
cent trip.
Snake fears: In discussing this
interesting question with a
famous zoo director, he told me
that it is not unusual to put
various types of snakes together
both harmless and venomous
without any harm resulting.
But when the cannibalistic king
snake of America or the mus
surana of Brazil .is put in" with
them, panic ensues immediately,
Even those snakes which have
never seen one of these two be
fore,' he added, wiU become
terror-stricken at the first meet
ing. Both the king and mussu-
rana are immune to venom.
Bottomless lake: Bottomless
lakes are firmly entrenched in
our "mythology" but, ob
viously, there can be no bottom
less lakes. Quite likely these be
liefs got a firm hold on our early
pioneers, especially in the west,
,who didn't have the proper gear
to reach bottom and so, manv
lakes become bottomlesr But
modern method have found
bottoma in . every lake in the
U.S. The deepest one in the U.S..
and ai far ae I know in the
world, until some reader cor
rects me, is Crater Lake, Oregon
which ia 2,000 feet. Under
standably, the. lake occupiea the
crater of an eitinct volcano.
(My panel of judges has
authorized me to state that the
first letter to arrive a Bo 575,
Sausalito, Calif., telling me of
a deeper lake, with proof, will
gel thia week s award of th 30'
volume set of the Encyclopedia
Americana. Flease hurry.)
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the best question on nature and
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TO SCARE PILOTS?
.Montreal U.R) An employee
of the Montreal General hospital
had to climb the 225-foot air
craft beacon tower atop the hos
pital's roof Thursday to remove
the handiwork of a prankster.
The " prankster, "probably a
medical student," planted a skull
and crossbones flag atop the tow
er, a hospital official said.
Governors of 19 states serve
two-year .terms and 20 have four
years in office.
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I TONGUE
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"SO TOW THINK WE ARE
GOI1TO TO GET OUT?"
Rabat, Morocco---"It is neces
sary to know a Mussulman,"
said Uie colonel, in the careful
voice of one
instruct i
children.
n g
"It
is necessary
to recall that
a Mussulman
who kills an
infidel goes
straight to
Paradise. It is
needful only
for an agitator
to caU upon
them to kiU
ttwrnrt AltKsa
in the name of Allah, and the
Mussulman crowd becomes abso
lutely savage, although they may
later briefly regret the atrocities
they have committed. Mussul-
men are like that, even the most
evolved
TheDspeaker was Col. Ie Boeuf,
retired French army officer
who heads a semi-clandestine
movement known as "Presence
Francaise" here in Rabat. Pres
ence Francaise is dedicated to
maintaining at all costs ' the
French position in Morocco. Itjto chaos
counts the downfall of the mod
erate - minded Resident-General,
Gilbert Grandval, its greatest
triumph.
According to some, Presence
Francaise is an admirable pa
riotic organization. According to
othefrs, it is a kind of French
Ku-Klux Klan. which uses ter-
rdr as its chief political instru
ment. It is widely believed that
Presence Francaise was impli
cated in the bloody anti-Moroccan
rioting that took place here
in July and in the recent assassi
nation or attempted assassina
tion of several Frenchmen of
Moderate views.
However that may be, Col. le
Boeuf is a charming old man, if
only because he is so faithful a
reflection of a glorious past. He
is a very small man, with a great
mop of white hair, and a healthy
pink face that makes him look
a good ten years younger than
his 80-odd years. He received his
foreign visitors warily at first,
but before long he was passing
swet port and recounting his life
story. He first came here in
4907, when the then independent
Sultanate of Morocco was in
total anarchy, e served as an
army officer during the pacifica
tion of Morocco, which started
in 1912, and he has been here off
and on ever since. o
o "That was indeed the heroic
epoch," he said proudly. "I par
ticipated in the creation of an
empire.'8 '
jANLY three months ago, he
" said, he had the honor to be
asked to head Presence Fran
caise in Rabat, when it consisted
of only 14 young men. Only last
week, 3,000 people came to this
very villa to hear him denounce
the scandalous weakness of' the
French government and the Res-
, o
Hi movement spoke, he said,
not only for the vast majority
of Frenchmen but for the great
majority of all Morocco, since
the Berber tribesmen, who rftike
up great proportion of the
Moroccan population, were un
doubtedly loyal to France.
Someone asked whether the sack
ofeOued Zem on Aug. 20, in
which 50-odd Frenchmen were
brutally slaughtered, had not
been the work of Berber tribes
men. It was at. this point that
Col. le Boeuf delivered his lec
ture on Moslem psychology.
It was terrible, he said, how
foreign journalists misunder
stood Moslem psychology, the
basic problem of Morocco. How
well he remembered, he said,
how hard was the combat with
the Berber in 1912 he still
carried a ball in his leg from the
fighting around Khenifra.
"Then when the situation was
most desperate, we saw mounted
tribesmen from the hills upon
us. It is all over, we are fin
ished. But no, although it was a
tribe whiclv had surrendered to
us only eight days before, they
had already learned who were
their true friends, they had come
to help- us, the French."
His voice softened as he re
called his past glories. But it
hardened again as he returned
to the present. "These people
are still in the Middle Ages, in
capable of governing them
selves. Do you think that the
perpetrators of the recent atroci
ties are ready for self-government?"
"No, No, gentlemen," he con
tinued, and his voice rose, as he
talked. "When we- arrived here,
there was nothing nothing but
chaos and the rat-infested me-
EAST SIXTH ST.
JOWL
BACON
BEEF
ROAST
2fe.b.
e$ert AIsop
dinas. We have made this coun
try. And you think we are going
to get out, 400,000 Frenchmen?
You think we are going to be
come a helpless minority, the
proteges of the Mussulman? No,
No." ' '
INHERE was much more In the
sme vein beforejpCol. le
Beouf, amiable Qgain, shook
hands and said goodbye. -Before
he left, he pointed out his treas
ured signed photographs of Gen
erals Gallienie and Lyautey
"They were great men. Why are
there no more like them?" And
he pointed also to a faded pic
ture of a proud man on a big
horse, surrounded by native
troops "Myself at the head ot
my regiment," he said, and his
old eyes half filled with tears. '
HW visitors were thoughful
and walked down the path past
the lovely flowering Bougain
villea. For there was much in
what the old man said. In a
sense, it is almost true that the
French "made this country." It
was French brains and French
capital that built the big hand
some cities and developed the
neglected land and put an end
It is also true that Presence
Francaise speaks for the great
majority of Frenchmen in this
country, though many of its
adherents are motivated less
than Col. le Boeuf by memories
of past glori)and more by de
sire of present profit. It is just
as true that the great majority
of Moroccans, even the illiterates
in the hills, passionately support
the Nationalist movement And
in the end, 9,000,000 Moroccans
can make life intolerable for
a few hundred thousand French
men, even for so" staunch an old
Frenchman as Col? le Boeuf. '
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How About It?
To the Editor:' The history ol
Jacksonville relates that many
Jewish families were among the
settlers who came in the 1852
gold rush.
There seems to be a discrep
ency as to whetherthe Jewish
community owned, or rentedjhe
present Odd Fellows Building as
a synagogue.
If anyone has any definite in
formation on this subject, or the
recollection of the names of
these pioneers, I'd appreciate
hearing from them.
Martin H. Le vinson
P. O. Box 548
Eugene, Oregon
Key-Operated Pinball
Machines Given OK
Portland (U.R) Municipal
Judge John J. Murchison yester
day ruled tibt key-operated pin
ball machines were not outlawed
by the city's current anti-pinball
ordinance.
The opinion came in a com
plaint brought against O. C. Lan
ger, who was arrested June 14
for violation of the ordinance.
A second complaint, brought
against Audrey Bailey, was dis
missed by Judge Murchison for
being in error.
Langer's defense attorney.
John Reynolds, took issue with
Deputy City Attorney Frank
Ieurilli's contention that the or
dinance, while not specifically
stating so, was intended to in
clude key-operated devices as
well as those operated by coins.
Reynolds said that since the
phrase "coin in the slot" was
used in the ordinance, it must
be presumed that only "coin in
the slot" device were supposed
to be covered by the law.
However, City Attorney Alex
ander Brown said the city would
appeal Judge Murchison's decis
ion. .
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