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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
Sept. 8, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Local Sheriff's posse members
to ride in Canyon Passage mo
tion picture.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Congress
men are warning the nation "not
to put all its eggs in one basket."
After more than 12 years of put
ting all the nuts under the tree,
this makes sense.
20 YEARS AGO e
Sept. 8.1935
(It was Sunday)
AP wire increases speed of
transmission to 60 words in state.
Ray Henderson, formerly jun
ior highPcoach, promoted to phys
ical education director for all
grade schools.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 8, 1925
, at was Tuesday)
Medford schools open, record
freshman class of 130.
Portland firm given bid for
construction of new high school
with low bid of $160,000.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 8, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
City fire department to use
coal from Roxy Ann mines for
heating ttiis winter. Experiment
al load purchased.
Soecial election move to re-
bond city for $1,020,000 for pav
ing indebtedness tabled at fiery
city council session.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Rsseaich Report
1. About 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9,000,000
more jobs are now filled in the
CtJ.S. than at the end of World
War II?
2. World War 1 arose out of the
assassination of a roval duke in
what is now East Germany, Po-
1 a n d, Yugoslavia. Czechoslo
vakia, Hungary, or the Soviet
Union?
3. About one-fifth, one-fourth.
one-third, one-half or two-thirds
of all plane travel is by air
each?
4. The Hall of Fame is connect
ed with a ereat university: New
York, Harvard, Notre Dame, Chi
cago, California or City College
of N.Y.?
5. The death rate in summer
is higher or lower than in win
ter, or about the same?
B. The skin surface on the av
erage adultcomes to about 6, 13,
20, 27 or 34 square feet?
7. F a t h e r of psychoanalysis
was Sigmund Freud: a Swiss,
German, Austrian, Englishman,
Czech. American or Belgian?
' The Answers: 1. Nine million
more. 2. Yugoslavia. 3. About
one-third (1954). 4. New York
TJ. 5. Lower. 6. 20 square feet. 7.
Austrian.
JUICY REPORT
Bismarck, N. D. (U.R)
Police made a quick investiga
tion after receiving a phone call
from a woman reporting a
bloody leg dangling from the
trunk of a car. They found three
teea-agers hiding in the trunk
eating hot dogs dripping with
catsup. They were trying to
save the price of admission into
a drive-in theater. ' - --
MAIL TRIBUNE
Do Papers
There was a radio broadcast the other night which
treated .the question of newspapers and their treat
ment of news. "
This particular panel of experts included an editor
of a fairly popular magazine and a high-up represent
ative of a News Weekly
something about the subject from an impartial stand
point.
Their conclusion, however as far as there was
any was to the effect that most newspapers do slant
their news according to their political prejudices, but
most of them unintentionally.
In other words the newspaper, reporters of the
U.S.A. slant their news reports, according to their own
or their newspapers political leanings but do so un
consciously. HTHIS is surely something for the book!
We wish the radio commentators had named a few
of the reporters who color their news articles while
they are unconscious.
There would, we are sure, be many representatives
of the press looking for a job.
It is bad enough to slant the news in any way, at
any time, on any paper, but if a newspaper reporter,
doesn't know when he is slanting it or not slanting
it then the profession as far as he is concerned is in
a mess. Such a reporter would be a greater public
menace than "Typhoid Mary."
DUT, of course, such an indictment of the American
press is absurd. Some papers, particularly in the
metropolitan areas, have and still do slant their news
reports. But outside of the Chicago Tribune during the
McCormick regime, and the Hearst chain under the
late William Randolph, they have been and still
are few and far between.
THE mistake the experts on this panel made, we
believe, was their failure to distinguish clearly be
tween the news columns of the American papers, and
their editorial and special-comment columns.
One of. the first things a reporter is told, on the
average American newspaper, is to confine himself
to the facts, above all get them straight, and cut out
any "editorializing," or bias he may have. If he can't
do that then he better give up 'newspaper work and
try the street-carnival or press-agent business. Might
even go into politics. But he has no proper place in
the newspaper field.
THE editorial page, including the editor's remarks
and the opinions of various and sundry news
commentators is, of course, a different kettle of fish.
("Fish" of an ancient variety to some, but fresh
rainbow trout, hot from the frying pan, to others)
There, and there only, are interpretations of the
news permissable and naturally of course such opin
ions are colored by the writers convictions and opin
ionsalso permissable m
THE Portland Oregonian . is a good example of
what we mean and we have often commented
favorably upon it. It is politically 100 conservative
Republican, and its favored commentators, with a
few exceptions like Norman Thomas, are of the same
general school. But it never allows its political prej
udices to seep over into its news columns, and in fact
gives the political opposition fair objective treat
ment, and practically equal space.
This is as it should be. And we believe IS with
U.S. newspapers as a whole. The Oregonian, in our
judgment, is more representative of the American
press therefore than the Los Angeles Times or the
San Francisco Examiner, for example. R.W.R.
The Nixon Mystery
The "Salem Statesman," edited and published by
former Governor Sprague is another good example
in Oregon of a consistently. Republican newspaper
that always gives a fair shake to the political opposi
tion. " This "fair deal" is not confined to its news col
umns however, but also is true editorially. Unlike
the Oregonian, the "Statesman," sees flaws in BOTH
parties and never hesitates to express them.
TAKE the Vice President Nixon "build-up" for the
1956 campaign, for example. . - s
Editor Sprague refuses to swallow it.
. He doesn't agree in so many words with former
President Truman that Nixon is a phoney, but he
does maintain that the photogenic VP won his seat
in the Senate on a "false basis" and he has "not been
surprised" that this sort of falsity "has been his
stock in trade ever since."
IN FACT the Statesman Editor agrees with Richard
1 Rovere political writer for "The New Yorker" who
says, quote; he,
"can't help wondering precisely what it is that his
admirers President Eisenhower called him a "great
leader of men" and the rank and file Republicans who
favored him over so many of their leaders (see to) admire.''
J7DITOR Sprague can't see it either.
We doubt, if many Republican editors can.
But, as far as our record goes, Editor Sprague
alone among them has the courage and candor to
admit it R.W.R. .: - .
Thursday, September 8, 1955
Color News
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men who should know
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SPEED KING CoL Horace A. Hanes, USAF, holds Thomp
son Trophy at Philadelphia he was awarded for shattering
world's speed record of 755 m.p.h. He flew record 822.135
m.p.h. in two passes over 11-mile course above Mojave
Desert near Paundale, CaL
Shigemitsu's Visit
To U.S. May Reduce
Prison Population
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The population of the Suga-
mo Prison in Tokyo may be re
duced radicallv soon as the re
sult of Japa
nese Foreign
Minister Mam-
oru Shigemit
su's visit to
the United
States.
One of the
main " reasons
for Shigemit
su s visit was
to ask that the
United States
cuaries Mccann release the 210
men still held in Its behalf.
Shigemitsu says it isn't quite
right to ask Japan to rearm for
a possible future war while a
number of its military and po
litical leaders are still confined
for taking part in the last one.
Both Shigemitsu and his chief.
Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, feel
strongly about the issue.
Served Sentence 7
Shigemitsu served part of a
seven-year sentence as a "class
A" war prisoner. Hatoyama,
who took no part in the war,
was not tried. But he was bar
red from politics for some years
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur be
cause of his prewar activities
and views.
It is part of a confused world
situation that Shigemitsu and
Hatoyama should have come
back to the top in politics, and
that both should be cooperating
with the United States.
Their cooperation will be even
closer, and Japanese enthusiasm
for rearmament will be strength
ened, if the United States makes
the gesture of releasing some of
the prisoners it still holds in
Sugamo. ,
In addition to the ' 210 still
held by the United States, there
are 347 others. Australia sen
tenced 149 of them, The Nether
lands 111, Great Britain 80. The
remaining seven, "class A" crim
inals, were sentenced by an in
ternational court, Japan wants
all of them, including the "class
A" men. given their freedom. It
will not be surprising if the
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
rible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted .for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
What Is Big Business?
To the Editor: What is Big
Business? , .
Lately I have heard it re
ferred to as some horrible mon
ster ready to strip us of all we
possess.
Is it not true that Big Business
is American industry? This in
cludes management, employees
and stockholders in co-operation.
Is it not true that when Amer
ican industry is flourishing and
prosperous it means greater em
ployment,, higher pay for work
ers and more tax money for the
government? Is a business
genius any less entiUed to his
salary than a union leader? How
could the United States have
fought and won the wars with
out Big Business? Do we not
enjoy the highest level of pros
perity among the peoples of the
world thanks to Big Business
which makes the jobs and pays
the salaries?
Big Business isn't the old
Bogie-Boo that Mr. Truman and
others would like us to believe,
but it is all of us those who em
ploy, those who work and those
who invest. It adds up to Amer
ican industry. Am I wrong?
Voter and Taxpayer,
Talent, Ore.
(Name on file)
United States is first to act.
Critics of War Lords
Shigemitsu, of course, never
should have been tried as a war
criminal. Gen. MacArthur dis
closed last week, during a
friendly talk with Shigemuitsu
that he opposed the prosecution
but that Russia insisted on' it be
cause he had served as foreign
minister.
A career diplomat, a leading
advocate of Japanese cooperation
with the United States and Brit
ain, Shigemitsu was made for
eign minister in 1943. When the
news came over Axis radios,
there was surprise in Allied cap
itals. Shigemitsu was known to
be a critic of the war lords. It
was suggested that he was ap
pointed because Premier Hideki
Tojo realized that Germany and
Italy faced, defeat, and he want
ed to use Shigemitsu in an at
tempt to get a negotiated peace
when their collapse came.
Hatoyama came very near to
becaming premier after the war.
What tripped him was that he
was on record, in a book he
wrote before the war. as Drais
ing Hitler and Mussolini. When
war really came, however, he
snowea ms opposition to the nol-
icy of the war lords by retiring
to his country home and staying
mere.
U.S. Civil Service
Sets Three Exams
mi ... .
xnree civil service examina
tions have' been announced this
week by the U.S. Civil Service
Commission.'
Applications for the position
of medical officer with knowl
edge over one of several fields
of medicine may be filed with
tne Director, Eleventh U.S. Civil
Service region, 302 Federal of
fice building, Seattle 4, Washing
ton. The position will pay $7,465
to $10,065 a year, in various fed
eral agencies in the states of
Idaho, Montana, Oregon and
Washington..
Persons wishing to apply for
a carer appointment to a posi
tion of wage-hour investigator
may contact the board directors
by writing Board of U.S. Civil
Service Examiners, Wage and
Hour and Public Contracts Di
visions, U.S. Department of la
bor, Region LX, San Francisco,
Calif. Persons appointed will
contact business firms to deter
mine compliance with federal
wages and hours laws. The posi
tions are located in the Western
states. -
Applications for the civil serv
ice position of supervisory trans
portation operations officer
(Marine), will be accepted by the
Sub-board of U.S. Civil Service
Examinations, Beaver Ammuni
tion Storage Point, Clatskanie,
Ore. Application forms for the
test, including instruction on
applying may be obtained from
the above address. The position
is located at the Beaver Ammu
nition Storage Point, Clatskanie,
Ore.
Ashland Council
Delays Action
Ashland The Ashland city
council Tuesday failed to take
action on a proposed 10:30 p.m.
curfew ordinance and referred
two other matters to commit
tees. -
Two residents protested to
the council the widening project
on Almond st, between Nob- Hill
and Church and the subject was
handed over to a committee.,
For the third time, action or
a request of Karl Windbigier for
city water for his property just
outside the city limits, was de
layed pending consultation with
the Bell view Water district and
the planning commissio. ' j
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
This is the hurricane season
along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts. It is the FOREST FIRE
SEASON in the timbered Far
West. ,
BOTH hurricanes and forest
fires arise out of weather
conditions.
The hurricanes are born down
in the doldrums, where confined
hot, humid air forces its way up
through a cooler air stratum and
starts- a whirlwind that grows
and travels.
BAD forest fires arise out of
heat and LOW humidity. When
the air gets tinder dry, a spark
is all that is needed to set off a
conflagration.
NOBODY has yet been able to
control the weather.
THE teletype tells us:
Forest fires continue out of
control in Central and Northern
California, with a total of some
25,000 acres already burned.
Fires in Humboldt county in the
north have covered about 18,000
acres and one threatens the VIR
GIN stand of redwoods known
as Rockefeller grove.
The world's tallest tree the
General Grant redwood is
threatened by a fire in the Se
quoia national forest in the Sier
ra Nevada.
IITE'RE still inclined, you see,
' to think of fires in VIRGIN
timber as the BAD, ones.
That isn't really true. Old,
ripe trees, with their thick bark,
can resist a pretty hot fire. Even
if killed, they can usually be
salvaged by immediate logging.
It's the NEW GROWN that
really concerns us most vitally.
The new growth has to do with
our raw materials of the future.
W'E SHUDDER, of course, at
the thought of damage to a
thrillingly lovely thing like the
Rockefeller stand of virgin red
woods or the fabulous General
Grant tree in the Sequoia na
tional forest commonly said to
be the oldest living thing on this
earth. That appeals to our sense
of the dramatic '
But I can't help wondering.
One can hardly look at and
meditate upon such fantastic
marvels of nature without being
old boys must have weathered
struck by the thought that these
many a hot blaze m the long cen
turies during which they have
remained alive.
Maybe they will weather this
one. ,
It seems reasonable that they
can.
"RUT the new growth-?-;
Well, that is a horse of an
other color. New growth, when
run over by a hot, HOT fire is a
goner.
It's the new growth we must
look to for the maintenance of
our timber industries in the long
years to come.
DOME interesting new thinking
U about virgin old growth tim
ber is entering the forest pic
ture. A recent report on the for
est products industry of Oregon,
prepared by competent lumber
people and sponsored by Lewis
and Clark college and Reed
College during the current year
has this to say:
"The capacity of Oregon's for
est lands to produce wood fiber
will not become evident until a
large proportion of the virgin
old growth material is RE
MOVED. Loss from fire, insects,
disease and windthrow may ac
tually offset or EXCEED growth
within an area of virgin, old-
growth timber.
"When this mature and over
mature timber is used and re
placed with young growing trees
of sawtimber size, then the an
nual growth of wood fiber
should EXCEED THE PRESENT
CUT of 8.3 billion board feet an
nually."
The future of our timbered
area m Oregon ana , .Northern
California will continue bright
IF WE CAN KEEP THE NEW
GROWTH GROWING.
Farmers Find it Hard
To Keep Hired Hands
Madison, Wis. (U.R) The old
question, "How're you going to
keep them down on the farm?"
is part of no jolly song for farm
ers these days.
Stan Witzel, a University of
Wisconsin farm engineer, points
out that the hired man is dis
appearing in many places. The
only thing that can be done about
it is to get along without him.
However, he said, the problem
isn't just extra manpower. It's
finding some time for the farmer
to sit down and plan his manage
ment. After a farm gets to a cer
tain size and productivity, Witzel
explained, good management "is
a must for survival," but routine
chores take up nearly all the
time.
Witzel said farmers should re
ly more heavily on mechanical
energy, which is "very cheap
compared to human energy." He
also recommended such things as
self-feeding devices, silo unload
ers, bulk milk tanks and other la
bor savers. : -
By saving himself that labor,
Witzel said, the farmer can plan
good cropping practices, storage
methods and high-producing live
stock. , " i
Bryan's Crater
Visit in '15
(Editor's note: This is another
article by George Putnam, editor
emeritus of the Salem Capital
Journal and former editor and
publisher of the Mail Tribune. It is
reprinted from the Salem paper by
permission.)
By GEORGE PUTNAM
When a student at the Univer
sity of Nebraska in 1891-93 I be
came acquainted with William
Jennings Bryan, "The Common
er," then a member of congress,
afterwards three times Demo
cratic nominee for the presi
dency and some 23 years later
U.S. secretary of state unaer
Woodrow Wilson, whose nomina
tion for the presidency he had
engineered.
Whenever Bryan visited in
Oregon for his Chauauqua
speeches at Ashland, he always
looked me up at Medford and
frequently I drove him to Ash
land. I always stressed a visit to
Crater Lake.
Wire Invitation
When Bryan resigned as sec
retary of state in 1915, because
of lack of sympathy with Wil
son's policy, after the sinking
of the Luisitania, he wired me
that he and Mrs. Bryan were
coming west and the Medford
Commercial club, at ny request,
wired him an invitation to visit
Crater Lake. ...
Bryan accepted the invitation
and asked to be met at Montague
the nearest California station
on the Southern Pacific. Two
autos were volunteered for the
trip to avoid delay, for Bryan's
time was limited and roads were
unpaved, steep, rough and dirty.
Bryan's train arrived on
schedule in the afternoon in
mid-August,: 40 years ago. Two
autos were supplied and driven
by County Judge Frank L. Tou
Velle of Jacksonville and Harry
Walthers, manager of the California-Oregon
Power Co.
Only One Stop
Only one stop was made on
the trip to the crater. That was
at Klamath Hot Springs, where
a crowd of summer vacationists
welcomed him and offered iced
grape juice which the Bryans
drank after handshakes in the
"pause that refreshes."
It was dark long before the
lake was reached and the new
lodge was darker stilL We final
ly aroused the concessionaire
Parkhurst and a cold dinner was
hastily served. There was no
telephone to the lake in those
days, and the letters sent notify
ing Parkhurst of the Bryan visit,
lay unopened on his desk.-Har-rassed
financially, he thought it
was a dun or a bill he owed.
The Bryan party was up at
dawn and joined by Will G.
Steele, park commissioner who
had spent most of his life in hav
ing Crater Lake made a national
park, and Miss Elizabeth Put
nam who was spending the sum
mer-with them and a couple of
park rangers. Steele guided thed
party down the steep,- rough
trail, to the lake and the cruise
over, the blue waters in a cabin
motorboat around "Wizard Is
land" and the "Phantom Ship."
Then the laborious, slow climb
up back to the rim. .
Charmed with Beauty
The Bryans were charmed
with the beauty of Crater Lake
and its scenic approach, and its
jagged volcanic rim. After an
early lunch the party left for
Medford where that evening,
the "silver' tongued" orator
spoke from the bandstand to a
vast audience that filled the i
city park, expressing his grati
tude for the trip and explaining
his reasons for resigning as sec
retary of state and his dread of
war.
On the return drive, as a
newspaperman I asked Bryan
for a story on Crater Lake I
could broadcast and he made the
following suggestion: ..
"Get Oregon congressmen to
introduce a bill to construct a
tunnel just above lake level,
through the rim to a connecting
road, so your visitors can reach
the lake without the laborious
1000-foot or more steep descent
and climb over a slippery and
dangerous trail which can only
be made for a few months in the
year, and is almost impossible
for old people. Tourists could
reach the lake without undue
At no other time would you spend
a like amount without considerable
investigation first. Before any actual
need arises, why not investigate what
, is involved in a funeral service?
CHAPEL MORTUARY
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FUNERAL
Described
exertion, even in winter."
Bryan's suggestion was never
seriously considered and no
survey was made to ascertain
its location, cost or practicabil
ity. Now they are talking of
an elevator or escalator, but the
chances are that the steen. trail
will be the only way tcM-each
the spirit lake of the Indians.
After all, the chief attractions
are the changing colors atfd
rugged vistas presented to the
eye from the top, not the base of
the circuitous rim.
My first trip to Crater Lake
was made in early August, 1907
and there was plenty of snow
in evidence. I was one of a party
of six (three men, three women)
that drove in two light spring
wagons, with tents and camp
ing equipment. It took - three
days to reach Qtie lake, camping
out ftear Trail, at Union Creek
nights on the route up, and at
Whisky Creek and Trail on the
way back, hours less than in the
climb.
I visited Crater Lieke nearly
every year I lived S Medford
until I left in 1919 and several
times since. -
Bryan was still cheerful de
spite his political crucifixion,
not on a "cross of gold," but on
a cross of peace, with a "crown
of thorns" pressed down upon
his brow. And he later sent
each of his three hosts auto
graphed copies of his books.
New Library Hours
Scheduled To Start
On September 19
New hours at the Medford
Public library will go into effect
on Monday, Sept. 19, it was an
nounced' today by Miss Helen
WetSter, librarian.
The changes were ordered by
the library board, she sajd, and
are' for the purpose of providing
staff members with more time
to process and put on the
shelves books now on hand.'
Under the new , hours, the
main library will open at 10
ajn. instead of 9 ajn., and the
children's department will open
at noon. There will be no change
in the closing hours.
Budget Reduced -
Miss Webster pointed out
that the library budget was re
duced : by $1,000 when voters
last July disapproved an in
crease in the city's over-all bud
get. This cut makes it impos
sible to put sufficient personnel
on book-processing, she said, un
less money set aside for the pur
chase of new books were to be
used for this purpose.
The librarian said she and the
board believe patrons of the li
brary would prefer the slight
curtailment , of hours, rather
than any reduction "in the pur
chase of new books. The change
will free library personnel from
desk duty for the period when
the library is least used, she
said, allowing them to devote
full time to catalog and process
the books for use. ,
Plan Endorsed
Miss Webster, who attended
the Pacific Northwest Library
association convention at Gear
hart, Ore., last week, stopped in
Salem on her way back and con
ferred with Miss Eleanor Steph
ens, state librarian, and mem
bers of the staff, who endorsed
the decision to change the. hours.
Grandparents of Five i
Are Free-Lance Clowns I
Columbus City, la. (U.R)
Roy and Joy Thomas, grandpar
ents 'of five, are ' proof that
yotfre never too od - to be a
clown. - - . - , -
' The couple has toured the
United States, Canada, Mexico
and Hawaii in their trailer as
free-lance clowns and love their
way of life. ". ' ' ,
Roy and , Joy, who are 59,
have been clowns for about 20
years but have been in show
joined a tumbling act when fie
was nine years old. He trained
Joy as a tumbler after they met
here and married.
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