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THE WHITE HOUSE DRAMA
Washington In the secret
drama that has been unfolding
in the White House for many
months, it is
pretty clear
that what may
be called the
faction of the
antis has sus
tained a heavy
setback.
In other
words, PresU
dent Eisen
hower is act
ing much
more like a
candidate to succeed himself
than he would be called upon to
, act, If he merely wished to con
trol the Republican convention
and to dictate the choice of his
own successor. On this head,
the goings-pn in Denver speak
for themselves.
Probably this outcome was al
ways inevitable. The most expe
rienced of all observers of the
American political scene, Frank
R. Kent, has long held that it
was an immutable law of Amer
ican politics that first-term Pres
idents cannot possibly resist the
forces driving them to run
Again. But in this case, the prob
lem was more interesting than
it usually is, because of the
character of the faction of the
antis. e
The leader of the antis, of
course, has been Mrs. Eisenhow
er. It has often been rumored
that the President's wife dislik
ed the idea of his running
again. It can now be stated on
. undoubted testimony that the
rumors under - represented the
. real situation. Mrs. Eisenhower
has not merely disliked the idea
of a . second term. She has
. strongly and consistently used
' her very great influence against
it. Furthermore, it can also be
. revealed that the influence of
Mrs. Eisenhower has been pow
erfully seconded by the influ-
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ence of Major John Eisenhower,
which is also very great.
The combination of a man's
wife and only son would be
pretty formidable in most fami
lies and it is especially formid
able in the Eisenhower family.
In addition that the Presiden
cy was too heavy a burden to
be taken on a second time at
the President's time of life; that
the President has done his duty
and could gracefully retire; and
that this was the moment for the
President to escape to the Get
tysburg life he loves.
'THE President was much af-
fected by the pleas of his
wife and son. His response was
shown the world, so to speak, at
the famous press conference
when he publicly repeated their
argument that a man of his
years should not seek another
four years in the White House.
But the faction of the antis
was tiny, while the faction in
favor of an Eisenhower second
term was enormous, comprising
every member of his staff, every
Republican politician of any
consequence except Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy, and virtually
every one of the President's cir
cle of close personal friends.
Moreover, the Geneva meeting
at the summit proved to be a
heavy blow to the faction of the
antis.
To the legions who have urg
ed him to run again the Presi
dent has always had a stock re
sponse that the American po
litical system did not recognize
the existence of such a creature
as "the indispensable man." But
at Geneva, the President seemed
to prove the contrary.
However transitory and even
dangerously deceptive the other
Geneva results may prove, there
is no doubt whatever about one
result. Single-handed, with no
lever but his smile, the Presi
dent raised the reputation of
this country abroad from some
where very near the depths to
somewhere very close to the
heights. In a single week, the
rest of the world's opinion of
America's aims and purposes
was radically and happily trans
formed by Eisenhower alone.
The feat itself quite naturally
exhilarated the President, giv
ing him a sense of achievement
that he has not always had in
the White House. Furthermore,
the very fact of this feat, at
once gave a heaven-sent argu
ment to those who wanted him
to run again. In our domestic
politics, they said, it may be
that no man is indispensable;
but it has now been proved that
at this critical juncture, the
President is the indispensable
man on the world political
scene. According to persuasive
How Medford Became
'Pear Capital' Told
(Editor's note: This is another in a
series of articles by the editor emer
itus of the Salem Capital Journal and
former editor and publisher of the
Mail Tribune discussing the early days
of southern Oregon. It is reprinted
from the Salem paper by permission.)
By GEORGE PUTNAM
Medford and the Rogue River
Valley has always been known
as a fine fruit growing section
but it was not until near the
turn of the century that large
commercial apple and pear
orchards were planted by ex
perts and given scientific care.
Most of the fruit grown had
been in home orchards for fam
ily use.
The first large apple and pear
orchards were the Olwell, at
Central Point, the Hillcrest,
Bear Creek and Stewart in the
Medford area. The first fancy
boxed pears, in individually
wrapped tissues and laced paper
for export trade were shipped
from the Hillcrest orchard, then
reports, it was this new argu
ment introduced by Geneva that
rather decisively turned the
White House debate in favor of
a second term.
ALL sorts of things can of
course happen between now
and the Republican convention.
It is more and more likely, for
instance, that the free half of
the world will suffer disastrous
defeats in the Far East in the
next six to eight months. What
this may do to the President's
post-Geneva glow is anyone's
guess.
Again, the President's state of
health is obviously magnificent.
Yet no man of his years can be
absolutely guaranteed against
the kind of little upset which
would be trivial for most men,
but in the situation in the White
House would give much greater
force to the pleas of the Presi
dent's wife and son. For these
and other obvious reasons, Eis
enhower's course cannot be ab
solutely forecast. But on one
point, . one may now be quite
certain.
The President's power of
choice in this matter has been
invisibly but rapidly diminish
ed. He no longer has the option
of saying that he will not run
because he does not choose to.
His moral commitment to the
Republican party is now too
great. He cannot possibly escape
running, unless he is willing to
shield himself squarely behind
an opinion from his doctors that
he ought not to do so. That is
the only argument which is not
sure to be shouted down.
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Ine.
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owned by Julian Perkins. The
exporter was a New York
broker who found a ready sale
for Cornice pears at highest
prices in Paris. (He said among
the demimonde). Perkins later
sold Hilcrest to the late Reginald
Parsons who continued fancy
packed fruit.
Others Follow
Other pear orchard owners
followed the Hillcrest initiative
of fancy packs. World War I
however, stopped fruit exports
and worked other hardships on
orchardists handicapped by la
bor shortage. After the war the
fancy Christmas gift pear pack
age was ' gradually developed.
Bear Creek orchard, under
David, took the initiative in na
tional advertising and erected a
large plant to supply fancy fruit
throughout the year. Other
packers mostly confined them
selves to Christmas gift pears.
It was not pears, but apples,
however, that started the great
fruit boom in the Rogue River
Valley and in the Northwest
states. In 1909 a carload of Red
Spitzenberg apples from the
Tronson & Guthrie Eagle Point
orchard, won first prize at the
Spokane apple show as the
world's finest apples over the
Yakima, Wenatchee and other
regions and the influx of would
be orchardists was on. Not only
fruit but the orchard, and land
sold at top prices.
Blight Hits
The boom lasted a few years,
then "pear blight" hit the or
chards caused by climatic con
ditions. The Spitzenbergs were
most susceptible to the blight,
the Yellow Newtons and pears,
surgically treated, survived.
Planting of apples was largely
discontinued but pear acreage
continued to increase.
This year's pear pack is esti
mated at . 3V4 . million boxes,
superior in quality and are being
sold profitably. The remittance
man orchardlst has become a"
scientific fruit grower or has
been replaced by one and his
future is bright with promise
the pioneer visioned.
Area Perfect
Most any region can grow
apples, but few regions compare
with the Northwest for perfect
fruit. But the regions where the
perfect pears can be grown even
in the Northwest, are compara
tively few for climate, altitude,
irrigation and soil must be right,
and the Medford area supplies
the answer and it has attracted
well-educated groups.
The orchardists life on
paper is an ideal one and in
reality a pleasant one but a
continual battle against insect
and fungi pests, and Medford is
metropolitan enough to supply
his economic, social and recrea
tional needs. So in a good year
he can lead the "life of Riley."
Great Changes
In recent years fruit packing
in Medford has undergone as
great an evolution as the can
ning industry in Salem has. Ma
chines have replaced workers
but at the same time increased
the number of workers one of
the paradoxes of American in
dustry due largely to the high
cost of labor which stimulated
machine invention to offset
costs.
Through many conveyors and
specially designed equipment
the fruit is automatically sorted,
graded, wrapped and packed,
the box covers nailed on and the
full box conveyed for refrigera
tion or placed in railroad re
frigerated cars for shipment.
Visits Plant
In my recent brief visit to
Medford I only had time to visit
one fruit packing plant, that of
Reter Packing Co., whose own
er I had known since his youth.
The three-story plant occupies
about a quarter of a city block
along the railroad switch in the
fruit packing district. Fully 300
employees were at work and a
score of conveyors delivering or
passing along the fruit and a box
was packed and the top mechan
ically nailed in record time com-
Sundiy, September II, 1955
MEDFORD (OREffOITf MAIL TrUBUrTE ftVaT
James Alger Fee,
US. Judge, Lists
Medford as Home
The Hon. James Alger Fee,
judge of the ninth circuit court
of appeals, who moved from
Portland to San Francisco after
his appointment to the higher
court, apparently considers Med
ford to be his home.
The well-known Oregon jurist,
who for many years was Oregon
district court judge, is listed with
the 10 other circuit judges of the
appeals court in the Recorder, a
San Francisco business paper,
and his home city is given as
Medford,. Ore.
Frequent Visitor
Judge Fee has been a frequent
Medford visitor over the years,
both on official visits while pre
siding at district court sessions
here, and unofficially. He is
known to be fond of golfing at
the Rogue Valley Country club,
which he considers to be one of
the best courses in the west.
His most recent visit was dur
ing a district court session at
which he presided. He came back
to Oregon especially to help clear
the district court docket.
He recently was succeeded on
the district court bench by Wil
liam East, Eugene, former Ore
gon circuit court judge. The post
had been vacant for a number of
months following Judge Fee's
appointment.
Salem U.R) Walter Lee
Maupin, sentenced from Des
chutes county to three years on
a charge of larceny by bailee,
has obtained a writ of habeas
corpus from Marion County
Circuit Judge George R. Dun
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man who entered a hospital
room and severly beat a woman
as she lay in bed recuperating
from an operation.
parable to an assembly line in
an auto factory. And this is but
one of Medford's packing plants,
which have helped make Med
ford the Pear Center of the
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No Doubt In His Mind This Time !
This happy gentleman has just taken title
to. his seventh motor car.
And while he would probably have
difficulty recalling all the different makes and
models he has purchased through the years,
there is one thing he knows with absolute
certainty: He never felt like this before when
he took the keys and made for the open road.
For this is his first Cadillac! And what a
glorious feeling it is to know he has chosen
the "car of cars"!
Gone are the doubt . . . the worry . . . and
the wonder. This time he knows he's right!
And how quickly the evidence will
assemble in support of his sentiment!
First of all, there will be the eloquent
testimony of the car itself its magnificent
performance ... its marvelous comfort and
ride . . . and its incredible ease of steering
and handling.
And then, as he travels the. boulevard,
there will be those quick glances of admira
tion from his fellow motorists to tell him
that he is not alone in his judgment.
And, finally, there will be that delighted
assembly of family and friends that awaits
him at journey's end . . . offering final con
firmation of the wisdom of his choice.
Of course, the man who takes title to a
new Cadillac today enjoys the double
satisfaction of having made the wisest'
possible choice at the wisest possible time.
Because of Cadillac's increased year-end
production, for instance, he will find that
he can have surprisingly prompt delivery
on his new Cadillac.
And, as if this were not sufficient in itself,
we are also in a position because of our
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