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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept- 14. 1945
(It was Friday)
Editor of Eagle's national mag
azine warns of juvenile delin
quency problem in speech here.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Politics is
now th national goat, and tak
ing the blame for things, form
erly laid on the war. It is now
held responsible for the Pearl
arbor probe, and a California
sheriff getting caught in a gamb
ling round-up.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, 1935
(It was Saturday)
William Hanley, famed Ore
gon pioneer, dies at Burns.
Three scarlet fever cases in
Ashland.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14. 1925
(It was Monday)
Report by city engineer re
commends building to Big Butte
springs for water supply.
Weekly Bible School of Relig
ious Instruction opens at Ash
land Methodist church.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept, 14, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Several accidents caused by
motorists' refusal to recognize
flagman.
Reclamation service engineer
and staff to make study of local
irrigation set up.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7t
Copr. 1955, Editorial Ressarch Ripori
1. Polio cases over U.S. as a
whole are more or fewer so far
this year than in the similar per
iod last year, or about the same?
2. The federal government
does or doesn't have a special
burelU for the welfare and prob
lems of small business?
3. In the eight South Central
states (Kentucky through Texas)
less or more than half the coun
ties, or about half, are dry by
local option? . .
4. The former nation of Serbia
is now part, of Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia,
Russia or Poland?
5. A little under 20, 30, 40, 50
or 60 per ent of U.S. prisoners
of war in Korea died in enemy
hands?
6. The American Legion con
tains a majority or a minority
of aU World War I and II vet
erans, or about half of them?
7. The real name of which
movie actress is Eva Szoke?
2, The answers: , 1. Fewer. 2.
" Does. 3. More than half. 4. Yug
oslavia. 5. A little under 40 per
cent. 6. A minority (but m large
one). 7. Eva Bartok.
Butcher Awarded $5,990
After Struck by Beef
Buffalo, N. Y. (U.PJ Butcher
Jofm Ulrich, 58, was awarded
$5,990.40 in state compensation
court for injuries suffered when
struck by a piece of beef. And
it was not on the hoof.
Ulrich was struck on the shoul
der by a heavy slab of beef when
it slipped off a rack in the cool
ing plant where he was em
ployed. He suffered a ruptured
tendon in his right arm, causing
partial loss of use of the limb.
HA1IUH
MAIL TRIBUNE
Encouraging Sign
More and more young people are going to college.
Yet, proportionately, the number is not growing
as fast as is the population of the United States. Nor
are the colleges and universities growing fast enough
to accommodate them all properly.
The trouble is simply an extension of the prob
lems which have beset primary and secondary educa
tion in recent years, namely: education costs money.
TAX-SUPPORTED institutions of "higher learning"
are taking a larger and larger bite out of the tax
dollar. But they have to share that dollar with schools
on the lower level, and with other functions of gov
ernment. Private schools, most of which were healthy
enough in the 1930s and '40s, have found that their
endowments are no longer worth what they once were,
and that gifts do not permit them to expand suf
ficiently to meet the demand.
As for the individual students, many of them are
barred from .university training simply because it
costs so much. Too frequently, a youngster with su
perior endowments cannot aiiord the training which
would make him a natural leader in his field of interest.
INCREASING attention
headed problem, and it
tions. Much of it is stimulated by the general atten
tion being paid to education as a result of the meet
ings which will culminate in the White House confer
ence on education in a few months.
But a substantial portion of the interest is coming
from industry "Big Business" if you will which is
finding: that the colleges and universities are simply
not turning out enough trained men and women to fill
industry's demands.
The situation is particularly acute in the technical
fields in engineering, chemistry, mathematics, phys-
a 1 i f T
ics, and so on. And large
that giving money to schools
simply a nice tax-exempt sort of beneficence; it is
now an acute necessity if they are to get the personnel
they so badly need. :
"NE encouraging sign in recent years has been the
startling increase in the number of scholarships,
ranging from small amounts
expense grants, which are
graduates. The listing of them took more than a page
in Medford High school's 1955 graduation program
alone.
Most recent development in this growing tendency
is the announcement by
some associated groups that $20,500,000 is being set
aside to set up what eventually will total between
1,000 and 5,000 scholarships annually to the nation's
most promising high school graduates.
The grants will range from a token of $100 up
ward, depending on the
may choose his own college or university.
(Two separate reactions to the plan, noted in Oregon's
press last week, were interesting. The Salem Capital
Journal deplored the plan, labeling it as a "dole," and
saying "doles demoralize by destroying incentive that de
velops talent." The Eugene Register-Guard, on the other
hand, hailed it as a program in "Human Conservation,"
and pointed out, while "there should be obstacles between
the student and the degree," that "the obstacles should be
intellectual, not financial.")
IT IS to be hoped that other
business organizations
. It can be argued that
college education. It can
which come too easily are
ed. And it can be argued that many youngsters would
not benefit from a college education, and, conversely,
that such an education is no guarantee of wisdom and
success.
All these are partial truths. But they cannot ob
scure the fact that education is a tool; that a young
man or woman with a good education has a better
chance of success than an equally-smart person with
out one ; and that our nation needs as many high
caliber people, with the best educations possible, it
can get. E.A..
Ridiculous Charge
Seaborn P. Collins, national commander of the
American Legion, -last week end charged that the
Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, which has
$15,000,000 to use in studying civil liberties and sup
porting activities fighting restrictions on freedom of
thought, is "trying to propagandize Americans into
believing that communism never has been and is not
now a threat to this country."
He warned Legionnaires to "avoid any identifica
tion with activities sponsored by the fund.".
ROLLINS makes himself ridiculous.
He places himself in the position of trying to limit
the free inquiry and thought which made this nation
a haven of liberty.
This he has a perfect right to do. But we wish
he'd done it as a biased and small-minded individual,
rather than assuming for himself the prerogative of
speaking for all members of the Legion not all of
whom are blind to the dangers of the right as well as
of the left.
The charge is as silly as that made against
UNESCO by the Legion's executive committee re
cently a charge which, by the way, we were glad to
see termed unfounded ty a special Legion committee
in a report released last Saturday. E. A. , ., - , ,
Wednesday, September 14, 1955
is being paid to this two-
is coming trom all direc
corporations are imding
and colleges is no longer
up to full four-year,; all-
offered to high school
the Ford Foundation and
needs of the student, who
philanthropic groups and
will join m this plan.
no one has a "right" to a
also be argued that benefits
not sufficiently appreciat
Today and
By Walter
PARTY POLITICS
As is customary after Labor
Day When the summer holidays
are over, party politics have be
gun again.
The activity
however, has
yet a low volt
age, which is
natural enough
in a time when
there is so
much prosper
ity and no
present need
to worry
Walter Uppmann about war The
two parties have their work cut
out for them getting ready for
next year's elections. But as yet
there are no signs that the voters
are paying much attention.
There is little of the angry dis
content and nothing of the pas
sionate hope which heat up pol
itics. The effect is to make pol
itics the affair of the profession
al politicians.
A S the American party system
works today, there are in
each party two main groups of
professional politicians. They
have differing primary interests.
The one group is made up of the
senior ' Senators of the party to
gether with those members of
the House who have sure seats
and long service and high sen
iority. They might be called the
Congressional faction. Among
the Democrats they are, of
course, from the solid south.
Among the Republicans they
come in the main from the nor
thern middle west.
A significant fact about this
group of professional politicians
is that they do not retire to pri
vate life even if their party loses
the presidential election. They
are never out of office. More
over, they may actually be in
power, as are the Congressional
Democrats today, though the Ad
ministration belongs to the oth
er party. Whether or not they
have the majority in either
House, and therefore the com
mittee chairmanships, they
make the party's public record
in between elections. There is
no higher authority on the
Party's principles and programs
than theirs, and there is no pol
itician on the outside who can
lead them or can speak for
them.
Their primary personal inter
est is not to elect a President,
It is to fortify their own posi
tion in Congress, in their con-
tituencies, and in the control of
the Party organization. They
would like best, of course, to be
the senior members of a party
that . controlled both ends of
Pennsylvania ave. But it is
against their interest to have a
President of their own party
who ignores them or; worse still,
might chaUenge them.
HPHE other group of profession-
-- al politicians is drawn from
the state capitals and the big
cities. The " Congressional group
are centered in the rock ribbed
constituencies. The other group
are centered in the . doubtful
states and the highest contested
districts.- They look towards . the
White' House and towards na
tional,- rather than a , regional
leadership. For their elections
are hard fought and they need
help from the national party.
They might perhaps be called
the Presidential group.
Their primary interest in na
tional politics is the Presidency.
Based as they are in the doubt
ful states, they are far more
keenly aware than are the Con
gressional group of the role of
the independent voter. This
causes them to favor a national
rather than a regional, a broad
rather than a narrow, a moder
ate rather than an extreme,
party program.
"IN these terms, . we may re-
member ' that Eisenhower's
nomination three years ago was
brought about because the Re
publican Governors had greater
popular strength than the Con
gressional group who supported
Taft.- We may than note that
for the first two years of Eisen
hower's administration the Con
gressional group, nevertheless,
continued to control, as it had
for 20 years, the Party in Con
gress and the Party machinery
in the nation. They gave the
President a very rough ride.
They opposed him, they frus
trated him, they interf erred with
him, they harassed and embar
rassed him. Then came the mid
term elections of 1954, which
proved to be a resounding defeat
for the Congressional faction of
the Republican party. This de
feat broke their power and the
President became at long last
the leader of his party and' the
master of his own administra
tion. Since then, his prestige has
soared to great heights on the
rising winds of prosperity and
peace. He can, of course, have
the nomination by acclamation.
But the game is not over. The
underlying conflict between the
two groups of professional poli
ticians is a permanent feature
of our party system. Only tem
porarily, owing to Eisenhower's
eminence, has this conflict been
pushed under the surface. j
Tomorrow
Lippmann -
IT wiU rise up again. With
Eisenhower's position indisput
table the key position in the con
flict is the Vice Presidency. That
is in part because of Eisenhow
er's age, a fact to which he him
self has catted attention. It is
also because in his second and
last term, the control of the
Party will again be' at issue.
Mr. Nixon, unlike for example
Gov. Harter, cannot be regard
ed as a genuine Eisenhower Re
publican. His political roots are,
or at least have been, in the op
position to Eisenhower. How
ever loyal he has been to the
President, the choice of Eisen
hower's running mate is certain
to become highly controversial.
It is, and will continue to be,
a matter of deep concern to the
Republicans who run for elec
tion in the doubtful states. And,
of course, the Democrats will be
sure to exploit the issue.
TN the game terms, that Is to
say in terms of the two fac
tions' within each party, the
Democrats find themselves with
the record made by the Con
gressional faction. This is a per
fecUy good record for the Con
gressional Democrats from the
same constituency to run on,
while allowing the Presidency
to go to Eisenhower by tacit con
sent. The problem of the nation
al or Presidential Democrats,
of whom the leading figures are
Stevenson, Kefauver and Harri
man, is whether there are pol
itically effective ways of detach
ing the independent and the
wandering Democrat from Ei
senhower.
As of now, they have no hope
of doing this unless, as is im
probable, something goes unex
pectedly wrong with the exist
ing prosperity. The one critical
weakness in the Republican po
sition is that the succession to
Eisenhower is not safely and
surely provided for, and that
the remarkable national unity
which prevails under Eisenhow
er has been made to depend ex
clusively on one man, on one
mortal man alone.
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Herald Tribune, Inc. .
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view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words. .
Seems io Favor the G.O.P.
To the Editor: The cage door
is wide open: the animals are
gathering for the, kill. The blood
curdling howl has been heard
from two lone wolves vieing for
leadership of the pack. The prey
is the goose, that lays the golden
egg, (big business) and the alto
gether too popular President Ei
senhower. One wolf is not dan
gerous, but a hungry pack is,
We had better do a little real
istic thinking. When enemies out
number friends, there is danger.
When wolves, bears, and skunks
aU unite in the kill, there is
great danger. Listing the pres
ent enemies of our government
and Eisenhower in particular,
first of all would be Truman,
Morse, Neuberger, Stevenson
and his entire following, includ
ing the press reporters and edi
tors that chose him m preference
to Eisenhower in their election
campaign. They all love to say
THERE I told you so. Then
comes the horde of subversives
collected by the Democrats that
were let out, college -professors
and teachers turning out liberal
thinkers by the score, many re
quiring the fifth amendment to
escape the stigma of commu
nism. This horde with the well
wishers of Russia, China, Labor
party of Great Britain, aU labor
unions,, and the Russian satel
lites. Of course the New Deal Demo
crats represent the hungry wolf
pack, that have been deprived
of "Never having had it so good."
Wolves have no conscience, or
respect for the blood of the most
innocent child. We have never
had a better president, qualified
to meet the most critical time of
all history, and the best quali
fied cabinet that made "almost
unbelievable sacrifices in order
to serve humanity. Before you
vote you better figure up what
we will have if the wolves get
back. They got us into three
wars, by encouraging the enemy
with making false statements,
denying us the right to victory,
and more than doubling the cost
of living, delivering the nation
in actual oanKruptcy, owing
MORE than all we owned. Now
crying don't bring up past , his
tory, that is character assassina
tion.
' Ira C. Jones,
Medford, Ore. -.
Wants Freeway Via Bear Creek
To the Editor: O. K. Let's de
cide on locating the new free
way through Medford. That pro
posed by "Sno-Cat" Tucker
seems by far the most practical,
less expensive, avoids condem
nation and lawsuits involving
destruction of fine old homes
and new ones by routing along
Bear creek. At present it's an
eyesore, soon to be a health and
sanitation sore for which the city
Reds Said Active
In US Government
As Late as 1954
Washington U.R) The House
Un-American Activities commit
tee has evidence that a Commu
nist cell operated within the
government as late as 1954,
Chairman France E. Walter (D.-
Pa.) said today.
He told newsmen a prelimi
nary inquiry by the committee
indicates that "upwards of 150
persons" were in the cell at one
time or another and that "some
of them were in rather respon
sible positions.
But he said there is no evi
dence at present that any of the
ceU members still work for the
government.
Walter's announcement fol
lowed a disclosure Tuesday by
Chairman John . L. McCleUan
(D.-Ark.) that his Senate Inves
tigating subcommittee has evi
dence of profiteering by sus
pected Communists at govern
ment expense.
He told a news conierence
that large sums of government
funds have been paid to the
Communist suspects for running
trade schools for ex-GIs. He in
riirateri one school has received
more than $1,000,000 from the
government since 1947.
Meridian said his subcom
mittee will begin public hear
ings on the matter in mia
Wnwmher or later. He said the
inquiry may result in recom
mendations to change the GI
BiU of Rights to eliminate pay
ments to the affected schools.
Walter said his House commit
tee wUl hold public hearings on
the Communist cell matter as
soon as Congress reconvenes in
January.
He said there was no doubt
abou its members "being Com
munists." He said the commit
tee's evidence was obtained
from "some people who were in
this thing" and who furnished
"a lot of valuable information."
KEFAUVER IN POLAND
London 0J.PJ U. S. Sen.
Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), has
arrived in Warsaw, Poland, on
a private European tour, the
Polish news agency PAP re
ported today.
name and address of the writer, although
Letters submitted for publication must
dads will have to find money to
cure.
With the flood problem great
ly relieved by the dams and tun
nel of the Talent project, the en
gineering' should not be too dif
ficult. And as an engineer friend
remarked, :"Why not extend the
thing to and through Phoenix?
It would be interesting to have
someone say what's wrong with
the idea, especially from the
state highway department.
T.J. Clifford,
, 1211 West Main st.,
Medford, Ore.
Sulphur Mustard May
Be Cancer Weapon
Berkeley, Calif . U.R) A new
synthetic sulphur, mustard may
provide scientists with a new
tool in the fight against certain
cancers, it was revealed here.
The new mustard compound
appears to have significant ad
vantages over the nitrogen mus
tard now used in treatment of
such forms of cancer as leukemia
and Hodgkins" .disease, according
to Dr. David M. Greenberg, Uni
versity of California physiologi
cal chemistry professor.
The new compound came out
of a program Greenberg has
been conducting to. discover po
tentially superior cancer-fighting
chemicals. He found that the
new synthetic sulphur mustard
action against mice paralleled
that of nitrogen mustard but was
not as poisonous and was chemi
cally more stable.
WRONG HOUSE MOVED
Sundsvall, Sweden (U.B
Grocer Lennert Sjoesberg, who
reported the disappearance of i
his summer cottage last week,
learned Tuesday what happened I
to it A truck driver read about
the missing cottage in a news- -;
paper and reported to police
that he had apparently hauled
off the wrong dwelling.
NOW
IS THE TIME
to start building an insured
savings account with us. You
will find it pleasant and
profitable to invest here.
...
FIRST FEDERAL
SAVINGS ft LOAN ASSH
of Medford .
27 North Holly
Am 1ml it ut toe Dedicatee
To These Wfce Save
Oregon - "Where
By U. S. SEN. NEUBERGER
This is being written on a
portable typewriter, set up on
a picturesque log of driftwood
along the beach at Ecola Park
in Clatsop county. Out to, sea,
a crimson sunset tints the world.
Over us loom the bluffs of Tilla-
mook Head. We are near the
sands where, 150 years ago,
Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark discovered the carcass of
a great whale. In fact, their
journals tell us that Sacajawea,
the Indian maiden from the Bit
terroot mountains, pouted until
she too was allowed to go and
see the marvelous "fish" which
had been cast up on the Oregon
shore!
Fires have begun to appear on
the beach as families cook ham
burgers and steaks for an out
door dinner. Children scamper
among the firs and jackpines.
One of our nieces has caught a
little field mouse in her cupped
hands. She squeals delightedly
and feeds the tiny creature a
few potato chips, before she lets
him go. My wife remarks to me,
"Why would people want to live
anywhere else except in Ore
gon?" After eight months of Eastern
heat and traffic and crowds, I
echo her question. Ever since I
returned to Oregon, I have e-
membered the title of a book I
once read. It was about our
Western states, Oregon of course
among them. The title of the
book was "Where Life Is Bet
ter." I understand that book
more than ever now. Never once
in Washington, D.C., for example
were we able to buy fresh pro
duce to match that heaped in
the bins of Gordon Cox's little
grocery store in Gearhart. Ore
gon tomatoes, nectarines, melons-
and pears are in a class by
themselves. Seaside's two bak
eries (Harrison's and Ruth's)
have all of those in our national
capital beat by a baker's dozen!
The knowledge that life, truly,
is better in Oregon can be of
inestimable advantage to a mem
ber of the Senate, who must
spend the greater part of the
year 3,000 miles from Oregon.
It keeps him from being timid
politically. It assures him that
public life is not the be-all and
end-all of human existence. It
The Rains Are Coming
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consider it the best, work-saving appliance
she every owned. It stands to reason. Hanging
up clothes is the most disagreeable household
chore there is, and a Speed Queen Dryer ends
it all! Why don't you try it now? This is one
appliance in your home you will never give
up. We also have the automatic washer to
match.
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frees him from the yoke of po
litical cowardice. Basically, it
helps him to be a better and
more courageous benator.
Both Maurine and I were born
in Oregon, yet I think we were
not sufficiently appreciative of
Oregon's wonderful climate, ab
undance and scenery until we
spent a considerable length of
time away from Oregon. We are
thoroughly soldon Oregon's peo
ple, too. On the streets of Sea
side, Astoria and other places
men and women come up to us
and introduce themselves. We
talk with them about politics,
about their families, about the
things which make all, of us
tick. We have Iearned(j lot al
ready concerning our state and
its citizens in this autumn season
of 1955, A.D.
I think I can earnestly second
the comment volunteered to mj
by a young Clatsop county bus
iness man, as we munched ham
burgers of mammoth proportions
in a grove of Ecola park. "Sena
tor," said he, "I can understand
why Lewis and Clark discovered
Oregon, but I can't figure out
why they left Oregon to return,
to the rest of the U.S.A.!"
Timber Insects Under
4
Study by Specialists ,
Berkeley, Calif. U.R) Bugs,
now gnawing away millions of
dollars worth of timber yearly,
are the subject of a five-year
study project underway at the
University of California here.
Arthur D. Moore, assistant
specialist in forest entomology.
and Herbert Ruckes Jr., junior
research entomologist, will do
the work made possible by a
$50,000 gift to the university.
They will swidy two major
problems pine bark beetles and
insect pests of cones and seeds.
Bark beetles, the most destruc
tive pests in California pine re
gions, last year destroyed
almost $9,000,000 worth of com
mercial pine, while insect dam
age to cones and seeds can de
stroy 90. per cent or more of a
seed crop. The $50,000 gift was
made from the Gilbert M. Wal
ker trust fund.
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