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Flight or Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
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10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21, 1945
(It was Friday)
County assistance- to aged,
needy totals $8,097 for August,
including help for 204 persons.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A scientific
: report reveals 11 billion atoms
'can be placed in the eye of a
needle and leave plenty of room
for a thread, or "a rich man to
enter the kingdom of Heaven."
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Tests conducted in city schools
cut out waste -time in spelling
lessons.
Northwest Jackson County fair
In Gold Hill to. feature grange
displays and parade. .
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21, 1925
(It was Monday)
Legal battle raging over dis
mantling of Jacksonville-Med-
ford railroad.
From the Local and Personal
column- The rains of the past
week . have - brought out , the
mushrooms again, in conse
auence of which these toothsome
dainties were on sale today at
some of the . groceries.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
First district's Federation of
Women's club to meet at Presby
terian church "Wednesday.
Judge Kelly to speak at Bap
tist church on Juvenile work.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. A defeated candidate for
President has been renominated
In the past by the Republicans,
the Democrats, both or neither?
2. Maximum retirement annu
ity for one person under' social
security is now more or less than
$100 a month? .
3. There was no joy in Mudd-
ville because of the result of a
football match, gold tournament,
horse race, baseball game or
prize fight?
4. The Moral Rearmament
Movement (M.R.A.) was inspired
by Mary Baker Eddy, Cardinal
Spellman, Billy Graham,. Albert
Einstein, or Dr. Frank Buch-
man?
5. Which one of these has its
capital on the Mississippi River:
Wisconsin, Illinois, " Missouri.
Tennessee, Louisiana?
. 6. For every person killed in
auto accidents today about 10,
25, 40, 55 or 70 persons are in
jured?
7. Former Vice President Al-
ben W. Barkley is a -federal
sjudge, U.S. Senator, U.S. Rep
resentative, state governor, in
private law practice, or in re
tirement. "
The answers: I. By both
(Cleveland and Bryan by the
Democrats, Dewey of the Re
publicans.) 2. More. 3. Baseball
game ("Casey at the Bat.") 4.
Dr. Buchman. 5. Louisiana. 6.
About 40. 7. U.S. Senator. ,
MILL WORKER KILLED
Stayton, Ore (U.R) .Mill
worker George William Bxacher,
24, Scio, was fatally injured yes
terday when his clothing caught
in a planer at an Aumsville mill.
He was dead on arrival at San
tiam memorial hospital." "
MAIL TRIBUNE
New Schools Soon
It won't be long before we're going to have to
build another school building (or buildings) -in Medford.
Members of the school
out loud, anyway. But a casual glance at the Mail
Tribune's story on Monday, which recorded the fact
that school population was up by 13.3 per cent over
last year, makes the conclusion inevitable.
"DUT," you might say,' "we just got through build
ing two new buildings ! How long is this going to
go on?" . '
To which we could reply, "Quite a while, friend
quite a while." Medford is growing fast, and the end
is not yet in sight. Population forecasts all predict
that the growth of the Pacific Coast, which got such
an impetus during World War II, will continue at a
rapid rate. '
This includes Medford. We can't help it.
CCHOOL authorities, in commenting on this year's
primary school registration, pointed out that the
sixth grade of last year, "which now is in junior high
school, is smaller than this year's first grade and the
difference is the equivalent to six full classrooms.
There have been increases in other grades, too.
- Not' only are people moving into the area, but
those already here are contributing to the increase in
population.
THHE conclusion is obvious. If we want to have our
children well-housed in schools, and not crowded
up into unmanageably large
to provide more. classrooms
Medford has never, stinted its schools, and we
don't think it will begin now. Most of us realize that
our best hope for. a solid future for the community
and the nation is education.
What Kind of State?
This business of population increase has other
ramifications besides increasing school needs.
The Eugene Register-Guard, m a thoughtful edi
torial, points out that there is a basic dilemma in
watching the growth of the state. On the one hand,
we need more industry to support larger payrolls. On
he other hand, we face the
our recreational and esthetic
'What do we want?" the R-G asks. "Do we want
to be like Maine a consciously 'backward' area, the
hunting and fishing preserve of an immense indus
trial hinterland. . . .' Some people, the Guard adds,
want the beauties of the state kept as they are.
But, it adds, the prospect of development is ap
pealing too," with bigger payrolls, increased land val
ues, social and cultural advantages and other attrac
tions. THE Guard concludes that it may be possible to
"split the difference," and line out a balanced fu
ture for ourselves a plan of development carrying
with it a plan for the preservation of our present val
ues; a plan for conservation carrying with it a plan
for use.
It adds : '
And these plans should be carried out in the light of
what Oregon is likely to be like 100 years from now. We
mustn't plan too small. And we mustn't keep our wilderness
so wild that only a privileged few of our citizens can. en
, Joy.it.
X7E think the Guard has something there.
' .We too have been, torn between our desires
for increased economic wealth for the region and the
state and our love for Oregon as it is and as it has
been.
"Splitting the difference" will not be an easy job
to do. It will take the best and most far-sighted legis
lators we can elect; it will require a certain yielding
and compromise on the part of various interest
groups; it will take an understanding on the part of
the people as a whole as to what is needed.
The only thing certain about the future is that
changes are coming. If we want to badly enough, we
can see that the changes are to the good rather than
to the bad. E.A.
Wouldn't Be The Same
Speaking of change, we note with mixed feelings
that a serious proposal has been made to admit peei
esses of Great Britain to the House of Lords.
Our feelings are mixed because, while we have
every confidence in the world in the ability and rights
of women in general, we have a sneaking worry about
what is probably one of the few remaining exclu
sively men's organizations in the world. (Did you
notice where a woman was admitted to a Veterans
Administration domiciliary home in the East recent
ly?) ...
THE United States Senate, sometimes called with
justice the most exclusive club in the world, has
had a number of women members. Most of mankind's
parliaments have also had women in their ranks.
But the House, of Lords?
It just wouldn't be the same. E.A.
NO INTERRUPTION
Elizabethtown, 111. (U.R) A
high wind blew down an old
maple tree here recently, block
ing a street. When workmen
started clearing the street, they
found a nest of young wood
peckers in one of the limbs. The
workmen tied the piece onto
another tree and the parent
woodpeckers resumed rearing
their brood. V . "
Wednesday, September 21, 1955
board haven't said so yet
classes, we'll simply have
and more teachers.
E. A.
possible loss of some of
values if this is done.
LAKE PEAK
Grand Haven, Mich. (U.R)
The level of Lake Michigan is
expected to reach a peak of
about 581.8 feet in July, U. S.
Army Engineers report.' The
level will be about an inch high
er than last year's peak and nine
inches below the modern high
of 582.69 feet in 1952. The all
time high level of 583.68 feet
was set Ja JuneT 1886.
Is That So?
Regarding snaxes, did you
know . . . there are some 3,000
species, some of which are found
in most parts of the world where
the subsoil is not permanently
frozen, even within the Arctic
circle where a viper inhabits the
Scandinavian Peninsula.
All snakes are carnivorous.
To accommodate the elongat
ed, narrow body, snake's inter
nal organs have made strange
adaptations: while a mammal's
heart has four chambers, that of
the snake has only three; its two
lungs are extremely elongated
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Stark tragedy in the news: '
Mrs. Donald Pullen (aged 28)
of Portland was killed the other
night on the upper Columbia
highway when a rock plunged
down a hillside and was struck
by the car in which she was rid
ing with her husband and two
children.
The husband who escaped,
along with the children, with
bad bruises said he and his
wife were singing happily as
they rode along the highway to
the Pendleton Round-up.. The
children were asleep in the back
seat. He saw the shadow of the
rock coming down the hillside.
Before he could check his speed
his car hit the rock, which was
nearly two feet in diameter.
It rolled three or four times.
When it came to rest, life with
all its joys and sorrows was over
for the young mother.
THERE is probably no way to
avoid such hazards of the
road.
But there are so MANY haz
ards that COULD be guarded
against by BETTER DRIVING.
Because they could be guard
ed against, they are perhaps
more tragic than this one.
rPHE Free Europe Bulletin in
Vienna says guns and ammu
nition are. being sent by muni
tions plants m Communist
Czechoslovakia to rebel tribes in
French North Africa, where the
natives are engaged in a bitter
and bloody ruckus with the
French.
It adds that pistols are being
sold to the tribesmen at sharply
reduced prices.
PASTE this in your hat:
Wherever there is trouble in
the world, you will find the com
mies stirring the pot and putting
fuel on the fire. .
QPEAKING of pots, there's al-
VJ ways a dash of politics (in
these days when another big po
litical campaign is getting under
way) in the mulligan stew that
we call the news.
Speaking at a . $100-a-plate
Democratic party fund-raising
dinner in San Francisco the oth
er night, Pennsylvania's Demo
cratic Governor leader said the
Democrats will be VERY HAP
PY to take on President Eisen
howser in 1956. . .
;. He added: .
"President Eisenhower is
NOT the best man for the coun
try. ,
"He is NOT the best man to
seek and keep the peace.
"He is NOT a great President.
"He is NOT a leader."
ONE can't help being reminded
of the faU of 1935, when the
GOP politicians who were
OUT and wanted very much to
get back IN were laying plans
to take FDR to the cleaners in
1936.
History tells us they didn't get
very far.
T ET'S close this hodgepodge
with a tale about a boy and
his dog and a porcupine.
The boy and his dog were en
joying an. autumn ramble in the
wooded hills near his home
town. Suddenly a porcupine ap
peared in the trail ahead, wad
dling along in the what-the-heck
manner that porcupines have.
TJEING a very small boy, and
A having been well brought up
as to guns in the immediate vi
cinity of towns, he didn't have
a .22 along. But he had been
hearing about Porky's depreda
tions in the growing timber that
will some day provide raw ma
terial for great' pulp and paper
factories in Southern Oregon
(along with large and very ac
ceptable payrolls)," and ' he felt
that something ought to be done.
Lacking Other' weapons, he
picked up a rock and bounced
it off Porky's frame. But porcu
pines are durable. This one wad
dled right on. Another . rock
brought no better results. - ;
OIHAT nettled our hero. He was
wearing a pair of heavy new
boots, with stocky soles studded
with hobnails, and he waded in
to kick the stuffing out of Porky.
The result?
The net of it was that he
RUINED a pair of new boots.
The porcupine's quills penetrat
ed the heavy leather, leaving
the inside of them feeling just
like interior of a well-stocked
pin-cushion. V , "
AT- that moment, the dog
urariorl in -
You know the' rest.
The upshot of the affair was
a pair of ruined boots and a prac
tically ruined dog.
, The porcupine waddled off.
Porky is a rugged character.- -
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
the right one being much more
developed than the left.
All snakes lack movable eye
lids, external ear openings, and
breast bones. Some have up to
435 vertebrae.-
A snake's teeth are not for
chewing. They swallow their
food whole. The teeth are used
primarily for catching their
prey and for pushing it into the
stomach which can be greaUy
distended to meet the occasions.
Snakes may be born either
alive or hatch from eggs. In the
great majority of species, the
mother take no interest what
ever in her offspring. -
A snake lives a comparatively
short life: in captivity, only one
snake has been known to live
more than 29 years that was an
anaconda. Others have lived 20
years or slightly longer. In the
wild, it is highly improbable
that they live that long what
with predatory by birds, animals
and diseases.
One snake a relative of the
Cobra and highly venomous
has adopted itself to a marine
life. To facilitate its progress in
water its body is compressed
from side to side and the. tail is
flattened to form a most effic
ient oar-like appendage. Valves
close throat " and nostrils com
pletely for submersion.
These sea snakes, -which are
confined to the Pacific and In
dian oceans, go ashore only for
egg laying, managing to climb
about on slippery rocks. As soon
as the baby snakes are hatched,
they drop into the sea to begin
their marine existence feeding
entirely on fish.
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Letter Said Unfair
To the Editor: It aU depends
what we are used to. That letter
in the Mail Tribune by a tourist
from Illinois condemning log
ging truck drivers is most unfair.
It is true they drive hard and
load all the law allows. But that
is necessary if the loggers are to
have any take-home pay to mam-
tain their way of life. In my six
years covering the logging and
sawmill scene over the six west
ern states, "only one og-trucker
was found who had his truck and
trailer paid for and still in shape
to haul logs. - Farther south and
earliest logging was down old
Santa Cruz way where logs were
skidded to the ocean by ox-team
and boomed onto sailing vessels
for -delivery tA the Golden Gate
for '49 gold rushers.
No drivers on our highways
are more conscious of other driv
ers than the log-trucker. Often
they wiU drive dangerously near
the shoulder to wave following
cars by. One went too far over
at the Butte Fals intersection
when an elderly couple came
wheeling into Crater Lake high
way, right in front of the speed
ing log truck. Its driver did the
usual thing, went way out, too
far out and over the grade, sav
ing the elderly couple from in
jury or Joss of life. He survived
and his rig was not too badly
damaged. The telephone people
had a new pole to install and a
picture I got proves it alL Peo
ple may not realize it but such
action of log-truckers is common.
I know it to be a fact, seen too
much of it.
Also, we must remember that
logging in Oregon is a vital main
stay to our economy and the day
is not too. far distant when these
loads of the "big sticks" will be
but a memory.
F.J. Clifford,
1211 West Main st, '
Medford, Ore.
BLEMISHED RECORD
Toledo, O. (U.R) Cars oper
ated by David Sipple, 72, and
Clinton Watts, 73, collided here,
ending a total of 90 years of
accident-free driving between
them.
STEADY WORK
. Ellsworth, Mich. U.R) Tracy
E. (Ben) Boss, 76, is serving his
47th term as treasurer of Banks
Township. Boss was first elected
in 1905 and has held the job
continuously since then except
for a four-year period when he
took-time out to operate a farm.
McCarthy
Attention From Communist Spies
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The na
tion's debate on Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy aroused so many per
sonal and po
litical hostili
ties on so many
fronts that the
matter of Com
munist spying
almost w a s
o ver looked
from time to
time.
The debate
on Wisconsin's
trie C. Wilson junior Repub
lican senator has subsided. The
Republican Party benched him
as an undesirable in the 1954
congressional campaign. That
pleased, if it did not entirely
content, McCarthy's angry op
ponents. The senator's , friends
may find some comfort in the
fact that with McCarthy on the
Russia Not
To Weaken
Europe Defense Setup
By, CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
It looks as if Russia will not
get far in its new attempt to
weaken the Western . defense
system. in Eu
rope.. . . .
On the con
trary, there is
every indica
tion that the
United States
and its allies
wiU continue
to strengthen
their position.
Chancel 1 or
Konrad A d e-
Cnaxles Mccann . n a u e r a a-
nounced emphaticaUy yesterday
that despite the agreements he
made in Moscow, he will pro
ceed with the formation of a
500,000-man West German fight
ing force.
The Kremlin's smiling "new
look," he said, is just a phase of
the cold war, and its aim still is
to conquer the world for Com
munism.
In Madrid, Air Force Secre
tary Donald Quarles made it
known that the United States
not only wiU continue building
its bases in Spain but may am
plify its program.
In announcing their intention
to give up the Porkkala military
base which they compelled little
Finland to lease to them, the
Russians invited the United
States to abandon its foreign
bases.
Quarles' disclosure seems to
constitute at least an interim re-
dIv to that invitation.
The United States program in
Spain is little publicized. But it
is important.
For one thing. Spain's situa
tion, at the southwest corner of
the Pyrenees Mountains, is stra
tegically strong.
For another, while Commu
nism might stiU become
threat in France and Italy, there
is no Communist problem in
Spain.
, Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co agreed in 1953 to give the
United States facilities for an ex
tensive system of air and naval
bases dotted all around the Span
ish Atlantic and Mediterranean
coasts.
There was considerable cold
ness between the United States
and Spain after World War II, in
which Franco remained neutral.
The United Nations maintained
a. diplomatic boycott against him
for a time.
But Franco never was a threat
to any other nation, and the dire
threat of Russian aggression al
tered the situation radically.
Franco may be a dictator but
he is considered a valuable ally.
Because there is no bombast
about him, he gets little publi
city. It is little, known that the
short, plump, mild-looking Span
ish leader; now 62, had a long
and brilliant military career.
Nor that at a time when there
was widespread corruption and
inefficiency in the army, he was
known nationaUy as a man of in
corruptible honesty and of
efficiency.
Franco was made a captain in
the army at 20 for heroism in
action against rebels in Spanish
Morocco. He rose to be chief of
staff. . . -
An unusual compliment was
paid to him last weekl A French
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Debate Almost Turned
bench, the Republicans lost a
congressional election..
However that may be, very
recent developments in Great
Britain. Australia and the Unit
ed States strongly support sus
picion that Communist spies are
as aggressively active today as
they ever were in the days of
Alger Hiss. '
British newspapers suddenly
are scalding the Foreign Office,
the security set-up and official
dom, in general, for permitting
Guy Burgess and Donald Mac
Lean to skip, the country during
investigation of evidence that
both foreign service officers
were Soviet agents.
British editors turned Red
baiters and on their own offi
cials when the evidence of a
Soviet master spy, Vladimir M.
Petrov, revealed the opportuni
ties which MacLean and Burgess
had and stiU have to weaken
free world defenses.
Expected
Western
Morroccan ; nationalist leader
asked that Franco summon an
international conference on the
Moroccan crisis. He. praised
Franco's rule in Spanish Moroc
co ' and said real ' progress had
been 'made there toward
freedom.
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Petrov was the Russian MVD
(Internal Affairs Department)
espionage chief in Australia for
some years until April 3, 1954,
when he changed sides and be
gan confessing alL His all re
vealed penetration of the Aus
tralian foreign office and con
tained particular details of Mac
Lean's and Burgess' activities,
the latter as a member of the
British Embassy in Washington,
as well as the Foreign Office.
Burgess was secretary In Wash
ington of a committee of diplo
mats dealing with atomic en
ergy, possessed a pass to the
United States Atomic Energy
Commission office.
This pair's activities as spies
ceased in 1951 when, it now is
established, they" fled to - the
Soviet Union. But Petrov's gen
eral information was more up
to date. An Australian royal
commission was set up last year
to investigate Petrov's docu
ments and his story. The com
mission now has reported: .
1. From about 1943 until at
least February, 1953, the Soviet
Union was operating from its .
embassy in Australia an espio- Q
nage organization to collect mil- ,
itary information.
2. From 1943 until Petrov de
serted in April, 1954, political
espionage was separately being
conducted from tfie embassy
under . . auspices of Moscow's
MVD. .
3. The Soviet also sought to
organize spy rings to operate
independently of the.embassy.
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