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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago. t e
10 YEARS AGO
Spt. 27. 1945
(It was Thursday)
Fuel shortage predicted if
tte AFL. lumber strike contin
ents. from Arthur Perrey's Ye
udge Pot column: Astronom
er tstimate there are 200 bil
lion stars. This seems like
dough stars for the present.
Af TEARS AGO
fg.pt. 27. 1945
at was Friday)
Chicago Cubs trim St Louis
Cardinals to take National
LMgue pennant to face Detroit
fca world series.
' CCC field day planned be
Kreen Camp Diamond Lake and
Camp Annie Springs at the lat
ter place.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 27, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Half Boy Scout campaign
fund under C. E. (Pop) Gates is
filled, best results in any com
munity campaign so far.
From the Local and Personal
Column: Apple and pear pickers
are needed according to Chris
Gottlieb, in charge of the local
U. S. free employment bureau,
in the valley orchards. This fore
noon 25 pickers were needed,
with no men available.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 27, 1915
(It was Monday)
Ashland ice plant making
plans to move to Medford in
near future.
H. O. Nordwick, proprietor of
Medford Roller Mills, preaches
to Scandinavians in Norwegian
t Baptist church, the first ser
mon so delivered in the valley.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. 1955. Editorial ReseatcJi Repast
1. About one, two, three, four
or five out of ten housewives
with TV have been found to
watch a morning show regular
ly?
2. Orthodox Jews celebrate
the Day of Atonement (Yom
Kippur) for one day or two days?
3. Omaha Beach is in Nebras
ka, the Far East, Normandy,
New Jersey or Long Island, N,
Y.?
4. About 50, 65, 80 or 95 per
cent of all U. S. business units
are classed by the Government
as Small Business?
5. What prominent Washing'
ton figure has the middle name
of lilhous?"
6. About half, much more or
much less than half of all U.S.
automotive production comes out
of Michigan?
7. Wilhelmina is or isn't
Queen of The Netherlands?
" The Answers: 1. About two
out of ten. 2. One (but other
holydays for two). 3. Normandy.
4. About 95 per cent. 5. Vice
President Richard M. Nixon. 6.
About half. 7. Isn't (abdicated
for daughter Juliana in 1948).
Amateur Detective
Released by Police
Chicago (U.R) Police report
ed they freed Mrs. Kathleen
Keefe from the trunk of her
husband's car by prying the
trunk door open.
She told them "I was doing
a bit of detective work in my
husband's car when the trunk
closed." She didn't elaborate,
' police said. . . . ., ; ,
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Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Sept. 24 Something new to us but probably
not to Medford pear growers "Piggy pears" from the Highcro'ft
Orchards which are as red and blooming as Spitz apples used to
be. Price 13 cents each or two for a quarter.
Oregon was badly beaten by USC at L.A. 42 to 15 last night.
But it was a moral victory for the Webfoots, for they weren't given
a chance by the California sports writers. USC is doped to go on
the Rosebowl again, whereas Oregon was advertised as fast but
green "in the High School rather than the college class."
As stated Oregon was badly beaten, but scared the Trojans
for the first quarter by scoring the first touchdown, and gaining
as much yardage on the ground not so hot in the air for the
first half. One of the stars for Oregon was Medford's Morris, who
did the kicking and was great on interference and defense. Dick
James of Grants Pass was outstanding also two boys who were
great rivals as High chool stars. What they could do had they had
a few minutes help from Shaw and van Brocklin! at that it looks
as though the Webfoots will give a good account of themselves
this year, they are not only fast, but clever and full of fight.
Of course this baby kidnaping was the story of the week, but
as we see it, the police made a mistake in releasing so many of the
details to the press. If they had asked the papers to go slow as
they , did a couple of years ago on another kidnaping case, the
papers would have complied and the woman who snatched the
baby might have been less guarded in her movements and thus
been apprehended. As it looks now recovery of the newly-born
infant, alive, appears unlikely to say the least.
. . .
Word has just come in that Maryland has beaten UCLA 7-0,
which will make several football experts blush a bit if they can
blush.
If any of them predicted Maryland would beat the team rated
No. 1 in the country, we failed to listen in. At that we wouldn't
play UCLA short, as far as winning the coast conference is con
cerned. It was a rainy day and that UCLA fumble on the 2-yard
line, was the pay-off. Just one of those tough breaks that prob
ably won't happen again all season. -
No upset however in that acquittal of the two men who kid
naped and killed a negro boy because he allegedly gave a wolf
whistle in the direction of one of the men's attractive wife. We
only visited Mississippi once, but that was long enough to- realize
that this southern state is not only stili fighting the civil war, but
has the view of the colored problem that existed before it. Mur
der down there, if a colored man is the victim, comes under the
general heading of petty larceny.
The news has just come in over the air that President Eisen
hower suffered an attack of indigestion last night and is under
a doctor's care. That may be correct just an attack of indiges
tion. But there have been so many "attacks of indigestion" that
have proved, to be heart attacks that most people will be uneasy
until they get the low-down. Whatever the final diagnosis the news
commentators will have a fine time with this item and its possible
results regarding Ikes running for a second term. To do the
presidential job in this country satisfactorily takes more than
freedom from disease, it demands PERFECT health, of the super
robust quality. We have always- been led to believe this is what
"Ike" had. . .
Well, perhaps he has and this will prove merely a temporary
and very minor indisposition1. Everyone at home and abroad
hopes so. But even so the political repercussions may be consider
able in fact tremendous.
That colored cartoon of V. P. Nixon which was ruled out of
the San Francisco Art Festival has been sold to the former chair
man of the San Mateo county central committee of the Democratic
party. The price was $25, and Marcus. Kent that is the buyer's
name says he may use it on some post cards during the cam
paign. Incidentally the cartoon was titled "Dix McSmear" and
there was no other mark to indicate Nixon was intended, except a
very slight physical resemblance. One wonders if Mr. Nixon will
be as generous and broadminded regarding the right of criticism
of anyone in public life next year as he was this?
One of the best stories regarding the farm delegation from
Russia here appeared in the SF
"When that farm delegation was here they visited a fac
tory in California. Leader asked a foreman how many
hours his men were working per week. "Forty," said the
foreman. The Russian shook his head, replying that in his
country they worked 70 hours a week. '
"You'd never -get this crew here to work 70 hours," said
the foreman. "They're a bunch of Commies." R.W.R.
Later:
It is now reported the attack of indigestion was a mild cor
onary thrombosis, the President
ver and is under an oxygen tent.
reports are favorable and there is
make a prompt and complete recovery. There are probably a
dozen men in the congress who have suffered more severe heart
attacks but have been able to return to work. Democratic Leader
Lyndon Johnson is one of them. At such a time it is cheering to
note partisanship is entirely forgotten, and the entire country re
gardless of politics joins in wishing the chief executive a speedy
recovery and a return to his duties at the White House just as soon
as conditions permit. -
P.S. With OSC defeating Stanford for the first time since
the flood, one thing appears certain: Oregon is not going to play
the poor relation role THIS year in the N.W. conference. R.W Jt.
RUSHING TO PRESIDENT'S ASSISTANCE Presidential Press
Secy. James Hagerty (left) arrives it Fitzsimon's Army hospital in
Denver with Col. Thomas W. Mattingly, a heart specialist from
Walter Reed Army hospital in Washington, D.C. Col. Mattingly
flew into. Denver to confer with President Eisenhower's personal
physician. General Snyder on the President's condition.
Tuesday, September 27, 1955
News as follows:
has been hospitalized in Den
The country is stunned, but all
every reason to believe he will
Matter of
THE NEW YORK PATTERN
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
tells a rather rueful story, these
days, about Averell Harriman
and himself.
R o o s e velt
and Harriman,
of course, were
rivals for the
De m o c r a tic
nomination -for
the Governor
ship of New
York. Harrim
an was the
candidate
whom no one
Joseph . Also
took seriously
until the last minute,- except
the people who really mattered.
He was also the nominee whom
hardley any one took seriously
until the last minute, except the
people who had the votes. But
although they were hard-fight-
king rivals in the final contest
fcr the nomination, Harriman
and- Roosevelt have remained
close friends. - .
teAf ter Harriman's '.. inaugura
tion, "Roosevelt came to have a
meal 'with the new :- Governor
at the rambling old executive
mansion here. Harriman- dicuss
ed the beaming confidence of
the Republicans that President
Eisenhower can defeat any op
ponent on earth if he chooses
to run. He also remarked that
Adlai Stevenson, whom he fav
ors for the Presidency, -.seemed
to be the leading contender for
the Democ-ractic nomination.
But Averell," .put in Roose
velt, perhaps a trifle maliciously,
the Eisenhower people and the
Stevenson people : don't know
what I know which - is your
knack for coming from behind."
The story, which happens for
once to be true, is also a use
ful illustration of. an important
fact concerning the American
political stock - market. -. Few
stocks -have attracted more sup
ercilious bears -than the stock
of Averell - Harriman, ': and - in
few stocks have the bears been
caught, so., painfully short so
painfully often.
As revealed in" a previous re
port in this sport, Gov. Harriman
will become an active candidate
for, the Democratic Presidential
nomination 1 under certain care
fully defined conditions. As he
has said all along, he ; is , for
Adlai Stevenson-rrquije sincerely
for Stevenson, in the sense that
he would like to vote for Steven
son for President of the United
States.
-
But he will not be for Steven
son as Democratic Presidential
nominee, if there is a pallid, in
different national response to
the - expected - "November an
nouncement of Stevenson's cand
idacy, and to Stevenson's en
suing active campaign. If Har
riman does not think that
Stevenson looks like a potential
winner against President Eisen
hower,' he will become a cand
idate himself, although probably
an avowed candidate only at
the last minute.
The pattern, in short, will be
the same as in New York, if
the pattern develops at .all
Throuhout all the earlier
stages of the New York govern
Indonesia Expected
To Deal Bad News
To Communist China
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent '
Communist China is likely to
get some bad . news within the
next few days. , ''
The young
republic of In
donesia, the
world's sixth
largest nation,
is to hold its
first parlia
mentary ; elec
tion Thursday.
Premier
Harahap's
Masjumi party
is expected to
Charles atccaiui
get enough votes to form a
strong coalition government.
And that would be the bad
news for the Peiping Red re
gime. The - Masjumi party is based
on the Moslem religion. It is ut
terly opposed to the anti-religious
Chinese Communists and is
right wing in politics. '
The Nationalist party, which
was in power until Harahap be
came Premier on Aug. 12, was
strongly left wing. It was
friendly toward Red China and
depended on the 17 Commun
ists in the Provisional parlia
ment to stay in office.
Predecessor a 'Neutralist'
Nationalist Premier Ali Sas
troamidjojo, whom Harahap suc
ceeded, was a fellow "neutralist"
of Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of
India. -
This so-called neutralism ac
tually has worked in favor, of
the Chinese Reds and against
the United States and its allies.
; Harahap has announced that if
his party wins the election he
will keep Indonesia neutral in
the Cold War." . ..
But he is on record as being
friendly to the United States.
It is indicated that even if he
remains neutral - and he may
not the balance -of Indonesia
Fact By Joseph Also)
orship race, Harriman said he
would be for Franklin Roosevelt
if Roosevelt looked like a win
ner. In the end, he decided that
he had a better chance than
Roosevelt. He became a cand
idate, and was nominated with
the backing of the astute Tam
many leader, Carmine DeSapio,
whom young Roosevelt had de
fied. ' Harriman's claim that,
he was standing for the nom
ination because he believed he
was a stronger candidate than
Roosevelt was ridiculed by every
expert as insincere political
fokery. Then, when the votes
were counted, the electorate
rather resoundingly confirmed
what . Harriman had said all
along. Roosevelt, who was on
the ticket with him, was badly
beaten while Harriman won by
a narrow margin.
Furthermore, the Republican
leader of the New York legis
lature, Oswald Heck, has priv
ately admitted that Harriman
would have won much more
handsomely if the efficient New
York Republican organization
had not, brilliantly exploited a
lastaninute canard about rural
school taxes. And Heck is the
best possible ' authority bn the
subject.
; The New York parallel is by
no means intended to forecast
Gov. Harriman's final decision.
He has said he would like to
vote for Adlai Stevenson. He
means what he says. If Steven
son looks like a promising Dem
ocratic candidate, then Harriman
will support him for the Dem
ocratic nomination. There will
be no - Harriman candidacy
which will give great pain to
Harriman's two political man
agers, Carmine DeSapio r and
state chairman Michael Premi
er gast. -
; Prendergast and DeSapio,
meanwhile, are already convinc
ed that Harriman will have to
be a candidate, for the rather
simple reason that they . think
Harriman can carry New York
state against Eisenhower. The
appearances are against them,
but they-really believe it. And,
without hindrance from' Har
riman, but without prejudging
Harriman's final decision eith
er, Prendergast and DeSapio are
acting on their conviction.
They are doing what is only
"normal and standard in their
situation. They are encouraging
favorite son candidacies in all
the many - states,, particularly
where there , are , Democratic
governors. At least one of these
may become a. real candidate,
for it is known that the vote-
getting young Michigan govern
or, Mennen Williams, has begun
to take himself extremely ser
iously as a Presidential aspirant.
But DeSapio and Prendergast
are confident that if Stevenson
does not make it, Harriman will.
They expect bad trouble in
the South. They admit that with
peace and prosperity on his
side if both are indeed on his
side President Eisenhower will
be fantastically hard to beat.
But then they pomt out that
Harriman has repeatedly sur
prised everyone before. They are
trying, in short, to pull off the
surprise of the century.
policy will be swung from the
Communist bloc to the West.
: Indonesia- is a big and import
ant country. Its 3,000-odd is
lands and countless islets sprawl
for 2,000 miles along the equa
tor. With 81,000,000 people, it is
outranked only by China, India,
Russia, the United States, and
Japan in population.
Wealthy in Resources
' It is the wealthiest country in
Southeast Asia in natural re
sources. These include rubber,
sugar, tea, rice, coffee, spices,
oil and tin.
; It is suffering from severe
growing pains. There are size
able revolts in Java, the main is
land, Sumatra, the Moluccas and
Celebes. Its army forced Sastro
amidjojo's resignation. Since Sa
stroamidjojo resigned a number
of the country's highest officials,
including two of his cabinet min
isters, have" been arrested on
corruption "charges.
. Harahap won the prime min
istry by waging a fight against
corruption. He never had been
a cabinet minister until he was
named premier, and he was lit
tle known to the public until
a few months ago.
Studious looking, spectacled,
he is 38 years old. He fought
in the revolution against Dutch
rule and took a law degree be
fore he entered politics. From
the Western viewpoint, he seems
a safe man.
Police Inform Man
Of Missing Daughter
Columbus, O. (U.R) CoL Pe
ter Chance retired, of La can
da, Calif., was surprised when
a suburban Whitehall patrolman
stopped him but he soon found
cut why. -
The ' patrolman informed
Chance that his daughter, Cindy,
7, had gotten out of the car un
noticed a few miles back.
1912 Senatorial Fight
In, County
Former M-T
(Editor's note: The 'follow
ing is an6ther in a series of
articles about the early days
in Oregon written by George
Putnam, now editor emeritus
of the Salem Capital-Journal
and former editor and publish
er of the Medford Mail Trib
une. It is reprinted from the
Salem paper by permission).
By GEORGE PUTNAM
In 1907 Jonathan Bourne was
the first United States Senator
elected to the U.S. senate by a
legislature having received 'a
majority of votes in the 1906
election through "Statement No.
1."
This enabled legislators to
pledge themselves to vote for
the popular choice for senator
if they desired, and enabled sen
atorial candidates to get names
on the ballot This was a clever
device of the "Oregon System"
to get around the U.S. constitu
tional provision that senators
were elected by legislatures and
elections degenerated into brib
ery contests.
Largely through Bourne's pio
neer efforts the federal consti
tution was amended to provide
direct election of senators some
10 years later.
Twice Defeated in 1912
Bourne lost the Republican
nomination in 1912, defeated in
the primaries by Ben Selling,
Portland merchant and presi
dent of the Oregon senate. He
ran in the election as independ
ent, splitting the Republican
vote, and Harry Lane, Democrat,
former mayor of Portland, was
elected. - - -
In discussing his independent
candidacy Bourne's hope for el
ection, he told the writer, was
based on the bitter opposition
of the Oregonian, which he fig
ured was good for 10,000. votes
for him; his championship of the
"Oregon bystem " - reforms, m
which he claimed responsibility;
his popularity with the free sli
er Democrats and the Populists;
his . senate . record,, parcel post
and Oregon . appropriations se
cured, Sufficient support failed
to materialize at the polls.
Carried Jackson County
" Bourne,, however, . carried
Jackson county by approximate
ly 800 votes, mainly, because he
nad secured trie passage, of a
sizeable appropriation ' for high
way development of Crater lake
park, the first t made.; Bourne
was one of the conferees on the
appropriations bill and dead
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locked the entire bill until his
Crater lake appropriation was
approved. . t
A practical joke also figured
in the Bourne vote in Jackson
county. Selling had delivered a
campaign speech shortly before
election 'in Medford,. and just
after the speech a newsman from
the Mail Tribune was standing
on a Main street sidewalk in
front of a saloon, when along
strolled the prohibition leader
of Jackson county, a fanatical,
rabid dry if there ever was one.
Under local option, when half
of Medford voted wet he had
tearfully proclaimed that "Our
beautiful little city has gone to
hell."
Practical Joke Helped
The reporter asked the dry
chieftain if he had heard Selling
speak. "No," he replied, "I got
in too late from the country, but
I wish I had seen and heard him.
I'd like to meet him."
Just ,then out of the saloon
staggered an orchardist who was
of the same height and build and
resembled Selling. Seeing him
the reporter said: "Here is Sell
ing now." Beckoning the orch
ardist over he introduced him
as Selling and the orchardist
was drunk enough to play up
the part. - "Please to meet you,
senator," he said.
"Why, v he's drunk," said the
horrified dry boss. "Can't help
that, you wanted to meet him,"
replied ' the reporter. , ;' . ;
The prohi leader disappeared
in a telephone booth to flash the
alarm and. soon the word was
spread , all over the county that
Selling had been tipsy in Med
ford and the drys plumped for
Bourne, because Lane was a wet
also. For once Bourne had noth
ing to do with it. "
Little' things like that often
swung an election in ..this land
of the free and home of the
brave, and the wets and the
drys. .; ,. ',, '. ; . . ,
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Motorists Warned
In Evacuation Test
Portland (U.R) Police Chief
Jim Purcell today warned mo
torists or pedestrians who vio
late rules of tne city s test evacu
tion they would be arrested.
"Operation Green Light," big
gest test evacuation of a large
city to be held, was scheduled
to come Off today,' tomorrow or
Thursday. Civil defense officials
indicated it would' come in the
afternoon. "
A full three minutes of steady
tone by the city's seven huge
public warning sirens will sig
nal the evacuation. Just before
the evacuation sirens .will give
the conventional test signals of
30 seconds of wailing followed
by 30 seconds of steady tone.
That means that everyone who
hasn't special business or isn't
a transient is supposed to clear
out, by foot, automobile, of the
downtown area. It's illegal to
leave cars parked on streets in
the evacuation area.
The test was expected to last
about an hour. ,
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
j Brennan
My camera and photo equipment
about $150 worth, was stolen
from my car. My auto theft insur
ance doesn't cover, personal prop
erty. " Would Camera Insurance
costing about $5 have covered my
equipment against theft, loss, or
damage? -
For Information Cad
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