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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1945
at was Friday)
Marilyn Bohnert's steer. Beau,
wins.grajid champion honors at
county 4-H fair.
From Arthum Perry's, Ye
Smudge Pot column: A com
mentator avers any wholesale
and complete abolishment of
federal bureaus would cause
qpnfusion. Even so, there is al
ready so much confusion it
would not be noticed. Besides,
Washington, D.C., has enjoyed
a monopolistic control of con
fusion, and competition would
do harm.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1935
(It was Saturday)
Move to, light Ashland football
field receiving widespread sup
port. -
Opening of fall and winter
classes of Medford Study club of
the American Savings, Build
ing and Loan Institute. -
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1925
(It was Monday)
Two youths arrested at Eagle
Point dance for illegal posses
sion of moonshine. Plead inno
cent. -
From the Local and Personal
column: Heston tirieve came
down to the city yesterday from
Prospect to rush back home
some medicine for his father,
James E., and fresh peanuts and
film magazines for his grand
father, John, assistant consult
ing architect for the new union
high school at Prospect.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Mediord hunting apples for
exhibit at Oregon building and
Rogue River hunting deer for
venison feed.
May company gives fall style
show. .
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The U. S. does or doesn't
hold the Ryukyu and Bon islands
in the Pacific as a trustee for
U. N.?
2. Athletes as a whole live
much longer than non-athletics;
right or wrong?
3. Secretary of State Dulles
has never run for high public
office, or has run and been
elected, or has run and been de
feated? 4. It's easier or harder for
0 Sma9 Business units as a whole
than for Big Business units to
get long-term credit, or about
the same?
5. Macedonia is or isn't a sep
arate state in the Balkans?
6. The Congressional Record,
telling what happens on the
Senate and House floors, costs
about $8, $18, $80, $180 or $800
a page to print? .
, 7. Which of these Generals
served as Army Chief of Staff:
Eisenhower, MacArthur, Mar
shall, Bradley, Ridgway?
The Answers: 1. Doesn't (but
does over other Pacific islands).
2. Wrong. 3. Was defeated (1949)
for' U.S. Senator from N.Y. 4.
. Harder for small business. 5.
Isn't. 6. About $180 a page. 7.
All of ihem.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday-. 10 a m. Monday for
Monday; other day 5 JO previous day.
MAIL TRIBUNE
.Last of The Whooping Cranes
One of the Mail Tribune's readers, we were de
lighted to learn not long ago, is a sincere friend of the
whooping crane.
We have news for her; a critical time for the
cranes is fiere.
THE fall migration from the newly-discovered
breeding grounds in Canada to the winter nesting
place in Texas is about ready to begin. And the Na
tional Audubon society reports the migration this
year will have a new significance.
A total of five young whooping cranes, who were
hatched in June and who needed until this month to
grow to a size for migration, must join the adult birds
on the 2,500-mile journey south. The all-important
question the Audubon society asks is: How many of
them will get through safely?
THE long flight is the most dangerous time for the
whooping crane population, and only 21 birds re
mained last year out of the flocks that once filled
the sky. Those that are still alive have been given
winter sanctuary at the Aransas National Wildlife
refuge near Austwell, Tex. The summer headquarters
are in the remote wilderness of northwest Canada
so remote that they are relatively safe there. Teams
of field biologists working for the U.S. and Canadian
governments and . for the Audubon society located
these breeding grounds for the first time this year.
Since human conservationists are working so hard
to protect the cranes, it is a bit ironic to know that
the increasing' population of human beings is the
greatest threat, to the big, almost-extinct birds. " .
THE Audubon society says: .
Last fall, for the first time since protection efforts began;:
the whooping cranes (21 of them) came back to Texas with
out a single young bird to add to their dwindling numbers.
Will the five young that have been raised this season be
spared, or are they to be thoughtlessly and needlessly de
stroyed as they attempt to cross western Canada and Central
United States to their ancestral winter home on the coast
of Texas? '
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It takes the awkward birds almost two months to
fly the long trip, and the
appeals to hunters and others all along the route.
We won't see any in Medford. But we can hope,
with the Audubon society,
once-great flock can survive and prosper, and not go
the way of the carrier pigeon and other species that
lost out to man. E.A.
. Hugh Pruett
It was with a sense of personal loss that we read
of the death, at 69, of J. Hugh Pruett, the Northwest's
best-known astronomer, in Eugene this week.
We had met Mr. Pruett only once; but on that oc
casion, and in reading his
appeared in the Mail Tribune for many years, we had
been impressed with this man,: with, his philosophy
of life, and with his dedication to the cause of science
tempered with a broad humanitarianism and a spirit
ual awareness. -
AT his home on the bills
Observatory," a small area
protected from conflicting
laurel hedge. ".' .""
There, night after night,
and youngsters who had
the mysteries of the heavens. . -
His reward was not paid in coin, but in the know
ledge that he was contributing to a knowledge of the
universe around us, in a broadening of the conceptions
of eager young people. He was, in:a sense, a dedicated
man. : 'C ' .
UIS best-known work in recent years was as an
officer of the American Meteor society, and in
the newspapers on the days following the appearance
of some particularly spectacular -night-time visitor
from the skies, it was usual
formation about the height, direction, speed and ap
nearahce of the "falling stars."
His contribution to the
of meteorites was a considerable one, covering as it
did much of the Pacific coast.
We-shall miss his friendly column in the Mail
Tribune. One copy arrived this week for publication
in next Sunday's paper. We believe writing it was one
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oi me last uungs ne aia. vviui ius puuucauuii aume
thing satisfying and friendly and understanding, the
work of a man at home in the world and at peace
with his God, will be gone. E.A. ;
Plan Suggested To
Chicago U.R) A leading
farm official has suggested a
plan similar-to the old Agricul
tural Adjustment act to help cut
surplus farm products.
The plan was offered Tuesday
by E- Howard Hill, president of
the Iowa Farm Bureau federa
tion to the American Farm Bu
reau federation's national com
modity advisory committee.
Under it, the federal govern
ment would pay farmers from 5
to 7 per cent of their land pro
ducing value as estimated by a
township agricultural stabliza
tion and conservation commit
tee. ,
The government would also
pay farmers an amount equal to
taxes on the land.
In return, the government
would get a lease on the land
for 5 to 25 year periods, and
farmers would be able to plant
suca land only In fertility ratt
Wednesday, September 28, 1955
Audubon society is making
that this last remnant of a
weekly column which has
e
in eastern Eugene, he did
in his yard which was
lights by a tall English
.'--v?
he would talk to students
come to him to learn about
to see his request for in
recording of the pattern
Curb Surplus
er than consumer crops.
HiU said that the program
might cut 40,000,000 acres year
ly from U.S. farm production.
Judge's Questions
Lead to fine or Jail
New Orleans (U.R) Charlie
Jenkins claimed in court Tues
day he failed to answer ques
tions at the scene of An accident
because he Is hard of hearing
and was not drunk.
"How old are you?" Judge
Howard Taylor asked in an or
dinary voice.
"Twenty -eight, your , honor,
Jenkins said.
"How much do you weigh?"
the judge whispered.
"One hundred sixty-five, your
honor," Jenkins replied without
hesitation.
"Seventy-five dollars or two
days," the judge said. i
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COMPLETING 10 years of im
prisonment as war criminal,
ex-Grand Admiral Erich Rae
der la released from Berlin's
Spandau PrisonYntemationaZJ
Average Earnings
Increase in Oregon
Salem (U.R) Longer working
hours during August increased
average earnings of Oregon's
140,000 production workers to
$91.53, highest since employers'
reports have been processed by
the State Unemployment Com
pensation in co-operation with
the U. S. Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics. Average hourly pay declined
3 cents from the $2.27 figured
for July, but the work week
jumped 2.1 hours to 40.9, about
1.2. hours higher than a year
ago. The weekly check was $3.30
above the previous month and
$6.14 higher than in 1954.
Lumbering and food process
ing with more than 100,000 em
ployees were mainly responsible
for the new peak, but gains
were recorded in nearly every
main industry.
Matter of
Editor's note: The foilowlnf Is a
Sersonal report by Joseph- Alsop to
is brother, . Stewart Alsop, who has
just returned from a three-month trip
abroad.
-Washington
Dear Stew:
There were all sorts of things
that I had been saving up to tell
you about the state of the na
tion in accordance with our
family custom, when the news of
the President's illness so sudden
ly and darkly overshadowed
everything else.
If isn't necessary to point out
to you that despite the natural
Eisenhower vigor and courage,
this must change every domes
tic political prospect. In the
American, and indeed in the
world political pattern, it is al
most as though the keystone of
the arch were suddenly re
moved; and everything had to be
rebuilt on a new design. You
will, of course, have sensed all
this.
I don't want, either, to sound
commemorative or obituary, for
the country can reasonably hope
as the country is no doubt active
ly praying, that the President
has many active and fruitful
years ahead of him. But at this
time, when the strongest nation
on earth has had its coUective
breath knocked out by a few
tragically clotted blood cells
weighing no more than a seruple
of a scruple, it seems to me ap
propriate to balance the ac
counts, as it were, and to see
what debt is owing to Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
You and I decided long ago,
you will remember, to call the
turns as we saw them in this
Administration, as we have tried
to do in the past. Because no
administration is ever perfect,
and because we have described
the imperfections, I suspect that
a lot of people think we are hos
tile to the Eisenhower adminis
tration. But although a great
many of his subordinates have
claimed it for him, President
Eisenhower has never been the
sort of man who claims unquali
fied adulation.
When you add up the balance
sheets, however, I think it is
very ' clear that the debt this
republic owes to Eisenhower to
date is a truly gigantic debt. The
best way I can sum it up is to say
that he has restored our sanity
and decency.
TTNLIKE a great many others,
V I would not for one moment
blame President Truman for the
loss of sanity and decency which
President r Eisenhower cured. I
would blame history. Suddenly,
after the last war, this country
discovered that all the old famil
iar circumstances of American
life were no longer familiar and
had become alarming and even
painful.
The protecting oceans no long
er protected. The external threat
which had once been so laugh
able was no longer possible to
laugh at. The world burden
which had been so trivial be
came, - almost between two
breaths, all but too heavy to
carry. In the image Sir Winston
Churchill once used to you.
America went forward, like a
great horse grimly pushing for
ward on the coUar, grimly drag
ging onward the cart of freedom
in the world.
Yet there were those among
us who not unnaturally rebelled
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Act of Courtesy
To the Editor: I want to take
this means of commending a
truly rare individual one good
Christian among the loggers in
our area, for if the present haz
ardous situation on our roads is
ever to change for the better, it
is even more necessary to praise
the good where it exists, than
to condemn the evil.
Last Friday we were en route
to Squaw lakes for an overnight
camping trip with guests from
Los Angeles our party travel
ing in two cars. As we neared
our destinationwe met a loaded
log truck traveling down grade
at a rate of speed wholly consist
ent with safety. The driver
didn't just slow down. He
stopped!
And he waited for us to pass
at a point where the road was
wide enough to do so. Not only
that, he remained there when
we told him another car was
coming, until our guests had
also passed in safety.
This unprecedented behavior
so overwhelmed me that I failed
to get his name. I can only re
call that he was driving a red
truck with a Medford address,
but I want him to know his act
of road courtesy was deeply ap
preciated by all of us and that
our fervent daily prayer is "may
his tribe increase", in Jackson
county and in aU of southern
Oregon. ,
Grace N. Pearson j ,
Route 2, Box 50
. Jacksonville
SHOWS IDENTIFICATION
Ionia, Mich. U.R) Celia Ken
nedy, a cashier at the Ionia Na
tional bank, said She cashed a
check Tuesday for a man who
showed his upper plate, en
graved with his name, for iden
tification. Fact
Joseph Alsop
at this sudden, heavy task that
history had imposed. To these,
the demagogues beckoned, say
ing as demagogues always do
that what history had done was
the fault of everyone but history.
And so for a time, too many of
us were always rushing from one
extreme to another, speaking
shrilly, acting violently, and be
having in a manner unworthy of
this republic.
There are all sorts of other
very great, quite tangible and
specific accomplishments of the
Eisenhower administration, that
must be added to any reckoning
of the debt this country owes its
President. Yet I would argue
that Dwight D. Eisenhower's
greatest single contribution has
been bringing us all back to a
sense of the true American style
setting that style, in fact, by
his own example, and in the
most trying circumstances.
Tor nearly three years, in the
most literal sense, Eisenhower
had represented America at
home and abroad. This act 0f
representation which has also
been an act of leadership, has
by no means been easy. For
many months," when the discords
among us were still clamorous
and ugly, it was very difficult in
deed. Yet by always presenting to
the country and the World this
special, personal image of Amer
ica, so sane, so genial, so strong
in moral feeling, Dwight D. Eis
enhower has done things that
must have seemed impossible,
even to him, in those first rather
confused days when he took over
the government. , -
IIE HAS, first Of all, rather
radically re-made this coun
try in his own image. The dis
cords are stilled. The American
style is re-established. The great
issues are stiU there, and they
are still as dangerous and com
plex as ever. Yet the great issues
can now be discussed calmly and
wisely, which is the essential
step to finding the answer.
Then h has, too, shown the
rest of the world the face of
America that America Ought al
ways to show. Once again, an
American President is looked to,
by sophisticates and simple peo
ple alike, as the friend of peace
and the defender of freedom. So
at this time, I think, all wise
Americans will acknowledge the
debt they owe to Dwight D. Eis
enhower, even although it is al
ways saddening to acknowledge
a debt that cannot be repaid.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
SUCCESSFUL
LIVING
starts with saving. Have the
things yon want through sys
tematic savings. Don't just
dream ... or wish, but have
the tilings you want in life by
saving for them. Start with
any amount.
FIRST FEDERAL
SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N
of Medford
27 North Holly
An Institution Dedicated
Te These Who Save
Actions of Animals
To the Editor: It surely is sur
prising how a simple little idea
will prove so effective in dis
posing of a problem when a big
elaborate affair fails completely.
A man down Ashland way was
complaminng how the deer
could not be kept from his gar
den with any fence he could
build. It had been grapevined
to me that a thin black thread
strung along branches of bushes
or on stakes some three feet
high would do the trick. So he
strung the simple thin black
thread around his garden. Next
morning, he reported deer tracks
outside the thread, none inside.
It seems that something touching
them in the dark will frighten
them away. Like ourselves, we
fear what we can't understand.
A turkey raiser on Missouri
Flat told me long ago how he
had despaired of raising turkeys
due to the coyote depredations.
One late fall evening a white
bearded wanderer asked sanctu
ary for the night. There was a
cold wind with threat of rain,
so he was taken in. That evening
after supper by the crackling
fire, the old fellow remarked,
bnucks, you can get rid of the
coyotes real easy. Get one and
chain 'im up. He'll warn the
others away." It : sounded too
simple but the turkey raiser got
a coyote pup next spring from
a litter dug out of a den. It Soon
began wailing its captivity trou
bles to its hill brethren. The tur
key raiser declared he never
lost another Of his feathered
flock.
If Bishop Sheen with, all his
book-learning had known this,
he would hardly have said in a
nation-wide broadcast that,
"Beasts do not have speech."
Failure to understand sounds of
other tribes is no sign they do
not have speech.
Another happening in the hills
to the north is harder to under
stand. A Canada-honker goose
elected to leave a flock resting
near a creek, to join a flock of
sheep. The goose bosses them
around, tweaks at their wool if
they fail to go where she wants
them to go, takes to the air at
times to circle them. Yes, we
have motion and still film to
prove all this. But what is most
difficult, quite beyond our lim
ited mentality to figure out, is
the declaration of the rancher
that he has never lost a sheep
m the three years th'e goose has
been with : them, in the home
low pasture or high summer pas
ture. Always before, he lost a
sheep or two to the coyotes year
ly. F;-J. Clifford
1211 West Main st.,
Medford, Ore.
British Test Pilot
Commended by Queen
London (U.R) Neville Duke
Britain's ace test pilot, was hon
ored Tuesday by a special com
mendation from Queen Eliza
beth H for risking his life to
save an airplane. '
Duke was testing a Hawker
Hunter last month when the en
gine quit high in the air. He
brought- the plane in for a glide
landing instead of using his para
chute. JUNIOK
"SLUSH BIT",
Aise is Great, GoMea
VM,G7fy Brown, Block
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Wednesday ' 4 f
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
According to a report issued
by the secretary of state's office
in Salem, a final count for the
first six months of 1955 shows
26 pedestrians killed in Oregon
as compared with 23 in the
same period a year ago.
Of the 26 fatalities, 14 oc
curred on roadways outside
cities and towns where relative
ly high speeds cut down the
pedestrian's chances of survival
if hit by a car. Twelve of the 26
occurred in urban areas.
fORE careless driving?
"Not necessarily, the report
indicates.
Leading causes of these fatal
accidents, the record shows, are
the mistakes of the pedestrians
themselves. Running into a
street or roadway into the path
of oncoming vehicles took nine
of the 26 lives, while walking or
standing in the roadway brought
death to five more. '
Other pedestrians, the record
indicates, literally walked into
death by crossing between inter
sections, crossing intersections
diagonally, and stepping Out
from behind parked vehicles.
We know that better driving
will save many, many lives on
our highways.
This report points to the con
clusion that better walking-
wiaER, more cautious walking
on and across the streets and
highways that carry fast modern
traffic will save many pedes
trian lives.
QVK OLD friend Molotov is
'-'back in the picture aeain.
He's speaking for Russia at the
general assembly of United Na
tions, which is now in session.
UUl IIAHDLI be is a
changed man. Gone are his
sneers and his jibes and his
nasty cracks. vHe avoids sharps
ness and talks softly. His man
ner is courteous. Butter wouldn't
rhelt in his mouth.
- He has schooled himself care
fully In Russia's new role of
sweetness and light.
RUT- ' ' : -
powers to reduce their armed
forces and GIVE UP THEIR
FOREIGN MILITARY BASES
AT ONCE if they want to end
the World arms race.
And-
He makes it clear that Presi
dent Eisenhower's military infor
mation exchange must be tied in
witb Soviet demands for a BAN
ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
TlfOLOTOV is a good horse
trader, - but the- horse he
wants to trade us is pretty badly
spavined.
He wants us to do away with
our foreign bases. That would
leave Russia as close as ever to
the world's trouble spotsv It
would leave her as close as ever
to US, in case she should take a
notion to pull a Pearl Harbor on
us.
It would put us THOUSANDS
OF MILES farther away from
the trouble spots and thousands
of miles farther away from Rus
sia if she should make a Sneak
attack on us and we had to re
taliate.
TIE IS equally insistent that if
uwe want to talk peace and
disarmament we must do away
with our atom and hydrogen
bombs.
Let's put that one like this:
If you and I were getting pre
pared to shoot it out and you had
a rifle and I had a bow and ar-
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21 N. CENTRAL
MEDFORD
row and we were dickering
about maybe calling off the quar
rel and living together in peace
and happiness, I'D TRY TO
DICKER YOU INTO GIVING
UP YOUR RIFLE. v
rlAT IS what Molotov wants
us to do.
He wants us to throw away
our superiority in modern weap
ons.
If he could get away with it-
it would be a good horse trade.
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Editorial Comment
JACKSON COUNTY MUSEUM
The August monthly report of
the Jacksonville, Jackson coun
ty, museum, operated under the
direction of the Southern Oregon
Historical Society, Inc.. reveals
that visitor attendance for the
month-was 5,731 from 39 states,
the territories of Alaska and
Hawaii, and eight foreign coun
tries.
One hundred visitors from 17 .
states visited the museum on one
day, August 4.
A considerable number of his
torical items were presented to
the museum by Pacific Coast
residents. They include two vio
lins made by Charles Francis
Skeeters, born in 1866, whose
hobby was making violins which
he used in playing for Southern
Oregon social events. '
The Southern Oregon Histori
cal Society Inc. and the Jackson
ville museum constitute about
the only historical agency for
the colorful Southern Oregon
pioneer days. .
It would seem that, if Jose
phine county forces cannot estab
lish anything of that nature, a
laYge quantity of early-day rec
ords now scattered through the
area should be assembled, cata
logued and maintained at the
Jacksonville museum at least
until the Josephine county sit
uation changes. Grants Pass
Courier.
AFL Sailors Union
Approves Contract
San Francisco (U.R) Mem
bers of the AFL Sailors ifhion
Of the Pacific have voted over
whelmingly to approve a new
contract with' West Coast ship
operators providing o $25
monthly raise.
Harry Johnson, assistant secre
tary of the union, said yesterday
that - the contract also fixes as
a basic part .of salaries the sum
of $96 a month, heretofore con- -sidered
"penalty pay."
AS a result, the new contract
will raise base pay for most
sailors from $302 to $423 : a
month.
The pact affects some 8000
able bodied seamen.
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