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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
LMail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
MO years ago. '
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Bill Bowerman, coach at Med
ford Senior High, and Norm
Worthley, coach at Junior High,
returned to positions after dis
charge from service.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Older
Girls are relaxing after the
home-canning ordeal. Several re
called they have had no broccoli
since Pearl Harbor on account of
the late war.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13. 1935
(It was Sunday) '
Talent calls special election on
charter amendment to enable
city to take advantage of fed
eral grant for sewer construc
tion. ;
Company of CCC men to oc
cupy newly established camp at
Prescott Memorial park.
SO YEARS AGO
(It was Tuesday)
Medford offered chance to in
vest in providing space for train
ing boys between 12 and 15
years old to be better citizens.
Jackson county Merchants association-'
favors Community
Chest and commission govern
ment in city with manager.
40 YEARS AGO
(Oct. 13. 1915
q (It was Wednesday)
Boston Red Sox win World
Series with 5 to 4 win over Phila
delphia. From Local and Personal col
umn: City authorities serve no
tice that the ordinance requiring
property owners to clean up
dead leaves in front of their
places will be enforced without
fear or favor.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rapart
1. Much more or much less
is being spent this year on TV
advertising than on magazine
advertising, or is it about the
same?
2. Largest single oil refinery
In the world is in Texas, Iran,
New Jersey, the West Indies,
California, or Russia?
3. The sequoia tree in Califor
nia called the "General Sher
man" supposed to be about
500, 1500, 2500, or 3500 years
old?
4. It was or wasn't Jackie
Robinson who broke the color
line in major-league baseball?
5. There are more or fewer
auto accidents today than io
years ago compared with the
SvoluiSe of cars -on the roads, or
about the same number?
6. Gen. Lucius D. Clay is now
associated with Remington Rand,
Buloga Watch, American Ma
chin and Foundry, or Conti
nental Can?
7. Which metal is sometimes
called the "red metal"?
0 ;
The Answers: 1. Much more on
TV advertising. On the West
Indies island of Aruba. 3. 3500.
4. Was. 5. Fewer compared with
cars on road. 6. Continental Can.
7. Copper.
KILLED BY TRACTOR
Sanify, Ore. U.R) Arnold
Blaser, 79-year-old Sandy man,
was killed yesterday afternoon
when the tractor he was driving
struck a root and fell over on
him.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Oct. 11 Governor Averill Harriman's
desertion of former Governor Adlai Stevenson is hard to under
stand. Coming immediately after a visit with former President
Truman, the latter is generally held responsible. But our own
idea is President Eisenhower is more responsible. When it looked
like a return engagement with the popular. "Ike" as the man to
beat. Democratic leaders and aspirants probably had no particu
lar objection to Adlai again being the sacrificial lamb. But when
it became more and more likely that Ike would not choose to
run, and it would be a free-for-all, with any Democrat out of jail
having a chance, the entire picture changed. Messers Truman
and Harrjman changed with it.
Whatever the exact cause, if the Democratic party abandons
the former Governor of Illinois, it will be abandoning the one
man in that party best qualified to be President of the United
States at this particular crisis in world history. The charges made
against him, that he is not enough of a party man, too much of
an intellectual, has too lively a sense of humor, are all marks in
his favor or at least should be so regarded. In the next half
decade this country and the world for that matter will need in
the White House as never before a man who will always place
what is best for his country above what might be best for him
or his party, who has the intelligence and wisdom to see beneath
the surface of world and domestic problems, and the depth of un
derstanding and sense of proportion necessary to get him safely
over the unavoidable stresses and strains of the job, without
disaster.
But we have to grant that those who really select presidential
candidates consider first and foremost, will he be a good vote
getter. And as a candidate Adlai Stevenson, not having shown
any great ability in this direction and having been badly beaten
in his one and only effort, will at the convention, and before.
have two strikes already called
still believe in Adlai have one
ers had two strikes called against them but won out in the end!
We listened to the American Legion convention over the air last
night and it was all very sad and depressing. It seems the Legion
plans to censure the Ford Foundation Fund, and its director Dr.
Robert Hutchins, formerly head of the University of Chicago, for
discouraging the fight against communism in this country. And
as if that were not enough the speaker predicted this convention
will also condem Unesco, a branch of the UN, for principles
and procedures contrary to the maintenance of American sover
eignty and independence.
The American Legion is a large and powerful organization
but when it falls for this sort of propaganda under the guise of
100 per cent Americanism it is riding for a fall. It is hard to be
lieve the Legion will go for such ridiculous bigotry, but if it does
the people of the country at the first opportunity will repudiate
it.
Everyone honor and respectr the Legion as a patriotic or
ganization, and its members for their heroic and self sacrificing
service in three wars, but its members or at least their present
leaders seem to forget that the chief thing they fought for was,
the freedom of the. democratic world,' and the cornerstone of that
freedom is the right of free speech, the right of free assembly
and the right of this nation, if it wishes to join with others in
the eternal battle for a better world, and ultimately a warless
one. That is the fundamental purpose of Unesco. R.W.R.
Matter of Fact
WILL THE PRESIDENT
CHOOSE?
Washington As soon as Presi
dent Eisenhower is well enough
to talk politics he will be urged
by influential
Re pub lican
party leaders
to do two
things.
First, he
will be urged
to take him
self out of the
1956 race as
soon as possi
ble, if he feels
he must Ho so
Joseph AUo ..and despite
the good news from Denver,
hardly anybody believes that he
will run again. Second, the Pres
ident will be urged to designate
the candidate of his choice when
he himself bows out, or shortly
thereafter. '
As long as there is thought to
be the faintest chance of his run
ning the magic Eisenhower name
will kill all
other can
d i dacies, as
surely as the
fabled 'upas
tree kills ev
erything in its
shade. Until
the President
u n e q uivocal
ly bows out,
the whole can
didate - Dick-
ing machinery Stewart Alsop
will be thrown into confusion,
moreover, because every would-
be delegate will fervently pledge
himself to Eisenhower. For such
reasons the Party managers, ap
palled at the thought of losing
Eisenhower as a candidate, have
nevertheless decided that, if it
were done, 'twer well it were
done quickly. They hope the
President will withdraw, if with
draw he must,' by early January
or even December, well before
the primaries. They further
hope that he will give the nod
to his chosen heir, if not as soon
as December or January, at least
by early spring.
As Harold E. Stassen has said,
"The man President Eisenhower
wishes to have nominated will
be nominated." Stassen is cer
tainly right. To a far greater ex
tent than generally realized, the
Republican party organization
is now: in' the hands of men to
whom Eisenhower's slightest
word is law. To take one exam
ple, in 1952 most of the 48 state
chairmen were Taf t men. Now 37
of the 48 have been replaced
with fervent Eisenhowerites, and
the survivors are Eisenhower
men too.
ADD THE President's enor
mous nrpstiffo anrl it. is al
most impossible to imagine a
situation in which a Republican
convention will vote against his
known wishes. He is not ex
pected to announce his choice
formally, of course. He need
only let it be known whom he
favors, as President Theodore,
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Thursday, October 13, 1955
against him. However those who
thing to console them the Dodg
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
Roosevelt let it be known that
he favored William Howard Taft.
Then all serious opposition in
the Party to the President's can
didates will almost ' certainly
fade away, or at least go under
ground. -The
political advantages in
having the President choose, and
choose early, are obvious. Pres'
ent campaign plans, which it is
too late to alter, were of course
made on the assumption that the
candidate would be Dwight D.
Eisenhower. After a brief, late,
heavily televised campaign, it
was smugly believed, the Presi
dent would be a shoo-in. But no
one believes any other Repub
lican candidate will be a shoo-in
On the contrary, the Repub
lican party managers privately
admit that they are badly wor
ried,, above all by the evidence
that many Middle Western farm
ers are turning against the Par
ty. Any Republican candidate
whose name is not Dwight D.
Eisenhower is going to need plen
ty of building up.
Suppose that the President
gives the nod to the man of his
choice by March or April say to
Vice-President Richard Nixon,
whom most of the organization
men favor. Then Nixon will be
almost certain of the nomination,
despite his numerous collection
of enemies. The Nixon build-up
can then begin right away, car
rying on right through to Elec
tion Day.
But suppose, instead, that the
President makes no choice at all,
publicly or privately. The build
up for the eventual candidate is
then likely to take the form of
the kind of bitter public intra-
Party brawl, lasting all next
spring and summer, which does
a candidate the maximum of
harm.
AAA
QUCH ARE the reasons why
the President will be urged
to choose his man, and choose
him early. How the President
will respond to the pressure to
choose makes an interesting per
sonal equation. The act of choos
ing does not like to make ene
mies unnecessarily. The Pres-
dent also has a sense of what is
historically fitting, and to desig
nate the candidate would mean
to risk repudiation of his per
sonal choice by the voters an
anticlimactic way of ending a
fabulously successful public
career.
Those who know the President
best are thus inclined to guess
that he will remain above the
battle, designating no candidate
of his choice. In that case, the
Party battle the President will
remain above may well turn into
a battle royal.
(Copyright. 1955.
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Boston (U.R) State Police
Lt. Frank W. Geist was retiring
after 27 years' service, but he
didn't loaf his last dav on rlutv
Four Concord Reformatory pris
oners had escaped. Geist tranDed
them on the roof of a buildine.
and recaptured them.
Indochina Emperor
May Soon Have Plenty
Of Time for Pleasure
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
It looks as if playboy Emperor
Bao Dai of Viet Nam in Indo
china soon will
have no duties
to inter fere
with his pleas
ures. Premier Ngo
Dinh Diem, a
serious - mind
ed man who
believes
sjtrongly in
business. be
fore pleasure,
cnaries Mccaun nas called a na
tional referendum for Oct. 23
to decide Viet Nam's future lead
ership. The choice is between Bao and
Diem.
The word from Saigon, the
capital, is that Diem is certain
to win. In fact, plans have been
made to proclaim him president
before the end of this month.
Diem is on the scene. He has
succeeded in beating down his
once-powerful opponents.
Bao Dai, as usual, is living in
his beautiful pink-and-white villa
on the French Riviera, making
side trips to Paris and various
gay resorts.
Further, Diem has fixed up
the referendum so that it re
minds one of the lawyer who
asked a witness to reply yes or
no to the question: "Have you
stopped beating your wife?"
The Ballot
On its right side the ballot
shows a picture of Diem in well
tailored western clothing, the
modern Viet Namese. Under the
picture is the caption: "I de
pose Bao Dai and recognize
Diem as chief of state of Viet
Nam, with the mission of estab
lishing a democratic regime."
It does not help Bao in Viet
Nam that his people know he
played along with the Japanese
in World War II, played along
with Communist leader Ho Chi
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Two familiar names are back
in the news today Gambler
Mickey Cohen and Gambler El
mer "Bones" Remmer.
Mickey has just been turned
loose from McNeil Island, the
federal prison up in Puget
Sound, after a sojourn of some
four years there. "Bones" is try
ing to STAY OUT of federal
prison. He is under sentence to
pay a fine of $20,000 and serve
five years.
He is fighting it up through
the courts and has reached the
U.S. supreme court, which has
just granted him another hear
ing-
TyD Mickey and "Bones" get
L' in trouble for gambling?
Huh-uh!
Their offense was INCOME
TAX EVASION.
GAMBLERS make SO MUCH
of their money illegally
gambling being forbidden by
law more or less everywhere but
in Nevada. To report this income
from illegal enterprises would be
tantamount to CONFESSING
THE CRIME. So they fail to re
port it.
Hard-boiled Uncle Sam isn't
directly concerned with how
these gentry make their money
gambling, for the most part, be
ing forbidden by STATE laws.
So he goes after the TAX
MONEY, which they failed to
pay.
Being nearly $300,000,000,000
in debt, the old gentleman with
the chin whiskers NEEDS it.
Thats' how it comes that Mickey
and "Bones" and so many of
their ilk are in trouble with the
federals.
"DOUNCING back to Mickey, he
"returned to Los Angeles when
he was released from McNeil's
Island. He was greeted at the
airport by his wife, three car
loads of police and a HORDE OF
NEWSMEN.
The newsmen were there be
cause experience has taught them
that Mickey is a character the
public likes to read about.
DMITTEDLY, that isn't good.
But
Here I am writing about it.
And here you are READING
ABOUT IT. We should BOTH be
occupying ourselves with better
things. I should be writing about
the large and complicated prob
lems that confront 4he world
and our nation and our state and
our community and offering
serious and well-considered ad
vice as to how to solve them.
And you should be reading
CONSTRUCTIVE stories of hu
man achievement and human
betterment of which there are
so MANY in the newspapers
and the magazines and books.
But here we are spending our
precious time with trash.
JIHA'
T'S life for you.
In this world so much bad is
mixed with the good and so much
good is mixed with the bad that
we never know auite where
we're at.
Besides, we're all human.
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Minh after it and then, after ab
dicating and being restored as
emperor, fled to his favorite
Riviera while Dien Bien Phu was
in its death throes last year. He
has not been back.
There was a time, after he
was crowned at 12 years of age
in 1925, when Bao was revered
as his country's "guardian of
Greatness," "Son of Heaven,"
"Father and Mother of his Peo
ple." Now, at 42, he is a plump,
sensual-looking pursuer of plea
sure. He is sweating out Viet
Nam's crisis thousands of miles
away, with a 130-foot yacht and
a fleet of 10 expensive Ameri
can, British, Italian and German
automobiles.
The United States played a
big part in getting Diem in as
premier on June 15, 1954. Bao
detested him and France did not
like him.
Diem has spent all his mature
life working hard. He is 54.
stocky, youthful looking, usual
ly silent and reserved but given
to occasional bursts of fuming
rage.
He was long a French civil
servant in .Indochina and rose
to be interior minister under the
French. He resigned because
France refused to give his coun
try semi-independent status. He
went into exile. In 1951 and
1953 he lived he is a devout
Roman Catholic in. the Catho
lic Maryknoll Seminary in Lake-
wood, N.J. He went later to
live in a Belgian monastery, and
then in a Paris garret.
In another two weeks, he prob
ably will be President Diem.
Federal Power Sale
To Cooperatives
Ruled by Brownell
Washington U.R)Attv. Gen.
Herbert Brownell Jr. has ruled
the government must agree to
sell federal power to electric
cooperatives instead of private
utilities even if the cooDeratives
do not immediately have neces
sary transmission lines. .
Brownell's opinion was dis
closed by Assistant Interior- Sec
retary Fred G. Aandahl at a
House Government Operations
Subcommittee hearing. The hear
ing was marked by partisan
wrangling over socialism, TVA,
and the administration's power
policies.
At issue are efforts by the ad
ministration to sell power from
the government's Clark Hill
Dam on the Savannah river be
tween South Carolina and Geor
gia.
The George Power Co. has
the necessary transmission lines.
Georgia cooperatives, which also
want the power, do not have the
lines to pick up the power at the
dam. Both have offered, to buy
the power.
In Brownell's opinion, dated
July 15, the attorney general
ruled that when the government
has two offers, one by a private
utility and one by a cvjperative
or other "preference group" the
government "must" contract to
sell to the cooperatives and give
the cooperatives a "reasonable
time" to obtain the necessary
transmission lines.
Telephone Operator's
Call Goes Astray
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Po
lice desk Sgt. Sherman Wake
ley received a call from the
long distance telephone oper
ator at Bethlehem, Pa., asking
him to locate a visitor to the
Public Safety Department.
"There aren't any visitors
around," Wakeley protested.
"It's 5 a.m."
"It can't be replied the
operator, its 9 a.m. in Beth
lehem." "But it's four hours earlier
in Spokane." said Wakeley.
"Spokane," said the oper
ator. "I was calling Youngs
town,' O."
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Bigness Important
In Oil Industry,
Speaker Declares
This country's oil industry
"must be big to give you what
you daily demand," Gene Con
nell, Portland, declared yester
day in a talk to members of
Medford Kiwanis club.
Connell, industrial oil special
ist for Signal , Oil . company in
Oregon and Washington, spoke
in connection with Oil Progress
week.
While mentioning the fear of
industry becoming too powerful,
the oil man brought out the
American desire for a dynamic
advancing economy and he stres
sed that the oil business can op
erate most effectively as a big,
private enterprise.
If oil is administered under
a governmental rather than a pri
vate system, a chaotic situation
would result, Connell maintain
ed. As an example he brought
out that "Mexico put us out but
called us back." He also pointed
to the huge amount of funds
needed for expansion and devel
opment of products the people
want.
Connell termed the matter of
big business a "deep issue" and
spoke of the tendency of many
people to look upon big industry
as "bad." He described the oil
business as America's most size
able industry outside of indust
ry and stated, "we don't think
we're too bad."
Answering those who charge
the federal government adminis
tration with "giveaway" in con
nection with, oil, Connell said
that about 30 per cent of the pro
duction goes into the national
reserve. He reported a yearly
production of about 3,000,000,
000 barrels with 1,500,000,000
going into the nation's reserve.
Forty per cent of all shipments
on the seas and on inland water
ways under the American flag
are petroleum products, Connell
stated. He reported that the pet
roleum industry produces 25 per
cent of all heavy chemicals and
that the amount is forecast to be
50 per cent in another decade.
The speaker mentioned that
about 70 per cent of all energy
consumed is from petroleum. He
reported that only five per cent
of the energy consumed in the
United States is by hydro-electric
power and stated that, if
dams were constructed at ' all
sites projected in the country,
they would produce less than
25 per cent of the energy we con
sume. i . ,. '
Oil is produced in 40 of the
48 states, Connell reported.
Twelve per cent of the country's
entire land mass, the speaker
revealed. He mentioned the large
number of owners enjoying roy
alties from the land.
The oil industry has $40,000,
000,000 worth of fixed assets,
Kiwanians were informed. These
include 115,000 tank cars and
170,000 miles of pipeline.
More Production
Connell said that at present
the industry is producing, refin
ing and marketing 47 per cent
more material than at the peak
period of World War II. Stress
ing oil's important role in an
emergency, Connell stated that
during World War II 58 per cent
of all tonnage moved was oil.
Concerning the criticism heard
for import of oil from Venezu
ela, Connell mentioned that halt
of import would mean drop off
of exports to that country and
channeling of the oil to ports be
hind the Iron Curtain. He re
ported that while imports of
crude oil from Venezuela am
ounted to $120,000,000 in one
year, sales to that country total
ed $900,000,000.
The Kiwanis luncheon was at
Rogue Valley Country club,
Connell was introduced by Nor
man Buvick, new resident man
ager here for Union Oil comp
any and oil information chair
man for Medford. Also at the
luncheon were Miss Ann Mc-
Farland, Hawaiian tour hostess
for Trans-Oceanic Air lines, and
Mrs. Mary Jane Fisher, of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce staff. .
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DIRECTORS
Adventurers Plan Hells Canyon Trek
Ontario (U.R) Six Weiser,
Ida, adventurers will attempt to
assault the unexplored reaches
of Hells Canyon later this month,
according to Blaine Stubblefield,
leader of the party.
Stubblefield yesterday said
the group will start its attempt
Oct. 19 to explore the three
mile length of Hells creek, which
enters the Snake river one mile
downstream from the proposed
Hells Canyon dam site. .
Stubblefield said a base camp
The Fashioneite
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Bar. The group then plans to
climb the canyon's 3000 feet to
the Snake river in about three
miles. Stubbleield's party will
lower itself by rope down 'flie
creek's steepest falls and rapids.
Only a few parties have at
tempted to traverse the ,xreek,
but none have succeededr Stub
blefield led a group last May
which was caught by a severe
rain and snow storm on a high
plateau and forced to abandon
the venture.
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