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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19. 1945
(It was Friday)
Dr. Harry K. Newburn, presi
dent of University of Oregon,
tells Jackson county Chamber
of Commerce major changes
needed in education.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot. column: Upstate it
is impossible to give Danish
sjjuash away,' let alone sell it,
not even to Danes. This does
not indicate any contamination
in Denmark, but' the fickleness
of the public. Last year there
was a scarcity of Danish squash
and, how the people had to
have them. This year "there is
a surplus. Nobody wants them.
20 YEARS AGO .
(Jet. 19. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Some 200 educators, forest of
ficials, and CCC officials in
Medford for two-day welfare
conference.
Acting clubs of Ashland and
Medford plan joint jneeting.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19. 1925
Miss Grace Chamberlain, vice
president of Oregon Federation
of Women's club, expected to
return to her home, in Ashland
soon.
From Local and Personal col
umn: A billiard tournament, in
which the leading billiardists of
the city wfll take part, is sched
uled to be held in a local billiard
paflor before the end of the
month.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Medford city council to con--sider
plans for rebonding to fin
'ance paving indebtedness.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Grey squirrels are report
ed thicker than flies in the Ap
plegate district, and fatter than
usual, besides being of large
size. They mix deliciously in pot
pies, and many local hunters
have given chase to the "crit
ters" the last week.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
. Copr. 1955, Editorial Rtseaich Report
1. Columbus landed Oct 12,
1492 on what is . now- Florida,
Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti,
or another ;W, -Indies island? .
2. 107 former members, of
Congress now draw pensions, at
an average of $2000, $3500,
$5000, $6500. or $8000 a year
each?
3. More steel goes into" autos
each year than into building, or
more into building, or about the
same into each? ..',.,.
4. Largest single oil refinery
in the U.S. is in California,
Louisiana, New Jersey, Okla
homa or Texas?
5. F. D. Roosevelt vetoed more
bills than any other President;
right or wrong?
6. The 1956 Olympic Games
will be held in Finland, W. Ger
many, S. Africa, Los Angeles,
Australia or New Zealand?
7. If somebody or something
is noisome, he or it simply
makes too much noise; right or
wrong?
The answers: 1. Another W.
Indies island. 2. Around $3500.
3. About the same into each.
4. Louisiana (at Baton Rouge).
5. Right (he was in "office long
er). 6. Australia. 7. Wrong (is
generally obnoxious).
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Crowded Air
F. B. Lee, U. S. administrator of civil aeronautics,
predicts that within 10 years the domestic airlines of
this country will be carrying 70,000,000 revenue pass
engers each year. This is more than double the record
breaking 32,000,000 carried in 1954.
Business flying, other than that done by the air
lines, today totals about 4,000,000 hours per year. He
predicts that by 1956 this total will have grown to
7,200,000 hours per year.
A SIDE from the sheer increase in volume of traffic,
other changes are taking place that are making
startling increases in the problems of air traffic con
trol. Foremost among these is the rapid development
of jet aircraft, and its coming use in civilian, as well
as military, flying.
In a recent talk to the National Association of
State Aviation Officials, Lee said, "Aviation is grow
ing and its face is changing so rapidly that even those
of us who live with it are astonished."
H
E added:
Our present practices in separating aircraft, based on
time, are absurdly wasteful of airspace when applied to
high speed jets. With the 20-minute separation commonly
applied along an airway, we could have only two aircraft "
occupying one altitude between New York and Washing
ton. We just don't have enough airspace for that kind of
thing along our congested airway's.
Lee forecast increasing use of radar, by which
nirrraft control can be maintained bv eye as well as
by ear (radio) as at present. But he pointed out that
radar is expensive, and went on to outline plans for
a combined military-civilian radar . netwonv using
presently existing military radar and tieing it in with
CAA control network. The first all-radar airway is
now being planned between Norfolk and Boston.
ANOTHER development Lee predicted is the estab
lishment of a double level for navigational aids
one at relatively low altitude for conventional air
craft; the other a high-altitude system for high-flying,
high speed jets, up to 75,000 feet.
The low-level aid system would be expanded
along present lines, giving aircraft frequent range
bearings. The other, higher level one, however, would
involve only a few key ranges operating on protected
frequencies and high power, giving navigational
criridanre at 200-mile or even 500-mile steps. Thus a
jet- airliner flying
about eight ranges to cnecK.
EE pointed out that the
would be hii?h. But he
doing the job would be the
one of the most vital, segments 01 tne economy.
TTp added that for the first time in history, a. fed:
eral aid program for local
in nrncress on a rjlanned.
gress provided thatfor each of the next four years,
$63,000,000 will be available, ana as a resuii, ne saia,
"Nnw we are in a nosition to do some medium-ranee
We ran annrove
surance that it can be carried through, and our air-
ports can be developed on a stage-oy-stage Dasis . . .
In a city such as Medford, where the citizenry has
voon air-minded ever since the barnstorming days be
fore World War I, and which is increasingly so, these
developments can be of major significance.
We tinw have, an excellent airport, constructed
with federal funds and with
money. We can take pride
Civic Music
The Jackson county chapter of , the Civic Music
association is holding its annual membership cam
paign this week, and we have been asked to call at
tention to this fact.
The association is organized for the purpose of
making available to communities throughout the na
tion top-flight musicians. It does this through mem
berships sold during a one-week campaign in the fall.
Only members may attend the concerts.
POR those who enjoy concerts of fine music, it af-
fords an opportunity to hear the best in a wide
range of artists. The number, and excellence, of the
guest musicians depends largely on the number of
memberships sold, and the resulting amount of money
available. ; -.
The membership rolls of the Jackson county chap
ter will be closed Saturday, or as soon as the quota
is filled.' After that there will be no opportunity, to
participate in this season's program.
The organization here is administered by its local
ly elected officers, is entirely non-profit and all the
proceeds of membership sales go for bringing good
music to Medford. E.A.
Klamath Falls Hit Twice
. Klamath Falls. (U.PJ Light
ning struck at least two places
in the Klamath Falls, area dur
ing a heavy rain storm early
yesterday.
One bolt struck a shed and
split a tree at the C. F.'O'Lough-
lin place on Lakeshore Drive on
the shore of - Upper Klamath
Lake, three miles from the down
town section. ...
A second bolt ' struck the
broadcasting tower of radio sta
tion KFLW at about 5:15 a.m.,
but neither the tower nor equip
ment was. damaged.
The area was besieged by
heavy, intermittent showers and
lightning from shortly after
midnight . to about 6 a.m. No
lightning-caused fires were re
Wednesday, October 19. 1955
across-country would have - only
cost of this development
also said the cost of not
strangulation of aviation,
airport development is now
stable basis The last con
starting- a Droiect with as
a largeunk of local tax
in it, and watch it grow.
E.A.
by Lightning
ported, but Forest Service offi
cials said such fires often were
"sleepers" for several days.
Civil Service
Announces Exam
An examination to fill trainee
positions as electrician, lineman,
and substation operator with the
Bonneville Power administra
tion was announced today by
the Department of Interior
Northwest Board of U.S. Civil
Service examiners.
Vacancies for positions with
a beginning salary of $2.03 an
hour exist in Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho, and Montana. Fur
ther details . and application
forms may be obtained at the
Medford post office.
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Dangerous Nazi Forms
New Political Party;
Threat To Adenauer
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Pien Correspondent
The most dangerous Nazi still
alive has just formed a new pol
itical party in West Germany.
The Nazi is
Otto Strasser,
first an ardent
follower, then
the most hated
enemy of
Adolf Hitler.
His party is
"The People's
Movement for
Unity and
Freedom."
Strasser
Charles Mclanu " hopes to pull
together the many small right
wing splinter groups now active
in Chancellor Konrad Adenau
er's federal republic. "
He is looking forward to the
1957 parliamentary election. A
lot of things could happen in
Germany before then. One of
them might be the emergence of
Strasser as a power, in German
politics, at the head of a strong
nationalistic party. .
That would be bad news.
Strasser is xa menace. He is an
unreconstructed Nazi, even
though Jie broke with Hitler in
1930. He is an excellent organ
izer. He has as material the al
ways strong, if now relatively in
active, spirit of German national
ism. Serious Problems
Strasser announced the forma
tion of his new party at a time
when it is plain West Germany
is going to have some serious
problems. They are problems
which will cause the Western
allies anxiety.
One is the health of 79-year-old
Adenauer, now starting a
long convelescence after an at
tack of pneumonia. As long as
Washington
IT HAS HAPPENED HERE
Washington Quietly, persist
tently but so unobtrusively that
few realize how much has hap
pened, the Eisenhower adminis
tration is achieving a major
miracle toward erasing racial
discrimination from the map of
American busmess and industry,
Those who are close to the
facts are aware that monumen
tal progress is being made in
bringing equality of employment
opportunity to Negroes through
out the nation. They are con
vinced that never has so much
been accomplished in so brief a
span. There are several reasons
for this.
The Administration has talked
little but has worked diligently
to achieve its reforms.
It has used much of the re
former's zeal but avoided many
of the ref ormer s methods
It has avoided the shibboleth
and the controversy of the old
F.EJP.C' and has made greater
headway by so doing.
It has undoubtedly benefited
from the many years of educa
tion and advocacy which pre
ceded its own efforts.
HPHE instrument which Presi-
- dent Eisenhower brought into
being to serve his objective is
tne presidents .committee on
Government Contracts, the
chairmanship of which has been
one of the lesser known but ac
tive duties of Vice President
Richard Nixon. Its membership
comprises seven other high offi
cials of the Administration, in
cluding Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell and seven
non-government people drawn
from business and union leader
ship. The authority of this commit
tee stems from a Presidetial
Executive Order providing that
every contractor or sub-contrac
tor doing business with or for
the Federal government,- wheth
er th econtract involves 10 cents
or $10,000,000,000, undertakes
to see that in the performance
there will be no "discrimination
against any employee or appli
cation for employment because
of race, religion, color or na
tional origin."
One Negro leader remarked
to me the other day: "I really
didn't believe it could be done.
I am amazed and excited by the
results."
I suspect that the President
did not at the time realize how
far-ranging the leadership and
power of the Administration
would be when, refusing to sup
port coercive legislation, he
pledged that . wherever the fed
eral government touched this
problem of discrimination it
would set a radiant standard of
good conduct.
TH3DAY fully 85 to 90 per cent
of American industry does
some business for or with the
Federal government and .is
steadily advancing the goal of
non-discrimination affecting at
least 50,000,000 workers.
The policy of non-discrimina
tion cannot, of course even if
industry wanted to do so be
limited to those who are directly
working on a government con
tract. That is one of the power
ful and hidden keys to the
miracle." It may be that only
10 per cent of 1 per cent of a
firm's business is with the gov
Adenauer is alive and function
ing, West Germany is in safe
hands. If anything happened to
him, West Germany might be
plunged into political chaos.
Times of chaos bring men
like Strasser and Hitler to the
fore. j
Strasser is 58, heavily built,
with a big egg-shaped head, the
forehead of which is becoming
steadily higher as he gets balder,
and a deceptively-mild appear
ance. . -
Strasser started out as a So
cialist. He met Hitler in 1920
through his elder brother Gregor
and became a Nazi leader. He
broke with Hitler in 1930.
Slight Disagreement '
The break came not- because'
Strasser disagreed with Hitler's
nationalistic and expansionist
policies or his anti-Semitism.
The official name of the Nazi
organization was the Nationalist
Socialist German Workers Par
ty. Strasser complained that the
'Socialist" party was being for
gotten. Otto Strasser fled to Czecho
slovakia after Hitler got into
power in 1933. Gregor was mur
dered in the blood purge of June
30, 1934. Otto was deprived of
his German citizenship on Nov.
3, 1934. .
He moved about Europe with the
Gestapo after him. He reached
France after World War II broke
out, and then managed to get to
Canada.
After the war he tried to get
back. Adenauer would not have
him. But the West German
courts ruled last November that
he was a German citizen and
could not be kept out. He went
some last lviarcn. it was sug
gested then that he might be
come Adenauer s No. 1 enemy.
Roscoe Drummend
ernment, but when its employ
ment policy is non-discrimina
tory, it has to apply to all its em
ployment. It does.
Since 1953 the President's
Committee on Government Con
tracts has been steadily, patient
ly, unyieldingly, pressing the
cause of non-discrimination. It
has relied largely on education,
persuasion and voluntary com
pliance. But it hasn't refrained
from lighting fires under the
highest contracting officials of
the government and seeing that
they toe the line. It handles
complaints responsively and
vigorously.
Progress has been so substan
tial that the problems it faces
are rarely any longer in the
field of employment but in pro
motion, upgrading and appren
ticeship. . . .
CJYMBOLIC of the extent to
H which business r has rallied
and been raillied to the cause of
non-discrimination is the fact
that more than fifty executive
officers of big and little business
will meet with the Vice-President
and his committee on Oct.
25 to pool their ideas and their
experience on how to do a still
better job of developing ''Equal
Job- Opportunity Programs."
They have come to see that non-
aiscrimination -lsn t . some re
former's plot, isn't something
just nice to have, but is some
thing good for the community,
good for industry, good for labor
and good for the United States
ecnomically and morally. As
Secretary of Labor Mitchell has
put it: "Neither the nation nor
industry can afford to waste the
skills of 6,800,000 Negroes." ,
This industry-government con
ference was to end with a pri
vate dinner and evening with
the President. When Mr. Eisen
hower was stricken and couldn't
be present, these business execu
tives were asked if they would
prefer to postpone their meeting.
They preferred no such thing.
They wanted to come with or
without the President. They
wanted to get on with the1 job.
They are getting on with it
with amazing and exciting
success. 'l
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
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County Principals
At Salem Conclave
Eight Jackson county ele
mentary school principals at
tended a meeting of the Oregon
Elementary Principals' associa
tion in Salem. -
Subject of the meeting, held
Monday and Tuesday was educa
tion. Harold G. Shane, spoke to
the group on "Creative Inservice
Education."
Those attending from Jackson
county were Mrs. Myrna Frink,
Griffin Creek school; John My
ers, Phoenix; G. Lee Hayes,
Eagle Point; Henry Kammann,
Lone Pine; Lee Merriman, Elk
Trail school; Ray Mullen, Shady
Cove; Mrs. Bertha Haskins, West
Side; and Harold Boner, Howard
school.
The meeting was sponsored by
the Oregon Education association
and the State Department of Ed
ucation.
Episcopalians Pick
Bishop Coadjutor
Portland U.R) The Very
Rev. James Frederick Carman,
52, of Phoenix, Ariz., yesterday
was elected bishop coadjutor of
the Oregon diocese of the Epis
copal church.
After a close race with Rev
Lesley Wilder Jr. of San Mateo,
Calif.; Rev. Carman was elected
on the sixth ballot by a special
nominating convention meeting
here.
The churchman polled 32 cler
ical and 26 lay votes on the
last ballot. He needed 31 clerical
and 22 lay votes to win.
Election of the new coadjutor,
who is dean of Trinity cathedral
in Phoenix, was made necessary
by Bishop Benjamin D. Dag
well's announcement that he
plans to retire m the spring of
1958. The Rev. Mr. Carmen will
succeed Bishop Dag well - upon
his retirement.
He was ordained a priest In
1930 and served the church in
Denver and Pueblo before tak
ing his Arizona post in 1946.
Two Insurance Firms
Reveal Merger Plans
Two affiliated insurance
firms, both of which are repre
sented in Medford,. will merge
soon, it was ' announced today.
They are the Northwest Casual
ty company and its parent firm,
the Northwestern - Mutual Fire
association.' ' .. ' '
The companies are represented
locally - by -.' the' ' Medford' Insur
ance agency,3 -Beattyr-and "Me-
Dougal, and Shearin and Young
Insurance agency.
The consolidated firms will be
known as the Northwestern Mu
tual- Insurance company, and
will be a multiple line opera
tion. The mutual firm is 54 years
old. No changes are planned in
existing policy forms , or the
general underwriting programs.
Hospital Building
Totals $20,000,000
Portland (U.R) Hospital and
public health center construc
tion grants in Oregon have to
taled more than $20,000,000
since passage of the federal Hill-
Burton Act, the State Board of
Health said today.
George Shiffer director of the
hospital survey and construction
section of the board, laid 33 proj
ects have been approved. They
include 31 hospitals, equipping
of the state hygienic laboratory
and construction of the Multno
mah county health center.
Sniffer said the 1956 annual
revision of the program's state
plan will be reviewed at a public
hearing in Portland Oct. 28.
Willamette Basin Project
Meeting Draws Speakers
Corvallis (U.R) Three na
tional figures will speak at a
public meeting of the Willamette
Basin Project Committee Nov. 3
at Oregon State College.
Secretary of Interior Douglas
McKay will speak at the noon
luncheon and Sen.; Richard Neu-
berger (D-Ore.) and Rep. Harris
Ellsworth (R-Ore.) will report on
the Willamette Basin Project in
Congress.
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In TKe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As stated before in these
chronicles, California has 130
odd state parks comparing with
140-odd in Oregon. With one ex
ception, the area along the
Curry county coastline, Ore
gon's parks are small. Califor
nia has some 400,000 acres in
one park, but it is in a desert
area.
The jewels of the California
state park system are In the red
woods area extending from the
Oregon line to the southern
boundary of Humboldt county.
There are some beautiful red
wood areas in Mendocino coun
ty, but they are relatively small.
There are two varieties of
redwoods sequoia sempervirens
cn the western slopes of the
Coast range, and sequoia gigan
tea,' about midway of the Sierra.
Sequoia gigantea, as the name
indicates, is the more robust
and long-lived. Sequoia semper
virens is infinitely the more love
ly parUy, of course, because of
the lush undergrowth stimu
lated by the abundant rainfall
of the coastal area. .
BASIC state park theories dif
fer somewhat in the two
states. In Oregon, the state parks
are under the jurisdiction and
management of the state high
way commission, and are fi
nanced by state highway funds
including the gasoline tax.
They are regarded as an adjunct
of the state highway system and
in theory are maintained for the
benefit of those who use Ore
gon's highways.
I'd like to add here that the
Oregon system has its thriftier as
pects. Under the Oregon theory,
the state parks are maintained
for the benefit of the road users,
and among the road users are
tourists from other states. They
pay gasoline taxes in Oregon.
Their gasoline tax money goes
toward the maintenance of both
the state highways and the state
parks.
Thus, you see, they help to
pay for the facilities that are
created and maintained, in part,
for their benefit. To me, that
seems eminently -logical.
VOU MAY disagree with this
notion. You will be almost
sure to if you are on the idealis
tic rather than the practical side."
Personally, I'm not above beufg
practical. We just couldn't run
this world without at least a
reasonable .measure, of. PRAC
TICAL people. If we turned
everything over to the idealists,
they'd run us so deep in debt
that before long we wouldn't be
able to afford either state high
ways or state parks.. .
TESIDES, ' I VgetTriaround to
" some extent in other states.
In nearly all of them, I pay
SALES taxes. It doesn't burn
me at all to do so. These other
states have facilities that are
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there for my use. They are paid
for in considerable measure by
sales taxes. It seems quite fair
to me that I should chip in my ,
two bits worth in the way of
sales taxes as a miniscule con-
tribution toward the mainten
ance of the economy of the
states in which I am a visitor.
I am quite sure that our vis-
itors who use our state parks, ,
along with our state highways,
feel the same way about it and
do not object at all to putting .
a little in the pot in the way of
gasoline taxes to heip pay for.
our state parks system.
CALIFORNIA'S system of
nancing state parks is quite '
different. The bulk of the money
our sister state uses for parks.,
maintenance comes from royal
ties on offshore oil.
So California's basic philoso- .
phy regarding its state parks dif-.
fers from Oregon's. . It looks
upon them as resources that arc '
designed to bring to the PEO
PLE OF THE STATE a fuller
realization of the majority and
the beauty of nature.
That is the underlying pur-
pose of California's state parks
system, as it is presently admin
istered. I have great respect for
the California philosophy, but
can't help recalling that Cal
ifornia has offshore oil royal
ties to spend and Oregon doesn't .
So I can't escape the feeling
tht Oregon will be wise if it.
continues its present system of"
financing its state . parks that
is, as an adjunct of its state,"
highways.
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Hungry 'Prisoner1.
Chicago (U.R) Police at thr
Burnside station were only too
happy to set free a "prisoner".
with a huge appetite.
The "prisoner," a stray Great :
Dane, ate more bologna than all
the jail's regular inmates com
bined, plus assorted sandwiches"
and two cans of dog food before
Kaintf rlaimfvl hv his owner.
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