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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. 20. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, presi
dent of the Jackson County Pub
lic Health association, reports
176 cases of tuberculosis; reports
on Christmas Seal plans.
F r o ni Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Many of
the fair sex are now wearing
trouser-pleated skirts, a new
style they claim is a year old,
The pleats are supposed to ac
centuate the slim silhouette,
what ever that is.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1935
. (It was Sunday)
Walter Reese, president of
Rogue River Beekeeper's associa
tion,, calls meeting to discuss
state convention here next
month.
Xighteen Jackson county men
enlBt for CCC duty; four as
signed to Medford office.
W YEARS AGO"
Oct. 20, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Carter Brandon tells of Far
Eastern experiences at Carter's
club meeting at Dinty Mohr's. ,
Classified ad in Mail Tribune:
"WANTED Young man, alone,
wishes to hear from maid or
young widow matrimonially in
clined. 40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20. 1915
(It was Wednesday)
City council and Southern Pa
cific compromise that train engi
neers pull lightly on the whistle
cord, shorten the blasts and do
all in their power to moderate
noise of trains.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Hob S. Deuel, cashier of
the First National bank, has been
named second lieutenant in Com
pany 7,' to succeed R. N. Foster,
who moved away.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Raped
1. The new armed forces re
serves are supposed to build up
over the next five years to 290,-
000; 1,290,000; 2,900,000, or 12,
900.000 men?
o .. ..
2 No president or vice-presi
dent of the U.S. has ever re
signed; right or wrong?
3. Most U. S. cities spend more
each year on schools, libraries,
streets, police departments, hos
pitals, or garbage and trash col-
4. What make of car today
puts out a series called the
Montclair?.
5. Most states do or don't elect
governors this coming Novem
ber? 6. Adlai E. Stevenson's grand
father (same name) ran for Vice
President once and was elected,
or twice and elected twice, or
twice and elected once, or never
ran?
7. Rupprecht was the tradi
tional name of the king of Aus
tria, Bavafca, Bohemia, Den
mark, Poland or Prussia? . .
The Answers: 1. 2,900.000.
2. Wrong; John C. Calhoun re
signed as Vice-President in 1832
to enter the Senate. 3. On
schools. 4. Mercury. 5. Most
don't. 6. Ran twice, was elected
once. 7. Bavaria.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days 5:30 sieviouday.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Oct. 15 Usually a moral victory in sports is
pretty watery soup. But not for Stanford Saturday against UCLA.
For except for the first quarter when the Uclans ran up 21 points
in about 20 minutes, the boys from down yonder outplayed their
highly-touted rivals, and,when the whistle sounded were only one
point and one foot from tying the score. It was a great game, one
of the most exciting in an exciting and upsetting season. In spite
of the radio broadcasters boosting for the Uclans a more rankly
partisan report we have never heard the Indians followed the
example of their namesakes in the baseball world and with a
break or two from Lady Luck would have tied the game. As every
one now knows the final score was California-at-Los Angeles 21,
Stanford 13.
San Francisco of course is a great place for sports over radio
and TV. Saturday there was the Stanford-UCLA tussle at Palo Alto
in the afternoon and the Oregon-California and OSC versus College
of Pacific at Stockton Saturday night. The Oregon victory, 21 to 0,
was a surprise to this department and a very pleasant one but it
wasn t very interesting too one sided. We can t recall a California
football team being outclassed by an Oregon team before, but that
is the way it sounded from Portland. We didn't get all the OSC
game but the final minutes were about as tense and thrilling as
anyone could wish. Naturally Ye Editor was boosting all out for
the Beavers but COP paid no heed and won out by 6 points in the
last two or three mmutes.
Sunday the game between the S.F. 49'ers and the ex-pro cham
pions, Detroit, was the pigskin offering and here was another
shilling-shocker at least it must have given a shock to the 50,000
Detroit fans who sat in the rain for two hours and a half to see
their team beaten once more in the last two or three minutes
by 3 points, when at the half they had a lead of 18 points. Those
alleged 49-er fans who booed Quarterback Tittle up at Kezar a
couple of weeks ago, and yelled to put him on the bench, should
feel pretty cheap, for it was Tittle and his quick-thinking that
won the game. Knocked over and half buried in the mud, "Old
Baldy" flipped the ball to Ha?f-back Perry for a score that turned
defeat into a grand and glorious victory.
Some apologies should also be coming Chuck Taylor's way.
When the ebullient 'IChuck" returned from that terrific beating
Stanford received at Michigan State he had no alibis to offer, he
merely remarked Michigan State had the strongest team in the
Middle West, was going to the Rose Bowl, adding that to be de
feated by such a super aggregation did not necessarily mean Stan
ford did not have a chance against UCLA. All the local sports writ
ers gave him the horse-laugh, but they still have to prove that he
was wrong. We doubt if even Ira Blue can sell Michigan State short
after that Saturday victory over Notre Dame.
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So much for football too much for some, no doubt.
Glad to note France and England are not behaving in accord
ance with their traditions. Instead of firing Premier Faure France
has sustained him and England instead of behaving in its usual
conservative and proper manner regarding the romance between
Princess Margaret and war hero Townsend, is behaving in a most
UN-British fashion. In fact the newspapers and the rank and file
are acting much as the Britishers have in the past accused the
crude and vulgar Americans of acting, particularly in Hollywood.
Why can't they leave the poor youngsters alone and let them and
their families work out their own personal affairs in their own
way? Our guess is the Princess will do much as her Uncle David
did with more justification, for after all she doesn't have to give up
the throne or shirk any duties of importance in marrying the man
of her choice. However in this case as in many others only time
can telL
The Weather Man isn't doing so well today, but his batting
average since our arrival is still extremely high. No rain for over
a month but cold and cloudy now for three days.
Ran into the Dr. Tom Emmens en route to Medford after visit
ing Reno and Las Vegas. They both looked fit and frisky but we
got the idea they found Reno more rewarding than L.A. R.W.R. '.
Washington
ON NOMINATING
VICE PRESIDENTS
Washington There is a grow
ing feeling that the 1956 nom
inating conventions ought not
to be allowed to go by without
improving the method of select
ing Vice Presidential candidates.
It is not too soon to begin.
There is no prospect of chang
ing the long habit of choosing
Vice Presidential nominees as
a back-of-the-wrist, back-stge,
casual after-thought to the main
event' unless there is an affirm
ative public demand. - -
The need for applying dif
ferent and much higher stand-,
ards of qualification for the Vice
Presidential nominees of both
parties should not be blurred by
present personalities. There are
many who will feel that Vice
President Richard Nixon and
Senator John Sparkman, the
1952 nominees, were above the
average. But the basis for their
nomination was not their fitness
to become President , of the
United States. This was only in
cidental or accidental and that
is not good enough when we are
selecting the possible heir to
the most exacting, powerful of
fice in the world today.
- - In 1952 neither Senator Nixon
nor Senator Sparkman was con
sidered by either party as qual
ified for the Presidential nom
ination. This has-been the case
in every Vice Presidential nom
ination except in the earliest
years of the republic. '
Not in 119 years that is
since the nomination of Vice
President Martin Van Buren to
succeed President Aslrew Jack
son has a Vice President ever
received a Presidential nomin
ation without first getting the
Presidency by death'.
It is rather revealing that
while the Democratic Party
hesitated to consider Alben
Barkley , for the Presidential
nomination in 1948 because of
age, it did not hesitate to give
him the Vice Presidential nom
ination. TT IS not just President Eisen
hower"s illness which makes
it important ' to re-appraise the
casual attitude toward choosing
Vice Presidential nominees.
The law of averages is dang
erously on the side that a Vice
President will succeed to the
Presidency without being elect
ed to the Presidency Ten of
the 36 Vice Presidents in 166
years have become President
seven by accident, that is by the
death of the President. That
makes it one in five. Haven't
w bad enough experience to
Thursday, October 20. 1955
Roscoe Drummond
decide that the time has come
for both parties to determine
Presidential and Vice President
ial nominations by the. same
standard?
The tendency to neglect the
Vice Presidential nomination,
has become habit-forming in
American history. The awesome
responsibilities of the Presidency
grow and grow. They are more
grinding upon the President
than ever, but neither party
approaches the Vice Presiden
tial nomination as though it
were choosing its "second best
man" to be ready for the high
est office.
.''
"rpHE MILWAUKEE Journal"
is already giving impressive
voice support to persuading the
parties to make their choice of
Vice Presidential nominees more
carefully, more deliberately and
in keeping with the concept that
they are picking somebody, not
just to preside over the Senate,
but very possibly to preside
over the nation.
"The Journal," for example,
notes that the Vice-Presidency
itself was a long-delayed after
thought of the founding fathers,
that not until thirteen days be
fore adjournment of the Con
stitutional Convention did even
the words "Vice President"
enter the debate as recorded by
Madison's journal. Benjamin
Franklin lightly dismissed the
Vice President as "His ' Super
flous Majesty."
Times have changed, the
Presidency has become vastly
more exacting. The expectation
that the Vice President will suc
ceed to the Presidency is great
er. No act of Congress, no law,
no change in the Constitution
can guarantee that the political
parties will select their "second
best man" for the Vice Presid
ency. The parties will treat the
Vice Presidency with adequate
respect only when public opin
ion requests them to do so.
The Presidency and the Vice
Presidency are not too big for
two men of Presidential stature
at the time of nomination.
(C) 1955, New York Herald
Tribun Inc.
McKay Flying Home
For Mother's Funeral
Portland . (U.P Interior
Secretary Douglas McKay will
fly here from Washington today
for the funeral of his mother, 82-year-old
Mrs. J. W. Frater.
Mrs. Frater died Tuesday at
St. Vincents hospital in Portland
following a brief illness. She had
lived here most of her life.
Matter Of
STEVENSON NOT
HAPPY 'WARRIOR
Chicago, 111. Adlai E. Ste
venson is marching into the 1956-
campaign with banners flying
and a consid
erably larger
following than
any other
D e m o c r atic
candidate; but
he is not a too
happy warrior
all the same:
The trouble,
far as one
judge, is
. great
Joseph AUo change that
has come over the. American po
litical scene since the illness of
President Eisenhower. It may
seem incredible that any Demo
cratic politician should sincere
ly regret, even in his inmost
heart of hearts, that his party
will not have to try to beat
Eisenhower.
Yet Stevenson quite genuinely
appears to regret this easing of
the Democratic problem. He had
made up his mind to one kind of
campaign, with President Eisen
hower at the head of the Repub
lican ticket. He was even eager
for it. But now he has got to
make up his mind to another
kind of campaign. No doubt he
will make that kind of cam
paign and make it well. But he
is not eager for it.
There was certainly a good
deal of optimism in the way
Stevenson originally expected
the campaign to develop. He had
hoped, first of all, that no other
Democrat would really care to
take on the Republican grand
champion. In the Stevenson
camp, even Senator Estes Kefau
ver, the man who runs for the
Presidency as a lemming runs
into the sea, was expected to
master his instincts and hold
still on this occasion.
With no significant competi
tion, : Stevenson, the generally
accepted Democratic candidate
designate, was to give the win
ter, spring and early summer to
developing the issues. Then
would come the campaign, which
was to be an elevated "Demo
cratic dialogue" with President
Eisenhower. And after that the
voters were to do their duty as
citizens, and all would be over.
, This remarkable projection, so
happily devoid of political squal
or or vulgar excess, has now of
course been knocked galley-west.
Sen. Kefauver's instincts are in
the saddle again, encouraged,
some Stevensonians darkly sus
pect, by Republican or even
Harriman money. Averell Harri
man is less and less for Steven
son and more and more for Har
riman.' Former President Tru
man, who used to be for Steven
son! too, has begiih to talk out
of both sides of his mouth; and
this has been a very bitter blow
indeed.
.'.'
PRIMARIES loom ahead, and
Stevenson will have to slug it
out with Kefauver in enough key
primaries to convince his party
that he' is' even more the "peo
ple's Adlai" than Kefauver is the
"people's Estes." .On this point
Stevenson has said, "I'm eager to
fight the Republicans, but I had
hoped I could give my whole
time to the enemy, instead of
spending most, of it fighting my
own party."
And even after the primaries,
even when the nomination has
been won, the election will have
to be fought against Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon or some oth
er Republican very unlike Pres
ident Eisenhower. And so the
development of a high level
Democratic dialogue is very un
likely indeed, and this is another
disappointment. '
Possibly this reporter came to
Chicago at an unfortunate mo
ment, and so found Stevenson in
an unfortunate and unrepresent
ative mood. In the old days,
when appearances were better
maintained, Stevenson had been
invited to speak in New York at
a grand Democratic dinner
planned by Harriman and De
Sapio. But now the sapient De-Sapio-
had just abruptly can
celled the engagement, un
doubtedly because he regarded
Stevenson as much too far ahead
already, and did not wish to en
courage the Stevenson trend fur
ther by any seeming lukewarm-
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The just received did-invita-tion
from the camp of Harriman,
whom Stevenson genuinely re
garded as a friend, had left a
rather obvious wound. Further
more, an impending speech in
Minnesota made the farm prob
lem the issue of the moment in
the Stevenson camp. All Steven
son's advisors were pleading, al
most on their knees, for a ring
ing indorsement of the grand
Democratic promise of farm
prices rigidly sustained at 90
per cent of parity. But Stevenson,
with his almost excessive deli
cacy in such matters, was reluct
ant to make any such flat prom
ise, as being demagogic.
It was for these reasons, per
haps, that Stevenson was say
ing such things as: "A man does
not run for the Presidency just
because he thinks he would like
the work and enjoy the salary."
And: "I'm not going to say to
my party, 'Folks, I'm going to
fight for this thing.' It's up to
the party to say who they want"
PROBABLY these were only
the last jibbings of a spirited
and nervous horse, before ac
cepting the heavy harness, push
ing forward into the collar and
setting off. down the road at a
spirited clip. It seems certain at
any rate although Stevenson
does not like to admit it that he
will announce his candidacy be
for long; that he will fight hard
to get the nomination after he
has announced it, and that he
will fight hard to win the Presi
dency if he is nominated.
Yet these last jibbing of Stev
enson's none the less possess the
highest political significance. In
a truly extraordinary degree in
a way, in truth, that may not
happen more than twice or thrice
in a generation this man is
equipped for the high tasks of
political leadership. Thus far,
however, he seems to lack that
sense of personal mission, that
all - impelling, all - consuming
sense of purpose, that made the
great William Ewart Gladstone
into the original "people's Wil
liam." If you set out to be a
moral politician, as Stevenson
has very clearly done, the going
is always likely to be hard if
you do not have that kind of
sense of mission to drive you on.
(C) 1955. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Temperature Shift
Switches Mercury;
Connecticut Angry
By UNITED PRESS ;
A temperature shift made it
warmer in Minneapolis, Minn.,
than in Atlanta, Ga., today. .
An autumn cold snap dropped
the temperature to 47 in Atlanta.
But at Minneapolis the early
morning temperature stood at 56.
The pattern was repeated else
where in the country, with the
mercury rising as much as 26 de
grees in the Western Middle
West, but huddling in the 40s as
far south as Alabama and Geor
gia. Meanwhile, angry New Eng
enders demanded state and fed
eral action against floods. .
Shouts Greet Governor
Gov. Abraham Ribicoff, tour
ing devastated Connecticut areas,
was greeted with shouts and
angry placards at Hartford. May
or William T. Sheasby told Ribi
coff in a showdown" meeting
that his people couldn't take an
other flood.
Connecticut was hardest hit by
the week-end floods which
killed 50 persons in New Eng
land. , -
Waters were receding rapidly
in another flood-stricken region
in Western Mexico, but they left
behind 50 persons dead and
heavy damage. Five communities
in Jalisco state were reported
"wiped off the map" by a flood
ing Pacific storm which hit four
days ago.
Though often denounced for
destroying birds, the skunk aids
man by eating vast1 hordes of
cut-worms, potato beetles, white
grubs, and other crop ravagers.
Courthouse
Harold Snodgrass
DIRECTORS
Nationalist Regime
On Formosa Facing
internal Difficulty
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The Chinese Nationalist re
gime on Formosa seems to be
facing a period of eternal trou
ble. ,
Two issues
which affect
the army and
the cabinet are
developing.
The first
concerns an of
ficial report,
made public to
day, on Gen.
Sun Li - Jen,
widely respect-
cuaries Mccann ea Dy Ameri
can military men. The report
held that Sun must share re
sponsibility for an alleged pro
Communist spy plot of which
one of his most trusted aides is
accused.
The second concerns Premier
O. K. Yui and Foreign Minister
George Yeh. Some influential
members of the government po
litical party, the Kuomintang, ac
cuse Yui and Yeh of being "too
American.",
Yui also is charged with fait
ing to come up with a solution
of the island's serious economic
situation.
Sun is -54, white haired but
youthful looking. He probably
is the most brilliant Nationalist
general. Like Yui, he might be
called pro-American.
Sun took theMegree of bach
elor of science at Purdue uni
versity and the degree of bach
elor of arts at Virginia Military
Institute.
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He has had a notable military
career. But he made the mistake
of opposing the political com
missar , system which -f Gen.
Chiang ching- Kuo introduced
into the army. Chiang ching-
Kuo is the son of Generalissimo
Chiang kai-Shek. He is regard
ed as the second most powerful
man on Formosa.
Chiang ching-Kuo learned
about the commissar system in
Russia, where he spent many
years as a hostage.
Sun was demoted from the
post of commander-in-chief of
the ground forces to that of per
sonal chief of staff to the gener
alissimo. ' .
Then, last May, Maj. Kuo ting
Liang, a member of Sun's staff,
was arrested. It was asserted of
ficially that he confessed being
the leader of a spy plot.
It was announced in August
that Sun had resigned after ad
mitting "negligence" because of
the alleged plot.
Since then Sun has been un
der investigation by a special
government committee which
made its report against him to
day. . .
A Scapegoat
There is suspicion that Sun is
being made a scapegoat. The
army, or most of it, shares his
opposition to young Chiang's po
litical commissar system.
Hence army morale, especially
important in Nationalist Formo
sa, will be badly affected. But if
the committee had cleared Sun,
young Chiang would not have
been pleased. .
The trouble in the cabinet re-
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Argentina Ousting
Election Machinery
Buenos Aires (U.R) Argen
tina's provisional government
today was sweeping away oust
ed dictator Juan D. Peron's cor
rupt election machinery in pre
paration for new presidential
elections.
Provisional President Eduardo
Lonardi, disclosing the action in
an interview with United Press
on Wednesday night, said no
member -of the government
which replaced Peron would be
a candidate in the election.
He also left little doubt that
Peron's Peronista party would
be barred from participation as
a political party. :
Raising of Shetland
Ponies Big Business
Ponca City, Okla. (U.R)--
Raising ponies is big business. E.
P. Gonterman and his brother,
Ray, paid a record $8,500 for a
four-year-old blue roan mare and
a copper sorrel colt at the an
nual Perry, Okla., Shetland pony
sale this summer.
E. P. started raising the Shet-
Iands as a hobby 10 years ago.
The hobby developed into the
Beau Cheval Shetland pony farm
at the green gables farm west
of here.
fleets the growing fear on For
mosa that the United States may
be drawn into giving the Chin
ese Reds at least practical, if not
formal, recognition and that as
the result the Peiping regime
may be admitted to the United
Nations.
Opponents of Premier Yui and '
Foreign Minister Yeh say they
have tied the Nationalist regime
too closely to the political strings
of the United States.
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