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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1. 1945
(It was Thursday)
Miss Anne Livingston elected
temporary chairman of newly
organized Medford unit of Coun
cil of Oregon Republican Worn-
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The city of
Omaha plans to buy a couple of
army flame throwers and burn
the weeds off every vacant lot
in town. Like "Phoenix" weeds
always rise from their own ashes.
The best way to kill weeds on
vacant lots is to cover it with
cement and then build a service
station.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1 1955
(It was Friday)
Five inches of snow at Klam
ath Falls threatens to cancel
football game with Medford.
Southern Oregon Brewing
company plans $10,000 addition
to North Fir st. plant.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1, 1925
(It was Sunday)
"Western Oregon Indians de
mand $12,000,000 from govern
ment for Indian lands taken
without promise of compensa
tion. J. C. Mann, Jackson county
Red Cross chairman, announces
plan for annual chapter roll call.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1. 1915
(It was Monday)
From Jacksonville Items: Tht
wedding of Sanford Richardson
and Miss May Nealon took place
at the home of Mrs. G. A. Gard
ner Tuesday evening.
From Local and Personal col
umn: George Wilkes, of Imperial
valley, is in the city today, look
ing for an excuse to remain.
George belongs to a family
whose members generally suc
ceed in discovering the coveted
opportunity. When on the trail
of real business, they are good
detectives.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. The recent stock market
slide was accompanied by a rise
or a fall in retail sales, or left
them about the same?
2. About one, two, three, four
or five of very 10 TV sets now
being sold is a second set in the
same family?
3. Violence broke out in the
strike against the Perfect Circle
Corp. in Illinois, Indiana, Michi
gan or Ohio?
4. The United Nations charter
was drawn up 10 years ago at
Geneva, Dumbarton Oaks (Wash
ington), Potsdam, San Francisco,
or Bretton Woods?
5. President Eisenhower has
appeared less or more often on
TV than President Truman did,
or to about the same extent?
6. About one-fourth, one-third,
one-half or two-thirds of all U.S.
auto drivers are women?
7. Most natives of the Saai
are of French or German extrac
tion, or is it about 50-50?
The Answers: 1. Retail sales
rise. 2 .About two out of 10. 3.
Indiana. 4. San Francisco. 5.
Much more often. 6. About one
Ihird. 7. Most are German.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
Boon Saturday. 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday; other da 5:30 devious day.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Oct. 30 The College of the Pa
cific is a disciple of "rock 'em and sock 'em football."
Both Idaho and San Jose State have complained of
unnecessary roughness. The alibi of the coach has
been football is a rough game and those who can't
play it that way should keep out of it. Ok. But when
C of P plays UCLA it will be interesting to see how
pugh. they will be. Our prediction is they won't be
knocking out teeth and breaking arms and legs when
they come up against a team that can slug it out with
them if that is the way they want it. Incidently, what
were the officials doing while the mayhem was going
on? They should pay a little more attention to offside
tactics and less to offside plays, unless they can do
both.
If we remember correctly the University of Wash
ington slaughtered the University of Minnesota at
the start of the season. Yesterday the team that many
experts have regarded as the strongest on the coast
USC invaded the Midwest and was beaten by
Minnesota. Also yesterday Oregon State College de
feated the same University of Washington. Where
does that place O.S.C., Mr. Jewett?
All in all this was a disappointing football week
end. Once mighty California was massacred bv
mighty UCLA, Stanford had more trouble with San
Jose State but not MUCH. The thrillin? frame in the
East was that between Michigan and Iowa the
Wolverines, ending the first half two touchdowns be
hind to come out fighting mad and win by two. The
Notre Dame contest was disappointing Notre Dame
was expected to win on its home grounds they sel
dom lose tnere out Navy, unbeaten and with a na
tional record for tisrht defense, was exoected to nut.
up a better fight.
The same in the East
be a return engagement between Michigan and Mich
igan btate. Micnigan state was beaten m their first
meeting, but according to all accounts, outplayed their
big Brother, throughout.
.
Congressman Ellsworth follows Secretary Mc
Kay's line, declaring all claims he is not for public
power and in favor of private power adds up to par
tisan politics. It is merely talk to get votes, in other
words, and has no basis in fact. So HE says! -
We trust that before "the campaign is over the
records in both cases are presented to the voters so
they can be easily read and understood.
I don t care whether it is public or private power
as long as we get it," cries'our veteran representative
in the Lower House.
That's good political talk, but it is double talk
also. Both McKay and Ellsworth have been working
against Hells Canyon and the extension of public
power anywhere else in the
consistently and conscientiously for the extension of
private power and the further entrenchment of large
private business interests. That is good GOP political
doctrine and we have no particular quarrel with them
for sticking to the ship. We
refusal to admit it.
Quite a flurry in Union
noon when the pigeons frequenting that popular sun
ning place started to drop dead. One of the gardeners
at work there filled a basket and there was a search
for the culprit. It was assumed some one suffering
from a pigeon complex had been scattering poison
bread or grain. We could find no one who had any
other explanation and were surprised to find nothing
in the morning papers about it. .
Walking back to the hotel up Geaiy there was an
other dead pigeon on the sidewalk in front of the
Stewart hotel. Two or three women were sadly con
templating same. One of them, looking up at the top of
the building, surmised it must have fallen to the side
walk to its death. R.W.R.
Editorial Comment
PARKS ALONG THE ROGUE
Public access to fishing spots
on the Rogue river has been
limited to extensive private
ownership of the lands through
which the river flows. The state
game commissions is moving to
open up spots where fishermen
can get down to the water. Using
game funds the commission is
taking title or acquiring ease
ments to seven spots along the
Rogue river. They will be devel
oped as recreational parks with
picnic and boating facilities. Pro
vision will be made for boat ac
cess at particular spots and bank
angling will be permitted. Jack
son county has agreed to main
tain the parks and the access
roads.
On first reading of the Med
ford Mail-Tribune's account of
the project it looked as though
the game commission was going
into the park business, and using
funds from hunting and fishing
licenses for the purpose. Inquiry
however brings information that
the commission's chief purpose
is to promote the angling oppor
tunities along the Rogue. That
will be welcomed by those who
buy fishing licenses and have
felt access to the Rogue was
denied them.
Oregon has one state park
commission now, whose mem
bership is the same as the high
way commission, and doesn't
want two. In this case the parks
really will become county parks.
Looking ahead it is easy to see
pressures mount on counties to
establish parks to fill the gap
Tuesday. November 1, 1955
we would like tn rp.p wnnld
northwest, have worked
have a quarrel for their
Square yesterday around
between city parks and state
parks. More people with more
automobiles and more leisure
time want, and need, more
places for recreation.
Salem (Ore.) Statesman.
Brislol To Review
National AMC Meet
Faye Bristol of Rogue River,
representative of the American
Mining Congress, wili review
important features of the na
tional AMC convention at Los
Vegas, Nev., at a meeting of the
Northwestern Mining council at
8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in
the Lincoln school gymnasium.
Also scheduled to speak are
Attorney Bruce Manley of Med
ford on geology courses offered
through the Oregon Extension
service, and W. L. Coombs of
Phoenix, on a permanent min
eral display in Jackson county.
Coombs is chairman of the
council's committee on exhibits,
which has been studying possi
bilities of locating a mineral
display in the county for the
general public and tourists.
NEWS AGENCY OBSERVES
Tokyo CU.R) Kyodo News
Agency marked its 10th birth
day today at ceremonies in its
main Tokyo offices. The news
agency was organized during
the Allied occupation on Nov.
1, 1945. after the pre-war do
mestic news agency was dissolved.
Fear of Full-Scale
Israel-Egypt Fight
Has Good Foundation
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Pres Correspondent
There appears to be real rea
son for fear that war may break
out any day between Israel and
Egypt.
It could be
caused by one
of the border
incidents that
now are a mat
ter of almost
daily occur
rence. If it happen
ed, almost un
doubtedly oth
er Arab coun-
Ciiarles JUcCanu trjes on Israel's
frontiers would be drawn into it.
It would be a war in which
Russia would be among the vic
tors whichever side won, be
cause chaos in any part of the
free world aids the Communist
conspiracy.
Israel now has military super
iority, and the Arab nations al
most certainly realize it.
Egypt Fears Israel
Egypt is buying weapons from
Communist Czechoslovakia on
Russia's initiative because it
fears Israel.
Israel fears the potential mil
itary power of Egypt and other
Arab countries because Israel is
ringed by them, and they enjoy
enourmous superiority in popu
lation. Influential elements in Israel
are talking about the advisabil
ity of a "preventive" war against
Egypt before that country gets
all of its Communist arms and
its troops learn how to use them.
This talk takes into considera
tion the fact that the rainy sea
Matte? Of FCICt By Joe and Stewart Alsop
BIG BROTHER'S EARS
Washington A little more
than three-and-a-half years ago,
a routine inspection of the Amer
ican Embassy
in Moscow
brought the
surprise of its
collective life
one of the
counter - in
telligence teams that
have to be em
ployed, in this
charming era
of ours, to
keep our Em-
Stewart Alsop
! bassy secure. ,
At an apparently irrelevant
point, far away in enormous
Spasso House from the Ambassa
dor's office-library, the team's
electronic equipment studdenly
began to pick up the quiet con
versation of the Ambassador of
that period, George F. Kennan,
at his office desk.
The revelation that the U.S.
Ambassador to the Soviet Union
was unconsciously on the air
stimulated a
fairly inten
sive search for
broadcast i n g
apparatus, as
can be imag
ined. What
was found,
however, was
no ordinary,
easily - detec
table hidden
radio sender,
but something Joseph Also
altogether new to the investiga
tors. After all but tearing the place
apart, the despairing investiga
tors took down the office-library's
big, ornamental Grand
Seal of the United States, which
had been sent out to be painted
and repaired about four months
earlier. In the Great Seal, hid
den behind the eagle, they dis
covered a match-box sized device
composed of a specially ma
chinedQmetal cup, a thin metallic
diaphragm that covered the cup
and a tiny antenna that pro
truded to one side. There were
no batteries, no wires, no con
nection with electric power of
any kind. But this mysterious ob
ject was presumed to be the
source of the ambassadorial
broadcast because no other sus
picious object could be discov
ered by the most meticulous
search.
The Soviet organizers of the
unintentional a m b a s s a dorial
broadcast were of course auto
matically notified that their
trick had been discovered when
the broadcasts suddenly ceased.
But secrecy is now an end in it
self in the American govern
ment. The discovery in Spasso
House was automatically triple
wrapped in security classifica
tions. Hence it took many
months for the mysterious ob
ject from behind the eagle to
reach the American experts who
were technically qualified to
identify it.
rpHE EXPERTS then discovered
J- that this object was a resona
tor, designed to receive and to
bounce back, a highly selective
radio beam. Its diaphragm was
simultaneously agitated both by
the radio beam and nearby hu
man voices. Thus the sounds of
the voices was included in the
electronic echo that the resona
tor bounced back.
The American counter-intelligence
team had picked up Ken
nan's voice by wandering, by
son is due in Palestine in about
one month.
If Israel attacked before then,
it is argued, the rains would bog
down the Egyptians before they
could organize an effective coun
terattack. Israeli Prime Minister Moshe
Sharett went to Geneva to ask
the foreign ministers of the Un
ited States, Great Britain and
France, now attending the Big
Four conference there, for arms
to offsett those Egypt is getting.
Apparently Sharett got no
firm promises.
Instead the Western allies are
trying to get Russia to stop its
meddling in what has become a
crisis. That is most unlikely to
happen.
Syria Offered Arms
It is reported from Cairo that
Saudi Arabia, one of the Arab
countries, has been offered
"Czechoslovak" arms and has
practicaUy decided to take them.
Syria, another of Israel's Arab
neighbors, is reported consider
ing a similar offer.
Russia also has just renewed
a friendship agreement with the
Arab state of Yemen and has
arranged for an exchange of dip
lomatic envoys.
Egypt has concluded new mil
itary alliances with Saudi Ar
abia and Syria.
Just what the United States,
Britain and France will do or
can do to ease the present sit
uation is uncertain.
But the Palestine issue, which
is not on the formal program for
discussion at the Big Four Gen
eva conference, may turn out to
be the most important item dis
cussed there.
sheer, happy, unlikely accident,
into the narrow path of the elec
tronic echo the resonator was
sending to the Soviet intelli
gence. This triumph of Soviet ingen
uity (which seems to have been
based on an American com
mercial patent of 1945) long ago
did all the harm it could do.
There are good reasons now,
however, for disclosing and dis
cussing this something startling
episode of several years ago.
In the first place, both the
episode itself and the device that
produced it are still officially
hidden from the American pub
lie, although the Soviet intelli
gence has of course known ev
erything there was to know from
the very beginning. There are
reasons to-believe, furthermore,
that this is not just another ex
ample of the customary ostrich
headedness of American official
dom.
There seems to be another ma
tive, in fact. The Moscow reson
ator - is a wonderfully easily
concealed listening device. Fur
thermore, since it requires no
wiring, it does not come within
the scope of the anti-wiretapping
laws. According to credible re
port, it is now being used by the
Federal flatfeet to circumvent
the rather trifling limitations
which the anti-wiretapping laws
place upon police invasions of
privacy.
TT IS only one among many
such devices, of course. Para
bolic microphones of small di
mension can now be beamed to
pick up conversations at dis
tances of many hundreds of feet.
Experiments are being made
with more advanced listening
systems, that will use the win
dows of your room or the walls
of your office as resonators, ' so
that there need be no bother
about planting such an object as
was found in Kennan's Moscow
office. These devices not cov
ered by the anti-wiretapping
laws are of course additional to
the bewildering variety of wire
tapping devices and to the other
devices by which telephones are
transformed into listening me
chanisms even when not in use.
Big brother's ears, in short,
may be anywhere and every
where nowadays. Besides being
used by big brother's govern
ment, furthermore, the same
ears are being more and more
widely used by commercial spies,
private detectives and plain
blackmailers, as has recently
been shown by the wiretapping
scandal in New York City.
The ancient right of privacy
of all American citizens is being
rapidly eroded away by the
triumph of electronic technology.
But not very long ago, when a
major national magazine tried
to explain how this was happen
ing, the Defense Department re
quested silence .on the subject.
Presumably the idea was to keep
the country from realizing how
very sharp big brother's ears
are getting.
(Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Homesick Russian
Telephones Wife
Washington (U.PJV. S. Ti
mofeyev, a homesick member of
a Russian housing delegation
touring this country, can't for
get how his wife, Nina Vassily,
cried when he left home.
The National Homebuilders
Association, host to the Russians,
arranged for Timofeyev to call
Moscow today and talk to her. .
tj, ,j t : mfffifli fir wri-iruiM
TESTIFYING before House,
judiciary subcommittee, Peter
A. Strobel, commissioner of
pblic buildings service, de
nies he used government post
to promote business for New
York firm of which he is
partner. (International)
In the Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
What is happening at Geneva?
I wouldn't know, of course.
But Allen Dulles, chief of the
U.S. Central Intelligence agency,
gives us some good advice. He
says:
"No lasting security is possible
in the world as long as the pres
ent Soviet system remains. The
men in the Kremlin have great
facility for changing their tac
tics as convenience and circum
stances dictate."
HE DOESN'T mean that we
must turn in and destroy the
Soviet system by preventive
war. He does mean we mustn't
kid ourselves or let anyone else
kid us.
Our job is walk softly . and
carry a big stick.
AS TO Geneva, the dispatches
tell us the Big Four foreign
ministers met in an attempt to
find some common ground to
deal on how to reunite Germany
and achieve European peace.
However, the dispatches add,
there are many fears they may
face a stalemate in ' East-West
views which show little chance
of being reconciled. The best
opinion seems to be that they
will direct their arguments
toward winning popular support,
particularly in Germany.
THAT LENDS added interest
to another dispatch from
overseas.
Doctors expect West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to
make a full recovery from his
recent bronchial pneumonia. But
indications are that he won't be
able to resume full activity until
early next year.
TVfORE GOOD news from the
doctors:
A medical bulletin from Den
ver says that President Eisen
hower had a good night's sleep
and awoke feeling refreshed and
cheerful. The doctors announced
after an exhaustive and careful
examination that his heart es
caped enlargement during his
illness.
They call that an excellent
sign.
PRESIDENT Eisenhower and
Chancellor Adenauer are
GREAT leaders. People all over
the world have FAITH in them.
Leaders in whom' the people
have faith can work wonders
The longer Ike and Adenauer
can be spared, the better the
chances for peace in the world
will be.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S
health is improving so satis
factorily that his doctors are per
mitting him to sit in on an im
portant policy conference in his
hospital room.
Present at the conference
were to be his brother, Dr. Mil
ton Eisenhower, who is a for
mer executive of the department
of agriculture, Postmaster Gen
eral Summerfield and Secretary
of Agriculture Benson.
It is accepted as a foregone
conclusion that the farm prob
lem and what to do about it
will be the chief subject of dis
cussion. DPEAKING of the farm prob-
lem:
In the little town of Spencer,
la. the other day a supermarket
operator named Cliff Ritchie de
cided to tackle a one-man pork
surplus operator pork being an
important agricultural product
in the state of Iowa.
So he put on a sale in his
store. Choice bacon went at 13
cents a half pound and pork
chops and roasts sold for 29
cents a pound. Name-brand pork
sausage was priced at 19 cents.
By mid-afternoon he had sold
7,000 pounds of pork, his stock
was exhausted and his buyers
were out rustling for more pork
in all the neighboring towns.
He called his special sale
"Operation Pork-Lift" and said
it was inspired by a desire to
show that the best way of getting
rid of surplus food is to EAT IT.
That just about tells the story.
GIFT RETURNED
Detroit (U.R) Alice McLin-
tock regretted today that she
shouted at a thief who snatched
a S3. 50 gift purchase from her.
She told police Sunday the thief
returned the gift but grabbed
her purse and fled.
Washinqton
WHAT IS A 'CABINET SPLIT
Washington Twice, now, a
White House spokesman has giv
en out an honest-Injun, cross-his-heart
denial that there is or was
and who would ever think
such a thing? a split in the
Cabinet over farm policy.
It is important, therefore, to
see exactly what is being denied
and to determine whether the
denial reaches to the substance
rather than just to the words of
the information which has been
published in this column.
Two different things are be
ing denied.
The White House is denying
as "completely unfounded and
untrue" an article in a farm
magazine which stated that some
members of the Eisenhower Cab
inet had sought to bring about
the removal of Secretary of Ag
riculture Ezra Taft Benson.
That looks like a good denial
to me. I see no reason to ques
tion it at all. It is certainly possi
ble for Cabinet members to dis
agree over policy and programs
without wanting to bring about
each other's removal.
T1HE White House is also deny-
ing that there is any breach
or any split in the Cabinet over
what Mr. Benson is doing or not
doing.
I hear otherwise.
Now everyone in Washington
knows that no . Administration
likes the correspondents writing
about "splits" in the Cabinet.
The White House doesn't like
this kind of information to leak
and I can appreciate that the
words "breach" and ' "split"
sound perfectly awful to some,
quite understandable to others.
This is the reason it seems to
me that the White House denial
touches the words of what has
been printed here, but does not
really deny the substance.
One member of the Cabinet,
remonstrating with me for re
porting that there had been a
split in the Cabinet over farm
policy, remarked: "There just
hasn't been a split. Why, there
has been no more disagreement
over farm matters than there
has been when we discuss the
defense budget or other contro
versial issues."
To an outsider this certainly
sounds like confirmation, not de
nial. The denial is over words
and it is obvious that one man's
"split" is another man's "dis
agreement." T has happened is that
there is honest and sub-
Communications
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the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ol a pen name or
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sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
A Sign of Shame?
To the Editor: To those In
Medford who call themselves
Christians and Americans ha
ha. Wonder what our Blessed
Saviour would say if he was to
suddenly appear as he promises.
He who loved and died for us,
who suffered torture and death
so we could inherit a beautiful
happy life in a place where color,
creed or race and money will
make no difference, and where
all will be loved.
And now, to think this could
happen in our wonderful Amer
ica which was settled by people
of all races, colors, religion;
where God has blessed us all,
especially in our beautiful Med
ford. Have the people who settled
our beautiful country suddenly
accented Communism, racial
hatred, a thing our wonderful
President is fighting against? I
for one, and many more in this
valley, am ashamed. We live in
a place where people are so un
christian and stuffy as to perse
cute a family because of color,
whose boy is at point of death.
May our wonderful Lord and
Saviour decide not to appear till
the slate is wiped clean in Med
ford. Let's hoDe when the book
of life is opened that I or my
beloved's names are not found
with this awful stain against it.
All those who say "Lord, Lord,"
will be told, "Depart from Me
. I know you not." Why I
wonder?
Stop and think of the punish
ment you are in for when the day
of resurrection comes. May God
forgive you all. This will make
good reading for foreign head
lines and will be wonderful read
ing and fine publicity for our
beautiful Rogue valley.
A sign should be erected out
side Medford, all ways, like this:
"Do not enter if your color is
not white as just angels live
here."
Name on File,
Ashland, Ore.
SUN DFE ASSURANCE
By
Roscof? Drummond
stantial dissent within the Cab
inet over whether Secretary
Benson will move fast enough,
far enough and fully enough to
deal with falling farm prices
particularly with a Presidential
election in the offing.
The divergent opinion within
the Cabinet is not over flexible
versus high rigid price supports.
That is settled as far as the Ad
ministration is concerned. No
Cabinet member is urging or
asking Mr. Benson to abandon
the flexible price support policy.
The divergence of opinion is
over whether Mr. Benson will
be prepared to take sufficiently
sweeping and emergency meas
ures to deal with the farmers'
cost-price squeeze or will stop
short of politically attractive
measures on the ground that
they violate basic principles of a
free - agriculture - free - economy
philosophy on which the Eisen
hower Administration has stood
in the past.
Call it serious split or just ser
ious discussion, there is mean
ingful disagreement among the
President's Cabinet advisers.
The disagreement is sharper
than is desirable to put before
President Eisenhower at the
present time and the pressure on
Mr. Benson is not only from the
Congressional farm -bloc poli
ticians but from some of his own
anxious colleagues.
A DAY after a White House
spokesman flatly denied that
anybody in the Administration
wanted to bring about the re
moval" of the Secretary of Agri
culture, Mr. Benson introduced
the topic himself in his speech
before Minnesota farmers. "I am
going to see it through," he said,
"just as long as the President
wants me to remain in his Cab
inet." He is on one condition: That
he isn't pushed or required to
carry government subsidy so far
that he feels he is creating a
"socialized agriculture."
But he can be pushed too far;
Mr. Benson will oppose farm
measures which head toward
government control and which
have.no terminal point in the
use of Federal funds.
Mr. Benson does not wish to
resign nor does he have any
present intention of resigning.
He will serve as long as the
President wants him and, what
is equally pertinent, as long as
the President supports him in
the essentials.
Mr. Benson would rather be
right as he sees right than
Secretary of Agriculture.
(C) 1955, New York Herald .
Tribune Inc.
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