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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 15, 1945
(It was Thursday)
City and- army air base offic
ials say Medford base not de
clared surplus, and will remain
military base.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It takes
four days for a committee to de
termine the Where and When of
a district title football game.
No wonder statesmen are un
able offhand to decide on final
rites for the atomic bomb.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 15. 1955
(It was Friday)
Congressman James W. Mott
schedules discussion of recently
passed legislation in congress at
Medford meeting.
Circuit Judge H. D. Norton
returns from Josephine county
to resume court sessions here.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 15. 1925
(It was Sunday)
Between 40 and 50 acres of
I. A. Merriman estate between
Medford and Central Point sold
to William Olson.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Geese are commencing
their southward flight and it is
said that thousands are now in
Lake and Klamath counties en
route to more sunny climes.
Several local hunting parties
have journeyed there to return
laden with game.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 15. 1915
(It was Monday)
Statue of Lincoln and Verona
marble fountain to be shipped
from Panama-Pacific exposition
to Ashland park.
Judge E. E. Kelly supports
sugar beet industry here, point
ing to prosperity on Idaho sugar
beet farms.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Average horsepower in
new cars has increased in the
last 25 years about one-fourth
one-half, three-fourths or 100
per cent?
2., The Communists took over
Russia as soon as the Czar was
dethroned in 1917; right or
wrong?
3. More or less than half the
members of Congress are mem
bers of the American Legion?
4. Which one of these prom
inent Republicans is youngest:
Warren, S t a s s e n, Knowland,
Nixon, Dewey, Herter, Milton
Eisenhower?
"7
5. Yugoslavia has been urged
for a seat on the UN Security
Council by the Soviet bloc or
by the U.S. or by neither?
6. U.S. college graduates over
the last 25 years have increased
by one-half, doubled, risen by
150 per cent, or about tripled?
7. Oldest U.S. synagogue is in
Newport, R.I., New York, Balti
more, Charleston, S.C., or St.
Augustine, Fla?
The Answers: I. 100 per cent.
2. Wrong; about seven months
later. 3. Considerably more than
half. 4. Nixon. 5. By the Soviet
bloc. 6. About tripled. 7. New
port. e PURCHASING AGENT DIES
New York (U.R) James L.
(Larry) Hoppes, 53, superintend
ent of telegraph and purchasing
agent of the United Press, died
unexpectedly late yesterday at
the Staten Island hospital.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Will They Ruin Football?
There was a report in San Francisco papers a
couple of weeks ago which did not receive the atten
tion in sports circles it should.
Two college football
third coast college football
ing to condemn "unnecessary roughness" but actually
instructing his team, before a game, to go out and
"get" a certain star quarterback and do it quick.
The order was promptly carried out. The quarter
back was not only put out
for the season.
TF THAT report is true
A wise it should be the subject of a football con
ference investigation and if the main facts are sub
stantiated that coach of college No. 3 should be fired
at once and barred from any coaching job anywhere
on the coast or anywhere
The acuused coach's
a rough, tough game, and
should stay out of it.
Football is a "rough and tough" game. But it isn't
or shouldn t be a dirty
hem or manslaughter. It is
est outdoor sport ever invented, has greater spectator
interest than any other, and should be both a thrill
and a great benefit physically and morally to the.par
ticipants. But if it is going to degenerate into a "battle roy
al" of the brass-knuckle type, with football coaches
advising such' practices in violation of all rules and
regulations, then the goose that, for so many years,
has laid the golden eggs will not only be killed, but
also public interest and football as a college sport.
"COAK 'EM and sock 'em" is ok provided it is ac
J cording: to the rule book. But when hitting below
the belt is not onlv nracticed but officially recom
mended, that is another matter entirely and anv font-
ball coach advising it, or failing to preach against
it, should be given his walking papers at once and
with no return ticket ! R.W.R.
Pity the Poor Voter
A contemporary is already sorry for the poor de
fenseless candidates who are going to run for high
public office next year.
"This is going to be the worst knock-down-and-drag-out
bare-knuckle fight in political history and woe betide the
aspirant who has no brass knuckles and can't borrow a
football . helmet!"
It probably will be a hard-fought campaign, par
ticularly here in Oregon, but we doubt if the casual
ties will be much greater than usual.
IN FACT as of today we are not so sorry for the con
testants as for the voters particularly the voters
who have not decided how they will vote before the
campaign begins. We refer particularly to the inde
pendent voter who would like the facts before he
marks his ballot and will depend upon the candidates
to give them.
JUDGING the main-event by the preliminaries he
or she is in for some hard sledding.
For many of the issues, especially national,
will be complicated ones of essentially a factual na
ture. Unless all signs fail, the Republican candidates
will claim the facts are thus and so which support
their position; while the Democrats will claim the
TRUE facts will repudiate the GOP stand and back
up theirs.
Who to believe?
A GAIN disregarding those who are going to vote
their party tickets straight regardless of what the
facts may be, the voters will be pretty generally con
fused and up in the air assuming they listen to the
campaign speeches and take them at all seriously.
Take Hells Canyon as just one example.
Figures and alleged facts will be quoted pro and
con ad infinitum. And the figures as well as the
salient facts on one side will completely disagree
with those on the other.
There may be a few voters with the time, skill and
patience to do a bit of independent, authentic check
ing, and to their own satisfaction determine what is
true and what isn't, but they, we fear, will represent a
decided minority.
The majority undoubtedly will throw up their
hands in dismay and disgust, skip the complicated
issues and go on to something less controversial and
involved and also we fear less important.
That procedure will lead to better digestion, no
doubt, but not we fear to better government.
DROBABLY it is too late to do much of anything
about it.
But we wish the poll people Gallups, Ropers and
all the others would add a department of impartial
information to their efforts, the same devoted to a
non-partisan and objective compilation of facts re
garding some of the more important issues such as
Hells Canyon, Reciprocal trade, Farm prices, Foreign
aid, Civil Rights, etc, etc., with complete disregard of
partisan politics or implications.
We grant such a service wouldn't do the 100 per
cent regulars on either side any good, but it would be
of great value to the growing number of Independent
voters and when all is said and done they will de
cide next year's election as they have so many of the
others, including the presidential election of 1952.
R.W.R.
NAME EMBARRASSING
Santa Ana, Calif . (U.R) A
Santa Ana man petitioned su
perior court to change his name,
Tuesday, November 15, 195S
coaches publicly accused a
coach or. not only rems-
of that game but perhaps
it is hard to believe other
else for that matter I
"alibi" was that football is
those who can't "take it,"
game or a contest m may
in our judgment the great
saying his four children found
it embarrassing. He requested
the family name be changed
from Sapp to Stapp.
Matter of Fact By Joe
THE KENNAN LETTER
Washington Just a little
more than 10 years ago, George
F. Kennan sent off from Moscow
the ten thous
and - word
despatch that
grimly and
b r i 1 liantly
charted the
course of the
Cold War for
the American
government.
Some weeks
ago, George
Kennan re-
Joseph Also turned from a
long journey of inquiry in Eu
rope. He then wrote a long letter
about Soviet policy in Europe
and especially about the German
problem, which is the key to the
European future.
This Kennan letter shatters
almost as many happy illusions
as the historic Kennan despatch
of a decade
past. It sug
gests, in fact,
that the cur
r e n t foreign
ministers
meeting in
Geneva is a
mere way sta
tion to the
grand night
mare of West
ern diplomacy,
which is a
Stewart AJaop
U e r m a n re
versal of alliances in favor of
the Soviet Union. It needs pray
erful pondering, now that the
deneva fiasco is drawing to its
close. These reporters have been
permitted to quote the following
excerpts:
'The Russians," writes Ken
nan, "will aim their diplomatic
action from now on exclusively
at the Germans, simply by-pass
ing the Western governments,
who have lent themselves most
obligingly to being by-passed by
working themselves into rigid,
sterile positions without alterna
tives and without latitude for
maneuver. Moscow may take its
time about wooing the Germans,
confident that the Western gov
ernments are safely boxed in by
walls of their own making
"Moscow's game, with regard
to the Germans, will be first (to
give) the East German govern
ment a position of political re
spectability, so that it may have
a voice in the eventual discussion
of unification . . . Then the
ventriloquists of Moscow will
speak through Pankow (the East
German capital); and what they
will surely suggest to the West
ern Germans is that only one
thing stands in the way of (Ger
man) unification the military
bond with the United States."
"CJURELY it is not reasonable
it will be said to Bonn, that
you should come into the discus
sion of unification with . . .
your freedom of decision preju
diced by a military tie to another
great power. Drop this . . . and
real'discussion of unification can
begin. Moscow figures it cannot
lose by this approach."
Kennan continues that Mos
cow s calculations seem likely
to prove correct, for several dif
ferent reasons. For one thing,
'The unification problem has
now been activated for fair in
German minds.!' For another, the
situation in Eastern Germany is
now "beginning to become cru
cial." Almost all hope of libera
tion has been lost in East Ger
many since President Eisenhow
er's journey to the summit and
West German Chancellor Ade
nauer's journey to Moscow. The
East Germans who have not fled
are accepting the Communist re
gime, and the youth are even be
coming converted to it. For simi
lar reasons, the situation in West
Berlin also "shows signs of de
teriorating." AU these trends, in turn, are
giving an extra edge to the de
sire for re-unification among the
West Germans. The West Ger
mans "fear that unless something
is done about unification soon,
the whole Eastern part of Ger
many will be morally and spirit
ually alienated."
"Finally," continues Kennan,
"there is the effect of the recent
visit to Moscow by Adenauer and
the large number of German fig
ures who accompanied him.
Leaving aside the Chancellor, I
think it generally fair to say that
the Germans returned from this
experience somewhat shaken, in
the political sense, by what they
saw . . . Please don't misunder
stand me. These men are as much
Westerners, jn every fiber of
their being, as you and I. . . The
last thing they want is to see
Germany detached from the
West . . .
. "They know, in the wooing
of which they are the objects,
that they have to do with a
Siren, and they are miserably
conscious of the frequent and, in
this instance, wholly probable
wages of sin. And still the lady's
image haunts their dreams, and
they can't get away from it.
"Why is this? It is partly be
cause the West Germans know
that we . . . cannot negotiate any
further for unification (while)
the Soviets lead them to hope
that perhaps unification (can) be
had by direct German - Soviet
negotiations Furthermore, they
are psychologically tired of us.
For 10 years, they have wrestled
with . . . Western disunity, in
decisiveness and vague preten
sions of idealism.
.
"TT IS more than refreshing, it
is downright intoxicating.
now to meet up with the (So
and Stewart AIsop
viet) political personality which
(shows) without sham ... a
knowledge and assumption of
human evil; which speaks with
one -voice rather than three;
which has something to give and
is capable of delivering it if it
wants to; and, above all, which
talks the language of political
realism to which Central Eu
ropeans are accustomed: brutal,
cynical, in one sense crude, but
in another infinitely subtle and
sensitive."
Kennan adds that in the ex
posed arid ill-defended Berlin
position, the Soviets can find
many levers to force the West
Germans to begin talking to the
East Germans. These levers, he
thinks, will be effective unless
the Western Powers "are de
termined to react, if necessary
with real military preparations,
and to the first encroachment (at
Berlin) and not to the last and
the French, not to mention the
others, could not be further from
any such readiness." Hence Ken
nan grimly concludes:
"All these things lead me to
believe that the chances are not
bad for a Soviet success (in Ger
many). Adenauer may hold the
line; but his successors are not
likely to."
There could be no darker com
mentary on the smarmy public
optimism of these last months.
(Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
On its front page the other
day, the Klamath Falls Herald
and News printed a picture of a
check changing hands. Over the
years, it has printed many such
pictures so many, in fact, that
its newsroom has come to frown
on them in a mild sort of way.
In the daily life of an American
community, no transaction is
more common than a check pass
ing from one hand to another.
In our profession, you know,
there is a shibboleth to the effect
that when a dog bites a man it
isn't news but when a man bites
a dog it's hot stuff. This man-bites-dog
dogma is akin to the
proverb: "VARIETY is the spice
of life."
Both arise out of the funda
mental fact that when a man's
wife feeds him precisely the
same dinner menu seven days in
a row he is apt to display signs
of boredom.
Newsrooms leans to the belief
that this principle applies in the
case of pictures. They ain't so
good, newsrooms think, when
there is too much sameness
about them.
BUT this particular picture was
a little different. Among oth
er things, it dramatized a fact
in our modern economy and
our modern politics that de
serves more intelligent thought
than it is getting.
The check, was written for the
rather considerable sum of
$472,283.98.
It represented the Southern
Pacific company's property taxes
in Klamath county for the pe
riod of one year.
H
ERE'S the political moral.
Suppose the GOVERNMENT
owned the railroads as many
advocate.
Well, in that event THERE
WOULD HAVE BEEN NO TAX
CHECK FOR KLAMATH
COUNTY.
SPHERE is a lot of fancy talk
these days aoout xne govern
ment doing everything for every
body. But
GOVERNMENT PAYS NO
LOCAL TAXES.
It leaves that for others to
do.
ONE more word about this
check:
It was for $472,283.98. That
is approximately a HALF MIL
LION dollars. That is a lot of
tax money in any Oregon coun
ty. If a big railroad company
hadn't paid it, the rest of the
taxpayers would have had to
pungle up the difference.
THAT'S what government own
ership of the railroads would
mean in Klamath county.
It's what any kind of govern
ment ownership means in ANY
county.
Portland Port Heads
Approve Bond Issue
Portland (U.R) Commission
ers of the Port of Portland yes
terday approved a $500,000 bond
issue for maintenance of port fa
cilities.
Bids on the bond issue would
be opened Jan. 10.
Commissioners also decided to
install parking meters in the
central parking area at Portland
International Airport.
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE
County Planning Commission
ppointment Given
The Jackson Countv Chamber
of Commerce board of directors
will be asked to recommend that
the county court apnoint a coun
ty planning commission, it was
voted unanimously at a chamber
oi commerce luncheon yesterday-
.
It was brought out at the
weekly, round-table luncheon at
tne Jackson hotel that the county
court has had the Dower to aD-
point a county planning commis
sion for the past five years.
Would Be Advisory
Paul Rynning, county en
gineer, stated that a planning
commission would be appointed
by the county court and act as
an advisory committee to the
court.
- If the court approved zoning
or future development plans for
Chile Seems To Have
Outlasted Threat of
Revolt in Government
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Chile seems to have overcome
the threat of revolt which has
hit the other two "A-B-C" pow
ers of Latin
America.
Argen t i n a
has ousted a
dictator and a
p r o v i s i onal
president
within two
months.
In Brazil, a
president has
resigned and
acting p r e s i-
. v .. ji,.. aeni nas ueen
overthrown within the last week.
But in Chile, 78-year-old Presi
dent Carlos Ibanez Del Campo
is reDorted to be in a stronger
position than at any time since
he was inaugurated on jnov. 6,
1952 his 75th birthday.,
Only two months ago, Chile
was linked with Argentina and
Brazil as ripe for an explosion.
The nowerful Central Labor
Union was threatening a nation
wide general strike which, had it
hepn successful, mieht have re
sulted in Ibanez's overthrow.
Union leaders left no doubt
that they planned a direct test
of strength with the Ibanez
regime.
But the old cavalryman, after
having tried conciliation for a
long time, acted firmly. He
ordered the arrest of hundreds of
union leaders all over the
country.
McLoughlin Opens
Annual Toy Drive
The annual McLoughlin Ju
nior High school toy drive, held
in cooperation with the Medford
fire department, started yester
day under the sponsorship of the
student council. Fred Funston
student council president, is
chairman of the drive.
The home room contest is
hplH each vear in connection
with the fire departments an
nual Christmas tov tiroeram.
An intermural basketball
tournament between home rooms
of the seventh, eighth and ninth
grades also started yesterday.
The week-long tournament is
utilizing two gymnasiums with
two games per day.
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eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Help for the Birds
To the Editor: Of all wild life,
the species that have the hardest
strusele to carry through the
winter are our non-migratory
birds. Ouail and pheasant proD-
ahlv have the touehest time of
it, because, by natural instinct
and Dhvsical build, theirs is a
limited range. Here are a few
hints on winter feeding:
Beef suet mixed with coarse
corn meal Dressed into compact
lumns is -helpful. It can be stuff
ed in half walnut shells and
hung on trees. Shallow basins
of water with a drop or two of
glycerine to prevent freezing,
pranked rnrn. cracked wheat.
chick feed suet also are help
ful. ' Humane Society,
Medford. Oregon
WISHING WOiVTMAKEITSO
The future independence and leisure you are
hoping for will be yours only if you prepare
for it. It is never too early to make provision
for a happy retirement Don't let it become
too lata. How about today?
CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent
Phone 2-9772
COMPANY OF CANADA
the county suggested to them by
the - planning . commission, the
proposals would be put up to
the people for a vote.
If the zoning, or development ,
plan is approved by the people,
the , county . court would order
provisions for enforcing the reg
ulation. Enforcement of the or
ders would be in the hands of
the planning commission, Ryn
ning said.
There was general agreement
among all present at the lunch
eon meeting that a need for
both planning and zoning exists
on a county-wide level.
Sanitation Problem
.City Manager Robert Duff
pointed out that rapid urbaniza
tion and increased population
throughout the county must be
controlled. Problems of adequate
To the general surprise, the
labor unions gave m.
In Firm Control
It is now reported that Ibanez
is in firm control of the situa
tion and that it looks as if Chile
may look forward to a period of
political stability.
Ibanez says he is not a dicta
tor, and he opposes the frequent
suggestions of his supporters
that he openly give himself dic
tatorial status.
But there is no doubt that, at
78, in the middle of his second
political career, Ibanez is Chile's
"Iron Man."
Chicken Pox Leads
List of Illnesses
Fifteen cases of communicable
diseases were reported in Jack
son county during the week end
ed Nov. 12, according to the
county health department's
weekly report.
Topping the list was chicken
pox, with four cases in Prospect
and three in Medford. There
were four cases of influenza, in
eluding two each in Medford
and Phoenix.
Also on the- list were two cases
of measules in Medford and two
cases of strep throat in Medford
Film on Family
Now Available
Roots 'of Happiness, a 25-min-
ute film stressing family values
has been purchased by the South
ern Oregon Child Guidance Clin
ic association for use by groups
in this community wishing to
learn more about family life
The film brings out the import
ance of the father in the family
the place the children play in
growing to adulthood, and the
contributions parents make to
ward shaping happy secure per
sonalities for their children.
The setting is rural Puerto
Rico and the background music
is Latin-American.
Groups wishing to view this
film should contact Elliott Beck-
en, chairman of the association's
education and publicity commit
tee, phone 3-3683, to set a time
for a program.
At the association board meet
ing on Nov. 14 the recent county
membership drive was discussed.
The chairman of that committee-
reported more than 400 members
outside of Medford have joined
and are supporting the clinic.
The possibility of new sources
of income was also on the
agenda.
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sanitation and roads should be
met in advance, and because of
this peed there should be a
county planning commission to
make future plans which would
direct county growth, he said.
Edith Eden, city planning com
mission member, said that a
county planning commission
would be the first step toward
county zoning, necessary to pro
tect the value' of real estate.
A move to introduce county-
wide zoning was defeated in a
1949 election by only 600 votes
when a total of about 17,000
votes were cast, she said.
Industry Favors Idea
Don McNeil, chamber of com
merce, stated that -industry
would generally approve of a
planning commission.
McNeil gave as an example
the fact that saw mills have
found it necessary to purchase
property immediately around
the mills in order to prevent
people from building homes and
thus creating a danger that the
mill would be sued because of
children being injured while
playing around mill ponds or
equipment.
It was pointed out that zoning
would not interfere with exist
ing businesses or have jurisdic
tion over agricultural, horticul-'
tural, timber or grazing lands.
Medford, Ashland
Meetings Planned
Dr. Irwin Hill, superintendent
of the Fairview Home for the
mentally retarded, and Dr. D. L.
Callicrate, assistant superintend
ent, will conduct a series of
meetings in Ashland and Med
ford tomorrow, Nov. 16, concern
ing problems of the mentally re
tarded. :
Nov. 13 through 23 is National
Retarded Children's week. There
are an estimated 5,000 slow
learning children in Oregon's
schools. .
Dr. Hill and Dr. Callicrate
will speak to classes and a gen
eral assembly at Southern Ore
gon college in Ashland, during
the day.
At 6:30 p.m. they will speak
and answer questions during a
potluck dinner in the Marcade
room at St, Mark's Episcopal
church in Medford. The dinner
meeting will be open to anyone
interested in the problem of the
slow learning child.
At 8 p.m., Dr. Hill will con
duct a seminar for doctors and
interested parents at the Health
department in the Jackson coun
ty courthouse.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
Why not save 1096 on the NEW
BROAD FORM AUTO POLICY by
installing SAFETY SEAT BELTS?
They're safer. They pay for them
selves. They make trade-ins easier
for the dealer to sell.
Credit is given for belts in the
front seat no need to spend
your money on the father-in-law
(??) seat.
For Informction Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phone 2-4940
INVESTMENT
REPRESENTATIVE
IN MEDFORD
RICHARD E. WATSON
Manager fef
- fj
JAMES HOOGS