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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 17, 1945
(It was Saturday)
State Superintendent of parks
S. H. Boardman mapping Judge
F. L. Tou Velle's property for
state park along Rogue river.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: One of the
Older Girls had a birthday Wed.
As she will not tell her age, we
will not tell her age.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 17. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Eugene Thorndike named to
Oregon State Dad's club's execu
tive committee at annual Cor
vallis meeting.
Bill Cottrell of Medford, play
ing lead role in University of
Oregon play production, "The
Queen's Husband."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 17. 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Voters of Medford school dis
trict deciding on budget more
'than 6 per cent over last year's
budget.
Court martial of Colonel Wil
liam Mitchell on charges of criti
cising the nation's air service
continues in ' Washington.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 17, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Dr. J. M. Keene appointed to
fill vacancy created by resigna
tion of councilman Colonel H. H.
Sargent.
John Doe, Negro who terror
ized county schools by lecturing
on cannibalism, told to leave
county or spend 60 days in jail
by Justice Taylor.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rep1
1. The Armistice in World
War I was signed for the U. S.
bv President Wilson, Secretary
of State Lansing, Secretary of
War Baker, Gen. Perishing, or
our ambassador to France?
2. More money is spent every
year by state and local govern
ments on schools or by the fed
eral Government for defense, or
is it about 50-50?
3. Chief Justice Warren gets
a higher or lower salary than
Vice President Nixon, or the
same?
4. In which two of these cities
does the Hearst press have no
paper: Albany (N.Y.), Denver,
Detroit, Milwaukee, San Fran
cisco, Seattle, Washington?
5. Less than 10 per cent, about
one-fifth or one-third of all
Americans are left-handed?
6. The U. S. recognized the
Soviet government of Russia im
mediately this was set up, with
in a year, about five years later,
or more than 15 years later?
7. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of
California says he has a good or
slight chance of getting the 1956
Republican presidential nomin
ation?. The Answers: 1. Pershing; 2.
More for defense; 3. Higher by
S500; 4. Denver and Washing
Ion; 5. Less than 10 per cenl; S.
More than Is years later. 7.
Slight.
Eleven anH a 1 -i :
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pie live on Sumatra, sixth lare
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courages immigration from
densely populated Java.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Greed!
One of our favorite news commentators, Chet
Huntley, thinks there is only one explanation for such
an unspeakable atrocity as that committed by that
Colorado youth, who planted a bomb in a United air
liner resulting in the death of his mother and 43 other
passengers. That is insanity.
For once we can't agree with Mr. Huntley.
"IITE DON'T believe the Graham boy to be insane,
except in the sense that any criminal with homi
cidal tendencies is not normal mentally or he
wouldn't be a homicidal criminal.
From what information there is available, young
Graham has for many years been possessed and ob
sessed by selfish greed.
There was one thing only that he wanted or cared
about money. That is why he forged checks and
went night-clubbing while he allowed his mother to
open a restaurant and earn enough to reimburse his
victims.
Instead of being a help to his mother in her ven
ture he fought with her almost always over the ques
tion of money. He never had enough.
Thwarted in one criminal direction, only intensi
fied the young man's passionate determination, "so
the next step, that of killing his own mother to remove
the immediate obstacle to his ambition, and get her
insurance, was not, we think, as long a step, morally,
as Broadcaster Huntley indicates.
DUT how about the other passengers on the plane,
including the crew, all innocent bystanders so to
speak how could any SANE person young or old,
bring himself to the point of mass murder on such a
scale to satisfy his selfish lust for gold?
This is a question that could best be answered, no
doubt, by experts in the field of criminal psychiatry.
But our own idea is that this passion of greed is far
stronger m this materialistic era, than most people
realize. It became so overpowering in the case of this
Colorado youth that he only considered what he
would get out of such an atrocity and never consid
ered the price others would have to pay.
llIOREOVER, like the infamous juvenile delin
quents Leopold and Loeb, this boy is reported to
be in the near-genius, brilliant class, and undoubtedly
this plane plot would, he figured, be the "perfect
crime," that he would not (only get the insurance
money but his share of his mother's estate, and he
himself would never be suspected but go Scot free
with enough money in the bank to be a "Big Shot"
man about town as it had always been' his ambition
to be.
In other words while in one so young to commit
a crime so gigantic, so completely callous and inhu
man, a case for insanity might well be built up, it is
the belief of this department, that such a defense,
when all the evidence is in, will fail. R.W.R.
A White Thanksgiving?
This winter snow in November is "unusual'
not unprecedented.
The writer (and other old-timers) will never for
get the winter that descended on the valley 35 years
ago.
Not only was there snow on a 4-foot level, but it
stayed on the ground for weeks, while the mercury
ell to zero and in some sections even below.
MOT as many heated and cooked with electricity as
they do now. But those who did, including "Ye
Editor" and family, were forced to close up shop and
move, bag and baggage, to the Medford hotel." All
wires including telephones were down, and there was
no water, for practically all the pipes were frozen.
That was a winter for "The Italy of America !" How
ever it was a field-day for the plumbers and the chil
dren. Also the hotels they were packed to the doors
with refugees from the "wide-open spaces," some of
whom with the proper bank balances stayed all win
ter, but the average stay we would say, was two or
three weeks.
However their hearts were "young and gay" then,
and it was fun staying at a warm hotel, there was a
lot of bridge and the children had the time of their
young lives making snow men and snow balling each
other over in the park. Moreover the ranchers and
most of the refugees had orchards then all believed
that the "big snow" would mean not only big crops
in the fall but big prices. (Our recollection is they
were correct regarding the size of the crop, but the
prices as sometimes happens did not quite keep up
with them.)
"AH, THEM were the days !"
We are somewhat short on snow plows and
snow shovels even now, but most of the homes are
better built, Copco doesn't break down so easily
not quite ! and the idea that Southern Oregon is a
Palm Springs type of winter resort is not so prevalent.
Meanwhile it is to be hoped histoiy repeats itself,
the snow sticks around at least until the skies clear
and the sun comes out, for then we might have a
white Thanksgiving if not a "White Christmas," and
think of the pictures junior could take with Pop's new
movie camera!
P.S. Don't forget the quail, pheasants and other
birds, who can't remember back 30 to 40 years, and
probably have decided the world has come to an end
this section of it at least and if they want to sur
vive they will have to change their winter feeding
grounds to Southern California. R.W.R.
There are actuaUy three poles
in Antarctica: the geographic
South Pole; the magnetic South
Pole; and the "pole of inaccessi
bility," at the center of Aurora
Australia.
Thursday, November 17, 1953
but
Newest American name in the
Antarctic regions is "Atka Bay,"
so named by the crew of the U.S.
Navy icebreaker on her 1954-55
reconnaissance trip to Antarctica.
Tax Cut Likely
Despite Failure
Of Geneva Talks
Washington (U.R) A tax cut
still is likely next year despite
the failure at Geneva.
This became evident Wednes
day when Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson told newsmen
that failure to settle cold war
problems there will have "little
or no effect" on America's de
fense program. He said the pro
gram is not affected by periodic
"ups and downs" in international
relations.
Spending To Continue
Wilson made it clear that de
fense spending will continue at
about the present level some
$34,500,000,000 a year.
That means the administration
still can hope for a balanced bud
get based on greatly increasing
revenues and its attendant tax
cut next year. Treasury Secre
tary George M. Humphrey has
stated flatly that tax relief must
hinge on a balanced budget.
An administration tax expert
agreed with Wilson that nothing
has changed toward the budget
and spending, particularly for
defense or foreign aid, simply be
cause Geneva was a flop.
Geared for 'Long Pull'
He said the present defense
program is geared for the "long
pull."
Congressional sources said
they believe prospects for bal
ancing the budget this fiscal year
are good. They said prosperity is
the key because it's producing
terrific corporate profits and in
dividual incomes. These will
boost tax revenues for fiscal 1956
much higher than the adminis
tration forecast in January and
considerably higher than its
August prediction.
Revenues May Close Gap
Although Humphrey has fore
cast a deficit of $1,400,000,000,
many experts believe increased
revenues may close that gap.
Humphrey has said he hopes the
revenues plus economies may do
the trick. He may have to de
pend on increased revenues
alone.
Wilson said Wednesday he
still hopes to save about S500,-
000,000 in defense spending in
the current fiscal year to bring
the total down to about $34,000,
000,000. But Wilson noted that
when savings are accomplished
in one area, costs go up in an
other. Scholarships for
Foreign Students
Explained at Meet
The American Field Service
program, which provides teen
age scholarships in American
high schools for foreign students,
was discussed before the Med
ford Rotary club Tuesday by
Weldon Kline, forest engineer,
and Leonard Mayfield, school
superintendent for District 49.
In explaining the AFS plan
before the club at the Jackson
hotel, Kline recalled how the or
ganization was initiated by for
mer members of ambulance units
in World War II, with the objec
tive of building for world peace
through the youth of many na
tions. Must Speak English
Youngsters who come to the
U.S. through- AFS scholarships
are carefully screened by or
ganization officials and U.S. em
bassies in participating nations.
Their ages must be between 16
and 18 years, and each must
have an understanding of Eng
lish and be able to speak it.
Selection is made on a com
petitive basis, Kline emphasized,
and students live in American
homes, attend high school and
participate in all teen-age activi
ties. So successful has the pro
gram been since it was started
in 1947 that last year 24,000 for
eign students applied and more
than 600 were placed in homes
here.
Sponsor Plan
Mayfield told Rotarians that
the international scholarship pro
gram has been so successful
within the last eight years 'that
a number of Oregon communi
ties had undertaken sponsorship,
costing $650 -per student. The
school authorities of this city
were enthusiastically endorsing
the program, Mayfield said, and
the Medford Rotary club is con
sidering joining 12 other Rotary
clubs in Oregon in bringing for
eign students to this community.
Observers of the American
Field Service plan claim this
program is most successful in
stimulating understanding and
friendship between this nation
and many foreign countries.
American high school students
also may qualify for scholarships
to foreign areas, making the pro
gram a true exchange of teen
age youngsters.
LOSES FIGHT, FINED
Detroit (U.R)" Frank Cline,
46, was fined $5 because he lost
a fight with a revolving door.
Cline tried to exit through a re
volving door Wednesday and col
lapsed from exhaustion after
pushing for 10 minutes. Police
carried him off and charged him
with being drunk and disorder
ly. -.-
ACCEPTING COMMISSIONS as lieutenant generals in New
West German army from Defense Minister Theodor Blank
(right) are Adolf Heusinger (left) and Hans Speidel, both
major generals in Hitler's Wehrmacht. (International
Italy About
Campaign
Position as
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Italy is about to start a vigor
ous attempt to regain its position
as a top-ranking power.
President Gi
ovanni Gron
chi, .Premier
Antonio Segni
and Foreign
Minister Gae-
f ljt tano Martino
have teamed
to get the cam
paign going.
It is indicat
ed that they
hope to make
cnaries Mct aiin the present
Big Four set-up the Big Five.
with Italy added to the United
States, Great Britain, France and
Soviet Russia.
The campaign will be started
by the Italian ambassadors in the
big European capitals and Wash
ington. Linked with the campaign is
the hope that Italy may be ad
mitted to United Nations mem
bership under the "package'1
deal, now under consideration,
to add 18 countries to the pres
ent 60 in the world organization.
As the first move in the at
tempt to restore Italy to the
place it used to occupy in world
affairs, the ambassadors to the
United States, Britain, France,
Russia, West Germany and the
North Atlantic Treaty Orgamza
tion were called to Rome this
week.
They have engaged in a series
of consultations with Gronchi,
Segni and Martino, planning tac
tics.
First Objective
The first objective is to see
that Italy is consulted in ad
vance on all matters of major
Douglas Timberland
Tax Rates Boosted
Roseburg U.R) A meeting
here between lumber company
executives and examiners of the
State Tax commission has re
sulted in a 90 per cent increase
in Douglas county timberland
tax rates.
The examiners compromised
on a 32-year depletion rate as
a tax basis and invoked rates of
$1.35 per $100 valuation on tim
berland within a 15 to 30-mile
radius of a market point. Timber
land beyond the 30-mile limit
would be taxed at a rate of $1.15
per $100 valuation.
The tax rate increase was the
culmination of a five-year sur
vey of timberlands in the nation's
lumber capital. It was conducted
b ythe county forest appraisal
department, a division of the
county assessor's office.
Kefauver Demands
Subsidy Explanation
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Estes Kefauver has demanded
from the administration a detail
ed explanation of what he called
"huge subsidies" granted to the
private electric utility industry
under the rapid tax write-off
program.
The Tennessee Democrat es
timated that electric utilities
will get tax benefits of about
$6,000,000,000 by the end of
1958 under the administration's
program for fast tax write-offs
for new power plants which
strengthen the nation's defenses.
"A subsidy of such proportion
. . . should be subject to extreme
ly close scrutiny under war con
ditions," Kefauver said last
night. "But under the condition
which exist today it is practical
ly incomprehensible . . ."
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interest by the United States,
Britain and France.
Italians were very creased
when Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles flew to Rome for
talks before he went to the Big
Four foreign ministers confer
ence in Geneva.
Advices from Rome say that
Gronchi, Segni and Martino will
bid to get Italy in on discussions
not only on continental Euro
pean affairs but on those of the
entire Mediterranean area in
cluding the Middle East.
That the government's inter
est in widening Italy's sphere of
influence extends to Southeast
Asia and the Far East is shown
by the fact that Foreign Minis
ter Martino is about to visit Ja
pan, Thailand, India, Pakistan
and Ceylon.
President Gronchi plans to
visit Washington early next
year.
Back in Versailles Treaty
days, Italy was one of the allied
Big Four with the United States
Britain and France.
Mussolini's Mistake
Benito Mussolini outsmarted
himself in his attempt to build
up Italy prestige. He did win the
Ethiopian war, with the aid of a
general who detested him. But
then he got his vaunted Fascist
"seven million bayonets" dis
astrously defeated by Little
Greece, made Italy a satellite of
Nazi Germany and came to a
shameful death after the collapse
of Fascism in 1943, two years
before Germany and Japan sur
rendered.
Now Italy's leaders have cast
their lot fully with the Western
Allies. Communism in Italy, only
a few years ago a major threat,
is losing out. Italy is a member
of NATO and American troops
are now stationed on Italian soil.
Its re-emergence is a good
thing.
Need Seen in
Portland (U.R) Power needs
of the Pacific Northwest will
reach 40,000,000 kilowatts by
the year 2000, F. S. Brown, chief
of the engineering section of the
Corps of Engineers, predicted
here yesterday.
Brown made his prediction at
a meeting of the Columbia Basin
Interagency C o m m i 1 1 ee. He
based his figures on current
studies by the Federal Power
Commission and Bonneville
Power Administration. -
He said the region now has an
average power load demand of
five million kilowatts. He esti
mated the Northwest has about
15 million kilowatts of cheap
hydroelectric power in sight by
1957. To meet the projected de
mand it will be necessary to gen
erate a large quantity of steam
and nuclear power, he said.
Billy Graham Shares
Rostrum in London
London (U.R) American
Evangelist Billy Graham shared
a rostrum with the Archbishop
of Canterbury, primate of the
Church of England, last night in
addressing a gathering of the
church's highest dignitaries.
Graham had been invited to
preach to the church assembly
at its annual convocation by a
group of churchmen, including
the Archbishop, who spoke im
mediately before him.
Over 500 ministers, including
six bishops, heard Graham
speak for an hour on "Evangel
ising the Church." It was the
first time an American had" ever
addressed the assembly.
GIFTS RECORDS
Regain
ower
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Adlai Stevenson announces
that he will be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
President next year. He says:
"I shall do all I can to per
suade my party to entrust that
immense responsibility to me
again because:
""1. I believe it important for
the Democratic party to resume
the executive direction of our na
tional affairs.
"2. I' am assured that my can
didacy would be welcomed by
representative people in and out
of my party throughout the
country.
"3. 1 believe any citizen should
make whatever contribution he
can to the search for a safer,
saner world."
TIE ADDS:. . .
AX "Seldom before has the Uni
ted States faced a period of
greater opportunity and great
er danger.
"Our great opportunity lies in
the fact that our prosperity and
wealth can now be used to give
all our people the higher stand
ards and wider opportunities
which are mankind's universal
dream. These are now within
our reach, not simply for the
favored few, but for every fam
ily in America.
"Our danger lies in the ambi
tion of a new tyranny for mas
tery of the world and in com
munist exploitation of the hope
and discontents of the two-thirds
of mankind who now demand a
share in the good things of life."
TJE CONCLUDES:
""In partnership with our
friends and allies, with confi
dence born of strength and in
fluence born of magnanimity we
must work to uproot the deep
causes of conflict and tension and
to outlaw the very means to war
in this atomic age.
"The task of the Democratic
party is to make 'Prosperity and
Peace' not a political slogan but
an active search for a better
America and a better world.
"I am ready to do what I can
to that end -either as a'worker in
the ranks or at, the top of the
ticket if my party sees fit to so
honor me.
TT IS a statesmanlike statement,
A and I am .quite sure Mr. Ste
venson means every word of it
I can think of nothing that would
be better for our country, in this
period of great opportunities and
great dangers (of which he
speaks so feelingly and, I'm cer
tain, so sincerely) than a 1956
Presidential campaign with
Dwight Eisenhower, strong and
well, heading the Republican
ticket and Adlai Stevenson head
ing the Democratic ticket.
In that event, we would have
every reasonable assurance of
sound leadership in the critical
years to come, for the personal
platform that Mr. Stevenson out
lines in his announcement of his
active candidacy would set the
pattern of the campaign that it
would be obviously wise for the
Democratic party to wage.
II7HAT of his chances to win the
" nomination?. .
It is too early as yet to hazard
even a guess. Fate hasn't yet
dealt all the cards. It is possible
tha President Eisenhower may
return to complete health. Many
men have suffered heart attacks
and have recovered sufficiently
to lead a wholly normal life.
It is possible that President
Eisenhower might do so. It is
possible that in that case he
might prefer to continue as the
leader of his country in this per
iod when his particular talents
would be useful. That decision
will be his to make when the
extent of his recovery is de
termined by time. :
If President Eisenhower
should be a candidate for an
other term, it seems probable
now that comparatively few
people would want to change
horses in the middle of the
stream we are now fording.
If he is not a candidate (which
is presently the best guess) Mr.
Stevenson will be a strong con
tender for the Democratic nomi
nation.
Tibetans still scratch eold
from the earth with gazelle
horns.
Letters and words of thanks
come to us continually from
the families we serve. Most of
them express not only grati
tude but surprise at the service
given for the price involved.
CHAPEL MORTUARY
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FUNERAL
Bargain Priced
Arms for Israel
May Be Available
Washington (U.R) . T h a
United States may be willing to
meet Israel s request for defen
sive weapons at bargain prices,
administration sources hinted to
day. They said three months ago
the United States would have re
jected any Israeli request for
arms at discount prices. But the
multi-million-dollar Soviet bloc
arms shipment to Egypt has
placed a whole new complexion
on the question, officials said.
Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban
formally presented the United
States with a list of anti-jet
anti-submarine and other defense
weapons. He told reporters Israel
wants them at "the most lenient
price and credit" terms.
Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed
Hussein promptly warned the
State Department that sale of
weapons to Israel might touch
off an "arms race." He said
Egypt "may be compelled" to
buy more weapons from Com
munist nations or "wherever we '
can get them."
The United States immediate
ly began studying the Israeli re
quest despite Hussein's warning.
The weapons list soon will be
referred to the Defense Depart
ment for its consideration and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles will be sure to study it
soon after his arrival from
Geneva today.'
Defense Secretarv Charlps F.
Wilson told a news conference
Wednesday the United States has
ample stocks of any weapons
Israel might need.
Officials stressed that the.
Israeli request will be put to a
number of "tough tests" before
any final American decision. The
United States wants to be doubly
sure the requested arms will be
used only for defensive purposes.
The United States also wants
to know the size of the arms
shipment to Egypt to determine
whether the Communist weapons
will tip the military balance in
the Middle East heavily to the
Arab world.
Another factor will be whether
Israel accepts United Nations
proposals to end sporadic but
bloody fighting along the Israeli
Egyptian border.
New Blood Test 0
To Defect Cancer
Washington (U.R) Three Ohio
doctors report they have de
veloped a new blood test for de
tecting cancer which has proved
90 per cent accurate in more
than 1700 cases.
The test is basei on thicken
ing of blood plasma. It can dis
close evidence of early cancer
as well as hidden types of the
disease, the report said.
The studies were made by Drs.
James A. Quinn, Stanley A.
Katz and Arthur E. Rappaport
of the Department of Pathology
and Laboratories of the "roungs
town Hospital Association,
Youngstown, Ohio.
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