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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
" Nor. 21. 1945
(It was Wednesday
Medford Flying club revived;
Richard Witt elected president,
Chester Hubbard, vice-president.
. From Arthur, Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: From all
reports of outdoor enthusists, it
is harder to kill a goose in Klam
ath county than to catch a fish in
Rogue River.
JOoYEARS AGO
Not. 21. 1935
(It was Thursday)
Jackson county relief can
neries close after three months;
pack 103,425 cans of fruits,
vegetables, meats and soups.
Jackson County Primary
Teachers council schedules meet
ing with Mrs. Church Leake,
Medford schools' music teacher,
as speaker.
80 YEARS AGO
ot. 21. 1925
(It was Saturday)
A 25 gallon still, 300 gallon of
mash and 42 gallons of moon
shine liquor seized as federal of
ficers raid Sams Valley ranch.
Vivian Yeck wins high school
good posture essay contest.
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 21. 1915
(It was Sunday)
Jackson county wins 43 fruit
pri7"s at Panama-Pacific exposi
tion ir San Francisco.
Officials still attempting to ob
tain necessary acreage for sugar
beet industry in valley.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 77
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The new combined AFL-CIO
labor federation will have a
membership of about five, 10,
15, 20 or 25,000,000.
2. De Pauw University is in
what state?
3. Adlai E. Stevenson and Gov.
Harriman of New York are about
the same age, or Harriman is
three or eight years older, or
Stevenson is three years older?
4. The Sudan, offe of the
trouble spots in Africa, is north,
east, south or west of Egypt?
5. St. Patrick's Cathedral in
New York is larger or smaller
than St. Peter's in Rome, or
about the same size?
6. Which large U.S. city has
kept its basic transit fare under
10c for over 30 years?
7. More U.' S. families take
vacation trips by private car or
by train, bus and plane com
bined? The Answers: 1. About 15,
000,000; 2. Indiana; 3. Harri
man is eight years older; 4.
South; 5. Smaller; 6. New Or
leans; 7. More by private car.
Junior High School
Names Newspaper
The student newspaper at Hed
rick Junior High schoc-l has been
named the "BUZZ-ETTE," it
was reported today. The name
of the paper derives from the
school's athletic nickname of
"Hornets."
Tne first issue of the paper
came out under the name "???"
and a contest was conducted
among students for the selection
of a permanent name. Pat Kahle
submitted the new name, and
won the contest.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Overdue Attention
In yesterday's issue of the Mail Tribune appeared
a fairly extensive and complete report of the recent
convention of the League of Oregon Cities, which
was held in Portland.
Why, it might be asked, was it felt appropriate to
publish such a detailed account of a meeting held sev
eral weeks ago, and about 300 miles away? Why
should it be of general interest hereabouts?
""THE answer is that just about everything that went
on at that convention has an important bear
ing on what we are doing, and what we are going to
do, right here in Medford.
It has been stated here repeatedly that we've got
problems, and we're going to have to solve them. To
do this we've got to find answers to the problems
and the answers which have been found to be success
ful in other cities certainly should have a bearing on
what we do.
m
"THERE have been a number of developments in
recent months in Jackson countiy which are con
structive, and which could well lead to answers for
some of these questions.
There is repeated and increasing talk of establish
ing a County Planning Commission something
which has long been overdue. We were assured about
a year ago that it would be done. Admittedly, it takes
time to work out the details. But there has been plenty
of time by now. Such action is a "must" if major head
aches and complications are to be avoided.
HTHE city planning commission has shown a re-
markable resurgence during the past year, assum
ing responsibilities which rightfully belong to it, and
laying the groundwork for thoughtful and coordinat
ed development of the city itself. The commission,
composed of responsible and civic-minded people,
has been doing a lot of "spade work" for the council,
and giving that body facts and figures it needs to
make intelligent decisions.
The citizens budget committee is now meeting
monthly, instead of only a few times a year, another
sign of increased participation and interest in city
government .
The tax billings which went out earlier this month
brought home to many residents, as nothing else
could, that they do indeed have an important stake
in local government. The resulting demand for more
information about how the tax system works, and
whether or not it is working properly, is a healthy de
velopment, i '
THE state government is taking an increasing inter-
est in the problems of local government, and a
legislative interim committee is at work to see if ways
of providing assistance can be found.
A letter from the chairman of the committee says :
Included among the qeustions which we have been
asked to study are those of legal and constitutional provi
sions; functions and relationships of local government units;
financing and taxation; needs and problems of providing
services such as water, sewer, fire protection, transporta
tion, streets and parks in expanding urban areas; and other
related questions.
The committee now has no opinions as to what its findings-
or conclusions may finally be. Our first objective is to
gather complete and accurate information which will serve
as a reliable basis for further analysis. Later, as findings
and tentative proposals are developed, they will be given
full publicity. The committee will seek the suggestions and
advice of all interested persons and organizations before
preparing any final proposals for consideration by the next
legislative assembly. -
A LL this activity, this public attention to matters too
"long taken for granted as a matter of course, is
good. It is long overdue, for the only solutions that
will be any good are those which are acceptable to
a majority of the people.
And all these problems are basically the result of
two things, and two things only: The huge increase in
population in recent years, and the fact that a tax
dollar doesn't go nearly as far today as it did a few
years ago. E.A.
Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy is a type of creeping paralysis
for which no prevention and no cure is known. There
are about five cases in Jackson county. Throughout
the nation there are about 200,000.
Today and tomorrow, letter carriers and firemen
are donating their time to collect donations to estab
lish a research fund to find cause and cure.
DESIDENTS of this area have received pamphlets
about the disease and about the fund drive, to
gether with return envelopes for donations. These will
be picked up today and tomorrow by postmen, and
the firemen Avill handle the tabulation and "cleanup"
work. .
If you wish to assist, just drop your contribution
into the envelope (or another one addressed to Muscu
lar Dystrophy) and put it in your mailbox. That's
easy, isn't it? E.A.
Carnegie Foundation
Elects Dr. Wilson
Eugene University of Ore
gon President O. Meredith Wil
son has been elected to the board
of trustees of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching.
Dr. "Vilson has been president
here since 1954. He formerly was
with the Ford Foundation's fund
for the Advancement of Educa
tion. Recently he was in Wash
ington, D.C., -where he served
on the program for the annual
meeting of the American Coun
cil on Education.
Monday, November 21, 1955
wo Jima Crash Survivor
Suffers Serious Burns
Tokyo (U.R) The only survi
vor in the crash of a U. S. Air
Force C24 Globemaster that kill
ed 10 persons on Iwo Jima yes
terday suffered "extremely seri
ous burns," the Air Force said
today.
The survivor, whose name was
withheld, was flown to Japan
a few hours after the crash and
was being treated at the U. S.
Air Force hospital at Tachikawa,
near Tokyo.
The Globemaster crashed sec
onds after takeoff at Central
Air Base on the - famed World
War II battle site. -
Matter of Fact
STEVENSON'S WEEK
Chicago This last week in
Chicago has been, of course, very
much Adlai Stevenson's week.
He has been
front and cen
ter, while his
two chief riv
als, A v e r e 1 1
Harriman and
Estes Kefauv
er, to their vis
ible annoy
ance, have
been cast as
supporting
players, peek-
Stewart Alsop ing shyly out
from the wings.
Yet Stevenson's week has not
been a complete success all the
same. Stevenson has one great
central problem as a political
leader. After a time, the Ameri
can public develops a mental
image, which is often more cari
cature than faithful portrait, of
any leading American politician.
With a lot of help from Steven
son's enemies, and a good deal
of help from Stevenson himself,
the public image of Stevenson
is beginning to be that of an in
telligent but indecisive man,
honest but uncertain.
- Such a public image of Stev
enson could be politically fatal.
Therefore, as many of his friends
and supporters are well aware,
his first objective must be to
smash the image, and replace it
with an image of confidence and
decision. Stevenson could have
begun to smash the image last
week. But he has failed to do
so.
On the contrary, the image
of uncertainty has been streng
thened. To all questions about
his plans for primaries, other
than Minnesota, Stevenson an
swered that he had not made up
his mind. He even replied that
he had not yet decided when
asked whether he would go into
Minnesota to campaign.
The fact is that Stevenson is
not only undecided in his own
mind about his political strategy,
he has also been receiving di
vided counsel. One group of ad
visers, which includes men like
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago
and Barry Bingham, the able
publisher who is to head the
Volunteers for : Stevenson, fav
ors a bold course. Another group,
whose leader appears 'to be the
newly appointed Stevenson man
ager, James Finnegan, favors a
policy of minimum risk.
. : -
rpHE problem of Kefauver and
the primaries typifies the dif
ference between the two groups,
and the conflict in Stevenson's
own mind. Aside from the pos
sibility of the emergence of a
candidate acceptable to the
whole South (and the suggestion
that Sen. Lyndon, Johnson might
run despite his heart attack
causes the Stevenson men to
start back, in horror) there is
only one real obstacle to Steven
son's nomination. That is the
risk of being beaten in an im
portant primary by Estes Ke
fauver. .
The advocates of boldness
went to meet this danger head
on. They claim that their man
can clobber Kefauver anywhere.
They may even favor Stevenson
taking on Kefauver in the New
Hampshire primaries, where Ke
fauver beat Harry S. Truman in
1952. Knock Kefauver out in
New Hampshire, argue the bold
men, and the whole story is told
Stevenson can stop worrying
about August and concentrate
on November. Above all, Steven
son will stand out as the confi
dent candidate, willing to take
on all comers.
The advocates of caution ar
gue, no doubt with good reason,
that it is silly to risk a serious
set-back for Stevenson in a small,
heavily Republican state where
the cards are stacked ini Kefauv
er's favor. The issue is still un
settled, and before it is decided,
some discreet pulse-feeling will
be undertaken in New Hamp
shire. But unless it is found that
New Hampshire pulses are fair
ly racing for Stevenson, the ad
vocates of caution are likely to
have their way.
Meanwhile, the whole Steven
son strategy is in danger of fall
ing between two stools. Even
Stevenson's most cautious ad
visers agree that risks are going
to have rto be taken sooner or
later otherwise Stevenson
will be accused of ducking a
fight. There is no one in the
Stevenson entourage, for exam
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By Stewart AIsop
ple, who doubts that. Stevenson
will have to enter the California
primary, and probably at least
one or two others as well.
YET Stevenson has failed to
take credit even for the risks
he is certainly going to have to
run. His announcement that he
would go into Minnesota, where
his victory is supposedly assured,
and which everyone had known
about for .weeks, was greeted
with bored yawns. But if he had
announced that he was going
into California too he would
have grabbed headlines all over
the country, and stood forth as
the happy, confident warrior.
Instead, he said that he had
not made up his mind about Cali
fornia either. Thus, quite un
necessarily, the public image of
Stevenson as the man with the
unmade mind was strengthened
rather than weakened during
the last. week. Soon, before it
is too late, Stevenson must find
a way to smash the image, once
and for all.
(Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In the Hotel Benson's new
and quite attractive London
Bar (these words are written
in Portland) there is a series of
panel drawings done in the
crudely attractive manner of
about the 12th century in Olde
Englande.
The first depicts the king, in
his Royal Purple, florid and
well fed. He is saying: "I rule
over all." The second delineates
The Bishop, in his robes of of
fice. The scroll over it says:
"I pray for all." The third pic
tures The Soldier. He is draw
ing his jewelled sword from its
scabbard and is asserting: "I
fight for all."
The fourth character, clothed
m a soiled smock, his hands
clasping a rude mattock, is The
Farmer. He is saying:
"I PAY FOR ALL."
TT-m-m-m-m-m!
In these closing days of
the year 1955, with the cam
paign year' of 1956 coming up,
it sounds like political propa
ganda, doesn't it? .
ANE can't help wondering if
by any- chance these draw
ings might be authentic an
tiques.
If so, it would indicate that
away back there in those earlier
centuries the politicians' han
dled the farmer in almost the
identical manner in which the
politicians-' are undertaking to
nanaie mm now.
That is to say:
THEY FIRST MADE HIM
FEEL SORRY FOR HIMSELF.
TN THE papers the other day,
- there was a curiously interest
ing little story. It tells of an
elderly recluse who lived in a
bare little room in a ramshackle
hotel in Los Angeles and was
believed to be an old age pen
sioner.
He was found dead and after
his death it was discovered that
he' was the owner of 1950 shares
of U. S. Steel stock, worth at
current market prices more than
5110,000.
TTE WAS a poor citizen, you
say?
I'm afraid I'll have to dis
agree with you. In these mod
ern industrial days, when; huge
aggregations of capital are heed
ed to carry on the huge modern
business of modern living, he
was a GOOD citizen.
He saved up his money and
invested it in shares of one of
our big modern industrial enter
prises. Thus he helped to pro
vide jobs for all of us.
TIE WAS quite different from
the miser who hoards up
his cash and hides it in a tin
can or caches it away in a
safe deposit box in the vaults
of a bank.
He kept his money at work.
In the modern world, money
must be KEPT AT WORK if
we are all to prosper.
PETTING back to the politi-
cians
Our immense modern business
corporations are favorite targets
of the type of two-bit politician
who seeks to win our votes by
(
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Did you know that .. . . all
mammals except man and mon
key are color blind and even
some humans cannot distinguish
between red and green.
English sparrows were import
ed to America from Endanrt
about 100 years ago.
A baby elephant sheds its millr
tusks five or six month ftr.
birth but it continues to suckle
for another two years and may
remain under its mother's car
for two years beyond that.
lomatoes on the vine lose their
ripe red color if the tempera
ture is too hot above Rfi Ho.
grees. When this occurs continu
ously, the yellow pigment, caro
tene, takes over turning the to
matoes orange-red. Should the
nighttime temperatures remain
below 50 degrees, however, then
the tomatoes will remain nrwn
no matter how ripe they are.
r lai ieet and pigeon toes may
be due to belly-sleeping in in
fancy. When the babv is nlarpd
on its belly, it either draws its
Knees up under it with hips high
in the air and weight on the
feet which are turned in or it
spread eagles. The first position
leads to pigeon toes, the second
to flat feet Dr. Joseph H. Kite,
Emory University. A tiillow or
rolled blanket against shoulder
ana hip will support the infant
in the side position. The baby
should be turned to the other
side after each feeding.
Beechnuts, a rich food of
many birds and mammals, was
once the favorite food of the
immense flocks of passenger
pigeons.
The hummingbird is an all
American bird. Five hundred
species are found from Pata
gonia to the Canadian woods
and nowhere else.
The tarantula, a spider, may
live for many years. In fact,
ten years is usually reauired for
them to reach adulthood. In an
exDeriment. one tarantula re
mained alive two years and four
months without food. ;
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IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail
Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito,
Calif.
the ancient political device of
MAKING US FEEL SORRY
FOR OURSELVES.
He harps on their bigness,
knowing that almost since the
beginning of time the little man
has been jealous of the bigger
man. It's an old dodge, but a
very effective one.
4-H Club News
COMBINED CLUBS
The regular meeting of the recently-combined
4-H clubs of
Wagner Creek, Valleyview and
Belleview has been postponed
until Wednesday, Nov. 30. It
will be an organizational meet
ing. More than 1.000.000 acres of
land in Oregon are now under
lease for oil and gas exploration
surveys.
-A MORSOUAR.E
MISSIONS
BEYOHD THE SELLS
Most spectacular and inspiring. The filming was done in the Green Hell country
of Bolivia among the Sirionose Indians, a wild savage tribe and features the
Missionray Jack Anderson. The challenge of the film is tremendous, a Modern
Day Miracle of the Jungle.
TUESDAY NIGHT, NOV. 22, 7:30 P.M.
FOURSQUARE CHURCH
EAST JACKSON and BIDDLE ROAD -
!U.S. Wastes No Time
In Making
With Morocco Sultan
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The United States has lost no
time in trying to get on friendly
terms with Sidi Mohammed Ben
Y o u s sef, . the
newly restored
Sultan of Mo
rocco. P r e s i d ent
E i s e n h o wer
has sent him a
warm personal
friendship. The
Sultan in turn
has invited the
President to
visit Morocco.
c narlcs Mel aau N a t U r & lly
nothing was said in the ex
change about the four very val
uable air bases which the United
States has built in Morocco at
a cost of about 8372,000,000.
But the protection of those
bases under the new set-up in
Morocco is the reason behind
the "prompt American approach
to the Sultan.
Expects Home Rule
Ben Youssef has left no doubt
that he expects France to give
Morocco a wide measure of
home rule under the agreement
by which he was restored, after
two years in exile.
Also, he commented rather
casually in Paris just before he
returned to Morocco Wednesday
that the United States negotiat
ed directly with France in get
ting its bases and did not con
sult Moroccans.
His implication was that he
wants to negotiate with the
United States for the continued
maintenance of the four big stra
tegic backstops of the allied de
fense organization in Europe.
Brig. Gen. Charles A. Helm,
commander of the bases, has
said of the largest one, which is
at Nouasser, 20 miles from the
big port of Casablanca:
"Strategically it is one of the
most important bases outside of
the United States." ,
The bases have been complet
ed within the last few months
Little has . been published
about them. But they are . now
ready to send B36 atomic bomb
er planes against the Soviet
Union in case the Kremlin de
cides on war.
Avoided Former Sultan
Fortunately, the United States
got away to a good start in ad
vance of Sultan Ben Youssef
restoration.
Julius C. Holmes, who has
been in and out of the foreign
service since 1925, was named
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minister to Morocco last May.
He was also made United States
diplomatic agent in the interna
tional zone of Tangier, border
ing on Morocco, and made his
headquarters there.
Holmes visited Rabat, the Mo
roccan capital occasionally. But
he pointedly avoided visiting
Sidi Mohammed Moulay Arafa,
who served as sultan during
Youssef's exile.
There was no indication at
the time of Holmes' appoint
ment that Youssef was going to
get his job back. But it is now
evident that Holmes sensed the
trend of events.
The fact that he never had
visited Moulay Arafa certainly
did not hurt things any when he
visited Youssef last Friday tb
greet him and give him the
President's message.
Ten years ago tuberculous
meningitis, TB which attacks the
covering of the brain and spinal
cord, was almost 100 per cent
fatal. Today it can be cured.
WUd Girls No More
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Two by two, these young Afri
can women in training at the
Mission hospital are dropped off
the truck. The
black boys and
girls come run
ning from the
jungle; some
wear only a
loin cloth..
Come choruses,
Bible stories
and the lesson
from a flannel
board as in
America. Four
teen raise their
hands "as willing to stay for
prayer. Later five boys are at
the hospital G grounds, reciting
their verses to win some re
ward. Only yesterday, these twenty
young women, now in training
as nurses, were but wild natives
out in the jungle. They had the
low-down speech and ways of
the tribe. Now being born again
into God's eternal family they
have converts away beyWnd the
missionaries who direct the
work, for they know the ways
and. speech of the jungle. And
you? Accept Jesus Christ as
God's Son who died for your
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