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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
i0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24. 1945
(It was Saturday)
E. P. Leavitt, Crater Lake
park superintendent, ' requests
permission from Washington to
install equipment to record earth
tremors which might result at
park; may help determine "mys
terious smoking over past
weeks."
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The juve
nile element have started writ
ing letters to S. Claus. If S. Claus
can read some of them, he is a
dandy.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Assets of former Greater Med
ford club being turned over to
Girls' Community club.
Mrs. Flora Hunsaker elected
president of county Intermediate
Teachers' council.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24. 1925
(It was Tuesday)
F. C. Dillard, Medford water
engineer, announces survey of
new water system may be com
plete by Christmas.
State game commission releas
es 144 pheasants on Rogue valley
farms; several hundred more ex
pected soon.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 1915 .
(It was Wednesday)
Medford residents urge coun
sel to force the payment of delin
quent paving assessments before
flew levy is authorized.
From Local and Personal col
umn: It may be noted that a
fcreat many people familiar with
the equable climate of Rogue
river valley are rapidly acquir
ing the habit of making their
Winter home in this part of south-
trn Oregon.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of lh 71
Kopr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapft
1. Most line-ups in votes in
the U. N. are between the big na
tions on one side and small na
tions on the other; right or
Wrong?
2. Which two of these are
linder 55: Adlai E. Stevenson,
Chief Justice Warren, Gov.
Knight, Sen. Knowland, Sen.
Kefauver, Gov. Harriman?
3. An average American gets
Iwo, four, six, eight or ten colds
year?
4. Federal excise tax on lubri:
bating oil is five cents a gallon,
less or more?
5. Third largest colonial power
(after Britain and France) is
Russia, the U. S., The Nether
lands, Spain or Portugal?
6. Well less than half, about
fialf. or well more than 'half of
rill U.S. farms are free of mort
gage? 7. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia,
once a bitter foe of Soviet Rus
sia, says he is now pro-Soviet,
Hill anti-Soviet, or neutral as
between East and West?
The Answers: 1. Wrong. 2.
Knowland and Kefauver. 3
Six, says U.S. Public Health
Service. 4. More (6c). 5. Port
ugal. 6. Well more than half.
7. Neutral.
A medium-powered turbo-jet
Aircraft engine, such as often
used today, burns its own weight
of petroleum fuel every 20 min
utes in flight. .. - - .
Gf3l
MAIL TRIBUNE
Thanksgiving
From the standpoint of the cosmos to be enthu
siastically thankful this year in accordance with the
presidential proclamation takes a bit of doing.
In other words the world as a whole is pretty
much in a mess, on this 24th day of November 1955
A.D.
Not from the standpoint of Moscow and commu
nism, but from the standpoint of democracy, human
freedom and the United States.
CAST, west, north or south there is nothing very
cheering in the picture.
Not only was the second Geneva conference a
flop but it would appear that our policy in India has
not been the success we had imagined, or that ac
cording to our lights, it should have been.
We have not only spent millions to save the starv
ing of that country, but we have spent more millions
in aiding them to support their own people in comfort
via improved farming methods and gifts of modern
farm machinery.
JUDGING by the welcome given the Russian leaders
however on their pilgrimage of propaganda, there
is little if any gratitude toward the U.S.A. as far as
the rank and file in India-are concerned, and great
enthusiasm over Messrs. Bulganin and Khrushchev,
with their phoney talk and specious promises.
If this means Russia is going to take over India
as another "independent satellite" a la Poland and
Czechoslovakia, then all Asia will be lost to the dem
ocratic powers eventually.
TN THE Middle East conditions are not so serious
particularly with the Bagdad pact in the offing.
But they can't be called good.
Russia is supplying arms and ammunition to the
Arabs through Egypt, and the Kremlin doesn't give
weapons of war to any foreign nation or nations, with
any expectation they won't be used; and in the
direction Soviet Russia desires.
TF EGYPT starts a "holy war" against Israel, the
Arab nations will jump in with her and Russia
won't be far behind when Arabian oil wells enter the
picture, thus acquiring what Russia has coveted for
decades, and without taking any military or naval
action herself much less starting a world war. In
accordance with the "New Deal" policy in Moscow
she will let other nations do the fighting, and she
will only share the loot, and later through infiltration
take over.
. ,
IN WESTERN Europe conditions are better. Russia
neva may even have strengthened the western al
liance against Russian aggression. But even so, with
German unification and union with the western alli
ance," the corner stone of American, success in that
part of the world, the outlook could hardly be termed
promising or cheerful.
Even in South America all is in a ferment, with
the ultimate outcome highly doubtful, so far as re
approachment with North America along friendly
democratic lines in the near future are concerned.
.
CO FROM the standpoint of this whirling old ball-of-dirt
there is not much to be thankful for this
day of national Thanksgiving.
Which doesn't mean, of course, that from the
standpoint of this section of the terrestial . globe the
U.S.A. reasons for thanksgiving are hard to .find.
Quite the contrary in fact.
President Eisenhower has made a remarkable
recovery and there seems little doubt he will be able
to serve out his present term under fairly full steam,
which means former Senator Richard Nixon won't
occupy the White House this year or next at least.
That is something to be thankful for!
THERE is also "peace and prosperity" as the GOP
claims the seeds of another war are . discernible
in the air now and then but at least our boys are not
now in the business of killing and being killed as they
were on a certain Thanksgiving not so many years
ago. And while everyone hasn't a job or the price of a
20 pound turkey, most of our citizenry has, and most
of the experts predict this era of peace and plenty
will continue for another year at least and they
may be right this time even though a majority of
them were wrong when they made the same predic
tion around a quarter of a century ago.
Finally when one comes down to brass tacks
everyone who enjoys reasonably good health, has
enough to eat and a warm place to sleep should fol
low the President's suggestion, and thank the Lord
for His manifold blassings, there are so many mem
bers also of the genus homo, particularly in other less
fortunate lands, who HAVEN'T ! R.W.R. .
Graham No! To Get
Psychiatric Test
Denver iU.P.) John Gilbert
Graham, charged with murder in
the sabotage of a United Air
Lines plane that killed his moth
er and 43 others Nov. 1, will not
be given a psychiatric examina
tion requested by his temporary
attorneys.
Two civil attorneys, who are
seeking to find the 23-year-old
restaurant operator competent
counsel for his trial asked Safety
Manager Edward O. Geer
Wednesday to permit a phychia
trist to examine their client at
the Denver County jail.
Geer agreed! He said the law
yers wanted to know whether
Graham's mental condition was
such that he should be allowed
to talk to newsmen, and wanted
his behavior in the jail for the
past 10 days evaluated.
Thursday, NoTmber 24. 1955
Wounded Policeman
Undergoes Surgery
Salem (U.R John Mekkers,
the state police officer who was
shot and wounded in attempting
to. arrest two men in the act of
holding up a Rickreall tavern
late Sunday, was reported in
satisfactory condition today at
Salem General hospital.
Tuesday. He was wounded in the
arm and shoulder when he tried
to arrest Robert Scott Kennen
of Salem and Wallace Carlyle
Cunningham of Portland. Cun
ningham was shot and killed by
Herschel Greenfade, a .Dallas
service station operator, who
was deputized by Mekkers when
he arrived at the holdup scene.
Kennen was arrested and
charged with assault with intent
to kill. He is being held in Polk
county jail at Dallas.
Today and
By Walter
THE SHORTAGE 1
OF EDUCATION
Next week some 2,000 educa
tors and laymen, drawn from all
the states, will be in Washington
to attend the
conference on
edu cation.
They, have - al
ready taken
part in a series
of local and
state confer
ences, and this
is, so to speak,
a meeting at
Walter Lippmann the Summit.
They have been called together
by President Eisenhower who
has had from Congress approval
of the conference and an appro
priation to pay for it.
The reason for the conference
is that education in this country
is in serious trouble and big
measures will be required to
cure the trouble. It is the busi
ness, indeed it is the duty, of the
White House conference to re
port to the President "making
recommendations insofar as pos
sible" for the "solution ... of
significant and pressing ' prob
lems in the field of education."
npHE agenda of the conference
-- covers almost every aspect of
education from curriculum to fi
nance. This raises a general and
overriding question. It is wheth
er the conference will try to say
a little something about every
thing or -whether it will resolute
ly face up to the hard but essen
tial task of making recommenda
tions on, the biggest problems
about which the Federai govern
ment can do something.
The leaders of this conference
will have missed the bus the
bus provided for them by the
President and Congress if they
scatter their energy over the
whole enormous field of educa
tion. They will have made the
old mistake of talking about so
many things that few will re
member that they have talked
about anything. They will have
missed the bus, too, if instead of
coming to a decision on the prac-
tical problems which concern the
Fedexal government most imme
diately, they are content to use
the White House as the sounding
board for giving more publicity
to problems which have already
had immense publicity.
. -
TT IS nearly - two years since
President Eisenhower asked
Congress to approve this confer
ence. -The time has now come to
form a policy and take a de
cision. What policy? A policy
which shapes the relation of the
Federal government to the supr
port of the schools.
There is a strange notion
afloat in the land that to have
a Federal policy on education is
to have something new, some
thing contrary to the American
philosophy of government. As a
matter of fact national grants in
aid of education are as old as
the Republic. More exactly, they
are older than the Republic in
that the Northwest Ordinance of
1785 contained an enormous na
tional grant in aid of education.
It provided that when the west
ern lands had been surveyed
"there shall be reserved the lot
number 16 of every township for
the maintenance of public
schools within said township.
The list of Federal statutes pro
viding aid for education is a long
one.. It includes the land grant
colleges, vocational training, vet
erans education, and aid to sup
port schools in areas affected by
Federal activities, such as de
fense plants.
There is no new principle in
volved. The question is whether
Federal aid is necessary and, if
it is, how Federal aid is to be
given to the schools while avoid
ing Federal control and Federal
domination of the schools.
rpHERE is a grave shortage in
- American education of which
me outward signs are over
crowded school rooms, part-time
schooling and over - worked
teachers. The basic fact is that
our population is growing very
rapidly, that more and more
young people are going to school
and college, that the schools and
colleges are expected to do more
and more for them. In a word,
the demand for education has
been growing. There are not
enough school rooms and there
are not enough teachers to meet
this demand. This is the educa
tional shortage which the White
House conference is called upon
to deal with.
rpHE shortage of classrooms is
- quite evidently a problem of
monev. The classrooms can be
built if the money is provided.
The question is whether each
state separately can raise the
money that it needs, or whether
Federal money should be appro
priated. This is the most import
ant question before the White
House conference, and the coun
try has a right to expect a clear
answer.
The shortage of teachers is, on
the other hand, only in part a
question of money. It has been
demonstrated, as we shall see
in my next article, that it is not
even' theoretically possible to
find enough teachers to meet the
demand, and that a reorganiza
tion of the teaching system will
have to be undertaken. But the
shortage of teachers cannot in
any case be met unless there is-
Tomorrow
Lippmann
a marked improvement in teach
ers' salaries.
-
THERE is no reason why Fed
eral money for school build
ings should mean Federal con
trol of education, control of what
is taught, of how it is taught. In
fact, Congress could "and, it
seems to me, that Congress
should, declare in appropriating
money for Federal aid that the
money shall be used for the con
struction of schools, and that no
Federal official shall give funds
or withhold them in order to in
fluence what is done in the
schools when they are built. It
would then be a Federal offense
to use Federal aid to establish
Federal control of the schools.
(To be continued in another
article).
Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Matter of Fact bv
BENSONOPHOBIA
Dubuque, la. There is only
one issue in this part of the Mid
dle West. It is, of course, the
farm issue. But
you have to
smell the poli
tical atmos
phere in this
area, to realize
just how big
an issue the
farm issue is.
Republic a n
chances of
holding the
Middle West-
Stewart Alsop era Republic
an heartland next year are seri
ously threatened by farm discon
tent. In talks with large num
bers of politicians, reporters, and
even some farmers, this reporter
has not found one who does not
believe that this is so. For ex
ample, one Iowa farm leader, a
Taft Republican, has said flatly
that Iowa is dead certain to go
Democratic in 1956 if the pres
ent trend continues. Many neu
tral political observers agree,
A Democratic win in Iowa could
only mean a Democratic land
slide nationally.
Nor is there any doubt that
the name of that able and honor
able man, Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson, is sheer
political poison in this area. In
a way, this Bensonophobia is
mysterious. Most Easterners
suppose that the 90 per cent of
parity formula is the central
farm issue. Actually especially
here in Iowa, which is essentially
a livestock producing state rath
er than a grain State, many farm:
ers have little more use for rigid
90 per cent supports than Benson
himself.
Yet these same farmers, at
the protest meetings which are
beginning to be held in many
parts of the Middle West, stamp
their feet or hoot in derision
when Benson's name is mention
ed. In part, this is no doubt Ben
son's fault he has an unfortu
nate habit of issuing complacent
statements forecasting upturns
just before pork or corn hit new
lows.
But this is only a small part
of the reason for Benson's un
popularity. In the Middle West,
Benson is not so much a person
as a symbol: As a symbol of farm
discontent, Benson's name has of
course been exploited to the ut
most by the Democrats, but the
rebellious mood of many farm
ers in the Middle West is no
mere Democratic plot.
A SMALL incident which oc
curred in the office of the
great Iowa newspapers, "The
Des Moines Register" and "Tri
bune," suggests what farm dis
content is all about. Thomas E.
Martin, Iowa's Republican jun
ior senator, was visiting the pa
pers, and he was asked by the
able farm editor, James R. Rus
sell, how he felt. "Fine, Jim, just
fine," the senator replied, beam
ing. "Take a look at these head
lines," Russell replied, "and you
won't feel so fine." The head
lines read something like this;
HOGS AT 14 YEAR LOW . . .
STOCK MARKET NEARS ALL
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
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan -
FUNERAL
MKftbkni
Atomic Waste Disposal Problem
Slowing Nuclear Power Future
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.P.) The bright
future predicted for nuclear
power can't come to pass until'
someone comes up with a safe
and cheap way of getting rid of
the splitting atom's deadly by
products. As of today,, nobody has done
this. But Arthur E. Gorman, sani
tary engineer in the Atomic
Energy Commission's Reactor
Division, feels "sure the disposal
problem will be licked."
AEC laboratories are spending
around $1,000,000 a year on re
search into proposed ways of
stowing radioactive wastes
where they can never do any,
harm. '
A number of effective tem
porary measures have been put
into use. Yet no permanent dis
posal methods have been devel-
Stewart Alsop
TIME PEAK . . . CORN DOWN
AGAIN . . . ORGANIZED LA
BOR MAKES NEW GAINS. Aft
er a thoughtful look, Martin
agreed that maybe he didn't feel
so fine after all.
It is a sense of being left out,
of being discriminated against,
that seems to enrage the farm
ers, even more than the sharp
drop in farm income. One astute
farm editor here put it this way.
Suppose you were one of three
people in an office, all doing the
same job. Suppose the other two
got raises and you got your pay
docked 20 or 30 per cent, while
your boss kept telling you not to
worry and everything was dan
dy. Wouldn't you be feeling kind
of mad?
The farmer feels, in short that
business and organized labor are
skimming off all the gravy at his
expense, while he has no means
to protect himself economically
It is no use pointing out that the
farmer himself got plenty of
gravy in his time. - Nor is it any
use pointing out that a good
many family-size farms are sim
ply not efficient economic units
any more. A farm policy based
on this economically justifiable
assumption would be political
suicide.
The fact is that the sharp drop
in farm income amounts to
kind of double crisis. One crisis
is political. The Democrats are
under heavy temptation to try
to buy the farm vote, ' at any
price. And many of the smartest
Republicans in this area are
scared blue, a condition which
does not often lead to sensible
policy-making. There is hardly
a major Republican leader in
this part of the Middle West who
has not urged, . publicly or pri
vately, the firing of Secretary
Benson.
"
TUT firing Benson is not going
to solve anything, not even
the political troubles of the Re
publicans. For the trouble in the
farm belt is more than a purely
political crisis. It could easily
lead to a genuine national crisis.
Until two years ago, it was a
universally accepted doctrine
that the farmers would continue
to prosper as long as the national
income rose. This doctrine has
now been knocked into a cocked
hat. National income has gone
steadily up, while farm income
has gone steadily down. Some
thing has gone seriously wrong
somewhere. And. the political
leadership which can address it
self sensibly and effectively to
what has gone wrong is very
likely to capture the White
House in 1956.
(C) 1955, New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
BUST PRESENTED
Balboa, C. Z. OJ.R) Pierre
de Lesseps presented a bronze
bust of his great grandfather,
Ferdinand de Lesseps, to the
Panama Canal Co. Wednesday
in ceremonies marking the 150th
anniversary of the birth of his
forbear. Ferdinand de Lesseps
came here 7p years ago to plan
The Panama Canal.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5 :30 previous day
Harold Snodgrass
DIRECTORS
oped which are certainly safe
and at the same time economic.
Unpleasant Characteristics
"The reactor core of an atomic
power plant -possesses some of
the more unpleasant character
istics of an A-bomb or H-bomb.
Though it can't explode like a
nuclear weapon, it does produce
the same radio-activities. These
include much publicized stron-tium-90,
the H-bomb contami
nant that gets into plants and
animals and can cause bone tu
mor and death.
So you can't just shovel
"atomic ashes" into wheelbar
rows and dump them out behind
the plant. Because some of the
products of atomic fission are
long-lived, experts figure re
actor wastes will have to be kept
intact and isolated from living
things for as long as 200 years.
That complicates the problem,
because almost no container that
might be easy and cheap to
make can be depended upon to
resist corrosion or cracking that
long.
Another problem; Gorman
said, is heat. Radioactive mater
ials generate a lot of it. Dump
them where the heat can't get
away and in the course of time
you're likely to have a minia
ture volcano geyser to contend
with.
Storage Temporary
The AEC has achieved safe
storage of wastes from its big
Hanford, Wash., and Savannah
River, S.C., plants. But storage
is temporary, not-, permanent,
and the costs are higher than an
atomic power industry could eco
nomically handle.
Nothing so far proposed, Gor
man confirmed, appears ade
quate from both cost and safety
standpoints to the "atomic in
dustry expected to develop in
this country by the year 2000.
By that time, it has been esti
mated, there will be some 400
big-scale atomic power stations
in the United States. . .
The British appear to believe
it is safe to dump reactor wastes
into ocean deeps. This country
however, has been willing to dis
pose of only "low level" wastes
that way.
Gorman said much more in
vestigation must be made of
ocean bottom currents and con
ditions before sanitary engineers
will know for certain whether
wastes of high level radioactiv
ity, suitably packaged, can be
permanently and harmlessly
thrown into the sea.
Many 'Must Nots '
The "must nots" are many.
High level radioactivity must
not be permitted to contaminate
ground water supplies, it must
not be permitted to poison the
multitude of sea and land life
forms which are a basic part of
favorite
hereabouts'
the earth's biological economy,
it must not be permitted to men
ace future generations of plants
and animals. o
For that reason, Gorman said,
"We're not throwing it awag
where we can't get it back." This
is a situation in which, he added,
"a mistake would be a bad one."
But many ideas have been de
veloped and out of them, Gor
man feels certain, a solution will
come. Some fission products per
haps can be chemically fixed in
the .soil so tljey can never be
taken up by plants. Perhaps
limestone or salt caves in many
parts of the country can be used
at least for indefinite storage of
hot wastes.
Another proposal has been to
dump wastes, confined in steel
and concrete, into the deep mud
and the ooze of the Gulf of Mex
ico. The drums would sink down
through the mud which would
provide a permanent cover.
Christmas Trees,
Holly Can Be Taken
Into California
Cut foliage of holly and Ore
gon grape, as well as cut Christ
mas trees, may be taken over the
California state line without cer
tification, Jackson county horti
culture agent, C. B. Cordy, said
today.
He pointed out, howeve, that
individual entire plants of holly
must be certified. Cordy said
the extension service can certify
plants which have been grown
outdoors.
Apples, pears, peaches and
most other fruits and vegetables
grown in this area, Cordy said,
have free access into California
in small lots. Cherries are a not
able exception, he added,' and
cannot be taken across the state
line.
Commercial Loads
Commercial loads of melons,
squash and various other types
produce must have point-of-or-igin
certification.
Walnuts must have the soft,
outer ' husk removed, but bare
nuts can pass agricultural check
ing stations. In the spring, certification-must
be obtained on
peppers, tomatoes and egg plants.
Cordy said that most fruits,
vegetables or other plants grown
in the area pass state line in
spectors. Although they ask for
such items, he said, "in the ma
jority of cases they merely look
at it and return it to the tourist."
About 8,000 "Americans now
live in Lebanon,
them business men stationed
there with their lanulies. V