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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29, 1945
(It was Thursday)
' Mrs. John Clark reports that
348 residents of Central Point
got x-rays in Jackson county
health association program.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Almost as
many outdoor enthusiasts so far
this winter have been rescued
from blizzards by the forest ser
vice as were warned by the same
agency last summer not to drive
off and leave their camp fires
burning.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29, 1935
(It was Friday)
State hiKhway commission to
open bids on Siskiyou underpass
at Southern Pacific crossing.
Sgt. Clyde C. Fichtner elected
president of newly-formed En
listed Men's club of local Nation
al Guard unit.
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 29, 1925
(It was Sunday)
W. J. Virgin, local radio aeal
cr, says more valley residents
bought radios than in any pre
vious year; radio conditions
greatly improved.
From Local and Personal col
umn: When a new danger signal
for the rear of automobiles is
switched on to indicate that a
car is about to turn or stop it
also flashes a white light ahead
to show the driver's extended
hand.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29, 1915
(It was Monday)
Black Diamond, Central Park
buffalo used as model for "buf
falo nickel," and $10 note, dies
in New York.
From Ashland news: H. F. Poh
land and F. D. Wagner take
school census; shows increase
from 1,309 to 1,320 between ages
of four and 20.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of tha 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The 900,000 Arab refugees
from Israel are agreed on all
sides to have left voluntarily,
or to have been forced out, or is
it in great dispute?
2. Present basis for farm price
supports began under Coolidge,
in the 1929-33 depression, in the
early or late New Deal, or under
Truman?
3. Both U.S. Senators from
which state have last names be
ginning with the letter "D"?
4. The Cotton Bowl is in Dal
las, Los Angeles, Miami, Hous
ton, Atlanta, or Columbus?
5. Oil imports account for
about 5, 10, 20, 27Vz or 35 per
cent of the total U.S. oil con
sumption? 6. The proportion of Negroes
to Whites is highest in South
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi,
Lousiana or the District of Co
lumbia? 7. Geoffrey Fisher is a prom
inent English political leader,
Air Force attache in Belgium,
physician, cleric or atomic sci
entist? The Answers: 1. In great dis
pute. 2. In late New Deal (1938.
3. Illinois (Douglas end Dirksen).
4. Dallas. 5. About 10 per cent
(in 1954). 6. Mississippi. 7. Cleric
(Archbishop of Canterbury). .
MAIL TRIBUNE
Will History Repeat?
It is io be hoped the Democratic party doesn't fol
low the example of the Republican party following
the first World War. . i '
In the post-bellum period there were two out
standing candidates for the presidency, General Leo
nard Wood of New York and Governor Frank Low
den of Illinois.
They had plenty of money behind them, and a
generous supply of delegates but neither, as the con
vention proceeded, could get the necessary majority
of the latter.
THHE struggle was a bitter and relentless one and
while neither of the principals could win, each
was strong enough to prevent the victory of the other.
The battle went on night and day until finally
with the delegates running out of wind and money,
the Big Boys of the convention headed by Boise Pen
rose, met in that well publicized "smoke-filled room"
in the Blackstone hotel and compromised on Senator
Warren Harding of Ohio, the idea being that he look
ed the part if he couldn't play it, and the Wilson ad
ministration was so unpopular, any Republican who
looked the part could win anyway.
And they were right.
But the GOP instead of getting one of the strong
est candidates available in the party and giving the
country one of its best administrations, selected the
worst candidate, the least qualified, and one of the
blackest pages in the party's history and of the coun
try's was written, until the merciful hand of death
intervened.
HISTORY is not exactly repeating itself today, as
there is a certain similarity, and there may prove to
be more. With Governor Williams of Michigan enter
ing the lists against former Governor Stevenson, it
looks as though "anything to beat Adlai" will be a
popular slogan when the Democratic convention
opens.
And it is within the range of possibility, particu
larly if Senator Kefauver should repeat his primary
successes of 1952, that Messers. Stevenson and Ke
fauved would follow the Wood-Lowden pattern and
knock each other out while a compromise candidate,
upon whom a majority of the weary delegates could
unite would step in.
THUS two of the men best qualified for the presi-
party would enter the campaign against whomever
the Republican's candidate may be, with a second or
third-rate offering.
That would spell the doom of Democratic aspira
tions, for unlike the situation in 1920, the President
today in power enjoys great personal popularity, and
whether General Eisenhower is a candidate or not,
the Democrats are going to need the best presidential
timber they can secure to make a better showing than
they did in 1952, much less, as they hope, march on
to victory.
No second or third-rater can do the job.
It is the belief of this department that if the Dem
ocratic leaders gang up thus early in the game to split
their party over Stevenson or eliminate him entirely,
they will be eliminating the ONE candidate best
qualified to give them what naturally they all want,
a return to power in 1956.
What's Wrong With It?
Over the strenuous objections of the metropoli
tan press in Oregon the State Supreme Court recently
ruled that the title for the proposed reapportionment
measure authored by Giles French, in stating that it
followed the "Federal Plan" was legally correct.
When the action was taken we failed to see where
the big city objectors had a leg to stand on.
Whether the measure is desireable or the reverse
for the state of . Oregon, it does follow the system
of our federal government the system of "checks
and balances," and therefore the title is entirely a
proper one.
UR forefathers adopted a system whereby the
representation in the House of Representatives
should be based upon population in each state, while
in the Senate one state, whether big or little, should
as a separate political unit, have the same number of
senators as every other, namely two. -
yHIS system we believe has worked pretty well. It
is not perfect but it tended to prevent domination
of the legislative branch of the government by the
larger states and particularly the larger cities. It has
given every state at least a fighting chance to prevent
the passage of legislation, which the people of that
state might consider destructive, unjust or unfair.
Were both houses based fundamentally upon popu
lation, even in varying degrees, the states of the west
outside of California wouldn't have a chinaman's
chance, to do anything but follow the orders of the
great population centers.
CO WHILE there may be objections to this French
, bill not yet divulged we certainly can see no rea
son why it should not be called a proposal that fol
lows the federal plan, for that is exactly what it does.
The only' difference is the government provides
two senators for each state while the French bill pro
vides only one Senator for each county.
But that doesn't change the essential character of
the legislation which is merely to give the smaller
counties of the state (in population) a better and fair- j
er break. R.W.R. J
Tuesday, Norember 29, 1S55
Visit of Arabia King
To India May Prove
Major Development
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The visit of King Saud of Sau
di Arabia to India may prove to
be an important development in
the Middle
Eastern situa
tion. Soviet Russia
thrust itself
into the picture
when it ar
ranged for its
satellite Czech
oslovkia to
send arms to
Egypt.
Russia, of
course, took
t tiarles McCann
advantage of the tension between
the Arab countries and Israel.
"Neutralist" Prime Minister
Jawaharhal Nehru of India
seems to have that situation in
mind in asking King Saud to visit
him.
Involved also is Nehru's aim
to form a solid bloc of African
and Asian countries which will'
detach . themselves from the
Western sphere of influence.
Western Allies Embarrassed
Nehru's invitation to King
Saud to visit India seems to be
a new move in his campaign.
It is a move which comes at
a time when the United States
and its allies are trying to
strengthen their position in the
Middle East.
The Western Allies are some
what embarrassed because of
the dangerous Palestine situa
tion.. Both. Egypt and Saudi Arabia
are important to them and the
activity of Russia and India can
only add to their difficulties.
It is no secret that Russia has
offered arms to Saudi Arabia, as
well as Egypt, and -that Saudi
Arabia is considering the offer.
King Saud's kingdom, a vast
stretch of desert sand, practical
ly floats on a sea of oil.
Oil Source Exploited .
That oil, one of the most im
portant sources of fuel in the
world, is exploited by the Amer
ican owned Arabian American
Oil Company.
Until the field was opened,
Russian Leaders
Given Hysterical
Welcome on Tour
Calcutta, India OJ.R) Sov
iet premier Nikolai Bulganin
and Soviet Communist party
chief Nikita Khrushchev rode
like twin Buddhas through i
hysterical welcome by over 5,
000,000 Indians today.
The greeting was the wildest
yet given the two Soviet leaders
as they arrived by plane from
Madras on another leg of their
barnstorming tour of India.
Sat Indian-Style
They sat with upturned hands,
Indian style, as they were whisk
ed by car from Dum Dum air
port to the heart of this teem
ing city of millions.
A crowd of 5,000,000 men, wo
men and children lined the sev
en and a half mile route shout
ing, "Indians and Russians are
brothers."
Women blew conch shells and
showered the beaming Russians
with flower petals. Thousands
of Soviet and Indian flags were
waved wildly.
City Scoured for Car
Khruschev and Bulganin
were at the head of a convoy of
limousines. Officials had scoured
the city before finding and re
quisitioning a special, seven-seat
open air model for the Russian
leaders.
Halfway through the . drive
from the airport, the crowds be
came so thick that Bulganin and
Khrushchev had to abandon their
car and climb aboard a police
radio truck. This carried them
off through crowds which were
shouting "Where's Bulganin?"
The Soviet Premier kept out of
sight on police orders.
Thieves With Itching
Hands Sought by Police
Pontiac, Mich. (U.R) Po
lice looked today for a truck
with greenish-gray spots and a
gang of .thieves with itching
hands.
The thieves dipped into acid
plating baths and made off with
1,800 pounds of nickel bars. Of
ficials of the Argon Plating Co.
told police acid would irritate
the thieves' hands and spot the
get-away truck greenish-gray.
CHARLES
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Saudi Arabia's revenues were de
rived almost entirely from a
head tax imposed on pilgrims to
Mecca, shrine of the Moslem
world.
Now, Saudi Arabia, which
means King Saud, gets something
like $100,000,000 a year in oil
royalties from "Aramco."
There is also the little-mentioned
fact that the United States
has one of its greatest air bases
at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. The
base can command the entire
Middle East. From it, giant
bombers are well within range
of the Soviet Union.
The agreement under which
the United States holds the Dhah
ran base comes up for renewal
next June.
With Russia tugging at Saudi
Arabia from one side, and India
from another, the United States
may find it difficult to maintain
its position.
Worden Slaying
Said Scheme To
Benefit Widow
KingsviUe, Tex. (U.R) A
fight over the validity of a will
signed by Don Worden of San
Antoio has led to charges that
the "svengali" slaying of Wor
den was part of a "plan, scheme
and design" of Worden's widow.
The sensational accusation
came in a petition signed by
Worden's son, Air Force Sgt.
Robert Worden. The sergeant op
posed admitting a will signed by
the elder Worden to probate.
Possessions Left To Widow
The wiU leaves all of Wor
den's possessions to his widow
Mrs. Violet Canales Worden.
Her petition asking probate of
the will listed the value of Wor
den's personal property at $3,500
but did not estimate the value of
his real property.
Kingsville County Judge B. A
Brown appointed Mrs. Worden
temporary executrix of the es
tate after yesterday's hearing,
But the judge put off until next
week a final ruling on Robert
Worden's petition.
Told To Shoot Daughter
The 42-year-old Mrs. Worden
admits she shot and killed her
45-year-old husband. But she
told authorities she did it only
because he handed her a dia
mond- encrusted pistol and told
her to shoot her five-year-old
daughter by a previous mar
riage. She said her husband was a
"svengali," who hypnotized her
by dangling a watch fob in front
of her. She said he also drugged
her and swindled her out of
more than $100,000.
A grand jury began an investi
gation into Worden's death last
week, but then recessed until
Dec. 12.
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About Dogs
To the Editor: A few evenings
ago I was walking on the street,
coming home from work, when
suddenly a big brute of a dog
crept up behind me and lunged
at me with such force that I was
knocked to the pavement and
before I could get to my feet,
he grabbed my hand and tore
my glove. I fell on my right side
and felt as tho my hip was
broken, but luckily I was spared
that tragedy and perhaps being
crippled the rest of my life.
I know people who had that
happen to them in a lesser fall.
Anyway, for several nights my
hip and arm were so sore that I
could not sleep.
Has it come this in the "City
of Medford" that people take
their life in their hands when
they step out on the streets,
either by being struck by a car
driven by an irresponsible or
drunken driver or attacked by a
vicious dog. When that ordin
ance came up for a vote of the
people, whether to keep dogs
under leash, I voted against it,
for I felt sorry for the dogs that
would be neglected by their own
ers and suffer from thirst in hot
weather. But, if it comes up for
a vote again and I hope it will
soon I shall vote to keep dogs
penned up the year round and
hope it passes by a large major
ity. Mrs. A. P.
(Name on file)
WISHING MAKE IT SO
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 late. How about today?
E. JONES, Local Agent
Phone 2-9772
COMPANY OF CANADA
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The Russian government offi
cially announces that it has ex
ploded a hydrogen bomb.' The
announcement was made by Ni
kita Khrushchev in the course
of a speech in the Indian city
of Bangalore,
The Moscow government de
scribes the bomb as the most
powerful of all such types of ex
plosives, havmg the force of a
million tons , of TNT.
GRAIN of salt note:
A year ago last March the
United States tried out a hydro
gen device which, according to
unofficial estimates, had a force
of more than FIFTEEN million
tons of TNT. '
You never can tell about these
Communists . when they start
bragging about having the big
gest and the best.
SO MUCH for the statement
about Russia's new bomb.
Let's now take a look at the cir
cumstances in which it was
made. ?
Khrushchev is in India. He's
trying to talk the Indians (mean
ing the rulers and the people
of India) into thumbing their
noses at the United States and
coming over into the Communist
camp. The population of India
is just under 400,000,000, which
would be a lot of useful cannon
fodder for Communist purposes.
Telling the Indians about the
explosion, he said:
"Our engineers and our scien
tists wanted to see if their cal
culations were correct. Their cal
culations WERE correct. They
succeeded with the. minimum of
atomic energy in making the
maximum explosion of 1,000,000
tons of TNT."
What he meant was this: "See
what a big club we've got. You'd
better come over on our side."
TIE THEN added:
J.1 "We wiu NEVER BE THE
FIRST to use such weapons.
"We will be very glad if
bombs are never exploded on
cities and villages. Let them lie
(.unused) and influence the nerves
of those (meaning the Ameri
cans) who would start -a new
war.
"Because
"If they start a war
"They will receive a proper
answer.
WOULDN'T it be wonderful if
" we could BELIEVE a Com
munist?
If so, we could breathe a long
and happy sigh of relief, saying
to ourselves with joy ineffable:
"What a bright and splendid
world is opening up for our chil
dren now that the hideous men
ace of nuclear warfare has been
banished." i
Because - WE know that WE
will' never drop a nuclear bomb
on somebody else except in
(swift) RETALIATION.
T TNFORTUNATELY
J Nobody can believe a Com
munist. One of the tenets of
Communism is that a good Com
munist says at any particular
moment whatever may seem at
the time to be useful to the ad
vancement of Communism.
Having said it, he forgets .it
at any time when it may seem
that forgetfulness may be use
ful to the advancement of the
Communist cause.
GETTING back to Khrushchev,
he vowed solemnly in a
speech in Bombay, which was
delivered just ahead of his
speech in Bangalore, that NOTH
ING WILL EVER CHANGE THE
SOVIETS FROM A CRUSADE
TOWARD WORLD PEACE.
In this case, he was speaking
with what our American Indians
(who were called Indians be
cause Columbus believed he had
landed on the shores of India)
call a double tongue.
What he meant was that the
Communist idea of the way to
bring world peace is for Com
munism to conquer the world.
Investment! - made
by the 10th of the
month earn divi
dends as of the
First.
1
Matter of Fact by
THEY "REALLY THINK"
Washington There is a real
surge of hope that President Eis
enhow :r may after all run again.
It is obvious
ly wisifful. It
does not ap
pear to be bas
ed on any ra
t i o n a 1 evi
dence. There is
nothing to in
dicate that the
President has
so much as
hinted at his
intention . to
anyone in pub
JotMph Alscr
lic life; and there are a' good
many positive reasons to think
he has carefully, avoided any
discussion of the future except
with members of his immediate
family.
Nonetheless, this surge of
hope that the President will run
has now got to be taken very
seriously, partly because it is so
strong, and more . particularly
because it centers among the
closest members of the . Presi
dent's official team and -his
closest friends outside the gov
ernment. Up to a fort
night ago, al
though the of
ficial line has
always been
that "We're go
ing on the as
sumption the
President will
want to finish
the job," al
most no one
truly expected
Stewart Alsop
that he would
do anything of the sort. But
now the gloomy resignation of
the first month after the Presi
dent's heart attack has been re
placed by a new outlook. The
forecasts are always couched in
some such language as "I really
think he may run after all," or
"I almost believe he'll do it again
despite the heart attack." But
although tentative, the forecasts
are sanguine
Of course the men who make
these forecasts desperately want
to think what they now think.
Yet these men are , reasonably
hardheaded. The change in their
attitude has got to be attributed
to some cause more solid than
mass hypnosis. It has to be at
tributed, in fact, to the atmos
phere these men find when they
make their pilgrimages of bus
iness or friendship to the con
valescent President's bedside or
office.
THEY emphasize, naturally,
the remarkable rapidity and
speed of the President's recov
ery. They place great emphasis,
too, on the way he has actively
reached out for his responsibil
ities, refusing from the very
start to accept his invalid diet
of information, that was origin
ally prepared for him, and in
sisting instead on .being given
all the facts, pleasant and un
pleasant, about any government
problem up for discussion.
But above all these very, high
authorities " always emphasize
two other points of a more spec
ial character.
First, the President has been
deeply affected, by the tremend
dus outpouring of affection and
concern which his illness pro
duced, not only in this country,
but also throughout the world.
In a rather macabre way, it has
been like reading his own obit
uaries. The argument runs that
he has found these semi-obituaries
so extremely encouraging
that he now thinks life more than
ever worth living.
Second, the long, enforced in
activity of his convalescence is
also said to have bored the Pres
ident to "tears. When a man is
harassed and overdriven by the
cares of a great office, retire
ment may seem most attractive
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Jee and Stewart Alsop
to him. But if be is primaly a
man of action, like Dwight D.
Eisenhower, a long spe9 of veg
etable, convalescent dullness is
likely to change his viewpoint.
It can make him anxious only
to get back to work as soon as
possible and stay at work as long
as possible.
Such are the arguments of the
optimists who now believe the
odds are Better than even that
the President will be a candi
date to succeed himself. The
more sensible of these men close "
to the President have now ab
andoned the' thoroughly silly
idea that the Presidency can
somehow be transformed into a
part-time job. This kind of self
delusion, at any rate, is no long
er being practiced on a wide
scale in high quarters."
But most of the . men who
make these arguments will also
admit, if pressed, that the Presi
dent did not wish to run again
even before he had his heart at
tack. He had been persuaded to
dp so, but against his personal
preference and despite the strong
contrary plans of his wife and
son. Hence the arguments that
he will now run amount to say
ing that a major heart attack hag
had 'the somewhat unexpected
effect of making the ; President
want ' to continue in his man-
killing job, although he did not i
want to do so when he had not
this physical warning.,
-
pERHAPS, therefore, a better 1
clue to the President's fu
ture course lies in what he said,
prior to the heart attack, to this
year's annual White House party
for the 22 Republican Congress
men and ex-Congressmen, head
ed by Gov. Christian Herter of
Massachusetts, who signed the
famous 1952 Congressional tele
gram asking Eisenhower to be
a candidate.
In response to a to;t to his
1956 candidacy, the President
told the 22 that for health and
other reasons he was strongly
inclined to retire. He aded, that
he could not tell what he would
da in the end, but he was sure
of two things: He knew quite
well that there were certain Re
publicans whom h did not wish
to succeed him; and if he decid
ed to retire, he would work
hard for the nomination of a
man who would carry on where
he left off, and he would then
work even harder for this man's
election.
(C) 1955. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
UP MANAGER NAMED
h New York . (U.R) Appoint
ment of Robert C. Miller as
United Press manager ; in Aus
tralia was announced today by
Frank H.- Bartholomew, presi-c
dent.
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