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Medford and Jackson County
Historv from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 20, 1945
, (It was Thursday)
Flu epidemic closes Phoenix
and Gold Hill schools.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The eclipse
of the moon Tues. eve was wide
ly observed. It was an artistic,
but not financial success.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 20, 1935 '
(It was Friday)
Federal aid projects under
way in Jackson county include
Bear Creek bridge at McAn
drews rd., flume drainage proj
ect in Eagle Point, and rehabil
itation of the county farm.
Jackson county physician or
fanKe the Southern Oregon
Medical Service association to
pcjtade medicalo service for all
industrial and commercial firm
employees.
SO YEARS AGO0
Dec. 20, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Delilia Stevens, Jackson coun
ty clerk, elected treasurer of
state organization of county
clerks.
Icy highways across Sisklyous
result is 13 automobile accidents
In two days.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 20. 1915
O (It was Monday)
Jackson County. Taxpayers
league organized at meeting Sat
urday; officers nominating com
mittee appointed by J. A. West
erlund, a&ing chairman.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Miss Mabel Scudder, when
off her guard Saturday evening,
was caught by the beauty judges
and named the prettiest young
lady present at the Catholic
(azaar. The judges were Judge
Kelly and A. L. Rosenbaum.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
"Copr. 1955. Editorial Research depart
1. A higher percentage of the
farms have TV sets in the East,
South, Middle West or West?
2. Average costs are higher
for boys in Ivy Leagues colleges
or girls in better known Wom
en's eastern colleges, or is it
about 50-50?
3. Title of the wife of an earl
in England is Duchess, Countess,
n Lady, DameV:countess or sim-
ply Honorable?
4. More roads fii the U. S.
classed as "rural" are surfaced
or unsurfaced, or is it about 50
50? 5. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, U. N.
truce negotiator between the
Israeli and Arabs, is an Ameri
can, Britisher, Canadian, Aus-
tralian or South African?
6. U. S. visitors to Russia get
Russian currency for dollars at
about two-thirds, one-half or one
third of its actual purchasing
value?
7. Head of our International
Cooperation Administration (for
foreign aid) is Harold E. Stassen,
Allen W. Dulles, John B. Hol
lister, Paul Hoffmen, or Nelson
Rockefeller?
The Answers!. El. 2. High
er for the girls. 3. Countess. 4.
Mere are surfaced. 5. Canadian.
6. About one-third. 7. Hollisler.
Supreme Court.
Alfalfa has a better change
of survival when seeded the first
week in August than when seed
ed in September.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How About Dixon-Yates?
The sensational charges of "crime," "fraud," and
"perjury" that have sprung from congressional in
vestigations into the controversial Dixon-Yates con
tract will almost certainly be aired in open court.
Edgar H. Dixon, head of the company f ormed to
carry out the power contract with the Atomic Energy
Commission, said on Nov. 23 that his group would go
to court for settlement costs arising from the cancella
tion of the contract ordered by President Eisenhower
on July 11. The suit' was filed Dec. 13.
The A.E.C. on Nov. 23 had declared the .con
tract invalid because of a probable violation of the
federal "conflict of interest" laws in its negotiation.
These laws provide in effect that a federal employee
may not serve both the government and a private
employer in the same matter.
"
THE employee involved is Adolphe H. Wenzell, f or-
merly a senior vice president of the First Boston
Corp., a New York investment banking firm, and now
an International Bank official. Wenzell acted as a
temporary consultant to the U.S. Budget Bureau on
the contract while retaining his connection with First
Boston. This corporation was named financing agent
for the contract, though refusing to take a fee.
Wenzell's role in the Dixon-Yates negotiations
was one of the factors leading to the President's ex
ecutive order of Nov. 28 tightening restrictions on
government "dollar-a-year" men. "
CEN. ESTES KEFAUVER (D., Tenn.), who has
been pushing the Dixon-Yates investigation, said
on Nov. 25 that the A.E.C. ruling that the contract
was invalid "amounts to a declaration that the con
tract reeks with fraud." Moreover, said Kefauyer,
"There is most certainly a criminal side to this case
also."
Dixon on Aug. 1 had testified that neither Wen
zell nor any First Boston official "sat in a single"
meeting in which the contract was negotiated. Sen.
William Langer (R., N.D.) promptly shouted, "I
think you've committed perjury right now." Sen.
Kefauver noted "glaring conflicts" in testimony by
Dixon and Wenzell before his subcommittee and be
fore the Securities and Exchange Commission.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in his January 1954
budget message suggested that the A.E.C. use
power purchased from non-government sources to
replace 600,000 kilowatts of power it was getting
from the Tennessee Valley Authority. The idea of
having a private company provide the power, it was
later disclosed, was originated by Director of the
Budget Joseph M. Dodge, who resigned before the
contract was negotiated.
A proposal was made by the Dixon-Yates group
on April 10, 1954, after the goverment turned down
an earlier one. President Eisenhower on June 16
ofdered A.E.C. to negotiate under terms of the Dixon
Yates offer.
D
EMOCRATIC National
Mitchell set off fireworks on Aug. 16, 1954 by
referring to the "Dixon-Yates scandal" in a speech
at Chicago. The Joint Senate-House Committee on
Atomic Energy on Nov. -13 voted to allow the A.E.C.
to go ahead with the contract, but on Jan. 28, 1955,
after party control in Congress had shifted, the com
mittee called on A.E.C. to cancel it.
Wenzell's role in negotiations was disclosed in
testimony before the Kefauver group alter the con
tract had been ordered cancelled on July 11. The
subcommittee on July 21 was told that Wenzell's
name had been omitted from an Aug. 21, 1954 of
ficial account of negotiations issued jointly by the
A.E.C. and Budget Bureau on request of the Budget
Bureau. The omission was despite the President's
order to make public a complete history of the con
tract. E.R.R.
Rep. Martin
Ike Will Run Again
Washington OI.R) House Re-1
publican Leader Joseph W. Mar
tin Jr. has predicted in some of
the strongest terms 50 far that
President Eisenhower will run
again.
The Massachusetts Republican
said he is convinced Mr. Eisen
hower will get a "certificate of
health" from his physicians and
will be reelected next fall.
Won't Fail Country
"He will not fail his country
when they call upon him," he
said.
Other political developments:
1. Sen. Walter F. George (D
Ga.) 77-year-old dean of the Sen
ate, announced he will run for
a seventh term. The veteran
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee is certain
to be opposed hotly for the nom
ination by 42-year-old former
Gov. Herman Talmadge of Geor
gia. George said at a press con
ference at his home in Vienna,
Ga.: "I'm feeling fine." '
2. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D
Tenn.) is understood to have de
cided to' challenge Adlai E. Ste
venson in Florida's Democratic
presidential primary May 29.
Kefauver already announced he
will enter primaries in New
Hampshire March 13 and Calif
ornia June 5. Stevenson also will
enter the California contest.
'Factional Warfare'
3. The Democratic Digest
monthly publication of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, said
President Eisenhower's heart at
tack has plunged the Republican
party "into the churning waters
of factional warfare." The maga
zine predicted without elabora
Tuesday, December 20, 1955
Chairman Stephen A.
Predicts
tion the "return to the political
battles" of former Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey of New York.
Some Siskiyou Jails
Listed As 'Disgrace'
Yreka Some of the jails in
Siskiyou, county are a "dis
grace," a county grand jury
declared in a report this week.
Not all the jails were con
demned in the report, but sev
eral of them were found to have
"deplorable" facilities and con
ditions. The report added:
"And how such a situation
could have been tolerated so
long is inconceivable." Particu
larly mentioned was the fact
that there were no facilities for
women and children's care at
the Yreka jail.
The jails at McCloyd, Duns
muir and Weed were given ap
proval, but others in the county
were criticized on several
counts.
Missing Sergeant,
Payroll Object of Hunt
Frankfurt, Germany (U.R)
A $50 reward was offered today
for information leading to the
apprehension of a U. S. Army
sergant who "went over the hill"
with an $18,400 pay roll.
Sfc. Donald F. Molter disap
peared last Wednesday with the
payroll for German employees
of American-run hotels in Frankfurt
SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING VERSES
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The Medford Council of
Church Women each year be
between Thanksgiving and
Christmas sponsors a pro
gram of daily Bible reading,
recommending a different
verse of the Bible for each
day during that period, in co
operation with the American
Bible association, the Med
ford Ministerial association
and the National Council of
Church Women.
Following are the passages
recommended for todays
I John 4:1-21.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
How highway trouble starts:
In heavy Chicago traffic, a
man named Janetzke bumped
the rear end of the car ahead of
him. The bump wasn't a very
husky one, but it roused the ire
of the bumpee. He stopped his
car and got out to tell Janetzke
off.
t
In the ensuing argument Ja
netzke stepped too far to one
side and was hit by a passing
car. He was knocked to the
pavement and when he got up
he walked into the path of an
oncoming trailer truck. The
truck driver, quick-witted, as
truck drivers have to be, braked
with all his might, but the street
was slick and his big rig skidded
and jacknifed.
The following car, driven by a
man named Sabo, smashed into
the truck. Sabo got off with
shock and bruises, but a passen
ger riding xwith him was
KILLED.
AND so
Another death was added to
the staggering annual total of
America's highway fatalities.
THE moral?
It is this:
On our danger-laden highways,
as in this danger-laden cold war
world, eternal vigilance is the
price of safety.
I THINK perhaps there's an
other word on a wider scale.
If this short-tempered motor
ist whose car was bumped from
the rear in heavy and compli
cated traffic had KEPT HIS
SHIRT ON the fatal sequence
on the slippery Chicago street
would not have started.
In this trigger-happy cold war
world things are constantly hap
pening that MAKE US AMERI
CANS MAD. We'd better keep
our shirts on. Otherwise, we
may start a sequence that will
end in a third world war.
We need to remember that
"whom the gods would destroy
they first made mad."
MORE on this modern world
this one on the brighter side.
A British research engineer
says he has invented a new type
motor that will revolutionize the
automobile industry. His new
power plant is only one-third the
size of a normal auto engine. He
says it develops 30 per cent more
power, weighs 70 per cent less
and runs on ANY liquid fuel. It
has only NINE moving parts. Its
inventor says it will last more
than 200,000 miles without an
overhaul.
He tells a reporter:
"Leading engineers to whom
I have shown my new engine
agree it will revolutionize the
automobile industry in the same
way that the jet engine has
changed the scene in aviation."
A NOTHER screwball?
" Let's take a look at him.
His name is Granville Brad
shaw. During World War II, he
was chief research engineer for
Britain's royal- navy. He de
signed the world's first RADIAL
airplane engine. The radial -engine
gave a terrific lift to air
plane progress.
So we can't write off as moon
shine what he says about his
new automobile power plant.
ON BEHALF of the oldsters,
I'd like to add that Brad
shaw is 67. But, instead of climb
ing up on the shelf at the nor
mal retirement age and settling
down there, HE KEPT HIS
FINELY TRAINED BRAIN AT
WORK.
He began designing his new
auto engine AFTER he had
reached the normal retirement
age. If his new engine works,
we'll all be glad he went on
working.
TURNING to another angle of
-- the modern world, the Ore
gon Voter founded 40 years
ago in Portland by C. C. Chap
man ?nd now edited by Walter
May says this week that Ore
gonians pay just slightly less
than a BILLION dollars a year
in federal, state and local taxes.
It adds that this is about ONE
THIRD of the income of Oregon
residents.
TTERE'S a thought you might
"toy with in your idle mo
ments you might even take it
with you to the voting booth at
the next election:
The more the state (meaning
government) DOES for us, the
more it will have to TAX us.
There is only one place for tax
money to come from, and that is
out of the pockets of the people.
Portland (U.R) The State
Highway commission has denied
the application of Lee Mantes,
Enterprise, for a horse riding
concession in Wallowa etate
park. .
Sudanese Independence Action
Declared Bad News for Egypt
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Sayed Ismail El-Azhari, prime
minister of the Sudan, has de
cided that he likes independence
so much that
he must have
it right away.
Great Brit
ain and Egypt,
which had long
controlled the
Sudan, agreed
on Dec.. 3 that
its people
would hold a
plebis cite to
determine
Charles McCana their future.
But Azhari announced last
week that he intended to pro
claim complete independence
immediately.
As the result, the Sudanese
Parliament yesterday proclaimed
the complete independence of
the 967,500 square mile territory
and established a republican
form of government.
There is nothing either Brit
ain or Egypt can do about it, so
apparently a new nation has
been born.
It is quite a blow to Egypt.
Agreement Canceled
One of the chief complaints
Egypt had for years against
Britain was that under what was
called a condominium, or joint
control arrangement, Britain ac
tually was dominant in the Su
dan. In 1951, former King Farouk
canceled the condominium agree
Voluntary Part in
Soil Bank Plan Eyed
Washington (U.R) Four na
tional farm organizations want
participation in the proposed
federal "soil bank" program to
be purely voluntary.
The four organizations . also
want Congress to insist that surplus-crop
producing land taken
out of major crop production
for the soil bank should not be
used for pasture, hay or the pro
duction of other crops in sur
plus production.
The proposed soil bank pro
gram would pay farmers for di
verting land used for production
of surplus commodities to soil
conserving crops.
Closed Meeting
Representatives of the four
groups got . together in . an aU
day closed meeting yesterday at
the request of Chairman Allen
J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate
Agriculture Committee. He
urged them to agree, as far as
possible, on a legislative pro
gram that might ease the cost
price squeeze on farmers.
Represented at the session
were the National Grange, the
National Council of Farmer Co
operatives, the National Milk
Producers Federation and the
National Farmers Union.
The American Farm Bureau
Federation,' which had requested
a one-week delay in the meet
ing, was not represented. A
spokesman said Bureau Presi
dent Charles B. Shuman felt he
should not attend prior to a Jan
uary meeting 'of the Internation
al Federation of Agricultural
Producers.
No Formal Statement
A spokesman said after the
meeting that there was informal
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
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Initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Committee's Thanks
To the Editor: The Southern
Oregon Regional Safety Confer
ence held Dec. 10 at the Senior
High school in Medford was
considered a success by all in
attendance. More than 300 dele
gates from Jackson, Josephine,
and Klamath counties .were
present.
The committee in charge feels
that much of the conference suc
cess was due to the excellent
publicity . that was generously
donated to the event. They wish
to thank the radio stations in
the locality for advertising the
conference: KMED, KYJC,
KWIN, and KBOY, as well as
KBES-TV for the inclusion of
a conference committee inter
view on their Ore-Cal panorama
program. They also wish to ex
press thanks to Bill Dawkins
of the Pierce-Dawkins agency
for promoting the conference.
Appreciation is also expressed
to the Medford Mail Tribune
for the articles they carried rela
tive to the event and to Mrs.
Olive Starcher of the Tribune
staff for the fine publicity she
gave the conference in her fea
ture section of the Dec. 4 issue
of the Tribune.
Thanks is also given to the
local organizations who sponsor
ed a full page ad in the Trib
une, and last but not least to
the many people who turned out
for the event and through whose
interest it is hoped will make
this a yearly event.
' Southern Oregon
Regional Safety
Committee, By:
William M. Bell,
Secretary
ment and assumed the title of
king of the Sudan as well as of
Egypt.
But Britain would not con
sent, and Farouk's proclamation
did not stick.
Farouk lost his throne in
July, 1952. Britain and the new
Egyptian government agreed
that the Sudan should have the
right to determine its own fu
ture, subect to a three-year tran
sitional period.
Egypt had expected confident
ly that the Sudanese would
agree to unite with it.'
In fact, under an agreement
which Britain and Egypt signed
early this month the Sudan was
to hold a plebiscite in which the
choice would be complete inde
pendence or union with Egypt.
Egypt made a big play to sell
the Sudanese on the union plan,
Some Americans may remember
the photograph, published all
over the world, showing Maj.
Salahi Salem, Egyptian minister
for national guidance, dancing
with Sudanese tribesmen in a
pair of loudly-colored shorts dur
ing a propoganda tour.
Favored Union
x Azhari himself, when he be
came Premier early in 1954 as
leader of the Sudanese National
Unionist Party, was on record
as all in favor of union.
But as happened in other ter
ritories like the Sudan, the
granting of a little independence
led to the strong desire for more.
Dispatches from London and
Cairo say that yesterday's action
agreement on a "surprisingly
large" number of farm problems.
He said no formal statement
would be made but the group
scheduled another session for
shortly after the first of the
year.
Besides the soil bank program,
the conferees discussed such sub
jects as ways to bolster declin
ing farm income, balancing farm
supplies with demand, a self
help program for dairy farmers,
and the general area of govern
ment price supports.
The spokesman said there was
informal agreement on such
projects as the school milk and
lunch program, the use of tariff
funds to buy farm surpluses, tax
treatment of farmer cooperatives
and agricultural research pro
grams. Ed Parsons Elected
Jersey Club Head
Ed Parsons, Foots Creek, was
elected president of the Rogue
River , Jersey Cattle club at a
meeting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Moore near Eagle
Point Sunday.
Parsons, who formerly was
president of the Coos County
Jersey club, will assume his
duties in January. Other offi
cers include Delbert Mongold,
Eagle Point, vice-president; Mrs.
Mary Mongold, secretary; and E.
B. Poyer, Ashland, treasurer.
Roy Mitsche, manager of Mon
arch Seed and Feed company,
Medford, discussed weed control
and soil feeding. Larry Tweedy,
field representative for the com
pany, showed films of the sub
ject. Nat Etzel, vocational agri
culture instructor at Eagle Point,
discussed his work as instructor.
Annual, reports were sub
mitted by department heads,
and recommendations for work
for the club during the new
year were made by the retiring
president.
CHARLES
E. JONES
Most of 11s art reluctant to
face unpalatable truths. That
sensitive spot on our molar is
probably just a temporary irri
tation; that twinge of pain in
the region of the heart will no
doubt go away if we give it
time. Too many of us put off
seeing our dentist or consulting
our physician for a periodic
check-up. Similarly, possibility
of early death is an unpleasant
fact that we try hard not to
think about. Tet only two cate
gories of people can afford to
disregard such a contingency
those who have no dependents
and those who have made,
through life assurance, sufficient
provision for their loved ones
against the chance of untimely
death. If you cannot conscien
tiously claim to be in either of
these categories drop me a line
telephone.
CHARLES E. JONES,
Local Agent
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY OF CANADA
Phone 2-9772
(J-tr Looking
Ml Ahead
f with
by Azhari and his Parliament is
illegal and unconstitutional.
But neither Britain nor Egypt
seems in position to Interfere.
Their troops have left and Az
hari is in controL
Azhari's dark-skinned, rugged
face shows his determined char
acter. Now 53, he was graduated
from the American University in
Beirut, Lebanon. He became a
school teacher. In 1946 he en
tered politics as an unconditional
Nationalist! to work for inde
pendence. He served short jail
terms in 1948 and 1949 for his
activities.
But he is head man now, and
it looks as if he may soon ask
for admittance to the United Na
tions. '
Junior Red Cross
Collects Food
Junior Red Cross members at
McLoughlin Junior - High school
are collecting canned food for.
needy families for Christmas.
McLoughlin, along with other
schools in Jackson county, col
lected enough food for 14 fam
ilies at Thanksgiving, and mem
bers have collected seven dozen
cans of food for Christmas
baskets.
Last week, members of the
Junior Red Cross helped deco
rate rooms at Camp White. '
Training School Held '
For Shell Dealers
A four-day training school for
Shell Oil company dealers and
service station attendants was
held recently in Medford. The
school was to provide personnel
witn latest developments in
servicing vehicles and. includ
ed automatic transmissions and
tubeless tires. . .
John Boyd and Roy Raphael,
both of Eugene, conducted the
school. Both are merchandising
representatives for Shell Oil
company.
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Camp White Legion
To Hold Initiation
New members of . the Camp
White American Legion post
will be initiated, at a meeting
at 8 p.m. today at the Domicil
iary theater building.
Medford Police Chief Charles
Champlin will give the welcom
ing address, and district 13 com
mander, Gene Orr, will report
on rehabilitation program of the
department of Oregon American
Legion. , Orr was a member of
the state and National rehabili
tation committee of the Legion
for four years, and is now a
member of the national execu
tive committee.
Entertainment is planned fol
lowing the business meeting.
Salem Syndicate Buys
Alberta Woolen Mill
Magrath, Alberta (U.R) .
Attorney-General E. W. Hinman
of Alberta today announced the
sale of a woolen mill here to a
syndicate headed by Chester A.
Page, Salem, Ore., for $35,000. 0
The syndicate plans to fcistall
new equipment and have the
plant in operation next spring.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
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with the fond hope that the
year has been happy and
successful for all.
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