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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
Jan. 9, 1946
(It was Wednesday)
Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce amends by-laws auth
orizing elections semi-annually
instead of annually.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Trade
journals report an abundance of
canned peas, and they may show
up for every eatery meal but
breakfast, as did string beans
during war times.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 9. 193S
(It was Thursday)
Talent city council acts on or
ganizing fire department at spe
cial meeting.
Plans for reorganizing com
pany .A of the national guard
here discussed.
30 YSARS AGO , .
Jan. 9, 1926
(It was Saturday)
Mount Vesuvius becomes ac
tive with eruptions, and molten
lava streams.
Ernest Williams of Ashland
named second vice-president of
Independent Service Station
Owners association of Oregon,
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 9, 1916
(It was Sunday)
Medford isolated for 24 hours
when heavy snows break com
munication wires.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Garden plots about the
city are being cleaned up and
otherwise put in readiness for
early planting this year. t From
$25, to ?40 worth of garden truck
is frequently sold from the back
yard of an ordinary house lot in
this city.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Ccr. 195S. Editorial Research Repert
1. If yog buy a fifth of hard
liquor, $1.10, $1.60, $2.10, $2.60
or $3.10 of what you pay is for
federal excise tax?
2. About the same number of
new as used cars are sold every
year, or twice as many new cars,
or twice as many used ones?
3. Net income of all farmers in
1956, predicts the Agriculture
Dept., will be about the same as
last year, or 20 higher, or 5,
10 or 15 lower?
4. The U. N. General Assembly
is scheduled to meet again this
month, this spring, this summer
or the coming fall?
5. Pay rises in recent years
have been on the average propor
tionately as high for women, or
higher or lower?
6. An increase in number and
intensity of sun spots is or isn't
expected to interfere with TV
reception?
7. Gov. Harriman of N. Y. has
never been which one of these:
ambassador to Britain, ambassa
dor to Russia, mutual security di
rector, . Secretary of Commerce,
Secretary of the Treasury?
The answers: 1.-782.10. 2.
About twice as many used as
new. 3. 10 lower. 4. The
coming fall. 5. Proportionately
lower. 6. Is, says the Federal
Communications Comm. 7. Sec
retary of the Treasury.
In World War n, 88 presi
dential unit citations were
awarded National Guard units
while serving in all overseas
co&bat operations.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Big Story
The members of the Mail Tribune's .news staff,
who write the local stories which appear in this news
paper throughout the year, recently voted that the late
December floods constituted the biggest overall story
of 1955. There were only a couple of dissents.
e This judgment, we think, was correct, on the basis
of "spot news." But there was a bigger story which
ran throughout the year. It was not told in any one
headline, nor in any one issue, but-served as a con
stant, throbbing undercurrent to all the local news.
I
T COULD be summed up
like this: "Medford Completes Most Prosperous
Year, in History."
Perhaps some of the "old timers" 'would argue
that the outstanding growth of Medford during the
"boom" period of 1910 and thereafter was more pros
perous. Possibly they would be right.
But our view of 1955 embraces a multitude of
things. It includes the start of the city manager plan
in Medford, reflecting the . coming of age of the
city as a corporate entity; the plansfor a big new hos
pital; the attempts to annex a large area to the city;
the successful elections for sewer and water bond is
sues in nearby districts; the expansion of highway
construction plans; the developments in irrigation,
with the Talent project getting under way and rehab
ilitation work starting in two irrigation districts.
THROUGHOUT the year, employment in Jackson
county was the highest, and unemployment nearly
the lowest, in decades. There was a box car shortage,
reflecting the bumptious state of the lumber industry.
New schools were planned, constructed, completed.
The telephone company planned a wide extension of
its service. Old buildings were giving away to new
ones. The fruit crop was the largest on record.
The Christmas shopping season, though slowed by
the floods of the last few days, still was one of the
best on record perhaps the best when the final
count is in.
White City, that amazing industrial phenomenon,'
continued its startling growth, with new enterprises
starting operations almost monthly, if not weekly,
there. '
CHARITABLE projects had unprecedented success,
with the United Medford Crusade meeting its
goal earlier than ever before, and with the drive for
funds for the hospital showing a healthy early re
sponse. Interest in prospecting, both for oil and for other
minerals, was at a post-war high."
It was a year of growth, of development, of con
struction and planning for the future. It was not' or
derly, particularly, for democratic societies seldom
grow in an orderly manner. But it was vivid and alive
and there was a spirit of optimism and adventure.
IT ADDS up to prosperity for a-majority of the citi-
zens of the Rogue, valley. .
We have no crystal ball tucked away in the desk
drawer. But we see nothing which would, diminish
this to any great extent. There will be dips and lev-el'ings-out
in the economy, as there always are; there
may even be dips amounting to "recessions." ; . .
But, barring a war, the continuing growth of the
American economy and population as a wholes and of
the west and of southern Oregon in particular- would
seem to constitute a pretty firm guarantee of a con
tinued high level of prosperity. E. A. t: - -'-.. -
Nature's Flood Control
An editorial in the Bend (Oregon)' Bulletin,
which sounded as though it had been written by Phil
Brogan, Oregon's outstanding newspaperman-amateur-geologist,
explains the reasons why the De
schutes river was one of few in Oregon which remain
ed, placid and peaceful, between its banks last month.
The river, one of the state's most beautiful
streams, hardly rippled the surface of Mirror pond,
while others were raging and carrying homes away.
THE EDITORIAL reported that the stream
flows through heavily 'volcanic soils and rocks,
which act as natural "sponges," soaking up any water
over an average flow, holding it, and. releasing it
gradually.. And:
Should mountain lakes reach flood stage there is no
danger of overflow into the Deschutes. The high water is
carefully stored in subterranean basins under lava fields,
from which it is gradually with&rawn through the season.
"The Deschutes is a friendly stream," the editorial
concludes. "It is a stream whose quiet ways can be
appreciated in these days of death and devastation
resulting from flooded rivers." E.A.
FHA Loan Changes To
Help Flood Victims
Portland U.P.) J. Guy Ar
rington, Oregon Federal Hous
ing administration director," said
Saturday .two major changes
have been made in FHA loans
to help flooded-out Oregon and
California residents.
The changes permit a special
low-cost home loan .with no
down payment required and also
an extension to 30 years for re
payment of regular FHA loans
which now demand a 25-year
payoff.
Arrington said the low-cost,
no - down - payment plan also
could be paid over a 30-year pe
riod by flood victims in disaster
areas.
FHA has also eased its re
quirements for lending institu
tions whose loans are FHA-in-sured.
That will give flood vic
tims more time to make pay
ments on present mortgages, in
cluding loans for home repair as
well as purchase.
Monday, 'January 9, 1936
in a headline something
Astor Heir To Wed
Young Wisconsin Girl
Green Bay, Wis. (U.PJ A 19-year-old
Green Bay, Wis., girl
has become engaged to marry a
member of the wealthy John
Jacob Astor family.
Charlotte Fisk said at Green
Bay today that she will marry
William Astor of New York City
at the Union Congregational
church in Green Bay. She says
the ceremony will take place
some time in June.
Astor, 'Who is about 20, and
Miss Fisk are both sophomores
at Northwestern University in
Evanston, HI. Astor. majors in
accounting and Miss Fisk has an
English major. They met at a
school party a year ago and have
been keeping company ever
since.
f Miss Fisk says she and young
Astor will continue their studies
until they obtain degrees at
Northwestern. After that, she
says their plans are uncertain.
Rough Campaign Seen;'Smear'
Washington Republican and
Democratic spokesmen, warm
ing up for the coming president
ial contest, already have given
signs that the 1956 campaign
will be rough and hard-hitting.
Cries of "Smear!" are being ex
changed as leaders of the party
organizations jockey for favor
able positions.
The Republican National
Committee a few weeks ago ac
cused the Democratic majority
in Congress of using the inves
tigative powers of the House and
Senate "to launch a smear cam
paign of immense proportions."
Democratic National Chairman
Butler retorted that such charg
es would not keep members of
his party in Congress from
"getting at the truth about any
mistakes and wrongdoing of the
(Eisenhower) administration."
He added that "a desperate Re
publican party" has already in
dicated that it would use again
in 1956 the "smear technique" it
had employed in 1952 and 1954.
Depends On Individuals
What kind of campaign actu
ally is Vaged will depend in
large part on the identity of the
presidential nominees. If Eisen
Facist-Like Poujade
Has No Program But
Hatred for Taxation
By LEROY POPE
United Press Correspondent
The surprising Pierre Poujade
who elected 51 deputies to the
French Parliament says he
doesn't care if people call him
a Fascist.
I He also . says he will call
strikes in France in order to
force Parliament to do his bid
ding. The trouble is people don't
feally know what Poujade
wants.
The violent campaign of his
followers revealed no program
except hatred of the present par
liamentary system and of taxes.
Hate Tax System k '
Specifically, Poujade and his
followers hate the complicated
system by which France's small
shopkeepers have to collect most
of the nation's tays and pass
them on to the government after
keeping elaborate sets of books.
It is a revolt of the lower
middle class and the upper
working classes against being
ground to dust between modern
ization and rationalization of
business and archaic govern
ment. The 51 men elected to Par
liament with Poujade's support
reflect this revolt. They are a
new type of deputy. Most are
shopkeepers ,or working men.
Traditionally ," French deputies
have been lawyers, professors
or businessmen of ,the larger and
more highly professional kind. .
But the Poujade deputies in
clude a laundry worker, a print
er, a traveling salesman, a clock
maker, a gardener, a photogra
pher, a clerk, a contractor, two
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS ,
It has just occurred to me that
for several days this column has
been dealing heavily in politics
which is getting to be a de
pressing subject. So let's turn
today to somthing lighter.
And what could be lighter
than the engagement of the poor
little rich girl of Philadelphia,
who made good as a movie star,
to the handsome and charming
Prince Rainier of Monaco?
It's almost certain to work out
'happily. She will get a title, and
in the course of time he will get
quite a chunk of American mon
ey which in these modern days
is pretty sure to come in handy
in the case of a prince.
rpHEN
-- Of course
There is always the possibility
that they may live happily to
gether and raise a family and in
due time become members in
good standing of the Grandpar
ents club which is one of life's
great achievements.
A S THIS is written, there is re
joking in the romantic lit
tle principality of Monaco where
the news of the engagement has
just been received. A full holi
day has been declared. The peo
ple are deliriously happy, and
are dancing in the streets and
from time to time, as happy
folk are apt to do along the sun
ny shores of the Mediterranean,
are h'isting a few in the wine
shops. It is a pretty pastoral scene
and might well 'serve as the
framework for a fairy tale.
TffHY are the people so happy?
" Is it because, as loyal and
loving subjects, they are happy
because their prince is so happy?
Wel-1-1-1, ye-e-e-e-s. In a way.
But there is a quirk to it. The
quirk is . this:
Their prince is. a bachelor.
Under the peculiar terms of the
now nearly a century old agree
ment by which the principality
of, Monaco ceased to be a pro
tectorate of the then Kingdom
Depend on Candidates
hower and Stevenson once more
head the respective tickets,
harsh and extereme attacks by
one side on the other will be
held to a minimum. But other
possible standard bearers such
as Harriman for the Democrats
and Nixon for the Republicans
have displayed a taste for
less moderation on the political
battlefield.
American history is full of ex
amples of rough-and-tumble po
litical campaigning. Not only
have charges of corruption been
leveled at the opposition, . but
the personal character of the
candidates also has often been
defamed, sometimes by deliber
ate falsehood.
John Quincy Adams in 1828
was accused of immorality, and
a document falsely depicting
him as a freemason was circu
lated in areas opposed to free
masonry. Jackson was reviled in
the same campaign as an adult
erer, a drunkard, and a brawler.
In 1884 the Republican candi
date was accused of . drunken
ness, unsavory financial deal
ings, and anti-Catholicism, while
Cleveland, the Democratic nom-
students and a number of butch
ers and bakers.
Like Mussolini's Supporters
It was people of this class who
were among the strong support
ers of Benito Mussolini in the
early days of Italian Fascism-
Many such were early sup
porters of Hitler in Germany.
On the other hand, these peo
ple are the first targets of the
Communists when ' they attain
power. In Hungary, Poland and
the other Eastern Satellites such
small tradesmen and independ
ent artisans have been ruthlessly
liquidated.
This suggests that Poujade's
followers should fear the Reds
It raises the risk that if the Com
munists ' start - throwing , their
weight around in the new Par
liament,, many French may stam
pede to . the Poujade camp. It
also suggests that Poujade might
see a golden opportunity later
in taking up the anti-Communist
cause.
Burned by Dictators
Yet, -it would "be very danger
ous to" make any such prediction,
The French were burned so bad
ly by dictatorships in the 19 th
century under the two Napoleons
and Louis Philippe, the so-called
"Citizen King" that they have a
holy, horror of strong men.
In fact their intense fear, of
Napoleonism and of all strongly
authoritarian government is -the
mam psychological reason for
the instability of French govern
ments.
Poujade probably hasn't reach
ed his zenith yet, but if the Fas
cist label really is hung on him
the French likely will turn
against him quickly.
News
of Sardinia and became a pro-
tecorate of France, taxes were
abolished in Monaco.
B
UT-
The agreement provided
If the Prince of Monaco dies
without issue the principality of
Monaco will revert to French
rule WITH FRENCH TAX
RATES IMMEDIATELY PRE
VAILING.
That would be TERRIBLE!
IT IS little wonder that the peo
ple of Monaco are so .happy
over the impending termination
of their prince's estate of bache
lorhood and his prospective en
trance into the estate of matri
monv.
The 20,000 inhabitants of Mo
naco are largely French, and if
there is anything a Frenchman
hates above everything else it is
TAXES. Witness the stir that
was created in the recent French
election bv Monsieur Poujade
(pronounced Poo-ZHOD) and his
new party with its new and ap
pealing slogan of NO. TAXES!
NE question in conclusion
" a question .which interests
all of us:
How has Monaco (whose total
area is 370 acres) been able to
get along all these years with
out taxes?
It is supported by revenue
from gambling in its capital city
of Monte Carlo, whose Casino
and International Sporting club
are the most famous gambling
snots in the world. I suspect that
the state of Nevada may have
got its original idea from the
Drincinalitv of Monaco, but
Nevada never has been able to
get away with a taxless exist
ence.
TiHE tiny principality of Mona-
co has been cagey over the
years. Its citizens are forbidden
to gamble, if one of them is
caught taking a chance he is
promptly clapped into the clink
Their job . is to make their
money off the visitors as the
Las Vegans do.
inee, was charged with father
ing an illegitimate child.
Venality Frequent Cry
Politicians today rarely im
pugn the private morals of can
didates for public office.'but the
cry of venality is a hardy per
ennial. Disclosures during the
1952 campaign about a special
expense fund of the Republican
vice-presidential candidate, and
about a fund used by the Dem
ocratic presidential candidate to
supplement salaries of certain
state officials, called for exten
sive . explaining by - Nixon and
Stevenson. Nixon seemed to pro
fit in the end, however, by stag
ing a highly publicized TV de
fense of his conduct.
Congress in recent vears has
given extended consideration to
the problem of how to lift the
level of political cmDaicnine
without unduly restricting free
dom ot speech and of the press.
After inquiring; into the Mary
land senatorial campaign of 1950
in which workers for John Mar
shall Butler were accused of
using unfair tactics to defeat
Sen. Tydings, . a Senate Rules
subcommittee called for formu
lation of "standards or guide
posts for what constitutes suf
ficient grounds for unseating a
senator."
Proposals Made
The same subcommittee rro-
posed in 1953 that penalties for
publishing anonymous . and de
famatory campaign literature be
increased: that coniDlaints about
unethical campaign practices be
investigated nromtotlv: and that
use of scurrilous campaign lit
erature, with the knowledge of
a candidate for office,, be made
a basis for disqualifying him to
serve in Senate or House.
A bill to revise the federal
election laws, reported to the
Senate last June and still await
ing action, aims to make a can
didate resDonsible for campaign
activities undertaken in his be
half. By requiring the candidate
to authorize expenditures by
aE groups campaigning for himj
and by empowering him to with
draw the authorization and stop
expenditures of any group, the
proposed legislation would make
it difficult; for a candidate to
profess ignorance of question
able campaign practices engaged
in, by his supporters.
Neuberger Favors
Statehood Measures
Washington j(U.R) Senator
Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon
says he is willing to vote for
statehood for .Hawaii alone in
"oVder to "shame" the Republi
cans into eventually letting both
Hawaii and Alaska into the
union. -
Neuberger. said in at statement
today he. was shocked by Presi
dent Eisenhower's State of the
Union- message . proposing that
Hawau be admitted immediately
but urging delays in statehood
for Alaska. He says the adminis
tration's views are politically
motivated. - "
"Republicans believe Hawaii
probably would elect two Repub
lican senators to congress, but
Alaska undoubtedly would elect
two Democratic senators,"' he
said.
: Neuberger said he and some
other Democrats favor statehood
for both territories "not on a po
litical basis but on the basis of
what is right and fair."
Editorial Comment
E. C. FERGUSON
Death this week in Medford
of E. C. Ferguson, longtime and
highly respected managing ed
itor of the Medford. Mail Trib
une, is deeply regretted in news
paper circles .throughout the
state and by his many, many
friends in Jackson county.
Mr. Ferguson, or "Fergie," as
he was known to newspaper
friends, was an old-school news
paper man. He started as a tele
graph dperator with Western
Union and in 1914 was assigned
to Medford to handle press copy.
The press operators of that
day (and - they -are almost all
gone now), were highly versatile
men. They could sit before a
typewriter for hours, taking
copy off the Morse sounder as
fast as it came. Using the 'Phil
lips code, a variation of stand
ard Morse, and a host of further
abbreviations of their own, these
operators could take down thous
ands of words of copy in a day.
Then came the first of Morkrum
machines, which we commonly
call teletype today, and the era
of the fast, accurate Morse op
erator came to an end. .
In 1928, Mr. Ferguson joined
the staff of the Mail Tribune and
assumed the duties and responsi
bilities of managing editor. He
was recognized., "in , the trade"
as an excellent editor and along
with his duties in the news de
partment, he wrote many of the
editorials for the Mail Tribune.
"Fergie" will long be missed
by his friends in Jackson county
and in newspaper circles of the
state. Ashland Tidings. ,
The . oldest National Guard
unit in Oregon is Oregon City,
heavy mortar company, 162nd
infantry, first organized as the
Oregon dangers in 1843.
Matter of Fact v stewan aisCP
THE NATIONAL ESTIMATES
Washington Every so often
nowadays, "anyone who still
bothers to report the lif e-and-
death facts of
of the Ameri
can nati o n a 1
situation gets
a very peculiar
feeling of 'be
i n g suddenly
t r a n sf ormed
into one of
those super-super-
bores
who insist on
reciting last
Stewart Alaop
n i s h t's bad
dream at next mornings sun
ny breakfast table.
These reporters musi con
fess to having this feeling at
the moment. The last three re
Dorts in this space have been
filled with an admittedly ugiy
and repellent mass of facts.
Those facts were hot printed be
cause it is enjoyable to deal in
what is repeUent and . ugly.
They were printed because they
unfortunately but all too con
clusively prove a point of vital
national importance.
The point is simple. The
American air-atomic superiority
that has served so long as the
free w o r 1 d's
sole defense, is
now rapidly
melting away.
The Soviet Un
ion, by making
vastly greater
efforts than
this country is
now making,
is beginning to
surpass us in
the one area of
strength that
Joseph AIsop
used to be exclusively our own
IT MIGHT be supposed that the
merest suggestion that this
could happen would stir things
ud a bit. The knowledge that
it is happening, and the virtual
certainty that nothing is going
to be done about it, sometimes
fills these reporters with an al
most irresistible impulse to run
around in circles barking like
dogs. But in our present nation
al condition of prosperous eu
phoria, most people are inclined
to think that facts which prove
anything unpleasant are really
not facts after all.
So there is one further thing
that needs to be said before this
painful subject can be finally
dropped. The facts are facts
(one is almost inclined to shout
it), or at least they are as near
to facts as any information
about the Soviet Union can ever
be.
What then is the origin of
these facts concerning Soviet
output of advanced aircraft
types, Soviet missile develop
ment and the like which we
have been publishing? The an
swer is simple. They are square
ly based on undoubted informa
tion concerning the "national
estimates," which are, or at least
ought to be, the basic-building
blocks of American policy-mak
ing.
-
A COMPLEX machinery to
produce these national esti
mates has been set up under
our highest policy-making body,
the National Security Council.
These is first of all an Estimates
Board," composed ' of brilliant
specialists from the Central In
telligence Agency, the Armed
Services and the ' State Depart
ment, and headed by the author
of the most important postwar
book on strategic intelligence,
Sherman Kent. The board has
the task . of making what may
be called staff studies of special
problems, such as the rate of
Soviet aircraft output, for ex
ample.
But the process by no means
ends there. The output of the
Estimates Board, or any intelli
gence from other sources for
that matter, cannot be accepted
as "official and therefore "na
tional" until the problem has
been examined by the National
Intelligence Advisory Commit
tee.
The committee is called ad
visory because - the director of;
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which in theory advises him. But
the committee exists so that the
final opinion offered to the Se
curity Council by Allen Dulles
may be fully agreed and ap
proved by all interested parties
w m w -
TTIGH level representatives of
" the armed services, the of-
the State Department and the
FBI sit on this committee. Unan
imity of opinion is required.
Any national e s t i m a te that
emerges from the committee is
a synthesis of the best opinion
from all the different sources
listed.
Experience has proved, more- -
over, that the national estimate!
can be safely relied on, except
inr one important way. Perhaps
because the unanimity require
ment works in favor of the
lowest common denominator, all
national estimates of future So
viet military-industrial achieve
ments have always turned out '
to be far too conservative when
finally tested by events. It was,
true with the Soviet A-bomb and '
the Soviet H-bomb. It was true,
with the MIG-15 and the TU-14.
' was true again with the
"Badger" and "Bison" bombers
and the "Farmer" and "Flash
light" fighters.
pi EVERY case where there
J- has been a test to date, the
official intelligence forecast in
dicated that the Soviets could
not do the job so soon, or that
they ' could not do it on such
a large scale, or that they could
not do it really well. And in
every case where there has been
a .test to date, the result has
shown, alas, that Soviet capa
bilities had been sadly under
estimated. .
No allowance has been made
for this built-in error, in the
facts and figures that have been;
printed in this space to show
the massively" growing air-atomic
power of the Soviets. Most prob
ably the true situation is meas
urably worse than we have rep
resented it. In any case to re
vert, to our original image it
is the bad dream that is likely
to turn out to be reality, and
the sunny breakfast table that
will prove to be a dream.
Copyright 1956,. .
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
SPEAKER SCHEDULED
, Portland (U.R) Doctor Rob
ert M. Hutchins, former presi-
dent of the University of Chi
cago, and now head of the Fund
for the Republic, will speak at
Reed college in Portland Jan. 17.
Sam Went Along
GEO. N. TAYLOR
When we moved from Ar
kansas, I sent. the young folks
to the nearest Sunday School
there in Dallas.
Dr. Scofield was
pastor and our
crowd kept after
me until I went
v..
alohgi Then we
wanted Sam to
go but he said
Dr. Scofield
would hear he
tended bar' and
bawl him out.
But we kept after Sam and one
Sunday he rigged nip and went.'
Just as we entered the door, Dr.
Scofield was telling how at 35,
he had one foot in a drunkard's
grave and the other a-slipping.
That won Sam and he kept go
ing and in time gave his heart
to God. So our troubles were
settled.
Dr. Scofield was brought up
in a fast liquor-loving crowd.
But before her death, Mother
Scofield had prayed God to
save her boy. So the answer
Call upon me and I will answer
thee and show . thee great and
mighty things that thou knowest
not. - .
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