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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25. 1946
(It was Friday)
Charlie Hoover's "battered
.and dilapidated" hat nets March
of Dimes $125 at auction at Mid
way sales barn.
20 3fEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 1936
(It was Saturday)
Elk , creek area residents vote
for property owned by Ace
Weeks as school site.
Hugh D'Autremont, youngest
of three brothers involved in
Siskiyou train robbery and mur
der, named editor of Oregon
state pen&entiary monthly maga
zine, "Shadows."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 1926
(It was Sunday)
Medford city council decides
to condemn strip of property
along North Central ave. near
Maple st. for street improve
ments. From Local and Personal- col
umn: Paul Luy of Medford, a
sophomore majoring in. journal
ism at the University of Oregon,
named feature writer on the
Oregon Daily Emerald, student
newspaper.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 1916
(It was Monday)
J. A. Westerlund elected pres
ident of Jackson County Tax
payers league; other officers in
clude Benton Bowers, H. D.
Mills, J. H. Carkin and E. M.
Wilson.
From Ashland and vicinity
news: An alarm of fire was
turned in during Saturday
night's gale 'from the Hoskin
residence on Granite street. The
house was a shack moved to its
new location from lots pur
chased in order to enlarge the
park area. The loss was well
nigh total, the fire department
saving only the frame, a mere
shell.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rep
1. President Eisenhower does
or doesn't have a personal rep
resentative at the Vatican, as
President Roosevelt and Truman
had?
2. About (a) 40, (b) 55, (c) 70 or
(d) 85 of all passenger cars
made in the world are made in
the U.S.?
3. Almost all refugees author
ized in the 1953 refugees relief
act are expected to come in be
fore it expires, Dec. 31, 19o6;
right or wrong?
. 4. The Bruins and Red Wings
are teams in professional bas
ketball, ice hockey, football, or
baseball.
5.- The name of Palestine for
the Holy Land came from Philis
tines who once lived there; right
or wrong?
6. More comes to the Treasury
in taxes on incomes of corpora
tions or of individuals, or is it
about-50-50?
1 1 7. Duncan Phyfe was famous
in the U.S. over a century ago as
an Indian fighter, canal builder,
furniture maker, U.S. Senator,
or religious revivalist?
The Answers: 1. Doesn't. 2,
.Around 70. 3. Wrong. 4. Ice
Hockey. 5. Right. 6. More on in
comes of individuals. 7. Furni
ture maker. " "
MAIL TRIBUNE
Screens for the Dam
One of the features of the December flood which
has received little attention, in comparison to the vast
damage done to homes and farms, was the way in
which the high waters dealt death and destruction to
fish in the river.
Huge numbers of fish were stranded after the wa
ters receded, and a couple of fish and game commis
sion men figure that alone they saved thousands by
shoveling them back into the river.
Fishermen venturing forth on the river after the
flood reported poor catches, and those they did get
were badly beaten up and damaged.
THIS only serves to remind us again that the fish
population in the Rogue constitutes one of the
greatest recreational attractions the valley has. Any
plan for development should by all means take fish
life into consideration. The Good Lord knows that the
natural beauties and attractions of unspoiled country
side are vanishing fast enough as it is, and every ef
fort consistent with economic realism and safety
should be made to preserve the fish runs.
This brings up the problem of 'another fish-destroyer,
the turbines at Savage Rapids dam.
,
IN A REPORT compiled only about a month ago,
Cole Rivers, game commission field agent at Grants
Pass, declared Savage Rapids dam in its present state
is believed to be the one most important contributor
to. the decline of the annual runs of fish.
His report goes into some detail as to how and in
what manner the fish are damaged. But for our pur
pose it is enough to repeat his conclusion, that as of
1947, when sampling was performed, an estimated
99,500 fish were lost in irrigation canals, and 25,000
were mutilated, for a total loss of 124,500. He says
these are conservative estimates.
CTUDIES have indicated that screening would do
much to prevent this loss, and virtually all inter
ested groups are now supporting a program of screen
ing. The big drawback is the cost, which has been
estimated at about $208,000.
The Grants Pass Irrigation district, which operates
the dam, is not financially able to undertake this ex
pense, but the district is interested in the problem, and
has offered its cooperation in supporting a request for
federal funds to do the job.
The Izaak Walton League's Oregon convention
last November went on record requesting that funds
be provided in the Interior department's budget.
Foundations for the screens were laid during the re
cent rehabilitation job at the dam, but ' the screens
themselves were not erected.
THE REQUEST was made in view of the federal
government's acknowledged responsibility with
respect to fish life, and because no other unit of gov
ernment has the resources to undertake the task.
Since fishing is a big factor in our third-largest in
dustry, and in addition is a major recreational factor
in the life of the people of the valley, the proposal has
the appearance of a sound project even to a non
fisherman. E. A.
Incentive, Plan
Safety slogans help, maybe, but nobody knows
just how much. v '
Repeated warnings to
assistance in preventing automobile accidents. So do
well-engineered highways.
Police enforcement, as has been demonstrated, is
another important factor in keeping drivers in line. '
But Cecil Baumgardner, of Shady Cove, has an
idea that some positive, rather than negative, form of
incentive might be vastly more effective. And we're
inclined to think he may have something.
UE SUGGESTS that a brief summary of a driver's
record could be incorporated in automobile li
censes. One full year without an accident, for in
stance, would give a driver the right to have a license
with the prefix "1," two years "2" and so on.
For five or possibly ten years of accident-free
driving, a star might be put on the license plate, with
the license fee reduced or eliminated.
And for drivers who have a record of recent acci
dents, some other form of designation might appear
on the license to warn other drivers.
THIS, in brief essence, is Mr. Baumgardner's plan,
A and he offers it for what it may be worth. The ob
stacles m the way of having it placed in effect are for
midable, for it would entail a new system of issuing
and manufacturing automobile licenses. But it might
be worth it.
And, in Oregon at least, a considerable portion of
the necessary machinery for the plan that of keep
ing tabs on drivers' accident records is already in
effect.
It may not be known generally, but the motor ve
hicle division even now has a dossier on each driver
who has been involved in one or more accidents. It has
a quiet but fairly effective program of checking up on
repeated violators, and in a number of instances, driv
ers' licenses have been removed.
OUT THIS process has not been greatly publicized,
perhaps deliberately. And the accident record of
many dangerous drivers is known but to themselves
and to some civil servants in Salem.
If it were printed, in capsule form, on their auto
licenses for all to see, together with some form of in
incentive reward for a period of safe driving, it might
have a very desirable effect in the long run. E. A.
SWAT JUSTIFIED
Chicago (U.R) Policeman
Milton Brooks explained in court
Tuesday why he struck the arm
of a fellow diner in a lunch
room: "He reached across me for
the salt and he dipped his sleeve
in my soup."
Wednesday, January 25, 1956
be careiul may also be 01
Brownwood, Tex. (U.R) An
18-year-old San Angelo, Tex.,
father was charged with theft to
day. Officers found $70 from a
service station hidden in the
diaper worn by a three-months-old
baby being carried by the
thief's wife.
Shah of Persia, At Outs With
Soviets, May Call Off Visit
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Shah Mohammed Reza Pah
levi of Iran seems to be in no
hurry to make his long-planned
visit to Mos
cow. In fact, the
word from
Tehran, the Ir
anian capital,
is that the shah
and his beauti
ful young wife
may not make
the visit at all.
Charles McCann a i r s t, Mo
hammed and Premier Hussein
Ala are busy at home. They are
cleaning out their internal ene
mies. Some are going to prison,
others to death before firing
squads. Most of the enemies are
pro-Communist.
Secondly, the Kremlin feels
pretty bitter because Iran join
ed the Baghdad Pact which links
it with Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan
Today and
By Walter
WHEN A PRESIDENT
IS DISABLED
Saying that when he was in
the hospital he thought a lot
about the problem of a disabled
President, Mr. Eisenhower last
week gave his
blessing to a
study by Con
gress of how
to resolve the
doubts which
exist on this
question.
There is, as
we know, no
law which says
how it is to be
Walter Lippman
decided whether the President
is disabled, or any law about
how, if he recovers, he is to
resume his powers.
It was clearly enough the in
tent of the authors of the Con
stitution that Congress should
lay down the rules by statute.
It is clear enough, too, -that while
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
rible 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.
Plane Spotting Necessary
To the Editor: Retiring from
the publishing of an Iowa small
town weekly newspaper after 57
years, my wife and I came to
Medford recently to visit our
son, Kenneth R. Buxton and fam
ily,. 2478 Sunny View dr., and
are enjoying the climate of the
Rogue River valley.
Watching TV on our arrival,
we took special notice of the ap
peal of the G.O.C. for more vol
unteer plane spotters at the local
post. In August, 1950, we or
ganized an Observers Post with
about 60 volunteers. Our home
was the chosen spot for the Post,
and I was named as chief ob
server, my wife the only woman
volunteer. Our post was one of
the first 15 posts to be manned
and operated with the Chicago
filter center in the first Iowa
"Sky Watch."
Remembering the trouble we
had in keeping volunteers on
their jobs, my wife and I decided,
after seeing the TV broadcast
here, that we could be of service
here at the Medford post, so we
contacted Maj. Gen. Joseph
Hicks, at Jackson County's Civil
Defense, who furnished us the
name of Mrs. Lucile Brock, Chief
Observer, 851 Palm st., and I
telphoned her at 2-8217, and of
fered our services. We met with
Medford G.O.C. at the court
house two evenings later, and be
came acquainted with MSgt.
Clifford C. Poulson, who is sec
tor sergeant of the 4772nd G.
O. C. Squadron.
Too many people who could
spare two hours once a week or
twice a month, are indifferent or
do not realize the 'absolute ne
cessity of this important branch
of the Air Defense Force, which
will definitely prove its worth
should a surprise attack be made.
Those who refuse to recognize
that such a danger is always an
imminent - possibility, have evi
dently forgotten Pearl Harbor.
Mrs. Morley Lamp, mother of
six children serves from 2 to
4 in the morning, twice a week;
Dr. August Glutsch, prominent
optometrist, finds time to' serve
twice a month; and ranchers, of
fice workers, mill workers, two
men from the weather bureau,
Junior and Senior High school
students, and several grand
mothers and housewives most
faithfully serve the required
two-hour shift, around the clock.
Why more volunteer spotters
are not available in a city the
size of Medford, is still a source
of wonder.
( Mr. and Mrs.
Perry T. Buxton.
P.S. Why not phone Mrs. Lu
cile Brock, General Hicks,
MSgt. Poulson or the G. O.
Post at Jackson and McAndrews
today, and have the simple meth
od 'of spotting planes explained,
and then volunteer?
and Great Britain in an alliance
against Communist aggression.
Shah Mohammed and Queen
Soraya were invited! to visit
Russia last summer when the
Geneva spirit cast a rosy glow
over the world diplomatic situ
ation. Invitation Accepted
The invitation was accepted.
It was planned that the Shah
and Queen Soraya would fly
to Moscow last fall.
But in October the shah aban
doned Iran's policy of neutrality
and decided to join the Baghdad
alliance.
The Kremlin was enraged. It
was a painful diplomatic defeat
for Russia and a corresponding
victory for the Western allies.
The Soviet government sent
threatening notes of protest to
Tehran. The shah and his gov
ernment stood firm.
Now the official Tehran radio
has started a series of broadcasts
denouncing Russia's anti-Iranian
Tomorrow
Lippmann
the founding fathers did not go
into all phases of the problem,
what they meant was that the
President, if ill and disabled,
should pass his powers but not
his office to the vice-president,
and that there should be no
question of the President's being
able, if he recovers, to take back
his powers.
TT IS a curious thing that Con-
gress has never enacted the
law which the Constitution calls
for. Part of the reason for this
is, no doubt, that until Presi
dent Eisenhower's illness last
autumn, there have been only
two cases of a more or less dis
abled President. The first case
did not come until 90 years after
the government was founded.
not until 1881 when President
Garfield, who was shot on July
2, lingered on in great pain and
virtually unable to read or write
until ne died on Sept. 19. The
next case was that of President
Wilson who was stricken in
1919, was for a considerable
period disabled and then made
a partial recovery.
Congress has not acted, part
ly Decause tne cases of disability
nave Been, quite accidentally, so
few and far between. ' There is,
however, another reason. It is
that men have shrunk from the
notion of making it possible that
a President could wrongfully be
deprived of his office. The time
has now come, however, when
the problem, which is by no
means insoluble, should be taken
in hand.
A T the outset, it will be a good
idea not to feel that our
choice is either to do nothing to
regulate the problem or to find
a perfect solution for the hard
est conceivable case. A solu
tion which would have worked
in the cases of Garfield, Wilson
and Eisenhower will be worth
the trouble of enacting it.
It is not necessary that the so
lution should also work in some
imaginary case which was very
subtle and elusive. Probably
the hardest conceivable case
would be one where a Presi
dent, apparently not at all dis
abled, became deranged and
was not in his right mind. There
has never been, thanks be, such
a case, and in legislating now,
we can, while ' bearing it in
mind, lay it aside. ,
'PHERE are two cardinal ques-
tions. The first is who shall
determine whether or not the
President is disabled? The
second is who shall determine
whether the President has re
covered and whether, in the
words of the Constitution, the
disability has been removed?
There are, I believe, two prin
ciples which make these ques
tions answerable. The first prin
ciple is that the vice-president
shall never be more than a tem
porary acting President as long
as the President is alive, that
the vice-president shall never be
permitted to take the oath for
DAVY CROCKETT
Bears Up
. NOW THAT I HAVE ' V ""OT N
) SHOT THIS B'AR I '-V..' ' ' ' m I r
(smmmio shift) '
propaganda and ridiculing the
Kremlin references to "democ
racy" in the Soviet Union.
Dispatches from Tehran say
that the plan for the Moscow
visit has not been formally aban
doned but it is unlikely it will
be made.
Would Rather Forget
The feeling is based partly on
the thought that the Kremlin
would just as soon forget the
whole matter.
Things have changed a lot
in Iran in the last few years.
In August, 1953, old Moham
med Mossadegh, the anti-Western
premier, who ruled as dicta
tor, came near overthrowing the
shah. But the army overthrew
Mossadegh instead and he went
to prison. .,
Ever since Mossadegh went
to prison, the shah and his min
isters have been cleaning out
their many nationalistic and
Communist enemies.
Only last week four more anti-
government conspirators were
executed. Also, Sased AyatoUah
Kashani, anti-Allied Moslem
leader, was arrested at last. He
was charged with plotting the
assasination of pro-Western Pre
mier Ali Razmara in 1951. Ka
shani, like Mossadegh, probably
wiU remain in jail.
the office of President, and that
the law shall be unequivocable
about the vice-president's duty
to step aside if the President's
disability has been removed.
Students of the problem will, I
believe, agree that uncertainty
on this point was the real
stumbling block in Wilson's case
to calling on the vice-president
to act, and that it was a consid
eration in the early days of
President Eisenhower's illness
Congress can and Congress
should clarify once and for all
the status of the vice-president,
Everything will become easier
when that has been done.
The second principle, which
ignores the hypothesis of a de
ranged President, is that the
President himself shall be ap
pointed by the statute as the one
to determine whether he is dis
abled and1 whether he has re
covered.
rjHERE is, quite -evidently, no
difficulty about this' in cases
where the President, though dis
abled, is conscious and is able
to affirm his own inability. Nor
could there be any difficulty
about his recovering his powers.
If he is able to reclaim them,
he must be presumed able to
exercise them.
The somewhat more compli
cated case would be the one
mentioned by President Eisen
hower himself when the Pres
ident was unconscious and "un
able to determine his own dis
ability." Here someone must
act for him, as a trustee. I see
no need for any complicated
machinery. Whether or not the
president is conscious is a ques
tion of fact about which it is
hard to imagine any serious dif
ferences of opinion. It would
seem to be enough to authorize
the Secretary of State, with the
advice and consent of the Cabi
net, to certify the President's
disability. If there were any
doubt about , it in the White
House, how could any Secretary
of State possibly conceal the
doubt? The basic principle, that
the President is the iudee of
his own disability, would remain
in that, if the President re
gained consciousness and recov
ered from his illness, he would
still have the unequivocal right
to resume his powers.
A STATUTE based on these
two principles that the
vice-president does not become
President, and that the Presi
dent is the judge of his own
disability would resolve a
very large part of the doubt
which now exists.
What then about the hypothe
tical case of a deranged Presi
dent who refused to . admit his
disability and was exercising his
powers, but irrationally? It
seems to me that Congress
should not and need not deal
with this hypothetical case in
the proposed legislation. If such
a case were to arise, no one can
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In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Red Bluff. Arriving about
dark. After a rainy day. Head
for the Tremont hotel for some
thing to eat as travelers in this
part of the West have been do
ing for nearly a hundred years.
TED BLUFF is now' a' quiet,
pleasant, easy-going city,
where life moves in comfortable,
agreeable, not too tensely ex
citing ways.
It wasn't always thus. When
the old Tremont was built, Red
Bluff was the head of navigation
on the Sacramento. Here the
river boats stopped and put off
their cargo destined for the
mines of the upper Sacramento
and the Klamath river country.
Here the cargo put off by the
river steamers was taken over
first by pack horses and mules
and later by freight wagons
which carried it on to its final
destination. Red Bluff was then
a wild and woolly town.
I
T WAS in those days that the
Tremont got its start. It hous
ed them an miners, freighters;
boat hands, adventurers, gamb
lers. It took care of their needs.
It sheltered them. It fed them.
Fire razed it once, but couldn't
stop it. It was rebuilt, and went
rieht on taking care of those
who came.
It was the center of its com
munity then, as it stUl is.
TT WAS in those early days
A Vin rliTTorciin of th TCIa-math
river was first proposed. It was
quite a scheme. The idea was
to dig a channel down through
the lava beds southward from
Tule lake and by means of this
channel to carry the waters of
the Klamath to the Pit river.
The Pit would then carry them
on to the Sacramento, where in
the summer season they would
reinforce the Sacramento's
dwindling flow and maybe en
able the boats to come- clear
now foresee clearly enough just
how it would arise in order to
legislate intelligently about it.
The case would have to be dealt
with as the occasion arose, most
possibly it seems to me by
making use of the machinery of
impeachment.1 ;
TN DEALING with this whole
problem we have to make a
fundamental assumption: That
the President, the high officials
around him and the Congress,
will in a matter of such import
ance act with integrity and with
public spirit. I say this because
frequently in the discussion of
the problem points are raised
which imply the existence of a
theoretical conspiracy to ; oust
the President or to cover up his
disability. '
We should be satisfied to have
a statute which honest men can
understand and will in good con
science carry out.
Copyright 1956, New York
. Herald Tribune Inc.
WE OTMMTEE
YOU'LL IMPROVE ANY
RECIPE THAT CALLS FOR
FLOUR WITH
KITCHEN CRAFT
Wonderful for pies, cookies, cakes, breeds, too!
' II!
SAFEWAY STORE
Used by 9 put of Id people as a guide
on. up to Redding, thus shorten
ing ma teriaUy the land hauLto
the mines.- -
There was another string to
this bow. By diversion of its
waters into the Pit, the bed of
the Klamath would be uncover
ed and the recovery of its placer
gold would be made easy.
THE PROJECT was embodied
in a Viill and the bill was in
troduced in the first California
legislature. But this first leg
islative assembly was a busy-
one. The lusty young state had
a lot of business to be done and
the session wasn't long enough
to take care of all the bills that
were offered. Many of them fell
by the wayside, and the Klamath
diversion bill was among those
that fell.
Here in southern Oregon we've '
been laughed at repeatedly in
recent years because of our fear
that the waters of our great
rivers will be diverted and tak-
elsewhere if .we don't see
to it that they are put to com
plete beneficial use. We've been
told that we're seeing things-at
night that no such thing can
ever happen.
Well' maybe not. But the; fact
remains that more than a cent
ury ago the idea of exporting
the water of the Klamath river
for use elsewhere was born. It
has been revived at intervals
ever since. .
PERSONALLY, I'm glad we're
getting' the waters of our
rivers NAILED DOWN. It's high
time. If, here in Southern Ore
gon, and Far Northern . Cali
fornia, we leave ANY of our
water lying around loose and
unused, the time will come when
somebody will come along and
take -it -away from us for use
elsewhere.
HUNGRY THIEVES
Montreal (U.R) Police'
searched today .for "sweet
toohed" burglars. The burglars
stole,' 168 20-pound pails - of
mixed hard candies, mints hum
bugs,, cutrocks and striped suck
ers and 100 boxes each of salted
peanuts and assorted candy fronV
a candy factory.-
NOW
IS THE TIME
to start building an Insured
savings account with us. You
will" find it pleasant and
profitable to invest here.
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of Medford
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