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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Fob. 1. 1946
(It was Friday)
Lester Lewis of Central. Point
kills cougar measuring seven
leet in length in Star Gulch in
the Applegate district.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow
is Groundhog day. Whether or
not he comes out of his hole,
there will be six weeks more of
weather, of some kind.
SO YEARS AGO
Tab. 1. 1936
Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Reynolds
cf the Applegate valley pick a
bouquet, oi yellow daisies today
on the south side of lower Table
Bock.
From Side Glances: Jack
Woods flaunting sartorial con
vention by wearing a Tyrolian
hat in pork-pie fashion. The ef
fect is somewhat startling..
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 1. 1926
(It was Monday)
Attempt to rejuvenate the Ku
Klux Klan at Salem Thursday
lails, according to reports from
north. t s
LeComte and Flesher's musi
cal sensation, "My China Doll,"
playing one night at Hunt's Cra
terian theater.
40 YEARS AGO
rb. 1. 1916
County to collect $778,778 in
taxes during 1916; announces
shrinkage in assessed valuation
of $5,000,000.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The elevator in the Main
street entrance to the Garnett-
Cory building has been com
pleted and is now in operation,
What's iha Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Listed horsepower on new
U. S. cars was increased between
1948 and 1955, on the average,
by about (a) 40, (b) 65, (c) 90 or
(d).115?
2. Which present U. S. sena
tor carried some states when he
ran for president in 1948?
3. The Soviet Union now has
diplomatic relations with most,
about half, or only a few Latin
American countries?
4. The game of hurling is most
popular in Scotland, Ireland,
Canada, Sweden, Switzerland or
Russia?
5. Curling is a game on ice
especially popular in Scotland,
Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Switz
erland or Russia?
6. Harley-Davidson was the
name of an early auto; right or
wrong?
7. Willie Keeler was famous
long ago in pugilism, Ivy league
football, baseball, bowling, wres
tling, golf or tennis?
The answers: 1. By 65, on
the average. 2. Slrom Thurmond
of South Carolina. 3. Only a few.
4. Ireland. 5. Scotland. 6. Wrong
(motorcycle). 7. Baseball.
ACCIDENTS FATAL
Hermiston U.R) Howard
Moses, 29, Umatilla, an em
ployee of a contractor laying a
natural gas pipeline to Portland,
was killed in an accident late
yesterday. He was working as
a brush man in painting the pipe
when a 300-foot section which
had been welded together and
laid on a scaffolding rolled from
the timbers and fell on him.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Undreamt of Things
A new book called "The Search for Bridey Mur
phy" is making something of a splash in publishing
circles. One Portland newspaper is serializing it
the while making it excessively clear that it is not
passing final judgment on it. ' t
The book purports to be the description, much of
it in dialogue, of the experiences of a woman in a
"prior life." The information was elicited, the author
claims, during hypnotic trances. " " .
.
TTHIS is one of those cases where it is difficult, if
not impossible, to prove the truth one way or the
other. In this it is similar to a great many other types
of mental phenomena which have been explored in
recent years. "Proof," in these cases, is almost always
of a subjective nature.
A few years ago a book called "Dianetics" by a
prominent science-fiction author created a similar
stir, claiming that under proper conditions of near
hvonosis one could recall events back to the moment
of conception. The theory
each experience recorded itself m the cell tissue oi
the body, and could be called up to consciousness by
the proper methods,
j
THE new book, goes this theory one better, what
with "memories" of a prior life, as well as experi
ences in the astral world between lives. As such, it
gets out of the realm of the here and now, anclgets
over into, the fields previously preempted by religion
and spiritualism
What with all this, it is the easy course, and per
haps the one of common sense, to dismiss it all as
imagination, or as a fake.
B
UT can we do this? Should we not acknowledge
witir SVinlfp'snpflrp's oh
more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are
dreamt of in your philosophy" ?
Shnnld wft tint realize there ARE nhenomena so-
far unexplained and, at present, uhexplainable? -There
are tnn manvnf them "flvincr saucers"
reported by highly reputable people; materializations
m 1 1 ill 1 1
ol long-dead people, also reported oy people oi sud
stanpp nnrl intplliVenfe: . exneriments in nsveho-
kinesis and clairvoyance
aoie to, wasn our nands oi tnem witn a simple, 011
hand denial.
There are too manv examrles of things undreamt
of in our philosophy. E.A.
Healthy
Wp. keep harping about change.
Well, why not? The way of life of Americans has
changed more in the, last half -century than it has in all
the other years of the nation's existence. Change is
a thing we have to live with. But unless we are ad
justable and understanding and receptive, it can be
a hard thing to accept. 1
" .. .
COME changes are 'destructive. Others are neutral.
? Some possibly even most are all to the good.
One of the latter variety is the change in the pat
tern of home ownership. This was pointed out the
other day in an editorial in the Daily Journal of Com
merce at Portland, which recorded the fact that 36
years ago that's 1920 about 10,900,000 families
owned their own homes. In 1955, the total was about
27,000,000, an increase of 16,000,000 or about 150
per cent. This is a faster rise than that of the popu
lation as a whole.
In 1920, about 45.6 per cent of all homes were
owner-occupied; the figure for 1955 was about 56.
AS with other changes, this one has had far-reach-"
ing ramifications. It has given a sense of per
manence and solidity to many families, knowing their
homes are their own. It has increased a sense of re
sponsibility and the attention which occupants give
their dwellings. .
The do-it-yourself movement of recent years
in large part reflects this situation. So does the rise
in purchases of home appliances. And it may even
be that it is a contributing factor to a rise in import
ance of the family as the basic unit of society.
It would be good to know that this is so. For as
long as America's families are sound and happy and
integrated, there is no need to fear a collapse of so
ciety. E.A.
Fast Buck Artists
. The business of making a fast buck on promo
tional schemes or in selling shoddy merchandise is
not a new one.
So old is it, indeed, that the Romans coined a
phrase to describe the situation "Caveat Emptor"
let the buyer beware.
.
IT remains, basically, a good rule. For there are men
and women about who are not above trading on
the credulity and good faith- of fellow human beings,
and who do so, with gusto and finesse.
The warning has special force in the case of itiner
ant merchants, promoters and salesmen from out of
town. Merchants in Medford have a stake in the
community, a reputation to maintain. The itinerants,
quite Dossibly, would not be itinerants if this were the
case with them.
..
TTHIS, like all generalizations, is full of holes, for
there are always exceptions.
But "caveat emptor" remains sound advice to
those in doubt particularly in the case of telephone
solicitation or door-to-door salesmen who are here
today and gone tomorrow. The police department
and chamber of commerce files are too full of. the
records of shady, quasi-legal or outright dishonest
operations to recommend otherwise.
' It's a shame. But that's the way it is. E.A.
Wednesday, February 1, 1956
here apparently was that
flrart.er that "There are
at Duke university to be
Change
Organized Liberals Mustering
Strength for Morse's Campaign
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Organized lib
erals have begun to muster
their corporate strength and en-
thusiasm
f or
one of "their
major national
efforts of this
1956 election
year to do
all they can to
help re-elect
Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.).
This build-
a. Robt. smith up Became evi
dent here during the past week
as two groups within the organ
ized liberal movement took the
ommunkations
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Don't Underestimate Ivan
t To the Editor: Despite Mr. F.
J. Cliff ord s usual - common
sense, his letter which you print
ed Thursday, Jan. 26, shows
evidence of both hasty and
prejudiced thinking, t
. He is "not much bothered" by
Russian guided miscile develop
ment. Does he know that many
Britons were not much bother
ed by German air force develop
ment in 1937 and '38?
When Mr. Clifford speaks of
Russian history, is he aware that
Russian history prior to the fall
of the czars is no basis for com
parison with present commun
istic expansive philosophies?
Has Mr. Clifford studied the com
munist literature which urges
and predicts the conversion of
the world to communism by any
means, including force?
Mr. Clifford seems to imply
a lack of courage, of intelligence,
IRC Seeks Books
For Asian Schools
Ashland International Re
lations club members from
Southern Oregon college are
undertaking a campaign in be
half of the Asia Foundation's
"Books for Asian Students" pro
gram it was announced yester
day by the group's adviser, Dr.
Clifford Miller, faculty member.
Aims of the foundation in
clude seeking to promote inter
national cooperation and . amity
and, especially, better under
standing between the peoples of
Asia and the United States. Dr.
Miller pointed out that a part
of the Foundation's program is
to give impels to a drive to ob
tain good reading material for
needy and deserving educational
institutions in Asia.
"Contributions to the book
drive," Miller stated, "will help
to build the bridges of under
standing between Asia and
America that will foster better
relations; certainly, they will be
a means of extending support
and encouragement to those in
Asia who are working for peace,
freedom, and'social progress."
Any college, high school or
grade school textbook published
since 1945 and in good condition
is accceptable, as are standard
authors or basic works in older
editions. Fiction books in good
condition are acceptable also, it
was 'stated, provided they are
suitable for literature courses in
the schools.
Donors may phone the college
office at Ashland 2-4611 and
leave their names and addresses
with the switchboard "operator
and a member of the Interna
tional Relations club, will pick
up the books, or may leave books
in the Informs tion Office at the
coUege. -
Kaiser Chemicals
Announces Expansion
O a k 1 a n d, Calif. (U.R)
Kaiser Chemicals Division an
nounced today a .$3,000,000 ex
pansion program at two of its
plants which it said will "sub
stantially increase" it capacity
to produce refractory and mag
nesia products.
Frank M. Cashin, vice presi
dent and manager of the Kaiser
Aluminum and Chemical Corpo
ration, said the new facilities
will be added to the California
plant which will double its pres
ent sea water handling capacity.
The kiln will have a capacity of
approximately 150 tons of mag
nesia products daily, bringing
the plants capacity up to 375
tons a day.
New equipment at the Ohio
plant will include additional
pressing and materials handling
facilities which Cashin said will
increase the plant's capacity by
50 per cent.
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occasion of their annual cere
monial gatherings to turn the
spotlight of their attention on
the Oregon senator.
First, the Sidney Hillman
Foundation, at its annual dinner,
gave Morse its award for , meri
torious service and the public
praise of its leadership before an
audience of Washington nota
bles. Second, the local chapter of
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion (ADA) made Morse the hero
of its annual Roosevelt dinner.
The senator was main speaker
on both occasions.
"Fighting Champion'
To the 1,000 personages who
joined to cheer on the senator at
these, gatherings, Morse has
clearly become a fighting cham-
and of honesty in the average
Russian. Shouldn't his common
sense tell him that there are as
many kinds of Russians as there
are kinds of Swedes, Japanese,
or Americans?
Mr. Clifford takes note of the
fact that currently no Russian
wrestlers are touring our coun
try. Does he know of many
American boxers now touring
Russia? He seems to think that
"by nature", a Russian does not
take part in individual sports?
Is he aware of recent Russian
activity in the Olympic games?
Does in: know that the Russians
for years have shown keen
analyxical minds in internation
al chess?
Does Mr. Clifford recall a
World War II Russian invention
known as the Molotov cocktail,
which was delivered against a
heavily armed German armored
tank by a lightly armed unarm
ored Russian foot soldier? Does
Mr. Clifford not believe that to
underestimate Russian intelli
gence, courage, guided missile
development, or aggressive ten
dencies would be extremely, dan
gerous to us Americans in view
of the world tension today?
Mr. Clifford says the Russian
has "little stomach to fight on
foreign soil." Does Mr. Clifford
think that Poland, Czechoslo
vakia, Bulgaria, Romania, . Hun
gary, Albania, the Baltic states,
Mongolia, and Germany" are Rus
sian soil?
. Does Mr. Clifford realize that
the last sentence of his Thurs
day letter could, well have been
written on Dec. 6, 1941? v if
W.R.Johnson,
457 Fairmont St.
Medford, Ore.
Flood Control Plan
To the Editor: I would like to
see flood control as well as any
one else. But you never tan have
flood control by building high
dams which are only a tempor
ary flood control measure.
For example, look at Lake
Meade above Hoover dam. When
Hoover dam was completed you
were told that the dam would be
full in 56 years. And it is now
about two thirds full and in
another 10 years the Colorado
river will be naming over the
spillway. And then all you will
have is an elevated river. The
same thing is being done to all
the dams.
The dam as proposed on Lewis
creek will be just like Hoover
dam. And you will not have per
manent flood control, only for
a few years.
However, you can have per
manent flood control if only
$1,000,000 of the $29,000,000
asked for to build Lewis dam,
could be used to build parma
nent concrete levees, six feet
wide on the bottom and three
feet on the top, all the way from
McCleod to the coast. All you
would need to buy would be ce
ment and labor, as sand is avail
able all along the river and the
more big boulders you use would
make it much stronger than
crushed stone.
. If the money that has been
spent to protect Yuba City had
been used to build good levees,
there would not have been any
disaster. . .
The Rogue river can be pro
tected the same way. And the
Rogue would not be disturbed.
The Louis dam will inundate
many thousands ficres of the
finest soil in Oregon and take
out a lot of tax money that will
have to be assessed against other
property to make up for. the loss.
Another thing, no one is al
lowed to live within eight miles
of the dam. This would take in
Shady Cove and Trail. And if
"Plan A" was used as planned,
no - one would be permitted to
live as far south as Dodge bridge.
Melvin F. Allen,
" Trail Creek Rt.
Trail, Ore.
Relieve Suffering
Fast-Effectively
with
Shildreifs i
Eoldsia
pion, one of a small handful in
public life today who can be
counted upon to go forth and do
battle with the dragons of reac
tion. Virtually all of the members
of these groups are Democrats,
many of them prominent in the
labor movement, quite a few of
them former officials of govern
ment in the Roosevelt and Tru
man administrations.
When the senator arose to
speak at the ADA meeting, it
was just a few hours after he had
heard the word from Oregon
that Gov. Paul Patterson had an
nounced his intent to challenge
Morse for his Senate seat this
fan.
Fought Everywhere
After passing on this political
tidbit to his audience, Morse told
them that "the same fight (for
liberalism) that is going to occur
in Oregon is going to be fought
elsewhere across this country."
Calling on liberals to take the
fight to the American people,
Morse declared: "The great issue
will be the return of the govern
ment of the United States to its
federal responsibilities and
bringing to an end this adminis
tration which came to power by
a mistake in judgment on the
part of the American people in
1952."
Generally speaking, Gov. Pat
terson's announcement came as
no surprise in Senator Morse's
camp. It had been anticipated
for some time. And it came
about where the senator and his
strategists thought it would be in
the overall time-table of this
senate campaign.
Was Expected
That is, Morse was confident
that Patterson would ultimately
announce his- candidacy. He
thought it would come in this
winter period when congress was
moving at high speed and his
duties would keep him here
much of the time at his senate
desk.
After having had the cam
paign trails of Oregon pretty
much to himself last fall, when
he criss-crossed the state to do a
thorough pre-election campaign
job, Morse figured the governor
would await his return to Wash
ington, D.C before emerging as
an announced candidate.
, When he returned to the capi
tal just before the first of the
year, Morse felt that if he had
stood for election at that mo
ment he would have won. He
felt that he had made solid , per
suasive inroads into the votes of
farmers, small businessmen, the
less-than-well-off white . collar
workers and, of course, labor.
Now. he expected,- Gov. Pat
terson would'gain an . advantage
during the winter months by his
own campaigning around the
state. By spring primary time,
Patterson could well be the man
to beat.
From then until November's
election day, it would be a horse
race all the way.
Accuses America of .
Increasing Propaganda
Moscow (U.R) Marshal
Semyon K. Timoshenko Tuesday
accused American and British
"imperialists" of intensifying
propaganda for atomic and bac
teriological warfare.
Timoshenko, World War II
hero and now commander of the
Byelo-Russian military district,
said the United States is increas
ing arms expenditures annually
and urged that the Soviet Union
"always be prepared and unre
mittingly strengthen the might
of the Soviet army."
Investments made
by the 10th of the'
month earn divi
dends as- of the
First. -
Saudi Arabia Playing
Big Part in Topleyei
Talks in Washington
By CHARLES W. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
A little Arabian kingdom is
playing a big part in the talks
between President Eisenhower
and Prime
Minister An
thony Eden in
Washington.
Saudi Ar
abia is the
country. It oc
cupies most of
the Arabian
peninsula,
Charles McCann DOUnaea Dy me
Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and
the Arabian Sea.
Saudi Arabia practically floats
on oil. And that oil is the real
issue in what is becoming an ur
gent Anglo-American problem.
Mr. Eisenhower and Eden
have discussed a number of
world problems relations with
Soviet Russia, German unifica
tion, what to do about Commu
nist .China.
But the problem of Saudi
Arabia is an immediate one. It
enters into the Palestine prob
lem, the Baghdad Defense Alli
ance and the Russian campaign
of penetration in the Middle
East.
If the President and Eden can
come to any agreement on Saudi
Arabia, their conference will be
a success. But agreement seems
to be unlikely.
Getting Worse
Britain's relations with Saudi
Arabia are bad, and getting
worse. Relations between Saudi
Arabia and the United States are
good. ; ,
Britain is involved in a long
standing dispute with Saudi
Arabia over possession of the
little Burajii oasis on the east
coast of the Araban peninsula,
Both countries claim it. Britain's
claim is made in behalf of a
group of tiny shiekdoms, or
Arabian principalities, which are
tied to Britam by treaty,
Last October a few dozen
troops and police of the shiek
doms led by British officers
threw a few dozen Saudi Ar-
Predict Release of
More Salk Vaccine
Washington (U.R) Some in
siders predicted today that
enough Salk polio vaccine will
be released in the next several
months to inoculate more than
40,000,000 children.
; They based their optimism on
indications from drug manufac
turers that vaccine production
finally is ready to spurt after
having lagged for months'.
For one thing, they said, there
is a good chance Parke Davis &
Co. will get back into the market
shortly. The firm, one of the
nation's two biggest vaccine pro
ducers, shut down its produc
tion lines after the polio snafu
last summer:
There also have been uncon
firmed reports that Sharpe &
Dohme is finally getting ready
to submit vaccine for govern
ment approval. It was licensed
to produce the serum last April
but has never released any shots
to the public.
-Government officials were
wary about making any firm
production estimates. They said,
however, that they expect out
put to increase now that manu
facturing bugs have been ironed
out.
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abian troops and police out of
the oasis. Saudi Arabia is fum
ingly angry over that.
Behind it all is the clash of oil
interests. Buraimi oasis gives
promise of yielding fabulous
amounts of oil.
King Saud does business with
the American-owned Arabian
American oil company. He gets
royalties of about $258 million''
a year from it. .
If Britain gets the oasis, the g
oil will be exploited by the Brit-
ish-owned Iraq Petroleum com- J-ff
pany. .
British Charges I
r Britain charges that King Saud
4 ""6 uu vu x c v ciiuca lu ouu.
up trouble all over the Middle
East, primarily against Britain.
Saud is accused of financing
the recent riots in Jordan against
the Baghdad Alliance of which
Britain, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and
Pakistan are members. He is ac
cused of offering millions of dol
lars in bribes to officials of the
little Arabian shiekdoms. He
is accused of bribing the editors
of newspapers in Jordan, Leb
anon and other countries.
Eden would like President Ei
senhower to step into the Saudi
Arabian situation and ask King
Saud to tmd less troublesome
ways of spending his money.
But the American position is
that the United States can not
very well tell King Saud what
to do. There is no indication
that Eden will be able to get
President Eisenhower to change
that position.
It could be that the United
States might make some friend
ly approach to King Saud. But
it should not be forgotten that
billions cf dollars worth of oil
rights enter into the situation.
FACTS
CONCERNING THE
FLUORIDATION OF
PUBLIC DRINKING WATER
By: S. Milton Zimmerman D.D.S.
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Fluoridation, of the public water
supply to any community is a
subtle way to promote socialized
medicine and dentistry. Many
children who will drink thfc fluori
dated water will continue to have
dental caries (cavities); their par
ents will clamor for increased gov
ernmental intervention, if the
Government ic given further re
sponsibility for public health, that
responsibility can lead to only one
thing Socialized Medicine and
Dentistry. Government age.iciet
and bureaus always expand. They
never contract.
Keep Our Water Pure
Send your name, address, and all
financial help you can
FIGHT FLUORIDES
Antifluoridation Committee
212 Leverette Bldg. Medford, Ore.
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