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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 30. 1946
(It was Saturday)
Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, presi
dent of Jackson County Public
Health association, announces
tickets on sale for annual meet
ing. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Jackson K.
Frost has not yet arrived in the
valley on his annual visit, and is
tardy. In normal years at this
time, he has killed all the apri
cots, and ruined an overwhelm
ing majority of the pears.
20 YEARS AGO
March 30, 1936
(It was Monday)
Improvements on Medford
armory started by WPA crews;
total cost expected to be about
$4,000.
F. C. Reimer, head of South
ern Oregon experiment station,
inspects damage from cold
weather; says about 90 per cent
of blossoms remain on pear trees.
30 YEARS AGO
March 30, 1926
(It was Tuesday)
Ralph P. Cowgill of Medford
recommended b y Republican
pre-primary convention for sen
ator. First forest fire of season re
ported on Ward's creek between
Gold Hill and Rogue River;
covers about 50 acres.
40 YEARS AGO
March 30, 1916
(It was Thursday)
Tungsten ore strike at Syl
vanite, three miles upstream
from Gold Hill, reported sto be
extensive vein.
Talent Farmers' club votes to
form irrigation district; J. W.
Miller of Ashland, R. E. Robin
son and A, L. Manning of Tal
ent nominated as trustees.
Whai's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Total number of electoral
votes for President is (a) 135,
(b) 351, (c) 531, (d) 1350 or (e)
5310?
2. Amman is the capital of an
Arab state: Irak, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan or Saudi Arabia?
3. Date of Easter each year
depends on the date of Christ
mas, the calendar, time of full
moon, decision of the millinery
trade, or long-range weather
forecasts?
4. One-fifth, one-third, one
half or two-thirds of the states
now forbid discrimination in em
ployment by race, religion or
color?
5. The Stock Market usually
goes up or down in the second
half of presidential election
years, or shows no distinct trend?
6. The average age at which
women start teaching in city
public schools is (a) 17, (b) 20,
(c) 23 or (d) 26?
7. The original name of which
prominent screen star was Mar
garita C. Cansino?
The answers: 1. 531. 2. Jor
dan. 3. Time of full moon. 4.
One-lhird. . 5. Usually goes up.
6. Around 23. 7. Rita Hayworlh.
PEANUTS LACKING
Washington U.R) The Agri
culture department had bad
news for baseball fans today,
but good news for cleanup men
the ones with brooms. Peanuts
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Dime"
The sudden death of Diamond L. Flynn was
shocking to the thousands of people in southern Ore
gon who were glad to call him a friend. He was doing
what he liked best walking the streets of Medford,
greeting people and talking about civic projects the
day before he was carried away by a heart attack.
Dime Flynn liked people. That was his genius in
all the work he did for his community and state. He
disliked hurting anyone, and whenever possible did
whatever he could to avoid that occasional necessity.
ASA RESULT, sometimes during his career of pub
lie service he was criticized for "sitting on the
fence," and "not getting anything done."
That, we believe, was not the case, for during his
administration as mayor of Medford for six years,
more was accomplished than most people can recall
in any like period.
It is a tribute to Dime that it was accomplished,
and was done without hurting people. His genius
for liking others made it possible for him to arrange
compromises and agreements, where other men, less
skillful in dealing with personalities, would advo
cate an "all or nothing" approach.
DUT DEMOCRACY IS, by.one definition, govern
ment by compromise. With a skillful, loyal and
dedicated worker like Diamond Flynn as a leader,
miracles can be wrought. 'And they were, in Medford.
The same is true in the multitude of other activ
ities to which he devoted much of his life. He was a
community "sparkplug," an enthusiastic and dedicat
ed worker in a dozen causes and projects.
Medford, the county, the state and the nation are
the better for Diamond Flynn's life and work. His pre
mature death (he was only 59) may well have been
hastened by the fact that he could not take it easy
when he saw a job that needed to be done.
rIME FLYNN'S death leaves a void that will be
difficult to fill.
But his work, his service, his dedication to what
was good in community life all done in smiling
friendship will stand as a memorial to him greater
than anything that can be said or done in his honor.
E. A.
Garbage
Adolf Hitler operated under the theory that if you
told a lie big enough, and repeated it often enough,
it was bound to be believed by some people.
This technique has come to be known as the "Big
Lie." There is some validity to the theory, for some
lies, although thoroughly discredited, still make the
rounds.
"NE SUCH is the rather stupid and sordid tale mar-
keted under the title of "Maria Monk," or '"Se
crets of the Black Nunnery in Montreal, Canada, Re
vealed." When the thing first was published 120 years ago
in New York, it created a big stir, until investigation
revealed it was the product of a former adventuress
and a jailbird to boot, who had concocted the story
for notoriety.
Like other Big Lies, however, it keeps popping up
from timeHo time. It most recently has appeared in
envelopes mailed out from the Gold Hill area, we are
informed.
D ELIGIOUS diversity is one of America's strengths.
Each person is entitled to believe as he must, and
decry the beliefs of others if he feels so inclined.
But this right does not extend to spreading lies.
"Maria Monk" is in the same category as the ancient
and infamous falsehoods contained in the so-called
"Protocols of Zion." Both are pure garbage. E. A.
Journalism Dean
Several of the state's newspapers have comment
ed on their pleasure over the appointment of Prof.
Charles Duncan as dean of the school of journalism
at the University of Oregon. .
We are delighted to join them. "Chuck" Duncan
is the kind of person sometimes described as the salt
of the earth. There's no pretense, no sham in his
makeup. He's a solid citizen, and we like the idea of
his being in charge of educating Oregon's future
newspaper men and women.
"THE ONLY THING wrong with the appointment
was that it was so long delayed, for he has been
acting dean for almost a year.
But since it has finally been made official, we con
gratulate both Dean Duncan and the university on
the action.
It is of more interest to those of us in the business
than to most residents, of course, but newspaper read
ers in general might be interested to know that the
young men and women who in the future will be writ
ing the news and editorials in the state will have their
education supervised by a literate, human, honest and
highly intelligent gentleman. E. A.
Jeanne Crain Files
Action for Divorce
Hollywood (U.R) Film star
Jeanne Crain's suit for divorce
against manufacturer Paul
Brinkman today stunned Holly
wood. The couple married on New
Year's Eve, 1945, had four chil
dren and generally was consid
ered one of HoUywood's hap
piest marriages.
are in "comparatively short
supply" this year, the depart
ment said and consumption in
the bleachers "probably will de
cline for the second consecutive
year."
Friday, March 30. 1958
Fly nn
FBI Captures Two
Most Wanted Criminals
Memphis (U.R) Notorious
Nick (The Greek) Montos, only
criminal ever to make the FBI's
"10 most wanted" list twice, and
escaped convict Robert Lloyd
Jones were surprised by FBI
agents at a motel early today
and taken without a shot being
fired.
FBI agents poured tear gas
into the sleeping fugitives' room
and forced them to come out
with their hands up despite the
fact they had a small arsenal
with them.
'Open Sky1
Stalin, Top
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The Good
1. Hope was expressed in Al
lied capitals that the big powers
might at last get started on the
way toward a disarmament
agreement, including the safe
guards against violations which
Soviet Russia has refused to ac
cept. For the first time, the So
viet delegation at a United Na
tions disarmament conference in
London agreed in principle to
the "open sky" plan for aerial
inspection of armaments which
President Eisenhower proposed
at the "summit" meeting of the
Big Four heads of government
in Geneva last July. The tenta
tive acceptance was cautiously
qualified. But it was the latest
of several indications that the
Kremlin might be ready to do
business. A new Russian dis
armament plan, submitted at the
London meeting, also failed to
include the previous Kremlin
insistence on a flat ban on nu
clear weapons as the first move.
2. Communist parties all over
Europe showed open consterna
tion over the debunking of Josef
Stalin, built up for years as in
fallible. The Hungarian Reds an
nounced that Laszlo Rajk, their
foreign minister, and other lead
ers were executed on concocted
evidence in 1949 in a Stalin-era
purge. Communists parties in
East Germany, France and Italy
squabbled over the debunking.
Many ' of them refuse to agree
that Stalin was only a clay-footed
idol.
3. President Eisenhower's con
ference with Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent of Canada
and President Adolfo Ruiz Cor
tines of Mexico at White Sul
phur Springs, a new kind of in
formal get-together by "summit"
leaders, proved to be a resound
ing success. There was talk of
developing the new techniques.
It may be used when Prime Min
ister Jawaharlal Nehru of India
visits the United States in July.
The Bad
1. The Parliament of Iceland,
Fire Losses Greater;
Insurance Is Not Full
Answer, Babson Says
By ROGER BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. Fire
losses have so increased that I
feel the subject should inter
est everyone,
whether man
ufacturer, or household
er. The finan
cial loss may
be covered by
insurance; but
insurance does
not cover oth
er losses espe
cially in the
Roger W. Babson
cases of a successful business or
a happy home.
Unfortunately, a certain num
ber of fires are set by mentally
deranged people, or by juvenile
delinquents. Other fires are set
by unsuccessful businessmen
who use the fires "to sell their
business to the insurance com
pany." In view of the large num
ber of "set" fires, the little red
fire-alarm boxes at street cor
ners will always remain in use.
No one who sets a fire will ever
notify the Fire Department. This
must be done by someone who
discovers the fire when walking
along the street. As such dis
covery is made only alter the
fire has got a good start, "set"
fires are the most dangerous.
Could Be Smothered
With the exception of fires
started from explosions, prac
tically all fires could be smoth
ered, at their start, by someone
with common sense. This is espe
cially true, as 27 per cent of the
fires are officially reported as
starting from "matches and
smoking " In addition to the
thousands of lives which have
been lost in these 27 per cent
of fires, the property loss
amounted to $453,341,831 all
from matches and smoking.
In this connection I wish to
acknowledge a debt of gratitude
owed the National Board of Fire
Underwriters, especiaUy their
general manager, L. A. Vincent,
and their chief engineer, John
A. Neal. This board has various
functions. It originates most of
CAUSES
Matches Smoking
Misuse of Electricity
Exposure to other Fires
Petroleum Products
Stoves, Furnaces, Boilers
Overheated Chimneys Flues 115,697
Spontaneous Combustion
Lightning
Miscellaneous
Friction and Sparks
Open Lights
Gas Natural and Artificial
Ignition of Hot Grease, etc.
Explosions
Hot Ashes and Coals
Chemical Combustion
Sparks on Roofs
Rubbish and Litter
Fireworks, Balloons, etc
TOTAL
Plan, Debunking of
Good News of Week
a member of the North Atlantic
Treaty Alliance, called for the
withdrawal of American troops,
on the ground that international
tensions had been reduced.
There are only a few thousand
Americans in Iceland. But the
little island country, lying east
of Greenland on the Arctic cir
cle, is a valuable aerial staging
base, if nothing else. The "re
duced tensions" argument is re
garded by the United States as
dangerous. The Kremlin has
adopted a new look. To the
American government, it is
merely another false face to
mask expansionist ambitions.
2. The Arab nations showed
suspicion of a plan to send Unit
ed Nations Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to the Mid
dle East in an attempt to settle
the Palestine crisis. In the U.N.
Security council, Arab delegates
ommunications
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view to clarification and condensation,
not exceed 400 words.
Pure Water
To the Editor: Grandma will
state her reasons why not to
put fluorine in Medford's water
system.
The chamber of commerce ad
vertised all over to bring strang
ers into Medford, Oregon, U.S.A.
You all praised this pure water
that Medford has used the past
years.
We were newcomers five years
ago and bought our property be
cause it had irrigation water,
and we wanted to enjoy drink
ing this pure water you folks
praised so highly.
We moved from San Jose,
Calif., where their city water
is foul, full of chemicals.
We bought bottled water to
drink. We lived in Los Angeles
previously and all one can say
of Los Angeles water it's wet,
terrible to drink. There again,
we bought bottled water to
the publicity issued to prevent
fires; it maintains a legal staff
to detect, and prosecute those
who are suspected of setting
fires; and through the Under
writer's Laboratory of Chicago,
the board tests fire extinguish
ers, sprinkler systems, electric
alarms, and gadgets which are
publicly offered for the preven
tion of fires. This latter is very
important work. But your very
best friend is your local fire
chief.
What About Insurance
Too many people take the po
sition, ''Why worry, because the
insurance company will pay the
bill." Although, in case of loss,
you get a check from one or
more insurance companies, yet
this loss is merely collected by
the insurance companies from
the premiums which they assess
plus the cost of operation to all
who take out policies. In fact,
the real loss from fires is con
siderably more than the amount
paid out as insurance. Due to
the high character of. the men
who operate these insurance
companies and the careful su
pervision given them by the of
ficial state boards, their finan
cial record is excellent.
Therefore, I urge every reader
to see that his factory, his store,
and his home are well covered
by insurance. Furthermore, in
view of the rising cost of build
ing, insurance, in most cases,
needs to be increased at the
present time. I believe every
reader of this column should
ijheck his insurance policies to
day and see that they cover
not only fire losses, but also
losses from wind storms, acci
dents, and other disasters. Frank
ly, I am a great believer in all
forms of insurance, and this
includes life insurance for fam
ily protection, for the payment
of estate taxes, and for other
purposes.
Causes of Fires
Read the following figures for
the past 3 years issued by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters:
Number Per Cent Property Loss ;
666,812 26.90 $ 453,341,831 !
330,047 13.31 405,896,793
180,220 7.27 270,946,033
195,645 7.89 ' -218,625,639
170,639 6.88 230,158,430
; 115,697 4.67 146,475,730
47,127 1.90 140,263,778
224,694 9.06 143,601,697
88,105 3.55 127,540,039
25,233 1.02 76,251,420
76,653 3.09 73,693,025
43,505 1.76 70,351,899
97,143 3.92 50,303,751 I
24,114 0.97 48,793,380
69,782 2.82 54,320,903
25,358 1.02 41,981,665
38,422 1.55 38,120,602
56,734 2.29 . 51,710,806
3,326 0.13 2,811,229 !
2,479,255 100.00 $2,645,188,650
sought to limit rigidly the basis
on which Hammarskjold might
negotiate. American chief dele
gate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.,
will try to win over the Arab
countries when the council
meets again Tuesday.
3. Japan was angered by the
United States rejection of its
protest against the plan to carry
out H-bomb experiments in the
Marshall islands next month.
Japanese from Premier Ichiro
Hatoyama down to the most
humble citizen, feel keenly that
such tests are a menace because
of consequent radioactive fall
out. Japanese opposition to the
tests will be encouraged by the
propaganda of Soviet Russia
and Communist China, and by
"neutralists" like Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who
want a ban on nuclear weapons
without asking for adequate
safeguards.
Letters submitted tor publication must
drink. And we were so happy
after years of drinking bottled
water we could enjoy drinking
really good water.
Now, if putting this into the
water really was a cure all
O.K., but you will find it takes
far more than fluoridation to
have perfect teeth.
Neither are the medical doc
tors always correct in their de
cisions. Twenty years ago, a medical
man gave me six months to live.
I was moved from Pennsylvania
to a sanitarium on a mountain
beyond Los Angeles. There too,
the medical men gave me only
months to live.
My husband then explored all
these health centers. After two
years he took me out of a sani
tarium and we have lived these
18 years on so-called health
method. My husband is 68 years
old and has all his own teeth,
in perfect condition today.
A body has to have all the 16
elements .to keep fit and grow
and keep healthy gums and
teeth.
The body requires more than
water with a chemical added to
have perfect teeth.
Healthy teeth don't come in
pop bottles, white sugar, white
flour, etc., then gulp down some
fluoridation water and have
healthy gums and teeth.
There is a toothpaste with Flu
oristan on the market.
In Switzerland they have a
table salt with fluorine added,
just as iodized salt. That's the
way they settled the water prob
lem, and all folks were happy
As for us, if you mess up this
marvelous drinking water, we
will travel to the mountain
springs and haul in our drinking
water. Cheaper than selling and
moving elsewhere for pure
water. We intend to find pure
spring water for our drinking.
Mrs. James H. Morrison,
Route 2, Box 240,
Medford, Ore.
Three Good Reasons
To the Editor: I have three
good reasons why I want fluori
dation. They are, Dwight, age
IV2, Jeffrey, age 3V, and Jim
my, age 1.
We have just moved here from
San Antonio, Tex., and I might
add we like it very much. Flu
oridation is quite popular and
successful in Texas and can be
the same here. i
Mrs. J. Dwight Wilson Jr.
1005 Winchester St.,
Medford, Ore.
From Candidate
To the Editor: I want to thank
you very much for your story
on my being a candidate for del
egate to the Democratic nominat
ing convention. . .
Attending school 3,000 miles
away from home doesn't pre
sent me with many opportunities
to talk to people in my locality,
and I appreciate very much your
telling them.
Thank you again.
Alex M. Hamilton Jr.
Washington, D.Q.
ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE
Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R)
Actress Ruth Roman divorced
radio station owner Mortimer
W. Hall yesterday on testimony
he had called her "stupid" and
said "He wished he'd never mar
ried me."
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Today and
By Walter
THE DISUNITED DEMOCRATS
The Democratic Party, it is
now evident, is in another of
those periods of inner conflict
which it passes
through about
once in each
political gen
eration. The party
was sharply di
vided , in the
days of William
Jenning Bryan.
Then Woodrow
Walter Lippmann Wilson united
it. After Wilson, it became bit
terly divided over prohibition
and Ku Klux Klan until Roose
velt, in the days of the great de
pression, united it in the New
Deal. Since the death of Roose
velt at the end of the war the
tension between northern and
southern Democrats has been in
creasing. '
Gov. Stevenson, who is a na
tional leader in the line of Wil
son and Roosevelt, has been try
ing, but not successfully, to re
unite the party.
T1HERE IS a real and important
issue between Stevenson on
the one hand, Truman, Kefauver
and Harriman on the other. It
is not about whether Stevenson
is too moderate in his criticism
of Eisenhower, or whether he
can give the Republicans bigger
hell than Kefauver or Harriman.
There is at issue the deep ques
tion of party policy and party
strategy: is there to be a united
Democratic front or are the
Democrats to run, as under Tru
man in 1948, as a northern
party?
Shall they aim to win the
Presidency by preserving the
united front with the southern
Democrats who are in control of
Congress? If so, Stevenson is
their man, indeed their only pos
sible man.
Or, shall they let the erring
southern brothers go Republi
can or Dixiecrat while they fight
the election as a militant north
ern party appealing to the farm
belt and to the big cities? If so,
they can make their choice of
Kefauver, Harriman, and per
haps some others in ar open con
vention in which former Presi
dent Truman, the hero of 1948,
will be dominant.
rTHE NEW Hampshire and Min-
nesota primaries indicated
that among northern Democrats
the balance has turned rather
emphatically against the policy
of a united front under Gov.
Stevenson.
'Why is this? It is because
there is not now any national
issue which overrides, as in Wil
son's time and in Roosevelt's,
sectional and local interests. A
united front policy means giving
the local interests something less
Government Eases
Pork-Buying Program
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment reported yesterday its
pork-buying program was eased
this week with the strengthen
ing of hog market prices.
An Agriculture department
report also hinted strongly the
administration would continue
tapering off the program if hog
markets remained strong.
Purchases under jthe program,
aimed at bolstering hog prices,
dropped to 3,800,000 pounds, of
canned pork products this week,
the department announced. Last
week the department bought 9,
100,000 -pounds of pork and
7,800,000 pounds of lard.
The department will continue
to consider packers and proces
sors, the statement continued,
but future purchases will de
pend "on market developments."
Alaska's population increased
by 134 per cent between 1940
and 1954.
Easter Lilies $200 :
Other Pot Plants Camellias, Azaleas,
Cinneraria's, Cyclemen Hydrangeas.
Cut Flowers Stocks, Snapdragons, Car
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Shrubs, Trees, Bulbs, Garden Supplies
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than they want. It can work
only when there is something so
big, such as a war or a depres
sion, that local interests are not
all important. o
Truman, Kefauver and Harri
man are in a position to say, "We
told you so last autumn when
Gov. Stevenson announced his
candidacy; we told you then that
the Democrats must run as a
militant party, ignoring the
South, and seeking the Negro
vote, the labor vote, and the
farm vote in the northern
states." They did not put it
quite so frankly. But what they
were asking for . was that the
party should follow the Truman
pattern of 1948.
A LTHOUGH they have by no
"means proved that the Tru
man pattern could win again in
1956, what has happened since
Gov. Stevenson announced on
Nov. 15 has done much to justify
their view that this is not a
favorable year for a united
Democratic front.
It is, however, only fair to
remember that Nov. 15 was
seven weeks after the President
was stricken, and that there was
no good reason then to think
that he could or would conduct
a genuine campaign for reelec
tion. Last November there were
the best of reasons for suppos
ing that the Democratic candi
date would be pitted against
Nixon, either as candidate for
President or as candidate for
Vice President along with a f $ail
Eisenhower. Against Nixon, the
Democrats had every prospect of
winning with SteveSson and the
policy of a united front. For Ste
venson, more than any other
man in either party, possesses
the unifying spirit which is the
secret of Eisenhower's appeal to
the pepple. The Gallup Poll was
insistent upon Steven son's
ability to beat Nixon.
It is the President's remark
able recovery which has trans
formed the situation.
STEVENSON and the united
front have had no effective
support either among the north
ern or the southern Democratic
politicians. The first allegiance
of politicians is to the con
stituency in which they have to
be elected, and for that reason a
united front policy can never
be the first choice of politicians.
The southern Democrats, who
are in control of Congress, have
in this session done nothing to
make it easier, much to make
it harder, for Stevenson to carry
on the policy of the united front.
The southern Democratic poli
ticians in Congress have follow
ed a sectional policy which, no -doubt,
helped them in their own
constituencies. But it divides the
national party. They began with
Sen. Lyndon Johnson's natural
gas bill and they went on to
Sen. George's manifesto about
segregation. Since then, the
Democratic party has 'been so
deeply divided that it is almost
impossible to imagine how a con
mon platform can be agreed to
at the national convention.
THE SITUATION could change
in the months to come. But
on the prospect of an Eisenhower-Nixon
Republican ticket,
one may have doubts whether
any of the leading Democratic
politicans in the North or in the
South are really interested in the
Presidency. In part, that may be
because they feel that the Demo
crats have only; an outside
chance to win the Presidency.
But it may be also because
they have done well enough,
very well indeed, with Eisen
hower in the White House and
themselves in control of Con
gress and of so many of the state
capitols.
They may, in other words, re
gard the present division of
powers between the two parties
as not at all unsatisfactory.
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.