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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 jiears ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 11. 1946
(It was Thursday)
Willard Pederson elected pres
ident of reorganized 20-30 club
here; Ritchie Francis chosen vice
president. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The OPA
has abolished price controls on
bottle openers. It was about time
as the thirsty were getting tired
of yanking off beer caps with
their teeth.
20 YEARS AGO
April 11, 1936
(It was Saturday)
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce highway committee
adopts aggressive policy regard
ing Pacific highway improve
ments. H. L. Wright, who recently
purchased large turkey flock,
predicts a 20 per cent increase
in turkey industry in valley.
80 YEARS AGO
April 11, 192S
(It was Sunday)
Contracts between federal gov
ernment and California Oregon
Power company concerning up-
tier Klamath lake and tributary
water rights ruled void and of
no effect by Attorney General l.
H. Van Winkle.
Snider Dairy and Produce
comoanv buvs property on North
Bartlett st. from K. C. Eldrige
for about 15,000.
40 YEARS AGO
April 11. 1916
(It was Tuesday)
Officials label rain which
started Sunday as a "million-
dollar shower that gave us an
inch and a quarter of rain."
Miss Caroline Andrews of
Medford praised in Portland
paper as a member of the De-
Koven Opera company.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Corpcricni with profits
under $25,000 a year pay lower
rate of federal income tax than
those with higher profits; right
or wrong?
2. The Senate recently voted
for or against changing the pres
ent sysetm of electing the Presi
dent and Vice President?
3. More soft coal is mined
every year in West Virginia or
Pennsylvania, or is it about
50-50?
4. Eisenhower got about 51
55, 59 or 63 of the popu
lar votes for President in 1952?
5. The Tuhks and the Greeks
until recently had a tradition
of mutual friendship or of ani
mosity?
6. Most Southern Democratic
leaders favor or oppose Sen. Ke
fauver as 1956 presidential
nominee, or are neutral toward
him?
7. A heliport is a harbor for big
steamers, bus terminal, landing
field for helicopters or way sta-
tion on the road to Purgatory
The answers: 1. Right. 2
Against 3. More in West Vir
ginia. 4. About 55. 5. Animos
ity. 6. Most oppose Kefauver. 7.
Landing field for helicopters.
The American farmer has in
creased his investment in tools
and machinery about 900 per
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A-SsOCIATION
cent since 1910.
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We are both pleased and proud that the Sunday
women's section of the Mail Tribune has been ad
judged the best of its kind in the state of Oregon.
It would be untrue to say that we were surprised
for we have long known that the product of our
favorite Women's Editor, Mrs. Olive Starcher, and
her associate, Mrs. Frances Bulkin, ranked well up
with the best in the state, outside of the metropolitan
dailies, with which we can hardly compete in volume,
number of personnel and facilities.
JtyTRS. STARCHER, whose initials, 0. S., are famil-
iar at the bottom of her weekly column, Pot
pourri, won two other awards last week at the annual
convention of the Oregon Press Women second
place for her column, and second place for her daily
women's section.
Of all the newspaper women we know, we can
think of none who more richly deserves accolades of
this nature. For sheer hard work, for dedication to the
service of her community, and for a tremendous zest
and urge to do the best possible job in presenting all
the news of the community of special interest to wom
en, we know of no one who is her equal.
We're right proud of our Olive. E. A.
School Consolidation
The elections in which consolidation of three lo
cal school districts was approved Monday were, in
our view, overwhelming votes of confidence for the
school boards and staffs of the school districts.
No promises were made to the school patrons that
there would be any great saving in taxes, for looking
at the realities of school population and the costs of
education, any dream of tax reduction for schools is
nothing but a dream.
MO the consolidation sold itself pretty much on its
own merits, which include a centralization of re
sponsibility and a uniformity of administration and
educational practice. The school administrators in
volved made no rosy promises that it would be a pan
acea for all the ills besetting the schools.
But they did soberly point out the greatly increas
ed problems of school operation, and indicated that
consolidation would help in their partial solution.
The reasons for the arbitrary division of school
districts, understandable in the days of the horse and
buggy, have by now largely disappeared.
"
THE ACTION of the voters, and the provisions of
Om Wt1"I11" TTTll rtTT'OTT 4- 4? TTV
wood districts also into the Medford school district;
will result in the creation of the fifth-largest school
district 'in the state, following Portland, Salem, Eu
gene and Springfield.
The distnet number
complicated designation
Medford number, 49, plus 500 to show that it is an
out-of-sequence number, plus the final digit to show
tne number oi consolidations approved. '
if other districts later
Medford, it will be 549C-2
alter tne one following, and so on.
IN THE NATURE of things, it is difficult for the av
erage citizen and taxpayer to be completely fa
miliar with the problems
oiten. nernaDS he is denendent on the arivirp of his
elected representatives on
it i i
meir employees, the administrators and teachers.
t it, j j ii. i
ah una ctse uie vuieia
"the best solution to the
tricts with mutual economic
to consolidate." The voters
they did right. E. A.
Acetylsalicylic Acid
It is estimated that Americans consume about 11
million tons of aspirin a year or somewhere around
16 billion five-grain tablets.
Now the benefits of aspirin are many. More uses
are being discovered every day! And for a three-way
treatment oi low cost and
(known clinically as acetylsalicylic acid, or CH3C02-
LbH4C02H chemically) is
cr pains, lowering fever,
and arthritic ailments.
On the basis of new
to replace a number of more expensive drugs, such as
cortisone and AvJlfi.
DUT THE FACT is that,
its low cost, and its relative safety, it is still
drug, and still potentially dangerous.
The U. S. Public Health service reports that
thousands of cases of salicylate poisoning come to the
attention of doctors every year. In 1952 there were
nearly 17,000 such cases reported, including 113
which ended m death.
By far the largest number of these were young
children. Most ot these were under 5 years of age,
wiin tne majority aoout 6.
A CCORDING to an article in the New Yorker mag.
azine, which details the 3,000-year history of as
pirin's use and development, sometimes only a slight
dosage can cause senous results, particularly m cer
tain illnesses. Habitual use of large doses almost in'
variably results in some degree of intoxication.
But it is-the youngsters, who are used to children's
aspirin, decked out in colors and sweetened (and
sometimes even called "candy" in an attempt to get
it down when they need it), who are in the worst dan
ger.
A toddler exploring a
serious danger of his life
the headache or cold sufferer. E. A.
Wednesday, April 11, 1956
will be 549C-1 a rather
derived from the former
vote to consolidate with
after the next one, 549C-3
of the schools. Often too
the school boards, and of
.. 1
were auviseu uiai it seems
Droblem ... for those dis
and educational interest
took that advice. We think
high effectiveness, aspirin
unbeatable for easing min
and combating rheumatic
discoveries, it is being; used
despite its widespread use,
medicine cabinet can be in
from aspirin the friend of
Algerian Situation Increasing
In Danger;
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The Algerian situation is get
ting steadily more dangerous.
France is trying to mobilize
an army strong enough to crush
the nationalist
rebellion
which broke
out 18 months
ago.
But the
rebels seem to
be getting
stronger. They
are now able
to put disci-
Charles McCann piinea iorces
into pitched battles against the
French instead of waging mere
guerrilla warfare.
Further, the situation is no
longer one which involves the
French and the rebels alone.
Arab nations are coming out
openly on the side of the rebels.
The nine-nation Arab League has
approved a resolution offering
the rebels full support. Syria is
leading a move to declare a
blanket political, economic and
cultural boycott of France. In
fluential organizations in other
Arab countries are getting be
hind the boycott move.
Asia-Africa Group
There are indications that the
24-nation Asia-Africa group of
countries, led by "neutralist"
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru of India, may soon enter
the situation actively in the
rebels' support through the
United Nations.
Asia-Africa bloc delegates at
U.N. headquarters in New York
set up a standing committee to
discuss proposals for dealing
with relations between Trance
and the Algerian nationalists.
Any such proposals would cer-
tainly be aimed at putting pres
sure on France.
Socialist Premier Guy Mollet
of the French coalition govern
ment got support last month for
In the Day's News ,
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the senate-
house conference committee has
completed- work on the contro
versial farm bill and congres
sional leaders predict it will pass
both houses next week and be
on President Eisenhower's desk
by Friday.
Committee leaders are said to
have served notice on the Presi
dent that if the bill is vetoed con
gress is not likely to pass another
general farm bill at this session,
That is to say:
The President has been told
to take it or leave it and taka
the consequences if he decides
to veto it.
HHHE bill is a high price support
J- bill
It is an ancient political prin
ciple that when people are un
happy and dissatisfied THEY
TEND TO VOTE AGAINST THE
ADMINISTRATION IN POWER,
That makes a high support farm
bill very attractive to the Demo
crats and to a lot of weak
kneed Republicans.
At the moment, it seems doubt
ful that the Democrats can beat
Ike and -take the Presidency.
But if they can carry the big
Midwest farm states (where
there is admittedly a lot of un-
happiness over the farm situa
tion) and in addition can hold
the South and maybe pick up
some members in states like New
York and Pennsylvania they can
control the congress.
That's the picture the devil of
practical politics showed them
when he led them up on the high
place while they were drafting
this farm bill and TEMPTED
THEM.
They fell for the temptation.
A S TO the farm problem:
T,et's take the case of this
newspaper. Every day, we make
the same decision the farmer
makes each spring when he
plants his crops. That is, we
size up the situation and decide
how many papers wc will be
able to sell that day.
Then we PRINT that number
of papers, plus a relatively small
number more to allow for any
mistakes we may have, made in
our calculations.
PUT-
- Suppose the government
guaranteed us a price that would
show us a profit on ALL THE
PAPERS WE COULD PRINT.
What would happen then?
I'm afraid that in that event
we'd keep our presses running
as long at least as the available
supply of paper held out. If the
government stored the papers up
in warehouses, but continued to
pay us a price at which it would
be profitable to go on printing
them FOR STORAGE ONLY,
RATHER THAN CONSUMP
TION, I fear we'd go right on
printing papers and turning them
over to the government to be
stored.
Human nature, you know, is
human nature, and it is human
nature to produce as much as
you can sell at a profit.
I
DON'T believe the real free
enterprise farmers in this
country are going to like it
that is what happens to Amer
ica g agriculture.
Rebel Strength Up
a plan to crush the rebellion and
at the same time to offer Algeria
real home rule.
In pursuit of this plan Mollet
proposes to call 7U,uuu reserv
ists to the colors to reinforce
the army of approximately 250,-
000 men now in Algeria. This
is necessary because Mollet al
ready has stripped to the bone
the French divisions now at
home, including those allotted to
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
A published report, quoting
well-informed sources, is that
Mollet may try to increase the
French draft term from 18
months to two years.
All this means trouble at
home. War weary, crisis-weary
Frenchmen do not want to fight
in Algeria. There is talk also of
disagreement between Mollet
and Pierre Mendes-France, co-
leader of the government coali
tion, on Algerian policy. This
Today and
By Walter
THE MIDDLE EASTERN
DILEMMA
While nothing in the Middle
East has gotten better, it is, I
think, becoming clearer what is
the fundamental question of high
policy which
will have to
in London and
W a s h i ngton.
The question
is whether and
how they will
recognize the
fact that the
Soviet Union
is .now present
Walter Lippmann as a great
power in the international ai-
fairs of the Middle East.
This question is as painful
and difficult as is the somewhat
similar question in the Far East
that of the recognition of Red
China. Both in China and m
the Middle East the question is
how policy is to come to terms
with the hard and unpleasant
fact that an unfriendly great
power is now present in what
has been traditionally a friend
ly sphere of influence. It is this
unanswered question which is
at the root of the hesitations and
the differences in London and in
Washington.
The reason that there are no
clear and firm decisions being
taken is that every decision in
volves the question of what the
Soviet Union will do about it,
We are not genuinely in diplo
matic contact with the Soviet
Union about the Middle East
We do not know what we are
able to do without her, in spite
of her, or with her.
T AST week the United States
made two important moves
in the Middle East.
One of them was to go to the
U.N. and to ask that the Secur
ity Council instruct Mr. Ham
marskiold to work on the im
provement of the Palestine arm
istice. This move required the
concurrence of the Soviet Union,
which could have used its veto,
and in the end the concurrence
was obtained.
Almost simultaneously, Wash
ington, under pressure from Lon
don, decided to send Mr. Loy
Henderson, a high diplomatic of
ficer, to the coming meeting of
the members of the Baghdad
Pact. This pact, which we have
blessed but not joined, does not
recognize the Soviet presence in
the Middle East. It is in fact de
signed to- exclude the Soviet
Union's participation in the af
fairs of the Middle East.
Here then' we have two dif
ferent lines of policy being fol
lowed at the same time. One
aims to "Induce the Soviet Union
to concur in the maintenance of
peace and eventually in the ar
rangement of a settlement. This,
one may say. is the line that
the Eisenhower administration
would like to follow. The other
line, that of the Baghdad Pact
and also of the 1950 Tripartite
Declaration about Palestine,
wduld not recognize the Soviet
Union in dealing with the Pal
estine conflict or with the strate
gic and economic problems of
the Middle East.
.
IlE have to ask ourselves how
" long we can continue on
these two incompatible lines of
policy. There exists today a
Moscow-Cairo axis which rests
on the fact that both the Soviet
Union and Egypt have a com
mon interest. They both wish
to overturn the policy of the
Baghdad Pact and of the Tri
partite Declaration the policy
of excluding the Soviet Union
and of claiming for the West the
ultimate responsibility for the
whole area.
Can we expect to succeed both
in the U.N. and at Baghdad? Can
we have collaboration at the
U.N. and non-recognition and
exclusion outside the U.N.? Is
it not evident 'that the attempt
to follow both lines simultan
eously must lead to the frustra
tions we are experiencing and to
the equivocations and indecis
ions which everyone is complain
L " 'J
ing about?
could develop into a cabinet
crisis.
May Be Too Late
Robert Lacoste, French gov
ernor general in Algeria, said
in Paris last week that unless
the Algerian rebellion could be
ended within five months, it may
be too late.
There seems to be a serious
question whether the rebellion
can be suppressed in that time.
Not only are the rebels get
ting stronger, but there is disaf
fection among the 45,000 Al
gerians now in the French forces
fighting the rebels.
In a battle in February, be
tween 50 and 100 Algerian sold
iers deserted to the rebels dur
ing a battle. An Algerian lieu
tenant has just been arrested,
charged with passing secret mili
tary plans to the rebels.
In all, the Algerian situation
seems to be nearing the desper
ate stage.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
IT IS, of course, easier to see
the dilemma of our incom
patible policies than it is to see
how the dilemma can be re
solved. For we do not know
whether the Soviet Union would,
if invited, be willing to collab
orate.
At the U.N. meeting in New
York last week Mr. Sobolev, the
Soviet representative, drew a
sharp line between stabilizing
the Arab-Israeli armistice and
attempting to make a settlement.
Presumably then, Moscow does
not now want war but neither
does it want peace. The pres
ent situation, with its fierce pas
sions and its high tensions.
seems to suit Moscow. Why'
Presumably again, because it is
an anti-Israel coalition that the
Arab states are the most united
and at the same time the most
dependent upon the Soviet
Union.
ICrYPT, which is the prime
" mover among the Arabs, de
pends upon the Soviet Upion for
something more than arms.
depends on the Soviet Union for
its veto in the U.N. and above
all for its capacity to interpose
military power if Britain and
the United States were to re
sort to force to maintain the
status quo. Col. Nasser, one
might say, depends on Moscow
to keep the green light burning
for his advances. The Soviet
Union is acting as a protector
cf Egypt and of Saudi-Arabia in
their campaign to subvert the
British and American position
in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and the
Persian Gulf. The Moscow-Cairo
axis is operating to nullify the
Baghdad Pact, the Tripartite
Declaration, and to frustrate the
whole policy of excluding the
Soviet Union from the Middle
East.
If there are to be serious dis
cussions when Messrs. Bulganin
and Khrushchev visit London
next week, nothing would seem"
to be more important than to
find out whether they have any
willingness to collaborate in the
Middle East, and if so, on what
terms.
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Skuni Eating
To the Editor: About 1907 or
a fev years before, there were
a number of families coming to
Oregon from the Southwest, by
way of mule train. And in the
group there was a girl from
Oklahoma and a young man
from Texas.
One evening while making
camp they discovered a skunk
under a culvert. It was killed,
and a bet was made between the
girl from Oklahoma and the
boy from Texas as to which one
could eat the more skunk.
The skunk was promptly
dressed and cooked, and the
contest got under way.
The result: The Oklahoma
girl won out, which was really
something, against a man from
Texas, even to skunk eating.
Well, eventually both families
arrived and settled in Oregon,
and at least to make the story
good reading, or listening as the
case may be, the young lady
from Oklahoma and the young
man from Texas married and
raised a fair sized family.
This may be the reason for
the confusion as to who was the
really original skunk eaters. But
we don't believe Texas should
be left out entirely.
"A native Oregonian"
(Name on File)
First national election returns
to be broadcast by radio were
those which announced the
choice of Warren Harding as
President in 1920. '
Editorial Comment
CALENDAR REFORM NEARER
Why in tarnation don't we do
something about changing our
outmoded, oldfashioned, Roman
instituted calendar? Now that
science appears fully emerged,
working in decimals, measuring
in meters and grams, isn't it
about time our calendrical sys
tem was modernized completely
to simplify living for -us non-
scientists?
For about 25 years the World
Calendar Association has dedi
cated its time, purpose and re
sources to planting a World Cal
endar in all nations. Numerous
committees and affiliates are
still hard at work in doing the
spadework for adoption in many
other countries than the 17 na
tions already approving the idea
in principle. The idea, sowed
so many years ago, has now
reached the reaping stage, and it
has been seriously proposed that
the world organization the
United Nations might well
spearhead its adoption.
What is the World Calendar?
According to those in the know,
modern calendar- reform deals
with an improved civil calendar.
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FIGHTING POSE Adlai Stevenson strikes a fighting
pose for a "hard-fighting campaign" at his home in Lib
ertyville, HI., during a luncheon he held for supporters -from
22 states. Stevenson called the meeting to intensify
his campaign effort for the Democratic nomination for
President
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In Medford
In Case
Your Friends
Forgot
To Tell
You .
Claudia Perry
(Specialist in Duck Cutting)
Are Now With
131 South Central Ave.
Originally our calendar came
down from ancient Rome.
Caesar revised it in B.C. 45, and
Pope Gregory in A.D. 1582.
Russia adopted our mixed Julian
Gregorian system after the revo
lution in 1918. An excellent as
tronomical counting board, our
calendar has two glaring defects:
its instability, causing birthdays,
holidays, dates to change need
lessly, and its lack of uniform
ity in structure. This disorder is
completely out of harmony with
our modern pattern of regular
routine activities.
The reformed calendar and
eventually we'll get it will
equalize and simplify all dates
with respect to days of the week,
holidays, months of equal length
of 28 days by having 13 months,
and balancing out Easter, Christ
mas and New Years. It's a mighty
good, solid, scientific system.
When it comes our turn to vote
on it, let's just don't go damfool
conservative and say "What was
good enough for Granddad is
good enough for me." Let's get
the change over with, and start
a new era of advancement.
Oregon City Enterprise-Courier.
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and Betty James
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