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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. .30 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 13. 1948
(It was Saturday)
Carroll Lewis elected com
mander of the newly organized
Jacksonville Veterans of Foreign
Wars post.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column; The Sixth
st. crossing is outstripping the
Main Stem in popularity, as a
place for autoists to scare the
daylights out of themselves, and
engineers.
20 YEARS AGO
April 13. 1938
Herb Grey, advertising man
ager of Mail Tribune, elected
president of Oregon State Edi
torial Association Advertising
Managers at annual convention
in Portland.
Safeway store to occupy build
ing being constructed by John
R. Tomlir. on East Sixth st. near
Bartlett st.
30 YEARS AGO
April 13. 1926
(It as Tuesday)
Massachusetts state authori
ties issure warrants for arrest
of Babe Ruth in connection with
income tax collection.
Bids for constructing hangars
for air mail planes at Barber
Field here awarded.
40 YEARS AGO
April 13. 1916
(It was Thursday)
J. A. Westerlund of Medford
and Benton Bowers of Ashland
elected delegates to state conven
tion by Jackson County Tax
payers league.
From Applegate news: There
are only sevently-five people
registered in this precinct out
of two hundred or more, but
will probably get busy later on.
Whal's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The N.A.A.C.P. is an organ
ization to protect animals, chil
dren, Communists, Negroes,
Jews or Catholics?
2. Stuart Symington is a Dem
ocratic Senator from Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Missis
sippi or Missouri?
3. Most of the women who
take jobs on graduating from
college today take teaching
jobs; right or wrong?
4. There are one, two, three,
four or no Fridays the 13th this
year?
5. When a letter or parcel is
mailed from the U.S. to a foreign
country, the U.S. keeps all the
postage paid, or the foreign
country gets all, or is it shared
50-50?
6. The speed of light is about
186,000 miles an hour, half-hour,
minute, half-minute or second?
7. Virginia Dare was a wine
grower, a candy maker, the first
child of English descent bom
in America, wife of John Smith,
or heroine of a Longfellow
poem?
The answers: 1. Negroes. 2.
Missouri. 3. Right. 4. Three. 5.
U.S. keeps all. 6. 186.000 miles
a second. 7.First child of English
descent born in America.
INDIAN FEAST AT MADRAS
Madras (U.R) Indians from
all over the Northwest will be
at the Warm Springs reservation
Saturday and Sunday for the an
nual Root Feast.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Thoughts on Music
Music is everywhere.
Thanks to radio, television, phonograph and juke
box, no one today can entirely miss exposure to it in
one form or another.
Some people get thorough enjoyment from this
musical smorgasbord ; some enjoy portions of it; some
are indifferent.
Not everyone enjoys music. We suspect this is
often because they have not been exposed to it in a
propitious manner.
TR. SIGMUND SPAETH, the noted "tune detec-
tive," talked about music the .other night for an
Ashland Knife and Fork audience, and he did so
entertainingly and interestingly.
"Music," he declared, "is the organization of
sound toward beauty."
Sound which is organized can be music; sound
which is disorganized is noise.
And despite the fact that some modern music
sounds to us completely disorganized, by and large
we agree. The delight of music is in rhythm, pattern,
melody and form.
TNLESS one is completely tone-deaf, and we've
known a few people who were, music can be an
acquired taste. Dr. Spaeth's talk largely was designed
to provide suggestions for making the acquisition of
this taste a painless even enjoyable process.
And it can be enjoyable. The tune detective de
scribed three ways of enjoying music. The first is the
most elementary, he said: rhythm.
Most of us start toe-tapping at the sound of a
band playing march music. Most of us respond to
other forms of musical rhythm. Savage chants, war
dances and other similar musical responses are based
largely on rhythm. It's easy, it's natural, and it's
universal.
TTHE second stage, Dr. Spaeth noted, is the enjoy-
ment of music with the
is difficult to describe in
us know and acknowledge.
This type of appreciation ranges from the moon
ing of the puppy-love-struck swain in response to a
Tin' Pan Alley ballad of unrequited affection, to a
martial spirit inspired by a good march, and on to
practically every other type
It is a fact that a series
from one extreme to another, can completely change
the mood of an individual
charges of music.
THE third type of enjoyment is the intellectual
response to music. This
tainly, and the least necessary for basic enjoyment
But it does have its place,
take their music seriously,
ing the contrapuntal gyrations of Bach, as most of us
find it m humming or whistling.
The intellectual stimulus, according to Dr. Spaeth,
is virtually unlimited. But it is impossible without the
tirst two.
A FINAL point he made impressed us. He said he
avoids the word "classical" in describing music.
He prefers the word "permanent." For only the great
works of music will last, and not all these are in the
"classic" definition, which, used strictly, applies to
works of music of a particular period.
Some musical compositions ordinarily described
as "classics" are nothing of the sort; they're just
plain boring uninspired and uninspiring. This may
be heresy of a sort, but it s the plain truth.
On the other hand, there are some light, gay,
tuneful and rhythmic pieces which show promise of
permanence.
TTHE point which Dr. Spaeth was trying to make,
1 and which we second, is that music should provide
true enjoyment. If it doesn't it's no good for the indi
vidual concerned who . gets no benefit. But it is
equally true that this enjoyment can be stimulated
and broadened by an open-minded and receptive atti
tude, rather than one which is an automatic and un
thinking rejection.
The advice we wouhi offer is simply this : Relax
and enjoy it. E. A.
Advice to Salesmen
Most people who are out of their teens can readily
remember the days of shortages of standing in lines
for cigarettes, for nylons, for shirts.
Those were the days when salespeople could
and often did stand around, ignoring the needs of
the would-be buyers until it suited their fancy to wait
on them. For the buyers, it was infuriating, but there
wasn't much one could do about it.
yiMES have changed. It is more of a buyers' market
now, and only in rare instances do clerks leave
customers to shift for themselves and wait for service.
Standards of courtesy have also improved, until now
it's more of a pleasure to go into most stores than
it used to be.
But there are a few steps yet to be taken before
perfection is reached. That won't be until male cus
tomers are no longer referred to as "fella" or "bud,"
and women as "honey," "dearie," or "kid." E.A.
Surplus Food To Be Sent Abroad
Washington (U.PJ The
Agriculture Department donated
1,400,000,000 pounds of surplus
foods worth $414,400,00 to
needy persons in the United
States and abroad during the
first nine months of fiscal 1956.
Donations for the July-March
period were 65 per cent larger
than during the same period a
year ago.
Friday, April 13. 1956
emotions, something which
words, but which most of
of emotion.
of musical pieces, ranging
sensitive to the emotional
is the most rarified, cer
particularly for those who
and find pleasure m mark
Schools, public institutions
and needy persons in the United
States received 559,900,000
pounds of foods worth $164,800,
000, 42.9 per cent more than in
the same period the previous
year. Donations to needy per
sons in 74 foreign countries total
ed 840,300,000 pounds worth
$249,600,000.
Read and Use Classified Ada
Balance Sheet of International
News Separates Good
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet:
The Good
1. Soviet Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin and Communist Party
leader Nikita S. Khrushchev
showed acute disappointment
over the arrangements made for
their visit to Great Britain next
week. They complained public
ly that the program laid out by
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
gave them no chance to meet
ordinary British people. They
got nowhere. It was made plain
that Eden was determined to
discuss cold war issues with his
visitors and not let them stage
another of their propaganda
circuses. It was made plain also
that Eden would not heed any
bid to make the visit the open
ing wedge for a Big Four "Sum
mit" conference. The whole
visit may prove a diplomatic flop
from the viewpoint of "Mr. B.
Importance of Books,
Libraries, Emphasized
By ROGER BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. Very
few people appreciate the great
value of books, and our God-
g iv e n privi
lege oi ueiiig
able to read.
The most val
uable asset of
your commun
ity is its Pub
lic Library,
not its swim
mi n g pool,
ball park, or
Roger W. Babson golf course. .
One of the first things in
which I invested my savings
was in books. I personally now
have in my two homes a total
of about 10,000 volumes. About
700 of these are reference books,
including several different sets
of Encyclopedias. As Thomas
Dreier, board chairman of the
St. Petersburg, Flo., Public Li
brary so well says, "Public Li
braries can feed one's brains as
supermarkets feed the stomach;
actually, they should be adver-
tisted just as food stores are
advertised." This is a good
thought.
You often think you would
like to listen to some famous
man, yet you can go to your
Public Library and bring home
without cost all the important
things which that man has ever
said or thought. It is almost as
if your local banker said to
you "Come and get without
interest all the money you will
use properly. All I ask is that
you return this money to the
bank in a reasonable time." Yet
a better offer is being made to
you by your local librarian.
Becoming a Lost Art
Northwithstanding the tre
mendous help your Public Li
brary can be to people, con
sider seriously these five facts:
1. Five out of every ten
people in your citv read no
book the past month.
2. Nine out of ten depend
primarily upon newspapers,
magazines, radio, and TV.
3. Only 25 per cent read
books regularly and these are
your most successful people.
4. 35 per cent have never used
your Public Library.
5. 10 per cent of your people
probably cannot read intellig
ently. Every week I meet many suc
cessful people manufacturers,
merchants, machinists, builders,
teachers, doctors, and preachers.
My stock question to them is:
"How do you recharge your
mental batteries?" They almost
unanimously replay: "By read
ing constructive books, espec
ially biographies." I also ask
the Public Librarian to please
notify me whenever she sees
a book which might help me in
my business.
What Libraries Can Do
Let me again quote my friend
Tom Dreier as to how Public
Library books will help us:
. 1. Library books have been
carefully selected by profession
al readers. They are classified
so as to help us quickly get
the books which we like and
want.
2. To prepare us for making
a living and progressing in our
vocation, or to help in that
process.
3. To prepare us for mature
and complete living personal
and family, social and civic
in today's world, and to help
develop the natural, cultural,
and spiritual values which bene
fit both the individual and so
ciety.
4. To increase our understand
ing of sciences and humanities
ana our appreciation of our
cultural heritage; also our under
standing ofs-others. This greatly
helps in all walks of life. Ac
tually, the librarian's job is the
job of a teacher of adults.
5. To help us interest our
children in reading good books.
Every Public Library has
specialist who knows how to
interest children.
"Do-it-yourself Education
As work-hours, decrease, our
children will have more time
it
and Mr. K." insofar as propa
ganda is concerned. Eden wants
to make it a strictly business
one.
2. A bright spot appeared in
the dark North African picture.
Nationalist leader Habib Bour
guiba agreed to take over the
prime ministry of Tunisia under
the agreement by which France
granted independence to its
former protectorate. Bourguiba
is a bitter foe of "colonialism."
But he is a moderate, and he is
regarded as the most able leader
in French North Africa.
3. Spanish Foreign Minister
Alberto Martin Artajo arrived
in Washington on an 11-day visit
to the United States. He is the
first high Spanish leader to come
to this country since Generalis
simo Francisco Franco took over
power in 1939. Bitterly anti
Communistic, and with a strong
army, Spain is becoming increas
ingly linked with the Allied de
fense set-up in Europe. The
United States is building import-
to read good books. Those young
people who get their education
themselves from good books,
forecast, will be the leaders
when they .grow up. Let us use
our extra hours in helping our
children to help their future
by good reading now.
I even forecast that the time
is coming when men and women
will get college degrees by
studying by themselves in Pub
lic Libraries. Therefore, when
you are building yourself some
furniture and other things, take
some time to build yourself a
college degree.
Communications
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ttlthough under certain circum
stances the use or a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible 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
Seeking A Friend
i.o xne Jiaitor: As a young
man, seeking a rule of life which
I believed would surely fit all
situations, I met a man who
seemed to have the answers his
spirituality amazed me. The
depth of intellegence, poise,
charm, sincere friendliness; the
impression of fearlessness, and
general bearing gave me the
satisfying feeling that this per
son has lived and enjoyed life
with full meaning and purpose,
During our short acquaintance
I learned many wonderful sec
rets that make for a happier
life. Of the many "Spiritual
Seeds" he has sown here and
there some are slowly, but sure
ly taking root
He was noted for his expres
sion and portrayal of natural
beauty of body, mind, and ac
complishments. Being an admir
er of this person, it is my earn
est desire to locate him.
J.F.G. Cone is the man who
at that time had long natural
hair and beard. He was a look
out on Mt. McLaughlin. Ore.,
and Santiago Peak, Santa Ana,
uaiif.
Has lived around Klamath
Falls, Ore., Medford, Ore; Red
ding, Calif.; Weaverville, Calif.
aiso uiack Rock desert, Nevada
at various times since 1925.
Anyone knowing of his where
abouts, or stories and pictures
on his life, and communicating
with me will make someone
very happy.
James D. DeMuth
4604 36th St.,
Sacramento, Calif.
Subjects for Hearing
To the Editor: The public
hearing on April 20 at 1:30 p.m
on the proposed Saturday clos
ure of the Jackson county court
house, should be of interest to
every farmer in Jackson coun
ty who pays his taxes by the
sweat of his face. And I .am not
the only one who would like
to have the county court see
that there is some parking space
for the taxpayer to park his
car for this hearing.
At this same hearing it should
be settled if the county court
is going to allow the courthouse
personnel, who are asking the
favor for Saturday closure, to
keep on hogging the taxpayers
parking space.
And another issue should be
brought at this same hearing. I
At the present and for a long
time the county court has had
a ban on selling crushed gravel
the county has in stockpiles in
Jackson county to farmers. At
this hearing it should be discus
sed and some plan arrived at
whereby a farmer . could buy
this crushed gravel when need
ed for use around his farm. Some
other counties in Oregon make
crushed gravel available to
farmers: I cannot see why Jack
son county cannot do the same.
This year of 1956, makes fifty
years I have paid taxes in Jack
son as a farmer.
W. N. Carl
Applegate, Ore.,
(Route 4, Box 430,
Grants Pass)
and Bad
ant air and naval bases in Spain.
The Bad
1. The Palestine situation be
come more explosiveday by day.
Israelis were enraged over Egyp
tian commando raids deep in
side Israeli territory. The United
States and Great Britain were
alarmed over indications of an
anti-Allied attitude by Egyptian
President Premier Gamal Ab
del Nasser.
United Nations Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold arrived
in the Middle East on a mission
aimed at lessening tension be
tween the Arab countries and
Israel. It appeared that his first
efforts must be centered on pre
venting an outbreak of real war.
2. The Allied position in south
ern Asia was weakened serious
ly when the strongly pro-west
ern government of Ceylon was
defeated overwhelmingly by a
nationalistic and "neutralist"
coalition led by Solomon W. R.
D. Bandaranaike. There was an
other unfavorable development
when Iran, a member of the Mid
dle Eastern Defense Organiza
tion, made a formal demand that
Britain hand over the oil-rich
island of Bahrain, in the Persian
Gulf. Bahrain is a British pro
tectorate.
3. Algeria, adjoining Tunisia
in North Africa, seethed with re
volt. The sorely beset French
government was compelled to
decide to call 80,000 reservists
to the colors to combat the
rebels, now fighting sometimes
as a disciplined army instead of
a guerrilla force. The call for
reservists was sure to prove un
popular in France, and to threat
en the stability of Premier Guy
Mollet s coalition cabinet. Dis
agreement also developed be
tween Mollet and his co-leader,
Pierre Mendes-France, over Al
gerian policy.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Another straw blew down the
political winds the other day
the primary election in the state
of Illinois. Let's take a look at
it and see if we can arrive at
some conclusions as to where
it pointed.
fiNE CONCLUSION Is reason-
v ably clear.
Kefauver's star of destiny was
dimmed a bit.
IfEFAUVER wasn't formally
xv entered as a candidate
Illinois. So his name wasn't on
the ballot. But, encouraged by
the results in New Hampshire
and Minnesota, he and his back
ers decided to try a write-in
campaign. In sanctioning such
a move, Kefauver took a big
gamble. The questions he faced
were these: i
"Shall I stay out of Illinois,
which is Stevenson's home state?
Or shall I go in with a write-in
campaign. If , in a write-in cam
paign, I can make a strong show
ing against him in his home
state, I'll be on my way. If I
make a poor showing, it will be
bad."
He made a rather poor show
ing. His backers had expressed
the hope that as a write-in cand
idate he would receive ten per
cent of the Democratic vote,
As this is written, with 92 per
cent of the Illinois precincts in
he has received ony 3.82 per
cent of the " Democratic vote,
CJUCH is politics.
You roll the dice, and you
read the spots and take what
happens.
WHAT of Ike and Adlai?
' As this is written, with
some 92 per cent of the precincts
counted, 783,031 votes have been
cast for Republican candidates
(Eisenhower, Senator Knowland
and a self-starter named Daly)
and 710,127 for Demorcatic
candidates (Stevenson and Ke
fauver.) Of the TOTAL vote cast and
counted as this is written, Ike
has received 48 per cent and
Adlai (in his home state) has
received 47.4 per cent. If Presi
dent Eisenhower is the Republic
a candidate and Mr. Stevenson
the Democratic candidate and if
those percentages should hold
good in November, it will be a
tight race in Illinois.
But a lot of water will flow
under the bridge between now
and November.
THERE was one Interesting and
perhaps significant develop-
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SOMETHING TO PONDER
London Although very few
people seem to realize it as yet,
Britain has not been so near to
T1 f,iin sinr-p the
dark but glori
ous days of
1940.
. The danger
is 1 o n g term
rather than
immediate. It
is economic
rather than
military. For
these very rea
no widespread
Joseph Alsop
sons, there is
sense of danger in this beautiful,
out wardly prosperous city,
whose whole surface positively
glows, nowadays, with the curi
ously cosy splendor that is an
English specialty.
Yet the danger is no less aeaa-
lv because it is all but invisible,
thus far, to those who do not
share the soecial knowledge oi
Britain's smaller inner circle oi
ooliticians and civil servants.
What these men know can be
rather simply stated.
Britain is absolutely depend
ent on raw material resources in
the ex-colonial areas which have
now become the primary targets
of a brilliant Kremlin pressure
campaign.
A BOUT 16 Der cent of the dol-
dars needed to balance Bri
tain's national books come from
the rubber and tin in Malaya,
where the Communists fight on
in the jungles and have the great
city oi Singapore aimosx wiuiiu
their grasp. Another 8 per cent
of Britain's hard currency in-
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 1958
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Twelve Presidents have
held the rank of Army general,
but only two were graduates of
the United States Military Acad
emy at West Pomt. Who were
they?
A. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight
D. Eisenhower, both Republi
cans. Other generals were
George Washington, Andrew
Jackson, William Henry Harri
son, Zachary Taylor, Franklin
Pierce, Andrew Johnson Ruther
ford B. Hayes, James A. Gar
field. Chester A. Arthur and
Benjamin Harrison.
Q In what city was the first
national convention held to nom
inate Presidential and Vice Pres
idential candidates?
A Baltimore, Md., on Sept,
26. 1831. by the Anti-Mason
Party. The National Republi
cans met in December, 1831. the
Democrats in May, 1832, both
in Baltimore. Since : 1832 all
nominations for President and
Vice President have been made
by convention. (An earlier nom
inating convention held by the
Federalists in New York in 1812
was secret, more regional than
national.)
ment in Illinois. In the early
returns ' last night, heavily
weighted with results from Chi
cago and other large cities, Adlai
was running FAR AHEAD of
Ike.
But as the count from the
RURAL areas came in Ike climb
ed steadily and as this is writ
ten he is a shade ahead in the
total yote cast.
TLLINOIS is a big farm state.
If, when all the votes are
in and counted, it turns out that
the rural areas didn't switch as
heavily to the Democratic side
as had been anticipated, it will
be at least interesting.
Democratic strategy in this
electron year is slanted toward
the objective of holding the
South, picking up some large
industrial states and carrying
the big Midwestern farm states
with the help of a high parity
farm bill.
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come comes from the cocoa of
Nigeria and Gold Coast and a
Kremlin campaign for Africa is
now beginning.
Above all, oil from the
troubled Middle East is quite lit
erally Britain's lifeblood. Even
a very brief interruption of Mid
dle Eastern oil shipments, last
ing only a few weeks, would
bring the whole British economy
to a grinding halt. And the effect
in the rest of Western Europe
would be hardly less disastrous.
The British have no margin.
either, that would allow them to
recover from any important loss
of overseas income. Even now.
despite the booming condition of
the world economy, Britain is
having the greatest difficulty in
balancing her books.
THE hard currency reserves of
the Sterling area, which are
the working capital of the whole
British system, are today some
what smaller than the estimated
endowment of the Ford Founda
tion. The rest of the world is so
bearish on Sterling that a mincfr
money crisis was caused this
month by nothing more than the
publication in "The London
Times" of a graph showing the
decline in the domestic pur
chasing power of the pound.
The tough and able new Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, Harold
MacMillan, therefore has a hard
task. The budget he will shortly'
present to Parliament is.going to
be extremely austere. It will
also include heavy cuts in the
British defense program. With
such a budget, MacMillan is ex
pected to carry Britain around
the present economic corner.
But nothing MacMillan or
anyone else can do will really
protect Britain from a bad final
outcome in the Middle East,
where the crisis is already grave,
It is hard to see how Britain can
even be protected from a bad
final outcome in Malaya. There
another crisis is likely to start
in a few weeks, when and if
Colonial Security Lennox-Boyd
refuses the Singapore govern
ment's demand for immediate
local autonomy, as he is now ex
pected to do.
IN SHORT the ferment in these
ex-colonial areas has begun to
threaten - Britain with final
bankruptcy. This menace of
ruin, in turn, is the real reason
for the British actions, in Cyprus
for example, which the State De
partment has been smugly char
acterizing as ill judged and hys
terical. Rightly or wrongly, the
British cabinet is convinced that
other retreat in Cyprus would
render the whole Middle Eastern
position finally untenable.
Cyprus, the British policy
makers argue, is the only pos
sible staging base for troops
bound for the Middle East. This
seems a cardinal point to the
British, because they are grim
ly determined to hold their
most valuable and easily defen
sible oil resources, in Kuwait,
by naked force if the need arises.
In British eyes, therefore, it is
Cyprus versus Britain. And they
choose Britain.
MAYBE the British judgment
, is altogether wrong. But
the narrowness of the British
margin is a hard, practical fact.
The finality of the present dan
ger to Britain is another hard,
practical fact. The finality of the
present danger to Britain is
another hard, practical fact. The
Kremlin understands these facts
and is most astutely seeking to
turn them to advantage.
Unless the Eisenhower Admin
istration's policy makers square
ly face these facts and energeti
cally prepare to deal with their
possible consequences, the pres
ent troubles can eventually pro
duce the most shattering defeat
the Western Alliance has suf
fered in all the ten years of tha
cold war. "
Copyright 1958,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
S. B. F0N6
Herb Specialist
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