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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
April 19. 1946
(It was Friday)
Mrs. Hazel Robbins of Cen
tral Point was victim yesterday
of a pair of women bunco artists
who stopped her on route 1 and
persuaded her to buy one of
several fur coats they had in
their possession.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A number
of the Older Girls stood in line
yesterday and snared a pair of
nylons. All felt as proud as the
first time they became a grand
mother. 20 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1936
(It was Sunday)
Earl Fehl, former judge of
Jackson county, declines parole
from the state prison under the
condition that he remain away
from Jackson county during the
term of his parole.
Mrs. Claude M.' Hurd has been
appointed Jackson county chair
man for the establishment of a
Medford branch of Pro-America,
Republican women s organiza
tion.
SO YEARS AGO
April 19. 1926
(It was Monday)
Spanish War Veterans' hold
dinner meeting at St. Mark's
Episcopal guild hall.
From Local and Personal col
umn: A small flue fire sum
moned the fire department to
1017 West Main st. Saturday
night at 10:50 o'clock. No chem
icals or water were used.
40 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1916
(It was Wednesday)
George W. Fry of the Upper
Butte creek country, pioneer of
Jackson county and a voter here
for 44 years, is disfranchised by
County CJork George A. Gard
ner.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Preparation is completed
for survey of the Crater Lake
park highway.
Whai's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Which of these states have
Democratic governors: New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Michigan, Maine?
2. Cancer almost never at
tacks the heart; right or wrong?
3. Four years of education to
be a dentist cost, on the aver
age, about 54,000, $8,000, $12,
000 or $16,000.
4. The March from Atlanta
to the Sea in the Civil War was
made by Gen. Grant, Lee, Stone
wall Jackson, Sherman or Sher
idan? 5. The first attack of multiple
sclerosis usually hits young,
middle-aged or elderly men and
women?
6. Ex-President Hoover's son
and namesake is a high official
in U.N., the State .Department,
the Defense Department, an oil
company, or Standford Univer
sity? 7. The letters UX under a
name in a legal document de
note a minor, wife, illiterate,
mental incompetent, or alien?
The answers: 1 All five of
them. 2. Right. 3. About $12,000
says American Dental Associa
tion. 4. Sherman. 5. Usually
young 6 Slate Dep'L 7. Wife.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Principle Versus Party
One of Medford's most prominent Democrats
informed the writer the other day he had voted for
General Eisenhower in 1952.
We know of at least ONE Republican who voted
for Adlai Stevenson.
Neither of these gentlemen felt it necessary to
apologize for such action. Why should they? It is
reasonable to assume they marked their ballot for the
man they BELIEVED best qualified for the high of
fice at THAT particular time. That is the privilege of
every American.
Moreover millions of perfectly law-abiding and
respectable citizens do the same thing switch par
ties at every presidential election, and have , for
years. The 100 vote-'er-straight partisans repre
sent a minority in both major parties, and it is a good
thing for the country that they do. It is the difference
between blind and intelligent voting.
MEVERTHELESS, because Senator Wayne Morse
1 had the temerity to do the same thing leave the
GOP and join the Democratic party we are inform
ed that in spite of his liberal statesman-like record in
the Upper House for nearly 12 years he should be re
tired to private life and some 100 Republican who
can always be depended upon to vote, as the party
leaders dictate, should be put in his place.
"llfE GRANT that "Ike's" coat tails are broad and
capacious but we are not so sure this appeal to
100 party regularity is going to get very far with
the voters of Oregon in the November election.
They at least most of them resent party dicta
tion and will want to know something more about the
Morse record than his record for purely partisan con
formity. How did he stand on public power versus private
power for example? How did he stand regarding na
tional conservation? How about the tidelands oil
give-away Was he, m
concerned, right or wrong?
upheld or repudiated? That
oi the ultimate decision.
The fact that our s e n
GOP will be enough for the
course. Jtsut we seriously doubt if it will satisfy the
voters of either party as a whole.
They will think for themselves and weigh the abil-
ties and records of the two
carefully, and their final decision will be based upon
that appraisal, not upon the party label, or how long
mat laoei nas oeen worn by
No Agreement
The Rosebursr News Review has p-one rnmnlptelv
overboard for Secretary
the man to beat Wayne Morse and spend 6 years in
me u. senate.
The Salem Statesman,
Republican, but less nartisan. is as strnno-lv prnnnncoH
that Mr. McKay is NOT the
uie jod, dul iormer state Senator Hitchcock IS.
inis brings into sharp relief the fact the Republi
cans are far from united on the senatorial rrimo
idee, aim me struggle ior
ociitiuui piuuiiaes iv ue ciose ana nara
fought if not a bitter one.
In spite of the administration's endorsement of
the ex-member of the Eisenhower cabinet, the wise
uvys nereaDouts as ot today are betting on Hitch
COCK,
WELL, IF THE decision
spective arguments
me statesman, lur. McKay would be left at the three
quarters post, calling for an amhul anna
For the Statesman gives definite and convincing
icasuns wuy ex-iaovernor ivj.cK.ay would be far more
vulnerable to Senator Morse's sure-fire attack than
his less-known, but far better-likeH nnnnnonf
f -
Ihe Roseburp; Review,
a j
its plea for McKay almost
i.ccua aim sympatny centered upon tne trumped-up
charge that our ex-Governor has been the victim of
a smear campaign.
The opposition even darerl nrrmv1inor - tlia T?o
view, to call Mr. McKay,
AE WISH the Review
party, as well as the
We have followed the
ior Department and via the
closely as conditions have
heard any of his critics and there are many call
him a "rascal" or any other names reflecting upon his
honesty or his personal character.
They have criticized his
don't dislike HIM they do dislike THEM.
..
A LONG WITH these critics and practically all indi
viduals and organizations devoted to national
conservation, public power
ests of the people and particularly the consumers, the
former Secretary of the Interior has been under fire. a
large part of his time in
been no name-calling and
has been brought against
has not been supported by
Moreover, as we understand it, Secretary McKay
if nominated intends not only to stand on that record
but defend it. In fact, he is
Well, that is okay. There, then, the issue is joined.
Those who like that record will vote for Mr. Mc
Kay to spend six more years as a. representative of
Oregon m Washington;
don't WON'T.
.That's about all there is
Thursday. April 19. 1958
the opinion of the voter
Should such a record be
promises to be the basis
i o r Senator deserted the
"Old Guard" partisans of
rival candidates verv
either candidate.
R. W. R
on McKay
of the Interior MKW as
more influential, inst as
man best qualified to do
v v. k14111Ul y
tne honor of opposing Ore
were to rest unnn the re
of the " News-Review and
-vu. w wliVilW
nn the nHior Vow1 ko.
aauxau, uacca
entirely on an appeal for
one of Oregon's foremost
would name the guilty
time and place of utterance
McKay course in the Inter
Congressional Record as
permitted, and have never
policies, that's all. They
promotion, and the inter
Washington. But there has
no smearing. No charge
him to our knowledge, that
facts and the record. '
said to be proud of it.
those who dont and we
to it. R. W. R.
B. & K May Clear Up
Of Debunking Josef Stalin
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The visit of "Mr. B . and Mr.
K." to Britain may help to clear
up the mystery which still sur-
r n n n H s the
Kremlin's de
ls u n k i n g of
Josef Stalin.
It has .been
reported from
London that
Prime Minister
Anthony Eden
himself in
tends to ask
Charles McCann his visitors
frankly what is really behind it.
Whether Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin and Communist party
leader Nikita S. Khrushchev
will tell him, if he does ask,
is questionable. .
But their public statements,
their general attitude and the
comments of the Moscow Radio
and the Communist party news
paper Fravda may give some
clues.
Many reasons have been sug
gested for the demotion of Stalin
from the Communist sainthood
which he had shared with Lenin
and Karl Marx.
It has been asserted that the
debunking was aimed at Krush
chev.
In his job of first secretary
of the Communist party, Khrush
chev has control of the political
machine which Stalin used to
make himself dictator,
For some months, it seemed
apparent that Khrushchev
Communications .
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tion must not exceed 400 words
ALL of It?
To the Editor: I am certain
that I speak for the interested
public when I advocate that leg
islation, especially controversial
legislation, ought to be repro
duced in its entirety and ver
batim by every newspaper.
John Henselman,
35 South Berkeley Way,
Medford, Ore.
Keep County Clean
To the Editor: On your edi
torial page a few days .ago,
Frank Jenkins was telling of
Eugene's efforts to clean up the
McKenzie river area, and quot
ed:
"The empty beer can
"Much depresses
"Us, who love
"Our wildernesses."
The Portland man who start
ed the "litterbug" campaign was
the subject of an article in a
national magazine some months
ago. Why couldn't Jackson coun
ty citizens do such a good job
of cleaning up highways, roads,
waysides and vacant-lot "eye
sores that we would receive
national recognition?
We have so many outstanding
organizations that if just half
of them would spearhead such
a program, it would be assured
of overwhelming success.
We could put more and great
ter emphasis in the schools on
individual responsibility to keep
the county clean, perhaps offer
ing prizes for essays and proj
ects. April is a traditional "clean
up" month, and right now is
the time to start a county-wide
clean-up campaign. The Butte
Falls schools have had a project
of keeping their highways clean.
One of the Prospect grades has
undertaken the Mill Creek falls
trail cleanup. If every school,
club and organization would
take on just one such project,
the roadsides and other areas
could be cleared in a week's
time. As each area was cleaned,
the newspaper could record
which group was responsible.
Minnesota has a fine of $50
for throwing so much as an
empty cigarette package on the
highway, and it stays wonder
fully clean. Why don't we raise
the fine for roadside garbage
dumping to at least $100 with
violations to be publicized?
Would it be possible to have
the county designate a few free
garbage dumps for those who
cannot afford or get to the
municipal dumping grounds?
One of the biggest . tourist
travel seasons in Oregon's his
tory is just ahead. We have one
of the most beautiful scenic
areas in the state but every
side-road is covered with rub
bish. -
From an economic viewpoint,
the state highway department
would save thousands of doUars
if we. would undertake a con
tinuous clean-up program in
Jackson county.
Let's clean up for our own
benefit, for our tourist-visitors
sake, and perhaps for recogni
tion as the "Cleanest County in
Oregon!"
This committee would be in
terested in seeing more letters
in this column if there are others
who feel, as we do, that we
should all "Keep Oregon Green
and Keep Jackson County
Clean!"
Tourist Committee
Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce
Mrs. Bert Pree, Chairman
thought he was going to be or
already was the head man.
This was notable when he and
Bulganin appeared together at
state functions, both in Moscow
and during their tour of South
ern Asia. Khrushchev pushed
Bulganin aside, sometimes physi
cally, to take the spotlight.
In recent weeks, Khrushchev
has been considerably more re
strained. It seems possible that
this is because the debunking
was intended to chop him down
to size.
That size would be, of course,
one of Russia's 11 leaders in the
new "collective leadership"
more properly, collective dicta
torship. It has been suggested also that
the debunking was meant, at
least in part, to guard against
the emergence of an army dic
tatorship. The debunking has greatly in
creased, in Russia, the prestige
of the army. Especially it has
increased the prestige of the No.
1 army man, Marshal Georgi K.
Zhukov.
At the recent Communist
party congress in Moscow Zhu
kov was made an alternate mem
ber of the Presidium of the
party.
There are now reports that
Zhukov actually, if not official
ly, is acting as a full member
Matter of Fact by joSePh aisop
WHERE WE'RE DRIFTING
The United States still counts
for something here in Egypt. In
deed a messaqe from President
Eisenhower to
Egyptian Pre
mier Gamal
Abdel Nasser
was probably
decisive, dur
ing the last
anxious week,
in preventing
a renewal of
the Arab Is-
joseph Aisop raen war.
Tempers ran very high here in
Cairo after the Israeli shelling
of Gaza. This reporter has never
seen any national leader in a
grimmer mood than Col. Nasser
on the day after the Gaza inci
dent occurred. To be sure, the
Egyptians genuinely did not
want war at any rate at this
time, before their armed forces
are fuUy ready.
Yet a full scale war on Israel
might well have been the Egyp
tion answer to Gaza, if Col.
Nasser and his colleagues had
not been so much impressed by
the President's strong plea for
peace, which was apparently
paralleled by another Eisen
hower plea to Israeli Prime Min
ister David Ben-Gurion.
THI
.it
HIS much having been said,
that this was just about the last
chance. The next time, if the
American policy makers go on
as before, the United States will
have no standing here in Egypt.
There will be no response to any
message from the President or
anyone else in Washington.. One
way or the other, the Middle
Eastern fat will be in the fire
for fair.
Part of the reasons for this
somewhat dire forecast are in
herent in the new Middle East
ern situation that has been
emerging in the last six years.
And in order to understand this
new situation, it is first of all
necessary to understand that the
factors which are .most talked
about in Washington are not
really the dominant factors.
i ' .
rpHE CREATION bf an inde--
pendent Israel and all the
bitterness that has ensued have
immensely stimulated and even
inflamed the new Arab nation
alism. The Kremlin's offers of
arms and economic aid have im
mensely increased the self-con
fidence of the new Arab nation
alists. In these ways the'. whole
process of history has been
speeded up in the Middle East.
But speeding-up factors are still
not dominant factors.
The dominant factor is simply
this new Arab nationalism which
Israel helped to crystallize and
the Kremlin is now encouraging.
From Casablanca on the Atlantic
to Baghdad on the Euphrates,
the Arab peoples are in ferment.
The ferment centers here in
Cairo where Col. Nasser has
made himself the pan-Arabian
symbol and leader of the na
tionalist impulse. '
It is an impulse, basically, to
cast off the past and move into
the modern world. It does not
matter very much whether the
past happens to be represented
by King Farouk and his Pashas,
as it was here in Egypt; or by
the frankly colonial rules of the
French in North Africa; or by
the curious, neo-colonialism that
was symbolized by Gen. Sir John
Bagot Glubb in Jordan.
TT7HATEVER the past may have
been, the impulse seems
everywhere to be the same
to sweep the past into a corner
and touch a match to it, and so
to begin the hard task of cre
ating a new kind of Arab na
tions. Despite the Egyptian's
deep, almost hysterical suspi
cions of any and all Westerners,
Mystery
of the Presidium. That would
mean that he had been made
the 12th member of the body
of 11 men who run Russia.
Popular Leader
Zhukov probably is the most
popular leader in Russia because
of his briUiant war record and
his own appealing personality.:
It could be that some of the
men in the Kremlin," at least,
have seen the possibility that
Zhukov might become a menace.
An editorial which appeared
in Pravda on, March 28 was
somewhat revealing.
Pravda said that there must
be leaders with popularity.
"The principles of collective
leadership ... do not at all deny
the role and responsibility of the
individual leader for the mat
ters entrusted to him," Pravda
said. "It is also well known that
the Communist party has always
upheld the principle of one-man
management of industrial enter
prises and of one-man leadership
in military matters.
But Pravda emphasized that
the Communist party as a whole
was the final authority and that
"collective leadership" extended
down from the Presidium to the
125 members of the party Cen
tral Committee, which elects the
Presidium, and local-party or
ganizations.
j Egypt today is an amazingly in-
teresting and exciting place be
cause this process of casting off
the past and building a new
future has gone furthest here,
and because the Egyptians so
consciously picture themselves as
the pace -setters for all Arab
lands.
In these circumstances, the
primary question for the West
ern policy makers is not what
to do about the Arabs and Israel
or the Arabs and the Soviet
Union.The primary question is
what to do about the new Arab
nationalism. Any Middle East
ern policy that is not squarely
based on a clear, positive answer
to the question of what to do
about the new Arab nationalism
is a cheap fraud and a feeble
delusion.
HTHUS far, the United States
has tried to answer this
central question by amiable,
empty generalities. The British,
meanwhile, have increasingly
tended to answer the same ques
tion by opposing and attacking
the new Arab nationalism when
ever they can. The French-rec
ord speaks for itself.
Every wise Arab leader, most
emphatically including Col. Nas
ser, understands that it is . not
to the ' interest of the Arab
people to break with the West,
and thus to be left alone with
the Soviet Union. But the Arab
irritation with the West is now
acute. The Soviets are taking
astute advantage of - this Arab
irritation. And thus the Egyp-
tian leaders are reluctantly but
increasingly tending towards an
all-out anti-Western, pro-Soviet
policy.
That is the final result to
wards which we are now drift
ing. That is why, in Cairo to
day, one has the strong sense
that this really is a last chance.
Fortunately the chance is still
there to be taken.
Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial Comment
ENDORSEMENT FOR
JUSTICE LUSK
While The Statesman's "Po
litical Parade" is held free from
staff editing, we do not want
it to become a vehicle for false
or erroneous statements. The
Monday contribution in behalf
of L. B. Sandblast, who is a
candidate for Position No. 5 on
the Supreme Court, contains
comment which should be cor
rected. Sandblast wrote:
"For example the average
yearly opinion per judge has
been up to about 46. The present
occupant of Positioh No. 5 aver
aged 17 decisions in the past
two years."
Note the weasel wording "has
been up about 46." The record
shows in 1954 the average num
ber of opinions written per judge
27 in 1955. The Sandblast asper
Justice Hall S. Lusk, who is the
incumbent of Position No. 5
wrote 25 opinions in 1954 and
27 in 1955 The Sandblast asper
sion is thus refuted.
No informed person takes ser
iously the candidacy of Sand
blast, a chronic, unsuccessful
candidate for office. Judge
Lusk's fame rests not on the
number of opinions he has writ
ten but on the high quality of
his opinions and on his able
counsel in interpreting the law
in cases where he does not write
the court's opinion. Universally
respected for his high character,
his fairness, his legal acumen
Judge Lusk deserves reelection
by virtually a unanimous vote.
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
FREEDOM RECOGNIZED
Cairo, Egypt (U.R) The
Egyptian cabinet Wednesday
night decided to recognize the
independence of Tunisia and
Morocco recently granted by
France and Spain.
Today and
By Walter
THE LONDON TALKS
Messrs. Khrushchev and Bul
ganin arrived in London Wed
nesday. There has been a great
c h a nge since
their visit was
first suggested
during the
meeting at the
summit in Ge
neva last July.
The question
then was
whether and
how and when
Walter Lippmann diplomacy
might resolve the series of dead
locked issues from Germany
through Formosa to Korea. The
understanding that came out of
Geneva was that even though
the great nuclear powers could
not agree on a German settle
ment, a . Chinese settlement, a
Korean settlement, they would
not go to war about them.
What was not foreseen then,
and is new in the situation to
day, is that Soviet Union now
holds the keys to peace and war
in the Middle East. Peace can
be maintained if the Soviet Un
ion will act to maintain it. War
is probable if the Soviet Union
connives at war by refusing to
prevent war.
MOBODY knew last July' that
' this would be the main busi
ness to be discussed when Bul
ganin and Khrushchev came to
London. It now over-shadows
every other subject. The world
is . living, and for an indefinite
time to come it can go on living,
with its unsettled . issues. They
are disagreeable, they present
danger for the future. But they
are not in crisis.
This is not true of the Middle
East. There, unless the Soviet
Union acts positively to prevent
war, as is her duty under the
charter of the United Nations,
there is a near prospect of an
explosion that would rock the
world.
Because the situation in the
Middle East is so critical, and
the responsibility of the Soviet
Union is so unmistakably clear,
the coming talks in London may
well be momentous. They will
be in the nature of a show-down
on what are Moscow's inten
tions, on whether Moscow wants
the future of the Middle East to
be determined by peaceful nego
tiations or by war.
fFHESE London talks will be
A conducted by Sir Anthony
Eden, and the United States is
not participating in them direct
ly. But the British will be keep
ing fully informed, and there is
little doubt that on the crucial
question of Soviet intentions
about war,. Washington and Lon
don will reach a common esti
mate. From this common esti
mate there is almost certain
to follow a common judgment
on the undecided . question of
policy.
The great undecided question
of policy is whether on the basis
of the prevention of an Arab-
Israeli war, there are to be
broader negotiations about the
Middle East. The alternative is
for London, Paris and Washing
ton to take their own measures,
despite the CairojMoscow axis,
to maintain the status quo. This
is a disagreeable and dangerous
alternative. But the choice be
tween the two .alternatives does
not depend on what we would
like but on what we learn from
Messrs. Khrushchev and Bul
ganin when the questions are
put to them.
TURING the past months we
" have seen a great expansion
of Soviet influence and a mount
ing challenge to the West in the
field of unwarlike competition.
But the Soviet penetration of
the Middle East is a radically
different kind of thing from the
Soviet campaign in South Asia.
The Middle East is different be
cause there the Soviet diplomacy
has as its spearhead the military
r
Tomorrow
Lippmann
aggressiveness
of Egypt's Col.
Nasser.
What is going on in Egypt,
in saucu-AraDia, in ayria ana
now apparently in the Sudan,
is no co-existence and peaceable
competition. It is the use of the
threat of war as the instrument
of Soviet policy. The policy is
aimed not at a negotiated settle
ment, taking account of Soviet
interests, but at the destruction
of the British position, which
would carry with it the destruc
tion of the American position.
The threat of war, which the
Soviet Union alone can remove,
is bound to be the dominant
topic in the London talks.
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS i)
San Francisco, on route east:
Off the Daylight at the Oakland
terminal which recalls a crack
in the lounge car a few hours
back: '.'What are the two largest
animals in California?" Answer:
"The Oakland mole and the Los
Angeles bull."
That reminded somebody of
another one along the same line:
"What is the biggest vegetable
in Illinois? Answer: "The beet.
know, because I saw five
policemen asleep on one beat
the other night in Chicago."
It beats the dickens what
people will do to pass away
the time, doesn't it?
SITTING next to me on the
ferrv that carries rail pas
sengers across the bay is . a
slightly built, pleasantly spoken
gentleman who is all eyes for
the unfailingly fascinating scene
that unfolds as one crosses San
Francisco bay at night. As the
nose of the ferryboat swung
around and brought into full view
the glittering necklace of lights
that decks the throat of tne
bay between Oakland and San
Francisco, he turned to me and
said: "I suppose that's the bridge
I've been hearing about so
long."
I said to him: "Yes, it is,w
and added: "It must be a long
time since you iwere here."
"It is a long time," he re
plied. "I was here last in 1912.
That was only six years after
the big earthquake and the fire,
and the city was still pretty bad
ly shattered. But 44 years is a
long time, and I suppose they
must have things pretty well
fixed up by now. This bridge
is proof enough that they didn't
lose their courage when their
city was destroyed."
TU'O, THEY didn't lose theif
courage. Out of the ashes
and the rubble that were all
that was left when the shaking
earth and the roaring flames had
done their work, they went
ahead and built an even lovelier
city than the one that was wreck
ed in those awful hours just a
half century ago.
People are funny that way.
There are the villages on the
slopes of Italy's great volcanoes.
For generations, the people who
inhabit them live their peaceful,
happy lives while the mountain
slumbers. Than, on some awful
day, the demon inside the moun
tain awakens, and yawns, and
stretches and the earth cracks
and the rivers of fiery lava pour
forth and creep down the slopes.
When they have done their
terrible work, EVERYTHING is
gone. But do the people lose their
courage? They DON'T. They
turn in and replace what was ' '
taken away, from them.
PREMIUMS STOLEN
Davenport, la. CU.R) C. H.
Hultgren, a cereal salesman, re
ported to police Wednesday that
thieves broke into his garage,
cut open seven boxes of oatmeal
and stole the drinking glass
premiums inside.
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