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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1946
(It was Thursday)
Both the Riverside USO and
the Officer's Outpost announce
closing dates.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The state
legion convention here next July
has been called off, due to the
lack of housing. This enables the
Salvation Army to continue their
monopoly on bass drum beating
hereabouts.
20 YEARS AGO
April 25. 1936
(It was Saturday)
Strict enforcement of quaran
tine declared to be an absolute
necessity by Dr. A. N. Johnson,
county health officer as small
pox continued to spread.
National Vice Commander Os
car W. Worthwine of the Amer
ican Legion will be honor guest
at a meeting in Roseburg next
Tuesday.
30 YEARS AGO
April 25. 1926
(It was Sunday)
' The announcement of a new
county agent for Jackson coun
ty, which has not had such an
official since last January, is ex
pected soon.
Dr. J. Earl Else of Portland
will give a lecture on goiter and
Its prevention April 27, at the
First Methodist church.
40 YEARS AGO
April 25. 1916
(It was Tuesday)
The senior class of Medford
high school is rehearsing a play
to be staged at the Page theatre
about the middle of May.
Mary Antin will speak in the
small hall of the Natatorium to
night on the subject "Prepared
ness, For What?"
GOING TO KOREA
Seoul, Korea U.R) A Seoul
newspaper said today that for
mer U.S. ambassador to Russia
William C. Bullit may be ap
pointed American ambassador
to the Republic of Korea.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Stevenson says that if the
South walks out on the Demo
cratic party this year, it would
hurt the party only a little, or
wreck it, or really help it?
2. More synthetic or natural
rubber is used in the U.S. each
year, or is about 50-50?
3. Democratic national con
vention of 1952 did or didn't
adopt a strong civil rights plank
that caused some Southern dele
gations to walk out?
4. U.S. forces in the Philip
pines resisted the Japs for about
four weeks, four months, or
eight months after invasion in
1941.
5. Deepest canyon in the U.S.
is on the Colorado, Yellowstone,
Snake, Columbia or Ausable
river?
6. Almost all the large states
vote the same way in a close
Presidential election; right or
wrong?
7. Most cancers of the mouth
are easy or dif cicult to detect in
their early stages?
The Answers: 1. Says it would
wreck ihe party. 2. More synthe
tic. 3. Didn't (that was in 1948).
4. About four months. 5. Snake.
6 Wrong. 7. Easy.
MAIL TRIBUN2
Tomorrow Is the Day
Tomorrow is the day when southern Oregon resi
dents can do one of two things:
1. They can stand up and make the Southern Pa
cific revise its public-be-damned attitude.
Or
2. They can forget about the whole thing, and let
Southern Pacific get away with what has been called
"systematic murder" of service over a period of 30
years.
QREGON'S Public Utilities Commissioner is hold
er ing hearings on SP's arbitrary cancellation of
passenger service to this area. The outcome of his
hearings will determine what, if anything, he will do
to force the SP to provide service to this area.
The issue is NOT restoration of the ancient Night
crawler, sometimes known as the Rogue River Rock
et. The issue IS modern, rapid, clean and efficient
rail service to an area of 200,000 population, which
pays the SP through the nose for its highly profitable
freight operation.
THE issue is NOT whether SP is losing money on
passenger operation.
The issue IS whether the people have anything
to say about the business conduct of a monopoly pub
lic utility.
(It should be pointed out that virtually every bus
iness has some operation which is a money-loser. But
they are continued because the service is an integral
part of the over-all picture and a source of cultivating
goodwill).
The issue is NOT whether people patronized the
slow, cumbersome, inconvenient trains which the
SP reluctantly operated, and increasingly choked
off, during the 30 years after the main line went east
of the mountains.
The issue IS whether people would patronize a
good service.
THE hearing begins at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the fed-
era! court rooms in the Medford post office. The
public is invited, is welcome, is urged to attend.
If you've got a piece to say, you can say it with
out embarrassment and without fear.
Our hope is that the public will turn out and show
the SP who's running this state, anj'how the people
and their elected representatives, or a board of rail
road directors in San Francisco. E.A.
Prescott State Park
- It was a beautiful day last Sunday. So we packed
the kids and the family secretary of health, education
and welfare into the car, drove up Roxy Ann.
The view from the butte was breath-taking. To
the south the summit peaks of the Siskiyous were vis
ible, and still had their caps of snow. To the west the
multiple ranges of the coastwise mountains loomed
in varying shades of green, blue and purple. Spread
out below to the south, west and north was the pat
terned loveliness of the Rogue valley its fields, or
chards, homes, cities and industries.
TO THE northeast are the. white-topped summits
1 of the mountains which form the rim of Crater
lake. Almost due east is Mt. McLoughlin, the pristine
and snowy slopes of which form a picture of great
beauty.
The tumbled, rugged foothills of the Cascades
mount, in the foreground to the east and southeast.
The city, with limited funds, has improved the
roads and the picnic spots so that they are usable.
The old signs, first put up years ago, are still legible.
But over all there is a sadness of neglect and partial
disuse.
How far a few dollars of maintenance and im
provement funds would go here ! !
POR in addition to the magnificent views from our
mountaintop park, the area itself is vastly attrac
tive. On Sunday the slopes were covered with wild
flowers of every variety and hue from the bright
dabs of the Indian paint brush to the delicate colors
of lambs tongue and others which took us back to
the wild flower gathering days of many years ago.
Properly cared for, and properly publicized, Pres
cott park could well become an attraction of consid
erable stature, and attract people for miles around
to enjoy it. What other city can boast a park on top
of a mountain (except possibly Portland, where Mt.
Tabor can't begin to compete with what Roxy Ann
has to offer) ?
DUT the park, with more than 1,700 acres, is too
" large for the city to care for in the way it should
be cared for, or publicize in the way it should be
publicized.
It is for this reason we propose that the state con
sider Prescott park for inclusion in the state park
system. x
A proposal to that effect is being made to the
state highway commission. If the circumstances ap
pear to favor the proposal, the commission will auth
orize the parks division to conduct a survey of Pres
cott park to determine whether or not it can be in
cluded in the state system.
If it does, we see no reason why the city of Med
ford could not turn over title to the state, for the
state's park maintenance facilities are far superior
to those the city can support.
We hope it can be done. E.A. .
Manila, P.I.OJ.R) Adm. Ar
leigh A. Burke, chief of U.S. na
val operations, arrived at the
U.S. Naval station at Sangley
Point Tuesday on the first stop
of a lengthy tour of the Pacific
area. Burke talks today with
Magsaysay and leaves tonight
lor Djakarta, Indonesia.
Wednesday, April 23, 1958
Well-Known Drain
Landmark Destroyed
Drain (U.R) The Totem Inn,
a well-known landmark here,
burned yesterday with loss esti
mated at $30,000.
Bead and Use ClauUled Ads.
May Day Hot Expected
Merry Occasion for Communists
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
It looks as if this is not going
to be a very merry May Day
for the Communists.
Leftists all over the world are
preparing to celebrate the tradi-
Tuesday.
In Moscow
it will be one
of the two big
days of the
year. The
other is the
anniversary of
the 1917 Bol-
Chaxles McCann sneviK revolu
tion Nov. 7.
But the downgrading of Josef
Stalin will take the edge off
the festivities there and other
capitals this May Day.
A lot of Communist parties
outside of Russia and a lot of
Communists in Russia will
not quite know what the party
line is.
A lot of Communist leaders
who will make the main
speeches will not know quite
what to say.
Some of them will be some
what subdued also because they
will not know whether they are
going to be caught in the Stalin
debunking.
The fact that Premier Nikolai
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
These words are written in
Washington (DC) where I sat
in this afternoon at an utterly
fascinating but utterly disillu
sioning show. The show was
staged in the hall of representa
tives in the beautiful and his
toric Capitol of the United
States of America.
The show was fascinating be
cause in this lovely old building
some of the truly GREAT his
tory of the world has been made.
It was disillusioning because
it depicted sharply the depths to
which American politics has
presently fallen.
FHE show was the last act of
the tragedy that might prop
erly be entitled The Farm Bill
of 1956.
It was started off by a motion
to override the Presidential veto
of the farm bill. The dramatis
personae were the leaders of the
Democratic party and the lead
ers of the Republican party.
The stage setting was the
Presidential campaign of 1956,
in which the job of the Demo
crats is at the least to retain
control of the congress and at
the unexpected most to capture
the Presidency as well as the
control of both houses of the
congress.
HPHEIR plan of campaign has
been simple.' In essence it is
this:
1. To hold the South.
2. To hold the big city vote in
the big industrial states.
3. To knock off enough farm
votes in the big farm states to
turn the trick.
THE South belongs hereditarily
to the Democrats. For two
decades the big cities have be
longed to the Democrats. But
in 1952 the big farm states went
Republican. The problem this
year was to devise a farm bill
that would woo the farmers
back.
Hence the farm bill of 1956,
which was loaded with high
support prices for all the basic
farm crops, despite the fact that
the warehouses are bulging with
farm surpluses. But, to make it
foolproof, it was so put together
as to leave the President no
choice but to veto it.
He did veto it, and today the
motion to override his veto came
up in the house.
"T'OR nearly two hours, the
the house of representatives
echoed and reverberated with
red, white and blue oratory. The
Democrats were denouncing the
wicked Republicans and their
wicked President who, by his
veto, had taken the bread out of
the mouths of American farmers.
The Republican leaders were
defending the Republican Presi
dent, but were restrained some
what in their eloquence by the
fact that so many farm state
Republicans had DESERTED
THEIR LEADER and had gone
over to the other side in the hope
of saving their own political
skins in their own districts by
voting for high parity supports.
PVENTUALLY the oratory
came to an end and the vote
was taken. The voting was by
yeas and nays which is .to say
that as each member's name was
called he answered yes or no for
the record.
When the votes were counted,
the tally stood at 211 votes
AGAINST overriding the veto
to only 202 FOR overriding it.
To have prevailed, the motion to
override would have had to have
a two-thirds majority.
ANYWAY, it was a great show.
The seats were full. The gal
leries were packed. The oratory
was fervid.
At least that much can be said
for it. '
But not much else.
A. Bulganin and Communist
Party Chief Nikita S. Khrush
chev are sounding off about "co
existence" and world friendship
will cramp the style of the ora
tors, too.
Tokyo To Be Hot Spot
Tokyo promises to be the hot
spot this year. Communists and
Socialists plan demonstrations
by 4,000,000 leftist-led labor
unionists in Japanese cities.
Of these 400,000 are to demon
strate in Tokyo alone. Militant
leftist leaders have demanded
the right to parade past the
United States embassy, to Invite
American troops to come home,
and-past the Parliament build
ing. Police have refused. But
riots are likely.
There may be trouble in Sing
apore, also. Two rival leftist
labor union factions plan a joint
demonstration there. It may
break up in a private riot or
turn into an anti-Western riot.
It will be interesting to see
what happens in Moscow.
Last year, a gigantic new ar
tillery piece, possibly an atomic
cannon, was the feature of the
mammoth May Day parade. A
new weapon from the Red
Army's arsenal may be unveiled
this year.
But the slogans proclaimed by
the Communist party Central
Committee, to be displayed in
Is That So?
Volcano House, Hawaii Na
tional Park What with auto
mation crowding in on us, we'll
soon be spending fewer hours
working and more hours loafing.
On the strength of this impend
ing calamity, I spent most of the
day practicing leisure.
First I pushed the button for
room service and before I knew
it, I was breakfasting on papaya
with lime and scrambled 'eggs
served by a comely Japanese
miss.
Next I visited with Nick Ly
curgus, the manager of this fa
mous hostelry. Between the two
4--2.5-5A
of us, we tried to figure out how
much lava flows out of the
Mauno Loa volcano in one erup
tion. Getting help from the park
naturalist, we found that the
flow of June, 1950 poured out
about one billion tons of lava
from a 13-mile fissure, in 23
days.
What does that figure to?
Translated into things we know,
let's look at it this -way: Mans
greatest structure today is
Grand Coulee dam. It contains
10,565,000 cubic yards of con
crete. Figured at 2 tons to the
yard, that's around 21,000,000
tons. Now add the next three
largest dams in America Hoov
er with 9,000;O00 tons, Shasta
with 13,000,000 and .Hungry
Horse with' 6,000,000, and you
have a total of around 49,000,
000 tons. Multiply this by 20
roughly the equivalent of .all
dams in North America and
you have an approximation of
the amount of lava which flowed
out of Mauna Loa's side in just
23 days!
That done, it was time for
lunch and what could be bet
ter than broiled spring chicken
rubbed with fresh ginger root
and basted in soy sauce a Vol
cano House specialty.
Sandalwood Once Trade
Spent part of the afternoon
with the national park superin
tendent. "In olden days," he
told me, "the main trade in Ha
waii was sandalwood, highly es
teemed in the Orient. But with
in a few decades, nearly all the
fragrant sandalwood was cut
down. Today, only a few trees
remain in the islands, mostly in
the park. For obvious reasons,
they are not identified."
He said that the next import
ant trade item taken from this
park area was pulu. He ex
plained: "Pulu is a soft wooly
fiber plucked from the buds and
stalks of the great 20-foot-high
tree ferns which abound in our
rain forest. It was used for
stuffing mattresses and pillows.
When the industry was going
fun tUt, more than 600,000
pounds were collected annual
ly." Apparently the pulu trade
stopped when it was found that
the pulu tended to break up into
powder-fine dust which got into
sleeper's lungs.
At dinner, my host, "Uncle
George" Lycurgus, 93, regaled
me with stories of Kalakaua, last
king of Hawaii, and of Robert
Louis Stevenson and Jack Lon
don, who were guests in his San
Souci Hotel, Waikiki. He also
told me about a former grass
shack Volcano House Lodging in
those days the 1850's was a
dollar a head; a roasted hen tur
key dinner came to 62V cents.
And the one large room accom
modated up to 23 persons a
night. It measured 14 by 20
feet?
To Be Very
parade banners, are not very ex
citing.
Official Slogans
There will be 25 official slo
gans in all. One hails "The
friendship and cooperation of
the peoples of Britain, the
United States, France and the
Soviet Union." Another hails
"The cooperation between Com
munists and Socialists and all
pregressive forces." And. of
course, there is: "Under the lead
ership of the Communist party,
forward to the victory of Com
munism." None of the slogans
mentions Stalin.
But May Day will still be a
big one for leftists. 0
It started back in the middle
ages, when people of aU classes
turned out to go ;'a-maying" and
erected maypoles around which
to dance.
The Socialists took it over in
1889, when the second interna
tional in which they were united
made May 1 their labor day.
In the United States, workmen
of all unions selected the first
Monday in September as their
day.
Congress made it a national
holiday in 1894.
Now the Reds have made May
Day their own. But the shadow
of old Uncle Joe Stalin will
darken their celebrations this
year.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
Strange how everyday expres
sions based on the outdoor fol
low you the world around.
Heard these today: "As brave as
a lion." "As . proud as a pea
cock." "As sly as a fox." "As
strong as an ox." "As poor as a
churchmouse." And not a one
lion, peacock, fox, ox and
churchmouse was a native to
Hawaii! In fact, the largest na
tive animal is the Nene, a goose!
Apparently the Nene started as
a migratory bird, found Hawaii
so much to its liking that it
stayed and practically lost its
powers of flight. Now, thanks to
man's ruthless hunting, only
about 50 of these magnificent
birds remain.
Steam Rising
Took an evening drive to the
only drive-in crater in the world,
and managed to walk the 200
feet to the yawning firepit.
Steam was rising from a hun
dred vents, but no activity to
night.
The spectacle of Kilauea in
eruption affects people differ
ently. A member of the first
white party to see the crater
in action (1823) wrote: (A spec
tacle, sublime and appalling,
presented itself before us. We
stopped and trembled. Aston
ishment and awe for some mo
ments rendered us mute, and,
like statues, we stood fixed to
the spot, with our eyes riveted
on the abyss below."
A recent visitor wrote in the
Hawaii National Park museum
guest book: "I've seen hell. Now
I want to go home." Oregon, heJ
meant.
(Copyright, 1956, by Eugene
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Eight Children Die
As Home Destroyed
Corner Brook, Nfld. (U.R)
Eight children of one family
burned to death Tuesday night in
this city's worst fire.
The victims, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Curtis, ranged
in age from infancy to 17 years.
The parents and two other chil
dren escaped without serious in
jury. Firmen reported that the blaze
in the Curtis home started about
9 p.m. A Fire Department of
ficial said the blaze, which "al
most immediately consumed" the
dwelling, was believed to have
originated from a light meter.
Civil Service Exams
Are Announced Here
The civil service commission
has announced that applications
are being accepted from male
applicants for clerk examina
tions for positions in the Wash
ington, D. C. area. Examination
announcements and application
forms may be obtained from
Chester W. Silliman, in the Med
ford post office.
The department of interior
northwest board of civil service
examiners has announced exam
inations for maintenanceman
equipment operator.
Additional information is
Available at the post office.
Quotes From the flews
By UNITED PRESS
London Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev
when jammed against a wall by a pushing crowd of 1,500 diplo
mats at a reception:
Washington U.S. spy chief Allen Dulles on Khrushchy'f
claim that Russia will soon haT an intercontinental guided mis
sile with an H-bomb warhead:
"I don't think he (Khrushchev) b given to minimmng thing.
I think what he had to say ii a little bit on the high side." -
New York Dr Alberto Gainza Paz, publisher of the newspa
per La Prensa, on suppression of speech and press freedoms by
dictatorships:
"The silence which fear imposes does not mean agreement. Ac
tually, tragic silence announces rebellion is hatching."
New York Richard W. Slocum. president of the American
Newspaper Publishers association, on the press battle for free ac
cess to public .information: m '
"Government agencies constantly tend io ac like clams.
New York Adlai Stevenson on Russian claims of a lead in the
race to develop the intercontinental guided missile: -
"We've been outdistanced by
known about it for a long time."
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On
By HARMAN
United Press
Washington (U.R) What's
new in Washington:
The women's press corps
pitched a hoe-down for visiting
e a 1 1 o r s aim
some political
wheels made
speeches.
Helen Hill
Miller, the
lady prexy,
announced
that each
speaker 'would
be limited to
Harman Nichols eigm minuies.
and that she had a watch. James
Finnegan, campaign manager for
Democratic hopeful Adlai Stev
enson, said he would talk for
only seven minutes, 58 seconds.
At the count of eight minutes,
Helen stepped behind Finnegan;
said not a word. Soon there
were chuckles in the assemblage.
Finnegan caught on and sat
down in mid-sentence.
The Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution own about $10,-
000,000 worth of property in the
District of Columbia alone. But
they haven't lost sight of the
penney.
They sent out a plea for mem
bers around the country to mail
in old sheets and pillow, cases.
Dust rags are needed.
This department apparently
goofed a little last week in re
porting that the nation's capital
generally is the only place where
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on election day.
A flood of mail from the state
of Wyoming did us in. The State
Tribune, in Cheyenne, among
others, informs us that since e
peal election day is like any
other day in Wyoming.
Charles Corddry. our reporter
who covered the demonstration
flight of the F104, the fastest
fighter plane in the world, over
heard this one at Palmdale,
Calif.:
Pilot to ground: "Fm over the
ocean at the controls of a com
bat plane with a potential of
1400 miles an hour."
Man on the ground: "Which
ocean?"
The American Automobile As
sociation reports that Robert
Kretschmar of its Boston office
got a call not long ago for "ser
vice on an ostrich."
Seems a motorist left his car
unlocked and the door' open.
An ostrich, apparently a house
hold pet in the neighborhood,
sneaked in, somehow got the
keys out of the ignition switch,
and swallowed them.
Rather than molest the bird,
the AAA tried a lot of keys until
it found one that fit.
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Oregon Coast association here
yesterday as the group wound
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