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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 2. 1946
(It was Thursday)
Medford water is scheduled to
flow to Central Point mains late
tonight or early tomorrow.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The alfalfa
is up high enough in some sec
tions of the valley to cause farm
ers to wonder where they are
going to get hay-hands.
20 YEARS AGO
May 2, 1936
(It was Saturday)
The Medford Gleemen will
meet with the Teachers' chorus
for rehearsal at the Holly the
ater this afternoon at 2:30.
A farewell testimonial lunch
eon given in the Medford hotel
by the Jackson county health
board for Dr. A. N. Johnson,
health officer.
30 YEARS AGO
Mar 2. 1928
(It was Sunday)
T. H. Rogers will supervise
construction of projects for
Paul's Electric store, of Med
ford, according to H. V. Scheffel
of Paul's Electric store.
K. "W. Miller, of Portland, was
In Medford last week arranging
to start a new daily truck service
between Portland and Medford
on May 20.
40 YEARS AGO
May 2. 1916
(It was Tuesday,
Terah T. Maroney, the aviator,
has written the Mail Tribune
stating that he wishes to give a
flight in the valley this summer
and would like to hear from any
one interested.
As a result of an effort started
by Ben Sheldon nearly two
years ago, the State Editorial
association of Oregon will hold
its annual convention in Med
ford in August.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 77
Copr. 19SS. Editorial Research Report
1. Which three of these states
are not in the Baghdad Pact:
Egypt, Great Britain, Iran, Iraq,
Israel, Pakistan, Turkey, United
States?
2. More autos get delayed on
the road from lack of gas, bat
tery trouble, faulty ignition or
flat tires?
3. Legal residents of District
of Columbia vote for President,
a delegate in Congress, delegates
to national conventions or all or
none of these?
4. More winter or more spring
wheat is produced in the U. S.
in a normal year, or about the
same of each?
5. Which popular musical
show was based on the novel,
"The Year the Yankees Lost the
Pennant"?
6. Adlai E. , Stevenson got
many more or many fewer elec
toral votes for President in 1952
than Thomas E. Dewey in 1948,
or about the same number?
7. The word "milliner" is der
rived from what city in Europe?
The answers: 1. Egypt, Israel
and U. S. aren't. 2. Flat tires,
says A.A.A. 3. Delegates fo na
tional conventions only 4. More
winter wheat. 5. "Damn Yan
kees." 6. Many fewer. 7. Milan.
Italy, once a great center for
female finery.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Slow Progress
. Long ago we heard a story about an old Quaker
farmer who said to his wife something like' this :
"I think all the world is daft but me and thee. And
sometimes I think even thee is, a little."
Probably everyone, at some time or other, has
agreed with the old Quaker that everyone else is a
little "off."
According to recent statistics, this isn't too far
wrong. As medical science has progressed, mental ill
ness has been increasingly recognized for what it is
the most prevalent disease
AND, despite the many,
those who are mad,
is no laughing matter.
More than half the hospital beds in the United
States are occupied by patients with mental ills. The
costs, both to individuals and to society at large, are
fantastic. They are not only dollars-and-cents costs,
either, but costs in suffering, dismay, human degreda-
tion and waste.
Although medical science has made giant strides
in the past century, it has barely scratched the surface
of the proper care and healing of mental illness. Much
remains to be learned. But even with present know
ledge, cures can be effected in considerably more
than half the cases, provided proper care and treat
ment are given.
"THEREIN is the rub.
For proper care and treatment are not, unhap
ily, available to all. There are not enough trained psy
chiatrists, therapists, social workers, and the others
who are gradually learning the techniques of treat
ment. There are, not enough hospitals, and those. there
are, are overcrowded with staffs oftentimes too press
ed for time and space to do more than offer custody,
without treatment. Too often the custody is sub
standard. There are. not enough of the so-called community
clinics, where those with mental ills and disturbances
can go for help.
All in all, it's a bleak picture.
,
NONETHELESS, progress has been, and is being,
' made. Increased public attention to the problem
has done much to increase
of mental hospitals.
Perhaps the most important thing that aroused
public interest has done is
oi tne proDiem useii, ana oi me iaci uiai mental iu
ness is not incurable, nor is it something to be hidden
away as if it were something shameful.
Frank and open discussion of what needs to be
done, and what can be done, will add to this under
standing, and to the eventual betterment of the pres
ent conditions.
THIS is Mental Health week, proclaimed for just the
This is a good time to
this area for assistance to
ties are far more ample, though still circumscribed,
than ever before. An increasing awareness of these
resources, and use of them when necessary, will do
much to ease the suffering caused by mental illness.
A call to the public health department can provide
the information needed to obtain the help which is
available. E. A.
Meet the Candidates
The May 18 primary election is only about 22
weeks away. It is time for voters to begin making up
their minds about the candidates for whom they will
vote.
If your mind is unsettled on the matter, or if you
have a question about some of the local vote-seekers,
we commend to you the annual candidates' night of
the League of Women Voters. ,
THE EVENT will be this Friday,-May 4, at 8 p.m.
in the Hedrick Junior High school. All or most of
the candidates for local office will be on hand to tell
why they should be elected, and there may be a few
aspirants for state and national office.
It is as good a time as any, and better than most,
to learn a bit about the people we are going to name
as our representatives and administrators for the com
ing terms. The league is to be thanked for its service
in making the opportunity possible. E. A.
War Baby
It was 15 years ago yesterday that the first U. S.
defense savings bond was sold. The purchaser was
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In the ensuing years, "war bonds", and the suc
ceeding savings bonds have become the best advertis
ed, the best known, and the most widely held secur
ities ever offered.
THE STORY of the bond program and how it de-
veloped, how it is an important factor in the na
tional economy and money-management programs,
how it is a stabilizing influence and a source of secur
ity to millions of people all these are well known,
and need not be recorded here.
What we do want to point out is that the financial
planning which raised the money to fight the war is
now a well-integrated, thoroughly-accepted, and vital
part of the nation's fiscal operations.
.The war baby has grown up. E. A.
Wednesday, Mar t. 1938
of the 20th century.
many stale old jokes about
or half-mad, mental illness
the number, and standards,
to create a new awareness
point out that facilities in
those with mental difficul
rranco Lavs uown rirm Line in
Dealing With Domestic Unrest
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co of Spain has laid down a firm
policy for his Nationalist re-
"I gime in an at
tempt to quiet
mounting un
rest. Franco him
self say that
the country
faces serious
internal prob
lems. These in-
Cbarles McCann elude public
dissatisfaction with the Falange
party, which provides the basis
for his political support, and the
dissatisfaction of workers with
economic conditions.
The political unrest broke
into the open in February when
university students became in
volved in riots with Falangists.
The students were supported by
Monarchis elements.
Last month strikes started
breaking out in Northern Spain
in protest against the lack of
balance between wages and liv
ing costs.
The strikes started in Pamp
lona, a bulwark of Nationalist
strength. They spread to the
Basque country to the west and
to Barcelona, Spain's greatest
Radio, TV Reports Become
More Popular in Congress;
Studio Facilities Provided
Washington (CQ) "And
now, as a public service, station
KRDI brings you a recorded re
port from Congressman John
Jones. Speaking from the Cap
itol, here is Congresman Jones."
Day and night, across the
land, introductions like this
point up the little-noted fact that
Congress, source of many things
to many people, has lately be
come an important supplier of
radio and television material.
In studios scattered around
Capitol Hill, Senators and Rep
resentatives last month turned
out 75,000 feet of television film
enough for 36 hours of contin
uous viewing, iney recorded
more than 200 hours of radio
talks.
Duplicated and distributed
weekly to a network of more
than 200 television and 1,000.
radio stations, their words and
gestures are magnified to awe
some dimensions.
Strictly Congressional
All this, it should be noted,
is separate from and in addition
to their appearances on commer
cial network programs. AU the
shows referred to here emanate
from the Capitol HiU radio-TV
studios owned and maintained
by Congress- as a service to its
own members.
The service has proved in
creasingly popular. Bob and
Helen Coar, who started and
still operate the 21-year-old fa
cilities, told Congressional Quar
terly: "Radio and television are
the answer to the conscientious
Congressman's prayer. They en
able him to attend to his job in
Washington and still keep in
contact with his constituents at
home."
Apparently, many Congress
men agree with this judgment.
From a single customer the late
Sen. Arthur Capper (R-Kan.)
in 1935 the Coars' clientele has
grown until it taxes available
studio space. About half the 531
Senators and Representatives
have weekly radio or TV shows
and virtually - all members do
some programs each year.
Never Defeated
The Coars flatly claim that de
feat never has come to a Con
gressman who regularly has re
ported to his constituents by TV.
We can almost sell insurance
on it," they say.
Two of their favorite talking
points are Sens. Albert Gore
(D-Tenn.) . and Karl E. Mundt
(R-S.D.). - Both : began weekly
radio shows when they entered
the House in 1939 and have con
tinued their reports as Senators.
Gore was, the Coars believe, the
first Congressman to campaign
by television.
A current success story is Rep.
Elizabeth Kee (D-W.Va.), who
succeeded her late husband in
1951 and hag been reelected
twice in her own right. Mrs. Kee
has been doing weekly shows for
five radio stations and one .tele
vision outlet in her district. This
year the filing deadline passed
with Mrs.. Kee the only candi
date of either party in her dis
trict. In November she will be
come the first West Virginian in
recent years to win unopposed
reelection to Congress.
Success for any of their cli
ents pleases the Coars. "We have
to operate on a strictly nonpar
tisan basis, of course, Mrs. Coar
explains. "Our only prejudice is
for incumbents, because they're.
the ones we work with."
Like actor-producer Robert
Montgomery, who fills some
what the same function at the
White House, Bob and Helen
Coar are veterans of show busi
ness. Bob started out in the tech
nical end, as a pioneer sound
engineer in the days when Holly
wood was discovering "talkies."
Helen's roots go even deeper.
Her father, currently a technical
industrial city, in the northeast
Franco has just met the situ
ation by making a series of im
portant speeches on policy. In
them, he set the following pat
tern for his regime:
Spain remains nominally a
monarchy.
But the Falange party is the
basic political movement. "The
Falange can govern Spain with
out the monarchy, but the mon
archy cannot govern without the
Falange."
Army Needed
The army must be "the back
bone of the motherland." The
complete loyalty of the army Is
necessary to defend internal or
der and prevent subversion.
Franco "hopes God will let
h' i live many years longer for
the good of Spain and the frus
tration of its enemies." This
was a plain statement, to the
strong Monarchist movement
that Franco has no intention of
giving up the power he has held
since the end of the civil war
in 1939.
Finally, Franco promised to
do all he could to improve the
lot of the worker. He called
for worker participation in man
agement as providing part of the
answer.
Perhaps the most interesting
feature of Franco's outline was
specialist for the Navy, worked
with Edison in his early exper
iments on motion picture cam
eras. Before World War I, Helen
enjoyed a nine-year career as one
of the original child stars of the
silent films. Billed as Helen
Badgley, the "Thanhauser Kid-
let," she emoted in a series of
thrillers on the Thanhauser lot
in New Rochelle, N.Y. .
The Coars came to Washing
ton in 1935 to open their first
radio studio on Capitol Hill
They continued to operate the
facilities on a concession basis
until 1947, when Congress took
over the facilities and hired the
Coars as managers.
15-Person Staff
Today they preside over a staff
of 15 persons and a set of stu
dios and labs scattered through
the Capitol and the Senate and
House Office. Buildings. Salaries
and operating funds are appro
priated by Congress but repaid
by the fees charged members
using the service. From those
fees, the Coars have purchased
about $300,000 worth of modern
movie and sound equipment.
There are four radio and two
TV studios, a : film processing
lab and an audio control room.
Congressmen get one day service
on their TV and radio shows at
a cost substantially below com
mercial rates. ' v
For instance, the Congressman
pays $9.99 for a five minute tel
evision film. In a commercial
studio, it would cost him be
tween $200 and $500. A 15 min
ute radio show will be recorded
by the Coars for $1.50. The min
imum in a private studio would
be $10.
Catch on Quickly
Helen says the legislators
catch on quickly to the demands
of radio and television. "With
few exceptions," she says,
"they're innate actors. All we
Rave to do is show them a few
tricks of the trade."
The Coars urge the Congress
men to keep their TV shows to
five minutes, the broadcasts to
15, as an accomodation to sta
tion schedules.
"If they want to give a straight
talk, all right. We see nothing
wrong with their using a Tele
prompter if they're nervous or
haven't had time to memorize
their speech. But we try to en
courage them to keep the shows
informal and ad lib."
Favorite sets show either a liv
ing room or an office scene, with
law books and a view of the
Capitol dome in the background.
Informal chats between the Con
gressman and a colleague, a Cab
inet member or even visiting
groups from his district are a
popular format. '
Bob Coar serves as the inter
viewer on about 40 of the more
than 100 shows a week. Over
the years the former engineer
has developed sensitivity to his
clients' needs. "We feel relaxed
with him," one legislator says.
"He knows our positions and our
problems, the subjects we like
to talk about and those we don't.
So far as I know, he's never
thrown anyone a curve."
The Coars' job ends once the
show is on film or tape. Distri
bution is left to the individual
Congressman, but usually there's
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his notice that, at 62, he has no
intention of restoring the mon
archy within the foreseeable fu
ture.
Franco announced on March
31, 1947, that Spain was a mon
archy. In event of his own death
or incapacitation, a king or re
gent would be named.
Heir to Throne
Don Juan of Bourbon is the
heir to the throne. But the Fal
ange prefers his 18-year-old son
Don Juan Carlos as king when
the monarchy is finally restor
ed as it well may be in time.
Dispatches from Madrid say
that Franco is expected soon to
give some word of encourage
ment to the Monarchists. Many
if not most of them do not like
the Falange: And the Monarch
ist movement is still going
strong. It includes especially
many influential businessmen
and many army officers.
But "El CaudUlo" the lead
er, as Franco is called has
shown that he intends to main
tain the rule he has exercized
for 17 years. His leadership is
unquestioned. And even if he
felt like giving up the leader
ship many of the most ardent
Monarchists probably would
agree that this is not the time
to do it.
Proposed Soil Bank
Nothing New; Has
2-Phase Approach
Washington The so-called
soil bank plan, or whatever
name you want to give it, is
nothing new. It is really a com
bination of some present prac
tices, a variation of other pres
ent practices, and practices once
abandoned but now to be resur
rected.
The plan has two aspects
short-term and long-term. Un
der the first, the farmer would
be recompensed for taking out
of production altogether a cer
tain amount of acreage pre
sumably much of it in good land
now in major crops in over-
supply. Here the great difference
from present practices would be
that one crop could not simply
be replaced by another in over
supply. . The objective, at least, would
be for the producer to receive
as much as he would have re
ceived, net, from that acreage
by growing an over-abundant
crop on it. And the hope would
be that thus the present oversup-
ply of agricultural products
would be so reduced that in no
more than four years the with
drawn acreage could again .be
put into production without de
pressing prices'. But that hope
could be knocked galley-west by
still higher productivity in farm
ing.
Under the long-term aspect,
farmers would be paid to take
marginal land out of production
altogether. They would - use it
for sail-conserving and water-
conserving activities. Editorial
Research Reports.
no trouble about that. Federal
regulations permit stations to
make free time available to Sen
ators and Representatives, ex
cept when they are actively cam
paigning for reelection. Most
Congressmen find their stations
more than willing to use the
material.
To critics who complain that
all this free publicity gives the
incumbent legislator an unfair
advantage over his rival, the
Coars have this to say:
"Being in Congress is a full-
time job and most of the men
up here are very conscientious
about their duties. While they're
busy working their opponents
are shaking hands and stumping
the district.
"Radio and even more, tele
vision, gives people a chance to
get to know their Representa
tive. Its a good thing for the
members, sure, because people
wiU vote for somebody they
know rather than someone they
don't know.
."But it also gives the people
a chance to spot a phony. You
can't use this medium week after
week and pretend successfully to
be something you're not"
Whatever the critics may think
of the system, it's made a hit
with the Congressmen. In this
election year, the Coars studio
schedule is getting fuller every
month. The Claghorns and Throt
tlebottoms may never attain the
popularity of the Godfreys and
Gleasons, but they re certainly
going to try.
(Copyright 1956, Congressional
Quarterly)
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About By-Past
To the Editor: In your edito
rial regarding the by-pass of
Roseburg and Salem, the lack
of by-pass shows clearly for
Medford if the proposed Gene
see route is chosen. The city will
be split instead of by-passed.
Whom will It help? Not the
hundreds of persons being dis
placed and forced from their
homes. Not the merchants who
will watch the cars streaming
by on an elevated, non-access
road leading out of town. Not
the city losing taxes from deval
uated properties extending three
or four blocks in both directions
from the highway.
How can the cost be compar
able between routes, with the
fill necessary for an 18 foot ele
vated highway, tunnels for ex
isting streets, the removal and
destruction of homes, the incon
venience to merchants from the
noise, dirt arid dust?
Why has the original proposed
west side route been abandoned?
Is the highway going to be for
the good of the many or the com
fort of the few? Undoubtedly,
somebody will be hurt, yet that
should happen to the least num
ber of persons possible. '
Let's hope and work against
another "Baldock's Folly." One
should be enough.
Jess Vail.
28 Geneva st.
Medford, Ore.
Power of Unity
To the Editor: Sometimes glor-.
ious things are happening right
before our eyes and under our
noses, so to speak, of which we
may be almost unaware, or even
totally so. I feel that, as an ob
servant citizen and one who is
sensitive to the public pulse. I
sense such a glorious thing hap
pening right now in this valley.
It Is the growing "togetherness"
of our communities.
Anyone attending the round
table luncheon of the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
last Monday,- could not have
failed to sense this increasing
blending of interests in a com
mon purpose, toward a right
goal for the good of all. It was
a most heartening example of
desire to express mutual help
fulness.
The matter at hand was the
Rogue Basin Flood Contral and
Water Resources association; its
membership and objectives. Pres
ent were citizens from Grants
Pass, Gold Hill, Central Point,
Shady Cove, Rogue River, and
Jacksonville as well as Med
ford. Everyone who wished ex
pressed his or her opinions, and
everyone who wished asked or
answered whatever " questions
they desired. Not once did any
thing of an argumentative na
ture, except in a pleasant and
Informative manner, enter the
many-sided discussion. It was a
clearing house as a clearing
house should be and everyone
present appeared to be having
the best sort of a time.
In these days, when dissen
sions would try to enter the pub
lic consciousness through many
channels, let us rejoice at these
indications of cooperation be
tween the communities of the
Rogue River valley. Unity is, in
deed, a power.
Jeunesse (Sally) Butler,
106 South Ify st,
Medford, Ore.
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A Great Person
To the Editor: Thank you for
your recent editorial in appre
ciation of Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt.
Meeting her in person brought
to mind those familiar lines -from
Kipling:
"If you can talk with crowds
and keep your virtue,
"Or walk with kings nor
lose the common touch,
"If neither foes nor loving
friends .can hurt you,
"If all men count with you,
but none too much ..."
One felt after hearing her dis
cuss the United Nations that
here was a person who had
achieved complete emotional
maturity. She has such amaz
ing poise and simplicity plus a
depth of sincerity and personal
charm that to meet her is to
love her.
And when I . recall the vio
lence with which I have often
disagreed with many of her po
litical views in the past, such a
reaction strikes me as highly
amusing, but I think all of us
who were privileged to share in
the U.N. Coffee Hour honoring
Mrs. Roosevelt, experienced it
to some degree and went away
convinced that we had met a
truly great person.
Grace N. Pearson
Route 2, Box 50
Jacksonville, Ore.
Festival Praised
To the Editor: It was Indeed
gratifying to note the public re
sponse and enthusiasm which
heralded the third annual Pear
Blossom festival. Especially so
when the event falls during a
period when it is much easier
to condemn the fruit industry
for the temporary discomfiture
of smoke from orchard heaters
than it is to praise it for provid
ing a stabilizing base to our
economy in the amount of sev
eral millions of dollars. -
In our expanding economy it
is easy to overlook the econom
ic value to the area of this prime
agricultural product. The Pear
Blossom-festival committee and
those who support it are to be
congratulated for focusing at
tention on this important in
dustry. The 'Festival serves to ac
quaint newcomers to the area
with Our famous Rogue river
fruit. It helps carry the. fame of
the Rogue River valley to other
parts of the country and it re
minds the rest of us of the dollars-and-cents
value of our own
produce in terms of jobs, supply
and equipment purchases, etc.
. On behalf of the pear indus
try so recently saluted, may w
return the compliment and say
to those who made this year's
Pear Blossom festival a suc
cess, "well done." '
Howard Bush
' President -
' Jackson County Fruit
-.. ' " ' Growers League
Knowland Sees Congress
Adjournment by July 15
Washington : (U.R5 Senate)
Republican Leader William F.
Knowland believes Congress can
complete its work and adjourn
by July 15.
The California senator said
yesterday that Congress is "in
excellent shape on appropria
tions bills," which often delay
adjournment.
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