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History from the; file of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 18. 1946
(It was Saturday)
Complete returns from Jack
son county precincts gave In
cumbent J. B. Coleman the Re
publican nomination for county
Judge; primary election held
Friday.
From Arthur "Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: All the
sweet girl graduates and just as
sweet boy graduates, will get
their sheepskins the end of the
month.
20 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1938
(It was Monday)
Staff members of the home
economic extension service of
Oregon State college to visit
Medford.
The weekend bivouac held by
Medford National Guard units
In Applegate area declared a
success by officers.
30 YEARS AGO
May 18. 1926
(It was Tuesday)
Out of the numerous dresses
entered in the Mann's depart
ment store baby dress contest,
Mrs. Joyce Norwood was first
prize winner with one dating
back to 1876.
Dr. R. W. Clancy, local or
chardist, named president of
Medford's new fruit packing
concern, the C and E Fruit Pack
ing company.
40 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1916
(It was Thursday
Little enthusiasm marks prl
mary campaign despite efforts to
arouse interest.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Reginald H. Parsons of the
Hillcrest orchards, left for Se
attle on Thursday.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 195S. Editorial Research Repeal
1. The White House walls un
der their white paint are of
stone, brick, or wood?
2. Only a few, about half, or
a great majority of the substi
tute teachers in large-city school
systems are college graduates?
3. Famous Notre Dame uni
versity is in Illinois, Indiana, Mi
chigan, Ohio or Wisconsin?
4. The 1956 Democratic na
tional convention p e r m a nent
chairman will be Senate leader
Lyndon Johnson, Speaker Ray
burn, Harry S. Truman or for
mer Vice President Garner?
. 5. A cretin is a curtain mater
ial, native of Crete, top of a vol
cano, congenital idiot, or method
of shipment?
6. Germans drink more beer
per capita than any other peo
ple; right or wrong?
7. Which one of these U. S.
Senators had both legs amputa
ted as the result of a war wound:
Douglas (111 ), Symington (Mo.),
Eastland (Miss.), Potter (Mich.),
Kennedy (Mass.)?
The answers: 1. Stone. 2. A
great majority. 3. Indiana.
4. Speaker Rayburn. 5. Congen
ital tdot. 6. Wrong. 7. Senator
Potter.
MAIL TRIBUNE
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CAMPAIGNING and electioneering are, quite prop-
erly, banned on election day. But it is both per
missible and desirable to suggest that there are a num
ber of highly important
Democratic, Republican
If the individual voter does not assume the respon
sibility of voting, the next man's vote becomes doubly
important. E. A.
27 Years
Twenty-seven years is
service of a demanding and sometimes cantankerous
public.
That is the record marked up by Frank Farrell
this week, when his retirement as Medford city attor
ney was announced. It is a
his equanimity and staying
ies from the tedious clerkly chores of preparing long
and minor ordinances to the verbal shot and shell of
political skirmishes.
CRANK'S enemies (and he has them any man who
is a man has enemies) will tell you he's been too
slow, has tried too hard to
reluctant about providing
services for the city.
Frank's friends (and he has them, too) will tell
you that he has taken the time to consider problems
from every angle which could affect the city; that he
has saved the city thousands upon thousands of dol
lars, in court action costs, and that his sage advice, trie
product of years of experience, has been of .immense
value to the voters and taxpayers or Meoiora.
e e
X7E COUNT ourself among Frank Farrell's friends.
Disagreements of-the
icies, procedures, opinions
when measured against his more than a quarter-cen-tury
of loyal service to Medford.
Frank's reputation, built throughout the state, ac
knowledges him to be one of Oregon's outstanding
city attorneys, an early mover in the League of Ore-
" . . . . m t j i
gon Cities which has done so much ior emcieni muni
cipal government, and a man of upright integrity and
unassailable honesty.
"We feel we can speak
tip our hats and say Good
"New Wonders
The Air Commerce Act
30 years ago Sunday.
One of the most fascinating bits of reading we've
run across in a long time is
Aeronautics Administration
CAA says it "is setting its
wonders to come in 1965.
THE ADMINISTRATOR
J Qof-iviATnTifY Villain occ
headed approach is to let your imagination run wild,
Otherwise, you'll soon find you are thinking in obso
lete terms."
Among other things, the CAA looks for the fur
ther development of planes
up (such as helicopters or other vertical take-off
types, including convertiplanes); those which need
only a short run to get into the air; planes designed to
take advantage of the jet-stream winds four miles in
the sky, and, as likely as not, others not yet dreamed
of- . .
QREAT CHANGES in traffic control will have
come about at the end of the next ten years.
Radar will come into increasing use. (A radar in
stallation for Medford is in the long range plans of the
CAA, incidentally.)
An extension of the use of radar, known as the
radar beacon, will be added to the nation's skyways.
One pilot has described this as a means of "printing
my name on the radar scope."
Automatic data link is another component of the
changes foreseen. This is an automatic system for
keeping tabs on position, speed and altitude of planes
in the air, relaying this to ground stations,, and then
feeding it back to pilots, along with traffic control in
structions. A LL THESE electronic devices, used to keep planes
" from crashing into the ground or each other,
would be almost beyond human capability to control
and use efficiently if it were not for the fourth com
ponent of the new systems computers.
These mechanical brains, which can do compli
cated mathematical formulae in a fraction of the time
it takes humans, will be used to correlate data, keep
track of it, and issue instructions, all within seconds.
-
THESE devices are made necessary by two things.
The- first is the ramdlv-mrmritiricr vnlnmo nf
air traffic. CAA rroiections
from about 9 million hours
1312 million in 1965.
The second is the raniri
planes, which is putting jets in the over-1,000 miles
per hour class into the same air as 100 miles per hour
i 1 j. 11
neucopters ana puaaie jumpers.
A larrre air-snare is nnw rpnnirpd fnr tfco factor
planes. It is believed, with
uie amount 01 air space can be reduced, thus permit
ting more planes to use the air Baf ely. E. A.
Friday. May 18, 1938
j o
this is a reminder that if
so quicKiy. rne polls close
races to be decided on the
and non-partisan ballots.
a long time to spend in the
remarkable testimony to
- power m a job which var
avoid litigation, has been
snappy and effective legal
past over methods, pol
fade into insignificance
i
for the city, Frank, as we
Luck, and Thanks. E. A.
was passed by congress
a news release by the Civil
to mark the event. . lhe
planning sights on new
of the CAA says, "In this
T10 nr.1v roa nctif niirn.
which can take off straight
indirntp tlmt tfcia -anil on
flown in 1954 to about
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diversif ipatinn in tvnpa nf
the use of the new devices,
Russian Manpower Reduction
Offer Falls
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet: -The
Good
1. Soviet Russia's latest move
in its sweetness and light cam
paign fell flat. The Kremlin an
nounced it would reduce its
armed forces by 1,200,000 men.
Allied leaders recognized it at
once as an obvious attempt to
weaken their defense coopera
tion. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles said that by put
ting the demobilized men into
industry and agriculture the So
viet government might increase
its war-making power, not re
duce it. Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-
ther, Allied supreme command
er in Europe, said that the
promised reduction would not
lessen the might of the Commu
nist bloc because of the develop
ment of nuclear weapons and
other new instruments of de
struction. French Premier Guy
Mollet, arriving in Moscow for
a state visit, announced firmly
as soon as he stepped from his
plane that France will remain
faithful to its alliances.
2. President Sukarno of Indo
nesia, a leading "neutralist,"
made a good impression on his
arrival in Washington to visit
President Eisenhower. No im
portant agreements were ex
pected. But the hope in Washing
ton was that Sukarno's suspicion
of the "imperialist" West might
be softened.
3. Independence negotiations
in London between Britain and
delegates from its crown colony
of Singapore were saved tem
porarily at least from collapse.
The negotiations broke down
because of Britain's insistence
of keeping control of internal
security.' The conference was
formally ended. Later, David
Marshall, Singapore's chief min
ister, announced that he wanted
to resume the talks and make
new proposals.
The Bad
1. Communist China scored
two important- successes. Great
Britain announced that it - in
tended to relax some of its re
strictions on the shipment of
strategic goods to the Reds.
These restrictions had been im
posed by the Allies because of
the Peiping government's ag
gressive policies. Prime Minis
ter Anthony Eden had tried
vainly for months to get the
United States to agree to a re
laxation. Because of Britain's
desperate need of foreign trade,
Babson Sees Good 'Future
For Well-Managed Rails
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, " Mass. Rail
roads are still considered as a
rather undesirable stepchild in
this country.
Abused, brow-
beaten, dis
c r im i n a t-
e d against
they seem to
be on the re
ceiving end of
whatever ill
fortune can be
thrown their
Rocer w. Babion way. Does this
mean that railroads will ulti
mately disappear from the Am
erican scene?
Despite-the heavy taxation of
the rails to finance highways
for competing truck and bus
lines; despite the ' failure time
and again to increase fares and
freight rates so that the roads'
expanding operating expenses
could be covered; despite union
restrictions which encourage
make work" jobs, the rails
have managed to survive. No
longer a transportation mon
opoly, its roadbeds are paral
leled by fast-moving busses and
autos. Huge trucks race beside
freight cars, mile after mile. In
the air, passengers and freight
move over tremendous distances
at five times the best rail speed.
But two world wars showed
the necessity for a strong rail
network. In World War" I, the
government found it necessary
to take over the job of placing
the rail system in a sound condi
tion. By World War II, manage
ments had completed several
years of building up the physical
property of the rails. They were
in a good position, .to handle the
sudden sharp expansion in pas
senger and freight traffic which
followed our entry into the war.
Cost-Cutting Progress
Young blood is currently lack
ing in most rail managements.
In several cases, however, virile
managements have succeeded in
cutting costs, through mechani
zation and automatic controls.
New diesels, piggy back freight
cars, use of electronics in freight
classification yards and signal
ing equipment have helped earn
ings. Efforts are now being made
to put new life into the passen
ger business by developing ultra-modern
high-speed trains. I
forecast, however, that these ef
forts will fail to recapture more
than a relatively small percent
age of the business lost to other
forms of transportation.
In the matter of finances, also,
aggressive managements have
succeeded in cutting down un
W
wieldy bigh-intereit bond capi
Flat, Writer Says
Eden decided to go ahead on his
own. The second success was the
recognition of Red China by the
Egyptian government, leader of
the Arab nations in the Pales
tine dispute. It was reported that
other Arab countries might fol
low Egypt's lead.
8. The pro-Greek revolt in
Cyprus continued unabated. An
ger in Greece, which . wants
Britain to give up the island,
blazed after the hanging of two
Greek Cypriots convicted as as
sassins. The British ambassador
in Athens was warned, because
of the possibility of "personal
danger," to stay away from a
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although
under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication
is permissible. The. Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ell letters with a
view to clarification and condensation,
not exceed 400 words.
Stay As We Are '
To the Editor: We would like
to know just who are these busi
ness men that prefer the free
way on Genessee st. It's hard to
believe that any group of them
would try . to run through the
city. In the first place they
couldn't stop to spend that nickel
at our business houses unless
they left the freeway at one end
or the other of town.
Again if it's so important, why
not send it down Seventh st.?
Maybe they could arrange some
sort of stand so we could grab
travelers as they passed through.
We're all here and have been
for years, like our homes and
neighbors. Were not trying to
shove the free way on others,
and just why have you the right
to put it on us?
Surely there's a way around
the city. That hill road they say
would affect the hospital. That
road is over a mile from the hos
pital site. If it's as noisy at that
distance, what will it do to those
of us left here? We will not
only lose our neighbors but the
value of our homes will be af
fected, so we cannot sell and get
as good as we have.
We can't map out the road but
there's surely enough land avail
able on one side or the other
of Medford. The city could be
by passed.
Please let us all stay as we are.
Mrs. John Soliss
111 Genessee st.
Medford, Ore.
talizations. Corporate reorgani
zations, reduced inventories, and
the dropping of small, money
losing branch lines also have
boosted income. Finally, the ICC
has lifted . the rails out of the
poor stepchild class by authoriz
ing more reasonable rate in
creases during the past few
years.
Bails Sound
The "bread-and-butter" activ
ity of the rails continues to be in
the heavy-commodity type
freight. Efforts to promote pas
senger and ether income with
gadgets and door-prize promo
tions will not prove permanent
ly profitable. Those roads which
stick to doing what they can do
best, and with the greatest prof
it, will win out in the long run.
Management success will best
be demonstrated by how well it
controls total labor and material
costs.
The faster growth of the South
ern area of the United States
has been the principal factor in
the impressive gain shown by the
roads operating in that region.
There is, nothing in sight to indi
cate an end to this superior
growth factor. The Eastern
"gravity" coal roads also have
an impressive year.
I forecast that in the light of
world conditions, the outstand
ing rail group will be the trans
continental roads, especiaUy
those with major operations in
the South, Southwest, West, and
Northwest. Their freight traffic
is heavy and weU diversified.
Their finances are strong, their
prior liens weU protected.
Management, in most cases, is
improving. I forecast that some
transcontinental rails, especially
those with substantial holdings
of land, mineral rights, and se
curities, will prove to be sound
investments. They are in a posi
tion to benefit from any sharp
expansion in business activity.
At the same time, good manage
ment should enable them to ride
out any temporary interruption
in the longer-term ' growth
trends.
Dr. Ralph S. Anderson
CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN
Has Opened Offices At
100 MADISON PLACE
- Between Queen Ann and Jackson Street
BY APPOINTMENT ONIYI
PHONE 2-5997
reception for visiting West Ger
man President Theodor Heuss.
3. French troops fought full
scale battles with Arab rebels
in Algeria. Bitterness intensified
not only between the French and
the rebels, but between the reb
els and the Jewish population.
French civilians killed six Arabs
in Algiers. Fifteen Jews . were
wounded by a bomb thrown into
a cafe. There was.no indication
that a basis might be found for
negotiations by which France
might grant home rule to Alge
ria and end the rebellion which
is draining men and money
from it.
Letters submitted for publication must
Freeway Objections
To the Editor: How many Med
ford -citizens know that the free
way, as planned through the city
limits, will be 150 feet wide at
base with retaining walls on
each side of the fill, nearly 20
feet high? It must be high en
ough to allow an underpass at
East Main and Jackson sts.
We need more open cross
streets, certainly no more bar
riers. It will not only be ugly it
could be dangerous.'
Monoxide seeks the lowest
level and it would descend to
the people who would be forced
to stay near the freeway because
they could not sell their homes
for enough to buy elsewhere.
I hope we have not become so
money, mad that pears are more
valuable than happy homes.
Mrs. Martha E. Gregory
Mrs. Verda Atwell
118 Genessee st." .
Medford, Ore, -.
Freeway Proposal
' To the Editor: In regard to
the proposals for the new free
way, may I suggest a ramp near
where Central ave. South joins
Riverside, then an elevated road
way without parking for two
way traffic from said ramp to
another ramp north of the Big-Y
store. This should take care of
forseeable . traffic for many
years to come and would not de
stroy any real estate values. A
concrete dividing strip in the
center between opposing lanes,
two to three ieet high and full
length of . said elevated road
way, no access roads to enter or
leave except at intersection of
Crater Lake highway. Also no
pedestrian traffic of any kind to
be permitted; one-way traffic on
lower level as is, and two-way
Ihrough traffic on upper level.
It seems these engineers hatch
up a scheme every now and then
that has no regard for where the
money is coming from. My plan
would, I'll . grant, cost a large
sum of money but there are very
definite advantages, particular
ly lower cost. '
. Now for another proposal. I
understand there are plans for
doing some road building from
Butte Falls to Klamath Falls via
Fish lake,' Lake Creek-Eagle
Point highway. The existing road
is very rough and part of it is
quite steep. I suggest a new
route for part of the way up
what is known locally as Juniper
Ridge, where an existing logging
road follows an old logging rail
road grade. This would make for
a longer but not quite so steep
grade. Forest service and coun
ty engineers please take notice.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star rt.,
Butte Falls, Ore.
Candidates Night
To the Editor: The Medford
League of Women Voters wishes
to express its sincere apprecia
tion for your very fine coopera
tion in publicizing the decent
'Meet Your Candidates" night
at Hedrick Junior High school.
Many people learned of this
event through your paper and
we feel that the large audience
present that night was due to
the publicity prior to the event.
The attendant news coverage
of the event was especially fine
and we want you to know that
we appreciate what you have
done, that we thank you for the
work entailed, and that through
your coperation "Meet Your
Candidates Night" was very suc
cesssful. . . ,
Laura N. York
Corresponding Secretary.
517 West 10th st.,
Medford, Ore.
. Danville, IU. (U.PJ Thieves
who stole a piggy bank contain
ing some personal papers from
the Kenneth Hinton home re
turned the papers Thursday but
kept the piggy bank.
Matter of
THE RACE
Arbil, Iraq Here in this
strange land of Iraq, history al
ready made is almost oppresive-
F"-11" 1 1,1 i ly prominent.
This city of
Arbil, for in
stance, is none
other than Ar
bela of the his
tory books.
Near here
Alexander the
Great inflicted
final defeat on
.useph Aisup uanus, great
King of the Persians, who fled
hence alone into the wilds of
Khorassan and there was mur
dered. But Arbil was already old
when its people saw the Mace
donian phalanx, for this is quite
probably the most ancient in
habited place in the world.
Throughout its span of countless
centuries the little city has liter
ally built itself up, out of the
surrounding plain, on its own
ruins. And the "modern" city
walls (only a couple of hundre l
years old) spring from the dizzy
verge of a man-made mesa a
hundred feet in height.
History has a trying way,
however, of never coming to a
halt. And here in this remote
province of Northern Iraq, where
the great King's golden-armored
guard broke and fled before
Alexander's spearmen, another
battle is now being fought in the
eternal struggle between Evt
and West. Or perhaps it is more
correct to say that a race is being
run here, between the destruc
tive effects of social change in
this ancient land, and the con
structive effort of the new Iraq's
boldly conceived, oil financed
development program.
THE race is of vast importance,
for- Iraq, with its Western
orientation, is the chief protec
tion of the vital oil sources on
which Britain, Europe and the
Western Alliance squarely de
pend. If Iraq changes sides, the
whole Western position in the
Persian Gulf and even in Arabia
will soon become untenable. It
is the development program that
his counted on to keep Iraq on a
steady course.
Here, if you like, is history in
the making, in the most dramatic
form. For the aim of the' devel
opment program si nothing less
than to undo the damage done
by the heirs of Genghis Khan,
who found what is now Iraq a
rich, well-irrigated land sup
porting a population of 25,000,
000, and so ravaged the irriga
tion system with their batUes
that four-fifths of the people
died of hunger. The very canals
that may first have been traced
out in the time of Hammurabi,
the lawgiver of old Babylon,
and were destroyed by Hulagu
Khan or Timur the Lame, are
now to be brought into use again.
In the end, Iraq's total of pro
ductive acres is to be almost
doubled.
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Fact By Joseph Alsep
HERE in Arbil province, the
lifegiving waters of the
Tigris and Euphrates are beyond
reach, so no new acres will be
opened for cultivation. But irri
gation is only one part of the de
velopment program which is
showing its effects in many ways
hereabouts The province has an
energetic governor, Ishmael
Hakki. All the flaUand below
the mesa, where modern Arbil
is spUling out onto the plain, is
dotted with 'Governor Hakki'a
construction projects. In one
place, a new 300 bed hospital is
slowly rising. In another is the
headquarters of the German
refugee doctor, whose mobile
clinic is the first of three motor
ized health units to serve the
more remote villages. Several
schools have already been fin
ished. Two more are under con
struction. There is even a little
park, where the suburban citi
zens take the air and schoolboy!
study their books.
All these are signs of change
in a way of life that has hardly
changed since the time of Timur
the Lame. But there are other
signs of change, too, of a very
different nature.
The old system here is essen
tially feudal so feudal that one
of the provincial grandees used
to murmur the warning, "I have
10,000 rifles," whenever the gov
ernment in Baghdad seemed to
disregard his wishes. But there
was something very like a peas
ant uprising in Arbil province
two years ago; and when this
happened the grandee had to
plead with the government for
protection against those very
rifles he once used as a threat.
,
COMMUNIST organizers, in
spired by the Tudeh party
in the Iran, were in many of the
villages then. There was a move
ment to take the land from the
rich Agas who live in Arbil
City, here was even one deputy
in parliament from Arbil prov
ince with known Communist
.leanings. By a great deal of
persuasion and some pretty
sharp pressure, Governor Hakki
set the province in order again.
All is outwardly peaceful now.
All the same, beneath the sur
face, the pressures and the ten
sions still exist. The peasants
still want the land the Agas own.
There are still aspirations for
better things that cannot easily
be satisfied at once. And the de
velopment program is very slow,
as all great programs must be
so slow indeed that five more
years may pass before really
large new farming acreages are
opened to Iraq's people. -
This makes the race between
the forces of construction and
the forces of destruction. I asked
Governor Hakki which was
likely to win, and he answered,
"who can tell the winner of any
race with real certainty?"
(Copyright 1956.
Ne vrYork Herald Tribune. Inc.)
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