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History from the tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. SO and
t0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1946
(It was Saturday)
A street parade and servicer
In city park will highlight Me
morial day observance in Med
ford, Col. W. H. Paine, in charge
of arrangements, has announced.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: E. Kubli
and Leon Offenbacher, Apple
gate farmers, cowmen and men
up and down the road towned
Thursday.
20 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1936
(It was Monday)
The season's first limit catch
of salmon at Casey's camp-on
the upper Rogue was reported
today by George M. Bower,
Santa Barbara, Calif., sports
man. A change In the United Air
Lines schedule, effective June 1,
announced by Frank DeSouza,
postmaster.
30 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1926
(It was Tu2sday)
Medford Realty board reor
ganized at a meeting in the
Chamber of Commerce building.
At Monday night's meeting of
the Medford American Legion
Post, Commander John Enders
of Ashland post was guest.
40 YEARS AGO
Mar 25, 1918
(It was Thursday)
A. R. Enyatt, who is drilling
for artesian water on Frank G.
Owens' residence property, has
had success.
The official vote of Medford
gives Hughes 416, Cummins 375,
and Burton 84.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research
Report
1. Which two Cabinet mem
bers didn't go to college: Secre
tary of Defense Wilson, Treasury
Secretary Humphrey, Postmas
ter Gen. Summerfield, Labor
Secretary Mitchell, Attorney
Gen. Brownell, Agriculture Sec
retary Benson?
2. Venereal disease Infects (a)
2,000, (b) 20,000, (c) 200,000, or
(d) 2.000,000 teen-agers a year in
the United States?
3. Johann Strauss composed
about (a) 14, (b) 40, or (c) 400
waltzes in addition to "The Blue
Danube"?
4. Rulers of which two Middle
East countries are cousins: (a)
Egypt and Syria, (b) Iraq and
Jordan, (c) Lebanon and Yemen,
or (d) Iran and Iraq?
5. The mockingbird is the offi
cial state bird of Arkansas, Flor
ida, Mississippi, Tennessee, or
Texas?
6. A woman will run for Vice
President of the United States in
the November 1956 election;
right or wrong?
7. Manfred B. Lee and Fred
eric Dannay are joint authors of
what series of detective stories?
las afwvi; a F uiuuiu ib
Gen. Summerfield, Secretary of
Labor Mitchell. 2. 200,000 a
year, according io Dr. E. Gurney
Clark of Columbia university.
3. About 400 waltxes. 4. King
Faisal of Iraq and King Hussein
of Jordan. 5. Official bird of all
five states. 6. Right (Socialist
Labor party has nominated Mrs.
Georgia Cozzini of Milwaukee).
7. Ellery Queen stories.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Salt
A gentleman whose name we failed to catch drop
ped into the office a few
election with a question :
ing down some of the mud
which go with a political campaign?
It's a good question, but one without a ready an
swer. It's a free country, after all, and the limits o:
propriety have long been
point during our biennial
TF IT IS any consolation,
A ent standards of political conduct are somewha
higher than they have been
last century, calling one s
and a no-good was considered not only the thing to
do, but a candidate who did not engage m such name
calling was considered to be passing up a golden op-portunity.
It is somewhat better
usually wrapped in the toga
ed as a deplorable necessity. The technique these days
is more in the line of lifting things from context, put
ting the worst possible interpretations upon them, and
making unsaid implications.
Yet, in the face of these techniques, it is a staunch
candidate indeed who can keep his head and his tem
per.
X7E QUESTION the efficacy of even these toned-
T down attempts at name-blackening.
The Oregon Journal,
same problem, recently declared :
We have had many evidences that the American people
like fair play and resent mud-slinging. They have shown
this sometimes even when the victim of attack really is un
worthy ....
We are now heading into a fall campaign which prom
ises more than its share of bitter attack and counter-attack.
Some people profess to enjoy this sort of thing, but we1 fail
to see how people who think with their minds instead of
their emotions can really enjoy it.
WERE asked another question during the re-
cent campaign, to the effect that the questioner
didn t see how newspaper
right in the middle of things, could appear so calm
and unaffected by what goes on.
"We are no more immune to righteous indignation
than the next individual. But we attempt to look at
things m a perspective which takes into account the
historic character of American political campaigns,
the personalities of the individuals, the fact that per
sonal assault is becoming
the calming assurance that,
We find that taking all
helps prevent a later necessity for aspirin. E. A.
The Role of Sports
We have the perhaps naive view that athletics in
colleges should be amateur, rather than professional
or quasi-professional.
It seems to us that the
gram at schools of higher learning or at secondary
schools, for that matter is in an over-all program of
well-rounded personal development. The exciting
spectator sports football,
are fine for those individuals who enjoy them and get
something from them.
But we long have had a
given over-inflated values
brand of alumni boosters.
"THE RECENT action of
A ence in lowering the boom on UCLA and Wash
ington depriving them of
tain future contests, (and of
from) only tends to confirm this opinion.
The violation of PCC
increasing concern over a period of years, and the
coaches and university officials who condoned the
practice have nothing of which to be proud. Rumors
of professionalism in college athletics have given rise
to cvnicism and disgust.
It is for this reason that the harsh action of the
PCC, and the assumption they ,were acting on the
basis of fact, appear justified.
"THERE IS a possibility that the unpleasant business
will not stop here, for other schools are under sus
picion of comparable activities. It would be to the ulti
mate welfare of the schools to get the thing into the
open and thoroughly cleaned up.
If, as a result, the importance of spectator athletics
is somewhat lessened, it may be a blow to the"Siwash"
boosters,' but it won't hurt our feelings nor those of
the educators jvho have been at a loss how to counter
professionalism in sports, and who have felt that it has
detracted from the integrity of their schools.
OERHAPS other aspects of the athletic programs
can receive, as an allied result, a heightened im
portance which we think they deserve. Some skill and
training in such sports as tennis, golf, swimming,
mountain climbing, skiing, handball, etc., etc. these
will be of value and profit for many years to come.
True, they won't pay for university sports palaces
or coliseums from gate receipts. They might even take
a bigger slice of academic budgets if the income from
from spectator sports drops off.
But they do have a role to play in the development
of an individual as a balanced and rounded person
ality. E. A.
Jayne Mansfield Wins Chiropractic Award
New York (U.R) Blonde ac
tress Jayne Mansfield was award
ed a scroll and citation today in
recognition of "her vertebral
pulchritude and other physical
charms."
A committee of chiropractors
Friday, Mar 25, 195S
Helps
days before the primary
How can we go about slow
- slinging and name-calling
stretched to the snapping
contests for public office.
we can reflect that the pres-
in times past. During the
political opponent a chea'
today. The name-calling is
of civic virtue and excus-
in ruminating about the
people, who are perforce
less and less successful, and
this too will pass.
politics with a grain of salt
true value of a sports pro
baseball and basketball-
feeling that they have been
by the "good-old-Siwash"
-
e
the Pacific Coast confer-
eligibility to play m cer
course the receipts there
rules has been a matter of
making the award announced
"While Miss Mansfield unques
tionably has pronounced phy
sical charms in addition to her
spinal appeal, we are interested
solely in her vertebral align
ment ..."
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Week's Good, Bad News Listed;
H-Bomb Drop Success
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The Good
1. The United States dropped
an H-bomb from a B52 intercon
tinental bomber plane over lit
tle Namu island in the western
Pacific. The test was completely
successful. It teamed the terri
ble destructive power of the H
bomb to the w o r 1 d's fastest
giant bomber. Thus there was
added to the American arsenal
a new weapon which could de
stroy any city, anywhere in the
world, in answer to an attack
Who Are Best Graduates?
Babson Speculates on Tests
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass The
practice now followed by the
personnel departments of large
corporations to
secure the best
graduates
from high
schools and
colleges is ab-
solutely
wrong. They
interview
those gradu
ates whose
Boger W. Babson marks place
them among the highest 10 or
20 per cent of their class. This
custom may disrupt the entire
class and spoil some of the grad
uates. When a graduate, or any
one else, gets the idea he is "in
dispensable," it is a dangerous
situation. .
The marks which one receives
in high school or college are
largely due to memory. These
marks are no index of industry,
loyalty, or even common sense
Educators preparing examina
tions try to devise questions
which determine "judgment,"
but the students learn the ques
tions and answers in advance.
This even results in judgment
tests being determined largely
by memory. Memory is very im
portant; but it does not take the
place of judgment, loyalty, integ
rity, or the fundamentals which
make and break corporations.
$64,000 Questions
Educators are greatly disturb
ed over the fabulous question
tests which the radio and televis
ion chains are operating. To have
a horse jockey become the leader
for data on art; or to have a cob
bler secure such a reputation for
his knowledge of opera; or to
hear of others of these "mirac
les," is very disturbing.
Yet, they get far better results
from these jockeys and cobblers
than from many professors or ex
perts on the subject. I forecast
that these results will complete
ly revolutionize educational me
thods, standards, and tests. Eith
er the nation is missing the in
tellectual capacity of thousands
of unknown and humble people,
or else the professors and ex
perts are standing on very thin
ice.
Quiz Kids?
Educational leaders are giving
the "Quiz Kids" much thought
and worry. The 10-year-old boy
who answered questions on the
stock market naturally interest
ed me greatly, since I have given
my entire life to stock market
problems. The answers given by
this kid could not be matched by
any member of the New York
Stock exchange. But how much
will it amount to? My organiza
tion wiU spend considerable
time and money watching this
10-year-old hoy.
All I can say now is that I
once employed the man who had
been the youngest to graduate
from Harvard college, up to that
time. He could perform wonder
ful feats in mathematics. I felt
he would be a great aid for Bab
son's Reports. We, however,
could not keep him at work on
the things for which he was best
fitted. He had a hobby of collect
ing street car transfers. I have in
my library a book which he
wrote on the subject. Finally, he
refused to do anything but run
a lawn mower. Yet he received
very high marks in college.
Newsboys Are Worthy
If I were an employment man
ager, I would make a study of
newsboys. A successful newsboy
must have a fair memory. He
must have courage, initiative,
honesty, and industry. I have a
friend, Harry B. Taplin of Wel
lesley, Mass., who is making
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on the United States. It was re
ported that in further tests, next
month, the United States might
set off another new weapon
possibly an H-bomb warhead at
tached to a pilotless missile.
2. President Eisenhower had
some comforting words for
Americans who fear that the
free world is losing ground to
the Communists in the cold war.
He said that troublesome new
problems were rising in West
East competition, economic as
well as military. Things are far
from perfect, he said in a Wash
ington press conference. But, he
held: "I think there is too much
pessimism . . . we are making
study of newsboys. Certain
qualities must be possessed . by
all boys (and girls) who deliver
newspapers to homes. I especial
ly, however, have in mind those
boys who hold the busy locations
on downtown street corners of
our big cities. I have never made
a study of these boys, but my
hunch is that they often become
very successful in business, if
given an opportunity. I wish ev
ery newspaper in which this col
umn is published would make a
study of its newsboys.
It is useless to discuss the
great problem of education in a
column such as this. I, however,
wish to leave with readers two
thoughts:
(1) That there is something
fundamentally wrong with our
present educational system of
marking and promoting. These
radio and, television exhibits
should make many college pro
fessors and trustees shame-faced.
(2) If you have a boy or girl of
good character and habits who
graduates in the lowest 20 per
cent of his or her class, don't be
discouraged. The chances of such
graduates may be just as good as
if graduating at the head of their
high school or college classes.
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Very Grateful
To the Editor During the re
cent primary election campaign
I was not able personally to get
around the county as much as
I would have liked because of
the amount of work we had in
the office. For that reason I feel
that I am very much indebted to
all those friends who gave so
generously of their time and
energies to help me and to fur
ther the interests of law enforce
ment in our county.
I would particularly like to
express my appreciation to all
the members of my "committee,"
to the members of my own staff
in the district attorney's office,
to the officers and employees
of the various county offices,
and to the law enforcement
agencies, for their loyalty and
friendship during the campaign,
which mean so much to me per
sonally. Lastly, the support of this
paper and the Ashland Daily
Tidings, and the approval of the
people of the policies which I
have adopted, and the effort
which I have made as district
attorney towards consistant and
effective law enforcement, makes
me feel a little humble and very
grateful.
Walter D. Nunley
District Attorney for
Jackson County
Appreciation
To the Editor: The Blue Star
Mothers, Chapter. No. 2, Med
ford, wish to express their grat
itude to the public for" their gen
erous response to the sale of
blue daisies" on the streets of
Medford, May .18 and 19.
We also wish to thank the city
officials and merchants of Med
ford for their cooperation, when
the state convention of the Blue
Star Mothers was held here in
April. They especially wish to
thank the Medford Mail Tribune
for the publicity given both
events.
Mrs. Fred Middlebusher
Blue Star Mothers
Chapter No. 2
Medford, Ore.
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is Hailed
progres, although it is slow and
tortuous and, at times, disap
pointing." 3. The visit of President Su
karno of Indonesia, a leading
Asian "neutralist," to the United
States promised to bring good
results. In his speeches, Sukarno
criticized the American military
aid program. But he also had
many friendly things to say. He
showed a warm, appealing per
sonality which won him friends.
There seemed reason to hope
that he would return home with
a more favorable view of Amer
ican policy.
The Bad
1. The increasing friendliness
of President-Premier Gamal Ab
del Nasser of Egypt to the Com
munists caused serious misgiv
ings in Washington. Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles ex
pressed regret at Nasser's recog
nition of Communist China.
President Eisenhower, at his
press conference, said that he
thought Nasser was making a
mistake. Nasser, the next day,
announced that he had accepted
an invitation to visit Chinese
Red Premier Chou En-lai. It was
announced also that Nasser
would send a military mission to
Peiping, the Red capital, led by
his defense minister.
2. France seemed heading to
ward another of its many cabi
net crises. Pierre Mendes
France, co-leader of the govern
ment coalition, resigned from
his post as vice-premier because
of disagreements with Premier
Guy Mollet over Algerian and
other issues. Mollet announced
that he would demand a vote of
confidence in a debate next
week on North African policy.
He was expected to win it. But
his shaky government appeared
to be getting steadily weaker.
3. The Cyprus situation got in
creasingly explosive. In London,
special guards were given cabi
net ministers and the Duke of
Edinburgh, husband of Queen
Elizabeth, in fear of assassina
tion attempts by Greek Cypriots
enraged by the murder of a
Turkish policeman in Cyrpus,
stoned Greek shops. British
troops intervened to prevent
new outbreaks. The Cypriot ex
tremists called out school chil
dren, including girls six years
old, to insult and stone British
soldiers.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Big "news" in the papers. This
paragraph will explain it:
As a plain tourist. Harry Tru
man is seeing Europe. In Italy
the other day, he looked over
the Salerno beachhead. He re
marked that the bloody battles
there and at Anzio during World
War n were in his crisp phrase
"totally unnecessary and
planned by some squirrel-head
ed general."
OY! Did that start something!
Tn nrapHpallw rn fimo nt nil
the wires and the air waves all
over the world were spitting and
crackling like the fur on a cat's
back when you stroke it during
a thunderstorm.
The static was particularly
violent in England, for it was a
British general and a British
field marshal who planned and
executed the bloody Anzio land
ing, and it was a distinguished
British prime minister who urg
ed this thrust at the "vulnerable
underbelly of the Axis" which,
you wiU probably remember,
didn't turn out too well.
The British general who com
manded the British Eighth army
during the operation sputtered:
"-The man (meaning Truman) is
talking absolute nonsense."
'TlHE ensuing ruckus shook
Harry considerably as sim
lar ruckuses have shaken many
a man who spoke his mind too
freely and regretted it when his
words got into print. He prompt
ly said he DIDN'T SAY IT as
many another man has done
when his spoken words turned
out to be none too wise. '
The' correspondent who quot
ed him says he DID say it that
he wrote down the words as the
ex-President was speaking and
that his memory and his notes
agree.
JID he say it?
wouldn't know. But it cer
tainly sounds like him.
Also
It may be true. The Anzio
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Calculating Candidate
Campaign Costs, Hard,
But They Come High
Washington (CQ) Cal
culating the cost of the Presi
dential primary campaigns of
Adlai E. - Stevenson and Sen.
Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) is dif
ficult if not impossible.
In addition, potential nomi
nees like Sen. Lyndon B. John
son (D-Texas) and Gov. Averell
Harriman (D-N.Y.) are spending
little, if any, of other people's
money and toting up the cost of
their activities is impossible, un
less they take the unlikely
course of disclosing the figures.
' Democrats acquainted with
the problem of financing an ac
tive campaign estimated the cost
of one day's operation at a mini
mum of $500. Included are mini
mum figures for cost factors like
rent ($20); personnel salaries
($285); transportation ($75); liv
ing expenses ($30); telephones
($40), and miscellaneous things
such as mailing, lighting and
heating $50). These averages do
not include other costs such as
advertisements and radio and
television broadcasts.
Disclosure Not Required
The main reason the Demo
cratic candidates do not discuss
the amount of money raised and
spent in their behalf is simple:
There's no law requiring dis
closure. In addition, as Kefauver
pointed out Jan. 12: "It's noj the
practice to do it."
Nathan Minow, a member of
Stevenson's law firm, May 10
told Congressional Quarterly
there would be no disclosure be
cause "for one group to do so
and have another group keep
their figures unpublished would
cause embarrassement of those
who had contributed to the
group which publicized their
figures."
Col. William A. Roberts May
8 said the national campaign
headquarters for Kefauver so
far had collected and spent about
$125,000. He estimated an addi
tional $200,000 would be needed
to keep the Kefauver organiza
tion operating until the Aug. 13
Democratic convention.
Minow said the Stevenson
forces mailed out 60,000 pieces
of literature in January to per
sons who had written Stevenson
since he was a Presdiential
candidate in 1952. . From this,
Minow said, came 12,000 re
sponses. He said 90 per cent of
landing was no shining military
success, as every GI who was
there will testify.
T THINK I know just how Har-
x ry came to do what he did.
As a boy,, he grew up in the
rich bottom lands of the Mis
souri river, where the paper hor
nets flourish. These hornets,
which' pack a powerful wallop,
build oval paper nests; which
they hang to the boughs of the
trees. No Missouri bottom boy
who ever lived could resist the
temptation to heave a rock at
these nests.
And practically no boy who
ever followed his impulses and
heaved a rock at a paper hor
net's nest came off without get
ting badly stung and wishing
after it was all over that he
hadn't done it. And then throw
ing another rock at the next one
he saw hanging on a tree. .
I'll bet Harry heaved a rock
at every paper hornet's nest he
ever saw.
HE'S like that
And
Somehow
One can't help feeling a sneak
ing liking for the cocky little
rascal when he cuts loose one of
his characteristic verbal hay
makers. One just naturally ad
mires outspoken people except
when they speak out with some
biting crack that ruffles ONE'S
OWN dignity.
That is a different matter. "
ANYWAY, I'll bet that Harry
wishes now he hadn't said
it just as every time when he
was rubbing turpentine on the
painful stings of the paper hor
nets he wished he hadn't thrown
a rock at the nest.
WAINSCOTT'S
Main at Riverside
m
these contributions were under
$10; the total raised from this
first mailing was $82,000. Since
then, Minow said, there has
been no disclosure of the contri
butions received by Stevenson.
Loosely Knit
The campaigns conducted by
Harriman and Johnson have not
necessitated the raising of large
amounts of money. Their organi
zations are loosely knit groups
of personal friends or political
allies whose activities are paid
for by the candidate himself or
do not require expenditures of
money.
The figures made public rep
resent only part of the cost They
do not include money raised in
the states where candidates have
campaigned or been entered In
the primaries. The money raised
in a state and spent there usual
ly is not carried on the books of
the national campaign commit
tee. Handling the money and other
activities of the candidates in
1956 is a corps of experienced,
"old pro" politicians. For in
stance, Kefauver's principal ad
visers include J. Howard Mc
Grath, former Democratic na-i
tional chairman, and F. Joseph
(Jiggs) Donahue, onetime head
of the District of Columbia
board of commissioners.
Stevenson's principal advisers
include veteran Pennsylvania
political leader James A. Finne
gan; former Air Force Secretary
Thomas K. Finletter and former
Assistant D e f e nse Secretary
Anna Rosenberg.
DeSapio In Charge
Harriman's strategy is being
guided by New York National
committe member Carmine De
Sapio, a veteran of his state's
political activities, and George
Backer, a wealthy New Yorker
and former N.Y. Post publisher
who has long been regarded as
Harriman's political deputy chief
of staff.
Johnson, In his recent rout of
Texas Gov. AUan Shivers for
control of the party organiza
tion there, was guided by House
Speaker Sam Rayburn, who
originally proposed Johnson as
the Lone Star state's "favorite
son" to the convention.
(Copyright 1956, Congressional
Quarterly)
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