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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads xn Muxnmme- tublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERAI.n LATHAM. Busmen Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H- ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation' Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a econd class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act of Aiarcn a, iavt SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3-50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 15.00 Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers Be per copy Ail ierms tasn in avarice Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County " United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF cutcumuua AWreST-HOLLIDAYnO&IPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 5Sa K'5'S" famiiiMisV'iJi urn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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 May 27. 1946 (It was Friday) Workmen will complete repair of a 90-foot break in the Med ford Irrigation district flume this afternoon, according to J. M. Spencer, district manager. From- Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Fall foot wear soon on hand" (SF Chron icle) No place for it. 20 YEARS AGO May 27, 1938 (It was Wednesday) Attention to state helath reg ulations was called today by Dr. L. D. Inskeep, city health officer, as he reported an out break of whooping cough. A crew from the Umpqua na tional forest starts work on clear ing west entrance to Diamond lake. 30 YEARS AGO May 27. 1926 (It was Thursday) One of the largest rattlesnakes ever captured in Jackson county was brought to the city last night by W. M. Wilkey, 124 King st. A program with large variety of numbers will be presented to the Jackson Parent-Teachers' circle on the Jackson school lawn. 40 YEARS AGO May 27, 1916 (It was Saturday) J. R. Buckmaster brought to this office today a branch from one of his early cherry trees, showing the ripened product. Plans for a small sawmill and box factory in Medford being ar ranged by E. C. and W. L. Welch of Rogue River and Asbestos. What's the Answer? 1. In the Democratic conven tion four years ago the Florida delegates were mostly for Ke fauver, Stevenson, Sen. Russell (Ga.) or Harriman? 2. The new world distance rec ord for point-to-point glider flights is (a) 153 miles, (b) 395 miles, (c) 416 miles, or (d) 531 miles? 3. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia made a state visit in mid-May to Egypt, France, Great Britain, In dia, or Russia? 4. New regulations for hand ling security cases have been adopted by the Air Force, Army, Navy, or all three services? 5. More men than women, more women than men, or about as many women as men die of myocardial infarction (heart at tacks? 6. India is the largest, and the U.S.A. next to the largest, repub lic; the republic with the third biggest population is Brazil, In donesia, or Pakistan? 7. A peavy is a breaker boy in a coal mine, a spiked pole used in logging, a small outbuilding on a farm? The answers: 1. RusseU. 2.416 miles. 3. France. 4. Army only. 5. About as many women as men, according to studies at Washing ton U. Medical school, St. Louis. 6. Indonesia (pop. 81 million). 7. Spiked pole. Spokane (U.R) Dalea P. Cornwell, 19, Spokane, has been arrested by FBI agents on a charge of attempting to derail a Union Pacific passenger train near Boardman, Ore. MAIL TRIBUNE "Bill" In referring to the passing of William A. Gates at Palm Springs last Friday, we can say that he will be mourned by a host of friends, young and old, without being charged with using an old familiar cliche. We are sure that many, indeed, will feel a deep and personal loss, because Mr. Gates was a kindly man with a vast capacity for friendship; easy to meet and to know. "LD timers will miss him because Bill Gates was, himself, an old timer. Whenever a receptive ear was at hand, he loved to indulge in nostalgic memories of early days in the Rogue River Valley, when he entered the automobile business with his brother, the late C. E. "Pop" Gates. That was back in 1915. Five years later he pioneered the self-service food busir ess in southern Oregon with Bill Lydiard. VOUNGSTERS, too, have lost a friend in Bill Gates, who always had a cheery greeting for them in his store or on the street. One of his most satisfying activi ties was helping to plan and finance an annual Christ mas turkey dinner for children of the Valley, with an assist from the Salvation Army. . ' ' ? . . ANOTHER thing is certain. William A. Gates will be missed in civic and business circles of this city. Being a gregarious man he enjoyed participation in clubs and fraternal orders, yet always seemed to have the time and energy to do his bit for the community he loved. . Long a sports enthusiast, Bill Gates never missed the opportunity to help along his favorite sport, base ball, and athletics in general. CINCE early manhood, Mr. Gates was an avid reader, a home-spun philosopher, and indulged in such unusual hobbies as egyptology and archaeology. In recent years he extended his many interests to the study of religions, and to enjoy speculation and con templation along these lines he frequently sought the solitude of remote and scenic roadways of the Rogue River Valley, a habit known to few of his close friends. I There would happen heavenly place the Koran in Omar Khayyam's bowl "Peoria Bill" Gates is most likely to be with his cronies of yesteryear Smudge Pot Perry, Judge Kelly and the rest of them, in friendly argument and spinning tall yarns over 3-cushion billard, snooker and rummy tables. After a long, busy and useful life this would be, we believe, the reward Bill Gates would want and appreciate most of all. H.G. Oregon Democrats Lead but . . . Monroe Sweetland of the "Oregon Democrat" is naturally delighted with the present Oregon registra tion totals which show' the Republicans falling behind the Democrats- by 23,350 this has only happened four times in over.a quarter What does it mean? the switch as follows, quote : "This means that the people of Oregon are fed up with the GOP special interest government at both the state and national level. The 1954 election which gave Oregon a Dem ocratic Senator and Congresswoman indicates that the trend away from GOP is a long-term one. It shows the Democratic trend is running deep." Perhaps the "Democrat" the state record m this registration department, we have our "douts." For example The Democrats have exceeded the Republicans in registration only four times; twice in 1950, once in 1951, and this year. Yet only in 1954, when the Republican registra tion exceeded the Democratic, did the Democrats win important national offices. And durinsr the period of Democratic "FDR" and Governor Charles Martin control, when Oregon went Democratic with great consistency, the Republican ad vantage m registration was highest, in 194 tor ex ample, there were 295,000 registered Republicans to only 122,000 Democrats. HOW COME? Well, there is only one answer we can see, to-wit: The important thing is not how the people register but how they VOTE. And they don't vote and in Oregon at least, they won't -vote on strictly party lines. The hard-core partisans in both parties of course will, but the people who decide 90 of the elections the independents won't. They will put the man above the party, just as Senator Morse has al ways put principle above politics. If the party Big Shots in Salem, or in W ashington, D.C., don't like this there is nothing they can do about it for that is the way it always has been in this state, and that is the way it is always going to be, judging by the record. CALIFORNIA is even a more striking example of this repudiation of vote-the-ticket-straight princi ple. For several years the Democrats have outnumber ed the Republicans by large majorities down there at one time nearly two to one, yet when it came to vot ing the Republicans have won ever since the FDR era, and today the Grand Old Party controls every impor tant political office in the IN THE RECENT Oregon more Republicans did vote, while approximately 40.000 registered Democrats voted ao-ainst Wavne Morse the party nominee Sunday. May 27, 1958 Gates to be an Elks- club in that calls the lofty towers, or they call the sky, there ' of a century. The "Democrat" interprets is right, but looking over state but one. primary although more for the senate, and the strongest man the party Has Had to offer the electorate in over a generation. Just why this should be, we don't know. But there it is, and as we see it, it is a wholesome and healthful sign." For if there were not in both parties many voters who when it comes to election day refuse to follow the party lines, and vote as their judgments and con sciences dictate, the majority party would always win, and a virtual political dictatorship would result. 'J'HE Oregon Democrat concludes: "Thus Oregon Democrats must now turn to the difficult job of getting out the vote A big turn-out requires tough, diligent precinct-work by legions of party workers. Only in this way can the Democrats win the election and capture the key offices. Only in this way can we earn the right to govern." v This is true and entirely sound party doctrine. The only difficulty is, how to do it. We fear the majority or at least the determining minority will pick and choose this coming Novem ber very much as they have, for so many years, in the past. The 100 regulars in neither party will like it, but what can they do about it? Nothing, the record of both parties indicates. R.W.R. A Sham Battle ' What would happen if Senator Neuberger should announce after the Chicago convention that because of the platform stand on the negro and civil rights he could no longer consistently support his party but would resign and join up with the Republicans? Would all the papers in Oregon or almost all of them howl as they are now howling, about the sanc tity of party regularity and the utter criminality of placing what one believes is right, above what one's party stands for? Of course not. There wouldn't be a sound of protest, and in some GOP sanctums there would be broad smiles and gen uine applause the latter perhaps, slightly muffled. , ' "IX7HAT. BETTER evidence could any fair-minded person wish, than this, to demonstrate the hul labaloo about apostasy, treason and scuttling the ship-of-state-for-personal-agrandizement, as far as Wayne Morse is concerned, is a lot of noise and fury signi fying nothing but a pious fraud pique, pride and outraged partisanship? ' QR LET it be imagined that Senator Byrd of Vir- ginia, who has never been a Democrat by convic tion but only by inheritance, should announce at the same time that he would leave the Democratic party and join the Republican, would there be loud outcries of rage and resentment in Republican ranks, here, there and anvwhere in GOP circles? Again, of COURSE not. Well, if it is NOT wrong for a Democrat to turn Republican, why is it not only wrong but an unpardonr able sin a capital off ense f or a Republican to turn Democrat? We trust before the campaign is over this question will be answered. Meanwhile, some of the more en lightened Republican editors, admit there was noth ing wrong in our senior Senators action, that he had a perfect right to change parties in mid-stream so to speak, but they can't forgive him for voting with the Democrats when he was elected as a Republican, and before he registered as a Democrat. What is so wrong with that? It is done every day in both houses of. congress. If that were not true, the Eisenhower administration would be helpless, for with the Democrats in numer ical control, the GOP could get no legislation what ever passed. In short, from the standpoint of party regularity our government -So, it is all very silly, as we see it; this attempt to defeat Senator Morse not on his excellent record of over a decade ; not on principles and policies in which he believes; but solely because he dared to transfer his allegiance from one party to another, and as a member of the opposition dared to criticise his former party chieftain, on the basis of tactics whicn ne be lieved to be wrong. That is the time-honored privilege of the opposition and all free American citizens. 1 "THE combination to "get" Morse or else, is tremen- dously powerful ; will, in sharp contrast to the Ore gon Senior Senator have unlimited funds, and of course they may win. But as far as anything in the future, and particu larly in politics can be certain, they will never win on this specious plea of party regularity and partisanship inviolate alone. AS THE registration records noted above demon strate, the people of Oregon admire independ ence in others, insist upon it for themselves, have great respect for public officials who hew to the line of principle letting the chips fall where they may, and no respect at all for those who demand they "vote the party ticket straight," regardless. If the old pachyderm is to have his way again, he will, we believe, have to think up something more convincing and effective in favor of replacing Kthe Wayne Morse type with the Doug McKay type in the U. S. Senate, as representative of the State of Oregon, for six more years, than he Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q Seven of the 10 men cur rently serving in President Eisenhower's Cabinet are the ori ginal appointees named by the President when he first took of fice. Can you name the two Cab inet posts that have changed hands during the Eisenhower is m constant flux. has to date. R.W.R. Administration (the third is vacant)? A Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare. The first Eisen hower Labor Secretary, the late Martin P. Durkin. re signed Aug. 31. 1954. and was followed by James P. Mitchell. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, first HEW Secretary, resigned July 13, 1955, and was succeeded by Marion B. Folsom, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay re signed March 9. He has not yet been replaced Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer Although under certain circum stances the use ot a oca name or initial for publication la Dermis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted tor oublica Uon must not exceed 400 words Memorial Day To the Editor: "Here dead lie we because we did not choose "To live and shame the land from which we sprung. "Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; "But young men think it is, and we were young." These lines could be from the spirit of a soldier who died in battle.- Though living survivors of battles 'dated as far back as Chickamauga, Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, Manila Bay, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Woods, etc., are old men now, at the time the fallen ones of those named places did fall "they were young," just as those of Anzio, Corregidor, Inchon Harbor, and the Yalu River. , In the 88 years from 1868 to 1956, Memorial Day has been a day to honor our soldier dead. Many other scenes of battle could be added to those I have mentioned. To members of the Disabled American Veterans, al most every place named brings back memories of buddies who feU on those battlefields. Among our members are those whose memory of Korea are still fresh, and there are those who remem ber the Spanish American War as if it were only yesterday. Men who face battle together grow as close as brothers. All of us who survived those battles will remember and mourn those of our former comrades in arms who are with us no more. There are few people whose memories do not need jogging occasionally, even concerning things they want and intend nev er to forget. Frankly, we of the DAV are determined that the American public shaU not forget the disabled veteran. This could seem a selfish motive, but it is far from that. We are compara tively fortunate, not only be cause we did come back alive, but because, though a great many of our number have sus tained amputation of limb, or loss of eye-sight or hearing, and other handicaps, we are still able to work for the benefit of those even more badly disabled veterans who need our help. On Memorial Day of 1956 we of the DAV renew' our pledge to our fallen comrades that their brief lives and untimely deaths shall have counted for some thing. The lives that have been lost cannot be recovered, but they should, and must, be the basis of a greater glory and a firmer peace -for the nation whose struggles demanded their sacrifice. Pat Graham, Adjutant and Service Officer, Jackson County Chapter No. 8, Disabled American Veterans Clean Politics ' To the Editor: In the May 21 issue of the Tribune, the Right Honorable Frank Jenkins made a few statements which I must question. He says "It was a clean, gen tlemanly, sportsmanlike con test," the last primary election being in mind, "in the best Ore gon tradition and there seems to be no reason why Oregon Republicans can't get together behind McKay to defeat Sena tor Morse who, as expected, won the Democratic nomination decisively." Was he deaf, dumb, and blind when the Honorable(?) McKay was running off at the mouth throwing villification and vitup eration at the Senator? It may be he was, but I doubt it very much. To me, McKay showed his extreme littleness and his lack of good manners during the whole of the campaign. In my book, NO MAN who stoops to such means to sneak into public office is anywhere near worthy of any public office of any kind. If our friends, the Republi cans, stoop to accept such a man they show that they, too, are just as unprincipled as the man they seek to put into the high post of a Senator. As for me, I should rather vote for a yeUow cur as to vote for a man of such caliber.' On May 15 Jenkins also says: "Our political system, of course, tends to tear down confidence in .our leaders because arousing fear and distrust of the INS is the only way for the OUTS to GET IN. And we can't keep the INS . in forever. That leads to too much power held in too few hands too long "which is dan gerous." We know quite well that he was sneering at the long tenure of the Democrats in Washington. He completely forgot that the Republicans have had a strangle hold on the state of Oregon for, at least, one hundred years. How will he justify that? Does he think we Democrats do not read our state history? That history is a sordid affair. And we Democrats quite agree with Mr. Jenkins that the Re publicans have been in office too infernal long, and should be thrown out for a hundred years. I am seeking no office, but I POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Clifford Lewis, a local ac countant of good reputation, has acquired the nickname "Mail boat," we are assured- on good, though anonymous, authority. Our informant reports that Cliff, with a couple of other Medford businessmen, was fish ing from a boat near the mouth of the Rogue river recently, when he hooked into a good sized salmon, and started tuss ling with the creature. At this point the upriver mailboat, which also carries passengers on the trip to Agness from Gold Beach, came by. It hove toi and the rails were lined with passen gers who cheered the fisherman on and snapped pictures until he landed his fish. And another fisherman. Bob Gilstrap, was telling us about the amazing speed and con venience of aircraft to fisher men. He and Ed Gordon were fishing in the Rogue the other day, a couple of miles - up stream from the mouth. And only about 45 minutes or so later. Bob reports, he was at home on his back porch, chatting with a neighbor. Ed flew over on a combined business and fishing trip. Fly ing time, Medford to Gold Beach: 30 minutes; Gold Beach to Medford, 36 minutes. Errors in typography are not the ' only hazards faced by the people who put out newspapers for a livings Even pictures can lie, sometimes or at least be doggone misleading. We received one not long ago which showed an attractive matron standing in front of a lamp. The wire from the lamp showed up in the picture and made her look exactly as though she had a tail. We saw another one in an upstate paper, fortunately which showed a proud father holding a baby. The neatly fold ed handkerchief in his (the fa ther's) pocket showed up in the picture looking exactly . like a cigarette dangling from baby's lips. There have also been cases where pictures have shown flowers growing out of people's heads, and where people appear to have three hands. So far (knock wood!!) we've had none showing anyone with two heads. One of our lesser hazards, however, is in stories which are brought in where people are identified by the last name only. This, a colleague re marks, is most frequent in the case of school teachers, and Editorial Comment PARTIANSHIP A congressional bill to redesign nate the Clearwater National Forest as the DeVoto National Forest has been stalled in com mittee because of the provincial ism and partisan ship of Idaho's Senator Herman Welker. Ber nard DeVoto, the distinguished journalist for whom the forest would otherwise be named, was a Democrat and, in his later years, a resident of Massachu setts. But above all he was great conservationist and Amer ica's leading authority on the journeys of Lewis and Clark. Those two reasons are suffi cient ' for renaming this forest through which Lewis and Clark passed on their, historic voyage of discovery and exploration. Standing in that forest today are trees that were saplings when the two Eastern adventurers made their westward trek a cen tury and- a half ago. And Benny DeVoto, more than any - man in our time, made all America aware of the part Lewis and Clark played in making the American flag fly on the shores of the Pacific as well as on the shores of the Atlantic. He loved the Clearwater and its tributaries and the trees of that forest. He once wrote: "Whenever, I go back to the Bitterroots, I realize afresh that they are my country, Traveler's Rest to Lolo Pass, to Crooked Fork to the Lochsa, and on'down the works of the Clearwater. . . . To everyone his own desire in mountains, mountain meadows and mountain streams, but for me the best of the West is the Lochsa country .... If working journalists are rewarded on the far shore, I will sometimes get long summer within a few miles of the Powell Ranger Station." One suspects that much of Senator Welker's objection to the name change stems from the fact that the bill was introduced by another student of Lewis and Clark Richard L. Neuberger. If the Idaho senator persists in objecting to the change be cause of Mr. DeVoto's residence and politics, we suspect that one of these days he'll recom mend changing the name of the city of Lewiston which was named for Meriwether Lewis, a Democrat from Virginia. Eugene Register-Guard. am very much interested in clean poltics, which seem to be absent in Oregon. ' A. L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania Ave, Medford, Ore. not infrequent in the case of minister such as Mr. Smith, Miss Brown or Rev. Jones. Everett Acklin of Ashland writes to- tell us about stopping in a Medford service station to make a telephone call to Ash land. The station had . one - of those tube affairs across the driveway, which rings a bell as a car drives up. The bell was particularly loud, Mr. Acklin re ports. He placed his call with the telephone operator, who asked him to deposit 15 cents. Just then a car drove across the tube and the bell rang, (bong!! bong!!) loudly. "For heaven's sake, what did you drop in that coin box?" the operator demanded. - 1 . A local editorial writer re cently held forth on "The Urge to Exercise," and was re warded with a note from a fellow-worker which approved the sentiments "because too many people are going to seed in the head and atrophying in the extremities." Another anyonymous inform ant (we've got LOTS of them) reports on one of our faithful and efficient correspondents, who writes of doings in the Ap plegate valley. She was observed at a large dinner gathering re cently, and it was noted that she suddenly quit taking notes, and started frantically handing out note paper to those around her. - It turned out she had discov ered that one of her table neigh bors was a top-notch office sec retary, and another was a for mer newspaper reporter and so ciety editor Why, she concluded, should SHE take notes? By an exceedingly round about channel we have learned that a New England news paper published the following announcement: "In case you find mistakes in this paper, please consider they were put there for a purpose. We pub lish something for everyone, and some folks are always looking for mistakes." We don't quits believe it, but it's as good an excuse as any, and better than some. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Champ lin (he's the Medford chief of police) became parents of their second daughter last week. The baby was a few days later than the predicted date, and the chief was doing considerable sweating during the early part of the week. He attended the banquet for newly - naturalized citizens Wednesday evening, and later in the evening was heard to re mark that he was awfully glad to welcome the new adult citi zens, but he sure wished his own new citizen would hurry up. And we have been told of another baby story, about a daughter being born to Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lane, who live on Coal Mine rd. Our inform ant calls the baby the "Naugh ty Lady of Shady Lane." be cause her parents live on the Shady Lane Ranch. A salesman dropped into the office on business the other day. He left after making his pitch, leaving his hat. He returned to retrieve it a few moments later. and became engaged in conver sation with one of the staff members. During their chat it developed that he wasn't used to wearing a hat, and frequently forgot it. Why did he wear one now? Well, his company ran a test not long ago, ordering half its salesmen to wear hats, the other half to go hatless. After a stated period, a sta tistician figured out the sales men with hats sold more than the hatless ones. ALL salesmen for the firm are now under or ders to wear hats. We know of a couple that started off on a vacation not long ago by. taking their pet dog to the kennel for safe keeping while they were gone. The dog delivered herself of a new puppy en route to the kennel, and the balance of a full litter immediately after arriving there. Susy Lisenbee, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lisenbee of Central Point, has been to quite a few baby show ers with her mother, and is sort an old hand at it at least for one of her age. The other day, however, she attended her first bridal shower, which was given for her cousin. Miss Marilyn Bohnert, bride elect of James F. Rice, Myrtle Point. The shower was held at the Lisenbee home. After Marilyn had opened nearly aU her gifts, young Susy spoke up in some apparent dis appointment, and said, "Mother, she hasn't gotten a single baby gift yet!" STUDENTS PULL PRANK ' Pasadena. Calif. (U.R) Me chanical-minded students at Cal ifornia Institute of Technoloev Friday took apart a small for eign car and reassembled it as a prank on a basement stairway of a university building.