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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
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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.