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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June t, 194B ,
(It was Saturday)
Boy and Girl scouts will aid
the Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce In emergency food
collection drive Monday, accord
ing to Robert Upson, chairman.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column. N. Greene
and G. Tlngley of the B. Tornado
grid team are now toiling in the
timber.
20 YEARS AGO
Jum t, 1938
Ot was Monday)
Crater Lake National park
staff will move this week to its
summer offices at the mountain
resort, according to David Can-
field, superintendent .
J. R. Marshall elected chair
man of the Jackson county Dem
ocratic central committee Sat
urday afternoon.
0 YEARS AGO
Jum 8. 1928
(It was Tuesday)
In efforts to eliminate speed
ing in the city streets, campaign
Is launched to arrest violators.
At the Kiwanis luncheon at
the Holland cafe, Monday, M.
N. Hogan gave a short talk on
air traffic and air mail service.
40 YEARS AGO
June 8. 1918
(It was Thursday)
The city council will meet to
night and pass on the Welch
Bros., sawmill proposition, the
Bullis contract cannot be closed,
but will be laid over for a few
days.
"The Blue andd White, an
nual of the Phoenix High school,
Is off the press and has been de
livered to the student body and
faculty.
What's the Answer?
1. John Foster Dulles has trav
eled about 100.000 or 200,000,
or more than 300.000 miles as
Secretary of State?
2. A man who works on ballis
tics is concerned with Iighter-than-air
aircraft, weapons, for
mal dances, or bearings in ma
chines? . 3. Israel continues to welcome
or has set up bars to immigration
of Jews from North Africa?
4. Dorothy, the Tin Woodman,
the Timid Lion, and the Scare
crow were principal characters
In what series of children's
books?
5. X-ray treatment may help
to overcome sterility in women;
right or wrong?
8. Median income of employed
Americans, before taxes, was
less than $2,500, about $3,000,
or more than $3,500 last year?
7. San Francisco will be host
to the Democratic or the Repub
lican convention in August?
The Answers: 1. 310,000 miles.
Dulles said May 27. 2. Weapons.
3. Plans to admit 100,000 from
North Africa this year. 4. Os
books, by L. Frank Baum. 5.
Right, according to Dt. Ira J.
Kaplan of New York's Bellevue
Hospital. 6. Lass than $2,500
($2,323). 7. Republican.
INVITED FOR PARLEY
London (U.R) Britain has
invited Soviet civil air chiefs to
negotiate direct air services be
tween London and Moscow, ac
cording to the Foreign Office.
The Russians have not yet ac
cepted but are expected to do so
shortly. i
MAIL THIBUNE
Letter to a
Dear
Congratulations on your graduation last night.
Most high school seniors I have known and I
suppose the members of the 1956 class are no excep
tion think of "commencement" as the end of their
high school career, rather than a beginning of a new
phase, as the term indicates.
OUT it IS a beginning:
u For you it will mean starting your own family life.
But if I know you as well as I think I do, you will con
tinue your education, one way or another. Many
people continue their education for the rest of their
lives in school and out.
For many of your classmates it will mean getting
ready for college or university in the fall. For those
who are college material, it seems to me this is wise.
For our civilization today is exceedingly compli
cated, and getting more so all the time. A greater pre
mium is being placed on young people with good ed
ucations, and true success is becoming more difficult
to achieve without the skills and training that fit a
person for competition. Housewives, too, benefit from
the broader background which education provides.
AS YOU know, it has been made easier in recent
years to obtain a college education if you really
want one but more difficult if you're only half
hearted about it.
The number of scholarships available has increas
ed greatly. And most schools of higher education have
a variety of grants, loan funds and other ways of aid
ing sincere students financially.
In addition, more and more students are finding
that it is not impossible to work their way through col
lege. It's a bit rough, but it can be done.
"N THE other hand, colleges are getting much more
selective than they used to be about who they ad
mit. Standards are getting higher, and even the tax
supported schools and universities are cutting down.
They have to, because there are so many more stu
dents than there used to be.
The existing schools and colleges are expanding
as fast as they can, within tax and endowment limita
tions, and new ones are being formed. Still they can
not handle all the students, and it's going to get worse
instead of better.
For this reason, if for no other, students going on
to college will have to keep up their grades or get out,
if they can get in in the first place.
THE BOYS in your class have an added problem,
now that they have graduated: What to do about
their military service obligation?
They have a number of choices, and it is difficult
to know which one would suit a certain boy's needs
the best. He could wait to be drafted, or enlist. Or he
could investigate one of the numerous options offer
ed in the various reserve programs.
Those who go on to college can train as reserve
officers, or, if they maintain their grades, can obtain
deferments until they graduate.
TOR THOSE of the class who cannot, or don't want,
to continue their formal education, there are wide
opportunities in a variety of occupations,, jobs in
which they can take a real pride and interest.
The apprenticeship program can enable them to
learn a skilled and respected trade. There are a num
ber of vocational schools (one of the best, Oregon
Technical Institute, is just across the mountains at
Klamath Falls) where they can obtain the training
needed to get them started properly. And many lines
of work are open to sincere young men and women
without formal training who are willing to work at it,
and give it the best they have.
VOUR CLASS of 270"students may be the smallest
that will ever have graduated from Medford High
school from now on. You and your classmates were
born during the last of the depression years, when
fewer babies were coming along. From now on the
classes promise to get bigger and bigger.
This means that none of you should have too much
difficulty in finding and keeping a job, under present
circumstances. We are in an expanding economy.
YOUR "commencement," then, comes at a time
""tu me xo yicLtjr ccioj, in sume ways, oome 01
-1 i. rii i i.ii .
your ciassmaies win turn out 10 oe lazy and careless,
and take the good things as they come.
But I have a hunch that most of them will work as
hard as did their mothers and fathers, and grand
mothers and grandfathers, building their own places
in America, wherever they go and whatever they do.
The high school education you have received is
probably the best that has ever been available to stu
dents of any generation before. It has been designed
to give you the best possible start in life. Most of you,
being human, have not quite taken full advantage of
it. But I like to think that your generation has a more
Stable, more thnno-ht.fnl rnnrc. in.-oll.'.TOT..- nntlrvnlr than
7 - tiiui v iiidviiigviiv vmww-, uiau
your elders did when they were high school graduates.
TT IS to you that those of us who are a bit older are
A looking for the fresh new leadership we are going
to need in a troubled world. We are looking to you for
me solution or partial solution to our problems
of economics, and social justice; of morality, and edu
cation and world peace.
There are so many unsolved problems, and pro
gress in solving them is slow.
And so the congratulations we offer you on grad
uation include a hope for the future, a quiet prayer
for all of you who are so soon to bear heavy responsi
bilities in your families, businesses and public affairs,
and an honest wish for the best of luck for great suc
cess in life. ; ...
Sincerely,
E.A.
Friday. June 8. 1958
Graduate
French-German Accord on Saar
Tops Good
By CHARLES M. McCANN
- United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
The Good
1. France and West Germany
reached an agreement which
gave hope of ending their years
long dispute over the future of
the Saar coal and steel basin.
The rich, 990-square mile area
is historically German. Eco
nomically it is linked closely
with France's Lorraine steel in
dustry. France obtained control
of it for years after World War
I and has had control of it since
the end of World War II. Under
the new agreement, the Saar
wUl revert to Germany political
ly by next Jan. 1. Its economy
will be merged with Germany's
after three years. Under the
agreement, a canal will be built
linking France's Moselle River
with the Rhine. This canal,
which France has sought for 80
years, would take coking coal
from the German Ruhr to Lor
raine. 2. French Premier Guy Mollet
won a vote of confidence on his
entire domestic and foreign
policy. The vote emphasized the
confused overall French political
situation. Mollet won by 271 to
59. But there were 200 absten
tions. Also, Mollet faces more
confidence votes on details of his
policy. But the high vote gave
assurance that French political
leaders are not ready for a new
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Free Will Blood
To the Editor: Most of the past
three -weeks I have been con
fined to the hospital. During my
stay I have received 18 blood
transfusions. This blood has
been furnished the hospital free
of charge from the Red Cross
Blood Bank.
To my many friends who have
expressed a . desire to do some
thing for me, I would suggest
that a donation of blood to the
Bloodmobile June 13 would be
most appreciated. Only through
free will donations is the Blood
Bank able to maintain its sup
ply.
Frank C. Thompson
. - Box 92
'" Talent, Ore.
Israel and Judah
To the Editor: Looking at the
controversy between the Arabs
and the Jews, it would seem it is
hard to overcome the potential
to World War .HI. The Arabs
have occupied the Holy Land
nearly 2,000 years-now, and feel
it is their land, and they can also
trace their ancestry back to
Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael.
The Jews can trace their an
cestry to Jacob, whose name
was changed to Israel, and his
twelve sons became the twelve
Tribes of Israel, and they also
became God's covenanted peo
ple (Deut. 7:6) whom God will
work out his plan for the mil
Ienium and his reign on the
earth. God speaking through Ja
cob gave each son a blessing
(Gen. 49). However it is evident
the blessings pronounced upon
Judah and Joseph were choice
above' the blessings of their
brothers. The twelve tribes of
Israel became a great nation.
But about 975 B.C. Israel was
divided into two kingdoms, Is
rael and Judah. The kingdom of
Israel was overthrown and tak
en into captivity in the days of
Shalmaneser, King of Assyria,
about 721 B.C. and about a cen
tury later Nebuchadnezzar took
Jerusalem, and carried the tribe
of Judah and part of the tribe
of Benjamin to Babylon, where
Judah served in captivity for
seventy years (Jer. 21:6-7; II
Chron. 36:19-21).
After their captivity, the king
of Judah was restored to its
lands by Cyrus, king of Persia.
Jesus was born in the Jewish
race and they received the Gos
pel first, but rejected it, and the
covenant' God had made with
them and finally crucified the
Saviour. For their transgression
the land lost its fertility and
their cities were destroyed. And
they became a hiss and a by
word among all nations.
Jesus said Jerusalem would
be trodden down by the Gen
tiles until the times of the Gen
tiles would be fulfilled (Luke
21:24). That time seems to have
been fulfilled, when on Oct. 17,
1917, General Allenby marched
into Jerusalem and the Turkish
army marched out the opposite
gate without firing a gun. Since
that time the Jews have been
returned to their homeland in
great numbers. ,
Following are a few refer
ences for those who have the
time and believe the Bible
about the scattering and gath
ering of Israel and Judah (Amos
9:8-9; Deut. 4:25-29; Ezk. 37-21;
Isa. 11:12; Deut 4:30).
John F. Peterson,
Box 71
. Talent, Ore.
Tasty Morsels
To the Editor: How many of i
the older generation recollect j
News of Past Week
cabinet crisis.
3. Britain started a sweeping
review of its policy on the vio
lence-ridden island of Cyprus.
There were indications that the
review might lead to a new
declaration of policy and negotia'
tions to settle the Cyprus dis
pute, in which Greek Cypriots
seek union with Greece.
The Bad
1. There was serious anxiety
in Washington over the possible
results of the current visit of
President Tito of Yugoslavia to
Moscow. Some congressmen
wanted to cut off all aid to Yugo
slavia, in the belief that Tito
will take his country back into
the Soviet Russian line-up. Presi
dent Eisenhower was understood
to have told congressional lead
ers that he thought it would be
a mistake to cut off aid. But he
said at a news conference in
Washington that he thought the
American position toward Tito
ought to be "re-evaluated." "We
have to take a look at where we
stand with this individual now
and what serves- our best in
terests," the President said.
2. The Chinese Communists
made a bid to get their foot in
the door of Britain's colony of
Hong Kong, the most important
port of east Asia. The Red Peip-
mg government told Britain that
it wanted to install "a commis
sion of foreign affairs" in Hong
Kong, with a staff to handle dip
lomatic and other matters. Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd, announcing the request,
when home made bread baking
time arrived almost every week
on a given day, with a bannock
meal for the younger "fry" of
the household? The names var
ied, owing to the locality where
you lived, of course, sometimes
called pancakes or "dough
gods," some were baked on iron
griddles, near an open grate.
Just before the yeast - raised
dough was ready to mold into
loaves and set in the oven.
These small cakes were brown
ed on either side on a well heat
ed and greased skillet It was
a toothsome treat to any young
ster and in a robust phrase,
"stuck to the ribs." These once
tasted, never-forgotten morsels
are now only memories to most
of us, yet their days are num
bered, and gone forever, is our
modest guess, who knows?
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st., Apt. 1
Meatora, ore.
D'Aniou Street .
To the Editor: In reference
to the matter brought up at the
last meeting of the Medford city
council, regarding changing the
name of "Front" street tn "TV.
Anjou," or some other suitable
name, I should like to share
with the townspeople, especial
ly those who own property on
xne street m question, some in
formation that has come to mv
attention, from the book, "The
Pears of New York," issued by
the New York Agriculture Ex
periment station.
The name, Beurre d'Anjou, is
of an old French pear, the ori
gin of which is obscure, al
though it is supposed to have
originated in the vicinity of An
gers. It was introduced intn this
country by Col. Wilder of Bos-
ion, in 1H12, ana iirst truited by
him in 1845. Recommended by
thp American PnmnlnpiraT so
ciety and added to the list of
iruits recommended lor general
cultivation in 1852. Within 20
years, it was being grown in
Medford.
John Norton, 90 years ago or
more Dlanted the first throe
d'Anjou trees in the Rogue
Kiver valley and they are still
there. They may be seen on the
present Bert Kellogg place,
southwest of the Hillcrest - or
chards. Norton was a relativo
of the Barneburg family.
The d'Anjou is now fairly
generally distributed. There are
3,000 acres in Medford fruit dis
trict and it is the second most
important pear, commercially,
in the valley. Medford produces
one-third of all d'An.
Pacific coast.
It would seem that th
erty owners on "Front" ,-
could scarcelv find a mnr ...it-
able, dignified, beautiful, or
even tourist - attracting nm
and one with a commercial as
well as local appeal than "d'An
jou." Pronounced with the hrnarl
'A" and the soft xnunrf "t
with accent on thp firt -ui
ble, the word itself is distinc
tive, unusual and ear-appealing.
"cunesse lOBuyi .Butler,
106 South Ivy St., -.
Medford, Ore.
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said it was under consideration.
The significance of the request
was that it might fore-shadow a
Communist attempt to win
further concessions - and an
eventual demand for the sur
render of Hong Kong.
3. Chief Minister David Mar
shall . of Singapore carried out
his threat to resign as the result
of the breakdown of indepen
dence negotiations in London.
It was feared that, the island
might face a period of political
turmoil, possibly accompanied
by riotous Communist-tormented
strikes. Some leftist Singapore
leaders have threatened to para
lyze government administration
as means of putting pressure on
Britain to give Singapore fuU
independence.
In the Day's News '
By FRANK JENKINS
In California's hotly contested
Presidential primary, Adlai Ste
venson won a smashing victory
over Estes Kefauver. It looks as
though his margin might reach
the half million mark.
That clearly makes him the
man to beat. Considered in con
nection with the strong showing
he has made in other recent pri
maries, it probably means that
he wiU be the Democratic
nominee.
STEVENSON is basically more
conservative than Kefauver.
And
In 1956 he is faring far better
in primary contests with Ke
fauver than he did in 1952, four
years ago. That is significant be
cause some of our sounder politi
cal analysts believe we are
swinging slowly back toward
conservatism.
Not standpatism.
Not "laissez faire," which is
a French term meaing Let 'er go,
Gallagher, everybody for him
self and the devil take the hind
most Just moderate conservatism,
in which we will look to govern
ment, representing all of us, to
do for us the things that we can
do better ACTING COL
LECTIVELY than we can do as
individuals competing against
each other.
The Democratic swing toward
Stevenson this year seems to
confirm that theory.
HARRIMAN, who in the light
of recent events has been
coming to look like Stevenson's
strongest opponent, got a jolt
yesterday in his own back yard.
He is a New Yorker. In the
New York state primary Steven
son WON AT LEAST SIX DELE
GATES to the Chicago conven
tion. Harriman's hopes have rest
ed on a deadlock between Ste
venson and Kefauver. Steven
son's overwhelming victory in
California dims the prospect of
a deadlock and Harriman's fail
ure to win the SOLID support of
his own state delegation weakens
his position in the convention.
yHAT of Harriman?'
What IS he?
Conservative or radical?
TT'S HARD to say. You never
can tell about these sons of
VERY rich men. Often they have
a guilt complex that leads them
to do strange things.
ri CALIFORNIA, the total
Stevenson-Kefauver vote is
running substantially ahead as
this is written of Republican bal
loting for an unopposed 70-vote
convention delegation support
ing President Eisenhower.
Does that mean that Califor
nia might vote against Ike next
fall?
I wouldn't know and noth
ing is more profitless than fore
casting this far in advance what
is going to happen at an election.
This question might be
pertinent:
Did you ever see a big crowd
at a race whore ONLY ONE
HORSE was running?
Probably not.
BOY. 3, 'DRIVES' CAR
New York (U-PJ Lanny
Weiss got out the family car and
went for a spin Thursday. The
car had gone only 150 yards
down the street before it
smacked -into another. Lanny
stood in the driver's seat to turn
the trick and an automatic
drive helped. Laniiy is three feet
tall and three years old.
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Election Years Have Little
Effect on Economy, Babson
Declares Following Survey
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. I have
been studying the record of busi
ness and the stock market in
election years
since the turn
of the century.
Is there a defi
nite p a 1 1 e rn
which we can
use to find out
just where we
stand at the
present time
h i s t o rically?
soger w. itabton Can we use
this knowledge to estimate what
conditions we should expect for
1956?
Fourteen elections have come
and gone since I graduated from
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. The outcome of the
elections whether the victor
was Democratic or Republican,
whether the result was a sur
prise or cut-and-dried, whether
we were at war or at paace
seemed to make little differ
ence. Political parties spend
millions of dollars to arouse the
voters to the tremendous conse
quences of failing to vote the
right way. Yet the spending
habits of the people have contin
ued undisturbed by the turmoil.
Consequently, it seems useless
Editorial Comment
A FLOOD FORECASTER
DECORATED
Often the government lags be
hind in recognizing meritorious
service, but there was something
very timely in R. A. (Arch)
Work's, the father and leader
of the soil conservation serv
ice snow surveys in 21 Western
states, receiving a superior serv
ice award from Ezra Benson,
secretary of agriculture, on
Tuesday.
That was the day on which
the Columbia river stood with
in a foot of the 28-foot crest,
which was predicted as early as
March, on the basis of snowpack
and soil moisture content infor
mation gathered by Work's staff
and his 1000 volunteer foresters
and other individuals.
In 1948 Work, as early as
April 1, issued a warning that
the lower Columbia would have
extraordinary high water dur
ing the peak of the runoff. It
was only after the.Vanport dis
aster that his forecasts were ap
preciated.
" Originally ; Work endeavored
to furnish forecasts on seasonal
runoffs for irrigation purposes.
It was soon obvious that the data
his men collected were extreme
ly valuable for forecasting peaks
of floods a function of the
weather bureau.
Work is one of our flood
watchers, and we are happy to
have him decorated in the crest
of the flood. Oregon Journal
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Q GATT, the General Agree
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international trade. What per
centage of free world trade do
the 35 GATT nations carry on?
(a) 50 per cent (b) 80 per cent
(c) 100 per cent.
A (b) 80 per cent. The big
gest trading nations are the U.S.
and Britain, who together ac
count for 40 per cent of GATT
trade and about one-third of free
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to get too excited about election
years. Political activity does not
appear to cause any drastic
changes in the economy. If busi
ness has been good, it tends to
continue good. Spotty business
continues to be spotty. The na
tion's economy seems to disre
gard politics. It depends, in
stead, upon fundamentals such
as the impatience of people to
buy merchandise, the willing
ness of industrialists to expand
their plants, the eagerness of
bankers to loan money. As a
result, I forecast that the vol
ume of business transacted this
year will show no substantial
change, either up or down, from
1955 levels.
Will the Boom Continue?
Most of my friends who work
for a living tell me they "never
had it so good." Reports from
the rest of the 165 million popu
lation tell the same story, plenty
of work at good wages. Even the
farmers who have seen their
gross take decline still make
fairly substantial tax payments
to Uncle Sam. How much long
er can these good times keep
up? When will Newton's law of
Action and Reaction catch up
with this decade of high pros
perity? I forecast that there will be
no collapse of the nation's econ
omythis year. Much publicity
has been given to the so-called
"built-in stabilizers" social se
curity, public works, and road
building. Stimulators of business
such as "no-money down" sell
ing and defense work, are said
to be the answer to any antici
pated letdown in business.
All these stimulants will work
for a while. They can provide
the necessary push to keep the
nation's economy rolling along
in high gear through 1956 if the
Washington managers find they
are needed. They, however, can
not be successful in rolling back
a tide of reaction permanently.
No Pattern
Careful scrutiny of the stock
market during the past 14 elec
tion years reveals no standard
pattern. Election of Republican
"trust-buster" - Theodore Roose
velt in 1904, and of Taft in 1908
occurred in years of strong bull
markets. Harding, a Republican,
in 1920 saw a weak market;
while Coolidge in 1924 enjoyed
rising stock prices. .
Hoover, perhaps . the best
economist of all, also saw rising
prices, but subsequently wit
nesed a great .collapse. Franklin
Roosevelt's election years show
ed mixed trends. Truman in
1948 saw. no definite stock mar
ket trend. The situation in gen
eral appears to be: Since the
nation's businessmen and inves
tors prefer conservative think
ing in Washington, we are more
likely to see expanding business
and a more buoyant stock mar
ket when the Republicans are in
office but this is not always
true.
Sees No New Boom
As long as President Eisen
hower's health continues to im
prove, and provided there is no
radical change in the interna
tional situation, I can see no se
rious threat to business or the
stock market during 1956. But I
cannot visualize a new boom
this year on top of the long
extended period of prosperity
we have already had.
I forecast that we may well
see one or two breaks in the
market, interrupted by a series
of equally sharp rallies. Certain
groups' of securities may even
reach, new high levels while
other groups may decline to new
lows. Election years, however,
offer no sure clue to -business
prospects or stock market
profits.
S. B. FONO
Herb Specialist
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