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History from the file of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 20. 194S
(It was Thursday)
C. A. Smith, operator of Clo
verhill Dairy on Old Stage rd.,
announces dairy will cease to
operate July 1.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Old Sol
turned on the heat yesterday
causing a number of local mer
maids to come out briefly in
briefer bathing suits than last
year.
20 YEARS AGO
Jun 20. 193S
(It was Saturday)
C. E. Gates, president of Lake
of the Woods company, an
nounces that W. M. Walls, pro
prietor of Llthia hotel has leased
concessions; Ward V. Croft of
Ashland to manage resort.
Arthur Good defeats Tracy
Boothby for Prospect school
board position.
30 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1926
(It was Sunday)
Little public interest taken in
Medford school board election;
no contests for board positions.
C. M. (Sam) Houston appoint
ed secretary-manager of Oregon
State Federation of Post Office
clerks at recent meeting.
40 YEARS AGO
June 20. 1918
(It was Tuesday)
A. J. Vance elected president,
C. E. Gates and G. A. Morse,
vice presidents of the new Jack
son County Fair association.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The monthly inspection
train, carrying Superintendent
F. L. Burckhalter is expected to
stop at Medford about 6:30 a.m.
tomorrow.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cor. 195S, Editorial Research
Report
1. Douglas McKay, Eisenhow
er's first Secretary of Interior,
is running for the Senate from
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or
Montana?
2. The duodenum, jejunum.
and ileum are different sections
of what part of the human body?
3. At its World War I peak
the U.S. public debt amounted
to S26.6 billion, $39 billion, or
$73.2 billion?
4. The oldest university In
North America is in Canada, the
United States, or Mexico?
5. Bobby Jones in 1930 won
the U.S. and British Open golf
tournaments and the U.S. and
British Amateurs; the feat was
popularly known as a home run
hat trick, grand slam, or Big
Casino?
6. The sacred Ibis of Egypt is
sm ox, a snake, an insect, or a
bird?
7. What does the Latin motto
of the United States "E Pluri-
bus Unum" mean?
The answers: 1. Oregon 2,
Small intestine. 3. S26.6 billion.
4. UniTersity of Mexico (orar
400 years old). 5. Grand slam of
golf. 6. Wading bird related to
the heron. 7. On out of many.
Klamath Council OKs
Fiscal Year Budget
Klamath Falls MUM The
Klamath Falls city council yes
terday approved a $1,056,348
operating budget for the city
during the next fiscal year.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Planning
Not long age we received a letter which asked,
somewhat ill-temperedly: -
"What in do we need a county planning com
mission for?"
It's a perfectly proper question, and the only diffi
culty in answering it is that there are quite a lot of
reasons.
They can, however, be boiled down to two general
classes of reasons : Economic and aesthetic. The two
are interrelated.
I ET'S say that our letter-writing friend is named
- "A." Let's assume he owns a nice home some
where in the county, and has put many hours and con
siderable money into getting it fixed up just the way
he wants it.
Let's further assume that another chap named "B"
comes along and buys the land right next to A's prop
erty. He decides to put in a skunk-works.
Legally, he has a right to do this, and there's very
little that A can do to stop him. So he goes ahead,
builds his skunk works and starts producing skunk
juice. Alas, however, for A, who objects to having the
aroma of skunk juice drifting over the fence.
AT FIRST, A objects on aesthetic grounds, because
of the smell, and because a skunk works is dis
pleasing to the eye. His temper mounts, but because
he cannot do anythirig to force B to stop making
skunk juice, he finally decides to sell his property and
move elsewhere.
So he places it on the market. People come to see
it. But they, too, dislike having a skunk works nearby,
and most of them reject outright his offer. Those that
are interested do not offer nearly the amount which
A has already invested in his place.
This is where the economic reason enters in. '
7TEWED in one light, all uses of property can be
" thought of as variants either of A's pleasant resi
dence or B's skunk works.
It is to bring a reasonable amount of foresight and
public control into such situations that a planning
commission is designed to function. In a sense, it
serves as a community sounding-board to reflect the
best possible uses of given areas of land.
And it functions with
authority. It cannot, for instance, order someone to
stop using his property for some purpose for which he
has used it in the past. But it can, under certain cir
cumstances, make such reasonable rules and regula
tions as would prevent an abuse in the future.
v
GOVERNMENT is a social organization set up to
A r tVi a f Vi in rro irliiri tiro qo indiTTiriinile pannnf
do for ourselves. And while
for our own purposes, we cannot "plan ahead for
others and for the maximum public good unless we
entrust government with this function.
A planning commission is advisory in nature, and
will not be able to lay down rules and regulations un
less and until it is given authority to do so.
But it would be well to remember that such a com
mission is designed to protect the majority from ac
tions intentional or unintentional of the minority
which would do public harm.
It's one way of putting horse sense into commun
ity development. E. A.
Flood Receding
The "flood of 1956" has receded from the head
lines. A good thing, too.
It could almost be called the flood that didn't hap
pen. No lives were lost, which is the most important
thing.
It did a lot of damage, caused a number of people
to leave their homes in low-lying areas temporarily,
and so on. Tremendous stretches of territory were
under water for a few days, and possibly the worst
damage was to soil.
THE FLOOD this spring was within a few inches of
the one in 1948, when the dike at Vanport gave
way and a dozen or more people lost their lives, and
it was miraculous that the loss was not more.
We've learned a bit about floods since then, and
it was foresight and planning which allowed this
spring's high water to pass as harmlessly as it did.
The snow survey and water forecast service of the
U.S. Soil Conservation Service, started by a former
Rogue Valley man, Arch Work, assisted by another
former Medford man, W. T. (Jack) Frost, called the
1948 flood accurately, but in those days the forecasts
were not as much trusted as they have since come to
be.
THIS YEAR, again, the flood's height was accur
ately predicted. This time, however, because of a
long record of accuracy, coupled with more detailed
information from the SCS and other sources, the
warning was heeded, precautions were taken, and the
danger, although not entirely eliminated, was mini
mized. The Columbia river is still about five feet above
flood stage, but it isn't causing much excitement any
more. It's now dropping at the rate of about six inches
a day.
And the flood has receded from public view to the
extent that it merited only one paragraph in the Jour
nal the other day, at the tail end of a story headlined
"Northwest Skies Clearing." E. A.
DONT KILL UMP
Newport Beach, Calif. 0J.R)
The Rev. R. M. Boas umpires
the games of the St. James Epis-
l copal Day School baseball team.
"He takes the usual abuse that
goes with the job," a friend said.
Wtdnnday. Jun 20, 195S
a bare minimum of police
each of us can plan ahead
NO FIRE. JTJST WATER
Racine, Wis U.R) Firemen
answered an alarm at St. Ed
ward's Grade school Tuesday
with mops. A lightning bolt had
split a water pipe and the school
was (wash.
Non-Russian Communist1 Parties
Give Kremlin Policies Setback
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The Kremlin has suffered a
big setback in its attempt to
blame Josef Stalin for all the
yii... u a crimes of the
Y'"w dictatorship.
The .Trench
and Italian
Communist
parties, the two
largest in West
ern Europe,
have issued
pronounce-
diaries Mccann ments of poli
cy on the "Stalin did it all" cam
paign of the new Soviet collec
tive leadership.
Both parties agree that Stalin
sinned. But both take the view
that the men who denounce
Stalin now as Russia's evil geni
us were his active accomplices.
Both parties agree also that in
future it will be necessary for
them to take a more independent
attitude instead of blindly fol
lowing the Moscow party line.
Looks Like Blunder
This new development makes
it more likely that, as has been
suggested, Soviet Premier Nik
olai Bulganin and Communist
Party Leader Nikita S. Khrush
chev and their fellows blundered
in debunking Stalin so savagely
and so completely.
It is becoming increasingly ev
ident how deeply the debunking
shocked all but the inner circle
of Communists in Russia, and all
Communists including the top
most leaders in satellite and oth
er countries.
The one Communist who has
emerged from it all with prestige
untarnished is Presidnt Tito of
Yugoslavia, who denounced Stal
in as evil eight years ago.
Unless all present indications
are misleading, "Titoism" is go
ing to spread.
Tito Bloc Boss
It is indicated not only that
non-Russian Communist - parties
are going to show an increasing
ly independent tendency but that
Tito may wind up as the leader
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Supply and demand note:
Moisture in parts of the Mid
west over the week end caused
FAIRLY HEAVY SELLING in
oats, new crop corn and new
crop soybeans on the Chicago
Board of Trade today.
HOW come?
It's like this:
The moisture which Is fall
ing in areas that have been
VERY DRY this spring is ex
pected to result in larger crops.
Larger crops will mean bigger
surpluses tp hang over the mar
kets of the future like a dark
thundercloud.
In the present surplus situa
tion, larger crops will taean
lower prices.
TVTORE of the same:
Hog prices are 25 to 50
cents lower today at major East
ern corn belt markets.
Again, how come?
The price drop reflects larger
farm shipments. Some 81,000
hogs are estimated on sale at
the beginning of this week-
about 19,000 more than a week
ago. '
fOING on with the story:
Chicago trading is slow on
steers and heifers, with prices
generally steady to 25 cents
LOWER.
About 114,000 cattle are on
hand this morning at 12 markets
or 8,000 MORE than last Mon
day. TTNDER present policies, ALL
of us pungle up taxes to
buy the surpluses produced by
SOME of us and stash them
away in storage. When the ware
houses begin to overflow, we
give the surplus away. We give
it away hecause public opinion
wouldn't yet stand for DE
STROYING it. When we try to
sell our surpluses abroad at re
duced prices, our friends abroad
yell bloody murder to our state
department. They say we're
RUINING their . agricultural
economy.
So we go back to storing it or
giving it away.
TROUBLESOME question:
-s- What will happen when
ALL of us get tired of paying
taxes to buy up at subsidized
prices the surpluses that are
produced by SOME of us?
SOMETHING to think about:
President Eisenhower has
vetoed a bill to give $6,000 to a
Virginia couple whose gas sta
tion, grocery store and trailer
parking business was hurt by re
location of U.S. Highway 15, on
which their business was lo
cated.
In vetoing the bill, the Presi
dent said the government can
not indemnify every business or
property owner against loss by
reason of changes of community
pattern.
it
r
WHAT do YOU think about it?
Should government guar
antee EVERYBODY against loss
OF ANY KIND?
If so, where will that theory
lead us?
of a bloc of Communist countries
in Southeastern Europe.
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of
the Italian Communist party,
started the newest flare-up in the
Stalin situation.
His party is the largest Com
munist party in Europe outside
of Russia itself. Poland, largest
of the Soviet satellites, has about
1,400,000 Communist party mem
bers. Yugoslavia has but about
650,000. Italy has more than
2,000,000.
Togliatti, in a formal state
ment of policy, said that he could
not accept the idea that Stalin
sinned alone.
Question of Responsibility
"The question of the responsi
bility of the entire Soviet direct
ing group must be considered,"
he said. "This includes those
Communications
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view to clarification and condensation,
not exceed 400 words.
The Old 'Nat'
To the Editor: I received a let
ter with a clipping from your
paper and a picture of the dear
old "Nat being torn down. I
moved to Medford.with my par
ents in 1908, so I saw the Nat
built and was at its dedication.
It was a very wonderful affair
for a kid of 15, merry-go-rounds,
etc. It was on the skating rink
floor I met the boy I married.
We now live in L-A. and have
for 45 years, but I'm still a true
blue Oregonian and always will
be. I have a daughter living in
Jacksonville, Mrs. Floyd Wyatt,
with her husband and four chil
dren. We were married in Jack
sonville by the justice of the
peace, and at that time we had
to get our license in the big brick
building that is now the Mu
seum. We moved to L.A. on Dec.
10, 1911 about three months af
ter we were married, and our
family started coming along
about 1912, and at one time we
were internationally known for
the largest motion picture family
in the world.
I still love Medford, Ore.,
where all my young girl memor
ies are so very dear, and my
wonderful little mother lies bur
ied there. I expect to be in Med
ford and Jacksonville this sum
mer. I had to laugh at Mr. Nelson's
description of the Nat. There was
one thing he left out, the big pop
corn stand that stood inside, but
I never forgot it, and all the
grandstand seats where people
could sit and watch you swim
and skate. Ah, yes those are
truly very lovely and wonderful
memories. How I wish I knew
where some of the old timers
were, especially a fellow named
Frank Slocum, who was my hus
band's roommate. We have tried
to locate him. My maiden name
was Golda Wimer. I will be sad
not to see the Nat as I always
went to visit it on my trips back
to Medford.
Mrs. Coy Watson Sr.
2217 Berkeley ave.
Los Angeles 26, Calif.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 1958
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Can you arrange in the
right chronological order steps
which legislation introduced in
the Senate must go through be
fore it s passed? (a) considera
tion by a committee (b) consid
eration by the Senate as a body
(c) entry in the bill book (d)
printing (e) reporting by a com
mittee. A The correct answer is
(c) entry in the bill book and
(d) printing. Then, after (a)
consideration by a committee,
the bill is (e) reported by a
committee and finally (b) con
sidered on the Senate floor.
Q The Senate refused after
World War I to ratify the Ver
sailles Treaty. Which of the fol
lowing Congressional leaders
was not opposed to U.S. mem
bership in the League of Na
tions, the key issue in ratifica
tion: Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D-
Neb); Hiram W. Johnson (R-
Calif.); William E. Borah (R
Idaho); Robert LaFollette (Pro-
gressive-Wis.)?
A Gilbert M. Hitchcock led
the unsuccessful fight for rat
ification; all the others were
known as "irreconcilablet" in
opposition.
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comrades who today have taken
the initiative in denouncing the
errors of Stalin and their conse
quences." Togliatti said also that "the
Soviet model of Communism
cannot and must not be obliga
tory any more."
The French party's statement
was made public by its Politburo,
or inner leadership. It was issued
in the name of the 650,000 mem
bers of the French party. It took
the Italian line. It said that it
was unjust to blame Stalin for
all the errors of Soviet leader
ship. It called for "a profound
Marxist analysis" of what hap
pened during the Stalin era.
Both- the French and Italian
parties seemed to make it plain
that they will no longer regard
the Kremlin as infallible.
and address of the writer, although
a pen name or initial for publication
Letters submitted for publication must
Mercy Flights Thanks
To the Editor: I wish to ex
press my thanks to the good peo
ple of Medford for the existence
of the facilities of Mercy Flights
Inc
I was involved- in an automo
bile accident south of Dunsmuir,
Calif., on May 3, 1956. The acci
dent took the life of my wife and
I was taken to the McCloud hos
pital- at McCloud, Calif., for
treatment. My wife's body was
shipped to Seattle and final rites
were set for the following
Wednesday. As I needed special
ized orthopedic attention, ar
rangements were made through
the doctor and Mercy Flights to
get me to Seattle. I was taken
by ambulance to Montague,
Calif., and picked up by plane
and taken to Seattle.
Mercy Flights made it possible
for me to be in Seattle for final
rites of my dear wife and to get
specialized attention for myself
sooner.
Thanks again to the good peo
ple of Medford.
J. O. Sims,
3523 South 198th St.
Seattle 88, Wash.
Treasury Surplus
Seen This Year for
First Time in Years
Washington When the U. S.
Treasury closes its books for the
fiscal year 1956, on June' 30
it will be able to report the
first government surplus of the
Eisenhower administration.
The exact amount of the sur
plus depends principally on the
volume of corporation taxes col
lected on June 15, which is be
lieved to have been well above
earlier expectations. The Treas
ury estimated in mid-May that
the surplus would be $1.8 bil
lion; the staff of the congres
sional Joint Committee on In
ternal Revenue Taxation, that
it would be $2.3 billion.
The actual surplus may turn
out to be larger than either of
these figures. Whatever its size.
the favorable balance will be
the first in five years and only
the fourth in the last 25 years
As Treasury Secretary George
M. Humphrey has observed, the
surplus will make possible
most welcome reduction in our
huge national debt."
The public debt on June 1
with the June 15 tax payments
still to come, was about $276
billion. The present debt limit
is $281 billion. A temporary in
crease of $6 billion, voted by
Congress in 1954 and renewed
in 1955, is scheduled to expire
on June 30. Secretary Hum
phrey now says the ceiling can
be cut back by $3 billion to $278
billion, which Congress is pre
paring to do. This will be the
first debt limit reduction since
the war end cut to $275 billion.
It will be particularly satis
fying to Chairman Harry F.
Byrd (D-Va.) of the Senate Fi
nance committee, who blocked
almost singlehandedly the Presi
dent's 1953 request for a $15
billion increase in the debt lim
it. Byrd said at that time that
the legislative branch had lost
control of the purse strings and
he had concluded that the only
way federal spending could be
held in check was by preventing
further increase in the debt
limit. Editorial Research Re
ports. POLICY
PHONE 2-521 1
'Right To Work' Issue
Campaign Debate Seen
Washington (CQ) The
"right - to - work" issue, ignored
by Congress for the past four
years, seems certain to have a
thorough airing during tne com
ing political campaign.
The controversy concerns the
right-to-work" laws enacted by
18 states which prohibit "union
shop" contracts requiring an em
ployee to join the union in or
der to keep his job.
These union shop contracts
are permitted by the Taft-Hart
ley act But the law also allows
states to ban these union shops
if they want to.
Rails Exempted
The Supreme court in May de
cided the state "right-to-work"
laws do not apply to railroad
unions, controlled by a separate
federal law, the Railway Labor
act. But the decision did not in
terfere with the application of
the state laws to other indus
tries. About two dozen bills have
been introduced in the 84th Con
gress to revoke the Taft-Hartley
authorization for the "right-to-work"
laws. But the Senate and
House Labor committes, under
Democratic control, have not
held any hearings on the bills,
President Eisenhower has rec
ommended some changes in the
Taft-Hartley act, but none in
volves the '"right-to-work" issue.
Opposing pressure groups al
ready have turned their atten
tion from the current Congress
to the forthcoming Presidential
and Congressional election cam
paigns. Arguments Listed
In summary, this is what the
controversy is about:
Backers of the "right-to-work'
laws say: "Compulsory unionism
is destructive of individual free
dom. Americans must have the
right, but not be compelled to
join labor unions. Unless union
compulsion is checked and out
lawed, workers will find they
are allowed to hold a job and
earn a living only by permission
of the leaders of private labor
organizations. This will be a so
cialist labor dictatorship."
Opponents say: "Since unions
are required by law to represent
all workers in a unit, union
members or not, the 'right-to-
work' is really a right to a 'free
ride' for the worker who wants
the benefits of union representa
tion without the obligations of
union membership. The r e a
purpose of the laws is not to pro
tect individual freedom but to
hamper union organizing efforts
and destroy union security in
plants already organized."
Candidates Opposed
The top contenders for the
Democratic Presidential nomi
nation New York Gov. Averell
Harriman, Sen. Estes Kefauver
(Tenn.) and Adlai E. Stevenson
all have coma out flatly
against the "right-to-work" laws.
Kefauver says they "breed strife
and confusion." Stevenson calls
them "misnamed an undemo
cratic." The Republican position is not
yet clear. Secretary of Labor
James P. MitcheU told the CIO
in 1954, "I oppose such laws
categorically." He pointedly re
minded another union in May
that the 18 states with "right-to-work"
laws are represented in
Congress by 114 Democrats and
only 37 Republicans.
The states are Alabama, Ari
zona, Arkansas, Florida, Geor
gia, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississip
pi, Nebraska, Nevada, North
Carolina, North Dakota, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes
see, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
No Decision by Ike
President Eisenhower has giv-
on T T t r-i ei 11 froo ,-oi n .vnroc.
- I
his own views, but he never has
No Other Starch Gives
You The Vano Touch
That Means So Much
Perfect Starching
Easier Ironing
No Sticking
No Scorching
No Lumping
No Mixing
No Boiling
No Guessing
No Waste
If if
. II JUU IC IIUl UOIII5 VUllUa
you're working too hard!
endorsed them. The President
told a 1954 press conference "he
couldn't say he had reached an
irrevocable decision on "right-to-work"
laws.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, who voted for the Taft
Hartley act in the House, has
made no public comment on this
particular issue. As a Senator,
he voted against an amendment
to make railway unions subject
to the "right-to-work" laws.
In the Cabinet and in Con
gress, there are strong Republi
can voices on both sides of the
question. Framing a platform
p!nk acceptable to both fac
tions may be a problem.
Voters in three states prob
ably will have an opportunity to
ballot directly on the issue in
November. In Nevada a referen
dum will be held on repealing
the "right-to-work" law passed
in 1952. A similar repeal effort
was narrowly defeated two
years ago.
Petitions Seek Votes
Petitions are being passed in
Montana and Washington for
popular votes on enacting the
anti-union shop legislation. Tha
right-to-work issue is promi
nent in the contest for the In
diana gubernatorial nomination
and dominates the Republican
primary in Kansas, where Gov.
Fred Hall (R.) vetoed a "right-to-work"
bill last year.
In Louisiana, the legislature
passed a bill repealing the state's
1954 Tight-to-work law, after
an angry debate in both houses.
Gov. Earl Long (D.) is expected
to sign the repeal measure.
(Copyright 1356,
Congressional Quarterly)
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