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Medford and Jackson County
Historv from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
!0 years ago.
15 YEARS AGO
July 18. 1346
(It was Thursday)
About 2,000 persons attend the
first open air concert by the city
band., directed by I. A. Mirick,
at city park.
from Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Fine early
fall weather the valley is hav
ing this summer.
28 YEARS AGO
Joly 18, 1936
(It was Saturday)
Maj. Max C. Fleischmann was
a Medford visitor yesterday,
landing at the airport in his
Lockheed Electra, specially
tquipped cabin plane.
H. C. Obye. assistant sup
ervisor of the Rnaue River na
tional forest, snys Samuel Clark,
recreation foreman, and Hugh
Ritter, district ranger, caught
56 catfish in 57 minutes at Lake
of the Woods Friday.
30 YEARS AGO
July 18, 1926
(It was Sunday)
Active construction on annex
of Community hospital scheduled
to commence tomorrow under
the direction of H. I. Stuart and
son, local contractors.
C. B. Howard has sold his in
terest in the Howard and Grimes
Stage line, operating between
Medford and Klamath, to E. B.
Henry of Klamath Falls.
40 YEARS AGO
July 18. 1916
(It was Tuesday)
Medford saving about $72 per
month under the contract with
California-Oregon Power com
pany, according to a report
recently compiled by the city
electrician.
There will be a farmer's picnic
at the Central Point schoolhouse
Saturday.
Thai's Ihe Answer?
Can You Get 4 of Ihe 7?
Opr. 1955. Fdltorlal Research
Report
1. Has any state chosen its
presidential electors by Con
gressional Districts within the
last 100 years?
2. Most Americans carrying
insurance for hospital expenses
do or don't carry it also for sur
gical fees0
3. Texas in 1952 voted for
Eiseniv.wer. Stevenson or a
third-party candidate for Presi
dent? 4. Mrs Clare Booth Luce is
or isn't U. S. nmbassador to the
Vatican as well as to Italy?
5. The V. S. War with Spain
came in the middle of the last
century, late in that century, or
early in this century?
6. ''Cow-pasture pool" was an
eld epithet for polo, badminton,
craps, billiards, golf, or bowling
on the green?
7. Philip Nolan is better
known as Who?
The Answers: 1. Yes, Michi
OBn in 1892; 2. Most do: 3. For
Eisenhower; 4. Isn't; 5. Late in
tfte last century; 6. Golf; 7. The
Man Without a Country.
ATOMIC SURGERY
Los Angeles .U.R.; An atomic
device, developed at the Uni
versity of California Medical
Center at Los Angeles by Dr.
Donald E. Burke, has proved
to be valuable in locating hard-to-find
kidney stones during
surgery- The device, called
''Thul-X." is being studied, as
& substitute for less-effective
X-ray.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Which Way Is North?
North, from any spot on the face of the earth, is
the direction toward the North Pole. At the South
Pole, every direction is north.
Since about the middle of the 15th century, man
kind has used a magnetized needle to determine
which way north is (or south, in the southern hemi
sphere). This is possible because there are north and
south '"magnetic" poles, or magnetic focal areas,
which attract the needles.
DUT THERE are difficulties in this and not all of
them have been solved by science.
For instance, the magnetic poles are not the same
as the geographic poles in fact are hundreds of miles
away.
Because of this, compasses in most parts of the
earth do not point directly north, but only approxi
mately in that direction. In Jackson county, the differ
ence between true north and magnetic north is about
19 or 20 degrees, out of the 360 degrees on the com
pass. Only in the lake states and down through In
diana, Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina is the
difference, or "declination," approximately zero.
A S IF THIS weren't confusing enough, the amount
of declination varies over a long period of time,
and yearly, and to a lesser extent, daily. In Jackson
count-, it can change as much as 2'2 degrees during
one year. It can also change during magnetic storms,
or because of local conditions.
Also, the areas of uniform declination are not uni
form in shape, size or much of anything else. There are
isolated spots in some areas of uniform declination
where a compass can be quite a few degrees off.
East of Lakeview is one such spot, ihe average
declination in the area is 19 degrees east, but within a
, hundred-mile radius readings of 5.7, 32.4, and points
j in between, have been made.
Compass readings accurate to a hair are not as im-
portant in traveling on land as they are in ocean navi
gation, lor the average outdoorsman in this area, it
would be safe and close enough to use a 19 or 20 de
gree east declination in getting out of a "lost" situa
tion. THE SCIENCE of magnetics is as ancient as history,
and the Greeks were familiar with the properties
of the lodestone.
Despite this, less is known, very likely, about what
magnetism really is and how it operates, than is
known about the inside of the atom. But it is vitally im
portant to today's civilization, for without magnetism
electricity the lifeblood of today's electronics age
could not be generated.
Scientists are hard at work exploring the myster
ies of magnetism, its relationship to gravity, and the
odd and thus-far unpredictable things it does, and
there is reason to believe that they are making pro
gress
From behind the cloaks of military security, busi
ness secrecy and scientific verbiage, one gleans hints
of fabulous developments on the way. Ancient al
chemy's "lodestone" may be the clue to the culture
of the 21st century. E. A.
Costly
The state of Georgia recently passed a law which
provides a maximum $1,000 fine or a year's imprison
ment for dumping rubbish along the highway. .
A deadpan report we have seen says there has been
"a noticeable reduction in this type of offense" since
the law was passed.
"THE STATE of Idaho has no penalty, and there
state authorities say the stuff is getting higher and
and deeper.
Oregon has a law which prohibits the dumping of
junk along public roads and highways, but it is a diffi
cult one to enforce, for unthinking people in a fast
moving car are difficult to spot or to trace.
But it's no laughing matter, even for those people
who don't particularly care if roadside beauty is de
spoiled. Those who DO care don't like it a bit, and ac
cording to one insurance company, the cost of clean
ing up the thoughtless ones' messes ranges between
-$15 and $50 per mile per year. This makes it every
one's business.
OREGON'S highway commission, with which we
sometimes agree and sometimes disagree, has
done good work in seeing to it that green barrels are
spotted at strategic locations along the highways,
where there is room to turn off. It is the work of but
a moment to stop long enough to drop in an accumula
tion of trash. .
But we have nothing but contempt for the rude and
revolting habit of dumping garbage, paper, beer bot
tles, cans and similar refuse along the rights of way.
Perhaps things are getting a little better, slowly, as
a continuing program of education and appeal takes
effect. But one wonders when he reads of a report
from Oregon on those trash barrels :
"It has been necessary to relocate some of the bar
rels due to local residents filling them with garbage."
E. A.
Water Hazards
The weather has been hot. And it is, therefore,
natural for youngsters to seek relief in cool water.
But there should be a word of warning irriga
tion ditches and Bear Creek are not safe. They are
dangerous for two reasons : The threat of drowning in
swift, unfamiliar and unsupervised waters, and the
danger from disease.
We urge parents of youngsters who are swimming-bound
to know where they are going and to
veto trips to the polluted and dangerous creeks and
canals of the lower valley. E.A.
Wednesday, July 18, 1938
Refuse
Nehru's Comment on Russia's
Satellites Surprisingly Critical
By CHARLES M. McCANK
United Press Correspondent
Indian Prime Minister Jawa
harlal Nehru has come up with
a surprisingly
critical c o m
ment on Soviet
Russia's satel
lites. Many of
Nehru's state
m e n t s on
world affairs
are critical of
the United
States and its
allies.
Charles Mccann
Often he seems blind to the
glaring faults of Communist
regimes.
But during his visit to West
German Chancellor Konrad Ad
enauer this week, Nehru found
fault with Russia for keeping its
grip on eastern European coun
tries. His criticism was indirect. It
also was mild compared to his
free-swinging criticisms of West
ern policy. Nevertheless, it was
clear.
Asked About Colonialism
Nehru was asked at a press
conference in Bonn whether, in
his opposition to "colonialism,"
he found that system operating
only in non-European countries.
"Isn't there colonialism in Eu
rope?" his questioner said. "If a
person hopes for freedom for
overseas colonial countries, sure
ly that must hold true for . . .
colonialism also in central and
eastern Europe?"
Nehru replied that the word
colonialism is used in two senses.
It took its meaning from the
iff
GAO Serves as Police
Agency; Keeps Tabs
On Federal Spending
Washington (CQ) The po
liceman Congress appointed 35
years ago to patrol federal
spending is busier than ever on
his bureaucratic beat.
From an office building six
blocks from the Capitol, employ
ees of the General Accounting
office keep track of the execu
tive department for Congress.
In most instances, this means
strict GAO audits of expendi
tures. In their day-to-day operations,
the 5,800 GAO employees under
Comptroller General Joseph
must:
Many Duties
Approve the transfer of ap
propriated funds from the Trea
sury to executive departments
and their expenditure by the de
partments. Decide the legality of pro
posed spending.
Settle about 240,000 claims a
year by and against the govern
ment. Develop improved govern
ment accounting methods.
Audit the books of executive
agencies and, in most cases, com
pel the repayment of funds im
properly used.
Investigate the operations of
the executive departments, seek
out and report cases of ineffi
ciency and fraud.
Prepare about 5,000 repots a
year for Congress, including one
of more than usual significance
a summary of GAO audits
and investigations for the cur
rent fiscal year that is used by
the Appropriations committee in
weighing department fund re
quests for the coming fiscal
year.
Influence Expands
As the federal government
has increased in size and its ex
penditures have advanced,
GAO's influence as the watch
dog for Congress also has ex
panded GAO is responsible only
to Congress, and its chief, the
Comptroller General, serves one
15-year term at a salary of $17,
500 a year.
Although the Comptroller
General is appointed by the
President, the nomination must
be approved by the Senate and
he can be removed from office
only with the concurrence of
Congress.
In addition, GAO is one of the
few government agencies that
takes in more than it spends. In
fiscal 1955, for instance, its ap
propriation was S32 million and
its collections were more than
S55 million. Suggestions to ex
ecutive agencies save the gov
ernment many more millions
each year.
As is to be expected, there is
controversy about the way in
which GAO's considerable pow
er has been exercised. Surpris
ingly, Campbell says the oppo
sition has not come from the
executive agencies whose activi
ties GAO checks. He says,
"There's not been one agency
head who hasn't said to me.
i 'We're glad to have your people
come in.' "
Congressional Criticism
But there has been criticism
in Congress. GAO's investiga
tions divisions was reshuffled
last year after two Senators
called for a probe of its handling
of a "conflict of interests" case.
Campbell's appointment in
1955 was strongly opposed by
i some Democrats. His three pred-
colonial system of the 19th cen-
tury, he said.
"This particular meaning, I
think, does not apply to the
countries referred to in eastern
Europe," he continued. "One
can say that they stand -under a
certain domination. Perhaps
they are under the contrel of an
other country. !
Opposed To Force
"I certainly think thait every
country should have the full op
portunity to be free. Bat how,
is a different matter ... I also
think that force should not be
used."
If Nehru thinks that' every
country should have the oppor
tunity to be free, he certainly
means Poland, Czechoslovakia,
East Germany and the rest of
the countries Russian Cfommu
nism holds in subjection.
Nehru is conferring today and
Thursday with President Tito
of Yugoslavia and President
Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt,
fellow neutralists, at Tito's
Brioni Island retreat on the Ad
riatic sea coast.
That issue of the Soviet satel
lites is pretty certain to come
up for discussion between Tito
and Nehru.
The Tito Viewpoint
Tito has some views of his
own on the satellite question.
Yugoslavia itself was a satellite
until Tito's break with the late
Josef Stalin.
The Kremlin itself now agrees
with Tito's view that "different
paths to socialism" are po.'isible.
That is just what Titoism ntcans.
It is pretty clear that, with
Stalin being downgraded, Tito
ecesors had worked in or for
Congress, but Campbell, a 56
year-old New Yorker, has been
a private accountant and Colum
bia university official. President
Eisenhower, under whom he- had
served at Columbia, named him
to the Atomic Energy commis
sion in 1953 and 18 months later
tapped him for the GAO job.
While serving on the AEC Camp
bell voted for the controversial
and now defunct Dixon - Yjates
power contract.
Democrats questioned wheth
ed the ex-administration offi
cial would be on Congress' side
in coming controversies. But
only 10 days after he was con
firmed, Campbell testified in
opposition to the administra
tion's bond - financing plan for
highway construction. A month
later he criticized the financial
record of the firm selected by
the AEC to construct the Dixon
Yates facilities. Again last Au
gust, he upheld Congress' view
in a fight with the President
over commercial activities of the
Defense department.
Asked about the bias changes
against him, Campbell says, "If
anything, it's the other ivay
around we've been unfavor
able to so many administration
proposals."
Claims Progress Made
Campbell says he is "very sat
isfied" with the first 15 months
of what "will be my last job,
probably." He says "tremendous
progress" is being made in im
proving government accounting
methods and tightening Con
gress' control of the purse.
GAO's main problem now is
a shortage of skilled personnel,
particularly qualified account
ants. Campbell has launched a
major recruiting program
through college and profession
al socities to remedy this situa
tion. If he can add 200 men to his
force of fiscal agents, Campbell
feels certain GAO can perform
its police job and assure Con
gress the executive agencies asre
obeying the Constitutional in
junction that "no money shajl
be drawn from the treasury bot
in consequence of appropria
tions made by law."
(Copyright 1956.
Congressional Quarterly)
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hopes to increase his personal
influence in some of the Soviet
satellite countries, especially in
Bulgaria and Romania. There
are indications that he would
like to be the leader of a Balkan
bloc of Red states. They would
still be tied to Moscow, but more
loosely.
From Nehru's statement on
colonialism, it appears that he
might go along with Tito's view
point that a spread of Titoism
among the satellites would be
fine.
First Warship Sunk
By Bomb From Air
Just 35 Years Ago
Washington It was 35 years
ago this Saturday .that "Billy"
Mitchell proved for all time that
bombs from planes could sink a
modern battleship. This was the
former German "Ostfriesland."
It had survived the great naval
battle of Jutland in World War
I, was protected by many com
partments and heavy armor, had
even been called unsinkable.
Assistant Chief of the Army
Air Service William L. Mitchell
after the war vociferated incess
antly, before Congress and in
the press, that battleships had
become outmoded because air
planes could sink any "in exist
ence or that could be built." He
was fighting, generally, for much
greater stress on air power in
our defense system and, specifi
cally, for a separate Air Force
of equal status with the Army
and Navy.
Tested Claim
Congress finally allowed
Mitchell's claim to be tested
against German warships that
had been turned over to this
country. On July 13, 1921, his
airmen sank a destroyer in 19
minutes with 300-pound bombs.
A cruiser, the "Frankfurt," sev
eral days later succumber to a
shower of 500-pound bombs. But
the Naw Brass said, "Wait till
they come up against the real
McCoy."
They came up against it on
July 21, off Hampton Roads, Va.
A laree cart of the Atlantic
Fleet was on hand. So were nav
al, military, and Congressional
dignitaries. Seven planes made
a run at the "Ostfriesland witn
2,000-pound bombs, the largest
then in existence. And in a little
over 20 minutes, before the
seventh bomb had been dropped,
the battleship was under the
waves.
Continued Crusade
Nevertheless, a joint board re
porting on the tests averred flat
ly: "The battleship is still the
backbone of the Fleet." The
Army and Navy heads, both civ
ilian and military, came out for
only a little more attention to
the plane as a weapon.
Mitchell continued his cru
sade, was court-martialed in
1925 for insubordination, was
suspended for five years on half
pay, resigned from the service,
in 1946 was awarded, posthum
ously, by Congress a medal "in
recognition of his foresight in
the field of American military
aviation." Editorial Research
Reports.
35 Disease Cases
Reported Last Week
Thirty-five communicable dis
eases were reported to the Jack
son county health department for
the week ending July 13, accord
ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public
health physician.
Cases reported were measles
15, Medford four. Phoenix four,
Ashland three, Gold Hill three
and Rogue River one; trench
mouth one, Ashland; chicken pox
six, Medford three and Trail
three; influenza two, Medford;
nfectious hepatitis two. Eagle
Point and Ashland: mumps four,
Ashland two, Medford and Eagle
Point one; and infectious mono
nucleosis one, Ashland.
New York's Philharmonic
symphony orchestra is said to
be the third oldest in the world
and is the oldest in the United
States.
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Used by 9 out oi 10 people as a guide to
those who sell or serve ( Pacific Telephone
Mill- - - -
In Tfie Day's News
More on these American boys
of ours:
Seven-year-old William Daniel
Enger is in a San Diego hospital
this morning suffering from ser
ious burns because he climbed
an electric company's supposedly
boy-proof fence yesterday and
touched a copper bar at a substa
tion in the enclosure.
The bar carried a high volt
age. The contact caused a short
circuit that automatically cut off
the current and saved his life, but
his shirt and some of his trous
ers were burned away.
It was a close call, but it is
believed that he will recover.
WHY did he do it?
I wouldn't know, but I'll risk
a bet. I'll wager he did it be
cause the fence was a CHAL
LENGE. By its height and the
tightness of its construction, it
said to him: YOU CAN'T CLIMB
ME.
It was a dare.
He took it.
Editorial Comment
A WELL-SPENT $42
The old saying that an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound
he reworded in
Bend.
Here S42 worth of prevention
has been worth hundreds of
dollars worth of cure.
Last December Police Chief
John T. Truett grew weary of
using so much time tryinS to
stem the flow of bad checks
through the business houses of
the city.
The merchants were losing
money by the nunareos wucn
these boomerang documents
circled back into their tills
marked "no account here" and
such. A good many passers were
arrested but most of them dis
appeared like the morning dew.
The chief had some placards
printed for use in the stores.
The placards informed strangers
that finger prints would be re
quired of anyone wishing to cash
a check. The merchants placed
the placards in prominent spots,
usually near the cash register.
Most honest people are not
fussy about finger prints but a
crook shuns them like a burnt
child shuns a fire.
Today, Chief Truett was asked
for the results of his S42 expen
diture. The records show there
have been only three bad check
complaints since January 1.
The merchants are ahead hun
dreds of dollars, the prisons
have fewer inmates, many other
cities are now following Bend's
example. Bend Bulletin.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address oi the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion. Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Mosquito Plague
To the Editor: We have read
some surprising and unusual
statements in the Mail Tribune.
but one that we believe would
take the rag off the bush was
the one by Dr. Merkel, that
there were "fewer mosquitoes
than usual this year."
It seems evident that the
doctor has not been out in the
Table Rock district.
Since the article was pub
lished, several have expressed
their desire to take the doctor
for a 15 minute walk through
some of our fields and pastures
some evening about sunset.
And if that wouldn't convince
him that we have mosquitoes
by the millions, he might talk
to a few of the mothers of young
children and babies that are
being tormented day and night
by an unnecessary nuisance and
health menace, and who are
very unhappy over the intoler
able situation.
It is not a very wise policy
neither politically nor economic
ally, to keep people too unhap
py too long, and it would seem
pertinent that our Board of
Health do something to eradicate
this nuisance and health men
ace.
John L. Nealon.
Route 2, Box 279,
Central Point, Ore.
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Jenkins
1JE shouldn't have done it Tha
achievement wasn't worth the ,
risk.
But let's take a look at this
challenge business. The modern -jet
fighter is a challenge. By its
blinding speed and its unbelieve
able mechanized complications
it says plainly to every prospec
tive pilot: YOU'VE GOT TO BE
GOOD IF YOU'RE TO BE MY
MASTER.
That is a dare.
Tens of thousands of American
boys take it.
OUPPOSE they weren't willing
to accept the challenge.
Suppose Russian boys WERE
willing.
In that event, Russia would
conquer us and we'd become
slaves. We'd have security, of
course. The security of the slave '
is the nearest approach in this
world to guaranteed security. If
the slave does his master's bid
ding, he will be taken care of..
But who wants security at the
cost of FREEDOM? ,
T'M not arguing that we should -A
encourage our American boys
to go out and take every fool
dare that comes along such as
climbing 1000-foot towers to see
how it looks from the top look
ing down, and getting over the
protective fences that are placed
around dangerous modern instal
lations such as electric substa
tions. Things like that are admitted-
ly silly. The achievement isn't
worth the possible cost. Some
how. I think, we must provide
BETTER challenges, more RE
WARDING challenges. Better ;-,
ways of spending leisure time "
than climbing high and dang
erous towers and getting over
protective fences just to see if
it can be got away with.
Certainly we mustn't crush
out the spirit of adventure in
our youth. To do that would be
to bring to an end the America
that we and our forefathers have
known.
Siskiyou County
Assessment Listed
Yreka An assessed valuation
of $37,406,690 was announced
Monday for Siskiyou county, an
increase of $1,387,915 over last
year despite fire and flood dam
age, and a drop in livestock pro
duction. County Assessor L. D. Taylor
said about half of the increase,
$605,000, came from increased
assessments on Southern Pacific
Land company timber lands.
VMost of the remainder," said -r-
Taylor, "about $250,000, came
from increased Tulelake farm r :
land values."
The assessor said the gross H
county valuation was $39,295,-T
725, with $1,889,105 in exemp- :
tions, and an estimated $15,500.
000 from the public utility roll -for
a total of $52,906,620.
Taylor pointed out that most
of the fire damage would show ,
in next year's roll, since millions
of feet of burned logs now being -
salvaged will be removed from
next year's roll on March 1. ..r.
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