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Flight o' Time
Medlord and Jackson County
Historv from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1946
(It was Saturday)
Official Navy moving pictures
of the war will be shown Med
lord Legionnaires at a special
meeting of Post 15, Wednesday,
at the Armory.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A number
of new autos are mingling with
the Main Stem mechanical rab
ble and the 1930 vehicular vint
age.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1936
(It was Monday)
' The city council to consider
tonight C. A. Hartley's bid for
the paving Apple St. from Third
to Fifth sts.
Final instructions will be
given Medford post's delegation
to the American Legion conven
tion at Roseburg at the post
meeting Tuesday night.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1926
(It was Tuesday)
Jackson County Merchant's
association urges business men
to attend the "Trail Rail" meet
ing in Eugene in August.
Medford post 15 played leading
role in the state legion conven
tion at Marshfield last week.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1916
,(It was Thursday)
Premium list for Jackson coun
ty fair at Medford Sept. 13-16,
issued.
Bartlett auction market Au
gust 9: New York, $2.66, 25 cars:
Chicago. $2.90; Philadelphia.
$2.80; Boston, ripe $2.90; green,
S3.20.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copt. 1935 Kdttonal Rrsrarrh
Rpnrt
1. To be elected President a
candidate needs a full majority
of the electoral votes or only
more than any one else gets?
2. Average families with low
cash incomes spend about (a) 10.
(b) 25. (c 40 or (d) 55 per cent
of it on food?
3. The WJatch Tower Bible and
Tract Society is the governing
body of which religious denomi
nation? 4. Chosen is the native name
for which country in Asia?
5. Which one of these has
more circulation: N.Y. Times,
N.Y. News. Chicago Tribune,
Philadelphia Bulletin, Los Ange
les Times?
6. The Russian alphabet has
the same number of letters as the
English, or more, or fewer?
7. First man to set foot on the
South Pole was Byrd, Peary,
Nansen, Dr. Cook, Amundsen or
Scott?
The answers: 1. Full majority.
2. About 40 per cent is average.
3. Jehovah's Witnesses. 4. Korea.
5. N.Y. News. 6. More. 7.
Amundsen.
BE NONCHALANT
Hartford. Ccnn. (U.R) If a
wasp flies in while you're driv
ing along, don't start swatting.
Instead, be "hospitable." It's
safer and chances are the insect
will depart sooner. The Connec
ticut State Safety Commission,
in issuing this safety tip. said
numerous accidents are attribut
ed to motorists who try to drive
and fight off insects at the same
time.
MAIL TRIBUNE
OSP Anniversary
With few if any exceptions, we have been favor
ably impressed with the members of the Oregon State
Police we have met.
They have been uniformly courteous, helpful and,
when occasion demanded, firm.
In addition, the organization as a whole has com
piled an enviable record of law enforcement, traffic
control and crime detection.
THESE remarks are motivated by the fact that the
OSP last week quietly observed the 25th anniver
sary of its organization. Gov. Elmo Smith, in com
menting on the event, said:
The Oregon State Police have earned the respect of the
people of Oregon. They have attained a reputation, which
is well deserved, as one of the nation's best law enforcement
agencies. Citizens of Oregon are proud of them and their
record.
Such a reputation cannot be earned without top
flight personnel, and this in turn depends on a leader
ship which can attract, select, train and hold good
men. Oregon has been fortunate in having such lead
ership for its police department.
THE DEPARTMENT was organized by Charles P.
Pray, who is now living in retirement in Portland,
and who came to the new department in 1931 from in
dustrial security work and the FBL
Pray, as superintendent, was an austere man, a
disciplinarian, who nonetheless had a twinkle in his
eye and a quiet sense of humor which his closer asso
ciates sometimes- got to see. His influence is still felt
in the department, for he insisted from the first on
the highest standards of honesty, service, and integ
rity, together with hard work and thorough training.
The police succeeded to the duties of the old traf
fic patrol, and many of its original officers came from
the patrol s ranks, including the second and present
superintendent, H. G. (bod) Maison, who took over
when Prav-retired.
. Others came from sheriff's offices and city police
departments. Seventeen of the original members are
still on the force, including Capt. Paul Parson and Lit.
Paul Morgan, the two senior officers of the southwest
ern Oregon district, with headquarters at Medford.
THE DEPARTMENT is
This one includes seven counties, Jackson, Jose
phine, Douglas, Coos, Curry, Lake and Klamath. To
tal personnel m the district
tain and lieutenant.
The Medford detachment has four sergeants (one
assigned to game enforcement) and 15 officers.
The organization has
lines. Charles Stanton, editor of the Koseburg News
Review, comments :
Xs a police organization it observes a strict military re
gime and discipline, which prevails from the highest rank
ing officer to the newest rookie. The probationary period
for new recruits serves to weed out within a short time
those applicants who find themselves .unable to conform
to the strict code, which has had an important part in pre
serving the fine character of the organization.
A S FAR AS Medford and
without the constant and efficient aid of the state po
lice, the Fascist movement
headway in the early '30s
months perhaps years
put clown.
Capt. Lee Bown (now
of the department) was head of the local state police
squad then, and the people of this community should
always hold him in high regard, and with profound
Gratitude,- for the courage
displayed during a time
many citizens, but the very foundations ot our lorm
of democratic government were seriously threatened.
Oregon is fortunate in
in the caliber of the department which serves the peo
ple as protectors of their peace and safety. E.A.
Link With History
Grandfather Elliott, who died many years ago,
was a drummer boy in the Civil War. Had he lived, he
would have been about the same age as Albert Wool-
son, who died at 109 the other day. Woolson, too, was
a Civil War drummer boy.
Woolson was the last living member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the once vast and potent or
ganization of Union veterans of the Civil War. He
was the only surviving human link between the pres
ent and the "boys in blue" who fought for the north
during this nation's greatest tragedy.
.....
THAT WAS a war which touched every family in
America. We suspect that many families have
memories of their own grandfathers or great-grandfathers
who fought either in the blue or gray uniforms.
Perhaps it is for this reason that the death of Al
bert Woolson has stirred many Americans to think
back, to remember, to reconsider the war which freed
the slaves and preserved the union, yet which left scars
still unhealed. His death underlines with poignancy
the march of histoiy, the inevitability of change, the
growth of the nation, the swift passage of time. '
A LBERT Woolson, who served less than a year in
uniform at the age of 17, probably was not typi
cal of the soldiers of the Union. Nor, in himself, was
he an important figure, except in the sense that every
individual is important.
But in his last years he became a symbol and a
reminder, the last human, tangible, living evidence of
the North's part in the great upheaval that tore the
nation apart, only to reunite it, greater and stronger.
When the few last Confederate veterans who still
survive are,, inevitably, gone, that war will truly be
long to history. E. A.
Friday. August 10, 195S
organized in four districts.
is 89, including the cap
always been along military
Jackson county are con-
that gained such incredible
would have taken many
instead of a few weeks to
the deputy superintendent
and skill and coolness he
when not only the lives of
many ways. Not the least is
Bahson Talks About
Food, Pills, Stocks
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. I have
continually stressed in this col
umn that the continuation of
present pros
perity depends
upon the con
sumers, or cus
tomers of your
local stores. So
long as retail
sales remain
high, all is
well, and hus
bands will COn-
Roger w Ramon tinue employ
ed; but when you begin to re
strict buying, then retailers buy
less from manufacturers. The
manufacturers then begin to lay
off their wageworkers and retail
sales are further reduced the
"vicious circle." Hence, the busi
ness cycle so-called turns
downward until we have a de
pression. Retail sales and employment
have been kept up by extensive
local and national advertising.
The latter has been greatly aided
by photography, color printing,
radio, and now TV. Unless some
thing unexpected happens to
shake confidence, retail sales
will be further stimulated by air
conditioning and self - service.
Some day a little oxygen will be
fed into air-conditioning systems,
which will be a great blessing to
all.
I, however, wish to refer this
week to "pills" hich are being
used so unnecessarily by wage
workers, many of whom leave
home without a real breakfast.
The "coffee break" is the most
apparent development in this
line. The milk and sugar are real
food; but the coffee is only a
temporary stimulant lasting at
most one half hour. Those work
ing on continuous-line produc
tion who must keep up with
the speed of the belts often
use dexedrine pills. These tend
to keep one awake and supply
"pep." They don't work with all
people who really need better
meals and more sleep.
Astounding Statistics -
But consider the following sta
tistics on pills which are being
used today not by sick people
but those who are employed in
factories, retail stores, and
offices. The following figures
have been supplied by Dr. Henry
van Zile Hyde of the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service at Washing
ton. He says: Each year we dose
ourselves with about 400 tons of
barbiturates (a nerve drug), 34
tons of amphetamine a "pep-up"
drug, and 7,000 tons of aspirin
made into 19 billion five-grain
tablets! In addition, there are bil
lions of laxative pills sold.
Much of this tonnage is con
sumed by tired mothers prepara
tory to shopping at a supermar
ket or some other retail store.
The final step may be to give
pills, free, to customers as they
enter the store! Such pills would
keep them longer on their ach
In The Day's
Suez developments:
TnHia'c WoVlflt .innr,,n,iAC that
India will attend the London
conference on the Suez crisis.
At the same time, he tells the
Indian narliampnt ho nnHttr.
stands that EevDt (meanincr Nas.
ser) can not and will not take
part m the London parley.
WHY not?
The answer is reasonably
simple. When Nasser, in a fit
of pique because we refused to
be drawn into a bidding battle
with Russia to see who would
put up the most money for his
Aswan dam, grabbed the canal
and said he d finance the dam
himself out of canal revenues,
he put himself out on a limb.
Having done that, he will lose
face if he takes part in a con
ference whose purpose is to
INTERNATIONALIZE the Suez.
Dictators can't afford to lose
face.
M
EANWHILE, Britain is as
sembling an- air and sea
armada to move troops to the
Mediterranean. The British are
also pushing ahead with their
plans to hold the Suez confer
ence, which is scheduled to be
gin on Aug. 16. A British for
eign office spokesman says it
will be held regardless of how
many of the 24 nations that
have been invited refuse to
attend.
In a statement issued in Lon
don, the foreign office says Brit
ain intends to setUe the dispute
peaceably. But, the statement
adds, it is the intention of Brit
ain, the U.S. and France to
ASSURE that the canal shall
remain open to ships of all na
tions at all times.
rpHAT brings us into the pic-
ture. What are WE going to
do? "
At his press conference this
morning President Eisenhower
said he has every hope the Suez
canal crisis will be settled by
peaceful means. That brought
from a reporter the suggestion
that this might give the impres
sion the President is against the
use of force in ANY circum
stances.
Ike retorted that he had not
said any such thing. He added
that what we are trying to do is
to substitute the conference
table for the battlefield.
I THINK we'll all join unhesi
tatingly in President Eisen
hower's hope. Conference rooms
ing feet and give them courage
to buy more goods. All of these
stimulants are in addition to the
highballs and doses of whiskey
or brandy taken regularly at
home.
The taking of such pills like
buying on installment may not
be harmful if properly con
trolled. It, however, is dangerous
for wage-workers, consumers or
retailers to depend too much
upon such artificial stimulants.
Not only does their use serve
only temporarily, but it is a dan
gerous and unnatural way to get
free from pain, fatigue, and
other troubles. Those depending
upon such should go to a physi
cian for a "check-up" and learn
how to eliminate the cause of
their troubles.
Importance of Good Food
Surely the prosperity of the
nation as well as or own well
being could be benefited by the
regular eating of more good
food. Coffee will not take the
place of oatmeal; ice cream sodas
will not serve for healthy
lunches; while hurried dinners
or suppers may keep you alive,
but not prosperous. We cannot
get on with scant and huried
meals any more than a furnace
can provide power without suf
ficient coal or oiL
Although girls' beautiful com
plexions are out of my field, yet
I am told "on authority" that
the money spent on cosmetics
would give far more rosy cheeks
if spent on more good food,
fresh air, pure drinking water
with more sleep. Let me fur
ther remind readers of the old
question: "How does the word
"diet" read when we leave the
"t" off?
A Word To Investors
Although I am an optimist on
oils, chemicals, and certain other
groups of stocks, yet I have con
tinually kept in mind that some
"unexpected event" may at any
time happen. I wrote a column
on this subject a few weeks ago.
The recent sudden taking over of
the Suez Canal by the new Egyp
tian Government is an illustra
tion of what I had in mind. Even
in these good days this sudden
event caused several billion dol
lars to be knocked off the value
of oil stocks and other interna
tionally owned securities within
a few hours.
We are now living in a small
world. Whatever our religion,
color, or nationality, we are
brothers together economically.
Every investor in the world has
lost money by this act of the
Egyptian Government. These in
vestors are asking themselves:
If this can be done to one of the
oldest and most conservative in
vestments, Suez Canal stock
why could it not be done to
many other "blue chips? How-
ever, all "unexpected events"
are bearish. Some are very bull
ish, such as the recent sudden
adjournment of Congress until
next January.
News bv
Frank Jenkins
have many doors. You can go
into them and you can come
out again. And you can go back
and try all over.
But battlefields are FINAL.
Once the shooting starts, it is
terribly, terribly difficult to get
ii sioppea.
TPHE key to the problem, of
course, is Russia.
Is Russia ready to let the
shooting start? If so, she will
back Nasser to the hilt.
So far, Russia has given no
inkling of what she intends
to do.
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Want Bear Creek Route
To the Editor: We are respect
fully requesting that you use
your influence in preventing the
new 99 Highway from going
through the west side of our
narrow little valley, but urge the
natural God given route along
Bear Creek.
Here are the reasons:
1. Along Bear Creek means
the saving from destruction of
much fine farm land and or
chards and the taking of them
from the tax rolls. Our narrow
litUe valley can ill afford to lose
more farm and orchard land.
2. As laid out, the West Side
route would, as far as I can see,
cut all orchards and farms diag
onally, leaving pieces of land
and orchards in shapes almost
impossible to work and care for.
3. I am reliably informed that
the West Side route would be
much more cosUy.
4. Fewer people would be dis
commoded by going along the
present natural barrier already
existing and which will always
exist. Why make another?
5. In our personal survey of
the population, going along Bear
Creek is the favored route.
Thanking you in advance for
your anticipated consideration
and cooperation.
Bert R. Elliott,
Julia R. Elliott,
Route 2, Box 394,
Medford, Ore. .
Humphrey's Civil Rights Stand
Now Threat to His V-P Chances
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Chicago (U.R) One of the
swashbuckling crew who four
years ago tried to thumb South-
e r n conserva
tives out of the
D e m o c r a tic
party now
wishes he
hadn't.
He is Sen.
Hubert Humph
rey of Minne
sota, a small,
smart man,
Lyie c uun wno nas a pret
ty good chance to be nominated
for vice president of the United
States.
Humphrey's pretty good
chance would be considerably
better today but for his record
of left wing Democratic activity
which was a successful operation
at the start and a political bust
in the windup. Insofar as it has
political significance, the record
began mid-way in the 1948
Democratic National convention.
Civil Rights Fight
The conventioneers at that mo
ment were confronted with a yes
and no but maybe plank on civil
rights which had been whompec
up by a resolutions committee
eager to avoid the issue and a
fight. Humphrey challenged
from the floor, proposed and won
adoption of a plank which pro
duced a bolt of Southern Demo
crats who formed a state's rights
party which nominated South
Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond
for president. Thurmond won 39
electoral votes.
Harry S. Truman was elected,
however without a solid South
and Humphrey was convinced fcs
and his plank had brought about
the dawn of a new political day.
The senator had a hand in
making the 1952 civil rights pre
scription a bit harder for the
South to swallow than his brew
of 1948. But the new plank had
not held the North and East for
the Democrats although it again
chipped away Southern support.
Tried To Make Up
Humphrey has devoted consid
erable time, thought and effort in
the past four years to squaring
himself with Senate Democrats.
He could not hope to square him
self wholly with the extreme con
servatives, but he did what he
could. He latched on to Adlai E.
Stevenson, the moderate candi
date for the Democratic presi
dential nomination. He opposes
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York, who is standing fast in
1956 about where Humphrey
stood in 1948-52.
The senator did not pull out
of Americans for Democratic Ac
tion, (ADA) the fighting New
Deal-Fair Deal splinter group
which would teach the Demo
cratic party to fly on its left
wing. Humphrey had no part of
ADA s public rebuke of Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas, and
Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas,
for what the left regarded as re
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright. 195S
Congressional Quarterly)
Q W hen the Republicans
convene Aug. 20 in San Francis
co, they can boast that their con
vention is unique in at least
three respects. Can you name
any one?
A It wiU be the first GOP
, convention to be held in the
Far West, the 100th anniver
sary of the first Republican
nominating convention and
the latest date a major politi
cal convention ever has been
held. It also will be only the
second time the Republicans
have convened later than the
Democrats and the second na
tional convention io be held
in San Francisco.
Q True or false: It will re
quire more delegate support to
nominate the Democratic Presi
dential candidate than to nomi
nate the Republican candidate.
A True. The Democratic
nominee must rack up at least
686Vi votes, but his Republi
can counterpart needs only
'662. But it's even worse than
it looks. Because of the Demo
crats' system of fractional
voting, most delegates will
have only half a vote. Each
GOP delegate will have one
whole vote.
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PORK
SAUSAGE
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actionary policies. The senator
has made a lot of character with
most of his Democratic col
leagues in the Senate. They like
and admire him.
Stevenson obviously would be
pleased to run with him this year
if both could be nominated.
Humphrey is a top campaigner,
fit to take on the Republicans'
Richard M. Nixon, and that isn't
faint praise.
The faint praise for Humph
rey comes from way down South
in Dixie where the court house
Conflicting
Catholic as
For V-P are
Washington (CQ) The fight
for the Democratic Vice Presi
dential nomination has turned
into a public debate on the wis
dom of putting a Catholic candi
date on the national ticket.
Congressional Quarterly ob
tained a copy of a confidential
memorandum that, supporters of
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D
Minn.) are distributing to lead
ing Democrats. It disputes the
claim of backers of Sen. John F.
Kennedy (D-Mass.) that a Catho
lic nominee virtually would as
sure a Democratic victory in No
vember.
Humphrey, a Congregational-
ist, departed from precedent last
week and formally announced
his candidacy for second spot on
the national ticket. Kennedy, a
Catholic, is bidding for the Vice
Presidential nomination al
though he has not formally an
nounced his candidacy.
Survey Claim
The claim that a Catholic Vice
Presidential candidate would all
but win the Presidential election
for the Democrats was made in
a survey distributed by John M
Bailey, Connecticut Democratic
chairman and Kennedy backer.
It, like the pro-Humphrey con
fidential memo rebutting the
claim, was meant primarily for
the eyes of Adlai E. Stevenson,
leading candidate for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination.
Both Humphrey and Kennedy
are supporting Stevenson.
The pro - Kennedy survey
claimed a Catholic Vice Presi
dential nominee would add 132
electoral votes to the Democratic
column, even if "he could get
no more than those 'normally
Democratic Catholics' who voted
for Ike in 1952." That would be
"enough when combined with
the Solid South to provide a
majority of electoral votes,"
Bailey's memorandum claimed
There are 531 electoral votes;
266 are needed to win.
Rebuttal
The Humphrey forces' rebut
tal, distributed by political
scientist and author Louis Bean,
raises these questions:
"Will non-Irish, Catholic
groups . . . swing against Ike be
cause an Irish candidate is the
Democratic Vice Presidential
candidate?"
"How will the candidacy of an
Irish Catholic for Vice President
affect the party in Protestant
areas ... a host of states of rural
non- (or even anti-) Catholic
orientation? For a non-urban,
pro-farm . Catholic, maybe; but
for an urban,, Boston intellectu
al who so duplicates rather than
complements Governor Steven
son, the prospects seem doubt
ful." '
Bean's study disputes two
basic claims of the Bailey re
port: That there is a "Catholic
vote" and that Catholic candi
dates ran far ahead of Steven
son in 1952.
Bailey claimed that if Ken
nedy "brought into the Demo
cratic fold only those normally
Democratic Catholics who voted
for Ike, he would probably win
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gangs and the voters up the creek
forks remember all too well the
Humphrey of 1948-52. They've
never heard of the Humphrey of
the past four years who has
changed his mind considerably
about the place of the South in
the Democratic party.
It would be asking much of the
Southern conservatives this year
to accept a civil rights plank
which they don't like along with
two sweethearts of ADA such as
Stevenson and Humphrey to head
their presidential ticket.
Views on
Candidate
Presented
necticut, Rhode Island, Pennsyl
vania and Illinois for 132 elec
toral votes.
"If he also wins the votes of
Catholics who shifted to the Re
publicans in 1948 or earlier, he
could also swing New Jersey,
Minnesota, Michigan, California,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, Mon
tana and maybe even New
Hampshire for a total of 265
electoral votes.
Sees Catholic Vote
Catholics, the Bailey report
said, "vote not as union mem
bers or farmers or women or old
people, but as Catholics . . .
There is, or can be, a Catholic
vote; and it is apparent that a
well-known Catholic on the
Democratic ticket would allo
cate to that ticket an extraor
dinarily large portion of that
vote."
The Bean memo concedes that
most Catholics have voted Demo
cratic but says "the evidence
shows that what held them to
the Democratic party was not
their faith but their status as
poor, underprivileged city dwel
lers." It cites studies to show that
the same proportion of Catholics
and Protestants one in five
left the Democratic party to vote
for Mr. Eisenhower in 1952.
The pro-Kennedy memo says
Democratic hopes rest on major
urban areas in 14 key states.
"The Catholic voters in each of
these cities can usually determ
ine the Democratic margin in
those cities; the size of the Demo
cratic margin in 1 those cities
usually determines whether
these states' go Democratic; and
whether these states go Demo
cratic usually determines Wheth
er the Democrats win the elec
tion." Sees New Victories
A Catholic Vice Presidential
nominee. Bailey's report claims.
would win the key cities "as Al
Smith did, and begin a new era
of Democratic victories without
costing' even the few electoral
votes Smith did."
Along with the religious issue,
the pro-Humphrey memo raises
questions about Kennedy's ap
peal in the farm states, described
as "the single largest area of po
tential anti-GOP sentiment any
where In the nation."
Kennedy has voted consistent
ly for the Administration's flex
ible support program, while
Humphrey favors rigid 90 per
cent farm price supports.
The po-Humphrey appeal says
the "candidate must be one who
stands forthright" on the farm
issue and "is able by his per
sonal efforts to dramatize the
Democratic party as the farm
ers' party."
Stevenson, it says, "has not
yet done this. He is essentially
an urban and urbane intel
lectual as far as the farmer is
concerned."
Nominating Kennedy, the
memo says, "would be but to
put two dinner jackets where
one grew before. Farm votes
cannot be won this way."
(Copyright 1956,
Congressional Quarterly)
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