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10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15. 1946
(It was Thursday)
Jackson, County 4-H Livestock
judging tour will be held Satur
day at the courthouse.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Jewish ref
ugees in Palestine pay less at
tention to curfews imposed by
the British than Juveniles in
American do to same thing im
posed by their own city coun
cils. 20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15. 1936
(It was Saturday)
Residents of Jackson county
receive total of $459,417 from
Home Farmers Loan corporation
during the three year period of
refinancing operations which
ended June 13.
Public hearing on a Rogue
river flood control project will
be held at the courthouse here
Sept 19.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15. 1926
(It was Sunday)
B. L. Sanderson, salesman at
Pierce Harrison Motor company,
one of 20 in northwest for mem
bership in "72" Car club.
An article on Crater Lake by
Herb Grey, advertising manager
of the Mail Tribune, will be
printed in a 100 papers along
the coast.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15. 1916
(It was Tuesday)
The first deer of the season,
a five point buck, was brought
In this morning by Police Chief
J. F. Hittson.
The 15th concert of the 1916
season will be given at the City
park at 8 p.m. today under the
direction of Reginald Rowland.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr 1955. Editorial Relearcb
Rpnrt
1. Radio "soap operas" were
so-called because they were spon
sored by soap companys, brought
water to the eyes, were clean,
or came mostly on Wash Day?
2. The world's largest single
car maker is Fiat, Volkswagen,
Citroen. Chevrolet or Hillman?
3. In bowling duckpins a score
of 200 is made often, occasional
ly, or very seldom?
4. The Democrats so far this
century have chosen (a) 1, (b) 3
(c) 5. (d) 7 or (e) 9 Southerners
for Vice President?
5. The American Jewish Com
mitter says that anti-Semitism
in western Europe has risen, fal
len or stayed the same in the
last five years?
6. Much more traffic normally
goes through the Panama or the
Suez Canal, or about the same
through each?
7. Democratic national chair
man Paul M, Butler claims most
"working" newspapermen are
Democrats or Republicans or
about evenly divided?
The Answers: 1. Were spon
sored by soap companys. 2. Chev
rolet. 3. Very seldom. 4. Three
Robinson (Ark.), 1928; Garner
(Tex.). 1932. 1936; Sparkman
(Ala.). 1952. 5. Has risen. 6. Much
more through Suez. 7. Mostly
Democratic ha claims.
MAIL TRIBUNE
One More Hurdle
Only one more hurdle remains before work can
begin on the Talent project. This is the election Aug.
22 at which time landowners of the Talent Irrigation
district will pass on a repayment contract with the
federal government.
We suspect (and hope) the election will be little
more than a formality, for the landowners will, if they
approve the proposal, be getting a monumental bar
gain. ""THERE have been a few misconceptions about the
project and the contract which have been publicly
corrected. It is to be hoped all the landowners are
aware of the facts, and will vote a resounding ap
proval. For, as far as we are aware, the only logical
grounds for opposition are ideological that the fed
eral government shouldn't be messing around with
power, flood control, irrigation or recreation. Such
an attitude is--to put it mildly out of date.
ANDOWNERS of the district this year will pay
a per-acre-per-year water assessment fee of
$10.75, which includes both operation and mainte
nance costs and bond redemption funds. If the con
tract were to be turned down, the costs would go on
as at present until the bonds were repaid. Meanwhile,
the condition of the district's water distribution sys
tem is such that major rehabilitation is fast becoming
a necessity, and it soon would be inevitable that the
fees would have to go up to finance it, if, indeed, it
could be accomplished at all.
On the other hand, the Talent project offers re
habilitation of the system as part of the overall job,
in addition to a large increase in the amount of de
liverable water to users, plus enough to provide new
irrigation for some 5,000 acres of land.
Because the work will virtually cut operating and
maintenance costs in half, and because bond amor
tization is figured in to the repayment plan, water
fees in the future will be little if any changed, even
with construction costs figured in.
THE Talent district through its water assesments
will pay back over a long-term period about $5,
800,000. While this is a sizable sum, it is only about
half of the costs allocated
be -paid by power revenues, which will also pay for
the entire cost allocated to power production.
The federal government will pay for such non
revenue producing features as flood control and
recreation.
FOR these reasons, it would certainly seem to be
to the enlightened self interest of the Talent land
owners to approve the contract. For their own sake,
we hope they do.
We also hope they do for the sake of all other
residents of the valley, who stand to gain vastly in
both tangible and intangible benefits from this multi
purpose project: In more available power, in de
creases in the flood potential of the Bear creek drain
age, in the opening up of a big and beautiful part of
the county, in vastly increasing the recreational op
portunities of the growing area ; in a healthier agri
culture and agricultural processing industry.
It isn't every day that a relative handful of resi
dents have the opoprtunity to stamp "OK" on a proj
ect as far-reaching and worth while as this. E.A.
What Is An "Accident?"
As of this writing, 22 persons have been killed in
Jackson county so far this year in "accidents."
What is an accident?
Webster's good book defines it as "an event that
takes place without one's foresight or expectation,
especially one of an afflictive or unfortunate char
acter; a casualty. . ."
The total so far this year, swelled by the five
death automobile accident last week, includes 16
dead in traffic, three in logging, one in a mill mishap,
and two by drowning.
AN ACCIDENT, by definition, takes place without
foresight or expectation.
That's the trouble. It is a rare accident that could
not have been prevented by the use of foresight, and
its resulting care and caution.
Nobody INTENDS to go out and kill or be killed
on the highway. Yet it happens with startling regu
larity. The record so far this year, if the rate is main
tained, will result in one of the worst traffic-death
years in history. The state police office reports the
previous worst two years were 1946 (with 26 killed)
and 1952 (with 24 killed).
OUR sympathy is at a minimum for the driver who
carelessly kills himself. But our heart goes out to
the innocent victim of the careless one's carelessness.
Today's cars are so smooth, so powerful, so easily
controlled, that it is fatally easy to get into the "it
can't happen to me" frame of mind.
The statistics of death prove otherwise. E.A.
Scientists Strip Atoms
Berkeley. Calif. flJ.P) The
science boys take atoms apart to
find out what makes matter stick
together.
That's whv thev seek to build
even more powerful atom-smash
ers, in tne woras 01 ui. mww
M. McMUlan, Nobel laureate and
professor of physics on the Uni
versity of California campus
here:
"By taking apart the matter
whirh makes un our universe.
we learn more about how it is
put together. Each time we raise
the energy range of the particles
Wednesday, August 15. 195S
to irrigation. The rest will
To Learn of Matter
with which we bombard atomic
nuclei, we observe new struc
tural particles and new pheno
mena some of them surprising,
others predicted by theory."
Lightning Hits Stack
Of Hay Near Bend
Bend (U.R) Five thousand
dollars worth of hay went up in
smoke last night when lightning
struck and destroyed a 150-ton
stack of baled hay on the Dr.
Robert L. Cutter farm five miles
northeast of Bend.
Communications
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under certain circumstances the use cf a pen name or initial for publication
is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words.
Cites Great Northern
To the Editor: We have en
joyed your editorials, or most of
them, since we moved here in
'48. Some of the letters that are
published in "Communications'
we agree with and many we do
not, and some make us ashamed
of the human race.
We have been following this
hearing on the Southern Pacific
R. R. with great interest for I
was born and raised in a litUe
town between Great Falls and
Helena, Mont. The Great North-
enr R.R. has a line through my
town of Cascade (pop. 500) and
for many years they (G.N.) tried
to disband their service through
there but were never able to
talk the people out of it.
Two weeks ago I received my
home town paper (Cascade Cou
rier) and there was an article in
it that might be an idea for the
Southern Pacific.
I am enclosing the article and
you can do what you want to
with it.
We agree fully with Senator
Neuberger on the S. P. dispute
and hope that everyone else will
too.
Mrs. C. H. Knotts
. Shady Cove, Ore.
The article follows:
GREAT NORTHERN PUTS
NEW ONE-CAR DIESEL
INTO SERVICE HERE
A new stainless steel diesel car
combining passenger, baggage
and express service and its own
motor power began service Mon
day on the Great Northen Rail
way line between Great FaUs,
Billings, Helena and Butte, H. J.
Surles, Butte division superin
tendent announced.
The new unit wiU make a six-
times-weekly round trip between
Great Falls and Billings, and be
tween Great Falls, Helena and
Butte, following the present
schedule between those points.
The 85-foot self-propelled unit,
known in rail circles as an
"RDC", is the first of its type
to be ordered by the Great
Northern.
Passenger seating capacity of
the streamlined, air-conditioned
coach is 45. A separate baggage
and express compartment has a
capacity of 13,200 pounds.
The unit is powered by two
water cooled diesel engines, with
drive to the axles through a
torque converter up to 55 miles
per hour. Beyond that speed the
drive is direct. This contrasts
with the diesel-electric locomo
tives in which the diesel engines
power generators which in turn
produce electricity for traction
motors.
Editorial Comment
'SLEEPING OUT'
Sleeping out is rapidly becom
ing a sort of lost art.
True, people still "sleep out"
in the vacation months of sum
mer, but not in the manner of
olden days. They spread their
downy beds in mosquito proof
tents, they improvise cars as
sleeping quarters, they rent
cabins on lake shores.
That was not the way people,
especially young folks, of anoth
er generation slept out.
They spread a quilt or two on
the ground, in the dog days of
July, covered themselves with
a blanket and watched the stars
wheel by. Those stars, inciden
tally, were huge and glorious,
undimmed by blasting electric
lights or the neons of nearby
streets.
There are youngsters now
grown old who recall the thrill
of sleeping under the stars in
those dark nights of 'yesteryear.
In the south blazed Scorpio,
with its great sun An tares. Over
head were the never-setting cir
cumpolar stars. Occasionally
lustrous planets vied with sum
mer stars for attention.
And blazing through those
summer skies were the "shoot
ing stars," flaming out of Per
seus to leave fiery trails across
a score of constellations.
People still sleep out in the
farm nights of summer, but not
to fall asleep wondering about
the mysteries of the universe.
The glare of neons, car lights
and street lights has erased that
universe. Bend Bulletin.
Vancouver Aluminum
Signs Three-Year Pact
Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) A
new three year contract covering
some 1350 Vancouver Aluminum
Company of America employees
was signed yesterday.
Across the board pay increases
of 9.5 cents an hour the first
year are provided for in the new
pact with a 7 cent .hike the sec
ond year and an increase of 8
cents the third year.
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Nature vs. Desegregation
To The Editor: Any and all
supreme court decisions, any and
all rules and regulations evolved
by mankind, cannot be made to
work when and if in conflict
with laws of nature. Along with
nature's first law, self preserva
tion, is another of almost equal
importance; tribal species con
trol. It is the law that keeps one
tribe of ant, that particular spe
cies. It is the law that keeps the
robin a robin despite the proxi
mity of similar birds. It is the
law that keeps the white-tail
deer what it is despite other vari
ations all around it.
Running north from Klamath
Falls where the htgh plateau
lands break away to the low
lands is a dividing line between
the black-tail and mule-tail deer,
the bucks of either species fight
ing the others away. An old
timer told me of finding the
antlers of a black-tail buck and
those of a mule-tail locked to
gether, mute evidence of their
death struggle in protection of
their blood-lines.
All this has been going on
since the creation of living
things, be it the broad - leaf
forests or those of the needled
conifers or the furred and
feathered tribes that inhabit
them. Such laws cannot be set
aside. Yet, that is the very thing
attempted today in this segre
gation problem that is bringing
us back to the hatreds, the sor
row and misery preceding the
war between the states.
It is not because the white
man thinks he is any better than
the black man. We know full
well that some Negroes possess
talents seldom if ever equaled by
the Caucasian; like the great
Negro, Dr. Carver, with his
magical products from the low
ly peanut, Booker T. Washing
ton, and others. In the deep
south, a man from there told me
that the presence of whites at
all-Negro churches and schools
is resented. In Japan and Korea,
the poor litUe Gl-fathered waifs.
called "round-eyes," are un
wanted, despised and spurned.
Tribal species control is an age
old law and no rulings of man
kind can bring harmony out of
its violation, the forcing of an
tagonistic races of people to
mingle in social proximity.
F. J. Clifford
1211 W. Main st
Medfod, Ore.
Ok's Al Serena
To the Editor: In your issue
of Aug. 12, I read with much in
terest a letter by Ken Corliss
headed "Why Not Discuss Is
sues?" His letter ties in very
nicely with the spirit of some of
your editorials on McKay's
give away" re AI Serena.
I am sure that you and Mr
Corliss felt that statements made
in editorials and in the letter re
ferred to were correct. I am also
sure that if you had had the
facts, such harsh criticism would
not have been made.
TheSaturday Evening Post Is
a magazine of integrity and
honesty and will not make state
ments without proof of factual
credence. Had Mr. Corliss read
the Sat. Eve. Post Aug. 4, the
article, "Oregon Grudge Fight,
Can the GOP Break Wayne
Morse?" by William Worden,
beginning on Page 26, giving Mc-
ri.ay and Morse fair play and
reaching the crux of the matter
on Page 64, beginning with the
third paragraph and covering
remainder of the page, I doubt
that he would have pitted his
statements against Mr. Worden
about Al Serena and wild life
refuges being a give away and a
steal. Mr. Morse undoubtedly
knows better, but political ex
pediency makes strange bed
fellows. May I ask that Mr. Cor
liss read the article named above
and acquaint himself of the true
facts in the case. Also good read
ing for Mr. Editor.
Mr. Corliss may want to know
my political affiliation because
I call his attention to his errors
in his letter. I have been a
registered Democrat for 50 years
till this spring, though I could
not accept Mr. F. D. Roosevelt's
nor Mr Truman's politics. I
registered Republican this sprint:
to be able to vote for my friend
Phil Hitchock' in the primaries,
believing him to be the best
man. I'll vote this fall just as I
please.
Dr. Jouett P. Bray
317 Lozier lane
Medford, Ore.
MeCANN ON VACATION
Charles M. MeCann is en
vacation. His weekly newt out
look and daily foreign news
commentary columns will be
resumed upon hit return.
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Truman May Be Running Out of
Luck as Demo Leader, Is View
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Chicago (U.R) It looks like
Harry S. Truman may be run
ning out of luck, an elder states-
man on the
way toward be
ing just an
other member
of the Demo
cratic Party.
More than a
few Democrats
here are fresh
out of patience
today with the
Lsit t woiod dapper ex
President for whom they whoop
ed and hollered when he reach
ed town just a week ago.
Some top party men feel that
Mr. Truman has double crossed
them and this Democratic Na
tional Convention. They will say
so, too, but less often publicly
than in private. It had been their
understanding that Mr. Truman
was coming here as a neutral
the beloved elder statesman to
seek party harmony and win
ning ticket. They claim he told
them that was his plan.
What he actually did was call
for the nomination of an East
ern Democrat whose choice
would invite a Democratic brawl
fit to rank with the angriest in
party history.
Says Harriman Best
Mr. Truman proposed the
nomination of Gov. Averell Har
riman of New York whom he
called the Democrat best quali
fied for the White House. That
was last Saturday. He told ques
tioners Tuesday that he wasn't
against anyone, but merely was
for Harriman. At the same time
he expressed the opinion that
Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois
could not be elected next No
vember. That's almost a foul in
the game of politics.
Mr. Truman has had unbeliev
ably good luck throughout a
long political career. He per
formed the improbable feat of
rising to the White House from
a patronage job in old Tom Pen-
dergast's corrupt Kansas City
machine. Mr. Truman wasn't
corrupt, the machine was notor
ious. So was Mr. Truman s spon
sor, old Tom, who finally went
to jail.
More improbable was Mr. Tru
man's election in 1948. Four
years later his luck still held.
He dictated the nomination of
Adlai E. Stevenson for president
although Sen. Estes Kefauver
came to the 1952 convention
with a long lead.
Won In New Hampshire
There were strikes on Kefau
ver in 1952. One of them was
the opposition of congressional
colleagues who knew him best.
Another was geographical. Ten
nessee comparatively is a small
border state. Strike No. 3-and-
out, however, was called the pre
vious March in New Hamp
shire's presidential primary.
Kefauver entered his name
against Mr. Truman's in New
Hampshire and licked him good.
Kefauver would have been bet
ter off without New Hamp
shire's handful of delegates and
with Mr. Truman's friendship.
He learned that offending presi
dents is dangerous business.
Stevenson would certainly be
nominated today if he had Mr.
Truman on his side. It is fair to
assume that Mr. Truman would
ba there, too, if Stevenson had
not shunned him after winning
the 1952 nomination. Stevenson
had his own plans for the 1952
presidential campaign and they
did not much include Mr. Tru
man. Disappointed, hurt and
angry, Mr. Truman evidently
felt Stevenson had bitten the
feeding hand.
Soma Delegates Annoyed
So, whatever the other fac
tors may be, Mr.Truman here
in 1956 is doing what he did here
in 1952 trying to prevent the
nomination of a man who offend
ed him. Some of the delegates
are recalling these political facts.
Old pros who have been hold
ing high convention office for
years or who have been gradu
NOW is the time to
See De Leigh
1 1 ..I hi fa
ated to the easy pasture of dele-gate-at-large
are especially an
noyed. They hold that Mr. Tru
man is willing to jeopardize
party harmony to establish him
self again as kingmaker or dic
tator of this convention.
If Mr. Truman pulls it off, he
will, indeed, be a powerful fig
In The Day's
Listening to Governor Clement
of Tennessee, the keynoter of
this 1956 national convention of
the more than a century and a
half old Democratic party, I was
forced to the conclusion that
these profesional Democrats who
are assembled in Chicago to
choose a leader and an assistant
leader don't think much of
young Richard Nixon, who is the
assistant leader of the opposi
tion. They howled their approval
every time Clement dressed him
down, which was rather often.
Listening further, it seemed to
me that these Democratic dele
gates don't think much of Re
publicans in general.
BUT
I wouldn't have missed it
for the world. It took me back
along the paths of memory to a
day when orators were SOME
BODY and when red, white and
blue orators who could make the
rafters ring were double-some
body.
GOVERNOR CLEMENT is 36
" years old.
That is the exact age of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan when as
the Boy Orator of the Platte he
keynoted the Democratic con
vention in this same city of Chi
cago with his Cross of Gold and
Crown of Thorns speech that
won him his party s nomination
for PRESIDENT.
He came to Chicago a youth
ful unknown. When the conven
tion closed, he had started a
career that fills pages and pages
in the history books.
All because of his gift of ora
tory. .
A S YOUNG Governor Clement
was delivering his winged
words there in the Chicago Con
vention Hall last night, and as
the applause rolled up to him in
waves and he had that exciting
consciousness that comes to an
orator when he knows he has
his audience with him, there
must have entered his mind this
intoxicating thought:
"Bryan did it.
"MAYBE I CAN!"
TN HIS keynote address, Gover-
-- nor Clement lambasted the
wicked Republicans as the "par
ty of privilege and pillage." He
lashed Vice-President Nixon as
the "vice hatchet man of the Re
publican party." Of Secretary of
State Dulles, he said: "He is un
questionably the greatest unguid
ed missile in the history of
American diplomacy. He shout
ed that come November the Re
publicans will "do the greatest
fadeaway in history."
Back in 1896, in this same city
of Chicago, young William Jen
nings Bryan lambasted the Re
publicans in equally flamboyant
language. He condemned the
trusts, the monopolies 'and the
high protective tariff. He bore
down hard on the money ques-
Grain Volume Said
Highest in History
Salem (U.R) The Agriculture
Department's grain inspection
division handled the largest vol
ume of business in its history
during July.
R. Ralph Harry, division chief,
said grain receipts to Portland
were 10 million bushels. Of this
amount, 920 trucks brought 564,
000 bushels and barges brought
801,000 bushels.
Twenty-four full carloads were
shipped out of Oregon ports dur
ing the month 21 from Port
land and 3 from Astoria.
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ure in the Democratic Party in
his declining years. If he fails
well, what happens to dictators
who fail is pretty well establish
ed by now.
If it happens to him, Mr. Tru
man isn't going to like it. A lot
of his old buddies would enjoy
it quite a lot.
News y
Frank Jenkins
tion. The noble Democrats, he
said, were for free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, which would mean LOTS
OF MONEY FOR EVERYBODY,
whereas the sinful and depraved
Republicans insisted upon scarce
GOLD as the medium of ex
change. FHIS peroration, he thun
dered: "You shall not press down
upon the brow of labor this
crown of thorns: you shall not
CRUCIFY MANKIND UPON A
CROSS OF GOLD."
That did it.
It made him the Presidential
nominee of the Democratic party.
VOn know about Napoleon
-- Bonaparte and his Grand
Armee. It was said that every
private carried in his knapsack
a marshal's baton just in case.
Well, its that way with the
Democratic party when its rep
resentatives assemble in conven
tion to choose a leader. Every
delegate carries in his handbag
a marshal's baton also just in
case. William Jennings Bryan
carried one in his carpetbag
when he went to Chicago in that
July of 60 years ago.
That's what makes the Demo
cratic party the Democratic par
ty. Tha't what makes the Demo
cratic conventions the rip-roaring
affairs they are. That's why
the Democratic conventions are
the nerve-tingling shows they
ere.
I can't help hoping fervently
they never change.
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