Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 29, 1956, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOuH MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTruuks "Iverytxxiy in bouKiern Ureon ReadsJThe MaU Tribune" Published DaiJy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROEERT W RUHU Editor HERB CREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATH Ail Buin-i Manager ERIC AXiX.N JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One veai $1200 Daily and Sunday Six months 6-50 Datly and Sunday Three mos 3-50 Sunday Only One vear S3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, an 1 on motor routes. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sun-lav One month 1-23 Carrier and Dealers 3c per copy All Terms asli in Advance Official Psper of the City of nfedford Official Paper Jacksun County United Presa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vanmuver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION HJiwwar.H. HI NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 29. 1946 (It was Thursday) Under the new plan of or ganization effective Sept. 1, 1946, the Medford schools will be placed upon the year instead of the semester basis. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Twenty-five autos, some of them new, piled up in one accident on the high way near San Francisco. One sheep follows another. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 29. 1936 (It was Saturday) A removal sale will be con ducted by the John Cupp furni ture store on Sixth and Bartlett sts. beginning Tuesday. Approximately 2,200 workers are employed in picking hops In Jackson and Josephine coun ties, according to Lewis Ulrich, manager of the federal employ ment office here. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 29. 1926 (It was Sunday) Ted Montgomery, an employee of The California Oregon Power company, is awarded the Insull medal at Klamath Falls. Harry S. Anderson secures the southern Oregon rights for the Siphonmix soft dring dispenser. 40 YEARS AGO Aug 29. 1916 (It was Tuesa. . The fall term of the Medford Business colege opens next Mon day, Sept. 4. Mark V. Weatherford, dem ocratic candidate for congress man, addresses a packed house at the Medford Baptist church Sunday night on the brewer's amendment. What's the Answer? Can Tou Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1935 Editorial Research Report 1. Changes made in the social security system by Congress this year did or didn't bring doc tors into it? 2. Most cars equipped with safety belts have them on front seats only, rear seats only, or both front and rear? 3. Adlai E. Stevenson Is (a) 36. (b) 46, (c) 56 or (d) 66 years old? 4. A trotting horse takes about the same time to do a mile as a running horse, or about (a) 10, (b) 25, or (c) 40 seconds more or 10 seconds less? 5. Mrs. Roosevelt, widow of the former President, now says that he had or hadn't had a heart attack prior to his death? 6. Most of the time Babe Ruth played for the N. Y. Yankees they were managed by Casey Stengel, J. J. McGraw, Joe Mc Carthy, Miller Huggins or Bill Terry? 7. The Blackwood convention Is something in U.S. politics, poker, bridge, international re lations or Italian terrorist groups? The answers: 1. Didn't 2. Most on front seats . only. 3. 56. 4. About 25 seconds more. 5. Says he hadn't had. 6. Huggins. 7. Bridge. MAIL TRIBUNE Egg in Once upon a time when he bought some oranges, was in the days when, if bought a chicken, cleaned priate pieces, and fried it. If he wanted french fried potatoes, he peeled and sliced potatoes and dumped them into deep fat. Sounds sort of old fashioned, doesn't it? a THERE has recently been a quiet revolution in food preparation and packaging. Nowadays, things are frozen, concentrated, ho mogenized, chopped, dehydrated, pre-cooked, pow dered, pre-mixed. peeled, tled or ground into pulp (artificial colorme and preservative added). There was a time when one would have thought that there wasn't much that could be done to change an egg but the nauseous W orld War II Army mess "scrambled eggs" proved chicken could undergo transformation. "THE end is not yet even for eggs. Do you know what they're fiddling around with now? Eggs taken carefully out of their into individual plastic sacks, that s what. In discussing this bit "The Eggsaminer," a poultry industry trade-maga zine, points out that it would cost more money. But so do a lot of the other types of food processing which people now expect, ana win This processing, as a matter of fact, is one reason why we're paying more for groceries, while the farmer gets less for his produce. yHE Eggsaminer's writer points out that if eggs were sold in plastic what they're buying. Which would have to eliminate blood spots, or weak, watery whites. Producers would have so the color, of the yolks that if consumers want it, no one can stop it. Pleaseleave those steaks alone', though ! E. A. ten .7 . f t lauoring Irees From the time of Gregor Johann Mendel, the Aus trian monk and geneticist, to the time of Luther Bur bank, California's great botanist, to the present, in creasing knowledge and increasing skill have been applied to the selection and breeding of .growing plants both useful and decorative. - - I7HILE the knowledge of the way in which gene- tics works is not new, its application to the de velopment of forest trees is relatively recent. Yet it furnishes the possibility for better production and better yields for America's timberlands. "The Lumberman" in its current issue reports what federal, state and private agencies are doing to improve the forests of the future by obtaining better tree seeds. It says the research holds great promise, both in improving present species, and developing new hybrids, as emphasis on reforestation grows. FORESTERS have long known that tree-seed gath- ered from one particular area even from strong and thrifty trees do not necessarily do well in other environments. And seed produce poor trees, even m Tree crops take a long sent a major investment, Foresters can no longer be satisfied with just any old seed; they must be assured that a crop which will not mature for 30 to 100 years will be of good quality. And the "tailoring" of the trees in the future, in size, in rate of growth, in quality and other attributes, while still in the initial stages of research, may be of real significance in the future.---E.A. Cough, Upper respiratory infections, those rather mys terious maladies many of which masquerade under the guise of the "common cold," are about due for their regular fall return engagement. Some of them ARE "common colds," when the victim is just plain miserable for about a week. Others are more subtle, more insidious, more- chronic. About all of them (with the possible exception of that self imposed ailment known as "smokers cough") are caused by viruses, those sub-microscopic bugs about which a great deal remains to be learned. SMOKERS' cough can be cured, but the treatment The common cold cannot yet be cured, although some of the present-day nostrums can make life more bearable for the victim. Even here, though, progress is being made, notably by English researchers, and there is reason to hope that some day the cold will be curable or preventable, or both. But a major break-through in the control of an other big segment of the upper respiratory ailments, the "grippe-like" illnesses which make one feel as though he's dying, and wishes he would, has been made by the public health service and the Navy. yHE discovery is a vaccine which has reduced by 50 to 70 per cent the number of acute feverish respiratory diseases in control groups of Navy re cruits. Not only does the vaccine help the individual ; the experimenters say it is possible that vaccination of parts of a group would produce "herd immunity," sufficient to prevent outbreaks of grippe among all. Sufferers (excluding smokers), rejoice! E.A. . j Wednesday. August 29, ISSS a Sack one wanted orange juice, and squeezed them. That he wanted ined chicken, he it, chopped it into appro sliced, diced, canned, bot and squeezed into a tube yellow powder which sergeants used to prepare that even the fruit of the shells and gently dumped of progress, a writer in pay more tor. sacks, customers could see means, he said, breeders birds that lay eggs with to control the feed of hens would be uniform. He said from poor trees is apt to ideal surroundings. time to mature, and repre both m time and money. Cough!! 'Favorite Son' Role Declines In Importance in Both Parties Washington (CQ) Is the Fa vorite Son a political dodo doomed to become extinct? Will he soon occupy a dusty cubicle in the museum of Ameri can politics, alongside such for gotten political birds as Hunk ers, Barnburners, Bucktails, Suf fragettes, Scalawags, Dudes and Pharisees, Mugwumps and Stal warts? One might think so, after seeing the 1956 conventions. The Republicans eager to prove their's was an open com petition could muster only the mythical Joe Smith as an op ponent for Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. Some flesh-and-blood Favorite Sons appeared at the Democrats' Chicago conclave, but their per formance was .as dispirited as you might expect of a dying spe cies. Numbers Decrease And dying they are. In 1952, 16, men received first-ballot votes for President at the Demo cratic Convention. In 1956, there were only nine contestants. In 1948, the Republicans split their first-ballot votes seven ways. In 1952, there were five candidates; this year, only or.e. The vanishing breed is as old as the Republic. It was 1789 when the New York Daily Ga zette hailed George Washington as "the favorite son of liberty." James Bryce, the English stu dent of the 19th Century Ameri can political life, gave the Fa vorite Son his classic definition "a man respected or admired in his own state, but little re garded beyond it and thereby pointed to the probable cause of his decline. The quadrennial party gather ings once were dominated by dealings among the assembled ambassadors of sovereign and Matter of McKAY'S MISSION Salem, Ore. "The leftists are out to get Doug McKay. Back in 1950. I got the biggest vote any one ever got for governor of Oregon. But now I've been away three years, on Ike's team. The left wing New Dealers have been concoct ing things u&epji .isup against me They've been blackening me. Why right now, I believe I'd get more votes in Texas than in Oregon. Down in Texas, they like states rights. But these peo ple up here are still yaketty- yakking about the so-called give away of the so-called tidelands. HeU, I was for states rights be fore I ever went to Washington, and I'm for them still. The left ists are out to destroy Doug Mc Kay, but I'll fight them and I'll beat them yet evn though it's an uphill fight just now." UCH is the mood of the care fully chosen dragon - killer whom the White House has sent back to Oregon to chop off the head of that super-dragon, the Republican-Democratic turncoat, Senator Wayne Morse. Douglas McKay has been a richly suc cessful Chevrolet salesman, a markedly popular governor of this state, and the secretary of interior in the Eisenhower cabi net. But despite all these sources of self-confidence, he seems, at the moment, to be a rather querulous Saint George. This reporter caught up with him (with great good luck, for he is keeping a gruelling cam paign schedule) in the small apartment in a motel in down town Salem where the McKays are camping for the duration. The candidate's wife Mabel, shrewd and friendly-looking in her gingham dress and rimless eye-glasses, explained amiably that they were in the motel be cause one of their daughters had their Salem house "and three grandchildren under five don't combine very well with a hard campaign." But McKay himself hardly seemed to notice his sur roundings, being utterly absorb ed in his own problems. THROUGH all his talk of the campaign, there ran the same note. He had been "persecuted" by "wild-eyed Democrats" who had tried to pin the "giveaway label" on him. Wayne Morse, that "leftist" and "carpet bag ger," had made all sorts of un substantial charges. And what was worse, s good many people in McKay's beloved Oregon had listened to Morse and the other "leftists," so it was not going to be easy to win although he thought he could do it. In another sort of man, all this talk of "leftist" plots would have been merely tiresome; but it was decidedly puzzling in Douglas McKay, who is normally brisk and likeable, extremely spare and tough, and neither a fool nor one given to self-pity. The clue to the riddle was at length provided by McKay him self. It lies in the story of his own life. HE is the descendant of Oregon nionpr." whn Hirt nonr hut powerful state organizations. A Favorite Son with a shrewd manager might well emerge with a nomination, a Cabinet post or some lesser appointment Party Nationalization In recent years, the parties have become more centralized and their meetings have been, in fact as well as name, national conventions. , The growth of Presidential primaries has given serious can didates an opportunity to build national reputations and broad public support before the con ventions even met. The Favorite Son, by contrast, appears a John ny-come-lately who has declined to test his popularity at the polls. Not since the 103-ballot Dem ocratic Donneybrook of 1924 has either party nominated a Presi dential candidate who was re spected or admired in his own state, but little regarded beyond it." Traditionally, Favorite Son nominations have been used two ways: to publicize the nominee and enhance his reputation back home; and to stalemate the con vention in the hope the Favor ite Son either can win the big prize or gain credit for throwing it to another aspirant. As for publicity, the politic ians have discovered that a five minute speech of their own does them more good with the tele vision audience than hours of synthetic rhetoric and un-spon- taneous demonstrations for a candidacy that cannot get off the ground. As many Republicans asked to second the nominations of Mr. Eisenhower and Nixon as de clined the honor of a Favorite Son candidacy against them. Stalemates Fewer As for stalemates, the in- Fact ey josPh auoP died free," like most pioneers To help his widowed mother, he went to work when he was 14. By hard self-denial, he none the less completed his education. taking the agricultural course at Oregon State college. That year he and Mrs. McKay were mar ried, after keeping company for a long time. But that year was 1917. He volunteered for the army. He went overseas.. He was heavily wounded at the front in France So he had to give up his ambi tion to become a farmer, and in stead started selling cars in Port land. He and Mrs. McKay scrimped and saved until he could open his own Chevrolet agency in Salem. Both Salem and Chevrolet forged ahead and before too long Doug McKay was a very successful man.. His success took him into poli tics. He ran for mayor in 1932 "to save Salem from a bunch of leftwingers." He was in the state senate after that. In World War n, he again volunteered for the service despite his wounds. In 1948, he was elected gov ernor, then came the cabinet years, and now he is running for the U. S. Senate, this time to save the state from the left- wingers." As McKay alternated his frag ments of reminiscence and his charges of leftist plots, one be gan to understand his pain and bewilderment. After such a ca reer, why should he now be open to attack? And if such careers were open to any poor young American with any grit and self reliance and power, what was aU this leftist talk about welfare and federal responsibility? Why were not the old ways good enough, as they had proved to be for Doug McKay? And was not anyone who challenged the old ways inherently a dangerous and sinister fellow? rpHE problem is, of course, -- whether the assumptions be hind these questions still hold true in modern America, as they held true when Doug McKay set out to make his way in the world. It is a particularly urgent problem here in the Northwest, where a booming private enter prise economy has been squarely built on cheap power financed by the U. S. .reasury. That prob lem is the essence of this stirring Oregon election. And McKay, with his courage and kindliness and grim determination not to be beaten by "the leftists," is probably as good a good man as any to thresh the problems out to a decision with the re doubtable Wayne Morse. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport , creased size of the conventions and the diminished control of local party bosses have made them hard to achieve. There were two tries to stale mate the Democratic convention and both failed. Ex-President Truman's endorsement of New York Gov. Averell Harriman brought hopes to such Favorite Sons as Sens. Lyndon B. John son (Texas) and Stuart Syming ton (Mo.) and Govs. A. B. (Happy) Chandler (Ky.) and Frank Lausche (Ohio). It seemed possible they might tie up enough' votes to deny nom ination to either Harriman or front-runner Adlai E. Steven son. But the convention declined to deadlock and two days after Truman's announcement, Stev enson had accumulated enough strength from other quarters to gain nomination without dealing with the Favorite Sons. When the Vice Presidency was thrown open by Stevenson, votes were cast for 13 candidates another effort to deadlock, then deal. But the 2,744 delegates made it clear on the first ballot they were interested in only two men Sens. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and John F. Kennedy (Mass.) . Strategy Defeated The headlong second -ballot' coqtest between them made shambles of the - Favorite Son strategy. Kefauver's nomination knocked out the theory that a successful candidate must have solid support from his own dele gation. As a matter of fact, neither Stevenson nor Harriman had such support in the Presi dential race. But' Kefauver received not a single vote on the first two bal lots from Tennessee, which was plumping for Favorite Son Sen. Albert Gore. In the end, It was Gore's switch to Kefauver that was de cisive. But It was clearly a case of the convention dictating Ten nessee's choice, not Tennessee maneuvering the convention.' (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Congressional Q UIZ (Copyright, 19S Congressional Quarterly) Q Out . of 225 legislative re quests by President Eisenhower in 1956, tabulated by CQ from all his messages, what percentage would you guess Congress ap proved: (a) 30 per cent; '(b) 45 per cent; (c) 60 per cent; (d) 75 per cent? A (b) 45.7 per cent, or 103 of them. Ike's four-year aver age score with Congress was 57.3 per cent. His scores by years were: 1953 72.7 per cent; 1954 64.7 per cent; 1355 46.3 per cent. Q Bound to be cited in the campaign is an unsuccessful last minute effort in the 84th Con gress to liberalize immigration laws. Most controversial of the changes that passed the Senate but died in the House was one concerning quotas, the number of annual immigration visas as signed by U. S. law to various foreign nations. The bill would have: (a) abolished quotas; (b) changed the basis for allocating quotas; (c) taken some unused quotas and redistributed them to countries with filled quotas. A (c). About 18.500 addi tional annual entries would have resulted. QUALITY CARPETS FROM FAMOUS MILLS You Can Buy with Confidence from DYKE'S FLOOR COVERINGS 227 East 6th St "GUARANTEED INSTALLATIONS" You Can SAVE at Dyke's! OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT TIL 9 Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 flon must not exceed 400 words. Recreational Medicine To the Editor: Some still liv ing remember San Francisco as really three settlements: (A) The business section, which was growing steadily behind the Em barcadero; (B) The Presidio, mil itary establishment; (C) Saxon Americans' frame dwellings, commencing to ring Mission Do lores' Mexican adobes. At that time, the little Mexi can boys played marbles with the hard dried seeds of a cucum ber family plant the Mexican call "chilacothe." This was An glicized by the American lads into "shellacoke." Such play ev idently stemmed back into Am erind (American-Indian) days. Does this not show how deep seated is the play instinct? Inci dentally, the undersigned stud ied primitive play on the Sah ara's oases. Little girls there played "jacks" with date seeds. These, tossed into the air drop-, ped either "ridged" or "smooth." Is not intelligently supervised recreation a sugar-coated medi cine for juvenile delinquency? C. M. Goethe,, Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Grants Past Named To the Editor: The naming of post-offices in early days, though done with good reason at the time, later on often became, a wonderment. Like Grants Pass, now a river valley city with a mountain road name. The reason of this came with objections of stage-coach drivers to thg old tortuous Louse Creek Hill road, now modernized into the Granite Hill road. My father, John Wheeler, took up his homestead with its southwest quarter, now the Grants Pass airport. To the south was the 640 acre donation claim of Thomas Croxton. a Methodist minister and a highly respected leader in affairs of the day. It had beefi decided that a new way north had to be built. So a better one was laid out that veered away from the Louse Creek HiU way, to cross Gilbert creek and head west up Panther Gulch as it was then known, my father donating right of way across' his property. The men who built this road were Thomas Croxton, John Wheeler, James Tuffts, son-in-law of Mr. Croxton, Craig Beard, uncle- of Fred Isham now living, and Ben Mench, later my step-father. Using aU level land on the easier grade, they plowed the rock and earth from sidehills until it was wide enough for horse and wagon with turnouts at b'est places. Their only other tools were pick and shovel. In those days, the stage-coach driver was a sort of animated' traveling newspaper, bringing word of latest events. One day, as a stagecoach stopped at my father's watering and stopping place, he told of the exciting vic tory of Grant at Vicksburg. So, the men working on the new road decided to honor it with the name of Grants Pass, much more dignified name than Louse Creek Hill. Most new postoffices were lo cated about as far as the, stage coach horses could travel in one day, 15 miles. It was quite a chore to get letters to new comers. But being so few people with some 5 to 10 miles distant considered fairly close neigh bors, it was managed somehow. Letters were usually addressed to somewhere from Jacksonville. The stagecoach drivers would deliver some to my mother who would lay them away in a box Just for Sample "Estimates Editorial Comment GOOD APPOINTMENT The appointment of William M. McAllister of Medford as jus tice of the supreme court to suc ceed the late Earle C. Latourette will be well received over the state. He made an excellent rec ord as a legislator, becoming speaker of the House in 1943 and later serving for one session as state senator from Jackson county. His ability as a lawyer has been attested by the recog nition given him by local and state bar organizations. At age 50 he brings to the court full vigor of mind and body, a var ied experience as lawmaker and attorney and citizen and mem ber of the armed forces, and a freshness of viewpoint which comes when one is elevated di rect from the bar to the high court. Salem (Ore.) Statesman. on the old stone fireplace until called for. Mr. Croxton was finally noti- fiedx by the postoffice in Wash ington that if given a suitable name, a postoffice could be had there, some 15 miles from the new one at Rock Point. His name was at once suggested but being a modest man, he turned it down. So the name of Grant was sug gested but that was already in use in eastern Oregon. So it was decided to adopt the name of the new road over the hill. That was the way Grants Pass was named. Wedging close among grown-ups visiting of an evening by the warmth of the stone fire place, I listened to this time after time, such things being of great interest to me, then and now. 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