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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.
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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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