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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
' Sept. S. 1946
(It was Thursday)
The state police in a periodic
' drive on auto violators have
filed 75 complaints against mo
torists here the past week.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The wild
blackberries of the Applegate
are now at their best and sev
eral were seen departing with
pails yes.
0 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1936
(It was Saturday)
Whole-hearted approval of an
old-age pension was expressed
by James Stevens. Democratic
candidate for the state house of
. representatives at a meeting of
Medford Townsend club No. 2,
Friday.
Sale is announced of Holly
Court by the Jackson county
building and Loan association to
W. H. Lydiard and J. F. Fliegel.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1926
(It was Sunday)
Paul McKee. viee president
'and general manager for the
past seven years of the Califor
nia Oregon Power company, re
signs. Principal E. H. Conkle of the
high school reports there is con
siderable demand for used text
books for the coming year.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1916
(It was Tuesday)
t.o annual meeting on Baldy
Saturday and Sunday is being
planned by the Grizzlies.
The weekly concert will take
place at 8 p.m. in the city park
this evening with the Medford
city band under the direction of
bandmaster Rowland.
What's the Answer?
Can Toa Get 4 of the 7?
Cow. 1955 Editorial Research
Report
1. Vice President Nixon is
somewhat younger or older than
Estes Kefauver. Democratic can
didate to replace him, or about
the same age?
2. A man bom abroad of U.S.
parents does or doesn't need to
go through naturalization pro
cedure to be a U.S. citizen?
3. More British. U.S., Egyp
tian. Dutch. Norwegian, French.
Italian, or Panamanian ships
use the Suez Canal in normal
times?
4. The average hog sold for
slaughter weighs much more or
much less than the average steer,
or about the same?
5. At end of August Mickey
Mantle was ahead or behind the
pa set by Babe Ruth in Ruths
Tprord-breaking home run year?
6. World War I arose out of
murder of the Austro-Hunganan
crown prince in Sarajevo, which
is now in Austria. Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, or Yugoslavia?
7. The chance of drawing a
i KanH nf 13 cards of one
suit is much more or less than
one in a billion, or about tnai.
Tha answers: 1. Nixon some
whal younger (almost 10 yrs.). 2.
Doesn't. 3. Mora British. 4. Much
less. 5. Ahead. 6. Yugoslavia. 7.
Much less than ona in a billion.
CvAA fUBUIHIBS
MAIL TRIBUNE
Lots of Districts
The other day we pointed out some defects in the
jjiesent foim of county government. The county, for
one thing, does not have enough authority to take
care of urgent problems right in its own bailiwick.
One result of this is the growth of the number of
special taxing districts, formed for just one purpose.
They would not be necessary if the county had "home
rule" enough to perform the, services.
The best example of this was shown last week
when the assessor published the millage rates for
taxing districts in Jackson county. ,
'T'HERE are 45 of them in Jackson county alone
10 cities, the rural school board, 22 school districts,
7 water districts, 1 sanitary district and 3 rural fire
departments. (And this doesn't include the semi-autonomous
irrigation districts and soil conservation
districts.)
Some counties also have park and recreation dis
tricts, drainage districts, mosquito abatement dist
ricts, cemetery maintenance districts, port districts,
highway lighting, diking,
control districts, as well
PUDs.
Couldn't some of these special purposes be better
served by the county, if it were allowed to do so? This
is one of the questions being probed by an interim
committee, which should issue its report before many
more months. E.A.
Rough on Drunks
Louisiana has a new system of penalties for motor
ists who are convicted of
of intoxicating liquor.
For a first offense', the
to $400 or a jail term of
Second offenders get fined a maximum of $1,250,
or a jail term of 125 days to
The third time, the penalty is a. prison term at
hard labor for one to five years.
The fourth offense, if there is one, is hard labor
for not less than 10 years
THE Portland Oregonian
with a snootful after a
henceforth will be a practice indulged m most spar
ingly in Louisiana."
Maybe so.
But it might work the other way, too. We have a
hunch juries might be reluctant to find a man guilty
when the penalty is so severe for an offense which has
not yet come to be generally regarded as being as
serious as it should be. E.A.
Faster
The new poll booths
county for use in county-wide elections should be of
material aid in speeding
iov. 6.
Before the primary in
pressed about possible delays caused by the new law
requiring the signing of two poll books, rather than
one. As it worked out, the
a minor irritant to voters,
balloting. What did slow it down, however, in this
county anyhow, was the entirely inadequate supply of
poll booths.
Precinct after precinct
waiting their turn at the
IE PREDICT the new ones made of metal frames
with detachable canvas sides will make voting
both speedier and pleasanter.
Meanwhile, we hope the recommendations of the
interim committee on elections will be given serious
consideration by the next
voting: procedures can be
ening the necessary safeguards to an honest and
representative vote, that
made. '
It's difficult enough to
anyway, without making the process any more diffi
cult than it need be. E.A. '
Bumper.
Bob Chandler, editor
happy about the "bumper
number of tourist attractions manage to attach to the
cars of visitors.
(The first card we ever
tised the House of Mystery in Jackson county. But
whether John Litster can
spiration for this form cf
know.)
Anvwav. Chandler objects to having the cards
attached to his car, and doesn't see why other motor
ists don t object too.
IIE HAS a suggestion:
"Why not authorize
sort of advertising, say a cent a mile for every mile
a strip remains on a bumper?"
If his suggestion were placed in effect, a shrewd
motorist with a large bumper might be able to finance
his vacation trip as a traveling; billboard.
We suggest to Bob, though, that he carry a pair
of wire clippers m the glove compartment of his car,
and when he finds he's been turned into an unwilling
advertiser (or should it be advertisee?), clip it off,
crumple it up and dump it orTthe premises of the
oxienaer. l.a.
Wednesday. September S. 1S58
hospital and grasshopper
as housing authorities and
driving under the influence
penalty is a fine of $125
30 days to eight months.
lo months.
and not more than 30.
says that "Driving home
party, one may assume,
Voting
being acquired by Jackson
up the voting procedure
May, some concern was ex-
requirement, while possibly
did little to slow down the
reported lines of voters
booths.
legislature, and if it is found
speeded up without threat
the appropriate changes be
entice the electorate out
Cards
of the Bend Bulletin, is un
cards" which a mounting
saw, by the way, adver
be credited with the in
advertising or not we don't
motorists to charge for this
x
Nixon Kefauver Compared on
d : r r
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Editor'! Note: The 195 election
campaign will focui the sreateit at
tention In nollUcal history on the
candidate! for Vice President. This
Is the Ilrst of three dispatches
comparing Nixon and Kefauver.)
Washington U.B A smart
fellow can prove almost any
thing with figures, and that goes
for Congressional voting records
a campaign year.
For example, take the men
who won this year's major party
nominations for Vice President.
They served in Congress to
gether, 1947-52, although Tennes
see s Estes Kefauver was pro
moted to the Senate ahead of
California's Richard M. Nixon.
On 31 substantial matters of
public policy among those which
came to a vote during those
years, Nixon and Kefauver voted
alike on 15 occasions. They were
opposed or Kefauver was not
recorded 16 times.
Legislators who' vote alike
about as often as they are op
posed surely cannot be so far
apart in their political positions
as to be leaders of their respec
tive parties, each dedicated to
the defeat of the other. Or can
they?
ADA Supports Eites
The organization known as
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion (ADA) attempts to measure
the merits of politicians and par
ties. ADA Unas almost nothing
that is good about Vice President
Nixon It tagged Senator Kefau
ver with an enthusiastic okey
long before the nominating con
ventions met.
Organized labor goes along
with ADA on that. The left
wing of the Democratic Party
Matter of Fact by
DEMOCRATIC RESURGENCE
Seattle, Wash. The campaign
problem that confronts Presi
dent Eisenhower out here in the
Northwest can
be rather sim
p 1 y summed
up. For the
great bloc of
urban, work
ing class voters
at least Eisen
hower has lost
his father -status
as a Presi
dent above par
Joseph Aisop
ty. He is now thought of as a Re
publican President. And a large
majority of this great voting bloc
does not like or trust the Repub
lican party.
A previous report in this snace
described the rather massive
switch of urban Northwestern
voters from Stevenson to Eisen
hower. This was revealed by ar
duous polling in the company of
a professional, Lou Harris.
As nearly as we could judge.
PorUand and Seattle and their
surrounding counties now show
about the same majority for
Stevenson that these key voting
areas gave to Eisenhower in
1952. If there are also farm de
fections from Eisenhower, the
switching in the big cities could
conceivably put Oregon and
Washington into the Democratic
i-uiumn in novemDer.
fUR sample was too small to
v measure the switch precisely.
But our results were so dramatic
ally consistent, in both cities in
all working class precincts, and
even from city block to city
block, that, I have no doubt at
all about the reality of the
switch. The nature of the switch
was rather clearly revealed by
one of the dramatic consistencies
that we discovered.
In brief, Eisenhower carried
Washington by a wide margin in
1852, while the youthful Demo
crat, "Scoop" Jackson, beat the
Republican, Harry Cain, by a
wide -margin in the Senate race.
Again, Eisenhower carried Ore
gon by a wide margin; but two
years later the Democrat, Rich
ard Neuberger. nosed out the
om-une nepuoucan, iuy cor
don, in the 1954 Senate race.
We found no one who had
voted for Cain or Cordon who
was switching from Eisenhower
to Stevenson. When you asked
them their party affiliation, they
would rarely say they were Re
publicans. They would almost
invariably say, "We vote for the
man, not the party"; for being
a Republican is not a matter of
pride among the neighbors in a
working-class district. But the
Cain and Cordon voters were
genuine Republicans, none the
less, and were loyal to their
party.
ON the other hand, if you ran
into an Oregonian who
had voted first for Eisenhower
and then for Neuberger, or a
Washingtonian who had split the
ticket to vote for "Scoop" Jack
son, you generally found a
switcher to Stevenson. '"Time for
a change," discontent with the
Korean war, the warmth of the
President's personality, had won
these people to Eisenhower in
1952. But they had recorded
their real party preference in
their votes in the Senate races.
And although they still "like
Ike," they now regard him as
a Republican; and their party
preference leads them to choose
Adlai Stevenson, who is "a fine
, i
finds Kefauver to be a liberal
and Nixon a reactionary or con
servative. It arrives at its conclu
sions like this:
In 1947 Kefauver voted to sup
port President Truman's veto of
the Taft-Hartley Bill. Nixon
voted for, Kefauver against, a
resolution calling on Mr. Tru
man to use Taft-Hartley powers
in the 1949 steel strike.
Employment Votes Differ
Again, in 1950, Kefauver voted
for a Senate amendment which
would have increased and length
e n e d weekly unemployment
benefits. The AFL-CIO political
pamphlets compare that vote
with Nixon's of 1950 in the
House to discontinue Federal
regulation of unemployment
compensation laws and to permit
states to withhold compensation
under some circumstances from
persons who refused jobs in
plants undergoing strikes.
Kefauver opposed and Nixon
supported April 1, 1951, as the
starting date for new corpora
tion taxes in preference to Jan.
1, 1951. Labor holds that this
was unfair because corporations
would have paid another $500,
000,000 in taxes had the earlier
date been imposed.
The foregoing are examples
of Nixon-Kefauver comparative
voting taken from the political
pamphlet just distributed by the'
AFL-CIO committee on political
education.
Herter Backs Nixon
Nixon certainly has champions
of his voting record, too, includ
ing Massachusetts Gov. Christian
A. Herter who nominated him
last month. At that time Herter
said:
"I can speak with some author
Joseph Alsop
man too." Stevenson was not do
ing quite so well as Jackson did
in Washington,- but he seemed to
be running in Oregon just about
as Neuberger ran.
By the same token and here
is another big surprise Steven
son was leading the Democratic
ticket in both states. The ex
perts have been predicting heavy
ticket-splitting in favor of the
Northwestern Democratic Sen
ate candidates, Wayne Morsn in
Oregon and Warren Magnuson
in Washington. We found a lot
of ticket-splitting, to be sure.
But it was going both ways, be
cause of the popularity among
Washington voters of the Repub
lican Senate candidate. Gov. Ar
thur Langlie, and because Morse
is far from universally popular
in Oregon. In both states, there
fore, Stevenson was just a hair
ahead of the Senate candidates.
XlfHAT, then, is one to make
of this significant Demo
cratic resurgence in the key ur
ban areas of the Northwest? It
is a real thing, I have no doubt,
but as of now it is a fragile
thing. In most cases, the switch
ers had made their decisions
without passion or violent con
viction. Their decisions, one felt,
might be changed later on. A
lot can depend on the campaign
that is now opening.
But tha fact that the situation
is still relatively fluid is by no
means sure to benefit the Re
publicans. They are vulnerable
to further losses in the urban
areas, because the urban work
ing class voters areethemselves
very vulnerable to any economic
squeeze.
I have ventured to use the
phrase "working class" to de
scribe these voters because it
is the way they think of them
selves. In discussing their poli
tics, they freely say, "We're
working people and naturally
we always have to remember
that." Yet this phrase, with its
old-fashioned ring, hardly con
jures up the physical reality
that Lou Harris and I saw.
WE visited no pockets of mis
dn, in o9rtlo Pnrtlanl
j i could not see the slightest dif-
ference, in fact, between the
solidly pro-Eisenhower Seattle
precinct inhabited by junior ex
ecutives and embryo profession
al men, and the strongly pro
Stevenson working class precinct
foremen and workers and others
inhabited by Boeing aircraft
who made their living by their
hands. There' were the same
nice .but small houses, the same
cars and television sets and par
lor furniture and pretty gardens
(although the working people
had the edge as gardeners).
But there was, no doubt,
small difference In family in
comes between the two pre
cincts. Furthermore, having
found their final place in life,
the people in the working class
precinct were older, and their
families were bigger. Thus the
high living standard they had
achieved was fairly hard to
maintain. One could not prove
it precisely, but I would guess
that the price rises of the last
months had a lot to do with
making up the switchers' minds.
And I would say further that
any additional rises in the cost of
living will hurt the Republicans
badly in the cities, just as any
additional drop in farm prices
will hurt them badly in the
farm areas.
Copyright 19S8, New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.
- ,
ity about this man's qualities . . .
I have observed his votes . . .
I have witnessed his deeds. He
has developed an incisive grasp
of the fundamental premises on
which our European recovery
program was built.
"A hard fighter in partisan
contests, he has been equally ef
fective in advancing bi-partisan
causes. He was an original sup
porter of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and mili
tary aid for our allies . . . During
the lean years of the party his
was one of the few strong, clear
voices raised in support of a vital
and dynamic philosophy of gov
ernment which offered a positive
alternate to the doctrinaire theo
ries of the new and fair deals."
In a wide range of issues, Ke
fauver and Nixon have been
fairly close. They were more
often agreed on matters of for
eign than on domestic policy.
They were in disagreement on
matters relating to Communist
infiltration of American institutions.
Adenauer Alarmed By
Possibility of Force
In Suez Canal Dispute
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
West Germany is likely to do
some strong talking at the meet
ing of North Atlantic Treaty Or-
g a n l z a t ion
members in
Paris today.
C h a nc ellor
K 0 n rad Ade
n a u e r seems
to be seriously
alarmed over
the possibility
Great Britain
and France
Charles .Met ann awi i tiuiiic-
thing that will lead to military
?action in the Suez canal dis
pute. Adenauer does not want
West Germany as a NATO mem
ber, to be involved in the situa
tion in any way.
Further, he does not want
Britain and France to do any
thing themselves that will lead
to a mass withdrawal of their
troops which are part of the
NATO defense forces.
It is indicated that German
Foreign Minister Henrich Von
Brentano will express Ade
nauer's views with some force
and possibly with some heat.
Caught in Middle
Adenauer has been caught in
the middle, so to speak, by a
number of developments in re
cent months.
Britain has committed itself
to a drastic economy program
which will entail a reduction in
its NATO army strength.
Adenauer is very worried
over the possibility that revised
United States strategic plans
will weaken American forces in
Germany.
The threat of these reductions
comes while West Germany is
being asked to raise a defense
force of 500,000 men as its
NATO contribution.
Communications
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Constitution Party
To the Editor: Some people
will soon vote because it is the
thing to do. But both parties are
similar in the red tactic to cen
tralize and federalize the states,
in other words, to destroy the
sovereignty of the 48 states both
parties believe in the legal
thievery of reaching into your
pay envelope anc1. taking your
money. They call it income tax
and what-not. which violates the
United States Constitution.
The post office debt is federal,
and has been in the red since it
began. This bunch of legal bums
want schools federalized. The
pinkos already have their
greedy talons by federalization
into all states in the nation.
Some call themselves socialists,
liberals, progressives and what
not, but they are communists re
gardless, because from the fruit
it is easy to identify the seed it
came from.
A Mexican red with 20 years
experience in Russia just ar
rived in Mexico to whoop up the
communist beliefs and ideas
there. Think about this one, and
who brings internationals up here
to steal the American jobs.
I would say don't vote for any
one that wants federalization,
don't vote for any lawyers, even
if you know he is a good one.
but for the nation's business
men, builders and producers,
that know how hard it is to
work for a dollar and keep
few cents of it. And better still,
join the new third party that is
on its way in Oregon, the For
America Constitutional party. It
is now organized in 30 states
and growing fast.
. ReiUy
" " " 338 North Laurel st.
Ashland, Ore.
T . v .
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By Walter
THE THIRD YEAR
We are now at the beginning
of the third school year since
the Supreme Court held that seg
regation in the
public schools,
as it has pre
vailed in 17
states and the
District of Co-
74 :awful- Eight
a, n iuumern states
i TTte.'t 3l extending from
:- Virginia to
waiter upemann Louisiana have
taken legal action to nullify the
law as applied tc primary and
secondary schools, and five of
them all but Virginia, North
Carolina and Louisiana main
tain segregation in their col
leges and universities. Only
the District of Columbia, which
is under Federal government,
has abolished segregation en
tirely. In most but not all of the
remaining nine states which
To raise this force, Adenauer
plans to draft men for military
service. There is bitter opposi
tion by many West Germans to
the draft plan.
Opposes Arming
Soviet Russia naturally is vio
lently opposed to the arming of
West Germany, and is using
that as one of its arguments
against consenting to German
unification.
Unification is the biggest is
sue in the world to Germans.
Wilhelm Haas, West German
ambassador is expected to pre
sent a note to Russia within the
next few days calling for a Big
Four conference on unification.
There seems to be no possibil
ity that Russia will agree, espe
cially as the Kremlin is angry
over the recent outlawing of the
West German Communist party.
In recent days, Russian and
Egyptian newspapers have at
tacked West Germany savagely
because it supported the United
States control plan in the re
cent London Suez conference.
Criticise Britain, France
But while West Germany sup
ported the American plan, it is
even more firmly opposed than
is the United States to any war
like move by Britain and
France in the event that the cur
rent Cairo conference fails.
West German newspapers,
which seem to reflect the view
of the government, are vigorous
ly criticizing Britain and France.
As part of the criticism, they
are expressing fear that Ger
many's economic interests
throughout the Middle East may
be harmed by what they call
British and French "colonialist"
policy.
It seems possible that Von
Bentano, in Paris, may hint that
West Germany's relations with
Britain and France will be
weakened seriously if the Suez
situation gets out of hand.'
Two Jackson County
Residents Win Prizes
. Salem An Ashland resident
has won three first prizes and a
Central Point resident has won
one first prize as a result of the
judging at the Oregon State Fair
this week in Salem.
George Nichols, Ashland, ex
hibiting entries in the honey
bees event, won first place rib
bons for his Italian bees, clover
comb honey and alfalfa and
sweet clover comb honey.
Otto Bohnert, Central Point,
exhibiting entries in the vege
tables event, won a first place
ribbon for his potatoes exhibit
(any variety other than Netted
Gem).
Patrol Extinguishes
Blaze Monday Night
The state forest patrol Monday
night extinguished a "sleeper"
fire in the Dead Indian area, a
left over from the lightning
storm last Aug. 21. the forest
patrol reported yesterday.
The fire burned about three
quarters of an acre in heavy
timber area, according to the pa
tral, but the fire was confined
to the ground. A two man crew,
working all Monday night until
7 a.m. Tuesday morning, extin
guished the fire, it was reported.
LICENSES SUSPENDED
Salem !U.R) Licenses of 781
Oregon drivers were suspended
last month because of accidents
or run-ins with the law.
No Parking Problem With
"The Amazing Volkswagen"
MORSE
MOTORS
120. N. RIVERSIDE i V) ClV
Tntyyerrn
Lippmann
include all the border states
there are some mixed schools.
But they are largely confined to
communities 'where the Negroes
are a small minority of the pop
ulation. Two years are a very short
time in a matter of such gravity
and difficulty. But they have
been long enough, it seems to
me, to raise questions which de
serve the most careful study and
discussion. These questions re
volve around the policy as
laid down by the Supreme Court
for putting the law into effect.
This policy, we can now see, is
suitable and effective in com
munities, as for example the Dis
trict of Columbia, where the pub
lic authority and a preponder
ant public opinion are in favor
of observance and compliance.
But in the resisting s'ates or com
munities, in the hard core of the
South, the policy i: most unsat
isfactory. It is in fact, either in
effective which discredits the
law or dangerous to peace and
order.
THE essential policy, -which I
-- am talking about, is this: Hav
ing declared that segregation in
public schools is unlawful, the
Supreme Court invited citizens
in communities which do not
comply voluntarily to come into
the Distrist Court for a redress
of their grievance. This means in
practice that in segregated com
munities Negro families who are
willing to fight for heir chil
dren's rights must ge a lawyer,
supplied usually by t' t National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, must go
into the Federal Court, and must
ask the judge to order the local
officials to do what these local
officials do not want to do.
Is this a good way to go about
persuading the Southern states
to comply with a law which they
must then live by? There must
be a better way than to initiate
the process of compliance by a
legal fight in which a Negro
family calls on the Federal gov
ernment to override the will of
its own community, and subject.
Negro children to the kind of
ordeal that they are suffering
now in Clinton, Tenn.
fPHESE two years have shown,
- it seems to me, that the great
project of integrating the public
schools of the United States is
more than a matter of laying
down the law and then demand
ing that everyone comply with
it. Where there are two school
systems, one white and one Ne
gro, integration requires more
than a court order. It requires a
program which looks ahead for
a generation, and faces up to the
practical problems of integra
tion such as the financial
cost, such as the difference in
educational opportunity and of
educational capacity of white and
colored children, such as wheth
er among adolescents it will be
wise to combine co-education
with integration.
The problem is one for states
men, not for district judges, and
it cannot be solved by scattered
law suits. What we very much
need is to arrive at a national
concensus of enlightened opin
ion as to how at the hard core
of the problem in the South
we should go about inducing
compliance.
TI1Y own view is that at the
-" hard core the wisest policy
is to proceed by stages, begin
ning as soon as possible with in
tegration in the universities. In
the graduate schools of law, med
icine, education, engineering,
theology and where it can be
done without causing social con
vulsions, in the bigger colleges.
The object of this would be to
train a new generation of white
and colored men and women
who will be the leaders in their
communities.
Until they exist, there is little
prospect that at the hard core
there will be a disposition by
whites and Negroes tq work to
gether on the complex and sen
sitive problem of integrating at
the primary and secondary lev
els. At the hard core, a state
which complies with the law at
the university level should for
some years to come be deemed
to be acting in good faith. We
would be deceiving ourselves if
we thought that at the hard
core it is possible to tackle the
whole problem at once, and to
move any faster.
Until the elections are over
nothing useful can be done about
forming a new policy and arriv
ing at a consensus to support It.
But it will be on the agenda, and
not too far from the. top, of the
President-elect.
(C) 1956. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.