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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept .14. 1946
(It was Saturday)
City authorities decide to
Clamp down on motorists who
pay no attention to "stop" signs
on city streets.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Repub
lican party is very confident of
victory in November. If they
start pulling some of the local
slick tricks, on a national basis,
they will make their customary
emergence from the little end
of the horn.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, 1938
(It was Monday)
To publicize "Gold Rush Days"
to be held In Yreka. Calif., Sept.
25-27, a caravan of Yreka min
ers and their girls will visit
Meford next Sunday.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14. 192S
(It was Tuesday)
The long talked of Pacific air
mail service. In which Medford
Is the only air mall station in
Oregon, will begin tomorrow
morning.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept 14. 1918
Ot was Thursday)
Th 1918 Jackson county fair
opened today with the largest
exhibits of livestock, iruu.
grains, manufactures and min
erals in it history.
Two public meetings are
Hii4 for tnnieht. when ini
tiative bills for constitutional
amendments submitted to voters
at the November election will
be discussed.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 14. 1906
(It was Friday)
J H Thatcher, district man
ager of the Pacific States Tele
phoning company, was here
yesterday making an Inspection
of the company i interests.
D. F. Armstrong has just rec
eived his first consignment of
Vicfnr talking- machines and
records, also a large stock of
new and up-tcxlate music.
What's ihe Answer?
Can Ton Get 4 of the 1?
Cepr. 1953 Editorial Research
Report
1. President Eisenhower, if
elected to a second term, could
or couldn't constitutionally
serve a third term beginning in
1961?
t Most stolen-cars are recover
ed, or about half of them, or
relatively few?
3. Most women afflicted with
rheumatioid arthritis got it
when relatively young, middle-
aged, or elderly?
A TJar,al r,f th Taft-HartlCV
ic riomanrierl hv the Republi
can or Democratic 1956 plat
form, or by both or by neimer:
s A 4 rent letter rate goes into
effect the coming Jan. 1. by ac
tion of Congress this year; ngm
6. Red China is much larger
or much smaller in area man
the Soviet Union, or about the
7. Yaws are small boats, ever
green trees. Asiatic oxen, a dis
ease, or kind of sweet potato?
. The Answers: 1. Couldn't. 2.
Most of them. 3. Most when
relatively young. 4. By tha Dam'
ocratic. S. Wrong. 6. Much smal
ler. 7. Skin disease.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Learn To Say "No" Fast
A Medford housewife called the Mail Tribune of
fice the other day in some distress to report on the
activities of a magazine salesman. He had given her a
"line" about needing "her vote," and then gradually
led up to the magazine sales pitch.
She said the combination of his glib tongue, in
nocuous appearance, and confusing approach com
pletely disguised his purpose, at first, and by the time
he got around to demanding (yes, demanding not
asking) that she subscribe to S15 or $20 worth of mag
azines she didn't want, she hardly knew what to do.
MOW this housewife is a pleasant, friendly, intelli-
gent individual. She had read the repeated stories
in the Mail Tribune about itinerant magazine sales
men who come through Medford on a regular basis,
and she had all the magazines she wanted.
Yet, despite this, the fellow's approach, his bellig
erent attitude when she repeatedly declined any sub
scriptions, his deliberate attempt to confuse her with
a phoney line about "votes," reduced her almost to the
point of tears by the time she finally got rid of him.
TT SHOULD BE pointed out that there are a number
of Medford residents who are bona-fide subscrip
tion agents for magazines. Some of them do their so
liciting by telephone ; others have a regular list of cli
ents they serve. With them we have no quarrel.
But we do despise the cheap, shoddy tricks of
hucksters who, with no stake in the community, drift
in one day and out the next, meanwhile badgering and
bothering housewives with their phoney stories and
faked "high school" or "veterans" or "help-me-win-a-prize"
sales approaches.
XHAT does one do about them?
Woll fhotr'ro VironlHnrr no IflWQ pvppnf flip
laws of truth, good taste
some question whether the so-called Green Kiver
i ordinances which some cities have, prohibiting ped-
aiers, are cunsuiuuuiiai, in uiai uiey imjjuse a iiiiuia
tion on the freedom of the individual. Some cities have
found that one form or another of peddlers' licenses
have been a satisfactory control.
But Medford has no ordinance which provides any
degree of protection from
peddlers, as distinct from
and often welcome
make their living here.
The difficulty is in distinguishing one from the
other. It can be done, though, and a long series of
doors closed and a firm "no" will do much to discour
age the former. E.A.
30 Years in The Air
Thirty years ago tomorrow two tiny airplanes, one
northbound, the other en route south, stopped at the
Medford airport. They were the first regularly-scheduled
air mail planes flying Seattle to Los Angeles.
It was a momentous day in Medford, that Wednes
day in 1926. The Mail Tribune gave full coverage to
the event (although the opening of the county fair
received larger headlines). The arrival and departure
of the planes and the ceremonies were recorded in
detail even to reporting on the misfortunes of a mo
torcycle messenger detailed to carry the mail from the
airport to the post office and back. (A brake pin came
loose, he missed the turn off Oakdale ave., and landed
in a field.)
THHE paper published letters of greeting from the
A Portland Oregonian, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
and the San Francisco Bulletin, in which the import
ance of regularly-scheduled air mail was emphasized.
Edgar B. Piper, then editor of the Oregonian, in
his letter to Robert W. Ruhl, then as now editor of the
Mail Tribune, said:
"Unquestionably the service will tend greatly to
strengthen the very agreeable relationship of Portland and
Medford, of the Willamette valley and southern Oregon;
and to promote those mutual affairs that have for their ob
jective mutual prosperity, good will and contentment. Suc
cess to this end, and to your district."
Medford was one of only seven stops on the route.
It still is. But there have been changes.
"THE planes of those first days of Pacific Coast air
mail had a top speed of
hour; today the planes are m the 300-and-up category,
and with the jets due soon, they will be faster.
The company was Pacific Air Transport. It sur
vived and through consolidation became United Air
lines, which still serves Medford, although now its
regular stops total 80 cities,
The airport in those days was a bumpy field near
the present fairgrounds. Today it is a modem and
efficient municipal field north of town, complete with
control tower, building, and offices for three airlines.
The two flights that day brought in about 4,000
pieces of mail, swelled by the number mailed by stamp
collectors for "first flight" cachets. Today, the post
office routinely handles a daily average of about 9,000
pieces of air mail.
""THE esiiy company was
carrier in 1926, but it
didn't, making it (and its
airline in the nation, and
cities in the nation to be
for 30 vears.
Noting the changes and
and quality and speed and
three decades, it is difficult to predict what sort of
service we will have oO years from now, m 1986.
Whatever it is, though jets or rockets or flying
saucers Medford undoubtedly will still be on the
route, benefiting from the speed and convenience of
air traffic. E.A.
Friday. September 14. 1956
and decency. And there is
the invasion of fast-talking
the regular and legitimate
door - to - door salesmen who
a little over 100 miles per
instead of seven.
not the only scheduled air
survived and the others
successor. UAL) the oldest
Medford one of the few
continuously served by air
improvements in the type
cost of service over the pasf
Suez Crisis Dominates Foreign
News for Seventh Week in Row
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
Sues
In countries all over the
world, the attempt of Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
to seize sole control of the Suez
Canal dominated the foreign
news.
It was the seventh week of one
of the biggest disputes since the
end of World War II.
Nasser rejected a plan, ap
proved by 18 countries which
use the great waterway, for a
system of international control.
Nasser called for new negotia
tions. Britain and France, the
countries most vitally concerned,
refused. They said Nasser had
nothing to offer.
British Prime Minister An
thony Eden and French Premier
Guy Mollet, meeting in London,
decided to start an economic
squeeze against Nasser.
Little news items at once
showed how the squeeze was
starting.
Typical was one announcing
that the Egyptian National Air
Line was forced to cancel its
plane service between Egypt and
Cyprus. The planes used are
British and the supply of sare
parts had been stopped.
The next move was to call
upon Foreign Suez Canal pilots,
who are mostly British and
French, to resign. British, French
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although
under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication
is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words.
As To Pensions for Aged
To the Editor: One of your
editorial writers Monday said he
doesn't approve of pensions for
World War One veterans. Said
military service in time of war
is an obligation of citizenship.
Republican lawmakers think so.
too, but shouldn't that also apply
to General Motors who made a
cool billion last year on war
materials?
I notice congressmen, senators
and governors who do not be
lieve in pensions for the aged
are being retired straight across
the board from the rock-ribbed
coast of Maine to the "sunny"
slopes of Oregon.
Your editorial writer insinu
ates one should get a college edu
cation and make a fortune before
he gets old. The fact remains
many of us didn't. He writes as
if we are not GI's that is our
funeral. Could it be that this
editorial writer is a young man
himself who thinks old people
ought to be arrested for allowing
themselves to grow up without
first making a wad of dough?
He seems wholeheartedly
agreeable that GI's should be
amply awarded for "Giving the
best years of their lives to the
nation" but turns thumbs down
on the doughboy. Could it be he
is a bit selfish?
He said "There is at present a
tremendous and unfilled demand
for well trained and weU edu
cated people." Will he write
another editorial and tell we
oldsters who have trained and
educated ourselves where we
may apply for some of these
jobs?
This year more than a million
men and women will reach 65.
A third of them win be flat
broke. Would the editorial writ
er suggest what to do with these
undesirables? Has he any idea
as to how to dispose of them?
Would he suggest digging a long
trench and driving them in like
so many cattle with hoof and
mouth disease and covering them
with a bulldozer? If so would
he volunteer to drive, kill, or
cover up?
I think he should write anoth
er editorial and let us know how
he stands on some of these ques
tions. Frank Strickland
Cave Junction, Ore.
(Editor's note: The editorial in
question, among other things,
stated: "To those who were
wounded or disabled in the na
tion's service, the nation owes
help. But a few months' service
in the armed forces should not
lead a man to expect automatic
financial security in later years."
(The question of security in
old age, for veterans and non
veterans alike, and for both men
and women, is a separate prob
lem, and one which has been
repeatedly and sympathetically
discussed in Mail Tribune edi
torials. We have taken the po
sition, and still do, that through
continued expansion of social
security legislation, pension sys
tems, and other means, including
wider work opportunities, pro
vision must be made for the
support of ALL elderly people
needing it not just those who
happen to have spent a few
months or years in the armed
forces.)
America's Natural Resources
To the Editor: Two distinct
and opposing philosophies exist
about America's natural re
sources. One is to use them to
best advantage, avoid unneces
sary damage and waste, main
tain and perpetuate, so renew
able natural resources may be
passed on to succeeding genera
tions in good condition. These
and other foreign pilots handed
in mass resignations.
The job of piloting ships
through the 101-mile canal calls
for the greatest skill. It was fore
cast the canal traffic would be
all but paralyzed by Monday.
The next move, endorsed by
the United States, was to call for
the organization of a Suez Canal
authority by canal-using coun
tries. This authority would take
control of the pilots and take
responsibility for canal traffic,
leaving the canal itself under
Nasser's control.
But Egyptian cooperation
would be essential, and Nasser
called the plan hostile.
Egypt was not the only
trouble spot in the Mediterra
nean sea.
There were ugly Incidents
along the frontiers of Israel and
its Arab neighbors. In one, Jor
dan said Isrelis wiped out a bor
dor police station, killing 19
men.
Violence spread again in Brit
ish Cyprus after Greek Cypriot
extremists refused to lay down
their arms under an amnesty
offer. There was serious fighting
in French Algeria.
There was little news on the
good side.
There seemed hope that Japan
and Russia might reach an agree
ment to establish diplomatic re
lations pending the conclusion of
a peace treaty. Under this agree
ment Russia would support Ja
pan's admission to the United
were the Gifford Pinchot-Grover
Cleveland - Teddy Roosevelt
teachings.
The other is to grab all pos
sible, high-grade, exploit, despoil
get immediate dollar profits as
fast as possible for personal use.
Matter-of-fact, the present, and
self, are about the only consid
erations. There is one other line of
thought perhaps lack of
thought. This is by people in
different about what happens to
America s natural resources.
Perhaps they are happy, so "why
worry about who does what to
anything." "Posterity never did
notfnn for me."
Through the political spoils
system Americas natural re
sources were squandered by the
very men under whose guardian
ship the people entrusted them
to be guarded against looters.
Railroad promoters, timberland
grabbers, et al, with surplus
cash, persuasive attributes, of
dull or no conscience, had laws
made by palm-itching, bribe-receptive
lawmaking politicians.
(Jay Gould was quoted as say
ing: "We own the land. How
we got it God knows. And we're
going to keep it if we have to
bribe every Senator and feed the
hungry Congressmen. )
Land Grants, Homestead En
try, Timber and Stone, and other
Congressional Acts were so de
bauched and misused for plunder
that the results bore no resem
blance to the purported inten
tions of the Acts. The July, 1946,
Higgins Lake, Michigan, lum
bermen's committee resolved
that "the federal government
should block out 11,000,000
Michigan acres, plant to forest
trees and protect till large
enough to harvest." Also that
"states should be custodians of
federal forest lands as it's so
much easier for private operat
ors to get them from states than
the federal government." The
19o3 Timberland Exchange bill
was to turn National Forest lands
over to private operators. The
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
urges such maneuvers. Note
present threats to National
Parks, wildlife refuges, etc.; the
looting NOW of American In
dians and their lands.
Unhealed scars still bleed on
millions of acres in Michigan
alone, and newer sores fester
on every western state, caused
by greedy lumbering operations.
History records no aborigines
ever having destroyed their own
future welfare; only "greedy
businessmen.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Telegraph Rates
Set for Increase
Montreal (U.R) Telegraph
rates between Canada and the
United States will be increased
10 per cent by this country's
two major communications sys
tems starting Sept. 24, it was
announced today.
The Canadian Pacific and Can
adian National Telegraph com
panies said the increase was in
line with a similar boost by
Western Union in the United
States. The cost of telegrams be
tween Canadian points remains
unchanged.
Press rates will continue at
one-third the full rate during the
day and one-sixth the full rate at
night, with a minimum charge
of 75 cents.
Ohio is the fifth largest coal
producting state.
Nations at the General Assembly
to be held in New York in No
vember. Russia vetoed Japan's
application at the last assembly.
Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner,
chief of the United States mili
tary assistance group, announced
that American tanks, guns and
ammunition were pouring into
West Germany as fast as the Ger
mans could handle them. The
weapons, supplied under a $1
billion aid plan, will arm West
Germany's 500.000 man fighting
force, which will be a part of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion defense system.
French and West German en
voys announced that after long
negotiations, they had practic
ally setUed the last points in dis
pute over future control of the
Saar coal region.
Editorial Commenf
WASHINGTON VOTE
MEANING
With the exception of those
in Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land, primary election is Nov
ember 6 when the president of
the United States will be chosen.
With the exception of Maine,
whose reputation as a political
barometer is slightly tarnished,
the most significant election re
sults are found in the state of
Washington.
There Gov. Arthur Langlie
was running unopposed for the
Republican nomination for U.S.
senator and Sen. Warren Mag
nuson, the incumbant was runn
ing unopposed for the Dem
cratic nomination.
Such contests are "popularity"
contests but Washington, it
must be remembered, has the so
called "blanket" primary. Every
voter, including the independ
ent, gets a ballot and votes to
determine who shall be the party
nominees.
In other words, the Dem
ocrats and Independents could
have voted to make Gov. Lang-
lie the Republican nominee or
Republicans and Independents
could have voted for Magnuson.
Under these conditions, the fact
that Magnuson polled more votes
than Langlie in every county
except on small one, and In total
votes had a 3 to 2 edge, means
that Langlie and the Republicans
are in trouble in Washington.
Washington voters have a rep
utation for being selective and
this apparent trend does not
mean Eisenhower cannot carry
the state as he did in 1952, but
it should also be remembered
that no Republican senatorial
candidate had a stronger in
dorsement from Eisenhower and
the national party than did
Langlie. Oregon Journal.
COLLEGE EXPANSION
The scope of the expansion
program which lies ahead of
Southern Oregon college within
the next several years is hieh-
ry encouraging.
Right now construction is un
der way on the half million
dollar physical education plant
and work has started on recon
struction of the present Memor
ial court into an attractive stu
dent union building.
This week the state board of
higher education authorized a
substantial expansion in the
acreage of the college campus
and gave the "go ahead" on
drafting of plans for a new men's
dormitory and a new commons,
or dining room. Each of these
structures will cost an estimated
$300,000. Federal funds will also
be sought for preliminary plan
ning for a new science building
which will be just to the west
of the existing campus.
Also on the construction pro
gram, and now No. 1 on the
state board's priority list, is a
new central heating plant for
SOC. Funds for this will be re
quested from the next legisla
ture and may also be sought for
the science building.
Even if the entire program can
not be carried out within the
next several years, 1957 will
see completion of the new physi
cal education building and the
student union and a start of
construction on the new men's
dormitory and work on the cen
tral heating plant is likely to
get under way during the com
ing year.
Sometimes living as close as
we do to the college, we fail to
recognize the substantial growth
which is taking place on the
campus and is to continue for
the next several years.
Ashland Tidings
231 EAST SIXTH ST.
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Babson Predicts Suez
Won't Bring On War
Babson Park, Mass. The
Egyptian trouble will not re
sult in any war. Sir Anthony
Eden and Guy
Mollet, Pre
mier of Fran
ce, who have
been criticiz
ed as being
"s o f t," may
feel that this
is a good op
portuntiy to
show their
auger w Babson real strength.
At P r e s i d ent Eisenhower's
last press conference he stated
clearly that all nations should
respect "the sovereignty of
Egypt as it applies to the Suez
Canal." This insures that the
United States will not get into
the squabble. Since that is ap
parently all Nasser demanded,
there is nothing to fight over
except regulations and toll
charges. President Eisenhower
made clear that the Interna
tional Treaty of 1888 gives many
nations rights in and to the
Canal in perpetuity; but that
this does not mean that Egypt
internationalized her sovereign
ty. From a legal standpoint it is
much like a city which gives a
street railway or bus company
Museum Visitors
Represent Many
States, Countries
Visitors to the Jacksonville
Museum in August numbered
.7,541 and came from 38 states.
Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Eng
land. Finland. Denmark, and
Korea, according to the muse
um's monthly report.
Attendance for August, 1955,
was 5,731. The total attendance
since the museum's opening,
July 10, 1950, to Aug. 31, 1956,
was 229,527. During August this
year 1,809 persons visited the
museum during the two days of
the Gold Rush Jubilee.
Gifts, Loans
Gifts and loans to the museum
for the month include:
From H. H. Brecht, a citation
signed by John J. Pershing, 1919,
newspaper and letter pertaining
to application for purple heart;
From Kenneth Lamb, a brass
bullet mold, a scraper for a
sluice box probably used by
early Chinese miners, and a
patent medicine bottle;
From Mrs. Mabel Wagner Kin
ney, a picture of Mrs. Jacob
Wagner, a - letter written by
Jacob Wagner to his brother and
sister from California in 1852,
the muster roll of Company D
Second Regiment of Oregon Vol
unteers, a quit claim deed from
Charles M. Bishop to Jacob Wag
ner and John McCall in 1863,
a deed dated 1860; power of at
torney from John McCall to
Jacob Wagner in 1865, a cer
tificate for 40 shares "Ashland
State Normal School No. 33,
1887", certificate for widows'
pension for Indian wars, a letter
from Col. George B. Currey in
1865, and a statement from Wag
ner and Anderson to Reames
brothers of Jacksonville in 1882;
Other Items
From G. T. Applewhite, an old
bedstead;
From John Gribble, a horse
shoe that had been used by
high stump tree fallers;
From J. M. Payne, two blocks
of dead ash tree with the imprint
of what appears to be boxing
gloves in their centers:
From Lloyd Brough, an iron;
From Mrs. Sutherland Robin
son, a collection of 62 pieces
luster jugs, cups and saucers,
cranberry hobnail, Westward-Ho
and other jugs and teapots;
From Bill Kayser, an old tele
graph keyboard with receiver;
From John Levine, a 47 piece
rock collection;
From Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, an
1800 newspaper and a fan made
of paper and paper money.
'51 MERCURY
A beautiful one-owner Mercury with radio, heater, and
Mercomatic. This a Premium Car in every detail. It has
very low mileage and carries our $RQ5
1st Choice Warranty uw
PARSONS MOTORS
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a permanent franchise, but with
out relinquishing sovereignty or
ownership of its streets. The city
may make regulations and fares
as it desires, so long as it does
not "take property without due
process of law."
Five Nation Committee
The committee of five neu
tral nations is in Cairo conferr
ing with President Nasser. The
chairman of this committee is
the Australian Prime Minister
Menzies. I forecast that the final
agreement will recognize the
sovereignty of Egypt, but that
nothing will be done to serious
ly harm the Suez Canal com
pany, which has the franchise
to operate the canal.
Like all dictators, "President"
Nasser must do something rad
ical to show his power and keep
his job. However, the one thing
Egypt needs most other than
better character is more mon
ey. The new toll rates, which
like nearly everything else, are
passed on to the ultimate con
sumer, will give Nasser the need
ed additional funds.
What Nasser Fears
Neither Egypt, nor the other
countries which are benefiting
from American dollars, want to
be guilty of "expropriation."
They know this would frighten
away American, English, and
French investors. There are,
however, other arguments the
committee of five could use
with President Nasser. For in
stance, more than one half of
Britain's oil imports come
through this canal. It the canal
should be closed, other sources
of supply would be available
from Venezuela, West Indies,
and the United States. For a
short time only, the use of oil In
England and France would need
to be rationed.
Within a year new pipelines
could be built to carry oil direct
to the Mediterranean. This pipe
line would be from Haifa on the
Mediterranean to the Gulf of
Aqaba. Furthermore, with an in
crease in tanker capacity, Eng
land and France could temp
orarily return to the old route
around the Cape of Good Hope.
This Suez scare will awaken na
tions to the need of more tank
er capacity so that they will not
again risk being cut off.
Doubtless Nasser remembers
what the airlift did in bringing
oil, food, and other necessities
into Berlin several years ago
when Stalin tried a stunt similar
to Nasser's. In fact, it is a fair
question whether the Suez Canal
would be built today, with the
possible competition of air trans
port, electrical transmission, and
big tankers.
Suez and The Stock Market
Although there may be sev
eral good reasons for taking
profits today on stocks, certainly
the Suez scare is no reason for
selling stocks at the present
time. What will ultimately
create a crash in the stock
market will be some totally un
expected event which no one
can now forecast.
Therefore, I repeat my fore
cast that England and France
and Egypt will arrive at a peace
ful settlement; but whatever
happens, the United States will
keep out of any fighting. Fur
thermore, we will continue our
present policy of withdrawing
troops from Europe and reor
ganizing our fighting strength
to conform to the new nuclear
policy.
Austrian Province
Hit by Heavy Floods
Innsbruck, Austria (U.R)
The Austrian province of Tyrol
has been hit by heavy floods
for the second time this year.
Raging waters of the Ziller
River, fed by heavy rains, cut
off the village of Rum and filled
the valleys with uprooted trees
and boulders. The situation ap
proached that of last- month
when floods killed at least 10
persons and devastated roads
and crops.