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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 30 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 194B (Saturday)
Local Elks to honor Old Tim
ers Thursday night, Oct. 3.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Mighty
hunters have started returning
from the timber with 4-point,
4-ham bucks.
RO YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 193B (Monday)
George T. Frey, chairman of
Jackson county Red Cross chap
ter, issues plea for contributions
to a fund for relief of families
made homeless by the fire in the
northwest.
Medford Crater club's entry
In the Yreka, Calif., pioneer pa
rade yesterday awarded first
prize.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1928 (Tuesday)
Two more days remain In
which persons may get Copco
six per cent preferred stock at
$94 per share, says D. G. Tyree,
secretary.
Bids for the concreting and
trimming of the connecting can
al between Fish Lake and Four
Mile Lake opened by directors
of the Medford Irrigation dis
trict. 40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1916 (Thursday)
Ten days open season for Chi
nese pheasant shooting begins
Sunday, Oct. 1.
A pearl and amythest pendant
attached to a gold chain, is the
prize to be given the young lady
receiving the most votes at the
dance at the Cuthbert building
Saturday and Sunday.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1906 (Friday)
A meeting was held last night
of Reames Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, after a two weeks
vacation.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Contractor Schermerhorn
started work on the addition to
the Hotel Nash yesterday.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 1?
Copr. 15S KdltnrtaJ Research
Report
1. Vice President Nixon once
worked in Washington as a civil
service employee; right or
wrong?
2. The U.S. adopted Its present
Constitution the year it became
formally independent of Great
Britain; right or wrong?
3. Boulder Dam lies between
New Mexico and Arizona, Ari
zona and Colorado, Arizona and
Nevada. Nevada and California,
Nevada and Colorado?
4. "Love apples" Is an old
term for Grimes Goldens. toma
toes, persimmons, sweet potatoes.
Honey Dew melons, or avocados?
5. Athletes as a whole do or
don't live longer than non-athletes?
8. Which European capital Is
on the Liffey River?
7. Miss Grace A. Goodhue
married which of our recent
Presidents?
The Answers: 1 Right (for
months in 1942). 2. Wrong. 3
Arizona and Nevada. 4. Toma
toes. 5. Don't, as a whole. 6.
Dublin. 7. Coolidg. ,
What is a City?
(National Newspaper Week is Oct. 1 to 8)
What is a city?
Mostly it is people.
But it is many other things too. It is the city
council and city administration ; it is the schools, and
the water distribution system ; it is the police and fire
departments, the traffic control systems and the san
itary and storm sewers.
It includes the retail stores: shoes and clothing
and food and furniture and appliances and jewelry
and books and equipment of all kinds, shapes, sizes
and purposes.
It is lumber yards and lumber mills; steel com
panies and packing houses and warehouses; it is
auction yards and used car lots and new car dealers.
"yilE city is the railroad track cutting through it,
and the streets criss-crossing the town and high
ways leading to the country. It includes taxis and
buses and the airport It is cars thousands of cars,
driving the streets and looking for places to park.
It is candy stores and ice cream shops and drug
stores and magazine racks. It is the library, and the
hotels and motels. It is parks and playgrounds, and
Bear creek winding by. It is hot asphalt in the sum
mer, and green grass and trees.
It is offices : doctors, dentists, osteopaths, optom
etrists, chiropractors, chiropodists, naturopaths, law
yers, insurance men, stockbrokers.
DART of the city is the service industries, the
banks, the telephone, telegraph, gas and power
companies; the laundries and cleaners, the delivery
trucks and service stations; the home-builders, con
tractors, plumbers and electricians; the pest con
trol iers and tree surgeons, gardeners and janitors.
The city is organizations, hundreds of them:
Rotary, Kiwanis, Jaycees, Chamber of Commerce,
20-30, Lions, BPW, Zonta, Rotana, and a long string
of other service, fraternal, civic, trade, professional,
labor or veterans groups, serving the interests and
needs and desires of thousands.
It is churches, nearly two score of them.
It is theaters, the TV and radio stations.
"THE city is vastly complex and interdependent.
1 But looked at another way, the important way,
it's pretty simple. The city is people people working
and playing and worshipping; people with ambitions
and aspirations; people with hope and people in
despair; people who are happy and people who are
sad.
If it weren't for people the city would be noth
ing a collection of purposeless walls and streets,
quiet and dead.
But there are people, and the streets and build
ings are living things, vibrating with purpose and
emotion and life, with birth, and, inevitably, death.
e
THIS, then, is the city, a sort of microcosm, which
the newspaper attempts to serve as a mirror, as
it also attempts to reflect the county, the state, the
nation and the world.
At times the mirror is cracked and faulty and
splotched ; at times it is vivid and accurate. Always
it attempts, to the limit of human ability, to reflect
truly and fairly and comprehensively, with sympathy
and understanding and without fear. .
It does not always succeed, for newspaper people
are like other people in human frailty. But they
always try. E.A.
About Smoking
Our advice to older teen agers who are wondering
whether or not to "give smoking a try" can be given
in one word: DON'T.
Most of the smokers we
of age, particularly heavy
lieve, give the same advice. Many of them would
be mightily pleased if they again had a choice to
make whether or not to smoke. By now they're too
much in the grip of the habit to quit. If you never
get in to the habit, you have no habit to give up.
THIS is not to say that smoking cannot be a con
genial habit. It most definitely can, although just
why would be difficult to
But if one has never
sorrows of inhaling a lung-full of smoke, he never
knows what it is he would be missing. And wTe have
come to the reluctant conclusion that, in the long
pull, the sorrows outnumber the joys.
We have known countless people who have at
tempted to free themselves from the smoking com
pulsion, only to fail as the craving overcame their
will power. Some
cessful. Others simply have a feeling they ought to
stop, but don't even try because either (1) they enjoy
it too much, or (2) know
THRE was a piece in the
about experiments with chemicals designed to
make it easier to stop smoking. Such experiments
would never have been started unless there was a
demand for something of
mand has been increased by recent statistics which
indicated that smoking and cancer of the lung tend
to follow similar graphic
Perhaps these chemicals will work; perhaps they
are safe; perhaps they will permit some addicts to
free themselves from the habit they hate and love
at the same time.
But the moral of the
many smokers want to give up, the young man or
woman thinking about smoking should take that as
a warning, namely: Don t.
Friday. Stptimbn 28, 1S5S
know of SO or more years
smokers, would, we be
explain to a non-smoker.
experienced the joys and
strong-minded individuals are suc
they couldn t.
paper the other day telling
the sort. Doubtless the de-
curves.
story, we think, is that if so
E.A. -
Oregon's Per Capita
Income Slips Below
National Average
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Per capita in
come in Oregon has now dropped
below the averaee income for
the United
States as a
whole, accord
ing to estimates
made by U. S.
News and
World Report
magazine.
The average
income in the
state continued
RobL smiu to rise over the
past four years, but did so at a
slower rate than in the country
at large. The magazine, report
ing on income gains made by all
the states from 1952 to this year,
showed that the average income
nationally went up 10.9 per cent
but in Oregon it -climbed only
4.4. per cent.
In terms of dollars, the Depart
ment of Commerce said that in
1952 per capita income in Ore
gon was $1,824, compared with
$1,727 for the country that year
so Oregon then was enjoyi-g
an average income greater than
the nation at large.
Slips Below Average
This year, the magazine esti
mated, the per capita income in
Oregon is averaging $1,905, as
against $1,915 for the country
as a whole, which indicates the
state has slipped just below the
national average income.
Only Washington state, of the
Northwest states, showed up bet
ter in income gains the past four
years. Its per capita income went
up 6.2 per cent to $2,031, keep
ing it well above the national
average. Idaho, on the other
hand, dropped 2.7 per cent from
$1,568 to $1,526, making it by
far the lowest income state in
the region. Montana went up 1.1
per cent from $1,780 to $1,790.
The biggest income gainers na-
tionally have been in the South
and New England. States that
have lost ground, in addition to
Idaho, have been Wyoming
(down 5.4 per cent), Arizona (2.1
per cent). South Dakota (2.7 per
Communications
Letters to the Editor must' bear the name and address of the writer, although
under certain circumstances the use of
IS permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
More TV Complaints
To the Editor: I just want to
give Mrs. H. E. Johnson of Med
ord a great big cheer, and if a
few more of the TV audience
would do the same and write a
letter to this editor, maybe, and
I say that with a little doubt,
we would get some good pro
grams. Whether or not, is to be
seen.
Mrs. Johnson says that down
at KBES-TV station, they are
dead. Well that is putting it
mildly, as I will say they have
been dead for quite some time,
period. They talk about trouble
on TV. All evening all I could
read was: "Do not adjust your
sets, trouble at station, stand
by." Well how long do you ex
pect the public to stand by? If
they're having so much trouble
at the station, why don't they do
something about it? You can al
ways see the commercials okay,
but when it comes picture time,
there's always trouble. Why
don't they get some good tech
incians down there? They always
blame the network, never the
station.
Why don't they give us some
good shows? The shows we have
been getting lately are sure the
bunk. For awhile we had some
pretty good ones, but they took
them all off and gave us a bunch
of repeats and what have you.
There are a lot of people who
depend on their TVs for their
only recreation and are unable
to go elsewhere for entertain
ment, so for goodness sake do
something about it, if not for
our sake, do it for theirs.
It's like Mrs. Johnson says,
we are the ones who buy the
products that are advertised on
TV, so let's all get busy and
write in and see if we can't get
some action.
CBS Hollywood TV Station
asked the public to write in and
tell them what programs we like.
What's the use of writing in, if
you don't recognize the letters
and do something about it? At
first it was that they couldn't get
the sponsors, but now they have
all kinds of them, so why the
bum shows? Some are so old that
you can't even understand them
when they talk.
So come on all you TV listen
ers and write a letter and let
them know that we the "Listen
ers" of the TV audience are the
ones to be pleased.
Blaine F. Smith
Gold Hill, Ore.
Morse Action Praised
To the Editor: In the heat of the
current political campaign it is
nice to note a touch of courtesy
extended from one party to the
other: Senator Morse had a half
hour program scheduled on
KBES-TV the other night from
8:30 to 9 p.m. The show was all
set to go on when a call from
New York informed the station
that the network desired to
cent), Nebraska (10.3 per cent,
worst drop in the country) and
Kansas 3.2 per cent).
Biggest gainers have been
New Hampshire (18.8 per cent),
Vermont (17.8), Alabama (17),
Massachusetts and Georgia (both
16.7), and Florida (16.2). Other
states that picked up at a rate
above the national average were
North Dakota, Minnesota, Illi
nois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Arkan
sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Pennsylvania, New York,
Maine and Connecticut.
One noticeable fact about the
fastest gaining states is that
some of them were suffering
from relatively very low per
capita incomes m 19o2, and the
gains they have made since then
leave them still well below the
national average and below
Oregon although for them the
gain was quite good.
South Increases
This is particularly true in the
South. Alabama had an average
income of $1,045 in 1952, and
this year it is estimated at $1,223
for a 17. per cent gain. This is
also true of Vermont, which
went up from $1,403 to $1,653.
But, then there are other
states, such as Massachusetts,
which made real gains. The Bay
state went from $1,919 to $2,239
for its 16.7 per cent rise. New
Jersey shot up from $2,113 to
$2,402 for a 13.7 per cent gain.
The 11 western states as a
group have done poorer than the
rest of the country the past four
years. Three showed i declines,
and none measured up to the
average national gain. Only
California came close, with
10.2 per cent gain which made
its average income of $2,363 by
far the highest in the West.
Although Oregon has slipped
below the national average, only
16 states have per capita incomes
higher than Oregon's. They are
California, Connecticut, Dela
ware, District of Columbia, Illi
nois. Indiana, Maryland, Mich
igan, Massachusetts, Nevada
New Jersey, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
Washington.
a pen name or initial for publication
Letters submitted for publication must
place a speech by President
Eisenhower in that time period
and would they please move any
thing that currently occupied the
time? A frantic call was placed
to Morse headquarters in Port
land to ask their permission for
the move and the Democrats
quickly o.k.'d it. They had every
right to refuse as the time was
advertised in the Medford paper
but they were courteous
enough to grant it. This courtesy
should happen more often!
Earl Heims Advertising
Agency,
835 SW 16th ave.,
PorUand, Ore.
What Plopped Like What?
To the Editor: May 1 quote?
Medford Mail Tribune, front
page story, Sept. 23, 1956:
"Three Malheur County Re
publicans who issued a challenge
this week that they would de
bate anyone regarding Senator
Wayne Morse's deserving to rep
resent Oregon in the U.S. Sen
ate had their answer Saturday
. .The Democratic senator
heard of the challenge and sent
the following message, I person
ally will come to Malheur coun
ty at an arranged time to debate
according to your challenge or
any other issues with any ol
you. all three of you at once,
Douglas McKay himself or any
combination of persons you may
desire. I would prefer a question
that would compare the records
of McKay and myself.
Letter to the Editor, Mail Trib
une, Sept. 25, 1956, signed by
Mary Kelly:,
Senator Morses swift, per
sonal acceptance of the long dis
tance challenge of three Eastern
Oregon big shots . . . must have
plopped like a cold wet fish in
the center of the boisterous trio's
rosy dream."
Mail Tribune, Sept'. 26, 1956:
"Senator Wayne Morse has
moved to clear up what he called
a 'misunderstanding which seems
to have developed in Malheur
County . . .' Morse said he did
not intend 'to be diverted from
the issues by taking time out
from my campaign to discuss
with McKay's campaign hench
men, false attacks upon my
record.' "
What plopped like what, Mary?
Dick House
207 Fluhrer Bldg.
Medford, Oregon
Ho7, Rain, Dust Hit
Snake River Valley
Ontario (U.B The Snake
River valley was struck by a
hail and rain storm yesterday
afternoon with winds estimated
35 to 40 mph.
No serious damage was re
ported, although visibility in
many parts of the valley was
reduced to zero due to heavy
clouds of dust which accom
panied the storm.
Suez Policy
Week's Balance Sheet
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
This week's good and bad
newt on the international bal
ance sheet:
Sues
A disagreement on policy in
the Suez Canal dispute gave
further evidence this week of a
potentially dangerous breach in
the unity be
tween the
United States,
Great Britain
and France.
Britain and
France jointly
asked the
United Na
tions Security
Council to
Charles M. Mctuu consider the
situation caused by Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser's
attempt to seize exclusive con
trol of the canal.
Nasser countered with a com
plaint to the council that "some
powers, particularly France and
the United Kingdom," were en
dangering peace.
The 11-nation council, a sort
of U.N. executive committee
met in New York to discuss the
two communications.
Britain and France, with the
WWkMll'MILHHUy
Future of Oil Stocks
Discussed by Babson
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. Since its
high in April, the Dow-Jones
industrial average has faUen
from a peak
of 521 to 490
recently. The
oils have been
one of the
leaders in this
decline. This,
however, is
only natural
, i . l l
lV 31115 mey nou
.'fwi pre v iously
Rutei w. union Deen among
the best performers. I will now
discuss some reasons for this
decline.
Wall Street reports to me that
the "insiders" are selling, that
is, those who are supposed to be
'in the know." You cannot blame
these insiders for diversifying,
or at least storing up reserves
for the payment of estate taxes
at the time of their death. They
can now buy, at 92, Government
2V4 Bonds which will be ac
cepted at par for death-tax pay
ment. There also is fear with the
present surplus of oil that the
income-tax consideration given
oil companies may be taken
away. This could easily happen
if the price of gasoline increases
much more while there is a sur
plus. The oil companies are also
watching what has happened to
the coal companies. The feeling
is that sooner or later the oil
producers may also suffer.
Long-Term Outlook
Although oil will have com
petition from power generated
in other ways, oil consumption
will increase for many years to
come. Demand for electricity is
constantly rising, the availability
of new hydro-electric sites is de
creasing, and the plants gen
erating electricity constantly de
mand greater fuel supply. Al
though coal consumption as a
whole is declining, the efficiently
operated mines near the big pow
er houses are making money.
This means that holders of coal
stocks should carefully check
the operating costs and locations
of the mines in which they are
interested. Although most coal
stocks should probably be sold
today, there are doubtless some
which should be purchased.
It is reported that more can
dles, more kerosene, more gas,
and other fuels are being used
today than at any time in the
past hundred years, notwith
standing the tremendous expan
sion of electricity for power,
lighting, and heating. In fact, I
recently heard of a young man
who has developed a profitable
business supplying hardwood for
fireplaces. Anyone desiring to
start a new business chain today
might well own hardwood lots
near several large cities and
deliver a standard quality of
hardwood, under a special trade
name which could be nationally
advertised! I am willing to fore
cast that a hundred years from
now perhaps a thousand years
from now people will be burn
ing candles on their dinner
tables and hardwood in their
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Disagreement Tops
support of Australia and Bel-i
gium, denounced the Egyptian
complaint as slanderous and de
manded that the council refuse
to consider it. But the United
States refused to go along.
As a result the council agreed
to hear both the Anglo-French
and the Egyptian cases next
Thursday or Friday. The vote
was 7 to 0, with Britain, France,
Australia and Belgium abstain
ing.
While this was going on, Brit
ish Prime Minister Anthony
Eden and French Premier Guy
Mollet met in Paris to consider
joint policy in the entire Middle
East a policy of their own.
Palestine
Strong Israeli army forces In
vaded Arab Jordan in a night at
tack on border defense posts.
The Israeli government said the
attack was made in retaliation
for a series of attacks made by
Jordanians. A U.N. truce team
counted the bodies of 38 Jor
danian soldiers and policemen
and of one 12-year old girl on
the scene.
U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold warned that the
explosive Palestine frontier situ
ation must be brought under con
trol "rapidly." He indicated that
he might soon ask the Security
Council to take action.
fireplaces!
Privately, I believe that It Is
the fear of uranium as a source
of heat which is causing many
investors to take profits on their
oil stocks. The possibilities of
peacetime uses for uranium are
greatly increasing. Ten years ago
it was thought there was only
a limited amount of uranium;
now we are told the supply is
almost unlimited. Therefore,
uranium can become a standard
source of heat for the production
of electricity. In fact, there is a
possibility that boilers, turbines,
and perhaps dynamos will some
day be eliminated. I forecast it
will be possible to generate
electricity direct from uranium.
This, of course, would cause an
industrial revolution. When we
add to this the possibility of
harnessing hydrogen, the results
could be fantastic.
I understand that some of the
oil companies are already acquir
ing holding of land rich in uran
ium. Furthermore, all oil com
panies have records of their own
drilling and must have drilled
areas. Therefore, do not sell all
oil stocks for fear of uranium
competition. When uranium be
comes a real substitute for oil,
some of the oil companies will
be able to supply uranium. All
oil companies will not be caught
unprepared for change, as were
most coal companies..
Significant News
It is reported that the Koppers
Co. and Kennecott Copper Corp.
have already asked the Atomic
Energy Commission for permis
sion to refine uranium ores and
sell the product direct, as they
would sell coal and oil. This is
something that all investors
should watch. As the war scare
passes. Congress will compel the
AEC to permit, under license,
the treatment and sale of uran
ium. A demand for small re
actors should then follow.
For this demand both the
Westinghouse and General Elect
ric organizations are now pre
paring. Some of their engineers
believe that the heaters in our
homes will some day be dis
carded and replaced by uran
ium heaters. They further fore
cast that a small amount of uran
ium can, by the "self-feeding
process," be made to last several
years. Shipping is sure to turn to
this fuel. Probably airplanes will
follow, and ultimately (perhaps)
automobiles. I am only a statis
tician, not a physicist, but I ad
vise that the stocks of the manu
facturers of small reactors,
household heaters, and other
utilities may be better buys than
the uranium itself.
Pendleton Newspaper
Moves To New Building
Pendleton 4J.R The Pendle
ton East Oreeonian will move
into its new $150,000 building
this week end.
New home of the newspaper
is a one-storv building at S.E.
Byers and Second streets. The
newsoarjer will occupy me
100xl26-foot structure under
terms of a 50-year lease.
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Speculation over a visit by
Soviet Russian Communist chief
tain Nikita S. Khrushchev to
"neutralist" President Tito of
Yugoslavia was intensified when
Tito flew back to Russia with
Khrushchev.
Allied diplomats were mysti
fied. They were sure that
Khrushchev was trying to cook
up something. They did not
know what.
Pilot
Russia got some bad news
when a young Polish air force
pilot broke from a formation
flight and raced his plane to
Denmark's Bornholm Island in
the 'Baltic. It was a new model
MIG15B, with extra radar .
equipment. "It's really some
thing very special," a Danish air
force officer said. Danish experts
started taking the plane apart
to send it to Copenhagen for de
tailed study. That means that
Denmark's partners in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization are
going to get some top-secret in
formation on Russian plane de
velopment. !n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Supply and demand note:
Hog prices lost 25 to 50 cents
at markets in the Eastern corn
belt, ending a week of advancing
prices.
How come?
Sixty-two thousand hogs were
on sale at the twelve major mar
kets, compared to 58,000 last
Thursday.
When there are more buyers
than sellers, prices are almost
sure to go up. When there are
more sellers than buyers, prices
are pretty certain to go down.
A California legislative com
mittee studying air pollution
in Los Angeles has been told (by
Dr. Clarence Mills, professor of
medicine at the University of
Cincinnati) that 845 deaths have
been attributed to smog.
But
Dr. Lester Breslow of the Cal
ifornia state health department
says his department's studies will
not back up Dr. Mills conclu
sions. He insists that while smog
may contribute to lung cancer it
can't be tabbed as a killer on the
basis of current evidence.
FCIDENTAL note:
As the hearing went on, Los
Angeles experienced its heaviest
smog attack of the year.
IlfHAT to do about smog
' which is unpleasant, whether
or not it is a killer?
I expect that if people scat
tered out more and ganged up
less there would be less of the
eye-stinging stuff to contend
with. But the census records in
dicate that smog or no smog a
lot of people would rather gang
up in Los Angeles than to scat
ter out somewhere else.
And L. A. of course, would
MUCH RATHER have them
gang up.
SENATOR Albert Gore of Ten
nessee says he plans to give
the nation this year its first cur
rent picture of how much money
is being spent in a national elec
tion campaign and where it is
coming from.
Senator Gore is chairman of
the senate elections committee.
He says this morning his commit
tee's principal means of getting
the campaigning spending pic
ture across to the public will be
open hearings in Washington.
These hearings will be held from
October 8 through October 10.
The national campaign commit
tees of both parties will be called
upon to give a full account of
their contributions, pledges and
sources, as weU as their actual
spending and their obligations
to spend.
He added:
"My tentative estimate Is that
approximately one per cent of
the people provide about 98 per
cent of the campaign funds. I
think this constitutes a danger
to popular government."
IS that true?
I wouldn't know.
My personal opinion Is that
what the public wants to know
is HOW MUCH IS BEING
SPENT AND WHERE IT IS
COMING FROM. Given that
knowledge, accurately and im
partially, 1 think the voters will
be competent to draw their own
conclusions and make their own
decisions.
And
I think the side that spends
TOO MUCH will lose the confi
dence of the voters.
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