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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1, 1946 (Wednesday)
Plant failure of California
Pacific Utilities company stops
flow of gas to homes on west
side of town yesterday.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Record
crops were produced in Oregon
last year. Everything grew like
a weed, all statistics show.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1936 (Friday)
Expressions of gratitude con
tinue to be received here for
aid extended to the people of
Bandon, the coast city destroy
ed by forest fire last September.
The year 1936 saw S4S arrests
made by city police with the
resultant placing behind bars of
the offending persons.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1, 1926 (Saturday)
Sale of War Eagle Mining
property, 20 miles northeast of
Medford in the Beagle and Sams
Valley district, to a Chicago
syndicate, is announced.
Preliminary plans are made
for constuction on a water grade
road up the Rogue River to the
head of Diamond lake.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1916 (Monday)
December rrad a total precip
itation of 1.71 inches, making
the total for the year 1916 14.51
inches compared with 25 year
average of 25.6 inches.
Stockholders of Rogue River
National Farm association elect
A. W. Stone president of the
board of directors at recent
meeting.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or tMi correct Is superior: sev
en or eicht is excellent: five or
sl Is rood.
1. Did most ancient nations
observe the custom of celebrat
Ing New Year's Day by festive
rejoicing?
2. Were the Persians. Chris
tians, or Romans the first to cel
ebrate New Year's Day by ex
changing presents of eggs?
3. Was Dec. 25 ever celebrat
ed as New Year's Day?
4. The Jewish New Year is
reckoned from the first Ynonth
nt TishH (Sent. 6-Oct. 5): Is this
their ecclesiastical or civil year?
5. Does Egypt have one. two.
or three New Year's Day cele
brations?
6. The Chinese celebrate all
their holidays for the year at
one time: Is this at the beginning
of the New Year?
7. Which day in France is
more festal: New Year's Day or
Christmas Day?
8. The world's most colorful
New Year celebration is held in
which country: Japan, Thailand,
or China?
9. Does Greece observe New
Year's Day on Jan. 1?
10. Are gifts to children in
Italy given on Christmas Day or
during the New Year ceieDra
tions?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Persians.
a. Vp. in Analo-Saxon England
4. Civil year. 5. Two. The Chris
tian Copt and Moslem, o. ibs.
7 Wow Year's Day. 8. Japan.
9. Yes. 10 New Year celebra
tions. On Epiphany (day of lh
Three Wise Men).
MAIL TRIBUNE
Another Suit for Libel
We can sympathize with the Eugene Register
Guard. It has been sued for 600,000 by a circuit
judge who claims he was defamed, degraded, humili
ated and libelled to that MODEST sum.
THE Mail Tribune was sued for $100,000 libel
several years ago so many in fact that the dollar
then was worth about twice as much as it is now
and the MT had about half as much borrowing
power.
It was, we thought at the time an ABSURD and
purely vindictive charge, and still think so.
For the paper was not sued for anything it had
said editorially or in its news columns, the damaging
item was a single word in a communication to the
paper, signed by the writer who was a well known
and responsible citizen (now deceased) whp was
at the time active in Republican politics and work
ing hard; he was a hard worker and 100 percent
partisan in every cause in which he took an interest- j
for the new High school site on the west rather than
the east side of town. .
The term used in the communication was "pet-j
tiiogger . It applied to certain proponents of the
east-side site, and it not only passed the editorial
blue-pencil but passed the proof reader, as mild and
innocuous as compared with certain terms in general
circulation hereabouts during that heated local com
paign. But the citizens thus designated wrere lawyers and
they knew better. A "pettifogger" it seems was and
is what the legal profession calls "libel per se", for
it meant, and presumably still means (quoting the
dictionary) "an inferior lawyer who uses petty, mean,
cheating methods." WOW !
That taught the Mail Tribune editorial staff a
needed lesson. It has never been forgotten moreover
namely:
Never use a word, editorially or otherwise with
out first knowing its exact meaning and all the im
plications thereof.
Even so, the editorial staff then functioning, was
confident no jury would ever award any such sum
to the gentlemen in question, or one half of one per
cent, if any, of such an amount under all the circum
stances existing.
HOWEVER, the libel action was duly filed, the
nnnow pftWTfl s on1 4-T-ia 7 T o t 1 Ti'i Vnm r -J " i -J -1
ocncu, emu cue irxaii iiiuuiic ucviucu
as no doubt the Register Guard will have to decide
that it could not take a chance by allowing the action
to go by default.
bO, the then M.T. attorney took over and after
several months of demurrers and legal motions, etc.,
etc., allowing the agiieved gentlemen-of-the-law to
cool off somewhat, the latter, probably then agreeing
in general, with the opinion of the editorial staff
previously held withdrew the suit. Everybody shook
hands and the incident was
itics, too highly stimulated
ten.
DUT the bill for various court actions and legal
services was not and could not be forgotten.
We can't recall the exact cost of the libel suit to
this newspaper, but we remember clearly it took us
over 6 months to pay it, via various and sundry in
stallments, and careful economizing.
AXHICH brings ws to the point of this offering
namely:
We don't know what if any grounds the plaintiff
in this Eugene action had or has for filing a suit for
such a flattering sum, but if the case should be brought
to trial and the jury should as we predict it will
return a verdict of "not guilty" then the costs should
be charged against the disgruntled plaintiff not
against the newspaper.
Otherwise the principle of "black mail" would
be upheld and sustained. For by merely threatening
to file, or actually, filing such a suit, the newspaper
realizing the cost of defending it, regardless of its
merit, might well be impelled to save money by reach
ing a settlement out of court, and that would in all
probability be what the plaintiff was after in the
first place.
AXfE TRUST the above will not call for a contempt
'"of court citation or a suit for vicarious libel!
There is one thing for sure, we have not used that
term "pettifogger" above since and so long as the
MT is under its present management it never will
be AGAIN! In the letter-box or elsewhere. R.W.R.
"IS" the Climate
We will let the prophetic and pontifical Mr. Bab
son consult his crystal-ball and tell the waiting world
what the year 1957 is going to be and not be.
He was one of the few "wise men" who called his
shots correctly back in 1928, and he may be 100
correct this time.
As far as the present writer is concerned he hasn't
the slightest idea what will transpire in the next
twelve months and has no desire to guess.
The undersigned ONLY HOPES Lady Luck will
be as active as in 1956 and the Weather Man won't
be. (PERIOD!)
DERHAPS there have been worse years climatically
1 since General Grant slept in Grants Pass it's a
fine place to sleep they say but if so we made no
record of them. The final two months of '56 have
been particularly obnoxious.
We did not expect much sunshine or entire ab
sence of rain, but we also did NOT expect, no sun
shine at all, wind and snow, floods and above all
this eternal reprehensible and perpetual fog! (Anoth
er -period please).
Tuesday, January 1. 1937
charged up to local pol
adrenal glands and forgot
Influential
May Have
BY A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The most in
fluential congressional commit
tee as far as the West and the
J-OB fV" territories are
t s2 "ta? con cerned is
expected to be
composed e n
tirely of west
erners for the
first time in
history when
the 85th Con
g r e s s is o-r
Root Smltl. 111 January.
This is the Senate Committee
on Interior and Insular Affairs,
which handles all irrigation and
power bills, public lands and
Indian problems, mining and all
territorial issues from statehood
on down.
Until a few years ago nearly
a third of the 15 members of this
blue ribbon committee were non
westerners. But one by one the
southerners, easterners and mid
westerners have been shifting to
other committee posts.
Reason for Shift
i One big reason for the shift
is that the big controversy over
the disposition of the tidelands
or off-shore oil lands has been
settled by Congress. Bills to
grant title to these lands to the
coastal states wire handled by
the Interior committee year after
year until one was finally passed
into law early in President Eisen
hower's first term.
As long as this legislation was
pending, senators from such
states as Texas, Louisiana and
Florida held tight to their seats
on the committee and gained
seniority in the process.
These same senators took gen
erally conservative attitudes to
ward many other bills that came
up in the committee, from Hells
Canyon to statehood for Alaska
and Hawaii. Often their votes
against such legislation was a
Matter of Fact
JOHNSON and THE LIBERALS
' Washington The much-heralded
"revolt of the Liberals" in
the Democratic party has turned
into the dampest of damp squibs,
at least for the time being. The
main reason it is a damp squib
is to be found in the person of
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon
Johnson, the dominant man in
the new Senate, and about the
most interesting figure on Cap
itol Hill.
Already Johnson, together
with House Speaker Sam Ray-
burn, has briskly squashed the
proposal advanced by the party
liberals for an "advisory com-
Jueub AiAuo Stewart Alsop
mittee' to guide Democratic
policy. Now the attempt by the
same liberal forces to knock out
Senate Rule 22, led by Senators
Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota
and Paul Douglas of Illinois
among others, is to be squashed
in its turn.
The net effect of Rule 22, of
course, is to make it virtually
impossible to break a filibuster.
The 1956 Democratic platform
is explicitly cpmmitted to elimin
ating the Rule, and the North
ern Democrats in this instance
have been joined by a number
of Republicans, like Ives of New
York, Potter of Michigan, and
Kuchel of California. But the
highest current estimate of the
anti-Rule 22 vote is 30. Johnson
opposes the attempt to knock
out Rule 22, and what Johnson
says goes.
DART of the reason for John-
son's extraordinary influence
is personal. The Northern Lib
erals like Johnson and respect
him it is as simple as that. Take
the case of Senator Humphrey,
who made his national reputa
tion when he forced a strong
civil rights plank on a reluctant
Democratic convention in 1948.
In the last two sessions of
Congress Humphrey, who enter
ed the Senate with the reputa
tion of a wild man of the left,
worked very closely with John
son, becoming in the process an
intimate personal friend. Unlike
Douglas and others, Humphrey
did not tell Johnson in advance
that he meant to join the "Lib
eral revolt."
As a result there has been a
slight chilliness between them.
But there is reason to believe
that the main reason Humphrey
did not discuss the matter with
Johnson was that he suspected
the persuasive Johnson would
talk him out of it. And after the
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E SHALL leave the final statistics to the Weath
er Bureau where they
ing:
If the Weather Man doesn't do a better job in tne
coming year than in the passing one, then we suggest
a sabbatical year for him in the everglades of
Florida, and moving Medford bag and baggage to
the top of Roxy Ann or the upper reaches of the
Applegate river as soon as arrangements can be
made.
Do we hear a "second?" R.W.R.
Committee
AH Western
critical factor in the outcome at
the time.
Responsible for Bill
Sen. Russell Long (D-La.) was
principally responsible for bot
tling up the high Hells Canyon
bill in this committee during
much of the 84th Congress and
that bill came out to the floor'
only after he transferred to an
other post. Sen. George Smathers
(D-Fla.), was and continues to be
one of the most articulate oppon
ents of statehood but he, too,
is gone to another committee. So
is Sen. Price Daniels, (D-Tex.) an
ex-member since his election to
the governorship of the Lone
Star state.
The three vacancies on the
committee are expected to go to
two Democrats probably Senators-elect
Frank Church of
Idaho and John Carroll of Colo
rado and one Republican
Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Col.).
If this lineup materializes, it
will mean the 15-member group
will be composed, entirely of
western senators for the first
time. It w i 1 1 be headed by Sen.
James E. Murray (D-Mont.), pro
viding the Democrats have suf
ficient votes to control the Sen
ate and thereby gain the impor
tant chairmanships of com
mittees. Two Members
The Pacific Northwest already
has two members Sen. Henry
M. Jackson (D-Wash.), who has
served as chairman of the sub
committee on territories; and
Sen. Richard L. . Neuberger
(D-Ore.). Idaho is already rep
resented by Sen. Henry Dwor
shak (R). The importance to
western states of this committee
is illustrated by the prospect of
Idaho's other senator, Frank
Church, taking a seat on it.
Both of the senators from
Wyoming and Nevada also sit on
this committee, While California,
New Mexico, Utah and Arizona
ByJo.
and Stewart Alsop
leftwing Americans for Demo
cratic action, which has been in
strumental in sparking the "Lib
eral revolt," called for Johnson's
ouster, Humphrey took great
pains to assure Johnson of his
continued support.
e
DERSUASI VENESS is one
I secret of Johnson's power. His
genius as a Parliamentarian is
another. Another is his infinite
capacity for taking pains. With
in 24 hours of the recent elec
tion, Johnson had telephone each
newly elected Democratic Sen
ator to congratulate him per
sonally, and to chat about the
forthcoming session.
But another reason why the
Liberals have no real stomach
for a fight twith Johnson is the
simple fact that on most issues he
is one of them. On civil rights
and oil, a Texan can only vote
one way. But on issues like the.
Minimum Wage, Public Housing,
Public Power, Farm Aid, and so
on, Johnson stands foursquare
with Humphrey, Douglas, and
the rest of the Northern Demo
crats. ' Moreover, Johnson derives im
mense prestige from the simple
fact that the Senate stayed Dem
ocratic under the "moderate"
Johnson, while the "Liberal"
Adlai Stevenson was murdered
at the polls. Yet Johnson, for all
his power and prestige, is caught
in a dilemma.
1VITH his central position in
' the party hierarchy, with
his Liberal record on many is
sues, Johnson will be an obvious
candidate for tho Democratic
Presidential nomination in 1960,
if his health hold out. His friends
do not believe that this thought
displeases him. Yet Johnson is
also up for renomination in Tex
as, where he has numerous
enemies, in 1960.
In the coming years, it will
not be easy for Johnson to make
a record which will please his
lexas constituents without final
ly alienating the Liberal forces
which exercise a veto power at
Democratic conventions. And the
Northern Democrats who staged
the abortive "Liberal revolt" are
also faced with a dilemma the
same dilemma in reverse.
For they have read the elec
tion returns, and they are un
happily aware that the minority
groups which have been solid
for the Democrats in the North
for more than a generation
especially the Negroes are slip
ping over to the Republicans.
This is why the "revolt of the
Liberals," however much the
Liberals may like and respect
Johnson, may not turn out in the
end to be quite as dead as it
looks now. At any rate it will
be interesting to see how the
agile and brilliantly astute John
son handles the situation in
which he now finds himself.
1956 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
belong but with this warn-
in West
Senators
all have one senator each on the
roster-
If Alaska and Hawaii should
become states during the 85th
Congress, one senator at least
from each of these new states
would doubtless request a seat
on this committtee. Because
while statehood, their most im
portant bill, would have become
law, they would then be in much
the same position of the western
states in having a great stake in
the progress of legislation affect
ing resource development.
Editorial
Comment
EDUCATORS GO
IF.. WAGE LOW
The unofficial news that our
favorite professor in our favor
ite institution of higher learning
in Oregon will leave next year
for a higher paying job in anoth
er state brings home painfully
the urgent need for more funds
for higher education. The loss of
this professor, recognized world
wide as an authority in his field,
follows other losses in a pattern
which can be described only as
an exodus. Our finest professors
and our most promising instruc
tors and assistant and associate
professors are leaving for green
er fields to be found in many
other states.
Oregon cannot afford these
losses. At the same time, it can
not afford to match the highest
competitor, but the state's only
hope to keep good educators lies
in doing the very best it can for
them, which is considerably more
than is being done now.
Chancellor John Richards has
appealed for $47,569,395 in state
money from the 1957-58 Legis
lature. This is over $14.5 million
or 44 per cent more than the
1954-55 Legislature granted and
it is money that won't be easy to
raise. But the greatest effort
must be made to meet the need.
It is not only the loss of edu
cators which threatens the state,
although this, to us, is the great
est peril. There are other con
siderations such as the growing
increase in enrollment and the
boom yet to come, the fact that
we are even now budgeting less
than is needed just for current
education costs, and the fact that
the economy is now somewhat
inflationary and money does not
go so far as it used to. A greater
increase in enrollment even than
what is expected or a marked
inflation could just about ruin
higher education in Oregon if
there were no corresponding in
crease in the budget.
We don't expect miracles from
the Legislature, but we expect
improvement in education bud
geting. Coos Bay Times.
FREIGHT RATES
The freight rate increase
awarded last week to the rail
roads puts the bite again on the
farmer of the Northwest. When
rail rates go up he gets it, and
from two directions. This latest
increase of 5 per cent will in
crease the farmer's shipping
costs on grain approximately
of a cent per bushel. He must
absorb that. He can't add it to
the price he gets for his grain.
That isn't the extent of the
farmer's loss, however. The man
ufacturer who supplies the farm
er with machinery and other
products adds the freight rate in
crease to the cost of those
products. All things the farmer
uses will cost more. The net ef
fect of this double-edged assault
is to reduce the farmer's income.
This is a situation that will
continue to exist until there is a
sufficient population in the
Northwest to consume the farm
produce of the region. Recogniz
ing the situation does not, how
ever, make it any more palatable
for the farmer of the Northwest.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
DISCRIMINATION
Senator Richard L. Neuberger
advises that he and Congressman-
Elect Charles O. Porter
will attempt in the next congres
sional session to secure repeal of
the 3 per cent federal excise tax
on freight shipments. The sen
ator contends the tax bears too
heavily on Oregon shippers,
largely because of the distance
between Oregon and great mar
kets. The senator has a hatful of
facts to back up his contention
that the tax is discriminatory.
He points out, to cite just one ex
ample, that the freight charges
on a carload of lumber amounts
to S675. if the lumber is shipDed
from Atlanta to Pittsburgh. The
but $410 if the lumber is shipped
fro mAtlanta to Pittsburgh. The
Oregon shipper must pay 40 per
cent more not only 40 per cent
more in freight charges, but 40
per cent more in tax. Thi sen
ator says that's discrimination.
And it sounds like discrimina
tion to us, too.
We hope Oregon shippers who
are concerned about this prob
lem will keep the senator's office
supplied with ammunition for his
battle to keep Oregon's economy
healthy. Politics should be for
gotten In this connection and the
Republicans and Democrats alike
should work together to secure a
better break for Oregon prod
ucts. Eugene Register-Guard.
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SOVIET SHAKEUP Maxim
Soburev (top), top Soviet eco
nomic adviser, was fired as
head of State Economic
Commission and replaced by
First Deputy Premier Mik
hail Pervukhin (bottom) in
major Moscow sbakeup. Per
vukhin has been ordered to
step up Russian production
and streamline Soviet indus
try. Animal Disease
Class Scheduled
Eagle Point A 10 - week
course in "Control and Preven
tion of Disease With Farm Ani
mals," the first adult education
class to be offered at Eagle Point
High s c h o o.l, win begin
the new vocational agriculture
building Jan. 3 at 8 p.m.
Classes will be under profes'
sional instruction of Dr. E. M
Hanawalt, D.V.M., Central Point:
and will meet once a week for
two hours. Subjects will include
symptoms in diagnosis of dis
ease, internal parasites and foot
diseases. Movies, lectures, ques
tion sessions and farm demon
strations will be used in the
course.
Registration will take place
at the first class meeting, but
late registrations will be accept
ed if there is enough room in
the class, it was pointed out.
There will be a five-dollar
charge for the 10 sessions. Of
this amount, $3.50 will be for
tuition, one dollar for refresh
ments and 50 cents for complete
supplements of Dr. Hanawalt's
notes.
Additional information may
be obtained from Darrell Stan
ley, vocational agricultural ad
visory board chairman, or Nat
Etzel, vocational agriculture in
structor at Eagle Point High
school.
Threatened Strike
Called Off Today
Portland (U.R) A threat
ened strike by AFL-CIO iron
workers in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana today has
been called off. The threat of a
strike in the near future still
remained however, as the execu
tive board's action only cancel
ed the strike deadline.
Spokesmen said the deadline
was cancelled, pending a meet
ing of the full district council
Saturday.
About 3500 members of the
International Association of
Bridge, Structural and Orna
mental Iron Workers are involv
ed in the dispute over wages.
Extension of Time
Granted in Fong Case
Salem (U.R) An extension
of time until January 31 was
granted the Multnomah county
district attorney's office to flie
its brief in the case of Sherry
Fong, who is under life impris
onment sentence for the slaying
of her teenage baby sitter.
An appeal to the state supreme
court from her conviction has
been filed by Mrs. Fong. Briefs
were filed by her attorney's sev
eral days ago.
She was convicted by a Mult
nomah county jury after a
stormy legal proceeding for the
slaying of 16-year-old Diane
Hank, in Portland in 1954.
WATCH FOR
JANUARY
CLEARANCE SALE!
BEGINNING FRIDAY, JANUARY 4
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
It seems reasonably certain
that in the California legislature
that is due to assemble shortly
redivision of the state's water
will be the No. 1 Issue. This is
the situation:
The bulk of California's water
originates in the northern coun
ties that is, the counties lying
north of say Sacramento. The
bulk of the state's NEED for
water lies south of Sacramento.
The problem is to 'determine
how much of the northern coun
ties' water is SURPLUS and
therefore can be spared to the
rest of the state. The problem is
complicated by the fact that at
present no one knows what the
future needs of the counties
where the bulk of the water or
iginates will be.
TTNDER existing law, the coun
ties of origin have a prior
right to the use of the water or
iginating within their borders.
It seems certain that at the com
ing session of the legislature an
effort will be made to limit this
prior right.
The battle will devo'op over
the terms of the limitatioj.
T WOULD be difficult enough
at any time to engineer a re-
division of California's water
supplies that would satisfy both
the far north, where the bulk of
the water originates, and the
areas to the south whose water
needs seem to be limitless.
But this year it will be harder
still. The reason is that presently
California is facing a drouth that
might turn out to be a bad one.
Red Bluff reports the worst
drouth in 80 years. Grass that a
year ago was green and lush is
now dry and sparse. In the past
two months, only .28 of an inch
of rain has fallen at Sacramento.
In the same period, San Diego
has had only .18 of an inch
3.73 inches short of normal. The
whole San Joaquin valley is far
short of normal rainfall. -
Los Angeles county has had a
bare .46 of an inch since July, as
compared with a normal of 4.4
inches. With a possible drouth in
the offing, people will be apt
to be a lot more particular about
a reshuffle of the state's water
supplies than they would have
been last year, when the big
news was the flood situation.
UP HERE in Southern Oregon
and far Nbrthern California,
we believe as firmly as anybody
could believe anything that pre
cipitation in the form of rain and
snow is a NATURAL RE
SOURCE. We think that if any
body wants to use our water HE
SHOULD COME UP HERE
AND USE IT.
We think it would be the rank
est kind of injustice to take our
water away from us to be used
by people in areas that don't
have water enough to go around.
Sunshine and year-around sum
mer weather are natural re
sources that have been responsi
ble for much of Southern Cali
fornia's spectacular growth. It
isn't possible, of course, to
MOVE sunshine and year-around
summer climate. But if it were
possible, we are quite sure up
here that Southern California
would resent bitterly any at
tempt on our part to move them
UP HERE.
WE WANT it clearly under
stood, of course, that if and
when it can be proved that over
the long years of the future we
are going to have more water
than we need for our own devel
opment we will be wiUing to
share our surplus with those
who don't have enough water.
But we don't know yet what
our future water needs will be.
Until we do know, we shall be
in no position to bargain about
disposal of our "surplus" water.
Mr. Insurance
FRED
BRENNAN
Phone 2-4940
. SORRY, NO POLICY!
We don't hve a policy
to cover the breakage of
NEW YEAR'S RESOLU
TIONS. But we do have a sincere
dssire to wish each of
you A HEALTHY, HAP
PY AND SUCCESSFUL
NEW YEAR.
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
QRFIELD'S