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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 2, 1946 (Thursday)
: When the Rogue Valley
chorus presents "The Holy City"
Jan. .7, it will be the first pre
sentation of the composition of
Alfred R. Gaul ever made here.
From Arthur Perry's Y
Smudge Pot column: "Young vet
and bride-to-be desire furn. apt.
No dogs, cats, friends, cigars; in
fact, we don't even breathe
hard!" (Want ad Salt Lake
Tribune) The ideal renters.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 2. 1936 (Saturday)
Maude S. Davis, manager and
buyer of ready-to-wear depart
ment at Mann's department store
for the past several months, re
signs. .
William R. Coleman, Justice of
the peace for the Medford dis
trict, is celebrating his 66th
birthday today.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 2. 1928 (Sunday)
Four years ago the Crater
Beaver Fur Farm was incorpor
ated in Jackson for the purpose
of raising beaver for furs.
Crater Lake Council of the
Boy Scouts of America com
pletes third year of activity.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 2. 1918 (Tuesday)
County clerk reports 162 mar
riages in county in 1916 against
47 divorces.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Senator H. Von der Hel-
len leaves for Corvallis to at
tend meeting of board of regents
of OAC.
What's Your I.Q.?
N!n or tn correct It superior; it
m or etcht U excellent; tWe or
mix i rood.
1. Is a i'diva" a male or female
opera singer, or a kind of sofa?
2. Did Cabrillo, Drake, or
Urdinola discover California?
3. Is the Book of Tobit part of
the Old or New Testament?
4. Cordelia was the youngest
and favorite daughter of Lear,
in which Shakesperian tragedy?
5. Was the 92nd Infantry Divi
sion (World War II) an all-Negro
or a mixed Division?
6. Is the Virginia creeper min
eral, vegetable or animal?
7. Will sound travel through
a vacuum?
8. "Capes," a term in the dia
mond trade, are Kimberly, South
Africa, diamonds: true or flase?
9. "Ability" and "capacity"
are synonymous: is this true
when applied to intellectual
power?
10. "A word to the wise is "
what?
Answers: 1. Female opera
singer. 2. Cabrillo (1542-3).
3. Neither. The Apocrypha.
4. "King Lear." 5. All-Negro.
6. Vegetable. 7. No. 8. True.
9. No. 10. "Sufficient."
Post Cora1 Returned
By Hungarian Student
Le Mans, France (U.R) Chan
tel Gaignard, who released a
postcard attached to a balloon
early in December, said today
the card has been returned from
Budapest, Hungary, by mail.
The card was returned by Bu
dapest university student Szalo
Islvanum. who found it 887 miles
from Le Mans.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
, Wishing in 1957
The change from the "old year" to the "new year"
is traditionally a time for stock-taking, for resolutions,
for hoping hopes and laying plans for the future.
It is true of individuals, of families, of business
firms, of political units, and of the larger communities
of which we are all a part.
Jackson county is such a community. It is a fairly
tightly-knit one, too, thiough the accident of geo
graphy. While there is a wide variety of interests
within the community, there is also a strong interde
pendence which is not diluted by the nearness, or even
overlapping, of other communities of interest.
'yU'HAT, then, would we wish for our Jackson
county community, as 1957 begins? What devel
opments and actions would make for a happier and
better future for the 66,000 or more residents of this
area?
These are some of the things we would like to
see:
An upward trend in the lumber market, to lift it
out of the doldrums where it has been recently. This
would keep the mills busy, and employment high.
Greater utilization of wood products now wasted.
An upward trend in the market for farm products,
and a continuation of the generally good fruit market.
A continued high level of business activity, build
ing construction, and prosperity, based on our lumber
agriculture economy.
AN increase in the number of tree farms for, de
spite the fact that they now embrace more than
half the privately-owned commercial forest acreage,
we must remember- that unless forest crops are renew
ed, we are destroying a principal resource.
A solution to the sometimes bitter debate between
advocates of flood control along the Rogue, and the
spoilsmen who fear that any such steps would spoil
a recreational resource.
A decision by the highway commission to locate
the proposed new freeway in this area where it will
result in the greatest good for the greatest number,
namely: NOT by chopping the city into two pieces,
with access only at the northern and southern limits.
Improved railroad service, both freight and pass
enger, the latter preferably a fast, modern, comfort
able, convenient shuttle service north and south.
e
DAPID progress on the city's capital improvement
v program, including a system of arterial streets,
and the extension of vitally needed sewers. .
An acceptable solution to the ever-growing prob
lem of parking in the downtown area.
A growing acceptance of and dependence on plan
ning as a means, both county-wide and city-wide, of
promoting orderly and attractive growth.
Annexations, where needed, to provide residents
of our still-growing suburban and "fringe" areas with
necessary city services, and acceptable solutions for
similar areas where annexation is not feasible.
A wider interest in, and appreciation of, the role
that local government plays in the lives of all of us.
r OOD progress on the construction of the Talent
project, completion of the Rogue Valley Memor
ial hospital, a successful start of construction of Rogue
Valley Manor, and progress on the other projects un
der way or contemplated.
A beginning on making the road from Medford
to Klamath Falls by way of Lake of the Woods into
a good highway. .
The beginning of a county parks department,
starting with Prescott park on Roxy Ann.
No floods, and less fog.
Success for the Salk polio vaccination program,
and a continued good record for the March of Dimes,
the United Medford Crusade, the Red Cross Bloodmo
bile, and the many, many busy organizations which
work constructively for the "welfare of the communi
tyincluding the Jackson County Public Health as
sociation. COME of these, obviously, are pipe dreams.
But a goodly portion of them are not only possible,
but can be achieved by good will, cooperation, intel
ligence and hard work.
Many of them will come to pass in the normal
course of events, but others will take planning and
constructive thought and effort. Not all of them, of
course, represent the desires of all residents of this
community of ours.
But it is our hunch that if a majority of the citizens
adopt at least a majority of these hopes as their own,
and work toward their fulfillment, Jackson county
will become an even better place in which to live in
1958 than it is as 1957 begins. E.A.
Sniff!
The only way to start the New Year right is with
a bad cold.
It beclouds the brain almost as effectively as a
hangover; it constricts the chest and makes the neck
and shoulders ache; it plugs the nostrils and throat;
it chills the extremities and fevers the mind.
In this condition one looks forward to relief with
longing. The present, to the sufferer, is dark; any
change will be for the good. The New- Year is a sym
bol of change, therefore must be good.
A ND what miracles has modern science wrought
with the cold? Hah!! It has come up with a few
concoctions which make life a trifle more bearable,
most of them based on aspirin and .decongestants.
That's all. With the aid of medical science, the old
saying goes, a cold can be conquered in seven days.
Without that aid. it will linger for a week.
Happy New Year. E.A.
ednesday, January 2. 1957
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REDS CUT BUDAPEST ARMOR Some Russian armored divisions are pulling out of
Budapest, it is reported. Evidence of this is illustrated above by the snow-free patch
where a Soviet tank stood guard in front of the Chain Bridge, a key strategic point in
the Hungarian capital. Tracks in snow mark the tank's departure. '
Italian Communists Troubled
By Results of Destalinization
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Italy's Communist Party, the
largest in Europe outside the
Iron Curtain, is in serious
trouble.
It is losing
heavily in its
card - carrying
m e m b ership.
It is losing out
in the leader
s h i p of the
great Italian
labor unions
where it was
dominant for
years.
Charter McLaoo
It is being torn by a big in
ternational fight which may de
velop into a threat to the leader
ship of its veteran boss Palmiro
Togliatti.
And next month, it is most
likely that the Italian Left Wing
Socialist Party will formally an
nounce the end of its 10-year
fellow-travelling alliance with
the Communists.
The plight of the Italian party
stems, of course, from the de
nunciation of Josef Stalin's dic
tatorship by the Russian Reds
lirfrlrlaJ
In the Day's News
By FRANK
One of the interesting tales in
the news comes from Dar Es
Salaam, in Southern Tanganyika,
in the Dark Continent of Africa.
In Dar Es Salaamsince the time
whereof the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary
thereof, the women have carried
water for domestic purposes
from distant springs.
They have carried the water in
buckets containing about four
gallons. They balance the buckets
on their heads, and a Dar Es
Salaam girl is adjudged to be
competent to take on the respon
sibilities of heading her own
household when she can carry
a bucket all the way from the
spring without spilling a drop.
The story goes that modern
progress has hit Southern Tang
anyika, and they are planning a
waterworks system. The water
will be piped from the spring to
the village, and the ages-old job
of carrying water in buckets on
the heads of the women will be
relegated to the limbo of the
past.
HPHE.tale has a sidelight that is
not without interest.
The women are immensely
pleased with the idea, but the
men are up in arms about it.
They fear their wives, when this
new facility comes into use, will
get lazy and no-account. They
may even rebel at doing all the
field work as well as all the
housework.
From the standpoint of the
men of that part of the world,
that would be REALLY bad.
WELL,, over here in up-and-coming
America, we can tell
these men of Dar Es Salaam that
their fears are not without foun
dation. Here's about what will hap
pen: When the women over there
in Darkest Africa get water out
of a pipe instead of having to
carry it on their heads from the
spring it will put ideas in their
heads. The next thing they will
want will be a dishwasher. And
after that they wiU begin to
yearn for an automatic washing
machine. The next idea will be
aa electric range, so that no
more will they have to get out
into the desert bright and early
and rustle up firewood to cook
the day's meals.
And so on. The first thing
these hitherto sovereign men of
Africa know, they'll have to go
out and GET JOBS in order to
be able to meet the monthly pay
ments on all these household
gadgets.
That will be rugged.. But it s
what they will be in for. Modern
progress is modern progress, and
once it gets started nothing can
stop it. It's like a cold in the
and the Polish and Hungarian
rebellions which resulted from
it.
Togliatti, at the recent nation
al party congress, felt himself
compelled to support the mur
derous Russian intervention in
the Hungarian revolt. His sup
port was half-hearted and was
obviously given solely because
he thought it unwise to weaken
the Communist movement any
further.
Reject Toglialli's Leadership
But some leading Italian Com
munists refused to go along with
Togliatti.
One of them, Senator Eugenio
Reale, let loose a blast against
Togliatti last Thursday. Reale
said in an interview that the
party was blinding itself to the
"great turn'' which had come
about in world Communism as
the result of the Russian repudia
tion of Stalinist dictatorship.
Reale said - that opposition
speakers were choked off at the
party congress and that the elec
tion which confirmed Togliatti
in his leadership was rigged.
As the result the Communist
Provincial Control Commission
JENKINS
head. When it gets going, it has
to run its course.
SPHERE is another interesting
angle to this waterworks bus
iness over in Dar Es Salaam.
When they get it finished, how
are they going to pay for it?
The answer to that one shows
how far modern ideas are spread
ing. Here is the plan: They'll
pipe the water down to the vil
lage and on every faucet' they'll
put a COIN-IN-THE-SLOT jig
ger. When the lady of the house
wants a bucket of water, she'll
put the Dar Es Salaam equiva
lent of a couple of pennies in
the slot and the water will gush
forth to the extent of a bucket
ful. .
That, you will be quick to
note, will be the exact equiva
lent of a sales tax. That will
prove another important point
about modern life. As we get
more and more in the way of
services, we pay more and more
in the way of taxes.
Newsmen File Motion
For Suit Dismissal
Portland (U.R) Motions on
behalf of six newspapermen em
ployed by the Oregonian seeking
dismissal of District Attorney
William Langley's two million
i dollar Federal Court suit against
them have been filed here.
The suit was attacked as hav
ing been brought under an un
constitutional law and also
brought in a court that did not
have jurisdiction.
Langley's charge stated that
he had been deprived of his civil
rights. The suit stemmed from
stories contained in the news
paper in respect to its investiga
tion into alleged vice conditions
in the city.
Officers Named for
New Oil Company
San Francisco (U.R) E. J.
McClanahan, chairman and pres
ident of the newly formed Stand
ard Oil Company of California,
Western Operations, Inc., today
announced the names of the com
pany's officers.
Named as directors and vice
presidents were F. S. Loomis, O.
N. Miller, J. E. Toussaint, and H.
G. Vesper. Miller, Toussaint and
Vesper have previously served
as vice presidents of the parent
organization. .
Other Standard-Western offi
cers are C; B. Chantler, comp
troller; G. M. Foster, secretary;
H. C. Judd, treasurer; J. P. Bow
man, assistant secretary; E. A.
Hansen, assistant secretary; and
J. S. Tate, assistant treasurer.
for the Naples area, from which
Reale comes, voted last week
end to expel him from the partv.
Reale announced that he
would continue his fight, either
inside or outside the party.
It has been disclosed that only
about 1.1 million card-carrying
members of the party have re
newed their membership for
1957. The strength of the party
has been estimated at a mini
mum of 1.7 million in recent
months. Some estimates have
put the total at 2.4 million.
Lose Committee Control
In shop steward elections in
the gigantic Michelin rubber and
tire works in Milan in mid-December
the Communist vote
dropped by nearly 60 per cent.
For the first time since the end
of the war the Communists lost
control of the shop steward com
mittee. The present situation marks a
radical change from the Com
munist Party's position a few
years ago. In 1948, there was
grave fear throughout the free
world that the Communists
might win the national parlia
mentary election.
The Communists still hold 143
seats out of 590 in the Cham
ber of Deputies. The left wing
Socialists hold 75. Pietro Nenni,
the left wing Socialist leader,
for months has been drawing
closer to a break with the Com
munists. It is likely that the
break will be made formally
when the left wing Socialists
hold their national congress next
month. . .
Production Record
Seen for Steel
New York '(U.R) America's
steel industry feeling the im
pact of the Suez crisis will set
a new production record of 120
million tons in 1957, Iron Age
said today.
The authoritative trade publi
cation said the new mark, 5 mil
lion tons greater than 1956 and
3 million tons above record
1955, will be a result of these
main effects of Suez: All out
construction of oil tankers; rec
ord oil drilling; higher defense
spending and stepped up foreign
aid.
Iron Age said 1957 will see
not only strong demand to keep
production lines rolling but also
a battle to rebuild inventories
against the possibility of a real
international explosion.
"Hedging against coming high
er steel prices will add some
pressure," Iron Age said, "but
not so much as in previous
years."
The publication said that steel
mills enter the new year with
"very heavy carryovers in most
major products." The situation
is "particularly embarrassing"
in plates, structural shapes,
seamless pipe, line pipe, and hot
rolled sheets. It noted the supply
problem is "worsening rapidly."
Preparatory Work for
Snake Dam Completed
Baker (U.R) Workmen were
scheduled to start placing the
impervious clay core of Brown
lee dam on the Snake river today
as the structure starts to rise
from the river bed.
The Idaho Power Company
reported that all preparatory
work on the dam foundation had
been completed by yesterday
when some 800 workmen took a
holiday.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 cubic
yards of clay are expected to be
moved into place each day until
the core of the dam is com
pleted. Some 500,000 cubic yards
of clay will be required for the
job.
SOBERS UP
New York U.R) Asked by
his rescuers why he chose to
high-dive into the icy East River
early Tuesday. Joe Galante, 44,
explained: "It's the best way I
know to sober up."
3rd Term Limitation
Handicap to 'Ike' in
Remaking
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower is confronted
by a new Congress controlled
V" . 'r by the opposi
tion under a
handicap never
imposed on an
other president.
The handicap
is the 22nd Am
endment to the
U. S. Constitu
tion which bars
Mr. Eisenhow
er from a third
LjllS 4. (ArusOO
term. Not that Mr. Eisenhower
would be likely to seek or to
accept a third term.
But patronage-hungry politi
cians are more likely to go along
with the policies of a president
who has a potential, even if un
likely, third term ahead of him
than with a president who must
vacate 1600 Pennsylvania Av
enue by constitutional mandate
at the end of term No. 2.
Moving Date Definite
Mr. Eisenhower must move out
no later than 12 noon on Jan.
20, 1961, and everyone knows
it. His successor probably is
somewhere around Washington
this week as the 85th Congress
maneuvers toward its first ses
sion Thursday. A considerable
number of persons believe they
Army Considering
Atomic Armed Task
Forces in World
Washington (U.R) The Army
is considering stationing missile
armed atomic task forces at stra
tegic points around the world.
The proposed powerful "atom
ic fire brigades" would be capa
ble of rushing to the scene of any
sudden Communist thrust.
The proposal, now in an ad
vanced planning stage, is part of
an Army reorganization sched
uled to start early this year.
Under the master plan, the
Army will pare about 60,000 men
from its 19 combat divisions to
give them the added mobility de
manded by atomic warfare. Some
of these 60,000 men would be
put in atomic task forces of about
5,000 men each.
Atomic Weapons
The units would be armed
with such atomic weapons as the
Corporal missile, which has a
50 to 75-mile range, and the Hon
est John rocket which has a 10
to 20 mile range. They also
would have, eight-inch artillery
guns for 1 which atomic shells
now are being developed.
The atomic task forces could
be stationed at such key points
as Hawaii, Korea, and Alaska.
Consideration also has been
given to using such fire brigades
to bolster the vulnerable perim
eter of the North Atlantic Treaty
Alliance.' Such units, for in
stance, could be stationed in
Scandinavia and Turkey to
guard NATO's northern and
southern flanks.
One Infectious Hepatitis
Case Reported in County
One case of infectious hepa
titis in Eagle Point was reported
to the Jackson county health de
partment during the week end
ing Dec. 28.
Other communicable diseases
reported during the same period
included 11 cases of measles in
Rogue River and six in Medford;
five cases of mumps in Ashland:
two cases of impetigo, one in
Gold Hill and one in Central
Point; two cases of influenza,
one in Medford and one in Ash
land and two cases of pneu
monia, one in Medford and one
in Ashland.
CONSTIPATED?
new laxative discovery
un-Iocks bowel blocks
without gag, bloat or gripe
Constipation is caused by
what doctors call a "thrifty"
colon. A "thrifty" colon is one
that, instead of retaining
moisture as it should, does the
opposite: robs the colon of so
much moisture that its con
tents become dehydrated, so
dry that they block the bowel;
so shrunken that they fail to
excite or stimulate the urge
to purge that propels and ex
pels waste from your body.
TO REGAIN NORMAL REGU
LARITY two things are neces
sary. First, the dry, shrunken
contents of your colon which
now block your bowel must be
re-moistened. Second, bulk
must be brought to your colon
to S-T-R-E-T-C-H STIMULATE it
and so, excite its muscles to
action; to a normal urge to
purge.
ONLY A BULK LAXATIVE
can 1) re-moisten this dry,
' shrunken waste and 2) supply
vital bulk to re-create a nor
ms 1 urge to purge. And, of all
bulk laxatives, couinaid, the
of Party
already have spotted the man
at least the man who will get
the Republican Party's presiden
tial nomination.
He is, of course, Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon. If politi
cal events during the next two
or three years support the judg
ment of those who see Nixon as
the next Republican leader,
things might get a bit sticky for
Mr. Eisenhower. Two party
leaders is one too many. Division
of authority at the top could be
both embarrassing and political
ly disastrous.
Mr. Eisenhower would still
hold the powers of office. But
the younger man would have
the advantage of a chance to
gain those powers during the
immediate years to come. There
is nothing in Nixon's conduct to
suggest that he would welcome
or further such a situation. It is
a situation, however, which is
very likely to develop regardless
of the wishes of the men and
of the party most directly involv
ed. The President may find him
self in the position of a ringmast
er without a whip or a motorist
with an empty tank. He has av
owed his purpose to make over
the Republican Party in a new
mold. The mold considerably re
sembles the first term Roosevelt
New Deal, minus the New Deal's
eager interest in centralizing the
government on the Pennsylvania
Avenue axis which extends from
the White House to the Capitol,
skirting the Treasury and other
departments en route.
This make-over is to be furth
er accomplished largely by the
second term Eisenhower legisla
tive program. Mr. Eisenhower
will need congressional action to
translate his party ideals into
fact. All the power and prestige
of the White House office may
fall short of what it will take to
keep congressional Republicans
in line for what Mr. Eisenhower
has in mind, especially since
each passing day brings him clos
er to forced retirement.
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SUPERIOR TO OLD STYLE
bulk, salt or drug laxatives,
colonaid neither gags, bloats
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' with your absorption of vita
mins and other valuable food
nutrients; and in clinical
tests, did not cause rash or
other side reactions.
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