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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago. ,
10 YEARS AGO
March 27. 1947 (Thursday)
J. Carlisle Crouch, chief rang
er of Crater Lake National park,
is promoted to assistant super
intendent of Blue Ridge park
way. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Farmers
report everything is growing like
they wish the weeds wouldn't.
20 YCARS AGO
March 27. 1937 (Saturday)
Tickets for the Shrine benefit
dance Monday are being sold
at the Oriental Gardens, accord
ing to Paul B. Rynning, chair
man. Federal and state aides con
nected with the snow survey in
Oregon will be in Medford Mon
day to make a report on snow
conditions here.
30 YEARS AGO
March 27. 1927 (Sunday)
The visit of V. T. Jackson of
Roseburg, grand master of IOOF
of Oregon, to Medford has been
postponed.
Edward C. Kelly, son of Judge
and Mrs. E. E. Kelly. Medford,
University of Oregon senior maj
oring S law, is the only Jackson
county student at the univer
sity to be named on honor roll
for last semester.
40 YEARS AGO
March 27. 1917 (Tuesday)
Blossoms of earlier varieties
of fruit trees are advanced
enough to be injured by frost,
according to extension agents.
Mayor C. E. Gates and Great
er Medford club are guests of
local veteran's organization at
armory meeting.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nln or ten correct la superior: mt
n or eight ts excellent; (Ire m
tlx la good.
1. Which state touches only
one other?
2. If cassino Is the name of a
card game, what is a casino?
3. Bible. Was Abraham born
In a great city?
4. Who was Mary Ball Wash
ington? 5. Is yew an evergreen or de
ciduous tree?
8. Are there any red-haired
races of people?
7. Was Augustine Ruys. dis
coverer of New Mexico, a Span
iard or Englishman?
8. The Japanese surrender in
strument was signed aboard
which U.S. battleship?
9. "The very hairs on your
head are numbered." Is this
from Shakespeare or the Bible?
10. Two silver bars on an
Army officer's uniform indicate
what rank?
Answers: 1. Maine. 2. In Italy,
a kind of country home. 3. Yes.
Ur. 4. George Washington's
mother. 5. Evergreen tree. 6. No.
7. Spaniard. 8. Missouri. 9.
' Bible. 10. Captain.
OTHER SIDE OF BENCH
Thomaston. Cyi. (U.R)
Judge John McGhee, who start
ed his law practice 25 years ago,
thought Junior Sparks, brought
before him on a moonshining
charge, looked familiar. Mc
Gehee checked to learn where
he had seen Sparks before and
then sentenced his first client
to serve 12 months or pay a $250
fine.
I r3A
School Equalization
The Oregon State Senate on Friday will consider
Senate Bill 64, the so-called "key district" bill for
statewide school equaliziation.
The measure is not a simple one, exactly, although
its objectives are clear and can be stated concisely.
It attempts to put into effect the constitutional man
date for the state to "provide by law for the establish
ment of a uniform and general system of common
schools."
We are perhaps too prone to think of the public
schools as exclusively local
ally, however, the responsibility lies with the state,
which has delegated its authority to the local school
boards and administrators and, to a large degree, local
taxpayers.
ABOUT 10 years ago, the state recognized its
ICSJIUliSlUlUI, 1UI OL11UU1 kj CU1U SCIi up U1C
Basic School Support Fund, which provided for $50
per census child per year at that time about one-half
of the cost of "basic" education. Later the amount
was raised to $80, where it remains today. Because
of increases in costs, the $80 today provides less than
30 per cent of the "basic" education.
There is in the legislature a proposal to increase
this amount from $80 to $120 a 50 per increase
which would bring the state's contribution up to about
one-half of basic education costs again.
The original intent of the basic school support
law was to equalize educational opportunities and tax
costs throughout the state. The school support fund
was distributed on a formula designed to accomplish
this.
"WER the years, however, due to fluctuations in
property valuations, the formula got further and
further "out of line," to the point where today the
rishest districts, best able to afford good schools, are
! receiving a disproportionate amount of the school
fund.
It is to correct this that Senate Bill 64 was written.
It was prepared over a period of several years by a
group of school men and others.
Without going into the technicalities of how the
measure would operate, it can be stated that it would
call for uniform taxation throughout the state on a
millage basis to provide a "basic" education for all
children. . .
If, in any locality, this millage would not 'raise
sufficient funds to provide the basic requirements, the
state fund would be apportioned to the less-fortunate
districts on an equalization basis.
THIS is the controversial crux of the measure, which
also has other provisions regarding distribution of
parts of the total school fund.
It has been opposed by Portland educators, and
by a few in eastern Oregon, who would not receive
proportionately as much money under the proposal
as they now do.
(Recently a Klamath Falls group was asked why
they opposed the measure. They replied "We oppose
it on principle. It would cost us $500,000. And that's
a lot of principle.")
Both Portland papers
But the fundamental principle of a unif orm system
of common schools is written into our constitution,
and the principle of equalization has long been a
a part of our school laws.
CENATE Bill 64 is designed to bring these principles
into practical effect in the state today. It is prob
ably not a "perfect" bill little legislation can be
called perfect. But it is a
by highly competent people, designed to do a job
which needs to be done if
maintain her historic standards of public education.
If it is granted that the constitutional mandate
for uniform common schools, and the precedent writ
ten into law for equalization, are to be followed, then
SB64 appears to be the
taken. E.A.
More Government Jobs
Officials of the U.S.
are appearing; before a House subcommittee on man
power utilization to explain
ed increase of 25 per cent during the next 15 months
in the department's work force. They should have no
great difficulty. The Soil Bank set up by Congress
last year, with an annual $1.2 billion to distribute
among farmers, probably accounts for most of the
additional jobs.
Other departments and agencies may have more
trouble in convincing the congressmen that they need
more hands. The Eisenhower budget, now under at
tack from many quarters, calls for an increase of
73,000 federal employees. Rep. James C. Davis
(D-Ga.), chairman of the House subcommittee, says
that would add $360 million to the government pay
roll. He suggests that the time may be at hand to put
an over-all ceiling on government jobs or even to re
duce them by 10 per cent. "The situation confronting
Congress today calls for action over and above the
ordinary," he said.
During the first two years of the Eisenhower ad
ministration 200,000 employees were separated from
the federal payroll. This compared with 140,000 add
ed during the first two years of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The firings were labeled reductions in force (RIFs)
but Democrats in Congress complained that job hold
ers of their political persuason were being rolled out
of office on the slightest pretext. Civil employees of
the federal government now number about 2.5 million,
as against 3.8 million at the end of the war in
1945. E.R.R.
Wednesday, March 27. 1957
in character. Constitution
have editorialized against it.
product of years of study
Oregon is to continue to
approach which should be
Department of Agriculture
why they need a request
Admission of Spain to NATO
May Be Sought Soon by U.S.
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The United States soon may
propose the admission of Spain
to the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
wi ii.ia ai ganization.
cnain'i ad
mission to the
great Euro
pean alliance
against Com
munist aggres
sion is favored
by the Eisen
hower admin
istration. Charles McCana Spain itself
is eager to join.
It would be surprising if Pres
ident Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister Harold Macmil
lan did not discuss the question
in their talks in Bermuda last
week.
Britain and France long have
opposed Spain's admission to
NATO. But it has been reported
recently that they have changed
their minds.
At a time when some other
NATO countries are trying to
reduce their armed strength as
an economy measure, Spain's
addition to the 15-nation alli
ance certainly would strengthen
it.
Urged by House Group
The House of Representatives,
Spectacular
Probes Come Along
Every 2 or
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Spectacu
lar Senate investigations seem
to come along every two or three
years.
Teapot Dome . . . the midget
in J. P. Morgan's lap . . . the mu
nitions-makers . . . call up mem
cries of the 1920s and 1930s.
More recent spectaculars have
involved "five per centers" in
the Truman administration, the
firing of Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur, the Army-McCarthy brawl
and the big time hoodlums who
paraded before the televised Ke-
fauver Crime Committee hear
ings.
Imposing Title
The 1957 edition of the big
Senate investigation is being
conducted by a specially-created
group bearing the imposing title,
"Select Committee on Improper
Activities in the Labor and Man
agement Fields." The committee
is particularly interested in rack
eteering by labor unions and, at
this time, in evidence of im
proper activity by the huge
Teamsters' Union and its hefty
president, Dave Beck.
These investigations regularly
produce arguments about the
limits of congressional investiga
tions and whether committees
abuse their powers.
Beck invoked the Fifth
Amendment and other constitu
tional provisions Tuesday in re
fusing to answer questions. He
said, in effect, that he would
prefer to take his chances in the
courts where he felt his rights
were better protected.
In dealing with cases involv
ing contempt of congressional
committees, the courts histori
cally have taken a broad view of
the investigating powers of Con
gress. These powers are only im
plied in the Constitution, al
though they have been in use
since 1798.
A Legislative Purpose
The courts generally have pre
sumed there is a legislative pur
pose in any congressipnal in
vestlgation that is, an intent
to collect information necessary
to law-makig. The racketeering
inquiry is directly concerned
with whether there is need for
tightening Taft-Hartley law pro-
Legislative
Srlem U.R A proposal for a
constitutional amend ment to
give each county at least one
state representative has been
tabled by the House State and
Federal Affairs Committe follow
ing a hearing here.
Strong opposition to the
change sponsored by eastern
Oregon legislators came from
the League of Women Voters,
Young Republicans and Demo
crats and the State Labor Coun
cil. SalemfU.R) The Senate un
animously passed a House mem
orial calling on Congress to des
ignate Highway 30 from Port
land to Astoriaas part of the
federal interstate system. The
federal designation now ends at
Portland.
Salem U.R) The Senate ap
proved unanimously divorce law
changes including an amend
ment to invaludate future
"quickie" divorces obtained in
another state. The amendment
was aimed principally at Nev
a d a 's speedy divorce system.
Other changes would require a
60-day cooling-off period before
a divorce on grounds of cruelty
or habitual drunkenness could
be tried and would permit re
marriage 70 days after a divorce
unless the case was appealed.
Foreign Affairs committee on
March 18 unanimously approv
ed a resolution calling for the
admission of Spain.
The resolution, which is await
ing passage by full House and
Senate, was proposed by the
State Department. It said that
the department should "contin
ue to use its good offices toward
the end of achieving participa
tion by Spain in the NATO or
ganization. Britain and France have been
cold toward Spain partly be
cause of his totalitarian rule.
But Franco is about as anti
Communist as anybody could
be. That is one thing in Spain's
favor. Franco has an army of
about 300,000 men, and could
mobilize about 2 million if an
other war broke out.
The United States signed a
military agreement with Spain
on Sept. 25, 1953. Under this
agreement the United States is
constructing four big air bases
and one naval base in Spain.
Franco Can't Apply
Franco can not apply for ad
mission to NATO. But there is
no doubt he would join enthu
siastically if asked.
Aside from the fact that
Spain's entry would give NATO
a needed lift at this time, there
Senate
3 Years
visions requiring unions to file
financial reports with the Labor
Department.
It also has been suggested that
legislation might be in order to
insure democratic procedures in
labor unions. The committee is
further interested in determin
ing whether there have been vio
lations of income tax and other
existing laws, and whether
racketeering has interfered with
interstate commerce and inflated
the cost of goods bought by the
government'.
The current inquiry adds up
to what is probably the rough
est treatment ever given a major
segment of the labor movement
by congressional investigators.
And imlike previous labor spar
ring with Congress, this one has
been blessed at least in part
by some of the top leaders of or
ganized labor.
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Wonders About Mors
To the Editor: It is common
knowledge that the Labor
Unions backed the Democrats in
the election this year. They were
especially active in Oregon in
the behalf of Senator Wayne
Morse.
After the expose of vice and
corruption that h: j come to light
in the higher echelons of some
unions it makes one wonder
what they expected to gain from
the Democrats for putting them
in power.
Also, if Wayne Morse was so
naive as to think he could take
their help with no strings at
tached? Wayne Morse seems to
be lying low lately whicl is very
odd for one with presidential
aspirations.
Up to just lately he was often
in the news, of our local paper,
at least.
Leila A. Morrow
531 North Bartlett st,
Medford, Ore.
Briefs
Salem !U.R The House has
unanimously passed a bill ap
propriating $100,000 for surveys
and design of a bridge across the
Columbia river at Astoria.
The bridge would be built
jointly by Oregon and Washing
ton.
The Washington Legislature
has already approved $100,000
for its share of the study.
Salem (U.R The House has
passed a bill limiting expendi
tures of the State Board of Aero
nautics to S221.000 after an argu
ment as to whether the board
was useful or not.
Salem U.R) The Oregon
House has defeated 35-22 a bill
which would have required com
panies to file an inventory re
port with the State Tax Com
mission. HE ROCK 'N' ROLLS
Toronto (U.R) James Mil
ne, 35, was cleared of a charge
of driving under the influence
of liquor when he told the judge
he just couldn't help his rock
'n' roll. Milne told Judge Har
ry Donley he had served five
years in the Navy and "I have a
bit of a roll when I walk. My
toes turn out. One foot rocks one
I way while the other foot rocks
is the country's important strate
gic position to think about. Shel
tered behind the formidable Py
renees Mountains, it might be
come the last allied bastion in
Western Europe if Soviet Rus
sia's Red armies swept across
Europe.
Spaniards also point out that,
if Spain joined NATO, its Can
ary Islands off the northwest
coast of Africa might provide an
additional allied air base. The
United States tias big air bases
in nearby Morocco. But that
newly independent country may
become politically unstable in
wartime.
There is to be a big meeting
of NATO foreign ministers at
Bonn, capital of West Germany,
on May 2. It .could be that Sec
retary of State John Foster Dul
les will raise the question of
Spain's admission then.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Weather shenanigans:
The worst blizzard in 30 years
is sweeping the Middle West
Eight states are affected, with
the worst tie-ups in Kansas and
Nebraska ... It is estimated
that 7500 highway travelers are
marooned . . . Drifts up to 18
and 20 feet high clog nearly all
the highways of Nebraska and
Kansas and parts of Colorado
and New Mexico . . . Trains are
stuck in the snow all over the
area . . . The blizzard is moving
eastward and heavy snow is fore
cast for parts of Iowa, Missouri,
Indiana and Lower Michigan.
PRETTY rugged?
ait a mimitp
The greater part of this area
lies in what the leadlines have
been calling the 1950's Dust
Bowl. Much of it is drought re
lief rea. When the snow depos
ited by the blizzard melts, it will
do immeasurable good. There's
a lot of water in 15 and 20-foot
drifts. .
Often people fail to count
their blessings ' classing them,
in th? discomfort of the moment,
as trials and tribulations.
ITfHEN news of the blizzard
hit the Chicago Board of
Trade this morning, wheat prices
dropped. A lot of people will
class that as a calamity. '
else it is
It's the law of supply and de
mand in action. The blizzard,
bringing added inoisure to a
large area of the nation's bread
basket, will bring bigger crops
of wheat instead of smaller
crops of wheat.
rpHE pity" of it is that instead
JL of being CONSUMED these
bigger crops of wheat will be
stashed away in the already
, ,j
bursting warehouses, thus add-
ing to the headaches of the tax
payers. That's what comes of politics
gone hog-wild.
IN THE montljly publication of
the soil conservation service,
issued by the department of
agriculture, a Boise, Ida., official
of the service appeals to farmers
and other people to PROTECT
hawks, eagles, falcons and other
birds of prey.
He says:
"The fast hawks, such as the
prairie falcon, that are capable
of catching game birds, feed
very heavily on ground squirrels,
bull snakes and other creatures
that sometimes prey upon game
birds and their eggs ... A fam
ily of falcons, for example,
catches enough destructive rep
tiles and mammals each year to
far outweigh the few game
birds they may catch while
hunting over an area."
He adds that these birds, in
cluding even the much-slandered
eagle, are victims of what he
calls "some of the wildest of
fictions."
11THAT he means is that we suf
fer grievous evils because
WE KNOW SO MANY THINGS
THAT AIN'T SO.
That goes for politics as well
as birds of prey.
IN CLOSING, I'd like to call at
tention to a sweet-looking,
white haired old lady in New
Hampshire who has a war on
with the Boston & Maine rail
road. She says it's a scandal the
way the soulless corporation that
runs the road lets the windows
of its passenger coaches get
dirty. By doing so, she insists,
the company prevents the tour
ists from seeing the lovely scen
ery of New England.
But
Instead of PROMOTING A
LAW to compel the railroad to
wash its windows oftener
She takes a b-ckei of water
and a washrag and goes down to
the station every morning and
washes the windows herself!
(There is talk of tossing her in
the clink.)
T S GOOD to know there are
a FEW rugged individualists
left in our land of the free and
the home of the brave.
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Today and
By Walter
BERMUDA
Our knowledge of what went
on at Bermuda is, as this is writ
ten, very meager, and so it is
likely to re
main until we
have the com
mentary from
London and
Washington by
men who have
been talked to
off the record.
Yet it would
be surprising if
anything sur
Haucr Lippmano
prising comes out that is not
already indicated by the official
communique.
This says, if I read it correct
ly, that the basic Anglo-Ameri
can Atlantic alliance for the de
fense of Western Europe is in
tact and quite solid. The reduc
tion of military forces which the
British are planning to make is
to be compensated by the Ameri
can offer to supply new high
powered weapons, such as
guided missiles.
Beyond this basic alliance,
which is also the core of NATO,
the old partnership is, as they
say in diplomacy, fluid. For the
Pacific and for Japan and as far
south as Vietnam, there is no
partnership but rather an Ameri
can sphere of influence. In the
Middle East and in Africa there
is not a concerted policy. There
are fairly well defined common
purposes, and there are commit
ments, which are not rigid or
very strict, to consult. But there
are very considerable differ
ences of opinion as to what the
situation really is and consider
able differences as to what we
ought to do.
WE MAY say, I think, that at
Bermuda the British con
ceded that Western policy in the
Middle East should for the pres
ent follow the line laid down by
the President and Secretary
Dulles. This acceptance of Amer
ican leadership was not, how
ever, unreserved. Whatever may
be said of Britain's loss of influ
ence in the Arab world, it is a
British vital interest to have ac
cess to the oil of the Persian Gulf
area. Although there were no
warnings or threats of any kind,
there was a distinct implication
at Bermuda that Britain would
follow American leadership in
dealing with the Arab states as
long as, but no longer than, its
vital interests are not sacrificed.
Heavy Snow Blessing
To Farmers in Iowa
Editor's note: The blizzard which
: paralyzed the Great Plains
-blessing to many drought-stricken
I farmers. In the following dispatch, an
Iowa farmer tells what it meant w
him.
Creston, Iowa 4U.R) The gi
gantic spring snowstorm put
drought-stricken Southwest Iowa
farmers in "aretty good shape
for spring planting," a farmer
said today.
"That moisture will help a
lot," Harold Cochrane said. "We
eot a little over two incnes or
moisture out of it and most of it
will sink right in."
Two weeks ago, Cochrane re
ported the ground was so dry in
this area that farmers digging
post holes had to pour water into
the holes to enable them to dig
out the dirt.
15 Inches of Snow
Then the spring storm hit,
dousing the area first with rain
and then burying it under a
snowfall that measures up to 15
inches.
"I sure was glad to see that
moisture," Cochrane said, "al
though I didn't care much for
the way it came," adding that
his farm buildings were flanked
with 10-foot drifts.
"But," he said, "When you're
in the shape we wr2 in, I guess
you have to be satisfied with
second best."
A good spring rain would
have been better, he said. Before
the storm hit, he said farmers
nee' d a two or three inch
gentle rain to put the ground in
good shape for planting.
Just About Same
"We'll get just about that out
of this," he said. "We got about
one inch of rain before it started
snowing. Then we gc-t 10 inches
of snow and that should give us
Plan For
Tomorrow
An ever increasing number of
the prudent and thoughtful
are finding it well to plan to
day for the inevitable needs
of tomorrow.
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Tomorrow
Lippmann
A most important conse
quence of Bermuda is that the
President and Mr. Dulles, having
been conceded the right to lead
and to administer their own
rather than an agreed policy,
have now become definitely re
sponsible for the consequences.
They are already responsible, as
a result of their one-sided pres
sure, for the security of Israel.
Beneath the bland and polite
surface of the Bermuda com
munique, one can read that they
have acquired the same kind
of responsibility for the security
of British, indeed of Western
European, vital interests in the
canal and the oil of the Middle
East.
a
THE problem of negotiating
with Nasser is, we have come
to realize, inordinately difficult
because, as things have devel
oped, we have deprived our
selves of the power to bargain
with him. We have given him a
guarantee that we will not use
force. We have given him spe
cific proof that we will not al
low Britain, France and Israel
to use force. We have conceded
that the U.N. has no independent
authority and that it can act only
with his consent. We have given
him reason to believe that there
is little likelihood of our agree
ing to use sanctions against him.
On the other hand, we have very
little to offer him as a reward
for substantial concessions.
Under these conditions it is
unfair to epect Mr. Hammar
skjold to wring from Nasser the
concessions which Nasser is un
der no pressure to concede. The
Administration is well advised,
no doubt, to try to negotiate with
President Nasser through Mr.
Hammarskjold. But we must
never lose sight of the fact that
while Mr. Hammarskjold may
be the most acceptable nego
tiator, he has no bargaining pow
er of his own beyond that which
the United States possesses.
WE OUGHT NOT, therefore, to
' allow the world to think
that we have abdicated our own
responsibility and are leaving
everything to Mr. Hammar
skjold. For it is only as we ac
cept the responsibility of restor
ing our power to bargain with
Nasser that Mr. Hammarskjold
can be expected to negotiate suc
cessfully. (Copyright
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
about another inch or so of mois
ture." He said most of the melting
snow will soak right into the
ground because the frost was
gone and little water would run
oK.
The snow was melting fairly
fast as temperatures stayed
above the freezing mark.
Three-year Drought
Cachrane farms 160 acres and
has been hurt by a three-year
drought. The Geological Survey
reported several weeks ago that
the drought situation in this area
would become "very acute" un
less there was above-average
rainfall this spring.
"We still need good spring
rains lor a good crop, cocn
rane said. "But this moisture
sure will help quite a bit and we
should be in pretty good shape
for spring planting."
Iowa Agriculture Secretary
Clyde Spry said "for a certainty,
the snow will give crops a good
start" in the drought area.
It would cost "one million dol
lars to pump this much moisture
over the farm land through irri
gation pipes," he said.
ONE FOR THE BIRDS
Los Angeles (U.R) Mrs.
Beverly Jurman, 29, won a di
vorce Tuesday after she told the
judge her husband, William, 35,
flew into a great rage because
our baby lovebirds scattered
seeds on the kitchen floor."
TV OR NOT TV
Muskegon, Mich. (U.R) f
Guy Stiffler thinks one of his
neighbors doesn't like television.
Stiffler complained to police on'
Tuesday that someone had climb
ed onto his roof and cut the
wires connecting his TV set to
its antenna.
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"It is better to know us and not needus,
than to need us and not know us.