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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 28. 1947 (Friday)
A drive by junior high school
for collection of waste paper be
gan today with each student as
signed a quota of 50 pounds.
.From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There Is
little local interest whether
March gges out like a lion or ala
lamb. The better pessimists fear
the month will not make it at
all.
20 YEARS AGO
March 28. 1937 (Sunday)
Southern Oregon residents are
irjyited to inspect CCC camps in
this vicinity as part of the n
tional fourth anniversary cele
bration of the civilian conserva
tion corps Sunday.
Capt. Lee Bown has an
nounced the acceptance of Har
old F. Stromquist of Roseburg
for a position with the Oregon
State police.
30 YEARS AGO
March 28. 1927 (Monday)
Medford residents will vote at
a special election May 16 on
proposed bond issue of $60,000
to erect a city nan to oe useu as
a temporary courthouse.
John H. Oarkin, of the Jack
son county delegation to the
state legislature, speaks at Ki
wanis club meeting.
40 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1917 (Wednesday)
Sixty new members of the
Medford chapter of the National
Red Cross were recruited last
night, according to Alfred Car
penter, chairman.
Automobile owners will par
ticipate in a parade here Satur
day to conclude Patriotic Week.
Uhat's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct Is snpertor: sev
en or eight is excellent; five er
six Ci good.
1. What is the name for mol
ten "rock erupted by a volcano?
The tongue of a woodpeck
er is longer or shorter than the
bird's head?
3. Hair grows more in sum
mer than in winter; true or
ff!e?
. Does hair grow more in
the daytime than at night?
5. Did the U. S. or Continen
tal Government issue a $3 bill?
t. A person who has phobo
phobia has a morbid fear of
what?
7. Champagne contains a max
imum of 14, 18 or 20 per cent
alcohol?
f. An automobile's speedome
ter registers 30,000 miles and
all five f its tires have traveled
th same distance; how far has
ach tire traveled?
8. Vhat is the common term
for pyrotechnics?
10. "Every novel is indebted
!b Home?." Did Bacon or Emer
son tvrite this?
(vers: 1. Lava. 2. Longer.
. Trave. 4. Yes. 5. Continental
Government. 6. Of being afraid.
f. faarteen. 8. Twenty - four
tkoasaasl miles. 9. Fireworks.
II. Saaerson.
Cheer Up "Little David"
According to our special scout in Salem, the
Southern Pacific lobby has been more powerful and
destructive in its operations this year than even he
had anticipated.
This billion-dollar "Goliath" is waging a special
war against Jackson County's "Little David," (State
Senator Phil LowTy) who had the "audacity" and
temerity to introduce Senate Bill 274. The main pur
pose of this bill was, and is, to give the people of
Oregon some control over railroad transportation,
instead of giving the "Friendly S.P." control over
that and the state.
MOT only has the state been flooded by propaganda
against any such action, but there has been no
limit to expense accounts by the wholesale and for
friendly witnesses, dependent and cowed shippers,
and the usual pressures and pleas in the field of
iournalism. All of such time-honored propaganda
tactics, meeting again according to our trustworthy
representative with DISHEARTENING success.
"Disheartening" that is to all those who want.to
see the people of Oregon, particularly Southern Ore
gon from Eugene to the California line, get tne rail
service that the "SP" as a public utility, is under moral
and legal obligation to provide.
W7E DON'T doubt the situation does look dis
T couraging. When anyone tries to tangle with
this transportation and financial colossus, with its
unlimited financial and political resources, he has
a iob on his hands.
But we wouldn't sav the situation is as hopeless
as our special operator at the moment seems to be
lieve.
e e e e
X7"E GRANT the power of propaganda, via mail,
" phone and wire: we are well aware of the
"power of the press," and the surprising number of
up-state newspapers that have fallen for the SP
brand, bait, hook and sinker.
But even so one of the most vocal along this
line, one that sees in the proposed measure an
evil "dictatorship" namely the somewhat excitable
Oregon Journal has the following line in its latest
pro-SP offering, quote :
"There could be no valid objection to a bill giving the
Oregon Utilities commissioner the same regulatory powers
the California Utility commission has."
Well, what are we waiting for?
We can't speak for either Senator Lowry or the
Jackson County delegation, but as far as the Mail
Tribune is concerned that is all this newspaper wants,
or at least from the first, expected.
It was because the Commissioner of Oregon
could NOT do what the Utility commission of Cali
fornia DID, that our fight for a legislative remedy
was started.
It was the California commission, for example,
that FORCED the "Friendly SP" to abandon its an
nounced plan to curtail its passenger service on the
Daylight route to San Francisco, the commission said
"you maintain that service just as it is and tne
mighty SP bowed sadly and MAINTAINED it.
A CCORDING to our information it was the same
California commission which forced the "SP"
to resume a mid-day passenger service to Sacramento
from San Francisco, and also prevented it from aban
doning all passenger service from ban Francisco to
Eureka. In both cases, moreover, orders were given
to improve the service and unless we are mistaken,
the service in one or both cases WAS improved.
What's wrongnvith that?
That is the way it should be where a public util
ity, particularly a powerful monoply, is concerned,
and the public welfare is so directly involved. .
THERE is even a more cheerful factor in the sit
" uation at Salem which we fear our devoted "scoot"
has overlooked, namely and to-wit:
Not only has this mighty proponent of the South
ern Pacific in the field of journalism oked giving in
creased authority to the office of the Public Utility
Commissioner of the state, but the chief counsel of
the Southern Pacific in his testimony before the sen
ate committee emphatically endorsed and approved
the same action.
This endorsement from the official legal repre
sentative of this powerful public utility is now a mat
ter of record.
We can't believe he made it without authorization
from his "boss," or that having done so, he will now
at this late date try to twist and squirm out of it.
CO, WE have advised our special operative in Salem
to cheer up.
With the Southern Pacific thus committed through
its official spokesman, its chief counsel and its most
dedicated proponent in the metropolitan field of
journalism to legislation that would put Oregon on a
par with California in the field of rail transportation
control, what is all the weeping and wailing about?
As far as this paper is concerned, as indicated
above, that is all we wrould expect. We have good
reason to believe that a majority of the people of
this community, as well as in the "trainless" territory
south of Eugene, feel the same way about it.
If there are provisions in the measure, which
would go further than that, and establish what the
Oregon Journal defines as a ruthless anti-railroad
"dictatorship" ok cut it out. No one wants that.
And with that done our "Little David" could be
credited with a noteworthy and historic achievement,
an accomplishment that would be applauded and ap
preciated by all citizens in the state who believe in
a square deal for the people in the field of rail trans
portation. R.W.R.
Soviets Displeased by Current
Developments in Foreign Field
If
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is showing acute
displeasure over developments
in the international situation.
In recent days
the Moscow ra
dio . and Mos
c o w newspa
pers have de
nounced Pres
ide n t Eisen
hower's deci
sion to join the
j " I military com-
t-,L 4 t 1 mittee ox tne
Charles McCane oagnaaa i-aci
against Communist aggression in
the Middle East.
They have denounced the sign
ing in Rome of a new treaty un
der which six European coun
tries agree to form a common
market, free of tariff barriers,
and to pool ther resources for
the development of atomic power
for peaceful purposes.
The decision of the United
States to supply Great Britain
with long-range atomic missiles
has been condemned.
Russia Refusal Again
Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul
ganin, in a letter to West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer, has repeated Russia's re
fusal to discuss the reunifica
tion of Germany on any terms
which might even possibly be
acceptable.
It also has been disclosed that
Bulganin, in a letter to Nor
wegian Premier Einar Gerhard
sen, warned that Norway faces a
catastrophe if it permits the es
tablishment of guided missile
and rocket bases on its territory
under the North Atlantic Treaty.
t Russia's reaction to the de
cision to intensify American co
operation with the members of
the Baghdad Pact was to be ex
pected. Every move the United States
makes in the Middle East lessens
the chance that Russia by in
trigue and subversion will be
able to get a lasting foothold in
that area. .
Increasei West's Unity
The treaty for the common
European market and the atomic
energy pool is bad news for Rus
sia because it increases the unity
of Western European countries
and makes it harder for the big
brains in the Kremlin to stir up
jealousies and rivalries.
The hardened Russian attitude
on German reunification is clear
ly a reflection of the dangerous
situation in the Communist sat
ellite countries. A separate East
German state, completely sub
servient to Russia, is an essential
to the Soviet government and
will be for a long time.
Probably the warning was giv
en to Norway not only because
nuclear weapons bases in Nor
way would be uncomfortably
close to "Russia but because there
seems to be increasing realiza
tion in northernmost Europe of
the danger of Russian aggression.
Trend To Uniformity
Seen in Americans By
Returning Newsman
Editors Note: The writer,
for the past five years United
Press chief correspondent in
Japan and Korea, has return
ed to the United States after
11 years in Asia. In recent
weeks he has traveled in 20
slates, seeing the changes of
the past decade with a fresh
viewpoint.
By RUTHERFORD POATS
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) A couple
of once-common figures are van
ishing from the American scene
the rich and the poor.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, house Repub
licans voted unanimously to seek
a sharp reduction in federal
spending and a tax cut as soon
as practicable.
The vote came after President
Eisenhower told GOP congres
sional leaders that he would wel
come budget cuts provided
they do not hurt the national
welfare.
THAT suggests a question:
Will budget cutting, follow'
ed by tax cutting, hurt the na
tional welfare?
ON THAT POINT, let's listen
to Sen. Harry Byrd of Vir
ginia, chairman of the senate fi
nance committee and over the
long years our country's most
outstanding opponent of heavy
spending.
In an article in the April issue
of the Farm Journal Magazine,
he says the federal debt of the
United States has reached a limit
"beyond which even a country
as great as ours cannot afford to
go."
He adds:
"The United States is mort
gaged to the hilt at this moment
The 275 billion dollar federal
debt equals the full assessed
value of all the land, all the
buildings, all the mines, all the
machinery, all the factories, all
the livestock everything of tan
gible value in the United States.
NOTE, please, that he is refer
ring only to the FEDERAL
debt. He doesn t include the
debts of the states, the cities, the
counties, the school districts and
so on.
Matter of Fact
By Stewart Alsop
WHO'S LEAVING
Washington The current
best guesses on imminent or
fairly imminent departures from
the Eisenhow
er Administra
tion are as fol
lows: Secretary of
Defense
Charles E. Wil
son: definitely
leaving soon.
Secretary of
Commerce Sin
clair Weeks:
f4 I
. J!iet:j
StewaiC Alsop
WHY this huge federal debt?
' The answer is simple.
It is the result of huge federal
spending spending that has
grown out of all proportion to
our growth in resources and population.
Yugoslavia Thrown
Out of Red Fold,
Some Sources Say
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Correspondent
Moscow '!U.R) Yugoslavia has
been practically thrown out of
the Communist fold, informed
sources said today.
This became evident by a se
ries of high level Soviet charges
that Marshal Tito's nation has
given help to Hungarian rebels
and by frequent new denuncia
tions of national Communism.
No one calling himself a
Communist could have taken
such a position," present Hun
garian Premier Janos Kadar de
clared of Yugoslavia Wednesday.
Approving words from Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulganin fol
lowed Kadar's speech, indicated
Yugoslavia now is considered
outsidp the Communist camp.
'What can one say of those
Communists whose assessment
of Hungarian events does not
differ from that of the imperial
ists?" Bulganin s-.id.
Conclusions Drawn
Observers here drew these
conclusions from the statements
by Kadar and Bulganin:
The Kadar regime, whose
work the Kremlin has found
highly satisfactory, is here to
stay and further efforts to
"broaden" the Hungarian gov
ernment will not be made.
Imre Nagy, Kadar's prede
cessor who was b'anded by Bui
ganin Wednesday as guilty of
"black treason" and willful
preparation of counter revolu
tion, may have to pay for his
"crimes."
Earlier Soviet statements on
Nagy have pictured him as a
weak but well intentioned man
who gave in to the demands of
his ant i-Communist advisers.
Foreign observers said Kadar
now might bring the deported
former premier to trial for
treason.
LET'S take a look at the fig
ures on average annual PER
CAPITA federal taxes during
the past 90 years.
During the decade ending in
1876, the average annual U.S.
per capita (per person) tax was
$3.82. That was the decade in
which our country was recover
ing from the Civi War. Per cap
ita U. S. tax declined steadily
until the decade ending in 1896,
when it was only $2.17.
In the decade ending in 1906,
which included the Spanish war,
it rose to $3.06. In the decade
ending in 1916, which included
the beginning of World War I,
it rose to $3.53. In the 1916-1926
decade, which included World
War I and its aftermath, it rose
to $29.84, but in the 1926-1936
decade it DROPPED BALK, to
$20.95.
fFHEN the dam broke.
A In the 1936-1946 dacade the
average per capita U.S. tax rose
to S136.46.
Tn the 1946-1956 decade it
ROSE TO $353.98.
AND
In the year 1956
The average amount paid in
federal taxes by every man.
woman and child in the United
States came to $446.86 S90 up
from the average of the preced
ing 10 years.
AS SENATOR BYRD says,
even a country as great and
rich as ours can't go on increas
ing its spending and its taxing
at a rate like that without
getting into BAD trouble.
Bill Introduced to
Call Convention
Salem U.R Rep. Winton J.
Hunt, Woodburn Republican, in
troduced legislationin the House
today to authorize a constitu
tional convention for July 1961
to revise the Oregon constitu
tion.
Hunt said members of the
convention would be nominated
and elected in 1960 on a non
partisan ballot from the same
districts as state representatives.
The measure would have to
be voted on by the people at the
November 1958 general election.
Also introduced today by the
Committee on Highways was a
resolution providing for appoint
ment of a five-man committee to
select and place a marker on the
coast highway honoring former
Gov. Oswald West and describ
ing his accomplishments.
During his administration.
Gov. West had Oregon beaches
declared public highways to pre
serve access to them by the
public.
1 I've seen hardly a dozen of
either variety of Americans
while traveling recently in 20
states. Their virtual disappear
ance is strikingly evident to an
American returning from a long
stay abroad.
The great American middle
class has replaced the New York
skyline and the Golden Gate as
this fabulous nation's most not
able marvel.
The bloodless revolution has
made suburbanites of average
city workers. It has just put
about everyone in gaudy, expen
sive automobiles with horse
power and gas to burn. It has
made it almost impossible to tell
at a glance a farmer from a
merchant, an executive from a
seaman.
Forests Of Homes
From coast to coast, forests
of $10,000 homes with $30,000
price tags have sprung up on
tiny plots of subdivison land
miles beyond the old city bound
aries. There the middle class
shares the once exclusive ad
dresses of the vanishing wealthy.
And there they struggle, with
paint rollers, power lawn mow
ers, wheeled seed spreaders and
other gadgets to be distinctive
on a street of identical .houses.
The , trend to uniformity in
living standards and in thought
may be faster than realized by
most Americans who have lived
in the midst of the past decade's
changes here,
Far more completely than
anywhere else in the world, tele
vision here is constantly expos
ing practically every home to
the same ideas and the same
vicarious experiences. Its com
mercials produce mass tempta
tions to acquire the same new
material things.
Fewer Disagreements
Americans also seem to be
thinking more alike politically
than they were five or 10 years
ago. Regional disagreements,
even on such issues as racial in
tegration, are no longer as sharp
as foreigners have been led to
believe.
The population is moving
around the country faster, chang
ing jobs and home towns, ex
changing customs and rubbing
the edges off prejudices.
There is an atmosphere here,
unknown anywhere in Asia, that
everybody is in about the same
boat.
Suburban shopping centers
are the biggest new landmarks
The parking lots of several of
them combined could accommo
date all the privately owned au
tomobiles in Japan.
America's preoccupation with
material things seems almost as
intense as its foreign critics
claim. In stores, supermarkets
and discount houses, Americans
appear to be spending at a pace
that once would have been con
sidered "hell bent for the poor-house."
But if the big crash comes,
that poorhouse will be the best
equipped in the world. And all
your neighbors will be there.
probably leaving soon.
Secretary of the Treasury
George Humphrey: a toss-up
whether he will leave after Wil
son leaves.
Secretary of State John Fost
er Dulles: the signs and portents
point both ways, but he will
probably stay through the year.
Secretary Wilson has not flat
ly said publicly or privately that
he is getting out. But everyone
assumes he is. And there is an
old Washington rule that when
everyone assumes an important
official is leaving, he leaves.
Something mysterious happens
to the official's power, position
and prestige which makes it al
most impossible for him to stay.
Speculation now centers, in
fact, not on whether Wilson will
leave, but on who will replace
him. The leading candidate is
thought to be Secretary of the
Air Force Donald Quarles.
Quarles, by accepting without
real resistance the cuts in air
power imposed by Wilson and
Humphrey, has proved himself
a "team player, and thus great
ly improved his standing in the
Eisenhower administration.
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it has often seemed that de
fense policy was being establish
ed in the Treasury building
rather than the Pentagon.
Humphrey has already stayed
two years longer than he had
planned he very nearly got out
in 1955, and was only barely dis
suaded by President Eisenhow
er. He has said frankly that he
has no intention of staying
through the second Eisenhower
term, and he may well take Wil
son's departure as a signal to
take off permanently for the
Georgia plantation he loves,
-see
AS FOR Secretary Dulles, it
was thought at first after
his operation that he would
leave this summer. More recent
ly, it has been generally believed
that he would stay the full
course. A report that Dulles had
asked a legal ruling on what
papers a Secretary of State is
permitted to take with him at
his departure has again caused
a flurry of speculation that his
departure may be rather im
minent. But the wise money
seems to be on his staying at
least juntil 1958.
At any rate, if Wilson, Weeks
and Humphrey leave Washing
ton soon still a big if it will
confirm the slow shift in the
character of the Administration.
For, besides being the three
richest men in the Cabinet, they
are also the most conservative,
and their departure would be a
visible symbol of the Adminis
tration's drift from well to the
right of center to only a little bit
to the right of center.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
YlTLSON is believed to favor
Onnrlpc anH is evnertpH tn
nominate him as his successor
in his official last will and testa
ment. Quarles' chances have
been hurt, however, by the pros
pective elevation of another
team player, Air Force Chief of
Staff Nathan Twining, to be
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
The Army and Navy, already
fuller than usual of smoulder
ing resentment against the Air
Force, would howl blue murder
if the top civilian and military
posts both went to the Air Force.
Other well known names men
tioned as possible Wilson re
placements are Gen. Alfred
Gruenther (since he is a general,
an act of Congress would be re
quired if he were appointed);
Ambassador to the United Na
tions Henry Cabot Lodge (who
is growing understandably rest
ive in his present post); and
former Governor of New York
Thomas E. Dewey.
Less well known names are
also being advanced. One is that
of Neil McElroy, president of
Proctor and Gamble. McElroy is
an able man as well as a staunch
Republican, but he has no first
hand experience of the Penta
gon can of worms. Another dark
horse is Lee White, a former
Assistant Secretary of the Air
Force, who is said to have the
backing of important New York
financial circles.
e
AS FOR Secretary Weeks, he
has been talking for a long
time about getting out, and he
reportedly now sounds as though
he really means it. Particularly
since Secretary of Labor James
Mitchell- defeated hands down
Weeks' bid to control labor pol
icy, the Secretaryship of Com
merce is largely ornamental any
way. Secretary of Treasury Hum
phrey's job is anything but orna
mental. Since he kicked off the
drive against the Eisenhower
budget with his famous "curl
your Tiair" statement he is in
a fair way to have his own way
about the Eisenhower program,
as it eventually emerges from
Congress. But that fact that he
did not have his way in the first
place suggests that he is not
quite as powerful within the
Administration as he once was.
He has already lost a very
important ally with the depart
ure of Under Secretary of State
Herbert Hoover Jr., but when
Humphrey's old friend Wilson
leaves, Humphrey will lose one
of the key sources of his power
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Tough on the Mailman
To the Editor: Ever since I re
ceived my regular "career car
ries" appointment at the local
post office I have been working
part time at Fortune Stations
here in an effort to make ends
meet. I had hopes that some day
we would catch up, and be able
to live decently on my postal
pay.
It's easy to see, however, that
regardless of when (if ever we
do get caught up) I'll never re
ceive enough pay from the pos
tal department unless the raise
we are asking for us is allowed.
We of the postal service find it
practically impossible to save
any money for use in case of
emergencies.
Hospitals, doctors, garage re
pairmen, plumbers, electricians,
etc., do not take into considera
tion that the postal employee is
underpaid. Their charges to him
are as high as they would be to
any one else. It isn't fair that
he should not be as well able to
pay for such services as any one
else. The fact is the very neces
sities of life in these times are
fast rising out of reach.
Yes, his credit is good he
works for the government! He
can be trusted to pay his bills
if it takes the rest of his life!
And at the present rate of postal
pay it probably will.
, We, too, would like to share
in this "great prosperity of
ours." We would enjoy joining
the ranks of those lucky people
who "never had it so good" for
believe me, we don't.
Write your congressmen
urge them to pass S-27 and S-21
or HR-2474 and HR-607 for ade
quate raise in postal pay and
annuities.
Thank you.
S. J. Dodge .
504 Austin st.
Medford, Ore.
PEDESTRIAN KILLED
Vancouver, Wash. (U.R)
Charles Asikainen, 78, Vancou
ver, died here last night of in
juries suffered earlier yesterday
when struck by a car near his
home.
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