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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
April 10. 1947 (Thursday)
Edward Branchfield installed
new commander of the Jackson
county chapter of the Disabled
American Veterans.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smgidge Pot columun: The lead
ing GOP senators are now fight
ing like Democral-s over aid to
Turkey and Greece. The com
batants should get worked up
over something closer to home.
20 YEARS AGO
April 10. 1937 (Saturday)
Plans for the coordination of
forest fire fighting personnel,
equipment and supplies are
made at conference at Prescott
CCC camp.
"Be kind to animal" week
starts Monday, according to the
Southern Oregon Humane so
ciety. 30 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1927 (Sunday)
Between 400 to 500 men are
now employed by the California
Oregon Power company to con
struct Prospect diversion dam.
Roy C. Lyle, federal prohibi
tion agent for the Oregon dis
trict, in Medford on tour of in
spection. -
40 YEARS AGO
April 10. 1917 (Tuesday)
Medford selected as mobiliza
tion headquarters for the south
ern sector of the Oregon Nation
al Guard.
Mayor Gates calls meeting to
take steps toward organizing a
home guard.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is snperlor; sev
en er eight ts excellent: five or
six ts good.
1. A roentgen is the standard
unit of r n?
2. What is the basic commod
ity used in the manufacture of
rum?
3. Bible: "And there was a
man of mount Ephraim, whose
name was, Micah." Is this from
the Book of I Kings or Judges?
4. Walter P. Reuther is a labor
leader of what CIO union?
5. Is a flounder a frog, fish,
or tadpole?
6. On what Mediterranean is
land was Napoleon Bonaparte
first exiled?
7. From which island in the
West Indies does the U. S. im
port the largest quantities of
sugar? ,
8. How many dozens are in a
great gross?
9. In a business letter should
the phrase "would say" be
avoided?
10. '"No man is a hero to his
valet." Did a man or woman
write this?
Answers: 1. Radiation; 2. Mo
lasses; 3. Judges; 4. United Au
tomobile Workers; 5. Fish; 6.
Elba; 7. Cuba; 8. 144; 9. Yes; 10.
Woman. Madame Cornuel (d.
. 1604).
Hunger-Crazed Dogs
Attack Child in Japan
Tokyo UR) Hunger-crazed
dogs attacked and killed seven-year-old
primary student Yaeko
Yamatani Tuesday while she
was playing in the back yard of
her home in" Wakkanai on Ja
pan's northern island of Hokkai
do. Two other children were
bitten Monday.
Police said about 60 stray
dogs were chased out of the city
in a recent drive to rid Wakka
nai of stray animals. They are
roaming the nearby hills.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Letter From MacLaren
One of the most poignant documents we have seen
in a long time was printed in the Roseburg News Re
view the other day.
It was a letter written to the paper by a 14-year-old
boy a few months after he had been sent to MacLaren
School for Boys at Woodbum, the state's "training
school" or "reformatory" although these words are
no longer in vogue. '
Editor Charles Stanton vouches for the authentic
ity of the letter, and describes the boy as being above
average in intelligence who made excellent grades in
school when he would go.
TT NEEDS no further comment, except to voice the
wish without any high expectations that every
youngster would read it, and think.
The letter follows, in full :
This is written for the benefit of the friends I had and
ran around with, those who think it is smart to jeopardize
; their freedom by breaking the law just to be one of the
boys. It is those misinformed young men whom I shall try
to reach through the words I am writing out of my own
experiences.
I am what is known as a juvenile delinquent. I started at
an early age by stealing little things. It became a thrilling
experience just to steal what amounted to a trifle, but that
eventually put me behind the doors of a reformatory where
I am now. Each time I would take something with it. Then
the inevitable happened I was caught and sent to MacLar
en. The enormity of the situation finally hit me right in the
face. Here I am a smart boy, 14 years old, and for the rest
of my life I shall have to bear the stigma of being an ex
delinquent. When I was on the outside I had little respect for other
people or their possessions because I thought and thorough
ly believed that I could outsmart and beat the law enforce
ment agencies of my community. However, I finally found
out that it does not pay to do wrong and try to get away
with it. If you get away with the things I did you may even
tually wind up with a gun in your hand and then it is too
late to be helped as I am being helped now.
I have been at MacLaren two months now, but it seems
like an eternity; especially when I consider the fact that a
lot of .young fellows like myself are out in the free world
having a wonderful time and making something out of their
lives. It is hard for a young boy to realize how foolish he is
being, but once he faces the truth, he begins to realize that
it is not a joke. When I might be out there with my friends
having a good time, I know that all I have accomplished is
to make a fool of myself. The lesson I have learned in the
School for Boys at MacLaren is a clear one and shall serve
to keep me from being so foolish again.
If you other boys, who have not experienced the trading
of freedom at home for confinement in a reformatory,
haven't started down the road which can only lead to the
wrong goal; then it is time to stop and consider. The out
come of everything you do when you are young will count
in your future. If you think it is easy to beat the law, re
member if there isn't room in MacLaren, they will make
room for you. It is as easy to obey the law as to break it.
E.A.
Cooperation
There is a governmental organization which has
an imposing title, and about which too little is gener
ally known. It is called the Western Interstate Com
mission for Higher Education.
It may be better-known in Medford than in some
other places, for its present chairman is Frank J. Van
Dyke of Medford, who heads the organization, after
a distinguished career including service in the legisla
ture (one term as speaker of the house), and on the
state board of higher education.
.
IN THE briefest possible terms, the commission is an
organization set up 'by the 10 western states and
Alaska to provide for cooperation among them in fa
cilitating higher education in specialized fields.
For instance, Oregon has no school of veterinary
medicine. Rather than set up such a school, at a veiy
considerable cost, the commission is called in and ar
ranges for Oregon students to study veterinary medi
cine at, perhaps, Washington State college, at a cost
comparable to what it would be if an Oregon school
were in operation."
Nursing training and dental training are available
in Oregon ; they are not in some of the other western
states. Their nursing and dental students attend the
Oregon schools on much the same tuition and admis
sion basis as if they did not have, to leave their home
state for their training.
.
THE commission has gone about its business quietly
and with little fanfare. But it has made a signifi
cant contribution to cooperation and efficiency in
making special educational facilities available to all
qualified students in the west, at considerable sayings
to the individual states involved.
As a result, it has taken one big step forward.
There are, as we see it, others which can be taken.
There is, for instance, a role similar to that of the
Richmond Area University Center, operated cooper
atively by 12 colleges, universities and seminaries in
Virginia.
They have set up a fund from which come research
grants; joint professorships for distinguished men
who a single institution could not afford ; visiting lec
tureships; publication facilities for articles by faculty
members. It has arranged intercampus conferences in
special fields, compiled a catalogue of all periodicals
in the members' libraries, and set up a joint program
of adult education which has enrolled some 7,000
persons.
THE plan is flexible. Not all members have to par
ticipate in all programs of the Center. But they
have found it to be of incalculable benefit to each.
George Modlin, president of the University of
Richmond, reported "For- every dollar we put in, we
have received at least two or three dollars worth of
benefit."
Before the "flood" of university students of the
1960s, the so-called war-babies, hits, the campuses,
consideration for development of a similar role for
the interstate commission might wrell benefit higher
education in the west. E. A.
Wednesday, April 10, 1957
Allied Restrictions on
With Red China Due for Easing
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent .
It is practically certain that
Allied restrictions against trade
with Communist China will be
relaxed mater
ially before too
long.
Great Brit
ain, West Ger
many, France,
Japan and oth
er countries
are determin
ed to ease up
the embargo
Charles M. McCsuun against trade
which has been imposed since
the Chinese Reds entered the
Korean Wtr in 1950.
The United States is against
any relaxation. The Eisenhower
administration expresses deter
mination to maintain the United
States blanket embargo on Red
China trade.
But other Allied countries are
unwilling to maintain the pres
ent restrictions on their trade.
They need the money and they
want to get into what is poten
tially one of the richest of world
markets.
What ..will happen in United
States policy if the trade of
other Allied countries with Red
China becomes important re
mains to be seen.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
sation Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
Another Octopus Sighted
To the Editor: We note that a
Mr. Holmes covered our present
money matters in a very good
way. However it would be well
for him to go back a little fur
ther in history and advise that
this Federal system was brought
over from Germany by Felix
Warburg, that he brought two
in the Wilson Congress Glass
and one other and O.K.'d by
Mandle House, the real power
behind Woodrow Wilson, and
fastened this Octopus to our
Nation. Since it has grown, and
been able with the help of sub
sequent spineless Congresses, to
ditch, drain and damn both our
country and our sacred Consti
tution. .Frank K. Haskell
P.O. Box 1012
Salem, Oregon
The Horseless Carriage Age .
To the Editor: We received
a newspaper clipping taken from
The Beloit, (Kansas) Daily Call,
announcing the antique auto
auction of the Bob Theirolf's an
cient car collection for April 12
and 13. Three auctioneers will
call the sale of 82 ancient ve
hicles on Highway U.S. 24. The
old models range from a 1903
Cadillac, motor No. 186, first car
ever sold in Beloit.
Why, we have a faint recol
lection of one. It was a home
made runabout designed by a
Mr. George B.:ough, blacksmith,
around the late nineties and was
12 years in piece-by-piece as
sembly. ,Mr. Brough used the
chain-driven model to carry the
R.F.D. mail on route No. 2 at
Randall, Kans., before we came
west around 1911. You could
hear the exhaust of the twin
engine motor a mile away.
Mr. Theirolf started his col
lection in 1933, and has attract
ed tourists from California to
the Atlantic coast for a ride in
one of his horseless carriages.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford, Ore.
Nothing New Under the Sun
To the Editor: Along with
locai, national and world wor
ries, here comes the first black
ening smudge of the season. But
the sun is breaking through and
driving it away, with birds lift
ing gladsome voices to the
burgeoning springtime. It seems
to be a definite quirk of human
nature to climb hills that just
ain't there. The . following writ
ing tends to prove as follows:
"It isa gloomy moment in his:
tory. Not in the lifetime of any
man who reads his paper has
there been so much grave and
deep apprehension; never has
the future seemed so dark and
incalculable.
"In France the political cal
dron seeths and bubbles with
uncertainty. England and the
British empire are being sorely
tried and exhausted in a social,
and economic struggle, with tur
moil at home and uprising oCl
her teeming millions in her far-
off Indian empire.
"The United States is beset
with racial, industrial and comt
mercial chaos drifting, we
know not where. j
"Russia hangs like a storro
cloud on the horizon of Europie
dark and silent.
"It is a solemn moment, and
no man can feel indifferenot,
which happily no man pretenc's
to feel in the issue of events.
Of our own troubles, no ma
can see the end."
Sounds pretty awful, what?
Well, it so happens it was pub
lished 110 years ago, 1847, In
Harper's magazine. Borrowed
from Beaumont (Texas) Journal.
F. J. Clifford, i
1211 West Main st.,
'Medford, Ore.
I T 1
But theire is likely to be in
creasing pressure on the gov
ernment from the big manufac
turers to 'Base American restric
tions. Britain, Giermany Eager
Britain and Germany, for in
stance, w tnt to build up a big
export tntde in motor cars and
tractors with Communist China.
Some American manufactur
ers like Iord and Chrysler are
on record as favoring increased
trade. Htnry Ford II, speaking
at the antnual convention of the
National Automobile Dealers as
sociation in San Francisco on
Jan. 28, said that trade with
Communist China might be in
the best interests of the United
States. Ifie called for "realistic
decisionsf on trade and aid pol
icies regarding Red-ruled coun
tries. Britain, West Germany, Japan
and Frapce. among other coun
tries, already have relaxed their
trade restrictions to a consider
able extent Britain notified the
United fjtates in May, 1956, that
it intended to increase its trade
with the Chinese" Reds. This
easing included the shipment of
some items which had been
classified as strategic.
British Frime Minister Harold
Macmillan discussed the trade
situatiop with President Eisen
Unhappy Democrats
Talking of Tax Cut
To Get Jump on GOP
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Secre
tary (f the Treasury George M.
Humfihrey is reported to have
heard! some Dutch uncle -talk
from one of the administration's
erstwhile Democratic friends in
Congress.
He was told in effect the ad
ministration has painted itself
into a political corner by its
handling of the federal budget
this :pear. He was also told there
is a 'rery good possibility the re
sult 'pould be passage of a Democratic-sponsored
bill this year to
cut personal income taxes, ef
fective next Jan. 1, despite ad
ministration opposition.
The reasoning behind this line
of thought runs this way:
Pijesident Eisenhower startled
Congress and the country by his
recofd peacetime budget of al
most 72 billion dollars for the
coming fiscal year that . starts
Juliir 1.
Public Demands Cuts
TJhen the President himself in
vited Congress to make cuts be
fore stepping out in recent weeks
as a more vigorous champion of
his ' budget. Meanwhile, Hum
phitey and other administration
spc&esmen also encouraged Con
grciss to shave the budget re
quests. Public demands began to pour
Today and
By Walter
. London A few days in Lon
don have brought home to me
a. gain what it. is so easy to for
get, how much foreign policy is
actually the reflection of do
mestic and internal affairs and
feeling. The objective fact is,
ripo doubt, that the British na
tion is in the early stages of
adjusting itself to that new po
sition in the world which was
dramatized as
necessary by
the Suez disas
ter. But while
there appears
to be few in
Britain who
would deny
that the read
justment is ne
cessary there
is, of course,
; Walter Lippmann
no enthusiasm for it. The Brit
ish are used to living in a large
house, and the prospect of
ssqueezing themselves into a con
siderably smaller one is depress
inff Tt has to he done and it wil
be done, but it is not exhilar
ating.
The changeover is plainly un
der way and the effects are al
ready visible In the budget, in
military planning, and in for
eign policy. But I have an im
pression, though of course it is
only an impression, that neither
of the two parties has yet begun
to talk affirmatively about the
work of the future, neither has
as yet passed the point of think
ing about the future as a time
when much that was glorious
and fascinating will have been
given up.
IT IS evident, it seems to me,
.that the recent past, that the
story of what has happened
since last summer, lies heavily
and painfully, an indigestable
lump, upon the spirits of the
British people. They do not un
derstand what happened. There
is no accepted history of how
Britain came to fall into such
a disaster in the Midle East. Yet
to the whole tangled history
there are attached deep and
acute emotions of patriotism, re
it
Trade
hower at their conference In
Bermuda last month. No agree
ment was reached.
Trade Group To Meet
Now it has been decided that
the 15 countries which belong to
the China Trade Co-Ordinating
Committee shall discuss relaxa
tion at a meeting to be held in
Paris soon Members of this
committee, called 'Chincom," in
clude the United States, Canada,
Japan and 12 Eufopean members
of the North Atlantic Treaty or
ganization. Britain took the initiative in
arranging this meeting. Britain
believes it can export 112 mil
lion dollars worth of goods to
Red China a year.- It especially
wants to develop export of auto
mobiles. The automobiles supposedly
would be strictly for civilian use.
There the question arises of how
anybody cculd keep Chinese
Communist army men from rid
ing in such vehicles if they liked.
One argument which those
who favor increased trade use
including some American ex
porters is that tight restrictions
only serve to make Communist
China almost completely depen
dent on Russia for goods it
needs. The official American
stand is that any relaxation will
aid the Communists.
into the House and Senate mail
boxes for a reduced budget and
lower taxes. The House began
hacking away at appropriations
bills.
Although the Senate has yet to
be heard from, rumbles now are
coming from House Democrats
about the possibility of passing a
tax reduction b!ll before Con
gress quits this summer. This
probably would come in the
form of a measure to raise the
individual income tax exemp
tion for each taxpayer and de
pendent from the present $600
to $700, beginning next Jan. 1.
Tax Reduction Pending?
A tax cut of that amount
would cost the treasury about
$2,500,000,000 in a full year,
although the cost would be less
than half that figure in the fiscal
year beginning July 1. '
There have been hints from
Democratic leaders that they
would like to see the appropria
tions bills trimmed by a total of
more than three billion dollars
with half of the saving going to
debt reduction and the rest to
tax relief.
In these circumstances, it is
presumed a tax reduction bill
would be hard to stop.
The Democrats visualize a Re
publican-sponsored drive for tax
reduction next year and are in
no mood to let the GOP get the
jump on this issue. .
Tomorrow
Lippmann
morse, injured pride and frus
tration. One feels that the British na
tion will not face the future con
fidently and with a whole heart
until it has come to terms with
the history of the Suez affair.
The thing was too big, it aroused
too much passion, to be passed
off easily.
rpHIS work of clarification and
understanding is not being
helped much today by the polit
ical parties. The Macmillan gov
ernment stands by the Suez pol
icy while preferring not to ex
plain it, and hoping that the en
tire affair will be treated as
something which it is best to
forget. The Labor Party is not
of one mind about the Suez af
fair, and it does not speak clear
ly about its causes, with con
sequences, or the- remedies.
It may be expecting too much
that the whole truth could be
told about the Suez affair, and
that by public debate the emo
tion .tension attached to it could
be relieved. The alternative is
to let time work the cure, and
to let the new problems that
arise override the old preoccu
pations. THERE is already some evi
dence that this process has
been begun. Thus it is agreed
among those I have talked with
that, provided the United States
protects the flow of oil from
the Middle East, there will be
little popular regret about the
change in the political positions
of Britain in the Middle East.
It may also be significant that
Lord Salisbury's resignation
does not seem to have divided
the Conservative Party or to
have shaken the government.
Inasmuch as Lord Salisbury
is the great representative of the
old British position in the world,
the way his resignation has been
received would seem to prove
that the country has just about
accepted the change in Britain's
position.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Last week the House Interior
committee approved, with the
amendments, the Senate bill to
slow up the end of government
supervision over the Klamath
Indians. The action came after
the committee had voted to in
clude in its report on the bill a
"strong censure" of the manage
ment specialists who are now
studying the. termination pro
cedures. The "censure" request , was
made by Representative Berry
of South Dakota, who accused
the specialists of having "drag
ged their feet" on the termina
tion program. He was permitted
by the committee to file a minor
ity report on the bill which,
he charged, appears to be spon
sored "more by non-Indians than
by the Indians.
Berry was joined in his
"feet-dragging" charge by Rep
resentative Haley of Florida,
who said he noted that the spe
cialists "will continue to draw
their $1,000 per month each
throughout this extension of
time."
SO MUCH for the opinions of
these Eastern Congressmen
who intimate that .the Kla
math- management specialists
have betrayed their trust and
are seeking to rob the Klamath
Indians for the benefit of the
whites.
Let's take a look now at the
FACTS.
PUBLIC Law 578 (the Klamath
termination bill) was enacted
bv Coneress in the iam-packed
days just preceding final ad
journment in an election year.
It included this section:
In order to pay off the mem
bers of the tribe who wanted
their share in cash, it provided
for sale to the highest bidder
of enough of the tribal property
to produce the amount or money
needed. It soon became evident
that the money needed for this
purpose would run far into the
millions because of the proba
bility that a large number of
the members of the tribe would
want their share in cash.
WHAT did this mean?
It meant this:
One of the finest stands of
Ponderosa pine timber remain
ing in the West would have to
he thrown on the market at fire
sale prices. The result of that
would be:
1. The timber would SELL
McCarthys Trade
White House Snubs
With Eisenhowers
Washington (U.P.) Sen. arid
Mrs. Joseph R. McCarthy have
traded snubs with the White
House in their running social
feud with President and Mrs.
Eisenhower.
In return for the social snub
the Eisenhowers dealt the Mc
Carthys last month when they
dropped their names from the
guest list for a White House con
gressional reception, Mrs. Mc
Carthy failed to appear or even
answer an invitation in advance
to the First Lady's annual lunch
for Senate wives Tuesday.
There was some conflict over
just how the invitation was ex
tended in the first place.
Relayed Invitation
Mrs. McCarthy said she only
got a relayed oral invitation a
few days ago. The White House
said she got a formal engraved
invitation March 15 "like all the
other wives."
But that apparently is a small
detail.
"Even if I had received an in
vitation I wouldn't have gone
because if they didn't invite my
husband - because of his fight
against Communism, I would
hardly accept," Mrs. McCarthy,
told reporters. ? .
Mrs. McCarthy said the invi
tation came only by phone to her
husband's office Friday. She said
the office had been unable to
reach her about it until about '1
p.m. Tuesday just when the
lunch began in the festively-decorated
state dining room.
About one-third of the zinc
needed for U. S. arms during
WorlH War II came from the
mines located in the Missouri-
Kansas-Oklahoma fields.
A Major
Event
One of the three rnajor events
in most everyone's life is mar
riage. To make the ceremony
more lovely, more beautiful,
outstandingly complete and
C. M. Lirwiller
free from cares and work, arrange now to have that wedding amidst
growing palms, hear a trickling waterfall ... in the home-like atmos
phere found only at Litwiller's.
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
JENKINS
CHEAP on a glutted market,
thus robbing the Indian owners.
2. It would be sold in rela
tively small tracts that would
be cut out on a boom and bust
basis that would wreck the long
term timber economy of the
Klamath Basin.
WE COME now to the manage
ment specialists, whose job
was to carry out the provisions
of Public Law 578.
After their apointment, they
devoted months of painstaking
study to the law. Being sound
business men and good citizens,
they came eventually vto the con
clusion that if the law was put
into effect as enacted it would
rob the Indian owners and ser
iously upset the economy of the
adjacent area.
THEY refused to sign the con-'
tract binding them to admin
ister Public Law 587' unless
they were permitted to submit
amendments to make the law
fairer to the Indian owners.
The specialists contract was
changed to make this possible,
and the purpose of the stop-gap
bill now before the Congress is
to extend the time for the end
ing of government supervision
over the Klamath Indians so
that Public Law 587 may be
amended to make it fairer to the
Indians and less destructive to
the economy of the area in
which the Klamath reservation
is located. '
THAT is the situation as or
Ttnw
If any censure is due, I think
anv fair-minded rjerson will
agree that it should be directed
toward these Congressmen from
Smith Dakota and Florida who
obviously have little knowledge
of what they are talking about.
Editorial
Comment
CAUSE CELEBRE
The Medford Mail Tribune
chides the "one-party .press" of
Oregon for failing to give plau
dits to Congressman . Charles
Porter for his work toward
clearing up the death of Gerald
Murphy which included Porter's
direct attribution of the crime to
the Trujillo regime in the Dom
inican Republic. This paper has
commented on Porter's diligence
in pursuing this case. He has
basis for greater activity than
other congressmen because Mur
phy's parents live in Eugene, in
Porter's Fourth District. Porter
has made numerous speeches in
Congress or. this case, attacking
Dictator Rafael Trujillo direct
ly. He has prodded the state de
partment. His agitation helped
stir Life magazine to doing a
feature article which traced Mur
phy as pilot of the plane which
removed a presumed victim of
Trujillo's fury from New York
to the Dominican Republic. To
cover this lip, Murphy himself
was pushed off a high cliff.
Porter does deserve commen
dation for his drive to clear up
a grave international mystery.
That it is a case which he de
lights biting into and making it
a cause celebre is not to his dis
credit. In fact it looks as though
Porter is succeeding building
it into 'a cause celebre.
Oregon Statesman. Salem
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