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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 15, 1947 (Tuesday)
A group for teenage young
people organized by the' Degree
of Honor Protection association
of Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: All the
younger set downtown Tuesday
with their folks, were armed
with ice cream' cones, or de
manding one.
20 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1937 (Thursday)
Medford attorney George M.
Roberts named by Oregon State
Bar association as Jackson coun
ty representative on the inde
pendent judiciary committee to
inform public on Roosevelt su
preme court packing plan.
A. H. Banwell' installed com
mander of Medford barracks of
Disabled American Veterans.
30 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1927 (Friday)
Representatives of Medford,
Talent, Eagle Point, Gold Hill
and Grants Pass irrigation dis
tricts meet at Medford hotel.
Police Chief McCredie warns
dog owners the pets may be
confined if "they are not kept
on a leash during the summer.
40 YEARS AGO
April 15. 1917 (Sunday)
Prof. A. L. Peck, head of the
landscape gardening department
of the Oregon Agricultural col
lege, to visit Medford.
Oregon leads all states this
side of the Rocky Mountains in
the number of recruits obtained
for Ns tfavy, according to Quar
termastec Norstrum of the
IWtft-& Navy recuiting office.
Iftal's Your I.Q.?
C$tae -ay ten correct Is superior; sev
en ( eight U excellent; five or
apod.
1. 'Jfae the importation of Ne
gro 4&Tes into the U.S. made
untefi before 1800?
t. "Vhich island is called
"Queen trf the Antilles"?
3. 'And Sarah bega" whom?
4. Are there more than 60
counties in Pennsylvania?
5. What is the official bird
of Pennsylvania?
6. Who was left in command
of U. S. forces in the European
theater when General Eisenhow
er returned to the U. S. after
World War II?
7. The Chindwin river is in
Alaska; true or false?
8. Republican Senator Bridges
represents which State in the
U. S. Senate?
9. "Done" being the past par
ticiple of "to do" must have an
auxiliary. Is it proper to say
"He done the work"?
10. "They are manifest asses,
but . . . are a horse of another
c r."
Answers: 1. No. 180; 2. Cuba;
3. Isaac. 4. Yes, 67. 5. Ruffed
grouse; 6. General George S.
Patton, Jr.; 7. False. It is in
Burma; 8. New Hampshire; 9.
No. "He did the work;'; 10.
Colo;.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Statement of Rights
A week ago, Miss Noreen Kelly, Medford's mu
nicipal judge, started issuing a statement to defend
ants in her court, setting forth in detail their rights
and privileges.
This is an important step toward raising the stature
and dignity of municipal court to the level it should
command. This city has long been fortunate in the
caliber of those who served as municipal judge. The
physical surroundings of the court have been im
proved. The statement of rights adds to this progress.
Too frequently, to a defendant, the arresting of
ficer and the municipal judge "are" the city. How
they conduct themselves and how they treat the ac
cused creates a lasting impression. It can and should
be one of fairness and even-handed justice.
see
TN SOME jurisdictions, the lower courts are too much
like "kangaroo" courts, with no effort made to pre
serve the dignity and the rights of the individual ac
cused. Little if any effort is made to remind the de
fendant that he has any rights at all let alone the
rights spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, which are
as valid in a municipal court as they are anywhere
else, and which are possibly more important there
than in higher courts.
In the statement of rights handed to defendants
in the Medford court, they are reminded they have
a right to counsel, that they have a right to enter a
plea of innocent, a right to bail, the right to decide
whether or not to testify in their own defense, the
right to face their accusers, and to question them, and,
in many cases, the right to appeal.
TT IS WELL for us to be reminded, from time to
that these rights, which we take so casually for
granted today, are the product of the centuries-old
struggle for liberty, for freedom, for the dignity of
the individual. They were a matter of life and death,
once. They could be again if they are ever allowed to
go by default.
The thing which is sometimes difficult to remem
ber is, that while these rights frequently are exercised
by people who are held in low regard, they apply
equally to all to you and to me if we ever find our-,
selves in such a position.
That is what "equality before the law" means.
E.A.
Dangerous State
Here is a question for the philosophers: Why do
married people; on the average, live longer than those
who are unmarried? 1
They do, according to the statisticians of one of
the big life insurance companies. Death rate among
men in the 20 to 44 year group is about half that of
their bachelor brothers. Married women in the same
age group, too, live longer than the unmarried ones,
although the difference is not so marked.
Unmarried men have a tuberculosis death-rate
four times as high as married men, and there is a simi
lar disparity in influenza, pneumonia, accidental and
suicide deaths.
1E presume the answer to be a relatively simple
' one, such as the theory that wives take greater
pains to see that their husbands are better fed, clothed
and rested than single men take for themselves.
This is undoubtedly true, on the average. But we
suspect that another factor enters in, in this tension
worried age. And that is that marriage a successful
one, that is is a stabilizing factor of no small im
portance. At the very least, a husband can get rid of
his built-up worries in the evening by "taking it but
on the little woman."
So, unmarried men can add to their worries about
smoking and drinking too much, and not getting
enough sleep, and eating improperly, the fact that
they are also in a dangerous state unmarried. E.A.
Quakes and Buildings
The punch-line of a TV comic, "You can't hardly
get that kind no more," doesn't apply to everything.
Buildings, for one thing. They ARE being built
somewhat better these days than they used to be.
This thought occurred to us as the result of the San
Francisco earthquake last month. While the quake
wasn't as. strong as the famous one of 1906, it was
stong enough to shake things up considerably, and if
the Bay City had not been rebuilt to much higher and
much stricter standards than before, the results might
have been terrible.
IN 1906, the major portion of the city's destruction
was wrought by fire, rather than by the quake
itself. But the temblor's damage was vast and awe
some. In contrast, the buildings of 1957 resisted it,
mostly. They swayed and vibrated with shock, but re
mained whole. Even the Golden Gate bridge, which
was attacked as being vulnerable to earthquakes in
the days when it was first proposed, though it swung
and tossed, came through with little damage.
Earthquakes bless the mark ! are rare in south
ern Oregon, but they do occur. And we are on the
fringe of the famous Pacific earthquake belt. Which
is another good argument for the establishment and
enforcement of proper building codes. E.A.
Monday, April 13. 1957
'Right about wzize
Today and
By Walter
ITALIAN NOTES
Rome Returning to Rome,
where I have not been for over
three years, I have been struck
bj how mucn
less dramatic
and momen
tous is the at-
m o s p here of
public life. Al-
w a y s before
this there has
been great
anxiety in
which, it was
Walter Uppmann felt that Italy
was one of the main theaters
of the cold war. The times have
changed. Though there is in fact
a parliamentary crisis which
may have important conse
quences, there is nothing like
the tension of the posVwar
years.
The overall reason for this
change is, I suppose, that Italy,
like the rest of Europe, has out
lived the post-war period, and
with it the memories, the fears,
and the preoccupations of the
generation which participated in
the war. But there are also
more specific reasons why the
moral atmosphere has changed
so much.
Editorial
Comment
PARK PROGRAM GROWS
Douglas County's unique park
program continues to grow. Su
pervisor Charles S. Collins re
ported at the Roseburg Cham
ber of Commerce forum lunch
eon last Monday that the coun
ty now owns a combined park
area of 393 acres divided into
25 sites. '
Except for Salmon Harbor,
the sensational sports fishery at
the mouth of the Umpqua river,
the county has incurred a very
modest investment. Nearly all
of its sites have been either do
nated or purchased for much
less than actual value.
Now six years old, the Coun
ty Parks Department was form
ed to obtain park and picnic
spots in advance of need. The
work was started when it was
seen that the county's rapid
growth in population was about
to absorb a number of spots def
initely suited for recreational
purposes.
Only a very limited sum has
been spent on improvements. To
date the major part of the
money made available to the
department has been used in
obtaining land. It is my opinion
that the county should continue
its acquisition program for the
immediate future. Much more
land win be needed to meet re
quirements of growth in com
ing years. We can keep im
provement and development of
park sites limited to bare nec
essity in favor of acquisition for
a few more years, with the pros
pect that we will then have
more suitable recreational facil
ities to meet the needs of a pop
ulation considerably larger than
at present.
The county should not go out
on a spending spree to buy
park sites, in my opinion, but
should continue to seek out par
ticularly desirable sites and ob
tain , them if possible througn
donation, as a nurnber of sites
have been procured, or through
prices well within actual value.
Our program is one in which
every resident of the county
can take deserved pride. It ;.s
a program that has been hand
led most economically. It is a
program managed very effic
iently by a dedicated board. The
cost has been exceedingly light
in comparison with benefits re
ceived. In fact, in the case of
Salmon Harbor, the investment
has paid off handsomely. Rose
burg News-Review.
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Lippmann
One is, most obviously, the
impressive success of the Italian
reconstruction and ."evival. Italy
has been greatly assisted by
American foreign aid. But what
the Italians are doing themselves
is the reason why the foreign
aid, which after all has been
only marginal, has been sosuc
cessfully used. I- do not believe
there is any country in which
there is a greater buoyancy and
such confidence in dealing with
affairs.
rPHE booming economic revival
undoubtedly goes far to ex
plain the lowered tension of
Italian political life. Other de
velopments have contributed to
it.
The death, and then the ex
posure of Stalin's abnormality,
followed by what happened in
Poland and in Hungary, have
had a profound effect on the
Communist Party. They have
not destroyed it as a revolu
tionary party of the left. But
they have gone far to destroy
it as an instrument of Soviet
foreign policy.
This is manifested in the rift,
which is not however a divorce,
between the Communists under
Togliatti and the fellow travel
ing Socialists under Nenni. The
rift is not so wide but that the
left Socialists and the Commu
nists are still cooperating in lo
cal Italian affairs. But it is wide
enough so that in the field- of
high policy including foreign
affairs, Nenni and Togliatti no
longer form a solid bloc.
I have been told by those
who ought to know that the
Nenni Socialists are not likely
to divorce the Togliatti Commu
nists, and then to remarry the
right-wing Socialists led by Sa
ragat who are now part of the
government coalition. One man,
who has been in the midst of
it all, told me that Nenni would
never break . wholly with the
Communists because he . is too
old for the battle and is afraid
to face the vengeance of the
Communists.
THERE is a parliamentary cri
sis which will have to be re
solved after the deputies return
in May from their Easter holi
days. The present government
is a coalition, of -which the pre
dominant and central part is
made up of the Christian Demo
crats. Although the Christian
Democrats are the largest party,
they do not command a ma
jority. Only in coalition with
two much smaller parties, the
right-wing Social Democrats and
the Liberals, can they form an
effective government.
The present crisis is, I am
told, due at bottom to the fact
that there are to be elections
next year. The party leaders
are maneuvering for position.
This raises the question of
whether the existing coalition
is to stand together or is to fall
apart. 1
IF THE existing coalition falls
apart, the chances are that no
government can be formed
which has a majority in the
Parliament. In that event, pre
sumably, the Christian Demo
crats, being the largest of the
minorities, would form a gov
ernment, and would then carry
on precariously, leaning now to
the right and now to the left.
The worst of this might be,
it is said, to draw the issue
sharply between the Christian
Democrats and the Communists.
The result might be to squeeze
The John Lee Will-Year 1716
GEO. N. TAYLOR
The old John Lee home, now cared for
by the Connecticut Historical Society,
harks back to the day when America put
God first. Herewith the will of John Lee,
who built the house. In part, his will said
"Fear God; keep his Commandments; up
hold public worship. Pray twice daily AND
all your lives. Delight in secret prayer.
May the young folks with families, pray
mornings and evenings. Also at mealtime
Choose death rather than deny Christ."
The John Lee will 1716. Independence
Day July 4th, 1776. New birth Today. r
Believe in Christ as dying for your sins
and God gives you new birth into eternal
life. Right now.
Signs Point to Big Economic
Upheaval Throughout Russia
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is undergoing
an economic upheaval.
It appears to be one of the
biggest in the 40 years since the
rev olution of
1917.
The extent of
the upheaval
has been dis
closed in a se
ries of an-
A noun cement
in the last few
weeks.
What it all
Charles HcCann adds up to IS
that the Soviet government,
while it continues its program
of subversion all over the world
and now is threatening allied
countries with destruction by
nuclear weapons, is in trouble
at home.
It was announced in January
that Russian production for
1956, under the current five
year plan of industrial develop
ment, had fallen behind its goals
in some important fields, includ
ing steel.
As a result, it was necessary
to cut back the goals for 1957.
On March 30, Communist
party leader Nikita S. Khrush
chev announced a revolutionary
plan for decentralization of con
trol of industries.
Bond Redemption Postponed
Last week Khrushchev an
nounced the government would
postpone for up to 40 years the
redemption of bonds to which
all Russian workers are com
pelled to subscribe.
It is significant that most of
these developments have been
announced by Khrushchev, the
Communist leader, and not by
the Soviet government, though
they all concern the government-
rather than the Commu
nist party.
This has caused a revival of
the speculation current several
months ago that Khrushchev
may assume the prime ministry
in place of Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin.
If he did, Bulganin probably
would be given the figurehead
post of president now held by
Kliment E. Voroshilov, who at
76 is ready to retire.
Khrushchev seems to be tak
ing all the major responsibility
for, changes which will affect
tens of millions of Russians.
The cutback 'in the rate of in
dustrial expansion wfcs an ad
mission that goals had been set
too high.
Ruble Rate Unrealistic
The recent announcement
that foreigners in Russia could
get 10 rubles for $1 instead of
the official four to the $1, was
a tacit admission that the offi
r AT j
U.P. Correspondents
Eve Future Headlines
United Press correspond
ents around the world look
ahead at the news that will
make the headlines.
Rackets
A lot of Republicans in Wash
ington hope the. Senate Rackets
Committee wiU move on to un
ions and union leaders identi
fied with the Democrats. So far
the committee's major target has
been Dave Beck and his Team
sters Union. Beck is an Eisen
hower supporter, though some
others in the Teamsters high
command have supported Demo
crats. The Carpenters Union, in
volved in the committee's spade
work, often has backed the GOP.
Air Battle.
' A congressional battle is in
prospect over President Eisen
hower's proposed board to mod
ernize the skyways to increase
air travel safety by working
out a system of traffic control.
Some iawmakers say that a
board composed of Defense and
Commerce Department repre
sentatives, plus an independent
chairman, would magnify, not
solve differences between mili
tary and civil aviation officials
over use of air space.
Beneath the Surface
Don't laugh off the stories
from London of revived interest
in a tunnel under the English
channel between England and
France. The plan for a channel
tunnel has been kicking around
out the smaller individual par
ties of the right and of the left
which, whatever else one may
think of them, do so much to
keep the issues conveniently
blunted and blurred, and thus
within moderate limits.
Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
cial rate is unrealistic,
The plan for decentralization
of industrial control was an ad
mission that the Soviet bureau
cratic system is inefficient and
must be altered radically.
Under this plan, many of the
so-called industrial ministries
in the cabinet are to be abol
ished. Central control will still be
exercised from Moscow. But ex
ecutive control is to be centered
Matter of Fact
"SHOUT, NOT SHOOT"
Gaza Out through the sub
urbs of Gaza town, heavy by
night with the conflicting scent
of blossoming
lemon trees
and the odor
of open Arab
plumbing, the
jeep bounces
over the rough
road to the
border of the
Gaza Strip.
The border
Joseph Alsop
is not far; in-
deed, the lights of an Israeli kib
butz, brilliant as diamonds
against the night's black vel
vet, seem near enough to come
from one of Gaza's suburbs.
Five minutes of bouncing and
the jeep is being parked among
the headquarters tents of the
Danor Battalion the outfit
which the Danes and Norwegians
have joinUy contributed to the
United Nations force in Egypt.
In the officers' mess, the Arab
cook somewhat eccentrically of
fers rice-pudding instead of
smorgasbord. But the schnapps
is excellent, and the genial, hard
headed Scandinavian talk of the
startlingly blond men around the
table makes the meal an agree
able interlude.
"What are we here for?" they
ask themselves wryly.
One of the younger officers
replies succinctly: "To be Nas
ser's border guard." And Maj.
Sigurd Wiik, the deputy bat
talion commander, mildly re
bukes this cynicism.
WHEN dinner is over, the jeep
bounces onward, now over
mere tracks through wheat fields
and lemon groves that drown all
senses with odor. The jeep comes
to the forward headquarters of
Company Hoppi so called in
the old Danish manner after the
tall, young company comman
der, Maj. Jon Hoppi.
The major is giving a little
party for some Norwegian of
ficers who are being rotated
home. But the time for the pa
trol is at hand.
. The patrol begins from an out
post commanded by a sleepy
lieutenant. The five young
for a century. But this time
Britain and-France are showing
serious interest in it. It would
be a jointly-financed project. As
planned, it would be for rail
road and not automobile traffic.
Break-Up?
The United Nations Emergen
cy Forces on the border between
Egypt and Israel may start to
come apart soon. Finland is
likely to decide this week wheth
er to keep its troops in the
UNEF it is thinking of pulling
them out because the U.N. is
not helping to pay the cost of
maintaining them. If Finland
withdraws its troops, other coun
tries like Sweden, Norway and
possibly Canada may do so.
Tests
The United States will not
support any charges that Russia
has added dangerously to the
world's burden of radioactivity
by its recent tests of nuclear
weapons. The official view in
Washington is that atomic tests,
Russia's included, could go on
indefinitely on the present scale
without noticeably harming hu
man beings.
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in the areas where goods are
actually produced. This means
that counUess thousands of gov
ernment employees will be
moved from Moscow to other
cities-.
The decision to suspend re
demption of government bonds
amounted practically to a capi
tal levy. The Russian people
hold $65 billion of them. Few
of them will ever get their
money back
Joseph Alsop
Danes, smarUy turned out and
fully armed, are led by Sgt. Ole
Andersen. Later, the sergeant
means to be a chemical engineer.
But now the double accident of
the Suez crisis and his military
service has brusquely transport
ed Sgt Andersen from Copen
hagen's smiling streets to these
fields near Gaza town.
It was there that Samson pull
ed down the temple long ago,
and there that the same old con
flict between Israel and her
neighbors was so bitterly re
newed. AS NIGHT patrols go, this one
was not arduous 45 minutes
to the next outpost and then
back again, when another patrol
swings out to cover the same
strip of border. But Sgt. Ander
sen conducts his patrol with mili
tary efficiency, maintaining
silence, marching briskly but
quietly, halting at intervals to
listen to the night noises.
In the soft, star-studded dark
ness, it is good going at first
through meadow lush with grass.
Looking closely in the stargloom,
one can just see the richly
sprinkled meadow flowers. Then
a halt is signaled, and the pa
trol squats to listen, not to blun
dering border-crossers, but to
the night chorus of frogs.
After the meadows come
wheatfields slimy with mud, for
the Gaza Strip has had much
rain this year. The wheatfields
make one thank heaven that the
Arab peasants do not plow deep
furrows. 1
SGT., ANDERSEN reveals his
chemical engineer ambitions.
Sgt. Snape says he too, will go
to college when he gets out of
the Army, "which will be soon,
bless God." And there is a little
of the usual soldiers' talk about
their mission. ,
Yes, they say, once they act
ually saw border-crossers
Arab peasants who had been
stealing irrigation pipes from the
Israelis. The peasants ran away,
leaving behind , their pipe-laden
donkey as a prize of war.
And this leads Sgt. Andersen
to what is probably the decisive
comment on the situation of the
U.N. force in Egypt, with its ef
ficient leadership, its stiU high
morale, and its array of ten na
tional contingents and staff-supporting
personnel from no less
than 26 different countries.
Says Sgt. Andersen regret
fully: "We could have got those
fellows as well as their donkey.
But our orders are 'Shout, not
shoot.' They seem funny orders
for an army. But they say this is
a peace army, and I suppose
peace armies are different."
(Copyright 1959, New York
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Kilroy and Chad
To the Editor: Kilroy was
here too. However in Great
Britain he was known as "Chad"
and as well as being a source
of amazement was a great mor
ale booster during the shortages,
rationings and restrictions of
W.W. II.
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