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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 IS. 1947 (Wednesday)
Carlos W. Morris, local funer
al home owner, is appointed city
councilman to succeed Larry J.
Schade.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A visitor
to the metropolis boasts 162
suits in the teeth of the alleged
shortage of men's suits. So
what! He can only wear one of
them at a time.
20 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1937 (Friday)
Southern Pacific railroad of
ficials in Medford said that the
proposed railroad strike would
only affect a dozen trainmen at
Ashland, southern Oregon divi
sion point.
Olen Arnspiger reelected pres
ident of Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce.
3t YEARS AGO
April 16. 1327 (Saturday)
About 150 boys participate in
bicycle parade in Medford led
by traffic officer G. J. Prescott
Local residents are urged to
clean up yards and burn trash
during the present weather, ac
cording to Fire Chief Roy El
liott. 40 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1917 (Monday)
In anticipation of a bumper
fruit crop of probably 2,000 cars
In the valley this season, the
Medford Ice and Storage com
pany is at work on extensive
improvements and alterations at
Its Medford plant
Medford people who have rel
atives and friends in Germany
can no longer communicate with
them by mail, nor even by cable-telegraph,
because .of tlfe
censorship exercised by the U.
S. government, it is reported.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is snpertor; sev
en cr eight ts excellent: five r
six Is good.
1. Before 1812 was aathracite
or bituminous coal chiefly in
use?.
2. When J. Ramsay MacDon
ald served as Prime Minister of
Great Britain, what party did
he represent?
3. Bible: Before the advent
of Jesus had Greek dress and
the Greek way of life penetrated
Into Jewish communities?
4. What research did the
Nazi government carry on at
Feenemuende?
5. Who wrote "Pippa Passes'"
6. The present calendar was
first promulgated by Pope G-y?
7. Cygnet 'is the name for a
kind of ring, a young swan, or
the seal on a deed to lands?
8. Who was the composer of
the song "After the Ball?"
9. "Help but" and "choose
but" mean "avoid;" true or
false?
10. "Your are welcome as the
flowers in May." Scott, in R
R ?
Answers: 1. Bituminous coal.
2.The Labour party. 3. Yes. 4.
V-rocket research. 5. Robert
Browning. 6. Gregory. 7. A
young swan. 8. Charles K. Har
ris. 9. True. 10. "Rob Roy."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Back to the Indians
The Albany Democrat-Herald, is taking a new
line on the tax problem.
At least it is new to us.
COR example, the paper praises the Albany com
munity for "coining" the familiar war term "Thou
shall not pass" and applying it to a bill providing
sewers for the business section of that growing, self
respecting and law-abiding town.
Using the communal, instead of the editorial "we",
it commends such tax resistance as follows :
"We indicated we would rather have wet-basements
and fouled-up sanitary sewers than pay the taxes."
It is rather difficult to understand commendation
for such a preference but the "new" Democrat-Herald
apparently sees- nothing surprising about it.
IT EVEN goes further in its all-out war for more and
A more tax reduction. It seems Albany is to get a new
hospital and an enlarged sewage disposal plant, aided
by a government grant of $18,000 for the latter, and
four times that much from Hill-Burton funds for the
former or a total of approximately $90,000.
Instead of expressing appreciation for such as
sistance the Albany paper reminds the people of Al
bany that all this "help and planning" comes directly
from the Albany taxpayers, each year when they
SUBMIT to federal withholding taxes. It then con
cludes, quote:
"we protect our pocket-books like demons when the
neighbor comes around but an arm can reach all the way
. from Washington to Albany, dig deep and repeatedly and
we don't even squirm."
THIS presents such an extraordinary view of taxa-
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comprehension before it.
Yet apparently the editor of the Albany paper is
deadly serious about it by declaring withholding
taxes have the same effect on individual and state
economy that narcotics have on the human body, and
they are just as "devastatingly habit-forming."
.Again we quote:
Here is where the narcotics comparison comes in. Be
cause the deduction method of tax extraction is advertised
as painless it invites increases in dosage just as narcotics do
for the human body. An excess of taxation is just as bad for
the individual and state economy as is an excess of narcotics
for the human body Any increase in withholding taxes
authorized by the 1957 legislative session will have as its
goal the disguising of individual tax increases" etc., etc.
MO ONE LIKES taxes, and everyone is opposed to
1 1 EXCESSIVE taxation, but if the tax philosophy of
the Democrat-Herald were followed, one wonders
where would we be?
No. 1: we would presumably then rather have
"wet basements and fouled
meet the tax bills necessary to remove them. If to
secure modern hospitalization for the community
and proper sewage disposal federal aid were offered,
then again it would be better to go without than to
accept such assistance, which would have to come out
of our own pocket books eventually anyway.
As for that vicious drug habit, (disguised as a
withholding tax), the only way we can imagine com
pletely curing it would be to abolish all "social secur
ity," old-age assistance, unemployment insurance and
the income tax as far as most of the workers are con
cerned, and ultimately, of course, as far as Oregon
is concerned at least the Albany portion give the
state back to the Indians.
AND we grant such a transaction would have its
advantages. For our aboriginal predecessors lived
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in a lAALiHiSib raraaise. iney never ootnerea witn
sewage disposal, wet basements, hospitalization, so
cial security or any such "New Deal" egg-head non
sense. Their women chopped the wood, and they
chopped off the hair-dos of their enemies and brought
home the bacon and wild game, to be cooked or cured
by the patient and muscular housewife.
Paying no taxes they did not have to degrade
themselves by devising a painless one, having a
painless tax is apparently as despicable and decadent
as having a painless leg amputation. Then when their
hunting days were over they did not have to worry
about an inheritance tax, but only had to orry about
getting some sun-cured Virginia tobacc and even
tually a proper bow-and-arrow equipment to provide
them sustenance in the "Happy Hunting Ground."
A WEEK or two ago when the management of the
Albany Democrat-Herald changed hands, we pre
dicted its readers would suffer no shock editorially
speaking, for the paper had always been ultra-conservative,
unswervingly G.O.P. and, like so many of
its contemporaries mqi'e interested in the business
office than any cerebral emanations that might be de
livered from its "ivory tower."
TT IS too early in the game to apologize and admit
A our mistake, but up-to-date we would grant the
probability that the regular readers of the Albany
daily, will, if they have not already, soon detect a
new slant in its editorial department, both in outlook,
content, tone and emphasis in brief, this will be not
a turn to the left but more to the right, farther to the
right in fact of William McKinley, Smoot-Hawley
and Louis the XVI, than has ever been the case before
in the paper's long and successful history.
R.W.R.
Tuesday. April 18, 1957
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ASKIN' AHD WHINE A LITTLE BIT, SOM6TAS
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Matter of Fact
USING THE LIVING DEAD
Gaza Under the mild but
brilliant sunshine of the balmy
southern Mediterranean spring
time, the big camp of Palestin
ian Arab refu
gees a few
miles from.
Gaza town
seems not too
bad a place.
The town
for this is what
it really is is
well laid out
and clean. The
m u d h uts are
Joseph Alsop
solid and well roofed. The lead
ers of the camp, Supervisor Mis
bah Mekki, Dr. Anwar Anthony
and the rest, are all fine, hard
working people who obviously
do their best for the 20,000 and
more souls committed to their
care.
Outwardly, moreover, the
camp almost conveys the impres
sion of a town with a life of its
own. The women gossip at their
work at the little embroidery
center. Through the windows of
the big school come the sounds
of chanting Arab recitation. At
the food warehouse, a great
crowd of men and women and
children are gathered to draw
their rations of flour and oil,
beans and sugar, and they talk
and laugh while they wait for
their names to be called.
But here, if you pause among
the crowd for even a moment
a near riot automatically en
sues. It is always the same when
any foreigner stops among a
crowd in one of the refugee
camps.
THESE people have no past
except the memory of their
homes long lost; no present pur
pose except to rot in the camps;
no future except the hope of re-
turn and revenge. They exist
from day to day on their poor
rations,' which have been . in
sanely set at a level not quite
sufficient to prevent hunger.
And so pouring out their griev
ances, their well justified griev
ances, is to them irresistible.
This is the reality. The tidy
outward appearance of the camp
is an illusion. For in this tidy
setting the refugees lead the
lives of the living dead, they
and their children and their
children's children. And these
living dead 220,000 of them in
the Gaza strip alone are per
manent reminders that new Is
rael, like Israel of old, was born
in blood by driving out the sim
ple people of the land.
Anyone who is mealy-mouthed
on this point is either a self-
deceiver or a hypocrite. But it
is almost equally wrong to be
mealy-mouthed about another
point. The leaders of the sur
rounding Arab states, and not
least the leaders of Egypt, are
using the tragic refugees as
pawns in their political game.
They are such useful pawns
that any improvement in their
lot is actually resented and op
posed. In the Baghdad Pact ri
ots last year, for instance, Egyp
tian and Communist agents led
the attack on the admirable ag-
Mild Weather With
Clouds, Showers Due
By UNITED PRESS
Mild weather was in store to
day for the opening of the base
ball season.
Scattered showers occurred, in
Chicago, but elsewhere in the
eastern half of the nation skies
were expected to be clear to
partly cloudy.
The shower system extended
from the Great Lakes south
westward through Texas and
Oklahoma. Showers also hit
southern Missouri and western
Tennessee through western Lou
isiana.
Most of the precipitation was
light, although wind gusts up
to 70 miles per hour ripped Hou
ston, Tex., and 55 m.p.h. gusts
hit Shreveport, La., during sud
den downpours Monday night
Cool Pacific air overspread
most of the western half of the
nation during the night, al
though the only sub-freezing
readings reported were in the
mountains.
By Joseph Alsop
ricultural cooperative establish
ed near Jerieho by Musa Bey
Alami. The reason was that Mu
sa Bey Alami had contrived a
decent livelihood for too many
refugees. ,
There have been similar epi
sodes in Gaza. In sum, every
thing is done, by .propaganda
and by rules, to make the refu
gees and what is worse, the refu
gess' children, go on living the
lives of living dead, and so to
keep them as a political lever.
AT THIS moment, Egypt's
President Nasser is using
the refugees as a lever in the
Suez Canal negotiations. He is
saying that he will not abandon
his "right of belligerency,"
that he will not permit Israeli
ships to pass through the Canal,
unless Israel takes satisfactory
steps to settle the refugee prob
lem.
The failure of the Iraelis to
offer reasonable compensation
to those they have driven out,
is a standing reproach to Israel.
But almost none would go back
you have only to ask them
to Israel as Israel exists today,
And what President Nasser
means by satisfactory steps to
settle the refugee 'problem is
simply the re-partition of Israel
and the liquidation of Israel as
a viable state.
There are some reasons to be
lieve that the U.N. authorities
may not press the Israelis to
make the kind of territorial
concessions that Israel cannot
make and stay in business as a
nation. By the lunatic logic of
our times, Hitler's crime against
the Jews was expiated by a
crime against the Palestinian
Arabs. And now this second
crime, so the theory runs, can
be expiated by still another
crime against all the hundreds
of thousands of simple Jewish
people who have pulled up their
roots and with labor and sacri
fice have put down new roots in
Israel's soil.
TN ACTUAL fact, any such U.
N. pressure on Israel like
President Nasser's defense of
his "right of belligerency," will
be mere ritual maneuvering.
The Arab nations do not have
the strength today to liquidate
Israel. The great powers are not
going to use force to liquidate
Israel. And the Israelis will
fight first. So the refugee prob
lem is not going to be solved by
the liquidation of Israeli.
In a more practical, less pas
sion ridden world, a plan might
well be attempted that would
at least compensate the first
generation who are determined
to go home to an Arab Palestine
or die in the camps; and would
also save the second and third
generations from this life of the
living dead. But this, no doubt,
is too much to hope for now
adays. Copyright 1957. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Eden Can Expect
Complele Recovery
Boston U.R)' Sir Anthony
Eden has "reasonable prospects"
of a complete recovery from the
recurring illness which forced
his retirement as British prime
minister, his physician said yes
terday. .
Dr. Richard B. Cittell of the
Lahey clinic; Eden's surgeon,
said his general condition was
satisfactory and that he with
stood well surgery - Saturday.
Dr. Cattell said Eden suffered
a mild fever Sunday, but that it
was a normal post-operative
condition.
Saturday was the fourth time
in as many years that the 59-year-old
, diplomat had ' under
gone major surgery to relieve
a bile duct obstruction. Dr. Cat
tell said there were "reasonable
prospects" of complete recovery
after the operation.
Washington (U.R) The ' Sen
ate passed and returned to the
House today, a bill to let the
Treasury increase interest on
U. S. savings bonds from the
present 3 per cent to 3Vi per
cent
Realization
Role Step
By CHARLES M. MeCANN
United Press Correspondent
Realization that Western Eu
rope's defense must be based on
nuclear weap
ons may start
the big powers
on the way to
disarmament
at last.
Three recent
developments
have brought
acute aware
ness in the
Charles McCsnn JNOrtll Atlantic
Treaty countries of Europe that,
as things stand today, the war
time use of nuclear weapons is
one of the inescapable facts of
life.
First was Britain's revolution
ary new armaments .program,
which involves the shifting of
that country's defense to a nu
clear basis.
Russia Issues Threats
Secondly was the statement by
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
that the new West German Army
must have tactical atomic weap
ons. Thirdly was the outburst of
threats by Soviet Russia, still
continuing, that any NATO coun
try which permits the establish
ment of nuclear weapons bases
on its territory faces catastrophe
in event of war.
Taken together, these develop
ments seem to have increased the
possibility that the five-nation
disarmament subcommittee o f
the United Nations, now meeting
in London, may take the first
step befor long toward a disarm
ament agreement.
London dispatches suggest that
the first step may be an agree
ment for a cut in the size of con
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Interesting news:
Senator Harry Byrd has
promised that a senate investi
gation of the nation's financial
condition will be what he terms
"strictly non-political."
The Virginia Democrat is
chairman of the senate finance
committee which voted unani
mously last week to begin a
broad scale inquiry into the
country's financial status.
He says the study will begin
as soon as a staff can be as
sembled. He explains that it will cover
rising interest rates, revenues,
credit, taxes and public and pri
vate debts.
T ET'S put it this way:
' A senate committee has
just completed the first round ot
what promises to be an exhaust
ive and searching investigation
of racketeering in the United
States. As a result of what has
already been disclosed, I'm sure
everyone . has a better under
standing of a situation that is
startling, to say the least.
If the investigation is contin
ued along the lines that have
been followed so far, it seems
certain that by the time it is
completed the whole country
will know better what has been
going on that shouldn't "have
been going on and what needs
to be done to cure what has
been wrong.
T THINK most thoughtful peo-
pie will agree that the time
is here when we need a realistic
look at the state of our nation's
finances.
The tax burden is becoming
increasingly heavy. Every year,
taxes are taking out of our pock
ets an increasing percentage of
the money that we have there.
But even the actual tax dollais
that are takenout of our pock
ets don't tell the, whole story.
Because of the fact that all taxes
must be added to the cost of do
ing business and therefore must
be added to PRICES, we face a
steady rise in the cost of every
thing we buy. As Jong as taxes
go on rising,, it .is certain that
prices must go on rising.
That keeps us all worrying
over where the money is to
come from with which to pro
vide the THINGS we have to
Rave.
WHY. are taxes rising?
The answer to that is
kindergarten stuff.
SPENDING GOES ON RIS
ING. '
rTHAT raises another auestion:
TTritir nan urn i i encnrl.
ing? ,
WELL
How do YOU cut spend
ing when you find that your ex
penses are rising faster than
your income and you come to
the conclusion that you'll have
to do something about it?
I have an 'idea you draw up a
list of all your expenses and
take a good sharp look at all
the items and decide which
ones you can cut out.
THAT'S about what Senator
Byrd's committee' is propos
ing to do. It will bring out into
the white light of publicity all
the things our nation is doing
that affect interest rates,- rev
enues, credit, taxes and public
and private debts.
If that is done, I have an idea
that the picture that will be pre
sented wiH be as startling as the
picture that has been presented
to the nation by Senator McClel
lan's committee.
of Atomic
Toward Disarmament
ventional armaments.
A Smaller Army
It would be only a short step
But it would be the first fruit of
11 years of negotiations between
the Western powers and Soviet
Russia. If that step were taken,
negotiations on the eventual
abolition of nuclear weapons
would have better chance of suc
cess. Britain's program, calling for
a smaller army, the abolition of
the draft and the complete shift
ing of defense to the atomic
weapons age, came as a shock to
Communications
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A New Orchid
To the Editor: ' Swamp Water"
is the name of one of U.S.A.'s
most unusual newspapers. The
current number is on this desk.
It boasts it is "Everglades Na
tional Park's most complete
newspaper." It has no colored
comics. It has not even a type
setter. It is entirely via mimeo
graph. BUT IT CONTAINS
NEWS!
The current number on this
desk tells of the discovery in
this, almost the youngest na
tional park, of a new orchid. It
is more than merely a new spe
cies it is a novel genus. It is
added to the Everglades flora
beside the vanilla orchid. The
Glades is the only spot in the
U.S.A. where the vanilla orchid
grows wild.
Vanilla recalls experiences in
France. In Bresse, one sees signs
"Antiques Made to Order." A
French restaurant keeper dares
not, however, under penalty of
fine and imprisonment, list
"Poulet Bresse" on his menu
unless he can, on demand, show
its metal ring. This is evidence
the capon you are enjoying is
"veritable Poulet Bresse." So,
too, for decades, the test in
France of one's ice cream being
flavored with "vanilla verita
ble" was little black seeds in
one's glace.
Such wonders as orchids and
royal palms, flamingoes and
roseate spoonbills, all truly trop
ical, are found nowhere else in
continental U.S.A. This was the
main urge for some of us to
want the Everglades as a na
tional park. Dad and Mother
can sandwich a half dozen kid
dies into the Tin Lizzie. On ar
rival there is so much good fish
ing even food costs are lowered
for big-family vacationists.,,
C. M. Goethe
Seventh and J sts.,
Sacramento, Calif.
Editorial
Comment
ADMIT RED CHINA
I would urge that the state
department pull the Red China
issue out of deep freeze and turn
it over to its most resourceful
and expert negotiators. Assistant
Secretary of State Walter Rob
ertson is son confirmed 'in his
opposition to any concession to
Red China that he will be of no
help. Fresh minds with original
ity are required to spell out a
constructive U.S. . policy vis-avis
Red China.
, U. S. policy has succeded in
entrenching this country in iso
lation from the most populous
country on earth, has hurt our
allies by insisting on strangling
their trade with Red China and
has led to a dead end. r
Here, it seems to me, is a
good place for us to start in re
placing tension and hatred with
accommodation if not with trust,
a step toward freeing ' the
world from the doom of nuclear
warfare Charles Sprague in
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Counsel With ...
Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phon. 2-4940
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
Weapons
the governments of Western Eu
ropean NATO countries.
Britain's new arms program,
and Adenauer's call for A-weap-ons,
constituted nothing more
than recognition of a situation
which already existed the rec
ognition that as things stand now
nuclear weapons are sure to be
used if a great war breaks out.
The one encouraging develop
ment, and a big one, is the pos
sibility that the London disarm
ament conference may now
break its long deadlock.
Wants a "Pen-Pal"
To the Editor: My name is
Melinda Hanna. I live on Cover
Drive. I am -ten years old. I
would like a pen pal. If you
would please put my name and
address in your newspaper some
children could write to me. I
know you Editors are busy, but
please try.
Melinda Hanna,
1978 Cover Drive,
Poland 14, Ohio
P.S. Please try. I thank you.
Police Should Aid Parents
To the Editor: I read Mr. A.
U.'s letter, but I didn't see any
thing to laugh about. The des
perate efforts of a mother to
save her drowning child may be
futile, or even foolish, but cer
tainly not funny.
It would seem our only con
cern when boys and girls go
wrong is someone to blame. The
parents are the favorite target.
Yet some of them are trying to
do the very best they can, and
making sacrifices to the extent
of becoming amusing.
There is not much help, or
preparation either, for those
faced with grave child , prob
lems. Often a young mother
must face the situation alone be
cause she has no husband, or he
is too occupied with other
matters. 1
When the police and parents
learn to work in cooperation a
tremendous blow against crime
will have been struck. How
many times parents long to go to
the police with information and
ask for help and counsel. But
they don't dare. The strength
of mother love is still one of
the most vital forces in the
world. It needs to be trained for
the life-saving jobs . so it will
hot perish in the struggle. The
welfare of children should be
the first concern of the police
and parents should feel free to
work with them in the difficult
task of teaching the young to
choose the good and refuse the
evil.
Mrs. L. H.
. (Name on File)
Tiller, Ore.
Danish Navy Vessels
Hunt for Motorboats
Copenhagen 'fU.R The Dan
ish Navy started a search today
for three motorboats that failed
to' return to their Greenland
ports Sunday from a walrus
hunt in the Greenland west ice.
Two other boats reached safe
ty Monday after taking aboard
the crew of a sixth boat which
was abandoned at sea. Bad
weather delayed the start of an
air search until today.
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TAXES HIGH!
SO IS THIS!
Construction costs on dwellings
have increased 1 3 since March
1 954. Even on a depreciation
value your net increase in insur
able value would be from 9 to
10. BE SURE! INSURE In
crease with Current Trends.
'. J.
Bill Fish
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