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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 17. 1947 (Thursday)
Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president
of Southern Oregon college, will
speak at the first annual lunch
eon of the Jackson County Ore
gon Education association.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge. Pot column: A Calif
ornia publication calls Crater
Lake a "caldera." The Cham,
of Comm. as yet has taken no ac
tion. 20 YEARS AGO
April 17, 1937 (Saturday)
Starting the saw mill at Med
ford Corporation, scheduled to-1
day, has been postponed -because
of rain, according to General
Eganager James Owen.
Herb Grey, advertising man
ager of the Mail Tribune, leaves
for Portland to preside at annual
meeting of Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association Advertis
ing Managers, of which he Is pre
sident, r ...
30 YEARS AGO
April 17. 1927 (Sunday)
Edison Marshall, southern
Oregon novelist, is in New York
to see about the publication of
his new novel, "The Deadfall,"
to be out this month.
A musical show, to be directed
by Charles Hazelrigg, will be
given at the Phoenix auditorium
Friday.
40 YEARS AGO
April 17, 1917 (Tuesday)
More than 90 local men sign
muster roll to serve with the
Home Guard company.
New York Symphony orch
estra will gives concert at Nat
atorium. What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev
en er eight ts excellent; five er
six Is good.
1. Was the first successful da
guerreotype portrait made in
New York or Paris?
2. In which New England
State is Saddle Mountain?
3. Bible: Does the New Test
ament specifically imply that
salvation is open to both Jew
and Gentile?
4. Who was the author of the
fiopular novel of the 1920s,
"Three Weeks."
5. On which Greek Island is
SBerakleion?
6. The income of labor unions
taxable under the Federal In
come tax laws; true or false?
7. Name the only State in the
Union whose name ends in "k."
8. In military practice what
are "combined operations?"
9. Is the "t" pronounced tn
hostler, hasten, or listen?
10. "My house is a c e which
the King cannot enter-" Emer
son. Answers: 1. New York (by
Dr. Draper, 1840). 2. Massachu
setts. 3. Yes. 4. Elinor Glyn. 5.
Crete. 6. False. 7. New York.
8. Operations in which land, tea
and air forces participate. 9. No
lo. "Castle."
STRICTLY FROM UNGER
Detroit (U.R) City Auditor
Irving J. Unger said today city
employees apparently think De
troit needs money more than the
federal government. Unger said
the city received about 100 fed
eral income tax returns from
mixed-up Detroiters, but "some
body else thought of the income
tax first."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Opportunity for Growth
Over a period of years of watching the local Cham
ber of Commerce operate, under exceedingly compe
tent managers and conscientious elected officials, we
have come to have a healthy respect for this organiza
tion. One of the most frequently heard criticisms of the
chamber, we are convinced, is unfounded. This is the
question, "Why don't they get some new industry in
here?" The question is usually asked in a tone of
voice which implies that the chamber, somehow, is
doing all it can to keep industry OUT.
1X7HAT do these critics expect?
" For Chamber officers to go out and find a nice,
valley-sized industry, and then twist the arms of the
stockholders and MAKE 'em locate here? (See edi
torial comment elsewhere on this page.)
The decision for industrial plants to locate in one
place as opposed to another is based on many factors.
About all any Chamber can do is to make known, far
and wide, the attractive things about Jackson county,
and hope that these will tip the scales in our favor.
This it has done, repeatedly. ,
It can't force any plant to come here. Nor can it
change the circumstances which sometimes favor
other areas over this one.
Nor, by the same token, can it do much to prevent
any plant from coming here if it wants to.
THERE are two basic considerations which any
large company must take into account in selecting
a location for a new plant. One is "How about mar
kets?" The other is "How about raw materials?" Each
of these questions has many ramifications.
Southern Oregon is not, and probably never will
be, an ideal location for a market-based enterprise.
Lack of population, and high transportation costs,
pretty well rule this out. (There are a hundred or more
areas in the nation which have larger populations than
does the southern Oregon
gion.)
A resource-based industry is something else again.
Any firm which uses wood
consider this area, and as
agncultural, as well as horticultural, products may
turn into' a major enterprise.
THERE is a third type of
piuviucs iui a nco.ii.iiy, cunuuuuus giuwui, J-uii
McNeil, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce, in a recent letter described it this way:
"We are finding that diversified industry is becoming
a by-product of the tourist industry. People who visited
Oregon years ago are returning to live, invest their capital,
establish their skills, and in some cases bring with them a
small wood working factory, plastics plant, electronics
plant, etc. People generate industry."
This is the type of slow growth which is healthy,
self-supporting and solid. There are dangers as well as
benefits in the sudden moving in of a really big firm.
McNeil adds:
"Quite frankly, a 10,000-man industry suddenly dumped ,
in this valley could create serious economic and sociological
problems. Such an event would bring on severe housing
shortages, cause tax increases to provide new schools, cre
ate serious sanitation difficulties, epidemic threats, traf
fic dislocations, and complete disorganization of wise plan
ning and orderly growth."
TNDUSTRIAL concerns study these things in making
location decisions.
The Portland City Club bulletin some months ago
reported that an Indiana city, worried because a
major industry had passed it by, set out to find why.
And these were some of the things cited by the
company's directors in explaining why they had
chosen another location:
Too many houses showed a lack of upkeep.
There was poor traffic control.
The business district looked as if it had not been
changed since 1900.
The city's water came from a river, with a danger
of pollution.
Hotel and restaurant accommodations were inade
quate and poor.
The bridges had a decrepit appe&rance, reflecting
a lack of community pride.
Schools and hospitals were inadequate. -
There was lack of zoning and planning. ,
"THESE are of concern to those of us who live here
1 already. It is only logical that they are also the con
cern of those thinking of locating here.
If we are to continue to grow and develop, we
need to do more than just talk about "getting an in
dustry" for the area. We need to maintain and im
prove the kind of community climate which is attrat
tive, not only to others, but to ourselves.
Probably the one greatest economic need of this
area is more non-seasonal employment. Year-around
jobs, and "off-season" jobs,
ance and stability.
There are signs that this
firms are now operating here that were not here only
a few years ago. Others
lney are operated by, and employ, steady, respon
sible and community-minded citizens.
It is this type of growth
agricultural basic resources, and the natural physical
attractiveness of the valley which offers the best
long-range opportunity for a stable, healthv and
happy community in Jackson county. E.A.
Wednesday, April 17, 1957
- northern California re
products could logically
time goes by, processing of
industry, however, which
are needed to give us bal
is on the way. Many small
are coming in all the time.
based on our forest and
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Don't let the cops find out what?"
Soviet Russia Likely To Make
Attempt To
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is likely to
make a determined new attempt
soon to loosen West Germany's
ties with the
allied powers.
The attempt
may be timed
to coincide
with Russian
German trade
n e g o tiations,
which are ex
pected to start
this month. In
seeking a po
Charles McCann
litical agreement with West
Germany at this time, the Rus
sians would be able to take ad
vantage of some new factors in
the European situation.
One is the drastic- new British
defense program, which is based
Editorial
Comment
A SKELETON LAID TO REST
A community skeleton ap
parently rattles around in the
closet of every city the approxi
mate size of Grants Pass.
Tuesday evening the . Grants
Pass version of this spectral bag
of bones was dragged into full
public view. And, as in every
other city of our personal ac
quaintance, the "skeleton" pro
ved only a figment of public im
agination. Ralph T. Moore, Sr., presiding
over a meeting of Rogue valley
citizens considering a pulp mill,
among other industiial develop
ment plans, came out flatly at
the start of the meeting. He
demanded if there possibly could
be any truth in the rumor, com
monly heard in Grants Pass, that
this community had discouraged
industry in the past.
Not one person present ever
had known of such discrimina
tion. All had heard the rumors,
attributed as usual to an un
identified "they."
L. C. Hansen probably touch
ed the crux of the matter when
he pointed out that, since he has
been Chamber of Commerce
manager, several high - pressure
promotors have been turned
down because they wanted
Granst Pass business men to
put up all, or almost all, the
money for wild-eyed ventures
of very dubious feasibilty.
The promoters, of course,
would take the lion's share of
any proceeds. Business men
would provide the money and
be sackholders pardon us, we
mean stockholders-in the corp
orations. When we first went to The
Dalles we heard a common say
ing: "What this city needs most
are a few fine funerals!"- Well,
we remained in The Dalles long
enough to be pallbearer at many
of these funerals,. When we left
for points south some persons
still were complaining that a
"few old fogies" were holding
back the city's progress.
In Bend it was the same.
There we heard the charge
voiced, repeatedly, that business
men of that city were satisfied
with things as they were, and
opposed to any expansion, in
dustrial or otherwise.
Of course that was pure hog
wash. Bend business men only
this spring raised a substantial
amount of money for a Chamb
er of Commerce program aimed
at industrial expansion.
Now, in Grants Pass, we hear
the same old lament. "They"
don't want anything to locate
here. "They" want Grants Pass
and Josephine county to stay
just as it is. "They" are afraid
of competition from new busi
ness establishments.
We really are glad that Chair
man Moore finally has exorcised
the ghost in our community
closet. Now everyone can get
down to work in earnest at the
task of building a bigger and
better Grants Pass and Rogue
valley.
The spirit shown at Tuesday
night's meeting would indicate
a sd lend id start has been
achieved. Grants Pass Courier,
Loosen West's Ties
on a shift to reliance on nuclear
weapons. '
This development, coupled
with the possibility the United
States as well as Britain might
withdraw from Germany some
troops assigned to the North
Atlantic Treaty forces, thor
oughly alarmed German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer.
Another factors is the contro
versy aroused in Germany over
Adenauer's insistence that the
new West Germany army must
get tactical atomic weapons.
The atomic weapons issue is
sure to figure largely in the
campaign for the.West Germany
parliamentary election set for
Sept. 15.
It has long been apparent that
one of Russia's big objectives
is to make some kind of deal
with West Germany.
The biggest obstacle against
such a deal is Russia's refusal
to agree to the reunification of
Germany.
Considerable interest has been
aroused In Western European
capitals by two Russian remind
ers of the so-called Rapallo
treaty.
Reminder Published
This treaty, which constituted
one of Russia's all-time big dip
lomatic victories, was ' negotiat
ed at Rapallo on April 16, 1922.
Twenty-nine European coun
tries met at Genoa, Italy, on
April 10, 1922. They included
the victorious allied government
of World War I, most of the de
feated countries including Ger
many, and Bolshevik Russia,
which had left the war in 1917.
The chief aim of the confer
ence was to restore relations
with the Bolshevik regime.
Last week the Russian Em
bassy in Bonn, the West Ger-
Minority Reports
On Compensation
Bills Defeated
Salem (U.R) Minority re
ports on a package of three
"bills increasing rates under the
workmen's compensation pro
gram were defeated by the
House and majority recommen
dations of the committee on la
bor and industries were adopt
ed. Rep. Edwin E. Cone, Eugene
Republican, attacked the bills
as costing too much, especially
for farmers and the lumber
industry. He said Oregon al
ready had one of the finest in
dustrial accident programs In
the country under present rates.
Bills Defended
Rep. Don Willner, Portland,
Democrat, defended House bills
260, 450 and 502 as being fair
to both injured workers and em
ployers. He said rate increases
like those proposed for partial
disability were less than the
increase in cost of living since
1951 when the original rates
were enacted.
Opponents of the bills said
Oregon rates and benefits now
compared favorably with Wash
ington and California, but. Rep.
Robert Klemsen, St- Helen Dem
ocrat, said the state should not
concern itself with ether states
and concentrate -on bettering
conditions for Oregon workers.
Senate bill 162 enabling pri
vate and parochial schools -to
receive free textbooks even
though they did not meet state
standards was re-referred to the
Education Committee, for' furth
er study.
Engineers Estimate
Portland Bridge Damage
Portland U.R) Engineers
said Tuesday that damage to the
Hawthorne bridge from its "col
lision" with two drifting ships
Sunday is expected to run from
830,000 to $50,000.
- The second of the two vessels,
which broke loose during a Sun
day gale, was pushed free from
the span Monday. The first was
moved Sunday.
Limited traffic was moving
over the bridge.
Democrat Predicts
Summerfield's Win
May fLose
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) "Sum
merfield has won a battle, but
he'll lose the war; you can be
sure of that."
This observation came from
one of the shrewdest Democrats
in the Senate after Postmaster
General Arthur E. Summerfield
had won his two-week battle
with Congress for additional
funds for postal operations this
year.
The remark was another way
of saying Congress reacts with
anger whenever it feels it is be
ing asked to handle legislation
with a gun at its head.
Denies Policy Trend
Congress caved in quickly
and gave Summerfield his sup
plemental funds after he carried
out a threat to cancel Saturday
deliveries and other postal ser
vices But the resentment will
man capital, published a re
minder of the Rapallo treaty and
suggested a revival of the Russian-German
"Spirit of Rapal
lo" in establishing "good will."
Tuesday, the Russian govern
ment newspaper organ Izvestia
published an editorial which
said the anniversary of the Ra
pallo treaty reminded many
Germans, "anxious over the fu
ture of their country . . . how
fruitful good relations between
Germany and Russia can be."
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written (about mid
morning on Monday) two key
congressional leaders have
agreed that a postoffice money
bill will be passed by both the
house and the senate.
Chairman Cannon of, the house
appropriations committee says
he expects no difficulty when
the house today takes up the
measure to give Postmaster Gen
eral Summerfield another 41
million dollars.
Senator Willis Robertson, who
heads the senate appropriations
subcommittee that handles postal
funds, expresses the belief-that
the senate bill pass the bill ap
propriating the 41 million and
send it to the White House
possibly by late Tuesday.
TT should be explained that the
log jam could probably have
been broken Monday but for a
situation you won't understand
fully unless you have been in
Washington for the opening
game of the major league base
ball season, when the Washing
ton club meets some other major
league club this time the
Baltimore Orioles.
Col. R. G. Emmens
Appointed U.S. Air
Attache in Japan
Air Force Col. Robert G.
Emmens, formerly of Medford,
has been appointed United
States air attache in Japan, it
was learned here this week. He
will begin training in May.
Col. Emmens, son of Mrs. J.
J. Emmens, 1443 East Main st.,
is deputy wing commander at
the Myrtle Beach, S. C, Air
Force base. He was honored
there last Friday at a wing re
view. He and his family will leave
Myrtle Beach in May, when he
will begin a nine-month foreign
service training course at
Georgetown university, Wash
ington, D. C. He expects to begin
his duties at Tokyo about June
8, 1958.
Born in Medford
Col. Emmens was born and
reared in Medford and entered
the Air Force after graduating
from Medford High school. He
participated in the famed Doo
little Raid over Tokyo, and in
1943 was held prisoner in Mos
cow with a group of Air Force
officers. While there he com
piled, his observations into a
book, "Guests of the Kremlin."
He took over duties at the
Myrtle Beach base as first com
mander of the base when it was
activated in July, 1956. This as
signment came a year after he
was selected to head an Air
Force liaison group to supervise
construction progress of the
Myrtle Beach base, and to, estab
lish relations between the mili
tary and the community. Earlier
this month, he was named
"Civitan of the Year" by the
Myrtle Beach chapter of the In
ternational Civitan club.
His wife is the former Miss
Justine Miller, daughter of Mrs.
A. H. MUler of Medford Col.
and Mrs. Emmens have three
children.
the War
linger and could be reflected
in the way lawmakers handle
other postal legislation this year.
Some suspicious minds in
Congress wondered if Summer
field's action was part of a gen
eral administration policy to
build a backfire to check House
and Senate efforts to whittle &
few billions off the budget.
And when he appeared before
a House committee Tuesday,
Summerfield was asked whether
his action was an attempt to
muster support for his long-stymied
request for increases in
postal rates. The question drew
a quick, curt denial.
GOP Concerned
The potmaster general has
been a crusading zealot for his
recommendations over the pat
four years without persuading
Congress to approve them.
Summerfield's attitude toward
his own budget was causing
some concern among Republi
cans in Congress even before
the current row over his extra
appropriation for this year. Aft
er the House made some cuts
in his requested appropriation
for next year, he warned he
would have to curtail some set
vices unless the Senate restored
the money.
At one of the weekly White
House legislative conferences a
GOP congressional leader sug
gested Summerfield's approach
was not the best way to do bus
iness with Congress.
President Eisenhower was re
ported to have chilled the dis
cussion with a comment that his
postmaster general was a dedi
cated public servant.
JENKINS
On that day, by long tradition,
the congressional mill practical
ly shuts up shop and aU mem
bers of both houses, along with
the President and most of his
cabinet, show up at the ball park
to root for the home team.
This is THE DAY, and minor
matters such as appropriations
to keep the post office running
will have to wait until the game
is over.
"IVfEANWHILE
xix Further cutbacks in mail
service go into effect, to con
tinue for the duration the
duration being until congress
votes the money. Effective to
aay, post office windows are
open only ZVi hours, as com
pared to the normal 10 to 11
hours in most cities, and mail
deliveries in the larger business
districts have been cut down
from the usual three per day to
two.
CO-
U As of now
It looks like the postal service
will get back to normal within
the space of a few days quite
certainly by the end of this
week. But the political battle
over who kitfed Cock Robin
can be expected to roar on for
quite some time.
OREGON'S Senator Neuberger
says he places the responsi
bility for the post office de
partment's shortage of funds on
Budget Director Percival Brund
age. He thinks the budget bu
reau should have given the post
master general permission
months ago to ask congress for
the money.
That may be true. At least, it
provides a convenient scapegoat.
But it is hard to let the con
gress off with a wholly clean
slate. In the whole long ruckus
ever the postal service, the con
gress had open to it two courses
of action:
1. It could Increase postal rates
and make the department pay
its way.
2. It could subsidize the postal
service and charge the deficiency
up to the taxpayers.
It did neither.
It let the situation drift along
until . the . postmaster general
took the bull by the horns and
announced that if he didn't get
more money he'd trim down
the postal 'service to meet the
funds on hand.
That's about the size of it.
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In Scenic
Surroundings
The setting and decor of Lit
willer's beautiful Mountain
View funeral and wedding
chapel, attracts the attention
of the passerby and the ad
miration of an interior inspection.
M. Litwiller
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home .
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy' 66 at .Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
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Grown Ups. Not Teenagers
To the Editor: I read the
article about the' poor man com
plaining about his bees, and
being so sure that teenagers
were to blame. Did he ever stop
to think that it might have been
grown ups?
We live in the country, and
many a day we've seen cars with
trailers looking for a place to
dump their trash and cans and
they weren't teenagers.
Also we happen to live next
to the Medford Irrigation Si
phon, they are planning on
building a new one underground.
In the past weeks there have
been several different gangs of
surveyors out to sight a new
location for the new siphon.
These men trespassed On our
property, chopped down what
ever happened to be in their
way (including one of our plum
trees) dug test holes, left them
uncovered so anyone could fall
into them. Never asked permis
sion, just went ahead assuming
they had rights on our land.
They were not teenagers. Also
the Rogue Valley ditch was re
paired this winter, V4 dozen of
so men were working ; on it.
They threw all their luncb
papers and what have you on
my neighbor's property and you
should see the mess.
I will sure sign Mrs. Field's
petition, the trouble with the
police, they think and act just
like Jack Webb.
Why should the teenagers
clean up the roadsides of cans,
beer bottles and trash? 'The
grownups threw them there, and
if the kids did it, it's because
they've seen the parents do it.
Mrs. Alyce Veach,
Route 1, Box 37,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Up To Th Parents
To the Editor: Another "first"'
has been added to the valley's
accomplishments. We now . have ,
more boys in the state reform
school than from any other part
of the state. We will soon have
our own penal institution for
wayward and delinquent youths.
The symptoms, have been de
veloping for a long time, , that
something is wrong with our
child training programs but lit.
tie was done.
To begin with it has been
made too easy for delinquent
parents; society , too readily -, as
sumed their responsibilities at
a tremendous cost to the tax
payer. This doesn't help the
child to become law-abiding.
Laws, sucfi as prohibiting the
sale of indecent magazines to
minors, would not help when
parents buy the salacious liter
ature Too little effort and
thought have been given to
start and keep a child on the
right track.
"As a twig is bent so the
tree -is inclined," and the train
ing must begin at an early age
so must start in the home and
parents must assume the re
sponsibility. Schools must in
clude-every child in a physical
education and sports program.
Courses, more manual arts
classes perhaps, must be added
that will be attractive to the
minority group that are now
bored and become trouble mak
ers. The years of enforced
schooling should correct the
antagonism so that they will be
able to take their place as use
ful citizens.
Churches and Sunday schools
should give children more of a
philosophy based on Christian
ideals, something practical la
character building. This is more
important than large edifices.
You are right, it will take
time, but if each succeeding gen
eration of parents becomes
aware of their responsibility to
raise each child to respect the
rights of others, and if obed
ience is enforced in the home,
then it will be easier for the
child, to become a happy, law
abiding citizen.
Just because this all sounds
like an impossible idea taking
years to accomplish is no reason
for not making a start. After
all the degeneration process was
a long time getting to this stage
of chaos-
Mrs. O. P. Smith,
Medford, Ore.
3724 Jacksonville hwy.
Mr. Litwiller
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"It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."