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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO .
April 18. 1947 (Friday)
Robert Hammersley retained
by chambers of commerce of
Medford, Grants Pass and Ash
land to head committee to study
industrial stabilization of the
valley.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Now that
August in April no longer pre
vails, some April in April can
be expected.
20 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1937 (Sunday)
Construction of a modern two
story building will be started
soon at Bear Creek orchards, ac
cording to Harry and David
Rosenberg, operators.
Rogue River valley's first an
nual "Pear Blossom Week"
sponsored by the Crater club
opens.
30 YEARS AGO
April 18. 1927 (Monday)
Elian Rae Williams, high
school senior, wins second in
the annual essay contest con
ducted by American Chemical
society.
Medford High school band,
under direction of F. Wilson
Waite, wins grand prize at an
nual OAC band contest at Cor-
vallis.
40 Sears ago
prd 18. 1917 (Wednesday)
barren Butler, Marion Mitch
l Stewart Torney, George
Sioimes and Ray Corey, Medford
Yjrwa enlisted in the aviation
Ocrfstt are training at Ft. Omaha,
Slew Local and Personal col
ursi: Mrs. Anna Vinson of Med-
tov4 leaves for Klamath Falls on
a business trip.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en K? eight Is excellent: five or
six Is apod.
1. Van the discovery that sul
phurs ether when inhaled pro
duced insensibility to pain,
made kt 1826, 1846, or 1866?
2. Crie President of the U. S.
was born in Pennsylvania; name
him.
3. Bible: Against whom did
David seek safety when he
sought advice from Jonathan?
4. Name the former Secretary
of State who was awarded the
1945 Nobel Peace Prize.
5. Who was the Spanish
American war hero of Manila
Bay?
6. Tass is a news agency of
what country?
7. What animal secretes a
waxy substance known as am
bergris? 8- Ward McAllister once coin
ed a numeric phrase to describe
the elite of New York society;
Ijhat was the phrase?
t. Should the word "type" al
ways be followed by "of" when
useti with a noun?
10. "A flash of harmless light
ning, A mist of rainbow dyes,
The burnished beams of bright
ening ' From flower to flower
he flies." J. B. Tabb. The title
of this poem is a bird; name it
Answers: 1. 184S. 2. James
Buchanan. 3. Saul. Jonathan's
father. 4. Cordell Hull. S. Com
modore George Dewey. 6. So
viet Russia. 7. The sperm whale.
8. "The Four Hundred." 9. Yes.
10. "Humming Bird." 1
I -T
MAIL TRIBUNB
Principle Not Principal
The Medford Mail-Tribune, a newspaper of Demo
cratic editorial persuasion, has recently castigated its
Republican contempories because they still belabor Sen.
Wayne Morse. The M-T again commends Morse, as Demo
crats have dpne consistently and fervently since his party
switch, for putting "principle above party." This reminds
us rather forcibly of another office holder, state Sen. Dan
Thiel of Astoria, who put "principal above party." What
happened to him? A resolution of formal condemnation by
the Clatsop County Central Labor council, no less one
of the organizations which has exulted over the - Morse
switch. Putting principle above party can be as much a
vice as a virtue, it appears, depending on which principle
and which party. Astorian Budget.
Not knowing the politics or the fate of State Sen
ator Dan Thiel we can't be sure of why our Clatsop
contemporary is "reminded."
But our guess is Thiel must be a former Democrat
who switched to' the Republican party, and was con
demned by the County Central Labor Council and
opposed for election or reelection.
Assuming this to be approximately correct, then
who is maintaining that in this instance placing
"principle above party" constituted a "vice"?
pERTAINLY not the Mail Tribune.
Some of our best friends here in Jackson County
were formerly registered Democrats and are now reg
istered zealous and ardent Republicans.
We never complained of their "switch." We did
not agree with them and don't now but we granted
them the same right we granted ourselves, that when
they no longer believed in the policies and principles
of their party they not only had a perfect right to
"switch" but a certain moral obligation.
What we have complained about and still com
plain about are those who condemn such action, and
on purely partisan grounds never forget or forgive it,
but keep on during: campaigns and between them
with their same old vicious drum-fire.
We maintain and have always maintained that a
Democrat on the basis of principle NOT princiPAL
please has the same right to change his party as a
Republican, and vice-versa.
The "vice" if any is not in leaving a party in
which one no longer believes, but in failing to do so.
For that is striking a blow not for, but against a
basic principle of free democracy.
Democracy fails when it doesn't accurately reflect
the majority will of its people. R.W.R.
A Political Forecast
Naturally the Republican press is going to con
vince the American people, if it can, that a vote for
any Democratic candidate at the next election will
be a vote for Dave Beck, and the type of labor she
nanigans he represents.
Yet as of today it seems pretty generally agreed
that the basic trouble is not with the labor movement
as a whole, or even with the teamsters membership
but with, the latter's LEADERSHIP.
In other words there is every reason to believe that
American labor as a whole condemns the Beck-Hoffa-Brewster-
type of malpractice as strongly as the mem
bers of the McClellarr committee (or the Arlington
club) be they Democrats or Republicans, and are just
as anxious to see an all-out. house-cleaning and moral
clean-up.'
Well why then should they have to suffer for the
misdeeds of a few" of the higher-ups in a single mi
nority union, and have their political support inter
preted as something unworthy and vile?
"IIELL, they shouldn't. And if there is a house-
cleaning within the teamsters and a clean sweep
of its present leadership, it is probable they won't.
But if this effort fails, and the Beck-Hoff a
Brewster sort of thing is endorsed by union inaction
and allowed to continue unchallenged then we fear
the dire prediction of Senator Ives of New York that
the recent unsavory revelations will put back the
American labor movement for a generation will come
close to fulfillment.
Such a retribution would be undeserved and un
just, as far as labor as a whole is concerned. But that,
we fear, is the way political reactions work. They
are not inclined to be discriminating or judicial, but
subjective and emotional, the results not based upon
how the rank and file THINK things out, but how they
FEEL. R.W.R.
It'll Take Some Doing
Incidently the attempt to burn the "Beck" brand
into the hide of the Democratic donkey is going to
take some doing.
For while the Beck record is bad, and his ethical
standards practically invisible, it 'just happens that
he is not a Democrat but a stalwart Republican. He is
also a close pal of another "stalwart" Republican,
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, and in the
recent presidential campaign Boss Beck not only de
voted his inexhaustible energies, but according to re
port, a generous portion of his almost inexhaustible
financial resources to bring about the defeat of the
Democratic presidential candidate and the victory of
the candidate of the G.O.P.
,
CO in the realm of "guilt by association" which has
been such a favorite political weapon in the Re
publican arsenal under the aegis of Joe McCarthy,
the heels of the stubborn old donkey promise to be
more than an adequate defense against any smear
trumpeting that the rampaging and rambunctious
pachyderm may consider it advantageous to indulge
in for the sake of votes. R.W.R.
Thursday, April 18. 1937
'Pss6T( IF m FIND A Y0
Matter of Fact
DR. VAN VALKENBURG'S
PELLETS
Washington A bitter and
significant row is now going on
in the Pentagon about the role
WSKwi of basic
sci-
entific re-
search iri t h e
defense of the
United States.
To t lie casual
observer, the
fight might
seem j u s t an
other teapot
tempest s t i r-
Stewa.it Alsop
red up Tjy t h e
vain and temperamental scien
tists. In fact, the issue in dispute
has a real bearing on the whole
national future, as the story of
Dr. Mac Van Valkenburg and
his plastic pellets may serve to
suggest.
Dr. Van Valkenburg is a young
scientist, until recently with the
rather obscure University of
Utah. Last year, he got a De
fense Department grant of a few
thousand dollars for an odd little
experiment which might appear
to have precious little to do with
defense.
Dr. Van Valkenburg used a
shaped charge technique-to fire
plastic pellets at constantly in
creasing speeds into wax targets.
As the velocity increased, the pel
lets, as might be expected, simp
ly penetrated deeper and deeper
into the wax. Then, when Dr.
Van Valkenburg fired a pellet
into the wax at the remarkable
speed of 8,500 miles an hour, a
queer thing happened.
INSTEAD of penetrating deeply
into the wax, the peilet ex
ploded, making a large crater on
the surface of the wax. He tried
it again, and always, at speeds
over 8,500 miles an hour, the
same thing happened, for rea
sons which must remain myster
ious to the layman. The import
ance of Dr. Van Valkenburb's
little . experiment may seem
equally mysterious. And yet it
might it just might change
the history of the human race.
The world is about to enter
the age of the ballistic missile.
The Soviets are testing medium
range ballistic missies at the re
markable rate of five a month.
It is hoped that this country win
fire a test version of the very
long range intercontinental mis
sile, known as "Atlas," this
year.
The ballistic missile has been
known as the "ultimate weapon"
because, until Dr. Van Valken
burg came along, there seemed
no conceivable defense against
it. Atlas, for example, will travel
half round the world with its
nuclear warhead at a speed of
16,000 miles an hour, or there
abouts, Trying to bring it down
with another missile would be
about as futile as shooting at a
very high ' flying goose with a
22 rifle.
rpHE way to bring down a
- a goose, of course, is to shoot
it, in range, with a shotgun. Dr.
Van Valkenburg's e x p e riment
suggests that a ballistic missile
could be brought down in rather
the same way. Another missile
or a satellite vehicle could be ex
ploded electronically in the' path
of an oncoming ballistic missile.
A fragment of the exploded mis
sile or satellite, coming in con
tact with the oncoming missile
at speeds far greater than the
magic 8,500 miles an hour, would
have the mysterious explosive
effect. It might thus be expected
to explode or cripple the bal
listic missile.
The Air Research and Develop
ment Command Js proceeding
with experiments along this line,
which are of course highly sec
ret. But Dr. Van Valkenburg's
original experiment was not
secret at all, simply because it
was an experiment in pure scie
ntific research, with no forese
eable military application at all.
.
"TVR. VAN. Valkenburg's little
" experiment, which may have
such far-reaching consequences,
thus illustrates the real meanine
of the row in the Pentagon. Sec
retary of Defense Charles Wil
son prides himself on being a
practical man. and. as ht has
said, he sees no reason why the
JJeiense Departmnt should fool
around with finding out "why
the grass is ereen." or such non
sense. Defense should concern it
- Y lNTHEf?, YzMA!'
By Stewart Alsop
self only with research leading
to practical military applications.
rpo THIS end, Wilson has ap
- pointed Frank D. Newbury,
a septuagenarian engineer who
shares his views, as overlord of
all Defense Department re
search and development. The
appointment has already led to
a major clash between Newbury
and the Defense Science Board,
and the resignation of one dis
tinguished scientist. Other scien
tists working for the Defense
Department are unhappy to the
point of despair.
Their despair is understand
able if one ponders the tale of
Dr. Van Valkenburk's pellets.
For virtually all the great ad
vances in the terrible new wea
pons, from the atomic bomb on
up, have derived directly from
basic scientific research. Modern
weaponry is not, alas, as simple
as tooling up a new General
Motors model.
(c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I suppose everyone has been
horrified by the tragic stories
startlingly numerous in recent
years of children trapped in re
frigerators. In an effort to elim
inate, or at least reduce, these
catastrophies that tug at every
body's heartstrings, the national
bureau of standards has been
carrying' on a research program
in the hope of developing doors
that can be opened from the
inside.
IT HAS just announced that
there is no foolproof device
for solving the problem. The two
best safety devices so far devel
oped by the bureau with the co
operation of refrigerator manu
facturers, it says, are a knob to
open the door from the inside
and a latch that releases the door
when presure is applied from the
interior of the refrigerator box.
But, a spokesman for the bu
reau adds, tests of 201 children
have indicated that only about
half of them" are able to utilize
the devices and escape. Even
that, of course, will be immense
ly helpful and the bureau, pre
dicts that these new develop
ments will be accepted by the in
dustry within a short time.
TN OUR modern civilization, we
must certainly make our nu
merous gadgets as safe as it is
humanly possible to make them,
but I can't help wondering if we
can afford to rely wholly on
automatic devices for making
our children safe.
. Won't it be far better if along
with all the automatic safety we
can build into our machines and
our appliances we teach our
youngsters to AVOID these dan
gers?
WE HAVE to remember that
life NEVER was wholly safe.
In the early days of the Ameri
can frontier, children had to be
taught to stay close to the cabin.
There were savages and wild an
imals that must be avoided.
There were creeks and rivers
where they might get drowned.
It was never safe for a child to
play around a mule's heels, for
there are times when a mule just
WILL KICK. And so on.
WE MUST keep dangers away
from our children wherever
we can, but at the same time we
must TEACH OUR CHILDREN
TO KEEP AWAY FROM DAN
GER. Instead of relying entirely
on automatic devices that wiU
cause a refrigerator door to come
open if a child should happen to
be trapped inside, it will be
much, MUCH better, it seems to
me, if from the time they are
able to crawl we teach them
never, NEVER under ANY cir
cumstances to crawl inside a
refrigerator.
ON CALL
Portland, Me. (U.R) Police
officers here can leave their pa
trol cars to investigate crimes
and still remain "on call." Cruis
er cars have been equipped with
radio devices that enable dis
patchers at headquarters to honk
the horns or flash the lights of
parked patrol cars to summon
the officers back to their ve
hicles for radio messages.
Turkey's Hardening Attitude
Complicates Cyprus Settlement
By CHARLES M. McCANN
. United Press Correspondent
Turkey is becoming the key
country in the dispute over the
future of the eastern Mediter-
ranian island
of Cyprus.
Brit ain is
now making a
new attempt
to negotiate a
settlement
with the
Greek - Cyp
r i o t e island
ers, the Greek
g O V e r n ment Charles McCann ;
and the Turkish government..
To that end, it has released
from exile on an Indian Ocean
island Greek Archbishop Maka
rios, leader of the islanders who
demand that Cyprus be handed
over to Greece.
Turkey's Altitude Hardens
So far, Britain's negotiations
have not gone very far.
For one thing, no basis for a
settlement acceptable to Maka
rios and the Greek government
or even a basis for negotia
tions has been found.
But there is another big ob
stacle. The attitude of Turkey is
hardening steadily. As the situa
tion stands now, Turkey is most
unlikely to accept any settle-
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From "One Of The 500"
To the Editor: A recent letter
referring to the exorbitant mem
bership fee which limits our
local Country Club to the upper
"500" prompts me to answer.
My husband, (a bus driver) and
I are part of the so-called "500,"
but it so happens that the ma
jority of the "500" are work
ing people like ourselves sales
men, teachers, mail carriers and
others working by the week or
by the hour. The $12 monthly
family golf membership that we
pay amounts to less than the
average couple spends on a
Saturday night on the town. Of
course, there is $2.40 a month
federal tax, but even with that
we pay less than it would cost
our family to play on a public
course.
It was unfortunate that Mrs.
Wright's husband did not know
a member who would have sign
ed for him as guest a privi
lege enjoyed by other local res
idents who are non-members. He
would have found, as "the rest
us working people have, that the
doctors, lawyers and business
men readily ask us to join their
foursomes; '.for, as ' Mrs. Wright
herself states: "golf is a good,
clean, healthy sport in any man's
class."
I'm sure that if Mrs. Wright
could see the large group of
junior and senior high school
students, many from non-member
families, using borrowed
clubs from the pro shop, to take
six hours of FREE golf lessons
a week she would realize the
RVCC is doing its share to com
bat juvenile delinquency. Then
too, many young boys are gain
fully employed as caddies so
that they make good use of their
summer vacation.
As a bus driver's wife, I am
happy and proud to be a member
of an organization that contrib
utes as much to the community
life as does the Rogue Valley
Country Club.
Mrs. J. O. Oakes,
Route 1, Box 435
Medford, Ore. '
"Back io the Indians!"
To the Editor: Hoorah for the
Albany Democrats. We need
more newspapers turning to the
right. Our tax structure must
surely have reached an apex by
now.
John Eaton
712 Victory st,
Medford, Ore.
The Therapy of "EASTER"
From the most primitive savage to the most highly cultural, man has always
had an innate, instinctive belief in o "life hereafter," no matter what its form
or its name. Since creation, nothing has brought more solace to the human heart
than the inborn certainty that there is a part of our individualness that is im
mortal. It is the one thing that makes the death of a loved one bearable.
To those who have come in contact with the Christian faith, whether actively
or passively, it is this season of the year that emphasizes the fact that we need
not mourn as those having no hope!
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ment which would be acceptable
to Makarios, as the leader of the
Greek Cypriotes, or to the
Greek government.
The Turkish government made
no secret of its extreme dis
pleasure over Britain's release
of Makarios.
Turkish newspapers, which
directly reflect the government
attitude, are denouncing Ma
karios as "the instigator, in fact
the very personification," of the
terrorism to which the Greek
Cypriote islanders resorted to
in their campaign for "self-determination."
Turkey's fear is that, in its
eagerness for a setUement, Brit
ain may(agree to give the Greek
Cypriotes domination over those
islanders who are of Turkish
stock.
Editorial Comment
LET PEOPLE VOTE ON
DEATH PENALTY
Should the death penalty be
abolished once more in Oregon?
This controversial question
now is at issue in Oregon, which
abolished executions for murder
in 1914, the reverted to them in
1920. It would be submitted to
the people as a constitutional
amendment under terms of house
joint resolution 11 which has
passed the house 49 to 7 and now
is pending in the senate, where
its fate is uncertain.
Simultaneously the question is
at issue in California, where the
legislature is considering several
bills which would either abolish
outright or declare a 5 or 10
year moratorium on executions
by the state.
The question is being hotly
debated in light of the recent
last-minute failure of Gov.
Knight's effort to stay the ex
ecution of Burton W. Abbott,
convicted murderer.
The basic question being de
bated in both states is whether
capital punishment is justifiable
in general and whether it acts
as a deterrent to murder in
particular.
' The evidence, as brought out
in debates in both states and in
a recent International roundup
by the Associated Press, indicates
that capital punishment does not
deter murderers and is headed
for extinction.
If anything, the murder rate
is slightly lower in "no-death-
penalty" states (Michigan, Rhode
Island, Wisconsin, Maine, Minn
esota and North Dakota) and in
38 foreign 1 countries than in
death-penalty states.
For example, in the five-year
period before the death penalty
was abolished in Oregon, 59 con
victed murderers were received
at the state penitntiary. In the
five non-death penalty years
only 36 were received.
This (coupled with the pos
sibility of a miscarriage of just
ice) explains why most prison
officials oppose the death pen
alty. Opponents include Warden
Clarence Gladden of Oregon;
Richard A.: McGee, director of
California's department of cor
rections; Clinton T. Duffy, form
er warden of San Quentin, and
former Warden Lawes of Sing
Sing. . .
The question is vital enough
that the people should have an
other opportunity to pass judg
ment upon it. For this reason,
it is to be hoped that the senate
1 follows the example of the house
by voting to submit it. Oregon
Journal.
$415 Contributed to
Teaching Scholarships
Cave Junction A total of
$415 has been contributed this
year by Illinois VaUey Parent
Teacher associations and other
organizations toward Oregon
teaching scholarships.
Four PTA groups have given
amounts ranging from near $200
to $15. Two Civic Women's
League recently voted $50 to
ward a scholarship for a local
high school girl.
Diplomatic negotiations are
proceeding between Britain and
Turkey in Ankara, the Turkish
capital, and in London.
Ankara dispatches say that if
Britain tries to make any con
cession to the Greek-Cypriotes
that Turkey does not approve,
British-Turkish relations will be
endangered.
The entire situation seems
headed for a deadlock. Turkey
is most unlikely to recognize
any Cyprus settlement in which
Makarios takes part. Makarios
has said that he wiU refuse to
negotiate with representatives
of the Turkish population of
Cyprus. Makarios has said furth
er that he will not negotiate un
less he Is permitted to return to
Cyprus, from which Britain still
bars him.
CITY DOUBLES PARKING
AREA
Albany's new parking com
mission has a tough nut to crack
ignorance. For example, we
were ignorant of the size of the
parking problem. But the com
mission has pretty well estab
lished that if all persons who
use the downtown area were to
be given a parking spot within
500 feet of their destination, at
least a third and probably more
buildings would have to be
cleared off.
That, of course, isn't going to
be done. But it points up the
looming size of the problem.
Other places have problems,
too, which may be a fore-taste
of things to come in Albany if
the commission's findings are
ignored.
For example, a department
store in Memphis, Tenn., has
been unable to buy adjacent
land for parking. Realizing the
strangling effect on its trade, it
purchased the nearest lot sev
eral blocks away. Attendants
now wait outside the store en
trance, help the customer out,
drive the car to the lot and re
turn it on request. It's costly,
but the alternative was to move
into the fringes.
Planning, however, can do the
job. In Bloomington, Illinois,
population 35,000, offstreet park
ing stalls were almost doubled
in the past four years, from 725
to 1,356 spaces.
There are no real mysteries
in the field. The cost and diffi
culty, of solving the problem
are slight in a young growing
city. They increase in direct
proportion to city growth if left
alone. Albany Democrat-Herald.
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