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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
AprU 19. 1947 (Saturday)
The first production of the
Medford Civic Theater's junior
workship will be held in the
Jackson school auditorium.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The senior
class of Old Medford will walk
ut into the cold, cruel, and
Biessed up world armed with a
diploma May 28.
23 YEARS AGO
AprU 19, 1937 (Monday)
Arrangements completed for
the quadriennial state conven
tion of the Royal Neighbors of
America.
The Rogue River Valley Can
ning company canned and sold
about 30,000 cases of Bartlett
pears this week in connection
with Pear Week.
30 YEARS AGO
AprU 19, 1927 (Tuesday)
The Jackson County Traffic
association and the Medford
Chamber of Commerce work to
gether to organize a fruitgrow
ers' League of Jackson county.
J. C. Thompson elected direc
tor in charge f the Medford
Chamber of Commerce member
ship campaign.
40 YEARS AGO
AprU 19, 1917
Three-year plan for construc
tion of forest roads in Jackson
county announced by state high
way department, according to
district forester Cecil.
City council orders Police
Chief Hittson to remove all
portable signs from sidewalks
in front of stores and hallways.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en er eight Is excellent: five er
six Is good.
1. The first printing establish
ment west of the Rocky Moun
tains was set up in Washington,
California or Oregon?
2. In measuring horses, what
is the length of a "hand?"
3. Bible: To whom did the
Lord say "Go forth now to meet
Ahaz?"
4. Six cylinder automobile
engines operate on the four-cycle
principle; on what principle do
eight-cylinder a u t o m o bile en
gines operate?
5. In which country is the
newspaper Pravda published?
6. What country controls the
Sea of Azov?
7. Which do cooks regard as
more tender and tasty calf liver
or beei liver?
8. A fortnight is a week end,
two weeks, or one month?
9. The adverb "maybe" may
be properly used as one or two
words in a sentence; true or
false?
10. "The auld kirk-hammer
strak the bellSome wee short
hour ayant the twal." Burns.
What is a "kirk-hammer" and
"twal?"
Answers: 1. Oregon (Walla
Walla, 1839). 2. Four inches.
3. Isaiah. 4. The same four-cycle
principle. 5. Soviet Russia. 6.Sov
iet Russia. 7. Calf liver. 8. Two
weeks. 9. False. One word only.
10. Church-hammer; twelve.
A REVOLTIN' DEVELOPMENT
Myrtle Beach, S.C. U.PJ
The Civitan Club appointed a
committee to go out and find a
"Miss Myrtle Beach" to enter
the state beauty contest because
no contestants entered a bathing
beauty contest they had spon
sored, s
MAIL TRIBUNE
Who s Crazy Now?
Unreasoning suspicion, dreams and delusions of
grandeur, a failure to assume responsibility, and a
strong tendency to have unresolvable and conflicting
viewpoints have long been recognized as symptoms
of mental illness.
Actually, we are convinced that everyone has
moments of mental unbalance. It may be no more than
the mental equivalent of a cold in the head, but we
all are familiar with periods of depression, the dreams
of glory and wealth, the inordinate suspicions, which,
if earned to an extreme, carry a person over the
blurred line between what we call "sanity" and "in
sanity." a e e e e
A PHYSICIAN now comes up with the theory that
" whole cities, as well as individuals, can suffer
from a form of mental illness.
Dr. Andrew S. Tomb of Texas, a general prac
titioner who has worked with the American Psychi
atric association to broaden the family doctors' fa
miliarity with mental illness, declared that towns can,
in fact, get emotionally sick, just like humans, and
that this can adversely affect the mental health of
their people.
He classed some towns as schizoid clinging to
the past, yet wanting new and better things. They re
fuse to vote school bonds, for example, but on the
other hand resent and reject split-shifts and over
crowding in schoolrooms.
ZITHER towns can become psychopathic in reject
ing responsibility, idling along with no regrets
and no worries for the future. Some are in a "depres
sive phase" of social and economic decadence, while
others are manic boom-towns, growing too fast with
out enough schools, streets, health facilities, police
protection, and so on or so says the doctor. !
Yet he believes that these "community mental
ills" can be spotted and corrected. And he thinks that
a town's doctors have a real role to play in diagnosis
and cure.
When a town is suffering from such an ailment,
he declares, its effects show up in the doctors' patients
as individuals, as well as in broader, more public
symptoms.
THIS is an interesting theory.
That cities do run "higher temperatures" at some
times (such as just before a crucial election) than at
others, is certainly evident in newspaper offices.
And that there are periods of "depression," emo
tional as well as economic, and periods of general
optimism and satisfaction, is equally evident.
The temper of an entire community can be af
fected by external events, just as is true with indi
viduals. TF THE good doctor's diagnosis is cfrrect, how would
we go about diagnosing Medford's current health?
Generally speaking, we would say that it is going
through a period of mild and generalized depression
and worry. The lumber market is still slow. The wea
ther has been spotty, with a few gorgeous days sand
wiched in between periods of cold and rain. There
are too many people temporarily out of work. A rash
of juvenile depredations by a small minority of our
young people has caused worry and soul-searching
among those genuinely concerned with, the coming
generation.
It has divided (schizoid?) feelings about a lot of
public affairs. It wants the best possible school system,
yet is concerned over the tax level. The same conflict
is apparent regarding all the other services the city
provides. It wa!hts the benefits of a good highway
freeway, yet is unconvinced that a route through the
middle of town is the best place for it.
e
rESPITE these symptoms, however, we would pro-
nounce Medford's mental health GOOD.
It has a strong and generous heart (which, no
matter what doctors might say, is a real necessity for
true sanity). "When the chips are down it usually
makes the right decision.
It has not for many years gotten itself into a dam
aging, knock-down-and-drag-out donnybrook, leav
ing unhealed scars. For the past decade or so, it has
talked out its differences with itself, and come out
of it healthier and better-equipped tcface the inevit
able problems of the future.
No, Medford isn't ready for the asylum yet. We
don't foresee the day when it will be. E.A.
Disrespect for Law
There has been a spirited debate going on in our
"Communications" column
juvenile delinquency what it is, what causes it, and
how to cope with it
There is, of course, no single answer to as broad
and complicated a problem and one of such im
portance to our future as this.
DUT we ran across a comment the other day which
illuminates one phase of
William B. McKesson of
Juvenile Court Judges.
He said :
Why do kids break the law? They see adults doing it
and getting away v.ith it! We don't need to waste our time
wringing our hands in holy horror over the "goings-on" of
youth when we proudly boast of how we "fooled the cop,"
"talked him out of a ticket," "slipped one over on the in
come tax department," or took advantage of a "legal loop
hole." Little pitchers still have big ears, and many a young
ster gets his attitude about disrespect for law right in his
own home or from some adult he admires.
E.A.
Friday, April 19, 1957
in recent days regarding
it, certainly. It is by Judge
the National Council of
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'OPEN THIS DOOR
AT OHCll'
Babson Discusses
Education,
BY ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Fla. Let me
first apoligize to the millions of
readers of my column for my
c r 1 1 icism oi
Aff-U. I high school
I 'M'lK I teachers. I
wiiiie mey are
urging higher
pay and new
' b u i 1 d i n gs,
their products
are inferior to
the products of
Roger w. Babson 40 years ago.
My experience had been largely
with girls supposedly trained for
secretarial work, but who can
not read intelligently, spell cor
rectly, do fractions, typewrite ef
ficiently, or use correct English.
One day about a year ago. Mr.
J. C. Council, Publisher of the
Tampa Tribune, decided to make
a practical test of the H i 1 ls
borough County High school. He
explained to the teachers of these
and other high school what he
was endeavoring to accomplish
and how it should be done. He
selected three dates, the last of
March, and engaged one of the
large Fair buildings having ex
hibit booths. Each high school
class was asked to make an ex
hibit of some existing or future
scientific problem. They could
make a television set, or an elec
tric burner, or an electric eye,
or something else already exist
ing. Or, these students could
imagine and illustrate some new
invention that may come in the
future. Each class was assigned
a booth with tables and elec
trical connections.
The day I was there, teachers
were present and the students
came in 50 school busses. A few
could not help pinching and ex
ploding some balloons for weath
er forecasting. Otherwise, these
several thousand students be
haved excellently. With my fur
ther apology to the girls I
found the grand prize was taken
by a girl, Barbara Buerke. How
ever, she was not trained to be
a "secretary" but a commercial
artist. Frankly, I was emotional
ly moved to see the great in
terest and intelligence that most
of thse students showed. I came
home bullish on our youth if
they are allowed to work on sub
jects in which they are interested
under the "Core" teaching as
advocated by Dr. Arthur Combs
of the University of Flordia.
Selecting Future Leaders
Of course, there were great
differences among these boys and
girls. Most of them followed the
crowd and stopped only at
booths surrounded by many peo
ple. Others were satisfied to col
lect free circulars and pictures.
These were the boys who should
be content to always do manual
work and the .girls who should
aim to be good wives and moth
ers. Many of these youths, how
ever, had brought notebooks and
made drawings on certain ex
hibits they were very serious.
For some strange reason, the
majority of them had red hair or
were blond!
Each year the three colleges
which my family sponsors, Bab
son Institute for Men, Webber
College for Women, and the Mid
West Institute, are visited by per
sonnel directors of large cor
porations seeking the best grad
uates. They look first for grad
uates of good character who have
done well in their' extra-curricular
work and have perhaps
become officers of their classes.
They want graduates with in
itiative rather than those con
tent with making good marks.
After my day with these Tampa
youths I am sure that these per
sonnel "scouts" should start by
Thomas H. Emmens,M.D.
Announces the Association of
John T. Weisel, M.D.
Practice Limited to Eye
301 FLUHRER BLDG.
didn't work.
Teaching
discovering such students when
they are in high school, rather
than wait until they are about
to graduate from college.
That High Schools Need
Truly this group of Tampa
young people with whom I as
sociated are a "gold mine." I
could pick out the leaders of
Tampa's future without looking
at their examination papers or
marks. I found, however, that
some of the boys whom I would
select were not popular with
their teachers. Perhaps some of
the students felt that their teach
ers are not too able and are in
terested only in their salary and
not in their students. It is a com
mon thing to know people who
have a "green thumb" with flow
ers or a way with animals; they
can get first prizes' in flower
shows and can easily train anim
als. This is not because they are
better educated in horticulture
or biology, but because they love
flowers and love animals. The
same principle may apply to
teachers,
I wish that publishers in each
of the 400 cities carrying my
weekly column could follow the
example of J. C. Council of the
Tampa Tribune. I realize that a
few other cities are already hold
ing similar "Fairs," but it would
be a wonderful thing if such
"Fairs" could take place once
a year, or at least once in four
years, in each of these 400 cities.
The program would fill a great
need in most communities. It
would be greatly appreciated by
teachers and graduates. It would
help to hold these high school
graduates within their own state
for a college education, rather
than lose them to some other
community.
One More Thought
I believe more attention should
be given to higher post-graduate
work two years following col
lege. In order to secure appropri
ations, presidents of State Un
iversities appear to feel that they
must have as large an enrollment
as possible. Naturally, the aver
age native intelligence decreases
as the number of students in
creases. This tends to reduce the
standards for graduation.
As a result, these more efficient
students too often do not return
to the cities which educated
them. They take post-graduate
work in some other state and
then remain there. I am not rul
ing out a higher education for
those fitted only for trades or
manual work. I, however, am
arguing that the future of every
city depends on holding the most
efficient and ablest students.
Cities brag too much about their
population totals when their fu
ture really depends on the char
acter, initiative and efficiency of
their high school graduates. Let
us hold these young people at
home in the cities which raised
them.
Editorial
Comment
THE TAX CUT CHORUS
Along about this time of year,
every year, some members of
congress sing a song of tax-cutting.
It's an alluring song. It
has a lilt which catches the ear
of every overburdened taxpay
er. And who doesn't belong in
this category? ...
Certainly, the budget is big
And there is waste that should
be eliminated. But before we be
come too scandalized at the size
of it, let's remember that in re
lation to the gross national pro
duct it is smaller than in some
ing of Jordanian Crisis Tops ,
List of Good, Bad News of Week
Bv CHARLES M. MrTlNN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
Twenty-one-year-old King Hus
sein of Jordan won a victory
over the leftist - slanted, pro-
12lT!?fI Egyptian ele
ments ,i n his
government
and armed
forces who had
threatened his
throne.
After ousting
Premier Sulei
m a n Nabulsi,
leader of his
Charles McCa.no political ene
mies, Hussein named moderate,
pro-Western Hussein Fakhri Kha
lidi as his successor.
Hussein then fired Maj. Gen.
Ali Abu Nuwar, his chief army
opponent, as chief of staff. In
Nuwar's place Hussein named
Maj. Gen. Ali Hayyari, leader of
loyal army forces.
Disarmament Hopes Rise
. Hope rose that a United Na
tions disarmament committee,
Communications
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words.
Parents Need More Nerve
To the Editor: I want to
heartily endorse Mrs. Jane Gil
laspie's letter in the Sunday
Mail Tribune regarding the Ki
wanis Committee to try to re
move harmful magazines from
the newsstands.
A committee cannot do what
the parents of children reading
the trash are unable or unwill-.
ing to do. When we parents set
our children the right example
and at least try to enforce some
sort of standards for our chil
dren, instead of letting them do
what the "rest of the kids' are
doing, then possibly a commit
tee to curb juvenile delinquency
can accomplish something to
ward removing objectionable
matter from newsstands, T.V.
and movies.
If we parents are too busy
about our own concerns or too
lax in our own standards, why
should we expect juvenile au
thorities and committees, and
school teachers to make our chil
dren over after we have started
them in wrong habits? Even
when we take our responsibili
ties seriously, it is hard enough
to raise teen agers .these days
when a car is a necessity and
they can do so many things we
didn't have an opportunity to do
The other day, an excellent
instructor in a class I am taking
at Southern Oregon college said
that as teachers it would be our
duty to cultivate the pupils'
taste for the better music, litera
ture, and art, to wean them
away from the trash that is so
available on every hand. But
what can a teacher do against
the more popular radio, T.V.,
movies, comic books, plus in
different parents? It looks hope
less to me.
As the mother of two teen
age sons who are just as independent-minded
as any of them
(maybe a little more so) I can
agree with the mother of a boy
who got into trouble and was
sent to MacLaren School (also
a letter in Sunday M.T.) when
she said a father should give
his children love and companion
ship, instead of feeling he has
done enough to feed and clothe
them. Many times our ranch
work has been neglected in
favor of Dad helping the boys
with their projects, this from
the days when they were tod
dlers till Scouts and 4-H age.
past years. And let us remem
ber too that for the third year
in the row the budget will be
balanced.
As Columnist Roscoe Drum
mond has said, "The president's
budget is not a desire for large
spending per se, but a recogni
tion of the imperatives of the
cold war, a determination to
use conservative methods to
meet social needs, not to neglect
them, and a conviction that con
servatives can hold the reins of
government only by so doing.''
Despite aU the flurry, we pre
dict that what congress will do
to the budget in the end will be
considerably less than sensa
tional. And we predict that the
siren song of the tax-cutter will
fade away over the hill for an
other year. Oregon Journal.
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meeting in London, might get
started soon, after years oi ei
fort on the first stage of reduc
ing the armaments of the great
powers.
President Eisenhower disclosed
at a press conference in Wash
ington that Harold Stassen, chief
American delegate at the London
conference, had sent a most opti
mistic report of prospects.
Stassen told the President that
the atmosphere in the talks had
improved and that the negotia
tions were in the most serious
that is, the most promising sit
uation since the end of World
War II.
Makarios Comes To Athens .
Archbishop Makarios, leader
of the Greek-Cypriotes who want
Great Britain to turn over the
Mediterranean island of Cyprus
to Greeee, arrived in Athens and
was welcomed as a national
hero. Britain, in a new attempt
to negotiate a settlement of the
dispute, had released Makarios
from internment on an Indian
Ocean island.
But prospects for a settlement
seemed remote. Makarios said on
his arrival in the Greek capital
This may have been to the detri
ment of income financially but
it certainly has paid off in keep
ing two high-spirited boys oc
cupied and out of trouble.
We parents just can't shift
our responsibility to others, even
though the old "rod in the hand"
discipline is out with the horse
and buggy. There are other lev
ers just as effective if we have
nerve to face the storm of teen
age disapproval. I remember
telling my Dad he was out of
date, and that all the other kids
did this and that!
Mrs. Lawson Scott Jr.,
Route 3, Box 240-C,
Medford, Ore.
Why Not Pay for Blood?
To the Editor: In connection
with a recent article in your
issue of Friday, April 12, .con
cerning the lack of blood donors
in this area, I should like to
make the following comment:
During the mid-thirties "vhile
stationed in the Navy at Pearl
Harbor, T.H., I recall that one
of the larger hospitals in Hono
lulu always had a plentiful sup
ply of both blood and donors.
mainly from servicemen, by the
simple expedient of paying each
donor promptly and cheerfully
the sum of $5 for each pint of
blood they gave.
I feel quite sure if a local
permanent blood bank were .set
up on the same basis, it would
succeed in bringing in a suffi
cient number of donors and if,
say, a sum of $10 were paid for
each pint of blood the amount
would be more than sufficient
for this area. Since, hospitals
charge their patients for blood
given them; I see no logical rea
son why the donor should not
also receive something for giv
ing it. At least it would be worth
a try.
D. W.,
(Name on File)
Central Point, Ore.
He Signs His Name
To the Editor: Mr. A. U. seems
to think because it was a police
officer involved, that he couldn't
be wrong. For your edification
Mr. "A.U." let me say that r
gardless who you are you can be
wrong as well as the next per
son. I do not know any one con
nected with this case.
Perhaps the lady was in the
wrong, perhaps the officer1 was,
I don't know. I do know that
because a man swears to obey,
support and uphold the law, it
doesn't make him invulnerable
to mistakes. Would you say Mr.
A. U. that the two officers in
California that were convicted
of rape were upholding the law?
Or that the ' one in Oklahoma
convicted of murder was obey
ing the law? Or the one here in
Medford convicted of stealing
was supporting the law? Maybe
this will give you one of those
infrequent belly laughs.
I have read several of your
letters to the Editor and ad
mired most of them. This last
one leaves a bad taste in my
mouth. Also Mr. A. U., I am
signing my name.
Joe Cabler,
Box 668,
Jacksonville, Ore.
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that he intended to intensify the
fight to compel Britain to give
up Cyprus. Turkey indicated
clearly that it is unlikely to agree
to any Cyprus settlement which
would be satisfactory to Makar
ios and to Greece. Cyprus is only
about 45 miles from the Turkish
mainland and nearly 600 from
Greece. Greece never has pos
sessed Cyprius. If Britain ever
gives it up Turkey wants it.
Turkey ruled Cyprus for cen
turies before Britain took it over.
Jordan
The struggle in Jordan be
tween King Hussein and his ene
mies had not only threatened the
young monarch personally but
had brought the possibility of a
war involving Arab countries'
and Israel that might have ended
Jordan's short life as a nation.
For months, pro-Communist,
anti-Western elements in the gov
ernment and army had been in
control of Jordan's policies. They
had allied themselves with Pres
ident Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt.
There had been Increasingly
clear indications in recent weeks,
however, that Hussein and mod
erates who support him were
challenging the leftist control.
This challenge was brought to
the showdown point when Hus
sein ousted Premier Nabulsi.
For the present, at least, pro-
Western Hussein is top man.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The spending policies of the
federal government that is to
say, whether to spend more and
tax more or to spend less and tax
less are obviously growing in
importance as a national issue.
They have reached the point
of argument in the Eisenhower
family.
EDGAR, Ike's older brother,
told reporters the other day
he is "mystified" about the ad
ministration's fiscal policies and
said he would like to discover
what influences are at work to
have apparently changed his
brother's mind about government
spending.
He said he can't understand
"what persuaded Dwight to go
for all that big budget this year"
after having promised in cam
paign speeches to try to decrease
government spending.
" Edgar, however, denied pub
lished reports that he believed
at one time that another brother,
Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was re
sponsible for the P r e s i dent's
switch to liberal views on spend
ing. "The only thing I know
about Milton's feelings on the
matter were the remarks he
made in a speech to a group of
educators."
THAT brought Brother Earl irk
to the picture.
He spoke up in defense of
Edgar's right to criticize the fed
eral'budget. He added: "I
wouldn't say I agree with Edgar
about the size of the budget, but
I think federal aid to higher
education would be a tragedy.
Fdgar, however, has a right to
say what he pleases."
WHAT of Ike?
Ike laughed it off in his
usual good-humored manner, say
ing" in Washington this morning:
"Edgar has been criticizing me
since I was five years old." .
The Eisenhower family, you
see, is a typical American family
with this difference: What
ever ANY Eisenhower says is
BIG NEWS.
LET'S get down now to the nub
of the issue.
What about Ike and his views
on spending which admittedly
DO seem to have changed quite
a little recently?
FOR a possible answer to that
question, let's turn to Cactus
Jack Garner, former vice-pes-ident,
who is now living in quiet
and apparently happy retirement
on his ranch in Texas.
He was interviewed a while
back by one of the editors of
U. S. News and World Report.
Questioned on this same subject
(of Ike's seeming change of views
on government) he expressed im
mense respect for the President.
He then added in substance:
We must remember that Pres
ident Eisenhower is a dedicated
nrnfessional soldier. The creed of
thp dedicated Drofessional sold
ier is to GET THE JOB DONE
regardless of what it costs.
That is his training. That is
th: crushing responsibility that
rests on nis snouiaers mrougn
out all of his professional life.
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