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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 22, 1947 (Tuesday)
About 100 delegates attend
Southern Oregon district confer
ence of the Business and Profes
sional Women's club at Medford
hotel.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Valley
sheepmen have started shearing
their flocks. There is more wool
on the sheep and less over their
eyes, than at any time since "the
dark days of 1933."
20 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1937 (Thunday)
Reinhart and Barker, men's
store, awarded first prize of $20
for having best window decora;
tion to carry out the motif of
pear blossom week.
Members of Jackson County
Livestock association will meet
in the county courthouse next
week, according to E. W. Kubli,
secretary treasurer.
30 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1927 (Friday)
Medford may enter a float
and a musical organization in
the Portland Rose Festival, ac
cording to chember of commerce
officials.
Official of the California
Spray Chemical company is in
Medford this week to study local
spray situation.
40 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1917 (Sunday)
Plans to increase food pro
duction in the Medford area and
to conserve the home food sup
ply, as a war measure, are dis
cussed by Commercial club.
Clarence Burke, pharmacist
with the West Side Pharmacy,
and Burt E. Orr, of Weeks and
Orr, are ordered to active duty
with the Navy.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev
en cr eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Was the first Sunday
school in New England estab
lished in RJ., Mass., or Conn.?
2. Who was nicknamed "Old
Blood and Guts"?
3. Bible: What is the shortest
verse in the Bible?
4. In classical times what
body of water was known as the
Hellespont?
S. Name the capital of Wyom
ig. 6. light months' babies never
live; true or false?
7. In what country is the legis
lative body known as Dail
Eireann?
8. Correct the following: "I
drunk a glass of egg-nog."
9. Is dice, small cubes in
gaming, the singular of die?
10. "I am more hungry than
any w f." John Palsgrave
(1540).
Answers: 1. R.I., Pawlucket
(1793); 2. Gen. George S. Pation
Jr.; 3. "Jesus loves ; 4. The -Dar
danelles; 5. Cheyenne; 6. False;
7. Eire; 8. "I drank a glass of
egg-nog"; 9. No. Plural; 10.
"wolf".
Hatfield, EOC President
Spec
makers at Conference
Pnrtland (U.R) Secretary of
State Mark Hatfield and Dr.
Frank B. Bennett, president of
Eastern Oregon College of tau
11 he the principal
speakers at the statewide lay
men's conference of the Oregon
Council of Churches at Menucha
near Corbett April 27-28.
For and Against
Several newspapers throughout the state are
caught in the age-old dilemma of urging the Oregon
legislature to "keep taxes down," and then turning
around and urging passage
islation regardless of cost.
This is a human failing. It can be seen on every
side (like the time the voters in Marion county voted
FOR a new courthouse and AGAINST the bonds to
pay for it),
If any reader is among those who feel that state
taxes are too high, and who wants to let his represent
atives know about it, the thing to do is to propose
WHERE the budget should be cut. E.A.
More About Taxes
It is a fact that many of the biggest items in the
proposed state budget represent the expressed wishes
of the voters. At one time or another, the voters have
instructed the legislature to institute such and such a
program and then left the problem of where to find
the money to the legislators.
And thoughtful taxpayers are aware of the fact
that the biggest proportion
purposes with which none or few would quarrel
They include such things as fair pay for state em
ployees, including college and university teachers; de
cent state institutions for the mentally ill, for tubercu
losis patients, for blind and
ers; and for public welfare, including old age assist
ance and aid to dependent children.
THE people have also instructed the legislature to
A provide a large portion
the schools.
These are the items which make up the lion's share
of all state expenditures (aside from highways, which
are not financed from the general fund).
If we can agree that it
these basic state services should not be cut down nor
hampered, and, in 'a growing state, should be im
proved, then the areas where economies can be made
are strictly limited.
But there are some.
We believe that each
the state can well be examined with a critical eye, for
new areas of state service,
used to, will continue to grow.
""NE proposal, which would cost an estimated half-
uiiiuun uuuaio wc iusb lew caiO) uiu suuoiaiiuai
sums in the future, is for the state to put up "visitors
information booths" at the borders on each major
highway. Studies show that they are of questionable
value, for vacationers largely know where they're go
ing anyway, and chambers of commerce have long
done excellent work in providing tourist information
when desired. . ,
A meat inspection program undoubtedly has many
good arguments on its side. But the pilot-study con
ducted over the past two years shows that less than a
fraction of 1 per cent of the meat inspected was con
demned. Few cases of human illness or death have
been cited as resulting from uninspected meat. And
meat inspection costs would run into the millions of
dollars over a period of only a few years.
THIS is not to suggest that either or both of these
proposals might not be beneficial or important in
future years. But it is to say that in a year when pres
sure for lower taxes is colliding head-on with demands
lor lunds to operate vital state services, this is the type
of thing which, at the least, could be postponed.
The income tax proposal which was brought out
m the house last week appears, at this distance, to be
as equitable and fair as can
It is the subject of considerable debate, both inter- and
intra-party, and it may well be revised in some details
before it is through the legislature. But chances are
that something close to the
A realistic withholding
tax will help make the bitter pill a bit less bitter, for a
little money paid each week
take than a lot of money
DUT whether taxes are paid in the form of an ex
panded and revised income tax, or a sales tax, or
bysome other method or combination of methods, it
is certain that taxes will continue, and at a rate which
promises to stay at a relatively high level.
They will remain so for
people of Oregon want the
the schools and roads and
and assistance which they
If they didn't want these things, there would be no
problem. The legislature would simply eliminate them,
nobody would care, and
But if the legislature so inuch as looks threatening
ly at some state service that is popular with a group of
people, members hear about it, right now, and m no
uncertain terms.
As long as this continues
in one form or another, will
Monday, April 22, 1957
of their pet pieces of leg
of the budget is going for
deaf children, for prison
of the financial support of
is the majority feeling that
new program proposed for
like those we have become
be hoped for at this time
proposal will be enacted
provision for the income
is easier for most of us to
once a year.
the simple reason that the
things the taxes pay for
institutions and services
demand.
taxes would come down.
to be the case, high taxes,
remain with us. E.A.
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Today and
By Walter
PRESIDENTIAL DISABILITY
Tunis I am writing this ar
ticle on a plane from Palermo to
Tunis, and having lost ipuch
for the time being with imme
diate events, I have been think
ing about one
of our own do
mestic prob
lems, what to
do about a dis
a b 1 e d Presi
dent. There are
really two
schools of
thought on the
problem. The
Walter Lippmann
one holds that if a President is
disabled, there should be a clear
and accepted way by which the
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
licaUon must not exceed 400 words
Waiting for the Day
To the Editor: It is with re
luctance that I place myself on
the firing line, and consequent
ly become a target of irate cham
pions of all policemen, at all
times, under all circumstances.
However, I feel obligated to reg
ister objection to such insult to
our intelligence as was recently
published in this column, and
signed with the initials "A.U."
I am quick to agree that this
city has many good police of
ficers, some of whom I have
personal knowledge, but let me
remind that one bad apple can
spoil the barrel.
Let us inquire, do you, "A.U.,
subscribe to arrests being made
when absolutely no laws have
been violated? Have you been
arrested solely because an of
ficer dislikes you for some minor
reason? Did an officer attempt
an arrest at your home without
having a warrant, and upon your
refusal to surrender, argue vig
orously that no warrant is need
ed? All this before any com
plaint has been signed, and over
a minor incident. Did any of
your fine officers ever compel
someone to sign a complaint
against you when the person was
obviously unwilling to do so?
Did an officer ever tell you that
he arrested you just because he
happened to see you? Have you
been the victim of a beating
within the sanctuary of the po
lice station? Did officers, anxious
to try out the latest "F.B.I."
methods of arresting dangerous
criminals, make deliberate at
tempts at breaking your arms?
(In the event that you should
later complain, they can always
say you were resisting arrest.)
Have you spent thousands of
dollars clearing yourself of
charges, of which you can say
with a -clear conscience, you
were innocent? Have you made
an attempt to sue this city for
violation of your civil rights,
only to find that for some mys
terious reason, no attorney in
this vicinity will even consider
such an action, regardless of how
strong the evidence? Did a Med
ford police officer, in Municipal
Court while on the witness stand
Under oath, commit deliberate
perjury in order to justify mak
ing an arrest against your per
son? Have you, "A.U.," suffered
all sorts of adverse publicity in
the p.ess as the result of false
arrest?
Have you been extorted into
signing an agreement that you
will not sue the City of Med
ford, and have you met with
complete refusal in having a
copy of the, supposedly legal
document, recorded with the
County Recorder?
" Such conditions, as I have set
forth, could not continue year
after year without the knowl
edge and approval of superiors.
I think a cleanup is in order,
and I am gathering evidence and
waiting for the day.
W. L. Hurst,
1125 West 10th,
Medford, Ore.
3 '.'JWU((
Tomorrow
Lippmann
Vice President can assume the
powers but not the -office of
President. If the President re
covers, the Vice President steps
down agam.
The other school holds that
as long as the President is alive,
it can cause only confusion and
trouble if there are two Presi
dents the elected President
who holds the office and the
Vice President who exercises his
power.
As Mr. Joseph C. Harsch has
explained recently, those who
take the second view believe
that when the President is dis
abled, his powers can most faith
fully be exercised by a 'kind of
informal regency consisting of
the senior members of his own
Cabinet and of his White House
staff. This was in fact what hap
pened when Woodrow Wilson
was ill, and it happened again
when President Eisenhower was
ill.
TN dealing with this problem.
the first thing we have to
realize is that there is no such
thing, indeed that there can be
no such thing, as a happy and
entirely satisfactory solution. It
is a calamity when the Presi
dent becomes disabled, and no
statut or Constitutional amend
ment can do more than to miti
gate some of the consequences.
But on the whole the best of
the solutions is, it seems to me,
the one proposed by President
Aisenhower. This rests on two
basic principles. One is that the
President himself should be the
judge of his own disability.
The other principle is that
while the President is alive, the
Vice President shall not assume
the office of President, and shall
exercise the powers of the of
fice subject to the -President's
unquestioned rig!.t to take back
the powers if he feels able to do
so.
This seems to me to avoid
any suggestion that some kind
of tribunal or commission of
eminent men should sit in judg
ment on the President's ability
to exercise his power. It is bet
ter to leave it to the President
himself to judge whether he
fees well enough to administer
his office, and in case he is un
conscious, to have the Cabinet
act in his behalf.
It is possible, of course, to
imagine a condition of affairs
which would not be met by this
solution. The most obvious ex
ample which comes to mind
would be the case of a President
who gradually became mentally
incompetent without realizing
the fact or being willing to rec
ognize it. My own view of this
possibility is that as we cannot
foresee and prepare for all even
tualities, it is the part of wis
dom to say that if and when
such a situation arises, the rem
edy should be worked out by
those who know all the facts
of so unusual and so peculiar a
situation.
IF we are going to amend the
Constitution to deal with this
problem, we ought at least to
- nsider restoring what was al
most surely the original intent
of the founders. This was, so
have always understood, that if
the Vice President succeeds, it
shall be not for the remainder
of the President's four-year term
but only until in the normal
course of things new elections
can be held. This would be at
mi term if the President died
o esigned in the first two
years. It would be at the regular
Presidential election time if he
resigned or died in the last two
years.
The value of such a reform
would be that it would reduce to
a minimum the time during
which a man, never in fact elect
ed to be President, exercised the
powers of that high office.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Camp Pendleton, Calif. J.R)
The Marine Corps has re
vealed that the first Marine
Division is undergoing reorgani
zation aimed at giving it greater
mobility for atomic warfare.
U.S. Reminded Panama
Sovereignty
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent j
President Ernesto de la Guar-1
dia of Panama has just remind
ed the United States that his
ssswl rnnntrv rlflims
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s o v e r e ignty
over the Pan
ama Canal
zone.
He has said
also that the
question of
seeking na
tion alization
of the canal
zone is not a
Charles 11. McCaun
public issue in Panama at this
time. He said other Panamani
an have intimated that the Unit
ed States may be asked before
long to increase substantially
the revenue which Panama gets
from the canal a rental fee of
$1,930,000 a year.
Canal revenues for the fiscal
year ended last June 30 totaled
$40,856,995. Expenses, including
depreciation, totalled $16,138,-
277, leaving a balance of $24,-
718,718.
La Guardia's statement that
nationalization is not an issue
ight now mav be taken to mean
that if there happened to be
come a live one.
Canal Frequent Topic
The status of the canal has
been mentioned frequently ever
since Egyptian President Gamal
Abdel Nasser seized control of
the Suez canal.
Russia, among other coun
tries, has expressed the convic
tion that the canal ought to be
internationalized.
The British Labor ' party is
sued a pamphlet last Wednesday
suggesting that the United Na
lions be given supervisory
rights" over the Panama canal,
the English channel, the Strait
of Gibraltar and other great in
ternational waterways.
The question of Panama canal
sovereignty has been in. dispute
ever since Panama became a re
public in 1903 after revolting
against Colombia.
Panama's position, as reassert
ed by de la Guardia in a ques
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Tax note:
A big corporation in Chicago
paid enough income tax this
year to give everybody in the
country a dollar bill and still
have several million dollars left
over.
The internal revenue office
discloses that fact but (quite
properly) declines to reveal the
identity of the corporation. '
THE story, as carried by the
niwc tplptvne. is a bit vapne
It speaks of income tax paid
"this year." It doesn't say wheth
er the corporation in question
paid ALL of its income tax at
once, or only an installment.
The story gets into the news as
one of those little bits of infor
mation that we all find interest
ing. The newspaper professionals
call them "livener-uppers."
But
You will note
It relates that this big outfit
paid enough income tax to give
everybody in the country a dol
lar bill and still have some dol
lar bills left over. That would
indicate that it paid somewhere
around 170 million dollars.
LET'S put if like this: . .
Tf this riiiy rnncpm'B inpnme
tax had been DOUBLED, it
would have' saved YOU as an
individual (theoretically) only a
dollar one measly dollar bill,
enough to buy about four pack
ages of cigarettes or maybe two
or three gallons of gasoline.
And
If its taxes had been doubled
It would have had to raise the
prices of its products so that in
the course of time you would
have lost the dollar.
THE point is that taxation is
a highly complicated subject,
with many, many ramifications.
HERE'S one ramification:
Suppose we relieved ALL
individuals . of ALL taxes and
socked the wicked corporations
with the whole load.
What would happen then?
HERE'S what would happen:
The corporations which,
big and little, produce the bulk i
of the goods we consume would
then have to RAISE THEIR
PRICES SHARPLY. Either that
or they would all go broke and
their employees would lose their
jobs and their ' stockholders
would lose their investments. .. . i
And : !
The increase in prices would j
take out of your pocket what j
you would save by having "no '
taxes to pay. '
Needy Italian Widow
Wins $211,300 Jackpot
Rome -MU.R) Mrs. Marietta
Gheza, a 32-year-old needy wid
ow, won $211,300 Sunday by
being the only person to . pick
correctly the result of all 13
matches in the Italian football
pool weekly contest.-
Mrs. Gheza, who lives with
her widowed mother and sup
ports an eight-year-old daugh
ter, hit the jack pot with a 16
cent bet.
Over Canaf
tionnaire last week, is that the
United States was merely
granted "jurisdictional" rights
to construct, maintain, operate
and protect the canal.
The position of the United
States was defined by Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles in
a press conference last August.
As Dulles put it, the United
States posses all the rights that
it would have if the Canal zone
were American property and
Panama has no right to exer
cise any "sovereign rights, pow
er or authority."
Until 1903, Panama was a
province of Colombia. When the
revolution broke out, Colombia
sent troops to crush it.
Marines Landed
Forty - seven U n it e d States
Marines, landing from the crui
ser Nashville, stopped the Co
lombians. President Theodore
Roosevelt, in' authorizing that
action, cited a United States-
Colombian treaty of 1846, which
gave the United States the right
of transit across the isthmus of
Matter of Fact
THE RICHARDS MENACE
Amman, Jordan The new
generals who have, at length,
been chosen to lead the Arab
Legion, are un
qufestiona b 1 y
loyal to King
Hussein. So
now the Am
erican State
Department of
fers the most
immed i a t e
threat to the
new govern-
Joseph Aisop ment which
has rescued this little country
from a strong pro-Soviet trend.
The State Department's threat
takes the amiable form of ex
Congressman James P. Rich
ards. There is nothing outwardly
menacing, of course, about the
former chairman of the House
Foreign . Affairs committee,
whom Secretary of State Dulles
named as a roving ambassador
in the Middle East to appease
angry Senators and Representa
tives. Since the methods of Madison
ave. are not well understood in
the Middle East, a good many
people in these parts have been
a bit bewildered by the spectacle
of our new roving ambassador
peddling the Eisenhower Doe
trine like a new brand of soap
flakes.
The Egyptians and Syrians
have been enraged, really, be
cause the new doctrine will tend
to benefit Iraq. But here in Jor
dan, Congressman Richards is
a special problem.
.
rFHERE are several reasons for
this. In the first place, a great
many people in Jordan, and
throughout the Middle East, are
convinced that American influ
ence was at work somewhere
behind the scenes in the amazing
crisis that has just been sur
mounted. It does not matter that the
schemers who wished to seal
the fate of Jordan very plainly
over-reached themselves. It does
not matter that no one had suf
ficiently allowed for the strong
loyalty of the Bedouin tribes
men to King Hussein. It does
not matter that King Hussein
himself displayed a boy's story
book brand of courage.
In the Middle East, everyone
is accustomed to explaining
every political development in
terms of the machinations of the
great powers. So the explanation
of ' American influence is pre
ferred to the much simpler and
more obvious explanation.
In the second place, everyone
here all too clearly remembers
the extraordinary visit of Brit
ish Gen. Sir Gerald Templer,
who was sent to Amman to com
mand Jordan to join the Bagh
dad Pact. Templer's visit touch
ed off the terrible riots which
signaled the beginning of the end
of Jordan's connection with Britr
ain. .
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Panama. He held that under the
treaty the United States under
took to keep the isthmus open,
and that a civil war would close
it.
It happened that the Panama
revolution broke out shortly
after the Colombian senate re
fused to ratify a treaty provid
ing for construction of the
canal.
Roosevelt has been accused
ever since of fomenting the
revolution. There is no evidence
that he did so. But there was
also criticism of what some peo
ple called his indecent haste in
recognizing Panama.
Roosevelt also once said of
the canal: "I took it." It is gen
erally forgotten than when a
French engineer who heard him.
claimed to have engineered the
revolt, Roosevelt added that he
took it "when it was handed to
me on a silver platter."
The United States later paid
Colombia $25 million in settle
ment for recognizing its canal
rights.
By Joseph Alsop
TN THE eyes of a great many
people here, including a con
siderable number of friends of
the West, Congressman Richards
coming here to peddle the Eis
enhower Doctrine looks suspic
iously like Sir Gerald Templer
coming here, to peddle the Bagh
dad Pact.
In these circumstances, a Rich
ards visit, if it materializes, wiU
offer the large local over-supply
of Egyptian and Communist
agents, and nationalist left-wing
demagogues, their ideal chance
for a comeback.
As Congressman Richard's
hosts, King Hussein and his new
government will have before
them only two possible alterna
tives: Either they must accept the
risk of very serious disorders,
which may well get altogether
out. of hand. Or they must take
military and police- precautions
of the most extreme nature.
That would certainly be embar
rassing to the government which
ought to be embarrassing to the
State Department and Congress
man Richards. Also the purpose'
of his trip may not work out in
any case.
rTHESE highly unpleasant alter
native result of a Richards
visit have been explained to the
State Department with rather
desperate insistence. The sug
gestion has been made that Con
gressman Richards can just pos
sibly omit Jordan from his itin
erary. But as these words are being
written, the State Department's
powerfully reasoned answer still
stands: that it is better for Con
gressman Richards to come and
be refused, than for Congress
man Richards not to come at all.
Perhaps this answer will have
been changed before these words
can be printed. But the story of
the Richards menace and the
State Department's handling of
the Richards menace still con
tains two vital morals for the
American Middle-Eastern policy
makers. THE first is the simple fact
that in this insanely compli
cated area, it is not possible to
make national policy successful
ly with one eye on the ball and
the other on Congress. Both eyes
on the ball are essential.
As for the second moral, it is
not very difficult either. All
we want in Jordan is for that
country to remain independent,
to avoid becoming either an out
right Egyptian satellite or a pro
Soviet stooge, and to refrain
from the popular Middle-Eastern
sport of kicking the West in the
belly.
To get this, it is not necessary
to ask Jordan to adhere to doc
trines, declarations, preachments
or palavers. Both sides keeping u
their mouths shut is the wiser
Course.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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