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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
May 1. 1947 (Thursday)
Jackson county's 20 home ex
tension units celebrate annual
xpring Homemakers' Festival.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
S3udge Pot column: Farmers
and fruitmen would now love
rain in May, as much as they
cussed it in December.
20 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1937 (Saturday)
Solo numbers by young artists
of the valley will be part of the
program of Medford junior sym
phoney orchestra, under the di
rection of John R. Knight, Sun
day.
Bears in
Crater Lake national ,
merging from winter
park are emerging
hibernation according to David
H. Canfield, park superintend
ent. 30 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1927 (Sunday)
Work begins in business dis
trict on new city directory of
Medford.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Rogue River Valley
College Women's club will meet
at the home of Mrs. L. E. Wil
liams, 520 South Peach st.
40 YEARS AGO
May 1, 1917 (Tuesday)
Mrs. R. J. Conroy elected
president of Greater Medford
club.
From Local and Personal
column: E. M. Brown, manager
of the Rogue River Canal com
pany, returns from business trip
to Spokane.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en cr eUht Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In 1800 did Spain conclude
a treaty passing the property
and sovereignty of Louisiana to
France or to the U. S.?
2. Which of these states is
smallest in area: Delaware,
unoae isiana, or Connecticut.'
3. Bible: When Herod died
who appeared in a dream before
Joseph in Egypt?
4. Excise taxes are levied upon
Individuals, upon corporations,
upon real estate, or upon com
modities? 5. Witches, devils and elves
are supposed to be abroad on
what evening of the year?
6. Reggio Calabria is on the
Italian shore of which Straits?
7. Name the author of the
book "The Good Earth."
8. Which state was referred to
during the anti-slavery agitation I
as "bleeding."
9. Are the words "levy" and
"levee" pronounced alike?
10. With one hand he putA
penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a "
(what?).... out." R. Pollock.
Answers: 1. France. 2. Rhode
Island. 3. "An angel of the Lord."
4. Commodities. 5. Halloween.
6. Straits of Messina. 7. Pearl S.
Buck. 8. Kansas. 9. Yes. As in
"heavy." 10. "shilling."
Marion County Man Dies
As Fire Levels Cabin
Salem '(U.R) Frank Guth
rie, 65, was fatally injured
when fire destroyed his one
room cabin at Clear lake, seven
miles north of. Salem, Tuesday.
Marion county sheriff's depu
ties said the blaze broke out ap
parently after Guthrie had built
fires in the two stoves in the ca
bin and returned to bed.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Right to
To the ordinary, intelligent reader, tne reasons
why the newspaper profession is exercised about the
state department ban on reporters traveling to Red
China may be a trifle obscure.
"So what?" he may say. "If no one else can go,
why should newspaper people demand the privilege?"
Basically, it is for the same reason that many re
porters are allowed to cross police and fire lines, and
are admitted to other places where the general public
is excluded. It is because they are the "eyes and ears"
of the public. The privileges "extended them are not
granted them as individuals, but as men and women
who serve the public's right to know.
X7E BELIEVE the state department's policy on for
bidding newsmen to travel in Red China is un
necessary, indefensible and stupid.
That nation, after all, has more than a half -billion
people, and in years to come will be a power to be
reckoned with, more than it is already. If we are to
know how to cope with it, we must know more about
it, rather than less.
As it is, about our only sources of information on
Red China are the outpourings of the communist prop
aganda machinery, or the second-hand reports from
newsmen of other nations, whose governments are a
little clearer-headed than ours in this regard.
DEPORTERS who are worth their salt are jealous of
v the people's right to know what's going on in the
world, from the city hall beat to Peking, China. It is
their training, their job, their way of life, if you will.
If they are nosy and irritating, it is usually because
they are determined that their readers get the news,
all of it, not just the part that news sources think is
"fittin"' for the public to read.
This job of gathering the news has many "iron cur
tains," and not only at the state department level,
either. It is no uncommon occurrence to find a public
official at the city or county level who has informa
tion about the public's business he is reluctant to "re
lease" for public consumption.
There are occasions, not too frequent, when a
newspaper will agree that it would not be to the public
interest to publish an item, but these are exceptions
rather than the rule.
THERE was an instance only recently in Coos
county where the county superintendent of schools
refused to give a reporter from the Coos Bay Times
6 tuuuiv ouiuui uuugci,, wim.11 unuci iiu
stretch of the imagination could be considered "pri
vate or nobody s business. :
If taxpayers are to pungle up to pay the bill, they
are entitled to know what the bill will be, and how
it is figured.
Jackson county for many years has been remark
ably free of this type of "it's none of your business"
attitude on the part of public servants, but it is a con
stant threat to the good reporter's job. This is the rea
son a reporter wears his "right to know" chip proudly
on his (or her) shoulder. E. A.
Drivers 9 Reexaminations
At first glance, a proposal now before the Oregon
legislature, to require mandatory reexamination of
all licensed drivers eveiy six years, might appear to
be beneficial.
Isn't it logical the argument runs that such re
examinations will detect and take off our highways
those who are in no shape to drive, and thus are caus
ing many of our accidents.
We thought that argument sound at first, then had
some second thoughts, and finally wrote to Jim Banks,
executive secretary of the
, mission, to ask him about
IIM replied that traffic safety officials and admin
istrators have a "dim view" of mandatory re
examination, stemming from "our belief that the ac
cident prevention potential of such a program is too
slight to wan-ant the cost and public inconvenience
involved."
He added: '
"Accident records show rather conclusively that the
huge majority of mishaps involve drivers whose driving
ability is adequate, and who have no disqualifying physi
cal defects. Meanwhile, what you might term a 'selective' '
reexamination program is now in effect the interviewing,
counseling and examinations carried on with accident and
violation 'repeaters.' This program permits us to give spe
- cial attention to those people having more than their share
'of trouble, rather than having to screen all drivers, regard
less of age, physical condition or past driving record."
LIE GOES on to point out that most accidents are
the result of the attitudes and habits of drivers,
not their physical defects. A "squirreller," a drunken
driver, or a "don't-give-a-dam" driver is far more
dangerous than a man who has, say, poor eyesight, but
knows it and makes careful allowance for it in his
driving.
Jim's letter concluded :
"As it stands now, the thing we can test for manipu
lative skills, vision, rules of the road, recognition of signs
are the basic attributes most neophyte drivers acquire
quickly and maintain at adequate levels. We have no work
able method yet for identifying drivers who will fail to
use their knowledge and skill, other than actual perform
ance as reflected by accidents and violations."
This makes sense to us. Here's another spot where
the legislature can save some money and do us all
the favor of not regimenting us even further, at the
same time. E.A.
Wednesday. May 1, 1957
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Oregon traffic safety com-
it.
'Mil 5B DOWN IN A MINUTE.
Matter of Fact
THE PRESIDENT AND
THE CRISIS
Washington Throughout the
dangerous crisis in Jordan, Pres
ident Eisenhower was in Aug-
vw..MM:mm usta. Ga., on
M ne o his fre-
' VI quent e s capes
S - . s la F,-nrv WocViincr-
ton. This
raises a couple
of imp ortant
q u e s t i ons:
What is really
the state of the
P r e s ident's
Stewait Alsop neaimr Ana,
in this critical period, does he
really have to spend so much
time away from Washington?
On the first point there has
been, of course, endless specula
tion and rumor, stimulated by
the President's famous cough, by
his own emphasis on the issue of
the possible disablement of a
President, and- by his frequent
vacations.
It has been said that the Pres
ident was "visibly fading." It'
has even been seriously reported
that he intended to enter eemi
retirement, handing over the
bulk of his responsibilities to
Vice-President Nixon. This sort
of thing, according to those who
should know, is balderdash.
THE President still has a ghost
of his famous cough, but it
is only a ghost. The platoons of
doctors who hover con stantly
over him have examined the
cough as no cough has never
been examined before. They
have reported unanimously and
positively that the cough is not
serious that it is not a sym
tom of anything threatening and
deep-seated.
It is true that President faded
a bit when. his cough and cold
were at their worst some weeks
ago but all men fade under
such circumstances. He is now
back, according to .intimates, in
reasonably full bloom, and on
the golf course especially he is
positively frisky, considering his
age and medical history.
When these re-assuring things
are said, the fact remains, of
course, that Dwight D. Eisen
hower is an elderly man who has
had a heart attack and a serious
abdominal operation. And this
raises the second question,
whether he really must spend so
much of his time away from his
office.
i
THE answer is that he must.
There should be no surprise
about this answer. The voters
of the United States who elect
ed him by an overwhelming maj
ority knew the answer, or should
have known it. In February,
1956. when he announced that
he would run again, the Presi
dent said:
"The opinions and conclu
sions of the doctors that I can
continue to carry the burdens of
the Presidency contemplate for
me a regime of ordered work
activity, interspersed with reg
ular amounts of exercise, recrea
tion and rest. . . readiness to
obey the doctors, out of respect
for my present duties and res
possibilities, is mandatory in my
case.
When the President takes off
for Georgia or elsewhere, he is
simply "obeying the doctors"
quite willingly, to be sure, smce
he loves golf and still by no
means loves the White House.
Any man of sixty-six with the
Preside nt's medical history
would need plenty of "exercise,
recreation, and rest." But the
President, his doctors believe,
needs them especially, and his
associates agree. He has been
used to exercise all his life, and
when he does not get it, he be
comes either irritable or dull
and depressed.
So . the President's frequent
escape of Washington are cer
tainly going to continue as long
as he is President, crisis or no
crisis. It is ridiculous to suppose
that the escapes do not reduce
his work
they do.
schedule. Of course
IF HE had not been "obeying
his doctors," the President
would presumably have been
conferring constantly and at
great length with the National
Security Council on the danger
ous crisis in the' Middle East.
Instead he had a half-hour or so
on the telephone every day with
8
Stt&S rWJHe 8ATHTU5.V
By Stewart Alsop
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles. As a result of one of
these conversations, he and Dul
les decided to order the 6th Fleet
into the Eastern Mediterranean,
and in effect to invoke the Eisen
hower Doctrine.
This momentous decision was
not, in fact, even referred to the
National Security Council. Dul
les (much to the irritation of the
Defense Department) has per
suaded the President that the
Middle Eastern crisis is too "tac
tical" to be handled by the policy-making
body, and the Middle
East is therefore rarely if ever
discussed by the Council. In any
event, it would have been little
use to refer this crisis to the
Council when the President, who
must make the final decisions,
was in Georgia.'
Thus the decision, was strict
ly an Eisenhower-Dulles deci
sion, or rather a decision recom
mended by Dulles in which the
President concurred. In the sense
that, at least when he is on one
of his numerous vacations, the
President does not participate
intimately in the process which
leads up to the making, of im
portant decisions, . the President
is in fact a "part-tune President.
But the voters knew that when
they elected him and in any
event the decision he and Dulles
took last week looks, at the mo
ment like a courageous, and cor
rect decision.
(c) 1957. New York
Hearld Tribune Inc.
Editorial Comment
HUMAN DEPLETION
ALLOWANCE
.A New York City congress
man, Rep. Herbert Zelenko, aged
50, has introduced a bill to
authorize income tax deductions
for "depletion of human resour
ces the most important of all."
At age 45 the taxpayer would
be allowed to deduct one per
cent from the earned income he
reports. For each additional year
he remained at work he could
deduct an additional' one per
cent. At age 70 the deduction
would amount to 25 per cent.
The federal tax laws already
provide percentage depletion al
lowances for income derived
from natural resources which,
in the case of oil and gas wells,
rang up to 21 per cent. And
for corporations in general there
are allowances for depreciation
of buildings and machinery.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
long ago that a corporation is a
"person" within the meaning of
the due process clauses of the
Constitution. If the Court could
now be induced to rule that a
flesh and blood being is a "corp
oration," the individual taxpay
er ' might be able to claim a
right to charge off the human
machine's depreciation, of which
he is only too conscious after
age 45. The straight-line method,
the double-declining balance,
and method, and the sum-of-the-years-digits
method would have
different attractions for different
classes of taxpayers. Corpora
tions are free to choose among
them.
An interesting idea, but Rep.
Zelenko's is a better one, in that
it may have some chance of
adoption. Pendleton East Ore
gonian REPEAL TAX BONUS
The Northwest needs more
electric energy, quite without
reference to "national security."
But the private power compa
nies are strong enough to man
age the financing of their expan
sion without resort to govern
ment bolstering. Idaho Power is
recognized as one of the soundly
financed, well managed utilities,
and its ability to finance these
dams was attested by financial
experts in the hearings. It ought
not now to snuggle up to the
treasury and beg for a tax mora
torium. Nor should any other
going concern in the country,
save where me governmeni is
pressing it to build a special fa
cility for essential defense purr
poses. -
The way this acceleration of
depreciation works is this: Ida
ho Power will be permitted to
depreciate in the first five years
65 per cent of its investment in
one project and 60 per cent in
another.. Depreciation is deduct
ible in figuring income taxes.
Mid-East; U.S. Policy Success
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
- Soviet Russia's anger over de-'
velopments in the Middle East
indicates that American- policy
is paying off.
Pravda,' the
newspaper or
gan of the Rus
s i a n . Commu
nist party,
complained on
Sunday that'
the United
States is fusing
"the -law of
Charles M. McCann the fist" in its
dealings with Arab countries.
The Soviet Foreign Office fol
lowed up on Monday by accus
ing the United States of "aggra
vating" the Middle Eastern sit
uation by "gross interference."
In its special statement, the
Foreign Ministry said that the
United States will be responsi
ble for "grave consequences"
that may develop.
What all this means is that
young King Hussein of Jordan
has overcome his - pro-Russian,
pro-Egyptian, anti-Western po
litical enemies who threatened
to oust him from his throne. ,
Nobody can blame the Soviet
leaders for being extremely dis
pleased. Leftists Meet Challenge
It had become evident several
weeks ago that the leftists in
Larson, Brundage Are
'Whipping Boys1 for
GOP Conservatives
. By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) When
Republican critics of the admin
istration look around for scape-'
goats to blame for their intern
al party troubles, two names are
apt to be heard.
They are. Arthur Larson, di
rector of the U. S. Information
Agency, and Percival F. Brun
dage, director of the Bureau of
the Budget.
Larson is regarded as the in
ventor of "modern" or "new"
Republicanism, which has caus
ed a backlash from JGOP conser
vatives. These critics and some
that are not so conservative
want to be identified as just
Republicans, with no descrip
tions attached.
The tax is not waived and has
to be picked up and paid during
the remaining 45 years . of the
anticipated life of the project.
The advantage to the company
is that the tax deferment works
as an interest-free loan. ; It is
helpful to the company in the
early years of a project, "but the
burden it is spared must be born
by other taxpayers.
Theoretically the tax savings
should be reflected in ' reduced
fates, but in an operation as
large as that of Idaho Power,
the savings can probably.be ab
sorbed so that no rate cut would
be ordered. At least - we have
heard of no rate cuts in conse
quence of such tax concessions.
It is high time we got away
from the Korean war. Hardly
any of the companies need it;
the national security seems am
ple without it; and equity among
taxpayers condemns it. The
members of Congress who are
screaming against the Idaho
Power's sharing in the gravy for
the next five years should con
centrate on the main issue, and
that is to repeal the outmoded,
unnecessary act of 1951 which
permits it. Oregon Statesman,
Salem. .
Wants Bear Facts
To the Editor: I have been
reading in your communications
about the big Grizzly bear "Reel
Foot," and would like to have
you print this to see if any of
your readers remember about
the Big Grizzly that was killed
on .Mt. Pitt (Mt.. McLoughlin
now), years ago. I don't remem
ber if it was in the late 1800's
or early 1900's.
G. S.
: - (Name on file)
. Jacksonville, Ore.
In the Hands of Satan
To the Editor: When Satan
was thrown out of heaven, he
was pretty mad and resolved to
ruin the world through religion.
He was very successful and has
nearly accomplished it. The good
God has no religion, belongs to
no church or has no holy, books.
All he has is the full truth,
based on wisdom and unselfish
love.
The falsehoods in. the 'Bible
are terrible. For example Christ
is not the son of God, but of
Joseph and Mary. Nobodys sins
were ever forgiven by God, who
says if you can sin, you can
also leaye it alone. There is no
death, only the form dies. God
explains nearly everything,
who and what he is. He is life
that is without beginning and
Com
Appears Unhappy Over
Jordan were being challenged
by the pro-Western king and po
litical leaders loyal to him.
The fight broke into the open
when pro-Soviet Premier Sulei
man Nabulsi tried to enter into
diplomatic relations with Rus
sia. A crisis developed.
Hussein dismissed Nabulsi.
Nabulsi organized riots in Am
man, the capital and other cities.
The pro-Russian Egyptian and
Syrian governments encouraged
Nabulsi. Russia egged on Egypt
and Syria.
At a critical time, President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles an
nounced that they regarded the
independence and integrity of
Jordan as vital.
Next day the President sent
the United States 6th Fleet,
based in the Mediterranean, to
the Middle East. This action was
taken, in the first application of
the new Eisenhower Doctrine,
on the ground that Jordan was
threatened by the forces of the
international Communism. ,
It was then made known to
King Hussein that the United
States was ready to give $10 mil
lion in financial aid.
All this constituted notice to
Russia that it would be smart
to watch its step in its deter
mined program of meddling in
Middle Eastern affairs. It also
constituted a warning to Egypt,
Brundage Key Adviser
Brundage's job makes him
President Eisenhower's chief ad
viser in dealing with the federal
budget, which the administra
tion has set at a peacetime rec
ord of nearly 72 billion dollars
for the next fiscal year.
To many people modern Re
publicanism and a big budget
are the same, thing. Hence Lar
son and Brundage have become
prime whipping boys of Repub
licans who are unhappy at the
way things are going.
Larson was undersecretary of
labor when he wrote the book,
'A Republican Looks At His
Party," which helped make him
the philosopher of modern Re
publicanism and a favorite of
President Eisenhower. He was a
law 'school professor and dean
before he entered government.
The President has talked
freely about keeping the GOP
up to date, but Larson has be
come the symbol of what his
critics regard as a party-splitting
movement. Yet in a recent
speech he described "new Re
publicanism" as "simply Repub
licanism as it has adapted itself
under President 'Eisenhower's
leadership to mid-20th Century
responsibilities."
Budget Director's Background
Brundage became budget di
rector 13 months ago under' the
late Rowland Hughes. He previ
ously had been associated with
a large accounting firm.
The Budget Bureau asked
Congress last year for increased
funds to hire more Budget Bur
eau employees to hold down the
size of the budget. House Ap
propriations committee mem
bers recently -reminded Brun
dage of this request and berated
him because the budget was go
ing up instead of down.
Toughness is supposed to be
a basic requirement for a bud
get director. Government bur
eaus ask for more money then
their department heads will al
low,, and the department heads
ask for more than the Budget
Bureau will allow. Brundage's
critics believe he wasn't tough
enough this year.
munications
without end. The world was
caught by ' Satan and thought
that he was a true God and be
lieved in him. The full truth of
God is delicious and might lead
to ever lasting happiness.
If you like, you can print this
in your paper so people can get
some of the truth.
J. M. van der Maas
328 Riverside ave.,
Medford, Ore.
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Syria and Israel not to try
to carve up Jordan.
Saud Supports Hussein
In addition to these dramatic
King Hussein, with whom his
developments, there was anoth
er one of great importance. This
was that King Saud of Saudi
Arabia came to the support of
King Hussein, with whom his
relations were long bad, against
Jordan's internal and external
enemies. -
There can be little doubt that
Saud's firm stand marked an
other payoff for American Mid
dle Eastern policy.
There was considerable oppo
sition to President Eisenhower's
invitation to Saud to visit the
United States in January.
But the result of Saud's visit
was that the President and Dul
les convinced him that the"
Elsenhower Doctrine against
Communist aggression in the
Middle East was a good thing.
It may well be asked wheth
er, had Saud not been invited to
Washington, Russia would now
be so unhappy over the Middle
Eastern outlook.
Committee Selects
Five Senators for
'Hall of Fame7 Spot
Washington. KU.R) Contem-.
poraries sometimes saw them as
an unrelenting isolationist, an
unyielding conservative, a self
ish champion of slavery, an un
educated immoral conniver and
an unethical self-seeker.
But those five men Former
Senators Robert M. La Follette
Sr., of Wisconsin, Robert A.
Taf t of Ohio, John C. Calhoun '
of South Carolina, Henry Clay
of Kentucky, and Daniel Web
ster of Massachusetts will
grace the Senate's own Hall of
Fame.
Not because of certain traits,'
of course, but in spite of them.
A committee of present day sen
ators selected them Tuesday
from aU the rest to be honored.
Their portraits will fill the
gilded, eagle crested blank'
spaces in the reception room
just off the Senate floor. From
that vantage point the portraits
will look down as the senators
of later years meet and chat
with their constituents.
Selection committee chairman '
John F. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) who
was to announce the choices for-'
mally in a Senate speech today,
said the five were not named as
the greatest senators "of - all
time" but rather as five . "out
standing : persons" who served
in the Senate.
.
Red Skelton Suffers
From Virus Infection '
Hollywood (U.R) Comedian
Red Skelton ' was suffering to-,
day from a severe virus infec
tion which forced cancellation
of current television . commit
ments. The comedian's studio said.
Skelton's condition was - "not
serious" but that he was too sick :
to appear Tuesday night on a.
live telecast with Arnold Stang,
Lina Romay and other guests.
CBS-TV substituted a re-run
of a previous program.
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Mrs. Litwiller
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"It Is better to know us end not needus,
than to need us and not know us." ;