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Medford and JacksoD County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 3. 1947 (Saturday)
A traffic educational program
will be carried on in Medford
this summer, according to Wil
liam Woodford, of the Medford
Safety council.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There was
a touch of summer Thurs. and
Fri. causing males to husk their
coats revealing gaudy galluses.
20 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1937 (Monday)
Thirty-five Medford Gleemen
leave for Klamath Falls where
they will join the Kiwanis Civic
chorus in a concert there.
Miss Isobel Stuart, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Stuart of
Medford, has sold her second
article to Collier's magazine,
titled "All in A Day's Work." ,
30 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1927 (Tuesday)
Medford Crater club will be
host to the Oregon Cavemen and
Umpqua chiefs of Roseburg at a
banquet in Medford June 6.
City council goes on record op
posing any further extension of
city water service to dwellings
outside city limits.
40 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1917 (Thursday)
Medford Red Cross chapter to
hold patriotic and Red Cross day
May 16 when Oregon's Governor
Withycombe is in Medford.
The Young People's City Un
ion will hold a rally Saturday
at the First Methodist church.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev
en cr eight is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Prominent in the annals
of Wall Street: Friday, Sept.
24, 1869, was designated as
what?
2. What is the purpose of soak
ing a cabbage head down in
salted cold water, before cook
ing? 3. Bible: Of what metal did
Solomon build the altar?
4. Which state does Senator
Fulbright present in the U. S.
Senate?
5. Of what country is Bagdad'
the capital?
6. Tomatoes contain which vi
tamin that is needed in the daily
diet?
7. For what diseased condition
of the brain do the initials D.T.s
stand?
8. Is a metronome a dwarf, an
Irish fairy, a device for measur
ing musical time, or a kind of
poetic meter?
9. Which is, prop erly, one
word: "in as much or"in so far?"
10. "That fellow seems to pos
sess but one idea, and that is
the" is it the 'right one" or
wrong one?"
Answers: 1. "Black Friday."
2. To draw out any insects that
may be under - the leaves.
3. Brass. 4. Arkansas. 5. Iraq.
6. Vitamin C. 7. Delirium Tre
mens 8. Device for measuring
musical time. 9. Inasmuch.
10. "the wrong one." S. John
son. House Defeats Bill
For Early Remarriage
Salem U.R) The House
Thursday defeated, 28-23, a bill
which would have permitted re
marriage after three months of
divorce. Present law required a
wait of six months.
The Senate had passed the
measure.
There are some 15 different
synthetic fibers on the U.S. mar
ket today. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
Control of Water
A number of things combined this week to make
us think about water.
It rained on May Day. Floods continued in Texas.
Weather arid farm authorities tentatively and hope
fully concluded the five-year midwest drought was
over, following record-breaking blizzards and rain
falls. California authorities say that state is using
waterat an annual rate of five million acre feet more
than can be supplied over a period of time from
present sources.
And the lead article in the current issue of Harp
er's magazine says, in effect, "Let's face it The
western U.S. is all either desert, or desert-rim. It
can't compete with the east."
A COUPLE of decades ago water was seldom
" "news" except when somebody drowned, or
there was a flood.
But with the massive surge of population to the
west coast, much of it during and after World War
II, water has become recognized for what it is the
west's single most important resource. There just isn't
enough of it for all the demands. And the situation
will get worse before (if ever) it gets better.
Water is needed for municipal use (including
drinking and cooking). Los Angeles pipes water for
hundreds of miles for this purpose.' It is needed for
irrigation, for livestock, to generate power, for navi
gation, for industrial use, for sport and recreation
including fishing.
THE shortage of water in the "Great American
Desert" has long been a fact of life, and mankind
has resorted to all sorts of tricks and techniques to
get along with what he has, and to obtain more.
But the water shortage in the Pacific coast states
west of the Cascades and Sierras is of relatively recent
origin. Two things account for it more people, and
industrial uses which requires vast quantities.
In the Rogue valley we are fortunate, for the
limited acreages of land usable for agriculture, the
stable water supplies now available, and the fact that
no large water-using industries were established
here in quantity before the problem was fully realized,
combine to make it fairly evident we are not likely to
be terrjbly pinched for water at least in the same
way that, say, Los Angeles is.
TMEDFORD'S supply of municipal water is probably
equal or superior, both in quantity and.quality,
to any on the west coast, and is adequate for foresee
able needs.
With the completion of the Talent project, the
upper part of the Bear Creek drainage will have much
improved, and probably adequate, supplies of irriga
tion water. The lower part is being served by the Med
ford and Rogue River irrigation districts, which are
now improving their facilities.
There remain the rather large unirrigated areas
of arable land in Sams Valley and above Eagle Point.
Some day, perhaps, these too will receive better water
supplies, provided an agreement on the use of Rogue
river water, can be reached. -
"VREGON is the first state to take official cognizance
of the multiple demands for water, through the
establishment of the Oregon water resources board.
This group has powers over water use far in excess of
that exercised by many other agencies, and as time
goes on, inevitably will become embroiled in contro
versy as competing needs make known their demands.
But it is good to know that there is such an agency.
For water is the basis for Oregon's economy, in one
form or another. And only through governmental con
trol of a resource which is too scarce 'to satisfy all
demands can the people be equitably served. It is no
longer possible for anyone and everyone to take all
the water they want for any purpose whatsoever. It's
too important to too many other people. E.A.
Mercy Flights Anniversary
At this writing, 668 persons have been carried as
patients by the planes of Mercy Flights, Inc.
About half of them have been transported at no
charge. These have been the men and women who
are subscribers to the non-profit organization's pre-
jpaid plan for emergency
lms month is the sixth anniversary of the institu
tion of this plan, which not only serves its subscribers
well, but saved Mercy Flights. : .
THE pre-paid plan is the only steady and depend-
able source of income which the non-profit corpora
tion receives. Charges made for flights by non-subscribers
are undependable, and alone could not permit
it to continue operation.
When the pre-paid plan was started in May, 1951,
the air ambulance service was hanging on the edge of
financial disaster. Since then, however, the steady
income provided by the subscriptions ($4 per year for
a family, $2 per year for a single individual) has
enabled it to survive, to grow, and to continue making
mercy flights an average of three a week. Most of
these carry Jackson county people to Portland or San
Francisco for emergency treatment of ailments which
can be done better in the larger medical centers.
...,-
UOWEVER, as more doctors, representing more
1 1 specialties, have come to Medford, and as hospital
facilities are improved and expanded, more and more
of the flights are, and will continue to be, from the
surrounding area to Medford. i .
It is because we firmly believe Mercy Flights
renders an important and needed service to all of
Jackson county that we call these facts to attention,
and urge non-subscribers to subscribe, and subscribers
to renew promptly -as -their 4erms expire. E.A. --
Friday, May 3, 1957
medical transportation.
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CEMZKT MM WHO TRIES TO
Matter of Fact
DEAL WITH THE RUSSIANS?
Washington President- 'Ei
senhower, Secretary of State
Dulles, and Presidential Advisor
Harold Stassen
have all made
small, hopeful
noises about
d i s a rmament
in the last few
days. It is im
portant to un
derstand what
the hopeful
noises really
Stewait Alsoo - mean ana
what they do not mean.
To start with the latter point
first, they do not mean that
there is the slightest prospect of
the sort of general settlement
which most people think of
when they see the word "dis
armament." Above all, the hope
ful noises do not mean that there
is any prospect at all that the
terrible new weapons will be
controlled, and eventuaUy elim
inated from the world, as en
visaged in the old Baruch-Ache-son
scheme.
What the hopeful noises do
mean is that there is some faint
evidence to . suggest that the
Soviets' may .'be willing to talk
turkey- about a mutually advan
tageous deal the sort of deal
hostile powers have often made
in the past. The deal would have
two essential, and very import
ant, purposes:
First, it would be designed to
close the membership list in the
atomic club 46 make sure that
no . fourth , country, after the
United States, Britain, and the
Soviet Union, obtained a stock
pile of atomic weapons.
Second, it would also be de
signed to provide some reinsur
ance against surprise atomic at
tack by one side against the
other. r y.
ATOMIC bombs,' it should be
understood, are not particu
larly difficult to make these
days. A second class power with
a second rate industrial plant
could' turn out nuclear weapons
if it were determined to do so.
Thus the possibility that some
future : Mussolini or Peron or
Nasser could get his finger on an
atomic trigger is perfectly real,
and it is a nightmare to the
American policy-makers.
It is reasonable to suppose
that it may also be a nightmare
to the Soviet policy-makers. Ei
senhower, Dulles and Stassen
are proceeding on that assump
tion. In London, Stassen is there
fore proposing to his Soviet op
posite ' number, Valerian Zorin,
that there should be a cut-off
date for the production of fis
sionable material for war pur
poses as of March 1 next year,
to apply to the whole world.
It is also reasonable to sup
pose that the Soviets may share
with the United States and the
Western powers a desire for
some assurance against surprise
attack. It may seem obvious to
Americans that this country will
not,' and Constitutionally cannot,
launch a surprise attack against
the Soviets. But it is not at ail
obvious to the Soviet leaders,
steepede as they are in commu
nist doctrine, and uncomfortably
aware as they are of the ring of
American bases surrounding the
Soviet empire.
fPHE evidence that the Soviets
may be genuinely interested
in making a deal with this dual
purpose is not conclusive, but
at least it exists. Having first re
jected out of hand President Ei
senhower's "open skies" pro
posal for aerial inspection, the
Soviets are now talking about
limited aerial inspection. Again,
having at first rejected Sir An
thony Eden's proposal for pro
gressive "demilitarization" of a
similar zone in the center of
Europe, Soviet Premier Bulgan
in has now accepted the pro
posal in principle. '
Above all, the Soviets seem,
at least, to be talking seriously,
with a minimum of the usual
propaganda . content. To' be sure,
the odds' against Stassen's nego
tiating a really solid agreement
are still high. Aside from the
towering political roadblocks,
the technical obstacles are also
very great Even if both sides
genuinely wanted to adopt Stas
sen's proposed cut-off date for
atomic stockpiling, for example,
it Is' diffictrlt to see what tech
wahm re(wta
HIT UTTLS KIDS'
By Stewart Alsep
nique could be used to enforce
the cut-off, not only in the three
atomic powers, but universally.
BUT it is at least "possible,"
as the President has said,
that a mutually advantageous
deal along the lines described
above might be negotiated. If
it is, it will be a major develop
ment. But it is important to un
derstand that it will not repre
sent true disarmament, and
above all will not eliminate the
threat of atomic war, the major
threat , to world civilization.
The plain fact is that the
threat cannot now be eliminat
ed, even if both sides seriously
wished to do so. A city-destroying
hydrogen bomb, after all,
can be hidden as easily as, say,
a medium-sized trunk, and no
conceivable inspection system
could uncover a concealed stock
of the weapons already manu
factured. A deal with the Soviets
could be genuinely advantageous
to both sides, but it will not
change the essential situation
the two sides of the world will
still confront each other across
a yawning ideological gulf,
armed with the means of mu
tual suicide.'". , v": ' v
(Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
ByFRANK JENKINS ;
Here's a new statistic:
More married women than
ever before are drawing pay
checks for work outside the
home. A survey just completed
by the United Press shows that
out of every five American
mothers with children under 18,
two hold outside jobs. -
That is- a total of six and a
half million working mothers.
I
S THAT good?
Or is it bad?
There are conflicting opinions.
For example:
MONSIGNOR IRVING DE
BLANC, director .;of the
family life bureau of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conference,
says the number of working
mothers is clearly related to a
deterioration of moral and spir
itual values among American
youth.
Mrs. Alice Leopold, director
of the women's bureau of -the
U. S. department of labor and
a working mother herself
strongly defends mothers who
go to work. She says she has
brought up two weU-behaved
sons and adds that it is utterly
unfair to make employed wom
en scapegoats for the social ills
of our day.
WHO is right?
' Who is wrong?
I imagine that a great deal
depends on the individual.' As
has been mentioned in this space
before and as every observing
person knows there are fami
lies that get along reasonably
well on $75 per week, whereas
there are other families that are
in constant financial trouble on
$150 a week.
Human beings aren't all cast
in the same mold.
AT THIS point, let's pose an
other question:
WHY do 40 per cent of all
American mothers with children
under 18 -work for wages out
side the home?
Is it because they PREFER to
work for wages?
Or do they feel they have to
work for wages in order to make
both ends meet?
THAT brings up more statistics:
In 1956 (last year) total federal,-
state and local .government
receipts (meaning tax money
taken out of the pockets of the
people) amounted to 107.6 bil
lion dollars.
Our national income for 1956
was 343 billion dollars. "That is
to say, about one-third of our
national income is being spent
for taxes. Putting it another
way, we spend a third of our
working days WORKING FOR
THE GOVERNMENT. If we
work a six-day week, we work
two days for the government
Awful Destruction of Nuclear
War Emphasized in Week's News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
- The week's good and ' bad
news on thei niernational bal
ance sheet:
The dreadful destruction that
would be wrought on victor and
vanquished alike in an atomic
war was sharp
ly emphasized
this week.
In Washing
ton, it was dis
closed, A d m.
Arleigh A.
Burke, chief of
naval opera
tions, told a
con gressional
Charles McCann Committee;
"We can destroy Russia now
no matter what she does . . .
there is no way she can avoid
complete destruction."
But Burke warned also that
Russia "either has a capability
now or shortly will have of do
ing the same thing to us."
In Bonn, capital of West Ger
many, Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer told a meeting of North At
lantic Treaty Organization coun
tries: "Modern atomic war would
bring an apocalyptic fate . . .
upon the whole, of mankind, in
Babson Discusses
Drought in Midwest
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. A sound
of rejoicing is today echoing
across the western Great Plains.
Mother Nature
at long last has
showered
down copious
rains and hea
vy snows upon
wide areas of
that drought
striken region.
As a result,
soil moisture
Eoger W. Babson conditions in
much of the Great Plains are
more encouraging than they
have been in several years.
Farmers and businessmen liv
ing in the Great Plains naturally
are greatly " concerned as to
whether these much-improved
moisture conditions are a mere
flash in the pan or the real thing.
Crops in some instances have
been hard hit; valuable top-soil
has been blown away; cattle
have starved or farmers have
been forced to liquidate them for
lack of feed; and some people
living on the " land are' facing
poverty. Although this five-year
drought has been less destruc
tive on the whole than the disas
trous droughts of 1934 and 1936,
it has been severe. I can well
appreciate the mounting hope
in many hearts that it may now
be ending.
I wish I cpuld give them def
inite assurance that the worst
is over. Perhaps it is. However,
I am a statistician and not a
weather forecaster at least
not a very good one. Professonal
weather forecasters tell me that
it takes about six months of
above-normal precipitation to
end a major drought. If so, in
this respect at least there is still
some distance to go before we
can know for certainty that the
drought has ended. Incidentally,
there are still sizable sections of
Colorado, New Mexico, Nebras
ka, Texas, and Ohio that remain
parched. The one sure thing is
that over-all moisture conditions
have materially improved the
trend is in the right direction.
The drought is old, and this is
another favorable factor. By the
law of averages, it should not
last much longer.
Gaining Drought Knowhow
Whether recurrent droughts
will ever cease to plague the
western Great Plains is a secret
buried deep in Nature's crystal
ball. Perhaps scientists' some day
will come up with something
very constructive.
Meanwhile, farmers are learn
ing more and more how to live
with droughts and come out
ahead or at least break even.
They have come a long way in
this respect since the Dust Bowl
days of the 30's, when about all
and only four days for ourselves.
TT JUST could be, you see, that
in order to pay the family
bills after the tax collectors
have reached into the family
pocket and taken out A THIRD
of all the money there a lot of
mothers of growing children feel
they HAVE to work for wages.
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cluding the peoples of the Soviet
bloc."
There was evidence that
Soviet Russian leaders were in
creasingly aware of the fate that
would face their country in aa
atomic war.
This awareness had been
marked by an outburst of threats
to NATO countries that they
would be destroyed if they per
mitted the use of their territory
for the launching of atomic mis
siles. But Russian awareness ' also
seemed to be softening the atti
tude of Soviet leaders toward an
effective system of aerial" in
spection as an essential part of
any disarmament agreement. -
In London, the Russians pro
posed at a meeting of the United
Nations Disarmament Commit
tee that areas of the Soviet
Union, the United States and
Western Europe be opened to
inspection.
The Russian proposal was ob
viously unacceptable in its pres
ent form. But it roused hope
that the first step toward a dis
armament treaty, after 11 years
of effort, might soon be taken
Young King Hussein of Jor
dan, victorious over his pro-Russian,
anti-Western political en
they could do was to "take it
lying down," or pull up stakes
and migrate to other, more fav
ored areas.
The smart farmer of the Great
Plains no longer plows and
plants indiscriminately. He now
knows the value of soil-conservation
methods, of irrigation, of
modern farm tools, of contour
plowing and terracing, of sowing
drought - resistant cover - crops
where and when needed, -and of
shelter belts of trees. He also
planted to soil-moisture condi
tions prevailing at the time of
planting, and utilizes moisture
conservation techniques and di
versified farming. By these and
other modern agricultural meth
ods and practices designed to
lessen the risk to farmers -and
crops from drought or other "des
tructive forces, he is making
real progress under all condi
tions. Trend To Larger Farms
These various modern meth
ods of farming and of minimiz
ing effects of droughts or other
adverse conditions all ppintr in
one direction toward "larger,
better equipped, and more skill
fuUy managed farms. The one
man farm even now is as out
dated as the "one hoss shay."
This "farm revolution" has made
rapid progress in recent years.
There are, for instance, a million
more tractors on U.S. farms to
day than there were in 1950;
131 per cent more pick-up hay
balers; 51 per cent more corn
pickers; 39 per cent more grain
combines; and 12 per cent more
milking machines.
On the other hand, the number
of U.S. farms has declined 11 per
cent since 1950 from 5,379,
250 to 4,783,021. Yet total farm
area has not changed much since
then. Therefore, the size of many
farms has increased. It is only
on these larger, well-managed
farms that the full benefits of
mechanization and modern tech
niques can profitably be real
ized Such farms are in a much
better position to survive- pro
longed drought or other adver
sities than is the small, poorly
managed farm. They are here to
stay. Farming in America is now
"big business."
I, therefore, forecast another
relatively good year for most
American farmers. They are a
and God-fearing group. This is
a combination of qualities hard
to beat, and one America sorely
needs today ..
Editorial
Comment
ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE
SESSIONS?
Should there be annual ses
sions of the state legislature?
This seems to have become a
partisan issue in the legislature,
with the House of Representa
tives splitting pretty much along
party lines in approving by 37
22 a bill for annual sessions.
Democrats argue that it would
be less of a hardship on legis
lators to go to Salem once a
emies, announced he would ac
cept a United States offer of 10
million dollars in aid.
The young King made the
qualification that no strings must
be attached to the offer.
But his acceptance was an
other setback for pro-Russian
Arab leaders and for Soviet Rus
sia itself in its attempt to pene
trate the Middle East
A 5-year-old border dispute
flared into a vest pocket war
between the little Central Ameri
can republics of Honduras and
Nicaragua.
Honduras complained that Nic
araguan forces totalling 50 .
took over the disputed village
of Mocoron. Nicaragua com
plained that the Hondurans at
tacked Mocoron in turn, and
that 35 Nicaraguans were killed.
President Luis Somoza of Nic
aragua mobilized his army.
President Eisenhower, in a
message read to the NATO "meet
ing in Bonn by Secretary of
State John Foster DuUes, said
the United States intends to
maintain its forces in Germany
at their present strength.
The assurance was given be
cause NATO countries are wor
ried over Great Britain's drastic
cuts in defense spending.
year for 65 days, while Repub
licans argue that one session
every two years is enough.
The people will decide the
issue at the' ballot, even though
the legislature adopts the reso
lution. . The resolution proposes an
nual sessions limited to 65 days.
This would be little more total
legislative time than present bi
ennial sessions which run to up
wards of 100 days in recent
years.
Whether two months a year
or four months every two years
makes much difference to the
legislator, as far - as hardship
goes seems highly : debatable.
Annual ; sessions, 1 however,
might help eliminate some of
the hurry to wind up and go
home that marks present legisla
tive sessions a situation which
is not conducive to calm and
intelligent consideration of leg
islation. . Annual sessions might
be-helpful from -that standpoint
-The cost to the-state of an
nual sessions should not be too
much different than the present
cost, if the annual sessions are
half as long. We don't pay our
legislators what they ought to
be worth, anyway.
Seems as though annual ses
sions might be worth a trial. Our
present -system is 'in maliy ways
unsatisfactory. Legislators try to
do too much in too short a time
and people aren't able to keep
track of all the things they try
to do in one session. Shorter,
simpler sessions might be a big
improvement. Astorian Budget.
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