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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1947 (Saturday)
J. D. Allen, representative of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
for, the western division visits
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Valley
trawberries are now ripe. Many
robins got their fill of same be
fore the growers.
20 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1937 (Monday)
Chief of Police Clatous Mc
Credie issues warning to all per
sons riding bicycles to stay off
Southern Pacific platform at pas
senger station.
Clayton W. Lewis' of Medford
is employed as bookkeeper by
Medford branch of U.S. National
bank of Portland, according to
George Frey, manager.
30 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1927 (Tuesday)
About 75 farmers and dairy
men meet at C. C. Hoover dairy
farm, west of Medford, to watch
demonstration by Prof. Reimer
of the OAC experiment station,
Talent.
Congressman W. C. , Hawley,
who is one of the Woodmen of
the World, speaks at a meeting
of the Rogue River valley Wood
men in Ashland.
40 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1917 (Thursday)
A campaign for $6 million
road bond election is in full
swing.
, Incubators at the federal build
ing will be started next Monday
with their full capacity of 500
eggs, according to Assistant
Postmaster Warner.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
even or eight Is excellent; five or '
six is good.
1. Edwin Booth, in 1849, at
the age of 16, made his first thea
trical appearance. Did he murder
a U.S. President later?
2. From whom did Jack Demp
ey win the world's heavyweight
boxing crown?
3. Bible: Did King Rehoboim,
successor to Solomon, ever re
pent his forsaking God?
4. What is the international
radio distress signal for ships?
5. An author's narrative of
his own life is called an .
6. Which two countries were
In a formal state of war with
Finland during World War II? J
7. Name the three great divi
sions of Federal government set
up by the Constitution of the
United States?
8. Who succeeded Gen. Mar
shall as Chief of Staff?
9- Is it correct to say in (or
with) regards to?"
10. "By robbing Peter he paid
Paul . . .-and hoped to catch
the larks if ever the heavens
should fall." Rabelais. Did 'Tie"
want the "robber"' caught?
Answers: 1. No. 2. Jess Wil
lard. 3. Yes. 4. S.O.S. 5. Auto
biography. 6. Soviet Russia and
Great Britain. 7. Legislative.
Executive and Judicial. 8. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. 9. No.
"In regard to." 10. No.
ROOKS BEAT LCJC
Corvallis (U.R) The Ore
gon State Rooks defeated Lower
Columbia Junior college 11-2 in
a baseball game Thursday.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How Far Does it Go?
A young mother and her unborn second child it
would have been a son were killed horribly in Med
ford Wednesday morning.
City police records show that three other accidents
involving trains have occurred already in the 4y2
months of 1957. In one of them a pedestrician was
killed.
In 1956, according to records of the Oregon Public
Utilities Commissioner, there were 10 train-vehicle ac
cidents on railroad crossings between Stewart ave.
and McAndrews rd.
In 1955, there were nine such accidents, the PUC
records show.
"THE present speed limit for trains at all these cross-
ings is 35 miles per hour, except 'at the Main and
Sixth street crossings, where it is 10 mph. Estimated
speed of the train in the accident Wednesday was 30
or 32 mph.
In February of last year, the Mayor of Medford, at
the request of the council, filed a request with the SP
to reduce the speeds used by trains going through the
city. It filed a copy of this letter with the PUC.
The SP did not even acknowledge this request, ac
cording to city records. The PUC acknowledged it,
and placed it on file, also awaiting an answer from
theSP.
rANGEROUS speed by trains is not the only hazard
Medford people face when crossing the tracks.
Boxcars on spur tracks in many cases make it virtually
impossible to see if anything is -coming on the main
tracks. This is particularly true at the 11th st. cross
ing, but also applies at Main, Sixth and Jackson
streets.
In addition, it is common knowledge, and easily
provable, that the SP uses the technique known as
"flying switches" .r that is, shunting cars down a spur
after they are detached from an engine in many of
its operations within the city of Medford, and even
across street crossings. This practice, if we are correct
ly informed, is frowned upon by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, as well as the Oregon PUC, and
anyone who has knowledge of safe railroad practices.
These things are in addition to the unavoidable in
convenience to traffic of trains blocking long lines of
cars on city streets. This may not always happen at
rush hours, but it always SEEMS that way.
THE DEATH of Mrs. Donovan, it seems to us, would
juc ouiiiviciib juotiiiauwii lux laic; wjr vuuuvu bir a
open the whole matter of train speed through the city.
This could be done by filing a formal complaint and
request for a hearing with the Public Utilities Com
missioner. The safety practices or NON-practices of the
SP would be an appropriate thing to consider at the
same time. Perhaps we can find out how much author
ity the PUC has over the utilities when it comes to
matters of human life.
The Southern Pacific has taken away this area's
"main line" status: it has taken away the last, creak-
j ing vestiges of passenger
Ieave ; it has cut its freight service ; it chopped down
the last remaining tree near Sixth st, and put up a
billboard advertising beer. (And its first-quarter pro
fits in 1957 were more than $14 million an increase
of from $1.53 to $1.58 per share.)
Does its "public be damned" belief also extend to
human life? E.A.
Bomb
In the unfortunate "bomb scare" incident Tues
day evening, the behavior of everyone involved was
exemplary with the exception, of course, of the
anonymous coward that made the threatening tele
phone call, whoever he may have been : drunk, nut, or
plain stupid jerk.
The police officers and firemen, who handled the
potentially-dangerous task of searching the building,
and then the tiring and boring one of standing by for
nearly four hours, deserve credit and thanks.
So do the members of the public hotel guests
and others who took the inconvenience and dis
comfort in stride and with good humor.
CO DOES Mrs. Betti Boyle, the capable Jackson
hotel manager, who displayed courtesy, coopera
tiveness and cool-headedness, in getting the 50 or so
guests (not 15 as was incorrectly reported in this
paper) and about 28 employees out of the hotel as 8
p.m. approached the time the anonymous calls said
the "bomb" would go off.
It is difficult to understand the type of thinking
which would motivate such a senseless and useless
action.
Why should anybody in his right mind plant a
bomb indiscriminately? Even more so, why should
anyone make threats about a non-existent bomb?
""FHE authorities suspected this would be the hoax it
turned out to be. But with human life at stake, they
would not take any chances. Thus the building was
searched, room by room, closet by closet, drawer by
drawer. Then eveiyone was requested to evacuate,
and were kept out f pr a full hour after 8 p.m.
. The bomb disposal officers on the police force
say they gained a healthy respect for the potentialities
of bombs during their training period. The couldn't
afford to ignore the possibility that somewhere, hid
den in the building, there was a bomb.
The comment on the situation we liked best was by
Chief of Police Charles Champlin, who eyed the two
fire tracks, the two fire department station wagons,
the three police cars, and the 15 men standing by, (all
at a cost of multiple hundreds of tax dollars) and said
wryly "I suppose the guy that made the call is the kind
who complains his taxes are too high." E.A. . .
Friday, May 10. 1957
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President, Congress
Disagree on Amounts
Needed for Cold War
By RAYMOND LAHR
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower and congres
sional leaders agree the United
States needs friends in the cold
war. There is not much agree
ment yet on how much it should
spend to win and keep friends.
On the second of his planned
radio-TV appeals to the country
Eisenhower will discuss, in the
word of the White House, "Why
mutual aid is so essential, to the
winning of the peace."
The administration's foreign
aid program, now scaled down
to less than four billion dollars,
has been a prime target of the
budget-cutting drive in Con
gress. It also has been the item
most often mentioned in mail to
Congress complaining about the
size of the President's nearly
$72 billion budget.
Needs Fresh Support
So it looks as though Eisen
hower will have to win fresh
public support for the program
if he wants to persuade Con
gress to vote something near the
amount he is asking.
In his conference with con
gressional leaders of both par
ties Thursday , the President
placed much stress on this na
tion's need for friends and allies
in the cold war with Russia.
None of his listeners disagreed,
Babson Is Bullish
About Farming Future
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. Many
farmers write to me complaining
about the cost-price squeeze.
They are dis-
jks I couraged be
cause for them
tl2i :' the bottom
4V I " seems to have
Pirl fallen out of
f'Wi the farm mar-
S pf thize with
these people,
MtiMJ but I suspect
Bofer w. Babsim that many of
Ihem have come upon hard tim
es because they are not farming
as well as they know ' ow. Also,
many of them are not keeping
abreast of new ideas and new
crops.
Tremendous changes have
taken place in farming during
my lifetime. When I was a boy,
horses and mules furnished prac
tically all the power on farms.
Even as recently as 1910, there
was almost no mechanization on
farms. In that year the total
farm population was 32,076,960.
By 1950, this had dwindled to
25,058,000, a decline of 21.9 per
cent. Most observers estimate
the present farm population to
be only 20,000,000. Thus farm
ers and their families now ac
count for only 11.8 per cent of
our total population compared
with 34.9 per cent in 1910.
I predict that machines will
continue to displace men on
American farms. Hence, the
smaller commercial farms will
be hard put to survive. Howev-
her, 1 do not believe farmers
should be despairing of the fu
ture. A good living can still
be made on the farm by those
who open their eyes to progress.
Obviously, the trend is toward
new crops and greater mechan
ization, and there is no sense in
bucking th?t trend.
Over-Production Temporary
Right now farmers are the vic
tims of their own unusual abili
ty to coax record yields-per-acre
from the soil. Better seed, im
proved fertilization and irriga-:
tion, and more efficient spread
ing, cultivating, and harvesting
machinery have increased pro
duction. During the war our
farmers rose magnificiently to
the challenge to provide food
and feed for our allies, and now
they are temporarily in trouble.
At present we are growing at
least 5- per cent more products
than we can sell. In an effort to
keep our farm surpluses from
becoming too burdensome, the
though they were not ready to
accept his program as the exact
formula that must be followed
for the next year.
Eisenhower also was reported
to have described the foreign
aid program as an investment
in peace which actually should
be viewed as an economy when
set against possible alternatives.
In this connection, he faid it
was cheaper for the United
States to help other countries
maintain armed forces than to
put more Americans in uniform.
Presented Strong Case
A number of congressional
leaders reported that the-President
presented a strong case.
But none admitted being ready
to change his mind.
Eisenhower formally reduced
his foreign aid program by some
$500 million in Thursday's con
ference. This $500 millon reduction
was originally offered almost a
month ago in a letter from the
President to Speaker Sam Ray
burn. It was part of a set of sug
gestions for cutting administra
tion budget requests by $1,858,
000,000. But Eisenhower indi
cated then that the sum of his
proposed cuts . would not trim
more than about $600 million
from his overaU $72 billion
spending budget.
government spends huge sums
on price support programs, the
soil bank, and foreign distribu
tion schemes. All these meas
ure: have helped to some extent,
but they are by no means cure
alls. I am disturbed by the fact
that too many farmers take un
due advantage of this govern
ment help by deliberately over
producing. However, I am firm'
ly convinced that this over-pro
duction is a temporary problem,
Research the Answer
Research has performed won
ders for all other industries. I
forecast that it will also perform
wonders for agriculture. Chem
istry, industry, and agriculture,
working together, gave us hy
brid corn and varieties of the
soybean which would grow in
our country. This combination
sponsored the research that pro
duced a new dwarf variety of
castorbean said to yield as much
as 2,700 pounds per acre if the
soil is properly irrigated and
fertilized with nitrogen. Also, a
new combine harvester - huller
has been developed which will
gather tall or short castorbeans
without waste. I predict a profit
able future for castorbeans, with
output reaching as high as 350,
000 crop acres.
A stimulating flow of new re
search ideas has emerged from
the recent annual Chemurgic
Conference of the Council for
Agriclturaf and Chemurgic Re
search. Thij organization and
others like it are facing up to the
real farm problem, which is not
over-production but under-utili-zation
and waste. .
Industrial Uses
We should be proud of the
progress agriculture has made in
our country. But there is still
much to learn about soils, irri
gation, and weather. Crops such
as castorbeans and sesame seed
will become big business before
long and I : forecast that other
big new cash crops are coming.
But I want now to call special
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Russian Industrial Revision,
British Arms ChangeTops News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on. the international bal
ance sheet:
Russian Communist leader Ni
kita S. Khrushchev presented to
the Supreme Soviet the parlia
ment of the Soviet Union his
plan for a drastic decentraliza
tion of government control of
industry.
The Khrushchev plan was de
signed to increase efficiency by
relaxing the rigid control which
had been exerted over Russian
economy by the scores of indus
trial ministries in Moscow.
Under it, 92 self-contained eco
nomic control councils will be
set up in areas throught the So
viet Union. Thirty-one of the
Moscow ministries will be abol
ished. Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan promised West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
that despite its revolutionary
shift of defense to a nuclear
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Grieved About Sunday
To. the Editor: This is not a
"pet peeve," but a sincere grieve
to very many of Medford and
vicinity's good people.
The things that make any com
munity desirable are its most
commendable qualifications as
measured bv riehtpnns stjinrtarrfc
of judgment. There are churches
ana new churches in Medford
and district, but a too large ma
jority of residents are improper
ly affected by the standards ev
ery true church teaches, namely
law'- abiding righteousness.
Righteousness exalteth a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any' peo
ple." A challenging contrast is
given in Isaiah's third chapter,
most assuring to the righteous
ones, but the doom r f the un
righteous. "Say ye to the right
eous, that It shall be well with
him: for they shall eat the fruit
of their doings. Woe unto the
wicked; it shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands shall
be given him." Also in ZeDhan-
iah 2:15 we read of "the rejoic
ing city that dwelt carelessly,"
and according to that record it
was a fatal attitude.
- For example, to name but one
or two very common but very
objectionable Dractices ernwine
in proportion to our growing
population, the disregard for the
Lord's day. Stores, market
rent-alls, second-hand stores,
fruit and vegetable vendors, and
some of almost all kinds of busi
nesses are running full scale on
the Lord's day, while radio ad
vertising is sandwiched between
religious programs. TTebemiah.
the great reformer, in the 13th
chanter n?rl "What atril 4.
this that ye do, and profane the
jsaDDatn day?" Read 15 to 21.
God does not come down. Car
ry Nation style, to force the clos
ure oi bunday-desecrating busi
nesses, or to smash bottles in our
Deer and wine selling Sunday
open markets, but as sure as
God keeps books these wrongs
are Deuig recorded against those
who put the bottle to then
neighbor's lips, and break God's
law by profaning His day! Both
sellers and buyers are responsi
ble, and will be held account
able to God. Ecc;esiastes 8:11
says, "Because sentence against
an evil work is not executed
speedily, therefore the heart of
the sons of men is fully set in
them to do evil."
Will atom bomb fall on us?
What reader will venture a neg
ative answer?
The lives and the souls you
save may be your own and your
neighbors. "
H. R. Bulman,
Route 1, box 316a,
Medford, Ore.
attention to the need for putting
more farm products and resi
dues to work in industry.
President Eisenhower is alert
to this need. Some months ago,
he appointed a Commission on
Increased Industrial Use of Agri
cultural Products. Its report
should be made public within
the next month. I urge farmers
to study carefully and to follow
it up with action. Over the long
pull. I am bullish about farming
in this country: ;
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weapons basis. Great Britain
will maintain a "regular, mo
bile, highly-trained force" on
the continent of Europe as part
of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
Though reduced in man-pow
er, Macmillan said, the British
force will not be reduced in
actual strength.
Macmillan's assurance was giv
en to Adenauer during a three
day conference in Bonn, the
West German capital.
It was announced in Wash
ington that the United States
would station an atomic missile
unit in the island of Formosa,
stronghold of the Chinese Na
tionalist government.
The announcement meant that
for the first time the United
States would establish a mili
tary base in Formosa, which
about 100 miles off the Communist-held
mainland of China.
Italian Premier Antonio Segui
resigned after the right-wing So
cialist Party of Giuseppe Sara-
gat withdrew from his cabinet.
The resignation came after
months of wrangling between
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Foreign affairs stuff:
Thousands of Frenchmen in
Algiers BOOED an American
diplomatic car during a V-E Day
(Victory in Europe Day) parade.
The car belonged to the Amer
ican consulate in Algiers (Algiers
is the capital of Algeria, in North
Africa). It was taking part of
ficially in the parade to cele
brate the end of the fighting in
Europc.lt flew a small American
flag from its front fender.
Many of the Frenchmen stand
ing along the parade route booed
as the American car passed. by.
Some shouted: "Algeria ; is
FRENCHi" --
A WORD of explanation is in
order here. The Arab peo
ple of Algeria, who were con
quered by the French in 1830,
are in rebellion against French
rule. They want to run their own
affairs, as they had done for cen
turies before the French con
quered them. Many Algerian
Frenchmen are accusing the
United States of friendship to
ward the Arab rebels.
AT THIS point, let's quote a
little history. ,
In ancient times, Algeria was
known as Numidia. It was a
Roman colony with an advanced
civilization. But in A.D. 440 the
Vandals swept in and ended the
prosperity of Numidia in a bath
of blood.
In the 600's the Moslems con
quered the land. Moslem Arabs
began to settle there, and the
Islamic religion took hold. ,In
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the various Italian political par
ties and inside the parties them
selves. A long period of political in
stability . was threatened.
Janos Kadar, the Communist
puppet premier of Hungary, an
nounced a cabinet reshuffle
which brought some additional
"Stalinists" back to leadership.
Speeches in the Hungarian
parliament, after the announce
ment, included denunciations of
Imre Nagy, who served briefly
as premier during the historic
revolt of last October, and of
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Ro
man Catholic primate, who has
been a refugee in the American
legation in Budapest ever since
the revolt was crushed. . .
Dispatches from Vienna sug
gested that Kadar might be pre
paring to put Nagy on trial for
hostility to Russia.
The Khrushchev plan for de
centralization of Russian indus
trial control will affect the lives
of millions of workers all over
the Soviet Union.
It was one of the biggest de
velopments in 40 years of Com
munist rule in Russia.
JENKINS
1492, Ferdinand and Isabella
drove the Moslem. Moors from
Spain and many of them settled
in Algeria.
Then
In 1830, a French consul was
insulted by the Moslem ruler of
Algeria, and the French invaded
and conquered the country and
took over its government. Al
geria was under French military
rule until 1871, when a civil gov
ernment (dominated by French
men) was set up.
It should be added that the
conquered Algerian Arabs have
hated their French conquerors
ever since, and have staged many
rebellions of which the present
one is merely the latest.
So there you have the story
of Algeria.
T ET'S now get back to the boo
ing of Americans in Algeria
by Frenchmen who accuse the
United States of friendship for
Arab rebels.
Probably it is a good thing
for US.
Maybe, from our standpoint, it"
is the best thing that could .have
happened.
WH
Y?
Well, it COULD drama
tize us to the world at large as
the friend of all the peoples
throughout the world who want
to run their own affairs.
That is our RIGHTFUL posi
tion. . -. .-'
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