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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May -3. 1947 (Tuesday)
About $1,200 raised by Med
ford Lions club during carnival
for playground equipment at
new city park.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The theft of
a ladder is reported. The vandal
better bring it back, or other
steps will be taken.
20 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1937 (Thursday)
Richard Hayiburton, world
famous traveler, lecturer and
writer, speaks at Medford Active
club meeting.
Tentative plans for sponsoring
a code regulating bicycle traffic
in the city of Medford are pro
posed by Medford 20-30 club.
30 YEARS AGO
May 13. 1927 (Friday)
Walter Leverette elected presi
dent of directors of Medford
Realty board. ,
From Local and Personal col
umn: Henry Fluhrer returns to
Medford from Portland on air
mail plane.
40 YEARS AGO
May 13. 1917 (Sunday)
Oregon Governor James Withy
combe will speak at Tri-State
Good Roads convention at the
Natatorium Wednesday.
From Local and Personal col
umn: J. C. Burch, president of
Portland Cement company of
Gold Hill is in Medford on busi
ness today.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten rorrect Is superior:
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The making of watches by
machinery was introduced in
1850. Was the process also per
fected that year?
2. The capital city of which
State is named for the fourth
U.S. President?
3. Bible: Simon of Cyrene
helped Jesus to do what?
4. Name the author of "Peter
Pan" and "The Little Minister."
5. What are homonyms?
6. Name the first U. S. Secre
tary of the Treasury.
7. The correct, modern-day
word for writing paper is station
ery or stationary?
8. A catacomb is a special
comb for grooming cats; true or
false?
9. "One another" is used of
"more than two." What two
words are used to express "two?"
10. Did J. R- Lowell or Denis
Kearney ((Big Denny) first use
the expression "Horny-handed
sons of toil?"
Answers: 1. No. (1857). 2.
Madison. Wisconsin (for James
Madison). 3. Carry the Cross to
Calvary. 4. James M. Barrie. 5.
Words which, although pro
nounced alike, differ in meaning
and nearly always differ in spell
ing. 6. Alexander Hamilton. 7.
Sialionery. 8. False. (It is an un
derground burial place). 9. "Each
other." 10. Denis Kearney.
Spokane Man Injured
In Highway Wreck
Calvin E. Smith, 51, Spokane,
Wash., was reported in "fairly
good" condition today at Sacred
Heart hospital where he was
taken after suffering injuries in
an accident at Jacksonville on
Sunday.
State police said Smith was
traveling west on Highway 238
when his vehicle went off the
road and into a ditch. There
were no passengers in his car.
He, was taken to the hospital by
Medford Ambulance service.
Km
MAIL TRIBUNE
How's Business?
The Oregon Journal has been running a series
of articles on its front page, describing various towns
in Oregon, under the general title "Oregon Eyes Its
Second Century."
The series is by Lamar Newkirk, the business edi
tor of the Journal, who has made a flying trip around
the state, visiting briefly in the major cities, and gath
ering impressions of how each is getting along.
The' newspaper may have gotten the idea from the
far more inclusive and far more detailed series done a
few months ago by the Pendleton East Oregonian.
QUICK survey trips such as these do not give con
clusive evidence, but they are valuable in that
they do give quick and frequently accurate impres
sions of an area's economy.
Newkirk, for instance, talked to a cab driver, a
banker, a lumberman, a fanner, and several merchants
along Main street, and gathered some statistics on em
ployment, bond sales and fruit and lumber produc
tion. ' .
His conclusions pretty well confirm what most
people here believe to be true, that business is off this
year from last, largely due to the continuing slump in
lumber prices and production, but that despite this,
agriculture, principally fruit, has carried us along in
far better style than has been possible .in places more
completely dependent on lumber.
THALKING to businessmen in the city, we find a
rather sharp difference of opinion.
One of them last week said business was lousy
"until we decided to stop crying and go to work. Now
we have more business than we ever did before."
He claimed he'd never heard of the economists'
phrase, "self -justifying expectations," but that's what
he was talking about. The theory goes that if everyone
is gloomy and pessimistic, business will reflect that
fact, and if people generally are optimistic and hard
working, business, usually is-pretty good.
" This is not, of course, universally true, and even
when it does have a bearing on the economic facts of
life, there are many other factors which also enter in.
OUT it reminds us of the old story which goes some
thing like this:
John Jones sold hamburgers, the best that he could
make, with top quality meat 'and buns, and fresh vegeta
bles. He sold them by standing beside the road, waving
cheerily at passers by, and calling out loudly how good his
hamburgers were. He was very successful, and sold many
hamburgers.
After many years he could afford to send his son to col
lege. There the boy majored in economics, and when he
graduated he came home. He saw how his father made
hamburgers out of the finest ingredients, and sold them
proudly by the side of the road.
"But Papa," the boy said, "don't you know we're in
the midst of a great depression? Now is the time to re
trench, to cut costs." . .
, John Jones thought of his son, and his expensive college
education, and foUowed his advice. No longer did he buy
the best meat and the finest buns and the freshest vege
tables, and no longer did he stand proudly by the side of
the road, crying out how good his hamburgers were.
People stopped buying his hamburgers. .
And John Jones thought to himself, "By golly, my boy
is right. There IS a depression on."
It would be interesting to know whether the moral
of this story applies to Medford, where as Newkirk
says, "business generally is a little slower." E. A.
. Impressive Work
The black, white and grey of a newspaper engrav
ing do not do justice to a colorful painting such as
that by 16-year-old Peggy Richey which was repro
duced on Page 1 of this newspaper last Thursday.
The original picture, done in "mixed media" or
several different kinds of ink and paint was an ex
tremely attractive thing. The reproduction only gave
a hint of the "feeling" of the painting, which was of
birds in flight done in shades of white and blue.
Miss Richey's work won a regional competition in
a National Scholastic Art Awards contest, and she re
ceives $100 from a greeting card company. The can-'
vas is now on display at the Carnegie Institute.
rUE to a combination of personal reasons, this
spring we have had an opportunity to view a wide
range of art objects produced by students in the Med
ford schools. We have been vastly impressed.
They range all the way from professional-caliber
work such as the prize-winner mentioned above, to
highly experimental pieces of sculpture in wood,
metal, stone, plaster and composition, and paintings
done in both conventional and experimental media.
They have displayed talent, imagination and fine
perception. They have also evidenced the fact that
their instruction is not limited to the narrow confines
of strictly reproductive, representational or pseudo
photographic type art.
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THERE'S an old saw about the lady who gushes "I
A --- 'f lrv.i-.nT otrirfViTi-. t. "Uy-vi,4- ,- T . .Af
uuii c iuiuw a-uLHiiig dUUUlriULy UUL 1 JU1UW VVIlitt
Hike."
In greater or lesser degree, that applies to about 99
per cent of the population. We know it does to us.
We also know that we like what we've seen of the
way Medford art students are working under the di
rection of highly competent and imaginative and crea
tive teachers.
An appreciation of works of art, and, perhaps even
more important in some ways, an understanding of
what the artist is trying to achieve, and how, is some
thing which will deepen an individual's enjoyment of
life in all the years to come.
It's a. far cry from the water washes, soap carvings
and poster contests which were close to the upper lim
its of art instruction in the schools a couple of decades
ago. E.A. ' " -
Monday, May 13, 1957
I HAVE SOME FOLKS WHO WOULD
House. MAS. WADS is that little toiv- ksaded neighbor
. 00V ABOUND?
Matter of Fact
FLAMINGOES AND
HEDGEHOGS
Damascus , Judging by
every surface indication in this
outwafdly lovely, inwardly tor
tured little
oasis city, Sy
ria is due to
move still fur
ther along the
road marked
out by Egypt's
-1 President Ra.
-f malAbdel Nas
ser.
A Syria still
Joseph Aisop more virulent
ly anti-Western, in , appearance
an Egyptian colony in all but
the name, but with Soviet agents
behind the scenes playing the
puppets and pulling the strings,
that is the present prospect. No
other forecast is possible after
the recent Syrian by-elections in
which three new seats were cap
tured by extreme left-wing na
tionalists. In order to understand the
real meaning of these elections,
it is necessary to view them in
the context of recent events. In
brief, they were the immediate
sequel of an extreme left-wing
effort to prepare to take full
power, which was rather nar
rowly frustrated.
The great figures of Syria's ex
treme left-wing nationalists, the
civilian leader of the Baath
party, Ahram Hourani, and the
famous head of Syrian Army in
telligence, Lt. Col. Abdul Ham
id Serraj, have long occupied
positions only imaginable in
Syria. Hourani is not a mem
ber of the government and his
Baathists and the allied Com
munists are a small minority.
Serraj is only a junior staff of
ficer. But in fact each of them
has long been , immeasurably
more powerful than Syria's Pres
ident Shuri al-Kuwatly.
A NNOYINGLY, however, the
politicians . whom Hourani
manipulates, the senior Army of
ficers who never make a move
without considering JBerraj, may
be intimidated, but they are not
inanimate. For the last year or
so, therefore, Syrian politics has
rather resembled the surrealist
croquet game in "Alice" witn
Hourani and Serraj as the exas
perated human players, and
most of the other civil and mili
tary personalities as the trouble
some flamingo-mallets - and the
unwinding hedgehog-balls. Using
the flamingo-mallets to drive the
hedgehog-balls through the de
sired left-wing wickets has real
ly been' a; very trying business.
A great effort to tidy up this
untidy situation was made this
winter in the form of an en
ormous conspiracy trial organ
ized by Col. Serraj. The details
of the trial were what one
might expect.
A near-Communist, Col. Afif
Al Bizri, sat as president of the
court. After a long line of docile
witnesses, . one courageous de
fendant, Munir Ajlani, spilled
the beans by publicly charging
that he had only "confessed"
under prolonged torture. And
with rather splendid arrogance,
the military court at one mo
ment published . the suggestion
that Hourani's "Coalition" Prime
Minister, Sabri el Assali, had
been guilty of perjury in deny
ing any knowledge of the al
leged plot with neighboring
Iraq. ,
But the real point of the trial
came at the end, when the son
of a former president of Syria
and member of one of the great
est Syrian families, Adnan At
assi; a powerful Syrian tribal
leader, Hayel Surur, and three
other very highly placed Syrians
were actually condemned to
death. If Serraj and Hourani had
got their way if the death
sentences had been carried out
all the flamingoes and
hedgehogs would have become
absolutely rigid with fear. The
croquet game would have been
wonderfully simplified. The way
would have been prepared for
a final left-wing take-over.
AT THIS point however, ap
narentlv in Dart because of
a plea made by King Saud to his
old friend President Kuwatly,
but also because of strong local
feeling, - the - flamingoes and
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LIKE TO LOOK AT
By Joseph Alsop
hedgehogs began uncoiling all
over the place. The death sen
tences were commuted. Serraj
and Hourani were infuriated.
Serraj protested to his theoreti
cal commander, Army Chief of
Staff Nizam Ud Din.
There followed the "affair of
the Army transfers." With Ku-
wately's initial support, Gen.
Nizam Ud Din tried to. get Ser
raj out of the country by sending
him as military attache to Mos
cow. The left-wingers in politics
and the Army immediately mo
bilized their influence. Serraj
stayed where he was, at the head
of Army intelligence, which
means at the head of . the secret
police in this country. Only the
other transfers,, designed to
mask Serraj 's transfer, were ef
fected. .
Such was the background of
the election, in which all the
power of the government and
of Serraj 's agents was used to
support the left-wing candidates
like Riyadh Malki here in Da-
mascus. The , left-wing victory
was not glittering, but it was
enough. It places Hourani and
Serraj in position for another
attempt to freeze the flamingoes
and hedgehogs into total docility
and the great upset in Jordan
has provided the spur to fairly
early action.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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lication must not exceed 400 words
On "Pointless" Letters"
To the Editor: We read and
enjoy most of the letters in
your communications columns.
As long as the subject matter
is of common community inter
est, with controversial sides, aU
arguments and comments are of
interest, worthy of column space
and the study and consideration
of all fair minded readers.
I refer to such letters as those
on Flouridation, Location of the
Super Highway, The Al Sarena
Mining issue, School Consolida
tion, Weather Control, and manv
others.
However, recently we have
had a rash of matter; "strictlv
opinions" ,with no convincing,
substantiating facts submitted,
and the subject matter was that
dearest to more DeoDle of all
nations, and for all time, than
any subject ever to be consid
ered by man. .
I don't think it necessary to
mention the names of the writ
ers of these letters or point out
the misstatement of the few facts
that were touched upon.
Another corresDondent would
justify the poisoning of dogs (at
least the inference was that the
poisoner was in some measure
justified).
I don't have the answer as
to how to handle such matters
but sincerely hope the Editor
comes up witn something better
than Drintine such "nnintless at
best, and degrading as a modest
way of expressing a verdict"
letters m the future.
John D. Bowdish,
4127 Colver rd.
Medford, Ore.
DURLING ON VACATION
E. V. Durling is on vacation.
Hi "On the Side" column will
be resumed on May 27.
STOLE FROM THE TILL
GEO. N. TAYLOR
, He stole cash from the till and kept
mum about it. The air was blue with his -curses
and he always lied as a cover-up.
In time he heard of the perfect pearl. At
that he sold his all and bought the pearL
And the pearl was none other than Christ,
1 who was tempted at every point like as
. we, yet He sinned not, Christ so loved that
man, that He died to clear him. See that
great throng 'who were once only scum?
Christ loved and died for every one of them
and when they opened their hearts to re
ceive His as their Lord and Saviour, He
gave them eternal life.
Send for Four Steps Up. Geo. N. Tay
lor, 2385 87th Ave., SW Porltand 1, Ore.
Administration hoofing1 Many
Politically Important Actions
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) What's
new in Washington is the same
old story that the Eisenhower
team is still
goofing its
political skuU
practice.
For ex
ample: By
chance or de
sign, the ad
m inistration's
April 19 re
duction in
Lyie c. Wilson w n e a t sup
ports caught members of Con
feress en route home for the
Easter recess.. Some Republi
cans complain that wheat state
congressmen . had r no advance
warning of the reduction. Thus,
they had no pat answer for
wheat farmers back home who
instantly were demanding ex
planations. ' -.
Similarly, the administration
too often strips its political gears
on minor patronage , matters.
The confirmation of a small
town New England postmaster
recently was stymied by a Dem
ocrat who was not even a mem
ber of Congress. The nominee's
local Republican sponsors were
increasingly . embarrassed b y
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The Oregon house of represen
tatives . has passed an already
senate-approved bill designed to
rid Oregon of slow-poke drivers.
The bill would prohibit opera
tion of a motor vehicle at "such
slow speed as to impede or to
block the normal and reasonable
movement of traffic."
Reduced speed would be per
mitted when "required for safe
ty" or to comply with police in
structions. COMMENT?
Let's put it this way:
The law would probably do
no harm. On the other hand, it
is improbable that it would do
any good.
Why clutter the books with
any more of that kind of laws?
ADMITTEDLY, "slow - poke"
drivers are a nuisance, espec
ially on heavily traveled . two-
lane highways. To a certain ex
tent, they are a menace to safe
ty in that they pile up traffic
behind them to the point where
somebody is likely to try to pass
when there isn't room to pass.
Danger lurks in all such situa
tions. "; -. - - '' , . '
VOU can call a cop, of course
if there is a cop within
hailing distance. Or if no cop is
within reach' at the moment,
you can get the slow driver's
number and . report him and
have him ' hauled into court. In
that event, you will have to ap
pear as a complaining witness.
That you probably won't want
fo take the time and trouble to
do. ,
So--
The chances are you will
either possess your soul in pa
tience and wait until there is
an opportunity to pass with
safety or you wiU get all steam
ed up with impatience and go
roaring around the slow driver
and the string of cars piled up
behind him, taking your chances
of getting into bad trouble.
Just you do now WITHOUT
a law forbidding slow driving.
TN CLOSING, let's bounce' from
the subject of laws we could
do without to Dizzy Gillespie.
Sending Dizzy and his jazz
band overseas to drum up good
will for our country cost quite
a lot of money. But, the state
department tells a senate appro
priations subcommittee that is
digging into the cost of the en
terprise, it really paid off.
"To the young people in al
most every country," the state
department said to the senate
investigators, "jazz represents
freedom, vitality and a new kind
of expression .... The depart
ment believes that substantial
benefits have accrued to the
United States as a result of the
Gillespie tours and those of sim
ilar groups." .
IN OTHER words, Dizzy "don
us a lotta good".
. That I wouldn't doubt.
But I think businessmen will
have to agree that there are a
lot of things that might do them
a lot of good BUT COST SO
MUCH THEY CAN'T BE AF
FORDED. Housewives will
probably go along with that.
Personally, I doubt if our gov
ernment which owes 270 bil
lion dollars can afford that
kind of do-gooding.
i
failure to get their man on the
federal payroll
Finally Put Through '
The embarrassing stymie per
sisted, nowever, until the nomi
nee's Republican backers "be
came sufficiently angry to put
some real political heat on the
White House through Postmaster
General Arthur . E. Summer
field. ' " " '
These ' are minor ' items,' per
haps, but not necessarily isolat
ed. They painfully annoy local
Republican leaders who. may not
want jobs for. themselves but
who must feed their own. ego
and home state prestige on .the
appearance, at 'least, of having
political influence in Washing
ton. ." ,"
Executive departments and
administrative agencies have
been under Eisenhower's direc
tion since Jan. 20, 1953., It still
is necessary, however, for poli
tical professionals . to . remind
these Republican officials that
a congressman likes to know, a
couple of hours in .advance
when hjs home town is to be
awarded federal funds for some
popular-local purpose.
Foreknowledge enables a con
gressman to break the good news
to the folks back home in the
hope that they will remember
his . good- works next election
day. . . . .
U.P. Co r respo n den ts
Predict Headlines
United Press .. correspon
dents around the world look
at the news that will make
the headlines.
Secret '
Diplomatic 'insiders say the
visit of King Saud of Saudi
Arabia to King Feisal of Iraq
marks the start ' of secret nego
tiations to line up all Arab coun
tries except Egypt and Syria
on the side of the West. ...
There will be no public' an
nouncement of the move. But
the word is that Lebanon and
Jordan will be brought into the
negotiations, . then other Arab
countries., -v.. . ..
One reason 'for the-new turn'
is the visit Saud paid to Wash
ington. . Another: -Pro-Russian,
anti-Western elements outsmart
ed themselves when they tried
to overthrow King Hussein of
Jordan.- -..'
Pressure
- Military manpower cuts may
become .a hot issue in Washing
ton sooner than expected. - The
Pentagon, in ..its : estimates for
the fiscal year which starts July
1, planned last faU to cut the
armed forces by 150,000. to 250,
000 ment., The ; cut was post
poned - because of -the delicate
international situation and fear
of the effect it would have on
other Allied countries. But, De
fense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son is under increasing pressure
to hold down spending, and the
manpower reductions are due
to come under renewed study
soon.
Missile Move
Watch for Soviet Russia to
protest to the United Nations Se
curity Council against the sta
tioning , of an American guided
missile unit in Formosa,' strong
hold of the Chinese Nationalist
government. .
. The Chinese Communist for
eign office broadcast an angry
protest against the action Satur
day. But Red China is not a
member to take the issue to the
Security Council in its behalf.'
Big Four Bid '
Soviet diplomats ' in., Bonn,
capital of West Germany, are
spreading the word that it would
be nice if a Big Four "summit"
conference could be held late
this fall. The idea is that a brief
meeting of President . Eisen
hower, British Prime-- Minister
Harold Macmillan, .French Pre
mier Guy Mollet and .Soviet
Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin
would be followed up by a long
meeting of the foreign . minis- j
ters of the Big Four. , T ... j i
A break in . the years-long
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sionals in Washington who,
among their friends, will won
der now out loud whether the
Eisenhower team merely is goof
ing its political home work, or
worse- that . someone fairly
highly placed r deliberately is
blowing political fuses.
Grass Roots Trouble
However that may be, there is
real trouble, at the grass roots
for the Eisenhower administra
tion.: Some of it is the kind of
trouble that a little more politi
cal savvy probably could
remedy in a hurry.
And comes now the persuasive
report that a Texas Democrat
will be named to succeed Treas
ury Secretary George M. Hump
hrey when the latter leaves the
cabinet. The Texan is Robert B.
Anderson, secretary of the Navy
in 1953-54, deputy secretary of
defense in 1954-55.
Anderson impressed Eisen
hower with a standout Pentagon
performance. He was an Ike-for-president
Democrat in 1952. The
Republican . political pro who
was reviewing these matters
ended , our. conversation with a
sigh: ..........
. "Things could be worse, but
not much," he said. "You'd think
there would be a Republican
somewhere in this country fit
for that Treasury job.".
deadlock on disarmament might
induce President Eisenhower to
agree "to a , "summit" meeting.
Washington reports that he now
hopes a start' can be made this
year toward an agreement. Lon
don shares that view. In both
capitals, 'the view is that de
spite their reluctance to accept
an effective inspection system,
the Russians "really want a dis
armament treaty at last.
Immigration
' It-appears certain that Con
gress will not act this year on
Eisenhower's proposal to lib
eralize basic immigration laws.
The Senate is waiting for the
House of Representatives to go
first. The House ' Immigration
Subcommittee plans to take up
refugee legislation first, - but
hasn't even scheduled hearings
on it.
Red Aid
Speaking' of the Middle East,
West Berlin intelligence sources
report that Egyptian - air force
officers are learning to fly Rus
sia's latest type M1G et fighter
planes at Czechoslovakian air
fields: Three to six months
courses also -are believed plan
ned for Syrian officers.
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