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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 29, 1947 (Thursday)
Miss Betty Rolland, who has
served as manager of Com
. munity hospital for the past
four yrars, resigns.
Frcn Arthur Perry's Ye
Smuge Pot column-: A plot to
cut down a residential area tree
37 years old, to make a six-foot
sidewalk level, has been nipped.
20 YEARS AGO
May 29, 1937 (Saturday)
Unusually large pear and
apple crop is forecast this year
by Gordon R. Green, division
manager of American Fruit
Growers, Inc.
Sixteen 4-H club boys in Jack
son county start work on a corn
improvement project sponsored
by the Medford branch of the
U.S. National bank.
30 YEARS AGO
May 29, 1927 (Sunday)
Construction of $58,000 build
ing for Rogue River Studios,
Inc., is announced by W. H.
Cope, Hollywood, Calif.
Ten man crew starts work of
clearing roads in Crater Lake
National park.
40 YEARS AGO
May 29. 1917 (Tuesday)
WCTU holds roundtable dis
cussion led by Mrs. M. Edmunds
at Baptist church.
From Local and Personal col
umn: H. D. Kubli of Applegate
is in Medford today en route to
Grants .f ass.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good
1. Were the American Indians,
the Asiatics, or Spaniards the
first people known to ride horse
back?
2. Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk was
the founder of which republic in
Europe after World War I?
3. Bible: Did Moses ever
"write" a song?
. 4. Which famous American
Revolutionary War general was
known as Mad Anthony?"
5. Are there more males than
ft i ales in the population of the
U.S.?
6. B-24 Liberator bombers did
or did not bomb Japan during
the closing pnases of the war?
7. The Reichstag fire in 1933
was linked to what high Nazi?
8. How often is a population
census of the U. S. taken?
9. Correct this sentence: "An
unnumerable number of persons
called; numerous numbers pray
ed." 10. "The tree of liberty grows
only when watered by the blood
of tyrants." Barere. "The tree
of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants." T; Jeffer
son. Whose is the earlier quota
tion? Answers: I. Asiatics (Mongols,
etc.). 2. Czechoslovakia. 3. Yes.
4. Anthony Wayne. 5. No. 6. Did,
Five raids were made on Japan
early in August, 1945. 7. Her
mann Goering. 8. Every ten
years. 9. "A countless number of
persons called; numerous groups
prayed." 10. Jefferson (1787).
Governor Signs Bill
Givinq Motto To State
Salem (IB Governor Rob
ert D. Holmes signed Senate bill
27 Tuesday and "The Union"
officially became the motto of
the state of Oregon.
Although never before offic
ially adopted by the Oregon leg
islature, the motto has been used
since the state was founded in
1859.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Humanitarian Decision
Commonly, we have little admiration for the state
of Florida, or for Florida politicians But we have to
make an exception for Gov. Leroy Collins of that
state, who last week made a wise and humanitarian
decision in the case of little Hildy.
Hildy was born out of wedlock to a mother of the
Catholic faith. She was placed for adoption, and
adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ellis when she was
only a few weeks old.
Later, when her mother discovered that the Ellises
were Jewish, she attempted to have the child taken
from them to be raised in a Catholic orphanage.
TTHE Ellises, who had made the adoption in good
faith, and who had come to love the baby girl as
their own, resisted this.
Later, as court proceedings were instituted, they
gave up their home and business in Massachusetts and
went to Florida, where the legal proceedings followed
them. They were accused of all things of kid
naping. The crux of the matter was the religious faiths in
volved. Hildy's mother, as a Catholic, was determined
the girl should be raised in that church. The Ellises,
devout in their own religion, were less concerned with
the little girl's nominal faith than that she be given the
love, affection, care and guidance which only a good,
devoted and unified family can provide.
THE Massachusetts law, which requires that babies
be adopted only by families whose religious faith
is the same as that of the physical parents where pos
sible, probably is a good one.
But in using that good law for the purpose of dis
rupting an established family, persecuting devoted
parents who sacrificed much for the child they had
come to love as their own, and wrenching from them a
little girl who looked upon them as father and mother,
the authorities were perverting the sense and intent of
the law. '
The area of doctrinal and dogmatic beliefs is a
highly personal and extremely touchy one, where dif
ferences of conviction are entitled to meticulous re
spect. For this reason Governor Collins' decision to re
fuse extradition was a difficult one. But, based on the
chances for a happy and normal life for little Hildy,
it was the correct one. E.A.
Its a
Far down in the small
published in this newspaper Monday, can be found
under Miscellaneous General County an item of
$3,000 for "county parks."
Good.
This will enable the county to get a small and be
lated start on what the law
sponsibilities the establishment and maintenance
of a system of parks.
o
UR ONLY regret is that the sum specified is so
small. We can't heln comnarinp; it to the $25,000
A- A CJ T 7
which neighboring Josephine county smaller and
with lewer resources plans to spend next year tor
county parks ; or the $111,790 which Douglas county
has included in its budget for county parks.
iTr n .,;j i.L .c i; i,t .,
yv e cctu l ctvuiu me leeuxig uictt a muie geiieiuua
appropriation for land acquisition now would save
? Il 1 1 1 A I
money in me long run, as iana vames continue to in
crease and appropriate park sites become scarcer.
But something is better than nothing, and a start
is, after all, a start.
TALKING about county parks and camping spots,
the Grants Pass Courier said recently:
"Tourists, when they find such facilities available, very
often spend their entire vacations in one place. Further
more, they spread the word and others follow in succeeding
years. They don't just fill the tanks of their automobiles
with gasoline, buy a meal, and go on their way.
"To the great credit of the Josephine county court and
members of the park commission, the local deficiency for
some time has been recognized. Now steps will be taken to
- rectify it . . .
"The big item is that there now is general realization
of a major deficiency in our recreational area, and determi
nation to do something about it."
We say the same about the county court and
budget committee, with the added hope the relatively
tiny sum of $3,000 can be used to plan a more com
prehensive program which will meet realistically the
need in this county in years to come. And the sooner
the better. E.A.
Our War Dead
Almost four times as many Americans wore the
uniform in World War II as in World War I (16.1
million as against 4.3 million), and more than three
times as many American servicemen died during
World War II as during World War I (408,000 as
against 126,000).
Nevertheless there are
I veterans to be decorated on Memonal Day 1957
than graves of World War II veterans.
That, of course, is because it is now 382 years since
1 the end of hostilities in World War I in 1918, less
than a dozen years since V-E Day in 1945. Since
World War T ended, over 1,100,000 World War I
veterans have died; only about 310,000 World War H
veterans.
In World War I more Americans died of causes
not connected with battle, especially from an influ
enza epidemic in the camps, than in battle. In the
Civil War also, many more Union soliders had died
from disease than from battle. However, in World
War II and in the Korean conflict, the advance of
medical science kept the number of non-battle deaths
well below the number of deaths in battle. E.R.R.
Wednesday. May 29, I9S7
Start
print of the county budget,
spells out as one of its re
more graves of World War
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. eUll&T HIT YA WHEN YOU eTOmD HIM FROM ROSSM' THE
Nixon Ties Himself
Irrevocably To Ike;
1960 Bid Foreseen
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) The col
umnists and pundits seem to
have missed the most important
angle of Vice-
President Rich
ard M. Nixon's
speeclh last
week in New
York before
the American
Iron and Steel
Institute.
The import
ant angle was
Lyle C Wilson political. It
was this: Nixon deliberately
tied himself in that speech to
the Eisenhower administration.
Tied himself and soaked the
knot in water so that it will not
become untied.
Repeatedly, half a hundred
times, in that speech Nixon used
the word "we" in stating his
views on the Eisenhower budg
et. It was the most important
public appearance of the vice
president since the 1956 presi
dential campaign.
First Vital Move
The speech was the vital first
Earth Satellite
Program Runs Into
Financial Trouble
Washington (W The United
States' earth satellite program is
in money trouble and the De
fense Department is considering
laying the problem before Con
gress for solution.
The department is responsible
for launching the first man-made
moon into an earth-circling orbit
sometime during the Internation
al Geophysical Year (IGY), which
runs from July 1, 1957, to De
cember 31, 1958. .
Cost Estimated
The problem is this:
When the White' House an
nounced the ' project in July,
1955, and before any actual
work had been done on it, IGY
scientists roughly estimated the
satellite would cost $10 million.
Almost casually, - they said the
rocket launching apparatus
would be extra. The U. S. Na
tional Committee for IGY gave
the Defense Department the task
of rocketing thesphere into
space, tracking it by radio and
providing some of the minute
instruments it must carry.
Now, 22 months later, the
Pentagon says it has laid out.
$5J,800,000 on the project and
the National Science Founda
tion an additional $15,800,000.
That totals $71,600,000 with the
end not yet in sight.
WUson Said Irked
Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson is said to be irked by the
increasing outlay of military de
partment money for a project
considered to be scientific and
non-military in nature. He won
ders, it is said, whether the
Pentagon will be reimbursed for
any funds diverted to the satel
lite and where the rest of the
needed money is coming from.
That is the problem the Pent
agon is considering handing
Congress.
The Last Supper Memorial Building
at MEMORY GARDENS MEMORIAL PARK
will be open to the public from 8:00 A.M. until 9:00 P.M.. Memorial
Day. Special showings of the massive stained glass window will be
held continuously. Each presentation includes the unveiling of Da Vinci's
great work of art as a commentary unfolds the story.
Children accompanied byAdults, are welcome. There is no charge
Memory Gardens
MEMORIAL PARK
1395 ARNOLD LANE MEDFORD, OREGON
"move" which Nixon's friends
have been expecting and urging
him to make toward gaining the
196p Republican presidential
nomination. In other language,
the speech reads like a frank
and bold bid for President Eisen
hower's active support in 1960.
Nixon hurried off to Africa
after last year's campaign. He
made a few after -campaign
speeches, but had seemed to be
avoiding major political commit
ments as the new Congress as
sembled and the second Eisen
hower administration began.
After long thoughts, Nixon has
made his stand as an all-out Ike
man.
Nixon is moving with the ut
most caution toward 1960. His
Iron and Steel Institute speech
represented a calculated risk. It
probably has cost him some
warmth and friendship among
the large body of Republican
conservatives who urgently de
sire to reduce Eisenhower s
spending program.
What He Wants
The speech may win Nixon
some warmth and friendship
elsewhere, at the White House,
for example. It was by chance
but still interesting that on the
Sunday following Nixon's speech
the New York Times, W. H.
Lawrence reported on page one
that Eisenhower was determined
to fight in 1960 for the nomina
tion of a modern . Republican.
The term is not yet sufficient
ly defined, but, roughly, a mod
ern Republican is an Eisenhower
Republican. Nixon, then, is Ei
senhower's boy provided the
President wants him three years
hence.
Holmes Signs Bill
For Highway 101 Job
Salem (IP) Gov. Robert
Holmes Tuesday signed a bill
which authorizes a $12,600,000
bond issue for rebuilding of
Highway 101 between Gold
Beach and Brookings on the Ore
gon coast.
The new water-level route
would shorten the 37.5 mile dis
tance by eight miles.
Representatives of coastal
counties were on hand for the
signing ceremony.
Holmes Tuesday vetoed a Sen
ate bill which would have made
changes in the code for drain
age and sewage installation. The
governor said the measure
would have given persons other
than licensed plumbers the re
sponsibility of such installations.
Southern Baptists Ask
For $16,500,000 Budget
Chicago (W The Southern
Baptist Executive Committee to
day proposed a $16,500,000
budget, the highest in the history
of the denomination, to the 15,
000 delegates attending the Gold
en Anniversary convention.
The money would be raised
through a financial plan known
as the cooperative program.
About 13 million dollars would
go to support operations and
capital expenses of all conven
tion agencies.
The rest would be divided be
tween the convention's foreign
and home mission boards.
Russian Relations With Poland,
Yugoslavia, Show Improvement
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia's relations with
Yugoslavia and Poland, the two
rebel Communist countries, are
showings signs
of improve
ment. P r e s i d ent
Tito of Yugo
s 1 a v i a, who
won complete
i n d ependence
of Russia nine
years ago, has
just restated
Charles McCano . nis desire ior
friendship with Soviet leaders.
He has announced that Ivan
Gosnjak, his defense minister,
will visit Moscow next month at
the invitation of Soviet Defense
Minister Georgi K. Zhukov.
Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Pol
ish Communist leader who won
a great measure of independence
by his successful leadership of
the revolt of last October, has
just returned home from a visit
to Moscow.
A -lot of people undoubtedly
will read a lot of significance
into these developments.
Bui actually there is no rea
son to believe that either Tito
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Lewis Strauss, chairman of the
atomic energy commission, has
come up with a plan to ask the
philosophers of the world to find
a way to peace. He outlined it in
a broadcast last night.
His idea is a world conference
of learned men in the humanities
field philosophy, history, eco
nomics and son on. He says the
thought would be to see whether
there is some way to save the
world from self-destruction and
adds that he hopes to work out a
detailed plan this summer.
IS THERE a way to peace?
There is.
It was worked out in adequate
detail for mankind nearly 2,000
years ago by Jesus, who em
bodied it in the Sermon on the
Mount. Matthew describes it for
us in these words: "Therefore aU
things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye even
so to them: for this is the law
and the prophets."
The same idea was in men's
minds even before the Sermon
on the Mount. An old saying of
the ancient world was: "Do not
do to others what you do not
want done to you." Jesus turned
this saying around to make it
a positive rule for Christian liv
ing. THAT rule, if followed, would
end war.
It is doubtful if anything else
would.
TAX CHATTER:
According to Business
Week Magazine, seven men in
the United States earned sal
aries exceeding $500,000 in 1956.
Only one received a salary of
more than $800,000 Eugene C.
Grace, chairman of the board of
Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Mr. Grace was paid $809,000.
TOO MUCH, do you say, for
any one man to earn in the
way of salary?
Wait a minute.
On all of his salary over $150,
000, Mr. Grace will pay a federal
income tax of 88 per cent. On
that part of his salary in excess
of $200,000, he will pay a tax of
91 per cent. On all of his salary
in excess of $300,000 he will pay
a tax of 92 per cent.
That is to say: ;
For each day that he wdrks for
himself, Mr. Grace will work
about NINE DAYS for the gov
ernment. AHA! , you say, if that is true
this man Grace pays a lot of
the tax that otherwise I WOULD
HAVE TO PAY.
Again wait a minute.
Mr. Grace's salary (of which
he has only about 10 per cent
left after the tax collector has
reached into his pocket) has to
be added to the cost of steel, and
since it must be added to the
COST of steel it must be added
to the PRICE of steel.
Everybody uses steel in one
form or another. So everybody
helps to pay the taxes that are
involved in this rather fantastic
situation.
WHAT to do about it?
The only thing I can think
of is to get taxes down so that
so much tax doesn't have to be
added to the cost of the things
we buy. ,
or Gomulka has any illusions as
to his status in Moscow.
Both Defied Russia
Both of them openly and suc
cessfully defied the right of the
Soviet government to dominate
their countries' policies.
Their rebellion has weakened
the grip of Russia on all of the
Communist-ruled countries of
Eastern Europe.
Tito's decision to send his de
fense minister to Moscow, and
Gomulka's visit, there, are both
connected with the policies of
the United States toward them.
President EisenhoweV suspend
ed military aid to Yugoslavia
last October. It was announced
on May 14 that he had decided
t- resume it. As the result, four
F-86 Sabre Jet .fighter planes
were delivered.
But the State Department at
the same time announced that
the military aid would be given
on a "more modest" basis than
had been planned originaUy. The
Yugoslav defense minister's pro
posed visit to Moscow stems
partly from that.
The United States decided last
January to extend economic aid
to Poland to help it keep its in
dependence from Russia.
A Polish delegation of eco
nomic and finance' experts ar
rived in Washington in Febru
ary, seeking credits of 300 mil
lion dollars.
Talks Dragged On
Negotiationes dragged on for
weeks. It was decided finally
that Poland should get about 95
million dollars. Signature of an
aid agreement is still hanging,
awaiting congressional action on
a bill to increase the authority
of the government to dispose of
farm surpluses to foreign coun
tries.
That appears to be the rea
son for Gomulka's visit to Mos
cow. He took two of his. chief
economic experts with him. A
Road Section Work
Near Completion
Work to cut down a hill and
ease the grade on a Brown-
Bigham road section south of
Eagle Point should be completed
within several days, according to
County Engineer Paul B. Ryn-
mng.
The section adjoins a newly-
constructed concrete bridge over
Dry creek,-, which is completed
except for grinding and smooth
ing the surface, Rynning said
The bridge, built by R and M
Construction of Central Point
replaces a low wooden structure
which had been condemned. '
Rynning also reported that
road crews will finish the prime
coat of oiling over county roads
next week and will begin paving
soon after. Road construction in
the Applegate and Dead Indian
areas also is almost completed.
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Suspensions Ordered
For Salem Firemen
Salem (IB Three Salem
firemen ordered suspended for
holding outside jobs will have
their cases reviewed by the city
council.
First aid Capt. Gerald Hall was
suspended for one year and Capt.
Peter McCaffery and firemen
Dene Ray were suspended for 10
days each by the Civil Service
Commission.
The suspensions were to start
June 1 but they will be delayed
until after the city council re
views the matter June 10.
Fire Chief Robert Mills, in a
letter to the city manager, ques
tioned the role of the commission
to order the. suspensions and
then serve as an appeal board.
He recommended probation in
stead of suspension.
Historical Society
Dinner Meet Monday
The annual dinner meeting of
the Southern Oregon Historical
society, Inc., will be held at the
Jacksonville Masonic temple
Monday, June 3, at 6:30 p.m.
Dinner will be $1.50 per plate
and all interested persons are
invited, according to Mrs. Edith
M. Gifford, secretary. The Jack
sonville museum will be open
following the program. Reserva
tions should be made soon by
calling SP 2-6487 or TW 8-1322.
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United Press dispatch from War-
w said that he went there to
plead with the Russians for im
mediate aid to prevent an eco
nomic crisis.
The question-of American aid
to any Communist country is
controversial. There are many,
Including leaders in Congress,
who oppose aid on the ground
that help to any Communist
country helps Russia.
The fact seems to be, how
ever, that refusal of help to
countries like Yugoslavia and
Poland both of which are now
liabilities to Russian domination
of Eastern Europe compels
them tc seek help from the
Soviet government.
Graham Sermon
Hits at Divorce
New York (IP) Billy Gra
ham Tuesday night preached a
hard-hitting sermon on the
Third Commandment, in which
he said divorce and marital in
fidelity are "grievous foTns of
taking the name of the Lord
thy God in vain."
The Third Commandment is
not only a proscription against
swearing, the 38-year-old Baptist
mimster said, but also against
divorce, "cheating on your wife"
gluttony," "defiling the body,"
hypocrisy," and "foolish pray
ers.
He told a Madison Square gar
den crowd of 17,500 in the sec
ond of a series of sermons on
The Commandments that "God is
an unchanging God. We may
have changed over the years so
cially, philosophically and mor
ally, but God's standards have
not changed."
In the eyes of God, he said,
"ducking out on marriage today
is just as bad as it was 5,000
years ago, for you are breaking
a sacred vow taken in God's
name. When you get a divorce
you are taking God's name in
vain."
Salem Bypass To Be
Four-Lane Highway
Salem (IB State Highwcy
Engineer W. C. Williams said
today a $2,800,000 project to
make the Salem bypass into a
four-lane divided route would
be started late this year.
He said the schedule for the
additional two lanes was moved
up two years because of a high
volume of traffic and an above
average accident rate.
"With four-lane highways at
each end of the bypass, motor
ists often enter the two-lane sec
tion without realizing they' no
longer have the extra margain
of safety provided by the four
lane freeway," Williams said.
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TONIGHT -7:30 P.M.
MEDFORD SENIOR
HIGH AUDITORIUM
Admission Free
FIRST TftuCU-k-v FILM
in WIDE SCREEN
IK Milium CtlW
Scotland's heroic
struggle for
freedom of
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Mrs. Llfwiller
"It is better to know us end not need us,
- than to need us and not know us."