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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
June 12. 1947 (Thursday)
Proposal to exceed the six per
cent limitation by S145.976 fails
to pass by 23 votes in special
budget election in city.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Summer
bathing suits sport bustles. To
the untrained eye there seems
to be more bustle than bathing
suit.
20 YEARS AGO
June 12. 1937 (Saturday)
New Rogue River lodge, re
cently completed on the banks
of the river 25 miles from Med
ford on Crater lake highway,
opens Wednesday, according to
Montie Gilhousen, manager.
Work will start tomorrow on
a four-room rustic-type dwelling
for protective assistant of the
Rogue River National forest at
lake of the Woods.
30 YEARS AGO
June 12. 1927 (Sunday)
Monday work will start on the
first 853,000 unit of the Medford
movie studio according to
George W. Flint, sales manager
of the Rogue Studios, Inc.
Robert E. Clancy, son of Dr.
Clancy of Medford, receives di
ploma from Hill Military
academy.
40 YEARS AGO
June 12. 1917 (Tuesday)
Lyman Orion of Medford who
has been serving in the ambul
ance corps on the French front,
enlists in LaFayette aviation
corps.
Medford Elks lodge will cele
brate flag day Thursday with
exercises in the evening.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nlns- or tn correct Is superior;
even or right ts excellent; five or
ilx ts good.
1. Which animals used in war
fare are termed "forerunners of
the modern tanks?"
2. Do blue jays, as said bury
acorns in the ground?
3. Bible: In which direction
did the three wise men see the
bright star (of Bethlehem) before
them?
4. Does the buffalo in a Buf
falo nickel face to the left or to
the right?
5. When is Pancake Tuesday?
6. Is the legal document sum
moning a witness into court a
subpoena or a writ of habeas
corpus?
7. "Father Knickerbocker is
a humorous name for which
large Eastern U.S. city?
8. Freeman F. Gosden and
Charles J. Carrell are noted for
what popular radio program?
9. Is it correct to use the word
"any" in the sense of "at all?
10. "Oh. won't vou come up
come all the way up, Come all
the way up to Limerick." Is this
nonsensical verse in reference
to Limerick, Ireland (1898 the
first instance of a published lime
rick?
Answers: I. Elephants. 2. Yes.
3. East. 4. To the left. 5. The
Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
6. Subpoena. 7. New York City.
8. "Amos 'n' Andy." 9. No. (i. e.,
I didn't sleep 'at all" last night.)
10. No. The first oecun in "His
tory of Sixteen Wonderful Wo
men." (1820).
Clinton. Mich. flB The
Clinton Machine Co.. distributed
1.700 pounds of silver to its em
ployees Friday as part of its profit-sharing
plan. The distribution
amounted to $49,000 in silver
dollars.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
Massena, N. Y., June 9th: Imagine if you will one gallon of
water.
Then imagine a thousand of them.
When that has soaked in imagine, if you CAN, a thousand
thousand or a million gallons.
Got it?
Well, now take a look at the new dam on the St. Lawrence
which we have just visited where a million gallons of water
rushes over every second!
This is only one unit in the billion dollar St. Lawrence Seaway
and electric power project, which it will take around two years
more to complete.
There are about 8.000 men working on the project, divided
about equally between the Canadian and American forces, the
financing being done by the Province of Ontario and the state
of New York but both aided materially by their national govern
ments. The farmers of northern New York and Southern Ontario are
complaining because they can't get farm hands, or if they do
get them, keep them. They make so much more money as day
laborers on the project. They will probably forget their peeve
when they get their electric bills two years hence!
But as of today there are more farmers and their wives
milking the cows, assisted by their older children, than has been
the case since the panic of 1904. The "hired man," and woman,
has disappeared.
Before our "official tour" was over we gave up counting
the auto trailers but our guess is there are over a thousand in
this Massena area. And trailers de lux, as big as Pullman cars,
with awnings, flower boxes, bath rooms. Of course most of
them have TV sets and all of them radios. In other words instead
of these 8.000 workers buying or renting houses the same
being scarce and high priced they buy trailers and when the
job is finished they have no worries about selling or renting
their homes for their homes are on wheels so they merely hitch
up the family car and move away, to the next job.
The entire "Sea Way" is approximately 60 miles in length
and while a public multiple-project, is not concerned with irri
gation, fof the annual rainfall in the St. Lawrence valley is, we
judge by our two weeks residence, approximately the same as
Tillamook.
Like TVA it IS concerned with power, transportation and
recreation. As before stated ocean going ships no greater than
28 feet draft will be able to travel from Chicago to Liverpool
and back again, also Great Lake ore-boats can do the same,
but will probably go to New York via Montreal and Quebec.
This sort of water travel will be slow but it will be sure and
cheap the latter being vital to many large industries, steel,
nickel and aluminum particularly.
We all had to wear steel helmets during this inspection trip
but they were not needed. In fact they were a nuisance when
the trip ended in a hunt for Indian arrow heads in one of the
excavated areas. Every time Ye Editor bent over to pick up a
stone his hat fell off. If we ever take another such trip we
will ask for chin straps.
In this "pit" we met a professor from Toronto, (Canada) Uni
versity who had a knapsack partly full of arrow-heads, pieces
of Indian pottery and a few pieces of tomahawks and other early
American implements. He casually estimated their age at around
6,000 years. Our family party did not do so well, but the 3-year-old
had a fine time playing in the sand. Toronto University is
seeking permission to conduct an extensive archeological ex
pedition throughout the area.
When the project is finished there will be playground, fish
ing, picnic and recreation beaches along the Sea Way, the largest
one having accommodation for fishing and bathing sufficient
for 6,000 people. We can't imagine anyone swimming in the
St. Lawrence valley climate now but they say it may warm
up any time around the 4th of July and really get torrid.
The high steel towers for the electric transmission lines
are in place on both sides of the river, there are railroad tracks
running all over the place, and miles of coffer and diversion
dams. The control tower steel frames are up and look like a
good sized skeleton for a new N.Y. skyscraper. Here the perman
ent engineers in control will pull and close their switches on a
24 hour basis.
A Great Lakes ship line used to advertise extensively under
the caption, "In all the world no trip like this." That was around
the time of the Chicago World's Fair.
Our idea is we have just had it. R.W.R.
Annual Jolt
School is out. The weather for the past week has
been ideal neither too hot nor too cold nor too wet.
Householders are well reindoctrinated into the grass
mowing-and-watering routines of the season. Ants,
moquitoes and flies have made their reappearance.
The first cases of sunburn have been soothed and heal
ed, and are being replaced by tans. Hawthorne park
pool has reopened to an enthusiastic bevy of young
sters. It is, in short, vacation time.
"THERE are almost as many tpes of vacation as
there are people.
There is the sit-in-the-shade-in-the-back-yard-and-drink-lemonade
kind of vacation.
There is the kind whereby the vacationer takes
all his savings and goes to New York by plane or train
for one glorious fling.
There is the working vacation, where the house
gets a long-overdue paint job, or the garage gets
cleaned out for the first time in five years, or the lawn
is entirely dug up and replanted.
There are stay-in-hotels-and-eat-out vacations, as
well as camp-in-a-tent-and-rough-it vacations.
A few hardy souls will put packs on their backs and
hike into the wildernesses which can still be found
in the far west.
Others will toss tent and sleeping bags and assort
ed utensils into the back of the car or station wagon,
and sample the delights of forest camps and state
parks, a different one each night. Others will set up
a camp in some beauty spot and stay there in utter
relaxation for a week or so.
Some will golf, some will water-ski, some will fish,
some will explore river channel and lake inlet in a
boat. Others will tie a house-trailer to their car and
lead the life of homeless nomads for a season.
PACH will follow his own tastes and desires, insofar
as time and income will permit.
But each will have one thing in common: a de
sire more, a need for a change of pace, a refresh
ing of soul and body, a casting away of mundane and
routine chores and worries. -
It is the nature of man to require, -from time to
time, an opportunity to ''recharge the batteries" of his
spirit which only the annual jolt out of his nit can give
him. E.A.
Wednesday. June 12, 19571
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From Born-Again Christian
To the Editor: This letter is
written in answer to the editorial
in Friday's paper. Let's see you
print it. I have never written
to your paper before but that
editorial was so disgusting to me
I had to answer it.
The Bible is written to con
found the wise, like you R.W.R.
Since it is spiritually discerned,
only born - again Christians,
"suckers" to you, can really un
derstand the truth.
What is a born again Christ
ian? They are sinners who have
come to the realization that
there is no peace, joy, nor hap
piness in a Ufa of sin. Those who
have been willing to humble
themselves come to the cross of
Jesus asking pardon for their
ways. Then ask the Holy Ghost
or comforter, to come into their
lives and by accepting the fact
that Christ died for them and
that only through the power of
Christ can they live righteously.
The fact is that only through the
shedding of blood is there any
remission of sins, so we accept
Christ's blood to forgive us and
keep us in salvation.
If we reject the nether world
of the devil, in other words hell,
the bottomless pit, place of eter
nal torment where the fire
never dies, etc., or the gold paved
streets of Heaven, then we re
ject Christ's teachings. If we
reject Christ's teachings we die
in our sins and without any re
mission of sins is eternal damna
tion. Billy Graham could not bring
one sinner to repentence without
the Holy Ghost, speaking through
him, convince the sinner. He,
the sinner, could not make a
stand for Christ if Christ had
not died on the cross shedding
his blood for all of us. He was
not willing that any should per
ish but that all should be saved.
The Holy Ghost works through
Billy Graham because hundreds
of "suckers" like myself pray for
those sinners to come to Christ.
I am not a preacher, R.W.R.,
but a builder of homes. But you
in your wisidom will never know
the sweet joy, the happiness, the
hope of Glory in Salvation to
come nor the peace that comes
to a born-again Christian until
you change your attitude. Judge
not that you be not judged.
Keith B. Lawton
Route 2, Box 248G
Medford, Ore.
Defends Dr. Graham
To the Editor: I was amazed by
your recent editorial written
from New York state, attacking
the ministry of Dr. Billy Gra
ham. Certainly it is your privi
lege to disagree with any man
theologically, intellectually, or
politically; but I question the
moral right to impugn a man's
motives with what seems to be
an almost complete disregard of
the facts available.
By your own admission, you
did not attend any of Dr. Gra
ham's meetings in New York
City. It is one thing to question
a man's views, but quite another
to make him out a faker. I would
point out that Mr. Stanley High,
senior editor of "Readers' Di
gest" magazine, made an inten
sive study of the life and min
istry of Billy Graham in prep
aration for his book. He said,
"I have met many skeptics who,
having heard him," remained
skeptical. I have not met one
who, having mustered sufficient
courage to hear him repeatedly,
did not say that the explanations
born of skepticism were not
good enough."
You imply that Billy Gra
ham's motive is one of money.
His salary is $15,000 a year. Ad
mittedly, this is a bit large for
ministers, but certainly this fig
ure is not out of proportion to
the position he holds in the re
ligious would. It surely does not
guarantee his place in the "upper
income brackets." Graham him
self takes no salary direcly from
the meetings. Certainly it is dif
ficult to conceive how any man
in his position could be any
more careful in money matters.
You state that Graham is
"adroit in capitalizing on the
fears and frailies of mass human
A DlVlN' BOARD?
nature." But in speaking about
eternal punishment, his empha
sis seems much the same as that
of Christ. Jesus Christ had more
to say about eternal punishment
than all .he writers of the Scrip
tures combined. No doubt, the
emotion of fear can be illegit
imately employed; but in an
hour when men hold light views
of sin, it would be well for
America to be reminded that it
is a "fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God."
I feel it is dishonest to attack
a man's sincerity without proof.
Few religious leaders have more
freely iriited critical scrutiny
than Billy Graham, and proba
bly have ever had more of it.
There are many- of us who
agree with the Moderator of the
United Free Church of Scotland,
who said: "The success of his
campaigns is due to the fact that
every two or three generations
God lays His hand on some man,
and He has laid His hand on this
man." .
Haddon Robinson,
Assistant Pastor
First Baptist Church,
Medford, Ore.
Editorial Comment
LIGHT ON HELL'S CANYON
While the Senate Antitrust
Subcommittee is looking into
the unusual activity of Idaho
Power Co. stock in the interval
between the granting of its fast
tax write-off and the public an
nouncement of tljat action, inter
est in Gordon Gray's illumina
tion of the murky HeU's Canyon
situation is still keen. Mr.
Gray's disclosures before the
Subcommittee were wrested
from him by Senator Kefauver's
persistent, knowledgeable and
skillful questioning. Two conclu
sions seem inescapable: one, that
the Federal Power Commission's
issuance if licenses to the Idaho
Power co, for the construction
of dams on the Snake river was
based on a mistaken premise,
and, two, that Mr. Gray, as di
rector of the Office of Defense
Mobilization, acted on extremely
dubious grounds in issuing certi
ficates of rapid tax amortization
for construction of these dams.
The FPC based its issuance of
licenses to the Idaho Power Co.,
in part at least, on the premise
that the power potential to be
developed by the private con
struction of the Snake river
dams would be realized "with
out expense to the United
States." Its action cleared the
way for private construction of
two low dams instead of Fed
eral construction of a single
high dam at Hell's Canyon
even though the single high dam
would generate more power and
produce other benefits to the
Northwest. In point of fact, how
ever, the grant of rapid tax
write-offs to the Idaho Power
Co. will entail a very appreci
able expense to the United
States. They give the company,
in effect, an interest-free loan
for a five-year period; this,means
that the Federal Government
must pay interest on borrowed
money to make up for the tax
revenue it foregoes during this
time.
On March 11, Secretary of the
Interior Seaton wrote a letter to
Dr. Arthur Flemming, who was
then director of ODM, saying in
crystal-clear language, "I rec
ommend that you deny issuance
of the accelerated tax amortiza
tion certificates requested by
the Idaho Power Co." Mr. Sea
ton gave among the reasons for
his recommendation that the
"net cost to the Government in
the case of the Idaho Power Co.
application is inconsistent with
the basis on which the FPC
granted the license to the com
pany." Nevertheless, Mr. Gray,
when he succeeded Dr. Flem
ming as director of ODM, not
only issued the tax amortization
certificates but tried to conceal
from the Senate 'Subcommittee
the fact that Secretary Seaton
had recommended against doing
so. Mr. Gray's concealment of
the Secretary's letter entailed a
lack of candor far from becom
ing to him, and Senator Kefau.-
Sahara Bids to Bring France
Back to World Power Position
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
France has taken an import
ant step in its new long-range
African policv by creating a new
cabinet post
9 Minister tor
4 Sahara."
-J It means that
. i m nne minister is
to be given re
sponsibility for
a vast area of
the Sahara Des
ert which some
day may rival
Charles Mccann the Middle East
as a source of oil, the life-blood
of modern industry.
M a u r i ce . Bouges-Maunoury,
who hopes to be confirmed as
premier today in the French Na
tional Assembly, included the
post in his list of cabinet mem
bers. For years, France has quietly
been exploring the natural re
sources of its Sahara Desert re
gion.
ir
Breakfast With Ike
Reminiscent of Cal
Coolidge's
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington IIP President
Eisenhower picked one right out
of the Coolidge bag of tricks to
day when he
joined a pla
toon of House
Republicans at
a White House
breakfast.
It will be a
Coolidge trick.
however, min
us some of the
Coolidge trim
mings such as
Lyle C. Wilson
scavenging dogs. Way back there
in the boom time 1920s President
Coolidge's breakfasts were fre
quent, famous and positive puz
zlers to his guests. Rarely did.
they ever learn why they were
invited.
Eisenhower, recovered from
his stomach upset, is having the'
House Republicans in to make
friends and influence people
Congressional Republicans have
been complaining that they have
ver performed a significant pub
lic service in bringing the letter
to light.
There is justification for accel
erated tax amortization to pro
mote the construction of needed
defense facilities which would
not be undertaken by private
concerns without this form of
Federal subsidy. But the justifi
cation did not exist in the case
of the Idaho Power Co's dams.
The amortization represented a
needless handout to the com
pany, defended by Mr. Gray on
the dubious ground that other
companies had received it with
out consideration of the need for
such grants as incentives. In the
light of this handout and the con
siderable cost it involves to the
Government, Congress ought
now to step in and preserve
Hell's Canyon, the choicest dam
site on the North American con
tinent, for full development by
a multiple-purpose high dam
that will give the Northwest the
power resources it needs.
Washington (D.C.) Post.
Social Security
Applications Rise
A total of 1,025 applications
for payment under the old age
and survivors insurance pro
visions of the Social Security act
have been forwarded by the
Medford district office of the
Social Security administration
since Jan. 1 this year, W. V.
Nusbaum, district manager, has
announced.
This compares with a total of
587 applications forwarded dur
ing a similar period last year.
A large part of the increase
is due to 1956 amendments to
the Social Security law provid
ing for payments to women at
62, Nusbaum said. In addition,
several applications have been
received from self-employed
farmers 65 or over who have
qualified for payments since be
ing brought under the program
in 1955.
The number of applications
from survivors of deceased in
sured individuals has also in
creased substantially, reflecting
the increase in the number of
persons covered by the amend
ments in the past several years.
In addition, the Medford of
fice has forwarded about 100
applications since Jan. 1 from
disabled persons filing under
the new disability insurance
provisions of the law. Payments
are scheduled to start in July
for those qualifying on the basis
of work performed prior to be
coming disabled who are 50
years of age or over.
The Medford social security
office serves Jackson and Jose
phine counties and is located at
33 North Riverside.
This region comprises more
than 1,600,000 square miles
more than half the area of the
continental United States in
southern Algeria and the north
ern parts of French West Africa
and French Equatorial Africa.
Proved resources include oil,
coal, natural gas, iron, copper,
manganese and tin.
If France can keep this terri
tory, its importance is obvious.
The oil alone would give
France a great measure of inde
pendence, if not complete inde
pendence, of Middle Eastern
production. i
Oil exploration has been con
ducted by big private companies
and the government, working to
gether, since 1947.
It was not until early this year,
however, that the real potential
value of the oil resouces became
generally known. .
New Company Formed -
It was announced in January
that the Sahara could fill all of
France's need for oil within 15
years.
Parties
had too little contact with the
President. The breakfasts are
to mend presidential political
fences.
Calvin Was Lonesome
Not so the Coolidge breakfasts
Ike Hoover indicates in his me
moirs that Coolidge played tho
breakfast host mostly because
he was lonesome and wanted to
talk. We used to write of Cool
idge as "Silent Cal" but it was
a misnomer. Coolidge was the
talky type.
Hoover for 42 years was chief
White House usher. On retire
ment, he wrote that Coolidge
used the breakfast technique
more than presidents who pre
ceded him. Ike Hoover believed
Coolidge's enthusiasm for White
House entertaining largely was
grounded on knowledge that
Congress shortly before had au
thorized a White House enter
tainment expense account.
Coolidge always had mixed
parties, Republicans and Demo
crats, and could charge costs off
to official entertainment. Eisen
hower had only Republicans to
day and, presumably must pick
up the tab for a one-party af
fair. "They were simply one of his
diversions, ' Ike Hoover wrote
of the Coolidge breakfasts. "He
would have one whenever the
notion presented itself and many
times on very short notice. Often
we had to seek guests at mid
night.
"Generally he would ask mem
bers of both parties and the meal
was charged to 'official enter
tainment.' Many of the Demo
crats and even some of the Re
publicans would hestitate about
accepting. They did not like
the early hour, eight o'clock.
"With few exceptions the
breakfasts seemed to have little
objective. In fact, we frequently
heard a guest inquire upon lea
ving: 'Why did he have us here?'
The question would go unanswer
ed." If there is a lesson in all of
this for Eisenhower, it may be
that the breakfast hour should
accommodate itself to the habits
of pongressional politicians ra
ther than to the early rising
custom of a military man or a
New England politician.
And the President should mix
some among his guests. Coolidge
did not do that. The old timers
here recall that Coolidge's sud
denly summoned breakfast hud
dles caused much news excite-1
ment and speculation at the
time. But they really did not
amount to much.
Two Major Tax Bills
Signed by Gov. Holmes.
Salem (in The two major
Democratic tax bills have been
signed into law by Gov. Robert
D. Holmes.
They are house bill 1 which
repeals the 45 per cent surtax
on income, sets new higher in
come tax rates and raises per
sonal exemptions from $500 to
$600; and house bill 796 which
increases the corporation excise
tax rate from 5.2 per cent to
6 per cent.
THE HAND
OF HELP
In the hour of need . . is
.extended here to all who
grieve, regardless of
race, social position or
financial standing.
C. M. Lirwiller
For over 22 years, Mr. and
make the final tribute one
as one of real solace and
"Night or day" - dial MU
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
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ASHLAND
We Never Close
iu 1 - -
. French banking interests an
nounced in March the formation
of a "French Company of the
Sahara" Compagnie Francaise
Du Sahara to start exploita
tion of oil and other mineral re
sources. Drilling for the commercial
production of oil in the southern
Algerian part of the Sahara re
gion was started in May.
The fact that France is going
into mineral exploitation in a
big way indicates its determina
tion to hang on at all costs to the
territory involved, including Al
geria where revolt has reached
a new peak of savagery.
At the same time, French lead
ers are trying to insure that
French West Africa and French
Equatorial Africa will be con
tened parts of the French Union,
as the empire now is called. 0
The Sahara could put France
back in its position of one of the
world's major powers.
Eisenhower Gained
In Labor Districts
In 1956 Election
Washington (CQ1 President
Eisenhower can add another to
his long list of military and
political victories. In the 1956
election he routed the Demo
crats in the very strongholds of
organized labor.
Whether his smashing victory
in the face of the combined
AFL-CIO's opposition indicates
the dawn of a new day for the
Republican party is problemati
cal. Republican candidates for
the House did not fare nearly
as well in labor centers as the
President.
Mr. Eisenhower topped his
1952 performance the previousT
standard for Republicans in
outrunning Adlai E. Stevenson
by 139,499 votes in 52 Congres
sional districts where labor is
strongest.
60 Per Cent
These are the only districts
where, according to Congres
sional Quarterly's tabulation of
1950 census figures, 60 per cent
or more of the employed per
sons are laborers, foremen or
other kinds of blue-collar workj,
ers.
The districts include such in
dustrial and union centers as
New York, Chicago, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Los An
geles, Baltimore, Gary, Jersey
City, Youngstown, Providence,
Wheeling and Montgomery.
Congressional district returns
published recently by CQ show
Mr. Eisenhower carried 29 of
these 52 labor strongholds in
1956, compared to 17 in his first
race.
Big Percentage Gain
His share of the vote in these
labor strongholds climbed from
45 per cent in 1952 to 51 per
cent in 1956. The 6 per cent gain
in these districts compares to a
2.2 per cent gain for the Presi
dent in the country as a whole.
He gained strength in all but
three of the 52 labor districts.
The exceptions came in Detroit,
Philadelphia and the Spartan
burg, S. C, area.
Officials at the AFL-CIO Com
mittee on Political Education
(COPE) attribute Mr. Eisenhow
er's gains in labor districts to
the tense Middle East situation
on election day.
Foreign policy considera
tions, not domestic concerns.
dominated the voting," a COPE
spokesman says. "Labor's sup
port of a liberal domestic policy
shows in the Congressional vot
ing." Hold Advantage
Democrats hold a big advant
age in House seats from the 52
labor strongholds, and the GOP
has not been able to better its
position in the past four years.
Republicans won 12 of the 52
House seats from the big labor
districts in 1952. They lost two
of the districts both in Penn
sylvania to the Democrats in
1954.
In the 1956 Congressional vot
ing the Republicans scored a net
gain of one seat, bringing their
holdings to 11 of the 52 seats.
They ousted incumbent Demo
crats in Jersey City and Wheel
ing but lost a seat in Maine's
September voting.
(Copyright 1957. '
Congressional Quarterly)
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