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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 18, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 13. 1947 (Friday)
Curtain rises tonight on three
day 1947 Rogue River Roundup
at Jackson county fairgrounds.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Today is
Friday the 13th. Folks can stand
more bad luck, but not rain.
20 YEARS AGO
Juno 13. 1S37 (Sunday)
An air circus will be held
at Medford airport July 2, ac
cording to Max Pierce, president
of Medford chapter of National
Aeronautic association.
Names of Maurice Edward
Scheel, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Scheel, Medford, appears in
latest edition of "Who's Who
Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges," pub
lished by the University of Ala
bama. 30 YEARS AGO
June 13. 1927 (Monday)
Medford residents urged by
Fire Chief Roy Elliott to cut
down weeds which are growing
close to buildings.
Medford Red Cross chapter
sponsors watr carnival at Mer
rick's auditorium.
40 YEARS AGO
June 13. 1917 (Wednesday)
T. E. Daniels, manager of the
county Red Cross campaign
plans tour of entire county to
solicit money for the chapter's
"war fund."
From Llocal and Personal
column: Captain Todd, acting
assistant paymaster to the mili
tiamen, leaves on trip to Rose
burg. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is fnperlor:
even or elht 15 excellent: five or
Ix ie rood.
1. Plato, in "Timaius" wrote
"the great continent at the edge
of the ocean" (Atlantic): Did he
then know of the Western
Hemisphere?
2. Who invented the incandes
cent lamp?
3. Bible: When Herod "gath
ered all the chief priests and
scribes of the people together"
what did he want to know?
. Which type of U.S. naval
vessels bears the names of fish?
5. Character study by means
of handwriting is known as
r -v?
. I Burma bounded on the
-s,,th hv th. Pacific Ocean, the
Indian Ocean, or the Bay of
gengal?
7. In which U.S. city is the
National Gallery of Art. found
ed bv a bequest made by An
drew W. Mellon?
The nickname "Old Line
State" is applied to Massachu
setts. Maryland, Missouri, or
Rhode Island?
9. "Bookkeeper" is a com
pound word. Should it. proper
ly, be spelled with or without
a hyphen?
10. "They have fitted him to
t ; .Tnhnson: was he re
ferring to likeness, clothes, or
a part in a play?
Answers: 1. No. 2. Thomas
lk Edison. 3. Where the in-
fanl Jesui was. 4. Submarines.
5. Graphology. 6. Bay of Bengal.
7 Washinqlon. D.C. Maryland.
p Without a hvohen. 10. Like
ness, lie., as "two peas in a
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Fortunate
It appears obvious, from
support of the Medford school district budget, that pa
trons of the district approve
school district is being operated.
It was a vote of confidence, and one which we be
lieve to have been fully merited and deserved.
Being a school board member is a hard and frequ
ently thankless job one without pay, with long
hours, and with demands on time and energy that not
everyone can afford to give. Medford has been fortu
nate in the caliber of individuals who have offered
their services, for free, to the school district.
e
IT FOLLOWS from this that school district voters
are once again fortunate to have two fine candi
dates to chose between in next Monday's election for
a member on the board of education.
The candidates are Otto Ewaldsen, who is just
completing his first five-year term on the board, and
is currently its chairman, and Francis Cheney, w-ho
served as both member and chairman of the board of
the West Side school before its recent consolidation
with the Medford district.
Either man, we are convinced, would make a cap
able, conscientious, hard-working and thoughtful
member of the board. We don't see how the voters
could go far wrong with either.
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IN CHOOSING between the two, as voters must do,
one should give consideration as to which is, by tem
perament and experience,
sent all the people or the big district, and to worK
smoothly and harmoniously with the present highly
effective board.
On this basis, we believe the choice between two
good men should go to Otto Ewaldsen. He is economy
minded, but not at the cost of an effective program ;
he has proven he can work well and cooperatively
with the board and administration ; he has had experi
ence in a wide range of civic endeavors and is widely
known throughout the community, and at the end of
five years he is just reaching his peak of effectiveness
and competence as a member of the board. b.A.
Block Teaching
"What, for heaven's sake, is a 'block teaching' ex
periment?" we asked ourself
ern Oregon college had received a $lo,000 grant to
do, or make, or permit the
We had momentary visions of college students
playing with blocks, but this didn't make sense, so we
pursued it further.
It appears that "block teaching" is a method of in
struction whereby a group of students is led through
an integrated course of study covering a wide field.
The alternative is the traditional system, -where stu
dents take a series of separate courses from different
instructors and without their being related to each
other, despite overlapping and duplication of mate
rials offered.
MOW why should the Department of Health, Educa
L tion and Welfare think that it is worth S15,000 of
the taxpayers' money to experiment with "block
teaching?"
To those who have watched the approaching crisis,
in enrollment and personnel, in higher education the
answer to this one is not difficult to find.
If 100 students can be led through an area of hu
man knowledge in a shorter period of time, learn
more, be able to digest it better, assimilate more fully
the relationships of the varying aspects of the field,
and all at lesser expense in time, money and teaching
talent, then the experiment would be a success.
It would result in a better education for the stu
dent, a richer reward for the instructor, and saving in
time and tax costs.
rR. ARTHUR KREISMAN, who initiated the proj
ect and who is in charge, cites the example of a
student taking world history but not world literature,
a procedure, he says, "inherently inefficient and
wasteful."
He added:
"Even though the students were taking both subjects,
they would still be taught separately and inefficiently.
This plan unites the entire subject area so that, when the
Renaissance is studied, it will be studied in history, litera
ture, art. and music simultaneously. Such a plan would allow
the intelligenfutilization of faculty members when and where
they were needed.
"By employing this integrated and correlated block
method, we hope to demonstrate that we can teach the re
quired subject matter as efficiently in 12 sections as we do
now under the traditional system in 17 sections. This is a
saving to the school and taxpayer of five sections or the
work of one full-time faculty member. If successful, one
faculty member's time for every hundred students will be
saved."
CRITICS of our schools
ing that "better and
teaching be developed to save on costs. This is an at
tempt to do precisely that.
The secret of good teaching will forever remain
the abilitv, the dedication, the inspiration of the in
structor, at all levels of school. But if his time can be
put to better use, he will benefit, the student will bene
fit, the taxpayer will benefit, and society will benefit.
We wish Dr. Kreisman well in this experimental
plan. It is a small thing when viewed in the perspec
tive of all the problems of higher education through
out the nation, but it is proof that scholars are willing
to try something-new, if it holds promise. E.A.
Thursday, June 13. 1957
Choice
last -week's 9 to 1 vote in
oi tne way in wnicn uie
the best-qualified to repre
when we saw that South
whatever - it - is.
and colleges have kept ask-
more efficient" methods of
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sick. Air?. Wilson? i been kbbpiH' wuz car greased .
Mayflower Reception
Different From That
Received by Pilgrims
(Editor'! note: Mayflower II has
arrived at Plymouth. Mass., where
the Pilgrims landed from the original
Mayflower 337 years aEO. Mayflower
II received a warm welcome, with
tens of thousands on hand to greet
her. The former counselor-general of
the Society of Mayflower Descend
ants tells of the far different reception
the Pilgrims received.)
By DR. GLEASON L. ARCHER
Written for United Press
On Sept. 16, 1620 the tiny
Mayflower, 90 feet from stem to
stern, containing 102 Pilgrims
and 40 seamen, left the shores
of England, hopefully heading
for the fertile valley of the Hud
son river.
After 10 weeks of extreme
hazard, buffeted by ocean
storms, the disabled craft
reached the tip of Cape Cod
peninsula in w i n t e r-gripped
New England. SnoW and ice lay
upon the sand dunes, the scrub
oak and dwarf pines of Cape
Cod. Bitter winds chilled them
to the marrow when the Pil
grims set out on foot to explore
the narrow 50-mile moraine of
sand that putted out from the
mainland. Hostile Indians
watched them from ambush.
Governor Bradford, in his
"Plymouth Plantation," de
scribed the coast as "a hideous
and desolate wilderness, full of
wild beasts and wild men and
what multitude there might be
of them they knew not." .
"The whole country full of
woods and thickets." . . . "If
they looked behind them there
was the mighty ocean which
they had passed and was now
a main bar and gulf to separate
them from all the civil parts of
the world."
In the five weeks that the
Pilgrims desperately explored
the Cape before the disabled
shallop had been repaired they
discovered that the wild men
were intent upon massacre. At
udyuieaii ut tne very murmug
prior to their leaving the peni
sula to cross the bay to the
mainland, the savages launched
a full-scale attack upon the
Pilgrim explorers. Blood-chilling
warwhoops filled the woods,
a shower of arrows assailed
them and only the magic of gun
powder and English bullets
saved them from massacre.
Not until Dec. 21 did they set
foot upon their future home and
discover farm lands and little
running brooks. The Mayflower
then crossed the bay and anch
ored in Plymouth harbor where
for three months death reigned
in the plague-ridden ship while
a few men struggled to build
houses on shore and to defend
themselves against hostile In
dians. Half of the Pilgrim band died
before spring and were buried
on Coles Hill. In March, 1621,
the Pilgrims made peace with
the Indians. The survivors came
ashore and the Mayflower sailed
for England.
Twenty-one men, four women
and 25 children were left to face
Governor Inspects
John Day Damsife
Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D.
Holmes spent Wednesday after
noon with members of the Co
lumbia Basin Interagency Com
mittee inspecting the John Day
damsite and discussing naviga
tion problems.
Some 40 members of the com
mittee plus representatives of
the governors of Washington,
Montana and Idaho made the
trip aboard the Inland Naviga
tion Company yacht "Frances".
The governor boarded the
yacht at The Dalles and went
down the scenic Columbia river
gorge as far as Bonneville where
he disembarked for the trip
back to Salem.
MAYOR FALLS OFF
Creston, Iowa (IPi M a y o
Fred Urbach lost a milking con
test to the mayor of Lenox be
cause he fell off an old-fashioned,
one-legged milking stool
when the Holstein kicked.
life in the New World. Face it
they did, in danger and famine
and hardship undescribable.
They established a government
the New England town meet
ing and a system of free enter
prise that eventually ripened
into the great republic the
United States of America.
Matter of Fact by stewa ais0P
WHAT KIND OF PRESIDENT
WOULD NIXON MAKE
Washington When this is
printed, President Eisenhower
will no doubt be in fine form
ipsa again, as every-
D o a y nopes.
Yet hii most
recent illness
has served to
recall what
everyone for
gets between
illnesses that
the President
is, after alL
mortal. And as
Stewait Alsop
in the case of his other illnesses,
an unanswerable question is on
many lips: "What kind of Presi
dent . would Nixon make?"
No one, of course, can predict
how any human being might
meet the enormous challenge of
the Presidency. Yet, far more
than a few years ago, there are
now some rather rolid bases for
judging the kind of attitudes
Vice President Nixon would
take to the Presidency.
All men change. But Nixon
has changed more than most
since the days when he went
into politics by answering a
newspaper advertisement all
those who know him well agree
on that. He became a politician
just as another young war vet
eran might have become an ad
vertising man or an automobile
salesman Politics was for him,
as business or a profession for
others, a means of getting ahead.
As a professional politician,
Nixon quickly developed a real
talent for selling his product
in this case himself. He also
developed a fine instinct for
lunging for the political jugular
of his opponents. And he got
ahead very fast indeed.
"VXON is still a professional
politician to the marrow of
his bones. Politics is far and
away his favorite subject of pri
vate conversation. But his pro
longed exposure to the terrible
responsibilities of the White
House has taught him that poli
tics is a great deal more than
just a means of getting ahead.
His experience on the rarefied
political heights nas also taught
him other things. When he en
tered politics, he was very much
a man of the Right his ability
to recite, with great earnestness,
the current shibboleths of Right
wing Republicanism was one of
the things that endeared him to
the group of rich California Re
publicans who gave him his
start.
Nixon is anything but a radi
cal today. But his experience
has taught him that the strictly
orthodox form of Republicanism
is, at least in a national sense,
bad politics. The Nixon who
warned last Sunday against .us
ing the abuses of the Beck tye
of union leader as an excuse
for punitive labor legislation is
not the Nixon of ten years ago.
All in all, it would be surpris
ing, if there were a sharp turn
to the Right in domestic affairs
in a Nixon Presidency. Indeed
any shift in domestic policy
might well be in the opposite di
rection.
HIS
of
exposure to the realities
the world situation, of
which he knew next to nothing
when he became Vice President
has also left its mark on Nixon.
In the debates within the Ad
ministration on defense and for
eign aid spending Nixon has al
most always been on the side ot
security first, economy second.
He has also been consistenUy on
Western Allies Disagreeing With
Each Other Rather Than Russia
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The' Western Allies are d i s
agreeing with each other In
stead of with Soviet Russia on
disarmament negotiations.
Britain and
France are
complain
ing that Har
old S t a s s e n
chief United
State delegate
at the disarm
ament confer
ence in Lon
don, is taking
Russia into his
confidence on
new American
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proposals and
slighting them.
Britain. France and Wesl
Germany also seem to be afraid
the United States, in its eager
ness to take the first step to
ward agreement, may involve
them in unsatisfactory inspec
tion clans.
But the overall prospect for
the necessary modest "first
step" toward a disarmament
agreement still seem to be good.
If the Allied disagreements
can be overcome and there
is no reason to believe that they
cannot the London negotia
tions are likely to enter an im
portant stage next week.
Stassen returned to Washing
ton last week end to confer with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles.
Called on Carpet
It now appears that DuIIce
called Stassen to Washington be
cause of British and French
complaints about his activities
What happened is that Stas
sen is ready to present a new
series of proposals to the Lon
don conference.
the side of bold action abroad
It is generally forgotten now
that in 1954 Nixon publicly ad
vocated sending American forces
to Indochina if necessary to save
the situation in South East Asia
a position which could not
have been politically motivated
since it was politically danger
ous in the extreme. All in all
it is a fair guess that a Nixon
foreign policy would be consid
erably more adventurous than
the Eisenhower foreign policy.
In some ways Nixon has not
changed. He has always been
an essentially lonely man. With
the possible exception of a Cali
fornian called Jack Brown, he
has no really close personal
friends at all. His friendship
with Deputy Attorney General
William Rogers is more profes
sional than personal, since Rog
ers shares his political attitudes,
and his almost obsessive interest
in matters political.
INDEED, in one way at least.
Nixon is not a typical politic
ian at all. He lacks the instinct
ive gregariousness of most poli
ticians the small talk which is
the necessary small change of
political life is a painful effort
to him. He is, in fact, an oddly
impersonal man, and a Nixon
Cabinet would certainly be
chosen, not on the basis of per
sonal relationships, but with a
cool eye to both ability and po
litical advantage.
Altogether, Nixon is un
questionably a man with great
drive and a first class intelli
gence. The intense partisanship
of his younger days is now much
muted. Even among those who
know him well and admire him,
4here is, nevertheless, still a
kernel of doubt about the man,
left over from the days when
Nixon saw politics as a means
of. getting ahead, and did not
care very much about how he
went about it. Yet it is not pos
sible, after all, for a politician
to get further ahead than the
Presidency; and to a President
the judgment of history tends
suddenly to become a lot more
interesting than partisan politi
cal advantage.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Safety Rules May
Be Causing Crashes
Washington W An air
line pilot complained today that
overcomplicated emergency pro
cedures may be causing crashes
instead of preventing them.
Veteran United Airlines Capt.
Warrent Leroy said that when
an airliner is in danger, its crew
is required to follow confusing,
long and sometimes contra
dictory rules laid down by the
government and airlines.
Leroy tartly suggested that
"we are letting the emergency
procedures interfere with tha
emergencies," he added:
"There are 30 pages of emer
gency procedures in the DC6
manual alone. There are 425
words for a cabin heater fire . . .
yet some check pilots tend to
give a better grade to the pilot
who can recite every word on
every page . . . encouraging this
detailed memorization may be
detrimental."
Leroy's comments were con
tained in a blunt article written
for "Airbne Pilot," official pub
lication of the Airline Pilots association.
The conferees consist of the
United States, Canada, Britain,
France and Russia. These coun
tries were chosen by the United
Nations to conduct the disarm
ament talks.
Stassen. on taking the pro
posals to London, did consider
able confidential talking with
Valerian A. Zorin, the chief
Soviet delegate.
It is evident that he outlined
his proposals to Zorin. But he
has not outlined them to the
conference itself.
This seems, really, to be just
a temporary complication in the
negotiations.
Another Complication
But there is another compli
cation in the fear of some Allied
countries that American lead
ers, including President Eisen
hower, are over-eager to get an
agreement with Russia.
Britain, for example, is re
ported to oppose too much con
centration on nuclear weapons
because Russia still has such
overwhelming superiority in
conventional weapons.
West Germany, whose
approval of aerial inspection of
nuclear weapons facilities in
Western Europe is essential
wants the issue of German uni
fication linked with any agree
ment.
But there seems good reason
Today and
By Walter
QUARANTINE OR NOT?
At the two ends of the Com
munist world, in Poland and
in China, the same question has
now been pos
ed. Is it right
or is it wrong
is it wise or
is it unwise,
to open up
i n t e r c ourse
thro ugh the
Iron Curtain?
With Poland
we have decid
ed to open it
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up, and have gone so far as to ne
gotiate an agreement to furnish
economic aid. In China, our
policy is still one of non-inter
course, and for our part to main
tain an embargo and a boycott.
But in this we are now alone
among the leading powers of the
world, and there is mounting
opposition to the policy in this
country. In fact, last week the
President said that personally,
though not yet as President, he
was in favor of at least some
freedom of trade with China. '
There are in all this two main
schools of thought. The one holds
that rather than open up we
should close down, that the best
way to deal with Communist
states is, as nearly as it is pos
sible to do so, to put them in
quarantine. The less contact with
Communist regimes, the better.
Insofar as there is trade, it is
the Communists who benefit. In
sofar as there is diplomatic and
cultural intercourse, it is the
Communists who will seduce
and subvert the non-Commu-niits.
The Iron Curtain which
was set up by the Communists
to seal themselves off from the
capital istic and democratic
world is in fact essential to se
curity of the democratic and
capitalistic world. Those who
favor the quarantine policy
would like to see the world di
vided into two closed systems.
Then from behind the Iron Cur
tain each would bombard the
other with propaganda.
THE other school holds that
Russia and China, instead of
being weakened, grow stronger
in the long run insofar as they
are quarantined. The real effect
of the trade restrictions and the
embargoes has been equivalent
to erecting around them an enor
mously high tariff wall which
compels them to develop their
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to hope that when Stasia frr
mally unveils his new proposals
in tne London conference, the
first real approach t dixarov
ament agreement may get un
derway. The latest word is that Stas
sen will present them early next
week.
Communications
Letter to the Editor mam tear
the name and address of the wnna
although under cm mm eirauM
stances tha use ot a traa anme or
initial for publieafcoa hi 99rmU
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the rlsht to edit all Nava-s with
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Blue Star Mothers Credi$
To the Editor: A Communica
tion in the June 7 Medford Mail
Tribune, gave credit to the Navy
Mothers in stopping the sale of
their flowers, that the "Council
for the Blind" might make good
sale of the "White Canes." The
credit should be given to "Blue
Star Mothers," who are very
worthy for their kindness, and
may they be blessed for this
deed of help. Thank you for
printing this.
Mrs. Myrtle Coggins,
Navy Mothers Club
No. 46
Medford, Ore.
Tomorrow
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own industries and to make
themselves self-sufficient. This
is costly. It may compel them
to move more slowly. But once
the price has been paid, the
quarantined country is in a very
strong position.
This applies to big countries
like Russia and China. Smaller
countries, like Poland, cannot
hope to become self-sufficient.
On them the effect of the quar
antine policy is to make them
wholly dependent upon the So
viet Union. For that reason,
those of us who oppose the quar-o
antine policy contend that the
wise thing to do is to give a
country like Poland an alterna
tive, to break the Soviet mo
nopoly as a supplier of Poland's
essential needs.
We contend also that while an
embargo on the China trada
does slow up somewhat the in
dustrialization of China, it does
not slow it up very much. On
the other hand, whatever good
that slowing up does, it Is more
than offset by leaving China
with no alternative except to
lean wholly upon the Soviet
Union.
Would It not be better, we
say, to let China have inter
course with the outer world, and
thus to encourage China to play
the role of a more independent
power?
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IT IS Important to say, I think,
that neither policy, that of re
striction , or of openness, will
have- quick or dramatic results.
Restrictions and embargoes may
have troubled the Russians and
the Chinese. But the Communist
power in the world continues
to grow. It has not declined. On
the other hand, we must not
expect that opening up trade
and cultural exchanges will have
the kind of spectacular results
which the Vice-president, in his
otherwise excellent speech on
Fclish aid. seemed to mean when
he spoke of "the explosive power
of freedom."
What we might hope for is not
an explosion which, like that in
Hungary, would be for us a
humiyation and for all the
world a tragedy. What we might
hope for rather is an attrition
through exposure to freedom,
a gradual wearing down of the
totalitarian character of the Po
lish regime, and the healing ef
fects of more light and more
air.
Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Trbiune Inc.
Harold Snodgst
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