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Mail tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1947. (Saturday)
Police checking on sale of fire
crackers inside city limits.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Reports
from Turkey say the Truks show
no enthusiasm for an American
loan. The Turks have been smok
ing too many Turkish cigarettes.
20 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1937 (Monday)
Medford airport hangar filled
to capacity with 13 planes, seven
of them grounded because of
bad weather.
County weed control cam
paign bogged slightly because of
rains and highly favorable grow
ing conditions.
30 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1927 (Tuesday)
Road to Diamond Lake ex
pected to be open by June 23.
int six or seven miles still block
ed by heavy snow drifts.
Preparations ready for ex
servicemen's banquet at Med
ford hotel; World War I veterans
from throughout state expected
to attend.
40 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1917 (Thuriday)
Red Cross drive seeks to raise
$10,000 in Medford.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Otto Meyer of Lake Creek
motored in the the city this
morning and reports that early
today rahi was falling in the
Lake Creek district.
New York. June l!t;h: Our lengthy hiatus was due to a decision
to attend the Harvard Commencement and class reunion at Cam
bridge. Mass.
As we were staying near Paul Smiths in northern New York,
where, like Medford. there is no train service, we had to depend
on busses to leave and to return.
In other words to spend one day in Cambridge we had to spend
four days getting there and coming back. However, to us at least,
the expenditure of time was worth it. In the past 50-plus years
we have been able to attend only half a dozen commencements,
formerly involving a round trip of around 5,000 miles and here
was our opportunity for only about a thousand miles a little
less in fact so we took advantage of it.
For some reason unexplained the eastern trains and busses
make a pomt of forcing their patrons to miss connections with
each other. The bus trip to Platlsburg through Lake Placid was
interesting and beautiiul, but sharply on schedule, so the Delaware
and Hudson train just left and the next one to Montreal would
not arrive for approximately six hours. As for a bus to the same
destination, that was tuned to miss the only night train to Doaloii
by 29 minutes.
So we waited for the Delaware Sc Hudson, which would give
us nearly two hours to catch the Boston "flier" from Montreal
Well, we arrived on time, and as we had wired ahead for reaer
vations, walked up to the Pullman window with great confulrm e
and money in hand. But to our dismay the pallid and underimur
ished young man in charge said they had received our wire, lint
there were half a dozen ahead and the Pullmans had hern uM
out for a week.
With our usual reportorisl instinct we asked "why" The only
answer was the train carried 'only two Pullmans for Huston ami
they were USUALLY sold out a week in advance
"Why not put on another car?" was our next auuijeotiiiii
"You better ask the traffic manager," was the somewhat perti
nent reply. "However if you stick around for an hour there mighl
be a cancellation though I don't promise anything "
So we stuck around waiting for the hour to pass, and there
are few things more heartily detested than just w aiting fur the
i hours to pass, especially in a railway station in a strange city after
the curfew bell was struck. Particularly in this case w hen as feared
nothing turned up. So we walked to the nearest hotel w hich proved
to be the "Laurentian," and spent the night with an early call
so we could catch the 8 o'clock coach train via the C P R. and the
old beloved Boston and Maine
So here we come to the chief point in this narrative to date
if any. The Canadian Pacific and the Boston & Maine have done
something that we have so often urged the "Friendly S.P." to do,
but without success.
In other words they send between Montreal and Boston each
day a single Diesel car just ONE car manned by three men.
a conductor, a Diesel engineer and a baggage man just the three,
though the conductor on our train did the work of a porter and
did it well, also the work of a brakeman, pressing a button on the
rear end which buzzed the engineer to stop or to proceed. He
was a French Canadian as were his teammates and they all talked
English and French with equal ease and fluency.
The seats were roomy and comfortable, and while there was
no dining car a pert little French youth passed around hot coffee,
milk, coke and milk-chocolate and in a pinch cigarettes, apples
and cigars were available.. As for smoking, the occupants of the
car of both jexes smoked as they felt inclined, as well as the con
ductor who preferred his flowing and well caked pipe. He smoked
whenever his many duties permitted.
The coach was comfortably filled but not crowded, the scenery,
particularly in Vermont and New Hampshire, was interesting and
held for the writer definite nostalgic charm, everything Jn short
was as it should be and we arrived on time.
We again had wired ahead for hotel reservations and entering
the taxi announced our destination with no misgivings. However
the taxi man (again young and not very encouraging), said he
hoped we had reservations as Boston was filled to overflowing.
Oh yes, we had arranged that by wire. And we tnougnt we
had until we arrived at the hotel and were told kindly but firmly
that the hotel had wired they had no rooms, and regretted we had
not received the message.
It was then nearly 6 p m.. there were three hours more of day
light, (E.D.ST.) but what followed was only of prolit to the taxi
man.
We will skip the depressing details, but after we had toured
Boston from the waterfront to Copley Square and back again and
had about decided to sleep on a bench on the "Common," a small
hotel out on Commonwealth Avenue where the family had, be
cause of illness, spent six weeks many years ago, gave us a suite
for the usual price if the price had .been ten times as much we
would have taken it and kissed the hands of the clerk (Harvard
1912) as our pal for life and everlasting benefactor.
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'WOW! WHose SHOES ARB in 77AT BOX?'
Constitutional Rights
Of Individuals Seen
Issue in Girard Case
What's Yost I.Q.?
Ntn. or fn correct l superior;
seven or euht la excellent; five or
tlx is good.
1. 1'626. Fust modern damask
table linen manufactured in the
V. S. was made in Pittsburgh,
New York, or Atlanta?
2. With what sport do you as
sociate the name Byron Nelson?
3. Bible: Which king did
"smiteth the Thilistines at Reph
aim"? 4. In which European country
the city of loannia?
5. Is the entire coal industry
of Great Britain nationalized?
6. Molten rock erupted by a
O volcano is called guava, java, or
lava?
7. In which country did the
Pekingese dog originate?
8. What is the minimum age
renuirement to Qualify for the
V. S. Presidency?
9. When clarity need be ex
pressed should the article "the"
he necessarily used before two
or more connected nouns or ad
jectives? 10. " Listeners seldom hear
good of themselves.'' John
Ray: To what, specifically, kind
of a listener was he referring?
Answers: 1. New York. 2 Golf.
3. David. 4. Greece. 5. Yes. 6.
Lava. 7. China. 8. Thirty-five
years. 9. Yes. 10. Eavesdropper.
Small Shed Deitroyed
By Fire Ecrly Today
Central Point A small shed
was drstmved this mornine
where gras
r,n tiie Ernest
property on Old Stage rd .
across ' fro:n the Washington
school. Central Point rural fire
men reported. They were called
about :20 a.m.
Upholstery was burned in i
car fire at the Glenn Heath
home. Old Military rd.. about
" in a in. today, firemen said.
Thrv said the cause was
knuw n.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington mi The ad
ministration's urgent determina
tion that CI William S. Girard
shall be tried
b y Japanese
courts on a
charge of man
slaughter scarcely can
be understood
e x c e pt by
persons on the
scene here in
Washington.
Lyie c. iviison As the mat
ter stands today, Federal Judge
Joseph C. McGarraghy's ruling
of last Tuesday holds that to
turn Girard over to the Japa
nese would be to deprive him
of rights guaranteed to an
American citizen by the United
States Constitution.
The Justice Department has
appealed directly to the Su
preme Court, contending that
McGarraghy's decision was
"clearly wrong" and that it
would be in the public interest
to obtain speedy disposition of
the Girard case.
Agreements Seen Endangered
Administration officials fear
disruption throughout the world
of the relationship of American
troops overseas and the govern
ments of the countries in which
they are stationed. One official
suggested that, if the Supreme
Court forbids a Japanese trial
for Girard, the whole structure
of agreements under which U.S.
troops are based overseas would
collapse.
"We well might have to with
draw our soldiers from Japan
and perhaps from other coun
tries," this official suggested. He
explained that the governments
of the countries involved could
and perhaps would insist that
U.S. soldiers be subject in some
degree to local arrest and local
Whew? what a relief! 'law.
And as slated. Commencement the next day and a small class Jj -di ,t Action Seen
reunion were worth it. Tho T,,ctir rmnnrtment VpH
But there were times on the return trip when we had our !,, c, ,, -,,,. . , n,0
doubts and were convinced that before departing we had seenlGi . . . hnnpflli nf
t r . . i , j i , , J . . U nnJ ' -
ine new moon over our leiL miuuiuci auu ueeu iuu uuiuu mm uui-
ried to note it.
Once again the "Red Wing" (night train to Montreal from Bos
ton) was all sold out, but we refused to wait up this time, returned
to our hotel sanctuary and the next morning took the "one car
speciaf" back to Canada where we started from.
Again the trip was fast and pleasant and as often happens we
noted points of interest in the Connecticut River valley and beyond
not noted before. Again we arrived on the dot. And also again too
late for any train or bus connection for Saranac Lake where our
"Drive Yourself" car was to meet us.
Disarmament, Japanese-U.S.
Relations, Top Week's News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
Hope rose measurably this
week that the world's three
great nuclear powers might take
soon a historic
"first step" to
ward a dis
armament agreement.
Soviet Rus
sia had pro
posed, in the
U n i t ed Na
tions disarm-
CharlM McC.no '"em. neBut.-
tions in London, that tests of
nuclear weapons be suspended.
The United States took a de
cidedly friendly attitude toward
this proposal. One reason was
that Russia, in a radical depar
ture from its traditional policy,
proposed that control posts,
equipped with scientific instru
ments, be set up in the coun
tries concerned to make sure
that any illegal tests would be
detected. l Japanese court to try oirara
But the United States sought under tne status or r orcei agree
also an agreement under which jment covering American troops
the nuclear powers United
States, Great Britain and Rus
sia would begin within an
agreed time to stop production
of nuclear weapons and to re
duce existing stockpiles.
eral individuals who were
I Communists or whu had had
close Communist associations in
the past. Having so carefully
protected the rights of persons
with a record of association with
the Communist conspiracy, it
generally is assumed here that
the Supreme Court would equal
ly defend the constitutional
rights of a U.S. soldier.
President Eisenhower and
Japanese Premier Nobusuke
Kishi opened a conferenee with
a round of golf on the Burning
Tree course in Washington.
Kishi's negotiations with Ei-
stationed in Japan.
Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy
held that Girard was clearly on
duty when the woman was kill
ed. Because -of that, he said, Gi
rard was entitled under the
Constitution to trial by On
American court martial.
The administration appealed
to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Deeply shocked" . . . "Abuses
that could be perpetrated by "a
senhower and Secretary of Slate ; police force all-powerful, piti-
John Foster Dulles were expect
ed to result in the establish
ment of a new basis for Japanese
American relations.
Japan's position in the Far
East, with Communist China
and Soviet Russia as its im
mediate neighbors, make it evi
dent that Kishi was likely to be
Eisenhower's most important
guest during the spring and sum
mer diplomatic visiting season.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
sation Letters submitted for pub
licaUon must not exceed 400 words
immediate action. There is less
hope, however, of a decision
favorable to the government. On
the day before Judge McGar
raghy's ruling in the Girard
case, the Supreme Court ex
pressed itself emphatically in
the field of personal rights. The
court's position is wholly in de
fense of an individual's consti
tutional rights against encroach
ments hv rnnprossinnal invpsli.
Once more also, an early call so we could make the 8 o clock j sators or federal Drosecutors
This point of view was ex-
Seeks Square Deal
To the Editor: While out of
town a short time ago, my next
door neighbor who works nights
came home at 2 a.m. and found
some vandal had stretched my
34-inch water hose across Laurel
st., and turned the water on
full force, and it was left that
way for a sufficient length of
time that the water meter in
dicated 13,41)0 gallons, or about
400 barrels, of water ran down
10th st. in plain view for a num
ber of blocks.
This took place only two
blocks from both the court
house, also Main st. Where were
our four police prowl cars which
are supposed to patrol our
streets for this several hours of
time that they did not discover
this? Any good business man
only desires to be paid for mer
chandise delivered or services
rendered. Have not the taxpay
ers a right to expect the same
fair treatment, from our Med
ford city officials as they would
from any fair dealing business
man? The Medford city water
department said they "could do
nothing about it".
Credit should be given where
credit " is due. Our Honorable
mayor, realizing tne situation,
offered to pay for the wasted
water out of his own pocket. "1
told him he owed me nothing
but the city officials owe every
water user a square deal.
Frank Howell
205 Laurel st.
Medford, Ore.
Nautilus Farthest
From Salt Water
Portland 'IP When the Navy
submarine Nautilus arrived in
Portland harbor the world's first
nuclear powered ship was the
farthest from salt water she has
ever been.
One of the ship's officers told
newsmen who were invited to
inspect the craft Thursday that
the Nautilus had travelled up
the Mississippi river to New Or
leans a distance of about 60
miles. But her trip up the Co
lumbia and Willamette rivers
late Wednesday some 100
miles was the longest inland
journey for the ship which has
logged more than 75.000 miles
since she was commissioned
Sept. 30, 1954.
The Nautilus visited Portland
on the last leg of its first trip
to the Pacific Northwest. The
dull gray ship, which attracted
large crowds to Portland's sea
wall, was not open to public in
spection but limited numbers of
city officials and newspaper and
radio-television representatives
were invited to inspect unclassi
fied sections of the ship. The
atomic submarine left for Calif
ornia early today.
Kishi arrived in Washington
one day after a federal judge
had ruled that the United States
must not turn over to Japanese
authorities Army Specialist 3C
William S. Girard, accused of
killing a Japanese woman on a
firing range near Tokyo.
The ruling upset an admini
stration decision to permit a
less and unabashed by any
shameful act . . ." "Appalling
descriptions" of tortures.
In such words as these, a
United Nations special commit
tee denounced Soviet Russia's
savage suppression of the Hun
garian revolt last November.
Russian troops were used to
crush "a spontaneous national
uprising"' and to overthrow a
"legal and popular-supported
government," the report said. It
characterized Premier janos
Kadar as a puppet.
The report was the most vigor
ous denunciation of Soviet ter
roristic actions ever made by a
U.N. agency.
A special meeting of the U.N.
Assembly, with all 81 members
attending, may be called to fol
low the report.
Babson Eyes Traffic
Congestion in Cities
BY ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass Of two
thin" I am certain, either radical
steps must be taken to head off
the increasing
Judge Turns Down
Motions by Langley
Portland npi Circuit
Judge Charles Redding Thurs
day turned down motions by
former District Attorney Wil
liam Langley attacking seven
indictments against Langley.
Judge Redding ordered Lang
ley to appear in court next
Thursday to enter pleas to at
least three of the indictments.
Langley's attorney indicated,
however, that further motions
would be filed against the in
dictments.
Langley has been convicted
on a misdemeanor cnarge oi
neglect of duty.
bus for Platlsburg with an hour to spare before the regular bus
would leave for Saranac.
And here we reach the climax of this long-winded travelogue.
We arrived at the bus station at 8:20 to find the first bus for
Plattsburg (and New York) had departed, a second bus was filled
and ready to go when its stnrter worked, and we (about 30 cus
tomers waiting in line) would be given a special emergency bus,
as a great favor by the mar.agement. The only fly in that oint
ment was that our bus could not leave until bus No. 2 could go,
and a special corps of French Canadian mechanics had not yet
been able to find why the infernal machine would not start. When
they did. with much gesticulating, waving of hands and cursing
Ithe latter in Anglo Saxon) No 2 did end its wheezing and sprang
into life, it was nearly 10 a m instead of an hour's leeway in
Plattsburg we were without any leeway by 30 minutes.
We could still make connections, a hovering bus official as
sured us, for the Sarrnac bus would be wired to wait until the
bus from Montreal arrived. (Later we remembered with some
anguish that the official said "THE" bus not all three of them.;
Well to those in the audi"nce remaining if any it might be
stated what follows is not a case of the "Wayward Bus" by John
Steinbeck but the "Lost Bus by R.W.R.
That is what happen as to Bus Driver No. 3. He lost his way
before he reached the U S customs, and he had to take up half an
hour at the nearest "service station" phoning Montreal before he
could find it. He lost himself again at a place called "Champlain,"
had to turn around, retrace his steps and lose another 15 or 20
minutes, with the result 'not hard to guess) that when the "Lost
Bus" finally reached Plattsbrrg not only had the Saranac bus left
but it was around 2 p.m. and there would be no Saranac bus until
6.30.
The final pay off try to control your tears was when the
was being burned roving reporter was informed from Rice Mountain Lodge, that
Niedermeycr : there would be no mo:e Drive lourseu service one tutne irip
in one day was enougn ana is tailor, n ne wisnea to get nome
and have a bath, would have to take a laxi.
So this thousand mile jaunt to attend our class reunion at
Commencement ended with a 15 mile taxi trip, and a night cap of
bread and milk:
We can think of no greater compliment to our class secretary
who chaperoned us so considerately from 9:30 to 4:30 on the
fateful 13th of this month than to say with hand raised in the
august presence of "Judge Abbot'' that it all was really WORTH
pressed in extending the protec
tion of the Constitution to sev-
not
Demonstration in
Tokyo Broken Up
Tokyo up Police broke up a
student demonstration outside
the U. S. Embassy today, arrest
ing four of about 200 teen-agers
who assembled to demand a Jap
anese trial for Army Specialist
3C William S. Girard, of Otta
wa, 111.
The demonstrators also car
ried placards accusing the Unit
ed States of trying to "steal
Okinawa" and planning to bring
nuclear weapons to Japan.
There was some scuffling but
no major violence when police
dispersed the crowd.
Five demonstrators were ad
mitted to the embassy, where
they gave First Secretary Rich
ard L. Sneider a petition de
manding that:
Girard, who killed a Japan
ese woman on a U.S. Army fir
ing range in January in what he
said was an accident, be tried in
a native court.
Nuclear weapons be ban
ned in Japan, Okinawa and Ko
rea. The demonstration was essen
tially a protest against the U. S
Veterans Pensions
To the Editor: As a service to
your' many readers at Camp
White, will you kindly print the
enclosed letter? Many veterans
are unaware of what transpires
in Washington until it is too
late.
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
Camp White, Ore.
of
(Editor's note: The letter men
tioned above, from an official
of the Veterans Administration,
is too long for full reproduction.
It explains provisions of existing
law, which provide for reduc
tion of pensions for hospitalized
or domiciled veterans under cer
tain conditions. It compares this
to a prior law. which provided
for considerably greater reduc
tion of pensions under similar
circumstances.
(The letter adds that two
pieces of pending legislation
would change such existing pen
sion benefits, one to prohibit
any reduction, the other to
make the reduction greater. The
Veterans Administration makes
no prediction as to what Con-
gress may do.)
More on Teenagers
To the Editor: In reading Mr.
A. S. Unger's recent comments
on teenagers. I'd say he was
touching a very soft spot with
many people, to say the least,
and a very hard question to
answer it appears.
I would say the only way they
will ever take a step in the
right direction is when they can
make the individual see the
shame of his own ways, oy
pictures in tne
street corner, like Main and
Central, with a sign reading,
"take a good look at me, I'm a
thief," or words to that effect.
That may be hard and cruel but
I'll bet it would put an end to
a good many youngsters from
going astray.
Here are a few quotations
from the Bible that may be of
interest, and not just to teen
agers: Walk in the ways of your
heart, and in the sight of thine
eyes: but kno wthis that for all
these things God will bring thee
into judgment. David said let
them bear their own sins, those
who consider not the Lord or
the ways of righeousncss. The
Lord said in that day he will
cause them to walk in the ways
of righteousness and they will
hate and abhor their own
selves. Daniel, and many of
them that sleep in the dust of
the earth shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to
shame and everlasting contempt.
Hell is no burning fire but an
unrighteous soul in a righteous
soul in a righteous kingdom.
Let him that is evil change his
ways, and he that is unrighteous
change his thoughts.
Ted M. Sletten
1235 Poplar dr.
Medford, Ore.
auto moDiie
c o ngestion in
cities, or else
the sale of
a u t omobiles
will decline.
Either a hund-
1 red billion dol-
I Xpv I lars must be
LaIIJ expended for
Boeer w. Bauson road improve
ments, or else readers had better
sell their General Motors stocks
on the next good rise. Further
more. I believe that instead o
spending money on new turn
pikes, it would be better to
double the width of our ordinary
two-lane roads, making four
lanes with a barrier in the mid
dle. However, this would in
crease the congestion in cities.
Of course, the first thing
which all cities should do is to
keep all trucks off streets dur
ing the busy hours with deliv
eries permitted only between 6
p.m. and 8 p.m. This should be
done at once, in every city hav
ing a population of over 50.000.
The next step would be to elim
inate all parking on downtown
streets. A start has been made on
this; but the problem has not
been tackled heroically. Park
ing meters are a step in the
right direction, but they are not
the ultimate solution.
Sees' Parking Busines
Frankly, if I were a young
man today, instead of going into
the automobile business, I would
purchase land for a good down
town parking lot and gradually
build a chain of parking lots.
It seems as if garages for park
ing would be a good investment
if properly located. I shall watch
with interest the new mechanical
"pushbutton garages" and note
how they 'take.' I understand
that such an open-air four-story
garage costs about $400,000. At
any rate, my guess is that dur- i
ing the years ahead there may j
be more money in parking auto- j
mobiles than in selling automo-1
biles! - I
Wise are the city authorities j
who now spend money to buy I
up old buildings and install park
ing lots. In fact, such parking
lots are a city's main hope, com
bined with proper advertising
and service for downtown re
tail stores. In this connection I
repeat a former forecast that all
new retail stores will be larger,
will be confined to one floor, j
and that the clerks will be on
roller skates. j
Motorscooters, Bicycles, Skates :
If parking on streets in elimin- j
ated, this will speed up traffic
and should help the bus com
panies of each city. On the other !
hand, more traffic lights should
be installed at crossroads. The
speedier the traffic, the more
traffic lights will be needed. The
question is, how will the waits
and congestion at these cross
streets be eliminated? This
brings me back to Sir Isaac
Newton's great basic Law
Action and Reaction.
Automobiles will only con
tinue to grow longer for a per
iod, after which a reaction will
set in and cars will be made
shorter and shorter. Shorter cars.
however, will not end the conges
tion at street crossings. In ac
cordance with the Law of Ac
tion and Reaction, when the sale
of cars begins to decline, the
sale of motorscooters, bicycles,
and roller skates will begin to
increase. Now let me give my
final forecast on the solution of
the traffic problem.
Overhead Througbways
In most cities, awnings are
now permissible for retail stores.
These provide protection to pe
destrians against both rain and
extreme sunshine. In most cities
there are miles of thesg awnings
over the sidewalks. My forecast
is that these awnings will be re
placed by throughways for the
use of motorscooters, bicycles,
and perhaps foot passengers on
roller skates. These throughways
could be overhngin from the
buildings just a th. at'nfrlgs
now are: but the IrouldD be
built by the city authorities and
a small toll chr could be
made for their use. They would
be no wider than the sidewalks
and would be elevated over all
streets. This would enable a
cyclist to go from the city line
into the heart of the city without
stopping for crossroads or inter
sections. These elevated "throughways"
would serve also as a protec
tion from rain and sun to pedes
trians on the sidewalks below.
They would have outlets at every
building. Just inside each build
ing would be a place to park ve
hicles. Cities would soon be re
paid for building these elevated
"'throughways" by increased as
sessments. They would make the
second stories as valuable as the
first floors.
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