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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 24, 1947 (Tuesday)
Governor Earl Snell and citi
zens of the valley honor Ben
Hur Lampman at a Ben Hur
Lampman day at Gold Hill.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: An upstate
visitor to the Ben Hur Lampman
celebration at Gold Hill showed
up wearing four (4) "Lifetime"
fountain pens none of them
working.
20 rthtt SGO
June 24. 137 (Thursd?)
Antique hand pumper to be
used on ral blaze in demonstra
tion for fire chief's convention
now beitjg held here.
Picking aif the 1937 crop of
Sogud river cherries gets under
way today; bings and Royal
Annfif predominatly.
3 ?f 1S3 AGO
Jun 4. l$2t (Fiida)
Ser.Stor Charles McNary.
Frederick Steiwer, and Con-gre.-nan
N. J. Sinnot inspect
Medford Irrigation district and
pledi help in getting bonded in
debie4r.j refunded.
County court agked for special
one mill levy for county fair.
40 yar GO
June 24, 191 (Sunday)
Red Cross seeks to raise 510,
000 in fund drive for Medford
Post office workers pledge one
per cent of wages while war
lasts.
From the Local and Personal
column: The wave of patriotism
thaj, has swept over the United
States for some time is evi
denced by the auto tourists pass
ing thru Medford from various
$rts of the country. On nearly
gvgry eg.- is gt least one flag or
Ciothigf patriotic emblem.
' Ytir I.Q.T
tfc r correct Is superior;
ssvt e-r etc be Is excellent; five or
?. Ig W. C. Handy, the Negro
fmjSoser. and "Father of the
Blue", a, native of Memphis.
TCnn .. Florence, Ala. or Hender
OfOn S C.?
g. Alexander Hamilton died
(as) th result of a wound receiv
ed in a, duel with whom?
3. Bible: Was Archelus, son
successor of Herod, as tyran
nical nd as cruel as his father?
J Are there two post offices
th identical name in any
State'
5. If you wore hirsute camou
flage, would you wear false
Jeeth. false hair, or high heels?
8. & teacher had five apples
In i bag. How could she give
one to each of five children and
still have one of them in a bag?
7. Topeka is the capital of
hich State'
w 8. Which former heavyweight
boxing champion was known as
the "Manassa Mauler"?
9. 'a" is the principal vowel
of "Sameter". What is the prin
cipal vowel of "forbade", and
how is it pronounced'
10. "The death of Dr. Hudson
is a loss to the republic of let
ters." Tom Jones (1749V "Re
public of letters" is an apothegm
for what?
Answers: 1. Florence. Ala. 2.
Aaron Hurt. 3. Yes. 4 No. S.
False ha;?, Give one of the
children the bag with the apple
in it. 7. gansas. 8. Jack Demp
sey. 9. "a": as in "bad". 10. Field
of UtersUure.
CHILDREN'S WRITER DIES
New York t? Mrs. Mary
Sanders. 60. a writer of chil
dren's stories, died Sunday of
cancer.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
New York, N.Y., June 20th: The heat-wave broke last night
with a strong wind but no thunderstorms as predicted. From 94
to 54 is quite a drop, but that is what happened. It may warm up
again before the day is over, but sufficient unto the hour is the
coolness thereof. It feels like a new world, and your correspondent
feels like a New Man ALMOST.
Since our return we have found that the one-car train
service, with engine, baggage car and passenger car in one. has
been adopted here in the East by some other railroads. So the
'well worn alibi" of the S.P. heads that it is a nice idea but
can't be done fails to stand up. It has been done and could be
done by the S P. if that billion dollar organization had some
sense of obligation other than that of increasing its profits.
We haven't figures and facts to sustain our judgement but
our guess is that all the railroads that have put on one-car Diesel
service, have done so not to make more money, but not to renig
on their responsibilities in the realm of public service. Why
hasn't the SP the same attitude as the Boston & Maine, the C.P.R.,
and other important railroad systems in this part of the country'?
That is a question we have often asked but that has never been
satisfactorily answered. Our conviction is a major factor in this
difference, is the difference in the state laws regulating railroads.
Imagine what a radical change in the transportation picture
in Southern Oregon could be realized if the SP would pay less
attention to the cash register and more to living up to its claim
of being "friendly" that is having some regard for what the
travelling public wants, and less to what the NY bankers want.
For example:
Such Diesel cars as the CPR and the Boston and Maine run
regularly between Boston and Montreal could leave Medford at
8 a.m. and reach San Francisco at 5 p.m., making all important
stops. The distance from Boston to Montreal is more than the
distance to Portland, and only slightly less than the distance to
San Francisco. The one-car train could leave Medford for Port
land at the same hour and arrive at approximately 3 p.m. This
isn't guess work, it is what is being done in this part of the
country every day and by some of the best managed roads
in the country. As far as road bed and curves are concerned, the
Boston and Maine and SP's Siskiyou Division are approximately
on a par.
Yet, who expects the present management of the SP to do
anything about it? We don't, and we don't know any person
informed of the political and financial power and greed of
this allegedly "friendly" railroad who expects any radical change
in its reactionarly and selfish policy either. As far as the S.P.
is concerned this is not a government of, by and for the people
but a government "of Big Business, by Big Business and for
Big Business."
We finally got tickets for "Auntie Mame," one of the three
big hits of the season, attending the Wednesday matinee. Rosalind
Russell is "Auntie Mame" and does a wonderful job. The only
fly in the amber except the packed house and the humidity
was our tendency to think of our Aunt Anna and what she would
have thought of the goings on. We know perfectly well she
would have walked out before ten minutes of the first act had
passed, and might very well have asked for her money back, for
she managed and owned three farms in Winnebago County,
Illinois, never to our knowledge got the worst of it in a business
deal, and while in no sense a prude, had definite ideas of decent
human behaviour, and never deviated from them. The cocktail
Bohemian world in which Auntie Mame held sway would have
outraged and sickened her and she would not have suffered the
indignity of sitting in her "hot seat" and listening to it.
Yet as the theatrical and literary world runs along these
days, there was nothing really offensive in this comedy-farce,
and there were moments of sanity and true dramatic feelings
in these moments in fact, we thought Miss Russell was definitely
at her best. And it ALL was MOST of the time EXTREMELY
funny.
But if Aunt Anna were visiting New York wish she could;
and after attending Auntie Mame had been sent a clipping of
this favorable comment, she would have cut her nephew off her
list for keeps and proclaimed him no better than a "rebel DEMO
CRAT." It all adds up to the fact that Aunt Anna lived in one world
and Auntie Mame in quite another. Whether the latter dramatical
ly is better or not we shall leave up to the Supreme Court, but
we have no doubt having experienced something of both that
present day comedy is far broader, and drama far more de
pressing and realistic, than it was in the world of our beloved
aunt. R.W.R.
Influenza from the Orient
The United States cannot hope to escape, says
the U. S. Public Health Service," all impact from the
influenza now prevalent in the Far East. The disease
has reached epidemic proportions there, and some
travelers to this country from the Orient have in
evitably been exposed to it.
However, this Far East influenza is reported to
be of a mild type which runs its course in a few
days and has a low mortality rate. Anyhow, influ
enza is seldom serious in the United States during
the summer. The actual test of whether the Oriental
epidemic will have serious repercussions here will
come this winter.
A REALLY virulent type of influenza can be serious
at any time of year. The influenza epidemic dur
ing World War I afflicted so many countries in so
many parts of the world that it was termed "pan
demic'" that is, worldwide. It was generally known
here as "Spanish" influenza.
Smiting American soldiers first in France, then
Fjeading to Army camps in New England and other
parts of this country, it caused more fatalities in our
armed forces than did actual hostilities. One Army
camp alone reported 3,000 cases in eight days. Civil
ians also were hard hit, but now antibiotic drugs
have robbed all influenza of most of its danger, and in
addition the Health Service holds out hopes for a
successful anti-influenza vaccine. E.R.R.
Editorial
Comment
I PASSENGER SERVICE
j Down in Texas a few days ago,
the presidents of two major rail
I roads predicted the end of rail
! road service before too many
I years.
j As might be anticipated, one
of the forecasters of doom for
passenger trains was D. J. Rus-
! sell of Southern Pacific. The
other was William Deramus III,
head of the debt-ridden Missouri-Kansas-Texas
railroad.
Mr. Russell is president of
one of the most prosperous rail
roais in the nation: Mr. Deramus
is trying to untangle the prob
Monday. June 24. 1937
lems of the "Katy" and get
back on a sound financial track.
Both railroad executives fore
see larger passenger loads for
the airlines, with long distance
travelers turning to the air. For
the short and medium distance,
the private car will provide the
major transportation. If their
predictions are correct, the only
passengers railroads would carry
would be in the commuter class.
From tlje demonstrated policy
of Southern Pacific in this area,
we know that SP will do noth-
I ing to encourage rail passenger
I travel, but we suspect that such
; progressive lines as Santa Fe.
I Union Pacific and the northern
j transcontinental will make a
! real fight before they abandon
i the passenger business to the
i air line?. Ashland Tidings.
'Howdy, ma'am! This shore
ANT IT?
Matter of Fact
Farewell To George Humphrey
Washington To the specta
tors in the crowded hearing
room of the Senate Finance
C o m m ittee,
where Secre
tary of the
Treasury
George M.
Humphrey has
been singing
his swan
song, only
Hum phrey's
oddly point-
1 Unl!nn
sWL
Sir wait AISOD "S
head and his powerful shoulders
have been visible. The Senators
sit in a solemn semi-circle on a
raised dais, while Humphrey
testifies from a low desk squeez
ed up against the dais on the
floor below.
Thus Humphrey must always
raise his head and look upward
at a questioning Senator, like a
little schoolboy reciting a les
son. Yet somehow, from that
unpromising position, H u m-
phrey has managed, by the mys
terious alchemy of personality,
to dominate the hearings, so
that it has often seemed that he
was the teacher, and the Sen
ators the schoolboys.
No doubt of it, George M.
Humphrey is a most remarkable
man. He is remarkable for the
force of his personality. But he
is remarkable too, as a political
and social phenomenon.. For the
political and economic views he
brought to the government were
the views of an orthodox, con
servative businessman, with
every l' dotted and every l
crossed.
AS. A glance at the other mem
bers of thp nrieinal Eisen
hower 'team" suggests, the gov
ernment has a way of changing
the views of the most doctrm
naire conservative. How, then,
have Humphrey's views changed
after 4V2 years in one of the
three or four most powerful gov
ernment posts?
The answer is that they have
not changed a bit. Every "T" is
still crossed, every "I" still dot
ted. Listening to him testify,
this reporter kept remembering
a long interview with Humphrey
in 1953, for the Saturday Eve
ning Post. Since that time, Hum
phrey has lost the habit of
punctuating his sentences for
emphasis with the odd little
word "bing." But in every other
way, the Humphrey of 1957 still
stays precisely the same things
in precisely the same words as
the Humphrey of 1953.
He still believes, now as then,
that the management of the na
tion's finances is precisely ana
logous to the management of a
business or even a private house
hold. He still likes to start a
sentence, "Every housewife in
America knows." He still re
peats, over and over agin, that
to avoid disaster "we just have
got to get control over our situa
tion. "
THE FACT is that, by his own
special standards, George
Humphrey is leaving the gov
ernment as something he is not
used to being a failure. He
says that he is "deeply proud"
of his record, and in some ways
he has a right to be. But the
fact remains that Humphrey has
not done what he confidently
set out to do. He has not "got
control over our situation."
There was a big laugh in the
hearing room, in which Hum
phrey genially joined, when
Senator Harry Byrd reminded
him of President Eisenhower's
1952 promise to cut the budget
to S60 billion, and Humphrey
replied, "that was before he was
elected." But in those days,
I Humphrey certainly regarded
the promise as a sacred contract,
and he certainly firmely expect
ed to cut the budget well below
S60 billion.
These days, Humphrey must
sometimes feel a bit like a boy
on the burning deck, whence
all but he had fled. How could
he have expected that his able
protege, Marion Folsom, would
end up defending a social wel
fare budget to make the fair
dealing Oscar Ewing's eyes bug
out in envy? How could he have
expected that the impeccably
conservative Ezra Taft Benson
would champion a budget
double the size of the biggest
agriculture budget in Harry
Truman's day?
is a zoot qbbr day
By Stewart Alsop
TJOW COULD he have sup-
posed that his old business
friend. Secretary of Commerce
Sinclair Weeks, would one day
denounce "the budget butchers"
in straight Truman style? Surely
he could not have foreseen a
time when his closest friend in
the cabinet. Defense Secretary
Charles Wilson, would remark
that "it gives me a pain to hear
my rich friends in the Chamber
of Commerce squawking about
high defense spending."
These people have not really
changed, of course, any more
than George Humphrey has
changed; they have merely re
sponded, as any government
under any president must re
spond, to the unalterable econo
mic, political, and above all in
ternational pressures of these
times. And George Humphrey
is not really a failure, even by
his own standards, since govern
ment spending as a proportion
of the national income is much
lower now than in Truman's
day.
Humphrey is a failure only
in terms of the dreams which
many businessmen shared with
him when Dwight Eisenhower
was elected a dream of a re
turn to the past, with little gov
ernment, little budgets, little
taxes. That dream is shattered,
as one of his colleagues has sad
ly remarked, "if George couldn't
do it, nobody can." And so fare
well to George Humphrey, a
very able man, and to a past
which no power on earth can
recreate.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Editorial
Comment
ON THOSE SUBPOENAS
Those who thought that Mc
Carthyism was in the eclipse
have been sorely troubled by
some of the statements that have
come out of Washington in recent
days in regard to the scientists
who oppose further testing of
large nuclear weapons. The inter
nal security subcommittee of the
U.S. Senate has subpoenaed Dr.
Linus Pauling, the Nobel prize
winner, for the express purpose,
according to the committee
chairman, bl determining wheth
er "the Communists are behind
this." If this committee turns
to witch hunting and seeks to
tie opposition to H-bomb testing
with communism it will have
done a great disservice to this
democracy.
Of this, the Vancouver B.C.
Province recently said:
"Most of the signers of the
Pauling protest are biologists
and geneticists and there are
those who believe that these
men are better qualified to speak
about the danger of radiation to
mankind than the defenders of
the tests, who are principally
physicists, more concerned with
the working of nuclear weapons
than with their effects.
"There is no doubt that the
2,000 spoke out sincerely from
scientific belief, just as others
such as Dr. Albert Schweitzer
have spoken out from conscience-
"If it is to be inferred in any
way that thus speaking out is a
crime against the state, then
American scientists will be re
duced to the level of their col
leagues in the Soviet Union at
the height of Stalinism, when
science had to conform to Marx
ist doctrine, or else.
"Every witch-hunt is based on
what might be called the Mc
Carthy syllogism the equiva-
HEAVEN NO MORGUE
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Heaven holds no dead men even if all
of them sinned while here on earth. The
wages of sin is death but the people of
heaven died with no sin charged against
them. God had put all their sins on Christ.
And more yet the very instant that you
accept Christ as having died for your sins,
God puts Christ's righteousness on you and
also your name in his Book of Life. ' For
God so loved you that He gave his only
born Son. that if you believe on Him, you
should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16. BIBLE. Being saved, then
by daily Bible reading and prayer, grow up.
Russia Seen Making Strong Bi
For Mediterranean Sea Power
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia seems to be
making a determined attempt
to establish itself as a Medi
terranean pow
er. Several mo
tives have been
suggested for
the current
m o v ement of
Russian naval
units into the
Mediterranean
from both the
Baltic and
m i rc
marles McCano OlacK seas, w
ficially, three submarines which
went into the Mediterranean
from the Baltic, after moving
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Washington dispatches tell us
that members of Senator Byrd's
committee that is investigating
the financial structure of the
United States are agreed that
INFLATION is the No. 2 prob
lem of our time topped only
by the search for peace.
Some of them are said to be
lieve it could easily become
Problem No. 1.
WHAT causes inflation?
' One caiibe is too much
money chasing too tew goods.
That condition existed during
the war, when consumer goods
were scarce because we had to
devote so much of our produc
tive capacity to war materials.
There was plenty of money then
because there wasn't much to
spend money for except taxes
and war bonds. So we were
inclined to BID UP THE PRICE
for things we wanted.
That doesn't concern us much
right now. For example: More
autos are presently being made
than can be sold at existing
prices. That is true of most other
products. As of now, goods are
mora abundant than money.
B
UT
Inflation continues.
WHY?
THE answer to that question is
provided by what is known
as the wage-price spiral. Wages
represent a large part of the
cost of production. As wages
rise, production costs rise. As
production costs rise, prices have
to rise or profits will disap
pear. If profits disappear, peo
ple will quit investing in busi
ness enterprises, JOBS WILL
DISAPPEAR.
So
The spiral keeps on spiral
ing. AS TO this spiral, there are
two schools of thought. One
calls it the WAGE-price spiral.
The other calls it the price
WAGE spiral.
Which is right?
Which is wrong?
If you can answer that, you
can solve another ancient puzzle:
Which came first the hen or
the egg?
AT THIS point, you may say:
"If all that is true, why
not just raise wages, then raise
prices, then raise wages, then
raise prices" and so on into
infinity, which is the point far
off in the distance where the
rails of the railroad track come
together?
THAT sounds reasonable until
you consider this:
Nearly everybody in these
days is looking forward to even
tual retirement on some kind
of pension or on savings invest
ed perhaps in bonds. Pensions
provide a definite number of
DOLLARS at a definite future
time. The same thing goes for
bonds.
That poses this problem:
Suppose, when your retire
ment time comes, the DOLLARS
provided by your pension (or
your bonds) have been so depre
ciated in their purchasing power
by steadily creeping inflation
that they won't BUY enough to
keep you alive not to mention
supporting you in the style to
which you have looked forward?
It is something that concerns
EVERYBODY'S bread and but
ter. lent of: "All Patagonians have
black hair; therefore all black
haired people are Patagonians."
"If this is applied in a way
that makes honest men afraid to
express any belief with which a
communist may agree or pre
tend to agree then we put the
control of our freedom of speech
and of consicence right into the
hands of the Communists them
selves." Pendleton East Ore
gonian. 1
it
ostentatiously through the nar
row English Channel, have been
handed over to Egypt.
Officially, also, a cruiser, two
escort ships and three motor
torpedo boats which entered the
Mediterranean from the Black
Sea are preparing for maneu
vers. But two of the three subma
rines are big ones which Egypt
could not possibly man even if
they were suitable for its use,
presumably in blockading the
Gulf of . Aqaba to Israeli
shipping.
May Be Spying
The two big ones may have
been moved in to spy on the
powerful United States 6th Fleet
which is based in the Mediter
ranean. As regards the "maneuvers"
explanation for the presence of
the surface craft, there is good
reason to believe that Russia
is making a show of strength
for the benefit of the Arab coun
tries, to demonstrate that the
6th Fleet has no monopoly in
Mediterranean waters.
The movement probably is in
tended also as an answer to the
recent visit of British warships
to Turkish ports in the Black
Sea, which Russia likes to think
of as a private lake.
Turkey is somewhat disturbed
by the Russian activity.
For more than a century, Rus
sia has been trying to break
Turkeys control of the Dar
danelles Straits, which links the
Black Sea with the Mediter
ranean, in order to gain free
access to the Mediterranean.
Turkey is acutely aware of its
More Attention Being
Directed to Inflation
As Danger
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Presi Correspondent
Washington IW Young
Robert M. White" II took bows
today around the square in
Mexico, Mo.
So did L. M.
(Mitch) White.
Young Bob
and old Mitch
are co-editors
and co-publishers-
of the
Mexico, Mo.,
Ledger, one
of the better
Lyi. c. wiison small town
dailies in the United States, cir
culation 7,000 in the lush and
bountiful central part of the
state.
Mitch and Bob are father and
son. They had a look last Janu
ary at President Eisenhower's
big spending budget and they
have been noting the creeping
inflation currently overrunning
the United States.
Meeting in Washington today
was the National Citizens Com
mittee to Curb Inflation which
was born of Mitch and Bob's
contemplation of what was hap
pening to the U.S. economy.
The committee will meet
here for two days to hear a dis
cussion of inflation and what to
do about it. The speakers are
big name economists, bankers
and members of Congress. As
sembled for the meeting here
are individuals pretty well rep
resenting all parts of the United
States.
Fact of Importance
The fact that the committee
exists at all and is meeting here
with an impressive program of
speakers is a political fact of
considerable importance. The
meeting is further evident that
the people of the United States
are beginning to get the world
on inflation and what it will
mean to them if it continues un
controlled.
Fire and flood together can
not match uncontrolled infla
tion's ability to kill and to de
story. Out of the Whites' convic
tion that the inflationary trend
had become dangerous came a
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delicate strategic position.
It is the only North Atlantic
Treaty country except Norway
which has a frontier facing the
Soviet Union, and Norway's is
only a few miles wide, far above
the Arctic Circle.
Turkey Surrounded
On its southern frontier, Tur
keyx has Syria, which is now
ruied by a government even
mora pro-Russian than Egypt's.
And Bulgaria, a supine Russian
satellite, borders on European
Turkey.
Hence Turkey views any Rus
sian move like the present one
as part of a design to encircle
and isolate it.
As regards Russia's ambitions
in the Mediterranean, The pres
ent bid started when the Soviet
government arranged for Com
munist Czechoslovakia to supply
Egypt with arms.
It may be recalled also that
when Great Britain and France
invaded the Suez Canal Zone
last November, Soviet Premier
Nikolai A. Bulganin wrote Presi
dent Eisenhower proposing joint
Russian - American intervention
'under the auspices of the Unit
ed Nations." O
Bulganin said the United States
had strong naval forces in the
Mediterranean the 6th Fleet.
He said Russia also had strong
naval and air forces available
for intervention at points which
he did not specify but which
must have been based on the
Black Sea.
Eisenhower rejected that bjd.
But Russia evidently is trying
again to elbow its way into the
Mediterranean.
to Nation
letter signed by a score or more
citizens of Mexico, Mo., address
ed to the two U.S. senators from
Missouri and to one or more
members of the Missouri dele
gation in the House.
It may be significant that this
substantial letter of protest, out
of which grew a national or
ganization aimed at curbing in
flation arid reducing govern
ment spending, came from the
heart of an area known as Little
Dixie. Audrain county and some
adjacent counties in cenral Mis
souri are as Democratic as south
Boston and almost as Southern
in thought as Mississippi.
President Harry S. Truman's
big spending operations did not
turn a hair in Little Dixie nor
did FDR's uninterrupted series
of federal deficits excite pro
test. It is notable now, however,
that the challenge to big spend
ing comes largely from Demo
crats whose party so happily
supported the Roosevelt-Truman
habit of spending annually more
than the Treasury collected in
taxes.
Blamed On Policies
The fact of inflation In the
United States is generally, but
not wholly accepted. Some con
gressional Democrats contend
that the steady rise in prices is
caused by the administration's
high interest-hard money
policies.
However that may be, prices
are going up. Ewan Clague told
the United Press that the May
figure for the cost of living
probably will show anothej rise
for the ninth month in a row.
Clague is commissioner of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics which
monthly computes the consumer
price index. The May figure will
be out Tuesday.
Moreover, government econo
mists concede that prices will
continue to rise moderately
through the rest of 1957. The
monthly rises have been small,
but they add up. They could
and may add up in time to the
place where a 10 cent cigar
would cost S100, assuming that
the cigar dealer would sell one
at all for mere money, even U.S.
money.
At PERL'S every family
may make funeral ar
rangements which are in
keeping with its means. A
selection of services for
every price range is of
fered to satisfy individual
preferences and to meet
all financial circumstances.
Convenient Terms?
Certainly!