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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 26. 1947 (Thuriday)
Tax deed to government lots
on Rogue river across from Gold
Hill presented to that city by
county for use as Ben Hur Lamp
man memorial park.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Fancier
new autos, are showing up driven
by the local proletariat. The
vehicles are of a make and
model, formerly driven only by
bankers and pear growers who
got nothing for their pears.
20 YEARS AGO
Juna 26. 1937 (Saturday)
Kerosene soaked shack start
ed a fire then extinguished by
hand pumper, relic of 1883, from
Jacksonville; demonstration for
fire chiefs' convention in town
Scout delegation from south
ern Oregon on way to jamborea
in Washington D.C. crosses
Rocky mountains.
30 YEARS AGO
June 26. 1927 (Sunday)
Montana man speaks at Ruch
school on county unit ichool
plan.
Approximately 35 county cr
owners make out applications
for half-year auto licenses.
40 YEARS ASO
June 26. 1917 (Tuesday)
Medford people tked to piy
either 18 per cent of purchase
price or entire price of liberty
bonds bought on installment
plan.
From the LoiSil mJ Personal
column: The Jackson county
business men's association held
its regular monthly dinner and
meeting last evening tt the Hol
land cafe. Only routine business
was transacted.
What's Yur I.Q.?
Nlr or ten correct t snaerior;
aei-en or elcht ti excellent; live or
ix 1 food
1. In 1804 a company of 50
men established Fort Dearborn,
111., the foundation of which
city?
2. In what European country
is th Sangro River?
3. Bible: Heliopolis is the an
cient Egyptian city known by
what two-letter Biblical name?
4. From whom did Jack Demp
sey win the world heavyweight
boxing title?
5. Name the survey line mark
ing the boundary' between Pen
nsylvania and Maryland.
6. Name the capital of South
Dakota. 0
7. The Bahamas are a Crown
Colony of which country?
8. The city of Metz is in which
European country?
9. The abbreviation "Jr." was
introduced in 1623. Is it proper
to apply the term to the younger
of two boys of the same surname
in a school?
10. "He was born within the
sound of Bow-bell." T. Fuller.
Where was -He" born?
Answers: 1. Chicago. 2. Italy.
3. "On." 4. Jess Willard. 5. Mas
on and Dixon Line. t. Pierre.
7. Great Britain. 8. France t. Yw.
10. London, England Wear the
bells of Bow church.
Actor Cameron Mitchell
Sued for Ma'mtianc8
Hollywood OP Actor Cam
eron Mitchell, 38. has been sued
for separate maintenance by
Mrs. Johanna Mitchell. 40. on
grounds of cruelty after 16 years
oi marriage.
Mrs. Mitchell Tuesday asked
Superior Court for custody of
the couple's four children and
S2.113 a month alimony and
lild support. .
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VASSOCIATION
MAIL TRIBUNE
On Freedom of Speech
We have long left that the United States Supreme
Court is one agency of government which has suffered
from lack of adequate news coverage. Only a handful
of reporters have been regularly assigned to cover this
branch of the government, while the other "co-equal"
branches the legislative and the executive have
had swarms of reporters, commentators and other
varieties of newsmen covering them on a regular basis.
This may change. For the court itself has changed
in the last few years. And to our way of thinking, the
change is all to the good. It has asserted its authority
as an equal branch of government, and has moved
into a sort of vacuum which has developed in the area
of civil rights a vacuum which neither the Congress
nor the Executive has done much of anything to fill.
TTHE first important declaration of this change (al-
though there had been hints even earlier) was the
May 17, 1954, decision on school desegregation.
Since that time, there have been a series of other
decisions virtually all of them tending to support the
dignity of the individual, and his freedom.
They have not all been "popular" decisions, for by
the very nature of American jurisprudence, the cases
which are protested and appealed are those of a bor
derline nature, with the appellants in nffeny cases be
ing unsavory characters.
But if the freedom of the individual is to be pre
served, the laws must apply equally to all, without ref
erence to reputation, character, color or "previous
condition of servitude," for these have no bearing on
the essential question of individual rights.
THE court's recent decisions particularly in the
case of the Communists convicted under the Smith
act, and labor leader John Watkins, in addition to the
desegregation decision have had hard going at the
hands of some of the state's editorial writers.
Both the Portland papers, the Oregonian and the
Journal, have been non-committal about the court in
recent editorials. Both have pointed out that the de
cisions will lead to controversy.
The Capital Journal in Salem has been openly and
bitterly critical, and by implication has accused the
court of sqf t-headed liberalism.
""THE neighboring Grants Pass Courier, in an editor-
ial entitled "A Stunning Opinion," concludes:
". . . For if the Smith Act is virtually nullified the reds
just about will be free to do as they please, so long as they
do not specifically plot a military coup or some other violent
means of overthrowing the U.S. government."
Well for Pete's sake, where has the Courier writer
been all these years? Are not Americans supposed to
be free to do and think and preach what they want
short of violence, treason, or injury to others?
We could refer him to Abraham Lincoln, who said :
"Any people anywhere being inclined and having the
power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing
government, and force a new one that suits them better."
TN America, we are fortunate that this is done
- through the ballot box. Every man has the right to
try to persuade his fellows that his ideas, his ideology,
his plans, are the right ones.
That the communists have failed to so persuade
Americans is to the credit
flexible system of government which can and some
times does pick and use the best of other systems, and
to the economic growth of the nation which has per
mitted a majority of the people to live in relative com-
iort and security.
But if we are afraid of
must legislate against them
we are admitting that we
bility, our own capacity to
iorce and trutn or our own.
1E hate and distrust murderous international com
munism with everything we have.
But we are not afraid of it not when America has
proven, over and over again during the past 170 years,
that it has the capacity and strength to resist, in the
long run, those ideologies
what we call our "way of life.
We believe the Supreme Court, in these recent de
cisions, also has shown it
revolutionary idea that men are created with equal
rights, and that it is within the province of govern
ment to protect these rights.
A ND remember this, you who believe that freedom
of speech should be curtailed, and opposition pun-
lsnen:
If an unthinking majority today can suppress a
communist's right of free speech, it can tomorrow turn
its machinery of suppression on Jews, or Catholics, or
Farm Laborites, or the National Association of Manufacturers.
Only by keeping freedom sacred to all can it be
guaranteed to any. Each person alive today is a mem-
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oer oi some minority. And wnen one minority, or one
individual, is permitted to suffer unjustly, so much the
worse for all minorities, and
VOU. Cj.A.
Dog Saves Family From
Madera, Calif 'TP His
name was Rover and he was only
four months old. but Mr. and
Mrs. Tyree White and their seven
children owe their lives to him.
At 3:30 a.m. Tuesday the Whit
es awoke to- find their puppy,
half Doberman and half German
shepherd, barking furiously and
pulling at the covers. They
shooed him away. But Rover
persisted in barking.
Then the Whites smelled
smoke. They realized the house
was afire.
When they began to stir, Rov
Wednesday. June 26. 1957
of the Americans, to" their
new or strange ideas : if we
and suppress them then
have no trust m our own sta
conquer alien ideas by the
which are destructive of
is unafraid of the TRULY
all individuals, including
Burning Home
er darted into the children's bed
room, barking all the while to
wake them up. He tugged at
their bedclothes, too.
Once in the street, they heard
Kover still barking inside.
But there was a note of terror
in his bark. A beam had fallen
across the doorway, trapping
him.
Soon. Rover stopped barking.
Later, they found his body in
side the ruined house.
Three out of four American
farms xov corn,
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" I iVAStJ'f GONNA HURT OUC? OC RAZOR ! I JUST
WANTED TO SEE IF- MV PlGS WORKED
New Polish Victory
In Ideological War
Seen Forthcoming
By CHARLES M. MCCANN
United Press Correspondent
Polish "independent" Commu
nist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka
may win a new and important
victory soon
over Commu
nist Russia.
It has been
announced that
Chinese Red
Leader Mao
Tsetung, on one
of his very rare
trips abroad, is
to pay a state
Charles MrCano visit to f-Oiano.
accompanied by Chou En-lai, his
premier.
Dispatches from Warsaw quote
well-informed sources as saying
Mao intends to pass through
Moscow on his way without
stopping to confer with Premier
Nikolai A. Bulganin and Com
munist Party Chief Nikita S.
Khrushchev.
It is said also that the Soviet
government tried to induce Mao
Editorial
Comment
FEWER TREES. MORE
TIMBER TO CUT
Oregonians are well aware of
the fact that they hve the
largest body of standing timber
of any state in the Union. They
are learning now that they have
more timber than they thought
they had. Spite of decades of
cutting the virgin forests, new in
entories of federal forests show
so much more timber than was
assumed that increases in all
owable annual cutting are being
authorized. Latest to be an
nounced is an allowance of a cut
of 305,000,000 board feet in the
Siuslaw national forest, which
stretches from Tillamook to the
Siuslaw, a 61 per cent increase
over the previous 189,000,000 al
lowance. How can this happen? How can
we keep cutting down our for
ests and still find ourselves with
more timber? There are several
reasons. Trees keep growing, so
until a forest becomes aged, their
size increases so they yield more
board feet per tree. A factor of
greater importance is the fuller
use of trees in the forest. Smaller
trees now are harvested, also
trees of poorer quality. Less of
the top is left in the. woods. Crui
sers now use a different scale
of values when they cruse a
stand of timber. This is where
much of the added footage of
timber per acre is found.
"Allowable cut" mean the
quanity which may be cut each
year indefinitely. This cut plus
estimated losses from fire and
disease will be matched by an
nual growth of remaining timber
and reproduction. This is the
program of the forest service and
the bureau of land management
to insure a perpetual timber sup
ply from the lands they adminis
ter. This addition to the allowable
cut in the Siuslaw forest will be
welcomed by mills along the
coast. Private timber, except that
held by big concerns like In
ternational Paper, Georgia-Pacific
and Weyerhaeuser is pretty
well cut ofi, but the mills will
now have a larger supply of gov
ernment timber available on
competitive bidding. Other forest
areas are having a similar up
lift. On O & C lands the allow
able cut has been raised from
523 million to 661 million board
feet and when the reinventory
is completed, may approach 800
million. Other national forests
are reporting additions to allow
able cut. This will serve to ex
tend the life of lumber mills
in Oregon. And as further utiliza
tion becomes practical the
quantity of material for process
ing will be iurther increased. All
this helps bolster confidence in
Oregon's economy based as it is
so largely on the state's forest
resources. Oregon Statesman,
Salem.
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to visit Moscow first but that he
refused.
An Open Snub
There can be no doubt that
the Russians will keep trying to
get Mao to change his mind.
If Mao insists on visiting Po
land, and visiting Moscow only
on his way home, it will mean
that he is administering an open
snub to Soviet leaders.
Polish Premier Josef Cyran
kieweicz invited Mao to visit
Poland during a trip he made to
Communist China in April.
It was taken for granted at
first that Mao would stop off in
Moscow on his way.
Later, the word was that So
viet leaders had tried to get him
to do that but that he refused,
on the ground that the Polish
invitation came first.
Originally, Mao's visit was set
for September. Last week War
saw reported Mao would be there
for the celebration on July 22 of
Poland's "national day," the an
niversary of the adoption of the
new Communist constitution in
1952.
Delay Cause Unknown
Now it is said Mao may not
arrive until the end of July, or
possibly in August.
Whether this may mean the
delay is of routine nature or
that Mao is reconsidering his de
cision to give the Polish visit
priority is no indication.
. But Mao, Gomulka and the
Soviet leaders undoubtedly are
keenly aware of the importance
which will be attached to Mao's
decision, one way or the other,
throughout the Communist
world.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address ot 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 aJl letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
sation Letters submitted for pub
licaUon must not exceed 400 words
Orphans' Bill
To the Editor: You will be
pleased to learn that Senator
Eastland has assured me public
ly on the Senate floor, in re
sponse to another of my pleas,
that legislation admitting refu
gee orphans to the United States,
will be reported out of Judiciary
committee before adjournment.
This is encouraging because
our bill has been bottled up
since January. We appreciate
your fine support on the issue.
For your information, the ex
cellent articles on the subject by
A. Robert Smith, concerning the
humanitarian activities of Harry
Holt, have been extremely help
ful. (
Richard Neuberger
United States Senator
Pay Increase Bill for
Federal Help Asked
Washington Pay increase
legislation for the nation's 500,
000 postal workers and 950,000
classified workers has been
ordered reported to the Senate
Post Office and Civil Service
committee, according to Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)
Neuberger is chairman of the
Federal Employees Compensa
tion subcommittee of the Sen
ate Post Office and Civil Service
committee.
"The subcommittee voted an
increase of S500 across the
board for employees of the post
al field service and increases
for classified employees in am
ounts ranging from S310 to
S500," he said. He added, "Evi
dence submitted to the sub
committee indicated pay of gov
ernment workers in general
and postal employees in partic
ular has lagged behind indust
rial wage rates. Some postal
workers' families are limited to
grocery budgets of only S25a
week."
Leningrad was under siege by
the Germans for 17 months in
World War II. -
Washington Boiling With Talk
Over Supreme Court's
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington HP) This city is
boiling with discussion of recent
Supreme Court opinions in the
field of indi
vidual consti
tutional rights
as opposed to
federal prose
cutors and con
gressional in
vestigators. There has
been nothing
like it since
the middle
1930 when the high court junked
some of the key legislation of
FDR's New Deal. Government
prosecutors are appalled by the
implications of the court's new
version of constitutional law.
This week's steamy discussion
of the recent opinions is not a
patch, however, on what may be
expected shortly. Pending now
before the Supreme Court and
scheduled for quick disposition
is the government's appeal
against a lower court ruling
that the United States must not
turn over for trial by Japanese
courts a GI named William S
Girard. Girard shot and killed a
Japanese woman and is charged
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Good news:
The National Association of
Mutual Savings Banks reports
that DEPOSITS increased by
169 million dollars in May.
They reached a record 30 bil
lion, 637 million dollars.
WHY is that such good news?
The answer is simple. Be
fore a dollar can be invested
in new plants, in new machines
or in new processes that create
jobs A DOLLAR HAS TO BE
SAVED UP BY SOMEBODY.
PUT it this way:
Those who spend provide
the markets that keep business
expanding. Those who SAVE
provide the capital with which to
finance the expansion of busi
ness. That is to say:
It takes all kinds of people to
make a world.
QUESTION:
Is fall-out resulting from
atomic bomb explosion tests a
grave menace to the health and
welfare of the world?
THERE is one answer:
Con tinued atomic bomb
explosion tests will pose a ser
ious threat to the health of the
world's population. Dr. Raymond
Ellickson, head of the physics
department of the University of
Oregon, warned in Eugene the
other day. In fact, he told the
members of the Eugene Rotary
club, even if tests were stopped
now the effects of past explosions
on plant and animal life would
continue for many years.
Dr. Ellickson c o n c e ntrated
much of his talk on radioactive
Strontium 90 a material not ex
isting on earth before man be
gan the first A-bomb test. It is
a particularly vicious element,
he said, because it resembles cal
cium in structure. As such, it is
assimilated by plant and animal
life, including the human body.
DR. ELLICKSON continued:
"In areas of the world
where calcium is not abundant
as in the Willamette valley of
Oregon growing things will ab
sorb the material more readily
without being able to differenti
ate between it and calcium. Then
the destructive work begins in
developing mutations and tear
ing down blood-making proces
ses such as are found in human
bone marrow."
He added:
"Leukemia, transformed genes
and other deformities will in
evitably result through con
tinued explosion of the bombs."
HERE is another answer:
Dr. John Lawrence, dir
ector of the Donner Laboratory
at the University of California,
said in Portland Friday night
the world of science has as yet
"absolutely no evidence" that
radioactive fall-out from atomic
bombs has damaged human be
ings. He spoke at the Oregon
Science and Industry, Reed Col
lege and the Textron Foundation.
He conceded that large doses
of radioactive material could kill.
But, he added, "so could a large
dose of aspirin."
"rpHE increase in background
-- radiation since the latest
Nevada bomb tests has been
about three per cent." Dr. Lawr
ence told his hearers. "A radium
dial on a wrist watch gives a per
son more than THREE TIMES
that amount of radiation."
He concluded:
"Regarding a purported link
between the element Strontium
90 and the incidence of leukemia,
I'm afraid the patients have rec
eived more radiation from diag
nosis than they have from the
'background.' "
WHAT are we ordinary non
scientific people to think
about this business of radioactive
fall-out?
It seems to me that until more
is KN'OWr: about it the less we
think about it the better it will
be for .everybody.
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I, Tie c Wilson
with manslaughter.
Heat on Administration
The United States govern
ment has agreed that Girard
shall be tried by the Japanese,
an agreement which has aroused
national controversy and turned
considerable political heat on
the Eisenhower administration.
The Japanese people are equal
ly, or more, excited. So much
so that agreement to the trial
of Girard by Japanese courts
has the appearance of a move to
appease popular opinion in
Japan.
The lower federal court here
which forbade the Eisenhower
administration to hand Girard
over to the Japanese held that
the Constitution guaranteed him
trial by established American
processes. Government lawyers
appear to be genuinely confi
dent that the Supreme Court
will reverse that finding.
They argue that the adminis
tration's right to deliver Girard
to the Japanese is legally sound
because it is by executive agree
ment between the two nations
arrived at under terms of a
treaty between the United States
and Japan. It seems to follow
Neuberger and Porter
Propose Studies of
Family Allowance Plan
Washington, D.C. Resolu
tions providing for "a full and
complete inquiry and study" of
the Canadian Family Allowances
program to determine the ad
visability of instituting a similar
system in the United States have
been introduced in the Senate
and House by Sen. Richard L.
Neuberger and Rep. Charles O.
Porther, both of Oregon.
"I am convinced that this pro
gram has been a great boon, not
only for the children of Canada,
but for all Canada," Neubeger
declared in submitting the Sen
ate resolution. "It is my belief
that a family allowances pro
gram in the United States would
have a favorable impact on
health, happiness, and welfare
of the nation's children."
To All Under IS
Under Canada's family allow-
Girl Seeks To Erase
Memory of Tragedy
Chippawa, Ont. OH Eleven-year-old
Anita Leary decided to
day to return to England to help
erase from her mind the scene at
Chippawa Creek where her par
ents drowned trying to rescue
her.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Leary, will be buried
today. But Anita, mutely grief
stricken, shook her head "No"
when asked if she wished to
view their bodies.
Anita fell into 20 feet of water
Sunday while at a pipnic along
the banks of the Chippawa with
her parents and her aunt and
uncle. Her parents both jumped
in to save her. They droned In
the attempt.
Her uncle, Robert Goodwin,
managed to pull Anita to safety.
He also rescued his wife, Marie,
who had encountered difficulty
trying to help Anita.
Emu Attacks Car;
Three Women Escape
Darwin, Australia (OT
Three matronly women escaped
serious injury Tuesday when an
angry, seven-foot-tall emu attack
ed their speeding motorcar.
The car was damaged exten
sively, and although the women
were unhurt, the driver, Mrs.
Toby Brown, 68, said they
emerged from the vehicle quak
ing. "We were terrified when the
huge landbird charged the car,
which was traveling 40 miles an
hour, and battered the panel
ling," she said.
"He tried to smash the win
dows but only succeeded in dent
ing the fenders and roof. I was
forced to accelerate to 60 miles
i : hour to escape.
"The car looks as though it
had been in an accident and one
door was unopenable."
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Decision
that in signing that treaty, the
United Staves signed away some
of the constitutional rights of
any citizen who finds himself in
Girard's position.
Communists' Rights
However just that my be, it
is a fact that the Suprm Court
in the past fortnight hs been0
dealing in specttcult-r ttishion
with the matter of individual
rights under the Coniitution.
Specifically, these wre the civil
rights of U. S. citizens. By
chance, the citizens and there
were a number of them wer
Communists.
The Supreme Court reversed
the convictions of some who had
been charged as members of the
Communist conspiracy. It order
ed new trials for others. These
actions were of a pattern with
previous opinions in which Com
munists or their sympathizers
found safe harbor in the Con
stitution's Bill of Rights.
If the Supreme Court is un
able to find for a young AmeriQ
can GI as safe a Bill of Rights
harbor as it has found for mem
bers of the Communist conspir
acy, there is likely to be con
siderable popular uproar in tha
United States.
ances plan, established about 12
years ago, small regular monthly
payments are made to mothers
or guardians for each child un
der 16 years of age. The size of
the "allowance" varies with the
age of the child; the minimum is
S6, the maximum S8. Canadian
law requires that the money be
spent for "the health aijd wel
fare of the child.
The senator, -who introduced
a similar resolution in the 84th
Congree, said study by a Senate
committee would give "the peo
ple of the United States a sound
basis on which to determine how
and when they may wish to
adopt for themselves and their
children the benefits of family
allowances."
Representative Porter of Ore
gon's 4th District called family
allowances "an unusual program
to many," but observed, "so was
Social Security when it was first
proposed." Porter's resolution is
the first proposal dealing with
this subject to be introduced in
the House of Representatives.
Said Accepted
Pointing out that the success
ful Canadian program is accept
ed by 98 per cent of the poplua
tion, Porter said he felt that the
proposed study should be started
this year.
"W have found money to sub
sidize airlines, railroads and
firms foui,d to be producing
items essentil to the national
security," he said. "Surely we
can spend a little for our rrtbst
precious resource our chil
dren." is
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