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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
July 11. 1947 (Friday)
Medford Safety council out
lines plan for safety education
drive through motion pictures
for local civic groups.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Tracks of
a sinner have been found on the
Baptist church lawn. He better
not get caught.
20 YEARS AGO
July 11. 1937 (Sunday)
Local fruit grgwers are enthus
iastic over prospects of a na
tional pear week to be held an
nually throughout the country
beginning this fall.
American Legion committee
selects Frank Hull Jr.. 517 South
Ivy St.. Medford, t8 attend "Bev-
er Boys' State" at Benson park
near Multnomah falls.
30 YEARS AGO
July 11. 1927 (Monday)
Ray Evanson resigns as chief
ranger of Crater Lake National
park.
Raymond R. Reter assumes
management of Pinnacle Pack
ing company, in Parsons ware
house, 12th and Fir sts.
40 YEARS AGO
July 11. 1917 (Wednesday)
New school board ousts H. S
Stine as school board clerk after
he had been reelected, contrary
to precedent.
Members of the Belgian com
mission to the United States pass
through Medford on train early
In morning without stopping.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten rorrpct Is superior;
htmi or Hchf ts excellent: five or
six It cood
1. 1804: Sunday school or
school) in America were estab
lished about this time: Were
they established only in N.C.
and S.C. or throughout the coun
try?
2. erabaja is on the island
of ?
3. Bible: Do the horns re
ferred to in the book of Daniel
have an historical significance
for the future?
4. Which German commander
in World War II was nicknamed
"Desert Fox?"
5. In which State are the
Carlsbad Caverns?
6. The claymore was a wea
pon used where?
7. What is ethnology?
8. In which of Charles Dick
ens' novels is the heroine called
"Little Nell?"
9. Is "conclusion" a synonym
oh "end," a termination of
anything which occupies space?
10. "Trooly it is with us as
it was with Mr. and Mrs. Igno
mer in the play, to whit 2 soles
with but a single thawt 2
harts which beet as 1." A
Ward: What is his subject?
Answers: 1. Throughout the
country. 2. Java. 3. Yes. 4. Mar
thai Erwin Rommel. 5. New
Mexico. 6. In the Scottish high
lands, (a sword). 7. Science of
the races of man. 8. "Old Cur
iosity shop." 9. No. 10. Love.
'Diablo' Atomic Blast
Delayed Until Friday
Las Vegas. Nev. W The
Atomic Energy Commission an
nounced last night that its "Di
ablo" blast in the summer test
series has been rescheduled for
Friday at 4:30 a.m. p.d.t.
The AEC earlier in the week
moved up the test from Friday
to today. The AEC said a dry
instrumentation run indicated
the experiment was still not
ready.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Two Decisions
Two decisions, both
growth of Medford over
to be made by the city
One is on the approval of a 550,000 fund in the
new budget for a beginning on a municipal off-street
parking plan. This decision
mng following the public
The other is on the question of rezoning a large
area north of Jackson street to limited commercial
to permit the construction
center. This will come up
We believe both of
proposals should be approved..
OFF-STREET parking has been tossed back and
f Vi oneoflrl firirl A icniiocorl A oV i n A Vvovq tori
for years now. Voters last
which many of them felt
property taxes. It has also
town merchants, who presumably stand to benefit
most by the off-street parking, should carry a sub
stantial part of the cost.
The city, budget committee, which includes the
council, has riven a ereat deal of thouerht to this
y z - ii
problem this year, and has come up with a plan which,
with a few minor revisions, seems to be a sound one.
It proposes to channel a substantial amount of
revenue from parking meters into obtaining off-street
parking. Since the original intent of parking meters
was to provide more parking area, this is Doth just
and logical.
B'
UT then it had to face
problem of where to
provide other city services
been paid for by parking
Their solution to this is
outmoded business license fee, which has long been
known to be inequitable and of questionable legality.
As a matter of fact, merchants themselves have sug
gested that the license fee
But the objection to that has been that outlying
businesses, like nursing homes, neighborhood gro
ceries, and so on, would not benefit to the same extent
as downtown businesses
therefore, why should they too pay a comparably-m
creased license fee. It's a good question.
Perhaps the solution can be some sort of per-
centage differential in the amount, based on proximity
to the downtown area where the off-street parking
facilities are most needed
e
"I17E hope the council can cut its way through these
. objections and complications, and come up with
a plan which will permit
needed parking, and soon,
working any undue hardship on outlying businesses,
For parking is needed. In city after city, through
out the nation, it has come
of the major municipal problems.
In a report to the council last week, a planning
consultant firm said: Lack of adequate off-street
parking in downtown Medford is one of the city's
critical deficiencies and should be remedied as quick
ly as possible.
TPHE shopping center which is planned to include
a Sears, Roebuck and Company store, a Safeway
store, and a few others has been criticized as some
thing which would "further divide the city," which
would detract from the downtown area even more
than the lack of parking, and which would provide
disastrous competition for
There are points to each
we think the cntics are
picture.
Medford is going to-grow
from that fact. And in the
be enough business for all well-operated firms.
(One owner of substantial downtown holdings,
asked whether the shopping center would hurt him,
replied, "Only if I let it." He felt the general stimulus
to business would do more for him than any competi
tion would hurt him. )
CINCE before 1947, Sears has had plans to move
into the Rogue valley, and it now has decided that
the time is ripe. It is prepared to invest something
like two-thirds of a million dollars to do so. And if it
cannot have the inside-Medford location it wants,
it is more than apt to go outside the city.
If that happened, Medford REALLY would be
hurt. It would lose the taxes Sears would pay inside
the city; it would have to compete with an attractive
shopping center at a distance rather than near the
down-town area ; it would lose substantial payrolls
and other benefits to another second-choice location.
Many potential customers would be deprived of a
close-in. convenience.
Opposing it on this basis is sort of like spitting
into the wind. It may be fun to do at the time, but
the results are messy.
TXT'OULD the shopping center "split the town"
"destroy Hawthorne park"? We don't think so
destroy Hawthorne park"? We don't think so
certainly not as much as would a four-lane elevated
freeway smack through the town and the park.
The center is only four blocks away from the
center of the downtown area, and thus will serve as
much to attract people to the general downtown area
as it would to pull them away from it.
As to expansion of Hawthorne park northward,
many people believe it is now at its optimum size,
and that rather than expand it, the logical step now
is to establish more neighborhood parks, more readily
available to people of outlying areas.
The shopping center would be an asset to the
town. The off-street parking proposal is a necessity.
Both should be given speedy
Thursday. July 11. 1957
of which will affect the
the coming years, will have
council in the near future
will be made r nday eve
heanng on the budget.
of a large new shopping
the following week.
these separate but related
fall turned down one plan
to be a threat of higher
been felt that the "down
up to the intensely practical
obtain additional funds to
which in the past have
meter revenues.
a revision of the present
schedule be revised.
from off-street parking;
and will be constructed
the city to have vitally-
without at the same time
to be' recognized as one
established merchants.
of these arguments, but
failing to take in the full
there's no getting away
long run, there s going to
or
approval. E.A. t.
lLSJF H0?.E 7HE MlTCHmS UMB A GOOD TIME AT
THE BEACH. AUygg THEVlL 40VS THERE"
Matter of Fact
TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL
Washington W i 1 1 Khrush
chev kill Malenkov?
In the week that has passed
since the first
r u mblings of
the great pol
itical earth
qua ke in the
Soviet Union,
this has em
erged as the
key question
in t h e Soviet
fcJ crisis. In that
stewair Aisop week, the gov
ernment's large corps of Soviet
specialists and intelligence anal
ysts have pieced together every
scrap of available information.
They have consulted unfortun
ately, at long distance the twin
oracles on the Soviet Union, for
mer ambassadors George Ken-
nan and Charles Bohlen. And
they have generally agreed on
three points, which together
underline the significance of the
question posed above.
Point one is that what has
happened came as a genuine
surprise to Nikita S. Khrush
chev. It was natural to suspect,
of course, that Malenkov, Kag
anovitch, Molotov and company
were ousted as the result of an
elaborately rigged plot, in the
Stalinist manner, but all the
evidence points in precisely the
opposite direction.
TJOHLEN repeatedly reported
-- from Moscow that the "col
lective system" was real, in that
the issues were heatedly debated
in the Kremlin, and decided by
majority vote. The Khrushchev,
taction maintained the upper
hand simply becaue Khrushchev
commanded a majority.
That was the situation when
Khrushchev and his henchman
Bulganin left for their state
visit to Finland on June 7th
a risk they certainly would not
have taken if they had been plot
ting the destruction of half of the
most powerful men in the Soviet
union, uut wnen they returned
from Finland, they found a maj
ority prepared to vote them
down, thus endangering their
positions and perhaps their skins.
A bitter, two-week struggle
ensued in the central committee
further evidence that what
happended had not been antic
ipated by Khrushchev. Kennan
and most of the newer crop of
Soviet experts believe that the
struggle centered around Khru
shchev's plan for re-organizing
industry, which has alienated
most of the vast Soviet bureauc
racy. In any case, Khrushchev
did not pur posely invite the
struggle it was forced upon
him.
e
POINT two, on which there is
absolutedy unanimous ag
reement, shared by Kennan and
Eohlen, is that Khrushchev won
the struggle in the end thanks
only to the active support of
Marshal Georgi Zhukov and the
Red Army officer caste which
he represents.
Point three is that, in the un
expected situation in which he
finds himself, Khrushchev must
rather quickly decide whether
to adopt a policy of ruthlessness
or a policy of appeasement, both
of which involve real dangers
The struggle which was forced
upon him revealed the depth of
the opposition to his policies. In
winning the s t r uggle, he has
made bitjer enemies, not only
among those directly affected.
Should he try to appease them
by consessions and a mild policy?
Or should he crush the opposi
tion, by the traditional Soviet
methods of blood and terror.
beginning with the execution of
Malenkov?
Since the first day of the crisis.
Kennan is known to have main
tained that Malenkov is the key
figure in the opposition to Khru
shchev. The Stalinists, Molotov
and Kaganovitch, are old and
hated, and never represented a
real threat to Khrushchev's
power.
e e e
TUT Malenkov, as the first
O man to break away from the
Stalinist policy of total repres
sion, has had a real following
among the disgruntled bureauc
rats, and the students and in
tellectuals as well. Therefore
ma -
By Stewart Alsop
Khrushchev, in the Kennan in
terpretation, used the old Stalin
ist trick of guilt by association,
and lumped Malenkov in with
the real Stalinists, Molotov and
Kaganovitch. But the trick will
hardly fool many people, and
Khrushchev's charge that Mal
enkov was implicated in the
1949 "Leningrad plot" suggests
that he has concluded that harsh
er methods are called for.
Yet killing Malenkov involves
grave risks for Khrushchev. Un
like the execution of the hated
Beria, the killing of Malenkov
with his large following, could
not safely end with the death of
Malenkov and a few others. The
job would have to be thoroughly
done, in a major blood bath
major purge would mean re
establishing the power of the
secret police, loathed with good
reason by Zhukov and the Army,
and might thus bringk Khrush
chev into direct conflict with
the man on whose support he
counts most heavily. It would
also, of course, rock the whole
structure of Soviet society.
Yet as long as Malenkov re
mains alive, he will remain the
-symbol and center of the op
position to Khrushchev, which
Khrushchev now knows must be
deep and wide. Thus Khrush
chev's triumph, though triumph
it certainly has been, is not
necessarily final. He is faced
with a situation which he did not
expect or invite, in which both
the courses open to him to kill
or not to kill involve terrible
risks.
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Why Branch Closed
To the Editor: It is with deep
concern that we are writing you
about our southern Oregon
branch office in Medford. This
was established four and a half
years ago with every expecta
tion that it would be perman
ent. We did not foresee the rap
idly rising cost of caring for
children and we did not realize
that our income would fail to
keep pace with the need. As
a - result,, we could not secure
the funds to employ the staff
needed in our branch office, and
in fact, have been operating at
a substantial deficit.
Mr. Hatch, our branch office
supervisor, has been our only
representative there for more
than three years, and single-
handed he has accomplished a
great deal throughout the re
gion. Now that personal reasons
make it necessary for him to
leave that part of the state, we
are reluctantly forced to recog
nize that our southern Oregon
branch office will have to be
discontinued until such time as
our financial situation improves.
We hope jnd believe that this
Society will be able to reestab-
liEh branch offices so that need
ed child care can -be provided
locally within each region. Until
this is ' possible, we shall con
tinue to care for children from
southern Oregon and from every
other section of the state through
our state headquarters. Our ma
ternity service will, of course,
remain open to unmarried mo
thers from every county, chil
dren available for adoption will
be placed with families from
every area, and field visits will
still be made as needed. The
economy of central operation
will mean that more children
can be helped than would other
wise be possible.
We shall continue to plan and
work with all interested persons
toward making our program
most helpful in each locality. It
is equally important that our
policies reflect the best think
ing of those familiar with the
needs of children in their own
region. We shall welcome any
suggestions you wish to make
regarding our branch office or
any part of our program. The
active participation and support
Zhukov Appears To Have Moved
In Beside Khrushchev as No. 2
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondents
Soviet Russia appears to have
acquired a new chief co-equal
in its collective leadership.
Nikita S.
Khrush c h e v
has been re
cognized as the
the chief co
equal since
Georgi M. Ma
lenkov was
ousted as pre
mier in 1955.
N o w M a r-
Tharles MeCano snai Ueorgt fi..
Zhukov seems to have moved
in beside Khrushchev as chief
co-equal No. 2.
That implies that until there
is another blow-up in Sovet
leadership, Khrushchev and
Zhukov will direct policy in
both domestic and foreign af
fairs. There are 13 other co-equals
in the enlarged ruling Presidium
of the Russian Communist Party.
Both Khushchev and Zhukov
will be top men. .
Controls Political Machine
Khrushchev's strength lies in
the fact that as chief secretary
of the Communist Party he con
trols the party political machine.
Zhukov's strength lies in the
fact that as defense minister and
Russia's outstanding soldier he
Editorial ,
Comment
UNIQUE NAME.
UNIQUE VENTURE
The Portland Kiwanis Club
has organized a unique program
called "Operation Twenty for
One," designed to encourage
each tourist to stay in the state
one extra day and thus bring in
added annual revenue estimated
at $20 million.
The goal is worthwhile and
we hope the execution of the
plan proceeds. In round figures,
nearly 3,500,000 o u t-of-state
visitors last year spent an aver
age of six days and $40 each in
Oregon for a total $141,000,000.
That was at the rate of around
$6.50 a day, and if each of
3,500,000 spent an extra day the
$20,000,000 additional revenue
would be more than realized.
When it is considered the tour
ist business is third in the state,
after lumbering and agriculture,
its importance to the over-all
economy is self-evident. Gaso
line taxes alone from tourists in
1956 brought the state more than
$2Vi million.
How to get the tourist to stay
that extra day? Sponsors of the
plan say: "That's a simple mat
ter of acquainting him with
more places to see and enjoy.'!
It's also a matter of enlisting his
friendship by courtesy and tact
and by a spic and span appear
ance of the communities he
visits. We can all help. Oregon
statesman, Salem.
of members and friends have
played a basic role in the Soc
iety's outstanding record during
its 72 years of service to chil
dren. Your interest will be
equally important in years
ahead.
Seymour L. Coblens,
President,
The Boys and Girls Aid
Society of Oregon,
2301 W. W. Glisan St.,
Portland 10, Ore.
Copies of Dulles Speech
Dropped Over Red China
Taipeh, Formosa (IP1 The
Nationalist Chinese air force
said today that its planes drop
ped a million copies of a John
Foster Dulles speech over the
Communist Chinese mainland
Tuesday night.
The speech was the one deliv
ered by the secretary of state rt
San Francisco June 28 reaffirm
ing the U.S. stand against recog
nition of the Communist Peiping
regime. .
"The skill of the funeral director in clothing death in the appearance
of life softens bereavement. The funeral director has become indis
pensable to society, and to many of us a very dear friend."
(Quoted from an article by the Rev. Joseph E. McCabe
in the June 8th issue of "Presbyterian Life")
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrasi
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
controls the army.
It has become clear that
Georgi M. Malenkov, Vyache
slav M. Molotov and Lazar M.
Kaganovich nearly succeeded in
outing Khrushchev at a meeting
of the presidium last month.
They had the support of two
other members.. It is reported
that Premier "Nikolai A. Bulgan
it was wavering between the
Malenkov faction and the Khru
shchev faction. Had he gone with
Malenkov, the anti-Khrushchev
men would have had six of the
votes in what was then an 11-
man presidium.
' Khrushchev saved himself
partly because, as first secretary,
he was able to force a meeting
of the full 125-man central com
mittee of the Communist Party.
Khrushchev had a big majority
in that.
But it is being said, apparent
ly correctly, that Zhukov played
the decisive part. He is reported
to have come out fully in sup
port of Khushchev in the presid
ium, and to have emphasized
that the army was with him.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In this space the other day,
F.ed Bluff was mentioned as the
head of navigation on the Sacra
mento in the early gold mining
days. Supplies were taken up the
river by boat, unloaded there and
taken on to their destination by
pack mule trains.
It was a slow method of trans
portation, and the miners were
in - hurry. They wanted to get
the gold out of the bars and the
riffles before somebody else got
it. So a fabulous scheme was
conceived.
Why not divert the waters of
the Klamath river down through
the lava beds and dump them
into the Pit and thus carry
them down to the Sacramento?
This added volume of water, it
was argued, would raise the Sac
ramento enough to permit boats
to reach as far up as Redding,
thus saving 30-odd miles of
pack mule haul.
rYTHERE was another string to
the bow.
It was reasoned that this di
version wpuld dry up the Klam
ath during the summer months,
thus making the gold in its bed
easily available.
Thus two birds could be killed
with one stone. It was a fascinat
ing idea, and it got into the first
session of the California legis
lature. There, however, it got
lost. It appears from the records
of the period that there was no
opposition to the project, but
this first session was a busy one
and somewhere along the line
the Klamath diversion was for
gotten WHAT if it hadn't got lost?
Suppose it had gone
through?
Suppose the water of the
Klamath had been diverted to the
Pit and thence down to the Sac
ramento? In that event, a con
siderable area of Southern Ore
gon and a much more consider
able area of Far Northern Calif
ornia would have been bereft
of their water without which
today their future would be
dark indeed.
rpHERE'S a moral to this story.
After long years of battling
including the revival a dozen
years ago of this century-old
proposl to divert the water of
the Klamath down through the
lava beds to the Pit and thence
into the Sacramento above Shas
ta dam it appears likely that
the water of the Klamath has
been saved for use in its own
watershed.
But
The hottest issue in California
right now is diversion of the
water of the counties of origin
for use in the counties of defici
ency. If that should come about,
Regarded As Conservative
Zhukov is regarded as a con
servative man, who as a soldier
knows fully the catastrophe Rus
sia would face in event of a third
world war and who is inclined
to be as friendly with the West
ern countries as a dedicated
Communist can be.
Zhukov and President Eisen
hower became good friends
when, as supreme commanders
of the Russian and Allied
armies, they were in Berlin to
gether after the end cf World
War II. They even entered into
a brief correspondence later. It
was suggested . that Zhukov
might play a big part in easing
East-West tension.
Only time will tell whether'
Zhukov will work for better re
lations with the United States
and its allies. Time will tell also
how well Zhukov and Khru
shchev can get along together,
and whether it might occur to
Zhukov that he would like to be
the sole No. 1 co-equal and thus
get into a battle with Khru
shchev for leadership.
JENKINS
without adequate protection for
the counties of origin over the
long years of the future, "the re
sult could be disastrous for these
California counties where the
water originates.
LET'S
to
S go back for a moment
1852, when diversion of
the water of the Klamath down
through the lava beds and
thence into the Pit and on into
the Sacramento was first pro
posed. It was then assumed that
water was more or less of a nui
sance. Among other things, it
made recovery of the gold in
the river bed more difficult.
But now
Well, NOW it's different.
Water is our most precious re
source. Without it, our other re
sources would be practically
valueless. Consider, for example,
the pulp and paper industry,
which promises to revolutionize
put timber economy.
Without adequate water,
THERE COULD -BE NO PULP
AND PAPER INDUSTRY.
rpHIS fact is plain:
-- Far Northern California
must battle to the last ditch to
make sure that in any reshuffle
of the state's water the counties
of origin the counties where
the water falls are not left
high and dry.
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