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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 16, 1947 (Wednesday)
In observance of the first
flights here tomorrow of the
new West Coast Airlines, Inc.,
several southern. Oregon resi
dents are being taken on cour
tesy rides today.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The UN
will conduct a survey of the
needs of Europe. Fewer Rus
sians would be nice. "
20 YEARS AGO
July 16. 1937 (Friday)
Program for the CCC water
carnival to be staged tomorrow
at the Twin Plunges in Ashland
is announced by Capt. William
Ryan, district officer. " .
Rogue River Canning compa
ny completes its cherry packing
operation and starts on canning
beets.
30 YEARS AGO
July 16. 1927 (Saturday)
Medford Girl Scouts will hold
their first court of honor at the
Applegate Scout camp Saturday.
First peaches of the season
are on sale today at the public
market.
40 YEARS AGO
July 16. 1917 (Monday)
Temperatures of 107 Sunday
is hottest in Medford since 1911.
From Local and Personal
.column: Charles L. Witt re
places Lee M. Hall as clerk in
the Medford post office depart
ment.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight ta excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Did the Franco German
War terminate with the "Reign
of Tears" or "Reign of Terror"?
2. Name the capital of Brazil
3. Bible: "Thou shalt not be
afraid of the bugges at night.
Should "bugges" be replaced by
terror, dark, or insects?
4. Which State is nicknamed
"Granite State"?
S. Does the value of an old
coin depend upon its age?
6. How many members would
be in the U.S. Senate if Alaska
nd Hawaii became States?
7. Hydrophobia is a medical
term for rabbit fever, rabies, or
dropsy?
8. Earwigs are ornaments, In
sects, or a type of wig?
9. Is "you all", as used by
Southerners, grammatically cor
rect?
10. "Friends, I am with you
all and love you alt." Said An
thony in "Julius Caesar" by
whom?
Answers: I. Reign of Tears (or
Thiers. 1871). 2. Rio da Janeiro.
3. "terror". "Bugge" is incor
rect in the "Bug Version" (I SSI).
4. New Hampshire. S. No. (it
depends upon its rarity). 6. One
hundred. 7. Rabies. 8. Insects.
9. Yes. They use it in a plural
sense. 10. William Shakespeare.
Taylor Named President
Of Insurance Company
Salem 'IP Robert Taylor,
former state insurance commis
sioner, has been named presi
dent of the Mill Owners Mutual
Insurance Company of Des
Moines. Iowa.
He will assume his new du
ties August 1.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence . .
Denver, Colo., July 13i When we first visited Denver it was a
crude but bustling mining town. The big attractions were Cripple
Creek and Pikes Peak.
With our Uncle Hamilton as ?. guide we visited both, and car
ried home as mementoes a gold nugget (phony) and a rattlesnake
skin hatband with 8 rattles.
Gambling was wide open, and other diversions popular with
the rough and ready miners were conspicuously available.
Uncle Hamilton was a G.A.R. veteran, volunteered in Wiscon
sin in "61 and "fit and bled" for the Union cause for four years.
He was very proud of this naturally so and the undersigned
unlike Uncle Hamilton's two daughters and their children, was
fascinated by the old boy's war tales. We considered him far more
interesting than anything we found in Denver. Not that we did
not enjoy our visit we did but it was pretty rough and tough
for a callow youngster, nurtured on the pastoral and peaceful
banks of Rock River, Illinois, morever the place was alive with
victims of what was then called "consumption," who had come to
Colorado to recover their health, but the impression we got at the
time was few of them did.
e e a e
Uncle Hamilton the family name was Brown has long since
departed, and none of his descendants live here now. But we have
a few (by marriage) who do, and they certainly live in a very
different town and a highly modern and civilized environment,
with all vestiges of that frontier mining camp completely gone.
In fact the only community in our recent travels that even re
motely resembles in spirit and growth this Colorado metropolis is
New York City. Of course Denver is a village in comparison as
far as population goes the latest estimates fall short of a. mil
lion but we refer particularly to the noisy process of tearing
down the old and replacing it with the new certainly vastly big
ger if not vastly better as before remarked.
e
Skyscrapers are springing up all over the place, huge hotels
and business blocks in the down town area, apartment houses and
apartment hotels in the residential areas. Even the ancient and
honorable Brown Palace hotel is building a glass and stainless
steel "annex" across the street, which will be connected with the
original hostelry by a second story bridge. Did someone mention
shopping centers and "free-ways"? Both are thicker than fleas on
a Tobacco Road hound dog, especially the latter, which practically
encircle the city, and one can get everything from meat and gro
ceries, to dental care and the best legal advice. Again after a "look
see" motor trip the best word we can conjure up to describe the
situation as of today is fabulous.
The only modest structure pointed out to us was the unassum
ing dwelling where President Eisenhower spent the summer and
suffered his cardiac thrombosis, also where Mrs. Eisenhower, we
believe, was born, or if not spent her youthful days. The current
report is both President and Mrs. Eisenhower are partial to Den
ver as a summer White House spot but are following medical ad
vice and planning to sojourn this year where the elevation is less,
and they can enjoy salt sea air.
The present family connections have one thing in common with
Uncle Hamilton and his kin. Uncle H always deplored the fact he
had not staked out a Cripple Creek mining claim in the late '70s
when he arrived. The present membership as are so many oth
er post world war arrivals are deploring the fact they did not
buy a few surrounding farms when they arrived instead of putting
what surplus they had in stocks and bonds. They pointed out a
place not far from the golf club where "Ike" spent so much of his
time where a close friend of theirs bought a ten acre truck garden
for $10,000, made it into a show place residence and has been of
fered $800,000 cash for the lay-out.
But as the head of the family,
remarked, there is a fly in that
"I told her with the capital gains and income tax setup she just
couldn't afford to sell and she can t, unless she is content to live
much more modestly than she does NOW."
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Just a word about the rash
The down town business men don't seem to be alarmed by such
a development. One of the oldest and largest department stores
is building one of the largest and most modern department stores
in the country, and it is in the
business district. They can hardly
White
Is a lie always bad?
Parents usually tiy to
that it is and then find
little later on, when the
found to be used by the parents themselves.
All or almost all of
truth and honesty. And
and say "pleased to meet
care two whoops about; or
something we re convinced
e
"THE magazine Changing
truthfulness about our
Don't use the truth, it admonishes, when it would
injure someone else needlessly; don't worry about
the truth if the "truth" is merely a matter of your
opinion versus someone else s opinion ; and if a little
white lie would make someone happy and do no one
any harm, then go ahead
How about this? Is honesty ALWAYS the best
policy? Are we hypocritical if we preach unswerving
truthiulness and then, to avoid injuring someone, we
lie lie blatantly and with a straight face and with no
shame?
TT may be that the sad fact is the human race is not
yet ready for complete honesty. Perhaps, if human
frailty persists and we can as yet see no end to it
the time will never come when it is the safe and kind
thing to do to tell "the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth." '
We suspect we shall continue in our course, telling
fibs when it is the better part of valor or diplomacy.
And we cannot consider that it is dishonest to do so,
not when truth is observed in important things.
We recall wearing a bright and gaudy sport shirt
of which we were greatly enamored, some months
ago, and asking an acquaintance how he liked it.
"Wouldn t be caught dead m it, he replied.
See what we mean? E.A.
Tell Your Councilman
Not for months, if reaction is any indication, has
anything aroused public opinion as strongly as the
dispute over whether the city council-should or should
not rezone acreage for a shopping center to include
a Seal's, Roebuck store.
The reaction we have heard is preponderantly fa
vorable, and we have been asked repeatedly, "What
can we do?" The answer is simple: Call your council
man and tell him how you feel. And do it before the
matter comes up for decision
Tuesday, July 18, 1957
who is a lawyer and tax expert,
ointment too.
of shopping centers hereabouts
very center of the down town
be building to go BROKE.
R.W.R.
Lies
teach their young children
themselves, in difficulty a
"white" or "social" lie is
us preach the virtues of
then we turn right around
you" to someone we don't
say "isn't that nice !" about
is perfectly horrible.
e
Times calls for more
untruthfulness.
and tell it.
Thursday evening. E.A.
. . . AND TUAT& HOT ALL HBOIDH
Matter of
THE REAL DISARMAMENT
London The latest turn in
the interminable and confusing
disarmament conference finally
seems to have
revealed the
primary Soviet
objective. It
has not been
d i s armament
at all. It has
been "limiting
the nuclear
club," to use
the . conferees
Joseph Alsop cant phrase.
The "club" at present has two
full members, the powers pos
sessing a full panoply of nu
clear and thermonuclear weap
ons, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
It has one halfway member,
Great Britain. Halting further
nuclear and thermonuclear
weapons tests will close the club
books, to further members, since
no nation can hope to become a
serious member of this fearsome
club with exhaustive weapons
testing. Closing the club mem
bership books without further
delay is in fact the single point
on which an absolute identity of
interest now exists between the
United States and the Soviet
Union.
No doubt there are a good
many people in Washington, like
Admiral Lewis Strauss, who are
strangely blind to this identity
of American and Soviet inter
ests. Remember the kind things
the Eisenhower Administration
said about Adlai Stevenson when
he first made the suggestion that
bomb tests be suspended.
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TUT American nuclear weapons
development is still ahead
of Soviet weapons development.
So it is the ,Soviets who' will
lose, if either giant power loses,
by an immediate stoppage of
weapons testing. And .both the
U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and indeed
the world as a whole will gain
by the prevention of the night
mare situation which must oth
erwise arise. This is the situa
tion in which great numbers of
nations will possess the abso
lute weapons, and Swiss manu
facturers wiU be mass producing
model T style A and H bombs
for sale to the Eqyptians, Syri
ans and the like.
Undoubtedly the Soviets went
into the disarmament confer
ence with many other possible
objectives in mind. But judging
by Valerian Zorin's latest out
bursts, they started with the
thought that the talks had at
least one truly practical and at
tainable objective. They saw
the identity of U.S. and U.S.S.R.
interests which Admiral Strauss
and friends have so strangely
failed to see. They were un
doubtedly much influenced by
their fear of Germany as a nu
clear power. Therefore they
hoped to stop the weapons tests
and so to close the nuclear club.
But the Eisenhower Adminis
tration was afflicted by divided
councils. More important still,
the United States delegation in
London could not speak for all
the other western powers, as
Valerian Zorin can speak for all
the nations of the Soviet bloc.
In truth, there was Identity of
interest between the U.S. and
the U.S.S.R. but a sharp conflict
of interest between the U.S. and
the other western 'allies.
TPHIS conflict of
interest has
produced a good deal of be
hind the scenes drama. In the
British government, for in
stance. Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan and Foreign Minister
Selwyn Lloyd have held that
Britain would gain on balance
if the nuclear club were closed
now, despite the very . incom
plete stage of British weapons
development. But 'his decision
has been bitterly disputed by
Defense Minister Duncan San
dys.
Again, the French delegate,
Jules Moch, has consistently
taken the view that France
should agree to being excluded
from the nuclear club in return
for (but only in return for) a
solid agreement on general dis
armament. But the French gen
eral staff, certain French perma
ment officials and several lead
ing politicians, including Prime
Minister Bourges Manoury him-very
Fact by
Joseph Alsop
self, have the gravest doubts
about Moch's view.
About ten days ago, there
fore. Prime Minister Bourges
Manoury attempted to alter
Moch's previously agreed in
structions. Moch immediately
offered his resignation as French
delegate to the disarmament
meeting. The difficulty was not
overcome until Moch had made
an emergency trip to Paris and
returned with his original in
structions fully confirmed.
THUS, in effect, the views of
Admiral Strauss and his
friends in Washington played in
with the quite differently moti
vated views of America's Trans
atlantic allies. The result was
the final Stassen proposal. In
this proposal, halting nuclear
tests and so closing the club was
firmly linked with a broader
system of disarmament and a
very full and inclusive system of
inspection and control.
In the circumstances. Valer
ian Zorin's indignant, intran
sigent roars are altogether un
derstandable if the Kremlin's
true primary aim is considered.
But despite the check that has
been experienced in London, the
great common interest of the
U.S. and the U.S.S.R. still re
mains. The problem of prevent
ing the nightmare of general
atomic armament has nothing
really to do with the problem of
disarmament.
The problem of preventing
the nightmare can well be
solved independently, with only
two provisoes. Admiral Strauss
must somehow be cured of his
curious delusions of atomic
monopoly. And the American
administration must make the
rather modest transfers from our
vast stocks of nuclear weapons,
which will Dersuade our allies to
join in closing the atomic club's
membership lists.
Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc..
Editorial
Comment
IMPORTANT PARK
DEVELOPMENT
Announcement that the Hilton
DroDertv. once known as the
Dixie ranch, has been acquired
by the Josephine County Park
Commission and will be devel
oped as a river camping spot, is
weleome news for this area. The
property is on the north bank
of the Rogue, 7V4 miles from
downtown Grants Pass.
It will mean an attractive spot
where tourists may just rest and
relax for several days or even
several weeks, if they so desire
They will be able to fish, take
boat trips on the river, swim
at an excellent sandy beach, and
generally enjoy the "life of
Riley."
The 15-acre tract, which has
about three-fourths of a mile of
river frontage, will be engineer
ed and facilities will be installed
to accommodate over-night and
vacation trailers. This will pro
vide an answer to the question,
asked repeatedly at service sta
tions, motels and sporting goods
stores: "What can one do around
Grants Pass?" It also will mean
that many tourists, who for
merly sailed right through
Grants Pass en route to the Ore
gon coast or Cascade mountain
resorts, now will have an in
ducement to linger a while.
A great deal of the credit
for this important improvement
rests with two far-sighted local
agencies, the Josephine county
court and the county budget
committee. They made the de
velopment possible by including
$25,000 in the 1957-58 budget
for park purposes.
Nine other parks, of various
sizes in Josephine county, also
are scheduled for improvements
as a result of the budget appro
priation. One of these, Schroe
der park, also will be improved
for overnight camping by trailer
parties. Some others will be
continued merely as picnic and
recreation areas.
Now if the state highway com
mission parks department only
will give Josephine county
some consideration it has done
well with counties both
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Masonry and Wood
To the Editor: I was much in
terested in your editorial of July
7, "Wood Industry Changing"
and found myself in general
agreement with your analysis
with one exception.
You imply that masonry at
one time was a substitute for
wood for building purposes but
that now it is a "full fledged
competitor." I realize that this
is a "wood conscious" state, but
aren't you a little turned around
on that comparison?
Masonry is one of man's old
est building materials. If it ever
was a substitute for wood you'd
have to go back a long, long
time into history to find out
when. The ancients built their
homes and temples, the Great
Pyramids, the Chinese Wall and
many other of the world's won
ders of masonry. They used ma
sonry, because masonry endures
as no other building material
can endure. Remember the story
of the three little pigs?
More recently, new types of
masonry products, new and im
proved techniques of installa
tion and other factors have tend
ed to reduce the cost of masonry
to the point now reached where
masonry structures commer
cial or residential can be
erected at a per square foot cost
under that of its leading com
petitor, wood.
There always has been and
always will be a place in our
building industry for both wood
and masonry. Each has inherent
advantages and differences in
personal tastes will always mean
use of one or the other.
Your editorial correctly points
out that "there will always be
a need for lumber" and your
analysis that the lumber indus
try's most hopeful outlook lies
in the direction of greater wood
utilization certainly is sound.
Thanks for the opportunity of
sounding off on these few reflec
tions about masonry and wood.
Oregon is in a fortunate position
indeed to have great quantities
of both of these fine building
products, plus skilled workers
to manufacture and install them.
Paul Nutt,
Unit Masonry Association,
Portland, Ore.
The Old Prospector '
To the Editor: Around 35
years ago, we met up with one
of those pack animal prospec
tors you read about, or see their
caricature printed in lost mine
adventure tales of the old west.
This desert born prospector of
Arizona at 72 years of age made
a seven year long pack animal
trip through southwestern parts
of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah,
Nevada, landing in the Rogue
river valley. He was a robust
man of six feet with long brown
hair and keen blue eyes.
The most unfortunate obsta
cle was, he could neither read
nor write, but possessed a won
derful memory. He knew the
miner's rights and privileges of
each mineralized state and how
burros were confined as exclu
sive property with the state of
Nevada for prospectors use,
When he crossed the Oregon
state border he was obliged to
buy a range pack horse.
He admitted that he had never
become actually wealthy in all
his adult years of exploration
with pick, pan and shovel, al
though he had satisfied a won
dering curiosity he could not
have gained in a normal life
except by his travels and first
hand observation by personal
experiences.
We often marveled at his giant
physique and his uncanny intui
tion to guide him through the
uncharted wide open spaces that
lured him in search of the pre
cious pot of gold. We have long
forgotten his name, but at the
time he bid us adieu, he had
outlined his plans to prospect
his way back home to Arizona
through the Sierra Nevada range
of mountains of California.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford, Ore.
On Humane Bill
To the Editor- The Pnmmit.
tee on Agriculture of the House
of Representatives has given a
favorable report on a good hu
mane slaughter bill, HR 8308. It
is still much needed to get the
bill through the Rules Commit
tee to the floor and to a success
ful vote. Everyone can help by
writing Rep. Charles O. Porter
at House Office Building, Wash
ington, D.C. Ask him to support
the bill and to urge the Rules
Committee to bring it out
promptly. Time is short before
Congress adjourns.
Please help so that animals
will be protected against the j
terrible cruelty in slaughter
houses.
Terry Addison,
1840 Childers ave.,
Medford, Ore.
to the north and south of us
our park situation will be well
in hand. We really feel that this
county has been neglected by
the state, in the matter of parks.
Grants Pus Courier.
French Civil Rights
Battle Could Topple
Government Shortly
United Press Correspondent
France is engaged in a civil
rights battle which could cause
the fall of the cabinet this
week. Premier
Maurice Bour
ges - Maunoury
is trying to
get the Nation
al Assem b 1 y,
the controlling
house of par
liament, to
give his gov
ernment spe
cial powers to
Charles McCana
suppress terrorism by Algerian
nationalist rebels.
The trouble is that the special
powers would be operative not
only in Algeria but in France
itself, where 400,000 Algerians
live.
Members of parliament are
afraid that if a tough govern
ment got into office the special
powers might be used against
Frenchmen as well as Algerians.
Most Are Against
Nearly every party represent
ed in parliament is against the
special powers bill for that rea
son. A two-day debate on the
In the Day's News
By FRANK
This is written in San Fran
cisco. The editors are rolling in
from all over the country. It is
obvious that they have all read
the advice given to them by
us Westerners, for they are load
ed down with heavy clothes, furs
for the ladies and topcoats.
And
So far
There has been only a smidgin
of fog. And it was HIGH fog.
None of it down at street level.
None of it dragging on the house
tops at it moves in from the
ocean. Already the Easterners
are beginning to kid us about
our weather prognostications.
The weather is a fickle jade.
IT COULD be worse, though.
The high fog cooled it down
to at least an approximation of
San Francisco's normal summer
climate, and the visitors seem to
be enjoying it.
Anyway, this is a normal con
vention, with nobody getting out
of the hotel long enough to
know . whether the mercury is
high or low.
AS PREDICTED, the children
are getting a break. Families
with three or four of them are
reasonably numerous, and it
looks like nearly everybody has
one or two along. In a notice
able number of cases, the older
ones have brought their grand
children. V
Many have driven out, and the
1 ellowstone Park route has been
popular. Judging by the accounts
of the younger generation, the
Yellowstone bears put on a good
exhibition.
ATER in fact, three days
later. This gathering of the
editors of America has turned
out to be a busy one. There has
been so much to listen to that
not much time is left to write
about it.
rpHE annual meetings of the
- American Society of News
paper Editors have been held
for many years in Washington.
As has been mentioned hitherto
in these chronicles, the idea has
been growing up in the Society
that perhaps we have been per
mitting ourselves to become too
deeply enmeshed in the nation's
political life.
Manv of the mamharG nnv
been saying that we need to get
awav from the atmosnhere nf
the Potomac and just "talk
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measure opened today In the
National Assembly.- Bourges
Maunoury is expected to follow
up the debate by demanding
a vote of confidence on it. The
vote would be taken Friday. -
It is being predicted freely
that unless Bourges-Maunoury
agrees to amend the bill radi
cally, he will fail to win his
confidence vote. That would
mean he would have to resign.
Fear Terrorism
Behind the government's re
quest for special powers lies the
belief that the terrorism which
has kept Algeria in turmoil
since Nov. 1, 1954, is going to
be extended to France.
Police estimate that there are
2,000 active Algerian rebel
agents in France. They force
their fellow Algerian residents,
under threat of death, to con
tribute to rebel funds.
It is indicated that the police
have reason to believe that the
rebels may open a big campaign
of terrorism in France in an
attempt to force the government
to give Algeria independence.
There have teen many incidents
of terror so far. So far, how
ever, only Algerians have been
the victims.
JENKINS
shop" for a change. This session
in San Francisco is the result.
WHAT do professional editors
talk about when they talk
shop?
Well, in genral, they discuss
the techniques of bringing fac
tual information to the people.
How shall we GET THE FACTS,
uncolored by propaganda and
self interest? How shall we tell
the people exactly what is going
on, and what it means?
it sounds easy. But it isn't
as easy as it sounds. If you
doubt that, pick up the next
rumor you hear and try to run
it down to its source and find
out what really happened. You
vill get many different versions
before you finally arrive at the
truth of the matter.
rpRYING to get the TRUTH
about what is going on IN
1HE WORLD is an even more
difficult matter. But it is the
newspaper's job.
How to do the job as well as
it can be done is what editors
talk about when they get to
gether to talk shop.
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