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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 19. 1947 (Sunday)
Southern Pacific railway
orders embargo on shipments of
livestock or perishable freight
effective tomorrow.
From Arthur Perry's column
Ye Smudge Pot: Fewer "Flying
Saucers" are sighted locally
than fish caught last week.
20 YEARS AGO
July 19, 1937 (Monday)
Fire guts warehouse of the
Rogue River Valley Canning
company.
Postmaster Frank DeSouza re
ceives request to help procure
three white guinea fowl.
30 YEARS AGO
July 19. 1927 (Tuesday)
Rattlesnakes are reported
plentiful in the rural districts
now; one killed on the Rogue
measured five feet.
Bad teeth and rickets found
more prevalent in towns than in
county areas, county health of
ficer reports.
40 YEARS AGO
July 19. 1917 (Thursday)
Local citizen arrested by po
lice cheif for permitting water
to run through an open hose at
his home.
Medford couple and guests
stopped by armed citizen guards
near Klamath Falls as IWW
troubles reach their peak there.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or elcht is excellent: five or
six Is good
1. Lenten Fridays Dedica
tions: To spear and nails', five
wounds; precious blood; seven
dolours; Good Friday. Name the
missing dedication.
2. Ceramics is the art of mak
ing pottery, rugs, or watches?
3. Bible: The modern commu
nity of Konia was the 1 m of
Paul's missionary activity?
4. What is John L. Lewis' mid
dle name?
5. If 32 degrees Fahrenheit is
the freezing point of water, what
is the melting point of ice?
6. Is nicotinic acid classified
as a poison, a stain remover, or
a vitamin?
7. Sir Water Raleigh, Christo
pher Columbus, or Captain John
Smith is reputed to have been
the first European to see to
bacco? 8. Berne is the capital of
which European country?
9. Is it correct to use the term
"movies" in a formal sense?
10. "This lass so neat, with
smile so sweet, Has won my
right good will, I'd crowns re
sign to call her mine, This lass
of Richmond Hill." Is Rich
mond Hill in Virginia or Geor
gia? Amwerf: 1. Holy winding
sheet (the 2nd Friday): 2. Pot
tery; 3. Iconium; 4. Llewellyn;
5. 32 degrees Fahrenheit; 6. Vi
tamin: 7. Christopher Columbus;
8. Switzerland: 9. No. Moving
pictures; 10. No. London, Eng
land. U.S. Turns Base Over
To German Luftwaffe
Freising, Germany OP
The U.S. Air Force has turned
over its first base to the grow
ing new German Luftwaffe, it
was announced today.
The change took place at
Freising Air Base Thursday.
Former Air Force non-commissioned
officer academy and
radar training school the base
occupies 43 acres and has 39
buildings.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Counties
The chamber of commerce of Sandy, Oregon, a
community in Clackamas county, has endorsed a pro
posal (whether it's serious or jocular we can't judge
at this distance) to "secede" and form Oregon's 37th
county.
A spokesman wa3 quoted in the Oregon City
Enterprise-Courier as saying, "The people in this out
lying district of Clackamas county are fed up with
being the county's step-children. We've been treated
like the 'country cousins' of the city folk who come
out for a good meal whenever they please, politically
speaking."
"THE PLAN would take the southeastern portion of
Multnomah county, western portions of Wasco
and Hood River counties, and the eastern portion of
Clackamas county, and form them into a new unit.
It would take legislative action to accomplish this,
for the counties are the creations of the state. ,
Whether serious or not, the movement tends to
point out what we have maintained for years: that
the present form of county government is not as re
sponsive as it should be to the needs of the people.
In Clackamas, it is the rural areas which are criti
cal. In Jackson county, it seems to be the other way
around, for more and more city folk are complaining
that the county government and its officials "have
forgotten that Medford and Ashland are part of the
county too."
A FTER all, about three-eighths of the county's as
" sessed valuation lies in its incorporated commu
nities, and over a quarter of it is in Medford alone.
Yet, the complainants declare, the county hab
itually ignores the cities, and concentrates most of its
activities in the rural areas.
This is the general charge. One of the specific
ones is that the county's road funds are spent outside
the cities, despite the fact that a considerable per
centage of the tax base is in the cities. In at least one
instance along Stewart avenue the county has in
the past even refused to cooperate with the city in
eradicating the dangers created by the big irrigation
ditch alongside the road, which is half in the city and
half outside.
THIS type of criticism leads one to think that the
organizational setup of the county might well be
revised.
It is true, of course, that even the worst kind of
government can be effective if it is run by good men,
and the best kind can be ineffective if ran by poor
men.
But, as has been shown by the success of the city
manager plan, a better organization, has a better
chance of being effective, everything else being equal.
The recent legislature recognized that the time
is coming when county governments will need an
overhaul and modernization. It passed a bill which
will be on the general election ballot next fall calling
for a greater degree of home rule for counties. If it
is approved by the people, counties themselves can
then determine, within limits, how they wish to be
operated.
OUNTY manager plans have been turned down on
several occasions in both Clackamas and Lane
counties. Whether this resistance to change was
caused by lack of understanding, or because the plans
presented had defects, we don't know.
We do not advocate change simply for change's
sake. However, if a well-thought-out plan for a county
managership were to be presented here in the future,
we would support it, for it is our conviction that the
division of authority, the inadequate representation,
and the multiplicity of duties represented in the pres
ent system no longer are conducive to good, efficient
and responsive county government.
We would like to see a board of at least five com
missioners, elected from definite districts of the coun
ty and serving without pay, become the governing
body, with a paid employee serving . as executive
officer or manager.
This most certainly would not solve all the prob
lems facing the people of the county. But it would be
a long step in the right direction. E.A.
Safety
Once in a while, one wall make the startling dis
covery that something with which we are intimately
familiar has an interesting stoiy to it.
Such is the case with the safety pin. The familiar
little gadget which is so important in the lives of
women, babies and seamstresses was first invented
something like 9,000 years ago, and was known to
the primitive lake dwellers in Switzerland.
Throughout the ancient world it was used, fre
quently as a decorative item of apparel, as in a brooch
or figured pin. In Rome, it was widely used to fasten
the togas of the day.
COMEHOW, however, during the Middle, or Dark
Ages, safety pins vanished from the scene. Why
this happened is unclear, and so is the reason that for
about 1,400 years nobody thought to revive the safety
pin and its many obvious advantages over the straight
pin.
It was only 111 years ago, in 1846, that an Ameri
can inventor recreated the safety pin, and then sold
his rights in it for $400 rights which would have
made him a wealthy man if he'd held on to them. It
was patented a few years later.
The source of this information, an article in a
company magazine, doesn't give the answer to the
question we found uppermost in our mind. ;
What held babies' diapers together during those
1,400 years that the safety pin wasn't around? E.A.
Friday. July 19. 1957
Pins
Aty dad's got a bigger mm than your dad;
Canadian 'Bargains'
Discussed
By ROGER W. BABSON
Toronto, Canada I am get
ting so many inquiries regarding
cheap stocks listed on the Tor
onto Stock Exchange that I have
come up to
Toronto to
make some in
quiries. There
cert ainly is
great interest
in these cheap
stocks. So
much money
is being sent
to Canada by
Koeer w Bahsun American in
vestors that the Canadian dollar
is now worth a premium of 5
per cent over the American dol
lar.
The safest is probably an in
vestment in the producing oils
which are more or less controll
ed by the larger American com
panies. These are selling on a
fair basis and should have even
greater growth; but they should
be bought for income rather
than for speculation. There is
no question but that there is a
lot of oil in Western Canada; but
most wells are waiting for trans
portation to good markets. To
build pipe lines takes time and
money. The wells will not be
allowed to produce much until
these pipe lines have been con
structed. There are also large
fields of natural gas; but these
also are awaiting pipe lines. Oil
can be put in barrels and trans
ported by truck; but natural gas
is absolutely dependent on pipe
lines or else upon very expen
sive compression.
The most popular investments
are in metal-mining companies,
including gold, copper, zinc,
lead, uranium, and even the
rare metals. Most of these stocks
do not now represent producing
properties, although some of the
non-producers are building mills
or refineries. There are probab
ly many that are now selling for
less tnan a dollar a share which
will some day sell for many
times this. But only experts can
pick them and this time. For the
ordinary investor to buy them
at random is a good deal like
betting on a horse race. Some
horses will surely win; but
which one is another matter.
Price and Reserves
Even if mining stock is sell
ing cheap, that is, below a dol
lar per share, yet one should
first find out how many shares
are outstanding. ' The brokers
here tell me that most of the
buyers look only at the prices
and do not consider the number
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Disillusionment
To the Editor: Many of us are
slow to be attracted, much less
to be entranced, by the portraits
painted in glowing colors, and
the positive words used to per
suade us.
It may be that the brain-washing
we are all and sundry sub
jected to by the painter and talk
er hasn't taken effect as yet! It
may be we were born a few
years too soon, and born again
a happy memory a few years
ton soon, and reared in an atmos
phere too freighted with truth
and freedom, and that we have
b?en taught those ever-enduring
words of the Prince of Peace,
'Ye shall know the truth and
the truth shall make you free!"
This was newly impressed
upon us by a visit to friends re
turned from a winter's trip to
the Southeast. By the way, these
friends of ours are abstemious,
and abstainers from the products
so highly recommended as com
ing from "subterranean wells"
and from others that "leave you
breathless," and are "used by
men of distinction."
Our friends had rented their
country home to a man and fam
ily whom they supposed depend
able, but who proved to be a
'man of distinction," whose
brain had apparently been wash
ed of "old prudish notions" that
by Babson
of shares outstanding. Of course.
the number of shares should be
multiplied by the price to see
what the mine or the prospect
is selling for. Certain stocks
which now pay no dividends
are probably the best buys
The most important thing for
the investor to know is the
amount of real ore reserves,
whether iron, copper, lead, zinc,
uranium, nickel, or whatever
the metal may be. These ore re
serves can be determined pretty
well by diamond drilling. An
honest broker will tell you ap
proximately the amount of the
reserves. In addition to know
ing the quantity of the reserves.
one should know the percentage
of ore to a ton of earth. With
this information the investor can
divide the price at which the
mine is selling by the reserves
and secure a rough estimate of
the price that he is paying per
ton for the ore.
Other ' Factors
There are other factors to con
sider, such as distance from a
railroad, a navigable river, or
even highways. Before a metal
can be marketed, "the ore must
be brought to the surface and
refined and the metal transpor
ted to market. Each step is ex
pensive, but very important.
Then, of course, the amount of
"overburden" is important; that
is, how much earth must be re
moved before the ore can be
taken out. The diamond drilling
will give the figures on this.
The main thing to keep in mind
is: Buy reserves of ore and study
the price you are paying for
these reserves. Forget the stock
market and imagine that you
are merely a metal merchant
buying copper or one of the oth
er metals. For instance, if you
are studying a coal company, in
stead of figuring too much on
the price of "the stock, figure
how much you are paying for a
ton of coal.
Investors who take the troub
le to get this information should
really be able to make a lot of
money. Sometime in; the next
30 years most metals will be
selling at several times their
present prices. There are only so
many tons underground of ev
ery metal, and the amount is
being reduced every day. I real
ly believe that $12,000 invested
properly in Canadian Oils and
Metals, will, at some period dur
ing the next 30 years, be worth
a million dollars! Such an in
vestment, however, requires
much care in the selection and
supervision of the companies.
"virtue is its own reward," "hon
esty is the best policy," and "do
as you would be done by."
The finding of a bottle cap at
our friend's home which had
crowned a bottle which had con
tained the magic water, we said
jocularly, "This at the home of
our friends?" Then they told us
of the antics of the "man of
distinction," the departed rent
er. Whiskey and beer bottles,
caps and covers littered the plan
tation. He left these. He also left
bursted water-pipes and the
bursted electric pump. He took
his family and goods, and part
of our neighbor's goods and de
parted. The destroyed and stolen
goods put our neighbors in the
red to the tune of over two one
hundred dollar bills! We had
heard that alcohol is a remover,
Don't Say
"Hello"
Say
"FILTER-FLO"
now we know sympathetically
with our neighbors that it is so!
We are also convinced of an
other melancholy fact, namely,
that the brain - washing tech
nique works too well on some
folks. Our friends' renter is
gone, so are their goods, and so
is over $200 in hard-earned
cash. Was it "the water?" Was it
the liquid that "leaves you
breathless?" Was he a "man of
distinction?"
Mrs. and H. R. Bulman,
Route 1, Box 316A,
Medford, Ore.
Wants Opinions
To the Editor: The following
letter was addressed to the
Grants Pass Courier and was
published in that paper. I would
appreciate it if you would pub
lish it for the information of
Medford members of the union.
Walter H. Prince Jr.,
512 N.W. Savage St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
To the Editor: In reading the
Letters to the Editor and the
editorial of June 29 entitled,
Help May Be Necessary," as a
member of Local 962 Grants
Pass, I agree with the editor,
"Help Is Necessary."
Brothers and Sisters of Local
982, are we going to just keep
quiet and allow the present of
ficers to remain in our local here
in Grants Pass, Medford and
Hoseburg, and have the public
getting down on the Teamsters,
Grocery clerks and service sta
tion employes? Or are you going
to help and try to get an election
of officers in our local that the
majority of our local members
would like to have as our lead
ers? I feel that the election held
last December was not legal, ac
cording to our International con
stitution, and it seems from the
paper reports from Southern
California at the Western Con
ference of Teamsters, that Mr.
Beck is trying to keep his men in
office, at least for a while.
I think that the Brothers and
Sisters could help put these men
out of office and elect our own
"officers and have a Brotherhood
of Teamsters nationwide, not
separated as it is now.
I hope the president of our
International Union in Washing
ton, George Meany, and the Con
gress of the United States can
find a way to correct the mis
takes that have been made.
I hope to see other letters to
the editor in the near future
from Brother Teamsters of Local
962 to hear their opinions on the
subject.
A Truck Driver,
W. H. (Walt) Prince.
Democracy in Action?
To the Editor: Last Friday
night at. the Medford city coun
cil meeting we saw what is com
monly termed "democracy in
action". If that is what democ
racy in action has degenerated
into then God help our country
The big argument was focused
on that old Nemesis Off Street
Parking. Proponents talked up
a big storm of wind as to how
Medford badly needs off street
parking. What they were really
pushing for, was to retain the
$50,000 in the budget to be the
nucleus for their Off Street
Parking "Plan".
Now the word "Plan" proved
to be quite a word. These pro
ponents of the "Plan" were
asked numerous times to des
cribe this so-called "Plan", to
explain it in plain, simple
English.
We believe Mr. Fred Robinson
was appointed top banana for
the "Plan" some months ago, so
we fully expected to have him
finaUy give us the low down on
the "Plan". What happened?
Mr. Robinson sat on his coat
tails in a fog probably men
tally fighting Mr. Sears and Mr.
Roebuck.
Mr. Lovejoy and Mr. Manno
both gave sweet-scented, flowery
speeches which were supposed
to prove why the Council should
approve the budget with the
$50,000 Intact.
Mr. Manno laid great stress to
the fact that private enterprise
would sell out their parking lot
property for a price whereas
parking lot property owned by
the city would be dedicated for
parking as long as needed. Is it
not as logical and much more
economical for private enter
prise to lease city property and
run the lots for the city?
Mr. George Goodman pointed1
out that he owns a number of
downtown parking lots, which
incidentally cost 10c a day less
to park in than the present
street meters and the proposed
city-owned meters in city owned
lots, also the fact that you can
not overpark in his lots as you
can at meters, thus receiving a
ticket and a fine. (Incidentally,
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Matter ot Fact
HISTORIC MOMENT
Washington For hardened
habitues of the Senate galleries,
there is a certain wry amuse-
ment to be
gained from
watching the
faces of the
casual visitors
the touriss
in their flow
ered shirts, the
hippy ladies in
shorts, the
carefully hcrd-
j i t 1. : i
fitew.it Alioo SL-nuui tiiu-
dren. For, as the visitors peer
down on the scene below them
half dozen aging men
chatting in a desultory fashion
their faces betray a single
thought: "Is this really what the
United States Senate is like?"
It is not what the Senate is
like, of course, because the Sen
ate's real work is done off the
floor. But once in a very long
while, there is a real debate on
the Senate floor, a serious dis
cussion of a serious subject. Then
the Senate almost lives up on
its advance billing, as the "great
est deliberative body in the
world," and the faces of the
tourists in the galleries are not
disappointed.
This happened the other day,
before the Senate broke all re
cent precedent, and voted to
make civil rights the business
before the Senate. The debate
which preceded the vote had
real meaning, and even moments
of mute drama.
THE drama came in quick
flashes, when a ehnst from
the tragic past would suddenly
rise on the Senate floor, as when
Byrd of Virginia compared Earl
Warren, the genial Chief Jus
tice, to Thaddeus Stevens, the
hate-filled evil genius of the ter
rible reconstruction days. The
ghost rose up again when Ives
of New York remarked that he
"could not imagine" that "any
Republican administration'
would ever use troops to enforce
its will on the South; and the
Southerners, remembering re
construction, laughed hollowly
in unison.
But the meaning was to be
found in the three brief speeches
of Minority Leader William
Knowland, who opened the de
bate, Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota, who supported him
for the Northern Liberal Demo
crats, and Richard Russell of
Georgia, who spoke for the
Southerners. For each summed
up, as a sort of symbol, the
political meaning of the civil
rights struggle to the three ma-
isn't the issuing of fines a good
way to attract and satisfy down
town shoppers?) Mr. Goodman
also pointed out that only in a
few days before Christmas be
tween 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. has
he had to turn down customers
because his lots were full of cars
Where then does the city expect
to obtain its customers for lots
where higher parking fees and
very possibly fines are its chief
attractions?
Last fall we saw democracy in
action when the people had a
chance to vote on Off Street
Parking. They turned thumbs
down on it then because they
didn't like the smell of it. How
ever, when the council voted on
approving the budget with the
$50,000 for "The Plan" intact.
only one member had the good
old-fashioned guts to vote No.
Democracy ir. action? We
wonder.
Ray DeMarrs
708 West Second st.
Medford, Ore.
M. J. Olsen
Route 1, Box 325
Medford, Ore.
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jor blocs of which the Senate
is composed.
The Knowland speech was
typical, massively earnest, with
out ornament or eloquence. But
it served to underline a simple
fact that the bill which is now
certain to pass, the first such
bill since reconstruction, will be
a Republican biU. It will also
be the Republican party's bid
to recapture the minority vote,
and thus become again the na
tion's majority party. .
HUMPHREY'S speech under
lined the irony of this fact.
For if there is a "Mr. Civil
Rights" in the Senate, it is Hum
phrey. He and his Northern
Democratic cohorts have been
fighting for a decade to get a
civil rights bill to the Senate
floor and they have always
failed, blocked by the Republi
can alliance with the Southern
conservatives. Yet now all Hum
phrey could do was to say "me,
too," praising as "moderate and
reasonable" the bill for which
the Republicans will predictably
get the political credit. It must
be a bitter pill for men like
Humphrey to swallow, but all
they can do is to grin bravely,
and swallow hard.
The pill must be bitterest of
all for Russel and those he spoke
for. As he spoke, there was no
mistaking how real and deep is
the feeling of such men, who
genuinely believe that their way
of life is threatened. But Russell
spoke sadly, as a man who knew
that, on the central issue, he was
already beaten, and as a suppli
cant: "We appeal that Senators
will not take action here which,
would deal unjustly with us."
The vote which followed dem
onstrated just how badly Rus
sell was beaten. The Republi
cans voted as a bloc, but the
real significance of the vote was
the way the border states, which
had generally supported the
South in previous such strug
gles, sided solidly with the
North Maryland, West Vir
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, even
Texas.
THE motives of the Senators
from those states were mixed,
of course, especially in the case
of Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
But the fact remains that the
vote was a striking tribute to
the political power of the . Ne
groes, who now vote in decisive
numbers in such states. And
that suggests the real meaning
to the South of the current strug
gle. Russell and his friends are
brilliant parliamentarians, and
they will no doubt succeed in
watering down the Administra
tion bill. But almost any bill
which passes will greatly in
crease the already heavy pres
sure on the South further t3
enfranchise the Negroes.
Then the time will surely
come when politicians even in
the deep South will begin to
reckon with the Negro vote, as
their border state neighbors al
ready do. Thus the whole poli
tical structure of the South yill
ultimately be changed in a most
basic way. That was why the
tourists who happened in on the
debate were present, for once,
at a genuinely historic moment.
(Copyright 1957.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
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