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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1947 (Tuesday)
Southern Pacific trains run
several hours behind schedule
' because of short-lived strike of
locomotive engineers.
Little opposition voiced at
hearing on proposal to establish
a sustained yield on Oregon and
California revested lands.
20 YEARS AGO
July 22. 1937 (Thursday)
Apricot . harvest gets under
way in the Rogue valley; crop
is fair and of good quality.
A resume of the formation
and aims of the recently-organized
Associated Farmers of Jack
son County, Inc., presented to
Lions club.
30 YEARS AGO
Jjily 22. 1927 (Friday)
A new corporation known as
the Shady Cove Development
company - takes an option on
property for summer resort de
velopment. A thousand people gather at
Llthia park in Ashland for rec
reation night planned by South
ern Oregon State Normal school.
40 YEARS AGO
July 22. 1917
Men requested to battle blazes
in Prospect area; all available
manpower is also requested for
Foster district.
Flat rates abolished and meter
rates established following in
vestigation by the state public
service commission of California-Oregon
Power company
properties and service in south
ern Oregon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Sin. or ten eorrret ! superior;
y or rlcht U oxcellent: flvo or
six la good
1. Which has been generally
held to be the most magic and
the most sacred number?
2. Is It possible for ice to at
tain a temperature lower than
freezing (32 degrees F.)?
3. Bible: Antioch, Iconium.
Lystra, and Derbe belonged in
Paul s dav to which province?
4. Dutchman's pipe is the
name of a musical instrument,
large leaved vine, or beer stein?
5. Name the first President to
live in the White House.
6. The kindergarten system of
education for young children
, originated in Russia, Germany,
or the United States?
7. The pioneers of Utah were
saved from the ravages of grass
hoppers by what kind of bird?
8. Informal dances, an ingredi
ent used in brewing and the
leaping of frogs, are called ?
9. Should "honorable" when
used as a part of a title be cap-
; italized, when preceded by
"the," and followed immediate
ly by the given name?
10. "Old Tubal Cain was a
man of might. In the days when
the earth was young." C.
Mackay. Was Tubal Cain a fic-
titious person?
Answers: 1. Sevoa. 2. Ym. 3.
Galaiia. 4. Vine. S. John Adams.
6. Germany. 7. Gull. 8. Hops.
9. Yes. 10. No. Biblical charac
ter. TOULOUSE TRAIN LOSES
Toulouse, France IIP An
! iron hosse met its match near
here and had to be rescued by
some shaggy dogs. An enraged
tP bull challenged the Foix-Tou-louse
passenger train Saturday
night charging and running at
the engine repeatedly. The pas
sengers and crew did not dare
step outside to drive the animal
off but several dogs appeared
and finally chased the bull.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Jury System
"There, but for the Grace of God, go I."
This is a not-uncommon feeling among those who
watch the procedures of the lower courts in this
country. He is rare indeed who has not "gotten by"
with something, and then suffered a few pangs of
conscience when someone else is caught and punished
for an identical offense.
This may have something to do with the reluc
tance of juries to convict in some traffic cases.
In addition it may be that the public at large,
from which juries are drawn, have not yet grasped
the fact that in this day and age a traffic offense is
a serious one, dangerous to the life and property of
others.
'
fN THIS problem in general, and in regard to the
recent death of five people in an accident near
Bend, where the killer car was driven by a 16-year-old
boy, the Albany Democrat-Herald recently had
this to say:
"Law enforcement officers have been handicapped in
attempts to enforce laws, particularly in apply them to teen
agers, by sentimental jurors. We recall among such local
cases one in which a 10 to 2 conviction was procured. But
one of the two dissenting jurors insisted, without respect to
the evidence, that 'I don't believe such a nice looking young
man could have committed such a crime.'
"Our own prosecutor has met discouraging difficulty
in getting involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide
convictions arising from traffic accidents. Even when appar
ently sure-fire evidence is presented the juries seem to be
more often than not on the side of the offender, more zeal
ous ii seeking out the 'reasonable doubt' than in protect
ing society."
yhe editorial then continues:
'This situation, which extends also into other crime
fields, has in recent years given rise to questions as to the
adequacy of the jury system. It is quite common to hear
one say things like this: 'If I'm innocent I'd rather trust
myself to a judge, without a jury. If I'm guilty, I'll take
chances on a jury trial.' That is not complimentary to the
. system."
TVia innr sTOtpm is rlppnlv ronterl in our tradition
of justice and jurisprudence, and is a strong safe
guard, if properly used, for the protection of people
in their rights.
It is unthinkable that it should ever be abolished.
But there is no bar .to doing what can be done to
improve it.
E DISCUSSED this
one an attorney for whom we have great respect,
the other a person who recently served, for the first
time, on a jury.
One thought that was advanced was the possibil
ity of making greater use of "blue ribbon" juries,
especially selected for stability and intelligence. But
the trend is away from that now. Indeed, the recent
legislature passed a law which will make it more
difficult for court officials to pick and choose in
drawing up juiy panels. This was to get away from
the "professional jurors," who are called to serve
time after time while others are never called, to ex
ercise this privilege and duty of jury service.
The neophyte iuror discussed it from the point of
view of the first-time juryman, who knows little or
nothing of court procedures and rules, the laws ol
evidence, or the rights of jurors, and who often is
frightened, or nervous about the responsibilities sud
denly placed in his inexpenenced nanas.
OVER the next year and a half an interim commit
tee created by the 1957 legislature will make a
comprehensive study of judicial administration and
procedure, and we hope that some thought will be
given to the role of the jury.
Why not, for instance, have compiled a pamphlet
which sets forth, in plain English, exactly what is
expected of a juror, what his rights and duties are
in court, court procedures, and other information
which would enable him to do a better job?
There are other questions which might well be
clarified in such a study. How, and under what cir
cumstances, is a juror permitted to ask questions of
either the attorneys, the judge, or witnesses? What
is the reasoning behind the prohibition against taking
notes, either as regards evidence, or on the frequently
long and complicated instructions given the jury by
the judge before they begin their deliberations?
I TNDER our constitution, a man accused of a crime
is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers. But
there is no reason why the system cannot be so de
signed that these "twelve good men and true" will
have some knowledge of what is required of them,
and how they should do it.
It is possible" that, with these confusing questions
explained and answered in advance, a juror could
better give his attention and consideration to the
judgment of the evidence, which is his prime re
sponsibility. This, in turn, should be a step in the
direction of preventing miscarriages of justice.
The jury system is the best one ever devised, we
believe, for ascertaining guilt or innocence. If, by
study and revision it can be made even better, so
much to the good. E.A.
Miss (or Mrs.) U.S.A.
The Miss Universe contest has been plagued (or
is the word blessed?) with difficulties eminently
Page 1 difficulties since it was started.
We view the whole thing with unmeasurable
ennui, and we'd be just as happy . if the contest,
which is a stupid insult to intelligence in the first
place,.folded its tents and (to mix metaphors) sank
without a trace. '
The latest contretemps, involving a Miss U.S.A.
who turned out to be the mother of two, and the
Peruvian Miss Universe, who was too voune. con
firms this sourpuss opinion
Monday, July 22. 1957
recently with two people,
of ours. E.A. - v !
Lit. ' ' S
' MfS A 10T OF FOOD FOR
N Y. City Welfare Unit
Also Debating Negro
Rights for
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP For the rec
ord it should be noted that the
United States Senate is not the
only political
forum in which
rages a dispute
over the rights
of Negroes to
equality and
integration.
It may sur
prise some per
sons, including
the embattled
lorlo C. WiUon
southern Dem-
ocratic senators here, to learn
that the other forum in which
such a dispute prevails is the
General Welfare committee of
the Municipal Council of the
city of New York. Strange, but
true.
A considerable part of the
pressure on Congress to enact
the pending civil rights bill
without any softening of its pro
visions comes from New York
City and similar great urban
areas outside the South. Even so,
New York's General Welfare
committee has been troubled
since last May 21 by a simple
pr6posal. The proposal would
make it unlawful to discrimi
nate for reasons of race, color,
religion,', national origin or an
cestry in the rental or sale of
dwelling space. The proposed
ordinance is intended to open to
Negroes dwelling units evident
ly now closed to them by reason
of such discrimination.
Opposition Strong
Newspapers and individuals
which long have championed
such a civil rights project as
now confronts the Senate have
been less enthusiastic about the
anti - discrimination project in
their hometown. The real estate
boards of all five boroughs of
New York City vigorously op
posed the proposed ordinance.
After public hearings in mid
June, the project was sent back
to committee. The mail count
against the proposition was 3 to
1 at City Hall. Some councilmen
said that their mail was 4 to 1
against. What happens next is
anybody's guess.
The ordinance already has
been substantially amended. It
originally provided fines up to
S500 for discrimination in the
sale or rental of housing units.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.-N.Y.)
was among those staunch advo
cates of the civil rights bill now
pending in the Senate who urg
ed modification of the New
York proposition to eliminate
certain punitive provisions. The
$500 fine provision has been
abandoned.
Javits opposed the fine provi
sion. He urged, instead, resort
to "mediation, conciilation and
technical assistance, with court
injunctions as the primary en
forcement medium to back it
up."
Charles Abrams, head of the
New York State Commission
Against Discrimination, took the
same stand. The New York
Times reported the Abrams-Jav-its
action in this language:
Softening Amendments
"Two champions of civil rights
called yesterday (July 7) for
amendments to soften proposed
city legislation to outlaw dis
crimination in private housing."
If, indeed, the proposal was to
soften, then Javits' position to
ward the civil rights legislation
pending in the Senate is sub
stantially different. He opposes
any softening there.
The committee also amended
the bill to eliminate all coopera-!
tive apartments. As introduced j
last May, the bill exempted only
one and two-family houses ex
cept those sold in developments
of more than 10 units.
Councilmen Joseph T. Shar
key, of Brooklyn, and Earl
Brown, of Harlem, both Demo- !
crats, sponsored the ordinance
with Councilman Stanley M j
Isaacs of Manhattan, described i
as a Liberal-Republican. Brown, j
representing one of the great 1
TWO PEOPL5.'
Housing
Negro constituencies, has bitter
ly protested the handling of the
ordinance and the activities of
Sharkey and of some of their
fellow Democrats.
Neither the sponsors nor oth
ers who might know will ven
ture now to predict what may
happen to this anti-discrimination
project in the capital city
of civil rights. Sharkey could
offer no more than a "hope"
that he could get the ordinance
out of committee and before the
council for final action.
NOVELIST DIES
Kennebunkport, Maine Wl
Kenneth Roberts, Pulitzer Prize
winner and renowned historical
novelist, died at his home Sun
day after a brief Illness. He
was 71.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Continuing the fascinating
story of wood chemistry that
was touched upon in this space
yesterday, a Forest Products
Laboratory chemical engineer
named Roger Lloyd started fool-
ing around several years ,ago
with distillation of wood chips.
Out of his experiments came
a sweet, sticky material, some
thing like molasses. For a while
it was thought that this might
become a useful ingredient of
livestock feeds, but it couldn't
compete in cost with blackstrap
mollasses, which is what is left
after the refineries have taken
all the economically available
sugar out of the boiled-down
syrup of sugar cane.
ABOUT that time, wood chem
ist Lloyd heard of a new
type yeast with the teeth-rattling
name of "torulopsis mag
noliae." So he went to work
with it on his wood-chip syrup.
The results were quite sur
prising. The yeast digested the
molasses-like syrup derived
from the wood chips and turned
part of it into alcohol. From
what was left, Lloyd and his
fellow chemists succeeded in ex
tracting glycerin and acetic acid
both valuable and widely
used products.
Glycerin is used in products
varying all the way from cos
metics to explosives. It is pres
ently made from petroleum
gases and as a by-product of
soap. It appears from laboratory
studies that it can be produced
as cheaply from wood chips as
from the present sources. Acetic
acid is an important ingredient
of rayon, various plastics and
such common products as vine
gar. THE Forest Products Labora
tory, along with the research
departments maintained by
some of the larger pulp and pa
ner concerns, has been working
for a long time on lignin. Lignin
is the substance that binds the
fibers of a tree together to make
wood.
far. lisnin has been a cost
ly nuisance. It makes up a con
.Uonhls nart nf the bulk of the
waste material of pulp plants
Getting rid ot Mis wasie maie
rini i nnp nf the too tiroblem3
of the pulp and paper industry,
for the stuff pollutes the water
The Price God Paid
What did the holy God, that sinful man
might become one of His people? Sinful as
man was, God loved him and sent Christ
who had no sin, to take man's sin and die
for him. So Christ came to us, healing the
sick, raising the dead back to life and
proving who He was.- Then, nailed to the
cross. He died and His sinless blood blotted
out our sins. So-far all who have Him as
dving for them. Receive Him as your Lord
and Saviour and God becomes your heaven,
ly Father. Then by daily Bible reading and
prayer, grow up.
Geo. N. Taylor, 2385 87th St., SW
Portland 1, Oreg.
Letter Campaign Aids Postal
Pay Bill; Approval Doubtful
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington The most inten
sive letter-writing campaign that
Congress has seen since the
"economy drive" early this year
seems certain to. : bring House
passage of a postal pay raise bill
this week. Senate and Presiden
tial approval, however, are far
from assured.
Postal union leaders predict
ed an easy victory in the House
today for the bill granting a flat
$546 a year raise to each of the
510,000 Post office field work
ers. The cost to the government
will be somewhere around $300
million a year.
Their optimism is based on
the fact 'that 218 members a
-Communications
Hay Baler Wanted
To the Editor: Lay the num
ber of $1 bills represented by
the national debt end to end
around the world, and they
would go around 1,041 times
217 feet wide.
Let a 'man try to bale them
at 30 miles a day, 365 days a
year, 25 feet wide. It would
take him over 20 years. And
yet there-are people going hun
gry, not only overseas but here
in the United States. There
ought to be better ways to spend
the taxpayers money than the
way they are doing.
This soil bank is all wrong.
The big wheat growers never
did farm but -half of their land,
they summer the other half for
next years crop. Why pay tnem
for something that they have
always been doing?
To those that have shall be
given, from those that have not
shall be taken away.
If the' government is going to
help, why not have an old age
pension that amounts to some
thing?
C. E. Smith
Route 1, Box 73
Central Point, Ore.
JENKINS
of the streams into which it is
pumped and has unfavorable ef-
fects on fish life if returned to
the streams in too large quan
tities. The Forest Products Labora
tory has been working with Ca
nadian interests to perfect a way
to - salvage lignin by bubbling
carbon dioxide gas through pa
per making waste liquids.
The result is a -product that
can be blended with more costly
resins to make glues of various
kinds for various different pur
poses. Out of it is also made a
synthetic vanilla flavoring. It is
useful in the manufacture of th
paste used to fasten linoleums
to floors. It is also useful in re
tarding the "setting" of cement,
so that workers have more time
to work with it before it hard-
ALL this comes from lignin
which in the past has been
a pestiferous substance which
has cost the pulp and paper
plants a lot of money to get rid
of, but now is showing up as a
valuable product in its own
right.
It reminds us of jackpine, the
Cinderella of the timber family
which for years we tried to get
rid of by burning or any other
way to get it off the ground so
that grass would grow in its
place. Because of its rapid re
production, it now looks like
jackpine may be one of the most
valuable of our Western pulp
woods. rpHE moral of all this?
A This is it:
Don't sell southern Oregon
and . far northern California
short. Our great forests which
now contain probably more
MERCHANTABLE timber than
they contained half a century
ago are a resource of fabulous
value.
Not only do they supply lum
ber and plywood and other
building materials. Not only do
they supply the raw material for
the rapidly expanding pulp and
paper industry-
If these research chemists are
right, they may supply the raw
material for a chemical industry
that in the not distant future
may rival the vast chemical in
dustry that is now based on
petroleum and coal.
M-
majority of the 435-man House
have put their signatures on a
discharge petition to bring the
pay raise bill before the House.
The discharge petition is a rare
ly used device to force House
action on a bill that has been
stalled in committee.
This one was signed by the
necessary 218 members despite
the strong opposition of the
Eisenhower administration and
the Democratic chairman of the
House Post Office and Civil
Service committee. Rep. Tom
Murray of Tennessee. They
claim a pay increase at this time
would be inflationary.
There is no accurate account
ing of the number of letters and
the amount of money that went
into the campaign to bring the
pay raise bill before the House.
But Congressional Quarterly's
spot check of Congressional of
fices makes 50,000 letters look
like a conservative estimate.
What Union Spent
Five of the leading unions in
the drive officially reported
spending a total, of $55,166 on
lobbying in the first three
months of the year. Not all that
went for the postal pay bill, of
course, but neither does that
sum cover the period of greatest
activity on behalf of the bill.
The finesse of - the unions'
campaign has drawn admiring
comments even from opponents
of the pay raise bill. Filing of
the discharge petition May 15 by
Rep. T. A. Thompson (D.-La.)
was timed to coincide with a
Headlines
Eyed by U.P. Writers
United Press correspond
ents around the world look
ahead at the news that will
make the headlines.
Hard Going
The administration is having
a rough time trying to find an
other industrialist to take over
as defense secretary when
Charles E. Wilson quits. Main
trouble: He'd have to give up
his stock holdings, as Wilson did.
And it would be just for a three-
year lame-duck term. All indi
cations are that steel magnate
Clarence N. Randall turned
down an offer of the job last
week. The betting is that some
one already in the Eisenhowar
official family will get it. Men
tioned are Deputy Defense Sec
retary Donald Quarles; Gen. Al
fred M. Gruenther, head of the
Red Cross; Secretary of Interior
Fred Seaton and Army Secre
tary Wilber M. Brucker.
Inside Buckingham Palaca .
Buckingham Palace hopes that
the London newspapers will
drop the report that Princess
Margaret may marry Lord Pat
rick Beresford, her present
steady date. As of now, appar
ently, she doesn't intend to. But
she is romantic-minded and an
avid newspaper "reader. Palace
feeling is that if the reports
keep up, she may convince her
self she's in love again. An in
side source says that is what
really happened when the news
papers kept insisting she was
in love with divorced air force
hero Peter Townsend.
Time of Decision
The course of the civil rights
bill may be determined by a se
ries of Senate votes expected
early this week. If controversial
Part III is knocked out, there
will be a better chance of pass
ing the bill and avoiding an all-
out filibuster. The bill then
would be limited largely to pro
tecting Negro voting rights. But
you can expect civil rights back
ers to try again to stiffen it if
that happens. ,
Tunisian Coup
North Africa experts believe
Tunisian Premier Habib Bouf
guiba may try to force the Bey
of Tunis off the throne soon and
proclaim a republic. It is rumor
ed in Paris that Bourguiba is
keeping the Bey virtually a pris
oner. Plans for a coup may be
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meeting of the AFL-CIO Gov
ernment Employees' council,
which brought about 2,000 dele
gates to Washington. One postal
union reported to its members
that "the galleries were filled
with delegates to the conference
who delightedly watched as 107
Representatives signed the peti
tion the first day it was avail
able." In their follow-up campaign,
the postal unions addressed re
peated plans to their members
to "contact your Congressman
by letter, telephone or tele
graph.." Additional local delega
tions were brought in to lobby
reluctant Representatives. Infor
mation kits were distributed to
newspapers and other opinion
makers. The big argument in the post
al workers' arsenal was their
plea that the 1955 pay raise was
not enough to keep postal work
ers abreast the rising cost of
living.
Although House passage of
the bill seems assured, the gen
eral outlook for a raise this year
is dark. A similar bill has been
reported to the Senate Post of
fice and Civil Service commit
tee, but action in the Senate
awaits the outcome of the civil
rights debate.
And there is a widespread be
lief that President Eisenhower,
who has steadily opposed a pay
raise, will veto the bill if it
reaches him.
(Copyright 1957.
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
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discussed at a meeting of lead
ers of the Tunisian Neo-Destour
Party tonight.
Red China Red Light
It looks as if Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles will
finally give permission for some
American re;irters to visit Com
munist China. But Washington
sources say he will hold the line
firmly there. He expects a flood
of applications from mission
aries, educators and others for
passports. The word is that
Dulles win reject them, and is
trying to figure out how to
frame the rejection without rous
ing too much resentment.
No Disappointment
Friends of .Aly Khan say
there's no truth in those stories
about Aly Khan's "furious dis
appointment" at - not being
named to succeed his father the
Aga Khan as the spiritual leader
of the world's 20 million Ismail!
Moslems. On the contrary, the
friends say, - Aly breathed a
sight of relief at finding out that
he could continue his playboy
life without worrying about
spiritual leadership.
Replacements
Travellers returning from Al
bania report that for some rea
son Czechs are replacing the ap
proximately 5,000 Russian tech
nicians in that tiny Communist
satellite. But the Russians pre
sumably still man what is re
ported to be a monster subma
rine base on Saseno Island.
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