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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 24. 1947 (Thurid-r)
Miss Beverlee Mooney, 19,
winner of the "Miss Medford"
contest recently sponsored by
the Medford Jaycees leaves by
plane for Seaside.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There has
been no summer weather worth
cussing to date.
20 YEARS AGO
July 27. 1937 (Sunday)
Shortage of white guinea
fowl in the Rogue River valley
reported.
Chamber of Commerce places
promotional parking tags on
tourist cars parked on city
streets.
90 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1927 (Sunday)
California Oregon Power
company removes woodpecker
colony pole.
Mail-Tribune completes instal
lation of two new Linotypes.
40 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1917 (Tuesday)
Medford's Seventh company,
Oregon coast artillery, National
Guard, will be mustered Into
federal service.
The most disastrous fire in the
Crater National Forest is still
burning after a week.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine r ttn correct 1 superior;
seven or etcht u excellent: flvs or
six Is good.
1. Orthodox Moslems shave the
scalp but leave a tuft of hair.
Why the tuft?
2. Does sound travel faster in
water than in air?
3. Bible. What was Pilate's
first name?
4. What Is the opposite of
climax?
5. What is the name of the
sacred Scriptures of the Mo
hammedans? 6. What is the Latin phrase
which means "a reason for war"?
7. In what village in France
. was Joan of Arc born in 1412?
8. What do New Zealand
soldiers call Marines?
9. Large beads on a Rosary
represent the Paternosters and
Glorias. What do the small beads
represent?
10. "But all his mind is holi
ness. To number Ave-Maries
on his" what? Shakespeare.
Answers: 1. For the "angel" to
grasp, to carry a body heaven
ward. 2. Yes. 3. Pontius. 4. Anti
climax. S. Koran. 6 Casus belli.
7. . Domremy. . 8. "Cobblers",
meaning buddy or pal. 9. Arcs.
10. "beads".
Alaska Pioneer
To Wed Top Lawyer
London W Jack McCord,
a 74-year-old Alaska pioneer,
will marry America's leading
woman lawyer here hursday aft
er a 42-year courtship that
stretched from the Yukon to
Cleveland and London.
The bride is Miss Grace Doer
ing. 66, of Cleveland, who met
McCord at the San Francisco
World Fair of 1915 when he left
his Yukon gold strikes to see
the sights of the big city.
McCord. already a legendary
figure of the Great Northwest,
smiled a gentle Churchillian
smile Tuesday night as he watch
ed Miss Ooering installed as
president of the National associ
ation of Women Lawyers.
mail tribune
How Are
"We know that underpinned highways dump too many
cars into overcongested areas; that bus lines and commuter
trains are broke and that outmoded equipment provided
poor service; that overcrowded schools are everywhere on
double shifts; that water resources are dangerously inade
quate; that many suburban sewage disposal systems lag
under overloads; that billboards despoil much of our land
and are the heralds of advancing blight: that shifting pur
chasing power from central city. to suburb has meant down
town decay; that deficient city environments produce racial
strife and crime; that there is a fight in every older suburb
to retain its space and its standards; that there are every
where immense parking problems, zoning struggles, in
adequate tax bases, rigid and unreal city boundaries, in
adequate airports, excessive operating costs for antiquated
municipal services, shortsighted realty interests, great legal
problems in respect to advance aquisition of land, economic
and social problems created by new controlled-acess free
ways, insufficient park and recreational facilities, air pollu
tion." The above description of "the nation's No. 1 do
mestic problem : the growing metropolitan crisis," ap
pears in the current issue of the Architectural Forum,
It is one of the best concise descriptions we have
read of the changes the bigger cities of the nation are
going through, and of
people aa a result of the changes.
JVIEDF0RD, thank the good Lord, is still a relatively
small city. But it has grown rapidly doubling
in population in the past 17 years it will continue
to grow, and a number of the points brought out above
have an application here, despite the fact that the
chief reference is to really large cities.
How well are we doing in coping with all these
problems?
Amazingly well.
FIRST of all it should be pointed out that the city
F has a flexible, efficient and clean administration,
which is dedicated to doing the best possible job for
the people of the city.
We do not always agree with their conclusions or
methods, but have never had any reason to believe
their decisions were made in anything less than com
plete honesty and sincerity.
Secondly, the city has employed men who have
made it their business to look as far into the future
as is humanly possible, and to plan ahead, to foresee
what the problems will be, and to prepare to meet
them.
"THIRD, and perhaps most important, the city has
people with a high degree of intelligence and un
derstanding people who are willing to acknowledge
that foresight, planning and a reasonable level of
spending of public funds are necessary for progress.
The approval of the capital improvement program
at last November's election is an example of this ; so
was the approval a few years ago of a new water pipe
line, and, later, of a new airport building, and of two
new fire stations.
The schools of Medford have always had excellent
support from the people something for which we
and our children can be thankful.
ASA result of this cooperative attitude, Medford
ranks high among cities of any size regarding po
lice and fire protection, water supply, airport faci
lities, school plant and equipment, sewage disposal,
street and road construction and maintenance, build
ing: inspection, and other facets of city responsibility.
Now in the planning and consideration stages are
more adequate traffic control, a modest start on off
street parking, a system of arterial streets, more wide
spread and more efficient sewers, both storm and
sanitary, development of more park and recreational
facilities, future expansion of the airport, and an ar
ray of other projects for the near or distant future.
All this, mind you, has been accomplished on a
tax schedule which compares favorably with any
other city in Oregon. Medford, as a municipality, is
solvent without being affluent; its public servants
are fairly paid, its taxes are reasonable ; its services
are many and the rates are low.
The magnitude of this accomplishment can only
be seen when contrasted with the difficulties found
in other communities.
HAVE had, to be sure, our zoning fights and
" right-of-way fights; our citizens and officials
with lack of foresight; our problems of land acquisi
tion; our annexation battles. We will undoubtedly
have more, and it is healthy that these matters of pub
lic policy be threshed out in public for all to see and
understand.
Based on the experience of other cities, we believe
that public transportation, billboard despoilation,
downtown and neighborhood renovation and improve
ment, air pollution, and most important of all, the
"economic and social problems created by new con-trolled-access
freeways," (to quote again the preamble
to this discussion,) are going to require increased
attention.
IN BLANCE, however, we are thoroughly convinced
that Medford doesn't need to hang its head in
shame in any company.
In some areas it has looked far into the future, and
prepared for it. In other areas it has managed to keep
abreast of the problems as they arose. In a few, it
has fallen somewhat behind, and now faces a straggle
to catch up.
But it isn't until one stops to think of all the many
facets of public service that it is realized just how
well our city, as a city, measures up to what we all
want it to be. E.A. j
Wednesday. Julr 24, 19S7
We Doing?
the problems facing their
Here's voir milk.
Today and
By Walter
IDEALISM AND THE
TWO GENERALS
Of the "many long discussions
about our respective doctrines,"
which he had with Marshal
Zhukov some 12 years ao, one
point in partic
ular seems to
stand out in
the President's
mind. The So
viet command
er had asserted
that Commu
nism is "ideal
istic" whereas
our doctrine is
Walter Uppmaiui
"materialistic.1
The President remembers that
he "was very hard put to it" to
reply. Judging by his remarks at
the press conference last week
he still feels that he did not win
the argument by a knockout.
The two soldiers were agreed,
we learn, that a system is ideal
istic if its ideal is that people
should "believe that their great-
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name end address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
Initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the rlKht to edit all letters witb
an eye to clarification and conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
Project Suggested
To the Editor: There are a
number of young men and boys
seeking summer employment lo
cally; there are also a number
of local organizations looking
for money-raising projects.
On many Medford streets
house numbers are difficult to
read, if not lacking entirely.
May I suggest a project that
might benefit summer visitors
seeking the residence of their
hosts and also give employment
to individuals or organizations?
I believe if some enterprising
persons procured a set of nu
merical stencils and some black
paint that could be used on curb
stones and went from door to
door offering to paint house
numbers on the curb where they
could be plainly read, household
ers would be pleased to pay a
small fee for the service.
Perhaps for a larger fee the
householder's name could be
added with the use of a set of
alphabetical stencils.
I suggest that city officials be
queried prior to offering such
services as to whether this proj
ect is permissible.
A similar project has been
conducted in prior years.
Helen Webster
940 Whitman ave.
Medford, Ore.
Potpourri Praised
To the Editor: One is always
ready to write into your column
when they have something to
criticize, but I think one should
also send in praise where praise
is due.
I am writing abdut our own
society lady, Olive Starcher.
Readers of the Medford Mail Tri
bune are indeed very fortunate
to have had such a "blow by
blow" report of her recent visit
to the N. E. A. and other inter
esting points in the east. I have
saved each story in Potpourri as
it was educational as well as in
teresting, and the way Potpourri
gave us the "call a spade a
spade" language of the "Red
Caps," taxi drivers and other
public servants she met up with,
gave us a chuckle and we de
cided people are the same the
world over and a sense of hu
mor makes all persons "kin."
The crashing of the gate to get
to the President's press confer
ence, watching our baseball
heroes, visit to U.N., and all the
numerous other places that Pot
pourri visited and then wrote
home to our Medford Mail Tri
bune, gave us all an insight to
her travels, and meeting Med
ford people in New York, ride in
the subway and so on, just
showed Olive is our gal and we
are very happy to have "Our
Little Nell" back home with us
safe and sound.
Caroline L. Harding
Trail, Ore.
. IS
Ate. Wilson '
Tomorrow
Lippmann
est satisfaction in life Is in sac
rificing for the state, giving to
the state." Theirs, it would seem,
"not to make reply, theirs not
to reason why, theirs but to do
and die."
With this military definition
of the ideal society, Gen. Eisen
hower was bound to be in trou
ble about the comparative ideal
ism of Communism and liberal
democracy. This was especially
the case when, in describing our
own society, he accepted the
view of Marshal Zhukov that "a
man can earn what he pleases,
save what he pleases, buy what
he pleases." No wonder the ar
gument of the two soldiers was,
as the President said on Wednes
day, "very tough." Both of them
were hazy not only as to what
were their "respective doctrines
but as to what was in fact the
character of their two societies,
AS WE see him through the
President's recollections. Mar
shal Zhukov was then a veteran
professional soldier but a new,
raw, and very naive amateur in
the Communist, Party. He had
found it easy and convenient to
believe that the Communist
ideal is the ideal of the soldier,
sworn to live and die obeying
the orders of the rulers of the
state. Bravely, he assured the
American general that Stalin did
not "force" the contribution of
the people to the state. Stalin
was "teaching a people to sup
port that contribution."
This, argued the Marshal, was
very idealistic. It was more
idealistic than any other social
system. Is it not idealistic to
give, like a soldier, everything
to the state? And is it not very
idealistic of Stalin to teach peo
ple to enjoy being so idealistic?
HAD someone, who was versed
in Leninism, been present at
these discussions, he would have
pointed out that the word
"teaching" covered the whole
vast apparatus of the so-called
dictatorship of the proletriat.
The earlier Marxists, those be
fore Lenin, had believed that
there would' be a brief and re
grettable, but necessary, period
of dictatorship for the purpose
of socializing the means of pro
duction. But then human nature
would become re-educated to sel
fishness by the new institution
of socialist property. After that
there would be no more need of
coercion, and the state would
wither away.
But years before he seized
power, Lenin had shed the ideal
istic illusions of the earlier
Marxists, he did not pretend to
believe that human nature could
soon be changed. Communism,
he taught, could not be carried
on without what was virutually
a permanent dictatorship. Lenin,
who was quite truly the founder
of Soviet Communuism, was a
harsh and implacable realist. He
would have had only scorn for
the two tender-minded generals
in search of idealism.
And so, no doubt sincerely but
most naively. Marshal Zhukov
was telling Gen. Eisenhower an
old fairy tale. It was the tale of
an ideal condition of selflessness,
of a community of the 'regener
ate, which for thousands of
years has been the dream of
many religious communities,
among them, the early Chris
tians. The dream is entirely un
related to the realities of the
Soviet state, or to the teachings
of Lenin, who is its prophet.
IN THE liberal democratic or
der the ideal is not that the
highest good is to sacrifice for
the state. The state exists tor
the good of man. The highest po
litical good is that the sacrifice
must be justified to the people
of the community, that it must
be explained, debated, assented
to, and that there shall be an
audit and a reckoning after the
sacrifice has been made.
It is not true, as Marshal-Zhukov
said, that the liberal demo
cratic order permits everyone to
"do anything." Gen. Eisenhower
should have had no difficulty re
plying to that. For all our eco
nomic activities take place with
in an environment of laws and
customs which regulates them.
Tunisia on
Republic; Monarchy End Seen
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Premier Habib Bourguiba is
getting ready to set himself up
as the "strong man" of Tunisia
in Northwest
Africa.
It looks as if
he intends to
throw Bey Sidi
Mohammed Al
Amin off the
throne Thurs
day and pro-
plaim a rAnuh.
i J&J 1,c- Apparently
Charles McCanp the only way
Mohammed can avoid being
ousted forcibly is to beat Bour
guiba to it by abdicating.
Bourguiba became the head
man in Tunisia after his coun-
Secrecy Provision
Hidden in Article
Of Civil Rights Bill
By LYLE WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IB It may
come as a surprise to the news
paper editors of the United
S t a te s, but
here a r e th e
facts:'
They or
their report
ers could be
fined or im
prisoned for
an all-out re
porting job on
the Civil
I.Tle C Wilson
Rights Commission to be estab
lish by the administration bill
now pending in the Senate.
It is a fact that the proposed
legislation has some built-in sec
recy provisions to be invoked by
commission whim. It also is
fact that the bill would provide
a fine of not more than $1,000
or imprisonment for not more
than a year on individuals who
either leaked or used certain
commission material marked
secret.
The Eisenhower administra
tion cannot be charged with re
sponsibility for this secrecy gim
mick which would permit any
or all evidence or testimony in
a commission hearing to be with
held from the public. This bur
eaucratic rosebush was planted
in the-bill bv Chairman Eman
uel Celler's House Judiciary
Committee.
Gives Explanation
The explanation given the
United Press was that these and
other procedural provisions
were written into the bill after
it reached the House to make the
whole thing "less unpalatable to
the South'." Southerners had
protested that, as received from
the Justice Department, the pro
posed legislation confided to the
Customs Aqenfs Grab
Heroin in Miami Raid
Miami 1" Customs
agents believe they have smash
ed one of the biggest interna
tional narcotics smuggling rings
operating in the United States
with their seizure of $500,000
worth of heroin from a French
freighter.
Thirty-five agents, some pos
ing as dock workers, swoopea
down on the freighter Marseille
Monday night and arrested four
men carrying nine and one-half
pounds of pure heroin strapped
to their bodies.
The raid climaxed a six
month watch of the ship as it
nlied between ports in the south
eastern United States and Eur
ope. Agents continued a stem to
stern search of the big freighter
today.
Nazi Sympathizer
Dies in Paris Home
Paris nn Sacha Guitry,
controversial actor and author
who was imprisoned for a short
time after World War II for be
ing friendly with the Nazis, died
early today at his home here. He
was 72.
Guitry, sometimes called the
Twentieth Century Moliere,"
was a leading actor, producer
and director before World War
II. He continued to produce
plays after the fall of France
in 1940 and was arrested after
the liberation. He was charged
with "sympathy with the enemy
during the occupation."
Men, women and children work
within the laws of property and
within the labor laws. They can
build only within the zoning
laws. They can save and they
can spend only within the tax
laws.
We live within a system of
laws and not in a state of an
archy. The ideal of our system,
which we approximate but never
wholly achieve, is that this sys
tem of laws shall never be ar
bitrary, and that because it is
debatable, it will, within the
limits of human frailty, be rea
sonable and aim at justice.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribue Inc.
2M.
Verge of Becoming
try, long a French protectorate,
attained its independence on
March 20, 1955.
Ever since he became premier,
he has been building up his per
sonal authority.
Bey Virtually Prisoner
For a long time the 75-year-old
Bey, nominally Tunisia's
ruler, has been virtually a pris
oner in his palace near Tunis,
fiddling with his self-made
clocks and his do - it - yourself
cabinet-making tools.
Bourguiba decided last week
that the time had come to make
his supreme leadership official.
He announced in his weekly
radio broadcast that the govern
ment was going to "take meas
ures" against members of the
royal family who had used their
commission authority both too
vague and too broad.
In repairing that mistake, if
any, the judiciary committee
men authorized the commission
to proceed at will in secret. On
what grounds this was done is
not evident. It scarcely could
be, however, on grounds of na
tional security which is the de
fense of most bureaucrats in
Washington when they want to
keep from the public the manner
in which they are transacting
the public's business.
Paragraph E of the bill's TiUe
I, which sets up the commission,
provides that:
"If the commission determines
that evidence or testimony at
any hearing may tend to defame
degrade, or incriminate any per
son. It shall receive such evi
dence or testimony in executive
session . . ."
Executive session means sec
ret session from which reporters
and all other representatives of
the public are excluded. Para
graph G is the enforcer, as fol
lows:
Need Commission Consent
"No evidence or testimony
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Farm prices note:
Hogs are selling in Chicago at
up to the highest prices in three
years, while initial prices are
steady to higher on grain fed
cattle and slaughter lambs.
TTow come?
H-Well, the market report
this morning goes on to say:
"Trading on the SMALLEST
MONDAY SUPPLY IN THREE
YEARS is active. Hog prices are
strong to 75 cents higher. Re
ceipts of some 60,000 hogs at 12
markets are about 6,000 smaller
than last Monday.
"Fed steer and heifer prices
are steady to strong, and some
sold 50 cents higher at Chicago.
Receipts at 12 markets included
some 102,000 cattle and 21,000
sheep and lambs.
"That is about 2,000 less cat
tle and 3,000 less sheep and
lambs than a week ago."
ut of thousands of years of
" experience , this general
rule has been deduced:
When there are more sellers
than buyers, prices tend to
FALL. When there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend
to RISE.
That has come to be known
as the law of supply and de
mand.
irom time to time down
through the ages politicians
of one breed and another
have sought to REPEAL this law
of supply and demand. OC
CASIONALLY, for short per
iods, these political efforts have
But over the LONG "ULLt,
the natural law of supply and
demand has resisted all poltical
efforts to repeal it. The clear
lesson of all market history is
that when sellers are more nu
merous than buyers prices will
fall in spite of all efforts on the
part of government to keep them
rising.
And
In Scenic
Surroundings
The setting and decor of Lit
willer's beautiful Mountain
View funeral and wedding
chapel, attracts the attention
of tbt passerby and the ad
miration of an interior inspection.
M. Lltwiller
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
c
positions to enrich themselves.
This was followed by a direct
attack on the Bey in semi-official
newspapers and other or
gans of propaganda.
Bourguiba called a meeting of
the national assembly, the Par
liament, for Thursday.
Dispatches say the assembly
probably will vote to abolish the
monarchy.
New Republic Seen
The formal proclamation of a
repuh'.ic is expected to follow,
with Bourguiba as president
with strong executive powers.
Neither Morocco, the western
most of the three units of French
North Africa, nor Egypt wel
comes this prospect.
Morocco, now independent
like Tunisia, is a monarchy. Sul
tan Siki Mohammed Ben-Yous-sef
is afraid that his own people
might get ideas if Tunisia be
came a republic.
President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser of Egypt is a strong man
himself. He would like to be the
big man in all of North Africa
and the Arab world in general.
He does not want any rivals for
the strong man role.
taken in executive session may
be released or used in public
sessions without the consent of
the commission. Whoever re
leases or uses in public without
the consent of the commission
evidence or testimony taken in ,
executive session shall be fined
not more than $1,000, or im
prisoned for not more than one
year."
The commission, thus set up
with authority to conduct its
business in secrecy, will have
trouble enough without settling
itself in the middle of the con
troversy now roaring in the
United States about bureau
cratic abuses of the secrecy priv
ilege. Whatever the commission
may say or do, one side or the
other in the civil rights contro
versy is likely to complain. The
temptation of the commission to
conceal what it may of its con
troversial hearings will be al
most impossible to resist.
The secrecy provision prob
ably will prove to be a time
bomb set in the commission's
innards.
JENKINS
When buyers, over any rea
sonable period of time, remain
more numerous than sellers
prices will rise and will keep
on rising as long as buyers re
main more numerous than sell
ers. In these highly political days,
that is a good rule to keep in
mind.
H
ere's a note on taxes:
The Tax Foundation, Inc., a
private research organization
with headquarters In New York,
reports in a study made public
today that the average Ameri
can making as much as $85 a
week WORKS A DAY AND A
HALF OUT OF EACH WEEK
TO SUPPORT GOVERNMENT.
It adds:
"Shortly after lunch on Tues
day, after he has put in his stint
for federal, state and local tax
collectors, this average $85-a-week
worker is free to start
earning a living for himself and
his family."
rphat is to say:
This average worker, who
works on the average a five-day
week, works all of Monday and
half of Tuesday for GOVERN
MENT. He has only half of Tues
day and all of Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday to work
for himself.
Out of his earnings on these
three and a half days, he has to
pay all of his private and person
al! bills.
Jnother clear lesson of history:
When the time comes when '
government reaches into the
pockets of the people and takes
out TOO MUCH of the people s
earnings to pay the cost of gov
ernment, trouble follows sooner
or later.
Nearly always, history tells
us, it is BAD trouble.
Mrs. Utwltler
rtt -in."
"It Is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."