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History from the files of The
Mai Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1947 (Tueiday)
Applications are received for
giving home to 13-year-old de
pendent boy.
From Arthur Perry', column
Ye Smudge Pot: The wild black
berries of the Applegate are
coming along fine and several
have been seen carrying pails,
natives report.
20 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1937 (Thursday)
Across the country to the
rockbound shores of New Eng
land has traveled the fame of
the Rogue River Lodge, newest
of the tourist and sportsmen's
centers.
Gold Hill residents prepare
for the Northwest Jackson
County Fair slated Sept. 18.
30 YEARS AGO
Julv 29. 1927
Main floor of the M. M. De
partment store, the basement of
which was damaged by fire
several weeks ago, has been
braced for the fire sale.
Cafeteria and general store
to be ready at Crater Lake next
year.
40 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1917
Medford men train at Hugh
Aviation camp at San Antonio,
Tex.
Firemen unable to find weed
covered fire hydrant so two
houses burn.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct ! superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: live or
sis Is good.
1. Is Scotland Yard in Glasgow
or Edinburgh?
2. Name the two islands on
which Napoleon Bonaparte was
successively confined.
3. Bible: The "Prudent man"
in Acts 13:7 is proconsul P S?
4. What is the length of life of
a Congress?
5. Can swans fly?
6. In what army did Gurkha
troops serve?
7. Is Niagara Falls receding?
8. Which President of the U.S.
was shortest In stature?
9. Give the correct spelling of
the phonetically-pronounced Indo-Chinese
country "Louse."
10. How did "Jimmy" Walker
went to be loved when he wrote
"Will You Love Me In Decem
ber as You Do In May?"
Answers: 1. Neither, London.
2. Elba and St. Helena. 3. Paulus.
4. Two years. 5. Yes. 6. British
Indian Army. 7. Yet. .8. James
Madison. 9. Laos. 10. "In the
good old fashioned way."
Astoria Girl Named
Miss Oregon of '57
Seaside (IP Judith Hansen,
19-year-old blue-eyed blonde
from Astoria, will represent Ore
gon at the Miss America pageant
at Atlantic City.
Miss Hansen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin W. Hansen, As
toria, was crowned Miss Oregon
of 1957 by Gov. Robert D.
Holmes in ceremonies here Sun
day afternoon.
The girl, who attends Bethany
college at Lindsberg. Kan., mea-
sures 36-24-35' a. is 5 feet 8 in
ches tall, and weighs 130
pounds.
Runnersup in the contest to
select Miss Orefon were Miss
Roseburg, Judith Henlsey, 17,
and Iiss Eugene, Doreen Mor
asch, 18, of the University of
Oregon.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Pride In
School got out in California two weeks later this
year than it did last year.
So what? Does that
resident of Medford?
Yes. Because it meant
ists, a majority of whom are Calif omians, didn't start
this year until about the first of July, instead of around
the middle of June as usual.
The chamber of commerce reported this week
that the number of tourists
tion has doubled in the past two or three weeks, and
is now at about the same level as it was last year,
which was a good tourist
THIS late-developing season caused some concern
1 earlier in the year, and there were reports that
the tourist trade was "off
In view of what the chamber reports, however,
it can be hoped that it is iust late, not too much down.
For a great many people in Medford (which has
been hit and hurt by the
a real stake in the tourist business. I he principal bene-
ficiaries, of course, are the hotels and motels, the
restaurants and the service stations. But tourists also
purchase other things as
general level of business ot the tourist-service con
cems is also reflected throughout the community.
THE Rogue valley generally is more fortunate than
other sections of Oregon
pendent on lumber production and manufacture. Ag
riculture, including one of
industries, is important
income, tourist service is
This is what is known as a diversified economy,
and when one of our economic bases is hurting, the
others tend to take up some
Therefore, if there is anything which can be done
to stimulate tourists to visit
periods, it is important to
CPECIAL efforts are being made to do just that.
The Oregon Motor
special emphasis on informing our paying guests
of what to see and do, both
highways in Oregon.
The local chamber of
with the Oil Information
service stations, this year
welcoming tourists, giving
or suggestions as to what
the information changing
THE Portland Kiwanis club has started a program
called "Operation Twenty for One," which has
been picked up by other clubs in the state. It is built
around the fact that it each tourist visiting uregon
could be persuaded tq stay one more day, the state
would benefit by $ZU,uUU,uuu in "new" money.
It is based on this calculation, in round figures:
Nearly 3y2 million tourists came to the state last.year;
spent an average of six days and $40 each, for a total
of $141 million. That is at the rate of $6.50 per day,
and if each stayed one day longer that equals $20
million.
Gasoline taxes alone last year brought $212 million
into the state's coffers which means just that much
less for residents to pay.
ITE can't beat tourists over. the head with a club
to make them stay longer. But we can all be
aware of the importance of this economic fact, be
familiar with what tourists might like to see and do
in our own area, treat them courteously as we come
into contact with them, and keep our communities as
attractive and pleasant as possible.
This is a case where the easy casting of bread upon
the waters can be of benefit to all our people.
Oregon, as a "product" to sell tourists, is one of
which we can all be proud. Our "merchandise" is of
the best. We must keep it that way. E.A.
For Successor to McCarthy
Seven Republicans are contesting the primary in
Wisconsin tomorrow for the G.O.P. nomination in
the election on Aug. 27 to fill the Senate seat of the
late Joseph R. McCarthy. The Republican primary
winner will be also the election winner it recent po
litical history in the Badger State is a reliable guide.
Last year the venerable Alexander Wiley (R) was
re-elected to the Senate by 265,000 votes, though he
had been opposed in the primary by the state G.O.P.
organization. This had backed out-and-out McCarthy
ite Glenn R. Davis, now again after the nomination.
McCarthy himself had been re-elected in 1952 by
almost 140,000 votes.
"NE of the two Democratic primary candidates,
William Proxmire, ran within 60,000 votes of
being elected Governor last year. But when it comes
to national elections the state has usually been lop
sidedly Republican since 1944, when, it was one of
the 12 voting against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It is true that in 1948 Wisconsin went for Tinman,
but that seemed chiefly a protest against what the
"isolationists" in the state termed the "internation
alism" of Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential
candidate. The state gave Eisenhower majorities of
358,000 in 1952 and 370,000 in 1956. Yet the Demo
crats like to remember that in a special House election
in October 1953, the Ninth Wisconsin District chose a
Democrat for the first time in the history of that dairy
ing area. E.R.R. j
Monday. July 29, 1957
"Product"
make any difference to a
that the big influx of tour
dropping in for mforma
year.
markedly from prior years.
lumber market slump) nave
they go through, and the
in that it is not wholly de
the nation s toremost pear
here, and, based on dollar
third.
of the slack.
us, and to stay for longer
everyone in the valley.
Court association is placing
on and off the interstate
commerce, in cooperation
committee and individual
is placing many posters
them current information
to do and see, and keeping
Irom week to week.
' I DON'T LIKE POTATOES ivTH
U.P. Correspondents
Eye Future Headlines
United Press correspond
ents around the world look
ahead at the news that will
make the headlines.
Adjournment
Adjournment of Congress
hinges on the Senate's vote on
the jury trial amendment to the
civil rights bill. If the amend
ment is adopted, the southerners
are expected to call off their fili
buster plans. That would permit
adjournment toward the end of
August. Otherwise, a talkathon
by southern senators could tie
up the session for weeks, even
months. Whenever the adjourn
ment comes, it wiU leave a big
part of the Eisenhower legisla
tive program on the junk heap
including federal aid for school
construction, an increase in post
al rates and statehood for Alas
ka. The civil rights issue can't
be blamed for that. None of
these measures would have been
passed anyway.
Sub-Summit Conference
Don't be surprised if the sud
den visit of Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles to the Lon
don disarmament conference re
sults in a "sub-summit" confer
ence of foreign ministers. The
Russians have been plugging for
a real summit conference which
President Eisenhower would at
tend, for months. But they'd set
tle for a conference on the sec
ond level Dulles, British For
eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd,
trench Foreign Minister An-
toine Pinay and Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromyko.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
By a very close vote 208 to
203 the house of reDresenta-
tives kills the billion and a half
dollar federal school construc
tion bill.
The action camp on a motion
by Representative Howard
amitn, Democrat, of Virginia, to
strike out the enacting clause.
So the question was whether to
kill the bill or to let It live.
On the final vote. Ill Re
publicans and 97 Democrats
voted to kill it and 126 Demo
crats and 77 Republicans voted
to keep it alive. The point is
that the bill's defeat was not a
partisan enterprise.
It is a reasonable conclusion
that the voting represented, hv
a narrow margin the ponciHamd
judgment of a majority of the
memDers ot the house of repre
sentatives that it will be better
for the United States if the fed.
eral government keeps its hands
off the schools.
IVITH that conclusion I am in
" complete agreement. We
have sent to Washington in the
past couple of decades a very
large share of what were once
the exclusive functions of our
states, our cities and our coun
ties.
Washington has hecomo fn a
surprising extent the state house
for all the states, the courthouse
lor all the counties and the city
hall for all the cities. Rsnnu nV
what has happened along that
line, we nave seen too much of
our government GET TOO FAR
rnOM US. We havp soon
the government in Washington
uetome so nuge and so unwieldy
that no single livine man can
comprehend it.
Along with this trend toward
concentration of government in
the national capital we have
seen a fabulous increase in the
COST of government. I'm per
sonally sure it will be better for
all of us and for our children
after us if we keep the admin
istration of our schools as close
to home as possible.
IN THESE days, every state has
1 C 4n n,ntila. X-.
ty has its tax oroblems. Evprv
city has its tax problems. This
being true, it is understandable
why a federal appropriation for
school construction has its ap
peal.
But we must rpmpmhpr that
ALL tax money comes out of
the pockets of the people.
. In the long run, it makes little
THEIR CLOTHES ON!
Devaluation
European financial experts be
lieve that devaluation of the
French franc is imminent. Near
ly everybody in Paris is talking
about it except the two men who
must decide Premier Maurice
Bourges-Maunoury and Finance
Minister Felix Gaillard. They
refuse to talk. Naturally, they
would not even hint in advance
if they planned such a move.
But their failure to deny deval
uation reports is taken to mean
that it probably is coming. De
valuation would be strong medi
cine. Those in favor of it say it
is necessary as an austerity mea
sure to strengthen the currency.
Officially valued at 350 to the
dollar, it takes 420 francs to buy
a dollar in the free market.
Atomic Power
A controversy is building up
over the proposal that the Unit
ed States build an atomic plant
modeled on Britain's Calder
Hall, the world's first big nu
clear power station. A bill ap
proved by a congressional sub
committee would require the
Atomic Energy commission to
build one. The AEC doesn't
want to says U.S. models hold
more promise. But Calder Hall
uses natural uranium while the
American stations use enriched
uranium, which calls for costly
separation plants. Those in favor
of the Calder HaU type say it is
attractive as an export item to
undeveloped countries. They
fear Britain will grab the mar
ket potentially a big one un
less the United States acts.
Communications
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trie name and address ot the writer
although under certain circum
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an eye to clarification and conden
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lication must not exceed 400 words
Concerned Over Procedure
To the Editor: The judge's
verdict in the case of Ora Lee
Adams seemed to most of those
who attended the hearing a fair
and wise one. But, even though
the case of the little old lady on
Oakdale has a happy ending it
has raised a question that chills
the spine of the average citizen.
Namely, have we any real safe
guards against illegal committal
to the insane asylum?
Several of us who were dis
turbed over the committal of
Mrs. Adams last March made in
quiries at the court house and
were told "everything is in
proper order." It was Impossible
for a private citizen to examine
the pertinent documents. When
Mrs. Allison Adams arrived in
iown and attained access to
them through her attorney
things did not look proper and
it has taken her a two month
legal fight and great expense to
secure" the little old lady's re
lease and break the guardian
ship the guardianship which
difference whether the tax
money is taken out of our pock
ets by the federal government
or the local governments.
It does, however, make this
difference: When we send our
tax money to Washington and
expect Washington to send it
back to us, we discover in the
end that it has shrunk consider
ably in the transfer back and
forth.
Up Before Day
GEO. N. TAYLOR
A great while before day, Christ arose
to pray Mark 1:35 BIBLE.. Then He
went on Into Galilee where He spent much
of the next three years. There He proved
His God-hood by many a miracle. Later He
died for all who will have Him as Lord
and Saviour. Believe that He died for your
sins and God gives you new days for here
and now and eternal life also.
This mesage sponsored by an Oregon
dairy family. Adv.
Lack of Grass Roots Support
Seen School Bill Loss Cause
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Presi Correspondent
Washington (IP) President
Eisenhower is being accused of
scuttling his own bill for federal
aid to schools,
but that seems
not to be wh it
actually hap
pened.
What hit the
school- aid billl
last week was
a blast of grass
roots indigna
tion against the
I.yU C WUsob
high taxes and
high levels of government sDend-
ing. There were other factors, of
course, in the five-vote margin
which the House refused to ap
propriate funds for school con
struction. Racial integration had
a big part.
Both major parties met last
summer in national nominating
conventions which also drafted
statements of political principles
commonly known as platforms.
These wordy documents, read by
few and understood by fewer,
each bore one strong resemb
lance to the other. That resemb
lance was that each tried to pro
mise a little something for every
body, more, if possible, than the
other promised.
tsy sucn Devices both major
parties formally committed
themselves before the 1956 pres
idential campaign to spend a lot
of federal money on local
schools. Came the whopping new
Eisenhower budget last January
and things began to happen
Get New Chairman ,
On Jan. 22 the Republican
party got a new national chair
man, hand-picked by the Presi
dent and his advisors. The new
man was Meade Alcorn, of Con
necticut, tagged as a modern Re
publican evangelist.
Alcorn proceeded immediately
to a series of huddles with con
gressional Republicans from
whom he heard qad news the
Eisenhower administration was
in serious trouble with the vot
ers. The new chairman hustled
to the White House to talk it
over. He subsequently received
from Eisenhower a letter which,
the judge declares never legally
existed at all.
Stlil more terrifying is Judge
Millard's statement to the affect
that "we aren't being critical
because counsel knows wp
handle these things as a matter
01 course." When, pray, did we
cease handling them as a matter
of law?
No less than 'five officials
must have checked and signed
some part of the illegal guard
ianship and committal papers. Is
a life spent locked in the insane
asylum so trivial a matter that
our officials do not even bother
to read the documents before
they sign them? How many
others were wonder are incarcer
ated similarly "as a matter of
course." If there can be "many
irregularities" (judge's words)
in the one case that has been
placed before the public, what
about the others? Unless they
are fortunate enough to have a
Jane or Allison Adams their
records we assume are proper
and very secret.
From the attorney who drew
up the original guardianship
through judge, county doctor,
sheriff's officers and admitting
officer at the asylum, no one
was at fault that due process of
law was neglected. Everybody
seems to have trusted somebody
else.
If you as citizens of Jackson
county are willing to stake your
personal freedom on the propo
sition that "we can all trust
Henry he knows John," let
the case of Ora Lee Adams drop.
If in addition to the good offices
of Henry and John you want the
legal protection the constitution
guarantees you, it's time for an
investigation. And please, one in
which Henry and John are not
the determining factors.
. Jane Gillaspie
636 Fourth st.
Medford, Ore.
Digest Tails All
To The Editor: Everyone who
wishes the true picture of the
Hells Canyon Dam" contro
versy should read the article in
the August, 1957, Reader's Di
gest on Page 89, 'titled, "Pacific
Northwest Stands - on its own
feet."
Leila A. Morrow
531 North Bartlett st.
Medford, Ore.
A LOT OF WATER .
Memphis, Tenn. TIP) Morris
Baker says it takes at least 700,-
000 gallons of water to grow one
500-pound bale of cotton.
If;
the United Press was informed,
stated bluntly that the people
should have the greatest and
most effective voice in determin
ing party policy.
The letter instructed Alcorn
to go forth among the people to
discover what was wrong.. He
was to return to tell the Presi
dent how things stood. There
followed regional Republican
meetings in five cities, Omaha,
Neb.; Salt Lake City, Utah;
Louisville, Ky.; Cincinnati, O ,
and Trenton, N. J.
The grass roots participants in
those meetings came later
last May to Washington. The
regional meetings were closed to
the public. The assembled Re
publicans spoke frankly of their
troubles. A digest of their jeers,
gripes, and cheers was compiled
for presentation to Eisenhower
by Alcorn escorted by Sen. An
drew Schoeppel (R-Kan.), and
Rep. Richard M Simpson (R-Pa.).
Not Made Public
This report has not been made
public. The United Press was
Informed, however, that Eisen
hower's school-aid spending was
Matter of Fact ay sewn ai,p
THEY WON'T WORK FOR IKE
Washington Top officials of
the Eisenhower administration
including the President himself,
are spending a
good deal of
their time these
almost literally
on their knees,
pleading with
leading busi
nessmen to
take jobs with
gov ernment,
And about 19
Stewaif Alsop
times out of
20, they are getting a flat re
fusal.
If the implications were not
so serious, the situation would
be downright farcical. Take the
search for someone to head the
International Cooperation Ad
ministration, the agency which
handles billions of dollars in for
eign aid, and which is a vitally
important instrument of Ameri
can foreign policy.
When John Hollister decided
to resign as chief of the ICA, the
search for a successor began with
James Smith, the extremely able
former Assistant Secretary of
the Navy. Smith turned it down.
Since then, the fantastic total of
21 leading (and not-so-leading)
businessmen have been offered
the job, and have refused. Re
cently, the refusals were coming
in at the rate of three a day.
TT is now hoped that Smith, the
a. first choice can after all be
nprsiiariprl to take on the job.
But the fact that 21 men turned
down one of the most interesting
anrt influential iobs in the gov
ernment suggests that something
is very wrong somewhere.
So does the well-publicized
and thus far futile search for a
cuccpssor to Charles Wilson as
Secretary of Defense. The De
fense Secretaryship is, after an,
the third, ' perhaps the second,
most important post in the Amer
ican oovcrnment Yet three in
dustrialists hand-running have
turned down the job iiar
enpa Ka nrlall of Inland Steel,
vmpf Tirppch of Ford Motors,
Ralph Cordiner of General Elec-
trlc- .
Bankers are apparently just
i- reluctant as Industrialists to
take a government post. Enough
bankers were ottered tne gov
ernment's number two fiscal
iv, thp iindPi-seeretarvshiD of
the' Treasury, to make a small
bankers' convention. But a law
yer- Assistant Secretary of tne
Trp'asnrv Fred Scribner. had to
be promoted by default.
. .
IT is often said that business
men rpfnse to serve the gov
ernment because they fear ex
posure' to Congressional badger
ing. Retiring Secretary of the
Trpasnrv Humnhrev's 14-day or
deal before a Senate committee
cited as the sort of thing that
scares off the businessmen. This
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the most aggressively challeng
ed of all of his policies. The
grass rooters repudiated both
the President and the party plat
form on that Issue.
. The President's enthusiasm
for some big time spending to
build schools probably began to
wilt about the time he got the
Alcorn-Schoeppel- Simpson re
port and it did not thereafter
stiffen. The word around town
shortly before last week's House
vote killed the school bill was
that Eisenhower would make a
sudden and dramatic appeal for
its approval.
There was no such appeal and
persons familiar with the back
ground of the controversy were
not surprised when it was not
forthcoming.
It has been said of some poll
ticians that they detect grass
.roots trends by the unlikely
method of simultaneously put
ting both ears to the ground.
Eisenhower did not have to ac
complish that feat to hear what
Republican grass rooters thought
of building local schools with
federal funds.
is no doubt part of the explana
tion. But it is certainly not the
whole of it.
Two of the most interesting
jobs in the government are now
going begging, and neither in
volves any painful contact with
Congress. One is the soon-to-be-vacated
post of chief of the State
Department's policy planning
staff, now headed by Robert
Bowie. Secretary of State Dulles
wants someone from outside the
government to take on the policy
planning staff. But although the
job involves the most fascinat
ing kind of high-level policy
making, there are no takers so
far, and the post may go instead
to a Foreign Service profession
al. Robert Cutler, special assist
ant to the President and Secre
tary of the National Security
Council, has in some ways the
most interesting job in the gov
ernment. He deals in all the
highest issues of national policy,
and he briefs the President daily
on such issues. Cutler wants to
go back to his Boston bank and
repair his private fortunes. Yet,
so far, he is staying on, because
no qualified man to replace him
has been found.
A ND so it goes. President Tru
man used to complain almost
daily about the difficulty of get
ting good men to serve the gov
ernment. In fact. President Ei
senhower, heading a strongly
pro-business administration, is
having a lot more trouble than
Truman did.
Part of the trouble is money.
of course. There are the compar
atively low government salaries,
and the conflict-of-interest prob
lems, but the fact is that many
businesses ruthlessly penalize
any executive who leaves to
work for his government. One
of the President's closest advis
ers, for example, who has no
private means, has already lost
half his pension rights in the
firm in which he was formerly
an executive. Businessmen who
work for the government also
tend to lose their place dh the
corporate ladder, and when they
return they find that they have
been'shoved down several years.
Perhaps Congress ought to
have another look at the conflict-of-interest
statutes, and at
salary rates and income tax ex
emptions in the executive
branch. But business also ought
to have another look at its prac
tices in respect to those who take
government jobs. For it' is cer
tainly in the interest of busi
ness that the President's experi
ment in staffing the top levels
of. government with businessmen
should not fail. And it will fail
if the government can draw only
on second raters, the independ
ently rich, and the elderly and '
retired.
(Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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