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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
Aug. 4, 1947 (Monday)
Donald Y. Beeman, experi
enced commercial beekeeper, is
appointed Jackson, Klamath
and Lake counties' apiary in
spector. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The horti
culturists are all on the balls
of their feet, as the plucking
and packing of the Bartletts has
started.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 4, 1337 (Wednesday)
Week-old pig is brought into
the Mail-Tribune office having
two tails.
Fistic activities occur in the
town of Rogue River involving
Townsend club finances.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 4. 1927 (Thursday)
Committees picked to handle
the prosperity celebration in
Medford late in September. .
People of Central Point Chris
tian church put new roof on
building and paint the structure.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 4. 1917 (Saturday)
Victory must be so complete
that our national liberty never
again shall be challenged, David
Lloyd George, British premier.
says in London.
The battle flag that flew on
the bridge of the Olympia in
the battle of Manila bay will be
shown at the Knights of Pythias
conclave at Crater Lake Aug. 14.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent: five or
six la good
1. On which continent was the
first appearance of smallpox re
corded? 2. Is a merganser a duck,
measuring device, or kitchen
utensil?
3. Bible: Publications: The
"Finger Prayerbook" (1889),
weight 3,4 of an ounce; "A Finger
New Testament" (1880). Was
"The Smallest Bible" (in the
world) published before 1880 or
between 1880 and 1889?
4. Does Lent begin' on Ash
Wednesday, Good Friday, or
Palm Sunday?
5. Which State has the great
est annual rainfall?
6. Name a former U. S. Presi
dent who led the famous charge
up San Juan Hill, rear Santiago,
Cuba.
7. Do drone bees have grand
fathers, but no fathers?
8. Which is the highest rank
ing position in the President's
Cabinet?
9. In which word is the "t"
pronounced: croquet, or crotch
et? 10. "Give My Regards to
Broadway." Is this the title or
refrain of George M. Cohan's
song?
Answers: 1. Asia. 2. Duck.
3. Before- 1875. 4. Ash Wednes
day. 5. Louisiana (55 inches).
. 6. Theodore Roosevelt, 7. Yes.
8. Secretary of State. 9. Crotch
et. 10. Both.
Snapping Turtle May
Be 100 Years Old
North Stonington, R. I. KPI
Ronald Greene, 14, found a 30
pound snapping turtle in Wyas
sup Lake which experts believe
may be more than 100 years old
The oldest known turtle is said
to live on St. Helena Island,
where Napoleon was exiled in
1815, and is believed to be more
than 180 years old- '
MAIL TRIBUNE
What Is a
That excellent newspaper the Astorian Budget
brings up the time-honored political question as to
what is the difference between a Liberal, and a Con
servative. It finds the traditional definition that a Liberal
stresses human values over property values, while the
Conservative does the reverse, a superficial judgment
and a "vast oversimplification."
To prove its point it maintains:
Human values are intertwined with property values.
The latter, after all, were conceived by human beings.
They relate closely to important rights cherished by the
human individual the right of privacy and with it no
small measure of human dignity, the right to hold and use,
material possessions as one chooses, the right to accumulate
the fruits of one's labor.
A "liberal" who does not respect these rights is prob
ably not as concerned for human advancement as he imag
ines! And a conservative who respects them is for human
welfare whether he likes that term or not.
All of which is interesting but hardly convincing.
Human values are intertwined with property values,
and the latter of course were conceived by human be
ings. ..
The point is their conceptions differ, and it is that
difference that distinguishes the Liberal from the
Conservative.
TAKE the so-called "fast tax write-offs" for exam-
pie. These "write-offs" were designed for one
principal purpose and only in war-time.
The purpose was to encourage and hasten large
industry to enter production of implements of war,
and by tax write-offs compensate them for increased
expense necessarily involved.
Whether such a procedure was justified even as
a war measure or not is debatable, but after'all that
is not the question.
The question is whether the present administra
tion WAS justified as in the case of the. Idaho Power
company continuing such "write-offs" during the
boom times of PEACE.
Here, we believe, is a clear cut distinction between
the average American Liberal and the average Ameri
can Conservative.
That difference is well described by noting that
when the issue is between private profit and the pub
lic welfare the typical Liberal supports the latter and
th$ typical Conservative the former.
IT is true that the Idaho Power company belatedly
1 refused to accept this $80,000,000 gift, at th.e ex
pense of the American tax payers, but it is significant
that only when public exposure was threatened, was
what adds up to "a confession of guilt," presented.
THE "Oil Depletion allowance" is another example.
This has literally put hundreds of millions of dol
lars into the treasuries of the already prosperous oil
combines, and again at the expense of the American
tax payers.
We have yet to note any Conservative leader in
the country who has aiy criticism to make of any such
"give-away" and those who have objected could all be
classified as "Liberals."
f N short we see no reason
what distinguishes the
vative is primarily a matter of emphasis. The Liberal
emphasizes the human values, the Conservative, the
property values.
THE mistake we believe
inTieiflrinn' Vi a rll cf in
san political field only.
From such a standpoint,- like all generalities,
there are exceptions to the rule, and to claim all. Re
publicans are pseudo-conservatives, and all Democrats
are dedicated Liberals, is to be guilty, not only of
over-simplification but ef
There are thousands of
Democratic party look at
ers and there are some not so many members of
the "Grand Old Party" who could qualify as "liber
als." But taking the two parties as a WHOLE and their
records in RECENT years, and we feel no impartial
and informed observer wquW deny that the G.O.P.
is usually on the side of property rights, and the
Democratic party and its dominant leadership is con
ditioned just the other way.
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A s to the granting of rights of personal PRIVACY,
human dignity, the right to hold and use material
possessions as one chooses, and the right to, accumu
late the fruits of one's labor, are concerned; assuming
that this is not a veiled attack against the income tax,
state and federal, the inheritance tax etc., etc., then
we can imagine no right thinking citizen, Liberal or
Conservative, who would raise the slightest objection.
R.W.R.
Warren for President?
As an example of a conservative leader in the
Democratic party, Senator Russell of Georgia is a per
fect example, being as rock-bound a conservative as
Senator Saltonstall, Republican of Massachusetts.
As an example of a genuine Liberal in the G.O.P.,
the obvious stand-out in that category is Chief Justice
Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Warren has not only been forward-looking and
"liberal" in all his decisions, but as Governor of Cal
ifornia and recognized national leader of his party,
he has a long and distinguished record of enlightened
and progressive statesmanship.
In fact because of this record there is a movement
on foot by certain members of the Democratic party,
to follow the Charles Evans Hughes precedent and
draft Justice Warren for their party's presidential
Sunday, August 4. 1957
"Liberal?
to reject the claim that
typical American Conser
the "Budget" makes is in
irn rr mnli in f n a T5iifl.
what is obviously untrue.
ultra-conservatives in the
the Black-Belt southern
Who needs a salao ?
Time For Unity Nears
On Rogue Basin Plan,
Courier Editor Warns
(Editor's note: The follow
ing editorial, written by Edi
tor Ken Hicks of the Grants
Pass Courier, comments on
the Rogue River Basin devel
opment bill, introduced into
congress last week by Con
gressman Charles O. Porter.)
The Rogue basin flood control
and reclamation bill , promised
by Rep. Charles O. Porter will
be introduced in congress to
morrow. Its provisions follow
the general outline advanced by
Rep. Porter, in his spring ap
pearances at Grants Pass and
Medford. ...
Specifically listed is a high
dam on the Rogue river at Lewis
creek, with a power plant, and
the Ruch dam, both to be built
by Army engineers. Other proj
ects embodied include the Cas
cade Gorge dam and power
plant; Trail diversion dam and
power plant and the Deer creek
dam and reservoir, to be con
structed unedr jurisdiction of
the Interior Department.
The bill, Rep. Porter states
definitely in his letter announc
ing the introduction date, will
be subject to amendment when
the report of Army engineers on
their current flood control sur
vey is submitted. The represent
ative made this pledge both at
Grants Pass and Medford, after
he had been asked to delay in
troduction of the bill unUl Army
engineers had completed their
work.
Filing the bill now will have
the "advantage of putting the
legislative wheels in motion,"
Rep. Porter explains, and "might
result in a gain of as much as
two years on eventual construc
tion." The biU provides for an
appropriation o f $66,000,000,
"plus or minus such amounts, if
any, as may be required by rea
son of ehanges in the costs of
construction," for the over-all
project.
In conclusion, Rep. Porter
states that he will not attempt
to follow through on the bill un.
less it has the "overwhelming
support of Rogue valley resi
dents." That puts a major issue
squarely in the lap of Rogue val
ley people, who already have
.fought one major engagement
over the Plan A program of the
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Any hope that Army engi
neers would not favor a high
dam on the main stream of the
Rogue, as 'essential to any real
flood control program, was dis
sipated .this spring when Ross
Hatch, U.S. Army engineer in
charge of the Rogue basin sur
vey, declared at a meeting in
Grants Pass that low dams on
tributaries never would accom
plish a real job of flood control.
Thus, - aside from reclamation
features, of the Porter bill, it
would appear fairly obvious that
present provisions will not be
greatly different from ultimate
recommendations by Army. en
gineers. Under these circumstances
one can agree with Rep. Porter's
contention that introduction of
the bill now subject to subse
quent amendment is sound
strategy and could speed ulti
mate enactment. That presup
poses, of course, that the Rogue
basin really wants flood control
even though the program em
bodies a high dam.
The Army engineers also have
candidate" in IQfiO
In the judgment of this
mane a verier ur snrewaer cnoice. AS 01 touay 10
one man in the countiy, we believe, who would have
a chance three years hence of leading the Democratic
party to victory.
But it is one thing to want him and quite another
to get him. After all that Hughes precedent of defeat,
is not one a man as wise as the" Chief Justice and as
conscientious would be disposed to follow.
But he is far more in harmony with the liberalism
of the Democratic party than the conservatism of the
Republican party, as the outstanding issues are crys
talizing today R.W.R.
warned that when they will
make their report, probably next
year, they will not press for ac
tion on it unless the people" of
this area really want flood con
trol on the only basis that can
be effective.
Thus the time for ultimate de
cision, is nearer than many of
us realize. We probably have un
til the latter part of 1958 to rec
oncile our differences and make
up our collective minds whether
we want flood control at the ex
pense of an admittedly impor-
tant spawning area for steelhead
and salmon.
A lot may hinge on the deci
sion. 1A high dam at Lewis creek,
for example, ' probably could
store sufficient surplus water for
the' pulp industry that will lo
cate somewhere in this area, if
present pla.ns materialize. Such
a dam, by storing winter run-off
and releasing the cool water dur
ing the summer months, could
actually improve fishing along
the middle river, in the opinion
of many persons. They cite what
has happened on the Sacramento
river as a result of the Shasta
dam, by way of illustration.
The entire project, as outlined
in the Porter bill,- also would
mean additional water for irriga
tion of. more land in the Rogue
basin. This may not seem impor
tant now, in view of farm sur
pluses, but the time wUl come
when our rapidly expanding
population will require much
more food than now is produced.
Against all these advantages,
plus the tremendous recreation
al value of a big reservoir and
the excellent trout fishing that
would be available there, we
have but one major liability.
This is the inundation of one
spawning area.
A great many other such areas
will remain along the Rogue and
its tributaries, and we just can't
accept the claim that "irrepar
able" damage will be done to
Rogue river fishing by a high
dam. Salmon and steelhead runs
have been "transplanted" be
fore, by releasing fingerlings in
different tributaries of a water
shed.
Somehow we have the feeling
that the disastrous flood of "1955
changed a lot of minds about the
need for flood control. It just
could be that, aside from a few
diehards, the Rogue valley this
time can unite on a project that
will mean much to all of south
ern Oregon.
Holmes Reelected
By Pear Shippers
Harold Holmes, manager of
Rogue River Orchards, was re
elected president of the Medford
Pear Shippers association at a
special election meeting Thurs
day at the Rogue Valley Coun
try club.
Also reelected was Ralph
Cook, owner of the Cook or
chards, tn a second one-year
term as vice president. Fred
Morlan remains as secretary-
treasurer for the association.
ed office im
mediately and announced plans
to continue the programs oi me
near inrincw arnnn in the fields
of production, merchandising
and freight traffic worK.
department they could not
Editorial
Comment
WHAT m HELL DID WE DO?
The omnibus Lousing legisla
tion recenUy signed by the Pres
ident is about as helpful to the
housing industry as a bucket of
bolts, or a tossed concrete bllck
would be to a drowning man.
While the rest of the nation's
economy goes bubbling merrily
along, and bankers doodle dol
lar signs at directors' meetings,
noting gravely that their coffers
are almost bursting, lumbermen
and the thousands of others de
pendent upon housing for a liv
ing, are hopefully looking
around the house for a needle
with which to sew up a rip in
last year's trousers.
The question in most lumber
men's minds, but often un
spoken, generally runs along the
"What in hel did we do, that
the housing industry should end
up with all this egg on its face?"
We're not an actual enemy of
our country, naturally. But to
the g i m 1 e t-eyed economists
we're almost that, and they say
the clamp-down had to be en
forced to keep . inflation from
roaring through the economy
like a Pine forest crown fire.
Did" it really?
In a fervent plea for help,
the National Lumber Manufac
turers Association clobbered top
White House officials with pro-1
testing wires last week, as the
Administration smugly stated
that because oi fear of adding
inflationary measures they
would delay a cut in the so-
necessary down payment stand
ards. The association stated:
"The housing industry and in
dustries dependent on housing
as a market for their products
have been seriously affected by
the shortage of mortgage credit
while practically all other seg
ments of our economy are boom
ing. We don't believe the reason
able down payment relaxations
permitted in the bill will be
recognized by workers and oth
ers dependent upon housing for
their livielihood as seriously in
flationary when comparable re
straints are not being imposed
upon other segments of the econ
omy and when federal expendi
tures are being maintained at
the highest peacetime level in
history."
What has really happened is
that they've haltered housing
with a sawtooth bit, and given
other industries, such as the
automobile empire, a rap on the
unsaddled rump and headed
them toward golden pastures.
When the housing industry
Matter of
LAST SHANCE?
London The basic confusion
hag-riding the disarmament talks
has only been underlined by
Secretary o f
Foster Dulles'
hasty trip to
London. The
confusion
comes - f r o m
talking about
three differ
ent subjects at
once.
The first of
Joseph Aisop . these subjects,
actual disarmament, gives the
London negotiations their title
A wholly unilateral, entirely
budget-motivated and probably
extremely dangerous disarma
ment program is now being car
ried out by the British and
American governments. But that
is the only kind of serious dis
armament that is now in pros
pect. The second of these 'subjects,
aerial inspection, provided the
main motive of the Dulles jour
ney. This was because the idea
of an aerial inspection was Pres
ident Eisenhower's personal ba
by. The President's first bold
proposal has now shrunk to a
plan for air inspection of a zone
in Europe:, on either side of the
line dividing the NATO forces
from the armies under Soviet
control. , This both sides inspec
tion may give some warning
against surprise attack.
But both the French and the
Germans deeply fear that the es
tablishment of such an air in
spection zone will cause "Eur
ope to be neutralized." The
NATO staff is decidedly hostile.
Thus Secretary Dulles had to
hurry to London to see that the
President's personal baby got
the tender care that any Eisen
hower baby, however, deformed,
naturally deserves in an Eisen
hower administration.
GIVEN the circumstances, it
still seems highly unlikely
that an aerial Inspection system
will in fact be set up. And that
leaves the third subject of these
London talks, which is the only
subject offering much immedi
ate hone of practical agreement.
This is the subject of eventual
cessation of nuciear and thermo
nuclear bomb tests.
The "disarmament" negotia
tions have been wildly confused
by triple-talk. So too the subject
of the cessation of nuclear tests
has been wildly confused by
double-talk.. In particular, the
cessation of bomb tests has al
ways been publicly advocated
on the sole ground that continu
ing tests will be dangerous, be
cause of the menace of nuclear
fallout. ,
But in fact what all the nego
tiators in London have in mind
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
We like the name Medford,
and we like the name Ashland,
too, but we've never been under
any illusion that either one was
particularly original.
We found we're right about
that impression, for the Postal
Guide lists 12 Medfords and 24
Ashlands scattered throughout
the United States.
It is interesting to note, too.
that there are two Applegates
In the United States; four Table
Rocks, ten Oak Groves, two
Brownsboros, two Central Points
and, surprisingly to us, eight
Prospects.
But there's one town here
abouts that is originally named,
and that is Talent. Ours is the
only one listed.
Our Flight O' Time editor
ran across an ad for cactus
candy in a 1927 issue of the
M-T, and decided that it prob-
tries to make a point and relieve
this unhappy situation, the econ
omist drags out charts and hap
pily point out that this situation
is only temporary. Every eight
seconds a baby is born in Amer
ica. The millions born during!
World War II are in high school,
and in another five or six years,
they'll all be marrying and hav
ing babies of their own. In the
1970's the population will have
zoomed to some 200,000,000,
naturally creating staggering
new markets for homes.
In the 1970s.
We needed help yesterday . . .
and the day before that! So the
question is not so much, "What
the hell did we do, since we
didn't do . anything different
from other industries, but what
the hell can we do?"
Not one thing, every lumber
producer and .wholesaler can
follow the NOMA'S lead, and
saturate congressmen and higher-up?
with wires and correspon
dence endeavoring to get a fair
shake, and get housing off its
tail.
One still hears snorts of "We
don't need government help .
we're an industry that stands
cn its own feet and slugs it
out. . .
Soon they may be screams.
Bob Smith in Crow's Lumber
Digest.
More than 500 courses of in
struction in commercial and op
erative subjects are available for
the employees of British rail
ways, e
Fact by joePh msoP
is not the danger of nuclear fall
out. It is, rather, the simple fact
that if all nuclear tests are halt
ed now, the membership list of
the atomic weapons club will be
effectively closed.
Equally, an agreement on ces
sation of tests is a practical pos
sibility, not because everyone is
fearful of the fallout danger. It
is a practical possibility, rather,
because everyone realizes that a
kind of world nightmare will be
gan when atomic weapons are
available to any nation on earth,
however small, obsessed and ir
responsible. fPHE Soviets are behind the
United States in nuclear
weapons testing and develop
ment. Yet they want" to keep
Germany and other powers out
of the atomic club at all costs.
Thus Valerian Zorin's main pur
pose in London has been to se
cure a cessation of tests as soon
as possible.
That leaves the next move up
to the United States, where pol
icy making has been sadly mud
dled by the delusion of atomic
monopoly of such men as Adiri.
Lewis Strauss. As the United
States development program is
in the lead, there can be no ques
tion about the American interest
in stopping tests now.
But the American negotiators
cannot exploit this lonely iden
tity of interest between the So
viets and ourselves until we se
cure the agreement of our al
lies. The British, although they
have atomic weapons, are un
comfortably far behind in devel
opment.. The other allies have
not yet tested any atomic weap
ons. Yet tney win nuv acccpi
open relegation to the status oi
second class powers.
e
THAT means the administra
tion must not just muse in
public about the desirability oi
the President and Secretary
amending the Macmahon Act, as
Dulles have already done. Bold
measures to amend the Macma
hon Act are needed, so that
NATO at least can share our nu
clear plenty. Furthermore, this
is a "going, going, gone" situa
tion. One can almost hear the
auctioner's chant. As the other
Western allies get nearer and
nearer to actual possession of
atomic weapons, they grow
more and more reluctant to ac
cept being barred from full
membership in the atomic club.
These 12 months, quite prob
ably, are the last period of the
last chance. Fortunately Secre
tary Dulles' visit to London has
also produced signs that the
American delegation may be in
troduced to try for the last
chance in the next round of dis
armament talks.
ably was a good way to tickle
your palate and scratch your
stomach at the same time.
In our younger days we knew
a plumber named Godlove who
drove -to 'business in a truclc
with a big sign which said "God
love the Plumber." ;
Ever since then we've been
fascinated by people with names
particularly suited to their jobs.
We were, therefore, pleased
when a colleague handed us a
list of such she'd compiled, on
which was recorded the fact
that Mr. Plumb works for the
water department; Mr. Waters
works for the plumbing depart
ment (maybe they should trade
jobs), and Mr. Fish works for
the sewage treatment depart
ment. And, for whatever it's worth,
the nice young lady who is re
ceptionist at the city haU is
named Wilder.
A reporter dropped Into
book store the other day and
spotted a book entitled "Learn
to Live, You're Half Deadr
"Can you imagine facing such
a book title after a hard Mon
day at the office?" he asked
plaintively. '
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A group of young people, one
of whom was a female, gather
ed at a local refreshment parlor
recently, and after a period of
time the young woman rose to
leave.
"Well, now that I'm going,
you can talk man-talk," she
said.
"You may call it man-talk,
but it's usually mostly about
women," came the reply from
one of her worldly-wise friends.
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That same plaintive report
er mentioned above has an
other plaint namely the
"awful dinners they often
have to eat at public gather
ings." But the compensating
factor, he declares, particular
ly if one happens to be cover
ing farm news, are the big.
wholesome and delicious meals
served at Granges and ether
farm gatherings.
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A member of our staff, cur
rently on vacation, worked hard
the night before he left to get
caught up. The next day the
Potluck editor found the follow
ing note on his desk:
"I lead a life of frustration.
Worked down here until about
2 am. No sooner had I got home
and crawled in bed than a roost
er crowed."
'
Speaking of singularly ap
propriate names, we are pleas
ed to note that the Oregon
State Women's Softball tour
nament, to be held in Eugene
Aug. 8 to 11. will tbe at
Amaion park.
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A group of young business
people recently devised a way
to prod themselves into getting
up bright and early each day,
and. to eat a nourishing breakfast.-
They formed a breakfast
club, and took turns having the
group at each other's homes at
7 a.m.'
Once, however, the group met
for dinner, too, and then those
attvding, late in the evening,
were reminded to come back for
breakfast at . 7 a.m. The : only
stipulation to the invitation was
that the visitors agree to rattle
the garbage cans on the ' way
out so the neighbors wouldn't
think they had stayed all night.
The following quotation,
unabridged, comes from the
youngest member of our staff:
We called Sacred Heart
hospital very routinely the
other day, and the operator
there said ' they had nothing
for us. We asked if there were
any babies born, and she
switched us to the nursery.
We asked if any babies had
been born. The nursery lady
said she didn't know, that we
would have to talk to the
delivery room, which she
would get for us.
Then she jiggled the receiv
er. A lady answered. A fac
simile of the conversation en
suing between the two follows:
"Hello. Can you switch this
call to the delivery room?"
'Hello?"
"Yes, can you switch the
call? They want to get the
babies?"
"Hello, Mail Tribune."
"Yes, they're on the phone.
This is the nursery and they
want the babies at the de
livery room." '
''Did you want me? This is
the Mail Tribune."
"But ..."
Here we interrupted and
announced that probably the
Sacred Heart lady, by jig
gling, had gotten our own
M-T operator downstairs in
our building. This the latter
quickly acknowledged, and
everybody laughed. We then -told
our operator to keep out
of it. She did, after mistak
enly answering a couple more
Sacred Heart switching tries,
and we finally got the two
babies that had - happened. .
One of them weighed 10
pounds, and we sincerely
hope he turns into a football
tackle instead of newspaper .
reporter.
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