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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1947 (Tuesday) -
Most valley packers sell a sub
stantial quanity of Bartletts for
$95 per ton.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge got colum: It will be
the first time next month before
the valley watermellons will be
ripe enough and big enough to
steal.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5. 1937 (Thursday)
Rogue River national forest
headquarters is called upon for
emergency assistance to fight a
fire in the Columbia national
forest.
Governor Charles H. Martin,
of Oregon, will be guest speaker
at the Shakespearean Festival
tomorrow night.
30 YEAS AGO
Aug. 5. 1927 (Friday)
The Bartlett pear harvest will
commence Monday, some of the
fruit inothe lower orchards is
later.
Contributions to the Legion
playground fund are not being
received as rapidly as should
be for such work.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1917 (Monday)
Corporal Lyn Mowat is the
only journalist in First com
pany's ranks having left his pos
ition as city editor of the Tidings
to accompany the command.
The first 1918 auto in Med
ford is a Buick six-49.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Population of the U.S. in
1800 was 5,305.482, of which
898,489 were Negroes. Was this
the 1st. 2nd, or 3rd U.S. census?
2. What is the name of the
great vein in the neck?
3. Bible: Evidence indicates
that Pilate despised which, the
Jews or Christians?
4. After the armistice was
-signed with Italy, did the Italian
Government declare war on
Germany?
5. Two cows and two horses
have a total of how many stom
achs? , 6. The number of one billion
is expressed how in England?
7. What is a Thespian?
8. How do Manx cats differ
from other cats?
9. Crowd means a great num
ber of persons: Is it good usage
to apply it to a circle of friends?
10. "Like the month of March,
in like a lion and out like a
what?
Answers: 1. Second. 2. Jugular
Tein. 3. Jews. Christianity came
later. 4. Yes. 5. Ten. 6. One mil
lion. 7. An actor. 8. They have
no tails. 9. No. 10. "Lamb."
Roy North.
Log Production Down
In Calendar Year
Salem (W ; Log production
in the state of Oregon for the
calendar year of 1956 was 9,
335.810.000 board feet, accord
ing to figures ' compiled in the
state forester's office.
State Forester Dwight L.
Phipps said that this was 384
billipn board feet below that of
the previous year and nearly a
half billion board feet below the
banner year of 1952 when 9.
802.471,000 board feet was
teached.
Douglas county led in 1956
with a cut of 1,776,297,000 board
feet. I
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Hdil William, Et Al
Just eight years ago we saw an Oregon Shake
spearean Festival play for the first time.
What it was we don't recall, for it has blended
into all the others we've seen in succeeding years.
But we do recall that there was magic in it, and
that it created an ineradicable impression of color,
movement, light and spontaneity.
More recently, we must confess, that magic waned.
For the past three or four years the festival as a whole
(though not necessarily individual productions) we
have found wanting. Enjoyable yes ; but not the hap
py and festive thing it should be.
'
TTHUS, on opening night, we were hesitant and
doubtful.
It was, therefore, a delightful surprise to find the
magic had returned. It eludes definition, but the com
bination of light, color, gaiety, informality, spontan
eity, drama and excited enthusiasm were irresistible.
Obviously, this is a personal reaction, subject to
dispute by those who can find nothing wrong (or
those who can find nothing right) in the festival.
But whatever one's personal views, it is a fact that
it has come to be one of the major annual events in
this part of the state, and rightly so. '
O
UR feeling wras corroborated by others.
Nat Farbman, the Life magazine photographer,
kept muttering "fabulous, fabulous" to himself and
his companions as he wandered around opening night,
clickipg away with his three cameras.
The 13-year-old who accompanied us (though
bored by some of the "grown-up" talk) saw and felt
the magic of the occasion too.
The opening night banquet on the lawn of Lithia
park, with its singing, dancing, bagpipe music, cos
tumes, torches, visiting dignitaries, all amidst the
trees, lakes and streams, is an innovation of charm.
Festival officials report that this year, the second time
it has been given out of doors, demand for tickets far
outstripped the supply. It may well be expanded in
future years.
There was something in the attitude of the big,
first-night crowd, too, which added to the occasion. It
was informal, friendly, relaxed.
The weather cooperated beautifully. And the
bright banners, the lovely flowering gardens, the gay
booths at the rear of the theater shell, all contributed.
DERHAPS the magic has always been there, and it
was we who were lacking. But, whether it has
"returned" or whether it never has left, Ashland real
ly "has something" this year.
And this "something" is more than just the pleas
ure of the occasion; it is also the hard dollars-and-cents
which the spreading fame of the festival is
bringing, in increasing numbers, into the coffers of
the valley's merchants.
There is something for everyone a challenge to
the most determined culture-vulture; fun for the
drama enthusiast; excitement for the atmosphere
hungry; and growing prosperity for the most hard
headed, operators of restaurants, hotels, motels, serv
ice stations, and their business colleagues.
God bless William Shakespeare and his spiritual
descendants ! E.A.
S.O.S.
The "battle of the billboards" is being lost, it
grieves us to report.
The Oregon legislature adjourned without ac
complishing anything constructive in the way of pro
tecting existing or even future highways from the
encroachment of unrestricted billboards, which are
the forerunners of "blight" in case after case.
And now, despite Sen. Dick Neuberger's best ef
forts in behalf of his own billboard bill, it has been
watered down in congressional committee action until
it is hardly a shadow of its former self.
Even in its mild form, it is meeting formidable
opposition from the billboard lobby, which has been
described as one of the most potent and effective in
Washington,
o
MO one has much of anything against billboards
' themselves provided they are kept in their
proper place. They serve as needed stimulants to
certain roadside businesses, and provide the traveler
with information.
But that is not to say that the long reaches of
countryside should be allowed to sprout them indis
criminately, and it is reasonable regulation of this
type which is being sought.
The Oregon Roadside Council has appealed to
those who value Oregon's scenery more than they
do billboards. unlimited to write to Sen. Dennis
Chavez, chairman of the Senate public works com
mittee, to let him know that the great bulk of Ameri
can people, while unorganized for a fight, do believe
that the highways for which they are paying should
NOT be turned into taxpayer-subsidized picture gal
leries for the peddling of beer, bread or bubblegum.
The appeal is headed "S.O.S. Save Oregon's
Scenery."
Amen. E.A.
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John Cain, 70, Victorian opposi
tion leader and --former premier,
died Sunday at Townsville,
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Monday. August 5, 1357
RETIRED SOLDIER DIES
New York (OT Brig. Gen.
Gilbert H. Stewart (Ret.), holder
of the Legion of Merit and the
Pyncheon medals, died Sunday
at St. Albans Naval hospital.
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IKE: THE AURA FADES
Washington Something
mysterious but important, which
cannot be precisely described,
or explained, has happened in
recent weeks. Until very recent
ly, a kind of celestial aura,' a
quality of being larger than
life, surround
ed Dwieht D.
r''Aii'J Eisenhower, as
that doth
h 3 to "
51 But in recent
weeks, the au-
ra has rather
suaaemy De
gun to wear
Stettait Alsnp Oil.
You could sense the fading
of the aura at the President's
most recent press conference,
for example. The President has
had and for that matter still
has the kindest press that any
President has enjoyed in this
century. Until very recently, the
almost motherly attitude of the
press towards the president has
made his press conferences ra
ther dull affairs.
But last Wednesday, the pres
ident was asked a number of
questions with, distinct "Have
you - stopped - beating - your -wife?"
overtones. At least twice
when he was asked about his
personal finances and about his
appointment of the unfortunate
Maxwell H. Gluck as Ambassa
dor to Ceylon the President
became visibly angry. ;
THERE is plenty of other evidence-
of the new tendency
to treat the President more like
a human being and less like a
sovereign to be admired at a
respectful distance. It is no long
er shocking, or even very sur
prising, to find such words as
"vacillating," or "wishy-washy"
used in the friendly press to de
scribe the President's handling
of such matters as the budget,
or the school bill, or civil rights.
Throughout his first term even
the most partisan Democrats on
Capitol Hill shied away from
criticism of the President him
self when they wanted to
criticize, they were careful to
.substitute the euphemism "The
Administration" , for the Eisen
hower name. When old Sen.
Matthew Neely of West Vir
ginia attacked the President per
sonally in 1955, he was shunned
like a leper, and quickly sub
sided Into silence.
But now criticism of the
President is becoming almost
fashionable in the Congress. Sen.
Robert Kerr's aspersions on the
President's intelligence were
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Opposes Subdivision Measura
To the Editor: Recently you
printed a news item with the
headline "Subdivision Bill is Ap
proved by Planners," and in
your issue of Tuesday, July 30th,
page 5, I printed a paid adver
tisement -to help draw public
attention, because I feel this
thing is not good and ought to
be killed off, deader than a
doornail. .
I do not know if you have
taken a position on it, or will
take a position.
Apparently it is sponsored and
being pushed by some promi
nent citizens on the County
Planning Commission. -
However, it could be possible
that many others besides myself
would say "NO" if this thing is
brought to their attention.
Should it appear ' worthwhile
to you and in the public inter
est to vigorously submit the
full-dress arguments against this
idea to make the "Planners"
take a second look, and for the
consideration of the farmers,
ranchers, landowners, and oth
ers in the County who do not
live in Medford, your action
would indeed be appreciated.
Thomas G. Staley
Route 1, Box 196
Eagle Point, Ore.
111
only a symptom. Northern Dem
ocrats like Senators Richard
Neuberger and Paul Douglas
have already served clear no
tice that they intend to hold
the President personally respon
sible for the weakening of the
civil rights bill, and in the
House, he has been personally
blamed for the defeat of the
school bill.
THE repeated rebuffs the Presi
dent has suffered in his at
tempts to recruit men for the
highest posts in his administra
tion are another symptom of his
fading aura. Twenty-one busin
essmen, for example, have
blandly refused the offer to head
the Foreign Aid Agency. It is
a good bet that almost every
one of the twenty-one, offered
a similarly important post four
years ago, would have mentally
snapped to attention and accept
ed. There are a number of rea
sons for the fading of the aura.
There is simple familiarity, that
has a way of causing auras to
fade. There is the fact that the
blush is off the rose for the
more conservative businessmen,
who dreamed of a return to the
virtually tax-free heaveh of the
1920s, and whose disillusion has
been reflected in the muted an
ti-Eisenhower revolt among Re
publicans in Congress. Finally,
of course, there is the fact that
Dwight Eisenhower is the first
constitutional lame duck Presi
dent in history.
Does all this add up to the
dreary prospect of a period of
Congressional dominance, with
the President isolated in the
White House, amiable but pow
erless? The answer lies with the
President. For the most import
ant reason for the fading of the
Eisenhower aura also lies, with
tne .f resident, ms newiy acquir
ed habit of staging public de
bates with himself on such is
sues as the budget, and civil
rights has indeed given an im
pression of wishy-washiness.
which has greatly undermined
his personal authority. But a
President can almost always get
what he wants when he really
goes after it.
THE President proved this
himself when he went to the
country to defend his foreign
aid and defense budgets. As a
result of this counterattack, he
stood an excellent chance of
getting substantially what he
wanted until, amazingly, he
cut the ground out from under
his own supporters in the budget
fight by asking far less than
the sum he had previously des
ignated as the bedrock mini
mum for defense.
The fact is that a President,
lame duck or no, has immense
power if he is willing to use it.
Above all, he has the power of
choosing, or at least profoundly
influencing, the choice of his
party's next Presidential candi
date. The' question is whether
President Eisenhower, being the
kind of man he is, will use the
power he has: If he does, the
fading of the Eisenhower aura
'is likely to be a temporary
phenomenon.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
COMMENTATOR KILLED
. Delray Beach, Fla. (IF! Col.
vincent Gavin Hart, 65, radio
news commentator and former
New York state official, was
killed Saturday in . an automo
bile crash.
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Atomic Era's Beginning
(Editor's note: Tomorrow is
the 12ih anniversary of the
first military use of the atomic
bomb. The following article,
written by Earl J. Johnson,'
general news manager of the
United Press, gives an inter
esting "behind the - scenes"
description of the news cover
age of that momentous event.
It appeared in the "U. P. Re
porter," a weekly newsletter
for telegraph editors.)
By EARL J. JOHNSON
General News Manager
United Press Associations
"A pretty good story." The
only dispatch I've ever framed
and hung on my wall is the first
five paragraphs of a U.P. story
filed by Washington on Aug. 6,
1945. It occurred to me at the
time that this story marked an
historical turn that would not be
surpassed in importance during
my occupancy of this office, and
that is why I put it under glass.
Now with the approach of an
other Aug. 6 it is interesting to
see how nearly these five para
graphs come to telling all (ex
cept the fallout angle, which
came later) that we know about
this major development 12 years
later. Here is the story as it ap
peared on our wires:
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, AUG. 6 API
PRESIDENT TRUMAN AN
NOUNCED THAT AN "ATOM
IC BOMB" HAS BEEN USED
AGAINST JAPAN FOR THE
FIRST TIME WITH POWER
EQUAL TO 20,000 TONS OF
TNT.
MORE PA1103A
ADD BOMB, WASHINGTON
XXX TNT.
IN A STATEMENT ISSUED
AT THE WHITE HOUSE MR.
TRUMAN REVEALED THAT 16
HOURS AGO SOMETIME
SUNDAY AN AMERICAN
AIRPLANE DROPPED ONE OF
THE NEW BOMBS ON HIRO
SHIMA, AN IMPORTANT JAP
ANESE ARMY BASE.
"THAT BOMB HAD MORE
POWER THAN 20,000 TONS OF
TNT," THE PRESIDENT'S
STATEMENT SAID. "IT HAD
MORE THAN 2,000 TIMES THE
BLAST POWER OF THE BRIT
ISH 'GRAND SLAM' WHICH IS
THE LARGEST BOMB EVER
USED IN THE HISTORY OF
WARFARE."
THE PRESIDENT SAID THE
NEW BOMB OPENED "A NEW
AND REVOLUTIONARY IN
CREASE IN DESTRUCTION"
TO SUPPLEMENT THE GROW
ING. POWER OF THE UNITED
STATES AGAINST JAPAN
THE NEW BOMB, HE ADDED,
IS NOW IN PRODUCTION
AND "EVEN MORE POWER
FUL FORMS" ARE UNDER DE
VELOPMENT. "IT IS AN ATOMIC BOMB,"
THE PRESIDENT SAID. "IT IS
A HARNESSING OF THE BA
SIC POWER OF THE UNI
VERSE. THE FORCE FROM
WHICH THE SUN DRAWS ITS
POWER HAS BEEN LOOSED
AGAINST THOSE WHO
BROUGHT WAR TO THE FAR
EAST."
Bulganin Stays Home;
Miltoyan Said Taking
His Place on Team'
By K. C. THALER
United Press Correspondent
London-flB It's Khrushchev
and Mikoyan now instead of
Khrushchev and Bulganin.
Moscow dispatches reported
that Soviet Communist Party
Leadoer Nikita S. Khrushchev
had dropped Premier Nikolai
Bulganin from the team of 'B
and K" for his visit to East Ger
many this week.
Instead Deputy Premier Anas
tas Mikoyan, the Soviet foreign
trade expert who accompanied
Khrushchev" to Romania for
talks with Marshal Tito, will go
with the party chief to Germany.
There was renewed specula
ting in London that the snade-
bearded premier would be kick- j
ed upstairs, possibly to replace j
President Klimenti Voroshilov, ;
and -that Khrushchev might be ;
grooming Mikoyan for the pre- j
miership. .
Western diplomats in London
have said that Bulganin is on
his way out because he is report- j
ed to have sided with the dis
graced Molotov - Malenkov - Ka-1
ganovich trio during the recent
Kremlin purge. ,
The original Soviet accept- j
ance.of an East German invita-;
tion said both Khrushchev and ,
and Bulganin would make the ,
Scenes Report of
How the Story Broke
At mid-morning of that Au
gust day the news outlook in
Washington promised little ex-
citment. President Truman, ac
companied by Merriman Smith
and two other White House re
porters, was en route home on
the cruiser Augusta from a meet
ing of Allied statesmen (Stalin
and Attlee) at Potsdam. Con
gress was on vacation. The war
with Japan was accelerating,
but news of the fighting came
mainly from the Pacific bases.
Several War department report
ers were in Florida on a stcry
for future release about radar.
Sen. Hiram Johnson died early
that morning, but his biography
had cleared all wires and it
seemed this would be the big
gest Washington story of the
day.
At 10:30 a.m., Eben Ayers act
ing White House press secretary
in the absence of Charles Ross
(Ross was with the President)
held his morning conference
with reporters. He said he had
nothing new but might have
something later. Charles B.
Degges, on the White House for
the U.P. that day, asked Ayers
if it would be a fair, good, or hot
story. .
"It'll be a pretty good story,"
Ayers said in what seems now to
have been the understatement of
our generation.
Shortly before 11 a.m. Ayers
called the reporters back to his
desk. He picked up a three-page
mimeographed statement by the
President and read the first few
paragraphs. When he got to the
words . . . "It is an atomic
bomb . . ." someone murmured
"Jesus Christ." Degges got goose
pimples. Ayers didn't read any
more, but handed a copy to each
President's Anger
Seldom More Evident
Than In Past Week
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Correspondent
Washington an- Back
stairs at the White .House:
Seldom has President Eisen
hower's anger and displeasure
been more evident than during
the past week. The reason: The
treatment given his civil rights
and school construction programs
by Congress.
Members of his legislative liai
son staff were progressively long
faced as the chief executive suf
fered probably the sharpest set
backs of his White House career
'at the hands of Congress.
Op Thursday and Friday, he
was edgy and testy his; indigna
tion boiled over Friday morn
ing when he learned that the
Senate had passed the jury trial
amendment to the civil rights
bill. His staff caught the first
brunt of his anger, but then the
President poured out his feel
ings to Sen. Charles Potter (R-
trip. But the Soviet press, with
out explanation, announced that
Bulganin would stay home. The
dispatch was given page one
prominence.
Although Bulganin accompa
nied Khrushchev on his recent
visit to Czechoslovakia, he was
conspicuously absent during the
secret Khrushchev-Tito talks on
Soviet-Yugoslav relations.
There appeared little basis to
rumors that Bulganin would be
dropped altogether, or disgraced,
as was the Malenkov trio. But
since they were "exposed" Bul
ganin has dropped more and
more into the background.
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reporter:
Degges and the other report
ers were momentarily stunned.
but recovered quickly and raced
to their phones. Neither news
service sent a flash, although
this certainly was one of the big
gest stories of the age. Compar
ing notes later, the reporters
agreed they couldn't transmit
in three or four words of a flash
the full import of this develop
ment, of which neither their of
fices nor the public had the
least forewarning. ,
Degges dictated clean, . fast
bulletins that were jerked out
of dictation typewriters at the
bureau in 24 short takes and
slammed onto the trunk wires'
As soon as the first bulletin had
cleared, the desk asked our
Treasury department man to go
across the street o the White
House and dictate the text of
the White House announcement
over another phone.
Other Developments
Next developments were at
the War department. Reporters
were hurried into the office of
Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles,
in the bureau of public relations.
Surles opened his safe and took
out a stack of super-secret mate
rial that had been prepared in
advance. This included a 7500
word statement by Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson about the
development of the bomb; long
stories on the secret plants at
Clinton, Tenn., and Richland,
Wash.; information about the
Army officers and scientists who
perfected the bomb; and a brief
report on the first reconnais
sance over Hiroshima. Later that
day the Army made public its
stirring account of the first ex-
perimental detonation of the
i bomb in New Mexico.
Mich.) who left the White House
somewhat amazed at the stormy
weather in the President's of
fice. There was more fuel for the
Eisenhower fires last week
the criticism of his appointment
of Maxwell Gluck as ambassa
dor to Ceylon, plus the nation
ally syndicated article placing
the President's net worth at
one million dollars. Eisenhower
blows up over efforts to pry into
his private life and woe betide
the White House staff member
who inquires into his personal
finances. '
His predecessor, former Presi-
uciil iruman, also used 10 gel
quite foamy when people, par
ticularly writers, attempted to
pry into his private finances or
pretended to know the state of
his bank account.
One big question around the
White House as the week began
was the possible effects of Ei
senhower's current? mood on his
vacation plans. With the House
leadership dropping plans for a
series of recesses, the President
may stay here until Congress ad
journs.
This could alter the duration
of his stay at Newport, R. I.,
when and if he goes. There is
some rather educated reasoning
around the White Hoilse that the
later his departure date for.
Rhode Island, the shorter his
stay will be.
There is another school of
thought, however, suggesting
that Eisenhower may be so dis
gusted with the Senate treat
ment of the civil rights bill, that
he'll go to Newport when he
jolly well pleases. This school
reasons that the President's pres
ence and even his pressure pro
duced no desirable results in the
civil rights fight. So, why
couldn't he consider legislation,
in Newport far from the anger
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