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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6. 1947 (Wednesday)
rRpes rise for early construc
tion of city park swimming pool.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: After the
recent UN cease-firing order
what the world needs is a cease
talking order.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6, 1937 (Friday)
Acting secretary of the cull
nary union of Grants Pass re
ported kidnaped early Tuesday
by masked and armed men.
Some Bartletts will be ready
for picking by Aug. 15, tests
show.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6. 1927 (Saturday)
Patrons of Crater Lake com
munity house dance to four
piece band played by young
sters ranging from five to eight
years old.
Eagle Point people attend wa
ter meeting in Medford to re
quest use of city water.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6. 1917 (Monday)
Local committee campaigns
for water district to increase
yields.
Forest fires of serious dimen
sions break out Saturday in sev
eral different county locations.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good x
1. June 5, 1790: First passenger-freight
boat propelled by
steam makes 80-mile trip be
tween Philadelphia and Trenton.
Name the inventor.
2. Is the bat a night or a day
bird?
3. Bible: Did Terah. Abra
ham's father, live in a house,
tent, or a cave?
4. Is nationality determined
by Federal or State law?
5. Shylock is a character in
which of Shakespeare's plays?
6. Name the author of "Cass
Timberlane."
7. To what country does the
port of Vladivostok belong?
8. Jn Post Office usage, what
is a "nixie"?
9. What is the plural of cup
full? 10. "Humanity must perforce
prey on itselfj Like monsters of
the deep." Shakespeare. Is
"prey" also the British way of
spelling. "pray" such as Grey
is to Gray?
Answers: 1. John Fitch. Nei
ther (it is a mammal). 3. House.
4. Federal law. 5. "The Mer
chanf of Venice." 6. Sinclair
Lewis. 7. Soviet Russia. 8. A
dead letter, (one that cannot be
delivered). 9. Cupfulls. 10. No.
Airplane PropeHor
Kills Young Worker
Salt Lake City W A young
Western Air Lines employee
was killed early today- when he
backed into the whirling pro
peller of a DC6 passenger air
liner. Western officials promptly
cancelled the Los Angeles-bound
coach flight. No. 763. :
The victim, Arthur Manning,
23 Salt Lake City, had worked
for Western about three months.
A spokesman said Manning had
just finished operating a battery
power device, or "energuer
when he stepped backward into
tHe' spinning blade. " "
MAIL TRIBUNE
R.R. Magazing Scores S.P. Policy
In one direction the "FRIENDLY" Southern Pa
cific propaganda has been a great success.
It has, by persistent misrepresentation and sup
pression of the facts, convinced a large number of
the innocent bystanders,' that in abandoning aU pas
senger service, on its important Siskiyou line, it has
merely followed the example of practically all other
railroads, forced by increasing air competition and
heavy financial losses, to abandon rail passenger
service in large areas entirely.
THIS just doesn't happen to be true.
A Not only is the Siskiyou area, the largest, most
populous and prosperous area 'in the entire "Billion
dollar S.P. system" to have been deprived of all
passenger service, but it is probably the largest in the
country,'.
Passenger service has been modified and cur
tailed in many areas, but its abandonment, where
such action meant no passenger service WHAT
EVER, for a prosperous ,and productive area of
250,000 people, there is no precedent for what the
"Friendly Southern Pacific" has done to this section
of Oregon.
MOR is it true that "the public be damned" policy
A of the "S.P." has been followed by American rail
roads as a whole, or that the reactionary defeatist
view of President Russell, that passenger service in
10 years is doomed anyway, so why not drop it. now
has any standing in responsible and progressive rail
road circles. . -
IN FACT the magazine of railroads "Trains" in its
A issue of this month, has" a most interesting article
entitled "The Passenger Keep him happy." It is
by Edward G. Budd Jr., and we would recommend it
highly to' President Russell, for it knocks him and his
entire railroad - philosophy into the well-known
"cocked hat."
We regret we haven't the space to print it, in its
entirety, but here are a few pertinent paragraphs:
"We divide the whole passenger business into four
parts the long haul, the heavily traveled overnight service,
. the shorter travel between important points like New York
to Washington, and commuter service. These four categories
. have one thing in common. Each can be improved, each can
be enlarged and each can be operated at a PROFIT." (The
emphasis is ours.) - -
There IS a challenge for the SP's pennywise and
greedy policy. The author moreover supports his
claim with evidence.
I ESS than a year ago the "Burlington" overhauled
its always popular "Denver Zephyr" running from
Chicago to Denver, with Vista Domes, Slumber
Coaches, "Chuck Wagons," sleepers and coaches.
During its first full month of operation it enjoyed an
increase of more than 1000 passengers and in its
second month 1700, while during its first five months
10,000 persons enjoyed the economical comfort of the
"Slumber ' Coaches" this latter not being Pullman
service but RAILROAD service and on coaches, so
that for the cheap coach fare the passenger can have
a private room, bed and toilet at a small fraction of
me iii&t ciass cubu
THE Santa Fe, the Boston and Maine, the Burling
ton, B&O, the Pennsylvania, have made similar
modem improvements and with equally profitable
results.
Meanwhile the S.P. wails and weeps about losing
$40,000 or was it $400,000? on the "midnight
rattler" service it once begrudgingly supplied be
tween Ashland and Portland.
Here is what Mr. Budd has to say about the
"rattler" type of service so dear to the heart of the
antiquated S.P. management, quote :
"The expensive car is not the deluxe coach such as one
of the new hi-level cars on the Santa Fe's 'El Capitan.' Sup
pose it did cost as much as $300,000. People like to ride in
it and are willing "to pay the price. No, my friends, the
expensive car is the 'old rattler,' eating its head off in
- - operating and maintenance costs and hauling a handful of .
people who are aboard under duress and in the meantime
driving patrons to .the airlines, busses and automobiles."
"OULD a better description and indictment of the
SP's policy toward Southern Oregon be imagined
than THAT?
And it is not in any unfriendly press, but in a
magazine devoted exclusively to modern railroading
and its perplexities and problems.
Certainly if the facts in this article misrepresented
the passenger traffic problem, or distorted the picture
as a whole, a magazine like "Trains," read almost
entirely by railroad men, would never print it.
- '
'I7'E DON'T know whether -or not the author had
" President Russell and his Board of Directors in
mind, but he might well have, when in elaborating
his theme "The Passenger Keep Him Happy," he
declared:
"The secret, of course, is . giving the passenger first
class or coach the most attractive and comfortable equip
ment plus the best service possible. The trip itself then
becomes a thrilling experience to be long remembered and
talked about. .
"You cannot compete in TIME with airlines on trans
continental runs but you can outstrip them in comfort,
safety, dependability of service and also show the pas
senger the country. This we believe is a permanent market.
(So) let's quit complaining. The American public doesn't
' like a loser' Let's make people want to travel by
TRAIN."
, ;
THERE is much more to the article including a
boost for what this department has so often rec
ommended, "the single self-propelled car" such as
the Boston and Maine has installed as well as its
"R.D.C.'s" which have replaced 357 old standard cars,
72 steam locomotives, and today "carries 91 per cent
of all passengers on the road."
117'E WISH the S.P. management would read this
article'and profit by it R.W.R." -" " ' ;
Tuesday, August 6. 1957
I DtiNNO. Friend of RuffS. i guess,
Matter of Fact
Washington There are
times they are very rare
when a scene worth remember
ing, a moment of real drama
and meaning,
occurs on the
Senate floor.
There was
such a mom
m e n t last
week when
the Senate, in
the . small
hours of the
morning, pass-
stewait aisod ed, the jury
trial amendment to the Civil
Rights bill a vote which will
surely affect the political bal
ance of power for a long time
to come.
It was a scene of a sort that
occurs only once or twice in a
decade every fit senator on
the floor, and the galleries chok
ed with spectators, as the hands
of the big Senate clock crept
on past midnight. All present,
spectators and senators alike,
were caught up in the excite
ment of the great Senate game.
A man's pulse can be quick
ened, after all, by a close con
test at chess, or on the golf
course. But there' is nothing
quite like, the Senate game, in
which great issues can be de
cided by a sudden parliamentary
maneuver, or a quick, sure sens
ing of the Senate mood.
THE game that was played
out on the Senate floor last
week was, moreover, a pecul
iarly personal contest. There
were many speakers, but the
floor was wholly dominated, by
two men, stationed cheek by
jowl on the center aisle big,
chunky, earnest Minority Lead
er William Knowland and lanky
Majority Leader Lyndon John
son, the shrewdest Congression
ional leader of this generation.
They made a fascinating con
trast. Knowland sat stolidly,
like a great cornered bull, his
enormous forehead furrowed in
parallel wrinkles, fore-tasting
defeat. Johnson sat back easily,
his long legs negligently cross
ed, when he was not moving
restlessly about. ' Once, when
Everett Dirksen, of Illinois, rose
to support Knowland with his
special brand of empty grandi
loquence ("I have been thinking
much of Runnymede") Johnson
half-yawned, and lazily scratch
ed his chest, in a magnificent
gesture of casual confidence.
ONLY a few hours before,
Knowland thought he had
won the game. He had the votes
to beat off the crucial amend
ment, and everybody knew it.
But Knowland, like an over
anxious golf player on the last
hole of a close match, began to
press too hard.
By insisting on 12-hour ses
sions, and by other means, he
brought pressure on the Senate
for a quick vote. The Senate, a
leisurely body, does not like
being subjected to pressure.
Johnson, - the master player of
the Senate game, sniffed the
Senate air, and played his hole
card a further amendment
carefully tailored to attract the
last of the waverers.
In the atmosphere of irrita
tion created by Knowland's
pressure, this was enough. John
son soon knew that he and not
Knowland, had the votes. With
brilliant timing, Johnson turned
the tables on Knowland, when
he rose to support Knowland's
own motion for limited debate
and an immediate vote. Know
land was checkmated, and there
was nothing he could do.
Johnson had predicted . 50
votes for the jury trial amend
ment. He got 51. On one issue
which has divided his party as
no other, issue, he held all but
nine Democrats, while Know
land lost twelve Republicans.
The vote was a tribute to an
authentic legislative genius, and
for Johnson a moment of su
preme triumph.
e
AND yet, how solid was the
trinmnh? Whn reallv won?
Johnson won the great Sen
ate game hands down.Yet in
terms of national politics, it
seems quite possible, that John
son, in winning, lost and Know-
land, in losing, won. '.. j
For those'wnb"bec6me "caught .
By Stewart Alsep
up in the excitement of the
Senate game, it is easy to for
get what the civil rights fight
is all about. In hard political
terms, the civil rights fight is
all about the Negro vote in the
key northern industrial states,
where that vote can be absolute
ly decisive.
Negro voters interest them
selves no more than white vot
ers in the substleties of parlia
mentary maneuver, or the com
plex legal and moral issues in
volved in the jury trial amend
ment. And yet, as a result of
Lyndon Johnson's triumph, they
have been treated to a spectacle
which they are likely to inter
pret in only one way the
spectacle of the great bulk of
the Senate Democrats siding
with the bitter-end southerners,
while a heavy majority of Re
publicans went down to defeat
against them.
The Negro vote is the swing
vote in a whole series of big
states New York, Pennsyl
vania, Illinois, Michigan, Cali
fornia, to name a few. That is
why one cynical observer re
marked as the vote was count
ed, "the Democrats may elect
a President again in 1980 but
not before," and that could be
the real meaning of the mid
night scene on the Senate floor
last week, and the real measure
of Johnson's triumph and Know
land's defeat.
(C) New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Jews Forced Out
Of Russian Posts
London hp) a new upsurge
of anti-Semitism in Russia is
forcing . Jews out of key posi
tions in Soviet political and eco
nomic life, it was reported here
today.
A survey issued by the Con
gress for Cultural Freedom a
i non-Communist study ' group
said Communist Leader Nikita
S. Khrushchev appears to regard
Russia's Jews as potential
traitors.
Despite some minor recent im
provements in the lot of Jews in
Russia, the survey said, the gen
erally anti-Semitic trend estab
lished by the late Premier Josef
Stalin appears to be continuing
unchecked.
The survey said Russia's new
anti-Semitism has not yet reach
ed the level it attained during
the last years of Stalin's life,
when "cosmopolitan" Jewish in
tellectuals were persecuted and
Yiddish newspapers, theaters
and clubs were closed down.
Battleship Iowa
Due for Mothballs
Washington (IP) The power
ful battleship Iowa last of the
nation's active battlewagons is
going into mothballs along with
59 other ships as part of the ad
ministration's overall military
reduction program.
The Navy announced Monday
the 60 ships will be withdrawn
from the Atlantic and Pacific
fleet and decommissioned with
in the next five months.
All three services are making
reductions in line with the mili
tary economy drive to cut
spending $2,200,000,000 in the
current fiscal year.
The decommissioning of the
Iowa may mark the end of an
era in naval history. A battleship
may never again "sail under the
flag of the United States.
The capital ship of the Navy
is now the aircraft carrier.
APPROVE COWBOY MUSEUM
Washington OP) The House
has given final congressional
recognition to a planned nation
al cowboy haU of fame and mu
seum at Oklahoma . City. , T h e
House approved a Senate-passed
resolution expressing Congress'
formal recognition of the hall
as a memorial to persons who
made "outstanding contribu
tions" to opening and develop
ing the West.
Nashville School Man
Some Troubles With Integration
By HAROLD JONES
United Press Correspondent
Nashville, Tenn. (IP! One
day this summer W. A. Bass,
superintendent of schools in
Nashville, called the phone com
pany and ordered an unlisted
number.
Bass figures he will be a troubled-
man come next month.
Nashville's schools are going tq
be integrated. It is one of the
main places to watch this au
tumn in the South's desegrega
tion controversy.
This Tennessee capital city
will start with integration in
the first grade, the idea being
the transition will least affect
six year olds who have not yet
built up racial predjudice.
Will Retire
Had the courts waited six
months longer to order racial
barriers dropped in Nashville,
it would have been a problem
for someone else than Bass, now
69, he retires in January. He is
a former state commissioner of
education who has been super
intendent here for 20 years.
There are approximately 1,250
Negro children to enter the first
grade here in September. Esti
mates by school authorities are
that approximately 5 per cent
between 60 and 70 children
will seek admission to schools
now exclusively white.
There seems to be a sincere
effort here to avoid another
clash such as the one at Clinton,
Tenn., but it is by no means
certain there will not be.
John Kasper is her now, free
on appeal after conviction for
contempt of court in stirring up
trouble at Clinton. He is at
tempting -to organize opposition
to Nashville integration.
Kasper Cold-Shouldered
Kasper started off here about
as he did at Clinton doorbell
ringing to urge attendance at
pro-segregation rallies. But he
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Wanted War on Mosquitoes
To the Editor: Why don't you
advocate in your paper to get
the health department to do
something about the mosquito
hazard?
We in Gold Hill are being
eaten alive, even in daytime we
cannot work on our place.
The creeks (Sardine-Galls
Creek, etc.) need to be sprayed
and sprayed to deter these pests
and give us residents a break.
Some friends came from Cali
fornia (L.A.) for vacation (one
week). They stayed two nights
and FLED. Our taxes overpaid
by 2V4 million the needs of the
county, why not advocate this
(a small part) be used for spray
ing these creeks and bushes on
edge of Rogue? We have to be
given some help, we don't have
equipment or money to. do these
things and pay the excessive
taxes demanded.
What help are you willing to
give?
Virginia Plummer
Route 1, Bex 107
Lampman rd.,
Gold Hill, Ore.
Regrets Incident
To the Editor: While driving
through your town in the late
afternoon of July 29 I ran into
a dog which I think was a red
cocker spaniel. It was in what
I would regard as the north end
of town and I was heading south
on a one way street. Due to one
way streets and dead end roads
it took me several minutes to
return to the scene where I
could find no trace of dog or
owner.
However, I would like the
owner to know that I'm very
sorry about this incident as I am
very fond of dogs and hope this
one recovered from the accident.
K. A. Little
2537 Ridge rd.
Berkeley, Calif.
Boy Scouts Flee
Flood in England
Sutton Coldfield, England
iff) Hundreds of Boy Scouts
were evacuated during the night
from the World Jamboree park
near Birmingham when thunder
storms flooded the area.
One inch of rain fell during
a one-hour period, sending min
iature rivers pouring through
the tents. There were no casual
ties among the 34,000 Scouts.
About 600 boys were lodged
in private houses, town halls
and schools.
James H. Gelswick, of New
Brunswick, N.J. director of the
1,700-Scout American conting
ent, reported after an inspection
tour this morning that not one
U. S. boy was evacuated.
- A few boys were forced to
shift tents, he said, but a gener
al evacuation was unnecessary
because the American camp site
was on higher ground. . '
- Gelswick said there was "not
even a case of sniffles" among
the Americans as a result of
the storm and the boys were
planning to- take - sightseeing
tours today as scheduled.
has been getting the cold shoul
der, here from most segregation
groups.
These groups are calling on
school officials to use laws pass
ed in 1957 that allow "volun
tary" segregation and give
schools broad pupil assignment
powers.
Ford Motor
Claims Seat
Best Safety
By ROBERT J. SERLING
United Press Correspondent
Washington opi A Ford
Motor Co. officials said today use
of seat belts in all cars and
trucks would cut the nation's
highway deaths by more than
50 per cent.
Moreover, he said use of the
controversial belts1 in all cars
and trucks would cut in naif the
number of serious injuries re
sulting from traffic accidents.
Ford Vice President Robert
S. McNamara said in a state
ment prepared for the House
traffic safety, subcommittee:
"It is our opinion that the use
of seat belts in all cars and
trucks on the American road to
day would reduce the 40,000 fa
talities annually to less than
19,000 and would reduce the
1,000,000 serious injuries to no
more than 500,000."
Belts Most Effective
Alex L. Haynes, Ford ad
vanced product study director,
said in presenting McNamara's
statement that "tests and expe
rience have proved beyond all
McElroy Discusses
Post With Wilson
Washington (IPI Soap man
ufacturer Neil H. McElroy plan
ned another conference with De
fense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son teday to talk about suc
ceeding him.
, Sources here believed McEl:
roy, $285,000-a-year president of
Procter and Gamble, has the
$22,500-a-year job sewed up if
he wants it.
An aide to the 52-year-old bus
inessman told the United Press
McElroy is considering the
change that taking the position
would require him to make
"what he has to do to take 't
on, the conflict of interest" prob
lem and other matters.
' "This is the nature of the con
siderations that are going on,"
the spokesman said. He added
"it's obvious some consideration
is being given to him," for the
post.
The administration was be
lieved to be giving top priority
to finding a successor for Wil
son so the nomination can be
confirmed before Congress ad
journs.
Wilson has indicated he wants
to end his government career
this fall. . -
'High Living' Ended
For Youth in Texas
Houston,. Tex. (lPINew Jer
sey horse trainer John Leyland
Sr. arrived in Houston Monday
to retrieve his son, John Jr.,
from juvenile authorities in
Houston after the 14-vear-olri
boy "lived it up" at the' Sham
rock Hilton Hotel with $1,400
of stolen money.
The boy flew to Houston seve
ral days ago after he took the
money from a sleeping foreman
at the Monmouth Race Track in
Ocean Port. N.J. But his nrefab.
ricated tale of being a training
jockey didn't work with a hotel
clone, wno called police.
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP-2-4940
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLIY ST.
Expecting
But Bass and his school board
contend the Supreme Court de
segregation ruling -kills the ef
fect of such laws.
"The sooner we get this prob
lem out of the way, the sooner
we can carry out the main aim
of our schools: teach children,"
Bass says.
Company
Belts
Device
reasonable doubt that seat belts
are the most effective single
item available in reducing traf
fic injuries and deaths."
"Ford Motor company strong
ly recommends the use of seat
belts in all cars and trucks," he
said.
Haynes said seat belts are
not a panacea for all accident
injuries." i
But he said they will "mate
rially reduce critically forces
imposed on vehicle occupants at
any speed whether the seat belts
remain intact or not." He said
they also "tend to keep the pas
senger inside the car" where
chances of serious injury are
cut 50 per cent. i-
Haynes said in prepared testi
mony that Ford has sold more
safety belts than the rest of the
automobile industry combined;
Installation Falls Off
He said since 1956 Ford sold
160,000 vehicles equipped with
seat belts and supplied 200,000
more to dealers for installation.
However, he said the company
is disturbed because the rate of
seat belt installation has fallen
off in the last few months.
. He blamed 'the reduction in
part on opposition from a "small
vocal minority." He said the op
position was based on "misin
terpretation of data from a rela
tively small number of acci
dents and tests."
' Col. John P. Stapp, an Air
Force flight surgeon who trav
eled 632 miles an hour on 'a
rocket sled and stopped in one
and a half, seconds, endorsed
seat belts Monday before the
subcommittee.
"I wouldn't be caught dead
without them," he said.
Stapp's testimony added more
evidence piling up before the
subcommittee that seat belts can
lessen or prevent injuries and
save lives. However, the sub
committee also -expects to hear
from at least one independent
researcher who claims belts are
dangerous.
Be Proof
Schieffelln &Co.rMewYork,N.Y.
Importer Since 1794-
If you live in constant
worry
You'll find no drug to
cure it
So if we may
We'd' like to say .
Don't worry, let us In-,
sure it.
t ' try '
Bill Fish
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