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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8. 1947 (Friday)
A contest to determine a slo
gan for the Medford Safety
Counul Inaugurated today.
Frdfn Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot Column: "Spirfcch
shines like an emerald in mac
aroni ring." (Newspaper head
lined Even so the kiddies don't
like it
20 YEARS AGO .
Aug. 8. 1937 (Sunday)
Improvement of the west side
road at Lake of the Woods starts.
Kiwanis International presi
dent to address meeting in Port
land, local Kiwanis club Is o ti
tled. 30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8. 1927 (Monday) ,
Fire of undetermined origin
destroys Freeman and Wijpy
warehouse and freight car. ,
Earle Emlay or E. R. L. Pro
ductions to photograph pear in
dustry. 40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1917 (Wednesday)
Eggs and salt used by miner
for rattlesnake bite.
, Jackson County Fire Patrol
association considers possibility
of closing woods to early hunt
ing season due to forest fire dan
ker. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior!
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1." In 1832 hosiery was first
manufactured in the U.S. by
waterpower. Did this occur in
N.C., N.Y. or Mass.?
2. How many Secretaries of
State have been awarded the
Nobel Prize for Peace?
3. Bible: To whom did Pilate
reft-r to when he said "I finjj
noEault with this man"?
4. What unit of measure de-
noflrs 12 dozen?
5. Who wrote the novel "Kid
napped"? 6. In which State is the fa
mous "Painted Desert" of the
Southwest?
7. Is a gibbon a gallows?
8. Are chocolate and cocoa ob
tained from the stalks, beans.
. leaves, or tree sap of the cacao
tree?
9. Does flair or flare mean an
an outburst of flame?
10. "If you would not a doc
tor pay Leave your flannels off
in May." . "Change not a clout
Till May is out." Both maxims
have the same meaning: has
"clout" the same meaning as
"flannel"?
Answers: 1. New York (Co
hoes). 2. Three, (Cordell Hull,
Frank B. Kellogg and Elihu
Root). 3. Jesus. 4. Gross. S. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson. 6. Arizona,
f. No, (it is an anthropoid ape.)
8. Bean. 9. Flare. 10. No.
Formosa Students
See American City
Portland W A group of
21 Chinese students from For
mosa saw their first American
city Wednesday when they ar
rived on the vessel Chungking
Victory after a 14-day trip.
The students . departed for
various part of the United States
for studies. Two will remain in
Oregon, one going to Oregon
State and the other to Univers
ity of Oregon.
Attending Oregon State will
be William Hsu, who has a
brother there. Rosalie S. A.
.Yang will attend Oregon.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The G.O.P. "Pitch" for Labor
We note from the Oregonian that "G.O.P. poli
ticians" are making a pitch for the labor vote in Ore-
ernn.
o
One of their associate
Ul.U. convention in Klamatn alls declares secretary
oi btate Mark Hatlield set the tone for this drive when
he urged the delegates to beware of "a closed-shop
mind on politics and support candidates on the basis
THIS "Ditch" which dates
dinner pail" days of William McKinley and Mark
narma we tear will not
A.F.L.-C.I.0.
It is a oerfectlv sound
has followed, to the best of
years.
But the trouble is, as
when it comes to election
cidence, the most "able"
me j.Kj.r. iaDei.
THIS was particularly true in the 1956 election. As
usual the Ore
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Democrats scored a sweeping victory.
As a result the Portland paper had to eat crow,
as the saying goes, and in answer to the DemnfrntiV
"cat calls and horse laughs"
... O
anu magnanimiiy, in part,
One gathers from reading the letters from victorious
Democrats "to the editor" ranging in tone from gleeful
to abusive that there exists some misapprehension as to
editorial policy of this newspaper.
It is not our intent, as in betting on a horse race, to try
to pick the winner in advance, so as to cash in on the vic
tory. Our intention is to approve and assist those candidates
we think to BE BEST QUALIFIED, in the light of our own
belief in government principles and policies. It so happens
that we lean toward the Republican party and the Eisen
hower administration, though differing on specific issues ,
as the need seems apparent to us.
IT WOULD be interesting to have the Oregonian
point out just WHEN AND WHERE, during the
last presidential campaign or since, it differed with
the Eisenhower administration, in any single"impor
tant particular.
It would also be interesting if the paper would
document its claim that regardless of the party label
it hews steadily to the line of approving only those
candidates it thinks to be best QUALIFIED for the
offices they seek.
XTE FEEL quite sure
" T offered, for having been a fairly steady reader
of h.e Oregonian for many years we fail to recall a
presidential election when the Oregonian did not find
ALL the qualified national candidates oh one side
of the party Jme, and ALL the unqualified and dis
qualified ones on the other. R.W.R.
Lets' Have More Light
Somewhere in the Bible it is said:
"Love of money is the root of all evil."
In other words it is not
but the lust for it.
It is not the money one
of it, or the extremes one
1E WERE reminded of
many other quotations contains a germ of truth
but takes in too much territory when perusing an in
teresting report of "lobbying" compiled by the ever
reliable Congressional Quarterly Inc.
In the first half of 1957 it seems sums paid by
lobbyists m Washington
slightly less than $2,000,000 or approximately $4,-
000,000 a year, .or an average of over $6000 a year
for each member of the House and Senate.
..-
MOW as this department has often pointed out, there
1 is nothing any more
lobbying than there is with money.
It is the way, in both cases, the money is used.
As far as is known there are no registered lobby
ists in Medford, but there
quently visit Washington and do what they can to
facilitate legislation which they believe desireable for
their business andor for the community.
We can't speak from exact knowledge, but our
strong conviction is they are given generous expense
accounts, but there isn't a dime paid out that is not
perfectly proper. -
Such lobbying in fact is not only a legitimate but
an essential factor in a free democracy.
DUT when it comes to the "Big Business 'groups"
we are not so sure. According to this report, for
example, these "Business is Business" corporations
account for an expenditure of $867,925 out of the
total of $1,800,000 for only 6 months.
That seems to us quite a lot of dough for legiti
mate expense accounts and merely presenting facts
for the consideration of our lawmakers.
However there may not be a tainted penny in it.
We don't KNOW. .
And that is the point we wish to stress. We think
we and the people of the
ET there be light.
1 Forcing the lobbyists
their total expenditures was a big step in advance, but
until the people know not only how much money was
spent but. HOW it was spent, the lobbying picture
from the good government
obscure, suspected and questionable one. R.W.R.
Thursday, August 8, 1957
editors attending the A.F.L.-
buck rnuo-hlv to the "full
cnange many votes in the
doctrine nnrl nne this naner
its ability, for a great many
,the Oregonian well knows,
time, bv snmp strano-P rm'n-
candidates invariably carry
iiiy u.WVVll tvlC HilC ll aisiyiuai-
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HarMr hut i tha ctafn tha
it rnnnfprerl -arith Aicmiur
Ui6iui,jr
as loliows : .
no such evidence will be
money per se, that is evil,
may have, but the use made
may go to get it.
this quotation which like
and REPORTED totalled
INHERENTLY wrong with
are several people who fre
country SHOULD know.
to register and publicize
standpoint, remains an
Bo 1 Have 1 got something id mi. dad
WrlEM HE'S W A GOOD AAOOD
Matter of Fact
PITY THE POOR PRESIDENT
Washington As a result of
his newly acquired habit of stag
ing public debates with himself
f iniiiiai!ii on a whole se
ries of issues
the budget, dis
armament, the
school bill, and
civil rights bill
the resident
is being in
creasingly ac
cused these
days of being
Stewair Alson unaoie xo mase
up his own mind. And yet, if
you consider the dnkfoi merci
less pullings and hauluigs the
President is daily subjected to,
on an infinite variety of complex
issues, you can understand and
sympathize with his position.
Take, as a vivid example, the
background story of the release
by the House Appropriations
Committee of certain closed "ses
sions testimony by Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson. If
the English language means
what it says (which Mr. Wilson
has now denied) Wilson told the
committee that an Administra
tion biU for a drastic change in
budget procedures might en
danger the national security." .
The bill, as Wilson of course
knew, had the full, unequivocal,
public support of the President.
Thus the testimony release by
the House committee placed Wil
son in direct opposition . to the
President a position from which
Wilson has rather hastily backed
down. Now consider the back
ground story of this latest Pres
idential trouble.
THE bill embodies a Hoover
Commission proposal oblig
ing Congress to appropriate mon
ey ahead only a year at a time,
instead of making appropriations
to .be spent over a number of
years, as at present. The idea is
that the new system would fores
a yearly re-examination of all
expenditures, and thus restore to
Congress tne control of over
spending, especially defense
spending, which it has largely
lost.
Hoover Commission publicists
have claimed that this simple re
form would save $3 biliion a
year. The claim is almost cer
tainly wildly inflated. But it
much impressed the President
who is no expert on fiscal mat
ters. He accordingly came out
strongly for the bill, and the
Senate passed it unanimously.
Then the ' bill ran into the
fierce opposition of two power
ful old men Chairman Clar
ence Cannon of the House Ap
propriations Committee, and the
Committee's senior Republican,
Rep. John Ta,ber. Cannon and
Taber unquestionably know
their way around the fiscal jun
gle, and they both concluded
that the Hoover proposal was
bad legislation' and bad fiscal
policy. As a result, the bill was
stalled in the House. -
THEREFORE, ex - President
Hoover, who has a passion
ate pride in his handiwork, called
on the President, to' persuade
him to give the bill a big Presi
dential push. The President, who
has an almost filial respect for
his predecessor, amiably agreed,
and a strong letter to the House
supporting the bill was prepared
for the President's signature.
When Taber learned of this
planned Presidential interven
tion, he asked for an appoint
ment with the President, and
got it. Crusty old Taber argued
fiercely against the bill. His
main point was that, far from
saving money, it would have pre
cisely the opposite - effect. Be
cause the first year's installment
on some costly project might be
small, Congress would approve
it. Then the country would ulti
mately be stuck with the cost of
the whole project. Besides, Tab
er said, the procedure was un
workable. -
The President was much im
pressed, and allowed that what
Taber had said was "an entirely
new point of view" to him. Soon
thereafter, Rep. Clarence Brown,
a sponsor of the bill and a mem- j
ber of the original Hoover Com
mission, got a White House call.
The chances were that, the
President would not send
his i
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By Joe arid Stewart Alsop
letter to the House after all,
Brown was told.
i
BROWN was furious, and tel
ephoned ex-President Hoover
in New York. Hoover telephoned
the White House, and White
House Press Secretary James
Hagerty hastily issued a state
ment to the effect that the Presi
dent was all for the bill. This in
turn stimulated Cannon and
Taber to counter-attack. Then
counter - attack took the form
of releasing Wilson's closed ses
sion testimony against the bill
And Wilson, in turn, had to deny
the plain meaning of what he
had said.
There the matter now rests.
Whatever the ultimate fate of
the bill, what happened tells a
lot about the position in which
the President so often finds him
self. No one, least of all the
President, would claim that he
is an expert on everything. Yet
he is called upon to make firm
decisions about everything under
the usn oil imports, the budget,
the clean bomb, the line between
civil and criminal contempt, and
heaven knows what all.
When all his advisers tell him
the same thing, his problem is
easy. But what is he to do when
men whom he respects; who
claim to be experts tell him flat
ly contradictory things? He is
then rather in the position of the
beleaguered- Horatius - on the
bridge "Those behind cried
'Forward,' and those '-before'
cried 'Back'." The moral of the
story, in short, is 'pity the'poor
President." For he is a much
over-burdened man.
(c) 1957 New York
Herald .Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
' A big story told in black
deadlines in print and .repeated
summaries over the air:
Mrs. Eisenhower (known af
fectionately to all of us as
Mamie) was operated on at Wal
ter Reed hospital in Washington.
The White House says the opera
tion was performed, for what it
termed a "benign ', condition."
That is to say, it wasn't can
cerous. Asked by newsmen about the
precise nature of Mrs. Eisen
hower's ailment, White House
press secretary Hagerty pointed
out that the surgeon who did the
operation is a gynecologist. A
gynecologist, he added, special
izes in women's ailments.
He said the operation involved
"nothing serious and was not an
emergency" that the surgery
had been under consideration
for some time. He reported that
it disclosed "nothing malignant"
and that ' the 60-year-old First
Lady, of the Land is in good
condition.
AH, the fierce white lighfthat
beats upon the great of the
world! For them there is no such
thing as privacy.
It is pleasant to be able to re
port that in this particular case
it isn t mere morbid curiosity
that prompts our intense inter
est. It is deep and abiding affec
tion. ''.-.
Mamie Eisenhower is more
than respected. She is BE
LOVED, i
r'S-a-strange-world note:
In the heart of Miami, one
of the nation's great metropoli
tan cities, a father saved his
small son's life by wrenching a
savage ocelot (an ocelot is a
member of the jaguar family)
off the child's back and wound
ing the big cat with a rifle.
The father found his 18-month-
old son sprawled on his face in
their back, yard with the big
South American jungle cat on
the boy's back. He tore the cat
loose with his bare hands . . .
carried his son to safety . . . and
chased the cat to the bank of a
nearby canal. He shot at it and
beat it with a pick ax and it fell
dead in the canal.
The authorities said the ocelot
wore a collar and apparently
was a pet. The police were un
able to locate its owner. .
IT'S a weird story.
What isn't weird is the qual-
Bankers See Housing Stimulus
In New Mortgage Regulations
By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH
United Press Financial Writer
New York (IP) Uncle Sam's
new mortgage regulations will
pep up the housing industry by
bringing new funds into the nr.ar
ket, bankers said today.
However, they noted that in
stead of pouring out of the big
eastern financial houses, the
money will rise mainly from
the local level and from small
pension and welfare funds.
The big financial houses still
are just about where they were
before the string of recent
changes.
Last Monday the FHA lower
ed down payments and raised
the interest rate from 5 to 5Vt
per cent on agency-insured
mortgages. But the move also
set discount limits on mortgages
backed by the FHA and Veter-
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Asks Better Response
To the Editor: This letter is
an attempt to bring attention
to a situation which seems to
me to be of public concern.
We are all very grateful to
the American Legion for its
work in sponsoring baseball
teams all over the country. The
local posts in this valley are
to be commended for the back
ing they have given youngsters
.in this community in participa
ting in the great American
sport. However, why can't the
individual members of the Le
gion be more responsive in giv
ing recognition to these boys?
Last week when a banquet was
held in honor of the local Junior
American Legion baseball team
there were only five Legion
members present. Does it not
seem reasonable that there
should have been a greater re
sponse on the part of the Le
gionnaires? -
Even though this team was
defeated by Roseburg, during
the regular season its perform
ance was very creditable. We
should all be proud of these
boys . and those who assisted
them to have a very successful
baseball season. I am sure that
the individual members of the
Legion are ' very happy to have
had some part in making it pos
sible for boys to participate in
a good, clean sport during the
summer months. These men
could have actively expressed
their interest in the wholesome
development of better citizens il
they would have taken the time
to attend the banquet given Li
honor of this year's team.
Charles W. Tennant, ,
1008 Winchester ave.
Medford, Ore.
ity of this 34-year-old father's
courage.
IT is the stuff that MEN are
made of.,
CJAD note In the news:
Th a defense rlpnartmpnl re
ported in Washington this morn
ing that more than 1800 service
men were, killed in auto acci
dents Jast year.
The department's report to a
house appropriations - subcom
mittee added that more than
17,800 other servicemen were in
jured in highway accidents dur
ing 1956.
VLfE can say with the Judge, in
" the poem Maud Muller: ' '
"Of all sad words
"Oi tongue or pen,
"The saddest are these:
"It might have been."
If more of the operators of
America's automobiles had been
BETTER DRIVERS, most of
these young men might stiU be
alive and whole.
"As funeral directors, we herewith fully acknowledge
our individual and collective obligations to the public,
especially to those we serve, and our mutual responsi
bilities for the proper welfare of the funeral service
profession."
From the Code of Ethics of the
National Funeral Directors' Association
' DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
ans Administration.
Discounts essentially are pre
miums paid for mortgages. Be-.
fore Monday neither the FHA
nor the VA programs had limits
on discounts and they ranged
as high as 8 points for some
paper on the West Coast.
The new FHA ruling placed
maximum discounts at 2V4 points
for government - backed mort
gages. So in effect there is not
enough change in the actual in
terest rate to attract the big
financial houses who can get
higher yields on other invest
ments. However, the flow of funds
for local banks into local mort
gage market should be stimulat
ed, the bankers say. The big rea
son for this is that the Vt per
cent service charge that the big
lenders have to pay for out of
town mortgages usually can be
absorbed by the local financial
unit.
Survey Shows Oddities
A W e . . I '
Among New state Laws
Chicago HPI State legislators
in one of their busiest years have
found time to pass laws affecting
minnow pickers and moss gath
erers. Legislative oddities such as
these were turned up in quantity
$3300,000,009
Outstanding in
Credit To Farmers
Berkeley, Calif. (IP) R. B
Tootell, head of the Farm Credit
Administration, reported today
the Cooperative Farm Credit
System had $3,300,000,000 out
standing to farmers and farmers
cooperatives at the close of the
fiscal year June 30.
Tootell said credit extended to
farmers was at a record high
Loans outstanding at the close
of fiscal 1957 were $360 million
more than for fiscal 1956.
"Increased cost of farm sup
plies, farm machinery, livestock
and. hired labor has increased
farmers' needs for short and in
termediate-term credit," Tootell
said. 'Farmers are also borrow
ing more to refinance debts, im
prove land; erect new buildings
and remodernfce old ones."
' Tootell said, some 367,000
farmers had borrowed $1,900
000,000 in land . bank loans and
260,000 borrowed $960 million
from local production credit as
sociations. .
Federal intermediate credit
bank discounts, for' financing
other than through production
credit associations, amounted to
$70 million.
The balance of the $3,300,000,
000 went to 2,393 farmers' coop
eratives, Tootell said.
U. S. Agrees To New
Red China Quotas
Washington (IP) The
United States has reluctantly
agreed to new Allied quota on
shipments of about 20 strategic
items to Communist China.
The State Department said
Wednesday the quotas, which
apply for the remainder of this
year, were agreed to at a recent
meeting'in Paris with 14 Allied
nations. The exact quotas were
not disclosed. , .
Officials said only that they
covered about 20 items such as
chemicals, machinery and trans
portation goods.
The'yJ said the agreement will
not result in further easing of
controls. It simply is an agree
ment furthering steps already
taken by Britain and other Al
lied nations.
Across from the Courthouse .
: Frank Morgan Harold Sneiclgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
SaVaN
Wednesday the FHA announc
ed a change in its regulations
designed to open the way for
investment of the resources of
pension and other funds into
the government - insured pro
gram. The change permits owners
of the FHA-insured mortgages
to sell a partial interest in them
by issuance of notes or certifv
cates backed by the mortgage.
Bankers say the new regula
tion will widen participation in
the government program by al
lowing small trusts, which pre
viously couldn't afford to buy
mortgages, now to buy deben
tures secured by government-
backed mortgages.
These debentures, they point
out, will be similar to equipment
trust certificates in the railroad
industry. Instead of being back
ed by a locomotive they are
secured by a mortgage on a
home.
ssff ffaf am a
in a survey by Commerce Clear
ing House, national reporting au
thority on tax and business law.
Now you can be fined $25 to
$100 in Nebraska if your clock
doesn't show standard time.
Picketing a cemetery during
a funeral is illegal in Ohio.
Giving out trading stamps is a
crime in Kansas.
In Tennessee it's- illegal to use
the telephone to embarrass some
one. Indiana passed a similar
law bui made the offense punish
able only if it occurs repeatedly.
Prizes Barred
Cash or liquor prizes at ba
zaar or raffles are illegal -in Con
necticut, i
New Hampshire has estab
lished a navy militia. '
Trying to kill wild birds with
salt is illegal under, a new law
in Michigan, but it's legal now
to use firecrackers to frighten
birds away from fish hatcheries
in Florida.
A legislative committee in
Massachusetts is studying the
fairest way to tax machinery
used for gathering moss.
In Minnesota, dealers in
pickled minnows must now com
ply with the state's require:
ments for licensing regular min
now dealers.
And Indiana amiably passed
a law permitting persons and
corporations who are not subject
to tax to donate whatever they
wish to help pay the state's bills.
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