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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. 9. 1947 (Sunday)
Formation route and Instruct
tions for the V-J day celebration
parade announced.
From Arthur Perry's Ya
Smudge Pot column: To keep
goldfish from fading feed them
paprika.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1937 (Monday)
James Stevens, one-time na
tionally famous opera baritone
dies in his home here.
Pinball games ordered re
moved by District Attorney
Frank J. Newman.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1927 (Tueiday)
First carload of Rogue River
valley Bartlett pears will be
shipped by H. Van Hoevenburg
this evening to the eastern auc
tion market.
The Medford Merchant's asso
ciation agrees to donate $500 to
the Jackson County Products
show during their regular meet
ing last night.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9. 1917 (Thursday)
Medford s Cookpany 7 re
quests plenty of canned fruit
from Rogue River valley while
in training.
The annual skinning of the
Rogue Kiver valley farmers is
in progress by grain and hay
speculators; wheat in Portland is
selling as high as $2.50.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct la superior;
even or eight la excellent; five or
tlx la rood
1. The novelty play, "Polka
Mania" resulted in the populari
zation of which famous dance?
2. In what city is famous
"Newgate Prison"?
3. aiDie: wno said " In my
Fathers house are many man
sions . . ."?
4. Who was the founder of fa
mous Hull House, in Chicago?
5. Whose airplane was called
the "Sacred Cow"?
o. is tne farthingale a species
of bird? Plant?
7. Gherkins are small wooden
tubs, small cucumbers, or
gnomes?
8. Which American college is
named for two English rulers?
9. Is "slick", in the sense of
slippery, a provincialism?"
10. "I live on broken wittles
and I sleep on the coals."
Dickens, in "David Copperfield'
Is I a miner, poor man, or
janitor?
Answers: 1. Polka. 2. London;
England. 3. Jesus. 4. Jane Ad-
dams. 5. The plane used by
President Truman. 6. No. (it is a
hoop-skirt). 7. Small cucumbers.
8. William and Mary. 9. Yes. 10.
Poor man.
Responsibility for
Retarded Child Told
Salem (W Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton said today
that the primary responsibility
for educating mentally retarded
children rests with local school
districts.
The attorney general also held
that where a retarded child has
been committed, but not admit
ted to Fairview home in Salem,
it is still the responsibility of
the school district where the
child resides to educate him.
However, if the school board
feels the child could not possibly
benefit from regular classes or
special instructional facilities, it
can exclude him, Thornton said.
4 Lets Look Ahead
There's a story going the rounds about the man
whose friend said to him, "Cheer up, things could be
worse." So, the man said, "I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse." (
This is a sort of reverse slant on an attitude which
appears to be fairly prevalent these days in southern
Oregon that things seem to be worse than they really
are. 1
No one is going to be Pollyannaish enough to
claim that there isn't a slowness in the lumber market,
or that prices are down. And no one is going to con
vince someone who's had trouble finding a job that
everything is rosy.
But a look at the facts should convince the most
critical cynic that southern Oregon is NOT going
through a depression, and that the future is promising.
- e e e e
THE painstaking job of research performed by
Mayor John Snider on what is good about our
situation, and why it is bound to get better, is based
on facts facts which can be documented and proven
with no difficulty.
It was not intended to be a rounded and compre
hensive picture of the economy, and' made no pretense
of being such. It simply was a survey of what is ahead
in the way of development and construction in this
area, of why there is reason for optimism, and of whv
there is reason to believe that the picture is far from I
being as bad as it is now so often painted.
Eyed from a short-range viewpoint, one of the
most crucial facts developed by the mayor's study is
the fact that carloadings of lumber from the Medford
area are virtually on a par with last year, down only
cne or two percentage points, and that the indications
are that August will go above the figure set for that
month in 1956, which was in some respects a near-
record year.
"THIS is important, for it indicates that lumber pro
1 duction is not down seriously. Prices received are,
of course, another matter. - But the individuals most
seriously concerned with prices are the owners and
operators of the firms, not the employees, most of
whom continue to bring home their paychecks
steadily.
And it is not lumber profits which keep an area's
economy moving along nearly as much as it is the pay
roll checks, which are used to buy the groceries, the j
shoes and the automobiles on which retail trade is
based.
fJEMPLOYMENT is, at the moment, virtually non-
existent in Jackson county, except for a few peo
pie who are physically unable to work in the fruit
harvest.
Last week, before the harvest began, an estimated
800 people, out of a total labor force estimated at
about 28,000 persons, were out of work. Some of these
were "between jobs," and others could accept only
certain types of employment.
The employment service reports that there just
isn't anly labor "surplus" this year, and that some of
the fruit growers are short-handed for harvesting or
packing-house help.
THE magazine U.S. News and World Report, in its
current issue, makes some population forecasts
which indicate the west coast is due for phenomenal
growth, with Oregon gaming more than 66 per cent.
Jacksori county, situated about mid-point between
the population centers of the Pacific coast, is in a
highly strategic position as a distribution center, and
the added number of people here and in this service
and trade area is going to add to that importance,
The mayor's survey pointed out the development
of highways. The money put into highway construc
tion will be a helpful "shot in the arm," of course, but
more important will be the opening up of more and
better arteries of transportation and communication,
which are the life-blood of trade and commerce.
'YOU PROMISED MB A CAKE ON AW BIRWVAY.
Retirement Aspects
Discussed by Babson
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. The
present system of retiring faith
ful and efficient workers is prob
ably good for
the junior .em
ployees. It
gives them
better chance
for promo
tion. But the
younger ones
must indirect
ly contribute
to the support
of those being
W Babaun
Roger
yiTE ALSO have the feeling that the full signifi-
" cance of the Talent project, which will be com
pleted in another few years, has escaped many peo
ple's notice. Not only will it increase the number of
irrigated acres on existing farms, and add to supplies
available to those now irrigating, but it will also make
possible more and more of the "small farm plot" type
of development, ,where people in seasonal work can
supplement their income and their larder by small
crops grown on their own property.
It will broaden the opportunities for a wider
variety of crops, and permit greater concentration of
specialty crops. And the increasing population m the
west will virtually guarantee a market for everything
that can be raised here.
A LL this is entirely aside from the fact that a back
" log of more than $70 million in construction is
now or soon will be under way in this trade area,
which is a graphic illustration of the confidence which
investors and the government have in the area's
future.
All these factors can add Up to only one answer
that growth and prosperity are inescapably ahead,
barring only a major catastrophe.
The lumber market is down; there's no blinking
that fact. But it is bound to improve. The only way it
can go is up. And -in most other segments of the
economy, the facts are on the side of the optimists, not
the pessimists. E.A.
Bomb Scare Grounds Passenger Airliner
Chicago (IB A Northwest
Airlines DC6 with 53 passengers
aboard was ordered to return to
Midway airport early today fol
lowing an anonymous phone call
saying a bomb was hidden on it
For two hours detectives and
airline employees went through
the baggage of all passengers.
No bomb was found.
The plane, bound for Seattle,
was over Rockford,, 111., when
recalled. The airlines contacted
its Minneapolis office which ra
dioed the plane to return to
Chicago.
retired through paying one half
of their Social Security and oth
er benefits. Some one must pay
the bills.
In many cases compulsory re
tirement is a blessing to all con
cerned. Many "workers are phy
sically unable to continue at
their usual manual labor or
even at office work. This, how
ever, does not justify children
putting such parents into nurs
ing homes. This procedure is be
coming too common. There
money in nursing homes for the
operators; but they are sad places
to visit. When I see children
ruthlessly put a parent into
nursing home, it makes me feel
very sad.
It seems as if some semi-retirement,
or half-time plan could
often be used instead of full re
tirement. When I discuss this
with employers they state that
such an arrangement would up
set their "streamlined" produc
tion system and their efficient
office systems. This may be true
in a few cases; but if this half
time arrangement were applied
to all competitors", no one con
cerned would be handicapped.
Longer Vacations
Another suggestion is that re
tirement systems be based upon
longer vacations, in both sum
mer and winter. Instead of
worker going on half-time by
working half a day every day,
he could work all day when
Officials Predict
Trend Back To FHA
Loans in Prospect
Washington (IP) A govern
ment housing official predicted
today that changes in FHA rules
will reverse a strong trend away
from financing of homes by use
of FHA-insured mortgages.
The Federal Housing Admin
istration announced Monday it
will cut down its down payment
requirements on government in
sured home loans almost in
half. But with the cut it raised
interest rates to 514 per cent,
plus one-half per cent compul
sory insurance on the loan.
The FHA is counting on the
"more realistic" interest rate to
attract money-lenders back into
its mortgage market and boost
FHA back into an important role
in the housing picture. The FHA
itself does not lend money.
The federal agency, which
once insured about half of all the
nation's home loans, has been
quietly drifting out of that pic
ture. Not Attractive
Its 5 per cent interest ceiling
and other rules were not attrac
tive enough to builders and po
tential lenders on lower priced
homes and offered little or no
advantage to borrowers on mid
dle and high priced homes.
In a recent month, only about
8 per cent of all money bor
rowed on home mortgages across
the country was under the FHA
system. The Veterans Adminis
tration, through its "GI" loans,
guaranteed 20 per cent, and the
remaining 72 per cent was con
ventional mortgages negotiated
with banks and other lending
institutions without government
assistance or backing.
Government housing experts
believe the new higher interest
rates and lowered down pay
ments will bring the public and
the money lenders back to FHA.
They hope the agency will be
participating in about one-fourth
of all home mortgage arrange
ments by next year.
going to the plant or office but
take two months off in summer
and two months or more off in
winter.
With some businesses this
would be a less disrupting meth
od of adjustment; but with other
industries it would be more of
a handicap. Therefore, why not
amend the retirement regula
tions to give corporations their
choice? Undoubtedly, labor
unions would want to be a party
to such decisions; but that, too,
could be worked out.
An Important Warning
The most valuable advice
which I can give to readers who
are approaching retirement is to
avoid the temptation of going
into business for themselves. If
you want to take a salaried job
with some other concern this is
OK, provided it is not a com
pany competing with the one
from which you are retiring.
Certainly it is bad ethics to re
tire from one company on a pen
sion and then work for a com
petitor or start in business your
self as a competitor. In my
opinion, this comes close to plain
dishonesty.
I issue a special warning
against starting or putting any
money into a new business of
any kind. I have seen thousands
of cases where able retired per
sons have lost, after retirement,
the money which they had
earned and saved before retire
ment. This applies equally ' as
well to successful businessmen
as to employees. They have
thought that because they made
a success of one business, they
could make a success of some
other business. This has often
proved a costly mistake.
Luck vs. Ability
Although these men had busi
ness ability when operating the
business from which they had
retired, their success was not due
entirely to business skill. Other
factors contributed to that suc
cess. A man may have entered
his former business when the
industry was young. The times,
political atmosphere, or tax
system, may now be very differ
ent. They may have operated at
different period m the busi
ness cycle, but styles ana de-
mad for the product may by
now have completely changed.
The person himself may be less
vigorous or progressive due to
advanced age; while competition
is now such that more vigor and
capital are needed.
I especially warn retired per
sons not to go to California or
Florida or to some other boom
ing state unless they can . count
on a check of at least $200, be
sides Social Security benefits,
coming from home each month
as a pension or as interest or
dividends. Also, before you take
any job anywhere after retire
ment, ascertain how it will affect
your Social Security and other
benefits. In most cases, if you
earn more than $1,200 per year
you will lose your bociai se
curity.
New Jersey Governorship Race
Seen as Crucial Straw-in-Wind
'
Raymond Lahr
now hold the
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (ID The admin
istration and the national Repub
lican organization are showing
extradordinary interest in win-
ning the New
Jersey gover
norship next
November.
A victory
would return
to Republican
control one of
the statehouses
in pivotal
states where
Democrats
governorships.
State house provide the patron
age sinews for state party organ
izations. Coincidentally GOP victory" in
New Jersey would kill off one
of the potential candidates for
the 1960 Democratic presidential
nomination. It would mean the
defeat of Gov. Robert B. Meyner,
the incumbent Democrat seeking
reelection.
Malcolm S. Forbes, state sen
ator and Republican nominee for
the governorship, visited Wash
ington Thursday to see Vice
President Richard M. Nixon,
members of the New Jersey con
gressional delegation and Presi
dential Assistant Sherman Ad
ams. He saw President Eisen
hower during another recent
visit.
Ike Offers Help
Nixon offered to make a cam
paign appearance. Forbes said he
would be invited. Eisenhower
has offered to give any help he
could.
In bringing the national party
into the picture, however, the
New Jersey GOP must guard
against fanning resentment over
outside intrusion in a state cam
paign. But New Jersey voters
will no doubt be reminded that
the state election will be watched
nationally as a barometer fore
telling future political weather.
The adjoining states of Penn
sylvania and New York, both
politically important ones with
Democratic governors, will hold
state elections next year. So wiU
the weathervane svate of Con
necticut and more heavily popu
lated Massachusetts and Michi
gan, which also have Democrat
ic governors.
President Eisenhower carried
all those states in 1956 even
though the rival party controlled
the statehouses. But his name
will not be on the ballot -in 1960.
Look For Trends
Among the so-called pivotal
states whose electoral votes are
most prized in presidential elec
tions only California, Illinois
and Ohio now have Republican
governors.
The New Jersey election will
be one of three 1957 state con
tests which will be carefully
watched for signs of a trend.
The first will be Aug. 27 when
normally Republican Wisconsin
elects a successor to the late Re
publican Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy. Even if the Republican nomi
nee is the favorite. Democrats
will analyze the Wisconsin re
sults to see if there Is still evi
dence of farm ' discontent with
the administration in the Middle
West.
A governor also will be elected
in November in normally Demo
cratic Virginia where the GOP
is more optimistic than usual.
Their nominee is Ted Dalton. He
ran for the same office four years
ago and polled 45 per cent of
the vote, the best showing by a
Republican candidate since the
Reconstruction years.
Only one special election has
been held this year in New
Mexico-to fill a vacancy in the
House of Representatives. A
Democrat was elected to a seat
formerly held by a Democrat.
' Action1 Program to
Chop Government Size
Sought in Meetings
By TOM NELSON
United Press Correspondent
Hershey, Pa. (in State and
federal officials today sought an
"action" program to cut the size
of the huge federal government.
A joint 17-man committee of
governors and high-ranking rep
resentatives of President Eisen
hower opened a two-day meet
ing to launch a study of whether
some federal functions can be
turned over to the states.
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Census Estimates
Said Due This Year
Salem (IP) The State Census
board will be required to file
new census estimates for both
cities and counties this year un
der provisions of a new census
act which goes into effect
Aug. 20.
That was the opinion today of
Attorney General Robert Y
Thornton.
The former census law re
quired only city estimates and
there was a question as to
whether the count might not be
put off until next year. -
The estimates are used in dis
tributing state funds to cities
and counties.
STICKY PROBLEM SOLVED
San Diego, Calif. qPI Detec
tives didn't have to go far to
solve the vending machine tap
per mystery. William Paul New
ton, 47, was arrested Thursday
on charges of tapping the candy
machine at the central police
station of $3.85. Newton worked
in the building. . ...
Suspicious of Zoning
To the Editor: Attention, Mr
Staley of Eagle Point.
I have read with a great deal
of attention your articles on the
zoning of Jackson county and
am interested enough to reply
to your plea for support.
I assure you. you have mine
in full measure. I have been a
resident taxpayer in this county
for more than 30 years. And
feel that some one must come
forward to do something to pre
vent something we shall always
regret if it should come to pass
I agree with you that the Big
Business of Medford will stoop
to almost anything to hamstring
the growth and prosperity of
the country dweller. Especially
if he does not profit in . every
thing the producer on the farm
brings forth to market.
There is a point that I must
mention in connection with the
'Zoning'.
In the first place the city nor
the county can proceed with
such ' a plan except the state
has provided for such a contin
gency by statute, regularly en
acted. Has it done so? And by
what . representation, and by
whom presented? Why was it
presented? Who wanted the zon
ing badly enough to start pro
ceedings to bring about such a
result? How will he, or they,
benefit? There is a 'nigger' in
the woodpile somewhere. You
can bet your last dollar on that,
too.
1 have a smattering of law,
having studied it for some three
years. And, as of now, 1 cannot
see how it can be done. How
ever, I am ignorant of the late
statutes of the state in which
we live. Should it be that such
a .aw is now on the books it
could be a different story.
In such a case then a strong
opposition must be built up from
scratch. That will take time and
work.
Gazing at the thing from the
sidelines, it looks to me to be a
filthy and yet a bold attempt
to gain control, and I mean
CONTROL, of all business car
ried on in the county be it pub
lic or private, and thus be tanta
mount to full ownership. And
the real owner might just as
well move out. if he can get
permission, or walk out with
out it.
Andy L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania Ave..
Medford, Pre.
by saner thinking, can and wiU
destroy America's great land of
wealth, health, beauty, useful
ness to mankind Greed for
wealth and power has stripped
America of forests, soil, streams,
woods, water and wildlife; far
too much of her wealth and
beauty, and is too fast creating
a land of drouths, floods, deserts,
famines. Perhaps lew peopls
will want to see such a land
on an automobile trip!
Every billboard along -.- the
highway is a potential casualty,
excessive billboards mean extra
death traps. And a billboard
alley not only is extremely dan
gerous, but deprives all travel
ers, especially out-of-state-travel-
ers, seeing, enjoying and getting
the health benefits they may
have made a long trip to realize.
Not all users of America's
highways are speed demons nor
people bent on getting to the
other end of their trip just as
fast and quickly as possible.
Automobile travelers, I believe,
want to see, enjoy all the nat
ural scenery they pass through
and by. I doubt if any make a
long trip just to see such adver
tising as too often disgrace com
mercial billboards.
T drove 35.000 miles on our
U.S. highways, through every
state, into Canada and Mexico.
Wo saw America all the way,
blocked nobody's desire to go
faster, nor were we obliged to
drive through a biUboards alley
like tunnel. Let us Save Our
Scenery, our natural resources
for posterity; it's up to us, we
who are here now.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood Ave.,
Medford, Ore-.
A key question was where the
states would get the money to
pay for any federal functions
they might assume.
Lane Dwinell of New Hamp
shire, chairman of the 10-man
governors' delegation, said
enough research has been done
by the Hoover Commission and
others to lay the groundwork
for some action.
"I don't think anybody is opti
mistic that we're going to set the
world on fire," DwlneU told a
reporter. "But the mere fact that
this project is being undertaken
makes me confident we can
achieve some success." '
Dwinell said he found "gen
eral agreement" among the na
tion's 48 governors that it was
"desirable" for some federal pro
grams to be shifted to the states.
"There are many fields which
the states can operate more ef
ficiently if they have the reve
nue sources which have been
preempted by the federal govern
ment," he nid. ',
Dwinell conceded it was dif
ficult "to turn back the clock
and reverse yourself." But he
said if the joint committee suc
ceeded only in being a "deter
rent ..influence on going farther
in respect, to federal aid" it
would be a success. . '
President Eisenhower set the
stage for today's meeting at a
Pennsylvania resort hotel in a
speech to the annual governors'
conference at Williamsburg, Va.,
June 24.
Eisenhower proposed the crea
tion of a joint state-federal com
mittee to determine whether the
states can take over some fed
eral aid programs and whether
the federal government can re
linquish some revenue sources to
the states.
The governors' conference ap
pointed 10 governors to work
with seven Eisenhower ap
pointees. The governors wera
scheduled to meet separately to
day and join the federal ap
pointees headed by Treasury
Secretary Robert B. Anderson
later today.
Dwinell said the two-day ses
sion here would decide on the
agenda for further sessions by
the joint committee.
MOVIE STARS WED
Gibraltar (IB British stage
and movie stars Margaret Leigh
ton and Laurence Harvey were
married Thursday night in a
brief ceremony aboard a passen
ger tender.
Not Billboard Alleys
To the Editor: By all means
let us not destroy the main pur
pose for which our automobile
highways are built, not billboard
speedway alleys. (Take the jet
plane for speed.) Let's make the
hignways so the auto traveling
public may use and enjoy them,
see ' the natural , scenery by and
through which they go, breathe
the pure healthgiving air and
return safely to their homes, not
with an unforgettable hideous
nightmare of having passed
through a dark tunnel bordered
with disgraceful decorations of
commercial billboards. Let oar
visitors return with pleasant,
sweet memories of the trip and
what they saw.
' The dollar-greed craze of
commercialism and its accom
panying ills, unless checked soou
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