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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. 12, 1947, (Tuesday)
The Jackson county tax levy
for the 1947-48 year will be 8.3
mills. County Assessor C. A.
Myers reports.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "President
ial candidates, admitted or will
ing and movie queens are due
to show up in Oregon cities
this month."
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12. 1937 (Thursday)
Punchboards here may come
under the Oregon pinball law,
district attorney says.
A survey of Rogue river mud
dy water to determine the ef
fects on aquatic life nears com
pletion. 30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1927 (Friday)
Nine cars of pears will be
shipped to the eastern markets
from the Medford packing hous
es this evening.
Plans for comprehensive pub
licity campaign to "tell the
world" of Medford's prosperity
jubilee are made.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1917 (Monday)
Private car of Theodore N.
Vail and Newcomb Carleton to
leave valley; Vail is president
of American Bell Telephone
company and Carleton is presi
dent of the Western Union Tele
graph company.
Two bootleggers are arrested
in the Siskiyous with 24 quarts.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or etebt Is exceUent: live or
six Is good
1. Are officers required to
salute enlisted personnel who
wear the Congressional Medal
of Honor?
2. Prawn is a shrimplike sea
food, Creole candy, or a name
for a brilliant sunrise?
3. Bible. "Now there arose ud
in Egypt a new king." Did this
king come to know Moses,
Joseph or Solomon?
4. "Rocky Mountain canar
ies" is a slang term for birds,
donkeys, or fish?
5. U. S. Marines well know
what "D. I." signifies. To what
does it refer?
6. A new clause added to a
will after its execution is call
ed a crocus, crocodile or codi
cil?
7. Lothario was a famous in
ventor, painter or lover?
8. Why does Sir Isaac New
ton owe so much of his fame
to an apple?
9. Which of these nouns are
plural: falls; ways; woods?
10. "... I Whcse pitchy man
tle overveiled the earth." This
line, from Shakespeare's "Hen
ry VI" refers to what? ' .
Answers: 1. No. 2. Shrimplike
seafood. 3. Joseph. 4. Donkeys.
5. Drill Instructor. 6. Codicil.
7. Lover. 8. Because he discov
ered the law of gravitation after
an apple fell on his head. 9. AH
three are. 10. Night.
Washington (W Nearly
200 Cubans, members of organi
zations opposed to the regime of
Cuban President Fulgencio Ba
tista, picketed the White House
for 90 minutes to protest Ba
tista's action against foes of his
government. The pickets, mostly
from New York, carried pla
cards demanding that the United
State? refuse to send any more
arms o satista regime which
uses them to "kill the indefen-
sive and peaceful citizens of
Cuba."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Ambulance Service a "Must"
X city the size of Medford now more than 23,000
people with several thousand more in the immediate
.vicinity cannot afford to be without an ambulance
service.
If Medford Ambulance is forced out of business
(and unless more people pay their bills it will prob
ably have to cease operations by the end of the
month) the city is faced with a dilemma.
Where does the responsibility lie for maintaining
such a vital service? If, as is the case elsewhere, it
lies' with the city itself, how shall it be provided?
And who is going to pay for it?
A $10 flat fee for an ambulance call, plus 75 cents
per mile, may seem high at first glance. But it
must be considered that the ambulance service has a
considerable initial investment, that people remain
dependent on it for their living, day after day, and
that it is one of the most uncertain of businesses.
The ambulances may be busy as can be for a day
or two ; then there may be a two or three week period
when there are no calls at all. But maintenance and
payroll costs keep on just the same, whether or not
there is any income. , -
The rates have to be high enough so that the
annual income can be apportioned ver the jnonth
to make the whole thing a sound operation. It's a
cinch that no one's getting rich at it. Two funeral
homes here, both of which once operated ambulances,
got out of it because of its high costs and headaches.
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"llHAT, then, can be done?
In Astoria, the city council has taken the
service over itself, and will operate it within the city,
and outside 'the city in emergency cases. In Bend,
the city first-aid car doubles as an ambulance.
In other cities, an ambulance is made a part of
the fire department, or the police department In
some, they are operated by the hospitals, in others by
the taxi company.
None of these alternatives is wholly satisfactory,
and all are expensive more so than a private opera
tion where it is largely a "family" type of business,
with the principals on duty 24 hours per day, and
with assistants "on call."
It might even be worth while and more economical
for the city to make an outright subsidy to such an
organization, guaranteeing it a certain minimum in
come each month, simply to ensure that it can remain
in business.
A NOTHER alternative might be for the ambulance
" firm to enter into a contractual relationship with
the city, performing the services at a guaranteed rate,
and the city then serving as the agency through which
bills are sent and collections made. It is possible that
this might be the soundest and most feasible as
well as the most economical of the solutions.
City Manager Bob Duff is at the moment collect
ing information as to how other cities have solved
the problem.
Meanwhile,. if Medford Ambulance Service is to
remain in business, the short-range answer is simply
for people to consider its bills just as important as
those sent by the doctor, the grocer or the TV repair
man.
Whatever the answer, one must be found, for this
area cannot allow itself to be without this vital, life
saving service. E.A.
And Mercy Flights, Too
Speaking of ambulance service, the time has come
once again to call attention to another of the benefits
which come of living in Jackson county. We refer to
"Mercy Flights, Inc."
Anyone who has lived here for any length of time
is familiar with the operation. But for the benefit of
newcomers, here is the story, in brief.
"Mercy Flights, Inc.," is a non-profit organiza
tion, formed in the winter of 1949, the sole aim of
which is to provide air-ambulance service to residents
of the area as economically as possible. It is the only
one of its kind in the world,
( e e
IT started out as a community endeavor (we still
remember with a warm glow how school-kids do
nated nickels and dimes, and adults and organizations
larger amounts, to get it started), and it has remained
one.
It has continued in operation for 7y2 years be
cause it'has had the confidence and support of people
in Jackson county who have paid an annual "sub
scription fee" (now $4 per family or $2 per person,
mailed to P.O. Box 550) which guarantees them of
free air ambulance service in an emergency, and a
reduced rate in non-emergency situations.
This steady income, plus the flight charges made
to non-subscribers, has enabled the service to con
tinue. It operates on a close margin, sometimes going
into the hole for brief periods, sometimes building
up a modest backlog for the purchase of needed parts,
equipment and repairs to the planes it operates.
1MANY of the subscribers have gotten great and
needed service for their small annual fees. Many
others have never needed the service, but have re
ceived double satisfaction, in knowing the service is
there if they ever need it, and in knowing that their
annual check has enabled the organisation to con
tinue its service to others.
This support has been continuous a little better
one year, a little less another year. This year, so far,
has been one of the "less good" years, and it is to be
hoped that subscription payments will pick up.
If anyone wants to know whether or not the service
is worth while, let him ask one of the patients who
has been flown by Mercy Flights' orange and white
planes. In iy2 years there have been more than 700
of them. E.A.
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Matter of Fact
CIVIL RIGHTS AND 1960
Washington Among the
milling throngs of would-be
Presidents on Capitol Hill, there
are at least six serious potential
candidates. If you examine the
effects of the great civil rights
battle on the political fortunes
of each of these men, you are
likely to reach a surprising con
clusion. Every one of them, with
one notable
exception, has
benefited i n
terms of 1960.
The excep
tion is Major
ity leader
ity leader
Lyndon John
son. Johnson
says flatly
steva.it Aisop inai ne does
not want the nomination.
This is, of course, standard oper
ating procedure for all would-be
candidates. But Johnson's closest
associates believe him with
one proviso. x
Johnson, they say, would
agree to run if the only alterna
tive was a candidate who would
"tear the party apart." They
name no names, but they ob
viouly have in mind a man total
ly unacceptable to the South,
like Gov. G. Menen Williams
of Michigan, or possibly Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York.
Even then, his friends say,
Johnson would agree to run only
if he felt confident about his
health. His friends are more
worried about his health" than
they care to admit. Since the
civil rights battle began, John
son has worked a frenetic 16-hour-day
hardly a regimen a
cautious doctor wpuld recom
mend for a rather recent heart
attack victim.
But if Johnson's role in the
civil rights fight has been
bad for his health, it has been
worse for his Presidential
chances. If he had not taken
command of the forces fighting
for a bill "the South could live
with," the jury trial amendment
would have been defeated. But
just because this is so, the
Northern liberals, never friend
ly to the Texan in any case,
have been further alienated.
And the liberals traditionally
exercise a veto power at Demo
cratic conventions.
When the civil rights fight
started, Johnson stayed in the
wings and kept his mouth shut.
That was the smart way to play
the game, for a man who
wanted to be President. Johnson
is a very smart man indeed,
and the fact that he moved front
and center in the fight suggests
that his friends may be right,
and that he really does not want
the grand prize.
The other serious potential
Democratic candidates are. Sen
ators Stuart Symington and Hu
bert Humphrey, who voted
against the jury trial amend
ment, and Jack Kennedy, who
voted for it.
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Symington stayed carefully out
of the limelight throughout
the battle, but his vote wiU on
balance help him, since his
greatest drawback has been, that
the Northern liberals have tend
ed to regard him as a Johnson
man and a border state semi
conservative. Kennedy's vote,
cast after much agonized soul
searching, will hurt , him in the
North, but it will attract South
ern delegate support, on which
his straegy is clearly based.
H u m p h r e y's position i s
curious. He has not hurt himself
badly with the Southerners (who
generally like him personally)
with his fight against the jury
trial amendment. Since 1948, he
has been the Senate's "Mr. Civil
Rights," and his stand was dis
counted in advance. "Hubert
had to do it," the Southerners
say.
Humphrey, moreover, is per
sonally close to Johnson, and he
is definitely not on Johnson's
list of those who would "tear
the party apart." Humphrey,
who is really more a vice-presidential
than a presidential
candidate anyway, is therefore
in a good position to become a
ticket-balancer with a civil
rights moderate conveivably,
Johnso himself.
As for Minority Leader Wil
itT-i-in "aisMMIi
By Stewart Alsop.
liam Knowland, there has been
a lot of talk that his prestige
has suffered. Actually, his
dogged earnest fight, even
though unsuccessful, gave his
candidacy precisely the liberal
coloration it has badly needed.
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Tut the man who' may profit
most of all is one who took
no overt part in, the civil rights
debate Vice President Rich
ard Nixon. For Nixon's role in
persuading the President to take
a strong stand against the jury
trial amendment was no secret
to anyone.
On the contrary, the South
erners and their allies regard
Nixon, rather than Knowland,
as -the real villian of the piece.
Johnson's recent blast at Nixon
is expected to be the prelude of
a concerted Democratic attack,
whose theme will be that the
Eisenhower administration is
playing low politics with civil
rights, with Nixon as the behind-the-scenes
Western demagogue.
Such an attack . could rather
easily make Nixon, especially in
the eyes of Negro voters, the
real hero of the civil rights
battle. And just because (as
Nixon has consistenly preached
in the Administration's inner
circles) the Negro vote is the
swing vote in the industrial
North, Nixon could well emerge
from the battle with more politi
cal profit than anyone else.
Communications
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although under' certain circum
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the right to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
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lication must not exceed 400 worda
A Socialist Point of View
To the Editor: An incident oc
curred about 185 miles southeast
of New York in the Atlantic oc
ean a few weeks ago that focus
ed attention momentarily on
what many scientists regard as
one of the really important prob
lems of the atomic age the dis
posal of radio-active waste. An
improperly constructed 3,000
gallon steel drum containing ra
dioactive sodium waste failed to
sink and floated loose in the
shipping lanes for several hours.
The problem of radioactive
waste disposal is not an incon
siderable one even now, and
scientists, anticipating the time
when huge quantities of waste
must be disposed of, have given
the matter considerable study.
Although, at present, tha oc
ean is the only place on earth
where disposal can be consider
ed practical, it should be noted
that A. E. Gorman, chief of the
sanitary engineering branch of
the AEC's division of reactor
development, says of the dump-ing-in-the-sea
method: "We've
only buying time." He pointed
out that Jhe radioactivity of
the hottest waste was certain
to outlast the steel tanks.
In their discussions of the
radioactive waste problem the
scientists have overlooked a fac
tor that compounds the danger,
to wit, the greed engendered by
the capitalist system.
Today, the government
handles the hot atomic waste,
but the time is not far off when
private capital wiU take , over
the atomic energy business, and
with the business, the job of
radioactive waste disposal.
The . record of capital
ism leaves little ground for
hope that the job will be done
in a way that will safeguard hu-
RICH MAN CLIMBS TREE
GEO..N. TAYLOR
Zaccheus, tax-gatherer and wealthy, ran
ahead and climbed into a mulberry tree, so
as to get a glimpse of Jesus. At the tree,
Jesus calls out "Zaccheus, come down, for
I must abide at your house today." Out of
their ' hour together, Zaccheus declares,
"The half of my goods I'give to the poor
and if I have taken from any man by false
ways, I restore to him four-fold." So Zac
cheus turned and showed the new life al
ready at work.
This Message is sent by God's redeemed
folks who want you to know.
Republicans Outplayed for Votes
In Civil Rights Bill Amendment -
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington flfi It was
three months ago that President
Eisenhower muted the uproar by
two national
radio - TV
speeches.
It was two
months ago
that he told a
R e p u b 1 ican
c o n f e rence
that GOP
leaders in Con
gress and the
party organi
Raymond Lahr
zation have a special responsibil
ity to support legislation to carry
out the party platform. He made
clear his belief that his budget
and other parts of his legislative
program were based on the 1956
platform.
The administration recently
has suffered a series of defeats
in Congress. The lingering budg
et furor and occasional lapses of
support from GOP leaders fig
ured in some of these.
man life, today or in the future.
The atomic capitalists will look
for a "cheap" solution to the
waste disposal problem (just as
the paper and pulp mill capital
ists did) even though it means
the possible exposure of future
generations to radioactive poi
sons a hundred years or so
hence.
Only Ssocialism, a society that
puts an end to the profit mo
tive and gives first considera
tion to the welfare of its mem
bers, can deal with this prob
lem in a way that gives maxi
mum security, not only for the
present generation, but for all
who follow. .
Henry R. Korman.
2640 Garfield st.,
Longview, Wash.
Answers Editor Hicks
. To the Editor: In partial re
ply to Mr. Hicks' editorial, re
printed in your paper: Why are
we asked to "get together"
again, and particularly on a
plan including a high dam at
Lewis Creek in the main river?
We did get together once. Re
member? An agreement was
reached, proposed by former
high-dam proponents after we
soundly defeated the high dam,
that we all get together , and
support the Talent and Illinois
Valley irrigation projects and
power development at the Tal
ent Project and possibly at Cas
cade Gorge. In consideration of
this, those who sought the com
promise agreed not to work for
a high dam in the main Rogue
River until or unless it was ap
proved by all responsible groups
in the basin.
As a consequence, we all got
together behind the Talent Proj
ect and it was approved and is
now building. Do our former
opponents propose to "welsh" on
this bargain after we have loyal
ly carried out our part of it?
Does . "getting together" mean
unconditional surrender on the
part of one side incidentally,
the side which won the last bat
tleor does it mean true getting
together?
Mr. HiCks says the disastrous
flood of 1955 may have changed
the minds of some. The second
flood of that winter, in Febru
ary, serious in. the lower valley,
merely proved to many of us
what we already knew. At that
time, while Grants Pass was
badly flooded, so little water
passed the Lewis Creek damsite
that the gravel bars there were
not even covered. A dam there
would have helped none. We
could use flood control, too, but
not the kind that completely
drowns us out and protects you
only from the floods that orig
inate in certain places. Let's get
together on Land Management
and on smaller dams on the
headwaters and tributaries, and
protect all of us. -
Let's get together on ,a plan
that does not drown out .several
hundred people, many farms
and ranches, a post office, a
seven-room school, at least
seven motels, four groceries, five
service stations, and several oth
er thriving businesses, and still
accomplishes much of what you
want to accomplish. We can do
it by insisting to our servants,
our Congressman, Reclamation '
and Army Engineers, that we !
want the most that can be ac
complished with upstream de
velopment. We can get together if you
want to; we can fight again if
you don't; and no one will get
anything if we have to fight
about it.
D. H. Barber, President,
Preserve the Rogue
Association, Inc.,
Trail, Ore.
Neither factor was involved.
however, in the administration
defeats suffered when the., Sen
ate amended the civil rights bill.
The Republicans were simply
out-played in a contest for votes.
Makes Personal Plea
The budget, coupled with a
congressional feeling that there
is public disenchantment with
the foreign aid program, has fig
ured in the progressive shrink
age of the foreign aid bill.
Despite a personal plea from
Eisenhower the House voted last
month to cut the foreign aid bill
about half a billion dollars be
low his request. Although a con
ference committee representing
the House and Senate has re
stored part of that money,
further cuts are in prospect
when Congress acts later on the
follow-up appropriation bill.
Even before the House killed
the bill to provide federal aid
for school construction, Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
described the measure as a casu
alty of the batUe of the budget.
It also lacked support from some
GOP leaders in Congress.
The bill before the .House was
not the administration's own but
Eisenhower was willing to ac
cept it. When the roll was called
on the motion to kill it a shift
of three votes would have kept
it alive. Three of the House Re
publican leadership group voted
for the decapitation.
Knowland Against Bill
On the other side. of the Cap
itol, Senate Republican Leader
Eisenhower Visits
Mamie at Hospital
Washington OP) President
Eisenhower drove to Walter
Reed Army Medical center Sun
day for a visit with Mrs. Eis
enhower. The White House announced
that the First Lady's recovery
from1 her internal operation last
Tuesday "continues to be very
satisfactory."
The Chief Executive attended
services at National Presbyter
ian church before going to see
the First Lady, who is expected
to be able to leave with the
President on his vacation
about two weeks.
Eisenhower played host Sun
day night to his brother, Mil
ton, who returned from a one-
week goodwill visit to Mexico.
Milton and his daughter, Ruth,
stayed overnight at the White
House.
'Shasta' Explosion
Delayed 14th Time
Las Vegas, N. M. (IP) Ad
verse wind conditions have forc
ed the Atomic Energy commis
sion to call the 14th postpone
ment in its "Shasta test at the
Nevada proving grounds.
Firing of the below-nominal
yield device from a 500-foot
tower was rescheduled for 4
a.m. (PST) Tuesday. Scientists
Sunday announced that the pres
ent wind pattern would have
carried fallout over nearby pop
ulated areas. The postponement
set a record for delays in the
AEC's 1957 test schedule. The
"Shasta" originally was ready
to be fired July 29.
Search Continued
For Elderly Climber
Colorado Springs, Colo. fW
Authorities said today volun
teers will continue to search for
Mrs. Inestine Roberts despite
the slim chances that the 88-year-old
mountain climber was
still alive after seven days on
Pikes Peak.
The Colorado Springs woman
became lost last Monday while
descending the famed 14,100
foot peak. She has climbed it
annually for the past 15 years.
Mrs. Roberts was last seen near
the summit.
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William F. Knowland had al
ready declared himself against
the bill. He listed the budget
situation as one of his reasons.
' Analyzing their defeats on the
civil rights bill, administration
supporters could offer no ex
planation except that they lacked
the votes. On the two key votes
18 Republicans deserted the ad
ministration on the first and 12
on the second, the amendment
attaching a jury trial proviso.,
Eisenhower was reported to
have offered to do anything he
could to defeat the jury trial
amendment and to have made
telephone calls to a few wav
erers. His Senate supporters
were already convinced, how
ever, that the GOP senators they
feared would go off the reserva
tion were not susceptible to ap
peals from the President
Editorial
Comment
ALTERNATIONS DUE
The congressional majority
that tacked the jury trial amend
ment on the civil rights bill has
begun to get a view of the in
side of the Pandora's box it
opened. The amendment is not
confined to civil rights cases;
it applies as well to aU other
actions for criminal contempt,
this placing a sweeping restric
tion on federal judiciary and
regulatory powers.
Acting Attorney General
William Rogers was quoted this
week as having said that the
provision would disrupt enforce
ment of orders of regulatory
agencies and all federal courts
including the Supreme Court.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission, the Interstate Corn
Commerce Commission ,the Na
tional Labor Relations Board
and " the Federal Communica
tions Commission are among
those whose teeth would be
loosened, if not pulled, if the
bill should be approved in its
present form.
In this connection, it should
be noted that the AFL-CIO Ex
ecutive Committee, contrary to
the action of some individual
labor leaders, opposed the
amendment despite the sop it
appeared to offer to labor's tra
ditional position against the in
junction. "The trial-by-jury issue is ex
traneous to H. R. 6127 (the civil
rights bill)," the committee said
in a statement released before
balloting on the amendment.: Jt
was initally raised by opponents
of the bill in order to attract
supporters of civil rights liber
ties . . . The (amendment) is
aimed not only at civil rights
but at the whole range of laws
which permit the use of federal
injunctions, including 1 a bo r
legislation. The AFL-CIO cannot
and will not permit itself toi
judge the appropriateness orHt
this proposed change in H. R.
6127 because of any possible
advantages to organized labor
. . . The AFL-CIO reaffirms its
belief that there should be no
crippling trial-by-jury amend
ment to the civil rights bill." -
Congress yet has the oppor
tunity to limit the amendment,
if it is retained at all, to civil
rights voting cases. This could
be done in conference commit
tee. There is another task, too,
for the Senate-House conferees.
They should, by all means,
eliminate that section of Part
I which would impose, a fine of
$1000 and a year in jail on
"whoever releases or uses in
public without the consent of
the commission evidence or
testimony taken in executive
session" of the proposed "federal
Civil Rights Commission.; Here
is additional evidence of the
growing tendency of bureau
cracy to shield its operations
from the people it serves. And
there is not the slightest trace
of security interest as justifica
tion. Portland Oregoman.
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