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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Th,e
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15, 1947 (Friday)
A comedy-filled parade was
the main stem of VJ celebration
here yesterday.
From Arthur Perry's Ye Old
Smudge Pot column: "Hoodlums
stir prison turmoil Better
class of inmates might improve
things."
20 YEARS AGO 0
Aug. 15, 1937 (Sunday)
Klamath doctor flies private
plas
V. t . 1 . K ; mnrli.
Cljb- I1""1C 1U1 "lliaRC-UlW- iilr-
cine. c3
City police start a campaign
to elirrftiate over-night parked
cars in the business section.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15 1927 (Monday)
Burro trail on Crater lake
rim laid out and will be built
in next year or so.
Medford orchardists congratu
lated on meeting spray residue
problem.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15, 1917 (Wednesday)
Shifts changed by Company C
in guarding tunnels and bridges
in Siskiyous.
Petition is grandted by county
court for organization of irriga
tion district by E. B. Pickel and
75 others.-
What's Yous I.Q.?
Ntne or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good ,
1. Which state leads in the
production of pig iron and steel?
2. A person who had read
about gemmology would have
learned about what subject?
3. BIBLE: "And Terah . . . begat
Abram" and who else?
4. What is the birthstone for
February?
5. A person suffering from an
thropophobia has a morbid dread
of what?
6. Are seedles raisins grapes
from which the seeds have been
removed by machine?
7. Decalcomania is the name,
of a new mental disease; true or
false?
8. Has the warden of a prison
the power to reprieve or com
mute a condemned man's sen
tence? 9. "Debase" means to degrade.
Is "demean" a proper synonym
to use in place of debase?
10. "The first man is of the
earth, earthy." Is this from the
Bible. Shakespeare, or Byron?
Answers: 1. Pennsylvania. 2.
The study of precious stones.
3. Nahor and Haram. 4. Ame
thyst. 5. Of meeting people. 6.
No, (Ihey are seedless grapes)
7. False. 8. No. 9. No, (it is a
colloquialism). 10. Bible.
Woman Ticketed in
Scrape With Truman
Cinnc fitv Mo. flPV MiSS
WW VV'
Willie Mae Dunn of Kansas City
Owas given a ticket Wednesday
for failure to yield the right of
way. Police said the fact that
the person who had the right of
way was former President Tru
man made no difference.
Miss Dunn, 48, and Truman
were driving south when the
woman's car edged into the in
ner lane and hooked the left
front fender of her car to the
right rear bumper of Truman s
vehicle. .
Truman was a bit late for a
lunch engagement but other
wise didn't seem disturbed, el
iher driver was hurt.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The McKay Mystery
We have never been able to understand the atti
tude of the inflexible Republican press in this state
toward former Secretary
Kay.
We wonder what "Doug has got which most
defeated candidates in the Grand Old Party haven't
got?
Not that there was any reason to be mystified by
the strong support given our former Governor when
he ran for the U.S. senate
The attempt in that
Salem representative of General Motors into not only
a super-man of startling ability and sterling integrity
but an advocate of public power or at least not an
opponent seemed a bit silly at the time, but in the
heat of a bitter campaign,
able.
But the extravagent hymns of praise and adolation
which have poured forth
sources since .President
McKay chairman of the U.S.-Canadian International
Joint Water Commission,
TPHE Oregonian, for example, in subdued but no
uncertain terms practically calls the Louisville
Courier Journal a liar for
for appointing on such a commission quote :
"A man who has bitterly opposed the Federal Power
program."
A liar? UNTRUE? It is the gospel truth!
As Secretary of the Interior no man could have
fought harder, more constantly and consistently
against federal power and in favor of private power,
than Douglas McKay.
He not only agreed
when the latter condemned TVA as creeping
socialism;" he agreed with
when Mr. Hoover advocated not only that T.V.A.
should be sold by the government to the private
power combine, but that ALL federal multiple-power
projects should be thus disposed of, on behalf of
"ragged individualism" and the "American Way of
Life."
As remarked all this adulation is mystifying.
The Oregonian is, of course, extremely partisan and
always has been, but it has
ate, objective and reasonably fair.
But not when former Governor McKay steps into
the picture. Then one of the worst Secretaries of the
Interior from the standpoint
the country has ever had, is
hero, a victim of political bushwhacking," a man un
justly abused and villified by the Democratic press.
1HAT is the big idea anyway?
11 In his stand on public power Mr. McKay was
simply standing by his party. As a regular and dedi
cated orthodox Republican, how could the Oregonian,
or any other newspaper, have expected him to do
otherwise?
Why tiy to build him up
ly wasn t and isn t
There is no crime in
federal power projects on
Talent or anywhere else.
spectable and law-abiding
about it.
That is entirely ok.
necessarily cast any discredit upon those who com
pletely disagree with them.
views also.
This is a free country. Let the people of the coun
try, study the issue, and take their respective sides,
and agree to disagree as they will.
MO ONE denies that in his
opportunities to fight
against public power, will
as in the Department of the
The only point this
ppintment was announced was that whenever and
wherever issues between Canada and the United
States did involve public versus private power, Mr.
McKay could be depended upon to be true to himself
and his record fight for
the former. Certainly the
volved this issue and some
m the future along the Canadian border may well
do so also.
i '.
nTHIS is not only the view of this paper. It is a view
held by such influential metropolitan papers as
the aforementioned Louisville Courier Journal and
we are inf ormed also, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the
Washington Post, the New York Post, the Denver
Post in fact enough "posts" to support quite an im
posing political platform.
Yet the Republican press here in Oregon headed
by the stalwart Oregonian, keeps on trying to make
black appear white, the political myth of the last sena
torial campaign appear valid, and in spite of the facts
which can't be disputed, build up former Secretary
McKay into what he so plainly isn't.
It is all very puzzling. R.W.R.
PAYS CUSTOMERS' FINES
Bloomineton. Ill AH James
Woosley, operator of an auction
sales company at nearby Hud
son, was high bidder on the
traffic tickets of 14 of his cus
tomers in justice court here. The
14 customers were tagged for
illegal parkine on the hitrhwav
adjacent to his sale barn, and
eacn was tinea 59. Woosley "bid
in" the fines himself, forked
over ?136 to pay for them.
Thursday, August IS. 1957
of the Interior Douglas Mc
against Wayne Morse.
campaign to build up the
it was at least understand
from the same journalistic
Eisenhower appointed Mr.
are NOT.
criticizing the President
with President Eisenhower
former President Hoover
also usually been temper
of the public welfare of
promptly dressed up as a
as something he so clear
being opposed to multiple-
the Columbia, the Snake,
Thousands of entirely re
citizens feel the same way
But that certainly doesn't
They 'are entitled to their
present post Mr. McKay's
for private power and
be nowhere near as great
Interior.
paper made when the ap-
the latter and fight against
St. Lawrence Sea Way in
other international project
HELPS SELF LOSE JOB
Wallingford, Conn. OP) Bor
ough i Warden John A. Buza was
a strong advocate of the plan for
the 104-year-old borough of Wal
lingford to be incorporated into
the town of Wallingford. His
campaigning was so effective
that voters overwhelmingly cast
their ballots for incorporation.
When it becomes official next
January Buza's job will be abolished.
'MccweoM in'. Mom don't wind fixW lunch for
MY FRIENDS'. COME ON J VRY3O0Yr
Honeymoon Between
Senators Is Over,
Correspondent Says
By ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington The political
honeymoon between Senators
Wayne Morse and Richiard L.
Neuberger is over.
The two Oregon Democrats
while voting differently on more
and more major issues, had
maintained a close personal re
lationship until the past two
weeks when they fell to squab
bling like dis-
enchanted
lovers.
Morse
blamed Neu
berger for
helping to
launch "a
snide attack
on me" and
with taking
A tobt Smith an inaireci
slap at me." Neuberger said he
lias become "disapponted" in
Morse and "disillusioned" with
politics because of the whole af
fair.
Whether the result of the tor
rid Washington summer and the
late night Senate sessions have
frayed senatorial nerves, or the
first sign of trouble in what
some observers thought was
only a marriage of convenience
in the first place, who is to say
Send Letters
But for the past two weeks
the senators have been having
at it in semi-privacy not in
face-to-face quarreling, but via
the mails. Up on the fourth floor
of the Senate office building.
Senator Morse has been writing
long letters to his junior col
league. Down on the third floor,
Senator Neuberger, no slouch
at the written word, has been
replying to his senior colleague.
These aren't what you'd call love
notes,
While Postmaster General
Summerfield (who was once Re
publican national chairman)
doubtless would be delighted to
know he has been the courier
for this exchange, the senators
have somehow found it more
desirable to dictate long letters
to one another than to have it
out via telephone or personal
talks.
Oh, the senators are still on
speaking terms. They attended
a meeting with apple, growers
the other day, and Monday they
attended as usual the regular
bi-weekly meeting of the Demo
cratic members of the Oregon
delegation. But they vent their
personal feelings in writing, with
carbon copies for friends and
the files.
Two issues have focused their
differences: civil rights and the
president.
Civil Rights Dispute
The civil rights dispute dates
back to mid-June when a group
of liberals led by Senator Paul
H- Douglas of Illinois set and
agreed to back a move on the
Senate floor to place the House
passed civil rights bill directly
on the calendar, instead of send
ing it first to the Judiciary com
mittee, as is customary. Morse
nd Neuberger both agreed to
this strategy. Subquently, Morse
took the floor and denounced
the move. Douglas called an
other liberal caucus and charged
that Morse, who was present,
had "betrayed the cause," ac
cording to one printed account
of the closed meeting. Morse
thereupon stalked out, after de
claring he had simply changed
his mind and "did the only
thing possible I confess that
I was wrong." Neuberger spoke
up to defend Morse, especially
when Douglas wondered aloud
whether Morse hadn't made a
deal with southern Democrats to
gain votes for the Hells Canyon
bill which was soon to come
The night of June 20 the civil
rights procedural question came
to a vote. Morse, in a major
address in behalf of sending the
bill to the committee, charged
the other liberals with "parlia-
mentary expediency" for want-
ingto short-circuit the committee
of which Mississippi Senator
James O. Eastland is chairman.
Douglas at one point jumped
up and boomed at Morse:
"I think what the senator
from Oregon is trying to do to
night is kill civil rights."
Canyon Bill Passes
Next day the Senate passed
the Hells Canyon bill with the
help of southern senators who
a year ago had opposed y. When
Republicans and some Oregon
newspapers charged that Morse
had made a deal, Morse ve
hemently denied it and Neu
berger rose to his defense.
As is his custom, Morse had
reprints of his June 20 speech
mailed to many Oregon citizens.
Neuberger took umbrage at the
repeated charge of "parliament
ary expediency" which he said
people in Oregon interpreted as
an implied attack on Neuberger,
who had voted with the Douglas
group in the successful manue
ver to bypass the committee.
When Douglas heard about this,
he offered to write a letter of
commendation in behalf of Neu
berger on civil rights. Pleased
at this, Neuberger said he sup
plied Douglas with addresses
and, at Douglas request, the
necessary copies of' tile letter
(not more than 100, said Neu
berger) were reproduced in Neu
berger's office for mailing.
The Douglas letter soon be
came a cause celebr?. It men
tioned a civil rights meeting
scheduled in Portland to whip
up sentiment for the bill.
Tower of Strength
"Finally," wrote Douglas, "I
want to tell you what a tower
of strength Senator Neuberger
has ben throughout this whole
battle. He has been one of the
men we could depend upon in
every emergency. He has been
resolute in his courage, and dip
lomatic in his language, and
highly honorable in every re
lationship on and off the floor,
We are very proud to have him
as a colleague. Let us push on
together in this great struggle
to realize more fully the basic
features of the American faith."
What did he say about Morse?
Not a word.
Morse's reaction, when he got
wind of it, was that the Douglas
letter was "a snide attack on
me." He told Neuberger so in
a formal letter. In a letter to
Phil Reynolds, preident of the
Portland branch of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, Morse
wrote: "I was further saddened
by Paul Douglas's conduct in
respect to mailing a letter to
many people in Oregon "which
was interpreted by many of
my civil rights friends as a snide
attack on me, which it was."
Puts In Record
Last week Morse nudged the
affair into the open by putting
the Douglas letter, without ex
planation, in the Congressional
Record. When asked why he
did this, Morse said, with tongue
in' cheek, he was always pleased
to see his junior colleague so
handsomely complimented.
Neuberger rose to the chal
lenge and, without explanation,
inserted in the Record a copy
of Representative Edith Green's
June newsletter in which she
fold of the Senate's passage of
the Hells Canyon bill: "The Sen
ate victory is a great tribue to
Senator Morse, who has so ef
fectively and courageously led
this fight for so long against
terrific odds."
What did she say about Neu
berger? Not a word.
I was stunned," Neuberger
told me, "to know that he
thought the Douglas letter was
a snide attack. I wonder whether
he thinks Mrs. Green's news
letter is a snide attack on me,
because I was in the Hells Can
yon fight, too, and on the same
side with Senator Morse."
False Analogy
"That's an argument by way
of false ananolgy," replied
Morse. He said he found no fault j
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In its issue of last week the
U.S. News and World Report,
one of the best of the business
magazines, asks in big type on
its front page this rather star
tling question:
WHERE WILL THE UNITED
STATES PUT 60 MILLION
MORE PEOPLE?
We will have that many more,
it says, by 1975 only 18 years
from now. By then, it adds, the
population of the United States
will be 227 mUlions.
It bases its prediction on the
best statistical estimates avail
able. IHE magazine then proceeds
to answer its own question
as to what we will do with
these added millions.'
The already crowded East wiU
get 13,000,000 'of them.
The South will get 15,000,000.
The Midwest will get 14,000,
000. The WEST will get 18,000,000.
rpHAT is to say:
In the next 18 years the
West will gain more new popu
lation than ANY OTHER RE
GION of the United States.
A new empire, the magazine
says, is emerging on the Pacific
Coast. Western climate, it adds,
wiU be the magnet for millions,
but in addition to climate the
West has the pull of a maturing
economy with many opportuni
ties and vast natural resources.
By 1975, the 11 Western states
will have a population of 42
MILLIONS.
WHERE will this population be
concentrated?
The bulk of it will be in
California, which by 1975 will
be the biggest state in the Union,
with a population of 26V& mil
lions. Oregon's population by
then will be 2,865,000. Washing
with Mrs. Green's newsletter,
and what the Portland congress-
woman says to her constituents
is one thing and not analogous
to a letter typed "on Neuberger's
robotypers" that goes out to
"Neuberger.s mailing list" prais
ing only Neuberger.
Mrs. Green said her omission
of , Neuberger's name was "ab
solutely not" a slap at him. She
said she singled out Morse for
praise, among the many Hells
Canyon sponsors, because "he
has been the chief sponsor of
Hells Canyon since before Sen
ator Neuberger and 1 came to
Congress.
When the final vote on the
bill came, the senators split
again. Neuberger arose and said
he would vote for the biU, "how
ever limited and modest" it had
been made by amendments. He
added:
"Where would this nation be
today if all senators during our
past history had allowed them
selves the luxury of .opposing
each piece of legislation which
failed to dot every i or cross
every t to suit their own par
ticular taste?"
'Half A Loaf
"It is said," replied Morse
to the Senate, "that half a loaf
is better than nothing. But I
question whether in this bill
there is even half a loaf." He
concluded by saying "I will
never knowningly vote for what
I consider to be a sham."
A moment later Neuberger
got up and recalled that the day
before he and Morse had voted
for a Klamath Indian bill to de
lay termination of federal con
trol over the tribal reservation,
even though they were unhappy
that its terms had been watered
down. The civil rights bill, con
cluded Neuberger, "is not every
thing it should be, but I believe
it is better than the existing
vacuum in this vital field."
Morse fired back that Neu
berger was again guilty of the
fallacy of false analogy. He said
because "I considered the civil
rights bill to be completly un
satisfactory," it was a non se
quiter to argue that, his vote for
the modified Klamath bill car
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JENKINS
ton's will be 4,188,000. Arizona's
will be 2,047,000. The rest of
the 42 millions will be scattered
among Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming.
KEEP this in mind:
For 100 years, the West
has sufered because of distance
from the big consuming mar
kets. During most of this time
we have had to send the bulk
of our products EAST and by
the time they got there the trans
portation cost made them pro
hibitively expensive in competi
tion with Eastern products.
When we have in the . WEST a
market of 40-odd million people,
all this will be changed.
And
This Western market of more
than 40 million people will in
sure rapid development of West
ern industry.
NOW for the other side of the
picture.
When all this comes to pass,
where in the West will we find
STANDING ROOM?
I DON'T think we need to
worry too much about that.
According to U.S. News and
World Report's estimates, ap
proximately HALF of this 40
odd million Western population
will be concentrated in Los An
geles, San Francisco, Portland
and Seattle and their suburbs.
These newcomers who will
swell the population of the
West, the magazine says, will
be big city dwellers who will
want to live near the bright
lights.
If that is true, there will be
plenty of standing room for the
rest of us in the areas beyond
the reach of the metropolitan
cities. These big cities will pro
vide MARKETS for our indus
tries and our agriculture.
ried an obligation to vote for
the modified civil rights bill. He
said amendments had made it
"complete unacceptable to me as
a liberal who believes that a
bad civil rights bill is worse
than no civil rights bill at all.'
Sharp .Criticism .
The other . issue arose over
Morse's sharp criticism of Presi
dent Eisenhower for accepting
valuable gifts, which he said
"is politically immoral." Neu
berger, who had winced but
held his tongue weeks before
when Morse compared Eisen
hower to Dave Beck, took the
Senate floor and said: "
"I do not criticize Mr. Eisen
hower. He is not to blame for
this situation. He is merely con
forming to a systeni which ex
isted 5 lo;ig before he entered
politics but a, system which
becomes less defensible with
each passing day."
This week Morse wrote Neu
berger that his speech on Eisen
hewer could be taken as "an
indirect slap at me." He said
that things like this and the
Douglas letter provide fuel for
the propaganda attacks of their
opponents.
As Morse described it in an
interview, he is busy at one of
h i s favorite preoccupations:
"educating freshmen." He ex
pressed confidence that his pupil
"is a better senator" for the in
struction the old senator is
dishing out.
Unspoken Qualification
"I think Dick Neuberger is
superior to 85 per cent of the
Senate," observed Morse, "But
. . ." The impression was con
veyed that the unspoked qualifi
cation was that Neuberger still
has much to learn, but that
under his tutelage his promise
may be realized.
"I think Senator' Morse has
great ability," said Neuberger,
but. . ." His qualification seems
to be that Morse doesn't measure
up in personal characteristics.
He isn't sore at Morse but only
disappointed" in him. No, if
he had it to do over now, he
wouldn t write magazine articles
booming Morse for president.
"This whole episode has dis-1
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To the Editor: As a former
owner of an ambulance service,
it was with much interest that I
read your editorial about the
Medford ambulance service
To say that an extreme emer
gency would exist if the Medford
company was to quit service, is
putting it mildly to say the least
It certainly would be tragic for
a city the size of Medford to
suddenly find themselves with
out this necessary service. As for
city operation of the ambulances,
I believe it would prove very
unsatisfactory as other large
cities have found out. The city
of Oakland ' operated the ambu
lances for years, manned by po
lice officers. Several years ago,
they turned to private operation,
this being far superior from the
standpoint 6f service, expense.
and training of ambulance at
tendants. The city of Los An
geles is being served in part by
private operators, and they have
been enjoying the best of service.
The rates quoted in the editor
ial of $10.00 for the call and 75c
per mile, is quite fair. In the
Oakland area for instance 1 op
erated at $7.50 per call and
$1.00 per mile with a guarantee
of $15.00 per call by day and
$17.50 by night. Our runs were
for the most part 15 miles or
better to the nearest hospital. -
On calls for the city, accidents
or other emergencies, we were
guaranteed payment by the city
if we were unable to collect from
the patient after 60 days. This
seemed to be a very fair arrange
ment and I believe the same
thing could be worked out in this
area to the advantage of all con
cerned. The public should realize
that without this service their
loved ones might have died. Re
membering this, they should pay
their ambulance bills, or the Am
bulance service will die.
In conclusion, I again wish to
say that in these troubled times
a city the size of Medford with
out an ambulance service would
be a tragic state of affairs.
Russ Osborn,
Ashland, Ore.
Four Candidates Added
To IV's Queen Contest
Cave Junction Four addition
al princesses have been added to
the Illinois VaUey Jubilee queen
contest.
They are Jean Knight, spon
sored by the Lions club; Bertha
Champney, Illinois Valley Cham
ber of Commerce; Melba. Jordan,
Illinois Valley Volunteer fire
men; and Fern Mickey, Veter
ans of World War I.
The winner will receive her
crown at the Queen's ball, Sat
urday night, Aug. 31, at the
Legion hall. She is also to lead
the Labor Day parade Monday.
EDITOR DIES
New York Wl Frederick R.
Sisson Jr., 49, editor of Paper
and Paper Products, a trade
journal of Walden Son & Mott,
Inc., publishing company, died
Wednesday.
illusioned me with political
life," he added.
Not so many years ago Neu
berger was one of the most
articulate critics of the then
Republican Senator Morse. In
1952 Morse bolted the GOP. In
1954 he campaigned for Neu
berger against Republican Sen
ator Guy Cordon. In 1955 Morse
registered as a Democrat. In
1956 Neuberger stumped Ore
gon for Morse against Douglas
McKay, the GOP challenger.
Times and tempers change.
What the future may bring, only
the foolhardy dare predict. But
after three years, the Morse
Neuberger political marriage
has entered the post-honeymoon
period in which personal faults
and idiosyncracies become
sources of irritation, and a break
down in respect and tolerance
can be fatal to the union.