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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mali Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16. 1947 (Sunday) '
A ladies' side-saddle event has
been added to the program of
the Jackson County Ladies
Mounted troop show.
Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge
Pot column: "Thursday and Fri
day were the first dog days of
the year. A Majority felt the
dogs should have them."
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16. 1937-(Monday)
County schools open Sept. 6
following general cleaning and
renovating of the buildings.
Peace-time accomplishments of
the United States Army are
sketched by Army sergeant be
fore Kiwanis club here.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16. 1927 (Tuesday) ;
Two surveying crews show
further signs of railroad develop
ment in timbered district be
tween Butte Falls and the up
per Klamath lake.
Local Japanese give more-than
$50 to local playgrounds.
310 YEARS AGO
jVug. 16. 1917 (Thursday)
? A concert to be given by the
oldiers' auxiliary of the Seventh
company is planned for Labor
Day evening here.
Local surgeon invents "Yel
low Jaundice fly" for fishing
Rogue River. --
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct la superior;
seven er elebt is Excellent: five or
six I good
1. In what mountains did Rip
van Winkle have his long slum
ber? 2. Who wrote the novel "West
ward Ho?"
3. BIBLE: Which "king"
"killed James the brother of
John with a sword"?
4. Which two U.S. Presidents
died on the same day?
5. What island in the Arctic
region is famous for its hot
springs?
6. What is the maximum
weight which may be sent by
first-class mail? -
7. Salsify is another name for
what vegetable?
8. All bottled-in-bond whisky
produced in the U.S. must be at
least three, four, or five years
old?
9. "Egotism" is the result of
the philosophy of self - interest i
(conceit), termed what?
10. "And cow-boys and dough
boys, We'll follow his drum,
boys. Who never said, 'go,
boys!' But always said, "Come,
boys.' "A.
Answers: 1. C a 1 1 1c i 1 1 s. 2.
Charles Kingsley. 3. Herod. 4.
Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams. 5. Iceland. 6. Seventy
pounds. 7. Oyster plant. 8. At
least four years old. 9. Egoism.
10. Theodore Roosevelt.
Malheur Jury Rules
Death as Accidental
' Nyssa, Ore. IW A six-member
Malheur county coroner's
jury ruled Thursday that the
death of Darrell Butcher, 17,
Parma, Idaho, in a boating mis
hap Monday was accidental.
Butcher was killed when he
drove his motorboat under a
mooring cable on the Snake
river near here and was struck
across the neck by the wire.
SCHOOL FOUNDER DIES
New York (IP) Mrs. Helen C.
Mansfield. 97, who founded a
number of music school settle
ments, died Thursday after a
long illness. 1
MAIL TRIBUNE
Unlucky Mr. Gluck
We don't envy Mr. Gluck, if and when he takes
his recently tendered post as Ambassador to Ceylon.
For even though he is another millionaire, owning
a retail store chain, and a racing stable, he will, we
fear, still have difficulty in pronouncing the name of
Ceylon's prime minister whose name on examina
tion he couldn't recall and admitted -he couldn't
pronounce or spell. "We can't blame him so much for
the name is Solomon W.E.D. Bandarsaaike, and his
successor spells his name Katelawala.
As Ambassador, however, it may be assumed he
will have to learn how to spell and pronounce both
names of such prominent officials' in the government
to which he will be accredited.
That will take some doing for Maxwell Henry
Gluck admits he is no linguist, in fact far from it
and also no student of the Far East.
MOW Secretary of State Dulles declares Ceylon is,
' diplomatically speaking, a "sensitive spot."
:It has notonly recognized Russia and Red China,
but has welcomed trade and cultural relations with
both and has two avowed communists in its present
cabinet.
According to all reports Ambassador Gluck is not
the sensitive type but he will find, we believe, that on
these issues, the people of Ceylon, as well as his own
country, are.
CO MR. GLUCK'S future doesn't look so bright.
There was one ray of sunlight in the gloom when
Mr. Gluck was informed the Ceylonese are crazy
about horse-racing. As the owner of a large racing
stable he assumed, no doubt, there would be a bond
here of understanding and sympathy.
But it also appears the Ceylonese take horseracing
seriously and have little use for those who fail to live
up properly to jockey-club regulations and rules.
On the same day that Mr. Gluck was confessing
his ignorance of Ceylon language, customs and mores,
one of his horses won a race at Saratoga, New York
only to be declared, after objection and inquiry, dis
qualified.
There is no luck visible for Mr. Gluck. R.W.R.
Oregonian Scores R.R. Tax
We so seldom agree with the Portland Oregonian
on public issues, that is a refreshing pleasure to do so.
In its issue of Thursday
bang out of its editonal entitled "Unjust Freight Tax
but stood in awe and admiring amazement, as we read
its implied endorsement of our junior Senator Richard
L. Neuberger.
a- This-may not be the first time the Oregonian has
had a good word to say
Democratic Senators, but
been exceedingly frugal in their praise, m this par
ticulary area.
We think this change is
less extreme partisan attitude on the part of the state's
leading daily, but as strong evidence of the growing
sTature arid increasing popularity of Senator Morse's
young colleague in the Upper House.
Here is the editorial in question :
How Uncle Sam helps drive the West out of the na
tional market through a 3 per cent federal freight tax is
shown by Oregon's .Senator Richard L. Neuberger in the
current Railway Progress magazine.
Oregon canners, hep oints out, pay almost four times
as much in transportation excise taxes as do Midwestern
shippers on a carload of canned goods to the Pittsburgh
area. The tax on Oregon grain is more than 3V4 times that-'
on grain from tine central states and on livestock nearly
o four times. The Oregon lumberman is taxed 40 per cent
more than the Georgia lumber shipper.
The senator might have added that every time freight
rates are raised, as they were a week ago for the second
time since last December, the federal penalty for living
in the West increases proportionally.
Federal transportation taxes should be repealed out
right, as Senator Neuberger has urged in the Senate. Ship
ping cannot by any stretch of the imagination be termed
a luxury. Neither can traveling, which is taxed 10 per
cent.
"Amen" to that!
MOW might w?e respectfully suggest that the north
west's most powerful
searching on the freight
charges for the haul from
at the same time look up
and the law regarding public utility discrimination
against any area it can serve. Then for good measure
we wish the Oregonian would rule whether or not the
abandonment of all passenger service between Eugene
and Ashland was a violation of the SP's clear cut obli
gations as a public utility?
There are over 200,000 citizens in this area who
would greatly appreciate the help of the Oregonian,
in securing the rail service to Portland and to San
Francisco, to which they are morally and we believe
legally, entitled. R.W.R.
Oregon's Water Problem
In the same issue as noted above, the Oregonian
also by implication commends another prominent
Democratic official in Oregon, none other than How
ard Morgan, former state Democratic chairman, and
now the efficient and hard hitting Public Utility Com
missioner in this state.
This time the vital water issue in Oregon is con
sidered. The Oregonian goes on record in part as follows:
Northwesterners, generally speaking, are little aware
of their present dependence on limited upstream storage
for their kilowatts in the low-water periods of late sum
mer and especially in winter when run-off is stopped by
freezing in the Rockies. In a letter of protest to the Fed
eral Power Commission from Howard Morgan, Oregon
Public Utilities Commissioner, this dependence and this
Friday. August 18. 1957
the 16th we not only got a
for either one of Oregon s
through the years they have
a good sign, not only of a
newspaper do a bit of re
rates the Southern Pacific
Portland to Medford, and
the terins of its franchise
'ITS NO FUN PLMH' HIDE W
HE VOP5HT EVEN
Liability Insurance
Discussed by Babson
By ROGER BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. A friend
of mine has a small retail store
with two or three clerks. He has
worked hard
and accumu
lated a work
ing capital
of $15,000. Re
cently a cus
tomer suffered
a peculiar ac
cident in the
store. A jury
awarded the
Borer W Babson customer
$20,000 damages. This not only
wiped out the savings of a life
time, but it put the owner into
debt which may result in bank
ruptcy. Insurance Agents
We are solicited continually
by life insurance agents. And if
we have a mortgage on our
store, or owe the bank anything,
we must show in our statement
how much fire insurance we
carry. In fact, both life insur
ance and fire insurance are rec
ognized by every retailer and
home owner as "musts." The
only question seems to be as
to the friend to whom we will
give the business and the amount
which we are to carry.
I especially recommend what
is known as the "comprehen
sive" policy! This includes most
casualty risks other than life
insurance. Unfortunately, less
than 10 per cent of the people
use these comprehensive poli
cies. My appeal today, therefore,
is for every retailer to take
out a liability policy and to
make it large enough.
Stores vs. Wives
Not only should retailers take
out liability insurance for their 1
stores, but also for their wives
and children. A woman neigh
bor of mine had a hat with a
protruding feather which put
out the eye of another woman
during a crowded retail sale.
The jury awarded the woman
$25,000, and tried to involve the
retailer. In another case, a par
ent was awarded $10,000 be
cause his boy got hurt by run
ning into a person while sliding
down a hill in winter. A milk
man who stepped on a broken
board collected $5,000. I could
give scores of similar illustra
tions! The point I especially want
to make is that you will prob
ably have to ask for such jnsur
ance. Telephone your agent to
day for prices and a sample pol
icy. Read this policy carefully,
especiaUy the fine print. If the
price seems too high, ask an
other agent to submit his price
and a sample. Life insurance pre
miums are very competitive and
vary little; fire insurance pre
miums are fixed by state com
missions at very low rates; but
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danger were emphasized in relation to Snake river proj
ects. Mr. Morgan encvlosed stream flow figures of last win
ter, which was not a particularly bad water year. In that
cold period when peak power demand and lowest flow
coincide, "the actual flow of the Columbia river dropped
to a point at which it was capable of generating only
2,000,000 kilowatts out of a total demand of 5,500,000
kilowatts."
This left a margin of 3,500,000 kilowatts, or more than
three fifths of total demand, which . was attributable to
downstream generation made possible by the release of
upstream storage, principally from Grand Coulee and
Hungry Horse dams.
"It is easy to imagine the calamity which could have
befallen this area if the period of cold weather had per
sisted for only the few weeks which would have been nec
essary in order completely to exhaust the limited upstream
storage behind those two dams," Mr. Morgan wrote to
FPC.
The observation applies as well to Bruces Eddy and
other postponed storage projects as to Plesant Valley. If
the Northwest does not get some big storage projects in
Idaho, Montana or Canada, the Northwest one of these
winters is going to have a power blackout which, as ex
Treasury Secretary Humphrey said about another phase
of the economy, "will make your hair curl." -
Again this paper agrees completely with both
Public Utilities Commissioner Morgan and the Oregonian.
It is not quite clear to
why considering the vital
age on the bnake, the Oregonian opposed Hells Can
yon and so strongly favored the low dams of the j
Idaho Power Company
'BBBK WITH MSZ. WllSOti.
FIND M5
liability rates vary considerably.
Insurance Stocks
Stocks of life insurance com
panies are the most popular and
have had a great rise in price
during the past few years.
Stocks of most fire insurance
companies are selling below
their book values. Owing to the
tendency of state commissions to
hold down rates (perhaps un
fairly sometimes) they are not
making the money they should.
However, they have excellent
managements and ample re
serves and I believe will some
day be treated fairly. For this
reason I am now buying fire
insurance stocks while they are
cheap. I have never liked acci
dent insurance stocks.
Juries and Gravity
Probably the most money
might be made (or lost) from
the stocks of casualty companies.
Their gross business will con
tinue to grow. While thus far
we have hated to sue our friends
or neighbors, it is fast becom
ing the thing to do! Most law
yers will take such- suits on a
retainer basis, perhaps for a
two-hundred-dollar fee but with
the understanding they are to
receive 25 per cent if they win
the case. Juries are becoming
constantly more generous in
their awards, due to the rise in
the cost of; living, increased
wages, and the depreciation of
the dollar.
There is litUe argument about
life insurance awards; a person
is either dead or not dead. Dam
age from fire can also be fairly
well ascertained. Moreover,
"wonder drugs," new hospitals,
and tetter doctors are constant
ly working to help life insur
ance profits; and sprinkler com
panies, fire - alarm companies
such as GameweU, and others
are working to prevent fire
losses. Furthermore, the Gravity
Research Foundation, in New
Hampshire, is working to pre
vent accidents, 80 per cent of
which come from falls. Occupa
tional accidents are generally
covered by compulsory insur
ance with fixed standard rates
and compensations.
Pickup Truck Accident
Near Roseburg Kills One
Roseburg HP) A pickup
truck overturned south of here
Thursday night, killing a pass
enger.
The victim was identified by
state police as Clyde S. Brady,
48, Roseburg. The driver, Arthur
J. Gilbert, Roseburg, was, hos
pitalized. AUTO BUILDER DIES
New York (IP) H. Jay Hayes
88, who built the first all-metal
body automodile and was be
lieved to have introduced car
fenders, died Wednesday night.
this department, howrever,
importance of greater stor
R.W.R. . . --sj
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The Pomegranate Seed
To the Editor: We Christian
girl babies "Rose," "Lily"
"Daisy," "Violet," even "Pansy."
None of our flower names, how
ever, is as often poetically se
lected as the Arab's "Anarkali,"
(Pomegranate B 1 o s s o m). The
Arabs enjoy pomegranate's flow
er, its iruit, also sherbets from
its fruit juices. (The word
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At the multi million - dollar
new Johns-Manville plant that
is nearing completion over east
of the mountains on the Wil
liamson - river, a huge yellow
truck loaded with jackpine pulp
wood moved at a given signal
the other day across a wide, flat
space at the northern end of the
factory site and stopped beside
a big crane.
The slings were adjusted
around the logs. The long arm
of the crane moved over. The
steel cables came down. The
hooks at their ends, were fitted
into the loops on the slings. The
crane flexed its steel muscles,
grunted and then swung the
slingload of pulp logs over and
deposited it beside a - stake
driven into the ground.
The stake marked the outside
limit of what a few months
hence will be a stockpile con
taining 8,000 cords of jackpine.
This stockpile will be raw ma
terial for the big new plant
that is expected to be in opera
tion early in 1958.
IT WAS an epochal event.
It was epochal for this rea
son: This was the first load of
jackpine ever delivered to a
commercial plant west of the
Rockies for full scale manufac
ture of consumer products.
. Hitherto jackpine has been" a
worthless weed tree, cluttering
land that might have -been de
voted to the production of some
thing worth while. Now it is a
valuable commercial product.
IN THIS new plant and in
other plants that will follow
it jackpine will be treated as
a CROP. It will be clear-cut, in
long narrow strips so as to allow
the greatest possible amount of
natural reseeding.
As each strip is cut off,s it
will be left to reseed.'As the
new growth comes on, it will be
thinned, if necessary in order to
provide for a maximum stand of
good trees for the next crop. The
idea is that by the time the last
strip . has been harvested the
first strip cut will be ready for
another harvest.
Thus the yield will be sus
tained. TTOW long will it take to pro-
duce a new crop of Western
jackpine?
Nobody knows. Nobody has
ever paid .any attention to the
stuff .v It has simply grown up
and died and fallen down. It is
estimated that the present stand
may have taken a hundred years
to grow.
But, based upon observation
of new growth at the edge of
new highways and elsewhere, it
is believed that a crop of jack
pine, properly handled, can be
grown about every 40 years.
SO MUCH for jackpine which
is totally new in our picture.
There are other species that
in the past have been regarded
as more or less worthless. But
they are known now to be com
mercially valuable for their fi
ber. They are all RAW MATE
RIAL FOR A GROWING IN
DUSTRY. This we now KNOW:
The old days of cut out and
move on are gone for good. The
timber industry is now a PER
MANENT industry.
It is here to STAY.
I'D LIKE to repeat a prediction
made recently by Dr. Edward
G. Locke, chief of the division
of wood chemistry at the Forest
Laboratory at Madison, Wis.
"We are about 10 years away
from extensive use of wood AS
A SOURCE OF CHEMICALS.
In another 50 years, wood that
is now discarded MAY OVER
SHADOW PETROLEUM AND
COAL as a source of industrial?
chemicals."
Our timber industry is DEFI
NITELY here to stay. Southern
Oregon and far northern Califor
nia have a lot of timber.
Our industrial future is bright.
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"SHARBAT" is Arabic. "SHA
RIBA" is their word for "to
drink.") One finds indeed the
prized pomegranate on ancient
Egyptian and Babylonian sculp
tures. We too, were not surprised,
therefore, to find it in high favor
in North Africa. As President,
World Recreation Survey a half
century . ago, writer was re
searching as to primitive play.
On camel trips, as "down the
Trail Toward Timbuctu," we
discovered the game little girls
call "Jacks". It was played with
date seeds. These feel smooth or
ridged. On more than one oaisis,
both girl players would own to
the name "Anarkali."
Color 'always has appealed to
Desert folk. Green is first. One
who made Mecca pilgrimage
within the year may wear a
turban of the color of well
watered palms. Near Khyber
Pass into Afganistan, where
pomegranate grows wild, we
found a Pathan who stained his
beard green. Thus, lieu the hen
na often used to disguise the
gray of advanced years. In Soma
liland we found pint-sized Ne
groes dyed their kinky wool
canary or Vermillion. There,
also, occasional green locks evi
denced the trip across Arabia's
sands.
The pomegranate is prized for,
not only its flame-red bloom,
but for its fruit. The juice makes
a welcome drink. From it is
made a pink liqueur. This is
utilized by the French through
their long contacts with Arab
Africa. There oncu was a Paris restau
rant whose specialatie was a
pink omelette. It was prepared
AFL-CIO Gives Party
Boost in Assault on
Tight Money Policy
Editor's note: While Lyde C.
Wilson is on vacation, special
dispatches are beingwritlen
by other members of the UP
Washington staff. Today'? it
by the head of the - Senate '
Staff. ......
By RAYMOND IAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington -j- (IP) The AFL
CIO has given the Democrats
a big assist in their continuing
assault on the tight money poli-
1 cy of the, Ei
sennower aa-
ministration,
In attacking
the policy of
rising interest
rates, the
AFL-CIO Ex
ecutive Coun
cil went about
as far as Sen.
Raymond Lahr Roberts.
Kerr (D-Okla.), the most acid
tongued critic of that policy.
At their Chicago meeting the
labor .chieftains listed a series
of administration decision and
said they were "designed ' to
hasten a recession as the best
means of adjusting to the para
doxical situation of rising prices
and declining production."
Recall Douglas Statement
This was Kerr talking in a
statement last week end:
"A big issue now raging with
in the high council of high fi-
nance and government is
whether to tell the people that
a 'moderate recession' is being
planned."
Few Democrats have gone as
far as Kerr in charging the ad
ministration with a calculated
plan to bring about a recession
to check the boom. Some of
them may be mindful of the fact
that Sen. Paul H. Douglas
(D-Ill.) is still being accused of
predicting depression in 1954
when he says he was only sound
ing a warning.
But the idea of a planned re
cession has been given attention
by some financial writers. Kerr
said a recession is already being
felt in parts, of the country.
If his fellow Democrats are
more cautious many of them are
trying to get all the mileage
they can out of criticizing tlie
administration's "hard money"
policy. They view it as a hard
ship for home-buyers, farmers
and businessmen who may be
hurting because of scarce credit.
To these arguments admini
stration spokesmen have replied
Half Way Between Medford and Central Point
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WEEK END SPECIALS
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2 Lb.
in longhandled pan over an
open fireplace. The University
of Paris professor, with whom
we co-labored was our host. He
insisted anyone who had never
tickled his gustatory nerve with
this pomegranate-flavored ome
lette was "socially immature."
We discovered afterward that
restauranteur charged for that
omelette, and nothing else, as
much as most restaurants did for
a whole French dinner, "soup
to nuts" and vin compris.
. C. M. Goethe,
7th & J streets,
Sacramento 14, Calif.
Help Wanted
To the Editor: I have Just
received news of the destruction
by fire of the cabin home of
Mr. John M. Payne, Rt. 2, Box
442, Gold Hill. This happened
during the afternoon of August
6th while John was away on a
prospect. He lost everything in
the fire including the groceries
he had purchased the day be
fore. This has hit John very
hard, he being 75 years of age
and the cabin had been his home
for many years. John is of a
pioneer family dating back to
the Oregon Trail days.
My interest in this disaster
of John Payne is this through
your newspaper, could you and
your staff interest various or
ganizations enough to give John
a helping hand at building him
a new comfortable cabin? His
family are not in a financial
position to do so. I am sure that
if you made the necessary in
quiries you would find that such
is the case.
His late brother Frank B.
Payne, who was buried last
month in Medford, had been a
fifty year member of the Mac
cabees lodge of Albany, Calif.
John's son, Guy Payne, lives in
Medford and another son, How
ard, at Gold Hill.
Natalie Warrington,
1476 Kelly Ave.,
San Leandro, Calif.
that higher interest rates were
needed to curb inflation and to
balance the supply and demand
of credit.
- But even Sen. Harry F. Byrd
(D-Va), who "has never been
known as an "easy money" man,
is asking if higher interest rates
are not inflationary in raising
business costs and leading to
higher prices. And he worries
that higher interest charges in
crease the federal b u d g e t
through the. increased cost of
servicing the national debt. .
These questions have drawn
the reply that interest rates tre
an insignificant factor in busi
ness costs and higher rates on
government bonds are a small
price to pay for holding down
inflation. . ,
- At "this point in- 1957,' how
ever, the Democrats expect to
be making a big issue of tight
money through the 1958 politi
cal campaign- and possibly on
into 1960.
Boston (IP) A small for
eign car displayed this sign in
the rear: Hit Somebody your
Own Size." , -
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