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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. 21, 1947 (Thursday)
A railroad car shortage In
southern Oregon today brings
protests from chamber of com
merce officials.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot Column: "Huckle
berries are so scarce in the high
hills a citizen reports a bear
mistook him for one by a nar
row margin."
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 21, 1937 (Sunday)
Medford becomes golfing cen
ter of the wcOd as four of the
me's greatest professionals
gather to pay homage to the late
H. Chandler Egan.
Pinball machines must be re
moved by next Thursday, Sher
iff Syd I. Brown orders.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 21. 1927 (Sunday)
Gin Peddler seized with 18
quarts of liquor in -his car
parked on North Grape st.
Baby show is staged in local
theatre.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 217 1917 (Tuesday)
Mail Tribune staff writer
Charles Edward Russell returns
to work after visit to Russia on
Root Commission.
Choice heavy hogs sell at $20
per hundred-weight today mark
ing an advance in price of $3
in the last 11 days.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or ettht Is excellent: five or
six ts good
1. Whose likeness is depicted
on the newly-designed U.S. half
dollar? 2. Was Zane Grey, a prolific
writer, a man or a woman?
3. Bible: Is a censer an ani
mal, mineral, or vegetable?
.4 Is Iowa located east, west,
or at the sides of the Mississip
pi river?
5. Kohlrabi is a disease of dogs
or a religious teacher, or a kind
of cabbage?
6. When a person has had
mumps on both sides, he would
not be susceptible to the dis
ease again; true or false?
7. The limbs on a tree do, or
do not, remain the same height
from the ground as the tree
grows?
8. Is Portland, Maine, farther
north than Portland, Oregon?
9. Is it always proper to use
a comma within figures in the
thousands?
10. "I am not a politician and
mv other habits are" what?
A. Ward.
Answers: I. Benjamin Frank
lin. 2. A man. 3. Mineral. 4. West
of the Mississippi! River. 5. A
kind of cabbage. 6. False. 7.
Do remain the same height. 8.
No. 9. No. (not in a street num
ber, dates, etc). 10. "Good."
Senate Authorizes Bill
To Sell Naval Vessels
Washington W The Sen
ate Tuesday passed and sent
back to the House legislation
authorizing sale or loan of sev
eral Naval vessels to friendly
nations.
The House approved bill in
cludes authority for sale of not
more than three destroyers and
one submarine to Venezuela
and loan of two submarines to
The Netherlands. The measure
goes back to the House for ac
tion on Senate changes.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Living Outdoors
There are various stages, or degrees, of "living
outdoors."
At one end of the spectrum is the apartment
dweller whose outdoor experiences are limited to
climbing in and out of hi3 car between home and
the office.
At the other end are the hardy souls who pre
pare a tightly restricted list of the bare essentials,
place these on a packboard, slip it on, and take off,
on foot, for a few days or weeks far from the end
of the road.
In between are the various stages of golfing, gar
dening, patio or back-yard loafing, walking, picnick
ing and in increasing numbers those who find
relaxation and rest by bundling together a sufficient
quantity of civilization's amenities, tossing them in
the family vehicle, and taking off on a "camping
trip."
THEEE are subsidiary degrees of ruggedness with-
in this category, too. There are those who haul
along house-trailers, which have such things as hot
and cold running water, iceboxes, and inner-spring
mattresses. There are smaller trailers, ranging down
to the collapsible ones which fold out into tents.
There are gadgets which fit on the' bodies of pick
up trucks, forming sturdy but cramped housing.
There are tents of various sizes and complexity.
And there are those who find their pleasure in un
rollirig bedrolls beside the car, and sleeping under
the stars. '
I IKE WISE, there is a vast amount of equipment
available to make life outdoors not only bear
able, but comfortable. There are sleeping bags of
many different designs, air mattresses and air pil
lows to smooth out the
ground, folding cots, beds,
There are gasoline stoves and lanterns tor cook
in? and lichtine: there are many types of battery-
powered flashlights and
ice-boxes and coolers, and a variety ot jugs and Dot'
ties which will keep liquids hot or cold.
These impedimenta, plus a few elementary tools,
a supply of clothespins,
line, and an ability (at the
level) to light a fire, make
doors" in relative comfort,
tive cleanliness.
CO MUCH for the equipment available. What of
u the benefits?
Here again each must
For hardy citizens in
nothing is quite so rewarding as the long, burdened-
down hike; the sleep on
the smell of campfire smoke, and coffee, and bacon
frying. The tired muscles,
bed, the sand and cinders
ly add zest to his adventure. The utter lack of civili
zation and its encumbrances, and the freshness ot
the air, the smells and "feel" of the outdoors, are his
reward.
The other stages and
are only steps, tempered by
and comfort, toward this ideal.
DEFORE World War n,
reserved for the rugged souls willing to put up
with hardship and inconvenience for the sake of re
turning to nature periodically.
But since then, with the
joyed by so many more Americans, plus the develop
ment of equipment to cater
has had a tremendous boom. It is parallel to the boom
in boating, in handicraft hobbies,' and in other forms
of off-duty activity.
Forward - looking governmental agencies are
straining to provide for this tremendous and growing
demand for outdoor facilities. Those which do not
are going to find themselves "out on a limb," both
with their own constituents and with tourists who are
attracted to such accommodations.
o
UTSTANDLNG among
svstems of Oregon and
bor to the south, off-shore oil prvides the lion's share
of the funds for the state park camps, although mod
est fees add to this income. As a result, the camps are
adequately staffed, beautifully maintained, and laid
out with care and imagination. As a result, they are
often filled to overflowing during July and August,
and even in the colder months have a steady clientele.
Oregon, with far less money, has done a highly
creditable job, as far as it goes. It is expanding the
system just as rapidly as available funds will allow,
and highway department figures reveal the Oregon
parks have about as high a per capita use as those
of any state in the nation.
pOUNTIES, and even cities, power companies and
lumber firms, too, are getting into the act. No
table in Oregon are the county parks in Lane and
Douglas counties, which operate on budgets substan
tial enough to provide both adequate maintenance
and growth for the future demand.
(Counties such as Jackson, which ignominiously
bring up the tail end of the procession, do not speak
well for the foresight of their governments.)
The Forest Service, the National Parks system,
gnd to lesser degrees other federal agencies, are
doing their best with limited funds to provide for the
present campers, and the millions more who within
the next few years will be swarming into the outdoors.
"Outdoor living," including patio, city park, pic
nic ground, and camp ground, is one of the larger
ripples in the "wave of the future." And, for our
money, it is a clean, wholesome and desirable one,
too. E.A.
Wednesday, August 21. 1957
bumps and hollows 01 the
stools, chairs and tables,
lamps; there are portable
enough rope for a clothes
Second Class Boy Scout
it possible to live out
relative safety and rela
write his own ticket.
good physical condition,
the ground under the stars;
the knots and stones in his
in his food all these mere
degrees of "camping out
the need for bodily ease
camping out was" mainly
added hours of leisure en
to their desires, camping
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Defense Department
To Probe Deaths of
Three From Cance
Washington (IP) The De
fense department has agreed to
make a formal investigation of
the deaths from cancer of three
youths after exposure to nuclear
radiation of tests in Nevada.
The action was announced by
Rep. Thomas L. Ashley (D-O.),
Tuesday after he received assur
ances from Assistant Defense
Secretary Frank B. Berry that
"a full inquiry" would be made.
Two of the youths came from
Toledo in Ashley's district and
the third from New York.
The three were close friends
in the Army and each died from
cancer within a year of each
other. None had reached the age
of 30.
Strange Coincidence
AshkJ said that Berry told
him he was "extremely interest
ed" in the "strange coincidence"
of the three deaths.
Ashley's office said the two
youths from Toledo were Pfc.
Dale B. Mock and Larry H.
Fitz. Ashley's office did not
know the name of the New
Yorker.
Last week Ashley wrote De
fense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son suggesting that a thorough
study be made of the health of
the former servicemen who were
exposed to the effects of nuclear
testing.
Believes Study Needed
Ashley said today he still be
lieves the study is needed.
Ashley also wrote' to Army'
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Senator Bill Knowland (he is
the Republican leader in the
U.S. senate) says in Washington
this morning he will give the
open skies disarmament Dlan
a helping hand IF CERTAIN
FUNDAMENTAL SAFE
GUARDS ARE INCLUDED IN
WHATEVER ARGEEMENT IS
REACHED.
These safeguards, he added
MUST include prior search of
any Soviet inspection plans to
make certain that the Russians
aren't preparing a sneak nu
clear attack on us.
The Senator knows his classics
A anil riP nhtriniiclv 1 nrnnp
wnn virgu who said in his
Aeneid 2,000 years ago:
"I fear the Greeks, even when
they come bearing gifts.
Some 500 vears later. Kiirini-
des put the same thought into
tnese words:
"Put not thy faith in anv
Greek."
The reference, of course, is to
triP Placcir ctmlaffam am.
ployed by the Greeks at the
siege of ancient Troy. They
built a fabulous-lookins hnrsp
pushed it up before the walls
ot the long-besieged city and
then took to their ships and
went away.
The Troians. resardinsf it as
a gift by enemies who had given
up the game, pulled it inside
their walls. It was hollow, and
was filled with Greek soldiers
who came out during the night,
opened the city's gates and let
in "their countrvmen who came
back in their ships in the dark
ness and took the city, burned
it to the ground and put its in
habitants to the sword.
fne of the first objectives of
of war, from the time when
wars were first fought, has been
to hit your enemy when he isn't
looking. If you can do that, you
have a splendid chance to WIN.
If the Russians could kid us
into thinking that they are beat
ing their swords into plow
shares, and thus could lull us
into relaxing our vigilance, they
might be able to hit us with
AN ATOMIC ATTACK some
dark night when we weren't
looking AND THAT WOULD
BE THE END OF US.
Lefs keep our fingers crossed '
and our powder dry.
Secretary Wilber M. Brucker
protesting the Army's handling
of the cases.
Ashley said he learned about
the cancer deaths of the two
Toledo men and the New York
er "some time ago."
"When I learned that the three
youths had participated in the
1952 tests near Las Vegas, Ne
vada," Ashley told Brucker, "I
directed a routine request to
the Army for verification of the
various stations where one of
the Toledoans had served.
Officially Informed
"I was officially informed by
the Army that the youth, Pfc.
Dale B. Mock "was neversta
tioned anywhere near Las Ve
gas, Nevada'."
Ashley said, however, that he
subsequently received letters
and postcards written by Mock
to his wife and family bearing
the postmark April 20, 1952,
Las Vegas, Nevada.
"I also have sworn statements
from the boy's relatives and
friends," Ashley said, "which
describe his account of how he
felt as he lay in a slit trench
within range of the nuclear explosion."
Forests Earn Record
$56.5 Million in '56
Portland (IP) The 19 national
forests in the Pacific Northwest
earned a record-breaking $56,
500,000 in net receipts during
the last fiscal year, according to
figures from Regional Forester
J. Herbert Stone.
He said the total was some
two million dollars higher than
that for the previous year which
was also a record breaker.
Biggest money-maker in the
region was Oregon's Willamette
National Forest with receipts to
taling nearly ten million dollars,
Five other forests in Oregon
and three in Washington had re
ceipts of more than three mil
lion dollars. They were, in Ore
gon, the Umpqua with $5,396,'
000; Siuslaw $4,84,000; Mt.
Hood $4,190,000; and the De
schutes 53,022,000.
In Washington they were the
Gifford Pinchot Forest with $6,-
705,000 and Mr. Baker $3,770,00
105,000; the Olympic with
$4,705,000 and Mt... Baker
$3,770,000.
uuik oi the revenue came
from timber sales. Only one per
cent came from livestock, graz
ing, power fees and fees from
other land uses. The law re
quires that national forest funds
returned to local government be
used for public roads and
schools.
Hatfield Leaves for
Boston Meeting
Salem HP! Secretary of
State Mark Hatfield left here
Tuesday for the annual meeting
of the Association of Secretaries
of State in Boston.
Hatfield will also attend the
American Political Science As
sociation session in New York
as a panelist in a discussion be
tween public officials from vari
ous states and the federal gov
ernment. The secretary also has a se
ries of conferences scheduled in
Washington, D.C.
An earthquake in Assam, In
dia, disturbed 1,750,000 square
miles.
DRAMATIC
SAVINGS
SUNDAY
Watch Sunday's Tribune
Eisenhower
Ineffective
By DONALD J. GONZALES
United Press Correipondent
Washington HP) The Eisen
hower Doctrine is ineffective for
dealing with the current pro
Communist crisis In Syria.
Worry talk and hope in large
amounts seem to be about 'all
the United States can do in the
immediate emergency. Moscow
and its Syrian puppets are call
ing the grab-for-power tune and
probably will continue to do so
for some time.
When Congress approved the
Eisenhower Doctrine last March
there was some faint hope it
might deflect Syria and Egypt
from their policy of cuddling up
to Moscow. The idea was that
the two anti-Western nations
might at least be forced to re
turn to a more neutral course
in their East-West relations.
Trial of Girard May Determine
If U.S. Troops Will Stay Abroad
By JOHN ZIMMERMAN
United Press Correspondent
Tokyo, Japan (IP) An Ameri
can soldier-diplomat said today
the Japanese trial of Specialist
3rd Class William S. Girard may
determine whether the United
States will continue to station
ground forces in foreign coun
tries. Col. Alvin M. Owsley, of
Dallas, said most Americans be
lieve the Supreme Court went
too far" when it consented to
permit a Japanese court to try
Girard for an offense committed
while on duty.
The 68-year-old Texan, who is
an attorney in private life, ques
tioned the constitutionality of
the "administrative agreements"
that enable foreign courts to try
U. S. soldiers.
Owsley, a former commander
of the American Legion, will sit
in at the Girard trial at the re
quest of the Legion's present
chief, W. C. Daniel.
In addition to his military ca
Regular Television Season Seen As
Lump of Medium-Tedium by Ewajd
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York AlP) The regular
1957-58 TV season seems to be
shaping up as a lump of medium-tedium.
It'll be up to the
one-shots" to shoot some juice
into the schedule.
At NBC-TV, those one - shots
used to be called "spectaculars,"
a word coined by President Pat
Weaver. Weaver has since de
parted and so has the word.
NBC-TV now calls them "spe
cials."
Over at CBS-TV, they're offi
cially called "special shows."
Unofficially, however, everyone
at CBS calls them spectaculars.
You figure it.
ABC-TV has no problem at
all. It doesn t call them any
thing. That's because it doesn't
have any. That is, unless you
stretch a point and count two
spectacular special one - hour
shows that Frank Sinatra will
do in addition to bis regular
half-hour series in ABC-TV.
Something For Everyone
Like smorgasbord, the NBC
CBS spectacular - specials will
contain something for every
body this season. The specs
that'll catch the most eyes
should be NBC-TV's "Annie Get
Your Gun" Nov. 27 with Mary
Martin and CBS-TV's "Aladdin"
(no date) with a book by S. J.
Perelman and a score by Cole
Porter.
CBS-TV's first spec will be
"Crescendo," Sept. 29, a 90-min-ute
extravaganza that will offer
everything but Asiatic flu. Lined
up so far are: Ethel Merman,
Rex Harrison, Peggy Lee, Benny
Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Ma
halia Jackson, Dinah Washing
ton, Eddy Arnold and the Turk
Murphy outfit.
CBS-TV also has scheduled
Mark Twain's "The Prince and
the Pauper" Oct. 8, and a musi
cal version of "Junior Miss" (no
date). The network also will pre
empt Ed Sullivan on Oct. 13 to
offer "The First Edsel Show"
with Bing Crosby, Frank Sina
tra, Rosemary Clooney and Lou
is Armstrong.
Along with these, CBS-TV
also will beam out five other
dramas and one musical (no
properties selected yet), five one
hour Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz
shows and a repeat of the movie,
Wizard of Oz.
NBC-TV will carry the bulki
est schedule. The "Hallmark
HaU of Fame" series will offer
Maurice Evans as star of Shake
speare s "Twemn wignt- eo.
9, and "Dial M for Murder'
Doctrine Declared
in Syrian Crisis
Nothing of the sort has hap
pened after five months of Ei
senhower Doctrine operations.
Egypt is on its most anti-American
propaganda binge. In Syria
pro-Communist army and intel
ligence officers are in command
of the Soviet equipped military.
This development may well
threaten the Syrian government
itself.
Syria would have been elig
ible for American economic and
military aid under the Eisen
hower Doctrine if it had sought
American help. But the Syrians
berated the whole idea from the
beginning and kept on receiving
arms from the Soviet Union.
Syrian propaganda denounced
the American move to promote
stability in the Middle East as
a plot to stamp out Arab neu
trality and strengthen Israel.
reer, Owsley is a former U. S.
minister to Romania, Ireland
and Denmark.
He noted that the manslaught
er trial of the young American
soldier by a Japanese court
made up entirely of judges would
deprive him of his constitutional
right of trial by jury. He added
that a great deal may depend
on the verdict.
"There are responsible author
ities in America who advocate
the withdrawal of all U. S.
ground troops from foreign coun
tries throughout the world,"
Owsley said.
"They are saying that we
need only the Air Force and
Navy and a token ground force
stationed abroad to curb the
Communist menace."
"The outcome of this so-called
Girard case may determine
whether U. S. ground forces are
removed from this and other
countries of the world."
Killed Japanese Woman
Girard, while on duty as a
April 25. Hallmark also seems
set on a TV version of "Green
Pastures." There's also a chance
it may repeat "Cradle Song."
Decision Near on
Visits fo China
Washington HP) The state
department was reported near a
decision today on whether to
permit a limited number of
American newsmen to go to Red
China.
If the decision is affirmative,
as expected, the next question
will be whether the Communist
Chinese will admit .American
newsmen.
American passports have been
marked invalid for travel to Red
China since the Reds took over
the China mainland seven years
ago. A group of American stu
dents Is en route to China now
despite the state department's
strenuous objection.
A year ago Red China invited
a number of American corre
spondents to visit the mainland.
The state department however
stood by its travel ban. This de
cision has been protested dur
ing the last year by the press,
radio, television, members of
Congress, private organizations
and others.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and his advisers have
been quizzing news media to find
out how many organizations
would like a correspondent to
go to Red China for a trial period
of six months. The survey is
understood to be complete.
Juveniles Go About
Advertising Wrong Way
Tacoma P It always pays
to advertise but police said here
Tuesday some juveniles were
going about it the wrong way.
The last two days trunks of
several automobiles have been
painted with these words: "Get
your shoes shined at Trailways."
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We Never Close
In its broad outlines the Ei
senhower Doctrine was designed
to strengthen friendly nations In
the Middle East to resist Com
munist penetration. Millions of
American dollars were doled out
to strengthen Middle Eastern
military and police units, for
communications development,
irrigation, flood control, hous
ing, education and other proj
ects. This feature of the doctrine
seems to be having some suc
cess. The doctrine, however, was
not tailored to counter direct
moves inside a Middle Eastern
country to set up a Communist
or pro-Communist regime. The
administration told Congress
the aim was to deal with Red
aggression when it was launched
gainst a peaceful neighbor ex
ternal aggression in other
words.
guard at a U. S. firing range.
accidentally killed a Japanese
woman who was scavenging
scrap brass from the range. An
empty cartridge case fired from
his grenade launcher as a warn
ing struck the woman in the
back.
Japanese authorities waived
jurisdiction today in a generally
similar case, involving a U. S.
flier whose light plane hit and
killed a Japanese woman bicylist.
The Mito district attorney's of
fice said it is up to U. S. au
thorities to determine whether
Lt. John L. Gordon, of Erie, Pa.,
was guilty of negligence.
A 5th Air Force spokesman
would say only that "the case is
being reviewed."
Gordon was taking off when
his plane suddenly lost altitude,
either because he retracted the
flaps too soon or because they
were defective. The tail wheel
dragged along the ground for
several feet, hitting the cicycle
and killing the Japanese woman.
NBC-TV has "Pinocchio" Oct.
13, set with Mickey Rooney and
Walter Slezak and "The Pied
Piper of Hamlin" with Van John
son and Kay Starr. Shirley
Temple will make her debut as
hostess and sometime star of 16
fairy tales that will open on
Jan. 12.
NBC-TV has two anniversary
musicals on the boards Stand
ard Oil, Oct. 13, will celebrate
its' 75th and General Motors,
Nov. 17, its 50th. Texaco is back
ing a special one-shot tribute to
Ed Wynn Sept. 19.
NBC-TV has five opera dates
in the offing including a two
part "Die Meistersinger" in the
spring. It's also blueprinting the
Emmy and Oscar awards, three
musicals from Las Vegas, con
versations with such elder wise
men as Picasso and Stravinsky
and six specials each by Bob
Hope and Jerry Lewis.
All in all, a pretty appetizing
selection and one that should
help spice the leaden fare of the
regular season.
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