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FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, Augui 22. 1957
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The Mountain Moves to Mohammed?
If thp Riants and Dodeers move to San Francisco
and L.A. respectively, as now seems likely, there is
one thin? for sure, dyed-in-the-wool iaseball fans
nere aDOuts win rejoice iiugnuiy.
For over 50 years the only way aforesaid fans
could see a Big League game "in person" was to. take
a trip" of from two to three thousand miles and back
again.
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago. i
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 22. 1947 (Friday)
"It's fun to be alive, take It
easy and you'll arrive," was se
lected as winning slogan in the
Medford Safety council contest.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "For sale
Two milk cows, one extra fine,
one extra sorry."
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 22, 1937 (Sunday)
Commercial section of the
Northwest Light and Power as
sociation will hold its annual
spring convention in Medford
next March.
Twenty -five trained forest
fira-fighters are drafted from
Wimer CCC camp Friday to help
fight Glendale fire.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 22. 1927 (Monday)
Icel Edwards, Kiwanis candi
date for jubilee queen, leaps far
Into the lead since Saturday with
94.700 votes.
First frog iound in Cter
Lake causes arguments.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 22. 1917 (Wedneiday)
City council considers selling
rnst to Drevent fleecing
of people by wood dealers and
ranchers.
Walter and Henry Schumann
Heink, sons of Mme. Schumann
Heink prima donna, enlist in
U. S. Navy. Until recently were
residents here.
William E. Smith harvests 65
bushels of wheat an acre at Ross
Lane ranch.
Sn thpv have had to be content with the news
papers, radio and once-a-week "T.V.", which for
either a real Dodger or uiam ianauc was ama a
poor substitute for being present.
DUT now if present plans do materialize, it will take
- nnv a fpw hours corrmarativelv (depending upon
the medium of transportation) for any baseball en
thusiast in Southern Oregon or JNortnern oauionua,
to see not only one Big League game, but many of
them, during each and every baseball season.
Another thing is also lairiy certain, rernaps uic
nf nf f if p-bnvs who have to attend their grand
mothers funeral on a sunny afternoon will not greatly
increase, but the number of busy businessmen wno
will find business trips to S.F. and L.A. necessary
from April to October, surely WILLI k.w.k.
How Can the S.P. Know?
Every now and then we receive a note from a
r,,rf,'Mn trio "FHendlv Southern Pacific" who
never signs his name.
Nor does he give an address but the post mark is
always "Medford" and the paper and printing are
similar if not identical.
It is reasonable to assume the writer does not ex
pect his blast to be published, but sends it largely for
purposes of information and irritation.
He usually succeeds in uie laiuei, ui a 10 uouaiV
the case, the "information" is incorrect.
FOR example, the last missive received contains a
clipping enumerating the number of passenger
trains that have been abandoned during the last five
years throughout the country, and claiming the
is merely following the example of most first class
railroads, in cutting off the losses sustained in passen
ger operation on its Siskiyou line.
The conclusion is:
"Why curse the SP when it is only doing what practically
all railroads are doing, and anyway when it did run passenger
trains through here no one would ride on them anyway?
.
WELL it just happens that "practically all rail
rnnds" nr "all first-class railroads" are not doing
1
Solly, i havent sebu a cap like
THAT SlNCe I WAS A LITTL5 KID;
Matter of Fact v
Stewart Alsop
Wilson, On Eve of Departure,
Still Center of Controversy
By CHARLES CORDDRY
United Press Correspondent
Washington HP) Charles E.
Wilson is winding up his color
ful career as Defense Secretary
the way be began it at the cen
ter of a storm over military cuts.
With only about six weeks to
go, he is giving the Pentagon a
final shakedown, squeezing out
two billion dollars and thousands
of men to fit the nation's armed
Today and Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
this.
Ao Trauinnclv .minted out in this column the
Sante Fe railroad, one of the most prosperous and best
managed railroads in the country, tne union
Stewait Alsop
rTVIL RIGHTS: THE las of Illinois, wno owes bdoui
I i r nsA i.. i .
oriT tTiril. AT.ITY bU per cem, oi nis yiuiaiiij
Washineton Behind t h e to tne wego voie. out me
;fti,,r rnmnlpx. often fascin- is clear enougn. xi uie xiepuuut-
ating drama of the struggle over ans can attract something ap-
. . , :.u. AnnV.inrt Violf iVa Mourn wntp in
there is one the Northern states, the Repub
simple politi- lican party will then be the
cal reality normal majority pariy in mose
the Negro vote states,
in the kev in
dustrial states TIE AD the role ol Dig states
in the North. in which the Negroes can
That is, of be expected to poll 5 per cent
course, in hard or more of the total vote not
political terms, only New York, Pennsylvania
what the fieht and Illinois, but such states as
has been aU Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey,
about. California. It then becomes clear
To understand just how cru- what is at stake in the civil
t.hp Ntsro vote is. consider rights struggle nothing less
three such key states New than the future balance of po
York, Pennsylvania and Illin- litical power in the nation,
nis Tt is almost inconceivable What is not clear is just how
that any Presidential candidate the Negro voters themselves
could lose those three states and have reacted to tne complex,
win an election. And in all shifting struggle over civil
three states, the Negro vote can rights. Have the Democrats been
be absolutely decisive. badly hurt in their eyes, and
Arrnrrline to the estimate of tne xtepuwicans greauy neipeu:
Louis Harris, a reliable politi- or is tne result a siana-oiir in
r-al statistician - analyst, the an attempt to sense the answers
Negro vote in these three states to these questions, tbis report
ranges from about 6 per cent er shortly plans an expedition
... .... , i tTnclfim Vi rt umil4'c efreatper
oi tne total in Pennsylvania, iu i" im,
about 7.5 per cent in Illinois, Negro city, to talk about the
with New York in the middle civU rights issue with the Negro
with about 6.5 per cent. Trans- voters tnemseives,
THE REBELLION iwe can say that It is aooui
IN CONGRESS equal to -last year s total nin-
The cuts made by the House tary and economic aid to boutn
in the appropriations for foreign That doeg not mean of coursej
aid are big. But their true signi- that there wiU now be no
ficance cannot money for South Korea and For
be measured mosa. But it does mean that in
in terms of order to subsidize them at some
money. For thing like the level to which
what the their civil and military officials
House has have become accustomed, money
done is not will have to be squeezed out of
merely to in- our contributions to the NATO
sist in spend- alliance, to Iran, Pakistan, and
ing less money. South Vietnam, . and to others
It has reject- among the 50-odd nations.
i ,,.4i1 TV.;. ,.r;n qemrte Iho Prpsi
mental conception of the func- dent, seriously delay the mod
tion of foreign aid in our cur- ernization of their military
rent fnrpien riolicv. and it has forces. It will compel them to
voted its lack of confidence in reduce the size and effective
tvio PrpsinVnt's iudement of ness of their forces. It will
what is necessary for national "make impossible" important
security. Unless the action o capital assistance tnrougn looiia
the House is clearly reversed, for development, in suuswrn-c
the world will be on notice that what the House had said to this
the policy of maintaining our argument is that it is probably
alliances by subsidizing them no not a vital interest of the United
longer has reliable public sup- States that our military allies
p0rt should have modernized forces
j.i.... cv,mir that are larger than they them-
that there is a preponderant selves can afford to pay for-
I
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it laperlor;
aeven or eisht Is axcoUent: Uva or
six is (ood.
1. 'D. A." is an abbreviation
for which prosecuting officer?
2. Name the five boroughs of
New York City.
3. Bible: Is "Cleanliness is next
to godliness" in the Bible?
4. Is squirrel fur more, less or
just as durable as muskrat?
5. The Post Office recom
mends what abbreviation for
Pennsylvania?
6. A major-domo is a drum
major, a master of ceremonies or
the steward of a household?
7. What Is caliology?
8. An 18-kat ring contains
what percentage of gold?
9. Is it proper to capitalize the
names of college degrees when
thev are written out.
10. "Said the pot to the kettle
'Get away blackface." Cer
vantes. "The raven said to the
rook 'Stand away black-coat.
T. Fuller. Do both proverbs
have the same meaning?
1. DisBict Atloriy. 2. Man
hattan. Brooklyn. Queens. Bronx
and Richmond. 3. No. 4. Less
durable. 5. Pa. 6.Steward (or
butler). 7. The study of buds
a. Seventv-five per cent.
9 No. from a sermon by John
Wesley. 10. Yes.
Cbufe for Freeway in
Portland Is Approved
Portland im A route for
bringing the new Highway 99
freeway into Portland and tying
U to Harbor drive was approved
here Wednesday by the city
:i I
The proved project, includ-J
ing overpasses uu
covers that section of the free
way from Burlingame to South
west Montgomery street. Por
tions of Hood and Macadam ave
nues will become one-way routes
for local traffic.
Burlington, Baltimore and Ohio Great Northern,
Northern Paciiic all exceiiem rauiudua-
bash", "Southern", the "Coast - Line", the "Milwau
kee " "Denver Rio Grande" and many others, are
NOT abandoning their passenger service, moreover
many of them increasing it, ana nuw uujmg CAtCi.
and up-to-date equipment for new air dome and
"coach-dome" accommodations.
THERE is no denial mat ran passenger civics m
the USA as a whole since World' War II has been
curtailed. But REDUCING passenger service where
conditions justify it is ONE thing, abandoning it en
tirely and leaving a growing and prosperous area as
large and weli-popuiatea as me ouu ume o""". -r
Eugene to Dunsmuir, with no passenger rail service
WHATEVER, is quite another.
WE HAVE stated our belief before and do so again,
that this is the largest and most rapidly deyelop
ine section in the country today, that has no rail pas
oil via the SP or anv other railroad.
So if residents wisn 10 travel mey mc iv.u u
u 0,v hnoinr hitch-hike. This in spite of the
fact that by the terms of its original franchise the SP
nledeed itself morally to supply me peopie ui ouu
ern Oregon with CONTINUOUS service.
MOW ns to the second point, so often made by the
IN g p an(i its spokesmen, that there is no justi
fication for giving the 250,000 people in this area
passenger cars for they will reiuse 10 rme m um
xi, An TTTRY know?
i,lU n - - ,
Thev have never provided passenger cars, that any
self respecting numan Deing wouiu w aim
: V rv cVio nnnlrl ripln it.
As the Sante Fe, Burlington and otner a-i u
have demonstrated if first class and comfortable ac
commodations of a MUDifiKW type am pioviuu
o.noVvio nnVps thp nponle in the areas served DU
take advantage of them and in larger and larger
numbers. . . "
Ti,a travplino- miblic in California, Colorado, Ne
braska, Illinois and Iowa can't after all, be very differ-
ent from tne traveling puuut ui J 1Z.
Porter asked President Russell of the
SP tn nut on iust a ONE car Diesel service between
Dunsfnuir and Eugene as an experiment for one : year
only it was haughtily declined witn tne same um o
"wheeze" "we can't afford it."
HOW does he know, until he TRIES it?
Both the Boston & Maine and the Canadian
Pacific run such cars on a fast daylight schedule be
tween Boston and Montreal. How can THEY afford
to do it?
We believe we know the answer to that one.
The operation may not be highly profitable, but
they have what the "Friendly Southern Pacific'
hasn't, and never has had a keen sense of their obli
gations as privileged public utilities to see that the
public is SERVEDJ R.W.R.
lated into actual votes for 1960,
rthe next Presidential year, this
works out to be about 450,000
Negro votes in New York, 350,
000 in, Illinois and 385,000 in
Pennsylvania.
Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
yPrredTce fogn Vid VuC to Uerest of the United States they
. x. -j Tei ,.,ir are not willing to accept the
this way: "I would support any niucii unmc
!rrJirr j a. After aU. how, "modern"
witnarawaT o? endiiu would be aernized" force
j: x Unt T am imwil I- in OUULll aw L "
tng toVppW plans to perpe- What is the
tuate the present program." - - .
Mr. weal, wno rerieciea me r.nmmunist nowers?
I 1 J MAAM I "& '
majority opinion, r NnhnHv pan answer these aues-
quite correctly, that this year s assurance cer-
proposals were designed to es- &e President himself
tablisn loreign am as a conuim- - sharnlv dif-
5S."?1S rS ferent estimates of the money
mill Id 1 y am woo w - j j
tC. 4. twc needed.
tne UGym uncut wiwiin..
toZ oi a baling operation TN VIEW of the state of mind
,v,ior. it was hoDed. would not A in Congress and in the coun-
need to be examined and voted try, the Mesiaent woum oe vei
upon by Congress each year. badly advised, u, m uieu
tt u T,nna manner oi last wema
l lie nuuae wuiuu iiovc uuut , .
c iu:. -t i kan9cA oc Drommu press okuhbiu:,
Mr Neal said, it wants to wind caUed a special session of Con
up and not to perpetuate the gress The cnces re nw
basic policy. . , ?-at and would be mvi ting
Oil C V Cll anvA -
4rinn ha VtQB 9ll09r.V CI if.
measure ui
OW consider what has been
Three years ago the post office
department began keeping care-
N'
vote. In 1948 Harry S. Truman ful saf records on twQ groups
got at least 80 per cent of the rf ou of 3500
Negro vote accoraing to reiia- painted red) white and blue and
Die raiiiliaira, .ii, oenn na ntH n VP rtrab.
. The proposition could ' , , wanted
What the postal people wanted
to know was whether the bril
liantly painted ones had fewer
accidents than the drably paint-
more
reasonably be defended that
Truman owed his amazing tri
umph in that year to Sen. Hu
. . TT 1 -
Dert numpnrey oi . tVl!1T wpr harder to see.
who forced a strong civil rights ,... . u
J?L?Z The drablV painted (presumably
V-.., ,;j at harder to see) group naa aiv
man wuu an aimwu tv t,,; Tho
gro vote. ... . ., tril(.ks had
In 1952, Adlai Stevenson new """" . ..
the bulk of the Negro vote , on ly J2S ! .ccjd ente ,25 than
Dolling better than three out of
four votes among Negroes. But m a,,tnmohile industrv has
by 1956, partly in response to X been working along some-
tne supreme ouri uiu, whaj. the same iines but has
there was a sharp drop-off in be(m more interested m what it
the Democratic pluralities. In veflPCtorized" Daint that
New York state, for example f mt that will make
the Democratic Negro vote feU a' caeasily visible at night
off to about 63 Per cent The wWle stm retaining its beauty
KepuDiicanb um Vuu an(J durabUity in the sunlight.
umu ui e,,ni manufacturers are
1 S a rough
size of the cut by the House,
monolithic Democratic
considering making this "re-
fered. For a special session,
caUed without his having first
recovered his leadership of the
nation, would be askmg for a
show-down oh whether his for
eien policy is still the national
policy. If he were rebuffed by
Congress, the policy of our aUi
ances would be gravely injured.
Roseburg m Three lumber . - . . . . thi.
mills in the Dillard area were th the president wUl
closed by "roving pickets Wed- . . exDerience
but later reached an
forces into a tighter budget.
There is a distinction between
the economy program Wilson is
waging now and the one he car
ried out in 1953. He frankly
concedes today that he is put
ting budgetary considerations
first but says the nation will
retain adequate military strength
to prevent or win any kind of
war. In 1953, he denied that the
dollar sign was controlling and
insisted he was providing more
defense, more efficiently, for the
money spent. Then the adminis
tration had a slogan for it:
"Mors bang for a buck."
Life Not Dull
A man of 67, who would
"rather look forward than back-'
ward," the often impish Detroit '
industrialist confided to news
men the other day. He said that .
life hasn't been dull in his
4V4 years of running the world's
most powerful armed forces.
That makes it unanimous, lor
his presence has certainly made
life in the capital livelier. And
it apparently will continue that
way to the end of his regime, as
critics accused him of conduct
ing one-man disarmament cam
paign and defenders insist he is :
actually strengthening America's
hand in the disarmament talks.
Wilson's own uninhibited re
marks have caused most of his
trouble in Washington. But there
are many who agree with his
wife, Jessie Ann, that he mainly
spoke "simple truths in a place
where politics is more generaUy
the native tongue."
Quiet obscurity in retirement'
is not his likely fate. When he
leaves Washington, Wilson will
ostensibly lead a triple life of
Michigan cattle-breeder, Louis
iana plantation owner and ilor
ida farmer.
Mixed Emotions"
He says he will leave with
"mixed emotions" about a job
that has been challenging with-,
out question." He has held the
defense post three times as long
as any of his four predecessors
and almost as long as all 01 tnem
combined.
He probably made the great
est material sacrifice of any
American who ever came to hign
government service. Under Sen--
ate pressure, he parted witn $4,
700,000 in stock in General
Motors Corp., of which he had
been president. The gain in mar
ket value of that .stock since .
early 1953, the capital gains tax
he paid on the sale, the divi
dends it would have paid, and
the $600,000 annual G.M. salary
he lost all these add up to an
apparent sacrifice of something
like four million dollars to serve'
in the $25,000-a-year cabinet
post.
Mill Workers Reach
Wage Agreement
nesday
agreement with Local 2949,
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
learn from his bitter experience
during this session of Congress.
But he will have to do more
than read speeches and state-
. n . i mail xcau
for a pay increase 01 tvz ceiiu. . ... ,..,:, f v,
an hour pending industry-wide ld plead at tfle last moment
negotiations in October.
The Roseburg Lumber com
pany, one of the largest in Doug-
with the leaders of Congress
He must learn to believe in
his own recommendations to
almost
vote. tit,;,on" Tiaint nntinnal eauiP-
Now suppose that, as a result I" '
of the Administration's decision a the public Ukes the
bill, the Republicans succeed in laea
attracting half, or even some- NYTHING that adds to high
what less than half, of the Ne- A,. commendable.
gro vote in the key Northern Lnd this brilliant paint notion
states. For the devastating ei- . d one
fect on the political position of j hav(J aa idea though, that
tne uemocraxs, coiiamCl ririv.rs eenerallv were in less
couple of specific examples. . hurrv. to get somewhere
rand mavbe loaf around for an
TN 1954, Averell Harriman was hour tg, getting there) it would
- elected Governor of New beip m0re than anything eise,
YorK Dy less roniD.uuu VUL" I ttttTt,. ot rirh
Sen. Irving Ives. Accord- L vmix
. x tt tToT-r-i. nnirlr without tOO DIUCD
man polled a whopping 79 per work, and many weird ways of
cent of the Negro vote, wegro accomplishing 11. i
J. minnliad TToi-rim QT1 I OVBTYlfllPT
voters uiua auntu v e . .
with his margin of victory sev- A 24-year-old Englishman got
eral times over. Two years la- into ail a wnue w". -rrv-ter,
the Democrats had dropped his time in the pokey ."g1"11
some 90,000 Negro votes to the out a way to make a quick bucK
Republicans or about six when he got out. wnen 11
11 u -,,kr nt votes Ives rolpaspH he eot a job and talKeo
tiiiica uic iiuiiiui.. . . j . .
needed to defeat Harriman. his employer into advancing him
r- A-i,- nnsvtViAi- r1n;p rare I SSR.
m&c ouu a 11- - ,
the victory of Sen. Josepn He used tne money o-1-11,
conncvivania over the nnsit on a S187 motorcycle. Then
iaixv ul a -" " if , J
Republican incumbent, Sen. he used the motorcycle as a de-
James Duff, in 1956. Again, p0sit on a car. He swapped we
r-i-,rr ict smipaked in. wim smaller car lor a more i""-
a plurality of less than 18,000 sive one. His final step was to
votes. Clark despite the Supreme swap the more expensive car
r,rt oarripH the Neero vote Vir a rhearier one and pocket the
by a huge 76 per cent margin, $70 difference for spending
which was worth about 150,000 m0ney which got him back
votes to him. Suppose the e- mt0 jail for selling mongageu
gro vote had dropped off as property,
.kmiir in Ppnnsvlvania as it I
'"V.' " riWE moral:
did in minoib, wucic 11. ---- ...
j; a IS nor rent in 1952 - 11 ne nau uscu
u',cu and in
to as per icent in ioov. iucu cuci6J, 7 , , ij
Duff would be in the Senate, itiative HONESTLY he wouM
by a comfortable majority, and have been much better ort m
larK WOUIU uc n. -a -" na11v
, . .aiiM ho pit. 1 Thatc me way u ""-
ed, like that of Sen. Paul Doug- works,
glas county,' was still idled with c0ngress which means, to rec
a walkout however, with 1,200 ommend to Congress only what
men out. An official said com- ne himself understands and be
pany and union representatives iieves The collapse of his
would meet this week with a ieadership in this Congress
federal concilator, in an effort stems fr0m his failure to take
to end the strike. sufficient trouble to understand
The three mills reaching "in- and then to defend his own
terim agreements" yesterday great measures: the budget, civil
were Round Prairie Lumber rights, and foreign aid.
company, Mt. Bette Lumber com- No doubt the country is big
pany and Hult Lumber company. and strong, and we shall some
Before the agreement was reach- how muddle through. But there
ed, the three plants were closed is no use trying to pretend that
by what observers called "rov- the indecision and the vacilla
ing pickets" who picketed the tion, the ambiguities and the
plants without warning. moral generalities, are an in
Observers said some of them spiring spectacle for the world
uj honn idanTifisrl as comine to watch.
uau wt- I . - Q
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