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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 30, 1347 (Saturday)
Folks planning Labor day pic
nic trips need not get too opti
mistic, says the weather bureau.
Showers are predicted for the
holiday. The Mail Tribune will
not publish Monday.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The buck
wheat crop is reported larger
than last year. -Hope is high
among pancake devotees, some
of it will show up later in the
buckwheat pancakes."
20 YEARS AGO
August 30. 1937 (Monday)
Crews are mopping up a
Rogue River national forest fire
which kept 102 men busy over
the week end in a remote area
on Halifax creek about 20 miles
east of Prospect.
M-M Department store opens
today for business at its new
location at 220-222 East Main
st. Stock hasbeen moved from
the previous location at Sixtht.
and Central ave.
30 YEARS AGO
August 30, 1927 (Tuesday)
School superintendent's office
announces it expects enrollment
in Medford schools to be up 8
to 10 per cent above last year.
Winter bluegrass is sown by
plane on the Hoover farm near
this city. Herb Grey, advertising
manager of the Mail Tribune,
sowed the seed from a plane pi
loted by Art Starbuck.
40 YEARS AGO
A well-known Medford pool
hall proprietor is arrested on
the Pacific highway with 14
cases of bootleg whiskey in his
car, the most important bootleg
ging arrest of the summer.
From Local and Personal col
umn: "A large number of peo
ple have been in attendance
each evening at the religious
meeting being conducted by Ro
zella Douglass at the large tent
on Tenth and Ivy sts. Interest is
growing and those who hear the
gospel as preached by this lady
will wish to near it again."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct la superior;
seven or elsbt Is excellent; five or
six Is good
1. Are the Philippine Islands
subject to earthquakes?
2. What is a shohet?
3. Bible: In the New Testa
ment, "and the twain shall be
of one" what?
4. The Aleutian Islands are a
part of the Philippines, Japan,
Alaska, or Hawaii?
Necrophobia is the exagger
ated fear of what?
6. When a visitors says that
his native land has a salubrious
climate, he desires to convey
that its climate is humid, health
ful, or extremely cold?
7. Was John Barrymore mar
ried, one, two, three, four, or
five times?
8. During which war were
Thrift Stamps sold?
9. Is the second vowel in "ven
omous" pronounced as o, e, or
1?
10. New York, Oct., 1900:
"Tell me pretty maiden are
there any more at home like
you?" L. Stuart. From which
famous "Sextet as this first
line?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. The of
ficially licensed slaughterer of
animals for use as food in ac
cordance with Jewish laws. 3.
"Flesh." 4. Alaska. 5. Of death
or horror of dead bodies. 6. That
it is healthful. 7. Four times.
8. During World War I. 9. "e."
13j Tloradora." "" T
MAIL TRIBUNE
Through
We were pleased to read an item the other day
which declared that sales
have dropped sharply in recent weeks.
This magazine, as practically everyone knows by
now, is the sewer-oriented publication which makes
its living by pandering to the public appetite for
sordidness, sensationalism
Some of its employees
now on trial for criminal libel in California. Whether
the trial, with its revelations of the shady methods
used to dig up dirt, has any relationship to the drop
m its newsstand sales or not we don t know.
...
TTHE bribing, keyhole-peeping ways in which the
salacious exposes were obtained are enough to
turn any decent person s
Some newspapers have "played up" the rather
sensational developments at the trial. Others have
completely ignored the
publication in a family journal.
Others including the Mail Tribune have taken
the "middle way" and published sufficient amounts
from the wire service stories to inform the public of
the course of the trial, which is of some importance
because of the implications involved, entirely aside
from the allegations made against some of the
prominent members of the movie colony.
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FOR there are serious implications in the case. ,
Many papers are declaring that such filth-rags
as "Confidential" and "Whisper" should never exist
(with which we agree), and that they should be
banned by law (with which we do not agree).
They argue that no good
mitting such junk to be published; that they are detri
mental to morals and destructive of deceny.
But to ban them by law
questionable constitutionality, for one thing, and also
raises the question of how an illegal publication is to
be defined; and who is to decide. It would be a dan
gerous entering wedge against the freedom of the
press to publish", and therefore against the right of
the people to know. ;
America in the past has
many other similar types of
without any lasting harm, and there is no reason to
believe that the present ones constitute any "clear and
present danger" to the stability of the Republic.
No, we feel strongly that the way to handle them
is to force them into responsibility by actions such
as the trial now under way.
THE two magazines are
civil libel suits totaling millions of dollars, it ana
when these come to court (one or more of them have
been settled out of court) , those who were damaged
will have their chance to show just in what ways they
were actually damaged. Punitive judgments of the
size being sought might be enough to finish them.
On the other hand, existing laws against obscenity
and gratuitous libel are fairly rigorous, and the cur
rent case, in which the state of California is seeking
criminal action against the magazine, 13 the way to
compel compliance not to set up some board of
censors who in an access of zeal might make any read
ing not suitable for 12-year-olds, impossible to obtain.
lAKE no mistake about it we think this type of
slush magazine is a blot on the fair face of
America.
But the way to get rid of them is not to limit the
right to write and print freely a right guaranteed in
the constitution to all men; but to hold them (and all
men) responsible for what they write and print. The
way to do this is in the time-tested and proven way
of democracy through the courts.
It takes longer, this way, and (like other demo
cratic processes) is "inefficient." But any other way
is risking the totalitarian method of telling everyone
just what they can and can't do. That way, freedom
dies. E.A.
Flu "
If you haepen to come down with influenza .this
j fall or winter, it won't make much difference to you
whether it s the old-fashioned kind, or the new Asiatic
variety you'll feel about equally miserable.
So far the new species, which originated some
where in Asia and has afflicted probably millions of
people by now, has not proven to be as serious as the
type which swept the world in 1918. But it can still
raise hob, both with the victim's feeling of well-being,
and with the complicated and intricate relationships
of our specialized society.
ASA MATTER of fact, while doctors fear that
" some people chiefly the very young and rela
tively old will die from it or its complications, they
believe the chief effects of a widespread epidemic this
winter would be on those services which depend on
a relatively few, highly-trained people.
If, as seems possible, as much as 10 or 20 per cent
of the population is bed-ridden with flu at one time,
communications, transportation and other services
could be seriously crippled. That's why it has been
suggested that key workers in such enterprises be
given priorities in receiving the new vaccine.
P"ROM the standpoint of the individual patient,
aside from a rather greater-than-usual chance of
getting flu this winter, the Asiatic variety presents
no undue problems. Symptoms are virtually the same
as in other types of influenza, and so are the things
to do if and when you become ill.
A call to your doctor is a "must," to avoid compli
cations; bed-rest as long as you have a temperature
and staying at home until a full day of normal tem
perature has passed, are the tiling to do. E.A.
Friday, August 30. 1957
The Courts
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and suppliers of filth are
stomach.
whole thing as not fit for
purpose is served by per
would be a procedure of
survived the brief life of
undesirable publications
defendants in a number of
AW, WU'RB NOT FAIR! I SHOWED
yOU HOW TO 9lkSmf?8lS ! '
Shopping Centers and
Parking Are Discussed
By RODGER W. BABSON
Babspn Park, Mass. Merchants
ask me as to the future of shop
ping centers. My answer is that
each must be
judged on its
own possibili
ties according
to 1 o c a t i o n,
s u rroundings,
and "back
bone." They
also ask wheth
er we are fac-
i n g either
Borer w u.b.ua World War III
or disarmament.
" The first requirements is that
each one must have a strong
backbone or core in the form of
a large successful, and" well-
known department store or supf
ermarket. The , second require
ment is that each shopping cen
ter should be able to support
itself on the suburban develop
ment surrounding it. The third
requirement is that it must be
well financed.
. Certainly the well-established
downtown stores of cities must
wake up. These new shopping
centers are started and operated
by active young men. Too many
of the leading stores in adjoining
cities are coasting on the past
work and policies of a father
or grandfather. These older
"Main Street" stores are also
now benefiting from valuable
locations selected years ago. But
good locations, are not perm
anent. Every city is slowly grow
ing in some one direction. The
most valuable downtown "four
corners" is gradually moving.
Even good will is- temporary
The founder of the business
could always be found at his
store, but his children and
grandchildren have too often
"gone out to lunch" or are at
some cocktail party.
City and Town Governments
Some shopping centers are
profitable because of the jealous
ies, stupidities, and shortsight
edness of the nearby local city
governments. . Different council
men selfishly favor different
sections. As a result, nothing is
done until the shopping center
draws business away from all
sections.
As all merchants are depend
ent upon the production of the
consumers of their community,
so every consumer is dependent
upon these , merchants. These
merchants are the life blood of
all. If the stores are profitable,
every citizen should be prosper
ous. If there are many vacant
stores, then the entire commun
ity, will suffer. I hope that no
newspaper editor will say: "But
this does not apply to us. We
are too small." ' Let me reply
that my comments are more im
portant to the small communities
because they can now avoid the
trouble from which the larger
cities are suffering, plus possible
fallout threats.
Parking, The Great Problem
The automobiles may be rob
bing your city of money by send
ing away so much money col
lected for cars and gasoline.
These automobiles demand park
ing privileges. If parking space
is not provided, they can block
traffic, handicap productive in
dustry, and choke every other
business. Small cities and towns
have not yet suffered from this
economic blight; but it is on its
way. Every community will
some day surely suffer from lack
of parking space unless a cour
ageous and farsighted local gov
ernment now grapples with the'
problem.
Until the parking problem is
solved, merchants should be
given some relief from taxation.
Merchants are the veins through
which the blood of the city flows
from producer to consumer.
When merchants are not pros
perous, the community suffers
from "high blood pressure." In
stead of reducing taxes on vac
ant stores, the taxes thereon
should be increased until the
owner gets them rented. Every
merchant should buy the build
ing which he successfully occu
pies. Capitalizing The Evenings '
The most practical way for
communities to lick shopping
S-io a
centers is to capitalize the eve
nings and encourage stores to
keep open longer. Every live
merchant should keep his store
fully lighted throughout the
evening. Next to good newspaper
advertising, bright lights are the
best "fertilizer"' for merchants
to use. ; .'
Some readers believe that old
fashioned two-and-three-story of
fice buildings may be demolish
ed and our business streets may
consist only of modern, one-story
buildings without a basement. I
don't believe this. I believe that
the second and third stories will
be developed into apartments
for ambitious clerks who work
in the stores below or nearby.
These clerks will be responsible
for,, their respective stores for
the evening, perhaps up to mid
night. In Europe many success
ful bankers and merchants them
selves live over their stores and
are available at any time, day
or night.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Straw in ' the political winds:
For the first time in a quarter
of a century,, Wisconsin sends
a Democrat to the U.S. senate
(to fill the vacant seat of ' the
late Senator McCarthy.) '
His victory is decisive. As this
is written, he is getting better
than 60 per cent of the vote cast
which, by the way; was rather
light. " '
REPUBLICAN leaders are bad
ly jolted. President Eisen
hower admits he is "disappoint
ed." GOP National Chairman Al
corn says "our f arty will have
to unite if it hopes to win in
1958 and 1960."
Democratic National Chair
man Butler hails the Wisconsin
victory as "a repudiation of the
Eis e n h o w e r administration's
farm, labor and money policies."
Y did it happen?
I wouldn't know.
But I'll risk a guess.
IN A period of GREAT pros
perity (perhaps the greatest
since the world began) there is
uneasiness. Incomes are rising
BUT SO ARE PRICES. What if
increases in income are SNOW
ED UNDER by price increases?
Where wiU we be then?
This fear is particularly acute
in the minds of people who are
looking forward to RETIRE
MENT on. a fixed income of
some sort. If prices go on rising,
how will they live on an income
that DOESN'T rise?
That is a hunting fear. And
the number of people anticipat
ing retirement on a fixed in
come (say a pension) is growing
steadily.
THEN there is the national
debt. It is huge.
. And
In this period of great pros
perity, when we ought to be
paying off our debt, we ARENIT
paying it off. It continues ' to
bump the ceiling. Instead of pay
ing off our debt, we GO ON
SPENDING.
The accumulated experience
of thousands of years tells peo
ple such a course is apt to- be
disastrous. Maybe they don't
reason it out. But they feel it in
their bones. ; '
It is an uneasy feeling.
LET'S be brutally candid.
The second Eisenhower ad
ministration has done nothing
to allay these uneasy fears. In
stead of economizing and paying
off debt it embarked on a new
career of spending that threat
ens to push the national debt to
new summits.
J think people have lost none
of their affection for Ike, but
they feel he is surrounded by ad
visers who are pushing him in
the wrong direction. These ad
visers are a part of the ADMIN
ISTRATION. SO
When the people of Wis
consin went to the polls yester
day their uneasiness was re
flected in their voting.
Russia's Disarmament
Signals New Period of
By DONALD J. GONZALES
United Press Corespondent
Washington OP) Russia's
gruff turn-down of Western dis
armament proposals has the
storm signals flying again in
Washington. This could well
mark a new period of tension
in East-West relations.
Government experts who are
paid to keep an eagle-eye watch
on Soviet affairs were uneasy
about Moscow maneuverings
even before the Russians said
no on disarmament. A mass of
Soviet statements and actions
already had started to fall into
place. Enough so, in fact, that
the disarmament turn -. down
wasn't much of a surprise.
Soft to Hard
Purely and simply, the un
mistakable tone of Soviet words
and deeds in East-West affairs
has been switched from soft to
hard. Evidence pointing toward
a harder Soviet line in foreign
affairs is impressive. -
The Russians are boasting
about new hydrogen tests and
historic tests of intercontinental
ballistic missiles said to be
capable of striking any place
on earth. They are 'stepping up
Red penetration of Syria and
are sending naval units into the
Mediterranean. They have tor
pedoed the London disarmament
talks after making no new pro
posals since June 14. They have
taken a tough unyielding line
during recent negotiations with
West Germany.
Reds Press Charges
Soviet propagandists are step
ping up their charges that the
West wants war a theme that
had diminished. Since the June-
July shakeup in the Kremlin,
the Russians seem to have' lost
interest In cultural and technical
exchanges.
All this and more suggests
that . the Russians have some
more tough moves up. their
sleeves. Many possible answers
to the Soviet moves are under
study. '
The Kremlin's words and ac
tions aimed at the outside world
may be a smokescreen thrown
up to hide - internal problems.
Nikita Khrushchev didn't boot
many of his old Communist bud
dies out of power without bruis
ing some high-ranking official's
feelings.
The 'Soviets are busy with
industrial and agricultural prob
lems at home. They may be
following the tougher . line to
show the West that the Krem
lin shake-up hasn't left tham
with their guard down.
There could be other reasons.
The U.N. General Assembly is
opening in New York next
month and West Germans go
to the polls on Sept. 15.
The Russian Plans
At the United Nations, Rus
sians will have their hands full
staving off an American attack
Smokey the Bear
Signs Pledge
Washington (IP! Never a
dull moment at the agriculture
department:
Smokey the bear came out
Thursday in favor of safe and
sane hunting.
' Agriculture - department offi
cials held a special ceremony to
boost the Izaak Walton league's
campaign for a safe and sane
hunting code.
Smokey symbol of the for
est service was the first fellow
to take the pledge.
The big bear smiled at news
men before the ceremony and
mumbled something to one of
his handlers.
"That's really not Smokey the
bear," someone explained.
"That's just a forest service em
ployee dressed up as Smokey."
. Smokey smiled again and
flopped his paw on an ink pad.
Then he pressed his paw on a
safe - and - sane hunting pledge
card.
His handlers called on hunt
ers everywhere also to sign the
pledge: to prevent forest fires;
to foster firearm safety; to re
spect property rights; to con
serve wildlife.
Smokey nodded in agreement.
The real Smokey never put
in an appearance. He spent the
day at his cage in the Washing
ton zoo.
Officials said he is too unre
liable for paw-pledging cere
monies. 2 31
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On Russia's blonriv Intprvonlinn
during the Hungarian revolt last
faU. The Russians are sure to
beat the drums for their "stop
H-bomb tests" campaign and to
charge, the West anew with war
claims. ....
In Germany, they may be
sowing pessimism in an effort
to show there is no hope of an
East - West accommodation as
long as pro-Western Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer stays in
power.
At any rate, the foreseeable
Thurmond Feels Tine1
After Long Filibuster;
Gets Gallery Plaudits
By WARREN DUFFEE
United Press Correspondent
Washington (W Sen.
Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) stood
on the floor of the Senate and
stared at his fellow senators.
He had been talking for near
ly 24 hours in a futile one-man
filibuster against the compro
mise civil rights bill.
"I expect to vote against this
bill," he said.
The gallery laughed. But
Thurmond didn't. He was stand
ing alone against overwhelming
odds and he was fighting grim
ly to the end.
The greying senator, a state
judge before becoming South
Carolina governor, began his
Lebratory Tests
Only Sure Way of
Diagnosing Flu
Washington (IB The only
way to make a positive diagno
sis of Asian fie is by laboratory
tests of secretions from the pa
tient's nose or throat.
Even to the practiced eye of a
physician, symptoms of Asian
flu are like thos of ordinary flu
chills, fever, sore throat, head
ache, general aches and pains.
Public Health officials said
135 laboratories in the United
States are equipped tq perform
the necessary tests to diagnose
Asian flu. The Health service
has supplied all of these labora
tories with reagents which can
be used to detect the presence
of the new flu virus iri a nose
or throat washing.
Physicians Alerted
. Physicians all over the nation
have been alerted to rush speci
mens of the first cases to the
nearest laboratory as soon as the
presence of an Asian flu out
break is suspected.
Once it has been confirmed by
laboratory tests that Asian flu
is sweeping through a given
community, doctors and health
officials proceed on the assump
tion that anyone who comes
down with the characteristic
cymptoms probably has Asian
flu.
Laboratory . diagnosis of each
and every suspected case, in an
area where an epidemic is al
ready known to exist, would be
pointless since treatment of
Asian flue is exactly the same
as treatment of ordinary flu. It
consists of putting the patient
to bed at once and keeping him
there until 24 hours after his
temperature is normal. A bland
diet, plenty of liquids, and drugs
like aspirin to relieve aches and
reduce fever, round out the
treatment of uncomplicated
cases. "
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future does not seem bright.'
However, the Russians acting
and talking a conflict is always
possible. Chances of miscalcula
tion increase as tensions in
crease. . .
But the general assessment
here is that the situation does
not mean the Russians are build
ing up to a fight. Chances are
they are playing for time. When
the Kremlin gets its homefront
problems tidied up a bit, maybe
it will be better for the West
for awhile.
marathon att?ck on the civil
rights bill at 8:45 p.m. (e.d.t.)
Wednesday.
The 1948 states rights presi
dential candidate finished' 24
hours and 18 minutes later ai
9:12 p.m. (e.d.t.) Thursday, bet
tering Sen. Wayne Morse's old
filibuster record by 1-hour and
52-minutes.
At times during the long
hours he stood proud and erect,
his voice ringing clear and loud.
At others he sagged heavily on
the lectern of his back row
desk as his hoarse voice dimish
ed to an inaudible whisper. At
the end he appeared groggy
with exhaustion.
Galleries Applaud
The galleries, which began
filling Thursday evening" in
anticipation of the finish, ap
plauded twice once when he
charged it would be "cruel and
inhuman" to pass the bill with
out an absolute jury trial guar
antee and against when he said
the measure was aimed against
the South. '
Thurmond's pretty red-haired
wife, a former college beauty
queen, gave her husband moral
support from the gallery
throughout the long talkathon.
Thurmond, who exercises
regularly and takes great pride
in his physical fitness, said
afterwards he felt "fine." .
Robert Allen Goes on
Second Honeymoon
Warington, England (TO
Robert Allen honeymooned for
the second time today. Ths time
as a bridegroom. .
The last time he was the bride.
Allen was brought up as a
girl and married a coal dealer in
1938.. The marriage was an
nulled soon afterward.
He changed his nr.me from
Joyce to Robert in 1944 when he
produced medical evidence to
prove he was listed as a girl at
birth by mistake and reared that
way.
Allen's bride is the former
Doreen Mortmore, a nurse he
met while working as a radiologist.-They
were married Thurs
day by the Rev. B. H. Seckett,
whose wife said he was "stunned"
when he learned of Allen's back
ground after the ceremony.
Dr. Virgil II. Mohr
Announces
The Removal of His
Dental Offices
From the Fluhrer Bldg, to
924 E. Main
, MEDFORD
Phone SP 2-2414
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