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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
Sept. 1. 1947 (Tuesday)
Both Medford banks were be
sieged today by scores of veter
ans eager to cash their terminal
leave bonds.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot Column: "Two Am
erican students and a British
artist have arrived at Helsinki,
Finland, after detention in the
Russian version."
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1. 1937 (Wednesday)
Crater lake national park trav
el has passed the 170,000 mark
for the 1937 season, approxi
mately 15,000 visitors ahead of
the 1936 schedule.
Officers and men of Company
"A" and headquarters company
186 th infantry, of the Oregon
national guard were back at
their regular occupations today
after two weeks of intensive
training and maneuvers.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1927 (Thursday)
Bear creek to be straightened,
widened and deepened by grub
bing out trees and brush.
Protection of fish from foun
dering in irrigation canals is
considered more complete on
the Rogue river, state game com
mission officials say.
40 YEARS AGO
Stpl. 1, 1917 (Saturday)
A total of 156 cars of Bartlett
pears leave Medford as the sea
son reaches mid-point.
Governor Withycombe has
changed his mind so many times
this season that it takes a mathe
matician to tell whether hunt
ing season is closed or open.
What's Ycur I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is exceUent: five or
six is good.
1. Is there a customs union be
t w e e n Belgium, Netherlands,
and Luxembourg?
2. What is the size of a "hand"
as used in measuring the height
of horses?
3. Bible: Were both Pithom
and Ramses the classical bond
cities of the Israelites in Egypt?
If not, which one was?
4. The island of Sicily is part
of which country?
5. Name the capital of the Ver
gin Islands of the U. S.
6. Name the British Prime
Ministers who succeeded Win
ston Churchill.
7. The comic opera "The Mika
do' deals with the life of what
country?
8. How many keys are on a
standard piano keyboard.?
9. Is the phrase, "There! that
job is over with!" in the sense
of completed, slang, colloquial,
or correct literary usage?
10. "Mad as a March" heir,
hare or hatter?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Four inches.
3. Yes, both were. 4. Italy.
5. Charlotte Amalie. 6. Clement
Atlee and Sir Anthony Eden. 7.
Japan. 8. Eighty-eight, 52 white
and 35 black. 9. Slang. 10.
"Hare." J. Heywood.
INVITES NEWSMEN
Manila (in President
Carlos P. Garcia today invited
Western newsmen to cover the
Philippines' November elections
closely to see they are conducted
fairly and freely. He denounced
"certain" U.S. magazines and
newspapers, which he did not
identify, for stores accusing him
of vote buying in the recent con
vention o:! the ruling Nationalist
Party. .... i
MAIL TRIBUNE
Congratulations!
The Shakespeare Festival in Ashland has ended
its 1957 season in a blaze of glory, establishing a new
attendance record and the Southern Oregon Golf
Tournament in Medford ends tomorrow with a record
breaking performance in the same field namely
numb ers.
'They are, of course, very different in all other
respects. The Ashland festival has become a national
even an international institution of interest to stu
dents of the Elizabethan drama everywhere, while the
golf tourney is principally a local and state perform
ance, although there were entrants this year also from
California, Utah and even as far away as Penn
sylvania. OOWEVER the two events have this in common:
both started some years ago like the proverbial
oaks from little acorns, and are now flourishing and
flowering trees, with spreading roots deep in the sur
rounding soil, and the residents of the two cities justi
fiably proud of both achievements, and those hard
working citizens in each community responsible for
then. R.W.R.
"Once in a
Speaking of golf, the undersigned thinks it proper
to record the fact that after all these years of wit
nessing this great outdoor
west and in between, he saw a "hole-in-one" made in
competitive tournament play for the FIRST TIME
on Thursday afternoon, August 29th.
It was on the 17th hole and the player was Bob
Norquist of Portland. Not only did the young man
make a perfect hole-in-one that is it was on the pin
ALL the way but this won him the match from
Harry Millette a tough break for H.M., but that is
golf and he was given a birdie 2 as consolation !
All of which is nothing to excite "Sports Illus
trated," get a double-page "lay-out" in Life, or a nation-wide
broadcast over NBC, but it is something that
young Norquist probably won't forget for it is the
first hole-in-one he ever made, and as indicated the
undersigned won't either.- R.W.R.
What Happened in Wisconsin?
We like the way both
G.O.P. National Chairman
stunning and surprising
Tuesday.
Said the President:
"There is no hiding the fact we took a bad licking in
Wisconsin."
And Chairman Alcorn echoed the verdict thus:
"The, plain fact is we got licked and licked badly."
Thus the word "lick" receives a respectability and
activity in the vocabulary
not accorded it for several
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER did not elaborate but
1 naturally the national
add a few words of hope
them.
This was the net result:
"The grim lesson of the Wisconsin outcome is our party
must unite or face defeat in next year's congressional elec
tion and the 1960 presidential contest."
Very good but one is
on WHAT?
Two of the Republican
proclaimed themselves advocates of McCarthyism
in this Wisconsin contest
cover Dave Beck s bald spot.
Yet in Wisconsin that
issue in certain influential
can party.
Is there any prospect of
n OVERNOR WALTER
"G.O.P." candidate
and practically exclusively
litical popularity of President Eisenhower and his
"Modern Republicanism," with only a slightly veiled
boost for the advantages
ness " ol wnicn ne is a
i
member.
MOTHING wrong in that. But does Chairman
A" Alcorn really BELIEVE that if this ultra-con
servative and illiberal line
Abraham Lincoln and
UNITE on it?
'
DERHAPS if the alternative appears 'to be defeat,
a desperate attempt might be made, but we would
doubt its success.
Or to express the same idea in another way we
doubt that lack of Republican unity is what caused
the rout of the Elderly Pachyderm in Wisconsin last
Tuesday. Our giiess is the vote given Governor Kohler
pretty accurately represented the maximum stand-pat
G.O.P. strength in that commonwealth, as of today
and now.
A more convincing explanation, as we see it, is
that it is not "UNITY" the Grand Old Party needs so
much for its political success and survival, as a new
set of principles and ideals, both less completely out
of line with the temper and the aspirations of not only
the people as a whole of Wisconsin, but the people of
the country and as far as that p-oes the democratic
peoples of the world R.W.R. .
Sunday, September 1, 1957
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me north, south, east,
President Eisenhower and
Meade Alcorn took their
defeat in Wisconsin last
of the "Grand Old Party,"
years.
chairman felt impelled to
and cheer if he could find
disposed to inquire "unite
senatorial candidates who
did not get enough votes to
seems to be still a live
segments of the Republi
"UNITY" on that?
J. KOHLER, the regular
campaigned energetically
on the personal and po
ana virtues 01 .Big tfusi-
prominent ana prosperous
j i
is persisted in, the party of
Theodore Roosevelt . can
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WHY ARB VA GBWHG SO EXCITED WUEH YOU DON'T
EVEN KNOW WHAT iM DON'Y&V
Matter of Fact
IS IT OPERATIONAL?
Washington Is the Soviet
model of an intercontinental bal
listic missile truly operational?
That is, is it
a weapon ca
pable of being
used in war,
rather than a
mere proto
type? And if it
is operational,
is it sufficient
ly adva need
for the Soviets
stevait Aisop to freeze on
the model, as is their invariable
custom when they are satisfied
with a weapon, and proceed to
mass-produce it?
Behind the bland mask of
complacency which the Eisen
hower administrations has as
sumed for public purposes, there
are the key questions which the
Lrovernment s intelligence ex
perts and policy-makers are anx
iously asking. They are quite
genuinely life-and-death ques
tions. They cannot be answered
with assurance. Yet they tell
a lot about the real meaning of
the latest Soviet ICBM test.
For the first thing to under
stand about the Soviet test is
that it was not something new
or unexpected. A multi-stage
missile of intercontinental range
is not born by immaculate con
ception. It is the culmination of
a long process, involving a whole
series of missile tests.
rTHE process started well over
A two years ago, when the So
viets began testing very large
numbers of missiles of short and
intermediate range, as first re
ported in this space. The proc
ess reacnea a decisive stage a
few months ago, when the So
viets tested a first prototype
model of their ICBM, as also
first reported in this space.
The American Government
has been aware of this process
throughout, though the Admin
istration has chosen to conceal
it from the American people,
The details of how the Govern
ment has known are of course
properly secret. But certain ob
vious facts are public property
that radar is a line-of-sight in
strument of theoretically un
limited range; and that ballis
tic missiles reach an altitude
of hundreds of miles at the high
ests point in their trajectory,
and are thus subject to radar
detection at great range.
. The Soviets' first prototype
test of their ICBM was roughly
comparable to the Air Force test
of the American "Atlas" ICBM
in April, with the difference
that the Atlas test failed while
the Soviet test succeeded. As
this reporter pointed out in re
porting the Soviet test: "There
is a long, difficult road to travel
between the first test firing of
a prototype missile and the
achievement of an operational
weapons system."
TTOW far have the Soviets now
travelled along that road?
Part of the answer, at least, is
suggested by a comparison be
'
Sen. Neuberger Warns
Against James Hoffa
Washington, D. C. (Special)
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
last week declared that the elec
tion of James Hoffa as president
of the Teamsters union would be
a setback for the labor move
ment. In a speech, in the senate,
Senator Neuberger gave his rea
sons for this belief. Text of the
speech follows:
"Mr. President, I am- one of
those in public life who admires
the men and women of the
great trade - union movement.
The living standards of millions
of families depend on the vital
ity and integrity of that move
ment. To its credit the labor
movement has many achieve
ments for which it struggled
over the long and lonely years,
often against bitter and unre
lenting opposition. I doubt if
our land today would nave sucn
enlightened programs as social
security, unemployment com
pensation and workmen'! indus
By Stewart Alsop
tween the Soviet claims for
their ICBM model and the
known characteristics of Atlas,
which is at the present stage in
no sense a weapon for use in
war, but a research test vehicle.
The Soviets claim their model
is a "multi-stage ballistic rocket,"
whereas the Atlas model unsuc
cessfully fired last spring con
sisted only of the huge initial
stage rocket. The Soviet model
is "intercontinental," and the
"results obtained show that it
is possible to direct rockets to
any part of the world." The
Atlas model fired last spring
was designed to fly only about
3000 miles. Finally, "the rocket
landed in the target area,'
whereas the Atlas test proto
type was not expected or de
signed to achieve any degree of
accuracy.
The Soviet claims for their
model are certainly vague, and
designedly so. But in the past,
Soviet claims have tended actu
ally to understate Soviet achieve
ments in the air-atomic field.
Some experts, noting this fact,
believe on the basis of the So
viet claims and other evidence
that the Soviets alrjeady have
an operational weapon ready for
mass production. .
OTHERS believe, or hope, that
more tests must be made, and
more time must elapse, before
the Soviets can go into quantity
production. In any case, there
is no longer serious doubt that
the Soviets are rapidly approach
ing the freeze - and - produce
stage, whereas our ICBM models
are still strictly non-operational
test vehicles, none of which has
yet been successfully fired.
"I had thought they were
about a year ahead of us," one
expert has remarked, "but now
it looks more like two years."
Despite the official complacen
cy, it is well to understand what
it could mean if this estimate
is correct. For suppose the So
viets achieve a fully operational
ICBM system two years before
this country achieves a compar
able system.
They will then be able to
threaten, not only American
cities, but the system of stra
tegic Air Force bases, whose
location is well known, with
instant destruction. They could
thus threaten to weaken deci
sively, or even eliminate entire
ly, the American retaliatory
power which is the only real
shield of the Free World. No
one can predict whether in such
circumstances the Soviets might
actually launch a surprise at
tack. But it is not hard to pre
dict that the Soviets would take
every advantage of the obvious
opportunity to blackmail the
United States into accepting a
super-Munich.
In these circumstances, it is
simply incomprehensible that
the Eisenhower . administration
has chosen to tell the American
people not to worry, and that
everything is going to be all
right. '
Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
trial-accident benefits were it
not for the pioneering leader
ship of organized labor and its
allies.
"For all these reasons, Mr.
President, I desire to address a
brief appeal today from the
senate floor to the members of
the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters. I urge them not
to elect Mr. James R. Hoffa as
their .international president at
the convention which will be
held this fall.
"I am not a member of the
select senate committee which
has been investigating this
question. I only know what I
have read in the press and in
the detailed testimony taken by
that committee. But I do know
that millions of Americans will
be bitterly disillusioned if one
of the largest ' trade unions in
the United States chooses as
its national head a man who
has had the type of associations
and personal affiliations oi Mr.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
How do you feel about con
gress' adjournment?
Personally, I experience a
sense of RELIEF when the con
gress adjourns and goes home.
I don't just know why. Maybe
it is due to a feeling that we
have about ALL THE LAW WE
CAN DIGEST ALREADY and
that the addition of more laws
will give us indigestion.
rpHAT brings up the special
session of the Oregon legis
lature that has been called by
the governor to find out what
to do with an unexpected SUR
PLUS that developed because a
tax guess was wrong.
Is it a good idea?
I wouldn't know but I'm
afraid it may turn out to be like
Pandora's box. Pandora, you
know, was given a box as a wed
ding gift. Some of her cagey
friends warned her not to open
it it might be a SPITE gift.
But she was curious. So was her
husband. So they opened it up
When the lid was lifted, out
flew a swarm of noxious insects
and stung them terribly.
CONSIDER these facts:
When the special session is
called to order, the legislature
will be on its own. The governor
will have no strings on it. It can
do as it pleases.
will have a SURPLUS
maybe as much as 70 million
dollars. It isn't impossible that
everybody who wants money
from the state, for this purpose
or that, will descend on the leg
islature with the idea that NOW
IS THE TIME TO GET IT. The
time to get money, as everybody
knows, is when money is on
hand and available for appro
priation. In that event, the taxpayers
could get stung.
Today and
By Walter
CO-EXISTENCE
There seemed to be reason for
thinking that .the successful test
ing of the ballistic missile took
place s o m
time ago, and
that the an
n o uncement
by the Soviet
g" ov ernment
was held back
for political
and p s y c ho-
1 o gi c a 1 rea
Walter Lippmann
sons. If this is
indeed the
case, the timing of the an
nouncement on Tuesday was
shrewdly calculated.
For one thing, it comes just
as the London disarmament
talks are about to adjourn, and
it will be read all over the world
as meaning that no agreement
having been reached in London
to arrest the race of armaments
it is now a fact that the Russians
are one jump ahead in the race
Even if, as may well be, there
is a big difference between be
ing the first to announce the suc
cessful test and being the first
to produce the missile in quan
tity, there is no doubt that the
Russians have brought off a dip
lomatic coup. They have identi
fied themselves first with the
idea of abolishing nuclear weap
ons, and then with the idea that
they are superior in nuclear
weapons. There are a lot of peo
ple in the world who like to be
Hoffa. Such disillusionment can
only imperil the hard-won gains
and benefits which have been
secured by all of organized la
bor. Such disillusionment can
only damage the teamsters
union itself, with its hundreds
of thousands of decent and sin
cere rank-and-file members who
need protection in their jobs
against exploitation and against
a breakdown of wage and work
ing standards.
"Mr. President, in a great de
mocracy like ours, I doubt if
anyone can utterly flout public
opinion. Commodore Vanderbiit
said 'the public be damned,' but
the public brought him and
his fellow railroad magnates to
book. The result, of course, was
strict regulation of railroad fi
nancing rates, safety devices
and labor conditions by the in
terstate commerce commission
and by many other federal and
state regulatory bodies. I trust
the teamsters union will heed
this warning and example.
"I believe it was the great
Emerson who said that public
opinion cannot be seen but that,
like air pressure, it is there just
the same and it is there all the
time. The teamsters union will
be ignoring public opinion if it
selects Mr. James R. Hoffa to
be president of one of the larg
est trade unions in the nation,
and such a result is sure to be
hurtful to labor in general and
to the teamsters in particular.
It can only jeopardize the ideal
ism on which labor must rely
for support. Because of the need
for a labor movement which
commands public respect and
confidence, it is my hope that
the teamsters turn for a suc
cessor to Dave Beck to some
person who has never had un
derworld friendships, or con
tacts. Among teamster leaders
and members, 1 am certain that
many such men can be found."
POTLUCtC
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
Another "Well, we should
hops sol" headline, this one
from the Oregon Statesman in
Salem:
, , Sun To Stay
In Sky Today.
It rhymes, loo.
A man we know, father of a
growing family, is looking
around for a little larger house.
He's done quite a bit of explora
tory dickering, looking toward
purchase or trade.
The other day a man from
anolher nearby city came to see
him to discuss a deal, telling
about his community, and mak
ing a great point of the excel
lence of the school system there,
and what fine teachers and ad
ministrators it has.
The point was not entirely lost
on our man whose father is
superintendent of schools in the
community in question.
Other papers, too (we Joy
fully point out on, occasion)
have typographical difficul
ties. Like the Portland daily
which recorded the bidding
for construction of the new
slate correctional institution,
and it came out "recreational"
institution.
-
An SP freight (what else?)
train grumbled slowly along the
tracks outside our office the
other day, letting out the low,
groaniflg hoot which the diesels
use to warn people a far cry
from the mysterious and faintly
romantic wail of the steam
whistle of yesteryear.
One of our younger staff
members looked up, bemused,
and said,' "They're putting aw
fully sad whistles on trains,
these days."
Tomorrow
Lippmann
on the side of a winner.
fFHE announcement follows
-- closely upon the coup in Syr
ia, and it is well calculated to
support it." The Syrian affair is
Drimarilv a siipppssfnl -intrimip
by a military factor, concerned
not so much with Communism
and irfpolntrv as -..Htv. r,.,.,.
surrpss Tho tip ,af v, s.
tet. frnvprnmpnt 5c rT,r.inr ooH
of the United states in th ran
of armamntc mai r..
pear in Syria, and nerhaDS else-
where in the Arab world, that
the new government in Syria
has bet on the rieht horse.
Unless it is effectives ,m.
tered, we must expect this feel
ing to spread in South Asia and
in Africa. Even before the news
came out, the situation had from
our point of view become soft
and sour in many places, cer
tainly in Indonesia, then in Laos,
and on the longer view, most im
portantly of all, in India. There
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economic . reconstruction are in
great trouble. If the worst that
could happen in India were ac-
a nV ?
South Asia what happened in
East. Asia when the nationalists
were driven from the mainland. paper sack about thrge-quar-I
do not think I am exaggerat- ters full at least. We each had
ing, or being unduly alarming, one good drink with a ume
when I say that there is in the
making in India a kind of trou-
ble which could make the Syr-
ian affair seem like a minor in-
Cident. .1
JtlR DULLES is almost certain-
ly facing the most serious
problems of his career. They
are very complicated in their de-
tails. But the crucial question is
how this country, representing
the Western World, can compete
successfully with the Russian
and the Chinese Communists
and compete with them for the
attention and interest of the ris-
ing generation of the awakened
and educated Asians. Our poli-
cies, as they have developed in
recent years, have emphasized
two things: One is defense
against overt agression by China
or Russia; the other has been
holding the loyalty of the local
military men and. upper bureau-
crats against the penetration of
the Communists. . The Syrian
coup is only one of many signs
that the Dulles pacts and the
Eisenhrwer Doctrine do not
come to grips with the real con-
cern of the people of Asia and
Africa. .
Their real concern, as they
win political independence, is
how to raise their standard of
life, how to modernize and so to
industrialize, their backward
economics. It is here that the
Soviet Union has the advantage
of us. For the swift rise of Rus-
sia from feudalism and weak-
ness to great power is the exam-
pie that tempts all under-devel-
oped countries. The American
development, impressive though I
it is, is not an example that the
Asians can follow. Everybody
knows that what happened on
this empty, rich, and secure con- when we shall reproach our
tinent cannot be duplicated in selves bitterly for having, short
crowded, poor, and insecure sightedly and in a small spirit,
Asia. missed our last best, chance to
T may be rash to prophecy.
But in my view the future in
Asia, whether it is to be Corn-
We are informed, on excel-;
lent authority, of the young
man who owned a pair of -slacks
that needed to be taken
to the cleaners. As he started -.
downtown, he couldn't find '
them, and looked high and
low. In closets, clothes ham
perseven under the bed. No :
luck. He started out anyway,
took the other clothing to the ;
cleaning establishment, and, -'.
later in the day finally found
the slacks. He was wearing
them.
Occasionally, on a hot sum
mer day, some member of our
staff will be overcome by a de
sire for an ice cream cone.
Established tradition is that he
(or she) then pungles up enough
money to buy cones for any
member of the staff desiring one;
. This happened last week, and
one of the junior members was
given the funds and the orders,
and returned with a large sup
ply of cones. Since it is diffi
cult to work and eat an Ice
cream cone at the same time,
the clatter of typewriters was
virtually stilled for a few mo
ments. '
All, that is, save that of our
society editor, who nibbled
daintily at a cone held in one
hand, while punching the key
board, one key at a time with
one finger, with the other hand.
Across the street, the new
building to house the new
Edsel automobile dealership
approaches completion. Among
the innovations is some green '
trim here and there, on a near
by fence, in an objectionable,
blinker, and so on for green
has been named "the color";
for Edsel. All of which ap-'
pears to answer a question',
which has haunted us mildly'
for about 10 years whatever
happened to' Lucky Strike!
green after the war was over? .
Some people can take liquor
and some can leave it alone. An
unidentified tourist in this area
recently . left it alone but not
intentionally. . -
It seems that while he and
his wife were camping on the
Little Applegate several days
a
they inadvertently went
off and left a nearly-full bottle
o excellent grade hootch on the
river bank, and the horrible
realization of what they'd done
didn't dawn on them until they
ot half way to their home in
Vancouver, Wash,
The fact that the bottIe Sht
never be-found by anyone who
en?yed. whiskey, or worse
a""' ue aro&en Dy uie
r?cP..of some farm by. wor-
ried the man.
When he got home he. wrote
a letter addressed to the "police
reporter" of the Mail Tribune.
In it he gave detailed . instruc
tions on how to find the spot
where the bottle lay, and sug
gested that if the "police re
porter" wasn't . interested, he
should turn it over to someone
1 i JSmK
Jwac The man anr.aror.tlv
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a
lover of good whiskey; couldn't
k0 ,,u .
waste "
The letter, which was signed
with a ictitious n reas ln
narf . ..-n,,, hnr7o , Krmm
The instructions sounded like
the. description of a buried-.
treasure man. and the letter
Cacmo1 cr cinnArA trtat O CParrh
nartv (nf nncA w riplppnteri
from the Mail Tribune staff to
investigate. . .
' The directions were followed
to the letter. There was the
spot where the irrigation ditch
crosses the road, the rocky knoll.
the fence, the place to ducK
under, the creek bank, and...
the brown paper sack contain-
ing the ' bottle. Everything was
just as he described, except may-
be the bottle wasn't quite as
full as he remembered.
The man and his wife, if they
ever read this, can rest assured
that the contents of the bottle
will not go to waste. If nothing
else, the smokers on the Tribune
news staff, who outnumber the
drinkers, can use the high grade
stuff' to fill their lighters.
-
munist or not, depends on what
happens in India. In India it is
still Dossible to prove that there
is a good future for the people
of Asia without the desperate
methnris nf the totalitarian state.
It is still nossible to prove that
the Western nations are genu-
inely concerned with the future
of Asia. "
No doubt, considering the
nrescnt mood of Congress about
foreign aid, it seems almost silly
to sav that the most important
move that could now be made
in foreign policy would be for
the Western world, with the
United States playing a princi-
pal part, to underwrite and to
guarantee the success of the In-'
dian development. But if we
fail to do it, the day will come
make and to keep friends in
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