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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. 5, 1947 (Friday)
County clean-up of coin de
vices is nearly complete, sher
iffs office announces.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: No pedes
trian has been killed by an auto
In the metropolis this year so
far. This speaks well for the
drivers' courtesy and the leap
ing agility of the pedestrian.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1937 (Sunday)
Main Street Methodist church
celebrates is opening of auditor
ium. Plans for the annual Armis
tice day celebration will be
made at meeting of the Med
ford American Legion post.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, 1927 (Monday)
Roseburg talent featured
in
Copco radio program.
A basket dinner and program
are planned as part of the South
ern Oregon Pioneer society cele
bration in Ashland Sept. 22.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1917 (Wednesday)
Women needed to aid
Red
Cross in mercy work here.
City council to consider fire
men's request for increase in
wages from $70 to $80 a month.
What's Your 1.0.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Which type of spaniel dog
leads in popularity among the
breeds recognized by the Am
erican Kennel Club?
2. What is the birthstone for
March?
3. Bible: Is much known of
the youth of Jesus?
4. After assassination was Mo
handas K. Oandnis body em
balmed and sealed in a crypt?
5. Name the inventor of the
telephone.
6. In which "low country" is
the guilder a monetary unit?
7. The young of elephants,
whales, moose, and hippopotami
are all called what?
8. Ergophobia is the fear of
work, immodesty, or sharp
curves?
9. "Holy, holy, holy!" Would it
be correct to use "wholly.
"wholly," or "holely," in an Old
English sense, as interchangable
with "holy?"
10. The poem "Muckle mouth
Meg" is one of Browning's; and
Ballantine wrote "Muckel-mou'd
Mee." Does "mou'd" mean
mouth, mould, or stooped?
Answers: 1. Cocker Spaniel
2. Bloodstone. 3. No. 4. No. it
was cremated on a funeral pyre
of sandalwood... 5. Alexander
Graham Bell. 6. The Nether
lands. 7. Calves. 8. Fear or dread
of work. 9. No. Meaning of all
three differ. 10. Mouth.
Grange Notes
Central Point Grange
The Central Point Grange
will meet Friday, Sept. 6. The
lecture hour will preceed the
business meeting and will start
promptly at 8 p.m.
Mrs. Frank Perl, who was to
show slides of France, Italy and
Switzerland, will be unable to
attend as previously planned be
cause of illness in the .family.
The lunch after the business
meeting will be served by Mr.
and Mrs. Winn Arnold, Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Hall and Mr. and
Mrs. C. T. Wilson.
MAIL TRIBUNE
NO Cause FOR Panic
One of our subscribers asks why we have not com
mented on the '.'ultimate weapon."
He apparently reads a great many newspapers for
he maintains:
"All the other papers are very much excited about the
announcement from Soviet Russia, some of them declaring
it is as alarming to us as the Hiroshima bomb was to the
Japanese, and the United States must catch up at any cost
before the lights go out and the skies cave in."
TX7ELL probably we would have commented on it,
if the Southern Oregon Golf Tournament had
not intervened!
But seriously a more compelling reason was the
fact we could not share the violent and even hysterical
reaction of many politicians and members of the press
who interpreted this announcement from Moscow, as
a victory by Russia only comparable to the victory of
England at Waterloo.
We couldn't see it and still can't.
IN THE first place we don't believe there IS any
1 "ULTIMATE weapon." The wonders of scientific
research, we feel sure, are not confined to weapons
of wholesale destruction, but are also present in areas
of national defense. We don't believe the limit in
the latter field has been reached.
No doubt the inventor ol the bow - and - arrow
thought he had the "ultimate weapon," but the in
ventor of the flint-lock musket proved him mistaken,
and when the latter claimed the honor, in came the
repeating rifle and the machine-gun.
So the slaughter has gone on and on. The crea
tion of the atomic bomb we admit, ended an era in
military tactics, and started a new one, and now the
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile according to the
Kremlin has passed a successful test, and no time was
wrasted in broadcasting the fact.
THAT haste is important, we believe. It at least
suggests the entire "ICBM" buildup is a bluff.
We don't mean Soviet Russia has NOT com
pleted a successful test with some type of ."ultimate
weapon". Judging the present by the recent past it
has. But we do mean that if it had any intention of
using it against the United States or any other coun
try, it would have tried at least to have kept the ac
complishment a complete secret at least until its
"zero hour" had arrived.
I
N OTHER words and
share the nrevailins: alarm is our conviction that
Soviet Russia has no more desire or intention of start
ing World War III than has the United States.
Whatever the exact nature of its "ICBM" may be
it does not intend to start another world war with it,
it only intends to use it as a weapon of communist
propaganda and further miiltration.
In short BLACKMAILS
CO THE more alarmed and fearful, the free demo-
cratic world and particularly, the U.S.A. become
and react to this carefully-worded pronouncement
and slightly veiled threat,
that effort will be.
t
THEREFORE instead of talking about the crying
need of haste "before the lights go out and the
skies fall in", we think it better sense, and better
strategy, not to fire (even
whites of their eyes " and
'
der" dry.
A FTER all there is no
Jr' Soviet Russia has done
missiles" the United States
or better. The fact that Russia may be a few steps
ahead at the moment is no
alarm fire and rushing for
with Russia when the U.S.A. was leading.
That is to play the Russian game.
THE U.S.A. game, we believe is not to retreat before
That may involve "calculated risk": But in view
of the fact that "atomic war" has practically priced
itself out of the market, it is small indeed compared
to the risk of yielding to fear of what Soviet Russia
might do, when there is little reason to believe she has
any intention, or desire, to do it. K. W.K.
Is The Climate Changing?
, 4
It never fails.
Whenever there is an
in the valley some one asks
ing?
Some years ago we had
But after longer observation and considerable re
search, we have decided the answer is No .
1
fR TO express it in another way; the more the
climate changes the more it is the same.
That is the weather changes but through the' years
the climate basically does not or at least hasn't per
ceptibly for fifty years or more.
A weather-graph for such a period would show
there have been dry years and wet ones, cold years
and warm (it never gets hot here as it does in the
East, Middlewest or in Arizona and California) also
there have been early Falls
and late Springs ditto. But take the long view, com
pute the average and one will find that fundamentally
there is "nothing new under the sun" as-far as the
climate of Southern Oregon
It IS we believe the best all-around 12-month a
year climate in the country and we don't except
Palm Beach or Palm Springs.
So in answering our most recent interrogator, we
can only say: "The climate isn't changing, and for the
love of Pete, let's hope it doesn't." R.W.R. .
Thursday, September 5, 1957
the chief reason we can't
the greater the success of
orally) until we ' see the
meanwhile "keep our pow
.... , ,
reason to doubt that what
in the realm of ' guided
can ultimately do as well
cause for turning m a 4
the exits, than was the case
unusual stretch of weather
if the climate isn't chang'
our "dou'ts."
and late ones, early
is concerned.
1 mmmimi0
'YOU GOTTA ADMIT JS A
KEEP TUB CAJ? KEtfS'
Matter of Fact
THE RATTLING SKELETON
Warsaw How many skele
tons are going to come rattling
out of how many closets in
Moscow? The
dead, d i shon
ored bones of
of Mars hall
T u k h a she
vsky have
now been sud
denly exposed
to public view,
for the honors
due to the re-
Joseph Aisop lies of a hero
of the Soviet Union. But will it
end there?
These grizzly but a b s orbing
questions are posed . by one of
the most curiously fascinating
items of b e h ind-the-scenes in
formation about the Soviet
Union that this reporter has
run across in. a very long time.
It is solid information, too, com
ing from a highly-reputable Po
lish leader who talked at length
with the responsible Soviet of
ficials directly concerned.
One of the sequels of the Sov
iet's famous Twentieth Party
Congress was an extraordinary
order for a scientific and impar
tial review of all the political
condemnations in the entire
bloodstained period of Soviet
history from the Revolution of
1917 to the end of the second
World War in 1945.
fPHE truly staggering task was
confided to. the historian
sociologist on the faculty of Mos
cow University, Professor Kim.
The Professor is himself a mem
ber of the second Soviet genera
tion, being the son of a Korean
Communist who made the pil
grimage to the capital of the
world revolution and married
a Russian woman in Moscow.
To Professor Kim were hand
ed over all the super-secret
files having to do with political
trials in the possession of both
the Communist Party and the
Soviet secret police. Incredibly
enough, it turned out that from
the days of the terrible Cheka
onwards, hardly a single scrap
of paper in the entire ghastly
record had ever been destroyed.
Every note, every affidavit,
every instruction, every confes
sion and pseudo-confession and
verdict had been filed away
with truly Teutonic efficiency.
And the files were completely
intact!
In addition to the files, there
were ghostly but still articulate
survivors. Frightful though the
purges were, not everyone was
sent to the firing squad. In each
group of victims of this Soviet
society that eats its children,
there were always minor per
sonalities who were condemned,
perhaps not mercifully, to the
living death of the prison camps.
A good many of these are still
alive. Professor Kiih and his
large staff of young historial
students have been tracking
down the poor ghosts and inter
rogating them about the cases in
which they were involved.
OBVIOUSLY, Professor Kim
and his staff cannot have
completed 110 or even 120 or
their huge and gruesome task.
Obviously, too, the publication
of Professor K i m's results is
likely to be selective, to say the
least. For instance, will Bukhar
in and the other "rightist devia
tionists," who were purged for
opposing agricultural collec
tivization, be" admitted to the
left of rehabilitated skletons? It
seems highly unlikely now. But
who can foresee the future?
Meanwhile", the pre paration
for the rehabilitation of Marshal
Tukhashevsky is presumably a
first fruit of the professor's
labors as well as a startling and
vastly significant indication of
the Red Army's enormously in
creased influence on Soviet
politics. Marshall Tukhashevsky
almost bey ond doubt has al
ways been secretly revered by
Marshall Zhukov, who is his
heir.
Even more than Leon Trot
sky, Tukhashevsky deserves the
credit for organizing the Red
Army that Zhukov now leads.
In one sense, Tukhashevsky was
a victim of Adolf Hitler. Hit
ler's intelligence service pre
pared the documents exaggerat
PRBTTY AF PLACE TO
By Joseph Alsop
ing the long and close relation
ship between the Soviet and Ger
man General Staffs in a way that
seemed to indicate a plot against
Stalin and his state. These docu
ments were then allowed to fall
into the" hands of President
Benes of Czechoslovakia. Benes
forwarded them with a covering
personal note to Stalin himself.
In the ensuing hecatomb, not
only Tukhashevsky but also Da
len-Blucher, the great organizer
of the defenses of Eastern St
beria, and virtually all the rest
of the Red Army High Com
mand went to their death. So
much is known.
"OUT there are also highly re
liable indications that the
atmosphere for the hecatomb of
the High Command was pre
pared in another way. Being
wholly peasant army in those
days, the Red Army was gravely
demoralized by Stalin's wnoie.
sale massacre of the Russian
peasantry. T u k h ashevsky and
the other Marshalls are believed
to have warned Stalin v e r
bluntly, therefore, that he must
call a halt to the blood baths
of collectivization.
Will it now be sliown that the
Marshalls were f o r e d o omed,
even before Hitler laid his trap.
by challenging Stalin's omnipot
ence on the very same point that
doomed Bukharin? This is only
one of the crucial puzzles of the
Soviet past that will perhaps be
solved by Professor: Kim s as
signment, which is. in any case an
assignment without p r e v ious
parallel in recorded history. .
(c) 1957 New York
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More About Parking
the committee in opposition to
the "off-street parking" deal last
November, I wifh it to be em
phasized that we are not and
never have been against off
street parking as the need for
same goes. However, we have
opposed and will continue to op
pose a parking set-up owned and
operated by the city with park
ing meters and policed by the
city, subjecting all those who
use the parking lots to penalties
for over parking. There is
enough public resentment to our
present street parking meters.
It is our intent to encourage
a proper off-street parking lot
at the start and to settle for no
less. We are interested in a plan
that will encourage potential
downtown shoppers to use our
main business district without
fear of penalty for doing so and
without having to. pay a toll to
our city for the privilege of
spending their money in our
city. "
. We would like and welcome a
"plan" for off-street parking; a
plan considered and discussed by
all persons interested; not just
a handful of merchants who act
only with the intent to feather
their own nests, and to that end
place our city officials in a com
promising position.
You say because of the defeat
of off-street parking last elec
tion, ". . . it left the city without
an organized . . . plan.' May I
point out that one reason for
the defeat was the lack of a
"plan"? Even to this day no
plan if one exists has ever
been presented to the people.
We maintain that when a plan
is shown that is designed for the
benefit of all the city of Medford
and not just for the benefit of a
handful of centralized merchants
who want something for nothing
or about nothing most every
one will be for it, and there will
be no opposition.
Ray O. DeMarrs,
708 West Second st.,
Medford, Ore.
Vienna OP) Jenoe Heltia, 86,
Hungarian novelist and play
wright, died Monday in Buda
pest, according to Budapest
Radio.
Reds Make
Indonesia;
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Communist Party gains are
plaguing East Asia's two big
"neutralist" leaders.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru of India
and President
Sukarno of In
done s i a are
exceed ingly
friendly to the
Soviet Russian
and C h i n e se
Communists. .
But neither
wants Com
munism to
Charles McCain
flourish In his own country.
The Communists won control
of the south India state of Kerala
in elections held last February
and March.
Now Indonesia's Communists
have made startling gains in pro
vincial elections held in Java,
which contains about 50 million
of that country's 80 million peo
ple. In Kerala, the Communist
government has imposed crip
pling taxes on plantation own
ers, encouraged riotous strikes
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
On the home front:
At his news conference this
morning, President Eisenhower
calls' inflation the most pressing
domestic problem facing the na
tion today.
Right!
Everybody wants his wages
raised. Everybody wants his
profits raised. But when that
happens PRICES RISE and so
we don't have any more left
over than we had before.
The only answer anyone
seems to be able to think of is
to raise wages and prices STILL
MORE.
fK THE foreign front:
v Egypt's Nasser, in a mes
sage to the Organization of Arab
Students which. is meeting this
week in Berkeley, says Arab in
dependence is not an end, but
the BEGINNING of a long
struggle.
He adds:
"The enemies of the Arabs
have not yet learned how to re
spect our freedom."
"jlTORE than anything else, the
"- Arab peoples need some
real patriots AT THE TOP.
Leaders of the caliber of the
American- Founding Fathers.
Unselfish men whose first con
cern will be the welfare of the
Arab peoples not just POWER
held by those who are in the
direver's seat . . . Less poverty at
the bottom . . .Less luxury at the
top.
More equitable distrubution
of the good things of life. More
recognition of the fact that ruler
ship is a RESPONSIBILITY
not a privilege.
THINGS like that can't be pro
- vided for the Arabs by out
siders.
If they are to come about, they
will have to be provided by the
Arabs themselves.
fN THE push-botton war front:
v The chief of U.S. air de
fenses ' says the ocean-spanning
intercontinental ballistic missile
could be intercepted with what
he calls an "anti-missile missile."
The man who was Germany's
missile chief during World War
2 (Walter Dornberger) agrees
that such a defense shouldn't
be too difficult. Writing in the
Army-Navy Air Force Register,
says the flight path of a missile
can be sent up to explode it.
THAT is to say:
T.pf trio rnhnte TTTfTTTT TT
OUT AMONG THEMSELVES
up in the upper spaces.
That would at least be more
sensible than sending up . the
cream of our young manhood to
do the fighting.
The young daughter was very boisterous, and her father wanted it quiet,
so he could read. He clipped a large war map from the paper, tore it up into
bits like a jigsaw puzzle, and told his daughter to sit down and put the map
together again. This, he thought, would keep her occupied for several hours.
The little girl was delighted and took the handful of torn paper. In just a
little while she was back, the map all neatly arranged and perfectly put to
gether. "See fiere. Daddy; here it is!" she shouted, as she ran up to him with
the map on a magazine.
Her father was much surprised. "Well, how in the world did you do it so
quickly?" he asked.
"Well, you see," she replied, "there !s a big picture of a man on the other
side, and so I just put him together and turned it over. You see, Daddy, if the
man is right, the world comes outall right, too."
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
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Gains in India and
Leaders Troubled
and freed thousands of prisoners
including murderers.
Report Kerala Conversion
Advices from India report that
Kerala is rapidly being convert
ed into a Communist totalitarian
state.
So far, Nehru has been able to
do nothing about it.
Kerala's chief minister pro
vincial prime minister is E. M.
S. Nambudripad. A wealthy
member of a high-caste family;
Nambudripad was for years a
member of Nehru's own Con
gress Party. He went over to the
Communists after World War II.
" Perhaps encouraged by their
success in Kerala, the Commun
ists now have become active in
Bihar state in northeastern India.
They have opened a big cam
paign of disruption in plants of
the gigantic iron, steel, automo
bile and locomotive combine
which is controlled by the Tata
family of industrialists.
The Indonesian Communists
Editorial Comment
DULLES ALWAYS WRONG
... As for communist domi
nation in Syria, even then al
legedly threatening. Dulles five
days earlier had said he did not
think the situation too serious.
He suggested that the dollar was
a powerful weapon that could
be used in Syria.
We do wish Mr. Dulles would
get rid of that clouded crystal
ball. He couldn't be wrong more
often if he did it with tea
leaves.
If Secretary of State Dulles
had made the correct decision
in the beginning he wouldn't
now find himself in a most em
barrassing position. When U. S
newspapermen asked weeks ago
for visas to China Mr. Dulles
refused. When it was pointed
out to him that the state de
partment did not have the right
to control the reporting -of news
he refused to budge. Finally he
was forced from that untenable
position. He said 24 reporters
could go to China.
Now, the Chinese government
says it, will admit them only if
representatives of Chinese news
papers are permitted to come to
TT n TV T 1 r xl A
uic u. o. iviemuers ui me iimeri'
can Society of Newspaper Edi
tors cannot be blamed if they
derive some enjoyment from
watching' Mr. Dulles sweat.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
HOW MUCH LONGER?
A Blue. Mountain Eagle edi
tonal says: , "Without doubt,
Hells ' Canyon is a victory for
private enterprise and a definite
defeat for socialism." ,
How much longer must we be
fed this nonsense that Hells Can
yon was a fight between private
enterprise and socialism? The
only question involved at Hells
Canyon was whether the re
sources, of the Snake River
would be fully or partially de
veloped. The same question is
posed at Pleasant Valley, where
Snake river water will or will
not be, according to the height
of the dam, put to its fullest use.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
RANSOM OF TILLAMOOK
That laws are made by ran
som, and threats and trades as
well as by reasoned argument
and thought is revealed by Sen
Richard L. Neuberger in his
Aug. 26 newsletter. He cites the
case of the Northwest Technical
Institute, a government agency
that is using the former blimp
barns at Tillamook for a testing
station. Texas wants the station
to be at Amarillo Air Base.
Senator Neubefger says the Am
arillo site is more expensive.
He's working to keep the sta
tion in Oregon. ,
The other day he got a tele
phone call from Idaho's Rep.
Gracie Pfost, an ardent advo
cate of a high, government dam
at Hells Canyon. Mrs. Pfost said
that a Texas congressman who
represents the Amarillo district
and who voted for fhe high dam
won their successes in a se
ries of provincial elections held
throughout Java.
So far at least, the Communist
gains have had no effect on the
policy of friendly "co-existence"
with the Russian and Chinese
Reds which Nehru and Sukarno
have pursued.
In Sukarno's case, the Com
munist gains may even strength
en his personal position because
the Reds have enthusiastically
supported his attempt to turn
Indonesia into a "guided democ
racy." The many critics of the
"guided democracy" program,
say it may turn Indonesia into a
dictatorship.
Sukarno will be able to say
that the Reds, the strongest sup
porters of his "guided democ
racy" plan, gained strength in
the elections while other parties
lost. But it is hardly likely that
he will like the emergence of the
Communists as a major element
in Indonesia politics.
in committee threatened to
withdraw his support if the Ore
gon senator didn't quit blocking
the attempt of the Texans to get
the Tillamook station. The sena
tor says he replied to Mrs.' Pfost
(and by indirection to the Texas
congressman) as follows:
"I am tired of these perennial
ransom . exactions with Hells
Canyon as the bait. I am not
going to try to buy the high dam
by offering Tillamook as a hos
tage. The little training school
in our state has done a magnifi
cent job. Even, the. Air Force
generals admit that. Texas al
ready contains just about every
American military installation
except West Point and the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, but it still
isn't satisfied. It demands, as a
further pound of flesh, one of
the few Defense Department
contracts in Oregon. It yet may
win this demand, but it will do
so over my bitter protest. If we
ever get Hells Canyon, it must
be on the merits and not by sac
rificing the school at Tillamook
or anything else worthwhile."
Good for Senator Neuberger.
That's the way a senator should
look at the problem . . '
Eugene Register Guard.
Neuberger Praised
Considering the fact that he
owes his election in no small
measure to the support ofi or
ganized labor, it took consider
able courage for Sen. Richard
Neuberger to get up in the Sen
ate and urge the Teamsters
union NOT to elect Jim Hoffa
as president. He said that mil
lions of Americans will be bit
terly disillusioned if one of its
largest trade - unions - in the
United States chooses as its na
tional head a man who has had
associations and personal affilia
tions of the type of those that
Mr. Hoffa had."
This is advice from a friend
of organized labor. The Team
sters will do well to heed it.
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Ex-Railroad Agent
Here Is Promoted
Portland John C. Strom-
berg, former Union Pacific dis
trict freight and passenger agent
in Medford, has been promoted
to first assistant general freight
agent for the railroad in Port
land. . '
He succeeded George D.
Schade who was recently ap
pointed general freight agent for
the Union Pacific in the North
west. Stromberg served two years in
Medford leaving last Jan. 1 when
he was appointed second assist
ant general freight agent in
Portland.