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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6, 1947 (Sunday)
Senator Wayne Morse and
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
to speak at a dinner meeting of
Medford chapter of the Oregon
Council of Republican Women.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Britain is
still being pinched by the 'dol
lar famine'. Several natives re
port something is biting therri.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6. 1937 (Monday)
Jacksonville High school en
tered by thieves sometime in
past 10 days.
Local driver robbed of ciga
rettes, money and car after pick
ing up a hitchhiker.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6, 1927 (Tuesday)
Revival conducted in tent
across from post office Sunday.
Salem expected to send a cara
van of 200 autos to the Jubilee
of Vision celebration here Sept.
15.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6, 1917 (Thursday)
Oregon spruce used for air
plane frames, English and
French representatives of the al
lied aircraft commission note.
General foreman for the state
highway commission in Medford
enlists 15 workers for Davis
camp in the Siskiyous.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Which U.S. President served
the shortest length of time?
2. The South Pole was first
reached by Capt. James Cook,
Roald Amundsen, or Adm. Rich
ard E. Byrd?
3. Bible: Did Moses ever plan
to march on Canaan from the
south. If so, did he do so?
4. What important metal is
produced in Netherlands East
indies and Malaya?
5. Langston university for
Negro students is located in
which state?
6. During World War II, did
Axis submarines ever operate
in the Gulf of Mexico?
7. Do you associate the name
Vyacheslav Molotov with Czech
oslovakia, Soviet Russia, Ruma
nia or Bulgaria?
8. Which city in the United
States is the largest railroad
center?
9. Is "Manuel" a handbook, or
something done, made, or oper
ated by hand?
10. From which direction did
Scott's "young Lochinvar" come
to woo his bride?
Answers : 1. William Henry
Harrison, who died in office,
served only from March 4 to
April 4, 1841. 2. Raold Amund
sen. 3. Yes. No. 4. Tin. 5. Okla
homa. 6. Yes. 7. Soviet Russia.
8. Chicago, 111. 9. No. It is a
man's name. 10. West.
Medford Man Appears
In Municipal Court
Richard Victor Mealy, 1605
West Main st., pleaded guilty
in municipal court Thursday to
charges of selling produce from
a vehicle inside the city limits.
City Attorney E. A. Bashaw
said no further action would be
taken in the "test case." The
ordinance provides that selling
produce from a vehicle is legal
when the vehicle is moved once
each five minutes a distance of
one-half block or more. Mealy
was not fined after entering his
plea because it was a "test
case."
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Vanishing Bell
Bells those clarion-voiced
have all but faded away.
Bells have been replaced by buzzers and honkers
and tooters and clangers and whistlers. Only a few
real bells remain.
There's a big one mounted outside the main fire
station at the corner of Front and Third sts., but it is
no longer in use, and serves
day when the clear tones
things.
I7IRE Chief Gordon Barker say3 it was purchased
with money out of the pockets of the volunteers of
Medford's first two fire companies "way back when."
For years it was mounted
Hall, but has not been used since about 1929, when
a compressed-air whistle
1937, it was moved to its
Bells on fire vehicles
American La France, one
of fire vehicles, still puts
Barker, but they're more
else. One truck at the west side station has one.
Time was when firemen clanged them as a warn
ing when returning from a fire, but today the big red
trucks modestly obey all
"home."
pOUNTY School Superintendent Alf Mekvold re-
ports that in Rogue River, the school still has a
turret and bell, and that it is still in use to summon
children to their studies.
used at Butte Falls, and that there may be one or two
others in schools throughout the county.
At Griffin Creek school, the old bell came down
a few years ago, but instead of being sold, tossed
away or junked, was mounted outside the school as a
memento as was the big fire bell.
There may be others of which we've never heard.
Perhaps a few of the smaller churches still let the clear
sound of a bell summon its members to worship. But
if so, we don't know where they are.
TP IN Salem, the editor of the Statesman (a one-
time school teacher), writes nostaligically of
bells, too, but points out that quite a few still remain
in the Willamette valley on some of the smaller
schools, although they are getting scarcer, and their
value has gone up among collectors of antiques.
In Europe, which clings more stubbornly to tradi
tion than do we in our new land, bells remain, prin
cipally in the churches, but also elsewhere. We under
stand that the famous bell at Lloyds is still rung to
signal the sinking of a ship.
It is interesting to note how bells have entered into
our language in many connotations. They have been
the subjects of song and poem and story, of legend
and tradition.
DELLS have been used
and marriage. They have called to study and to
worship. They have warned of trains and fire eigines,
and of ships and of shoals.
They have summoned ranch-hands to dinner and
monks to their labors. They have decorated the necks
of horses and camels and elephants and yaks. They
have amused babies and solaced the aged.
It seems sort of too bad
rapidly, for, in beauty or in
be replaced successfully by
ers. E.A. '
Progressivism.
Some of the schools
week, and the rest most
day.
We get a special sort of
sters trooping: back on the
hesitantly entering the strange new world for the
first time.
There's always something hopeful about the sight.
Some few of them will fall
grow older, but the majority will grow into useful
citizens. And the schools, as much as any force outside
the home, will help show them the way.
AS IS inevitable, the debate of "traditional" (or
vives each year about this time. A debate on the sub
ject was staged over in Coos Bay recently, with Med
ford's School Superintendent Leonard Mayfield tak
ing part.
"Progressive" education has, in many instances,
gone too far in getting away from the fundamental
necessities of education. (As a product of a progres
sive high school to whom the mysteries of algebra and
square root are still mysteries, we can personally testi
fy to that.)
But if nothing else, it has succeeded in giving new
life, new direction, new imagination to the eternal job
of pedagogy. And in most schools these days, the issue
is no longer a live one.. "Progressive" techniques have
been adopted and adapted to instruction in the funda
mentals, and everyone has gained.
f)NE educator is quoted in this week's Time maga-
zine to the effect that the time has come for a new
synthesis, embodying both
fundamentalism and the antithesis of progressivism.
To a degree, varying from school system to school
system, his call comes after the fact. No one will argue
that audio-visual aids, as an example of progressive
techniques, are not good. Nor, on the other hand, can
one claim that readin', writin' and 'rithmetic are being
unduly neglected any more. -
Progressivism isn t dead. It s just" assimilated.
E.A. ' I
Friday, September, 6, 1957
criers of the past
It s too bad.
only as a reminder of the
of the bell could mean many
on a tower over the old City
was substituted. In about
present location.
are seldom used any more.
of the larger manufacturers
them on, according to Chief
ornamental than anything
the traffic rules on the way
He also believes one is still
to announce birth, 'death
to see them vanishing so
sentiment, they can never
buzzers, honkers or toot
Assimilated
in the valley opened this
of them will reopen Mon
thrill watching the young'
tirst dav ot school or
by the wayside as they
the thesis of educational
'SEE? I VOtiT LOOK
1957 Crop Prospects
Better, Babson Says
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Miss. Except
in a few more or less restricted
areas, weather and crop condi
tions have im
proved mate
rially in re
cent weeks
The outlook
now is for
total U.S. crop
p r o d u c tion
close t
the relatively
high average
Roger W Hanson of the last five
years. Here are a few highlight:
in the over-all picture, as I see
them.
I look for a 1957 U. S. total
wheat crop of around 915,000.
000 bushels down 8 rjer cent
from the 1956 outturn and near
ly 20 per cent under the 1946
1955 average. This is still a rel
atively large crop, since in seven
of those years production topped
one billion bushels by sizable
margins. The current crop comes
on the heels of a total U. S. car
ryover on July 1 of 905,000,000
bushels practically enough for
a whole season's normal require
ments. Most of this wheat, how
ever, is in government hands
and will not glut commercial
channels. I do not believe the
current crop will prove burden
some.
Mother Nature has been kind
to several of the other grains
Outturns of barley, flaxseed,
oats, and rye may exceed the
1945-1956 average barley by
48 per cent, flaxseed by 7 per
cent, oats by 3 per cent, and rye
by 20 per cent. Total supplies of
these grains for 1957-1958 will
lean toward the easy side. Amer
ican housewives should have
plenty of new, clean-sweeping
brooms this year because the in
J : X 3 m i
uicaiea crop oi Droomcorn is
well above average. However
popcorn devotees may have to
curb their appetites for this
item; planted acreage is 14 per
cent peiow average.
Corn, Dry Beans and Rice
The outlook for the nation's
corn crop is relatively good, but
the outturn, which is estimated
at around 3,066,000,000 bushels,
may be about 10 per cent under
last year and slightly below av
erage. Weather between now
and harvest time must, of
course, be reckoned with. Sup
plies will be easily adequate for
the 1957-1958 season, since total
corn stocks recently were at an
all-time high for the date, at
1,963,000,000 bushels. If the hog
corn feed ratio remains as favor
able as it is now 16.7 to 1 a
lot of corn will be fed this fall
and winter. Meanwhile, old-crop
corn prices may average some
what higher, but I forecast some
seasonal weakness in new-crop
corn inis laii. .
The outlook lor dry bean pro-
ucuon is less favorable than a
year ago. The crop, which is
harvested in the fall, may be
around only 16.300.000 bag:
down 5 per cent from the 1956
outturn and 2 per cent under the
10-year average. Since the car
ryover will be relatively small,
total supplies for 1957-1958
should not be excessive. The in
dicated U. S. rice cron of 40.
500,000 bags (100 pounds each)
is 15 per cent under the 1956
outturn and the smallest crop
since 1950. This could mean a
fairly tight statistical position
sometime next year.
Cotton and Soybeans
American . cotton farmers in
recent years have learned well
the art of intensive cultivation.
Even on the smallest planted
acreage in many years, high ner-
acre yields this ear may give
them a crop of about 11,900,000
bales. This would be sizable, al
though considerably less than
indicated , domestic consumption
and exports in 1957-1958. This
points to another substantial cut
in the still big carryover next
August 1. Prices may weaken
moderately during the heavy
marketing season in the weeks
ahead, but should recover there
after.
Despite record-high soybean
acreage, the 1957 U. S. crop
currently estimated at 428,000,-
000 bushels is 6 per cent below
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LIKE MB AT ALL'
the 1956 record outturn, but 58
per cent above the 10-year aver
age. Since stocks in all positions
were recently at a record peak,
there should be no' dearth of
soybeans in the crop year be
ginning October 1. There is no
basis for sustained price
strength at present, barring seri
ous crop damage.
Farm Income Outlook
Farmers' realized net income
in the first half of this year was
at an annual rate of about $12,-
100,000,000 up 2V2 per cent
from the corresponding 1956
figure. Whether the second half
will record a further gain is
doubtful, in view of the rising
trend of production costs and
the difficulty of offsetting them
through the practice of further
economies. The efficent farmer,
with well-diversified crops,
should, however, fare as well as
the average manufacturer or
merchant. ,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Queer - quirks - in-human-nature
note in the news:
A federal grand jury in New
York accuses 46 men of con
spiring to import drugs into the
United States from Europe.
The prosecution says the con
spirators smuggled into this
country 50 pounds of pure hero
in which is alleged to have an
ultimate consumer value (to
drug addicts, that is) of MORE
THAN THREE MILLION DOL
LARS. rpHAT'S about $60,000 a pound
which sounds like an
astronomically high price.
But
Remember this:
The price of heroin, like near
ly everything else, is set by the
law of supply and demand. An
other way of putting it is that
the price is what the traffic
will bear."
Customers are willing to pay
that much for heroin so that
is the price.
WHAT is heroin?
' It is a derivative of mor
phine which is a grayish-brown
drug obtained from the opium
poppy. Heroin has an effect
similar to that of morphine, but
it is more poisonous and much
more habit forming.
Its manufacture, importation
and use in the United States are
forbidden which makes it hard
to get. Hence the high price.
HI ANY drug addicts prefer
iTX hornin to anv other dure.
It undermines the emotions
and morals of its user perhaps
more than any other drug. At
first, heroin merely expands the
ego of the user and gives him a
sense of exaggerated personal
value and happiness.
Later, it removes pity, re
morse and all sense of responsi
bility. Its habitual users become
anti-social and criminal to a high
degree.
HM-M-M-M-M-M.
Heroin is surprisingly like
INFLATION, isn't it?
INFLATION makes us feel
WONDERRFUL.
It eives us a sense of security.
(At first, that is.) If we work for
wages, it oners us ine rosy pro
mise that whenever our wages
won't buy all the things we need
WE'LL GET A RAISE. If we're
ir business for ourselves, it sug
gests to us that whenever pro
fits begin to fall we can raise
prices.
If we're speculatively inclined,
it whispers to us that in an in
flationary period PRICES WILL
ALWAS GO UP AND CAN'T
EVER GO DOWN.
So
Buy BIG and make a killing.
INFLATION makes us feel
simply gorgeous. So we're
willing to pay a staggering price
for it. -
Human beings are strange
characters.
Ike's Administration
Not Ready for School
Integration
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (LP) The Eisen
hower administration was not
ready for the Arkansas school
i n t e g r ation
emergency.
The boss left
for a Rhode Is
land vacation.
White House
staff chief
Sherman
Adams is off to
a New Hamp
shire speaking
I.yls C Wilson e n s a gemem..
Democrats will be asking: Who
was keeping the store?
Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell
Jr., was -on the job Thursday
but without any immediate
strategy or policy to pursue. The
battle of headlines had been
favoring Arkansas Gov. Orval
E. Faubus who doubtless planned
it that way.
Eisenhower's vacation began
at a lively pace. By telephone,
he was prodding the Justice De
partment for action. There was
a feeling around town that
Brownell was stalling for time
or a policy inspiration.
Stalling Looked Good
Events in Little , Rock, Ark.,
made a stalling strategy look
pretty good. The Negro students
against whom Faubus imposed
a National Guard lockout made
no attempt Thursday to enter
Central High school. That di
verted a lot of heat from every
one, especially Brownell.
If the Justice Department
actually was stalling or, as is
likely, had no plans prepared
for such an emergency, it must
act soon. Something must give
somewhere if the Eisenhower
Good, Bad
Reviewed
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet:
Soviet Russia's insistence on
unconditional suspension of nu
clear weapons tests threw the
London disarmament conference
into a deadlock.
Delegates of the United States.
Canada, Great Britain, France
and Russia, constituting a sub
committee of the United Nations
Disarmament Commission, had
been negotiating since March 18
It had looked, at times, as if
the five nations might agree on
some proposal that would con
stitute the long-hoped-for "first
step" toward an eventual dis
armament treaty.
The four Western Allies had
made numerous offers to Soviet
Chief Delegate Valerian A.
Zorin. The final one called for
Congressman Seeks
Teamster Office
Washington (IP) Rep. John
Shelley (D-Calif.) threw his hat
into the ring Thursday for the
presidency of the giant Team
sters union.
Shelley said he will formally
announce his candidacy Sept. 10
when he attends the 11 -state
Western Teamsters Conference
in Seattle.
Teamsters Vice President
James R. Hoffa is the leading
candidate to succeed Dave Beck
ag president of the union. Hoffa
has been accused by the Senate
Rackets committee of using the
help of gangsters and racketeers
to gain power within the union.
Shelley said he was 'invited to
attend the policy meeting next
week by William M. Franklin,
secretary - treasurer of the West
ern Conference. He said the
meeting is to interview candi
dates for the presidency.
The teamsters president will
be selected at the union's conven
tion at Miami Beach, Fla., Sept.
30. ' .
Other candidates for the office
are Teamsters Vice President
Thomas L. Hickey, New York,
and Thomas J. Haggerty, secretary-treasurer
of a Chicago Milk
Wagon Drivers local.
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Emergency
I administration is to obtain for
political advantage from its
overall effort in behalf of Negro
voters.
This Arkansas dispute over
the enrollment of a few Negro
children in a large white secon
dary school is not directly con
nected with the Eisenhower
civil rights bill recently limited
by Congress to voting rights.
The President has not yet signed
that bill, although he will do
so shortly.
In Easier Position
Even so. Eisenhower probably
is in an easier position today
with respect to Arkansas devel
opments than he would have
been if Congress had passed his
civil rights bill as he proposed
it. Before the Senate began re
jecting major portions of that
legislation, the language very
definitely committed the Presi
dent to use federal troops in
support of any civil right what
ever. Committed is precisely what
it did, although the adminis
tration would not concede that
to be a fact. The civil rights
bill was the President'? personal
project, however, even though
he said he did not understand
some of it.
The bill was submitted by
Eisenhower's attorney general
to the Congress. And written
into it by administration direc
tion was a specific authoriza
tion for the use of the land and
sea forces against whomsoever
denied a civil right. Little Rock
is remote from the sea. Perhaps,
however, the battle of Central
High school between the Ar
kansas National Guard and the
U.S. Army was narrowly
averted.
News Is
bv McCa nn
M
a 2-year suspension of weapons
tests, coupled with a ban on
production of materials for mak
ing nuclear weaonns.
Each time, after consulting site neaF the east city limits f
his government, Zorin had re- Salem as the new location for
jected the Allied proposals. He the Department of Motor Ve
held out for an unconditional hicles was expressed Thursday
ban on the tests. by James " F. Johnson, director.
This week it became pretty Johnson said that after investi
clear that Russia wanted to atlnS a11 of the 12 Sltes on
throw the disarmament negotia- whlch bids were submitted to
tions into the U.N: General . As-
sembly, which opens its regular
annual meeting on Sept. 17.
Russia's object was to try to
bring India and other "neutral-
1st" nations, which oppose nu-
clear weapons tests, into the
negotiations and thus strengthen
its position. ,
In any event, It was apparent
the London conference had fail-
ed to bring about any real prog-
ress toward the "first step."
Loy Henderson, the State De-
partment's No. 1 expert on the
Middle East, reported that the
situation in Syria, which is now
unaer control of pro-Russian ele-
ments, constituted a serious
threat to the security of the
iree woria
jienaerson naa been sent on
an urgent mission to the Mid
die East for an on-the-spot inves
tigation of Syrian developments,
He conferred with Turkish,
Iraqi, Jordanian and Lebanese
leaders and with United States
ambassadors to those countries
Grim Picture
His report to the State De
partment gave a grim picture
of the situation. No effective
United States answer to the pro-
Russian trend in Syria was in
sight.
Communist Hungary started
seeking the support of the Arab
countries and the East Asian
"neutralists" in opposition to a
United Nations resolution con
demning Soviet Russian inter
vention in the Hungarian revolt.
The U.N Assembly is to open
a special session next Tuesday
on a report by a five-nation com
mission denouncing the killing,
imprisonment and deportation
to Russia of Hungarian rebels.
Henry Cabot Lodge, United
States chief delegate to the
U.N., is sponsoring a resolution
which calls on the assembly to
approve the report of the com
mission. Countering the Hun
garian campaign, Lodge con
ferred in New York with dele
gates of U.N. countries from all
over the world asking them to
vote for the resolution.
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Editorial
Comment
TIME TO CHECK RAIL LINES
Railroads serving 1 the West
Coast are designed to operate as '
carriers between East and West.
Since our railroads were built
they have, for the most part,
carried the raw products from
the West to manufacturing cen
ters in the East. Finished goods
then were brought to the West.
The ideal situation was to pre
serve a balance of shipments,
with full cars moving in each
direction. "
Now, because a great deal of
manufacturing has moved West,
railroads are bringing a high
percentage of empty cars from
the East. - .
Industry is moving south and
west. California is growing in
population by leaps and bounds.
California is the best market for
lumber from the Pacific North
west. Here in Douglas county we
are heavily penalized by freight
rates if we try to ship by rail
to California markets. So long
as we ship east we can ship on
a parity, but we are denied
equal access to West Coast ports
or to West Coast markets. Rail
road rate structures favor the
long hauls eas. Yet our mar
kets for agricultural products,
for our lumber, and for many of
our raw materials are to be
found in a north-south direction.
A revision of the transporta
tion system and rate structure
to the north-south remand rath
er than to the obsolete east-west
pattern is badly needed. Regu
latory bodies such as Public
Utility Commissions and Inter
state Commerce Commission
have been far too lenient with
the railroads, in my opinion.
Railroads have been permitted
to gather profits without giving
suitable service in the commu
nities they serve. It is time that
regulatory bodies started crack
ing down with demands that
areas be adequately served, and
that transportation patterns be
rearranged to fit modern mar
ket conditions.
Roseburg News-Review.
East Side Salem
Site Favored
Salem (IB Preference for a
tne department 01 nnance ana
administration he felt that land
southeast of the junction of
state street and Airport road
offered the department the best
building location,
He said he had made this
recommendation to the finance
department, which will make the
final bid selection,
Secretary of State Mark Hat
field, in charge of space on the
Capitol-Mall had directed the de-
partment, and its some 450 em-
ployees otrt of space It now oc-
cupies in the capitol building.
the nublic service building and
the state office building.
The move is being made be-
cause of pressure of space in the
Capitol Mall area.
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