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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 10, 1947 (Wednesday)
The mobile field unit service,
owned by the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis will
be on display in Medford Thurs
day. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The first
Monday morning quarterback of
the football season showed up
this week and sounded three
tocsins of victory.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 10, 1937 (Friday)
Two black bears are raising
cain at the ERA and bureau of
public roads camps just off the
Crater Lake highway at Union
creek.
Dr. C. I. Drummond, Jackson
county health officer for the
past five years, is leaving the
health department Sept. 1 for
private practice.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 10, 1927 (Saturday)
The children's section of the
jubilee parade promises to be a
colorful part of the Visions Re
alized parade next Thursday.
Former Gold Hill boxer is
jailed in Grants Pass on drunk
driving charges.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 10. 1917 (Monday)
Two-score tents are being
pitched in what was formerly
Chautauqua park in Ashland for
the 25th annual reunion of the
old soldiers and sailors of south
ern Oregon.
Discord is raging among mi
nor officials in charge of the
road building and improvement
work in the Siskiyou division of
the Pacific highway.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good
1. An oneirologist is one who
interprets bumps on the head,
tea leaves, or dreams?
2. By what means was Mohan
das K. Gandhi assassinated?
3. Bible: "And Jesus cried
with a loud voice, and gave up"
what?
4. U.S. Postal Savings ac
counts may, or may not, be at
tached for unpaid debts?
5. The "Wizard of Menlo
Park" was Eli Whitney, Charles
Proteus Steinmetz or Thomas
Alva Edison?
6. Is it the Union of India, or
Pakistan, which is predominant
ly Hindu?
7. Which state is nicknamed
"Bayou State"?
8. In freezing, water expands
about one-fifth, one-ninth, or
one-eleventh in volume?
9. "We haven't a show (chance)
to see that show (play)." Which
of the "shows" is a colloquial
ism? 10. "Mary had a little lamb.
It's fleece was white as snow."
Is "Lambayecue" French or Ital
ian for barbecued lamb?
Answers: 1. One who inter
prets dreams. 2. By three bullets
fired at close range by an assas
sin. 3. "the ghost." 4. May not
be attached. 5. Thomas Alva
Edison. 6. India. 7. Mississippi.
8. One-elevenlh. 9. Both are.
When used properly "show" is
an exhibition, etc. 10. No. It is a
coast department of northwest
ern Peru.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Back to Jefferson Davis
Once again there IS something new under the
sun !
Never before in our recollection and we believe,
never but once before in the country's history, since
the Civil War has a State Governor without the re
quest of local authorities (in fact against their desire)
sent armed troops into a city to uphold potential viola
tors of the law.
But that, in plain English, is what Governor Orval
not Hydro Faubus of Arkansas has done, is still
doing and at this writing everything indicates he
intends continuing to do.
e
JJIS alibi is it is his duty as Governor to prevent
" bloodshed.
But is he better able to determine that is a real
danger than the local authorities in Little Rock, who
practically without exception have declared, there
was no danger the local police were quite able to
put down any violence if such occurred until the
Governor ordered out , his national guard, fully
equipped for war.
And to do what?
TO UPHOLD the law?
No to allow violations of it, to prevent colored
children entitled to a free education in the public
schools as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court, guar
anteed in the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the
Federal District Court from having the sort of educa
tion, America's fundamental law allows them.
AS NOTED this is something new since the Civil
Ufo onrl i'c i-n nnn pnnvco f V) o com o fl O-
fiance of the federal government and the same bellig
erent assertion of state rights, that started it.
When informed of this obvious- fact, by a city
official of Little Rock the Governor's only reply was,
that his action is overwhelmingly approved by the
people of Arkansas and the South, and that if the
Federal Government dares to step in and take over
the state's National Guard, he has plenty of "volun
teers" ready and willing to "fight for it."
Fight for WHAT?
Clearly fight for "white supremacy" of course,
fight for the nullification of the Constitution, repu
diation of the U.S. Supreme Court and support of the
right of the South as in the days of Calhoun and
Jefferson Davis to treat the colored problem as it
sees fit.
"IXELL one thing for sure.
" This will be the best news that Soviet Russia'
has received for many a month.
One of the most effective weapons in its arsenal
of Russian propaganda particularly with over half
the world's population wThich ISN'T "white" has been
that the claim of American Democracy that it is a
government OF the people, BY the people and FOR
the people" ALL THE people regardless of "race,
religion and color is a sham and a fraud.
Only communsim, they have declared, does that.
And they have brought out pictures of negro lynch
ings in the U.S.A. to prove it.
How about pictures of armed-troopers and "white
mobs" preventing colored school-children in Little
Rock, and other parts of the South, from enjoying the
same privileges and opportunities of the. "whites" ?
IITE FEAR there will be no one on hand abroad to
v explain, that this represents only one section of
the United States, that it is a direct violation of our
fundamental law, that it repudiates a basic declara
tion of the American Constitution, and that the Presi
dent of the United States has warned the Governor
of Arkansas that he (the President) "will use every
legal means at his command to uphold it."
There are many well informed and alert minds
in the non-white world including Asia, Africa, China,
Japan and elsewhere, who would probably rejoin,
"But HAS it been upheld?
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AS OF this writing, that remains to be seen.
President Eisenhower emphasized "LEGAL
means." He has also emphatically declared that to
uphold the Constitution in Arkansas and elsewhere
in the South he will NOT use "force."
Adlai Stevenson in his national broadcast Sunday
agreed with this stand by the President, .declaring in
effect, that he felt sure the flouting of the law in
Little Rock and elsewhere . could be stopped, via
peaceful pressures through the courts.
Every right-thinking reasonable person, north or
south hopes so. No one wants violence, no one wants
bloodshed, everyone hopes this revival of nullifica
tion and the assertion of state authority over federal
authority can be quashed by legal means only.
DUT what if it CAN'T be? -
What if Governor Faubus continues to main
tain his lawless stand ; refuses to withdraw his armed
troops; persists in the violation of his oath as a U.S.
citizen to uphold the .U.S. constitution? What if he
follows the Russian pattern that "force is the only
thing one needs to respect", and as the government
refuses to use it against him he will continue to use
it, as a threat, against the government?
DROBABLY that is a "bridge" that might best be
crossed only when- we come to it.
But it also might be well MEANWHILE, not to
forget, that when one comes down to brass - tacks,
ANY law, federal, state or local, that has no force,
even as a last resort to sustain it, soon becomes a dead
letter, and the courts that must sustain it or join the
law-violators thereby receive a staggering blow to
their morale, prestige, and authority. R.W.R.
Tuesday, September 10. 1957
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REVOLUTION RESULTS
Poznan, Poland Here in this
grimy industrial town in June a
year ago occurred the great turn
ing point tor
Poland which
may also some
day prove a
great turning
point for many
other nations.
If one can
fix the exact
instant, it was
at the begin-
Joseph Aisop ning of the
Poznan strikers' attack on the
huge grey secret police head
quarters. The first burst of fire struck
down a 15-year-old boy with a
Polish flag in his hand. As he
fell six tanks appeared to over
awe the crowd. But in that
breathless instant another boy
seized the flag from the gutter,
dipped it in his dead comrade's
blood, and with no other weapon
charged the tanks alone.
For fifty yards and then a
hundred he was still alone.
Then five, then ten, then sud
denly two hundred others joined
him, all charging the tanks to
gether behind the boy with his
blood-stained flag. Quite sudden
ly, with a fearful grinding and
cranking, the file of tanks
turned backwards and fled be
fore the charge.
"M"0 ONE knows the name of
the young standard bearer
who so marvelously proved the
ultimate invincibility of the hu
man spirit, but at the great Ce
gielski (formerly Stalin) steel
works they will tell you:
He was one of ours. He must
have been. After all the whole
thing started right here when
the men in the railroad car shop
downed tools that morning we
began it.
With all this in mind it is a
curious experience to visit these
same Cegielski works. Outward
ly they seem the archetype of
all the dark satanic mills in the
world, being a huge complex of
ancient brick factory buildings
belching smoke from half a doz
en chimneys and filling the
whole neighborhood with the
din of their machinery. But
there is a vast transformation
beneath the surface of this grim
industrial scene.
The men who receive you, to
begin with, are new men. The
old plant director, a hard-nosed
Communist with no technical
qualifications, has gone. Now
the new, director, Witold Bernat
ovich, would have been disqual
ified for the top dog in the old
days because of his wartime
service in the famous Polish
army of Gen. Wladyslaw An
ders. But all that is over now
and Bernatovich, a fine look
ing, intelligent, desperately ear
nest man with the fullest techni
cal training, is firmly in charge
at Cegielski.
THE chief engineer, SbignieW
Lukomski, is new, too, and
the plant has a new workers
council with altogether new
powers, close to those of a board
of directors. Felix Nowacki, the
elderly grey-moustached statis
tician who heads the workers
council, looks like just what he
is an old-time Social Democrat
with a good head on his shoul
ders. The plant's young Commun
nist party organizer, Josef Bis
kupski, is there to receive the
guest along with the others, but
his presence imposes no shadow
of constraint on the talk about
the Cegielski works' past, pres
ent and future.
In the discussion of the past
the Communist Biskupski ad
mits that he was "a bit shocked"
by the strange, sudden sponta
neous movements almost as
purely instinctive as the hiving
of bees that took the Cegielski
workers into Poznan's streets.
But Nowacki and Lukomski
frankly glory in the memory.
"DISKUPSKI hardly differs
from the others, either, in
his attitude towards the almost
total change of atmosphere and
habit reverting from the Octo
ber triumph of Wladyslaw Go
mulka. That was the sequel of
sittin1 aroind 'til somb-
SCWcy rut- mc t
By Joseph Alsop
the June rising in Poznan. The
most poignant post-October rec
ollection comes from old No
wacki. With his eyes sparkling
with delight he describes how
all the workers were allowed to
destry their own secret police
dossiers which were kept in the
plant's personnel department.
"Now," chimes in Biskupski
approvingly, "we have a normal
personnel department that con
siders only whether our work
ers are good workmen."
At Cegielski the great change
has brought other more material
benefits to the vast majority.
While Director Bernatovich re
ceives only one-third of the sal
ary and one-tenth of the per
quisites allowed his predecessor
in the Stalinist times, the aver
age of the workers' wages has
been raised by close to 30 per
cent. Certainly the standard of
life is still cruelly low. How
ever: "Life is still very hard, but
we know our country has many
difficult problems to solve,"
says Nowacki. "So we are con
tent that the misery of the past
is over, and above all we are
happy to be free men. It means
most of all. We are happy to
be free men. It means most of
all to be free."
FREEDOM. Freedom. Free
dom. This is the great re
curring teme of all the talks as
one goes through the plant. To
be sure, it comes clearer and
clearer that this new freedom
has not solved all the problems
of the Cegielski works. Demand
for Cegielski's steam locomo
tives has been almost killed by
the increasing electrification of
railways. Huge concrete em
placements are already being
prepared for the new machinery
soon to be installed for produc
tion of heavy diesel marine en
gines. The conversion will hard
ly be easy.
But even this practical aspect
of the life of the Cegielski works
has been affected by the great
change. Before there was com
plete absentee management by
the Minister of Heavy Industry
in Warsaw. "Even the smallest
machine tool design had to go to
Warsaw for approval," rather
bitterly remarked Director Ber
natovich, who used to head the
machine tool department. Now
the plan fort he plant's opera
tion is produced by the plant's
own management, and changes
desired by the Ministry are
made by agreement rather than
by command.
"We have the responsibility,"
Bernatovich concludes. 'It is up
to us here in the Cegielski
works whether we succeed or
fail, and I think we shall suc
ceed."
(c) 1957
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
County Ranks Fourth
As Mineral Producer
Jackson county's mineral pro
duction in 1956 placed it fourth
among Oregon counties, accord
ing to The Ore.-Bin, publication
of the state department of ge
ology and mineral industries.
Total value of minerals pro
duced in Jackson county was
$3,330,672. Clackamas county
led the list with $6,485,302, fol
lowed by Douglas county, S4,
140,753, and Baker county, $3,
812,592. The Ore.-Bin stated that min
eral production in the state in
1956 was "increased seven per
cent over 1955, with a payroll
for mineral industry workers in
creased 40 per cent over the
payroll five years ago.
Total dollar value of minerals
produced in Oregon in 1956 was
$34,011,000. The .8,201 persons
employes by the industry re
ceived a payroll of $42,743,678.
. Production in this area in
cluded cement, stone, sand and
gravel, clay, carbon dioxide,
gold, chromite, tungsten and sil
ver. Mining and - processing op
erations located in the county
include: Ashland Mining com
pany, Ashland, and Birdseye
Creek mill, chrome concentrat
ing plants; Charlotte Prospect,
Grants Pass, gold lode mine;
Federal Placer and Sterling,
Stern Russian Note Seen Help
In Adenauer's Election Contest
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia probably has
made it certain that Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer will win easily
in next Sun
day's West Ger
man national
election.
The tough
old chancellor
has been gain
ing strength in
recent months.
Poll tical ex
perts have been
predicting that
Charles McCano
Adenauer would win. The chief
question was whether his Chris
tian Democratic Party would
win a majority of the 497 seats
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The Salem Statesman takes a
look at the Oregon-California
Klamath River compact, which
has just been signed into law by
President Eisenhower, and finds
it generally good.
Tracing its origins from the
day when the Army Enginers
disclosed their purpose to divert
the Klamath river into the Pit
and thence into Shasta reser
voir, it says:
"The people of the Klamath
Basin BECAME ALARMED lest
their water be captured for the
growing cities of California. The
Oregon legislature created a
Klamath River commission and
California did the same. The
two bodies worked out a com
pact which has been approved
by the legislatures of both states
and by congress. The last re
quirement, the signature of the
President, was obtained last Fri
day, so the compact is now in
effect."
THE STATESMAN continues:
"Under this agreement a
system of priorities has been
fixed.-Klamath water is not to
be diverted but is reserved for
present and future use within
the basin. The compact will be
administered by one official from
each state and a federal repre-
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Bells In Jacksonville
To the Editor: Your editorial
of Friday, September 6, entitled
"The Vanishing. Bell" contains
a statement of especial interest
to me. You state, "Perhaps a few
of the smaller churches still let
the clear sound of a bell sum
mon its members to worship.
But, if so, we don't know where
they are." .f
Will you accept my invitation
to come to Jacksonville any
Sunday morning and hear the
bells of two separate churches
summon the people to worship?
At the First Presbyterian church,
the bell has called the commun
ity to worship on Sunday morn
ings since December 4, 1881,
the date the present church
building was dedicated. In ad
dition to the bell, you will also
find here beautiful stained glass
antique windows that were im
ported from Italy and came to
Jacksonville around the Horn
and by mule-back from Crescent
City. If Presbyterianism is not
to your liking, the bell at St.
Joseph's Catholic church will
welcome you there.
Consider this also, a special
invitation to you and your fam
ily to attend special services on
September 22 which will com
memorate 100 years of active
service in this community by
the Presbyterian churph. You
will be very welcome and we
might even let you pull the bell
rope.
John Niedermeyer,
Route 2, Box 464
Medford, Ore.
Placer, Jacksonville, and Palmer
Creek Placer, Grants Pass, gold
placer operations; Bristol Silica
company, Rogue River, crushed
granite and quartz plant; and
Gas-Ice corporation, Portland, its
Jackson county plant producing
dry ice.
DIVIDEND NOTICE
The Board of Directors has
declared a dividend of 6
per share from net invest
ment income payable Sep
tember 30 to shareholders
of record September 13,
1957.
Howard M. Nimmons
SECRETARY
September 10, 1957
501 Exchange BIdg.
ittle
in the Bundestag, the controlling
house of the West German Par
liament. Now the Soviet government
has sent Adenauer a 2,000-word
note savagely attacking his poli
cies on, German reunification,
disarmament and alliance with
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization. The Soviet note was intended,
of course, to hurt Adenauer and
help his Social Democratic
Party opponents.
But it looks as if the Russian
blast may assure Adenauer a
majority. It may possibly assure
him a big one.
Note Nothing New
The Soviet note accused Ade
nauer of leading Germany along
JENKINS
sentative. The Oregon represent
ative will be the state engineer.
"Present reservation of the
water shows foresight, but the
surplus waters of the Klamath
should not be left idle indefin
itely. The next moves should be
to put them to work."
THEY are being put to work,
sir.
Developments are under way
that when' completed eight or
ten years hence will take about
a Bonneville of POWER out of
the upper Klamath river, which
is the No. 2 power stream of the
American Pacific Coast. This
power will be available to all of
Southern Oregon and Far North
ern California.
California, at present, forbids
power development of the Klam
ath below the state line, but as
the benefits of Shasta dam in the
way of improved fishing and re
creation generally become better
known to the public there can
be little doubt that this prohi
bition will be removed.
ANOTHER BONNEVILLE of
power will then become avail
able in the Klamath river.
ALREADY in the Klamath Ba
sin some 300,000 acres of
rich land are under irrigation.
Some 300,000 acres MORE are
suitable for and available for ir
rigation when the time comes
vhen expansion of agriculture
is again economically justified.
That time may be nearer than
we think. California is expected
to have 26 MILLION people by
1975, which is only 18 years
from now. California is covering
up irrigated arable land with'
highways, airports, factory sites,
new residence areas, etc., faster
than new land is being devel
oped. California is the natural mar
ket for all of Southern Oregon.
AND-
Thanks to the Klamath
River compact and plans around
it -
The Klamath Basin will have
available MORE STORED WA
TER than any other area in the
Great Basin (the area lying be
tween the Cascade-Sierra range
and the Rocky Mountains) be
tween the Columbia river and
Hoover dam.
Water is the magic ingredient.
Without it, other resources are
valueless. WITH it, all other re
sources are valuable. Southern
Oregon and Far Northern Cali
fornia have fiber timber in su
perabundance, and the process
ing of fiber timber calls for wa
ter in fabulous quantities.
The stored water and the
power of the Klamath river will
be of benefit to all of Southern
Oregon.
TN CONCLUSION:
If it should ever come about
that there is a SURPLUS of wa
ter in the valley of the Klamath
river it is a certainty that the
people there won't hesitate to
share it with their neighbors of
Southern Oregon and Far North
ern California.
They won't be dogs in the
manger.
Counsel With . . .
r. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP-2-4940
MEDFORD ,
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
a dangerous path. It restated
the Russian refusal to let West
and East Germans hold a free
election to decide their future.
It repeated the Kremlin's de
mand that the 51,000,000 free,
prosperous West Germans nego
tiate with the 16,800,000 restive
East Germans whom Russian
military force is keeping sub
ject to a satellite Communist
government.
There was really nothing new
in the note. But it served as a
reminder to German voters that
Russia alone is keeping their
country divided.
Adenauer denounced the Rus
sian note in a speech as an elec
tion maneuver intended to help
the Socialists.
Socialist leader Eric Ollen
hauer called the note a rebuff
to Adenauer's persistence in a
"policy of strength" by which he
hoped to force Russia to agree
to reunification.
But the voters appear to be
convinced that they would have
nothing to gain ""by giving up
West German's alliance with the
United States and the other
NATO powers in the hope that
Russia would voluntarily loosen
its grip 'on East Germany.
Big Majority Seen '
Undoubtedly the West Ger
mans share the belief of Western
leaders that Russia's grip on its
Communist satellites is inevita-"
bly slipping, however gradually,
and that some day the East Eu
ropean Red bloc will fall to
pieces.
The latest predictions from
West Germany are that Ade
nauer may carry nine of the ten
West German states, leaving the
Socialists a possible majority
only in Hesse.
Adenauer's Christian Demo
crats held 253 of the 497 seats
in the outgoing Parliament. He
had the support of the 32 Ger
man Party-Free People's Party
bloc. The Socialists had 153
seats.
Several months ago the Ade
nauer coalition lost the support
of the Free Democratic Party,
which held 37 seats. Adenauer
is trying to win them back. He
seems to have a good chance
of doing so. If he does, the chief
question in the election prob
ably will be the size of
Ade-
nauer's majority.
Officers Installed
In Honor Society
Don Wilson, 734 West 14th
st., Medford, was installed Chef
de Gare of the Jackson County
Voiture 165 of the 40 et 8, honor
society of the American Legion,
Monday night at the Rogue Riv
er lodge on Crater Lake high
way near Trail.
Installing officer was Grand
Chef de Gare Du Oregon, Har
vey Willis, Astoria. Marlon
Green, Klamath Falls, represent
ed the Grand Cheminots.
A smorgasbord dinner follow
ed installation of officers.
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City.
The basic cause of wrecks
today,
In part is thoughtless
drinkers,
But on the whole,
The greater toll,
Is caused by thoughtless
thinkers.
Bill Fish