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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1947 (Thursday)
A 300-foot section of highway
near the Siskiyou summit slides
into a canyon.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Control of
weeds on a prominent corner lot
has been started. Concrete will
be smeared over - the surface
thereof.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1937 (Sunday)
Three Medford Boy Scouts
who visited Holland during the
World Jamboree are expected
home this week.
After several years, a public
transportation system is again
supplying Medford pedestrians
with conveyance.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1927 (Sunday)
Six-year-old girl wins Rotary
club candidacy for queen of the
"Jubilee of visions realized"
here.
Mysterious porcupine which
wandered down Medford streets
Thursday and battled with a
rattler is still at large today.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1917 (Tuesday)
All Medford women 16 years
and older will be asked to regis
ter as members of the woman's
committee of the United States
Council of National Defense as
part of Oregon's war effort.
From local and personal col
umn: Up to today the Medford
Fruit company has shipped six
carloads of peaches and two of
tomatoes from the city to vari
ous destinations about the coun
try. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is soperior;
seven or debt Is excellent; five or
six is good
1. Is it Iran, or Iraq, which
formerly was called Persia?
2. Where is Harvard Univer
sity located?
3. Bible. The cities of which
nation were "great and walled
up to Heaven?"
4. Prawn is a chessman, the
tine of a fork, caramel candy, or
a seafood delicacy?
5. Does a storage battery de
liver direct or alternating cur
rent? 6. Which State of the U.S. has
a capital named for a mythical
bird?
7. In which two months of the
year do the equinoxes occur?
8. How many "Jungle Books"
did Rudyard Kipling write?
9. Is it proper to use "would
have" in expressing a wish?
10. E. Howard (1912): "I won
der who's kissing" who
"now?"
Answers: 1. Iran. 2. Cambridge,
Mass. 3. Canaan. 4. Seafood del
icacy. 5. Direct. 6. Arizona
(Phoenix). 7. March and Septem
ber. 8. Two. 9. No "I wish he
had (not "would have") left ear
lier." 10. "her".
'Buddy' Plan Adopted
In Nebraska City
Lincoln. Neb. TP This city
of 100. 000 has inaugurated a
"buddy" plan designed to double
the mileage obtained from Police
and Fire department personnel.
Under the arrangement, each
police officer driving a cruiser
car on a regular beat takes along
a deputized fireman.
The plan provides support for
the one-man cruiser policeman
and results in quicker reporting
and handling of fires on the
scene, officials report.
MAIL TRIBUNE
County Subdivision Ordinance
We hold no brief for the so-called "subdivision
ordinance" which has caused such a ruckus in some
circles in the county recently.
It is a long and detailed document, and some of
its requirements would appear at first glance to be
unduly restrictive. For people owning substantial
acreages in semi-suburban areas, it is understandable
for them to oppose it, for it would restrict them in
the sale and development of their property for resi
dential purposes.
So restrictive is the ordinance as written, indeed,
that we have been told there are only two or three
real estate and development firms in the entire county
which could afford to abide by its provisions.
MONETHELESS, we feel that opposition to ANY
kind of subdivision ordinance, or to ANY kind
of county building code, or to ANY kind of zoning
requirements, is extremely short-sighted.
This country was not built on blind opposition to
change of any kind far from it. It was built on adapt
ing to change, to forming it and shaping it to provide
the best attainable for as many people as possible.
If ordinances of this kind were ALL bad, they
certainly would not have become as universal as they
are today throughout the nation. They were developed
through trial and error, and in response to increasing
demands as the population grew, for protection from
unregulated exploitation.
IT CAN be said, and with some truth, that "There
1 are too blankety-blank many laws," and "Why
shouldn't I be able to do as I darn please with my
property? I paid for it.".
The answer, a moment's thought will reveal, is
that laws are always passed at the demand of people,
usually a majority of them,
you darn please with your
YOU DON'T HURT SOMEONE ELSE while doing it.
It is simply a matter of putting into legislative
form the old democratic adage of "The greatest good
for the greatest number."
AS LONG as the population was relatively small,
and the towns and cities and suburban and urban
areas were uncrowded, there was no need for this
type of regulation and control.
But as cities grew, it was found that building
codes, zoning regulations, and so on, were necessary
for the protection of the majority, from those who,
innocently or deliberately, would do the things which
would harm the property of others, and thus destroy
property values.
In cities, this type of thing is now accepted and
approved. With the tremendous growth of the suburbs
in recent years, it is becoming more and more appar
ent that, sooner or later, similar controls will have to
be extended.
'"THE proposed subdivision ordinance is simply a
1 step in this direction, toward providing regulations
which ultimately will work for the benefit of the
majority of residents.
As stated, we hold no brief for the particular ordi
nance in question. Very likely it is too restrictive, and
thus unfair, as its critics have charged.
But we would like to point out that something like
it is going to be necessary to prevent the growth of
sub-standard and unattractive suburban communities.
That's all it is intended to do. If it exceeds that, it goes
too far. If it falls short, it is inadequate.
We're going to need something in between, and
the county will be failing in its responsibilities if it
does not take steps to provide it, either by ordinance
on its own motion, or by approval of the voters. E.A.
Walking at Night
A pleasant-appearing gentleman dropped in to the
office last week to ask us to write something about
how dangerous it is for pedestrians to walk on high
ways particularly at night, and particularly in dark
clothing.
He had -the strongest possible motivation, for he
told us he was the driver of a car which some weeks
ago struck and killed a man in the 'Camp White area.
He was still having nightmares about that event,
which was to him a memoiy of horror.
X7E TOLD our visitor that safety warnings in news-
papers are never going to save any lives, at all,
unless people read them and take them to heart.
But if such a warning does nothing but add a little
to public consciousness as to safety, it is worth it.
His particular accident was almost a "classic"
case in point to illustrate the dangers to pedestrians.
The victim was walking on the highway itself, in the
dark, and was in dark clothing. The driver never did
see him until after he heard the "thump" of the car
striking the body.
A UTOMOBILE headlights, good as they are, still
are no substitute for daylight. A, pedestrian, see
ing them shining so brightly, is apt to believe the
driver can see everything ahead. But the fact is that
other approaching headlights can momentarily blind
him. And a person in dark clothing is virtually in
visible from a car, no matter how good the headlights.
If you're going to walk near a highway, stay off
the pavement, and if at night be sure to wear light
colored clothing. It might save your life. E.A.
Roses to Be Planted Along
Chicago (W A strip between
the two sides of Chicago's new
Calumet Expressway will be
planted with roses.
According to the American
Municipal Association, the rose
bushes are designed to act as a
Wednesday, September 11. 1957
and that you CAN do as
property, AS LONG AS
New Expressway
net to catch cars hurtling off
the road. They will reduce .'the
glare of headlfghts, act as a snow
fence, prevent U-turns and ab
sorb traffic noises.
They also will be beautiful,
the association added.
...AN'SHEil MAKE USA LOT OF M0HBV, TOO1. 5HE LAVS
A60UT A VOZSH BGG& A W.W GUY SAW. MQPB OR LESS.
Matter of Fact by
HOW IT ENDED
Poznan, Poland It is some
thing of an experience to intro
duce the American technique of
political p o 1 1
ing behind the
famous iron
curtain. At the
o ut s e t, one
even feels a
certain trepi
dation. But
this reporter
can now testi
fy that the ex
perience is
Josepb Alsop
both fruitful and heart-warming.
I wanted to find out, very
simply, how it had ended for
the men who really started the
great change in Poland. So I
went out, poller's notebook in
hand, to Poznan's Czechoslo
wacka. Here there is the work
ers' housing of the Cegielski
steel plant, where the heroic
Poznan strike began in June a
year ago.
By local standards, Czechoslo
wacka is not a bad place. It com
prises eight or nine huge blocks
of one and two and three
roomed flats. The rooms are
tiny. The buildings are dingy.
They stand in a dingy, treeless
expanse. But at least the flats
have their small kitchens and
still smaller bathrooms. There
is only one family in each flat.
And the scores of tow-headed
children playing on the scurfy
grass have a bright-faced liveli
ness that does not suggest real
human misery.
After the charming children,
the huge red . brick church
catches the eye. Even at the
last mass on Sunday morning,
every seat is taken. The aisles
are packed with people. A dense
crowd of young men stands at
the back. And beyond the
church doors, many scores of
men and women kneel on the
bare ground.
THUS the pollers must write
down Czechoslowacka as a
district of devoutly Catholic
skilled workers. This is the
group to be opinion-tested here.
But as one enters the first build
ing and presses the first door
bell, doubts creep in about the
planned opinion test. After all,
vagrant pollsters are too often
greeted with profound suspi
cion in free America and here
in Poland, we are in a still
Communist country which was
also a brutal police state until
less than a year ago.
Promptly, the door is opened
by a large, solid, elderly man
with that air of quiet dignity
one often notices in older hand
workers confident of their own
skill. Behind him, there is a
workworn but neat middle-aged
woman. After the strange visit
is explained, both break into
amiably hospitable smiles. They
show the way to the little din
ing room-living room-children's
bedroom, with its religious pic
tures, its poor ornaments, its
tidy cribs, and its pile of onions
from the garden allotment lying
in the corner.
As is only fitting, the master
of the house leads the conversa
tion with the housewife acting
as chorus. He has worked in the
Cegielski plant over 30 years.
Before the war, he was a Social
Democrat. He joined the strikers
in June a year ago "For how
could I stand aside when my
comrades went into the streets?"
.
IT WAS a funny business, cer
tainly, that strike, for they
had no real hope when it began.
It was a gesture of despair, you
might say. But they were wrong
to despair. "Since October"
that phrase one hears a hundred
times a day in the new Poland
since.. Wladyslaw Gomulka came
to power, everything has been
different.
"It isn't so much the money,"
says the master of the house,
"although I am getting a bit
more money now."
"All the same," interjects the
housewife briskly, "the extra
money counts a lot., We were
hard-driven this month, maybe,
to get a sweater for our Kar
lina and to find the cash for the
winter potatoes. But remember
that I can manage a little meat
on the table every day but Fri-
Joseph Alsop
days nowadays."
"True enough," says the mas
ter of the house with the hus
bandly grin. "But the best thing
is still being free. Before Octo
ber, you could not trust anyone
among the neighbors, in the fac
tory, no matter where. But all
that's over now. We breathe
again. We know our country has
many difficulties. Our new gov
ernment may make mistakes but
we think it is doing its best for
us. So we are content for now."
SAYING farewell, it is hard to
resist the inclination to pinch
oneself; for this first interview
has seemed almost too good to
be true. But in the long day and
a half of continuous, wholly ran
dom doorbell ringing in Czecho
slowacka, it turned out not to.
be too good to be true.
' Some of those interviewed
were much more suspicious.
Some were also really bitterly
poor, when the children were
too many. Some were more gen
erously hospitable. Indeed, at
one point, this reporter found
himself intextricably entangled
in an enormously gay Polish
wedding party, drinking innu
merable toasts in a mixture of
grain alcohol and currant juice
which is locally known as
"Dead - end Mammy," dancing
with the pretty bride, dancing
frenetically with the mother of
the groom, and in general be
having like an old family friend.
But these were minor varia
tions from the norm which was
established by the opening inter
view of the long series. The peo
ple of Czechoslowacka are gen
erally "content for now." That
is how it has ended for them.
So one left their dreary suburb
with a full heart, having seen
how the night of the soul was
followed, at long last, by the
decent dawn of freedom,
(c) 1957
New York Herald Tribune Inc
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Ho! Hum!
What shall 'we talk about in
this column today?
rpHERE is so much to talk
about.
And
Unfortunately
So many of the things we
might talk about are on the grim
and gloomy side having to do
with man's inhumanity to man
and man's insatiable thirst for
POWER.
Out of man's inhumanity to
man and man's insatiable thirst
for power spring most .of the
evils that afflict the world.
A THOUGHT:
-t- Why not talk about TODAY
ITSELF the 9th day of Sep
tember? It's quite a day in history.
ON THIS day September 9
California entered the Union
in 1850.
California MIGHT have re
mained an independent republic.
For a few pregnant days, you
know, there was a California
Republic. It had a v flag the
Bear Flag that is now the Cali
fornia state flag. The Bear flag
wag designed by a relative of
Abraham Lincoln. In February
of 1846 he lay on his stomach
in the sunshine down below Red
Bluff and sketched it out on a
white floursack.
Suppose California had RE
MAINED an independent repub
lic. All history shouts of the
trouble that might have ensued
in such an event. Wars, among
other things would have been
more or less inevitable here on
the Pacific Coast.
.AND
If
ND
California had remained
an independent republic the
more or less imaginary line that
now separates the states of Ore
gon and California would have
been an INTERNATIONAL
BOUNDARY and tariffs would
have shut Southern Oregon cff
from the great and growing mar-
India Backs Russia in Plan To
Include Neutrals in Conference
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
India has given Soviet Rus
sia its backing in the demand
that the membership of the
United Nations
d i 6 a rmament
conference be
enlarged.
In a memo
randum to the
U. N., India
proposes that
new members
be added to
both the 12-
rnaries McCann m e m d e r dis
armament commission and its
five -member subcommittee,
which conducted the recent ne
gotiations in London.
The idea is to get membership
in the commission and the sub
committee for "neutralist" and
possibly Communist countries
which support Russia's demand
for unconditional suspension of
nuclear weapons tests.
It was Russia's stubborn in
sistence on unconditional suspen
sion that broke up the London
talks.
Some Countries Worried
There is no doubt that a lot of
countries are seriously worried
over the effects of radio-active
fallout from the tests.
But what Russia wants is to
get the United States and Great
Britain, its rivals in the nuclear
weapons race,' to stop their tests
without getting a guarantee,
through a system of inspection,
that would prevent any cheat
ing. An unconditional ban also
would protect Russia against the
possibility that France, if not
other countries, might develop
hydrogen bombs. In addition it
would leave Russia with enor
mous superiority over the West
ern Allies in armed strength.
India's memorandum to the
U.N. said it must be admitted
that the present disarmament
subcommittee "does not appear
to be able to achieve tangible
progress or agreement in the
field of disarmament."
Says Danger To Life
The memorandum said also
that there was ever-increasing
danger to all forms of life from
the acumulation af radiation
from weapons tests.
It became clear, in the last
weeks of the London disarma
ment talks, that Russia was out
to add India and other anti-test
countries to the disarmament
commission and especially to the
subcommittee.
Soviet Chief Delegate Valer
ian A. Zorin complained, in a
statement when the London talks
broke up, that all of its mem
bers except Russia are allied in
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
The Western members of the
subcommittee are the United
States, Britain, France and Can
ada. However, as Zorin well knew,
the Western members were cho
sen because they are the most
important atomic powers, along
with Russia. The United States
and Britain were chosen because
they actually have developed nu-
JENKINS
Jket that practically guarantees
our industrial future.
ON THIS day in 1943, Italy
rfAnlarprl war rn nermanv
On this day in 1919 the Boston
police forces went on strike and
made Calvin Cooidge a national
figure when as governor of Mas
sachusetts he declared that such
things just couldn't be permit
ted. On September 9, 1776, the
Second Continental Congress
agreed on the term UNITED
STATES instead of United Col
onies. THIS Monday, September 9, is
A the 252nd day of the year
1957, with 113 more days to fol
low. The moon is in its full phase.
The morning star is Mercury.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. If you
will take the time to read up
on the origins of the names of
all these stars, you will have
quite a lot of interesting reading
to do.
So
You see
There is ALWAYS something
to talk about.
Righf-of-Wav Deeds
Signed for Work
Right-of-way deeds for im
provement of Old Stage rd. near
Jacksonville have been signed,
according to Ralph James, coun
ty commissioner.
James said the contractor
would be notified to proceed
with construction estimated to
total about $156,703.50. Work
on the road from Jacksonville to
Ross lane includes widening,
straightening curves, levelling
hilly stretches and providing a
more adequate ballast for road
foundation, it was explained.
Construction already has start
ed on a bridge across Jackson
creek. Costs are shared propor
tionally by federal, state and
cojinty ..governments.
clear weapons. France was cho
sen partly because it is one of
the Big Three Western Allies,
partly because it is able to de
velop nuclear weapons .if it
chooses. Canada was included
because of its uranium and other
natural resources.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei A. Gromyko and Indian De
fense Minister V. A. Krishna
Menon are to represent their
Today and
By Walter
NULLIFICATION IN
ARKANSAS
It is reasonably plain that Gov.
Faubus put on his show at the
Central High School in Little
Rock, not in
order to" pre
vent disorder,
but in order to
nullify the de
cision of the
Supreme
Court. He has
h i m s elf ad
mitted that he
was persuaded
Walter Lippmann to act during
a visit to Arkansas on Aug. 22
by the Governor of Georgia.
And although it has been denied
from Georgia that the two Gov
ernors reached an understand
ing, Gov. Faubus has in" fact
done precisely what he was told
that Gov. Griffin was prepared
to do in his state.
The circumstances of the
whole affair indicate, indeed
proove, that the Governor's de
cision to use the National Guard
to keep the Negro children out
of the school was taken some
time before there could have
been any manifestation of the
mob. We know on the highest
local authority in Little Rock,
that the Mayor and of the School
Board, that the mob disorder
did not precede but has follow
ed the intervention of the Na
tional Guard troops.
The Mayor is insisting that the
local police were quite adequate
to cope with any trouble that
might have arisen if there had
been no provocation by the Gov
ernor's "unwarranted inter
ference ... to create tension
where none existed." If the Gov
ernor had really been concern
ed, as he pretends to be, with
the danger of mob disorder' he
would not have sent in the Na
tional Guard until there was
some evidence that the local po
lice were inadequate. What, in
fact, he did was to supersede the
local police before there was any
disorder at all.
fTiHE Governor's conduct in the
affair makes it seem very
likely that the crisis has been
engineered, and that Arkansas
was picked for an experiment.
and that Gov. Faubus was horn
swoggled into providing a test
case for an adventure in nulli
fication. It was a smart idea to
pick Gov. Faubus and Arkansas
For the Governor has not in the
past been known as an absolute
segregationist. Nor has the state
of Arkansas been, like the states
of the Deep South, irreconcil
able, and there has been some
integration in some of the Ar
kansas schools. If a precedent
for outright nullification could
be established in a state like
Arkansas, there would be little
to argue about if Georgia follow
ed suit.
There is very strong internal
evidence for believing that the
Little Rock crisis was engineer
ed in order to establish a pat
tern and a precedent for nullifi
cation. The evidence is in the
fact that the actual situation in
Little Rock was, before the Gov
ernor intervened, the very op
posite of the situation on which
rests the case of the South. Dur
ing the summer in the debate in
the Senate on the civil rights
bill, there came to be a national
understanding by all sections of
the country that mtergration is
not to be imposed on Southern
communities where the white
citizens are predominatly op
posed. But in Little Rock the plan
of integration was drawn up by
the local school board, and it
was explained for months to the
civic organizations of Little
Rock. It was, moreover, an ex
tremely moderate plan to
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countries in the U.N. Assembly
debate on disarmament, which
is likely to start about Oct. 1.
That means there will be a
flood of propaganda speeches.
Both Gromyko and Krishna
Menon are tireless talkers.
But the Allied countries, and
those who back them, certainly
are not going to agree to any un
conditional ban on weapons
testing.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
admit nine Negro children
among 1,900 white children, and
to proceed gradually over a pe
riod of six years to admit a few
more handfuls. The Little Rock
plan called in fact for a token
integration, just enough to estab
lish symbolically the principle,
not remotely enough to have any
appreciable effect on the social
order of the city.
Gov. Faubus, and those with
whom he has thrown in his lot,
are acting exactly as they would
have acted if they intended to
precipitate an irreconcilable
conflict in the hope that the
Federal government will accept
defeat. They have acted in a
manner which, if they intended
it, could not have been calculat
ed more shrewdly to spoil the
progress towards an under
standing and an accommodation
which the country owes to Sen.
Russell of Georgia, to Sen. Lyn
don Johnson and to Speaker
Rayburn.
THE President cannot, it need
hardly me said, retreat and
surrender. Gov. Faubus has
raised a critical issue which is
whether the National Guard of a
state may be used to prevent
local communities within that
state from obeying the law of
the land. Is it the right of a state
to employ military force to
nullify the Constitution?
The President is bound, so it
seems to me, not to consider
that this affair is settled until a
clear precedent has been estab
lished which rules out the use of
the National Guard as an instru
ment of nullification.
Congress and the President
have both ruled out the use of
Federal troops to impose integra
tion. The necessary corollary is
to rule out the use of state troops
to impose segregation. The prin
ciple is clear and the President
will have overwhelming support
from the country in supporting
it by all the legal powers at his
command.
A failure to support the prin
ciple would not only be igno
minious. It would be a betrayal
of the liberal Southern leaders,
leaving them at the mercy of the
rabid segregationists with whom
they have been contending so
valiantly and so well.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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airlines are preparing to take
a new step in their campaign
against "no-show" passengers
who fail to cancel their reserva
tions when their travel plans
change. Effective Sunday, Sept.
15, "no-shows" will have to pay
a $3 penalty.
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