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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1947 (Wednesday)
At a meeting of the Medford
board of education held last
night in the offices of the city
hall, a contract was given to
build an addition to the junior
high school on West Second st.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: An upstate
man was kicked by a deer, and
sustained an injured left hand.
The deer told friends he mistook
the victim for a horse-fly that
had been following him all day.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1937 (Friday)
Being exhibited on the court
house lawn is the first of the
small structures sponsored by
the Jackson County Health as
sociation as isolation houses for
tuberculosis victims.
Six seasoned air pilots of the
United Air Lines stopped at
Medford municipal airport yes
terday afternoon on a familiar
ization flight.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1927 (Saturday)-
H. T. (Taylor) Burch, veteran
member of the fire department
and its assistant chief for years,
has resigned recently in accord
ance with a ruling of the city
administration that every mem
ber of the fire department must
be able to drive the fire truck
annaratus.
All kinds of compliments have
ripen showered on Medford
mountain drinking water supply
but it is not generally known
that water can save Medford
users exDenditures because of
its outstanding quality of pure-
ness. 1
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1917 (Monday)
Great interest is being shown
In the auto show at the county
fair to be held during the fair
this week.
Auto supply is reported short
this year, by local dealer.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Of what archipelago are
the Philippine Islands a part?
2. In bowling, are there three,
four, or five rows of pins?
3. Bible: Name the gifts
brought by the "three wise men"
to Jesus.
4. Name - the author .of the
famous novel, "Jane Eyre
5. Which letter of the alpha
bet is omitted from telephone
dials?
6. The marital institution of
a single wife at a time is known
as polygamy, monogamy, or big
amy? 7. U. S. senators serve for
terms of two, four, 6r six years?
8. Is an orangutan a new vari
ety of tangerine, or a seedless
orange?
9. To which does the collo
quial contraction "ma'am" ap
ply: madam, my lady, mistress,
damsel?
10. Which beloved person
popularized the expression: "All
I know is what I read in the
papers."?
Answers: 1. Malay Archipela
go. 2. Four. 3. Gold, frankin
cense, myrrh. 4, Charlotte Brn
je. 5. "Q.". 6. Monogamy. . 7.
fx. 8. No, it is an anthropoid
c.je. 9- Madam; my lady. 10.
Will Rogers.
MAIL TRIBUNE
'Government of Laws, Not Men9?
According. to a special
R. L, President Eisenhower was much "pleased with
the success of his conference with Governor Faubus.
- Success?
The only evidence given in the dispatch is the
statement credited to the President, quote:
"You can't legislate morality into people in dealing
with the civil rights problem."
XF course not.
w Nor can you legislate morality INTO people,
in dealing with the "teen-age" or the traffic or the
homicide problem.
You can only make laws against wrong-doing, and
one of the first commandments of our democracy is
for every official and every citizen to obey those laws,
and enforce them.
"11AS this point made
TT The special dispatch
exact agreement was reached m that Newport con
ference, only that the result was entirely pleasing
to the President.
Was it equally pleasing
ansas?
We hope so.
Certainly the point must have , been brought out,
that a Governor takes an oath to uphold the constitu
tion of the United States, and see that the laws thereof
are enforced.
But instead of doing this Governor Faubus called
out the National Guard .to
breakers, and nullify the
by the U.S. Supreme Court.
..
"1X7 AS such a course condoned by the President on
" " the ground that "you can't legislate morality into
the people?
This would be hard to
ing to indicate to date ' Governor Faubus was dis
pleased with the conference, or that he has any in
tention whatever, of changing his course. In fact,
he stated after it, with a considerable show of pride,
that nothing, for the present
and the people of his state
ingly approve his stand.
.-'"
"IX7ELL, one Southern
1 in the border state of Tennessee, Governor Cle
ment declares he believes the decision of the U.S
Supreme Court was a mistake, but it is for THAT
tribunal, under .the Constitution, not for him,' to say
what the law of the land
And so long as that IS the law, he says he will
both obey and enforce it. Instead of following the
course of his Arkansas colleague, and calling out the
National Guard to prevent enforcement, he will call
them out, if needed, to see
Governor Chandler of
ilar announcement. He will
to uphold the constitution
IT is difficult to see how
in the union could take
as everyone now knows, Governor Faubus did.
And as certainly no one would deny, if he can re
fuse to obey the law of the land, and get away with
it, with the government's acquiescense, then any other
governor can do the same. Moreover there is no doubt
that in such an event every governor in the "Black
South" would follow suit,
cerned. '
MOT only that.
x But if one Southern Governor can violate his oath
of office and nullify the constitution, because he
doesn't like some provision,
northern state or anv state can under the same
pretext of "preventing bloodshed" take the same
action. . : '
A ND then where would we be? And where would
x be our proud boast that in this democracy "your
huddled masses yearning to be free, are welcome,
and this is a land where no discriminations are made
because of "race, religion or creed?"
IT will be claimed, no doubt, that this is taking the
issue too seriously, going to unwarranted extremes.
But we happen to believe the issue IS serious, not only
at home but abroad; and that it is not those who
would insist that the laws of the land be ENFORCED,
but those who insist force should be used to prevent
enforcement, that are going to the extremes.
After all hasn't it been generally admitted in this
country that this is a "land of laws not of men?"
. . . . , .
TI7HAT becomes of this claim when men are al-
V lowed to break the laws. and the highest author
ity in a state supports that lawlessness?
Certainly to say you can't "legislate morality into
people" is no answer. : :
The highest moral obligation in any democracy
is to obey the law so long as it IS the iaw. If any citi
zen or governor or what
law, let him work for its
for its violation.
AS we see it, the only proper course to take in this
"segregation situation has been taken by the Gov
ernors of Tennessee and Kentucky. They don't like
the law, but so long as it is
it.
It is of course, not too
things come to a final showdown, the present admin
istration will support their
Governor of Arkansas!
Tuesday, September 17, 1957
dispatch from Newport,
-
clear to Governor Faubus?
says nothing about what
to the Governor of Ark
uphold the potential law'
Constitution as interpreted
believe. Yet there is noth
at least, will be changed,
and the South overwhelm
Governor doesn't at least
is, and what it ISN T.
that the law IS-enforced
Kentucky has made a sim
call out his national guard
not violate it.
any Governor of any state
any different course. But
as far as segregation is con
then any Governor of a
not, doesn't LIKE the
repeal or amendment, not
the law they will enforce
late to hope that when
position, NOT that of the
R.W.R.
win ; .
f.o3u-ia meeo
Well. TOIWHi W0 K4S A
Hoffa Rival Declares
Chicago Teamsters'
Action is 'Victory'
By RICHARD A. MONTABA
United Press Corespondent
Chicago (IP) Thomas J. Hag
gerty, "clean up" candidate for
president of the International
Teamsters Union, today claimed
the Chicago Teamster Joint
Council handed him a "decided
victory" in his race against
James R. Hoffa.
Haggerty referred to the Chi
cago council's decision Monday
night to release - its 180 dele
gates, previously pledged to
Hoffa, from the unit rule. That
means they will be able to vote
as they please at the Teamsters'
international convention in Mi
ami, Fla., later this month.
However, Haggerty's victory
was less than complete as the
35,000-member joint council re
fused to revoke its earlier en
dorsement of Hoffa for the $50,
000 a year post vacated by Dave
Beck.
. The council, which will rep
resent about 10 per cent of the
voting strength at the conven
tion, endorsed Hoffa Aug. 31 be
fore , Haggerty became a candi
date. ;
Haggerty "Jubilant"
- Although Haggerty failed to
win the council's endorsement,
he said its " decision to release
delegates frorn the unit rule
made him "more confident than
ever" he would be elected presi
dent. The 52-year-old 4 treasurer of
the Chicago Milk Drivers Local
753 said he was "jubilant" over
the outcome and termed it "a
decided victory for me."
"Without unit rule binding
them," Haggerty said, "delegates
will be left alone with their
conscience in the balloting."
Hoffa, contacted in - Detroit,
appeared just as certain that the
council's action amounted to a
victory for him.
They (the council) reaffirm
ed the fact that they will en
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In the city of Maceio, capital
of the state of Alagoas in the
normally rather tranquil South
American nation of Brazil day
before yesterday, the legislature
was debating impeachment pro
ceedings . directed at the gover
nor of the state.
The argument got .hot and the
legislators pulled- guns and
SHOT IT OUT. When the smoke
cleared away one legislator was
dead and six others were seri
ously wounded.
GENTLEMEN! Gentlemen! -THAT'S
THE WAY NA
TIONS ACT!
If individal citizens ever start
acting like nations the world's
a .goner.
HERE'S an example of the way
fOMMTTNTST nations art-
A demand that Russia with
draw its troops and permit elec
tions in Hungary has just been
endorsed by the United Nations
in a resolution condemning So
viet suppression of last year's
revolt in Hungary.
The chief Soviet delegate td
the World Inter-Parliamentary
Union angrily protested the
U.N. action as UNWARRANT
ED INTERFERENCE IN THE
INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF HUN
GARY. IN an effort to make plainer
just what happened, let's put
it this way:
Suppose you took over your
neighbor's house by armed
force, beating the. tar out of him
if he resisted and maybe shoot
ing his wife and children
And suppose the police, moved
in to stop you and you protested
their action as UNWARRANT
ED INTERFERENCE with your
personal affairs
Well -
In that event
You'd be acting EXACTLY as
this communist Russian official
is acting. His argument is that
KAWAINTED Hg ! '
dorse me for president," Hoffa
told United Press. "They did
not put into effect the unit rule
because they have never operat
ed under the unit rule."
Hoffa's last statement was dis
puted by Ray Schloessing, Chi
cago joint council president, who
said "historically,' this council
has always gone to a convention
bound by the unit rule."
Haggerty, who also is a mem
ber of the Chicago Board of
Education and a civic leader,
scored another victory Monday
when the executive board of
the Cincinnati Joint Council of
Teamsters . voted him its . solid
support. '
But he suffered a setback a
few hours later when the largest
Canadian Teamster local, which
was backing his 1 candidacy,, was
suspended and its voting rights
in the cbnvention cancelled.
Haggerty charged the Gen
eral Truck Drivers Local 938
of Toronto was suspended be
cause it had endorsed him in
stead of Hoffa.
He urged the suspension be
"taken up by the international
council's legislators," and indi
cated he felt the suspension
would be revoked.
Local President William Mills
in Toronto, charged Hoffa mov
ed to suspend the local to stran
gle Hoffa's . opposition to the
union's top office.
The international union said
it suspended the Toronto local
because the Canadian unit fail
ed to pay $22,000 in per capita
taxes. Mills termed the interna
tional's explanation "trumped
up charges."
"It's Beck and his followers
trying to clear the way for Hoffa
by eliminating Haggerty from
the list of candidates," Mills
said.
Haggerty plans to leave Chi
cago Friday to seek support
from eastern teamster leaders.
JENKINS
Russia has a perfect right to con
quer all her neighbors and that
nobody has any right to stop her,
THAT attitude is one reason
why communism is so foul
that in time it must fall of the
weight of its own foulness.
"OUT that's enough about for-
eign affairs. Let's turn to the
U.S. farm front.
On Thursday, Wisconsin's new
ultra-"liberal" Senator Prox-
mire sent President Eisenhower
a telegram king him flatly to
fire , Secretary of Agriculture
Benson.
Ike's answer was to ask Sec
retary Benson to stay in his cab
inet INDEFINITELY.
Secretary Benson promptly
agreed to do so.
A FTER announcing his agree-
ment to remain in the cabi
net as long as the President
wants him there, Secretary Ben
son told the reporters that the
E i s e n h o wer administration's
new farm policy will contain at
least two MAJOR points:
1. A move to REPEAL the 75
per cent of parity support floor
under "basic"-crops.
2. A move to relax production
controls on major crops.
rpHAT takes courage and
-- there hasn't been much cour
age in politics lately.
What will happen? '
We'll see what we'll see. Here
in Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California, where we
grow little or none of these basic
crops and where we have been
hurt by the planting, to our spe
cialty crops of land taken out of
production of corn, wheat, cot
ton, rice and peanuts, we'll hope
that Ike and Secretary . Benson
get away with what they are
starting. '
Personally, I can see ho other
way - to return to agricultural
sanity.
Hints Seen
Prestige as
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Nikita S. Khrushchev's pres
tige as the No. l man in Soviet
Russia's collective leadership
seems to be
dimming. His
recent victory
over Georgi M.
Malenkov, Vlar
cheslav M. Mo
lotov and Lazar
M, Kaganovich
in the ruling
Presidium of
the Russian
Charles McCann communist Par
ty has failed to strengthen his
personal position.
On the contrary, it has seem
ed to make it more apparent that
he is not a "strong man" of the
Matter of Fact by stew0rt aiSoP
QUESTIONS FOR THE
PRESIDENT
Washington Most people
have happily accepted the Eisen
hower administration's assur-
I ances that the
successful So
viet test of an
intercontinen -tal
missile
doesn't matter
much and
changes noth
ing. But there
have . been a
few v o i c.e s,
stewait Anon crying in the
wilderness, that it matters a
great deal and changes every
thing. ::
Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis
souri said on Thursday that the
country is being "mislead" by
the Eisenhower administration's
"sweet talk" about the . ICBM.
Symington sometimes seems to
be the only politician left in the
land who is willing to face the
politically unpalatable facts of
our situation. But the bluntest
indictment of the Official reac
tion to the Soviet ICBM tests
appeared in a full page editorial
in "Aviation Week," a magazine
which has a genuinely brilliant
record of reporting the facts of
the true balance of Soviet and
American air power. ;
Since "Aviation Week" has a
limited circulation, the editorial
seems worth quoting at some
length. "Official . government
statements on the Russian ICBM
firings . have been deliberately
misleading," the editorial charg
es bluntly.
'TPHESE official statements by
President Eisenhower, Sec
retary of State Dulles, and. Dep
uty Defense Secretary Quarles,"
the editorial continues, "have
been manipulated solely for the
political effect . . . the White
House and the Pentagon know
when the Russians began their
ICBM test firings, they know ap
proximately how many rounds
have been fired to date and the
general performance of these
rounds in altitude and range
They also know how long the
Soviets have been firing inter
mediate range missiles, where
these test firings have been
made and the general progress
of this program. These are cer
tainly not facts that need con
cealing from the Russians, so
why conceal them f rom , the
American people? Even the
methods by which this informa
tion is scientifically collected
are known to the Soviets and
there is littie they can do except
Diuster to stop this process."
This blunt indictment in a re
sponsible magazine suggests cer
tain questions which President
Eisenhower might profitably.be
asKed when next he holds a
press conference. Here are some
of them:
Is it true that we have means
by which data on Soviet missile
firings can be "scientifically col
lected?" If it is true, why cannot this
information, which is Of course
known to the Russians, be com
municated to the Congress and
the people?
Is it true that the Soviets first
began testing' intermediate mis
siles, some with ranges well
over 1,000 miles, more than two
years ago?
Is it true that in certain re
cent months the rate of testing
has topped five a month?
IS IT true that, as a result of
cording to your own national
intelligence estimates, it must
be assumed that the Soviets al
ready have operational medium
range missiles, capable of de
stroying our forward air bases
and our allies' capitals?
Is it true, as your Secretary of
Defense, Charles Wilson, indi
cated a few days ago, that it will
be at least a year before the
United States produces its first
medium range ballistic . missile
ready for operational use?
If these things are true, is it
not then also true that the Rus
sians must be well over a year
ahead of us in developing the
medium range missile?
Is it true that, well before the
Russian announcement, you and
other high officials were quite
aware that the Soviets had test
ed not one but several long
range, multi-stage ballistic mis
siles? -
Is it true that our own ICBM
program has only reached the
point of testing the initial, first-
MftSaHMMSS
That Khrushchev's
'No V Slipping
Josef Stalin type
Khrushchev won out narrow
ly In the Presidium dispute
only with the aid of Marshal
Georgi Zhukov, defense minis
ter and army leader..
Zhukov and Vice Premier
Anastas I. Mikoyan increased
their own strength as members
of the collective leadership.
There are indications now that
the friendship between Khrush
chev and Zhukov may be cool
ing. Harvest Poses Problem
Khrushchev must be worried,
also, over the serious lag in
the Russian harvest. -
Pravda, the Communist Party
newspaper, and other organs are
complaining of the delay in the
grain harvests in Siberia, the
stage rocket, and that the prob
lems of adding the second stage,
and maintaining guidance, re
main to be solved?
If this is true, is it not then
also reasonable to assume that
in the field of long range mis
siles as well the Soviets are de
cisively ahead of us?
S IT not reasonable to assume,
I
as the Soviets themselves
have indicated, that their cen
tral purpose- in making such an
enormous effort to vin the mis
siles races is to bring our strate
gic air bases under threat of in
stant thermonuclear destruc
tion? If the Soviets maintain their
apparent lead in the missile
race, is it not further reasonable
to assume that a time will come
when the American capability to
inflict "massiye retaliation,
which is the heart and soul of
American strategic doctrine,
will be compromised?
And finally, if all these things
are true, might it not be wise for
you, as the leader of the Ameri
can people, to inform them of
the real facts of their situation,
and to ask of them, whatever sac
rifices may be necessary to en
sure that the race for missile
supremacy is not won by the
Soviets? Might it not be wiser
to do this than to -take the risk
that Senator Symington might
be proved right in his dour pre
diction: "If the policies of this
government are not changed, it
is only a question oi time before
we will lose our country"?
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Gl Loans Dealt Death
ew Rates
Gearhart, Ore. r (IP) A mort
gage loan banker warned Mon
day that money markets no long
er are willing to accept the yield
on FHA and GI loans.
Albert L. Bucher, vice presi
dent of Commonwealth, Inc..
told the Oregon Association of
Real Estate Boards that con
trolled discount rates have dealt
a death blow to GI loans. The
rates were put into effect last
month.
He added that FHA could be
lost if the interest rate is not
allowed to seek the market level,
He warned against what he call
ed "a trend in FHA to social
ized housing." ,
E. E. Tate, chief of loan guar
antees in the 'state office of the
veterans administration, told
realtors that applications for GI
home loans had dropped to less
than 10 per cent of the volume
of a year ago.
Dave Epps Appointed
To Forestry Committee
Salem (IP) Dave Epps, Sweet
Home businessman and civic
leader, was named to serve on
the governor's forest protection
and conservation committee
Monday.
Epps, a Democrat, was ap
pointed by Gov. Robert D.
Holmes to a four-year term on
the committee. He succeeds Carl
E. Davidson, Portland, whose
term expired June 30.
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
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Phone SP-2-4940
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MEDFORD
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central Asian republic of Ka
zakhstan, and Byelorussia.
Insufficient machinery and In
efficiency are being blamed for
the situation.
But Khrushchev will be lucky
if he can absolve himself from
a big share of the blame. He has
assumed personal responsibility
for the overall agricultural pro
gram. There is no suggestion that
Khrushchev's job as first secre
tary of the Russian Communist
Party is in danger.
Zhukov Top Man?
But it is possible that Zhukov
is really the strong man in the
Presidium at present, and that
Khrushchev is dependent on his
support.
There are reports in European
capitals that the next big move
in Moscow may be another gov
ernment reshuffle. It is suggest
ed that Nikolai A. Bulganin may
be replaced as premier by Miko
yan. In that event Bulganin
would be kicked upstairs, offi
cially, by replacing Marshal
Kliment Y. Voroshilov as the
figurehead president of Russia.
Voroshilov is 76, and has long
been ready to retire.
If Bulganin were replaced, it
would be because he sided, for
awhile, with Malenkov, Molotov
and Kaganovich in their attempt
to . oust Khrushchev from ' the
Communist Party leadership.
But the replacement would
be simply a tidying-up job in
the Presidium. It would not nec
essarily mean that Khrushchev
is. stronger.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must beat
the name and address ot the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name- or
initial for publication is permis
sible The Mail Tribune reserves
the richt to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
sation Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
Raffelsia, Birdsnesti and Teak'
To the Editor: The largest
flower , is Raffelsia. Three feet
in diameter, it weighs up to 15
pounds, has a strong carrion
odor. It was discovered by Sir
Stamford Raffles. This remark
able man was governor when
Java was English. He liberated
slaves, founded Singapore, cre
ated a college there to study of
Malay and Chinese- literature.
Returning-to England, he found
ed the Zoological society, be
came its first president;
When, at the Century's turn,
we were in the Spice islands be
fore they were ppened to ,tourist
travel, Sir Stamford ranked
with Sir James Brooke, "Rajah
of Sarawak," as the . two great
statesmen who did much for. the
Malays.
Sarawak was famous for, the
birdsnests of Chinese soup, also
for its teak. Teak is used on, bat
tleships. It does not splinter un
der shell fire. Writer came to
know its beauty in Siam, Bur
mah, Spice islands. Our home is
of teak.'
Now comes news American
Know How penetrates Borneo, is
added to British genius there.
Our National Parks concept is
our gift to mankind. Now Sara
wak has created Bako National
Park. It has fine jungles,' rare
airplants, also many insectivor
ous plants. ' - , -C.
M. Goethe, -Seventh
and J sts.,
Sacramento 14, Calif.
Savings Bond Sales in .
County Show Decline
Savings bond sales in Jack
son county showed a decline
from $114,107 in August, 1955,
to $90,000, last month, accord
ing to George W Mimnaugh,
state director of bond sales. -
Jackson county savings bond
sales showed a decline from
$828,758 to $661,967 last year
through August to this year
through August, he noted.'
Oregon residents bought
$2,988,176 worth of series E
bonds last month, he said.
INSURANCE REPLACES
lost capital which in turn
creates job opportunities.
1 SINCE YOUR AGENT de
termines the ability of the .
insurer to pay these losses,
his policy and that of ,the
company are most import
ant to you.
YOU CAN BE SURE OF
THE POLICY BACK OF
THE POLICY AT
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AtiENCY.
. . Bill Fish