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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 18, 1947 (Thursday)
Prices paid for important food
commodities in Medford range
from 40 per cent on bread to
285 per cent on flour, according
to study.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge pot column: "California
hunters were hard put on the
opening day of the season. In
the state seven were arrested for
refusal to fight a brush fire, and
20 were summoned for jury
service."
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 18. 1937 Sunday)
Rogue River national forest
receipts for the 1937 fiscal year
totaled $33,412.47.
The Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce supports Curry
county in its suit to enjoin desig
nated mining in the Rogue River
watershed.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 18. 1927 (Sunday)
Marking the end of the first
Grange fair ever attempted here,
the Jackson County Products
show closes following a three
day run.
Myron Carver, Portland, shot
and killed while hunting in the
Evans creek district.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 18. 1917 (Tuesday)
County fair opens with a bar
becue served on the Natatorium
grounds.
Four young men caught trying
to evade officers in bringing-a
quantity of liquor from Horn
brook to Medford area.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine of ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Is the capital of the Domin
ion of Canada located at Mon
treal, Victoria, Quebec, or Ot
tawa. 2. A starfish has four, five, or
six points?
3. Bible: What kind of wood
did Noah use to build the Ark?
4. A puck is- used in polo,
hockey, or chess?
5. What was Mohandas K
Gandhi's middle name?
6. The "Highland Fling" is a
folk dance of which country?
7. Is there a known insulator
for magnetism?
8. Who was Vice - President
when Herbert Hoover was U. S.
President?
9. Which of the following three
words are misspelled: Accident-
ly, geneology, privelege?
10. "A wondrous bird the peli
can; His mouth holds more
than his bellican;He takes in
his beak enough food for a
weekBut I'm damned if I see
how the hellican." This was the
favorite limerick of which Presi
dent? Answers: 1. Ottawa. 2. Five.
3. "Gopher wood." 4. Hockey 5.
Karamchand. 6. Scotland. 7. No.
8. Charles Curtis. 9. All three.
10. Woodrow Wilson.
STOPPED BY DIME
Milwaukee, Wis. HP) "Nei
ther a borrower nor a talker
be". advice that would s have
helped James Harris, 27, who
borrowed a dime to make a
phone call. The lender turned
out to be police detective Wil
liams Brown who heard Harris
mention "police" on the phone
Brown questioned Harris and
learned he was wanted for eight
parking violations.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Plane
The news that three Roseburg men are attempting
to salvage a wrrecked aircraft from the bottom of
Little Fish Lake, a tiny body of water in the Umpqua
river drainage area in the eastern Douglas county,
brings vividly to mind the
how the plane got there in
In late January of 1949, an alarm was sounded
for a light, two-place plane, piloted by John L. Krause
Jr., of Antioch, Calif., a student pilot making his first
cross-country solo flight. He was northbound out of
Redding, had been sighted
and beyond that no one
AIR rescue units, using
vehicles, moved to Medford from McChord field,
and set up headquarters.
ing old PBY amphibian,
thousands of square miles of country where the miss
ing plane could have gone down. Other private air
craft joined the search.
Five days passed, and
bad weather and snow-covered forests, was unavail
ing. The hunt was just about to be abandoned, on the
theory that no pilot could
winter weather, even if he
A BOUT mid - afternoon
search, a B-26 bomber,
swung several miles east
y-1
(wny it am so, no one was ever ioia), ana me tan
gamer, idly looking down' at the snow-covered hills,
saw a dot on a patch ot white. Curious, ne mentionea
it to the pilot, who swung
to takp Innk.
As they roared over the
paicii vl winie was a nuen larte, uie uui wao an an
plane, and beside the airplane was a tiny figure, wav
ino- bnfh nrms.
The plane's crew knew
radioed the CAA m Medtord to ask it a aownea plane
had been reported. The bomber was asked to return,
circle Medford, and then lead the big old amphibian
over the lake.
THE PBY lumbered after
i . 1 L J.T- -
minutes, ana just as uie eany winter uariuiess was
falling, swooped low over the lake. With the last rays
of the sun glinting on it, the
and resumed its flight north, while the amphibian
began its laborious circling around, down into the
canyon over the lake, then straining every fiber to
climb out of the canyon again. Sometimes it seemed
to brush the tree-tops. '
On the first pass, a kit
parachuted down. On the second, an Army doctor,
looking like a man from Mars in his heavy clothing,
burdened down by equipment, and protected by a
helmet. and mask, plunged through the gun-blister of
the plane, and floated down
On the third turn, a corporal in the medics followed
him. Those on the plane rushed to the side to watch,
and nearly wrecked the
with their weight.
MEANWHILE, rescue parties had started by snow
shoe and Sno-Cat for the lake, and "Lucky John
ny Krause" was brought out, unharmed, the next day.
He'd made a safe belly-landing on the soft snow
over the frozen lake, and had found a ranger's cabin
with stove wood and food, and "had been completely
comfortable during the five
The plane was burned
lake, as it might cause confusion in any subsequent
search flights, and since then has rested at the bottom
of the lake. The Roseburg men who hope to salvage
it believe its remains should be in good shape and
worth their efforts.
If they have as much luck as the pilot of the plane
had in coming through a potentially fatal experience
alive, they'll make it. E.A.
Sunday Closures?
Should all stores, industries, places of entertain
ment and service industries close on bundayr
This nuestion. or a modification of it. has been
A '
much discussed in recent months. It was reinforced as
a matter for debate by the recent Roman Catholic
church decree, which restated its old rule against
Sunday work of a non-essential character for its com
municants. And another aspect to the debate was added by
the Seventh Day Adventist church, which restated its
position to the effect that while Sunday closings are
a proper matter for consideration by church disci
plines, it is not a matter for legislation of the "blue
law" variety.
HAVE absolutely no objection if the Catholic
church, or any other church, wishes to remind
its members of the church's rulings and beliefs in the
matter. We have no objection to the Adventists' de
sires to make their Sabbath, which is Saturday, a day
of rest 'for its own members.
But we do have strong objections to ANYone,
ANYwhere telling other people what they should or
should not do on Saturday, Sunday, or any other day.
If a man who has no strong religious convictions,
or differing religious convictions, regarding the Sab
bath and its observance, wants to play golf, see a
movie, mow his lawn or wash his car, or even keep
his store open on Sunday and take his day of rest at
another time, that should be his business.
Any widespread legislation or even social coercion
designed to force compliance for over - all Sunday
closures is destructive to the freedom of those whose
beliefs differ, including that large minority nearly
half of the population which has no church affilia
tion whatsoever. E.A.
Wednesday, September 18, 1957
in the Lake
dramatic circumstances of
the first place.
in the Klamath Falls area,
knew where he might be.
both aircraft and ground
The rescue plane, a lumber
flew over much of the
the search, hampered by
have survived the rugged
had survived the crash.
of the fifth dav of the
bound for McChord field
of its planned line of flight
j 1 1 1 ll J " 1
the plane back ana aown
steep hills, they saw the
nothing of the search, but
the swift bomber for 45
1 J 1
bomber dipped its wings,
of medicine and food was
into brush at the lakeside
ancient craft by tipping it
day search.
before the party left the
HAD VOHB THAT OH
GOP Candidate Makes
No Labor Concessions
In New Jersey Race
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Republi
can Malcolm Forbes is campaign
ing for the governorship of New
Jersey without
any double
talk to the
leaders of or
ganized labor
in that heavily
i n dustrialized
state.
r oroes ap
peared last
month before
the state coun-
I.yle C. Wilson
cil of the CIO in Newark and
toia the assembled union nf.
ficials:
"I am not your man."
He also told them he rated as
a phoney their invitation to him
to appear before them prelimin
ary to the CIO's public endorse
ment of a gubernatorial candi
date. He said the choice already
nad been made.
Called "Window Dressino"
"The invitation to me to be
present," Forbes said, "is mere
ly intended as a bit of window
dressing to imply that the de
cision of some of your leaders
was reached with an open mind
after due deliberation."
However that may be. the
CIO heard Forbes and thereupon
formally endorsed his Demo
cratic opponent, Gov. Robert B
Meyner.
Forbes says he nevertheless
expects a lot of labor votes in
November.
His blunt challenge to New
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
For some time past, all the
foreign news has been bad.
Here, for a change, is some
GOOD news:
West Germany has eiven an
OVERWHELMING vote of con
fidence to 81-year-old Konrad
Adenauer.
SUNDAY'S elections gave his
Christian Democratic party
UNDISPUTED CONTROL of
the West German parliament,
with a majority of 43 seats.
The Christian Democrats
who stood pat for continued al
liance with the free Western
world and against communism
in all its forms won 270 seats
in the 497-seat parliament.
The Socialists (who . pussy
footed) won 169 seats. The Free
Democrats (who in the past
haven't been quite sure where
they stood but in the pinches
have voted with Adenauer) won
41 seats.
IT TOOK COURAGE -on the
part of the West Germans to
vote that way.
It took GREAT courage be
cause from the beginning of the
election campaign the Kremlin
has practically threatened im
mediate war if the West Ger
mans backed Adenauer to the
limit.
They backed him to the limit.
CONSIDER West Germany's
position.
It lies just across the fence
from Russia. There can be no
doubt that if Russia chose to do
so she could . DESTROY West
Germany. Half of former Ger
many is under tne communist
heel. These East Germans
fathers, mothers, sisters, broth
ers of the West Germans are
held firmly in the grip of com
munism. They are pawns in the
game of communist world do
minion. It took grim resolution on the
part of the West Germans to
vote as they voted on Sunday.
But they went ahead and did it,
knowing what the cost might be.
LET'S give them a hand.
Thev deserve it.
The red badge of courage is
the proudest insignia in the
world.
TtLt&SlOH I
Jersey's labor elite was in the
tradition of the Robert A. Taft
who based his last election cam
paign on related political the
ories:
That stay-at-home Republi
can or semi-conservative , voters
could and would win elections if
they had someone for whom to
vote if they did go to the polls
That labor leaders could not
deliver the labor vote.
That no votes could be had
by trimming and compromising
principles into bait for independ
ents already committed to the
other fellow.
Strategy Brings Victory
From that general strategical
position, Taft mowed down the
opposition in Ohio's 1950 sena
torial election.
. umo ana rnew jersey are
about equally industrial and Re
publican states. New Jersey re
turns next month may suggest
to Republicans elsewhere a new
approach to the perplexing prob
lem of how to cope with the
coalition of the leaders of or
ganized labor and of the Demo
cratic Party.
Race for Space
Getting Hotter as
U. S., Russia Vie
Washington - (IP) The East
West race to conquer space is get
ting hot.
The Air Force announced late
Tuesday it will attempt to fire
a research rocket to the unpre
cedented height of 1,000 to 4,000
miles late this month.
Simultaneously Russia hinted,
with the dramatic words "The
assault on the universe has be
gun," that it is about to launch
its version of an artificial earth
satellite. "
From Balloon
The four-stage U.S. Air Force
rocket will be launched from a
balloon supported platform
100,000 feet over Eniwetok atoll
in the Pacific to help free it from
the earth's gravitational pull.
The Air Force said the rocket
will be fired strictly as an "ex
ploratory research effort" with
no attempt made to have it
swing into an orbit around the
earth in the form of an artificial
moon.
But the rocket, if it reaches
the desired height, would prob
ably exceed the 300 to 1,500-
mile altitude necessary to set an
artificial moon circling the earth
in a fixed orbit.
During IGY
Both the United States and
Russia plan to launch an earth
satellite or several during
the 18-month worldwide scien
tific discovery period known as
the International Geophysical
Year". While this country has .dis
avowed any race with Moscow,
the world is watching with in
terest to see which of the major
East-West powers puts the first
artificial moon in the sky.
Radio Moscow, in a broadcast
Tuesday, did not actually say
when the launching will take
place. It said only that Russia
"will shortly take the first step
into cosmic flight" by launching
an artificial satellite early next
year.
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Military Coup in Thailand Seen
As Bad News for United States
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The military coup in Thailand
is bad news for the United
States and its allies in the
Southeast Asia
Treaty Organ
ization. Premier Lu
angPibul Song
gram, who was
overthrown in
the coup, has
cooperated
closely with
Thailand's fel-
rharies McCann low members
in the alliance.
Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat,
the army commander-in-chief
U.S. Defenses Don't
Rely Only on A-Bombs
Seattle (IP) It may be axio
matic in this Atomic Age that
everyone's a loser in a nuclear
showdown. But those responsible
for the defense of North Ameri
ca aren't counting on it as a mar
tial cure-all.
One of the top brass jn the
newly-organized North Ameri
can Defense Command told why
Tuesday in a briefing session
with approximately 50 newsmen
from Oregon, Washington, Brit
ish Columbia and Alberta.
Army Brig. Gen. Tom V. Stay
ton said, "we cannot assure our
selves there will never be anoth
ed Hitler." He added that North
America is safe when the leader
ship of Russia is not clearly in
the hands of one man.
The job of the new defensive
partnership between Canada and
Child Guidance
Clinic Supported
By Funds ofUMC
Editor's note: This is another
in a series of stories describ
ing activities of various organi
zations -which receive funds
through contributions to the
United Medford Crusade.)
The Southern Oregon Child
Guidance Clinic is another
agency supported either wholly
or partially by contributions to
the United Medford Crusade.
The clinic assumes responsi
bility of a maladjusted child and
helps his normal development
into a happy, useful citizen. One
of the chief means for helping
such children " are psychiatrist
Dr. Harry K. Danielson's play
sessions conducted at the clinic
An example of such work
would be the fictitional case his
tory of Johnny Smith. Johnny
was emotionally disturbed and
withdrawn from the world. His
mother mourned his father's
death, forgot a small boy's needs
and focused her attention on her
infant daughter.
Through the play sessions he
was encouraged to express his
angry, hurt feelings. Now he is
just beginning to trust, like and
be happy in the world around
him. Through a psychiatric social
worker his mother was helped
through her grief to find a happy,
wholesome life for herself and
her children.
The money contributed to
United Medford Crusade helps
ennnnrt. the clinic. Its other
means are fees based on a fam
ilv's ability to pay, a sum from
federal funds, purchase of ser
vice hv schools and member
ships.
GOP Women Urged To
Help Weld Party
TT.stes Park. Colo. IT)
Three Republican congressmen
urged delegates to the National
Federation of Republican
Women at Estes Park Tuesday
to heln weld the party together
to insure victory over the Demo
crats in 1958.
The addresses were delivered
hv ton reoresentatlves irom
Colorado, William S. Hill and
J. Edgar Chenoweth, and Kep
John Rhodes of Arizona.
"The Democrats have maae
up- their minds they must con
trol the next Congress in oraer
to elect a president in 1960,
Chenoweth said. He urged the
women to spread the word on
Republican accomplishments.
VIENNESE LAWYER DIES
Miami Beach (IP) Dr. Ar-
mond Eisler, 77, a leading Vien
nese lawyer until his imprison
ment in Nazi concentration
camps, died Monday after a long
illness.
Phone SP 2-6185
who overthrew him, is represent
ed also as pro-Western, though
he has not been very assertive
about it.
But there have been indica
tions that there is a growing
trend toward neutralism in
Thailand.
Weak SEATO Link
Whatever happens, Thailand
at the moment appears to be a
somewhat weak link in the
SEATO alliance.
Thailand is one of eight mem
bers of SEATO, an alliance was
formed in 1954 to combat the
expansion of Communism in
Southeast Asia.
Bangkok, the capital of Thai
land, is the headquarters of
the United States is to guard
some 15,000 miles of North
American sky. Both countries
are equal partners in the enter
prise with headquarters at Colo
rado Springs, Colo.
Interceptions Frequent
The three United States and
one Canadian air defense offi
cers agreed identification is the
continent's prime problem in de
fense.
Maj. Gen. Harvey T. Alness,
deputy chief of staff for the de
fense command, pointed out
more than 600 international
flights take off from or land in
North America daily.
He indicated frequent cases of
doubt require interceptors to go
up and take a look to make cer
lam no enemy aircratt is en
route to a target
"Besides defense, our job at
Colorado Springs," Alness add
ed, "is to determine when the
war is on."
Command Orders Bomarcs
Prior to the briefing on the
new defense setup, formalized
Sept. 12 after inter-governmen
tal agreement, newsmen were
shown Boeing Airplane Co's Bo
marc, an intermediate range
grouna-to-air missile now in
production.
Alness said the Bomarc, a 47
foot supersonic rocket capable of
carrying a nuclear warhead,
would be incorporated into the
defense command's arsenal
"within the next fiscal year be
ginning July 1, 1958."
Portland Mayor
Freed of All
Vice Charges
Portland (IB Mayor Terry
Schrunk of Portland was free to
day of all charges brought
against him by a vice-probing
Multnomah County Grand Jury,
The last remaining Grand Jury
vice indictment against him was
dismissed Tuesday in Multno
mah County Circuit Court.
Assistant Attorney General
Arthur Higgs asked for dismissal
of an indictment charging con
spiracy to commit subornation of
perjury against Mayor Schrunk
and three others. In each case
he said not one of the 24 acts
alleged in the indictments con
stituted a crime. He added, "not
one was a conspiracy."
Schrunk 'Very Happy
Mayor Schrunk said, "I am
very happy that the entire situa
tion has been resolved through
the judicial system after it was
looked at objectively by im
partial deputies of the attorney
general's office and the duly con
stituted courts of law."
All other indictments against
Schrunk have also been dis
missed and he was found inno
cent of the one charge for which
he was tried.
Indictments against Deputy
Sheriff George Minielly, former
District Attorney William Lang
ley, and former Deputy District
Attorney Howard Lonergan
were also dismissed.
NAVY -CROSS HOLDER DIES
Atlantic City, N.J. IP Murry
Wolffe, 70, holder of the Navy
Cross, senior national vice com
mander of the Legion of Valor
and veteran of three wars, died
Tuesday a few hours before he
was to have addressed the Amer
ican Legion convention.
THE HAND
OF HELP
In the hour of need . . is
extended here to all who
grieve, regardless of
race, social position or
financial standing.
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C. M. Llrwiller
For over -22 years, Mr. and Mrs. Litwiller have sought to
make the final tribute one of beauty and dignity, as well as
one cf real solace and comfort to those left behind.
"Night or day" dial MU 5-4541
LITWILLER
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ASHLAND
We Never Close
SEATO. Only a few weeks ago,
on July 1, Pote Sarasin, Thai
land ambassador to the United
States, was appointed to the new
post of secretary general of
SEATO. Hence any big political
upheaval in Thailand is an un
welcome development.
One encouraging thing is that
the new leaders as well as the
old ones appear to be firmly anti-
Communist.
Election Turbulent
The political situation in Thai
land has been getting more tur
bulent since the parliamentary
election of last Feb. 26. Pibul's
Government Party won 85 of the
160 contested seats for the Na
tional Assembly, the single-cham
ber parliament. Under the Thai
land election law, the govern
ment appointed an additional
160 members.
Pibul's political opponents
charged that the election was
stolen.
Last week a group of army of
ficers led by Sarit demanded the
resignation of the entire govern
ment. Pibul refused. His over
throw followed.
Applications Available
For Civil Service Jobs
Examination applications are
now available at the Medford
post office for the civil service
positions of vessel and aircraft
sanitation inspector, quarantine
border inspector and quarantine
inspector trainee.
The jobs to be filled are for
duty with the public healtn
service at quarantine stations
within the United States and at
certain foreign stations, the
commission stated.
Communications
Letter to the Editor must bear
the name and address ot the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name ot
initial tor publication is permis
sible The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification and conden
sation Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
From Fair Board
To the Editor: The Oregon
State Fair Commission and its
manager wish to express through
your medium sincere thanks and
appreciation to the people of
your area who participated as
exhibitors, workers or patrons
of this year's 1957 Oregon State
Fair. '
It is the feeling of the Com
mission that the Fair belongs to
the people of Oregon and the
success or failure of the Fair is
contingent upon your efforts.
This year the support of the
people throughout the State was
enthusiastic and effective. The
result was a most successful
Fair.
Already we are working on
next year's Fair and the Com
mission and its manager greatly
appreciate any suggestions that
they may have.
Oregon State Fair Commission
John H. Travis, Chairman
Marguerite E. Berg
Del Milne
Ursel C. Narver . .
V. A. (Am) Roush "
Howard Maple, Manager
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rnarmaiy
by ED HALL
The first Pharmacopoeia
published under government
authority seems to be the on
published in Nuremberg in
1542 by a student named
Valerius Cordu. This was a
collection of medical receipts
he had collected from the
writings. of medical authori
ties. The " College of Apothe
caries at the University of
Pennsylvania e s t a b I ished
March 1821 was changed
one year later to College of
Pharmacy and it was the be
ginning of the use of Phar
macy in the drug trade of
America.
Phone SP 2-9431 for your
PRESCRIPTION specialist . ..
a registered PHARMACIST is
here to serve you use a con
venient CHARGE ACCOUNT
. . . CENTRAL REXALL DRUG,
Main and Central. adv.
Ub?. & i "ire
Mrs. Llrwiller
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'It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."