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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24. 1947 (Wednesday)
A Jackson county woman,
Mrs. Effie Birdseye, has been se
lected by the Oregon Historical
society to represent the state at
the world premiere of the
movie, "Unconquered."
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The first
day of autumn in these parts was
the best summer day since the
last day of spring."
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24. 1937 (Friday)
A huge and colorful public pa
triotic program in honor of the
150th signing of the constitution
will be held in city park tonight
as one of the features of the state
Elk convention.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The presi
dent and retinue are now on a
tour of inspection, to see how all
the happy hallucinations are
coming along."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24, 1927 (Saturday)
Efforts were being made to
day by the Red Cross to ascer
tain the identity of a man and a
woman who left a 12-months-old
baby at the home of a local wom
an. Traveling across the continent
with an Indian princess is even
more interesting than it sounds,
according to Miss Avis Lobdell.
director of the welfare bureau of
the Union Pacific, who is visit
ing here.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24, 1917 (Monday)
Oregon Bartletts, which usu
ally command the top-notch fig
ure in eastern markets, have
brought the lowest figures this
year, according to recent reports.
A war picture will be shown
locally for the benefit of the Sa
cred Heart hospital. 4
Whal's Your 1.0.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Bogata is the capital of
which South American country?
2. Name the New York Herald
reporter who greeted a Scottish
missionary in deep Africa with
these words, "Dr. Livingstone, I
presume?"
3. Bible: ' God said to Noah
'rooms shalt thou make in the
Ark and thou shalt pitch it with
in and without with' " what?
4. The spring equinox occurs
in March; when does the autumn
equinox occur?
5. The "hand", used in meas
uring horses, is equivalent to
how many inches?
6. Is a bimonthly magazine
issued once every two months,
or twice a month? .
7. Who was called the "Maid
of Orleans"?
8. Trans-Jordan is a govern
ment in North Africa. Asia
Minor, or the Far East?
9. Did Alexander Graham
Bell discover the telephone?
10. "I know a maiden fair to
see, Take care! She can both
false and friendly be, Beware!
Beware! Trust her not, She
is fooling" who?
Answers: 1. Colombia. 2.
Henry Stanley. 3. " 'pitch.
4. September. 5. 4 inches. 6. Once
every two months. 7. Jeanne
d'Arc. 8. Asia Minor. 9. No. He
invented it. (To discover is to
find what already exits). 10.
"thee." Longfellow.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Phoney
"I told you so," cries jubilant Governor Faubus
as white children smear, riot and jeer at the few
blacks entering the Little Rock High School "this is
just what I called out the National Guard to prevent."
Did he?
Not according to "Time" which in its last issue
printed the results of some careful on-the-ground re
searching into the Arkansas defiance of the Supreme
Court and the Constitution.
IT SEEMS that on August 20th Governor Faubus
called on U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rogers of
that state, regarding the question about enforcing the
law to prevent "bloodshed" over school integration.
Mr. Rogers asked the Governor why he thought
violence might occur and the Governor's answer wras,
the evidence was "too vague and indefinite to be of
any use to a law-enforcement agency."
But again quoting Time, the veiy next day he went
into a state court testified that integration in Little
Rock would mean "bloodshed," won an injunction
on that basis, which w7as promptly overruled by U.S.
District Judge Ronald Davis. '
It was then that Winthrop Rockefeller, now a resi
dent of Arkansas, pleaded with Faubus for over two
hours to drop the crazy idea but Faubus, according
to a close associate of Rockefeller said :
"I am sorry but I am already committed. I am going to
run for a third term and if I don't do this Jim Johnson and
Bruce Bennett (segregationists who are his probable op
ponents for Governor next year) will tear me to shreds."
IN OTHER words there was nothing to justify the
calling out of troops when Governor Faubus did so,
except his own self seeking political ambition. This
is not according to the word of his enemies, but the
Governor's own admission.
However, as a result of that incendiary and sub
versive action, of course racial hatreds and prejudices
were so aroused, that any effort subsequently to en
force the lawT, was certain to arouse violent opposi
tion. For Governor Faubus to blame this on his oppon
ents is about as reasonable as to blame the owner of a
hay-barn to which the Governor had. set the match,
for calling out the fire department ! R.W.R.
Ike s Golf is OK
We have never joined those who criticize Presi
dent Eisenhower for playing golf.
Golf is a wonderful game to take one's mind off
one's troubles. To play it at all requires such concen
tration, that worries are forgotten or if they aren't
there is no point in playing. .
Which reminds us of that ancient stoiy about the
golfing pastor. "His Grace" missed the ball, hit a tree
and broke his favorite club. .Whereupon his usual
piety and self-control vanished in an apoplectic rage ;
he jumped up and down, flung his arms about, even
made passes at his caddy, but made no articulate
sound. The youthful caddy was so alarmed, however,
that he asked if "His Grace" intended to quit the
game.
"Niver !" was the answer "I am quittin the meenis
try!" VES, it is a very absorbing and catalystic sport. And
1 there is little doubt the President's medical ad
visers prescribe it. Moreover the more acute the bur
dens of office, the more strongly such an outdoor di
version is indicated.
So by all means let the harassed chief-executive
enjoy that recreation, so long as it doesn't interfere
with his official duties and as far as this department
is concerned we 'have no fear of that.
fUR guess is an absorbing game of golf would be
particularly welcome at this time.
For a person so sensitive to criticism and so weary
of combat, political or otherwise, this Little Rock mess
must be especially disturbing.
No doubt when the President sighed and said he
was greatly disappointed by the intransigence and ir
responsibility of Governor Faubus, he was guilty of
gross understatement. Everybody likes Ike, but our
Five Star General doesn't like insubordination or
double dealing.
It would be interesting to know what he said about
the Governor of Arkansas in the semi-privacy of the
locker-room.
Then the President in a special broadcast after
the National Guard had been removed urged the
white citizenry of Little Rock to keep away from the
High School when it opened yesterday.
According to press reports over a thousand of
them refused to pay attention to this plea of the head
of their government.
That discourtesy could hardly have reduced the
presidential blood pressure.
n
OW tomorrow in New
claim for $3,500,000 by
will be held before a U.S. Commissioner, representing
the U.S. Court of Claims, and according to press re
ports there will be written briefs, sworn testimony
and all the details of this somewhat unsavory trans
action presumably will be revealed.
If this happens there will be another "cross to
bear," another embarrassment to suffer.
But the President, of course, will not have to at
tend. After he holds his regular Wednesday press
conference tomorrow if he holds one we trust he
will hop in his helicopter and come nearer breaking
par at the "Burning Tree" or Newport Navy club than
ever before ! R.W.R. .
Tuesday, September 24, 1957
Faubus
York City the hearing of a
the Dixon-Yates company
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Wanna see what av
August Price Index
At All-Time High;
Food Costs Rise
Washington (IP) Consumer
prices climbed to a record high
in August for the 12th consecu
tive month, the government an
nounced today.
The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics reported that its consumer
price index, a monthly sampling
of prices for 300 goods and serv
ices across the nation, stood at
an all-time high of 121.
The August index figure was
.2 per cent higher than that of
July.
BLS Commissioner E w a n
Clague said food contributed
mainly to the August increase,
climbing .4 per cent during the
month. He said the price of
fruits and vegetables dropped
but failed to offset increases in
the cost of other foods.
Food Prices Rise
Egg prices climbed 10.2 per
cent and all cuts of meat were
higher. Bacon was up 8.4 per
cent, ham 3.5 per cent, frank
furters 2.8 per cent, and steak,
roast, and hamburger 1.5 per
cent.
Clague said he could not say
whether the index would con
tinue its long upward climb this
month.
"While food looks more hope
ful," he said, expected price in
creases for such items as new
fall clothing might offset any
declines in September.
The index began its latest
climb in September, 1956, and
each succeeding month estab
lished a new cost of living rec
ord. But the overall climb of 3.2
per cent for 12 months fell short
of previous records on two
counts. The increase was small
er than the 12-month rise after
World War II and prices climbed
steadily for longer periods after
the war and again in 1950-51.
Editorial
Comment
GOVERNOR'S TRIP PRAISED
We were impressed with the
hearing held in Salem this week
by Gov. Robert Holmes and his
planning and development di
rector, Julius Jensen.
The Governor still is a white
knight charging off in all di
rections, but he's becoming a
thoroughly informed one on the
subject of industrial problems.
He and Jensen' didn't talk
much. They listened and they
took full notes as Salem area
business and industrial leaders
made suggestions and asked
questions.
At the end of the session, Jen
sen and Holmes commented on
each point and Holmes gave his
fullest, most specific comments
on taxes to date. He still is
denying the obvious impact of
the nation's highest tax struc
ture, but he granted that a com
prehensive, unbiased study of
taxes and their effect on present
and potential industries is need
ed. He raised a number of cogent
minor points which show that
the tour (the Salem hearing was
the 12th of 16 stops around the
state) has been worth while. For
example, Oregon is missing by
a miles supplying its home mar
ket with pork. And 22 of the
specific tax complaints presented
during the tour by individual
concerns can be handled admin
istratively through cooperative
handling of the cases under ex
isting law.
The tour has been costly and
it has been better politically for
Holmes than any campaign jaunt
ever could be but it has been
good for the state in general. The
Governor and his group have
learned a lot, and so have those
attending the hearings. People
have learned that the state has
a Planning and Development De
partment and what it's for, and
they've had a chance to get
things off their- chest. Salem
Capital Journel
SEPTEM6ER
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sifwy looks like?
The BLS also said spendable
earnings and the buying power
of factory workers rose in
August, despite the increase in
the price index.
Wages Up Too
Clague's figures showed a fac
tory worker with three depend
ents earned an average of $75.13
per week after taxes, compared
to an average of $74.80 the
month before. The increase was
attributed to longer hours.
The living cost increase af
fects the pay of an estimated
157,000 workers who wages are
tied to the BLS price index.
Clague said it will mean hikes
of two to three cents an hour
for workers in some aircraft,
glass and metal industries.
W. Randolph Burgess, under
secretary of the treasury,
meanwhile told a meeting of in
ternational 'fiscal experts here
that living costs are higher than
the administration would like
but have not reached "danger
ous proportions." He said the
administration is determined to
"check inflation" lest the "bene
fits of prosperity ... be dissi
pated through a shrinking value
of money."
Stock Market Drop
Wipes Out Gains
Made'Early in Year
By ELMER C. WALZER
UP Financial Editor
New York (in The stock
market has all but wiped out
its steep rise of five months from
Feb. 12 to July 12.
In that period, the market rose
$31,678,000,000. In the period
from July 13 to the close Mon
day, the market declined $30,
268,000,000. Hence at the opening today
the market was only $1,410,000,
000 above its year's lows on the
basis of valuation of all listed
issues.
Many reasons have been giv
en for this drop, which is one
of the most severe since the bull
market started on June 13, 1949.
There was a more severe one
on President Eisenhower's heart
attack just two years ago.
Reasons Cited
These reasons include tight
money, government economies
in the y talk stage, the Middle
East uncertainties, foreign finan
cial difficulties, notably in Eng
land and France, and a profit
pinch on American corporations.
There were many others but
the first one that seemed to
rock the market was the profit
pinch which became apparent at
mid-July when reports of earn
ings for the second quarter were
beginning to appear.
Since then the experts have
been making predictions on a
letdown in business for the
fourth quarter and for next year.
The worst that has been said
for 1958 is that the nation will
operate on a high plateau with
the boom slackening in pace.
Employment is expected to re
main high and so is national income.
DEMON-USED SLAVE GIRL
Geo. N. Taylor
A demon indwelt this slave-girl and by
the demon, she told fortunes and brought
her owners much gain. As the Apostle Paul
and his companion passed by, the girl cried
out: "These men have the secrets of the
most high God and they show the way to
salvation." At that, Paul, the Apostle com
manded the demond to leave the girl. When
her owners learned that through Paul and
Silas, the girl spoke well of Christ, the two
men were brought into court to be stripped
and lashed.
This message is by God's people who af
firm that they who spread the message of
salvation, must pay the price.
Tiny Liberal Party Dreaming
Of Political
By CHARLES M. MC CANN
United Press Correspondent
Great Britain's tiny Liberal
Party is dreaming of a political
miracle.
Once dominant, the Liberals
have but five
seats now in
the 630 - seat
House of Com
mons. They were
crushed, after
World War I,
between the
Conservatives,
their historic
i jt
Charles MrCann rivals, ana ine
upstart Labor Party.
But in recent months there
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
There has been a lot of talk
lately especially in the payroll
short state of Oregon about
getting new industrial develop
ment. Much of it has been poor
ly informed and wide of the
mark.
TF NEW industries are to be at-
tracted to ANY area city,
county, state or region there
are four essentials that must be
present in about this order:
1. Adequate markets for the
produce or products to be man
ufactured.
2. Suitable raw materials in
abundance.
3. Transportation.
4. Power.
NOTE that adequate markets
are given first place in this
list. It has to be that way. If
you can't sell it at a profit, why
make it? In these modern days,
you can't sell at a profit unless
you can reach fairly large mar
kets. For a century, industrial
growth on the Pacific Coast was
handicapped by the market sit
uation. The BIG markets were
clear across the country from
the Pacific Coast. By the time
West Coast products reached the
East, they had cost too much to
be competitive. That was the
cold logic of the situation.
All that has been changed.
It has been changed by the
big growth that already has come
to the 11 Western States. It will
be changed even more radically
by the fabulous growth in popu
lation that is impending in the
next two decades.
T ET'S take a look at the growth
x-' that is yet to come.
It is anticipated that by 1975
only a scant 18 years away
the 11 Western States will have
42 million people. The huge in
dustrial development in the East
got its start on a population of
LESS than 42 millions.
rpHE large industrial develop-
-- ment that has come already
to California, Oregon and Wash
ington has been based on this
growing WESTERN market
NOT on any delusion that pro
ducts manufactured in the Far
West can be marketed in heavy
volume back on the Atlantic
seaboard or even in the Middle
West.
The bulk of the market for
our Western industries both
those already established and
those yet to come will be
found in these rapidly growing
11 Western States. It is to serve
this Far Western market that
most of our new industries are
being established.
Some specialty products, of
course, will cross the Rockies,
but the bulk of our Far Western
industrial production will be
consumed right here in our own
Far West.
SPEAKING of transportation,
we howled for decades about
high freight rates to the East.
That situation also is changing.
From here on out, high transcon
tinental freight rates will help
us more than they will hurt us,
for they will tend to shut East
ern competition out of our de
sirable Far Western market.
LET'S add a word here on pow
er. There is a lot of unsound
thinking on that subject es
pecially in Oregon.
Power amounts to only about
IV2 to 2 per cent of the average
manufacturing industry's total
cost. Except in the case of metals
reduction such as aluminum
plants it isn't apt to be a de
cisive factor. What the average
industry wants in the way of
power when it is looking for a
location is the assurance that
plenty of it will be available at
reasonable cost.
H
ERE in Southern Oregon and
Far Northern California, we
3L
Miracle in
have been some important shifts
in voting in "by-elections" elec
tions held in individual districts
to fill Commons seats left va
cant by death or other causes.
Conservatives Losing Strength
Though Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan is personally popular
the Conservatives have been los
ing strength. The Laborites have
increased their majorities in
those seats they have won. The
Liberals also have gained heavily
in voting strength.
One reason for this is that a
lot of Conservatives have been
staying away from the polls. It
is largely because of this that the
Labor vote has increased rela
tively as compared to the Con
servative vote.
But Liberal candidates have
been polling votes so large
even though not enough to win
elections that both Conserva
Matter of Fact
LITTLE ROCK AND
THE PRESIDENT
Washington Will there be
violence in Little Rock? This is
now the central question, on
which the is
s u e of the
grave constitu
tional c r i s is
which faces
the nation
may well rest.
Gov. Orval
Faubus, in his
Friday n i g ht
radio speech,
spoke many
Stewait Alsop
fine words about the need to
"preserve the peace." But he
was also at pains to make it very
clear that, if the peace were not
preserved, it would not be his
fault: "Now that my authority
to preserve and maintain the
peace and good order of this
community has been so curtailed
... I can only offer a fervent
prayer that the same thing will
not happen here that has hap
pened in other states in recent
days."
However fervent Governor
Faubus' prayers may be, one
fact is entirely clear. There is
just one way in which his origi
nal order to the Arkansas Na
tional Guard to prevent inte
gration can appear to be justi
fied. That is by serious disorder
in Little Rock.
A NOTHER fact is just as clear,
If there is violence in Little
Rock, and if as a result the Ne
gro children are prevented, by
whatever means, from entering
the school, the cause of the all
out segregationists will have
scored a major victory. The so
called Mansfield Plan, named
after the Texas town in which
integration was prevented by
the threat of violence, will then
in all likelihood form the pat
tern of segregationist strategy
in the South.
The Mansfield Plan is very
simple. Violence or the threat
of violence is generated in a
town in which schools are due
to be integrated. The local or
state police authority is desig
nated to preserve order. Order
is preserved by returning the
Negro children to Negro schools
and keeping them there.
But the Mansfield Plan is not
only simple but very dangerous.
Unlike other southern plans to
resist integration by various
legal devices, the Mansfield
Plan is based on violence or the
threat of violence to resist the
Supreme Court decision and the
Federal authority. A widespread
are realistic about new indust
rial development. We know the
new industries that will come to
us will make their products out
of our native raw materials, us
ing our local labor, using our
power, using our transportation
(which will expand as there is
need for more of it), and selling
its products in the Far Western
market.
We have plenty of all these es
sentials.
Counsel With . . .
Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan
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Bill Fish
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MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
in
tive and Labor party leaders ap
pear to be somewhat worried.
It seems inconceivable that
the Liberals can make them
selves again a real power, in
House of Commons representa
tion, for a long time.
Young, Enthused Leaders
But their new, young, enthus
iastic leaders believe they are on
the way and that their party will
become a "third force" in British
politics between the right-wing
Conservatives and the left-wing
Laborites.
The Liberals are aiming a
presenting candidates in about
200 districts in the next general
election, which may be held at
any time up to May, 1960.
By spotting their men in close
districts, they hope to win
enough seats to put them on a
long, slow rise to future power.
By Stewart Alsop
segregationist strategy based on
violence, and continued for
years, is about as ugly a pros
pect as can be imagined.
rjiHAT is why most responsible
-- southerners (who are, north
erners are apt to forget, most
sincerely convinced that inte
gration is profoundly wrong)
prefer legal means to resist in
tegration. But if violence works
in Little Rock, there will be a
strong impulse throughout the
South to accept a strategy based
on violence.
Thus a great deal deoends on
what happens in the next few
days in Little Rock. Among
other things, the political pow
er and prestige of the President
of the United States may be at
stake in Little Rock.
The President's prestige has al
ready been hurt by his handling
of the crisis. For the public im
age which has emerged, of the
President enjoying a golfing va
cation amid the decaying splen
dors of Newport during the
gravest constitutional crisis in
many decades, has not been a
happy one.
This public image has unques
tionably done the President and
his party a lot of harm at home
especially among Negro voters,
and it has done the United
States no good abroad.
Yet, although it is hard to see
any good justification for the
President's remaining in New
port during the crisis, in fair
ness it must be said that his re
action to the crisis has been
neither indifferent nor irra
tional. TJE GAVE the Justice Depart
ment free rein to use all the
power of the Federal govern
ment to support Federal Judge
Ronald Davies in his battle with
Faubus, and the Justice Depart
ment has done an efficient and
effective job. At the same time,
the President himself deliber
ately adopted a mild and concili
atory tone. His purpose has
been to avoid a showdown
which would have terribly dam
aging consequences. The Presi
dent had excellent reason, until
a few days ago, to believe that
Faubus would accept a face-saving
settlement.
Instead, Faubus chose the role
of Samson in the Temple, and at
this writing there is thought to
be a real danger of violence in
Little Rock. The President was
no doubt right to seek to avoid
a showdown. But in the situa
tion which has now developed,
it is essential, both in terms of
his own prestige and the pres
tige of the Federal government,
that the' President shed the role
of amiable vacationist, and as
sume the role of resolute na
tional leader in time of crisis.
For if the worst comes to the
worst in Little Rock, resolute
national leadership may be bad
ly needed, to avert the ugly
prospect of widespread violence
throughout the South for years
to come. "
(c) 1957. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Insurance Has a Single
Worth,
And Right Here We
Concede It,
It's One Excuse,
And Only Use,
Is Cash the Day You
Need It.
Bill Fish
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