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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO '
Oct. 6. 1947 (Monday)
Oregon voters go to polls to
vote on two measures in a spe
cial tax election; a one-third
turn-out of registered voters pre
dicted despite interest in pro
posed sales tax.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The sauer
kraut (1947 crop) season formal
ly opened yes, in town and coun
try, accompanied by dumplings.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 6, 1937 (Wednesday)
Citizens budget committee ap
proves Medford's 1938 general
budget of $136,671.42.
Jackson county's quota of 20
men will be enrolled in the civil
ian conservation corps here soon.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 6, 1927 (Thursday)
Stewart Fruit company re
ceives message stating a car of
extra fancy Bartlett pears sells
on the New. York market for
$5.60 per box.
Indians from Klamath reser
vation, in Medford attending the
United States court, attract at
tention from tourists and strang
ers. 40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 6. 1917 (Saturday)
Medford mayor presents $20
to Company Seven for a bass
drum.
Medford dairymen raise price
of milk to 10 cents a quart; raise
necessitated by high cost of feed
and scarcity of milk cows.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six Is good
1. The capital of Alaska is
Fairbanks, Juneau, Nome, or
Seward?
2. Are apples cultivated in
vineyards, orchards, apiaries,
plantations, or aviaries?
3. Bible:". . . take the young
child and his mother, and flee
into" take, whom, and where?
4. Senator George, Democrat,
represented which State in the
U. S. Senate?
5. Name the most northerly
country of South America.
6. In later Christian art, how
are cherubs represented?
7. Marian Anderson is a fa
mous Negro painter, composer,
singer, or radio announcer?
8. What is Hagana?
9. 'Abstract;" which syllable
is accented in the noun, and
which in the verb?
10. "I like men which have
a future, and women who have
a" what?
Answers: 1. Juneau. 2. Orch
ards. 3. Jesus, Mary, to Egypt.
4. Georgia. 5. Venezuela. 6. As
children with wings of angels.
7. Singer. 8. The Jewish militia
in Israel. 9. "Ab" (noun); "stract"
(verb). 10. "past." Oscar Wilde.
Little Rock Pupils
Praised By Actress
Little Rock, Ark. OP! Mov
ie actress Julie Adams paused
here briefly at troubled Central
High school, complimenting the
majority of students for "re
straint and good conduct," dur
ing the integration controversy.
The pretty starlet, a Little
Rock girl, graduated from Cen
tral. She told the students that
"the eyes of the world are on
you."
Miss Adams lunched with the
students in the school cafeteria
Friday. She was en route to New
Orleans for a movie premiere.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How About I960?
In the weekly magazine "U.S. News and World
Report," David Lawrence, editor, and often known
as "Mr. Republican" which he considers a compli
ment maintains the sending of U.S. troops to Little
Rock by President Eisenhower, the greatest blow the
G.O.P. has suffered since the battle of Bull Run.
As usual, we can't agree with Editor Lawrence.
In fact, if we have ever agreed with him on any IM
PORTANT national issue, since he started the
"USNWR," we can't, at the moment, recall it.
At one time there was apparently so much dis
agreement on the editorial staff that Mr. Lawrence
explained in a foreword, that the views expressed
were his alone, and did not represent those of anyone
else, including his co-workers.
Nevertheless, we would hazard the guess that he
usually pretty well voices the views of the extreme
right wing of the Republican party including those
who would like to quit all foreign aid and eliminate
the federal income tax.
LJOWEVER, on this issue, we not only believe the
A Lawrence interpretation of the administrations
action to put down mob-rule in Arkansas, from a
political standpoint, to be incorrect, but the exact
opposite is true.
"VVe claim the possession of no crystal ball po
litical or otherwise and readily acknowledge that
everything is not only fair in love, war AND politics,
but practically anything in these areas can happen.
However, as things stand today, we fail to see any
result but an inevitable split in the Democratic party
over states rights and the school-integration issue
and almost certainly the formation of another "States
Rights or Dixiecrat party confined largely of course
to the South. " ' ' ... '
"THERE was such a party formed in 1948 led by
A Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina which
polled over a million popular votes, and stacked up
approximately 40 electoral votes.
It is not hard to picture what such a party on a
states-rights-school-integration platform wTould do, as
conditions are in the south today.
Doubtless of course, it could not win the election,
but it could render a Democratic victory impossible,
and the best the latter could expect would be a dead
lock which would send the decision into the congress
presumably controlled, as it is today, by their party.
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AT any rate as we see it, the days of the Democratic
party as it has been composed of a firm north
south coalition, ever since the Civil War, is over.
Again admitting that conditions may change, and
three years, politically, is a long time in which changes
can occur, it is hard to see how -this political war
against the G.O.P. in the South, can fail to strengthen
it materially in the North, particularly with the Negro
vote thanks largely to Governor Faubus of Arkansas
going over probably 99 to the Grand Old Party.
IT is true that in 1948, when the Democrats lost over
1 a million votes to the Dixiecrat "Thirty Party,"
President Truman, completely confounding all the
experts and poll-takers, defeated Governor Dewey
in the electoral college 393 to 189.
It has always been a pet theoiy of this depart
ment, however, that it was not so much "Light Horse
Harry's" strength, as it was the "bridegroom on the
wedding cakes" weakness, that caused that complete
overturning of the dope-bucket.
And perhaps there is the one hope for the Demo
crats. Namely that the Republicans, without the
services of the "unbeatable Ike," will nominate a
candidate, the rank and file, when they go to the
polls, will simply refuse to take. R.W.R.
An Editorial Postscript
A few days ago we expressed the opinion in this
column that there is a great difference between the
number of people who read newspaper editorials and
the number of people who are influenced, by them.
The first total may be considerable and the second
may be inconsiderable and often is.
At the recent "Timber-Line" editorial conference,
the latter item was emphasized by noting the record
on water fluoridation most of the papers in the state,
where the issue was raised, supporting it, most of
communities voting against it.
"llELL, there are scores of similar examples that
might be cited in this state and all the others.
There is the record on a sales-tax in Oregon for
example.
Most of the papers in the state have supported it,
when on the ballot, yet such a tax has never been
passed.
We remember many years ago, when every news
paper in New York City, but one, opposed a candidate
for Mayor, but he won hands down and as we recall
it proved to be a very good one.
HTHEN, there is, of course, the outstanding example
" in last year's election.
Only two papers in the state favored the re
election of Senator Morse.
Yet, our senior Senator not only won hands down,
but his majority was only exceeded by the irresistible
"Ike."
GO it has gone and so it promises to go. But what
does it prove ?
Well, it doesn't prove that, people no longer read
editorials. Nor does it prove editorials that are read
have no influence.
It does prove that the golden days of Horace
Sunday, October 6. 1957
PAD.' THAT DARN OL' M&1ER
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In Denver this week, an inter
state commerce commission ex
aminer is hearing PROTESTS
AGAINST REDUCED RAIL
ROAD RATES from the Midwest
to the West Coast on fresh meat
and other packing house prod
ucts. The hearing is expected to
last at least two weeks.
That sounds like one for the
book, because protests are nor
mally lodged against HIGHER
transportation rates. But when
the facts of the case are under
stood, it sounds less weird. These
lower rates are ONE WAY rates.
That is to say, they apply on
fresh meat and other packing
house products FROM the East
TO the West but NOT on these
products when shipped from the
West to the East. Their effect is
to open the growing Far West
market to producers and proces
sors of these products without
offering any corresponding ad
vantages to Far Western pro
ducers and processors in the
markets of the Middle West and
the East.
They are discriminatory, and
unfair, and ought to be repealed.
BUT- -In
their poisonously dis
criminatory way
These new rates dramatize a
fact that isn't generally under
stood. The Far West is growing
fabulously. By 1975 only a
scant 18 years away"" the 11
Western states are expected to
have a : population in excess of
40 million people.
That is a real market.
It is a BIG market.
This swiftly growing Far West
market is responsible for the
bulk of the new industrial de
velopment that is coming to the
Pacific Coast. The new factories
that are arising here expect to
Editorial Comment
A CITY LEARNS
'THE AWFUL TRUTH'
The Bulletin of the Portland
City Club reports that one In
diana community, concerned be
cause an expected new industry
had passed it by, learned why.
City dads, after their commun
ity had been rejected in favor
of another, wrote to the direct
ors of the manufacturing plant
and asked the simple question,
"Why?" The plant directors told
them these unpleasant facts
about their city:
Too many houses showed a
lack of upkeep.
There was. poor traffic control.
The business district looked as
if it had not been changed since
1900.
The city's water came from
one river. Raw sewage was
dumped into another near the
junction of the two rivers.
Hotel and restaurant accom
modations were inadequate and
poor.
The bridges had a decrepit ap
pearance, and the company took
this as evidencing a lack of com
munity pride.
Schools and hospitals were in
adequate. There was lack of zoning and
planning.
The , manufacturer did note,
however, that the park and recre
ation program of the community
was good. But it just wasn't good
enough to make up for the de
Greeley and Charles Dana and Harvey Scott for
that matter have gone and will never return.
It proves also, that "voting the ticket straight," or
as ANY newspaper dictates, is as dead as the "Dodo."
Finally it proves that independent, non-partisan vot
ing is steadily on the increase.
This doesn't mean newspaper editorials are not
read or have no influence. It merely means that in
fluence is no longer decisive. It means the people,
as a whole, don't go to the newspapers for their opin
ions, but go to them and the radio for their facts.
And on the basis of those facts, as THEY see them,
they form their own opinions.,
All of which comes under the general heading
of democratic and genuinely desirable human pro
gress. R.W.R.
VJlLSOU SQUIRTED MB BACK '
JENKINS
find their markets among the 40
odd million consumers who will
be living and working and play
ing in the 11 Western states in
less than two decades.
THAT fact reverses all of our
past thinking in the Far West
on the subject of industrial de
velopment. For nearly a century
we were handicapped by re
moteness from .big consuming
markets. In those long years, we
had to realize that if we tried to
manufacture something in large
enough volume to bring costs
down to a competitive level we
would have to find our markets
for it in the East, where the bulk
of the consumers were located.
The growth of the West is
changing all that. We are getting
customers enough in our own
area to make large scale indus
trial production possible and
profitable here in our own re
gion. No longer do we have to send
our products clear across the
continent in order to find a mar
ket for them..
TJUT
If we're going to KEEP this
market for our own Western
producers, we'll have to FIGHT
for it. This viciously discrimi
nating ONE WAY rate on fresh
meat and other packing house
products, if it is permitted to
stand, will be just an entering
wedge.
If the Midwest and the East
can get away with low ONE
WAY rates on meat and other
packing house products, they
will go after similar discrimina.
tory rates on ALL OTHER
PRODUCTS. That would throw
a nasty road block in the way
of future industrial development
in the Far West.
ficiencies in other community
features.
In answering the city's letter,
the company showed that its
directors had asked the ques
tions "Why would anybody want
to live here? Would we want
to live here ourselves? Would
we be likely to have a happy
and stable corps of employees, if
we located our new plant here?
The answers to these questions
had apparently been "No. No.
No."
The company's answers dem
onstrate, that one of the greatest
assets a community can have
is the fact that it is regarded
as "a nice place to live, a fine
place to have a home and bring
up kids." When a skilled work
man selects the town where he
wants to live and grow old he
thinks of other things than just
the job he'll work at 40 hours
a week for 49 or 50 weeks of the
year. He thinks also of the re
mainder of his own time and
of the time of his wife and chil
dren. Here in Eugene, we think, we
do indeed have "a nice place to
live." We regard that as a great
er community asset.
It is much more important,
we think, that we have good
schools, that our homes look
well kept, that we are two hours
from an uncluttered ocean beach
that belongs to everybody and
the same travel-time from the
Today and
By Walter
FAUBUS AND BEYOND
As of Tuesday evening, the
question was whether Gov. Fau
bus had played a trick on the
Committee of Southern Gover
nors, who had
come to the
White House
to negotiate for
the withdrawal
of the Federal
power. The
crux of it all
lay in the
phrase "law
and order," and
whether the
Waiter Lippmann
phrase meant the same thing to
Faubus, to the four Governors,
and to the President.
Almost certainly it did not. I
say almost certainly because Fau
bus is not a plain-spoken man.
It would seem to have meant to
him that what he did on Sept. 3,
when he used the Arkansas Na
tional Guard to bar the Negro
children, was to maintain "law
and order." In fact, of course,
he was maintaining order but
nullifying the law. In his state
ment on Tuesday after the White
House conference, there was
much evidence, given the slip
periness of his character, that he
was avoiding a plain and clear
promise both to enforce the law
and to maintain order. His state
ment can be read as a promise
not to use the National Guard to
bar the Negro children. But it is
not an unambiguous promise to
suppress a mob which might bar
the Negro children.
It is clear that when the Com
mittee of Governors informed
the President that they were
"authorized" by Faubus to say
that he assumed full responsibil
ity for "law and order," they
thought in all good faith that his
authorization was meant in good
faith and that the words mean
what in fact they mean.
TECAUSE of his record, no
assurances from Faubus could
be accepted by the President in
which every syllable and every
comma had not been thoroughly
scrutinized. The President was
well advised to insist on a clear
and precise promise. For there
Matter of Fact
DIVIDED FRANCE
Paris In a technical sense,
the vote on the Algerian ques
tion that left France without a
government is
easy enough to
explain.
The French
Assembly, like
old Gaul, is
divided into
three parts
The extreme
Left, mainly
C o m m u n ist,
Joseph Alsop
and the Pou
jadists and other miscellaneous
groups of the extreme Rieht. are
more numerous when they unite
than the third part, the parties
of the Center. In this, the ex
tremes united to defeat Prime
Minister Bourges-Maunoury and
his proposed basic law for tor
tured Algeria.
But this technical explanation
by no means tells the story, as
is proven by the bitterness this
event has caused m France it
self. You do not find the Right
and Left rejoicing while the
Center mourns
On the contrary, this reporter
has not been able to discover
any Frenchmen or French wom
an except a lone Communist
Activist who was not angered,
appalled and humiliated by the
new demonstration of govern
mental impotence to tackle the
most agonizing problem con
fronting France today.
IF THESE really are the feel-
of the French people, then the
complexities of the Parliament
and the peculiarities of the
Constitution do not sufficiently
explain what has happened.
The answer mus lie deeper.
In part, one suspects, the an
swer lies in the peculiar wav the
Algerian question has been and
is being discussed m this coun
try. Precisely because the ques
tion is so deeply and naturallv
charged with passion, it is not
and never has been publicly dis-
high alpine meadows of the
Three Sisters area.
Our stores compare favorably
with those of much larger Pacific
Coast cities. Zoning and plan
ning have been carried out here
for a long time and, as we saw
last week, the county govern
ment will back up the zoning
laws.
Oh, we have a long way to
go. We need a Civic Center and
we need even better parks and
playgrounds and we need more
in the way of highways'"-and
arterial streets. 'We need a lot
of things. But we have kept up
pretty well with our growth. We
must do more, however, if . we
don't want people some day to
ask, "Why would anybody want
to live there?" Eugene Register
Guard.
An averap-p scrapped automo-
hilp vields 1.500 nounds of iron I
and steel, 20 pounds of aluminum
and 60 pounds of brass, copper
and other usable metals.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
is a great principle at stake, and
the only salvage the country can
recover from the disaster at Lit
tle Rock is to see that this prin
ciple is defined and recognized.
The principle is that the Na
tional Guard may not obstruct
the carrying out of the laws of
the United States, and that it
must be available, if needed, to
enforce the laws. The Faubus af
fair arose out of the problem of
integration. But its crucial im
portance has lain in the question
of what are the rights and duties
of the armed forces of the sev
eral states. No matter how long
it takes, the President cannot
make a settlement in Arkansas
which sets up as a precedent the
action of Faubus. There must be
no doubt left that the troops of
every state are dedicated to the
support of the law.
THE President, we were told,
would have liked to discuss
with the Governors not merely
the specific question of the with
drawal of the Federal power but
also the general problem of in
tegration. If there was any such
discussion, nothing has been re
ported about it. But after Little
Rock, there can be no doubt in
the President's, mind that he
must do more about the general
problem than to hand it over
wholly to the Department of
Justice.
He ought, it seems to me, to
treat integration as primarily a
problem, not in law enforcement,
but in education. It is a problem
not only for Mr. Brownell and
the Department of Justice, but
for Mr. Folsom and the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
For the decision of the Su
preme Court looks forward to
what is in reality a revolutionary
change in the educational system
of a large section of the country,
and also, in truth, of many com
munities outside the South. The
lawyers are necessary and are all
very well. But the time has
come to turn to the leaders of
American education, and to in
vite them to accept their responsibilities-.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
By Joseph Alsop , .
! cussed in a hard-headed, brutally
down-to-earth manner.
From their press and public
men, the French people have
heard endless debating about
Algeria. But the debate always
concerns what ought to be done,
and rarely touches upon what
can be done. It offers endless
variations on the theme of what
is "acceptable, but it hardly
touches upon the uglier theme
of what may have to be accepted
TN THIS respect, the French
people are no different from
the American people, for ex
ample, who have swallowed with
apparent delight the poisonous
soothing syrup officially ladled
out on the crucial problem of na
tional defense. Most Americans
love the syrup because it is
soothing. For the same reason,
most French people are perfect
ly happy not to be reminded of
the only fact concerning the Al
gerian problem of which this re
porter is at all sure the fact
that there is no way out, wheth
er by peace or by war, that does
not have its unavoidably repell
ing and even horrible aspects.
This being so, French opinion
has not really crystallized, in
the true sense of that much
abused word. The objections to
any new and positive course of
action . in Algeria are always
found to be greater than the
promised advantages. This is the
true mark- of uncrystallized pub
lic opinion.
A final crystallization of
French opinion would have had
to start before this, if the Alger
ian rebel leadership were more
united and coherent. In fact,
however, both in their politicai
committees and even in the re
sistance groups in the field, the
rebels appear to be deeply di
vided by differences of view
point and even by personal ri
valries. rpHIS was dramatically illus-
trated last year, when the
Tunisian leader, Habib Bourgui-
ba, urgently pressed his Algerian
friends to accept the famous of
fer of former Prime Minister
Guy Mollet. Their national as
pirations ; could be satisfied,
Bourguiba argued, by agreeing
to a ceasefire, followed by free
elections and subsequent nego
tiations about Algeria's future
status within the French Com
monwealth. Bouguiba was obviously right.
But like the French,' the rebel
leaders found it much easier to
carry on as before than to
achieve unanimity on a sharp
change of course. "
So the problem has dragged
on. To date, the recent vote in
dicates that it is doomed to con
tinue" dragging on for awhile.
Yet the defeat of the proposed
basic law for Algeria, much as
it has damaged France in the
eyes of the rest of the world,
may still mark a useful turning
point in the direction of more
practical French study of the
possible alternatives.
(Copyright. 1957. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
One of our staff members
dashed off into the rain the
other day at noon to solve a
"domestic crisis." His wife, a
working gal, had left home
that morning without a rain
coat, so she couldn't go home
through the downpour for
lunch, and on inspection she
found she had only a nickel in
i
.
We have heard, in a rather
roundabout manner, about a
woman who has been driving for
some time, but who never "got
around" to obtaining a driver's
license.
The other day she started to
back up in a parking lot outside
a market, and bumped another
car, causing minor damage.
Police were summoned.
But it worked out all right.
The market had insurance
which covered the damage to the
other car. And police could not
cite her for driving without a
license, for she was not on a
public highway when the inci
dent happened.
But, we are told, she went out
the next day to obtain her dri
ver's license.
We read somewhere last
week about a businessman in
Seattle, who had been con
cerned about the Little Rock
business, and who then put a
sign in his window reading:
"We can be thankful OUR
school problems , are only
about money!"
Timberline lodge on Mt. Hood
has long been noted for its big
St. Bernard dogs, who add a
friendly note to the atmosphere
at that most attractive mountain
resort. There's still at least one
in residence there, we discov
ered on a visit to the mountain
not long ago. His name is Mac.
He's a big beautiful dog, too,
but the bartender at the Blue
Ox lounge is something less than
enthusiastic about him.
"The darn fool wandered a
coupie or diocks away ana goi
lost last week," he told us. "So
a bunch of people had to go out
and find him." He didn't reply
when we asked him if the res
cuers wore cans of dog food be-
ucaui men viiiwo.
In another conversation, the
bartender was asked if the dog
ever goes out to find stranded
mountaineers. "Heck, no," he
said. "In the first place he's too
stupid, and in the second place
we can't let him out with that
An a- lt-n Jt Mysim kin otaaIv-.
iie arinKS.
The Poiluck editor found
the following missive on his '
desk the other day:
"October Ale
"By the Pail.
"Am in Jail;
"Got no Bail."
The plaintive, though anony
mous, author entitled it "Old
English Folk Song."
'
A man we know had occasion
to drive to KJamath Falls the
other day, and all along the
Green Springs highway he re
ported seeing cars parked beside
the road, as their owners were
beating the brush for deer.
He suggested they should stick
closer to the highway, for he said'
no fewer than three unmolested
deer crossing the road during his
drive over and back.
City police report that an
automobile dealer called them
to say that one of his em
ployees was using a 1957
model car without permission,
and that when located by po
lice he was scheduled to be
come an ex-employee. (This,
police added, happened.)
Lt. Col. Frank M. Kehoer
Army reserve advisor for . this
area, has an office in the creak
ing old Federal building at 33
started out life as an automobile
dealership, and has had a varied
history since.
He claims he has the only such
office in Oregon with a fire-,
place. And he adds that he's
afraid to try it out, for the last
time it was used was when the
USO occupied the building dur
ing World War II. At that, Col
onel Kehoe says, the custodian
told him that even then, "the
fireplace smoked up everything
but the chimney."
The good colonel plans to
hang stockings on it come Christ
mas. City Police Officer Elvln
Renfro made a routine
"pinch" the other night, when
a driver failed to observe a .
traffic light. The policeman -then
found the driver was the
safety manager of one of the
better-known national busi
ness firms; that it was his first -ticket
in more than 17 years
of driving and thai he was
returning from a meetisg
where he'd given a lecture on
traffic safety.
After a wild chase through
city streets, a car fleeing from
police, crashed into a tree in an
alley. The tree happened to be
just behind the house where Po
lice Capt. Clyde Fichtner lives.
Said Fichtner: "A man can
hardly get any sleep these days."