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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1947 (Tuesday)
Young Hollywood visitor
takes four pound steelhead fish
from the Rogue river.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
wolves have started howling
again in the hills back of Trail
and on the Old Oregon campus."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1937 (Thursday)
Two-year-old Butte Falls girl
saved from death when family
dog goes into the burning home
and drags girl to window.
Pear shipments this season to
tal 1.268 cars, according to the
freight department of the South
ern Pacific railroad.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1927 (Friday)
Tired of the name Smith, a
Jackson county family changes
its name following a hearing in
circuit court.
Plans for continuing the six
months' campaign for advertis
ing Medford and the Rogue
river valley throughout the
United States are discussed at
local realty board meeting to
day.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1917 (Saturday)
Three forest fires, one serious,
on the Umpqua divide, keep
large force of firefighters busy,
Medford Furniture and Hard
ware company establishes a
military bulletin board where
names, company, regiment and
address of every soldier from
Jackson county will be shown
at all times.
What's Your I.O.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Name the smallest planet.
2. In southern U.S., would the
slang expression "Yankee Dime"
mean a hug, or a kiss?
3. Bible: At which "Mount"
were the Ten Commandments
introduced?
4. Is Dow Jones a stock mar
ket brokerage firm, a financial
news service, or an English ac
tor? 5. Baton Rouge is the capital
of which state?
6. How many years are denot
ed by "three score and twenty"?
7. Colossus of Rhodes was a
famous building, a large statue,
or a noted ancient personage?
8. Only three states in the
Union have four letters in their
names; can you name the states?
9. Which word is incorrectly
used: 'There were two or three,
or at the most a dozen, people
there?
10. "March winds and April
showersBring forth" what?
Answers: 1. Mercury. 2. A
kiss. 3. Mount Sinai. 4. Financial
news service. 5. Louisiana. 6.
Eighty. 7. A large statue. 8. Iowa.
Ohio. Utah. 9. People (should be
replaced by "persons"). 10. "May
flowers." Ellsworth. J
MAIL TRIBUNE
Avoiding A "Split"
A feature story in a recent issue of this paper
told of the expansion of the "East Side" shopping
area in Medford.
It recorded the "inevitable" growth of the com
mercial and professional area of the city into what
was once a quiet and attractive residential section.
The story brought into clear focus the- fact that
cities are not static, but that they are fluid they
change and develop and grow in response to new
demands, new forces and pressures, new growth.
IN time, we suspect, Hawthorne park will be surr
rounded by business and professional establish
ments of one sort or another. We do not see how the
residential nature of the area can long be main
tained, for it is dwindling rapidly.
The process, as far as this area is concerned,
has speeded up in recent years, and even in recent
months. Tremendous new impetus will be given to
it with the completion of the big new shopping center
a couple of blocks to the north of Main street.
In effect, this growth to the east is, at present,
simply an extension of the downtown area, separated
only by Bear creek." In another year or so, the con
struction of another bridge across the creek, to extend
Eighth street to a junction with Main, will add further
strength both to the development of the area, and
to its connection with the established business section.
HETHER all this is "good" or "bad" depends
entirely on the point of view.
The movement of professional offices largely
those of doctors and dentists is in some ways a
blessing for downtown merchants, for it frees many
more parking places for shoppers to use downtown.
On the other hand, new stores and shops in the
area, existing and in the future, are being provided
with better parking facilities than "downtown," and
will tend to keep shoppers away from the crowded
streets around the intersection of Main and Central.
Owners of some of the attractive old homes in
the lower East side must be torn in two directions.
The development increases the value. of their prop
erties as they become choice locations for business.
But they must regret, too, the encroaching traffic,
the loss of quiet and privacy, and the tearing down
of some homes.
S to the future development and integrity of the
citv. our chief worry is the danger implicit in
this growth of a tendency to "split" the city with
the old, high-value, tight-parking "downtown" area
on one side, and the new, growing, easy-parking shop
ping area on the other. The danger, up to this point,
has not grown to a point for active concern.
But the danger is there.
And it has been one of the principal reasons we
have supported, all the way along, attempts to pro
vide city-sponsored off-street parking in the down
town area not only to make life easier for shoppers,
but to preserve values in this high-value area; values
which help keep property taxes down for everyone
else in town.
It has also been one of the principal reasons we
have opposed, all the way along, the choice of the
east bank of Bear creek as the route for the pro
posed new, elevated, four-lane freeway.
7
AT this stage, it looks as though it is inevitable that
" this will be the route chosen by the highway
commission.
And, in fairness, if the commission is irrevokably
committed to the route, we will accept it with as
good a grace as possible.
But we have the uneasy feeling that if this free
way does cut through the middle of town, it will
accentuate the tendency for the East Side to split
away from '"downtown," and that the new area,
bolstered by a big Sears, Roebuck and company store,
a Safeway store and others, will grow and prosper,
at the ultimate expense of "downtown."
.
VIT'HAT can be done to counter this danger?
Well short of outright rejection by the city
of the Bear creek route it seems to us the solution
is in providing as many and as good east-west access
routes as possible ; in encouraging attractive develop
ment of the area between the two business sections
(we refer particularly to the less-than-standard build
ings on North Riverside on both sides of Jackson
street) ; and in discouraging, as far as possible, busi
ness development which is too fast and too far from
sections which are at present devoted to this use.
These are the responsibility of the city council
and planning commission, and we believe they
recognize it. What we are suggesting is a long look
into the future, and the development of plans to
encourage orderly, attractive growth for Medford
for the years ahead.
It will take vision and courage, neither of which
come easy, but it will pay
of the city. E.A.
Satellite Launching Considered Big Blow
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 5 (W
Sen. Henry M. Jackson CD
Wash.) said Russia's launching
of the world's first artificial
satellite "is a devastating blow
to the United States' scientific,
industrial and technical prestige
in the world."
Jackson, who heads the sub
committee of military applica
tions of atomic energy, said the
Soviet Union's main objective
has been "to beat the United
States industrially, scientifically
and technically."
The long-range effect of the
satellite launching, he predict
ed, will be a "stepping up of the
cold war with the Soviets throw-,
Monday, October 7, 1957
off in the future welfare
ing their weight around more
than ever."
The senator said the launch
ing tends to corroborate Russia's
claim of successfully firing an
intercontinental ballistics mis
sile (ICBM) in August.
"In fact, there no longer can
be any doubt about the Soviet's
missile claims," Jackson said.
COLGATE DIRECTOR DIES
Springfield, N. J. (IP) Hugh
R. MacMillan Jr., 53, vice presi
dent in charge of manufactur
ing and a director of the Colgate
Palmolive company, died yester
day of a heart attack while play
ing golf.
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Hoffa Election Puts
Labor Legislation
In Lap of Congress
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) The elec
tion of James R. Hoffa to the
teamsters presidency automati
cally puts it up
to Congress to
enact some
more labor
1 e g i slation in
the session be
ginning next
January.
A likely tip
off on congres
s i o n a 1 mood
l,yle C Wilson was i n e in
stant reaction of Sen. John L.
McClellan (D.-Ark.) who said of
the election that "Congress is
now challenged, if not dared, to
enact laws that will protect the
rank - and file union members
and the public from the nefari
ous menace of gangsterism and
racketeer control in some labor
unions."
McClellan speaks from a posi
tion of strength, if not neutral
ity. He is , chairman of the Sen
ate Rackets committee that has
been giving Hoffa going over.
No one is more sharply aware
of that fact than George Meany,
the hard-fisted plumber who is
president of the AFL-CIO.
Meany is a labor politician and
pretty well fits the pattern of a
labor-statesman.
Meany Maneuvers
Soon after the teamster story
began to unfoldbefore the Sen
ate Rackets committee in terms
of financial finagling by Dave
Beck, Hoffa and pals, Meany be
gan maneuvering to protect or
ganized labor against the barbed
labor legislation which Congress
might enact if public indigna
tion at the teamster goings-on
was not somehow appeased.
Meany and the AFL-CIO high
command wanted to oust Beck
from the teamster presidency
after his Senate committee ap
pearance. They could not swing
it. The effort to prevent Hoffa's
election to succeed Beck came
finally to the promise now in
effect:
Teamsters Ouster Expected
That, if Hoffas were elected,
the teamsters would be expelled
from AFL-CIO membership. The
expulsion order, doubtless, will
be coming soon unless new
President Hoffa moves first to
disaffiliate the teamsters from
the over-all labor organization.
Meany's maneuvering, which
will end, finally, with departure
of the teamsters from the AFL
CIO, probably will protect or
ganized labor next session from
the kind of regulatory legisla
tion which it does not want. The
least Meany and company can
expect from the next session of
Congress is new legislation to
keep sticky fingers out of union
cash boxes.
That will be all right with
Meany. The AFL-CIO Ethical
Practices committee is on rec
ord for that. The committee last
May adopted a code of ethical
financial practices which would
forbid such me-first money deals
s have been charged against
Beck and Hoffa. The Eisenhow
er administration is committed
to go at least as far as the AFL
CIO in keeping union leaders
honest.
Eisenhower Vagus
President Eisenhower told
questioners last March that he
would support legislation re
quiring unions to give their
members "an exact Accounting
of how their money is used."
One month later, Eisenhower
said there should be legislation
requiring "the registration, re
porting and disclosure" of all
facts with respect to union wel
fare and pension funds. The ad
ministration is not committed
on what to do about labor racke
teering. Unions now make financial
reports to the Department of
Labor. That was required by the
Taft-Hartley act. Successive sec
retaries have held, however,
that there was no provision for
publicity of these reports. Neith
er, it would appear, do the re
in&7 re- wjn
ports bear sufficient detail to
reveal financial practices such
as prevailed in the teamsters
union.
The Senate passed but the
House rejected last session a res
olution authorizing the . Depart
ment of Labor to make union
reports public. Secretary of La
bor James P. Mitchell believes
the reports should be disclosed.
He said:
That authority would go a
long way toward preventing the
abuses."
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written, Jimmy Hof
fa has just been elected presi-
dent of the 1,400, 000-member
Teamsters Union. He won on the
first ballot with an unofficial
total of 880 votes to the combin
ed 298 votes of his two oppo
nents.
Dave Beck, the outgoing pres
ident, asks for and obtains a
leave of absence beginning Oc
tober 15, so that Hoffa may step
into command immediately.
Beck's term would normally
have expired on Dec. 1.
ITHAT about it everything
" considered?
Well, if Hoffa is the kind of
man the teamsters want as their
leader he is the man they ought
to have. This is a free country,
where the majority rules.
I CAN'T help doubting, though,
if Hoffa is the kind of man
the GENERAL RUN of team
sters want.
Consider these courteous men
who drive the big trucks on our
highways and at every opportu
nity get over on one side of the
road to let us pass in our cars
and flash their lights at the
top of a hill so that we may
know the road ahead is clear
end we may pass safely. Remem
ber their friendly grins when
we wave our hands as we scoot
past them. Consider these good
teamster neighbors of ours in all
of our towns.
They just aren't the kind of
people who would-want as their
leader the kind of man Hoffa
seems to be.
LET'S put it this way:
If there is anything wrong
with the giant Teamsters Union
it is that the big men on top
have too much power and like
everybody else since the begin
nings of history who has held too
much power in his hands too
long they have MISUSED IT.
I suppose you have noticed in
the news that France is in
financial trouble again.
Why?
It is EXCEEDINGLY simple.
The French persistently re
fuse to face the facts of life.
Among other things, they
have an extreme distaste for
taxes. Knowing this, the French
politicians have persistently ov
er the long years refused to levy
as much in the way of taxes as
is needed to pay the nation's
bills.
Instead
And note this
They have resorted to EASY
money. .
Jailar Would Kill
Geo. N. Taylor
In a deep dungeon, far down in the jail,
God's men, the Apostle Paul and Silas,
were praying and singing praises unto God.
Suddenly, there was a great earthquake and
very foundations of the prison were shaken.
The jailer, waking out of his sleep, would
have killed himself. He saw the prison doors
opened and yet the prisoners standing fix
ed with chains dropped off. "Do thyself
no harm," said the Apostle. "Believe that
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ blots out all the sins of
such as will believe in His death to save them." So by the
teaching of the Bible, God moulded this hard-boiled jailer
for eternal life. Acts. 16:25-40, and Romans 8:3-4. God's peo
ple send this message to you who would come out from under
condemnation.
Be van Takes Surprise
Right; Warns on Nuclear Ban
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Aneurin Bevan, long time the
No. 1 "hot head" of the British
Labor Party, has taken a strong
turn to the
right.
In doing so,
Bevan seems
to have nulled
the rug out 1 W
from under
the entire
Laborite
left wing, of
which he has
been fnr vpnrs u--rS. mmmm
Deen ior years Cliarles M. Mccann
the leader.
Bevan's radical change of at
titude was made apparent last
week at the 56th annual Con
ference of the Labor Party.
For one thing, he was given
the credit for insuring the defeat
of a . resolution which would
have pledged any future Labor
government to ban the testing,
manufacture and use of nuclear
weapons even if other countries
did not.
In an impassioned speech,
Bevan said that for Britain to
take action alone might increase,
not decrease, the danger of a
third world war and might lead
to Britain's destruction in a war
between the United States and
Soviet Russia.
'Agonized Thinking
Bevan, his party's leading ora
tor, said he had formed his opin
ion only after "a lot of agoniz
ing thinking."
"I am deeply convinced that
the resolution . . . might have
disastrous consequences through
out the world," he said.
Cries of "shame" came fre
quently from his outraged fellow
leftists.
Bevan's altered attitude means
that a long split in the Labor
Partv is being closed. Apparent
ly he and Party Leader Hugh
Gaitskell. a right-winger, intend
JENKINS
The kind of easy money they
have resorted to is printing press
money. With this "easy" money,
they have paid the nation's bills.
What has happened as a re
suit?
, Here Is an example:
Back in World War I as all
survivors of that war who got to
r ranee win rememDer. me
French franc was worth 20 cents
or five francs for an American
dollar.
The French franc is now quot
ed at 450 for an American dol
lar. Instead of 20 cents, as in
World War I, the French franc is
now worth about a quarter of
a cent.
We talk about 50-cent dollars
We don't know anything about
depreciated money.
Assembly Kicks Off
Hunter Safety Course
Approximately 200 Hedrick
junior high school and 60 Mc
Loughlin junior high school stu
dents attended a recent assembly
starting the Medford Schools'
hunter safety program, it was
reported.
The course, developed by the
National Rifle association,
stresses proper handling of a
gun and safe hunting practices.
Those appearing on the assembly
program were Leonard Mayfield,
Medford schools superintendent,
Harry Heidenreich and Jim Bol
ton of the local NRA club and
Bruce Nelson, Dean of Boys at
Hedrick junior high.
Instructors for the program at
Hedrick are: Bruce Nelson,
Louis Thanos, Don Ferguson,
Baney Riggs, Duane Richardson
and Otis Swisher. Those at Mc
Loughlin school are Earl Rogers,
Don Davis and George Sloniger.
The course is conducted by certi
fied instructors and under con
ditions prescribed by NRA, it
was explained.
Those who wish to continue
with the course will be allowed
to participate in a Junior Rifle
Club program, a spokesman said.
This allows many students who
cannot participate in the local
NRA program to learn rifle
safety. This enables the schools
to apply for government aid.
Ranges will be set up at the
Medford senior high school, Mc-
Loughlin junior high school and
at Hedrick junior high school.
Hawaii's present population,
steadily growing, is said to ex
ceed that of six of the states in
the Union.
Self
to work together from now on,
One reason for Bevan's swing
to the right is that he has been
promised the post of foreign sec
retary if and when the Laborites
get back into power.
Another is that the Laborites
are convinced they can win a
general election now a con
viction that is shared by a good
many Britons.
There might be another rea
son in the new surge of Liberal
Party activity largely due to a
big increase in the Liberal vote
in recent by-elections for indi
vidual vacancies in the House of
Commons.
A strongly united, moderate
Labor Party would make it much
more difficult for the Liberals to
make a come-back.
Laborites Demand Election
Of the 630 seats in the House
of Commons, Prime Minister
Harold MacMillan's Conserva
tive Party has 340 seats, the
Laborites have 278 and the Lib
erals five. MacMillan can depend
on the votes of two additional
Matter of Fact
LITTLE ROCK AND HISTORY
Washington The policy of
the Eisenhower administration,
as of this writing, seems to be
to depend on the passage of time
and local pressures for reason
and moderation to heal the
crisis in Little Rock. In White
House circles, Orval Faubus is
cften compared to Joseph R. Mc
Carthy, and it is said: "We'll
give Faubus enough rope " to
hang himself."
Perhaps there is nothing else
to do. But it may take a lot of
time and a lot of rope.And it is
at least possible that the situa
tion in Little Rock and through'
out the South may get a lot
worse instead of better, the long'
er Federal troops remain there
Sometimes a small episode,
which seems insignificant at the
time, takes on a certain mean
ing in retrospect. Such an epi
sode was a conversation this re
porter had in Little Rock, with
a big, shirt-sleeved man on the
fringes of a crowd abound the
school house. He had a very
Southern accent, and he talked
like a great many other people
in Little Rock. "Would you want
your kids being forced by Fed
eral bayonets into a school with
a bunch of half-savages?" he
asked.
Then he suddenly let down
his guard, as sometimes happens
in a conversation between
strangers who are unlikely to
meet again. "Look," he said, and
his accent changed, "I came here
from Wisconsin eight years ago,
and hell, I went to school with
a couple of Negroes and it didn't
bother me. But down here,
brother, you talk like the rest
of the people about this thing,
and you think like them too, or
one day you wake up dead."
rpHIS small episode serves to
suggest something of the
dangers involved, if the crisis in
Little Rock drags on indefinite
ly. The extraordinary depth of
feeling on the racial issue in the
South is consistently underesti
mated outside the South. In a
way, this is natural.
Consider a few statistics. The
proportion of Negroes in Wash
ington, D.C., which has inte
grated without major trouble, is
over 35 per cent. The proportion
in Gary, Indiana, which has
been integrated for years, is al
most 30 per cent. The propor
tion of Negroes in Little Rock is
only 23 per cent. So why do the
people of Little Rock feel so
much more passionately about
racial issues than the people of
Washington, D.C., or Gary, In
diana? There are many reasons, , of
course, psychological and eco
nomic, but the historical reasons
must not be -overlooked. The
preoccupation with the Civil
War and the Reconstruction era
in the South tends to astonish
or amuse Northern visitors. Yet
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most issues.
The Laborites lost no oppor
tunity to demand that MacMil
lan call a general parliamentary
election at once.
MacMillan quite naturally re
fused. Barring any development
that would make a special elec
tion call necessary, the Con
servatives are in office until mid
1960. The Conservatives have
suffered some hard knocks in
both foreign and domestic af
fairs. They know that this is no
time to go before the country.
Bevan has been a rebel in the
Labor Party for years. His turn
toward moderation is an import
ant development in British poli
tics. It does not mean he will
now cease to be Labor's leading
anti - American. He believes
United States foreign policy is
belligerent and dangerous.
At least, his hot head seems to
be cooling. It could be that if he
ever got to be foreign secretary,
responsibility would cool it some
more.
By Stewart Alsop
it is an important political fact,
which must be reckoned with.
GARY, INDIANA, after all,
was never occupied by Fed
eral troops who used force to
put uneducated Negroes and un
scrupulous Northern . adventur
ers into positions of power. In
the Reconstruction era, the slo
gan of the Little Rock "Repub
lican," the organ of the occu
pation forces, was: "We'll make
Arkansas Republican or a waste
of howling wilderness." Read
the history of Reconstruction,
and you. will find the phrase
"Federal bayonets" used in 1870
in precisely the same bitterly
symbolic way as it is used today
in Little Rock. Such phrases
("Northern press" is another)
have much the same Jnstinctive,
emotional connotations as the
word "Boche" has to many
Frenchmen.
All this is not to suggest that
President Eisenhower was wrong
to do what he did, or that ha
should now surrender to the
slippery Faubus. But it does sug
gest that the President's action
in sending Federal troops into a
Southern state was very much
more dangerous in terms of na
tional unity than is generally
recognized outside the South.
THE longer Federal troops re
main in Arkansas, the more
dangerous will the feeling in
the South become. The social
pressures which this feeling
creates forces a recent Wiscon
sinite a talk like an extremist
Southerner. But these social
pressures are duplicated by po
litical pressures, so that, in the
wake of Little Rock, a respected
Southern leader like Georgia's
Sen. Richard Russell can ser
iously compare American sol
diers to Hitler's storm troopers.
One of the moderately politi
cal leaders in Arkansas remark
ed to this reporter: "Spiritually
and morally, the South is about
ready to secede already." If the
South does secede, morally and
spiritually, all Southern politi
cians may have to sound like
demagogues if, politically, they
are not to "wake up dead."
That is why some, at least, of
President Eisenhower's advisers
are coming to the view that he
must make a truly heroic effort,
using all the means of communi
cation at his command, to ex
plain the inescapable reasons
for his action, to reassure and
strengthen the reasonable ma
jority in the South, and to quiet
the passions which are endan
gering national unity. This kind
of effort might also increase the
pressure qn Faubus to agree to
a rational settlement, thus per
mitting the withdrawal of Fed
eral troops and an end to the
most dangerous domestic crisis
in many generations.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
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