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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9. 1947 (Thursday)
Insurance adjuster estimating
damage done by blaze which
swept one-story Porter Lumber
company plant on South Fir st.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: " A rural
resident reports he slipped out
the other night, when his dog
barked and caught a Caucasian
In his woodpile."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9. 1937 (Sunday)
The secretary of agriculture
tentatively approves marketing
agreement under subsidy plan
for the 1937-38 season.
Shepherd dog belonging to
the A. R. Mansfield family, dies
from burns after saving a 2V4-year-old
daughter from death in
the recent house fire.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1927 (Sunday)
Medford music house reports
record sales of "Two Black
Crows" record.
Involuntary m a n s 1 a ughter
charge filed against federal pro
hibition offier for slaying Trail
rancher.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9. 1917 (Tuesday)
Manager Nibley of the Utah
Idaho Sugar company urges
beet growers to double crops
for the coming year because
of the world shortage of sugar.
Tobacco dealers charge six
cents for five-cent cigars due
to new war tax measure.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is gond
1. Name the largest of present
day land animals.
2. How many hams may be
obtained from a single hog?
3. Bible: Which high priest
succeeded Eleazar?
4. An aperitif is a laxative,
drink, or a relish taken before
a meal?
5. In which citv in Italv is the
most famous leaning tower?
6. In World War I, what was
the AEF?
7. Who served as President of
the Confederate Sates of Amer
ica during the War Between the
States?
8. In wht field of sport is
Lloyd Mangrum a well-known
player?
9. "Older" or "oldest" may be
used of either persons or things.
Which related term should be
used only of persons, usually of
the same family?
10. What was Henry Mayhew's
"Advice to persons about to
marry"?
Answers: 1. The elephant.
2. Two. 3. Phinehas. 4.Drink.
5. Pisa. 6. American Expedition
ary Force. 7. Jefferson Davis.
8. Golf. 9. Elder; eldest.
10. "Don't."
Pear Bureau Officials
To A1eef in Washington
Portland The annual meet
ing of the Merchandising Clinic
of merchandising representatives
of the Oregon-Washington-California
Pear bureau is scheduled
Oct 10 to 12 in Washington D.C.
Richard A. Patterson, secretary-manager
of the bureau, will
be chairman of the three-day
session. Patterson will go direct
ly to Cologne, Germany, from
Washington, D. C. where he will
assist in preparing an exhibit at
a food fair.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Healthy Reminder
There is a peculiar fascination in contemplating
the earth satellite now circling the earth on a north
south orbit.
In common with many other Americans, we had
looked forward with anticipation to this first jump
into space but in common with others had fully
expected our much-vaunted "American know-how"
to lead the way. It was a disappointment to learn
that the Russians were first.
As a result the steady "beep, beep, beep" is a
warning tone, certainly not a triumphant one.
THIS isn't a mere matter of wounded pride, either.
We have heard and read so much in recent years
about the horrors of nuclear warfare, of guided mis
siles, and the Soviets' aim of world-wide domination,
that this proof of their superiority in one field of
technology and possibly in others, while it poses no
immediate threat, is certainly something to be taken
seriously.
It bears out the repeated warnings of Joseph and
Stewart Alsop, who for years have warned that
America was falling behind in the missile race.
And it makes one wonder about the repeated pro
nouncements from our government to the effect that
we have the most, the best, the fastest, the biggest
of everything.
QN THE face of it, of course, the Russian satellite
isa victory for science and for all mankind; the
first big step leading to space. And it was done as
part of a vast, cooperative, international endeavor
to probe the still-unsolved secrets of the world and
solar system.
If that were all there was to it, we could rejoice
at a scientific victory and a major break-through for
science. But the rockets which launch earth satellites,
and the rockets which carry warheads are dissimilar
only in purpose, not in design or operation.
OOWEVER, viewed in a different light, the fact
that Russia did the job first may, in the long run,
be the best thing which could have happened.
m It could and most certainly should stimulate
this nation to much greater endeavors in the scien
tific field, particularly in
It might teach us the value of humility and shake
us loose from some of our complacent feeling of super
iority ana our unconscious assumption that, without
half trying, we can equal or better the efforts of any
one else, anywhere.
Certainly we can do things better but not with
out harjl work, sacrifice, and national unity and de
termination.
And that "beep, beep, beep" is a healthy reminder
of this fact. E.A.
Tremendous Accomplishment
Launching this satellite is a tremendous accomp
lishment. The Russians got the same sort of head start on it
that the Americans did by capturing and putting to
work German rocket experts, who were far ahead
in rocketry during: "World War II. Initially, it is be-
hlieved, the American research program was far ahead,
but as the years passed, the Russians forged ahead.
And they told us so, too, but we marked it down to
Soviet propaganda.
IF ONE has ever observed July 4th sky rockets, one
can get some sort of idea of the problems involved.
First a propellant must be devised that is both
powerful and relatively stable. A container must be
designed which has the aero-dynamic features neces
sary both for speed and stability. Unbelievably compli
cated controls systems must be designed and perfect
ed. And these three elements must be made to work
together to minutely-exact tolerances.
A single-stage rocket is basically simple in design,
but in execution each component must be tested,
precise and exact.
A ROCKET capable of launching a satellite is a
far, far more complicated mechanism. With to
day's propellants, a single-stage rocket simply can't
do the job.
So multi-stage rockets have been designed. These
are rockets on top of rockets. The lowest stage gets
the device off the ground, then drops away .when its
fuel is exhausted. The second stage adds speed, then
its drops away. The third and final stage gives the
final impetus, and also the last fine degrees of direc
tion and control.
The adjustments and mechanisms in all three
stages must operate in a manner as complicated as an
aircraft, with the precision of a watch, and with the
ruggedness necessary to take pressures many times
that of gravity.
TO PUT a satellite into an orbit, the rockets must
not only overcome gravity, but also the effects of
atmospheric turbulence, the spin of the earth, and a
dozen-and-one other forces, any one of which could
throw the whole thing out of kilter.
America is getting ready to launch its own satel
lite, and there is reason to believe, in the obscure an
nouncements we are permitted to have, that in some
ways it will be a more advanced vehicle than that
of the Russians.
But this does not dim the fact that Russia was
the first into space, and that it has taken skilled ad
vantage of its talented technicians.
Its accomplishment is nothing to -pass off lightly,
even though, at this stage, it is no cause for panic
or undue alarm. E.A. - - -
Wednesday, October 9, 1957
missile research.
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South Boycott Urged
To the Editor: I'd like to "sec
ond the motion" in regard to the
letter from Mrs. Herb Sampert
of 158 Renault Avenue, Medford
quoting the article in "Friends
Journal" Quaker Weekly dated
Sept. 21, '57, a sort of letter to
colored people.
I should like to suggest that
those of us who are in favor of
integration boycott products of
states opposing same. An econ
omic weapon would work wond
ers. Personally I care not what
color a person's skin may be so
long as his character is accept
able. I know a considerable
number of people both colored
and white, and I can Jruthfully
say I have never had trouble of
any kind not even a mild argu
ment, with a colored person. I
cannot say the same for some
white people I have met.
Some 100 years ago the Irish,
who had found it necessary to
leave their native land, arrived
in America and experienced some
of the same things the colored
people have had to live with
for the past 200 years. In news
paper ads of the day, I have
seen such things as "No Irish
need apply." It was not at all
unusual. I must say I do not
know, but suppose similiar re
strictions have been placed on
nearly every race in existance
at some time.
I repeat my suggestion that
persons in favor of integration
refuse to buy from states and
or firms or individuals favor
ing segregation. Then see who
wins.
Floyd R. McCabe
Butte Falls, Ore.
National Prayer Advocated
To the Editor: Isn't it time for
men of good will in every state
in our country to join in seek
ing a positive, creative solution
to the national crisis that con
fronts us all in the issue of in
tegration and the sovereignty of
states?
Let us unite with the people of
Little Rock next Saturday, Oct.
12, in a day of prayer in homes,
in churches, in places of business
or wherever we may be, petition
ing almighty God to grant wis
dom and patience to our leaders,
and to give His guidance in re
solving factional bitterness and
misunderstanding, that we may
become, in deed as well as in
word, "one nation under God in
divisible, with liberty and justice
for all."
As we make our petitions, let
us not forget the prayer of the
Publican recorded in the scrip
tures: "God, be merciful to me,
a sinner," for few among us are
wholly guiltless of the spirit of
intolerance and prejudice which
has brought Little Rock such un
happy notoriety at home and
abroad.
Grace N. Pearson
Route 2, Box 50
Jacksonville, Ore.
Thanks Hospital
To the Ed'itor: May I take this
method to thank the many kind
people I came in contact with
as a result of being a very recent
patient in the Rogue Valley
Memorial hospital. The Medford
Ladies Hospital auxiliary, for
kindness in taking care of pa
tients' flowers and mail daily,
and distributing free coffee and
reading materials to all patients.
The merchants who generously
distribute writing fhaterials in
evety ward, and a service I par
ticularly enjoyed, the Medford
Mail Tribune served every eve
ning with our dinner tray,
through the generosity of Court
esy Chevrolet.
To these fine organizations
and kind people who donate
their time and money to make
hospital visits a great deal more
cheerful, I offer my most sin
cere "Thank You."
Thelma Schrecengost,
508 West Sixth,"
Medford, Ore.
Best Bargain
To the Editor: As the house
wives of Jackson county scan the
advertisements of the Mail Tri
bune this evening in search of
bargains for their budgets, I
should like to insert a word or
two concerning the very best
bargain I know.
I know where one ton of food,
valued at $300, can be purchased
for only $10 and delivered to
persons who need it. A $10 bill,
sent to the American Friends
Service Committee, at 1108 S.E.
Grand ave., Portland, Ore., will
pay the costs of sending one
whole ton of surplus foods over
seas to hungry people. You can
be sure that every pound of that
food will reach individuals
whose lives depend upon it.
This is the best bargain I
know, and I thought you'd like
to know about it too.
Helen E. Webster,
940 Whitman ave.,
Medford, Ore.
ditorial Comment
UNITED ACTION
The following letter appeared
in the "Public Forum" column
of the World of Coos Bay:
The papers of the entire coun
try are today filled with the hap
penings in the state of Arkansas
re: the integration of public
schools. Millions of words are
written by reporters, editors, col
umnists and even letters to pub
lic forums, such as this one.
Yet no one seems to name the
basic reason for the viciousness
shown by the Southern state gov
ernments against integration and
civil rights the real reason
not the side issues. -
Governor Faubus' action
brought into the open the real
force behind the viciousness. Not
the people as such, the majority;
but the few in power, with their
unconstitutional "black code"
laws, made after the days of re
construction. Laws still on the
books, still unconstitutional.
What can be the reason a man,
or men, in high position will
foment mob violence and even
use state militia against national
laws? Because of a few Negroes
going to school? Sounds rather
absurd! What will they lose by
integration and civil rights? By
giving the vote to all.
The vote!
Common sense tells us that if
all people voted in the Southern
states men like Faubus would
never be governors. McClelland
(Ark.), Eastland (Miss.), John
ston (S.C.), in fact only a few of
those in power in the South
would ever have a chance at re
election if all men and women
could vote in Dixieland. What
better reason (from their point
of view) does one need to "go the
limit." They see the end of their
regime and, like cornered rats,
will do any evil to keep on top.
The sad part of the story is
that through control of all com
munications and educational fa
cilities they make it appear that
a majority are with them. True,
some workers do fall for the
propaganda. The big majority
never have a chance to be heard.
Few have the courage to speak
out when the KKK mobsters
may pay them a "visit." The
FBI is too busy chasing "reds"
to give any protection against
would-be "fascists."
One may also ask "Why
doesn't the U.S. Senate and Con
gress act?" But who, except
these same Southern leaders,
control the committees in these
legislative bodies? Their count
erparts from the North connive
with them to keep their lush
jobs the workers separated by
ignorance.
Only through united action by
labor unions and other organi
zations of enlightened workers,
men and women, can the demo
cracy these demagogues prate
of. be made a living thing.
Labor's treatment is not unlike
that of the Negro people in the
south and Washington, D.C.
Marshal Grob, North Bend.
First Army -
West Germany Ends in
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The first clash between civil
and military authority over the
West German armed forces has
resulted in a
distinct defeat
for the army.
A brigadier
general who
refused to ap
prove the pro
motion of a
staff officer in
the defense
ministry has
Charles M. McCann been summar
ily dismissed.
To make it worse from the
army viewpoint, the man who
dismissed him. Defense Minister
Franz Josef Strauss, is a butch
er's son.
On the surface the incident
was a minor one. But it points
up the fact that Germany, like
Japan, is a historically militar
istic country in which army men
always have sought to run their
show by themselves.
Rearmament Risky
It points up also the fact that
in rearming West Germany and
Japan' the Western Allies are
taking a calculated risk. At the
present stage of world history,
the threat of Communist aggres
sion is much worse than the
threat of the possible revival of
German and Japanese militar
ism.
The incident of the general's
dismissal was something new in
German military history. In the
old days, the Prussian generals
of the German armed forces re
garded themsleves as above civil
authority, and they really were.
Hitler succeeded in making
himself the supreme authority
during the days of Nazism. But
the army never accepted him in
fact and members of the general
staff took the leading part in the
attempt to assassinate him in
July 20, 1944.
Strauss Is Boss
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
and his colleagues made every
effort, in the ending of rearma
ment, to insure firm civil con
trol of the armed forces. There
NEWSPAPER BATTLE
We wish the Oregonian and
the Oregon Journal would quit
bickering. It sounds like mama
and papa quarreling and scares
the kids. And besides if they
don't stop pretty soon the people
will begin to believe both.
It seems agreed that the Ore
gonian has proven its major con
tention which was that there
was collusion or at least an un
derstanding between some labor
leaders without responsibility
to either the public or union
members and certain county and
city officials. This resulted in no
good and was against public in
terest being selfishly engend
ered. Whether all details about
who hired the prostitute are true
or not isn't important.
But the Oregonian's phycho
logy was very worng. It wanted
to be clapped on the back and
hailed as a public benefactor and
when some folks back east gave
it a button the swelling in its
chest became very noticeable. It
forgot the humility that makes
success forgivable.
It was too much for the Ore
gon Journal which gave most
of the indications of being a dis
appointed swain. The Journal
did not cheer its brother in news
over his victory. It constantly
intimated that there was some
thing untold about the whole af
fair that would cloud the glory
of the Oregonian. Well, let's
have it. What if it does stink; our
smellers are numb anyway.
The whole dispute shows a
lack of the philosophical calm(
readers like to think prevades
editorial offices. Much of it is
intemperate and little of ' it is
dignified or becoming.
May we suggest that editorial
staffs of the two newspapers
buckle their typewriters on their
left arms as a shield, arm them
selves with fountain pens and
meet in inky battle around the
bronze deer between Third and
Fourth streets and finish the
conflict. First man with a dirty
face or a tired left arm to be
retired to a first aid station.
(Sherman County Observer,
Giles French, editor).
America's Attitude
Blamed by Pinkley
Portland OP) Virgil Pinkley,
editor and publisher of the Los
An seles Mirror-News, Tuesday
blamed America's lackadaisical
attitude toward the basic ele
ments of education for this coun
try's lagging satellite and missile
program.
Pinkley, also a news commen
tator for the Mutual radio net
work, said the Russians are mov
ing ahead in the technological
field because they educate then
people with more intensity than
in the United States.
He said the United States
should foster a- return to the ele
ments of reading, spelling and
basic mathematics if it is to im
prove its supply of trained personnel.
Civilian Clash in
IS no commanaer-iii-tiiiei, iiui
are there individual command
ers in chief for the army, navy
and air force.
In a statement on the incident
Strauss said that all employees
of the armed forces including
soldiers are subordinate to po
litical authority. He said also
that no inference should be
t . - u : r ..
Trust Busting' For
Labor Movement Eyed
By Sen. Knowland
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Out there in
California unsmiling Sen. Wil
liam F. Knowland is talking
about maybe
using trust
buster methods
Sli'l monopoly in
organized
labor.
That's news
because Know
land may be
heading for the
White House.
I.yle C. Wilson
There have been complaints
that big organized labor can be
a monopoly just like big busi
ness. Knowland is campaigning
toward next year's GOP nomi
nation for governor of Califor
nia. He is opposed by Republi
can Gov. Goodwin J. Knight
who was elected in 1954 with la
bor's endorsement.
Knowland is regarded as the
spokesman of the Taft wing or
Taft point of view in the Repub
lican Party, the Taft being the
late Sen. Robert A., of Ohio.
In Taft Tradition
Knowland's approach to the
problem posed by the great
power, prestige, influence and
wealth of organized labor Is in
the Taft tradition. It was Taft
in the 80th Congress who
sDurned chairmanship of the
choice Senate Finance Commit
tee, preferring to preside over
the Senate Labor Committee
Out of that decision came the
Taft-Hartley Act.
Taft proved that it need not
be political suicide to buck or
ganized labor. The labor leaders
ganged up on him with men and
money when the senator sought
re-election in 1950. He won
every industrial county in the
state.
Knowland probably knows all
about that. He has proposed now
that California enact a right-to-
work bill which would outlaw
compulsory union membership.
The recent California conven
tion of the AFL resolved to raise
a political fund big enough to
beat the bill.
Proposes "Rights " Bill
The senator followed up with
"a bill of rights for labor." He
said he might expand that to in
clude application of the Sher
man Anti-Trust Act to unions on
the same basis as it applies to
corporations.
The bill of labor rights would
provide for election and recall
of union officers; for strike
calls by secret ballot; adminis
tration of union welfare funds
Minister of Ghana
Denied Meal in U.S.
New York (IP) The finance
minister of Ghana said he will
file today an official protest
with the State Department to
day over the refusal of a rest
aurant in Dover, Del., to serve
him.
, K. A. Gbedeman, considered
the second most powerful politi
cal figure in the newly inde
pendent Negro nation, said he
was refused service in the How
ard Johnson restaurant Monday
night "because colored people
were not allowed to dine there."
The -finance minister said that
Vice President Richard M.; Nix
on had dined in his home in
Ghana, and so had Adlai E. Stev
enson. "I cannot understand why I
received such treatment at a
roadside restaurant in America
when these two great men have
diued at my home," Gbedeman
said.
Plan For
Tomorrow
An ever increasing number of
the prudent and thoughtful
are finding it well to plan to
day for the inevitable needs
of tomorrow
C. M.
Litwiller
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ASHLAND
We Never Close
Army Loss
drawn from the incident on the
relationship between "the mili
tary and civilian parts of the
armed forces."
Nevertheless, that relationship
is likely to arise again. It would
be miraculous if, within a few
years, the centuries-long militar
istic tradition of Germany and
Japan could be wiped out.
would be made subject to state
insurance laws; strict account
ability for union dues and ini- ..
tiation funds; protection of
members against unfair and re
taliatory action by union offi
cers; prevention of self-perpetuation
of union officers in their
jobs.
Knowland has his eye on the
White House. He may put his
labor policies in the Republi
can presidential platform of
1960 or 1964.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
When the Russians announced
the other day that they had
BEArEN THE WORLD to the
launching of an earth satellite
into out space in this Internation
al Geophysical Year we got the
shock of our lives.
At first, we refused to believe
it. We put it down to just more
Russian bragging. But when the
beeps from the thing began to
be heard and when they sound
ed exactly like the Russians said
they would sound and came in
at exactly the intervals the Rus
sians said they would come in
we had to concede that the Rus
sians had done it.
Since then, our faces have
been very, very red.
WELL, we SHOULDN'T have
rfpn talcpn hv surnriso Tt
has long been known that the
Russians have good scientific
minds. Ivan Pavlov is an ex
ample. He took the theoretical
"principle of association" by
which it was suspected that a
baby starts with no mind at all
and by the process of putting
together scattered experiences
and impressions eventually
achieves an organized mind
and by experiments with dogs
made it seem real enough to be
accepted widely by the scientists
of the world.
That fact alone should have
tipped us off.
IF PAVLOV weren't enough,
we should have learned some
thing from the speed with which
the Russians developed an atom
bomb of their own. It is true
that' they stole the secret of it
from us in the first place. It is
true that they had captured Ger
man scientists to work with. But
we can't laugh off the fact that
they developed a hydrogen bomb
almost as quickly as we die
and did it almost ENTIRELY on
their own.
But we chose to regard them
as ignorant barbarians who just
COULDN'T be in our class.
THIS earth satellite business
ought to teach us a lesson.
The lesson is this:
Russia is a REAL opponent.
If we are to checkmate her
designs, it will take the best we
have to give. We'd better put
that fact in our pipes and smoke
it.
IlfHAT is Russia's design?
' ' Let's not kid ourselves.
It is to CONQUER THE
WORLD for communism.
T ET'S not get scared.
We can checkmate that de
sign. We can checkmate it because
the communist way of life is so
foul that in time it must fall of
the weight of its own foulness.
But
Meanwhile
We'd better quit fooling with
the idea that something can be
had for nothing. We'd better
quit boondoggling. We'd better
quit toying with that notion that
we can BUY friends who will do
our fighting for us.
We'd better GET DOWN TO
BUSINESS.
Mrs. Litwiller
t- - . .sw
i v, !- -J '
'It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."