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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10. 1947 (Friday)
Edwin Dunn of Ashland elect
ed president of Southern Oregon
Pioneer society at 70th annual
meeting in the old courthouse in
Jacksonville.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Statistics
show only 10,701 Jackson coun
ty voters couldn't make it to the
polls last Tuesday."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10. 1937 (Sunday)
First of three portable cot
tages for isolation of tubercular
patients now in use in Jackson
county.
Sons committee of Southern
Oregon college draws plans for
homecoming event.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10. 1927 (Monday)
Jury in federal court returns
not guilty verdict in the trial of
12 Indian girls charged with
burning a dormitory on the re
servation. Fishing in Rogue river in Oc
tober and November will excell
any thing seen in the valley for
many years, state superintend
ent of fish screens reports.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. . 10, 1917 (Wednesday)
Large turnout of local Elks
expected to meet Grand Exalted
Ruler Fred Harper of Lynch
burg, Va.
No w'ord received at local for
estry office as to status of forest
fires raging at Elk creek on the
Umpqua divide.
WhaS's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. "Was Gen. MacArthur's land
ing at Lingayen gulf in January,
1945, virtually unopposed, or
violently opposed?
2. What was George Washing
ton's profession as a young man?
3. Bible: Who led the first
group of exiles into Jerusalem
after the fall of Belshazzer.
4. If a pen and ink cost sixty
cents, and the pen costs fifty
cents more than the ink, what
did the ink cost? .
5. Name the first and last let
ters of the Greek alphabet.
6. How often is a census of
population taken in the U.S.?
7. What is the popular name
for the American bison?
8. A medican man skilled in
treatment of eye diseases is
called an o t?
9. What is wrong with this
sentence: '"Outside of us there
were four in the group"?
10. According to the constitu
tion of mermaids, so much of a
mermaid that is not a woman
must be a" what?
Answers: 1. Virtually unop
posed. 2. Surveyor. 3. Zerrubba
bel. 4. Five cents. 5. Alpha.
Omega. S. Every ten years. 7.
Buffalo. 8. Oculist, or ophthal
mologist. 9. "Beside" should re
place "Outsideof". 10. "fish."
Dickens, in "Barnaby Rudge."
MAIL TRIBUNE
More Older Married Women Work
Few of them have school-age children now, every
thing costs so much more, jobs are to be had almost
for the asking, friend husband has become used to
the idea, the social tabu on working wives has van
ished away. So it's not surprising that by far the
greatest recent increase of any single group in the
working force has been of that of married women
35 years of age and older.
The proportion of single women who work fell
10 per cent in the last nine years (1947 to 1956), says
the U.S. Census Bureau. (Probable reason: earlier
marriages.) The proportion of women under 35 living
with their husbands and going to work regularly rose
20 per cent. But the increase was no less than 50
per cent for women 35 or older and living with their
husbands.
The older working women "exhibit a good deal
more regularity of employment," says the Bureau,
than younger women. Many of the younger ones leave
work to have a child or to go to school. And it's full
time jobs, too, that a majority of the women workers
over 34 prefer.
The median wage for full-time women workers be
twee'n 35 and 55 is about $55 a week (1956). That is
much the same as for their younger sisters, those be
tween 20 and 35. It's about $85 a week less than the
typical full-time male worker pulls down, but $55 a
week added to the average family's income can spell
the difference between having to scrimp all the time
all along the line and living well. E.R.R.
Red China and the U.N.
The General Assembly of the United Nations has
again postponed for a year consideration of Red
China's admission to the world organization. The vote
was 48 to 27 (corrected tally) as compared with last
year's 47-24 alignment on postponing the question to
this year.
The defeat for the Soviet Union, India and other
leaders in the fight to admit Red China was decisive,
but it is to be noted that this year's 27 votes on their
side marked a new high. And support for the United
States position (in proportion to the total number
of votes cast) was at a new low.
The United States has opposed representation of
the Peiping regime in the General Assembly, or in
any other U.N. body, since 1950 and .with great
vigor since Red China's intervention in Korea. Am
bassador Henry Cabot Lodge told the General As
sembly this was "not because of our disapproval of
their interior social system" "not because the pres
ent regime was not popularly elected" "not because
it came to power by violence." It was "simply because
to admit the Chinese Communists would stultify the
United Nations" and destroy its usefulness.
DREMIER CHOU EN-LAI, at a reception connected
with Communist China's National Day celebra
tion Oct. 1, thanked India and various Afro-Asian
countries for their support of his nation's "legitimate
place" in the U.N., while condemning the United
States for its "persistently hostile attitude." He said
no force could prevent China from ultimately "play
ing its due role in international affairs."
The latter view is shared by many friends of the
United States in the U.N., who have watched the
steady rise in strength of the Afro-Asian bloc with
some concern. More and more Washington is being
asked whether it might not be wise to reach an ac
commodation with the Chinese Communists under
which they would be admitted to the General As
sembly (but not to the Security Council) in exchange
for a renunciation of force in seeking control of
Formosa, withdrawal of their support from North
Korea, and a pledge of non-intervention in Southeast
Asia. E.R.R.
The P. T.A
If you're not already a member of a Parents and
Teachers Association, don't be surprised if somebody
rings your doorbell in a day or two and asks you to
join. October has been designated as P.T.A. member
ship enrollment month.
The aim is to add 300,00Q new members to the
present 10.7 million so as to bring the total to 11
million. Last school year, over half a million new
members joined. All states showed increases except
Alabama, Indiana, West Virginia and Wyoming.
You don't have to be a teacher or the parent of
a school child in order to get into a P.T.A. Any rela
tive of a school child indeed, anybody at all inter
ested in children and schools is eligible to help
P.T.A. improve the nation's educational climate.
Founded in 1897 as the National Congress of
Mothers, the organization took its present name in
1924. In addition to bringing the school and the home
closer together, the P.T.A. works for child welfare
legislation. It endorses federal funds to states for
school construction on the basis of need, at the same
time standing for minimum federal and maximum
local control over education. E.R.R.
Details of Fastest Missile Disclosed
Sunnyvale, Calif. The
Air Force today disclosed the
first details of the nation's fast
est target missile, now being de
veloped by the Missiles Divi
sions System of Lockheed to test
America's newest supersonic
weapons.
The Air Force described the
Lockheed Q5 as a sleek ramjet
vehicle that flashes through the
Thursday, October 10, 1957
stratosphere at more than twice
the speed of sound.
The target missile is nearly
39 feet long and has a wingspan
of 10 feet. It weighs more than
7,600 pounds and is 20 inches
in diameter.
The speed of the missile
makes it possible for the first
time to test realistically the ac
curacy and destructive power
of the 'nation's missile arsenal.
I KNOW lte NOT -ASLEEP. THE
TELEVISION IS STILL IYA&M
Today and
By Walter
TOUGH ASSIGNMENT
The Indian government has re-
I cently been making soundings
in Washington with a view to a
formal request
in the fairly
near future
for a substan
tial loan. The
M i n i s ter of
France puts
India's over
all needs at a
credit in dol
1 a r s, sterling
and German
Walter Lippmann
marks of about $1,000,000,000
of which India would actually
need to draw about $700,000,000
over a period of some eight years
before beginning to repay the
debt. The American share of this
loan could hardly be less than
$500,000,000.
Evidently, a transaction of that
size would require specific au
thorization from Congress. This
Congressional action would need
to be taken fairly early in the
next session of Congress not
later, it is said, than March when
the Indian reserves of foreign
exchange will have been run
down to a critical point.
If this loan cannot be arranged,
there will have to be a serious
i cut-back in both private and pub
lic economic development in
India.
THE task of persuading Con
gress to vote such a loan is,
it might be said, one of those
things which are impossible to
do and yet have to be done.
The prospects could hardly be
more unfavorable. But, when
the Presidennt has enabled the
country to understand what is
at stake, our people will, as they
have done before, conclude that
what is necessary, must be done.
Why must it be done? Because
India is the supreme testing
ground for all of Asia and of
Africa of the question whether
an undeveloped country can
raise itself from extreme poverty
by democratic, as against Com
munist, methods. If India suc
ceeds in her present plans of
development, it will have been
proved that backward countries
do not have to follow the ex
ample of Russia and of Red
China.
If India fails, if her economic
development is strangled, it will
be a fateful moment in the his
tory of the world. For it will
have been proved by a practical
test that the free world is not
willing to make any substantial
sacrifice in order to have free
dom prevail.
1HAVE no doubt myself that
what looks so difficult to do
can nevertheless be done if the
President, and his Administra
tion, take the trouble to explain
thoroughly and patiently why it
needs to be done.
India has a population which is
more than twice as big as ours.
She has a national income which
is only about one-twentieth as
large as ours. Her standard of
living is one of the lowest in the
world, and at the present level of
development her resources are
barely capable of keeping up
with her terrifying growth in
population.
The Indian government is a
free goveernment, based on free
election and the fundamental
rights of a free society free
dom of religion, of thought and
of speech are carefully respect
ed. The Indian government,
which often differs with our own
government in foreign policy, is
nonetheless a free government,
as free, it is fair to say, as any
in the world of Asia.
It cannot, however, hope to
survive on its adherence to ideals
and principles alone. It must of
fer to the Indian people the hope
that within the reasonably near
future they will be emerging
from their present poverty. If
the Indian government cannot
hold out that hope, there will
surely be a reaction against lib
erty and towards a totalitarian
system.
TO MEET the need of develop
ment, the Indian govern
ment has drawn up plans of in-1
Ate?
Tomorrow
Lippmann
vestment, and it is now at the
beginning of a second plan which
calls for an investment of some
ten to fifteen billion dollars in
the course of a five year period.
This looks big. There are some
experts who thing it is too big.
But the Indian problem is enor
mously big, and, even if the plan
is carried out successfully, the
best that can be hoped for is an
increase of national income at
the rate of 5 per cent a year.
This plan cannot, however, be
carried out without capital as
sistance from abroad capital as
sistance from private corpora'
tions, from the World Bank,
from Britain, France, Germany
and the United States. The ques
tion before this country, which
will be critical by the time Con
gress convenes, is whether we
can afford to let the Indian plan
of development fail.
?
NO DOUBT the question will
be most unwelcome in the
coming session of Congress, what
with our high taxes, our tight
money, our signs of recession,
the painful prospects of the inte
gration problem, and the general
feeling of not doing very well
abroad.
Nevertheless, the country will
listen to the President, and it
will follow him if and when he
shows that there is a vital in
terest of the country involved,
when he shows where necessity
drives us, and where duty calls.
(c) 1S57 New York
Hearld Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Everybody's talking today
about the Russian earth satellite
"artificial moon" seems to be
a favorite term for it.
What is it like?
How does it work?
What are its potentials in the
way of danger to us?
WHAT is it like?
Well, if you could see it,
it would look something like an
exaggerated basketball. It's
about two feet in diameter. It
weighs about 185 pounds ap
proximately the weight of a
muscular halfback on a football
team.
It's filled with complicated
sensing and communications in
struments that send out signals
somewhat like radio messages.
Its job is to tell what the world
looks like from up there.
TTOW does it work?
That's a' bit technical.
When it reaches a point out in
outer space where centrifugal
force (the force that impels a
thing outward from a center of
rotation) balances the gravity
pull of the earth, it stays put
and rotates around the earth in
an orbit. If it SLOWS DOWN too
much, the pull of gravity will
yank it back earthward.
That will be the end of that
particular satellite.
T ET'S try to simplify it.
It works just like the little
ball in a roulette wheel. As long
as the wheel spins fast enough
the little ball stays on the out
side. When the wheel slows
down, the little ball drops into
the slot that tells whether you
win or lose.
IITHAT are its potentialities of
' danger to us?
That is quite simple. The
danger is that this satellite (and
its duplicates to be launched
later (may teach the Russians
how to make an accurate guided
missile BEFORE WE LEARN
HOW TO MAKE ONE. An ac
curate guided missile is a jigger
that can be aimed at a target
thousands ,of miles away and
will score a bull's-eye a reason
able number of times. The mis
sile, of course, will carry an
atom or hydrogen bomb.
That would be BAD.
The nation that gets such a
missile FIRST in adequate quan
tities can destroy the rest of the
Khrushchev Showing Frustration
Over U.S. Coldness on Conclave
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Communist leader Ni
kita S. Khrushchev is showing
signs of frustration over United
States coldness
to his bids for
high - level
talks.
Khrushchev
and Soviet
Premier Nik
olai A. Bul
ganin have
been hinting
for months
Charles M. McCann that they
would welcome another "sum
mit" conference in which Presi
dent Eisenhower would repre
sent the United States.
Now Khrushchev has dis
closed that the Soviet govern
ment tried to get the United
States to invite Marshal Georgi
K. Zhukov, Soviet defense min
ister, to Washington and that
its bid was turned down.
Khrushchev made this dis
closure in an interview in Mos
cow with James Reston, chief
of the New York Tinjes Wash-
Communications
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Eds Too Much for John
To the Editor: I quit your
paper for two reasons: the price
of 10c was an overprice also
your editorials mundane and
prosaic. You set yourself up as
a paragon on controversial sub
jects, e. g. Little Rock, Arkansas.
You concern yourself with
countless- subjects when you
should be vastly concerned re
garding this dying Rogue valley.
You could use your office to
snap this valley out of its lethar
gy, bring in new industries but
no, you talk about something
you know little or nothing about.
Wake up before you have no
subscribers left, s
John R. Scott,
P.O. Box 361,
Jacksonville, Ore.
"On the Dean's List"
To the Editor: I have read
with interest your - recent edi
torials on editorials. You make
some very pertinent observa
tions on this fascinating subject
of readership and influence. In
one particular especially do you
reveal a major weakness in the
highly inexact science of reader
ship study when you say that
readership depends much upon
interest,' and interest, in turn, de
pends upon what s going on. No
readership study that I know of
has given sufficient attention to
this perfectly obvious situation,
Charles T. Duncan,
Dean, School of Journalism,
University of Oregon,
Eugene, Ore.
world.
ALL this brings up a rugged
thought.
MAYBE IN THE FLUSH
YEARS OF THE RECENT PAST
WE HAVE BEEN DEVOTING
MORE ATTENTION TO ROU
LETTE WHEELS AND SUCH
THAN TO PURE SCIENCE.
If so
Maybe we've let the Russians
get ahead of us. This Russian
satellite business brings home to
us the shocking truth that life
isn't all' beer and skittles.
B
UT
Let's not lose our nerve.
Let's not lose faith in Amer
ica. If we'll buckle down to busi
ness and cut out the waste and
the fluff and the politics and
the tommyrot, we can say with
Annie Oakley in her song in
Annie Get Your Gun:
"Anything They Can Do We
Can DO BETTER."
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ington bureau.
Khrushchev was pretty bitter
about it. "That is a bad thing,"
he said to Reston. "We are a
nroud nation and we do not
want to go down on our knees
to arrange these things.
The Russian bid stemmed
from a statement Eisenhower
made at a press conference m
Washington on July 17, when
he was asked whether a meet
ing between Zhukov and retir
ing Defense Secretary Charles
E. Wilson might be useful.
"It might," the President said.
. . There is nothing I wouldn't
try experimentally in order to
bring about better relation
ships."
But the President added a
warning that such meetings
might raise high expectations
and there would be a bad re
MattOr Of FaCt By Stewart AIsop
TIME FOR TRUTH
Washington The Soviet satel
lite launching, coming on the
heels of the Soviet intercontin
ental missile
test, posses a
simple ques
tion: Will the
American gov
ernment now
tell the Amer
ican people
the blunt, un
pleasant truth
about the race
stewait Aisnp for the decisive
weapons of the future, the ballis
tic missiles?
In recent years, the American
government has followed a cons
cious policy of concealing or
muffling the facts about that
race. The Government, more
over, has not had to guess about
the facts. It has known the facts,
without the slightest room for
doubt.
How. the Government has
known has at last been made
obvious in the recent official
acknowledgement of the exist
ence of a radar tracing system
with a range of 3000 miles. It
is only necessary to - look at a
map to see how radar with such
a range can detect missile fir
ings anywhere in the Soviet Un
ion. The tracking system makes
it possible to detect, not only the
firing of a Soviet missile, but
the place of orgin, the area of
impact, the altitude, velocity,
and general configuration.
rpHE recent Soviet announce--
ment of the firing of an in
tercontinental missile (which was
in fact far more strategically sig
nificant than the satellite launch
ing) came as no surprise to the
Government. For the radar sys
tem had already picked up the
tracks of multi-staged, long-
range ballistic missiles fired
from the Soviet missile testing
center in Semipalatenak, east of
the Urals. The missiles, which
had an "operational configura
tion," and ranges well over 4000
miles, were fired in the direction
of the Bering Sea. (This explains,
incidentally, why the Soviets
closed their, eastern approaches
to foreign shipping.)
When the Soviets announced
their history-making achieve
ment on an ICBM, although they
were quite aware that the Soviet
announcement ws accurate,
high Administration officials
competed with each other in
down-grading and muffling its
true meaning. This was a learn
ed recation, as the psychologists
say, for the policy of concealing
or muffling the facts actually
began years ago.
In 1953, and more strongly
in 1954, the intelligence report
ed that the Soviets had begun
testing medium range ballistic
missiles. As a result of these
reports the radar tracking sys
tem was established in 1955. Al
most on the day it opened for
business, the radar system began
to pick up numerous flight tests
of Soviet missiles, thus confirm
ing absolutely the previous in
telligence reports. Thereafter,
(Jhaze on the far horizon.
The infinite, tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields,
And the wild geese sailing high . .
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the golden-rod,
Some of us call it Autumn,
And others call it God.
From "Each in
WILLIAM
action if the expectations were
not realized.
Reds Didn't Heed
It develops that the Russian
leaders did not pay sufficient at
tention to this qualification.
Zhukov was not invited.
It is evident that Khrushchev,
like other Russian leaders, does
not realize two important ob
stacles to any such invitation.
The first is that Russia shows
no sign at all that it is ready to
enter in good faith high-level
talks on disarmament, the Mid
dle East or any other big East
West issue.
The other thing is that Zhu
kov or any other high Soviet
leader who visited the United
States would be left in no doubt
that he was unwelcome to many
people. The danger of hostile
demonstrations would be great.
the Soviet tests reached the
truly astonishing rate of five a
month and more.
FOR reasons which will be
examined in another report,
this country failed to embark
on a really serious missile effort
until 1954. Thus the American
government has known beyond
question that the Soviet stra
tegic missile project had already
reached the testing stage before
the equivalent American effort
even got under way. But no ef
fort of any sort was made to
alert the country to the true
meaning of this situation, or to
require of the country the kind
of massive effort needed to over
come the Soviet lead.
The American government has
known plenty of other facts, well
known to the Soviets, but con
cealed from this country. It has
known, for example, from the
conf iguation and performance of
the Sovet missiles, that the Sov
iets have perfected a rocket mot
or with an initial thrust of more
than 250,000 pounds about
double the power of the most
powerful American motor.
The amazing power of the
Soviet motor explains why the
the Soviets were able to launch
a satellite weighing nine times
as much as the proposed Amer
ican satellite an achievement
correctly described by American
scientists as "fantastic." Mean
while, American achievement in
the missile field, which have
been distinctly short of fantastic,
have been grossly over-played.
IN RECENT months, 'three
strictly non-operative medium
missiles have been test-fired
this in comparison with literally
dozens of Soviet test firings,
starting back in 1953-54. Two
"Atlas" test vehicles have also
been unsuccessfully test-fired.
But these abortive firings were
simply tests of the initial, or
first-stage, rocket, designed to
fly less than 3000 miles. Even
when this first-stage rocket has
been successfully fired, the prob
lems of "marrying" the second
stage to the first, of atmospheric
re-entry, and of accurate guid
ance, remain to be resolved and
flight-tested. In short, we are
much further away from testing
a prototype of a true intercon
tinental ballistic missile than the
country has been led to believe.
All the evidence, in short,
clearly indicates that the Soviets
are frighteningly- far ahead of
this county in the race for the
decisive weapons of the future.
Given this country's immense in
dustrial power, there is no reason
on God's earth why they should
stay ahead. But they will certain
ly stay ahead if the policy of the
American government continues
to be to bury the essential facts i
in great dollops of soothing
syrup. It is time to tell the coun
try the blunt truth, and the re
sponsibility for so doing rests
where it has always rested, with
the President of the United
States.
Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc. '
His Own Tongue"
HERBERT CARRUTH
(1859-1924)