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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct.. 13. 1947 (Sunday)
KYJC, the Mail Tribune's new
radio station, resumes broadcast
ing Saturday after sound-proofing
of control room.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Reno has
won the title of the noisiest city
In the land. Some of the town's
returned visitors are frequently
that way too."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1937 (Wednesday)
A $20,000 Community Chest
campaign opens in Medford.
Jackson county budget is be
ing prepared in anticipation
lhere will be no state levy on
property this year.
m TEARS AGO
13. 1927 (Tuesday)
Isabella Rowley files suit
f ainst Medford for $250,000 for
alleged ownership of 'water
jrifhts at Big Butte Springs, the
jspurce of Medford's new water
supply.
At least 15 or 16 cases of in
fjintile paralysis are under quar
antine in various parts of Jack
son county, health authorities
say.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 13. 1917 (Saturday)
New apple drying plant opens
at Central Point with 50 people
employed.
Jackson county Hoover drive
Is organized.
Whaf s Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct ts superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good
1 . How many days were there
In February, 1946?
2. Rosa Bonheur was a fa
mous Belgian, Dutch, German,
or French artist?
3. Bible: Who was responsible
for '"The Massacre of the Inno
cents" at Bethlehem?
4. Is the right side of a ship
(looking forward) the starboard
or the port side?
5. Adolf Hitler married his
mistress shortly before their
joint suicides name her.
6. How many ciphers added
to the figure one (1) express a
quintillion?
7. What is the name of the
great fish market in London,
England?
8. What did Napoleon say an
army marched on?
9. What is the plural of axis?
10. "O Genevieve, sweet Gen
evieve, The days may come.
thee days may go, But still
the hand of '.... weave The
blissful dreams of long ago."
What is- the exact spelling of the
missing word?
Answers: 1. Twenty-eight
days. 2. French. 3. Herod
4. Starboard. 5. Eva Braun
6. Eighteen. 7. Billingsgate. 8. Its
stomach. 9. Axes. 10. mem ry
George Cooper; music, 1877,
H. Wallace.
Pythians Schedule
Special Meeting Here
A special business meeting
will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow
in the Pythian building to vote
on page rank applications, James
P. O'Duane, chancellor com
mander of Talisman lodge,
Knights of Pythias, said.
He said preparations are al
most completed for the class of
candidates to be initiated at
Roseburg's Pythian hall Friday,
Oct. 18. The "Rathbone Bible"
under the jurisdiction of Su
preme Secretary Mel Ewen of
Portland will be used in the
ceremony.
MAIL TRIBUNE
'The King Is Dead"
"The King is dead, long live the King:"
"King Baseball" has been kicked from his throne,
which King Football now occupies, both intercol
legiate and professional, and the crack of the bat will
be heard no more until Spring.
But the 1957 baseball season will not be soon
forgotten, not only in Milwaukee but the U.S.A. The
ending was particularly a dramatic spectacular
and undoubtedly to a majority of baseball fans, was
highly satisfactory.
For while the loyal Yankee supporters and they
are legion lost their shirts, and their long-cherished
prides, even some of them, when the headache eases
will, we believe, admit, the defeat of the Yanks and
the triumph of the Braves will be good for the game.
And the vigor and health of our national game is
important.
For the Yanks have been league champions so
regularly and world-champions so often, that public
and sporting interest, except in Greater Manhattan,
threatened to drop in the direction of zero.
Now we have a new world, and league champion,
fresh, vigorous, youthful blood has been injected into
our leading national sport, and with the NY Giants
and the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to San Francisco
and Los Angeles respectively, there promises to be
from now on, greater baseball interest from coast to
coast, than at any time since the sport was bom some
39 years before the Civil War.
'"THERE is another good thing about the final chapter
of the season.
The Yankees put up a good fight, but there is no
doubt that the BETTER team won.
The Milwaukee youngsters had in Burdette the
best pitching, in Aaron, the best batting, in Coving
ton, the best fielding; and in general morale, team
play and grim determination, they topped the New
Yorkers throughout.
TTO this department there was one very interesting
feature about this world series namely: how
devastating the effects of "bad breaks" can be in a
contest between relatively well-matched teams.
If anyone questions the term "bad breaks" we
are willing to compromise for "bad plays."
At least in twro of the Braves most decisive vic
tories, it was not. outside pitching, their good playing
so much as the Yankees
the turning point in each
mans bobble and late throw of an easy grounder
to first base, for example,
"side-out," and there was Kubek s wild throw to
second which should have meant an easy double-play,
but instead of that both runners were. safe.
Of course, it comes under the heading of specula
tion, but it did seem that these two errors completely
changed the tide of both games and from then on,
there was little doubt about the ultimate- outcome.
It gave the opposition a "shot-in-the-arm" that just
couldn't be overcome.
SO much for baseball.
We fear John R. Scott of Jacksonville will pen
another letter, taking "Ye Editor" to task for writing
too much on subjects he knows "little or nothing
about."
We accept "little" but NOTHING, we reject.
If we are to be limited by John only to subjects
we know, "EVERYthing about," then, we fear, three
times a week at least this space will be weak, if not
vacant. (Loud cheers from the box-seats!)
FINALLY, we congratulate "KBES-TV" on its world
series coverage. There -was hardly a break or a
failure (what there were, were due of course, to
the telephone company). As to the commercials, the
seven days wTere sufficient to change this department
permanently from "Gillette" to "Gem !" R.W.R.
Arizona Blocks the "S.P.
We have received a letter from the dynamic
"Flash" Fiddler, who is spending the winter in Phoe
nix, Arizona.
Apparently "the Friendly Southern Pacific" is
trying to extend its unfriendly "penny-wise, pound
foolish" policies to its main-line from Los Angeles
to New Orleans.
But it is not enjoying the success it did when the
G.O.P. was in control of Oregon, according to Flash's
uieiuu.
On the plea of losing
ruptcy (as was done in Oregon) this "billion dollar"
corporation asked the Arizona Corporation Commis
sion to allow it to drop two of its main line trains,
running through the state from the Pacific to the
Gulf.
This would not deprive the Phoenix section of
Arizona of ALL rail passenger service, as it has in
Medford and Southern Oregon, but it would reduce
the number of trains daily from 4' to ,2.
A PPARENTLY, Arizona has more effective laws
regarding public utilities than Oregon has or
had for the Arizona commission refused to bow,
scrape and comply to the demand, but said, in effect,
"you maintain your present service or else !"
As to the railroad's wail it was losing $1.5 million
a year, the commission said "that loss would be less
than the loss and inconvenience of the public by the
cessation of operation of the two trains."
EXACTLY!
The people of Arizona are to be congratulated
for having a Utility Commission, not only with the
authority to place the public welfare above excessive
private profit, but with the "guts" to see that this
Sunday, October 13, 1957
bad playing, that marked
contest. There was Cole-
which should have been
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Matter of Fact
THE THREAT TO SAC
Washington A rather des
perate expedient is being con
sidered at the highest levels,
in the wake
of the mount
in g evidence
that the So
viets have, or
soon will have,
o p e r a t ional
long range
missiles. It is
p r o p o sed to
keep more
stewait aisod man a mira,
and perhaps as much as a half,
of the planes in the Strategic
Air Command in the air at all
times.
The planes would be loaded
with thermonuclear weapons,
would be fully fuelled, and the
crews would have standby or
ders for a counterattack on So
viet targets. The fact that this
expedient is being seriously con
sidered is a measure of the real
meaning of the missile race.
For the real target of the
Soviet missiles is, of course,
SAC. The Soviets themselves
have virtually said as much, as
for example when Nikita
Khrushchev, boasting that the
Soviets already had an opera
tional intercontinental missile,
said that henceforth manned
bombers are "obsolete."
PRESIDENT- Eisenhower has
said that a long range mis
sile is a "means of delivery for
an explosive charge, and that
is all that it is for." This is true,
of course, as far as it goes. Yet
there is one obvious difference
between a ballistic missile and
a manned plane. Even a super
sonic plane takes several hours
from take-off to target in an
intercontinental flight. A bal
listic missile takes only a few
minutes.
The Soviets could unquestion
ably hit our bases and our great
cities today with their powerful
Strategic Air Force. But they
could not possibly hope to catch
SAC on the ground in an attack
with their comparatively slow
manned aircraft. Thus they
could only attack with conven
tional aircraft in the certain
knowledge that they would pay
the price of enormous retalia
tory devastation. But with op
erational medium missiles zero
ed in on the SAC bases in this
hemisphere, they could logically
hope to knock out our ability
to retaliate decisively if they
could catch the bulk of SAC
on the ground.
The threat to SAC may not
be as distant as is commonly
supposed. Already, as has been
officially acknowledge, it is as
sumed by the intelligence ex
perts that the Soviets have op
erational 1500-mile missiles with
which to threaten the forward
SAC bases.
And Khrushchev's boasts
about the ICBM are taken more
seriously than the blandly com
placent official attitude would
suggest. There is no doubt at
all, for reasons already reported
in this space, that the Soviets
have missiles of intercontinental
range. Most experts hope and
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truly democratic principle is upheld and enforced.
THHE details of the situation in Arizona are not con
1 tained in "F.F's" letter, but it is reasonable to
assume the Corporation Commission, did a bit of
researching into the bookkeeping of the SP to de
termine just HOW a billion-dollar corporation that
hasn't missed a dividend in a quarter of a century
and pays tremendous salaries in its Upper Brackets,
COULD not afford to maintain the service to the
traveling public that its franchise pledged and has
been maintained through such a prosperous period.
(XF course, the SP's "million dollar lobby" is already
hard at work along with a corps of high-priced
lawyers to secure repeal of the state's control over
railroads and other public utilities, or bring sufficient
political pressure to bear to force the members of the
state commission to reverse their decision.
It will be interesting to see if the commission and
the people of Arizona are able to do what to date,
the people of Southern Oregon have been unable to
accomplish. R.W.R.
By Stewart Alsop
believe that it will be at least
a couple of years before the
Soviets have enough operation
al, accurately guided ICBMs
seriously to threaten the SAC
bases in this' country.
BUT others are not so sure.
The fact that the Soviets
have cut back sharply on pro
duction of their long range
Bison bombers has been abso
lutely confirmed by the intelli
gence. And logic suggests that
they would not do so unless
they werevalready producing op
erational intercontinental mis
siles to replace the bombers.
The proposal for keeping as
much as half the SAC planes in
the air at all times indicates how
seriously the threat to SAC is
taken. But this expedient is only
a niakeshift. The only real an
swer to Soviet missiles is Ameri
can missiles.
Back in 1955, a distinguished
scientific committee, headed by
Dr. James Killian, M.I.T., rec
ommended to President Eisen
hower an absolute priority for
two kinds of American missiles
the ICBM and the submarine-
launched medium missile. The
reason for the ICBM recom
mendation is obvious with a
sufficient number of ICBM
bases in this country, the So
viets could not hope to knock
out our retaliatory capacity.
But even in 1955, there was
plenty of evidence that the So
viets might beat us to the ICBM
punch. The submarine-based
missile was therefore proposed
as interim insurance. Land-
based medium-range missiles do
not provide such insurance, for
the simple reason that the for
eign countries in which almost
all our forward , bases are lo
cated would exercise a veto
power over the use of such
missiles.
VTO FOREIGN country can
veto the launching of a mis
sile from an American subma
rine. Nuclear subs like the
"Nautilus" and the "Sea Wolf"
have unlimited range, can stay
submerged indefinitely, and can
carry up to 16 missiles like the
"Polaris," which is designed to
be fired under water. Thus, with
only a few such missile-carrying
submarines in service, the So
viets could not hope to knock
out our capacity to retaliate
decisively.
The Killian report was ap
proved "in principle." But the
Army-Air Force battle over the
medium land-based missile shov
ed the Navy's "Polaris" into the
background, and it will not be
operational for two years at
best. Meanwhile, the whole mis
sile effort has been slowed
down by the budget-first policy
And the essentially desperate
expedient of keeping a huge pro
portion of SAC's planes in the
air at all times is the best meas
ure of the real danger in which
this nation finds itself, a danger
which has been consistenly con
cealed from the American peo
ple by the American govern
ment. Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial
Comment
WORDS NOT ENOUGH
Is the missile research pro
gram proceeding at all possible
speed? Mr. Eisenhower's words
imply that it is, yet his newly
named secretary of defense, Neil
H. McElroy, said in his first news
conference this week that a
speed-up in the ballistic missile
program is being considered ser
iously. The president wants to re
assure his fellow Americans, and
certainly they would like to be
assured. If our military power
still is sufficient to provide a
strong deterrent to Soviet am
bitions, and adequate planning
is under way to make sure it
stays that way, this knowledge
would be comforting to all of us.
But the assurances given thus
far, in the light of the physical
evidence seen in recent days
and weeks, fail to do the job.
If America is in danger, Mr
Eisenhower should not try to
shield us from the unpalatable
truth. We can take it, and make
whatever sacrifices are neces
sary to improve our situation. If
we really are in a good com
petitive position, let's have some
solid facts to back up the state
ments to that effect. The Ore
gonian, Portland.
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White Man's Inhumanity
To the Editor: Might a bit of
Newspaper week be dedicated to
editorially awaring us again of
the U.S.A. Department of Inter
ior Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs May 16, 1955 orders to
field workers and the dangers
involved to America's home and
world position, safety and se
curity? Field . officials were
". . . ordered to ignore tribal
interest in deciding whether to
patent or open to sale to non
Indians certain tracts of Indian
land. The order specifically in
structed officials to patent land
even if it contained the Indian
community's only source of wat
er or was a key part of a tribal
grazing unit." . . . "Area Direc
tors must obey orders."
In August, again in October,
1955 the Association on Ameri
can Indian Affairs called na
tional attention to this grave
situation through its newslet
ters. (How many read them?)
April 13, 1956 UP reported
plans for a Seattle office "to ex
tend economic development
into the Pacific NW; that opera
tions have been made in 15 re
servations; will be extended to
45 in the fiscal year and eventu
ally to all 300 reservations.
From Assn. on American In
dian Affairs, Sept. 9, 1957, let
ter: "The account of downright
loneliness of the Omahas and
Sioux in their home states is
one of the saddest things I have
read. These tribes have lived
through military conquest only
to be threatened by extinction
from federal neglect and exclu
sion from the life of the Dakotas
and Nebraska."
"One of the saddest and most
tragi!: records in the annals of
this nation is the list of broken
promises made by our govern
ment to the American Indians,"
said Mr. Bert Pausma, manager,
Navajo Assistance, Inc., to the
Gallup Rotary club. He pointed
to 1848 when we took the coun
try from Navajoland to and in
cluding California, and of prom
ises to the Navajos. Instead, we
brought Civil War battles into
N.M. and the Indians perceived
the white man's destruction of
lives, buildings, wagontrains of
food and equipment far surpass
ing any depredations they had
been guilty of.
From Mohawks and Senecas,
Pottawattamies and Seminoles,
to Yakimas and the Klamaths;
everywhere; all have suffered
more than words can tell, be
cause of white man's insatiable
greed not because he needed
the Indian's lands or would im
prove America for Americans,
but to exploit, waste and destroy
for dollar profits The nation's
newspapers can help stop these
tragedies.
John E. Gribble
139 Kenwood ave.
Medford, Ore.
Quiet Please
To the Editor: Being a family
man I find a great deal of pleas
ure, and also find it easier on
my pocketbook, to take advan
tage of the "Do It Yourself"
ideas.
But, my one problem is time.
Through close friends I have
learned that at the present time
there is a City Ordinance in
Medford that reads in effect,
"that a home-owner can work
on or about his property within
the hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m."
Since I am an average work
ing man, with average working
hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., how am
I going to find time to use up my
free hours during the week,
As to improving my home, I
will have to use my whole week
end, without any free time for
my family. To cite an example:
I would like to build a patio or
"extend out" on my home. So
I purchased a building permit
POTLUCIC
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
We have often told of typo
graphical errors, which are the
occupational hazard of newspa
per business. And we like to
report on those in big-city pa
pers, loo, to show we're not
alone in our transgressions.
The L.A. Times recently had
a headline saying "Carriers
Demonstrate in Exercises They
Can Whip Anything But the
Common Coed."
Have von ever wondered what
would haDnen if you drove right
past the California quarantine
(or "checking ) station ust over
the border?
The Ashland Tidings reports
that an Illinois man did it. The
siren sounded, but the man kept
on going. Arriving at Weed, he
was stopped by the California
Highway Patrol, taken back to
the quarantine station for check
ing, and to justice court, where
he paid a $50 fine.
The minor inconvenience, as
we see it, is better than a 50
buck fine.
A man got his name in the
paper twice on the same day
not long ago. Once was for a
citation for failure to signal
for a left turn, and the other
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Retired defense secretary Wil
son has something to say that is
interesting. It is interesting be
cause he knows what he is talk
ing about. It is particularly in
teresting at this moment because
he has just RETIRED as secre
tary of defense, and therefore
has no reason to shade his pub
lic utterances for policy or po
litical reasons.
Talking to reporters in Seat
tle, he says the United States'
long range missile program can
KEEP UP WITH RUSSIA'S.
But
He adds
"We must be careful that WE
aren't the ones to intensify an
armament race."
THAT is to say: .
We must make it clear to
all the world that we aren't the
ones who are beating the war
drums. Our objective is to de
fend ourselves against those who
might seek to destroy us. Under
no circumstances will we be the
aggressors in an atomic world
war.
HE TELLS the newsmen that
in the current "fuss over Rus
sia's satellite and missile devel
opment" we are tending to for
get what our competition with
the Soviet Union is all about.
He adds:
"IT'S ABOUT A WAY OF
LIFE."
THAT is supremely important.
Russia's objective is to con
quer the world for communism.
Our objective is to maintain OUR
way of life.
Our big job is to dramatize
that fact to all the world.
A RKEf) if ho thinks the U. S
missile program needs to be
accelerated, he replied:
"Our missile program now is
good. It is quite speeded up, and
I think it is ABOUT WHERE IT
OUGHT TO BE. I view the Rus
sian satellite Sputnik as a scien
tific rather than a military
achievement."
LET'S forget missiles for a mo
ment and listen to an ap
praisal of another aspect of mod
ern progress.
Health Secretary Marion Fol-
som asserts today that Ameri
cans can knock out paralytic
polio within a year by using the
Salk vaccine now on hand. He
says that millions of people un
der 40 who have not been vaccin
ated are "needlessly risking dis
ability or even death. They
should take advantage of this
new discoverey, he thinks.
He joins with Surgeon General
Leroy Burney in a report that
paralytic polio ALREADY has
been reduced 89 per cent in the
past two years through the use
of Salk vaccine.
MODERN progress, you -see,
ISN'T all bad. It ISN'T all
destructive.
It is heading toward a BET
TER way of life.
with the idea in mind of mak
ing use of my extra hours. Now,
I find myself with my permit,
my "Do It Yourself" plans, and
no time to do it in.
I could do without mv break
fast and dinner, and nossibly get
in one good hour each day, thus
paying on doctor's bills what I
have saved on labor cost.
Just as a mere suggestion:
Couldn't our city council amend
this ordinance? To read in ef
fect: "for the summer months
hours to be from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
and for the- school months from
7 a.m. to 8 p.m.?
Hoping for some action on this
question.
George Miller,
600 Mary Place,
Medford.
(Editor's note: The ban is part
of the city's noise-prevention or
dinance, and limits the hours
during which noisy construction
can be performed.)
was when he applied for a mar
riage license. We'd hazard a
guess that nervousness from
the latter caused the former.
The "beep" of the Russian
satellite, for some reason or
other, seems to bring out the
poet in people. Here's an offer
ing which arrived on the Potluck
editor's desk last week:
I do not mind the little "beep"
That's "beeping" way up high,
'Cause someday we'll have lots
of them
Up in the starry sky.
My only wish, when the "beep"
decides
To take an earthward flop:
It doesn't pick me out to be
The one it wants to bop.
A local 2-year-old boy has
reduced football to its simplest
form. He throws the ball, then
falls down. Apparently that's
the way it looks to him on TV.
The 10-year-old daughter of a
man we know has learned about
diplomacy the hard way, accord
ing to the way we hear it.
One day when her father came
home from the office, tired and
a little cross, she commented to
her mother, "When daddy asks
me a question I don't know
whether to answer him, or just
play it safe and keep my mouth
shut."
Ernest Bingman, 85, of Jack
sonville, dropped into the of
fice for a moment the other
day, and revealed that he'd
just walked from his home lo
the bank in downtown Med
ford in a little less than two
hours. "That should show
these young fellers a thing or
two," he declared.
That ubiquitious doctor of
philosophy, Elmo Stevenson, is
a well-known man in the valley,
and even better-known on the
campus over which he presides,
at Southern Oregon college.
It is only natural, therefore,
that some students have sug
gested renaming the college's
song the "Elmo Mater."
A power outage hit this area
last week, shortly after the
announcement of the Russian
earth-satellite. At one Medford
school, as the lights flickered
and went out, a youngster ex
claimed: "That's the Russian
satellite hitting the sound bar
rier!" -
Remember "Mac," the lazy,
toperish St. Bernard dog at Tim
berline lodge mentioned here
last week?
Well, we have been told he
spent a summer at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Melvfn
Lattie in Phoenix, but finally
wound up at Timberline partly
because he consumes a couple
of dishpans full of dog food twice
a day. He was once a fraternity
house mascot, Mrs. Lattie says,
and his full name is William
McKinley III.
And she added, "Why shouldn't
he drink? He was raised by tha
SAEs."
The first day at school can
be an upsetting one for some
youngsters, but the first day at
kindergarten gave one small
Medford girl some definite
ideas about her future educa
tion. "I know one thing," she
told her parents. "I'm not go
ing to coilege."
Police Officer Gene DeDuv
spent a busy evening recently,
handing out citations and warn
ings to motorists about no tail
lights, no license plate lights.
headlights not burning, and so
on.
Later a short circuit on his ro-
lice vehicle cut out his dash
lights, headlights, tail lights,
brake lights, red light on top and
the siren.
He crept back to the station.
feeling lucky no state or county
officer had spotted him.
Sure sign of fall in the
Rogue valley: When you have
to wait until it stops raining so
you can rake the leaves so you
can mow the grass.
An undetermined number of
local attorneys left notes with
their secretaries last week, in
forming the latter that they, the
former, had been summoned into
circuit court.
Later, it was discovered that
a television set in that part of
the courthouse was tuned in to
the World Series games.
The city police blotter is
usually confined to reporting
the crimes committed or sus
pected in the city. Our city
hall reporter declares that it
was a welcome relief, recently,
to note therein the birth-announcement
of Randell Wil
liam Renfro, son of Police Of
ficer Elvin Renfro.
A Salem paper reports on a
man who visited the office of
the Internal Revenue Service in
that city.
The man complained about the
doormat at the office, which says
"Welcome." He thinks it should
say 'Thank You."