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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18, 1347 (Sunday)
Final tabulation of students
registering this term at South
ern Oregon college shows total
of 601, according to registrar's
figures.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Stockmen
with barns bulging with hay
have started wondering what
they will feed their cows, and
fear $30 hay."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18. 1937 (Monday)
Old Orth building In Jackson
ville leased for storage of gladi-
ola bulbs.
Company 468, a fourth corps
area CCC company from Mun
ford, Ala., arrives in Medford
by special train to ocoupy Camp
Prescott on Roxy Anne.
33 YEARS AGO
The short-lived Infantile pa
ralysis epidemic becomes thing
of the past, according to health
authorities.
Part of Medford police sta
tion to be converted into a ga
rage to house new patrol car,
city council decides.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18, 1917 (Thursday)
A patriotic meeting will be
held in the Presbyterian church
tit Central Point Sunday de
voted to the Hoover drive cam
paign. Public spirited business and
professional men initiate cam
paign following informal city
council meeting last night, to
collect delinquent paving assess
ments. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good.
1. Mother's day is celebrated
the first, second, or" third Sun
day in May?
2. Which of the Guianas is
named Surinam?
3. Bible: Asshur is the epo
nym of what country?
4. Is baseball a popular game
in Japan?
5. Is the governor of Alaska
elected by the people of Alaska?
6. What word means the op
posite of "windward"?
7. Belmont Park race track is
in N u county?
8. ''Cottqn-tail" and "snow
shoe" are names for which ro
dent? 9. In U. S. "depot" often
means a railroad station: what
is its proper meaning?
10. June 17, 1882: Which
President's "last words" were:
"Tortured for the Republic"?
Answers: 1. Second Sunday in
May. 2. Dutch New Guiana. 3.
Assyria. 4. Yes. 5. No, appoint
ed by the President. 6. Leeward.
7. Nassau county. 8. The rabbit.
9. Storehouse (as a freight de
pot). 10. James A. Garfield.
Nixon's European Tour
Rescheduled Next Year
Washington (IF) The White
House has announced that a
projected European tour by Vice
President Richard M. Nixon has
been deferred until next year.
The White House said Nixon
had planned to visit Europe this
fall. The trip will be postponed,
it said, until after the next ses
sion of Congress.
The WTiite House explained
that the vice president could
not make the trip this fall and
still fulfill commitments in
Washington.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Looking Ahead
. . . Lane county established its Park and Recrea
tion commission in May of 1953. The county court ap
pointed to the commission 11 members from as many
points within the county as practical. Briefly, the com
mission's primary job is to survey potential areas, ac
quire the land and develop park and recreation sites.
Already some 24 locations are under the commis
sion's supervision and 10 more have been acquired
but are reserved for future development. These loca
tions range in size from two of one-half acre apiece to
the 281 acre Blue Mountain Park south of Cottage
Grove. The average size of their parks would be in
the neighborhood of 20 acres.
I7ROM the point of view of park locations, Lane
county has a tremendous advantage over Benton
county because of the many lakes and rivers in the
region and its extension clear to the ocean. Of their
24 parks, some eight have swimming, 22 have fishing,
12 have boat-launching ramps and four have boat
moorage facilities. Camping is allowed in most of
their parks but no special facilities are provided for
the camper.
The Douglas county park system ... is three years
older than Lane county's and there they have also
made tremendous strides.
They have some 25 parks in addition to 17 state
parks and 16 state forest camps. The county parks
range in size from a half-acre to Britt Nicholas Park
which contains 123 acres. Most of their parks are
not very large and probably average about 15 acres.
OERE again reaching to the sea, as does Lane coun-
ty, they have many wonderful sites and a lot of
water which can be utilized.
Both these counties are, with a minimum expendi
ture of money, making family recreation facilities
available to their people. They have been wise in re
serving excellent locations for parks, and setting them
aside for the public before they are lost forever
through a greater influx in people and cost.
We feel that the Benton county court will be look
ing ahead and providing a real service to the people
of this county if they begin to act immediately in
setting the machinery in motion to provide us with a
county park system. Corvallis Gazette-Times.
"Later Than You Think"
The editorial quoted above expresses with clarity
the ideas this page has been
minimum of success for
Twenty years ago there
system. A family could picnic along the banks of the
Rogue, or by one of our lakes, or in the Applegate
valley, and nobody minded. But today, property
owners take a dim view of the hordes of city-folk who
traipse into the county for an outing and with con
siderable justification. Barbed-wire fences and "no
tresspassing" signs are found today where a decade
or two ago was a good picnic or camping spot.
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AND try visiting TouVelle State Park, or Casey
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it is difficult to get a table, let alone use of a fireplace
and enough room to stretch out and get the feel of
being outdoors.
The National Forest
coming inadequate for the
despite the best efforts of
and expand them.
If the people of this county, and its tourist visitors,
are to be served, the county
do something more than has been done. This is the
time for those who dislike "federal bureaucracy" to
get busy and "keep government close to home" by
assisting the county in doing a job it is specifically
authorized to do by state
"HIS year, for the first time in history, the county
budget committee allocated $3,000 for park pur
poses largely at the prodding of County Judge
Rodney Keating, who actually wanted to see a more
realistic sum appropriated for the purpose.
Now we'll grant that $3,000 is better than nothing,
but it is the merest drop in
to the 70-some thousand residents of the county, and
the estimated half-million or more tourists who visit
Southern Oregon each year,
The old saying, "It's
another one, "Too little and
the almost complete lack
son county. E.A.
Logging Rails Vanishing
The Astorian Budget, one day recently, mourned
the passing of the logging railroad. Then, a few days
later, backtracked when it was pointed out that there
are, indeed, a few left.
Alert readers pointed out to the editor that there
still are logging railroads near Olympia, Longview,
Klamath Falls and Shelton.
To which could be added the Medco railroad, run
ning between the Medford mill, and Medco's woods
operation above Butte Falls.
But the Budget's point is still valid that the
logging railroad is rapidly becoming a thing of the
past, succumbing to the greater speed, mobility and
economy of logging trucks. E.A.
Friday. October 18, 1957
plugging so far with a
a long, long time.
was no need for a park
camps are increasingly be
demands made upon them,
the foresters to maintain
itself is going to have to
law.
the bucket when service
is considered.
later than you think,1' and
too late," both apply to
of county parks in Jack
'Bey! Ha peopii as aussin'a soot picture;
Consumer's
Economy is
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. During
most of this year business has
show basic stability, despite the
r eadjustments
which many
industries have
e n c o untered
and with
which some
are still hav
ing to contend.
The total phys
ical volume of
business is cur
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Roger W Babson
rently only
trifle below the high range of
recent months, and is just a
few percentage points lower
than the first-quarter peak for
the year to date. During the
summer, many businesses have
been drawn downward because
of seasonal influences such as
hot weather and vacation ab
sences. Therefore, I expect busi
ness during coming months to
be moderately upward, helped
by the Russian satellite.
However, the improvement de
pends also upon basic consumer
attitudes, which can change from
day to day. Recent surveys on
consumer behavior and attitudes
indicate that buyers are becom
ing more price-conscious and
more selective. Nevertheless,
manufacturers are hopeful that
their plans and output schedules
for coming months will tally
closely with the purchasing plans
of consumers, which are still
continuing upward.
The Auto Outlook
The automobile industry is a
bellwether of forthcoming
trends. Dealers' stocks are cur
rently near 600,000 most of
them 1957 cars, with only a
sprinkling of 1958 models. Thus
far, there has been little appre
hension regarding the size of
automobile inventories, and deal
ers are hopeful that October
sales will at least approach those
of a year ago.
The slight degree of optimism
among automobile makers is
helping to buoy the steel in-
! dustry, which continues to hope
for a strengthing of orders.
Though such orders have been
coming in gradually, nearby
weeks may see a greater rush as
the remainder of the plants
change over to the production
of 1958 cars. Appliance makers
are also proceeding cautiously
with respect to orders since sales
have been disappointing so far
this year. However, as inven
tories in these lines register de
clines, factory output should
gradually trend up.
Construction Industry
Another major steel user, the
construction industry, appears
to have been taking a breather,
although the latest month's fig
ures show a more-than-seasonal
rise after the disappointing ear
lier weeks. Work stoppages in
the cement industry caused
shortages of concrete products
in some sectors. There are, how
ever, more basic reasons for the
slower pace in building, such as
scarcity of money and the partial
fulfillment of demand for hous
ing. Sustaining strength, how
ever, should be evident in pub
lic works, utilities, and road
building.
Beyond the conundrum of
what the consumer is going to
do with his income, some consumer-expenditure
plans are al
ready being affected by lower
expenditures by the Defense De
partment. Military cutbacks are
beginning to affect whole com
munities which are largely de
pendent upon government con
tracts, such as aircraft workers
and others employed in these
towns dependent upon military
payrolls. The Russian satellite
may, nowever. cnange au tnis.
What About Employment
Those who are laid off will
be less eager to spend and will
hesitate to go further into debt;
while those who remain on the
payroll may become more cau
tions about spending. On the
other hand, due to the long
period of boom, the average con
sumer has become accustomed
to an increasingly higher stand
ard of living. And it is far hard
er to adjust personal incomes.
However, these increases in pay
rates are a cause for concern
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Discussed
to producers, since they add
to the cost of doing business.
Coupled with lower sales in cer
tain lines, they further squeeze
profits.
Conclusion .
All in all, coming months
should show a modest improve
ment over the lows of the sum
mer months. But the degree of
improvement is dependent of a
revival of consumer expendi
tures, which in turn are affected
b: capital outlays and by chang
es in Government spending,
which could be increased as a
result of the Russian satellite
surprise. It may well be that all
these factors have been merely
hesitating in order to consolidate
the gains of the past long boom.
Much will depend upon adver
tising appropriations and the ef
ficiency of selling.
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Doesn't Like Cartoons
To the Edfior: I am so tired of
the terrible cartoons that you
have been putting in the Tribune
about our President that I ai
going' to express my sentiments.
In the Best Book, 1 Peter,
Chap. 2: verses 13 to 16, it says
"Submit yourselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether it be to the king
as supreme;
Or unto governors as ' unto
them that are sent by him for
the punshiment of evil doers,
and for the praise of them ihat
do well.
For so is the will of God, that
with well doing ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish
men:
As free, and not using your
' liberty for a cloak of malicious
j nes, but as the servants of God.
Also read Romans chapter 13,
verses 1 to 4, which starts out,
"Let every soul be subject to the
higher powers," etc.
Mrs. Bertha Huson,
423 N. Grape st.,
Medford, Ore.
John 8. Verse 7
To the Editor: Since the trou
ble in the South, we seem to
have become North and South,
instead of a nation. According
to Matthew 12, verse 25, can we
stand?
If the problem can be solved
more peacefully, why aren't we
an example for our Southern
brothers (white and dark)? At
one time, Mr. Morse and Mr.
Neuberger were for integration,
when one southern senator had
a solution; they send the Negro
population here. Wouldn't it
help the South, especially eco
nomically, if each community in
the North would offer a per
centage of the Negroes a job and
place to live? We do this for
people of foreign nations.
"All men are created equal."
If we read our newspapers, do
some honest investigation, we
must say, ' "Our nation, as a
whole, must need more brother
ly love very badly."
L. W.
(Name on file)
Eugene, Ore.
Story in Error
To the Editor: We have taken
your paper for a long time, and
like it very much, or we
wouldn't take it.
But you do make mistakes. In
the Sunday paper, the article
about the Rogue river and its
tributaries, you say the Coquille
river is a tributary to the Rogue.
Sorry, but you are mistaken.
The Coquille empties into the
ocean at Bandon, and the Sixes
river and Elk river both go into
the ocean between Bandon and
Gold Beach where the Rogue
reaches the ocean.
E. A. Russell,
1030 North Bank,
Coquille, Ore.
Californian Hates Morse
To the Editor: I read your
very interesting editorial in
Violent Red Propaganda Aimed
At U.S., Turkey Tops Week's News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
Soviet Russia built up a vio
lent and dangerous propaganda
offensive this week against the
SSS?n United States
and its ally
Turkey.
The cam
paign was
based on the
allegation that
the United
States and
Turkey were
plotting an at-
tnarles M. McCana tack on Syria.
Syria, now being armed by Rus
sia and controlled by pro-Russian
elements, lent its support.
Russia invoked every medium
of publicity to air its charges.
Nikita S. Khrushchev, acting
in his capacity of first secretary
of the Central Committee of the
Russian Communist Party, ad
dressed a letter to the socialist
parties of seven West European
countries asking them to help
"prevent aggression , and pre
serve peace in the Near and
Middle East."
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles warned in turn that
if Russia attacked Turkey, the
United States would retaliate
against Russian territory.
The generally grim interna
tional picture was lightened by
the arrival of Queen Elizabeth
II of Great Britain and her hus
band Prince Philip on a visit to
Canada and the United States.
From, Canada, the Queen and
the prince flew to Virginia to at
tend a festival commemorating
the 350th anniversary of the
founding at Jamestown in 1607
of the first permanent English
settlement in America.
They then flew to Washington
and a triumphal reception, to
be guests of President and Mrs.
Eisenhower.
France's cabinet crisis, still
Tuesday's Mail Tribune in which
you criticized Mr. Lucke's talk
about Senators Morse and Neu
berger. I don't know who Mr. Lucke
is, nor am I an industrialist or
representative of big business. I
am a retired sea-captain having
sailed the seven seas for nearly
50 years. I agree wholehearted
ly with Mr. Lucke's regard for
Senator Morse for the reason
that I fail to see where Wayne
Morse has done anything good
for the state of Oregon or the
country as a whole except when
it happened to be advantageous
T T v
Indeed, I too, wonder why the
people of Oregon keep on re
electing him. Perhaps for the
same reason that Jimmy Hoffa
was elected to be president of
the Teamsters' Union. I am in
clined to believe Senator Morse
belongs to the same category as
Dave Beck and Hoffa. Have
you forgotten, Mr. Ruhl, why
Morse bolted the Republican
party? If you will rake your
memory you will find that it
wasn't for the good of the coun
try or the state of Oregon.. It
was to avenge his own pftty
jealousy.
All through Senator Morse s
career he has kept n eye open
for Wayne Morse first, and may
be the state of Oregon or the
U. S. A. next.
I wish you would print this in
your paper and send a copy to
Mr. Morse with my compli
ments. I doubt if it will do any
good.
Capt. H. C. F. Beyer,
Star Route 3,
Yreka, Calif.
Take Your Bearings
To the Editor: We were told
this story many years ago. This
incident happened around
1907. A Wagner creek rancher
was riding range for cattle some
where in the vicinity of Horn
gulch, possibly seven or more
miles from Talent, when he ac
cidentally picked up a piece of
float quartz literally filled with
gold. Never having any experi
ence in prospecting, he decided
to engage the services of a miner
he knew as the "King" of pocket
hunters from Woodville, Ore.
The two searched diligently for
two days without finding anoth
er rich specimen of quartz. As
the rancher had not marked the
spot or made any landmark of
Joseph W. Burba, D.D.S.
Wishes to Announce
The Removal of His Office
From the Medical Center Building to
836 East Main Street, Medford
Suite 2 General
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unsolved after nearly three
weeks, was complicated by a
surge of labor unrest.
Electricity and gas workers
struck for 12 hours throughout
the country and nearly paralyz
ed it. Homes, office buildings,
factories were without light, heat
or machine power. All electrically-driven
transport was idle, in
cluding the Paris subways.
President Tito of Yugoslavia
shocked and angered the West
German government by recog
nizing the East German Commu
nist puppet regime.
West Germany had threaten
ed to break relations with any
country which recognized East
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Business forecast:
The department of commerce
reports that personal incomes of
Americans declined slightly last
month for . the first time since
last December. At the same
time, the federal reserve board
reported a slight decrease in in
dustrial activity.
Government economists say
these small drops are just tem
porary interruptions in the .ex
pansion of the American econ
omy. LET'S go on from there.
America's population is ap
proaching the 172 million mark.
The census bureau estimates
there were 171,790,000 people
in the United States as of Sept. 1
of this year.
. That figure represents an" in
crease of more than 20 MIL
LION over the 1950 census or
a rise of nearly 14 per cent in
seven years.
WITH the stock market slip
ping, this thought is natur
ally in the, back of every mind:
IT SEEMS improbable.
In fact, it seems UTTERLY
improbable.
LET'S look at the stock market
first. '
Back in the late 20's the pub
lic got so excited about specula
tion that it paid little attention
to the earning power of Ameri
can industry. What people were
interested in in those tragic
years was buying low and sell
ing high and making a potful of
money QUICK.
It's different now. Uncertain
ty as to whether American in
dustry can maintain its earning
power at the high level that has
prevailed during the big years
of the post-war boom seems to
be largely, responsible for the
present stock market decline.
That makes a LOT of differ
ence. i
THERE'S another big differ
ence. In the late 20's and through
out the 30's, America's popula
tion was STATIONARY and it
was anticipated that in the fu
ture it might even decline. The
belief was then prevalent that
our American economy had
reached the point of MATURI
TY that is to say, it was get
ting old and could grow no more.
According to this theory, the
best our economy could do was
to hold its own.
If population was to remain
stationary, there would be no
new generation to need new
houses, new automobiles, new
household gadgets, and so on.
OW-
With population growing
explosively, the situation has
.changed completely. The new
tens of millions of population
will need new millions of houses,
new millions of automobiles,
new millions of new gadgets.
B
ACK in the 30's, we had prac-
tieallv accented the idea
that we were living in a mature
economy. Now we are certain
we are living in a DYNAMIC
economy.
So
It seems probable that the
present slow-down in industrial
activity is merely a pause while
we catch up with ourselves and
get our second wind.
the find, he then concluded he
was "lost" through excitement.
But their two day search was
not in vain, as the "King" of
prospectors picked up a trace of
a different character of gold
that made a small pocket, about
paid expenses. The moral to this
story is, never fail to take bear
ings when in a strange territory
alone.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
Medford, Ore.
Germany. It now was consider
ing whether to make good the
threat by breaking relations
with Yugoslavia.
Editorial
Comment
A REPUBLICAN
EX-GOVERNOR BEGS
TO DIFFER
When Meade Alcorn chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee was in the state a week
ago he put his foot in his mouth
and kept it there. In the first
place he took a crack at Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger whom he
accused of playing politics with
civil rights and national defense.
This brought the justified and
somewhat needling retort from
the 'senator that if Mr. Neuberg
er were guilty of these things,
so was the Republican President.
Mr. Neuberger's record on these
matters is quite in line with the
wishes of President Eisenhower.
The senator is open to attack
from Republicans, to be sure, but
on quite different grounds.
Then, as if that were not
enough, he told Young Republi
cans in Coos Bay, that the par
ty's "most important task" was
the defeat of Senator Neuberger
in 1960. This assessment of the
jjob ahead brought a disclaimer
from an unexpected source El
mo Smith, the former governor
who now publishes the Democrat-Herald
in Albany. Governor
Smith, himself burned in a cam
paign in which the chief objec
tive was td beat a Democrat,
thinks Senator Neuberger is fine
as an eventual target, but not as
the first target. First, he says, in
an editorial in his newspaper, is
the election of a Republican ma
jority in the Legislature. Upon
this the party can build a return
to power in other state positions,
in the national House of Repre
sentatives, and, finally, in the
U.S. Senate where Senators Neu
berger and Morse may be the
targets.
Governor Smith was wise to
remember what Mr. Alcorn ap
parently forgot that Senator -Neuberger's
term runs until 1960
and that between now and that
election, Oregon citizens will
vote for a governor, five-sixths
of a legislature, and four mem
bers of Congress. And it is doubt
ful, that a Republican can be
elected governor or state senator
on a platform of hate-Neuberger.
Eugene Register-Guard.
Educational TV
Called Dangerous
Portland (IP) ' Educational
television carries a danger and
should be used as a "last resort,
desperation measure," Dean
Louis W. Jones of California In
stitute of Technology said here
Thursday night.
Jones, here to speak at the
annual conference of Pacific
Northwest Association of Inde
pendent Schools, said Americans
are becpming a nation of "re
ceivers and non-participants" in
the world of ideas. He said edu
cational television, when used
as a classroom substitute, would
accelerate this trends
. He said educational TV should
be used only when all efforts to
find enough qualified teachers
have failed and schools are
flooded with students. He said
he believes the reason the nation
is not producing more scientists"'
and engineers is failure to pay
primary and secondary teachers
a "reasonable salary." -Jones,
dean of admissions at
Cal Tech, said the increased apa
thy of students to engage in any
classroom debate, plus the grow
ing habit of Americans to sit
unresponsive before television
sets, is making the nation an
easy mark for any demagogue
who comes along with an idea.
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