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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct 20. 1947 (Monday)
Explosion, reportedly from a
leaking gas water heater, blows
glass front of the Silver Dollar
Grill, 42 South Central ave., into
the street.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Two
weeks after special election,
there is considerable up-state
gloating over the fifth defeat of
the sales tax."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1937 (Wednesday)
Regulation of bicycle traffic
brought step nearer when the
20-20 club requested the city
council to promulgate a super
visory ordinance to curtail acci
dents. Fred Foster of Astoria, state
president of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles, pays official visit to
the Medford aerie.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20. 1927 (Thursday)
Scott R. Darby, Medford, sells
rimless tractor wheel Invention.
A. H. Hills, originator and
manufacturer of Hills Brothers
coffee arrives in Medford to
fish on Rogue river.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20. 1917 (Friday)
Unless plans of the Tacoma
men at the head of the project
go wrong, a fully-equipped man
ganese mine will be in operation
on the Tri-it ranch, 17 miles
from Eagle Point, in the near
future.
Thirty committees are solicit
ing Ashland during the Liberty
bond campaign.
Whai's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
even or elsht Is excellent: five or
six is rood
1. Which State is nicknamed
"Buckeye State"?
2. With equal wind velocity,
would you say that telegraph
wires hum loudest in cold or
hot weather?
3. Bible: The principal New
Testament teachings center in
what doctrine?
4. The French engineer, Ma
jor Pierre C. L'Enfant, design
ed the original plan of which
U.S. city?
5. Is the town of Folkestone
on the Channel or the Irish Sea
coast of England?
6. Which African country has
a green flag with a white cres
cent and stars?
7. From which Biblical name
is the surname Eliot derived?
8. Are dragonflies harmful to
man?
9. "Jim was absolved of guilt."
What is wrong with this sen
tence? 10. "He has the wrong sow
by the ear." Ben Johnson. Does
this refer to a mistake, cruelty,
or an impish brat?
Answers: 1. Ohio. 2. In cold
weather (when the wires are
stretched tightest). 3. Salvation
through faith in Jesus Christ,
of whom God is the Father.
4. Washington. D.C. 5. English
Channel coast. 6. Egypt. 7. Eli
jah. 8. No. 9. "from" should
replace "of". 10. Mistake.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Will There
In spite of "Sputnik",
and Washington, also the stock market s crash-landing
we cling to our conviction, often expressed be
fore, that there will be no World War III not in the
near future at least.
As the United Press well said of Krushchev if
he stumbles over his own intemperate propaganda
there might be trouble but we feel he is too sure
footed and shrewd for that.
In other words, we go back to our consoling con
clusion of two years ago, that where two nations don't
WANT war any more than they want to' end them
selves and the world, SOMEhow, SOMEway, they
will FIND a way to prevent
TT WAS very different in
In Europe before
nation was pfepanng for it. Everyone you met any
where thought it inevitable.
Germany was rattling the sabre the hardest, but
in both England and France the leaders were resigned
to the inevitability of conflict, and felt there could be
no PtEAL peace or propserity until the "Huns" and
the Kaiser, had been put in their proper place which
was "spurlos vesenkt."
TPHERE was no such general war-fever in the late
" 30's and had a mad-man not gained control of
Germany, there would probably have been no war.
But Hitler and his Nazis did WANT war, so did the
wrar-!ords in Japan, and when the former marched
into Poland, and the latter attacked Pearl Harbor,
war of course could not be prevented.
ITH the perfecting- of
sav nothinc of enided
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self-interest and self-preservation, no nation is crazy
enough to VVAJNT war today, lhere is little reason to
doubt that Soviet Russia in spite of its desire to rule
the world, can be counted among them. Why should
she take the chance when she is making such steady
progress without?
CO UNLESS the world goes stark mad and in spite
of certain evidence to the contrary, we doubt it
we believe the present war-talk is talk and little else.
The plain truth as we see it is "Old Man Mars",
in spite of Sputniks proximity or perhaps because
of it has simply priced himself out of the market.
R.W.R.'
The S.P. Runs True to Form
In his "alibi" for depriving all Southern Oregon
of any passenger service Vice President C. E. Peter
son of the "friendly Southern Pacific" runs true to
form.
It all adds up again to abject worship of the "Al
mighty Dollar."
"VP" Peterson claims the "S.P." can't put on even
one Budd-car operation between Ashland and Port
land, because his study "indicates" it would go into
the red in excess of between $100,000 and $200,000 a
year.
UOW DOES HE know?
A Congressman Porter only asked for a year's
experiment. Other important railroads have, as a pub
lic service, given this type of minimum transportation,
and whether they have lost or made money, the fact
is they are still operating. None of them is as capable
of taking such a 12-month loss if there should be one
in stride as the S.P.
But the other railroads have some vision. Some
sense of their obligations as a public-utility. Some
idea of the monetary value of good public relations.
The SP, as repeatedly demonstrated all through
the years, has NONE.
Vice President Peterson even claims that the run
ning of such a one-car-once-a-day would so disrupt
the company's freight service, that the loss to the
shipping public would be far greater than any POS
SIBLE benefits a resumption of minimum passenger
service could bring.
That must be some 300-mile freight OPERATION
if one small car once in 24 hours can so seriously
"snafu" it!
HOW silly and hypocritical CAN we get!
Why doesn't the SP "V.P." frankly admit that
he -doesn't KNOW whether such a one-car service
would lose money or make it. NO railroad COULD
KNOW what the natronae-e would be in advance
nor the income or the outlay. And as stated, all that
was asked was a one-year TRIAL.
The "billion dollar SP" true to character simply
refuses to take a chance.
The truth is the 'SP doesn't care what the people
of Southern Oregon want or don't want. True to its
time-honored tradition discarded by practically all
up to date railroads when there is any threat to get
ting an extra buck the SP goes back 100 years and
declares "the people can be damned."
And as far as Southern Oregon is concerned from
Eugene to Ashland "damned" they are.
VkTV ARE glad to see that a copy of this letter has
been sent to Public Utility Commissioner Morgan
at Salem.
Commissioner Morgan knows something about
railroads and particularly the S.P. We have an idea
that estimated loss of $100 to 200 thousand dollars a
year will interest him, and be carefully checked.
For he knows the estimated value of the SP, its
dividend rate, its salary schedule, etc., etc., also its
reserve, its gross and net profits.
So assuming the loss for the first year would reach
Sunday. October 20, 1957
Be War?
the tough talk from Moscow
it.
1914 and 1939.
the first world war, every
the atom and H-bomb to
missies, as a ulain matter of
" I'M WORRIED A60VTMY DAD. fie SAYS THE ENGINE IS
MISSNG. AND ITS RIGHT TUE&B IN FR?NT OF HIM
Today and
By Walter
THE COLD WAR IN SYRIA
There is no obvious reason
why Khrushchev should be con
ducting such a big agitation
about Turkey
and Syria. He
cannot really
believe that
the United
States govern
ment is inciting
the Turks to
attack Syria
and thus to
pre cipitate a
nailer Lippmann
war which,
once started, would involve the
whole NATO alliance. Nor can
we believe that the Soviet Union
is looking for a pretext to at
tack Turkey, and thus to precipi
tate a world war. There must be
something less world-shaking at
stake.
It seems to be a plausible
guess to say that what is at
stake is the control of the Syri
an government, and more specifi
cally whether the military dic
tatorship shall be composed of
officers and bureaucrats who
are dependent on Moscow. If this
is correct, then the story began
last summer when the former
government became infiltrated
and then dominated by a group
of men who had the support of
the Soviet Union and also of
Nasser's Egypt. '
TO this successful intrigue Mr.
Dulles reacted strongly. As
the event has shown, in public
at least he over-reacted, and
deeply embarrased the Arab
governments of Saudi Arabia,
Iraq and Lebanon, which are in
fact anti-Soviet and anti-Nasser.
But it is a reasonable guess that
among the Syrians who were
ousted by the intrigue of last
summer, there has been' going
on a counter-intrigue aimed at
their own return to power. Pre
sumably, the center of this in
trigue is in Turkey which would,
of course, welcome the over
throw of the present pro-Soviet
government in Damascus.
There is some reason for
thinking that the intrigue has
been making headway and that
its agents may have been com
ing across the Turkish-Syrian
border, that they may have be
gun to penetrate successfully the
Syrian army on which the gov
ernment depends. The best rea
son for thinking that this may
have happened is Nasser's extra
ordinary action in sending a
battalion of Egyptian troops into
northern Syria. This action
would be military absurdity if
what Khrushchev talks about
Turkish aggression backed by
the United States were really
in the making. For what on
earth could a few hundred sol
diers do if it came to war?
BUT if we think- of the Egyp-
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sent in to watch the Syrian
troops and to strengthen the
hands of the government in
Damascus as against a counter
revolutionary plot, Nasser's ac
tion in sending them is intelli
gible. So also is the pleasure
expressed by the Damasucs gov
ernment. So also is the loud
applause from Moscow.
This leads me to guess further
that the Soviet warnings and
$200,000 which we seriously doubt it" will be
easy to figure what percentage of the SP capitaliza
tion this would represent. Our guess is it would be
less than one-tenth of one per cent.
IF SO, how does this compare with the' money loss
percentage on passenger traffic on" railroads in
other parts of the country, also how many public
utilities and corporations in the country to better their
service to the people expect such minor losses and are
glad to absorb them for the sake of increasing good
will?
A table showing the facts of this phase of the prob
lem would, we believe, be very interesting and en
lightening. As for the "FRIENDLY" S.P. "!? !$ &," "we
spik no Inglis." R.W.R.-
Tomorrow
Lippmann
menaces about Turkey refer to
the fact, or shall we say the
probability, that Turkey is har
boring and encouraging in
trigues by the ousted and refugee
Syrians to recover their power
in Damascus. The issue in the
Syrian chapter of the cold war
is the control of the govern
ment in Damascus, and the
stakes are rather high. But there
is as yet no evidence, it seems
to me, that " the conflict over
Syria is outside the limits of
the cold war.
"COR Syria, unlike for example
" North Korea in 1950, is
a negligible military . power.
Whereas North Korea . was
stronger than South Korea,
Syria is no match at all for
Turkey or Israel, much less for
the two of them combined. On
the other hand, the one certain
thing about American policy is
that the Eisenhower administra
tion will not countenance, much
less will it approve and support,
military action by Turkey or by
Israel.
All this would add up to the
nigh probability that what is
going on is not maneuvers be
fore a war, but the ups and
downs, the plots and the counter
plots, in the great name of
power politics.
Copyright 1957.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Matter of Fact
"AT THIS DARK TURNING" .
Paris The Kremlin's current
behavior is deeply alarming
over-all, but it still has one
reassuring as
pect. This is
the Soviet
leaders' ' extra
ordinarily per
sistent drive to
open a new
dialogue with
the American
leadership.
With some
Joseph Aisop justice, tne
masters of the Kremlin have
always held that serious nego
tiations were impossible at
crowded conference tables. They
have always treated big confer
ences with numerous partici
pants as mere stages for propa
ganda exercises. They have al
ways thought that real decisions
could only be reached face-to-face
with the United States
speaking for all the West, while
they speak for their own half of
the divided world.
In recent weeks, the Kremlin
has seized every conceivable op
portunity to press for such
talks. To Mrs. Roosevelt, to
Aneurin Bevan, to the recent
delegation of British Conserva
tive Members of Parliament, and
to anyone else who has been
handy, Nikita Khrushchev and
his colleagues have repeatedly
sung the same plaintiff song.
"Why can't Zhukov have a
cozy chat with Eisenhower?
Why doesn't Stassen want 1 to
come to Moscow? Why won't the
Americans get together with us
to thrash everything out?"
THAT is the burden of the
song which is, so to speak,
one face of current Soviet be-
In Ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
On Thursday morning Queen
Elizabeth and her husband
Prince Philip stepped down from
President Eisenhower's personal
plane, the Columbine, at Na
tional airport in the city of
Washington.
All air traffic was stopped
and all engines were silenced
as the Columbine touched its
wheels down on the runway so
that no one of all the massed
thousands might miss a word of
what was said. In the hush that
followed, President Eisenhower
said to the queen:
"In the warm and strong co
operation between your coun
try and ours lies THE BEST
HOPE FOR THE SECURITY
AND PEACE OF THE WORLD."
Queen Elizabeth replied:
"I bring greetings from my
peoples of every race and every
creed in the British Common
wealth of Nations."
TT WAS a solemn moment.
And our President's words
were heavily weighted with
truth.
If there is to be security and
peace in the world, it must
come about through the efforts
of the United States of America
and the British Commonwealth
of Nations.
Nowhere else is there integrity
enough and fortitude enough to
do the job.
ITfE HAVE had our spats as
all families have.
There was a long period when
Britain was great and powerful
and the U.S.A. was small and
weak. In those generations, one
of our favorite American sports
was twisting the lion's tail.
Then the situation changed.
Our might GREW and Brit
ain's SHRUNK. So, human na
ture being human nature, the
British became jealous of us,
just as we had been jealous of
the British in earlier times.
TUT always there was the link
of a common blood and a
common tradition. And alway,
as is the case in decent families
we have stuck together in the
pinches.
11E'D better hang together.
" We MUST hang together
If we don't, in the words of
Benjamin Franklin, we shall as
suredly hang separately. If com
munist Russia can split us apart,
she'll have it made.
It's just that serious.
Elizabeth and Philip
We welcome you.
And we TRUST you. You're
our kind of people.
Joseph Alsop
havior. The other face is the
menacing over-confidence of the
Soviet leaders, induced by their
belief that the West is now very
weak and the' Soviet Union is
now very strong. This somewhat
exaggerated but understandable
belief is the direct result of the
Eisenhower administra t i o n ' s
long, complacent neglect of the
world balance of power. .
Being realists, the Soviets re
gard the balance of power as the
mainspring of history. Seeing
the balance of power tilting in
their favor, they plan and expect
to make great gains in the Mid
dle East and elsewhere. In sum,
they are on the march.
The balance of power is chief
ly tilting because of successful
Soviet development of such wea
pons as intercontinental missiles
and hydrogen warheads, which
can literally destroy life on
earth. The masters of the Krem
lin clearly intend to exploit their
possession of these weapons to
the full, but only psychologically
and politically. They certainly
have no hankering to use these
weapons in actual war. Hence,
their desire for face-to-face talks
with te American leadership.
SUCH, in brief, is the present
situation. It is immeasurably
too dangerous for the American
government to tide over in the
usual manner, with press confer
ence statements. The ship of
state cannot be floated across the
worst reefs in many years by
mere outpourings of phony
soothing syrup. Positive, clear
headed and cold action is urg
ently needed in Washington.
The first and most essential
thing to do, obviously, is to
strike at the root of the trouble
by an immediate, massive in
crease of the American defense
effort. It is late now to start ap
propriating funds which should
have been spent last year or the
year before. Yet even, at this
late date, a determined attempt
to restore the balance of power
can be counted on to impress
and sober the Kremlin.
America's firmness, America's
will to survive must be decisive
ly ahd promptly proven. Other
wise, the present pre-Korean at
masphere will thicken and grow
worse, until the Soviet policy
makers finally commit them
selves to some new venture of
a really fatal character.
BUT att his juncture, even the
largest increase of our de
fense effort will not suffice. In
order to complete the task of
impressing and sobering the
Kremlin, it is also urgent to re
store the vanished unity , of the
Western Alliance. The most
POTLUCt
(By M-T Staff
How do you spell fish? Easy.
It's G-H-O-T-I.
How come? Well, it's GH as
in laugh; O as in women, and
TI as in nation.
This was one of George Ber
nard Shaw's illustrations of the
crazy nature of the English
language and how she is writ
and spoke.
A staff member made a fast
auto trip to Portland recent
ly, and returned more safety
minded than ever. "Those
lights!" he kept muttering to
himself. Upon questioning, he
declared he was more both
ered by lights from cars be
hind him than from those
approaching in front. Drivers
behind seldom dim, he swears
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From the Mouths of Babes
To the Editor: Mr. McCabe
seems to hold a grudge against
all of the people who work for
betterment of our state.
The way Mr. McCabe speaks
against our legislature only
proves to point out how seeming
ly backward he is.
He wants to dispense with all
of our so-called "crooked" poli
ticians, game wardens, and even
our state engineer. Could he ap
prove drilling an unregistered
well just to spite everyone?
If he doesn't know that they
do it for our own good, and the
good of the people around us
then I'm sorry to say that in my
opinion he is just a backward
person with no desire for pro
gress.
Virginia Eddy Walker
16 Quince St.
Medford, Ore. -.
P.S. I am 15 years old.
Our Horse and Buggy Court
To the Editor: I should like to
know why the road department
of the county of Jackson persists
in wasting the funds allotted to
it in costly rehandling? They set
up the rock crusher in an area
and stockpile the crushed mater
ials instead of immediately plac
ing it on the road, thus making it
necessary to rehandle the mater
ial at considerable expense.
I should also like to know why
the engineers (???) who survey
the routes for our roads cannot
survey a road where it should
go instead of following some
cow-trail? If there is a curve in
the road which is to be repaired
and it is possible or advisable to
go In a straight line our road
surveys the same old cow-traiL
I think it is about time our
road department was reorganized
for efficient operation. Someone
with modern ideas should be
placed in charge instead of some
one with "Horse and Buggy"
ideas.
Certain factions are always ad
vocating more fancy and more
expensive schools. What in Hades
was wrong with the one-room
school? I spent almost all of my
school days in one and generally
I have no complaint on the way
they were operated. Nowadays
the kids get out of school and
don't know a darned thing ex
cept baseball, football, tennis,
rtack running, and other types
of miscellaneous nonsense.
I note that a number of per
sons claim to have seen the Rus
sian satellite which has been
sent up by rocket. How could
they see an object which is only
23 inches in diameter, at a dis
tance of over 500 miles? I'm sure
not all those persons have an
astronomical telescope. I think
most of those persons are plain
unadulterated liars.
Floyd R. McCabe,
Mt. Pitt Star Route,
Butte Falls, Ore.
rock-like Western unity is now
politically vital. It is also vital
in a purely practical sense. For
the strategic striking power of
the, United States still almost
fully depends on overseas bases
belonging, not to us, but to our
allies.
When the causes of Western
disunity are examined, they are
seen to range all the way from
the sour after-taste of Suez to the
tight American grasp on almost
the entire Western supply of the
absolute weapons. All sorts of
specific corrective measures are
needed. Some of these measures
will not be easy, such as the very
badly needed amendment of the
MacMahon act to provide NATO
with its own nuclear stockpile
and to allow closer scientific col
laboration with our allies.
Yet even such important cor
rective measures will not wholly
suffice either. The biggest worm
in the core of the Western apple
is simply the other Western na
tions' almost total loss of faith
in the wisdom, courage, foresight
and disinterestedness of the pres
ent American leadership. Unless
this condition can also be cor
rected, all other efforts and in
vestments may well go for noth
ing. But this is a separate sub
ject needing to be examined in
subsequent report.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tirbune Inc.)
and Contribution)
and he added that it seems
worse than it is because th
reflected light comes from two
directions, the rear-view and
side-view mirrors. He's still
muttering.
Kathy Kula. a fifth-eradpr at
Lincoln school, writes about sci
ence in the first issue of the
year of the Lincoln Leeend. that
fine publication, as follows:
"The fifth grade iust received
some new science books and we
have enough to go around. They
are very pretty blue and have
many good pictures for us to
look at. This year we are going
to learn about Extrtorincr tht
Farmer's World, Water and Con
servation, and Mineral Treas
ure. We will also study about
the Weather and a little about
electricity.
"We are em'ovine doine some
experiments. We tested some
soil with, litmus rjaner tnfinrl
out if it was acid or alkaline.
We planted some bird seed to
find out if we had the proDer
soil for it.
"There are many more experi
ments coming up and we are
looking forward to doing them.
"We wish we could have more
than two days a week . for
science."
One of the younger set's
football players, on being sent
into his first official game,
told his father afterward, "I
was scared stiff. My thryrox
ide gland was beating so hard
I could hardly breathe."
The life of a police officer is
interesting, to say the least. y
Lt. Rollie Pean answered the
department telephone the other
day, and a woman insisted that
someone come over to pick up
her car for a wash and polish
job.
Lieutenant Pean says he tried
several times to say she proba
bly had the wrong number, arid
it took several times of repeat
ing "But lady, this is the police
station," before she caught on,
and hung up, somewhat em
barrassed. Police perform lots of services
for the public, Pean says, but
washing and polishing citizens'
cars isn't one of them yet,' any
way. One of the gals In our office
calls at the police station once
each week on the regular re
porter's day off. A week ago
or so, in response to cour
tesies from members of the
department, she arrived at the
stationwith a large chocolate
frosted cake, and left it for
the men on duty. The icing
was 'delicious, according to re
liable report, but witnesses'
said the cutting scene was one
of the funniest they'd ever
watched. The "cake" turned
out to be a large piece of foam
rubber, weighted down by
rocks. "
The city council was discuss
ing illuminated signs the. other
day, specifically those which
could be placed . on medical
clinics. A man representing the
sign industry appeared to show
the city fathers what kinds of
signs were being considered.
As an example, to show the
size, width, and so on, he had
an electric sign, which hap- .
pened to say "We Give Green
Stamps."
Mayor John Snider took one
look, and asked the witness,
"I'm just interested which doc
tor gives Green Stamps?"
Bob Stroh, another Lin
. coin Legend writer, discusses
"Busses, Busses, Busses": "I
never saw so many busses!
Did you notice all the busses
at Lincoln? They come from
many different places In and
out of town'. They bring chil
dren from Table Rock Road
and many other places. The
children are priyiliged to be
able to ride the bus without
having to pay for it. The Med
ford School District pays for
all these rides."
'Mrs. Minnie Bloomihgcamp,
Hornbrook, who has been cor
respondent for the Siskiyou
Daily News for some 20 years,
resigned recently, and in doing
so she penned a few verses about
the tasks of the correspondent.
(Incidentally, she is the mother
of Mrs. M. F. Cavin, the Mail
Tribune's . Hilt correspondent.
Seems to run in the family.)
Here, in part, is her poem:
You can't have a party,
a dinner, or tea
But what I am sure to
find out.
If you visit the neighbor
who lives next door
I'll ask what it's all about.
If you have a guest from
out of town
I'm right at your door
. to pry
"What is her name?
Where is she from?
How long will she stay?" :
I cry.
Says the backshop philoso
pher: A misanthropist is a person
who is allergic to the milk of
human kindness because it is
homogenized. - . --