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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. 23. 1947 (Thursday)
J. Frank Brown of Eagle Point
widely known pioneer resi
dent and former Jackson county
commissioner, has sold his in
terested in a store and retired.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Chipmunk of Oaks
Manor have received word their
oldest boy is now employed as
an artistic toucher of dyed mink
on a Persian Lamb coat down
south."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 23. 1937 (Friday)
A miscellaneous shower for
the A. R. Mansfields of Butte
Falls will be held in the Derby
school community hall at 8 p.m.
Wednsday. The family was re
cently burned out of their home
and the family dog saved the
2V5-year-old daughter.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 23. 1927 (Sunday)
Fate of the Jackson county
public health unit will be con
sidered by the county commis
sioners next Tuesday. Then the
commissioners will decide wheth
er or not. after the next two
months, the county health staff
will he discontinued.
Local youngsters celebrate re
lease from quarantine by skat
ing in the downtown business
section contrary to city ordin
ance which permits only one
skate to be used.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 23, 1917 (Tuesday)
The Utah -Idaho sugar beet
company's factory at Grants
Pass began its operations for
this year, starting this morning.
The John A. Westerlund lib
erty bond fund for the school
children of Medford has been
extended by him to all children
of the county, it was announced
today.
Whaf s Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Is the Ruhr in western or
in eastern Germany?
2. What is the name of the
highest mountain on the North
American continent?
3. Bible: For what unique dis
tinction is the son of Enoch
noted?
4. Osaka, Nagoya, Kyota, Kobe
and Yokohama are large cities
in which country?
5. Which floats more readily,
a fat or lean person?
6. A garibaldi is a kind of hat,
shirtwaist, or ' skirt worn by
women?
7. Name the author of the
noted '"Uncle Remus" stories for
children.
8. Which country is called
"the land of the Midnight Sun'?
9. Fit the proper word to
"either" and "neither": or, nor.
10. "Marry, this is myching
mallico, that means mischief.'"
"Hamlet": Act 3. What does
"myching mallico" mean?
Answers: 1. Western Ger
many. 2. Mt. McKinley. 3. Oldest
Biblical character Methuse
lah. 4. Japan. S. Fat person. 6.
Kind of shirtwaist. 7. Joel
Chandler Harris. 8. Norway. 9.
Or . . . either; nor . . . neither.
10. Skulking misdeed.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Autumn Thoughts
Sputniks, guided missiles, stock market declines,
segregation outrages, lumber industiy woes, sabre
rattling in Syria, and other assorted ills of the world
to the contrary there are still a lot of things to be
glad about.
For instance :
After one of the most perfect summers we have
ever seen, the rains came pouring down, wetting the
forests and ending the threat of forest fires. Then
came beautiful autumn weather cool, crisp, fresh
and invigorating. The leaves have turned, and brilliant
yellows mingle with sober browns and greens.
The crab-grass has died; the acoms have started
to thump on the roof, bump-bump-bump downward,
and then, after a pause, go plop ! on the lawn.
THE coat of the black and white puppy has become
thick and glossy, and he romps with heightened
vigor on the dew-damp grass.
In the mornings, the roofs across the way have
been white with light frost, with a touch of it on
leaves and lawn.
If, by chance, there are a few stray clouds in the
sky as the sun climbs over the eastern hills, they are
lit with color, and .one knows why Homer referred
to the "rosy-fingered dawn."
The lower parts of the valley are covered with
wispy fog-banks until the sun burns them away, but
higher up, the blue-green hills stand sharp and clear
and fresh.
And when it rains, the windy wetness tosses and
teases the leaves until they come whirling clown,
flurrying and eddying on the damp ground. The
smell of the rain is fresh and clean, and the indescrib
able smell of burning leaves clings to the ground
and to the clothes of passersby.
"I17E HAVE renewed our acquaintance with the
" fresh flavor of apple cider, we are again in the
habit of wearing a jacket, instead of just a light
sports shirt, and the click of the thermostat turning
on the heater is again heard night and morning.
The fireplace again knows the cheerfullness of a
fine, brisk blaze. The early-birds are starting their
Christmas shopping, and the rest of us are beginning
to think about it.
Fall is really here, and winter is coming soon.
E.A.
Two Cheerful Reports
There are two other cheerful reports in the news
these days.
Forest fires in Oregon this past season were both
few and small.
And, over the long haul, Oregon's highways are
getting safer.
The fire-season of 1957, if the six-year fire pattern
had been followed, would have been a "jinx" year,
but it wasn't. The total number of fires was the
fourth-lowest in the past 16 years, as was the number
of lightning-set fires.
The number of man-set fires was the eighth-lowest
in that period.
TTHE "jinx" year fire pattern was started with the
1 Tillamook blazes in 1933, 1939, 1945 and another
bad fire year in 1951.
Care in the woods, plus the lack of lightning
strikes, paid off this season, for the acreage burned
was relatively small for which we can all be
thankful.
The record is particularly commendable in view
of the potential hazards this year. Spring rains brought
out a lush growth of grass and brash, which dried to
tinder late in the summer, providing a great quantity
of dangerously flammable fuel. And in late August
and early September, high temperatures and low
humidities brought about some of the worst "fire
weather" in years.
The combination of luck, caution with fire by
woods-users, and better fire-fighting organization
paid off.
AS TO the safety of Oregon's roads, the Oregon
State Motor association reports that between
1951 and 1956, Oregon's traffic fatalities declined by
2 per cent from 431 in 1951 to 421 in 1956. And
this was despite a larger number of automobiles, up
20 per cent, and increasing population, up 13 per cent.
Elsewhere in the nation, the figure climbed 7
per cent throughout the country, and 10 per cent in
the 11 western states.
In only one other western state did the total
decline. That was in Washington, where the drop was
1 per cent. Montana traffic deaths increased 47 per
cent between the two years, and in others they
climbed by smaller amounts.
e
TPHIS record is a commendable one, and can be
A attributed to a number of things, such as better
highways, efficient law enforcement, and better driver
training and education.
But still, it must be remembered that 421 persons
did die in Oregon traffic accidents in 1956--which
is just 421 too many.
Oregon's program of traffic safety is paying divi
dends in lives saved, but it must be continued and
improved before any of us can be satisfied. E.A.
Wednesday, Oclober 23, 1957
'MY cmiR suae? on. it sot
Civil Rights Debate
Keeps Democratic
Policy Battle Going
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington IIP) That ques
tion about who makes official
policy for the Democratic Party
keeps bobbing
up for answers
as the politic
ians maneuver
for the favor
of Negro vot
ers in the 1958
and 1960 elec
tions. Chairman
Paul M. Butler
of the Demo
I.yle
cratic National Committee keeps
the question hot and sizzling.
Butler's strategy appears to be
to keep the civil rights issue
boiling within the Democratic
party by public demands for
more and better racial integra
tion. Butler's latest maneuver
brought here the members of the
Democratic Advisory Council, an
organization he created last year
after President Eisenhower's lop
sided reelection. Senate and
xiouse uemocranc leaders re
fused to join
When a president of the other
political faith occupies the
White House, congressional lead
ers traditionally have held that
they were the official policy
makers of their party It has
been traditional, too, that na-
tional committees tend to party
housekeeping and fund-raising
while policy was being made by
elected officials.
Butler Bucks Traditions
Butler bucks both traditions.
Twice in a short span of weeks,
heh as arranged for the Demo
cratic Advisory Council to
pledge the Democratic Party to
all-out support of the Supreme
Court's orders ofi racial integra
tion of the public schools. South
ern politicians challenge, resent
and defy the council's policy
statements.
The statements remain on the
record, however, for such effect
as they may have on northern
Negroes whom the Republicans
desperately hope to entice away
from the Democrats in the com
ing elections. The Republican
bid for Negro votes, of course,
consists, first, of the Supreme
Court order, itself, and then of
the spectacular fact that the
United Statees Army by order of
the Republican President is en
forcing racial integration in Cen
tral High school, Little Rock,
Ark.
Both parties for years have
been playing politics with the
Negro vote. Franklin D. Roose
velt delivered northern Negroes
to the Democratic Party. He
Editorial
omment
U.S. NEEDS SHIFT IN VALUES
Who gets the higher salary on
the college faculty any Ameri
can college faculty the head of
the physics department or the
athletic director? Who is the idol
of the average red - blooded
American boy, the scientist or
the motion picture actor? The
answers are obvious. Who, in
fact, has the highest priority for
Asian flu shots now becoming
available to high schools and col
leges? Why, the football squad,
of course.
Some Americans have been a
bit hysterical about Sputnik and
what it means to America. But
even the calmest among us must
realize the prospects . are not
bright. There is no reason to be
lieve that Russia's rulers have
ever altered their purpose to
dominate the world, by subver
sion if possible, by force if nec
essary. Sputnik is irrefutable
proof that they have an impor
tant part of the means to such
domination. Unless Americans
choose to alter some of their
basic values, there appears to be
a good chance that they may lose
freedom of choice with respect
to life's values and everything
else. Oregonian. . ,
C Wilson
ought in a fence.
gave them better housing and
job opportunities but not much
more of civil rights. FDR's vote
appear, however, still is strong.
Republicans now offer firm if
localized enforcement of racial
integration of the public schools.
Butler seeks to offset that en
chanting Republican enticement
by keeping on page one evidence
of northern Democratic support
for at least as much and maybe
more civil rights than Republi
cans might endorse.
Negroes May Decide
Negro votes in big, industrial
states outside the South may de
termine the winner of next
near's congressional election and
of the presidential contest in
1960. All hands, including the
Negroes, know it.
Butler is not' merely remind
ing the nation of the great North
South division of opinion within
the Democratic Party. He is fol
lowing the 1930 strategy of
Democratic Chairman John J.
Raskob who went over the heads
of congressional Democratic
leaders to demand repeal of pro
hibition. That caused a blistering out
burst . of party strife. But it
worke'd. The 1932 party plat
form junked prohibition despite
the battle of Southern statesmen
to keep the party tied to the so
called drys.
Southern Democrats accepted
repeal of prohibition because the
North forced the issue on them.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Outer space note:
A sleek-nosed missile squats
on its launching pad as this is
written waiting for a green light
from the weatherman. The mis
sile is the Vanguard the one
our scientists reportedly plan to
use to launch America's earth
satellite into its orbit.
There will be no satellite in
the Vanguard's nose if and when
it is launched. The firing if it
comes off will be merely a
test run of the first stage en
gines of the missile that has been
selected to carry our midget
moon aloft in March.
H
OW would you like to be one
of the scientists who are
waiting for the Vanguard's test?
Of this we tan be certain: The
weight of responsibility is rest
ing heavily on their shoulders at
this moment.
If the American missile
fizzles
Well, in that event, their
names will be MUD and Russia
will have won another big prop
aganda victory.
The result of that will be that
the cold war will get warmer.
STRAW in the business winds:
Hopes for a fourth quarter
pickup in the steel industry have
been dampened by a scattering
of operating cutbacks.
What that means is that in
October, November and Decem
ber of this year ls steel will be
BOUGHT from the steelmakers
regardless of how much steel
may be USED.
ANOTHER straw:
Pittsburgh Plate Glass com
pany will start construction soon
on a multi-million dollar window
glass plant near Decatur, Illinois.
The new plant was announced
two years ago, but has been de
layed because of a SLUGGISH
DEMAND for window glass.
But
They're going ahead now with
1949 PLYMOUTH
FOUR DOOR
Interior a little rough mechanically a dandy J"A
We will sell it as is for I 3 W
LEA MOTORS
5th at Bartlett
Easing Turkish-S yrian Tension
Strengthens SaucTs Influence
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The Turkish - Syrian tension
has strengthened King Saud's
position as the chief moderating
l n f 1 uence in
the Arab
world.
From the be
ginning of the
dangerous sit
uation which
d e veloped
when Syria
charged Tur
key with plot-1
Lliarles M. McCann ting aggres
sion, the Saudi Arabian monarch
has worked untiringly to prevent
an explosion.
Saud has conferred with the
leaders of Turkey and of Arab
countries.
Finally, he offered personally
to act as mediator between Tur
key and Syria.
The big contribution of Egypt
ian President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser, who likes to fancy himself
as the No. 1 Arab leader, was to
send Egyptian troops and war
ships to Syria at the most serious
stage of the dispute.
Offered To Fight All
Syria's pro-Russian leaders
have breathed ,fire and offered
to take on all comers presum
ably including the United States,
which was supposed to be in the
alleged plot in event of war.
The pitiful record of both the
Syrian and the Egyptian armies
in the Arab-Israeli war, and in
last year's Israeli invasion of
Egypt, did not seem to make a
fight to the death likely against
Turkey's powerful, tough army
of 500,000 men.
Soviet Russia, of course, was
a prime contributor to the ten
sion and helped build it up stage
by stage with threats against
Turkey.
King Saud was not able to do
anything as regards Russia. What
he did do was to work with
Middle Eastern countries them
selves as an Arab and as a fellow
Moslem with the Turks.
Saud Sides With Syria
As the situation developed,
Saud promised to side with
Syria, one of its colleagues in
the Arab League, against any
aggressor.
Saud knew that neither Tur
key nor the United States had
any intension of attacking Syria.
'Citizens Now'
Conference Set
A "Citizens Now" conference
for registered Explorers in the
three-county Crater Lake Coun
cil, Boy Scouts of America, will
be held at Southern Oregon col
lege for three days beginning
Nov. 22, according to Dick Clark
and Mike Forbes, cochairmen.
The purpose of the "Citizens
Now," conference is to give the
Explorers a better understand
ing of their privileges and re
sponsibilities as citizens now in
their home and community.
Besdes Clark and Forbes, oth
er Explorer members of the
steering committee making ar
rangements for the conference
are Wilson Gilinsky, Glen Alli
son, Kelly Somers, and Bill Ben
son. Several adult advisors are
also working on the conference
with the assistance of Dillard
B. Shipler, council field exec
utive, Grants Pass.
Features of the conference
will include several outstanding
speakers who have already been
obtained to address the meeting,
it was announced.
the new plant. That is interest
ing because it indicates confi
dence in the FUTURE.
NOTHER straw:
jc (Jotton fabric prices are
down to their lowest levels since
price controls were removed
shortly after World War 2.
As a result of this situation,
consumers have been refusing
to make FORWARD COMMIT
MENTS for large orders of cloth
HOW come? ,
It's quite simple.
When prices are RISING (as
they do in inflationary periods)
people buy unhesitatingly and in
larger quantities than they need
at the moment. They do- so be
cause they're sure the price will
be higher later.
When prices are FALLING (or
likely to fall) people are in
clined to WAIT on the theory
that the price will be lower.
HPHAT could explain the pres
ent "slowdown" in business.
Buyers may be using up their
present inventories instead of
placing new orders hoping
that prices may be lower later.
If that is true, business will
pick up again when inventories
get low.
Phone SP 2-6185
Under pressure, Saud alsc
found it advisable to 6ay that he
never had formally accepted the
Eisenhower Doctrine against
Communist aggression in the
Middle East.
That was true. But Saud had
accepted the doctrine in fact be-
cause with him Communism
ommu
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Disgusted With T.V.
To the Editor: This is about
our T.V. station. If they keep on
like they have for the last month
or so we might as well get rid
of our machines. They advertise
a program in the paper then
when it is supposed to come on
they come out with another pro
gram not listed. Saturday night
they had "People Are Funny"
listed for 9:30 and then came out
with, "Life With Elizabeth."
That is not the only one either.
Name on file.
P.S.: I am not the only one
around here that feels this way.
P.S.: Please don't publish my
name.
BEM, ,
(Name on file)
Rogue River.
Calls Little' Girl A "Red"
To the Editor: I note a letter
from a little girl in the commu
nications column in which I de
tect a dislike for any one who
objects to rather high-handed ac
tions of State officials in pro
socialist efforts to promote
MORE controls all the time. I
wonder who told her what to
write.
Thomas Jefferson is reputed
to have said "That government
is best which governs the least."
Our State officials evidently be
lieve the opposite. As far as reg
istration of wells for domestic
water is concerned, on the sur
face it appears harmless. But on
the other hand, what good would
that do? Would that make the
water any more pure? Would
that increase the supply? Or
perhaps Miss Walker or some
one else can think of some other
excuse for REGISTRATION OF
WELLS.
I personally consider it as
another step toward totalitarian
ism. Next they'll want us to reg
ister the air we breathe. May I
ask Miss Walker how the above
could be considered as making
the State any better?
As for the game commission
I don't give a whoop who kills
game when it is killed nor
where it is killed . . . The impor
tant thing is, don't waste it. I,
myself, struck a doe one time
with a car and, though the State
Police were notified immediate
ly, it took them TWO WEEKS
to come after it. Rest assured I
wasn't going fo take it to them.
I suppose they thought I'd leave
it in the ditch to rot or pick up
at their leisure. It is (the Game
Commission) a racket.
I think Miss Walker, or who
ever told her what to write, has
Socialist leanings as I cannot
see how MORE CONTROLS,
MORE REGISTRATION OF
THIS OR THAT COULD BE A
BETTERMENT OF THE CITY,
COUNTY, STATE, OR NATION.
Miss Walker says "Could he ap
prove drilling an unregistered
well just to spite everyone?"
You're doggone right rest as
sured I WILL NEVER REGIS
TER ANY WELL I'll not
knuckle down to any doggone
politician.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Station
Butte Falls
Tennessee Man Heads
Milk Industry Group
San Francisco (IP) Hubert
Garrecht, president of Klinke
Reed Dairies Inc., of Memphis,
Tenn., was elected president of
the Milk Industry Foundation on
Tuesday as the group ended its
50th annual meeting.
A student judging team from
the University of Connecticut
won the 23rd annual Collegiate
Students International Dairy
Products Judging contest.
Ernest Fleuette of the Uni
versity of Connecticut won top
individual honors.
A Major
Event
One of the three major events
in most everyone's life is mar
riage. To make the ceremony
more lovely, more beautiful.
tniiirfiiirT'ii'ita 4
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have that wedding amidst growing palms, near a trickling waterfall . .
in the home-like atmosphere found only at Litwiller's.
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
r
ranks beside Israel as an enemy.
The Syrian-Turkish situation
has been simmering down for
some days, despite Russia's at
tempt to keep it boiling.
Saud seems, in the process, to
have made it clear that he, not
Nasser, is the leading
among the Arabs.
figure
meat ions
Why Fear the Officials?
To the Editor: As a barber I
come in contact with many citi
zens of Medford. One just can't
visualize to what extent our citi
zens have lost sight of the pur
pose of and protection provided
each of us by our Federal and
State constitutions.
. On this matter of mine and
others seeking adjudication of
the present business license tax
ordinance I give some of the
statements and questions pre
sented to me while discussing it.
"I agree with you but you
can't buck the city."
"Aren't you afraid of what
they will do?"
"Do you think you can
stand up to the city clique and ,
get away with it?"
One wonders what is happen
ing to the people. What makes
them think that way in a sup
posedly free country? Why do
they think the government or its
officials hold a club over their
heads? Why should one be afraid
to exert a right and question the
doings or neglect to do things re
quired of officials who represent
us in government? After all
they are working for the people.
The people pay them for doing,
so. These same officials take an
oath of office to uphold the laws
and constitution of the United
States and of the State of Ore
gon. If the time has come that our
citizens fear the power of our
city officials and the manner
in which they use that author
ity then I say it is time some
changes should be made.
As to myself If I didn't think
that I could get justice in the
city court I believe there are
other courts for relief. After all
it is my way of thinking we all
the city officials and all con
cerned want only a lawful or
dinance and are striving to that
end.
Ray O. D. Marrs
139 N. Central Ave.
Medford
Hi-Lite s
..IN THE
History
"Pharmacy
by ED HALL
There never has been any def
inite proof about the origin of the
peculiarly shaped bottles (show
glasses) filled with colored liquids
which have been used as a sign
of pharmacy. It seems they start
ed in England Chemist Shops as
an attractive power Of the myster
ious product (the colored liquid)
obtained by the new art of chem
istry ...
In 1712 the compound of tinc
ture of gentian first appeared un
der the name of "Stougtons Elix
er" a patent medicine ... (More
next week.)
"To foster and perpetuate a one
hundred per cent Americanism" is
a part of the creed of every Amer
ican Legionnaire.
Three million American Legion
naires have a great pride in be
longing to the organization. We
are proud to salute the world's
largest veterans organization dur
ing the annual observance of
American Legion Weeks October
20 to November 1 1.
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