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History "from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25, 1947 (Sunday)
Only 63 per cent of quota as
signed Medford for annual com
munity and Oregon chest fund
drive has been pledged, accord
ing to Dr. C. H. Paske, drive
chairman.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The city
guardians were out directing
traffic Fri. whistling at the auto
ists. One of the back-country
drivers whistled back."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25. 1937 (Monday)
Educational conference and
county institute for teachers
from Jackson, Josephine, Klam
ath, Lake and Curry counties,
will be held at Southern Oregon
State normal school Oct. 29.
The 1938 Jackson county bud
get includes $3,000 for employ
ment of government hunters,
court announces.
30 YEARS AGO
. Oct. 25. 1927 (Tuesday)
At a meeting of the tax budget
committee, a $6,720 appropria
" tion for county health unit work
. is allowed.
Kincaid's Imperial orchestra,
- well-known valley dance music
. orchestra, will furnish music for
the firemen's ball.
- 40 YEARS AGO
' Oct. 25. 1917 (Thursday)
Forty-one subscriptions taken
for the Westerlund Liberty bond
fund.
'. According to plans made by
" the Soldiers' auxiliary, birthdays
of the men enlisted in the service
are being remembered.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Is the hump on the back of
' a camel a storage reservoir for
water?
2. Does the northernmost land
in Maine, Idaho, Minnesota, or
Washington extend furthest
north?
3. Bible: According to Bishop!
Ussher's chronology was Cain
born after B.C. 4003, 4009, or
4039?
4. Does a white, or a red, car
ration worn on Mother's Day
denote that the wearer's mother
is living?
5. John Keats, who was born
in London. October, 1795, was a
noted English poet, sculptor, or
painter?
6. The wife of which U. S.
President was named Lou
Henry?
7. In what part of Canada is
the Gaspe peninsula?
8. In homogenized milk is the
cream always on the bottom?
9. "Flew" is the past tense of
"fly." Is it also the past tense
of "flee"?
10. "There is
over" what?
no use crying
Answers: 1. No. it stores fat.
2. Minnesota. 3. No. 4003 B.C.
4. A red carnation. 5. A noted
English poei. 6. Herbert Hoov
er's wife. 7. Eastern Quebec. 8.
No. it is mixed with the milk.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Policies in City Affairs
(The following editorial, and two other's to follow, 'are
adapted from a talk made by the writer to Oregon mayors
and councilmen at the recent convention of the League
of Oregon Cities in Portland.)
There is or has been
which is, in effect, a "self
ment. For years after Oregon was first opened up by
settlers, the unincorporated
self-service when it came to municipal services
There was no planning,
take the hindmost.
Gradually, as usually
way of life which was an
unlimited freedom of action on one hand, and sine
controls on the other hand.
Today we are still somewhere in the never-never
land between these two extremes. Smaller cities lean
to the former; larger and
palities lean toward the latter.
RUT everywhere, in every community, big or small
organized or unincorporated, rich or poor, wise
or foolish, people look to certain men who have under
taken the sometimes-thankless job of city leadership
An observer builds respect for these men, for their
problems, their labors, for
ing to make their cities better places for their families
their children, thir neighbors, and for generations
yet unborn. It is to them, who have received the con
fidence of their neighbors, that their neighbors look
for guidance and leadership in municipal improve
ment.
TN THE days of "self-service" government, munici
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things as street improvement, sewage disposal and the
police authority.
Today we live in a more
teracting forces of civilization bring to the top new
problems, new solutions
A city which functions
where it is going. And its
consist of policies.
1EBSTER'S Collegiate
1 " nitions for policy, but
at the moment is the one which most readily comes to
mind, namely: "A settled
lowed by a government,
vidual."
In some cities, the birth of policy is a question:
"Why don't those knuckleheads down at city hall DO
something?
This could happen in
where the policies of the
summed up as follows: Spend as little money as pos
sible; do as little as possible and then only when
forced into it; let someone
fXN THE other hand, we
w ministration meaning,
officials assumes a holier-and-wiser-than-thou at
titude toward the peasants that put them into places
of authority; where they run an efficient city, but take
no heed of the human needs of their constituents. In
these cities, the wielding of power is done in the spirit
of noblesse oblige the attitude of "We're doing
wonderful things for you ;
do them for yourselves; but
noble and all-wise, we 11 take care of you. '
Neither of these attitudes is healthy in a city ad
ministration. But those who have watched cities in
operation have seen them
and know that they do exist.
Constructive, healthy
where between the knuckleheads and the self-ap
pointed "nobility."
AND it lives on two levels.
The first is the day-to-day solution of prob
lems as they arise and which must be solved and dis
posed of as routine business. The smooth functioning
of a city depends on well-oiled
this routine business in a courteous, efficient and con
structive manner.
But in a larger sense, the other level of policy
making is the more important of the two. It looks to
the future. It is akin to the
omens from the entrails of a goat, or to crystal-gazing,
or reading portents in the stars.
Today we do not deal with signs and omens, but
with graphs, statistics, projections, curves; with cen
sus figures and estimates ; with tax rates and assessed
valuations ; with personnel records and cost account
ing, and the hundred-and-one other tools of the execu
tive and administrator.
ONE are the days of the omen and the portent. But
how much easier things must have been in those
days. If things went wrong, one could blame the gods !
Basic to policymaking this looking to the fu
ture and preparing the way for it is an instrument
which is virtually the same as it was 2,000 years ago.
This is the human mind.
This is not a non sequitur, nor is it irrelevant. No
one knows better than city officials themselves that
far too much of what goes on in public hearings and
council chambers is based, not on logical thinking and
facts; but on emotion often fear, often mistrust,
often suspicion, often cupidity. These, too, of course,
are products of the human mind, but they are not its
highest and best products.
These are not the qualities which can be used suc
cessfully in guiding a city to its greatest good. They
arc not the qualities which can satisfy constituents
in the long run, at any rate in their justified demand
that the leaders and the movers operate a "good city."
E.A. ;
Friday. October 23, 1957
a. form of governmen
- service" type of govern
communities were indeed
little cooperation, and devi
happens, men worked out a
uneasy compromise between
more complicated munici
the efforts they are bend
complicated age. The in
and new challenges.
well is a city which knows
guideposts on the journey
Dictionary gives six defi
the one that concerns us
course adopted and fol
institution, body or mdi
a "self-service" type city,
administration could be
else do the worrying.
find cities where the ad
in this case, the elected
you don t know enough to
because we are good and
in one degree or another,
policy - making lies some
machinery to handle
ancient practice of reading
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Russian Educational
Progress Said Making
U.S. Effort Urgent
New York, N.Y. (Special)
Federal aid for school and col
lege construction has been made
more urgent than ever by the
launching of the Soviet Union's
intercontinental ballistic missile
and its earth satellite, according
to George J. Hecht, publisher of
Parents' Magazine, 52 Vander
bilt ave., New York.
A recent visitor to the USSR,
Hecht declares that unless the
school situation in the U.S. is
improved, the U.S. may fall
even further behind the USSR in
scientific development. As proof
he contrasts the education pic
ture in the two countries.
Contrasts Told
The Soviet Union operates its
schools six days a week, and
every child must take four years
of physics and learn at least one
foreign language. Qualified stu
dents are virtually all given uni
versity scholarships. As a re
sult, the Soviet Union is turn
ing out twice as many scientists
and engineers as we are.
Conversely, our schools are
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
New gadget note:
The General Time Corpora
tion (one of the top watch and
clock outfits) is coming out with
a clock that can run for DAYS
on a few hours of sunlight. The
new clock is called the solarion
and requires no electric cord,
battery replacement or winding
It is powered by sunlight.
npHE commonly used name for
sun nowpr is solar enerev.
Scientists have found that each
square yard of the sun's surface
gives off 70,000 horsepower of
energy per second. The portion
of this energy that reaches the
earth is two horsepower, which
adds up to 70 mile - tons per
square foot per year. A mile-ton
is the amount of energy needed
to move a ton a distance of a
mile.
That is to say:
If you have a lot 50x100 feet
in size and if the sun shone ALL
THE YEAR, you'd have power
enough on your premises to move
ton 350,000 miles in a year or
to move 350,000 tons one mile in
a year.
UITE a lot of power, isn't it?
And, presently, it all GOES
TO WASTE.
THE trouble with solar energy
is that the sun doesn't shine
all the time.
And
If you're thinking of. setting
up a solar engine in your back
yard and beating the power
company's racket, maybe you'd
better do some figuring first.
Your figures will undoubtedly
show you that your sun engine
wold cost you a lot of shekels
so many shekels, in fact, as to
make the investment' highly un
profitable. THAT, by the way, brings out
an economic fact of the ut
most importance:
Whatever you propose to make
and sell at a profit and thus make
living for yourself and your
family must be COMPETITIVE
IN PRICE with other similar
products. Otherwise, people
won't buy it.
That explains why the power
companies use coal and oil and
falling water, instead of solar
energy, to produce the power
customers buy from them.
ANYWAY
It's consoling to know that
if, in the centuries that are now
far off in the future, all the coal
and oil are exhausted and all
the uranium is used up and all
the rivers go dry there will still
be sun power to keep the wheels
of industry turning.
The pessimist likes to think
of the time when we'll all be
goners for sure. The optimist
prefers to believe that, in one
way and another, the world will
keep on getting better and better.
Let's be optimists instead of
pessimists. . -
deteriorating. School construc
tion has lagged so badly that
several million children have to
attend schools In double or triple
shifts. More than half the ex
isting classrooms are so over
crowded that effective teaching
is impossible. We have had to
employ about 90,000 emergency
teachers with substandard quali
fications. And the situation will
grow worse as the schools age
and population continues to in
crease. Just to keep up with this
growth, 50,000 additional class
rooms will be needed in each
succeeding year.
Further Loss Cited
The recently released report
of he President's committee for
Education Beyond High School
shows a further loss of top brain
power. Of the top third of our
high school graduates only about
one third go on to get college
degrees, one-third apparently do
not want to eo to college and
one third cannot afford it.
This situation will be further
complicated by the fact that
American colleges and univer
sities are not expanding rapidly
enough to handle the millions
of boys' and girls who will be
seeking enrollment. The answer
to these problems is twofold
system of Federal university
scholarships for qualified but
needv students, and Federal aid
for college expansion,
Roads, Not Schools
The Federal Government now
appropriates $3 billion a year
to help the States build highways
and secondary and feeder roads,
hut in the last Congress the
House of Representatives killed
bv five votes the proposed Fed
eral Aid for School Construction
bill which would have authorized
SI. 5 billion to heln the states
build sorely needed schools
A new Federal Aid for School
Construction Bill will be pre
sented to Congress in 1958. It is
not too soon for parent-teacher
associations and other civic
groups to pass resolutions in its
favor and send copies of these
to Coneress. Education is the
most basic need of our times. In
a world of intercontinental mis-
siles and earth satellites, we need
all the brainpower we can get.
Mayor io Assume New
Duties as Director
Mayor John Snider will
as-
sume several new duties
as a
director of the League of Oregon
Cities. He was elected a director
at the recent annual convention
in Portland.
Mayor Snider plans to attend
one board meeting each quarter
at the Eugene office of the
bureau of municipal research of
the University of Oregon. Needs
and problems of Oregon cities,
and the league's policies will be
discussed at board meetings.
Snider also is chairman of the
committee for city-state high
way relations. Committee mem
bers meet with city officials in
each region in the state to dis
cuss problems and needs to form
a better relationship with the
state highway commission.
He said a meeting of south
ern Oregon mayors will be
scheduled in the near future to
discuss problems in. this area.
Snider will then meet with
other committee members, and
a report, will be forwarded to
the highway commission.
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
Telephone SP 2-9275 Dentistry
U.S.-U.K. Cordiality,
Research,
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The United States and Great
Britain opened a new and prom
ising chapter in their historic
alliance this
week. Queen
Elizabeth II
went home aft
er a triumphal
visit to the
United Stat e s
which in it
self served to
strengthen re
lations. A few
hours later Charles M. McCann
Harold Macmillan, her prime
minister, arrived in Washington
for a three-day conference with
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles.
There was every reason to be
lieve that the Washington con
ference would result in closer
relations between the two allies
than they had enjoyed for years.
Soviet Russia tirelessley de
veloped the blatant and danger
ous propaganda campaign in
which it seeks to increase ten
sion between Turkey and Syria
and threatens to attack Turkey.
In its latest moves, Moscow
made it known that it had ap
pointed Marshal Konstantin K.
Rokossovsky, its No. 2 soldier,
as commander of the military
district facing Turkey and that
its troops had conducted maneu
vers with nuclear weapons in
the frontier area.
In the United Nations, Russia
and Syria together fanned ten
sion further by attacking Tur
key and the United States in
a General Assembly debate.
Russia's little Sputnik satel
lite, still spinning round the
world, stirred the United States
to sharply accented concentra
tion on its development of nu
clear missiles.
The Air Force shot a rocket
at least 1,000 miles into the air
possibly higher in a test over
the Eniwetok Atoll in the Pa
cific. The Army . successfully
tested its 1,500-mile Jupiter in
termediate range ballistic mis
sile. The Navy with equal sue
cess tested its Vanguard rocket
which it is developing as an
earth sattellite launcher. De
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lication must not exceed 400 words
Identify 'Rover'
To the Editor: School days are
here again and as the children
leave for classes the family pet
will once again have to be
taught to stay at home. It isn't
easy for "Rover" to understand,
since he has been the constant
companion of the children for
three months.
Almost every community has
an ordinance prohibiting dogs
from running at large on school
grounds. The numerous dog
fights and cases of children be
ing bitten have been responsible
for the restrictive ordinances
Many pets become overly excit
ed when they see children romp
and play on the school grounds
The Medford Humane society
reminds residents that dogs are
not allowed on school grounds.
Identification tags or licenses
should be worn so that "Rover'
can be returned if he attempts
to follow the children.
Medford Humane Society
Mrs. S. W. Richardson, Mgr.
Praise Goes to MT
And the Dogs
To the Editor: About six
weeks ago I saw an ad in the
Medford Mail Tribune which
made it possible to contact Mr.
and Mrs. Herndon of Central
Point, Ore. The Herndons raise
German shepherd dogs, and in
spite of Mrs. Herndon's recent
surgery, I must admit that they
raise an excellent breed of dogs.
I purchased one of them and
have never been more pleased
with a dog in my life. The pup
proved to be exceptionally intel
ligent besides being beautifully
marked black and silver. Fact
is I wouldn't take many times
the price I paid for the pup.
In view of the above mention
ed facts, I want to express my
appreciation to the Medford
Tribune for having made this
purchase possible and also to
Mr. and Mrs. Herndon for tak
ing such pains in raising the
dogs.
Capt. H. C. F. Beyer,
Star Route 3,
Yreka, Calif.
Syria, Top
fense Secretary Neil H. McElroy
announced that some Navy
planes in the Atlantic Fleet are
now equipped with atomic depth
charges for use against subma
rines. While France continued its
painful search for its 24th post
war premier, Konrad Adenauer
was elected to a third four-year
term as chancellor of West Germany.
Ike's Coattails Seen
Lacking in Effect by
GOP Congress Leader
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) President
Eisenhower's proposed "chin's
up" rally of public confidence
looks from
here very
much like the
opening of the
1958 Republi
can con g r j s
sional election
campaign. The
President
s o m ewhat re
sents the read
ing of political
I.yle C. Wilson
motives Into his activities as the
elected chieftain of all the peo
ple. He is, nevertheless, the lead
er and spokesman of the Repub
lican party to whom its candi
dates normally would look for
a ' coat tail ride to victory on
election day.
The Republican party, how
ever, is not now noted for a
state of normalcy. Abnormal is
the word for the state of the
Republican party which in 1952
and 1956 elected a president by
enormous margins but cannot
wrst Congress from the Demo
crats
Abnormal means markedly
or strangely irregular, which
makes it a good word for a little
noted speech delivered- last Sat
urday before a Republican audi
ence in Alamogordo, N.M., by
Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa.)
Key GOP Campaign Strategist
Simpson is chairman of the
Republican National Congres
sional Campaign Committee
which will supervise next year's
campaign to regain control of
the House of Representatives.
He is a big man in the House and
in his party. If and when Rep
Joseph W. Martin Jr., (R-Mass.)
decides to retire, Simpson is the
man most likely to succeed him
as Republican leader - of the
House and as Speaker if the
GOP ever again is able to win
control.
In his capacity as GOP Con
gressional Campaign Committee
chairman, Simpson told the New
Mexican Republicans that there
was no political future for their
party's candidate in attempting
to hitch a campaign ride on the
Eisenhower coat tails. He coun
selled Republicans to endorse in
their campaigns only those poli
cies of the Eisenhower adminis
tration best suited' to their lo
calities. "Not everything undertaken
in Washington has met with gen
eral voter approval," Simpson
said. "This is to be expected,
and it is up to the candidates
for Congress within the ranks
of the Republican Party to make
known their dissents and to
change or to eliminate unde
sirable policies when elected.'
Simpson is a regular Repub
lican as distinguished from a
modern Republican, and among
administration policies to which
he aggressively objects is big
time government spending. He
helped kill the President's pro
posal for federal construction of
public schools. Simpson has no
use for "spenders in govern
ment" and evidently believes
Republican congressional candi
dates should repudiate the Eisen
hower spending-tax program in
next year's campaign.
Since the spending-tax budget
is the foundation stone of all
administration policy, Simpson
would appear to be proposing
real bolt. The congressman
does not see it quite that way.
"A Republican congressional
candidate will not be breaking
with President Eisenhower," he
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Since Adenauer was first elect
ed eight years ago, France has
had 14 premiers.
Thus it emphasized ironically
the contrast between prosper
ous, unified West Germany, beat
en into unconditional surrender
in World War II, and France,
one. of the victors, which has
struggled through years of poli
tical instability and of colonial
wars which have drained its
blood and money.
said, "if he confines his cam
paign to local issues and en
dorses only those administration
policies which meet the deniands
of the candidate's constituents."
Perhaps not. Simpson's out-of-the-way
speech, however, points
up the hard choice confronting
Republican congressional candi
dates in next year's campaign.
Tey must choose whether to
run on President Eisenhower's
spending record or away from it.
Voice of Democracy
Contest Scheduled
A community-wide Voice of
Democracy contest will be held
in the Medford area this year as
part of the program's 11th na
tional anniversary, according to
the Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
The contest ' Includes script
writing and voice competition
of high school students. Entries
are judged on content, delivery
and originality of five-minute
scripts on the subject, "I Speak
for Democracy."
Students in the 10th, 11th and
12th grades are eligible to
enter. Medford high, St. Marys,
Phoneix and Jacksonville High
schools are area schools parti
cipating. Following school eli
minations, a community winner
will be selected to represent this
area in the state finals.
The state winner will be
awarded an all-expense paid
trip to Washington, D.C., in
February to the national finals.
The contest is sponsored na
tionally by the U.S. Jaycees,
Electronic Industries association
and the National Association of
Radio and Television Broadcast
ers. Don Carlon and Ted Mc
Lean are co-chairmen for the
project from the local Jaycees.
VETERAN EDITOR DIES
Dayton, Ohio OPl Walter
Locke, 82, veteran editor of the
Dayton Daily News, died Wed
nesday night of a heart ailment.
He was widely known for his
editorial column, "Trends of the
Times."
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