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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Cct. 27. 1947 (Monday)
Ashland Kiwanis club pre
sented charter by the Medford
club at a dinner in the Civic
club house in Ashland.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "K Wyan
dotte Rooster was shot in his
backyard, yes. While imperson
ating a' C. Pheasant."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27. 1937 (Wednesday)
Phoenix Presbyterian church
celebrates with other Presbyteri
an churches the centennial of
foreign missions of the church.
Homecoming celebration is
planned at Southern Oregon
state normal school this week
end. 30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27. 1927 (Sunday)
Total tax levy for Jackson
county this year will be about
2.5 mills less than last year due
to redemption and payment of
Interest on highway bonds from
O and C tax refund money.
Heavy fog last night and to
day delays planes of the Pacific
Air Transport.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27, 1917 (Saturday)
Elks plan a dance for the Red
Cross Christmas box fund.
A significant change locally
! will be the discontinuance of
.present train No. 17 between
Portland and Ashland.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good
1. Who gave the (American)
Indians their name?
2. In what area in the Far
-East did the famous "Morrill's
Marauders" of World War II
operate?
3. Bible: During the period be
tween the Old Testament and
the New Testament which was
the most important movement in
world history?
4. In measuring the height of
horses, each four inches is
known as a what?
5. What was the name of the
- mythical prince of Niderland on
'the lower Rhine, hero of the
Nibelungenlied?
6. In which settlement in co
lonial Virginia did Captain John
Smith live?
7. 'Name the youth who, In
classical myth, fell in love with
his reflection in a pool.
8. What is the name for the
legal document which makes
final disposition of a person's
estate, taking effect after the
maker's death?
9. When '"brand" and "new"
are combined should it be writ
ten to include a hyphen? .
10. Vesta Victoria's great song
hit (1906): What reason was giv
en for not marrying the bride
who was "waiting at the church,
waiting at the church, waiting
at the church''?
Answers: 1. Christopher Co
lumbus. 2. Burma. 3. Rise of
Greeks io power. 4. Hand. 5.
Siegfried. 6. Jamestown. 7. Nar
cissus. 8. Will. 9. Yes (brand
new). 10. Because "My wife
won't let me."
MAIL TRIBUNE
What Price Brains?
Here is a coincidence.
Yesterday we received our first official communi
cation from the "Friendly Southern Pacific" in a very
long time.
Only a day before we received a communication
relating to the same subject from "Railway Age."
The subject, it is scarcely necessary to add, is
"railway passenger traffic."
It is also hardly necessary to add that the S.P.
missive repeats its favorite prediction of "doom and
gloom" for passenger travel by rail, and quotes with
undisguised satisfaction, an article from the New
York Sunday Times, which claims that it is all over
as far as passenger car construction is concerned for
there is simply no demand the travelling public
en masse has decided to travel by private car, air
plane and bus.
So that's that!
The battle, according to the S.P. is about over,
and now all the S.P. will have to do is to become
exclusively a freight car line and borrow an adding
machine to total its increased profits. .
DUT it so happens the article in "Railway Age"
does not share the S.P.'s view.
It cites the example of a comparitively small rail
road, the "Denver & Rio Grande Western."
According to this article, this railroad runs only a
Bit over 2,000 miles and only about 20 years ago it
was bankrupt.
But thanks to its courage, energy, enterprise and
skillful management, it has not only pulled itself
out of the "red," but established new records in pa
tronage and profits. Even more important, these new
records are not only in the freight, but the passenger
department.
CO instead of cravenly surrendering to the "private
cars, airplanes, and busses," the "D.&R.G.," ac
cording to this report in "Railway Age," has gone
out to increase its profits, in the passenger field by
improving, instead of neglecting or entirely dropping
its passenger service.
Also instead of following the "S.P." line and ask
ing for higher rates for less service, it has reduced
its. rates, for better service.
On the first of this month, for example, it offered
on its Salt Lake-Denver line a "package deal" which
to quote from "Railway Age":
"is built around reduced fares. Its action is significant both
because reduced fares are contrary to the current trend and
as an indication that pessimism about passenger business
hasn't as yet penetrated to mile-high Denver."
And Railway Age does not expect it to.iFor again
quote:
"Last year the Rio Grande realized a net of just under x
$12.2 million on a gross of $81.3 million. This year it expects
Its gross to be something over $87 million with enough left
after costs and taxes to equal $6 per common share against
$5.61 in 1956 ... At the end of July, 1957, Rio Grande net
was $7,251,716 or $1,134,396 ahead of that time last year."
Of course the "Friendly S.P." will give its usual
"So What?" to "better service at lower prices"
only egg-heads and saps in the railroad business,
according to S.P. doctrine, recognize the monetary
value of good public relations ! but it is reasonable
to believe, that considering its passion for placing
profits above public survice if S.P. brass ever reads
"Railway Age," it will pause and wipe the dust off
its bifocals when these figures appear on the printed
page.
Of course the total is "peanuts" to this billion
dollar corporation but we venture to say that over
$6 a common share ISN'T.
CO what?
Well, it is the time-honored struggle between
public utilities- that have some enterprise and sense
of their public obligations, and those that have not.
It is also between those railroads that have no faith
in their business, except in the super lucrative freight
field, and those who have faith that if they improve
their passenger service, to meet public demand in
stead of letting it go by default, that will eventually
not only mean better public relations but better
profits.
So, our suggestion is that the Friendly "S.P." take
a little time out from the "counting house" and do a
bit of research into the management of the "D&RG"
as well as other railroads with similar policies like
the CB&Q, Santa Fe and Southern it might we
said "MIGHT" prove profitable to find out just
what these successful railroads have that the SP
"Dinosaur" HASN'T. R.W.R.
Meany HAS Them
Speaking of brains, President George Meany of
the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has them.
In taking a firm stand against the sort of labor
racketeering represented by Messers Beck and Hoff a,
he is not only on firm ground morally, he is smart.
For, if organized labor is not to be set back 25
years and suffer some of the agonies that "Malefactors
of Great Wealth" suffered 40 or 50 years ago, then
labor itself must insist upon a thorough house clean
ing and complete repudiation of the sort of gangster
tactics that this odoriferous pair represent.
CPEAKING of the "malefactors of great wealth era,"
the present situation is reminiscent of the fearless
and redoubtable "T.R." when he waged war against
the Hills, Harrimans, Morgans, et al, and brought
about a complete revolution in the relation of what
he called "the vested interests" and the American
people. N
T.R., needless to say, did not mince words he
- October
1957
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Today and
By Walter
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
IN SYRIA
In his speech at the United
Nations on Tuesday, the Syrian
Foreign Minister, Salah Bitar,
let it be known
what is his
real complaint
against Turkey
and the Unit
ed States.
Though he
talked about
armies, his
real complaint
is not that an
armed invasion
Walter Lippmann
of Syria Is in fact being mounted
in Turkey. His complaint is that
"certain countries" are being
used as "bases for activities of
subversive elements that are
still plotting in Turkey against
the Syrian government. They
dream of. setting up a Syrian
puppet government that would
be transplanted into Syria with
the help of Turkish armed
forces."
This complaint Is that from
some of the countries which sur
round Syria presumably Jor
dan and Turkey, and possibly
Israel, Lebanon and Iraq
agents with arms and money
are being infiltrated into Syria,
and that the whole plot is being
organized and directed from
Turkish soil with the encour
agement of the United States.
This is a good deal less than
the military aggression which
ttu Syrians have been talking
about. But it is quite enough to
account for their indignation.
For it stands to reason that the
former Syrian rulers, who were
ousted by the present Syrian
rulers, would like to return to
Damascus, and that Turkey, the
United States, and all the other
Western Powers, would be glad
to see them succeed.
What we have then in the
Turkish-Soviet demonstration is
a move to protect the pres
ent revolutionary government of
Syria from being overthrown
by the counter - revolutionary
Syrians.
THIS struggle among the great
powers, with the control of
the Syrian government as the
stake, is being fought on the as
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Editorial Comment
They Fool No One
The Pentagon fools no one by
this sudden concern for the
understanding of the public. It
was prompted certainly, not by
a real appreciation of the need
for public knowledge in a de
mocracy, but by the inescapable
beep-beep-beep of Sputnik. It
must be clear even to the most
ill-informed American that,
with a satellite in the air, the
Russians have less to learn from
our classified research in pro
jection than we have to learn
from theirs.
Chances, are the Pentagon
would jump at the chance right
now to exchange information on
a 50-50 basis with Sputnik's de
called them not only "enemies of the people," but
"plain thieves and liars."
fF course, generally speaking, the shoe is on the
other foot now, but not so completely as some
might imagine.
For "T.R." did not fight only the "malefactors
of great wealth," he fought what he called "wrong
doing" in the ranks of labor, the special object of
his wrath, as we recall it, was John Mitchell.
It was then that he coined his slogan of a "Fair
Deal" and made it clear he was not fighting capital
or labor per se, he was not concerned with the size
of corporations or the powers of organized labor,
he was for BOTH when they were right, he was
against both when they were wrong.
TPHAT is the basic doctrine this paper has supported
for many years. We wish there were more "T.R.s"
in public life today. There are some. Now fasten your
life belts girls and boys Wayne Morse is one of
them. R.W.R.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
sumption that there cannot be
a truly independent and neutral
Syria. In the eyes of the Soviet
Union, a Syrian government
which is not under its in fluence
will certainly be under our in
fluence. In our eyes, it is vice
versa. Yet the one thing the
Syrians themselves insist upon
is that they want above all
things to be independent and
neutral. Because none of the
great powers believes that they
can be, Syria is a world ,prob
lem.
One question that we must
ask ourselves is whether there
is any way by which Syria
could be enabled to break out
of this vicious circle of great
power rivalry and distrust. For
while the present Syrian gov
ernment is not likely to believe
it, the fact is that a truly inde
pendent and neutral Syria, and
with it a truly independent and
neutral Middle East, would be
the best and the most that the
United States and its allies
could desire.
e
170R we know that there Is
no decent future in an ever
lasting struggle for control of
the weak Arab governments,
That is the way to disaster. On
the other hand, there is no fu
ture in appeasement which
would deprive Western Europe
of assured access to the oil of
the Middle East. What we must
want is an understanding and
arrangement which will at one
and the same time promote the
independence and neutrality of
the Middle Eastern states and
will assure Europe's access of
the oil.
May it not be that the prin
ciple of such an understanding
and agreement could be found
in a new arrangement about the
oil an arrangement in which
the producing countries, the
transit countries, and the im
porting countries would all
share? There are signs on the
horizon that the existing ar
rangements are going to have
to be revised in favor of the
Arab countries, and in that need
may well lie the opportunity to
inaugurate a new deal in the
Middle East.
Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
velopers, cutting the American
people in on the communication
line, albeit incidentally.
The Red satellite has done
more than score a psychological
success for Russia. It has also
apparently reminded those in
the highest U.S. military coun
cils that . public opinion is a
mighty force and one which
cannot be snubbed with impun
ity by those who happen to be
in the know. And it has, we
trust, convinced the brass hats
of the utter lunacy of main
taining walls of secrecy even
between the services. If such
awakenings can be permanent,
Sputnik's gain to Russia will be
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Suggesti TV Column
To the Editor: After reading
the letter concerning TV in this
evening's Tribune, I decided' to
write you a letter asking if it
wouldn't be a good idea (if the
Tribune would agree) to have
something of a "B-Mike" column
in the paper, allowing persons
to write in about their "likes"
and "dislikes" of different TV
programs.
If such a column were possi
ble, it might bring about better
programming and would give
everyone an opportunity to ex
press their opinions as to what
could be done about improve
ment in the shows that are now
on television here in the valley.
There would be a chance to
see if local shows or network
shows have the greatest popular
ity and if the majority prefer
sports on Saturday and Sunday
or if they would share my pref
erence of sports on Saturday and
a movie on Sunday afternoon.
Also, I should like to see some
fine youngsters' programs such
as "Lassie," "My Friend Flicka,"
and some good, clean western
movies that children really en
joy, or comedies like "Little
Rascals."
With winter weather ap
proaching and more children
having to stay indoors, I believe
most parents would appreciate
having some good children's
shows such as the above-mentioned
ones, or "Mickey Mouse"
club. These could be shown from
5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. each evening
in place of "Gateway," etc.
I sincerely hope that someone
else will write in and express
their opinion on a column of the
"B Mike" type in the Mail Trib
une. Mrs. Tom Robnett,
2350 Meadows lane,
Medford, Ore.
P.S. A "program preference"
column would also give local
sponsors an opportunity to learn
the type of shows preferred by
the majority of the-viewers.
T. V. Programs N. G.
To the 'Editor:-I was rather
amused when the person whose
name is "on file" was unhappy
because the -television station
program said one thing was com
ing on at a certain time and
something else was shown.
We have watched television
since it started 4Vi years ago,
and as yet, they have never run
a day's shows as advertised.
In last Sunday's Mail Tribune
they had the program for Oct.
13 instead of what was shown on
the 20th: To me this only proves
the station is operated in a shift
less, sloppy manner due to the
fact there is no competition.
It isn't any wonder they can't
get local sponsors, after the flop
they made on the Big Pines Lum
ber company show last week.
I have been a sports fan, but
I've had so much baseball and
football thrown at me that I
won't turn the set on. All day
In the Day's News
By FRANK
I suppose you've read or
listened to the stock market
news of Wednesday and Thurs
day. If so, you're undoubtedly
feeling better about the state of
the nation.
. In these modern days, with
millions of Americans investing
their savings in the securities of
American business enterprises,
the stock market has become a
sensitive barometer that regis
ters with surprising accuracy
the feeling of the American peo
ple about the economic future
of their country.
What happened in the stock
market at midweek, and is con
tinuing in a somewhat less spec
tacular way up to the hour this
is written, indicates a lot of
fundamental confidence in our
country's future.
THE market has been declin
ing since early in July. At
first, the decline was gradual,
but of late the downward curve
has been more acute.
That prompts this question:
What happened to cause the
decline?
SEVERAL answers suggest
themselves.
By July, the market had
soared pretty high. About the
same time it became apparent
that a slowdown in the hitherto
spectacular pace of business was
balanced.
A well-informed public under
democracy is not a prey to
"morbid pessiimism." An unin
formed public can scarcely es
cape that state. Portland Ore
gonian. THE CITY'S NEW
AMBULANCE
The Astoria city government
has entered into the ambulance
business in rather modest fash
ion with purchase of a used
vehicle.
It is unfortunate that the city
government has to get into the
ambulance business at all, but
ambulance service is essential
and with no private operator
willing to undertake the task,
the city government has no
choice. Astorian Budget.
Saturday nothing but sports and
in the evening what do we get?
Records or as the party wrote
in about, "Gateway." How to
make a bathtub or a goat skin
water bottle. Well who in the
state of Oregon is Interested in
that?
If a show comes on that is of
any consequence, when is it
shown? At near midnight when
people who make an honest liv
ing are in bed and children have
.to view rubbish or nothing. We
still have a good radio so it
might be, we will get rid of the
TV set, put a good easy chair in
its place and listen to something
worth while.
A disgusted TV viewer.
F. M. Z.
(Name on file)
Says TV is Lousy
To the Editor: I would like to
say, I sure do agree with the
party from Rogue River about
TV in this valley. They put in
the paper the shows that are
supposed to go on and then show
something else. And the recep
tion they have is lousy, you can
hardly see the picture at all. For
the last month there have been
bright spots all over the screen.
They put something on that's not
worth looking at, you can see
that swell, but when something
good comes on its all spots and
the program goes hay wire. Then
they say, don't adjust your set,
the trouble is in the transmis
sion. They never blame the sta
tion. Why can't they get decent
or more experienced techni
cians? There are some folks who de
pend on TV for their entertain
ment, such as shut-ins and elder
ly folks and children. It seems
as soon as they have a little lain
they have trouble at the TV sta
tion. '
Just like Wednesday, Oct. 23,
they had no Matinee Theater, but
did they give any reason for it at
the station? No, and of all the re
peats we get, we had them all
summer and stUl get them. Last
week there was a show on that
had been repeated three times,
and there were many more in
the last two months. They want
us to patronize the sponsor, but
why should we when we get
such rotten reception and re
peats?
I spoke to a party awhile back
who works for a company who
sponsors on KBES-TV and he
didn't like the shows that were
being put on. They say that the
trouble is in the telephone cable
and has been for the last month.
Well it seems to me that they
could put a new cable in, in a
month. What would they do, if
they didn't have somebody to
blame?
I have had a real technician
come in and look at my set.
which is a brand new 1958
Model, and he says that . the
trouble was not in the set, but
at the TV station.
B. F. S.
(Name on file)
JENKINS
in progress. That suggested the
thought that earnings of Ameri
can business enterprises might
not justify the 'prices at which
their securities were selling.
So prices began to slip off.
THEN '
Out of the blue yonder
Came SPUTNIK!
CJPUTNIK shocked us clear
down to our shoes. That
185-pound ball out there in
space, whirling around the earth
on a predetermined orbit and
beeping constantly so that it
might be heard by everybody
with the proper instruments,
HAD BEEN LAUNCHED BY
OUR ENEMY!
Our enemy had beaten us to
it. That brought fear into the
picture. Maybe our enemy is
better than we are. If so, what?
Maybe our boasted industrial
machine isn't as good as we had
thought.
Under the spur of fear and
doubt, the downward curve in
security prices accelerated
sharply.
HAT happened Wednesday
spark the spectacular
rise?
Well, on Tuesday night Presi
dent Eisenhower made a reassur
ing talk on the nation's economy
and announced that he would
follow it up with a series of
talks backing up his reasons for
confidence in the future.
About the same time, we
tested successfully the first stage
of the rocket that later will be
used to hurl OUR earth satellite
into space. Then, out in the Pa
cific, we fired a rocket AT
LEAST a thousand miles up into
space and reports are that it
may have gone as high as 4,000
miles.
At any rate, it went higher
than MAN HAS EVER SENT
ANYTHING UP BEFORE. That
put one over on the Russians. It
brought our confidence beck.
This boost in our confidence in
ourselves sent the market still
higher.
That is about the story so
far.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hogan
(he's the city's purchasing agent)
attended the League of Oregon
Cities convention in Portland
last week. But before they could
make the trip, they had to solve
problem what to do about
the care of their goldfish, "Tish."
As it turned out, they just
took it down to city hall where
some of Dick's co-workers fed
the fish during the meeting.
A staff-member, obviously a
sentimental corl. thinks that
what with Halloween coming
this week and all, there should
be a Society for the Promotion
and Preservation of Scare
crows. He says he's looked
and looked around Jackson
county, but hasn't seen any
in contrast to the cast, say,
where he once saw a scarecrow
the owner of which changed its
clothes according lo the weath
er. On rainy days, it had a
sou'wester, oilskins and rubber
boots on.
Mayor John Snider's reputa
tion as a wisecracker continues
to grow apace. The other day.
he drew a shocked group around
him. when he asked if they d
heard about someone breaking
into the mausoleum and stealing
ashes.
Then he added: "He wanted to
sell them to the cannibals to use
in making instant people."
The story is being told at
the police department about
the applicant for a secretary's
job who had an interview with
the chief of police, and while
it was going on, had a parking
ticket placed on her car. She
was even more impressed with
police efficiency when, a few
days later, an officer delivered
a warrant io her door. She'd
forgotten to pay the parking
fine.
An interesting social fact was
pointed out by one of our co
workers this week that while
you may have to wait hours in
a doctor's office to get to see
him, there always seems to be
plenty of room in a dentist's
waiting room.
He thinks the reason may ba
that the doctor oftentimes mere
ly looks you over and prescribes
a pill; but the dentist usually
goes right at the trouble - spot
with a drill.
... ,
Members of the police de
partment are still wondering
about what happened in the
case of the man who called
for help. He reported his wife
wouldn't let him have his
clothes so he could leave the
house.
...
This rainy weather poses
problems for the people on our
staff.
A reporter and a photographer
were discussing what they'd do
if the heavy rain continued
while they were at work at a
football game. They finally de
cided the answer would be a
sort of water-proof space suit,
covering them from top to toe.
This solved, they found they
had only two more problems
how to persuade the boss that
such a gadget should be ob
tained and paid for by the com
pany, and how to rig up a "hel
met wiper," to keep the rain
from blocking their vision.
Jacksonville Police Chief
Frank Carter reported to M-T
Correspondent Betie Hoskins
about the crazy, mixed - up
Cornice pear tree which is
blooming profusely on a ranch
near Jacksonville. ,
We have been told about the
Upper Applegate woman who re
portedly heard an actual curfew
bell on a recent trip to the east.
She talked a neighbor into get
ting a bell and walking down
the street at night ringing it.
It was discontinued, however.
when it was found it only served
to wake up the early-to-bed resi
dents of the community.
There are all sorts of haz
ards involved in attending con
ventions, but we heard a new
one last week, about the
woman attending the Public
Health Association meeting
here, and who slipped a shoe
off during a long lecture, and
then found that one of her as
sociates had smuggled it out
of the room under his coat.
The Health association pro
gram distributed at the conven-
tion had a "Public Service De
partment" which defined soma
terms so that those attending
could "be aware of correct ter
minology." Among these were:
Atom Eve's husband.
Barium What you do with
dead people.
Chlorine A dancer in a
night club. 1
Hydrogen Bomb Das Ear-
geschplitten Laudenboomer mit
ein grosse Holengraund und
Alles Kaput.
Our farm editor reports that
there were comparatively few .
farmers in attendance at the
recent hearing in Gold Hill on
formation of a state beef com
mission. He suspects this might
have been because too many
of them were out looking for -beef's
chief competitor during
October venison.
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