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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. 28, 1947 (Tuesday)
Colors which provide a link
with history and tradition of
famed combat units will be pre
sented to organized reserve units
here.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The deer
hunting season passed without
any mighty hunters telling white
lies about not having the heart
to shoot a pure white deer on a
hillside."
20 YEARS AGO
Oci. 28. 1937 (Thursday)
The 1937 pear crop totals 1,
615,298 boxes, according to fig
ures of the Rogue River Traffic
association.
On every Rogue River nation
al forest Christmas tree going
into a home this Yule season
will be attached a card telling
its source, forestry officials said.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct- 23. 1927 (Friday)
Allotment of space in the new
city hall to county offices has
been made tentatively.
Installation of drainage pipe
to eliminate pools of water on
the Medford airport field starts.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 28. 1917 (Monday)
Medford raises more than $85,
000 over the minimum allotment
of 5260,000 for Liberty bonds.
Alvin Dufiford, 27, is the first
Jackson county man wounded in
the war.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eisbt Is excellent: five or
six Is good.
1. What is the name given to
a dining hall in a convent or
monastery?
2. Bible: In which book is the
first reference to man praying
to God?
3. In which country did the
writ of ' habeas corpus" origin
ate? 4. What do the initials B.O.
stand for in theatrical parlance?
5. Who wrote the song "A
Perfect Day"?
6. May a pair of blankets be
in one piece?
7. In measuring, is a teaspoon
ful equivalent to one-half of a
tablespoon?
8. Are bees raised in an
apiary, aviary, or commissary?
9. How many cubic feet in a
cord of wood?
10. Correct the following: If
he would have come earlier he
would have been in time.','
Answers: 1. Refectory; 2.
Genesis; 3. England; 4. Box-office;
5. Carrie Jacobs Bond; 6.
Yes; 7. No; 8. Apiary; 9. 128;
10. "If he had come earlier."
etc.
Holmes To Address
Special Legislature
Salem ilP Gov. Robert D.
Holmes has the following items
on his agenda for the week star
ting Oct. 27:
Monday: Opening of the spec
ial session of the 49th Legisla
ture assembly. The Governor is
scheduled to address the joint
session at about 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday: Board of Control
meeting at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday: Speech before the
Rural electricifation association
at Eugene at 10 a.m. He will also
attend the Oregon State college-Washington
State college
football game, at Corvallis,
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Policies in City Affairs -
(The following editorial is the second of three 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.)
What is the logical, thoughtful way to develop
cities' policies which will prove to be helpful and
successful?
Any successful policy must find its basis in phil
osophy, and in what are known as certain presup
positions. Four of these (and there can be others)
are suggested:
1. That a city government's sole excuse for ex
istence is to do for its people what they cannot do,
or cannot do as well, for themselves.
2. That a city is a fluid, ever-changing entity,
and that what was effective and helpful in the past
is not necessarily the best solution for problems of
today.
3. That nothing in the full range of human ac
tivity is, of and by itself and without qualification,
outside the scope of a government which has the
duty of ministering to the welfare of the people it
serves.
4. That the test of "the greatest good for the
greatest number in the long run," which also im
plies the protection of the rights of the minority,
is the most important test which can be applied to
actions of government.
If these presupositions are granted and they
will be granted by those who serve without an
ax to grind or an empire to build then we can
come to the area of policy-making.
Municipal policies can and very possibly should
cover any eventuality which the mind of man
can dream up. For almost anything can happen, and
experienced city officials know it usually does.
So what are some areas where policy may legi
timately be employed? Here is a partial list, which
any city official could add to and which all will
recognize. The list is in no particular order:
Off-street parking . . . arterial streets . . . traffic con
trol, including truck routes and freeway acces . . . sewers,
including mains, laterals, installation, assessment and re
pair . . . police and fire administration and the relative
advantages of consolidation . . . annexation . . . water
supply, and should it be offered outside the city.
Parks . . . recreation programs, including pools, story
hours, supervised play, sports and overnight or summer
camps . . . juvenile delinquency . . . judicial administra
tion . . . building inspection, including subdivision regula
tion, billboard control and overhanging sign regulation
. . . zoning . . . setback rules . . . sidewalk and street con
struction and repair, the assessments . . . parking meters . . .
fluoridation . . . police money escorts.
Railroad crossings, including speed and safety con
siderations ... air pollution . . . convention and tourist
hospitality- . . ambulance service . . . franchises for electric,
telephone and gas utilities . . . bus service and the city's
responsibility in seeing it is maintained . . . tree trimming
over streets . . . street sweeping (including the momentous
question of whose responsibility it is to sweep up glass
after an accident) . . . after-hours employment for police
officers and firemen . . . pensions and retirement . . .
safety education and programs . . . crime reporting . . .
utility pole control or elimination . . . tree planting plans
. . . parade permits and policing.
And so on and so on.
""That may serve to give a general idea as to the
" areas in which people expect advance planning
and a settled policy. If it is lacking, they are apt
to feel cheated.
Some areas of policy are outlined for cities in
the city charter. These limit the freedom of action
of the administration in some regards, and gener
ally speaking are "hard" policies, difficult to change.
Frequently, of course, no change is either necessary
or desirable, although changing conditions may from
time to time make the charter obsolete in some re
gards. Other policies of the city have "hardened" into
ordinances, most of them in the long, long ago.
Dut there is a large area in which the administra
tion operates which is governed largely, perhaps
even solely, by policies adopted by the current office-holders.
And if they are not aware of operating under
policies, that simply means they are unaware
not that they have no policies. They may be nega
tive, they may be amorphous, they may be unwritten
or even unspoken, but they are there even if they
are nothing but policies of doing as little as possible.
It is for this reason that the conscious, intelli
gent formulation of general, overall policies to
supplement, or even change those in the charter and
in the ordinances and the understanding of poli
cies in specific areas of government, not Only are of
assistance to the responsible officials, but are no less
than what their constituents should have a right to
expect.
"This is not to say that policies should never be
changed or even violated. They should be
changed the very moment they no longer serve the
purpose for which they are intended. And they may
be violated for good and sufficient reason.
But intelligent consistency is of great value, pro
vided it is not slavish. For one thing, it will insure
an equality of treatment to those citizens who ap
pear before the council seeking, say, a sidewalk,
or a curb and gutter job, or a sewer extension or
repair of a street.
If they are denied, and can then point to a sim
ilar or identical situation where some other indivi
dual was successful in his plea then we all know
what the office-holders' names.will be : MUD. E. A.
Monday, October 28, 1957
'Mo SAYStfs my
BEDTIME?'
Turkey, Berlin Eyed as Possible
Spots for Headlines of Future
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
around the world look ahead
at the news that will make the
headlines. . '
On To Berlin
If Soviet Russia starts to take
its propaganda heat off Turkey
this week, as expected watch
Berlin.
Russia's vicious charges that
Turkey was
plotting to at
tack Syria
were aimed
partly at em
barrassing Pre
mier A d n a n
Menderes i n
his election
campaign. The
election was
Charles M. McCann held Sundav.
Allied intelligence agents pre
dict that the anti-Turkish cam
paign will dwindle and that pres
sure will be increased against
Berlin.
For 10 days, the Communists
have been harassing highway
and rail traffic along the life
lines that connect Berlin with
Matter of Fact
CATS OUT OF THE BAG
Washington Certain very
large and ugly cats have been
let out of the bag in recent days.
These revela
tions cast a
new light on
the Eisenhow
er administra
tion's policies
in the race
with the So
viet Union for
superiority in
the ballistic
stewait ajsop missiles. And
in the now inevitable full dress
investigation of those policies,
the cats that have been let out
of the bag are going to be very
hard indeed to explain away.
Cat number one was the re
port in the authoritative tech
nical magazine, "Aviation
Week," that a radar tracking
system in Turkey has been mon
itoring tests of ballistic missiles
in the Soviet Union for more
than two years. The report has
not been denied for the simple
reason that it is true the ex
istence of the radar system,
which is of course known to the
Soviets, has been common
knowledge among those who in
terest themselves in such mat
ters for a long time.
The meaning of this particular
cat-out-of-the-bag is quite ob
vious. The Administration has
not had to guess about Soviet
progress in the missile field, or
to rely on doubtful secret intel
ligence reports. It has known,
without the slightest room for
doubt, that the Soviets have
tested hundreds of the shorter
range strategic missiles, scores
of the intermediate missiles, and
this year, at least eight missiles
of inter-continental range.
'PHE Administration has known,
in short that the Soviets
have been rapidly outdistancing
this country in the ballistic mis
sile race, whose outcome will
predictably determine the fu
ture balance of world power.
And this is where cat-out-of-the-bag
number two comes into play.
For cat number two concerns
the Administration's reaction to
the hard intelligence of Soviet
missile progress. This cat is
emerging little by little, and is
not entirely out of the bag yet.
The "Washington Post and
Times-Herald" for example, re
cently reported an order bv for
mer Secretary of Defense Charles
Wilson which last summer cut
research and development work
largely on missiles, by some $170
million.
The order, successfully con
cealed for a long time, came
right on the heels of the first
detection by the radar monitor
ing system of Soviet tests of in
tercontinental - range missiles.
Other parts of the cat are also
out of the bag, like the order
you, HUH?
West Germany across 110 miles
of the Soviet Occupation Zone.
Now the pressure is expected to
intensify. The big question is
whether the Reds will resort to
blockade-type measures.
Warning
President Eisenhower and Brit
ish Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan did a lot more talking
and deciding about the Middle
East last week than their joint
communique indicates. They de
voted just one paragraph to Tur
key. That one paragraph point
ed out that an attack on Turkey,
as a member of the North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization, would
be considered an attack on all
15 allies. It was a stern warn
ing. Eisenhower and Macmillan
decided that it would be more ef
fective if they gave it without
any frills.
Big Show
Reports about preparations for
the celebration of the 40th anni
versary of the Bolshevik regime
on Nov. 7 center on the likeli
hood that new nuclear weapons
may be unveiled in the big pa
rade.
Diplomatic advices say there
may be some headlinable news
By. Stewart Alsop
limiting work on the American
ICBM to a five-day week, with
no overtime, and the heavy cuts
in Air . Force procurement, in
cluding procurement for the
Strategic Air Command.
QJOME parts of the cat have
yet to emerge fully, like the
economy dictated slowdown in
the schedule for "Titan," the
Martin Company's vital ICBM
project, by a full ten months.
But the essential fact, which the
forthcoming Congressional in
vestigation is certain to estab
lish, is simply this: The Admin
istration reacted to hard intelli
gence of Soviet technological
progress especially in the missile
field by sharply cutting back on
our own efforts in that field.
A further fact can also be
established that the Pentagon
powers that be knowing the
facts sought to conceal them.
An obvious attempt to conceal
the $170 million research and
development cut was made. An
obvious attempt to hush up in
formation on Soviet missile de
velopment was also made.
For example when early in
July it was reported in this space
that the Soviets had achieved a
successful test of the ICBM an
influential Senator who is also
a member of the Armed Services
Committee checked the story
with the highest Pentagon au
thorities. He was flatly assured
that it was untrue this de
spite the fact that the radar
tracking system had by that time
recorded a number of Soviet
ICBM tests.
LL in all, administration
spokesmen called to 'testify
before the investigating commit
tee are going to have to do some
tall explaining. The facts, of
course, are not all on one side.
The defenders of the Adminis
tration can say with perfect jus
tice, for example, that there was
no serious missile program at
all in the Truman years, which
is a main reason why this coun
try is so frighteningly far behind
the Soviets in the missile race.
And yet one thing is already
clear. The Sputnik as a visible
symbol of the Soviet technologi
cal lead, has suddenly and sharp
ly eroded President Eisenhower's
reputation for all-knowing wis
dom in defense matters. This
reputation has heretofore pro
tected the Administration's de
fense policies from politically ef
fective criticism as witness
the bored yawns which greeted
the sensational testimony before
the Symington Air Power Com
mittee last year. Now, thanks
to Sputnik, defense is sure to be
a major political issue, and the
subject of a major national de
bate. And that, in a democracy,
is precisely as it should be.
(Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Ike's Coattails Questioned as
Effective on Basis of Record
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) The rid
ing qualities of President Eisen
hower's coattails, now in ques
tion by some
Republican po
liticians, soon
will be sub
stantially test
ed. The test will
come in New
Jersey's Nov.
election of a
governor. The
i.yie c Wilson administration
is all-out to obtain the job for
Republican Malcolm S. Forbes
who opposed Democratic Gov.
Robert B. Meyner.
Chairman Richard M. Simp
son (R-Pa.) of the Republican
National Congressional Cam
paign Committee is telling GOP
candidates to beware of the pres
idential coattails. There are
other Republican politicos who
simply cite the record in sup-
On Russian dompstir affaire Sua.
gestions: possible relaxation of
laws restricting individual free
dom. Concessions to farmers
which would give them a bigger
share of their crops. New moves
to decentralize industry and
loosen the hold of the Moscow
bureaucracy on production.
Target
Word comes from Okinawa
Communications
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Local TV Is Defended
To the Editor: I am writing
this letter partly in reference to
the letter published in your paper
on Wednesday, Oct. 23, titled,
"Disgusted With T. V." but main
ly because I believe that more
people should be thankful for
what they have, instead of con
tinually finding fault with every
thing ahd anything.
I recently returned from a
town in the southwest compar
able in size to Medford. This
town has one non-affiliated T.V.
station. They had the pick of
the best shows of every network
and though they had a fairly
good lineup, they .also had an
excessive amount of local pro
grams that were quite poor. This
station also had continual me
chanical difficulties with both
network and station. I have no
ticed very little trouble with the
Medford station.
The announcers here seem ex
cellent compared to those in the
other town mentioned, where
they seemed unable to even use
proper English which is rather
annoying to most people.
The advertising is held down
here in Medford. In the other
town mentioned the viewer was
subjected to from 4 to 6 ads be
tween every show, in addition to
several half-hour commercials
put on by businesses around
town. Wait until the manager of
the Medford station spends an
entire 30 minutes in your home
some evening via T.V. informing
you of all the good shows you'll
get when and if he can acquire
sponsors, and spicing the entire
oration with some of his per
sonal corny jokes. Then perhaps
there will be need for dtegust.
The Medford folks don't real
ize how really fortunate they are
in having a well operated tele
vision' station. I think the people
who run this station deserve a
hearty pat on the back and a
sincere "Thank You" for a job
well done.
M. E. Thompson,
226 West Jackson st.,
Medford, Ore.
Mr. McCabe Is Answered
To the Editor: As for the let
ters of Mr. McCabe:
People do not tell me what to
write. I am quite sure that I
have enough intelligence to write
my own letters.
What type of air is it that Mr.
McCabe doesn't want registered?
Hot or cold? (I bet it's hot).
And as for me having socialist
leanings, the only thing "red"
about me is my hair. I have gone
to Medford public schools all my
life, and if I have been taught
Communism, perhaps Mr. Mc
Cabe should investigate.
If Mr. McCabe thinks I am
dumb, please inform him that I
read from five to eight library
books each week, plus my school
work and more of the papers
beside the comics.
I always seem to be able to
find time to eat, sleep, dance,
watch T.V., go out, and have
fun with my parents.
I love this country, I like the
way it is governed. There could
be no other country as beautiful
or as democratic as ours, and I
dislike the way Mr. McCabe
speaks against it.
Virginia Eddy Walker,
16 Quince st.,
Medford, Ore.
port of their doubts about their
riding qualities.
Forbes is not one of these. He
was campaigning New Jersey
last week in company of Vice
President Richard M. Nixon, ap
parently pleased and grateful
for the opportunity to run as an
Ike-man. The administration ef
fort for Forbes in New Jersey is
without precedent in that state.
Morale Boost
Nixon frankly told New Jer
sey voters that Forbes' election
would boost Republican morale
nationwide. The implication was,
of course, that the party needs
a morale boost which, apparent
ly, it does.
The need became acute after
Wisconsin's August election of
Democratic William E. Prox
mire to complete the U.S. Sen
ate term of the late Republican
Joseph R. McCarthy.
Proxmire defeated former
Gov. Walter J. Kohler Jr., who
proudly ran as a 100 per cent
Eisenhower Republican. Wiscon
sin had not previously elected a
Democratic senator since the
Roosevelt landslide of 1932. Koh
ler's defeat was another bit of
evidence supporting the belief
of many practical politicians that
the President's personal popu
larity is no great asset to Repub
lican state and national candi
dates, and that the administra
tion is incapable of attracting
voters in sufficient numbers.
The Others"
Kohler was not the first Ike
man to go down. Gov. Dan
Thornton of Colorado was a big
man in the Eisenhower cam
paign of 1952 and in 1956 ran
as an Ike-man for the Senate.
Democrat John A. Carroll lick
ed him.
Sen. James H. Duff was the
big man of Pennsylvania Re
publican politics and in 1952
was a leader of the Eisenhower
band. Democrat Joseph S. Clark
defeated Duff's 1956 bid for re
election.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.),
who bolted the Republican party
in 1952 in protest against presi
dential nominee Eisenhower,
was the man the administration
most wanted to defeat in last
year's elections. The President
sent then Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay to demolish
that the mock nuclear weapon
dropped from an A3D Skywar
rior twin-jet plane during last
week's big United States Pacific
Fleet maneuvers missed the dead
center of its target by only 1,500
feet. The Navy isn't bragging
about it. Cmdr. Herbert Salyer
of Coronado, Calif., who piloted
the Skywarrior, and other Navy
pilots have done better in pre
vious, unpublicized tests.
On the Spot
This may or may not hit the
headlines. But American earth
satellite scientists are complain
ing privately that President Ei
senhower has put them on the
spot as the result of Russia's
"Sputnik" success. Eisenhower
said at his press conference Oct.
9 that the United States would
fire a small test sphere in De
cember. Reporters who heard
him got the impression that it
would certainly get into an orbit,
like Sputnik, and become a
minor moon. He also said the
U.S. would try to launch a true
satellite in March. The scientists
had reported that it was unlikely
these spheres would get into an
orbit. They had said that the
first "earnest try" would be
made some time in "early
spring." The scientists feel that
by pinpointing months and indi
cating that the test sphere was
expected to orbit, Eisenhower
put them under pressure to make
his statement good. The satellite
project never had been a "crash"
program. A lot of technical diffi
culties still stand in the way.
Peeve
The Chinese Reds are getting
frightfully annoyed at those big
Super-G Constellation "weather"
planes based on Okinawa. U.S.
officials blush when they deny
that the planes are charting the
Red-held coast.
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Morse. But Morse licked McKay
who had run as a 100 per cent
Ike-man.
So, too, with Republican Gov.
Arthur B. Langlie of Washing
ton whom Eisenhower persuaded
to oppose the reelection of Demo
cratic Sen. Warren G. Magnu
son. Magnuson licked Langlie
and another Ike-man was down.
Democrats meantime were
winning governorship in such
states as Iowa, Kansas, Massa
chusetts, and Oregon. It has been
such as this that has put in ques
tion the riding qualities of the
Eisenhower coattails.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Morale lifter:
The defense department an
nounces that the U.S. Thor in
termediate range ballistics mis
sile fired from Cape Canaveral
in Florida (its theoretical range
is 1500 miles) "flew its prescrib
ed course and landed in the pre
selected impact area."
HMMMMMMM. Let's translate
this fanrv lanffuaee so we
can get an idea of what this mis-
sile of ours did.
What it means is that the
Thor that roared away from
Cape Canaveral (on the U. S.
mainland) traveled as far as it
was intended to travel and hit
the target is was INTENDED
TO HIT.
Just like that.
Russian papers please copy.
MORE of the same:
Morton Alperin, a U.S. of
ficial connected wifh "Opera
tion Farside" tells reporters in
Los Angeles that the six Amer
ican rockets fired from Eniwe
tok atoll out in the Pacific the
other day transmitted more in
formation than the Russians
have obtained from Sputnik.
Therefore, he added, they
were more important scientific
ally than Sputnik.
STILL more morale stuff:
U.S. Budget Director Per
cival Brundage says in a speech
in Boston the U.S. can MATCH
OR SURPASS Russia in most
technical skills.
He says he believes Ameri
can's scientists, engineers and
technicians are superior to Rus
sia's. Let's put it this way:
If we Americans will brag
less, work harder, cut out the
fluff and the folderol and GET
DOWN TO BUSINESS, we can
sing with Mary Martin as Annie
Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun:
"Anything He can Do, I Can
Do BETTER."
THE point to remember is this:
Anything Frank Butler
could do, Annie Oakley COULD
do better.
She wasn't kidding.
She wasn't bragging.
When it came to shooting, sh
HAD WHAT IT TOOK.
What she' had, she got by
HARD WORK and carefully
perfected skill.
Annie is an American tradi
tion. Let's LIVE UP TO HER.
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