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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 29. 1947
District Attorney George W.
Neilson reports a score of com
plaints protesting reckless shoot
ing by bird hunters in the val
ley. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Fifteen
hunters were trying to shoot the
bird across the road out of the
game preserve where 17 cars
were parked."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 29. 1937
Carl A. Jorgenson, 35, of Utah
Is in custody today because he
tried to steal a sack of Irish
potatoes from a fighting Irish
man. The Jackson county tax levy
for state and county purposes
the coming year will be about
14.1 mills, or 7 to 8 mills less
than last year.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 29. 1927
Sixty-five rabbit raisers gath
er at Crater Lake rabbitry on
Boss lane to eat canned rabbit.
Roseburg post invited to par
ticipate in Armistice Day cele
bration in Medford Nov. 11.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 29. 1917
Prevention of. common cold
subject of sermon-lecture on the
"Power of Mind Over Body"
last night.
Grants Pass sugar factory is
having a better run now than
any previous year, it was stated
by factory officials.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or el;nt Is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Are there approximately
2000, 4000 or 6000 coffee beans
to a pound?
2. Bible: "Acts" gives an ac
count of the establishment of
Christian churches in which em
pire? t
3. Did Shakespeare say "A
juart of ale is a dish for a king"?
4. Names the longest river
system in the United States.
5. ' What is the capital of Bo
livia? 6. The vicuna is a bear, llama,
or muskrat?
7. Is Mother's Day observed
on the 1st, 2nd, or 4th Sunday
In May?
8. Does the pigment in the
skin or the meat of the grapes
produce the color in wine?
9. When is Pan American
Day?
10. Are young beavers called
calves, kits, or pups?
Answers: 1. 4000. 2. Roman.
3. Yes. 4. Mississippi-Missouri.
5. La Pax. 6. Llama. 7. Second.
8. Skin 9. April 14. 10. Kits.
Photo Contest for
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manent nature has been an
nounced by Paraplegia News.
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ends on Feb. 23, 1958.
A total of 53 prizes has been
announced for the black and
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be awarded in other categories.
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obtained by writing to Paraple
gia News, Stroudsburg, Pa.
A normal adult human has 26
bones in his spine.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Those Without Vision
If the "Salem Statesman" is correct and it often
is then the railroads as far as passenger trains
are concerned are going the way of the stagecoach
and the buffalo.
Well, of course, there is no doubt passenger
service by rail is not the necessity it once was.
Nor is there any doubt that because of increased
competition, passenger service in the country as a
whole has, for several years, declined.
But decreasing passenger schedules by railroads,
is one thing, abandoning them entirely in a growing
and prosperous area like Southern Oregon is quite
another.
If there is any section in the country as large,
secure and progressive, as this thriving district, where
a billion-dollar railroad MONOPOLY has deprived
a population of several hundred thousand people of
ALL passenger service by rail, we have never heard
of it.
A ND it is our belief no such district exists, else
" where. Moreover, if, as the "Salem Statesman"
maintains, the "S.P." should not be blamed for this
action, because passenger service by rail is on the
way out and the people who refuse to patronize trains
are really the guilty parties; then why is it that so
many important and excellently-managed railroads,
refuse to accept this "defeatist" doctrine, and are
spending millions of dollars, in improving the quality
of their passenger service, and thereby increasing
their patronage and their gross revenues?
Are they all misguided and mistaken, simply try
ing to sweep back the flooding tide of the .gas-and-air-age
with a broom?
And is the "Friendly Southern Pacific" the ONLY
railroad in the country with the brains and business
sense to read the fatal "writing on the wall"? -
WELL MEBBE so.
We have no crystal ball, and in another 50 years
there may be no railroads in the country and no
country for that matter most of the people may have
by then migrated by rocket to -Mars !
But as of today we don't believe it.
And with its own and exclusive freeway by rail,
its greater comfort and safety, with the increased con
gestion and danger in motor travel we agree entire
ly with those far seeing, public spirited and enter
prising railroad executives, who refuse to cry "uncle"
at the first sign of decreasing revenues, and instead
set about ferreting out the causes and reducing, if not
eliminating them entirely.
THIS department has never suffered from any illu
pi'ftTin op -o v o r c of f i w rf T-olr fVi r il vao rl1 rnr f n
the "good old days" is concerned. Then Medford had
half a dozen passenger trains a day running through
to Portland and San Francisco.
We don't deny "them
What we do deny is
road" that takes millions
freight EVERY year, should be allowed to discon
tinue all passenger service when it virtually admits it
could supply such service at a slight percentage of
its profits not its GROSS
taken from the area concerned !
I
N OTHER words, a railroad enjoying a monopoly
and a mVhlv profitable one. should not be allowed
to escape its obligations as a public utility, in such a
larere area as Southern Oreeron and Northern Cali-
fomia, particularly when there would not he the
slightest danger of failure to meet its regular dividend
requirements or reduce its "plush" salaries in the
higher brackets, but would merely mean NOT adding
a few MORE thousands of dollars to its present gen
erous profits.
A
NY public utility enjoying a complete monopoly
in its special field, also
leges derived originally from the people. As a matter
of common decency and justice such a utility owes
certain obligations to the people other than simply
taking as much money from them as they can.
But the Southern Pacific denies any such obliga
tion and in Southern Oregon where there is no rail
competition, it ALWAYS has.
Its basic policy goes back 70 years, as has often
been noted, to "All the traffic will bear" and "the
public be damned."
S INDICATED we have
ing order at least and
'seventh son ol a seventh son ; out we ao predict
that long before the "SP", or any other railroad in
the country, goes the way of the "stage coach and the
buffalo", this doctrine of unprincipled "greed" will
go before them, and into the ash-can where it prop
erly belongs. R.W.R.
"Cat Out of The Bag"
Democratic criticism of the Eisenhower adminis
tration isn't news. But Republican criticism is.
And particularly when that criticism comes from
one of the most important members of the present ad
ministration to wit: Secretary of State Dulles.
At least according to press dispatches in his recent
press conference, our leading diplomatic "Sputnik"
admitted that he had repeatedly tried to get more
money for foreign aid and scientific research, but had
been thwarted, just as repeatedly.
Naturally he mentioned no names but to any in
formed observers of the Washington "Merry-Go-Round"
he did not need to.
For the attitude of former Secretaries Humphiy
and Wilson toward increased expenditures in these
two fields was a matter of common knowledge.
R.W.R.
Tuesday, October 29. 1957
days has gone forever."
that a "billion - dollar rail
out of this 300-mile area in
profits its NET profits
enjoys tremendous privi
no crystal ball in work
are far from being any
'LITTLE KID GOT HIS FOOT CAUShT IN THE
GLOVB COMPARTMBHT OF HIS DAO& CAR'
Matter of Fact by
THE NEW POPE JOAN
Warsaw Much that has been
mysterious begins to seem clear
if you just assume that Nikita
mM K h r ushchev s
hold on pow
er is somewhat
tentative. And
this is certain
ly justified by
the startling
report here
that Marshal
Zhukov com
bined leader
ship of the
Joseph Alsop
armed forces with substantive
control of the Soviet police.
Consider, for example, recent
Soviet policy. Its new aggressive
ness is easily explained by the
Eisenhower adraini stration's
long, complacent neglect of the
world balance of power. But of
late, Soviet policy has also
seemed to be both oddly hasty
and marked by fits of bluster,
which is not so easy to explain.
Furthermore, the world has
lately been treated to the . truly
odd spectacle of Khrushchev
hurling his thunderbolts of war
from the , Kremlin ramparts,
while Soviet Defense Minister
Zhukov, who would have to
fight the war, has been stolidly
watching maneuvers and hunt
ing wild goats a thousand miles
away in Yugoslavia.
"OUT what if Khrushchev really
"is a man in a hurry, who is
anxiously pressing for a success
abroad in order to reinforce his
position at home? And what if
Zhukov feels himself very
strong, and is now giving
Khrushchev plenty of free rein
while preserving his own future
liberty of action, not only at
home but also in relation to the
West? Then do all the oddities
begin to make perfectly good
sense.
Again, the Yugoslavs have
just recognized the Communist
East Germans. Thus, they have
caused a break with the West
Germans. They have risked their
profitable West German trade.
They have jeopardized a badly
needed West German credit of
200,000,000 marks. In terms of
simnle national interests, the
Yugoslav step did not make
sense. And it was not taken be
cause of East German charm
either.
In fact, only a few mpnths
ago, the East German govern
ment actually seized a Yugoslav
delegation en route for the West,
and hauled them off in ordinary
garbage trucks for interrogations
about their papers and purposes.
"OUT what if Marshal Tito be-
lieved that recognizing the
rude East Germans would, great
ly strengthen Nikita Khrush
chev? And what if Tito regards
strengthening Khrushchev as an
over-riding interest? Once again,
the oddity begins to make per
fectly good sense. Here, more
over, we are approaching solid,
wholly non-speculative ground.
Khrushchev wanted Tito's help
when they met in Bucharest in
August. Tito wanted Gomulka s
cooperation when they met in
Belgrade recently. Both there
fore had motives for painting
the problem in vivid colors. The
problem, In this case, was the
growing strength of Marshal
Zhukov. Hence, while it is true
that the Yugoslavs told the Poles
that Zhukov had now gained
control of the Soviet police or
ganization, the statement itself
may somewhat overpaint the
facts.
But if this point is speculative,
there's nothing speculative about
the real special decision of the
Polish-Yugoslav meeting in Bel
grade. It can now be revealed
that this was a decision to help
Khrushchev in every way they
could.
INSIDE the Kremlin, those
wicked dissidents, Marshal
Tito and Wladyslaw Gomulka,
have regularly been used as
sticks to beat their friend
Khrushchev. Thus they can help
him now and they are helping
him now, by proving that they
are not dissidents but "good So
cialists." The Polish contribution
to the cause was the suppression
of the student .newspaper "Po1
Joseph Alsop
Prostu," which sparked brief dis
orders here.
In the end, "Gomulka would
probably have suppressed "Po
Prostu" anyway. But it is also
certain that Marshal Tito strong
ly urged him to do so. And it is
further certain that the decision
was taken with one eye on Mos
cow, where free-speaking "Po
Prostu" has long been consid
ered the most scandalous phe
nomenon in the whole "Social
ist camp."
The Polish-Yugoslav decision
at Belgrade in turn confirms our
first assumption, that Khrush
chev's hold on power is at best
somewhat tentative. But why
should the Yugoslavs and Poles
be so anxious to help him to
hang on?
HPHE first answer to the question
is that Khrushchev has been
their friend. The second answer
is that Zhukov has not always
been exactly friendly. About
Poland's October revolution, the
Marshal even said regretfully,
"We could have crushed them
like flies." But there is an even
deeper reason why a very high
Polish official described Khrush
chev to this reporter as "not
ideal but the best there is."
The soldier, Zhukov, is a lay
man, not a priest, in the eyes of
all Communist hierarchs includ
ing Yugoslavs and Poles. The
comparison" may seem shocking
but it is not inexact to say that
the Kremlin is the Vatican of the
world Communist hierarchy.
Imagine then, the sentiments
of the churchly, hierarchies in
other -countries, if the Roman
College of Cardinals suddenly
made vulgar legend come alive
by electing a Pope Joan, or even
if they chose a lay Pope. There
you have the best parallel for
the sentiments of the Commu
nist leaders in Poland and Yugo
lavia while they breathlessly
wait to see whether the Krem
lin "will fall under Zhukov's con
trol. (Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
Communications
Are Our Schools
"Brain Washing?"
To the Editor: For several
years now our children have
been taught by teachers and
principals that the buildings that
they receive their so called
learning in are of prime import
ance to their education. They
have been "brain washed" into
conveying the thoughts of school
officials to their tax burdened
parents on the prime import
ance of getting more and more
tax money for better and more
lavish schools. The thought and
teaching is pumped into their
little minds that they must tell
their parents to go out and vote
for each and every school bond
issue and given all kinds of ideas
as to what will happen to their
education if they do not. In other
words they are making political
couriers of our children to pro
mote the idea of more . lavish
schools and the passing of ill
timed school bond issues on top
of our already burdened property
tax. ..
Our current property tax is
made up of an estimated 80
per cent school bond taxes and
only 20 per cent for the county
and other public services. The
current 1957-8 tax on property
is even more as the County tax
is not assessed this year due to
O & C timber revenue. Without
this revenue the 1957-8 property
tax would be even more. Before
So Adam Struck Out
GEO. N. TAYLOR, Wheaton, 111.
"On the day you eat that fruit, you will
surely die." So God warned Adam, our
first parent. Yet Adam ate the forbidden
fruit and so far as fellowship with God
had to do, Adam was a dead man.
"Wherefor as by one man sin came
into the world and death by sin and so
death has passed upon all men in that all
have sinned."
Romans 5:12. The world is filled with
a people dead to God yet God loves them all and put their
sins on his Son, Jesus Christ who died under their sins to
clear them. God now stands with wide-open arms to receive
you and adopt you as your Heavenly Father.
This Message sent by God's people who want you to know.
Significance of Zhukov's Release
Lies on Control of Army Forces
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The most significant thing
about the "release" of Marshal
Georgi H. Zhukov is that control
of the armed
forces in Rus
sia has chang
ed hands. Mar
shal Rodion K.
M a 1 i n ovsky,
Zhukov's suc
cessor as de
fense minister,
is now head
man over the
Charles M. McCann 4 million men
in the Red army, navy and air
force.
There are two powers in So
viet Russia, the Communist
Party and the armed forces.
Many experts foresee the day
when the army may be the su
preme power.
Nikita S. Khrushchev is first
secretary of the Communist
Party, and thus controls the
party machinery which reaches
into every city, town and village
in the Soviet Union.
A tip off to Zhukov's "re
lease" may be that for several
weeks the 15-man Communist
presidium which rules Russia
has been trying to tighten up
party control of the most pow
erful military force in the
world.
we contract for any more schools
why not all read the Readers
Digest article on the construc
tion of schools at a minimum of
cost for good schools rather than
the "ginger bread" we are now
receiving. Why is it that a good
school cannot be made from
local products rather than the
expensive decorations that now
mock our good intentions? We
have been informed that a
school was built and planned
last year to last an intended five
years' but already we are being
told just one year later that they
need additional funds for ad
ditional rooms and repairs on
this same new school. Let's ask
ourselves who is it that makes
the estimates of the need for
new schools and who approves
the plans for our new schools
as well as the costs including
architect fees. As taxpayers what
do we have to say about these
things are we consulted or do
we just pay the bill!
Last but not least why are
our teachers allowed to influ
ence the students in conveying
their thoughts to the parents?
Why do the teachers, as such,
engage in politics and promo
tion? I have gone to vote at a
school bond election and have
actually been told by a teacher
that my vote didn't matter be
cause the issue would pass any
way this from a teacher of our
students. They have told us at
pre election gatherings that our
taxes would not increase and
the very next tax bill we get
shows an increase in School
bonds in direct violation of their
promise and prediction. We are
shown all kinds of statistics that
are presented as being true
which turn out to be predictions
and estimates that just don't
pan out. Let's all get together
and join our ' local Tax Payers
League and do a little investigat
ing and checking ourselves be
fore we vote "yes" on the next
issue.
" A Medford Parent
(name on file)
TV, Valley Grow Together
To the Editor: Letters to the
editor this weekend indicate that
t.v. viewers are very unhappy.
They don't find much good in
local telecasting.
It is not intelligent to offer
criticism unless you can offer
a remedy that will better the
situation.
Firstly, the complaining ones
should realize that KBES does
not have a wide choice of pro
grams. Medford is considered
Indian country by the large ad
vertising agencies in the east.
You get your programs thru
agencies. In my travels I am
often asked," where is Medford,
and, sometimes, why? They
are mildly surprised that we
have radio, t. v. and an airport.
I have twice announced an NBC
t. v. spectacular and have not
been able to convince the agency
that the program should be
beamed here. They said not
enough customers for our pro
duct. KBES has to take what
they can get.
The t. v. station along the net
work does not control the traf
fic. When changes are made at
the key station the local station
is advised of the change, often
the same day.
It is true that we do not have
much local talent. We have had
no experience along these lines.
mere were indications six
weeks ago that Khrushchev's
prestige was diminishing.
He had saved his job as party
secretary only with Zhukov's
help.
Increasing emphasis was being
put on Zhukov's rising prestige.
There were even suggestions
that he was now Russia's biggest
man.
On Sept. 10 diplomatic reports
reached London that Khrush
had ordered party control of
the army tightened.
These reports said that Khrush
chev intended to reestablish par
ty cells in army, navy and air
force units.
It was through these cells that
Josef Stalin kept firm personal
control of the armed .forces.
Zhukov, though a Communist
from boyhood, did not like them.
They were abolished after
Stalin's death.
Little attention was given to
these reports at the time.. But a
United Press London dispatch
which told of them suggested
that they might foreshadow con
flict between Khrushchev and
Zhukov.
Stress Closer Unity
Since then, Russian newspa
pers have been emphasizing the
necessity for close unity of the
Communist Party and the armed
It is not fair to compare local
talent with network people.
Good talent costs more money
than local t.v. can pay.
The complaining ones should
follow a time salesman one day
thru Medford. See him try to
sell spots and programs. Watch
him try to explain why it costs
so much money. Then watch
him have to put up with the
evil that all must suffer when
the "owner of the store" wants
to read his own commercial. This
is a ludicrous situation, but it
does furnish a certain comic re
lief. The fact that you can see a
television program in the valley
is a blessing that should not be
taken lightly. In the USSR you
see what the government de
cides. Do not blame KBES be
cause there are not enough peo
ple in the valley to warrant big
time advertisers coming here all
day. Maybe you should blame
the idiotic tax structure that
outstrips probably all others . . .
to keep the parasites at the
public trough, and prohibits in
itiative and enterprise in the
valley. Take your time...KBES
will grow only when the valley
does.
Pete Logan
Dark Hollow Rd.
Medford, Ore.
Politics In H. S. Sports?
To the Editor: We're the par
ents of four children and proud
to live in the Rogue Valley.
We're a sports-minded family
and very happy to have our
children in schools such as our
Medford schools. A child has so
much to work for. But my
only peeve is too many boys are
good enough for first string foot
ball all through grade school
and Junior high, and then when
they get to high school where
they can do something they
aren't even used as substitutes.
Many come from Junior high
with the idea of making good or
maybe as scholarship. What I
want to know is on what basis
are the favored few chosen? Not
for daily practice turnouts.
These boys practice to sit on the
benches. I don't .blame the boys
for giving up. They've got to
Play to keep up their morale.
We've attended all the games
and very few substitutes are
used unless you count the one
play substitutes. As I've said
before, do they practice to sit
on the benches? I'm not the only
parent who feels this way. Now
that I've a boy in high school
that can do something he sits.
Maybe someone can tell me
where the trouble lies. Some
thing is wrong when so many
boys are quiting a sport they
love.
Disappointed Mother
(name on file)
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
'
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP-2-4940
MEDFORD
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AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
forces.
It was pointed out last week
that the treatment which Zhukov
received on his visit to Yugo
slavia indicated that President
Tito did not regard him as a
contender for top Soviet leader
ship.
During the 10 days which he
spent in Yugoslavia in his ca
pacity of defense minister, Zhu
kov saw Tito just once.
Zhukov got back to Moscow
last Saturday, the day on which
his "release" was announced.
It may well develop that
Khrushchev was getting some
what nervous over Zhukov's per
sonal popularity and over the
reports that Zhukov was over
taking him in Soviet leadership.
All this is naturally highly
speculative. But even if Zhukov
is to be made premier, as has
been suggested," another man
now directs the armed forces.
And Khrushchev controls the
Communist Party machine.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In a column devoted to teen
agers' interests, one finds this
bit of philosophy:
"Back in 1940, Frankie Sinatra
was heaven's gift to teenagers.
They showed their intense devo
tion by shrieking, swooning,
forming flying wedges to attack
him, ripping his clothes, driv
ing policemen to distraction.
"Today the outcray has toned
down to a whisper. Frankie's
millions of fans ARE NOW
GROWN-UP YOUNG LADIES.
"They have more serious
things to think about."
AH! SO they do.
For example:
Labor Secretary Mitchell Is
advising businessmen to start
hiring women over 35 if they
want to avert a threatened man
power shortage. He told an audi
ence at Harriman, New York,
the other day that by 1965 the
national economy will demand
TEN MILLION additional work
ers. He said HALF of these will
be women.
AND-
In Portland, the city coun
cil has just voted unanimously
to hire 16 women to patrol its
downtown parking meters, write
out parking tickets and act as
official advisers to tourists.
The unanimous vote followed
an attempt by some groups to
block the program in favor of.
handicapped persons and dis
abled veterans. But the city
council agreed, on the basis of
experience in other cities, that
ONLY WITH WOMEN could an
effective program be evolved.
In many other areas, the Port
land councilmen pointed out,
"meter maids" have kept over
time parking down to a mini
mum and have have freed male
police officers for "more manly
work."
TT has been a man's world up
to now or so they tell us.
But times are changing.
tTORE new stuff:
A scientist Reuben Gus
tavson, president of the Nation
al Water Resources Council
calls for a new research pro-
jwater res0urces of the earth's
atmosphere.
He tells the council's annual
meeting in Washington that the
atmosphere contains SIX TIMES,
the amount of water found on
the earth.
OAGE Southern California.
Maybe, if all this comes to
pass, they won't need our water
from up here in the north. All
that will be needed is to learn
how to squeeze the water out
of the air.
ps.
x At the right times
And at the right places.
Too much water at the wrong
place and the wrong time is oft
en as bad as no water at all.
By tradition most of us
look forward to TRICK
OR TREAT NITE and are
prepared for the many
strange visitors. But when
unwelcome visitors such
as fire or wind visit our
homes we don't stand a
GHOST of a ch ance unless
amply covered by
INSURANCE.
Bill Fish
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