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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1947 (Thursday)
Purchase of Radio Station
KMED by the Medford Radio
corporation rather than by the
Gibson Broadcasting company,
original bidders, given final ap
proval by federal communica
tions commission.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Ed Kubli,
Applegate cowman, towned Tues
day and sold 106 head. Reports
say he broke even on the deal."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1937 (Friday)
Price outlook for Rogue River
valley turkeys Is encouraging"
according to county agent, who
predicts they will be higher than
last year.
Medford Movie club was or
ganized last night with H. D.
Kem elected president.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30 1927 (Sunday)
A four-night show for benefit
of children's playground fund,
will be staged at Hilarity hall be
ginning Nov. 9. under auspices of
American Legion and Lions club.
There are signs that the Rogue
River Valley and tributary sec
tions will experience some rail
road development work in the
spring, hints along that line
floating about for many weeks.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1917 (Tuesday)
Closing of county road results
in long-standing argument be
tween two neighboring ranchers
and a fatal shooting.
Manager of the Home Tele
phone company is confident that
hello girls will not go out on
strike here.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Is cognac a malt tonic,
brandy, or a whiskey?
2. Bible: The descendants of
which patriarch began the He
brew migration?
3. Are patents always dated
on a Tuesday of the week issued
regardless of it being a legal
holiday?
4. Name the author of "The
Egg and I."
5. Do Census Bureau records
indicate that married persons
live longer than those that are
single?
6. Is brandy made from fruit,
grain, or vegetables?
7. Complete the quotation: A
new broom sweeps "
8. Only one species of bird can
look at one object with both eyes
at the same time; name it.
9. Coffee and tea are imported
into the U. S. duty free?
10. What body of water en
circles the North Pole?
Answers: 1. Brandy. 2. Ncah.
3. Yes. 4. Betty McDonald.
5. Yes. 6. Fruit. 7. "clean."
8. Owl. 9. Yes. 10. Arctic Ocean.
First Government Site
To Become Parking Lot
Oregon City HP1 A parking
lot will be built here on the
site of the first seat of govern
ment in Oregon.
The Oregon territory state
house stoo dhere from 1849 to
1852. A 47-year-old two-story
brick building will be torn down
to make room for the parking
lot. -
Washington rtP) The 1958
wheat harvest may total more
than one billion bushel.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Policies in City Affairs - III
(The following editorial is the' last of three adapted from
a talk made by the writer to Oregon mayors and council
men at the recent convention of the League of Oregon
Cities in Portland.) .
The making of policies is akin to the tasks of the
ancient seers and prophets and omen-readers. This
is true because it calls for a look into the future.
Each city official, for instance, should be con
cerned with the estimates of population increase over
the next 10, 20 and 30 years. The estimates compiled
by the United States Bureau of the Census, the state
board of health, and by other agencies are as accurate
as men know how to be.
But in almost every instance in the past they
have undershot rather than overshot the actuality.
And the most conservative of the estimates indicate
that Oregon, while on slowT-bell now as regards popu
lation increase, cannot expect to escape a rather
drastic climb in population in the next few years.
flTY officials would do well to check with school
authorities in their cities. They are right now deal
ing with the youngsters who will be voters in another
5 or 10 or 15 years and there are plenty of them.
What will this mean to each community in the
way of home-building, street construction, water sup
plies, sewer extensions, building inspections, police
and fire protecton, zoning?
What will it mean in the demand for recreational
facilities?
This is one thing that's here already. Juvenile
delinquency, which now concerns us or should con
cern us is at least. in part a result of a lack of whole
some recreation; the kind of thing that those of us
who are a bit older used to get when we went hiking
in the old field which is now a housing development
or super market.
DASICALLY, all the problems of city officials boil
down to one thing people.
Being an elected public servant is one of the most
fascinating businesses in the world that of working
to satisfy human needs and desires. The people who
put them into office do not expect miracles. But they
do expect and have every right to expect that they
will devote their time and attention and thought to
doing the job that will best serve the people
themselves.
To do this, public servants must know where they
are going, and how, to get there. The "where they
are going" part is philosophy. "How to get there"
is policy.
And policy involves planning, perseverance and
leadership. If, after study, a city administration
decides, for instance, that a certain area should be
annexed, both for the good of its residents and for
the overall good of the city, that becomes part of its
settled policy.
IN FOLLOWING such a policy, the elected officials
will find some people will fight them, and it is far,
far easier to sit back and let things drift in such a
case. But they were not elected to let things drift. And
if they are sincerely convinced that annexation is the
answer, there is nothing for it but to hang tough, stick
out their necks, and fight for what is right.
This takes guts. It may, at the moment, be unpopu
lar. It may rile sensibilities and estrange friends.
But in seeking election, these men did not ask for a
soft touch. They asked to be elected to one of the most
time-consuming, challenging, interesting and difficult
jobs in America today.
HPHE job of a policy-maker involves far more than
" deciding whether to grant an application for an
off-premise beer license, or making other small deci
sions on the spur of the moment.
Back of these decisions must be a knowledge of
the function of a city, a settled and agreed-upon pro
gram of progress and development, a knowledge of
what is right and good for the city, and the courage to
stick with a right decision once it is made.
In a way, these men are the shapers of the future.
They have planning commissions and professional
help to assist in planning the course, but oftentimes
these others can see only part of the picture. The ulti
mate responsibility lies with the elected officials.
But if they remain conscious of the philosophy,
the planning and the perseverance necessery in mak
ing and acting out good, sound, forward-looking poli
cies, they will fulfill with distinction the obligations
they have assumed toward the people they serve.
E.A.
Misleading Figures
A reporter is often dependent on his sources for
accurate information. Given incorrect or misleading
information, his story can give the wrong answers.
This apparently is what happened to our Washing
ton correspondent, A. Robert Smith, a careful and
accurate reporter, when he quoted Interior Depart
ment figures which indicated Oregon is slipping as an
attraction for tourists in comparison to other states.
D
ON McNEIL, local chamber of commerce manager
who knows a great deal about the tourist busi
ness, pounced on this story like a wounded panther,
and pointed out:
The figures are based on those furnished by the
states themselves; that methods of estimating tourist
trade differ widely from state to state, and that Ore
gon is one of the most accurate and "conservative" in
making its estimates.
Other states count their own citizens as tourists,
count brief stays by others, and so on.
This, McNeil says, is why Oregon showed up in
34th place instead of in about eighth place where
it really belongs. E.A.
Wednesday, October 30. 1957
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Another TV Protest
To the Editor: To all those
people who so justifiably com
plain of the local mess called
TV, I would say, we only have
ourselves to blame for paying
such outrageous prices for the
sets in the first place; then un
godly rates to amateur repair
men to keep them up.
Then w rob ourselves and
our children of needed rest to
listen to the drivel the amateurs
up at the station deal out' to us,
and I feel sure they laugh at us
for our gulibility.
A string of ads a mile long
which I for one do not use for
that reason but sick of hearing
about them old programs.
We of this community might
show a little intelligence and
awareness of better taste by re
fusing to buy any more sets,
and keep those we have turned
off, until we are offered a decent
situation.
I feel a deep sense of guilt
and loss of self respect every
time I turn on this silly fouled
up mess called TV.
Mary Williams,
Route 2, Box 165B,
Central Point, Ore.
Dull Without TV
To the Editor: After watching
TV for three years, I have done
my share of complaining about
programs and I do feel that some
programs are worse and less in
teresting now than we had a
year ago, but since we are stuck
with one TV station, I guess it's
"take it or leave it," sort of like
the Southern Pacific R.R. We
can turn off the programs we
don't like but after investing
several hundred dollars in a TV
set it is a shame to have to turn
it off so often.
In our home we turn off the
repeat programs because they
are not worth seeing several
times over. The late movies are
usually "repeats" also and not
very good ones and we don't
watch them any more. We don't
care for sports on Sunday so we
don't watch them.1 We are sick
of Arthur Godfry and his dry
humor, sick of Life with Eliza
beth, and tired of the Big Pic
ture and others.
I don't think TV reception is
as good as it could be because in
spite of technical difficulties, the
pictures are too light, then fog
gy, then light, then blurry, then
they quiver and our poor eyes
feel like they are being pulled
out of our heads. The reception
does seem good during football
and baseball games, so maybe
the station technicians1 are more
interested in good reception dur
ing ball games.
In spite of all the programs
that we don't like, I can't help
but think how dull it would be
without TV. If you don't think
so then try ignoring your TV
for a few evenings and turn on
your radios and search from one
end of the dial to the other to
hear something good, all you
get is record music, news and
more news and squeaks and
whistles and static and you get
so mad you turn it off.
People who have no TV en
joy their radios because they
are used to them but believe
me, I'll take the bad with the
good on TV until the time when
we can all enjoy real good pro
grams on TV. I believe the spon
sors should complain the most
and demand better programs
since they are the ones who pay
for them.
Mrs. M,
(Name on File)
Talent, Ore.
Sponsors, Not TV to Blame
To the EditoF: I have read
the communications in the Trib
une recently about TV. I would
like to add my comments.
I wonder how many, of the
people who are always griping
about the programming have
told any sponsor that they liked
or didn't like a program? It is
the sponsors that chose the pro
grams and pay for them, not the
TV station. The station can only
offer what shows that they can
get from the networks as I un
derstand it.
I know that the station could
not afford to put on the high
cost network shows unless they
have someone to sponsor them.
Every second of time costs much.
Instead of griping at the station,
people should speak to the spon
sors. I agree that there should
be more good childrens' pro
grams. Compared with other places
I have visited, this station does
as well or better. When we visit
ed in California this summer we
saw 2V2 hours of Westerns, on
all four stations, all of them old,
old movies. We were given to
understand that this was only
part of the many similar shows
that they received every day.
As for reception, we have a
'55 model with no antenna, not
even rabbit ears, and we have
not noticed any of the troubles
mentioned. We think that we
have pretty good reception.
Thank you for the opportunity
to air my beliefs. By the way,
I am not connected with the TV
station in any way. I just read,
listen, and use my head.
Joan Sharp,
Route 2, Box 265,
Central Point, Ore.
Why Slaughter Doves?
To the Editor: I wish more
people would get up in arms
over the senseless slaughter of
those beautiful doves.
In Montana we always called
them Turtle doves, but no mat
ter what they are called it's just
plain stupid to kill them. When
one of them is shot the other
will stay near and all too often
loses its life too, for being loyal.
What would cause a full grown
person to aim a gun at those
beautiful birds and expect to be
called a man?
I'll never know. I couldn't
kill a deer except in want but
I can understand that, because
there's really food value in veni
son, but none in a little pile of
grey feathers.
You can believe that our five
acres are posted, and all for the
purpose of a feed ground and
resting place for the sweetest
and most harmless of all birds.
Let's find a way to protect them.
I'd be proud to sign the list.
Harriette Gibbs
1375 South Columbus ave.
Medford, Ore.
An Orchid from Arizona
To the Editor: Sorry I cannot
continue my subscription to the
Mail Tribune. As we are travel
ing in the Southwest this winter,
I am afraid the papers could not
catch up with me.
We really miss the Tribune,
and the editorials especially.
You can be sure if we settle
down again you will receive our
subscription, the best paper in
Oregon, The Medford Mail Tri
bune. Otto Layton
Mesa, Arizona
International Thanksgiving
To the Editor: Now that we're
approaching Thanksgiving many
people are looking for a practi
cal way of giving thanks for
this country's bountiful harvests
harvests that are being bought
and stored by our government
for the good of the nation's econ
omy. It has come to my attention
that these surplus foods which
could otherwise rot in ware-
REVIVAL
HEAR
Rev. Jack Chase
Wheel Chair Evangelist
EVERY NIGHT
Except Saturday
7:30 p.m.
FOURSQUARE
CHURCH
East Jackson & Biddle Rd
Gomulka Launches Biggest Purge
In Poland;
BY CHARLES M. MCCANN
United Press Correspondent
Wladyslaw Gomulka of Po
land has launched one of the
biggest purges in Communist
Party history.
Ever since
he was restor
ed to leader
ship in the Po
lish revolt one
year ago, Go
mulka has
been under at
t a c k by two
strong, con
flicting party
Charles McCann groups.
On one side, there are the
"Conservatives," the old - line
Communists who want to follow
the Moscow line of Josef Stalin's
day. On the other side, are the
"Revisionists," who want an
even more radical departure
from orthodox Communism
Writer Sees Chance
For New Leadership
Position on Science
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IT) President
Eisenhower's news conference
today offers an opportunity to
redirect the
administration
party line on
the meaning
to the Ameri
can people of
the Soviet
Union's mute
earth satellite.
Sputnik the
first continues
to speed in its
I,yle C. Wilson
orbit but without sound. Its bat
teries are dead. It will be four
weeks Friday since the Russian
Communists thrust Sputnik into
space, catching the administra
tion with its satellites embarass
ingly down. That was on Oct. 4.
Terrific page one, radio and
TV publicity accompanied Sput
nick around the world. With the
nation hearing and reading of
little else, the President met a
news conference on Oct. 9. The
official White House reaction to
Sputnik was so calm as to be
almost casual.
Eisenhower congratulated So
viet science for its achievement
but challenged the popular point
of view that the Communist
world had spectacularly beaten
and humiliated the United States
in the field of science.
Not Lost Race
He said the United States had
not lost the satellite-race to the
Reds because the United States
was not racing, that the launch
ing of a U.S. satellite had not
been given top priority because
it seemed more desirable to put
the major effort on ballistic missiles-weapons.
The President added that Sput
nik's launching had not increased
his anxiety over U.S. security by
one iota, which is a way of say
ing that it had not increased at
all. A public unlearned in science
and lacking military knowledge
against which to test the security
situation attempted to weigh the
President's reassurance against
houses can be sent by the Am
erican people to needy people
overseas for Vfc-cent a pound.
It's thrilling to realize that
for $1 I can share 200 pounds
of our harvest with people who
will go to bed hungry tonight in
more than half the world. And
$10 will send a ton of needed
food. .
I'm giving thanks this season
through the American Friends
Service committee, 1108 S. E.
Grand ave., Portland 14, Ore
gon. This Quaker organization
distributes surplus food in the
spirit of Christian sharing, with
out regard to race, creed or pol
itical affiliation.
Refugees in Austria. Germanv
and France; the poverty-strick
en of southern Italy; disaster
victims in Japan and other needv
people around the world will
receive food including dried
milk, cheese, flour, rice and
beans.
Will you inform your readers
that they may join in sharing
our Thanksgiving? Incidentally,
gifts sent through AFSC are tax
deductible.
Bert H. Schmidt.
407 Leverette Bldg.
Medford, Ore.
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Right, Left
than Gomulka has effected in
his cautious pursuit of independ
ence from Moscow.
Has Support For Purge
Now Gomulka has won the
support of his Communist Party
C e n t r al Committee, the rul
ing body, for a purge of both
groups of enemies.
There are more than 1,300,
000 members in the Polish Com
munist Party.
With the backing of the Cen
tral Committee, Gomulka in
tends to throw out from one-half
to two-thirds of them, or up to
nearly 700,000.
In the unusual divergence
from orthodox Communist pract
ice which has marked his lead
ership, Gomulka in addressing
the Central Committee discussed
frankly the weaknesses in both
the Communist Party and Polish
economy.
Gomulka said that the Com
munist Party had been unable to
the expressed astonishment of
American scientists.
Scientists here and abroad
were startled to learn that the
Soviet satellite weighed approxi
mately 180 pounds, far more
tnan the U.S. moon to be placed
in orbit next March. If the Com
munists could hoist so heavy an
object nearly 600 miles above
the earth, perhaps they had
achieved an engine with thrust
to hurl an inter-continental bal
listic missile from the Urals to
the U.S.A.
Sputnik Brush Off
The President conceded in his
Oct. 9 news conference that the
Russians had demonstrated "a
very powerful thrust in their
rocketry." As interpreted by the
President's intimates, however,
the administration party line
was to brush off Sputnik's im
portance. A White House asso
ciate Clarence B. Randall"
shortly was referring publicly
to it as a "silly bauble." Retir
ing Defense Secretary Charles
E. Wilson called the Russian
launching a "neat scientific
trick."
White House Chief of Staff
Sherman Adams told a San Fran
cisco audience that the United
States never was in any Sputnik
race- for high score in an outer
space basketball game.
Democrats and some congres
sional Republicans, however,
challenged the administration on
charges of complacency, mean
ing a refusal to consider the im
plication that Sputnik had put
U.S. and free world security in
further question.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon was one of those. Nixon
warned against a brush-off of the
Soviet achievement; called it a
grim and timely reminder of
Soviet Union industrial and
scientific capacity.
Portland-Vancouver
Jobs Down Slightly
Salem HP Employment in
the Portland-Vancouver area re
mained slightly below 1956 top
levels in September, but average
earnings of production workers
held practically even, the State
Unemployment C o m p e nsation
Commission said today.
About 261,400 persons were
employed last month in Clark
county, Wash., and Multnomah,
Clackamas and Washington coun
ties In Oregon. This total, which
excludes farm workers, compares
with 259,000 in August and 263,
900 a year ago.
The average pay check held
at $86.72 a week, just about the
same as a year ago.
State Aeronautics
Aide in Hospital
Salem OP) Robert W. Dunn,
39, administrative assistant for
the State Board of Aeronautics,
was in a Salem hospital today
for treatment of a collapsed lung.
Doctors said the collapse was
due to leakage in the lung and
would heal itself with time.
In
Scenic
Surroundings
C. M. Lnwiller
The setting and decor of Lirwiller's beautiful Mountain View funeral
and wedding chapel, attracts the attention of the passerby and the
admiration of an interior inspection.
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Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
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carry out Its functions properly
because of disunity, lack of dis
cipline, confusion as to policy,
and self-seeking.
To Keep Present Policies
He said that he will continue
the present liberalized govern
mental policy. This includes the
progressive liquidation of col
lective farms, to give farmers
more freedom, and the In
troduction of more private trade
instead of state-controlled trade.
The singular situation in
which Communist Gomulka has
the support of the Roman Cath
olic Church is still being em
phasized. On the day the Central Com
mittee met the Warsaw publica
tion "Universal Weekly," which
is the organ of Stefan Cardinal
Wyszynski, head of the Church
in Poland, said:
"We must work for a reason
able compromise between party
and nation. We shall engage our
forces in an effort to see that
the great national achievements
of October (the revolt) are not
wasted."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A big question
Maybe THE big question:
What happened to Zhukov?
ZHUKOV KNOWS.
Khrushchev knows.
A few Kremlin insiders know.
The world at large doesn't
know. It can only guess. Diplo
matic sources in London believ
Khrushchev is finally ON TOP.
American experts are undecided
on the situation, but consider it
likely that Zhukov is on the
skids.
IN RUSSIA there are two su
preme powers:
1. The Red Army.
2. The secret police.
Khrushchev controls the secret
police. Zhukov has controlled the
red army. Of the two the army
disciplined, skilled in tht trade
of war, professionally led and
amply armed is the GREATER
power. As long as Zhukov con
trolled this greater power,
Khrushchev was jealous of him,
SUSPICIOUS of him. Despotism,
you know, brooks no competi
tion. So, at the first opportunity,
Khrushchev gave Zukov the
works.
rpHAT is the thinking.
The danger is that It Is
wishful thinking. We'd better
remember that Zhukov is a dedi
cated communist. In World War
I, he was a private in the" Rus
sian army at the beginning. He
remained a private until the Bol
shevik Revolution. By 1918, less
than a year after the revolution,
he was the red army's com
mander. Our best hope lies in the possi
bility that Khrushchev and Zhu
kov might bleed communism
white in a struggle for personal
power. When thieves fall out,
honest men may hope to come
into their own.
TN THIS Khrushchev -Zhukov
ruckus if it turns out to be
a ruckus our best policy Is to
keep our fingers crossed and
hope for the best while prepar
ing for the worst.
Wishful thinking seldom pays
dividends.
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