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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 .
Nov. 7, 1947 (Friday) o
Lumbermen of the area will
acquaint Congressman Harris
Ellsworth with the acute boxcar
shortage problem at a luncheon
sponsored by the Southern Ore
gon Conservation and Tree Farm
association.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Fewer
ducks and geese were killed this
season than last, official reports
show. Also, fewer hunters were
0 wounded for flying too low.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1937 (Sunday)
Instructions regarding regis
tration in voluntary unemploy
ment census to be conducted
throughout the nation from Nov.
16 to 0 were issued by the
chairman of the Medford citizens
committee.
Every member of the Apple
gate CCC camp who has not yet
graduated from the eighth grade
in school will be given an op
portunity to obtain an eighth
grade certificate through co
operation of the county school
superintendent's office.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1927 (Monday)
q Character costumes, wheels
and other paraphernalia to
be used in the Frontier Days
Celebration arrive here.
; fciclement weather hinders
success of corner-stone laying
ceremonies of new Zion Luth
eran church on West Fourth st.
near Oakdale ave.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1917 (Wednesday)
Ninety-two tracts of land on
the Klamath Indian reservation
will be sold at public auction
at the Klamath agency Nov. 22.
Medford and Rogue river
valley gaven boost by Col. Frank
P. Holland of Dallas. Tex, in
the Nov. 3 issue of "Farm and
Ranch" magazine.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. How many of the six New
England States can you name?
2. Does the Statue of Liberty
hold her torch In the right or
left hand?
3. Bible: Are the lives and
teachings of Jesus' Disciples con
tained in the four Gospels?
4. Whose horsemen were
known as "The Ironsides"?
5. On which Gulf is the Eston
ian port of Parnu?
6. Is pasque a kind of helmet,
name of a flower, or people?
7. Does the Chief Justice of
the U.S. vote only in case of a
(Jie in the Supreme Court?
8. Was Korea a part of China
when it was incorporated in the
Japanese Empire?
9. Is "quarrel" a synonym of
argue, or debate?
10. Fill in the missing words
to Poe's "The Raven": Once . . .,
while I pondered, weak and
weary."
Answers 1. Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont. Massachu
setts. Rhode Island and Connec
ticut. 2. Right hand. 3. Yes. 4.
Oliver Cromwell's. 5. The Gulf
of Riga. 6. Flower. 7. No. (he
participates in all decisions as
do the other Justices). 8. No. it
was an independent nation. 9.
No. 10. "upon a midnight
dreary."
MAIL TRIUN
The "TV" Hassle
Not since the fluoridation issue, has a local ques
tion caused such wide spread feeling as the issue
of "KBES-TV" the Medford one and only television
station.
Some of the communications in this paper were
in favor of or at least defended the local station.
More of them took the opposite side, and usually
in more vigorous language.
"liELL, we refuse to take part in the hassle on one
side or the other, but we would like to clear up
a few misconceptions that the controversy has brought
into clearer focus.
Number one is the impression that when errors
appear in the "TV" programs printed in this paper
and the radio programs also the Mail Tribune is the
guilty party.
This impression, we regret to say, has been
furthered by the practice at "KBES-TV" and some
of the radio stations namely, to use the "M.T." as
an "out" for their own mistakes.
TTO prove the point, it is only necessary to explain
the programming system.
The Mail Tribune has nothing to do with the "TV"
or radio programs except to print them as the
STATIONS hand them in each day, revised by THEM
to date.
This space is given free-of-charge as a public
service. It represents in space and composition, many
hundreds of dollars.
We are not complaining about that. We are glad
to do it.
But we do complain when a station ANY station
refuses to accept responsibility for its own errors
and glibly repeats its accepted formula when a com
plaint is made, i.e. that "the newspaper did done
it."
VWE hope that calling attention to this practice at
" this time will end it.
And we would further request that in the future
when ANY station tries to "alibi" for an error in its
program, by "passing the buck" to the Mail Tribune,
the complainant kindly phone any member of this
paper's staff and request a check on same.
Typographical errors in a newspaper are always
possible, but snafuing factually ANY program that
has been correct when handed in, just isn't.
So, boys and girls of the television and radio
audience, kindly bear this in mind, when program
ming errors in radio or "TV" are discovered in this
paper, it might be advisable to call the paper FIRST.
R.W.R.
Some Comments on "TV"
There is another reason we do not care to take
sides in this "T.V." debate we haven't to date agreed
with either side the extremists at least.
We don't believe the "T.V." service given except
as noted above is below the average in places of
this size.
Nor do we believe, as some of its defenders have
maintained, that it is far superior to the national aver
age. During the year we have looked at "TV" from
coast to coast, in towns smaller than Medford, and
towns larger some much lager, including our largest
cities from Greater Manhattan through Chicago to
Denver and San Francisco.
A S a result certain things, we believe, are obvious,
to-wit:
The larger the city, the more the "TV" stations,
and consequently the greater public satisfaction, be
cause of the far greater area of choice.
In a metropolis the "TV" fan who doesn't like
grand opera or the symphony, can turn to sports or
news. The sports fan who doesn't like wrestling or
football can turn to box-fights or ice-hockey. The
viewers who like "quiz" programs and are fed up on
"horse opera" can get the cream of the quiz crop
by just turning the knob from one channel to an
other, out of the dozen or so, available.
rF course, such an area of diverse selection is im-
possible in a community of this size. Moreover,
with so many people with so many different tastes
in the world a single station can't please all of them
and can't fail to displease, at one time or another,
some of them.
TTHERE is another factor in "TV" enjoyment. That
is the TV machine. There are exceptions, of course,
BUT by and large, the bigger the machine the better
the picture and the reception.
And while, as was so painfully demonstrated last
Saturday in the Michigan-Iowa football game, me
chanical difficulties sometimes-completely spoil the
show, such complete breakdowns fortunately are the
exception not the rule. And sometimes the trouble is
rn the "set," and neither the station nor the telephone
company are to blame.
CO it goes.
In the "anti-communications" we noted that one
member of the audience complained about sports
too much of them particularly over the week end.
Well, we know at least a hundred law-abiding
local citizens most of them males who turn on their
"T.V." sets SOLELY for sports football, baseball,
prizefights "hoss" races, pro-tennis and what have
you?
It might be an exaggeration to say that if sports
were eliminated the "TV" audience would drop here
50 per cent, but that it would drop terrifically there
is no doubt, and, in all likelihood, catastrophically.
Which only shows, from another angle, how IM-
Thursday, November 7, 1957
l
Matter of Fact
THE MEANING OF SPUTNIK II
Washington In the virtually
unanimous opinion of the ex
perts, Sputnik II proves beyond
serious question that the West
ern world is in deadly danger.
This is the unpleasant truth
which lies be
hind all the
reassuring offi
cial protesta
tions that the
Soviet satel
lites have "no
military impli
cations." The military
implications of
rt l -T-T- r. 11
Stewait Alson sputniK 11 iail
into two categories. The first
category concerns the meaning
of Sputnik II in terms of the
long range ballistic missiles. The
second category concerns the
military meaning of Sputnik II
itself.
Even before the boasts from
Moscow of a "new power source"
experts in this country were
speculating, in the wake of Sput
nik II, about the possibility that
the Soviets had discovered an
entirely new rocket fuel. There
seemed no other logical explana
tion of the Soviet success in
launching into orbit a satellite
weighing half a ton. "With the
stuff we've got," one expert said,
"we just wouldn't know how to
do it.
'Either they've got a new
fuel," another said, "or they've
developed a rocket motor with a
thrust of a million pounds. I
don't know which would be
worse." Whether or not the So
viets have developed a new fuel,
Sputnik II unquestionably means
that Nikita Khrushchev's boast
last Sunday, that the Soviets al
ready have "intercontinental
rockets" capable of "delivering
hydrogen bomb warheads to any
point in the globe" must be
taken entirely seriously. So
must his boast that the Ameri
can "military bases in Europe,
Africa and Asia" have "long
since" been subject to missile
attack.
OEFORE Sputnik II, it was the
consensus of those best able
to judge that the Soviets would
not have a fully operational in
termediate ballistic missile sys
tem until about the end of 1958,
and that they were not yet pro
d u c i n g operational interconti
nental missiles capable of hit
ting targets in this country. Now
the concensus is that the Sovi
ets must already have an IRBM
system capable of threatening
our forward Strategic Air Force
bases; and that they must have
operational ICBMs already in
production.
The purpose of the Soviet
missiles, as Khrushchev have
made entirely clear, is to neu
tralize the Strategic Air Com
mand. Since SAC is the heart
of the free world's strength, the
"military implications" of Sput
nik II are grim enough in this
category. But there is a growing
body of belief that the Soviet
satellites may have enormous
military meaning in themselves.
As reported in February, 1956,
in this space, this country is
working on a reconnaissance
satellite, capable of detecting
important military movements
and concentrations anywhere in
the world. But "Project Big
Brother," as the reconnaissance
satellite program has been in
formally dubbed, is still in the
blueprint stage. .This is largely
because the missile art in this
POSSIBLE it is for any single station to please ALL
the people ALL the time. We feel certain the man
agers of "KBES-TV" are too smart to try it.
X7HICH brings us to our final point, which has oeen
" mentioned before, namely, why we favor "pay
TV" in Medford as we would for any other one
station town.
We see no need for it in the larger cities, where
there are so many channels available every normal,
reasonable taste can be satisfied.
But where the range of selection is necessarily
limited, and can" be extended materially and im
proved by the payment of a comparatively small fee ;
we regard the inclusion of such a system, as increas
ing the value of television in the realm not only of
public entertainment but in the area of its already
valuable public service. R.W.R.
By Stewart Alsop
country has not yet reached the
stage where the necessarily
heavy equipment for an effec
tive reconnaissance satellite
could be launched into orbit.
BUT the half - ton weight of
Sputnik II would be amply
sufficient to carry the equip
ment for an effective spy satel
lite. So it must also be assumed
that the Soviets have, or soon
will have, effective reconnais
sance satellites, and this alone
has immensely important mili
tary implications.
Yet what has scared some of
the expef ts more than anything
else is the hint that the Soviets
may be able to bring down the
unfortunate dog in Sputnik II,
still alive, at a pre-designated
spot. If the Soviets actually suc
ceed in doing so, a great collec
tive shiver will go through the
whole scientific and intelligence
community.
For it is now possible to pack
into a few hundred pounds of
weight a thermonuclear weapon
with a province - destroying
punch. For technical reasons in
volving the problems of atmo
spheric re-entry and accurate
guidance and control, it had al
ways been assumed among
American experts that a satellite
which would be itself a weapon.
capable of carrying and' deliver
ing a thermonuclear weapon,
was virtually impossible of
achievement. There is no known
active project to achieve such a
weapon-satellite going forward
in this country.
VET if a dog in a sealed space
-- capsule can be successfully
re-entered at a chosen place, why
not a bomb? And if one such
weapon-satellite can be launch
ed, why not dozens, to form
above the whole world a uni
versal sword of Damocles, con
trolled from Moscow.
This is, of course, a nightmare,
but it is a nightmare which will
take on a certain color of reality
if the little dog on Sputnik II
ever again treads the earth. But
even if that never happens, the
danger to the West, of which
Sputnik II serves as a symbol,
is deadly enough. Surely, in the
circumstances, the time has come
for truth-telling, and fact-facing,
and an end to official compla
cency. (c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Holmes Signs Bill
To Provide Expenses
Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D.
Holmes Wednesday signed the
first piece of approved legisla
tion of the special session. It
provided pay and expenses for
senators and representatives.
The governor put his signa
ture to the measure-appropriating
$75,000 for payment of sala
ries and mileage of the senators,
representatives, officers clerks
and stenographers, and for the
general and contingent expenses
of the session.
"That's one down and two to
go," the governor said, reiterat
ing his hope that both Houses
would approve a reasonable in
come tax relief measure and a
bill to increase basic school sup
port, and then adjourn.
The early route of the "Cali
fornia Trail" is now known as
highway U.S. 40 from Nevada
to California.
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Sputnik
To the Editor: There's a Sput
nik in the sky far away, we will
have one, you and I, some sweet
day. The air force has the rock
et, the navy has the fuel, but
the army and old Ike, they're
still riding on a mule!
There's a Sputnik in the sky
far away, we don't have one you
and I, not today. John Dulles
read the papers, called a confer
ence right away, "It 'appears'
they have a Sputnik, and I don't
know what to say."
There's a Sputnik in the sky
far away, congress will "investi
gate" today. They will thump
the tubs and bluster, this will
make political hay, and if the
gas could all be captured, it
would send one all the way!
Pete Logan,
Dark Hollow rd.
Medford, Ore.
It Would Please Zhukov
To the Editor: Recently you
reported the' State Department
release on Gen. Zhukov's remov
al. It referred to "the recently
expressed desire of Mr. Khrush
chev to entrust Marshal Zhukov"
with a mission of high trust and
confidence to the United States."
Who refused to receive Zhu
kov? Is he still President Eisen
hower's former comrade-in-arms?
Why not invite him now?
Alfred Kohlberg,
1 West 37th St.,
New York, City, N.Y.
A Question for Copco
To the Editor: My husband,
who is in the United States
Army, was transferred here to
Medford two years ago. When
we went down to get our liffhts
turned on, we were told that we
would have to put down a $20
deposit because we were in the
army. That was okay with us
until we found out that the rest
of the people in the service had
not had to put down a deposit.
We asked why. We were given
no reason. We were supposed
to get our deposit back at the
end of a year. Well, it's been
two years. And because of some
made up technicality they said
we couldn't have the deposit
back.
What's a person to do? Like
everything else in Medford,
there's only one power company.
You either get your lights
from them or not at all.
Mrs. John Potter,
716 Grant St.,
Medford, Ore.
A Plug For TV
To the Editor: I want to take
this opportunity to thank the
networks, the stations and the
sponsors for brinsine us so much
wonderful entertainment over
the past two years, as that is as
long as we have had our TV.
My husband is retired now,
and he didn't think he would
like TV, but I bought one any
way, and am I glad. He seems
to enjoy it as much as I.
He never cared for movies, so
he rarely ever went to one, and
I think he has more good enter
tainment than he ever did in his
life before.
He especially likes the fights,
wrestling and horse races. I
know that it takes lots of monev.
and manpower to run a TV sta
tion, and I do appreciate it. I
think it is wonderful, something
I never expected to see in mv
life - time. My how glad I am,
I lived so long.
Thanks again to everyone.
Fern Tndrus,
391 South Mountain ave.
Ashland, Ore.
Oregon Farm Bureau
Convention Under Way
Eugene (IP) The 26th annual
convention of the Oregon Farm
Bureau Federation opened here
Wednesday with about 500 de
legates expected. The conven
tion runs through Saturday.
LIFE EVERLASTING
I am standing upen the seashore; a ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object
of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs
like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to ming(i
with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone."
Gone where? Cone from my sight that is all. She is just as large in
mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to
bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size
is in me, not in her and just at the moment when someone at my side says,
"There! She's gone there are other eyes watching her coming and other
voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There she comes!" ....
..... And that is dying.
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Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Today and
By Walter
LITTLE ROCK AGAIN.
Twice during his press confer
ence last week, the President
was asked questions on the sub
ject of integra
tion and civil
rights. The
, first question
had to do with
Little Rock
and the second
with his
appointments,
which have not
yet been made,
to the Civil
vfcalter Lippmao
Rights Commission. This is the
Commission that was authorized
by Congress in the bill passed at
the end of August.
The President said that in Lit
tle Rock the situation "seems
to improve daily" and "I most
devoutly hope and pray that we
soon can be confident enough of
the situation that we can remove
all Federal forces." In his com
ments on the Civil Rights Com
mission there was no suggestion
that in his mind there will be
any close connection between
the Commission, when it is ap
pointed, and the policy of the
Federal government in dealing
with a situation like that in
Little Rock.
This indicates, T hope wrong
ly, that the President and the
Administration are not at work
trying to form an orderly na
tional policy but are improvis
ing as one aspect or another of
the enormous problem forces it
self upon their attention. How,
for example, is he going to
know that he should be confi
dent that he can remove all Fed
eral forces from Arkansas? One
would suppose that he would
look to the Civil Rights Commis
sion, if it had been set up in
operation, to advise him.
It can perhaps be argued that
on a narrow construction of the
law, the Commission is not sup
posed to have the responsibility
and duty of advising the Presi
dent and the Department of Jus
tice in specific situations like
that at Little Rock. On the other
hand, the President can, if I read
the law correctly, take a broad
view of it and especially cf that
part which says that the commis
sion shall "appraise the laws
and policies of the Federal gov
ernment with respect to equal
protection of the laws under
the Constitution."
TF IT IS not to be the Commis-
sion which advises him in a
situation like Little Rock, who
is it to be? Is it to be the Depart
ment of Justice or is it to be
some anonymous assistant on
the White House staff? The
President must begin to feel by
this time that, while Gov, Fau
bus had put down a challenge
which had to be met, the Admin
istration's role in the whole af
fair was not wisely conceived
and well planned.
For example, only confusion
was produced by his meeting
with Gov Faubus at Newport,
and never since then has the
President succeeded in making
the country understand precise
ly what was the issue namely,
the order the Governor gave to
the Arkansas National Guard
which required Federal inter
vention. Moreover, the character
of the intervention was surely
unnecessarily clumsy and pro
vocative. Was it necessary to
send the crack troops of the air-
born division with their bayo
nets fixed, or would it have
been wiser to deputize Federal
Marshals, or even to send a de
tachment of military police car-!
rying policemen's clubs?
These catch-as-catch-can meth
ods will not do! in handling so
grave and so explosive a prob
lem. The President needs a con
tinuing body of advisors, whose
main business in life is to plan
the role to be played by the
Federal government in the field
of civil rights. Surely, it is with
in the terms of the law that the
new Civil Rights Commission
DAY OR NIGHT .c. PHONE
Tomorrow
Lippmann
j should be used as a policy-f orm-
uig organ of the Federal govern
ment in the field of civil rights.
TWO months have passed since
enacted, and during these
two months we have had Little
Rock and all its consequences
and implications. But there is as
yet no Commission. We know
that the President has been find
ing it difficult to get acceptances)
from the men he has wanted to
appoint.
Judging' by what he sai3 (Hjt
his press conference last we,
I wonder whether a good J&tQ
of his difficulty in finding men
does not come from his own
contradictory ideas about what
what kind of men he is loqfc-)
ing for. He wants "peopi or
thoughtful mien and type whoi
reputation is that of being (g ju
dicial turn of mind, watching
these things and deciding what
to do." He wants also to "have
represented on the Commission
all types of thinking." He wants
"to get a spectrum of American
opinion on this matter."
TS IT any wonder that it has
-- been hard for him to appoint
a Commission? On the one hand,
he wants men of a judicial turn
of mind. On the other hand he
wants "all types of thinking."
He wants a Commission which
on the subject of civil rights is
as judicial as, let us say, Adlai
Stevenson, and he wants also toO
have represented the thinking
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People and of Sen. Byrd of Vir
ginia and of Gov. Griffin of
Georgia.
These contradictions come
from a hope, which is quite vain,
that he can set up a Commission
which pleases everybody. He
should be looking for a CommisQ
sion which is capable of formu
lating a coherent national policy .
What he needs is a clear-headect
and resolute Commission which
vill translate into orderly poli
cies for the guidance of the Ad
ministration what is now a chaos
of law suits and court orders.
(Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune)
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