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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1947 (Friday)
Tourist committee of the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce requests that Crater Lake
.National Park company serve
Medford with its buses.
- From Arthur Perry's Ye
'Smudge Pot column: "The corn
;crop of the valley is' being har
vested and husked and stored
-In granaries, with none of it in
vinegar jugs, as in "noble ex
periment days."
20 YEARS AGO
Not. -13. 1937 (Friday)
A noticeable improvement of
lumber market prospects for
1938 forecast by the West Coast
Lumbermen's association.
E. D. Rice, Dallas, Tex., trav
elling jewelry salesman, and
complaining witness in assault
and robbery charges filed against
three Oregon Normal school
football squad members from
Monmouth and an Ashland drug
clerk, appears before grand jury
this morning.
. 30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1927 (Sunday)
; Grading, surfacing and pre
liminary preparations complet
'. ed. First of this year's city pav
. Ing program will begin soon.
A lineup of street stunts and
outdoor entertainment in Med
" ford was among best in city
during Armistice day program.
40 YEARS AGO
. Nov. 13. 1917 (Tuesday)
A number of well-known
- young Medford men enlist in
' the aviation section of the Army
i at the local recruiting office on
Monday.
Five team captains with a full
crew of workers are busy In
; the business district getting sub-
(Briptions to the YMCA war
' work fund.
What's Your I.Q.?
iWne or ten correct Is superior;
atven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. A shallow body of water
(aekr a sea is called a I n?
(f When Christopher Colum
bus discovered America in 1492,
4id he land in the spring or fall
cDthat year?
'Z. Bible: Sarai is commonly
referred to as what?
(J, "The Dance of the Nymphs"
is a painting by Titian, Corot,
Reynolds or Murillo?
5. Who were known as "pris
oners of the Vatican"?
'f; In which country are the
Caucasus oil fields?
7. In which of Charles Dick
ens novels is there a character
named Fagin?
8. Are the Palau Islands in
the Pacific or Indian Ocean?
9. "It is seldom or never used.
. It is seldom or ever used." Is the
latter sentence wrong? If so,
how?
10. "The more the merrier,
: the fewer the better fare." (15
'. 61). Could it have been intro
duced by James I, to whom it is
ascribed?
Answers: 1. Lagoon. 2. Fall,
October 12. 3. Sarah (wife of
Abraham). 4. Corot. 5. The Popes
(from 1870-1929). 6. Soviet Rus-
sia. 7. "Oliver Twist." 8. Pacific
q Ocean. 9. Yes. "If" should re
place "or." 10. No. He was born
after 1601. when it first appear-
' ed in English.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Governor Is Right
Traditionally the Republicans pride themselves
on their conservatism and
And roughly speaking,
Humphrey often demonstrated, that party ranks high
er in the realm of High
than its opposition.
DUT at the special session
are massed solidly on
with one or two Democrats joining them.
They are in the position
corporation urging the declaration of a dividend far
in excess of what the cash condition of the company,
or future business prospects justify, and doing this be
cause he wishes to please the stockholders and be as
sured of his reelection, at the forthcoming stockhold
ers meeting.
AND what do the G.O.P. representatives at Salem
call this? They call it "playing politics" NOT
on their part mercy no! but on the part of the
Democrats.
Of course they would
but this is really the Soviet
ing their enemies of doing
done.
Russia is all the time claiming the war-mongering
and imperialistic United States is threatening to bring
on World War 111, when
single danger to world peace, is the rocket-rattling
and imperialistic Communists.
TT SEEMS to this department quite clear that in his
program of. a material tax-refund and increased
aid to education in Oregon, Governor Holmes has
taken a sound, conservative business-like stand.
He wants the tax surplus reduced for the benefit
of the tax payers but he doesn't want to go to such an
extreme at this time as to endanger the state finances,
in the future, particularly in view of the lumber de
pression and the general uncertainty of the nation's
economic status as a whole.
THERE is no doubt, in pur mind, that if Governor
Holmes were a Republican his stand would be
loudly acclaimed and supported, by the members of
that party, just as they supported a similar program
when it was first broached by one of their party lead
ers. But no, there will be an election next year, and
nothing is more popular as of today, than something
unexpected from Santa Claus and nothing less popu
lar than taxes especially at tax-paying time.
The Republicans were quick to realize their po
litical opportunity and just as quick to try to capitalize
on it.
A.
If they are not "playing politics" what are they
playing tiddle-de-winks ?
XE HOPE Governor Holmes will stick to his guns.
For he is right.
He is. refusing to "play politics" and taking a
course which he realizes may not be the most popular
one, but which he is convinced will be for the best
interests of the state, and all the people in it. R.W.R.
"The Life of Trade "
We have received a communication (unsigned)
post-marked "Portland" which takes exception to a
recent statement in this column that the "Friendly
SP" enjoys a monopoly in Southern Oregon.
"How looney can you get?" the missive inquires,
and continues:
"It is competition from airplanes and trucks that is
ruining the SP and most of the other railroads in the
United States. If you don't know that you ought to stop
writing about railroads."
If wre didn't know that is the stock railroads "ali
bi"' for raising the white flag in the field of passenger
traffic we probably would.
But we do know what the SP claims, and we also
know we did not say the "SP" enjoyed a monopoly in
transportation but a monopoly in its FIELD which of
course is railroad transportation.
IE DOUBT if there is a railroad man in the coun-
try, and we don't except the S.P. who wouldn't
admit that if the Southern Pacific had railroad com
petition in southwestern Oregon, the entire picture
would change over night.
Just imagine if the Great Northern should build a
line from eastern Oregon to the Pacific coast, giving
through passenger and freight service to the Atlantic
seaboard what a panic there would be in the higher
echelons of this billion dollar corporation?
Not a panic to abandon passener service even
as a few months ago it tried to abandon the Portland
San Francisco "Daylight" but a panic to get the best
passenger service available, at the earliest possible
moment, so it would not lose out on its freight
monopoly, particularly in the field of fruit and timber.
There would be no "double talk" then about losing
$200,000 a year in a one car passenger service be
tween Eugene and Dunsmuir, California, nor the "we
surrender" refrain that passenger service is doomed
and there won t be a pullman car in the country
in another decade or two.
No, over night the entire public relations pattern
of the S.P. would be transformed, and instead of
doing everything possible to discourage passenger
travel, it would be burning
ways and means to get it.
And why? Just one reason. It would have rail
road competition instead of a complete comer on the
market. R.W.R.
Wednesday, November 13, 1957
sound business sense.
as ex-Sec'y of the Treasury
Finance and Big Business
in Salem the Republicans
the other side of the fence
of the President of a large
all be very much insulted
Russian technique accus
what they themselves have
as everyone knows the one
the midnight oil to devise
'IT SURE IOOKBD LIKE AH EASY TfflCK OM TBL5(SON.'
Editorial Comment
THE AIR LINES DON'T QUIT
West Coast isn't planning to
surrender its Southern Oregon
territory and business without
a fight. It has placed orders
for millions of dollars worth of
new equipment more and
better planes. It plans to put on
direct schedules Roseburg to
Portland with perhaps only one
stop. It will give more and fast
er schedules to keep ahead of
other methods of trasportation.
West Coast and United Air
lines are prepared to meet com
petition. They" do their best
to serve the area, even though
obstacles arise.
But what did the "Friendly"
Southern Pacific do to meet
competition? The answer is
obvious nothing! The rail
road company not only surrend
ered to competition, it invited
the competition to take over,
while deliberately killing off its
own service by making that
service as unsatisfactory in ev
ery respect as possible, then cry
ing that people wouldn't use the
trains.
The railroad could, if it would
enjoy a considerable passenger
business from Southern Oregon,
I am convinced. Whether a
profitable service could be main
tained I wouldn't know. I would
guess that the losses, if any,
would not be large.
The railroad, however, would
have to furnish service com
parable with that given by bus
ses and airlines and on frequent,
fast schedules and with modern,
comfortable equipment.
Southern Oregon is growing
at a pace that should produce
enough passenger business to
support buses, trains and planes.
The effort of the airlines to
serve the traveling public has
been mentioned. It might also
be pointed out that bus lines are
constantly striving to improve
service and facilities, grey
hound has added many new bus
es and has improved schedules.
Trailways recently was exhibit
ing an attractive European-made
car it expects to put in service
soon.
The attitude of these trans-
nortation systems, in contrast
with the defeatist position of the
railroad, does, indeed, supply a
startling study in contrasts.
Roseburg News Review.
r.TTV SHOULD RE-EXAMINE
ITS RESPONSIBILITY
As we've said before. Salem s
parking situation isn't as bad as
that faced by most cities. This
makes the work of the Salem
Downtown Merchants Associa
tion all the more farsighted.
Association members now are
investigating the construction ofJ
10-level pigeonhole parking
tower in the downtown area.
But the costs of parking each
car in a citv like Salem using
surfaced lots as the standard are
about doubled by underground
or above-suriace ramp structures
and tripled by mechanical de
vices such as the pigeonnoler.
The city also has an obligation
although it may be a poor prac
tice to subsidize parking in any
one area since merchants in other
areas have taken care of their
own problems. But the city like
so many Oregon communities,
has slipped into the bad habit of
using its parking meter funds for
the general budget.
Originally these were earmark
ed for off-street parking, among
other things. Because of this,
we'd say the merchants have a
right to ask that the city set up
a policy which would encourage
this parking project and any
others which would come along
later in other areas. This en
couragement might be in the
form of policing private metered
lots or supplying engineering
services or attendants.
In fact, parking meters over
the years supply enough beyond
their maintenance and policing
costs to pay for unimproved land
suitable for parking develop
ment in all congested areas. Use
of the money for this purpose
would mean that Salem taxpay
ers would have to make up the
difference one way or another,
which is the reason the city coun
cil has been reluctant to ex
amine the matter.
A city which is not already in
the profitable parking meter
business, we'd say, has no press
ing obligation to solve a merch
ant's congestion problem But in
Salem the meters have been sup
plementing the general fund for
a decade, easing the property tax
burden by a few hundred thou
sand dollars already.
A city with extensive metered
areas has no excuse for a park
ing problem of any kind. And
although Salem's problem is re
latively small, it is as real as the
merchants think it is. It also will
grow "worse if barriers are put
in the way of solution or if a
city is apathetic.
A small problem now, if left
unsolved, can be a gigantic puz
zler in five or ten years as the
auto population zooms and curb
parking gives way to more traf
fic lanes. Salem Capital Journal.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written on. Veterans
Day. .
Veterans Day grew out of
Armistice Day.
Armistice Day meaning the
FIRST Armistice Day was
unique in human history because
it was inspired by the worldwide
belief that it MARKED THE
END OF WAR. We weren't just
celebrating a military victory on
that first Armistice Day. We
thought we were celebrating the
beginning of a world at peace.
Back in 1918 our victory over
the Kaiser's Germany seemed to
us so decisive that there never
could be another world war.
That is why it was celebrated
so fervently.
We were mistaken then.
T ET'S look now at some other
x-' mistakes.
We made an epochal one when
Hitler invaded Stalinist Russia
Common sense should have told
us to stand aside and let the two
dictators destroy each other.
We didn't.
We stepped in and saved Stalin.
II'E MADE another mistake at
' Yalta, when we placed the
boundary between Communism
and the free world on the Elbe
river.
As a result of that mistake, we
had to turn back from Berlin
and give half of Germany and
all of Czechoslovakia to Stalin
and Communism.
WHY ALL this talk of mis
' takes?
MISTAKES ARE IMPORT
ANT. They are important because
they are identifiable in the clear
light of hindsight.
We should STUDY mistakes
and seek to avoid making more
of them.
AT THE moment, it looks like
we're getting ready to make
another epochal mistake.
The printed pages and the air
waves are full of talk of a
CRASH program, which will cost
BILLIONS, to put an American
satellite into outer space months
ahead of the time we had planned
to do so. ,
WHY?
That race is LOST.
That horse is DEAD.
Why spend BILLIONS to rein
carnate a dead horse?
MORE powerful rockets YES!
Rockets are missiles. Mis
siles carry warheads. More pow
erful ones will hit the enemy
farther away.
An anti-missile missle to IN
TERCEPT enemy missiles and
destroy them before they get
here YES!
Making better missiles and
making them faster than the
Russians can make them, mean
while perfecting our techniques
of bomber retaliation so that the
Russians will hesitate to start
something they may not be able
to finish YES!
All that makes sense.
BUT spending BILLIONS to
toss another satellite out into
space months ahead of the time
we had planned to do it just
because the Russians have al
ready done it. . .
That would be confusion
worse confounded.
In that way lies madness.
Smaller NATO Nations Demon.
Revision of Defense Policies
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The smaller countries of West
ern Europe are demanding a
radical revision of North Atlan
tic Treaty Or
tic T r e a t y
Organizat ion
policies.
They feel
that the Unit
ed States and
Great Britain
are concen
trating too
much on the
Charles M McCann DOSsibil i t i P s
of nuclear warfare.
They want the larger allies
Opponents of Holmes'
Tax Reduction Plan
Have Inning on TV
Portland (ID Opponents of
Gov. Robert D. Holmes' tax re
duction plans got their innings
over television here Tuesday
night.
In the 15-minute program,
Sen. Harry Boivin, Klamath
Falls and Sen. Ben Musa, The
Dalles, both democrats and Sen.
Phil Lowry, Medford, Reps.
John Goss, Portland, and Wayne
Giesy, Monroe, all Republicans,
gave their reasons for favoring
a 30 per cent tax reduction over
the 15 per cent cut now backed
by the governor.
Result of Protest
The TV program was the re
sult of a protest by the Repub
lican State Central Committee
that the governor's TV account
of the tax reduction battle last
Sunday was "biased" and an at
tempt to bring pressure to bear
on legislators who opposed him.
Musa, a member of the con
ference committee seeking solu
tion to the tax reduction dead
lock, said he and the Republi
cans with whom he joined want
to correct the high tax rates
levied unintentionally by the
1957 Legislature.
"Since these high published
rates are taking more from the
taxpayers than necessary, we
feel the rates should be reduced
to the lowest level possible to
secure necessary revenue. The
high published rates are a detri
ment to Oregon's economy,"
Musa said.
Giesy said that the 1957 Leg
islature, aided by the governor's
tax experts, passed a $272 mil
lion budget that left $9,800,000
in surplus.
Surplus Will Build
"Now only five months later
these same tax experts supply
the Legislature with revenue
estimates which will leave a $74
l10 surPlus, by .Jn J5?:
1Q?Q TViat cui-nliic! will Vni1 If
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Juvenile Cruelly Deplored
To the Editor: In recent weeks
there have been several accounts
of cat torture by boys whose only
excuse was that they wanted
a thrill. It is tragic, however, to
consider how these boys and
countless other boys throughout
the nation, are contributing to
juvenile crime. It is tragic to con
sider how their actions relate to
the future of their families and
indeed, to the whole nation.
There is all too much thought
less cruelty and neglect of ani
mals, but it is, in the main, nei
ther premeditated nor vicious
and can easily be corrected under
proper guidance. But who has
failed to shoulder the responsi
bility for these boys? The con
viction deepens that such crimes
can only be laid at the feet of
parents and teachers in failing
to inculcate moral values from
early childhood and develop
proper attitudes in children who
may so easily take the wrong
turn of the road.
We must never forget that
such delinquency occurs in good
and bad neighborhoods, alike.
There is too much complacent
tolerance based on materialistic
thinking. If parents do not recog
nize the importance of whole
some attitudes which make for
good character and citizenship,
then the teachers must accept the
responsibility.
Every good educator knows
that children respond naturally
to animals. If this inherent in
terest is utilized, kindness can be
substituted for cruelty. In the
following years, the child will
learn and understand the inter
dependence of man and nature.
He will, with proper guidance
become a better adjusted person
mentally and emotionally.
We do not presume to say that
such humane teaching is the only
solution for juvenile crime. We
do say it can do much to produce
desirable attitudes toward ani
mals, toward classmates, toward
teachers and toward society at
large.
Ida G. Keith,
(A Retired Teacher)
South' Pacific Hwy.,
Medford, Ore.
to remember that in the event
of war with Soviet Russia, the
smaller countries would be over
run by Red army ground forces
unless Allied ground forces can
stop them.
The stand of the smaller al
lies has been expressed force
fully in a report made to a meet
ing, now being held in Paris, of
delegates from the parliaments
of the 15 NATO countries.
Report Important
There seems no doubt that
this report will play an import
ant part in the big meeting of
the heads of government of
NATO countries, including Pres
ident Eisenhower, which is to
we allow the present surtax
rates to cut into 1957 and 1958
incomes," Giesy added
Before the telecast, House
Speaker Pat Dooley, Portland
Democrat, accused the Republi
cans of "stalling the Legislature
for two more days at least, at
the expense of the taxpayers,
just so their so-called spokesmen
can make a grandstand play on
television."
Integration Problems
Plague New York City
In Field of Housing
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington Ml Southern
objectors to the integration of
their public school systems prob
ably will be as
tonished to
learn that the
place of Ne
groes in the
community
also is caus
ing some diffi
culty in New
York City.
New York is
the capital city
I,yle C Wilson
of civil rights, the minority ra
cial groups there being large,
numerous and possessed of max
imum political wallop. It is now
25 weeks, however, that the Gen
eral Welfare Committee of the
Municipal Council of the City of
New York has been considering
a proposal to relieve Negroes
from discrimination in better
class housing.
Introduced on May 21 was a
nronosal to malcp it unlawful in
discriminate for reasons of race,
. ... .. ... '
color, religion, national origin or
ancestry in the rental or sale of
dwelling space. There were pub
lic hearings in mid-June where
after the proposal was sent back
to committee.
Real Estate Boards Oppose
Individuals who urgently
championed civil rights legisla
tion which was before Congress
last summer were somewhat less
enthusiastic about the anti-discrimination
project pending be
fore their own governing agen
cy. The real estate boards in all
five boroughs of New York City
opposed the ordinance.
The mail count at City Hall
was 3-to-l against. Some council
men said their mail was 4-to-l
against enabling Negroes to buy
or rent whatever they could af
ford. The proposal was sub
stantially amended to eliminate
a $500 penalty for the discrim
ination described. The commit
tee also exempted cooperative
apartments from the anti-discrimination
stipulation.
The implication of the ordi
nance's most recent history is
that it was set aside to cool
pending last week's mayoralty
election in New York. An advo
cate of the ordinance had this to
say this week in a letter to the
New York Times:
Further delay or defeat of
this bill would be an admission
that New York City, despite its
moral horror at what happened
at Little Rock, does not itself
believe in the civil rights that it
professes to uphold. For all rec
ognize that this is more than a
matter of housing; we know es
pecially that the schools we say
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meet in Paris Dec. 10.
Th report to th parliamen
tary conference wag diwn up
by Lt. Gen. Rudolph Calmejv
of the Netherlands and Arthur
Gilson of Belgium.
"The stricture of thf, NATO
ground forces ... is undergoing;
a steady disintegration," the r
port said.
"The Soviet threat can not
met simply by atom bombs.
"The Soviet militafy threat
still primarily by -mean of
ground farces supplied by Jur
forces. This is a nightmare for
those people who are not separ
ated from the Red armies by an
ocean or at least by the chan
nel" Britain's English Chan
nel. Seeks More Troops
The report demanded thit
NATO maintain a minimum of
30 divisions, equipped with tac
tical atomic weapons and cov
ered by adequate air forces.
There was a note of some bit
terness in the reference to the
protection that the Atlantic
Ocean gives to the United States,
and the English Channel gives
to Britain. A reference to the
strategy of "massive retaliation"
against Russia by the atomic
powers in NATO seemed some
what sarcastic. Massive retalia
tion would hurt Russia, prob
ably cripple it. But what the
smaller countries need to pro
tect them is infantry, tanks, ar
tillery, tactical air forces.
we wish to integrate can never
truly achieve this goal unless we
desegregate our housing pat
terns." Few Non-Negro Areas
This reference to missing the
goal of school integration in New
York City is part of the city's
racial problem from another
angle. It relates to the fact that
there are public school districts
in New York City in which there
are no Negro families or very
few.
It is dificult, therefore, to en
able white and Negro children to
attend those schools together for
lack of Negro children. The pro
posed ordinance against discrim
ination in the sale or rental of
dwelling units presumably would
enable Negro families with chil
dren to move into the all-white
school districts and the ele
ments of school integration
would be at hand.
All of this may sound like
coded Greek to southern readers,
but it is the pattern of the inte
gration problem as it has devel
oped in New York.
Bend Girl To Tell of
Experiences Abroad
Washington (m Violet
K. Klobas of Bend, Ore., will
tell officials here today of her
experiences abroad while or a
trip to Austria, as a "good -will
ambassador" under the Interna
tional Farm Youth Exchange
Program.
Miss Klobas, along with 57
other young people, arrived
home on the Queen Mary Tues
day. They had been in Europe
on a five-month "work-and-learn"
trip.
The girl's trip was sponsored
by the Foundation in coopera
tion with the agricultural ex
tension service.
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