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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. 15. 1947 (Sunday)
Architect Frank Clark and
Portland associates have com
pleted plans for Medford's new
YMCA building.
From Arthur Perry' Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The apple
cider, vintage '47 is reported
vested with more authority than
any time since Pearl Harbor."
20 YEARS AGO
for. 15. 1937 (Monday)
The Civic Music association
enrollment went over the top at
the close of the campaign Sat
urday night.
Hunting in Grant county over
thi weekend .the Phoenix sharp
shooter brought down a huge
ai weighing 800 pounds.
SI YEARS AGO
cgor. 15. 1127 (Tuesday)
Two teams of horses and five
Jttn started work this morning
fcavating on the lot at the
Corner of Holly and Sixth sts.
ffhich is reported to be the fu
Jlirl location of a movie theatre.
Members of the Medford Ro
pry club enjoyed an impromptu
address by a distinguished Ro
tftrian visitor this noon when
Archie Flower, Stratford-on-Avon,
England, spoke. He said
William Shakespeare would
have made an ideal Rotarian.
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 15, 1917 (Thursday)
"People now demand utility
qualities along with perfection
of feathers. The show hen must
lay," a poultry expert said,
speaking on poultry shows here.
Interest in the Red Cross day,
at Central Point, is growing.
Offers of all sorts of commodi
ties are being received from
sources.
Whaf'c Your I.Q.?
Nine ot ten correct U superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: live or
six Is good.
1. Name th first permanent
fittlement in the United States.
X Which noted American in
lted the lightninj rod?
. Bible: Did Noah condemn
flam for disrespect, greed, or
i4btry?
(J. How many Presidents of
the Unite States have been as
sassinated? 5. What valuable medicine is
obtained from the bark of the
cinchona tree?
6. What does
"Nisei'' mean?
the word
7. Who was the founder of the
Society for Ethical Culture?
8. The Kilkenny cats fought
until nothing but what was left?
9. Which is the principal
vowel in "abyss"?
10. "What at the top is a love
ly woman, ends below in a black
and ugly fish." Horace. Name
the subject.""
Answers: 1., St. Augustine,
Fla.; 2. Benjamin Franklin;
3, Disrespect; 4, Three, Lincoln,
Garfield and McKinley; 5, Qui.
nine; 6, Americans of Japanese
descent; 7, Dr. Felix Adler;
8, Their tails; 9, "y"; 10, A mer
maid. , .
MAIL TRIBUNE
Records of "Sumer
Science has been much in the news since the two
tiny, artificial moons took up their orbits in the skies.
And, with the cold war being what it is, this em
phasis on science has largely been on the physical
sciences such things as physics, nuclear develop
ments, ballistics, propulsion, and so on.
But work in other sciences far less spectacular
but of great importance in adding to mankind's
knowledge of himself and his environment, and his
tory goes on with less public notice.
THE International Geophysical Year now in prog-
ress has brought to the foreground many areas of
research, too, but these also have been mostly in the
physical sciences such things as meteorology, ocean
ography, electromagnetism, astrophysics, geology and
geography.
But quietly, on many fronts, other sciences are
making progress. One of the most fascinating of these
is archeology, and its offshoot, which could be called
archeo-history, or the study of mankind in the dim
and distant days far before the recorded history we
have heretofore known.
Men are prodding through the ruins of Indian cul
tures in Central and South America and Mexico, and,
most notably, in the Middle East, the cradle of today's
civilization.
FOR instance, recent issues of the Scientific Ameri-
have lived, with only a few interruptions, for some
100,000 years, and where their artifacts and. other
objects give us added knowledge of our distant an
cestors: and of recent discoveries about the bumen
ans, who formulated "substantially every invention at
the base of modern culture.
The Sumerians, according to Samuel N. Kramer,
professor of Assyriology at
vania, were a people who lived in a wind-swept barren
land, with no minerals, almost no stone, no trees and
no building material of any kind.
Yet, he says, the beginnings of our law, literature
and technology can all be traced to them.
ND Dr. Kramer adds:
"In many ways, these people were like the pioneers who
built the U.S. practical, ambitious, enterprising, jealous of
their personal rights and technologically inventive. Having
no stone or timber, they built with marsh reeds and river
mud, invented the brick mold and erected cities of baked
clay.
"They canalled the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers into the arid fields and turned their land of 'Sumer'
into a veritable Garden of Eden. To manage their irriga
tion systems they originated regional government, thus
emerging ahead of their fellow members of the world com
munity, from the petty social order of the family and vil
lage to the city-state.
"They created a written language and committed it to
permanent clay tablets. They traded their grain surpluses
to distant peoples for metals and other materials they
lacked.
"By the third millenium B.C. the culture and civilization
of Sumer, a country about the size of Massachusetts, had
spread its influence over the whole Middle East, from India
to the Mediterranean. There is hardly an area of our culture
today in mathematics or philosophy, literature or architec
ture, finance or education, law or politics, religion and folk
lore that does not owe its origins to the Sumerians."
THE archeologist finds it astounding that the ac
complishments of this people had not been more
widely known. But only in the last century have scien
tists begun to recognize the Sumerians' stature in the
ancient world, and more recently, rich finds of the
clay tablets they used for their documents have been
made, adding greatly to present knowledge of them.
Recent translations show most of them are con
cerned with economic, legal and administrative af
fairs not unlike the commercial and governmental
records of our own day.
But there are also literary works, including myths
and epic poems, hymns and lamentations, proverbs,
fables and essays. They are man s oldest known litera
ture, nearly 1,000 years older than the Iliad and the
Hebrew Bible. They indicate, the scientists say, the
Sumerians became an aggressive people, prizing indi
vidual liberty, wealth, renown and social prestige.
AND the article adds that their teachers seem to
have been held in the same sort of regard as
teachers in the United States today their salaries
were low and they were looked upon with a mixture
of respect and contempt.
The tablets suggest the Sumerians were far more
concerned with financial accounts than with academic
learning.
The finale of this civilization came about when
their restless ambition led to bitter rivalry among their
cities and kings, and Sumer itself disappeared into the
Babylonian kingdom in the 18th century B.C. after
they were invaded by Hammurabi.
People don't seem to have changed too much, even
in thousands of years. E.A. . .
Disgust and Sadness
Usually the marital pecadillos of the entertain
ment world's great, near-great and would-be-great
leave us with no emotion save a faint disgust.
We do not feel quite the same about Ingrid Berg
man, however. We feel a sadness.
There are several reasons for this. For Miss Berg
man is a wroman of unusual artistic and dramatic abili
ty; a woman of beauty and obvious intelligence and
emotional depth.
But she never learned what all happily-married
people know that there is more than one kind of
love ; that a marriage lives on a combination of love
and trust and compromise, and that a "sacred love"
is a lot of hooey unless it is backed up by determina
tion; good faith and plain hard work by both partners.
Miss Bergman could have learned it if she would.
The others generally just plain don't care. E.A.
Friday, November 15, 1957
the University of Pennsyl
'Poor oi Ruff wanted
Ike's Call to Adlai
Reminiscent of FDR's
Use of Opponents
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) It was the
old maestro, Franklin D. Roose
velt, back there in the year of
the third term
ruckus and
fear of war,
who rewrote
an old saying
to read like
this
"If you can't
lick 'em, get
'em to join
you."
I.yle C. Wilson
So President
Eisenhower has invited Adlai E
Stevenson to become an arms-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
'A look at the future:
A top American scientist calls
this week for federal scholar
ships to provide the United
States with future scientists. He
is Dr. I. I. Rabi, chairman of
President Eisenhower's scientific
advisory committee.
. He thinks the U.S. must meet
the new Russian challenge in
the field of science and he thinks
the best way to do so is to insure
that American youths starting
college are equipped with the
essential mathematical tools.
He says the federal govern
ment should award a $500 schol
arship to every high school sen
ior who passes a properly de
vised federal mathematics test
and he would award a $500
scholarship to every college stu
dent who passes a federal test
in calculus (top bracket mathe
matics) at the end of his fresh
man year.
As a top scientist, Dr. Rabi
knows that mathematics is the
handmaiden of science.
WHAT is Russia doing?
The U.S. office of educa
tion savs a two - vear studv nf
the' Russian educational system
shows that more than half of a
Russian student's first ten years
in school is devoted to science
subjects.
The study reveals that durine
this first decade of their educa
tion Russian students are re
quired to take 10 years of mathe
matics, five of physics (physics
is that branch of knowledge
treating of the material world
ana its pnenomena), five years
of biology, four years of chemis
try and one year of astronomy.
That Drovides a Drettv cood
scientific foundation.
lyHAT do OUR students take?
" Well, whatever else they
take, they SHY AWAY FROM
MATH. (Most of them, that is.)
npHIS much is certain:
-- The world of the future will
be increasingly a technological
world (technology is industrial
science; systematic knowledge
of the industrial arts.)
Someone will ask: '
"Do you mean SPA C E
TRAVEL?"
I wouldn't know. Somehow I
doubt it. It seems to me that
space travel is more rewarding
as something to TALK ABOUT
rather than as something to DO.
BUT
The world of the future,
which will be increasingly a
technological world, must in
clude such things as:
Physical changes in the struc
ture of the atom, resulting in
new raw materials, new prod
ucts, new kinds of power.
New processes, foreshadowed
by automation.
New machines, foreshadowed
by electronic brains.
And so on.
ALL these will make engineers
and technicians, researchers,
scientists, essential to our prog
ress perhaps essential to our
SURVIVAL in the world of the
future.
And
All this will require mathema
ticians. I think Dr. Rabi has some
thing. - . -
a coom. okay?'
length participant in next
month's consideration in Paris
of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
Stevenson knows his way
around the world and possesses
political prestige, perhaps
enough to blunt some of the
Democratic criticism of admin
istration foreign policy and na
tional defense achievement. All
is not well with the administra
tion on those fronts.
FDR was a master hand at
getting the enemy to join up
with him. It was in June of 1940
that he shell-shocked the Repub
lican Party by announcing two
new members of his cabinet: the
late Henry L. Stimson to be sec
retary of war and the late Frank
Knox to be secretary of Navy.
Served Taft And Hoover
Stimson had held cabinet of
fice under Presidents Taft and
Hoover. Knox was the Republi
can vice presidential nominee in
1936. The 1940 Republican Na
tional Convention was meeting
in Philadelphia on the bright
summer day that the Stimson
Knox appointments were an
nounced. The announcement
jarred the assembled Republi
cans, none more so than Alf M.
Landon, the party's 1936 presi
dential nominee.
Landon thought he had an
agreement with Knox that
neither would enter FDR's cabi
net. The offer had been made to
them and had been rejected some
months earlier. Your corres
pondent caught Landon with the
news by means of a telephone
call which interrupted his lunch
in the' coffee shop of a down
town Philadelphia hotel.
The man from Kansas was
still standing there by the cash
ier s desk, a far away look in
his eyes when your correspond
ent arrived from across town to
discuss the Knox appointment
further.
FDR also kidnaped the late
Wendell L. Willkie whom the
Republicans nominated for
president in that third term
year. Willkie was painlessly in
ducted into the Roosevelt team
in 1942 almost before he knew
it. FDR's later biographers claim
the old master had political
plans for his new boy, but noth
ing came of that.
Truman Chose Hoover
Roosevelt's use of big-time Re
publicans was as notable, how
ever, for the man he ignored as
for those he chose. Former Presi
dent Hoover never was given an
opportunity by Roosevelt to par
ticipate in the war effort, des
pite some obvious qualifications.
It remained for President Tru
man soon after Roosevelt's death
to summon a living former
president back to public life.
And when Roosevelt desper
ately was shopping around dur
ing World War II for adminis-i
trative talent he, somehow, over
looked James A. Farley, the
man who brought off the first
Roosevelt nomination in 1932.
Farley had what it took to run
a big war agency but never got I
the call. Back there in 1940 Far
ley made ' a costly decision. It
was to oppose a third term.
FDR always was a better hater
than forgetter.
Savings Bonds Total
Tops Previous Year
Portland Jackson county
sales during October of E and H
series savings bonds were $1,705
more than the October 1956
amount of $107,239, or a total of
$108,944 for October 1957, ac
cording to George W. Mimn
augh, state director.
However sales totaled? for the
year through Oct. 31 were
$200,797 less than last year's
total of $1,018,020. This year's
total through Oct. 31 was $817,
233. October sales in 27 of Ore
gon's 36 counties were above
those of 1956, Mimnaugh said.
October was the highest sale
month in 1957, he added.
Speed-Up in U.S. Missile, Arms
Programs Marks News of Week
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance jsheet:
The United States started this
week to get into real competi
tion with Soviet Russia in the
n u c 1 ear mis
siles field. Rus
sia's Sput n i k
earth satellites
had provided
the necessary
stimulus to ac
tion. President
Eisenhower an
nounced that
the United
Charles M. McCann States must
face a "very considerable" in
crease in defense spending to
Babson Eyes Stock of
Banks as Investments
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. A very
popular book of 40 years ago
was entitled "Acres of Dia
mond s" by
Russell H. Con
well. The story
was the true
account of
how a d i a
mond exp e r t
had sought the
entire world
over for the
largest dia-
Eoeer W Babson mond and it
was finally found on his father's
farm.
So many readers are today
seeking the safest good-yielding
investment that it is a pleasure
for me to suggest that it may be
in his own city. I refer to your
local bank stock as an invest
ment. Your local bank will prob
ably show an increase of 10 per
cent in 1957 earnings, compared
with 1956.
Furthermore, banks are the
only investment group showing
such an advance in earnings un
der today's competitive condi
tions. I know of no banks which
are decreasing their dividends;
while most banks are planning
some increase in dividends for
1957.
Interest Increases
The real reason for the pros
perity of banks is the increase
in the basic Federal Reserve
rate. Since the middle of 1955,
interest rates of the popular "3-to-5
year" U.S. Government is
sues (the world's most conserva
tive and most active bonds) have
increased 55 per cent; while the
rate on the "9-to-12 months" U.S.
issues has increased 110 per cent.
Rates on prime commercial pa
per have increased about 90 per
cent. Yet current indices of bank
stock prices are practically un
changed since mid-1955.
Local bank stocks have a poor
and irregular marketability. If
you wish to buy ten shares, you
will probably have to get them
through the president or cashier
of the bank. He likewise must
find a buyer when you desire
to sell. On the other hand, the
stocks of big banks like the
Chase Manhattan, the First Na
tional City, and the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York
City are active and can readily
Stray Notes, from Eastern
Oregon
By SAGE BRUSH SALLY
Here in Eastern Oregon our
Autumn weather is lovely But
flu remains with us.
I haven't heard any reports of
Sputnik being seen locally. But
we did get a good view of the
eclipse of the moon. It seems
to me if a passenger is required
on each Sputnik it would be
much more humane to give hu
mans a chance to volunteer for
the ride instead of using poor
helpless animal's. Probably some
of the one time big shots deposed
from the Kremlin crowd would
gladly exchange their uncertain
places behind the iron curtain for
Truck Drivers Cited
For Safe Driving
Portland Lon H. Smith, L. E.
Stovall and J. L. Gish of Med
ford were among 56 Oregon
truck drivers recently awarded
summer safe driving citations by
the Pacific Motor Trucking com- i
pany for driving without an ac-;
cident from May 1 to Sept. 21
this year.
The men work for the local
office of the company located at
202 South Front st. The summer
month's period is considered the
high density traffic period of
each year by the American
Truck associations, according to
the company.
Poison Oak?
Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL
You must be satisfied or your money
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day at WESTERN THRIFT.,
meet the grim challenge of Rus
sian scientific progress.
To offset this increase, the
President said, spending in other
categories of the federal budget
must be slashed. He implied that
any hope of a tax cut next year
had gone.
In a "flag-showing" exhibition
that was part of the Eisenhower
campaign, Gen. Curtis E. LeMay,
vice chief of staff of the Air
Force, piloted a jet stratotanker
plane on non-stop flights from
the United States to Buenos
Aires and return.
LeMay's plane flew 6,350 miles
to Buenos Aires in 13 hours and
2 minutes at an average speed
of 480 miles an hour. Returning,
by a more direct route, he made
the flight, of 5,204 miles in 11
be bought or sold at any time.
Competition and Inflation
Banks have very little compe
tition. Their competition takes
the form of getting deposits
rather than the starting up of
new banks. It will help your
personal credit to try to get
new depositors for the State or
National Bank with which you
are doing business. Also, try to
keep a good balance yourself.
Banks do not suffer from in
flation. If money becomes
"cheaper," they take in money
of declining value and also pay
out the same kind of money.
The only way that inflation
harms banks is in the decline of
their long issues of Government
Bonds; but wise bankers will
buy only short maturities.
Careful Examinations
Banks are not only audited by
their own communities, but also
by state or national examiners,
or perhaps by both. Stockhold
ers can at any time get a finan
cial statement, free of cost. You,
therefore, can keep a constant
watch on your bank's financial
condition.
Instead of bank statements be
ing padded, they usually contain
"hidden assets." Banks may be
compelled by the examiners to
treat as "valueless" certain notes
or collateral; but these are not
destroyed and may, again be
come valuable.
Bank Stocks Give Local Prestige
It seldom helps one's credit or
social standing in the community
to own stocks listed on the New
York Stock Exchange, even if
they are of the highest grade.
It, however, does help one's
credit and standing to be a stock
holder in the local bank. I espe
cially advise young people
men or women to acquire a few
shares of their local bank stock
every year.
When I refer to such bank
stocks, I have in mind the stock
of State or National Banks. Most
Savings Banks, Federal Loan
Banks, and Co-operative Banks
are mutually owned and hence
have no stockholders. Let me
say as a final thought: Banks
are one of the few businesses
which need not fear new com
petitors. It would be hard for
any group to secure a charter
for a new bank in your city or
town. ;
the perls of a trip into space
Our TV reception is very good
here on both channels 2 and 7
from Boise, Ida. We listened as
President Eisenhower spoke a
few night ago. It was a fairly
good speech. But as I heard him
emphasize our need for higher
and more thorough education,
I was remembering that it was
his administration, sanctioning
the ideas of our then Secretary
of Interior Doug McKay, that
handed over to just a few states
the offshore oil which had been
earmarked by a former adminis
tration to be divided among all
the States as a fund for educa
tion and more and better schools.
This and other "give-ways"
depleted fund's that should have
been used for the good of all
the people. The recent election
returns in many States prove
that many voters are remember
ing.
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age speed of 469.5 miles an hour.
At North" Atlantic Treaty
Organization Headquarters in
Paris, smaller countries of the
western alliance expressed fear
that the United States and other
large nations were permitting
their preoccupation with nuclear
weapons to overshadow the
threat of Russia's conventional
war-making strength.
There was a sudden and poten
tially serious fiare-up in rela
tions between the United States
and France over the demand of
Tunisia, France's one-time pro
tectorate which obtained its in
dependence in 1956, for weapons.
France fears that any weap
ons sent to Tunisia will be used
actually to help the rebels in
Algeria, Tunisia's neighbor on
the west.
The United States fears that
unless Tunisia gets weapons
from western countries, it will
turn to Russia.
Premier Felix Gaillard con
ferred with American Ambassa
dor Amory Houghton Thursday
on the situation. He was report
ed to have protested vigorously
against any move by the United
States or Great Britain to arnO
Tunisia.
Then it was announced that
Foreign Minister Christian Pi
neau would fly to Washington
to put France's case before Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles.
President Carlos P. Garcia
seemed assured, on the basis of
partial returns, of reelection in
the Philippines national election.
But his vice presidential running
mate, Jose P. Laurel Jr., on the
Nationalist Party ticket, seemed
doomed to certain defeat by Lib
eral candidate Diosdado Macapa
gal. Proposed Big Dams
Discussed at Hearing
Portland (U Pros and cons
of two big proposed Snake river
dam projects were aired today
at the final of a series of four
hearings on proposed revisions
of the Army engineers' "308
report" master plan for Columbia
river development.
The Pacific Northwest Power
company, formed by four private
utility firms, plugged for its pro
posed Mountain Sheep and Pleas
ant Valley dams on the middle
Snake. 1
Public power spokesmen favor
the larger Nez Perce dam, which
was attacked at other hearings
by fish and game spokesmen
as salmon - threatening. The
Izaak Walton League of America
said it would oppose construc
tion of Nez Perce.
Students Initiated
Into Phoenix FT A
Talent Five members of the
Talent high school Future Teach
ers of America took part in initi
ation ceremonies for eight candi
dates in the Narcissa Whitman,
chapter of the FTA at Phoenix
high school recently.
In charee of the candlelight
ceremony was Talent FTA pres
ident Garda Walter who was as
sisted by Doris Bench, Leah
Hazel ton, Julie . Hanson and
Phristinp Kundsen. Short talks
on "Teaching and Why I Enjoy
Teaching" were given by super
intendent Ernest James and
sixth-grade teacher Mrs. Gladys
Sloane.
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