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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 20, 1947 (Thursday)
Persons collecting funds In
Medford now in the name of the
American Cancer society are op
erating fraudulently, it -was
warned today.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "A stage
depot is under construction at
ront and Fifth sts. This prom
inent corner escaped being a gas
(gjlo for three decades."
M YEARS AGO
(go. 20. 1937 (Friday)
One of the biggest real estate
Jials in many years in the Ash
afrid area was completed when
Ben Gerwick, of Berkeley, Calif.,
purchased the Wade Wallis stock
rjneh.
Wrs. Ruth Freed, child welfare
chairman of the American Le
gion auxiliary announced today
that the Medford unit would dis
tribute baskets of food to needy
families next Tuesday.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 20, 1927 (Sunday)
Medford is to have another
new up-to-date business building
on the corner of Main and Holly
sts. The old brick Presbyterian
church and the frame building
to the rear will be removed.
With more than 100 teachers
from various districts of Jackson
county in attendance, this year's
institute closing at the high
(School today was said to be one
of the most successful.
(40 YBARS AGO
Jot.-gO, 117 (Tuesday)
The Medford Red Cross chap
ter with its eight auxiliaries in
jtackson county have sent 20,666
JRTticles to the front in the last
(jjx months, it was reported.
A telegram from Cadet T. E.
Scantlin Jr. to his father an
nounces the trrival of his fly
ing squadron af their concentra
tion camp at Garden City, Long
Island, N. Y.
Wktft Ttir I.Q.?
Nine or tea correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Name the famous fictional
character created by Joel Chand
ler Harris?
2. Bible: What garment was
set in "ouches" woven with gold?
3. What is the name for the
judiciaj bodies that try Army
military offences?
4. In which city was President
McKinley shot?
5. Among which class of work
. ers was the industrial disease
' "phossy jaw" widespread?
; 6. Melitpol is the gateway to
what peninsula in USSR?
7. On what island is Jogjak
. arta?
8. The planet that can' most
closely approach the earth is
Venus, Mars, or Mercury?
9. What three-letter word
means "passing through"?
10. "I envy them, these monks
of old,their books they read,
and their beads they" what?
1. Uncle Remus. 2. The Breast
plate of Judgment. 3 Courts-martial.
4. Buffalo. N. Y. 5. Makers
of matches (working with phos
Opfcsious). 6. The Crimea. 7. Java.
8. Tenus. 9. Via. 10. "told.
divas' "Monks of Old." ,
Christmas Before Thanksgiving
The Holiday Season seems to be upon us.
Thanksgiving, which we like to think of as the
"most American" of all major festive holidays, is next
week.
Christmas decorations are up which is the sub
ject of this piece. Many are the complaints we have
heard that they are up as early as this, the earliest that
anyone around here can remember. "Why do they
need Christmas decorations so soon after Halloween,
and long before Thanksgiving?" we have been asked.
"Isn't that pushing it too much? Isn't that carrying
'commercialism' too far?"
"IXELL, perhaps it is.
But who is it hurting? Not us, certainly. We'll
probably do our Christmas shopping at the last minute
on Christmas eve, anyway, as is our usual slovenly
custom.
And "doing your Christmas shopping early" has
its virtues, so that reminding patrons that the season
is rapidly approaching probably has its advantages,
too.
The best argument we have seen for this position,
while still not entirely convincing, is one published
"m the interest of retailing by a nrm m Oaiiiorma.
I
T SAYS, in part:
"Every successful store directs its best effort toward
perfecting a helpful service to all its customers. And since
many customers ask stores to make it easier for them to
complete their gift shopping before the crowded post
Thanksgiving period, Christmas merchandise and displays
are brought forward early to accommodate them.
"And scarcely a major store in the nation could cope
with the store traffic that would be generated if any part
of early Christmas shopping was postponed until after
Thanksgiving. Even under present circumstances most
stores are strained to capacity during the peak of the sea
son, to maintain the kind of store service all shoppers have
learned to expect . . .
"Granted that the problem is not a one-sided one, it
should be recognized that stores are faced with the prob
lems of convenient service to customers, of maintaining
helpful employee relations, of providing a place where
those of the public who can not, or do not, plan ahead may
select the traditional gifts for their loved ones and
friends . . ."
That, then, is the attitude many merchants take,
and it makes a certain amount of practical sense. But,
frankly, it still. disturbs us to see the Yuletide decora
tions up before Thanksgiving. E.A.
Hats Off to Douglas
On our desk at the moment is a handsome two-
color brochure entitled "Your Douglas County Parks."
It is a publication of the Douglas County Parks Depart
ment, and sells for 25 cents. It is well worth that
modest price to anyone interested in picnicking,
hiking, camping, boating, fishing, hunting, swimming
or watching scenery in our neighbor county to the
north.
Dominant color of the brochure is green. And it
turns us green with envy to think that Douglas county
has made such strides forward in satisfying the needs
of its citizens and visitors, while Jackson county,
only after great and agonizing effort, came up with
$3,000 for "park purposes." Peanuts!
.
HTHE brochure, the initial purpose of which is to
give information about county parks, goes further,
and lists state parks, forest service camps and recrea
tional areas, and Crater Lake National park, as well
as county parks.
Each recreational area is not only pin-pointed on
an excellent and easily legible map, but also is
described on a list as to location, size, picnic and
camping capacity, accommodations, facilities avail
able, scenic values, and special features.
The editorial hat is off to Douglas county and its
park department. And we wonder if the day will ever
come when Jackson county can be saluted with equal
warmth for looking to the future and providing
for it! E.A.
Public Dramatics
Under the heading, "Daily Drama," the Oregon
Statesman in Salem editorializes on the dramatic
qualities inherent in the meeting of public bodies
the city council, the school board, the legislature.
Every reporter who has covered meetings of such
groups knows it to be true that, upon occasion, there
is high drama in such gatherings. Not always, of
course, for many meetings are routine, and others are
cut-and-dried.
But sometimes, and not infrequently, the clash
of personalities and ideas, the outbursts of emotion
and the cutting edge of logic, the collision of idealism
and materialism, furnish the real stuff of drama.
INDIVIDUAL citizens rarely, if ever, attend such
meetings unless something is under consideration
in which they have a real (usually a pecuniary) inter
est. But when an issue at controversy does arise, they
pack the chambers, and their presence adds to the
electric atmosphere.
Having attended rather more than our share of
such gatherings, we can, as the saying goes, "Take 'em
or leave 'em," and too frequently do the latter. But
we cheat ourself when we do, for there is real enter
tainment in watching the interplay of conflicts and
personalities such meetings bring out.
With all this, we agree with the conclusion of the
Statesman, that "it's a wonder more citizens don't
realize their government has a human character and
take in an occasional public meeting without waiting
for a television debut." E.A. ,
1 SlIKE WISH Mi. WilOH WOULD BftfU VfXJ450Me
60UP. IA SETTIN' PRETTY SICK OF &AI& CCOKIH '
Negro Leaders Moving
Toward Ballot Box
In Civil Rights Fight
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Negro lead
ers are directing the civil rights
controversy away from the con-
g r e s s lonal
arena and into
the poling
places of the
southern
states.
S o u t hern
white Demo
crats probably
must shift
. their attention
from the
schools to the ballot boxes if
they are to meet this new trend.
Regardless of the merits of the
controversy, the Negro strategy
appears to be sound and promising.
I.yle C. Wilson
Editorial
omment
WHY fVT $34 BILLION
UNDERGROUND?
J. ne recommendation by the
federal civil defense administra
tion that we spend $34,000,000,
000 for construction of under
ground shelters is ridiculous.
If this country ever sets in an
'"underground" state of mind, it
is writing the end to its own fu
ture. There is good sense and in
surance in providing protected
control and centers of communi
cation, but we could bankrupt
ourselves financially, mentally
ana morally by going for under
ground shelters for everyone.
There has never been any such
thing as complete security. There
never has been and there never
will be. But the best "security"
for this country is an active peo
ple doing things, and that doesn't
include digging holes in which to
hide. Any money that we can
spare in the national budget
should go to education, research
and sound experiments. The hu
man mind and the human spirit
were not designed to live in a
hole. The mind and the spirit
should roam free and unafraid.
Superiority in skills, educa
tion, determination, imagination
and loyalty to ideals that is the
security" of free men. Let's not
crawl into any holes, or any
"hole in the ground" philosophy!
Oregon Journal.
FLUORIDATION BENEFITS
Suburban Maryland young
sters who have - been drinking
fluoridated water all of their
lives show 80 per cent fewer
decayed teeth than normal, ac
cording to a study by the Na
tional Institute of Dental Re
search in Bethesda.
The Institute has been mak
ing yearly checks on groups of
children in Montgomery and
Prince Georges counties ever
since, the Washington-Suburban
Sanitary commission began fluor
idating its water in January,
1952.
Six-year-olds who have drunk
nothing but the fluoride-treated
water show 80 per cent fewer
teeth with one or more cavities
than children who drink untreat
ed water.
Thirteen-year-olds, who were
7 and 8 when the fluoridation
began, show a decline of about
15 per cent in the number of de
cayed teeth.
Dr. Albert Russell, director of
the survey, said that the cavity
rate for the 6-year-olds is low
because the fluoride delays some
cavities which will develop la
ter on. He said that as the chil
dren grow older, the rate of de
cayed teeth will run between 60
and 65 per cent below that of
persons who drink untreated
water.
Although the study was con
fined to Montgomery and Prince
Georges, Dr. Russell said he was
sure the same results would be
noted in the District, where
fluoridation of water began in
June, 1952. Washington (D.C.
Post and Times Herald.
Rep. Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D
Mich.) is a Negro who knows
about politics. He recently coun
selled his race, as follows:
Says South Misguided
"The South is misguided by
white politicians competing with
each other. The only language
a politician" understands, especi
ally a southern politician, is the
ballot."
Now comes Roy Wilkins, na
tional executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
(NAACP) with a plan, Wilkins
announced in Atlanta, Ga., that
NAACP would attempt to get 3,
000,000 southern, Negroes to the
polls. , .
He will be aided in that effort
by the voting rights guarantee
enacted at the last session of Con
gress. Wilkins said about 25 per
cent of eligible southern Negroes
were presently registered and
that the campaign would seek to
make it 60 per cent.
Seek Complexion Change
First objective of this get-out-the-vote
campaign is to change
the the complexion of the south
ern legislatures. If that complex
ion were changed so, too, would
be changed the complextion of
the delegations of southern states
to the United States Congress
The impact of such changes
would be felt far beyond the bor
ders of the old South. Southern
members of the U. S. Congress
who were more or less respon
sive to Negro voters back home
could and probably would team
happily with northern Demo
crats who comprise the left wing
of their party not only on civil
rights but on domestic questions
generally.
A more comprehensive wel
fare state and a greater central
ization of government in Wash
ington would be expected to flow
from that. Congressional con
servatives, of whatever party
label, would become a more or
less permanent minority, large
ly powerless to affect policy
trends.
System Discourages Voting
The one-party system and the
poll tax have tended in the
South to discourage voting. The
percentage of eligibles who
trouble to go to the polls in some
southern states is very low. The
NAACP registration drive among
Negroes should spark a Demo
cratic registration campaign by
southern whites.
Out of that, of course, could
come a two-party system in the
old South. It has been coming, al
though slowly. The use of federal
troops in Little Rock generally
is judged to have stopped the
two-party trend cold. The drive
of southern Negroes lor ballot
box power may start it again.
Only Mississippi among the
southern states did not in 1956
record any votes for Republican
candidates for the U. S. House
of Representatives. Ten other
southern States cast l,64b,uuu
votes for Republican house can
didates. The total vote for Dem
ocratic candidates for the house
was 4,746,000.
Not a bad start toward two par
ties.
MOUNTAIN ROAD
North Adams, Mass (IP) A
toll road may be constructed
over Massachusetts' highest
mountain. The road, suggested
as a tourist attraction, would
run across 3,500-foot Mr. Grey
lock between Williamstown and
Lanesboro. It would be about 15
miles long and would cost about
lO million dollars.
Indonesia Claiming Dutch Area;
Dispute Threatens More Trouble
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Indonesia is talking about con
quering Netherlands New Gui
nea unless the Dutch govern
ment gives it
up.
The "neu
tralist" govern
ment of the re
public, which
attained its in
d e p e n d e nee
from the Neth
erlands in 1949
has never hpen
tnarles M. McCann able t(J control
its own territory.
Revolts are chronic in several
areas. The army is unruly with
its officers split into factions.
The Communists have made dan
gerous gains in recent elections.
It might be thought that, faced
by this situation and with its
possession of 2,000 islands
spread along a 3,000-mile stretch
between the Indian Ocean and
the Pacific, the Indonesian gov
ernment might be content to try
to rule its own 82 million peo
Demanding Possession
But Indonesia is demanding
in the United Nations this week
that the Netherlands surrender
the 151,000 square miles of its
New Guinea territory which lies
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Well, the big hassel at Salem
is over and the boys have gone
home.
All in all
Everything considered
They did a pretty good job.
They certainly could have done
a much worse one if they had let
themselves get sweDt off their
feet. Fortunately, they kept their
feet pretty solidly on the ground.
IlHAT was it all about?
' " This, roughly, is the story:
When the Oregon legislature
assembled in Salem last winter,
it faced two principal jobs:
1. To determine how much
money would be needed to run
the state, for the next biennium
(a biennium is two years.)
2. To levy taxes to raise the
money.
Somewhere along the line,
somebody goofed. As a result of
the goof, it became apparent that
the taxes that were levied would
produce MORE money than was
needed.
to the east. Indonesia calls the
territory "West Irian."
Indonesia's claim is based
largely on the ground that it
ought to inherit everything the
Netherlands possessed in that
part of the world. However, New
Guinea is obviously a separate
territory. Its people are of an
entirely different racial stock
than Indonesians.
In recent weeks, as the time
for the U.N. debate neared, In
donesian leaders have been in
creasingly threatening in their
statements.
Foreign Minister Subandrio
said, in a statement during a vis
it to the Philippines, that the
New Guinea situation could lead
to a world war unless the U.N.
vote went in its favor.
Threatens Use of Force
"Indonesia must use force if
the Irian issue is rejected by
the U.N.," he said.
The Netherlands has made It
plain that it will not give up Its
part of New Guinea.
Also, it happens that Australia
controls the remainder of New
Guinea, part outright, part under
U.N. trusteeship.
Australia has made it plain
that in no circumstances will it
permit Indonesia to take over
Dutch New Guinea.
It is hardly likely that Indo
nesia would get anywhere if it
tried to take Netherlands New
Guinea, or western New Guinea,
by force.
Nevertheless, the dispute is
potentially serious, if only be
cause any trouble areas helps
Soviet Russia in the cold war.
Thc-re is also the fact that the
United States, for reasons of
pjlicy, has said it would remain
"neutral" in the U.N. debate.
Wall Street Claims
Easing of Money Not
Magic for Business
WHAT to do about it?
Tfiprp cflmo lu tiiT-
The governor got scared and
called a special session of the
legislature to give some of the
money back to the taxpayers.
When the legislature as
sembled, two schools of thought
arose among the members. The
governor wanted to give only
10 per cent of the expected sur
plus back. In this desire, he was
joined by most of the Democratic
members. The Republicans pro
posed to give 30 per cent of it
back.
THE battle raged around that
The governor and his party
supporters argued that if too
much was put back Into the tax
payers' pockets now MORE
would have to be taken out of
their pockets two years hence.
The Republicans based their
position on the broad, general
contention that if when the
1959 legislature assembled
there was a big surplus in the
treasury it would tend to pro
mote . extravagance in the de
mands (come 1959) of those who
want money from the state.
So
They argued
It will be better to give back
a LOT of the surplus NOW so
that there won't be so much in
the state's treasury come 1959.
As is usual In such situations, the
result was a compromise. The
figure finally agreed upon was
20 per cent to be given back to
the taxpayers. '
THE big question:
Who name out of the ruck-
US with the most political credit?
TAKING human nature into
consideration, I expect the
Republicans came out a shade
ahead. They proposed to give
the money back NOW. We can
all use it NOW! We all have
bills to pay, and we can use the
refund to help pay them.
Two years from now is a long
time off. Maybe we'll all be rich
and happy by then and won t
have to worry about paying our
bills. Hope, you know, springs
eternal in the human breast.
By ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York (IP! Now that
Wall Street has had the oppor
tunity to digest the import of
the Federal
Reserve cut in
the discount
rate in some
of the banks,
it has conclud
ed an easing
of money isn't
magic for busi
ness recovery.
Market men
Elmer Waizer hold that easi
er money will help improve the
climate for business but it isn't
going to aid the profit squeeze
which is likely to show up more
severely in this quarter, and it
isn't considered likely to boost
dividends beyond the level they
would have been without it.
But the rate cut, it is held,
might delay the test of the re
cent lows in the stock market to
next January or February. Many
market men hold that there still
is a prospect of a test and that
the lows will be violated.
The brokers continue to urge
a cautious market policy and
many are suggesting profit tak
ing or selling to raise money to
get into consumer goods issues
or defensive securities.
Market Surprised
The market was surprised by
the timing of the cut and by the
method used to easy money
Many had anticipated a move to
buy governments by the Federal
Reserve to increase the money
supply at holiday time.
The method used in reducing
the discount rate, it is held,
gives more publicity to the ac
tion and not only improves
morale here but also in Europe
where some of the nation's allies
have been having difficulty.
Edmund W. Tabell, analyst
for Walston & Co., holds that
probably more than one step
in money easing will be needed
to reserve the drot in business
pattern since mid-1957.
Noting that it took more than
two years for tight money to re
verse the business boom. "It is
probable that over the next year
or so further downward adjust
ments will be made before the
business pattern finally consoli
dates and adjusts and is ready
A THOUGHT in conclusion:
NEXT TIME let's be a little
MORE ACCURATE in our fore
casts of how much money will be
needed just how much will be
raised by a certain type of tax.
Let's not goof again.
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aSBpaper Sale!
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Bedford Paint & Wallpaper Store
6th and Holly
Eighth Graders to
Launch 'Satellite'
Portland (IP) Eighth grade
students at Chief Joseph school
will launch a "satellite" Friday.
It will be a weather balloon cov
ered with aluminum foil and
filled with helium.
The students have built a
transmitter and will track the
balloon with a theodolite loaned
them by the U.S. weather bu
reau. They plan to make com
putations on the aerial condi
tions the balloon will encounter.
Principal William E. Moore
said the children plan a second
"satellite" too, equipped with a
transistor - powered transmitter
that will send a continuous wave
signal back to the students for
tracking purposes.
for another advancing phase.
"In the meantime there will,
be continued selectivity during
the period of consolidation and
adjustment."
Gerald M. Loeb, a senior part
ner of E. F. Hutton & Co., be
lieves that it will take time to
turn the earnings situation
around and "hence that stocks
which have decreased earnings
probabilities ahead of them wUl
only rally rather than complete
ly cancel out their downtrends.
"The news is encouraging but
it will take more news and mora
time to lay a base for a long
lasting upturn."
According to Walter Maynard,
analyst for Shearson, Hammill
& Co., it would seem wise for
investors to continus to "pursue
a cautious policy."
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