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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune. 10. SO. SO and
40 years ago.
10 YEAR S AGO
Nov. 24, 1947 (Monday)
Work on the fish ladder at the
Savage Rapids dam is nearing
completion, according to Ken
neth S. Martin, of Grants Pass,
game commission member.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The sec
retary of agriculture predicts a
grave shortage of beef in the
early spring. Motorists driving
along local highways and coun
ty roads agr.ee as they see
steers dotting the pastures and
clogging the roads."
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 13T (Wednesday)
Another unit In the growing
skyline of Medford business dis
trict was started yesterday when
ground was broken for a mod
ern, one-story market building
to be erected on North Central
ave., adjoining the City Meat
market, by J. E. Trevorrow, San
Francisco real estate man.
The sawmill of the Medford
Corporation will shut down Dec.
1 and logging operations of the
concern in the Butte Falls dis
trict will cease about Dec. 15.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 1927 (Friday)
The total valuation for Jack
son county for this year, accord
ing to figures compiled by the
assessor's office is $33,365,655.
Ilak, the famous Alaskan wolf
dog, whose pastime is playing
star roles in pictures, is in Med
ford today after completing a
tour of the Pacific Coast.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24. 1917 (Saturday)
A much-welcomed feature at
Crater Lake park next summer
will be inauguration of burro
and horse service at the park,,
according to Aleck Sparrow,
supervisor of Crater Lake Na
tional park.
State fir protective, associa
tion has announced next year
they will begin early in the sea
son to burn out the dead logs
find brush3 close to the timber
areas.
What's Tour I.Q.?
Nine or te cerrect Is superior;
seven or elsat ts excellent; five or
sir is moot
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1. Does India, U.S., or China
produce the most soy beans?
2. Bible: Rev. 10.21 refers to
"sardonix": Is it a gem, an in
fidel, or Satan?
3. Etoes an xylophonist make
ar phones, plastics, or music?
4. For what product is chicle
largely used?
5. Name the newest Independ
ent republic in the world?
6. From what plant is snuff
manufactured?
7. Is coke made from a miner
al, vegetable, or animal?
8. West Point is the popular
name for which Government
school?
9. Is it correct to seal a letter
of introduction?
10. What 3-word slang phrase
signifies a torrential rain?
Answers: 1. U.S. 2. Gem. Prob
ably a ruby. 3. Music. 4. Chewing-gum.
5. Republic of Ghana.
6 Tobacco. 7. Mineral. Coal.
8 United States Military Acad
emy. 9. No. 10. "Cats and dogs"
(II rains like)
MAIL TRIBUNE
An Inquiry Is Answered
To the Editor: Speaking of TV and radio I am all in a
tizzy. For what do I hear day in and day out. This pill is no
good, some other pill is. If you want to live you better get
this shin-plaster and avoid some other. As for motor cars,
one make will fly over the fence and some other can't get
off the ground, and who can you believe, and what are you
going to do about it? Why don't YOU run an "Advice to
Buyers column" and give us poor pedestrians the low down.
If this barrage over the air keeps on I, for one, am going
"nuts".
A. T. Stewart
Medford, Oregon
No thank you. This is a great opportunity for some
young man to conduct a reliable "buyers guide" at so
much an issue, but we have our hands full trying to
run a daily newspaper.
OOWEVER we don't think motor-cars present much
of a problem. In our opinion, as far as adequate
comfort and sufficiently satisfactory transportation
are concerned there isn't a "bad buy" on the market.
It is up to the individual, whether he wants a big car
or a little one; a low-priced or an expensive one; a
car painted in conventional black, blue or red, or in
two or three pastel-shades with chrome trimmings.
It was different in the "good old days" but today buy
ing a car is chiefly a question of personal taste and
the condition of the family's exchequer.
CO THAT'S that.
But the pill-market the entire field of medi
cine and medical treatment that is another matter
and a more serious one.
The Federal Food and Drug Act is supposed to
keep the "Medicine Men" and the "Kickapoo Indian"
fakirs off the market, but we doubt if the government
is as effective in this field as it should be.
At any rate, this department's advice in this area
is short if not especially sweet to wit :
Don't take any pills, or try any medical treatments,
advertised over the air, or anywhere else, without first
getting an "ok" from your doctor.
For your doctor must have your confidence or he
wouldn't be YOUR doctor.
And in this area it takes a trained expert to make
the proper decision, not an untrained amateur, or the
average layman. Q. E. D. R.W.R.
A Republican Speaks Out
The Roseburg News-Review is one of the few
Republican newspapers in the state that censures the
party in the recent special session for "playing poli
tics." We quote:
Republican legislators had an opportunity to come forth
with a constructive program. Instead they elected to em
barrass the governor and the Democratic party and play
the political game.
They endeavored to cut state taxes below the level the
Republicans demanded for themselves when they were in
control of the administration. Such demand, it seems to
me, can hardly be classified under the heading of states
manship. Well said, and completely true.
Also a refreshing relief from those members of
the GOP "Old Guard" who in spite of the evidence,
have claimed that only the Democrats played politics,
while they were fighting to save the state from bank
ruptcy and giving first-aid to the long suffering, and
sorely wounded tax-payers.
X7E DON'T wish to give the impression the Rose-
burg paper had any compliments to pay the
Democrats. Nor did the RNR have any use for the
fruits of the special session.
But the paper did concur in general with Governor
Holmes' point-of-view that the tax-refund should have
been on a more conservative basis, because with eco
nomic conditions what they are, and promise to be
come in the future, a large cash-surplus back-log will
be needed to meet state expenditures after the next
legislature has adjourned.
In other words, like the Governor the Review
would not have taken chances just to please the tax
payers today, and then probably force them to run
the risk of having to pay back as much or more, in
higher taxes a year or two hence.
As stated in this department before, that program
of going slow was just good sound business-sense.
OOWEVER the special session as a whole the "Re
view" considers a flop and a needless one which
might as well be charged up as an "amusement tax".
Far better, it concludes "had this surplus money
been used to relieve depressed areas in the state,"
passed around to these unfortunate sections "to create
jobs, reduce unemployment, and prime the non-functioning
business-pump" in general.
"IXELL without subjecting this proposal to any criti-
cal analysis or noting it was favored at the ses
sion only by the Douglas County delegation it does
seem somewhat surprising that a good old orthodox
and regular Republican paper, should so readily and
uncomplainingly embrace the essential principles of
the late Franklin D. Roosevelt's Republican-hated and
exorcised "New Deal". R.W.R.
Taxes vs. Freight Rates
Oregon's Gov. Holmes and Washington's Gov.
Rosellini are planning an attack on freight rates that
discriminate against Northwest business and industry.
They will need all the help they can get to wage that
battle. There can be no question that it is worth fight
ing. Many believe that discriminatory freight rates,
not high taxes, are the greatest deterrent to business
and industrial growth in the Northwest. Pendleton
East-Oregonian
Sunday, November 24, 1957
' lfaiesr,VM)i The doctor said Mom could have
ALL THS ICE CR2AM W COULD EAT
Today and
By Walter
INTERDEPENDENCE
In the light of what Secretary
Dulles and Secretary McElroy
have been saying at their press
conference this
week, the con
trolling fact in
the discussions
about NATO
is that we now
expect the So
viet Union to
produce, some
years before
Walter Uppmann we do, mis
siles which can
fly the distance between Russia
and America. We are, it appears,
less far behind the Russians in
missiles which can fly the short
er distance between Western
Europe and Russia.
Therefore, we are proposing
to our allies that we, in coopera
tion with them, set up launching
sites for medium range missiles
in Western Europe. This, it is
believed, will deter the Soviet
Union both from launching the
long range missiles against the
United States and the medium
range missiles against Britain,
France, Germany and the rest
of Western Europe.
This will indeed mean a very
high degree of what the Presi
dent and the Prime Minister
have called "interdependence.".
Under this arrangement our
main defense can be used only
if our European allies separate
ly and jointly consent. Their
main defenses can be used only
if we, plus the other members
of NATO, jointly and severally
consent. This interlocking sys
tem, which looked at negatively
is really a system of vetoes, is
likely to work successfully only
if the issue is an unmistakable,
open and flagrant aggression
against a member of ihe NATO
organization.
But if the issue, is outside
NATO, whether in Africa, the
Middle East, or Eastern Asia,
the interlocking vetoes of the
interdependent system are like
ly to prevail. NATO is not like
ly to have a collective policy.
We have seen this in Korea, For
mosa, Suez, Cyprus, and French
North Africa.
THIS basic situation has led to
the search for formulae. Usu
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Crime note in the news:
The deputy chief of police in
the capital city' of the United
States of America makes the
minor headlines with a charge
that the gambling business' in
Washington has reached a vol
ume of a million dollars a day.
He announces he is quitting
his job because of the difficulty
involved in GETTING ti AM
BLERS CONVICTED after his
men have arrested them.
It's Retting so bad, he inti
mates, that it isn't much use
to go after the gamblers any
more.
CRIME note No. 2: '
An inquiry has begun into
an upstate New York GANG
LAND CONVENTION.
The investigation was order
ed by New York's Governor Har
riman. Its objective will be to
look into the activities of the
more than 60 TOP HOODLUMS
who attended the meeting.
HMMMMMM.
So the gangster business
has reached the point where it
HOLDS CONVENTIONS.
D'ya reckon the attending
delegates WEAR BADGES?'
If so, it should be an easy job
to round them up.
BUT
As the deputy chief of po
lice of the nation's capital city
says
It's practically impossible to
convict 'em after arresting 'em.
m
Ma '
Tomorrow
Lippmann
ally they are of two kinds.
One is to work out theoreti
cally the answers to all sorts
of imaginary situations which
might arise if there were various
kinds of trouble. These exer
cises, which are the proper busi
ness of military planners, cannot
be taken too seriously by states
men. Except in the case of direct
and overt attack, there are no
clear situations which can be de
fined in advance, and made the
subject of binding commitments
to go to war.
The alternative Is to seek for
mulae of consultation by which
the allies can work out a com
mon position and a collective
line of action. This must, of
course, be attempted. . There
should be continual consultation.
But we must not deceive our
selves. There are diverse inter
ests within NATO, and .when
these interests are regarded as
vital, the greater powers, though
they consult the others, will not
feel themselves bound in all
cases to abide by the judgment
of others.
STUDENTS of collective action
are, I think, well aware that
the general tendency of coali
tions among sovereign states is
to become stalemated and inac
tive. That is to say, the. veto
prevails. Thus, there is a stale
mate in Eastern Asia because
the United States government
exercises a steadfast veto against
dealing with Red China. There
is therefore no allied policy on
the Chinese question. France, of
course, exercises a veto in North
Africa, and anything in the na
ture of mediation is strictly and
sternly forbidden. The British
have a veto in Cyprus. Dr. Ad
enauer has a veto on the German
problem.
The over-all effect of these
interlocking vetoes is to inhibit
the non-Communist world from
any initiative, from any capacity
to negotiate, from adopting any
policy except to stand pat in
status quo. It is this frozen im
mobility on our sice which pro
vides the Soviet Union' with one
opportunity after another to
score hits in the game of power
politices.
Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
JENKINS
, T EMEMBER this hoodlum Ana-
x stasia who was shot to death
by some other hoodlums in the
barber shop of a big New York
hotel a while back?
It appears that he had been
rattling around New York City
for years and years and years,
killing people (or ordering 'em
killed) whenever he felt like it.
But nobody ever seemed to be
able to get anything on him that
would put him away for good
in the Big Stone House that is
supposed to be reserved for
characters of that sort.
THEN, years ago, there was a
character named Capone. He
too was addicted to the habit
of killing people, or having them
killed, whenever they got in his
way.
It wasn't until old Uncle Sam
went after him for EVADING
HIS INCOME TAXES that Ca
pone got parked away behind
the bars.
THE news is full of stories
about government investiga
tions. More or less everybody is be
ing accused of doing things they
hadn't oughta do. The Demo
crats are going after the Repub
licans. The Republicans are go
ing after the Democrats. Our sci
entists are being fried out in the
pan for letting the Russians get
ahead of us with .a Sputnik.
I sometimes think it might be
a good idea to INVESTIGATE
GOVERNMENT.
Editorial
Comment
NEUBERGER AS GOVERNOR?
There are interesting condi
tions and possibilities which
might find the Oregon Demo
cratic field in just such a switch
as the Republicans in California.
It would involve Sen. Richard
Neuberger running for governor
on the Democratic ticket, and
if elected, he would resign from
the senate and name M. Holmes
to fill out his unexpired term.
First of all, the Democratic
party of Oregon is exceedingly
anxious to retain the governor
ship. Some party leaders recog
nize that Governor Holmes is not
a strong or outstanding governor
and they suspect that a strong
GOP candidate could defeat Mr.
Holmes.
The "feud" between Senators
Neuberger and Morse, which has
been denied by both, may not
be a feud, but it is eminently
clear that Senator Neuberger is
voting his own convictions and
is neither a pupil nor an errand
boy for the senior senator. Both
Senator Neuberger and his wife
have a deep affection for Ore
gon; they would probably be far
happier residing in Salem than
in the hectic atmosphere of
Washington.
So there are - several factors
which might influence Senator
Neuberger to look with favor on
the governorship rather than
continuing in the senate. As far
as the Democratic party is con
cerned, Senator Neuberger would
make a stronger governor than
the incumbent and his eiection
as the state's chief executive
would help the Democrats
strengthen their hold on state
government. It makes sense from
a political standpoint. Ashland
Tidings.
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Youngsters Appreciative
To the Editor: There are nine
of us at the Junior Service
League Kindergarten for hard
of hearing children who would
like to thank the people in
Jackson county who made the
League's 1957 Follies a success.
We 'are not able to hear all
the nice things people say about
the Follies, but we know how
hard all the members and all
our wonderful teachers work
to help us, so that we, and other
children who cannot hear, will
receive help in the years to come.
Sincerely,
Pupils of the Junior
Service League Kinder
garten for Hard of
Hearing Children.
P.S. We are not able . to read
or write yet so . our teacher
helped us with this note.
Matter of Fact
THE WASHINGTON JITTERS
Amman, Jordan What has
been unkindly described as the
vulture branch of the news
paper business
largely con
sists in flying
from a crisis
situation to crisis-situation.
If
there is no
trouble, there
is no news", so
you do not go
there.
Joseph Alsop
Maybe per-
sons in a trade so akin to am
bulance chasing have no right to
complain about anything. All
the same this reporter would
like to register ; a mild com
plaint against the current Wash
ington tendency to succumb to
exaggerated attacks of the jit
ters. The fault is not always seeing
crises where no crises exist. The
complaint is based on recent ex
perience. The spectacle of Niki-
ta Khrushchev hurling thunder
bolts of war from the ramparts
of the Kremlin is never reassur
ing. Perhaps the American pol
icy-makers were right to take
his threats to Turkey as serious
ly as they did.
None the less, after a hasty
journey to .the storm-center in
Ankara, it was a bit surprising
to find the Turks exhibiting the
most stolid and phlegmatic in
difference to Khrushchev's men
aces. At this seeming peak of
danger, all four of the-Turkish
Chiefs of Staff, the. chairman
and the heads of all three of the
armed services, had cast off
their military uniforms to run
for Parliament. The Prime Min
ister, Adnan Menderes, blandly
explained that his Chiefs of
Staff were getting near the re
tirement age anyway, so "this
was really their last chance to
start a new career in politics.
POSSIBLY this was carrying
phlegm a mite too far. But
one could -not help reflecting
that a little of the Turkish stol
idity would have been a big
help to Secretary of State Dul
les, especially during the slight
ly earlier events in Syria. The
pro-Soviet coup in Damascus
was bad enough, God knows, but
it was made about five times
more damaging by the extreme
excitability and resulting fan
POTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
There are two employees at
the Mail Tribune who we will
call Bill Smith and John Jones,
because those are not their
names.
The other day, John Jones
started to write one of those
"personalized" checks, bearing
the name and address of the
bearer, put out by local banks.
The man behind the counter
glanced at the check and asked
"Is your name Bill Smith?"
"No, it's John Jones," replied
Jones.
"Then why does it say 'Bill
Smith'?" the man asked.
Startled, Jones looked at it,
and sure enough, that one check
was clearly printed "Bill Smith,"
despite the fact that all the rest
of the checks in the pad said
"John Jones."
Bill Smith is devoutly hoping
the printing company that fur
nishes the checks gets straighten
ed out before something of the
sort happens to a less-honest guy
than John Jones.
'
Our farm editor hopes that
the new site of the experimen
tal farm will have mora up-to-date
heating facilities than the
old ones that are being aban
doned. They consist of wood
stoves and a couple of old oil
heaters. "Shucks," he said,
"even the pear orchards have
better heating equipment than
that."
Our city hall reporter reminds
of the plight of the denizens of
that building during the current
remodeling program.
Public Works Director Vernon
Thorpe, he tells us, had no desk
at all for two days, and con
ducted his business while wan
dering from room to room. When
he finally moved into his new
office at the rear of the building,
he had no heat for another day
or two.
And a rather better dressed
than usual laborer was seen to
be actually , City Attorney Roy
Bashaw, pushing a hand - truck
loaded with law books from one
office to another. Said he, busily
stacking them on the shelves in
the new office, "No use dusting
them off or cleaning the shelves.
They'll just get dusty anyway
until I have a case where I need
to use them."
A recent inter-office memo
at the city hall wound up in
the police department. It con
cerned the use of "Meter
Maids," who now check park
ing violations in many cities
including Portland and Los
Angeles. This one had a pin-up
type of picture of a starlet in
brief shorts looking at a park
ing meter. A longhand note on
the bottom told officers that
this sort of thing isn't planned
in Medford yet, but they could
still dream.
Mrs. Paul Elgin, of 1221 With
ington st., writes in to point out
By Joseph Alsop
tastic maladroitness of Washing
ton's reaction.
These reflections gained force
from the sequel. There was
hardly time to catch one's
breath after the hurried flight
to Ankara, before the news
came that the Washington pol
icy-makers were again up on
their tin ears, this time because
of a dire threat to the govern
ment of King Hussein of Jordan.
Once again, the threat looked
real enough from a distance. For
a long period, the Syrian intelli
gence organization headed by
Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj and
the Jordanian officers involved
in last spring's plot" against
King Hussein had succeeded in
promoting terror-bombings in
Jordan. The purpose was psycho
logical. The bombs were no
more than windowbreakers. But
the daily explosions caused nat
ural dismay.
"
FINALLY, King Hussein un-
covered and imprisoned the
ring of bomb-planters, mainly
soldiers who had been easily
suborned because they were per
sonally connected with the offi
cerplotters of last April. Imme
diately, Gamal Abdel . Nasser's
Cairo radio opened an incom
parably obscene and violent
campaign against the young
king, screaming objurgations,
shouting ludicrously false accu
sations of complicity with Israel,
and even openly calling for the
King's assassination.
All this, so it was said, was
taken with utmost seriousness
by the Washington policy-makers.
If there was real danger to
King Hussein nd his govern
ment, moreover, it was an acute
ly serious matter; for little Jor
dan is the present key to the
rest of the troubled Middle East.
So there followed another hur
ried air journey to Amman, and
a second vivid shock of surprise
to find everything in this little
city as outwardly peaceful as a
May morning.
THE young King and his prin
cinal collaborator in covern-
ment, Deputy Prime Minister
Samir Rifai, certainly have
enough problems on their hands
to keep any two men busy. Cer
tainly the burden of responsibil
ity of these last seven months,
the months since the April crisis
which gave the King alone the
-a
a typographical error wherg thf)
story referred to the "prone com
pany" loaning equipment fo ua
in a school.
She says she wondered if it
really was a mistake or if it
was done on purpose. She added
that with a couple of teen-aers
using the telephone at home, jh
knows what "prone compenj1
means.
We have it on good author
ty that the first U.S. satellite
will be filled with hamburtfc
ers, hot dogs, potato salat
soft drinks and potato chips.
It will, of course, be name4)
the "Picnik."
We swiped this list of hand
household hints fom another
publication for the edification Jt
our readers:
A healthy rattlesnake kept is
the dining room will rid the
house of mice.
Three or four bats loos in the
bedroom will take care of mOfc
quitoes before you retire.
Black ants detest the odor of
a goat. Tie a pair of Angoras is
the kitchen, and the ants will dis
appear. The hornet is sure death to
flies. Every good housekeeper
should keep a nest of hornets im
the kitchen and save uselett
swatting.
.
A young man complaint
that every time he goes int
a bank to cash a check he al
ways gets in line behind a
businessman banking the day's
cash. He suggests a special
window devoted solely to
"quick' transactions, like cash
ing checks, and the others for
more lengthy business. That's
all well and good. Our own
beef is that whenever 'we get
in a slow - moving line, then
move over to one that's going
faster, it invariably slows
down to a stop, and our origi
nal spot . gets to the window
five times as fast as we do.
A frolicsome photographer in
Portland the other day was call
ing at the home of friends. The
night was foggy.
So upon arrival, he .stood out
side and gave his powerful stro
boscope light a couple of flashes.
This lit up the fog in a weird
and wonderful way and created
havoc inside the house.
A woman in the house came
tearing out the door, saw him,
and cried, "Quick! Run for your
life! Flying saucers!" :
i ...
A plaintive note that ,G
handed to us points out lh&
some people complain aboef
paved streets in residenti
districts causing drivers to 0
too fast. The writer's coft
plaint, however, is about" pee)
pie that drive loo fast ove
mudholes, and he says tie k
a mud-splashed car parked i
front of his house to prove ifr
An employee of the southern
Oregon branch experiment sta
tion recently was to go to San
Francisco to drive back a Jeep.
Some people envied hgm the
trip but he said he'd driven too
many miles in those things to
look forward to a 400-mile trip.
A bystander predicted that
when he did get bapk he'd be
able to sit on a dime and tell
whether it was heads or tails.
task of maintaining Jordan's in
dependence, have transformed
young Hussein from a courage
ous boy into a serious, rather
grim-jawed, exceptionally self
contained man. But both King
Hussein and Samir Rifai could
hardly have seemed more un
concerned when they received
this . somewhat breathless rt
porter.
The bombing ring had been
utterly broken, they pointed out)
calmly; and although they ex
pected Col. Serraj to orgnieD
similar attempts in the future,
they were sure they could break
those too. As for the filthy vili
fications poured out by the Cai
ro radio, those had proved felf
defeating. The lies were so trane
parently lies that the biggetfc
fool in Jordan knew them fotf
what they were.
"I feel very confident indeta
that I can maintain the situation
against any threats or incite
ments to crime," the young Kmjt
told me calmly. "It's my duly
and I know I can do it. Here in,
Jordan, we have the task of d
fending our country and all fhm
Arab lands against a new kind
of imperialism, Soviet imperial
ism, and we are not going to
fail."
So another crisis proved to l5jD
uncritical, when seen on th
spot. But why, one still wonders '
were the Turkish and Jordanign
leaders, who were after all thgr
men in the front line, so much
calmer than the Washington policy-makers
in both these curi
ous cases? Surely the answer lies
in the fact that the Washington
policy-makers are haunted by
the terrible consciousness that
they have shockingly neglected
the general balance of power,
and that they are still not doin
nearly enough to redress thej
balance. Surely it is this gnaw
ing consciousness of a broad un
realized danger that givqg
every breeze and threat and lo
cal Soviet maneuver the sem
blance of a crisis nowadays.
Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.