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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 26. 1947 (Wednesday)
Medford city council gave a
formal "go ahead" light.to plans
of the California-Oregon Power
company to install mercury
lights on Sixth st. between Riv
erside ave. and West Main st.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "This is
Civil War Week in Oregon, due
to the OSC-Old Oregon, and
high school titans clashing on
the gridirons. Coaches of the in
ttitutions of higher learning
have not yet started singing
dirges and the blues."
!
tS TZARS AGO
26, 1937 (Tuesday)
The first completed section of
the new route through the Siski
you mountains was formally
opened in a celebration staged
recently by Ashland leaders and
highway offiicals.
Taxable valuation of Jackson
county property for 1938 is
placed at $24,023,870, a reduc
tion of only $39,750 under the
current year, according to the
county assessor.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 26. 1927 (Saturday)
The two "Bills," Gates and
Lydiard, recently celebrated
their seventh anniversary in the
Economy Groceteria.
What is reported to be the
largest shipment of Thanksgiv
ing turkeys ever leaving Rogue
River valley, "was shipped by
local markets to San Francisco
and points south.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 26. 1917 (Monday)
G. R. Satchwell, Medford,
participates in mediation of the
strike against the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company.
The beet sugar factory at
Grants Pass closes down Satur
day because of the lack of arri
val of beets, Alexander Nibley
said this morning.
Whit's Your I.Q.?
Nin or tea correct Is superior;
seven or eight la excellent: five or
six is good
1. How is "sachem" pro
nounced? . Bible: David overcame Go
liath armed with what weapon?
. Is the modern birthstone
for April a diamond, ruby, or
emerald?
4. Which 4-letter word (slang)
refers to a person who cuts up
antics; a ludicrous person?
5. Is a "blue point" a type of
dog, oyster, or drawing?
6. Did the Coast Guard par
ticipate in any invasion during
World War II?
7. Name the only former U.S.
President tha was bald-headed.
8. Does the Statue of Liberty
hold the torch in the right or left
hand?
o
9. Obverse is the back or the
front of a coin?
o
10. Name the source for the
quotation "A loaf of bread, a jug
of wine and thou."
1. Say-chem. 2. Sling and peb
bles. 3. Diamond. 4. "Card." 5.
Oyster. 6. Yes. 7. John Quincy
Adams. 8. Right. 9. Front. 10.
"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
MAIL TRIBUNE
What's Wrong With The "SP"?
What would you think if you were presented
with a hard-surface right-of-way from Medford to
Portland and from Medford to San Francisco? Then
from San Francisco through Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Louisiana and on to that charming old post
bellum city of New Orleans?
Moreover there would be no competition in your
own field. There would be no intersections om "stop
lights," no detours, no wTaiting-in-line for road re
pairs, no congestion, no wild-drivers, and ample park
ing space WHEREVER you wished to stop.
Wouldn't you decide you had unknowingly rub
bed "Alladin's Lamp" and become a second "Lucky
Baldwin" over night?
Our guess is you would and with reason.
For with the dangers and strain of motor travel
increasing day by day and particularly night by
night with the increase, also, of our population of
"older boys and girls" who for physical reasons,
CAN'T fly, here would seem to be a rare bonanza,
not only to make money, but render in the U.S.A. a
needed and beneficient public service.
B
UT, needless to say the
doesn't so regard its
by the way, which was received from the peoples
of the states through which it passes with the solemn
pledge that it would provide continuous service.
For the SP, because only one department of its
operation failed to get out of the red as fast as it
would like, deprives one of the most rapidly grow
ing and most productive sections of Oregon of ALL
passenger service. This in spite of the fact, that while
this abandoned service was being rendered, South
ern Pacific profits over-all steadily increased, and it
never failed, in that time or since, to meet its plushy
payroll in the Upper Brackets, or its regular gener
ous dividends to stock holders!
HOW come?
What is the matter with the "Friendly SP" any
way? Doesn't it know that the railroad today is the
most efficient method of mass transportation? Doesn't
it know the underlying efficiency of a steel wheel
turning on a steel RAIL has not yet been surpassed?
Doesn't it know this lack of friction is such that the
same amount of fuel will propel a loaded freight
car five times the distance it would propel a truck
carrying the same load? And finally, the same ad
vantages in. different degrees extend to other forms
of transportation?
As indicated above, this superior efficiency ex
tends particularly to the right-of-way. One of the
oldest railroads in the country, serving the suburbs
of Chicago, can carry 48,000 riders in one hour com
pared with 6720 by bus and 2250 by motor car in
the sanie time.
A well known statistical institution, after a care
ful railroad survey has declared it would take 20
"free-ways" of 4 lanes each, to carry the same num
ber of persons that can be earned on two railroad
tracks.
D
OES the SP or anyone else doubt this?
Vp11 the facts above don't haDDen to be ours.
They are verbatim the words of the chairman of the
CrnVacm and Northwestern railroad, surmorted bv
surveys of the impartial
T 1 1 I
mgs institute.
So again "what's the matter with the SP?"
1X7ITH these facts established as to the railroad's
" future and especially its potential why does the
Southern Pacific management insist upon surrender
ing before a shot is fired?
It would be easier to understand if many other
railroads adopted this discredited policy of the pub
lic and public obligations "be damned!"
But there are very few.
And as far as our information goes, NONE that
enjoying a monopoly in its field, has deprived such
a growing and promising area as the 300 miles terri
tory from Eugene to Duinsmuir, California of all pas
senger service entirely.
X7E ARE indebted to Charley Wing, large property
owner, and former well-known Medford ranch
er (wintering now in Honolulu), for adding to our
list of important rail roads that have refused to quit
the good fight, and deliberately kill their passenger
service to make an extra dime. They have instead
retained faith in their special calling and are now
spending millions to wipe out the passenger deficit,
not by reducing overhead but by increasing it,
not by making passenger travel less attractive but
more so.
"IX7E LACK the space to go into details. But the
vv heading of the "ad" from the Wall Street Jour
nal, showing a relay runner at top stride reads as
follows:
"Union Pacific stockholders look forward not back
ward. They own a railroad they are proud of but in much
greater measure proud of its forward march."
And how is this "forward march" to be main
tained? Not by abandoning passenger service but quote :
"By spending $26,164,675 in ultra-modern passenger
equipment."
This the UP adds, "is the way to ran a railroad."
They don't deny much has been said about "di
minishing passenger business recently," but they do
not believe in just talking about it (like talking about
the weather). They believe in taking off their coats
and "DOING something about it."
When faced with such a problem the SP doesn't
take off its coat and go to work. It just leans back in
its overstuffed "Pacific Union" chair and takes off
some more passenger trains. R.W.R.
Tuesday. November 26, 1957
"friendly Southern Pacific"
inheritance, an inheritance
and always reliable Brook-
'SHE'S SORB GOT A CRAZY
got cub GREAT BIG ice
Matter of Fact
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
Washington The American
government has recently been
presented with just about the
grimmest
warning in its
history. The
warning took
the form of a
report to the
President and
National Se
curity Council
by a commit
tee i n i t i ally
stewait aisod headed by H.
Rowan Gaither Jr., formerly
president for the Ford Founda
tion. When the Gaither Commuittee
was appointed, its basic assign
ment, as this reporter noted last
August, was to study the means
of defense against atomic attack.
But as time went on, it became
obvious that it was useless to
consider our defense without al
so considering the Soviet offense.
The committee, moreover, was
made up of brilliant men with
wide experience in the whole de
fense field men like former
Secretary of Defense Robert
Lovett, his deputy, William Fos
ter, and former Chief Policy
Planner Paul Nitze. Such men
could not be expected to confine
themselves simply to essentially
peripheral matters like civil de
fense. TNSTEAD, the work of the com
mittee broadened until it en
compassed almost the whole
East-West balance of power in
the new weapons. In the process,
the brilliant civilians on the
committee closely consulted the
country's leading scientists. Both
James Killian, newly appointed
Chief Scientific Aid to the Presi
dent, and,Isidor Rabi, chairman
of the President's Scientific Ad
visory Committee, played a ma
jor role in preparing the report.
Dr. Jerome B. Weisner of M.I.T.,
who had the task of marshalling
the views of the scientific com
munity, also made a point of
bringing in large numbers of the
younger generation of scientists
for consultation.
Thus the report represents the
consensus of just about the best
scientific and non-scientific
brains in the country. Their
judgment was based, moreover,
on all the most recent and most
reliable intelligence on compara
tive Soviet and American air
atomic and missile power. The
report considers many subjects,
including such matters as the
shelter program. But the really
important conclusions which
amount to a stern warning, may
be summarized as follows.
'C'IRST, the Soviets are so far
ahead of this country in the
missile race that it will not be
possible fully to overtake them
before 1960-61, at the earliest.
Second, this interval in which
the Soviets will be ahead repre
sents an unprecedented danger,
not only to the civilian popula
tion as a whole, but to the bases
of the Strategic Air Force, which
has been the shield of freedom.
Third, every possible interim
measure must therefore be tak
en, to defend not only our civil
ian population but our retalia
tory power during this period
of maximum danger. To over
take the Soviets by 1960-61, and
to take the necessary interim
measures, will require additional
outlays amounting to many bil
lions of dollars.
At another time, these authori
tative but somber conclusions
might have been filed and for
gotten, as has happened before.
But this time, thanks in part to
the launching of the Sputniks
which may well be the luckiest
thing that has ever happened to
this lucky nation the report
may have real impact. Indeed, it
has already had an impact, in
the two weeks or so since it was
filed.
Secretary of Defense Neil Mc-
Elroy has decided, since then, to
go ahead with production of the
intermediate missiles, well be
fore testing is complete. He has
also decided to start work on at
least one ICBM base even before
the first stage of the Atlas ICBM
has been successfully test-fired.
The report unquestionably play
ed a part in these bold decisions.
'FfclSERATOR ! JUST
Cuse in it
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
HPHERE are other reasons for
believing that the report will
have a continuing influence.
McElroy, for example, has al
ready impressed Washington
with a decent respect for the
facts, and an instinct for dealing
with them. His simple statement
"It seems rather obvious that
we are behind the Russians"
came like a fresh breeze in a city
stale with the smell of soothing
syrup. The report should help
to silence the previously power
ful dispensers of the soothing
syrup.
As McElroy's star has risen,
morever, the star of his deputy,
Donald Quarles, the Pentagon's
chief exponent of the wait-and-see,
test-it-first approach to the
missile race, is rapidly declining.
It is a good bet that Quarles will
have left the Pentagon before
many weeks have passed. An
other rising star is that of Dr.
Killian. His role is a different
one, since he has no operational
authority. But the Gaither re
port, which he himself played a
major part in preparing, will
serve as a backstop and make
weight for his views.
All in all, there is beginning to
be solid reason to hope that the
American government will at
long last get down to business
in the life-and-death race with
the Russians. The Gaither Com
mittee Report, with its somber
warning, should provide a pow
erful impetus in that direction.
But the race will not be short or
easy.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Stray Notes, from Eastern
Oregon
. By SAGE BRUSH SALLY
Yesterday I spent most of
the day in Baker. It was rather
chilly, but nice for a November
day. I visited a few minutes with
the ladies at the library, enjoyed
a cup of tea with my friend
Grace Joy at Joys Hostess
House. Spent some time in the
lobbv of the Geiser Grand hotel
discussing mining mostly, with
friends. My husband Con, our
mining nartner. Newt Bethel and
I had a very nice dinner in the
hotel cafe.
Nearly everywhere I went
some one mentioned Governor
Holmes' recent appointment of
Nadie Straver of BaKer to one oi
the top places on the Board gov
erning much of Oregon's mining.
And thov wpre unanimous in
voicing their approval. Nadie,
who is the daughter of the late
State Senator Strayer, who was
himself interested in mining, is
capable of doing a fine job on
this assignment.
I was pleased to read in a re
cent issue of The Mail Tribune
an article headed "Bend Girl to
Tellof Experiences Abroad." It
states Violet K. Klobas with" 57
other young people arrived home
on the Queen Mary from a five
month work and learn trip in
Europe. These young people
who go overseas as good-will am
bassabors I am sure do much to
create friendship and promote
better understanding between
nations. .
I have known Violet Klobas
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Continuing Flow of Refugees
To West Poses Blockade Threat
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The East German Communists
are getting alarmed over the
steady flow of refugees to West
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West Germany.
There are in
creasing indi
cations that the
C o m m u n ist
puppet regime
may soon try
to stop the
flight by isolat
ing West Ber-
Charles McCann m and tieht-
ening control of the border
between East and West Germany.
If that happens, it may mean
serious trouble for West Berlin,
which is isolated from West
Germany by a 110-mile stretch
of Communist - controlled terri
tory.
Two Million Flee East
Since 1949, when West Ger
many's remarkable economic re
covery got really started, about
2 million East Germans have
fled the Communist part of the
country. Most of them have
crossed from East Berlin to West
Berlin. The flight has reduced
East Germany's population by
more than 10 per cent.
The flow of refugees con
tinues at the rate of about
300,000 a year.
Until recently the East Ger
man Reds did little to stop the
movement. One reason was that
East German economy is in a
bad state, especially since the
Polish revolt, which sharply re
duced the amount of raw mate
rials available for factories.
Another was that those who fled
obviously were enemies of the
Communist regime and potential
trouble makers.
May Weaken Industry
But now the flight from Red
rule seems to have reached the
point where its continuance will
weaken East German industry
The refugees arriving in West
Berlin and West Germany now
include a big proportion of m
tellectuals and skilled workers
More than half of those who
flee are under. 25 years of age
Communist officials and mem
bers of the militarized Red police
are scattered among the older
ones.
Any determined Communist
move to stop the flight would
tend to increase the isolation of
West Berlin.
Western officials fear that, for
one thing, the Reds as part of
an isolation campaign would im
pede railroad and highway com
munications, between West Ber
lin and West Germany.
Communications Interference
They also would be expected
since she was a baby. She and
her brother Johnny, were the
children of Anna and Pete Klo
bas who were our nearest neigh
bors when we lived near Bend
20 years ago, and the fine friend
ship that developed then still
endures. Con and I visited Anna
and Pete last May. Violet was
teaching at Westfir, and Johnny
is now married and living in the
Willamette Valley. He studied
radar and several other subjects
while he was in the navy and is
continuing his studies. While
the parents complained of being
lonely on the farm now, I could
see that they were also very
proud of the kids.
As Thanksiving again draws
near I feel that one of the things
we should be thankful for is our
many fine young Americans. Of
course we do have many juve
nile delinquents, but they repre
sent a very small per cent of our
young people.
Sage Brush Sally.
Packages to Overseas
Must Be Mailed Now
Washington (W Christmas
packages for servicemen over
seas must now be sent airmail in
order to insure delivery by Dec.
25, the Defense Department says, i
The heavy Yuletide mail load
requires that air parcels be sent
not later than Dec. 10 for Christ
mas delivery. The deadline for
mailing overseas packages
pired Nov. 20.
ex-
FILL
to interfere with allied airplane
communications along the au
thorized air lanes between Berlin
and the western part of the
country.
Anxiety of Germans in the
western part of the former capi
tal is increased because of fear
that the United States might not
be willing to hazard a crisis with
Soviet Russia by defending them.
This is one of the repercus
sions, now being felt throughout
Western Europe, of Russia's
startling successes in the field
of nuclear missiles.
Communications
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not exceed 400 words.
Like to Have 'Em,
Hate to Pay for 'Em
To the Editor: Mr. Babson's
dissertation on the evils of high
taxation, which appeared in Fri
day's Mail Tribune, is a sober
ing warning. Careless use of
public funds should never be
condoned.
There are so many services,
however, that only the govern
ment can perform adequately,
that high taxes should not nec
essarily be considered evil. If
we want to have the advantages
of certain services, whether pri
vate or public, we can expect to
pay for them. And there's the
rub. We like the public services,
but we hate to pay for them. We
are like a family spending its
wages on fine clothes and new
cars but refusing to pay the gro
cery bill.
The Soviet government liqui
dates the people's savings bonds
whenever it sees fit. Do we real
ly want to preserve democracy
at home and promote it abroad
as we say we do? Do we want
peace and a rising standard of
living for all the world? These
goals cannot be attained with a
"business as usual" attitude. Un
less we, as a free people, are
willing to sacrifice of our sub
stance voluntarily and in con
siderable amounts we cannot ex
pect to compete successfully in
this cold war.
We have heard talk recently
about hoisting the debt limit be
cause the nation is in danger.
This is all very well, but why
not arrange to pay as we go? We
could, you know. We could, with
careful planning, even liquidate
some of the standing debt from
year to year. The rich should be
willing to pay more taxes, and
the poor should also pay. What
man is there among us who
would not be willing to dig deep
in his pockets to save his home?
E. Whealdoh,
804 Cedar st.,
Medford, Ore.
On Going Calling
To the Editor: The short edi
torial on Nov. 22 by E. A. on the
"pleasant old fashioned Calling
custom" am: its extinction in
Medford has already stirred up
interest seemingly. Some folks
credit that editorial for recent
happy hours in their home, be
cause of the fact their callers
commented on it, and asked
their opinions.
To pronounce the custom de
funct, must be 'erroneous be
cause there is noticeable action,
which no doubt will become ac
celerated, and, perhaps pronto.
As it has been frequently said
good ideas are valuable, and
should be shared." The editor's
friend bringing up Medford's
failing has proved that point,
and thanks to the M.T. staff for
passing it on.
Why should we be inhibited
after all? Our free country says
we can speak up. I've sent my
opinion on the subject to my
home town in North Dakota,
hoping to disseminate an out
standing editorial. As a sugges
tion more in that category would
be apprepiated, I do believe.
Emma Lou Carpenter
811 Sherman St.
Medford.
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It was because of the fear
that Berlin might be sacrificed
that Willy Erandt, lord mayor
of West Berlin, urged in an in
terview recently that President
Eisenhower make a sort of show-the-flag
visit to the city when
he attends the North Atlantic q
Treaty Organization conference
in Paris next month.
There are reports that the East
Germans may start an isolation
campaign next week. Allied offi
cials are watching the situation
closely. That is about all they
I can do until the Reds act.
Capitalism Needs Education
To the Editor: The Soviet
"moons" have thrown light up
on aspects of capitalist misman
agement and inefficiency that
have long been evident to mem
bers of the Socialist Labor party.
A specific example is capital
ism's treatment of education.
The capitalists boast of what
their system has done for edu
cation. Actually," in so boasting,
they make a virtue of necessity.
For capitalist industry needs a
literate work force. It must havt
a trained army of worker spe
cialists such as chemists, engi
neers, physicists, mathemati
cians, etc. Therefore, the capital
ist educational system is not the
result of capitalist enlighten
ment; it is the result of econolS
ic necessity.
Henry R. Korman,
2640 Garfield st.,
Longview, Wash.
Hard Times for Birds
To the Editor: This is the sea
son of the year when one of
man's best friends, the bird,
comes upon hard times. To sur
vive birds need help and they
deserve it, because every bird
that dies during the winter rep
resents an actual cash lb?s to
American agriculture and a de
cline in the health of our fields,
gardens and forests. Of all our
wild-life the species that have
the hardest struggle to carry
through the winter are our non
migrating birds, quail and pheas
ant, because by natural instinct
and physical build, theirs is a
limited range. Both stay within
about one mile of their original
"yard."
Quail and grouse are of great
value to man and justify ny
efforts to help them through the
winter. The time and feed which
it takes to help them is well
spent. If you have never tried
feeding birds you will discover
a Jthrill equal to the effort it
takes. Be sure and set out a
shallow basin of water with a
drop of two of glycerin to pre
vent freezing. Spread out crack
ed corn, beef suet mixed with
coarse corn meal and pressed
into compact lumps.' This can
be hung in trees.
And do not forget one winter
essential, sand or ashes, for
when the ground is frozen birds
are unable to scratch up the
grit which is their substitute
for teeth. For robins and other
ground eaters toss some raw
hamburger, if you are rich,
cooked spaghetti, too. Try it. Do
it now.
Southern Oregon
Humane Society,
Medford, Ore.
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holidays.
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