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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. 27. 1947 (Wednesday)
Sky Trail, 12 miles south of
Ashland at Siskiyou summit, will
be opened for winter skiing as
soon as sufficient snow falls,
according to the owners.
From Arthur Perry's column,
Ye Smudge Pot: "Thanks for
the drumsticks for good little
boys and girls, and plenty of
gizzards for Grandpaw."
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27. 1937 (Friday)
Program for the meeting of
the Oregon State Horticultural
Society at the Elks temple here
on Dec. 2 and 3 lists many inter
esting speakers.
Climaxing a successful Series
of district rallies. Crater Lake
Area Council of Boy Scouts of
America will stage a huge council-wide
rally at v the Medford
senior high school .gymnasium
tonight.
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 27. 1927 (Sunday)
One local youth and three
youths of Talent are arrested by
the police around 8 p.m. yester
day on moonshine charges.
With snow reported to be on
the Crater Lake highway some
distance below the entrance to
the Crater Lake National Park,
a number of Medford people are
planning to leave today on ski
ing and sleighing parties.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27. 1917 (Tuesday)
The third Southern Oregon
Poultry association's exhibition
,Uk now open to the public at the
corner of East Main and Bartlett
sts.
A beautiful Thanksgiving feast
has been provided for the boys
of the 7th company, through the
work of R. L. Wilson, owner of
El Nido ranch on Beal lane.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good.
1. Does caviar come from one
or various types of sturgeon or
bass?
2. Bible: Which of these words
are mentioned: impute; implac
able; obsolete?
3. Was President F. D. Roose
velt .-first inaugurated in Jan.,
Feb.,or March?
4. Name the seventh day of
the week.
5. Are the planets Uranus,
Saturn, and Jupiter each of
them larger than the earth?
6. Is a codling moth small,
medium, or a large moth?
7. In which war did the Bat
tle of Ypres take place?
8. Who was Vice President
during Washington's 2nd term?
9. Is ocher a vegetable, min
eral, or animal product?
10. "I never expected to see
the day when the girls will get
sunburned in the places they do
now." Will B. Rogers: did he
die in an airplane crash fh
Alaska?
Answers; 1. Various types of
sturgeon. 2. Impute; implaca
able. 3. March (4th). 4, Satur
day. 5. Yes. 6. Small. 7, World
War I. 8, John Adams (served
both terms). 9. Mineral. 10. No.
But Will Rogers did.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Science and Secrecy
Secrecy, on every level of government, has little
if any justification. In a democracy, based on the
theoiy that a literate and informed public is the final
authority, it is particularly abhorrent.
In government, secrecy and the damage it does,
is an old, old story. Time after time, when govern
ments (city, county, state or national) have kept
secret from the people what the people are entitled
to know, it has worked to the disadvantage of all.
This is as true of the big things as of the little things.
And the sad fact is that it keeps happening, for
it is easier for a public official to keep a damaging
fact secret than it is for him to make it public, for
all to know. In doing so, however, he is forfeiting
his right to hold public office.
"THIS tendency received a tremendous push during
A World War II, the Korean war, and the cold war,
when the necessities of "security" were often used as
an excuse to keep secret things which should be
known.
The development of the Atomic bomb, conducted
by the so-called "Manhattan Engineering District,"
was, of necessity, secret probably one of the best
kept secrets of the war.
Yet peacetime atomic development was kept
largely under wraps still is, for that matter by the
Atomic Energy Commission. And who knows how
much this has held back additional discoveries, how
it has hampered scientists in their vital work, and
worked against the ultimate welfare of the nation?
WE WOULD not go so far as to say that scientific
ahead of us in the missile field. But there are a lot of
well-informed men who would agree that it was one
of several important reasons.
Among those who should know is Gerard Piel,
publisher of the Scientific American, who testified
about scientific secrecy before a house subcommittee
on information last March. His testimony was relevant
then, but is far more so today in the hindsight of
Russia's Sputnik successes.
OERE are a few representative paragraphs from
his lengthy statement to the committee :
The problem of dealing with secrets is an old one in gov
ernment, where the concern is with "state secrets," the
kind you won't know unless I tell you; codes, wave lengths,
caliber, horsepower, range, rate, and scale.
The disclosure even of these secrets is only a matter of
time. They become known outside a government through
the use of them or by interception and capture.
These are different from secrets of nature which are
open to discovery by scientists everywhere.
It is quite apparent that scientists in every nation work
ing on fundamental research have to agree about nature.
Ultimately they make the same discoveries.
By concealing what we -know, we may delay discovery
by others. But they will discover it no matter what we do.
By concealing and by frustrating communications within
science, however, we will surely slow up ourselves, not
only in more discoveries, but in bringing new work into
useful application.
By an unhappy confusion in our semantics we have
come to think of secrecy as security. We think of security,
that kind of security, as an end in itself and not is the
means to the larger end of national security.
It is an old experience in our country that secrecy can
be a shield for incompetence and corruption. Now we have
a new reason to oppose secrecy in the operations of our
government. It is the danger that secrecy places in the way
of the advancement of science, and hence to the general
welfare and to national security.
LIE ALSO documented these general statements
with specific examples of the things he had in
mind, and he made a convincing case.
And if the scientist finds his work hampered by
a lack of communication with others working toward
similar ends, he is just that much more likely to go
into more fruitful lines of work. Thus secrecy, and
the suspicion it engenders, has also fostered the "lack
of trained scientists and engineers" about which
there is so much breast-beating these days.
All this does not mean that our latest technological
developments in weapons should be posted on the
nearest bulletin board for the next espionage agent
to copy down.
But it does mean that, as a general precept,
secrecy is destructive both of efficiency and of
democracy. And this is just as true at the county
courthouse as it is at the White House. E.A.
Whose Responsibility?
Recent news stories out of Klamath Falls about
a grand jury's indictment of a police officer and their
recommendation that the police chief be replaced
bring unhappy memories of a somewhat similar situa
tion in Medford about four years ago.
The grand juiy report is lengthy, and goes into
considerable detail about the condition of the Klamath
Falls police department. But one paragraph in the
report struck us as unusual. Perhaps "odd" is a better
word.
It said :
". . . . These findings are not an indictment of the pres
ent mayor and city council, as it is the opinion of the grand
jury that many of these conditions are of long standing
duration."
X7ITH all due respect, we wonder how the fact
that the conditions are "long standing" can in
any way exonerate the council from responsibility?
And if the situation is as bad as painted by the
grand juiy, is it not up to the council and mayor to
rectify it? If they don't, who will?
The fact that the council assumed its responsi
bility in Medford in our earlier problem wTas the
thing that resulted in the outcome a well-trained
police force worthy of the trust of its citizens. E.A.
Wednesday, November 27, 1957
6HHHHH! Jt THAT
Government Tries to
Separate Personal,
Business Expenses
BY FRED DANZIG
United Press Correspondent
New York (IP! Many a corp
oration has sought relief from
the heat of taxation by seeking
the shade of an expense account
oasis.
It remains for our tax collec
tors to police the oasis and adjust
the shade.
In examining expense ac
counts, the government tries to
separate personal and business
expenses. It's not easy, especial
ly in the category of "travel and
entertainment," otherwise
known as "T and E." Some ex
amples: An aircraft company in Cal
ifornia owns a plane and a yacht.
Company officers use the plane
for week-end hunting trips. The
yacht is used for company-sponsored
fishing trips.
A company assigns a deserv
ing executive to a branch office
conveniently located at a resort
such as Miami Beach. He spends
the winter there. Turns out the
branch office is a myth. The va
cation isn't.
A company pays for an ex-
Editorial
Comment
Medford Is First In Stats
Closed circut television looms
in Oregon. The Medford city
council has granted a ten-year
franchise to California-Oregon
Theatres to operate such a sys
tem. The franchise holders in
tend to run feature-length mov
ies which can be received in the
homes of subscribers. Costs for
the connections have not been
announced but the city council
reserves authority to set the
rates.
This may be the answer of
movie houses to the competition
of free television. Their view
ing audience then would not be
confined to the theatre but could
extend to the limit of television
coverage. The viewers could
watch the movie without leaving
home which is what they do
now on free TV.
The long campaign to allow
subscription television is making
progress over the stiff resistence
of the networks which finance
their operations through sale of
ads. Of course closed TV could
sell advertising time too but
that might cost its subscribers.
The Federal Communication
Commission has invited applica
tions for closed circuit television
to be received next spring; but
where the operation is local and
the transmission is by wire no
FCC approval is required. Bar
tlesville, Okla., was the first to
launch local closed circuit tele
vision, but the idea is spread
ing, witness the action at Med
ford. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
JIM STRALEY tells a tragic tale about a Chicago wolf who
persuaded a cute chick he had met at a party to accompany
him the next afternoon to see the Cubs play. She never showed
up5at the designated gate.
What's more, she hung up
on him when he phoned
that evening. He rushed
around to her apartment for
an explanation, found her
still seething. "You're a
heel!" she said bitterly.
"Make a date and. then for
get about it and me wait
ing all afternoon at the
zoo!"
Author Lynn Sumner uses
this introduction to warm up
his lecture audiences: "It's a
great pleasure to speak in this
auditorium a word derived from two Latin roots:
Audio, meaning I hear; and taurus, the bull."
An elementary school teacher asked her young charges to de
scribe the taste of chocolate ice cream. She was particularly de
lighted with one answer. "Chocolate," explained this promising
student, "tastes the opposite of vanilla."
1957, by Bennett Cert .Distributed by King Features SyndicaU,
MlTCtiBLl KlOf
ecutive's country club member
ship, gives him a home to live
in, or pays his athletic club dues.
Diner's Card Abused
Many companies supply their
executives with membership
cards in the Diner's Club, a post
war master credit plan now serv
ing more than 500,000 members.
Tax agents recently discovered
four Diner's Club members who
met for lunch every day and
rotated the check, charging it off
to business. This abuse of a legis
timate service is what the tax
collectors try to stop.
No figures are available on
just how much money is de
ducted each year for "T and E."
One studv of a medium-size corp
oration revealed that about one
fourth of 1 per cent of its ex
penses fell under this category.
According to the Tax Founda
tion, 58,600,000 individual tax re
turns were filed in 1956, along
with 896,000 corporate tax re
turns, for a total of 59,400,000.
Of this total, 4,300,000 returns
were examined by the govern
ment and 2,400,000 taxpayers
were called in to talk things
over.
Whopping Extra Revenue
The government picked up an
additional $1,100,000,000, from
these audits.
You get some idea of how
much money is tied up in "T and
E" in a tax agent estimate that
about one-half of all people call
ed into prove deductions have
suspicious-looking "T and E"
totals.
"There must be a business pur
pose for the expenses you de
duct," said this official. "At the
same time," he added, "corp
orations have a wide range of
judgment as to what expenses
are calculated to advance the
business. The government has
no right to tell them how to
spend their money.
"I doubt if we'll ever reach
a satisfactory solution to the
problem," he concluded.
Ike's Thanksgiving
Proclamation Issued
Washington (IP) President
Eisenhower has issued this pro
clamation for Thanksgiving Day:
"As a nation we have pros
pered. We are making progress
in our efforts to translate our
national ideals into living re
alities; and we are at peace with
the world, working toward that
day when the benefits of free
dom and justice shall be secured
for all mankind.
"For such blessings let us be
devoutly thankful, and at the
same time let us be sensitive
and responsive to the obligations
which such great mercies entail."
His proclamation was issued
at the White House Nov. 8.
Stop Me
Enclave Trouble Plagues Spain;
Others Source of World Tension
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Spain has suffered an out
break of enclave trouble in its
little West African territory of
Ifni.
Moroccan
guerrilla bands
have attacked
Sidi Ifni, the
capital and half
a dozen isolat
ed Spanish
Army outposts.
Unconfirmed
reports say the
guerrillas have
Charles McCano seized control
of Sidi Ifni, its adjoining air
field and three army posts.
The guerrilla action is relative
ly unimportant in itself.
But it points up the fact that
all of the enclaves scattered
around the world are potential
trouble spots and that two
of them could explode into a
third world war.
An enclave is a tract or ter
ritory, held by one country, that
is enclosed within the territory
of another country.
Ifni, 741 square miles in ter
ritory, is surrounded by Mor
occo which has attained its in
dependence from France. Mor
occo wants Ifni. The euerrilas
who have attacked it are not
part of Morocco's forces. But
Moroccans hardly can be expect
ed to hate them.
Other Enclaves
In addition to Ifni, the world's
enclaves include West Berlin,
British Hong Kong, Portuguese
Macao and Portuguese Goa.
West Berlin, isolated 110 miles
inside Communist East Germany,
is one of the world's acute dang
er spots. Politically it is part of
West Germany. The United
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign aid note:
RUSSIA has started buying
friends.
. She has agreed to -lend Egypt
175 million dollars.
THE Egyptian press, which
leans heavily over on the So
viet side, is all atwitter over
the proposal. One paper says
the loan will "usher in a new
era of abundance, ranging all
the way from telephones for all
Egyptians to CARS for all Egyp
tians." Another paper says:
"This money from Russia
means that every Egyptian will
be able to get more income and
live a better life."
HMMMMMM . . . Let's remem
ber this:
The Egyptians have JUST
BORROWED the money. That's
the way EVERYBODY feels
when he has just borrowed a lot
of money. How the Egyptians
will feel when the time comes
to pay it back is a horse of an
other color.
You can bet your bottom dol
lar Russia will demand repay
ment. THIS Russian loan, of course,
could do wonders for Egypt
and her people.
Suppose the money was used
constructively to build power
dams, to build roads, to build
factories, and so on.
Suppose these facilities were
used ably and intelligently TO
PRODUCE MORE THINGS TO
BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG
THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE
who in the meantime would have
been provided with jobs enab
ling them to pay for all these
desirable things such as cars
and telephones and household
gadgets and such.
In that event, the loan would
be a wonderful thing.
B
UT
We must be realistic.
Russia isn't interested In
building up in Egypt a way of
life that would be so pleasant
as to cause the RUSSIANS to
want a way of life just like it
in their country. That would
be bad business, for in Russia the
people have been kept busy mak
ing guns and other hardware to
CONQUER THE WORLD WITH.
The general run of them have
been denied cars and telephones
and household gadgets and such.
It might make them pretty sore
to learn that Russian money had
been used to get things like that
for the EGYPTIANS.
ONE thing we an be sure of.
This 175 million dollars
won't be showered down in cash
on the Egyptian people to enable
them to buy scads and scads of
the good things of life.
It will come in the form of
credits that must be used to buy
Russian arms with which to help
communism grab off the strate
gic Middle East, with its fabu
lous riches in the way of oil.
THE Russian arms will be put
in the hands of Egyptian
common soldiers who will be
commanded by communist of
ficers whose business will be to
turn Egypt over to communist
Russia.
When the showdown comes,
the cars and the telephones and
the gadgets will be OUT and the
poor devils of Egypt will be
right back where they always
have been under SOME
BODY ELSE'S thumb.
States, Great Britain and France
are committed to its defense.
A Communist attempt to seize
West Berlin could conceivably
lead to war with Soviet Russia.
Hong Kong, a British crown
colony, is an island of about 32
square miles in area at the
mouth of the Pearl river. Britain
also holds 3V4 square miles of
the Kowloon peninsula on the
Chinese mainland.
Hong Kong is surrounded, on
one side by Communist China
and China would like to have it.
Britain is committed to defend
it against any attack. That the
Communists could take it can
hardly te doubted. But an at
tempt might start a great war.
One reason why the Reds have
let it alone is that it is a valu
able outlet and inlet for foreign
trade.
Portuguese Macoa, only
six
Quotes From the Hewo
By UNITED PRESS
Washington Vice President Nixon, in saying President Eisen
hower is perfectly able to make any decisions that might have to
be made:
"Any major problem on which the President alone can ct can
be put to him. We see no decision that needs to be made . . . that
would be in any way injurious to his health."
Chicago Earl D. Eisenhower, the President's brother. o lee
ing of the Chief Executive's illness:
"By the sound of it, I don't believe it's too serious sothirw
like his first (heart), attack."
Boston Dr. Paul Dudley White, the heart specialist called in
after Eisenhower's heart seizure two years ago, in saying h hj&
not been contacted about the attack:
"If my services were needed, I would expect to be inform.
The President has competent physicians in Washington." "
Washington Secretary of State Dulles, in saying that his first
meeting with King Mohammed V of Morocco ent verf) T11:
"It was a preliminary, friendly review of problems of mutual
concern."
o
Washington Retired Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, In gyin
Russia is certainly ahead of the United States in long-range bal
listic missiles:
"There is no room for complacency. We must sacrifice mor,"
Communications
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words.
Friendly Medford
To the Editor: Being almost
newcomers in Medford we
lived here for a year, nearly six
years ago I would like to re
lieve your mind on your editor
ial "Going Calling."
As far as we are concerned,
"Calling" has not suffered from
TV or anything else. We have
been here only two weeks and
my neighbors have called and
brought their children to meet
mine. In fact I've found it dif
ficult to get my unpacking done,
because of the friendliness of
the people here, and the un
packing can glady wait for all
the neighbors who will take time
out of their busy lives to wel
come a newcomer.
For six years we have put our
efforts into returning here be
cause of the friendliness and
neighborliness of the people of
Medford.
Ann J. Lynch
1525 Lenora dr.
Medford, Ore.
Weed Killing Doves
To the Editor: Studies of the
food habits of doves made in
various localities show that it is
one of the best bird friends of
the farmer for it eats thousands
of weed seeds every day. In
vestigations made by the Biologi
cal Survey (U. S. Dept. of Agri
culture) of the food of tne aove
prove this bird to be of incalcu
able value. Of the grain eaten,
most of it was wasted grain
taken from fields after harvest
or from roads and stockyards in
summer.
The principal and almost con
stant diet, however, is the seed
of weeds and shows very little
variation during any month. The
examination of the contents of
the stomachs of three doves
showed 23,100 weed seeds. Is
there a farmer in the land who
would not welcome as a friend
the man who would offer to up
root and kill 23,100 weeds? Yet,
because the doves go about sil
ently and unobtrusively, making
no loud boasts about the good
they do, they are thought of
little or no value.
In our valley this harmless
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t
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Funeral
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ASHLAND
We Never Close
square miles in area, lies across
the Pearl river estuary from
Hong Kong. Red China would
like to have it, too, but as in the
instance of Hong Kong, has let
it alone.
Portuguese Goa lies on the
West coast of the Indian peninsu
la. It and the islets and other
coastal territory held by Portu
gal occupy 1,537 square miles.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh
ru wants it badly. Only Tuesday
the World- Court at the Hague,
Netherlands, decided over In
dia's objection to hear a plea by
Portgual to rule against any
Indian claim to it.
The countries which surround
the world's enclaves want no
foreign country to hold a foot
hold on their territory. Despite
any questions of rights or wronj
it looks as if the day of th en
clave is passing.
and gentle creature i consid
ered a game bird fnd is 'Shot
during part of tht year. Farm
ers should not permit anyone to
kill on their lands birds that an
nually destroy tons of seeds of
many noxious plants. It is a mat
ter of dollars and cents to th
farmer and its value consists in
its weed destroying ctivie
and not in the few ounces of
food it may furnish. .
IDA G. KEITHS
Pacific Highvay, South,
Medford, Ori.
CHEBAB BAWKKD
Damascus, Syria ( Leb
anese Director of Security Farid
Chebab has been banned from
Syria on government orders, in
formed sources said today. The
sources said 'the government al
leges that Chebab "encourages
hostile anti-Syrian elements in
Labanon."
EMERGENCY
NUMBERS
FIRl SP 2-2333
POLICE SP 3-3636
MONEY SP 3-5308
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than to need us and not know us."