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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 yeaSs AGO
Dec. 3. 1947 (Wednesday)
Mercantile and business
houses not otherwise licensed
by the city will be assessed a
license fee beginning Jan. 1,
1948, according to- ordinance
passed by city council.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The cur
rent chilly weather caused both
the butcher and the ice cream
Salesman to feel like an Es
kimo." 20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3. 1937 (Friday)
Turkey growers meeting is
scheduled at Jackson county
courthouse auditorium to dis
cuss turkey boycott in San
Francisco.
Annual meeting of the Ore
gon State Horticulture society
ends with an exhibit of frozen
foods in the Elks temple base
ment. 30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3. 1927 (Saturday)
A county warrant of $5,000
for services rendered in the
Oregon - California tax refund
matt- issued to William H.
fiorf; president of Medford Na
tional bink, by county court.
Ong feature of last month's
'Sfefcther here, according to the
ff ther bureau, is that it was
ty4 fittest November of local
"record xcept for last year when
$.ti inchfc of rain fell.'o
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(40(VKARfc AGO
Sac. 3. 117 (Monday)
reident Villiam T. Foster
of Reed college recently re
turned ifom a two months in
fection of conditions at the
front, speaks at the natatorium.
Home products week begins;
Oregon residents expected to re
member home industries in their
O buying.
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What's Your I.Q.?
NlneOor ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; (lye or
tij is good.
. 1. What is the slang word for
a-faulty unexploded shell?
2.ible: Why is the mention
of Passover in the N.T. impor
tant? 3. Who was the master of the
"Half Moon" when the Hudson
river was discovered?
4. Was Sara Delano Roosevelt
the mother of Teddy or Eleanor
RooseySft?
5. Was the first peacetime mil
itary U.S. draft in 1918, 1919,
1940, or 1941?
6. Is ermine a species of lice.
muskrat, beaver, weasel or rab
bit?
7. For what purpose was the
great Spanish Armada assem
bled?
8. Are all or som snakes
hatched from eggs?
9. Which of thethree names
did John Paul Jones add to his
name?
10. What part of the world is
the common white potato na
tive?
Answers: 1. Dud- 2. It dates
ihe ministry of Jesus and other
3. Henry Hudson. 4. No
(She was F. D. Roosevelt's moth-
er). 5. 1940. 6. weasi. .icr me
invasion of England, b. oome.
Jon. 10. South Arnica.
MAIL TRIBUN2
Portland's
Oh what a difference that old ox makes !
We mean, of course, the MAN whose ox is gored.
FOR many years the Mail Tribune, as everyone here
abouts knows, has been fighting hard to get the
Southern Pacific to live up to the spirit of its original
contract and furnish southern Oregon with at least
minimum and regular passenger service.
During all that time this paper has, with the
exception of the Roseburg News-Review and the Ash
land Tidings, received no newspaper support what
ever. Even the Grants Pass Courier, where the discon
tinuance of all passenger service has injured that town
and Josephine County, particularly in the tourist busi
ness" and public convenience as much as in Douglas
and Jackson, has not only refused to criticize that
"billion dollar octopus" but has repeatedly gone out
of its way to praise it. It has also urged its readers to
get down on their marrow-bones and thank the Lord
that the mighty and "FRIENDLY Southern Pacific"
has condescended to ran freight trains through this
part of the state whereby as it enjoys a rail monopoly
it has taken out millions annually in net profit from
Eugene to Dunsmuir, California.
DUT now what do we see?
The Portland Traction Company, it seems, re
cently announced it would, because of lack of patro
nage, abandon all passenger service, and with char
acteristic arrogance proclaimed it would do so whether
the Public Service Commissioner of Oregon gave his
sanction or didn't.
Unlike the Grants Pass Courier, neither of the two
Portland papers took this ukase lying down. Both of
them protested, the Oregon Journal with particular
clarity, vision and vigor.
The Journal, for example, quoted President Perl
man of the New York Central as saying:
"We can't take off service just because it isn't paying."
Obviously, the Journal continued, this view is not
shared by the Portland Traction company, which
"refuses to put its cards on the table" and apparently
intends "by crippling its service" pricing itself out of
the passenger market and thus deprive the people on
its lines of passenger service entirely.
A CLOSER parallel to
imagined.
The Journal even quotes Public Utility Commis
sioner Morgan to the effect that when the Portland
Traction company complains of its unbearable losses
its "interstate freight business which represents 96 per
cent of all its freight operations" is IGNORED I
A similar claim has been made by the Mail Trib
une regarding the "SP," namely, that if the "SP"
would make public its cash revenues BOTH freight
and passenger, from the territory between Eugene and
Dunsmuir, the total would undoubtedly show that
minimum passenger service could be resumed, and the
combined operation continued indefinitely at a rea
sonable profit.
The "SP" refuses to give
missioner such figures. We
THE Portland railroad (owned m San Francisco m
.irlan ollir'V ic mnvo ovfrom a in its rlpfinrifP nf stnt.P.
regulation than this, and as the Journel well says,
quote :
"The main question 'is whether a company subject to the
State Public Utility commission can do as it pleases."
Another question is as the Portland paper also
declares :
Can it refuse to lay all its cards on the table, so
the people of the state can know what it, as a public
utility, CAN afford to do and what it CAN'T? '
THERE is no question as to the reply both these rail-
roads would make. It would be under the general
heading of Commodore Vanderbilt's famous retort
when told the public wanted certain changes made in
the policies of the New York Central. Said he:
"The public be damned."
His successor now heading the New York Central,
Mr. Perlman, throws such a policy in the ash can
where it belongs. The Southern Pacific and the Port
land Traction company (including the Oregon City
Bellrose railroad) do not.
THE final point made by the Oregon Journal is par-
ticularly interesting to this paper, for it takes a
position taken some time ago by the Mail Tribune
w7hich at the time was subject to violent criticism by
the Southern Pacific and its local "cheering section."
We predicted that if the Southern Pacific should
persist in its policy of denying all obligations in the
realm of public service, and considering only how
much money it could take out of a certain area and
if this policy should be adopted by the railroad indus
try as a whole the only ultimate answer would be
public ownership.
Well, here is the final word by the Journal re
garding' Portland's railroad and interurban problem,
quote :
"So far as the interurban is concerned it is time we
found out whether the Public Utility Commission is a reg
ulatory body, or can be forced to be merely a rubber-stamp
All indications are that the city must soon face the
possibility of municipal ownership."
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Aye verily how DIFFERENT it is when the Port
land, not the Southern Oregon, ox is gored! R.W.R.
Tuesday. December 3. 1S57
Ox Is Gored
the railroad situation m
the Public Service Com
wonder WHY?
6&, it m$T?fAiiy & cowl youRoy
Matter of Fact by stewan AiSoP
HAS NIXON "MATURED?" 4
Washington Whether by act
of God or by election, the most
probable next President of the
United State is, of course, Rich
ard M. Nixon. Even if he never
becomes President, Nixon will
unquestionably
play a decisive
ly important
role in the
three years
which remain
of the second
Eisenhower ad
ministration. So this seems a
good time for
1 T ! i.
Stewan Alsop a good 100K. ai
Richard Nixon, plus and minus.
Consider the plus first. Every
one is repeating hopefully that
Nixon has "matured," without
exactly spelling out what the
word means. The best way to
understand what the word means
is to examine Nixon's role in the
first year of the second Eisen
hower administration.
For the part Nixon has played
in the inner policy debates within
the Administration is highly
significant for the future. Every
one knows that Nixon was the
first to recognize the full mean
ing of the Sputniks, while lead
ing Administration figures were
smugly dismissing the first Sput
nik as a "neat scientific trick," a
"bauble," or a "basketball.
Every one knows that since the
Sputnik launchings Nixon has
repeatedly and fervently de
manded an effective response to
the Soviet challenge, in the eco
nomic as well as the military
field.
WHAT is not well known is
"that this position of Nixon's
is not simply a good politician's
instinctive response to the drama
of the Sputniks. It is, on the con
trary, absolutely consistent with
the position Nixon consistently
took months before the. Sputniks
roared into space.
A good deal that seems mys
terious in retrospect about the
Eisenhower administration's
backings and fillings in the pre
Sputnik era is explained by one
the Administration, led by Presi
the Administration, led by Presi
dential Assistant Sherman Ad
ams, was determined to offer the
voters a nice big shiny tax cut in
the election year of 1958. The
target was a tax reduction of at
least $5 billion.
The dream of a tax cut in turn
dictated the defense cutbacks
and the arbitrary ceilings on de
fense spending, which in the
post-Sputnik era have left the
Administration wide open to
withering criticism. And it is
most significant that Nixon's was
just about the only influential
voice raised in the Administra
tion's inner councils, against giv
ing a tax cut first priority.
Tax - cutting h e repeatedly
pointed out, was no political
magic formula. To prove his
point, he cited the 1954 elections,
in which the voters rewarded the
Republican administration for
the' biggest tax cut in history by
electing solid Democratic major
ities to both houses.
THE real strength of the Eisen
hower administration, Nixon
consistently argued, lay in the
voters' sense of confidence in the
President's handling of defense
and foreign policy. To give a tax
cut priority over defense might
destroy that sense of confidence,
and thus the greatest Republican
asset. "
Nixon of course had access to
the intelligence reports showing
the Soviets far ahead of this
country in the missile race. But
so did the members of the tax
cut brigade. And Nixon seems to
have been almost the only high
Administration figure who
grasped the real meaning of the
intelligence. Weeks before the
Sputniks, Nixon proposed to the
President a series of speeches
laying the facts on the line.
Nixon was overruled until
the Sputniks. But what is inter
esting about this episode from
the recent past is not so much
that Nixon was right although
being right about such matters is
a useful habit in a potential Pres
ident. What is interesting is the
political nature of the arguments
Nixon advanced against giving a
tax cut first priority.
""IXON is a politician to his
fingertips which is also a
good thing for a potential Presi
dent to be, despite the current
silly myth that a President
should be 'above' politics. But
there are .essentially, two kinds
of politicians.
The first kind of politician
sees the purpose of politics as
getting elected, by promising the
voters anything they seem to
want, and by using any means
at hand to destroy the opposition.
The second kind of politician sees
effective government, respon
sive to the realities of the domes
tic and world situation, as the
best kind of politics in the long
run.
Almost any politician is a mix
ture of the two. But in his early
years Nixon was certainly pre
dominantly the first kind of pol
itician. The difference is the dif
ference between political imma
turity and political maturity.
There are big minus signs in the
Nixon ledger still, which require
further examination. But surely
the difference between the old
Nixon and the new is a plus sign,
and a very big one indeed.
dopyright, 1957. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written, the scien
tists are predicting that the
rocket that propelled Sputnik I
out into space will fall rather
shortly. The exact time of its
fall, they say, will depend on
happenstance. If it hits the
earth's atmosphere broadside
(it's out in space now, you know)
it will come down quicker. If
it hits edgewise, it willl stay up
longer.
How come, you ask?
Try swishing a piece of lath
through the air. If you swish it
broadside, it wil meet strong
resistance from the air and will
come to a stop sooner. If you
swish it edgewise, it will meet
less resistance from the air and
will keep going longer.
It will be the same with the
Sputnik rocket.
WHEN the rocket hits the air,
it will fall to the earth in
flames.
Why? Out in space, there is
no friction. But in the earth's
air there IS friction. Move a
steel object slowly above a spin
ning grindstone and it will stay
cool. But hold it against the
grindstone and it will become
hot.
The heat is produced by fric
tion. Friction is provided by the
air when objects move through
it with blinding speed. That's
why meteors burn up when they
approach the earth.
It's why the Sputnik rocket
will burn up.
Tlf'ORE questions:
"A Why will Sputnik's rocket
fall if and when it falls?
Why hasn't it fallen so far?
rpRY this one:
- Fill a bucket with water.
Whirl it around your head. As
long as you keep it whirling fast
enough not a drop of water will
fall out, even when the bucket
is upside down. That is because
at a certain speed centrifugal
force balances gravity.
But when you slow the bucket
down, look out! Due to the slow
ing of the speed of the whirling
bucket, the pull of. gravity will
overcome centrifugal force and
the water will fall out of the
bucket and douse you.
It works the same way with
the Sputnik rocket. As long as
it moved at a certain speed, it
stayed up. When its speed slows
down, it will fall.
WHY are these things interest
ing? Well, by experimenting with
Sputniks and such and observing
the results of the experiments
the sicentists, led by the astro
physicists who are specialists in
that branch of science which
deals with celestial bodies, will
evenutually learn how man can
travel in outer space and per
haps visit the celestial bodies
Bi-Parfssan Government Being
Tried as Experiment in Colombia
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
One of the costilest guerilla
wars in recent history seems to
have come to its end in the Latin
A m e rican re
public of Co
lombia. In a
plebiscite held
Sunday, 3,000,
000 men and
women vot e d
in favor of
a remarkable
plan under
which their
Charles M. McCann
country would be ruled for the
next 12 years by a bi-partisan
government.
If it works, the plan will end
a period of nearly 10 years in
Communications
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under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication
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.
She's Not Misunderstood
To the Editor: Having read
your editorial "Misunderstood
Parents" in last evenings paper,
I am puzzled. There may have
been a reason why its "Letter to
a Teen-Age Son" was originally
written but I cannot comprehend
why anyone would reprint it.
It certainly deserved a quiet de
cent burial.
The author, a parent who has
provided everything including
24 hour maid service for her
teen-age son, is not allowed to
use the telephone, the television
or the car and must keep abso
lutely quiet in the presence of
his friends except for "Hello
and Goodby." She pleads that
she needs understanding. She's
got it. She is a mental case. Fa
ther isn't much mentioned but
we can safely assume he is out
in the garage polishing son's
shoes and meditating on he and
mother's decision (stated in the
opening paragraph) "We stack
up as real fine parents."
The editorial use of this type
of drivel (I can think of no
other, nicer word) can hardly
be passed off as harmless space
filling. It casts a shadow on all
teen-agers, leaves the notion
they are money-grubbing in
grates and once more finds in
the high-schooler some good
JENKINS
that surround us.
That's the long and the short
of it.
riNE more question:
u Why should man WANT to
travel into outer space? In try
ing to find an answer to that
one, let's ask another question:
Why did Columbus want to
sail around the world? I think
the answeri s that he wanted to
prove it could be done.
WE MUST remember that in
Columbus' day the idea of
,sailing around the world in
volved supernatural terrors akin
to those involved in the idea of
sailing off into outer space.
The world was then generally
believed to be FLAT. The pre
vailing notion was that some
where off in the distance one
would come to the EDGE of the
world. It was thought at this
edge of the world water of the
seas poured over like Niagara
over its cliff. Where would one
go when one got THERE? It was
a terrifying thought.
But Columbus DARED it. He
found men who were willing to
share the dare.
Man always has been a strange
animal. He is a strange animal
still.
Warming Trend
On Weather Scene
By UNITED PRESS
A mild weather pattern cov
ered the nation today with mod
erate doses of snow, rain, warm
ing and cooling forecast for var
ious parts of the country and
all four in the Midwest.
Early morning reports showed
a light band of snow in the east
ern Dakotas, and several light
flurries in the northern Great
Lakes and New England.
In the far Northwest, rain
dominated the weather map.
Most heavily hit area was Ta
toosh island off western Wash
ington where nearly one-half
inch of rain was deposited
since Monday night.
Temperatures were 10 to 15
degrees cooler early today in
the upper and mid-Mississippi
valley and the upper Great
Lakes. Farther south, in Texas
and Oklahoma, a warming trend
replaced several days of nippy,
cold weather.
Generally fair weather was
reported from the Rockies to
the Pacific ocean, with the ex
ception of the rainy Northwest.
FINISHED WALKING
Milton, Fla. (IP) W. A. Sim-j
mons, retiring after more than
33 years as a mail carrier with
the Post Office department, re
vealed that his first name is
Walker.
which Colombian fought Colom
bian mercilessly in innumerable
clashes some of which involved
thousands of men on each side.
It is estimated that at least
100,000 and possibly as many
as 200,000 persons were killed.
Liberals Split
The Colombian civil war start
ed back in 1946. For years, Co
lombia had been under the two
party political system-Conservatives
and Liberals. Then the Lib
eral Party split up. The result
was that the candidate of the
minority Conservative Party was
elected president.
In April, 1948, a big inter
American conference was meet
ing in Bogota. Gen. George C.
Marshall, then secretary of state,
led the United States delegation.
commercial material for a mar
ketable article. With no proof,
no cases quoted, just a few hun
dred well chosen words and you
can really make them look like
a generation of stinkers. You
can't sell children. It's against
the law but you can get a goodly
sum for their reputation.
Most of the teen-agers I know
are pretty decent human beings.
If there is one among them who
refuses his parents the car, tele
vision, telephone and normal
conversation, I haven't met him.
If he tried it, most parents I
have met would respond with
something more solid than a
whining, "Understand me, son
ny." If you are seriously interest
ed in teen-age problems I sug
gest you forget the True Con
fession type teen-ager and get a
copy of the last issue of the Med
ford Hi-Times. There is a fine
editorial in it asking, not for
mother locked in a closet, but
permission to use the Medford
library for study. Then if we
could fix this for them I have
one other thought.
When the kids get busy let any
who are in so terrible a situation
as "Misunderstood Mother," the
Tribune Editor if he subscribes
to her view, and any fathers who
are afraid to leave the attic, re
tire to our $100,000 juvenile de
tention home for a nice rest
Jane Gillaspie,
636 West Fourth st.,
Medford, Ore.
Nudism Scored By Bible
To the Editor: In the Nov. 28
issue of the Tribune there ap
peared an article favoring Nud
ism. I was much disaappointed.
Certainly the writer showed his
ignorance of the Bible in not
knowing that God condemns the
sin of Nudism in both Old and
New Testaments. When God
comes in Nudism goes out.
In the very beginning of sin
in the world, God destroyed
Nudism once and for all time
by clothing the pair which He
had created, and legislated
against it throughout all the
Bible. Gen. 3:21-22.
Another Bible incident is
found in the eighth chapter of
Luke. Jesus here encounters His
first nudist, and describes him
as "having the devil for a long
time and wearing no clothes."
Vs. 27. Jesus never tolerated
nudists in His presence without
healing them, and so immediate
ly He commands the unclean
spirit to come out of the man
and he was healed and put on
clothes. Vs. 29-33.
The multitudes were amazed
when they saw what was done
the unclean spirit gone, the nud
ist sitting at the feet of Jesus
clothed and in his right mind,"
and they were afraid. Lk. 8:35.
From the above Scripture all
nudists should be warned and
at once to give up their sin and
evil practice and let God heal
them. "He is just the same today."
W. L. Deming
216 Portland ave.
Medford, Ore.
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On April 9 Jorge Eliecer Gai
tan, a Liberal Party leader, was
assassinated.
Within a few hours riots which
turned the capital into a flam-
jing battlefield broke out. Mobs
murdered, burned, looted. Fight
ing flamed around the United
States and other embassies in
which foreign delegates to the
big conference were staying.
The government finally
quelled the riots. The capital
calmed down. But the fighting
was simply transferred to the
provinces. There, month after
month, strong forces of liberal
"guerrillas" fought government
troops in engagements of all sorts
from ambushes to pitched
battles.
Pinilla Overthrown
Last May 10, Gen. Gustavo
Rojas Pinilla, who had seized
power in 1953, was overthrown
by a group of army leaders and
sent into exile.
The army men a junta, as
it is called in Latin America
accepted a plan worked out by
civilian leaders to bring peace q
to the country.
Sunday's plebiscite was the
result. It called on voters to ap
prove a long-range program in
volving the amendment of the
1886 constitution. There is to be
a bi-partisan congress in which
the Liberal and Conservative
parties will be equally repre
sented. A joint national candi
date for president will be chosen
by congress and approved by the
people in an election to be held
next May. The junta will hand
over its authority when the new
president takes office Aug. 7.
Then, if all goes well, Colom
bia will be under bi-partisan
rule until 1970.
California Fire
Still Uncontrolled
Azusa, Calif. (IP) Flames of a
giant 12-day-old brush fire 20
miles northeast of downtown
Los Angeles still burned out of
control today. Foothill commu
nity officials worried about pos
sible floods.
Civil defense officials and
civic leaders of communities
strung along the base of the San
Gabriel Mountains scheduled a
meeting in nearby Monrovia to
day to discuss the danger of pos
sible floods caused by rainy sea
son runoffs from the burned
over area.
Still on the firelines attempt
ing to control the blaze were 600
tired firefighters, whose jobs in
the rugged mountain country
was made even more difficult by
high winds which fanned hot
spots.
By Monday night, the fire had
scorched 25,200 acres of brush
and timber in the Angeles Na
tional Forest, causing an estimat
ed $25 million damage to valu
able watershed area.
Fire crews brought the fire un
der control Thanksgiving Day
only to have it' race out of con
trol again in front of high winds.
Rangers. said they didn't know
when the fire would be con
trolled because it depended on
weather conditions.
The blaze was started when
the outdoor stove of a road crew
was overturned by high winds.
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