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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10. 1947 (Wednesday)
Two Tucker Sno-Cats are now
en route tcPVefmont for use in
recreation areas in that state ac
cording to E. M. Tucker, presi
dent of the company.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The fire
place in homes is now listed as
the social center in the society.
There guests gather and listen
to the crackling of the logs and
legs."
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12, 1937 (Friday)
Erl Snell, secretary of state,
will be guest speaker at a mass
meeting at Medford senior high
school at 2 p.m. Sunday. The
meeting is being sponsored by
the Townsend clubs of the city.
Santa Claus paid his first 1937
visit to Medford yesterday, and
exactly 1396 kiddies met the
jolly fellow at the Jackson coun
ty chamber of Commerce and
received gifts of candy, balloons
and toys.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10. 1927 (Saturday)
Christmas trees by the truck
load are leaving for California,
according to Edgar Johnson,
local market owner.
A complete meal prepared
from milk and cream products
a phase of the Snider's Dairy
exhibit at the Better Homes Ex
position at the Armory today.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10. 1917 (Monday) .
From local and personal col
umn: The county clerks, commis
sioners, judges and prosecuting
attorneys will hold their annual
meeting (ft Portland next Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday.
Cinna iht oamnaiffn to con
serve food, sugar consumption
Has decreased uiie-umu ouu uk
t t viit-frtn and nnrlr has
Ul UCCl, uiufcLU" " ' f "
fallen off a third. The same fig
ures noid true wun provisions
in general.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten eorTeet Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent: five or
six is goad.
1. A musket is sometimes
called a queen's arm, foot, or
head? i
2. Bible: How many years of
wilderness-wandering was spent
by the Israelites?
3. For what industry is
Grand Rapids, Mich., famous?
4. Will soaking poisonous
mushrooms in salt water render
them harmless?
5. Name the president of the
United Automobile Workers?
6. Sowbugs are crustaceans,
reptiles, or insects?
7. What is the term of office
of the president in Argentina?
8. Gold is weighed by the
fluid, troy, or avoirdupois
ounce?
9. Are porpoises classed as
reptiles, mammals, or fish?
10. Name the author of "Das
Kapital."
Answers: 1. Arm. 2. Forty. 3
Furniture manufacturing. 4. No.
5. Walter P. Reuiher. 6. Crusta
. ceans. 7. Six years. 8. Troy. 9.
Mammals. 10. Karl Marx.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Silly Alibis For Blooper
On the "Ed Sullivan Show" Sunday night, a young
British gal connected, in some way, with the Hearst
Press, put in a plea for whoever was responsible for
the Cape Canaveral rocket flop, by asking somewhat
stridently, how the preliminary bally-hoo and build
up could have been avoided, with that crowd of news
paper men, with their field-glasses fixed night and
day on the launching platform?
It is hard to believe the young lady spoke with
out William Randolph's permission for he was in the
audience and yet it is even harder to believe that
"the-Much-Travelled-Bill" could have sanctioned such
a nonsensical alibi.
For a clearer case of "putting the cart before the
horse" could hardly be imagined.
THE newspaper and the radio boys, over in the
woods somewThere, were not the cause of the
advance "build-up," they were the result.
SOMEone, SOMEwhere in SOME place of au
thority, either invited or allowed the publicity-hounds
in, to view the "great ascension" ; and they also tipped
off the press that at a certain hour on a certain day
the administration would place ITS "Sputnik" into an
orbit encircling the earth.
It is certainly peculiar,
particularly one working for the Hearst chain should
make the charge, direct or by implication, that not a
"boner" in some U.S. publicity department, was re
sponsible for the debacle, but the American press!
She should, we think, stay a little longer in the
"states" before she rushes on the stage of a national
"TV" hook-up to pop off concerning something she
clearly knows nothing about.
EVIDENCE to establish the falsity of her charge is
plentiful. Also the silliness of the claim that the
advance "bally-hoo" was due largely to the proximity
of Cape Carnaveral to one of Florida s winter resorts.
How silly can we get?
If there were any truth to either, why is it that
at the same place innumerable rocket-tests have been
made for months without any advance publicity what
ever. At least one U.S. rocket succeeded in hitting
its target two or three thousand miles away. More of
them however, failed.
Why was there no fan-fare if publicity at Cape
Carnaveral is so hard to avoid?
Only the day after the "Sputnik" fizzle, the Air
Force launched a space-rocket from the same area,
which was initially a success but finally failed to
reach its target.
Not a word of publicity was put out in advance,
no flash-warnings to the press, no radio or newspaper
men gathered for the veiy simple reason they knew
nothing about it.
If the Air Force can keep their experiments secret
as they have done why. then could not the De
fense Department (or whatever department was re
sponsible for the Hollywood farce) have done the
same?
The answer is they could at Cape Canaveral or
anywhere else. A second answer is that for some
reason they did not WANT to.
TPHE final clincher, as far as all these rocket "alibis"
are concerned, is that the authorities who gave the
"green light" to all that advance publicity before
the zero hour approached, sensing the error of their
ways have now put up the "red light" and declare
there will be no such publicity hereafter. Those who
wish any information they say, will now have to go
direct to Washington where they should have been
directed in the first place.
A neater example of "closing the barn-door after
the horse has been stolen" could hardly be imag
ined ! R.W.R.
What Might Have Been
Thanks to certain friends some of them railroad
men we are accumulating quite a list of successful
railroads that have no more use for the SP's defeatist
and spineless attitude than we have.
The latest is the Missouri Pacific, whose President
Russell L. Dearmont recently sent out the following
Christmas greeting to the company's passenger agents,
quote :
"It is hard for me to accept the views of many that the
railroads should get out of the passenger business as fast
as they can. I can't help but have the feeling that if we
would do more constructive thinking and less talking about
quitting we would find a way to improve the situation.
"The automobile is handling the major part of traveling
done by our people. Highways are becoming more crowded
every day with cars and trucks and casualties are increas
ing at such a rate that I believe many people will ultimately
return to our passenger trains for the safety and comfort
they offer.
"I would like to have you and your associates in our
passenger department give serious thought to improve
ments in our service that you think may encourage greater
use of our trains."
"AMEN!"
TTHAT is one of the important points of the rail
passenger- problem we have been stressing for
years its greater safety and comfort.
So the "Missouri Pacific" joins the leadership of
so many other outstanding and enlightened railroads
that have refused to follow the "Friendly SP" in its
doctrine that railroad passenger service is doomed
and the smart thing to do is to abandon its service
WHEREVER it can, and where it can't, so impair it
that there will be no patronage or not enough to pay.
IT WAS really a sad day when the Southern Pacific
got its rail monopoly from the U.S. government
from Eugene through Medford to Dunsmuir, Cali
fornia. Had the Great Northern, the-Northem Pacific, the
Burlington, the Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, the Wa-
Tuesday, December 10. 1957
that a newspaper girl
"1 T0LO W WW! 1 OIDKT
Adams Tells Inside
Story of White House
Reaction to Stroke
Washington (IP) What went
on in the White House when
Editorial
Comment
WE SHOULD HAVE SHUT UP
After we lost a tremendous
propaganda battle to the Rus
sians by letting them get the
first satellite into space, we
have now compounded that
blunder by advertising we were
going to launch one ourselves
and then failing in the attempt.
No one knows how many
tries the Russians made before
they were successful with their
two sputniks. But for all the
world knows about it they shot
them up there with apparent
ease and no trouble whatsoever.
But us We announce that we
are going to launch a satellite
and then can't get the darn
thing off the ground. It makes
us look like a bunch of ridicu
lous amateurs.
We realize that under a totali
tarian government the public is
kept in the dark about what is
going on. Thus, when the Soviet
has failures no one knows about
them. But even in a Republic it
is not necessary to advertise ev
ery attempt at everything. Re
porters hanging around Cape
Canaveral wouldn't have known
the difference if launching plans
were cancelled because of bad
winds or mechanical difficul
ties. It would have been time
enough to tell them that the
satellite was up after it hap
pened if it ever does. After a
first successful launching they
could have been included in
plans for future attempts but as
things stand now we have lost
prestige in the eyes of those
people in the world we are try
ing to impress and no matter
what happens from here on out
they will remember only our
failures. Corvallis Gazelle
Times. GREATEST FIZZLE
IN HISTORY
Yes, Flubnik I must have a
scapegoat. We don't know who
it'll be yet. But whoever's name
crops up will have just a bit of
our sympathy. It's fine to have
several companies making soap.
Each probably would stumble
on to a different valuable ingre
dient and all come out with an
acceptable product for the com
petition of the market place. But
rockets and missiles aren't soap,
any more than was the A-bomb.
And the American public isn't
nearly as much in need of a bet
ter bath lather as of a proper
and cohesive defense establish
ment in which it is pouring bil
lions year after year.
The scapegoat for Flubnik I
lies in the gutless approach to
the unification of military pro
grams and the diffusion of en
ergy and brains. We aren't mere
ly searching for new products.
We're playing with our national
life or death. And it looks like
we've been doing just that, too
. . . playing.
Some lesson should be learn
ed from the greatest propaganda
fizzle in world history. Maybe a
little humility will be learned,
too. If we're going to keep on
dissipating our resources com
peting among ourselves on the
guided-missile level, we'll be de
serving of just about what we'll
get. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
bash, the Denver Rio Grande, and now the Missouri
Pacific or even the New York Central whose presi
dent recently declared, because a single passenger
operation does not pay its way is no excuse for aban
doning it
Yes, if any of these railroads and probably many
others had secured that franchise and those thous
ands of acres of free-land, instead of the S.P., there
is eveiy reason to believe,
minimum of daily rail passenger service m this pros
perous and growing area today, instead of NONE
at all. R.W.R.
MWNA 60 CLEAR HOME!'
President' Eisenhower suffered
his mild stroke Nov. 25.
The inside story was told pub
licly for the first time by Presi
dential Assistant Sherman Ad
ams Monday night in a speech
to the Republican finance din
ner at St. Louis. Adams gave this
squence of avent.
"The frist indication that the
President was indisposed was his
own statement of feeling chilled
after returning from the Wash
ington airport, where he went
to meet officially the head of a
foreign state. He had to stand
in the cold for a considerable
time. He thereupon went to the
White House and went to bed.
The doctor was called at once.
"In turn the President's doc
tor in consultation with other
doctors diagnosed that the Pres
ident had sustaned what people
commonly call a minor stroke.
Staff Acts Switfly
"Meanwhile, on the business
side of the White House, a lot
of things were going on.
"I at once telephoned the
Vice President and advised him
of the President's illness. The
same message was communicat
ed to various members of the
President's cabinet. Key mem
bers of the White House staff
were notified.
"The night the President sus
tained his latest trouble, he was
almost adamant about attending
the state dinner he had arranged
for the King of Morocco. The
day afterwards he put up a vig
orous argument about coming to
his office, then talked seriously
about holding a press conference
Failing to talk the doctors into
either of these ventures, he di
rected that staff members bring
him certain documents, and this
was done.
Activity Increases
"The next day ... he got
more heavily into the business
of his office. The following day
he left the White House to go to
church with Mrs. Eisenhower.
The next day he drove with Mrs.
Eisenhower to his Gettysburg
farm and spent the week end
there. He drove back to Wash
ington last Monday to attend a
cabinet meeting, met with his
staff on certain pending prob
lems, and the following two
days met with the leaders of
the Congress. On Thursday he
attended a two-hour meeting of
the national security council."
The President went to Gettys
burg again last Thursday and
returned to the White House
Monday.
Neuberger Cites
Cancer Fund Need
Portland (IP) Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told Meth
odist ministers of the Portland
area at a breakfast meeting today
that the government's major let
down of its citizens during recent
years has been the failure to un
dertake a "crash" program, of
all-out support for research into
the causes and possible cures,- of
cancer.
"We spend countless billions
of dollars for weapons of war,"
Neuberger said, "but it has taken
persistent effort . . . since 1955
to raise the sum for cancer re
search even to $56 million. Yet
cancer kills nearly 10 times as
many Americans in one year as
were killed in fighting during
three years of the Korean war,"
he declared.
there would be at least a
U.S. Again 'Re-Examines7 Aid
To Tito; Finds Him Valuable
By CHARLES M. McCANN
Uniled Press Correspondent
The United States apparently
has completed another of its
many "re-examinations of pol
icy" toward
President Tito
of Yugoslavia.
As the result,
it is expected
that American
aid to Yugo
slavia will be
continued on
the ground
that Tito is a
Charles McCann political asset
to this country In the cold war
despite the fact that he is a Com
munist. This latest "re-examination"
was undertaken because of sev
eral developments which caused
the policy makers in Washington
to feel that Tito was getting too
friendly with Shoivet Russia.
The developments included
Tito's recognition of the East
German Communist puppet re
gime as a sovereign government
and several votes in support of
Russia in the United Nations
General Assembly in New York.
Ambassador Visits Tilo
United States Ambassador
James W. Riddleberger visited
Tito Friday at Brioni Island on
the Adriatic Sea.
Riddleberger explained the
reasons for Washington's mis
givings. In reply, Tito assured Riddle
berger that he intended to keep
the independence of Russia dom
ination which he won in 1948 at
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Aftermatch of our satellite
fizzle:
Europe has taken time out
from its own troubles to poke
fun at the failure of the first
U.S. satellite attempt.
The nearly unanimous verdict
is that Americans talk and boast
too much.
QUCH!
" That one stings because fund
amentally it is TRUE.
One reason why our country
is not as popular abroad as its
immense achievements in the
field of human rights and human
dignity and human progress en
title it to be is that too many
generations of American tourists
have gone around the world
bragging about our country and
belittling other countries.
"JVIORE aftermath:
Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson says his pre
paredness committee will want
to know WHY the Vanguard
satellite missile exploded on the
ground. He says in Amarillo in
his none-too-modest home . state
of Texas that he shrinks a little
everv time the United States an
nounces a great achievement it
is GOING TO MAKE and it
blows up in our faces.
THAT'S what comes of brag
Ring too soon.
There is the classic case of the
Irish-American who was watch
ing a bull in a corral. The bull
was snorting and blowing and
bellowing and pawing up the
ground. It occurred to the Irish
American gentleman that it
would be a wonderful idea to
grab the bull by the horns and
rub his nose in the dirt. The
thought was so funny that he
laughed until he was weak, then
climbed the fence and tackled
the bull which promptly hook
ed a horn in the seat of his pants
and tossed him over the fence.
He picked himself up, brushed
off his clothes and remarked:
"Well begorrah, I had a good
laugh, anyway."
I suppose we can feel the same
way about our fizzled satellite.
"OUT
Let's not lose our nerve.
Sixteen years ago Saturday
(for whatever reason) we took a
TERRIBLE beating at Pearl Har
bor. But we pulled ourselves to
gether, humbled the Japanese
war lords who had caught us
napping at Pearl Harbor and
supplied the punch that put Hit
ler out of business.
In the final pinches, when all
the chips are down, we Ameri
cans can be every bit as great
as we THINK we are.
That's something for Kruschev
and his gang to remember.
EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES
Philadelphia OP) Former
Republican Congressman James
Gallagher, 90, original support
er of legislation to have the In
dependence Hall area designated
a national shrine, died ' at his
home here Sunday. Gallagher
served in the House from -1943
to 1945 and from 1947 to 1949.
He was the founder of Gallagher
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the risk of his career and even of
his life. .
There hardly seems to be any
ground for surprise at Tito's
answer.
Two things about Tito and his
policies seem to be pretty clear
to anybody who reads the news
papers. 1. He has no intention of re
suming the position he held in
the Communist world before he
rebelled at Soviet domination
nine years ago.
2. He is a Communist. He has
been a Communist since his
youth.
It is necessary for any western
government, in its relations with
Yugoslavia, to decide whether
Tito's independence of Russian
domination outweighs the fact
that he is a Communist.
Tito Considered Asset
The United States seems to
have decided once more, as it
has done so many time in the
past, that Tito is an asset to the
West.
Tito's recognition of East Ger
many was a blunder. West Ger
many had threatened to break
relations with any country that
recognized the puppet regime.
Tito thought he could get away
with it and was shocked when
Sen. Hayden Sets New
Senate Service Mark
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) The only
Senator who has served in Con
gress ever since his state was
admitted to the Union is quietly
setting new records on Capitol
Hill.
The lawmaker is Sen. Carl
Hayden (D-Ariz.); his records art
for length of Congressional serv
ice. Hayden, the Senate's dean
and President Pro Tempore, last
Oct. 21 set a record for longest
continuous service in both House
and Senate by outdistancing the
45-year, 8-month mark set by
the late Illinois Rep. Adolph J
Sabath (D) in 1952.
Upon completion of his 46th
year in Congress Feb. 19, Hay
den also will hold the record for
longest total service in both
chambers. On that day he will
pass the mark of another one
time Illinois Representative, Jo
seph G. (Uncle Joe) Cannon (R),
who served from 1873-1923.
First to House
Hayden first came to Congress
in 1912 as a Representative, five
days after Arizona became a
state. He was in the House for
15 years before moving to the
Senate in 1927.
Although he has served in the
Senate longer than any current
Senator nearly 31 years Hay
den is far from an all-time pace
setter in that respect. Francis
Emroy Warren was a Republican
Senator from Wyoming for 37
years intermittently, ending in
1929. And the late Kenneth D.
McKellar (D-Tenn.) served for
36 consecutive years ending in
1953.
Although no other member of
Congress can match Hayden's
record, 14 of his colleagues have
been around for 30 years or
more.
The longevity crown among
currently serving Representa
tives is worn by Speaker Sam
Rayburn (D-Texas), with nearly
44 years of continuous service
to his credit. "Mr. Sam," who
has been Speaker slightly more
than 14 years, longer than any
one else in history, is out-ranked
in the all-time longevity sweep
stakes only by Hayden and
Sabath.
The only other member of the
40-year club is Rep. Carl Vinson
(D-Ga.), who has been answering
House roll calls for more than
43 years.
All-American
Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.)
holds fourth place among sitting
members. In his youth an All
American foptball player and
amateur heavyweight wrestling
champion of the U.S., Reed has
served nearly 39 years.
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West Germany carried out its
threat. As regards support of
Russian policies in the U.N., Tito
is a Communist for one thing.
For another, if he antagonizes
Russia too greatly, he will find
himself in another fight with the
Kremlin.
There was one new develop
ment in the latest American re
examination. Tito is said to have told Am
bassador Riddleberger that he
was getting tired of being re
examined so often.
Dispatches from Belgrade say
that Tito told Riddleberger that
the re-examinations made the
United States undependable as a
source of weapons and that he
would seek them elsewhere in
future.
This caused some surprise.
Tito has been getting very little
military aid for some time.
The first reaction to the report
was that Tito might be threat
ening to seek arms from Russia.
He might do that, of course. But
later reports said he might seek
them from' other countries, in
cluding Great Britain, France
and Sweden.
In any event, American eco
nomic aid to YugoslaviaOis
continue.
Other Capitol Hill old-timers
are Reps. Clarence Cannon (D
Mo.), John Taber (R-N.Y.) and
Emanuel -Celler (D-N.Y.), each
with nearly 35 years in the
House. Sens. Lister Hill (D-Ala.)
and Matthew M. Neely (D-W.Va.)
both have mora than 34 years'
i . -1 . 1 1 -r t
service, pan oi u in me nouse.
Minority Leader Joseph VO Mar
tin Jr. (R-Mass.) is nearmg ms
33rd anniversary of House serv
ice, as is Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins
(R-Ohio).
Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R
Mass.), the only woman on the
list, has served 32V years. Next
in length of service are three
other GOP Representatives: Au
gust H. Andresen (Minn.), 31
years, and B. Carroll Reece
(Tenn.) and Charles A. Wolver
ton (N.J.), nearly 30 years and
10 months each.
Although some of these veter
ans are in their 80s and most are
in their 70s, the oldest Member
of Congress is only nearing his
20th anniversary. Sen. Theodore
Francis Green (D-R.I.), 90, now
the oldest man ever to serve in
Congress, came to th. Senate in
1937.
(Copyright 1957.
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
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REMEMBER PEARL
HARBOR?
It was only 16 years ago yes
terday that our nation, caught
by surprise, suffered such
great loss of lives and property.
As a nation we're now pre
pared to meet and repel unex
pected attacks. How about you
as individuals? Have you safe-
guarded your lives and prop
erty with sufficient insurance?
Bill Fish
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