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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
Dec. 15, 1947 (Monday)
Attorney General George Neu-
ner advises board of control that
state emergency funds cannot be
used for maintaining Camp
White hospital before it is estab
lished as a state institution.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Stockmen
are busy throwing hay at their
steers, and to hear some of them
tell it, they need the hay worse
than the cows."
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1937 (Wednesday)
Oregon's new 1938 license
plates, aluminum colored back
ground with black numerajs and
letters, make first appearance in
Medford.
Union demands regarding
marketing of Oregon turkeys in
California rescinded with an
nouncement of an agreement
reached in a four-day conference.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1927 (Thursday)
County court directs county
clerk to issue a warrant for pur
chase of $25,000 of Crater Lake
highway road bonds.
County law library consisting
of some 3,000 volumes of Oregon
laws, moved by truck from the
Liberty building to new court
house.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1917 (Saturday)
Confiscated liauors will be
saved and devoted to war pur
poses, according to an order
from Governor Withycombe.
From local and personal col
umn: "About 1,000 government
horses passed through Medford
Thursday from Washington and
Idaho enroute to a southern can
tonment." Uktft Y6r I.Q.?
NlnsT r ten correct Is serlor;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six Is (004
1. Into how many Boroughs
is New York City divided?
2. Bible: In only two places
Gentiles stirred persecution
against Paul, . without sugges
tions by Jews, is told in which
book?
3. To what family of climb
ing vines does the sweet-potato
belong?
&3 In the nursery rhyme, what
did "Little Miss Muffet" sit
upon?
5. Jrtount Vernon, the home
of George Washington, is located
on which river?
6. Which planet has the same
name as a famous statue of an
armless woman?
7. In the list of annual holi
days, does Christmas come aft
er New Year's Day?
8. Are blueberry and huckle
berry different names for the
same berries?
9. Hebe, daughter of Jupiter
and Juno, was assigned to what
office in the service of the gods
of classical mythology?
10. The U.N.Ol is now offi
cially abbreviated how?
Answers: 1. Five. 2. Acts.
3. The morning - glory family.
4. J)tuffet. 5. Potomac. 6. Venus.
7. Yes. 8. No. 9. Cupbearer lo
the gods. 10. U.N.
MAIL TRIBUNE
' Go After the Fog
With the sudden boom in the stock of applied
science why can't a few thousand dollars, out of the
billions, be devoted to a solution of the distressing
problem of fog?
Rain isn't pleasant. Snow isn't much better, ex
cept for those who ski. But both have their ultimate
public benefits. Fog has none.
1V40RE0VER, in this gasoline and airplane age,
fog is a serious menace. It is a constant threat to
life, limb and health. Great Pete (Clark), you can't
even play golf, or with any safety, walk in it!
It is bad for health, it is bad for business, it is a
threat to the "pursuit of happiness" even for some
to survival.
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WHEREUPON and to-wit:
We herewith petition Uncle Sam to sick a few
of his scientific and top-bracket weather experts on
the task of eliminating fog, particularly here in the
Rogue River valley.
Compared to the successful launching and orbiting
of a "Sputnik," we are quite sure this task would be
technically simple, and financially "pea-nuts."
As far as the long-suffering inhabitants of South
ern Oregon and Northern California are concerned,
we are certain the vote would be unanimous in favor
of spending a few' thousands or millions less on
getting to the moon and devoting more to getting rid
of the f og. R.W.R.
What Is "Prejudice"?
. The text of this morning's second discourse will
be "prejudice."
What is prejudice?
Well our dictionary defines it as follows:
"An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed, before
hand, without knowledge, thought or reason."
That seems reasonably clear.
MOW for several years this department has been
A called "prejudiced" where the "friendly Southern
Pacific" and Vice President Nixon are concerned.
But unless the dictionary is wrong, we are not
and never have been PREJUDICED.
f JNTIL the Southern Pacific, in violation of the spirit
and purpose of its franchise, deprived Southern
Oregon, and parts of Northern California a'grpwing
and prosperous area of approximately 30,000 square
miles of all passenger service, we had no criticism
to make of this billion dollar corporation.
Instead of that unfavorable judgment having been
formed without "knowledge, thought or reason," the
exact reverse is true large quantities of all three
have been utilized in forming our well publicized
opinion. '
THE same is true of Vice
aiiao univ xvivxv..
Until he delivered that
pletely false, "Way Down East" "apologio" regard
ing his acceptance of an "$18,000 retainer" from a
group of well-heeled California oil-and-real estate
tycoons, we had no particular complaint concerning
the former congressman and one-time senator from
Southern California.
But that smooth, but completely phoney perform
ance, combined with other speeches in that campaign,
finished us politically, as far as President Eisenhow
er's running mate was concerned.
That verdict also was not formed "beforehand,"
nor without "knowledge, thought or reason," it was
formed after the event, with all three attributes ap
plied to the young man's public record, before and
since.
In short, the trouble with our critics, as far as the
Southern Pacific and the reigning Vice President are
concerned, is this :
They persisted and still do in confusing opin
ions they do not like, with prejudice.
"1X7E would not deny there are perhaps worse rail-
roads in the country than the Southern Pacific.
We would merely deny it is a good railroad, a railroad
with vision, enlightenment, or any conception of the
dollar-and-cent value of public good will and proper
public service. Because of that blindness its policies
have greatly injured and retarded the material de
velopment of this section of the state. That is why
we have devoted so much time and space in trying,
without, we admit, much success to date to correct
them.
IT IS the same with Vice President Nixon.
We have no personal feeling regarding him.
We have never met him and never expect to. We
have listened to him over the air however, followed
his record, ever since we heard him campaign against
Helen Gahagan Douglas in California, and in five
little words, we just don't "like or trust the man."
XE particularly don't like to think of him or his
type in the White House.
For it seems to this department that the first vital
consideration in a President, regardless of party, is
INTEGRITY.
We have no doubt never have had regarding
Nixon's political "savvy," his shrewdness, his effect
iveness as a two-fisted ruthless and double-jointed
campaigner nor his tact and charm for that matter.
But we have' from the first and particularly since that
"dear little Checkers" and Plain GOP "Cloth coat"
scenario, doubted the man's sincerity, good faith and
intellectual honesty.
This isn't judging "beforehand, without knowl
edge, thought or reason," it is judging after the event,
Sunday. December 15, 1957
President Richard Nixon
ghost-written and com
Ma I 010 WAS say
THE TAIL. CAA15 0OT1'
the conclusion based solidly upon the factual record
of Nixon for nearly a decade.
QNE of the "V.P.'s" defenders a friend of long-
standing asked the other day why we were so
hard on "Dick" when the only thing against him was
"he is merely playing the political game a little smart
er than his rivals.",
"IIE grant there is something to that, but it merely
' " emphasized the point we were trying to make,
namely :
Let Nixon and the men of his type, be the choice
for Congress from California or Senator, or even
Vice President although the latter involves a serious
calculated risk but may the "Angels and Ministers
of Grace" defend us from ever having a man of that
type for four or more years in the "White House !"
That position one of the world's most important
demands something more than "just another poli
tician" something more than a skillful campaigner
dealing in half-truths, anonymous phone calls, and
unwarranted and insidious insinuations against his
opponents.
Prejudiced? All these charges can be substantiated
by the Nixon record, not once or twice, but innumer
able times.
fXF course, the answer today is, we have a "New
W Nixon."
The Republican "Old Guard" is playing this trans
formation tune up with all the publicity resources
of the Chotiner Hollywood school and all the tremelo
stops pulled out.
This maneuver in itself suggests the "OLD Nixon,"
even to his friends, left something to be desired.
But just how NEW is the "New Nixon?" We
grant his manners have been much better of late,
his demagoguery less apparent, the charge he is only
a "Joe McCarthy" in a white collar less justified.
But is that change any more fundamental or basic
than the change in a three-tone paint job on a modern
super-car?
We don't think so.
And we are quite content to leave it to Father
Time for final determination. R.W.R.
Today and
By Walter
CRUX OF THE NATO
PROBLEM
The crucial difference between
the coming meeting of the North
Atlantic Allies and the many
meetings that
have preceded
it is that for
the first time
we are asking
at least as
much as we
can give. When
NATO was
first organized
nearly ten
years ago, the
Walter Lippmann
United States was not only in
vulnerable itself but it was able
to guarantee effectively, aU the
NATO Allies. In the beginning,
the Atlantic Alliance, though in
form it was a collective security
pact, was in substance an Ameri
can guarantee to protect Western
Europe.
Beginning in 1949, when the
Soviet Union first mastered the
atomic bomb, the original and
basic principle of NATO became
increasingly uncertain. For as
the Soviet Union acquired nu
clear weapons and the means of
their delivery, the American guar
antee became less and less inclu
sive. Before that, we had been
able to insure our Allies not only
against invasion but against
serious bombardment. By the
early fifties particularly in the
months immediately preceding
the famous summit conference in
Geneva in 1955, there was no
longer any certainty, indeed not
much likelihood, that our Allies
would escape devastation in case
of a great war. It was this that
produced a rising tide of what
we call, for short, neutralism. At
bottom, neutralism Is the im
pulse to reduce the liability of
becoming involved in a world
war.
,
HOWEVER, during this period
and indeed until this autumn,
it was still an article of faith
among our Allies that the con
tinental territory of the United
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Tomorrow
Lippmann
States was invulnerable whereas
the territory of the Soviet Union
was open to destructive attack.
Upon this faith there rested the
confidence that the territory of
our Allies was defended by the
American power to deter attack
by the threat of massive retalia
tion. This article of faith has been,
if not destroyed, then at least
gravely impaired by the proof
that the Soviet Union is ahead
of the United States in the mili
tary art of rockets and the mis
siles they can project. As regards
the newer weapons of war, it has
been shown that only by a seri
ous effort over a good many
years is this country likely to
come abreast of the Russians.
This has been interpreted
abroad as meaning that during a
dangerous interval of years both
Western Europe and North
America have to be defended
from missile " sites in Western
Europe and in North Africa. We
are now as dependent for our
own defense on Europe's willing
ness to provide the missile sites
as Europe is dependent upon us
to provide missiles for the sites.
This is a wholly new situation,
radically different from that
which existed when NATO was
founded, and it is in this altered
situation that the present crisis
has developed.
WE are no longer the donors in
NATO. We are, it might be
said, a power needing to negoti
ate understandings jointly and
severally with many countries
all of them asking themselves
whether what they are likely to
receive is equal to what they are
being asked to give.
I think that the. extraordinar
ily personal hostility to Mr. John
Foster Dulles in Europe is in the
last analysis a reflection of this
underlying change in the NATO
situation.
TTr. Dulles has his faults. But
he is no monster of wickedness.
He was, I believe, the focal point
because he has been so visible
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Paris:
The French cabinet has been
called into session to decide
under what conditions the Unit
ed States MIGHT BE PERMIT
TED to build missile bases on
French soil.
American missile bases in
Europe will be a big item at the
NATO talks in Paris next week.
TTMMMMM.
H Let's take a sharp look at
this American foreign base busi
ness.
It is true that as of now WE
NEED these foreign bases FOR
uuh uwim DEFENSE. We need
them because AS YET we can't
send bombers carrying nuclear
Domos clear to Russia and back
without refueling them on the
way. Our foreign bases provide
reiueimg stations from which
flying tanker planes can rise to
gas up our bombers on the way
to tneir targets in Russia.
Also
At these bases we keen bomb
ers that can make the round trip
to Russian targets and hark to
the American base from which
they tqok off.
Thus they are important to us
for OUR OWN defense.
TUT
Keep this clearly in mind:
While we are defending our
selves from these foreign bases
WiS AKE ALSO DEFENDING
OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES
IN EUROPE AGAINST AT
TACK BY THE KREMLIN COM
MUNISTS. That includes the French, who
are talking about whether or
not they will PERMIT us to
build bases on French soil.
VUE PRESENTLY need foreign
" bases from which to launch
bombers at Russian targets.
The time is near when we will
need foreign bases from which
to launch intermediate range
missiles at Russian targets.
The time is not far off when
we will have INTERCONTINEN
TAL RANGE missiles that can
be launched at Russian targets
from our own soil thus elimi
nating our need for American
bases on foreign soil.
SPEED the day!
can citizen, I m getting tired of
MAYING FOR THE PRIVILEGE
of defending everybody in the
world against Russian commu
nism. 1
Editorial
Comment'
HOW ABOUT OREGON
WATER?
What can be done to assure
the continued development of
the vast hydroelectric potential
of this region?
Sen. Richard Neuberger says
it is the responsibility of the
federal government and he re
fuses to accept the administra
tion's premise that the nation
cannot afford to develop its re
sources at the same time that it
is catching up with the Rus
sians in the missiles race. He
points out that the Russians are
well able to keep both programs
going simultaneously and ar
gues that the United States is
quite capable of matching the
Soviets.
There is another approach to
the subject. Its proponents do
not take issue with Sen. Neu
berger, but it has been their
thinking for some time that the
day might not be too far off
when the Congress, no matter
in which party's control, would
refuse to annually spend large
sums of money for the develop
ment of the hydroelectric poten
tial of the Northwest. They
point out that it has been in
creasingly difficult to get ade
quate funds. The Oregonian has
been a spokesman for this
group. It is that newspaper's
suggestion that a regional cor
poration, composed of the fed
eral government and the North
west states, be formed to build
hydroelectric projects in this
region. The job would be fi
nanced by borrowing funds on
existing installations, thereby
removing the federal govern
ment from financing.
We- think Sen. Neuberger is
entirely right, that this nation
is well, able to pay for the de
velopment of its resources while
it is spending for an adequate
defense. But we would like to
see the introduction of legisla
tion that would establish a re
gional corpcxation. Then, if the
Congress refused to make any
more appropriations for hydro
electric projects in the North
west the region would not be
placed in a vacuum. A regional
corporation would permit prog
ress on the huge task of devel
oping the region's hydroelectric
potential. We do not see how
industrial and business growth
can be accomplished without
full utilization of the water re
sources of the region. Pendle
ton East Oregonian.
and so vocal first, of the resent
ments that accumulated while he
represented the great .donor
power and, second, he is now the
focal point of the fears that have
been ' excited because he no
longer represents the strongest
power of the world, on which
the Europeans have staked so
much.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
POT LUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
The principal topic of conver
sation in Medford last week was
not Sputnik, nor Ike's illness,
nor even Christmas. It was fog.
The white, blurry, cold, damp
stuff was as thick as we can re
member it hereabouts. Many
were the cars that strayed over
the center lines on the streets
(many of which need repainting,
by the way, city hall), and many
were the cars which bumped
curbs, or lurched into ditches or
other people's front lawns.
The police, practical as al
ways, asked householders to
turn on porch lights to serve as
guidance beacons for fog - con
fused motorists. (This really
helps, too. Wonder where the po
lice first got the idea? We've not
heard of it in other towns.)
There were almost as many
suggestions as to how to get rid
of the fog as there were bright
people- around. Some of them
suggested setting up giant fans
to blow the fog over the hills.
One person suggested digging a
tunnel, so it could flow out into
the Klamath river.
And the boys at the weather
bureau, as unhappy as anyone
else over the fog, offered, if it
was thought it would do any
good, to go outside, all of them,
and blow and blow and blow . . .
Seen on North Central ave.
Monday morning: A car going
down the street with a baby's
bottle full of milk held on the
dashboard by a flashlight clip.
A man we know has a teen
age son who delivers morning
newspapers here in town. Last
week, however, he was down
with the flu. So dad has been
getting up long before the first
crack of dawn to deliver his
papers.
He had driven the lad over
his route once or twice before,
but didn't really know it, and
the first day he took over he had
a heck of a time finding all the
houses of the subscribers correct
ly. So for subsequent trips he
made himself a little list. Some
of the entries are names, where
he knows the occupants. But the
other entries include such items
as these:
"Little plants along driveway
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White and Yellow Lines
To the Editor: I'm just putting
m a little gripe about the fog
Oh, I know, no one can do any
thing about the fog, but the
state sure could put the white
line down the highway like it
should be. I have to drive back
and forth twice a day, fog or rain
and no .matter what kind of
lights we have, you can't see the
middle of the highway any place
Where there is white left it's
safe driving, but when you hit
the yellow line it's just like
driving blind. I think if it was
put to a vote there would be
lots more like me who would
prefer the white. It shows up
very good in fog, but not the
yellow, and out where Black-
well road turns off 99 highway
the lines are so dim you can't
tell which side of the highway
you are on, and those big blue
lights are so blinding, after you
go out from under them you
can't see.
E.M.C.,
P.O. Box 642,
Medford, Ore.
Disgusting Music
To the Editor: In driving to my
work in various southern Ore
gon towns I find myself to the
point of disgust because of the
type of music that is available
to me on the radio in the morn
ings. I turn from one station to
the other only to end up by
snapping it off because of the
wailing, sick sounding, vocals
of some kid jazzed up by the
tempo of a sad guitar."
The amazing thing to me is
that the responsible people at
the stations don't realize that
at this time in the morning all
the kids are in school and they
are playing it to the people that
make it possible for them to be
on the air.
I don't mean to say that we
are a lot or rii-.t5rows mat
want a lot of classical music
to put us back to sleep in the
mornings, but would like to hear
more happy, uplifting, gay mu
sic that makes a person feel like
doing good instead of committing
murder.
While I'm oh the subject don't
you think it would be a nice
thought if the radio stations felt
more of an obligation to help
teach our young people an ap
preciation for good music? Our
schools cannot do this job alone
and maybe if the kids were ex
posed to it more they would see
the real beauty in it.
Besides doing us old "Codg
ers" over 30 a favor, look at the
break you would be giving our
kids.
A Would-be Listener,
(Name on File)
Circle driveway Red house,
then four in a row Each side
of basketball hoop Just before
lots of lawn Lots of lawn
By fire plug Next to new
lawn First six houses on right,
skip 2, then next five."
He's made out fine since then.
We are told that automobile
sales have been a bit slow this
month. We're ready to believe
it after watching a couple of
salesmen whiling away the
hours (when it's warmer on
the parking lot; on cold days
indoors) by pitching coins at a
crack in the pavement.
The mail must go through.
Sometimes the post office
workers can't make heads or
tails of addresses, and sometimes
the addresses are totally insuffi
cient. But given a clue, they go
to town.
Recently Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn
Keyser received a letter from
Germany addressed to them only
at "Ox Farm, Medford, Ore."
The Keysers raise prize bulls
on property near Foothills rd.
A German couple visited them
last summer.
A member of our staff re
turned home late at night re
cently, and found both front
and back doors locked. By
means he doesn't wish to ex
plain fully (but which should
have awakened the entire
neighborhood), he finally got
into the house. His wife slept
through the entire incident,
but, when the subject was
mentioned the next morning,
she reminded him that only a
few days before she had placed
the front door key in his cus
tody. City water department em
nlovees. who were at work
filling up a hole dug for recent
repairs on a water main, were
delayed recently when one of
the two water department dump
trucks was stopped on Crater
Lake highway by state police.
Officers found the vehicle
without mud flaps, a horn, and
several other necessary items,
and their report put the truck
into the shop while the job was
completed by the other truck.
Water department men report
that the second truck was driven
with exceeding care du.'ig its
travels to and fro over the high
way. And, generously, the water
men say they have no plans to
cut off the water to the state po
lice office as a way of getting
even.
When members of the Eagle
Point Grange visited the Camp
White domiciliary recently,
our farm editor looked care
fully to see if the dairy farm
ers put cream in their coffee.
Most of them, he reports,
"didn't.
One of the youthful and at
tractive' local delegates to the
national 4-H Congress in Chicago
dropped into the office not long
ago to tell about some of her ex
periences in' the big city. Her
mother accompanied her.
She told how a police officer
stopped the Oregon delegation
from singing Christmas carols in
the heart of downtown Chicago
in the wee hours, of the morning.
Her mother, an interested listen
er stopped her in mid-sentence
by remarking, "You never told
me that!" .
A local 4H'er was asked to
define a steer. Hard put, he
finally came up with, "A steer,
is a bull going to market."
Some neonle claim that, based
on observation, the more educa
tion a man has the more auncuii
it is tn read hfs handwriting.
There may be some truth in that,
doctors are an example, ior
their atrocious handwriting is
notorious.
Rut the worst handwriting
we've ever seen, from a legibility
standpoint, -is that of a news
paperman we know.
A teenage girl who recently
attended an out-of-town meet
ing of youngsters her age re
ported enthusiastically, "The
boys outnumbered the girls
three to one, and we had ter
rific opportunities."
The Christmas season is upon
us, and here is a Christmas story:
A man and his daughter went
into a grocery store to pick up a
loaf of bread or quart of milk,
or something, and the man made
the purchase, then looked around
for his daughter, aged 6 or 7.
He saw her, marching toward
him down the aisle, a large box
of candy under her arm.
"Here, here, what's all this,"
he said or something equally
fatherish.
"Well," she said, "you know
I'm in the Christmas play, and
I have to get myself fattened up
to play the part, and that's why
I need this box of candy."
The part she has in the play
is, of course, Santa Claus. Wheth
er she got the candy or not we
never heard.
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