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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 19, 1947 (Friday)
Gold Hill residents will vote
Monday on whether school dis
trict 57 should purchase 7V4
acres of land on the west side of
the city for a high school build
ing. Fro Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: 'Sixty years
ago yesterday the fist Espee train
pulled into town and nearly ran
into a horse and buggy at the
main stem crossing."
20 YEARS AGO
DflC. 19. 1937 (Monday)
One of southern Oregon's
most famous orchards the Sis
kiyou mountain orchard at Kla
math junction south of Ashland
Q will soon pass from existence.
Jtom local and personal col
umn: "Upper grade pupils of the
Ablegate school will mount a
!ttuc and sing Christmas carols."
(31 $ EsVRS AGO
(fifp. If, 1927 (Monday)
Whether buffalo meat will
ia the place of Christmas tur
iiy in their homes this year will
decided by local citizens who
av placed orders for the first
(Bifre in a local meat market.
Sie mentioning period has ar
irVi in Jackson county politics
8ough the spring primary is six
(Tlionths away.
. di Sears ago
19 (Wednesday)
3ikson county ranks as one
(off the counties lagging in the
(R$ Cross drive for membership.
O Jin agricultural council will be
O (farmed at a meeting in the Jack
(epn county extension agent's of-
Bfet's Your I.Q.?
rfe'Ae or ten correct Is superior;
"favpn or eight Is excellent; five or
sTk is good.
1. Was Genoa, Italy, bombed
by the Allies during World War
I or II? O
2. Bible:
what?
'Give us this day"
3. What proverb is directly
contrary h meaning to "You
can't teach an old dog new
tricks?"
4. In the 1860's in the U.S.,
which of these was the most pop
ular outdoor game: Hockey,
Golf, Croquet, Tennis?
5. Name the capital of Man
churia. 6. What was the name of the
half-wit character in the book
"Of Mice and Men"?
7. Are camel hair brushes
made from the hair of camels or
q goats?
8. Correct the following sen
tence: "Each of the soldiers paid
their share."
9. Which city in the U.S. is
nicknamed "Windy City"?
10. How is the first syllable in
'archaeology" pronounced?
Answers: 1. World War II. 2.
... "our daily bread." 3. "Never
too old to learn." 4. Croquet. 5.
Changchun. 6. Lennie. 7. No (Si
berian squirrels). 8. "Each of the
soldiers paid his share." 9. Chi
cago, 111. 10. As 'ark".
MAIL TRIBUNE
A Message to Lowell T.
Lowell Thomas, who is shooting TV Adventure
films in Timbuctoo and environs better come home
and have a talk with his boy Lowell Junior.
Junior is ok an authentic chip off the old block
but naturally he lacks the maturity and sophistica
tion of his papa, and he needs both in the business of
news broadcasting in these precarious times.
OWELL SR., is proclaimed by his sponsor, as news
-1 Commentator No. 1 in the country. We wouldn't
say that. He is good, particularly in his "travelogues."
But he is really more a news announcer than a com
mentator or interpreter. He almost never expresses an
opinion.
However, we are quite sure, had he been in the
USA, he would not have fallen for a "sputnik" bally
hoo and build-up for the SECOND time.
The first was bad enough, but twice in the same
month, must have given sponsors, Generals Motors
and Charley Wilson the shivers.
TJOWEVER, that is what Junior did on Tuesday
" night. He blithly dove off the deep-end for this
"Atlas" launching, claiming in substance it trans
formed the atmosphere at the Paris conference from
scepticism to enthusiasm for the U.S.A. ; compensated
largely for the "Vanguard" fizzle, even restored the
Pentagon to its old place of honor, abreast, if not
ahead of, the Kremlin, in interstellar dynamics.
"IXE GRANT the press-agencies played up the event
unduly. And there seems little doubt the launch
ing was timed to have the maximum psychological
impact at the "Palais de Chaillot." But if the latter
effort were SERIOUSLY made, then another
"blooper" will have to be recorded.
For the latest press reports indicated the enthus
iasm, if any in Paris, was confined entirely to the
members of the U.S. delegation. The statesmen of
Europe gathered there, know too much about the
world and the "guided missile'' situation internation
ally to fall for any such transparent "press agency"
guff.
fF course in this field, as in all others, values are
relative. Until Tuesday's launching, all the
"Atlas" tests had been fizzles like the "Vanguard"
the durned things did a lot of "huffing, chuffing
and puffing" but refused
This time there was a
siderable smoke and flame
got going, gained momentum, soared gracefully into
the Empyrean and disappeared.
The project spokesman
"had covered several hundred miles and landed in
the target area."
'HAT'S just fine! Compared with past perform-
ances, it ranks as a considerable achievement.
But it is hardly world-shattering. Landing on a
target a few hundred miles away has been done
before many times and will be done many- times
again.-
In fact in his first "chin
7th. President Eisenhower
missile had been perfected, which "recently travelled
over a guided course for 5000 miles and was accurate
ly placed on target.
The President exhibited a missile cone which he
explained had made such a trip, returned through the
earth's atmosphere intact, thus demonstrating the
problem of such a return without friction-destruction,
had been solved.
AS WE recall it there was no "extree, extree !" dem-
onstration at that time no torch-light proces
sions, or even press-flashes and banner-lines.
Yet that accomplishment was far more important,
constructive and sensational than the few hundred
mile "work-out" on Tuesday.
So what is all the "hulabaloo" about?
That is what we wish Lowell Thomas Sr., would
ask his very nice and very promising but not too sea
soned off-spring.
FINALLY as far as this missile business ballistic,
satellite and otherwise is concerned, the time has
come, we believe, to quit our boosting and blowing
and boasting, until we have something to really
"boost-blow-and-boast about."
That will not be when we get a guided missile
that will hit the target "several hundred miles away",
but several thousand sufficiently powerful and ac
curate to for example hit ANY target, we wish, in
Soviet Russia.
At least it is hard to imagine, at this stage of the
game, wishing to pulverize any country EXCEPT Rus
sia. .
S FAR as that goes it is
ING" to do that, to ANY country. R.W.R.
"Idiot's
So as usual in all arguments in this department of
preparation for World War III which WE can't be
live will ever come about we reach an impasse of
both futility and unreality.
Yet sS long as the Communist menace exists or
we THINK it exists which adds up to the same thing
we must, as far as wre CAN, match Russia, on land,
sea and in the air. We can't, with the world as it IS,
take a chance. ' '
And so long as Russia regards the democratic
world, particularly the "U.S.A." as a similar menace,
Russia must and,of course, WILL do the same.
CO THERE is the unending vicious circle. The late
Robert Sherwood had a name for it. He called it
"Idiot's Delight".
Thursday. December 19, 1957
to get off the ground.
moment of hesitation, con
but finally the "old boy"
later announced the missile
- urr speech on November
J. A
said a new kind of guided
hard to imagine "WISH
Delight
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A LOT OF 'EM ARE
Matter of Fact
EISENHOWER AT NATO
Paris There was something
stirring and, also, there was
something tragic too in the Presi
dent's effort to
breathe his
own simple
faith into the
pompous
NATO confer
ence of chiefs
of state.
His very
presence at the
c o n f e r e nee
table was an
Joseph Alsop
act of courage. No one in the
huge, ugly, garishly lighted
room could forget that this man
has just suffered a mild stroke,
after two other terrible illnesses
in the past two years. Not a few
at the round conference table
also knew that he had all but
defied his doctors to come to
Paris, in effect decreeing that
he would come unless the doc
tors held him incapable of all
his heavy duties, and leaving
them to issue what statement
they chose.
The day before, there had
been the arrival in the bitter
cold, the graceful airport speech
that warmed French hearts, and
the long ride into the city with
the President standing up in the
open car, turning on his full
glow for the waiting crowds.
And now here they were, all
the chiefs of the NATO states
save only Salazar of Portugal
mustached, amiable old Josef
Bech of Luxembourg who looks
and is a survivor from the for
gotten era of Aristide Briand;
France's improbably youthful
Felix Gaillard; the German
Chancellor with his air of a
durable snapping turtle and all
the rest.
DHYSICALLY, the assembled
statesmen were more man a
little diminished by their setting.
a graceless chamber like a large
lecture hall m which everything
naa been sacrificed to the re
quirements of television. Thev
were there, in the most literal
sense, for the look of the thing,
using time badly needed for
grave decisions to make a pub
lic parade of their reunion. Yet
even on so essentially formal an
occasion, one could not help re
flecting on the immense burden
oi numan hones and fears car
ried by these men.
Above all, one could not help
reflecting on the President's
burden. This first meeting of
NATO chiefs of state was his
own project, after all, sponsored
by him much against the will of
his cold, canny Secretary of
State. Only the night before
Secretary Dulles had riallidlv
warned the American press to
expect-no great achievements at
this extraordinary gathering
which must achieve great things
or be remembered as a sorrv
failure.
Could the President then
somehow recreate Western unity
and strength out of disunity and
weakness, against all exDecta-
tions? Was he, to put it bluntly,
really up to the task?
"EOR one seeing him for the
first time in a long and cruel
year, his appearance was a little
shocking. Under the bright
lights his ruddy complexion
saved him from looking as ghost
ly as the pale Prime Minister
Macmillan. Yet the flesh of the
cheeks and neck have fallen
away, giving a new, strange em
That is what it is.
If we were not "idiots", if we were as civilized
and wise as we claim to be, we would SOMEhow,
SOMEway, agree upon a course that civilization,
wisdom and plain "self interest" dictates.
We would gather around a table, talk things over
and decide to call off this crazy rat-race to mutual
destruction, which no one and we mean NO one
wants, but no one seems able to stop.
TN THIS week's "Life", for example, Mr. Dulles, our
1 worthy Secy, of State, says "it CAN'T be done."
When it comes down to brass tacks that is what
most of them say. What this country and the world
needs, is a completely NEW kind of "leader" a lead
er who will say:
"OK it can't be done!"
And then proceed to go out and DO it! R.W.R.
J
By Joseph Alsop
phasis to the high dome of the
skull. And the old erectness had
gone, too until it was his turn
to speak, Eisenhower sat as old
men sit, asking no effort of the
muscles to support the frame.
Yet when Luxembourg's Bech
and France's Gaillard had made
their neat and graceful opening
speeches, as conventionalized as
the movements in a ritual, there
was a sudden change in this Ei
senhower whom both had
singled out to welcome as the
acknowledged leader of the
West. He straightened. He seem
ed to gather his forces. He gave
his thanks for the welcome with
an engaging, friendly ease. And
he continued into his set speech
with an impressive and determ
ined vigor.
There were those who thought
they noticed signs of the Presi
dent's recent illness in his ar
ticulation, but to this reporter
there seemed nothing abnormal
in his manner of speaking, which
has never been very clear. There
was the same old extraordinary
power, too, the power central to
the power of the man himself, to
make the great, basic, plati
tudinous truths about freedom
and decency and human dignity
sound like truths newly discov
ered of burning, immediate im
port.
1UT this unhappily was not
what was wanted and here
was the occasion's innate trag
edy. None present in the room
needed to be instructed in the
enduring value, the power and
creative force of human dignity
and freedom. They were meet
ing anxiously together for the
very reason that these incom
parably precious things were
now in danger. How to avoid the
danger that was the question
the leader of the West was ex
pected to answer, and to an
swer not only boldly but even
in some detail.
But there was no such an
swer, beyond a passing refer
ance to those now-troubled sub
jects, atomic warheads and guid
ed missiles, which only recalled
the differences that these sub
jects have evoked. So the speech
ended, with the plea to "press
on to that peace, in freedom,
which is our rightful heritage
Prime Minister Macmillan and
NATO Secretary Spaak turned
to the President in smiling con
gratulation. But Western
strength and Western unity had
not been recreated. Nothing
really had happened beyond an
other television show with the
most grandiose cast the Western
Alliance could provide.
(Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
McKenzie Pass To Be
Closed To Traffic
Eugene (IP) State .High
way Department officials here
said that McKenzie Pass would
be closed at noon today because
of continued heavy snow. It is
expected to remain closed for
the winter.
YULE CARDS PITCHED
Cleveland (IP) Joseph Larysz
thought a paper bag his wife left
on the kitchen sink was full of
garbage and pitched it into the
gargage pail. Then he learned
the bag contained the Christmas
cards he and his wife spent their
evenings addressing last week
and that his wife had left them
out to mail.
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isuiies visit ro dpam uecfiarea
Important for European Defense
BY CHARLES M. McCANN I That is because of the seldom-1 with missiles is still to be n
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United Press Correspondent
The visit of Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles to Spain may
be a big development in the new
plans for Eur
opean defense.
Dulles is to
fly to Madrid
Saturday, on
his way home
from the
North Atlantic
Treaty Organ
ization in
Paris, to talk
Charles McCann to GenerallS-
simo Francisco Franco.
It will be only a five-hour
visit. But it could turn out to be
secondary in importance only
to the Paris meeting itself.
Spain is not a member of the
NATO alliance. But it is closely,
if indirectly, tied in with NATO.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
When you woke up Tuesday
morning, did you have any feel
ing that Dec. 17 is a moderately
significant date in history?
Probably Not. The chances are
you just looked out of the win
dow and muttered an uncompli
mentary word about the weather
which at that hour was a little
on the dirty side.
IirELL
If you read the papers and
listened to the newscasts, you
learned that on Dec. 17, 1903
just four years more than half
a century ago the Wright
brothers, Wilbur and Orville,
made the world's first flight in
a power-driven airplane.
That started a lot of new
things.
THE interesting part of it is
that Wilbur and Orville
Wright were just a couple of
average American kids. They
were the sons of a United Breth
ren bishOD. In hish school, Wil
bur was a bright student, "but
Orville was a dreamer and took
little interest in school.
That made them a perfect
team. Orville dreamed up the
idea of a flight in a POWERED
plane, and Wilbur worked out
the mechanical details. (By that
time, they had graduated from
high school and had a bicycle
shop, which turned their minds
toward machinery.)
Back in 1896, Orville read
about Otto Lilienthal, the Ger
man who was killed while ex
perimenting with a motorless
glider. That DID IT. It started
them THINKING and out of
their thinking came the first
POWERED flight.
Powered flight lifted man
OFF THE GROUND and put
him into the air for better or
worse.
THE idea of FLIGHT wasn't
new.
Back in the last half of the
15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci,
one of the most versatile men
the world has known, filled his
notebooks with sketches of a fly
ing machine based on the meth
od of flight used by birds. One
of his sketches showed a board
on which the flier lay and op
erated mechanical wings with his
feet.
The trouble with Da Vinci was
that in his day nobody had yet
PICKING THE WINNERS
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five-man group which calls it
self "Los Cinco" today cele
brated its second big football
pool win within a year. The
group won this week's lottery
for $861,000. A year ago the
same group hauled in $36,000.
The system in picking the win
ners? "Give the underdog in
any given game the benefit of
the doubt."
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If you would like a copy, just let us know.
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Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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mentioned tact tnat under an
agreement with Fraanco, the
United States is building a net
work of air, naval and supply
bases all over the country.
Dulles. Franco "Consult"
The official announcement of
Dulles's visit, first issued in Ma
drid, said that the visit was be
ing made at Franco's invitation.
Dulles will "consult" with
Franco, Foreign Minister Fern
ando Maria Castiella and other
officials, it was said.
Dulles naturally will give
Franco a full report of the
NATO meeting which ends to
day, including the agreement in
principle of Western European
countries to the establishment
of nuclear missile bases on their
territory.
It is an agreement in principle,
rather tSan of fact, because the
question of equipping the bases
JENKINS
invented the internal combustion
engine. One reason for that is
that in Da Vinci's day nobody
had yet discovered gasoline.
They did know about petrole
um. It was generally known as
"Greek fire" because in naval
battles the Greeks sometimes
poured pots of a flaming liquid
down on the ships of their
enemies often with devastating
consequences to the enemy.
"TEC. 17 marks another im--
portant anniversary. On that
day back in 460 BC nearly
2500 years ago Hippocrates is
generally supposed to have been
born, although changing calen
dars leave the exact date rather
uncertain.
Hippocrates is the father of
modern medicine. Prior to his
time, medicine had been in the
hands of the priests, and con
sisted largely of incantations de
signed to drive evil spirits away
after the manner of our own
Indian medicine men.
Hippocrates insisted that "Na
ture heals; the physician is only
Nature's assistant." He applied
this rule by treating his patients
with proper diet, fresh air,
change of climate and proper
attention to habits and living
conditions. He applied logic and
reason to medicine and made it
workable.
TN HIS Hippocratic oath, he
sense of duty to mankind that
it has never lost. The Hippocratic
oath reads, in part:
"I swear ... so far as power
and discernment shall be mine,
I will carry out regimen for the
benefit of the sick and will keep
them from harm and wrong. To
none will I give a deadly drug
even if solicited . . . Into whatso
ever house I shall enter I will
go for the benefit of the sick."
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family should know about funerals and
i
with missiles is still to be nego
tiated between the United States
and the individual countries
concerned. As has been made
plain in Paris, some of these
countries do not want the mis
siles. Dulles may sound out Franco
on the possibility of setting up
missile bases in Spain. If he
does, it is not only possible but
probable that Franco would
agree to consider the suggestion
favorably.
Franco Called "Totalitarian
Spain never has been invited
to join NATO because some
European allies, still mindful
of the Spanish Civil War, ob
ject to Franco's regime as "totali
tarian." That may be. But Fran
co also is a bitter enemy of Com
munism. And his country, pro
tected by the grim Pyrenees
Mountains, would be the last
bulwark of defense if Russia's
Red army swept over Western
Europe.
Franco has intimated that he
would join NATO if all of its
present 15 members asked him
to.
The fear of Russian Com
munist aggression is pretty near
ly as serious now as it was
when NATO was formed in 1949.
Russia's successes with its
Sputnik earth satellite and its
inter-continental ballitic missile
have radically changed the Eur
opean defense picture.
It seems quite possible that
those Allied contries which have
objected to Franco's regime and
have called him a dictator miht
have some second thoughts about
him now.
That Spain would strengthen
NATO is unquestionable. It
would not be surprising if Dul
les's visit to Madrid proved to
be the first step toward bringing
Spain into it.
Editorial Common!
ENDORSEMENT REtBWKD
After a year of study to review
facts with respect to fluoridation
of water as a preventative of
dental caries the American Medi
cal Association renews itsQun
qualified endorsement of the
treatment of public water sup
plies. We doubt though, if this
will cause any of those casting
negative votes on fluoridation to
change their minds. Persons
like to cling to their prejudices.
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
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