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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. 24, 1947 (Wednesday)
After receiving reports that a
man had been soliciting contri
butions in the name of the Red
Cross this morning in the resi
dential district, . the Jackson
county chapter issued a state
ment the solicitor is an imposter,
From 1 Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Send a
carload of anti-fret pills for that
portion of the population who
don t know what Russia will do
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24, 1937 (Friday)
Examinations for bicycle for
owners of Medford who have
not taken tests will be held Mon
dav and Tuesday in the city po
lice station! Exams must be tak
en before the license tags will
be issued.
Reassuring men of CCC com
panies that they are welcome in
Medford and that the city holds
no ill-will as a result of recent
incidents, Mayor C. C. Furnas
sends letter to commanding of
ficers ' of Camp Prescott and
Camp Applegate.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24, 1927 (Saturday)
Outlook dubious here for
Christmas as the official fore
cast is for unsettled weather and
occasional rains.
Members of Medford Voiture,
40 et 8 society and the local
American Legion post to take
carge of the community Christ
mas tree.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24. 1917 (Monday)
Although the building is old,
education wok in Long Moun
tain school is considered up to
date, authorities report.
Medford Elks lodge holds open
house for members and ladies.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. When will the next U. S.
Census of population be taken?
2. Bible: According to Luke's
chronology was Mary the des-
cendent of Solomon -or Nathan?
3. What is the name of the
National Assembly of parliament
of Iran?
4. What is a blimp?
5. Uvalde, Texas, is the home
of which former Vice President?
6. Was dynamite discovered
by du Pont, Nobel or Edison?
7. "Virtue, Liberty and Inde
pendence" is the motto of which
O State?
8. Where is the site of Ben
jamin Franklin's original print
ing shop?
9. What city is the greatest
hard coal center of the U.S.?
10. How many languages are
spoken today: 796, 1,796 or
2,796?
Answers: 1. 1960. 2. Nathan.
3. Majlis. 4. Non-riged dirigible
airship. 5. John N. Garner. 6.
Noble. 7. Pennsylania. 8. Phil
adelphia, Pa. (135 Market St.)
9. Scranion. Pa. 10. 2.976 (By
Assimil organization, N.Y.C.)
ADVENTURER DIES
Belle-Isle, France RPI Capt.
George Orsborne, 54, British ad
venturer, died here Saturday of
a heart attack. Orsborne caught
the interest of the world in 1936
whe nhe stole a 19-ton trawler,
the Irlpat, and sailed her 5,000
miles down the African coast
and across the South Atlantic to
British Guiana. He served an 18
month jail sentence for that ex
MAIL TRIBUNE
The "Gentleman" From California
A little over a year ago a newspaper reporter in
Los Angeles was given an assignment to do a bit of
researching on a former Congresman from that state.
Here are some of the facts he found :
The congresman ' started in public life when a
certain group of important Los Angeles business men,
anxious to beat Congresman Jerry Voorhis for re
election, put a want-ad in the L.A. Times, asking for
candidiates.
The congressman in question, then out of a job,
answered the "ad" and in reply to the first question
as to whether or not he was a good Republican, said:
"I guess I am, I voted for Governor Dewey at the last
election." - . .
That proved to be a good start, for the group "in
search of a candidate" were very strong Republicans,
and very anxious to unseat Mr. Voorhis, Democrat,
who had been voted by the House Press Gallery mem
bers as "the best congressman west of the Mississippi
river. But they did not agree with the newspaper
boys who they regarded as little better than commu
nists at heart themselves.
JMOREOVER there was no doubt in their minds
about Mr. Voorhis being a communist. He had
voted for foreign aid, no tax cuts and a reciprocal
tariff!
Meanwhile, they liked this young applicant. He
was personable, handsome and fluent. Also he was a
war veteran having served in the US Navy.
DUT the young man, when accepted, protested he
had no money.
"You won't need any," the head of the group
answered, "we will supply that. You go out and get
this fellow traveller, and give us a good Republican
record in Washington and you needn't worry about
the money."
CO THE young man went out, guided so the record
goes by an extremely shrewd and resourceful public-relations
man and lawyer whose name was Mur
ray Chotiner, and was very highly regarded as a slick
one, particularly in Hollywood movie-circles. . '
The thing to do, it was decided, was to follow the
Joe McCarthy line. That is, not1 definitely-call Con
gressman Voorhis a communist there might be a
"comeback" to that but stress the fact that a vote
for the Republican candidate meant a vote AGAINST
communism the rather obvious implication being
that a vote for Voorhis would be a vote FOR.
This was done over and over and over again.
Not only that but in the district concerned there
were repeated phone calls, all of them going like this :
"Hello. I am a friend of yours, but can't identify myself. .
I just wanted you to know this man Voorhis is a communist."
Then they would hang
rather like some of the
air these days.
MEEDLESS to say it worked!
It worked so well that when the "personable
young man" decided to run for the senate, the same
Chotiner and the same technique were used against
Mrs. Helen Gahagen Douglas. u
They did not come out
charge Mrs. Douglas with being a cbmmunist. Noth
ing as crude and courageous as that. They harped
over and over again on the fact that her voting record,
in many ways, was the same as the voting record of
Congressman Vito Mercantonia who was a commu
nist. And then came the same anonymous phone calls
always from a woman to a woman, the call always
anonymous and always to this effect:.
"She could testify she had been at Communist party
meetings at Mrs. Douglas' home and her husband, the
well-known actor, Melvyn Douglas, .carried a Communist
party card." .
THIS "woman" was never identified. But again
the slick maneuver worked worked so well that
when the congressman went to the Senate he was
again assured by the same or a similar group of
Los Angeles "businessmen", that he need not worry
as far as money was concerned, they would help him
out.
And they did to the tune of $18,000 cash which
the reporter in question termed a "slush fund", but
which the recipient piously proclaimed to be only a
free will offering to reduce the tax burden of his
constituents.
THIS wasn't the only "free will offering" to the
gentleman from California however.
The same reporter discovered that a certain no
torious operator, known as Henry (The Dutchman)
Grunewald, had "accepted" a check from former Sen
ator Brewster of Maine for $10,000, and Grunewald
then proceeded to pnve half of it to the "personable
young man", not to help
payers of tne. Golden State this time, but to neip pay
his "campaign expenses".
If this was on the uD-and-un. whv didn't Senator
- - - A A '
Brewster make his contribution direct as chairman of
the G.O.P. campaign committee instead of via a some
what unsavory Go-Between.
e
THAT query has never been answered. However,
the "deal" retired Brewster under a cloud to pri
vate life where he is today, but never, as far as re
vealed, left so much as a fleck of dust on the lily
white moral record of the "Gentleman from Cali
fornia". What was his name? Well, of course, anyone who
has read this far must have already guessed it of
course, none other than Richard Milhous Nixon Vice
President of the United States, and who, according to
all the political wisemen in Washington, is now a
"shoo-in" to be our next President! R.W.R.
Tuesday, December 24, 1957
up and make another call
'quiz" programs over the
m the open, of course, and
out the long suffering tax
Cmdh upstw m'mbbt my folks1- "
Adenauer Could Take
Lead in Sounding Out
Russia on Tensions
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer may take the lead
in sounding out Soviet Russia
on the possi
bility of easing
the cold war
tension. It is
known that
Andrei Smir
nov, Soviet
ambassador to
West Germany
has postponed
a Christmas va-
cuaries McCann cation to re
main in Bonn so he will be avail
able if, Adenauer wants to talk
to him.
Now it is reported that Ade
nauer is working on a "realistic"
reply to the letter Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai A. Bulganin sent
him on Dec. 1Q.
This letter was one of the
series with which Bulganin bom
barded allied leaders and all oth
er members of the United Na
tions in advance of last week's
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion meeting in Paris.
Russia Holds Same Position
Bulganin's letter to Adenauer
added nothing to Russia's known
position on cold war issues.
But it lacked the threatening
tone of Bulganin's previous let
ters to Adenauer and was even
friendly.
Some disappointment was ex
pressed in Bonn at the speeches
by Andrei Gromyko and Com
Stray Notes, from Eastern
Oregon
By SAGE BRUSH SALLY
" New Bridge As Christmas
approaches we folk in Eagle Val
ley have wonderful weather. No
snow in the valley or on the low
hills. Saunder's sheep are still
on the range at Maiden gulch.
Bill Carnahan is herding them.
There is snow in the foothills
of the mountains. A good track
snow evidently. I saw a very
large dead cougar going out on
a jeep a few days ago. Last week
my brother and his wife saw a
herd of seven elk on the hill in
plain view of any New Bridge
residents who looked in that
direction.
A -not so pleasant news item
is the return of flu. Teenagers
in our immediate vicinity who
have been absent from scho.pl
ill are Elaine Kivetts, Neil Page
and Mike Braswell.
Carl Carnagy was taken to
Baker Monday by Mr. and Mrs.
Jay Beale for medical attention.
Yesterday I received a card from
Nadie Strayer of Baker, stating
she has had flu. She will soon
go to Portland to assume her
duties on the governing board
of the State Department of
Geology and mineral industries.
She will fill the vacancy left by
the resignation of Clint Haight
Jr., also of Baker, who was re
cently appointed as Baker coun
ty representative in a special
legislative session.
Our community was recently
saddened by the deaths of two
old-timers. Mrs. Anna Simmons,
mother of Mrs. Lloyd Cable of
New Bridge died in Enterprise,
Wallowa county. Her parents
were Eastern Oregon pioneers,
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Perkins.
In Richland, Parney ' George,
or Pawnee George, as he was
often called, died. An early day
stage driver, miner, and rancher,
he was well known throughout
Baker county. His wife, Amelia,
who died several years ago, was
a member of the pioneer Wal
lace family of the Wolf Creek
and Glendale district.
An interesting couple whose
minds were keen and active to
the end. I am indebted to them
for many stories of Oregon's
past.
In Pine Valley last .week
Claude W. Gray was killed, by
a shot from a .22 caliber gun,
in what is said to have been an
accidental shooting. Ernest Ste
phens is held on a manslaughter
munist Party Chief- Nikita S.
Khrushchev made before the
Russian Parliament Saturday. -
Gromyko and Khrushchev all
but ruled out the proposal made
at the NATO conference for new
disarmament negotiations either
in the United Nations disarma
ment commission or at a special
"Big Four" foreign ministers
meeting.
Adenauer Starts Ball Rolling
But Adenauer's feeling seems
to be that somebody has got to
make a new move toward nego
tiations of some sort. And he
seems to be ready to start things
going himself.
The. feeling has strengthened
that Adenauer, rather than Presi
dent Eisenhower, was really the
leading figure at the Paris con
ference in so far as practical
proposals were concerned.
It was Adenauer who set the
keynote for the conference by
insisting that the NATO coun
tries find out whether there
might be any sincerity in Rus
sia's expressed desire to ease
world tension.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, as Eisenhower's adviser
on foreign policy, had wanted to
put all possible emphasis on
setting up missile bases in Eu
rope rather than negotiating
with Russia.
Soviet Ambassador Smirnov
decided to postpone his depar
ture for Moscow after Adenauer
had spoken in Paris, and before
the NATO conference ended.
Valley. Leon Hensley of Rich
land is held as a material wit
ness. I am pleased to report my
uncle, Bird Woodruff, is home
from the hospital and improv
ing steadily. In his letter he
states they are having nice
weather at Myrtle Creek. I also
received a letter from my friend,
Edna, who is in the s t a t e
TB hospital in The Dalles. She
writes she is gaining weight and
feeling better. Some of our read
ers may have seen Edna on TV.
She appeared on programs irom
both Portland and Boise, dem
onstrating fancy cake baking
and decorating. She has lived
most of her life in Eagle Valley.
She and her husband have a
pretty ranch home near Rich
land. Her mother, Mrs. Louie
Edson, and her brothers, Denver
and Tom, live in New Bridge.
Last Sunday evening Tom
dropped in for a few minutes
and brought my mother the Sun
day Oregonian. It is these little
gestures of remembrance that
brighten the days for those who
are house-bound by illness. A
bouquet of wild or garden flow
ers often brought by a child.
A little boy bearing a string
of trout. A neighbor lady with
a glass of jelly, or some home
charge. Stephens, is also of Pine
made fudge. And cards and let
ters in the mail. And groups
I It is our Sincere wish
to Everyone that the
Spirit of Christmas
glow warm and
C M. Lirwiller
bright, lighting the
holiday season with . good cheer and happiness!
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ASHLAND
We Never Close
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This screwball world note:
A Florida man is suing the
American Tobacco company for
$1,500,000. He charges that cig
arettes either gave him cancer
or aggravated a dormant can
cer. .
He says he smoked one to
two packs of cigarettes every
day from 1924 to 1956 and he
claims in his suit that harmful
and poisonous substances were
in the cigarettes without His
knowledge.
WITHOUT wishing him any
harm, I can't help hoping
he loses his case.
Somebody might toss a match
into a pile ' of old papers and
burn his house down and then
sue this newspaper for damages
because nobody, had ever told
him paper would burn.
"JOTE to advertising manag
ers.: -
Dr. William E. Shockley, who
won the Nobel prize in 1956
for his invention of the transis
tor (the little jigger that among
othier things makes possible vest
pocket radios) calls for the for
mation of a private institute to
educate the American people on
the facts of life especially
the scientific facts of life.
He urges that his proposed
Institute of Public Enlighten
ment get its message across with
AN ADVERTISING EFFORT
COMPARABLE TO THAT FOR
CIGARETTES, AUTOMOBILES
OR DEODORANTS.
YITHY does he suggest advertis
' ing as the medium for edu
cating the American people on
the facts of life?
Presumably, it is because he
thinks advertising can be BE
LIEVED. He reasons, apparent
ly, that business people can't
afford to lie to their customers
because if they do the customers
will lose faith in their products
and quit buying them.
It's different in the case of
politicians and cranks and
screwballs and propagandists
They have nothing to lose and
publicity to gain.
T'D LIKE to suggest to our
scientists a new research pro
ject, with this as its objective
WHAT IS TRUTH?
How can we learn to separate
truth infallibly from falsehood
. . . from propaganda ... from
self-seeking.
IF WE could learn to separate
truth infallibly from falsehood
there are so many, many things
we could do to make this a
better world to live in.
There's politics, for example
If, when a politician makes a
statement, we could prove IN
FALLIBLY whether it is false or
true, we could have BETTER
GOVERNMENT.
. There is law enforcement.
When somebody violates a
law by committing murder,
for examDle or when some
body is charged wrongly with
committing a crime, we must
ESTABLISH THE FACTS if
justice is to be done. In order
to establish the facts, we must
establish the truth. In order to
do so, we must be able to sep
arate truth from falsehood.
It's a tough job and often
we fail.
PETTING back to the politic-
. ians, they tell us so MANY
tales. The tales can't all be
true, because so often they are
directly contradictory. The re
sult of it all is apt to be LOSS
OF CONFIDENCE in govern,
ment.
When we lose confidence in
our government, we're in a bad
way and all because of our
inability to separate truth from
falsehood.
rpHERE are acids.
There are alkalies.
Which is which? Science gives
an infallible answer. Acids turn
blue litmus red. Alkalies turn
red litmus blue. It's just that
simple.
Maybe the scientists might be
able to devise an equally infal
lible test for distinguishing truth
from falsehood. I suggest they
try it.
singing carols at Christmas time.
This is the way of life I love.
The American way. Let's do our
best to keep it this way.
Sage Brush Sally
Mrs. Lirwiller
turn
'It is better to know us and -not need us,
than to need us and not know us."
Matter of Fact
PLUS AND MINUS
Paris What you think of the
NATO conference depends en
tirely on what measuring rod
you . use. In
Washington, it
was originally
billed as "the
most porten
t o u s meeting
meeting of
Western heads
of state in
forty years"
toborrowa
nhrase from an
Joseph AJsop
Eisenhower administration house
organ.
Yet the meeting did not re
unite the increasingly divided
West. It only plastered over the
cracks in the facade. It did not
initiate a great new effort to
remedy the dangerous new tilt
of the world balance of power.
It only set in motion certain ad
justments of NATO's military
machinery which will strengthen
the purely local defense of West
ern Eurorje.
Plastering cracks can be help
ful, if the time thus gained is
used for fundamental repairs.
The local defense of Western
Europe is a vital purpose of
NATO in the Europeans' eyes,
almost the sole purpose of
NATO. All the same, if this
meeting's results are to be de
scribed as "portentous," then it
has to be said that the portents
are more than a little disturbing.
rrVTHE portents are plainly im-
plied in the military arrange
ments that have been made.
Within the NAO framework,
medium range missiles are to
be supplied to those nations that
want them. Nuclear warheads
for these missiles and other
NATO weapons are also to be
supplied to the NATO Command
er, Gen. Lauris Norstad, in his
capacity as American Command
er in Europe.
American officers will retain
custody of the nuclear warheads
until doomsday (as one may rea
sonably describe the day when
a great nuclear war begins). The
warheads cannot be married to
their destined waepons without
authorization from the President
of the United States. By the
same token, the NATO Com
mander cannot fire any of his
missiles without authorization
from the governments that
choose to have missile emplace
ments on their soil.
No one has explained how this
cumbersome consultative system
can work fast enough to insure
the necessary instantaneous rip
oste to a Soviet nuclear-missile
surprise attack. What if the
President . or another head of
state is playing golf, for in
stance? But perhaps the obvious
practical bugs in the system can
be eliminated in the course of
the negotiations that Gen.Nor-
stad has been charged with con
ducting.
, But there is another point this
system which is clearly not go
ing to be altered by negotiation.
The consultation requirement
will not be abandoned altogeth
er. Thus this is not a system of
truly collective defense. Instead,
it is the beginning of a system
of purely national defense be
hind the NATO international
facade. This pattern of purely
national , defense within NATO
was first set by the British,
Industrial Meeting
Scheduled Jan. 13-15
Menlo Park, Calif. (IP) The
third annual Industrial Econom
ics Conference, sponsored by
Stanford Research Institute, will
be held in Los Angeles Jan. 13
15. The three-day meeting, to be
held at the Ambassador hotel,
will give business and industry
leaders a chance to discuss
"planning objectives in terms of
the economic, business, govern
ment and financial climates,"
according to the Institute.
Theme of the meeting is "How
Companies Grow." Carleton
Green, manager of program de
velopment at SRI's Southern Cal
ifornia laboratories, will serve as
chairman.
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Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
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when they decided tc build their
own nuclear striking "just in
case the Ameriacns don't want
to risk New York and Washing
ton for London and Birming
ham." The French, too, will have
missiles plus nu dear weapons
under their own control in a
couple of years. Others may fol
low. TUT even among those nations
unlikely ever to make their
own nuclear weapons, this con
ference has shown a new spirit
in NATO. Every nation repre
sented at the council table, in
cluding the United States, has
insisted upon consultation before
any nuclear-missile riposte is de
livered from its own soil. That
implies, a strong, unavowed
tendency not to risk London or ,
Paris or Rome or Bonn for the
sake of Washington and New
York. In fact all the feet in
NATO are exactly fitted by the
shoe described in the British jus
tification of their own national
defense decisions.
This was not the spirit when
NATO was founded. Then the
threat to be guarded against was
the threat by an attack by the
Red Army. Then the free nations
had not been exposed to the
terrible psychological pressure
of the weapons that can literally
destroy the human race on earth.
Then on one had any doubts that
all must hang together, lest aU
hang separately.
In view of the pressure of the
absolute weapons, the choice of
a new road away from truly
collective Western defense prob
ably could not have been avoid
ed. Yet as a step on this road,
the Paris meeting has certainly
been a portent.
rr HAS been a portent in anoth-
Minister Macmillan nor Chancel
lor Adenauer nor any other
NATO chief of state believes for
an instant that negotiations with
the Kremlin will produce solid
and fruitful results. Yet the
Paris conference made hopeful
noises about renewaying negotia
tions with the Kremlin. Even
Secretary of State Dulles, mas
tering his loathing, joined the
happy chorus. Otherwise, he
might have not ' been able to
plaster over the cracks in West
ern unity.
In sum, the NATO meeting
has shown the classic symptoms
that are always produced by a
dangerous tilt in the" power bal
ance. These are, first, a' loosen
ing of alliances on the side that
has been weakened; second, a
tendency to seek interminable
parleys with the side that has
grown stronger in the febrile
hope that the strong will not in
sist upon the logic of their
strength.
The free nations showed these
symptoms when Hitler upset the
Euopean power of balance in
the thirties. They are appearing o
again, because a great upset of
the world power balance has
been permitted by the shocking
neglect of defense needs in
needs in Washington in the last
five years.
(Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribnune Inc.) .
Old Fashioned Greetings, and
' Good .Wishes for a Very
MERRY CHRISTMAS
to all Our Friends and
Customers
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Wallpaper Store
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OUR CHRISTMAS POLICY .,
Is not to mention insurance ;
at all.
We Just want to extend to
each and everyone j
Our sincere good wishes .
for a
JOYOUS AND HAPPY
CHRISTMAS.
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