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Bedford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Wail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
j(0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8, 1948 (Thursday)
Ashland city crews work
t$ deepen and widen Ashland
creek to drain flood water
from park and city streets.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
Willamette valley, where na
tives reputedly pick spring
Cowers all winter is now In
undated." 10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8, 1938 (Sunday)
zThe second meeting for par
ents of Jackson county sched
uled at the court house audi
torium; Mrs. Maude Morse,
extension specialist in parent
education, will speak.
T N. S. Bennett, owner of the
Eden Valley Nursery, observ
ed his 48th anniversary here
by presenting fruit and cake
to the Mail Tribune staff.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8. 1928 (Sunday)
The value of the 1927 fruit
crop shipped from the Rogue
valley totaled $4,199,820.80,
according to C. T. Baker, sec
retary of Rogue River Valley
Traffic association.
-As a future site for a
high school, the board of
education purchases 15 acres
adjoining South Oakdale ave.
north of Melrose st.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8, 1918 (Tuesday)
-This winter has been one
of the mildest in the Rogue
River valley for years.
3Lt. J. I. Simpson, of the
Irish fusiliers of Canada, is
now in charge of the British
and Canadian recruiting of
fice here.
iWhat's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
a is good.
-1. Which French ruler had
the same name as a form of
French pastry?
Z2. Bible: Judah committed
suicide by what method?
ES- Anisette cordial is made
torn the seed of what plant?
'A. What fur is often called
"royal fur"?
15. Name the composer of
Faust.
Z$. Chevon is the meat of
rabbit, goats, or deer?
p7. Is shellfish the type of
ffjpd that contains the great
est quantity of iodine?
3B. Which U. S. President
was called the "Great Eman
chjator"? 39. The name of a male
swan is cob, cod, or cog?
HO. Was the first public
building erected in Washing
ton D. C. the Capitol, White
Htsuse, or Treasury?
Answers: '
13. Napoleon; 2. By hanging;
3Anise; 4. Ermine; 5. Charles
Francis Gounod; 6. Goats;
7 Yes; 8. Abraham Lincoln;
ST Cob; 10. While House.
Time Getting Short
After two weeks away from Medford, much
of the time spent in driving between and through
the cities and hamlets of fast-growing California,
we are convinced more strongly than ever about
two things: v
1. Southern Oregon is a simply wonderful
place to live.
2. It is going to require more effort than we're
now devoting to the job to keep it that way.
TO THOSE people who oppose planning and
zoning and other types of advance prepara
tion for orderly growth, we say this:
"Go to southern California and look about
you. You will see what happens when too many
people come to a place too fast, and without the
possibility of making plans to accommodate them.
"You will see communities running out of
adequate water supplies ; you will see smog cre
ated by unregulated industrial and other types of
combustion; you will see ugly, haphazard com
munities, little better than slums; you will
see traffic rushing along 10-lane superhighways
already too small for the load they carry, and
along boulevards which are only half completed
in a hodgepodge pattern.
"Talk to public officials, and you will learn
of their struggles to control sanitation, to provide
services, to cut down on air and water pollution
all against almost insuperable odds, because
the changes that created these things came too
fast."
"YREGON, for a number of reasons, has not
grown as fast as has California. And we are
fortunate in many ways that this is so.
Most important, we have had our warning,
and our sister state to the south offers us the
"horrible example" of
indeed has started to happen, in Oregon unless
we get on the ball and
Some steps we have
and local levels.
The creation of the Oregon water resources
board and the state development department are
providing useful functions in their own fields.
In the county, a planning commission recently
was organized, composed of high-caliber people,
but at present it is authorized to do little more
than make studies and then recommendations to
a county court which too
to take any action at all, let alone the bold and
imaginative action this area needs.
DY coincidence, upon
communications waiting on our desk, each
bearing on this and related problems.
John Gribble wrote
productive agricultural
highways, residential
velopments, and how this land ideally should be
protected for the purpose for which it is best
suited, with less-productive land around the val
ley used for living areas.
E. C. Gaddis, vacationing in San Bernardino,
wrote to tell of the vast changes the new popula
tion of southern California has made in that area,
and the problems of school growth and financing
m particular.
There was a note from a friend enclosing a
recent editorial from the Washington (D.C.) Post,
dealing with population
problems.
And finally, there was a letter from Fortune
magazine, calling attention to an article in its
current series on "The Exploding Metropolis."
FACH was thought-provoking, each was too
long for successful reproduction in this space,
and each confirmed our growing conviction that
it is past time to get going on effective planning
for the future our future and that of our
children.
Letting things "grow naturally" won't do any
more. Let us then use the minds that God gave
us and arrange, through the democratic processes
we have developed, that our most valuable re
sources be conserved.
The Fortune letter,
calls "urban sprawl," declares :
"Sprawl is not only bad aesthetics, it is bad eco
nomics. It is bad for farmers; it is bad for communi
ties; it is bad for industry; it is bad for utilities; most
of all it is bad for people. In some suburban areas
there is already less park land than in. the heart of a
great city, and the competition for available space is
so great that in the New York area communities are
posting police in their public golf courses and parks
to keep non-residents out."
The letter also pointed out that 3,000 acres
are being taken in hit -
in this nation every day,
that "You and I and most certainly our children
will very soon lose many of the things that
make life in the U.S. a happy experience."
"HE Post editorial declared:
"If intolerable congestion in some regions is to
be avoided, much better planning will be essential
for the location of industries, the dispersal of urban
satellites, the preservation of green spaces, and the
conservation of farm lands. In the past, space has
been plentiful and cheap. In the decades ahead it will
be increasingly precious for the simple reason that,
as numbers multiply by 2, 3, 4 or 5, the space actually
available for living and for production of food will
progressively shrink. It would be a tragedy indeed if
the country should wait until an acute pinch is felt
before waking up to the inescapable demands of the
future."
Time is getting short if we in Medford and
Jackson county are to do the things that need to
be done. Thus far the effort is far, far short of
the necessity. E. Aj . .
Wednesday, January 8, 1958
what could happen, and
get ready for it.
taken, both on state-wide
often has been reluctant
our return we found four
to emphasize how rapidly
land is being covered by
tracts and industrial de
growth and its attendant
commenting on what it
or - miss fashion this way
and adds that this means
I'D UKB TQ HAVE
VOUfZ SHE RUNS
In the Day's News
By FRANK
This screwball world note
A special committee of the
National Cotton Council re
ports that the 1957 cotton dis
ease toll was higher than the
average for the preceding five
years.
It says diseases cut cotton
yields in 1957 by an estimated
12 per cent.
T SUPPOSE there are people
still living who can remem
ber when poor crops amount
ed to a national calamity.
All that is changed.
Poor crops now tend to be
regarded as a bit of NATION
AL GOOD FORTUNE because
they help to cut down the
staggering surpluses that hang
over the agricultural markets
like a. dark thundercloud.
Medical School
Asks Approval
For Building
Portland (tPI The Uni
versity of Oregon Medical
school said today it had ask
ed the National Institutes of
Health, a federal organiza
tion, to approve a grant of
$1,250,000 for a medical re
search building at the school.
The state of Oregon would
put up a similar amount to
build the proposed $2,500,000
structure.
Dr. David W. E. Baird dean
of the school, said the need
for the building resulted from
greatly increased research ac
tivity at the school in recent
years.
Space Squeezed '
He said that expenditures
for research have increased
from $17,000 in 1940-41 to
$713,460 in 1956-57. A lot of
this is from grants and from
the federal government. And
the space squeeze has been
considerable.
The 100,000 square feet in
the proposed nine-story buil
ding would increase research
space to 148 square feet per
researcher, nearly that rec
ommended by the National In
stitutes of Health, Dr. Baird
said.
The proposed site is adja
cent to Multnomah hospital
and also the present out-patient
clinic, which it would
connect with a two-story ov
erhead ramp.
If the project is approved,
it must be scheduled by the
State Board of Higher Edu
cation, and matching funds
must be provided by the Ore
gon Legislature, presumably
in its 1959 session.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
SHOWMAN-WIT Abe Burrows, reports E. J. Kahn, Jr.,
had a Russian grandmother who never had uttered one
word of English until minutes before she breathed her last
at the age of 87 , she
noticed her grandson star
ing forlornly at her beside
her death bed, and asked
very clearly, "Why aren't
you in school?"
Burrows says he won a
reputation as a wit by sim
ply sitting at a table with a
bunch of Hollywood char
acters and admitting he
came from Brooklyn. "All
you have to do is mention
.. . M- T , f ?
tne worn jsrooKiyn in
movie circles," Abe explains,
"and everybody laughs him
self sick. Some people at the next t .a saw me convulsing my
friends, and the word spread that I was a real card a reputa
tion I've been trying to live up to ever since!"
Down in Greenwich Village a young hostess popped up with a
new gimmick for a party: "Come As You Were Before You Were
Psychoanalyzed." They say nobody left till five in the morning!
O 1968. by Bennett Cert. Distributed bjr Kim Feature Syndicate.
jgSPi
A PNUY FOR V8y
THAT THINS !"
JENKINS
LET'S look now at meat.
The American Meat In
stitute tells us that in 1957
total production was a little
in excess of 27 billion pounds.
This was a little under the
total of 28 billion pounds pro
duced in the record year of
1956.
But
In 1957, the average Ameri
can ate only 159 pounds of
meat as compared with 167
pounds in 1956.
The drop in per capita
consumption was due to
GROWTH OF POPULATION,
which is increasing faster than
production of meat.
It looks like the future of
the livestock industry might
be bright.
SPEAKING of food
One of our leading statis
tical organizations got out its
sharp pencils the other day
and figured that if he lives
to be 70 the average American
individual eats:
150 head of cattle.
26 sheep.
310 swine.
225 lambs.
2400 chickens.
26 acres of grain.
50 acres of fruits and vege
tables. Note, please, that the. list
doesn't include seafood.'
A THOUGHT:
When our 11 Western
states get 40 million people
which .they are expected to
have, about 1975 they'll eat
a lot of food, won't they?
Reports Given af
Red Cross Meeting
Reports covering activities
in the various Red Cross serv
ices were given at the regu
lar meeting of chairmen and
cochairmen Tuesday morning
at the Red Cross chapter
house.
In the absence of Mrs. Al
Littrell, chairman of volun
teer services, Mrs. Ralph
Bardwell, chairman of Gray
Lady services at Camp White,
presided.
Reporting for other serv
ices were Mrs. Robert Kee
ney, home service; Mrs. Ber
nice Poston, Gray Lady, com
munity; Mrs. Lillian Salade,
cochairman, Gray Lady,
Camp White; Mrs. Frances
Flinn and Mrs. Yvonne Da
len, hospital service; Mrs.
John Day and Mrs. Joe Hear
in Jr., Red Cross; Mrs. O. A.
Eden, disaster; Mrs. Marie
Rehling, motor service; Mrs.
Grace Fiero, canteen; Mrs.
Martin Luther, recruitment;
Mrs. Clarice Spatz, staff
aides; Mrs. Frank Fairweath
er, volunteer field consultant;
and Mrs. T. R. Florey, home
nursing.
Sfop Me
1-8
Chance off teaching Compromise on
Dutch New Guinea
Editor's note: United Press Vice
President for Europe Thomas R
Curran has obtained an exclusive
interview with Dutch Prime Minis
ter Dr. WUlem Drees in which the
prime minister expresses The Neth-
erland's view toward Indonesia's
claims to Dutch N'ew Guinea and
the seizure of Dutch nropertv in
Indonesia. Curran telegraphed his
questions to Dr. Drees and the fol
lowing dispatch constitutes the
prime minister's reply.
By THOMAS R. CURRAN
United Press Correspondent
London (IP) Dutch Prime
Minister Dr. Willem Drees
said today that Indonesia has
destroyed all chances of a
compromise solution on Dutch
New Guinea and the United
Nations will now have to act.
Indonesians were seizing
Dutch businesses "often at
gunpoint" and so far without
compensation, Drees said.
The Dutch were in "gener
al exodus that necessarily en
tails great hardship," he said.
"The Netherlands diplo
matic representative in In
donsia has officially been
given to understand that all
Netherlands subjects will
have to leave the country," he
added.
"I sincerely hope that there
will be no. cases of forced
labor in Indonesia."
This was a reference to re
ports of an Indonesian plan to
conscript foreign nationals if
needed.
"It is now the duty of the
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Around and Er-Bout
To the Editor: While we,
through wise legislators, budg
et compounders et al, ponder
and appropriate millions of
dollars for schools, and par
ents buy expensive toys by
thousands mostly used a
few days, broken and dis
carded I am impressed by a
brief, simple letter from Alice
Lloyd's Caney Creek Com
munity Center school at Pip
pa Passes, Kentucky. A few
excerpts follow:
"Visitors were at the settle
ment visitors from the flat
country; where a person
watches the sun set straight
ahead instead of straight up.
. . .Maybe there's a strip of
flat somewhere or t'other.
But hit shore haint nigh our
peaks and hills. . .Within the
scope of hibernating Noey
there is no flat strip; just
peaked, baffling ridges. But
for the mountain youth who
are being, educated at Caney
and for those in the commun
ity who have accepted the
vision theirs is a broadening
outlook. . .While their sun
still sets straight up; spiritual
ly they have a horizon.
"At Christmas, for instance,
from our settlement were
shipped 40,000 pretties sent
to Caney from the flat coun
try. . .From one of those
cabins there came a letter:
'Caney Santa Claus sent me
a green tie. I had before three
pennies and seven marbles. . .
When my log' cabin school
goes out, in two more weeks
and two days, I am going to
Caney. And I'm coming with
my green tie and my three
pennies and my seven mar
bles. Pappa says he'll travel
as far as Defeated Creek with
me and I can make it by my
self through Bull Fork and
Trace Branch and on to
Caney. I KNOW you'll take
me in and give me learnin. I
crave it so.'
"And thus. . . From around
and about the mountain youth
for forty years, have waded
the creeks and climbed the
ridges to Caney AND an ed
ucation. Without a tie, with
out three pennies and no mar
bles at all the youth have
come. . .Each year there
trickles from Caney a stream
oi mountain youth. . .educated
for service to their deprived
mountain folk. Through the
help of our many friends we
are able to carry on. Many
little boys and girls of these
hills who have entered Caney
with less than seven marbles
have emerged into teachers.
public officials, leaders for
righteousness around and
about.
"Also there is insidiously
creeping into the fastnesses
EVIL. So-called civilization is
not ALL constructive. Some
phases, destroy, around and
er-bout."
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford, Ore.
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United Nations to act," Dr.
Drees said.
The prime minister gave his
views in answer to questions
telegraphed to The Hague.
Compromise Difficult
He said it was difficult to
see how a solution of any kind
could be reached with Presi
dent Sukarno on Indonesian
claims to Dutch New Guinea
(which the Indonesians call
West Irian).
Indonesia, he said, has re
fused to consider any pro
posal "short of complete sur
render of the territory" and
was carrying out a "discrimin
atory and hostile attitude"
against the Dutch.
In an interview with United
Press in Jakarta Dec. 30, Su
karno skirted a question on
what ultimately will happen
Russian Armed Forces Cut Seen
As Empty
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia's announce
ment of a cut in the size of its
armed forces appears to be
nothing but a
smart propa
ganda move.
The Krem
lin calls the
reduction "a
major new
contribution
to the cause
of lessening
tensions and
creating trust
in relations between states."
But it still leaves the Soviet
Union with the world's most
powerful armed forces and
still unwilling to enter a dis
armament . agreement with
guarantees which would pre
vent it from cheating.
wm
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Charles M.
McCann
Conflicting Reports
On U.S. Readiness
Declared Confusing
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (IP) The taxpay-
ing citizen is invited now to
confuse himself further by at-
tempt ing to
reconcile the
basic available
information on
n a t i o nal de
fense with the
simple princi
ple that two-and-two-make
four.
Such basic
Lyie c. wiison available in
formation for example, as:
The judgment of some
leading military men that the
national Defense department
is a hodge-podge of defense
nonsense.
The top-secret Gaither Re
port which apparently pic
tures the United States as
heading to the status of a sec
ond class power and in its
historical moment of gravest
danger.
The new Rockefeller Re
port on national defense
which clanged the alarm bell
along similar lines. (
President Eisenhower's
decision to hike defense
spending by around 3 billion
dollars in the next 18 months.
The official White House
party line that the United
States is not "at this time"
militarily weak compared to
the Soviet Union.
The White House party line
was stated on Dec. 28 by Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty,
as follows:
Stories that have been
printed which indicate that
the' United States is in a posi
tion of weakness at this time
are not true. They (supporting
facts) are not in the (Gaither)
report and are completely con
trary to the report. The report
says just the opposite."
Brings Alarming Discussion
This statement was in re
sponse to questions asked after
the Washington Post and
Times Herald had published
columns of alarming discus
sion of national defense at
tributed to the Gaither Report
which had been submitted to
the White House by a fact
finding official committee.
The President has law and
precedent on his side in refus
to congressional committees
ing to make public or to re
veal to congressional commit
tees the contents of the Gaith
er Report. Eisenhower has no
Claimed Destroyed
to Dutch property In Indo
nesia and whether the Dutch
owners would be compen
sated. "All Dutch properties and
investments are under govern
ment control and supervision
in order to safeguard the
smooth running of economic
enterprises," he said.
Indonesia Tears Down Ties
As regards future economic
and cultural ties, Drees said
that Holland wants them but
that Indonesia had "step by
step torn down this frame
work for cooperation and thus
unilaterally destroyed what
ever basis there remained for
good relations."
Indonesia's claim to the
Western or Dutch half of the
huge island of New Guinea
precipitated a d i p 1 o m atic
Propaganda Gesture
Hence from the practical
viewpoint, the reduction is an
empty gesture.
In many countries all over
the world, however, the Rus
sians will be given credit for
setting a good example to the
Western Allies.
Even in the United States
the Soviet move got big head
lines as a news story. Not
everybody bothered to read
in the dispatches and in edi
torials the caution that for
practical purposes the reduc
tion if it is really carried
out is meaningless.
Increases Are Expected
As part of the United States
attempt to catch up with Rus
sia in the nuclear missile field
President Eisenhower is ex
pected to ask Congress for in
creased defense appropria
tions. If he does, the Russians will
such control over the Rocke
feller Report which was fi
nanced by the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund.
That report, published last
week end, substantially sup
ports the broad inferences of
the Gaither Report, including
the urgent necessity to spend
more for national defense and
to spend it fast. The Rocke
feller Report was especially
critical of the national defense
setup with its three competing
still un-unified, armed serv
ices.
Outlines Differences
There seemed to be, how
ever, one difference between
the two reports. Whereas the
Gaither Report evidently
found the United States al
ready woefully lagging in de
fense and vulnerable to catas
trophic attack at this very mo
ment, the Rockefeller re
searchers believed that at the
present trend the Soviets
would not have the absolute
upper hand until 1960.
Hagerty may have had some
such spread of two years in
mind when he denied that the
United States "at this time"
was militarily weak compared
to the Soviet Union. If so, Hag
erty surely has indulged him
self in a quibble which may
return to haunt him.
A quibble, says the diction
ary, is "an evasion or a shift
ing from the point of issue."
Hagerty will be pressed to
expand on his Gaither Report
comment and expanding on it
will not be easy.
Red Skelton Claimed
'Getting Along Nicely1
Santa Monica, Calif. (IB
Comedian Red Skelton is
"getting along very nicely"
at St. John's hospital but his
return home is delayed pend
ing further tests.
The red-haired comic suf
fered a cardio-asthmatic at
tack Dec. 30 at his Bel-Air
home and was taken to the
hospital close to death, ac
cording to his physician.
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We Never Close
than
crisis between Indonesia and
The Netherlands. Unemploy
ed Dutch citizens have already
been ordered to leave Indo
nesia. Dutch industries, plan
tations, shipping and airlines
have been seized.
Indonesian officials state
that these and other actions
will continue until the Dutch
surrender West New Guinea.
West New Guinea or West
Irian, was administered as
part of Indonesia when Indo
nesia was a Dutch colonial
possession, although Indonesia
won its independence in 1949.
Dr. Drees asserted that the
Papaun or native population
of West New Guinea, "not the
Indonesian government at Ja
karta," should determine the ?
political future of the terri
tory.
make the most of it in their .
incessant propaganda broad-
casts. They will point out that "
while Russia is reducing its
military forces, the United
States is not.
A lot of people In "neutral
ist" and uncommitted coun
tries perhaps even some in
Allied countries will accept
this.
The Russian announcement
was made in a carefully staged
press conference in Moscow
by First Deputy Foreign Min
ister Vasily V. Kuznetsov and
Deputy Army Chief of Staff
Gen. Mikhail S. Malinin.
They said the armed forces
would be reduced by 300,000
men during 1958.
Of these 300,000 men, Kuz
netsov and Malinin said, Rus
sia will withdraw 41,000 of
its troops from East Germany
and 17,000 from Hungary.
But Kuznetsov and Malinin
refused to say what the size
of the Soviet armed forces
would be after the reductions
were carried out.
This is in keeping with tra
ditional Soviet secrecy.
The new cut is the third
Russia has announced in the
last three years. A reduction
of 640,000 was announced in
1955. A second one of 1,200,
000 men was supposed to be
carried out last year.
Nobody knows whether th
first two cuts really were
maae or whether the third
will be. .......
In any event, the Kremlin
has no reason to worry about
weakening itself. Military ex
perts estimate the present So
viet strength at anywhere
from 2,800,000 to 4,000,000
men.
The United States armed
forces totaled 2,789,642 last
May 31. Thev are to be re
duced to 2,700,000 by next
June.
Kuznetsov and Malinin said
Russia's reduction was "an
act of good will" and ex
pressed hope that "the Allies
would follow it."
But any time Russia wants
to Drove pood will all it hna
to do is to agree to a cheat
proof disarmament agreement.
Mothers Leave for
Shanghai, Peiping
Hong Kong (W Three
American mothers, in Com
munist China to visit their im
prisoned sons, left Canton to
day by plane for Shanghai and
Peiping.
Mrs. Ruth Redmond, Yonk
ers, N. Y., left for Shanghai
to visit her son, Hugh Red
mond, 38, who is serving a
life sentence there on "spy"
charges.
Mrs. Philip Fecteau, Lynn,
Mass., and Mrs. Mary Downey,
New Britain, Conn., left for
the Communist capital of Pei
ping to visit their sons. They
were accompanied by William
Downey, another son of Mrs.
Downey.
The Communists have im
prisoned John Downey, 27, for
life, and Richard Fecteau, 30,
for 20 years on espionage
charges. They were American
civilian army employees cap
tured by the Chinese near the
end of the Korean war.
of course are a factor in this
iv. ; t
Mrs. Litwiller
"It is better to know us and not need us,
to need us and not Know us.