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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 13, 1948 (Tuesday)
Winter Cole, a principal va
riety of pear grown in Tas
mania, is one of the types be
ing studied in the Southern
HDregon Experiment station,
"according to Dr. E. S. Deg
man, superintendent.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The sec
retary of agriculture endorses
'the plan of a Vermont sen
ator for meat rationing with
out price control. This will
be quite a trick, like hoisting
one's self over a fence, by
the bootstraps without any
boots."
;20 YEARS AGO
:jan. 13. 1938 (Thursday)
: Jackson County Retail Mer
chants association, organized
:at a dinner-meeting here.
: Residents of the Sams Val
ley district form Sams Valley
iCoyote club, members of
.which will be paid bounties
-for coyotes killed.
:30 YEARS AGO
;Jan. 13. 1928 (Friday)
: The first "Hoover for Presi
dent" club in Oregon organ--ized
here.
Possibilities for improve
ment and needed requirements
;of the district will be called
to the attention of the plan
ning commission from time to
time, according to the aims of
the proposed East Side Im
provement club.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 13, 1918 (Monday)
The German spy-poisoned
peanut butter scare in Phoe
nix several weeks ago has
ended; a Phoenix resident
thought a substance in the
jar to be ground glass.
The Portland Telegram dis
plays products of , Knight
Packing company's Medford
factory.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
; six is good.
1. Which former baseball
star was nicknamed "Bam
bino"?
2. Bible: the "Edict of Cy
rus" permitted the Jews in
Babylonia to do what?
3. What is the proper name
for the world's best seller?
4. Would it require four,
eight, or sixteen, one - inch
pipes to discharge the same
volume of water as a single
four-inch pipe?
5. Were Noah and Daniel
Webster brothers or cousins?
E 6. What does "Bo.-Jig the
"Compass" mean?
7. Hikers well know that
the 2,050 mile Appalachian
Trail is in the eastern, central,
or western U.S.?
8. In Vergil's "Aeneid," the
colossal hollow figure of a
horse was used by the Greek
warriors to enter which city?
9. What is the possessive of
"somebody else"?
10. In playing cards, a
"pair royal" is how many?
Answers: 1. Babe Ruih. 2.
Return io Jerusalem. 3. The
Bible. 4. Sixteen one-inch
pipes. 5. Unrelated. 6. Nam
ing its point in order, start
ing from North. 7. Eastern. 8.
Troy. 9- "Somer-dy else's."
10. Three cards of the same
value (as three Kings).
Good Business
By this time, most landowners in the Med
ford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts
should be well acquainted with the facts con
cerning tomorrow's election. So this is more in
the nature of a reminder than anything else.
We are pleased to leam that reaction among
eligible voters so far has generally been favor
able, and that the proposal is expected to pass.
For, under examination, we can see no rea
son why any of the water users of the two dis
tricts should vote against it. It is clearly to the
advantage of agriculturists in the districts to ap
prove the proposal.
DASICALLY, the election is merely an authori
zation for the 'two districts to enter into a
loan-contract with the United States government
which will provide for a considerable amount of
additional available water for use in the dis
tricts, from the completed Talent project.
The terms are exceedingly favorable to 'the
two districts, for the loans are interest-free ; the
pay-back period is extended, and overall costs
as a result of the contract would rise negligibly.
IXTHAT the added available storage capacity,
plus rehabilitation work on existing distribu
tion systems, will mean is best known to farmers
of the two districts.
Those who are fully familiar with the plan
realize that it is their best chance for greater
assurance of a dependable and additional supply
of water, for more irrigated land, which in turn
will assist in keeping down assessment costs, and
for additional improvement work needed, par
ticularly by the Rogue River Valley district.
It will be good business for the districts' voters
to approve the contract tomorrow. E.A.
To Promote Wood Products
In the past, we have pointed out what an ef
fective job of industry promotion has been done
by the steel, aluminum, masonry, glass and other
building materials industries, and by the same
token have criticized the lumber industry for its
deficiencies along these lines.
Therefore, we are glad to note that the Na
tional Lumber Manufacturers association has
taken a step in the right
A wood promotion planning committee of the
NLMA has approved "ground rules" for a pro
posed $1,250,000 per year national wood mer
chandising program.
JJERETOFORE, only a few giants in the in
Adustry, such as Georgia-Pacific and Weyer
hauser, plus a few trade errouns such as the West
Coast Lumbermen's association, have varied from
the pattern of no widespread advertising at all,
or, at most, sporadic and limited efforts.
How much the increasing use of non-wood
materials in construction
motion (and the lack
course debatable. So is
on the lumber market,
tempting to nose out of a
uut it has not been inconsiderable.
And if this proposed effort by the lumbering
industry can do anything to counter the trend,
so much the better for the lumber industry
and for the areas so dependent on it, like south
western Oregon.
"THE proposal is still in the talking stage, and
details must be worked out and funds pro
vided. It is to be hoped this can be done.
The objective, according to a release from the
NLMA, is to "create nationally an atmosphere in
which NLMA's regional associations and their
members can better compete "
And, at this stage, these objectives are set up :
Advertising in trade journals and other opinion-moulding
publications; informing building
code and fire insurance officials in the uses and
advantages of wood products ; expanding public
relations activities, including texts, technical and
promotional literature, films, and so on ; and en
couraging high school and college students to
follow careers in the technical wood sciences.
We will watch with interest for some concrete
progress on this project, which is so badly needed
by wood-producing areas. E.A.
Winter Scenes
The idea for the Dae:e of uictures in Sun-
AG? x r
Hav's Mail Tribune, which we consider to be a
minor work of art. had
office for months the
page could be devoted
nature in wintertime.
The nao-e was nrenared under the supervision
I O A X A
nf Mi's. Olive Starcher. women's editor: the layout
was done by her assistant, Miss Peggy'ann Hutch
inson, makeup was done bv veteran printer Ken
Murray, and ideas and suggestions were provided
by other members of the staff.
BUT major credit for the page goes to Pho
tographer Bob Vroman, who sought out, and
captured on film, a few of the wintertime mys
teries of this Rogue Valley. It was also he who
wrote the graceful, and almost poetic, captions.
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and entertainment to our
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Monday, January 13, 1958
direction.
is due to industrial pro
thereof for wood) is of
the effect this has had
now iust hoDefullv at
year-long slump.
been kicking around the
idea that sometime a
to showing the beauty of
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readers, and bring some-
1 i y I m4P III
'SOV TgAKR SHE TEACH
'Who Goofed?' On
Missiles Is Hot
Political Issue
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Tucked
away in the early passages of
President Eisenhower's an
nual message
to Con gress
was a gentle
reminder of
the adminis
t r a t i on an
swer to the
question: Who
goofed on the
ballistic mis
sile program?
Lyie c. Wilson The admin
istration's answer is that it
was President Harry S. Tru
man. Eisenhower, however,
did not name Truman. He put
it this way:
"When it is remembered
that our country has concen
trated on the development of
ballistic missiles for only
about a third as long as the
Soviets, these achievements
show a rate of progress that
speaks for itself. Only a brief
time back, we were spending
at the rate of only about one
million dollars a year on long
range ballistic missiles. In
1957 we spent more than one
million dollars."
Referred to Missiles
The reference in that para
graph to what Eisenhower
called "these achievements"
was perfectly plain. It re
ferred to what has been ac
complished in the Eisenhow
er years with the Thor, Jupi
ter and Polaris missiles which
had been discussed in the
preceding paragraph.
The crack about spending
only about one million dol
lars a year on ballistics mis
siles a brief time back re
quired some research. The re
search disclosed, as might
have been suspected, that the
one million expenditure was
Truman's baby. It was spent
in the fiscal year 1953 for
which Mr. T. prepared his
last presidential budget.
The record shows that
three years later, fiscal 1956,
spending was $250 million
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Hazards of agriculture
note:
The second cold wave of
the season has locked Florida
in a deep freeze. The Orange
and grapefruit section across
the central part of the state
reports temperatures of 23 to
30 degrees.
These lows may cause an
other 100 million dollars of
damage to the thousands of
acres of citrus which are ly
ing exposed to the frigid
blasts. The Florida citrus in
dustry suffered a hundred-million-dollar
loss in the big
freeze just four weeks ago.
H
mmmm.
That brings up the subject
of federal farm aid which is
based largely on subsidized
high prices "or certain so
called "basic ' crops. It is cost
ing the taxpayers biUions of
dollars per year, and there
are good reasons to believe
that it may be wrecking the
agricultural industry of the
United States.
At any rate, it is building
up VAST surpluses that hang
like a dark thundercloud over
the markets of the future. Ef
forts to dispose of these sur
pluses abroad by cutting
prices to foreign buyers are
getting us into hot water with
our friends who are hurt by
this fire-sale dumping of our
accumulated -agricultural pro
ducts. I CAN'T help wondering if it
wouldn't be better to scuttle
our fabulously costly and dis
astrously disruptive farm aid
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and that in fiscal 1957 which
ended last June 30, it hit one
bililon dollars.
So, without naming names,
Eisenhower sought to tag
Truman twice first, for let
ting the Soviet Union get a
head start on missiles, and,
second, for finally spending
so little as to keep the United
States in low gear in the mis
sile race.
The gentle way in which
Eisenhower stated his indict
ment of Truman administra
tion missile efforts is typical
of his reluctance to engage
in name-calling political
rows.
Not Reluctant
Former President Truman
is not a reluctant political
fighter. He's a slugger as
would be expected of any
veteran of the bare-knuckled
political wars which pre
vailed in Jackson county, Mis
souri, when HST was coming
up to county office and, to
ward the U.S. Senate.
Mr. T., therefore, is likely
to be heard from on the sub
ject of who goofed the missile
effort. The annual message
could not have found him un
prepared. Vice President Richard M
Nixon and the Republican
National committee long since
began contending publicly
that the Truman administra
tion . was responsible for the
missile lag which enabled the
Soviet Union to launch the
world's first man-made satel
lite.
Some weeks ago the com
mittee distributed nationwide
comparative defense, research
and development and missile
spending figures for the Tru
man and Eisenhower admin
istrations. This information
now has been circulated
among Republican members
of Congress.
Republican officials and
campaigners thus are being
briefed ' for the national de
bate which is inevitable in
this election year on this
question:
Who goofed?
JENKINS
and substitute for it a rela
tively simple crop insurance
system.
I'm pretty sure that in this
present emergency these Flor
ida citrus growers would
much prefer such a system.
It would cost money, of
course, but it might do some
real good. Whether the pres
ent farm program does more
good than harm is at least
open to question.
WHILE we're on that sub
ject, let's take a look at our
current mouse problem here
in Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California. It in
volved heavy crop losses in
1957. It may involve even
heavier losses in 1958-even if
all the mice all die off next
spring. It seems likely that
our crop rotation system will
be seriously disturbed. If our
stands of pasture grass and al-
talla are heavily damaged
this winter, they will have to
be plowed up and the land
put to other crops. Most of
these substitute crops are al
ready in heavy overproduc
tion, so the price return from
them will be highly disap
pointing. Besides, our rotation cycle
will be badly upset for a
period of years. In addition,
there is the serious damage
done to ditch banks.
IF we are spending our agri
cultural aid billions for a
sound and businesslike crop
insurance system, our farmers
here in the Southern Oregon
Far Northern California area
would get some good out of
Communications
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Letters submitted for publica
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From Juvenile Council
To the Editor: The Juvenile
Court, the Juvenile Depart
ment, and the Advisory Coun
cil to the Juvenile Court of
Jackson County wish to -express
their appreciation for
the valuable assistance rend
ered to them by your news
paper m publicizing the open
ing of the new Jackson Coun
ty Juvenile Detention Home.
We believe that your gen
erous support of this project
aroused the public interest
and acquainted citizens with
the work of this Department
to an extent which could not
have been accomplished by
any other means.
In the short period of time
in which the Detention Home
has been used, we find that
there is greater opportunity
for our staff to get to know
the children and to provide
the Court with more complete
information about them in
order that better plans may
be made. We do not expect
miracles from this opportun
ity to do closer work with the
children, but we believe that
over the long period of time
this program will justify its
existence.
We thank you again for
your cooperation and we
hope that we will merit your
continued interest.
H. Dewey Wilson,
Chairman, Advisory
Council to the
Juvenile Court of
Jackson County
Wicked To Talk to Russia
To the Editor: I have just
finished reading your editor
ial about the man from Mars,
etc., in today's paper and I
feel that I must take issue
with you. I have noticed that
you have been writing about
getting along with Russia for
the past several weeks.
I believe you are forgetting
basic Americanism. You are
recommending that we make
a truce with unrighteousness.
Also you forget that in order
to get along with Russia we
wmuirl hp endangering our
freedom. One of our great
forefathers said Give me
lihertv or give me death, we
believe any true American
stands on that same premise
today. Mr. Editor do you hon
estly believe that we can have
peace with Russia and sua
etnv free?
There is a right way and
a wrong way. Might still does
not make right. There are
still men in the world who
are ready to die for what is
right. Only men who have a
righteous heart will fight and
die for what is right.
The issue is not of getting
along with one another. The
issue is in the hearts of men.
There are some Americans
who have a righteous heart
because they have come in
contact with Jesus and now
they have a new heart. They
are ready to die for freedom
or any other righteous cause.
I, too, am concerned about
the future of our nation. And
I want to do all I can to help.
I think it would be good if
you would print this little
letter in your "Communica
tions." Carroll Powell,
Box 233,
Central Point.
Courtesy Pays
To the Editor: It is always
with considerable pride that
we read letters which point
out the fact that Medford
and Jackson county are con
to huild a reputation
for friendliness and courtesy.
Because this quality seems
to be growing in scarcity in
many cities, it has far great
er value when found in com
munities such as ours.
A letter of this type, re
ceived here recently, follows.
Don McNeil,
Manager, Jackson
County Chamber of
Commerce.
Medford Chamber of Com
merce: The writer and his
wife had to make an emer
gency trip to California re
cently with our schedule
bringing us through your city
on Friday, Jan. 3.
It was about 11 a.m. when
we were on the northern out
skirts, at which position a
young gentleman in a pickup
attracted our attention to a
front tire which was low. Im
pulsively, we immediately
headed for the first service
station and I don't think we
took time to properly thank
this fine lad.
This has rested on our
minds, for after rendering this
admirable service he turned
around and headed back to
ward the center of town,
which was evidence that he
was away from his course
with his courtesy.
We felt so warm in his ac
tion that we expended some
it as would these unfortun
ate citrus growers in Florida.
They will get no good out ,
of the present farm program. I
Central European Nuclear Ban
May Play Role in Negotiations
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
A proposal that nuclear
weapons be banned in three
central European countries
may play a
big part in
any Cold War
negotiations..
Under the
proposal, no
nuclear wea
pons would
be stored or
manufactured
in Germany,
Poland and
Czechoslovakia.
Oddly enough, the proposal
has been kicking around for
more than three months with
out getting a great deal of
attention.
Also, it comes not from one
of the big powers that would
be primarily concerned in any
negotiations but from semi
independent Communist Po
land. Polish Foreign Minis
ter Adam Rapacki first pre
sented it to the United Na
tions General Assembly in
New York last Oct. 2.
The United States has been
cool to the plan. It feels
quite rightly that it would
be to the advantage of Soviet
Russia and especially that it
would encourage "neutral
ism" among some of the West
ern European members of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization. Allies Interested
But some important Allied
leaders, while objecting to its
details, have shown consid
erable interest in it. These
leaders include British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan,
French Premier Felix Gail
lard and West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer
There also is strong support
for it in NATO members Den
mark and Norway. Those two
countries are acutely aware
of what might happen to
them in a war if they permit
ted the United States to es
tablish missile bases on their
territory.
Polish Foreign Minister Ra
packi has kept his proposal
persistently alive since he
first presented it in the UN.
Just before last month's
NATO "Summit" meeting in
Paris, Rapacki called the am
bassadors of several Allied
countries to his office in War
saw and reminded them of
his proposal.
Russia Endorses Proposal
Soviet Russia naturally has
endorsed it fully. Soviet Pre
mier Nicolai A. Bulganin
mentioned it in the letters
and all UN members through
out the world before the last
NATO meeting.
Rapacki roused further in
terest when he said in a state
ment to the Foreign Affairs
committee of the Polish Par
liament that his plan should
include controls to make any
ban on nuclear weapons ef
fective. Bulganin mentioned the
Rapacki proposal again in the
letters he sent to the Western
Allies and other UN mem
bers last Thursaay. In say
ing that Russia "proposes to
call" a high-level meeting on
cold war talks within the
next two or three months,
Bulganin said that he would
bring up the Rapacki propos
al then.
Allied Replies Due Soon
Border Attack
Beaten At Yemen
Aden, British Protectorate
-tP) RAF planes and local
tribesmen beat off a border
attack by troops from the
Arab Kingdom of Yemen
Friday in a fresh flareup of
desert warfare, the govern
ment announced.
The government said Ye
meni troops using anti-aircraft
guns attacked a truck
convoy and routed the raid
ers with heavy casualties, the
announcement said.
. It was the latest in a series
of border incidents that start
ed early last year with renew
ed Yemen claims to owner
ship of the oil-rich protector
ate. TO GERMANY
Bath, Me. (IP) The U.S.S.
destroyer Anthony was built
at the Bath Iron Work Corp.
to fight Nazi submarines dur
ing World War II. The An
thony will form the backbone
of the new West Germany
Navy by being its largest ves
sel. $24 in your city which wasn't
entirely necessary and this
is cited to expose the value
of good citizenship in a mun
icipality and appreciation.
Frank L. Taylor,
Reedsport, Ore.
Do FALSE TEETH
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Kooev. pastv taste or feeling. FAS
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drug counter.
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McCann
It is quite likely that the
Polish plan will be mention
ed in the replies which the
United States and its Allies
are now drafting to Bulgan-
letters of last month.
These replies must also take
into account the letters he
sent Thursday.
There is of course no tell
ing when or even whether
any negotiations to ease the
Cold War tension will be
Matter of Fact
WHY GAVIN DESPAIRED
Washington Human mo
tives are always mixed, and
there may have been person
al motives in
L t. General
James Gavin's
despairing de
cision to re
tire from the
Army. Gavin
certainly
aware, for ex
ample, that
President Ei
senhower bit-
Stewart Aisop terly resented
Gavin's outspoken role in the
Army's behalf.
The President's resentment
inevitably meant that Gavin
could not be Chief of Staff at
least as long as Eisenhower
was President. Gavin is gen
erally regarded as the Army's
most brilliant senior officer,
and the feeling of being block
ed off from the top Army post
cannot have been pleasant.
But there were other, imper
sonal, and far more important
reasons for Gavin's despair
ing gesture.
One way to understand
those reasons is to go back
and examine the photographs
which appeared in the news
papers and magazines of the
Darade of the Red Army in
Moscow on Nov. 7, the 40th
anniversary of the Bolshevik
revolution. With the space
satellites already launched,
all sorts of new surprises were
anticipated.
WHEN the Soviets failed to
hit the moon with a hy-
drogren bomb, or bring the
doe Laika down alive on Red
Sauare, there was a certain
sense of anti-climax, and the
parade was billed as "unsen
sational." But to a profession
al infantry soldier like Gavin,
the parade was by no means
unsensational.
The Soviets actively en
couraged Western photogra
phers to take pictures of their
tanks, troop carriers, tactical
missiles, and so on, much as
Hitler used to do in the pre
.Munich days. The reasons
were similar. In virtually
every category the ground
warfare weapons displayed by
the Soviets were decisively
superior to anything in the
possession of the United
States br its allies.
One qualified military spec
ialist, Garrett Underhill, has
already described some of the
Soviet infantry weapons in an
article for the "Washington
Post," To cite a few examples:
During the Nov. 7 parade,
the Soviets displayed huge
"flak, tanks," each mounting
a pair of powerful new anti
aircraft guns. The- only Amer
ican counterpart is a light
tank mounting much less pow
erful guns first designed in
1936. The NATO ground
forces lack even this protec
tion. The Soviets also displayed
a new, improved heavy tank,
with heavier armor and ar
tillery than anything in the
American arsenal. They are
known to have several thou
sand such tanks. This country
is building 300 heavy tanks,
the last of which will not be
delivered until 1959.
The tactical missiles dis
played by the Russians were
clearly both more powerful
and more mobile than any-
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One thing is certain. Pres
sure in favor of some kind of
negotiations is mounting
steadily. Mindful of painful
past experience, the United
States wants to hold them
only if it gets assurance that
Russian is ready at last to
negotiate in good faith. But
to some other Allied coun
tries, the big thing is to get
talking.
By Stewart Alsop
thing in the American forces.
The Soviets even have new.
lightweight rifles and other
infantry weapons, which ren
der their individual soldiers
far more mobile than Ameri
can troops.
I
N short, the Soviet ground
troops are unquestionably
far better equipped than their
American or NATO counter
parts. The story does not end
there.
As Gavin said, there were
27 divisions in the American
Army when he came to Wash
ington, and there are 15 now.
What he did not say is that
only nine of these divisions -
a ridiculous number for a
great power are fully equip
ped and combat-ready. The
official estimate of 175 Soviet
divisions is probably exag
gerated. But the Soviets un
doubtedly have 65 armored
and mechanized divisions, ful
ly equipped for atomic war,
plus an equal number of in
fantry divisions, all resting on
a huge mobilization base.
The Gaither report, the
Rockefeller Fund report, and
all other competent authori
ties have stressed that the
ability to fight limited wars
is as important an element in
the world power balance as
the ability to fight suicidal
all-out nuclear wars. Yet
throughout the presidency of
that product of the Army,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
Army has been the Penta
gon's stepchild. There have
been no Sputniks to drama
tize Soviet superiority in
ground warfare, but that su
periority is incontestable.
IT MAY be charged that the
Army leaders notably
Gavin himself have been
too eager ,to expend the
Army's resources on such
things as space platforms. It
may al.o be charged with -justice
that the Army's
proportion of men to combat
units is still much too high.
Yet if one examines such
facts as those listed above, it
is easy to understand Gavin's
despair, which is shared by
many other dedicated of
ficers. For the rest of us, it might
be well to remember that the
world has not seen its last in
fantry battle, and to remem
ber also Gen. Gavin's warn
ing: "These are your sons and
brothers. -We don't bring
them into the Army to die. If
anyone is to die, we want It
to be the other guy. We've
got to give them the equip
ment they need."
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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