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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10 20. 30 and
40 year ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 19. 1948 (Monday)
Reports by state fire mar
shal and the Oregon insur
ance rating bureau consid
ered by city council; the re
ports are on the alleged wa
ter failure Dec. 11 when Dr.
Edwin R. Durno's residence
burned down.
" Arthur Perry, reporter and
columnist for the Medford
Mall Tribune for many years,
died Saturday in a local hos
pital. 20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 19. 1938 (Wednesday)
: For the first time in sever
al years a man was arrested
here yesterday for selling liq
uor to Indians.
: City police warn pedes
trians and motorists they
must obey new traffic signal
at Main st. and Central ave.
iO YEARS AGO
Jan. 19. 1928 (Thursday)
; Plans completed for the
opening of a dollar store by
David and Harry Rosenberg,
owners of the Bear Creek or
chards. ; The state decides on appli
cations for power permits on
the Rogue river, according to
a letter received by George
Fox, Grants Pass mayor, from
the federal power commis
sion. 40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 19. 1918 (Saturday)
I Jackson county has been
named as one of the banner
communities of the United
States were draft auotas were
filled up by voluntary enlist
ments.
A series of five minute
talks given at the teachers in
stitute in Gold Hill.
: What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
fix is good.
. 1. "Was Ferenc Nagy a for
mer prime minister of Hun
gary, Poland or -Latvia?
2. Bible: Was Jair a judge
in the kingdom of Judah or
Israel?
, S. A scuppernong is a spe
cies of fish, grape or a swing?
4. Complete the proverb
"Eat, drink and be merry,
tor . . ."
5. Was Frank D. Roosevelt
the tallest of all the U.S. pres
idents?
6. What is the correct pro
nunciation of the word corps
7. What relation are the
sons of first cousins to each
other?
8. Name the composer of
"My Old Kentucky Home."
9. Moles do, or do not, have
eyes?
: 10. Did ancient Egyptians
embalm, cremate, or bisect
fheir dead?
- Answers: 1. Hungary. 2.
No. (In the commonwealth of
Israel). 3. Species of grape,
4. "Tomorrow we die." 5. No,
(Abraham Lincoln was the
tallest). 6. Kor. 7. Second cou
sins. 8. Stephen C. Foster. 9.
They -do. 10. Embalm, -
MAIL TRIBUNE
"The M. T.
A couple of weeks ago we boasted about
the power of the "M.T." over the fog.
For proof, we called attention to the fact
that a few minutes after the paper, damning the
fog, came off the press on a Sunday morning
the fog lifted and the sun shone in a clear blue
sky.
Of course it was all "good, clean fun" it was
CLEAN at any rate.
"IlELL, as this is written the fog is here again
" and a bad one but instead of again risk
ing our reputation for our omnipotence as a fog
dispenser, in something the same spirit we are
going to boast about our influence in the railroad
field.
Over two years ago in this column, we urged
a congressional investigation of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
That august body had again answered the
plea of the US railroad combine to increase rates,
by as usual increasing them.
Not the full increase requested, of course
they seldom do that but presumably for the sake
of appearances they dropped off a .few cents
per mile.
Then, and again about a year later, we sug
gested the time had come to determine whether
the "I.C.C." represented the interests of the
people or the interests of the railroads particu
larly the big and powerful ones.
But as usual, in this paper's effort to secure
railroad service to which the American public
is entitled, nothing came of it.
Not then at least.
But what have we today?
QUR own Governor not the SP "Bob"
Holmes, has taken the bit in his teeth and
reared on his hind legs to demand precisely what
this paper demanded some 24 months ago. That
could hardly be called a PROMPT reaction but
as our record in this field goes, it surely indicates
once more, that the power of the press is some
thing to conjure with as represented by the per
sistent, if not always successful, "M.T."
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DUT seriously, brethern, this is an issue ex-
tremely important to the state.
Whether the "I.C.C." is SOLELY to blame or
not, the plain fact remains, that the eastern
freight rates (which the Commission controls),
today more than ever before, discriminate against
the shippers of the coast, and particularly the
lumber shippers of Oregon, and work a severe
and unjust hardship upon them. As lumber is
today, our major revenue-producer, this means
dealing a hard blow to
business man, in the
or west.
IT IS to be hoped the Oregon delegation in
"Xfo oT-iiv nrfrv folrQC rirnrrinf sfinn on rl n c enrm
as possible such a probe
The sooner the question is decided whether
the Interstate Commerce
the interests of people or the interests of the rail
roads, the better for Oregon and the better for
the country at large. R.W.R.
If Germany Can Do It
Why Can 't the U.S.A.?
Speaking of railroads
One of the marvels of the post-war period
has been the phenomenal business recovery of
Western Germany.
In no other section of the World War II area
has the return of industrial growth and pros
perity been more sensational.
And in this recovery, strange -as it may seem,
railroad transportation, freight AND passenger,
has been a stand-out.
IN GERMANY, as in this country, railroad
freight business, of course, has been the big
money-maker. In recent years annual gross
freight revenues have totalled a billion dollars;
in passenger traffic approximately' $500,000,000
about half as much.
But unlike some of the American railroads
(especially the Southern Pacific and its imitators)
instead of discouraging passenger traffic, by dis
continuing some lines, reducing service on others,
and impairing the quality of passenger service
on the system generally,
have not only constantly improved passenger
service, but today are
crease m 1958.
TI7E ARE indebted to
' city, for sending us
American Trade News," (Suite 6900 Lmpire
State Building, New York), which contains the
above, and much more
railroad and general land transportation infor
mation. Here is a country (or rather HALF of one)
only slightly larger in
New York, now operating a railroad system that
is the pride of all Europe. Only a few years ago it
was a mass of war-tom rubble and ruins (not an
important railroad bridge standing). Today on
Sunday, January 19, 19S8
Wins Again!
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every business, and every
state, north, south, east
is held.
Commission represents
the German railroads
gearing it for a 25 in
A. A. Lausmann of this
a copy of the "German-
interesting and pertinent,
area than the state of
WZZ NOT ?OSD TO READ
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
The President's progfam, as
set forth in his message and
in his budget, is not likely it
would appear,
to win for
him the kind
of popular
support which
he. will need
in this Con
gress. For
while his de
livery of the
Walter Lippmann m e S sage did
much to quiet
the apprehension about his
health, the substance of his
proposals will almost certain
ly produce a sense of disap
pointment and frustration.
The country was expecting
and was ready for a large ex
panding national effort. What
the President has proposed is
a narrow concentration on
specialized strategic weapons
accompanied by a contraction
in almost every other field
of national activity. The pro
gram says, in effect, that if
only we can catch up with
the Russians in missiles, all
will be well and we can re
treat almost everywhere else
along the line.
If experience is any guide,
the President will find that
the country cannot be rallied
successfully to a program of
this character. It expected a
program of national revival.
It is offered a program for
contraction. The country will
prove once more that a de
mocracy can be rallied more
successfully by a big and bold
program like, for example,
the Marshall Plan than by
a small and timid program
like, for example, one which
regards the United States as
being too poor to build school
houses or to develop new wa
ter resources in the arid lands
of the West.
A SMALL and timid pro
gram nrovokes all the
various interests that are hurt
by it without interesting and
rallying the great mass who
will respond to a national
call. There is every prospect,
therefore, that in this Con
gress leadership will come not
from the White House but
from the senior Democrats,
organized around Rayburn
and Johnson. For the Repub
licans who must run this fall
t t :
its "42,000 miles of rails it carries an average of
3,600,000 passengers DAILY."
A
ND how has war-ruined Germany been able
to do this? We quote
"By keeping up with current and ahead of future
transportation requirements."
THAT may sound simple but it is precisely what
the Southern Pacific and the "fat-cat" rail
roads who follow its defeatist policy, have never
tried to do. They have tried and are still try
ing to price the passenger traffic out of business.
Germany has done this by inaugurating great
er speeds, more luxurious accomodations, im
proved modern service, even using freight trucks,
both on rails and off, as an aid in increasing
patronage, not as a ruthless competitor and de
terrent of it.
IT IS true that most of the railroads in Ger
" many are government-owned, but not all of
them are.
And those that are not, are reported to be
just as far ahead of the S.P. type of railroading,
as the German "main-liners".
CO WE can think of certain "top-brass" rail-
road executives in this part of the country
(and elsewhere) who might, with great profit to
themselves AND their companies, take a few
weeks off for a bit of careful researching on how
Germany staged such a
transportation in both
traffic, and according to
prise, courage and skills
WHEN YA HAVE OOrVIRW !'
the program is an invitation
to disaster, and the President
will have very little, if any,
ardent Republican support.
For the Democrats, the pro
gram is a political bonanza,
enabling them to seize the
initiative not only in the wel
fare measures, which are
their old standbys, but also
in the field of national de
fense. This need not have hap
pened if the President and
his advisers had grasped the
nature of the challenge, and
had risen up to respond to
it. Once it was certain, as it
was, that there would be no
opposition to getting more
money for missiles, the cru
cial point was what this na
tion was going to do about
education and research. For
that is where we are most
deeply challenged, and it is
there primarily and funda
mentally that we must dem
onstrate to ourselves, and to
the world, our capacity to
respond to the challenge.
In this perspective, the edu
cational proposals are a pitia
bly inadequate response, and
the abandonment of the school
construction bill an inex
cusable retreat from respon
sibility. TTOW the program was put
together becomes clearer
as we see it as a whole. The
Sputnik has been treated as
a challenge to our missile
program which has to be met.
The new money for missiles
and the like has been covered
by the President's accepting,
as he never has before, the
views of those in his inner
councils who want to cut
back and, in principle, would
like to dismantle, the wel
fare measures which have
come down from the New
Deal.
No doubt, there is room for
cutting back on some of the
subsidies and grants in aid.
But the basic conception of
the program is, considering
the time we live in, a curious
one that this nation, chal
lenged as never before in its
history, is to reduce and con
tract its national responsi
bility for the internal devel
opment and welfare of the
nation.
Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
from this Trade Journal :
"come-back" in railroad
passenger and freight
all reports has the enter
to maintain it. K.W .K.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible.'The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words.
Gratefully Received!
To the Editor: Once again,
I couldn't resist writing to
tell you how whole-heartedly
I agree with one of your edi
torials, after I saw a letter
from a Central Point reader
disagreeing with it. The edi
torial I refer to is the "Man
From Mars" one, which I
read with a great deal of in
terest and approval, and felt
it was one of the most re
markably calm and sensible
pieces of writing I had seen
ever since the hysteria over
Russia's satellites started.
In fact, I thought your ed
itorial was so excellent that
I sent a copy of it to my uncle
in New York City who is a
patent attorney there, since I
happened to be writing that
day, and I was really quite
proud to be able to show him
what a Medford paper had
produced!
What you said Is so simple
that people are afraid to be
lieve it could be true, but that
is usually the way it is. The
true facts often do elude us
by their mere obviousness. I
firmly believe with you that
the Russians want peace just
as much as we do, leaving
religion out of it entirely as
you did, it is so obviously to
everyone's self interest to
have peace that I can't be
lieve the Russians could be
that blind to their own self
interest.
But when you have ap
proached it from purely the
viewpoint of self interest, you
find that you have ended up
with what I sincerely believe
is also the Christian view
point. That is what is so up
setting about letters like the
one from the Central Point
reader. When people try to
justify killing and modern
warfare on the grounds of
what Christ would want us
to do, it must add greatly to
the heartbreak God already
has to bear. .
I also wanted to congrau
late you on printing the state
ment of the Committee for a
Sane Nuclear Policy. They
surely do seem to have the
right idea and the more pub
licity those kind of ideas can
get, the better.
Mrs. Harold Ottosen,
Route 1, Box 101M,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Condemn Injustice
To the Editor: In Novem
ber the Ashland Council of
Church Women appointed a
Committee on Social Rela
tions whose purpose is to
establish better understand
ing of human rights and to
take action which will pro
mote good will in inter-racial
relationships in our commu
nity. -
We are among those who
deplore the offense and in
justice that people of color
have suffered in our town.
We heartily endorse the laws
of the State of Oregon which
make mandatory fair employ
ment practices, equal acces
sibility of Vocational School
ing, and equal accommodation
of al' people in place of pub
Matter of Fact By . aip
CONFLICT OF LOYALTIES
Washington The appoint
ment of still another commit
tee to consider yet again the
reorganization
of the Defense
'yj Department is,
ot course, a
way of sweep
ing the whole
4 problem tem-
the rug. It cer
tainly is not
the "decisive
A. 1 J Z
Stewart Alsoo central direc
tion" in order to "end inter
service disputes" which the
President promised in his
state of the union message.
Even so, it may prove im
possible to keep the problem
under the rug. Sen. Stuart
Symington, for example, is
determined to make defense
reorganization a major issue
in this session. Events them
selves, including the mount
ing evidence that the present
system just is not working,
may aid him. The issue is
one, moreover, which involves
not only billions of dollars,
but possible victory or defeat
in war.
Yet it is not the sort of
issue most people understand,
or care very much about. It
thus seems worth trying to
examine the issue in simple,
human terms for it is essen
tially a human issue. Con
sider, then, the unhappy posi
tion in which the Chief of
Staff of one of the services
finds himself. In the nature
of things, a Chief of Staff
is subject to an insoluble con
flict of loyalties.
AS A member- of the joint
chiefs of staff, he attends
the weekly JCS meeting as
one of the three voting mem
bers. The Joint Chiefs are
collectively assigned to "ad
vise the President" on the
lic entertainment, lodging,
and eating.
We address this letter to
our city government as well
as to all citizens' in the be
lief that there are people of
good will in Ashland who
condemn illegal and unjust
acts against anyone because
of color, and urge that they
help promote racial justice.
Dorothy Plocher,
Secretary, Committee
on Social Relations,
Ashland Council of
Church Women,
167 Harrison st.,
Ashland, Ore.
Capitalism On Way Out?
To the Editor: Life is an
ever existent form and that
form is a circle without be
ginning or end, and confined
within that circle are all the
natural elements which,
through their relativity and
collectivity, have created this
ever expanding Universe we
live in. A circle is the form of
all forms of life as shown bv
the circle, zero and the cell
wnicn are materialistic con
ceptions constituting the
whole of life whose activation
is inherent in its curative na
ture, its cycles of adjustment
and change, its zero which is
the basis of mathematics and
the cell a constituent in the
chemistry of nature.
To Drove that life is nurelv
Mechanical, Mathematical and
Materialistic is best illustrated
by the four dimensions of the
circle form, namelv Leneth.
Width, Breadth and Time with
its numerical formula outlin
ing mathematics as a factor in
measurement, an instrument
of balance and a directive in
the process of growth and ad
vancement. The most anDar
ent motive in the works of
nature is its industrial con
tent, its nutritional require
ments and its economic deter
minism now involved in this
troubled world.
The necessity for a Deaceful
solution is in the realization
that like the Tribal and Feu
dal economic systems, the
Capitalist system, having fin
ished its cycle, is now on its
way out, and all expenditures
are required for economic
universal survival. Nature is
a process of elimination and
absorbtion of all political sub
divisions that stand in the
way of its collectivised whole,
and every move to the con
trary only leads to defeat.
This is a causative factor with
collectivised effect and ident
ity of interests, a common
ground necessitating peaceful
pursuits made possible by the
collectivised mandates of the
future.
Capitalism, having accepted
collectivised mass machine
production as the most effic
ient method, leaves inviolate
its natural industrial produc
tive foundation and leaves to
posterity the problem of bal
ance obtainable only by uni
versal collectivised consump
tion. Tom Caldwell, .
408 Laurel st.,
Medford, Ore.
whole range of American stra
tegic planning. The JCS is
thus an immensely powerful
body, charged with a nation
al responsibility wholly tran
scending service interests.
But except for the few
hours he spends weekly at
the JCS meetings, a Chief
of Staff spends the rest of
his time as operational com
mander and top dog of one
of the services. As such, his
natural instinct, and the in
stinct of all his subordinates,
is to do everything possible
to get a bigger share of every
thing more men, more mon
ey, more missions for his
own service.
His subordinates "In
dians," they call them in the
Pentagon devote their earn
est efforts to preparing the
Chief to do battle to this end
in the JCS meetings, buttress
ing his own arguments for
more of everything, getting
him ready to beat down the
arguments of the other serv
ices. Both as a professional
soldier revoted to his service,
and as a human being aware
that his name in his own serv
ice would otherwise be mud,
a Chief of Staff inevitably en
ters most JCS meetings in the
mood of a knight entering the
lists against two formidable
opponents.
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THUS the JCS has never
really functioned as the
national strategic planning
board it was supposed to be.
It has functioned instead
depending on the amount of
money available as a sort of
polite bear pit, or as a nat
ural backscratching society.
The problem is infinitely
complicated hy the new weap
ons, which simply cannot be
made to fit into the old air,
ground, and sea categories.
Nowadays, the Chiefs enter
the lists prepared to do battle,
not only for more men, mon
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
"Why." we overheard a
man remark plaintively
the other day, "why is it
that the fog's so white, but
rubs off the car so black?"
The other day when tele
phoning, a friend who also
works in an office witn a
switchboard, we were told by
his switchboard operator that
he was talking on another
line, and would we wait? We
would, and we did.
Anrjarentlv it was a rather
long telephone call our friend
was making for we waited
auite a while, and as we did
so we go to wondering if he
had placed a call to us about
the time we called him, was
told we were busy on the
rjhone. and would he wait?
The horrid picture arose of
two men each waiting for the
other to get through with a
conversation.
That wasn't what happen
ed, fortunately, but we'll bet
it HAS happened.
Some philosopher or an
other once remarked that
the way to get rid of a
problem is to take it to the
woodpile with you and
split some kindling. A
friend of ours tried it the
other day, he says, and it
worked. He not only lost
his problem, but almost a
finger at the same time.
Girls in the Pep club at
Medford High school really
get wrapped ui in their work
when leading cheers during
basketball games, one of our
photographers reports.
" Recently he attended a
game to get some action
shots, and, with this assign
ment completed, decided to
try to get some shots of the
girl cheer leaders at work.
He squeezed in to the girls
rooting section and sat down,
camera at the ready, and
snapped a few pictures of the
girls in front.
Thej didn't even see him,
he said.
A gift of towels It al
ways a safe and handy
ey and missiles, but for such
things as anti-missile missiles,
reconnaissance satellites, and
manned space platforms.
Under the present insane
system, moreover, there sim
ply is no way to achieve real,
national - minded strategic
planning. The chairman of the
Chiefs has no vote, and is
thus hardly - more than a
referee of the endless service
hassles. The service secre
taries inevitably tend to be
come more royalist than the
king. The Secretary of De
fense has severely limited
powers, and he cannot know
where all the bodies are
buried. Congress cannot pos
sibly perform the function of
strategic planning. And the
President has other things on
his mind.
The results of the system
are plain for all to see. The
JCS has failed to do its stra
tegic planning job in any ra
tional way incredibly, there
does not even exist today a
firmly agreed national war
plan. Those best able to judge
are convinced that, if a major
war broke out tomorrow, the
result would be chaos, with
each service fighting its own
private war.
MOREOVER, the country
simply is not receiving
a fair return on its invest
ment in either military man
power or money, and it can
not possibly receive a fair
return under the present sys
tem. Almost everybody who
has examined the problem ob
jectively from former Armyi
Chief of Staff D. D. Eisen
hower on has agreed that
something must be done, and
all sorts of solutions have
been offered.
But the basic elements of
a solution are obvious. The
Joint Chiefs must be abso
lutely divorced from their
services, and there can be
no question of any Chief re
turning to his service. The
chairman of the Chiefs must
be given real power, subject
to the review of the President
and the Secretary of Defense,
and the Defense Secretary's
power must also be increased
and clearly defined.
In short, the power of deci
sion belongs, not in a polite
bear pit or mutual back
scratching society, but in a
chain command totally di
vorced from selfish service
interests, and exclusively de
voted instead to national de
fense interests. This would
seem so obvious as to be hard
ly worth arguing about. Yet
the vested interests in the
present system are enormous
ly powerful, which is of
course why the whole prob
lem has once again been shov
ed under the rug.
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Herald Tribune Inc.
thing to give newlywedt.
Maybe even too handy, ac
cording to a recent bride
groom we know, who tells
ui ha and his bride re
ceived about a half -dozen
towel set for wedding
gifts and a couple more at
Christmas. About a weic
ago they received another
belied gift. Yep, towels.
Medford has several traffic
lights which are mostly auto
matic, but which also are
equipped with buttons so that
pedestrians wishing to cross
the street can push them, ob
tain a red light, and walk
safely.
At one such the other day
at the 5 p.m. rush hour we
observed a small boy. He
sauntered down the street,
stood watching traffic for a
while, waited until there were
a number of oncoming cars,
pushed the button, watched
as they all came to a halt,
grinned, and continued his
stroll down the street.
In one county office there
is a collection of shoes,
other items of clothing,
some cooking, utensils, and
a sharp-pronged pitchfork,
all leftovers from the "lost
and found"' booth at last
fall's county fair. Most of
them just lie there, but
we're told that workers in
the office have threatened
to use the pitchfork for
..ejecting unwanted visitors.
A man we know, manager
of an irrigation district, takes
periodic trips to the moun
tain lakes to check on the
snow and its water content.
Occasionally, when the trip
is rough, he'll spend the night
at a cabin maintained by the
disrtict, coming home the next
day.
Not long ago he took his
son and a couple of his son's
friends along for the trip, and
when the work was done the
boys wanted to do some ski
ing, and were allowed an
hour. When they were through
they were sopping wet, so
our man decided it would be
be best to stay overnight.
They had a fine evening,
a good fire, plenty to eat,
and bedded down, warm and
comfortable, like sensible
males.
But they reckoned without
the wife and mother of the
family, who, back in civiliza
tion, got to worrying about
the boys, and called another
official of the district to go
up and see if everything was
all right.
So, at about midnight, the
slumbering boys and man
were routed out of bed and
brought back to town, arriv
ing about 3:30 a.m.
We are informed the moth
er slept soundly the rest of
the night.
One of life's minor Irrita
tions in the newsroom comet
at the time the paper comes
off the press, and everyone
is scanning it to read the
news in other departments,
and make sure there are no
really bad boners. Almost
inevitably, at this point,
some one wanders in and
comments, "What a life! I
wish all I had to do all day
was sit around and read
newspapers."
The Oregonian recently
concluded thatowboys don't
roll their own cigarettes any
more, that they buy "tailor
mades" instead.
Up in Moro, the editor of
the Sherman County Journal
remarks that, if this is so, it's
odd that one can still buy
Bull Durham at practically
any cigarette counter. "And,"
he adds, "it isn't used to sea
son fried potatoes."
After commenting on how
handy the little sack of "BuU"
is, he adds:
"If there be readers con
cerned with the economics of
the matter, it may be said
that a five cent sack of Bull
Durham will make about 30
cigarettes, equal in size and
potency to 40 cents worth of
ready-mades. Maybe this is an
old-fashioned consideration."
However that may be, one
of the most dedicated Bull
Durham smokers we know
hardly classifies as a cowboy.
He's Don McNeil, manager of
the chamber of commerce,
who started rolling his own
mofi than six months ago
and has stuck faithfully to it.
He's gotten to be something
of an expert at cigarette man
ufacture, and he even claims
he likes the darn things.
A woman dropped into
Woolworth's the other day
to buy a couple of odds and
ends, and wound up pur
chasing a cosmetic prepara
tion and some thumb-tacks.
She went over to the check
out clerk and handed her
the cosmetic. The clerk said,
"That will we 98 cents, plus
the tax." "Oh yes." said the
woman, "here they are."
And handed the clerk the
tacks.
-J,