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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
.' Jan. 24. 1948 (Sunday)
". A group of snow surveyors
will travel Oregon's Cascade
; mountains by Tucker Sno-Cat,
I measuring 35 snow courses
en route, senior engineer in
: charge of snow surveys for
" department of agriculture an-
nounces.
; Frank O'Neil, Ashland High
' school football coach, named
; president of the southern di
vision of the Oregon Associa
tion for Health, Physical
. Education and Recreation.
20 YEARS AGO
Jam 24, 1938 (Monday)
Changes in tram service
between southern Oregon
points and Portland and San
Francisco, to become effec
tive Feb. 6, are announced
by J. A. Ormandy, general
passenger agent for Southern
Pacific.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "An
.eastern doctor advocates golf
ing for farmers as a cure for
their troubles. The average
farmer would have to play
six games, before he was
cured ot yelling Whoa! when
he should yell Fore!"
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1928 (Tuesday)
Seven Gold Hill residents
scheduled to appear before
'justice court on charges of
i 2 T -
Diasimg umi iii nugue river
by exploding dynamite in a
pool.
From local and personal
column: "The city council of
"Ashland last week granted
a 10-year franchise to the Pa
cific Telephone and Tele
graph company in the city of
Ashland. This was in consid
eration of $500 worth of tele
phone service to the city."
40 YEARS AGO
Major E. E. Kelly, Med
ford, like all fishermen, while
in England paid - homage to
the shrine oMsaak Walton.
Douglas Fairbanks in
"Reaching for the Moon" will
be presented at the Page to
night.
; What's Your I.Q.7
; Nine or ten correct is superior;
, seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Manuel Roxas died sud
denly in 1948; who was he?
- 2. Bible: Was Hadassah the
mother or sister of Esther?
3. What do these have in
common: Matthew Walker,
."becket bend, inside clinch?
. , J 41 X A :l
. 11 IS Said Ilia l rvpill
'showers bring" what?
; 5. The U. S. Attorney Gen
eral is the cabinet officer who
heads which department?
; 6. Was Mrs. Malaprop a
I character in one of Dickens'
lor Twain's novels?
! 7. In Army usage, what
-time of day is 2200? :
8. Who was the hero of Sin
'clair Lewis's novel "Arrow
smith"? 9. The city of Szeged is in
which European country?
10. In what part of the
globe are the antipodes of the
United States?
Answers: 1. President of the
Philippine Republic. 2. No.
("Esther" is the Anglicized
name of Hadassah.). 3. They
are named for knots. 4. "May
flowers." 5v Department of
Justice. 6. Neither. (A charac
ter in Shbridan's "The Ri
vals."). 7. The 22nd hour (10
p.m.). 8. Martin Arrowsmith.
9. Hungary. 10. The Indian
Ocean. ,
Threshold of Space
Since Sputniks I and II began their journeys
around the earth, and even before, much has
been heard about outer space."
What is outer space?
Definitions vary. Some people have made the
error (even President Eisenhower) of saying that
the bputniks were circling m outer space." But,
according to scientists' definitions, the satellites
are only barely on the edge of the atmosphere, in
"space," surely, but in no sense in "outer" space.
IT VEN scientists differ as to where outer space
begins, but all agree that at a minimum it is
beyond the exosphere, which begins 600 miles
above the earth's surface (and beyond the orbit
of the satellites) and extends for some 600 miles
more.
Terrestial space is the area above us extend
ing to one radius of earth, about 4,000 miles.
"Near" space is defined as the area where a space
vehicle would still be under the gravitational
influence of gravity, or about 1,000,000 miles.
And, according to the same list of definitions,
"outer" space is all the area beyond that.
DUT there are other definitions, too, and there
probably will be some conflicts among them
until mankind does reach into space, and then,
perforce, agree on terminology.
For instance there is interplanetary space
the space between the planets of the solar svstem,
Earth, Mars, Venus, and the others.
Beyond that is what some people call true
"outer space," the distances, unimaginably huge,
between the stars the space which others call
interstellar space. In this space distances are no
longer measured in miles, as they are in the solar
system, but in light years the distance traveled
in one year by light, traveling at a speed of
186,000 miles per second.
And beyond that, again, is intergalactic space
measured in thousands, millions, even billions
of light years between the galaxies whirling
through the void like so many pmwheels, their
immeasurable hugeness dwarfed by distance,
most of them even invisible to the naked eye.
A ND beyond that who knows?
The day may never come when mankind
will find the answer to that eternal question. He
is only on the threshold of space travel, and still
may find it beyond his capabilities.
But, again, who knows?
Mankind, despite his progress, despite the
marvelous discoveries of his science, has only
scratched the surface of potential knowledge. It
has been his drive for knowledge that has brought
him this far. Perhaps, some day, it will take him
to the stars. E.A.
County Job Survey
The survey of county jobs and salaries, to
begin next week by the state civil service com
mission, is a much-needed step.
There has been much talk that county em
ployees are paid too much, are not paid enough,
have too much to do, don't do enough to earn
their pay, and so on and on.
The civil service commission, with back
ground in similar work throughout the state, and
with a time-tested set of job standards and pay
scales, is ideally suited to the job.
THE results of the survey may make some
A changes in job classifications ancTsalaries, or
it may not. The important thing is to find out
whether salaries are m line both with other pub
lie employment, and with competitive lines of
work in private endeavor, and whether job classi
fications are realistic.
In the long run, adequately-paid public serv
ants (and there are some good ones in the court
house) who are in jobs that are neither too tedious
and difficult, nor too limited, are among the best
assurances taxpayers can have of efficient and
economical government.
Our only complaint is that the survey is five
or ten years later than it should be. E.A. '
IF V Mtfr VWTME TO COME OVEP SC
MUCH, WTO YA 0UV COLOR TV ?'
Agriculture Funds
Gone, But Basic
Problem Remains
Negotiations; Propaganda Top
International News of Week
This week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United. Press Correspondent
Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer proposed this week that
West Germany and Soviet
Russia start
direct talks on
easing world
tension.
It was the
first direct
move by an
Allied leader
to use old
fashioned sec
ret, riirjlomacv
McCanrT in seeking a
basis for broad "cold war" ne
gotiations between Russia and
the North Atlantic treaty pow
ers.
Adenauer suggested, in a
letter to Soviet Premier Niko
lai A. Bulganin, that the cur
rent Russian-German trade
discussions in Moscow might
be turned into cold war talks.
Alternatively, he said, "any
other promising point of de
parture" might be chosen.
President Eisenhower open
ed the diplomatic week by
replying in just 44 words to
a 10,000-word letter from Bul
ganin proposing that a confer
ence of leaders of countries
of every political slant be
called to discuss world prob
lems.
Eisenhower said that Bul-
ganin's letter contained noth-
A Better Method
The district attorney of Lane county has sent
letters to magazine dealers in his jurisdiction,
warning them that if the "trash" magazines,
which cater to prurience, are not otf their stands
in 10 days, they will face possible prosecution
in court.
He named no magazines, and left the job of
"policing:" up to the dealers themselves, but
pointed out that Oregon law has a prohibition
against selling indecent arid lewd materials.
THE problem of controlling these "trash" maga-
a man's right to make a living, and even more
basic questions about freedom of the press.
But this much can be said: The Lane DAs
method of using established lawTs, and if neces
sary prosecution in the courts, is a far, far better
method than in setting up some "board of censor
ship" to decide what the community may be
permitted to read.
Every one should be. entitled to his day in
court. No one should be subjected to intimidation
by any self-nghteous or self-appointed monitors
of morals. E.A.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IF) In last
week's slashing attack on
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson,
the chairman
of the Senate
A g r i c ulture
Committee ac
cused Benson
of sharp prac
tices.
Sen. Allen
J. Ellen der
(D.-La.), was
Lyie c. Wilson the accuser
He objected to Benson's esti
mate of the 1957 cost of the
farm price subsidy, contend
ing that other costs were in
cluded in the lump sum which
Benson was reading from
prepared statement.
The lump sum was $3,200,-
000,000 and Benson was com'
ing in his text to a mention of
the economic, military and
other activities abroad which
also were included in the
figure. He failed to get that
far. however, before their
charge that Benson was at
tempting to mislead the pub
lic with a padded estimate of
farm subsidy burdens on the
federal Treasury,
Republican senators joined
Democrats in giving Benson
as xought a congressional go
ing over as any cabinet of
ficer is likely to face unless
he were up for impeachment.
Benson would have been bet
ter off explaining his program
before the Senate in its cham
ber than he could hope to be
before the Agriculture Committee.
That committee was loaded
against him. It reflects the
opinions, prejudices and as
pirations of one of the most
effective pressure groups op
erating in American poltiics,
That group commonly is call
ed the farm bloc.
Benson spent six somewhat
disorderly hours before the
Senate committee attempting
to state the administration's
case for its farm proposals
which are intended to reduce
Connelly, Caudle
Request Reversal
Washington - (IP) Two
Truman Administration of
ficials sentenced to jail for
handling of a St. Louis tax
case have asked the Supreme
Court to reverse their con
viction.
Separate appeals were filed
Thursday by Matthew J. Con
nelly, former "White House
appointments secretary and
T. Lamar Caudle, former
head of the Justice depart
ment's tax division.
If the Court decides to re
view the case, arguments will
be heard sometime next term.
Connelly and Caudle were
indicted on charges of con
spiring to defraud the gov
ernment in connection with an
income tax fraud case against
Irving Fachs, a St. Louis shoe
broker and Shu-Styles, Inc.,
a corporation which Fachs
controlled.
Guatemala Solons
Seek Protection
Guatemala City (IP)
Congress, meeting behmd a
screen of tommy guns, appeal
ed to Guatemala's interim
government Thursday night
for protection in its ticklish
task of choosing the nation's
next president.
Most members of the na
tional legislature received
anonymous aeam tnreais in
Thursday's mail. Soldiers arm
ed with submachine guns
stood guard outside the capi
tol during Thursday night's
meeting.- - - I
or prevent over-production
and thereby to cut the costs
of government efforts to sup
port basic farm prices with
federal subsidies.
Cites High Cost
There are facts and figures
on both sides of the argument,
Benson s best argument is
that the subsidy program has
not worked so far. The tax
payer who is or is not a farm
er has a stake and a legiti
mate interest in the farm
price ruckus now developing
here. The taxpayer pays the
bills and the bills have been
considerable over the years.
For a lasting solution of the
farm problem the price would
have been cheap. But the
problem remains and the
money is gone.
Without trying to mislead
anyone, as Benson was ac
cused of trying, it is worth
knowing that a publication
called the federal budget in
brief states that federal ex
penditures for 10 fiscal years,
1950-59, inclusive, for func
tions for "agriculture and
agriculture resources" add up
to $33,400,000,000.
Exceeds Truman's Budget
These functions are official
ly described as farm price
support and related programs,
agricultural land and water
resources, rural electrification
and rural telephone loans,
farm ownership and operation
loans, research and other ag'
ricultural items.
In the new 1959 budget, for
example, more than two-
thirds of the projected ex
penditure is for farm price
support and related programs.
That accounts for $3,200,000,
000 of the $4,600,000,000
budgeted. That is more money
than the preceding Demo
cratic administration was ac
customed to spend to aid
farmers.
Harry S. Truman prepared
the budgets for 5 of the 10
fiscal years referred to. The
greatest expenditure in any of
those years for agriculture
and agricultural resources
was $2,900,000,000' in 1953.
The least under President Ei
senhower was $4,400,000,000
in 1955.
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for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
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Bouquet For the Kids
To the Editor: I have in
tentionally waited to see what
the public's reaction would
be to the Teens Against Polio
Fund Drive.
I do not know what took
place in Medford and other
places, but I believe it was
much the same as I saw going
on in Central Point at Stew
art's Chevron Station where
a group of Freshman girls
from Crater Hi washed cars
for 75c the entire afternoon,
all proceeds going to fight
polio.
The day was cold and raw,
unfit for the cattle to be out-of-doors,
yet these girls
worked on to 5 p.m., wet and
cold, to do their bit in this
great cause. What did you do?
They made me ashamed of
myself and the small amount
I had contributed as I watched
them go cheerfully about
their work with hands stiff
and numb from being in cold
water and their lips blue and
quivering.
I cannot forget the vigor
and cheerful spirit throughout
the afternoon and believe it
high time we recognize how
many good kids we have and
give them a little PUBLIC
praise.
It came to me as I watched
some 20 girls take part in this
project on an in and out, off
and on basis, what a flood of
adverse publicity there would
be if only a fraction of their
number did some of the things
that most of us elders disap
prove of (and substantiated
our disapproval by the trial
and error system).
How about reaching out a
hand to pat the kids even
lightly upon the back when
they do good and the other
hand to help them when they
too stumble by trying the trial
and error system.
It is too bad that more par
ents, grandparents and adults
in general do not get around
to learn what things these
kids are doing and the cour
age with which they are do
ing them.
Delinquency would receive
a severe blow the moment
adults begin to understand
and work with these kids, for
then the grown-ups would
start to drop their own de
linquent acts and attitudes
and see the kids in a true and
more realistic light.
C. R. Burrill,
122 Vilas rd..
Central Point.
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
Service Officer's Job
To the Editor: Frequently I
have been asked, "What does
a veterans organization serv
ice officer do?" Because of
this, I thought that a conden
sed version of my annual re
port might be of some in
terest to the many .veterans
and their families living in
this county. The following
data are for the year 1957,
which was slightly below
average in the number of
cases handled.
A total of $2,967.65 per
month is being received by
veterans or their dependents
in the county as a result of
the work of this office. Of
this, $1,211.80 resulted from
cases prepared and presented
to the Veterans Administra
tion for rating, and $1,755.83
were existing pension or com
pensation cases "protected,"
when lower-bracket pension or
compensation payments were
cut off. Additional awards
obtained included four for
constant care and assistance
totaling $226.80 . per month;
five funeral allowances total
ing $750, and the purchase of
an automobile for a paraplegic
veteran.
Fifteen claims were reject
ed by the VA. Ten are still
pending.
New awards Included four
service-connected; nine n o n
service-connected; five wid
ows' pensions; one widow's
pension (service - connected),
and one widow's dependent
allowance.
Other cases prepared and
presented included 26 service
connected compensation
claims, 27 for non-service pen
sions, and 19 hospitalization
arrangements, as well as
others.
In addition, the service of
ficer's duties include assist
ance with annual income re
ports for the VA, assistance
with insurance claims, tax
filings, both property and in
come, and whatever other
problems veterans have under
the laws enacted for their
benefit, both state and fed
eral. Pat Graham .
Adjutant and Service Officer
Chapter 8, Jackson County
Disabled American Veterans
ing which he had not covered
in his reply to a previous com
munication from Bulganin.
w.ii : .
ronowing 11s new propa
ganda technique, the Soviet
government alleged that the
United States would use the
meeting of the Middle Eastern
Treaty Organization, which
starts in Ankara, Turkey,
Monday, to try to get METO
members to set up nuclear
missile bases on their terri
tory. '
The allegation was made In
a statement issued by the
boviet Foreign Ministry. It
proposed the establishment of
a missile-free zone in the Mid
dle East.
Similar blasts had been
issued by the Kremlin just
before the North Atlantic
treaty "summit" meeting in
Paris and President Eisenhow
er's State of the Union mess
age to Congress.
President Marcos Perez
Jiminez. one of Latin Amer
ica's leading "strong men,"
was thrown out as the result
of a dramatic revolt after
nearly 10 years as Venezuela's
dictator.
Army leaders, workers, in
tellectuals and the Roman
Catholic church combined
against Perez Jiminez.
A general strike in protest
against dictatorial rule
marked the beginning of the
end.
Wild disorders broke out
in Caracas, the capital, and
other cities. Casualties were
estimated at from 145 to sev
eral hundred killed and more
than 1,000 persons wounded.
Perez Jiminez fled in his
private airliner to the Domin
ican Republican, where he
asked asylum by that coun
try's "strong man" regime.
X -
French Premier Felix Gail-
lard won a vote of confidence
by 334 to 226 from his Na
tional Assembly, the controll
ing house of Parliament, after
a two-day debate on foreign
policy.
It was the second vote of
confidence in six days. The
first, which Gaillard won by
a majority of only 20 253 to
233 came on the budget.
He still faces critical votes
on plans for Algerian home
rule and for constitutional
changes intended to make it
harder for the National As
sembly to overthrow its pre
miers.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
News from overseas:
Mount Etna is pouring lava
with increasing force from
the crater it blasted open the
other day in a spectacular ex
plosion. Villagers on the
slopes say the explosion
hurled molten rock 6,500 feet
(about a mile and a quarter)
into the sky.
The blast was seen 50 miles
away.
H'
mmmmmm.
Do you reckon Mother
Nature, after watching all the
atom and hydrogen bomb
tests and listening to all the
rockets to the moon' talk, may
be flirting with the idea of
showing man what she can do
if she takes a notion?
lyELL, the old lady has
been quite a performer
in her day and she has been
at it for a long time.
Etna's first recorded erup-'
tion occurred 700 years be
fore the birth of Christ. Sho
staged more than 80 honest-tc-goodness
eruptions since then.
not to mention counties!
spells of shaking and
rumbling and lava-spitting.
The ruggedest of "these oc
curred in 1669, when she
staged a violent eruption ac
companied by an earthquake.
Some 20,000 persons were
killed in this disturbance.
the
HERE'S a thought:
The region around
slopes of Mount Etna is the
most thickly populated area
of Sicily. Sicily is the big is
land that lies just off the toe
of the Italian boot. It is in one
of the oldest areas of the his
torically known world.
In spite of all Mount Etna's
shenannigans down through
the centuries, the area around
her base is still heavily popu
lated.
France got itself into an
argument with Communist
Yugoslavia when its warships
intercepted, in Algerian ter
ritorial waters, a small Yugo
slav merchantman en route
for Morocco. The Yugoslav
ship was escorted to Oran, Al
geria, where 150 tons of arms
were taken from it. France
said the weapons were des
tined for the Algerian rebels.
Yugoslavia denied it and
called the seizure "piracy."
rSSTERDAY IT WAS penicillin and chlorophyll that people
were excited about; today it's tranquilizer pills. One old
lady in a small town actually demanded these pills because,
she said, "the devil was
..AND J OOMT
TO ANSWER
pestering her and tempting
her every night." The doctor
indulgently gave her a few
pills. When he saw her next
he inquired, "Well, that
devil still tormenting you?
Yes, he is," admitted the
old lady cheerfully, "but now
don't even bother to answer
him."
In Texas, an old oil driller
heard that his wife had been
rushed to the hospital. He
hastened to her side, then
asked the doctor, "What ails
her?" "We're not sure," frowned the doctor. "May we have
your consent to perform an exploratory operation?" "Noth
ing doing,' roared the driller. "Ain't nobody going to wildcat
with my wife." v
Copyright 1958, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by
King Features Syndicate.
East Main St.
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PAIRY-SMITH
at Genessee
A piece of pie without the cheese is like
a kiss without the squeeze ...
We sell both
I I I I I I
SUEZ PAY TALKS REOPEN
Cairo (IP) The Egyptian
government has agreed to re
open discussion on compensa
tion for shareholders in the
Suez Canal Co., it was an
nounced today. World Bank
Vice-President W. A. B. Hiff
made the announcement after
two days of negotiations with
the Egyptian government. He
said the talks will reopen in
Rome late in February. The
Egyptian Suez Canal Author
ity took control of the water
way when the canal was na
tionalized 18 months ago.
Neuberger Suggests
Klamath Manager
Washington (IP) Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger (D.-
Ore.) Thursday recommended
the appointment of Earl Wil
cox as a management special
ist in the Klamath Indian ter
mination program.
In a letter to Interior Sec
retary Fred A. Seaton, Neu
berger said that because of
resignations the specialist
team has been reduced to one
member, Thomas B. Watters.
He said that Seaton should
appoint two more to bring
the team up to strength.
Neuberger made no recom
mendation to fill the third
vacancy, but suggested Wil
cox for one of the positions.
He said Wilcox, who is pres
ently a forester in the Klam
ath program, would be a "ca
pable" member of the team.
TljORAL:
People don't scare too
easily.
That's worth remembering
in these days when too many
people are peddling gloom
and doom.
NW Corporation
Bill Introduced
Washington (IPI Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)
Thursday introduced a bill
which would authorize crea
tion of a regional power cor
poration In the Pacific North
west. The corporation would have
power to build dams by rev
enue bond financing. ,
Neuberger listed five co-
sponsors for the measure as
Sens. Wayne Morse of Ore
gon, James E. Murray and
Mike Mansfield of Montana
and Lister Hill and John
Sparkman of Alabama.
Neuberger said he wanted
to make clear that "the re
quest for to introduce this
bill has come from the North
west Public Power Associa
tion and I am offering the
measure in the form in which
that group transmitted it to
my office."
He said the Senate Public
Works Committee planned
hearings on the measure.
Many persons, he said, had
contacted him since he an
nounced last December his in
tention to sponsor such a bilL
He said he felt the bill offer
ed by the NWPPA should be
modified especially with re
spect to the preference clause.
He said, however, the meas- .
ure deserved a thorough hear
ing before changes are at
tempted. - -
The measure would estaif
lish a corporation which
would assume the dam build
ing and power distribution
responsibility for the Colum
bia Basin.
the
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
of Southern Oregon ' - -
RICHARD D. WERNER
Musical Director and Conductor
presents in concert
The Symphony Orchestra
Sunday Afternoon at Three P.MV January 26, 1958
MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Adults $1.00 Students 50c
Tickets on Sale at
the Box Office