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Medford ani Jackson County
History frgm the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
. 10 YEARS AGO
t Jan. 26. 1948 (Monday)
An Irish setter, "Charles
River Blazes," owned by
: John L. Downs. Medford. was
; judged best in Southern Ore-
; gon Kennel club s first sanc-
tloned dog show.
Four skiers injured over
the week end at Crater Lake
; park, according to a report
from national park headquar
: ters.
; 20 YEARS AGO
: Jan- 26. 1938 (Wednesday)
:, Nine defendants charged
: with selling liquor to Indians
sentenced by Judges James
Alger Fee in the United
: States district court.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
i Smudge Pot column: "The
: valley is experiencing a bit
:f bad luck. The loss of two
passenger trains is threat
ened, and the first uninooK
; salmon has been caught in
:the Columbia river."
:30 YEARS AGO
Ejan. 26. 1928 (Thursday)
- Rosenberg brothers, own
ers of Bear Creek orchard,
.'have initiated a new system
of orchard spraying, which
'will be use in their orchard.
: "Medford looked good on
: paper so I came. After I got
:here it looked even better, so
:i stayed," is Attorney T. J.
Enright's explanation of his
: recent move to this city.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1918 (Saturday)
Boy Scouts of Medford, as
personal messengers of the
nrpsirlent. this week are dis
tributing packets of informa
tion on the war.
One of the three clubs for
the care of little French war
nmhans formed among the
children of Lincoln school
last spring by Mrs. Brackm-
reed is named for the marsnai
of France.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or tan correct Is superior;
sevan or eighf is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. PaAmiro Togliatti is a
Communist leader in which
country?
' 2. Bible: Leah and Rachel,
'sisters, married who?
' 3. Correct the following:
-"She will come, providing
she can get an American
;visa."
: 4. Is Psoriasis a city in
Greece or Sicily?
' 5. Honus Wagner, Eddie
Collins and Tris Speaker were
players in what sport?
: 6. Does the Speaker of the
House of Representatives cast
a vote only in case of a tie?
'. 7. Who was the author of
j"The Green Pastures"?
- 8. What was the middle
name of Charles P. Steinmetz,
jioted electrical engineer?
9. With, what subject did
'the Bretton Woods Confer
ence deal?
! 10. The Japanese islands
are subject to frequent earth
quakes; true or false?
Answers: 1. Italy. 2. Jacob.
3. "She will come, provided
ihe can get an American
visa." 4. No (it is the name
of a skin disease). 5. Baseball
players. 6. No. (He may vote
on any measure.). 7. Marc
Connelly. 8. Proteus. 9. Inter
national monetary plans. 10.
True.
The 1958
The 1958 congressional campaign has started
officially, but as things
under any head of steam
A lucid interval in other words should intervene
for which all normal rational citizens should be
duly thankful.
TlHEN it does get into high-gear we fear the
'"3-ring" performance will be more tiresome
man usual.
r or unless the Kussians should land some
para-troopers on the moon or do something
equally sensational and dramatic the campaign
probably will not go beyond the traditional pat
tern of such affairs, which can be readily reduced
to "Ins" wanting to STAY in, and the "Outs"
wanting to GET there.
THE campaign has already started along these
familiar and somewhat tiresome lines. Presi
dent Eisenhower's opening guns as well as those
of his "heir-apparent" Richard Milhous Nixon,
can be fairly classified under the general head
ing' of "Pointing with Pride." ("God's in his
Heaven, all is right with
THE Democratic campaign has not really start-
ed. Democratic leader Senator Lyndon John
son has to date leaned over backward in the state
ments he has made to
partisanship.
But probably when that dinner for former
President Truman is held, there will be plenty of
steaming and searing oratory all of which can
undoubtedly be likewise
"Viewing with Alarm."
IT IS the old familiar
MTTmirm r"f f Ilia s3 r. -r n - 4
vjjjuiiuu ui nno u.cjyeii uncut juas pietty wen iuh
its course as far as making any votes is concern
ed. But the politicians on neither side of the fence
will agree, and of course they 'are in control of
such matters,; so just an observer ON the fence
can't do much about it.
THEREFORE the old time razzle-dazzle-bally-hoo
will probably be in full; cry when Labor
Day rolls around if not before and normal
sanity will not be restored until after the election
in November. .
In the view of this department, the final re
sult nationally in November is going to depend
VERY LITTLE upon what the various candidates
will claim in the next eight months on their own
behalf and a GREAT DEAL upon about what the
business conditions are when November rolls
around.
If by then business is not definitely better,
and the future looks no more promising for the
USA internationally than it does today, nothing
as we can see it can prevent a Democratic land
slide and a greatly increased majority for the
party in the Congress.
If on the other hand,
predicts, there is a sharp
then, fears of losing the
sipated and the future prospects for America re
turn to something approaching "the good old
days" then the Republicans probably won't lose
many seats and may even gain a few. v
Yes, in our opinion, the political situation, as
of today, is as simple as that.
This won't prevent the usual flood of table
thumping oratory however, the pointing with
pride, the viewing with
deeply imbedded in political practice. This is too
bad from the standpoint of the national economy,
for if such needless "noise and fury" could be
prevented, millions and millions of dollars in
stead of being wasted,
to productive and constructive uses. R. W.K.
Is the MT "Democratic"?
Every so often we have to announce that the
term "an independent newspaper" on the MT's
masthead means JUST what it says.
The necessity this time was brought about by
a phone-call from a local celebrant who said he
represented a group of subscribers who wished
to know whether "Ye Editor" was registered as a
"Republican" or a "Democrat."
Not liking the tone or nature of the request
we told the "celebrant" to call up or call upon
the County Clerk's office where the informa
tion he sought, could be secured.
This brought a response that indicated the
communicant had been on the side of a party
argument maintaining the undersigned is regis
tered as a Democrat and has been a member of
that party even since the first election of Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt 25 years ago and the inau
guration of the New Deal.
"IXELL, as indicated, we did not think the party
V registration of "Ye Editor" of any public in
terest or importance, and no one's particular busi
ness outside of the individual concerned.
But the inquiry, and
tion, did indicate that once more there are a num
ber of readers here in Jackson County who either
have overlooked that term "an independent pa
per" (which has been unchanged in the mast
head for over 50 years), or they have assumed
that it did not mean what it said, particularly
when the paper has, for so many years, taken
Sunday, January 26. 1958
Campaign
look now it will not get
until about September,
the world.")
avoid any indication of
properly classified as
"army game" and in the
- - irt nwt 1- n fi mma4-4w t.t 11 ui,m
as President Eisenhower
business up-turn before
race with Russia are dis
alarm,; pattern is too
could be saved, and put
the subsequent conversa
clear-cut and definite sides in all local, state and
national elections.
CO AGAIN, as remarked, we think another clar
ification of the Mail Tribune's political policy
is called for.
We don't object to criticisms of that policy,
but we do object to having it misunderstood.
THE TRUTH is simply this : The "MT" was es
tablished as an independent paper, and has
always been "INDEPENDENT."
Under its present ownership it has supported
more Republican than Democratic candidates,
but never on the basis of the party label but be
cause at the time the GOP candidate appeared to
be better qualified for the job than his opponent.
That's all there has been to it.
But the suspicion has persisted through the
years there was something phoney about this
claim, that it was merely a bit of window-dressing,
the conclusion apparently being that a news
paper truly independent could not take sides for
one major party or the other at election time.
THIS is not true.
We believe the record will show the Mail
Tribune has never in 'any' election, ever advised
anyone to vote the
We have advised them to pick and choose as
the paper has done, not on the basis of the party
label but on the basis of worth. Nationally of
course the choice has been on the basis of what
the party as a party at
what its record showed
-
THE record will show we supported Teddy
Roosevelt when he ran against the original
"Mr. Republican" William Howard Taft. It will
show we supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt
when he opposed Alf Landon of Kansas. And by
the same token we supported Governor Dewey
of New York when he ran against President Tru
man. We are not saying, of course, we were right
or wrong- in our selections. We are onlv savino
that each time we made
of what we BELIEVED
munity, the state and the
tirely independent of purely partisan considerations.
And that is what we
ent newspaper." And that is whv that item has
been in the masthead of
many years, and will remain there as long as the
paper remains under its
FROM the first we have
4-. AT. J
lu ctn y pax ly anu never intend to De. w e shall
be the mouth-piece of none.
It was Governor Stevenson of TTK
in his welcoming speech
uon m iyoz, aiong with the speeches and the
general smug and complacent atmosphere at the
Republican conclave the same year that con
vinced the undersigned, that the Democratic
party was the liberal, wide-awake progressive
party and the Republican definitely was NOT.
ou just as we cnose Teddy Koosevelt's "Pro
gressive party" over William Howard Taft's, we
chose Adlai Stevenson's party over Senator Rob
ert Taft's G.O.P., particularly when General Eis
enhower capitulated to the ultra-conservative and
isolationist Senator from Ohio.
Again we are not claiming our decisions were
right or wrong, we are merely saying they were
INDEPENDENTLY arrived at.
ND finally, if our curious celebrant has not yet
' Consulted the Office of the fnnnfr P.WL- nritr.
the above off our editorial chest, and feeling
somewhat relaxed and contrite as a result; we
s liu ow Proceed to saye him the trouble to-wit:
The undersigned is registered not as a Demo
crat or a Republican but as a member of the "In
dependent" party and has been for quite a few
years. R.W.R.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's take a look today at
Marcos Perez Jiminez.
Only a few weeks ago, he
was sitting tight as the Big
Boss of Venezuela. Caracas,
his capital city, was easily the
most fabulous city of South
America perhaps every
thing considered, the most
fabulous city of all the Amer
icas. Tourists gazed .upon it
in utter amazement at the
things that had been done in
the space of a few short years
to make it beautiful and ef
ficient and astounding.
During the past decade or
so the industrial growth of
Venezuela has been one of the
wonders of the world. The
oil, the iron ore, the precious
minerals, the raw resources
of almost every kind with
which nature so liberally en
dowed Venezuela but which
had been allowed to lie dor
ment for centuries, had been
developed to an astonishing
extent. Money has practical
ly flowed along the streets of
Caracas and down the roads
and highways of Venezuela as
a whole.
The bulk of this has come
about under the rule of Dic
tator Jiminez.
CO-
This nuestion arises:
How come that he has been
deposed and that the people
ticket of any party
any given time stood for,
and what it believed in.
-
the selection on the ha sis
to be best for the com
nation at the time, en
mean bv an "indenend-
the Mail Tribune so
present management.
never been committed
. . 1 1 i 1 TTT 1 1
at the Chicago conven-
of Venezuela are celebrating
his downfall in what the dis
patches describe as "a wild
orgy of joy?"
'THE answer is to be found
in this sentence from one
of the dispatches describing
his flight to the Dominican
Republic as a political refu
gee: "He left behind him a na
tion joyful over its first REAL
TASTE OF FREEDOM in
years and determined to take
revenge against the SECRET
POLICE which had held the
people in the throes of terror
under the ousted dictator."
AT ANY rate
Jiminez is OUT and the
people are happy.
T HOPE Nikita Khrushchev
reads the story, and pond
ers over it as I am sure he
will.
Khrushchev is a despot.
His secret police rule Rus
sia. And Khrushchev claims that
he is doing GREAT THINGS
for Russia and the Russians.
He has been boasting loudly
of the SCIENTIFIC progress
Russia has been making under
Communist rule.
B
UT
Russia is a despotism.
! vi GONNA TEACH RUT HOW
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
A BAD BLUNDER
By his Minneapolis speech
on' Monday, Gov. Sherman
Adams has made more dif
ficult the del
icate .situation
in the Presi
dent's office.
The situation
is delicate be
cause the di
minis hed
strength of the
President has
Is '1
waiter Lippmann made neces
sary an unus
ual, almost certainly an un
precedented, delegation ' of
powers to the White House
staff of which Gov. Adams is
the chief. The flat contradic
tion between the Adams
speech and the President's
own speech that same even
ing raises the question of
how faithfully the President's
will is being carried out by
those to whom his powers
are delegated. For on an is
sue of national importance
Gov. Adams was in open con
tradiction with the letter and
the spirit of the President's
speech.
If that can happen publicly,
what goes on in the privacy
of the President's office? This
is a fair question, and it is. a
necessary one. For the gov
ernment, of the United States
is today being carried on un
der a, special dispensation
which can work only if there
is a general and complete con
fidence in it. There must be
confidence that the officials
who exercise the President's
powers are men wno Know
him so well that they can act
as he would act if he had
the time and the energy to
do the whole work of his of
fice. Were this complete confi
dence seriously broken, there
would be a demoralizing po
litical uproar about who ex
ercises power and who can be
hell accountable.
rriHE outward evidence of
A the country's confidence
has been that Congress, the
press, and the public have
accepted the theory that Gov.
Adams and his assistants are
confidential agents of the
President's who cannot be
questioned by committees of
Congress or in press confe
rences. This immunity rests
on the principle that their re
lations with the President are
confidential, and that their
acts are to be treated as be
ing his acts. For these acts,
the President is accountable
to the people. But his agents
are accountable only to him.
ThL is a complex and sub
tle theory which we have de
veloped to meet an unusually
difficult situation. It is not
easy to keep believeing it in
the face of the known evi
dence about the President's
absences from the White
House, and the many evi
dences that he is not always
well informed. Yet we have
all wanted to believe in the
theory since, given the facts
about our constitutional sys
tem, we have no better choice
thar to believe it.
But the country will not
go on believeing it if it turns
out that the confidential ag
ents o the President are play
ing politics on their own, and
contrary to the President's
own political beliefs. The
moral of it is that in the po
sition he occupies, and with
the immunity which he claims,
Gov. Adams should not make
speeches at all, should nour
ish no political ambitions of
his own, and should acquire,
or at least simulate, what
used to be called a passion
for anonymity.
N THE substance of the
0
question, which is wheth
It is ruled by the . secret
police.
Its people live in terror.
What has happened with
such startling swiftness in
Venezuela CAN happen in
Russia.
TO PLAY FETCH '
er defense is a legitimate
party question, the answer, I
believe, is that here honesty
will prove to be best policy.
Thu-, it is the duty of the
Democrats in Congress to ex
amine the Administration's
defense proposals in the light
of the best intelligence, avail
able and of the testimony of
experts. It is not only their
right but their duty to de
cide whether the Administra
tion's program is adequate
and how it could be improved.
The Democrats will be ex
pected to come forward with
their owr program of amend
ments which Congress can
then debate.
It is when we come to the
post-mortems for our having
fallen behind in the race of
armaments that an ugly par
tisanship will show itself. The
country will do weU to be
very skeptical and very suspi
cious of all attempts to fix
the blame on one party or the
other. There have been too
many Democrats and Repub
licans involved in the com
plicated history of the mis
siles and other strategic wea
pons to justify any verdict
that one or the other party
is guilty.
If there is to be an inquest
and there is much to be said
for having one, it should not
be made by a Congressional
committee, composed of men
among whom many must run
for re-election in the fall. The
inquest should be conducted
in a judicial ppirit of some
kind of panel or commission
which inspires general con
fidence and is composed of
men who personally have
nothing to gain and nothing
to lose by the outcome of
the elections.
(Copyright 1958 New York
York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Communications
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bear the name and addresa of
the writer although under cer
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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.
Junk Up to the Citixens
To the Editor: The Feb.' 4
issue of Look magazine force
fully reminds me of our local
conditions. We. are a rapidly
expanding city; we can de
velop into a clean, attractive
city, or we can be a conglom
eration of slums, junk yards
and general- disorganization.
It is up to the citizens of
this area to see that Medford
is developed properly. You
say that you elect the council
and other officials to do this
job for you. This may be so,
but sometimes personal inter
ests interfere with the proper
discharge of duty. Then, it is
up to you to register your
dissatisfaction.
I am referring to the li
censing of the Speedway
wrecking yard (a junk yard)
right in the middle of a resi
dential area. This was done
over the objection of over 200
residents.
This eyesore is clearly
visible to every tourist who
passes through our city to
visit Crater Lake Park. I say
visible; I mean, he cannot pos
sibly avoid seeing this mess.
Carl B. Ekholm,
2189 Corona ave.,
Medford
Tired of Kings
To the Editor: Why all this
fuss and fury about the
Queen of England and her
husband taking their son,
Prince Charles, out of school
because "the boys" wanted
to take his picture and write
a piece about him?
Any American boy whose
father might happen to be a
mechanic, a farmer or a court
stenographer, would take pub
licity in his stride, get into
T.V., go on to school and pos
sibly earn a Ford scholarship.
X
PTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The women's editor the
other day obtained (begged?
borrowed? stole?) two little
Japanese-made birds, created
out of paper. They're engag
ing little things, and she
hung each to a different light
pull string in the office.
Friday afternoon the author
of the M.T.'s new column,
"Diary of a Bird Watcher,"
visited the office. He was ask
ed if he could indentify the
birds.
"Easy." he replied. "One is
red, the other's yellow."
A couple of Medford
police officer spent an in
structive half-hour the other
day attempting io explain
to the records officer (fe
male) the difference be
tween fender skirts (for a
car) and under skirts (for a
woman).
The minutes of the city
council of Medford ordinarily
are prepared in the stiff, for
mal style common to govern
mental documents, and dupli
cated in ordinary black and
white mimeographed style.
Complaints, probably not too
serious, have been heard that
they ought to be jazzed up a
little.
Well, the young lady who
officiates at the duplicating
Editorial
Comment
STILL MINING TIMBER!
The Al Serena mining pat
ents get back into the news
with report that the patentees
have "mined" nearly .three
million board feet of timber,
but no minerals from their
Haims. That doesn't disprove
the presence of minerals, but
it does show lack of mining
values under present condi
tions. Regardless of its merits
under the law that decision
of Solicitor Clarence Davis to
grant the patents was a rock
around the necks of Republi
can candidates in 1954. Ore
gon Statesman (Salem).
Why not let the pulp publica
tions have the story with the
pictures and make all the
money they can? Their clien
tele would soon be tired of
hearing about it and demand
something newer and more up
to date.
For my part I've been very
tired of hearing about kings,
queens, princes and princesses
ever since I began to listen
with avidity to tales about
my highly respected, hard
working and patriotic ances
tors who not only attended,
but staged and passed a cred
itable examination at the Bos
ton Tea party. Poor little
Prince, full school age and
has not learned to take it.
H. Gore,
Jacksonville
The Lust for Power
To the Editor: Much has
been said about peace and
liberty in the world since the
Sputnik aroused the People
and Nations to the fact it
could be lost if we are not
willing and ready to fight for
it. Whether we are religiously
inclined or not we must ad
mit there are two opposing
forces in the Earth of good
and evil. Ever since the War
in Heaven and later the time
of Adam and Eve in the Gar
den of Eden.
Fundamentally on the one
hand there is free agency, lib
erty, freedom and love for
one another given to us by
a supreme intelligence we caU
God who has Created ' this
Earth and given it the laws
it so literally obeys and ful
fills from year to year. And
on the other hand there is
hate, envy, strife, force and
lust for power and dominion
over one another by the pow
er of the adversary. We are
also born with more or less
intelligence to choose between
these opposing forces as long
as lustful men rebel against
the gospel of PSace and of
fend against their fellow men
there will be wars. Lasting
Peace will cover the Earth
only after men and their lead
ers cease to lust for power
and dominion over one an
other. If God had willed it so
there would not have been
the Tree of Knowledge of
good and evil in the Garden
of Eden. And Adam and Eve
would still be there alone.
At any rate we needed to
come in contact with Sin and
evil and incidentally wars.
By the same tokens we will
enjoy Peace and love for one
another in the Millennium.
Then the Lion and the Lamb
will lie down together and
we will not build and another
inhabit nor plant and another
eat. Then they shall not hurt
nor destroy because the Earth
shall be full of Knowledge
as the waters cover the deep.
Isiah 65:19
John F. Peterson,
1113 South Oakdale ave.,
i Medford
machine in the city hall took
a copy of the Jan. 16 min
utes and, with the aid of some
selected illustrations clipped
from here and there, proceed
ed to do so.
For instance, the item
headed "Beverage license,"
was illustrated with a pic
ture of a glass of something
stronger than water on one
side, and with a slightly be
fuddled man on the other.
The item, "Bills Allowed,"
had pictures of a pelican
(big bill), woodpecker (tough
bill), stork (old biU) and baby
chick (little bill).
Minutes of the previous
meeting were enlivened with
a picture of a wrist watch,
and there were others appro
priate to the subject matter.
The one we liked best was of
a man (presumably a staid
city councilman) taking care
ful aim with a rubber band
and spitwad, very possibly at
the mayor.
Maybe this practice (il
lustrating the minutes, that
Is) should be adopted official
ly. As political gossip begins
to burble throughout the
county, our courthouse re
porter tells us that all this
fuss about the county judge
ship may have something
to it. That office is a stepping-stone
to the presidency,
he claims, and proves it by
reminding that a Jackson
County Judge once made
it. Jackson County,. Mis
souri, of course.
A woman we know was
worried recently about a small
mole which had developed on
her neck. It had torn and
bled, so she went to see a doc
tor. He put a Band-Aid on it,
and told her to come back in
a few days.
This she did. The doctor's
nurse took off the Band-Aid,
swabbed off the remaining
adhesive tape stickum with
alcohol, and neat as can be
off came the mole.
Last Tuesday night one
of our staff members drove
downtown from his home on
the east side to get a pack
age of cigarettes. On one
of the principal east side
streets he noted a house
which still had its Christ
mas decorations up in front.
They were all lighted up.
loo. he said.
Two county officials are
beginning to think they must
resemble policemen.
On a recent trip through an
other county, they stopped for
a bite to eat, and spotted a
gambling device. Curious, they
inquired about if of the mana
ger, who, white-faced . and
trembling, assured them they
didn't know it was illegal,
honest he didn't.
On another occasion they
entered a restaurant in an
other county, and immediate
ly the owner dashed in and
ordered the bartender to turn
off an electric gambling de
vice. Later, when it was dis
covered they were not, after
all, police officers, the device
was turned on again, and one
of them proceeded to win
enough money to pay for his
dinner.
Attorneys, by and large,
are pillars of the commun
ity, salt of the earth, and
trusted leaders of men.
Why, then, a curious staff
member asks, should one of
the better-known firms have
to be equipped with
"swear box?"
A Salem columnist was
handed a sheet of paper the
other day, on which were list
ed what the second child born
to a family can expect in com
parison to the treatment ac
corded the first child.
Some of them follow:
Child No. 1: Buy a beauti
ful layette.
Child No. 2: Make a trip
to the attic .
No. 1: Weigh every day.
No. 2: Feel leg occasional
ly.
No.
1: Sneezes: Call the doc-
tor.
No. 2: Gets pneumonia:
Give aspirin.
No. 1: Everything steril
ized. No. 2: Warned to stop chew
ing on the dog's bone.
No. 1: "He's 9 months and
11 days old."
No. 2: "I think he was born
in August."
No. 1: "Now don't let him
out of your sight."
No. 2: "He'll come home
when he's hungry."
Our farm editor, devoted
to the produce of Jackson
county, complains that
among the refreshments
served at a recent meeting
of the Fruit Growers League
there wasn't a pear in sight.
The reason some people get
lost in thought is becauss
they're in unfamiliar territory.