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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1948 (Tuesday)
Patrons of Gold Hill school
district given second oppor
tunity to approve the school s
1943-49 budget at an election
Thursday.
The debate between Brig.
Gen. Herbert C. Holdridge, re
tired, Washington, D.C., and
Otto Ewaldsen, Medford, re
sulted in a slightly negative
shift in attitude toward Uni
versal Military Training.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27, 1938 (Thursday)
W. W. Allen of Medford an
nounces he will be a candidate
for county commissioner on
the Republican ticket.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
first juveniles of the season
with air guns have appeared.
Anything that jumps and
squeals when hit is a suitable
target."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1928 (Friday)
From local and personal col
umn: "Central Point will hold
its first regular bi-monthly
baby clinic Feb. 14, and other
clinics will be given every two
weeks."
The East Side Improvement
club formed recently by a
group of prominent residents
in that section, holds its first
meeting.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28, 1918 (Monday)
Evangelistic meetings at the
M. E. Church, South, closed
after a two-weeks' campaign
conducted by the Rev. and
Mrs. Jerry Jeter.
From local and personal:
"Assistant Superintendent H.
E. Momyer of Crater Lake Na
tional park, left for camp at
headquarters there this morn
ing, where he expects to re
main for the rest of the sea
son."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; rive or
six is good.
1. Is Paul-Henri Spaak a
citizen of Belgium, Holland,
or Germany?
2. Bible: What is the com
mon name for the five books
of the law?
3. Who wrote the play
"Mourning Becomes Electra"?
4. What sport has been
called "the sport of Kings"?
5. What is a gendarmerie?
6. What tragic event oc
cured in Ford's Theater,
Washington, D.C., April 1865?
7. From what physical in
firmity did the composer Lud
wig Beethoven suffer?
8. The Po valley is in which
European country?
9. Have there ever been
children like "Tarzan," who
were wild?
10. What is the first line
of the last stanza of the "Star
Spangled Banner"?
Answers: 1. Belgium; 2.
Pentateuch; 3. Eugene O'Neill;
4. Horse racing; 5. An armed
police force; 6. The assassina
tion of Abraham Lincoln; 7.
He became deaf; 8. Italy; .9.
Yes, but only a few with ape
like actions; 10. "Oh thus be
it ever when freemen shall
stand."
A Matter of Caring
More words have probably been written in
the nation's daily press about traffic accidents
and traffic safety than on any other subject,
with the possible exception of politics.
This is natural enough, for it is a matter vital
to everyone. We all drive, or ride in, automobiles,
and we are concerned with safety on the high
waysalthough most of us are convinced .all the
words written are for the "other guy," not us.
On the editorial desk at the moment are sev
eral editorials and columns and sheets of sta
tistics, all of which have arrived within the past
few days. All deal with one phase or another
of traffic safety.
()NE of them points out that during 1957, 464
Oregonians died in traffic accidents, or more
than one each day.
Up to Jan. 22, it added, 22 Oregonians had
died in 1958 traffic accidents one per day.
Another is a summary of traffic accident sta
tistics from 1936 through 1956. Study of the sum
mary is revealing.
For instance, 1956, despite having the largest
number of registered vehicles on record, and
the largest number of traffic injuries, had the
lowest RATE of traffic
21 years.
The rate of death was highest in 1936, when
14.3 persons were killed for each 100 million
miles traveled. The rate
a low point of 9.2 m the war year of 1943. It
climbed to a secondary high of 11.8 in 1945, and
then started a decline until 1956, when it reached
its present low point of
IN OTHER words, while the total NUMBER of
accidents are high, it
to drive because the accident RATE has declined
The inescapable conclusion is that highways
ARE safer than they used to be. There are more
people and more automobiles than there used to
be, but the rate of deaths has declined, and the
number of deaths has
Even with this conclusion, there is no cause
for either jubilation or
tnat an average or. more
been killed each year
the past 10 years is a shocking one.
1HAT to do about it?
We believe there
snould be done.
One is increased attention to traffic engineer
ing, to make the highways physically safer for
drivers than before. This is being pressed as rapid
ly as possible by state and
Another is continued,
enforcement, for statistics reveal that more than
two-thirds of fatal accidents are caused by drivers
who are violating traffic laws.
THHE most important,
is the education,
individual driver. For his attitude is the biggest
single factor in traffic safety.
Some traffic experts believe that speed is
the chief factor- in traffic accidents and deaths ;
others believe that alcoholic beverages are a big
factor; still others feel that law violations are
the most important.
It will be noted that all of these boil down
to one thing: Attitude.
If a driver is responsible, if he CARES about
what he is doing, and realizes that he is operat
ing a potential death-weapon, then his attitude
is not going to permit him to do these things.
THERE is no apparent corelation between driv
ing skill and avoidance of accidents. Young
drivers, who account for more than their share
of automobile accidents, are, by and large, more
skilled drivers than their elders.
And one columnist who has thought about
it, says that while women 'are lousy drivers
hesitant, insecure, easily confused they have
a consistently safer record, 2y2 times safer, than
men. This, he declares, is because they care what
happens to themselves and their families and
others on the road.
We approve of driver training in the high
schools (provided emphasis is placed there on
attitude as well as skill) ; we approve of safer
highway engineering; we approve of strict law
enforcement.
But they'll all come to naught unless the indi
vidual driver can be made to CARE about what
he's doing. Perhaps the statistics cited above in
dicate progress is being made. E.A.
End of Another Rumor
In the past 10 years, we have heard on at
least half a dozen occasions the "rumor" that
Meier and Frank company had purchased a lot
in town for a branch store; or "plans" to do so;
or "is thinking about" doing so and so on.
We heard the same rumor a few days ago.
For the umpteenth time we tried to run it down.
Failing, we wrote Aaron Frank, president of the
company. He telephoned us the next day to say
"Nothing to it. We have no such plans."
"If we ever do decide to move to Medford,
youUl know about it," he said.
End of rumor, for the time being, anyway.
E.A.
Monday, January 27, 19S8
deaths of any of those
dipped then, and reached
5.6 deaths.
steadily has become safer
held fairly constant.
complacency. The fact
than 400 persons have
on Oregon highways for
are several things that
local traffic engineers
and stepped-up, traffic
I
and the hardest to get at,
or indoctrination of the
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Matter of Fact bv
SNUBBING NIKITA
Paris Behind the moon
struck public agitation about
negotiating with the Soviets,
there lurks a persistent and
quite serious question. Is this
one of the last
chance mom
ents, when
history will
take a brisk
new t u r n-
ing if a chance
is not briskly
seized?
All inform
ed W e s t e rn
Joseph Alsop
analysts, in
cluding the British and West
ern European political lead
ers who pretend to love the
idea, are privately convinced
that there is no chance to
achieve anything by foreign
ministers' conferences, dis
armament commissions, sum
mit meetings, and the like. As
has been suggested in this
space already, the Soviet
drive for this kind of East-
West negotiations in the de
bating society style, is solely
a drive to make trouble be
tween the Western allies.
The serious Western Eur
opean and British analysts of
Soviet behavior are also pret
ty well agreed upon another
point, however. On repeated
occasions, culminating in a
dramatic New Year's toast at
the Kremlin receiption, Nik-
ita Khrushchev himself has
indicated that he wants talks-
in-a-corner between the Sov
iets and Americans. These in
vitations offer the real chance,
if there is any.
THEY presage no debating
society. They are invita
tions to the kind of talks the
Soviets invariably seek when
they want to get down to bus
iness. The mostly highly qual
ified Western Analysts are
therefore agreed that the Sov
iets probably really do want
to get down to business with
the United States at this time
Although there is wide di
versity of view about the pos
sible subjects they wish to get
down to business about.
Yet 'the Khrushchev invita
tions have so far met with
nothing better than a chilly
snub, unless appearances are
most misleading.
Maybe some form of Am
erican response to nnrusn
chev has been very secret
ly agreed upon at the very
highest level, between Presi
dent Eisenhower, Prime Min
ister Macmillan and French
Premier Gaillard. But this
seems highly unlikely. Mean
while, unless a great many
normally truthful people in
key positions are now lying,
the right response to . the
Khrushchev -invitations has
not even been seriously dis
cussed between the American
State Department and the
British and French Foreign
Offices.
It would be insanely dan
gerous for the Americans to
respond to Khrushchev with
out quietly keeping the other
major Western allies in the
picture, as a minimum pre
caution. Thus one must de
duce that Khrushchev's invi
tations have been virtually ig
nored, despite their extreme
importance.
THERE are many short-term
practical reasons for snub
bing Khrushchev in this man
ner. For one thing, the other
Western allies do not trust
John Foster Dulles to act as
the West's sole spokesman in
talks with' the Soviets; and
even the Secretary of State
appears to know that he is
crippled by this distrust. For
another thing, although sen
timent for an exclusive dia
logue between the Soviet and
American giants is growing
among the specialists in the
British and French Foreign
offices, such a dialogue would
surely cause an explosion of
wounded national vanities.
All the same, it is also nec
essary to consider the highly
practical consequences that
may flow from snubbing Nik-
ita Khrushchev at this partic-,
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Joseph Alsop
ular juncture in the world's
affairs. On the other hand, the
chance that he has offered is
not something that we can af
ford to reject from sheer im-
mobilism. For instance, the
French, British, and Ameri
can embassies in Moscow are
now unanimous that the Sov
iets would really like to find
some way to end the arms
race, if only for economic rea
sons. It would at least be in
teresting to test the trujh of
this opinion.
On the other hand, Khru
shchev is a singularly human
statesman, with a high glow
of self confidence, success,
and even arrogance. Snubbing
a man of this kind in this
kind of mood . is extremely
likely to produce explosive
results. One can imagine
Khrushchev saying, more than
a little huffily, "Well,
wanted to talk serious busin
ess with the Americans, but
it seems they don't want to
talk business with me.
"So I guess there's nothing
left to do but SHOW them.'
THAT is why there is much
pvnprt annrphpnsion ahrait
the end of the present strange
period of negotiating about
negotiations. One very ugly
possibility is a series of new
Soviet moves in the Middle
East, perhaps buttressed by
the implied threat to use the
Red Army's powerful force
of airborne troops. Increased
pressure on Berlin is another
possibility. There are many
more possibilities of the same
sort.
These Soviet forward
moves are likely to be con
siderably delayed, if only be
cause the present period of in
ternational gas attacks seems
likely to continue for a while.
But such forward moves are
grimly real possibilities all
the same. And the apparent
decision to snub Nikita Khru
shchev is all the more ques
tionable, because the Western
Allies have not even begun
to try to agree among them
selves about the basic and
critical problem. This is the
problem of meeting new and
dangerous Soviet local action,
in the new era of immensely
increased Soviet nuclear strik
ing power.
(C) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
U.S. SIGNS FAIR PACT
Warsaw (IP) The United
States and Poland have sign
ed a 10-year agreement pro
viding for American partici
pation in the annual Interna
tional Poznan Fair, it was re
ported today. The newspaper
Life of Warsaw" reported
that the United States will
build a permanent pavilion
on the fairgrounds to house
its exhibit.
The poet Chaucer called the
daisy "ee of the daie." In Ben
Jonson's time the flower was
called "Day's Eye" and later
became known as "daisy."
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
LEO GUILD tells about a Hollywood publicity man who
concocted a stunt whereby a client would land a helicopter
on the post office and mail a letter. "Nothing doing," said the
client "It's safe as sitting
In an armchair. It's colos
sal!" declared the agent
'Then you do it first" said
the client
The publicist did It. The
client, waiting on the post
office roof, said, "You win,"
climbed into the helicopter
to fly off and repeat the
stunt for the photographers.
The publicist then fainted
dead away.
The lady fair observed with
tome contempt that her knight
errant was shaking In his armor as the flame-belching dragon
waddled closer and closer. Finally the lady fair burst out "Don't
Just stand there, you goof! Slay something!"
Erroll Flynn recalls a bachelor dinner he attended. The bride
groom-to-be had such a wonderful time he called off the wedding.
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A Look Into The Future
io the Editor: I am still
kicking around out here, and
still egotistical enough to
think that from where I sit, I
can look into the future in a
small way, regarding politics
Referring to your recent edi
torial" regarding Sec. Hatfield,
I would say that to the Repub
lican big shots enemy No.
is Morse, No. 2, Neuberger,
and No. 3, Gov. Holmes.
Mr. Hatfield is young
vigorous, very good looking.
personable, and no one can
question his integrity or ef
ficiency. I think he has a
slight edge over Mr. Unander
as a vote-getter. If he can de
feat Gov. Holmes he will later
be pitted against Neuberger.
or Morse, and Unander will
be moved up to tackle one of
the less important offices
whichever it might be. It all
depends on how the cat jumps,
but you can bet your bottom
dollar, the big shots are
shuffling their cards and look
ing hard at the future.
I still enjoy your editorials
If anything, they are getting
better. More power to you,
John S. Byrne
Jacksonville
P.S. I don't know where
Mr. Porter fits into the pic
ture.
Beware the Serpents
To the Editor: All adults
have heard of the word-of-
mouth grapevine. The consen
sus of the business world is,
it's invaluable advertsing gra
tis. How we could all applaud
the old vine if it had confined
its work to good advertising
Theoretically, let's put Mr.
Vine where he belongs in his
garden. We shall have to call
it his garden of Eden, because
ordinary gardens do not har
bor serpents, they grow vege
tables and flowers, and have
bees, birds and butterflies as
visitors.
Not so with Mr. Word-of-
Mouth Grapevine. His garden
accommodates pairs of ser
pents and their posterity,
namely, Envy and Jealousy,
Gossip and Slander, Vanity
and Pride, each pair aiming
guided missiles to obliterate
peace of mind.
However the most mali
cious of all is slander. He
walks with head down and
rightfully should,, being the
most degraded serpent of the
entire family. His constant
fear in that the voice of con
science might look him in the
eye, and say, "I saw you stick
your vulturous claws into
someone's good name and
tear it to shreds, all because
envy and jealousy prompted
you to do it. As a punishment
peace of mind will avoid you
and remorse will overtake
you and fill your mattress
with thistles."
Let us all hope that the fu
ture grapevine of words has
no resemblance to the diabol
ical one that started away
back in the real garden of
Eden, and is still active.
Emma Lou Carpenter
811 Sherman st.
Medford
Which Is What?
To the Editor: Which one
has the Toni? Which one is
true, which one false?
Is one candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Gov
ernor of Oregon a rock ribbed
conservative and the other a
young, energetic flaming
liberal? Methinks .that the so-
called liberal candidate has
lost his right to be considered
a progressive when the dar
ling of the private power com
panies, ex-Governor Elmo
Smith, was appointed his
campaign manager.
David Epps, Chairman
Democratic Party of
Oregon
1201 Loyalty Bldg.
Portland, 4.
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Fire Prevention Efforts
To the Editor: I would like
to take this opportunity to
thank you and your staff for
the excellent cooperation you
gave us during 1957.
The results of fire preven
tion work are a bit difficult
to measure, but we do know
that without the help of the
press, we would find it impos
sible to carry on such pro
grams with any degree of suc
cess. We also know that fire
losses are much lower due to
fire prevention programs.
This, of course, means many
dollars to the local economy.
We intend to intensify our
prevention program for 1958
as man caused fires are still
too prevalent. We, of course,
plan to request your help
again in 1958 to carry out this
program. .-
Curtis Nesheim
District Warden .
State Department
of Forestry
Medford
A Postal Hornets Nest
To the Editor: I heard a
rumor that our mail carrier
here on Route "1 in Central
Point was being moved to
Medford, because one of the
carriers there is trying to come
here on a seniority basis. I
asked the postal supervisor
about this, and he tells me
that is what is happening.
Now we were promised and
given a guarantee that this
would not happen here when
we were made a branch of
Medford. The postmaster, Mr.
George Evans of Central
Point, was promised by the
postal department that the
personnel of this office would
not be changed by the con
solidation on a seniority basis,
including the rural routes.
The inspector in charge had
the change set up to take
place, but delays of some sort
postponed the route changes
until in February. Now, ap
parently, a Mr. Crocker has
decided to disregard the de
partment's r e c o mmendation
and wants to come to Central
Point. I can assure him he is
due for a very frigid recep
tion here, with all the people
I have talked to.
I am very well pleased
with the service our carrier,
Mr. Schwab, has given us. He
has purchased a new home
four blocks from our post of
fice. His children go to school
here and his wife is a teacher
here in the elementary school
I have talked to a lot of our
citizens here on Route 1 and
in Central Point, and they are
hoping this can be straighten
ed out soon. This carrier from
Medford surely doesn't realize
the hornets nest he is stirring
up here on Route 1 and in
town.
Surely honesty of purpose
and integrity are not just
words to some men. I hope
this carrier will think about
this DroDOsition and the
ethics involved and the prom
ises made to us here at Cen
tral Point.
Harry, E. Leuty
Rural Route No. 1
Central Point.
The Rogue Valley in 1883
To the Editor: Probably no
other occasion drew so much
attention and interest here as
the first passenger train from
Portland. When it pulled into
the Rogue valley and stopped
at Ashland in the fall of 1883
a crowd of people was wait
ing at the depot to welcome
the train's arrival. Regular
passenger train service began
at that time.
Northbound trains to Port
land left Ashland at 9 p.m.
daily, southbound trains to
Ashland arrived at 10 ajn.
daily.
Heavy rainfall and contin
uous bad weather made rail
roading slow for the balance
of the winter.
In 1884 people of the val
ley really got busy, incoming
trains were loaded with peo
ple coming to investigate our
valley. They were shown
around an advised that this
country was the best in the
Pacific Northwest. Quite a lot
of people settled here, buying
land, business properties and
homes, and were satisfied.
Times were good.
The usual Klamath county
cattlemen came to the valley
for winter supplies of pota
toes, apples, bacon, hams, lard
and flour. Farmers made
money, the cattlemen were
pleased.
The Barnum and Bailey
three ring circus arrived at
Ashland and showed to more
than 10,000 people.
An Iowa Editors' Excursion
More Comfort Wearing
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loose plate discomfort. PASTEETH.
xa uupiuvra powaer, spnniaed on
upper and lower plates holds them
armer so tnat tney teel more com
fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty
taste or feeling. Its alkaline (non
acid ) . Does not sour. Checks "plate
odor" (denture breath). Get PAS
TEETH today at any drug counter.
Editorial Comment
TWO AREAS SEE
THE LIGHT
The Rogue valley and Santa
Barbara county, California,
have had several things in
common. For one thing both
are popular with retired per
sons. Also, both have highly
vocal groups which, in the
past, have desired to main
tain the setatus quo. They
liked things just as they were,
and were opposed to change.
Much of the Rogue valley
opposition to Plan A, we have
been told, came from mem
bers of such a group. They
did not want dams on the
Rogue or its tributaries. They
were not concerned about
flood control or additional
reclamation. They did not
want additional industries,
with smokestacks and fumes
contaminating the pure Ore
gon air.
Plan A today, of course, is
ancient history. Now many
persons who opposed it so
strongly have come to regret
their action. A major flood
disclosed the absolute neces
sity for upstream storage of
winter run-off, to hold the
Rogue within its banks. A
slump in the lumber industry
has shown that the valley
must have greater diversifica
tion if it is to continue the
growth and prosperity that
featured the past decade.
Santa Barbara, both city
and county, for many years
had a comparable condition.
A great many residents of
that area were perfectly hap
py with things as they were.
The city of Santa Barbara, in
fact, actually opposed indus
trial development. That con
dition prevailed until upstart
Ventura, a few miles south
of Santa Barbara, started to
make rather sensational pro
gress. There is no use "crying
over spilled milk," but the
Rogue valley also would be
enjoying high prosperity and
"growing lustily," had Plan
A been approved in 1948. The
necessary dams by now would
have been completed, along
with their power plants. The
reclamation projects would
be in operation, with thous
ands of acres of additional
land under irrigation. The
danger of disastrous Rogue
river floods would be ended
permanently.
As it is we now are starting
all over again; this time with
general acknowledgment that
the Rogue valley made a
grievous mistake in 1948. This
fall U.S. Army Engineers win
come up with their flood con
trol report. It then will be in
romorated into the Porter
bill, along with some reclama
tion projects salvaged from
the original plan.
This time, however, South
ern Oregon will have to com
pete with vast Congressional
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train arrived and spent a day
in Ashland. A fine breakfast
awaited their arrival. They
were a fine lot of folks and
appreciated our hospitality.
Mr. Robert Ingersoll came
and lectured one night. He
said little concerning the
Bible. He came for money
and got it.
A comedy company, a trav
eling show, arrived and
played Uncle Tom's Cabin, a
slave story written by Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
I really liked the road
shows and old time songs.
Frank S. Brandon
211 North Ivy st.
Medford
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WKen befriended,
remember it ; when you
befriend, forget it.
PERL
Funeral Home
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Phone SP 2-6675
appropriations for space age
defense projects, and a gen
eral cutback in allocations for
domestic projects. Eventually,
if the urgency of defense
spending ever abates, the pro
ject so important to South
ern Oregon probably will get
Congressional approval.
How far in the future this
may be no one now can fore
tell. Opportunity knocked
once and was ignored. It may
take its own sweet time be
fore repeating. Grants Pass
Courier.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Business note:
Back in Rock Island, 111.,
there's a young merchant who
must have been reading Ralph
Waldo Emerson's dictum that
"if you write a better book, or
preach a better sermon, or
build a better mousetrap than
your neighbor, the world will
make a beaten path to your
door."
At anv rate, he started
breeding two-tailed worms for
nsn can on tne tneory tnat
thev are twice as eood because
they wiggle twice as much
ana tneretore should attract
twice as many fish.
HOW did it turn out?
in iw it t? r m wac
' w w , r kj
WRONG.
The worm merchant raised
$2,000 worth of the two-tail
ed worms (feeding them on
expensive chicken hash) but
the fishermen wouldn't buv.
His creditors locked him up
the other day.
THE moral?
own was a r
not a business consultant.
TN MEMPHIS, Tenn., the
A other day a ladv motorist
found a parking place and
DacKea into it, feeling smug
and happy. She searched in
her purse, found a nickel and
dropped it in the slot.
THE METER DIAL DIDN'T
BUDGE. The lady was FUR
IOUS even as you and I in
similar circumstances. So she
called thhe police station. The
cop on the desk referred her
to the police commissioner.
She made it so hot for the
police commissioner that he
put a nickel in an envelope
and rushed it to her by a spec
ial messenger.
All it cost was 20 cents for
the two phone calls.
lTODERN marital note:
A German girl who can't
understand or speak English
is to be married next month
to an American GI who can't
understand or speak a word
of German.
If they have the wisdom to
leave the situation as is, they
face a long and happy mar
ried life, with no quarrels.
IN CONCLUSION:
James Hoffa takes over
as Teamsters union president
following a compromise court
decision in the legal battle
over whether his election last
fall had been rigged.
The compromise provides a
three-man committee to watch
over Hoffa in his dealings
with the union. One member
is a representative of the 13
rank and file teamsters who
sued to keep Hoffa out of of
fice. The other is a pro-Hoffa
man. The third member of the
committee will be the chair
man who is to be named by
the other two.
HPHE decision, presumably,
instructs the committee
that Hoffa didn't do anything
he hadn't o u g h t a, but
WATCH HIM to see that he
doesn't do it again.
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