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Flight 'o Time
Bedford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1948 (Tuesday)
E. H. Mann, Medford truck
body builder for almost 20
years, announced yesterday
he will file on the Republi
can ticket as a candidate for
state representative.
Poultryman E. A. Swim of
Central Point thinks that his
white leghorn hens haven't
heard that the price of eggs
has gone down for they are
turning out super-colossal
eggs.-
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3. 1938 (Thursday)
Dr. Francis E. Townsend of
Long Beach, Calif., leader of
the national Townsend move
ment will speak at the Med
ford High school auditorium
Feb. 8 at 8 p.m.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "It is
now claimed Pacific coast
labor disputes will be settled
in the courts instead of up
an alley with a baseball bat."
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1928 (Friday)
r From local and personal:
"It really doesn't matter much
whether the groundhog sees
his shadow or not in the
Rogue River valley for spring
eem3 to be here ahead of
fcirn.
, Although many men are
traveling the highways there
has been a notable decrease
in the number applying for
Red Cross assistance since the
-woodyards was started Dec.
12, according to the chapter
secretary here.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3. 1918 (Monday)
War thrift report cards are
being used in the schools of
Jfentral Point to aid the na
tion in its need.
--"Rodent control was one of
the subjects discussed by the
Agricultural council of Jack
ion countv Friday.
What's Your I.Q.7
Jine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Was Thomas Jefferson
the 2nd, 3rd or 5 th U. S. Presi
dent? . 2. Bible: Does the Apo
crypha contain 8, 11 or 14
books?
3. What did Croesus, An
drew Mellon, Midas and John
D. Rockefeller have in; com
kn? 4. Is a chantey a kind of
Jjpat, a ramshackle dwelling,
or a sailor's song?
".5. Which President used
"the expression "Martin, Bar
ton and Fish" in a political
campaign?
6. C. B. & Q. are the in
itials of the name of what
railroad?
7. Which countries are sep
arated by a body of water
known as the Skagerrak?
- 8. Which political parties
presented presidential candi
dates in the first U. S. elec
tion under the U. S. Constitu
tion? T.:. 9. Name the heroine of
Longfellow's poem, dealing
with Acadian deportations?
- 10. In which state is the
Erie Canal?
Answers: 1. 3rd; 2. Four
teen; 3. Great wealth; 4.
Sailor's song; 5. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt; 6. Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy;
7; Denmark and Norway; 8.
There were no political
parties then; 9. . Evangeline;
10. New York State. ------
The Plight of "Downtown "
Not long ago we had occasion (our arm was
t-isted) to visit, a large shopping center near
Buena Park, Calif., named Lakewood Village.
It included one large department store and
perhaps a dozen smaller shops men's and
women's apparel, groceries, specialty, hardware,
and so on and was located in the center of a
vast expanse of asphalt marked off for parking.
Through the center ran a wide paved mall,
which was broken up by large "islands," in which
were planted a variety of trees and shrubs. The
islands were equipped with benches for the foot
weary. A SIDE from the unavoidable acres of parking
space, the center was not unattractive. It was
the day before Christmas, and a busy throng
coursed back and forth along the mall, freely
crossing from one store to another in pursuit of
that "last-minute" gift.
The center was constructed to serve the huge
new subdivisions in which the Los Angeles com
plex is housing many of its daily influx of thou
sands of new residents.
It was constructed with foresight and thought
ful planning to serve the maximum number of
people with the greatest possible ease to the shop
per. About the only thing wrong on Dec. 24 at
least was that those acres of parking space
were inadequate to handle the many cars.
CHOPPING centers such as this are posing an
increasing threat to that original "shopping
center" known as "downtown." In some cities,
"downtown" has suffered severely from the new,
convenient centers, with ample parking spaces,
which have grown up to serve the increasingly
suburbanized population.
"Downtown," which usually was laid out in
the days of railroads and horse-and-buggies, has
a couple of strikes against it in these days of
growing traffic congestion. The worst is the lack
of parking space. But, also, the crowded streets
force pedestrians to go to a corner and wait for a
traffic signal before they can cross the street.
In addition, the noise, confusion and even
smell of automobile traffic do not furnish the
most restful and attractive environment for the
shopper.
SOME cities have given
orating downtown areas and burgeoning shopping
centers in the surrounding suburbs. 1
Notable experiments in city improvement
have been made in a number of communities.
Notable among them is New Haven, Conn., where
major changes are under way, with the assistance
of the federal government.
Much closer to home was the recent experi
ment in Springfield, Ore., during which a good
portion of that city's main street was blocked off
from traffic, and converted into a mall they
called it "shoppers' paradise" where outdoor
displays and freedom of movement for the pe
destrians were featured.
THE 10-day trial was, according to a majority
of the citizens polled in a follow-up evalua
tion, a considerable success. Shoppers liked it
better than the merchants, oddly enough, al
though more than 50 per cent of the merchants
in the immediate area said that their business
picked up during the trial period.
Strongest opposition, inevitably, came from
merchants in areas adjacent to the "paradise,"
whose business was hurt by the concentration on
main street.
But, as the Pendleton East Oregonian com
mented on thi project:
"Many central business districts are going to lose
their shirts to fringe area shopping centers if they
don't put some sound thinking, as Springfield did, into
what the" shopper wants, with a minimum of concern
for the businessman's personal comfort."
THE Springfield experiment was, of course, only
that. There is no plan to convert main street
into a permanent mall-type shopping center in
the middle of that bustling town of some 13,500.
But the Register:Guard in nearby Eugene,
which has watched the development closely,
pointed out:
"It almost certainly will lead to similar experi
ments in other cities, as urban American tries to meet
the ever-increasing congestion brought on by the auto
mobile." '
In Medford, there would be little point in
trying anything of the kind a"s long as the high
way inns through the middle of the city on Cen
tral and Riverside avenues. But the day is not far
off when the freeway will be completed through
town, relieving much of the congestion on those
two streets. Come that day and it might pay the
city and its merchants to think in terms of making
"downtown" a more attractive and convenient
place than it now is.
WfE AN WHILE, this is no time to sit on our
A hands, hoping wistfully that "something will
turn up" to alter the trend which is blighting
downtown areas from coast to coast.
More parking is the No. 1 need everywhere,
and the need will grow more acute not less so.
And it is blindness for the "average citizen"
to believe that it is none of his concern. He, too,
has a stake in the health of the downtown area
if for no other reason than that it pays a lion's
share of the taxes which, otherwise, Mr. Average
Citizen would have to pay. E.A.
Monday, February 3, 1958
considerable thought as
Matter of Fact Ph
NEW AGE'S QUESTION
Bonn, Germany "What
will the President of the
United States do, if he has to
W risk the de
struction of
New York,
Wash ington
and Chicago
in order to
protect Bonn
or London or
Paris?"
This is one
of the un-
. J
Joseph Alsop answered
questions of the post-Sputnik
era. The question did not have
to be asked when the West
ern Alliance originally took
shape. It was not a serious
question even five years ago,
when President Eisenhower
first took ofice.
But since, then, the great
former superiority of Ameri
can nuclear striking power
has been fatuously sacrificed
on the sacred altar of the
budget. New York, Washing
ton and Chicago are now be
ginning to be directly threat
ened. So this question is now
certain to affect the Western
Alliance's entire future de
velopment. The shape of things to
come is suggested by the
amazing phenomenon one
discovers here in Bonn. This
is the embryo scheme of the
German, French and Italian
Defense Ministers to carry
through a kind of military
merger of their three, coun
tries, thus creating what will
amount to a new major power
in Western Europe.
TT MAY-be denied. It is far
in the future and may be
blocked later on. But one
most significant step now be
ing considered is French pro
duction of nuclear weapons,
with German financing, for
German as well as, French
and Italian use. This step has
already been discussed in the
obscure but important Franco-Italo-German
Military-Technical
Committee formed by the
forward their embryo scheme.
A great many factors have
combined to produce this
startling result. But the big
gest single factor has been
the British decision to build
their own nuclear retaliatory
power at all costs. Because of
the immense investments de
manded, this British decision
has led on to an alliance
weakening neglect of British
commitments to NATO. This
has alarmed the Germans.
More directly, the British de
cision has caused the French
to say, "If there's going to be
a British H-bomb, there must
be a French H-bomb too."
This crucial British deci
sion was really made by form
er Defense Minister Antony
Head, a man with a combina
tion of naked courage and
high intellectual gifts that is
no longer fashionable in most
Western political circles.
THE complacent belief in
the American nuclear
monopoly was widely cherish
ed, most notably in Washing
ton long after it was an illu
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
1N THE GOOD OLD vaudeville days of 40 years ago, recalls
George Burns, a good joke was worth its weight in gold,
because an act could use it for months on end all the way
across the country. Comedi
ans really got angry, there
fore, when a story or rou
tine they had developed
painstakingly was lifted by
a rivaL
One night, in Jersey City,
George tried out a bit of
new material. He had his
wife, Gracie Allen, say,
"Something terrible hap
pened to my mother in Buf
falo." George's rejoinder
was, "I thought you told me
you were born in Cleveland."-
The audience loved
it, but a rival comedian, Jesse Block, came storming backstage
to holler, "I caught your act out front, and you hooked that
Cleveland gag from me."
"If you must know," retorted Burns haughtily, "I got that
gag straight out of Madison's Joke Manual."
Block answered weakly, "But I read it in the first edition!"
1 Q 1958. by Bennett Cert. ; Distributed by King Feturei Syndicate, r
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Alsop
sion. But Head, for one, did
not ignore the rapid growth
of Soviet nuclear striking
power. He looked forward to
the moment when New York,
Washington and Chicago
would also come under fire.
Hence he started the West's
first (and thus far the West's
only) top-level governmental
study of the gigantic " new
questions arising from the
changes in the nuclear
balance.
Throughout his study, Head
most emphatically opposed
any British neglect of NATO.
"Hang together or we'll all
hang separately," was Head's
rule; and he actually refused
to continue in office because
Prime Minister Macmillan
over-rulled him on the Brit
ish NATO contribution- But
Head's study also produced
the conclusion that Britain
must have her own nuclear
retaliatory power, solely in
order to spare any American
President from being asked
the hideous question about
New York, Washington and
Chicago versus London.
Head's moral and political
logic is really unanswerable,
if you bother to think about
it. The Soviet leaders, with
their monolithic empire, do"
not have the problem Head
sought to solve. But in an al
liance, each allied leader has
a divided responsibility, be
tween his own people and his
allies. This divided responsi
bility becomes a really un
bearable burden '-when a lead
er is asked to risk his own
people's almost total and im
mediate destruction in order
to protect an ally. And this in
fact is the present burden of
the American President.
AS NOTED, Head's solution
of the problem was limit
ed, purely retaliatory nuclear
power for Britain. As a con
sequence, the French, Ger
mans and Italians are now
dimly, half unconsciously
groping their way down the
same road. In sum, a new de
sign of the Western Alliance
seems to be taking shape.
The Alliance will still have
its NATO pool of balanced
forces. The United States will
possess much the greatest nu
clear striking power. But in
the new design, the other
major Western allies will
also be equipped with their
own nuclear deterrents. In
this one respect, they will be
defensively self-contained.
The objections to the new
design are very grave. Worst
of all, any further spread of
nuclear power will surely
end with the Syrians, Egyp
tians and the like brandish
ing their own tiny A-bombs.
But there is no practical al
ternative to the new design
except controlled nuclear dis
armament. And perhaps the
masters of the Kremlin, who
are rightly given the creeps
by the mere idea of the spread
of nuclear power, may now
be more willing to consider
serious nuclear disarmament
with real controls.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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Looking Backward
To the Editor: Reminiscing
on an anniversary should be
pardonable, especially when it
concerns Medford as well as
myself, don't you think?
Thank you, readers, while
writing this on Feb. 1st, an
other Feb. 1st looms up in my
mind as the most special
of my time. That was
35 years ago. On that a.m.
the S.P. train dumped me off
in Medford, to sink or swim.
I did neither, but did hang
on by a thread in the begin
ning for eight months, you
will understand if you read
on.
There was a conglomeration
of stores in what is now the
Medical building. The woman
in charge of the building,
which was called the Medford
Center then, had ready-to-wear
on the second floor. The
space available for millinery
was next to the ready-to-wear.
That was my start in Med
ford. On the first floor there
were two grocery stores, the
present Groceteria and the
20th Century. Heath's Drug
store had a branch there, Mrs.
Higdon had a cafe, and a Mr.
and Mrs. Sinclair of Portland
had a jeweiry department.
The millinery had to share
window display space with
the cafe. So the famous Gage,
Fisk and Monogram hats
(leaders in the millinery field
at that time) kept company
with pop bottles. Beauty al
ways attracts, and the south
ern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia women appreciated
them anyway.
That same fall (1923) Med
ford's late mayor, Mr. C. A
Meeker, moved his M.M. store
from Main St., and occupied
the present Woolworth space.
Since Mr. Meeker detested
handling millinery, our hat
shop got to move into the
N.W. corner of one of Med
ford's most popular stores (the
old M.M. store) and the milli
ners of the M.M. store could
have pie a la mode. It's amus
ing and a little bit terrifying
to think of it now.
To this day I can see the
faces of those doctors on the
second floor looking in on us.
Had there been psychiatrists
then, we'd all have had turns
on the couch, no doubt. As
for myself I'd gladly live it
all over again, and feel I was
in the groove where I be
longed. All business people
should die with their boots on
as the saying goes, and not
atrophy.
Emma Lou Carpenter,
811 Sherman st.,
Medford.
Wanted More Road Signs
To the Editor: Reading
B.P's comment on "writing
and inviting 'em," reminds me
of my own pet peeve. Viz:
Why "write 'em and invite
'em," when we don't see to
it that the tourists we do have
are Happy Travelers?
I'm referring to the lack of
adequate road signs provided
for tourists coming south into
Gold Hill, trying to follow
route 234 to Crater Lake.
I live 2V4 miles south of
Gold Hill, on Old 99. During
summer travel season, car
after car stops here to inquire
about route 234. Some days
as many as five or six cars
lose time and have to back
track. Can you imagine what
they think? Me ... I don't
have to imagine . . . I've heard
. . . first hand.
Seems to me a happy tour
ist is the best advertising we
could have working for us.
Sincerely hope that bring
ing this to the attention of
those concerned, it could be
corrected before another
travel season.
Yours for a prosperous
1058.
Ruth V. Lindley,
Rt. 1, Box 404,
Central Point.
How About Crater Broadcast?
To the Editor: This is a
letter I think should have
been written long before this.
It is only in fairness to Cra
ter, a little school that hap
pens to be located about four
miles north of Medford, that
has good athletic teams.
When reading the Medford
Mail Tribune, a newcomer to
the valley would hardly know
that there was any other
school around here but Med
ford high. Well, there just
happens to be another one.
When there are write-ups
in the paper about games all
you can see is Medford print
ed all over the DaDer in bie
boldface type and the others,
well, you can hardly see
thpm. Tf vnn want to see them
-i
you practically have to wear
glasses.
For instance, rieht now
there is a three-way tie be
tween Crater, Medford, and
Grants, Pass in the basketball
standings. So last week what
did you do when the basket
ball standings were printed
but list Medford third so nat
urally it looks as though Med
Adams Now 'Good Old Sherm';
Switch Hailed by GOP 'Pros'
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington IIP) Newest
thing is town is what some
of the political pros are call
ing the new
Adams."
Newer even,
than the new
Nixon, the
new Adams is
com fortably
warming the
R e p u b lican
political com
munity like a
Lyie c. wuson summer sun.
"Ol' Sherm," the old pros
are saying, "mighty nice fel
low. Understanding, too!"
That's a switch. Anyone in
ford is in third place. The
week before when the stand
ings were printed Medford
was listed as neither winning
or losing any games which is
very much wrong because
they had actually won none
and lost four. Also during the
football season the write-up
about the Medford-Crater
game was very unfair. Every
penalty that Crater had was
listed and not one of Med
ford's was listed. Actually the
total yardage that Medford
was penalized was more than
all of Craters.
It's the same way with the
broadcasting of games. If you
listen to the local radio sta
tions on Friday and Saturday
Medford is the only school
around here. No matter where
the game is both KYJC and
KMED broadcast the Medford
game. I think it would be a
very excellent idea if one
station would broaficast the
Medford game and the oth
er station one of the other
schools games.
Because Medford and Cra
ter are so close together they
should have equal recogni
tion. All the other schools
are so much bigger than Cra
ter and have their own ra
dio stations and papers to
play up their own school. So,
therefore, Crater should have
just as much recognition as
Medford-
A very loyal Crater stu
dent.
Glenda Branch,
Rt. 2, Box 874-A,
Central Point.
i
Wanted Loving Obedience
To the Editor: I would like
to answer Mr. Peterson's
letter in the Sunday, Jan. 26,
Tribune. I enjoyed him bring
ing out the thought that only
through the Millenium of
Christ will the whole world
enjoy peace and love.
From the third paragraph
of his letter, I gathered the
thought that Adam and Eve
would not have had children
if they had not sinned and
partook of the forbidden
fruit. There is much reproach
brought upon the Creator by
the false notion that the sin
the first couple committed
was to have relations and
bring forth children. But
please note that in Genesis
chapter 1 in the 28th verse,
God told them to be fruitful
and. replenish the earth. After
wards in the second chapter,
the 7th verse, he tells them
of the one tree they should
not eat from. This was a test
of obedience, not the means
of filling the earth.
Actually, if man had not
run ahead of his Creator and
had been faithful in that
small test, he would have kept
his integrity, not listened to
the adversary, Satan, and
would have still been alive
to see the Garden of Eden
spread over the entire earth
and inhabited by hi& happy
and healthy family.
Knowledge can be gained
by loving obedience. It doesn't
have to be gained by hard
experience.
Mrs. Velma M. Groshong
Box 957,
Central Point, Ore.
Time To Do Something
To the Editor: I have long
been concerned about our
wasteful methods regarding
the utilization of middle aged
and older workers. This seems
to me to be a matter of ut
most importance. Our out
dated practice of measuring
human competence by the
number of years a person has
lived is depriving our society
of hundreds of thousands of
mature people whose skills
and experience are probably
at a higher level than at any
earlier time in their lives.
These people are capable of
making significant contribu
tions to our community and
our economy if they were
only given an opportunity.
Unfortunately, however, a
majority of them are being
shelved and ignored they
are allowed to deteriorate for
lack of restorative health
services, adequate housing
and useful activity.
I am unable to see how any
one can justify the practice of
forcing qualified scientists,
teachers, and college and
university professors to retire
at a time when we are des
perately searching for ways
in which to train more peo
ple for precisely these same
Washington can remember
when Adams was the bad guy
in any dramatic tale that you
might hear from the good
it should be played the way
boys in the Republican party
who were trying to argue the
White House into playing the
game of politics as they knew
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Eisenhower is
asking Congress to extend the
reciprocal trade act for .five
years as a "powerful force
in waging peace."
This will probably raise in
your mind two questions:
1. What is the reciprocal
trade agreement act?
2. Why is it a potentially
powerful force in waging
total peace?
T ET'S see if we can answer
your questions here.
Under the reciprocal trade
agreement, passed during the
Roosevelt administration, the
United States grants tariff
concessions to nations that
are willing to RECIPRO
CATE by granting tariff con
cessions to US. Its purpose
is to encourage both imports
and exports.
It is potentially a powerful
force in waging peace because
it proposes TRADE rather
than AID.
That's about the size of it.
T ET'S be careful not to say
that extension of the re
ciprocal trade agreement act
is good JUST BECAUSE IKE
IS PPROPOSING IT.
President Eisenhower isn't
always right. He is only hu
man. He makes mistakes from
time to time even as you
and I. But TRADE RATHER
THAN AID is a good objec
tive.
People in general RE
SPECT their customers. But
they have basically very
little use for Lady Bountifuls
TT'OR too many years, the
A United States has been
playing Lady Bountiful over
too much of the world.
It hasn't bought us much.
You can't BUY friends.
TlfORE on juvenile delin
quents:
Three Burlingame teen-age
girls have been arrested in
Santa Monica after a wild
chase at speeds up . to 100
MILES PERsHOUR..
The girls confessed steal
ing a car in Sunnyvale. They
bought 12 gallons of gas in
Los Alamos but neglected to
pay for it. The gas station
operator alerted the sheriff's
office, and the chase was on
(It must have been quite a
chase, because Santa Monica
is a far piece from Los Ala
mos.) The three girls were turned
over to the juvenile author
ities. occupations.
. It is a tragedy that we have
not found new ways in which
our senior citizens can be use
ful and self sufficient and thus
enjoy the satisfaction of be
longing. OurMendency to set
them aside and ignore them
is wasteful. We should be
providing new opportunities
through which they can be
useful.
It has been eight years since
the first White House Con
ference on the Aging was cal
led. It stimulated a great deal
of activity books have been
written and committees set
up. Now is the time to develop
these ideas into a worthwhile
program that would be a great
benefit to our community and
its senior citizens.
David Epps, Chairman
Democratic Party of Oregon
1201 Loyalty Bldg.
Portland 4, Ore.
i Almanac
If passion drives let
reason hold the reins.
PERL
Funeral Home
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Phone SP 2-6675
Harriy S. Truman plays it,
for example.
Perhaps it is too much to
suggest that Sherman Adams
is playing politics now with
HST's rule book. More than
a book of rules with rubrics
is necessary to field a Truman
in any kind of game.
Truce Has Taken Place
However that may be, a
truce is here and perhaps a
love affair is in prospect be
tween President Eisenhower's
chief of White House staff and
the party politicians. ' The
word began to get around
town some little time ago in
the casual remarks of Repub
lican politicos. Less often was
Adams held guilty of politi
cal misplays large and small
which perplexed the politi
cians. More in sorrow than anger,
the politicos might say that
Adams might have prevented
the fumble but fewer were
the accusations that he had
planned it that way. Some of
the complaints about Adams
had been discounted by the
oldtimers around town long
before they began to dimin
ish. Sherman Says 'No'
Adams is a Republican St.
Peter in charge of the Dearlv
gate which leads to the Presi
dents' office. He's the tele
phone go-between as well.
The combination of jobs
make him the White House
"No" man. That is not a spot
from which to enter a popu
larity contest and Adams
didn't.
Any front man at the White
House is a candidate for the
dog house. Back there in the
Hoover administration when
the new president brought an
engineer's efficiency to the
office even installing a tele
phone on the presidential
desk the White House aides
took an awful drubbing.
Herbert Hoover inherited a
White House ill-equipped to
deal with the politicians, with
the press and with a moun
tain of correspondence. So,
he created some new secre
tarial jobs, three of them; a
press secretary, an appoint
ments secretary and a cor
respondence secretary. That
is substantially the setup of
today. But it was new then,
and the town took unkindly
to innovations.
Three Took Blame
Hoover's three -man team
scornfully was dubbed "the
secretariat" and whatever
misfired at 1600 Pennsylva
nia ave. was charged to them.
So it has been with Adams.
His official discharge as
White House whipping boy
came at last week's closed
meeting here of the Republi
can National committee.
Two Republican old pros
spoke before that assembly
and for no other possible rea
son than that they meant it,
led the cheers for Sherman
Adams. The old pros were
Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel
(R.-Kan.) and Rep. Richard
M. Simpson (R.-Pa.) chair
men, respectively, of the Re
publican senatorial and con
gressional campaign commit-,
tees.
Maybe things are looking
up for the GOP.
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