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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
April 6. 1948 (Tuesday)
Camped at Breitenbush riv
er last night, "Operation Sno
Cat Cascade" set Clackamas
lake as its goal today.
Special election for patrons
of Phoenix-Talent school dis
trict called Wednesday to se
lect a site for a new high
school.
20 YEARS AGO
April 6. 1938 (Wednesday)
N. D. (Nick) Brophy filed
as a candidate for county
commissioner on the Republi
can ticket.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "But she
Is at her best when writing
of the shortcoming of her hus
band." (Eugene News.)
30 YEARS AGO
April 6, 1928 (Friday)
Special committee takes
steps toward securing a larger
airport field for Medford.
Stormy weather makes it
difficult for shoppers; sale of
pianos, Victrolas and radios
at Palmer Music House con
tinues, however.
40 YEARS AGO
April 6. 1918 (Saturday)
The most unique patriotic
parade and demonstration in
Medford's .history, followed
by addresses in the city park,
opens Liberty loan drive.
Members of different
churches met at the library
Friday to form a union of
their different missionary so
cieties. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In which South Ameri
can country is the city and
port of Coquimbo?
2. Bible: When Lot's wife
looked back, she turned into
what?
3. The nickname of Tip
pecanoe was applied to which
U. S. President?
4. A barge employed in
ports for loading and unload
ing cargoes of ships is called
a 1
5. The' United States has,
or has not, issued a $3 bill?
6. Plato was best known for
his comic, or serious, poetry?
7. What was the vast terri
tory purchased by the United
States in 1867 that for many
years bore the names, "Sew
ard's Folly" and "Seward's
Trog Pond"?
8. Both male and female
Kangaroos have pouches; true
or false?
9. Florence Nightingale was
noted for nursing, singing, or
knitting?
10. The longest Major
League baseball game (by in
nings) occurred in Boston on
May 1, 1920; how many in
nings were there?
Answers: 1. Chile. 2. A pil
lar of salt. 3. William Henry
Harrison. 4. Lighter. 5. Has
not (continental notes of
$3 were issued). Comic. 7.
Alaska (Price $7,200,000).
8. False. 9. Nursing. 10. 26
(Brooklyn vs. Boston).
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Editorial Correspondence . . .
San Francisco, April 4th "Into each life some rain must
fall." -
But how about a cloud-burst for 40 days and 40 nights?
Fortunately our hotel is situated on a slope or we would have
taken to the .life boats long ago.
Yesterday morning dawned bright, cold and clear but
having been fooled once we resolved not to be fooled again.
So we took a rain-coat with us. So did all the boys and girls
going to work. We finished breakfast at 7:30 a.m. April
fooled us againhowever. We returned to our base of opera
tions without taking aforesaid rain-coat off our arm. Can ij
be the storm is over? ',
All San Franciscans, particularly the downtown mer
chants, are cursing out the weather man. If he refuses to
clear things up before the Easter week-end he'd better get
out of town before he is kicked out.
Put on our spiked shoes and meandered to the top of
Nob Hill. A brand new white marble palace greeted our
astonished gaze opposite the Pacific Union club. Getting a
glimpse of colorful murals through the plate glass front ave
wondered if the UN had opened a branch-office here. Finally
found one of the many glass-doors unlocked and ventured
in. A uniformed janitor was swabbing the marble floor and
in answer to our query told us it was the new Masonic Hall.
Well this is only a guess but we should say this is the most
elaborate and imposing Masonic Hall in the USA.
Another new item since a year ago. The big center sand
pile in Huntington park has been replaced by a huge Crocker
fountain encircled by green benches. One lone woman was
resting on one, busily knitting in spite of the cold. "That
terrible fountain has spoiled things here," she volunteered, "it
was ok at the Crocker mansion or would be in Golden Gate
Park, but not here this is a quiet place principally for nurses
and children."
Where the lawn used to be on the north border, there are
a couple of sandpiles, and a few nurses with children mostly
babies were trying to keep warm. The sandpiles were prac
tically under water however another demonstration of what
the weather the past 10 days has been.
One of the cigar-girls here at the hotel is quite perky.
Joining in the prevailing conversation about the weather,
she said she woke up this morning with pains in her shoulder
blades and upon examination
ing. Not bad not very good either. Well ok for a starter.
Another change.
Herb Caen, who started his popular San Francisco column
in the Chronicle and then was lured to the Examiner via a
bigger salary is back again on Mike de Young's daily. We
are curious whether the Chronicle topped the raise or met it.
Of course it may have been neither.
After reading his column in the Chronicle for 10 days,
it is not inconceivable he was fired.
Since leaving Tucson we have been following the S.F.
Giants and the Cleveland Indians in the sports pages. The
Giants have won the Cactus. League title easily but Cleve
land since our departure has been doing better. We would
consider a wager, if Thorndike would give his usual generous
odds, that both will finish in the first division.
. ,
This year of the "Big Flood" reminds us somewhat of the
year of the "Big Fire" over 50 years ago. Of course there is
no comparison in one sense, the fire and quake was a
major national catastrophe and these rains are not. But in
spite of the present grousing anent the weather, San Fran
ciscans do take "ill-winds" with a smile. They take mis
fortunes in their stride. We will never forget the spirit of the
place when we arrived at the Ferry Building in April, 1906.
We were selling "bundle-hose" then no cracks please!
wholesale only to the big jobbers. From that Ferry Building
as far as the eye could see there was nothing but smoldering
ruins, twisted steel and wires, bricks, stones and ashes
mere complete desolation and destruction could hardly be
imagined.
Yet in shacks, tents, dry-goods boxes or what have you,
up in Golden Gate park all the jobbers on our list were
operating, buying if not selling, as if the city that was no
more would, like the ancient Phoenix, rise triumphant from
the ashes not next year or the year after, but that week
end. They put all sorts of crazy signs on their temporary
habitations, like "Barbary Coast," "Poodle-Dog," "Fly-trap"
and "Delmonicos" while many of them had to stand in line
for coffee and doughnuts at the U.S. relief stations.
Soldiers of Funston's army were patrolling all the way to
Van Ness, and shooting down anyone who dared try a hand
at pilfering. But on all sides, instead of one finding any
dismay, discouragement, or complaint there was a spirit of
bounce, comraderie, good humor, and enterprise, that was
simply astounding. The beautiful weather, sunny, stimulating,
fresh from the salty Pacific, we always felt had something
to do with it (And we believe still has for that matter, if
Old Sol ever gets a chance.)
We never got any medals of merit for our salesmanship
but we know we sold several car-loads, when we (having
read of the catastrophe) expected to do no business at all.
There was no place in San Francisco to stay, of course,
but we finally got a hall-bedroom over a grocery store in
Oakland, and as is not unusual at 26, enjoyed quite a lark.
That was our first impression of San Francisco and it is
one we will never forget.
Our only regret has been we didn't buy a few acres of
that debris on Post or Sutter streets. We had a few hundred
dollars in a Rockford bank for a first payment.
But while that Golden Gate spirit was inspiring, with
our usual keen business acumen and prophetic insight, we
thought they were a lot of crazy 49'ers, whistling in a grave
yard, and it would be a decade before 'Frisco would be
rebuilt if with that earthquake menace hovering over them
it EVER would.
Thus endeth today's lesson in recollection and humility!
Add changes:
Geary Street Solaris has closed up another old land
mark "gone with the wind!" And across the street we were
surprised to learn that Edward G. Robinson's "In the Middle
of the Night" reviewed in this department folded up a
few days after the matinee "we attended. Called it a day and
the cast scattered to the winds. Wonder why? They claimed
a three week's sell-out in LA and the performance we took
in was well attended. It must be the depression that DOESN'T
exist.
If it IS a depression and not merely a recession, one thing
is for sure: before it ends, a price level such as San Francisco
now maintains in all directions INCLUDING THE HOTELS
will have to come down. People who are scared simply won't
ouy at least much at present prices. A word to the wise
should be sufficient but judging the future by the past, it
won't be.
We have had our say about modern .styles in ladies'
dresses the "chimiserables" in particular but we don't in
clude their Easter hats. The hats in the store windows we
have seen, are most attractive gorgeous, fresh Spring-like
MASSES of color.
,
Speaking of store window displays, we believe the Union
Square section of San Francisco runs a close second to New
York when it comes to the chic, stylish note, and original,
and attractive even to the older boys creations. Of course
at Easter the flower stands and flower stores led by Podesta
and Baldocchi are something to write home about. Inci
dently Macy's had P & B do the Easter flowers for their
store, and it is another something that 'some artist SHOULD
paint.
It is afternoon now and still no rain. It is cold and windy
but the sun actually is shining. However if we had an
umbrella, and were going out, we would take it. R.W.R.
found water wings were sprout
Dennis the Menace
" '
'I FINALLY MET THAT NEW
Matter of Fact
TAX CUT MIRAGE
Washington America's
durable wise man, Bernard
M. Baruch. has boldly spoken
B'fwfflMHffr! the words in
public that are
having very
great influ
ence on the
E i s e n hower
administration
in private
Even' now, he
has said, in-
f la ti on is a
Joseph Aisop greater danger
until prices come down.
The really Draconian Ba
ruch prescriptions ' an actu
al increase of taxes to cover
the prospective rise in Federal
spending, for instance have
no visible support in the Eisen
hower economic high com
mand. But the basic Baruch
order of priorities has very
strong support indeed.
For this very reason, the
happy vision of a big Administration-sponsored
Federal
tax cut is expected to prove
a mere mirage, at least' for
the month of April. The word
now is that the White House
will cling , to its wait - and -see
policy until May produces
a new crop of statistics on the
American economy's spring
time performance. If the May
figures are at all encouraging
the tax cut stimulant will
probably be withheld again.
THIS negative forecast is
surprising because a big
tax cut seemed so certain only
a few weeks ago. It also needs
to be hedged with one big
"if."
On the one hand, the Ad
ministration's proponents of a
prompt tax cut are just as con
vinced as ever that the econ
omy needs a prompt pickup.
They have mobilized impor
tant allies, such as the Presi
dent's former chief economic
advisor, Dr. Arthur Burns,
who was in Washington dur
ing the week to press his
views upon Secretary of the
Treasurer Anderson.
The tax-cutters have been
and will be good soldiers.
They will accept the Presi
dent's April decision, as they
accepted his March decision,
without grumbling. But when
the decision has to be made
after the Easter Congressional
recess, Secretary of Labor
Mitchell, Vice President Nix
on and the other tax-cutters
will speak their pieces at the
council table, with such addi
tional authority as Dr. Burns
and others like him may mean
while have given them.
..
ON the other hand,; there is
one source from which the
tax-cutters can perhaps .de
rive very great authority in
deed. The Senators and Rep
resentatives are- already" tak
ing their trains and planes,
to conduct their customary ex
amination of the grass roots.
The powerful and able Chair4
man of the House Ways and
Means Committee, Rep. Wil
bur Mills, has already made
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
HONUS WAGNER, baseball
at first base with the use
his position, he reached into
of tobacca His hand was so
big it got stuck in the pocket
ana ne couian t pun it out. v
Nonchalantly, . the Flying
Dutchman pulled in three
throws at first base, and
fled to the dugout where
they had to cut out the
pocket to free his hand.
A U. S. Internal Revenue
Department agent phoned the
head of a big charitable or
ganization. "I Bote," he said,
"that a manufacturer named
Ignatz Zilch reports he do
nated $10,000 to your charity
last year. Did he?"
"Not yet," was the jubilant reply, "BUT HE WILL!"
State Department official has this reminder posted on his office:
-"If you could kick in the pants the person responsible for most of
your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for six months." .
KID ACROSS THE STREET. "
By Joseph Alsop
his own tests among the Ar
kansas home folks, and he re
ports no great demand for
tax-cutting.
But many other Senators
and Representatives may re
turn from the grass roots with
the report that their constit
uents are in a fever about bad
times, and want a tax-cut right
now. In that case, Speaker
Rayburn and Senate Leader
Lyndon Johnson may have
to inform Secretary of the
Treasury Anderson that they
must take action on their own
despite their agreement witn
him to wait for the Adminis
tration. Or, indeed, the Presi
dent may decide to bow to
the sentiment in Congress.
Right there, is the big tax
cut "if."
As to now, however, if you
consider the situation inside
the Administration itself, the
tax-cutters plainly have little
chance of persuading the wait-and-see
factions of the need
for action in April. .
The figures on the econo
my's performance in March
are certainly not encourag
ing. The final statistics will
show high unemployment,
combined with a rise of 10,-
000 to 20,000 in the number
of those having jobs. Normal
ly, March should show a sea
sonal increase in the employ
ment total of about -200,000;
and the very slight '' increase
in the March total is really
far less significant than the
failure, by a wide margin, to
achieve the month's normal
seasonal job rise.
A LL the same, the White
House staff is eagerly
pointed out that the President
only said he was counting on
an increase "of job opportuni
ties" in March. Literally,
therefore, events are said to
have confirmed the President's
prediction at the famous press
conference which gave the im
pression that emergency ac
tion to stimulate the economy
would be taken if the March
showing proved to be poor.
This word-picking and hair
splitting in turn conceal a
perfectly serious viewpoint,
of which the President him
self and Secretary of the
Treasury Anderson appear to
be the chief advocates at. the
council table. In brief, this is
the view, based on the Baruch
priorities, that prices have got
to be adjusted downwards un
less the business depression is
to be transformed into a ser
ious inflation, taking off from
the present high price level
and spurred by a heavily un
balanced budget. -
In recent weeksmoreover,
both the White House and the
Treasury have been addition
ally disturbed by the higher
estimates of the rate of cash
expenditures in the next fiscal
year that are coming in from
the departments, and especial
ly from Defense. So the bet
ting, which used to be for an
April tax cut has now changed
sharply. .
Stop Me
immortal, played one full inning
of only one hand. On his way to
his rear hip pocket for a chaw
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Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
THE ESCAPE FROM
REALITY
It was an ordeal for Sec
retary Dulles to have to face
a big press conference a few
hours after
1 1 h e morning
papers had
carried the
story of the
Soviet suspen
sion of nu
clear testing.
He chose to
treat the So-
Walter Lippmann Viet move as
a tricky and meaningless
propaganda stunt, which they
with their closed society can
exploit, whereas we in our
open and free society are un
able to match it. This theory
may comfort him but it is,
I venture to believe, a dan
gerous form of escapism from
the hard realities of the world
situation.
For it rests on the notion
that our many reverses and
the decline of our influence
are due not to defects in our
policies but to the superior
advantages of the Soviet Un
ion in propaganda. That is to
say, when our products do not
sell, the trouble lies not with
the engineering in the quality
of the product but in the pack
aging and the advertising.
The whole world would agree
with John Foster Dulles if it
were not that the world is so
gullible that it is being taken
in by the Russians. This is
flattering to our pride but it
is not true.
Consider, for example, the
subject of nuclear testing
which Mr. Dulles was discuss
ing. He pointed out, quite
truly, that the Soviet Union
has just completed a series
of tests whereas we are pre
paring to make a series of
tests this spring and summer.
The Soviet trick is, he says,
to suspend the tests which
they do not now need for
some time to come, hoping to
prevent us from making our
tests which we very much
need to make.
But -is this such a difficult
trick to deal with? The nat
ural way to deal with it would
be to say that when we, like
the Soviet Union, have com
pleted our tests, we too will
suspend further testing pro
vided the Soviet Union does
not resume testing. The world
is not so gullible that it would
not understand the common
sense of this retort.
' '
rpHIS retort is not, however,
-J- open to us because the con
trolling fact is that our mili
tary position in the world is
built upon the deterrent pow
er of nuclear weapons. It hap
pens that Mr. Dulles spoke
of our desire "to eliminate
nuclear weapons effectively
from the international arse
nals." But why he said this,
why he made so Utopian a
remark, I cannot imagine. For
the elimination of nuclear
weapons would make quite
impossible the strategic con
tainment through a network
of alliances to which he is
committed.
This is the real reason why
American propaganda works
badly. If we cannot or will not
revise our policies, Mr. Dulles
would do better to be candid
and to tell the- world frankly
that we cannot suspend tests
because we cannot abolish nu
clear weapons without a revo
lutionary change in our for
eign policy. He could then
argue that the Russians with
their massive conventional
forces and their interior lines
cannot be contained without
nuclear weapons. This would
not make him beloved in the
world. But it would make him
believed.
ALL this applies to much
mn th.-in trip nartimlar
issue of nuclear testing. Amer
ican propaganda is in trouble
not because the Russians are
able to lie with impunity but
because in so many critical
areas American propaganda
is trying to sell policies which
for one reason or another are
obsolete, are fictions, are pro
foundly unpopular.
There is the central fiction
in the Far East that Formosa
is China, and that the actual
government of China on the
mainland ought to disappear.
No propaganda can make a
policy based on that fiction
credible, much less convincing
and inspiring. In South Asia
there is the fiction, which de
fies strategic geography, that
we are arming Pakistan to
defend the Middle East
against the Red Army. This
is a fiction which has earned
us the deep suspicion of In
dia. In the Middle East there
is the fiction that the Arab
states will remain with the
West if only we can prevent
the Soviet forces from invad
ing them.
And in Europe, there is the
fiction that Adenauer's Ger
many will absorb East Ger
many and that in some un
known way the Red ' Army
will roll itself back out of
Eastern Europe. The fact of
the matter is that the mass
of the people do not like these
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fictions and the informed
leaders of opinion know that
they are fictions and do not
believe in them. That is why
our propaganda works badly.
A WISE' and experienced
man said to me in Paris
that the Western world was
in a political decline, not so
much because the Soviet Un
ion was ' so strong and so
shrewd, but because the West
ern democracies made so
many mistakes and lacked the
political courage to rectify
them. Listening to Mr. Dulles
at Tuesday's press conference,
I wondered whether he was
not trying to escape from that
bitter truth.
Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Ike came down from his
living quarters in the White
House to greet reporters as
sembled in his office for a
news conference the other
day. He had looked out of the
window when he awoke and
wonder of wonders in this
Year of the Storm the
clouds had cleared away and
the sun was beaming down
from a blue sky.
So he dressed accordingly.
When he entered his office
he was wearing a light gray
spring suit with a gay neck
tie. There was a flower in his
buttonhole and on his face
was a smile that was good to
see. He greeted the assembled
scribes with this lovely gem
from the Song of Solomon:
"For, lo! the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
the flowers appear on the
earth; the time of the singing
of birds is come, and the voice
of the turtle is heard in our
land." .
THAT was in Washington.
In Washington a few days
before the winds, were howl
ing and the snow was blow
ing and the drifts were piling
up and this at a time of the
year when such things hadn't
oughta be happening.
As Ike spoke in the lilting
words of Solomon back there
in Washington, the winds
were pouring down in tor
rents and in the higher coun
try the snow was falling like
feathers out of an up-ended
pillowsack.
It was rugged and still-IS
as this is written.
A H, WELL, my children, let
us have patience.
If we will but hold our
horses and WAIT, the time
will come when we will be
able to say with the immortal
Bard of Avon in King Richard
III:
"Now is the winter of our
discontent made glorious by
this sun of York."
Or so we hope.
Communications
Pin-ball Taxes
To the Editor: For the past
few months it seems as
though there has been much
concern shown on the pro and
con of( the pin-ball machine.
I wonder how many people
in Oregon realize the state
taxes that are derived from
these machines. Just to cite
one short example: an opera
tor has to pay $50 per pin-ball
machine to the state for a
state tax stamp; $1-0 to the
government for a Federal tax
stamp; and price varies as to
a city or coynty tax stamp de
pending on location.
Some people have the mis
taken idea being that an oper
ator can get rich overnight if
he happens to be in a finan
cial position to set up busi
ness. Only a small minority
know the actual overhead
that an' operator hasi Each
pin-ball machine is purchased
at the approximate cost of
$650, which depreciates 50
per cent the first year. Phono
graphs run $1,300 and depre
ciate one-third the first year.
Most pin-balls have been
put in taverns, night clubs,
etc., and consequently adults
are the majority players.
Since persons 21 years or old
er are considered adults by
law and competent as such,
doesn't this include amuse
ment and recreation, too?
Until these machines are de
clared illegal by the state and
as such a gambling device,
why all the fuss?
It makes no difference to
me personally one way or the
other, but one thought comes
to mind and that concerns
taxes. Theer is much talk
nowadays about cutting both
state and federal taxes. How
can this come about if approx
imately $50,000 state tax
money derived from pin-ball
tax stamps is erased? The so
lution is simple, if a cut is
impossible, we will have to
make up this difference per
year. Should this happen
how many of us can afford
the tax increase?
Mrs. William Harris
P. O. Box 206
Butte Falls, Ore. j
IPTlUa
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
A young man who was
married not loo long ago
reports that other couples
contemplating such a step
maybe should wait a bit.
He says that here, in the
heart of the lumber coun
try, one Medford furniture
store reports a serious
shortage of bed slats.
Mayor John Snider is no
more immune than the rest of
us from getting overtime
parking tickets. He received
one of the new yellow jobs
last week, and was observed
in the city hall as he was fill
ing it out and inserting 50
cents in the envelope.
Rather than walk across the
hall to the treasurer's desk to
hand it in, however, he de
clared he was going to walk
outside and try out one of the
new parking meter fine boxes.
Two members of the dist
rict attorney's office saw
the film, "Witness for the
; Prosecution," which is
about a criminal trial in an
English court. After watch
ing Marlene Dietrich on
the witness stand, they de
clared that Jackson county
law doesn't have a leg lo
stand on.
The telephone people have
come up with all sorts of
weird and wonderful gadgets.
In the county court's office,
for instance, is an innocent
looking box. But if all three
members want to listen to an
incoming telephone conversa
tion, the box will broadcast
it all over the office some
times to the surprise of the
caller.
And, to the person on the
other end of the line, it
sounds as though the court
were talking from the bottom
of a rain barrel.
One member of our staff
sort of an outdoor type
says he's placed his old suit
under lock and key. He
says his wife has been
after him lo buy a new suit
for spring, but that he'd
rather spend the money on
something more useful
say fishing equipment.
Tuesday was April Fool's
day, and this column would
not be complete without some
reference to it.
One our friends in the back-
shop swears that he persuaded
a friend to call his wife for
him, say it was the telephone
company, and ask her to put
a dust-proof bag over the tele
phone instrument because
they planned to "blow the
dust out of the lines."
He says that when he got
home that evening, tne tele
phone was wrapped up tight
in a plastic sack.
And up in Salem, a col
umnist reports lhal a wife
placed an April 1 paper in
front of her husband, who
read it with increasing puz
zlement until he suddenly
discovered lhal it was the
issue of April 1, 1957.
Actually, the news wasn't
TOO different, he said. .
One of our correspondents
reports a conversation be
tween an atheist who lives in
the valley, and an acquaint
ance. The atheist was declar
ing that all things in creation
Congress at Easter
Half-Way Mark; CQ
Appraises
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) The
Easter recess, traditional half
Tvay mark of the session, finds
Congress with some of its ma
jor work finished and much
of it started.
. The triple threat of sputnik,
recession and fall elections
has spurred Congress on to an
unusually fast pace for the
first half of the 1958 session.
The Easter recess started on
Ap'ril 3 and will end at noon,
April 14.
The work-done list includes
a price freeze on farm sup
ports and acreage allotments,
special tax treatment for in
surance companies, an emer
gency housing bill to provide
more jobs and to make it eas
ier to buy a house, anti-pay
TV resolutions, the establish
ment of the first Congression
al committees in history to
deal with outer space proh
lems, and a bill to speed high
way construction and limit
billboards.
Major legislation already
well on the way to becoming
law includes a bill to improve
rivers and harbors and one to
raise the price of postage
stamps so the Post Office de
partment does not- lose so
much money. Both measures
have passed the House and
Senate. On the eve of Easter
recess, they were being stud
ied by delegates from both
chambers to iron out differ
ences. ;
resulted from some type of
electrical phenomenon. .
His friend replied, "Well,
then, you must be Mr. Reddy
Kilowatt!"
That stopped him, our cor
respondent reported.
We know a man who spe
cializes in buying up fairly
ancient vehicles, driving ,
Ihem for a while, then dis
posing of Ihem. A friend of
his reports that the last time
he wrote the motor vehicle
department for licenses, he
specified "upper and lower
plates."
We often wonder if some-,
thing couldn't be done to in
crease the efficiency of the
log-hauling business parti
cularly when we see two load
ed log trucks, passing each
other going in opposite direc
tions. Something new, however,
was reported by one of our
young men who drove to Port
land the other day, and saw a
transport truck carrying a
load of new Fords southward
pass another transport truck
carrying a load of new Fords
northward.
Oh. it's still a pioneer
land we live in. all right.
The Mail Tribune has re
ceived notice of final proof
on the filing of , a home
stead the firsl such thai
our veteran office person
nel remember, and Ihe first
thai long-lime deputies in
the county clerk's office re
member. A relative newcomer to the
ministry told one of his pa
rishioners that one of the
toughest hurdles he's had to
surmount is what apparently
is a pre-conceived notion of
what a minister should be.
This notion, he said, seems
to be that he should always
speak in a deep, preaching
type voice, always seek dis
counts, and always look for
contributions for church
charities.
Our friend "T.M.." who
writes ihe birdwalching
column, surprised us by re
porting lhal one of Ihe big
gest items of business dur
ing ihe wintertime, at feed
and seed stores, is the sale .
of feeding shelves, packets
of suei, and bird seeds,
which houeholders put out
for their feathered acquain- -lances.
With all the news about the
nasty weather in southern
California, this story is no
surprise, but just tends to
prove that the Rogue valley
is a pretty good place to live,
atfer all.
Public Works Director Ver
non Thorpe reports that the
airplane which was to do the
aerial mapping photography
of the Medford area was de
layed in arriving for about a
week because of rain in Long
Beach, but that after it got
here, it completed the photo
graphic job in two days.
The office philosopher
(jg) declares lhal if there
were lo be a sudden gaso
line shortage, a lot of lawns .
would go unmowed but
lhal it would help Ihe peo
ple who like lo sleep late
on Sunday mornings.
Progress
In the committee - hearing
stage as of recess time were
such knotty legislative issues
as the foreign aid program, re
ciprocal trade, procedures to
follow if the President be
comes disabled and liberaliza
tion of unemployment bene
fits. No work has been done at
all on bills to provide Federal
health insurance for people
receiving social security
checks, overhaul our Immigra
tion laws, reorganize the Pen
tagon so it can make the split
second decisions needed in the
missile age.
The hottest issue of all
whether or not to reduce in
come taxes has a mixed his
tory and outlook. Sen. Paul
H. Douglas (D.-Ill.) March 13
tried to cut both individual
and excise taxes by tacking an
amendment on to the insur
ance company tax bill. His
amendment failed by a vote of
14-71 (D 12-29; R 2-42). The
next day Sen. Ralph W. Yar
borough (D.-Tex.) tried to in
crease personal income tax ex
emptions from $600 to $800.
It too was an amendment to
the insurance bill and was de
feated (D 18-21; R 1-43).
The depth of the recession
will determine the fate of tax
cut proposals as well as many
other economic bills pending
before Congress.
(Copyright 1958,
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)