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4 Tuesday, April 8, 19S8
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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 8 1948 Thursday)
Jack Meissner, husky Ore
gon skier, completed a 300
mile ski trip down the sum
mit of Cascade range today
and arrived at Crater Lake
lodge.
Moore Hamilton, publisher
of the Medford News, has
been named as committee
head for the Jackson county
Walter J. Pearson for state
treasurer campaign, it was
announced today.
20 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1938 (Friday)
Twenty-six initiative peti
tions of the proposed consti
tutional amendment legaliz
ing certain lotteries and other
forms of gambling, have been
filed with the county clerk.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "It is
now planned to take a whirl
at 'controlled spending' as a
short-cut to prosperity."
30 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1928 (Sunday)
Medford will be one of the
official points on the trans
continental air express route
which now reaches from Bos
ton, Mass., to San Francisco
April 15, according to the
Railway Express company.
Medford Legion Post No. 15
will play host to the national
executive commander.
40 YEARS AGO
April 8. 1918 (Monday)
Soliciting began for the
third Liberty loan in Medford
Monday and teams were busy
all afternoon.
A thief or thieves made a
raid on the cloak room at the
dance at Eagle Point late Sat
urday night, stealing several
overcoats and a suitcase.
What's Your l.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Broccoli, okra, or spin
ach is sometimes called gum
bo? 2. Bible: How did St. Paul,
the Apostle die?
3. The historic Liberty Bell
was cast in France, England,
or in the United States?
4. The year 1900 was, or
was not, a leap year?
5. Did Turkey declare war
on Germany during World
War II?
6. Barrel jumping contests
are connected with what
sport?
7. Name the English Naval
hero who fell at Trafalgar.
8. All bacteria are harm
ful; true or false?
9. Who was the American
humorist and author who
wrote "The Innocents
Abroad?"
10. Moss thrives in well
drained, or damp soil?
'Answers: 1. Okra. 2. He
was beheaded. 3. England. 4.
Was not. 5. Yes (Feb. 23.
1945). 6. Ice skating. 7. Lord
Nelson. 8. False. 9. Mark
Twain. 10. Damp.
THEATER MAN DIES
New York (W Butler
Davenport, 87, who founded,
wrote for, acted in and swept
up the Davenport Free thea
ter at Lexington ave. ana
27th street, died at Bellevue
hospital Monday after an ill
ness of. a month. Davenport
opened the theater in 1915
and had been its chief facto
tum through the years.
. Who Drinks the Most
Once again Clatsop county the home of
hard-living, hard-working fishermen and loggers
has achieved the dubious distinction of proving
itself the Oregon county with the greatest per
capita consumption of hard liquor.
Long ago, when we lived in Astoria briefly,
we were told that people in Clatsop county drink
more hard liquor, and more coffee, than people
anywhere else in the state.
We believed the story about the coffee. In
every Finnish household and there are lots of
them in Astoria a big pot of coffee sits steaming
all day long on the back of the stove, ready for
quick refreshment of the. householders, or for
guests.
S TO liquor consumption, Oregon liquor con
trol commission sales figures, applied to the
latest population estimates, indicated that Clat
sop county residents spent an average of $46.30
cents for liquor during 1957. That is by far the
highest figure in the state. The second county is
Gilliam, with a per capita average of $40.03.
The "driest" county appears to be Polk, with
a per capita sales total of only $10.32.
Jackson county, incidentally, is about in the
middle, with a figure of $20.63.
70R some reason, the Willamette valley coun-
ties Benton, Lane, Linn, Marion, Polk,
Washington and Yamhill are all well down the
list. None of them have a per capita sales figure
over the $18.62 for Lane county, which is the
highest of the seven.
By contrast, the counties east of the mountains
are hard-drinking counties. Only one of them
Jefierson has a ner capita sales iigure or. less
- -m
than $20, and there it is $19.94. Others range up
ward to Gilliam's $40.03.
The coastal counties Clatsop, Coos, Curry,
Lincoln' and Tillamook (excluding Lane and
Douglas, which while they abut the coast are also
"inland" counties) are also hard - drinking
areas, ranging from Coos'- $26.96 to Clatsop's
$46.30.
MULTNOMAH county, the "metropolitan"
1TJ- county, is well up the list, ranking No. 4,
with a per capita figure of $35.40. But the so
called "bedroom" counties, where many Portland
workers make their homes, are down. For ex
ample, Clackamas is $17.99; Washington is $17,
and Yamhill is $12.34.
The statewide average, incidentally, is S25.9U,
with 16 of the 36 counties
(all of them except Multnomah either on the
coast or east of the mountains) and 20 of them
below it. Multnomah county, with more than a
half million people, accounted, for nearly half
of all the liquor sold in the state during the year.
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IT IS interesting to speculate why the pattern
1 (if it is a pattern, and it looks like it) is f ormed
as it is. Maybe life is harder in the hard-drinking
coastal and desert counties. Perhaps rough, out
door work tends to increase liquor consumption.
By the same token, perhaps the tensions of
city life increase the drinking of Portlanders.
And perhaps the non - metropolitan, largely
agricultural life in the gentle Willamette valley
leads to abstemiousness. E. A. .
Problems of Age
United Press writer Louis Cassels has written
a fascinating series of articles,, which are appear
ing this week in the Mail Tribune, about the
problems facing people who are past middle age.
Some of the situations he describes are heart
rending. But they are also common, every-day
occurrences in every city in the United States.
They range from simple loneliness and a feel
ing of not being needed and wanted, to the utter
destitution and hopelessness which can come with
age, loss of earning power, and loss of position,
status and employment:
SOME communities are doing something about
these problems taking the first few steps
toward assisting elderly and aged people to band
together for companionship, recreation, and, in
some cases, group action in fighting the social
evils which too often visit one in later years.
We are. glad to note that Medford, at long
last, is joining these communities where such
steps are being taken. For the social prooiems in
volved, while not, perhaps, so immediately threat
ening to society as a whole as juvenile delinquen
cy, are of considerable magnitude, and affect all
of us in one way or another.
A ROGUE Valley Council on Aging has been
f ormed. It is affiliated with a state-wide com
mittee formed to study all these problems and
propose, solutions.
But, perhaps equally important, the local
council has decided to go ahead on its own, and
do something.
The first step is a party, to be held between
2 and 5 p.m. next Friday at the Red Cross
Chapter house,where aging people (anyone over
50) can meet, talk over these problems, and de
cide what, if anything, they wish to do about
them.
It mav be that one or more recreational or-
p-anizations or clubs for
o - - AA..
At the very least, it will focus attention on the
plight in which many of our older residents find
themselves. And this can lead to a constructive
approach toward their solution. E.A.
, ft A "I
exceeding that average,
older neoole will result.
Dennis the Menace
APRIL ZWMRS BRING MAY HOWBRSi
Matter of Fact
POLITICS WITHOUT CIGAR
Princeton, New Jersey If
you want an example of the
Democratic party's irritating
c a p a c i ty to
produce new
types to suit
the voters'
current tastes,
all you have
to do is drop
in at New Jer
sey's gover
nor s mansion
here in Prince-
Joseph Alsop ton.
The setting is admirable
a big, handsome yet unpreten
tious 18th century house, fine
inside as well as out, yet
agreeably liveable too. The
house's occupants, Governor
and Mrs. Robert Meyner, are
everything that a conspicuous
ly successful young liberal
Democratic Governor and his
newly married wife ought to
be right out of the book,
so to speak.
" At 50, Bob Meyner is a
fine-looking man with a thick
shock of grey hair, a pleasant
ly easy manner, and the for
tunate knack of appearing 10
years younger than his age.
You would take him, perhaps,
for a youngish professional
man with intellectual pro
clivities. Mrs. Meyner,. by the
same token, is very young,
very pretty, and further em
bellished by the special style
of an aid-fashioned -educated
American that her Cousin
Adlai Stevenson also has.
.
NO COULPE could seem
further from the smoke-
filled rooms of professional
politics. But if you talk with
them for a couple of hours,
you discover that no couple
could be more sternly profes
sional. Bob Meyner has two
preferred subjects. One is the
intricate housekeeping prob
lems of a strongly industrial
state, which he has handled
with a pretty sure touch; the
other subject and the real
favorite, is the technique of
political combat. This subject
he knows so well that he won
reelection by over 200,000
votes the year after Dwight
D. Eisenhower carried New
Jersey for the Republicans by
750,000 voters.
As for gentle-seeming Mrs.
Meyner, she takes a positive
delight in the dust and gore
of the politics. Consider one
exchange between these two,
which occurred during Bob
Meyner's relaxed and happy
reminiscences of his first gub
ernatorial campaign against a
dim, majestically dull Repub
lican by the name of Trost.
Poor Trost had made the mis
take of writing to Governor
Dewey,' to ask for excutive
clemency for the construction
racketeer, Joey Fay; and the
letter had leaked out at a
time when everyone was in a
fever about the political con
nections of the rackets.
"That letter," said Meyner
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
IT'S NOT EASY to make people laugh nowadays. George
Axelrod, author of "The Seven Year Itch," explained the
predicament to Mike Wallace: "Life itself is so satirical, it's
hard to satirize it . . . with
buffoons way up high in
government and the Rus
sians making us look idiotic
in some ways. In a gro
tesque, horrible fashion, life
itself seems to have become
pretty much of a joke. And
you can't make a joke on a
joke."
Myself, I think Axelrod is
deliberately sounding too much
like the spokesman for the .
"beat generation" but his
words merit earnest considera
Lady 'went to see "West
Side Story," the hit musical about teen-age gangs in New York, and
pooh-poohed, "What's so original about this one? It's just Booth
Tarkington's 'Seventeen' with knives!"
Tough luck for that young cdnnibal who was kicked out of high
school. They caught him buttering up his teachers.
O 1958, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate ,
By Joseph Alsop
with relish, "was a real mas
terpiece. Every time you read
it, you found another way to
take a poke at poor Trost."
"And what did you do,
honey?" asked Mrs. Meyner,
with a pretty enthusiasm
"Just hit, hit, hit?"
"I sure did," said Meyner,
"It was a campaign, after all,
But Trost is a heck of a nice
guy, all the same. He's on my
highway authority, and he
does a fine ob."
rR CONSIDER the story of
" New Jersey's former Re
publican Governor Hoffman,
who died while under inves
tigation by Meyner, but left
a letter confessing embezzle
ment of $300,000 of state
funds. Hoffman had been a
likable fellow, and before the
embezzlement was revealed,
Meyner was savagely de
nounced for having all but
murdered his predecessor:
"Everyone said you were
through, didn't they?" said
Mrs. Meyner, in a tone sug-
gesting that anyone who said
that would always be mis
taken. "Yes," said the Governor,
and added regretfully: "If I
could only have held the em
bezzlement story for another
10 days, I'd have had every
damn Republican in the state
on record that poor Hoffman
was a saint and martyr."
But it is unfair to portray
Meyner merely as a politician
whose firmest beliefs are that
"you have to fight in a cam
paign," and that "ideas count,
but you can't talk too much
about ideas; you've got to get
down to earth and you've got
to slug it out in this cam
paigning business." And if
Mrs. Meyner's Cousin Adlai
had been able to borrow a
little more of the spirit of his
youthful relative, Cousin Ad
lai would have done a lot bet
ter in his two attempts at the
Presidency.
BOB Meyner is a profession
al, and a hard-hitting pro
fessional when campaign time
rolls around. He is long-headed,
too. As the twice elected
Governor of Woodrow Wil
son's, his position in relation
to 1960 can best be described
as interesting. Yet he remem
bers that former Governor
Driscoll "half runied himself,
because he took to looking at
our state issues with one eye
on the 1952 convention." But
"slugging it out" is not the
system of Meyner as a politi
cal executive. He thinks the
"Democratic party is better
than the Republican party
mainly because our party is
better able to conciliate the
conflicts of interests .that our
society is so full of we can
be for everybody; we can
weigh the interests fairly, and
that's the right way."
He is a shrewd maneuverer;
as any good professional poli
tician must be. He is a hard-
Stop Me
oto you letnsoNgp
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The world is full of bad
news. But the news isn't all
bad. Here is some good news:
Scientists at the University
of Wisconsin have developed
a solution which appears to
CHECK THE GROWTH OF
CANCER CELLS.
The new compound is used
to take advantage of a strange
"suicide complex" of cancer
cells. It makes use of the same
body compound that cancer
cells use to promote growth.
The drug the University of
Wisconsin scientists have de
veloped turns this body com
pound into a chemical that
CHECKS the growth of the
cancer cells.
A LL this, of course, is quite
complicated. We laymen
can't be expected to under
stand all the processes that
are involved.
But we all know about the
Salk vaccine and what it has
accomplished. Dr. Salk found
a substance that checked the
ravages of the polio virus. The
principles employed by the
Wisconsin scientists are rough
ly the same.
This is the point:
The Salk vaccine is suc
cessful. That gives us reason to hope
that this new anti-cancer drug
may be successful.
THE Salk vaccine came out
of research. This new anti
cancer drug which is too
new as vet for us to know
what will rome of it comes
out of research. Research
holds unlimited possibilities
for the future.
Research is growing.
In America at this time
more than SEVEN BILLION
DOLLARS is being spent each
vear bv government ana busi
ness and educational institu
tions for research and for de
velopment of the RESULTS
of research.
As recentlv as 1950 total re
search expenditures amount
ed to less than three billion
dollars. Before 1950 they rep
resented only a tiny fraction
of present expenditures.
"lriORE about research:
A'x It feeds on its own
growth.
For example:
Research scientists deal with
formulas. Formulas involve
computations. Computat ion
involve FIGURING. In the
old days of figuring had to
be done bv hand. Hand figur
ing is a slow process as you
know if you have tried it.
Not too many years ago
adding machines came along
They were followed by ma
chines that both add and sub
tract. These machines were
followed by others that add
and subtract and MUULTI
PLY AND DIVIDE.
THEN
There came the mechani
cal brain.
Murray Shields, an upper
bracket technical consultant
to many of our largest indus
tries, tells of a scientist friend
who was able in one week
to make a computation using
an electric computer that
would have taken 45 YEARS
with any known earlier ma
chine. -
That gives us an idea of how
technical progress speeds re
search up, enabling us to
make as much progress in a
year as we used to make in
a century.
A word in conclusion.
Tha Varl news wo read
is in the newspapers.
This eood news IS ALSO
IN THE NEWSPAPERS.
Mavbe we read the bad
news and skip the good news.
working housekeeper and pru
dent policy-maker, as any
good political executive must
be. He is quite markedly a
Democrat of the Northern
liberal stripe. Yet he is cur
rently enraged by the method
President Eisenhower has pro
posed for extending unem
ployment benefits. Because
the whole cost here in New
Jersey will be borne in the
end by our industries, ant3 we
don't want to lose any more
of the competitive industrial
advantage we kept in New
Jersey by sound fiscal poli
cies. We ought to find a better
way to solve our unemploy
ment problem."
Altogether, one cannot help
feeling that the Republicans
would now control a few more
state houses if they had the
knack of producing more
Meyners of their own.
(Copyright 1958. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
NEWSPAPER OFFICIAL
DIES
Beverly Hills, Calif.
Publisher Clarke F. Waite,
79, a member of the board of
directors of the Southern
California Associated Divis
ion of Copley Press Inc., died
Wednesday at his home. A
native of Nebraska, Waite
purchased The San Pedro,
Calif., News in 1909 and be
came a publisher. SCAN pub
lished eight dailies, in Glen-
dale, Burbank, Culver City,
Venice, Redondo, Alhambra,
Monrovia, and The San Pe
dro News-Pilot.
Russia Seen Likely Winner in
Indonesia; Troubles to Stay
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia appears to be
the only likely winner in the
present situation in Indonesia.
The Indo
nesian govern
ment seems to
be getting the
best of the
fighting
against the
army rebels
in Sumatra,
the country's
richest island.
But though
organized rebel resistance
may be broken, it is pretty
certain that fighting will
merely be reduced to the
guerrilla - warfare level and
will continue indefinitely.
Rebellion is chronic in the
eastern part of the island re
public; and there is no sign
that any stability in govern
ment can be hoped for.
The United States has been
worried over the Indonesian
situation for several months,
even before the fighting in
Sumatra reached " the active
stage.
The chief reason for this is
that the Indonesian Commu
nist Party always has exerted
considerable influence in the
country's tangled politics,
with the encouragement of
President Sukarno.
Now Indonesia is receiving
a steady supply of arms from
Russia and has made deals for
weapons also with ' Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Yugo
slavia.
It is emphasized that this
supply of weapons has no
connection with the rebellion.
It means, presumably, that
Russia is bidding for and is
likely to get the same sort
of foothold as it has gained
m .fc-gypt and Syria.
Russia Gets Foothold
It would be the first such
foothold that Russia has ob
tained in Southern Asia, just
as the foothold obtained in
Egypt and Syria was its first
in the Middle East.
There seems to be no dan
ger that Indonesia will fall
directly under Communist
domination even though the
inuunesian communists are
strong and are registering
steady gains m elections.
That offers small encour
agement to the United States
and its allies who have en
tered into a series of alliances
against the threat of Commu
nist penetration and subver
sion as well as of direct ag
gression. Indonesia s relations with
allied countries and with
the Netherlands, from which
it obtained its independence
in 1949, are bad.
There have been 14 anti-
American demonstrations by
students, Communist youths
and others in Jakarta in re
cent weeks. United States
Ambassador Howard P. Jones
has been the target of bitter
criticism because of American
policy.
In all, it looks as if Indo
nesia will be a trouble spot
ior a long time,
Comment
STATE ACTION NEEDED"
TO BAN BILLBOARDS
Assuming presidential ap
proval of the highway bill to
expand federal aid for high
way construction it will -be up
to Oregon to decide whether
to accept the offered bonus
for restriction of billboards
on the interstate system. -The
bill carries a provision by
which states applying such a
restriction will have their
portion of federal grants for
highways increased in an
amount from one-half to one
per cent of the total. This is
obviously "bait" to obtain
state action to preserve road
side beauty. This plan was
adopted rather than direct
federal action in order to re
spect "states' rights." '
Oregon shouldn't hesitate
to take steps to eliminate bill
boards and restrict informa
tional signs on these high
ways, not merely because of
the bonus which is offered
but because our roadsides
shouldn't be cluttered with
billboards, especially those
along the major highways
which will carry the heaviest
volume of travel. The present
tolerance on the Baldock free
way for example should be
terminated.
This amendment was offer
ed by Sens. Kuchel of Califor
nia and Neuberger of Oregon.
They had a hard fight to win
over the billboard lobby
which blocked such a provi
sion in committee in the pre
vious session. "Garden clubs"
are credited with offsetting
the pressures of the billboard
interests this year. Now they
must concentrate their
strength in the state legisla
tures to make the ban effec
tive. They might make a start
by asking candidates for the
Legislature how they stand
on this issue. Oregon States
man, Salem.
Charles M.
McCann
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Pay Raise Article Disputed
To the Editor: The follow
ing letter has been sent to
Robert B. Pechner, Box 25,
Butte Falls, Ore., a civil engi
neer "somewhere" in Turkey:
You want opinions On your
April 2 article on "Mihtary
Pay Raise Plan." Here is the
opinion of a 30-year retired
Navy career man and his wife:
Who are you to call our mil
itary services "treasury para
sites"??!! How many years did you
work for $18 per month? How
many times have you been on
the bottom of the ocean in a
submarine with six or seven
destroyers throwing depth
charges at you??!! (This cov
ers your reference to "hazard
ous duty.")
How many times have you
had your home disrupted by
being sent to all parts of the
world, wherever your coun
try needed you? How many
years and months have you
had to stay in some out of the
way country, away from your
family??
PX's, movies, clubs, etc.,
are self sustaining from their
own profits. It was gripes
from people of your sort
which caused the ousting of
military personnel from the
above establishments which
in turn necessitated the hir
ing of civilians at a good rate
of pay, which in turn then
raised the prices of merchan
dise to equal that which is
sold outside in a civilian own
ed store in other words the
military personnel pay for
what they get. Where do you
get the idea the taxpayers pay
for same???
You no doubt have been a
guest in the "Country Club
Military" clubs or you. would
not have this inside informa
tion. The "poor" retired career
personnel pay the same $1
per pound for coffee and all
the high cost of living that
you "so-called" "patriotic ob
servers" do. Have you figured
how much and how many pay
raises the military service (ac
tive and or retired) have re
ceived in the past 10 years??
Compare the figures of what
"we" live on (should say sub
sist on). Do you "live" on a
salary of approximately $150
per month??? Do you pay fed
eral and state income taxes
in Turkey??? We venture to
say that you don't.
If you think these "Military
Parasites" have it so good
why don't you join up??!'!
You probably never had it so
good yourself!!
These are the opinions we
have and we can truly say
we pay for what we get
hospital, doctor, .movies and
we are not as fortunate as you
to even be where PX's and
commissaries are available to
us in order that we might be
able to live for nothing (as
you seem to think we do!!).
Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Ennis,
Rt. 1, Box 107-A,
Gold Hill, Ore.
Asks Reactions
To the Editor: It would be
interesting to read in this col
umn, comments from Mail
Tribune readers on the article
appearing in the April 4 issue
by Roger Babson asking for
"more schooling for the
money."
Dorothy Wood, ,
848 West Second st.,
Medford
Counsel With ...
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP-2-4940
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
On Cordiner Plan
To the Editor: A few com
ments on article by Robert B.
Pechner, which was published
under the heading "Veteran
Sees Military Pay Plan
'Joke'."
To try and separate the
truth from the false would
take more space than your
paper would allow. A phone
call or visit to any of the
three services located in the
Medford Post office building
will obtain the better infor
mation. The Cordiner Committee
was formed by the Secretary
of Defense in May 1956 to in
vestigate and recommend
ways and rneans to improve
the manpower problems the
Armed Forces were having
due to the lack of professional
and technical personnel avail
able to maintain and operate
today's advanced weapons of
defense. The issue was then
and is now our national sur
vival. Quoting Mr. Cordiner: "The
question you are considering
is not simply whether some
members of the Armed Forces
should have a raise in pay.
The real issue is this: Is the
United States going to be
ready, in an age of supersonic
airplanes, nuclear weapons,
and : intercontinental missiles,
to defend itself against sud
den attack? Or will this coun
try be defended by a force of
inexperienced military per
sonnel who do not know how
to command and operate mod
ern weapons?
"The first and most obvious
problem is that the Armed
Forces have an excessive
turn-over in their key person
nel. While it is easy enough
to retain cooks and truckdriv
ers in whom the taxpayers
have invested relatively little
training money, the electron
ics maintenance men and op
erators, the fire-control spe
cialists, the radar men and
the missile men, the aircraft
mechanics, the pilots and nav
igators these men with the
key skills of modern defense
are leaving the Armed Forces
as fast as they can. When
they go, they not only take
with them thousands of dol
lars worth of training ac
quired at the taxpayers' ex
pense, but they leave the
Armed Forces with the frus
trating task of starting all
over again with raw recruits."
The Cordiner Committee
indicated that in time of
peace, patriotism is not a suf
ficient motivation for a career
in the Armed Forces and that
an economic incentive may
solve the problem. This
would not be an across-the-board
increase. But there
would be an increase for
those who qualify for the
required skills which are the
most valuable.
William Doernbach,
143 Mace Road,
Medford.
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