4 Monday, April 14, 1958
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
Oregon Section
The New York Times has published a tabloid
sized section devoted entirely to Oregon. It's a
good job.
If we weren't so thoroughly sold on Oregon
already, the section would go a long way toward
selling us.
The section, which was bought and paid for
by the Oregon Planning and Development Com
mission, and a number of advertisers, was dis
tributed with the Sunday issue of the Times
on April 6. Through the Times' circulation, plus
special mailings, it will go to about a million
and a half people in all parts of the nation.
Dennis the Menace
10 YEARS AGO
April 14, 1948 (Thursday)
Ben Day spoke on disease
control and range seeding as
part of the program at the
Jackson Co u n t y Livestock
Growers association Monday
night.
Voters of Jackson county
will have an opportunity to
meet the top ranking democ
ratic candidates for nomina
tion Thursday at Hotel Med
ford, The Democratic Central
committee announced.
20 YEARS AGO
April 14, 1938 (Thursday)
It is time for Oregonians to
assume an optimistic outlook
and a spirit of pride in their
state such as manifested by
Californians, Dr. Frederick M.
Hunter, told a banquet audi
ence in Ashland last night.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Prt column: "Sixth
st. is coming to the fore as a
speedway for lady motorists."
30 YEARS AGO
April 14. 1928 (Friday)
Parent-Teachers association
will serve a chicken dinner at
the old Eagle Point school
building Saturday noon for
visiting teachers of the insti
tute. Plans are complete for the
opening of the relgious work
ers training school next week
in the Presbyterian church.
40 YEARS AGO
April 14, 1918 (Saturday)
Liberty bond subscriptions
made up to noon today put
Jackson county over the top.
Rainier Quicksilver c o m
pany has taken over 40 min
ing claims in the Meadows
mining district north of Gold
Hill.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ei
six is good.
1. Quote the line that fol
lows "What is so rare as a day
in June."
2. What was
name of Judas?.
the second
3. W. S. Gilbert wrote the
words of the operetta "Pa
tience;" who wrote the music?
4. Name the Old Bolshevik
leader who was assassinated
in Mexico?
5. Did the German battle
ship Bismark survive World
War II, or was she sunk dur
ing the war?
6. It is illegal to send coins
through the mail?
7. What is the name of
President Eisenhower's per
sonal secretary?
8. Who gave the rule "Speak
softly, but carry a big stick?"
9. The Davis Cup is an
award in what sport?
10. What Constitutional
amendment provides for free
dom of speech, press and as
sembly? Answers: 1. "Then, if ever,
come perfect days;" 2. Iscar
iot; 3. Arthur Sullivan; 4.
Leon Trotsky: 5. Sunk during
the war. (May. 1941); 6. No;
7. Ann Whitman; 8. President
Theodore Roosevelt; 9. Tennis;
10. First.
A BOUT the only faux pas we spotted in a casual
glance through it was on the colorful cover
which, among other things, shows a passenger
train - (presumably S.P.) rushing through south
western Oregon.
The rest of it appears to be competently and
attractively done. '
Of particular interest in this area are pages
22 and 23, just inside the back cover. One of
them is an advertisement of the Travel Informa
tion division of the state highway department,
and shows a half-page, four-color picture of a
fisherman wading out of the Rogue River (it
looks as though it was taken just above Trail)
to be greeted by wife and child.
The other page is a full-page ad by the Call
fornia Oregon Power company, showing in black
and white a picture of Crater Lake, of the Rogue
River at Hells Gate, a camping scene at Diamond
Lake, a coastal scene, John Day's buffalo graz
ing with Table Rock in the background, a high
way scene, and a view of the Shakespearean
Festival stage m Ashland.
THE Portland area, naturally enough, tends to
wit 4-1-1 r tftr4- r - r cfn-rm fftl if 10
Humiliate iiic iroi ui uic ocluuij, iui m w
there that industry m Oregon is most heavily
concentrated.
The section is a frank and open invitation to
people to come to Oregon both tounsts and
those seeking industrial sites and much of the
text is devoted to the natural resources and ad
vantages of Oregon to these groups of people.
. Sections include those on lumbering, water
and power, labor resources, agriculture, plans
for the Oregon Centennial observance next year,
natural gas, the city of Portland, soft goods manu
facture, brewing, recreation and travel, fisheries,
aids to industry, taxation, sports fishing, health,
ocean ports, and minerals.
FROM the standpoint of plain amusement and
guuu leaning, cue auvciuaciucub ui cue uiiiii-
Weinhard company, Oregon s, only brewery,
walks off with top honors m the entire section.
The ad is pitched to the company s campaign
to spread Douglas fir seedlmgs around the world,
to bring a "little comer of Oregon" to less favored
spots.
The ad starts out, Keep Times Square
Green !", and goes on to label it "A Modest Re
forestation Proposal from Oregon's Largest &
Only Brewery as a Fitting Prelude to Oregon s
Glorious 1959 Centennial Celebration."
It adds that Blitz beer can be purchased only
in the Northwest, and suggests that people from
far and near come to visit Oregon to see its at
tractions and (incidently of course) purchase
some Blitz.
Matter of Fact
THE ROUGE AS SYMBOL
Dearborn, Mich. In all the
world, there is only one other
experience to compare with
a day spent
'I'LL HELP V4, LAW.' LET TRV THIS OH5 OH FOR SIZg "
Joseph Alsoo
Out of Central Asia, over
high mountains, you fly into
the Western Chinese province
of Szechuan, which is as big
as many a great nation. Twist
ing between the mountain
flanks, deep in their wild
gorges, the Gold and many
other rivers show as silver
ribbons. Then, quite suddenly.
the mountains end, the rivers
seem to end too, and you are
flying over a wide, flat, bril
liantly green plain. And again
quite suddenly, the green
plain ends, and the third of
the mighty rivers of our earth,
the Yangtsze, appears in an-
I
T continues:
"We realize that some of you may not be able to
come to Oregon right at this minute. To you stranded
unfortunates wherever you are we will send, abso
lutely free, an Oregon Do-It-Yourself Kit: an Oregon
Fir tree and directions for planting. If you don't have
a yard or a window box you might set them out in
in pots on the street, though not under marquees; they
grow to be a couple of hundred feet tall . . ."
This light-hearted approach is complemented
by other more serious ads, many of them from
cities, port authorities, or large manufacturers,
all of them extolling Oregon.
It s a fine piece of promotional matenal, and
we suspect that Oregon will be reaping the re
sults of it direct and indirect for years to
come. E.A.
Solar House
We have mentioned here, from time to time,
developments in various forms of energy in
cluding "solar" energy direct from the sun.
We can now report that yesterday, in Phoe
nix, Arizona, the first house in the nation de
signed to obtain all its heating and cooling energy
direct from the sun was opened for public inspection.
It uses only equipment now generally avail
able and the sponsors, the Association for Ap
plied Solar Energy, say that the system used
would be effective in about two-thirds of the
United States.
ENERGY from the sun, trapped and stored for
use, will provide winter heat for the house
and swimming pool ; and will heat the domestic
water supply throughout the year. It uses a com
binatipn of "heat pumps'' .with collectors and
storers of solar energy.
The house and equipment are still pretty ex
pensive but one purpose in building the house
was to make practical use of the knowledge
now available, so that modifications can be made
whereby eventually the cost will be within the
range of even modestly-priced homes. E.A. -- ,
iets Trying to Force U.S.
Into Immediate Summit Talks
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is trying to
force the United States into
immediate negotiations for a
summit con
ference on its
own terms.
In its latest
move, the So
v i e t govern
ment has call
ed'pn the
United States,
Britain and
France to.
start talks in
Moscow Thursday on prepara
tion for such a meeting.
It also insists that the sum
mit meeting must be held, re
gardless of the success or
failure of any preparatory
talks. '. '
In this new step, the Krem-
Charles M.
McCann
lin seems clearly to be trying
to take advantage of the
growing worldwide pressure
for any sort of conference
which would offer hope, how
ever slight, of reducing world
tensions.
Reds Jump Guns
The Russian proposals were
made in a note last Friday
sent in reply to a United
States-British-French note of
March 31.
The Allied note proposed
that diplomatic exchanges
should start in Moscow in the
second half of April."
Russia seized on this sug
gestion to call on the Allies
to start the talks in Moscow
this Thursday, thus allowing
the Allies hardly any time to
formulate a common policy,
Russia and the Allies now
agree tliet the preliminary
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On Spending
To the Editor: I have sent
the following letter to the
President of the United
States:
Sir: Your stress on spend
ing to overcome the existing
depression caused by unem
ployment of 5 or 6 million
wage earners.
Please advise how these
people can spend, when they
have nothing to spend, and
must conserve what little
they have, to use in case we
go into another Hoover ca
tastrophe.
I well remember that tune
when I bought a car to help,
when such another remark
was made that spending
would help. I was then a Re
publican. Then a president
was elected who took the bull
by the horns, and we came
out, and I changed my poll
tics.
A World War I veteran, re
ceiving $78.50 per month.
C. W. Busby
111 B st.
Ashland
About Ore. Tech.
To the Editor: As Chair
man of the education commit
tee of the Klamath County
Chamber of Commerce, I
would like to invite you to
Klamath Falls to make a
thorough evaluation of Oregon
Technical Institute.
To us in the Klamath Basin
this institution represents
much more than a profitable
payroll; or a political plum
to be wrestled and fought for
by different areas of the state;
educators, office-holders, cer
tain segments of organized
labor; and others.
Perhaps this is because we
have seen the development of
this institution from a voca
tional type school only, into
one of the nation's outstand
ing producers of technical as
sociates. A school whose
graduates are eagerly sought
after by all industry. . . .many
of whose graduates enter
fields so classified and vital
to our country's defense that
we are not allowed to know
their exact work or even
their ultimate destination.
There are many facts and
problems in developing this
type of school. . . . J wonder
how many of you know or
realize that we are ten years
ahead in our anticipation of
Sputnik's arrival and in the
training of people qualified
to work in and handle re
search of this nature?
Education is breaking the
barrier of complacency. . . .
we are realizing that we do
not compete with the nations
of the world when we train
our youth to think only of the
small area in which we live.
New techniques, -imagination
and daring are required to
meet the challenge of the age.
We feel that we have be
gun to meet the challenge,
with the development of our
technical institute. Granted,
it is not perfect. However,
how many of you are com
pletely satisfied with an
educational i n s ti t u t ion on
local or state level? How
many of you take the time to
interest .yourself in the af
fairs of education, to inspect
these plants? To consider the
problems of the state as a
whole, rather than the some
times rather selfish desires
of an area.
School costs are rising. . . .
let us be practical. . . . im
aginative. . . .and fair. We will
take our chances on your fair
opinion, when you have paid
us a visit. We will also send
you complete material on Ore
gon Technical Institute and
its accomplishments. You
have only to ask.
(Mrs.) Josephine Kittredge,
Chairman
Klamath County Chamber
of Commerce
Education Committee
The Woods Baby
To the Editor: It's a balmy
day and you're out in the
woods for some quiet fun.
Dad is practicing his fly-casting
down by the stream.
Meanwhile, you're looking for
flowers or just any woods
souvenirs. Oh, there's a green
chunk of moss for the dish
garden. Hmm, my it's com
fortable here, be nice to sit
on that log. The kids sure
are having a time over close'
to the road. x
And then you spy that little
shape. Its ears are folded
down and those white spots
make the brownish lump
barely visible. You've made
a breath-taking discovery
it's a fawn! Your very own
well, that is the way you feel
at the moment. And your first
impulse is to hurry and call
the kids to sneak over quietly
to see the baby deer.
You're practically torn in
two with the ecstasy of your
thrilling discovery. How well
do you know your kids, or
even yourself. Can they and
you just leave the woods
baby alone? He looks so-o-o
lonesome and little by. that
log. Maybe his mother has lost
him.
Better let your head rule,
Mrs. Softheart. Better not let
the kids see the baby if
you're going to end up pack
ing him out to the car in a fit
of "overwhe Iming love."
Take him home and then
wonder what to feed him.
Milk, you say? Yes, a formula
of canned milk every few
hours may agree with him.
But he may get colic and
talks should lead to a meeting
of foreign ministers. The for
eign ministers, in turn, would
arrange for the summit con
ference. The Russian note made one
apparent concession to the
terms which Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles has
laid down for a summit meet
ing. More Apparent Than Real
This is that, as the Soviet
note put it, the foreign minis
ters could "exchange opinion
on some of the questions"
which might be put on the
program for a summit meet
ing. At the start of the tedious
negotiations for a summit
meeting, now in their fifth
month, the Soviet govern
rejected the idea of any meet
ing of foreign ministers at
all. r
The Russian concession is
more apparent than real.
While Russia agrees that
the foreign ministers might
"exchangej opinion" on some
issues, it says that such an
exchange could be held only
"by common agreement."
The State department lost
no time in saying that the
Russian note was unacceptable.
Prices Said Same
For Fir Lumber
Fir lumber prices continued
at the same rate as last week
with some, slight increases due
to log shortages, according to
several weekly lumber mar
ket news services from Port
land and Eugene.
Prices on utility and econ
omy grade fir have moved
upward by a shortage in pro
duction and most mills have
been able to balance their in
ventories to take care of any
future volume of buying, they
said. Pine lumber also show
ed a slight upward trend dur
ing the week.
The plywood industry is
the only dark spot in the pic
ture with increased produc
tion in the past three weeks
in the face of falling markets.
Most mills are still operating
on a basis of $68 but a price
break, is likely if production
is not curtailed, the reports
said.
have tq have something else.
wnen rauno gets Digger ne
may need as much as two
quarts of milk a day.
Better not go any closer,
Mrs. Softheart. He'll outgrow
you and you'll have to part
with him after he's learned
to trust you and your friends.
You'll have to take him
back to the woods. For what?
For hunters to shoot at. For
starvation or for a prey to his
enemies. Fauno won't know
about hunting his own food
while keeping a wary ear
alert for danger.
Unless you have a real wise
family, Mrs. Softheart, you'd
better just walk away from
Fauno this minute and not
tell about seeing him until
you get clear home. By that
time his mom will have him
in tow and he'll have a sport
ing chance come hunting season.
Naomi Fredenburg
Butte Falls, Ore.
Joseph Alsop
other, even vaster gorge.
It was rather more than
2,100 years ago, when a Chi
nese emperor impounded the
rushing mountain rivers, made
at Ford's gi- their waters flow over the
gantic River green plain in a multitude of
Rouge plant. Mfe-bringing channels, and
Curiously n collected the waters
enough, it is again to pour into the Yang-
the sight of tsze gorge. For fifty or more
the most an- generations, the green plain
"cient of the has nourished the people of
world's great the myriad little villages
irrigation sys- percnea upon the channel mar-
tems. gms a people numbering ten
millions at the last count.
IIHO would not marvel at
" this wonderful work of
men, which is surely the best
symbol of China's glorious and
immemorial civilization. In
the same way, the Rouge plant
is also a marvel, the work of
only three generations, yet the
prototype and symbol of mod
ern American industrialism.
And in these bad times for in
dustry, a visit to River Rouge
gives almost too much food for
thought.
I went with an old-timer in
the company, who pointed out
the landmarks. There was the
old executive building with
the famous corner office
"which we used to call the tor
ture chamber," because there
"were some pretty painful
scenes there" when Edsel Ford
took over his father's desk
and began his struggle against
Harry Bennett and the rest
the struggle which revivified
the Ford company.
There was the even more
famous overpass bridge, the
scene of "The Battle of the
Overpass," in which Walter
Reuther's union was effective
ly born. There was the im
mense worker's car - park,
which the Russian visitors had
thought a fraud. And finally,
there was the Rouge plant it
self the wide harbor, with
its ore-ships; the mountains of
red-stained iron-ore; the blast
furnaces and fuming coke
ovens and power plant pierc
ing the sky with its tall stacks;
the glass plant and tool and
die works and assembly plant
and so on seemingly forever
Every building is close to a
quarter of a mile, long, and
each huge space has its own
sound and rhythm. The re
lentless, repetitious downward
push of the huge stampmg
presses make the rhythm of
the stamping plant. In the as
sembly plant, there is the end
less, continuous, intricately
planned convergence of all the
finished parts that make a fin
ished automobile. All are over
whelming, but the most over
whelming is the vast plant
where Ford engines are made.
This is a fantastc place, with
its long automated lines where
a cylinder block, for instance,
goes in at one end in the
rough and comes out at the
other end machined to a toler
ance of three ten-thousandths
of an inch.
rpHE overhead monorails that
-- carry parts from one une
to the next look like vast pro
cessions of gently agitated mo
biles. In the noise and grey
ness, the color code system
strikes notes of brilliant light
ness Thunderbird engines
are peacock blue, for instance,
while the engines for the Ford
Fairlane are jade green. And
there are miracles, like the
fantastic lathe that simultan
eously machines all the many
counter-slanted surfaces of a
crankshaft the lathe that
made Chris Bowles, the young
plant manager, burst out in
admiration:
"They said it couldn't be
done, but by God it was done,
and I like just looking at it."
But among the miracles,
there was another thing one
noticed. All the men on the
lines, all the men tending the
machines were at least middle
aged, and some seemed almost
too old for their tasks. Under
the seniority system, oniy
these workers remained; for
there have been layoffs at
Ford, as there have been lay
offs in all the motor com
panies; ana ine yuungei
have been the first to go.
It was when I noticed tne
vnimo men were gone, anai
ascertained the cause, that I
first thoueht of the compari
son between River Rouge and
the Szechuan irrigation sys-
tem. Both, in tneir amerem,
ways, teach what great tri-un-mhs
are within the range of
man. But as I went through
the big gates again, I could
not helD wishing that we in
America could find "a way to
make triumphs as placidly,
fruitfully and unremittingly
Wilson Notes Big
Differences Between
Thirties and Today
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By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington OPl The old
timers who were around for
the big depression which
began about
30 years ago
will note
some differ
ences between
then and now.
The princi
pal difference
is that now it
is more a mat
ter of politi
cal debate
than a matter of fact whether
there is or is not a depression
in the works or on the way.
Not so in the early autumn
of 1929. The big depression
began then with a bangety
bang which blew the cellar
of the New York Stock Ex
change down somewhere into
the rocky sub-structure of
Manhattan Island. That's how
hard and fast stocks fell on
the black Thursday and black
Friday which marked the end
of the Coolidge boom.
That was only a beginning,
however, and when the real
market collapse came some
months later the panic was
on. Rich men caught in the
market were rich no more,
and many of them left their
plush offices by high windows
instead of the elevator to
plump dead on the sidewalk
below.
F.D.R. Closes Banks
Shoestring speculators were
wiped out by the multi-thousands.
Country banks began
to fold. City banks folded, too.
In the fourth year of depres
sion, the governor of Michi
gan decreed an eight-day
bank holiday to prevent
wholesale closings. Franklin
D. Roosevelt took office as
president within a month and
immediately closed all of the
banks to protect them against
withdrawals by frightened de
positors.
Congress In special session
got busy and passed in a
single day March 9, 1933 a
complex banking bill designed
productive as the incredible
maze of water-channels in the
Szechuan plain.
(C) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
to effect some reforms and
to enable the reopening of
sound banks. There were
nearly 13 million unemployed
in the U. S. in 1933, and
F.D.R. soon was off on what
looked like a massive govern
ment spending campaign to
create jobs.
F.D.R. either spent too little
money or the policy of mas
sive government spending is
no unemployment cure. The
record will support one con
clusion or the other.
By 1936, F.D.R. had unem-.
ployment down to a little
more than 9 million which
was 16.9 per cent of the avail
able labor force. By 1938 it
was up to more than 10 mil
lion 19 per cent of the labor
force.
The Boom Came
F.D.R. spent on, but unem
ployment refused to wither
and go away. There remained
5,500,000 unemployed in 1941,
10 per cent of the labor force.
Then along came World War
II and unemployment began
to taper off. The jobless in
1946, after long years of war
production, numbered 2,270,
000 or about 4 per cent of the
labor force.
The least unemployment on
record since the big depres
sion was 1,600,000 in 1953.
That was 2.5 per cent of the
labor force. In the boom-boom
years of 1955-56-57 unemploy
ment was, respectively, 2,650,-
000 and 2,690,000, ranging
from 4 to 3.8 and back to
4 per cent of the available
labor force.
These figures somewhat il
luminated the present situa
tion in which unemployment
is counted at 5,198,000 which
is 7 per cent of the 1958 labor
force. F.D.R. never was able
to bring unemployment to so
low a figure. That is small
comfort to the man or woman
without a job today.
It may bear, however, on a
current question: Is there a
depression or is this a buyer's
strike against high prices?
TV SETS INCREASE
Washington OP) More
than four out of five house
holds have a television set
and about one in 14 has two
or more sets, the Census bu
reau reported on the basis of
a sample survey in January.
- If
Do Not
Be
Misled!
Only Such Cases
Coming Under the
Jurisdiction of the
County Coroner
FRANK PERL
WHEN THERE IS NO
FAMILY PREFERENCE
would be ROTATED MONTHLY
lo EACH of the
FIVE MORTUARIES
IN
JACKSON COUNTY
The ROTATION PLAN is
100 SUCCESSFUL
in KLAMATH COUNTY
after 16 our of 18 years of a
One Firm Monopoly!
IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE
IN JACKSON COUNTY!
I ask for your support in the primaries
FRANK PERL
Frank Perl For Coroner Committee
C. M. Litwiller, Frank Morgan, Harold Snodgrass
Co-Chairmen
Paid Political Adv. Frank Pert Perl Funeral Home, Medford, Ore