4 Tuejday, April 15, 1958
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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 15. 1948 (Thursday)
The board of directors of
the newly organized Upper
Rogue Valley Chamber, of
Commerce announced yester
day that two mass meetings
will consider discussion of
Rogue basin reclamation pro
posals. The first 100 years in Ore
gon's lumber industry were
easy and "the next 100 years
will be our problem," accord
ing to Paul M. Dunn, dean of
Oregon State college school of
forestry.
20 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1933 (Friday)
A 515,000 building pro
gram to improve and enlarge
the California Oregon Power
company building here was
announced today by Hance H,
Cleland, president.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Every
thing is growing like a weed
including the weeds."
30 YEARS AGO
April 15. 1928 (Sunday)'
The county crushers and
trucks are being taken from
the shops at Jacksonville to
different parts of the county
where road work is being
done.
Tomatoes grown in Medford
will probably be ready for
the market in less than three
weeks, according to Otto
Bohnert who has 4,000 ma
tured tomato plants.
40 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1918 (Monday)
Medford's patriotic vigilante
organization has started out
to clean up the area of persons
suspected of disloyalty.
From local and personal
column: '"Beginning today
hotels and restaurants in Med
ford are serving only 2'z
ounces of bread."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or fan correct is superior;
even or eight it excellent; five or
fix it good.
1. What product does the
hevea tree yield?
2. Is "The Wisdoms of Sol
omon" also referred to as the
book of "The Proverbs"?
3. Which of the following
is not a monetary unit: rupee,
ruble, rondo?
4. The work , of what
Vienese writer has served to
popularize such terms as lib
ido, Oedipus complex-fixation,
and repression?
5. Are the Constitutional
qualifications for Vice Presi
dent the same as those of
President?
6. What is heavier, copper
or steel?
T. Did the colonial settle
ment of Plymouth, Mass., pre
cede or follow that at James
town, Va.?
8. "Hand" is the unit of
measurement of what animal?
9. Which of the major
league baseball clubs has won
five world championships in
succession?
10. Who was the second
President of the U.S.?
Answers: 1. Rubber. 2. No.
3. Rondo. 4. Sigmund Freud.
5. Yes. 6. Copper. 7. Followed.
8. The horse. 9. N.Y. Yankess.
10. John Adams.
Berlin OP! West Berlin
Mayor Willy Brandt has in
vited U. S. Vice - President
Richard M. Nixon to come to
Berlin on his forthcoming trip
to Europe. Brandt met Nixon
during his February trip to
the United States.
Neuberger versus Morse
In the accumulation on "Ye Editor's" desk
following a six weeks absence we find a practi
cally unanimous hymn of praise for our junior
senator, Richard Neuberger, coming almost en
tirely from the Republican newspapers that op
posed him, as a candidate and have criticized
him, many times, since.
In a majority of the cases, comparisons are
made with our senior Senator Wayne Morse, very
much of course to the latter's discredit.
Well, we gladly join in praise for Senator
Neuberger. As before noted in this column he has
grown in statesmanlike stature steadily, he is
extremely intelligent and perceptive, and there
is no question of the steady increase in his popu
larity throughout the state, regardless of party.
He has been of great
certainly hope as we
that he will run again.
BUT there is a certain
in this sudden "switch" bv Oregon's G.O.P.
nress. which we find
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amusing.
For exactly what IS
praised for:
In a word, he is being praised for doing ex
actly what Senator Morse was so scathingly con
demned for doing a short time ago, only in
reverse. v
That is Senator Neuberger, in recent months,
has veered more and more away from the strictly
partisan Democratic line, and toward the Repub
lican. Wayne Morse. was called everything from a
deserter, to a turn-coat and on to a traitor, for
doinp: exactly the same things only instead of veer
ing from the Democratic
he veered from the Republican to the Demo
cratic.
True to character Wayne Morse was more
vigorous in his opposition and went to greater
extremes, but the principle in both instances was
EXACTLY the same.
VET we have Senator Morse, long ago, con-
signed by the Oregon G.O.P. press to a
small unaDDetizine- stoud of political "untoucha
bles," while the junior Senator from the state, is
showered with praise and acclaim ana tne im
plication at least of future support for taking
identical action, the sole difference between them
being that one leaned toward the Democratic
party ON THE BASIS OF PKIMUIP, ana tne
other toward the Republican.
As so often remarked in this department: in
politics it depends so much in this instance
ENTIRELY upon WHOSE ox is gored!
R.W.R.
Libel Laws Need Change
The Coos Bav World f formerly the Times)
was found not guilty of libel by a jury in Coquille,
Saturday.
The verdict could hardly have been otherwise.
In fact the libel action should never have been
taken.
For if in rjrintinsr the
columnist Drew Pearson
Commissioner Stanley Earl, tne worm was guilty,
as charged, of injuring tne prominent council
man to the extent of $250,000, then all the other
papers using the Pearson column would be liable
and the commissioner, theoretically at least, could
have made a bigger haul in a few- weeks than
Dave Beck in his prime made in. ten years.
,IIE DON'T mean to imply there was anything
morally wrong in filing this libel action. Mr.
Earl,' in doing so, was entirely within his rights
legally.
But morally, as we see it, the libel law which
holds a paper responsible for statements made in
its columns by others, who are not members of
its staff, and whose statements can NOT be ade
quately checked, is wrong.
'117'E DON'T deny there should be SOME re-
sponsibility.
But it should not be a primary one.
In other words, there should be various de
grees of libel as there are of murder, and in this
particular case libel action should have been
brought against Drew Pearson, who made the
charges, not the Coos Bay paper that merely
printed them.
Or if brought against the paper, it should have
been libel in the second or third degree, not in
the first. The person responsible for making the
charges should be primarily responsible f or any
injuiy those charges may have caused, as well as
for their authenticity.
AS WITH columnists whose statements can't
be checked day by day as to truth or accu
racy, so w7ith contributors to the "letter-box"
who are invited to express their honest opinions
so long as they stand by them by signing their
names and addresses. Of course anything that
remotely suggests libel should be and generally
is carefully checked, and if any suspicion is
justified, rejected.
But with the libel laws as loosely drawn and
complicated as they are, a newspaper can't con
duct a Communication column worthy of the
name, without running a risk of serious conse
quences, which in a countiy properly boasting of
a "FREE press," should not be involved.
value to Oregon and we
have often written him
element of inconsistency
both instructive and
our junior Senator being
line to the Republican,
charges bv its regular
against Portland's City
Dennis the Menace
AttO VJHSH GOMeSQP & 'WAY 'way off, you turn
THE SNOZZLB LIKE THIS AND IT SHOOTS FARWER.SEE?
Matter of Fact
"ONLY 11 WEEKS TO GO"
Detroit, Michigan Here in
this great capital of the limp
ing motor industry, the Eisen
hower Admin
istration's I wait-and - see
a p p r oach to
the depression
does not look
very sensible.
If you want
to be co n
vinced, just
drop in at U
Joseph Alsop
A. W. Local
No. 3, across from the big,
dingy old Dodge motor nlant
in Hamtramck. Then spend a
day or so ringing the door
bells of the endless rows of
little one-and-two family
houses inhabited - by Dodge
and other Chrysler comDanv
employees in Hamtramck and
i-ast Detroit. What you see in
them is the cruel let-lown of
a vast army of industrial
workers by tle system they
have been taught to trust im
plicity. The morning I went there,
Pat Quinn, the president of
the Dodge local, was leading
protest march of jobless
auto workers to the state capi
tal in Lansing. So all activity
temporarily centered in the
small office of "Big Pete"
Telisky, the local's tall, sallow-faced,
hot-tempered vice
president.
T HAD hardly introduced my-
self when Richard, a still
young man who had been
working for Dodge for ten
years as a crane and elevator
hoist operator, rather hesitant
ly entered to ask Big Pete if
he knew "anywhere1 where
they were hirin'." Big Pete
said bitterly: "Boy, you can't
buy a job in this damn town."
Richard nodded disconsolate
ly, as though this were the
answer he expected.
It was a rough answer for
him, all the same. His father,
who worked for Dodge for a
quarter century, had bought a
house on time just before he
died five years ago. In those
days, . both father and son
were working, so the pay
ments of $75 a month had
been easy to carry. Richard
had managed pretty, well
alone, too, when he was bring
ing home $80 a week. The car,
the furniture, the washer and
dryer and television were all
paid for, and he had kept his
mother and younger brother
fairly comfortable.
But now the little family's
v. Ml- Z
IF THE precedent in this Coos Bay World case
should be generally followed then the profes
sional and amateur smear-artists would have a
Roman Holiday. For they could send in anything
to a paper they wished for any purpose they might
desire, and rest content, that if there should be
trouble they would not suffer for the paper would
have to pay the bill.
This would be somewhat like holding a taxi
driver guilty for driving a bandit to a bank, and
letting the bandit go free. R.W.R.
Try and
ay BENNETT CERF-
A GAUNT MOUNTAINEER in West Virginia courteously per
mitted two New York tourists to hunt on his land. "Only
one thing I ask in return," he said. "It's possible you'll stumble
on a stui near tne top oi
yonder hill. If you do, I'll
ask you to bring me back a
jugful or two."
The hunters found the still,
but had barely picked up the
jugs before bullets started
whistling over their heads.
They fled down the hill and
panted, "Your still's being
raided!"
The mountaineer calmly bit
off a chew of fresh tobacco.
"I guess I neglected to tell
you," he admitted, "that that
still ain't mine."
Until you're about 55, sur-
mises Arthur Godfrey, you'd do well to avoid temptations. After
55, alas, there's nothing more to guard against: temptation avoids
you!
- 1SSS. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate." .
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By Joseph Alsop
whole income was down to
$42 a week of unemployment
benefits. The house payments
took nearly half. Richard had
'tried everything, even jani
tor." So had his 17-year-old
brother, "but they ain't even
hirin' boys in stories." And
worst of all, "we only get
another 11 weeks of benefits
to go, and after that there'll
be nothing but the welfare."
RICHARD was followed by
sturdy old Charles, 15
years a torch welder, who
"done all the show jobs for
the company except one
year." After Charles came Her
man, the slow-spoken south
erner, who was threatened
with repossession of his car.
The procession went on all
morning, and all the men who
came had the same essential
problem.
All suddenly had their in
come cut in half, after nine or
ten or eleven years of steady
work on the same job. Like
most of Detroit's other tens of
thousands of jobless auto
workers, all were now be
tween nine and thirteen
weeks away from the end of
their unemployment benefits,
when there would be no in
come at all. All had time pay
ments to make, which they
could hardly carry even now.
Richard, indeed, was the luck
iest, for no other man I saw
had paid for everything ex
cept his house. The Detroit
Welfare Department will at
least try to help Richard keep
his house, by offering the
mortgage-holder the money
allowed for relief recipients'
rent.
Ringing doorbells along the
gray streets, the story was
again the same. Only here, it
was grimmer and more
poignant, for one actually saw
the furniture and the washers
and the cars and the homes
that were in danger. One saw
the children "who drink wa
ter now," and the harassed
wives who "didn't know how
they could manage much
longer," and the men who
seemed unable to overcome
their surprise at being at
home on a working day.
AS TIME went on, one be
r a m f nhspssprJ hv trip
thought of "the end of the
26 weeks" (of benefits), which
all these people spoke of with
a sort of defeated dread.
Maybe Congress will pass
the bill adding another 13
weeks to the 26. Maybe auto-
Stop Me
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fact the contrary is often the
case.
More on 12-Month School
To the Editor: This is a re
ply to Dorothy Woods in re
gard to the 12-month school
term in Bisbee, Ariz., in 1919,
1920 and 1921.
I came into the district aft
er the 12-month plan had
been in operation six months
so I cannot say what the ar
guments for it had been.
The schools were in session
12 weeks. Every 13th week
was a vacation week. Every
objection listed by Eric Allen
in his recent survey both pro
and con, of the 12-month plan
operated to some degree in
Bisbee. Parents who did not
want their children to attend
school the 12 months could
keep them out any full quar
ter they wished. But children
so kept out re-entered school
into a new group. To this the
children objected, resulting
in friction in the home. It was
finally the rebellion of par
ents which caused the experi
ment to be discontinued. .
No doubt further informa
tion can be had by writing to
the present superintendent of
the Bisbee schools.
Anna M. Streed,
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
Bible a Fraud?
To the Editor: What is the
true meaning of Easter? If
one accepts the Bible as the
inspired word of God, I be
lieve the following to be a
good statement.
First, Jesus Christ walked
out of a tomb physically, in
his own body. Not his ghost
or a spirit. If this is not true,
the whole Christian faith is
merely a nice dream. Paul,
under inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, says this in I Corin
thians 15:13-19. If Jesus nev
er rose bodily, the Bible is a
fraud and He is the greatest
imposter who ever lived since
He claimed to be God (John
8:55). The Resurrection
is
proof.
Since He is God, He also
was tne Messian ox Israel
Matthew 21:28-46, esp.v.42).
He spoke with authority,
When He said the night be
fore His crucifixion that He
would come again (John
14:3), He knew. His descrip
tion of the End Times (Mat
thew 24, Luke 21) may not
be questioned. He prophesied
the destruction and return of
Israel, and said He would
come sometime in the gener
ation in which Israel was re
stored (Matthew 24:32, 33;
Luke 21:28-30). He also said
it was nobody's business to
know the exact time (Mat
thew 24:36), and promised
His children escape (Luke
21:36).
Ezekiel 37 shows the re
storation of Israel in the End
Times. In 1947 Israel was
recognized as a nation. Eze-
motive employment will pick
up again, when the time for
the new models comes in
September. But even so, half
the things these people have
gained will be lost in the in
terval, because "we just can't
meet the payments and feed
the kids."
Then, if there are no jobs
to be had when the benefit
period ends, the whole pat
tern of life of all these peo
ple will simply fall into
squalid ruin. And they stand,
remember, for many hundreds
of thousands of jobless in
dustrial workers in scores of
other cities besides Detroit.
Copyright, 1958,
New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Missile Bases, Atomic Arms
For Germany, NATO
By CHARLES M. MCCANN
United Press Correspondent
Two big issues confront the
defense ministers of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allies in Paris
this week.
One is the
q u e s tion of
est ablishing
U. S. missile
bases in the
NATO coun
tries of West
ern Europe.
Thp nthor
McCann which is like
ly to play a steadily increas
ing part in Allied defense
loo M "
planning, is the arming of
West Germany with tactical
atomic weapons.
Allied military men agree
that the missile bases are
necessary to the defense of
Television
At Emmy
Hollywood (IP) The tele
vision industry honors its best
tonight in the nationally tele
vised 10th annual Emmy
awards originating on both
coasts.
Twenty-four golden Emmys
the industry's highest award
will be presented on a 90
minute show opened with re
marks by Ed Sullivan, presi
dent of theNational Academy
of Television Arts and Sci
ences. Phil Silvers, TV's Sergeant
Bilko, will emcee the award
ceremonies originating from
Studio City in New York.
Danny Thomas will handle the
West Coast awards.
Top Names Scheduled
Four technicals, eight local
West Coast and six local New
York awards will be present
ed off the televised program
expected to be seen by 70 mil
lion viewers across the na
tion. Top names appearing on the
program include Steve Allen,
Ida Lupino, Dave Garroway,
Jack Benny, Arlene Francis,
George Gobel, Paul Winchell
and Jerry Mahoney, Loretta
Young, Jerry Lester, Morey
Amsterdam, Cliff Norton,
Arnold Stang, Eve Arden, Red
Buttons, Gary Moore, Ralph
Edwards, Gertrude Berg, Ed
die Cantor, Art Carney, Ed
Wynn and Milton Berle.
The award for the "best
single program of the year
climaxes the evening. Nomi
nated were: "The Comedian,1
with Mickey Rooney on Play
house 90; the Edsel Show;
General Motors 50th anniver
sary show: "The Helen Mor
gan Story," starring Polly
kiel 38,39 describes the final
battle in Israel: A combined
Russian and Arab attack
erupting into world war,
Since no Christian need fear
that war because he won't be
here, look at the April 4,
1958 U.S. News and World
Report. The lead article de
scribes the build-up: On page
35 reference is made to fear
of a "holy war" against
Israel. Khrushchev has prom
ised help in that war. He told
Eleanor Roosevelt last fall in
interviews carried in this pa
per that he would help "drive
Israel into the sea to preserve
peace." Nasser is going to
Moscow this month (see April
10, Mail Tribune). A war
against Israel would force
the Iraq Jordan federation
and Saudi Arabia to join. Rus
sian "technicians are m
Syria and Yemen today.
If you believe the Bible and
the Resurrection to be true,
the conclusion follows very
clearly. If I am a fool to be
lieve this, Easter means noth
ing and the Bible is a fraud.
Take your pick.
Parker Bailey,
542V2 'A' st.
Ashland, Ore.
YOU WERE WARNED
IN TIME!
If you haven't settled your tax
differences with Uncle Sam by
tonite it's too bad you were
warned. Chances are you won't
be warned so far in advance if
FIRE takes your home or an
ACCIDENT wrecks your car.
Better be SURE and INSURE
with us.
Bill Fish
If
Western Europe against the
threat of Soviet aggression.
Fear Old Militarism
But there is strong opposi
tion in some NATO countries
to the establishment of bases
on their territory because of
the danger of devastating Rus
sian H-bomb attacks on them
if war does come.
The West German parlia
ment, after one of its angriest
debates, voted on March 25 to
accept a U.S. offer of tactical
atomic weapons.
There is bitter opposition
among many West Germans to
the decision.
There is also strong opposi
tion to the arming of West
Germany with the tactical A
weapons in Norway, Britain
and some other NATO coun
tries. This part of the opposition
To Honor
Awards Show Tonight
Bergen on Playhouse 90 and
"Green Pastures" on Hall
mark Hall of Fam,e.
12 Westerns Nominated
Westerns were ridin' high
in the list of nominees with
12 nominations going to "Gun
smoke," "Wagon T r a i n,"
"Maverick," and "Have Gun
Will Travel."
Awards also go to the best
performance by an actor and
actress, best direction, best
teleplay, top comedy series
and outstanding dramatic
series.
Television's birth and
growth was to be presented in
film clips with comments by
Chet Huntley, Robert Trout,
Elizabeth Taylor
Returns To Pictures
Hollywood (IPI Actress
Elizabeth Taylor returned on
Monaay to the motion pic
ture world she planned to for
sake before the death of her
husband, Mike Todd, in a
New Mexico plane crash Mar.
22. ,
Miss Taylor, eight pounds
thinner than when she seclud
ed herself in her home after
Todd's death, resumed her
role in Metro-Goldwyn-May-er's
"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof."
frank perl County Coronsr
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 Out of 18 Years
of a One Firm Monopoly
Locally
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 Perl. Perl
Questions
is based primarily on the fear.
which is in the minds of many
people in NATO countries
generally, that powerful Ger
man rearmament might lead
to a return of German mili
tarism. It is accepted without ques
tion that under Chancellor
Adenauer, West Germany is
solidly on the Allied side and
that the West German people
want no militaristic program.
But the question is asked:
If West Germany becomes a
major military power, how
long can it be controlled?
Adenauer is 82. He cannot
last forever. And West Eu
ropeans remember under Ad
olf Hitler, an Upstart born in
Austria, Germany within a
few years built up a military
machine that swept irresist
ibly over their countries.
Its Best
Frank Blair, Mel Allen, Walt
er Cronkite, Don Goddard,
Alex Drier, John Secondari
and Douglas Edwards.
State Police Plan
Switch of Uniforms
Oregon state police officers
will change to summer uni
forms Tuesday, it was report
ed today. The uniform change
will include a lightweight
wool shirt with bow tie in
stead of the cotton shirt and
unifrom jacket that is worn
during the wintermonths.
Officers will also change
from the high boots and
trousers to slacks, it was re
ported. ,
The Sam Brown belt, also
worn during the winter
months, is not worn during,
the summer.
CZECH PRIEST ON TRIAL
Vienna (IB Father Al
bert Hevera, a Roman Catho
lic priest, is among 15 defend
ants being tried in Communist
Czechoslovakia for alleged
war crimes in 1944, Prague
Radio reported today. The
priest was indicted on charges
of inciting members of a Fas
cist Slovak group to murder
Allied prisoners of war.
Do Not
Be
Misled!
Only Such Cases
Coming Under the
Jurisdiction of the
Funeral Home, Medford, Ore.