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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1948 (Friday)
A Rogue River Roundup
queen contest dance will be
held at the lOOF hall at Gold
Hill Saturday, April 17.
April -has brought the
heaviest snowstorm and the
coldest weather to Crater
Lake National Park ever re
corded for that spring month,
according to E. P. Leavitt, su
perintendent. 20 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1938 (Friday)
Three Jacksonville youths,
all about 17 years of age, were
held Wednesday for question
ing in connection with the
robbery of the Jacksonville
cioneer museum.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Back
yard gardeners are planting
tomatoes to eat and maybe
throw."
30 YEARS AGO
April 16, 1928 (Monday)
The one mill tax measure
scheduled for the primaries
May 1 8 would make available
$33,000 for completion of the
fair ground buildings, accord
ing to TJ. Frohbach.
From local and personal
column: "Gordon Warner has
at last found the shirt taken
from him by zealous rooters
at the tournament."
40 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1918 (Tuesday)
Contributions totalling $50,
000 are yet needed in order to
release the banks from having
guaranteed tfiat ' amount for
Medford's quota, according to
Liberty Loan campaign chair
man C. M. Kidd.
Members of the Russelite
religious faith are reported
badly frightened and are ask
ing protection from the vigi
lante committee in Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good. .
1. Does the Hudson river
empty into Hudson bay?
2. Bible: Did St. Paul go to
Jerusalem on his first, second
or third journey?
3. A naturalized citizen is
barred from holding office as
secretary of state; true or
false?
4. Name the artist who
painted the famed "Mona
Lisa"?
5. What
mean?
6. Name
minerals.
does leeward
the two liquid
7. Four states have tl?e
word "New" as part of their
name; name the four.
8. On what island did Na
poleon Bonaparte die?
9. Most genuine Panama
hats are manufactured in Pan
ama; true or false?
10. For what sport were
Marquis of Queensbury rules
devised?
Answers: 1. No. 2. Second.
3. False. 4. Leonardo da Vinci.
5. The side opposite the direc
tion of the wind. 6. Mercury
and water. 7. New Hamp
shire. Jersey. Mexico and
York,.. 8. St. Helena.. 9. False
(Eucador). 10. Boxing.
Lesson in Automobiles?
The auto industry is going through some rough
times right now, rather more so than the rest of
the economy generally.
Some economists even go so far as to say that
the slump m automobile
tion, is a major factor
recession throughout the
People just aren't
they did a year or two
entirely lack of money, for savings are at a high
point which is another curious fact about the
recession.
"THERE must be many
OCllllig lO IftjJJUU do
And on examination,
believe that while one reason may be sufficient
for one man, and another for another, in most
cases it is a combination
For instance, E. B.
recently wrote in The New Yorker magazine of
his difficulties in finding a new car which in any
significant way was superior to hs 1949 De Soto.
He found none. All he saw failed to match the
older car in terms of comfort, driving ease, de
pendability. They were too low, the seat was too
close to the floor, they were too chrome - be
spangled, they were too
JJIR. WHITE also objected to their overall
.laritv. One car looks much like ano
ity. One car looks much like another,
these days, he said, except for a few minor dis
similarities m trim and decoration.
There is no "American car buyer," Mr. White
complains. There are millions of them, and they
are oeginning to resent oeingiorcea into purcnas
ing a car which looks like a 'twin of every other
new car on the road.
There are straws in the wind a bale of them
which tend to corroborate his thesis.
Have you noticed how many station wagons
are on the roads these days cars built with
space and utility in mind? And the phenomenon
of the "little foreign car" is a phenomenon no
longer. Volkswagens, Renaults, Volvos, MGs,
DKWs, and a half-dozen others are now taking
their owners, economically where they want to go.
Sales of the little Metropolitan, built by Am
erican Motors, have climbed sharply, as have sales
of its bigger brother, ihe Rambler.
a
DUT at the same time, sales of larger cars
particularly in the "middle" price bracket
have slumped dangerously, and even the "low
priced three" are moving slowly.
Why is this?
Is it a sort of "revolt" of car buyers, who with
E. B. White are holding out for more utilitarian
vehicles? Is it because the automobile is no long
er the "symbol of status" that it once was, being
replaced by hoihes or other possessions, as some
observers claim? Is it because people want cars
that more exactly suit their own desires and per
sonalities, and are not finding them in the mass
offerings of Detroit?
TTHESE all may be factors in the automobile
slump. And the manufacturers themselves may
be heeding them.
"The current issue of Time magazine reports
that General Motors is going to tone down the
flashy appearance of some of its cars. One survey
showed that 50 per cent of motorists want less
chrome on their cars so less chrome it will be.
A GM spokesman was quoted as saying they are
deleting it as fast as they can.
And "almost all future cars being shown by
GM are in one color," rather than the multi-color
rainbows we have become used to.
THERE is one additional factor to be consider-
A. ed, and that is the automobile dealers them
selves. Some of them have failed, because they never
recovered from the easy days just after World
War II when the pent-up demand for new auto
mobiles was so great that anyone who could get
a franchise and a few cars could sell them simply
by having them available.
This is no longer so. It is a buyer's market to
day, and customers tend to resent some of the
practices which have built up in the car business,
such things as "price packing," where a sum is
added to the list price, unknown to the buyer, and
then the dealer can offer "exceptional trade-ins,"
or big' "discounts," without revealing that his
original price was inflated.
COME automobile dealerships, which give hon
est value for money received, and. which go
out after customers in the time-honorecl Way of
the successful salesman, are making money.
Old fashioned hustle, adequate advertising
budgets, courtesy and consideration for the cus
tomer, the "hard sell" all these have proven
fruitful. People still can, and will, buy if they
are approached properly.
But there is a limit to what salesmanship can
do, particularly if too many Americans decided
that what is now being offered by the big manu
facturers is not what they want at a price they
can pay.
Perhaps the old days, when cars came in all
shapes, sizes and models, at a variety of prices,
and when America first started to become a na
tion on wheels, has a lesson to offer to the Ameri
can automobile manufacturer.
In the meantime, E. B. White continues to
drive his 1949 De Soto, and economical foreign
cars continue to sell like hot-cakes. E.A'.
buying, and thus produc
in the much-publicized
nation.
buying as many cars as
ago. And the reason is not
reasons why cars are not
HIS. J ildt.
it would seem logical to
of reasons.
White, the noted essayist,
long for the garage.
simi-
Dennis the Menace
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Likes Library Services
To the Editor: There has
been so much written in the
papers of late, concerning the
Medford Public Library and
the county libraries,. I feel
must, say a fev words on be
half of the library and Miss
Helen Webster. I have served
as librarian at Gold Hill for
the past 15 years, so I have
been at the library since Miss
Webster joined the. staff at
Medford as head librarian. To
put it mildly, T have been do
ing a slow boil at all that has
been said. . -
The service at our. library
has been all that could be
asked for. We have had a
shipment of books every
month, when service was
available, also all request
orders have been promptly
filled. When books - were do
nated, we have asked the
donors of these books, if they
object to turning them -over
to the library, and we have
received dook lor book in
return. At no time have we
received torn or dirty books,
at least half of our monthly
shipments are of the late,
popular books.
Miss Webster has always
been courteous, and co-opera
tive, helping us to build up
our supply of books, also has
helped to get a raise in pay
for all county librarians.
I can't understand why
there would be one set of
rules for some libraries and
not, for others; but I do know
we at Gold Hill are well
pleased, and have no com
plaints. It is true our maga
zine subscriptions were cut
down, as at all branch librar
ies, but we have received
more books because of it, and
people usually have their
own subscriptions, so that
could hardly be called a hard
ship. As a branch librarian, I
appreciate all the help Miss
Webster has . given me, and
sincerely hope the discontent
of one or two libraries will
not affect the rest of us in
the county.
Mrs. Jewel Routh,
Librarian, Box 637,
Gold Hill.
Sea Parrots
To the Editor: California
Coast vacationists this month
may sometimes find a sea par
rot. Plumage entangled in oil
from a passing tanker, it had
become helpless, had starved
to death. This sea parrot, or
puffin, is quickly identified by
the peculiar parrot - shaped
bill. Its plumage is a sooty
black. This makes all the more
conspicuous the red bill.
When the writer was among
Alaska's Tlingits, Indian moth
ers used sea parrot bills to
make baby rattles. At the end
of a handle, a star of crossed
sticks was fixed. To these
were attached, with gut, dried
sea parrot mandibles. The fat
little papooses seemed to get
as much fun out of shaking
their" sea-parrot-bill rattles as
would a Caucasian with one
"made in Japan."
Before the baby puffin is
able to fly, it depends upon its
parents for its sea food. Dad,
mother are remarkably skill
ful in fishing. Each can carry
back to the nest as many as
six fish .at one time. These, I
being from a school, usually
are all of the same size and
kind. ' .
One ornithologist concludes
the hard ridges in the roof of
the puffin's mouth serve as
wedges. These, he says are
evolved to hold the caught
fish. No matter how it is done,
it saves time and energy for
this solemn bird with the gid
dy face.
C. M. Goethe
Seventh and J Sts. .
Sacramento 14, Calif.
the case
Thanks From the Heart
To the Editor: A.n other
Heart Fund campaign has
come and gone, and once
again the residents of Jackson
county have demonstrated
their generosity by surpassing
their previous contributions.
" Knowing that we could not
have achieved these results
without such help as yours
we, who have been active in
the Heart' Fund effort, want
to acknowledge our indebted
ness to Medford Mail Tribune
for your vital assistance in
bringing the Heart Fund mes
sage to your readers and lend
ing your most valued support
to the Heart cause.
We" also want to congratu
late you on the wholehearted
and thoughtful manner in
which you rendered this im
portant public service. We ex
tend to you the smcerest
thanks of the association's of
f icers, ' members and volun
teers. We especially thank
Herb and Jim Grey, Earl
Adams and Olive Starcher for
their help. 1
While February has come
to be recognized as Heart
month during the past nine
years of Heart Fund cam
paigns, the Oregon Heart as
sociation functions through
out the year. We hope that
we shall continue to merit
your confidence and your
support in bringing informa
tion about the heart, and
about the fight against its dis
eases, to the residents of our
county in the months to come
Larry Horton
Publicity Chairman
Jackson County Heart
Fund.
Liberties and Chains
To the Editor: We are all
thankful for the privilege in
the communications column
for expressing the thoughts
that strike us at times as be
ing reasonable, readable, and
logical.
Just now we are thinking
of two very contrasting rights
humans have, liberties or
chains. We are created free
moral agents, no one ques
tions that. We value our liber
ties and repeat with our early
statesman those golden words,
"Give me liberty or give me
death." To that we say a
hearty amen, and resent and
resist anything that would re
strain or wrest liberty, from
us.
We are happy to call this a
God given privilege, but no
God given privilege holds in
it a lawful right to disobey
God. Therefore to break His
commands is not in order.
Liberty misused gets us in
chains. ,
We reason rather loosely
'that men have a right to do
what they will, and accord
ing to that we say that a per
son deceived by a glowing ad
may buy himself or herself a
bottle of "85 proof that leaves
you breathless," drink it
within a quarter of a mile
from town (as we saw illus
trated a day or so ago one
fourth mile just east of Jack
sonville, the neck of a fifth
protruding from the sack in
which it came, almost on the
roadbed, with cork and con
tents extracted) and drive on.
Liberty? Yes, to drink and
drive, and do as a man did to
myself and wife yesterday on
a curve.Had I not overhugged
my side we would have been
sideswiped or worse. "Give
me liberty or give me death,"
but don't give me liberty and
death too.
Or we say that if he or she
wants to break God's com
mandments and labor, buy or
sell on the Lord's day, he or
she "has a right to do so."
Or if he or she wants to
chain smoke, induce lung can
cer, shorten life, frankly ad-(
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Ex-President Harry S. Tru
man is basking in the warm
and pleasant glow of the news
spotlight as . this is written.
He spent several hours Sun
day strolling around the White
House area of Washington,
posing for the photographers,
kidding the - newsmen and
waving and smiling at passers
by who recognized him.
He was the lead-off wit
ness before the house bank
ing committee in the first of.
its current series of hearings
on ways to alleviate unem
ployment and give the reces'
sion the bum's rush.
He is obviously having him
self a wonderful time.
TTOW would he banish the
"recession and give every
body wonderfuljobs with lots
and lots of overtime?
As he puts it, it is all quite
simple. Just SPEND MORE
and TAX LESS. In that wav.
he said, more money would
be left m the pockets of the
people and the spending of
tnis money would bring pros
perity with a capital P.
Specifically, he urged the
congress to cut five billion
dollars off the tax bill and
launch big defense and public
works spending programs.
rFHAT, he indicated, is how
he would do it if he were
President again.
fortune
He isn't President again. A
program of the sort he pro
poses would mean another
period of soaring inflation
with wages going up one day
and prices going up the next
and prices keeping always a
couple of jumps ahead of
wages.
And
All the while
The national debt going up
like a rocket headed for the
moon. That's the way France
has been doing it for lo! these
many years, and France, the
experts all appear to agree,
is finally headed for national
bankruptcy. Barring, of course
a miraculous rabbit pulled out
of a miraculous hat.
T70RMER President Truman
i .
is a politician. I'm sure we
all concede that he is a
CHARMING politician. We
will go farther than that. We
will grant that he is a patri
otic citizen and that he means
well. And we will all confess
to a strong personal liking
for him.
But his nroDOsal tn swem
the recession under the rug
by the simnle dtoppkr nf nut
ting down taxes and beefing
up government spending (with
rjrintine -Dress monev is Hpar.
iy a political proposal, de
signed to gather in the votes
of the thoughtless in a cam
paign year.
1 m sure he doesn't. BE-
mit that any 'and all such
would give their eyeteeth to
shake the habit, "he or she
has a right to do so."
But what, we ask, about the
chains, and the chain reac
tions of wrong examples and
wrong influences on the plas
tic rising generation, and on
Jhe older generation? Are we
giving them liberty or is it
death?
"Give me liberty or give
me death," but don't give me
both in near proximity.
H. R. Bulman, .
Route 1, Box 316 A
Medford
The Socialists Have a Cure
To the Editor: The incredi
ble thing about the current
jobless situation is that it
takes place at a time when our
"free enterprise" system is re
ceiving the massive injection
of over $44 billion a year in
the form of government mili
tary expenditures. Imagine
what our economy would look
like if peace were to break
out!
What strikes one most about
the anti-recession proposals
of both Republicans and
Democrats is their timidity
and inadequacy. Neither party
seems to have gone beyond tn
thinking of the New Deal, yet
unemployment as late as 1940
was 8,100,000 persons, or 15
per cent of the labor force.
The following seven point pro
gram represents a practical
program for recession ridden
America in 1958. We Demo
cratic Socialists believe that
this program deserves the
careful study of all men of
good will, and that in advanc
ing it we perform a needed
service for America:
1. Raise Unemployment In
surance Benefits now to $50
per week, plus $3 per week
for each dependent.
2. Extend duration of Unem
L
East Main St.
DAIRY -
Drive-In Service
Smile . . . Well,
Gomulka Drastically Tightens
Control Over Polish Workers
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Polish Communist Leader
Wladyslaw Gomulka is dras
tically tightening up his con
trol of indus
trial workers
and writers.
He has an
nounced that
strikes by
members of
labor unions
are now ille
gal. He has
all but abol
ished the
Cbarles M.
McCann
workers councils" which he
had set up to share control
of factories.
The comparative freedom
which Polish writers were
given after the revolt of Octo
ber, 1956, is being progressive
ly curbed. ,
As first secretary of the
Communist Party, Gomulka
led the revolt which won Po
land's freedom ' from Soviet
Russian domination.
The New Policy
Since then, he has adroitly
managed to keep his country
independent despite the oppo
sition of Moscow-minded Com
munist leaders and despite a
LIEVE in it. His idea is that
once the Democrats are safely
in they can afford to go ahead
and do what HAS to be done.
SO MUCH for the POLITI
CAL way.
Let's take a look now at
what the PEOPLE are DO
ING. They are sitting tight and
saving their money. In Janu
ary and February of this year
(1958) the reduced their in
stallment debt by a little bet
ter, than 800 MILLION dol
lars. .
The people of the United
States of America at this mo
ment in history own more
than a THIRD OF A TRIL
LION dollars in "liquid" as
sets. In savings bonds and
savings accounts in banks they
have 135 billion dollars. Other
billions are in checking ac
counts, savings and loan asso
ciations, currency and govern
ment bonds other than sav
ings bonds, ownership of cor
poration securities and equi
ties in life insurance and pen
sion plans.
A LL IN ALL, the American
people as a whole are well
heeled.
Bui; . .
As of now ,
They are sitting tight and
saving their money. I have an
idea they are SCARED by the
screwball things the politi
cians are proposing and intend
to HANG ONTO THEIR
MONEY until the politicians
begin to talk a little less wild
and woolly. -
ployment Insurance benefits
period to one year.
3. Amend all State Unem
ployment Insurance laws to
provide complete free medical
care for unemployed workers
and their families. Payments
to come from Unemployment
Insurance reserve funds and
to cover visits to private fam
ily physicians, drugs and med
ications, hospital costs, surg
ery, dentistry, and psychothe
rapy. 4. Inaugurate a planned and
coordinated program of fed
eral, state and municipal pub
lic works, with priority for
schools, hospitals, and hous
ing.
5. Enact federal legislation
to reduce the regular work
week from 40 to 35 hours.
6. Enact a "paid vacation
act" providing two weeks paid
vacation to all workers after
one year, and three weeks aft
er two years.
7. Undertake a federal gov
ernment program to buy or
build industrial plants to be
run as "public corporations,"
in all monopolistic and semi
monopolistic industries. Such
public corporations to hire the
unemployed and to operate in
direct competition with pri
vately owned companies. The
motto of the public corpora
tions to be "Production for
service to the public, not for
profit." Public corporations to
be operated, not by govern
ment bureaucrats, but by
boards of directors represent
ing the workers, consumers,
and managers. All public cor
porations to recognize the un
ion of the trade.
Irwin Suall
National Secretary,
Socialist Party Social
Democratic Federation
303 Fourth ave.
New York 10, N.Y.
L
SMITH
at Genessee
and Always a
Almost Always
fog... mm
most difficult economic situation.-
His new policy does not
mean that Gomulka is moving
toward restoration of the Sta
linist type of harsh dictator
ship. " . ,
But it is further, evidence
of the, fact which Nikita S.
Khrushchev found out for
himself in Russia that in a
Communist country a little
liberalization can be danger
ous. The effect of the new anti-strike-order
is to bring the
labor unions more closely
under direct Communist Party
control.
The ruling on the workers
councils means that these,
too, will be subjected to closer
Communist control. .
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
UNDOING A MISTAKE
This week there will be
preparatory talks dealing
with the question of how to
get ready to
prepare for a
meeting, face
to face at the
summit, be
tween Presi
dent E i s en
h o w e r and
Prime Minis
ter K h r ush
chev. Waller Lippmann Both sides
know that there is no pros
pect whatever of any sub
stantial agreement at such a
meeting. And yet, as the cards
have been dealt, the Soviet
Union will score heavily if
we can be induced by the
pressure of public opinion to
agree to hold a meeting. This
means that somehow or other
we have been out-maneuvered
and are being pushed into
doing what we do not want to
do.
With hindsight I think it is
now fairly plain why and
where we made the mistake
when a few months ago the
Russians first proposed a
meeting at the summit. There
were two alternative ways of
reacting to their proposal. One
was to take it lightly and the
other was to take it very ser
iously. To take it lightly
would have been to say that
we were ready for explora
tory talks without prospect or
pretense that a good settle
ment could or would come
out of these talks. They would
be talks which might, at the
most, result in agreements to
instruct the Foreign Ministers
to explore certain questions.
On the other hand, to take
the Soviet proposal of a sum
mit meeting seriously was to
take the line we did take. It
was to say that Eisenhower
canont talk with Khrushchev
until Dulles has negotiated
with Gromyko sometime im
portant which Eisenhower and
Khrushchev can then agree
upon. '
rpHIS serious reaction has
a proved to be a false move.
The basic fact is that on
neither side is there at pre
sent any willingness to con
cede anything substantial.
Our tactic has made it neces
sary for Mr. Dulles to be the
opposition to a summit meet
ing. Yet much of the world is
thinking wishfully that the
President, once he got into a
personal meeting, would
prove to be flexible and con
ciliatory. The Russians, who in all
matters of substance are as
unyielding as Mr. Dulles, are
making the most of the no
tion that with Eisenhower
personally something might
be done to relax the tensions
of the world. The fact is that
something might be done,
given Eisenhower's tempera
mental desire to agree with
the man he is seeing. But that
is one of the powerful though
unavowed reasons for the
American opposition to a
summit conference. Khrush
chev has said that the summit
agreements might be reached
which could not be reached
down below. A compelling
reason for delaying or avoid
ing a meeting at the summit
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The 5,600 workers councils
set up in factories will be en
larged into "conferences of
self-government."
In each factory, the "con
ference" will consist of the
workers council, management
and representatives of the
Communist Party.
It seems most likely that
the Communist Party will
have the deciding voice in
any decisions.
The latest restriction o n
writers bans the publication
of articles and books which
do not serve a "useful politi
cal purpose."
The trouble seems to ba
that Polish writers took ad
vantage of Gomulka's liberal
policy to be a little too lib
eral. .
is to keep the negotiations
down below that is to say,
in the hands of Secretary
Dulles. For the prevailing of
ficial view in Washington is
that no agreements can now
be reached at the summit
without making concessions
that should not be made.
IS IT too late to alter our
tactic, and to take what I
have been calling the lighter
view of the Soviet proposal?
Why should it be too late? Is
it because we have built up
the impression that if there
is a summit meeting at all, it
will mean that Mr. Dulles has
negotiated some sort of im
portant agreement with trie
Soviet Union? There is such
an impression. The impression
could be erased quickly
enough if the President were
to say that there has been
enough note-writing and that
he is prepared to go with Sec
retary Dulles to meet Mr.
Khrushchev and Mr. Gro
myko, say on board a ship and
for not more than a long
waek end: He would like to
discuss at this meeting the
possibility of another and
longer meeting later on.
I do not see what would be
lost by such a move. Would
Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Gail
lard object? Surely they
would know that nothing
would be agreed to behind
their backs, Would the move
relax the tensions and cause
the United States and the
NATO allies, as it is common
ly said, to "lower their
guard?" If it did that, the
only thing to say is that we
are all such fools anyhow
that we are not fit to survive,
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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