4 Friday, April 18, 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 18. 1949 (Sunday)
The annual spring luncheon
for all Jackson county teach
ers will be held April 24 in
the Rogue Valley Country
club.
The Medford Air Reserve
training flight has been grant
ed unlimited flight training.
20 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1938 (Monday)
Registration for the May
20 primary, which closes to
morrow at 5 p.m., continued
steady at the county clerk's
office. '
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Young
men with air guns are report
ed creating havoc. They are
shooting at objects of all
descriptions."
30 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1928 (Wednesday)
The city council voted last
night for a sale of city water
Improvement bonds at 5 per
cent interest.
From local and personal
column: The Medford and
Ashland high schools will
have the same speager at then
graduation exercises Dr.
Arnold Bennett Hall, presi
dent of the University of
Oregon.
40 YEARS AGO t
April 18. 1918 (Saturday)
From local and personal
column: "For the first time
in months there was no Jun
ior Red Cross or other special
food sale at the public market
this morning."
The Seventh company, 32
of whose members were
transferred to the 65th artil
lery now in France, is to be
split up further, according to
letters received here.
Vhai's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Montpelier is the capital
of which state?
2. Bible: What was the
name of Simon's brother?
'3. Complete the quotation,
"Tis better to have loved and
lost"
4. Which of these is a mam
mal armadillo, eel and
whale?
5. The inventor of the first
practical reaping machine was
Eli Whitney, Cyrus McCor
mick, or Henry Ford?
6. Nothing can exceed the
velocity of light; true or false?
7. Name the author of
"The Foxes of Harrow" and
"The Vixens?"
8. Turnips, tomatoes, or
truffles were once called love
apples? 9. Is anthracite or bitumi
nous coal ciassed as soft?
10. What is the name of
the first atomic-powered sub
marine? Answers: 1. Vermont. 2. An
drew. 3. " than never to
have loved at all." 4. Arma
dillo and whale. 5. McCor
mick. 6. True. 7. Frank Yerby.
8. Tomatoes. 9. Bituminous.
10. Nautilus.
PREMIER TO BE INVITED
Tel Aviv, Israel HP)
Moshe, Kol, chairman of Is
rael's middle-of-the-road Pro
gressive Party, said today he
would invite Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev to visit
Israel during its 10th anni
versary year.
Our Prizewinning Ladies
The men in the newsroom bow to the ladies
this week. We're proud of our gals.
Each of the two women regularly employed
in the Mail Tribune news department has won a
high honor for herself, and thus for the news
paper, during the week.
Mrs. Olive Starcher, our women's editor,
pulled a "repeat performance' and again won
honors in the statewide competition of the Press
Women of Oregon for her column, for her Sun
day society page, and for a feature stoiy. Her
column will be entered in national competition
for excellence.
AND on Page 1 today is announced the fact
that the Mail Tribune has won an award of
merit from the National Religious Publicity Coun
cil, one of only three in the nation.
The award is chiefly almost entirely, in fact
due to the, efforts of our church editor, Miss
Peggyann Hutchinson.
"Peg" has taken a real and sincere interest
in the work of reporting the religious news of the
community, and has worked hard at it. The
samples of her work which were sent in to the
NRPC competition gave ample evidence that she
has provided the Mail Tribune with rounded, in
teresting and complete coverage of the news of
the churches in Medford.
.
IKE every other working newspaperman, or
woman, on a small daily paper such as the
Mail Tribune, both Mrs. Starcher and Miss
Hutchinson have a multitude of duties and tasks.
Miss Hutchinson, 'for
Starcher in writing stories for the Sunday society
section, in laying out the pictures for the section,
and in the coverage of some social events. She is
also a regular reporter for the paper, covering
both the city hall and the courthouse at various
times during the week. She has covered public
hearings as well as church conventions; criminal
trials as well as weddings ; new commercial con
struction as well as new church buildings.
Mrs. Starcher, likewise, does a job that goes
much further than is implied in her formal title
of "society editor," which really is a title which
is more and more meaningless as the interests of
women broaden in today's world, and encompass
politics, music, drama, international affairs, the
arts anything, m fact, which occupy the time
and attention of well-informed people.
.
TPHE society section or women's section, as
V some prefer to call it with perhaps greater
accuracy has long been a regular part of most
daily newspapers.
On the Mail Tribune, as it has grown, the
women's section under Mrs. Starcher's guidance
has grown too, and now on a regular basis cov
ers far more than the parties of "the 400," the
current weddings and engagements, or the activi
ties of the lodges and clubs of the city although
these are not skimped, either.
Her Sunday picture
wide variety of subjects, from wild flowers to
water skiing, and from homemaking to the activi
ties of the Great Decisions groups.
HTHE church section is relatively a more recent
A development. And on the Mail Tribune, only
in recent years has it had the growth to which we
feel it is entitled representing, as it does, a
major area 01 interest ana acuvny ui an cas
ing number of our readers.
At the ceremony in New York last night at
which Miss Hutchinson accepted the award for
the Mail Tribune and a citation for herself a
brief message from the newspaper, outlining its
beliefs about religious news coverage, was read.
It said :
A good newspaper is, in effect, a mirror held up
to the face of the community it serves. It prints the
news which is to say that it tells the story of what
happens to people, and what people do, what they
think, what they believe, and what they hope.
An important part of this responsibility to mirror
the community is the obligation to report the spiritual
. life of the community, largely through the activities
'of its religious institutions, for they are the outlets
through which people give expression to their re
ligious beliefs.
We plan our church coverage in the belief that
church news is, in truth, NEWS; that it should extend
beyond the simple listing of services and sermon
topics, and that our readers are better served when
we make the effort to make religious news coverage
a significant part of our day-to-day operation.
1IE ARE proud of our girls. They certainly
v" deserved the awards they have received.
We are equally proud of the people who work,
mostly anonymously, to turn out the other parts
of the paper the sports pages, the farm page,
the general news pages for both local and tele
graph news.
It is no secret that we make mistakes, both of
commission and omission. But that is true of all
newspapers, despite the most conscientious efforts
to avoid them.
What this editorial is all about, really, is to
say that it is the constant endeavor of the Mail
Tribune to bring its readers the best, most com
plete, best - written and best-edited paper it is
within our power to produce.
When our people win awards such as those
which Mre. Starcher and Miss Hutchinson have
won, we are delighted, pleased and proud.
But our objective, of course,- is not to win
awards it is to bring our readers a constantly
improving daily newspaper. E.A.
instance, assists Mrs.
pages have covered a
Dennis the Menace
'YOU SURE GOT A NtC,SOFT DiVAM.lAOyi "
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Speed note in the news:
Dr. Wernher von Braun,
who rates as perhaps our top
missile expert, says it is def
initely possible to shoot a man
across the Atlantic ocean,
using a rocket-like inter
continental missile.
He adds, in testimony be
fore a house committee in
Washington, that such a trip
to Europe would take about
a half hour.
"PRIVOLOUS comment:
What would the passen
ger look like when they took
him out of the missile at the
other end of the trip? It isn't
speed that kills, you know.
It's what happens when the
speeding vehicle STOPS.
"TiOOD for very, VERY seri-
ous thought especially . if
you happen to lean toward the
idea that America should call
off development of nuclear
weapons, regardless of what
Russia does:
In an article in Look Maga
zine entitled The Cold Peace
and Our Future, Sir Winston
Churchill says:
"In former days, no coun
try could hope to build up in
secret military forces vast
enough to overwhelm a neigh
bor. Now the means of de
struction of many millions of
people can be CONCEALED
IN THE SPACE OF A FEW
CUBIC YARDS."
THE 64 trillion dollar ques
tion: ,
Can men like Khrushchev
be trusted not to make nu
clear weapons and CONCEAL
them?
THAT'S enough of such
stuff.
Let's get closer home.
IN an advertisement signed
by its president, D. J. Rus
sell, the Southern Pacific
Company says:
"In the first three months
of 1958 Southern Pacific
built or acquired 1345 freight
cars costing over $14,800,000.
"In the next three months,
April, May and June, South
ern Pacific will build or
otherwise acquire 1108
freight cars costing over
$15,400,000.
"In 1957 Southern Pacific
built or acquired 6,990 freight
cars at a cost of over $75,
900,000." THE advertisement contin
ues: 'iThese expenditures for
freight cars at this time evi
dence our CONFIDENCE in
the continuing long-t e r m
growth and prosperity of the
territory we serve. In the
Golden Empire the Southern
Pacific serves
"Trees are continuing to
grow
"Crops are continuing to
ripen
"Expanding industries are
continuing to produce
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
THE CHILDREN in a certain school in Boston instituted a
drive for funds to build a new statue of Paul Revere. The
father of one of the kids was a celebrated ex-jockey and, though
he was far wealthier than
most of the other parents,
he refused to contribute a
single cent. "It's not that
I'm stingy; you know that,"
he explained to his boy. "It's
just that I never had much
use for Revere. He gave his
horse a bad ride. He went
wide at Lexington."
Desl Arnaz tells about a
long telephone conversation he
had with Producer Sara" Gold
wyn. It was full of charm
and the best intentions, but
there was one slight draw
back: neither principal was able to understand one word the other
was saying. An hour after the frustrated pair hung up, Goldwyn's
secretary phoned Desi's secretary and implored, "Will you please tell
me just what it was Mr. Goldwyn promised to do for Mr. Arnaz?"
,Jp .95?.by Bennett cW. Distributed by King Feiturei Syndicate. t
JENKINS
"And more freight cars are
going to be NEEDED."
rriHAT is to say:
-- Southern Pacific operates
in the WEST.
The future of the West is
golden with promise.
It justifies confidence.
Editorial
Comment
LET CUSTOMER DECIDE
One of our columnists i
couple of weeks ago was quite
irritated because his favorite
TV program, "Meet the
Press," was pre-empted by a
commercial program. The
columnist said, he has two TV
sets in his house so that no
one can cheat him out of wit
nessing and hearing the pro
grams he likes by "tuning in
a cowboy who must kill
villain, the way cowboys have
been killing villains on the
stage forever and a day." But
two TV sets were of no avail,
nor would a dozen be, when
the network substituted pro
grams.
This led the columnist to a
discussion of pay TV and to
his conclusion that it is the
only way he can escape the
torrents of words and kaleido
scope of pictures in which he
has no interest.
That goes for radio, too,
but in the field of radio one
has some escape. There are
many commercial-free, purely
entertaining or educational
programs available via radio,
particularly in the realm of
frequency modulation. FM
stations generally appeal to a
selected audience because
they are often much less de
pendent on advertising. Some,
in fact, are subsidized in
whole or in part by contribu
tors who are willing to pay
for high class music programs
that they may be spared the
trash with which most stand
ard programs are cluttered.
Some standard broadcast sta
tions, it is True, devote por
tions of their air-time to
worthwhile programs, but by
far the most must make com
mercial concessions to stay in
business.
FM would be preferred any
way by these people to whom
FM stations aim their appeal,
particularly music lovers,
since the wider FM channels
permit broadcasting of the en
tire audible range of sound,
which cannot be done on
standard broadcast bands be
cause they are limited to 10
kilocycle bands, in contrast
with the 15,000 cycles re
quired to produce the full
tonal range. Then, too, FM is
static-free and relatively lm
mune from interference.
It is not being consistent to
permit radio broadcasters to
fcA7
I PAUL
IREVgBS
Summit Step, French Political
Crisis, Top Foreign Events
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
The United States, Britain
and France agreed this week
to start negotiations with Rus
sia for, a sum-
mit meet i n g
on world ten
sions. In joint
notes, the
Western allies
accepted a So
viet proposal
that the nego
t i a t i ons be
ctartoH in
McCann MOSCOW at
once by the ambassadors of
the four countries.
It was the first positive
step toward a meeting of
government, Including Presi
dent Eisenhower and Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khrush
chev, which now appears to
be almost inevitable.
' But the Allied and Soviet
governments were still far
apart on even the preliminary
negotiations.
Russia had proposed that
the ambassadors discuss mere
ly the physical arrangements
time, place and composition
for a meeting first of the
foreign ministers of the four
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
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the writer although under cer
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pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The letters printed in this
:olumn do not necessarily repre
sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary is often the
case.
Objects to Shows
To the Editor: It's an insult
to our integrity these "Adults
only" shows that the theaters
are running. Is this supposed
to be entertainment?
How many juveniles see
these shows? Many, I'll bet.
And I'm sure these shows do
harm to adult morality as
well. Naturally, you will get
an audience to such trash but
if you run a good, clean type
show the audience will be as
good. It is up to you, the oper
ators of these theaters, to sup-
ply us with good food for our
minds, not poison. It's up to
us,, the . supporters, not to
patronize such trash. .
We have so few places of
entertainment in this town
especially for the . younger
folks.
Let's supply . good whole
some general patronage
shows and I'm sure the com
munity will benefit by them
Mrs. Robert Messer
817 Broad st.
Medford
"Will To Win" Needed
To the Editor: What a pity it
was to see dear ole Medford
Hi take a weak seventh place
in the annual Hayward Relays
here in Eugene last Saturday.
For neary 20 years Medford
has been recognized, by track
lovers all over the state, as
the breeding place of track
champions. For example in
recent years Jack Morris, D.C.
Mills, Jack Mode and others
have gone on to earn college
letters after being a part of
Medford Hi's championship
track teams.
I realize that Bill Bower-
man left a. terrifically large
pair of shoes to be filled when
he left as track coach, but Bob
Newland filled them and con
tinued to enhance Medford's
reputation as a center of track
stars.
Surely something can be
done to reinstill that "Will To
Win" that Medford High
School track teams have al
ways had, so that her teams in
future years will continue to
enjoy that wonderful reputa
tion of being a winner. It took
a long time to establish it but
it can be lost so quickly.
Herb Nill (Class'47)
2624 Baker st.
Eugene, Ore.
operate as pay stations and
deny the privilege to TV
broadcasters. .We think tele
vision . should receive the
same treatment as radio. Let
the commercial stations com
pete if they can, and we're
sure they can, with pay TV,
that the people, who support
both, may make their own
choice. As things are, you
don't have free enterprize in
TV. We fully agree with our
columnist. Albany Democrat-Herald.
Syrian Forces Fire
Upon French Planes
Istanbul, Turkey in
Three French planes were
fired upon by Syrian forces
on a flight from Beirut to Is
tanbul. Iskenderun airport ot-
ficials said Wednesday night.
One of the planes, sent to
fight locusts in southeastern
Turkey, was forced down in
Syrian territory, the officials
said. The other two landed
safely at Iskenderun.-
countries, then for the sum
mit conference.
The Allies insisted that the
ambassadors must discuss the
problems which would be tak
en up at the summit meeting,
in order to insure that it
would not turn into a mere
stage for propaganda
speeches.
France was plunged into
another cabinet crisis, demon
strating once again that it is
arithmetically impossible to
find a majority in the French
National Assembly for any
policy good or bad in
North Africa. .
Premier Felix Gaillard re
signed after five months and
nine days in office. The As
sembly voted 321 to 255
against his . proposals for re
opening negotiations with Tu
nisia on the status of French
forces in the country, airfields
and Bizerte naval base.
Gaillard had left the way
open for taking the question
of control of the Tunisian-Algerian
border to the United
Nations. Right-wing elements
in the Assembly, led by Gaul-
Babson Suspicious
Of Economic Tricks
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babscn Park, Mass. I am!
writing this after a visit to
Florida and should be more
optimistic. April is a wonder-
f ul month
there. The
former cold
weather and
f r e e z es are
now over. The
cold and rains
are entirely
forgotten. In
fact, they will
Roter w. Babson give Florida
better crops
and more tourists next win
ter than ever before.
My time there enabled me
to read more newspapers than
usual, and it seems as if eco
nomic history may report, in
years to come, that the 1958
"recession was started in
Washington. Many Congress
men there seem to be void of
all reason. Like people in a
hall where a fire has started,
they are panicky and rushing
headlong. Only they are look
ing for a way to "get in,"
rather than to "get out"! .
I know nothing about poli
tics, but I do know my "sta
tistics." The current figures
on unemployment art very
deceptive. They compare with
only the past few years when
both husband and wife have
been working. This, however,
has been an abnormal situa
tion. I have roughly complet
ed statistics for the number
of families today without a
wage earner compared with
previous years. Although 5
per cent or more persons may
be unemployed, my estimate
is that less than 1 per cent of
the families today are without
waee earners, is tms a de
pression?
What About th Cures?
Before the Franklin Roose
velt era, every depression was
allowed to "take its natural
course." I -personally have
been through four such de
pressions. They developed be
cause of (1) inefficiency, (2)
careless spending, (3) dishon
esty, (4) high living costs, and
(5) unprincipled labor leaders.
These five fundamental evils
resulted in a business decline
with increasing unemploy
ment until the nation had a
"spiritual awakening." Then
those evils were replaced by
(1) efficiency, (2) thrift, (3)
honesty, (4) lower living costs
and (5) reasonable labor lead
ers, and prosperity returned.
To bring us out of the last
Great Depression, various
quack 'medicines, pills, and
plasters" were used. Among
these gimmicks let me men
t i o n unemployment insur
ance, veterans' payments, fed
eral building loans, old age
pensions, minimum wages,
unsound taxes on business,
unfair labor legislation, farm
price support, and finally the
NRA fixing of retail prices.
This last was declared uncon
stitutional by the U.S. Su
preme court and the house of
cards collapsed. Then busi
ness aeain improved and we
soon entered another period
of prosperity. No Congress
man knows yet whether the
"New Deal" or the Supreme
court decision created the
new prosperity; but we do
know it was at the expense of
our dollar value, which de
clined to fifty cents.
Now Too Hasty
From recent interviews
with Washington officials,
these men seem very con
fused. I point out to them that
the present recession has oc
curred notwithstanding the
fact that practically all the
above New Deal "remedies"
are still in force. If they had
worked in the "Thirties," why
have they not already pr
vented this business reces
sion? The Congressmen up
for election are unable to an
list Jacques Soustelle, stood
firm in their refusal to allow
further internationalization of
the Tunisia dispute, which is
inextricably linked with the
war in Algeria.
The 100-seat Communist
bloc, which echoes the Al
gerian rebels' demands for in
dependence, also voted against
Gaillard.
Indonesian gov e r n m e n t
forces landed in rebel-held
Sumatra in a land and sea
operation.
Infantry and paratroopers,
covered by - warships and
planes, made their landing
on the west coast and attack
ed the rebel stronghold of
Padang, hoping to crush the
army elements who had re
belled against the central gov
ernment. In Cuba, the rebel forces of
Fidel Castro failed dismally
in their bid to overthrow
President Fulgencio Batista
by organized uprisings and a
nationwide general strike.
The rebel movement suffer
ed from lack of central con
swer this question. Yet, they
want these gimmicks increas
ed and others added. They
want more synthetic "cures"
put into effect at once, with
a cut in taxes added. Never
before has such an economic
panic existed in Washington,
arising in so short a time with
such little definite leadership.
I believe President Eisenhow
er feels in his heart as most
economists do, but that he is
not a free man. I wish when
reading his Bible he would
seriously note the 14th chap
ter of First Corinthians, the
8th verse.
Now to conclude by little
sermon: The truth is that no
one knows whether these pro
posed "cures" will bring back
prosperity or not; you, my
readers, know as much about
that as anyone. But we do
know that further devalua
tion of the dollar, will follow,
During the 180 years of U.S
history, the New Deal "cures
have never been applied so
early in a depression or reces
s i o n. Therefore, increasing
them now cannot logically be
based , upon any . previous
tests. Furthermore if these
panicky congressmen were
not running for office, they
would not now be calling for
pain removers, plasters, and
tranquilizers. Finally, let us
all remember that even to
day, with the "terrible unem
ployment," less than 1 per
cent of our families are with
out a wage earner.
ROGUE VALLEY CRUSADE for CHRIST
In Cooperation with the
Following Churches ....
MEDFORD FIRST BAPTIST, FRIENDS, ASSEMBLY OF GOD,
BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD, CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN,
PILGRIM HOLINESS,- FREE METHODIST, MEDFORD COM
MUNITY. EAGLE POINT COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH.
WHITE CITY BEREAN BAPTIST. CENTRAL POINT COM
MUNITY BIBLE CHURCH.
Invites you to
SPIRITUAL LIFE
CRUSADE
April 27 to May 4
Wl
ith
ARMIN GESSWEIN
JESSIE LEISE
MEETING
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
SUNDAY, APRIL 27 - 2:30 p.m. & 9:15 p m.
TUESDAY, APRIL
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
APRIL 30 to MAY 4 -7:30 p.m.
trol. Batista remained com
pletely in control of the arm
ed forces. Castro was reported
running short of weapons in
his eastern - Cuba mountain
stronghold.
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VOTE FOR
BYE
Republican For
State
Representative
EVE NYE believes In GOOD,
SOUND GOVERNMENT plain
and without frills or extravagance.
State government, to be truly rep
resentative and responsive to the
needs and wishes of the people,
must be controlled on the LOCAL
LEVEL. The BEST government is
the CLOSEST to the people! So, a
vote for EVE NYE is a vote
AGAINST bureaucracy.
EVE NYE also believes that a
GOOD state government must be
run like a family. It must spend
its money wisely live within its
means. It must NOT work to death
the " breadwinner the taxpayer!
Every effort must be made to as
sure a fair and equitable distribu
tion of the cost of good, progres
sive government.
Paid Adv. Eve Nye for State Rep
resentative Committee, Eugene
Thorndike, Chairman, 55 South
Berkeley Way, Medford.
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