4 Monday, April 21, 1938
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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 21, 1948 (Wednesday)
A proposal to increase the
school budget by $209,602.11
over the 6 per cent limitation
imposed by state law was ap
proved by more than five to
one yesterday in Medford.
A new milk regulation ap
proved by the city council
last night changes the permit
fee for dairies producing milk
for sale.
20 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1938 (Thursday)
A four-state conference of
agriculture department heads
was held here today to work
out a coordinated program
for freer flow of farm prod
ucts across state lines.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "A few
more warm days, and the
barefoot boy, will be getting
a big toe caught in an electric
fan."
30 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1928 (Saturday)
From local and personal
column: Because of the wres
tling matches in Medford last
night, Prospect was tempo
rarily depopulated of its adult
male inhabitants.
The junior class of the high
school has decided to hold a
carnival this year instead of
a play as in previous years.
40 YEARS AGO
April 21. 1918 (Friday)
No large subscriptions had
been made in the Liberty
bond campaign in the Med
ford district up to early this
afternoon.
From local and personal
column: "The student body
will give an entertainment
for the baseball team at the
high school tonight."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Name the Philadelphia
seamstress who was the le
gendary maker of the first
"Stars and Stripes'" flag.
2. "Treasure Island," "Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." and
"Kidnapped" were written by
which author?
3. Who are the only two
living former Presidents of
the U.S.? . .
4. Who originated the com
ic strip, "Mutt and Jeff"?
5. Alligators ' are hatched
from eggs; true or false?
6. A line has how many di
mensions? .
7. Bible: Who were the first
two children of Adam and
Eve?
8. How many stars did the
first American flag have?
9. Is the State of Kansas the
greatest producer of rye,
wheat, oats or corn?
10. Where
island?
is Corregidor
Answers: 1. Betsy Ross. 2.
Robert Louis Stevenson. 3.
Herbert Hoover and Harry
Truman. 4. Bud Fisher. 5.
True. 6 One (length.) 7. Cain
and Abel. 8. Thirteen. 9.
Wheat. 10. Al the entrance to
Manila Bay. P.L
Lots of Candidates
Jackson county voters will hate to decide
among 35 candidates seeking ejection or nomina
tion in the May primary election to only 10 of
fices. The Mail -Tribune, except under circum
stances which it considers unusual and com
pelling, makes no recommendations in the pri
mary election, believing that this primarily is a
party responsibility. It does make recommenda
tions in the fall general elections.
But this year, because of the number of can
didates, it will run a series of editorials con
cerning primary election candidates, not endors
ing any of them, but in an attempt to spell out
what the offices are, the qualifications needed,
and a little about the candidates.
The first of these "clarifying" editorials, deal
ing .with the nonpartisan offices, follows. E.A.
Judges are Important
Judges come close to being the most import
ant of all our public officials.
They deal with justice. And there is nothing
more important than that in the entire field of
government.
It follows that judges should be the best men
available. They should be impartial, thoughtful,
judicious, well-schooled
ienced m jurisprudence.
Reasonable ambition
but not the kind which
humility needed in a powerful office, nor the
kind which regards the bench as either a stepping-stone
or a sinecure.
rN the local level, the circuit judgeship is the
most important non-partisan office.
Jackson and Josephine counties comprise the
first judicial district of the state. The district has
three circuit judgeships.
must be filled from Jackson county and one from
Josephine county. The third may be filled from
either county.
The Josephine county position is now filled
by Judge Orville Millard of Grants Pass, who
is not up for reelection.
contest in this year s election.
(XNE of the positions (No. 3) is that now held
by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly, who was
appointed to the job after it was created by the
1957 regular session of the legislature.
His opponent will be Walter C. Nunley, form
er district attorney of Jackson county.
The two men, in many ways, are opposed
m their philosophies.
Kelly, during his years in practice, frequently
was a defense attorney m
of course, as DA, was a
Nunley is outspokenly in favor of the death
penalty. Kelly, prior to his
made no secret of the fact that he was opposed
to it on principle. Nunley is a registered Repub
lican, Kelly a Democrat, although since the job
is non-partisan, they do not ran as party members.
TTHE other circuit judge post here (No. 1) is
that now held by Judge H. K. Hanna, who is
retiring at the end of his term after many years
of excellent and conscientious service.
The candidates James M. Main, now Jack
son county district judge, Manville Heisel and
Robert Dames, the latter two both practicing at
torneys in Medford.
Main is the only one
tensive judicial experience, on the district bench,
and as municipal judge for Medford. He also
has practiced in Medford for several years, and
has held office in the
present, he is a member of the committee on
. . -mm -i yv
judicial administration, which is studying ure
eron's laws to propose any needed revisions.
' Dames, in addition
been active m a number of organizations in town,
including veterans, church and fraternal groups.
Heisel also has been active in public affairs,
among them the Air Force reserve, the Red Cross,
and others. .
HTHE district judgeship
tion, dealing as it does with the bulk of small
civil actions, all minor criminal cases in its juris
diction, and as a court through which major
criminal cases pass before going to circuit court.
E. R. Bashaw, city 'attorney for Medford, is
the only active candidate for the position, and is
well-qualified to fill it.
(Another name will appear on the ballot, but
he has moved from the district).
CUMMING up, it should be understood by voters
that when they cast their votes in the judge
ship races, they are voting for a highly important
public official, and the decision should be made,
not on the basis of partisanship, or friendship,
or what their neighbor thinks.
It should be made on the basis of who is best
qualified for the office, who. will be able to ad
minister justice with an even hand, and with a
sound background of law, of experience and of
the human qualities which can temper the some
times chill atmosphere of the court. .
And we might suggest that the results of the
bar association poll which represents the opin
ions of their fellow-attorneys, who have, seen
them at work should cany SOME, but not con
clusive weight with voters in making their de
cisions. E.A.
in the law, and exper
is acceptable in a judge,
puts prestige before the
One of the positions
The other two are at
criminal cases. JNumey,
prosecutor.
elevation to the bench,
of the three with ex
local bar association. At
to his law practice, has
also is an important posi-
Dennis te Menace
'They're called freckles, buster. FffOClS Nor -
POiXA COTS I"
Matter of Fact
VINOGRADOV'S VICTORY
Washington The Soviet
ambassador to Paris, Sergei
Alexandrovich V i n o g radov,
- -re..;1""1 must be smil-
Cf
mg ever more
broadly than
usual. But
then he smiles
all the time,
carefully di
recting his
broadest
beams at the
m e m b ers of
Joseph Aisop ine more ex
t r e m e French Right-wing
groups in business and poli
tics. The Vinogradov themes
that are so beamingly ex
pounded are both simple and
appealing. The Soviet Union
is France's friend. The Soviet
Union recognizes and ap
proves France's historic posi
tion in North Africa. The
United States, in contrast, is
France's secret enemy. The
United States hankers to get
possession of the oil in. the
Sahara, and to replace France
in North Africa. In fact, the
whole difficulty in Algeria is
nothing but an American
plot. .
Why, then; does not France
break her alliance with- the
United. States, seek Soviet
support in the North African
situation and on other mat
ters, and return to the old
link with Russia that existed
in the past? ,
x .
EVEN before this reporter
left Paris, Ambassador
Vinogradov had had enough
success with this line of talk
to produce, a minor scandal.
(He was invited to a shooting
party by the bearer of one of
France's great old names. This
had outraged, some of the
other bearers of great old
names, who are not only anti
Bolshevik but often still pro-
Romanov.) Since, then, Vino
gradov's beaming expositions
of Soviet loveliness and
American villainy have found
an immeasurably wider audi
ence as appeared in the de
feat of the Gaillard govern
ment on the Tunisian issue
with its attendant storm of
anti-American emotion.
It would be very wrong, of
course, to explain this anti-
American storm altogether
away, as just another of those
Soviet "propaganda victories"
that Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles so sadly com
plains about. At the climax of
the Indo - Chinese tragedy,
there was another anti-American
storm of" the same sort,
without any Soviet interven
tion, but with all the same
charges that greedy America
was plotting to steal France's
birthright.
In politics, alas, the famous
"French logic" ' too often
tends to consist of two propo-
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
BUDDY HACKETT claims that he saw with his own eyes, a
Proper Bostpnian come up to the theatre ticket agency in a
Broadway hotel lobby, and ask "Have you two reasonably
priced seats for Tristan and
Isolde' this evening?" A
new clerk behind the coun
ter grumbled, "Get outa
here. You know we ain't
allowed to sell tickets to no
wrestling match in a classy
hotel like this!",
.'.
Ever stop to think that your
doctor is a piller of the com
munity? A medic I know had to make
the foreman of a paint factory
swallow some pills after a be
hemoth of a binge. "Trouble
with me," admitted the fore
man thickly, "is that I will drink anything."
"Exactly," agreed the medic. "And right now you're under the
influence of lacquer." ".
Heard about the oft-married philosopher? He put divorce before
DcscAitcs. .
C by Bennett faf. Distributed by gins Feaiura radicate. .
By Joseph AIsop
I sitions. The first proposition
I is that France not only can
but must have her cake and
eat it too. And the second
proposition, which is trotted
out when proposition number
one does not work, is that
France has been betrayed
by her friends and allies, na
turally, and not by her ene
mies or her own weaknesses.
:
rpHE effort to have the cake
and eat it too has been
glaringly apparent from the
beginning of the Tunisian cri
sis. Shortly before the crisis
began, the French Chief of
General Staff, General Paul
Ely, officially informed the
French government that the
reconquest of Tunisia would
cost four hundred . billion
francs a year, and would re
quire national mobilization.
The price was thought to be
too high by everyone, includ
ing the Rightwing parliament
ary leaders who very much
wanted to reconquer Tunisia.
Even today, even among the
most extreme French Right
wingers, the price of a recon
quest of Tunisia is still
thought to be too high. But
that prevents no one from de
manding the practical fruits
of a reconquest of Tunisia
with extreme insistence and
indignation, and when the
American government fails
to back these demands to the
hilt, the American govern
ment is violently blamed.
O MUCH being said, how
ever, it has to be admitted
that Ambassador Vinogra
dov's smiling efforts have
made immense . progress in
the last week, and are due to
make more progress in the
time ahead. The only Soviet
purpose, of course, is to sep
arate France from the West
ern Alliance by the lever of
the North African problem,
which most naturally excites
the deepest national emotions.
In Britain, the same pattern
appears. But in Britain the
Soviet appeal is to the left
rather than the right, and the
lever being used is the strong
(and again natural) tide of
British emotion on the issue
of nuclear disarmament.
The fact now has to be
faced, moreover, that the
breakup of the Western Alli
ance is an entirely possible
event, which may even occur
at a rather early date. Any
sensible man can see that the
Western nations will hang
separately if they do not hang
together. But after years of
feeble leadership in all three
of the great nations of the
West, hanging together is
getting more and more diffi
cult and hanging separately is
becoming more and more
probable.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.
Stop Me
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
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.
AEC Policy Scored
To the Editor: Is the United
States government deliberate
ly pursuing a policy of se
crecy about the dangers of
radioactive fallout from atom
ic bomb tests? .The record of
the Atomic Energy Commis
sion shows that such a policy
is being followed.
Dr. Harrison Brown, pro
fessor of Geochemistry at the
California Institute of Tech
nology, testified to the Sen
ate disarmament sub-committee
that it was easier to ob
tain information on radioac
tive fallout from Japan than
from the AEC and Dr.
Brown has the highest type
of security clearance.
Dr. Maurice B. Visscher,
head of the University of Min
nesota Medical School's De
partment of Physiology, also
condemns AEC policy. In a
letter to the New York Times,
March 19, Dr.-Visscher said:
"Right now the most exten
sive data on strontium 90 in
milk in the United States are
in the hands of the U.S. Atom
ic Energy commission. On
March 6 I was showrrvthese
data which are marked 'For
Official Use,' and I am there
fore now not privileged to
disclose the facts."
Dr. Visscher then drew this
conclusion: "The facts in
question have no conceivable
military significance. They
are important only as back
ground information for pol
icy decisions. To withhold
them from the public means
one of two things, either that
our Washington . administra
tors do not trust our intelli
gence, or that they hope to
control opinion by monopliz-
mg information.
My opinion is that the above
facts show that the Atomic
Energy commission is deliber
ately suppressing information
on radioactive fallout because
it wants to prevent popular
opposition to AEC policies.
inose policies, I say, repre
sent a peril to the lives and
the welfare of the American
people.
' Henry R. Korman,
2640 Garfield st,
Longview, Wash.
Sports Fair Support t
To the Editor: On behalf of
the Crater Lions I would like
to express our appreciation
for your part in making the
First Annual Crater Lions
Sports Fair such a tremend
ous success.
Your advertising and con
stant support of this project
had a far-reaching influence
on our friends and neighbors
in this valley. The large at
tendance record set by this
event was possible only by
such a united effort. May we
again express our thanks for
your splendid cooperation.
Here's to a bigger and bet
ter Sports Fair in 1959!
Thanks again!
Gene Barlow,
Publicity director for
Crater Lions Sports Fair.
Love Not Force
To the Editor: Regarding
Mr. Bulman s letter in Wed'
nesday's paper on the sub
ject of "Liberties and Chains'
think I understand and re
spect his feelings, but when
he speaks of not having "the
right" to disobey God's com
mands, I think perhaps he dis
regards a .little his previous
statement that man was creat
ed a free moral agent.
Certainly God most defin
itely outlined His law, and
just as definitely described
the blessings that would come
to man if it were obeyed, and
the punishment that would
follow if it were disobeyed.
However, the very first man
and woman were given the
choice of obedience or dis
obedience. Surely a God who could
create and maintain not only
a world, but a universe, could
have created the people in
it incapable of disobedience,
but I believe that God's great
heart of . love wanted an an
swering love that could not
be obtained from a machine
or automaton and that He
wanted men and women to
obey Him through love, and
not because they did or did
not "have the right to."
I think we should be most
careful in any line of thought
that could lead to the coercion
of anyone in his service of
God.
When Christ was upon
earth .His disciples wanted
Him to set up a kingdom of
force, and He was grieved
that they so little understood
His mission. "If ye love me,"
he said, "keep my command
ments," and it is my earnest
conviction that each man
should keep those command
ments, as he understands
them, through love, and
not because sny man or
group of men decrees that
Soviets To Make New Bid For
Favor of Egyptian President
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is making a
big new bid this week for
the favor of President Gamal
. Abdel Nasser
of the United
Arab Repub
lic. Nasser is
flying to Mos
cow, at the in
vitation of the
Soviet govern
ment, on the
biggest state
Charles m. visit he ever
McCann has made.
Advance reports indicate
the visit will be a red carpet
affair and that every possible
attempt will be made to im
press the visitor with the in
dustrial, political and military
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Easier money note:
The Federal Reserve Board
approves a cut in the "dis
count rate" to go into effect
immediately at five of the
nation's 12 federal reserve
banks. At the same time it
authorizes reduction of the
"reserves" which reserve city
banks must maintain against
demand deposits.
The first move lowers the
rate of interest that member
banks must pay when they
borrow from the reserve
banks. The second move per
mits the affected banks to lend
a larger percentage of their
demand deposits.
Both moves are designed to
make more money available
to approved borrowers.
rPORTANT question:
Will these moves induce
borrowers (meaning individ
uals and business concerns
whose credit is good) to bor
row more money and put it to
CONSTRUCTIVE uses?
Time will tell. But we
should remember this:
In and of itself, what the
politicians call "easy" money
isn't enough to make business
good and keep it good. If busi
ness is to be good and STAY
good, able-minded business
people must have CONFI
DENCE ENOUGH IN THE
FUTURE to be Shilling to go
out on. a limb and borrow
money and put it to construc
tive uses.
THIS is the point:
What able-minded people
DO about money and busi
ness is much more important
to the continued prosperity
of our country than what the
politicians SAY about money
and business.
T SUPPOSE you listened to
-1 Ike's speech to the nation's
top bracket editors in which
he explained and defended his
defense reorganization plan.
Did you understand it all?
If you didn't, it's no dis-
he should, according to their
interpretation, which is after
all, only human. If he chooses
to disobey, which right was
granted him from the begin
ning, then I think we should
devote our energies to teach
ing him to love God, not in
forcing him to an unwilling
outward service. Perhaps Mr.
Bulman had nothing of this
sort in mind, but his state
ment set me to thinking along
this line.
Those of your readers who
viewed Armstrong Circle
Theater Wednesday night saw
a young man who had spent
nine years in a prison camp !
behind the iron curtain, and
heard him say how wonder
ful it was to be here m a
land of religious freedom.
May we never lose the free
dom to worship God, each in
our own way, as we under
stand His will in our lives!
Mrs. Alvy Bowman,
3594 Roberts rd.,
Medford.
Judge Kelly Praised
To the Editor: Congratula
tions to Judge Edward Kelly.
He has certainly proved his
capabilities in the sentence
imposed on the three juven
iles who desecrated the Jack
sonville cemetery. It would
have done irreparable harm
to the young men, had the
Judge sent them to Wood
burn. This is an instance of
realistic, effective punish
ment. Let us hope that these
young men will profit by
their mistake and thank
Judge Kelly for his compas
sionate treatment.
Hugh F. Friel,
391 O'Gara st.,
Medford.
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might of the Soviet Union.
News that Nasser would
make the visit in response
to an invitation issued two
years ago leaked out in
Cairo on March 29 and was
confirmed officially.
Cairo dispatches say that
he will attend the big May
Day celebration in Moscow
May 1, that he will tour the
country as far as Siberia
and that he may witness the
launching of Russia's Sput
nik No. 3.
News of the visit is pretty
certain to be unwelcome in
Washington.
Conciliatory Attitude Taken
There have been indications
for several months, and espe
cially in the last few weeks,
that the United States is try
ing to patch up its relations
credit to you.
It's an abstruse subject.
LETS see if we can simplify
it.
Suppose you own and op
erate a hamburger stand. Sup
pose you have three em
ployees. One is ALL OUT for
the bread that goes into the
sandwich. He thinks it's the
all-important ingredient. An
other is equally convinced
that the ground meat is what
counts. The third thinks that
without the onions, the spices
and sucn a hamburger just
isn't worth eating.
What would be the ultimate
result in such a case?
I expect that while your
outfit was wrangling over
who and what are most im
portant to the establishment
your competitors would GET
THE BUSINESS and you
would go broke.
rpHAT is roughly what Ike
meant the other night
when he told the editors: "It
is more important to HIT THE
TARGET than to haggle over
who pulls the trigger."
The defense department has
three services the Army, the
Air Force and the Navy. They
are all good. They are all
made up of dedicated men.
What Ike is seeking is to bring
about a system under which
they will all work as a TEAM
rather than as individual
stars.
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frank perl County Coroner
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. Prank Perl. Perl
with Egypt.
There have been indications
also that Nasser would wel
come the improvement, partly
Decause it would be calcu-
lated to lessen his growing de
pendence on Russia.
As part of the attempt to
improve relations, Eugene
Black, president of the Inter
national Bank for Reconstruc
tion and Development, has an
nounced that the institution
will help Egypt plans to in
crease the capacity of the
Suez Canal.
It is expected this will be
accompanied by big credits
to Egypt. It is reported, too,
that the United States may
lend Nasser Army dredges to
deepen the canal.
If things work out well, the
United States may release the
30 million dollars in Egypt
ian assets which it has kept
frozen since the Suez crisis
of 1956 in order to protect
American shipping interests
in any disputes about pay
ment of canal tolls.
Propaganda Attacks Stop
Cairo dispatches reported
on April 12 that Nasser had
issued orders to Egyptian
newspapers and radio to stop
their persistent attacks on the
United States. At any rate.
the attacks have ceased, if
only temporarily.
But Nasser s visit to the
Soviet Union is likely to make
it harder for the United States
to make any immediate pro
gress toward its hope of win
ning Nasser away from close
cooperation with Russia.
NasserMS a most impression
able man. He basks in his
chosen role .of Mr. Big of the
Arab world and is highly sus
ceptible to favorable propa
ganda. That he will get all
the favorable propaganda he
can easily digest during his
visit to the Soviet Union is
certain.
Nasser was first invited to
visit Russia in 1956. But the
Suez crisis and the Hungar
ian revolt caused the suspen
sion of the invitation.
Now, after the union of
Egypt and Syria and the fed
eration of Yemen -with their
United Arab Republic, Nasser
is in a pretty nice position.
He can sit back and enjoy
himself while the world's two
greatest powers seek his
friendship.
Misled!
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Coming Under the
Jurisdiction of the
Funeral Heme, Medford, Ore.
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