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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
Mar 2. 1958 (Sunday)
Republican presidential can
didate, Thomas E. Dewey,
will be here Friday, May 7,
and Harold E. Stassen on Fri
day, May 8, it was announced.
Actual construction of the
Medford YMCA building on
Sixth st. near Main st. start
ed, foundations and sewer in
stallations almost complete!
20 YEARS AGO
May 2. 1938 (Monday)
A man who says he was an
aerial machine gunner in the
Chinese Army and was
wounded in a dogfight with a
Japanese plane was in Med
ford today thinking of set
ling in the Rogue River val
ley. '
Work to start soon on plant
ing 9,000 three-year-old pon
derosa pine trees in the old
Cathill burn section of the
Rogue River national forest.
30 YEARS AGO
May 2. 1938 (Wednesday)
From local and personal
column: "Many Chinook sal
mon are entering the Rogue
river and are making their
way to the headwaters of the
stream to give sportsmen
gplendid fishing."
Medford to take an active
part in the Klamath Falls
railroad celebration May 10,
11 and 12 when the golden
Spike is driven to mark com
pletion of the Great Northern
railroad, system.
40 YEARS AGO
May 2, 1918 (Thursday)
Failure of the Jackson
county draft board to provide
adequate accommodations for
the Jackson county draft con
tingent resulted in the men
being herded like cattle into
the day coaches.
Medford and Ashland mili
tia companies invaded the
county court to demand that
the county purchase uniforms
for the companies.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or fen correct is superior;
sven or eight is excellent; five ei
six is good.
1. Was Singapore, while
under British control, ever
invaded before its capture by
the Japanese in World War
II?
2. Bible: Silas was a com
panion of Jesus, Peter, , or
Paul?
3. What fruit grew in the
Garden of Hesperides?
d- Of which State is Boise
tha capital?
5. Which New England
State is represented in the
U. S. Senate by Senator Ken
oedy? 6. The heroine of the novel
"Gone With The Wind" was
?
7. To which country does
Prince Edward Island belong?
8. Correct the following
sentence: "One hundred and
eleven people were killed in
the mine disaster."
9. What is guayule?
10. The State University of
New Jersey is Princeton; true
of false?
Answers: 1. No. 2. Paul.
3. Golden apples. 4. Idaho.
5. Massachusetts. 6. . Scarlett
O'Hara. 7. Canada. 8. "One
hundred and eleven persons
were killed in the mine dis
aster." 9. A rubber-bearing
planl 10. False (Rutgers).
'Monday's School Elections
One of the things that can be said about the
school laws enacted at the 1957 legislature is
that they're complicated so complicated they
need the talents of a Philadelphia lawyer to
figure out.
But one ray of light is the fact that if and
when school reorganization is accomplished, as
was the intent of the legislature, there will be
fewer districts, and the relationships between
them will be more easily understood.
"1X7ITH that much out of the way, let's teke a
look at the school elections which come up
throughout the county next Monday. '
First of all, there are three types of districts
in the county. One is the first class district (there
are five in the county) and its smaller counter
part, the second and third-class districts. These
are the units with which we are all familiar,
whose board members we elect, and whose
budgets we vote on annually. No problem there.
The second is the "non-high" district, which
in this county includes nine of the smaller dis
tricts' without high schools, banded together
solely to provide for the tuition and transporta
tion of high school students from their home dis
tricts to others were high schools are available.
The third is the county rural school district
which is something of a misnomer, for it in
cludes the entire county.
'"THIS district is set up purely for administrative
and financial purposes. It educates no stu
dents, hires Ro teachers, builds no buildings. But
it does serve as a central agency for the schools
of the county. And, under the provisions of the
1957 law, it must levy a tax which is for the pur
pose of equalizing the financial burden of tax
payers, collecting the levy on taxpayers in all
districts equally, and then distributing the money
back again to the districts on a formula which
provides more for the "poor" districts than it
does for the "rich" districts.
This levy is required by law to be an amount
equal to 50 per cent of all the local district
budgets for operating purposes, not including
amounts for construction or other expenses.
This sum in Jackson county this year totals
$2,004,303.
Voters of the county will have a chance to
vote on it Monday. The vote is necessary, be
cause the amount which could be raised inside
the 6 per cent limitation is about $334,000 short
of the amount of the required levy.
.
TF THE voters approve, the $2,004,303 will be
allocated among all school districts in the f orm
of tax levy reductions, not in cash grants, and
thereby will increase the published budgets of
some, and decrease those of others. In any case,
the amount of difference in the tax bills of indi
vidual voters would be insignificant.
If the proposed levy is not approved by the
voters, the equalization provisions of the law
will not take effect, except insofar as they can
be met by the levy permissable inside the 6 per
cent limitation, or in this case, $1,669,925. If this
happens, the local districts must make up the
amount lost to them by a negative vote.
In effect, then, Monday's election on the rural
school district levy is to approve the equalization
measure, and to authorize the levying of an addi
tional $334,377 in taxes for the purpose.
HTHE non-high budget election is solely for the
purpose of raising funds for transportation
and' tuition of high school students from districts
which have no high schools. The non-high vote
will also be on Monday in those , nine districts.
Tuition rates are established by law, and arc
based on the per capita cost of high school edu
cation. These, then, are the issues involved in Mon
day's county-wide school elections other than
the election of members of the. various boards.
If it all seems complicated, remember that it
is much less so in Jackson county than it is in
other upstate counties, where union high school
districts, joint districts, county high school dis
tricts, and others create an overlapping and con
fusion of organization.
"llHERE is the money coming from to run the
schools?
Obviously, some of it comes" from property
taxpayers of the county, about 59 per cent of it
(it varies slightly by district), through their con
tributions to the regular school district tax col
lections, as well as the rural school board tax
levy, and the county school fund, levied by the
county court.
Another 2 percent (about) comes from the
federal government in the form of school lunch
and vocational funds, anfl other programs.
About 39 per cent of it, on an average, domes
from the state, in the form of distributioa of the
basic school support fund, and the common lrn
ducible school fund.
DECAUSE the school laws are so complex, many
voters have been willing to let their school ad
ministrators do the worrying and the figuring
for them; and. have voted on budgets and bond
issues with too little to go on except, perhaps, a
feeling about personalities, orfcbout the tax level
generally!. '
The only advice .we can offer is that which
we have stated time and time again before that
investment in good schools is -probably the best
investment that Americans can make toward
their own f uture, and that of their children. E. A.
Denn.3 fhe Menace
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saper; in fact the contrary is often the caw
Praise for Walter Munlef
To the Editor: In July, 1958,
I spent two weeks in Med
ford, covering the Billy Jun
ior Nunn murder trial for the
Klamath Falls flerald and
News and the Associated
Press. After the trial, I made
the statement that in my 35
years in the newspaper bus
iness, during which I covered
a large number of murder
trials, I had never seen one
in which the prosecution pre
sented a better prepared
case, i
Some time ago here in
Boise, I made the same com
ment to a resident of Medford",
who is a former newspaper
man. I was, greatly surprised
when he told me that Mr.
Walter Nunley, who tried the
Nunn case, was 'no longer
district attorney in Jackson
county. He also told me that
Mr. Nunley, was a candidate
for circuit judge and was be
ing opposed chiefly on the
grounds that he lacked legal
experience.
To me this seems rather
strange. Mr, Nunley, certain
ly conducted himself like a
thoroughly experienced law
yer in handling the Nunn
prosecution. It is significant
that after he completed the
job, the defense attorneys
made no attempt to disprove
first degree murder and con
centrated on trying to save
their client from the gas
chamber.
Later I was told by auth
orities in Klamath County,
that they were so impressed
by Mr. Nunley's performance
at the Nunn trial, that they
were considering engaging
him as special prosecutor at
a Klamath County murder
trial.
I never met Mr. Nunley, be
fore the Nunn trial started
and I never saw him again
after the trial ended. I want
to repeat that Mr. Nunley,
did one of the best prosecu
tion jobs I have witnessed and
I am sure he has a great fu
ture ahead of him, even if he
isn't elected circuit judge.
Lyle Downing,
Idaho Statesman,
Boise, Idaho.
More on Foster Case
To the Editor: At Mr.
James Redden's suggestion in
his recent letter, I did check
the District Court records
concerning Henry Anastashio
Foster. I found that the orig
inal complaint charged him
with unlawful possession of
marijuana, and -had been
signed by the state police of
ficer who arrested him. I am
informed that this is a felony
and can oaly be handled to
a conclusion by the circuit
court.
The record also shows that
after Foster got aa attorney,
he asked for a preliminary
hearing which was et for
Sept. 9. Two days later by
agreement with the district
attorney and ttie defense at
torney, it was set over until
Sept. If. Oa Sept. 19 the rec
ord shows that by agreement
with Foster's lawyer a new
complaint was filed by the
district attorney, charging at
tempted escape from lawful
arrest, a minor crime com
pared to the narcotics charge.
Foster pleaded guilty antl re
ceived six month suspended
sentence, and $100 fine, less
than the penalty for drunk
driving.
On that same day, the nar
cotics charge was dismissed
for lack of sufficient evi
dence in spile of the fact that
there were two eye witnesses
besides the officer. Anyway
you look at this case, it makes
for very- interesting . reading.
John H. Chaney,
45 Nortfe Ninth .st.,
Central Point, Ore.
Iorlr Replies To Ann Lynch
To the Editor: In public life
you have to expect criticism
of public officers as an indis
pensable part o our political
system. ; However, criticism
should be based on accurate
facts.;
I'd like to take this op
portunity to correct errors of
fact made in a letter by Ann
J. Lynch of Medford, appear
ing in your issue of April 20,
1958.
1. Miss Lynch says: "Con
gressman Charles O. Porter's
suggestion that this country
cease testing atomic weapons
might carry more weight if
Mr. Porter could suggest how
Russia could be made, to cease
and desist also." The bill I
filed last July, essentially
A d 1 a i Stevenson's proposal,
p r o v i d es for a suspension
only if other nations, includ
ing Russia, also suspend such
tests. I've never proposed
unilateral suspension.
2. Miss Lynch's references
to my "flirtations with com
munist groups and their
affiliates" and my represent
ing "the friends of Russia in
the Americas" is pure smear,
without foundation in fact,
and the sort of thing the "old
Nixon" and the late Senator
McCarthy sought to popula
rize. - :;
3.. Miss Lynch says: "For
further evidence of where his
heart lies, he recently recom
mended that our strategic Air
Command r em ove atomic
bombs from their planes that
are always ready to strike at
Russia on a moment's notice
if the U.S. is attacked." I have
never made such a recom
mendation. The right of fair comment
does not include the right to
misrepresent the facts. No
doubt I have made many mis
takes and will make many
more, but none of my mis
takes has been or will be the
result of any lack of loyalty
to the 460,000 people I am
privileged to represent and
to the great nation in whose
Congress I have the honor to
serve. ( ;
Charles O. Porter, 1
Memberof Congress.
Easter Seal Thanks
To the Editor: I would like
to say "thank you" to every
individual who contributed to
the annual -Easter seal appeal.
Through your generosity
$3,487.33 has been raised in
Jackson county. Ninety per
cent of, this money remains
in Oregon to assist our crip
pled children and adults, peo
ple who do not benefit from
any other furd.
It is really inspiring Ao visit
the Children's Hospital school
in Eugene, as I did two weeks
ago. Yes, yo"u are welcome to
visit it too. Camp Easter Seal
allows handicapped . children
to experience summer camp
ing activities. If you know
of a youngster, who would
benefit by this experience,
please contact me, as camp
erships re available to those
in need.
A "thank you" also to tfie
press, radio and television, for
the wonderful publicity they
gave, the Medford YMCA,
and volunteers from Boy
Scout Troops 6 and 9, for
their help cn the Medford
Lily Day sale, and the post
office department and letter
carriers for delivering the
seals and information to you.
The drive was sponsored
by Alpha Kappa and Alpha
Lambda chapters of -Epsilon
Sigma Aloha international
sorority, whose project is aid
to handicapped . people. This
required many long hour
Apha Lambda chapter mem
bers spent 375 hours on East
r eal work this yeai. Te
gssmgjiuynienT, Dig
usmess Discussed
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. It is
clear that ' unemployment re
sults from the recession. But it
is not suf
ficiently clear
what is the
cause of the
r e c e s sion.
H o wever, no
one can doubt
that it is due
to some im
balance in the
economv The
Koeer W. BabsoDreaction ig
from some, previous action.
Because c e r t a in excesses
have existed too long or been
too great a correction must
come if we are to regain nor
mal economic balance.. Our
economy, when free, is like
the children's seesaw or "tee
ter." A fat boy pushes down
one nd and raises a skinny
boy at the other end. In our
economic seesaw, the exces
sive weight at one end may be
over-expansion of production
in relation to consumer de
mand. In an -ideal economy, pro
ductive capacity should al
ways be geared to consumer
demand. But actually, such
gearing is not automatic.
Either plant capacity is ex
panded faster than consumer
demand; or demand drops off
after temporary excessive
consumer buying as in install
ment purchasing. Moreover,
our economy is not eo free as
many would like to believe.
In the market place, prices
no longer respond quickly to
conditions of supply and de
mand. Big business has given our
economy many benefits, in
cluding making available to
the many by mass produc
tion and mass distribution
necessities, comforts, and lux
uries. In boom times, how
ever, big business and big
organized labor together give
consumers wage-and-price in
flation, driven upward by an
nual wage-and-price increases
unrelated to the annual rise in
productivity. Plant capacity
is expanded without relation
to consumer demand.
Unbalanced Seesaw
The government has the
ability to balance too great
or too long-continued imbal
ance by standing at the center
of the seesaw and inclining its
weight -either to the right or
the left. But the government
can also restore the balance in
other ways, by assuring
even weights at both ends of
the seesaw, or by making the
weightier force (supply or de
mand) move up nearer the
middle. ...
But government 'should
not and must riot be expected
to operate ' a managed econ
omy. There still remains
Top News Features
Proposal for Arctic I
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
The United States proposed
this week that an internation
al inspection be established in
the . arctic to
allay fears of
attack by H
bomb planes
flying over
the north
polar route.
The pro
posal was
made in an
swer to Rus-
McCann s l a ii cudieo
that flights of American nu
clear planes over the Arctic
in the direction of the Soviet
Union constituted a danger
to peace.
President Eisenhower made
the proposal in a letter to
Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev.
Following up the letter, the
United States introduced a
proposal for aa inspection
system in the" United Nations
Security Council. '
Soviet U. N Delegate Ar-
19 active members (six have
outside jobs), have 32 chil
dren (many are pre-schoolers)
The saying, "If you want a
good" job done, ask a busy
person", surely provas true
here. "
Mrs. C. C. Peterson, i
Jackson County Chairman,
1958 Easter Seal Drive.,
907 East Beal Lane,
Medford
DAFffif'SMITH
Bast Main
HELP WANTED
Two headeal vnan for our carnivfcl of
values . . . mwst he able to attract attention.
i i r
enough self-reliance in our
politico - economic system to
restore the ability of private,
competitive small business to
do the balancing if small
business is unfettered. Re
storing competition in big in
dustry will break down too
rigid administered prices.
These prices have been fixed
too long and too much.
Too great monopolistic
power by Big Business and
or Big Labor must be curbed
by Big Government. Re
member that 5 per cent of
our American businesses em
ploy fewer than 20 people;
about 80 per cent of our busf
nesses are unincorporated.
Seven Recommendations
As a result of the two
World Wars, Big Business
and Big Labor were granted
too many artificial and pow
erful special privileges in
the name, of Defense. The time
is overdue to remove these
privileges and give the 3 mil
lion small businesses with a
total of over 8 million work
ers a chance to cure the re
cession. Proposals to this end
have recently been made to
the Senate Committee:
1. A tax deduction for all
concerns which reinvest prof
its in their operations. This
would provide the necessary
capital for those small con
cerns. 2. Equalization between
large and small companies in
regulations for depletion and
depreciation. Used machinery
and ' equipment, which the
smaller concerns usually buy,
should be given the same
rates of depletion and depre
ciation as new.
3. Deductions, for the self
employed and. other persons
not members of qualified pen
sion programs, for their own
retirement.
4. Provision for the pay
ment of estate taxes in in
stallments so that businesses
need not be liquidated simply
to accommodate the Federal
Government.
5. Federal grants to small
concerns, for research and
development requiring that
all patents secured from re
search at taxpayers' expense
be made available freely to
all concerns.
6. More credit : for small
business firms by the Small
Business Administration in
order to offset the one-sided
power of large - corporations
to extend credit to customers
by practically ' shipping on
consignment.
7. Elimination of labor's
exemption from the anti-trust
laws.
More advertising dollars
are invested in newspapers
than in radio, TV, magazines
and outdoor combined.
kady A. Soboley rejected the
American plan. He called it
a diversionary move to dis
tract attention from the
American arctic flights. Sobo-
lev 'said the inspection plan
should be taken up at a "sum
mit" conference of heads of
government.
Sweden suggested that
countries which have territory
above the Arctic Circle study
the question and that the re
sult of the study be put be
fore the summit meeting. The
United States said it was
agreeable.
. President G a m a 1 Abdel
Nasser of Egypt was the guest
of honor at Russia's tsadition
al May Day parade through
the' Red Square in Moscow.
Nasser heard defense min
ister Marshal Rodion Y. Ma
linovsky accuse the United
States in a speech of "using
unheard-of methods" in "send
ing Air Force planes carrying
H-bombs to the Soviet front
iers." Malinovsky said Soviet
armed forces were . ready to
repel any attempt "to violate
the people's peaceful labors."
T)e military section of this
year's parade took but 12
minutes to pass the reviewing
stand. Foreign military at
taches saw no new weapons.
' While the Russians buttered
up Nasser with the highest
honors at the start of his 18
dy visit to the Soviet Union,
there ? wre indications that
Egyptian relations with the
Western powers were improving-
fei Rome, Egyptian dele-
at Genessee
"1 r ui
Woman Passport
Chief Revamps,
Speeds Division
By LYLS C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington OH There
isn't much good news going
these days, so how would it
be to hear a
word of cheer
from Miss
Frances G.
Knight? Miss
Knight is the
director of the
Department of
State. She suc
c e e d e d the
LbmI f I fabulus Mrs.
Lyle c. wuson Kutn u. amp
ley who was a civil servant
of great charm and stature in
the federal hierarchy.
The good word from Miss
Knight is that she has re
vamped the methods and mod
ernized the equipment of the
passport office to the consid
erable relief and convenience
of the U.S. taxpayer.
The government's General
Service Administration esti
mated that these services last
year amounted to $386,000
which is not a great sum when
posed against the multi-billion
dollar spending " which ap
pears now to have been sad
dled on the taxpayers until
the end of time.
More To Be Dona
Neither is it hay, however,
and the conserved sum looks
even more attractive by rea
son of Miss Knight's informal
explanation that additional
savings were obtained because
the Passport Office averaged
an increase of "5.5 per cent
in work productivity per em
ployee in 1957.
News of such administra
tive economies is scarce in
Washington despite assur
ances from the top executive
officials that waste shall be
wrung from the operations of
the government. ' ,
While she was about it,
Miss Knight modernized and
improved the conditions un
der whih the citizens can ob
tain a passport. For example,
the citizen applying for a pass
port no longer need be ac
companied by a witness to
testify to his identity. And, if
he desires, the citizen may
pay his passport fee by per
sonal check.
No 'Partner Needed
The Passport Office now
will accept for identification
purposes about what a bank
would accept in cashing a
check, such as driver's license
or a government security
pass. Miss Knight explained
that anyone who would fradu
lently apply for a passport
would not hesitate to produce
a phony witness, so why clut
ter the counters and corridors
of. passport issuing agencies
American
nspection
gates signed a preliminary
agreement under which stock
holders of the Suez Canal
company would be paid about
$81 million as compensation
for Nasser's nationalization of
the waterway.
In Washington, the Treas
ury Department announced
the release of about $26 mil
lion in Egyptian government
funds which the United States
had kept "frozen" since Nas
ser seized the canal two years
ago.
if
New WASHINGTON Columnist
Willicm S. White
Noted newspaperman, war
correspondent, political cor--respondent
and author . . .
Formerly Chief Congres
sional correspondent for
Tha New York Times . . .
Winner of the Pulitzer
Prize fpr his biography,
"The Taft Story" (1955).
Look for his clear, concise column, reporting and
analyzing the important news developments, direct
from Washington, three times each week
Starts S(jNDAY.t
MAY 4th In The
with two persons for each
passport involved. ,
Miss Knight's methods have
reduced from many weeks to
4V& days the time necessary
to issue a passport.
Miss Knight's reforms and
modernization of the Passport
Office make a lot of sense.
A taxpayer might think it a
good idea to expose other
agencies of government .to
Miss Knight, especially any
in which the productivity per
employee has diminished in
stead of increased. . .
Vote for James M.
MAI W
for
CIRCUIT
JUDGE
Position No. 1
JAMES M. MAIN
" Is' .Qualified
BILL
ACKER
,'VSeveral years ago I served as a
juror and observed many attorneys
in action, one of whom was James
Main.e I was impressed with the
fair and able manner in which he
presented his client's case and. '
chose him as my personal attor
ney. From that time until he was
appointed Judge, he was my attor
ney and l became well acquainted
with him: -
I can assure you that he is, in
every way qualified to be your
Circuit Judge." . .
Signed
Bill Acker
(Note, ask anyone who has ap
peared before Judge Main as
juror, witness, litigant or attorney
about his qualification.)
Ben Day, Chmn., Gold Hill
Pd. Pol. Ad.
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