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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
May 12. 1948 (Wednesday)
A total budget of $1,299,
177.33 for Jackson county for
the 1948-1949 fiscal year has
been prepared by the county
budget committee. x
"Tourist Host Week" will
be sponsored May 24-29 by
the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce.
20 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1938 (Thursday)
Members of the Medford
High school band and their
director, F. Wilson Wait, left
this morning for Seattle to
participate in the Northwest
Regional band contest.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
first auto wreck of the year
has been caused , by a bee
stinging the driver in the
face."
30 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1928 (Saturday)
Foots Creek Strawberries
already show color. Another
week of warm weather will
start berry picking.
From local and personal:
"Dance! Closing Gold Hill
Saturday night."
40 YEARS AGO
May 12. 1918 (Monday)
R. Beers Loos, well-known
veteran newspaper man, hu
morist and paragrapher, is
spending a few days in Med
ford. .
From local and personal
column: "Chief of Police Hitt
son will start a crusade at
once against owners of cows
who tie them in vacant lots
so that animals can get onto
the sidewalks."
Vhaf s Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
sis is good.
1. What is the capital of
Kentucky?
2. What is the name of the
world's largest office build
ing? '
3. What are U.S. Battle
ships named for?
4. What are the four free
doms? 5. What is the birth stone
for May?
6. How many square rods
to an acre?
7. What did Jack Sprat and
his wife do?
; 8. Where is the United
States Coast Guard Academy?
9. Whose portrait appears
on the two dollar bill?
10. What insignia does a
Lieutenant Colonel in the
United States Army wear?
Answers: 1. : Frankfort. 2.
The Pentagon. Washington.
D.C. 3. Stales. 4. Speech. Wor
ship, from want and . from
fear. 5. Agate. 6. 160. 7. Lick
ed the platter clean. 8. New
London, Conn. 9. Jefferson.
10. Silver oak leaf.
Leader of Iranian
Communists Executed
Tehran, Iran W An
armv firing squad Sunday ex
ecuted Khosrow Rouzbeh,
leader of the outlawed Iran
ian Communist party.
Rouzbeh, known as "Iran's
Lenin," was arrested by order
cf Shah Mohammed Reza Pah
levi several years ago, but
escaped. He was recaptured
l?st year. His influence waned
p!'er a military plot "gainst
the -we-nment failed three
- z3 ago.
Schools rind Budgets
We were pleased that the school voters of
Jackson county were neither confused nor misled
last Monday when they went to the polls.
They were facd by some rather complicated
and obscure choices, despite all efforts to ex
plain clearly the involutions of 'the school laws.
And, in a time when the economy generally is not
"in the pink," and when taxes seem to go ever
higher, they rightly decided that the schools of
the county are worth the cost, and approved bud
gets and levies necessary for operation.
MOT so, elsewhere.
In glancing over the papers from other parts
of the state last week, we noticed a half-dozen
different places where various school tax propos
als were turned down.
Some of the budgets, very likely, were too
large, and the voters in those areas were right in
voting them down for revision and cutting. But
in some localities it may well have been a misun
derstanding of the needs of the growing schools,
and the complexities of budgetary procedure.
.
T TP IN Bend, for instance, two levies were re-
jected. One was a $47,134 proposal to make
Central Oregon Community college a full, day
time institution, rather than an evening college
only. There was considerable division of opinion
as to whether this was the. proper time to do
this, and the defeat is understandable.
, The other proposal, however, was the regu
lar annual school budget, for operation of the
Bend school district for the coming year.
Despite the fact that it has been explained
Eublicly over and over again that annual school
udgets must be submitted each year because of
lohg-outmoded tax bases, not everyone under
stands this fact. Nor do all voters realize just
how rapidly the schools are growing, and how
the costs, of school operation, like nearly every
thing else, are climbing.
-
TTHE editor' of the Bend Bulletin .'was "puzzled
at the turn-down of the regular budget, and
asked his readers to let members of the school
board and budget committee know, why they
voted against it. :
He pointed out that most of the pressures on
boards and committees before the election are
for increases, and that usually there is little
vocal sentiment against it. Therefore, when 'a
carefully-prepared budget, which the board and
committee think is sound, is turned down, fre
quently they have no idea why, and no way of
knowing to what it is the voters have objected.
Anyway, the point here is that with the safe
guards of a good school board, a high-type mem
bership on the budget committee, and a sound
school administration, responsible to 'legitimate
demands made upon it, the budgets presented
Oregon school voters, more often than not, are
sound and conservative, no matter what they
look like to the uninformed. E.A.
v The Lessons of History
Southern Oregon is an area rich with signifi
cant historical meaning. . ' .
True, it is "recent" history, most 01 it occur
ring within -the past century or a little longer.
But it is all the more interesting for that, since
our pioneer heritage is so close to us here.
Now, with almost all of the first-generation
pioneers gone,' it is even more important that our
links with the past be., strengthened, so that we
can all have a fuller understanding of what went
into the development of this area
FOR many years the Southern Oregon Historical
society has been the chief agency interested
in this area's history. And, within its own limita
tions, it has done an excellent job, preserving the
old courthouse in Jacksonville as a museum, op
erating it for the county, and keeping alive the
interest in historical events and artifacts.
Within the past two years another organiza
tion has been formed to approach the same gen
eral field with a slightly differing "concept. This
is the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation. It
neither conflicts with the aims of the historical
society, nor does it overlap. Rather, the two
complement each other.
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THE Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation is in-;
1 terested in locating, marking, and, where'
possible, preserving areas and buildings of espec
ial historical interest and importance.
At present, it is a small but enthusiastic group
of people who see in these-objectives a way of
making our appreciation of our forebearers rich
er and more meaningful.' They will welcome any
one who wishes to join them in this endeavor.
The organization is "affiliated with groups
which have the same aims on a national scale,
and which have been instrumental in such, pro
jects as preserving Colonial Williamsburg, now
a show-place of the nation.
'
IN THIS endeavor the two biggest problems are
finding enough people willing to volunteer
time and effort, and finding sufficient funds to
do the job. Ideas and suggestions as to how these
can be solved will also be welcomed.
Don't get the idea that the Pioneer Sites Foun
dation wants to buy up the whole county, and
preserve it unchanged forever. That's the last
thing they want.
But they do want to find buildings, objects,
sites or environments of "substantial historical
and cultural importance" to support their pur
pose, that of communicating '"the lessons- of his
tory that the prese'nt "and the "future "may learn
from the past." E.A.
Dennis the Menace
Know why iM up so earlxMr.Wiison?
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Washington Report
By William S. White
Washington American for
eign policy leaders are now
belatedly recognizing a prob-
1 lem much clos
' er to home
5 than the near
1 est slope of
any possible
summit.
- Canada, the
large, ordinar
ily relaxed
and uncom
plainingly re-
wuiam s. white liable associ
ate to the north, is being re
discovered here. '
The process is not going on
with any rush. In it there is
none of the drama of our ap
proach to more troublesome
but hardly more important
powers. And it would be pre
mature to suggest that the re
discovery will work any con
crete or quick improvement
between Ottawa and Wash
ington. The issues, on the outside,
are dull and mercantile and
tough. This country's greatest
customer by far, Canada is
deeply put out with our trade
policies. She particularly re
sents the dumping abroad of
American wheat under the
"surplus disposal" program.
In a literal sense, this takes
the bread' out of the mouths
of many Canadians. They, too,
grow a lot of wheat.
And, on our side, some of
our mining areas are made un
happy by Canadian exports
here of lead and zinc.
IT IS sometimes easier to ne
gotiate a shooting war than
to smooth out the irritations
of trade. For any Congress or
Parliament lives very close to
home and "home" usually is
a term for the immediate
pocketbook interests of con
stituents. ' '
Thus, only the starry-eyed
could look for an early solu
tion of what is nothing less
than an economic cool yes,
cool war between the United
States and Canada. Still, there
is a possibility - of causing
some slight rise in the temper1
ature. And to this possibility
responsible Americans are ad
dressing themselves.
Able people on both sides of
the border have told our offi
cials that an American atti
tude that appears to take Can
ada for granted is doing al
most as much harm as more
measurable matters.
On this assumption, our for
eign policy-makers are search
ing for ways to improve, at
least, the form of relations.
They have concluded, in short
that mere good manners
.never did any great harm and I
Try and
3. 4T)A ...HI
-By BENNETT CERF-
0F THE STORIES going the rounds about the late Mike
Todd, the one that I think catches the bravado and gusto
of the man best concerns the day he was aboard a reconstructed
paddle - wheeler maxing
shots for "Eighty Days
Around the World."
Glancing behind him, Todd
noticed hundreds of seagulls
circling in the air. "Why are
they following us?" he de
manded. "Gulls always fol
low ships at sea," explained
the captain. "They're after
food the garbage we throw
overboard.".
"Garbage!" echoed the
outraged Todd. "No seagulls
following a boat of mine are
them some decent food. Mike Todd goes first class!
A Hollywood sob-sister found the mother of reigning, well
developed screen princess becomingly modest. "My little girl," ad
mitted the mother, "is just like any typical young American lady
who earns more than a million dollars a year."
1958. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Teeturei Syndicate
r
occasionally may do some
good.
TTANDS across the unforti
fied frontier are particu
larly hard to clasp in the cur
rent atmosphere that is more
nearly akin to economic na
tionalism than to internation
alism. Typical of what is being at
tempted, however, is a small
gesture arranged with the
knowledge of the State De
partment on the initiative of
the assistant Senate . Demo
cratic Leader, Mike Mans
field of Montana.
The Senate Foreign Rela
tions t Committee, in its - re
view of this country's position
around the world, is examin
ing Canadian-American rela
tions with unique marks of
studied respect.
Canada alone will be on the
agenda of a hearing on May
16. No other nation's relation
ship has been put alone on the
docket before the committee
and none will be. The
whole of the Far East, for ex
ample, has been looked into at
one hearing, as all of Europe
will be later.
By tradition, the commit
tee never hears any foreigner.
In this case, however, it has
done the next' thing by calling
as a witness a Canadian-born
American scholar, Percy E.
Corbett, of the Center for
International Studies at
Princeton.
VTOW, of course, no grown
man thinks that this sort
of thing alone will have any
vast meaning to the Cana
dians. But the point is that it
is even being thought about.
It may be, indeed, that this is
a tiny beginning of the onset
of wisdom toward the Cana
dians. They are not an uncompli
cated people or certainly the
English - oriented Canadians
long known to this correspon
dent are not. They are not
"like us" at all, except mainly
in superficialities.
About three days a week,
so to speak, they look and talk
and to some extent think
like Americans. But the other
four days of the week they are
more British than the British.
They are strong and friendly
people but they are not
"our" people. They don't like
suggestions that they are. And
we should stop supposing,
even for a moment, that they
are.
(Copyright. 1958 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Sfop Me
mike
. J TODD
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
DECAY IN INDONESIA
Washington The State De
partment has half-publicly ad
mitted its acute and increas
ing worry
about the
trend of
events in "In
donesia. But it
has not ad
mi 1 1 e d the
major reason
for this worry,
which is the
predictable ef-
jospb Aisop iect ot a com
munist success in Indonesia
throughout the rest of South
east Asia.
In gauging the success of
the Indonesian Communists,
to be sure, one must allow for
the extreme oddity of In
donesian politics. Consider,
for example, the crisis in
Djakarta which still consti
tutes the most baffling curios
ity in all of this reporter's
considerable collection of po
litical memories.
On that occasion,' now a
good many years ago, the
army division garrisoning the
Indonesian capital went into
opposition to President Su
karno. There were strong
points in the streets by day.
Tanks rumbled all night, for
many nights on end, down
the broad boulevards laid out
by the Dutch. The civil gov
ernment appeared to be com
pletely at the mercy of the
military.
"CVERY circumstance, in
short, suggested that the
Djakarta crisis would end in
the most lurid way imagin
able. But in the end, the crisis
just petered out, in a damp,
vague, indecisive way, with
out producing any result
whatever.
But even after making the
widest allowance for the ex
treme haziness and unpredict
ability of all Indonesian po
litical weather, it is fairly
clear that a major Communist
success is at least in the mak
ing there. There can be no
doubt, in the first place, as to
the growing Communist pre
dominance in President Su
karno's "guided democracy."
Sukarno himself, an extra
ordinary mixture of patrio
tism and egoism, brilliance
and fatuity, is by no means
a Communist. But the Soviets,
the Chinese and their Indo
nesian agents have gone very
far towards capturing Su
karno by a multitude of de
vices, ranging all the way
from daily appeals to his van
ity, as far as open employ
ment of a Russian woman
agent.
rpHE main instrument of Su-
- karno's "guided democ
racy" is the extra-constitu
tional National Advisory
Council, which now functions
as the real Indonesian gov
ernment. The Council includes
at least 20 Communist and fellow-travelling
members in a
total of 44. In the armed serv
ices, too, Communist infiltra
tion is now very powerful, al
though the army chief of staff
General Haris Nasution, has
opposed it to the best of his
ability. - In the labor govern
ment and student organiza
tions, Communist control is
almost total.
This situation, plus - the
grievance of the rich outer
islands against the financial
exactions of Java, caused the
rebellion that is still going
on in Sumatra and the
Celebes. It is just a little too
early, as yet, to say the re
bellion has failed. The central
government, while capable of
dealing with the uprising in
Sumatra, may not be capable
of dealing with both Sumatra
and the Celebes at the same
time. But the rebel capital
of Bukittingi has fallen, and
the outlook for the anti-Communist
rebels is at least pretty
dark.
If the rebellion fails,,' in
turn, its failure will vastly
increase the Communist in
fluence which the rebels
sought to challenge.
But despite its huge popu
lation, great natural wealth
and vital strategic position,
Indonesia is still much too
amorphous to be an imme
diate source of danger, in and
of itself.
THE major danger lies in the
chain-reactive effect that
a triumph of the Indonesian
Communists will produce in
Rangoon and Kuala Lumpas,
Singapore and Bangkok, in
Pnomh-Penh and Saigon and
even in remote Laos.
The governments in all
these capitals rule over po
litically precarious ex-colon-
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East Main l. DAIRY'SMITH Cenestee
WANTED
Pedigreed Barker for Our Coming
Carnival of Values ,
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U.S. Wins Control of
Negotiations Toward
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The United States appears
to have won firm control of
Allied negotiations with So
viet Russia for
a summit con
ference. As a result,
the possibility
that the
United States
might be
coerced by its
own allies into
Chirlei M. "
HcCann on uuss ian
terms seems to have become
remote.
Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles came away from
last week s conference in Co
penhagen of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization
foreign ministers with greatly
solidified support for his sum
mit policy. This is, in short,
that a summit, conference is
LA.
U.P. Writers Eye
Future Headlines
United Press correspond
ents around the world look
ahead to the news that will
make headlines:
Dullest Yet
This summer should be the
dullest yet on TV. You can
blame the recession. Old,
faithful sponsors are not buy
ing. New angels with bank
rolls are scarcer than good
scripts. Several big shows of
the winter season have fold
ed. And the chances are slim
that sponsors will rush to fill
the annual summer gap with
hard cash. Producers are
frankly worried. It looks like
another rash of re-runs and
inexpensive "live" shows
when the summer season
starts later this month.
Missile Race
The Euessine in Washington
is that the Air Force's Thor
missile will gef the eventual
nod from Defense Secretary
Neil McElroy over the Army's
rival Jupiter. McElroy con
tinues to nut off a decision
But there are these straws
in the wind:
McElroy says Chrysler
Corp. still has not been given
approval to put Jupiter in
nroduction. Thor already is
coming off Douglas Aircraft
Co. production lines. Final
decision will have political-
economic as well as military
implications, because of the
employment situation in the
auto industry and the Army's
strong - backing in " Congress
and elsewnere.
Air Fight
Look for pilots to join air
line officials in a campaign
to convince Congress that the
Military Air Transport Serv
ice (MATS) is unfair compe
tition. Many pilot jobs may
be cut when big jetliners
begin operation next year be
cause the jets do the average
work of three prop-driven air
liners. The pilots, like their
bosses,' want some of that lu
crative MATS overseas busi
ness as a cushion.
Boomerang
Red China has done the
West a favor. Its propaganda
campaign against the Jap
anese government of Premier
Nobusuke Kishi is making
voters think the Chinese Reds
are sticking their noses in
other people's business. Re-
ial countries, with sole ex
ception of Thailand. With the
possible further exception of
South Vietnam, all these coun
tries are . also struggling
against internal Communist
movements of some serious
ness. The situation is worst
in Laos and Singapore, where
the balance is very precarious
indeed.
What happens in Indonesia
will affect the balance every?
where. Singapore, always sen
sitive to such developments,
can be expected to be special
ly strongly affected. The eco
nomic situation" is also very
bad there. And an extreme
left wing victory in the on
coming Singapore elections,
will at once tilt the balance
further in the Malayan Fed
eration and everywhere else.
It may not happen. But it
is this sort of possibility that
makes the danger in South
east Asia today measurably
greater than it has ever been,
at any time since the terrible
disaster at Dien Bien Phu.
(Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
desirable only if it affords
some prospect of success.
Pressure on Dulles
Ever since the Soviet gov
ernment started clamoring for
a conference last December,
the United States had been
under severe pressure by
some allied governments to
agree to a conference on al
most any terms.
The view was taken that a
summit conference, however
slight the hope of agreement
might be, was preferable to
the present cold war tension
and the danger that it might
lead to a nuclear war.
The fact that Russia, while
calling for a conference, was
laying down terms which
would make its success almost
impossible, was ignored.
From the first, Dulles in
sisted it would be a grave mis
take to agree to the confer
ence unless ' preparatory ne
gotiations showed the Soviet
suit: the Socialist and Com
munist candidates may be
hurt in the May 22 general
elections.
Eyes On The Oil
Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
are the new pawns in the
Mideast power game. They
are straddling the fence be
tween Nasser's United Arab
Republic and the Jordan-Iraq
Federation now being organ
ized. Both countries would
be a feather in the cap of
either union if they joined up
Saudi Arabia especially is
wanted. It has oil. The riot
ing in Lebanon and floods of
rumors of domestic political
upheavals in Saudi Arabia
are no accident. The stakes
are high. The struggle will
continue.
I sincerely ask for your
support May 16 for the of
fice of County Coroner.
I will work for the best in
terests of all the people of
Jackson County.
The office has been in one
local firm for 16 (sixteen)
years, and it is time for a
change.
Frank Perl
Experienced to Serve
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for
COUNTY CORONER
Frank Perl For Coroner Committee)
C. M. Litwiller, Frank Morgan, Harold Snodgrcrtt
Co-Chairmen
Paid Political Ad. Frank Peri
Allied
Summit
government was ready, to
enter one in good faith.
Dulles was subjected to
criticism not only in Allied
countries but in the United
States for his stand.
It was said he was obstruc
tive, that his attitude was too
rigid.
The criticism was in
tensified because of Rusisa's
launching of its Sputniks, its
testing of an intercontinental
ballistic misisle and its threats
to Western European govern
ments that they faced destruc
tion if a nuclear war broke
out.
Remains Firm
Dulles' position has been
strengthened by the success of
the United States in launching
its own earth satellites, its
progress in the field of nu
clear weapon development
and its insistence on adequate
advance preparation for a
foreign ministers conference
and, in turn, for the summit
conference.
At the NATO meeting in
Copenhagen, Dulles sold his
fellow allies on his viewpoint.
Another important factor was
the stiffened Soviet attitude in
the United Nations. Just be
fore the conference, Russia
cast its 83rd Security Council
veto.
He was able to assure the
foreign ministers that he
really would like a summit
conference on proper terms
and that Rusisa, while it calls
for far-reaching world agree
ments, refuses to consider.
such issues as the reunifica
tion of Germany and rejects
all proposals for an inspection
system which would permit a
start toward disarmament..
Right now, it appears that
Dulles is in what the diplo
mats caU a position of strength
in negotiations with the Rus
sians .v Until quite recently, So
viet Premier Nikita S. Khru
shchev seemed to many AUied.
leaders to be in that position.
i
FRANK PERL
Funeral Heme, Medford, Ore.