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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
-40 years ago.
t'l YEARS AGO
!fay 16. 1948 (Sunday)
Voters registered in Jack
ifyn county total 24,574, about
9,000 more than were regis
ffed for the May, 1946 pri
ltry. s The senate committee on
labor and public : welfare
lopts Sen. Wayne Morse's
subcommittee report recom
mending Camp White be made
a veteran's domiciliary.
20 YEARS AGO
May 16. 1938 (Friday)
': An unidentified lone gun
man held up Frank Weighill,
26, of Cottage st. Sunday night
Jn frontf of his home.
- From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "It seems
Pacific Coast motorists have
changed tactics, and instead
picking up hitch-hikers
$hey stop to talk to gypsies."
t YEARS AGO
fftay 16, 1928 (Wednesday)
A $50,000 meat packing
jiiant to supply a line of
Autcher shops from Eugene to
Yreka,' to be erected south of
Jacksonville.
i Jackson county has a great
future in the dairy business
and instead of returning a
revenue of only several hun
dred thousand dollars, a reve
nue of at least 2 million dol
lars should be returned, man
ager of the Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce says.
40 YEARS AGO
May ,16, 1918 (Thursday)
, R. Boswell, Medford, and
son, held up at their gold
mine near Holland last week
and robbed of $6,000 in gold
bullion.
; From local and - personal
column: "Get a homestead be
fore May 25. See Moore and
Hodgson, Austin hotel build
ing. Ashland."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five Of
six is good.
1. What sort of uniform
does the President of the U.S.
wear, as the Commander in
Chief of the armed forces?
2. Bible: Literally translat
ed the title Messiah means
what?
' 3. The author of "The Can
tebury Tales' was Longfel
low, Chaucer, or Mark Twain?
4. With what sport do you
associate the names of Sam
Snead, Lew Worsham and
Bobby Locke?
5. During World War n,
was Egypt a neutral power?
6. Which amendment of the
U.S. Constitution authorizes
the levying of income tax?
7. In normal times, which
country other than China, is
the largest consumer of tea?
r 8. What are Japan's Zaibat
zu? 9. Where is the famous
"Flirtation Walk?"
" 10. In Army slang, what is
a shavetail?
Answers: 1. He does not
wear a uniform. 2. Anointed.
3. Chaucer. 4. Golf. 5. Egypt
was an ally of Great Britain.
6. Sixteenth. 7. Great Britain.
8. Family holding companies
or cartel. 9- West Point. N.Y.
JO. Send Lieutenant..
"ShowMe " Trip
The clean, white snow on the jagged north
slope of Mt McLoughlin, viewed from the tan
gled brush-fields of Hhe Cathill burn, is magnifi
cent at this time of year. ,
This view was just one of the rewards of a
recent "show-me" trip around parts of the Butte
Falls district of the Rogue River National forest,
courtesy of Howard Hopkins, timber manage
ment specialist on the forest supervisor's staff,
District Ranger Ralph Weise, and others.
The most memorable part of the .trip, how
ever, was not the view of the mountain.
"FHE thing we remember most vividly (and this
is usually the case when we get to talking
about their work with trained, professional, dedi
cated foresters) is the way in which they look
upon their work. It is more than a job : It is a way
of life, a calling, a profession.
There is so much to be done, they tell you,
and not enough to work with not enough time,
nor manpower, nor money.
It's getting better, as people realize what it
is they're trying to do, but it is still frustrating to
know that the resources of the future are in your
hands, and not be able to do all the things you
know MUST be done:
What is it that needs to be done? And why?
IF THE forests are to serve their owners, the
1 people of the United States, they must be man
aged for maximum beneficial use.
This means many things: It means forest
rehabilitation and management for a continuing
supply of timber; protection of watersheds; ex
pansion of , recreational opportunities ; grazing
of livestock; production of economically usable
mineral resources.
Each of these uses has its own priority 'in
one part of the forest' or another; each has its
own importance; each has a number of people
economically dependent on that phase of the
resource; eacn Has its
In the course of a
business with a logger
nicker to an attractive
claim with a prospector,
to put out a blaze somewhere in his district.
LL the while, lie has
tinuing values of the
protection, not only from fire, or bugs, or dis
ease, but from their worst enemy mankind. -
It is a job which requires the skills of a
diplomat and . business executive and silvicultur
alist and policeman and outdoorsman.
And, when he is not
to-day activities, he is
the future, laying out
next month, next year, for five or twenty or one
hundred years from now.
As in few other jobs, the Forest Service
Ranger is required to deal with the past, as rep
resented in the land for which he is responsible,
the present, and most important, the future.
. .- ,
N EXAMPLE isrthe
In 1912 or thereabouts, fire ravaered thou
sands of acres of land along the high foothills.
Much of the land is steep and rocky, the remains
of an old lava flow. There was no natural regen
eration of trees,' but, instead, brush crept into
the area, and as the years passed, grew into a
thick, tangled and-impenetrable cover too
thick to walk through, too dense and tough and
steep and rocky to be bladed away with a crawler
tractor, too tall and shadowy to permit young
forest growth to take hold and grow.
And, to this day, there it sits, several thou
sand acres of prime, sub-alpine country, good
for nothing to anyone or anything except a few
birds and rodents. ;
For years foresters have talked about it, how
to "clear it so trees can grow, how to restore it
to beauty and usefulness. Plans are now begin
ning to take shape. But they take care to plan
and prepare, to be sure that other values are
not damaged. And they take money.
INURING the too-short six hours we were in
the district, we saw in action timber man
agement (areas which were clear-cut of sub
standard growths; other areas selectively logged
to improve stands; areas where new sales. are
planned to cut down on a major forest plague,
miniature mistletoe ; areas where the best trees
are being pruned for better growth ; areas where
careful slash-burning is eliminating the twin
dangers of fire and bug damage). We saw forest
camps which are being expanded and improved.
We were told of the impending reinventory
of the forest resource of the district, to permit
an increased allowable cut. We learned of the
need for good manpower, the need for funds for
rehabilitation of forest stands, and for a dozen
other purposes.
THE job of the forest service, in short, is a
highly complex one. Not the least of its needs
is for public support and understanding under
standing of the job they are trying to do, and
their need for adequate appropriations to do it
The forests, after all, belong to all of us, the
American people. And the forest service, and
its supervisors and rangers and wardens and fire
lookouts, its biologists and range specialists, its
game management men and recreation men all
these are the custodians of our property.
Are they .doing their job well? They are.
They are not doing it as well as they would
like, however, and it remains our job, as owners,
to see that our custodians have the wherewithal
to do a better job. For in the forests is much of
the.material and spiritual well-being of this part
of the country, for generations to come.E.A.
own peculiar problems.
day, a ranger mav talk
or grazier; guide a pic
spot; discuss a mining
and dispatch a fire crew
to keep in mind the con
forest, and see to their
engaged in these dav-
engaged in looking into
plans for: tomorrow, for
Cathill burn itself.
Dennis the Menace
U LOVS "WAT KAT! MMZS
Trouble in
New Red Sputnik, Top News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
Riot and rebellion in Vene
zuela, Lebanon and Algeria
and a threatened political ex
plosion in France made news
paper headlines this week.
In all four countries, anti
American outbreaks were
part of the picture.
. f
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon was stoned, cursed and
spat upon by Communist-incited
mobs in Caracas, capital
of Venezuela, at the wind-up
of his "good ' will" tour of
Latin America.
President Eisenhower re
garded the incident as so
serious that, ne ordered
Marines and paratroopers
flown to Caribbean bases with
in easy reach of Caracas for
use if the Venezuelan govern
ment "requested . assistance"
in keeping order. . . . . (
Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
wartime leader of free France,
threw the French political
situation into turmoil by an
nouncing: " '
"I hold myself ready to
take over the "powers of the
Republic." ... .
De Gaulle, "strong - man"
regarded by many as a po
Ike's Hot
Adds Up to Boost
For Richard Nixon
by lyle c. Wilson
United Press Correspondent
Washington (ID There
was in tne beginning more
foot-dragging than enthusiasm
among admin
istration big
shots for the
whoop-te-doo
welcome
home arrang
ed for Vice
President Richard M.
Nixon and his
charming
Lyle C. Wflsoa w 1 1 e, sr a i.
President Eisenhower fixed
that in a Hurry.
The chill attitude of small
interest persisted until the late
afternoon h6urs of Tuesday,
May 13. By that time there
had been told the shocking
story of a vice president of
the United States , assailed, in
sulted and, finally, with his
party, practically barricaded
in the U. S. Embassy at Car
acas, Venezuela. .
The White House was get
ting its own running report of
events m Caracas by tele
phone and the story was not
pretty. There have been some
hot tempered Presidents in
the White House since .-your
correspondent has been look
ing them over. That is a mat
ter of more than 30 years now,
and the memories even of Cal
Coolidge's quick rages have
not faded.
Hoover Even-Tempered
Herbert Hoover, a Quaker,
was a placid man. FDR had a
temper, however, 'hot and ex
plosive.'Harry S. Truman had
the hot head of a gun slinger
of the Old West. Tough and
good men all. When Dwight
D. Eisenhower explodes the
detonation is considerable. He
exploded - during the after
noon hours of Tuesday, May
13, as the nasty Caracas story
unwound. :',
That explosion echoed in
the Caribbean where para
troopers and Marines shortly
were winging to strategic
spots from which they could
move to Nixon's aid if neces
sary. A sharp summons
brought before Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles a
representative of the Venezu
elan Embassy who got first
HIM HBLTAlUl
Four Countries;
tential dictator issued - his
statement after French troops,
demanding a fight to the fin
ish against the rebels, took
charge in Algeria and called
for a De Gaulle government.
Pierre Pflimlin had been
confirmed by Parliament as
France's 27th postwar pre
mier when De Gaulle made
his statement.
Mobs had rioted in Paris,
demanding that De Gaulle be
put in power, and had tried
to storm the National Assem
bly and the U. S. embassy.
Tough paratroop Gen. Jac
ques Massu led the army
movement in Algeria.
Gen. Raoul Salan, com
mander in chief of the 400,000
French troops in Algeria, pub
licly proclaimed his support
of Massu and hailed De
Gaulle." ?
A French nationalist mob
sacked the United States In
formation Service library in
Algiers. '
tlobs rebelling against pro-
western president Camille
Chamoun of Lebanon burned
USIS libraries in Beirut, the
capital, and Tripoli, and tried
to storm the American em
bassy in Beirut.
The United States air-lifted
small arms, ammunition, tear
gas and gas masks from West
Germany to Lebanon to assist
Temper
hand word 'that the United
States would not gently accept
such affronts ;to the Nixon
party. . That, of course, was
more of Eisenhower's doing.
The president told his ad
visers there ought to be a
grand welcome home for
Richard Nixon and, by golly,
he would go out to the air
port to lead it. No such thing,
his State Department advisers
ruled. For the President to go
to the airport would set a bad
precedent couldn't be done,
or, anyway, shouldn't be.
A Big Welcome
Okay," said Eisenhower. If
he couldn't go, the entire
White House staff barring a
single clerk would be there
with Sherman Adams in the
lead. Ike and the clerk would
keep store during the wel
come ceremonies. That was
Tuesday afternoon Wednes
day the President decided to
go, himself.
So it was that a lot of steam
suddenly was generated be
hind the welcome home proj
ect. Less prodding was re
quired to iire up some enthus
iasm on Capitol Hill. Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson and Senate Republi
can Leader William F. Know
land got the fever and went
to work. ,
.It was a bi-partisan wel
come they planned and which
Nixon got. It wouldn't have
been much, however, had not
the President become sudden
ly angered by the treatment
accorded his young friend. He
still wanted to be in "the wel
come party, himself, and said
as much at Wednesday's White'
House, news conference.
Alert v and sensitive Wash
ington is casting up the polit
ical account of all this. It
casts up high in Nixon's favor.
His enemies well know that
Nixon can dish it out. Now,
they re fully aware that he
can take it, too;" a quality
much admired in these United
States..
Nixon's South American
swing was . tough while it
lasted," but the young man
stood up to it well and, prob
ably, moved thereby a mite
closer to his goal, the presi
dency of the U.S. "
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From a New Citizen ... .
To the Editor: My greatest
thrill of being a citizen came
the day I first realized one of
the many privileges, which
was being allowed to cast my
first vote at the polls in a
free country.
- My children and I are even
closer now for our country is
the same. There are so many
advantages it is. hard to tell
what I felt like the day that
I received my final papers.
For 40 years I lived .in
America, loving it more and
more each day. My children
received many privileges by
being born here, , and prob
ably the most important be
ing spiritual, they can attend
the church of their choice and
the public schools where
everyone who wishes may re
ceive an education.
police and troops in suppress
ing the riots.
The strength of the Marines
attached to the U.S. 6th Fleet,
based in the Mediterranean,
was doubled.
' Soviet Russia launched its
third Sputnik satellite, to join
the three U.S. satellites new
hurtling in orbit round the
globe. ' f . .
The new Sputnik is a big
one 2,925.53 pounds, com
pared to the 31 pounds of the
largest American satellite.
Russia's first two Sputniks,
which dramatically demon
strated its progress in the field
of rockets, have expired.
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, U.S. Vice
President Nixon is holed up in
the American embassy in "Ca
racas,' capital of Venezuela
The embassy is surrounded by
a heavily armed police guard,
Our vice president and his
wife were driven to the sanc
tuary of our embassy by howl
ing mobs that spat upon them
and attacked their car with
stones and clubs, shattering
tne cars windows., u seems
likely that the Nixons would
have been physically injured
if the mobs had not been beat
en back by Venezuelan police
using tear gas.
In Washington, Senator
Mansfield of Montana says;
"These attacks on the Nixons
(which have persisted all the
way from Lima in Peru) con
stitute the most shameful of
incidents our country HAS
EVER BEEN SUBJECTED
TO."v
W
HAT led up to all this?
What is it all about?
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
I
THINK no one is in any
doubt as to the answer to
these questions. . '
COMMUNISM IS RESPON
SIBLE. Americans may not be too
popular in South America. In
our preoccupation witb the
Old World, we have been neg
lecting our neighbors of the
New World. They doubtless
feel slighted: Perhaps they
are not to be blamed for that.
But
No one in the United States,
I'm sure, believes that all this
violence would have come to
pass if it hadn't been incited
by communist agents.
THAT brings up the Monroe
Doctrine.
It suggests this question:
What prompted the Monroe
Doctrine?
THE Monroe Doctrine grew
out of conditions in Eu
rope in the early 1800's. The
three - leading absolute mon
archies of . Europe then, were
Russia, Austria and Prussia.
They had pledged themselves
to PUT AN END to the sys
tem of representative govern
ment "in whatever country it
may- exist in Europe."'
The United States feared
that these three powers (some
times inaccurately called the
"Holy Alliance") might also
TRY TO SUPPRESS REPRE
SENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
in the New World! '
Hence the Monroe Doctrine
which pledged us to GO TO
WAR if any such attempt
were made by the European
despotisms.
COMMUNISM is a despotism.
It is an Old World des
potism. IT'S OBJECTIVE IS ' TO
DESTROY REPRESENTA
TIVE GOVERNMENT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
and substitute for it the des
potism of communism. -.
SO
You see
We face the same situation
We can now express our
likes and dislikes in the gov
ernment by taking part in
public discussions, petitioning
and most of all by voting. I
suppose I felt more like a
child being handed a pencil
and being told to draw a great
picture.
My responsibility was not
to draw a picture but rather
to help put the right persons
in government offices. My
way of living and my family
and friends were going to be
affected by my1 vote. One vote
some people say makes no
difference, yet I keep think
ing of the saying - "What
would happen if everyone else
thought - that his vote would
make no difference ?" The
polls would be very lonely
places today.
Kachiyo Nagayama," :
220 Cottage St., ,
Medford.
Cheap 'Housing Needed
To the Editor: In regard to
the Jackson County Housing
project, I for one don't feel
like it should be torn down.
The unemployment in Med
ford has always been a prob
lem and I don't think it is
changing. Of course summer
will bring temporary work
for some but after that it's the
same thing.
1 To find housing for families
with two or more children in
a price range that they can
afford-is almost impossible.
We can't afford $60 to $80 a
month rent., A lot of people
here are on compensation,
welfare ant mothers that are
sole support of their families.
We need low cost housing.
We admit that this place
needs repairs but so would
your houses ', if you didn't
make any . repairs for eight
years or more. These places
have made a profit so why
weren't they kept L,up? Why
not use the money and put
them back in order? If not,
who gets the money and why?
These are questions we have
tried to get answers for only
to get the run-around. That
is why we contacted Gov
Holmes. Sen. Morse and
Charles Porter.
The Authority controls
these places and the Author
ity consists of six men. .Is it
right that these six men
should have the whole say on
tearing these down or not?
They're in the higher income
bracket so it's not hurting
them, but it does hurt the low
income people.
We can't even get a straight
answer from half the people
we have talked to, a lot of
them agree that the project
should be kept longer but they
say their hands are tied. Is
that the reason or are they
afraid that they will be step
ping on some one higher up's
toes if they do try to help us?
We just get sent from one
person to another with none
of our questions answered,
and we are beginning to won
der why there are no -an
swers.
One last thing, we of the
project are the ones who are
pushing this and the manage
ment has never given us ad
vice, help, or stated their opin
ions. Put the blame where it
belongs and not on the lone
bystander. : Those "he says"
are not always the truth. .
Mrs. - BV G.' Reynolds,.
814 West Jackson, No. 6,
, Medford.
The Way to Peace
. To the Editor: We have not
established that lasting peace
the humble people of the
world desire, namely because
we have forgotten God.
Greedy men have caused
the pioneer spirit of America's
early life to fade. They entice
us with their labor saving de
vices and gaudy merchandise.
Soon thereafter we worship
leisure, pleasure and mer
chandise instead of God, for
getting that man was told to
earn his bread, by the . sweat
of his face, by tilling the soil.
We have made it impossible
for a man to earn his living
on a small farm and he is mi
grating to the city.'. We have
made it possible for big busi
ness to thrive and have caused
small business to faiL
Truly, we are not a Chris
tian nation, and not the Chris
tianswe profess to be.
Have we no. wisdom?
How can we successfully
guide and bring peace to oth
er nations Detore we have
first solved our own prob
lems? How can we. build
world peace when we defy
laws that were given by Him
who taught of peace and how
to secure it?
No nation obeys His laws.
We cannot serve both God
and mammon, and at the same
time create peace." We are
now the servants of mammon.
Will the people of the world
escape destruction; or will
that. was faced by our fore
fathers. - .
Let's hope we have the
courage - to- meet it as boldly
and decisively as they did.
they cause their own destruc
tion by their frantic arms,
space and missile rivalry
race? . -
This could be the end, or a
warning. If a warning, it is
time to awaken, amend some
of our laws, and choose men
for office who are not
ashamed to acknowledge God
and His laws, make the need
ed amendments and find
peace at home. We will then
have shown other nations the
way to peace. t
' Arthur James Maurer Sr.,
P. O. Box 318,
Bell Fourche, S.D.
Tribute . '
To he Editor: Last week,
Chiloquin and Klamath coun
ty lost a fine young citizen, a
victim of the dreaded cancer.
Romona Shadley . was the
bravest girl ' I have ever
known. She. was a high credit
to both womanhood and the
Indian people: During our re
cent basketball tournament
queen contest she was a very
active candidate, "Despite her
disability and the pain that
accompanies:,cancer, she won
the award for ticket sales.
Romona went to grade
school at, Elk-Trail and her
first two years of high school
at Prospect, Ore. She would
have graduated from sChilo
quin High school this June.
Far be it from me to ques
tion the ways of God. He gives
us life or perhaps loans would
be a better word, ; and then
takes it away when He sees
fit.. I have often wondered
though why . He takes the
yodng people in the prime of
life.
Are youngsters like Romona
crucified among us Ho shock
us into the realization, that
cancer can strike anyone, any
time and apparently, at any
age? . '
Medical science is making
tremendous strides in control
ling and preventing cancer,
and I believe it behooves all
of us to support the drive for
funds to carry on this re
search. ;
Nelson Sharp,
- Klamath Agency, Ore.
Butterflies
To the Editor: The Viking
among butterflies" is the big
brickred Monarch. Like the
old Yankee clipper ships, it
has made its way to the Phil
ippines, Australia, Java, Su
matra.- It also has crossed the
Atlantic to West Africa. -, -
Dr. Holland . supposes the
Monarch thus is successful in
world-wide radiation because
of its defense mechanism. He
thinks it has secretions that
are distasteful to birds, . also
to predaceous insects. Its cat
terpillars, for example, feed
on plants known to be offen
sive, even poisonous, to the
higher animals.
Kiddies collecting butter
flies probably will find the
Monarch years .before they do
the .Viceroy. They, should be
alert, however, to collect the
latter. It is one of the most
remarkable examples of mim
icry in the entire animal king-
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auto insurance. Why not call soon?
DOUGLAS H. HINESLY AND JOHN J. FRANTZ
40 South Centrci Medford, Oregon
Phone: SP 3-4722
You're in good hands with
Feundad by Sr. Roebuck
and liabilities. Home
dom. The Viceroy V eouslni
are not like it, brickred. They
range in coloring from all
black and white, to those col
ors plus orange spots. Some
writers assert that, in the '
course of evolution, the Vice
roys approaching more nearlv
the Monarch type survived be
cause oi the above described
dislike of birds for the lan?pr
butterfly.
Other scientists disnnt
above theory. In anv event.
as one's collection of butter
flies increases, it is fascinat
ing to have in the same com
partment a Monarch, a Vice
roy, also- one of the typically
different-colored, Basilarchias.
It stimulates speculation.
' C. M. Goethe,
7th and J sts.,
Sacramento 14, Calif.
Services Praised
To the Editor: The Javcees
are indeed to be commended
for including church services
at their recent convention.
Epsilon Sigma AlDha soror
ity also has church services at
its international conventions
held in June. This has been a
practice for several years.
Our April state convention
in Portland had. for the first
time, church : and memorial
services Sunday mornins;. -
Members were so impressed
that in the future Epsilon Sig
ma Alpha sororities' state con
vention will hold church serv
ices Sunday morning Drior to
their breakfast meeting: These
church services are not only
heartwarming and gratifying.
but bring us closer together
for our purpose, handicapped
children, and above all, closer
to God.
We join the'Jaycees in say
ing all conventions should
adopt this practice.
Leone Smith,
State Parliamentarian
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
' Sorority,
317 Howard st.,
Medford.
Guard Officers
Finish Course
Portland First Lt. Richard
A. Greer and FirstvLt. Paul J.
Blair, of the Medford National
Guard units, recently com
pleted, the basic infantry of
ficer class at Fort Benning,
Ga., among the top four.
Blair was third and Greer
was fourth. Second Lt. Robert
J. Taylor and Second Lt. Cecil
W. Purcell, both of Cottage
Grove, were first and second.
This is the first time the four
top positions in the 135-man
classes have been from the
same state, according to Maj.
Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adju
tant general of Oregon.
Blair is a member of Com
pany A of the 186th Infantry
and Greer is a member of the
Headquarters company for the
first battalion of the 186th In
fantry. Blaim is employed in
the automotive industry while
Greer ft, a baker. Both men
won their commissions after
working up through the ranks. '
NSUItAMCI e"'"1"
and Co. with Independent asset
omce: sk'.
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