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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 29. 1948 (Thursday)
Milk prices in Medford will
advance two cents per quart
beginning May 1, distributors
say.
Republican presidential can
didate Thomas Dewey will be
in Medford when he makes
his campaign jaunt.
20 YEARS AGO
Ma? 29, 1938 (Sunday)
The largest class in the his
tory of Medford High school
graduates, 207 receive diplo
mas. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
hay .needs sunshine, and the
corn needs rain, and the
weather is providing neither."
30 YEARS AGO
May 29, 1928 (Tuesday)
A prize will be awarded
the owner of the most attrac
tive garden in Medford by
the local garden club.
From local and personal
column: "Fishermen were not
catching many fish yesterday
at Gold Ray dam, according
to the deputy game warden.
40 YEARS AGO
May 29, 1918 (Thursday)
Company F, Oregon state
guards, formerly known as the
home guard company, partici
pates in parade.
From local and personal
column: "Thursday being a
legal holiday the San Fran
cisco weather bureau attaches
had a day off and furnished
no prediction for tonight or
tomorrow.
What's Your I.Q.?
Mine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
six is good.
1. Rudyard Kipling wrote
a eulogistic poem about
which Burmese City?
2. Which city in Scotland
has the largest population?
3. What is the primary
function of the red blood cor
puscles? 4. Briquettes- are a kind of
biscuits; true or false?
5. When General Eisen
hower retired as Chief of
Staff of the Army, what posi
tion did he assume?
6. Which country is the
chief source of silk -imports
into the United States?
7. Complete the line from
Pope. "To err is human, to
forgive
8. Where in Virginia was
George Washington born?
9. Golden bantam is the
name of a breed of fowl; true
or false?
10. Which explorer left
Spain with three vessels one
of which was named Santa
Maria?
Answers: 1. Mandalay. 2.
Glasgow. 3. To transmit oxy
gen. 4. False (kind of fuel).
5. The Presidency of Colum
bia University. 6. Japan. 7.
- - -divine." 8. Bridges
Creek. 9. False (type of corn).
10. Columbus.
JUVENILE FATHER
Norris City, 111. (UPI)
f This has been a week of bless
.ed events for Ronald Had
dock, 18. Monday his wife
Sandra presented him with
"a baby daughter. Wednesday
his high school principal pre
sented him with his gradua
. tion diploma.
Porter and
Congressman Charlie Porter has been critic
ized in our "communications" column recently
on three counts:
1. He spends too much time worrying about
Latin America.
' 2. He spends too much time worrying about
nuclear tests and their possible effects on the hu
man race, as well as the awesome potential of an
"accident" setting off a bomb and thus, per
haps, World War III.
3. He has refused to fight for an import quota
on Japanese plywood, thus damaging Oregon's
plywood industry.
A LL three criticisms are phoney.
" The first two are usually coupled with the
sneering implication that, he is giving aid and
comfort to the communist cause. This is an un
worthy and completely baseless argument.
Mr. Porter's interest in Latin America is a
sound one. It is solidly based on his conviction
that the United States, with its heritage of free
dom and democracy, should not, as it has, either
encourage or tolerate dictatorships in the western
hemisphere.
Surely he has "made charges against the for
eign policy of his own country ..." It is both
his right and his DUTY to do so if he is convinced
he is correct. That is one of the duties of a "loyal
opposition" in a democratically-based nation.
TTHE attitude also is fulfilling his campaign
pledge to spend a certain portion of his time
working in foreign affairs.
No one should be surprised that Charlie Por
ter is against tyranny or for freedom; no one
should be surprised that he is an effective and
highly intelligent congressman.
And no one should be surprised that his in
terests led him to Latin America when the situa
tion was f orceably brought to his attention by the
disappearance of a young American, the son of
two residents of Congressman Porter's Fourth
Congressional district, a deplorable tragedy suf
fered by his constituents.
The fact of the matter is that U. S. foreign
policy in Latin America, which has resulted in a
violent anti-American reaction' that led to the
recent indignities to Vice President Nixon, would
have in every way been more successful if the
State Department had followed Congressman
Porter's course.
MOT too long ago an American bomber acci
dentally dropped an "unarmed" nuclear
bomb on American territory.
The armed forces had claimed that their de
vices against accidental explosions were "fool
proof." Perhaps our trains, planes and ships are
as "fool-proof" as we know how to make them.
Still we have accidents and disasters.
Who can say, FOR SURE, an H-bomb can't
be set off by accident? No one can. 1 .
And who can say, FOR SURE, that "fallout"
from the current tests will not harm humanity
as many, many of our top scientists maintain? fto
one can.
You can argue with Porter's convictions and
beliefs if you want. But he has come to his con
victions based on evidence which he believes to
be conclusive, and who can say FOR SURE that
he is wrong? Calling him a pro-Red solves noth
ing, except to discredit the accuser.
AS TO the Japanese plywood criticism, Porter
took his stand only after making extensive
surveys, with the help of various agencies of gov
ernment, which proved beyond any question in
his mind, or those of other informed observers,
that Japanese plywood (which is made of hard
wood) does NOT compete, either in price or in
markets, with American softwood plywood.
Our congressman was convinced, and he has
facts and figures to show he is right, that the
slump in Oregon plywood results from the slump
in demand, and is in no way connected, with
Japanese imports.
To the contraiy there are a good many
Oregonians involved in the importing, distribu
tion and sale of Japanese plywood. To further re
strict these imports not only would not help the
Oregon plywood producers, but would actually
damage the Oregon importing industiy, which
while not large, does constitute a substantial pay
roll in the state.
HARLES Porter is a patriotic and courageous
American congressman, who is gaining the
respect and admiration of those who have watch
ed him at work, and who are not blinded by bias
or prejudice.
To imply he is ignorant when he takes a posi
tion leaves open to question the reliability of the
critic. -
And to imply that his motives are less than
honest and patriotic is to leave open to question
the intelligence and fairness of the critic.
Charlie Porter, of course, is not perfect. As a
friend of his for 21 years, the undersigned knows
he has his faults. But they are not faults of pre
judice, ignorance or of motives which are less
than highminded, sincere and patriotic.
And, finally, in our judgment, he's the best
congressman the Fourth district has ever had.
E.A.,
His Critics
Dennis the Menace
'I WAHNA MAKZ n JVDRIH MSrlN' UP FOR,'
Matter of Fact
ROLL UP THAT MAP!
Paris Long lines of trucks
full of police are discreetly
parked in the alleys of chest-
nut trees
heavy with
blossom. But
as these words
are written,
there is no
other sign that
anything at all
is amiss in
this lovely
city.
n i
jospn AJsop .rans in ine
spring, the most beautiful of
all world cities at its most
beautiful moment, has never
been more enchanting or more
outwardly peaceful. Yet the
whole governmental system of
France is obviously on the
verge of a radical transforma
tion, i
The Army, the Navy, the
provinces are all demanding
a new kind of leadership.
Even the police quite recently
set out to storm the. National
Assembly, shouting that the
Deputies ought to be thrown
into the Seine. The politicians
desperately huddle together,
but they have nowhere to
turn. What will be the out
come? AT SUCH a moment, the
next event grows raDidlv
and unpredictably out of the
last. The whole shape of
things to come is formed by
the elusive intermingling of
accident and human intention.
In these circumstances, one
cannot offer anything more
detailed than the obvious pre
diction of Gen. de Gaulle. And
this present state of Paris, out
wardly calm, inwardly seeth
ing,, is a fair image of the
present state of the whole
Western world.
Another visible focus of dis
order, in Lebanon, too plainly
hints that what is happening
in Paris is not a localized phe
nomenon. In Lebanon, the
pro-Western regime of Presi
dent Camille Chamoun is
under heavy attack by the
forces of Egypt's Gamal Ab
del Nasser. Britain and the
United States now stand com
mitted to send troops to Leb
anon if the Lebanese govern
ment requests this military in
tervention to protect its inde
pendence. The ponderous
Globemasters are ready on the
airfields here in Europe.
THE bitter irony of this sit
uation, only a little more
than 18 months after Presi
dent Eisenhower's self-righteous
horror over Suez, seems
to have been very little no
ticed. But if the military in
tervention is called for and
takes place, the United States
will be openly at war with the
same strong popular-forces in
the Arab world that the Brit
ish and French attacked at
Suez. And this new U. S.-Brit-ish
attack will have . less
chance of real success than
the Franco-British attack that
roused the President's pious
indignation.
On the other hand, if Presi
dent Chamoun and his gov
ernment succumb to Nasser's
onslaught, one can be sure
that every other vital Western
position in the vital Middle
East will eventually be lost
to Nasser.' These losses in the
Middle East will in turn
cause other far - reaching
changes, especially in Britain.
They will be strategic changes
rather than political changes,
but their effects may be quite
as far-reaching as the effects
of, the changes now in prog
ress in France.
The rot in Southeast Asia,
the spittings upon Vice Presi
dent Nixon in South America,
cannot be omitted - from the
picture either. In every part
of the world, the political sys
tems are being transmuted
and affiliations are shifting.
And outcries against the Unit
ed States are the standard mu
sical accompaniment every
where. 0
NE can say, in fact, that
the map 'of the world as
By Joseph Alsop
we have known it since 1948
is now being rendered obso
lete. In that year two great
events occurred. The Chinese
Communists won their vic
tory, and the United State's
launched the Marshall Plan.
These two events determined
the subsequent world-balance.
For a full decade thereafter,
the world was divided into
two halves; there were serious
frontier incidents between
these two halves of the world;
but a precarious balance was
maintained. ;
That balance is now break
ing down. It is breaking down
for the simple, practical rea
son that the Eisenhower ad
ministration neglected the
practical efforts that were ob
viously needful to sustain the
strength of the Western Alli
ance. The current breakdown
of the political balance in fact
reflects the prior breakdown
of the military balance.
. The old world map that we
have known for a decade will
soon be unrecognizable. The
division between the great
world-camps will soon tee un
recognizable. The division be
tween the great world-camps
will still exist, but the line
between them will run very
differently. There will be new
elements, too a Gaullist
France, for instance, and per
haps a Middle East dominated
by Nasser that will demand
new places in the scheme. And
if the cause of freedom is not
to be finally defeated, the
American government is go
ing to have to find a wholly
new approach to m the new
world map that events are so
remorselessly tracing.
(Copyright 1958 New York
. Herald Tribune Inc.)
In Ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Interesting information
in. case you're thinking of
volunteering for the first trip
to the moon:
Our American satellites,
which are spinning around us
day in and day out in their
orbits out there, are reported
to be revealing that if man
goes more than a thousand
miles off into' space he may
run into some DEADLY radia
tion. Dr. James Van Allen, who
designed the cosmic ray in
struments for the Explorer,
says this danger zone may be
only a few hundred miles
wide, but it might be a few
thousand miles wide. We just
don't know yet.
But
He says
Unless man shields himself
with a heavy covering of
lead, or some other protective
material, the radiation out
there might cook his goose.
Question!
- Do you- reckon that
danger will stop men from
volunteering if and when the
time comes to tackle the trip
into outer space?
Somehow I doubt it.
It's worth remembering
that back in 1492 starting to
SAIL westward into the un
known held just as many eerie
and shivery dangers as in
terspacial travel now does.
And Columbus was held to
be just as crazy then as our
space-travel enthusiasts are
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fact the contrary is often the
case.
Wants TV Bonds
To the Editor: A final word
on my position in regards to
council action re T.V. fran
chises. Our city council is not ob
ligated to the T.V. m-omo-tions,
but I believe it is obli
gated, when granting conces
sion, to those whom they rep
resent. The council saw fit to
insist upon bonds being post
ed to protect the city from
damages of its streets, etc.,
by these promoters. But is it
not a part of the responsibil
ity to also protect the citizens
from investing their money in
a hookup with these promoters
and then stand the risk of los
ing their investment due to
failure of the venture? The
granting of the franchises im
plies to the people that the
council has investigated the
financial responsibility o f
those asking for the ordinance
and they have a right to rely
upon that implication.
Trimble T.V. stated that
they anticipated some 5,000
subscribers a $50 each, which
would total about one-quarter
million dollars. From what I
can learn I doubt that their
system will cost more than
half that amount to install.
Subscribers are secured be
fore installation, which fol
lows that the subscribers are
in reality financing the ven
ture, thus will be the biggest
losers if it fails. I feel that the
council should at least regulate
the ordinance by requiring
that bonds be given assuring
the continuation of the system
for a specific time to allow the
subscribers some return for
their money
If this is but a business ven
ture, then why ask for a city
ordinance? I did not have to
seek council action to install
or operate my barber shop.
The mere protection of city
property from damage does
not, in my opinion, require a
special ordinance. Trucking
businesses damage our streets
but no ordinances are re
quired to allow them to op
erate. ' Ray O. DeMarrs,
: 139 North Central ave.,
Medford.
McCarihyism Lives On
To the Editor: McCarthy
himself is dead and the "new
Nixon" has now indicated pri
vately that he is ashamed of
the "old Nixon" who was so
ready to impute disloyalty to
his political opponents. But
McCarthyism lives on here
and there, as witness the let
ter appearing in your column
on May 19, 1958, over the sig
nature of Donald L. Stathos of
Medford.
Mr. Stathos writes that I
sound like a "Kremlin propa
gandist" and he "hopes" and
"thinks" that in so doing I am
motivated by "ignorance."
The kindest thing that I can
say about Mr. Stathos is that
I hope his excuse for such
smear tactics is ignorance and
not partisan malice.
He says I must "assume a
certain amount of responsibil
ity for" the South American
outrages against our vice
president because of what he
calls "reckless charges" I
made last year. The criticism
I made of our foreign policy
(and they were never "reck
less charges") were identical
to those now being made by
Mr. Nixon himself, particular
ly with respect to the folly of
coddling dictators.
I wonder if Mr. Stathos rea
lizes what his smears do to
our system of popular govern
ment. I find it hard to believe
that, in his heart, he wants to
confuse and poison our elec
toral processes by questioning
a man's loyalty to the United
States just because of differ
ences of opinion or party.
Charles O. Porter
Member of Congress
now held to be.
But three shiploads of men
volunteered to go along with
him. The truth seems to be
that there are no limits to
men's courage when their
curiosity is sufficiently
aroused.
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Russia Lays Basis for New
'Peace Offensive' at
BY CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Soviet Russia has laid the
basis for an intensified "peace
offensive."
The basis was laid at a
meeting in Moscow of the
eight Commu
nist - ruled
members of
the so - called
Warsaw Alli
ance, which
Russia organ
ized in answer
to the North
Atlantic Trea
ty Organiza
tion. Charles M.
McCann
A communique and a dec
laration issued at' the end of
the meeting formally an
nounced conditions for a
"summit" conference of heads
of governments on world is
sues and offered the Western
Allies a 25-year treaty of non
aggression.' They also restated Russia's
sponsorship of .the Rapacki
Plan, announced by Polish
Foreign Minister Adam Ra
packi, to ban nuclear weapons
bases in Poland, Czechoslo
vakia and West and East
Germany. '
Military Reduced
In addition, the documents
announced reductions in. the
strength of the armed forces
of Albania, Bulgaria, Czech
oslovakia, Poland and -Ro
mania.
As is customary in such
Communist pronouncements,
the documents were blatant in
their propaganda.
The Western allies, and es
pecially the United States,
were denounced as aggravat
ing world tension while Russia
and its satellites were strug
gling for peaceful co-existence.
There was nothing startling
or really even new in the
Communist documents.' But
they laid down a broad pro
gram for cooperation in the
name of the eight Warsaw
Bend Man Tossed Out
Of Navy Jeep; Dies
Point Arguello, Calif. (UPI)
Marvin E. Davis Jr., 23,
Navy damage controlman
from Bend, Ore., died Mon
day uCamp Cooke Air Force
base hospital after a jeep ac
cident on the new National
Pacific missile range, a
spokesman said Wednesday.
Davis, of box 219, Bend,
was pronounced dead on ar
rival at the hospital. The jeep
in which the Navy man was
riding from the Point Arguel
lo lighthouse to the missile
test center swerved to' avoid
some cattle on the road, and
he was thrown from the ve
hicle. Try ond
-By BENNETT CERF-
ARICH NEIGHBOR of Mark Twain had a library twice as
big as Twain's own a fact that Twain rather resented, the
more so because he was convinced his ostentatious neighbor had
never learned to read. ' "My
neighbor," scoffed Mark,
"'likes a thin book because
it can steady a table, a
leather book because it can
strop a razor, and a heavy
book because he can throw
it at a cat."
An inexperienced yachts
man, venturing pat into Long
Island sound for the first time,
decided to run up a few flags
as decoration. No sooner were
the flags hoisted than every
other craft in sight turned tail
and fled from the immediate
vicinity. Only when he returned to his mooring did the mortified
yachtsman discover the meaning of the signal flags he was flying:
"SMALLPOX ABOARD. AM COMING TO YOUR ASSISTANCE."
Perry Como threatened Hollywoodite Leo Guild: "One more in
crease in the price of haircuts, and television may lose me!"
1958. by Bennett Cerit. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate.
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Treaty countries,
The documents indicated
that one big reason why Rus
sia called the meeting was to
try to build up the prestige of
its east European satellites, to
make them appear to be the
equals of the members of
NATO, in preparation for a
summit conference.
The declaration said that
the Warsaw Treaty members
"regard a heads-of-govern-ment
conference as a major
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
FRANCE FROM THE
OUTSIDE
Washington To Ameri
cans, hoping not be entangled
in the French conflict, the
skirmishing in Tunisia is
ominous. For
if it developf
t o serious
fighting,
which might
lead to a reoc
culpation of
Tunisian terri
tory, the
United Na
tions will not
waiter Lippmann be able to re
main aloof.
The local French forces en
gaged in Tunisia may or may
not be under orders from Gen.
Salan in Algiers. If they pre
cipitate a Tunisian war, the
United Nations cannot ignore
them. Yet it will not be clear
whether anyone but the com
manders on the spot is to be
held responsible.
This goes to show that it is
of urgent importance that the
insurrection in Algeria should
be terminated quickly and
that all French forces and
political agents should be
brought under the orders of
the central French govern
ment. If that is ' not done
soon, peace in the Western
Mediterranean will be at the
mercy of self-constituted mili
tary factions, responsible to
no one but themselves.
The immediate danger is, in
other words, not Communism.
It is not Fascism. It is an
archy which could bring with
it extended and uncontroll
able disorder.
A S THERE is now a censor
ship inside of France,
Americans on the outside can
speak to each other without
meddling with the internal af
fairs of France. The question
for us is at bottom whether
the advent of Gen. de Gaulle
would mean an end to the
anarchy by a restoration of
lawful authority, or whether
his accession would be a stage
Sfop Me
Lord God of
be with us yet,
Lest we forget- Lest we forget!"
-Rudyard Kipling
' DAY OR NIGHT -
Frank Morgan
FUNERAL
Parley
means to protect mankind
from war disaster."
It said that the United
States had brought pressure
on its allies to reject a Russian
proposal for a summit confer
ence with "broad representa
tion." In view of the allied oppo
sition to "broad representa
tion," the Communist docu
ment proposed that three or
four countries on each side
take part in the conference."
on the road to the greater
anarchy of a class war. There
is no certain answer to this
fateful question. But what we
can say, I think, is that th
longer a solution of the crisis
of government authority i
delayed, the greater the like
lihood that the crisis will be
come insoluable with incal
culable disorder.
To the observer on the out
side it seems apparent that
the parliamentary govern
ment in Paris has lost it
chance, if it ever had one, to
restore authority. When it ac
cepted the insurrection in Al
geria, unable to suppress it
and being willing to condone
it, the Pflimlin government
in fact abdicated its sovereign
power over Algeria and over
the Army. It is most unlikely
that the Paris government can
ever recover this sovereign
power.
TMMEDIATELY after the in-
surrection in Algeria the
logic of the whole situation
pointed uniquely to Gen. de
Gaulle. There was little doXibt
that he could unite the French
Army under the authority of
a government of his own in
Paris, that he alone -had the
personal authority to make a
political settlement in North
Africa. As against this, there
was the risk of resistance
through a general strike in
side of France and the danger,
therefore, of civil war.
As the parliamentary gov
ernment lingers on, as time
passes, the chances are dimin
ishing of Gen. de Gaulle's suc
ceeding in what he is unique
ly fitted to do. The chance of
resistance and anarchy is in
creasing. For the kind of au
thority which Gen. de Gaulle
has must be used when it is
needed or it will deteriorate.
One can only hope, therefore,
that we shall not have to sit
watching a delaying action
while the situation becomes
more and more uncontrollable
and more and more disorder
ly. llHILE we wait for the out-
come, let us not do any
thing to foreclose the future
by becoming passionately in
volved in the French conflict,
or by speculating airily about
the future of France arid of
Europe and of NATO. The im
mediately need of France and
of the world is a French gov
ernment that cdmmands the
allegiance of the French na
tion and of the French Army
which is recruited from the
nation. Until this need is met,
none of the great issues of
policy for the future will be
or can be decided.
(Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Ine.)
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