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4 Friday. May 30, 1958
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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 1 0, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
' 10 YEARS AGO
May go, 1948 (Sunday)
Organizational plans for
the coming building fund ap
peal by the Salvation Army
advisory board completed at
a luncheon.
Medford's new. lending li
brary, to be maintained in
Mann's department store by
the: Junior Service league,
will open June 1.
20 YEARS AGO
May 30, 1938 (Monday)
While hundreds watched
and listened in the shade of
the city park, tribute was
paid today to the departed
patriots.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Horti
culturists Insist there will be
no hot weather. Nature loves
to contradict amateur weath
ermen." 30 YEARS AGO
May 30, 1928 (Wednesday) '
Although work on the raz
ing of the Brooks building on
South Central ave. only W
gan two days ago, the two
story building is already a
memory.
From local and personal
column: "After having been
"stationed for over 10 years in
Central Point as depot agent
for Southern Pacific railroad,
C. A. Boles was notified this
week he has been transferred
to Oswego."
40 YEARS AGO
May 30, 1918 (Thursday)
Coker Butte Coal Mining
company, Medford, -has filed
articles of incorporation.
From local and personal
column: "Dr. R. J. Conroy has
closed his office and disposed
of its furniture and fittings.
He will enlist in the Army re
serve medical corps."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five o
sis is good.
1. What city in Italy is
known as the Eternal City?
2. In what novel is Hester
Prynne the heroine?
3. Which country of the
world has the greatest rail
way mileage?
4. What do the colors of
the American flag symbolize?
5. Who is the King of
Italy?
' 6. In which country is the
port of Dieppe?
7. Do citizens of the U. S.
vote directly for President
and Vice President?
8. Whose birth marks the
division between the Old and
the New Testaments of the
Bible?
9. Aurora Australis, or Au
rora Borealis, is the proper
name for the Southern
Lights?
10. In a bullfight, does the
picador or the matador kill
the bull?
Answers: I. Rome. 2. "The
Scarlet Letter." by Haw
thorne. 3. United States. 4.
Red courage, white purity,
and blue devotion. 5. Italy
is now a republic and has no
king. 6. France. 7. No. (They
vote for electors who select
these officers.) 8. Birth of
Christ. 9. Aurora Australia.
10. jrfaladoi. . - . .
Another School Budget Vote
Next Tuesday, voters of the Medford school
district will go to the polls (or, judging by past
experience, a FEW of them will) to vote on the
budget for the coming year.
Details of the budget have been explained
(and will be again) elsewhere in the Mail Trib
une, including the reasons for the increase (two
new schools, additional teachers, a modest salary
increase for teachers, increased costs of mate
rials, and so on) which are familiar to those
who have watched the progress of the schools in
and around Medford in recent years.
We have examined the budget and believe
that, as usual, the school administration and citi
zens budget committee have prepared a sound,
conservative budget, which still meets the essen
tial needs of the city's schools and the children
they serve.
HTODAY, however, we are less interested in ana-
lyzing this particular budget than in comment
ing on two related matters, first, the loyal support
which Medford voters have given to the schools
over the years, and second, what happens when
a school budget is turned down.
As far as we can determine, a Medford school
budget has never been turned down which is
a compliment both to the voters, and to the
administration for presenting good ones.
The schools are on a stable basis, neither so
conservative as to deprive our youngsters of a
good education, nor so liberal as to waste tax
money on frills and fripperies which add little to
the overall educational experience.
AS TO what happens when a school budget is
defeated, let us turn for a moment to Klam
ath Falls, where that happened a few weeks ago.
After the budget was defeated there, R. T.
Lindley, a memberof the school district's budget
committee, which had worked long and hard
attempting to prepare a realistic budget which
satisfied the demands made on the schools, on
one hand, and the need for economy, on the
other, wrote a letter to the Klamath Falls news
paper. He said :
"It seems that there were a number of 'civic .
minded' citizens of Klamath FaUs who campaigned
to defeat the school budget this year. For their
information, they brought upon the city of Klamath
' Falls one of the most demoralizing things that can
happen to a community.
"It simply means that no supplies can be pur
chased after July 1, and more important, no teacher
contracts can be offered for at least two more months.
It should be easily seen where this leaves the city
of Klamath Falls in trying to compete with other
communities in the hiring of teachers. Most teachers
will have already signed their contracts by July, so
they will know where they are going to live.
"The board and budget members of the Klamath
Falls schools devoted close to 100 hours, studying,
planning and revising these budgets. These men and
women are a representative1 group of citizens tax
payers, parents, housewives, business and professional
people. They tried to be fair to aU persons concerned.
"Every member had first in mind to keep the
taxes to a minimum while still keeping the educa- .
tional system to a maximum. This is no easy iob.
Quite naturally the budget was increased since the
enrollment of our schools is increasing yearly.
"After these lengthy sessions, it was decided to
further inform the public about the budget by having
an open question and answer meeting so that any
questions or complaints could be aired. The . board
and budget committee held the meeting, and three
people appeared. Consequently, it was a useless
gesture.
'
"The odd thing about this situation is that the
same people who were so vociferous in their views
about 'defeat the budget' would be the same people
to criticize the educational system should the standards
fall and also would be the hardest ones to be per
. suaded to serve on a board or budget committee.
"I am sure if the people opposing the budgets
would take the time to ask for an explanation of any
of the items, they would have had a different outlook
on the matter. As a member of the high school budget
committee, I would welcome any calls concerning the
budget, and I am sure all the other members feel
' the same.
"We feel an uninformed vote is a dangerous vote."
MR. LINDLEY was,
t,,4- : ....
iniiiocij.. 4juu in a wcty, ne was aisu speaKing
for everyone, who has ever struggled to prepare
a school budget, and who knows just how diffi
cult it is to keep it in balance.
In the Medford district, with ten schools, 216
teachers, and 5,600 students, with the new need
for transportation in an enlarged district, with
two new schools due to open in the fall, and with
the prospect of continued growth forced by inr
creased numbers of children, it is simnlv imnnsl
sible "to keep costs from
The truly remarkable thing, in our view, is
that the school administration has been able to
do as well as it has without letting costs climb
way out of reason. But it has.
DROBABLY it is a good thing that the school
district has to eo to the neonlp. each venr fnr
approval of .its budget.
uuugets cunseivauve ana aeiensiDie, ana it
serves to keep the voters and taxpayers aware of
the schools and their needs and costs.
The voters could, if they wished, approve a
new tax base, but there would hardly be any
point in doing" so. With costs increasing at an
average rate of 12 per
it resulting irom tile mllux of children into the
schools) it would be only a matter of time before
the tax base would be exceeded, and vnter
approval of budgets would be necessary again.
inerefore, to keen the school svstem onerat-
ing on a sound and progressive basis, we reonm-
mend-a "yes" vote at Tuesday's election. E.A.
of course, speaking for
1 1 1 ...
rising.
This serves to keep the
cent per year (much of
Dennis the Menace
flBARO OF My 040, He wws a SAJLORT
Washington Report
By William S. White
GREAT DEBATE
CENTENNIAL
Washington This is the
centennial of the Great Debate
of a kind that will come' no
Imore. The
; country per
haps is too
bored and so
phist i c a t e d
and too full of
juvenile politi
cal rock 'n'
roll to listen
to such organ
thunder from
Willam S. White the past.
Just a hundred years ago
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglas faced in Illinois
the stump "discussions" on
slavery, on states' rights, on
the future expansion of this
nation that made a fork in
the road for history.
Douglas won the battle but
lost the war. He retained his
seat in the Senate. But the de
feated challenger, Lincoln,
rose from these dialogues in
the dusty and sweaty halls of
Illinois to the Presidency of
the United States.
Douglas was already fa
mous. Lincoln became vastly
the more famous from this
contest in the West.
What these men said formed
the backdrop to what neither
wanted " a civil war. But
what they said will live for
ever as classic major engage
ments in political warfare.
rpHE library of Congress is
publishing a book called
"The Illinois Political Cam
paign of 1858." It is based
upon the Alfred Whital Stern
collection of Lincoln papers."
It is a book made up of re
productions of newspaper
texts of the Lincoln -Douglas
debates. Lincoln himself edit
ed these texts. And so far as
can be seen, he took out noth
ing except for parenthetical
references to "applause" and
the like.
The action of the Congres
sional library is the nearest
thing to an anniversary me
morial to a time long gone
and a controversy long since
settled.
The scene evoked is strange
to a political writer of the
present strange but far
from unattractive. For in that
earlier day of presumed wide
spread illiteracy, before every
body knew so much about so
little, the speeches of both
Douglas and Lincoln had
something that has gone out
of fashion now. ,
They had an unashamedly
literary and even a learned
quality that would repel
and horrify the political ghost
writers of today. Both speak
ers plainly believed that those
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
PUNCH, the English weekly, ran an amusing cartoon of one
of those mighty business tycoons, with nine telephones on
his desk, barking testily to his secretary, "Something will have
to be done about those.
phones, Miss Sym. I've
been speaking to myself for
nearly five minutes!"
Caskie Skinnett seems de
termined to open a restau
rant called "The Steak Pit"
which will feature on its
menu such delicacies as filet -of
lost sole, depressed duck,
welsh rabid, freud potatoes,
and schizo farina or, in
other words, soup to nuts.
Special invitations for the
opening night are to be sent
to Maudlin Carroll, T. S. Idiot and Trauma Moses.
What is the recipe for a successful horror story the kind that
people talk about for years? Novelist Edith Wharton believed "the
perfect horror story must be about something that cannot happen,
must not happen but DOES happen."
a use. br Beonatt Ctrl, puuibulcd by, gin rcjjurw 8ya4jct j
who heard them were grown
up, or should be.
THERE were nc trick over
simplifications, and there
was no sloganeering. What
ever slogans were attached to
the great addresses in Otta
wa, in Freeport, in Charles
ton, in Galesburg, in Quincy
and in Alton arose natural
ly from them. They were not
prepared to serve as ready
made jingles.
Present - generation politi
cians with major speeches in
mind usually must:
1. Have them written, in all
or in part, by others.
2. Mimeograph them well
ahead of time and send them
out to other "advisers" and
then to the press.
3. Cut down on what they
have .to say and labor at
"socko" ways to say it.
4. Finally, read these
speeches in the tired and
wretched, monotone, with one
hand on the manuscript, one
eye on the clock and both
eyes on the unwinking red
light which signals that the
television camera is doing its
proper work.
Lincoln and Douglas,
though well prepared for what
they were going to say, ob
viously were of the rear-back-and-fire-when
- ready school
that lives in public affairs
now only in memory. ' .
LINCOLN had great trouble
even in assembling the
newspaper clippings that
alone could tell the story of
what had been said in Illinois.
Nobody had any press agent,
or battalion of press agents.
Nobody had any manager. No
body had any citizens commit
tee for this or even any Young
Republican or Young Demo
cratic Committee for that.
And neither candidate
seemed to have had campaign
contributors powerful enough
to make "suggestions" in any
very firm tone of voice.
All these candidates had
were great learning in what
they were doing Douglas
in the formal aristocratic way
and Lincoln in the deceptive
ly simple and awkward prairie
way and grert tolerance
toward each other.
This was the far - distant
yesterday of politics. It was a
day redolent of hot, un-air-conditioned
assembly halls, of
torchlight parades instead of
television spectaculars, of red
eye whisky for the audiences
instead of Martinis for the
smooth national committees.
What price "progress"
and whose progress has it
been across this political
century?
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Stop Me
Communications
Letters to the Editor 'must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
saper; in fact the contrary is often the rase
Hits "Smear" Tactics
To the Editor: If one may
judge from the sentiments
expressed in Don Stathos' re
cent communication regard
ing Rep. Charles O. Porter,
Joe McCarthy's body may lie
mouldering in the grave, but
his soul, goes marching, on.
Certainly no better example
of the old McCarthy strategy:
"if you can't beat your oppo
nent fairly, then smear him"
has ever been afforded Mail
Tribune readers from a local
source. .
To assert Representative
Porter is a Communist be
cause he advocates a cessa
tion of testing nuclear wea
pons is patently absurd, for
by the same token, Pope Pius,
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, nu
clear scientists too numerous
to count, outstanding religi
ous and political leaders at
home and abroad; as well as
hosts of common folk in
every land on earth must
also be labelled Communists,
since they are united with
Representative Porter in de
manding that tests be halted
now before mankmd destroys
itself.
To allege that Representa
tive Porter is a Communist
because he has chosen to
stand fearlessly for freedom
South of the Border against
dictators as ruthless as any
that have ever been a blot on
history's pages, is equally as
absurd and outrageous as Mr.
Stathos' prior assertion.
We are prone to forget that
our neighbors to the south
ward are Americans, too, with
a love of liberty and freedom
as deeply rooted and as pas
sionate as our own. That Com
munist leaders are able to
find a following among them
is due to the desperation
which arises out of genera
tions of fascistic oppression,
poverty and want conditions
which we have fostered by
our short-sighted economic,
political, and military poli
cies. It is these policies tnai
Representative Porter strives
to change for the mutual ben
efit of our Latin-American
neighbors and ourselves. In
so doing, he has in no wise
been negligent of his duties
as a representative of the
state of Oregon, Mr. Stathos'
implications to the contrary
notwithstanding.
For my money, Mr. Porter
has done an outstanding job
both for Oregon and for
better international under
standing and goodwill, and I
shall continue to worn lor
him and vote for him as often
as the opportunity arises.
Grace N. Pearson,
Route 2, Box 50,
Jacksonville.
The Plywood Dispute
To the Editor: Hundreds of
unemployed sawmill workers
and barely employed sawmill
workers in Oregon are suf
fering because of the influx of
cheap Japanese plywood.
Workers in plywood plants
are especially hard hit, along
with workers in the entire
logging and lumbering indus
try. This is at a time when
private home construction is
over 1,000,000 living units a
year and considerably in
creased over 1957.
What does our Congress
man from the fourth Con
gressional district, Charles O.
Porter, say about this prob
lem? I would like to quote
word for word from his own
Report from Washington
signed by him: "The facts are
that softwood plywood
which is virtually all our
mills make and hardwood
plywood which is all Japan
exports to us don't compete
either in use or price so as to
have any effect on our ply
wood mills."
The real facts are that the
import of Japanese plywood
is affecting the jobs of Ore
gon workers, and I would be
very happy to supply our
present Congressman, Charles
O. Porter, with these facts at
any time. What our Congress
man is trying to tell the lum
bering and logging workers
in his district is that if Cadil
lacs sold for-the same price
as Buicks it wouldn't affect
the sale of Buicks..
If our Congressman, who
has become the self-appointed
ambassadorlfrom SouthlAmer
ica, spent a little less time
trying to help the down-trodden
masses in South America
and gave a little attention to
the problems of the people in
whose district he was elected,
maybe some of the down
trodden in this district would
be helped.
Donald L. Stathos,
220 South Central ave.,
Medford.
Plywood Prices
To the Editor: The Douglas
fir plywood people have been
asking for a quota on import
ed hardwood plywood, but,
since the Douglas fir plywood
production has been increas
ing spectacularly and the
prices of imported Lauan ply
wood are at least 50 per cent
higher than Douglas fir ply
wood, it is hard to see how
Douglas fir plywo'od has been
damaged by any imports.
W. G. Hellar,
Heidner & Company,
Imports and Exports,
P. O. Box 1628,
Tacoma 1, Wash.
Memorial Day Reminder
To the Editor: On this Me
morial Day, I would like to
ask a question. How do you
intend to observe the day? It
is certainly not my intention
to make you feel guilty about
the way you "spend your lei
sure on this national holiday,
hut I would like to suggest
that we all might' give some
thought to the basic meaning
of Memorial Day, so that in
addition to sleeDine late, or
visiting friends or relatives,
or getting out Into the coun
try for a nicnic. we devote at
least a part of our holiday to
some honest observance.
As Americans we deeply
cherish our right to do as we
please, especially when it
comes to how we spend our
time, and the last thing on
earth we'd . put up with, is
having a government or a dic
tator say, in effect, "May 30 is
henceforth a national holi
day. All shops and offices
must close on that day. In the
morning all citizens must at
tend a Memorial Day meet
ing. In the afternoon every
one will visit a cemetery and
place flowers on the graves
of one or more of our soldier
dead. Anyone found spending
the day in a leisurely or frivi
lous manner will be liable to
arrest as a traitor to the ideals
of our great nation."
Heaven forbid that such a
thing should ever happen in
this country.
Yet the interesting thing
is, that the real meaning of
Memorial Day is , to honor
those who died that we might
have the kind of country
where that sort of dictator
ship over our personal free
dom could never occur.
Perhaps those who least
need reminding of the spirit
of Memorial Day are parents
or other close kin of those
who gave their lives in war
time. If you are lucky enough
not to have a son, husband or
brother whose life was
snuffed out by war, then may
I suggest that someone else's
loved one has, in a measure
taken his place, and merits
your respect and honor oh
Memorial Day. If someone
near and dear to you came
home unscathed from the bat
tle, then some other young
man suffered injury, or ill
ness instead, and-his future
welfare is your responsibility,
too.
Pat Graham,
Adjutant and Service
Officer,
Jackson County Chapter
Disabled American
Veterans,
.175 Jeanette st.,
Medford.
From Judgt Kelly
To the Editor: I wish to ex
press my sincere appreciation
to all those who assisted in
my campaign for election in
the recent primary.
Edward C. Kelly,
. Circuit Judge.
Conservation Week
To the Editor: The observa
tion of Conservation Week
1958 proclaimed by Gov. Rob
ert D. Holmes has been com
pleted for another year. This,
of course, does not mean that
each individual's observance
of the ideals of the conserva
tion, utilization and manage
ment of our natural resources
should come to an end, but
only that "a splendid week of
cooperation of persons,
groups, organizations and
businesses whose efforts have
focused the state's attention
on the wise use of our natur
al resources, has been achiev
ed. '
I would like to take this op
portunity . to thank you, for
the State Central committee,
the county chairman of your
area and his committee, and
for myself, for the wonderful
help and support you have
given us in our efforts to pro
m o t e Conservation Week
1958.
Richard A. Bain, Chairman
Conservation Week State
Central Committee, Salem
Keep Oregon Green
To the Editor: Nine out of
ten forest fires in Oregon are
Asthmatics! We give $5 trade-in
allowance for your old neb (even
if broken) on a new Breatheasy
set precision pyrex nebulizer;
bottle of inhalant; zipper carry
ing case. Money-back guarantee.
At Your Druggist
Civil Service Probe
Checks 'Loyalty'
Of Congressmen
BY FRANK ELEAZER
UPI Correspondent
Washington The lighter
side of congress:
Most of our lawmakers
would have sworn they stop
ped all such foolishness 11
years ago, when wrong-thinkers
in the Civil Service com
mission made the mistake of
compiling a list of suspect
congressmen.
That list containing derog
atory material about maybe
as many as 96 members of
man-caused and could be pre
vented. '
They continue, each year,
to gnaw away at the general
prosperity of our communities
and state.
They destroy future timber
crops needed for more than
5,000 wood products Oregon
uses every day, as well as the
rest of the nation.
They destroy the scenic
values of the forest picnick
ing, fishing, hunting, hiking
and camping.
Keep Oregon Green is ' a
movement which brings for
est fire prevention to the peo
ple. If we are to reduce for
est fire losses, everybody
must help.
Here are a few suggestions
how you, as an individual,
can help KEEP OREGON
GREEN:
A. Be careful with fire.
B. Ask others to be careful.
Keep matches out of reach of
children.
C. If you smoke crush out
all your smokes before you
discard them when there is
an ash tray use it. If no ash
tray is available then drop
your cigarette and crush it
out with the heel of your shoe.
Don't be a flipper.
D. Drown your campfire
and warming fire. Then stir
up the ashes and pour on some
more water". Get that last
spark.
E. Remember: Before build
ing a fire on lands of another,
check to see if permission is
needed.
F. If you must use fire to
clear old fields or to burn
trash, ask about the law, get
a permit if required. Then
follow safe rules;, burn on
calm days only. Have help
and tools on hand to prevent
your fire from spreading out
of control. - - '-
G. Report all fires promptly
so fire crews can extinguish
them while they are small.
Lookouts on high mountain
peaks cannot see the fire be
fore it grows Jarge and gets
above the tree tops. Your re
port may be the first one
the ranger or fire warden
will receive.
Albert Wiesendanger,
Executive Secretary
Keep Oregon Green
Association,
Salem.
UPI Bureau Gets
New Manager
Dallas, Tex. (UPD The
appointment of Harry Trim
born as manager of the New
Orleans bureau of United
Press International was an
nounced Thursday by Ward
Colwell, southwest division
news manager of UPI.
Trimborn for the past two
years was manager of the
New Orleans bureau of Inter
national News service, which
last Saturday was merged
with United Press associa
tions. The 29-year-old newsman
first joined the INS in Los
Angeles in 1954, and served
in the news agency's Atlanta,
Ga., bureau before assuming
the managership at New Or
leans.' A graduate of the Univer
sity of Oregon, Trimborn
served for two years in the
Marine Corps and began his
journalistic career with the
Associated Press in San Francisco.
f OPEN TODAY )
l TILL MIDNIGHT J
V To Serve You y
house and senate and at least
one senator's wife was has
tily . destroyed and the com
mission promised an irate
house committee it never
again would confuse con
gressmen with people who
ought to be investigated.
But here, just the other day,
were the commission's inves
tigators, gumshoeing around
the capitol corridors, asking
questions about the loyalty
and security of certain law
makers who, it was obvious,
were about to be dispatched
on' a mission of utmost se
crecy. Asked About Humphrey
"What," one of the sleuths
solemnly inquired of Herb
Waters, administrative assist
ant to Sen. Hubert H. Humph
rey (D-Minn.), "is the sena
tor's reputation for general
reliability?"
Waters, who gets out lyrical
handouts to the press on just
this subject, avowed that eve
rything he reads about the
senator is uniformly good.
This apparently relieved any
doubts Ihe government eye
may have had about Hum
phrey. Other loyalty investigators
meantime were making quiet,
earnest inquiries about Sen.
Edward J. Thyde (R-Minn.),
and Reps. Eugene J. McCar
thy (D-Minn.), Walter H.
Judd TR-Minn.), Joseph F.
O'Hara (R-Minn.) and Roy W.
Wier (D-Minn.).
Neighbors Queried
In some cases the members
were asked about each other.
In other cases the steelyyed
types inquired of the law
makers' neighbors. Charles
Munn, secretary to Roy Wier,
was asked if he knew any
thing about Gene McCarthy
and he professed not to. v .
Nobody blew the whistle on
anybody, apparently, and it
came as a great relief to all
concerned especially the
Civil Service investigators
that everybody got a clean
bill of health. This cleared the
way for the State Department
to announce the'r mission :
The Minnesota members, it
developed were being made
honorary delegates to the
annual assembly of the World
Health Organization, meeting
in Minneapolis.
Editorial
Comment LIGHTNING
Take this not as fact, but
as opinion which is all it is.
But it does seem to us that
electric storms are more com
mon than they used to be.
This occurs to us, despite our
understanding that one 1 is
supposed to opine that weath
er extremes are not nearly so
fearsome as they, were in the .
good old days. Even 10 years
ago, if memory serves, thun
der and lightning in these
parts were quite unusual.
now, it seems mai aunosi ev
ery spring we get a dose of
heavenly fireworks.
Even last December, short
ly before Christmas, thunder
was heard not too far distant.
And two years ago Memorial
Day, for the first time, we ex
perienced an electric storm, a
mild one, at the Oregon coast
right on the beach.
We're still a long way from
the really terrifying storms
that plague the Midwest, the
big cities of the east and even
eastern Oregon, where light
ning damage is almost taken
for granted. But we're still
getting quite a bit of it, espe
cially this year.
This year's series of electri
cal displays may be blamed
on the unseasonably warm
weather this month. But such
a thing cannot account for
that thunder in December
nor for the streaks of light
ning in the sky over the Pa
cific Ocean. Eugene Register-Guard.