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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
U& Tribune 10, 20. 30 nd
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 16. 1943 (VSndtf )
City councilmen last night
determined the city's share
in the construction of a new
administration building at the
arport will be $39,235.
Vegetable gardens have
been doing well with natural
irrigation, according to Coim
ty Horticultural Ajnt Clif
ford B. Cordy. ,
2A YEA9 &0
Jur 16, 13 (t Ruidaf)
Editors an publisher start
arriving here for th 51st an
nual convention of Oregon
Newspaper Publishers' asso
ciation. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Farm
ers areCrayir for rain. It's
no use unless they et their
auto washed, or buy a jiew
hat." o
30 YARS AGO
June 16.' 1928 (Saturday)
The Fourth of July will
not be observed by Medford
youth firing off firecrackers,
skyrockets and roman can
dles, according to the fire
and police departments.
Ewenty-one teachers were
0 present for the state teachers
examinations last Thursday
and Friday at the junior high
i
40 YEARS AGO
June IS, 1918 (Monday)
The outdoors performance
of The Mikado in the fhoenix
Grove will be given on Fri
day evening.
From local and personal
column: "The ladies of the
Red Cross are bending their
energies to o raise money
Qhrough a trinket shop." o
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superiar;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Just before gogtg on the
beni each time, each Su
preme Court Justice must
shake hands with every other
Justice; how many handshakes
does this ceremony involve?
2. How many edges" has a
cube?
3. "Remember Pearl Har
bor," was a slogan of World
War II; "Remember the ,"
was a slogan of the Spanish
Americaft War.
4. Which arm of the fam
ous statue, Venus de Milo, is
wholly missing?
5. A myopic person is near
sighted or farsighted?
6. How many furlongs in a
ile?
7. Which noted ancient sol
dier was born in Europe, died
in Asia, and was buried in
Africa?
8. Sunspots are cooler or
hotter than the rest of the
sun?
9. Eros is the Greek mytho
logical god of ?
10. Are Peonies annuals, bi
ennials, or perennials?
Answers: 1. 36. 2. 12. 3.
"Maine." 4. The left arm. 5.
Nearsighted. 6. Eight. 7. Alex
ander the Great. 8. Cooler. 9.
Love. 10. Perennials.
Monroe County, West Vir
ginia, was the home of the
Spanish-American War hero,
Andrew S. Rowan, who car
ried the message that later
was immortalized in Elbert
Hubbard's classic, "Message
to GarcOa."
Sad Sacks, and Gay Ones
. 'Some harsh things
ack dress.
Some of them, we've
Others were said by a young man named Jim
Welch, who wrotes sprightly editorials for the
Salem Capital-Journal.
Now comes Jim (an
that maybe it isn t as bad as he thought when
he first saw the pictures. "Anybody can make
a mistake, he says.
f AST AUGUST, as the
" come popular, he was scornful. In November,
after he'd seen some on the streets of Salem, he
hedged a bit, and allowed that maybe one type,
carefully fitted where
fully fitted," just might
Now he's caved in completely. Says the whole
movement is good.
And he adds that he finally realizes that a
sack dress is not a specific type, but a fashion
movement which frees women from the neces
sity to wear whatever happens to be in vogue at
the moment.
MOW we haven't reversed our field quite as
4 1 fully and abruptly as
apologizes.
We still think that some of the sacks are horrid
particularly the ones that make the wearer look
like Notre Dame s hunchback.
But we have learned that the whole kit and
kaboodle of sacks, chemises, et al, cannot be
damned in one breath, for there are those which
are not only acceptable, but, on the right people,
downright glamorous. -
We. sturdily ..maintain, however, that this is
the exception to the rule. E.A. , '
Juvenile "Fire Departments "
Elsewhere on this page- is the frst o two
articles dealing with the problem of juvenile
courts in Oregon.
Written by Dorothy Ann West, a University
of Oregon journalism graduate this year as part
of her senior requirements, it is a thoughtiul re
view of the need for uniform treatment of juye
nile offenders throughout the state, and for in
creased services, including specialized courts for
young people, stronger staff s, and more adequate
treatment facilities.
j
FOR instance, she points out that in some coun
ties juvenile matters are handled by county
courts (as they were in Jackson county until a few
years ago), in others by regular circuit court
judges (as is the case here now), and only in
Multnomah county by a judge who handles noth
ing but juveniles.
(In Marion county one of the departments
of the circuit court is the court of domestic rela
tions, which handles juvenile matters in connec
tion with its other work:)
And only three counties Multnomah, Lane
and Jackson have adequate juvenile detention
facilities.
THE article's author argues that the lack of uni-
formity among counties makes for confusion,
and the fact that each handles the problem as it
sees fit makes for wastefulness.
This is undoubtedly true, to a certain extent.
The legislature at its last regular session appoint
ed an interim committee to study court procedure,
part of the work being devoted to the juvenile
code and the administration of justice to young
people.
The problem is being more fully recognized
than it has been for many years since the years
between 1905; when the first juvenile court meas
ure was passedf and 1919, when it was last
amended to any important degree.
AND there are other signs that the public is
wakening to the seriousness of the juvenile
delinquency problem. It certainly is in Jackson
county, where the people overwhelmingly voted
for the new detention home, and where one of
the two circuit judges devotes a considerable part
of his time to juvenile matters.
The recommendation for separate juvenile
courts, bolstered by strong counselling staffs, is
a good one, and to a large degree has been met in
Jackson county, although those involved in the
work would be among the first to tell you that
a long way to go remains before we can, say our
system is fully effective.
NE of the signs of awareness is the active
Juvenile Advisory Council in Jackson county,
and the. fact that a statewide organization, pat
terned after it, is in process of formation. Pre
liminary discussions to this end have been under
way for some months. .
But the hard fact remains that, no system of
juvenile courts, no matter how good; no correc
tional institutions, no matter how well financed
or planned or supported; no uniformity of 'state
law, however thoroughly studied, can ever solve
the problem of juvenile delinquency.
At best these are like the fire department
they are called to put out the blaze after the fire
has started. - -
DELINQUENCY will be with us until our "fire
prevention" processes which in the' case of
juvenile delinquency reside in the home and the
church and the school and the neighborhood and
the community are improved. " '
And this won't happen until that minority of
families from which the majority of delinquents
come, realize the responsibilities they have for
their own offspring, and to the society in which
they must make their way. E.A. '
have been said about the
said ourself.
honest man) to admit
sack first started to be
dresses should be care
be alright.
,
Jim Welch, who abjectly
Dennis the Menace
fij
'I ONW OPENED THE UTTIE COOK 7WSWXU. SEE ?
Jusr jjxisawch. see
Juvenile Offenders:
What Is Best Means
To Handle Problem?
Editor's Note: This is the
first of two articles dealing
with the problem of handling
and treatment of juvenile
cases in the courts of Oregon
It was written by a- gradual
ing senior at the University of
Oregon's school of journalism
as part of her senior require
ments. .
By DOROTHY ANN WEST
Five out of every ten delin
quents that appear before the
courts in any single year go
on to become next year's adult
criminals.
This startling statistic' is
from Children's Bureau rec
ords. And the delinquency
rate is increasing daily. J. Ed
gar Hoover recently declared
that crime by youthful offen
ders increased by almost 10
per cent in 1957.
In Portland delinquency
records for one month in 1956
showed 256 boys arrested for
crimes ranging from car theft
to homicide. Half of this num
ber were second offenders
These repeaters are doubly
dangerous because they do
not return alone. They bring
new recruits to court with
them.
Interest Lags
Public interest in juvenile
courts was high early in the
century when, as compared
with today, -the problem was
less serious. Oregon's first ju
venile court bill was passed m
1905. During the next few
years the act was amended
several times; but after the
fifth amendment in 1919, pub
lic interest began a steady de
cline. Today, with the juve
nile problem more serious
than ever, popular interest in
the juvenile courts in Oregon
apparently is at an all-time
low.
Since the idea behind the
establishment of a juvenile
court in Oregon was to pro
tect the child and prevent fu
ture offenses, the court is sup
posedly not so much con
cerned with the punishment
fur specific of'enses as wih
finding out the cause of each
child's misbeavior and th;
best way to correct the situa
tion. The objective, then, is
to help the offender become a
happy, useful citizen of his
society through material, so
cial, and emotional devices.
Oregon courts have not al
ways drawn a sharp line be
tween the delinquent and the
criminal. In fact, most coun
ties do not have separate ju
venile courts, but provide ju
venile jurisdiction through
the county or circuit courts.
It is hard to believe that a
judge who deals with adult
criminal law, wills, and con
tract agreements, or one in
volved with purely adminis
trative matters, can miracu
lously become the ideal, help
ful, understanding juvenile
court judge on the fifth day.
Laws Confused
The laws governing the
courts in Oregon which handle
children's cases are confused.
They are unstandardized, and
the courts are insufficiently
staffed with officials trained
in dealing with juvenile cases.
According to the National
Conference on Prevention and
Control of Delinquency, an ef
fective juvenile court should
define the duties and respon
sibilities of the court in rela
tion to statutes which permit
control of delinquency. It is
hard to define the duties and
responsibilities of the Oregon
juvenile court, though, since
only a few counties in the
state have such courts. In
some jurisdictions certain of
fenses are excepted from the
operation of the juvenile court
law altogether, and the cases
may Be tried in criminal
courts. Only one county, Mult
nomah, has a court of exclu
sive jurisdiction for children
under 18. Each county, there
fore, deals .with its juvenile
cases differently and not ac
cording to one uniform state
law.
Only a comparatively small
number of jurisdictions select
their judges on the. basis of
the judge's ability to handle
juvenile cases, although the
National Conference believes
that besides legal training, a
judge must have a. thorough
knowledge of social problems
and an ability to deal effec
tively with children.
Trained juvenile court
staffs, which should have as
wide a background in their
field as the judge in his, are
lacking in all the courts in
Oregon and even untrained
staff members are few. Only
three counties require written
qualifications and only one a
civil service examination for
probation officers. .
Detention quarters which
are separate from those of
the adult criminals and which
are clean, properly lighted,
and well ventilated are an im
portant factor in effective
handling of juvenile cases.
Three counties in Oregon,
Multnomah, Lane, and Jack
son, have institutions for de
tention. The other counties
rely on sections of the county
jail or private homes for de
tention purposes.
A wide range of discretion
exists for adapting treatment
to varying needs and situa
tions in the -Oregon courts,
particularly in the matter of
probation. The child may be
placed in custody of a private
or public institution or agen-
ommunications
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paper; in fact th'e contrary is often the case.
"Unique" Letter
To the Editor: I have just
read Mr. Brakel's letter "To
The Editor" regarding Charles
Porter, our. Representative in
Washington.
It is a very unique type of
letter. It intimates that Por
ter has done many , things. It
speaks of the Talent project.
Authorization and the origi
nal appropriation for the Tal
ent project were secured by
Senator Guy Cordon and
Representative Harris Els
worth. The access roads for
overripe timber areas, the or
iginal authorization and ap
propriations were secured by
Senator Guy Cordon and Rep
resentative Harris Ellsworth.
The letter intimates that
people interested in mining
would welcome a friend in
Mr. Porter. All that Mr. Por
ter has ever done for mining
is to take a picture of a clear
cut timber area, send this pic
ture to a Nationwide Televi
sion program. He labeled the
picture, "A Mine in Southern
Oregon." So all Mr. Porter
has done is try to discredit
any mining in the State of
Oregon, or if we give him the
benefit of the doubt, the best
we could say is that he can
not tell a clear cut timber
area from a mine.
Fay I. Bristol.
Bristol Silica Company,
P. O. Box 427,
Rogue River.
Forestation's Start
To the Editor: When enjoy
ing rising sun's light effects
on the green of upper fronds,
the brown of decumbent ones,
of native California palms,
one recalls the remarkable
place palms hold in history,
even in prehistory.
When the writer was at
Matter of Fact
By Rowland Evans, Jr.
While Joseph Alsop re
ports from Algieria, Row
land Evans Jr. covers the
Washington base.
BACKFIRE ON THE
WHITE HOUSE
Washington The White
Housenot the Labor Depart
ment or Sen Knowland or the
Republican National Commit
tee, must wear the dunce's
cap for the incredible blun
der committed in the name of
Secretary of Labor Mitchell
this week.
No1 matter .what the parade
of official statements may say,
this has been a White House
operation from start to fin
ish. Of course Mr. Mitchell ap
proved the inept statement at
tacking the Kennedy bill. The
fact is, however, that he
scarcely had any choice. The
strategy that led to this ex
traordinary piece of bungling
was laid down in the White
House.
In the candid words of one
honest participant, that strat
egy was designed "to make
the issue by the strongest
kind of shock treatment, and
then to lose it." The state
ment itself, with its implic-
cation that the Kennedy-Ives
bill was a fraud, was the
shock treatment. The plan, in
other words, was nothing less
than a. deliberate effort to
"shock" the Senate into the
kind of divisive debate that
would end in no; bill at all.
The Republicans could then
campaign this fall waving the
McClellan labor-racket hear
ings in one hand and in the
other the refusal of the Demo
cratic Congress to pass any
reform.
rpHIS strategy was faintly
-- remininscent of the Ad
ministration s conduct one
year ago. Then, as every one
remembers, the Senate had
done the impossible and pass
ed out a civil rights bill, the
first since Civil War recon-
structon.
Mere passage of the bill
killed what had promised to
be the hottest political issue
for the Republicans since the
numbers game. The Republi
cans and almost everyone else
had counted on a glorious
Southern filibuster to break
the Democrats in two. It fail
ed to materialize. When the
resourceful Sen. Johnson then
went on to win the votes of
12 Republicans for the dis
puted jury trial amendment,
cy, an authorized Individual,
or a private home. This is in
direct contrast to the National
Conference ideal of supervi
sion and aid for all proba
tioners. Confusion and lack of uni
formity in "state juvenile court
laws are two important fac
tors impeding the progress
Oregon must make in develop
ing a court system to meet the
challenge of delinquency
control.
University of .Washington, he
noted the fossil Puget Sound
palms. This, however, is not
palms' northermost station.
Fossil palm leaves, as well as
fossil breadfruits, have been
found in Greenland. Since the
palm especially is a warmth
lover, we thus estimate cli
mate shifts.
When Oldtimer grumbles
about changing climate he is
not accurate. Some early Cal
ifornia Missions record even
farther back of annual tree
rings such as rafters of old
Arizona pueblos, yes, even
Mariposa Big Trees indicate
abbreviated cycles. Is not,
however, a great swing of cli
mate, permitting palms in
Greenland or Switzerland,
something quite different?
Preference for palms or dis
like for palms sometimes can
be utilized in public relations.
Writer returned from Ger
many, at the century's turn,
bubbling with enthusiasm
about what he had learned in
roadside forestry at the Ger
man Forestry School. He de
termined to try to substitute
same for the then often dreary
treelessness of roads of Sacramento-San
Joaquin Valley.
It soon was evident taxpay
ers objected. We thereupon
held a meeting at our home.
To this we invited 15 palm
enthusiasts, 15' loving New
England's elms, that we knew
could be depended on to start
a debate. Before long citi
zens were not thinking of
whether they could afford
tree-lined roads. It was "elms
or palms!" Thus was born
Sacramento County's Forestry
Board, one of the beginnings
of the present State Highway
Roadside Forestation.
C. M. Goethe
Seventh and J Sts.
Sacramento 14, Calif.1
Long U.S. -
On Cold War Issues
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
A months-long deadlock on
the negotiation of cold war
issues between the Western
allies and Sov
iet Russia is
about to be
broken.
It appears
to be settled
that experts
rep resenting
East and West
will meet in
Geneva, Swit
zerland. on
Charles M.
McCano
July 1 to start technical talks
on the possibility of an agree
ment to stop the testing of nu
clear .weapons-
These talks could lead to a
new start toward a disarma
ment treaty after a lapse
which started when Russia
walked out of United Nations
disarmament talks last fall.
At the same time, the possi
bility that a summit confer
ence of heads of government
on a wide ranee of cold war
issues will be held this year
seems to be fading rapidly.
A month or two ago, it
seemed to be almost certain
that a summit conference
would be held this fall.
New Book
Of. Party Campaign Finances
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (UPI) Jack
Redding has written a good
book called "Inside the Dem
ocratic Party"
which also
could be titled
a p propriately
something like
this:
"Through
the Jungle of
P r e s idential
C a mpaigning
Without Food
Lyie c. Wilson or Water!"
Food and water, ' in this
and passed the bill, the Re
publicans resorted to a man
euver of delay that looked
suspiciously like an effort to
kill the bill by having the
House delete the jury trial
amendment.
. The inevitable result was a
conviction still held by lead
ing Negro organizations that
the Republicans had simply
meant from the start to agi
tate and exploit the civil
right issue, not resolve it.
THE same result, unhappily
for the Republicans is a
likely legacy of the White
House labor bill intrigue.
Even though Mr. Mitchell's
denunciation of the Kennedy
bill has put more teeth into
it, the White House strategy
is likely to boomerang in sev
eral obvious ways.
Item: It has put Mr. Mitch
ell "entirely out of character"
in the words of one of his
staunchest Republican ad
mirers on Capitol Hill. Mitch
ell's bright future as a Re
publican who merited the full
respect of labor has been dam
aged, perhaps irreparably. A
political figure caught "out
of character" is not unlike a
temperance leader caught
with a keg of beer.
Item: The Eisenhower ad
ministration has now appear
ed to place itself cozily in be
tween Sen. Knowland. and
Sen. Goldwater, although the
brightest future of the Re
publican party must lie else
where and although Mitchell
has personally moved his
party toward a liberal labor
position ,over the past four
years. '
.
TTEM:: The implication that
Kennedy and Ives naa de
liberately contrived to write
a bill that would weaken, not
strengthen, the controls over
unscrupulous labor leaders
has greatly enhanced the
chance for final passage of a
reform bill.
In the House, Speaker Ray-
burn will use all his consid
erable powers to have the Sen
ate Bill approved. Should the
House actually pass the bill
and send it to the White
House, the big winner now
would more likely be Ken
nedy, not Mitchell.
For the Republicans, the
most unfortunate aspect of the
whole affair is that they, not
the Democrats, have kept the
heat on the labor-reform is
sue. They may now wind up
with no credit and with no is
sue. (Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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That Loosen
Need Not Embarrass
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suffered real embarrassment because
their plate dropped, slipped or wob
bled at Just the wrong time. Do not
live in fear of this happening to you.
Just sprinkle a little FASTETH. the
ailtanne (non-acid) powder, on your
plates. Hold false teeth more firmly,
so they feel more comfortable. Does
not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den
ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any
drug counter.
Russian Deadlock
Fellow allied governments
were putting strong pressure
on the United States to agree
to the conference, for which
Russia had been calling since
Jast December when former
Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin
sent the first of a series of let
ters to various heads of gov
ernment. But this pressure has now
almost stopped.
One big reason is that Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles seems to have con
vinced other Allied leaders
that it would be a serious mis
take to agree to a summit con
ference until Russia has given
assurance that it is ready to
negotiate big issues in good
faith.
Another has now arisen in
the accession of Gen. Charles
de Gaulle as Premier of
France in one of the big po
litical upheavals of recent
years.
It will be necessary for
President Eisenhower and
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan to try to coordinate
policy with De Gaulle before
there can be any agreement
to hold the summit meeting.
First in prospect at present
is a series of talks which
Describes
sense, would be money, which
was the Democrats' greatest
lack 10 years ago when they
reluctantly put up slight Har
ry S. Truman to run against
the Goliath shadow of Thomas
E. . Dewey, the Republican
candidate, of New, York.
Redding was publicity di
rector of the Democratic Na
tional Committee during that
story book campaign, and by
his own account he did a su
perbly professional job. The
book is published today at
$4.50 by. Bobbs Merrill. If
Dewey doesn't have one by
sundown, he is unaccountably
disinterested in knowing more
about what hit him back there
in 1948 and why.
Money and Lack of It
Money and the lack of it is
the recurrent theme of Red-
ding's book. The theme be
gins with a half-told account
of how Committee Chairman
J. Howard McGrath was able
at all to persuade anyone to
become finance chairman for
the campaign. It looked like
an impossible job from which
even Truman cabinet officers
flinched.
. Louis A. Johnson of West
Virginia was in . the huddle
McGrath summoned to talk
finance. Johnson was a for
mer assistant secretary of
war under F.D.R. His greatest
ambition had been to be chief
of that department.
"McGrath asked each man
present at the meeting if he
Rock Imbedded in Road
Found To Be Quartz
Albany, Ore. (UPI)
Tests at the Bureau of Mines
Electrodevelopment lab indi
cated today that rock found
imbedded in a logging road
near Foster last week was not
a meteorite.
The laboratory reported
that the rock was quartz. The
black crust was described as
magnesium oxide. It was first
believed the crust had been
caused by heat created by a
meteorite entering the atmosphere.
Reasonable Funerals
(PRICED FOR EVERYONE)
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FRIENDLY,
Ending
Dulles, Macmillan and Chan
cellor Konrad AdenaSfer will
hold in the next fv weeks
with De Gaulle.
Talks Continue
Presumably the talks of the
United States, British and
French ambassadors in Mos
cow with Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei A. Gromyko on
the issues to be discussed at
a summit meeting will con
tinue. But even if they make prog
ress, the next step after the
De Gaulle talks would be a
meeting of Allied foreign min
isters on detailed arrange
ments ' for a heads-of-govern-ment
conference.
There is no sign that it will
be feasible to hold the foreign
ministers conference for many
weeks. That conference de
pends on the progress made in
the talks between Gromyko
and the Allied envoys.
Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev made a new bid
to speed up preparations for
the summit conference last
week end.
Khrushchev sent volumi
nous letters 18 pages long,
with 20 pages of annexes to
Eisenhower, Macmillan and
De Gaulle. .
Jungle
would take on a job of run
ning the financial campaign,"
Redding wrote. "There were
no takers. Finally he (John
son) asked for the meeting to
recess for half an hour while
he went to the White House
to see the President. . . ' ;
"When he returned, John
son announced that he would
accept the (financial) appoint
ment from McGrath."
How He Made It .-; ; ..
So that seems to be how
Louis A. Johnson of West Vir
ginia realized his greatest am
bition by becoming not merer
ly Secretary of War but Sec
retary of Defense. - L
Johnson took over:Sn
March, 1949, succeeding Sec
retary James Forrestal, - a
Roosevelt administration hold
over who had been conspicu
ously chill toward Truman's
re-election effort. .
Forrestal later committed
suicide by leaping from a hos
pital window. Johnson lasted
until September, 1950, as De
fense Secretary. He was
forced out by clamorous re
sentment against the adminis
tration policies held to have
been responsible for bringing .
oh the Korean war and for
the unfavorable U.S. military
position at that time. .
Impressive Job
Johnson's campaign fund
raising, however, was impres
sive. Redding pinpoints how
and why money spent for ad
vertisements, TV-radio time,
literature and poll watchers
can and does win elections. He
does not much illuminate the
abrupt and urgent methods by
which money must be raised
when the money bags are con
vinced the candidates will bo
a loser. Could be that those
methods are not pretty.
The campaign money jun
gle probably is about the
same in similar circumstances
for either major party. Most
public minded citizens who
know anything about cam
paign funds abhor the whole
business but nothing much
comes of that. Something -
might come, however, if some
time a party financial chair
man would write a book.
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