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40 years ago.
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10 YEARS AGO
June 18, 1948gfFriday)
The Medford Safety Coun
cil has arranged jwitft local
garages to provide a free safe
ty inspection of cars Sunday.
: Persons telephoning raclio
station KYJC between 7:30
and 8 p.m. tonight will re
ceive a box of chocolates in.
exchange for contributing to
the Salvation Army building
fund.
20 YEARS AGO
June 18, 1938 (Saturday)
" Lars E. Bladine, publisher
of the McMinnville Telephone
Register, elected president of
the Oregon Newspaper Pub
lishers association at the an
nual convention here.
The Oregon State Grange
closed its convention at Kla
math FIs today with fl "bill
of rights'' aimed & ltbo un
ion encroachment into far
mers' jejiviti
30 YUtt V9
Jln3 19. If a (Tvestt?)
ThO roafi to Crater Lake
Lodge ha bn cleared of
smgv ant a9 optntd to au
tomobiles tflty on day
earfer then tsjjtcled; to date
4,000 visitor hvt tntered
the park.
? From Arthur Kerry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Corn
in the vallQy $ prospering
and will run the usual three
gallons to the cr.",
40 YEARS fc.Ce
June 18. 191) (TusAa.?)
Two long military trains
passed through the city this
forenoon without stopping.
,: Up to this afternoon only
two German alien women
have registered with Chief of
Police Hittson.
Vhal'o Yep I.Q.!
Nine or ten qyrtet is. superior;
seven or eight is ceelleat; five or
six is good.
8 0
1. Nairobi is th Capital of
which country?
2. 'The diameter of th bore
of a gun is termed its c r?
3. Windows usually burst
outward as the result of an
explosion outside the build
ing; true or false?
j 4. Who portrayed the char
acter, "Clarence Day," in the
film version of "Life With
Father"?
5. Fleas require the blood
of birds or animals (including
man) in order to "reproduce;
true or false?
6. Was the Appian Way a
famous Roman highway or a
political thesis?
7. Which coin contains
more copper, a nickel or a
cent?
: 8. Was it Demosthenes or
Aristotle who put pebbles in
his mouth to correct a speech
defect?
: 9. The average hjaman head
contains 10,600, 110,000 or
510,000 hairs?
10. Poipris is the proper
name of which star? . -
Ansvfkia to the. Daily Quiz:
1. Kenya. Center. S. True.
(The exgigeion creates a
vacuum.) 4. Villiam Powell.
5. True. 6. Beanaa highway.
7. NickeL 3. Semoclkenes.
S. 110,000. 1 Us.
Our "Mountain Springs
We visited the lookout at the top of Anderson
Butte the other day (it's a pleasant drive and a
magnificent view when you get there), and in
our discussions with the nice couple who operate
the station, we inquired as to how far he had to
jjp to get his water.
He told us that he got his water in Medford,
whenever he drove in for supplies every two or
three weeks.
Medford water, he explained, is so pure that it
can stand in a tank f ot weeks without going bad.
Some of the spring or stream water, much closer
to the lookout, tends to get brown or green, and
sour; from the growth of algae, if it stands for a
day or so.
SHORTLY after that conversation, we ran
across a booklet given us some time ago by
Earl C. Gaddis, one-time mayor of Medford, m
which the history of Medford's water system was
recounted.
At first, after it was
1883, Medford had no
shallow open wells and
become evident that this would ne longer be sat
isfactory, and a community system was organized.
This utilized an open ditch, carrying water
some three miles irom iiear ureex to a Dig open
well. From there, it was pumped into two big
wooden storage tanks in a water tower, located
oh the present site of the
THIS system lasted, with some changes, until
1910. The open ditch was abandoned in 1902,
and a pumping station was erected on the bank
of Bear Creek, to the south of the present Main
Street bridge.
As the population grew, however, and as Bear
Creek water became increasingly unsuitable for
human use, other sources
In 1908, the city contracted with the Fish
Lake Water company, and started in 1910 bring
ing Fish lake water to
stave pipe. -
The water was diverted from Little Butte
Creek. The system soon was found to be unsatis
factory, however. The water from Fish lake, be
cause of the trees and brush left in the water
when the level was raised, was unpalatable, and
algae growth gave it a
rapid growth of the city
including the planting of many lawns and gar
dens, rendered the supply inadequate to meet Jie
demand.
TN 1919, the city charter was amended to auth
. orize the appointment of a water commission,
which began a study of possible alternative
sources of water,
A report was prepared, recommending use
of water from Big Butte Springs, located 31 miles
from Medford, above Butte Falls. In October of
1925, a bond issue to cover construction costs was
approved by a vote of Medford citizens, and work
began shortly thereafter. The job was done on
July l, 1927, just 31 years ago, and Big Butte
water started flowing into the Medford system.
"A Mountain Spring in Every home" was the
slogan of the water department and one which
remains true.
.,"
DIG Butte water is particularly clear and pure,
" compared to other waler systems. There is
no organic material, and only traces of mineral
elements.
The water originally falls as snow on the
slopes of Mt. McLoughlin. As. it melts, it filters
through- the volcanic rocks and soils of the area,
which provide a highly effective filtering system.
When it flows from the springs it is clear, cold
and pure.
D ACK in 1927, when the booklet containing this
information was published, it seemed that
the pipeline just completed would be adequate
for many years to come. But this forecast reckon
ed without the phenomenal growth of Medford
in the ensuing years particularly the 1940s.
' During that period it became evident that an
other pipeline would have to be constructed. An
other bond issue (this time for S2.800.000. com
pared to the $975,000 for the earlier one), 'was
approved m 1950, and the hew line was complet
ed the following year, more than doubling the
capacity of the system.
The two lines tno-etripr should nrnvp arfonnnfe
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for years to come unless growth is more than ex
pected. THE original bond issue has been entirely paid
off, and the second one is due tn hp naid hv
about 1983. r '
The water system has been an expensive one,
totaling nearly $4 million. But it has been worth
it to the city to have an ample supply of clear,
clean water.
Perhaps because of this, tier canita wafer use
in Medford is well above the national average.
And it is the reason that Mr. and Mrs. Stone, on
top of Anderson Butte this summer, prefer to
wait and haul up a tankfull of Big Butte spring
water, rather than use more readily accessible
supplies.
It is a long way from the open wells and
ditches of the early days of Medford. E.A.
99
established as a town in
water system at all only
pumps. By 1889, it had
public library.
were examined.
the city through a "wood-
pungent smell. Also, the
between 1900 and 1910,.
Dennis the Menace
ejntstwems.e .rm g - 6-a
Wilson Sees Parallel
Between Vaughn, .
Adams Situations
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent .
Washington (UPI) Presi
dent Eisenhower seems now
to be following the precedent
of Pre sident
Truman, each
having had a
close White
House associ
ate who came
under severe
attack by'con
g r essional in
vestigators. Harry S.
Lyie c. Wilson iruman s as
sociate was World War I bud
dy Harry H. Vaughan, a ma
jor general by 1949 and mili
tary aide to the President.
When Vaughan's name be
came associated with the so
called influence peddlers and
five per centers, a Democratic-controlled
Senate moved to
investigate. It was rumored
then that Vaughan would re
fuse to testify; that he would
reject a subpoena, and that he
would be supported in that
action by his great friend.
Truman squelched those ru
mors well before the Senate
investigation began. Later, he
appealed to the press "'in
common fairness" to suspend
judgment on Vaughan until
the general haa a chance to
Hoffa Retrial
Seen Near End
New York (UPI) The re
trial of Teamster President
James R. Hoffa and two co
defendants on wiretap con
spiracy charges neared an end
today.
Final witnesses for the de
fense were expected to com
plete their testimony today.
Following summations by both
prosecution and defense, the
case could go to the jury Fri
day or early next week.
Hoffa along with Owen
Brennan, president of Detroit
Teamster Local 337 and Ber
nard Spindel, a wire-tap : spe
cialist, are accused of illegally
tapping telephone lines at the
Detroit 'headquarters of the
Teamster's union.
The government has charged
that Hoffa was in Detroit on
July 10, 1953, with Brennan
to recieve a demonstration of
the wire-tap equipment by
Spindel. Hoffa has denied the
allegation claiming that he
was in Seattle at the time at
tending a Teamster conven
tion. . '
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
FROM CHICAGO comes the story of the husband, worried
by a fall-off in his business, who suggested that, for the
time being at least, his wife fire the maid and do a little house
work herself. "I think you're
the ene who's going to have
to fire her," pointed out the
wife. "After all, she's your
mother."
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Budapest
bombshell, has come up with
the first really sensible de
fense I've heard yet for those
horrible new fashions in
female apparel. "I love to
wear a chemise dress," ad
mits Zsa Zsa demurely, "be
cause I look so good when I
take it off."
A department store ad featured a "manufacturers' closeout of
1884 girdles and panty girdles" and "you can imagine how long it
took the "About Time Editor" of the New Yorker to latch on to that!
O 1958, by Bennett Cert DUtributed by King Features Syndicate.. -
'WELL, 'M SOLDI0.
tell his story to the Senate
investigators.
Truman Backs Aide
When asked in his news
conferences before Vaughan
testified to comment on his
aide's alleged actions, Tru
man simply replied that he
was. not aware that his asso
ciate had done the things
charged. When it was all over
and Vaughan had been shown
to have extended and re
ceived some remarkable fa
vors, Truman was asked if
he intended to fire his mili
tary aide. His answer was:
"I do not."
Vaughan's willingness to
appear before congressional
investigators and Truman's
desire that he do so now have
been precisely matched by
President Eisenhower and
presidential assistant Sher
man Adams. The fact seems
to be that there was no other
choice. Anyway, no other
feasible and satisfactory
choice.
Last week end's sunburst
of bad publicity for Adams
and the Eisenhower adminis
tration persuaded most inter
ested parties that Adams
would have to talk. It was
obvious that he would have
to talk before one of three
forums, all difficult and two
potentially hostile. Adams
could do his stuff on TV, be
fore a news conference of
100 or more reporters, or be
fore the House subcommittee
which turned up favors re
ceived from his friend, Ber
nard Goldfine.
Most Effective
Appearance before the
House investigators was chos
en as the most effective and,
perhaps, also because sub
committees have established
rules of procedure and a
chairman to ; whom appeal
may be made in .extremity.
The committee also had offi
cial status and it had been
the vehicle for the original
charges against Adams. (
Such an appearance before
congressional investigators is
not with any guarantee that
the witness' troubles will
ease away. The Senate sub
committee which investigated
Vaughan made a report repri
manding him, for association
with "an outright fixer" and
for accepting deep freezes for
himself and friends. Presi
dent Truman was uncon
vinced, however, or, anyway,
he was content. Vaughan
stayed on. . r
The Republicans made a
lot of votes from that with
their phrase "that mess in
Washington."
Stop Me
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
For Americans meaning
all of us, not just Americans
who happen to live or travel
abroad there are two hot
spots as this is written.
1. East Germany, which is
a Soviet satellite.
2. Lebanon, a little country
in the Middle East, which is
under pressure to BECOME a
Soviet satellite."
THE trouble in East Ger
many started about 10 days
ago when a helicopter carry
ing nine American soldiers
was blown over East German
territory by a storm. The com
munists interned them, and we
started negotiations for their
release. The East German
communist authorities de
manded that American nego
tiators hold official U.S. state
department credentials.
. Why the demand?
It is assumed that its pur
pose is to force the United
States (in order to obtain re
lease of the nine American
soldiers) to recognize the com
munist puppet regime in East
Germany. Our state depart
ment calls it "diplomatic
blackmail" and refuses to pay.
VlfHAT is the right and the
' wrong of it?
, It's a complicated problem.
These nine soldiers are
Americans. Our every instinct
cries out to secure their re
lease at any cost. But they
are SOLDIERS.' A soldier's
job is to risk his life for his
country. There are times when
a soldier has to be ordered to
take risks that involve the
possible loss of his life or his
liberty.
A soldier is a DEDICATED
citizen. It is his duty to accept
such hisks when they are ne
cessary for the welfare of his
country.
IN THIS particular instance,
backing down before the
communist demand for
AMERICAN RECOGNITION
as the price of negotiations for
the release of these nine, in
terned American soldiers
would amount to an American
DEFEAT in the cold war.
That's what the state depart
ment means when it refuses
to pay diplomatic "black
mail." IN HOT war or in cold war,
many difficult decisions
have to be made.
This is one of those times.
S
O MUCH for East Germany.
What of Lebanon?
LEBANON is a different ket
tle of fish.
In Lebanon, the present gov
ernment is FAVORABLE TO
US. Soviet Russia, working
through its Egyptian puppet
Nasser, is seeking to over
throw the Lebanese ' govern
ment 'favorable to the West
(which includes the U.S.).
, Actual shooting is going on
in Lebanon. In Cairo (capital
of Egypt) an "influential
newspaper" warns this morn
ing that any U.S. "meddling"
in the Lebanese crisis would
be regarded by ' the United
Arab Republic (Nasser's tool)
as a DECLARATION OF
WAR.
SUPPOSE, in the face of
that threat (which may be
a bluff, but may not be) we
run for cover.
PersonaUy, I think w have
no business trying to run that
part of the world. It is cer
tainly possible to defend the
thesis that we have no bus
iness there.
. BUT WE ARE THERE.
If we run for cover in the
face of a communist threat,
American prestige will, be
gone where the woodbine
twineth. .
That's about the size of it.
Jaycees Convene
in Los Angeles
Los Angeles (UPI) Mem
bers of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce from the 48
states, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico
and Canada paraded today in
the heart of the city. ; .
Twenty-three floats, six
marching units and numerous
other groups traversed the
paraae route, enaing aiane
Shrine Auditoriuh, where spe
cial ceremonies were held for
the opening of jaycee ex
hibits.
Thousands of jaycee mem
bers and their wives, attend
ing Los Angeles first Junior
Chamber of Commerce con
vention, heard a speech Tues
day by Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi,
former Hungarian minister of
finance.
Nyaradi, now dean of inter
national relations at Bradley
University in ' Illinois, told
delegates the execution of
leaders of the Hungarian rev
olution reveals a fatal Rus
sian weakness. '
Nyaradi said Russia is bank
rupt politically,' militarily,
economically and ideological
ly. .1
Indications Hint Red Crisis
In Russia, China, Satellites
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The Communist world ap
parently is involved in its
biggest crisis since the Polish
and Hungar
ian revolts of
1956,
The cause
of the crisis, it
is indicated, is
that the Soviet
Russian and
Chinese Com
munist re
gimes have
reason to be
the situation
Charles M.
MeCann
alarmed over
both in their countries and in
the Soviet satellite states.
One indication of the crisis
is the execution of former Pre
mier Imre Nagy and Gen. Pal
2 Senators, Porter
Show Vote Positions
On 100 of Roll Calls
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) When
they started counting noses in
Congress, how many times
did your Senator and Repre
sentative show up to vote on
roll calls?
.The average Senator and
Representative voted on 88
per cent of the roll calls in
the first four months of 1958,
Congressional Qua r t e r 1 y's
survey of Voting Participa
tion reports. .
The survey was based on
30 House roll calls and 63
Senate roll calls between Jan.
7 and May 1, 1958.
The 88 per cent figure ex-
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ease.
Community Poorer
To the Editor: Although I
am certain that I cannot put
my true feelings into words,
it was with considerable
shock and sorrow that I read
of Paul Throne's death.
I met Paul approximately
eight years ago nd during
that time I never did hear an
unkind word or criticism
against him.
Every morning he picked
up our children in the school
bus to take to school and re
turned them in the late after
noon, always with a cheery
hello or a short visit, time
permitting, and always a big
wave if within seeing dis
tance of the bus.
Paul always had time for
the little girl who had lost
her lunch box or the boy who
had misplaced his pocket
knife t or school book. The
first thing he taught the first
graders in the fall was to
obey him on crossing the
road to get to the bus. He
watched for cars very close
ly, and we never worried
about our children when Paul
had them. He took a personal
interest in each child and I
believe he loved every child
that ever rode on his bus as
if they were his own.
Last fall he told me that
he was going to quit driving
school bus and work at home
in a small woodworking shop,
ahd also be caretaker at the
Boy Scout camp at Lake of
the Woods during the sum
mer months. .
I am sorry that he did not
get to enjoy these things
longer. Our community ' is
much poorer this day in the
loss of Paul Throne.
Kenneth Lamb, ,
Route 1, Box 305,
Central Point.
AEC Officials
Probe Radiation
Oak Ridge, Tenn.-UPI)
Five of eight atomic plant
workers exposed to excessive
radiation are being held in a
hospital for observation,
i. Plant and Atomic Energy
Commission officials said they
are launching an investigation
Into the incident which was
the first of its kind in the
plant's 14 years of operation.
Officials said the accident
occurred when a workman in
the uranium recovery room of
the huge plant dumped a con
tainer of enriched uranium
into a larger drum. " '
A nuclear reaction took
place which raised the radia
tion level in the plant.
Officials would not release
names of those exposed, but
said ' they are receiving the
best of medical attention by
leading specialists in the field
of radiation medicine.
Maleter, leaders of the Hun
garian revolt.
Another is the current sav
age attack by the Russian and
Chinese Communists on Presi
dent Tito of Yugoslavia be
cause of hisdetermination to
maintain his independence.
That these two develop
ments are linked is made evi
dent by the indirect allegation
that Tito permitted Nagy to
continue plotting against "The
Hungarian People's Republic''
while he was a refugee in the
Yugoslav embassy in Buda
pest after Russia's Red army
intervened to crush the re
volt. The most plausible explana
tion of the executions and the
new attack on Tito is that they
are due to the state of affairs
actly matches the ' annual
average for every year since
1955. Republicans have voted
more often than Democrats
90 per ceht to 86 per cent
so far in 1958.
Voting participation scores
are based on the percentage
of all roll calls on which a
member casts "yea", or "nay"
votes. - These are the only
votes that affect the outcome
of a roll call.
But even if a member can
not be present, he can go
On the Record by pairing
with another absent member,
announcing his stand or ans
wering the Congr essional
Quaterly Poll, so that his con
stituents may learn his posi
tion. In the first four months of
1958 the average member
waJfOn the Record 95 per
cent -0? the time, either by
votag""yea" or "nay" or by
declaring his stand on the roll
calls he missed.
Local Scores
In Oregon, Sen. Wayne L.
Morse (D) has a voting parti
cipation score for "yea"' and
"nay" votes of 87 per cent.
These votes, together with
his declared, stands on the
roll calls he missed, put him
On the Record 100 per cent
of the time.
Sen. Richard L.xNeuberger
(D) voted "yea" or'nay" on
100 per cent of the first four
months' roll calls and thus
was also On the Record 100
per cent of the time.
By way of comparison, the
average Senator had a Voting
Participation score of 89 per
cent and an On the Record
score of 95 per cent.
In the House, Rep, Charles
O. Porter (D) had a voting
participation score of 87 per
cent for the first four months
of the session. He went On
the Record on 100 per cent
of the issues. The average
Representative had a voting
participation score of 88 per
cent and went On the Record
95 per cent of the time, ' .
Fifteen Senators and 121
Representatives had perfect
voting participation scores for
the first four months.
Spelling Champion
Wins on TV Quiz
New York (UPI) Jolitta
Schlehuber, the 14-year-old
McPherson, Kan., girl who
won the National Spelling bee
last week, capitalized on her
talent to win $2,000 on a tele
vision quiz show Tuesday
night.
Appearing on the CBS
'The $64,000 Question," she
correctly spelled the follow
ing 13 words without hesita
tion: Catarrh, poltergeist, infal
lible, - indefatigable, devel
oped, entrapped, travelled,
penicillin, , aureomycin,
brace, brays, braze and
braise.
Jolitta, v who won the Na
tional Spelling bee ' by cor
rectly spelling "syllepsis,"
will return to the show next
week to try to increase her
prize money.
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ASHLAND ' ; "It is better to know us and not need us,
We Never Close than to need us and not know us.
in the Communist-ruled coun
tries. Remains Mystery
Just what this state of af
fairs may be remains a mys
tery. It has been reported that
both Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev and the Chinese
Communist leader Mao Tse
Tung are under attack by the
"Stalinists" in their parties,
the men who favor a harsh
dictatorship.
. Both Russia and China are
facing difficult economic N
situations.
Part of the Russan Situation
is Khrushchev's agricultural
and industrial program.
But the party dissensions
and the economic situations
are not alone sufficient to ex
plain the present develop
ments. It may well be that the at
tack on Tito and the execu
tions are due to political con
ditions in the Communist
ruled countries.
, There is no doubt that there
is a surge of dissatisfaction not
only among the people at
large but in the Communist
parties themselves.
That is due primarily to
Khrushchev's disastrous action
in repudiating the policies of
Stalin, and in promising the
Russian people a new deal,
and Mao's action in following
his example.
Unrest Widespread
This dissatisfaction extends
to all of the Soviet satellite
countries.
In ordering the executions,
Khrushchev must have allow
ed for the shocked reaction to
them from countries all over
the free world, including "neu
tralist" India.
He must have foreseen that
the brutal action, a reversion
to the worst type of Stalinist
terrorism, might profoundly
prejudice his chance of get
ting' President Eisenhower
and ether allied leaders into
a "summit" meeting.
Whatever lies behind the
executions and the attack on
Tito there is every indication
that there is a real crisis.
Editorial : i
Comment
ANOTHER UNHAPPY j
READER
We made one of our reader
angry yesterday. j
This is probably a more
common occurrence than we
realize, but there was no mis
take in this case. The reader
told us over the telephone
that he was angry, and then
Dunctuated his sentence b;
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hanging up.
There are two ways a news
paper can make a reader
angry. It can leave out some
thing he thinks should be pub
licized, or it can put in a
story that he thinks should be
left out.
Yesterday's unhappy reader
was unhappy because we were
publishing a story he didn't
want published. And he has
lots of company. We make
someone unhappy every time
we report a police arrest. Peo
ple who go on 'trial would
prefer not to have their jiames
in the paper. We report car
wrecks and divorces and busi
ness closures and . council
meetings and controversies
over taxes and just about
every time we do, someone
wishes we hadn't.
This is an apology. Our job
is to tell the news, and we
publish bad news as well as
good news. '
To those who think every
one wpuld be better off if this
newspaper, or newspapers in
general, spent a little more
time looking the other way,
the only reply we can make
is the one we tried to give
yesterday's angry reader: Ru
mor travels just as fast as
news, and in most cases it's
nastier. Newspapers that make
agreements to suppress news
find that the news gets out
anyway, and those who circu
late 'it ' aren't restrained by
ethical considerations, libel
laws, or professional pride in
getting the story right
Albany Democrat-Herald
Mrs. Litwiller
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