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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
$rtail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1948 (Friday)
All arrangements have been
completed for the Miss Med
ford Ball tonight at the Rogue
Valley ballroom.
' Arrangements have been
completed for the radio street
carnival on NrJrth Central ave.
between Main and Sixth sts.
tomorrow.
20 YBARS AGO
June 25. 1938 (Sunday)
" Local Union 2067, United
Brotherhood of Carpenters
"and Joiners of Medford, go on
record as opposed to declaring
all producers of the Rogue
"River valley unfair unless
they market their products
under the union label.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Potcolumn: "Lady
grapplers will scratch and
scream at the Armory Mon
day."
30 YEARS AGO . -
June 25, 1928 (Monday)
Occupying a special coach
on the Shasta, 40 boy and girl
club members of Jackson and
Josephine counties arrived
here from two weeks at Ore
gon State college.
From local and personal
column: "The biggest fish
story collected today was of a
catch of 90 brook trout and
four rattlesnakes yesterday on
Butte creek."
- 40 YEARS AGO
June 25. 1918 (Tuesday)
2 Final arrangements for two
big patriotic mass meetings
Friday to celebrate successful
. completion of the War Sav-
ings stamp campaign.
From local and personal
.Jolumn: "Swimming in the
: Rogue river is now the popu-
lar sport and scores of people
are enjoying it."
Whsl'o Ttir LQ.T
Nir Or tt carreer is superior;
sevoft or tfajht xceJUnt; five or
six jSj good.
1. "La Societe des Quarante
'. Hommes et Huit Chevaux," is
the official name of a fun-
making auxiliary of which
1 veterans' organization? What
i does it mean?
- 2. A tail-like plait of hair
9vorn behind and a file of per
il sons are both called a q ?
,i 3. The noted leaning tower
- is located in which Italian
4 city?
t 4. Which State is ni;k-
i nmed "Magnolia State"?
.5. An individual suffering
i from pyrophobia is afraid of
$ what? Q .
. "j 6. In the song Yankee
Doodle "macaroni refers to
' a kind of food; true or false?
7. The famous Mayo clinic
. 1? located at "Rochester, N.Y.
cjr Minnesota?
Z ! 8. What is the given name
2 of the first offspring of the
Dick Tracy" comic . strip
S characters B. O. Plenty and
J Gravel Gertie?
3 9. Who was the German
5 iJazi who in May, 1941 made
i J a; spectacular flight from Ger
' Z roany to Scotland and sur
I Z rendered?
1 ;10. Is Montreal or Quebec
1 ;3e largest city in Canada? '
-jjf Answers: 1. American Leg-
38n 40 and 8; 2. Queue; 3.
-isa; 4. Mississippi; 5. Fire;
Z e False (gayly uniformed
Lfcjaryland soldiers of Heolu
llonary War); 7. Minnesota; 8.
Sparkle; 9. Rudolph Hess; 10.
Montreal.
sitr pollution
Air pollution used to be something nobody
had to worry 'about. Why should they? There
wasn't any, to speak of . .
It is one of the things which civilization has
brought. one of the less appreciated results
of industrialization. And, in some communities,
it is doggone serious Los Angeles, for ex
ample. Sad to say, it is increasingly a problem in Ore
gon, which once could boast of its clear skies and
fresh air. Nor is the Rogue valley free of it
not by a long shot.
If you disbelieve this, drive up on the Green
springs highway, or the Dead Indian road, or
Highway 99 toward the Siskiyou summit, some
warm summer's day, and then look back down
over the valley. A constant pall of smoke and
haze hangs over the valley.
TT is nothing we can't live with yet. But it
does pose a threat to the valley as clear and
present as water pollution, or -the haphazard
growth , of "fringe" areas other results of
growing population and industrialization.
The bulk of the problem hereabouts comes
from mill burners, which are used to dispose of
the "waste" products of lumber mills, the saw
dust and bark and mill-ends for which no process
,of economical salvage
area. '
In some months of the year, the burning of
slash, the bark and limbs and needles of har
vested trees which is left in the woods, contrib
utes to the problem, but
permanent.
The burners are the chief problem.
COME of the mills have made partial solutions,
and are still looking for ways to cut down on
the outpouring smoke, and the cinder ash which
in the summertime can coat a parked car in a few
hours.
These efforts are encouraging, but, for the
industry, as a whole, they are not yet sufficiently
widespread, nor sufficiently effective, to offer
much hope of substantial improvement.
The state sanitary authority, which has a di
vision of air pollution, is interested in the prob
lem, and has conducted surveys in Medford
which show that the level of air pollution is high,
but not yet requiring drastic action.
At Oregon state college, attention is also be
ing given the problem.
x - f
A SURVEY team including members of the en-
gineering faculty at OSC recently completed
a study of the Eugene-Springfield area in the
Willamette valley, and concluded that the emis
sion of cinders and unburned material from the
"wigwam" type wood burners is a "menace" and
a "hazard to the community" in that area.
Ihe survey showed,
ing the day-to-day operation of 19 burners, that
a single one, faulty m operation, was putting out
about 2,700 pounds of
air each day. Another
putting out only about
A survey spokesman
bermen, health officials
that the most efficient
were "tight," which had
were operated with doors closed.
LIE said too much air circulating in the burner
tended to cool the fire, causing incomplete
combustion and excessive smoking.
One burner was tested one day with the door
open and the second day with it closed. The
type of fuel burned the two days was similar.
On the day the burner
open, blib pounds ot cinders was emitted; tne
second day, with the door closed but all other
operating methods the same, the discharge drop
ped to 390 pounds.
The study is continuing, and it may be that
methods can be found that will make substan
tial inroads on the problem.
ESSENTIALLY, the long-range solution lies
vvii.il iiiuic auciuatc wuuu waote uniiidiiuii,
so that there won't be much of anything left to
bum.
This, of course, will
change broading the base of the economy, ex
tending payrolls, and enriching the entire area.
And the secondary
the mill burner menace is no small thing in itself.
We look forward to the day. But, at the present
stage of development, this is apt to be a long
time yet. And what of the meantime?
.
IN AN industrial society, perhaps air. pollution
1 can never be entirely eliminated. There will be
automobiles, spewing forth their vapors; orchard
heating smudge smoke in the, early spring, slash
smoke, and other air pollutants.
In Los Angeles, it is well known, even trash
burning has been prohibited on certain days
when the pollution index rises to a certain point,
and we are informed that since last October, it
has been prohibited, period.
But, like water pollution, the contamination
of the air can be licked by a variety of means,,
and we hope this will be done in Jackson county
while the problem is still of manageable pro
portions. The first step, we have long maintained, is
for the city to enact air pollution control ordin
ances, which will then permit the state sanitary
authority to take the necessary preliminary steps
in and around the city.
So far, the city has failed to act. E. A.
has yet been found in this
this is neither crucial nor
for instance, after study
unburned wastes into the
one, highly efficient, was
15 pounds daily.
told a gathering of lum
and city representatives
burners were those that
no air leaks, and that
was used with the door
in itself be a major
advantage of eliminating
Dennis the Menace
no. He just SPfWNBD his arm! Who told you
V& rriN FOUR PlACBS?
New East
Suffering
CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign Analyst
Three neighboring east
Asian countries, free for 10
years, are still suffering from
acute growing
pains.
In In d o ne
sia, full-scale
r e b e llions at
the w e s t e rn
and eastern
ends of the
long island
chain are de
t e r i o r a ting
Charles M.
MeCann
into guerrilla warfare which
threatens to last for months if
not years. . .
In Ceylon, it is reported that
up to 400 or 500 persons have
been killed in riots between
the island's 7 million Sinha
lese and its 2 million Tamils
over the adoption of an of
ficial language.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
This modern world:
A submerged atomic cap
sule which threatened to
CONTAMINATE THE COLO
RADO RIVER CLEAR TO
THE CALIFORNIA BORDER
has been recovered in Colo
rado. An atomic energy com
mission spokesman says this
morning no radiation had
leaked through the capsule's
lead shield.
QUESTION:
How did the stuff get in
the river?
The "capsule" (with its
heavy lead sheathing, it prob
ably weighed a ton) was load
ed in a truck. The truck went
out of control on a mountain
road and plunged into the
Colorado.
Such is life in the atomic
age.
INCIDENTALLY, that "such
is life" phrase dredges up a
wisecrack out of the distant
past. It went like this: "Such
is life in the Far West where
one lives and two starve to
death."
It was , accompanied by a
shrug of the shoulders, and in
its day was quite the last
word in American slang.
WELL
The West has changed.
Nobody starves to death out
here any more. Our BIG prob
lem ' is to get the food sur
pluses in the warehouses eaten
up so they will no longer hang
over the agricultural markets
like a dark thundercloud.
B
UT let's get on with this
atomic radiation business.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
JAY GOULD, one of the shrewdest and most ruthless stock
manipulators Wall Street ever has known, was summoned
one day by the rector of his church. "I've saved $30,000 in my
lifetime," said the rector,
"and I'd like you' to tell me
what stock I should buy
with it." Gould made a sug
gestion, the rector acted on
it and six months later he
was wiped out. "You gave
me terrible advice," he. told
Gould, "and my whole
$30,000 has gone down the
drain." "I'll restore your
faith," said the financier.
"Here's a check for $40,000."
"I have one more con
fession to make," said the
flabbergasted rector. "I'm
afraid I passed on your market tip to several members of the
congregation." .
"Of course you did," said Gould cheerfully. "They're the ones
I was after." ; -
Ed Wynn was unlucky at a recent flower show, he sadly confesses.
He entered a dahlia, but it turned out to be a fahUa. .;
O 1955, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Fetturei Syndicate.
Asian Countries Still
From Growing Pains
In Burma, the dominant
Anti-Fascist People's Freedom
League Party has split wide
open in a dispute over Pre
mier U Nu's policies.
A meeting of the party's Su
preme Council has voted to
throw Nu out of its member
ship. The situation is so serious
that government officials ex
press fear it may explode in a
civil war,
The troubles in Indonesia
and Ceylon stem from jeal
ousies and rivalries between
sections of the people over the
preferential treatment which,
dissidents say, the govern
ments give parts of the coun
try.
Rebellions Chronic
The Indonesian and Bur
mese governments have been
harassed by chronic or recur
rent rebellions, little publi
cized but serious, which have
persisted ever since the coun-
JENKINS
Here's the other side pf it:
The army corps of engineers
will drop a barrel of IRRADI
ATED gold and mud to the
bottom of San Francisco bay
this week. Colonel John S.
Harnett, district engineer,
says the radioactive gold par
ticles will be traced to find
out where and how far silt
drifts. i
He adds that about six mil
lion cubic yards of silt pour
into the bay every year from
the Sacramento and San Joa
quin rivers and the army
spends about a million dollars
a year dredging and dumping
silt. He says the engineers
hope to find out where sedi
ment piles up so that even
tually they can use it economi
cally to reclaim land for fu
ture use.
TTOW wiU the irradiated
gold particles help?
They will be traced with
Geiger .counters, which will
click when they pass over
places where the irradiated
silt has been deposited. That
will provide information as to
where the silt deposits are ac
cumulating. HMMMMM.
Up here in the north, we
think that if more dams were
built to store up the water
that falls in the winter less
silt would be carried down to
San Francisco bay to create
siltation problems.
At the same time, there
would be more water avail
able for use in the dry sum
mer season.
GQP Loses Issues
Which Helped Them
To Power in 1952
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (UPI) The
unabated clamor of this year's
Republican candidates for the
retirement of presidential as
sistant Sherman Adams can
b e explained
in texms of
practical poli
tics like this:
The Adams
case has dam
aged and per
il alp s wholly
destroyed one
of the big is
sues .w'hich
Lyle C. Wilson wenieuHiiigijr
delivered the White House
into Republican controu in
1952 and 1956. That issue was
the charge of corruption and
low ethical standards made
against the White House inti
mates of former President
Truman.
tries attained independence
From the time when Indo
nesia won its freedom from
the Netherlands on Dec. 28,
1949, the people of Sumatra
and Celebes have accused the
government of showing ' ex
treme partiality toward Javar
the main island and seat of the
government at Jakarta.
Sumatra, rich in oil and
other products, accuses the
government of siphoning off
the profits from its experts
and using them for the benefit
of Java alone. ,
It is also a source of bitter
complaint that the federal sys
tem adopted after indepen
dence, by which the main
islands were to be given a con
siderable measure of self-rule,
has been abolished in favor of
a "unified" central govern
ment, it is complained, is actu
ally a dictatorship.
Rioting broke out in Ceylon
last month between the Tamils
and the Sinhalese over the
language issue. The Tamils
want their language formally
recognized as on a par with
Sinhalese, the official lan
guage. The dominant Sinhalese
want the Tamil language sup
pressed.
Stat of Emergency Declared
Mobs surged through cities
all over the island, looting,
burning and rioting. A nation
al state of emergency was pro
claimed. Troops fired on riot
ers. The rioting has subsided,
but the state of emergency re
mains, along with a curfew,
and the language dispute is
no nearer a solution than it
was when Ceylon won its in
dependence Feb. 4, 1948.
Burma has been plagued
ever since it became indepen
dence Feb. 4. 1948
Burma has been plagued
ever since it became indepen
dent Jan. 4, 1948, by a Com
munist guerrilla army which
holds part of the provinces.
Political dissension in the
dominant AFPL party erupted
early this month. Former Dep
uty Premiers U .Ba Swe and
U Kyam Kyein, both members
of the party accused Premier
Nu of various crimes and mis
demeanors, including coopera
tion with the Communist
party in parliament.
Nu won out against a vote
of misconfidence in parlia
ment on June 9. The vote was
127 to 119 for Nu. But he won
only because the 28 Commun
ist members supported him,
and this embittered the oppo
sition. Classes Scheduled
For Blind in Area
Mrs. Vera Thompson, Port
land, representative of the
nrpffon state commission for
the blind, is now in Medford
to conduct classes and give in
dividual instruction in braille,'
typing, crafts and homemak
ing for the blind. She will be
here through July 3.
Mrs. Thompson, who visits
the vallev several times each
year may be contacted at
208 West Jackson st., or by
calling SPring 2-8034.
Mrs. Thompson remmded
residents that the commission
for the blind has a restitution
program for persons who
have low vision trouble ana
are in the need of surgery.
L
East Main St.
DAIRY -
We now have
s
Unsalted Butter
Other major issues which
made 1952 Republican votes
already had been damaged
badly. These were:
Peace and Prosperity
Peace: President Eisen
hower made his 1952 cam
paign against a background of
war in Korea. He promised to
stop that war and he did. That
was nearly six years ago, how
ever six years during which
memory of the limited, shoot
ing war in Korea had been
almost forgotten in the pres
ence of the immediate cold
war underway on global
fronts. The killing ended in
Korea but Americans live
with the threat and dread of
some greater war to come.
This is an anxious, costly,
nerve-jangling peace, if it be
peace at all.
Prosperity: It may be just
around the corner again, as
some politicians and econo
mists suggest. But prosperity
just around the corner is use
less as a campaign issue.
There is some offset favorable
to Republicans, perhaps in
evidence here and there that
the farm situation is bright
ening. 1
Communism: The infil
tration of Communists into the
political, industrial, educa
tional and social structure of
the United States was a sharp
issue, especially infiltration
into the fabric of government.
This issue was used effective
ly by some Republicans; and
considerably over-played by
others. The over-play just
about destroyed Communist
.infiltration as a political is
sue.
Dangerous To Use
; The issue of corruption and
questionable ethics may have
been exhausted before Adams
and his friend, Bernard Gold
fjne, the New England indus
trialist, got into the news
papers. However that may be,
it is a dead issue now.
An issue may die a variety
of deaths. It may die for lack
of persuasive factual support,
It may die for lack of attention-compelling
substance. It
may die because it would be
dangerous to make any use
of it.
This latter is what has hap
pened to the Republican issue
of corruption and faulty eth
ics as 1 used in previous cam
paigns. The Democrats can
and would answer up to any
such campaign charges this
year "with a devastating:
"You're another."
The four issues which
served Republican candidates
well in the past thus are
chipped ' and broken. Even
when they were whole, and
shiny, these issues got no more
than split decisions in which
Democratic power in Con
gress remained firm.
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Services Prafaed
To the Edition Many of our
citizens generously d e vlo t e
their time and effort for the
welfare of the community, but
few receive 'Bess recognition
and appreciation than the men
and women wjho serve upon
the Executive Committee of
the Advisory Council to the
Juvenile Court
The child in a wheel chair
or a hospital tssd makes his
own eloquent appeal to the
heart, but the cixild whose be
havior advertises that he suf
fers from neglect and lack of
discipline is unpopular and
has few champioras. Those who
attempt to help hm are often
falsely accused o being senti
mental "do-gooders" or of
coddling" young criminals.
For the past two years,
Jackson county htes received
the dedicated service of a
young attorney, JH. Dewey
Wilson, who, as en airman of
the Advisory Council, has not
been deterred by unjustified
criticism nor by lonjj hours of
tedius work in helping, this
community to face the grow
ing problem of juvenile delin
quency and to provide a re
source for the community in
the Juvenile Detention Home
SMITH
at Genes at
Matter of Fact
THE VOICES FROM AFAR
Beirut, Lebanon There is
a troubling central mystery
in this desperately dangerous
Lebanese situation, which
rather urgent
ly demands an
explanation.
There is
this unhappy
country, torn
by a civil
war that was
started by the
flagrant inter
vention of
Egypt's Gamel
Here is the
Jos'pn Alsop
Abdel Nasser.
American government, only a
little more than 18 months
after Suez, solidly committed
to land troops in Lebanon if
the government of President
Camille Chamoun asks for the
protection of an Anglo-American
landing.
No one at home seems to
realize it as yet; but this cer
tified check that the Ameri
can and British governments
have given to President Cha
moun is not unlikely to be
cashed in the end.
TAG HAMMARSKJOLD
I'and his U.N. team have not
showed much promise, as yet,
of solving the problem here.
The Lebanese government
has not shown much promi"-
of solving the problem on its
own, either. Yet President
Chamoun is not ready to sur
render to the Nasserites; and
he is ready to ask for an Anglo-American
military inter
vention if he has no other al
ternative. The American Marines and
British paratroopers are now
waiting in readiness in the
Mediterranean. There is at
least a strong possibility that
they will have to land in Leb
anon, unless President Eisen
hower chooses to break his
recently reiterated promise
to President Chamoun. Re
member the moral pratings of
the White House at the time
of Suez. Remember further
that the chief beneficiary of
those pratings was the same
Gamel Abdel Nasser who is
the chief author of. the trou
ble here. That would seem to
be mystery enough.
UT it is not the whole mys-
MJ tery. all the same. The ori
gin of the commitment to
President Chamoun is the
other half of the mystery.
The impulse to make this
inestimably grave commit
ment did not come from Bei
rut. No doubt the Lebanese
government was pleased bv
the evidence of stout Anglo
American support but it is
an open secret that neither
the British nor the American
embassies have soueht to de
lay a call for a landing. Other
things being equal, both em
bassies would prefer the Leb
anese to settle their quarrel
by a compromise.
If the impulse to promise a
troop landing did not come
from Beirut then where did
to keep minors out of the
county jail.
Mr. Wilson's interest in re
form of the Oregon juvenile
court law, community organ
ization as support to the juve
nile court, and professional
standards for juvenile court
workers, has received greater
recognition elsewhere in the
state, perhaps, than in Jackson
county. But the people who
worked with him will miss his
determined leadership and re
member him for his generous
devotion of his time, and the
youth detained in the Countv
Juvenile Detention Home
pending their court hearings,
rather than being held in jail,
will be benefited through Mr.
Wilson's effort.
Although Mr. Wilson will
no longer be an active mem
ber of Advisory Council, he
has agreed to act in the capac
ity of a consultant to the court
in juvenile matters for the
coming year. It is our hoDe
that Mr. Wilson's interest in
this field will serve as an in
spiration for other citizens
and that new recruits will!
join us in our efforts to reha
bilitate youth and make Jack
son county a better commun
ity for the citizens of tomor
row.
Edward C. Kelly, Judge
Circuit Court of
Jackson County.
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By Joseph Atsep
it come from? The answer to
this question is the solution
of the entire mystery.
IN BRIEF any government in
this area that is friendly to
the West has been bombard
ing both Washington and Lon
don with the most urgent
pleas and warnings ever since
the Lebanese trouble began.
Nuri Pasha in Iraq has been
the most insistent. But the
messages have volleyed in
from the Turks in Ankara,
from the Shah of Iran, from
the Western diplomats in the
little Jordanian capital of
Amman, and even from the
government of Greece. The
substance of all these warn
ings and pleas has been the
same, no matter what their
place of origin.
If Nasser and his allies suc
ceed in subverting Lebanon's
pro-Western government, the
warnings have run, then no
friend of the West will be
safe any longer, anywhere in
the whole Middle East. The
other pro-Western Arab gov
ernments will be the first to
go, with Iraq probably in the
lead. But after Nasser has tri
umphed in all the Arab lands,
tho nnsitinn rif Tnrkfv. anrl
even the position of Greece,
will become exceedingly pre
carious if not altogether un
tenable. Such has been the warn
ings. The pleas have called
for Anglo-American action, in
cluding even the open use of
military force, to prevent a
Nasser victory here. Use
force if you must, the pleas
have run, but stop this threat
ened chain reaction in the
Middle East by any and all
means.
THIS is the kind of situation
that American policy-makers
ought to have foreseen
long before Suez. They should
surely have foreseen it, be
fore they took their grandiose
moral stand during the Suez
crisis. Even more surely, they
should have foreseen this sit
uation in the rough course of
the past 18 months.
But they did not foresee
what was coming. They took
no adequate preventive ac
tion. Now they are squarely
confronted with the conse
quences of their own improvi
dence. .
Already, the consequences
are bad enough. Only a few
months ago, Nasser drew a
bead on another Western
friend, King Saud of Saudi
Arabia. In the upshot, King
Saud was virtually forced to
abdicate. A month ago, Nas
ser drew a bead on President
Chamoun. In ' t h e upshot.
President Chamoun has al
ready been forced to prom
ise not to be a candidate to
succeed himself, as he might
otherwise have done. Politics
in the Arab lands are highly
personal. By showing his pow
er to pick off individual
friends of the West in this
manner, Nasser has already
achieved much. Let him go
on to win a total victory in
Lebanon. Then all the voices
from afar, warning of a catas
trophhic and final Western
defeat in the Middle East, will
surely be proven truly pro
phetic. (c) 1958, New York Herald
' Tribune Inc.
California Students
Sentenced in Court
Two California Humboldt
State college students re
ceived three-year suspended
sentences to the state peniten
tiary Monday in circuit court.
Charles Lyle Hill, 23, Eure
ka, Calif., waived right to
grand jury and pleaded guil
ty to grand larceny. He was
placed under parole and pro
bation terms.
Amasa Morse Bowles, the
third, 24, Eureka, Calif.,
waived right to grand jury,
and pleaded guilty to the
grand larceny charges. He
was placed also under the
terms of parole and proba
tion. Alfred Smith Price Jr., 27,
Portland, received a three
year suspended sentence for
uttering and publishing a
false check. He pleaded guil
ty and was ordered to make
restitution on all outstanding
checks.
Mrs. Litwiller
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