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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago
10 YEARS AGO
July 16, 1948(Friday)
Fire department acquires
new one-and-a-half ton truck.
Residents vote on two bond
issues for trunk flawers, one to
the Camp White disposal plant
and one for southwest Med
ford. 20 YEARS AGO
July 16, 1938Q(S&urdaf )
A crowd of 750 attend ve
ter carnival at the natatorlum.
Fron Arthur Peft-y's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Uncle
John Griffin, now of Ashland,
has been under the weather,
but is once more feeling his
oats, and will soon be refill
ing bears."
30 YEARS AGO
July 16, 1928 (tfonday) '
National Reliability Air
Tour arrives; in Medford, an
event .described as "the great
est in southern Oregor avia
tion history."
Twenty - two boys h a v
signed up r a junior drum
and bugle corSJ
40 YEARS AGO
July 16. 1918 (Tuesday)
Two trainload of Jackson
county rookie Qoldiers yasjefl
through town today with
much cheeringQand singing.
The uniforms for the Med
ford state militia dromjjany,
expressed from Nev0Yok
morim ago, aje sU0"oji tha
way." . , .
o Whai'sofci-Q.J
Nine or ten covert is aaeeiiar;
even or eight excellent; eate m
aix is good. o
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1. Which ofQths ij not a
win Moselle Chabiis, Te
quila, Sauterne, ChamBagne?
2. What is chevon?
3. "Old Faithful" is a fa
mous volcano, geyser, hot
spring, or canyon? o
4. Is the ceremony of bap
tism a part of the ritual of
the Society of Friends?
5. In which grogp of Pacific
islands is Cebufc o
6. Name the Island in San
Fijgncisco bay on which there
is a Federal penal institution?
7. The portrait of which
President is on one dollar
bills?
8. What is M.G.M.?
9. The British crown jewels
repose in a Bank of England
vault, in the Tower of Lon
don, or in a vault in Buck
ingham palace?
10. It is a widespread no
tion that oysters are good to
eat only those months the
names of which contain what
letter?
Answers: I. Tequila: 2. Goat
meat; 3. G e y s e r;o4. No; 5.
Philippines; 6. Alcalraz; 7.
George Washington; 8.eMetro
Goldwyn Mayer; 9. Tower of
Wheat Destroyed in
Fire Near Pendlgten
Pendleton (UPI) A new
wheat fire bigike outQ here
Tuesday, and dtroyefl about
85 acres of standing wheat
before g fire-fighting crew
and volunteers conteoSed the
blaze about 5 D.ffc.
. The fire broke out on tka
J. IO Oagen ranch about
seven miles iSbrtnwest of
here in a 250 ac Sielfl of;
wheat. G
Alaska and the Northwest
In the wake of Alaska's welcome admission
as the 49th state of the Union, Senator Dick Neu
berger has proposed that the U.S. and Canada
cooperate in improving the Alcan highway.
The long, inland route which runs through
Canada most of its length, is now graveled, and
service stations and tourist facilities are few and
far between.
But, with Alaska a state within a year, and
with the Alcan highway brought up to a standard
where it is no longer a risky adventure to motor
over it, tourists would, in increasing numbers,
make the journey.
CUCH a development would encourage and ex
pand the already-existing westward-looking
trend in this nation, and this in turn wrould benefit
the west as a whole in addition to being bene
ficial to Alaska itself, and to the long reaches of
western Canada which are now virtually virgin
territory.
The admission of Alaska, the British Colum
bia centennial this year, Oregon's centennial next
year, the probable admission of Hawaii as the
50th state in the near future all these things
are putting more emphasis on the west and its
development. -
The fantastic growth of California in the past
few years may not be equalled in the Northwest.
We hope that it isn't. But there is no question but
that the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska,
British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and near
by states, are due for a surge of population com
parable to that we watched during and right after
World War II.
THIS growth will continue to make problems
for the 'governments of the Pacific Northwest
states, and also for its cities and counties. We
have had a sample of what population growth
causes in the way of headaches.
It will take efficient, forward - looking and
progressive self-government, expecting and at
tuned to change, to cope with the exciting growth
to come.
Heel-dragging fuddy-duddyism and a head-in-the-sand
attitude on the part of city, county or
state governments will be costly and damaging,
if we permit them to enter or endure.: E.A.
Comfort for the Men
Yesterday we had the pleasure of informing
our male readers that the sack dress is passe, a
thing of the past, on the way out.
Today, let it he noted that men's clothing,
while not as volatile and changeable as that worn
by the fair sex, also has become subject to change.
The day was not long ago when, if a man
had a change of shirts and a conservative, re
spectable dark suit, he was equipped for virtually
any sartorial necessity.
loday, man has blossomed out. He glows
(sometimes even in the dark), he shimmers, he is
gay and gaudy and most important comfortable.
NOW this phenomenon is usually associated
with, "cnnrfo" rlntTiinnr : tViof mn rvf-P'rliit it
But more and more, particularly in the Western
United States, and more specifically in the warm
er sections thereof, such freedom is increasingly
encroaching on the office, the store and the fac
tory. - . '
Southern California,
and habits, has had a great influence toward this
end. So has Hawaii, , with its gaudy sports shirts
which permit the flow of air over most of the.
upper body.
3. he necktie is not yet
occasions, and in some
obsolescent.
COMFORT is the watchword.
JL-'tsXXllU.U.C tO J.AC4- XIX XClXgC jJCli.V9 UVCi"
come by their sheer ease and wearability the
handicap posed by knobby knees and hairy legs.
Vests are lntrequently seen (although the
comfortable, handy and
ured vest is fancied by
of fall, winter and spring) . ' ; .
. Shoes tend toward comfort, too. They include
the slip-on "loafers," an increasing number of
Wellingtons (low boots of soft, pliable leather
first made popular by Britain's "Iron Duke"),
and, for patio or beach wear, rubber slippers
modeled on a Japanese original, which are called
"Go-Aheads," presumably because, due to the
between-the-toes thong wrhich alone holds them
on, one cannot walk backward in them.
HEAD covering, when
wj uc tuc epulis veieiuii ui me uascuaii cap,
with a minimum of cap and a maximum of eye
shading peak.
Suspenders (presumably due to the near
demise of the vest) are seldom used, and even
more seldom seen.
Socks are usually short, and the stretchable
variety, needing no garters, are the thing.
And, for those who still cling to the jacket or
suit, there-are lisrhtweisrht. comfortable, and even
washable products.
The other day, in downtown Medford, we
saw two young men strolling along the streets
clad only in shorts and sandals. While we do not
expect that garb, or lack thereof, to become uni
versal overnight, we could not restrain a slight
start at the contrast with the sensation it would
have caused only a few
This week, though,
the 90s, no one seemed
unusual. E.A.
with its easy-going mores
obsolete, but on some
areas, it verges on the
utilitarian plaid or fig
some m the chill days
seen at all, is most apt
short years ago.
with the temperature in
even to notice anything
Dennis the Menace
'You're okay. Harold, "nwr wasn't tif. the kid hej2 just
BROKE A V1IQI&Z RMSTNS STICK!
N uclear Destruction
Eyed as Grim Option
In Darwinian World
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (UPI) It is
a grisly thought that Dr.
Geoffrey F. Fisher, the arch-
bishop of Can
terbury, may
have added to
a final and
awful footnote
to Charles
Darwin's theo
ry of e v o 1 u
tion. Likely noth
ing was fur-
XI e a.1
Lyle C. Wilson lIler lro1" lne
archbishop's mind than the
Darwinian theory when, over
the week end, the primate of
England was revealed to have
said that it may be God's will
that mankind be destroyed by
nuclear weapons.
"For all I know," the arch
bishop had written in a sym
posium on nuclear policy, "it
is within the providence of
God that the human race
should destroy itself in this
manner."
. The archbishop's widely
printed speculation must have
reminded some readers of the
July 1 dispatch written for
United Press International by
Sir Charles Darwin, grandson
of the famous natural, scient
ist. Darwin's theory of evolu
tion became public 100 year
ago. His great book "The Ori
gin of the Species" was pub
lished the following year.
Competition Loss r-
The central point of Dar
win's theory - the mechanism
by which it functioned - was
natural selection which, loose
ly, means the survival of the
Doctors Warn Man
Not To Sneeze
London (UPI) Henry
Kingsland has been warned
by his doctors if he sneezes
within the next two weeks his
left eye will balloon out like
a tennis ball again.
Kingsland's troubles began
when he fell off his bicycle
and bumped his nose. Doctors
found he had cracked a tiny
bone at the top of the nose,
which blocked the nostril and
deflected air into his eye.
When he blew his nose or
sneezed, the eye baUooried.
Kingsland, 51, showed Tues
day that he was on the road
to recovery by gently blowing
his nose for an audience of
doctors.
He smiled broadly and said,
"It's a bit painful but not so
bad."
"Now for heaven's sake
don't sneeze," he was warned
hastily by one of the doctors.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF ;
AN ENGLISH HOSTESS planned a dinner for several mem
bers of the House of Lords, not to mention the Aga JChan
and a Texas tycoon, and was worried about her seating arrange
ment, bne consulted the so
ciety expert -of a staid Lon
don periodical and received
this helpful reply: "The Aga
Khan is held by his follow
ers to be the direct descend
ant of God. An English,
Duke takes precedence."
New ending to a rather old
story: One merchant asked an
other, "Did you hear about
Arthur Schmaltz selling
Macy's a big bill and making
510,000 clear profit oa it?" To
which the other replied, "It
wasn't Arthur Schmaltz; it
was Joe Gesicht. Jt wasn't Macy's;' it was Marshall Field's. He
didn't make $10,000; he lost $10,000. 4x4 besides, it teas I Kho told
you the story yesterday."
"Wise parents," recalls Dodd Buckner, "used to teach their chil
dren the value of a dollar. Nowadays it's just as well not to tell
them." ,
O 195S, by Bennett Cerf. retributed by King features Sy&dictta,
fittest. Sir Charles' dispatch
explained natural selection
this way:
"The intense competition of
all living things in the strug
gle for life which was con
tinually wiping out the less
efficient members of any spe
cies and leaving the stage for
those better equipped to sur
vive." . In this same dispatch, Sir
Charles wrote that there is
question now of the extent
to which Darwin's theory ac
tually and directly affects the
human race. He wrote that
some areas have attained so
high a degree of prosperity as
to ease the struggle to survive
or, practically, to abolish it,
permitting the less fit to mul
tiply. '
"Natural selection," he
wrote, "has been eliminated
for the time being."
This is leading, according to
Sir Charles and some others
learned in the subject, to a
condition of world overpopu
lation which would be catas
trophic in volume and in ef
fect. Says Answer Unknown
"Can our statesmen realize,"
Sir Charles continued, "that
this is by far the most im
portant political problem of
the near future? Nobody
knows any satisfactiory an
swer, but if one is not found
soon, our over - populated
world is almost certain to re
lapse into hard conditions of
life like those that used to
prevail only a few centuries
ago, when it was the ruthless
processes of natural selection
that controlled the number of
mankind."
The archbishop's idea would
fit in about there - the idea
that it may be God's will that
nuclear weapons shall accom
plish what mere war, pesti
lence and i famine formerly
were sufficient to achieve in
preventing a population ex
plosion in the world.
Sir Charles left out of ac
count what effect, if any, the
welfare state concept may
have on the survival of the
less efficient and the coming
over - population of the world.
Neither did he dispose of
the fact that the population
bulge is not especially among
the highstandard of living wel
fare - state nations but among
others such as India, China
and Japan.
However that may be, the
concept that a Higher Power
may have directed men's
minds to the nuclear break -through
to blast the world
against suicidal over - popu
lation is, perhaps, the grim
mest peek at the future in this
year of grim forebodings.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The letters printed in this
:olumn do not necessarily repre
sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary Is often the
case.
Abou Ben Adams
To the Editor: Sherman
Adams (may his tribe retreat!),
awoke one night in a hotel
suite, and saw, within the
glamor of his room, making it
bright and like a lily in bloom,
Bernie Goldfine, writing in a
dook of gold. Immense suc
cess had made Sherm Adams
bold, and to his good friend
in the room he said, "What
writest thou?" Goldfine raised
his head. With a look as sweet
as sugared tea, he answered,
"Good names that love the
GOP." "And is mine one?"
asked Adams. "Nay, not so,"
replied Goldfine. Adams spoke
more low, but cheerilly still,
and said, "I pray it be write
me as one that dearly loveth
thee." Goldfine wrote and
vanished. The next night he
came with a rug, plush and
bright, and showed the names
of those he'd blest and lo!
Sherm Adam's name led aU
the rest.
Franklin Girard,
1070 Emma st.
Ashland.
Tamarisks
To the Editor: Where Holy
Land's River Jordan empties
into Dead Sea, writer saw
banks lined with tamarisks.
They take the place of willows
on our watercourses, borne
botanists claim tamarisk and
willow are descended from
the same generalized ances
tor. Their theory seems sub
stantiated by both flowering
in catkins.
A Texas scientist once as
serted . Tamarisk, Mediterranean-native,
was introduced in
to our Southwest. It soon
spread throughout stream
beds, irrigation ditches from
West Texas to California. It
is a problem due to amount
of potential irrigation water
it transpires. It was pointed
out that tamarisks waste an
nually over 100,000 acre-feet
of water in New Mexico's up
per Rio Grande and Pecos
Rivers. This is enough water
for a half dozen cities like
Albuquerque.
It was recommended tamar
isk be investigated for possi
ble commercial value: fuel,
fence posts, wood pulp, furni
ture to help defray its control.
We at last are learning to
be alert as to disturbing the
balance of Nature by such
importation as, also the Eng
lish sparrow.
C. M. Goethe
Seventh and J sts.
' Sacramento 14, jCalif.
Remarks Clarified
To the Editor: As a mem
ber of the board of trustees
of the Jackson County Labor
council, I had the privilege
of discussing legislation as it
affects labor before the Re
publican Women of Jackson
County on Monday, June 16.
At that time I emphasized
the need for strong Republi
can representation in the state
legislature. In making this
plea, I had in mind the urgent
need for quality of represen
tation rather than quantity;
for the highest caliber men
and women to fill the import
ant legislative jobs in these
critical times.
It is quite understandable
why my comment was mis
understood by my associates
in labor, whose opinions I
Value highly. That is why I
would like to clarify my state
ment before the -Republican
Women of Jackson County.
The Jackson County Labor
council desires to remain un
biased in politics and recog
nizes the urgent need for high
est type of representation in
public office from BOTH par
ties. It was this broad view
which I intended to voice. If
I had given the same address
before a Democratic party
group I would certainly have
offered the same advice.
Myrle M. Merriman
Medford
American Bank Loan
For Venezuela Seen
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI)
Finance Minister Jose Anto
nio Mayobre said today docu
ments formalizing a $250-mil-lion
American bank loan wiU
be signed before the end of
the month.
Progress of the loan nego
tiations was. confirmed re
cently in New York banking
circles. . .
L
TteVlLeoqe
DAIRY-SMITH
East Main St.
Nowhere in this whole wide wonderful world
will you find as delightfully different an orange
juice drink, not even in Montego, Jamaica.
Anti-Imperialism Wave Seers
Result of U.S. Troop
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign Analyst
The Middle 'Eastern crisis
seems sure to start a serious
wave of "anti - imperialist"
feeling in the
newly freed
countries of
Asia and Af
rica. In "neutral
ist" India and
Indonesia, in
Tunisia and
Morocco, and
in many other
countries de
the American
Charles M.
McCann
nunciation of
troop landings in Lebanon is
likely to be bitter.
Correspondingly, President
Gamal Abdel Nasser of the
United Arab Republic is like
ly to be hailed as a hero who
Few Supreme Court
Overrule Bills
Seen Due to Pass
Washington (CQ) Bills
to overrule a dozen contro
versial Supreme Court de
cisions are up for decision this
month in Congress, but
chances are not more than
three of them will go through.
Rarely, if ever, has Con
gress had more "anti-Court"
legislation cleared by commit
tees and awaiting final action.
But strong resistance to some
of the measures, combined
with the usual session-end log
jam, will keep most of them
from becoming law.
A late starter a bill to
grant the State Department
passport control powers the
Sunreme Court June 16 de
clared it lacked is given a
pretty good chance of pass
age. The President sent up an
urgent request for authority
to limit the travel of Commu
nists and disloyal citizens, and
most Congressmen seem in
clined to grant it.
Others May Stand
But that is just about the
only Court decision in the
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
- The drouth, that has held
the BIG NEWS in its grip for
weeks is broken. It is broken
in a big way. x
In a lightening-swif t, bloody
revolt the government of
Iraq, which was the keystone
of the arch of pro-Western
policy in the explosive Middle
East, is overthrown and the
victorious rebel group that en
gineered the revolution pro
claims its friendship with Nas
ser's United Arab Republic.
From the diplomatic view
point, that upsets both the
Baghdad Pact and the Eisen
hower Doctrine and leaves the
West with no tools with which
to implement a pro-Western
policy in the Middle East.
llfHAT does it mean?
That is hard to say.
The only thing that seems
certain is that Gamal Abdul
Nasser has been thrown into
the center of the spotlight as
the man of the hour.
IlfHAT will Nasser do?
That is obscure at this
hour.
FOR weeks, Nasser has given
thA imnression nf a man in
a quandary.
He got himself all tied up
with Russia so badly tied
up that he appeared to be
nothing more than a tool of
the Kremlin.
Then
After Tito had got himself
apparently on purpose
back into the Kremlin dog
house, Nasser VISITED TITO
and conferred with him and
hobnobbed with him in Yugo
slavia for a week or more.
That led to the suspicion
that maybe Nasser was be
ginning to realize that he had
got himself into the position
of the smiling young lady of
Niger who went for a ride
with a tiger and didn't
want to come back on the in
side with the smile on the face
of the tiger.
At any rate, Nasser is at the
moment the man to watch.
What he does and how he con
ducts himself in the next few
critical days should give us
some clues as to what may be
in the wind.
al Genessee
is a leader in the great surge
of nationalism in one-time
colonial countries.
Soviet Russia, which is loud
in support of nationalist move
ments except, of course, in
the Soviet Union is likely to
profit considerably.
And ironically, the United
States, which for years has
supported the nationalist
movement even against its
own allies, will be the chief
target for criticism.
Impact Is Great
President Eisenhower acted
in an emergency at the specific
and urgent request of the gov
ernment of Lebanon, the most
loyally pro-Western of the
Arab countries. But this fact
is most unlikely to be taken
into account by critics.
Nationalist spirit has be-
subversive activities field that
this Congress is likely to dis
turb. The House July 10 passed a
bill which would overrule the
1957 Cole case, in which the
Court said that only Federal
employees in ."sensitive" jobs
could be dismissed as secur
ity risks. But the Senate pre
viously gave partial affirma
tion to the Court decision, and
it probably will not accept the
House bill.
Similarly, the House is ex
pected to pass a bill to restore
the 42 state anti-subversive
laws that were knocked out
by the 1956 Supreme Court
decision in. the Nelson case.
But no Senate action is likely.
Jenner-Buller Bill
The Senate has before it
the much-discussed Jenner
Butler bill, which would
knock out four Supreme
Court decisions affecting sub
version laws and the rights
of witnesses before Congres
sional committees. The bill
came out of the Judiciary
Committee back in May, ut
Senate Majority Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson (D-Texas)
hasn't called it up for debate
and probably won't.
A better chance Is given
two bills already passed by
the House affecting the rights
of prisoners. Both bills are in
a Senate Judiciary Subcom
mittee and are due for hear
ings soon.
One would set aside the
1957 Mallory decision, which
invalidated a confession ob
tained from a prisoner who
was held by police for 7V4
hours before attempts were
made to charge him formally
with a crime or to advise of
his rights.
The other would clarify a
1953 Supreme Court decision
that has led to Federal dis
trict courts being swamped by
petitions for habeas corpus
from persons convicted in the
state courts.
The chances of these two
bills depend largely on the
promptness with which the
Senate Judiciary Committee
clears them for floor consider
ation. Antitrust Measures
The other two bills await
ing action would set aside
Court decisions in the anti
trust field. One would exempt
most activities of professional
baseball, basketball, football
and hockey from the antitrust
laws.
The House has passed it and
hearings have "been held in a
Senate Judiciary sub-committee.
Its chances of passage are
considered fairly good.
Dead for this session is a
bill to close a 1951 Supreme
Court "loophole" in the price
discrimination law. The "cor
rective" legislation came out
of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee in such controversial
form that final passage this
year is considered impossible.
(Copyright 1958 Congressional
Quarterly Inc.)
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Landings
come one of the great forces
of the world.
This crit has swept Asia
and Africa and is spreading to
British end Netherlands pos
sessions inthe Western Hemi
sphere, o
Nationalism was strong in a
few of the countries before
World War II, in Korea, then
a possession of Japan, and In
India, for example.
It was nationalist spirit that
started the rebellions in Indo
china and Indonesia and Al
geria. '
Nationalist spirit compelled
France to give up Syria and
Lebanon. Nationalist spirit led
to the overthrow of King Far-
ouk of Egypt and to the emer
gence of Nasser as the biggest
Arab leader.
It is nationalism that has
caused the formation of the
so-called Asian-African bloc
of countries in which "neu
tralism" and "anti-imperialism"
are so often mentioned.
Fears Nationalism
It is interesting to note that
whtle Russia loses no oppor
tunity to promote nationalist
spirit all over the world, it is
the world's leading anti-nationalist
country within its
own confines. '
The nationalism of Presi
dent Tito of Yugoslavia has
made him a bitter enemy of
the Kremlin.
A good part of the present
Russian trend back to the
harsh rule of the Josef Stalin
era is due to fear of national
ism in the Communist satel
lite countries and in the Soviet
Union itself.
It was because of national
ist spirit in Lithuania, Latvia
and Estonia that Russia has
deported hundreds of thou
sands of the people of those
Baltic republics which it ab
sorbed.
It is because of nationalist
spirit in some Soviet republics
that vast numbers of their
peoale have been deported to
other areas.
But the newly freed coun
tries will not take things like
this into account. To them the
imperialists are the Western
democracies, whose objective
in the cold war is to keep
Communism from enslaving
the world.
Editorial
Comment
LOST HIS WAY'
A cruel and sudden crisis,
charged with feeling, con
fronted Cecil Poole, Assistant
District Attorney, one morn
ing last week; at its peak,
PooTe fashioaed a few short
vorojp into a simple declara
tive ennce that for aptness
nfl eloqustice no novelist, no
professional , builder of
phrases, coiAd far excel after
long thought and much re
vision. Q
Poole is $ Neg. He lives
in Iogleside Terrace, a
"white" neighborhood. Thus
shock id resentment and be
wilderment ad regret and
mixtures of a dozen other
emotions must have surged
through him when his 6-year-old
daughter came running
into the house to report:
"There's a cross on our lawn,
all burned." With the news,
she brought a troubled ques
tion: "Why is it there?" -
Such a question under such
conditions needed a meticu
lous answer. Poole found it.
"Some Christian," he said.
"has lost his way."
. . . "Some Christian has
lost his way." Six short and
simple words that bespeak
charity instead of anger that
well and truly explain the
kind of bigotry that fashions
and plants fiery crosses, that
raise no fears and Inflict no
hurts and leave no scars on
the mind of a small child who
first sees racial hatred and
asks about it.
We do not know where
Poole found this answer. We
think it is the perfect one.
It invites thought and bears
frequent repetition: "Some
Christian has lost his way."
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