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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
Aug. 15, 1948 (Sunday)
A children's" hobby parade
will be included in Jackson
ville's Gold Rush Jubilee.
The Montgomery Ward
warehouse on South River
side ave. is expected to be
completed soon.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. IS, 1938 (Monday)
Stone fruit growers are in
vited to a demonstration of
the control of peach and
prune root borers.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Provi
dence intervened and balked
a tragedy in this office last
week. A list of marriage li
censes, under ' the WRES
TLING RESULTS head was
caught in time."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. IS, 1928 (Wednesday)
The farm bureau reports
vacancies still exist in a pool
carload of hogs due to depart
Friday.
From the "Central Point"
column: "Pear picking is on
in full blast this week."
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15, 1918 (Thursday)
All young men under 21 in
the county must register this
month.
The new dance hall at Pros
pect will open Saturday eve
ning with a Medford band
furnishing the music.
Yhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. With which Presidents
do you associate these sayings
and slogans: "The Full Din
ner Pail," "The Big Stick,"
and "Back to Normalcy."
2. The United States was
the first country to grant nation-wide
suffrage to women;
true or false?
3. Asuncion is the capital
of which Latin American
country?
4. A million is how many
thousand?
5. What shoulder insignia
does a major in the U. S.
Army wear?
6. What is a corsair?
7. During the administration
of F. D.'Roosevelt a marriage
was celebrated in the White
House in which Mrs. Louise
, Macy was wedded to a prom
inent New Leader; who was
he?
8. The movement that led
to the organization of the Con
federate States of America
was begun in which Southern
State?
9. The epithet, "the nine
old men," was once applied
to which group of government
officials?
10. What is the capital of
South Dakota?
Answers: 1. M c K i n 1 y,
Theodore Roosevelt, Harding.
2. False. (New Zealand). 3.
Paraguay. 4. 1000. 5. Gold oak
lata. 6. Pirate. 7. Harry Hop
kins. 8. South Carolina. 9.
The. Supreme Court. 10. Pier-
The Nose Knows
A nose has many uses.
There is a "nose for news," mighty handy to a
newspaper reporter. ,
One can use a nose to stick into other people's
business.
Sometimes one gets bashed in the nose.
The "nose knows" when a skunk is around, or
when one is passing a paper mill, or when a par
ticularly tasty dinner is in the oven.
The nose.is the seat of the sneeze, the patron
of perfume, the detector of the decayed. It is
sentry, monitor, aesthete.
C0R the nose or rather, one nose with which
we are intimately concerned ; attached to, one
might say the high point of the year comes along
about the middle of August, and in the early
mornings.
For it is then, despite heat in the afternoon,
despite what the calendar says, that one detects
the first hint of fall.
l't is subtle, this faint suggestion of- autumn.
And it comes through the nose delicately, shyly,
hesitantly.
The leaves are still green, the crabgrass still
flourishes, the locusts still emit their harsh but
gentle rustle in the' heat of the day. But the nose
isn't fooled. '
Fall is on the.wy. Fj.A.
Fiction and the Future-
Two years ago Phil Hitchcock, then running
for the GOP nomination for United States Sena
tor, came to town, accompanied by a young man
named Frank Herbertj who was his press assist
ant. Herbert, at other times, is a free lance writer,
the kind of guy who goes where he wants to go,
does what he wTants to do, as long as his fertile
imagination feeds him ideas, and his skill trans
lates them into salable novels and short stories. ;
He and his wife own a mountain retreat in the
back country of Mexico, where they spend half of
each year, mostly isolated from the world, putting
their accumulated ideas down on paper.
A MONG other things, Frank writes science fic
tion a form of creative activity which has
both its adherents, a relatively small but dedi
cated lot, and its detractors, who feel that it "is all
a fantastic waste of time.
We have found science fiction a pleasurable
means of. relaxation for a long period of years.
More, it has helped to keep the imagination from
atrophying, the mind limber and receptive, and
has protected the psyche from shock as one de
velopment after another, foreseen years ago by
science f ictioneers, has come to pass.
One addict we know, for instance, among a
group of college students on the fateful day in
1945 when the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was
announced, was the only one present who had the
faintest idea what it wras all about, and what the
significance might be. i
DUT back to Frank Herebert.
Shortly after his visit here, a serial of his
appeared in one of the-leading science fiction
magazines. It dealt with a hypothetical World
War III, and described life in the submarine
service.
The submarines were atomic - powered, of
course, and their task was to ferry oil to the
United States, through enemy waters, from the
submarine oil wells many of which were located
off the arctic slopes of the Asian continent, from
Russia, in other words.
The . oil was pumped from the underwater
wells into huge, collapsible containers, which
were then towed in the manner of barges by the
submarines, under water, to the underground
docks in this countiy.
THE theme of the stoiy was less the scientific
developments in warfare than it was the
effects of pressure, both physical and emotional,
on the subs' crews.
But the "fantastic" aspects of the stoiy the
subs and the underwater barges are no longer
fantastic.
The voyage of the Nautilus, followed in rapid
succession by the Skate, under the polar ice cap,
have gone far toward making Frank Herbert a
prophet, rather than a fantasy-dreamer. And the
idea of submersible barges, towed by subs, has
already been seriously broached.
TPHERE may be some developments in the future
which have not been forecast by the science
fictioneers, but if there are, they haven't shown
up, or even been hinted at, as yet.
Rockets, satellites, voyages to the moon, sub
marine barges all these are "old stuff" to the
SFfan. ' .
And there is plenty of dream-stuff left to be
developed. Hydrogen power (already underde
velopment), magnetic power, inter-planetary or
interstellar voyages you name it and science
fiction probably has "created" it in the past.
And when, or if, they come to pass, the science
fiction fan may be excited but he won't be
surprised. E.A. . .
Dennis the Menace
' ANYBODY couLV flush mis socks down the toilbti
, NOBODY'S PKeCT; THAT'S wwr I shouioa saidi--
Washington Report
By William S. White
C.I.A. Conflict
Washington The world's
unrest, and especially the
churning Middle East, is
" "'1 Virirnrinff iin.
welcomed at
tention to the
most secret of
ficial organi
zation in our
history.
The Central
Intel ligence
Agency oper
ates in shad-
WillaniS White OWS SO deep
as to make it a sort of un
known Bureau X even to the
vast majority of the member
ship of its creator Congress
itself.
CIA spends many millions a
year $100 million to $300
million, it is said. Nobody
really knows how many mil
lions are involved except a
handful of senior members of
the Senate and House in the
Armed Services, and Appro
priations subcommittees.
This handful tells nobody
else not even those Con
gressional colleagues who
must- vote the money. So far
as Congress generally is con
cerned, appropriations for un
known purposes are made in
unknown amounts. These au
thorizations are hidden away
under other classifications in
other appropriations bills.
TNDEED, in comparison with
the . Central Intelligence
Agency, such a fairly hush
hush organization as the
Atomic Energy Commission
functions practically in a show
window.
CIA operates abroad in a
strictly cloak -and- dagger,
black chamber way. Expressed
in television-drama terms, its
main mission is to run spy
and counter-spy work at both
high and low levels. It has
once or twice been whispered
that CIA agents have had a
hand is fomenting national
uprisings in foreign countries
specifically in helping to
overturn Communist regimes
hostile to the free world.
If such stories are not true
in every detail, there is no
reason to suppose they are
false in principle. ' Though
some of its staff members here
would leave no such impres
sion, this is, abroad, a hard
handed and tough outfit.
If it "failed" .to scent out
the recent anti-Western coup
in Iraq and a complicated
tale is involved here so did
the British, the Israelis and
even the Iraq security forces
themselves.
CIA AGENTS conceivably
could take actions involv
ing the United States in ser
ious clashes with any foreign
government more particular
ly, a small one. The only as
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A CHARACTER in a midtown bar attracted considerable at
tention the other evening by ordering 22 martinis, and
extracting from each the olive, which he carefully deposited in
an empty Dotue. men ne
drank the 22 martinis and
staggered out, clutching the
bottle desperately.
"What are you guys star
ing at?" demanded the bar
tender. "He's just following
his wife's orders. She told
him to go out and get a
bottle of martini olives."
A lady named Wottle hired
a maid who loathed answering'
the telephone. Tve told you
for the last time that you are
to answer the phone when it
rings," stormed Mrs. Wottle
upon learning she had missed three invitations to important dinner
parties.
"Yes," said the maid, unconvinced, "but I don't eee no good in it
Nine times out of ten it's for you or Mr. Wottle."
C 1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed tgr Kiss Features Syadictt
surance against this sort of
thing lies in the discipline of
the corps and its strict obed
ience to orders stemming from
Allen W. Dulles, the CIA di
rector. All these circumstances are
again disturbing many in Con
gress, notably the assistant
Senate Democratic leader,
Mike Mansfield of Montana.
Mansfield has long sought the
creation of a joint Congres
sional committee to oversee
CIA in at least some degree,
much as the Joint Congres
sional Committee on Atomic
Energy oversees the atomic
program.
He has such a bill in now.
Almost certainly it will get
nowhere in this dying session
of Congress. But he will try
again in the new Cdngress
next year.
He is neither bitter nor
hostile toward CIA. Like
others, he is simply concerned
that any government agency
should be so far removed
from the control of the peo
ple's elected representatives.
Allen Dulles brother of
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles officially has no
views on this or any other
public matter. Officially, the
CIA does not exist to the
press, nor does its director.
.
TT IS possible to say with
confidence, however, that
Allen Dulles understands and
respects Mansfield's motives
and fears. Nevertheless, he
will never agree to the estab
lishment of any Congressional
overseeing body.
Such a group undoubtedly
would create the possibility of
dangerous leaks, if not
through its members, then
through its staff employes.
Leaks might fatally hamper
American designs abroad and
result in death for our agents.
And they might compromise
the secret operations of allied
intelligence services, with
which CIA works hand-in-glove
particularly the Brit
ish. Mansfield, on his side, re
jects the theory that a respon
sible Congressional committee
would be any more prone to
leaks than the many people
in the Executive Department
who handle CIA information.
But more importantly, he
speaks for the traditional
rights of Congress in a free
government. Dulles is in the
position of conceding the
validity of these rights in
theory but of denying them
because of the kind of world
in which we live. He is com
pelled to take a line that
Papa knows best. And the
truth seems to be that, in pres
ent circumstances, Papa prob
ably does.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Stop Me
Writer Told Allied H-Bombers Alerted
To Hit 20 Russian Cities If War Came
By KINGSBURY SMITH
UPI Correspondent
London (UPD Reliable
sources disclosed today that if
Russia had precipitated a ma
jor war with the West over
the recent Middle East crisis,
the American and British
strategic air forces would
have attempted to wipe out 20
Russian cities with one mas
sive retaliation nuclear at
tack. Those 20 Russian cities, in
cluding Moscow and Lenin
grad, are the primary targets
for the U.S. and British H-
Communications
Mutt and Jeff Card .
To the Editor: That old say
ing, better late than never,
applied to a happy surprise
when a return birthday card
from the Mutt and Jeff car
toonist, Al Smith, of Dem
orest, N. J., was recieved
Wednesday. Although three
months late it arrived on the
exact lucky number 13, of
August.
Though Mutt and Jeff
comic strip has appeared now
over 50 years, our first rem
embrance is some four years
later. At any rate we wish
them 50 more birthdays.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman, st.
Medford.
Medford Firms Defended
To the Editor: In the Sun
day, Aug. 10 issue of the Port
land Oregonian, on Page 5 of
of Section 1, in the upper
righthand corner of the page,
we find the Oregonian's usual
"scare-head" which reads
"Overcharges Laid to Auto
Collision Firms". The article
as published is entirely mis
leading, and to a certain ex
tent extremely embarrassing
to locar agents and automo
bile dealers of Medford.
We know that there has
been a great deal of over
charge made for collision in
surance and on coverages
written by certain automobile
dealers in various parts of the
country where the insurance
is provided by them and in
cluded in the contract costs.
"However, this is far from un
iformly true.
To the best of my know
ledge and belief, there has
never been an intentional
overcharge made by any ag
ent operating in the city of
Medford, nor by any of the
outstanding and reliable auto
mobile dealers or finance com
panies in Medford.
I would appreciate it if you
would publish this for the
benefit of the agents, dealers
and finance companies in
Medford.
Cole Holmes
116 South Central ave.
Medford
Children's Home '
To the Editor: From time to
time over the last few months
various Medford individuals
who made an inspection trip
recently to view UMC-spon-sored
agencies in action have
written to you expressing
their views and reactions to
certain of the agencies.
I was one of those who
made the trip and would like
to express my reactions to the
Childrens Farm Home.
The Home is located on a
285 acre farm on State High
way 31 about midway be
tween Corvallis and Albany.
It consists of around 10 two
story colonial type houses
each housing a "family" of
either girls or boys with a
house mother in charge of
each house. In addition, there
is a chapel. and the usual type
of farm buildings. Surround
ing this group of buildings is
an orchard, cultivated fields
and pasture, comprising the
285 acres. .
The Home is sponsored by
the Oregon WCTU. Its pur
pose is to provide for, pro
tect and educate children of
normal mentality between the
ages of 5 and 17 years of age.
Children are accepted upon
application from their par
ents, or guardians when they
can no longer properly sup
port them, from social agenc
ies or commitment from a
juvenile court. Fourteen such
children from Jackson county
were supported during 1956.
Parents or guardians pay as
much of the child's support as
they can. The rest comes from
various agencies such as the
UMC, Oregon Chest, etc. The
Farm Home raises a good
share of its own food with the
children participating in
planting and harvesting crops.
Education through grade
school is provided by ac
credited teachers from the
public school system. High
School students are transport
ed to Corvallis, where they
attend Corvallis High school
and participate in all high
school activities. The child
ren are proud of their athletic
teams and we were told pro
vide loud and enthusiatic
support at the games.
. My impression of the Home
bombers in the event the So
viets should resort to war
against the Western Allied
powers.
Now that the United States
and Great Britain have re
laxed their war-possible alerts
and Moscow has announced
the end of the Russian army
maneuvers on the Turkish
frontier, the danger of a
world war developing over
the Middle East situation is
considered in diplomatic and
military circles to have
passed.
A Calculated Risk
However, it is now appar-
was that the children were
happy, well clothed and fed,
and to all outward appear
ances, well adjusted. The
buildings were in need of re
pair, and it was evident that
the Home was being run on
a very limited budget.
I am sure that if any of
your readers could visit these
children who through no
fault of their own have been
forced to make -terrific emo
tional adjustments not normal
to a child they would not
hesitate to help them by
donating a fair share of their
income to the fourth-coming
UMC fund drive.
Thomas H. Ness
1521 Terrace dr.
Medford.
Dump Controversy Again
To the Editor: We, too,
have followed with interest
the controversy between the
City Sanitary Service and the
residents in and around Jack
sonville. The Jacksonville "junk
dump" is just that, because
everyone in the county dumps
old car bodies, refrigerators,
tin cans, etc., there. The
dump is not visible from the
road or to any residents in
that area. Jackson county
deeded 40 acres to Jackson
ville about six years ago in
an effort to prevent people
from dumping along Sterling
rd., which is a county road.
We wonder if this isn't what
people have a reference to
when they talk about Jack
sonville's dump?
The City Sanitary Service
bought 360 acres of land next
to Jacksonville, city limits in
November, 1956. At that time
there were rumors that the
land was to be used for a
dump. When Jacksonville's
city attorney contacted City
Sanitary Service about it he
was told that the company
did not plan a dump "at this
time," but did plan a housing
project; if they did plan on
using it for any such purpose
in the future that they would
be notified, in ample time.
The first Jacksonville was
notified was the first part of
June this year.
Some Jackson County
Planning commission mem
bers were unwilling to vote
for an interim zoning ordi
nance because they "hadn't
had time enough to . study
such a zoning ordinance." If
the planning commission
would look up the minutes of
their meetings they would
find that members of the
Jacksonville city council met
with them in 1956 concerning
this matter. Eighteen months
should be enough time to
study an interim zoning
ordinance. True, other large
cities built over garbage
dumps, but those dumps
weren't originally established
on the city limits. Those cities
grew out to them. Growing
out to a dump is not as bad
as establishing a new one in
your back yard.
Mrs. M. James -Jacksonville.
Your favorite store has plenty of fresh Nalley
Potato Chips 'available in spite of the fire
which destroyed our plant in Springfield.
-While our new Springfield plant is being re
built, we are making daily shipments from
our plants in Tacoma and Spokane.
When you buy Na I ley's, you buy the best!
NALLEYS, INC.
ent that one of the greatest
calculated risks of the cold
war was involved in the
American and British mili
tary intervention in the Leb
anon.. That risk was based on the
assumption of Anglo-American
diplomacy that Russia
would not precipitate a nu
clear war with the West over
the Middle East.
Nevertheless, those respon
sible for the defense of the
United States and Great Bri
tain could not be sure how
Russia would react. They had
to be prepared for any event
uality in those first few days
after the American Marines
landed in the Lebanon and
British paratroopers were
flown to Jordan.
That was the reason why
the American and British air
and naval forces were placed
on a war-possible alert basis.
It was why the Anglo-American
H-bombers were poised to
put into instant effect the
Strategic Air Command plan
that calls for nuclear destruc
tion of Russia's main cities if
the rulers of the Kremlin
should order any "Pearl Har-bor"-type
sneak attack on the
West.
This plan to wipe out with
one simultaneous nuclear at
tack 20 Russian cities is
known Anglo-American mili
tary circles as the "great de
terrent." Peace Chances Good
It is on Soviet knowledge
of the existence of this plan
that American and British
military men base their hopes
that Russia will not risk war
with the West. The more
aware the Soviet leaders are
of what would happen if they
did precipitate war with the
West, the better some of the
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In New York Wednesday
morning, President Eisenhow
er took the Middle East bull
by the horns and proopsed
that UN Secretary General
Hammarskjold start consulta
tions immediately with Arab
nations to see if they can
agree on establishing an
ARAB REGIONAL DEVEL
OPMENT INSTITUTION de
signed to "speed up progress
in such fields as industry, ag
riculture, water supply,
health and education."
He said the U.S. would sup
port such an enterprise if the
Arab states were prepared to
support it WITH THEIR OWN
RESOURCES. But, he added,
the leadership in such an en
terprise must BELONG TO
THE ARAB STATES them
selves.
THAT is to say:
If the Arabs will tackle
the job of rehabilitating the
Middle East and managing its
resources intelligently for the
benefit of the people of the
Middle East, the United States
will help.
But we won't initiate the
job and we won't attempt to
BOSS IT. Recognizing what
he termed "the great upsurge
of Arab nationalism," he said
he didn't consider the status
quo (meaning the situation as
of now) in the Middle East
"sacrosanct."
That is quite a concession to
Arab aspirations.
HE reiterated his promise
that ALL U.S. trqops will
be withdrawn whenever their
withdrawal is requested by a
"duly constituted" govern
ment of Lebanon or when UN
or other action eliminated the
original danger that caused
them to be sent.
It was a statesmanlike pre
sentation of the aims of the
United States, and it drew
Allied military men think
will be the chances for peace.
Moscow's announcement
that the Soviet army maneu
ers on the Turkish frontier
had ended was interpreted in
Britain as the Kremlin's wav
of saying that it considered
tne Middle East crisis ended.
The Manchester Guardian's
Russian expert, Victor Zorza.
wrote that the announcement
must be intended to convey
that the Kremlin is no longer
anxious if it ever was
about the immediate danger
to general peace and its own
security."
Never Were Worried
Allied military intelligence
sources were inclined to agree
that Russia never was wor
ried about its own security in "
the recent Middle East crisis,
and never did have any inten
tion of intervening. Moscow's
original announcement about
the Soviet army maneuvers
on the Turkish frontier was
regarded as a propaganda
move to frighten the United
States and Britain away from
allowing King Hussein of Jor
dan to move into Iraq to re
store a pro-Western regime
there. There is now some
doubt as to whether there
were any unusual Soviet mili
tary maneuvers.
Of considerable interest to
diplomatic observers in Lon
don today was the theory ad
vanced in one British paper
that Communist China may
try to plunge Russia into war
with the United States in the
hope both countries- would
destroy one another and leave
China the dominant power of
the world. That was what
Stalin suspected the British of
wanting to do with respect to
Germany and Russia before
the outbreak of World War II.
JENKINS
prolonged applause from the
-delegates to the UN General
Assembly, before which Ike
spoke.
WHAT of Russia?
" Her foreign minister
Gromyko listened to the
speech. When it ended, he and
his aides stood silently as
President Eisenhower left the
Assembly chamber.
Then he got up and blasted
U.S. intervention in Lebanon.
He charged that the United
States is the main threat to
peace in the Middle East. He
said the policies of the United
States and Britain "threaten
to hurl mankind into the abyss
of .a new war, with all its con
sequences." He accused the
United States of "trampling
the UN charter under its feet
by sending military forces
into Lebanon."
He shouted that before any
thing constructive can be
done U.S. troops must be
withdrawn from Lebanon and
British troops must be with
drawn from Jordan.
And so on.
TTMMMMM.
" With even better grace,
we could say that before any
thing constructive can be done -in
the world of today Russia
must get her troops out of
Hungary. She must get them
out of Poland. She must get
them out of Czechoslovakia.
She must get them out of East
Germay.
RUSSIA is the great im
perialist. Gromyko's job was to CON
CEAL that basic fact.
BUT
He didn't threaten to
start shooting.
The correspondents com
ment that he was somewhat
milder than exepected.