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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1948 (Friday).
From 100 to 150 people
are needed as spectators and
jury members ior xne court
room scene in "The Last of
thP Wild Horses," which will
be filmed tomorrow morning
in Jacksonville.
The Jackson County Young
Republican club meets to
night. 20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27, 1938 (Saturday)
An estimated 2,500 people
linoH F.ast Main st. sidewalks
Friday evening to watch the
Mail Tribune-Scout Cub miag
ot enpprier. derby. .
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Dew
ey Hill, the Prospect hired
man suffered Tuesday from
a corn, which turned out to
be , a collar button he lost
Sunday."
30 YEARS AGO ,
Aug. 27, 1928 (Monday)
Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh arrived here yesterday,
unheralded, to fish on the
Rogue river with Harry H.
Scott, who has a cabin up
stream. There have been 87,142 vis
itors to Crater Lake so far
this year.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27, 1918 (Tuesday)
Forty-eight sailors from
the USS Vicksburg passed
through town this morning by
train, and during a stop down
town they picked roses and
ate pears gathered from near
by packing houses.
County draftees here in
town pending departure in a
few days are wearing USNA
(United States National army)
on their sleeves.
What's Yonr I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
teven or eight i excellent; five or
six is good.
1. What is the C.A.P.?
2. What, according to the
proverb, is the "mother of
Invention"?
3. Name the General who
was George Washington's
rival for command of the Con
tinental Army during the
Revolutionary War.
4. Who was Sigmund
Freud?
5. What is the origin of the
name "The Netherlands?"
6. From what is agar de
rived? 7. Flatbush is a section of
one of New York City's
Boroughs; which one?
. 8. The name of which day
of the week has the most let
ters? 9. Shintoism is the principal
native religion of which coun
try? 10. The message, "What
hath God wrought?", was the
first to be sent by telephone,
telegraph, or radio transmis
sion? Answers: 1. Civil Air Pa
trol; 2. "Necessity"; 3. Horatio
Gates; 4. Austrian psycholo
gist; 5. Much of it is below
the sea level; S. Seaweed; 7.
Brooklyn; 8. Wednesday; 9.
Japan; 10. Telegraph.
Correctional Institution
The Oregon State Correctional Institution
will soon be completed, to join the Oregon State
Penitentiary in the state's program for handling
convicted felons.
The difference in approach between the two
is implicit in their names.
The penitentiary is primarily for punishment,
the new institution is primarily for correction
in effect, that is, for there are and will be other
elements in the programs of each.
IN PENOLOGY, there are three functions of im-
prisonment.
One is punishment for an offense against soc
iety. The second is the protection of society against
further anti-social activities of the convicted man.
The third is rehabilitation, or "correction," of
the individual, to make him a constructive and
useful member of society in the future.
DUNISHMENT is an age-old concept, dating
. from' the first attempts to organize society.
Time was when punishment was the only thing
considered when an offender was apprehended.
The usual punishment was death, although later
refinements included mutilation and similar bar
barous revenges.
Later, imprisonment was added to the roster
of punishments.
More recently, however, penological think
ing has more and more relegated punishment as
such to a less important role in a prison program.
And while imprisonment of men who are threats
to the safety of society is and always will be an
important element in penology, the third objec
tive, rehabilitation, has' come to be the most im
portant. CREATION of the Correctional Institution,
which was authorized by the Oregon legisla
ture in 1955, is a recognition of this fact.
Its approach to the job
tion that there are different" degrees of crimin
ality, and that some men are more easily rehabil
itated than others.
The new institution
to first offenders of 26
have been convicted of
are for less than 10 years. The sentencing judge
will be the one who makes
ther a man should be sentenced to the correctional
institution or to the penitentiary.
TTHIS is not to say that
be ignored at the penitentiary. It is a major
and growing factor in the
But it will receive even greater emphasis at
the new institution ; will,
aim. 5 "
To begin with, it will
lem, how to separate first -
ed criminals. Such associations in too many cases
have resulted in the first-offender becoming, him
self, hardened and habituated in the ways of
crime.
Secondly, and equally important, is the fact
that the most advance methods of rehabilitation
will be used. These involve a wide range of tech
niques. P"0R instance, thorough physical examinations
will be provided new inmates. Education,
guidance, vocational training, work assignments,
psychiatric help, suitable recreation opportunities
all these will be available to inmates as needed.
A brochure explaining the program of the new
institution concludes:
"The inmate(upon being released from the institu
tion will have been afforded the best possible rehabili
tation program utilizing a trained scientific staff and
the most modern correctional design available, so that
he can become a useful and productive member of soc
iety." It will, of course, be a place of confinement
a prison. There are no ifs or maybes abput that,
and escape would be difficult.
But it is a step along the road toward enlight
ened penology, which deems an habitual crimin
al,.who spends most of his life in prison, as a det
riment to society, and a man who is rehabilitated,
and who takes a productive place in the world,
as an asset.
We don't see how anyone .can seriously quar
rel with that objective. E.A.
Money
Money, they say, won't buy everything.
But they also say, money makes the mare go.
It is a sad fact that some things cannot be ac
complished without the long green. One of those
things is putting on a state-wide, or even com
munity-wide, celebration.
And those who have
to part with it.
With these things m
note that the lumber industry of Oregon is going
all-out to provide itself with a good show during
the forthcoming Oregon Centennial celebration.
AN INDUSTRY committee, headed by A. A.
(Tony) Lausmann of Medford is raising a
quarter-million dollars f or the industry display
under the theory that, to quote them :
Here is a ready-made audience of buyers. It seems
like good, smart business for the forest industry to dis
play all the products of the forests lumber, plywood,
hardboards, and pulp and paper in such a dramatic
way that these visitors will want to buy them."
More power to the lumbermen.
Let us hope that others will be as far-sisrhted
when the time comes to collect the money to put
Medford and Jackson county on the map during
the Centennial year. E.A. '
is based on the assump
generally will be limited
years of age or less, who
a felony and whose terms
the decision as to whe
rehabilitation is or will
prison s regime.
m fact, be its principal
solve a long-felt prob
offenders from harden
Helps
money often are loath
mind, it is refreshing to
Dennis the Menace
'Lucky wg camb,vao look
Republicans Eye
Winning Congress
Against Big Odds
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Chicago - (UPD - The high
command of the Republican
party is meeting here to per
suade itself that the GOP, can
win back control of Congress
this year and then to figure
out how to do the job. '
To pull it off, the Republi
cans must buck what has ap
peared to be a Democratic
trend in the two years since
President Eisenhower won re
election by a landslide with
out bringing in a GOP Con
gress with him. They must
also buck history, which has
shown that the party in con
trol of the White House nor
mally loses congressional
seats in mid-term elections
when the presidency is not at
stake.
To reverse this trend the
GOP is trying to develop is
sues on a local and national
basis, rally support for Presi
dent Eisenhower and stress
the importance of nominating
"attractive" candidates. How
ever successful these ap
proaches might be, many
GOP leaders would count it
a moral victory if they could
hold their own.
Seals at Stake
All 435 House seats and 34
of the Senate seats are at
stake this fall. Ratification of
Alaskan statehood would
mean one more House mem
ber and two more senators.
While the GOP needs to
show a net gain of 21 House
seats and only one Senate
seat to its present member
ship, the Senate job looks the
toughest. '
In the 34 Senate seats out
side Alaska, 21 are now held
by Republicans and 13 by
Democrats. Six are "safe"
Democratic seats in the South.
Of the remaining seven, all
except Sen. William Proxmire
(D-Wis.) managed to win in
1952 when President Eisen
hower was carrying their
states in the presidential vote.
The President will not be on
the ballot this year.
Of the 21 Republican seats,
about a dozen are counted in
the tossup class. If the Demo
crats win half of these, even
if Proxmire loses, they still
would show a net gain of five.
Democratic Claims
The Democrats claim the
seat of Sen. Charles E. Potter
fR-Mich.) already is theirs,
and the Republicans admit it
has them worried. Elsewhere,
the Democrats believe their
chances are betteV than even
to displace Republican sena
tors in Connecticut, Pennsyl
vania, California, Maryland
and at least one of the two
Senate races in West Virginia,
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
ONLY ONE THING stood in the way of the marriage of
Daphne and Osbert, but that was the very forceful and
formidable mother of Daphne. "She's so difficult, Osbert,"
wailed Daphne. Tm afraid
she thinks you're effemi
nate." Osbert compressed
his lips angrily and admit
ted, "Next to her, I really
am."
The wedding party was at
its height, and everybody in
the happiest of moods every
body, that is, but two brides
maids who shook their heads
dubiously in a corner. "I
wouldn't give two cents for
their chances," said one.
"Susie's now been married so
often, that the only way she'll
get a thrill out of Niagara Falls is to go over them in a barrel 1"
.'
The census taker was having a little difficulty persuading Mrs.
Quackenbusch to disclose her age. Finally she said, "Did you get
that stuck-up Mrs. Umbtjago next door to tell you how old she
was?" "I did," he declared. "Very well," snapped Mrs. Q. "Just
put me down as four years younger."
O 1968, ky Bennett Cert, Distributed by King Features Syndicate.'. "
STEAK KNIVE$"
the only state with two Sen
ate contests this year.
Democratic managers point
next to the other. seat in West
Virginia, plus Maine, New
York, New Jersey, Minnesota,
Arizona and Nevada, as states
where their candidates should
be even bets to replace in
cumbent Republicans.
GOP leaders falter once
they have pointed to Prox
mire as a Democrat whom
they can unseat. A party split
in Wisconsin and a farm revolt
against the administration
both contributed to.'Prox
mire's victory in a special
election last year. Republi
cans hope that both of these
problems are behind them this
year. .
De Gaulle Jeered
By Senegalese
Dakar, French West Africa
-(UPD-French Premier Charles
de Gaulle left it up to defiant
Senegalese today to choose be
tween ind ependence and
French economic aid.
Thousands of Senegalese
roared "De Gaulle, go home"
and "we "want independence"
when the premier arrived
here Tuesday on his African
tour to marshal support for
his new constitution. It was
the roughest reception exper
ienced so far by De Gaulle on
his current tour. -
Tuesday night a crowd roar
ed defiance at De Gaulle
when he proposed that Sene
gal join a "community" with
France under the proposed
constitution. De Gaulle spoke
in Dakar's Main Square. He
turned red and, grabbing the
microphone, shouted:
" "Independence! If you want
it, well take it"
But De Gaulle warned in
dependence would mean the
end of French aid. .
Political experts have warn
ed it would be disastrous for
such areas as Senegal to go
without1 French financial and
economic assistance.
Nearly 400 Named
For OSC Scholarships
Corvallis-IUPD-Oregon State
college personnel coordinator
Dallas Norton said Tuesday
that nearly 400 students had
been named winners of schol
arships for the coming year.
He said this was the largest
number in OSC history.
Scholarships range in value to
$2500.
Stop Me
Editorial Comment
TIMBER POLICY
It isn't often that I com
ment on a letter written to
some other newspaper.
However, Thornton T. Mun
ger recently said something
in The Oregonian that I've
been trying to get into this
column for years. I've said it
in different ways. Munger
lays it on the line and minces
no words. In my opinion, the
facts need repeating, particu
larly now that the U.S. Forest
Service is under such extreme
pressure from some mill oper
ators and their representa
tives. The Forest Service, accord
ing to news reports, is being
charged with failure to sell
up to the allowable cut, fail
ure to sell certain timber,
failure to sell in small lots,
etc.
ine iorest Service gave
figures to show it is selling
up to allowable cut and de
nied many charges.
Personally, I fail to see
where we are getting by any
argument to sell more logs,
Our recession was caused by
the fact that we overproduced
lumber. The more logs of
fered for sale, the quicker we
will again be overproducing
and be back in depression
There is no industry I know
of that has been up and down
as often as has the lumber in
dustry. Reasons Evident
We might as well face the
facts. What the small mill
wants is a log at as low a
price as possible, so a profit
is available. Consequently,
the mill operators and his
representatives want more
loss. More loss mean less-l
competition and lower price.
I don't blame the small mill
for wanting.
The small mill also wants
smaller sales. The Forest
Service has had to hold big
enough sales to cover the cost
of road building. The opera
tor has had to build the road
In some cases the sales have
been at considerable distance
from one another, so that the
road would be built in front
of tracts to be offered later
Only big operators have the
monev with which to build
roads. Congress has not given
the Forest Service money
with which to build, condemn
nor maintain access roads. A
news item "recently said the
Forest Service would use its
power of condemnation, but
that power definitely is lim
ited. Munger recites in his letter
that Oregon's lumber capaci
ty is far ahead of growth ca
pacity and that some mills
must fold. That's a hard thing
so say, but it is true, much as
we hate to admit it. He said
that condemnation of the For
est Service comes largely
from "cut out" and get out"
operators who have exhaust
ed their own timber. Con
versely, says he, a few years
ago lumbermen were begging
the Forest Service not to sell
timber because federal tim
ber' would compete with pri
vate timber on a saturated
market.
The Forest Service, says
Munger, has increased its
stumpage sales from 129 mil
lion board feet in 1930 to
more than 214 billion feet in
1958.
To charges that disease,
blowdown and other factors
are "wasting" timber, he
raises the' argument that price
increases offset all losses. He
also points out that while
critics claim Forest Service
stumpage prices are threaten
ing financial disaster, all sales
are made on competitive bid.
If somone couldn't make a
profit, there wouldn't be a
bid that high.
Munger closes his letter
with a statement that we al
ready are cutting our virgin
timber too rapidly and that
the Forest Service is acting
wisely in refusing to up its
rate of cut.
Limit Is Needed
Munger, I believe, has a
lot of truth in what he writes.
Maybe he goes to extremes,
in some cases, but for the
most part, I agree with what
he has written. -
There is no question that
we are ' overproducing. That
is reflected in demand and
price. We are overproducing
because we have too much in
stalled capacity. We also are
cutting more logs into timber,
boards and plywood than the
market can absorb forever..
I believe the Forest Service
should make available all the
logs a sustained ' yield pro
gram will permit. I believe
the sustained yield and allow
able cut, should be matched
to modern usage, prevalence
of disease, amount of sal
vage, age, rate of growth,
and other such factors.
Look at the trucks coming
in and you'll see logs that
shouldn't have been cut for
the next 50 years!
The small mills are hurt
ing. It is a cruel thing to say
but the big mill, normally,
makes better : use of a log
and, so, can afford to pay
more. It has been industry
history that many small mills
have been forced out of busi
ness. More and more the in
dustry is passing into the
hands of a few operators and
big corporations. It isn't nice
to contemplate, but it's a fact.
The Forest Service, in my
opinion, should not be stam
peded into something that is
contrary to the public good
over the years.
It was said in this column
many years ago that the time
would come when heavy pres
sure would be put on the For
est Service to sell federal tim
ber faster than it should be
sold. We're already feeling
that pressure. It will get
stronger.
Whether the federal agen
cies will have the strength to
resist remains to be seen.
-Roseburg News-Review
THE LONG ARM .
OF PORTLAND '
Way back when the Ore
gon Centennial was all talk
and little promotion the ex
perts explained that all of
Oregon was to be the festi
val ground, with something
cooking centennially from
Cloverdale to Cornucopia and
from Grants Pass to Goble.
Since then most of the fuss
ing and fixing has been cen
tered in Portland. And from
the way things have been go
ing we're just as happy.
' But a few days ago the
Portland Oregonian suggest
ed that it would be a chum;
my idea, and handy for the
millions of Easterners com
ing out for Oregon's hun
dreth birthday, if Ashland's
famous Shakespeare Festival
were transferred to Portland.
The screams from the
Rogue River Valley can be
heard all the way to Rural
Ave. on a calm day.
But is this all bad?
Shouldn't we be honest with
these rubbernecking Eastern
ers and show them what Ore
gon really was like a century
ago-a fightin' and a bickerin'
and a roarin' in the name of
local pride?
We hear that the Chamb
ers of Commerce down along
the Rogue are getting up a
kitty to finance Southern
Oregon's own contribution to
the Centennial year. It would
be a full color pamphlet with
plenty of. text and footnotes,
as well as a lengthy biblio
graphy, called "One Hundred
Years of Portland Thievery."
Should they want to ac
cept help from a northerner,
we'd be happy to write a
couple chapters on how Port
land does it where the reach
ing is even easier. -Capital
Journal. Salem.
FTC Accuses
Portland Firms
Portland-(UPD-Two Portland
firms today were ordered by
the Federal Trade Commis
sion to answer charges of ille
gal discrimination in pricing
and misrepresentation in ad
vertising. The FTC accused Northwest
Schools of misrepresenting
benefits of its" aviation train
ing course. The FTC said the
advertisement leads prospec
tive students to believe that
graduation qualifies them for
work with major commercial
airlines. The FTC was also
critical of the school's prac
tice of referring to its sales
men as "registrars."
Gray & Co., a wholly own
ed subsidiary of Hudson
House, Inc., was accused by
the FTC of charging some
buyers from 2 to 18 per cent
more than favored competi
tors. The complaint listed two
San Francisco firms, two in
Los Angeles and one in Spo
kane and one in Butte, Mont.,
as benefiting from the prac
tice. The Gray company sells
bakery and fountain supplies.
Poland To Celebrate
New World Arrival
Washington -flJPD Commu
nist Poland is planning a cele
bration at Jamestown and
Williamsburg, Va., Sept. 19
20 "commemorating the 350th
anniversary of the arrival of
the first Polish settlers in the
New World."
Poles arrived at Jamestown
on Oct. 1, 1608, aboard the
Mary and Margaret and
"shortly after established the
first industries on the Ameri
can continent," the Polish
Embassy said.
San Francisco Tooth
Filling More Expensive
Washington- (UPD -The Cen
sus Bureau reports it costs
more to have a tooth filled
in San Francisco than in New
York.
The bureau said the cost
per filling in New York was
$5.17 compared with the na
tionwide high of $7.14 in San
Francisco.
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Ike's Legislative
Record During '58
Up From Last Year
Washington -(CQ)- Presi
dent Eisenhower found the
Debomcratic-controlled Con
gress more receptive to his
legislative program this year
than ever before.
Congress approved 110 of
the President's 234 legislative
requests for 1958, a Congres
sional Quarterly analysis
shows. That's 47 per cent, the
best showing for Mr , Eisen
hower since he began work
ing with a Democratic-controlled
Congress in 1955. The
first two years-when he had
a Republican majority in Con-'
gress- were .Ike's best: 72.7
per cent of his program was
approved in 1953 and 64.7
per cent in 1954. ,
Even so, the less-than-half
showing for 1958 looks pretty
good compared with the pack
age the 85th Congress gave
Mr. Eisenhower last year
when it approved of only 36.9
per cent of the President's re
quests, an all-time low.
Relations Better
The tense international sit
uation and the recession stim
ulated the improved relations
between the President and the
Democratic Congress. As Sen
ate Majority Leader Lyndon
B. Johnson (D-Tex.) said in
the wee hours of Sunday mor
ning just before adjournment:
"It has been one of the most
non-partisan Congresses in
many years."
At least, the President's
Non-Partisanship
For Judiciary Bar
Association's Aim
Los Angeles -UPD- A reso
lution approved by the Am
erican Bar Association today
called for removal of appoint
ment of federal judges from
politics.
The hotly debated issue
was fought out and approved
Tuesday by members of the
House of Delegates at the
ABA's 81st annual conven
tion. '
As approved, the proposal
called for appointment of
federal judges by the Presi
dent according to qualifica
tions and not because of po
litical alignment - -
"Suggestions for nomina
tions should originate in an
independent commission es
tablished as an agency of the
President, to advise with the
President on; appointments.
and to receive from outside
sources and from all seg
ments of the organized bar
suggestions of names of per
sons deemed highly qualified
for appointment as judges in
their respective jurisdictions,"
the resolution stated.
"To avoid any suggestion of
partisanship and to make the
courts truly nonpartisan or
bipartisan, it is desirable that
there would be some recog
nition of a general principle
that a substantial percentage
of the members di any federal
court should be . from the
ranks of a party other than
the President who is to make
the particular appointment."
Proponents of the resolu
tion charged that U. S. At
torney General Rogers was
paying "lip service" to impar
tiality. "We just don't have an in
dependent judiciary," said
Frank E. Holman, Seattle,
Wash.
Those who opposed the
measure argued that relations
with the attorney general's
office had been improving
steadily and now was not the
time to become antagonistic.
The ABA president was di
rected to appoint, a commit
tee to work toward develop
ment of a system for recom
mending candidates for judge
ships to the President.
Another resolution approv
ed by the delegates called for
formation of plans by legis
latures; and federal and state
courts for continuation of gov
ernment and legal functions
in the case of atomic attack.
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We Never Close '
than to
three "imperatives" - recir
rocal trade, defense reorgani
zation and foreign aid - got
through Congress in a form
acceptable to the President,
although not exactly as re
quested. Here's what Congressional
Quarterly's point- by- point
study of the President's pro
gram since 1953 rings up for
Ike: 1953: 72.7 per cent; 1954:
64.7 per cent; 1955: 46.3 per
cent; 1956: 45.7 per cent;
1957: 36.9 per cent and 1958:
47.0 per cent.
And here's what happened
to the President's 234 re
quests in 1958: '
110 requests were ap
proved by both houses and
sent to the President.
9 requests were approved
by one house, not both.
15 requests received
some committee action but
nothing more.
41 requests received no
action at all.
59 requests were rejected
with unffavorable action bv
Congress.
Copyright 1958. -Congressional
Quarterly Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The congress finally ad
journed.
What did it do while it was
in session? We aren't sure yet.
There will have to be a lot of
checking up on details before
we can gei an accurate pic
ture. ,
But of this we ARE sure:
It spent a lot of money. The
money it spent or commit
ted will have to come out of
our pockets in the form of
taxes.
TTERE are some figures:
The census bureau tell
us this morning that tax col
lections at ALL levels of gov
ernmhent in the 1957 fiscal
year totaled nearly 99 BIL
LION dollars. That amounts
to an average of about $580
for every, American. It
amounts to approximately
$2,300 for every breadwinner
for a family of four.
THAT'S what government
costs us. ' .
It's quite a chunk of money.
It leads us to wonder if gov
ernment isn't perhaps costing
us more than is really neces
sary. WE HEAR a lot about the
cost of living which is
RISING. For a decade, it -has
been rising at an average rate
of about 2V6 per cent a year.
Here are some more census
bureau figures that you may
find interesting:
In 1957 federal tax collec-.
tions were up SEVEN per
cent over 1956. But the federal
government isn't the only tax
ing unit. In 1957, state tax
collections were up 8.6 per
cent over 1956. LOCAL tax
collections were up 11.7 per
cent.
The cost of ALL govern
ment not just the federal
government alone is up.
WHY'
We keep demanding
more and more SERVICES
from the government. Serv
ices cost money. They don't
come free. They aren't pulled
from hats.
They cost money.
The money has to come
from somewhere.
It comes from the pockets
of the people.
THE theory is that when gov
ernment spends a lot of
money it makes business bet
ter. That may be tcue. But, at
least, you should keep this fact
in mind: -r
The money that government
spends comes from the pockets
of the- people.: What govern
ment spends it reaches into
your pocket and takes out.
- This is the point:
WHAT GOVERNMENT
REACHES INTO YOUR
POCKET AND' TAKES OUT
ISN'T LEFT IN YOUR POCK
ET FOR YOU TO SPEND. '
Mrs. Litwiller
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Remember, too, we are 100
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'It is better to know us and not need us.
need ut and not know us.