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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
Sept. 22. 1948 (Wednesday)
The Veterans administra
tion prepares to take over
Camp White next Monday.
Bob Gray and Tom Frey,
Medford High seniors, have
spent the summer planning
and building a modern house
on a challenge by profession
al contractor Frank "Scotty"
Fairweather.
20 YEARS AGO .
Sept. 22. 1938 (Thursday)
The annual harvest festival
week end coming up will be
observed by the Salvation
Army with a special program.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
Massachusetts candidate -campaigned
against himself and
was nominated. Right now, in
Oregon, a candidate is cam
paigning against himself, but
doesn't know it."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 22 (1928) Saturday
Seven candidates for U. S.
citizenship here in Jackson
county will present them
selves in Circuit court Sept.
26 for examination.
Ashland voters decide this
fall whether to elect their
councilmen for four years.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 22, 1918 (Sunday)
The Mothers' day proces
sion was held last night with
mothers, wives, sisters and
daughters of servicemen
marching.
Another drive for old cloth
ing for Belgians by the Red
Cross is expected soon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five 01
six is good.
1. The green coloring mat
ter in plant cells is known as
ch-o 1.
2. If an actor's performance
was mephitic, would it have
been outstanding, nauseous,
or mediocre?
3. In what popular card
game is there "melding"?
4. Name the revengeful,
merciless Jewish money lend
er in Shakespeare's "Mer
chant of Venice," who at
tempts to exact the forfeit of
a pound of flesh.
5. Hanson's disease is an
other name for , tuberculosis,
leprosy or scurvy?
6. "Half nelson" and "full
nelson," are terms used in
which sport?
7. Bogota is the capital" of
which South American coun
try?" 8. Name the author of the
poem, "Hiawatha.",
9. In bowling, how many
strikes are necessary to roll
a perfect score of 300?
10. Including four wisdom
teeth, how many teeth .com
prise a full set in the adult?
Answers: 1. Chlorophyll. 2.
Nauseous. 3. Pinochle. 4. Shy
lock. 5. Leprosy. 6. Wrestling.
7. Colombia 8. Henry Wards
worth Longfellow. 9. 12
Strikes. 10. 32.
Taipei, Formosa - (DPD -Pacific
Commander, Adm. Harry
D. Felt said yesterday, that the
reinforced atomic- capable
U.S. forces in the Formosa
area are strong enough to
cope with anything the Com
rxiunists might throw at them,
TV Outlook
As the new TV season opens, we are promised
pretty much the same mixture as before, with
heavy emphasis on Westerns mostly on film
violence, and gimmick shows and further inroads
into "live" drama. Plans for an increase in quiz
shows have been jeopardized by the recurring
charges and counter charges of collusion. Already
four of the giveaway shows have been dropped
One estimate puts at 40 the number of West
erns to be telecast over the networks and inde
pendent stations. But Louis G. Cowan, new CBS
president, has defended the chains against
charges of " overloading their programming with
quizzes and "oaters." CBS, he said, would carry
on the average week only "two half -hour quiz
shows and seven half-hour Westerns out of 54
half -hours of network programming."
The only live drama shows returning are the
Wednesday evening "Steel Hour" and Thurs
day's "Playhouse 90."
Above all, this will be the year of "spectacu
lars" or "specials" as Madison Avenue is now be
ginning to call them. More than 90 of these star
studded shows, running anywhere from one hour
to two, are penciled in for the season. And the
comedians are coming back to the networks, not
ably Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason and Ed Wynn.
A SPECIAL Manhattan
in Sept. 17 to review information obtainecf
m an investigation of TV shows by Frank.S. Ho
gan, New York district attorney. Hogan has said
he is not sure he has a legal case against individu
als or promoters, but if he does the probable
charge will be "collusion."
And "Variety" reports that the quiz show
scandals have ' "sparked new Senate Commerce
Committee interest in more hearings on TV
ratings this fall." Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney
(D-Okla.) is quoted as saying he has received
directly "new" information on quiz shows.
Meanwhile, Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.), who
as chairman of the House Commerce Committee
has headed up television investigations, said on
Sept. 16 that after Hogan completes his investi
gation the House group
the need for federal iegislaton.
Quiz shows moved
vision as TV became a
rumors of cheating have
i l
arways inquiring reporters were meu wiui a. euuu
I1U ,millllCllU I.UU1 UiJ.
W INDUSTRY revenues in 1957 rose 5.2 per
orf ohwo 1QF.fi Viiif- OYnonccc rKmhor,
10.7 per cent, the Federal
mission has reported. So
income taxes actually were lo.b per cent below
the 1956 level. '
- CBS has reported higher earnings for the
first six months of 1958, but second quarter totals
were lower than those of the first three months.
With prime evening time still unsold an almost
unheard of condition all the chains are looking
ahead with fingers crossed. E.R.R.
5ft" No Answer
Wednesday, SeDt. 24, is the third anniversary
of the first Eisenhower heart attack, and still the
question: "What happens if the President is un
able to perform his duties?" awaits an answer
from Congress. .
The President will be
suffered two serious seizures since the 1955 at
tack. But Congress for three years has stalled on
an Eisenhower request that the Cabinet be auth
orized to determine presidential disability. Thus
all that is available for use in an emergency is
the "clear understanding" President Eisenhower
said he had reached last February with Vice Pres
ident Nixon.
I TNDER that modus vivendi, the President
would "if possible" inform the Vice
President of any temporaiy inability and thfe lat
ter would become Acting President. If the Presi
dent were not able to do this, the Vice President
would "decide the devolution of powers," after
such consultation as seemed to him appropriate,
"and would serve as Acting President." In either
case, the President "would determine when the
inability had ended."
Former President Truman said the Eisenhower-Nixon
pact was "illegal," but his Secretary of
State, Dean G.'Acheson, thought it "sensible and
politically desirable" in view of the failure of
Congress to act. E.R.R.
Falsehood as Truth
Some 2,500 non-official Americans visited the
Soviet Union during the past summer at their
own expense. Those interviewed on returning
have been unanimous in praising the friendliness
of the Russians, and remarking on their avid in
terest in all things American.
But some answers left the inquirers uncon
vinced ; they continued to believe that thousands
are starving on the streets of New York; that all
Negroes in the South are mistreated ; that the
American ruling classes are hell-bent on war.
Long years of indoctrination by "Pravda"
(Truth), organ of the Soviet Communist Party;
Radio Moscow; and other instruments of thought
control had given the common people of Russia
a firm conviction of the truth of oft-repeated lies.
Overseas broadcasts of President Eisenhow
er's United Nations speech in August were not
heard in the Soviet Union. Some of the return
ing tourists said , they found ' themselves almost
believing the paper's half-truths and inventions,
because there was nothing by which they could
be checked. E.R.R.
grand jury was sworn
may want to look into
over from radio to tele
mass medium. For years
surrounded them, but
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Matter of Fact
QUEMOY AND THE
DEMOCRATS
Washington There is a
touch of poetic justice about
Harry Truman's support of
the Eisenhower-Dulles decis
ion not to let
C o m m u n ist
bullets dictate
American ac
tion in the
Formosa
Strait. One
Democrat,
however, does
not make
Tirlw tstliA-vr
Rowland Evans
jr. even so emi
nent a Democrat as Mr. Tru
man. The countryside is full of
other Democrats, including
Dean Acheson, who out of
deep conviction or a hope of
partisan advantage are rais
ing fundamental ques t i o n s
about the Eisenhower-Dulles
policy. These questions have
not yet reached the full-bloom
stage of an outright partisan
attack. It is a bit too early for
that. The no-retreat posture
of the United States in the
matter of the off-shore islands
may in the end prove to be
more successful than the
critics fear. Neither the Demo
crats nor the privately-complaining
Republicans, of
whom there are many, are
going to over-commit them
selves too soon.
.
"DUT Mr. Truman himself
has left no doubt that de
spite the obvious errors of the
present Administration that
helped create the crisis, he is
not going to join his fellow
Democrats in any general
party assault on the Quemoy
policy.
This is, of course, the same
Mr. Truman whom the Re
publicans in 1952 made the
special target of their "Korea,"
Communism and corruption"
theme song. Beyond reason-,
able doubt, it is also the Tru
man of "Truman's war," the
nasty, punchy epithet that the
Republicans composed to
make sure the voters would
not forget where they were
supposed to hang the blame
for the Korean war.
Now, a whole political era
removed, Truman is the Dem
ocrat who springs to the de
fense of Eisenhower and
Dulles. His stance beside the
President, however, is not
likely to be the weightiest fac
tor influencing the Democrats
on whether to make an all
out political attack on the Re
publican Far-Eastern policy.
Opposing Truman are not only
his former Secretary of State,
Mr. Acheson, the entire party
hierarchy from National
Chairman Paul Butler on
down and most of the Demo
cratic candidates for office,
but also public opinion.
CONGRESSIONAL mail may
sometimes be an inaccur
ate barometer of public opin
ion, but the overwhelming
sentiment against the Quemoy
policy now being reflected in
mail to the United States Sen
ate leaves no doubt how ma
jority opinion stands. It is
hostile.
, Consider these figures based
on letters to four Senators in
the past ten days: Sen. Case
of New Jersey, who attracts
mail from East, Coast Eisenhower-Republicans,
35 letters,
all opposed to any American
involvement over Quemoy;
Sen. Kennedy, 190 letters, all
but three against the present
policy; Sen. Douglas, one of
the tiny band of Democrats
supporting the President, a
ratio of 50 to 1 against the
present policy;- and Sen.
Knowland, the foremost patron-
of a tough Far-Eastern
policy, 25 letters against the
Administration's, position and
7 in favor.
This mail to two Democrats
and two Republicans, picked
much at random, reveals none
of the tell-tale signs of an or
ganized pressure ampaign. It
has the authentic flavor of
the man in the street. And it
rw srtoe ' ?
By Holland Evans Jr.
obviously is a strong tempta
tion to the politicians running
for office this fall, no matter
what politician or what of
fice, . to. exploit Quemoy for
partisan gain.
TT IS no wonder, then, that
Truman's support was wel
comed by the Administration
as one of the happier episodes
in an unhappy time. In the
words of one top official: "You
can bet your last dollar that
we are glad to have Truman
on our side. We need him."
It is also no wonder that
parts of the President's tele
vised speech, explaining his
Formosa Strait policy, could
almost have been lifted word
for word from some of the
flat, earnest Truman speeches
of 1951, when.the Korean war
stretched ahead, bleakly with
out end. Change the place,
time and some of the charact
ers, and the words could al
most have been Truman's.
But, as already stated, not
even so eminent a Democrat
as Truman will dictate Demo
cratic party policy on Que
moy. Far more to be expected
is a gradual increase in criti
cism and a growing demand
for fundamental revisions of
this country's Far-Eastern
policy. What impact the po
litical attack may have on
the Congressional elections, if
any at all, is debatable. It
will, however, be of capital
importance when the Democratic-controlled
86th Con
gress convenes next January.
(Copyrighted 1958 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Washington Report
By William S. White
RECOGNITION NEARER
Washington There is a
spreading conviction here that
the end result of the Far East
crisis must be
either major
war or a suc
cess for Com
munist China's
almost psycho
tic campaign
to muscle her
way into the
United Na
tions. .
William S. White ""M"
war is a nearly unthinkable
last resort, many are reaching
the conclusion that the galling
and terrible dose of Ameri
can recognition of Red China
must be swallowed sooner or
later. This is reported not
gladly, only factually.
Recognition is the ultimate
course being increasingly
asked by some of our best
friends among the Western
allies. A considerable number
of influential American poli
ticians, particularly afaiong
the Democrats, are looking
sadly and reluctantly and al
most furtively in the ' same
direction.
"Furtively" is used because
the United States Govern
ment, through both the execu
tive department and Con
gress, is massively and repeat
edly, committed against ac
knowledging the existence of
a bandit regime.
fFHOSE now speaking pri
vately for a change in this
policy are unimpeachably
anti-Communist. And some of
them, in both the foreign dip
lomatic and the American po
litical communities, are actu
ally quite conservative in
their general political think
ing. To ask the United States
to recognize Communist China
is to ask us to accept an un
exampled diplomatic humilia
tion and an undoubtedly
cynical accommodation. These
are the people who killed
thousands of troops in Korea.
These are the people who
made unrepented war on the
United Nations itself when
the U. N. was fighting for col
lective . security in Korea.
These are the people who con
Red Press
To Eisenhower s Rejection
By HENRY SHAPIRO
UPI Correspondent
Moscow (DPD The Mos
cow press devoted banner
headlines today to President
Eisenhower's rejection of
Premier .Nikita Khrushchev's
latest note.
The Moscow man-in-the-street
took the rejection calm
ly,, but diplomatic observers
said it led to a situation which
apeared to be the most dan
gerous the world has known
since World War II.
"Unprecedented! . . . pre
meditated provocation!" said
GOP Shooting Back
At 'Misstatements'
By Ex-President
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Washington -(UPD- The Re
publican party began firing
back at former President Tru
man today, accusing him of
"many mistatements and mud
slinging" in his first round
of 1958 campaign speeches.
' GOP National Chairman
Meade Alcorn issued a "Tru
man vs. The Truth Fact
Sheet" and said the national
committee would prepare
more if necessary to "correct"
the former president's "ma
jor mistatements."
Alcorn said Truman speech
es last week included "a
mountain-sized pile of distor
tions, half-truths and outright
deliberate falsehoods design
ed to deceive Americans."
No Mention
"It is most interesting to
note that Mr. Truman makes
no mention of his party's
stand on civil rights and of
fers no explanation to his
northern audiences as to why
southern Democrats are clos
ing public schools rather than
obeying the law," Alcorn
said.'
To Truman's charge the
GOP wanted to prevent full
production, the "fact sheet"
said national production this
year was about 100 billion
dollars above the peak year
under the Truman adminis
tration. As for his statement Repub
licans wanted some unem
ployment and wanted to hold
wages down, the GOP replied
that more Americans are at
work and earning more than
ever before and personal in
come is at record levels.
Budget Dispute
spired in the Communist seiz
ure and theft of part of what
used to be French Indo-China.
And these are the people who
long ago drove our National
ist Chinese ally, Chiang Kai
jhek, out of mainland China
and now distantly beseige him
in his last island refuge of
Formosa.
All this is conceded by these
foreign friends and by those
American politicians who now
believe it must be faced up to
-who press this bitter thing
upon us. Still, they point out
that there is a mania in the
determination of Red China
to bludgeon the world into
giving it a quasi-respectabil-ity
by way of U. N. member
ship. THEY are convinced that
Peiping will set the world
aflame, in a nuclear flame
of total world war if neces
sary, before it will be long
denied this mark of "face."
They" believe that even the
Russians, who are not notably
sensitive about such, things,
are becoming alarmed at how
far Peiping might be prepared
to go.
They acknowledge that
recognition would mean the
end of any kind of hope for
Chiang beyond the hope of
remaining on Formosa with
our support. They do not ad
mit, however- and this is the
whole kernel of their argu
ment - that all this need mean
the loss to the West of For
mosa itself as an anchor in
our security line.
They are suggesting that
perhaps we could agree to
neutralize the small off-Formosa
islands - Quemoy and
so on - but accompany this
with an all-Western, and not
merely American, proclama
tion that any Communist as
sault on Formosa itself would
mean that we would all go
in together, to the end, against
that aggression.
They suggest, in a word,
that the undeniably heavy
loss of American prestige in
volved in recognition need
not m.ean any net loss in
American-Western power. On
the contrary, they say, this
kind of settlement would put
our Western allies actually on
Reacts Violently
the head lines in the commu
nist' organ Pravda. Its' edi
torial described the Presi
dent's action as "insolent."
Red China Echoes
Red China, echoing the line
laid down Sunday by Rus
sia, said America's refusal to
abandon its friends . in the
Far East had transformed the
diplomatic ' negotiations in
Warsaw to "mere empty
words."
"If the United States is
really sincere, it must ' im
mediately stop its armed pro
vocations and war threats and
Commenting on Truman's
remarks about the budget, the
national committee said the
national debt had risen $234
billion under Democratic ad
ministrations and that the re
cent Democratic Congress had
voted for more spending than
the Eisenhower administra
tion asked. .
The GOP said "Truman is
right" in saying missile re
search was delayed but de
clared "he is the one who
held up the research pro
grams." .
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Who're They Kidding?
To the Editor: An amazing
thing has happened in Oregon
politics.
When Governor Holmes
called a special session to
provide a tax cut, every "Re
publican politician in . the
state renounced the idea. Our
local Republican state sena
tor, together with the Repub
lican legislator, went on TV
to state that it was "impru
dent" and that the state
should hang on to the money.
. Now that the people have
received their 20 per cent cut
in taxes, those same Republi
cans try to claim credit, and
even to say it wasn't enough.
Who do the Republicans
think they're kidding?
Mark Norton
Phoenix, Ore.
Esperanto
To the Editor: A serious
difficulty confronting world
wide television is the lan
guage barriers. Yet the means
for worldwide understanding
is at hand: the international
language, Esperanto, devel
oped and proved in 70 years'
use.
Coming generations can en
joy benefits of international
communication through this
simple, neutral interlanguage
provided we lead the "way
now to its adoption by the
United Nations as the official
auxiliary or second language,
to be taught in the schools of
all member nation's.
Then our youngsters will
enjoy TV from any place in
the world with equal ease,
our side for the first time in
the Formosa Strait. They are
not with us there now, by any
means.
TiHIS is the sort of proposal,
wise or not, that is going
to be increasingly heard in
Washington by the time the
new Congress assembles in
January. How that Congress
may respond, should the Ad
ministration itself shift ground
on recognition in the mean
time, no one can say.
One thing, however, may
be regarded as absolutely cer
tain: the Senate's heretofore
monolithic objection . to any
kind of recognition will be
significantly, though not
necesssarily critically, weak
ened. The very heart of that
objection has been in a hard
Republican, core centered
around Sen. William F. Know
land, .the Republican floor
leader.
Mr. Knowland, now a can
didate for governor of Cali
fornia, will not again be in a
position to supply an adamant
anti-recognition lead ership.
The power equation" on the
issue, in consequence, will be
measurably altered.
(Copyright. 1958. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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immediately withdraw its
forces from the Taiwan (For
mosa) area," Peiping Radio
said.
The broadcast said Eisen
hower rejected Khrushchev's
note "because the Soviet
leader exposed the U.S. as an
aggressor and discredited its
policy of atomic blackmail."
The official press here
quoted comments from
Communist newspapers and
correspondents in various
countries to support its claim
of widespread opposition to
the President's stand.
Opposition Cited
A Tass dispatch from New
York said the President's at
titude is opposed "by allies,
by neutrals, by the American
left and by the Democratic
opposition, which now re
gards the jjovernment's policy
very critically."
Pravda quoted the Rome
Communist organ "Unita" as
denouncing the "senseless
stubbornness" with which Ei
senhower had labeled Red
China an aggressor. The
Rome Reds also accused the
President of "vulgarly trying
to distort the calm but de
cisive words of Khrushchev."
"Other reports," from New
York, said "simple Ameri
cans" are bombarding U.S
newspapers and politicians
with letters demanding an
end to "the adventurous
policy of Dulles and Eisen
hower in the Far East."
and will forge bonds of un
derstanding now impossible
across the language barriers.
The Esperanto league,
Meadville, Pa., can supply in
formation about the interna
tional language.
Mrs. Mary J. Gibson
P.O. Box 117
Riverdale, Calif.
Who't Spending?
To the Editor: In viewing
Thursday's political telecast
on KBES-TV, sponsored by
the Jackson County Republi
can Women's club, some ex
tremely interesting questions
came to my mind, especially
in light of the fact that the
programs are planned on a
weekly basis. ;
Who is spending all of this
money, for the confessed pur
pose of defeating one incum
bent candidate? Why should
a Medford stock broker and a
Grants Pass politician tell us
how to vote? -
Further, Fay Bristol, a Jo
sephine county repregenta
tive, remarked that when s
friend has money, "you na
turally try to talk him out of
some of it." Is that the way
Republicans treat friends? Is
Mr. Bristol's attitude that tax
money should come from "the
little people" the type 'we
want in government?
I'm going to vote for Bob
Duncan, and if the stock
broker (James Ragland) keeps
bringing in out-of-county Re
publicans to tell us how to
vote, everybody will vote for
Bob.' 1 -
Both Bob and Marijane
Duncan are going to Salem as
representatives, if my vote is
any indication.
R. H. Southard
228 South Ivy st.
Very Lenient Terms
(When necessary you may have 30 months to pay,
with no interest or carrying charges).
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Ml
Frank
FRIENDLY,
Editorial Comment
ABOLITION THE
HARD WAY
The argument that capital
punishment should be abol
ished because of the possibil
ity of the execution of an in
nocent person often meets
with skepticism. A prevailing
attitude is that it just couldn't
happen.
Of course, it can and has
happened. Dr. Ford Lewis, as
sistant minister of the First
Unitarian church' of Portland.
has correspondence revealing
mat just such tragic error
prompted scrapping of the
death penalty in at least two
of the six states that have
forsworn it.
"Many years ago (in excess
of 60) the state of Maine did
have a capital punishment sta
tute which called for hang
ing," Maine Gov. Edmund
S. Muskie wrote Dr. Lewis.
"In the course of applying
this statute one of our in
mates was hanged who after
wards was found to be en
tirely innocent. This unfor
tunate accident was the main
reason for doing away with
capital punishment in this
state . . ." From the executive
offices of another state, Rhode
Island, came a similar ac
count: "This state, many years
ago, had capital punishment
for first degree murder, but
in one instance a man was
convicted and executed and
later it was found he was in
nocent. The law was then
changed, and it now provides
that capital punishment can
only be imposed in the case of
a person who commits a mur
der while serving a life sen
tence." The latter provision
is the same as would prevail
in Oregon should the people
approve abolition of capital
punishment in the November
election.
Response to Dr. Lewis' let
ters to the governors of the
six states Maine, Rhode
Island, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Minnesota and North Dakota
-reflected general public sat
isfaction with absence of the
death penalty. In point of fact,
statistics confirm that the
homicide rate in these states
as a group is substantially
lower than the average in
states which take a life for
a life."
There is no way of know
ing how many innocent lives
have been forfeited to the
spirit of revenge embodied In
the death penalty. The cases
cited in Maine and Rhode
Island are exceptions to the
rule that an execution closes
the case.
The moral is: It should not
be necessary to kill an inno
cent man to motivate Ore
gonians to eliminate capital
punishment. Portland Ort.
gonian.
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