MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
Monday, September 29,, 1951
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History from the- files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 1948 (Wednesday)
Medford officially took over
the Camp White sewage dis-
Tjosal clant yesterday.
Approximately 25 members
of Teamsters Local 962 walk
ed off their jobs today at the
Medford branch of the.Pacmc
Fruit and Produce company.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 1938 (Thursday)
A baby elephant and a flea
circus are features of the
Mammonth Hippodrome rail
show.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
hunter returned from the hills
this morn, where he bagged a
two-horned cow, with four
legs and a tail."
30 YEARS AGO ;
Sept. 29, 1928 (Saturday) ,
Plans are developing for
street lights on downtown
Sixth st. j
Southern Oregon fishing
streams are being reinforced
this week with t stocking of
brookies and steelhead.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29. 1918 (Sunday)
Two special military trains,
destinations unknown, passed
through town yesterday.
City folks and valley farm
ers voted yesterday on issuing
bonds for the Medford Irriga
tion district.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. According to the scrip
tures, Cain was the brother
of whom?
2. In boxing a short chop
ping blow to the back of the
neck or the base of the skull,
is known as what sort of
punch?
3. Name the Chief .Justice
of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
4. The late Knute Rockne
achieved fame as . football
coach of which team?
5. -Which steamship .was
sunk first, the SS Titanic, or
the SS Lusitania?
6. A citizen must be' older
to qualify as a U.S. senator,
qr a U.S. representative?
7. A person suffering from
nyctophobia has a morbid
fear of cuts, nits, or dark
ness? 8. Adult moths do not eat
fabrics; true or false?
9. Joe Yule Jr. is the real
name of which movie star?
10. Name the author of the
novel, "Robinson Crusoe."
Answers: 1-Abel. 2-Rabbit
punch. 3 Earl Warren. 4-No-tre
Dame. 5-SS Titanic. 6
U.S. senator. 7 Darkness. 8
True. 9-Mickey Rooney. 10
Daniel Defoe.
CHTJRCHILLS ON CRUISE
Malaga, Spain - fOPD - Sir
Winston and Lady Churchill
were en route to Tangier
aboard the yacht Chistina to
day on a 10-day "golden
honeymoon" cruise around
the Mediterranean. The
Churchills are the guests of
Aristotle Onassis, the ship
ping ngnate.vThe yacht left
here Saturday night.
World Series Logistics
The 1958 World Series opens Wednesday in
Milwaukee, home o'f the National League pennant
winning Braves. '
If this World Series goes seven games, as did
the 1957 meeting of the same teams, there is no
conceivable reason why another new set of rec
ords shouldn't be established off the field as well
as on. The New York Yankees have announced
that reserved seats for the games to be played in
New York were already oversubscribed, less than
three days after the club had begun accepting
mail orders.
"The response," said Jack White, Yankee
ticket manager, "was the largest in ourJiistory of
handling world series tickets." And the frenzied
welcome home given the Braves in Milwaukee
after they clinched the
Sept. 21 indicated no falling off of their popu
larity in the midlands.
COME of the records established in 1957 are
worth recalling. Paid attendance was 394,-
712 for a total of $2,475,978 (exclusive of radio
and television fees), both all-time highs. The
Braves divided their 60 per cent of the. players'
take (of the first four games) into 30 full shares
of $8,924,36, another record and a nice chunk of
take-home pay for seven days' work.
Hotel rooms will be at a high premium in New
York, also in Milwaukee. On the day of the first
game in New York last year, Oct. 2, the city
Hotel Association conceded that all hostelries be
tween 30th and 60th streets were jammed. Small
but satisfactory hotels farther uptown could take
care of the overflow, the group said. The associ
ation has 170 member hotels, with 75,000 rooms ;
the city as a whole, 372 hotels with 116,291 rooms.
Choice seats in Yankee Stadium went at $100
each. One bio- New York-based firm told "The
Wall Street Journal" some 300 clients and friends
had requested seats free, of course. Ihe comp
any was able to get only 50 good seats ; it knew
from experience that any free-loaders given poor
seats would be sore. . . , . .
Milwaukee fans and for that matter the
whole "series crowd" are known as big spend
ers, and night clubs and fancy restaurants do a
huge business.
THIS inevitably will be a big gambling as well
A as a big spending series. Spencer J. Drayton,
head of the Thoroughbred Racing Association
Protective Bureau and a former FBI agent, said
at this time last year that his data showed a great
deal more money- had been wagered on baseball
during the season than was "wagered legally on
horse racing or any other sport." Estimates of
the amount changing hands on the 1957 world
series alone ran in excess of half a million dol
lars. This was money placed with bookmakers.
The additional bets in office pools and man-toman
wagers would run to a vast sum.
On a sheer money basis, the fellow who's got
most out of the world series over the years prob
ably would be Yankee coach Frank Crosetti. This
year Crosetti will break his own record for par
ticipation in the series nine times as player, nine
as a coach. Up to last year his total series takings
were estimated at over $100,000. His 1957 cut
in the losers' share came to $5,606 and the
chances are he'll drag down more this year.
There'll be no prediction here on the series
outcome. But on an actuarial basis, you'd have
to pnve the Yankees the nod. After all: in the stag
gering 23 years the Yankees have played in the
series, they've lost only six times, oniy inrice in
the past 30 years: E.R.R.
The Staph Menace
Tf von are one of' the 90.000.000 Americans
nrnrerrpH hv snrp-ical-hosoitalization insurance,
you should be interested in the fact (1) that ris
ing health insurance rates are attributed in con
siderable degree to "subscriber over-utilization"
of hospitals and "unnecessary surgery' ; ana tne
added fact (2) that medical resources now are
hPino- hnstilv mobilized to combat the spread of
staphylococcal diseases usually contracted in hos
pitals.
Widespread outbreaks of staphylococcus post
operative infections have been attributed to new
and hardy strains of the staph bug which are little
affected by the antibiotic wonder drugs. Some
have emerp-ed as specific eDidemic strains. U. S.
O A x
Surgeon General L. E. Burney has said that one
. -m t, 1 1 j 1 I ll. J 1
strain has got a long lead
in controlling it are "truly
A RECENT conference of germ fighters, called
by the Public Health Service at the request of
the American Hospital Association to map a na
tional campaign against the staph menace, agreed
that no easy solution is at
sort must be to the traditional methods of pre
venting infection. A leading Philadlphia .surgeon
recommended adequate scrubbing .techniques
(in hospitals) combined with thorough alcohol
rinse of the skin." He had no doubt that meticu
lous sanitary precautions would result in "a
wound infection rate of practically zero."
Nevertheless, it would be well to give some
thought to the staph bug if you have looked for
ward to a freeloadihg rest cure in the hospital or
have contemplated an unnecessary operation at
your health fund's expense. E.R.R.
National League flag on
on us ; tnat tne siaKes
awful."
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Matter of Fact By Rowland Evans Jr.
By ROWLAND EVANS JR.
While Joseph, Alsop re
ports from the Far East,
Rowland Evans Jr. covers
the home base.
P.S. ON SHERMAN ADAMS
Washington The defense
strategy devised for Sherman
Adams last June, after the
- first of the
' ' Bernard finlrl-
u r e s, ".was
tried out in
secret on two
carefully se
lected guinea
pigs, Sens.
Case of New
t . j
Rowland Evans ,"r c f ' e nQ
jr. Javits of New
York. It would have been dif
ficult to find a moresympa
thetic sounding - board than
these two East Coast, Eisen
hower Republicans, ' neither
of whom has the sliehtest
election worries this year.
And yet, the preview of
the impending defense of Mr.
Adams that they got from
Charles F. Willis Jr., the able
former White House official,
left Sens. Case and Javits as
unmoved as mummies.-
The sneak preview came
shortly before Mr. Adams
went up to the old House of
fice building to testify before
the . Harris subcommittee.
Both Javits and Case felt
even then that Mr. Adams'
goose was cooked. It had al
ready become an odds-on bet
that his defense before the
House committee could not
save him and that Republican
candidates, who had never
felt at home with him any
way, would drive him out.
HPHE chilly reaction of Case
-- and Javits should have
warned the Adams forces of
what lay ahead, but instead
it was ignored. This failure
to sense the political and
philosophic atmosphere that
gripped Washington on the
heels of the Adams-Goldfine
disclosures was the first er
ror of those who' thought Mr.
Adams could, survive.
The second was more
grievous and . inexplicable.
This was Mr. Adams' failure
to make the "clean breast" of
the full extent of his relation
ship with Bernard Goldfine.
It was Vice President Nixon,
an acknowledged authority
on correct conduct under
fire, who told Mr. Adams that
if he testified he should with
out question tell aU. Why Mr.
Adams did not follow this
sound advice and lay bare the
detailed history of favors he
had received from Goldfine
is one of those totally inex
plicable mysteries. He must
have known that once he
chose to fight it out, all these
hidden facts would pop up in
the end, as even the most un-
discoverable : facts have a
habit of doing. And when
they did, they could not fail
to prejudice his case.
THE third error made by
the Adams defense was
its failure to sense the de
cisive character of Sen.
Knowland's warning that per
haps Mr. Adams had outlived
his usefulness to the Presi
dent. The warning was soon
followed by outright de
mands for his resignation.
The Republicans knew they
had lost their hound's tooth.
For example, their 1958
speakers' handbook listed as
the second major Eisenhower
accomplishment: "Cleaned up
the mess in Washington; re
stored honesty and integrity
to government." The newest
version of the handbook, just
off the press, makes no such
claim.
And yet, the President per
mitted time to pass in the
hope that the wolves would
somehow stop baying and go
away. Finally, of course, the
Maine election forced the is
sue and Mr. Adams made his
challenging fareweU address.
Although it is not hard to
understand how, in bitter
mmmmmm
ness, he was moved to blame
his resignation on an "cam
paign of vilification," the
tone of the address has to be
judged the final and perhaps
most serious error of all in
the sad course of events since
last June. As the Democrats
are at great pains to point
out, Mr. Adams' departure
now stands officially as an
act of political expediency,
not an act to restore an im
peccable standard of conduct
in public office.
rpHAT is the past. The fu-
-- ture is unclear, but two
forecasts are possible: First,
that Vice President Nixon
and the Republican National
Committee will move at once
to expand their influence on
Administration policy and ab
sorb some of the purely polit
ical functions that have been
included in Mr. Adams'
broad preserve.
Second, that evidence may
soon be at hand to dramatize
the President's appeal last
June: ."I need him." For Gov.
Adams surely has that dis
tinctive, rare genius for pub
lic administration on which
the Eisenhower system whol
ly depends. Who else, alone
or in combination, can fill
his . place soon? What substi
tute is there for the ultimate
authority of the "O. K., S. A."
that Adams affixed to count
less state papers before send
ing them to the President for
final signature?
Perhaps it is the system
that must give .way in the
sudden removal of the man
who made it work.
1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of
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.
Wants the Truth
To the Editor: Thanks to
Bert Kissinger for his letter.
J. Frank Dobie, as with every
writer of things before his
time, makes mistakes. It is
the cooperation of just such
interested persons as Mr. Kis
singer that makes it possible
to record such periods au
thentically. True West and Frontier
Times strives always for the
truth and nothing else. No
stories not based on truth are
accepted. As you can imagine,
such editorial policy is diffi
cult when writing about cur
rent events; much more diffi
cult is it to hold a clear line
of truth concerning things of
the past.
I disagree concerning Wyatt
Earp. I think he was a bandit
and a killer. In the letters
to the editor in these maga
zines I find many who agree
with me. The Jacksonville
Museum Jjooklet says the
First Protestant church was
built in 1854; the Jubilee
pamphlet dftes it 1851. An
organization erected a plaque
to the Rogue River Valley
Railroad recently; many of1
See
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Russia Warns That Reel China Should
Be Included in Disarmament Talks
By K. C. THALER
UPI Correspondent
London (BPD -Soviet Russia
has thrown a new monkey
wrench into the disarmament
debate which may block any
major arms-cut accord for an
indefinite period.
In a thinly veiled warning
Russia virtually served no
tice on the West that there
would be no solution of the
disarmament problem with
out Red China's participation.
This was the reading by
diplomatic experts of a seem
ingly casual remark by Sov
iet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko during an oration
at the United Nations Assem
bly in support of Communist
China's admission to the
world organization.
Gromyko, pleading for the
Peiping's regime admission to
the U. N. said until this hap
pened many important ques
tions such as disarmament
could not be dealt with
properly.
This was Moscow's way of
saying that Red China will
have to participate in future
in disarmament negotiations
if they are to get anywhere.
Fits Into Pattern
The move fits into the pic
ture of latest developments in
the Sino-Russian alignment
and gives fresh support to re
cent indications of Commu
nist China's growing pres
sure on the Kremlin.
So far Moscow has not yet
formally raised the point. But
judging from previous exper
ience Western diplomats ex
pected to be confronted with
a demand for Red Chinese
participation when disarma
ment issue is revived.
Wa shington Re po rt
By William
Washington -The moderate
Southern politicians are con
ducting a slow retreat of im-
m e n s e skill
a g a i n st the
heavy pres
sures of the
Southern" ex
tremists on
one flank and
of the ad
vanced North
e r n . D e m o
cratic liber-
William S. White ais on me
Other flank.
These moderates -are the
masters of the art of politics
in this country, whether one
agrees or disagrees with them.
And in this uneasy autumn
they are ' demonstrating as
much.
" No other set of political
men has been in such danger
in generations. They are lit
erally and painfully in the
middle of the most passionate
domestic issue of this century,
that of civil rights.
The Deep Southerners are
attempting to destroy these
it's members know nothing
of an assault by the president
of this railroad 'upon a Med
ford mayor, and a hard-fighting
editor who was right, and
a libel suit.
Research in Jacksonville is
hard. Some cooperate; some
do not want it publicized. I
am persistant, and with luck,
readers of these magazines
will begin to read about our
area very soon. I will receive
damning letters,' for mistakes;
for telling the truth, and mis
cellaneous reasons. If those
who know the truth want
nothing but the truth in print,
then I say that if they will
give me some facts they can
be sure I won't write any
thing else, for someone must
begin the story of our area
and it is, at best, a form of
pioneering, with plenty of
'savages' fighting it.
I will appreciate any facts,
leads, stories, photos, or other
help offered me by anyone
who - knows history of our
area and would like to see
it written and preserved for
future generations.
Virginia D. Card,
P.O. Box 145,
Medford
AT
"Since 1908"
Next month representa
tives of the United States,
Britain and Russia are slated
to meet in Geneva (Oct. 31)
to discuss the suspension of
nuclear, tests under an inter
national control system.
The West wants to use this
occasion for,a resumption of
broader disarmament consid
erations, Russia wants an
unconditional suspension of
tests. The subject of Red
China probably will then
crop up.
Such demand could in
present circumstances in ef
fect block any further dis
armament negotiations for an
Local Enforcement Seen Idea
Of Administration for Labor
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington - (DPD. Organ
ized labor has given the Ei
senhower administration a
fast okay on
the idea that
there is plenty
of unenforced
law a t the
local level to
deal with
union thieves
and g 6 o n
squad slug
gers.
Labor Sec-
. Lyle C. Wilson
retary James
P. Mitchell
fathered the thought In a, re
cent Atlantic City speech be
fore the annual convention
of the steelworkers. Mftch'eH's
approach to new federal labor
legislation was negative -
S. White
moderates and to head the
South into a campaign of to
tal and endless - and hopeless
- resistance to school integra
tion. The Northern Democrat
ic liberals are not so much
trying to end the political
lives of the moderates as to
wrest control of the party
from them.
. ';.-:
fTHUS, the Southern moder-
ates can only fall back
and try to limit their losses.
This is the strategy that is
now unfolding - and brilliant
ly unfolding, given their"des
perate circumstances. The
field marshal is the Senate
Democratic leader, Senator
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.
The man who will now be
perhaps his chief lieutenant
has been chosen not from
Senatorial or Congressional
ranks and not even from the
upper South - where there is
at least some present possi
bility of accommodating the
integration issue.
Instead, this new subordi
nate officer comes from the
deepest South; he is J. P.
Coleman, Governor of Missis
sippi. Mr. Coleman has just
been made chairman of the
Conference of Southern Gov
ernors. His election involved
"jumping" him over the head
of the man who would nor
mally have got the post by
seniority, . Gov. Orval Faubus
of Arkansas. : , '
rpHIS was a "Johnson opera
tion" in that it undoubted
ly represented the Senator's
desires. So much may be con
fidently assumed even though
Johnson was nowhere near
the site of the recent South
ern Governors' Conference at
Lexington, Ky., where . the
deed was done. For Coleman
is an old Johnson associate.
Since before 1956 they have
been working together to
avoid a fatal party split over
civil rights. .
Coleman7 Mississippi or no
Mississippi, has steadfastly re
fused to talk in -terms of a
new war between the states
over integration. He is . now
taking the lead, moreover, in
squelching any talk of a
Southern bloc breaking away
from the Democratic party in
1960.
. Faubus has been effectively
isolated and every other
Southern extremist "will cer
tainly be isolated by the mod
erate Southern .leadership by
I960 if its plans materialize.
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rti in!
indefinite period. .
Until now- Russia has car
fully by-parsed the issue of
Red Chinese participation in
arms cut negotiations.
Issue Not Raised
She has done so despite the
fact that both the West's and
her own disarmement pro
posals provided for a reduc
tion of Communist Chinese
armed forces as well as their
own in any future global
arrangement.
Nor did Moscow raise the
issue when earlier this year
East and West debated the
convocation of a conference
of scientists from both camps
don't enact much, if any. t
"You are going to hear
much conversation about
labor legislation," Mitchell
told the steelworkers. "We
may disagree as to the kind
of legislation which is need
ed, but there are some things
on which we are completely
agreed.
"One is that any labor leg
islation at the federal level
shall not be repressive or pun
itive. "And two, labor legislation
at the federal level should not
contain so-called antitrust
laws directed against labor.
"And three, it seems to me
that no one and certainly
not this administration nor
myself would have the tem
erity to ' propose a federal
right to work law."
Need Local Enforcement
The steelworkers had greet
ed Mitchell with some booing
but they began to warm up
with some ,applause after he
outlined his policies, which in
cluded: "It seems to me that one
of the problems is we don't
" For the central problem of
the Southern moderates, al
ways acute, is sharpening
daily, as well they know.
What they now have most to
fear is far more than a re
jection at the next convention
of their efforts to hold the
civil rights plank to a middle
road one. The nightmare they
must face is that the North
ern liberals, so long exasper
ated, may turn up this time
determined to drive the whole
South from the party, with
out making much distinction
between "good" and "bad"
Southerners. .
rriHE
moderates, therefore,
are maneuvering not to
permit any situation to arise
in which they could reason
ably be charged with any as
sociation with any prospec
tive Southern bolters.
No other political group
has more to lose. Southern
moderates have long control
led , Congress even though
they are a minority there.
And not the least of their
perils lies in simple, human
envy.
Some Northern liberals are
not exactly happy in the ob
vious fact that, right or wrong
as they may be on issues, the
Southern moderates are in
comparably " and " undeniably
more able. To dislodge these
brilliant professionals would
take some doing. But it could
be done - and most of all if
they could fairly be identified
in 1960 with any aspect of
Southern extremism.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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in Geneva to examine the
possibilities of nuclear explo
sions detection.
At one time there was
hitch in these preliminary
talks when Russia tried to
back out; it was then assumed
that Peiping had attempted to
veto the meeting because it
had been left out in the cold.
However, the Geneva con
ference took place tnd its
Eastern representatives in
fact recommended with their
Western colleagues that a
test detection control system
should be -spread worldwide
that would have to include
China.
need federal laws to check
mugging and goon squads and
criminal tactics. What we do
need is a recognition at the
community level that these
(local) laws should be en
forced; and we need support
to the law enforcement peo
ple so that intimidated work
ers can testify without fear
of reprisal and that grand
juries can indict arsonists and
thugs at the local level. No
one has to wait for Washing
ton to pass a law to check
these evils."
Some days later, AFL-CIO
President George Meany ad
dressed the International
Union of Electrical Workers
in Philadelphia. Meany also
was content with local laws
as written to deal with union
crooks and thugs, but he com
plained that the. solid local
citizenry- do not support or
ganized labor's effort to clean
house.
"There doesn't seem to be
a district county attorney in
this country who is inter
ested," Meany said. "In not a
single instance do we find
where any local district (coun
ty) attorney has taken interest.
There are upwards of 3,000
DA's in the United States.
"Can it be," Meany asked,
"that there is some discrim
ination in which nothing is
done when there is embezzling
from the workers?" -Agreement
on Approach
He also challenged the
ethics of the American Bar
whereunder union crooks are
served by legal counsel,- tak
ing union money to defend
union crooks. As to business
men, Meany said "where a
crook is on one side .of the
table representing labor, you
have another crook on the
other side representing busi-'
ness."
In contrast to the unan
imity with which organized
labor opposes the Eisenhower
administration and the Re
publican party in politics,
there was - substantial agree
ment in the Meany and Mit
chell speeches on the size,
shape and basic approach to
political problems related to
organized labor.
Both approaches substan
tially ignore an area of the
labor question which urgent
ly attracts the support of a
great many citizens and even
more so arouses the angry op
position of the. leaders of or
ganized labor.
That is the area in which
some persons see Big Labor
as dangerously powerful. That
side of the debate is well pre-'
sented in the 1957 book
"Labor Union Monopoly A
Clear and Present . Danger",
by Donald R. Richberg, once
assistant to President FDR.
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