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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
Oct. 1. 1S48 (Friday)
Dedication ceremonies to
day mark the formal opening
of the Wolf creek-Azalea sec
tion of Highway 99.
"Burlesque," a Broadway
comedv success, is scheduled
for two performances
this month.
here
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 1, 1938 (Saturday)
A movie is to be filmed in
Medford featuring an all-local
cast.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Candi
dates have started to shine
up to the voters, and are as
pleasant a lot as one would
care t6 meet."
30 YEARS AGO
Ocl. 1. 1928 (Monday)
"the local airport commit
tee meets tomorrow at the
Chamber of Commerce.
the Diamond Lake resort
closed for the season last eve
ning.
40 YEARS AGO -
Oct. 1. 1918 (Tuesday)
Mayor Gates raises $30,000
in half an hour for the liberty
loan drive and thereby gains
for Medford the credit of put
ting Oregon over its quota.
Evans creek fire wardens
are building a log cabin atop
Battle mountain. ,
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight it excellent; five of
six is good.
1. In baseball, which base
Is called the "keystone sack."
2. Is a benedict a newly mar
ried man or a confirmed bach
elor? 3. Woodrow Wilson was
president of which eastern uni
versity? 4. A necropolis is an obitu
ary column in a newspaper, a
disease of the neck, or a cem
etery? 5. Cranberry growers deter
mine the quality of their crop
by its color, or bounce?
6. In which western State is
Zion National Park?
7. Which dog is naturally
tailless?
8. To what religious denom
ination did the late "Babe"
Ruth adhere?
9. A person suffering from
ochlophobia would have a
morbid fear of yellow paint,
crowds, or pianos?
10. Only one U.S. President
was a Quaker; name him.
Answers: 1. Second base. 2.
A newly married man. 3.
Princeton. 4. Cemetery. 5. By
its bounce. 6. Utah. 7. Schip
perke. 8. Roman Catholic. 9.
Morbid fear ef Crowds. 10.
Herbert Hocver.
4 Wednesday, Oetf '
MAIL TRIBUNE, tAZ
To End The "Veto"
The Oregon Statesman in Salem proposes that
the "veto power" which fringe areas have over
annexations be eliminated.
This 13 a controversial proposal, but there is
much, sense to it. At present, when an annexation
of a fringe area to an adjacent city is proposed,
the area proposed for annexation must give an
amrmauve response or tne annexation is de
feated. The city, too, must approve,4 either by a
general vote or by council action.
The Statesman's proposal would call for one
election, including the city and the annexation
area, with a sample majority vote of all those
voting deciding the matter.
yHE STATESMAN says:
"This provides for city expansion but contains a
check so areas could not be added indiscriminately. It
would let city voters share in deciding the city's size.
Fringe area residents could express their convictions
at public hearings, and their votes would be a part of
the total vote cast. When there is a lack of interest by
city voters, or when city sentiment is equally divided,
the vote in the area up for annexation would be de
cisive. But the fringe areas would not be allowed a
veto power over .city expansion as they are now."
The paper points out that this would be no
solution to the "fringe area problem," but states
that it would make it easier for a city's political
boundaries to conf orm to its natural boundaries.
IT ALSO pointed out that such a proposal is not
mnviuc, Liicxb lug icmuvai UX 0 1111 11 tax. vcuu
power has been accomplished in the case of some
types a taxing districts,
absorb a smaller one.
It may be argued that there is an element of
unfairness in this forcing
other. But the reply is that it is frequently for the
I ultimate, overall good of
A provision such as that suggested by tne
Statesman would solve one of the problems. But
the solution of many of
It is our conviction that the county must begin
to assume manv of the
on a hit-or-miss, uncoordinated basis by a variety
of taxing districts. But to do so, it will be neces
sary to give counties a greater degree of legis
lative authority, or "home
A DroDOsal to do this
vember general election ballot, and should be
passed as a first step toward easing the plight of
the fringes. E.A.
Educated Guesses
The board of census' estimates of the popula
tion of Oregon, and of its cities and counties, are
just that--estimates. An estimate is a guess, based
on certain indices, but still a guess.
.- We'll have to wait another year and a half to
get an accurate nose-count of the number of peo
ple in Oregon, but in the meantime, the state
census estimate will be the governing factor in
distribution of state funds, and for other pur
poses. .... ... ..
A NUMBER of different
M riipVi an psHmatp
Among them are school enrollment figures
and the '"normal" increment of births over
deaths.
The census board itself admits that its data
are not sufficient for an absolutely accurate esti
mate, and that it is handicapped by "lack of rele
vant and reliable information on population mi
gration." In some wrays it appears that the methods
used by some cities in arriving at their initial
estimates are sounder than the census board's for
they also include sewer and water connections,
and other data.
THERE are other factors which, in our opinion,
could well be taken into consideration such
things as the number of vacant houses in the city,
electrical and telephone starts and stops, and a
cross-checking of these.
This would be more difficult, of course, and
probably not worth the extra effort and. expense.
For all practical purposes, the state census
board's figures are adequate. But it will be inter
esting to see how they stack up against the actual
count in I960. E.A.
Losangelism
The San Francisco Chronicle takes a dim view
of the mouthings of "Losangelism" as applied
to the current difficulties of the Pacific Coast
Conference.
The vims started out innocuously enough, it
reports, but finally culminated in the break-up
of the PCC, and the self-righteous back-patting
of the big schools of the southland.
The Chronicle says it was glad when the Uni
versity of California in Berkeley rejected the lure
of professionalism in football and wras greatly
distressed when, more recently, it succumbed.
Its parting shot must have grayed a few hairs
in Berkeley. It said. "Good Luck, East Bay Pack
ers E.A. .
Still Danger
State and federal forest officers have issued
a timely warning the danger of forest fire in
the woods is not over, despite the autumnal wea
ther and cool nights.
Warm alternoons and
bined to dry out "the woods again, after the mild
rams oi a iew weeKs ago.
if you venture into the woods, be careful.
Don't spoil the generally good fire record of
southwestern Oregon this
where a larger one can
of one area to join an
the entire community.
the others lies elsewhere
functions now peiTormecl
rule.
will appear on the No
factors go into making
lack of rain have com
season, E. A.
Dennis the Menace
'WOULOM'r OU JUST TO
SOMEOtiB OF VSpy ONH
Medford Woman Writes of Her
Impressions of Harry Truman
(Editor's note: Harry S.
Truman, former President
of the United Slates, spoke
in Portland last Saturday.
Among those attending was
Mrs. Edith Rode of Med
ford. who jotted down het
impressions of the former
President. They follow.) '
By EDITH RODE
It seems to me that Harry
Truman, addressing a Demo
cratic banquet in Portland
last week, demonstrates the
bid British thesis that a man
is a politician until he is 70,
and then he becomes a statesr
man. Mr. Truman, in his.
speech, disclaims this theory
in favor of his own, that the
only statesman is a dead pol
itician. Mr. Truman is fit, rosy and
poised, with a tremendous
zest for partisan battle. He
still uses his American colo-
quialisms charmingly. He is
still very much a man of the
people and his audience re
sponds to him just as deeply
as he responds to them.
Homespun
Although Harry Truman
makes fierce and sometimes
scathing comments on the po
litical scene, he manages to.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Let's take a look at France
today.
Something VERY interest
ing has happened there.
"COR A long time, France has
struggled along under the
handicap of government that
never seemed sure of where it
was going. There was wide
spread belief that the French
wouldn't Stand for STRONG
government.
The reasoning was that so
far as strong government was
concerned the French had had
it. They had it under the
Bourbon kings, whose exces
ses of power led up to the
bloody French Revolution.
They had it under Na
poleon, who whitened the soil
of Europe with the bones of
France's sons. The thinking
was that they had said to
themselves: NEVER AGAIN!
WELL
The French have just
backed up General De Gaulle
-almost universally described
as a STRONG MAN with
an astonishing vote oi con
fidence. In France itself
meaning European France
the vote for his new ' consti
tution, which emphasizes
STRENGTH, was almost four
to one.
In Algeria, which lies across
the Mediterranean in Africa,
the vote for the De Gaulle
constitution was even more
decisive. With the Moslems,
who are supposed to be anti
French, voting heavily in the
election, the vote was approx
imately nine to one . for the
De Gaulle constitution.
In France's West African
colonies, the people voted
heavily in favor of keeping
the colonies associated with
France in a community of na
tions similar to the British
Commonwealth.
D
E GAULLE PROMISED
indicating that he means to
levy TAXES, which the
French hate, at a rate high
enough to bring solvency to
France..
He told the people hard
truths they didn't particularly
want to hear.
But when the chips were all
down, they backed him with
their votes.
IN CONCLUSION, let's take
a look at the Republican
party in the United States of
America.
HAVg A LITTLE BfcDTHEK?
TO PUSH AZOUHD ?
make them sound a bit like
home-spun philosophy. In
stead of a sharply descriptive
adjective, his soft "no-'count
Republican" places him in
his time and background on
the American political scene.
Because he presents himself
as a simple man, with a typi
cal American background,
and still has the imprints of
greatness upon him, his back
ground takes on some of the
sweep -of mid-Western Amer
ican painting.
When he talks to his audi
ence directly and simply,
with no trimmings or ornate
ness in his language, you re
alize that he is the first Pres
ident since Abraham Lincoln
who has had the direct earthy
approach. You realize, too,
that this direct earthy ap
proach indicates that he un
derstands very clearly what
he is talking about. All of
us, from experience, know
that the easiest way to ob
scure our own lack of under
standing is to dress up the
subject in a great many
flights of fancy. We don't
know what we're talking
about and neither, does any
one else.
JENKINS
In recent years, it hasn't
seemed to know where it was
goinl. In 1952, it promised a
strong fiscal policy. It prom
ised to cut spending and re
duce taxes. For some time, it
stayed headed in that direc
tion. Then, for whatever reason,
it WEAKENED. It ceased to
practice the hard doctrine of
economy. It quit telling the
people the hard things they
didn't want to hear, such as
the necessity to spend less and
reduce the debt, and began
telling them the pleasant
things such as how much the
government was going to
SPEND.
Somewhere along the line,
the economy program blew
out of the window and got
lost.
A S OF now
Nothing seems more
certain than that the Repub
lican party is marching up to
an .epochal defeat come No
vember. .Why?
It just might be that the
same thing is happening in
America that happened in
France. Maybe Americans
WANT to be told the hard
things they ought to know. '.
TT MIGHT be worth a try.
- At any rate, as the po
litical situation looks now, the
GOP wouldn't have much to
lose by trying it.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A DETERMINED PROHIBITIONIST registered at a Missis
sippi hostelry to keep tabs on an upcoming session of the
legislature. "Be careful with that suitcase,", he warned a bell
hop. "Senator," the bellhop
assured him, "I been totin'
these things for you legis
lators 20 years, and I ain't
broke one bottle yet."
An Iowa weekly printed
this note on its first page:
"We were the first journal
in. all Iowa to announce the
destruction in Des Moines
by fire of the block-long-paint
factory. We are now
first again to inform our
readers that the report was
utterly without foundation."
Bill Feather, who dredges up the darndest bits of information,
points out that it takes an oyster four years to reach maturity,
whereas a horse can qualify for the Kentucky Derby in three.
1353, by Bennett Cert, Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate, r '
Nixon's West Coast
Expected
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (DPI) Along
about the end of this week
interested voters should know
whether the
Republ ican
party has any
socko issues in
this congres
s i o n a 1 cam-
ipaign or will
I be shooting
blanks.
.The evidence
should be obvi-
Lyie c. Wilson ous one way or
another in the series of
speeches being delivered this
week by Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon in Indiana, Cal
ifornia and Oregon. He took
off Monday for Indiana and
is now in California. The Vice
President will complete this
swing Friday in Portland,
Ore.
This is largely a fund-raising
journey although Nixon
will have strategy huddles
Typically American
Harry Truman talks , of
dams, water, electric power
and all of the basic necessi
ties of life to us here in the
West. His presence is so typi
cally American as to be al
most symbolic of all of us.
Uncle Sam, the Yankee trad
er of the last century, who
penetrated even into closed
Japan with his trading clip
per ships, no longer is a typi
cal or even recognizable
American type. Someone very
much like Harry Truman
would be very much more
representative of a great
number of us. He could be
anyone's grandfather, just a
little enlarged.
You also know that Harry
Truman has read a great deal
of history. He not only knows
history, but has read it long
enough and carefully enough
that he can apply century old
situations to the present situ
ation. He has synthesized all
he has read into ever-ready
examples, that he uses to il
lustrate his arguments. When
you listen to him, the contin
uous sweep of history be
comes a very picturesque re
ality to you.
Harry Truman seems to be
a living example of that mys
tic Jeffersonian belief. If
enough well-fed, Well-educated
and sanely balanced peo
ple vote on any given subject,
the decision of such a people
will be the nearest approach
to objective truth that gov
ernment can attain.
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Letters submitted for publica
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From Mrs. Otiosen
To the Editor: It is impos
sible to find the words to ex
press our deepest feelings.
Harold -and I have been com
pletely overwhelmed and
humbled with gratitude by
the tremendous outpouring of
help of all kinds from our
friends and neighbors and
many people whom we had
thought were hardly more
than acquaintances, but who,
in this time of our extreme
sorrow and need, have proven
to be true friends.
How we wish we could
thank each and every one in
dividually, and in time we
can thank a great; many of
you. In the meantime, due to
being handicapped without a
right arm temporarily, we
wish to thank you all through
this newspaper column for
the wonderful way in which
each and every one of you
have responded to our time
of trial, for all your help, both
to Clarity
with party leaders as oppor
tunity offers. Nixon is un
usual among the top men
around President Eisenhower
in that he understands and
likes politics. If there is a Re
publican campaigner any
where competent to define
and to arouse popular inter
est in campaign issues which
might help the Republicans in
this year of their great need,
Nixon could be that man.
Two Conditions .
He is a good enough politi
cian to know that successful
fund raising most likely can
be achieved in the presence
of two conditions, preferably
of both. One condition is that
of enthusiasm, the wild, ram
paging kind of enthusiasm in
which party members identify
themselves with their party
leaders and with the aims of
the party leadership. When
no such enthusiasm is present,
the successful political fund
raiser must try to bring it
about.
The second condition is that
of the anticipation of victory
in which the generosity of the
contributor, large or small, is
warned by the human instinct
to get his money down on a
winner. This second condition
is not likely to be working
for Nixon on this fund rais
ing venture. As a political
realist, the Vice President
will recognize that unpleasant
fact and, so, turn his best ef
forts toward bringing about
condition No. 1.
That is why Nixon's speech
es on this swing must have
special significance as a pre
view of the best Republicans
are likely to come up with
this year toward arousing en
thusiasm for the party's can
didates. There will be much inter
est in what Nixon says in
California on the labor issue,
not merely on the right-to-work
issue, which has split
California Republicans, but
on the issue, also, of Big La
bor and the influence of its
very large wealth on Ameri
can politics. "
Anxiety Shown
There is some evidence of
grass roots Republican anx
iety that there is no longer an
adequate balance in the na
tion against Big- Labor's poli
tical power. If this anxiety ex
tends to the high command of
the Eisenhower administra
tion it is not reflected much,
if any, in what the party
leadership does or. says.
Editorial Comment
THE AGE OF HEROISM
There are several organiza
tions around the- country
which annually honor people
for civilian heroism.
We ' suggest they look into
the feat of Flo McKinley who
this past Week saved the life
of another woman over on the
coast.
Mrs. McKinley saw a small
foreign car plunge into the
Trask river and dived in after
it. She tried one door which
apparently was locked. Then
she dove down twice - again
financial and the gifts of food,
Of loving labor, and help
with my baby when I couldn't
be with her, and with all our
little ones,, and last but not
least for all of your prayers
Which have given us the
strength to accept and learn
to live without pur dear little
girl. Eoth Harold and I say
thank you from our very full
hearts.
I only hope that some day
you can each understand just
how much it has meant to us
to know that so many people
do care and have expressed
your loving concern in ways
that mean so much. We truly
never could have believed
that we had so many friends,
but knowing it has helped so
very very much. I want to say
a special thank you to the
Lady Lions who took care of
the most heartbreaking task
of all, that of buying the
clothes for our little one, a
job I just couldn't face at all
in the condition I was in. But
they took the whole respon
sibility off my shoulders and
performed it in such a beau
tiful way that they will have
our everlasting gratitude."
Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of these little ones,
ye have done it for me.
Marie Ottosen
Eagle Point
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Campaign
GOP Issues
The administration's ap
proach to the problem might
be described in paraphrase of
a well known remark as to
"speak softly and carry an
olive branch." This approach
demonstrates a respectful ad
ministration attitude toward
Big Labor's political wallop.
Typical was the address de
livered a fortnight ago by La
bor Secretary James P.
Soviet Reluctance
To Suggest Summit
Talks Significant
By K. C. THALER
UPI Correspondent
London - (UPD - One of the
startling features in the cur
rent Far East crisis has been
the total absence of Soviet
suggestions for a high-level
conference.
It has been the Kremlin's
strategy since 1954 to call for
a conference, preferably a for
eign ministers' meeting, at the
slightest provocation.
Since the advent to power
of Nikita Khrushchev it was
the demand for a "summit"
conference which had been
raised at almost any oppor
tunity. The last time it happened
was a little over six weeks ago
when the Soviet premier and
party boss demanded a sum
mit parley to debate the Mid
dle East crisis.
Russia Clams Up
Nothing has been heard
since. The Soviet has recoiled
and does not even react . to
any Western prodding for a
high-level, East-West meeting
Diplomats with a long rec
ord of East-West negotiations
recall it was Russia which
prompted tne conference in
Geneva in 1954 at the height
of the Indochina crisis.
Then the Soviets urged a
summit conference which fin
ally came to pass in Geneva
in 1955.
Since then the summit
theme was almost constantly
on Khrushchev's lips, until
they were sealed after his
secret meeting with Red Chi
nese leader Mao Tse-tung at
Peipmg last month.
The U. S. and Britain, re
versing the roles, recently
have prodded Russia formal-
before she was able to open
the other door and pull the
lone, female occupant to
safety.
. The rescuer's age: 65. -Capital
Journal, Salem,
DISTINCT
RETROGRESSION
Just what, we wonder,
would persons opposed to
United Nations put in its
place? Jungle warfare? Shall
we quit talking, as some
would? And just start shoot
ing? Shall we toss into the
garbage can the only sane
hope which nations yet have
in the settlement of their
grievances and aspiration ?
Apparently that's what is
sought by those Who pres
sured 'United Air Lines into
erasing the United Nations
insignia from a half-dozen
UAL airlines. We had thought
UAL took a fine forward step
last spring in launching a
plan to put the emblem on
its planes. -
But now the plan is to be
abandoned. "Individuals as
well as organized groups"
protested to UAL and the
company "did not desire to
enter into any controversy on
international policy or phil
osophy."
Apparently tome "individ
uals and Organized groups"
believe world amity is for
ever impossible of achieve
ment and would rather be
blown to smithereens than
make a try for it. We are
sorry UAL is abandoning its
project. It had worthy sig
nificance that is, unless one
would prefer shooting to talk
ing. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
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C. M. Litwiller
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thervto
Tour
Mitchell before the Steel-
workers convention. Mitchell
was friendly, conciliatory
and, obviously, hopeful of
r iing friends for the ad
ministration. He got some ap
plause, too, but not many
votes. The AFL-CIO news
headline this week over the
convention story read "Steel
workers Convention Cheers
Truman, Blasts Ike."
ly for a resumption of pre-
summit negotiations in Mos
cow which were, adjourned in
July, but no reply has been,
received. Khrushchev prom
ised one, but has remained
silent.
The "normal" practice x
wofW have been for Khrush
chev to ask for a high-level or
preferably a summit meeting
on the current Far East crisis.
However, the indications from
the Soviets were they are any
thing but keen on such a
course now.
This emerged clearly dur
ing a meeting last week in
New York between British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd and Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko.
This development has given
rise to considerable specula
tion in diplomatic quarters
and among Soviet affairs ex
perts. What's
Cookin'?
fay ' .
MEL LATTIE
Republican
"School Districts in
Oregon are budgeting
for , Regional Trade
Schools."
The way I ses it-
1 strongly believe
adequate schools
to
train our young peo
ple to meet the grow
ing demand for skill
ed craftsmen. I also
feel that these schools
should be located
throughout the state
and not concentrated
in metropolitan areas.
PUT
f.lEL LATTIE
in the
State Legislature
Nov. 4
Ballot No. Ill
Paid Adv. Lattie for Represent
ative Committee, Dick Gray,
Chmn., Cherry lane, Medford.
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