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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 1.0. 20, 30 and
40 years ago. -. .
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 8, 1948 (Friday)
Members of - the Rogue
River Ramblers' motorcycle
club travel to Klamath Falls
this week end to attend a hill
climb. ' " '
Bert Lahr, famous come
dian, appears on the Crater
ian stage tomorrow in the
Broadway hit, "Burlesque."
20 YEARS AGO ...
Oct. 8, 1938 (Saturday)
The Mail Tribune is film
ing a Medford newsreel in
connection with the first all
sound local movie, "Runnin
Wild."
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Local
candidates have started to be
stir themselves. Things are
tame in political circles, and
no office holder or seeker,
is alleged, so far, to be a
rescal, and power company
tooL
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 8. 1928 (Monday)
Four clerks in the county
court house have writer's
cramp today from registeer
ing last-minute crowds of vot
ers. The Dixie Jubilee quartet
is scheduled to perform at the
senior high school, and is
billed as a "guaranteed grouch
remover."
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 8. 1918 (Tuesday)
"Admiral" Arthur Perry of
"Smudge Pot" fame has re
turned on furlough from the
U. S. Navy, complaining that
pay days are too infrequent.
Ashland is planning an en
largement of its . municipal
water system.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
sis is good.
1. The sodium fluoride
treatment is used as a method
of preventing what?
2. What was the name of
the first white child born in
America in colonial days?
3. Who was Booker T.
Washington?
4. Is the city of Stanlingrad
in Soviet Russia located on
the Dneiper, Don, or Volga
river?
5. Was John James Audu
bon famous as an inventor of
hearing devices, painter of
birds, or designer of furni
ture? 6. In what city is the Uni
versity of Michigan?
7. What is the A.A.U.W.?
8. What was the first name
of President Woodrow Wil
son? 9. What is the oldest known
mechanical device for mea
suring time? .
10. Are members . of. the
President s cabinet elected or
appointed?
Answers: 1. Tooth decay. 2.
Virginia Dare. 3. Famous Ne
gro educator. 4. Volga. 5.
Painter of Birds. 6. Ann Ar
bor. 7. American Association
of University Women. 8.
Thomas. 9. Sundial. 10. Ap
pointed. -
C3SJI I
Autumn on the Rogue
We don't know whether or not the weather
we've been having can accurately be classed as
"Indian summer," for the dictionary says an In
dian summer is a period of warm weather late
in the fall or early winter.
And this is still early fall.
But we have had the first rain of autumn (it
was nearly a month ago, remember?), the trees
are turning, the crab grass is dying, and there is
a decided nip in the air morning and evening,
even when the temperature gets up into the high
80s or low 90s.
WHATEVER it is called, it is terrific.
Fortune smiled on us, for it was in just such
weather that we took a steelhead-fishing boat trip
down part of the Rogue the other day.
Even if we hadn't caught a single fish (and
our party came up with a near-limit, including
a 24-inch eight-pounder) the day would have
been well spent.
The sights, the sounds, the smells, the physi
cal feel of gliding over
cing over riffles must be
preciated.
AIE HOPE we never
f ' The hushed quiet
by tnendly conversation, or the splash of a fish
20 yards away.
The pelting heat of the mid-day sun, glanc
ing off the water and beating down from a river
side cliff, with a tall,
down incuriously irom the top ot a tree.
- The thrill when a "big one" grabs the lure
and tears off across the river, with the reel whir
ring madly as the line is taken.
The breath of coolness which always seems
to hover over the waves when the stream plunges
downward, sliding from one quiet pool into an
other.
The expert thrust of an oar, and the sidling
of the boat at precisely the right angle, as the
guide takes it over or between jutting rocks.
THERE are occasional signs of inhabitation
a house on the bluff, a fishing pier, a shack
of boards for use as a shelter, an irrigation pump,
a bankside fisherman, an old hydraulic mine, a
tent, a bridge. But most of the time one sees the
Rogue country much as it was a hundred or a
thousand years ago.
Even the "old-timers," who have spent long
lives in southern Oregon, continue to find, new
beauty, new peace, new thrills here.
To those not born and raised in the Rogue
valley, it offers the continuing excitement of ex
ploration of discoveries which make it a veri
table wonderland for those who will open their
eyes tp see it. E.A.
Where to Put 'Erin?
Perhaps preparations for Oregon's Centen
nial celebration are suffering from apathy, and
perhaps they aren't. We do know that-a lot of
people are working hard on it. We also know that
many more are needed, if
as it potentially can be.
But, success or not, it
thousands of visitors throughout the coming year,
with the bulk of them concentrated in the "tourist
months" of June, July and August.
Nationwide publicity
tennial, and by the advertising of the state high
way department, will bring visitors totaling some
10,000,000 by some estimates.
TPHIS is fine, up to a point.
But there is a problem which is causing con
cern to many who are working to attract these
visitors, and that is: Where are they going to
stay when they get here?
Up and down Highway 99 during the recent
summer, one could see one "No Vacancy" sign
after another each evening. The better motels
were full virtually eveiy night, and many of the
second-string ones had no difficulty filling up
most of the summer.
I
F THIS is true during an ordinary, non-Centen-
m'nl war. what, is poinp to haDrjen next vear
if even-a fraction of the "extra" visitors predicted
arrive? Where are they going to stay?
And if they can't find accommodations, what
are they going to think of Oregon's boasted hospi
tality? The Centennial upsurge in "tourism" will not
be a one-year thing, either. Oregon's attractions
are such that it will draw back its new visitors
year after year. t
. If we were in the motel business, we'd be giv
ing some serious thought to expanding to get our
share of this tourist bonanza. E.A.
Adult
It 'may have escaped your attention, but a
whole series of night school classes for adults
are starting next week, under the sponsorship of
the Medford public schools. There's still time to
join. .
If you're interested in clothing, tailoring, mil
linery, lampshade making, knitting, cake decor
ation, sculpturing, sketching, public speaking,
creative writing, Spanish, show card writing,
painting, mathematics, slide rule operation, par
liamentary procedure, blueprint reading, mechan
ical drawing, art appreciation, upholstering,
nurses' aid training, or preparation and butcher
ing of game, you're in luck.
For details, call the Medford High school,
SPring 3-5341. E.A.
smooth water or boun
experienced to be ap
forget :
of morning, broken only
ungajnly heron staring
it is to be as successful
is going to attract many
engendered by the Cen
Courses
Dennis the Menace
A LITTLE SURPRISE HAPPENED IHMFOOM
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Issues Cited
To the Editor: Your editor
ial, "The Silly Season," was
reprinted in the Salem States
man, evidently because it hit
a responsive chord in Editor
Charles A. Sprague, but I am
sure both of you must now
agree that your critcism of
the lack of "real issues" in
Oregon's gubernatorial cam
paign no longer applies.
Please give me this oppor
tunity to point out some that
are, as you put it, "worth
while to argue about:"
.1. Compulsory automobile
liability insurance. Governor
Holmes is for; Mr. Hatfield
is against. This is a clear-cut,
controversial, and worthwhile
issue in which every citizen
has a stake.
2. Protection of our natural
resources. Governor Holmes
focused the state's outraged
attention to careless and cal
lous violations of regulations
by Idaho Power Co. at Oxbow
Dam, resulting in costly dam
age to a record salmon run.
Mr. Hatfield has been strange
ly silent on this issue.
3. State gas tax increase.
Governor Holmes is opposed.
Mr. Hatfield has not made his
stand known, so far as I
know.
4. Tax cuts in Oregon. Gov
ernor Holmes frankly says
there can be none if educa
tion, welfare and institutions
are to be maintained even at
present levels. Hatfield prom
ises tax cuts and speaks vag
uely of simultaneously in
creasing government services.
It can't be done.
5. Honesty in government.
Hatfield repeatedly makes
statements that prove he has
either little regard for simple
truth or that he is sadly un
informed about Oregon's own
government, laws and vital
statistics. He bemoaned the
state's retirement laws in a
speech in Medford; said they
forced workers to retire at
65. Fact: retirement age is
70, and 438 persons over- 65
are now on state payroll. He
charged Governor Holmes
with recruiting a host of
state employees to work on
the Democratic campaign and
decried the great turnover in
state employees. Fact: Gov
ernors can appoint only a
handful of unclassified work
ers; civil service commission
records show there has been
steadily decreasing turnover
under Holmes administration.
Meanwhile, I venture to
suggest that you may be un
derestimating the importance
of campaign tactics. Remem
ber Nixon's campaign tactics
against Helen Gahagan Doug
las? Hatfield is using the same
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
AMONG THE MORE CURIOUS of the new products put on
the market in the past year is a liquid that smells like a
lion or, if sprayed in sufficient volume, like a whole pride of
lions. A Berlin Zoo keeper
perfected it. There's a ready
. i r i j
marker, ior it, too. rarmers
in Zululand purchase it
avidly. They pour it into
their streams and ponds.
Roaming bands of hippo
potami, looting the fields
and stockyards, get one
whiff of the potent Essence
of Lion and get far away
from there as fast as their
legs will carry them.
"Whoopee:" gloated a young
Broadway actor. "My girl's
got her name in the lead paragraph of two gossip columns today."
"What do they say about her?" asked a friend. "They say," replied
the excited thespian, "that if she could act as well as she can drink
and gold-dig, she'd have Sarah Bernhardt and Helen Hayes skinned."
O 1358. by Bennett Cert Dutributei by King Features Syndicate,
political textbook. Campaign
tactics ARE worthwhile to
argue about; they give the
measure of a man. If tactics
alone were the issue, Govern
or Holmes' honesty and can
dor alone deserve a vote of
confidence from every Ore
gonian. . Marguerite W. Wright,
Secretary, R-elect Gov.
. Holmes Committee,
3035 Hulsey ave.,
Salem, Ore.
God Will Provide
To the Editor: I, too, read
in the paper where a church
is going to build a radio sta
tion. And a lot of people
along with God know it is a
wonderful thing.
The one that wrote about
a good youth center, why not
start in and do something
about it. That is the way to
get anything done. I am sure
he or she will find ethers that
do agree and will help.
The question "was asked,
what will this new station
use to support itself? Heaven
knows that is right. The God
of heaven and of earth and
that gives us this wonderful
air we breathe and every
thing good will see to it that
His work is supported.
That saying children raised
in Sunday school are seldom
raised in jail. We know that
is right for most of the chil
dren. So if mothers and dads
don't take their children to
Sunday school and church,
it seems to me that Rev. Wine
is trying to take it to them.
Though the elders may not
let the radio be turned on
that station for the children
to hear, it may be some kind
neighbor may have it on
where they can, once in a
while.
The Bible says to raise a
child in the way he should
go and when he is old he will
not depart from it. I thank
God my children were raised
that way. My grandchildren
may need a helping hand
from some Christian. If they
do, thank God, He "will see
that they get it.
And for cost, I have heard
anything worth having is
worth its cost, though we can
not count God's power by dol
lars and cents. You can't tell
someone else how the shoe
fits till you have put it on
and worn it. And Rev. Wine
andj all who are back of him
wore the shoe of a sinner and
then of a Christian and know
that we are wearing the best
now, and know just what we
have got to offer anyone and
each one.
(Name on file),
Central Point.
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Strife-Torn Lebanon Faces New Revolt
And Threat of Religious Civil Warfare
By LARRY COLLINS
UPI Correspondent
Beirut (DPD Tiny Lebanon,
already deeply scarred by
five months of revolt, now
faces the growing prospect of
a Christian counter revolt
and, much worse, a civil war
that would pit the nation's
two religious factions against
each other.
The ten days that have fol
lowed the installation of
Fouad Chehab as president,
instead of bringing the nation
a hoped for respite, have if
anything sharpened its divi
sions and for the first time
divided the nation along basi
cally Christian-Moslem lines.
The new split is an out
growth of a violent Christian
reaction to Chehab's choice of
Tripoli rebel leader Rashid
Karami as prime minister.
Has Changed Picture
It has suddenly reversed
the roles in revolt torn Leba
non, sending the Christians
behind barricades and into
into the streets waving sticks
and clubs to back up with
force their own call for a city
wide general strike.
More thn 50 people already
have been killed in this new
phase of the fighting here.
Thus far, the Christian
counteraction has been
quieter and less spectacular
than the better organized and
better armed revolt began by
the largely Moslem a n t i
Chamoun faction last May.
But it is potentially more
dangerous because it contains
the seeds . of religious war
fare. And it is much more tragic
because it could be solved
quickly and easily with a lit
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Politics:
Reports to Republican na
tional headquarters indicate
that the GOP is the underdog
in this year's elections. The
reports suggest that the Grand
Old Party hasn't come up
with the fighting spirit an un
derdog needs to offset the ad
vantage of the favorite in the
political race.
raking note of these re
ports, President Eisenhower
held a political news confer
ence in Washington the other
morning. He gave the party
leaders a pep talk. He urged
them to shake off their cam
paign apathy and wade into
what remains of the campaign
with all their might.
Faint heart, he indicated,
never won fair lady.
rFAKING it by and large,
- that is good advice. If you
want something, FIGHT for
it. Put everything you've got
into the battle.
That's about the only way
to win.
BUT
Looking at the Republi
can party as a whole and for
getting local issues in the va
rious states and the various
regions of the nation, one
can't help wondering if the
GOP as a national political
party knows just what it
wants at the present moment
in history.
It's hard to win a battle if
you don't know exactly what
you're fighting for.
TJOW'S this
for advice to
11
the GOP?:
Get a PROGRAM.
Be something.
Be something distinctive.
Don't try to outspend the
MARKET NEW JAGUAR
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guar Cars, Ltd., today an
nounced that a new car, the
Mark IX Saloon, will make its
first appearance at the 1959
motor show. The new model,
to cost $5,576 tax excluded,
will be similar in appearance
to the Mark VIII, but will,
have a larger engine, disc
brakes and power steering.
Automatic drive will cost
about $500 more.
About 1,130,000 Americans
will have travelled to Europe
during 1958.
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We Never Close
than
tle good will and initiative
on the part of the nation's
leaders.
It was certainly that reali
zation that prompted United
States Ambassador Robert
McClintock to his unprece
dented effort to directly stim
ulate action towards ending
the crisis by suggesting a four
point program of his own.
Received No Thanks
For his pains, he has thus
far harvested a shower of
Labor's Political
0
Contributions Still
Await Court Test
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (DPD The word
is that the Justice Depart
ment awaits a good cause be
fore proceed
ing again un
der the, cor
rupt practices
act against the
use of labor
money in po
litical cam
paigns. The depart
ment lost such
Lyie c. wuson a case grow
ing out of labor's part in the
1954 election of Sen. Patrick
V. McNamara (D-Mich.). It
has waited now for a better
case much too long so far as
this year's election is con
cerned. This distribution of cam
paign gifts by labor was cited
JENKINS
spenders. Don't try to out
New Deal the New Dealers.
Size up the future and decide
what our country needs to
make it great and prosperous
and SECURE.
Then fight for it.
It will be better in the long
run to lose on an issue you
BELIEVE IN than to win on
an issue you don't believe in.
117HAT is such a program?
" It might be worth while
to take a tip from France.
In France a little while
back, General De Gaulle en
tered the political picture a
a moment when the French
were DRIFTING. - He didn't
pussyfoot. He came clear out
of the underbrush. He told
the French a lot of hard
truths.
He won a surprising vic
tory. Nasser Tightens
Control of UAR
. Cairo-(UPD-President Gamal
Abdel Nasser tightened his
control over the United Arab
Republic today, ruling
through a new 21-member
central cabinet.
The new cabinet was named
Tuesday night to replace an
unwieldy system of regional
executive councils. It includes
15 Egyptians and 6 Syrians,
nearly all of whom had been
members of the former gov
ernment. The only major figure drop
ped in the reorganization was
Syrian Vice President Sabri
el Assali, who announced his
"resignation" Sunday. Vice
President Abd al Iatif al-Bagh-dadi
and Ali Sabry both re
mained in the cabinet despite
rumors they would be ousted.
Former Syrian strong man
Abdel Hamid el Serraj was
left out of the new cabinet.
He remains as Syrian interior
minister and presumably Nas
ser's chief lieutenant there.
In addition to the central
cabinet, the new government
will continue to rule through
an Egyptian executive council
headed by Dr. Noural-Din Tar
raf, and a Syrian executive
council headed by former
Public Works Minister Dr.
Noural-Din Kahala.
Mrs. Litwiller
'It is better to know us and not need us.
to need us and not know us."
abuse from all sides, and par
ticularly from the nation's
former rebels.
The demand of the nation's
Christian population, which
now has as its spokesman the
militant Phalange, is a bigger
share in the government.
The Phalange wants the Ka
rami Cabinet either enlarged
or shuffled to make room for
three or four supporters of
ex-President Chamoun.
They contend that only a
last summer by the staff of
the Republican Senate Policy
Committee in a detailed re
port titled: "The Labor Bosses
-America's Third Party."
The policy committee staff
evidently was attempting to
get Republican candidates this
year and Republican leaders,
in general, on what staff mem
bers regard as the beam with
respect to Big Labor in Ameri
can politics. Staff members
realized they were treading
explosive -ground so they
opened their report with this
statement:
"Neither the members of
the Republican Policy Com
mittee nor other Republican
Senators are responsible for
the statements herein con
tained, except such as they
are willing to endorse and
make their own."
The report was quite well
documented, being based on
testimony before the McClel
lan Senate Subcommittee, on
reports by labor to the clerk
of the House concerning po
litical expenditures and on
some legal proceedings in the
federal courts including the
Supreme Court.
The report quotes from Sec.
610 of the Federal Corrupt
Practices Act that: "It is un
lawful for any National Bank
. . . or for any corporation
whatever to make a contribu
tion or expenditure in con
nection with any election to
any political office ... or any
labor organization to make a
contribution or expenditure in
connection with any election
for federal office."
Labor Claims
"The labor bosses claim,
however," the report adds,
"that these political auxil
iaries which, make the con
tributions do not fall within
the corrupt practices act defi
nition of a 'labor organiza
tion.' And, furthermore, that
their activities are financed
by 'voluntary contributions."
The policy committee staff,
doubtless somewhat preju
diced, regards this claim as
nonsense. The staff report
cites various legal proceed
ings including the 1956 Han
son Case in which the Su
preme Court indicated, at
least, that some justices felt
that the use of union dues
money for political purposes
would render the union shop
contract unconstitutional.
A decision on that issue
might solve a lot of Republi
can problems, either by re
ducing the flow of labor funds
into politics or by settling the
right-to-work issue in the
courts instead of in ballots.
The Justice Department seems
disinclined to grasp the thistle
firmly.
COLD CONFINES LLOYD
London -UPD- A heavy cold
forced Foreign Secretary Sel
wyn Lloyd to cancel his trip
to Bonn today with Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan.
Lloyd was confined to his
home here. Minister of state
for Foreign Affairs Davis
Ormsby-Gore took his place.
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government representing all
factions in the nation can re
store order to Lebanon.
Karami already has four
Christians in his seven man
cabinet. But they are unrep
resentative of the present sen
timents of the Christian com
munity. Karami's point of view is
that he does not want in his
cabinet backers of the man
against whom he fought a five
month rebellion.
uies unaenying raciors
Giving urgency to the need
for a rapid political solution
to the crisis is the fact that
underneath it lie sociological
factors which will not be so
easy to reconcile if they
spring to the surface.
For years the Christians of
Lebanon have enjoyed a
somewhat favored status in
relation to their Moslem com
patriots. The greater part of
the nation's well-to-do are
Christians; the greater part of
her under-privileged are Mos
lems. f.vu-.v
stemmed first from the fav
ored treatment accorded them
by the French and then from
the better qualifications they
could muster for business and
leadership as a result of
French favor and education.
What's
Cookin'?
by
MEL LATTIE
Republican
"The completion of
the road from Klam
ath Falls to Lake of
the Woods; and th
improvement of the
Forest Service Road
via Fish Lake to Med
ford has the approval
of the Forest Service
and the Highway
Commission." ,
The way I see it-
This is one of the ma
jor steps toward the
completion c f an East
W e s t Highway con
necting Southern Ore
gon to the Coast.
Such a highway would
develop new indus- "
tries, open recreation
al areas and enable
our own wealth to be
harvested.
PUT
MEL LATTIE
in the
State Legislature
Nov. 4
Ballot No. Ill
Paid Adv. Lattie for Represent
ative Committee. Dick Gray.
Chmn., Cherry lane, Medford.
rry