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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. 30. 1948 (Saturday)
Local 962 Teamsters have
been ordered back to their
jobs at Pacific Fruit and Pro
duce after negotiators reach
an agreement.
Two thousand balloons have
arrived for distribution at
Monday's election parade.
. 20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1938 (Sunday)
Voters interested in the
Townsend plan meet to pre
pare a slate of candidates
i likely to further their in
terests. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Citi
zens are urged to vote Nov. 8.
Many will vote, and many
more won't."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1928 (Tuesday)
Halloween pranksters jump
ing the gun block east Jack
son st. with detour signs.
Local hunters are now oil
ing up their heavy artillery
for the bear season.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30, 1918 (Wednesday)
The chief engineer for Gold
Hill's irrigation project re
ports rapid progress in canal
excavation.
Plans are reported of in
cluding Medford in a direct air
mail route, raising hopes the
city may one day have a per
manent "aviation station."
I What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; rive ei
'f lis it good.
I 1. Who was known as "U
? Duce"?
Is 2. What is the unit adopt-
ed by astronomers for meas
j uring distances to the stars?
3. If a car's gas tank is
e empty, will the buyer re-
ceive more gas for his money"
! if he refills the tank when the
temperature is 77 degrees; F.,
i or 120 degrees F.? "
4. The work by which a
person earns a livelihood is
called an avocation, a voca
tion, or a vacation?
i 5. What is a holographic
will?
t
(.Is a kilometer about
'. three-fifths, one-half, or four
fifths, the length of a statute
mile?
7. What is a testatrix?
8. Name the Russian river
which is the longest in Eu
rope. 9. A queue is a tailpiece
of a violin, a plait of hair
' worn behind, or a waiting
line before a ticket window?
10. Speleology is the
: scientific study of spelling,
! caves, or voodoism?
Answers: 1. Benito Mus-
l solini. 2. The light year. 3. 77
f. degrees F. 4. Vocation. 5. One
v written entirely by the hand
' of the maker (testator). 6.
About three-fifths. 7. A wom-
f an who has mda a wilL 8.
Volga. 9. All thw. 10 Caves.
What is a "Smear"?
""Smear," according to Webster, is to "be
smirch, sully or defame." This is the definition
used in political campaigns.
In our view, it is tossed around too lightly in
many cases. When politicians raise the cry, we
are apt to go "ho, hum," and turn to the comics.
But, sometimes, it is the only accurate word
to use in describing political tactics.
"II7ITHIN the past few days. we have seen a
campaign of vilification and distortion
which fully merits the word "smear."
"Pay No Communist Blackmail" screams one
ad. This is directed toward an American congress
man, an overseas veteran and a major in the Air
Force Reserve, who has been praised by officials
of the state department for his anti-communist
Stand..
"Strikeout King of Congress?" queries an
other ad. This about a man who has introduced
more legislation than the average congressman,
and wrho has been highly successful in obtaining
action on projects within his own district a con
gressman who doesn't insist that his own bill be
passed if another's will accomplish the same ends.
"rjON'T Vote to Raise the Cost of Bread" yells
another ad.
This one is based on a vote to retain, for one
year only, farm price supports at the present level
while another, sounder bill is worked out, and
on another vote to bring to the floor of congress,
where it could be debated, another controversial
piece of complicated farm legislation. (And, inci
dentally, it also ignores completely the fact that
wheat accounts for only about 3 cents per loaf
of the cost of bread.)
A television "spot" announcement declares
this congressman voted favoring importation of
Japanese plywood, then declares this hurt the
northwest plywood industry. This is a real
phoney, a claim not only discredited on thorough
investigation, but blasted by reports from the
Tariff commission. Japanese plywood, for decor
ative purposes, doesn't compete with Oregon ply
wood, and actually provides jobs for northwest
ern workers.
The worst of them all, however, was an ad
in the Oct. 18 issue of the Roseburg News-Review,
which included a picture of Nikita Khrushchev,
and uses the old McCarthyite tactic of "guilt by
association," accusing this congressman of lies
and distortion, and of joining "with the Commu
nist Daily-Worker in compounding Nikita
Khrushchev's propaganda ..."
A RE these desperate ads "besmirching, sully-
ing or defaming" a patriotic American whose
courage has led him to take some unpopular
stands because,, after study, he believed them
right?
They are. They twist and distort the truth
just enough to influence the gullible, the unin
formed, the timid, to turn away in fear or doubt.
They constitute a smear, one of the most
vicious we have seen in many years of watching
hard-fought political campaigns.
It's dirty politics. And we hope other voters
in this district will show their resentment at the
polls. Tactics such as these not only should be
repudiated, but buried. E.A.
Forest Memorial
People in southern Oregon will never know, in
cold figures, how much they owe to L. L. (Doc)
Simpson.
But what they owe is a goodly portion of the
future of this part of the country. They owe him
jobs and payrolls, green forests and clear-running
streams, wildlife and an ever-renewed for
est resource.
For Doc, who died last week, was "Mr. Tree
Farm" and "Mr. Conservation" in Jackson count
ty. No single man is, or could be, responsible for
the success of the tree farm movement here, but
Doc came closer to it than any other one man.
"1X7E STILL recall with some vividness our first
meeting with Doc. He came marching into
the newsroom, asked to. meet the new city editor,
and proceeded to sit himself down and begin an
indoctrination of the neophyte which he kept up,
on and off, for the ensuing ten years.
He was a natural enthusiast. And he had the
knack of carrying others along with him.
He was a colorful personality, a man of strong
attachments and equally strong prejudices. And
he didn't give a darn who knew about them. He
carried his enthusiams and his attachments and
his prejudices with him into legislative fights
over truck legislation; to the state highway com
mission with which he did signal battle on occa
sions; into meetings of the Southern Oregon Con
servation and Tree Farm association, or into
meetings of any and all of the committees and
organizations which he served with vigor and in
telligence. 117'HEREVER his work led him, he was single-
minded in his over-all objective the wel
fare of the forests products industry and its as
sociated activities ; and, by welfare, he considered
the long-term good as well as the short-term vic
tory. Privately-owned forest land, in acreage, is
secondary to federal land, and not all of it is in
dedicated tree farms.
But much of it is, and is thus dedicated to per
petual yield, perpetual growth, and all the bene
fits that go with this. "
These forested acres serve as a better memor
ial to Doc Simpson than anything anyone could
say or do. E.A.
Dennis the
'NOT A 540 PARTY. I BUSTED
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From UN Chapter
To the Editor: The Medford
chapter of Oregon Unifed Na
tions association wishes to
thank the Medford Mail Trib
une for the fine publicity giv
en to the local chapter dur
ing the month of October and
especially during United Na
tions Week.
They also wish to express
their gratitude for the cover
age given to international and
national affairs which helps
to interpret and project the
purposes of the UN as an ef
fective agent for peace.
Ethel Nicodemus,
Recording Secretary,
1122 West Fourth st.
Medford.
Editorials and Measures .
To the Editor: We have
missed RWR's editorials re
cently. Mr. Ruhl's editorials
were head, and shoulders
above anything that any of
your other writers produce at
the present time. Although I
hardly ever agree with him,
at least he has something to
say instead of the "Nothing
But Air" that we have been
getting.
I would like to call every
one's attention to a couple of
measures that are on the bal
lot. 1st County Home Rule
Amendment. This will make
cities out of counties. Coun
ties can adopt a charter (ap
proved and drawn up by the
state) that will do away with
every other district in the
county. Water district, irriga
tion districts, fire districts and
all little governments in the
county will be consolidated
into one big county govern
ment. Instead of bringing our
rule closer to home it will
take away the little districts
that we have left that we can
run ourselves, I believe the
people will make a mistake if
they pass this bill, at least,
until it has received more
publicity as to just exactly
what it will do.
2nd Temporary Appoint
ment and Assignment of Judg
es How long is temporary?
We have given temporary
power to presidents and to
others and we have passed
other temporary measures
that continue on and on and
have become permanent.. We
should realize that if we pass
this bill that it will give the
Supreme Court power to con
tinue itself. It will be able to
appoint judges for longer
times than we can elect them
for. If a man is defeated in
election he could be appointed
temporarily and continue on
at the same salary and the
same powers for an indefinite
time. These appointees would
have power, to help appoint
others and could soon be even
in a majority. Let's not take
the power to create courts of
any kind out of the people's
hands. If we need more
judges let's get them some
other way than by appoint
ment. Carroll W. Powell,
PO Box 621,
Central Point.
Suggestions To Voters
To the Editor: When you
enter the voting booth it
would be well to have your
tax statement in one hand and
your ballot in the other. We
were promised that taxes
would be equalized. They
were equalized upward. I have
yet to find a case where taxes
were reduced.- Most of the
pressure drives made on the
budget committee for in
creased f department budgets
and courthouse workers' sal
aries were led by Mrs.: Hop
kins. Her latest is for voting ma
chines. I can see where they
would be helpful in providing
more leisure for the county
clerk and he? staff, also con
Menace
SIX 64UOONS AN "A MNtXW!
venient in case of irregular
ities cropping up in election
management, for then we
could say the machine was out
of order. They are expensive.
But why consider expense
when it's public money. I un
derstand they cost around
Sl,800 each. For 100 precincts
that's $180,000. An Eastern
resident tells me in his county
where they have them it re
quires two highly paid tech
nicians to guard and repair
the machines. The cure for
spendthrifts in office is, send
them back where they are
spending their own money.
H. E. Conger,
Route 2, Box 403,
Medford.
She'll Not Return
To the Editor, and the peo
ple of Gold Hill and Med
ford: Just to get away from
all the mud slinging politics
for a change. Your newspaper
is trying very hard to clean
up your city and should have
the backing of all.
While traveling through
your city I decided to take in
the House of Mystery and was
shocked to find the town of
Gold Hill has let a dump get
started just below the House
of Mystery. They tell me they
have 100,000 visitors a year
there. Imagine a " beautiful
drive up Sardine creek and a
city dump between two very
interesting sight-seeing points.
I'll never return, I assure you.
Mrs. H. J.,
(Name on File)
Eugene, Ore.
Likes Hatfield
To the Editor: As a native
Oregonian of not too vener
able years, and as a now reg
istered Independent voter,
having in the past been reg
istered as a voter of both par
ties, I would like to suggest
to the voters of Oregon, that
when casting their vote for
governor of Oregon in Nov. 4
next, that perhaps now is the
time for all good voters to
come to their own aid and do
some independent thinking
before casting their vote.
I would say that Marie Hat
field meets the requirements
to be governor of- Oregon in
the years ahead when greatly
increased population will call
for fair and unbiased leader
ship of all segments of our
population.
George W. Croisan Sr.
Box 627
Salem, Ore.
Duncan's Record
To the Editor: Advertise
ments and letters to the edi
tor in Sunday's paper have
questioned my position on
real property tax bills in the
past legislature.
I recognize fully that real
property tax relief is a neces
sity and worked hard toward
effective tax relief. For that
reason, among others, I sup
ported additional Basic School
Support. Every nickel of
school expense assumed by
the state is a nickel that does
not have to be raised by a tax
on real property. This last
legislature is the first to give
any such support. All the rest
has been voted by the people.
I voted against S.B. 2 which
would have given property
tax relief to older people. So
did 45 other representatives
including Littrell, Bristol and
18 other Republicans. The
bill was in such form that no
responsible legislator could
vote for it, for it would have
left many districts and cities
with virtually no tax base. I
am not oblivious to the prob
lem, but I will not vote for a
bad bill for a few votes.
:' The bill to take the state
out of the real property tax
field except for bonded in
debtedness gave no tax relief.
The state has not collected a
real property tax for many
years and none was proposed
Matter of Fact By Joseph
THE KREMLIN
BEARING GIFTS
Washington-A secret under
standing about Soviet and
EgyDtian soheres of influence
Wmn in the MiHrilp
East most
probably lies
behind the
Kremlin's re
cently an
nounced loan
of $10 0,0 0 0,
000 to Egypt
to finance the
Aswan Dam.
The wisest ex
Joseph Alsop
perts here are unanimous in
pretty strongly suspecting the
existence of such a Soviet
Egyptian spheres-of-influence
deal. If they are correct, the
new development in the Mid
dle East is likely to affect us
all rather more in the end
than anything that happens in
the present strange election.
But before examining the
new development's signifi
cance, the reasons for strong
ly suspecting such a deal must
first be given. They lie chief
ly in Iraq, where the Krem
lin is well , on the way to
wards establishing a main
base in the Arab land. The
turning point, here, was the
abrupt demotion and final
exile of the Iraqi revolution's
number two leader, Col. Ab
dul Salam Mohammed Aref.
AFTER the fall of Jthe pro
Western government in
Iraq, a conflict at once began
there between .the 100 per
cent pro-Nasser group, then
headed by Col. Aref, and a
more "independent - minded"
group headed by Col. Aref's
chief and partner, Brig. Gen.
Karim Kassem. The Commu
nist and Nasserite under-
this time. 1 voted "no" on' this
bill, knowing my vote would
be politically unpopular, and
did so because I felt it my
duty to make sure the state
could pay its bills. The legisla
ture cannot put the emer
gency clause ontax legislation.
I was the only Democrat in
the house who supported the
ballot measure at the last elec
tion which would have
changed this (which gives the
lie to the charge that my vote
is controlled). Now any tax
bill passed can be suspended
by referendum petition filed
before the bill becomes effec
tive. If suspended, there are
no revenues . and a financial
crisis is the result. I favor the
referendum but not the sus
pension of the tax. I do not
favor a state real property
tax, but I feel it wise to give
the legislature the emergency
power for tax legislation be
fore taking the state out of
real property ta-x field.
I opposed increased spending
except where vital interests of
state demanded otherwise,
and my record on economy is
second to none. If the services
are to be provided, they must
be paid for, and I, for one, am
willing to be counted when
the bill is presented.
" , Robert B. Duncan
State Representative
1, 2, or 20?
To the Editor: A few days
ago Mr. Paul Geddes made a
political appearance on KBES
TV. His topic was Congress
man Charles Porter's legisla
tive record in Congress.
To make, his point clear to
the voters, Mr. Geddes dis
played a stack of papers in
tended to represent 76 bills
which Congressman Charles
Porter had introduced in Con
gress during the past two
years. Mr: Geddes proceeded
to tell us that Mr. Porter had
deceived the voters by saying
that 20-some odd bills he in
troduced passed in one form
or another bearing his signa
ture. To make this point Mr.
Geddes held up one of the
pieces of paper, which he
waved back and forth, then
said: Out of 76 bills introduced
by Mr. Porter only one has
been approved and passed by
Congress! This was indeed a
shock to hear. I drew one con
clusion, someone was indeed
trying to deceive the voters.
Last Tuesday, Oct. 28, on
Page 1, Section Two, Cols. 8
and 9 of the Medford Mail
Tribune, appeared an adver
tisement in bold type-"Strike-out
King of Congress!" Porter
introduced 76 bills! Only two
passed Congress!
I should like to have Mr.
Geddes tell us, is it one or is
it two bills that Mr. Porter
succeeded in passing? How
many bills will it be in tomor
row's campaign efforts, or is
it possible that we will be told
day after election that Mr.
Geddes made a mistake, it is
20-odd bills instead of one or
two, or that several bills
passed Congress in one form
or another with Congressman
Charles Porter's signature on
them?
If Mr. Porter is a deceiver,
as we are told he is, it would
be nice for Mr. Geddes and his
campaign committee to get to
gether and decide on what to
say, and say the same things
at all times and places. It is
quite confusing. It leaves one
in doubt as to who is the de
ceiver. '
A middle of the road voter.
Roy R. Picard,
, 3400 Jacksonville Hwy
Medford.
Alsep
grounds had collaborated in
the revolution. Both were
represented in the resulting
government-fhe Communists,
by the new Minister of De
velopment, Ibrahim Kubba,
for one.
Now the real question was
which would be master. Gen.
Kassem is most emphatically
not at Communist. But his "in,
dependent - mindedness" was
and is vigorously encouraged
and supported by the Com
munists.
The Nasserites seem to have
been very confident of vic
tory at the outset. The Egyp
tian Embassy even pressed
the Iraqi government to agree
that Egypt would represent
Iraq in all negotiations for
arms for the Iraqi Army with
nations of the Soviet bloc.
But quite probably because
Gen. Kassem was naturally
stronger than Col. Aref, the
Nasserites were severely de
feated in the end.
pOL. AREF was demoted in
J mid-September and order
ed into comfortable exile, as
Ambassador to Bonn, by the
end of the month. Direct ne
gotiations for Soviet arms
were opened by the Iraqis
thus shattering Nasser's for
mer cherished monopoly as
the . exclusive representative
of all Arab nationalists in
all dealings of this sort. The
influence of other Nasserite
ministers at Baghdad obvi
ously declined, to the point
where further dismissals .are
now possible". Hard-core Com
munists who had hurriedly
returned from exile, like the
famous Kurdish leader, Mul
lah Mustafa Barazani, began
to play a more and more con
spicuous role in Iraq.
Not long after Aref s final
fall, the Egyptian Army com
mander, Gen. Abdul Hakim
Amer, left for Prague and
Moscow. Gen. Amer, who is
also Nasser's preferred con
fidential agent, reached Mos
cow on Oct. 19, and carried
on negotiations with the
Kremlin until just the other
day, when the big Soviet loan
for the Aswan Dam was an
nounced. In view of past So
viet refusals to have any
thing to do with the grandiose
Aswan project, the announce
ment was a distinct surprise.
'There are many other bits
and pieces in the pattern. One
is Nasser's toleration of the
return to Damascus of the
Syrian Communist leader,
Khalid Baqdash. Another is
the Cairo radio's conspicuous
failure to whisper the small
est criticism of the Iraqi gov
ernment, whereas Nasser has
always venomously denounc
ed every other Arab govern
ment that has refused to ad
mit his predominance. Still
another is Nasser's new habit
of professing total lack of
interest in the Gulf coast
sheikdoms, and especially
rich Kuwait.
THE whole pattern suggests
that the b'ig Aswan Dam
loan is irf fact a reward to
Nasser for approving an im
portant sphere of Soviet in
fluence in the Middle East,
where he has always bitterly
resisted all influences but his
own. Iraq now and the Per
sian Gulf sheikdoms in the
future (the same region that
Molotov asked Hitler to con
cede to the Kremlin in 1941)
would appear to be included
in the approved Soviet
sphere. The Arab states fring
ing the Mediterranean, plus
Saudi Arabia and the Yemen,
are still quite obviously in
the sphere of Nasser.
West of Suez, meanwhile,
Nasser has no doubt been
guaranteed fullest Soviet sup
port for intensified attempts
to extend his control over the
Sudan, : Libya, Tunisia, and
Morocco, and for his patron
age of the Algerian rebels.
One thing Nasser and the
Kremlin can easily agree
about is the desirability of
attacking Western friends and
Western positions. And with
5 Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant
time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered
' off the stage, but then you are given such a
comfortable seat as spectator, and if you
have really played your part you are" more
content to sit down and watch.
Jane Ellen Harrison
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY OR NIGHT . PHONE SP 2-8030
Roscoe Drummond
Reports . . .
(Drummond is substituting for Walter Lippmann,
during the latter's trip to Russia.)
THIS MAN NIXON
Seattle He is not running
for office. He is not cam
paigning for himself. He is
doing more politicking than
any other candidate in the na
tion. Wherever I have trav
eled across the country from
Massachusetts to California
and up the Coast to the Pa
cific Northwest looking in on
this Congressional election, I
have found him to be the most
discussed, most questioned,
most critcized, most praised
and most simultaneously liked
and disliked political person
ality in the whole United
State.
What's his line?
His line is Presidential pol
itics and he is, as you have
guessed, Richard M. Nixon,
the Republican political lead
er who, whatever one thinks
about him, is never ignored.
Nobody, simply nobody,
seems indifferent to Vice Pres
ident Nixon.
I HAVE talked with a lot of
politicians of both parties
in numerous states on this trip
and, by virtue of some extra
curricular lecturing, have
been the target of a barrage
of questions from a variety of
audiences on politics and per
sonalities. The questions may
be friendly, hostile, or just
plain curious, but they always
get around to Mr. Nixon; such
questions as these:
Is he sincere? Has he
changed. Since he is going all
out to elect a Republican Con
gress, will he be seriously hurt
politically if his campaign
falls far short of his goal. If
Nelson Rockefeller wins the
Governorship of New York
and thereby emerges as a na
tional figure in the Republi
can Party, will he offer a for
midable challenge to Mr. Nix
on's nomination in 1960?
Opinions will differ on these
questions. I don't assume that
mine would be the only an
swers possible, but the follow
ing is an effort to look at the
facts.
Whether one is sincere or
opportunistic is such a subjec
tive quality of mind that it is
almost impossible to measure
it. I know of no politician who
does not weigh public opinion
alongside his own opinion or
of whom it could be said that
he never swayed with .the po
litical winds. President Roose
velt made a virtue out of what
he himself called "quarter-
back" leadership . if one
thing didn't work, try an
other. , .
: . ' ' :
AMY OWN judgment is:
That Mr. Nixon has an
alert and informed grasp of
the kind of world we are Jiv
ing with and of the main
problems the United States is
up against.
That he is widely -committed
to a. set of approaches to
dealing with these problems,
spanning the whole range of
the cold war and the conse
quences at home, which seems
the Kremlin establishing an
open base at Baghdad, it will
be more convenient for every
one if Nasser now centers his
attack in Africa.
Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
PAUL GEDDES SAYS
"Our present congressman felt he had no responsibility In
helping us get I. C. C. approval of lower freight rates. At
I have pointed out, lower rates on Oregon lumber might
mean the difference between operating mills and jobs, and
closed mills and unemployment. I shall make all matters
affecting Oregon jobs my FIRST responsibilty in Congress."
Elect A Congressman Whose Interests Are Your Interests I
PMIb GEDDES
(pd. pot. tefv., Gtdds for Congress CommittM, V. C Johnson, Eugene, Chm.)
vigorous and broad-visioned
and not always politically pop
ular. (Note his strong advo
cacy of economic aid when the
polls were running strongly
the other way.)
That Mr. Nixon is a wiser
and maturer man than he was
when he ran for Congress and
later for the Senate and even
in the 1954 Congressional
campaign. I do not see that he
has violated any code of fair
political debate in the present
campaign and honored it sig
nally in his Baltimore speech
last week when he stressed
that there is "no war party"
in the U. S., no surrender par
ty, and only "one party of
treason" the Communist
party. '
WILL Mr. Nixon be badly
hurt politically if the coun
try rejects his appeal to elect
a Republican Congress? I
doubt it. If President Eisen
hower can't persuade the
country to elect a Republican
Congress, the party will hard
ly penalize Mr. Nixon for not
succeeding. And his party will
respect and value his unstint
ing efforts in trying.
As to the possibility that
Nelson Rockefeller, if he de
feats Gov. Harriman, can
overtake the Vice President
and dash him in the 1960 con
vention, this does not seem to
me to be an event that is at all
in the making. There is one
single, solid reason. There is
nothing now on hand or in
sight to suggest that the Re
publican party in 1960 will
select a Presidential nominee
to the left of Mr. Nixon,
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
vr I V y
VOTERS OF v
JACKSON COUNTY t
1 am a car dealer and 1
don't know too much
about politics ... but I do
know
CIIET VENDT
He has done an Outstand-
ing Job as
COUNTY COMMISSIONER .
I'm voting to re-elect
CHET WENDT -and
I hope yofc do, too. .
BOB TAYLOR,
Medford, Oregon
Pd. Adv. Chester H. Wendt,
Medford, Ore.