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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
Mot. 7, 1948 (Sunday)
An assistant secretary of
the interior comes to Medford
to confer with groups inter
ested in Rogue river water
resources development..
Frank Van Dyke, Medford
attorney reelected Tuesday to
the state house of representa
tives, says he has sufficient
pledges to assure his election
as speaker of the house.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1938 (Monday)
Between 60 and 65 per cent
of Jackson county's " eligible
voters are expected to go to
the polls tomorrow.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: It's all
over but the shouting and the
counting, as candidates for
high office check up to see if
they have left a word unsaid,
or a promise unmade. It don't
eem possible."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1928 (Wednesday)
A. W. Pipes elected mayor
of Medford.
The fire hall bond issue
carries by a majority of 440.
'40 YEARS AGO
.Not. 7, 1918 (Thursday)
The Rogue River Fish bill
has evidently lost out in the
;state.
; The community labor board
is now working on a complete
labor survey in this area.
; What's Your I.Q.?
.Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five ei
six is good.
1. In what document are
the qualifications for Presi
dent of the U. S. set forth?
T 2. What famous monument
in Egypt has the body of a
lion with a human head.
- 3. What is the name of the
last book in the Old Testa
ment? 4. In what city is the prin
cipal edition of the Wall
.Street Journal published?
. 5. "Green Mountain State"
is the nickname of which
state?
' 6. Pure lard is made from
cottonseed oil; true or false?
7. Who succeeded Henry A.
Wallace in the office of vice
president of the United
'States?
8. In what chain of islands
Is Okinawa?
9. Botanically, is the bam
;boo classed as a tree, shrub,
or grass?
10. The names Fitch, Fulton,
and Rumsey, suggest to your
mind what notable invention?
Answers: I. Constitution. 2.
The Sphinx. 3. MalachL 4.
New York City. 5. Vermont.
6 False. 7. Harry S. Truman.
8. The Ryukyus. 9. Grass. 10.
Steamboat.
NEW ROCKEFELLER FUND
: Accra; Ghana" -GOT- A new
Rockefeller fund to help bring
in new investments and tech
nical aid will be established
here soon, the government an
nounced Thursday night.
Property Condemnation
The state highway commission is currently in
the process of acquiring much land for the con
struction of the new freeway through Jackson
county.
Some property has been purchased, in other
cases negotiations are under way, and soon still
other property-owners will be approached by the
commission, which will purchase, or, if necessary,
condemn, the areas needed for the route.
In the Rogue River area, some of the resi
dents have felt they have not had a fair deal
from the commission,
they have received.
THEIR complaints have
on the activities of the right-of-way purchase
agents as they have been on what they say is
shilly-shallying on the
; itself, first saying one
The complaints may
be exaggerated. In any
thing to have the state come along and take one s
property, whether or not one wants to sell. This
is particularly true in the case .of a well-loved
home of many years.
But this is one of
right of the state to obtain
of ' eminent domain, comes into play.
IT IS a right which goes far back into history.
A In the early days there
in theoiy and in practice,
arch) owned everything anyway, and the prop
erty user held the land only on sufferance of the
state.
As property rights became more clearly de
fined, so too did limitations on the power of the
state to take property.
They reached their
tion m the U.S. constitution, in the fifth and
fourteenth amendments, parts of the Bill of
Rights, which, in part, provide:
"No person shall ... be deprived of . . . property,
without due process of law; nor shall private property
be taken for public use without compensation."
"No state shall .make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States; nor shall any state deprive, any
person of . . . property without due process of law;
nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws."
yHE f ramers of the constitution left it up to
congress and the legislatures of the states to
define the methods under
may be taken for public use. But they did insure
that these methods must provide for compensa
tion, for due process, and for equal protection. .
If agreement can be
the property between the owners and the state,
that solves the matter. But if agreement cannot
be reached, if the owners think the state's offer
is too small to be fair, then the right of eminent
domain comes in, and the property can be
"condemned."
In such a case, the matter is taken to court,
and the court, usually
on what is fair compensation under the circum
stances. """
FAIR compensation usually is defined as either
one of two thjngs:' -
1. The market value of the property, or,
2. What the property is worth to the owner
(in case it is not readily marketable). , ,
Market value usually is taken to mean the
amount at which property would exchange, in.
the current market, between a willing' buyer and
a willing seller, with equity to both.
The difficulty of determining the true market
value is well known. It is the subject of a lot of
grief among taxpayers, for it is the basis on which
all property taxes are levied.
THERE are, generally, three approaches to
determining fair market vahie.
One is the comparative approach, which is
based on an analysis of sales and asking prices
for comparable properties.
Another is based on the past and anticipated
earnings of a piece of property.
The third is based on the cost of reproduction,
which involves both the cost of the land at fair
market value, plus the cost of reconstructing the
improvements, less depreciation.
All of them, of course, depend on the skill,
ability and fairness of the appraisal procedures
and agents.
THESE, basically, are the things which will be
crucial to a lot of people in the county in the
coming few years, as the big freeway stretches
out from Grants Pass, through Rogue River,
along the north bank of the Rogue and then
across it west of Rock Point, then extending east
of Central Point, through Medford along Bear
creek, and south and to the east of Ashland.
It will result in unhappiness. to some, but if
properly handled, hardship to none.
It is another case of a minority taking the rap
when the overall good and progress of the com
munity require it. No one likes it, but sometimes
it is necessary. E.A.
: .- - . . .
What's A Caucus?
The Oregonian, which strongly supported
Mark Hatfield for governor, and, indeed, most
Republican candidates, commented yesterday
about the fact that Governor Hatfield will have
to wrork with a legislature under control of Demo
crats. It said:
"If the 27 Republicans stick solidly together behind
their governor, his wishes cannot be ignored by the
1959 legislature." ,
Tine enough. But in that case, what happens
to the high indignation of the more partisan
Republicans about the "caucus system"? E.A.
protesting the treatment
,
not been based so much
part of the department
thing, then another.
be justified, or they may
event, it is an unpleasant
. ,
those cases in which the
what it needs, the right
was no limit to it, for
the state (or the mon
clearest general defini
which private property
reached for. the sale of
through' a jury, decides
Dennis the Menace
'Ail xxj gotta do is FRy the
THE? '
Non-South Democrats Poll 55
Per Cent of Nation's Ballots
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Washington - (UPD - Demo
crats polled roughly 55 per
cent of the vote outside the
South in winning their land
slide victory in Tuesday's
elections, the United Press
International count showed
today.
That figure gave Republi
can leaders some idea of the
job, ahead in their effort to
reverse the political trend
before the presidential elec
tion of 1960.
Democratic National Chair
man Paul M. Butler was ex
pected to report preliminary
findings from the post mor
tem research in his headquar
ters at a news conference to
day.-
The UPI count was based
on the vote cast for candi
dates for senator in the 27
non-Southern states electing
senators this year; for gover
nor in eight states; for state
treasurer in Illinois; and the
combined vote for House can
didates in Kentucky. Neither
Illinois nor Kentucky elect
ed a senator or governor this
year.
The 11 Dixie states were
excluded because they are so
heavily Democratic that the
remaining 37 states provide
the real battleground in na
tional elections.
Poll 54.6 Per Cent
The vote tabulated In the
37 states showed Democrats
polled 54.6 per cent" of the
Communications
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saper; in tact tne contrary orten
From Mrs. Hopkins
To the Editor: My congrat
ulations to the winner in the
county clerk's race. He will
find the office in good order
when he takes over, I am
sure.
I commend to him the fin
est staff of deputies any offi
cial could hope to have the
good fortune to work with.
It has given me a great sat
isfaction and real sense of
achievement to have served
the people of Jackson county
the past- five years. I trust
my successor will find the of
fice what he has imagined it
to be.
Bereth P. Hdpkins,
County Clerk.
From Mrs. Nye
To the Editor: It will be
impossible for me to thank
personally the many, many
people who have supported
me so loyally in my campaign
for the office .of state repre;
sentative. Your confidence in
my ability to carry out this
enormous responsibility is a
challenge that I will attempt
to justify by devoting aU of
my energies to it.
I would like to repeat what
I have said many times dur
ing the campaign, that I in
tend to keep in close touch
with the people of Jackson
county and will always wel
come an opportunity to dis
cuss your problems and your
ideas with regard to our state
government.
Eve Nye,
Hillcrest-Phoenix rd.
Medford.
Lucky Back-Fir
To the Editor: Now that
Wayne Morse unwittingly
helped to defeat one of his
proselytes in the Oregon elec
tion, may we hope that this
good memory of the voters
shall continue until they again
go to the polls in 1962. It was
indeed a lucky back-fire for
the state of Oregon.
Ralph E. Koozer
108 Nursery st.
Ashland
bacoh an eggs. I ear
total. Inclusion of the South
would run up the figure still
higher.
In 1956 when the Demo
crats won slender majorities
in the House and Senate de
spite President Eisenhower's
landslide reelection, Demo
cratic senatorial candidates
polled a fraction over 51 per
cent of the vote in the states,
including the South, which
held Senate elections. Demo
cratic candidates for the
House polled about the same
percentage.
Outside the South, Demo
cratic candidates for the
House polled only 47 per
cent of the vote in 1956.
In his first detailed com
ment on the meaning of the
election, Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
belittled the likelihood of po
litical warfare between Con
gress and the White House.
In a speech prepared for a
Big Spring, Tex., audience, he
promised Democrats in Con
gress will meet President Ei
senhower "at least halfway,
and perhaps even further if
the circumstances warrant.
Sketches 12-Point Program
Johnson . also sketched a
12-point program featuring
legislation dealing with labor
reforms, farm problems, slum
clearance, space: exploration,
airport construction, conser
vation, aid for depressed
areas and other measures.
The AFL-CIO, which gave
much help to many Demo-
name and address of the writer,
nm case.
Not Gold Hill's
To the Editor: The Oct. 30th
Mail-Tribune carried a letter
from a Mrs. H. J. of Eugene
who, from ignorance, lack of
information or misinforma
tion, wrote she "was shocked
to find that the city of Gold
Hill has let a dump get start
ed just below the House of
Mystery". Neither the mayor,
the city council or anyone else
directly connected with the
government of the city of
Gold HiU is aware of having
a "dump" or allowing a
"dump" to get started at the
place indicated, which is sev
eral miles from Gold Hill.
Last April the city council
closed for good the old city
dump which was located on
the hill just north of the city
and gave a franchise to an
established garbage and trash
collecting firm for picking up
garbage and trash in the city
and disposing of same at the
firm's garbage disposal loca
tion between Rogue River and
Grants Pass.
To set the record straight
the city of Gold Hill has no
direct interest in a "dump"
near the House of Mystery or
at any other place. It is not
my purpose to condone the
disposition of "dump" materi
als promiscuously about the
country side. It is my conten
tion that the city of Gold Hill
disclaims any part in starting
"dumping" operations near
the House of Mystery.
If the ("dump" to which
Mrs. H. J. has reference is on
the county road right of way,
I . feel sure that the county
will see that proper action is
taken - to eliminate the un
sightly place. If it is on pri
vate property, there must be
some way to inform the prop
erty owner of the- condition
so that he may take steps to
prevent such dumping and
proceed to clean up the, place.
; . Ferd W. Jones, .
. . City Recorder
" Gold HiU. Ore
Rockefeller Now Seen 'Man To Beat'
For 1960 Republican Presidential Nod
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington-TOPD-In 50-year-old
Nelson 'Aldrich Rockefel
ler it may be that the hum
bled Republi
cans have got
t h e m s e Ives
"another Ike"
or, even, a per
sonality cult
political
d r eamboat in
the image of
the great FDR,
v If such be
Lyie c. whsob only nan true,
it may prove to be the most
significant political fact of
1958 and of 1960, too. This
immensely rich man with a
big smile and a baby-kissing,
pizza pie taste for curbstone
politics casts a warm and
golden glow over the stricken
Republican Party. ' .
Warm and golden, that is,
except where that glow falls
as shadow over the Old
Guard, conservative party
members. It is shadow, also
ciatic winners in the ballot
ing Tuesday, unfolded - its
first legislative proposals
after a meeting of its coun
cil Thursday. It asked for a
labor reform measure similar
to the Kennedy-Ives bill
which died in the House last
summer.
But it threatened to stir
even greater controversy by
calling for repeal of the Taft
Hartley law provision which
permits states to enact right-
to-work laws outlawing union
shop contracts. Such action
would nullify the 19 state
laws which have been adopt
ed. " ,
The council said Tuesday's
vote, defeating right-to-wbrk
proposals in five of the six
states where the issue was on
the ballot, was a mandate to
Congress "to end this flank
attack on organized labor.'
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
You've heard, I suppose, of
the year of the big wind.
Well, Tuesday was the DAY
of the big wind.
IffHEN the wind subsided,
here is where the Repub
lican party found itself:
It stUl has the White House
and the APPOINTIVE offices.
But-
: The" Democrats have a clear
majority of both houses of the
congress. It "seems probable
that with their party major
ity, plus such disgruntled dis
sidents as they may be able
to pick up, they will be able
at any time they choose to
override ANY Presidential
veto.
That leaves them in undis
puted command of the govern
ment. S
MUCH for what hap
This question remains: -
WHY did it happen?
T WOULDN'T KNOW.
-1; But I'll hazard a guess.
'People, at this 'particular
moment, are unhappy with
things as they are - both at
home and abroad. At home,
there is the recession, which
is just barely beginning to
ease off. Abroad, there is ttie
cold war - which keeps people
upset and apprehensive.
So-
The people Tuesday follow
ed the standard American po
litical practice in times when
they are unhappy with things
as they are and tossed out
the ins and put in the outs.
THEY applied the rule on
both sides of the political
fence.
In New York they tossed
out Millionaire Democrat Har
riman and put Millionaire Re
publican Rockefeller in his
place.
In California they tossed
out upper bracket Republicans
right and left and replaced
them with Democrats.
In Oregon, they tossed out
youthful Democratic Govern
or Holmes and replaced him
with youthful Republican Hat
field. -
NEW YORK is a long way
off. California and Oregon
are close to us. Perhaps - it
might be well to 'point out
here that in both California
and Oregon there were local
incidents that may have con
tributed to the result. '
In California last spring,
there was too much politick
ing among top shelf Republi
cans too much maneuvering
about who would be allowed
to run for this and who would
be allowed, to run for that.
The PEOPLE don't like that.
What the people don't like,
they are apt to resent.
In Oregon, at the last min
ute, Senator Morse came out
with a nasty, gutter-level at
tack on the personal integrity
for those numerous Republi
cans who look to Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon to
lead them in 1960 out of the.
wilderness. If Nixon before
this election was far and away
the man to beat for the 1960
Republican presidential nomi
nation, then since the election
Rockefeller now is almost in
evitably the man Nixon must
beat to win the prize. That
will not be easy.
Nixon Set Pattern
Nixon cast the pattern of
this year's Republican cam
paign He cast it aggressively
Dirksen Seen Likely
Knowland Successor
By WARREN DUFFEE
UPI Correspondent
Washington fUPD The task
of leading the depleted Re
publican ranks in the Senate
appeared likely today to fall
to Sen. Everett M. Dirksen
(R-Hl.), a man of conservative
bent who has solidly support
ed President Eisenhower's
programs.
Dirksen, once a strong Taft
man, is favored to succeed
William F. Knowland as Sen
ate Republican leader when
the 86th Congress convenes in
January with the Democrats
in overwhelming command.
For the past two years, he
has been Senate whip or as
sistant leader to Knowland,
who went down to defeat in
his bid for the governorship
of California.
There is no announced od-
position to Dirksen's ascend
ancy to the leadership . post
and none is expected
With their ranks slashed
from 47 to 34 by the Demo
cratic landslide in the Con
gressional elections, the Sen
ate Republicans are faced with
a major rebuilding process
under their new floor leaders.
Several names already were
being mentioned as possible
successors to Dirksen as whip
if the Illinois veteran moves
up to the minority leader's
post.
Sens. Prescott Bush (R
Conn.).and Gordon AUott (R
Colo.) were regarded as strong
possibilities for -the assistant
leader's post, although neither
Neuberger Sees
of
Wafer Available
Madras (DPD Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) predict
ed here Thursday night the
existence of water in large
volumes for domestic, indus
trial and agricultural growth
of the Columbia River Basin
area.
Speaking at the annual ban
quet of the Oregon Reclama
tion Congress, he said, "Our
nation's population increases
at the rate of 8000 per day,
yet 5000 acres of good land
disappears from agricultural
production during that same
period."
"These figures," Neuberger
said, "are a sobering reminder
of the challenge facing Am
erica's living standards; but
they also foreshadow an era
of new growth in the Pacific
Northwest region because it is
blessed with an abundance of
water with which to meet the
demands of the future."
Neuberger urged members
of the reclamation organiza
tion to pay "close attention
. . . to sound conservation poli
cies for multiple - purpose use
of our water resources if this
region is to take full ad
vantage of the priceless asset
bestowed on us by reason of
climate and geography."
of Republican Candidate Mark
Hatfield. People don't like
that kind of politics. Their
natural and proper resent
ment may have affected the
result of the Oregon guberna
torial election.
ONE more question:
What can the Republican
party do to rehabilitate its
fortunes?
F" MIGHT take a tip from
Arizona.
In Arizona, Senator Gold-
water has been a conservative.
He has known where he is
going. In his campaign for re
election to the senate, ne
STAYED a conservative Re
publican. He left no doubt
of where he stands. He dra
matized himself of what he
IS. . '
As a conservative Republi
can, making no bones about
it. offering no opologies for
his beliefs, standing pat on his
convictions, hewing to the line
and. letting the chips fall
where they may, he was de
cisively re-elected to the U.S.
senate in a state that has been
overwhelmingly Democratic
since its admission to the
Union.
.There's a hint there for the
Republican party. '
Large Volume
and so firmly that President 1
Eisenhower and, even, the
State Department had to con
form. Nixon's and the Presi
dent's best was not good
enough to prevent party dis
aster. But the vice president
raised great sums of money
and made good new friends
for himself among those local
politicos who will have much
to say in 1960 about the
Republican presidential nomi
nee. The vice president emerged
from the wreckage as politi
cal boss of the Eisenhower
so far is an announced candi
date. Both have generally
backed the Eisenhower pro
gram. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall
(R-Mass.), whom Dirksen suc
ceeded as whip, is expected to
continue as chairman of the
conference of GOP senators,
which will elect the new floor
leader and whip in January.
Sen. Milton R. Young (R
N. D.), secretary of the con
ference, is the fifth member
of the Republican Senate
hierarchy.
Washington Report
By William
Washington The true cent
er of powerover American
foreign policy is about to
move from
Foggy Bottom,
the site of the
State Depart
ment, to Capi
tol HilL
This coming
1 shift is due
primarily to
to basic and
impersonal po-
wiiuam s white litical r e a 1 i-
ties. It is not much related to
what some presume, rather
too melodramatically, will be
widespread Democratic bitter
ness over President Eisenhow
er's unconvincingly "tough"
Republican talk in the recent
Congressional campaign.
The Democrats who will
run the opposition show in
the new Congress Senator
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas
and his Senate associates and
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Tex
as in the House will not be
crushed at "What Eisenhower
said." They will not lose an
hour's sleep over the rhetoric
of the campaign.
And, almost certainly, there
will be no reprisals in the
field of foreign p o 1 i c y
though on domestic matters
there will be another story
entirely. Domestically, the
Democrats will make much
medicine for the Presidential
election of 1960.
CONTROL of our world af-
v fairs-r-not in the opera
tional sense but in the stra
tegic sense will largely and
quickly pass from the Presi
dent and Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles to Con
gress for these reasons: .
1. The Eisenhower Admin
istration is on the last lap.
The President's never very
strongly exercised ability to
infuence the - Senate will
amount to little from here
on out.
2. Mostof Mr. Dulles points
of close contact with the Sen
ate have been lost by circu
stances, such as the decision
of his closest Congressional
friend, Senator H. Alexander
Smith of New Jersey, not to
seek re-election. The man who
will now, in fact though not
in form, succeed Mr. Smith
as principal GOP spokesman
on foreign policy, Senator
Bourke B. - Hickenlooper of
Iowa, is not notably a "Dulles
man," .
3. Regardless of the out
come of the Congressional
elections, the Senate would
have moved forward to re
claim its high mission in for
eign policy. If for no other
reason it would have done so
simply because any weaken
ing in the Executive Depart
ment is invariably followed
by a corresponding assertion
of the historic claims of the
Senate as an institution.
urn
In Order To Serve You Better
the new office of
Dr. Robert J. U ne
OPTOMETRIST
is now located at
820 East Main
m
V2 Block East of Cottage Street
Parking Area Entrance on East Main at Corning Court'
administration, a post the
President does not covet and
for which he is actually unfit
by temperament. But for what
happened in New York state
on election day, Nixon by now
might have had the 1960 nomi
nation in the bag. He seemed
to have bagged it before the
votes rolled in. '
AToid GOP Label '
Now Rockefeller stands in
Nixon's way, a freshman in
the political wars who. in his
first time out, showed some
marks of poltical instinct ap
proaching genius. Alf M. Lan
don was rewarded with the
1936 Republican presidential
nomination for having sur
vived two Roosevelt land-slides-1932-34-in
Republican
Kansas. The solid fact about
Rockefeuer is that he sur
vived Tuesday's Democratic
H-bomb in big, New Dealish
New York.
Newsmen who combed the
state for trends and inklings
reported that there scarcely
were any real issues between
Rockefeller and New Dealish
Gov. Averell Harrlman whom
he defeated. Others failed to
detect in Rockefeller any
solid Republican identity at
all. He carefully disassociated
himself from the Eisenhower
Administration, from its rec
ord, from the vice president
and from the conservative
elements of the GOP.
S. Whit
rpHUS it may be safely pre
dieted that beginning in
January our policies abroad
will be more nearly made "on
the hill" than at any time
since long before World War
n. This, however, will not re
flect any widened Congres
sional dislike of Secretary
Dulles.
Actually, he is more nearly
popular now than he was two
years ago again because of
external circumstances.
Though some Democrats did
not like what he did in the
dispatch of troops to the Mid
dle East, they did like the fact
that at last there was action
instead of talk. If Mr. Dulles
made them less than happy he
also broadened the thereto
fore dangerously thin respect
in which he had been held.
' Again, the Dulles policy on
Formosa and the off-shore is
lands for a time angered many
Democrats. Again, however,
he so altered his line at last
a t ffn a Innff wav Trarant
new China rvolirv whirh i
not too far away from what
the controlling Democrats and
liberal Republicans had long
hoped or.
Ironically, what he did in
the summer and fall in fac
ing up to events that would
not be talked away strength
ened him in the human sense,
whether his actions were right
or wrong. To say, however,
that he is more respected than
he used to be is not at all to
say he will be as influential
as he used to be.
ON the contrary, he' will
typify the declining pow
er of the Administration. ,
The ascending forces over
foreign policy will be made
up of such as Senator John
son and Senators J. William .
Ful bright of Arkansas " and
Mike Mansfield of Montana.
Johnson, who for years has
stayed in the background in
this area," will be far .more
prominent ' in . it now." Ful
bright, senior Democratic
member of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, will take on
marked stature. So will Mans
field who, apart from mem
bership on that committee, is
assistant Democratic leader of
the Senate and thus a high
member of the Johnson re
gency. All three of these new men
of power are moderates, and
two of them Johnson and
Fulbright-s p e a k authenti
cally for the South's tradi
tional internationalism. This
circumstance is immensely
fortunate for the Eisenhower
Administration and the West- .
era world. For it means that
the transfer of power over
foreign policy will be bland
and orderly and expert.
With a more partisan Demo
cratic leadership it could have
been very much otherwise.
(Copyright. 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)