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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
Nor. 21, 1948 (Sunday)
A total of 2,624 persons in
the Medford area have now
been x-rayed for tuberculosis
In the Jackson County Public
Health association's drive.
Highway 62, with snow
packed and sanded, is open to
Crater lake.
20 YEARS AGO
Not. 21. 1938 (Monday)
Medford merchants plan
their formal Christmas open
ing for Dec. 3.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Anoth
er vacant lot Is threatened
with a service station. With
all the progress science has
made, there ought to be some
way to keep the autumn
leaves raked up."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1928 (Wednesday)
D. G. Tyre, chairman of the
Copco Forum, says Medford
needs more parks and play
grounds and remarks that at
least one bonding house would
be interested in buying a bond
Issue for this purpose.
The American Legion plans
a Thanksgiving ball here to
raise money for the Medford
drum corps.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1918 (Thursday)
Mayor Gates is busy exam
ining sites for a 40-acre land
ing field here at the request
of the San Diego Army avia
tion camp asking such a field
for an airship on a trial flight
from San Diego to Seattle.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
even er eight is excellent; five et
fix is good.
1. Do you associate the
name Izaak Walton with the
sport of hunting, trapping, ok.
fishing?
2. A wooden frame or tri
pod for supporting a canvas
is called an e- ?
3. A measurement denoting
a fourth of a bushel is iden
tically the same as the sur
name of a popular movie star;
what is it?
4. Where in Georgia is lo
cated the "Little White
House," so named by Frank
lin D. Roosevelt?
5. What is the name of Jack
Benny's car which was fre
quently mentioned on his ra
dio program?
6. Identify the noted clas
sical musical composers who
are collectively know as the
"Three B's."
7. In measuring gold, would
you get more if it was meas
ured under the troy, or avoir
dupois, scale?
8. Would a buxom person
most likely be plump, or
thin?
9. Blue laws usually refer
to puritjt of laundry bluing,
ban on athletic or other forms
of entertainment on Sunday,
or to water pollution?
10. What are the funda
mentals of education which
comprise the three R's?
Answers: 1. Fishing. 2. Ea
sel. 3. Peck. 4. Warm Springs,
Ga. 5. Maxwell. 6. Bach,
Beethoven, and Brahms- 7.
Avoirdupois. 8. Plump. 9. Ban
of athletics and entertain
ment. 10. Reading, 'riling, and
'rithmetic.
Protection of Sources
A possible first step toward a law guaran
teeing Oregon newsmen the right to protect con
fidential news sources has been taken this week.
The Portland Newspaper Guild voted Tues
day night to ask the state legislature for such a
law. As proposed by the Guild, it would apply
to newspaper and press association reporters,
radio and television reporters and newsmen from
other publications.
Twelve states, according to the Guild, already
have such laws.
"IXTHY does the Guild and many other report-
ers want such a law?
Some news stories, of tea important ones, must
be gotten the "hard way" by going beyond
those facts public officials or other news sources
want people to know.
In accomplishing this the reporter relies on
confidential sources individuals willing to give
him the facts he needs, or at least, Valuable tips,
but who are unwilling to be mentioned or quoted
in the stoiy when it is published.
The reporters gives them his word he will
not reveal his source. He knows how important
this trust can be to his helpers often their jobs
are in danger if it becomes known they gave him
certain facts, even though the public has every
right to know those facte.
A FTER confirming the facts and perhaps add-
ing others, the reporter writes the story. He
refers to his contacts as "informed sources," or
by some other non-revealing phrase. Next time,
these 'contacts will be ready to help him again.
If in providing the public with information
it is found necessary on some occasions to pro
tect news sources, then such protection, being
a guarantee of public knowledge, should itself
be guaranteed by law.
But this has not been the case recently in
New York state. New York has no such law. A
New York Herald Tribune columnist, called as
a witness in a civil suit, has been found in con
tempt of court for refusing to name a confiden
tial news source. This finding was upheld by the
U.S. Court of Appeals. The case now appears
headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.
"We find no reason," the appellate court said
in its .opinion, "to depart from the precedents,
Federal and state, refusing to recognize such a
privilege m the absence
one'."
SHOULD the Supreme
ucimc lu icvioy wic Apcuaic uuui ii a vJ An
ion, a two-fold threat is created.
The first is that the
other cases, and may
courts to legislative investigations.
Second, and more
will begin to run dry, still trusting the reporter
but fearful of later implication. The more impor
tant or controversial the story at stake, the more
likely this would be to occur.
Unless reporters can
and relay them to their readers, the public's right
to know is violated.
CUCH a law creates a basic conflict.
. One side is the reporter and his source. On
the other is the right of a court to elicit all the
facts of a case in the pursuit of justice.
But there is precedent for such . privilege.
Doctors and ministers, for instance, cannot.be
compelled to reveal information given them in
confidence. In the case of reporters, there is the
added fact, that protection of the confidential
sources is a protection of the people's right to
know. As such, we believe it would be sound
public policy to sanction that privilege by statute:
Situations where such a law would come into
play are not common, but they are sufficiently
frequent to justify affirmative action by the
legislature.
It is a right of the people a right to informa
tion which is at issue. E.W.
How Many '59 Cars?
In the recent upward splurge of stock prices,
those of the Big Three auto makers General
Motors, Fcrd, Chrysler have gone along. Thus
investors testified to their belief that 1959 will
be a good year for the U.S. car makers.
But the Big Three stocks failed to rise as vol
canically as did that of American Motors, maker
of the fast-selling little Rambler.
American Motors stock, from its low of 8 for
the year jumped to 33 on Nov. 13, a rise of over
300 per cent. Thus investors showed their aware
ness that many an American car-buyer wants a
smaller, or at least a cheaper, car. (Some Rambler
models are far from small.) During this time the
stock price spread from low to high was about 35
per cent for Chrysler, 30 per cent for Ford, 60
per cent for G.M.
OOW many sales mean a good year for the
11 U.S. auto industry?
Everybody says 1958 is a bad year because
it will see only about 4.3 million new cars pro
duced. Everybody says wistfully we'll never again
have a year as good as 1955, when a record 7.9
million cars came out.
One prominent "expert," a banker, predicts
only 4.7 million for the 1959's,'and is called for
his pains a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist. Another
expert, an economist, predicts 6.3 to 7.3 million,
and is called starry-eyed. Harlow H. Curtice,
before retiring recently as G.M. president, made
it 5.5 million for the 1959's.
Average production for the last 10 years was
5.7 million. That was just about the figure for
1956, and as a whole the industry considered 1956
a good year. E.R.R.
of a statute creating
)
Court either uphold or
precedent will extend to
even reach beyond the
important, news sources
track down these stones
Dennis the Menace
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although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
japer; in fact the contrary i. often the case.
Personal Appearance, Too
To the Editor: This past
month the Medford Mail Trib
une has printed pictures daily
on 'Make Medford Beautiful.'
This is fine and many have
taken the hint and are mak
ing improvements. However,
what about one's personal ap
pearance when dining ouf in
a well known place such as
Kims, Top Notch, Pings, and
many others?
This is our second year in
Medford and the first time
we dined out, we were great
ly disappointed as we were
one of the few families dress
ed up! By dressed up I do
not mean formal wear. Just
nice clothes as one might wear
to church, etc.
Dining out is a special oc
casion for our family of seven,
therefore, we dress accord
ingly, not in blue jeans, over
aUs, or housedresses and
peddle-pushers. There are oth
ers who feel as we do, it's
not the majority at fault, just
a few who make us look like
a backwoods town.
People are just as an im
portant part of 'Making Med
ford Beautiful' as improving
their property. Remember,
property isn't the only thing
judged by appearance.
Joan Sheppard,
2660 Crater Lake ave.,
Medford
Stop Malicious Talk
To the Editor: I am very
much interested in the wel
fare of the Medford Public
Library, having served for a
number of years on the Med
ford Library Board, and sev
eral years of that time as
chairman.
There is a great deal of ma
licious talk which should be
stopped. Difficulties have aris
en between the Medford Li
brary Board and the boards
of some of the surrounding
towns and should be correct
ed at once. Should the present
arrangement break down, the
Medford Library would lose
about 50 per cent of the books
they have on hand as a large
part of the reading material
has been purchased with
money belonging to the sur
rounding towns.
The Medford Library Board
is working only under a con
tract to serve the other li
braries and has nothing to do
with the pay, hiring, firing
or operation of anyone outside
the city limits of Medford.
The Medford Librarians is
solely an employee of the City
of Medford and should be
looked upon as such by the
County Court and all outside
Library Boards.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
T EON FOREM tell about
strolled over to the town
crony. .The crony pointed to
Timothy Oberdorf." "How
old was he?" asked our
farmer. "In his sixties," said
the crony. "Well," philoso
phized the fanner amiably,
"a man's got to go some
time." He was equally un
moved by the graves of
others who had passed on in
their 60s and 70s.
All was changed, how
ever, when the crony said,
"Why, here's the last rest
ing place of Manfred Jones
who died at 92."
The farmer, now visibly , "
shaken, said, 'Tarnation! So they've reached that age, too!"
Customer to a Tulsa gifte shoppe announced "I want to send a
good luck card to a man who's drilling for oil on my property."
'Tve got just the thing for you," said the clerk and handed him &
"get well" card.
CUSty by genaett Cirt Distracted by Ba Teetam fiyaaiote. j
The duty of the Medford
Board is to create and main
tain good will with aU the
surrounding boards for the
good of various communities
and the good of our own
library. .
I do not intend to criticize
anyone as I am not fully in
formed. The local librarian
has refused to discuss the mat
ter with me. I do feel that
those in charge-the mayor
and the library board-should
take immediate steps to cor
rect matters, or should all
resign as being unable to cope
with an important situation.
James C. Collins,
104 West Main st.,
Medford
Bear Creek tree way
To the Editor: Speaking of
beautifying Medford, for
which we must congratulate
the Medford Mail Tribune
for its pioneering spirit, we
should be proud and happy
to support such great oppor
tunities and cooperate.
Now, why not 1 give Med
ford a $1,000,000 break, clean
ing ''lie most dirty and filthy
streak in the county-clean
Bear Creek's sewer, mosquito
beds, frog ponds and malaria
holes by a simple system of
econojny and efficiency
putting Bear Creek beneath
the proposed Freeway.
Simple, efficient, lower cost,
adding scenic beauty ,with
lower costs in every way with
out disturbing either Main
Street Bridge or Jackson
Street Bridge.
I could name numerous oth
er reasons. . Mainly, a very
small channel, concrete, with
ample grade well under, the
Freeway would carry all the
drainage that has ever oc
curred in the past 25 or 30
years, and in case of excess
storms such as we had in
1927 it could nicely and effi
ciently take down the double
two-way lane north once
every 30 years as in such cases
in the past. Many other parts
of highways are blocked by
such unusual conditions such
as are blockading major sub
ways and washouts. This, for
three or four hours, could effi-
ciently cause traffic to use
double-lane north automati
cally without danger whatso
ever.
A few bulldozers would
straighten Bear Creek out in
30 days, with great savings
such as the elimination of
wrecking of the present
bridges or even interfering
with daily traffic. Also, with
the Freeway below the sur
face, it would eliminate noise,
and filth from blowing from
the elevated Freeway- Cross-
Stop Me
a farmer, "a bit over 90," who
graveyard one afternoon with a
one stone and said "There lies
Wilson Asks: What's Difference Between
Labor Outrages, Civil Rights Outrages?
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington -DPD- A fair
and reasonable question to
the Eisenhower administra
tion right now
could be this:
If local law
is deemed suf
ficient to cope
with bomb
out rages in
labor disput
es, why is it
not also suffi
cient to cope
-11 !J 1 - 1
vle c. Wilson wun menucai
violence in civil rights dis
putes? The question seems to arise
reasonably. On Nov. 13, At
torney General William P.
Rogers said the administra
tion was considering broad
new civil rights legislation
aimed particularly at dyna
miters of schools and church
es. It was explained that spe
cific proposals to be submit
ted to Congress had not been
worked out. Rogers said, al
so, that the federal govern
ment did not desire to in
fringe on local responsibility
or to relieve local officials of
their duty to clear up the
bomb cases.
Meaning Cloudy
These qualifications to the
Justice Department's plans
for new legislation aimed par
ticularly at dynamiters some
what clouded Rogers' intent
and m e a ning. Something,
however, evidently is on the
fire. Moreover, Republican
ing over natural Bear .Creek
would eliminate thousands of
dollars in expense by winding
intersections and crossings. In
my opinion, this would be a
really beautiful sight, with
ample additional property sal
vaged for parking and build
ings instead of, as today,
malaria beds.
No one can show me where
by nothing but efficiency, sav
ings and a greatly beautified
Medford would result.
In the second place, a Free
way elevated as planned
would cost more than a canal
under the Freeway large
enough for the Rogue River.
An overhead Freeway would
also spoil the view across the
city and interfere with Haw
thorne Park, also destroying
property instead of gaining
valuable property. Bear
Creek channel, in general, lies
directly between the two sug
gested routes mentioned pre
viously, and a straight logical
by-pass through the heart of
the . city without destroying
any property BUT adding
plenty more.
E. M. Tucker Sr.,
Tucker Sno-Cat Corporation,
South Pacific Highway,
Medford
Streets and Playgrounds
To the Editor: More facts
about the closing of Homes st.
in Talent. The inspector for
the state accident commission
was here and looked over the
possibility of trucks leaving
the pole yard through the nar
row alley that will be the only
way out if the street is closed.
He said that it is dangerous
both to the trucks and anyone
trying to pass when the trucks
are coming out. Now the city
council claims that if Homes
st. is opened it will cut off a
part" of the so-called play
ground. Well if anybody cares
anything about their children
they would not let them play
there in the weeds that have
broken bottles and other trash
in them. We the people of this
community have invested a
lot of money in playground
equipment and all there is left
of it is some iron pipe stuck
up through the weeds which
is dangerous for children to
play on. This weed patch that
there is so much trouble over
is a disgrace to any town. If
the man that takes the pic
tures that we see every day in
the paper on "Make Medford
Beautiful" would come out
here and take some pictures of
this piece of city property and
put them in the paper he
would be doing a good service
to a town that needs to know
what this is all about.
Ray Garland, -
Box 27,
Talent, Ore.
HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK
Washington -0PD President
Eisenhower has proclaimed
Dec. .10-17 Human Rights
Week and urged all citizens
to observe it by studying the
Constitution, the Bill of
Rights and the United Na
tions Declaration of Human
Rights.
L
DAIRY
East Main St.
ORDER YOUR SAVAGE
TURKEY NOW!
CALL SP
III
Sen.-elect Hugh Scott of
Pennsylvania, with 11 others,
has announced plans to pro
pose in the new Congress sev
eral federal penalties against
church and school terrorists
and to put the FBI in charge.
Washington Report-
By William
FILIBUSTER FIGHT
Washington - Three sets of
men are preparing now for
the most important and the
least under
stood struggle
of the new
Congress.
Immense
complications
traditions,
J emotion, po
litical ambitions-will
be
devil the
William s. White great conuici,
ssssssssssslasfl 1 i.
to open in January. It will
bear on the 1960 Presidential
election. It may result in a
profound change "in what for
nearly two centuries has been
our most nearly changeless in
stitution, the U.S. Senate.
The probable greatest per
sonal winner is Vice-Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon. As
the Senate's presiding officer,
he may well decisively shape
the outcome. The probable
collective loser, at least to
some extent, is the Demo
cratic party. Possible even
tual losers may be all future
minorities economic, relig
ious, racial or sectional to
the immediate gain of the cur
rently mistreated minority,
the Negroes.
.The argument will involve
a dusty thing, the Senate anti
filibuster rule-"Rule 22." A
filibuster is endless talking to
prevent a vote. It can be halt
ed now only by decision of
two-thirds of the entire Sen
ate membership-or simply by
wearing out the filibustered.
A SOUTHERN old guard
faction would resist any
change whatever. It is, how
ever, a tiny group, and it is
melting fast.
A faction of advanced lib
erals is demanding an altera
tion so extreme that its adop
tion would end the Senate as
a unique deliberative body.
This group is led by Senators
Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
and Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota, Democrats, and
Clifford P. Case of New Jer
sey and Jacob K. Javits of
New . Ydrk, Republicans. ,
They are unwittingly doing
Nixon's work as well as "their
own. And if they succeed, it
will be he, and not they, who
will receive most credit. For,
after all, there are many Sen
ators but there is only one
credit. For, after all, there are
many Senators but there is
only one Vice-President.
They wish to make it pos
sible for two-thirds of those
Senators voting to clamp
down on a filibuster by a
process called cloture after
two days' notice. But they
would go much beyond this
moderate reform-and this is
the kernel of it-to permit the
barest Senate majority, or 49
members, to put on cloture
after 15 days.
THIS would make the Sen
ate only a somewhat slower
House of Representatives. The
slimmest Senate majority,
after 15 days, could adopt any
kind of bill under public pres
sure, informed or uninform
ed. The House already can do
so. Indeed, it did so .during
the Truman Administration
in cheerfully approving with
in about 90 minutes a meas
ure to draft striking railroad
men into the Army-a bill Mr.
Truman himself has since
publicly regretted having of
fered. The third and probably the
largest of the Senate groups
wishes to harden the cloture
rule by permitting two-thirds
of those actually voting (in
stead of two-third, of the en
tire membership) to put on
cloture-but never less than
this two-thirds in any circum
stances.
These forces will be made
up of moderate Democrats,
some retreating Southerners,
some Western liberal Demo
crats and some Republicans.
For many years, the lib
erals have blamed the filibus
ter for their inability to en
act legislation in behalf of
Negro rights. Last year a bill
was passed-the first in eight
L
- SMITH
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mr it rr y
In Atlantic City last Sep
tember, Labor Secretary Jam
es P. Mitchell took a more
definite stand on the question
of federal legislation to pun
ish bombing and other vio
lence a the community level
S. Whit
decades-without any change
in the rules. This, however,
has never satisfied the liber
als, who think it did not go
far enough. And their cause
has been immeasurably aid
ed by some Southern defiance
of the courts in integration.
T3UT the filibuster in Senate
history has been more
often a liberal than a con
servative implement. Indeed,
the holder of one of the all-
time filibuster records, Sen
ator Wayne Morse of Oregon,
is an advanced liberal. He
talked for 22 hours and 26
minutes in ApriL 1953, in re
sisting what many called the
"giveaway" of the oil tide
lands. '
Moreover, the Senate is
fundamentally a non-majority
institution; the smallest state
has equal representation with
the largest. But so, indeed, is
the Bill of Rights. That unlim
ited debate has been much
abused is undeniable. But the
Fifth Amendment, under
which a single man can refuse
to testify - against himself,
however guilty, also has been
undeniably abused.
Some conservatives would
destroy the Fifth Amendment
for its shortcomings, forget
ting its towering nobility.
Now, many liberals forget
that the filibuster weapon,
deemed by them to be in un
worthy hands, has many
times halted vindictive legis
lation that a thoroughly "dem
ocratic" House was all too
ready to approve.
Finally, civil rights legisla
tion in plain fact has suffered
most of all, not because of
rules, but because far more
rank and file Senators ha)pw
had it on their lips than in
their hearts.
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Features Syndicate, Inc.)
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arismg from labor disputes.
It seems to me," Mitchell
said "that ... we don't need
Federal laws to check mug
ging and goon squads and
criminal tactics. What we do
need is a recognition at the
community level that these
(local) laws should be enforc
ed; and what we do need ia
support given to the law-enforcement
people so that in
timidated workers can testi
fy without fear of reprisal,
and that grand juries can in
dict arsonists and thugs at the
local level. No one has to
wait for Washington to pass a
law to check these evils."
Local Enforcement Needed
On another occasion, Mitch
ell said: "What I have atress
ed, has been the fact that fed
eral law can never cope with
such things' as assault, de
struction of property through
arson and bombing, intimida
tion, blackmail and just ordi
nary hoodlumism and thiev
ery. There are local laws to
deal with these types of crim
es, and these laws must be et&
forced, in addition to the pass?
age of a federal law."
AFL-CIO President George
Meany sees the problem
about as does Mitchell, in a
speech before an , AFL-CIO
affiliate, Meany gave Mitchell
a fast okay on the idea that
there is plenty of unenforced
law on the local level to deal
with union goon squad vio
lence. Meany complained,
however, that the local citi
zenry does not support organ
ized labor's efforts to utilize
those laws in cleaning labors'
house.
"There doesn't seem to be
a district county attorney in
this country," Meany said,
"who is interested. In not one
single instance of violence or
other violation of local law
do we find where any local
district attorney has taken in
terest." If that be true, Mitchell!
policy of leave-itrto-the-locals
would appear to be founded
on considerable misplaced
confidence in local law en
forcement. Local officials
have been quick to . act ' in
school and church bombings.
yet the Justice Department
contemplates federal action of
some kind. Maybe the differ
ence depends on who bombs
whom.
iff