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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files bt The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24. 1948 (Wednesday)
A phone call to Grants Pass
confirms that despite a per
sistent rumor here the high
school stadium there did not
burn to the ground this morn
ing. California Oregon Power
company and Southern Pa
cific railroad are listed 1-2 as
Jackson county's leading tax
payers. 20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 1938 (Thursday)
Close to one thousand
youngsters pedal their bikes
through town to call attention
to traffic safety.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "For
these things, and many more,
thanks can be given today:
For health and teeth to chew
the turkey, and the tender
ness thereof."
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 24, 1928 (Saturday)
A federal radio airways sta
tion is to be established on
the Crater Lake highway near
the proposed Medford airport.
Carold Parker buys rights
to being Medford agent for
a new manikan gum machine.
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 24. 1918 (Sunday)
Efforts are under way to
organize an Oregon National
Guard company here.
Josephine Hartzell, 13, is
Jackson county's prize turkey
raiser, having sold her flock
of 70 for $280.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina nr hs correct is fuHriar:
seven or eight i excellent; five of
six it good.
1. Is the caliber of a gun
barrel a measure of the length
of the barrel, or the interior
diameter?
2. In Shakespeare's tragedy
"Macbeth" what is the name
of the king of Scotland who
is murdered by MacBeth?
3. What is the former name
for Iran?
4. In what country is Ran
goon? 5. What is the opening
phrase of "The American's
Creed?"
6. Which is further north,
Cape Henry or Cape Hat
teras? 7. What is the capital of
South Dakota?
8. : The normal temperature
of the human body is 90.6,
89.9 or 98.6 degrees.
9. A marathon is a horse
race; true or false?
10. The author of "The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde," was Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle, Edgar Al
len Poe, or Robert Louis Ste
venson? Answers: 1. Interior diame
ter. 2. Duncan. 3. Persia. 4.
Burma. 5. "I believe in the
United States of America." 6.
Cape Henry. 7. Pierre. 8. 98.6.
8. Falsa. 10. Stevenson.
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lime for Living
It had been so long since our twinkle-eyed
little old lady with gray lace shawl from the lower
bend of the river had been to our office that we
thought it time we took
down by the sedges where the curlews call and
the gray gulls soar against the rim of beach pines
on the far sand dunes.
visit her.
We had no need to worry for she was taking
good care of the creaks of a little arthritis and
though she hadn't been in town for lo these many
weeks, she was still adding up the memories of a
memorial Indian summer
like a precious jewel for a treasure much richer
than any jeweler's safe could contain.
"These people, poof!" she laughed. "They
keep coming around and talking about high taxes,
a new hospital bond issue, costs, costs, timber ap-
praisals, high price of
and all they do is clutter up their hearts with the
misery of their brains."
CHE wralked to the rosewood cabinet that had
come around to Oregon via the Cape and
took out some notes she had been making this fall.
"Each person owes it to himself to open his
heart to beauty in order that each day can be
lived as if no other day would ever come. And in
so doing the heart will sing, the mind will be at
peace, and you have a happy thought to pass on
to others." She smiled, "How do you like that?"
Or take this one : "If you would own yourself
then do away with your 'self and see only 'others'
and then will you truly own your 'self'."
She beamed as we said it might also be a Ger
trude Stein item. "I don't know what you mean,"
she laughed, "but I hope you mean it right." And
we hastened to tell her that Gertrude Stein had
made herself quite a bit of money and a lot more
fame by her writings.
"I'm not a writer you
who has lived until now it is time that I keep my
days busy and thoughtful I need to put a bit of
thinking in with my elderberry jelly.
WE'VE known this little lady with the smile m
her eyes for more than a decade of editing
and each time we come away feeling that there
are so many riches not known to others that she
owns.
So it was this week during Indian Summer she
told us "This is the time for living, and no one
needs a modern tranquilizer pill if he'll listen to
he song of the sea, the
the call of the wild duck
marsh where the tidal arms come creeping in to
make a sanctuary for the loveliness of the wild
world.
And so it is truly, that is a time for living in
he heady Indian summer days and nights when
all the world is filled with the fall's fruition.
Ralph Stuller in the Coquille Valley Sentinel.
Cactus Jack at 90
John Nance (Cactus Jack) Garner, Vice Pres
ident of the United States from 1933 to 1941,
was 90 on Saturday. He became our third nonage
narian, former "Veep."
The first vice president, John Adams, lived
more than six months after his 90th birthday. The
22d, Levi F. Morton, former Wall Street banker,
went on to his 96th. Adams was only former Pres
ident to reach 90.
THE Texas where Garner was born in 1868 was
oV-.nf oes rl if f ai-onf oc rvn'M Via frnm the Toyjis
of 1958. No oil flowed and
ly nonexistent. The state
the House ot Kepresentatives, as against lis zz
today. Anybody so rash as to predict it would
someday vote for a Republican president, as it
was to do m 1928, 1952,
have been shot.
State legislator, county judge, elected to the
House for 15 successive terms, Garner became its
minority leader in 1929, its Speaker in 1931. With
his firm sense of party loyalty he helped to put
across even New Deal legislation not exactly to
his taste
Opposed to a third term for "The Chief,". at
the age of 71 he let his name be used for the 1940
presidential nomination. But he had only 61
votes at the convention (James A. Farley got 73),
and retired to ruminate under his own vine and
fig tree. E.R.R.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
A STICKY MOMENT in International relations popped up
when the English ambassador was escorted through some
secret Navy installations in Annapolis. He was out alone for a
pre -breakfast stroll one
crisp morning when he was
suddenly halted by a mid
shipman on sentry duty.
"Restricted area, sir.
Youll have to turn back,
said the sentry. "But I'm
the British Ambassador,
spluttered the visitor.
"They've let me see every
thing up to now. Just what's
going on here?"
"Sir," snapped the middy,
"it's secret practice for the
Army football game."
From Ira Granr.es:
"Poor Willie on one summer's day
With an A-bomb began to play.
There was a boom, and now, Z guess.
He hasn't much Togetherness. ' -OUKfcby
Btcostt CcrL KrtrtbuUd by Bag rattan &B4ictf
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off and made our wray
And so we went today to
and stringing each day
food, prices on new cars
know, I'm just, a person
whir of the birds wings,
down by a saffron sedged
industry was practical
had only four seats in
1956, would undoubtedly
Stop Me
Dennis the Menace
1F DlMf?5 READY, I'D 6ETTB?
Matter of Fact
By ROWLAND EVANS JR.
While Joseph Alsop re
ports from the Middle East,
Rowland Evans Jr. covers
the home base.
THE NEW BUDGET
Washington There are
significant signs that Presi
dent Eisenhower is setting
r out on his last
two years in
office in a
way that
almost seem
calculated to
to install the
Democrats in
the White
House in
1960.
Rowland Evani ,
jr. The Presi
dent, of course, would scarce
ly agree with that assessment.
But his gnawing preoccupa
tion with cutting Federal
spending; his virtual orders
to the Departments that there
shall be no new Federal pro
grams of any kind, other than
programs to kill existing pro
grams; his resolve to go
ahead with a manpower' re
duction and other muscle
trimming in the armed forces
-these and other signs of re
trenchment are dramatic testi
mony that the mesasge of the
1958 election may somehow
have failed to penetrate the
White House.
The fiscal policy of reduce,
pare and cut-back may be the
easiest solution to the terrible
complex question of deficit
spending and record national
debts. But in the view of an
important minority of top
Presidential advisors, it is
very bad politics just at the
time the Republicans seem
most in need of a new image
to put before the country. It
is stirring up some sharp dis
cord on the Eisenhower team.
One Cabinet member has
boldly told the White House
that fiscal retrenchment will
have drastic political reper
cussions in 1960.
IN FACT, this official has
said that if the Democrats
could plant their ' most cun
ning saboteur in a high
policy-making job in the
White House, he could do no
more to help the Democrats
than a budget policy that
ignores the dynamic problems
of a new era.
The agencies to get hurt
first and most by a Federal
economy wave are, after De
fense, Dr. Arthur Flemming's
Health, Education and Wel
fare Department and James
P. Mitchell's Labor Depart
ment. There two members of
the team, together with In
terior's Fred Seaton, are put
ting up the strongest case
against the policy of retrench
ment by the Budget Bureau
that the Cabinet conserva
tives, strongly supported thus
far by the President, are in
sisting upon.
The President's target, of
course, is to move as close to
a balanced budget as pos
sible. The deficit for this year
will be around $12,000,000,-
Banks, Stores Said
Needing Trainees
Northfield, Minn.-(UPD-Phil-ip
L. Fjelstad, director of the
St. Olaf College placement bu
reau, says the nation's banks
and department stores are in
the market for trainees.
For youths thinking of
teaching careers, Fjelstad said
shortages exist manly in the
sciences, English and wom
en's physical education.
Government and social
work are also good fields for
American youngsters seeking
careers. Fjelstad said that in
both cases salary and person
nel standards have been
raised to the point where they
compare favorably with teach
ing and industrial positions.
f
I
GO OUTAHO UNTIE DAD J
By Rowland Evans Jr.
000. Perhaps half of this can
be wiped out by higher tax
revenues in the next fiscal
year, leaving some $6,000,'
000,000 as the target for re
duced spending.
Those in the Cabinet who
are now struggling against
the Budget Bureau are tell
ing the President that his new
budget will set the tone and
pace of his final two years in
office. At a recent Cabinet
meeting, according to quali
fied informants, Dr. Flem
ming said his Department
could not accept the Budget
Bureau's edict against any
and all new welfare pro
grams. He was quickly sup
ported by several other Cabi
net members. Even Secretary
of State Dulles is concerned
He knows that a budget that
skimps on everything but
foreign aid is an engraved in
vitation to Congress to cut
the heart out of foreign aid.
WHERE DOES Vice Presi
dent Nixon stand? He
stands in an ironic position.
By nature, politicaly and in-
telectually Nixon is a man of
action, a bold , planner, the
precise opposite of a stand
patter. And yet the whole
tone of the recent Republican
campaign, which he helped to
set, is almost driving the Ad
ministration into fiscal re
trenchment now. The para
dox is that results of the elec
tion seem to argue even more
powerfully the other way.
Quietly, privately, it can be
assumed that the Vice Presi
dent is using all his per
suasion against a budget that
will give the Democrats in
Congress all the initiative on
slum clearance, school con
struction, atomic power, aid
for depressed areas and a host
of other measures that the
strongest Democratic Con
gress in 22 years is already
gleefully contemplating. Mr.
Nixon has not forgotten Mr.
Truman's , sensational 1948
campaign against a "do
nothing" Republican Con
gress. He could well be
weighing what might happen
if the Democrats campaigned
in 1960 against a do-nothing
Republican Executive.
The secret debate in the
Cabinet is far from over. It
may, in fact, spill out into the
open in an embarrassing way
before it "ends. -
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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"Tail-Holt" Crossing
To the Editor: One of the
old historic landmarks which
evidently has long since been
almost forgotten was the site
of the fording of the river
about one-quarter mile above
the present location of the
new Rogue River bridge. Ac
cording to all the stories we
received from some of the
early settlers at Woodville
years ago, was that before
the town was named Wood
ville,. it was called "Tail-Holt"
after a near tragedy of one
person who held onto a
horse's tail to prevent his
being swept downstream by
tin swollen river in the at
tempt to cross over safely.
We were also informed of
an old doctor who resided at
Woodville, by the name of
Samuel Morse. He had left a
year or so before we arrived
in 1912 at Woodville. He was
nearly 100 years old then. It
was the same old doctor who
had lived in the mid-west, and
was. present when we were
ushered into the world and
first saw the light of day.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford.
Wilson Speculates on Vast" Increase in
Debt, Economic Collapse by Year 1989
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington - (UPD-Applica-tion
of a sharp pencil, simple
arithmetic and the facts of
life to the U.
S. n a t i onal
debt can pro
duce some
figures so ter
rifying a s t o
be almost un
unbelieveable. For e x
ample: If the
national debt
ie c. wuson i n c reases in
the next 30 years as it has in
the past 30 years, we all
would be busted by 1989.
By that year we all would
be earning dollars which
wouldn't be worth much, if
anything. For a real switch,
it probably would be easier
then to earn deflated dollars
than to spend them.
Who, with real goods or
services to trade, would want
to exchange either for phony
dollars worth a ha-penny, or
less? Such a hard decision
may never have to be made
by American citizens, al
though it has happened else
where in recent years and
could happen here.
Perhaps it is a shade less
Washington Report
By William S. Whits
NEW PERIOD IN DANGER
Washington -The Eisen
h o w e r Administration i s
again reducing the armed
forces in the
face of what
is responsibly
admitted here
to be a hard
ening line by
the Russian
and Chinese
Com munists
all across the
world.
Williams White i-enia-
gon under orders from Presi
dent Eisenhower, is cutting
military manpower by 70,000
to a total force, for all serv
ices combined, of 2,525,000 or
less. Does thi"s inevitably
mean, less actual firepower?
On this point there is endless
and insoluble argument. Some
experts contend we are "get
ting more bang for a buck by
streamlining the forces."
Other experts retort that
this slogan is as nonsensical
as it is in poor taste. It is
like arguing, says this group,
that a thing - defense - can
become bigger on the inside
while it becomes smaller on
the outside.
What is clear beyond any
dispute, however - indeed
what is freely conceded - is
all the following.
TIKITA Khrushchev, the
Soviet dictator, is moving
his policies back toward the
sullen menace of the old Stal
in days. We know it to be a
fact that "toughness" is suc
ceeding a comparatively long
period of relative relaxation
in the Kremlin. Chillingly,
we don't know why; we don't
even have a good educated
guess.
The consensus still is that
Khrushchev does not want
war - not, at any rate, for
two or three years. After that
period, his intercontinental
ballistics missiles - weapons
capable of traveling 5,000
miles or more and leaving un
speakable destruction at the
end of the line will be in
operational numbers." That
is, he wil have many of them.
Already, he has tested a num
ber - more than a handful;
less than 20.
All the same, even now the
Russians are putting on the
pressure across many seas -and
inside the Soviet Union
as well as outside. Their
probing challenges to the
West around Berlin are much
worrying us - though we be
lieve the Russians will not
yet push the thing to a point
where we must fight.
AND there is danger to free
wnrlrl intaroca frnm Tfari
in the Middle East to Vene
zuela and the Argentine in
South America - not to men
tion from Pakistan to Indo-
ORDER
Your
NOW -from
VILLAGE DAIRY SMITH
East Main at Genessee
' At Mm low price at
Savage Turkey
than likely to happen here be
cause the past 30 years' in
crease in the national debt-
on which all of this unhappy
speculation is based- was
enormously furthered by the
extra - ordinary expenses of
World War II and of the cold
war which has come after it.
Economy Would Be Scuttled
Another war of the magni
tude of World War II and the
national debt probably would
scuttle the United States
economy. And who is there
here or anywhere to say for
sure that World War III will
not one day be under way?
The cold war compels gov
ernment spending at a rate
which steadily increases the
national debt, but not at the
destructive rate of hot war
outlays.
What happened to the na
tional debt in 30 years from
1929 was that it increased
about 18-fold. It is moving
toward $289 billion today.
The shocker in the story of
the national debt is the an
nual cost in interest 'to the
holders of government secur
ities. The treasury must pay out
nearly $8 billion in interest
in the present fiscal year. In
terest paid on the national
debt in the past 10 years
China to Indonesia to For
mosa in the Far East. Com
munist subversion is, quite
frankly, doing all too well in
many places, and we know it.
The Russians, at the same
time, are seen as having all
but abandoned their long
clamor to force us into a so-
called nuclear "disarmament"
that would leave the. essential
power balance tipped on their
side. Why they have done so
is another in a long list of
sinister enigmas.
Is it because they suspect
we will adopt proposals such
as that of Senator Albert
Gore (D., Tenn.) to stop all
our bomb tests in the imme
diate upper air but go on
with vital underground and
outer space experiments?
(This would draw most of the
teeth from Soviet propaganda
picturing us as insisting on
poisoning the atmosphere
while it would permit us to
go ahead with our weapons
work in areas where there
could be no harmful fall-out).
Or is it simply that the
Russians are taking up a bru
tal candor and implicity ad
mitting that they are now
turning on the heat valve and
shutting off the charm valve?
,
MONE of this do we know.
-11 We know only that on the
most hopeful possible esti
mate we are entering a period
of vast danger for the next
two or three years. And if all
goes in the best possible way
beyond this time we shall con
front many years and per
haps decades - of exhausting
and perilous cold war.
All these circumstances will
suggest why the truly adult
politicians in both parties in
this country will not be irre
sponsible enough to try to
tear the Eisenhower Adminis
tration to shreds in its com
ing last two years. They all
know how scary is the score.
And they all know that no
body alive no Congress, no
party - can direct the Presi
dent's operation of the Penta
gon. There is only one com
mander-in-chief; and it is he.
They all desperately hope
he is right about military
manpower; many desperately
fear he may be wrong. But
there is nothing whatever
they can usefully do about it.
All can only earnestly wish
for the President, in this mat
ter, the best possible success
in this autumn of his public
life.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
CALLED SHORT-SIGHTED
Moscow - (UPD - The Soviet
army newspaper Red btar
during the week end accused
Turkey, Iran and Pakistan of
a "short-sighted policy" in
negotiating with the United
States for a defense pact.
"Savage"
Phont SP 3-4379
you would pay at
Farm itself.
comes to more than $66,500,-
000,000. Peanuts, you might
say, compared to what the na
tional debt will cost 30 years
from now if it continues to
increase in the future as it
has in the past. . Eighteen
times more . debt would re
quire 18 times more interest
for the bond holders.
$144 Billion In Interest
That would be an interest
bill of $144 billion in the
1989 fiscal year and some
where in that great sum
would be the dime that broke
the taxpayer's back and broke
the back of the American
economy, to boot. That much
money would run the govern
ment for nearly two years
right now at the present lev
els of spending which are not
by any means low.
There are alternatives to
the steady and very large in
Republican Prospect
For Regaining House
Control Dim in 1960
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) Can
the Republicans regain con
trol of Congress in the fore
seeable future?
That question is being
raised seriously this week by
those who have analyzed the
returns from the shattering
1958 election.
The voters Nov. 4 reduced
the GOP contingent in the
Senate to its lowest point
since 1940 and cut the Repub
lican House delegation to the
smallest number since 1936.
Republican recapture of the
Senate in 1960 is made al
most impossible by the fact
that the Democrats, who have
62 seats, will risk only 10 of
them outside the South in the
next election. They could
lose all 10 and still control the
Senate, 52-40.
In the House, the odds
against the GOP in 1960 are
almost as great The Republi
cans retained 153 seats in the
recent election and need a
gain of 66 seats in 1960 to
muster a bare majority.
Need Another 1920
The only recent President
ial election in which the Re
publicans have managed that
kind of gain was, Warren G.
Harding's 1920 sweep, in
which the GOP picked up 61
seats. Republicans gained 75
House seats in 1938, but that
wasn't a Presidential election
year.
Actually, a Congressional
Quarterly analysis indicates
the odds are against the Re
publicans in the 1960 House
election.
The reason; Republicans
have many more tightly-con
tested districts to defend in
1960 than Democrats do.
The analysis shows that a
pro-Democratic .switch of less
than 10 per cent in the popu
lar vote would cost the Re
publicans 75 per cent of their
remaining 153 House seats.
A similar switch to the Re
publicans would send only 23
per cent of the 282 sitting
Democrats down to defeat.
That is true because only
337 Republicans were elected
to the House this year with
more than 60 per cent of the
total vote, while 209 Demo
crats rolled up that big a mar
gin. A Rare Switch
Putting it another way,- the
Democrats could just about
withstand a 10 per cent switch
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national debt. They are either
to reduce spending within
the limits of government in
come or to increase taxes to
cover the difference. A com
bination of both would be
doubly effective and, prob
ably, more acceptable to the
U. S. taxpayer.
The alternative confronting
government in 1989 - assum
ing that the debt should by
then have increased 18-fold -would
be these: Pay the inter
est or repudiate the debt.
There would be another way
out, however.
It is the way Germany
chose in the middle 1920s
when her internal debt came
unbearable, unmanage able
and unpayable. The Germans
simply paid off with inflated,
worthless printing press
money. It worked.
in the popular vote in every
Congresional District in the
country - and stil control the
House.
Such a switch, by the way.
would be almost unprecedent
ed. The Democratic landslide
of 1958 was achieved on an
estimated 5 per cent gain in
the national popular vote.
If the Republicans don't
regain the House in 1960, the
prfessionals think it may be
a long time before they are in
a position to offer another
serious challenge.
They point out that Demo
crats now have complete con
trol of the legislatures in 29
states, while the Republicans
have such control in only
eight. The other legislatures
are divided between the par
ties. In many states, the legis
latures will have an oppor-
tunity to redraw the Congres
sional district boundaries
after the 1960 census.
The professionals expect
the Democrats to look out
for their own interests in re
districting the states they'
control.
The resulting Democratic
advantage, they say, will
make it even harder for Re
publicans to gain control of
the House than it is now.
(Copyright Congressional
Quarterly Inc.)
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