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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
Not. 26, 1948 (Friday)
New construction work at
Gold Hill includes an addi
tion to the Community church
and extensive repairs to the
Southern Pacific depot.
Campaign leaders hope the
Community Chest drive will
go over the top this week end.
20 YEARS AGO
Mot. 26, 1938 (Saturday) .
A throng of some 500 cou
ples attends the annual fire
men's charity ball at Oriental
Gardens.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "For
these things, and many more,
thanks can be given today!
For nobody abbreviating
Thanksgiving Xgiving."
10 YEARS AGO
Mot. 26, 1928 (Monday)
A permanent restraining or
der is issued to prevent build
ing a dam across the Rogue
river at Gold Hill by that city
and the Beaver Portland Ce
ment company.
Boy Scouts of the Crater
Lake council undertake pub
lishing a newspaper, entitled
"Crater Sparks."
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 26, 1918 (Tuesday)
A white Thanksgiving-the
first since 1910-appears a cer
tainty as snow falls starting
at noon today.
An all - day Thanksgiving
dinner basket picnic is sched
uled at the Agate school house
with the entire community in
vited to participate.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ran' correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five Of
six is good.
1. The praying mantis in
sect is harmless to man; true
or false?
2. Identify the Supreme
Court Justice who recently re
tired.
3. The noted Blarney Stone
Is in a castle in Scotland, Ire
land, or Wales?
4. Is it true, or false, that
the only metals used to coin
money have been gold and
silver?
5. Frederic Chopin, noted
composer, was of polish, Rus
sian, or Czech birth?
6. The parliament of the
new West German Republic
meets in which German city?
7. When a soldier lines up
to receive "chow" is he seek
ing food, medical attention, or
a uniform?
- 8. Does the Danube river
Cow into the Mediterranean,
the Aegean, or the Black Sea?
9. The North Pole is in the
Arctic; where is the South
Pole?
10. Is the planet .Jupiter
larger, or smaller, than the
earth?
Answers: 1. True. 2. Harold
H. Burton. 3. Ireland. 4.
False. 5. Polish. 6. Bonn. F.
Food. 8 Black set. 9. Antarc
tic. 10. Larger.
ROUND TABLE TOPS
New York-OTC-Round Ta
ble, who launched his 1958
campaign early in January
and still was winning nine
months later, today was chos
en "Horse of the Year" by
the Morning Telegraph and
Dailing Racing Form.
The D'Autremont Parole
Whether or not one agrees with the Oregon
board of parole and probation, in ordering a
parole for Hueh D'Autremont. one cannot denv
their courage in doing so.
Ever since we first became interested in this
case, more than a decade ao-o. those involved
have told us that never
nave pressures been so great to see that Hugh is
kept in prison the rest of his life.
At the slightest hint in the past that he might
be paroled, officials from the railroad and from
the postal and treasury services have shown up
and camped on the doorstep of the parole offic
ials, and of other public officers. That this pres
sure has eased off in the last couple of years only
made the decision somewhat easier.
""PHE board members have resisted these pres-
sures, and done what they believed was the
right and just thing. It is a credit to them and
the job they are doing.
For repeatedly we have been told that, if ever
a prisoner has become fully rehabilitated, it is
Hugh D'Autremont. He was a youth of 18 when
the crime a particularly vicious crime, it is true
was committed. One of the factors in his receiv
ing a life sentence, rather than a death sentence,
was the fact that he was under the influence of
his older brothers, Ray and Roy.
In the 31 years since he entered the prison, he
has been a "model" prisoner. He learned a trade,
printing, and became proficient in it. He has read
widely, and his self-education is said to be broad.
ASA printer he has handled publication of
"Shadows," the' prison magazine, which has
received widespread acclaim for its excellence.
Some of its articles and editorials he has written.
And prison and parole authorities say he is
fully aware of the gravity of his crime, is truly
repentant, and fully determined to make a fresh
new start on the outside, to be as much a "model"
citizen as he was a ."model" prisoner.
The action of the parole board is fully in ac
cord with Article 1, Section 15, of the Oregon
Constitution, which says:
"Laws for the punishment of crime shall be founded
on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive
justice."
HERE are those who will claim that, even
with these things in mind, Hugh D'Autre
mont should spend the rest of his days in prison.
We say that it would
practically.
It would not serve justice for him to remain
in prison, nor would it protect society. If D'Autre
mont, alter 31 years of
himself to get m a position where he has to re
turn, we will be sadly surprised. And we are will
ing to accept the decision of the parole board
that he should be given his chance.
It will not be easy. Thirty one years is a long
time to be shut off from the world. And it may
be that he will find it difficult to escape the pub
lic notice that follows so widely-known and pub
licized a figure.
But he is entitled to a chance. E.A.
Maturing America?
Is America dignified? Is it cultured? Is the
emphasis on beauty and
These are conclusions
recently visited (of all places) Chicago, for the
first time in 13 years. Writing in the London
Times, he saw less vulgarity . . . more privacy.
Life looked to him "smoother . . . faster . . . less
raw and boisterous . . . more lush . . . less adoles
cent." This is interesting particularly from a Brit
on. We have become used to much more looking-down-the-nose
types of reports about America in
the British press.
IT IS difficult for an American to assess America.
It needs someone like De Toqueville, or Ali
stair Cooke someone who is familiar with the
American picture but who is not a part of it, some
one with intelligence and' perception, yet who is
not intimately involved.
Occasionally such a person can draw a pic
ture of America which is true. When he does so,
it often hurts; for America this America we love
so well has its faults, its rough spots, its injust
ices and its deficiencies. And any impartial ap
praisal of America must record these as well as
the strengths and virtues.
DERHAPS our British friend (his name is Gra-
ham Hutton) is right in saying that "the old,
brash, strident, self-assurance the certitude of
a slick solution to any problem," is gone.
He adds:
"It .is only natural that Uncle Sam's new, unfa
miliar, unwanted, worldwide risks and responsibilities
unwanted burdens for an unwanted family of na
tions should have worked great and wondrous
changes ..."
But, with all the changes, he thinks something
has been lost, some of the tough, raw, cre
ative genius that responded nobly whenever the
lamp was rubbed."
Americans are too close to America to know
whether Hutton is right or wrong, and it prob
ablv doesn't matter anyway.
But no matter what
could show him plenty
assurance and occasionally a spot of creative
genius, too. If, indeed,
sun nas a way to go. And we re sort ot glad.
in all their experience
be wrong morally and
prison life, ever permits
seriousness?
of a British writer who
he saw in Chicago, we
of brash, strident, self
America is maturing, it
E.A.
Dennis the
TUANKSGfVAT MEANS SOU SHOULD SWCT ACTtH' POIRE
SO yOU LI GET LOTS OF CHwSTAWS PRESENTS
Matter of Fact
THE WALLS OF JERICHO
Jericho, Jordan At the
summit of the dusty hill, a
great pit has been dug. At the
bottom of the
pit lies a wide
ledge cut into
the living
rock. A mas
sive wall, well
built of heavy
boulders, rises
behind the
ditch; and be
hind the wall
4o-ph Alsop i n e r c is a
great round tower, also boulder-built.
And this, surely, is
the most extraordinary sight
in the world.
Since the future can only
be awaited with patience,
hope and misgiving, the best
holiday from the present is
the past. Any sensible man
wants an occasional holiday
from the present in the trou
bled Middle East. But if you
take your holiday at old Jer
icho, as I have just done, you
are likely to find the trip in
the time-machine almost too
violent.
The mud and wall and
round tower of old Jericho are
not extraordinary because
they are beautiful. They are
extraordinary, rather, because
the mere discovery of their
existence has pushed back the
history of what we like to call
civilization by something like
3,000 years. Not much more
time has passed since the mo
ment when the trumpets blew
and old Jericho's long .story
ended, and Joshua grimly pro
claimed: 'Blessed be the man before
the Lord, that riseth up and
buildeth this blessed city, Jer
icho."
BUT this small and humble
town evisted in the hill
millenia before Joshua and
millenia before Abraham. The
men who maae it naa oniy
stone tools, and fire and wa
ter to crack the rock for the
ditch. From the summit of the
tower the people .of the city
may even have fired their
flint-tipped arrows at the last
man of the Neanderthal race.
For the Neanderthalers
seemed to have outlived the
Ice Age here in Palestine;
these fortifications date from
somewhere rather close to
8,000 B. C, not so very long
after the last big retreat of
the earth-ribbing ice.
Until the great British ar
cheologist, Dr. Kathleen Ken
yon, Unearthed the tower and
wall and moat, civilization's
known history began in the
Iraqi village of Jarmo about
5,000 B. C. at least if civiliz
ation is to be defined as the
adoption of a settled, food-producing
way of life in place of
the hunter and the good-gatherer.
"But what was Jarmo?"
cried Dr. Awni Dajani, the
Jordanian Director of Anti
quities, who kindly showed
me old Jericho. Then, answer
ing his own scornful question,
Dr. Dajani added:
"Jarmo was nothing but a
miserable, unwalled village!
Here, perhaps three millenia
earlier, we have a walled,
water-moated, fortif ed town of
several thousand, built long
before man had even invented
pottery."
THE proof that man invent
ed war before he invented
almost anything else except
improved stone weapons and
techniques of agriculture was
indeed there, staring one
sternly in the eye. The carefully-cut
sides of the great pit
seemed, in truth, to be one
continuous record of man's in
veterate inhumanity to man.
The people who made the
tower and walls and moat at
the bottom of the pit lived in
round, mud - floored houses.
They had a cult of skulls of
their ancestors or their ene
mies. They were the first to
till the field watered by Jeri
cho's spring of Elias, which
makes a rich oasis here in the
M I I 111
Menace
By Joseph Alsop
desolate Jordan valley. But
the time of these first people
came, and their city was des-
stroyea ana its rums maae a
little hill And another people
came to build on the hill.
These new people still had
no pottery. They also made a
cult of skulls, even molding
plaster faces on the dead
bones. But they were certain
ly men of another race, be
cause they, made another sort
of brick, they built large
square houses, and they neat
ly plastered their house floors.
You can see the line of one
of their house floors in the
pitside just above the level of
the old round tower's top.
In the end, their time also
came and their city was also
destroyed; and they were fol
lowed by other peoples, who
had pottery but still used
stone weapons. One of these
peoples to the east was a rude
race, on the still-growing hill
of old Jericho, almost as the
Bedouin camp today. Finally,
they too were driven out by
the men of the early Bronze
Age, who first discovered that
square bricks were more con
venient than rounded bricks,
as you can see from a bit of
their brick construction that is
embedded in the site of the
pit.
, .
THESE first metal-users of
old Jericho were the con
temporaries of Egypt's earli
est pharoahs. They too had a
flourishing city, whose history
lasted many centuries longer
than the histories of most
modern nations. But, at last,
they grew complacent and
neglected their defenses, for
there were Charles Erwin Wil
sons even in those days. The
resulting drama is all there, to
to read and hear the final
desperate effort, never finish
ed, to rebuild the fallen de
fenses, the remorseless on
slaught of the invaders, and
the fire that was all-consuming.
The Invaders were another
rude race, fit only to fight and
conquer the city-builders; and
their time came when other,
more advanced bronze-users
seized Jericho and its well
watered fields. These were the
men of Jericho when Abraham
passed this way. Their story
was also written in this fair
city, as their graves show. But
they, too, were killed or
driven out in the end, by those
who built the last of all the
old Jerichos the Jericho
that fell to Joshua, where the
harlot lived.
"But, really," said Dr. Da
jani, "we have almost nothing
from Joshua's Jericho except
one poor little jug. it was too
early in the story, and erosion
of the hilltop had washed
away whatever Joshua left
behind.
There is some hope, how
ever, that souvenirs of this
last Jericho that Joshua razed
will be discovered beneath
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
ALLAN KING had a neighbor who couldn't stand his dog.
He tried hard, but couldn't lose the critter. In desperation,
he finally lit out for Africa with the dog, and threw it out of a
helicopter in the middle of
the Sahara Desert. Then he
had to land at an oasis, be
cause he was out of gas.
Two months later the dog
trotted happily into his
home in Long Island. But
to this day, nobody's found
hide nor hair of the poor
master.
Another "old party" who ia
enjoying life to the full is Carl
Sandburg, past 80 and seem
ingly indestructible. It's a cau
tion to watch this distin
guished poet tune up his gee
tar, announce to visitors, "Here's a very short song you might say
is the outline for a very long novel," and then launch into the dulcet
strains of "Papa Loved Mama, Mama Loved Men, Mama's in the
Grave, Papa's in the Pen."
Unhappy little shoe! His ma was a sneaker; his pa, a .oafer.
O 198, BcaatU Ctrl. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
THE BERLIN MANEUVERS
The most likely explana
tion of what the Soviet gov
ernment is up to in Berlin is,
it seems to me,
to make the
West Germans
more willing
to deal with
the East Ger
mans. The fact
of the matter
is, of course,
that the two
sets of Ger
mans are al-
Walter
Lippmann
ready negotiating at what is
called the technical level, as
the trade agreement an
nounced on Friday reminds
us. The Soviet government's
policy calls for a broadening
of these negotiations with a
view, eventually, to a politi
cal agreement for a limited
reunification of the two Ger
man states.
When I was in Moscow in
October I had a talk with the
Foreign Minister, Mr. Gro
myko, and when we got to
the German question, I asked
him what was the Soviet view
of how the Germans could be
reunited. Without hesitation
he replied that this could be
done only by a "confedera
tion" he was speaking Eng
lish in which each of the
two German states could re
tain its own social institutions.
Like Mr. Khrushchev, whom
I had seen the day before,
Mr. Gromyko maintained that
German reunification by con
federation would have to be
brought about by negotiation
between the two Germanys.
r""PHK advocacy in Moscow of
a German confederation
seemed to me very significant
in view of the fact that last
March, when I was in Bonn,
I had heard the same thing
in so many and in such high
quarters. The State Depart
ment, to be sure, continues to
repeat the old official form
ula that Germany should be
reunited by free elections in
which, of course, the Com
munist regime would be de
molished and East Germany
would be absorbed into the
West German state. But I
doubt whether there are
many responsible men in West
Germany who would want
Germany to be reunited in
this way, even supposing that
the Russians would permit it.
For the two Germanys
have developed very different
ly and the attempt to integrate
them would now be enormous
ly difficult. It would be a
heavy burden for the West
Germans and very probably
there would be considerable
resistance to it in East Ger
many. There are other reasons
why few responsible West
Germans wish to have inte
gration in a unified state. For
integration would change
radically the balance of re
ligious forces and of the po
litical parties.
Seen realistically, and not
.through the fumes of the of
ficial formula, the alterna
tives are, on the one hand,
the formation of some kind of
dual state and, on the other
hand, the continuing partition
of the German nation.
I READ the news of the
Berlin maneuvers against
this background. Mr. Khrush
chev, who is nobody's fool, is
certainly aware that there is
a strong and growing senti-
the mud huts of the vast
neighboring camp where
many thousands of Arab re
fugees -from Israeli Palestine
now enjoy their death-life ex
istence. The camp area is a huge
ancient cemetery, and the
refugees are glad to dig for
hidden tombs beneath their
mud floors because tomb dis
coverers are paid a few shil
lings which briefly relieve the
long, dull misery of their
lives.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
LJKIIJ
ment in West Germany in
favor of expanding negotia
tions with East Germany.
There is already a lot more
talk among the two sets of
Germans than the official
policy of non-recognition con
templates, and there is no
doubt at all that there would
be still more talking, were it
not for the respect and the
fear in which Dr. Adenauer is
held.
So, the Soviet idea of ne
gotiations leading to confed
eration is one to which the
West Germans are by no
means unreceptive. When Dr.
Adenauer leaves the scene,
the idea has an excellent
chance to become a live issue.
Mr. Khrushchev is one who
likes to ride the waves of the
future.
THERE is, of course, no way
of telling what will be the
immediate course of the man
euver irfBerlin. But it would
be surprising indeed if the
Soviet government, though it
withdrew its own forces, did
not keep the East German
government under strict con
trol. For it is committed to
defend the East German gov
ernment if it is attacked, and
that makes it reasonably cer
tain that Moscow will restrain
the East Germans from doing
things which might provoke
an attack. There is no reason
at all to suppose that Moscow
thinks that on the German
question the United States is
a "paper tiger."
I do not think, therefore,
that the Soviet objective is to
blockade us and force us out
of West Berlin. They know
that would mean war. Then
objective, I believe, is to dem
onstrate to the West Germans
in particular that the Soviet
government has, and that the
Western allies do not have, a
realistic and reasonable solu
tion of the German question.
You cannot, the old saying
goes, beat a horse with no
horse. The Soviet idea of con
federation is a horse, perhaps
a poor horse, 'but unmistak
ably a horse on which a grow
ing number in both Germanys
would be willing to place
their bets.
"OUT our idea of fre'e elec-
tions to be followed by the
integration of East Germany
into the West German state
is no horse at all. For one
thing, the Russians will not
agree to free elections. For
another, the West Germans
do not want integration. And
very probably, moreover, a
very large number of East
Germans, who are Socialists
though not Communists, also
do not want integration and
would fight against it.
Lacking a policy of our own
for the unification of Ger
many, we have become hys-
terically attached to the status
quo. It often looks as if we
were not quite sure of the
distinction between harden
ing of the will and hardening
of the arteries.
Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial Comment
ASHLAND'S PRIDE
OURS, TOO
It is of vastly more than
local interest that a drive has
been started at Ashland to
raise $275,000 to finance -construction
of a theater for the
Oregon Shakespearean Festi
val association ... -
Ashland has set for itself
a minimum goal of $50,000,
no small sum for a town of
less than 9,000 population to
raise, but behind the cam
paign is an inspiration fired
by realization that the Shake
spearean festival has become
one of the nation's major sym
bols of culture. It has im
bued the community with just
pride of leadership.
This augurs well for ac
complishment of an objective
toward which Grants Pass,
Medford, and in fact, all of
southwestern Oregon, have of
fered aid. Not only that, but
help is coming from Portland,
where a bank official pro
cured 18 donati&ns from
among only 20 persons inter
viewed in one day, even be
fore the drive had been
launched.
Along with this have come
scores of encouraging mes
sages from theatrical, radio
and literary lumina ries
throughout the country, por
tending contributions from
far beyond Oregon's bounda
ries . . .
Why do we concern our
selves so with Ashland's prob
lem? Because Ashland's pride
in its threatrical prestige is
shared by all of Oregon, and
failure of Ashland's campaign
would reflect discredit to all
Oregonians. That is why we,
though some 230 miles from
Lithia park, add our expres
sion of hope that the new
theater is built. Albany
Democrat-Herald.
Turkey Overrated as
Food, Columnist's
Father Once Wrote
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPD - Turkey
day goes back to the 17th cen
tury and. over the years, it
has won fed
eral and state
r e c o gnition.
AU of this has
been over the
protests of a
m i n o r ity of
citizens who
have no ob
jections to the
sentiment of
Lyie c. wiison Thanks giv
ing but who hold that turkey
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
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Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Cart Before the Horse?
To the Editor: Why haven't
the proponents of the offstreet
parking plan made use of ex
isting laws and means first,
before asking the taxpayers
of Medford to give them an
open check by voting a gen
eral bond issue?
Law allows for an assess
ment district to be formed,
with the bonding of the dis
trict benefited for . offstreet
parking (OH.S. 223-857; 223-
859).
No bonded district has been
approved by petition or vote
for the creation of an assess
ment district. If an assess
ment district is to be created,
it would appear logical that
this district be formed and
the provisions of law be ex
hausted first. Then, if no buy
ers are available for bonds
for this type of district, if the
owners of property within
this district have used all
available means of financing,
and these owners have signi
fied by petition or other action
that they are willing to 'carry
the tax load to provide the off
street parking, then the city
government should ask the
voters for a general bond issue
to warrant payment of these
district bonds.
In asking the taxpayers to
vote a general bond issue be
fore such district has been
created, will create suspicion
of the motives behind this.
Why should voters vote a
potential tax without first
knowing the following facts:
1. What are the boundaries
of this district.
2. Have the property own
ers approved this district.
3. What assessment will be
used valuation, front foot,
gross sales or other.
4. What is the overall plan
and estimated costs of this
parking district
5. What funds presently
used for city government will
be diverted to help pay off
this obligation.
When this plan was defeat
ed before by the voters, city
government by budget pro
vided $50,000 in 1957-58 for
offstreet parking. In 1958-59
$7,000 was again budgeted.
This suggests that the voters
and taxpayers have no voice
in the matter. If we don't vote
it, it will be budgeted any
way. Taxpayers are faced with.
Increasing taxes, due to the
growth of the city, inflation
in costs, and demand for more
and better services.
Now is the time to scrutin
ize all tax measures.' Be sure
to know what you are voting
for, and remember if you
want services, or improve
ments you will have to pay
for them. There is no Santa
Claus to pay your taxes.
Ray J. Schumacher,
County Assessor.
B a
ssy
3 Timot Fader Relief
Certifies liborittry tssts frnt E1"'"
tablets seetralizt 3 timet at Bscs teme
acidity in sue inttt at mtnt Kaeii
Egestiw tablet.. Set MU-aK tedee far
ml fntert toiewe relief. JS J'."i"i5,
Seed vestal te BELl-aHS, Oraepaers. -far
liberal free saaiale.
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than
is overrated as an entree.
This anti-turkey minority is
supported by two smaller
groups of citizens:
-Those who are unable to
carve the bird.
-Columnists who like a top
ical column when it is come
by easily."
My father was writing a
pretty good column for the
Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital
back there at the turn of the
century and, one day, ho
wrote this:
"Under ordinary circum
stances I would feel very
thanksful today. I have a
steady job,, a happy home,
good appetite and excellent
digestive works; but I am
feeling a "little out of har
mony with the condition that
should prevail today, because
I know when I go home to
dinner there will be a big
brown turkey on the table.
Force of Habit
"I despise turkey, and so
does my wife.M do not believe
that one-half of the people
who buy turkeys on Thanks
giving do so because they like
to eat turkey meat.
"Yesterday, as I came down
to work, I queried 17 people
to get their views regarding
turkey meat. Fifteen agreed
that turkey makes mighty
poor eating. Twelve of the 15
agreed that a good piece of
beef, well roasted, would out
class turkey every time. 1
was glad to find that so many
favored beef, for I am a beef
eater myself. I would feel a
great deal better if I knew I
was going home to a roast
beef dinner today, instead of
a turkey dinner.
Just Because
"But the turkey goes, just
because it is Thanksgiving,
not because it is particularly
good. My wife has invited
some friends in to eat with
us. I asked her yesterday
what she was going to get for
dinner, and she said she al
ready had bought a turkey.
"I didn't make any roar,
but remarked that I wished
she had bought a big beef
roast. She said she preferred
roast beef herself, but that
she knew , that her guests
would not feel as though they
had been to a -Thanksgiving
dinner unless there was tur
key on the board.
"So, the turkey will be on
deck, the ace-high card of the
feast, although no one really
wants him; for I am sure that
our guests feel just as my wife
and I do about the matter.
But I am not going to let the
presence of a turkey beat me
out of enjoying my dinner,
for there will be a great lot
of other stuff on the 'table
which I can eat and enjoy in
spite of the- fact that the
Thanksgiving turkey-the na
tional fraud-takes the leading
role."
The Alaska highway from,
Fairbanks to Dawson Creek,
British Columbia, was opened
to tourist travel during the
summer of 1948."
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