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Flight 'o Time
Medford and "Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
I 10 YEARS AGO
Dae. 1. 1948 (Wednesday)
Medford service station and
' garage operators plan a meet-
ing to discuss whether to raise
. gasoline prices to levels now
. in effect in Ashland and
Salem.
Two Medford shops feature
', a small booklet of verses by
June Catherine Johnson, local
poet.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 1. 1938 (Thursday)
The county clerk can issue
no more marriage licenses un
til the state provides medical
examination blanks for both
the man and the woman" un
der the new law.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Now
that the basketball season has
started, coaches report they
can find six-foot kids every
place, but on the basketball
team.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 1, 1928 (Saturday)
Christmas trees are placed
along Medford's downtown
streets in preparation for
Monday's Christmas opening
and for Christmas itself.
The first "green" planes
carrying U.S. mail have been
placed in service for the run
via Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 1, 1918 (Sunday)
The Southern Oregon Poul
try association holds its fourth
annual show in Medford this
month.
Carter, the magician with a
retinue of 25 people and 15
tons of "marvelous illusions."
performs here tomorrow.
Yhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.'
1. During the War between
the States, was Texas one of
the Confederate States of
America?
2. In the British Peerage
system, which ranks the high-er-an
earl or a duke?
3. The Gaspe Peninsula is
in what country?
4. Which American naval
hero of the Revolutionary
War said; "I've just begun to
fight?"
5. In which U.S. city was
President McKinley assassin
ated? 6. If a child is sent to the
Land of Nod, where does he
go?
7. A gazelle is an atttractive
young woman, a kind of an
telope, or a barred window
of a harem?
8. In draw poker, with wild
cards, what is the highest
possible hand?
9. What is the name of the
Ohio city that is noted for its
rubber industry?
10. From which English
King was the grant of Magna
Charta obtained?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. A duke.
3. Canada. 4. John Paul
Jones. 5. Buffalo, N.Y. 6. To
sleep. 7. Antelope. 8. 5 Aces.
9. Akron. 10. King John.
The Chatham Islands, rocky
dots 360 miles east of New
Zealand, were discovered in
179L -
espial
"Well Done!!"
Medford High school's week end football
trek to Portland did not produce the state champ
ionship. Yet the players and their coaches deserve
congratulation and with
Black Tornado gridders put up a valiant bat
tle before bowing to defending champion Jeffer
son of Portland m Friday's Class A-l title fray.
And, throughout the season and through the plav-
off games, they have represented Medford well.
I hey have given fans many a thrilling moment.
THE gridiron campaign
one. It has meant long toil, as well as fun, for
the boys who ve earned
When practices began
ago, on Aug. 24, Medford was rated a top con
tender in its own Southern Oregon conference.
Few, if any, foresaw that the Black Tornado
would be playing in the A-l final game. That
they went all the way is
pluck and application,
through the fall.
A nine-win, one-loss,
for Medford s 1958 grid
more impressive by the
back was at the hands
defending team after giving that club its tough
est scuffle of the fall.
A ND the football season cannot properly be
wrapped up without praise for the colorful
contnbution of the Medford High school band,
Wherever the band appeared, it drew impressive
comment for its precise and snappy marching,
its halftime spectacles and its lilting melodies,
Much applause was received Friday from Port
land gridiron fans.
To the eridders, band members and their
mentors the Mail Tribune says: "Well done."
And, to Jefferson's
' Congratulations to a real fine team." K.J.
Draft Here And Abroad
A proposal of the new coalition government
in Belgium to reduce the
ice for conscripts could set off a chain reaction
among Belgium's North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation (NATO) allies, including the United
States. Belgium's present obligation 18 months
of active service already is shorter than the
nominal requirement in
Of all NATO nations, only the United States,
Great Britain and Turkey require 24 months of
active service of draftees. And in the United
States the two-year requirement provided in the
Selective Service act of 1955 is the stick part of
a carrot-and-stick device for encouraging young
men to sign up for a shorter period of active ser
vice plus a long period in the ready reserve.
The 1959 session of
panion problems of extending; the draft and the
military reserves program. Dependable sources in
Selective Service and the Pentagon reported re
cently that the administration would be forced
to recommend continued peacetime conscription.
Without the draft club the "ready reserves" pro
gram probably would collapse.
OPPONENTS of extending the draft here are
certain to argue that our allies are loafing
in the shafts and to point out their shorter active
service requirements. A check of embassies of
NATO nations in Washington showed that aside
from Belgium and the United , States, United
Kingdom, Turkey only five nations require so
much as 18 months active service France,
Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal.
The obligation in Denmark and Norway is
16 months, but Denmark is moving to reduce it
to 12 months. West Germany and Luxembourg
require only 12 months, but in the Federal Re
public the Bundestag is debating a proposal of
Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss to go up
to 15 months. Iceland has no military forces and
Canada no peacetime conscription.
Of our Southeast Treaty Organization
(SEATO) allies, other than Britain and France,
only Thailand requires so much as two years ac
tive service. The Philippine Republic requirement
is six months; in Australia the minimum is 98
days. In New Zealand, where the training period
had been 10y2 weeks, conscription is being scrap
ped as of March 31. Pakistan's armed forces are
made up of volunteers.
Of other nations with which the United States
has specific military arrangements, Japan has
no military conscription. The Republic of China
(Nationalist) embassy in Washington, treats the
length of required service as classified military
information.
HTHE Eisenhower administration in 1955 pre-
sented to Congress a long-range military
program designed to permit abandonment of the
draft at the end of the new four-year extension.
This was to be accomplished through creation
of a ready reserve to augment the regular
services of 2.9 million men by 1960.
The program ran into serious trouble. Admit
tedly the compromise measure which emerged
from Congress would not build up a 2.9 million
ready reserve the goal was later lowered to
2.5 million nor was it expected, realistically,
to permit the scrapping of the selective service
in 1959.
Only the Army now uses drafted personnel,
but recruiting officers in all these services agree
that the threat of being drafted encourages en
listment. The draft call for January of 9,000
lowest since December, 1957 reflects plans to
cut military manpower on active duty more than
70,000 by June 30, rather than any change in re
serve policy. The total armed forces by the middle
of next year will number 2,525,000 men. E.R.R.
it a wealth of praise.
has been a long rigorous
the Tornado colors.
more than three months
a tribute to their ability,
and their teamwork
one-tie record is terrific
campaign. It is made
fact that the single set
of the No. 1 ranked title
title holding Democrats:
period of military serv
this country.
Congress laces the com
Dennis the Menace
AH0 WHEN 4nNSAID'Pass TUB MAT'.teNMS WW
HUS& RJgSEr? TOAD Oti A PLATE AND
Washington Report
By William S. White
POWER OF THE WEST
Washington - Perhaps the
most fundamental shift in the
balance of political power of
this genera
tion is unfold
ing with ever
rising signifi
cance in the
American
West.
Alaska's de
cision in its
belated ballot
ing to send
William S White t W O new
Democratic Senators here has
had far more important re
sults than to swell the Demo
cratic majorities that had re
sulted from elections held
across the rest of the coun
try on Nov. -4.
It means of course, that the
new Senate will open in Janu
ary with 64 Democrats to- 34
Republicans. This is the larg
est margin of Democratic con
trol since the high tide of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
Much more meaningful,
however, is that Alaska, our
49th state, has now joined in
a headlong western march to
the Democratic party that will
have consequences extending
many years into the future.
ALREADY, in the Nov. 4
voting, Democrats have
swept through the Far West
like a desert sandstorm. They
had seized four entrenched Re
publican Senate seats in Wy
oming, California, Nevada and
Utah. They now have consoli
dated an almost total control
of the whole vast area run
ning from the ice of northern
most Alaska to the blazing
heat of the Mexican border.
Now a single Republican
Senator, Thomas Kuchel of
California, survives on the
whole Pacific slope. Moreover,
Democrats are in effective
control of Senate delegations
running aU the way eastward
to the Dakotas.
Already, too, Far Western
Senators had held four of the
most powerful committee
chairmanships in the Senate
dealing with the national
economy - Hayden of Arizona,
appropriations; Murray . of
Montana, interior and insular
affairs; Magnuson of Wash
ington, interstate and foreign
commerce; Chavez of New
Mexico, public works.
The immediate result of all
that has happened in Novem
ber win be to give the West
a degree of Senate influence
it has hardly known in his
tory. There will be a sharp
corresponding fall in the in
fluence in the Senate of both
the East and the Mid-West.
AND the ancient dominance
of the Senate by the South,
particularly in these times
when party control lies with
the Democrats, inevitably will
be much weakened. Indeed, it
would be vastly weakened but
for this fact: the Southern
moderates who ; now master
the Southern Senate wing in
general have long been close
to the Western Democrats.
The association has rested in
part, simply on mutual liking
and in part on common in
terest. These Western Democrats
are universaHy liberal in
things like public power,
spending for public works and
agricultural subsidies. They
have an empire to build and
they represent for the most
part a have-not section of the
country, long subject to eco
nomic discrimination from the
East. So, too, the Southerners.
And so the Southerners, with
a handful of Old Guardist ex
ceptions, find it easy to make
common cause with the West
erners. Each section believes,
from one point of view, in
moving the country forward.
Or each section from the or
thodox Republican view, is
quite expert in widely dis
tributing money from the fed
eral treasury.
fN a single issue, civil rights,
" the Western-Southern com
radeship is far from close.
But even here, the Western
ers have never been willing
to burn the last bridge with
the moderate Southerners.
What is likely for the future
is an increasingly successful
Western - moderate Southern
coalition. Actually it is po
tentially capable of mastering
the Senate and it will prob
ably will do so.
At the same time, the pow
er of the West in Presidential
elections, thus in Presidential
nominating conventions, has
not risen with its Senatorial
power. This, of course, is be
cause in the Senate the small
est state has equal representa
tion with the largest, where
as the. Presidential electoral
vote of Nevada, say, is a small
prize indeed.
Finally then, it is entirely
possible that we shall see a
new contest for ultimate pow
er over public policies be
tween the Western-Southern
Senate on the one side and
the Presidency that after 1960
is still likely to be dominated
by. the interest and attitudes
of the East and Midwest.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
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
The letters printed in this
;olumn do not necessarily repre
sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary is often the
case.
Weather Lore.
To the Editor: One of the
ancient weather omens among
the early Egyptians, and prov
en true, nine times out of ten,
was that the first three days
of December foretell the kind
of winter weather for the
three months ahead.
The first day of December
signals the first month of
winter, the second day fore
told January weather and the
brand of weather on the third
day represented February.
One consolation about the
three month prediction is that
the whole period can be con
strued to mean only the 90
days from the winter solstice
to the spring equinox every
year. Whatever kind of weath
er the three day tradition may
bring is the prophetic key.
We can only hope it isn t
the "upside-down" fog variety
to hold precedence.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford
No More Authority
To The Editor: From the
article in Thursday's paper
regarding the special elec
tion Dec. 10 it appears that
off-stree,t parking is not the
main purpose thereof.
The voters should take note
of statements made at the
Jackson hotel - viz: Otto
Frohnmayer, of the Chamber
of Commerce, stated: "There's
only one issue to be voted on
Dec. 10, and that is faith and
credit behind the bonds."
The city attorney, E. Roy
Bashaw, showed that the char
ter amendment would not in
itself authorize floating any
bonds but it would permit the
city to proceed with resolu
tion of a (or any) specific na
ture with necessary public
hearings by "enabling legis
lation." In my opinion this means
but one thing: The voters are
asked to give our city offic
ials full authority here and
in the future to act for the
All Not Lost for Conservatives;
Reelected to Congress, Wilson
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (DPD Further
evidence to support the belief
that the conservatives are not
all dead is
this:
The right
wing weekly
n e w - letter
"Human
Events,"
which is pub
rished in
Was hington,
D. C, cast up
before the No
Lyle C. Wilson
vember election a list of 42
Republican members of the
House, all 55 years of age or
younger, who were standing
for re-election and who could
be classed as conservative
politicians.
Their conservative tag arbi
trarily was conferred because
all of them in the 85th con
gress had cast more than 70
per cent of their votes on
controversial legislation
against the recommendations
of Americans for Democratic
Action (ADA).
ADA is a non - Communist
but quite left wing political
Matter of Fact
THE HISTORY-MAKER
Baghdad, Iraq. - In any
generation, very few men
genuinely make history.
Furthermore, very few his
tory - makers
strike . one as
really weU
cast for their
role. But this
tiny and inter
esting group
1 now has a new
recruit, in the
person of the
Iraqi revolu-
-los-pb Alsop- aua pre
sent Prime Minister of this
deeply convulsed country,
Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem.
What the new history-maker
had to say about his pol
icies when he received this re
porter can be rather shortly
summarized. Brig. Kassem's
first aim, and just about his
only aim for the present, is
what he called "improving the
condition of the people." For
this purpose, "a timetable has
been set.
I invite you to come back
to my country in three years,
he said, "and then you will
see what changes have taken
place."
-
TN this manner, without let
's- ting himself be pinned
down, he suggested the nature
of the timetable. He wants
time to "improve the condi
tion of the people," in turn,
because he does not share the
popular modern view that a
people sunk in illiteracy and
gripped by misery can easily
look, beyond their present
wretchedness, to make wise
decisions about their country's
future.
"The people must decide the
future of our country," he
said, "and for this decision,
am only one among many. But
before they decide our people
must at least be self-confi
dent, and they must at least
not be hungry."
From this approach, m turn,
all the other features of the
Kassem policy obviously flow,
He wants Iraq to be "truly
neutral, friendly to all na
tions," but he will not tolerate
any interference from any
other nation," whether of the
conflict of the Arab national
ist ultras who want "union
now" with Egypt, and the
Communists who hope tc have
Iraq for themselves in the
end; but the Kassem govern
ment is "determined to stand
above politics and party,"
while once again refusing to
tolerate "interference."
TN short, Iraq's new leader
- wants to be let alone to
get his first big task complet
ed. But can he hope to be let
alone while he "uses the
wealth of this rich country to
improve the people's condi-
people by council action and
public hearings to create
debts and float bnds for pay
ment supported by the full
faith and credit of the city
without again having to se
cure the approval by vote of
the people. It could even be
construed that the city could
budget money in excess of
the 6 per cent limitation with
out the vote of the people.
It may not be the intent, and
I am sure that the city coun
cil does not have any such
intent, but the fact remains
that once such authority is
given, it is liberally construed
in favor of legislative author
ity.
I do not think it wise for
the taxpayers to give up their
only means of control over
city government actions in
the spending of their money.
Amendment of our city
charter is the issue, not off
street parking. Wa must re
fuse to give away any more
of our rights to city govern
ment.
Mai Queen, Arnold Lane
Dick Schaef er, Quince st.
Ray O. DeMarrs
faction of which Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt is honorary nation
al chairman. Other notables
in the ADA high command in
clude Sen. Hubert H. Humph
rey (D. - Minn.), Sen. Wayne
L. Morse (D.-Ore.) Walter P.
Reuther of the auto workers,
and former Sen. Herbert H.
Lehman (D.-N.Y.). ADA is the
heir and embodiment o f
FDR's new deal.
Most Re-elected
"Human Events" called the
list of 42 conservative Repub
licans a roll of honor and re
ported in October that 38 of
them were seeking re-election.
Of those 38, four lost
and 34 were re-elected, a high
percentage in any circum
stances, but especially so in
an election generally regard
ed as an unrelieved catas
trophe for conservative citi
zens and ' triumph for the
left wing.
The 34 winners came from
17 states too widely scattered
to make anything like a pat
tern. Other and older Republi
can conservatives also were
re-elected. "Human Events"
By Joseph Alsop
tion, so that they may choose
their own future?" In other
words, can he control the grim
and powerful forces that are
not going to let him alone if
they can help it?
That is the key question
concerning Abdel Karim Kes
sem, the key question con
cerning Iraq, and perhaps the
key question concerning the
future of the whole vital, dis
turbed Middle East. No one
can answer the question posi
tively, but I must confess that
a long talk with Brig. Kassem
has made me immeasurably
more hopeful about the prob
able, answer.
Outwardly, at least, Iraq's
new leader is a singularly im
pressive figure, erect, spare
and lean, with a fine face dom
inated by large, dark, brood
ing eyes. He can be almost
mystically fervent when he
speaks of his "first task," but
he wholly lacks the tendency
of most Arab politicians to
lapse into easy, empty ora
tory. He has a warmth and
charm that are immediately
apparent, but his warmth is
not the calculated glow, his
charm is not the plump, plan -
Arab leader he must natural
ly be compared with, Egypt's
Gamal Abdel Nasser.
HE speaks pleasantly, in a
low, even but musical
voice, twisting his long hands
when a point troubles him.
He smiles gently when he is
asked a hard question, and
sometimes he is sardonically
humorous, as when he was
pressed about the drive for
"union now" with Egypt. He
replied:
"On this matter, too, the
people must decide our fu
ture when the time comes.
For' the present, Iraq's interim
constitution states that Iraq
is a part of the Arab nation,
which means we want the
closest, the most intimate re
lations with all other Arab
countries. But (here a short
pause) but I would remind
you Iraq's interim constitu
tion also states that Baghdad
is the capital of Iraq."
This man who came to pow
er by a bloody revolution and
holds power today with the
active support of the strong
local Communist party, seem
ed to me a good man. He
also struck me as the most
remarkable and in a sense the
most hopeful of the new gen
eration of leaders thrown up
by the great ferment among
the Arabs. But - the question
kept recurring - would he be
tough enough, would he be
suspicious enough, would he
be determined enough, to
master the . forces he seems
so confident of mastering?
"UR interview at least
" threw one new ray of light
upon this all-important prob
lem. With some reluctance,
Brig. Kassem talked for the
first time about the Free Of
ficers' Movement that made
the revolution.
It was not a mere conspir
acy within Kassem's own com
mand, as most people suppose.
It was Army-wide. It was not
a last-minute thing, but an or
ganization long matured and
long tested under the sharp
eyes of old Nuri Pasha's po
lice. And Kassem was no Na
guib, no mere figurehead be
latedly recruited by younger
officers. He was the Free Of
ficers' Movement's founder
and first organizer.
The fire was laid already,
but I kindled it," he said, with
a deprecating smile.
Hence he can hardly be soft
or incautious, mstory may
well remember Abdel Karim
Kassem as Iraq's Kerensky,
for the task he has set him
self is inordinately heavy. But
at any rate he does. not seem
the sort of man who could
become the Kremlin's Nuri.
Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
noted, however, a peculiar
significance in the re-election
of the younger men, as fol
lows: "An opposition sweep usual
,"The high proportion (89.5
per cent) of "young" conserv
ative victors is reassuring to
the Republican party, for it
runs contrary to normal ex
pectations. "An opposition sweep usual
ly causes the most devastat
ing losses among the younger
and newer members because
they are the ones who lack
the prestige and power which
comes with seniority In com
mittees. In addition, they;
have not had as many years
to be of service to consti-i
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Let's talk today about the
common touch." There are
some interesting examples of
it in the news of the day aft
er Thanksgiving.
President Eisenhower and
his family ate their turkey on
the glass-windowed sunporch
of the Eisenhower cottage that
stands beside a fairway at the
Augusta National Golf club.
It was a simple family gath
ering. Around the table were
the President and Mrs. Eisen
hower, their son, John, and
his wife and the four Eisen
hower grandchildren, ranging
in age from 10 down to two
years.
It was just like millions of
other Thanksgiving family re
unions in America with
owe exception . The ex
ception was that the turkey
had to be carved under the
glare of floodlights and the
eyes of newsreel and TV cam
eras. The President and his fam
ily bore up cheerfully under
the ordeal, and when it was
over they settled down to
their meal.
"J"HE common touch?
It came during the carving,
which was done by Grandpa
Eisenhower. The KNLFE WAS
DULL and Grandpa had quite
a tussle with the first drum-
stick. Son John had to hold
1 the turkey steady while his
The moral?
Presidents are Just like
OTHER people. Their famil
ies are just like other famil
ies. Somebody forgets at the
last minute to sharpen the
carving knife.
Vice-President Nixon and
his wife, Pat, entertained
Queen Elizabeth and Prince
Philip Thursday at the Amer
ican embassy on Grosvenor
Square in London.
Preparing for the dinner,
our Veep put on . his dress
VISIT ATOMIC CENTERS
Warsaw, Poland (UPD Lead
ers of the International Atom
ic Energy Agency were in
Warsaw today for a tour of
Polish atomic energy centers.
Among the group was W.
Sterling Cole, of the United
States, director general of the
agency.
REMODEL RAILWAY CAR
Tokyo -UPD- Japan Nation
al Railways has begun remod
eling a railway coach for the
special use of Crown Prince
Akihito and his commoner
fiance, Michiko Shoda, it was
disclosed today. i
Reasonable Funerals
(Priced for Everyone)
r - -
FRIENDLY,
Many
Reports
tuents."
These 34 youngish Repub
lican conservatives, a hand
ful of their conservative eld
ers and those Southern Demo
crats who refuse to march the
left-of-center path witl add up
to a considerable bloc of
votes In the 86th Congress.
All of them together are
not likely to muster a major
ity on any vote in the House.
They will be the hard core of
support, however, when Pres
ident Eisenhower b e g I n s to
fire veto messages at big
spending projects. To over
ride a veto requires a two
thirds vote. Eisenhower will
use the veto freely in the next
two years.
JENKINS
shoes and his black silk socks,
wriggled his way painfully
into his starcher-front shirt,
put in the studs ' (probably
murmuring a bad word or so
when the darned thines
wouldn't go through the stiff
ly starched buttonholes) got
his black bow properly tied
and pulled on his pants.
At that point, he discovered
that he'd gone off and left his
dinner jacket HANGING ON
ITS NAIL IN HIS CLOSET
IN WASHINGTON. Pat was
embarrassed. "This is the first
trip he ever went on," she
explained, "that I didn't do
his packing for him. I'll see
to it that it never happens
again."
TJOW . was
the emergency
Hi
met?
Well, Dick borrowed a tux
from Jim Basset, of the em
bassy staff. That left Bassett
out on a limb. So he had to
borrow a tux from one of th
Scotland Yard men who was
assigned to the Nixons for
their protection during their
London visit.-What happened
to the dick? He met the emer
gency by borrowing one from
one of the waiters.
All in all, I think, a com
moner touch would have pro
vided if Prince Philip had
dashed, over to Buckingham
Palace, which isn't too far
away from Grosvenor Square,
and rummaged out one of HIS
dinner jackets for his far-from-home
host.
F
conclusion -
The teletype bears the news
that Crown Prine Akahito's
engagement to 24-year-old
Michiko Shoda, daughter of a
wealthy Japanese flour-mill
executive, which shatters 2,
618 YEARS of tradition, has
brought wild joy to all of
Japan because it creates the
prospect that she will be the
first COMMONER to share
Japan's ' throne since the
world's oldest dynasty took it
over in 660 B.C.
. This is truly, you see, the
century of the common man.
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