Tuesday, December IS, 1951
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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.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16. 1948 (Thursday)
Eight white swans are re
ported on the Hoover ranch
on Butte creek, being possi
bly fugitives from Portland.
Medford votes today on the
$685,000 school district bond
ing measure to finance addi
tional classroom facilities.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16. 1938 (Friday)
Harry and David, after con
ceiving the Christmas gift
package idea five years ago,
have "taken the Rogue River
valley Cornice pear out of the
dog house and placed it in the
drawing room."
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Ohio
chestnuts are on the market.
They are the kind that pulls
themselves out of the fire."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16, 1928 (Sunday)
Pruning demonstrations are
to be held in various parts of
the valley under the auspices
of the county agent's office.
Southern Oregon Fotovox,
backed by some dozen Med
ford business and professional
men, is incorporated for talk
ing moyie ventures.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16, 1918 (Monday)
The city council lifts Med-
ford's ban on church and
theater gatherings, but dances
are still prohibited and flu
masks must be worn at all
times.
Ashland reports an increase
In its grain crop.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ei
sis is good.
1. What is the principal re
ligion of the people of Indo
nesia? 2. Was Lorado Taft a wellr
known actor, sculptor or play
wright? 3. The Grammos mountains
are in which European coun
try? 4. An army led by what
Carthaginian crossed the Alps
to invade Italy in the Second
Punic war?
5. What was the relation
ship between Johann Strauss
and Richard Strauss?
6. In which harbor is Bed
loe's island?
7. The Zeiss camera lenses
are well known-are they pro
duced in Switzerland, Ger
many, France or Italy?
8. Who wrote the verses
about, the characters Wynken,
Blynken and Nod?
9. Name the highest moun
tain peak on the North Amer
ican continent.
10. Who wrote the novel,
"Old Curiosity Shop"?
Answers: 1. Moslem. 2.
Sculptor. 3. Greece. 4. Hanni
bal. 5. Not related. 6. New
York harbor. 7. Germany. 8.
Eugene Field. 9. Mx. McKin
ley. 10. Dickens.
IN SELF DEFENSE
Atlanta-flJPD-Merchants are
hoping to head-off vandals
who annually chop down and
carry away decorated Christ
mas trees along Atlanta's
famed Peachtree Street by of
fering free (but undecorated)
trees to citizens unable to
afford them.
Smog at 'Nuisance' Lztiel
The state sanitary
Medford the level of
reaches the nuisance level.
The report was based on scientific samples.
We could have told them the same thing with
out the scientific samples, but we're glad to be
backed up by the authorities.
When one can park a freshly-washed auto
mobile in the downtown area in the morning,
and find it in the afternoon covered with a fine
silt of ashes, we are convinced the "nuisance"
level has arrived.
"THEREFORE, we are indeed glad that the city
, plans to go ahead with a more extensive
field survey of the area. This will be done jointly,
with the authority, furnishing the equipment and
professional guidance and analysis, and the city
furnishing the manpower, the part-time efforts
of a city employee.
Such a field survey, more extensive and com
prehensive than the spot sampling, should provide
a sensible analysis of the problem facing the city,
and an indication of what can be done about it.
THE CLEAR Rogue Valley air has always been
one of its greatest beauties and attractions,
and we have hated to see the encroachment of
smog some days so bad one cannot see the range
of hills across the valley.
We re still not as bad
area. (Mrs. M. Chandler of Y4z west I4tn
St., Medford, recently sent us some clippings
from the Van Nuys News. One headline read:
Smog Seizes Valley Area m Merciless Grip for
Four Days; Health Peril
day7.")
But we do have an air
it probably will get worse before it gets better.
Now Is the time to start to work on it. L. A.
Tool of the Trade
Two Oregon editorial writers last week turned
their thoughts to the principal tool of their trade,
the typewriter.
One of them, Ken Holmes of the McMinnville
News-Register, reviews the many ways in which
the ability to use a typewriter is almost a neces
sity, and comes to the conclusion that typing
classes should be pre-requisites for college en
trance. '
He says :
"We are living in a
might as well awaken to
a fundamental subject of
do now."
.
HOLMES also points out
University of North Dakota has experimented
with teaching typing to f ourth-graders, with con
siderable success.
He quotes Rowe as saying:
"I think the child who goes through school knowing
how to type learns faster, picks up grammar, spelling
and punctuation easier, finds homework less work,
improves his muscular coordination . . . Well, I could
go on."
Personally, we learned to type in the seventh
grade. And it was a good thing, too, for our hand
writing was (and is) about as legible as the av
erage doctor's prescription. We figure we've turn
ed out something more than 100,000 words in the
past six months which adds up to a monumen
tal case of writer's cramp if done by hand rather
than by machine.
FORREST Amsden of the Coos Bay World also
talked knowingly about typing, but he was
in a somewhat philosophical mood, and rambled
on about the use of different colored paper (he
switches frequently to avoid monotony), differ
ent machines (ditto), and the need for a type
writer for newspaper writers rather than secre
taries. He'd redesign the keyboard, leaving out some
of the symbols for which he has little use like
-f t etc., and substituting others more fre
quently used. He says :
"One gadget we'd like is a , or long dash, which
is frequently substituted in news style for the comma.
When typers want to indicate the ' for a printer
(who has a on his Linotype) they must strike the
- twice. If he had a on the typewriter, just think
of all the finger movements a fan would save in
a week!"
A MSDEN rejoices that some machines have re-
cently added a !.
"Old-fashioned typewriters (and almost all type
writers you'll find in a newspaper office are very
old-fashioned) you had to hit an and then back up
and hit the . in order to get an exclamation point.
Now you can just ! ! ! ! away for all you're worth!"
Be that as it may (and few newspapermen
use the ! very often), we think the typewriter
people do pretty well. There are a fewjmprove
ments which, we suggest, would be even more
welcome than the ! .
We'd like a typewriter that spells better than
this one, for instance. E. A.
Hawaii Should Be a State
With Alaska due for the 49th star any day
now, we see no reason why Hawaii should not
have the 50th and during 1959. It would be
singularly appropriate from Oregon's stand
point to have the islands become a state on the
100th anniversary of Oregon's own statehood.
Hawaii should be admitted, and soon. E.A.
authority reports that in
air pollution occasionally
off as the Los Angeles
Acute on 'Black Mon
pollution problem, and
'
typewriter world, and we
the fact and make typing
study much earlier than we
,
that Dr. John L. Rowe
Dennis the Menace
NUBN )W PICKED MB UP,
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Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
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
saper; in tact the contrary often
We Are?
To the Editor: Why do you
hide things that should be
placed on the front page, you
place them way inside your
paper.
About the article "High
Schools Too Easy," in Sun
day's paper, Dec. 15. That
should of been on the front
page, and you should write
your Editorials on a subject
like that till you . get . some
action, as only through your
paper could any good come
to change the outdated school
system we now have.
And some sort of segrega
tion to keep those with a poor
IQ away from those that want
to study and get ahead.
Instead you write about,
Senators' Differences, Social
Security, and of all things,
you are taking sides with
something I don't think its
any of your business. Married
people should t ake corres
pondence courses, or stay
single till they have their
education out.
And you say the "World" is
wrong, in upholding decency,
and backing the school board
in their ruling.
YOU ARE THE KIND
THAT BACKS JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY.
W. O. Burns,
3761 South Pacific Hy.
Medford ,
Second The Motion?
To the Editor: Regarding
the results of the recent elec
tion First, I want to thank
the majority who voted down
this - ill-advised amendment.
Secondly, my , views as to
why they voted as they did
numerous comments before
the election brought out the
following facts: The average
citizen wants fair play, hon
esty and all the facts before
he will give his consent to
any measure on the ballot.
Many questioned the need
for a special election a few
weeks after a general elec
tion, especially after being
told that five to seven years
had gone into the measure,
plenty of time to place it on
the November ballot. Many
statements and figures which
could have been more exact
were given as vague promises,
guesses and estimates. This,
and more, 'eft too many
doubts in the voter's mind
and he would have none of
it.
We, of the Citizens' Com
mittee,' are not against Off
Street Parking. We are
against the manner in which
it was proposed and the fact
that those wanting it most
the downtown merchants
are attempting to ring the al
ready overburdened taxpay
er in- on a business venture
that should be established
and run by private or cooper
ative enterprise.
We feel that the need for
more off street parking is not
presentlycat the critical stage
but we can foresee the time
in the next two to five years
when such space will be need
ed. Could not the many bus
inessmen in the downtown
area, form a "cooperative to
create their own parking lots
m the near future? Each
store, business and property
owner could invest $100, $500
or more, depending on its
size, into a "pool" to be bank
ed drawing interest until it
is large enough to buy prop
erty and establish one or
more parking lots of its own,
the profits from this to re
vert to the pool and eventu
ally more lots as needed. The
merchant is thereby taking
care of a problem that is es
sentially his at no risk to the
taxpayer. Oddly enough, the
taxpayer would eventually
pay a good shart of this
YA 5USTBD A COUPLA
THE PARK.
!h case.
through his use of the park
ing facilities, and in time will
pay back the original inves
tors.
Other cities are using pri
vate capital to lick the prob
lem.
I don't want this to sound
like flag waving but this
country was built on free en
terprise not a benevolent gov
ernment that first has to
take away and then give part
of it back.
i am reaay to invest in
the future of Medford any
one second the motion?
Mr J. Olsen,
Route 4, Box 325,
Medford.
Too-Early Retirement
To the Editor: Carroll Pow
ell s communication in the
Dec. 11 Tribune anent requir
ed retirement at 65 prompts
me to submit a bit of the re
port by the National Commit
tee on the four days North
western Regional Conference
on Aging, held at Reed Col
lege, Portland, last summer.
Life expectancy the last 50
years has increased more
than in the previous 2,000
years, in 1855, Z per cent of
U. S. population was 65 or
older; 1955, 8.5 per cent, and
in 1975, 10 per cent will be
65 or older. All retired from
productive service still are
consumers and must be pro
vided for if not by their own
savings, prudence, thrift, then
by insurance, annuity, Social
Security, welfare, nearly . all
of which adds a drain on the
national economy.
Many men and women are
better qualified, more effici
ent, more dependable at or
after 65. And the experience,
knowledge, wisdom, gained
through the years by educat
ors, instructors, administrat
ors, teachers, is most valuable
to the younger generation.
One of the conclusions arrived
at by the workshops was:
"Devaluation of oldsters has
the effect to encourage
youth's rebellion against au
thority."
Arguments pro and con re
quired retirement at 65 were:
For: Removes employees de
clining in efficiency. Prevents
workers from working be
yond their own ability. Avoids
favoritism. Opens channels
of advancement for younger
men. Encourages preparation
for retirement because there
is a definite date to look for
ward to. Ties in with Social
Security which starts at 65.
Against: It costs 25 per cent
less to retire a man at 68 than
at 65;-45 per cent less at 70.
The employee is better off
after 65 than before. A person
65 may be physiologically 80
or 40. Most workers don't
want to retire if in good
health. Young men don't need
retirement of older workers
as an opportunity to advance.
There is no dearth of oppor
tunity.
Where older, experienced,
worker specialists were placed
in public employment offices,
placement of oldsters rose
from 18.2 per cent to 20.1 per
cent in six months.
We cannot afford to lose
the productivity of those able
and willing to . produce. Al
ready there are too many non
producers, drones, leeches of
various types on our society,
economy. Businessmen, bank
ers everyone must be
come interested in this sub
ject. A flexible, higher normal
age retirement can save 25
per cent of pension costs and
add . billions to productivity,
to say nothing of the inde
pendence and social values
to millions.
John E. Gribble
139 Kenwood ave.
Medford
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
CHALLENGE AND
RESPONSE.
Cairo Gamal Abdel Nas
ser's government has just be
gun to search for the right
r e s p onse to
the new So
viet challenge
in the Middle
East. The out
come cannot
be predicted.
But the search
itself has the
deepest moral,
political and
historic inter
est. Joseph Alsop
As this correspondent has
perhaps tiresomely insisted
in recent reports, the entire
Middle Eastern pattern has
now been radically transform
ed by a sharp change in the
Kremlin line for this area.
No longer content with sup-
Editorial Comment
MEDFORD BEATS
THE BOND ISSUE
Further evidence of the
trend of the times may be
seen in defeat of Medford's
proposed off-street parking
amendment.
This would have authorized
issuance of general obligation
bonds .up to $500,000 for the
construction of off-street park
ing facilities in downtown
Medford. The bonds would
have been self-liquidating and
business men who would have
benefited would have contrib
uted a substantial share.
through special parking dis
trict tax levies.
A strong campaign was
made on behalf of the bond
issue. The Medford Mail Trib
une gave it unqualified edi
torial support. The Chamber
of Commerce endorsed it.
Radio and television speakers
pointed out repeatedly that
home owners and other tax
payers oustide the main busi
ness district would not have
to pay.
Yet, the voters turned it
down. The mere fact that gen
eral obligation bonds were in
volved apparently was suffic
ient to create suspicion. The
amendment could have called
for revenue bonds, such as
some municipal corporations
use to finance the construc
tion of toll bridges, public
power systems and other self
liquidating improvements.
Incidentally, we have seen
legal opinions to the effect,
that, under certain circum
stances, revenue bonds can be
come general obligations of a
city, county or PUD, in event
of default. The process is a
bit more complicated, how
ever. Hence the preference for
outright, tax-exempt general
obligation bonds.
This is the second time Med
ford has defeated an off-street
parking district proposal. This
time the outcome was deci
sive, 1,623 to 1,100. That prob
ably means it is the last time
it wil be attempted, at least in
the present form.
It ,is imperative, however,
that cities develop more off
street parking in the years to
come. Otherwise, they will
wither and die; victims of sub
urbia and the big shopping
centers with ample free park
ing space.
Grants Pass already has
parking problems and they
will become worse as this city
continues to grow. Perhaps we
can profit from Medford's ex
perience and devise a system
that is more acceptable to the
taxpayers.
One constructive move
along this line would be a re
quirement that no new con
struction be permitted in the
central commercial zone un
less adequate off-street park
ing is provided. Many cities
the size of Grants Pass and
Medford already have adopted
this regulation.
This imposes on the business
involved the responsibility for
providing parking space for
its customers, but it doesn't
solve the main problem, espe
cially in a congested city
where property values are
high. That is why off-street
parking districts are author
ized by law. Under provisions
of this statute all business men
of a specific area can band to
gether and provide off-street
parking for mutual use.
It might as well be accepted,
however, that business men
will have to bear the entire
cost of such improvements.
Sure, You Can-
fi)U
porting the anti-Western drive
of Nasser's Arab nationalism,
Nikita Khrushchev has now
ordered the Arab Communists
parties to enter into an open,
direct power competition with
the Nationalists.
Thus far, the Communist
challenge to Nasser's nation
alists centers in Iraa. Yet the
new Kremlin line plainly ap
plies to the whole area all
the Arab lands that Nasser
claims to lead and to inspire.
As already indicated in this
space, the Kremlin's adop
tion of this new line, and its
at least temporary success in
Baghdad, are causing some
thing very like consternation
here in Cairo.
THE consternation is only
natural TTrnm iha mntnunf
when Soviet arms were pro
vided for the Egyptian Army,
Gamal Abdel Nasser has de
pended very heavily on the'
Kremlin's support.
The Egyptian development
program has achieved striking
successes against heavy odds,
and the Egyptians themselves
have made great efforts. But
the Soviet development cred
its to the United Arab Repub
lic, amounting to only a little
less that $350 million for
Egypt and Syria together, also
constitute a considerable item
in the balance sheet. Still an
other considerable item is the
special Soviet credit of only
a little less than $100 million,
recently granted for the fam
ous Aswan high dam project.
More important still, there
is the simple fact that both
the Egyptian and Syrian arm
ies are now completely and
fairly lavishly equipped with
Soviet weapons. Some expert
foreign observers maintain
that this fact alone must be
decisive. In reality, Nasser
has done his best to prevent
his Soviet arms contracts
from turning into a mortgage
on his independence, insist
ing for instance, on buying
several years' supply of spare
parts for all weapons pur
chased. Yet the source of their
weapons must still influence
Nasser's soldiers, and through
them Nasser himself.
,
TjOR these reasons, many
foreigners and not a few
Egyptian observers think that
Nasser is too entangled to
be able to respond to the
new Kremlin line. This is
evidently the theory of Nikita
Khruchchev. The new line
was first tentatively sketched
in the Syrian coup d'etat of
the - summer of 1957, when
Nasser's situation was. tempor
arily much weakened. Then
the new line was applied
with full force in Iraq (where
the Communists are now open
ly anti-Nasser). Simultaneous
ly, the Kremlin offered Nas
ser the Aswan high dam as
you might offer a dog a bis
cuit for being good.
The role that the Kremlin
has allotted to Nasser is very
plain. While the Communists
seek to fasten and extend
their grip on the Eastern
Arab lands, which just hap
pen to be the oil - bearing
lands, Nasser is to remain
passive. As a reward for re
maining passive, he will re
ceive generous further sup
port. With this support, he is
to continue his power drive,
but into North Afria, the Su
dan and Central Africa.
It must be' added that the
initial Cairo responses to the
new Soviet challenge is not
encouraging. Maybe it is be
cause the habit is now so
rooted here of blaming the
Voters have shown they simp
ly will not countenance any
hint of a subsidy, such as the
proposed 25 per cent diver
sion of all parking meter
funds if additional money
were needed to amortize the
Medford bond issue. Grants
Pass Courier.
WANTED: OLD PARROT
Norwich, England-(UPD-The.
local theater company adver
tised today for an old parrot
to play a role in "Treasure
Island."
"No young parrots need ap
ply, since the young ones only
peck at stranger's ears and
repeat everything they hear,"
said production manager Ger
ald Batty.
ELECTED TO UPI
New York-(UPD-Frank Tre
maine was elected a vice presi
dent of United Press Interna
tional at a meeting of the
board of directors .Monday.
Soon, Now!
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Washington Report
By William S. White
Headquarters U.S. Army
in Europe, Heidelberg - This
is a bleak Christmas season
for 250,000
A m erican
troops in Ger
many, but
there is no
fear or even
excitement in
this most pro
fessional mili
tary force un
der our flag.
William S White l D. e run
ning crisis over Berlin, from
which the Russians are trying
to drive us sooner or later,
means both much and little
here. It means much to the
American commander, Gen
eral Henry I. Hodes, in the
sense that it poses a keen
problem for him. A man of
massive calm and still, im
personal eyes, he is the reas
suring picture of the imper
turbable and unimaginative
pro as he awaits the outcome
of negotiations over Berlin.
He is neither brooding nor in
any visible way is he troub
led. Will there be a war over
Berlin now or a little later?
He weighs the question. He
tabulates the degree of
chance on both sides and
then he says:
"Can't tell. If it comes we
are ready."
TY the soldiers themselves,
and indeed by the West
German civilians hereabouts
at least, the issue is hardly ev
en discussed. The soldiers, of
whom about 40 per cent are
old Army hands, go about
their drab business with the
touching and unintentionally
gallant unconcern of all old-
time Armv hands.
Our tanks are ceaselessly
patrolling the 435-mile East
wicked West for all imagin
able troubles, almost includ
ing the occasional cloud in
Cairo's winter sky. At any
rate, incredible as it may
seem, the West is also being
blamed here for the Commu
nist successes in Baghdad.
Even such a cool-headed and
sophisticated man as the Egyp
tian Foreign Minister, Dr.
Mahmoud Fawzy, suggested
to this reporter that the
American and British Embas
sies in Baghdad were 'collab
orating" with the Iraqi Com
munist party, in order to di
vide the Arabs."
'
IN TRUTH Nasser may play
the role desired by the
Kremlin in the end. It is the
easy course to adopt, and
some of his advisers will think
it is the best course, at least
for the time being. In con
trast, it will be very difficult
indeed for Nasser to fight all
out against the new foreign
intrusion into the Arab lands,
if only because the Arabs
have had their bellies - full of
"Western imperialism" but
have never tasted the sterner
Soviet brand.
There is only a single fact,
indeed, to suggest that a firm
response to the new challenge
is still possible despite all
the difficulties. It is possible
because Gamal Abdel Nasser
himself knows that failure to
respond to the challenge will
mean the doom of his grand
ambition to free the Arabs
from all "foreign interfer
ence," the end of his own
hopes for Arab unity, and
his own eventual transforma
tion into a mere Soviet client
and agent.
The question is whether
Nasser will act on this knowl
edge of his. He believes he
cannot act on it if he must
fight what he calls a "war
on two fronts," against the
West and the Soviets at the
same time. .
(c) 1958, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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German nd Czechoslovakian
borders that form the Iron
Curtain in this area. Four
thousand of General Hodes
picked troops are in West
Berlin, a little American is
land surrounded by a vast
Communist sea. Behind that
curtain nearly half a million
Soviet troops and 95,000 East
German Communist troops
are confronting us, according
to intelligence reports at this
headquarters. Back of all
these ' are 542,000 satellite
troops, standing from Poland
down to Bulgaria.
On the Western side are
West German, British, French
and Italian troops, though all
together they obviously are
no match for the legions to
the east. The heart of West
ern defense and the heart of
Hodes' command is in the
American Seventh Army.
TUT there is no alert on
and none will be put on.
There is, as Hodes says, no
need for that. For our troops
in Germany it is always a
time of alert. They accept this
as businessmen living in the
suburbs accept the necessity
of the daily commutation
train. It is an annoying thing,
but it is life.
Those at home who believe
our people in Germany "nev
er had it so good" are not
well informed. This head
quarters city is perhaps the
prize assignment and it is
hardly a gay vacation place.
The gloom of medieval
Heidelberg now is like the
dark forest of childhood
dreams. Cloud banks scowl
from the frowning hills, the
rain falls in an endless twi
light. Our headquarters are in
angrily ugly stone buildings,
with a prison severity that
only the Germans could have
managed. It was they who
did manage it. Our command
is housed in captured German
barracks and the sullenly col
ored German flag hangs
alongside our own over a
gray and sodden parade
ground.
M PUT up this alien flag,
with all its associations
for one who remembers Ger
many 14 years ago when Ger
man guns were blazing
against us, because now the
Germans are our allies. We
must have them as allies and
they must have us. The fact
that the Russians have made
this necessary is not the least
of all their international
crimes, for it is not a pleasant
thought that we must main
tain this alliance as beyond
any doubt we must.
And it is not pleasant that
the German civilians seem so
unconcerned about Berlin, be
cause they know that if war
comes we, who once helped
defeat them, must now defend
them.
Yes, both sides "get along,"
but the message to one 'ob
server from German eyes is
this: "Yes, you Americans are
not much, but you are here."
And so we are and must con
tinue to be, even though this
is not the world's happiest
place to be-this gaunt, gray
Heidelberg in the rain.
(Copyright, 1958, by 1
United Feature Syndi
cate, Inc.)
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