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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years age.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 26, 1948 (Sunday)
. Visitors are invited to the
Jackson County Model Rail
road society's weekly meeting,
but reminded that trains will
not necessarily be running.
: A third baby born on Christ
mas is reported.
20 YEARS AGO
Dee. 26. 1938 (Monday)
" Postal authorities are faced
with 1,200 inadequately ad
dressed Chris tmas cards
whose addresses must now be
tracked down.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: " "It
won't be long now -until the
robin who has been here all
the time, will be heralded as
the first harbinger; of spring."
SO YEARS AGO :
Dee. 26. 1928 (Wednesday)
Delegates representing Med
ford and Jackson--county de
part for Portland to attend
the annual meeting of the
Oregon State Teachers soci
ety. '. The Eagle Point Grange
plans a gala dance on New
Year's eve.
40 YEARS AGO
Dee. 26, 1918 (Thursday) '
Delayed Christmas pack
ages are still keeping postal
employees well occupied.
- The "day after" at the pub
lic market finds little business
as most families are subsist-
in? happily on left-overs.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
itx is good.
1. For what sea mammals
are the Pribilof ; Islands the
protected breeding grounds?
2. During which war was
"John Brown's Body" a fam
ous marching song?
3. Complete the followng
pairings of names: Gilbert and
... . Anthony and .
4 Where is the body of
Abraham Lincoln buried?
- 5. Insert the middle names
of these two men: William
. Bryan, Alexander
Bell.
6. Who wrote the novel
"Ivanhoe"?
7. Interest charged beyond
the legal rate is called u
8. If a person was born in
the year 60 B.C- and died in
the year 17 A.D., how old was
he at death? "- "
9. For what do the letters
B.T.U. stand?
10. What is a person who
models new styles called?
Answers: 1. Seals. 2. The
War between Ihe States. 3.
Sullivan-Cleopatra. 4. Spring
field, 111. 5. Jennings-Graham.
6. Sir Walter Scott. 7. Usury
8. 77. 9. British Thermal Unit.
10. A mannequin.
Car Damaged When
.Hit on Griffin Creek
- A car operated by Ira Im
hausen, route 3, box 180, was
damaged and forced off the
road Wednesday night by an
unidentified vehicle, accord
ing to a report made by Im
hausen to state police.
V Imhausen said an unidenti
fied vehicle tore off the left
front fender of his car while
he was driving on Grif
fin Creek rd. near the Pioneer
rd- intersection. Police are in
vestigating the incident,
Denial of House Seats ;
Keep Dr. Dale Alford from his seat until a
further check is made on how he beat Rep.
Brooks Hays (D-Ark.) for it, the new House will
be asked by a special committee under Rep. Clif
ford Davis (D-Tenn.). The committee so decided
by 3-2. It voted no recommendation on the defeat
of Rep. Cora Knutson by Odin Langen (R-Minn.)
Unless actual fraud is proved in the casting
or counting of votes, the House usually accepts
an election result. Hearings on a contest take
many months. And any member with a tainted
seat must go before the voters in- two years in
order to retain it .
e . ..
TTHE Senate with" its six-year term is a little more
prone to withhold a seat for improper cam
paigning. In 1947 it refused to let Theodore Bilbo
(D-Miss.), accused of intimidating Negroes from
voting, take the oath of office. Two decades
earlier it declared vacant the seats won in 1926
by Frank L. Smith (R-Ill.) and William S. Vare
(R-Pa.). Each was charged with acquiring and
spending huge campaign funds unethically.
On the other hand, in 1953 the Senate seated
Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.) though a majority
of its Rules committee found widespread fraud
in his re-election. In 1942 it let Sen. William
Langer (R-N.D.) keep his seat though a special
committee called him politically unfit to occupy
it.
IN 1951 Sen. John M. Butler (R-Md.) got his seat
despite the distribution in his campaign of a
faked picture purporting to show his opponent,
Sen. Millard E. Tydings, chatting with Earl
Browder, Communist leader. '
Butler, Langer and Chavez were seated "with
out prejudice." This left the door open to reject
their elections later by
a two-thirds vote is needed to expel a member
once seated. E.R.K.
State Birth
The constitutionality of the anti-birth control
law of Connecticut is under challenge in the state
courts. This is the strictest state law on the sub
ject in that it forbids the use of any "instrument
for . . . preventing conception." And anybody
aiding m the use is made
user.
In 29 states the law
some way. However, 13
the restriction meaningless by letting doctors
and or druggists give contraceptive information
for medical necessity. In actual practice lnforma
tion" includes service or a device. .
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IN THE other 16 states, with one exception, court
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the law with loopholes by
for health reasons as outside the obscenity
which the laws are designed to prevent. The ex
ception is Massachusetts,
strict enforcement.
The New York City
tember authorized city hospitals to give contra
ceptive data and devices to patients. But two
doctors must first certify that pregnancy will
jeopardize the patient's
i ill l 1
ii possioie ner nusoana,
If current experiments
veloping a contraceptive
contraceptive device
contraceptive "device"
Structure of
As the liberals draw up their battle lines for
the new session of Congress, they are caught on
a dilemma of three horns
al two: (1) More Government spending will
hike the deficit. (2) A higher deficit means, other
things equal, a trend to more inflation. Yet (3)
increases in tax rates are politically unfeasible
just now.
So many liberals are
more revenue by changing the tax structure rather
than the tax rates. One part of the structure under
scrutiny is the present dividing line, in computing
income tax, between long term and short term
capital gains (or losses) . .
TTHE line has been, since 1942, six months of
ownership. That is, gains or losses from sales
of capital assets securities, real estate, etc.
are short term ones if the assets were held six
months or less, long term if held over six months.
Only 50 per cent of long term capital gains
needs to be listed in taxable income. An alterna
tive in computation advantageous on individ
ual returns over $18,000, joint ones over $36,000
in effect fixes a maximum rate of 50 per cent
on this 50 per cent. In other words, gross long
term capital gains are taxed no more than 25 per
cent
DROFITS from an asset held a long time that
V is, profits spread out should not, runs the
principle, be taxed as heavily as profits from an
asset held briefly. That's true enough, many lib
erals agree, but call it unrealistic, if not tax-dodtr-
ing, to specify that anything over six months is a
longtime.
bo there s a move on
line between short term and long term assets from
six months to two years, or at least to 18 months.
From 1938 through 1941 the tax was 100 per cent
on gains from assets held less than 18 months,
66 23 per cent if held 18 to 24 months, 50 ner
cent if held over 24 months. E.R.R. .
majority vote. Otherwise
Control Laws
equally guilty with the
restricts birth control in
of the 29 in effect make
classifying birth control
which has had fairly
Hospital Board last Sep
health and then she, and
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must consent in writing.
prove successful in de
pill, will this be held a
under the laws"
under the laws? E.R.R
Gains Taxes
instead of the tradition
wondering about getting
foot to raise the dividing:
Dennis, the
'I'M GOIH'CMRTD THE WlSOMS.
Four Congressmen
Find No Room for
Them at Washington
Washington-nJPD-Four newly
elected House members have
no place to hang their hats,
In a drawing for office assign
ments they came in last, and
as of today, there wasn't
enough space to go around.
Reps. John Brademas (D-
Ind.), Seymour Halpern (R-
N.Y.), Robert W. Kastenmeir
(D-Wis.) and J. Edward Roush
(D-Ind.) wUl . be cared for
eventuaUy, but probably not
before the frantic climax of
what may turn out to be a
hectic game of musical chairs.
The game wiU be played-
some members say fought
might be a better word in
the two House office buildings
in the first few days of Janu
ary. - .
Hundreds of moves are In
volved. Moving men wUl out
rank and may outnumber con
gressmen as defeated and re
tired members move out, hold
over members grab choice of
spots, and 81 new members
including the four who so far
don't know which way to turn
take whatever is left.
Moving Day Rugged
Moving day in the House
Office Building is rugged with
the start of every Congress.
This time the turnover was
bigger than usual. And com
pounding the complications is
the fact that House leaders
ordered four of the fanciest,
choicest, biggest suites with
held from the shuffle.
These offices, all being va
cated by outgoing Republi
cans, reportedly are to be
saved for chairmen of addi
tional committees which so
far haven't even been created.
That means they may not "be
assigned until the first round
of musical chairs has been
played and their assignment
may start the whole mad
game going again.
Choice of office apace
Camp White Man
Kurt in Mishap
Axel William Raski, 50, of
Camp White, was treated at
Sacred Heart hospital Wed
nesday night for a bruised
left hip received when he was
struck by a car, according to
a report given state police by
the driver, Ronald Babb, 18,
Jacksonville. , '
Babb, who took Raski to the
Hospital, told officers the car
he was driving struck the pe
destrian when he 'moved into
the left-land -lane to pass a
car while driving west on the
Jacksonville highway about
6 pjn.
Raski was released follow
ing treatment, according to,re-
ports..
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
AN EAGER-BEAVER press agent was engaged to publicize
a new after-shaving lotion and dreamed up the device of a
pretty young model calling on prospects with a live, honest-to-
goodness tiger in tow.
Trouble was no animal
trainer would guarantee the
behavior of a tiger. "First
thing you know," warned
one, "there'll be no more
pretty young model." Sud-;
denly, however, he had
hopeful idea. "Tell you what
we can do," he proposed
while the model made for
the nearest exit, "we can
paint stripes on a lion for
you!"'
Clifton Webb says he has ; . r
"lost the girl" in so many mo
tion pictures in the past five years, he's having new cards printed
that read, "Clifton Webb, General Futility Man." T
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"The first lesson," notes Emily Kimbrough, "that a child learns at
his mother's knee nowadays is to be
C 1954 fey Seuutt Cert Distributed
Menace:
I. GOTTA 6STG0M5
among House members is by
an elaborate picking order.
based mainly on seniority and
including appropriate tie-
breaking devices for use
where members of equal rank
fixed an eye on the same
space. Low men in the shuffle
are the first-timers.- This
group drew lots on Dec. 5
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In a recent issue, the Grants
Pass Courier prints a piece en
titled "No More Free Christ
mas Trees." It starts it off
with this nostalgic lament:
"There was a time, only a
few years back, when Dad
could go to the nearest wood
ed hill, select a likely looking
fir, and harvest the family
Christmas tree without both
ering to ask permission from
anybody. Nowadays, however,
Pop is likely to end up in the
hoosegow, clink, bastile
whatever term one prefers to
use for durance vile -if he
tries such a thing."
Agreeing that it HAS TO
BE, rugged though it is. : it
winds up its editorial with
this statement: "The day
when Christmas trees were as
free as the air definitely iS.no
more."
IITELL-
' That's the way it is
And that's the way it has to
be.'
TTERE in Southern Oregon
and Far Northern Cali
fornia, we have two great as
sets water and trees. There
was a time when our water
was a nuisance, to be got rid
of, if possible. The Klamath
river offers a good example
of that. The first proposal to
divert it away from its natur
al basin had as one purpose to
DRY UP ITS BED so that the
gold in the riffles could be
more easiy recovered.
That would have been won
derful then, but it would be
TERRIBLE 'now. If it had
leen done, the valley of the
Klamath would now be anoth
er Owens vaUey.
17ARLY forest conservation
- programs were sharply
limited by the fact that tim
ber was worth so little that
the . early protectors of the
forest had to be VERY care
ful not to spend more on fire
protection than the timber
was worth.
- In those days, there was a
big to-do about "Indian for
estry.'? Indian forestry con
sisted in burning off the for
ests every year. It was argued
that in that way the brush
Stop Me
very careful of her stockings."
bjr Kiss restarts Syndicate. ...j '
Opera Star Helen Traubel May
Get Letter from Harry Truman
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington-fiJPD-Opera Star
Helen Traubel should be get
ting a letter any time now
from Harry S. Truman. It
could be quite a document,
but scarcely in the pattern of
the holograph communique
the former President dashed
off to Paul Hume, music critic
of the Washington Post and
Times Herald.
Mrs. Margaret Truman
Daniel, the former President's
daughter, was a professional
singer before her marriage.
Hume caught Miss Truman's
act here on Dec. 5, 1950, and
reported in his critique that
she was flat a good deal of the
time and had no professional
finish.
The President did not like
that and fired off to Hume
the same day a letter which
was reported, a follows:
Pegler Comment
. "I have . just read your
lousy review ... I have never
met you, but if I do you'll
need a new nose and plenty
of beefsteak and perhaps a
supporter below. Westbrook
Pegler, a guttersnipe, is a
gentleman compared to you."
Peg's comment on that was:
Large Scale Bloodshed Possible
In Cuba Shortly, Writer Notes
(Editors note) The revolu
tionary situation in Cuba
ii growing increasingly
: tense. United Press Interna
tional has collected reports
from correspondents in Cu
ba, Washington and New
. York and Miami, centers of
. rebel activity. Their findings
were summarized by a re
porter who also spent some
time in Cuba earlier this
year.
By JACK V. FOX
United Press International
The once gay Cuban capital
of Havana is a somber place
today. It appears quite possi
ble there could be large scale
bloodshed in the city and
throughout Cuba within the
next 60 days.
The revolutionary army of
Fidel Castro has swelled in
two years from a band of 25
men to something like 10,000
They control large chunks of
the eastern end of the island
President Fulgencio Batista
dominant figure on the Cuban
political scene for 17 of the
past 25 years, has made Ha
vana almost an armed camp.
Military police prowl cars
roam its strees, each carrying
five men armed with five
tommyguns. Tank reinforce
ments arrived this week at
nearby Camp Colombia.
Batista's term of office ends
Feb. 24. His hand - picked
successor, Andres Rivero Agu
ero, is to take office then. But
Castro and other opposition
elements have refused to rec
ognize the validity of his elec-
was kept down, the duff was
got rid of and fire was thus
prevented.
TNDIAN forestry was all
right in its day and in its
way. It did just what was
claimed for it. It did protect
the big, mature trees. But, at
the same time, it DESTROY
ED THE YOUNG GROWTH.
Thus it took care of the
present, but wiped out the
future. The future of South
ern Oregon and Far North
ern California is all bound up
in keeping the timber crop
growing. The timber crop
MUST be kept growing if
there is to be a continuing
harvest of FIBER.
Just as the vines must be
kept growing if there is to be
a harvest of potatoes and the
stalks must be kept growing
if there is to be a harvest of
corn. The only difference lies
in the fact that if this year's
potato crop or this year's corn
crop is put out of commission
there will be anotner crop
cycle SOON.
Another forest crop re
quires generations of time.
rCS TOO bad that people can
no longer go out and cut
Christmas trees with the
happy abandon of the old days
-when one might cut as many
as half a dozen, one after an
other, before one that was
JUST RIGHT was finally
spotted and cut and carried
away.
The old ways of forestry-
including the reckless cutting
of Christmas trees-w e r e a
good deal like going into a
watermelon patch in early
summer and pulling melon
after melon until one of the
exactly right degree of ripe
ness was found. That was a
lot of fun, but it resulted in
an eventual shortage of watermelons.
FT WE keep our timber crop
GROWING, our future will
be sound. If we don't keep it
growing, the time will come
when we'll wish we had.
- But- ,
'- It will then be too late. -
Let us pray," For Peg, that
was like turning the other
cheek and mighty considerate,
to boot, because Peg is a very
handy man with words. He
would butcher Truman in an
exchange of public communi
cations and, moreover, Peg
would keep it-clean. Peg could
and did lick the late Harold
L. Ickes in a duel of words,
which should . be enough to
warn aU amateur word sling
ers out of Pegler's way.
What critic Hume said of
Miss Margaret's voice was not
a patch on the report of Miss
Traubel who was her voice
teacher but who quit in de
spair. Miss Traubel has writ
ten a book, "St. Louis Wom
an," wherein she relates that
when she began tutoring Miss
Margaret in 1948 her voice
was "inexperienced and real
ly rather bad."
A Real Amateur
Against Miss Traubel's ad
vice, her pupil undertook a
public singing career five or
10 years short of being pre
pared for it. Miss Traubel
heard her young charge sing
in Carnegie Hall and in her
book reports rather harshly
that "It was so bad from the
first note, that for the first
tion several weeks ago. It is
believed they may strike be
fore Batista leaves the presi
dency. Danger Of Snipers
The central highway which
bisects the island from west
to east can no longer be tra
velled past the mid-way point
because of snipers. It is im
possible to go. by railroad
across the country. Some 300
railroad and highway bridges
have been dynamited.
In the three eastern prov
inces of Cuba. Batista's army
garrisons patrol the towns by
day, then hole up at night.
Then the rebels take over.
In Oriente, the eastermost
province, large Castro forces
are fortified in the mountains.
Many of the sugar planta
tion operators have made a
"deal with Castro. It is esti
mated 75 per cent of the crop
will be harvested with his
permission. The sugar men are
paying Castro 10 and 15 cents
per, bag of sugar as royalty
in return. The crop is the
backbone of the nation's eco
nomic life - a $630 million
business this year.
Half the island has no
phones - the poles were cut
down. So daring is the rebel
movement that it seizes air
liners at gunpoint: kidnaps
and holds American citizens,
Hotels Losing Money
The lavish luxury hotels
and gambling casinos like the
Riviera the Habana Hilton
and the Nacional, are losing
as much as one million dollars
a year. December is the be
ginning of the tourist season
but it will be an abysmal one.
Porllander Gets
Airplane as Gift
Portland (UPD Dr. A. J.
Daack, Portland, got a real
surprise Christmas gift from
his wife, and one he hopes
eventually to do something
about.
His wife got him an air
plane for Christmas. Dr.
Daack saw it on the front
lawn of his home Thursday
morning, under a large tree.
Dr. Daack doesn't fly an air
plane. Neither does his wife.
But she thought a Piper
Pacer would be just the thing
and so she bought him one.
Now flying lessons are In
order for the doctor.
Mrs. Daack made arrange
ments for purchase of the
plane Wednesday. She talked
her husband into going to bed
early Wednesday night, and
she sat up practicing her mu
sic loud enough so that no
one in the house heard work
ers taxi the plane to the front
yard of the Daack home.
PROTEST FILM SEIZURE
Paris- (DPD -Pathe Newsreel
protested to police today
against the seizure of a news-
reel containing allegedly of
fensive remarks about the
heads of state of France and
other countries. The newsreel,
in which comedians Poret and
Serrault Guy discussed world
politics, was confiscated after
it was shown to a few audi
ences.
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time in my life I spent all
evening behind the curtains
of my box . . . The funny
thing is that Margaret really
has a nice voice-nothing great
but good enough. She never
knew what a real amateur she
was."
Well, friends, that should
get Miss Traubel a letter, even
with stamps at four cents a
copy. Your correspondent is
not in Peg's class and does not
fancy himself as being able
to cope with HST by mail or
otherwise. . ,
So be it recorded that your
correspondent knows little of
music and heard Margaret
sing only once, at a White
House correspondent's dinner.
I thought she sang pretty good
and I know it was a gracious
gesture, typical of the sill
American girl that she was,
for Margaret to come to our
dinner and sing as a surprise
to her father, who was our
guest.
Margaret Truman was as
nice a person as ever lived in
the White House and our town
liked her a lot. We all ad
mired the closeness of the
Truman clan, too, their love
and respect for each other,
They are real nice folks.
Batista has put about JO
000 teenagers under arms in
the past year and sent them
into rebel territory after 30
days training. The Castro men
call them "bocaditos" - little
mouthfuls.
There is talk among Cu
bans of asking U.S. help , to
end the fighting, which has
already taken thousands of
lives. Both Batista's govern
ment, and the rebels profess
to abhor any hint of outside
interference. But some sort of
mediation to avert a widening
of the qivil war may be a last
resort.
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Spanish Pilot
Plans Balloon Trip
Madrid- (LTD A veteran
Spanish pilot said today he
would attempt to cross the
Atlantic in a balloon next
spring, following the trail of
the adventurous English crew
of the balloon Small World. .
Jose Maria Ansaldo. a di
rector of Spain's Iberian air
lines and an experienced bal
loonist, said he began makinsr
plans for the trip before the
bpanish Civil war broke out
in 1936, and that he hopes to
be able to fulfill them next
year.
The three men and one
woman aboard the Small
World left Tenerife Dec. 12,
out no reports from them
have been received here since
Dec. 16. when their last radio
report was heard in the Ca
nary Islands.
Try To Remove
Air Crash Victims
Anchorage, Alaska-KJPD-The
Air Force planned today an
attempt to recover the bodies
of 15 men killed when their
C54 transport crashed into the
side of Mt. Ilianna, 130 miles
south of here.
A raging storm Thursday
prevented a helicopter from
landing in the area, but vet
eran bush pilot Don Sheldon,
of Talkeetnan, Alaska, got
close enough to the wreckage
to positively identify it as the
C54 and say that there was
no sign of survivors.
The crash debris was first
spotted Wednesday by Air
Force planes searching for the
C54 which had been missing
since Monday en route from
Elmendorf Air Force base
here to Shemya in the Aleu
tian Islands on a routine supj
ply mission.
ALL CHARGED UP
Palm Springs, Calif. - (CPD -Frank
Patencio, 70, waa
booked on suspicion of drunk
driving Thursday when police
saw him allegedly driving an
electric golf cart erratically in
the middle of a mala
thoroughfare here. i
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