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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1, 1949 (Saturday)
The first twins of 1949 are
born at Sacred Heart hospital.
Jackson county's third man
drafted into the peacetime
"Army" departs for induc
tion. 20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1939 (Sunday)
Boy scouts and scout lead
ers attend their, annual win
ter camp at Union Creek
lodge.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
young intellectuals have all
returned to their arithmetic
at Eugene and Corvallis."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. I, 1929 (Wednesday)
Hearing on Dead Indian
road is held by the county
court, and those protesting
outnumber the petitioners.
Medford welcomes the New
Year with wild acclaim and
many parties.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1919 (Wednesday)
Many local groups journey
to Hilts and other northern
California points to usher in
the New Year.
American troops returning
from France are stranded on
Fire Island when liner North
ern Pacific goes ashore.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Does the U. S. Govern
ment fiscal year begin on Jan
uary 1st?
2. When are "Watch Night"
services celebrated by some
churches?
3. Which of these is the cal
endar we use: Julian, or Gre
gorian? 4. Under the old Roman
calendar, when did the New
Year begin?
5. All horses have birth
days on the same day of the
year; what day? ,
6. Who instituted the Ju
lian calendar?
7. The U. S. population to
day is approximately twice
or three times what it was
50 years ago?
8. In how many States is
today a holiday?
9. An annual book of facts
is called an ?
10. The ringing of bells on
New Year's Eve come? to us
from what country?
Answers: 1. No. (July 1). 2.
New Year's Eve. 3. Gregor
ian. 4. In March. 5. New Years
Day. 6. Julius Caesar. 7.
Twice. S. All 48. 9. Almanac,
10. England.
OBSERVE NEW YEAR'S
Tokyo -&?- Millions of
Japanese packed the ap
proaches to Shinto shrines
and Buddhist temples Wed
nesday night and this morn
ing in the traditional New
Year's Day pilgrimate in spite
of a cold rain.
1958 and 1959
January 1 is an arbitrarily specified day in an
antiquated calendar for the start of the new year.
As such it has, over the generations, come to
be a time for looking back over the year just past,
for taking stock, and for looking toward the fu
ture. All-in-all, 1958 wasn't a bad year. It began
in a "recession" which particularly affected the
lumber industry; the economy, locally and nation
ally, dragged along through the summer, but in
the early fall things began to pick up.
The year wound up with lumber markets bet
ter, and a bang-up Christmas season. Optimism
had returned.
THERE were few really big "spot" news stories
i'n TnrVcnn pnnnfv lief voor TYTncf r f V) a ci rr
nificant news, and even the news judged to be
most interesting, was told in a series of stories, a
flow of related developments, rather than at one
telling.
The elections, primary and general, created
much interest, naturally enough. There is some
thing dramatic about elections, the one time when
the "voice of the people" is really heard. The in
terplay of personalities, the charges and counter
charges, the claims and denunciations all these
make fascinating, and in some cases significant,
news.
The other elections, too, are of interest to
many people, particularly wrhen they generate
real controversy, as was the case in the county
tax base vote in May, and the city off-street park
ing fight in November.
DUT, as one person commented, the state and
" local governments seem to go rocking along
without too much change no matter what the out
come of an election. Perhaps, she suggested, real
significance in news lay elsewhere last year.
Such things as the millions of dollars being
spent in the hills of the Green Springs and Dead
Indian areas out of sight of most people to
bring the Talent irrigation and reclamation pro
ject to completion; or even the constantly increas
ing number of school children, who guarantee
that the costs of schools wall continue to increase.
In the annual poll of the Mail Tribune news
room staff on the news of the past year, it was
interesting to note that quite a few second and
third choices as the most important news stoiy
went to the Shakespearean Festival building fund
drive. Without the new building, the festival will
die ; with it the area is assured of a major cultural
and tourist attraction, worth many millions of
dollars to the region s economy.
TTHESE, of course, are the obvious stories. Per-
haps of even greater significance were the
many stories, ostensibly
re turning prosperity during the latter part of
1958 the reviving lumber market, the excellent
shopping season for merchants, the smaller per
centage of unemployed in the county, and of a
fruit harvest which, while not one of the best,
was far from being a really bad one.
There were others with a similar optimistic
tenor the Talent story of course, but also the
new hospital opening, work starting on a big new
shopping center, new business and entertainment
buildings, new schools, new roads, new highways,
the prospect of new industries.
One might conclude
pause, of regrouping, and of preparing for an
even bigger future in Jackson county.
A
S IT was in this area, so it was throughout the
state o-enerallv. Oreeon had a vear of reces-
- o i o
sion, then rapid recovery. Its future is as big as
we want to make it.
And 1959. our Centennial vear. offers us an
unequalled chance to get
The state has nroblems. it alwavs will have.
But they are not unconquerable not if we go
at the job confidently, and with an eye to the
future. We should work at making our future; not
just let it happen.
fN THE national and international level, while
1958 was also a year of recession and recov
ery, there were ugly signs of unsolved problems.
And, worse, little was being done to solve them.
It was a year of diplomatic defeats and minor
retreats, of braised national pride and prestige,
and of an amazing and disheartening drift in the
conduct of international affaire.
The lack of decisive, thoughtful and imagina
tive leadership at the White House and Cabinet
levels, with very few exceptions, reacted against
the nation's interests, and, in our view, was large
ly responsible for the radical change effected by
the voters in November.
ND what's ahead in
Anyone's guess is good on January 1.
Our guess, for whatever it may be worth, is
this:
A growing prosperity, both locally and na
tionally; a slight tax increase on state and local
levels to care for growth and expansion ; a strong
er Congress and continued lack of effective lead
ership in the administration ; a year of newr crises
internationally; continued fights over integration
in the south; of startling scientific achievements
here and abroad.
And, as always, it will
it all uniold. L.A.
unrelated, which told of
that 1958 was a year of
on with the job.
1959?
be fascinating to watch
Dennis the
Gbb whiz,, dad! All i did was
0rop the capon tub toothpaste'
Matter of Fact
THE BIG NEW FACT
Avon, Conn.-After a long
journey in too many lands,
the returning traveler always
long
to find
everything at
home exactly
as it always
was, from the
i m m e morial
worn patch on
the back stair
carpet to the
view, through
bare- bough
ed trees, of the
But although
4osph Alsop
tranquil river.
it is mercifully reassuring to
find this farm entirely unal
tered, it is not at all reassur
ing to find that the U.S. gov
ernment is equally changeless.
In the period since this re
porter went abroad, a wholly
new kind of challenge has
been offered which; almost
angrily demands a wholly new
kind of response Yet no such
response is apparent.
The challenge in question
is of course mkita Krusn
chev's threat to use his East
German puppets to blockade
Berlin. Fortunately, the signs
suggest that Khrushchev's
threat will not be carried out
this time, if the Western pow
ers that have guaranteed Ber
lin stand absolutely firm.
THERE is no certainty, as
yet, that Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles will be
able to persuade his Western
partners to show the needed,
perfectly unwavering firm
ness. There is no certainty,
either, that the Kremlin's
threat to Berlin will be even
tually withdrawn if the West
ern powers are firm. At best,
this new Berlin crisis is a
very ugly, chancy business.
All the same, one can be rea
sonably hopeful about it, on
the basis of the evidence now
available.
But these optimistic calcu
lations about the local, short
range outcome at Berlin in
no way soften the radically
novel character of Khrush
chev's threat. The threat's
character is the real challenge
that demands a new response.
The novelty consists in the
fact that for the first time in
the 13 post-war years, the
Soviets have sketched a move
in the world chess game
which can only be countered
by complete willingness to
fight a big, H-bomb war.
In the era since the second
World War ended, the Krem
lin has indulged in every
kind of aggressive maneuver,
save one alone. Kremlin-directed
aggressions and infil
trations have led to one ma
jor and prolonged war with
conventional weapons in Ko
rea, and to several lesser and
more local shooting matches,
ranging from the Indo-Chi
nese fighting to the recent
exchange at Quemoy. Very
important political aggressions
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
rpHE ARMY DECIDED to put a live mouse in the nozzle of a
new rocket it was testing and borrowed one from the Har
vard laboratory. The rocket was put into orbit without a hitch,
and for three months
whirled dizzily around the
globe in outer space. Then
it returned to earth, and, lo
and behold, the mouse
marched out in the very
pink of condition!
Returned to the Harvard
laboratory, this mouse be
came, of course, the hero of
the hour. "What's it like,"
demanded a spokesman for
the stay-at-homes, "to go
spinning so long in outer
space?"
'Til tell you one thing.
fellows," admitted the hero
mouse nonchalantly. "It's better than this rat race!"
New version of that murderous Russian roulette game has been in
vented by a Parisian genius. This game is called Shower Roulette.!
Six men have to take showers, and then are handed towels. In one of
the towels is wrapped Brigitte Bardot.
C 1853, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate,
Menace
By Joseph Alsop
have also occurred, beginning
with the abortive attack on
the independence of Iran in
1946, and continuing down to
the critically dangerous Com
munist grab for power that
is now going on in Iraq.
BUT every one of these oth
er Kremlin ventures had
one crucially significant fea
ture in common. They were
carefully planned to avoid
confronting the Western al
lies with a naked choice be
tween surrendering or getting
ready to fight a big War. We
have had every other kind of
test of will, but never before
Berlin have we had this ulti
mate kind of test of will.
The tactical reasons why
Berlin offers this ultimate,
wholly novel kind of test of
will have been given at length
in this space. Khrushchev
knew all those reasons-he
knew, for instance, that a
Berlin blockade could not
again be defeated by air lift
when he began to threaten
another blockade of Berlin.
The fact that Khrushchev has
done this wholly new thing
will not be rendered less sig
nificant, even if Western
firmness wins the test of will
about Berlin which Khrush
chev has offered.
THIS quite new fact signifies
a vast increase of Soviet
boldness, a terrible increase
of Soviet confidence. This
new boldness and confidence
are clearly based, in turn, on
the Kremlin's judgment of
the change in the military
balance between the Soviet
bloc and the West. If the
American nuclear lead had
been maintained, no such
novel test would have been
proposed. It has only been
proposed now because the
American lead is now being
allowed to turn into a Soviet
lead in over-all nuclear strik
ing power.
Furthermore, the balance
between our striking power
and their striking power has
not yet titled nearly as far
as it is due to tut during the
coming period of the "missile
gap," unless the most urgent
efforts are immediately order
ed to true-up the balance
Worse tests, much worse tests,
have to be expected in the
future, unless those efforts
are ordered by President Eis
enhower. Yet in these circum
stances, the Eisenhower ad
ministration remains absolute
ly changeless,- above all in
fearing adequate defense in
vestments very much more
than Soviet H-bombs.
Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
BAN TV 'DOCTORS'
Washington (UPI) - A tele
vision industry ban against
using actors to portray doc
tors, nurses or dentists on
commercials goes into effect
Thursday.
Stop Me
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
TOO MUCH PERSONAL
DIPLOMACY
Mr. Rowland Evans Jr.
wrote a story the other day
about a big effort being made
m in the Admin
istration and
among the
Demo cratic
Senate lead
ers to work
out arrange
ments for the
conduct of
foreign pol
icy. This is
Walter
Lippmann
even when
n e c e s s a ry,
the Administra
tion has a commanding ma
jority in Congress.
In the new Congress there
could, at least theoretically,
be a series of stalemates. On
this or that measure, especial
ly if it requires money, the
Democratic majority could re
fuse to support the President.
And also, on this or that pro
ject which the Democratic
majority wants, the Adminis
tration may refuse to act.
FJURING the second World
" War and after, when the
principle of a bi-partisan pol
icy was established, the basic
problem was how to persuade
a majority in Congress to
support big programs initiat
ed by the Executive. There
was, of course, ihe conduct
of the war itself. There was
the question of adherence to
the United Nations, and to
the other international insti
tutions, such as the World
Bank, the Monetary Fund,
UNESCO. There were the
large reconstruction measures,
such as the Marshall plan
and the formation of NATO.
In all these cases the prac
tical political problem was
how the Democratic adminis
trations, Roosevelt's and Tru
man's could obtain the sup
port of the more or less pre
dominantly isolationist Re
publicans. During the war
this was done by a general
patriotic unanimity. After the
war, it was done when Sen.
Vandenberg, who had been
an isolationist, changed his,
mind, then carried with him
the bulk of the Republicans.
THE situation today is some
what different. The Eisen
hower administration's line
of policy is not to initiate
great international projects
but to defend the status quo,
to resist firmly when any non
Communist position is "chal
lenged but not to deliver any
substantial challenge to any
existing Communist position.
Always there is some talk
about German reunification,
and there had been some talk
about the liberation of the
satellites. Yet there are no in
dications that any moves are
contemplated which will
change the status quo and
lead the reunification of Ger
many or to national freedom
for the satellites.
Thus, we shall refuse to re
move our troops from West
Berlin. But nothing is con
templated which would chal
lenge the Soviet Union to re
move its troops which sur
round Berlin and hold East
Germany and Poland and
Eastern Europe in captivity.
The Democrats will, of
course, support Mr. Dulles in
refusing to give up anything
under duress. But, even .if
they were agreed among
themselves on some kind of
constructive initiative, the
Democrats will not be able
to compel the Administration
to adopt It. For Congress can
lead the Administration to
water but it cannot make the
horse drink. Congress cannot
conduct the foreign policy of
the United States. And it
ought not to try to do it. Its
proper role is to insist on be
ing informed, and in a posi
tion, therefore, to hold the
Executive accountable and to
debate intelligently and re
sponsibly what has been done
or what Congress is asked to
approve before it is done:
THERE is no mechanical for
mula by which relations
between Congress and the Ex
ecutive can be organized. Mr.
Evans said in his story that
some Administration officials
are thinking about "the re
creation of an elite corps of
totally-informed legis 1 a t o r s
who are continuously privy
both to basic Administration
designs and to the informa
tion on which policy is being
based." If what the officials
have in mind is to give mem
bers of Congress all they
want or need to know, they
are thinking of something
that ought to be done as a
matter of course.
But in doing it, there ought
to be no talk about setting up
"an elite corps of specially
privileged Congressmen. The
true elite in the formation of
foreign affairs are the mem
bers of Congress who will
take the trouble to study for
eign affairs and to keep them
selves informed.
THE problem of Congress
ional - Executive relations
Lippmann
is perennial. But it is com
plicated at the present time
by the way Mr. Dulles con
ducts his office. Washington
is the center of a world-wide
coalition, and Mr. Dulles for
obvious reasons is in com
mand of our foreign relations.
As such, he needs to be in
Washington most of the time,
all of the time, one might say,
except for extraordinary oc
casions. Why, for example, should
he have thought it necessary
to travel from Mexico City
to San Francisco to deliver
a speech which could just as
well have been delivered in
Washington? And why does
he fjpw have to go to Karachi
jusv as Congress is about to
meet, while Cuba is in tur
moil, as Mr. Mikoyan is about
to arrive, as the situation in
the Middle East is so con
fused aSd so explosive?
IVf R. Dulles has often defend
"'ed his travels on the
ground that face to face with
foreign statesmen he can set
tle problems quickly which
cannot be settled so quickly
through diplomatic channels.
But the fact is that while he
is off to Karachi, or to Par
is, or to Manila, to settle this
or that, he is really out of
personal touch with what may
be happening in a dozen oth
er places. And in his absence
there is nobody at the center
of things in Washington who
has genuine authority to make
a decision.
A most undesirable conse
quence of his personal dip
lomacy is that it down-grades
our Embassies abroad and all
of the foreign Embassies in
Washington. Mr. Dulles has
taught the world to think that
nothing or real importance
can be settled except by him
personally, that all other Con
tacts, except at the summit
where he is, are of secondary
importance.
rPHIS is the fundamental
cause of the discontent
within NATO, not only of
Gen. de Gaulle who has not
been consulted nearly enough
but also of the smaller NATO
Dowers who have to get too
much of their news of the al
liance from the newspapers
The remedy is not to set
up another committee of con
sultation. It is to up-grade the
existing diplomats, and-- this
can be done as and wben Mr.
Dulles, sitting at the center
of things, communicates seri
ously with the foreign Em
bassies in Washington and
through the American Am
bassadors abroad. For if this
became the practise, it would
no longer be assumed that
nothing of first rate impor
tance can happen except when
the head of a state or a for
eign minister embarks in an
airplane for a flight abroad.
And if our diplomacy were
conducted in an orderly fash
ion, with the Secretary of
State in the capital of the
United 'States, there would be
far more opportunity for
those informal contacts with
Congress upon which under
standing and good feeling de
pend. (C) 1958 New York
'ierald Tribune Inc.
College Growth
Leads to Change
Eugene- Rapid growth in
enrollment and a parallel in
crease in the counselling pro
gram here have led to a ma
jor administrative change in
the office of student affairs,
at the University of Oregon.
J. Spencer Carlson, who for
seven years has been direc
tor of admissions and head of
the counselling program, will
now devote full time to coun
selling. He will hold the title
of director of counselling and
associate dean of students. He
will also continue as associ
ate professor of psychology.
The counselling load has
tripled in the past seven
years has been director of ad
missions and head of the coun
selling program, will now de
vote full time to counselling.
He will "hold the title of di
rector of counselling and as
sociate dean of students. He
will also continue as associ
ate professor of psychology.
The counselling load has
tripled in the past seven years.
Testing services have also ex
panded, with increased use of
placement and rating tests.
The university has made its
testing services available to
other educational institutions
in the state, through the Ore
gon Cooperative Test service,
which is supervised by Carl
son. We Give
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Two Million Pennies
To the Editor: Regarding:
the cry for and against a!
sales tax, I wish to take no
sides. Taxes in Oregon are
prohibitive and our economy
will finally choke to death on
the dust of the dragging feet
of the parasites who are
throttling our initiative.
When a man paints his
house and builds a fence he is
guilty of improving the place
and making it better than he
found it. This is a crime that
is punished by hitting one in
the only place it really hurts,
and that is in the pocket
book. This is wrong and I
will not pick the scab from
this festering sore, because I
have no medication for it.
I have no medication for
the sales tax cancer either. I
would call attention to one
fact. A merchant pays on a 3
per cent tax, 3 per cent of
his gross, to the state tax col
lector. When a state is cursed
with a 3 per cent sales tax, it
is often the practice, to tax
20 cents one penny, some
times 15.
The merchant will, oftimes
collect as much as 6 cents on
a dollar in odds' and .ends of
merchandise. This will leave
him an average of 2 cents on
each dollar that does not have
to go anywhere near the tax
man's musty cellar. . Briefly,
the merchant can steal 2 cents
on each dollar of gross bus
iness. His gross can be a mil
lion dollars. Does anybody
know how much two million
pennies are? The merchant
who wants sales tax does!
Pete Logan,
Route 4,
Medford
4
Sno-Cats Needed
To the Editor: It is my op
inion that the lost family, Mr.
and Mrs. Martin and their
three daughters, can be found
in isolated woods in the vicin
ity of where their car was
last located at a service sta-.
tion. As stated, the family
was headed out to gather
Christmas trees in their sta
tion wagon.
I base my theory on my
personal experience and op
inion that the driver of this
automobile knew where to
get nice trees, and that would
be in the extreme high moun
tains were no man has a right
to jeopardize his life and fam
ily by such undertakings. -
This is what I learned as a
young man when I was rais
ing a family. We went out to
get nice Christmas trees our
selves and more than often
we had serious trouble get
ting stuck on county roads.
Now I believe that the
greatest possibility of locat
ing these people, and I be
lieve they will never be re
covered alive, is to comb the
back trails. This car could be
40 or 50 miles back into the
interior, and should snow
start falling and continuous
rains fall, it is impossible to
get a heavy car out.
There is only one solution,
and that is to take a Sno-Cat
and comb such country and
logging roads to the ends.
This will require a competent
man to drive a Sno-Cat and
search to the ends of these
trails. There are numerous
Sno-Cats in this near-by vicin
ity, and I would be happy to
pay gasoline for a maximum
search of 100 miles by such
a competent driver.
E. M. Tucker Sr., Pres.
Tucker Sno-Cat Corp.,
Medford.
had no clocks or caieno
forthctegmningofthe"
So'r took office
c RuTtreV called January I.
Ttty beginning of
e new Year
happiness i
AoM from lh
MANX MOCGAN HMOID
DAY OR NfGOT
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
jfainiui noie in uie news:
" Movie actor Charles Chap
lin," from whom the U.S. gov
ernment has just " extracted
$425,000 to settle an income
tax claim, entered a London
clinic for treatment of a
badly abscessed wisdom
tooth.
There ought to be' a smart
crack in that somewhere
although one guesses that
Chaplain sees nothing funny
in it.
HTHE latest on Berlin:
The Western Big Three
powers (Britain, U.S., France)
have dispatched their "hands
off Berlin" notes to their en
voys in Moscow for delivery
to the Kremlin.
The notes flatly reject Rus
sia's near ultimatum to turn
West Berlin into a "free city"
and suggest that any solution
of the Berlin problem must
"be found within the wider
framework of an all German
settlement."
IT SOUNDS vague as, of
course, it is intended to.
The Western allies want to
prolong the talking as much
as possible.
What they are really pro
posing is that the question of
re-uniting Germany both
East Germany and West Ger
many shall be submitted to
the people of both areas at a
FREE ELECTION, with the
majority to rule. That Russia
can't stand for, because -she
knows the vote would be
overwhelmingly favorable, in
communist East Germany as
well as in the free Western
area.
The allied strategy is to
keep Russia refusing to per
mit free elections which is
good propaganda for the
West.
HOW will it all turn out? .
We'll see what we'll see.
But the longer we can keep
Russia talking the -less likli
hood there will -be that she
will start shooting.? -
IN CONCLUSION, a word
about Marie Toree, the
New -York Herald Tribune
reporter who has chosen to go
to jail rather than reveal the
source of the information
upon which she based a story.
Newspapers generally re
fuse to reveal their sources
of information, their reason
being that in very many
cases important and respon
sible sources will talk much
more freely for publication if
their identity is not to be re
vealed. The business of a good
newspaper is to get the news
and get it., straight. News
papers are responsible for
what they print. If it is false
and libelous, they can be
sued.
Their job is to tell the
news as accurately as pos
sible, a"nd so they seek to pro
tect their news sources. Their
reasons for doing so are en
tirely legitimate.
THIS Torre case, however,
isn't wholly typical of the
newspaper principle of pro
tection of responsible sources.
Miss Torre's story concerned
Miss Judy Garland, who was
suing her employer, the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System,
for breach of contract and li
bel. The "source" in this case
was sought to be established
as material in her suit. Other
wise, the testimony in ques
tion would be hearsay, which
isn't admissible as evidence.
.Because of the principle
involved, newspaper people
are inclined to sympathize
with her but their sympathy
would be stronger if her
story had been concerned
with straight news rather
than the gossip column type
CourihsuM
SNODGt ASS, FUNHAl DWCTOK
PHONE St 2-8030