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4 Monday, January 5, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
Mayor Thomas Williams of
Ashland Inspires furor in the
grand style by his new ap
pointments to municipal posts.
The answer to the "Sleepy
Hour" quiz program's mystery
question is placed in a safe
deposit box at the U. S. Na
tional Bank.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1949 (Thursday)
A total of 605 Christmas
greeting cards are destroyed
at Medford post office, victims
of incorrect or insufficient ad
dressing. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
first lady of the land con
templates with horror, what
would happen if there were
no newspapers for 30 days.
We also view with alarm."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5. 1929 (Saturday)
A 12-passenger airplane
lands at the local airport.
Medford and the Rogue
River valley reportedly have
enjoyed the most prosperous
year in history during 1928.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1919 (Sunday)
Oregon soldiers in the 91st
Division, are ordered home
from France.
F. L. Tou Velle is scheduled
to take over as county judge
tomorrow.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven cr eight is excellent; five or
lix is good.
1. What is the name for an
instrument marking time (in
music) by means of a pendu
lum? 2. What famous document
was promulgated at Runny
mede in 1215?
3. In what comic opera is
there a character "Little But
tercup?" 4. In the mining industry
in the United States, what are
"captive" coal mines?
5. Correct the following:
John is the best of the two
men.
6. Name the three States of
the Union that have four-letter
names.
7. What is the opposite of
clockwise?
8. Which are the "one-eyed"
Jacks in a modern deck of
playing cards?
9. In Spanish what does
"Puerto Rico" mean?
10. How many Cardinals
did Pope John recently ap
point? Answers: I. Metronome. 2.
Magna Charta. 3."H.M.S. Pin
afore." 4. Mines owned by the
steel mills using the entire
mine output. 5. "John is the
better ..." 6. Iowa, Ohio,
Utah. 7. Counter - clockwise.
8. Spades and Hearts. 9. "Rich
Port." 10. 23.
Millman Named Bend
Mayor by Committee
Bend - (CPD - Jack C. Demp
sey, millman and local union
leader, has been named
mayor of this city by a seven
man committee.
Dempsey took over the city
gavel from' Melvin L. Rogers
New commission members
are George Breast, Dr. R- E.
Johnson, Dr. Charles J. Rice
and William E. Miller. Hold
over members are W. M. Loy
and T. D. Sexton.
More Legal Bingo
The playing of bingo is being put on a formal,
carefully supervised basis in New York City. Un
der terms of a city Bingo law signed by Mayor
Wagner on Aug. 2 and approved by the voters
by better than two-to-one Nov. 4 religious or ben
evolent organizations may run the games only
under the stern eye of the municipal Department
of Licenses. Holding of illegal sessions is a mis
demeanor. The New York law formalizes a situation un
der which religious and benevolent organizations
had been holding games under protection of a
Court of Appeals ruling of 1952.
DRIOR to a constitutional amendment approved
by New York State voters in November 1957,
Bingo under the auspices of churches and frater
nal organizations had been winked at by local
law enforcement officers in New York State
as in many other jurisdictions. Even so, making
Bingo altogether legal had the strong support of
many Roman Catholic churches in the state.
Protestant leaders were strongly opposed.
Under the revised New York constitution, vo
ters must approve legalized Bingo by referendum
before the games can be set up. Prior to the Nov.
4 vote, some 500 localities in the state had adopt
ed Bingo. And almost 700 eligible groups had
asked for licenses to conduct the games.
These licenses one for each session, with a
monthly limit of six come at a fee of $10, which
is split by city and state. Prizes are limited to
$250 for a single game; $1,000 for any one "oc
casion.'
'THE New York system is modeled after New
Jersey's legalized Bingo. There, according to
a Feb. 12 report of the New Jersey control com
mission, "Commercial interests and professionals
have been successfully barred from participation
in legalized Bingo and raffles."
Bingo and certain forms of raffles were made
legal in Jersey in May 1954. More than 90 per
cent of Garden State communities have authoriz
ed the gambling games.
In the first full year of legalized play, 1955,
Bingo attendance totaled 4,426,800 at 20,400
games, with receipts of $13,797,156. Two. years
later, 5,228,110 players participated in 22,887
games, with receipts of $19,025,938. Raffles
rought the total take to $26,042,630.
CONGRESS in the Federal Revenue Act of 1951
in effect exempted Bingo from new controls
and taxes imposed on organized gambling. The
same liberal treatment was accorded "card games
such as draw poker, stud poker, and blackjack,
roulette games, dice games such as craps . . .
keeno games, and the gambling wheels frequent
ly encountered at county fairs and for charity."
The State Lottery Control Commission in New
York is headed by Richards W. Hannah, ironi
cally enough, in view of the religious controversy
over Bingo, a lay leader of the Protestant Episco
pal church. In command in New York City will be
a Roman Catholic, Commissioner of Licenses Ber
nard J. O'Connell, whose job is to oversee such
diverse activities as the city's entertainment and
theatre presentations, its auctions, and its garbage
collection. E.R.R.
President and
That Vice President Nixon is in any way
"dictating" the President's annual state of the
union message has been indignantly denied by
the Administration. But the White House admit
ted freely it has been consulting Mr. Nixon, not
only on the message but also on policies.
This close political partnership, if it can be
called that, between President and Vice President
has been relatively rare
For one thing, m the old
to "balance the ticket"
Vice President a quite
from the choice for President.
The country did have birds of a feather in
Taft and Sherman, both conservative, and in
Truman and Barkley, both haters of stuffed shirts.
Nevertheless, for anything as close as the Eisenhower-Nixon
political cooperation, we'd probab
ly have to go back more than a century, to Presi
dent Polk and George M. Dallas and to Andrew
Jackson and Martin Van Buren. E.R.R.
Higher Federal! Gas Tax?
Increase the federal tax on gasoline, the Presi
dent says he'll ask the new Congress. But whether
Congress complies with the request could be
something else again. After all, the tax was raised
only 2y2 years ago, to 3 from 2 cents a gallon.
The federal gas tax was first levied in 1932,
during the dire depression of that time, at one
cent a gallon. It rose to iy2 cents in 1933, went
back to one cent in 1934, stayed there for six
years, was hiked to iy2 cents again in 1940, to 2
cents in 1951.
THE increase to 3 cents in 1956 accompanied
the new program for an elaborate interstate
highway system. And the take from the whole
gasoline tax, also from all the other federal taxes
involved in highway use, was earmarked for a
special highway trust fund.
k Now, however, it is found that the program
will cost more than originally anticipated like
everything else these days. So proceeds from the
"gas" tax increase, if Congress votes it. won't
swell Treasury revenues, but will simply help to
keep the Treasury deficit down. E.R.R.
Vice President
in U. S. political history.
days it was customary
that is, to choose for
different breed of cat
Dennis the
Veca am eve nti iM AAAnac
DAUGHTERS BIRTHDAY PARTY AND
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
ROCKEFELLER-SINGING
Washington - The fact that
Governor Nelson Rockefeller
of New York has now let the
1 other shoe
j drop and all
j b u t openly
I announced his
i: candidacy for
;the 1960 Re-
) publican Pres-
i idential nom
ination is only
the surface of
this political
story.
Th joke in both parties
here is that the new Gover
nor's inaugural address at Al
bany has almost ruined the
one he intends tp make in
Washington as President in
1961. It is too bad, the irrev
erent politicians say, that he
has used up so many of. his
good lines ahead of time.
But the cream of the jest
though it has a certain sour
taste to a good many people
here, including Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon - is
quite beyond all this. It is not
simply that Rockefeller has
confronted the regular and
Old Guard Republicans with
a very early challenge. Worse
yet, there is every indication
that he will be harder even
than Dwight D. Eisenhower to
bring down from the high,
amiable stratosphere in which
he. floats with such amazing
grace and skill.
AT ALBANY the problems
of 1Tpw VnrV- KtatoWhinh
must at least for a time
strongly engage the new Gov
ernor-were well and truly
subordinated by Rockefeller
to a message not merely to
this nation but to all the
world.
President Eisenhower, from
his very first campaign on
ward, until lately had been
frustrating the regular Re
publicans beyond belief by
observing periodically that he
was both conservative and
liberal. He was conservative
in spending, he used to say,
but he was liberal in dealing
with the people's needs.
Those Republicans with
old-fashioned and clear at
tachments to conservatism -like
the Eisenhower rival for
the 1952 Presidential nomina
tion, the late Senator Robert
A. Taft of Ohio-found this
hard to take. They did not
mind the President's being
conservative or, if he chose,
even liberal. But, they com
plained, it was very difficult
to make issues against a man
who said he was both-and all
at once.
DUT if they had trouble in
pinning down the Presi
dent, think what their task
will be with Governor Rock
Try and
William S.
White
-By BENNETT CERF-
PLED RUSSELL tells about a spifficated gent sitting in Row
65 at a bowl football game who staggered to his feet time
and again to yell, "Hey, Gus! Look at me up here!" Where
upon, down in Row 20, an
other man would rise, look
up, and wave ecstatically.
Finally, however, the man
in Row 20 had enough.
"Stay in your seat and
watch the game," he shout
ed testily, "And besides, my
name isn't Gus."
TV producer to Hollywood
was complaining of the trouble
he had encountered easting the
role of a detective in a new
serial just contracted for.
"Be patient," counseled
Frank Sinatra. "It's a well
known fact that not every Tom and Harry can be & Dick!"
,
Cartoonist Charles Addams, who leans toward tha macabre In
most of his famous drawings, is seriously considering eliminating
people with two heads from his future productions. He explains,
"Too many angry letters from the two-headed set"
0 1953, by Beaaett Cart DUtributad by Kin: features lyadfcate.
Menace
MticrU iwrtvn liiU m UP?
HE FlVB yEAPS
S. WHITE
efeller! For he went President
Eisenhower one better: He
announced that he would be
conservative and liberal-and
"progressive," too-and aU at
once.
Nixon is now under formal
notice that Rockefeller is a
major contender against him
for the top place in 1960.
There is no surprise in this,
perhaps, except for its timing.
What is really sobering is this:
The Vice-President himself is
no amateur at putting the
"high level" tone into polit
ical speeches when he is of a
mind; but after Albany no
one here believes that he can
possibly hope to match the
Governor in this regard.
There probably is no na
tional politician, moreover,
who would seriously deny
that the Rockefeller inaugur
al was as glowingly delivered
as it was glowingly written.
Its inspirational quality was
such as to make the ablest of
the White House ghosts feel
rather crudely down to earth
in their prose. For this was a
Rockefeller prose that sings,
sings, and sings.
r .
AND . THE intonation re
minded many here - in
cluding some Republicans
still acutely sensitive to the
memories of two decades ago
-of the rich, cultivated and
quietly triumphant voice of
Franklin D. Roosevelt. .
As the situation is seen
here, . the Governor has, in
deed, thrown a rock into the
pond, the fat into the fire and
his hat into the ring. The re
percussions will be wide and
possibly unruly among the
reduced and already quarrel
ing Republican minority in
the new Congress.
For what the new Gover
nor has said at Albany will
give the partisans practically
no breathing space before the
hard necessity of making up
their minds as to whether it
should be Nixon or Rocke
feller in 1960.
They are understandably
still rather bruised from what
happened to their party in
the November Congressional
elections. They feel it too bad
that Rockefeller could not
have given them at least a
little time-say, a couple of
months-to rest and catch their
breath before calling upon
them to stand up and be
counted for 1960.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
HAROLD W. CLOSE
Princetone, N.. - (DPD-Dr.
Harold Wilberforce Close,
dean emeritus of the School
of Arts and Sciences of the
American University of Bei
rut, Lebanon, died here Thurs
day. Close, 70,' resided here.
Stop Me
Ike's 'Balanced7 Budget Reminder That
Budget-Cutting Hasn't Been Successful
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -UPD- President
Eisenhower's jump - the - gun
announcement that his new
budget would
be balan c e d
is a reminder
that Franklin
D. Roosevelt
was budget
minded dur
ing the first
half dozen
years of his
&lJ long tenure.
tyie c. Wilson FDR never
made it, and finally stopped
making any promies that the
government could or would
live within it. Harry Truman,
who followed him, rang all
bells not only as spender but
as tax collector.
Their tax collections rare
ly overtook government
spending, however, so both
Roosevelt and Truman bor
rowed heavily to cover the
difference. The public debt
was a mere 19 billion dollars
in 1932, the year FDR first
was elected President. It had
grown to 258 billion dollars
by 1945, the year he died. It
was 266 billion dollars in
1953, the year Eisenhower
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JAN. 5. 1847
Salty sailors of HMS Mo
desto open Oregon's second
theatrical season with all
male performance of "High
Life Below the Stairs,"
"The Deuce is in Him," and
"The Irish Widow."
JAN. 5. 1887
Eighty six members of
the North P a c if i c Fruit
Growers' association, hold
ing their first annual meet
ing in Portland's city coun
cil chambers, announce the
value of the year's fruit
crop, $170,000, "for an off
year is not a bad showing
for our young orchards."
Editorial
Comment
PAY-TV ARGUMENT
All of the arguments in
favor of pay TV have been
demonstrated to Southern
Oregon viewers within the
last week, and probably pre
sented without any real in
tent to do so.
After carrying the fine pro
fessional football games dur
ing the season, station KBES
failed to put on the cham
pionship game last Sunday.
On New Year's day, the
partial presentation of the
wonderful parade in Pasa
dena left much to be desired
and the program showing the
parade was cut off long be
fore the parade was over.
With many Southern Ore-
gonians interested in the Rose
Bowl game between Cali
fornia and Iowa, the TV sta
tion hung onto the Cotton
Bowl until almost the last
straggler had left the stands
It undoubtedly seemed to
many a viewer that the sta
tion was almost reluctant to
leave the deserted stands
down in Texas and switch to
Pasadena.
Most people have not been
sold on pay TV, but after the
Inst few days we suspect a
good many are now in favor
of giving it a trial. Ashland
Daily Tidings.
Portland Police
Slowed by Weather
Portland -(DPD- Portland's
city police force was partially
demobilized Saturday.
Icy temperatures froze ra
diators of seven of the 29
prowl and traffic cars on
duty.
Finally all cars were ord
ered to the police garage at
frequent intervals for radia
tor checks.
East precinct had four of
its nine cars out of action at
one time.
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BTTIE
Buster Brown
Will
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Preparing for Our Big
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Starting Wednesday, 9 a.m.
took over.
Eisenhower Made Promises
To candidate Eisenhower in
1952 this was a shocking situ
ation, accompanied by a con
dition of creeping inflation
which was reducing the pur
chasing power of the U.S. dol
lar to about 50 cents.
On Oct. 22, 1952, candidate
Eisenhower was in Troy,
N.Y., seeking the vote of the
shirt and collar workers. Tru
Matter of Fact
A HUNDRED MILLION
Washington - For the first
time, a rational explanation
is available for the fearful,
?mmm cruciallv im
portant mys
tery of Chi
na's . agricul
t u r a 1 com
munes. , The mystery
can be simply
summed up.
It is easy to
under stand
i i j-ii.:
4osph Alsop wiiy me 111-
nese Communist leaders have
found it necessary to imitate
Stalin. But why on earth
have they chosen to out-Stalin
Stalin? The Soviet dictator's
collectivization of Russian ag
riculture was quite sufficient
ly terrible. Why have the Chi
nese chosen the infinitely
more terrible and more un
settling commune system?
The answer almost certain
ly lies in the almost incred
ible statistics concerning the
current labor corvees in Com
munist China, which have
been obtained from Western
official analysts. It is authori
tatively stated that the pres
ent labor corvees comprise
close to 100,000,000 people. In
other words, the number of
Chinese currently engaged in
forced labor is a good deal
more than half of the popula
tion of the United States, and
nearly half the population of
the Soviet Union.
r: MUST BE understood, of
course, that forced labor of
the Chinese corvee is not ex
actly like Soviet forced labor.
Criminals and political dissi
dents may be included, but
in China all law-abiding citi
zens not belonging to the
privileged class are and al
ways have been subject to
corvee. In fact, Chinese civil
ization was largely built by
corvee labor; and ' what is
staggering and unprecedented
in the figure given above is
simply its size.
Even in China, however,
you cannot take one able
bodied person in every six for
special construction projects,
and still have enough left
over to till the fields. The
most ruthless and cruel mili
tary mobilization of peasant
man-and-woman-power was
needed, therefore, because
this was the only way to
maintain agricultural output
with the hands still available.
The system of the rural com
munes resulted.
. This explanation of a phe
nomenon that has seemed in
explicable has another kind
of significance, too. It seems
that the chance of grave in
ternal trouble in Communist
China is considerably greater
than most people have sup
posed. HERE the background reas
oning becomes a bit more
complicated. In brief, the Chi
nese leaders have been driven
to carry out their hideous
"agricultural reform" just as
Stalin was driven. This prob
lem is financing their enor
mous program of forced in
dustrialization. Hence they
have had to take the country
side in hand, to seize a far
larger share of the product of
agriculture, and to depress
the living standard all to gain
more funds for capital invest
ments. In every respect but one,
moreover, Stalin's task in the
period of the first Five Year
plan was easier than Mao's
Shoe Store
Be
man was President and can
didate Eisenhower charged on
that day that the Truman ad
ministration deliberately had
caused monetary inflation - as
a political policy designed to
create an illusion of pros
perity. "This is always done," Eis
enhower said, "by adminis
trations that care more for
the next election than for the
next generation.
By Joseph Alsop
task today. China today is far
worse off than Russia was
then, with a lower living
standard, a smaller store of
resources as yet untapped,
and so on and on. But China
has the tradition of the labor
corvee. Miracles of construc
tion can be accomplished by
Chinese peasants accustomed
to corvee labor. Ancient work
habits, ingrained by millenia,
make this kind of construc
tion remarkably efficient in
China, whereas Soviet forced
labor was most inefficient.
BUT if the system of com
munes was necessitated
because 100,000,000 people
were already toiling in labor
corvees, then China's one
great special asset had al
ready been expended even
before Mao Tse-Tung made
the same harsh choice that
Stalin made. Thus there is no
special factor that may ease
the agony to which the Chi
nese people have now been
condemned. There is nothing
to, hasten the moment when
their agony will bear fruit, as
the agony of the Russian peo
ple finally bore fruit, in the
form of a vastly increased na
tional product.
According to the same au
thoritative analysts already
quoted, massive peasant ris
ings were rather near at hand
before the Chinese Commu
nist leaders recently back
tracked a little. The back
tracking took the primary
form of a reduction of the
work norms for the rural
communes. But in a nation
already living close ' to the
margin of starvation, reduc
ing the work norms will not
alter the effects of sharply
cutting the "living standards
in order to finance industrial
outlays.
Today, captive China, "sick
and friendless, all a laboring
race repines, like a race in
sunken cities, like a nation in
,the mines." In this situation,
no one who knows the history
and character of the Chinese
people can deny the possibil
ity of the worst kind of in
ternal trouble, although no
one can guarantee it, either.
(Copyright. 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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FRIENDLY,
Eisenhower proposed to
combat inflation by "slicing
the fat out of our federal
budget."
And how is it now, more
than six years after, with
President Eisenhower's budg
et? It is like this: Whereas
the Truman budget (for fis
cal 1953), which Eisenhower
was denouncing that October
day in Troy, proposed to
spend a whopping $74 billion,
the new Eisenhower budget
will be for spending in the
general area of $77 billion.
New Spending Champion
Truman, however, had an
all-out inflationary budget for
fiscal 1953 compared to Eisen
hower's new budget which
will be for fiscal 1960.
There is more doubt than
confidence, however, that the
fiscal 1960 budget will be in
balance at the end of that
year. One year ago, Eisenhow
er planned to spend about
$74 billion and foresaw a
budget surplus of $466 mil
lion. That surplus hope long
since was abandoned. The
deficit at the end of the cur
rent fiscal year-June 30, 1959
-may hit $12 billion.
FDR 'and Truman were
spectacular tax collectors and
spenders of other people's
money. Comes now President
Eisenhower who has licked
'em both. He came into office
six years ago this month and
already he is the champ. It is
a title which has not endeared
the President or the Republi
can party to the voters.
The administration's drive
for a balanced 1960 fiscal
budget seems to be in ac
knowledgement of failure to
make good on those 1952
economy promises. Under Eis
enhower the gross public debt
has climbed to a dizzy $283
billion.
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