4 Wednesday, January 14, 1959
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 14. 1949 (Friday)
The March of Dimes opens
its annual campaign for funds
to fight polio.
Some 40 persons in Ashland
are reported circulating peti
tions initiated by the Civic
Betterment league for the re
call of three city councilmen.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 14, 1939 (Saturday)
Jackson county Democrats
are agitated over who is to
decide who is to preside at the
Jacksonville post office for
the next four years.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Fog
has blanketed the valley all
week to the great disgust of
many."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 14, 1929 (Monday)
The Medford airport bond
election is set for April 2.
No. 1 turkeys brought local
growers 31 cents per pound
on Christmas markets.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 14, 1919 (Tuesday)
The school board rules that
until all danger of another
epidemic is past there shall
be no more holding of school
on Saturdays to make up for
time lost during the recent
outbreak.
The state legislature con
venes, but Jackson county
solons lose out on important
committee posts.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In what contest does the
winning team move back
wards? 2. Name the only mammal
that can fly.
3. Which are the largest of
living reptiles?
4. What two animals are
closely associated with the
month of March?
5. Bikini Atoll in the Mar
shall islands has been used as
a place for what sort of tests?
6. A rat can drag objects
from place to place by means
of its tail; true or false?
7. Which King of England
was the last of the Stuart dyn
asty? 8. In World War II, was the
"Omaha Beachhead" estab
lished by Allied troops in Si
cily, Normandy, or Greece?
9. May a naturalized Amer
ican citizen be elected as
President of the United
States?
10. Who sold a cow for a
handful of beans?
Answers: 1. In a tug-of-war.
2. Bar. 3. Crocodilians. 4.
Lion and lamb. 5. Nuclear
bomb tests, b. True. 7. Jam
es II. 8. Normandy. 9. No.
10. Jack (in lhe tale of the
Beanslock.)
Truck, Trailer Tun,
Over On Highway 62
- A truck and trailer owned
by Elder Logging company
turned over yesterday after
non on Highway 62 near Ca
sey state park, state police re
ported. The driver, Elder D. Kness,
39, of Trail, was reported un
injured. The right wheels of the
trailer went off the road and
pulled the vehicle into the
ditch, where it turned over
on its side, state police said.
A NewXCC"?
A couple of years ago, after a jaunt into the
woods with a group of foresters and outdoors
men, we reported here on a discussion we'd heard
about the possibility of forming something like
the Civilian Conservation Corps of pre-World
War II days.
Several of the men in the party had had ex
perience with the boys who came west to take
over the barracks camps, build roads and trails,
construct forest recreation facilities, do refor
estation work, build fire-breaks and fight fires,
and generally effect a double rehabilitation
that of the forests and that of themselves.
pREQUENTLY these lads were the products of
the slums of the east, and often were "tough
cookies" themselves boys who today would
be called "juvenile delinquents."
A rather amazing percentage of them, if we
are rightly informed, went on from the CCC
into constructive, useful lives.
How much credit the corps can take for this
record is, of course, subject to debate. But many
men who watched the tough boys from the
streets of New York or Chicago change gradu
ally into men who knew something of the out
doors, something of life, something of their fel
low men, and something of responsibility, will
swear that it was the turning-point in more lives
than a few.
THE possibility of reviving the CCC or some-
thing like it has been broached every so often
since the war.
The latest to do so is Sen. Hubert Humphrey
of Minnesota, who advocates a Youth Conserva
tion Corps, to provide employment for boys of
16 or over.
After reading Humphrey's proposal, Bud For
rester of the Pendleton East Oregonian talked to
one of that newspapers' employees who came to
Oregon with the CCC in .1937, who stayed,, and
who became a responsible citizen. He told Bud :
"There are 12 or 14 of us in and near Pendleton
now and all of the fellows have made good. They
came out of New York and New Jersey and if they
hadn't had the opportunity to leave there I'm afraid it
would have been a different story.
"... Most of those guys were tough. We had gang
fights in the CCC camp here in the beginning. Every
guy wanted to show how tough he was. But it wasn't
very long before it all got straightened out. Every
body liked his job. We realized that there wasn't any
point in trying to prove how tough we were that
it didn't make any difference in this new set-up. It
was just the right thing for some tough guys from
the big city."
A ND he added that he thought Senator Humph
rey should add one provision to his proposal,
that the boys enlisted in a YCC should first of
all come from the slum areas of big cities. He
said:
"They are the fellows who need help. The situa
tion that many of those boys face is almost hopeless.
Get them into the YCC first. Broaden the program
later." . '
The proposal, on a national scale, is similar
if not virtually identical to suggestions for young
men's work camps in Oregon, except that the
latter would enlist youngsters who had gotten in
to trouble, or were headed that way.
Such an organization wouldn't end juvenile
delinquency overnight, or in any length of time,
for the causes are too deep:seated in our society.
But it would solve a lot of problems, particularly
in the area of the "tough guys" who really
shouldn't be sent to prison, nor yet should be
set loose again with a wrist slap.
THE COSTS of such a program would not be
negligible, but when compared to the fed
eral military budget, say, they would amount to
probably a tiny fraction of that total.
And who could calculate the good that would
come out of it?
It would include the construction of federal
forest access roads, which are so badly needed
to get out overripe timber; it would speed up the
rehabilitation and construction of forest service
and national park recreational facilities now so
badly behind the demand, and it would provide
the resources for much other work which would
benefit the nation on its federal lands work
now going begging for lack of budget and per
sonnel. But most of all it would provide a place for
young men to get into a relatively wholesome at
mosphere, to gain self-respect, to learn the merits
of a hard day's work.
YCC has much to be said for it. : E.A.
Family Incomes
If vour familv had a cash income of ahmit
$5,000 last year it was
il 1
me census oureau s report ior ytY. rne $b,uuu
figure was median income half the families
received more, half received less.
Only one family in ten received $10,000 or
more, but one family in seven received $2,000 or
less.
The bureau reported that the number of fam
ilies with one wage-earner was just about the
same as the number with two or more wage
earners. AS TO geographical distribution, city families
earned more than twice as much as rural fam
ilies, although the value of foodstuffs and other
"farm fringe" benefits is not figured in that total.
In the west and the northeast the typical fam
ily income is 10 per cent higher than the national
average; in the north central states it is about
average, while in the south it is 20 per cent lower
than average. E.A.
"typical," according to
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Dennis the
THE CALLED IT A HULU VOOP. 60,
7W$ THE GOOD OC DAYS'.
United States Edges Cautiously
Toward Aqreement on Europe
By STEWART HENSLEY
Washington-(UPD-The Unit
ed States appeared today to
be edging cautiously toward
a showdown conference with
Russia on German reunifica
tion and European security.
Some officials predicted
that a four-power foreign min
isters conference would be
held within the near future.
They said that arrangements
might be made soon after
Soviet Deputy Premier An
astas I. Mikoyan confers this
week end with President Eis
enhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
Dulles, meanwhile, public
ly promised the Russians
some concessions and hinted
at others if they would agree
to reunify Germany on terms
which would permit it to re
tain its economic and other
ties with Western Europe.
Rejects Russian Proposal
But he made it clear, at his
news conference Tuesday,
that the United States would
never accept what he called
the "stupid" unworkable and
"worse than brutal" Russian
proposal for a German peace
treaty which would isolate,
demilitarize and neutralize
that country.
Dulles said the Russian pro
posal, made in a note to the
Western powers last Satur
day, held grave peril for Euro
pean peace because "if you
try to isolate and segregate a
great people like the Ger
mans in the center of Europe
. . . they will become a restive
and dangerous force; they
will attempt to gain advan
tages to themselves by trying
to play off the East against
the West."
Offers Solution
The proper solution, Dulles
declared, is to "tie Germany
in" to the West European as-
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JAN. 14, 1891
Ruby Robert Fitzsimrhons
defeats Jack Dempsey, the
Nonpareil, idol of Oregon
boxing fans, at New Or
leans' Olympia club, knock
ing him out in the 13th
round to capture lhe world
middleweight crown.
JAN. 14, 1889
Roseburg's city council
passes an anti-noise statute:
"And ordinance xo prevent
the use of bells on cows and
other domestic animals in
the night time between the
hours of 8 o'clock and 6
o'clock in the morning."
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
TP7HEN I WAS A LAD, elocution teachers were fond of
making their charges recite a touching poem that began
"The boy stood on the burning deck" with appropriate ges
tures. Behind the teacher's
back, we shouted parodies,
one of which I vaguely re
member went like this:
"The boy stood on the burn
ing deck, eating peanuts by
the peck."
The poem was based on
an actual historic sea battle:
Nelson's successful attack
upon the French fleet at
Aboukir in 1798. The
French flagship, "L'Orient,"
took fire, and the blaze lit
lip the entire bay. Officers
begged the little favorite of
the ship, the captain's son,
to board a lifeboat, but he insisted upon staying in the exact
spot his father had assigned to him not realizing that his papa
.had been mortally wounded, and could give him no further in
structions. Sadly the officers rowed away without him and just before
the ship blew up, saw him steadfastly rooted to his position on
deck, waiting for his father to tell him what he must do next
C 193, by Besoett Cerf. Distributed by Sins Features Syndicate,
Menace
sociation of nations. This, he
said, will be the best guaran
tee against the resurgent mili
tarism which Russia fears
from a reunited Germany.
Dulles said that the United
States was prepared to:
-Agree to the demilitariza
tion of the eastern portion of
Germany if the country is re
unified in such a way that it
Editorial Comment
THIRTY-ONE LOST YEARS
We don't want to get into
argument whether Hugh d'
Autremont, the Siskiyou rail
road bandit, should have been
released from prison or not,
but can't help wondering what
it must feel like to go free
after 31 years inside.
Thirty-one years. It's nearly
a third of a century. Vast
changes have occurred.
In 1927, when the Salem
prison doors clanged shut be
hind d'Autremont, prohibition
was in effect. The automobile
speed limit was 35 miles an
hour. Only the main highways
were paved. The radio was a
novelty, Lindbergh was fly
ing the Atlantic. World War
I had only recently "made
the world safe for democracy"
and Adolph Hitler was un
heard of.
Calvin Coolidge was Presi
dent of the United States.
I. L. Patterson has just de
feated Walter Pierce for gov
ernor of Oregon. People
bought their food at corner
groceries where clerks waited
on them. Airplanes were still
something that barnstormers
flew from town to town to
take people up for short rides.
To d'Autremont, the world
of 1927 is still real. Think
of walking out of the state
prison to face the world of
1959. Think of trying to catch
up with 31 eventful years
and their many, many
changes.
Television. Freeways with
70-mile speeds. Airlines. Su
permarkets. World War II.
The Korea War. The cold
war. Khrushchev. Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Harry Tru
m a n. General Eisenhower.
President Eisenhower. Liquor
stores. Taverns. Bars.
Childhood playmates now
old and gray. Houses gone, re
placed by parking lots or
service stations. N o more
street cars. Even the buses
TRUTH WILL OUT
Milan, Italy -UPD- A beggar
posing as a deaf mute was ar
rested Tuesday when he be
came involved in a dispute
with a streetcar conductor
and started yelling.
Contributions to GOP Affect Decision
To Keep Goldwater; Labor Fight Seen
Washington-4UPD-Sen. Berry
Goldwater (R-Ariz.) stayed in
the race for chairmanship of
the Senate
Republican
Campaign
Committee be
cause party
c o n t ributors
wanted it that
way.
Their long
distance tele
phone calls of
Vyie c. Wilson protest against
by-passing Goldwater were
impressively numerous and
angrily emphatic. These pro
tests put muscle into conserva
tive Republican efforts to
make Goldwater chairman.
Senate office telephone
bells began to ring Friday
morning. The morning papers
had reported that Sen. Lev
erett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) was
counting Goldwater out of the
campaign committee chair
manship. Offensive to Labor
The reason ascribed to Salt-
is free to remain associated
with Western Europe.
-Agree to some reduction
of armed forces in Western
Europe if it appeared a work
able peace treaty could be
achieved.
-Renew its 1955 promise to
guarantee Russia assistance
against any attack by resur
gent militarism arising in a
unified Germany.
that replaced them now are
on the way out. Noise. Smog.
Campers and Fishermen in
every woodland glade. Pro
fessional football. Professional
basketball. Atom bombs. H-
bombs. Space flight.
The world of 1959 is far,
far distant from that of 1927.
Almost unrecognizable to one
Who has missed those 31
years.
We almost suspect that af
ter d'Autremont takes one
look at what has happened
to the world in that third of
a century he might be temp
ted to turn right around and
head back for his safe, secure
cell. Astorian Budget.
Communications
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although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The M.iil 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
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Dog Pound Suggestions
To the Editor: Nov. 4, 1958
was a very dark day in the
lives of our family. That's
the day our gentle, golden
cocker, "Angel," died. She
had been so well named and
had had seven long years to
fasten her roots of love deep
and strong into our hearts.
As normal we vowed, "I'll
never have another dog." As
weeks went by the scar on
our hearts grew to an over
whelming emptiness that be
came deeper and wider with
each passing day. When our
oldlest "wrote" her letter to
Santa and asked for another
dog, it was the final blow.
We watched the papers al
most devotedly and nothing
seemed just right, although
tempted strongly many times,
until we saw the ad in the
paper by the Jackson County
Pound. Then the idea came
to us that we could take a
dog that others didn't seem
to want.
When we arrived at the
Pound (or Pond as I called
it as a child) we found to our
horror that Pond was a more
appropriate name. This is not
a slam at the employees. We
are sure they are doing their
best with what they have.
We would appreciate infor
mation explaining why man's
best friend must live under
these conditions even tempor
arily. The dogs are living in
an almost solid pool of water
and from conditions and lo
cations it looks like summer
would make it an oven.
It is true I'm a soft-hearted
sentimentalist, but how many
others like me are reading
this and feel something should
be done?
Our suggestions follow: The
dogs cost only $2. People with
modest means could get as
much love from one of these
forsaken dogs as one that
would cost the average fam
ily a week's groceries.
Great improvement could
be had by different arrange
ment of present quarters. We
would gladly give the right
authorities our ideas person
ally. Ideas from others are
welcome.
Third, would it be possible
on the day of the county's
ad that a group picture of the
loving, pleading dogs could
be published, to warm the
onstall was that he thought
selection of Goldwater would
be offensive to organized
labor or would seem to com
mit the Republican Party to
Goldwater's ideas on labor
legislation. Goldwater's ideas
are that organized labor is a
vast and uncontrolled mon
opoly which urgently needs
federal control.
Saltonstall is chairman of
the Republican Senate Con
ference and as such has au
thority to name the Senate
Republican Campaign Com
mittee chairman for 1960.
Saltonstall's gesture against
Goldwater touched the Re
publican pocketbook nerve.
Contributors from coast to
coast rang in with protests
against what they interpreted
as an appeasement of labor
leaders. They sharply remind
ed Republican senators that
organized labor's muscle and
money long had been com
mitted against the GOP. This
was no sham battle between
the right and left wings of the
Republican Party as was the
recent contest for the Senate
party leadership.
Real Dispute
This dispute had bone and
sinew. It came at a time when
the administration was taking
a much firmer stand on labor
legislation than it had dared
to assume in the past. It fol
lowed the demotion of Rep.
Joseph Martin Jr. of Massa
chusetts from the House Re
publican leadership.
Martin's rejection by House
Republicans was no example
of a contest between the right
and left wings because, to suc
ceed Martin, the Republicans
chose Rep. Charles A. Halleck
of Indiana, who was a notable
front fighter against the
Roosevelt and Truman deals.
Martin was popular among
party campaign contributors
however, and the least reac
tion they were likely to have
at his demotion was that they
had lost from high place a
good and trusted friend. Last
week end's barrage of pro
tests against by-passing Gold-
water had special impact be
cause the Senate Republican
Campaign Committee exists
wholly for the purpose of raiS'
ing campaign funds. That is
equally true of the House
Committee which is headed by
Rep. Richard M. Simpson,
(Pa.).
Aggressive Policy Sought
Widespread reaction to Sal
tonstall's challenge to Gold-
water is evidence of a desire
heart of those who are un
decided?
In closing, to show you the
difference our new mischief
maker has made in our fam
ily, the night we brought her
home our 4-year-old willingly
gave up her favorite food to
cuddle "Jay" and absorb and
return the wonderful love
child and dog have for one an
other.
J. E. Hust
624 Dakota st
Medford.
Value of Dollar
To the Editor: The other
evening while enjoying "The
Postman Always Rings
Twice," we were quite amus
ed by the interruptions of the
voice declaring the value of
a certain dollar. From what
he says this thing is worth
at least $1.25 instead of the
current $.49 value.
Imagine! One can go to col
lege, have a complete album
of records, or take a trip prac
tically around the world! That
was certainly a welcome
change after carting home on
that very afternoon an itty
bitty paper bag of groceries
costing $10.
No wonder the time to take
off for the bathroom is dur
ing the commercials.
Name on File
Gold Hill
ATTORNEYS STRIKE
Darno, Italy -(UPD- Defend
ants were left to argue their
own cases in court Tuesday
when attorneys staged a
strike in protest against con
ditions in the courtrooms.
HAIR CUTTING ILLEGAL
Marion, Ind. -0JPD- Firemen
in South Marion were warned
Tuesday that cutting each
other's hair without a bar
ber's license is a state law vi
olation. Worry of
FALSE TEETH
Slipping or Irritating?
Don't be embarrassed by loose false
teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling
when you eat, talk or laugh. Just
sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your
plates. This pleasant powder gives a
remarkable sense of added comfort
and security by holding plates more
firmly. No gummy. gooey, pasty taste
or feeling. It's alkaline (non-acid).
Get FASTEETH at any drug counter
among substantial elements of
the Republican rank and file
for a more aggressive party
policy toward organized labor.
Another solid evidence of that
point of view is the favorable
reaction now reported to a
speech delivered last month
before the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers by Post
master General Arthur E.
Summerfield. Like Gold-
Federal Assistance
To Cities Depends
On Budget Battle
By Congresional Quarterly
Washington -(CQ)- How
much help American cities get
this year from the Federal
Government depends on
whether Congress or Presi
dent Eisenhower wins the
battle of the budget."
As far as Congress goes, the
outlook is bright for cities.
Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.),
57-year-old politico who was
mayor of Philadelphia be
fore coming to the Senate in
1956, calls the outlook "the
best in my lifetime as a poli
tician." The optimism stems from
the fact that the Democratic
leadership is pledged to pass
city type bills and has an
overwhelming majority i n
both the Senate and House.
In addition, the 1960 election
waves like a warning finger
to both parties. Since most of
the population lives in cities,
the politicians want some
legislation to point to when
they go there for votes.
All this adds up to the prob
ability that Congress in 1959
will authorize the spending of
Federal dollars for city air
ports, slum clearance, sewage
plants, redevelopment of ar
eas suffering from unemploy
ment and construction of such
community facilities as water
and sewer systems. '.
Ike Orders Retreat
As for the Eisenhower Ad
ministration, the President
has made it abundantly clear
he thinks it high time the
Federal Government retreats
from many of the city pro
grams. In 1958 he vetoed the
airport and depressed areas
bill. He also recommended a
cut-back in the money the
Federal Government gives
communities for sewage
plants. And he wants a far
smaller urban renewal pro
gram than the Congress ap
pears willing to authorize.
The argument for the legis
lation will be that cities can
not raise enough money to do
those jobs by themselves.
Such city lobbies as the Amer
ican Municipal association and
U. S. Conference of Mayors
long have contended rural-
dominated state legislatures
either will not or cannot foot
the bills for the programs. So,
they say, Uncle Sam must
come to the rescue to protect
the general welfare.
Rules Committee Hurdle
The cities' major legislative
goals appear to have the sup
port of the majority of the
House and the Senate. But
they must get over the hur
dles of the house rules com
mittee and the Eisenhower
Administration before becom
ing law.
The house rules committee.
is the gateway most bills must
pass through to reach the
house floor. The committee is
dominated by a conservative
coalition of Democrats and
Republicans. Self-styled lib
erals in the house made a lot
of noise about reforming the
committee before the 86th
Congress opened. But speaker
Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) stilled
them with a promise to bring
major legislation to a vote.
So the big question in the
minds of city leaders is wheth
er liberal Democrats and Re
publicans will join forces to
override the expected Presi
dential vetoes. With every
body voting, it will take 66
votes in the Senate and 291
in the House to override a
veto. The Democrats enjoy a
64-34 margin in the Senate
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water, Summerfield sees or
ganized labor as a powerful
and uncontrolled monopoly.
He warned the manufacturers
that "America today teeters
on the precipice of a labor
bossed Congress."
Summerfield wants to make
organized labor subject to the
anti-trust laws, an idea most
Republicans won't even discuss.
and a 283-153 edge in the
House.
Patrick Healy Jr.. executive
director of the American Mu
nicipal association which rep
resents about 13,000 cities and
towns, contends "the cities
are going to have a hard time
getting legislation enacted
into law because of the Pres
ident s position on the budget.
I don't think it's a rosy pic
ture at all."
Several bis city mayors
liken their plight to looking
through a telescope one end
at a time. "From the Congress
end, our legislative goals look
close. But from the Adminis
tration end, those goals look
far, far away."
(Copyright 1959,
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Hmmmmmmm.
As this is written, Oregon
hasn't decided who will be
the next secretary of state.
California hasn't solved the
problem of how to continue
champagne spending on a beer
income.
In the nation's capital the
GOP is still trying to decide
whether to be conservative
or to try to out-liberal the
liberals-the term "liberal" in
this case meaning those who
are liberal with the taxpay
ers' money.
J We'll have to talk today
about lesser things.
rjHIS, for example:
The worst freeze In 12
years coated Britain with ice
and snow today.
It left a trail of stranded
motorists and MAROONED
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH
AND PRINCE CHARLES IN
A PUB!
rpERRIBLE, you say?
- What's Britain coming to
when the queen's consort
makes the rounds of the sa
loons with his son, the Prince
of Wales?
IlAIT a minute.
Maybe you aren't famil
iar with the institution known
in the tight little isle, and
particularly in London, as
"the pub." It isn't a dive
where souses go to get crock
ed. It's a kind of neighbor
hood club where the WHOLE
FAMILY goes. The children
drink ginger beer and the old
sters take on a modest bit of
somewhat stronger stuff-"arf
an' arf," or perhaps a shot
of gin and bitters. While ab
sorbing same, they play darts
and discuss neighborhood af
fairs. -They drag out one drink
over a LONG time, and when
it's downed, as like as not,
they go upstairs to the little
restaurant that is located over
so many of the pubs and eat
a modest and pleasant meal
that gives the mother a wel
come relief from the tedium
of her kitchen.
THE Duke of Edinburg
doesn't have to be ELECT
ED to the job of consort.
The Prince of Wales doesn't
have to be ELECTED to the
job of king.
But-
If both had to be elected
Getting caught in a London
pub would involve them in no
campaign scandal.
5 - t i,
IF!.-.. Ji7:
Mrs. Utwiller
'It is Detter'to know us and not need us.
than to need us and not know us."