4 Wednesday, January 21, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 21, 1949 (Friday)
The Jackson County Re
publican Central committee
plans an organizational meet
ing in the Medford armory.
East Jackson st, and Crater
Lake ave. intersection is des
ignated ' a four-way stop as
the result of numerous acci
dents and complaints.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 21, 1939 (Saturday)
Rogue Snowmen announce
a membership campaign to
help develop winter sports
areas in southern Oregon.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
first tin cans of spring have
been dumped along country
roads. If country folks dumped
their cans along -city streets,
there 'would be a holocaust,
cataclysm, and maelstrom of
public wrath, followed by
torrents of resolutions."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 21, 1929 (Monday)
The Legislature is to vote
on a bill designed to consoli
date state departments in the
interests of economy.
New regulations are to be
asked here in the interests of
solving the local parking
problem.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 21, 1919 (Tuesday)
A drive will be launched
here Feb. 17 for the relief of
starving Armenians and Assy
rians.
. Short, sharp blasts of the
fire whistle arouse Medford
citizens this morning but it
was just the chief testing it.
50 YEARS AGO.
Jan. 21, 1309 (Thursday)
Bear creek is on the ram
page, with high waters caus
ing much damage to property
along the east bank.
What's Ycur I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
" lrWho" said," "I have noth-
ing to offer but blood, toil,
, tears and sweat"?
2. What measurement of
'time is reckoned by the
'length of time it takes the
earth to circle the sun?
' 3. The earth is divided into
"five grand divisions, or zones,
' in respect to . latitbde and
temperature; name them.
f
: 4. What notable event oc-
icurred in Ford's Theatre,
Washington, D.C.
5. What offering did Abra-
i-ham offer up to God, in place
of Isaac, his son?
.' .6. Possession is said to be
? what proportion of the law?
i" ;7.'.Of what' objects are
f these, the -names: Newton's,
Halley's, Donati's?
, 8. What is alluvial soil?
' '9. "What . cat faded . away
t imtil only its smile could be
seen?'
0. Who "goeth about as a
I roaring lion, seeking whom
he may devour"?
Answer: 1. Winston Church
ill. 2. The year. 3. Torrid,
North and South Temperate,
and North and South Frigid.
4. President Lincoln was shot
there. 5. A ram. 6. Nine
points. 7. Comets. 8. Soil de
posited by running waler. 9.
CThe Cheshire cat. (Alice in
Wonderland.) 10. Satan.
Migratory Workers
Migratory workers constitute an important
segment of the labor force in Oregon, coming
here during the harvest season.
Marion county receives the largest number of
them, where they work in the bean fields and
cherry orchards. Malheur county is second.
In Jackson county there are fewer. Last year,
according to the report of Howard Bush, chair
man of the migratory labor committee of the
Jackson County Fruit Growers league, Jackson
county had 1,128 migratory workers referred
here for work, of whom 528 arrived, and 399
stayed on to work in the pear orchards.
THE problems of the pear orchardists regard
" ing harvest workers,are a bit different from
those of, say, bean growers or hop farmers. Pear
picking requires a certain amount of skill and
care ; it is hard, arduous work, and certainly
more hazardous than picking strawberries or
beans.
The business of rounding up enough peopie
to harvest the pear crop is a perennial headache.
First of all, the orchardists attempt to hire all
the local people who are in the labor market.
After that they frequently employ the migrants,
who often are unsatisfactory and who sometimes
just don't show up. When all else fails, they can
bring in Mexican nationals, at a higher cost and
under certain rigid regulations.
THE local labor supply is sometimes uncertain,
1 and during a late harvest the start of school
complicates things. In years when the economy is
good, not all those who have worked in the past
want to go back into the orchards.
All these facts make the pear growing busin
ess one of many uncertainties and, combined
with the ever-present gamble with the weather,
considerable risk.
Among their other problems, the conscien
tious growers also feel some responsibility for the
migrant workers and their welfare.
-: The situation, while not as serious in Jackson
county as it is elsewhere in the state, is certainly
one which must be faced.
THE state bureau of labor and the legislative in-
terim committee on migratory labor have
studied the problems involved over the past two
years, and between them have come up with a,
report which has been called the "most extensive
and comprehensive study of migrant labor ever
undertaken."
It came to three principal conclusions:
1. Migratory labor is vital to the economy of
Oregon.
2. Migrants are needed in man-" crops in
most parts of the state.
3. There is no foreseeable end to the need
for or use of migratory labor.
Based on these conclusions, the report goes
on to detail some of the problems of the migrants
themselves, and contains six recommendations
which are being submitted to the legislature.
THE six are:
1 1. Licensing of labor contractors and registry
of crew leaders.
2. Standards for safety in motor vehicle trans
portation of workers.
3. Minimum housing and sanitation stan
dards. 4. Provision for tax relief for construction of
farm housing.
5. Appropriation of $50,000 to finance a pilot
program for education of children of farm mi
grants. 6. Continuing and strengthening of the gov
ernor's interagency committee on migratory la
bor. The recommedations are designed to provide
a minimum program, and make no pretense of
solving all the problems arising from migratory
labor forces.
DUT it is a step.
After all, of the state needs them (and it ap
pears to be provable that it does), then we have
some responsibility, both to the workers them
selves, and to their employers, to make solutions
easien '
Minimum standards cf safety and sanitation
and housing are a "must" if we are to fulfill this
responsibility.
And in a society which is predicated on the
literacy and education of all, migrants' children
should be provided with at least basic educa
tional facilities.
J7NTIRELY aside from humane considerations,
" there is a practical aspect, too. In the year
ending last February, a total of $384,796 in pub
lic welfare funds was expended for aid to mi
grants and their families.
Whatever can be done to improve living
and working conditions, standards of living, and
education, will in the long run be of benefit to
the state at large.
And that is true not only on a public welfare
dollars-and-cents basis, but also on a basis of
equity, of attitude, and of the overall basic health
of the state and its economy. E.A.
Dennis the
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Wilson Discusses Inflation, Eyes
Continuing Shrinkage of Dollar
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -UPD- The stake
of the common man in Presi
dent Eisenhower's effort to
balance the
federal bud
get by reduc
ing is this:
To prevent
the dimes in
the common
man's pocket
from shrink
ing to pen-
A nies.
yle C. Wilson
The record
to date suggests - almost as
sures - that the budget will
not be balanced and that the
common man's dimes will
continue to shrink. This
shrinking process has been go
ing on for some time.
In the span of 20 years,
1939-1959, the common man's
dime shrank to the value of
less than a nickel. Assuming
that the U.S. dollar was
worth 100 cents on Jan. 1,
1939, it is worth less than 50
cents today. Senate Finance
Committee experts estimate
actually that the purchasing
power of the 1939 dollar had
been reduced by half by 1957
when its value was calcula
ted to have been 49.4 cents.
Economic Disease
This shrinkage of the pur
chasing power of money is
the warning symptom of a
dreadful economic disease
called inflation. This disease
is deadly, like cancer, but
with a difference. Cancer
kills individuals whereas in
flation kills nations. Inflation
destroys a nation's way of
life, leaving ruin, starvation
and physical disease in its
stead. ' (
The causes and cure of in
flation are disputed. One of
the causes, however, general
ly is agreed to be the consis
tently deficit budgets of the
U.S. government. A deficit
budget is one in which the
government spends more than
it receives, borrowing the dif
ference to pay its bills.
Over the past 30 years,
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JANUARY 21. 1873 . 1
The first boat passed
down through the Oswego
canal from Tualatin River
to Lake Oswego today. The
boat was the steamer On
ward, owned by Captain Jo
seph Kellogg. Two thousand
bushels of oats and wheat
were brought down on the
steamer.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
READERS INTERESTED in the early days of railroading
will do well to consult August Mencken's "The Railroad
Passenger Car." "Rails in the 1870's," recalls Mencken, "were
mnstantlv enmitis lonsp. and
occasionally one of them
floor of the car and trans
fix a passenger." Following
an attempt to get some rest
in an Erie sleeping car of
the period, Horace Greeley
protested to the head of the
road, "I was left gasping
like a netted fish on a hot
sandbank."
Passengers in those days,
in fact, rather expected an
accident somewhere along
the line. Porters instructed
folks how to "place them
selves, laying great stress on the importance of sitting diagon
ally in order not to receive the shock directly on the knees
when the anticipated collision ensued." .
When Zsa Zsa Gabor slipped on the ice during a personal appear
ance tour in Canada, the physician summoned discreetly reported,
"Miss Gator's fall bruised her somewhat and slightly injured her
otherwise." :
- C 1968. by Bennett Cert . Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Menace
there have been so many defi
cit budgets that the interest
charge on government bor
rowings will exceed $7.6 bil
lions this year. During the
next fiscal year, for which
Eisenhower submitted a new
budget this week, the Treas
ury will pay out more than
$8 billions just for interest on
borrowed money.
Responsibility Divided
Government spending is out
of hand, seemingly uncontrol
lable. Responsibility for this
Editorial Comment
READY-MADE PARK CREW
Now that a Marion County
park system is just over the
horizon, it is time to consider
ways we can convert these
farm and woodland areas to
useful places of public recrea
tion. It can't cost much money
i-ithout upsetting the precar
iously balanced county budg
et. We can solve the park
problem and alleviate another
one at the same time by using
the manpower which is con
fined to the top floor of the
county courthouse. Because of
the location of the county jail,
the prisoners are denied out
side exercise. We can't expect
much rehabilitation in pris
oners who are placed on their
posteriors with little to do
except think of how to raise
money without working when
they get out.
At the instigation of Dis
trict Attorney Hattie Bratzel,
the county court has made the
prisoners available for out
side work. They have done
some work in city parks in
the past. Trusties are used,
without armed guards. The in
mates can be put under the
temporary custody of a coun
ty road or park project fore
man." There will be cases of
walking away from the job.
Careful selection of the work
crew should keep this to a
minimum.
As prisoners clear the land,
construct paths, build fire
places, tables and benches,
they will be doing work
which could not be afforded
otherwise. They wUl not be
putting others out of jobs.
They will, Miss Bratzel sug
gests,rbe taught "the satisfac
tion of honest work."
If prisoners refuse to work,
they can be disciplined, under
state law, and the days they
refuse to work will not be
counted toward the comple
tion of their sentence.
The sheriff should see that
qualified prisoners get the
full benefit of supervised
"outdoor exercise. - Oregon
Statesman Salem.
farAsC ' ' --
ir Pollution Increases As Health Hazard,
Money-Eater; Government Eyeing Control
By HELEN B. SHAFFER
Washington Growing con
tamination of the atmosphere
in American cities is costing
everybody money.
More important, it is be
coming a menace to public
health. Eye-irritating smog in
Los Angeles, or an occasional
death-dealing fog like that in
Donora, Pa., a decade ago,
make headlines. But fouling
of the air of any number of
communities by daily dis
charges of poisonous fumes,
from great swarms of automo
biles or from industrial
plants, is setting up a long
range threat to the physical
well-being of their inhabi
tants. Diseases Increase
The U.S. Public Health
Service pointed last Novem
ber to growing evidence that
air pollution contributes sig
nificantly to the incidence of
cancer of the lungs, trachea,
esophagus, and stomach. Air
pollution seems to be a fac
tor also in some cases of heart
is divided. The President pro
poses to the Congress that
certain sums shall be appro
priated and spent. Congress
may appropriate more or less
than the sum proposed. The
President, in some instances,
may spend all or less than the
sums appropriated.
This division of authority
makes it difficult for the com
mon man to establish the
blame for over-spending ' or,
for that matter, for under
spending. There is no diffi
culty, however, in determin-j
ingn who takes the mortal rap
for spending sprees, unbalanc
ed budgets and the inflation
which comes with them.
Common Man Takes Rap
The common man, the un
common man and their chil
dren and womenfolk take the
rap for that, a paralyzing
punishment. These deficit
budgets persist despite unex
ampled taxation. , The Insti
tute of Life Insurance recent
ly calculated that over the
years 1950 - 59 government
revenue would total $610
billions, most of it in the
form of income taxes. That
compares with a total of $410
billions of tax money collect
ed by the U.S. government
from its beginning in 1789
through the 1949 fiscal year.
Taxes cannot be reduced
until public pressure compels
the President and Congress to
cut government costs, way
down.
Local Man Author
Qi Post Story
Calvin Patterson, Medford,
is the author of a short story
in this week's issue of the
Saturday Evening Post,
which went on sale at new
stands yesterday. Entitled
"Dynamite Dalton," the story
is based on a logging incident
which took place in the Rose
burg area, where Patterson
formerly lived.
Patterson, a disabled vet
eran of World War II and the
Korean conflict, came here
from Roseburg last April. The
author is out of the city at
present to do research for an
other story, but his wife re
ported that the Post story
was the first he had ever
written, and that he sold it
on his first "try," although he
re-wrote the material under
the magazine's direction. He
had completed a correspon
dence course in short-story
writing and according to Mrs.
Patterson, wrote the story
with the Post in mind.
The author was a logger
when drafted into the Army
in 1941. He was reared and
went to school at Ten Mile, a
community near Roseburg.
The Pattersons, who live at
201 Crater Lake ave., have
two sons, Mike, 11, and Eddie,
3.
Bomber To Seek
East-West Record
Washington - (LTD - An Air
Force RB66 reconnaissance
bomber will try an East-West
record between here and Cali
fornia today after setting one
transcontinental record 24
hours earlier.
The bomber, powered by
two General Electric turbo
jet engines, flew here from
California Tuesday in three
hours and 36 minutes for the
record.
The plane, leased by Gen
eral Electric from the Air
Force, took off from Ontario,
Calif., International Airport
at 9:35 a.m. (PST) Tuesday
and touched down at Andrews
Air Force Base, Md., at 1:11
p.m.
R. J. (Dick) Scoles, GE's
chief test pilot, was at the
controls.
disease. Although full proof
is lacking, the Public Health
Service said there was reason
"to suspect that breathing pol
luted air may have long-term
effects on health surpassing
in importance anything we
can yet prove."
Effects on the pocketbook
are easier to reckon. Extra
cleaning and painting bills in
sooty cities, losses in proper
ty values attributable to air
pollution, public expenditures
to control pollution, and out
lays by industry to reduce it
add up to an estimated $7.5
billion a year.
Changes Said Causa
The spreading seriousness
of air pollution results in part
from population concentra
tion that has already crowded
60 per cent of the country's
people into 180 metropolitan
centers. However, develop
ment of new industrial pro
cesses and the grat expansion
of automobile traffic are the
direct sources of the pollution
problem.
Black smoke belching from
factory chimneys used to be
the main air pollutant. Today
the dangerous pollutants from
indusxrial plants are invisible
and odorless gases. Pollutants
are being found in the atmos
phere which were not present
in industrial discharges before
World War II, and further in
dustrial developments can be
expected to introduce addi
tional contaminants.
Other Sources
Industrial activities are by
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Asks Respect
To the Editor: I have no
ticed at the recent basketball
games that although very en
thusiastic during game time,
the crowd shows very little
school spirit and respect for
our Alma Mater and' fight
song at the end. Students and
adults alike should remain to
the conclusion of these two
M.H.S. traditions. Not only
is it the students' obligation
but also the parents who en
joy our sports and should
participate in the activities
connected.
To me this is in consider
ation for not only the team,
but the Rally Squad and band
as well.
Many of the parents are
alumni of Medford High and
should at least show enough
respect to the students who
attend now if not for the
school itself. As members of
M.H.S., the students have an
obligation to stay and should
do so.
We should all remember
this for our next important
conference game this week
end and for all games to
come.
Miss Carol Swan
Senior
1705 South Pacific Hwy.
Medford. - .
Centennial Benefits
To the Editor: May we offer
a correction to Mr. Ernie
Hood's statement published in
Sunday's Communications
column, that our Pioneer Ban
quet was the doing of Apple
gate Grange?
This event, held in Upper
Applegate Grange hall last
Saturday night, was the cul
mination of weeks of careful
planning and work on the
part of our Applegate Valley
Centennial committee headed
by Robert Sorber and com
posed of representatives of all
the various organizations in
the entire Valley including, of
course, the Grange. We might
add that it proved to be one
of the most successful and en
joyable events ever held in
the area, as everyone who at
tended will testify. Certainly
much credit is due the com
mittee and all who assisted
them.
Conceived in the pioneer
tradition of wholesome fun
for the whole family, it com
menced with a potluck sel
dom equalled for variety and
abundance of good food in
cluding such toothsome vi
ands as elk stew, fried chick
en, venison, beef, bear meat,
beans in a multitude of forms
and varieties, hominy, succot
ash, hot potato salad, all man
ner of home made breads and
rolls, and pies and cakes ga
lore. Not even a Centennial Cake
was lacking, for there was
one, resplendent in white ic
ing, with an outline map of
Don't Neglect Slipping
FALSE TEETH
Do false teetn drop, slip or wobbla
when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze?
Don't be annoyed and. embarrassed
by such handicaps. PASTE ETH, an
alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin
kle on your plates, keeps false teeth
more firmly set. Gives confident feel
ing of security and added comfort.
No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feel
ing. Get ASTEETS today tug
(rut ceiuMr
no means the sole source of
air pollution. Domestic activi
ties may be equally, or even
more, at fault. Backyard
burning of refuse contributes
measurably to the pollution
total. Flue-fed garbage and
refuse incinerators in apart
ment houses are other cul
prits. The worst air poisoner
for which individuals share
the blame is auto exhaust. In
Los Angeles, where industrial
plants are under strict air pol
lution control, the largest re
maining producer of smog is
said to be the discharge from
exhausts of the area's three
million motor vehicles.
Control of air pollution
started with smoke-a b a t e
ment ordinances in Chicago
and Cincinnati in 1881. Some
2,000 communities now have
some type of control machi
nery, and nearly a dozen
states have anti-pollution
laws, aimed mostly to encou
rage local control. Los Ange
les has the most elaborate lo
cal setup. It established an
air pollution control district
in 1947; has forbidden instal
lation of pollution-producing
equipment without a permit;
requires plant shutdowns, or
use of gas instead of fuel oil,
when pollution levels ap
proach the danger point; and
has banned use of backyard
incinerators.
Government Enters
The federal government en
tered the picture in 1955
when Congress authorized the
Public Health Service to con-
Oregon bearing the legend,
"1859-1959"!
When all had been fed to
repletion, the old timers pres
ent, as well as some of their
descendants, were fittingly
honored, and ballroom and
square dancing were enjoyed
during the balance of the eve
ning. We of the Applegate are
justly'proud that ours was the
first social event to open the
Centennial year in Jackson
county; and also that our Gar
den Club was the first group
in the county to inaugurate a
Centennial project that of
beautifying the Logtown Cem
etery with an intensive plant
ing of the historic Logtown
rose. Thus we speak with the
voice of experience when we
say that celebrating Oregon's
one-hundredth birthday anni
versary is wenderfully good
fun. As events similar to ours
multiply throughout the state,
one inevitable result should
be the re-creation of that
splendid spirit of neighborli
ness which characterized eve-'
ry pioneer community.
The one changeless factor in
our human existence is our
abiding need of one another.
If we gain nothing else from
our year-long Centennial ac
tivities than a renewed aware
ness of this one truth, our ef
forts will not have been ex
pended in vain.
Grace N. Pearson,
Route 2, Box 50,
Jacksonville.
MOD Fund Show
Staled in Ashland
Ashland -The March of
Dimes Variety show will be
held Friday, Jan. 23, at 8 p.m.
at Southern Oregon college
Churchill auditorium.
Glenn Matthews, chairman
of the show, announced that
no admission charge will be
made, but a collection will be
taken to aid the drive.
Acts included in the pro
gram will be by persons from
the Medford and Ashland
vicinities and will include
both public school and college
students.
Ashland MOD chairman is
Mrs. Jani Pace.
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than
duct research in air pollution,
encourage state and local con
trol activities, and give tech
nical assistance. One of the
principal federal activities is
collection of air samples from
230 stations around the coun
try for research purposes.
Authority for the federal
program is due to run out
next June 30, but Congess
will be asked to extend and
enlarge the existing mandate.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This week, while Oregon is
waiting it out to see who will
be its next secretary of state,
might be a good time to give
some serious thought to what
is going to be done at this
session of the legislature
Y about taxes.
The tax problem is always
a serious one, but it is possi
ble that in Oregon it is more
serious this year than ever
before. What is done, tax-wise,
in Oregon this year can in
fluence Oregon's future devel
opment decisively-for better
or for worse.
HERE is Oregon's situation,
as of now: v
It has a champagne appe
tite on a beer income. As Dr.
Sly-the Princeton expert who
was hired some time ago to
prepare a report on how to
keep Oregon's tax structure
INDUSTRIALLY COMPETI
TIVE with the tax structures
of other Western states-said
in his first preliminary re
port, Oregon is a high service
state.
Oregon people want these
services. But they must be
PAID FOR. They don't come
for free. They must be paid
for out of tax money. There
is nowhere else for them to
come from.
That fact must be kept
clear in people's minds.
OREGON'S present trouble
is that it doesn't have
enough to tax. It doesn't have
enough industrial enterprises
to pay property taxes, as well
as income taxes. 1
It doesn't have enough job
holders to pay property taxes
on their homes and income
taxes on their taxable in
comes. AND-
As Dr. Sly has properly
warned-
If we upset the COMPETI
TIVE BALANCE-if we make
the tax burden in Oregon out
of proportion to the tax bur
den in other states-we won't
get the added industrial de
velopment we need.
SOUTHERN Oregon, at least,
has some very attractive
industrial possibilities. Possi
bilities that could change our
whole picture.
But-
If the tax balance is upset,
these possibilities won't be
realized. The industrial devel
opment we hope for will go
to SOME OTHER STATE,
whose tax structure is more
attractive.
Taxes are a part of the
cost of doing business. They
have to be looked at when
locations for new industrial
enterprises are being consid
ered. If Oregon's tax structure
is permitted to get out of bal
ance with the tax structures of
competing states, Oregon will
suffer through lack of indus
trial development.
That's about the long and
the short of it.
Portland Traffic
Expected To Triple
Portland -(UPD- State High
way Engineer W. C. Williams
said Tuesday motor vehicle
traffic entering and leaving
Portland every day would
triple in the next 16 years.
Williams, explaining plans
for an urban freeway here at
a Kiwanis club meeting, said
that in 1958 a total of 105,000
vehicles left the Portland ur
ban area every day. In 1975,
he said, 300,000 vehicles per
day would be entering and
leaving the city. .
Mrs. Litwiller
'It is better to know us and not need us.
to need us and not know us."
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