4 Monday, January 26, 1939
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20,-30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1949 (Wednesday)
Serious fuel shortages in
the valley are confined to
liquid petroleum, gas and
wood, distributors reported.
Construction started on
trunk sewer system for south
west Medford to cost $100,
000.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1939 (Thursday)
Toastmistress club to be or
ganized in Medford under the
sponsorship of the Jackson
County Chamber of Com
merce.
; Jackson county council of
the Shasta-Cascade Wonder
land association starts drive
to raise $3,000 as county's
share of fund.
I
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1929 (Tuesday)
County tax levy for year
cut to 19 mills.
Medford men start wearing
derby hats and supply fails to
equal demand.
Construction date for SOS
packing plant announced
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1919 (Sunday)
Talent irrigation bonds
totaling $600,000 are sold.
Good trout fishing reported
in Aogue river, with many
good catches.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1909 (Tuesday)
John Norling is reported to
have discovered a large de
posit of iron ore assaying 51
per cent iron, one mile west
of Jacksonville.
Washington Governor-elect
Samuel G. Cosgrove passed
through Medford in his pri
vate railroad car "California"
which was attached to train
number 16.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
mx is good.
1. With what historic event
do you associate Cemetery
Kidge?
2. Complete the following:
"Something is rotten in the
state of -."
3. Are all birds hatched
from eggs?
4. Where did the x Wright
brothers make their first air
plane test flights?
5. What is the slang term
ftr an out-of-date automobile,
stripped down and having the
engine stepped up for high
speed?
6. Does the 1950 Census
show that there are more
males than females, or more
females than males, in the
United States?
7. Name the national flow
er of England.
8. What Queen repeatedly
said "Off with his head"?
9- Supply the missing word
in the following, "Flow gent
ly, sweet , ; among thy
green braes."
10. What fraction of the hu
man body is water.
i
Answers: 1. Battle of Get
tysburg. 2. Denmark. 3. Yes.
4. Kilty Hawk, N.C. 5- Hot
Rod. 6. More females. 7. Rose.
8. Queen of Hearts in Alice
in Wonderland. 9. Aflon. 10-23.
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Aid To Dependent Children
President Eisenhower's budget for fiscal. 1960
discloses that the upward trend in caseloads for
public assistance to dependent children is expect
ed to continue. Under the federal-state program,
the federal government pays $14 of the first $17
per recipient for aid to these children.
Under 19o8 amendments to the Social Secur
ity Act, the federal share
$17, previously 50 per cent, now varies among
states from 50 per cent to 65 per cent, depending
on state average per capita income. The program
for three current years is broken down in the
budget thus:
Average monthly number
of recipients 1958
Families
Children ...
Persons
Average monthly
payment
Total payments
(in millions) '.
Federal share
(in millions)
679,476
1,945,244
2,541,959
$26.72
$815
. $487
rURING World War II the caseload of the de
pendent children program fell as mothers or
others in charge of families found work. But the
rise has been rapid and
The number of children receiving aid at the
end of 1950 was more than twice that of Decem
ber 1945. The rate of increase has slackened since
then, but even so, only 1,662,000 children receiv
ed aid in 1950 as against an estimated 2,204,000
to receive it in 1960.
A strong factor has been the rise in illegiti
macy. The National Office of Vital Statistics esti
mates that in 1956 the latest year for which data
are available there were 20.2 illegitimate live
births per 1000 unmarried women 15 to 44 years
of age. This is as against 11 in 1946.
Most disturbing are the figures for teen-agers.
Of every 1000 live births in 1956 to mothers un
der 15 years of age, 660.8 were illegitimate. Of
every 1000 births to mothers 15 to 19, about 140
were illegitimate. But of every 1000 births to
mothers 20 to 24, only 44.4 were illegitimate, and
in upper age brackets the ratio eases off consid
erably. ''
A STUDY conducted by a Washington news
" paper in 1958 indicated a high percentage
of "repeaters" among unwed mothers. A District
of Columbia public assistance official was quoted
as having "a strong suspicion" that the Welfare
Department was confronted with "a hard core
of these people who are incapable of functioning
at an adult level, taking responsibility for them
selves, and all of their children."
Discussions of the rapid rise of illegitimacy
always bring out suggestions that second children
of unwed mothers be removed and made wards
of the state. Social workers in general oppose
such a solution. And church and other groups are
naturally against a more drastic ' solution also
broached sterilization of repeaters.
THE CHARGE is made by some taxpayers that
1 the aid to dependent children program favors
undesirable family situations even that it fosters
illegitimacy. Welfare administrators counter that
the American public will have to make up its
mind on how it wants to aid illegitimates and
children deserted by fathers.
If the public believes that public assistance is
the wrong way, then some alternative must be
agreed upon; the children cannot be allowed to
starve. E.R.R.
They Had Been Drinking
A leading citizen dies when his automobile
crashes a utility pole on the way back from the
country club. A shabby pedestrian is run down at
a busy intersection. In both cases the police report
? ii i i ttt ii i i .i
carries me notation "naa
first case the driver, in the second case the pedes
trian.
A study by safety
showed that drinking drivers had been respons
ible for 37 per cent of all
A report by New York
m lifois snowed that during a special test period
55 per cent of the drivers killed at the wheel or
who died within 24 hours of accidents had been
under the influence of liquor.
IN THE New York test medical analysis estab
lished that the drinking drivers had from .10
to .40 per cent of alcohol in the blood stream at
the time of their accidents. Under the laws of
about half the states an alcohol content of .10 per
cent is relevant evidence and .15 per cent is prima
facie evidence of intoxication. For a person
weighing 150 pounds, the latter figure will
usually result from drinking six beers or six
ounces ol lUU-proof whiskey.
Police Commissioner
said me relationship between drinking- drivers
and excessive speed, inability to perceive haz
ards, and failure to choose the right course of ac
tion had been proved by
tie added The living
these unfortunate operators." A recent 'statement
by FBI Director Hoover
with murderers. E.R.R.
SOCIAL LEADER DIES
Beaconesfield, England-fCPB
-Constance Lady Bain, 79, -a
social leader of the Nassau,
Bahamas, winter colony, died
here today at her home, Lead-hall.
of the aid in excess of
1959
764000
2.188,000
2,860,000
$28.00
$961
$583.4
1960
' 770,000
2,204,000
2,880,000
$28.45
$983
$599.5
(estimated)
steady since.
oeen annKinr in me
organizations in 1957
traffic fatalities in 1956.
City's police department
Stephen H. Kennedy
the department's test
motorist can learn from
classed drunken drivers
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AIR RIFLE HEAD DIES
Plymouth. Mich. - (UPD - Ed
ward C. Hough, 86, president
of the Daisy Manufacturing
Co. which makes the Daisy
air rifle, died Saturday at his
home here.
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Matter of Fact
SOME KREMLINOLOGY
Some vividly, even pain
fully interesting questions are
due to be answered very
shortly, at the
s c h e d uled
21st Congress
of the Commu
nist Party of
the Soviet
Union.
. If Anastas
M i k o y a n
makes a re
port to the
p
-lostpb Aisop congress, ior
instance, it will prove the
good judgment or the smug
complacency of the Adminis
tration's claim that Mikoyan
was much impressed by our
firmness and resolution about
Berlin. Much more import
ant, the foreign affairs
speeches at the party Con
gress will also show whether
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles and other Adminis
tration leaders have been re
markably wise or exception
ally foolish in their reading
of the Kremlin's present at
titude towards Berlin.
THE official assessment is
that TJilrita Tfhrimhphou
and the other masters of the
Kremlin now think they have
"gone too far" in their threats
to Berlin, and consequently
"want to get off the hook."
The Tightness or wrongness
of this official Washington
assessment is, almost literally,
a life-and-death matter.
Hence one greatly wants to
see whether the assessment
will be happily confirmed or
grimly contradicted by the
language usecf about Berlin
at the Congress in Moscow.
The test will have another
sort of interest, too. It will
help to indicate whether it is
better to accept Secretary
Dulles's largely instinctive
judgment of the Soviets, or
the carefully trained judg
ments of the Soviet experts
who have spent many years
in the business. Even those
experts who have not been
exiled from the State Depart
ment take a vastly darker
view of the Berlin crisis than
Secretary Dulles. One of them
spoke for all of the rest when
he described the Berlin chal
lenge "as the most dangerous
since the end of the second
World War." 4
A S FOR George F. Kennan,
--the leading exiled expert,
he makes his colleagues who
are still on the job look al
most merry and bright. It is
Herman's thesis, in brief, that
Soviet leaders do not use
such language as Khrush
chev has used about Berlin
without carefully weighing
every word of it, and meaning
every word of it. As Kennan
takes what Khrushchev has
said quite literally, he further
believes that the Kremlin
leaders are probably quite
ready to risk a war - maybe
even a big war - for Berlin.
Kennan agrees with Secre
tary Dulles that Mikoyan was
sent over here because of the
Berlin crisis. But on the basis
of the presently revealed rec
ord of the Mikoyan visit Ken
nan doubts whether anything
sufficiently imaginative was
done or said during the visit
to change the course of the
crisis in any way. Hence he
has a foreboding that the
party Congress will show an
actual hardening of the ' So
viet attitude towards Berlin,
instead of the softening antici
pated by Secretary Dulles.
Kennan goes further than
this, moreover. Recent events
have led him to conclude that
in the matter of Berlin, as in
other matters, Nikita Khrush
chev is acting under severe
pressure from dissident Sta
linist or neo-Stalinist groups
in the Soviet Communist
party. He suspects that the
Chinese Communist leaders
are supporting these dissi
dents, and so helping to force
Khruschev into a harder line
than he might choose of his
own free will.
rFHIS may seem curious
-- after the recent publica
tion of the transcript of the
Menace
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'26'
By Joseph Alsop
meeting of the .Communist
Party Central Committee,
which showed committee
members speaking of Khrush
chev in the. same terms that
used to be reserved for Josef
Stalin himself. But in the
first place, the mere publica
tion of the transcript was an
extraordinary event, seem
ingly aimed to warn off any
potential challenger of
Khrushchev's authority.
Secondly, Kennan lays
special emphasis, not on the
wretched old Bulganin's
grovelling "self-criticism" be
fore the Central Committee,
but on the non-appearance of
Molotov, Malenkov, Kagano-
vich, and Shepilov. They
ought to have been there to
out-grovel Bulganin, says
Kennan, yet they were able
to stay away somehow. The
strange episode of the Soviet
proposal of Molotov as Am
bassador to the Netherlands
is another detail in the same
pattern; for The Hague is
vastly farther from Peking
and Moscow than Ulan Bator
is.
Finally, the famous tran
script itself described Moto
tov and Kaganovich as "ter
rorizing the staff of the Min
istry of Agriculture at the
time of Khrushchev's bold
abolition of the rural motor
tractor .stations. In other
words, the transcript showed
Molotov and Kaganovich still
acting as open, influential op
positionists, ' many months
after their seemingly decisive
defeat and fall from power.
For these and other causes,
many Soviet experts expect
the Party Congress to produce
further severe disciplinary
action against the members
of the famous "anti-party
group." If there is no such
action after the recent re
newal of the drumfire of at
tack on these men, it will
plainly suggest that Khrush
chev s mastery is distinctly
incomplete. In short .there
are almost too many reasons
to watch for the results of the
coming Party Congress with
most anxious attention,
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Sweetland Conies
To Soldiers' Ai
Portland- (UPD -A state sen
ator today came to the aid of
bearded Oregon National
Guardsmen who have been
ordered to shave their Cen
tennial whiskers.
State Sen. Monroe Sweet
land (D-Milwaukie) said he
would ask Gov. Mark Hatfield
to review the order
"The citizen soldiers of the
National Guard must not be
subject to petty disciplines of
this type," he said
All units of the National
Guar in Oregon have been
ordered to be "cleanly shaven"
for federal inspections. The
order was issued by Maj. Gen
Thomas E. Rilea, head of the
ONG, in compliance with Pen
tagon policy and Sixth Army
instructions.
Sweetland said "motives of
good citizenship which prompt
them to be members of the
Guard are also the motives
which prompt enthusiasm for
Oregon's great event of 1959,"
he said.
He said that if Hatfield
wouldn't act, "I'm sure the
Legislature will."
West Coast Business
Executives Confer
Los Angeles-fUPD-Mo.re than
1,000 business and industrial
executives today began a
three-day West Coast business
leadership conference spon
sored by the American Man
agement association.
The keynote address was
delivered by William M. Al
len, president of Boeing Air
craft Co., Seattle.
Queen Victoria ruled Eng
land for 64 years, longer than
the reign of any other mon
arch in recent history.
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Crying Shame
To the Editor: Come now,
lay off Mrs. Ragsdale. She no
doub likes a good dog as well
as anyone. It probably is most
ly resentment toward the
owners for not caring to train
their dogs. I hear many peo
ple speak in the same strain
as her letter. We have had to
clean our very doorstep and
our shoes more than once be
cause of passing dogs.
Maybe the poor little dog
gie could not wait until he
got home, as Mrs. Branson
suggests. Anyone who ever
observed knows that dogs al
most always leave their own
yards when nature calls.
We like .a good dog as well
as anyone, but there are just
too many of them uncared
for.
Enough of "straining at
gnats and swallowing cam
els."
The pound master says he
destroys an average of 50 dogs
a week of uncalled for and
homeless dogs. That is 2600
a year.. :
I don't think a higher li
cense fee would solve the re
production of the animals.
Rather make a law to taKe
vour "best friend" to the vet
erinary hospital for a few
days whether it be male or
female.
Kvrlndinff of course those
in the commercial business of
purebreds. Naturally they
keep theirs in special nous-
ing.
It is a crying shame tnat
these mongrels can't have a
few days of comfort in their
confinement before tney are
sent to "dog heaven."
But I notice there is county
money for widening and
beautifying some of the streets
where the "upper crust"
lives.
But there isn't any to make
a road safe for children that
have to pass over it twice a
day to attend school, nor to
make a humane place for the
does that have to be confined
until disposed of.
Mary E. Atkins, .
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.
Bodes 111
To the Editor: If you will
read an article on page 47 of
the "Readers Digest:' for eo
ruary, 1959, I think you will
agree with me that we in the
United States have very little
room to criticize the peoples
of other countries for being
swayed by every political
breeze that blows over them
How a literate nation such
as ours can be led around by
the nose like a band of sheep
is really frightening and
bodes ill for our future as a
free nation.
Leila A. Morrow
531 North Bartlett st.
Medford
Veterans, Too
To the Editor: I just read the
piece in Thursday's Tribune
about the Firemen and Lady
Lions repairing toys for
Christmas. Well, I will say
that the Veterans at Camp
White should have quite a bit
of credit coming to them too
I was out at Camp White just
before Christmas and the boys
in the Hobby Shop and a
couple of the other buildings
that were open for that pur
pose, repairing toys, were
all busy, and I will say too,
that they had plenty of old
broken toys to repair and
they were doing a swell job
at it.
Not only that, but there
were a few fellows making
chairs, tables and doll beds.
So why not give the Veterans
out at Camp White some
credit too? Seems as though
once the Wars are over, most
all of us forget the Veterans
are the ones that made these
United States a free country
Please print this in your
column, as I think some
thought should be brought
forward for our veterans, who
gave so much for us and re
ceive so little in return.
A. F. S.
(Name on File)
Gold Hill.
A Matter of Education
To the Editor: This letter is
by way of reply to Mrs
Kula's letter re: Why we need
a dog pound, and why it is
overcrowded. I should say
that it is mainly due to igno
rance on the part of the
general public about the man
agement of the female dog's
breeding season. Public edu
cation on the disenchanting
facts of spaying females and
altering of males would cut
down tremendously the popu
lation of unwanted puppies.
In regard to the manage
ment of neighborhood pets; of
course, no one should have
to tolerate the nuisance of
overturned garbage cans, or
wholesale excavations of
flower beds, lawns, etc. These
things, however, are usually
the actions of the ill fed dog,
and wholehearted support of
the Humane society might en
able them to do effective
work in the investigation of
such mistreatment of animals.
However, in the average
neighborhood, how many
times do the pets do any real
damage? Naturally, this can
not be said of strays. So
often, to the non dog owner,
the business of being a good
neighbor is a one-sided af
fair, with the pet owner being
expected to turn himself in
side out to appease his some
times unreasonable neighbor.
It seems that every street
must have at least one crotch
ety neurotic to whom even
the word "dog" is distasteful
and who never appreciates
the time and love that goes
into the feeding, grooming
and training of the animal.
He seizes upon every petty
situation as if it were of
world shaking importance
and does his best to make
every dog owner in the neigh
borhood feel guilty if his pet
so much as barks at a stran
ger. Good neighborLiness and
tolerance is not a one-way
street.
Ordinances such as Mrs.
Kula suggests (with the pos
sible exception of increasing
license fees) accomplish lit
tle in the problem of too
many stray dogs. Would she
tolerate for one minute the
idea that families should be
limited to one child each be
cause of the increase in juve
nils delinquency in recent
years. Indeed, no one would!
People are, of course, ex
pected to keep both their
dogs and children under con
trol, but they cannot be ex
pected to be limited by law
to the number of either they
wish to possess. Such pro
posed laws can only result
in more, not less, neighbor
hood friction and an in
creased work load on our
already overburdened police
department and courts.
W. L. Stevens Jr.
1208 Saling Ave.
Medford, Ore.
Uncontrolled Breeding
To the Editor: The South
ern Oregon Humane society
has long been seriously con
cerned with the unsatisfac
tory and inadequate condi
tions at the county dog pound
At long last, it seems that
public is waking up to the
situation and, we hope, will
demand something be done
The Human . society is ready
to help in any way possible
Our office is at 2902 Table
Rock rd., phone is NO 4-2406
. Of course, this problem is
really a minor one compared
to the BIG one facing all hu
mane organizations in the
country, and all our efforts
will be ultimately to no avail
if the public isn't informed of
its seriousness and starts act
ing to prevent it. A new coun
ty dog pound ten times the
present size, with heated
buildings, individual runways
and innerspring mattress beds
would still be inadequate in a
few years if the basic cause
is not remedied, that is, the
uncontrolled breeding of sur
plus cats and dogs.
The figures are appalling:
at the present time the U.S. is
breeding surplus cats and
dogs at the rate of 10,000 an
hour, or nearly one quarter
million a day. Every year
about 35,000,000 puppies and
50,000,000 kittens are born, of
which only 10 per cent are ab
sorbed by the normal turnov
er of replacing a pet that had
lived out its natural life. The
other 90 per cent of each
year's litter are killed by au
tomobiles, shot, are poisoned,
or starve to death.
Jackson county disposes of
an average of 200 dogs a
month. The responsibility for
this horrible situation lies
squarely on the persons who
breed puppies or kittens that
they cannot or will not keep
and humanely maintain.
Perhaps, at some time, you
have allowed your female dog
or cat to bear one or more lit
ters; perhaps you carefully
and conscientiously found
homes for all the infant ani
mals; perhaps you have
checked and know that every
animal of the litter still is liv
ing a comfortable life, so your
conscience is easy. Well, your
conscience shouldn't be easy.
The fact is that you added to
the surplus of cats and dogs.
Your litter found homes, but
other litters didn't and as long
as there are more cats and
dogs than we can provide
homes for, any litter of pup
pies or kittens is surplus.
The suffering will never end
until animal owners recognize
that they commit a terrible
cruelty when they permit the
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Washington Report
By WILLIAM
INCHING FORWARD
Washington - The cause of
Negro civil rights is inching
forward over all the obstruc-
9 tions , thrown
: up, by design
i or simply by
3 emotional re
flexes, by the
bitter extrem
ists of both
South and
North.
Patient men
in both ree-
UilliamS. -
white ions are mov
ing in the finest traditions of
tolerance and fair play. It
may even be that we are en
tering the end of the begin
ning - in a phrase Churchill
once used of this sad di
lemma. It is an oddly mixed group
of forces that is slowly ad
vancing upon this problem of
passion and prejudice, a pas
sion and prejudice that do not
live below the Mason Dixon
Line alone.
Virginia's State Supreme
Court of Appeals has become
also a gallant and distinguish
ed court. Against all their
deepest private wishes and
convictions (and undoubtedly
against the will of a great
majority of the state), Vir
ginia's gentlemen - justices
have struck down Virginia's
"massive resistance" laws
against school integration.
They have read the Constitu
tion; and they have said no.
.
rFHE kind of courage this
-- required, the kind of ju
dicial integrity and objectiv
ity, can be suggested in a
question: How easy would it
be for a comparable court in
Illinois or New York to ren
der a decision having the ef
fect of supporting a notion
that integration was NOT to
be had in one of those states?
And in the White House,
President Eisenhower is reso
lutely clinging to hisproperly
impersonal and properly mag
isterial role. He is refusing to
issue hot declarations in fa
vor of the Supreme Court rul
ing outlawing segregation. He
is not, of course, for segrega
tion. He is simply taking the
position that it is not for him
to say that the Supreme Court
is right or the Supreme Court
is wrong. It is only for him
to say that the court has stated
the law and that he will do
his duty to enforce it.
The President, too, has read
the Constitution. And while
his Presidency on the whole
may have been one of a weak
leadership - as this corre
breeding of surplus animals.
W. O. Herring
Humane Officer
Southern Oregon Humane
Society
2902 Table Rock rd.
Medford.
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spondent, for one, happens to
believe he is acting in this
matter as the leader of all
the United States. For he
knows that if a President may
properly describe one Su
preme Court ruline as "good"
he may with equal right later
describe another Supreme
Court decision as "bad."
FINALLY, bipartisan forces
headed by Sen. Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas, the Senate
Democratic leader, are pre
paring ultimately to adopt an
addition to the Civil Rights
Act of 1957. This was surely
not.the act wanted by the ex
tremists, or even by some who
were not extremists. Still, it
was a great advance, the first
in eight decades.
And the changes now pro
posed will not do what the
extremists want, or even what
many non-extremists want.
But they will at least go a
step farther. And in such an
issue 10 centuries of Anglo
American parliamentary his
tory suggests that it is far bet
ter to move ahead a little bit
at a time, always retaining
that little bit gained, than to
plunge forward in anger only
to be thrown far back in an
swering anger.
Is the Johnson plan "po
litical?" And is he "running
for President" on it? Certain
ly yes to the first question;
probably yes to the second.
For every action of a legisla
tive body is necessarily politi
cal. And there is other "poli
tics" in this affair, too.
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THOSE liberals demanding
much more far-reaching
legislation, in line with the
wholly understandable but
not necessarily wise demands
of their supporters are these
not "political?" Are such lib
eral Democratic Senators as
Humphrey of Minnesota, Ken
nedy of Massachusetts and
Symington of Missouri not
"running for President?" Is
Vice President Nixon, who is
on their side in this matter,
not "running for President?"
Of course, they are all "run
ning for President." And why
not? What is needed, indeed,
is:
1. Not to moan sadly that
it is all "political," but rather
most deliberately to keep it
all political, and not emotion
al. For it is precisely a politi
cal solution, meaning a common-sense
compromise, that is
required, rather than an
evangelical one. :
2. To recognize that this is
one of those harsh problems
that simply will not yield to
extreme attitudes or methods.
It is the worst time, perhaps,
in a hundred years of our na
tional life to listen to the
either-or, the or-selse men, on
either side.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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