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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL I 4 Tuesday. January 27, 1939 MEDFORDtWTBIBUHB "Zveryone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $13-00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4 -25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunOcy 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Presa International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIHtULftllUfl WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. 0f NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASlsbclhAThSlN J Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. . . 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1949 (Thursday) Commercial use of liquid petroleum gas is stopped by California-Pacific Utilities company due to critical short age, according to Martin Sands, manager of " company. The Oregon State Board of Higher Education approves a proposed library-classroom at Southern Oregon college, with cost estimated at between $350,000 and $400,000. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1939 (Friday) Snow storm blankets moun tain areas, forcing plows to keep highways open to Crater Lake and over Siskiyou. ;s From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ed Lamport, the harness maker, has an order from Eastern Oregon for six buggy whips. It is the first request of this kind in nine years and there are no signs somebody is mad at an editor." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1939 (Wednesday) Students at junior high school give radio broadcast. Airport plan backed by Rogue River Traffic associa tion and valley f ruitmen. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1919 (Monday) President Wilson proposes placing all German colonies under the League of Nations. Mercury drops to 25 de grees for lowest temperature of season. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1909 (Wednesday) Cornice pears from the val ley sold for $10.08 per box in London. Representative Miller in troduces joint house resolu tion providing for submitting the removal of the state capi tal to Medford to a vote of the people. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who composed the march "Semper Fidelis"? 2. How many there in a gross?. units are 3. When was the White House in Washington first painted white? 4. What did Margery Daw do with her bed? 5. What painter- is especial ly known for the voluptuous ness of his female figures? 6. For whom is the Holland Tunnel named? 7. How many sheets are in a ream of ordinary writing paper? 8. What Is matricide? 9. In the Bible story, what two birds did Noah send out from the Ark to search for land? - 10. Name the Negro com poser of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." Answers: 1. John Philip Sousa. 2.. 144. 3. After British burning. 4. "She sold her bed and lay in the straw." 5. Rub ens. 6. For the engineer C. M. Holland. 7. 480. 8. Murder of one's mother. 9. Raven and dove. 10. James Bland. . From the Legislature The wire services, within their limitations of time and manpower, do a fairly good job of cov ering the state legislature for the papers they serve. The legislature poses a difficult challenge to newspaper reporters, for there are so many things eroiner on, in so many places, and often at the same time, that it is a physical and write all the news which is there. But the significant things are picked up, soon' er or later, for each measure goes through a num ber of processes before it is finally enacted, and somewhere along the way it is reported in more or less detail. 'TEE PAPERS which can do the best job, of course, are those large enough (like the Ore gonian and Journal) to be able to afford to have their own staff men at the scene, or close enough (like the Salem Statesman and Capital-Journal) to have beat men at the Capitol regularly. At this distance, we do not pick up all the details about the legislature which we would like, despite the best efforts of the United Press Inter national men at the scene to provide it. . It is for this reason we read the Portland and Salem papers with extra care during a legislative session, on the chance that they may have some material of particular interest to Jackson county people, which the UPI missed. - ONE SUCH item was in the Capital-Journal the other day, written by Douglas Seymour, the political editor, in which he commented on the effectiveness of the legislature, the impression he has received of its "hard-working, cooperative and economy-minded" attitude, despite party dif ferences, and the firm hand which the two pre siding officers are using in speeding business of their houses. Seymour had this to say about Robert Dun can, Medford Democrat who is speaker of the house: - "Duncan, the crew-cut second term House member who is also growing a Centennial beard, is setting a tone of seriousness and getting down to work in the House,. - "A person could : set his watch by the sharp thump of the gavel with which he brings the House to . order each day at 10 ajn. . "Duncan has also eliminated the previously much abused practice of members using the personal priv ilege rule for speechmaking. "He has ruled that the call for personal privilege "can only be used under conditions laid down under Roberts Rules of Order. "Oddly enough, his first enforcement of the ruling this week was made against his Democratic ally, Rep. Clarence Barton (Coquille), chairman of the powerful taxation committee, who attempted to answer an edi torial critical to him which had appeared in a Port land newspaper. "Duncan ruled him out of order and gaveled him down." TTHIS TYPE of reporting does nothing to give one the story of the big problems of the legis lature, but it does certainly add color to reports of the session, and in the case of representatives from this area, it gives a much better idea of what sort of representation w are gettixfc. In Duncan's case, reports have far been all good. Reports from Democratic sources have been enthusiastic; those from Republican sources may be grudging, but nonetheless they acknowledge that the young speaker is decisive, firm, fair and energetic. E.A. Winter "William Bybee of Jacksonville was in town Wednesday on return from his annual hog drive to Happy Camp, Cal. The swine are assembled at his Bybee Bridge ranch on Rogue River, and are driven 110 miles, the last 30 miles from Waldo being over a mountain trail. The trip oc cupies about two weeks, and six men are needed to keep the procession moving. The drive this year consisted of 156 head, averaging 200 pounds, and was accomplished with the loss of but one hog. The price at Happy Camp was $7.40 on foot, or $9 dressed, netting Mr. Bybee a hand some margin. Mr. Bybee has been in this business for 41 years, and the miners at Happy Camp count on his supply for winter meat." (From Grants Pass Observer, 1900, which was re printed in Nov. 30 issue of The Medford Enquirer, 1900, now in the possession of Boyd Hamilton of Ruch.) Editorial Comment MORSE CAN SMILE AT THIS Sen. Wayne Morse must have been proud, justifiably, when nine United States sena tors held a luncheon honoring him Tuesday and presented him with gifts and testimoni als. The occasion was the nine senators' mode of saying "thank you" to Morse for his speech assistance of their can didacies last fall. Morse spoke in all nine of the states, back ing these winners, as well as in his own state of Oregon. Included were eight Demo cratic freshman senators: En gle of California, Byrd and Randolph of West Virginia, Hart of Michigan, Hartke of Indiana, McCarthy of Minne sota, McGee of Wyoming and Young of Ohio. The ninth man was Prpxmire of Wisconsin, who strictly speaking isn't a freshman, having served a short period before the elec tion. Also honoring Morse on the occasion was Sen. Lyndon Johnson, the smooth Senate impossibility to gather Meat majority leader, and National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler. Morse must have felt partic ularly fine about the whole thing" because of the sharp shooting against him in his home constituency, where some Democrats allege he isn't much help to the Democratic party. The nine junior Demo crats in the U. S. Senate disa gree and so do the party's chairman and its number one (at the moment) power: Sen ator Johnson of Texas. It would be a nice feeling to have nine U. S. senators feeling they owed a part of their position to you, and who looked up to you as an exam ple of principled liberalism. We tend to get provincial. It's a tendency not restricted to ourselves. In the case of Morse, to whom the people of Oregon are so close, it's easy to overlook the tremendous reputation the man has in ev ery corner of the United States. If the man has faults, they are not recognized out- Dennis the l MmO PICTURE IN THIS Matter of Fact THE MAJOR'S FRIEND Washington The day they brought the major in, the for ward airbase in East China kkv-'"""WW staged a cele- w "a M bration. The Japs had shot Rex Barbour down north of the Yangt ze River. He had been too badly injured to walk. He had been car- josph Aisop r i e a several hundred miles on the backs of Chinese guerillas. He had had several hairs-breadth escapes from Jap patrols. Altogether, a celebration was in order. Later in the evening,, after a good many.-"kan peis" of the local white mule, some one said, "Rex, tell us about how you got the Japanese ad miral." An odd look crossed the major's handsome young face. Perhaps he was tired of describing the last seconds on earth of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of all the Japanese Emperor's ships in the Pacific. Yet he told it well, all the same. (1NE all but saw the bril liant interception the two little American fighters coming in on the flank of the big Jap bombers and their six escorting Zeroes, just at the planned interception point over a steamy, palm-fringed South Pacific island. One all but watched the grim fight against, these fearful odds the Americans' quick, deadly first attack, the two bombers flaming and falling, then fighters diving and twisting in the bright air, and the Ze roes also bursting into quick, hot flame, and the two American planes turning for home at last, their mission miraculously accomplished. One held one's breath, in deed, until the major finish ed: "But the man who got the Admiral was Tom Lamphier. I was his wing man. He led the attack. We each got a bomber, but he took the first one, and the first one had Yamamoto on board." There is a current reason for dig ging this snapshot of the for gotten past out of memory's album. This same Tom Lam phier, whom the major talk ed about for much of the rest of that happy, long ago eve ning, is again being talked about here in Washington, But this time Lamphier is be ing discussed in very differ ent language, by men on the highest level of the American Government. . . PRIMARILY, Lamphier is r being discussed because he is a' very worried man, and because he has attacked the thing that worries him with the same devil-may-care, go-for-the-lead-bomber deter mination that he showed when Yamamoto met his end. But the thing that worries Lamphier happens to be the Eisenhower Administration's complacency about the mis sile gap. So this new fight against odds is unlikely to be rewarded with the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, and the Distinguished Flying Cross, as the last fight was. ' When Sen. Stuart Syming ton was Secretary of the Air Force, Tom Lamphier was his Assistant Secretary. Lam phier is still. Symington's close friend; and in the last months Symington and Lam phier, with Lamphier fever ishly spudding Symington on, side of Oregon because his great virtues outshine them. The freshmen senators' luncheon for Wayne Morse is an adequate answer to those Democrats who doubt his val ue to the party, and to those Republicans who cherish the thought that "That Man" is headed downhill politically, -f.wa. in the Coos Bay World. 1$ mtM SSL Menace HOUSE THAT COUL0UXXAV By Joseph Alsop have desperately pressed for a cold, hard new look at the changes in the military bal ance between the United States and the Soviet Union This was a wholly private effort. It was only the failure of the private effort that drove Symington to speak out in public, with bitter elo quence, in the Senate last Friday. Twice before the pri vate effort failed, Symington saw President Eisenhower himself, to beg for bold ac tion to meet the challenge of Soviet progress in ballistic missiles. npWICE Symington and Lam phier also saw the direc tor, of the Central Intelli gence Agency, Allen W. Dul les, whom the President told off to soothe the anxious Sen ator. On the second occasion, which had been planned as a fairly grandiose briefing, Lamphier all but broke up the party by declaring that his own manufacturing expe rience proved the dangerous over-optimism of the official estimates of Soviet missile output. Lamphier knows most of the secret facts that are with held from the American pub lic, precisely because he is a manufacturer of ballistic mis siles. But as vice-president of Convair, which makes the Atlas Intercontinental Mis sile, Lamphier has an obvious interest in bigger Atlas ord ers from the Air Force. Thus a good many men on the high er governmental level are smugly saying that Tom Lam phier has just been "selling a bill of goods with his furious, worried talk about the mis sile gap. . That is one way to look at it. The other way to look at it also involves a snapshot from the forgotten past the tragic . picture of Winston Churchill and Sir Austen Chamberlain going to plead with Stanley Baldwin for British rearmament to match Hitler's rearmament, and get ting a smug, dusty answer to their anguished and far-sighted pleas. The two ways of looking at it are diametrical ly opposed; and the choice between them deserves fur ther investigation. (c) 1959. New York Her ald Tribune Inc. Hub Men's Store Is Bought by Local Man P. R. Morrison, Medford, has purchased The Hub Men's shop at 229 East Main st., from Ed Robinson, Morrison and Robinson have an nounced. The store will be Morrison's Men's Wear. The Hub recent ly completed a stock reduc tion sale, and Morrison plans to restock the store and hold an opening later this spring. Try and Stop Me 1 By BENNETT CERF MARK TWAIN once became deeply involved in a political campaign, and invaded hostile territory to make a speech on behalf of his candidate-friend. The gallery began aiming decayed vegetables and eggs in Twain's direction. One large cabbage caught him square on the noggin. Twain won the grudging admira tion of his audience by scrutinizing the cabbage in tently, then drawling, "La dies and gentlemen, I per ceive that one of my adver saries has lost his head." An emissary to the TJN who is nine parts ham and one part statesman, and whose frequent speeches can empty the as sembly hall in three . minutes Cat, fainted dead away after one particularly violent peroration. An anxious assistant ran up to the chairman and whispered, "Smelling salts have failed to revive him." "Smelling salts!" scoffed the chairman. "Just wave a microphone under his nose!" O 1259. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate, (Russiaii-U.S. Deadlock on AtomicTestBan Based on By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor For nearly three months now United States-British ne gotiators on the one hand and Russian on the other have sought work able agree ment to ban atomic tests. The issues go to the core of almost all cold war dif ficulties. What Phil Newsom are ineyr Both sides agree on the dan ger to future mankind from Bereaved Mother Makes Plea for Traffic Safety, Asks License Star (Editor s note: At 4:32 p.m. on Sept. 17, 1958, a station wagon and a logging truck collided on the Crater Lake highway. A child died as a result. The following plea was written by the mother of the child that died.) An Open Letter to the Peo ple of the Rogue River Valley: There is a brand new mark er up at Siskiyou cemetery. It belongs to my little daughter Coralee. There isn't much space between the markers where she lies. She never had the chance to grow big enough to take up much space. I try hard to remember that her spirit is in a better world than this-but concerning the next life no one in this life can be absolutely sure. There is one thing, however, of which we can be sure. She should be alive today, playing with her dolls and in her sand pile and enjoying life in this Washington Report By WILLIAM IMAGE-MAKING Washington - The poor old Republicans are having so frightful a time in trying to heighten their public appeal as to draw nonpart i s a n compas s i o n from all but the most stony of heart. Candor, however, com pels the pre diction that bad as times are now for the GOP national committee they will be much worse before they get better. Meade Alcorn, the Repub lican national chairman, is moving with commendable vi gor and forthrightness in the public inquests he is holding. He is telling his fellow-Republicans with rare honesty that much is wrong with them and their party. He is saying that they have got to face their own partisan sins of commis sion before they can usefully proclaim the storied trans gressions of the dreadful Democrats. BUT while his policy is re freshing there is little evi dence that he is getting very far. He is trying to remake the face of the GOP; or its "image," as the saying goes and goes and goes, on and on and on. Few politicians can have faced a harder task. In the first place, the old-line Repub licans are quite skeptical on principle, as was so clearly shown in the recent GOP meeting in Des Moines, of all this image business. The Old Guardists have long since learned to suspect that fellow Republicans offering new "images" are selling some thing the Old Guard will not like. The Old Guard knows that every new "image," whatever its details, inevitably will be a departure from, or an apol- William S. White Mutual Distrust; Issues Listed continued, uncontrolled tests. Both sides profess to believe in the need for agreement, if only to halt one phase of the worldwide armaments race. What then prevents it? The answer is, mutual distrust. From the standpoint of the West at least, bitter experi ence has proved that any agreement with the Commu nists must be copper-riveted, every last detail written out. For example, it was Allied failure to write into the four power agreement for control of Berlin a clause guarantee ing Allied right of access through Communist-controll world with her brothers and sisters. Coralee was one of the sweetest, most loving and eager-to-please children I have known. Never did anyone de serve less to have her head brutally bashed in, but that is exactly what happened to her. And so Coralee is no longer in my arms but her dear little body lies rotting in a ceme- tery-the result of a traffic "accident." Every one of you who reads this will probably . within hours step into a car to go someplace. With all the inno cence of unscarred childhood you will blithely assume that accidents happen only to strangers and that you will of course arrive at your destina tion, and not in the next world. Oh happy innocence-how I envy you! Can you imagine what it is like to step into a car and relive, every moment S. WHITE ogy for, Old Guardism. And the Old Guard-and here its attitude is engaging to all who flinch from sloganeering-has the outmoded habit of de manding to know what large and generalized terms really mean. What, exactly, does Mr. Al corn mean in calling for "a militant, enlightened Repub licanism?" First thing you know you will wind up with a lot of Democratic nonsense in your policy, as the Old Guard sees it, when you begin to talk like that. A GAIN, what, exactly, does r- Mr. Alcorn mean when he calls for the destruction of "the false frnage of the Re ublican party as the party of big business?" The Old Guard knows perfectly well that the GOP nearly always has been close to big business-and lit tle and middling business, too-and sees no special rea son to change. The Old Guard reckons that labor is not go ing to be excessively friendly to the GOP-under whatever "image." And the Old Guard (along with many non-Old Guard but simply middle-ground "regu lar" Republicans) has a sound traditional skepticism of the power, or right, of any party committee to make party pol icy. These Republicans are aware that policy made by, or even through, a national com mittee is not really policy at all. Policy is really made by a strong and determined par ty President or, alternatively, by a strong and determined party Congressional leader ship. . fPHIS is why such powerful Republicans as Rep. Rich ard M. Simpson of Pennsyl vania are now becoming pub licly impatient with spirited White House messages in which President Eisenhower urges other Republicans to get in there and fight. They want the President himself to get in there and fight; to lead the party and not merely to ad monish it. They realize that a hundred national committees cannot put any true face on any party; the people never elected any national commit tee. Indeed, Mr. Alcorn's genu inely brave effort is not likely to proceed much farther than have the many eager efforts of the Democratic Advisory Committee to change the Democratic party's "image." This sub-group of .the Demo cratic national committee has been happy upon many occa sions to give very strong ad vice to the Democratic Con gressional leaders. - But these leaders have been less than deeply moved. And these leaders, and not the Democratic Advisory Commit tee, are still in charge of the image - building department. And the GOP Congressional leaders at length will be still in charge of the image-building department in that party as well. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ed East Germany that left open to the Communists a le galistic excuse for trying to cut off Berlin altogether. Reds Want Unanimity The issues which face to day's negotiators and which threaten to delay agreement for months, if not forever, are these: The right of veto. How long to continue a test ban. The amount of control and the number and nature of the personnel needed to police it. On issue No. 1, the Rus sians demand that all deci- I am in it, the agony of body Coralee endured and the ago ny of spirit I must learn to live with for the rest of my life? It amazes me to see peo ple driving around relaxed and happy and so completely unconscious of the fact that every moment they are in a car they are only seconds from the possibility of a vio lent and horrible death. I would feel as safe walking in front of the target of a shoot ing gallery as I do out on the highway now. Perhaps you are wondering why I am annoying other peo ple with the ravings of a heartbroken mother. But I do have a good reason. The rea son is that I have other chil dren, and I can't stop driving if I am to take care of them properly. As much as I hate it, I am forced to drive in order to get them to Sunday school, the doctor, the dentist and the multitude of other needs chil dren have. I wasn't out on a pleasure trip when Coralee was killed." I was taking one of my children to the doctor because he had an earache. Those are the kinds of trips I am going to have to continue to make for a good many years. And I ; tremble with fear" when I think of it. I want to beg every one of you who reads this- Don't take another one of my children out of my arms. Don't take any other mother's dear one and send him to join Coralee in that little piece of ground. Think about her when you feel that urge to speed, or to pass on a hill or a curve or to go through a stop sign. Think about what it means to have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge you have taken an irreplaceable human life. We will have to be driving around together in this valley for a good many years. I beg of you -I plead with you-from the bottom of my heart, drive so that I can take my children out on the highway with the hope of bringing them back home again, alive and safe. I have one suggestion to make as a means of emphasiz ing careful driving. During the war everyone who had lost a loved one put a gold star in his window. Let the secretary of state have de signed and manufactured gold stars which will attach to li cense plates. Let him issue a gold star to every one who has lost a loved one in an auto accident. Let us who qualify for this sad category put these stars on our automobiles as a constant reminder to others that they are engaged in a grim matter of life and death when they are driving a car. Let us all hope that perhaps some of these needless and tragic deaths can be pre vented. If even one life could be saved would it not be worth while? Marie Ottosen Route 1, Box 251 . Eagle Point, Ore. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. sions be unanimous among the three nations party to the agreement. That means a built-in veto-the same sort of veto Russia has used nearly 100 times in the United Na tions Security council to ham string decisions there and the same sort of veto that virtual ly has wrecked the Korean armistice. In Korea, the Communists agreed that neither side should be allowed to increase armaments beyond that exist ing on the date of the armis tice agreement. But the agree ment was nullified by Com munist refusal to permit Al lied inspection teams into North Korea. Fear Spy Ring The latter point overlaps into the present nuclear-ban deadlock at Geneva. The West believes that nu clear inspection teams should be staffed by foreigners. It believes that nationals of the country concerned could not provide adequate guarantees that agreement was being ob served. Russia has charged that to permit foreign inspectors would mean establishment of a Western spy ring inside Rus sia. Ironically, the Russians make no note of the possibil ity a Russian spy ring could be set up the same way inside the United States or Britain. The Russians say inspection teams should be called up and sent out only when a suspi cious phenomena is recorded. Favors Mobile Teams The West believes the in spection teams should be highly mobile and should be on a standby basis. The Russians also demand that any nuclear test ban should be permanent. The West wants it on a year-to-year basis and will agree to any ban only after the mat ter of controls has been set tled. Each of these differences is founded on mutual distrust. Any agreement reached on the basis of Russian demands would be totally in Russia's favor, leaving her free to do as she wished while continu ing a barrage of propaganda charges against the West. The West is determined not to re peat the errors of .Yalta, Ber lin or Korea. Italian President Seeks Government Rome -(DPD- President Gio vanni Gronchi launched ef forts to find a new govern ment today, hoping to avert a crisis which could plunge It aly into chaos. Gronchi called in Senate President Cesare Merzagora for the first of a series of talks with prospective pre miers that is expected to last at least five days. Political observers saw no prospect of Gronchi's finding a new premier until sometime next week- They believe the choice probably will fall on ex-Premier Antonio Segni or outgoing Interior Minister Fernando Tambroni. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had governed for nearly seven months with out ever having a sure major ity in Parliament, gave in Monday to a combination of pressures from the left, the center and the right. WINDSORS U.S. BOUND Le Havre, France-UPD-The Duke and Duchess of Wind sor were on their way to New York today aboard the S. S. United States, which they boarded Sunday. The couple will spend three months in New York and Arizona. Short Hills, N. J. -4TD- John A. Fieseler, director of the In ternational Flower Show for 24 years, died Sunday. Cheap Insurance? Just as good? All bargain hunters shop for. But no one yet. We've ever met. Got more than what they paid for. Bill Fish
