4 Wednesday, January 28, 1959
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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. 28, 1949 (Friday)
rnn Lane, manager of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce, is named junior
first citizen of the county by
the Medford Junior Chamber.
Freezing fog with a mini
mum temperature of 22 de
grees above zero hits valley
for 33rd day of continuous
minim urns of freezing and be
low. 20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28, 1939 (Saturday)
Persons unknown during
the Tiger-Grizzly basketball
game in Ashland, defaced the
rear of the Ashland High
school building by painting
"MED" and five big "M's" on
a stucco wall.
From Arthur Perrys Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Lovers
of the outdoors, continue to
hie to slick hillsides and
ponds to cavort on skis and
skates."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28. 1929 (Friday)
The President's ball at Ori
ental Gardens Friday night
was described as one of the
most successful.
The .forest service showboat
left yesterday for Roseburg
after touring in Jafckson
county for a week.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28. 1919 (Sunday)
There's more than a hint of
mother's corset of 50 years
ago in thet design of new
spring evening girdles made
for her dancing daughter.
Fashion Notes.
Two Medford youngsters,
14 and 15 years old, appear
ing in juvenile court Friday
afternoon on auto theft charg
es, were paroled to persons
outside their families.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28, 1909 (Thursday)
The resolution of Represen
tative Miller of Jackson coun
ty to submit to a vote of the
people the removal of the
state capital to Medford was
referred to the committee on
resolutions.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good. ,
1. Who was called the Sage
of Monticello?
2. Do naval oranges have
seeds?
3. Who commanded the
American Expeditionary
Forces in World War I?
4. How many ounces are in
a gallon?
5. A house centipede has
how many pairs of legs?
6. The Constitution of the
United States prohibits any
woman from being elected to
the Presidency of the United
States; true or false?
7. The U.S. Secret Service
is a division of the Dept. of
Justice. True or false?
8. How did the London po
lice get the nickname "Bob
bies"? 9. Is a Portuguese man-of-war
a kind of ship?
10. Is coal oil extracted
from coal?
Answers: 1. Thomas Jeffer
son. 2. No. 3. General John J.
Pershing. 4. 128 ounces. 5. 15
pair. 6. False. 7. False. 8.
From Sir Robert Peel the
founder. 9. No. (Sea animal.)
10. No.
F.D.I.C. Anniversary
They said 25 years ago that if the federal
government undertook to guarantee deposits in
the nation's banks, the inevitable result would be
complete government control of banking. They
said that to insure deposits the government would
have to assume an unconscionable degree of con
trol over banking loans and investments, having
the effectual result of underwriting those banking
functions too.
These fears and alarums are only faint echoes
of the past as the Federal Deposit Insurance cor
poration celebrates its 25th anniversary this
month. In retrospect its creation now appears a
major banking reform. In the two years prior to'
its authorization by the Banking Act of June 16,
1933 the so-called Glass-Steagall act 3,643
banks in the United States had failed. Estimates
of losses to depositors some eventually to be re
couped, of course ranged from three-quarters
of a billion dollars to as much as a billion and a
quarter'.
These failures had in turn created a peculiar
barrier to recovery from the Depression in the
form of hoarding of currency. Early in 1933 it
was estimated that as much as $1 billion was
being withheld from its normal use as a basis of
credit.
THE ORIGINAL PLAN was to provide insur
ance for deposits beginning July 1, 1934. At
the insistence of the late Sen. Arthur H. Vanden
berg (R-Mich.), the date vas pushed up to Jan. 1,
1934, with temporary insurance provided for the
first $2,500 for each depositor.
The limit was raised to $5,000 on the follow
ing July 1 ; on Sept. 21, 1950 it was increased to
$10,000 per depositor. Inasmuch as about 98 per
cent of all deposit accounts have balances of less
than $10,000, substantially all of such deposits
are now insured.
Of the nation's 14,095 commercial and mu
tual savings banks, 13,383 now qualify for the
federal insurance. Some of the relatively few
banks outside the system take the position that
they have sufficient capital, that they don't need
the insurance, or that it is too costly. Others for
one reason or another can't qualify.
THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT of F.D.I.C. paid-in
capital was $289 million. Federal Reserve
banks provided $139 million; the U.S. Treasury,
$150 million. Congress has never made an appro
priation to the corporation.
The original capital has been repaid with in
terest from surplus accumulated from F.D.I.C.'s
assessments on insured banks at the annual rate
of 112 of 1 per cent of their total deposits, less
authorized deductions, and income from invest
ments. Since 1950, F.D.I.C. has been returning to
insured banks 60 per cent of their annual pay
ments. Some V2 million depositors in 438 sick banks
have received payments from F.D.I.C. insurance
in the corporation's 25-year lifetime. More than
$343 million has been paid out.
THE rate of bank failures now has dwindled
1 almost to a standstill. In 1957 the F.D.I.C. had
to shell out to depositors of only one bank.
Meantime, over the years, the banking busi
ness has prospered, though consolidations have
reduced the total number of banks. But this trend
is being offset by the mushrooming of branches.
And the fear that federal insurance for de
posits would encourage recklessness on the part
of bankers was replaced long ago by a feeling of
confidence in the banking system almost incon
ceivable in those shaky days of the great De
pression. E.R.R.
To Raise Language Skill?
We are told by Adlai E. Stevenson that we,
the American people, have become "fat, dumb,
complacent," have drifted into aimlessness, have
lost much of the inspiration that guided us in
earlier years. Milder by comparison, and easier
to take, is the charge by Milton Eisenhower,
president of the Johns Hopkins University, that
Americans are "the world's poorest linguists."
Educators freely acknowledge that study of
foreign languages has long been neglected in our
public schools. Now, under the 1958 National
Defense Education Act, the federal government
is offering grants to encourage foreign language
teaching. Together with state and local funds,
they are expected within ten years to provide us
with a sizable crop of high school and college
graduates who can speak and understand the
most" widely used tongues.
TR. Eisenhower thinks that we need to give
attention to the poverty of language skills
among adults as well as among younger people.
This too something is being done about. Not only
are classes in Russian, for example, being widely
instituted in secondary schools but experimental
instruction in that language over TV is in its be
ginning stages.
Starting Feb. 2, a course with the title "Class
room 9: Beginning Russian" will be broadcast
three times a week from one of the most powerful
television stations in the East. Forty-five lessons
of 30 minutes each are to be given by Vladimir
Tolstoy, a descendant of the Russian novelist.
The National Citizens Committee for Education
al Television, financed in part by grants from the
Ford Fund for" Adult Education, is seeking to get
similar TV courses under way in other parts of
the country. E.R.&
Dennis the
fblA THE HECK DID I KNOW YOUR OL' SUSPENDERS
WOUION'T BVBH PULL A WASON9
Tribute to
Organized
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington (UPD A real
solid tribute to the political
power of organized labor is
this fact:
If any legis
lation is en
acted at this
session of Con
gress to pen
a 1 i z e bomb'
violence in la
ta o r disputes
it p r o b a bly
must come
"'.yie c. uiison aoout by indi
rection, and, almost by
chance.
President Eisenhower's
forthcoming 1959 labor re
form biU could and may
change that. As of now, how
ever, bomb violence in labor
disputes will become subject
to federal penalties only be
cause Congress is moving to
ward a crackdown on anoth
er type of bomb outrage.
This other type is the hate
bombing of schools, churches
and synagogues, the homes
and property of persons be
longing to racial minorities.
Bills against such hate
bombings are accumulating in
Congress. All of them would
make bombing and arson a
federal crime under most cir
cumstances. These civil rights
bills , are more than broad
enough to cover violence in
labor disputes. The civil rights
TODAY
In Oregon History
'(A Centennial Feature)
JANUARY 28. 1852
This; day the steamer
General Warren was driven
aground on Clatsop Spit and
broke up with a loss of 42
lives. The Warren crossed
the bar outbound in the
early afternoon but was
forced to attempt to reenter
the river by the onset of a
heavy gale. Heroic efforts
by Astoria pilot Captain
George Flavel to bring back
help i from Astoria failed,
and when the rescue party
arrived the steamer was ut
terly destroyed.
JANUARY 28. 1851
Lane county, named for
Territorial Governor Joseph
Lane, today was created by
the territorial legislature. It
is to include all that portion
of the territory south of Un
ion county and south of so
much of Benton county as
is east of Umpqua county,
running from this line io
the- Divide of the Rocky
Mountains. It's county seat
has not been chosen but
will probably be Eugene
City.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CER?
PIOM THE NOTEBOOK of Rolfe Peterson, oracle of Salt
Lake City:
"When you think you're going down for the third time just
remember: you may have
counted wrong."
"Build a better mousetrap
and maybe the only result
will be that you'll catch a
higher type of mice.''
"If you're waked up in
the morning feeling groggy
and listless, just remember
you're ahead of the game if
you wake up at all!"
A tramp knocked warily on
the door of a moderately large
residence, and bowed meekly
when a powerful lady an
ewered the summons. "Sure
and what does a miserable runt like you be comin round to bother
me about?" she demanded with an obvious Harvard accent.
"If you'd be so kind," said the tramp humbly, exhibiting a small
object in the palm of his hand, 'Td like to get a coat sewed on to
this button."
,C 1859. by Eeanatt Cert Distributed by King Tttbmt SynlicaU.
Menace
Political Power of
Labor Seen in Bills
bill of 1959 introduced by
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D.
Tex.) is drawn so tightly that
the FBI could be ordered out
to track down the bombers of
a skunk farm.
Death Sentence Possible
Another is the civil rights
bill introduced by Sen. Ken
neth B. Keating (R.-N.Y.) on
behalf of himself and 14 oth
ers representing both parties.
Both bills would invoke a
death sentence against a bomb
thrower whose act cost hu
man life. '
Mere threats to toss a bomb
or, more accurately, the utter
ing of a false statement that
any premises would be
bomber, could be punished by
a year in jail, a $1,000 fine
or both. These penalties are
prescribed primarily to pro
tect religious and educational
property against hate bomb
ers. The Johnson bill and oth
ers, however, would apply
equally in labor disputes or
any bomb violence whatever,
although that is not the prime
purpose of any of the bills.
The mere transport of an ex
plosive within the United
States for certain specified
purposes would be a violation
of the proposed laws.
Protected by the Johnson
bill and others would be any
building or other real or per
sonal property if the violence
were for the prupose of inter
fering with its use for busi
ness, educational, religious,
charitable or civic objectives.
The bomb technique for the
purpose of intimidating any
person pursuing such objec
tives also would be forbidden
by federal law.
That language effectively
covers the labor-business front
as weU as the hate-bombing
fronts. The Johnson bill spells
out two methods by which the
FBI would become involved
in enforcement: ,
Brown Discussed
As Demo Candidate
Sacramento - (UPD - Cali
fornia's Gov. Edmund G.
Brown's name has come up
frequently among Democratic
leaders as a presidential candi
date in 1960, according to
Adlai Stevenson.
The former Illinois govern
or; who was twice the Demo
cratic presidential candidate,
conferred with Brown Tues
day. "It's the first I've heard of
it," Brown said "and it'll take
some time to get used to it."
Stevenson replied, "I' don't
think it will be hard to take,
Pat. It's a reflection of the
esteem in which you are held
by Democrats across the country."
Mikoyan's Visit Had Expansion
Of Trade As First Objective
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Anastas Mikoyan, a Russian
deputy premier and one of
te Kremlin's top salesmen,
arrived back
in Moscow
this week in
time for the
21st special
congress of
the Soviet
Communist
Party.
He was re
turning from
a visit to the
United States, during which
he:
Commented favorably on
Americans' ability to drink
vodka.
Commented unfavorably
on U. S. foreign policy, par
ticularly as regards Berlin
and the U. S. ban on shipment
of strategic goods to the So
viet Union.
Reacted with consider
able irritation when prevent
ed from placing U.S. troop
landings in Lebanon in the
same category with Soviet de-
-The attorney general could
assign the FBI to a bomb or
arson incident if he had rea
sonable cause to believe that
the bombers violated the pro
visions of the law against the
importation or transport of
explosives.
-The attorney general also
could assign the FBI on the
request of the governor of a
state or the request of a chief
executive officer or govern
ing body of a political subdi
vision in which an incident
took place.
That would put it up to the
mayors and boards of county
commissioners to call for FBI
help against labor - manage
ment war as well as against
race and religious war.
Editorial .
Comment
About Gold Mine
To the Editor: Around 50
years ago two young miners
living near Woodville, at low
water mark in Rogue river,
about one mile below the old
steel bridge on the south side
at a bend called "turtle bay,"
used a light raft to dive into
10 to 12 feet of water to fill
a gold pan of gravel which
yielded them $15 dollars in
gold nuggets.
Near the same spot, a small
wet weather gully about op-
posite the "North Pole"
quartz mine furnished the
younger prospectors ample
gold dust to buy their dance
tickets and treats over a per
iod of years.
The supposition was that
the source was from the west
ern side of the "North Pole'
mountain that breaks off ab
ruptly forming an almost per
pendicular ledge of solid rock
formation. That reason alone,
is the real answer why a
more thorough investigation
has never been made to trace
up the steep incline. Now
that more modern equipment
is available, some mountain
climber may find "a pocket"
by sheer luck or plenty of
perseverance and time.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman
Medford, Ore.
Ike Considering
Trip To Mexico
Washington (UPD - President
Eisenhower is considering a
trip to Mexico in the relative
ly near future. '
Both the President and the
State department are giving
serious thought to a presiden
tial visit, which probably
would be an informal week
end trip late this winter rath
er than a full-fledged state
visit.
Discussions also were being
held by the U.S. and Mexican
governments on the trip.
Informed sources said the
President was more likely to
visit a low-lying city, such as
the seaside resort of Acapul
co, than Mexico City. The
Mexican capital is on pla
teau 7,200 feet above sea lev
el, a height probably prohibi
tive to persons with a history
of heart trouble.
Timber Owners Bill
OK'd by Committee .
Salem-(UPD -Timber owners
in Oregon who fail to pay tim
ber yield taxes within 10 days
after receipt of notification
would have their operations
closed down by the state for
ester under terms of an
amended bill approved by the
Senate Tax Committee Tues
day. Heretofore, such action was
authorized for failure to pay
other taxes, but the Tax Com
mission asked that the law
also include payment of the
yield tax.
'J
Fhil Newsom
Mill Mill 1 .JUIW
ceit and butchery in crushing
the revolution in Hungary.
The first and third points
were incidental to the main
purposes of his visit, which
probably were two.
Trade First Objective
Mikoyan, as the Kremlin's
foremost expert on merchan
dising, probably had an ex
pansion of trade as his first
objective.
One of the projects which
the party congress will be
asked to rubber stamp is Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev's am
bitious seven-year plan for
the economic development of
the Soviet Union.
The announced purpose of
the plan is ultimately to make
the Soviet Union superior to
the United States in every
thing from production of milk
to steel.
Thus Mikoyan was in the
market here for a wide vari
ety of products ranging from
entire chemical plants, to
pipelines to credits.
And . thus, too, his sour re
action when the State Depart
ment blocked his project.
The cold war in the State
Department is continuing," he
said. To which the State De
partment replied: "Fatuous."
Mikoyan s second purpose
here is more conjectural but
may have met with greater
success.
Force Summit Meeting
A diplomatic view of the
sudden pressure applied by
the Soviet Union two months
ago to the Berlin problem is
that the Soviets were acting
with an ultimate view to forc
ing another meeting at the
summit.
There is no belief that the
Communists deliberately were
inviting a war when they an
nounced that in six months
they would turn air, land and
sea controls of East Germany
over to the. East Germans.
But neither there is any
confidence that 'a war could
not break out over the Berlin
issue.
Citrus Retail -Price
Drop Seen
Washington -(UPD-The Agri
culture Department today
forecast some reduction in re
tail prices of citrus fruits
and products from their high
levels of a year ago and ear
lier this season.
The department said retail
price reductions can be ex
pected as processing expands
and supplies of canned and
frozen items become more
plentiful.
The larger Valencia orange
crops in both Florida and
California should mean larger
supplies of fresh oranges at
lower prices in spring and
summer rather than the
unusually high prices in this
period of 1958, the depart
ment said in its publication,
"The Fruit Situation."
Import of Tuna
Increases Sharply
Washington (UPD The
government reported today
that U.S. imports of tuna,
largely from Japan, increased
sharply in 1958.
The total American tuna
pack, including both Ameri
can-caught and imported tuna
increased from 11,900,000
cases in 1957 to an estimated
14,300,000 cases last year.
Imports of canned tuna also
reached a new record, at
2,300,000 cases.
Imports were not broken
down by country of origin,
but the Bureau of Commer
cial Fisheries said they came
primarily from Japan.
The U.S. catch increased
by about 5 per cent, to 314
million pounds, while imports
of frozen (uncalled) tuna in
creased radically. Figures
through the first 10 months
of the year showed imports
of 162 million pounds com
pared with 139 million
pounds for al lof 1957.
HIGHER TRADE IN
Clanton, Ala. - (UPD - A thief
apparently . did not like the
1954 Oldsmobile he stole from
a local dealer. Police, said he
abandoned it two blocks from
the used car lot, returned and
took a 1956 Oldsmobile, which
is still missing.
MIXED UP LEGEND
Nottingham, England - (UPD -Legend
got all mixed up in
Nottingham today. Someone
stole Robin Hood's bow and
the sheriff of Nottingham is
trying to get it back for him.
Robin Hood's bowless statue
stands outside Nottingham
Castle.
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Little Worry
Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without
fear of Insecure false teeth dropping,
slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH
holds plates firmer and more com
fortably. This pleasant powder has no
gummy gooey, pasty taste or feeling.
Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline
(non-acid). Checks "plate odor"
(denture breath) . Get FASTEETH at
ny drug counter.
The West is determined
that West Berlin remain free
and that Allied forces retain
their rights to remain and be
supplied there.
Danger Remains
But there remains the dan
ger that even after his visit
to the United States, Mikoyan
and other Kremlin leaders
remain unconvinced of this
determination.
A view held by many Eu
ropean diplomats is that the
United States refuses to rec
ognize history. They believe
the Soviet Union waited to
take action in Hungary until
after it was convinced the
United States would not take
sides. Thus, they argue, by
doing nothing, we placed
Hungary in the Soviet bloc
for all time to come.
They believe the same ar
gument may apply to Berlin.
Again the Soviets may. be
waiting. When they see no
visible signs of action, they
may believe the time is right
to move again.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Preachers and Ministers
To the Editor: You ask for
suggestions. Why do the min
isters of churches fail to teach
the Bible in answer to di
vorce? Many preachers are
"hirelings" as is written in
St. John (10:12). It is said that
the hirelings have no care
for the sheep, but the Good
Shepherd really cares.
There is a big difference in
being a Christian than a mem
ber of some church also a
man-made preacher and a
God-called minister.
If there is a doubt about a
matter, I'll ask Jesus in His
written word.
An Old Timer,
- Winton Meadows,
250 Lozier Lane, -
Medford.
Advertising Agents
Attend Meeting Here
Milton A. Foland, vice
president and manager of Pa
cific National Advertising
Agency, and Richard H. Syr
ing, public relations director,
were guests of the Medford
Pear Shippers association at a
recent meeting here.
The advertising men were
in this area to confer with
pear growers and shippers re
garding the promotion and
marketing program which
their firm conducts on behalf
of the Oregon-Washington-
California Pear bureau.
Foland stated that Pacific
National plans to expand the
public information program
of the Pear bureau to include
news reports on current pro
motion programs underway in
the major winter pear market
ing areas.
Sentry Shoots Two
Korean Civilians
Seoul - (UPD - An American
Army sentry shot and serious
ly wounded two Korean civil
ians today when they ignored
his orders to halt.
The U. S. Army said Pvt
Carl B. Mick, 19, of Clen-
denin, W. Va., challenged the
two men when he saw them
trying to leave the compound
of an artillery unit attached
to the 1st Cavalry division.
Mick ordered the men to
halt in both Korean and Eng
lish, the Army said, and fired
a round into the air when that
didn't stop them.
Mick then fired two rounds
at the men, hitting 18-year-old
Kim Tak Nae in the stom
ach and an unidentified Ko
rean in the head. Jim Was in
serious condition at the 44th
Mobile Army Surgical hos
pital and the other man in
critical condition at the 121st
Evacuation hospital in Ascom
City.
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We Never Close
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Adlai Stevenson, who is a
philosophical thinker we
could ill afford to get along
without, touched on an inter
esting problem in San Fran
cisco. He told the 19th annual
convention of the National
School Boards association he
doubts if the United States
will EVER AGAIN have
enough teachers, let alone
GOOD ones.
He added:
"In an effort to make the
supply of GOOD teachers go
around, I think it will be nec
essary to turn to the new
techniques of teaching by film
and television."
TTE WENT on to say he ex
pects that all teachers
have vague fears of technol
ogical unemployment - mean
ing, by that term, unemploy
ment brought about by tech
nological advances enabling
fewer people to ACCOM
PLISH MORE.
But-
He said-
"The facts are that these
new techniques could be used
in every course in the United
States without throwing a
SINGLE TEACHER out of
work."
TTE concluded:
" "I wonder if the intro
duction of the BOOK seemed
to the teachers of those days
to threaten them with tech
nological unemployment. AC
TUALLY the book, by help
ing to make possible the
rapid spread of education,
GREATLY INCREASED the
demand for teachers.
"The educational demands
of the present time can not
possibly be met without re
sorting to technology, as we
have in every other field
when manpower was short."
T ET'S take a look at one of
these fields that Mr. Stev
enson mentions.
It was learned early in co
lonial days that cotton could
be grown in America. The
GROWING of it was simple
enough. The rub came in the
separation of the seeds from
the cotton fiber. That was
slow and tedious. It took a
LOT of labor. There wasn't
labor enough to go around.
The problem was solved by
Eli Whitney, the college-educated
son of a New England
farmer who came to Georgia
as a teacher. He had a me
chanically bent, and he in
vented the cotton "gin," which -did
profitably by machinery
what could not profitably be
done by hand methods.
The cotton gin, by provid
ing technological advance
ment, did for cotton growing
what the BOOK, as Mr. Stev
enson suggests, did in earlier
centuries for education.
IN OUR day, the idea of us
ing pictures, both static and
moving, to SPREAD KNOWL
EDGE, is a radical one. The
idea of sending these pictures
THROUGH THE AIR by tele
vision is perhaps even more
radical.
But-
As Mr. Stevenson suggests-
Is it any more radical than
BOOKS at the time when
books first came into use as a
means of spreading knowl
edge? I doubt it.
At any rate, let's not clos
our minds to the idea of
spreading knowledge by
means of pictures and televi
sion. CLOSED minds stop
progress. OPEN minds pro
mote progress.
Let's not close our minds to
progress.
Hawaii Statehood
Approval Expected
Washington - (UPD - Rep. Leo
W. O'Brien D-N.Y.), predicted
today that the House Interior
Committee would overwhelm
ingly approve the Hawaiian
statehood bill next Wednes
day. Statehood backers rested
their case today at the House
committee's hearings. No op
position witnesses were in
sight.
Mrs. Litwiller
-- "
'It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."