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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago. -
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1949 (Saturday) i
Fifty per cent reduction in
load limits on several state
highways and county roads
has been ordered to protect
them while thawing.
Formal opening of the vet
erans administration domicil
iary center at Camp White
will be Feb. 20, Manager Paul
A. Hatton announced.' '
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1939 (Sunday)
Local 1400 of the Construc
tion and General Laborers un
ion will hold its first regular
meeting Tuesday at the labor
temple.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge. Pot" column: "Ed
Lamport, the harness maker,
has an order from eastern Or
egon for six buggy whips.".
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1929 (Friday)
Concerning the crime wave
of the younger generation that
has swept Medford, are the
youngsters entirely to blame?
The pie social held Satur
day night by the Live Oak
Grange was well attended.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1919 (Friday)
The 14th annual catalogue
of the Monarch Seed and Feed
company containing 40 pages
of descriptions is being dis
tributed to 12,000 homes in
this area.
Oragnization meeting of the
Toastmistress club will be
held Monday at the United
State National bank.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29, 1909 (Friday)
After changing the Crater
Lake rd. to meet the views of
the present Crater Lake rd.
commission and Gov. George
E. Chamberlain the bill was
introduced - Wednesday.
The Porter bill now before
Congress sets up stringent
rules on standardization of
packages, grades and market
ing of apples.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine m ten correct if superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. What did Thomas Jeffer
son name his home in Vir
ginia? 2. Correct the following:
"She is a light complected
girl."
3. Who said, "To be pre
pared for war is one of the
most effectual means of pre
serving peace"?
4. Does coral belong to the
animal, vegetable, or mineral
kingdom?
5. Who was the author of
the book "Tom Sawyer"?
6. On Dec. 7, 1958, the
communists suffered an over
whelming defeat in an elec
tion; where did this occur?
7. In which State is Mam
moth Cave?
8. In radio, rhat is F M?
9. Fungus needs water to
grow; true or false?
10. For what did Paul F.
Dietzel receive acclaim in
1958?
Answers: 1. Monticello. 2.
"She is a light complexion
ed . . . 3. George Washing
Ion. 4. Animal. 5. Samuel L.
Clemens (Mark Twain). 6.
West Germany. 7. Kentucky.
8. Frequency Modulation. 9.
True. 10. Football coach of
the year.
iwni
Communist Party Congress
Anastas I. Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier of
the Soviet Union, may or may not make a re
port to the special Twenty-First Congress of the
Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. on his trip to
the United States, but he is certain to give a
full and private account, to Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev. Indeed, it is understood that Khru
shchev, eager for a first-hand survey of Ameri
can conditions, urged Mikoyan to make the tour
in the first place.
If there is to be any switch in the Soviet
"line" in policy toward the United States, or
in regard to Berlin or German reunification
the Party Congress would furnish the logical
sounding board. On a practical basis the Party
Congress is too unwieldy to perform any de
liberative or legislative functions. Up to 2,400
delegates are expected.
The Congress, technically, is the supreme
organ of the Communist Party, rather than a
governmental body. This special session is un
usual in that it is the first "extraordinary" Con
gress since March, 1918, when 6newas called
by Lenin to ratify the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Party statutes provide that ordinaiy Con
gresses are to be convened not less often than
once in four years. But only two regular Con
gresses have been held since 1939; the latest met
in February, 1056.
WHILE the principal business of this special
session is to , rubberstamp Khrushchev's
new seven-year economic development plan, it
could also see-the further down-grading of for
mer Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, fired from
the presidium of the Central Committee of the
Party last September. The Central Committee
carries on the work of the Party between Con
gresses. Khrushchev lately has been transferring
some of the decision-making power ot tne Pre
sidium to the Central Committee Secretariat.
Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, former Defense
Minister and Presidium member, could also come
in for further degredation at this Congress. Ironi
cally, it was Zhukov's elevation to the Presidium
at the 1956 Congress that was supposed to have
indicated increased influence in the Party for
the Soviet Army.
MIKOYAN at the 1956 Congress followed
Khrushchev's leadership in denouncing the
"cult of personality" under Stalin and praising
"collective leadership." The main feature which
characterized the work of the Central Commit
tee and Presidium during the previous three
years since Stalin's death said Mikoyan, was
"the fact that after a long interval, collective
leadership has been created in our Party."
The mere fact of public criticism of Stalin's
leadership made the 1956 Congress notable. But
the real shocker was to come almost four months
later. That was in June, when the U.S. State De
partment published a version it had received of
the four-hour secret speech Khrushchev had
made at the Congress attacking Stalin in savage
detail.
No such startling development is expected at
this year's special Congress. Mikoyan himself,
Jan. 18, blandly assured a U.S. television audi
ence, that no cult of personality was arising
around Premier Khrushchev. Khushchev, he ex
plained, "is supported, is popular, because he
introduced, he suggested many new reforms
which were found to be quite right." Moveover
and perhaps even more significantly "one
shouldn't mix up the cult of personality with
the authority a person might havei" E.R.R.
Inflexible Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of West Ger
many, is a man easily angered particularly by
our Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. His
indignation was vented last November when
Dulles said, in connection with the Berlin crisis,
that the United States might be willing, under
certain circumstances, to deal with officials of
the East German regime as agents of the Soviet
Union. Adenauer gave a low opinion of that line
of thinking, notwithstanding that officials of
his own Bonn government have engaged in direct
negotiations on other matters with East German
functionaries.
More recently the chancellor has been of
fended by a Dulles suggestion that free elections
may not be the only way to bring about reunifica
tion of his country. The free-elections formula
has heretofore been insisted upon by the Western
Allies as the essential first step toward German
unity. In Adenauer's view, any Allied dealings
with the East Germans or any departure from the
principle of free elections would be tantamount
to recognition of the Soviet-dominated German
Democratic Republic as a legitimate state.
DENAUER'S recurrent public displays of
'ansrer mav be desismed in Dart to hold the
Western governments and his own people in line.
He must have been erenuinelv outraged, however.
also deeply hurt, when
J 1 1
pictured mm as a man wno ieeis no real mission
to bring the two Germanys together.
It has been clear for some time that if Ger
many is ever to be reunited, concessions will have
10 De made Dy tne boviets, by the Western Allies,
and by Adenauer himself. This being the case,
the Economist observed that the Chancellor's re
fusal to consider reunification on any except his
own terms amounted to de facto acceptance of
a permanently divided Germany. E.R.R.
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the London Economist
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Dennis the
' 0JD YOU HEAR ME, GEORGE ? I SAID DENNIS
IS -GOING TO SPEND THE AFTERNOON WITH US.
Matter of Fact
THE FALSE ESTIMATES
Washington-Evidence is ac
cumulating that the Eisenhow
er administration has been
using grossly
over - optimis-
tic estimates
of Soviet prog
ress in guid
ed missile pro
duction. Even
inside the Ad-
min istration
there is dis
quiet about
4nsph Alsop tne iigures
now in use, which credit the
Soviets with very few inter
continental ballistic missiles
before 1960-61. Hence a re
view of all the evidence has
already been started. Pre
sumably, the inter - agency
committee that is the final
authority on these matters
will finally produce new "na
tional estimates." It is en
tirely likely that the new
estimates will give the So
viets exactly the kind of mis
sile capability that has been
denounced as nonsensical by
Secretary of Defense Neil
McElroy.
TlIE AN WHILE the old esti-
mates, which were pre
pared in August, have done
and are still doing their des
tined work. They were the
justification for the Defense
Department, budget prepared
in October - November. They
have been used, and they are
still being used by the De
fense Department to minimize
the missile gap in the eyes
of the Congress.
.Ironically, the chief excuse
for reviewing the estimate is
almost the same excuse that
the Defense Department for
merly used for the lowness
of the estimates. As is well
known, machinery exists for
keeping a radar-watch on. So
viet missile tests. Since the
first full-range test of a Soviet
inter-continental missile in the
summer of 1957, not more
than four additional full-range
tests have been observed. The
last was in April of this year,
unless what is generally re
garded as an unsuccessful
moon shot in July was in
reality another successful mis
sile test.
The small number of tests
was examined through the
deep-rose colored spectacles
forced onto all good local
noses by the White House and
the Budget Bureau. After so
few tests, it was concluded
the Soviets could not yet be
ready to put their inter-continental
missile into active pro
duction. piVEN when this conclusion
was reached, it was fairly
ridiculous. In the first place,
the American Atlas missile
has had only one full-range
test. Yet Atlas is considered
to be wholly reliable, and is
in active, though budget-limited
production today. In the
second place, the most deci
sive tests are not those made
at full-range. They are made
with heavy loads of extra in
strumentation, which sharply
reduce the distances travelled.
And third, the Soviet ICBM
is a very much, simpler and
more efficient design than the
Atlas, and it therefore needs
less testing.
For these reasons, and be
cause of Nikita Khrushchev's
published claims, the current
estimates would need review
in any case. But the main
factor behind the decision to
review the estimates has been,
quite, simply, the continuing
failure to identify Soviet
ICBM tests since last July
at the latest and probably last
April. In August, the silence
had not lasted long enough
to become ominous, so to say;
but by now it is considered
highly ominous.
THE silence is considered
ominous because tests of an
important weapon are never
absolutely suspended, except
for one of two reasons. Tests
may end because the weapon
is finally judged a total fail
ure. Or tests may end because
the weapon is finally judged
Men"
Alsop
to be entirely satisfactory, and
therefore ready for full scale
production. The Soviet ICBM
is certainly no total failure.
Hence the Soviets probably
began to accumulate a stock
pile of operational ICBMs be
tween at least six and perhaps
nine months ago.
Working at stretch, the ex
isting production line of the
great missile - manufacturing
complex in the Dneiprostroy
region is thought to be able
to turn out 15 ICBMs each
month. If active production
has been ordered, the Soviets
must also be assumed to have
ordered at least one more pro
duction line to be opened.
Even without the second line,
moreover, the Soviets ought
to have at least 300 ICBMs by
the end of 1959, if not some
what earlier; and their rate
of output should certainly
reach 500 ICBMs per annum
by New Year's, 1960. '
Jfn contrast, Secretary Mc
Elroy and his staff told the
Senate Armed Services com
mittee that the Soviets would
not have more than 100
ICBMs by the end of this
year, and would not be pro
ducing 500 per annum before
1962. These were comfort
able assumptions; but if they
remain the basis of national
policy, they can produce most
uncomfortable results.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
PRIORITY IN CIVIL RIGHTS
It would be a good thing if
Congress could deal with
civil rights legislation early
in the session.
For later on,
especially i n
the spring and
during the
summer, there
are likely to
be many dis
tractions. There will be
V10 usual traf-
Walter " . . .
Lippmann IlC jam Of
bills, and in all probability
there will . be spectacular
events in foreign affairs. Now,
and in the next few months,
there is an opportunity to pay
attention to the great issues
involved in. the field of civil
rights.
It will be useful to take
stock of the present pqsition,
as seen from the point " of
view of those who wish to
realize, not to resist and to
nullify, the enjoyment by Ne
groes of the constitutional
rights which are now denied
to them. More precisely, we
may ask ourselves what is the
situation in the field of af
firmative action by Congress?
THE ANSWER, broadly
speaking, is that legisla
tion to protect the right to
vote has a far better prospect
than legislation directed
against segregation in" the pub
lic schools. It has a better
prospect of being passed by
Congress without a serious
filibuster, and it has a better
prospect of being accepted
and observed in all but the
deepest and darkest South. '
There is, of course, a close
connection between the de
gree of resistance to a bill in
the Senate and the degree of
resistance to a law in the
states affected.
For all practical purposes
one may say that civil rights
legislation which is opposed
by virtually all the Southern
states will in practice be nul
lified in the Southern states.
BEGINNING in the late
summer of 1957, it has
become clear that, in respect
to Congress, the road forward
is that of legislation to pro
tect the right to vote. This
was shown in the Civil Rights
Act of 1957, the first civil
rights legislation of any kind
to pass Congress since the end
of the Reconstruction period.
This act authorized Federal
intervention in the states to
protect the right to vote. It
Russian Economic War Challenge Viewed
Seriously;
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
The capitalistic world will
do well to take at face value
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's newest
declaration of
all - out eco
n o m i c war
fare. It may
1 be assumed he
.. means it, and
thinks he can
win it. Con-
versely, it also
may be assum
ed he means it
Fnil JNewsom
when he says he does not
want a nuclear war, in which
the chief antagonists would
have to be the United States
and the Soviet Union and in
which both sides admit there
could be no real winner.
This week's declaration of
economic war against the
West is not new. Rather, it
is a mark of Soviet consisten
cy. Khrushchev first chal
lenged the capitalistic nations
to all-out economic war in his
address ; to the Communist
Party's 20th congress in Feb
ruary, 1956.
It was unfortunate that at
that time, most of he world's
attention went to his denun
ciation of the , late Josef
Stalin.
Revises Lenin's Theory
In that same speech came
his revision of Lenin's theory
that wars are inevitable and
that only wars and violence
can lead to socialism. Khrush
chev said then, as he told
the 21st Communist Party
congress this week, that the
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JANUARY 29, 1890
The Portland 8c Vancouv
er Railroad company today
sent their ferry, which has
been moored at Johnson's
wharf since the freeze up,
to the Columbia to make an
attempt to break the ice up
to Vancouver. Owing to the
heavy wind storm then
prevailing, very little could
be accomplished in the way
of breaking up the ice. The
ice has been found to be
four inches thick. No one
can now -cross over to Van
couver. )
Lippmann
was passed without a filibus
ter when, but only when, the
Administration agreed to de
lete what was known as Part
III, which would have author
ized Federal intervention
against segregation in the pub
lic schools.
This distinction between
votes and schools is in prac
tice today the distinction be
tween what Congress may be
able to deal with effectively
and what it cannot now hope
to legislate about or to enforce
if it could legislate. This dis
tinction is at the core of the
Johnson compromise on the
rules about cloture to stop a
filibuster. In this compromise
the Southerners in effect
agreed not to filibuster
against legislation to protect
political rights if they re
tained the power to filibuster
against legislation about so
cial rights. Rule XXII as
amended says that legislation
may be killed by filibuster if
the whole .South is united
against the legislation.
npHE EXISTENCE of this dis
tinction has now been
confirmed as the working rule
both by President Eisenhower
and Sen. Lyndon Johnson. The
President did this at the Na
tional Press Club conference
on Wednesday, January 14th.
He was asked this question:
"In 1957 Congress passed at
your suggestion a civil rights
bill dealing largely with vot
ing. Do you think the Con
gress should pass civil rights
legislation dealing specifical
ly with problems arising from
school segregation?" The Pres
ident replied, "I think when
we get into the field of law
here we must be very careful.
I do believe in the law con
cerning voting . . ."
A few days later, Sen. John
son introduced his program
to protect civil rights. It is a
bill to extend the life of the
Civil Rights Commission, to
do something about the bomb
ings in the Southern states, to
set up a mediation and con
ciliation service in racial con
flicts and to give the Attorney
General subpoena powers un
der the voting rights law. On
the central - distinction be
tween voting rights and school
desegregation, the President
and Sen. Johnson are agreed
in principle.
THIS, then, is for the time
being, the way forward to
use the Federal power to en
able . qualified Negroes to,
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Signs Mount That They Mean It
end for capitalism will come
through economic warfare.
Had these warnings been
heeded, there might have been
less surprise when the Soviets:
-Built a steel mill for India
-Set up a 100 million dollar
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Burns' Anniversary '
To the Editor: We can no
longer participate in watch
ing television but "monie a
canty day (John) we've had
wi'ane anither," so we helped
celebrate Robert Burns' birth
day by reading the writings
of that man Ingersoll said
gave in four lines all the
philosophy of life:
"To make a happy fire
side clime.
For we'ans and wife
'' Is the true pathos
And sublime of human
life." .
We read on Burns' birth
day some notes from an un
published lecture by R. G.
Ingersoll on Robert Burns.
Mr. Ingersoll closed his notes
with the following poem he
composed while visiting the
"little clay house" where Rob
ert Burns was born 200 years
ago, Jan. 26:
Though Scotland boasts a
thousand names,
Of patriot, king and peer,
The noblest, grandest of them
all, '
Was loved and cradled here.
Here lived the gentle pleasant
prince, The loving cotter-king,
Compared with whom the
greatest lord
Is but a titled thing.
'Tis but a cot roofed in with
straw,
A hovel made of clay;
One door shuts out the snow
and storm,
One window greets the day;
And yet I stand within this
room,
And hold all thrones in
' scorn;
For here beneath this lowly
thatch,
Love's sweetest bard was
born.
Within this hallowed hut I
feel
Like one who clasps a
shrine,
When the glad lips at last
have touched
The something deemed di
vine. And here the world through
all the years,
As long as day returns,
The tribute of its love and
tears,
Will pay to Robert Burns.
Charity R. Sander,
408 Oak Grove rd.,
Medford.
Dog Feed Dog
To the Editor: For the past
month or more, it seems to
me, Jackson county has been
going to the dogs at a fright
ening rate of speed.
It is not difficult for a lot
of us to remember back some
50 or 60 years when most
dogs were hard working and
honorable citizens of their
communities. Few dogs in
those days were considered
pets; more often they belong
ed, and were one member of
the family. A man was not
considered to be of much ac
count who would not defend
his dog with his own life,
unless the dog was proved
guilty of some skulduggery
beyond the question of doubt.
There was a time quite a
few of us can remember when
a horse was considered to be
man's best friend. Today the
horse race has literally gone
to the dogs. Case after case
of canned horse meat is serv
ed each day to pets. Shortly
there will be no more horses.
The government so far has
not seen fit to pay a subsidy
to breeder., of horses to be
used for dog food, and I know
of no one who has applied
to the legislature for relief.
I can think of but one
way to bring this doggoned
subject to a successful con
clusion: At the dog asylum
let us erect a small cannery,
and process all dispatched
canines into dog food. This
will make Mutt and Mongrel
self-supporting, and, in time,
bring the dog population into
equilibrium. Few people have
time to have their pets steri
lized, and teach them to keep
their feet on the ground, and
provide a boneyard for them.
Let us do all we can to save
the county from going com
pletely to the dogs.
, Joseph J. Hall,
Shady Cove, Ore.
vote. If this can be accom
plished, it will make a great
difference. For insofar as the
Negro people are able to vote
in the deep South, there will
be, as Sen. Johnson said,
"plenty they can do to help
themselves."
deal with Syria, including
rights to oil exploration.
-Virtually took over the
Egyptian economy with an
arms deal which gave the
Soviets first claim on Egyp
tian cotton.
Dog Rules
To the Editor: I have been
reading about the dog situa
tion and hope my views can
help. In the first place over
production is caused by mon
grel females and their off
spring. The people that have
these mongrel pups give them
to everybody and anyone just
to get rid of them, and so
on and on until the city dog
pound is full of mongrel dogs.
The owners never have them
shot for distemper or spay
them, which costs about $25
to S30.
I have no dislike for a dog
which contains many breeds,
but they are neglected be
cause they have no initial
value. Some of the best dogs
are mixed breeds. It seems
unfair to tax the people who
love and train their dogs and
let the cute puppy mongrel
go free without any tax all
summer, and then in the
winter- send him or her off
to the dog pound and be an
expense to the taxpayer. I
would like to quote a few dog
laws for dog lovers:
1. Pure bred or registered,
either sex. 2. Distemper shots
and spayed. 3. Kennel or
house dog, these dogs should
not be overtaxed and their
offspring will be an asset to
the dog world.
This is for a cute puppy
for junior and when grown
taken to the dog pound:
1. Mongrel females not vac
cinated or spayed.
2. Males which have no dis
temper shots.
. 3. Stray or lost dogs with
out tag.
These are the pests in the
dog world and should be de
stroyed or taxed so heavily
that the cute puppy lover will
not indulge.
The people who have a pup
every spring without protect
ing the animal from disease,
etc., should be barred from
ever having a dog or a pup.
The protection one gives an
animal shows faith in the per
son as an animal lover. A
good dog helps keep the home
safe and a child happy.
Leo A. Rifenbark,
1131 Pinecroft ave.,
Medford
Welcome Centennial
To the Editor: People are
anxious to celebrate the Cen
tennial year. It's an opportun
ity that comes but once in a
hundred years. Now is the
time to display and talk "good
old Oregon." I am an Oregon
pioneer and proud of itl My
parents moved to Oregon in
1878 when I was 13 years of
age. While living at Jackson
ville we made the acquaint
ance of Mrs. Madam Holt,
owner and operator of a
boarding house. In 1879 she
built the U. S. Hotel at Jack
sonville. In 1879 my parents
settled at Ashland. We lived
neighbors to Llndsey Apple
gate, one of the brothers who
located and laid out the Ap
plegate Trail.
In 1883 the courthouse at
SIMPLE
The fundamentals of
our service . . .
Understanding
Reverence
Dignity
i ft
hawk from th
FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY OR NIGHT
-Offered multi-million dol
lar trade agreements to Brazil
and Argentina.
-Were able to upset world
markets in both tin and
platinum. .
Aims Never Change
Those are only a few exam
ples of Soviet financial and
barter dealings of the last few
years. The potential for enor
mous economic power lies
within the Soviet Union. And
it is multiplied by the enor
mous potential of Soviet man
power which works for the
state, under living conditions
and rates of pay dictated by
the state.
A basic tenet for dealing
with Communist states long
has been that Communist aims
never change, while methods
may.
And so, even the idea of
economic war is not new. It
was, in fact, spelled out by
Stalin. In Stalin's last work,
published early in 1952, he
set forth a course based on
(A) "peaceful coexistence" de
signed to isolate the United
States from its allies, and (B)
a domestic policy based on
an increase of consumer goods.
Jacksonvillenow used for a
museum, was built. My broth
er, the late George W. Bran
don, hauled the lumber from
the Marsh Planing Mill at
Ashland Jacksonville to
build the courthouse.
I have written several his
torical stories of Oregon,
which are available, if need
ed in any way to help the Cen
tennial work along.
It will seem like Pioneer
Days to again see the mail
carried on horseback and go
ing fast. It will be fun to
watch them go by.
Frank S. Brandon,
211 North Ivy St.,
Medford.
Public Project
To the Editor: The problem
of the county dog pound and
everything pertaining to it is
not just a matter of whether
one likes dogs or npt. It has
assumed greater proportions
and cannot be ignored by our
public officials, both city and
county.
Of course, they have al
ways been reluctant to finance
the things that are necessary
to be done and that is why
the problem has reached the
present stage. It is useless to
increase dog licenses or to
have any tax at all if they are
not collected. The job can
not be handled by any one
man. However, increasing the
tax on both male and female
dogs is a step in the right di
rection. Dog breeders must be taxed
also. A general spaying pro
gram in cooperation with vet
erinarians must be started.
There is no nicer pet than a
spayed female especially for
children. The law that pre
vents females in heat to run
at large must be enforced. Ir
responsible people who do not
take proper care of their dogs
should be fined for cruelty to
animals. It is the starved and
abused dog that roams around
and ultimately ends up in
dog pound. The poor creatures
are not to blame, it is their
owner's fault just as negli
gent parents contribute to the
delinquency of children.
Then the taxpayers must
support them in foster homes
and in the County Detention
Home. And so the care of
abandoned dogs has become
a public project.
A. E. Bold,
North Pacific Highway,
Talent.
Courthous
PHONE SP 2-8030