4 Monday, February 2, 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
Feb. 2. 1949 (Wednesday)
The bureau of reclamation,
the national park service, and
the fish and wildlife service
in collaboration with state
and local interests plan to
conduct Rogue River basin
studies.
John L. Kraus, 22-year-old
flyer, is rescued after crash
landing and spending six cold
days by Little Fish lake.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2, 1939 (Thursday)
. For the first three days of
this week, not a single case
has been brought into Med
ford justice court, which is
something of a record.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
legislature is seeking a 'pain
less tax' method. This is what
the dentist alleges, before he
gets hold of the tooth.'
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2r 1929 (Saturday)
The groundhog sees his
shadow, and six weeks of bad
weather are predicted.
Vic Meyers (lieutenant gov
ernor of Washington) and his
orchestra are to play at the
Legion dance here tonight.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2. 1919 (Sunday)
The groundhog fails to see
his shadow, and according to
tradition winter is over.
Dr. B. R. Elliott returns
from Army service with
plans to practice dentistry
here.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2. 1909 (Tuesday)
The Citizens Telephone
company asks the Medford
city council for a franchise.
High winds blow down 11
houses in Ashland.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Who is known as "The
Father of Pennsylvania"?
2. Brazil is the only country
in Latin-America whore cof
fee Li crown: true or false.?
3. The summer resort play
ground of the New York City
area, known as Coney Island,
is on what island?
4. Who wrote, "Early to
bed. early to rise, makes a
man healthy, wealthy and
wise"?
5. Correct 'the following: "I
contemplate going to the mov
ies today."
6. The official language of
Brazil is French, Spanish or
Portugese?
7. In the nursery rhyme,
what did the knave of Hearts
do?
8. Does the name Laurita
Melchoir suggest to you mus
ic, politics, or religion?
9. What is the name of the
bird used by the Chinese fish
erman to catch fish?
10. Of what Nova Scotian
city is Haligonian a term for
the natives?
Answers: 1. William Penn.
2. False. 3. Long Island. 4.
Benjamin Franklin. 5. "I am
going . . " 6. Portugese. 7.
Stole larisv 8. Music. 9. Cor
morant. 10. Halifax.
RELIGIOUS LEADER DIES
New York - l?D - The Rev
Dr. Jonah B. Wise, 77, a lead
er of Reformed Judaism, died
Sunday night at Doctors hos
pital after a short illness.
Student Loans
Congress is expected to receive very shortly a sup
plemental appropriations bill asking, among other
funds, an additional $25 million for college student
loans, S4Vi million for more graduate fellowships, and
an additional $37 million for purchase of equipment to
improve science, mathematics, and foreign language
instruction. Some 1200 universities will soon receive
their share of the $8 million thus far appropriated for
the student loan fund.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958
is proving more popular with students than .had
been expected and f or different reasons at the
same time surprisingly unpopular with college
and university teachers and administrators.
Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Ed
ucation, and Welfare, on Jan. 26 said that colleges
and universities had requested close to $62 mil
lion for the first year of the student loan program.
That would be double the $31 million authorized.
So far only $6 million has been appropriated.
The college must put up $1 for every federal
$9 received for the student loan program. A stu
dent may borrow up to $1,000 an academic year
on his signature up to a limit of $5,000 for the
college career.
The borrower starts repaying the loan one
year after he or she stops attending college on a
full-time basis. The repayment period is 10 years,
and the interest rate is 3 per cent levied only after
repayment begins.
1XTHAT IS generating a considerable amount
of heat on the campuses is a little-noticed
provision requiring a disclaimer of subversive
activities. Proposed on the Senate floor by Karl
E. Mundt (R-S.D.), and
the loyalty requirement reads:
No . . . funds . . . shall be used to make payments
or loans to any individual unless such individual has
executed and filed with the Commissioner (of Educa
tion) an affidavit that he does not believe in, and is
not a member of and does not support any organiza
tion that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the
United States government by force or violence or by
any illegal or unconstitutional methods . . .
Dr. Hugh Borton, president of Haverford, on
Jan. 22 announced that his administration felt
that to file the disclaimer would be "tantamount
to signing away one's right to freedom of thought
as well as endorsing a government action which
makes the individual's opportunity for education
contingent upon his personal beliefs." Haverford
will refuse to participate in the program until
the disclaimer is removed, but will make loans
to students at comparable rates.
Also refusing to participate, reluctantly, is
Bryn Mawr. Swarthmore, like Haverford a Penn
sylvania Quaker institution while also protesting,
has announced no decision on participation. Com
plaints were lodged the same day in a joint state
ment by the presidents of Bates, Bowdoin, and
Colby colleges in Maine.
rN THE opening day of Congress, Rep. Frank
Thompson, Jr. (D-N.J.) introduced a bill that
has as one objective repeal of the affidavit re
quirement. Other bills sponsored by Rep. James
Roosevelt (D-Calif.) and
(R-N.J.) would eliminate
The Association of
joined the 40,000-member
of University Prof essors in protest, and individual
complaints have been addressed to Flemming by
the presidents of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and
Wisconsin, among others. Flemming himself on
Dec. 15 said that the requirement would do little
or no good, inasmuch as real subversives "have
no scruples about signing such an affidavit and
taking such an oath." E.R.R.
Good But Not Gaudy
. New American cars were selling in mid-January
at a 17 per cent higher rate than in mid-January
1958. If that increase holds for the full year
1959, it will mean new car sales this year of about
5,000,000.
This would be 10 to 12 per cent lower than
the earlier predictions of 5.5 million and also
than the average of the last 10 years. In the latter
part of January the Buick plant at Flint, Mich.,
laid off 2,000 workers, to "gear output more
closely to sales." All the same, 5,000,000 new
car sales for 1959 would be well above the total
for two years in the last ten (1952 and 1958).
The production figures pretty well bear out
the evidence from the sales. In the first 24 days of
1959 only 9 per cent more cars were produced
than in the similar period of 1958. .
UOWEVER, the Chrysler Corporation makes
were slowed down by parts shortages due to
strikes among suppliers. Omitting the Chrysler
figures, production was 12 per cent higher than
in the corresponding period last year.
It's a kind of vicious circle, the relationship
of the auto industry to the whole "economy. So
many industries are tied in with autos notably
steel, rubber, glass, upholstery that the economy
bogs down when autos bog down. Conversely,
auto sales begin to fall off when the national
economy does.
Be all that as it may, a 17 per cent increase
over last year in cars, helping out steel, rubber,
glass and upholstery, must be considered good
even if not quite gaudy. E.R.R.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Singapore - (UPD - One aged
man and two elderly women
were trampled to death in a
week end stampede to collect
Chinese new year money
packets from a Chinese temple
outside the city..
adopted by voice vote,
Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.
the disclaimer.
American Colleges has
American Association
TOMBSTONE BEER MUG
Sandridge, Eng. -(OPfl-Bert
Gudgeon, a pub keeper who
died in December, will get his
wish, his widow said today.
A half-pint glass beer mug
will be incorporated into his
tombstone.
Dennis the
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'See? itM&Slike plastic. 6ut rrs called cgr
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
NIXON & ROCKEFELLER
Washington - Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon's
friends have no doubt what
ever that Gov
ernor Nelson
Rockefeller of
New York is
already run
ning at full
gallop for the
1960 Presi
dential nom
ination as a
Nixon rival.
They con
cede privately that Rockefel
ler will undoubtedly be able
to "lock up" New York state's
huge delegation to the Re
publican National Convention.
Already, indeed, they are pri
marily concerned simply with
limiting Rockefeller forays for
convention delegates to the
East.
The Nixon people now be
lieve, for example, that they
can largely halt the Rocke
feller delegate - gathering
movement in the East at the
New York state line. They
feel confident that Nixon will
do extremely well in Pennsyl
vania, at least fairly well in
New Jersey and not badly in
other nearby ' states such as
Connecticut.
THEY are, however, in a
mood of complete realism.
They see the Rockefeller chal
lenge as serious at best. And
they do not deny that it could
become a massive challenge in
some circumstances.
Nixon's long and amiable
talk the other day in New
York City with former Gov
ernor Thomas E. Dewey-and
it will be followed by others
should not be read to mean
that Dewey will be for Nixon
in 1960. The Nixon people
assume that eventually
Dewey's still-considerable in
fluence within the GOP will
be cast on Rockefeller's side.
Dewey has strong profession
al and personal connections
with New York banking in
terests that are close to Rocke
feller. And in committing himself
to the "anti-spending" line of
the Eisenhower Administra
tion, the vice president has
knowingly taken a big risk.
His advisers are aware that
this could tend to link him in
the public mind closely with
the Old Guard wing of the
party. The fact that this would
not be an accurate linking is
one thing; the fact that it
could be damaging, all the
same, is another thing.
Indeed, Nixon associates,
in their private previews of
the probable nature of the
pre-convention Nixon-Rockefeller
struggle for the nomin
ation, see these as the prin
cipal factors:
...
ROCKEFELLER'S great ad
. vantage is that his is a
"new" face. The Nixon face
is not only "controversial"; it
has also been familiar for a
decade now. The Governor,
moreover, has the more read
ily pleasing personality.
Whether or not he is himself
an adept practical politician,
he has already shown skill in
picking highly practical poli
ticians as his lieutenants at
key points.
Too, the Governor will not
have to face up to so many
hot national issues as will
Nixon between now and 1960.
But if the Vice President
is in danger of being classi
fied as too far to the right,
Rockefeller is in peril of be
ing carried too far to the left
by the inevitable pressures of
New York politics.
Nixon, for example, will
support labor reform legisla
tion of a rather hard kind.
Rockefeller is seen as more
likely to wind up close to the
labor leaders. This, if it hap
pens, will do him great harm
at the convention, for GOP
conventions are largely run
by organization and not "mod
ern" Republicans.
William S.
Wbite
- " -' -
Menace
S. WHITE
FUNDAMENTALLY, though,
the chief reliance of the
Nixon forces is in Nixon's
greater experience in world
affairs - and in GOP affairs.
There is undoubtedly a wide
impression in the country that
he is "tougher" in the cold
war with the Russians than
Rockefeller would likely be.
And the Nixon people fully
expect that from among the
Republican rank and file there
will arise a growing demand
for a far stronger and more
partisan party leader than has
been seen in the Eisenhower
years. This is a bill the Vice
President unarguably could
fill. Whether Rockefeller
could or would is open to
doubt pending the taking of
asgreat deal of future evi
dence.
Many Republicans want no
more essentially amateur
party leadership. The Nixon
forces will exploit this feel
ing all the way.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
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Old Time Store People
To the Editor: The Mail Tri
bune communication letter on
Jan. 29 about Oregon's history
by Mr. Frank Brandon, 93
years young, of 211 North Ivy
St., Medford, must have been
enjoyed by many, many peo
ple . who remember C. A,
Meeker's M. M. store . Where
Woolworth's is located now.
Mr. Brandon was in charge of
all the shoes, and also the
men's furnishings for over 15
years.
Knowing Mr. and Mrs.
Brandon since 1923, I can
truthfully say they are the
kind of people who are called
"the salt of the earth." I think
all who know them will agree
with me and will also say the
Brandons have lived up to the
Golden Rule in every sense of
the word.
Here are a few more old
time store people who belong
in the same category: Mrs.
Lena Greene, Mrs. Edna Pur
sel, and Mrs. Florence Laing.
They too are living in Med
ford now. It gives me great
satisfaction and pleasure to
write this as I have worked
with every one I've men
tioned, both in Medford's late
mayor's M. M. Store, and Med
ford's Band Box, once located
at 223 East Sixth St. Everyone
mentioned have characters
above reproach, which is the
greatest of aU possessions, we
are told.
Emma Lou Carpenter
811 Sherman St.
Medford
Truth, Love, Honesty
To the Editor: As this is
the 10th letter I have written
to this paper and you have
printed, please print this.
Peace will come when each
man and woman has peace
within him self or her self,
and when we all lose our
selfishness. Fear and selfish
ness are nasty words. They
can mean trouble. Selfishness
has been in man ever since
he came on this earth, and
he was a savage and there
is still savage in man, and
today with all the crime in
this country, and costing 15
to 20 billion dollars per year,
how can we call this a coun
try a true civilization? Many
things we do are getting us
along the way but building
all kinds of war machines to
kill, and discard everywhere.
If we had only done what
Jesus Christ asked us do
when he was here we would
not have had wars for 2,000
years since he has gone. Life
Hint of 'Force' in Civil Rights Bill Center
Of Blazing Senate Battle Over Enactment
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -flJPD- The civil
rights dispute blazing up in
the Senate will center on how
much and
what kind of
federal force
proposed leg
islation could
bring to bear
on southern
communities.
Senate
sponsors of a
Democratic -Republica
n
Vie C. Wilson
civil rights
bill introduced last week are
unhappy because published
reports of their proposal
called it a force bill. Fifteen
Editorial
1
Comment
OPPORTUNITY NO ONE
SHOULD MISS
Everyone in this area
should make it a definite point
to see the Vincent van Gogh
paintings and drawings at the
Portland Art museum. They
will be here until March 1,
and the museum will be open
daily from noon to 5 p.m.,
and on Wednesday and Fri
day from noon to 10 p.m.
Anyone, whether or not he
has had art experience or
training, will appreciate the
genius that is so evident in
this collection. And it is the
chance of a lifetime, because
it is entirely possible that
never again will so many Van
Gogh paintings and drawings
be together for a showing.
They were brought from
the Steelijk museum in Am
sterdam, where they are on
permanent loan from W. W.
van Gogh, engineer son of the
artist's brother Theo. Through
the years however, it is entire
ly possible the collection may
be broken up. t
The museum staff, headed
by Dr. Max Sullivan, has done
an excellent job of arrange
ment and organization in pre.
senting the collection to the
public. Extremely well done
are the slides synchronized
with a tape recording dealing
with the life, paintings, draw
ings and writings of Van
Gogh.
It is a rare opportunity that
has been offered to the peo.
pie of this area to see so many
works of this strange genius,
who sold only one painting
in his lifetime. It is an ex
perience that no one should
miss. Oregon Journal.
is all any one has and when
that is gone that is all.
I was left an orphan at
6 years old, my mother died
then, and I lived with my
Grandma. At 7 years I was
a news kid' 5 years, and
helped to keep myself and
Grandma. She died when I
was 12 years old, then I did
have it hard. She got a pen
sion of $12 every, three
months as my Grandpa was
killed in the Civil War, so
I learned a Jot selling papers.
In the town of Millersburg,
Ohio, I sold mqre papers in
the nine saloons than any
where. So I began to study
people as a Sunday school
boy, and went to school. I
lerned the meaning of three
words and that has been my
guide and still is, Truth, Love
and Honesty.
I have made my own way
since 7 years. I learned wag
on and carriage building,
then to school, became an
architectural engineer, built
as a master builder many
fine buildings all over.
This delinquent trouble of
young people I know I have
a good remedy, or a cure that
will sure make a change and
in life. I have never known
of U. S. government doing
anything of the kind. If some
wants to ake me I will give
details. I was 81 years old
Jan. 24, 1959 and put in 67
years in the industrial world
handling many hundreds of
men, big jobs, buildings and
ship building. So I think I
have a cure for many young
people. I lived a good life, no
trouble, and if every one had
life lived as good as I there
would be no prisons in USA.
William Ross Sharp
General Delivery
Gold Hill, Ore.
AT&SF Chairman To
Resign February 28
r.hicaeo-UPD-Fred G. Gur-
ley announced Sunday night
he will retire as chairman of
the Atchison, Topeka .ana
Santa Fe Railroad Feb. 28,
but continue as a member of
the board.
The railroad made no an
nouncement of a successor to
Gurley, who is 69 and a vet
eran railroader. Gurley joined
the Santa Fe as a vice presi
dent in 1939 after 33 years
with the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad.
OPTICAL HEAD DIES
Palm Springs, Calif. - (OPT -
Channing McGregory Wells,
88, former president of the
American Optical Co., died
Sunday.
senators jointly sponsored
this legislation which has
been described as similar to
Section Three of the 1957 bill
which got through Congress
in modified form.
Section Three would have
amended - legislation enacted
in the 1860s and 1870s spe
cifically to authorize the
President to use the armed
forces to enforce a score or
more of civil rights which
variously are on the books.
This recourse to the armed
forces provoked Sen. Richard
B. Russell in July, 1957, to
an attack on . the legislation
which led to its very substan
tial modification. The 1957
Matter of Fact
HAVE A CHASER!
Washington-A chaser is in
order, after such deluges of
Defense Department soothing
syrup. As a
j possible chas-
ser, or maybe
even as an
antidote
to all the syr
upy assur
ances that the
missile gap
really hardly
matters at all,
4os-ph Aisop consider i n e
the following true story. Not
so long ago, the appearance
in the air of the first Soviet
jet fighter, the Mig 15, was
taken in Washington almost
as a personal affront. The
Air Force view was voiced
by the late Chief of Staff,
Gen. Hoyt . Vandenberg. He
declared that the new plane
"could not be in quantity
production, although perhaps
the Soviets could turn out
five or six a month by hand
tooling." When asked for the justi
fication of this opinion, Gen.
Vandenberg angrily pointed
to the difficulties the Ameri
can Air Force was having in
producing good jet engines in
quantity. The General was
strongly supported by George
F. Kennan, the State Depart
ment's leading resident Rus
sian expert of that period
Kennan then used to say-and
believe-that "the Soviets
can't even quantity-produce
good bicycles."
IN THIS atmosphere, after
some time had passed, the
Central Intelligence Agency
came up with evidence that
the Soviets were actually
turning out 300 Mig-15s each
month - and this at a time
when the only comparable
U.S. fighter, the F-86, was
being produced at the rate
of eight per month. Natural
ly the CIA. evidence was
ridiculed by all.
Nonetheless, Paul H. Nitze
asked the C.I-A. 'to make a
theoretical deployment of So
viet Mig-15s, based on an as
sumed production rate of 303
monthly. In those days-as can
be told now-extremely high
altitude photo reconnaissance
of the Soviet Union was not
difficult. Nitze therefore ar
ranged for photo-reconnaissance
of the airfields includ
ed in the C.I.A.'s theoretical
deployment plan for the Migs.
The photographs revealed ex
actly 50 per cent more Mig
15s on the airfields than the
C.I.A. had said would -be
there. And in the end, the
Soviets built 10,000 of these
Migs that Gen. Vandenberg
had been so sure they would
have to "hand-tool."
'
THE story suggests how
grossly honest men can
undertake Soviet military-industrial
capabilities,' merely
from pride and prejudice.
But this is not the story's
only point, the truth is that
the fantastic misjudgement of
Soviet Mig-15 output was a
fairly typical performance.
As in the case of the Mig
15, the raw material brought
in by the C. I. A. has gener
ally been pretty good. But
the American government has
consistently read the raw in
telligence through the most
rose-colored spectacles. For
this reason, from the first
Soviet atomic bomb down to
the first Soviet inter-continental
missile, the American
government has regularly
been taken by surprise. The
Soviets have regularly turn
ed out new weapons sooner,
and they have regularly pro
duced them in larger quan
tities, than was forecast by
the American official esti
mates. So far as is known, there
is only one major exception
to this melancholy rule. The
Soviets designed and built
their B-52 type "Bison" bomb
er in about three years less
time than the American "na
tional estimates" allowed; but
they decided in the end not
to produce as many "Bisons"
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project was passed finally as
merely a voting rights bill
with certain trimmings but
without the all-inclusive Sec
tion Three.
Blood Would Flow
Russell startled the Senate
in 1957 with his explanation
of how the bill would author
ize a president to order the
Army, Navy and militia to
enforce integration in all
public places in the South. He
jarred his colleagues with an
unqualified warning that
blood would flow in any such
process, that concentration
camps would have to be set
up to hold the overflow from
southern jails.
By Joseph Alsop
as the American estimates
had forecast. The Eisenhower
administration i s obsessed
with this past error, which
drove even Secretary of De
fense Charles E. Wilson to or
der -an increase in B-52 pro-
auction. The "Bison " story
is constantly cited at the Pen
tagon, nowadays, to justify
the happy, happy, happy of
ficial estimates of the Soviet
missile program.
npo begin with, however, we
-1 had better thank God for
this solitary divergence into
pessimism. Without it, the
United States would have far
less of the long-range air pow
er that the President and Sec
retary of Defense Neil Mc
Elroy now swear is a com
pletely satisfactory answer to
superior Soviet power in the
longe-range missiles. More
over the pessimistic mistake
about the "Bison" program
was directly related to an
even greater mistake on the
optimistic side the Ameri
can government's gross un-der-estimation
of Soviet prog
ress with ballistic missiles,
which permitted the Kremlin
to cut down "Bison" output
in favor of IRBMs and ICBMs.
There are also two further
things that also need saying.
In the first place, the likeli-
hooa of optimistic error is
certainly greater today than
ever before, because of the
intense White House and Bud
get Bureau pressure to think
happy, happy, happy, money
saving thoughts. And in" the
second place, if errors in the
intelligence estimates are now
being made in the old way,
tney are nonetheless errors
of a wholly new character.
They no longer concern Mig
15s, solely useful for the de
fense of Soviet territory, or
even atom bombs lacking any
efficient means of delivery.
These new errors, if made,
concern weapons which can
write "finis" to the story of
this Republic and the history
of human freedoms,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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The burden of Russell's in
dictment of the 1957 proposal
was this: That the adminis
tration bill was deliberately
and craftily written for such
purposes as the forcible inte
gration of southern schools,,
hotels and swimming pools
whereas it was being pre
sented to the public as mere
ly a bill to make it possible
for eligible negroes to vote. ..
Russell will not like the
new Democratic - Republican
proposal any better than the
1957 Section Three. A Presi
dent would not need any spe
cific authority, if the new
proposal were adopted, to use
armed forces in all civil
rights matters involved. The
authority already exists, else
President Eisenhower could
not have sent federal troops
to Little Rock.
Federal Injunctioni
The nub of the new pro
posal is that it would author
ize the attorney general, after
a stipulated legal process, to
start "civil actions against
those who deprive persons of
their rights to equal protec
tion of the laws because of
race, color, reilgion or na
tional origin."
That means that the fed
eral government could seek
in federal courts injunctions
against denial of civil rights.
A president would have am
ple authority i to order the
Army to marcnxand the Navy
to sail for the enforcement
of any such injunction. That
would appear to justify term
ing the new proposal a force
bill.
It also would appear to a
sure a bitter Senate debate at
this session and an all-out test
of the new Senate rule de
signed to curb filibusters.
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