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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
Fab. 10, 1949 (Thursday)
The first veterans arrive at
the Camp White domiciliary
to take up residence.
Medford City .Superintend
ent Vernon Thorpe is instruct
ed to study the flood poten
tial of the Bear creek basin
and Investigate possible pre
cautionary measures.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 10. 1939 (Friday)
Pleasant Creek Mining cor
poration's giant gold dredge
is reported nearly completed
at its location four miles from
Wimer.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
frequent snow is still called
'beautiful and several other
things, by valley populace."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 10. 1929 (Sunday)
The Fruitgrowers' league
favors a high tariff on bana
nas. The messenger boys of two
telegraph companies are to
appear in uniforms next
month.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 10, 1919 (Monday)
A crowd of 5,000 people at
the depot this morning wel
comes 103 returning soldiers.
A scarcity of labor in the
valley for orchard pruning
and spring farm work is re
ported. SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 10. 1909 (Wednesday)
Will G. Steel delivers an il
lustrated lecture at Salem in
behalf of the Crater Lake
road bill.
A bill proposed by the
Rogue River Fish Protection
association receives a favor
able committee report at the
capital.
What's Your I.Q.?
Mine or ten correct is ' superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
lis is good.
1. What sort of sea birds
flew inland and saved the
Dioneers of Utah from the
ravages of grasshoppers?
2. What is meant by a
scratched horse?
3. An anchorite is a hermit;
true or false?
4. If an individual is garru
lous, he is quarrelsome, quick
to anger, or talkative?
5. Complete the saying,
'The hand that rocks the
cradle . .
6. What is a casus belli?
7. What is the capital of
Maine?
8. Does sound travel faster
in water, or in air? .
9. Is it true, or untrue, that
a rifle bullet will not pene
trate an alligator's hide?
10. An atom of uranium has
a diameter of one-hundredth,
one millionth, or one hundred
millionth of an inch?
I. Gulls, 2. One entered then
withdrawn from a race. 3.
True. 4. Talkative. 5. "rules
the world.". 6. "Reason for
War.". 7. Augusta. 8. In water.
9. Untrue. 10. One-hundred
millionth.
The Price of Progress
We confess that it was with both shock and
dismay that we saw the trees coming down in
Hawthorne park just south of the Main street
bridge, to make way for the new bridge which
will bring Eighth street across Bear creek.
Neither shock nor dismay is justified, of
course, for the plans for the new bridge have
long since been announced, as was the route and
the necessity, and the
Eighth street, one-way
of the city s arterial street program.
1X7E KNEW it was coming, expected it, even
anticipated the freer, flow of traffic which
the development will permit.
And yet, to see the
decimation of the pretty
the bridge was to become slightly sick.
f-M , .1 met
sometimes tne price
pretty high. This is one
And the far greater destruction to be done
when the wide freeway sweeps along the western
edge of the park will be
IT IS things such as this
necessary, even when
that give us our f urn conviction that the city and
the country, in cooperation with the state, must
at all costs salvage what can be salvaged of na
tural beauty before it is all gone; must expand
and develop our park and recreational resources ;
must recognize that one of the chief reasons why
the Rogue valley is a delightful home is just be
cause of the natural beauties with which we have
all become so familiar.
The city has a planning commission, a parks
and recreation commission and a street tree com
mittee; the . county has a planning commission
and is in the process of organizing a parks and
recreation commission.
Their services are needed now as never be
fore, and will become more so in the future.
But they cannot function and serve us as they
should unless they have the cooperation and the
support of the people of the community, city and
county alike. E.A.
. Roxy Ann Again
The action of the Medford Welcome Wagon
club, in offering to join
agencies in doing what
Prescott park on Roxy Ann butte a more attrac
tive affair, brings this subject up again.
Prescott park has been kicked around for
k. T I .1 . 1
years, jno agency 01 government nas yet received
a sumcient stimulus to do much ot anything about
it and yet the park has one of the finest poten
tials of any piece of real estate in the west.
HAVE a hunch that if only two obstacles
were cleared away, the park's popularity
would zoom, and the people using it would prove
that it merits fuller attention.
The first is a better
ably with a hard surface. The second is the re
moval of the poison oak which now scares off
many potential picnickers and sight-seers. Both
steps are feasible, and the expense would not
be prohibitive.
With the welcome attention being given to
parks and recreational development by both city
and county (see above), we would like to see
these two agencies of government get their heads
together to work out a plan, perhaps a coopera
tive one, by which this exceedingly valuable, re
source could be developed as it should be. They
would be assisted in doing so if groups and or
ganizations of the valley; and interested citizens,
let it be known they favor such a move. E.A. -
Who's
Rain, snow, sleet, hail any form of precipi
tation when accompanied by cold, sloppy
weather can be disagreeable.
But under the circumstances this year, we
hope that there will be more, although we'd
be just as happy if it stayed in the mountains.
. For the snow cover in the hills is far below
average for this time of year, and it is upon this
snow cover that we depend for irrigation water
during the irrigating season of April to Sep
tember. AT LEAST we think it is.
" We've been a bit confused, lately, by the
sometimes conflicting forecasts of water supplies
issued by the U.S. soil conservation service and
allied agencies, on the one hand, and the U.S.
weather bureau, on the other.
t In last Sunday's Mail Tribune there was a
story quoting the two agencies. The soil conserva
tion service predicted a "short supply" of irriga
tion water for the coming summer. The weather
bureau said the supplies would range from
"above" to "much above" the 15-year average.
THE PRINCIPAL difference, seems to be that
the SCS bases its forecasts on snow surveys
taken in the mountains, and that the weather
bureau bases its on a rather more complicated
formula which takes into consideration not only
snow supplies and water content, but also
ground-water supplies which carry over from one
year to another.
Who s right We don t know.
But with two governmental agencies spending
public funds to duplicate each other's services, it's
about time someone found out. The forecasts are
too important to be the subject of intergovern
mental friction and pride. E.At
fact that the extension of
across the bridge, is part
arboreal carnage and the
little park area south of
01 progress comes
of those times.
an even higher price.
expected and probably
essentially destructive
with other groups and
can be done to make
road up the hill, prefer
Right?
Dennis the
'Al?. Wilson's car MeGorsomHiH'AfjflVixm lUBFei
HB CALLS it a CltTCfff
Matter of Fact
THE CASE OF
HENRY LABOUISSE
Washington - Henry La-
bouisse is a genial, unassum
ing. deceptively ordinary-
seeming man
who belongs
to a very spe
cial category
the category
of Americans
to whom ev
ery citizen of
this Republic
ought to feel
personally in-
4ns-Db AlsoD UCDiea.
In the earliest stages of his
career, in the Foreign Service,
and for a time in the Foreign
Aid Administration, he turned
in a most notable perform
ance; but it was not this which
created the debt each one of
us owes to him. The debt be
gan to be incurred when La
bouisse accepted one of the
most difficult and heart-rend
ing posts in the world today,
the Directorship of the United
Nations Relief Agency for the
tragic Arab refugees from
Palestine.
There was no need for La
bouisse to leave everything
friendly and familiar, and go
to the Middle East with his
beautiful and brilliant wife,
the former Eve Curie. By any
ordinary standard, the ap
pointment Labouisse accepted
was both repellent and terri
fying. rpHE MILLION uprooted
Arabs who are condemned
to the grim, death-in-life of
the refugee camps were then
suffering from extreme mass
neurosis. Their resentment
against the world's injustice
was too bitter; their suspicions
were too inflamed. They
would begin one of their
wolfish riots on almost any
pretext. The refugee problem
was in fact a gigantic ulcer,
on the very point of bursting
with unforeseeable conse
quences. When Henry Labouisse
took over, it was, physically
dangerous for the U.N. per
sonnel to enter some of the
refugee camps. As an Amer
ican, a Representative of the
nation held responsible for
sponsoring the Palestine par
tition, Labouisse was under
extra suspicion. Yet by tact
and humor and cool courage,
by wonderful impro vising
from small resources, by
model administration under
the worst conditions, and
above all, by back-breaking,
unending, gruelling hard
work, Labouisse won the day.
HE COULD NOT cure the
ulcer that is the refugee
problem. No one could do
that. But he won the confi
dence and even the affection
of these tragic people. He im
proved conditions in the ter
rible camps in many different
ways. He reduced the inflam
mation of the ulcer, by these
means, to a point that was no
longer acutely dangerous.
And all this he did without
any great increase of the nig
gardly pittance of a few cents
per person per day that the
United States and the other
contributing nations gave to
the U.N. for refugee-care.
Such, then, was the achieve
ment of Henry Labouisse
when he came home at last
some months ago. Such, then,
was the man whom Deputy
Secretary of State Douglas
Dillon requested to take over
the International Cooperation
Administration, when Dillon
learned that the foreign aid
job was about to be vacated
by James H. Smith.
The foreign aid job is no
toriously the hardest major
post to fill in the government
today; and it was something
of a sacrifice on Labouisse's
part to agree to leave his well
earned retirement for this
new post. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and the
whole State Department high
command were enthusiastic
for the appointment. La
bouisse's name went to the
White House with the highest
recommendations.
Menace
Bv Joseph Alsop
A T THE White House, how-
x- ever, the nomination ran,
head-on, into the peculiar sit
uation created by President
Eisenhower's positive detesta
tion of his secondary role as
leader of . the Republican
Party. Despite his semi-annual
exhortations to the party
rank and file to get out and
work, the President notorious
ly avoids the normal political
tasks of his office. But in or
der to justify this avoidance
and to control the party of
ficials, the President has done
something that his most po
litically active predecessors
never did. He has given the
Republican National Commit
tee and its Chairman, Meade
Alcorn, a right of veto over
all appointments.
Alcorn's files of job-seekers
of course contain no remotely
suitable candidate for the for
eign aid job. A score of men
were begged to take the job
and refused it, before James
H. Smith was finally induced
to serve. And above all offi
cials, the foreign aid chief
needs to enjoy bi-partisan con
fidence on Capitol Hill.
Despite these important
considerations, Alcorn furious
ly vetoed the Labouisse ap
pointment on the sole ground
that the wholly a-political La
bouisse was not a Republican.
The President, despite his re
peatedly professed enthusi
asm for the foreign aid pro
gram, has been too remote
from the struggle, too little
interested in the problem, too
busy quail - shooting with
George Humphrey, to bother
to over-rule the National
Committee Chairman. When
you recall the great public
servants Harry S. Truman re
cruited 'from Republican
ranks, it seems a little odd to
see the Eisenhower crusaders
enforcing the crudest rules of
old-fashioned pork-and-patron-age
politics, with certain det
riment to the public service
of the United States.
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Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Flation-In and De
To the Editor: At the end of
the first world war, I returned
from France on the S. S. Hav
erford. When I got on the
boat, I had three silver dol
lars, a five franc piece and
my rabbit's foot. The first
thing I did was to buy an ap
ple pie for $2 and I sat right
down and ate the whole pie.
That is inflation. When we
hit the ocean, I got sick and
lost the pie. That is deflation.
Today I still have the five
franc piece, one silver dollar
and my rabbit's foot. The
franc is worthless, the Amer
ican silver dollar is worth 48
cents, and is still going down.
If the Democrats and the Re
publicans don't quit spending
so much, plenty soon have
only rabbit foot.
Everett Acklin.
Ashland.
An Appeal
To the editor: I would like
to bring to the attention of
the many readers of the Mail
Tribune that there is an old
man living in Jacksonville by
the name of Tom Bornstin
(South Third St., Jackson
ville ) who has lived here
most of his life and is now
about to be sold out for taxes.
He has a one-room cabin and
is too old to work. But this
is his home and he would not
like to lose it. The amount
he needs is $33. Won't some
one donate this amount or
part of it, so his taxes will
be paid?
Mrs. N. Hollis, -112
West California st.
Jacksonville.
Who Is Khrushchev Kidding About
This Business of Trusting' the Russians?
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Either Soviet Premier Ni
kita Khrushchev has a short
memory or he believes the
Western pow
ers have.
One of his
J C?? favorite
j"f thenies when
fe jl 1 he accuses the
West of pro
wl o t i n g the
cold war is
the need for
trust among
nations. He is
LY
fiui xsewsom
also fond of citing homely
little Russian parables to il
lustrate his points.
In that vein then, we may
say that the moment he has
donned grandmother's cap,
pulled the covers up high and
is running through the little
Red Riding Hood and the wolf
routine as regards Berlin.
All that is necessary to set
tle the Berlin problem, he
says, is for the Western Allies
to have trust in Communist
good faith. With faith, his
story goes, the Allies can
abandon West Berlin with per
fect confidence that it will re
main a free symbol of the cap
italistic world 110 miles in
side Communist territory.
Cites Examples
Western trade routes to Ber
lin will be guaranteed but
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
CHANGE POSSIBLE
Washington A quiet but
vital change in emphasis in
American foreign policy is in
T t h e making
should the
Soviet Union
become wise
enough to put
an end to its
-i s i n i ster off-
J again-on-again
attitude of al
ternating ap
n p 1 and
White threat to the
West.
All but one of the pre-con
ditions now exist for a shift
on 'our part to an essentially
economic from a basically
military diplomacy in the
cold war.
The one missing pre-condition
is a demonstrated wil
lingness by the Russians
themselves to cooperate in
what they have long claimed
passionately to desire-an im
provement of world trade as
a step in easing World ten
sions.
The coming mission to
Moscow of Harold Macmillan,
the British Prime Minister, is
the most visible of current
proofs that the West is ready
to do this kind of honorable
business. Mr. Macmillan is,
at bottom, an economic-bal
ance politician rather than a
military balance-of-power pol
itician.
XTO less important is this
less obvious fact: the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee has now come under
a leader. Sen. J. William Ful
bright of Arkansas, who also
deeply believes in economic
as distinguished from mili
tary solutions to world prob
lems. Mr. Fulbright is an aid-and-trade
man far more than
a military-alliance man. He
is an authentic symbol of the
very old-fashioned Southern
Democratic doctrine that
made the party strongly for
free trade more than a cen
tury ago.
It so happens that the at
mosphere in the Foreign Re
lations Committee at the top
will now be very similar to
the atmosphere at the top
among our closest allies, the
British.
This is the factor of cru
cial and central importance
in Senator Fulbright'i ascent
to the chairmanship of the
Foreign Relations Commit
tee on the resignation from
the post of the aged Sen.
Theodore Francis-Green of
Rhode Island.
Of comparatively little im
portance is the circumstances
that Mr. Fulbright has been a
persistent and at times a bit
ter critic of Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
Many have not too well un
derstood the nature of the
Fulbright-Dulles relationship.
rIS quite true that these
two vastly different men
have not at all liked each
other. But this is most of all
simplv because Fulbright be
lieves that trade and aid have
been played down far too
much by Mr. Dulles in favor
of military facts and military
assistance.
Thus it is a great deal too
dramatic to suppose, as many
do, that we are in for a klieg
lit collision in which a man
of new power, Fulbright, will
be cuffing Secretary Dulles
about the head and giving
him various quick and sim
ple marching orders.
What will, in fact, more
likelyt happen is interesting
there will be no need for mili
tary supplies since there will
be no Western troops there.
Simultaneously these ex
amples of Communist "good
faith" occur or are disclosed:
In Washington, the State
Department released tape r&
cordings which tell in Rus
sian fighter pilots' own words
how an unarmed U.S. trans
port was shot down over Rus
sian territory with 17 men
aboard, 11 of them still unac
counted for.
The recordings proved the
Communists lied when they
denied that they shot the
plane down. They proved that
Soviet Deputy Premier Anas
tas Mikoyan also lied when
he repeated the denial during
his recent visit to Washington.
At Geneva, the Communist
delegate to the conference
seeking to ban nuclear weap
ons tests disclosed the Rus
sians made major gains in the
perfection of their atomic
weapons as result of tests last
October. -
These tests occurred after
both the United States and
Britain had announced cessa
tion of tests and at a time
when the Russians themselves
were demanding a permanent
ban.
Further on the matter of
trust:
The West insists that in-
S. WHITE
enough in itself. The strong
probability is that-if the Rus
sians will be sensible enough
to allow it-we shall see these
developments: '
1. A slow but important
rise in American economic,
as opposed to strictly mili
tary, aid to allies; and a
marked stepping up of econ
omic assistance to neutrals.
2. An increased Senate in
terest in, and concern for,
the development of more in
ternational credit.
3. A steady relaxation in
restrictions upon world trade,
even directly with the Soviet-
Red Chinese bloc, assuming
the Kremlin is in .any way
really prepared to make this
kind of trade decently possi
ble, t
A LL this will not be accom-
companied, however, by
any weakening of America's
military strength, so far as
the controlling Congressional
Democrats are concerned. On
the separated issue - of the
President's domestic military
budget they will continue to
demand more rather than
less.
And all this will represent
not merely the influence of
Fulbright himself, significant
though it will be. For the
fact is that in nearly the
whole of the Democratic par
ty in the Senate there is a
long pent-up desire to try the
trade-and-aid way to a de
gree it has not yet been tried.
On this point the most con
servative Democratic lions
are quite willing to lie down
with the most liveral Demo
cratic lambs as a consider
able number of powerful Re
publicans. '
In the realities of political
power Mr. Dulles will bend
to these facts of life, whether
he really wants to or not.
And it is not even certain, in
all the present circumstances,
that he will be too reluctant
about it.
(Copyright, 1 9 5 9, by
United Feature Synficaie,
Inc.
Editorial
Comment
SOC'S FUTURE
A definite outline of the fu
ture of Southern Oregon col
lege, which before the end of
the next decade could become
Southern Oregon State uni
versity, was presented last
week by Dr. Elmo N. Steven
son, president of SOC.
Dr. Stevenson's predictions
are based upon census re
ports, school enrollment, data
and established trends of stu
dents to seek higher educa
tion. Here are highlights of his
report:
Physical expansion of SOC
will continue;
The campuswillbe en
larged to cover 112 acres;
By 1970, the building pro
gram will require more than
a dozen new buildings for col
lege purposes and a nine-unit
dormitory for students living
on the campus; ,
Enrollment by 1961 will
reach 2.000 students;
By 1970, enrollment will be ,
at a minimum of 4,500 with a I
nrobable maximum of 7.000. I
The population of Ashland
will increase by 1970 to 20,000
and the faculty at SOC will
nearly triple in number.
These are figures most en
couraging to the future
growth of SOC and Ashland,
but they will not materialize
spection teams to check on
possible violations are essen
tial to any agreement to a
permanent ban on weapons
tests. The Russians agree in
principle but are equally in
sistent that any such teams in
Russian territory be manned
by their own people.
To do otherwise, they say,
would be to open Russia to a
vast Western spy network.
This is Soviet trust.
The East Germans also are
in on the act.
Release Americans -
Last week they released
five Americans they had held
prisoner and then promoted
the act as proof of the reason
able attitude they would main
tain once they took over con
trol of the communications
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written in San Fran
cisco, where the California
Newspaper Publishers associa
tion is holding its 71st annual
convention. These conven
tions are held alternately in
the North and in the South.
This is the North's year. 1
The association includes in
its membership both weekly
and daily newspapers. Here
again there is alternation.
One year a weekly publisher
is president. The next year it
must be a daily publisher.
One year the president must
come from the North. The
next year he must be from
the South.
In choosing the member
ship of the board of directors,
the same system of alterna
tion and division prevails. For
each weekly member of the
board, there must be a daily
member. For each- member
from the North there must be
a member from the South.
And so on.
A SOMEWHAT complicated
system?
The answer is yes.
TOO complicated?
The answer to that must be
NO. The California Newspa
per Publishers association is
not only one of the largest in
the United States, it is also
one of the most effective. Its
standards are high. Interest of
unless the college administra
tion has full support of the
community.
In outlining the growth
ahead, Dr. Stevenson pointed
out that Southern Oregon is
one of the most desirable
areas in the west for good liv
ing; that it is in the heart of
a vast recreational area and
Californians are already mov
ing here to enjoy the many
advantages.
A factor which is resulting
m increased college enroll
ments is the requirement in so
many businesses today for col
lege educations. Young men
and women who formerly
could get satisfactory work
with a high school diploma
now find that they must have
a college degree. This trend
will increase, believes Dr.
Stevenson.
With the growth of the col
lege, there will come prob
lems for Ashland as well.
While additional dormitory
facilities will provide for on
campus living, hundreds of
students will commute each
day. Student cars will have to
have space for parking and
this will be one of the prob
lems which college and city
will have to work together to
solve.
It is time for all of us to
recognize that Southern Ore
gon college is our biggest sin
gle asset and around it we
have the opportunity for sub
stantial, wholesome growth
for the entire community. -Ashland
Tidings.
Counsel With . .
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route to West Berlin.
One of the prisoners, Sgt,
Kenneth G. Carlson of San
Leandro, Calif., had been in
terrogated 69 days simply be
cause he boarded a wrong-way
train which carried him into
the Eastern zone.
Last week also, the Russians
finally permitted a four-truck
U.S. convoy to proceed after
holding it 56 hours at the
Helmsteds check point. It wa
a blatant warning to the West
of what can happen at any
time to the Berlin supply
routes. .
Certainly, it must be admit
ted that neither the West Ber
lin situation . nor a divided
Germany can exist forever. A
new approach must be found.
But it doesn't seem that it can
come through faith.
the members in their associa
tion and in their profession is
keen. The sectionalism that
rules California - which is
sharply reflected in its news
paper association-results in
heightened professional com
petition rather than in mere
destructive rivalry.
TiHAT, I think, is true of
California as a whole. Its
sectionalism tends to promote
constructive competition. That
is interesting because Ore
gon's economy is also tending
to divide on North and South
lines-perhaps because in the
North the rivers of Oregon
flow generally northward and
in the South they flow gen
erally southward. In these
modern days, water is an im
mensely important factor.
- All in all, it seems probable
that Oregon's present tenden
cy to divide at about . the
point where its waters begin
to flow in different directions
will prove to be healthy and
stimulating. The rivalry be
tween North and South cer
tainly hasn't done California
any harm.
ANE of this convention's
" most interesting sessions
was a panel discussion enti
tled "The Newspaper of
1970." The panel included
three newspaper editors (one
from Los Angeles and two
from intermediate-size cities)
and a sociologist.
The consensus was that the
newspaper of a decade hence
will be smaller in format
that is, its pages will be nar
rower and shorter, so that it
will be physically easier to
manage. The type will be larg
er and easier to read. More
of its advertisements will be
produced by photographic
processes. In content, the
newspapers of tomorrow will
tend less toward pure enter
tainment and more toward in
formation. ,
That is to say, the newspa
per's basic function is to IN
FORM. Its basic raw mate
rial is the NEWS. There will
be more interpretive writing
meaning less what, when and
where and more WHY. There
will be less repetition in run
ning stories-meaning that in
stories that have continuing
developments over a period of
several days there will be less
tendencey to bore the reader
by going back every day and
summing up what had hap
pened previously.
OLD-FASHIONED APPROA
London -(UPD- British Over
seas Airways Corp. is using an
old-fashioned approach to a
jet age problem. It has issued
earmuffs to members of its
London Airport staff and ear
plugs to men working near
jet engines.
Area of Rhode Island, the
smallest state, is only about
1,000 square miles.
TWO FAMOUS ADDRESSES
Countless students remember
the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS of
Lincoln and scores of satisfied
insured remember this address,
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
If you're interested in the many
new types of insurance recent
ly introduced visit that second
iddress.
Bill Fish
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