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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. 11. 1949 (Friday)
Mayor Thomas Williams of
Ashland files an . answer to
the city council's amended
complaint concerning tenure
of city officials.
Irrigation water prospects
are reported as "excellent"
by the soil conservation serv
ice. 20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 11. 1939 (Saturday)
The Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution post pone
dedication of a memorial
marker on Old Stage rd. be
cause of inclement weather.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
snow continued the past week,
and the eeneral opinion is
the time has come to break
the backbone of winter, even
if it does start ye spring
poets."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 11. 1929 (Monday)
Judge Walter H. Evans is
the main speaker for the Lin
coln Day banquet at the Med
ford hotel tonight.
- A 10 per cent tax on to
bacco is proposed at Salem.
40 YEARS AGO .
Feb. 11. 1919 (Tuesday)
" A suitcase containing 12
-auarts of liquor is taken off
.the northbound train by the
'sheriff here.
The Supreme court affirms
the previous decision in the
Sweeney vs. Jackson county
"case.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 11. 1909 (Thursday)
The Crater Lake road bill
is reported out favorably at
Salem by the House Ways
and Means committee, and a
'vote is expected tomorrow.
Editor George Ptnam's libel
"case is areued before the
state Supreme court.
What's Your I.Q.?
Xina or ten correct is superior;
' seven or eight is excellent; five or
'tix is good.
1. Which Biblical character
had a coat of many colors?
'' 2. In which of Shake-
Tspeare's plays is Shylock
character?
3. On which side is a ci
'usually milked.
- 4. How many thousand
dollar bills would there be
Tin one million dollars?
i 5. Which American college
-is named for two English sov
ereigns?
- 6. In what city is the fa-
"mous Newgate Prison?
' 7. Correct the following,
."He don't come here
any
.more.
8. What is a thespian?
I 9. In postal usage, what is
'a "nixie"?
10. What was the name of
tEsau's brother?
Answers: 1. Joseph. 2. "The
Merchant of Venice. 3. Usual
ly right. 4. One thousand. 5,
:WHliam and Mary. 6. London.
-7. "He doesn't ..." 8. An ac-
tor. 9. Dead letter. 10. Jacob
"GRANT JORDAN AID
, Amman, Jordan - (UPD -
:U.S. international develop-
'ment loan fund officials said
" Tuesday they had decided to
"grant the Amman Electric Co.
a Sl.200.000 loan for con
struction and improvement of
" power plants here.
Progress in Cuba?
Slowly, the pieces are beginning to fall in
place, and the American
an idea of what is happening, what has happened,
in Cuba.
In part, the fact that
laid at the doors of the "American press" that
is, the wire services, the news-magazines and the
large daily newspapers which .as a regular thing
make foreign coverage one of their aims.
First of all, the Batista dictatorship is showing
up to have been far worse than it was pictured.
If recently uncovered evidence is to be believed,
it was a terroristic regime, with murder, torture
and rape not at all unusual.
TTHE fact that this was not generally known is,
in part, because Batista used the weapons of
dictatorship to prevent their being known. But
the agencies of news dissemination are partly at
fault, too.
Secondly, the revolution of Fidel Castro ap
pears to be a real revolution a genuine change
in outlook and approach rather than just an
other Latin American coup d'etat, or the forcible
changing of the palace guard.
And third, the executions, despite their sum
mary nature and their lack of safeguards and
restraints, appear to have been the dispatch of
genuine criminals (albeit operating from the safe
ty of official positions) ; men .who committed re
volting atrocities in Batista's, name.
.
IT IS significant that virtually no one, even the
most severe critics of Castro and his govern
ment, have claimed that those executed were in
nocent: they have, rather, claimed that demo
cratic and judicial forms
followed.
This is a valid criticism, but of an entirely
different order. And if
tista atrocities make the
standable, even if one
approve the way they were conducted.
A correspondent whose letter appears on this
page points out that a growing accumulation of
evidence is becoming available, substantiating
the hope that the Castro
and rash as it may be, does indeed represent the
feelings of the people of Cuba.
TTHAT Castro has much to learn is apparent.
If he does learn, and turn out to be an em-
bodyment of democratic ideals, it may be at least
in part due to the experience that this district's
representative in Congress, Charles O. Porter,
has had in Latin American affairs.
His interest in Latin America is well-known,
and was used as campaign ammunition against
him in last fall's political campaign. But the
measure of his growing stature can be seen in a
letter recently addressed to him by the American
charge d'affaires in Cuba, Daniel M. Braddock,
who wrote :
"I am glad to learn from your letter that, you plan
to come again to" Cuba about February 20 and to make
a visit to Santiago. Before that time Ambassador Bon
sal will have arrived and I know he, like the rest of
us, will be very glad to see you.
"Your recent visit to Havana was most timely and
helpful in counteracting some of the anti-U.S. feeling
that was being expressed. Your report on Castro to"
Congress was so reasonable and persuasive that we
had it translated in full into Spanish and offered it to
the press, most of which published it in its entirety ...
We are encouraged by the progress so far. Fidel Castro
seems to be heeding your good counsel, and particular
ly the suggestion that he stop talking and give the
Government a chance to get down to work."
In sum: The Castro regime has yet to prove
itself a respected member of the American com
munity of nations, but the signs are beginning to
indicate it will do so. K.A.
Lent
Today, Ash Wednesday, is the beginning of
the Lenten season a period with great meaning
to members of some churches, less meaning to
others, and with few emotional connotations to
those without Christian church affiliations.
Lent in many countries is preceded by festivi
ties, marking the beginning of a period of self
sacrifice, worship, and austerity.
"Mardi Gras," the name of many of the festi
vals, is literally translated as "Fat Tuesday," or
the luesday of J?ats, when celebrants stock up,
as it were, on fatty foods prior to the 40 - day
penod of self-deprivation.
IT IS also known as Shrove Tuesday, a day for
solution or pardon for sins.
Many devout people on Ash Wednesday have
the sign of the Cross marked on their foreheads
with consecrated ashes, which traditionally come
from the burning of palm leaves left from Palm
bunday the preceding year.
Lent is a word which denves from the Anglo
Saxon "lencten" or "lenten," meaning spring. It
begins 40 days before Easter, excluding Sundays,
concluding Easter Sunday, and therefore varies in
time with when Easter is celebrated. E.A.
Something for Everyone
This is a week with a little something for
everyone the devout, the festive, the historically-minded,
the superstitious, the sentimental.
Tuesday was "Mardi Gras" or Shrove Tues
day, today is Ash Wednesday, Thursday is the
150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coln, the president who has come close to being
a secular saint in the minds of Americans, Fri
day is the first Friday-the-thirteenth of the year
(the others are in March and November), and
Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the admis
sion of Oregon to the United States, and is also
Valentine's day. E.A. -
public is starting to get
it is taking time can be
and procedures were not
one reads aright, the Ba
executions at least under
cannot condone them or
regime, inexpenenced
Begins
Dennis the
ROLLBR SKATIM ? At fflGfT?'
New Interior Head
Slates Busy Year;
Expresses His Views
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington - (CQ) -'The
chairman of the House inter
ior and insular affairs com
mittee is going to have a busy
year.
Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall
(D-Colo.), plans to schedule
early hearings on the Ha
waiian statehood bill.
He also plans to go aboard
to inspect foreign water proj
ects financed by the United
States under the foreign aid
program.
Aspinall told Congressional
Quarterly in an interview that
he thought Hawaiian state
hood has "a better chance
than it has had for many
years." As the new chairman
of the interior committee,
Aspinall said his main goal
is to avoid the legislative log
jam that stymied much legi
slation in the committee last
year. Hawaiian statehood got
caught last session, along
with the Hells Canyon and
Trinity River power projects
and the Fryingpan-Arkansas
project.
Reclamation Bills
The Coloradoan plans to
order staff studies of foreign
water projects and of all
reclamation laws passed since
1902, when the reclamation
program began. At the end of
the session.he said, he plans
to inspect several water proj
ects abroad built with, U.S.
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 11. 1857
The Free Slate Republi
can Party was formally
organized in this lerriiory
today, at a meeting held at
the Linn County Court
House in Albany. Hon.
W. T. Matlock was elected
President and L e a n d e r
Holmes Secretary of "the
Convention. A platform
calling for the admission of
Oregon as a "free state"
and the immediate con
1 1 r u c t i o n of a' trans
continental railroad was
adopted.
FEBRUARY 11. 187
Oregon's newest county,
Wallowa, was created to
day by the -state legisla
ture out of a part of the
astern portion of Union
county. The county is
bounded on the north by
Washington.. Territory,., on
the east by the Snake ri
ver, on the south by Baker
county, and on the west by
Union county. Its county
seat will be Joseph.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A CERTAIN DIPLOMAT was asked to explain the seeming
servility of his government whenever the boys in the
Kremlin showed an inclination to crack down.
"Think back," suggested
the diplomat "to the time
when Napoleon escaped
from Elba. Headlines in the
Paris press proclaimed,
'Monster Breaks Loose.'
When he landed in southern
France the same papers an
nounced, The Usurper Is
Headed Here.' The day be
fore he entered Paris, their
story- ran 'Marshal at Gates
of City, and when he actu
ally arrives, the headlines
heralded, 'Long Live Our
Emperor-King!' Do I make
myself clear, sir"'
Peter DeVries' novel,, "Mackerel Plaza," received huzzahs from
the critics, but one of them voiced an objection. "DeVries sense of
humor," he noted, "deserted him when he named his hero. What's
so funny about the name Mackerel?" The name of the critic .who
raised this point, incidentally, is Pickerel.
"-- 1359, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. j
Menace
dollars. Foreign projects are
not required to meet the same
standards to justify construc
tion as those built in this
country. Under the circum
stances, Aspinall said, "Amer
ican taxpayers are entitled to
know" whether their money
is being properly spent for
foreign water development.
He hopes to "bring up to
date, completely overhaul and
codify" all reclamation laws,
under a single statment of
policy in one statute.
Other Views
His views on legislation be
fore his Committee:
Modification of the 160
acre limitation and the 40-
year repayment schedule on
reclamation projects: He
favors continuing the 160
acre limitation "as a general
policy," relaxing it only when
a larger tract of land is neces
sary to support a family-size
farm. He does not favor a
change in the present pay-out
period of 40 years for water
and power users to reimburse
the government for the con
struction of reclamation proj
ects.
Legislation reserving cer
tain wilderness areas solely
for recreation: "The West is
generally almost unanimously
opposed to this controversial
legislation," he said. His Com
mittee will hold ' extensive
hearings on it, he promised.
Partnership
Administration "p a r t n er-
ship power" projects: He will
probably oppose them. He
favors over-all multiple-pur
pose basin development of
water resources by the fed
eral government "with no un
due enrichment to any pri
vate enterprise."
Mining: He is "hopeful'
that legislation will be enact
ed "to protect our domestic
mining industry-" But he
cautioned that the mining in
dustry-is itself divided as to
the proper solution of its
problems, and the Admini
strator has been unable to
muster enough strength in
Congress to put over any
major mining legislation in
recent years.
Indians: Any bills introduc
ed to terminate federal ward
ship over Indian tribes will
"get very careful scrutiny to
see that no injustice is done
to the tribes involved," he
said. ,
(Copyright 1959
Congressional Quarterly)
NAACP BIRTHDAY
New York -(UPD The Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
celebrates its 50th anniver
sary Thursday with meetings,
dinners and other ceremonies
across the nation.
TL JL KING
Berlin Crisis Tough One; Neither East Nor
West Can Afford Retreat; Stakes
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
The tough thing about the
Berlin situation is that neither
viet Russia nor the Western
Powers can
afford to re
treat very far.
As of now,
the Russians
i say they will
turn over to
their East Ger
man satellite
controls for
all means in
and out of Ber
tfau Aewsom
lin, including West Berlin, on
May 27. Along with this, they
demand that the 10,000 West
ern troops in Berlin be re
moved before that date and
West Berlin made a "free"
city within the Communist
zone.
There has been no sign up
to now that the Soviets have
retreated from that position,
first announced more than
two months ago.
Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles returned from
his West European confer
ences this week -and an
nounced that the Western
Powers also were determined
there would be no retreat.
It is only necessary to visit
the two sectors of Berlin to
understand the opposing posi
tions. Two Extremes
Prosperous West Berlin,
free in every respect, includ
ing freedom of speech, pre
sents the toughest problem
Communist propaganda has
had to face.
Here in a restricted space,
along a boundary sometimes
marked only by an imaginary
line running down the center
of a city street, lie examples
of the free world and the
Communist world.
Last winter this correspond
ent visited the two Berlins,
witnessing the prosperity of
the West and the poverty of
the East, seeing on the one
side the smart restaurants, the
smartly dressed people, the
luxurious shops, and on the
other, the rubble, the thinly
disguised emptiness of the
Communist - controlled shops
and the vast silence along
what was once one of the
busiest streets in Berlin,
This comparison is what the
Communists now 'want to
eliminate. -'
But there is more than that.
Symbol of Hop
To those who live behind
the Iron Curtain but who still
oppose the things for which
Communism stands, West Ber
lin remains a hope.
It is one of the few escape
routes left for those hoping
to make their way from East
to West. More than 20,000
East Berliners earn their daily
bread in West Berlin, cross
ing and recrossing the line
each day by elevated train
and on each pay day trading
in their solid West German
marks for inflated East Ger
man marks. Of those who
cross the line daily, many
elect to remain in the West
Last week more than 2,600
abandoned their homes and
other possessions for a fu
ture, which however uncer
tain, still would be better than
what they left
For the West, its position
in Berlin also has advantages
The Western message to the
imprisoned people in the East
can be directed from Berlin
better than any other place.
And for the West, Berlin is a
peephole to the East. These
are other reasons why the
Communists want the U. S.,
Birthday Assembly
Held al College
Ashland Featuring Dr.
Arthur S. Taylor, chairman of
tne social science division, as
speaker, the Southern Oregon
College Centennial assembly
was scheduled this morning.
Dr. Taylor, author of "A
Guide to the Study and Read
ing of the History of the Pa
cific Northwest," co-author of
the book, "Our Oregon, and
also of the widely-used text
book, "Our Great Northwest,"
addressed the assembly on the
topic, "Unfinished Business.
He was introduced by Dr.
Elmo Stevenson, college pres
ident.
Richard Clark, student body
president, opened the assem
bly with a short address and
the Southern Oregon College
choir, directed by Oscar C.
Bjorlie, participated.
San Francisco Opera
To Show in Portland
Portland- (UPD -The Oregon
Centennial Commission has
voted to bring the San Fran
cisco Opera to Portland over
Labor Day week end.
The Commission thus re
versed a decision of its fine
arts committee, which had
turned down a request by the
music subcommittee that the
opera be brought here.
Turkey lays claim to 4,300
residents who are 100 or more
years old out of a population
of 22 million.
SV k
France and Britain to get out
Berlin a Liability
For the West, Berlin never
will represent a military ad
vantage. Instead, it can only
be a liability. The Western
garrison there represents only
a token force against the great
Knowland
Says He'd 'Do It All Over Again'
By LYLE C. WILSON
Oakland, Calif. (UPD Bill
Knowland firmly assures all
comers that he has no regrets
over leaving
the U.S. Sen
ate to pitch a
campaign for
governor of
California on
the explosive
issue of right-to-work.
. Moreover,
Knowland
yle C. Wilson '"J eviueni-
ly means exactly that, al
though organized labor team-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More today about the Cali
fornia Newspaper Publishers
Association convention.
One of its principal speak
ers was General Alfred
Gruenther, who is now re
tired and is president of the
American Red Cross. Before
his retirement he was com
mander of NATO (North At
lantic Treaty Organization, in
case you aren't completely
up to date on your abbrevia
tions.) ,
GENERAL Gruenjher is one
of eight Americans who,
President Eisenhower said re
cently in answer to questions
at one of his news confer
ences, are qualified to be
President of the United
States.
He isn t an orator. He is
more than that. He is a fas
cinating speaker who uses
none of the tricks of the ora
tor's trade. He just TELLS
you. Listening to him, you
just BELIEVE him and let it
go at that.
You are unconsciously cer
tain he knows what he is talk
ing about and is telling it to
you as it is, with neither un
derstatement nor overstate
ment'.
Men like that carry convic
tion. .
WHAT is NATO?
" As General Gruenther
explains it, NATO is our
shield of collective security.
The days when our oceans
were our shield are dear dead
days that are gone forever. No
more can we stand behind our
oceans and defend ourselves
as General Jackson and his
deadly riflemen stood behind
their palmetto log "breast
works at Chalmette and de
fended New Orleans.
War today is a new and
deadly kind of war. It is so
deadly that it must NEVER
BE ALLOWED TO START.
Our hope of keeping that
kind of war from starting lies
in a COLLECTIVE alliance so
powerful that NO ONE will
ever dare to challenge it. Its
power must lie nor merely in
physical weapons. It must re
side also in MEN'S MINDS.
Our cause must be the cause
of freedom.
Our belief in our cause
must be such that all over the
world men who prefer death
to slavery will rally to our
banner. As Sir Launcelot said
to his comrades-in-arms: "Our
strength is as the strength of
ten because our hearts are
pure." We must say it with
such conviction that commu
nism will be afraid to attack
us.
GENERAL Gruenther didn't
say that.
He didn't in words say any
thing like that.
But he left his hearers with
the feeling that he HAD said
it. He left with them the feel
ing that it will be accom
plished. He is a remarkable man.
W1
ILL there be war?
Will Russia attack us?
General Gruenther thinks
not. Our power to retaliate is
too great. The Russians won't
take the chance. Or so he be
lieves. WHAT of their economy?
What of their tech
nology? Will they surpass ours?
ON THAT point the general
isn't utterly certain.
The Russians are in dead
earnest, he says. THEY ARE
N'T AFRAID OF WORK.
They go to school to LEARN,
he adds. Not to have fun.
Going to school, they feel, is a
great opportunity.
They go in for science. And
for foreign languages. Ten
million Russians are learning
to speak English.
They could catch up with
us, he thinks. They MIGHT
pass us.
military might around it
Conceivably in this danger
ous international gambling
game, a war could start over
Berlin. .
But it's a chance the West
must take.
To fail to no so would mean
Has No Regrets;
ed with the state Democratic
organization to lick him.
"I'd do it all over again,"
Knowland said during an in
terview in the office from
which he now supervises the
publication of the Oakland
Tribune, a solid evening news
paper. "I would do the same
thing," he continued. "I might
change some campaign details
but not that right-to-work is
sue. Some day we will have
to come to grips with the is
sue of monopoly power. Too
great a concentration of pow
er is dangerous."
Handpicked by Taft
Thirteen years in the Sen
ate preceded by a newspaper
career and service in the Cali
fornia legislature have given
Knowland some insight into
politics, government and such
matters. He was handpicked
by the late Robert A. Taft to
become Senate Republican
leader when Taft, himself,
was stricken.
Here's how some political
and governmental matters ap
pear to Knowland:
Presidential politics: As of
now Vice President Richard
M. Nixon is well in front for
the 1960 Republican nomina
tion. Political conditions are
subject to sudden change,
however, and the public opin
ion polls might cut down
Nixon as they cut down Taft
before the 1952 Republican
National convention.
Budget balancing and in
flation: The federal budget
probably will not be brought
into control and balanced so
long as foreign aid continues,
Foreign aid starts a chain re
action of spending in which
representatives and U.S. states
and subdivisions argue that
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 reserve the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Other Bloody Side
To the Editor: Having read
your editorial condemning
the open executions carried
outiby Fidel Castro's new gov
ernment against some stooges
of the Batista murder regime,
I thought perhaps you may
welcome a few bloody facts
from the other side of the
gruesome story.
It behooves-us to take heed
and profit from such spec
tacles of savergy, by prevent
ing biggness in any form from
gaining the controlling hand
here in America.
George Gerhardt,
Ashland, Ore.
Editor's note: Mr. Ger
hardt's letter enclosed two
articles from the Feb. 8, is
sue of "Our Sunday Visitor."
They can perhaps be summed
up by a paragraph or two
from one of them, which read:
"If Americans could find
some understanding of the
crimes that have been com
mitted in Cuba in the Jast year
and a half then they would
understand that the execu
tions of the murderers and
torturers are justice and not
'blood baths'.
"A priest said to me, a little
helplessly, 'But I can't un
derstand Americans. In the
U. S., when a man murders
one, then you give him a trial
and if he is found guilty you
. . . execute him. But when
a man here murders 30 or 40
and we try him and when he
is found guilty, execute him,
you accuse use of being bar
barians.' "
See editorial comment on
this, page.
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ASHLAND
We Never Close ,
Are High
to abandon to Communist re
venge the 2,000,000 West Ber-
liners who took the West at
its word. And to do so would .
mean to rewrite every U. S.
treaty which promised pro
tection to those who oppose
Communism.
if billions of dollars can be
spent abroad it should be pos
sible to spend millions at
home for their special proj
ects. The time is coming when
the federal government must
choose between those priori
ties. The new federal budget
does not appear to be actual
ly in balance. Inflation al
ready is here and could be
come deadly. If the United
States became insolvent, no
country in the world could orj
would bail out the United'
States.
Rockets and missile: If $2
billion given to Tito of Yugo
slavia had been put into the
first satellite and rocket proj--ects
the United States might
have beaten the Russians. The
same amount of money, so
spent, would have had greater
impact on America's friends,
enemies and the neutrals than
it could have as a grant to
Yugoslavia.
Governors: Nelson A. Rock
efeller, of New York, and Ed
mud G. Brown, of California,
have similar problems and
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$200 million deficits which
must be covered by taxes.
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though you can't absolutely,
foreclose a return to politics
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what may happen in politics
in four, six or eight years.
Editorial
Comment
ELEPHANT HISTORY
In Ashland earlier this
week, a grounds keeper at
Southern Oregon college
found a huge tusk when dig
ging for a leaky drainage
main.
Soon science students and
others crowded around the
hole, as an attempt was made
to get the tusk out intact. The
effort was fairly successful
but the age given the fossil
was a bit off base.
The object was identified
as the tusk of an elephant. At
first its age was estimated at
from 20 to 40 million years.
This was later lowered to a
million years.
That figure could be dras
tically cut.
There were two distinct
kinds of proboscideans on the
North American landscape.
They were the mastodons and
the true elephants, and their
remains are occasionally
found in the same formations.
The creature that left its
tusk in southern Oregon has
been identified as Elephas co
lumbi. That beast was closely
related to the mammoth. It
was a massive creature, rival
ing the largest African ele
phants of the present.
Elephants, their fossils in
dicate, were abundant in Ore
gon. There is growing proof
that they ranged over the re
gion not so long ago. The
mastodon was probably
known to early Americans
the tribes that came over the
Bering trail and spread
through the continent.
There is a possibility that
elephants were on the Oregon
scene as late as 20,000 years
ago.
Discovery of the tusk on
the SOC campus may make it
possible for the science facul
ty and students to brush up a
bit on their elephant history.
-Bend Bulletin.
6TH SET OF TWINS
Jacksonville, Fla. -(UPD-Mrs.
Law Pearson, 34, gave birth
to her sixth set of twins on
Tuesday-both boys. She has
given birth to 16 children in
19 years. Eleven are living.
Mrs. Litwiller
'It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."
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