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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. 16, 1949 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
underwrites an immediate
alley now survey by the
oil conservation service to
ascertain the flood potential.
Public and private housing
officials and bankers meet
here to discuss providing
more low-cost housing.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 16, 1939 (Thursday)
City Water Superintendent
Robert A. Duff reports the
water department's 1938 rev
enue as $140,634.70.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A 37-year-old
tree has been whack
ed down to make a 6-year-old
sidewalk level."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16. 1929 (Saturday)
The latest Rogue river fish
war stirs the fighting blood
of local sportsmen.
The Chamber of Commerce
endorses the proposed road
to Oregon Caves.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16, 1919 (Sunday)
A downpour of rain floods
southwest Medford streets
and homes.
The 65th Regiment, includ
ing many sons of Jackson
county, arrives at Camp Lew
is for final discharge.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16, 1909 (Tuesday)
The Crater Lake road bill
is reported to be a political
football at Salem.
The Portland Beavers are
invited to Medford for spring
training.
What's Your I.Q.?
' Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Name the Chief Justice
of the United States.
$ 2. Lower California is a
part of the Republic of Mex
ico; true or false?
3. Which amendment to the
U. S. Constitution authorizes
Income taxes?
4. Correct the following:
"He is a backwards pupil."
5. A sea horse is a fish,
mammal, or reptile?
6. Is tetanus another name
for diabetes, tuberculosis,
lockjaw, or arthritis?
7. Do you connect the name
Marquis of Queensbury with
the rules of auction bridge,
boxing, tennis or canasta?
8.. What is genocide?
9. Are dates produced com
mercially in the United
States?
10. Does Champagne con
tain a maximum of 4, 14, or
24 per cent alcohol?
Answers: 1. Earl Warren; 2,
True; 3. Sixteenth; 4. "He is a
backward pupil"; S. Fish; 6,
Lockjaw; 7. Boxing; 8. De
struction of a race or people;
9. Yes; 10. 14 per cent.
CHUG. CHUG, CHUG
Los Angeles (CPU Mrs,
Rose Marie Montez, 21, ex
plained to police Sunday how
she started to make a left turn
and accidentally knocked over
a fire hydrant sending a gey
ser of water 30 feet into the
air. "Suddenly the car goes
chug, chug, chug. And the
next thing I know, it was
like being under the ocean.'
Sports And Pay TV
Sports could furnish
for pay television if a
at all. Skiatron of America is readying a pay-as-you-see
plan for both San Francisco and Los
Angeles which would furnish major league base
ball via cable television by July I. The same out
fit wants to telecast college football into the same
two cities.
The use of cables would bypass regulations of
the Federal Communications Commission. The
FCC announced last July
no permission for pay TV
of the first session of the
now sitting) in order to give the law-makers ad
ditional time to study various proposals.
The Commission earlier had planned exten
sive tests of subscription television, beginning
last March 1. Pressure from the House and Sen-'
ate commerce committees, allegedly at the urging
of the major radio and
ceeded in putting the kibosh on this scheme. But
a cabled transmission would avoid broadcasting
and hence would not need FCC approval. Wired
and cabled experiments already have been con
ducted. CHAIRMAN Oren Harris (D-Ark.), of the
House Commerce Committee promises early
hearings on a measure that would prohibit ex
cept for technical tests the operation of pay TV
by wire as well as by broadcast. Before any fur
ther subscription television could be instituted,
Congress would have to set forth specifically the
terms for such operations.
Harris in discussing his measure warned that
pay television, whether by broadcast or wire,
would be likely to result in the imposition of great
financial burdens on the public without bringing
about a corresponding improvement of television
programs. However, technical tests conducted
over relatively short periods and supervised by
the FCC might yield valuable results.
A similar measure in the Senate is sponsored
by Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.), and Sen. Ken
neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), on Feb. 7 said that
Congress ought to take a close look at Skiatron's
plans for San Francisco and Los Angeles.
TTHE FCC has been much criticized for backing
gardless of the merit of pay TV it is a fact that
the Commission put off a decision on controlled
tests for seven years. Back in October, 1957, FCC
Chairman John C. Doerfer had declared:
"With respect to subscription television, I know
that many members of the broadcasting industry would
like us to kick that up into the congressional section of
the stands. However, much as Congress is welcome to
the ball, I am fearful that we would be remiss in our
duty if we delayed a decision much longer merely
upon such grounds." '
Nine bills were introduced in the 1958 Con
gress to prohibit the commission from authorizing
pay TV. The motivation
free programs, Congress
the setting of a price for what might turn out to
be the same entertainment. An overriding ad
vantage of introducing pay-as-you-see baseball
on the West Loast would be that neither city has
had free telecasts of major league games on a
regular schedule.
Much as Congress may
the law-makers so far have refused to run with
it. They just blow the whistle whenever the com
mission threatens to take command. E.R.R.
Saud Lifts Budget Curtain
Saudi Arabia will have a balanced budget this
year and is working its way back from near bank
ruptcy, if we may believe figures released at Mec
ca. King Saud's regime expects to spend the equi
valent of $261 million,
per cent, diverted to a "special budget, including
royal family expenses. 1
At the same time, $62
goes to the Ministries of
tions, Finance and National Economy, Health and
Agriculture. Saudi Arabian budgets are rarely
made public, but a study of the 1952-53 document
showed nearly 20 per cent of the country s spend
ing going to defense.
Saud is counting on
million of the total revenue of $261 million. This
appears to represent a
two years ago, when the estimated take from the
companies exploiting Saudi Arabia's oil was $290
minion.
9
IN THE Middle East only the Sultan of Kuwait
gets more money from oil concessions than
King Saud. Unlike Saud, who is noted for his per
sonal extravagances, Sultan Abdullah is a benev
olent despot, turning over two-thirds of the oil
revenues to welfare and the administration of the
sheikhdom.
Whereas the Saudi
que indicates that no large public works or 1m
provement projects are yet possible, Kuwait only
last year completed a five-year plan costing $267
million. It encompassed new schools, public hous
ing, hospitals, and a 2-million-gallon-a-day plant
to distill sea water for
the first break-through
break - through is to come
25 that it would grant
until after adjournment
86th Congress (the one
television networks, sue
is clear after years of
is reluctant to authorize
be welcome to the ball,
with U3Vo million, or 17
million, or 24 per cent,
Jiiducation, Communca
oil income for almost $212
considerable drop from
Arabian budget communi
dnniang. KR.R.
Dennis the
That's tub Mitchell kid. He's soct of
A SOUIC 30QM WITH OlRT OH IT.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
LANDON'S ADVICE
Washinenn A "Romihli.
can who took his worst lick
ing iiKe a man in tne worst
defeat ever
suffered , b y
the GOP has
salty a d v ice
for all pres
ent aspirant's
for the party's
1 9 6 0 Presi
dential nom
ination. He is A If
W2S- M. Land on,
the former governor of Kan
sas. He carried only Maine
and Vermont in 1936 as the
for
President against Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
The sum of Mr.' Landons
current counsel is that the Re
publican Congressional record
and 1960 will be
the most decisive single fac
tor in determining KepuDii
ran victorv or ReDublican de
feat in the White House race.
Madison Avenue advertis
ing slotran won t Win. JLiaD-
orate propaganda efforts by
the GOf national commmee
tn Hpvelon now narty "im
ages" for the voters to gaze
upon won t win. in tne .ban
don view, in short, no man
can successfully run for Presi
dent by repudiating what his
party has done in Congress.
THUS, it goes without say
ing that no man can win
unless that record is accept
able to the country as a
whole.
Alf Landon now lives quiet
ly in Topeka, Kansas. Long
since he has left the lime
light, by choice. But his
strongly ironic sense of hu
mor has not been damaged
by wry memories of the his
toric landslide that burned
him two decades ago. And he
keeps a sharp, skeptical eye
on the politics of today.
In a letter to this corres
pondent, from which he later
authorized me to quote, Mr.
Landon makes the point that
the most dangerous error pos
sible to the party is to. leave
the people in doubt as to
where it really stands. And
the people inevitably are left
in such doubt if an Old Guard
line is taken by Congressional
Republicans and a more lib
eral line is adopted by a GOP
Presidential candidate.
Landon says frankly, for il
lustration, that he himself had
to be "equivocal" in 1936 on
the issue of the reciprocal
trade, or tariff-lowering, pro
gram. He personaUy was in
favor of it, and the country
was, too. Still, as he puts it,
he was "tied" to the contrary
position of the Congressional
Republicans because he knew
that "no national candidate
could successfully break with
that record."
AGAIN, he goes on, in 1944
he himself "got through a
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
TTUMORIST HARRY HERSHFIELD, visiting Israel, encoun
O. tered a frail old rabbi and asked, "What is your weekly
salary here?" "Five dollars," sighed the rabbi. "How can you
live on that!" exclaimed ' '
Hershfield.
"The lucky thing," ex
plained the rabbi, "is that
I'm a very religious man. If
I didn't fast three times a
week, I'd go hungry."
A very stout, very agi-
tated lady rushed up to a
train gate at Grand Central
and gasped, "Can I still
catch the 4:30 for Boston?"
"That depends on how
fast you can run, lady," the
guard informed her. "The
train left here two minutes ago.
Heard about the poet who quit writing verse to become a crooner
on a TV show? Yes, sir, he went from bard to verse.
0 1959. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Eyadjuta.
Menace
S. WHITE
weasel-worded resolution" at
the GOP convention on recip
rocal trade which was the
best he could do but which
enabled the GOP President
ial nominee of that year,
Thomas E. Dewey, to make
only a rather cloudy appeal
on the issue.
Too, Mr. Landon continues,
WendeU Willkie, the 1940
standard bearer, could not
convince the country that the
GOP had any real firm posi
tion for the military draft be
cause Republican Congress
men were at home opposing it.
"To come down to the pres
ent," Landon concludes on a
gloomy note, "the Republican
party is tagged in the minds
of one large group of voters
as an anti-labor group, tagged
in the thinking of another
large group as an anti-farmer
party and a third large
group wonders what the Re
publican party really stands
for."
HE makes no mention of
the Eisnehower Adminis
tration. The omission is sig
nificant. It is interpreted by
this columnist to mean that
Mr. Landon assumes, as do a
large and probably a prepon
derant number of "regular"
Republicans, that the Admin
istration's final two years
will be largely discounted in
the 1960 convention and will
not have much weight in its
choice of nominee.
At aU events, if there is a
single truly expert witness
anywhere on the ways in
which a party may lose the
Presidency it is surely Alf
Landon. It is possible that the
Congressional R e p u b licans
will ignore at their peril this
old voice from Topeka.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Sound politics note:
Republicans found lessons
in the life of Lincoln the
other day (February 12) on
how to fight back from de
feat and how to support Presi
dent Eisenhower's stand for
a moderate and BALANCED
budget.
These themes were conspi
cuous in Republican oratory
at hundreds of party dinners
observing the 150th birthday
of Abraham Lincoln, first Re
publican president.
There were frequent re
minders that Lincoln came
back from defeat in the 1858
senatorial election to win the
presidency in 1860.
11THY Lincoln won:
" He BELIEVED IN HIS
CAUSE.
He wasn't just gunning for
Stop Me
Hi
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Warns About Bill
To the Editor: The sharp
impact of strikes this past
summer was a grim warning
of what is in store for people
of Oregon if House bill 360
is passed by the legislature.
This bill is still under discus
sion in the house so far as this
writer knows. If it passes
then the state of Oregon loses
all rights of hiring or keeping
on the rolls its many hun
dreds of long time loyal high
way workers, for all highway
construction work of $5,000
or more must be submitted to
contract. People should not
be misled by this $5,000 limi
tation. But they have a joker
in Sec. 3: "It is hereby de
clared the policy of the state
that work to be performed
shall not be done in lesser
amounts so as to evade the
purpose of this Act."
Such obscure wording
would imply that unions, es
pecially the ruthless team
sters, could easily hog all
highway work through threat
of strikes, especially in times
of emergency when flooding
water and winds disrupt traf
fic, possessions of people, or
their very lives.
Now all that mentions the
hiring of public employees for
road or any other construc
tion work applies to Jackson
county, whose highway em
ployees number well over a
hundred, and who will lose
their present jobs by July 1
if House "Bill 360 becomes
law, for contractors bring
along their own trained per
sonnel. We must ever bear in mind
that the contractor's price in
cludes a substantial profit
above costs. Also the work
must be engineered out and
put down in black and "white
to the last piddling detail, all
of which is tops in expense.
To this is added the expense
of an inspector and another
inspector to inspect his in
spection. All this is minor expense
to the county that has its own
engineers and other long time
workers, who see to it that
roads-are built to stay, for
they are the ones they them
selves must use. Knowledge
of widely varying soil-earth
structure is of vital impor
tance in road and bridge build
ing, all of which will go down
the drain if House Bill ' 360
becomes law.
.All this, let me remind
again, applies to every county
more or less, in the state,
every irrigation district, ev
ery school district and all cit
ies big and smaU, removing
the general public more and
still more from ' long estab
lished contact which keep
them in touch with what is
going on and is to be.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point
votes on ANY issue that at
the moment seemed most like
ly to bring them rolling in.
If the GOP will stand firm
on sound issues it believes
in as strongly as Lincoln be
lieved in preserving the Un
ion, it can win in 1960.
If it doesn't
If it goes chasing after will
o' the wisps such as promis
ing to outspend the Demo
crats It can pass out of the po
litical picture as the Whig
party did.
ODD tale in the news:
About 25,000 Russian
girls are going to be shipped
to new farming areas in the
Soviet Asian republic of Kaz
akhistan to make the Russian
boys there MIND THEIR
MANNERS, among other
things.
Soviet papers recently
printed complaints that young
males in the Kazakhistan
frontier territory were' get
ting sloppy in their dress and
manners because no young
women were around.
Hmmmmmmm.
D'ya reckon they fell?
Or were they PUSHED?
It's a fair guess that they
were given a choice under
the allegedly milder policy
of Khrushchev slave labor
in Siberia or helping the boys
in Kazakhistan to "mind their
manners." '
ANYWAY
It looks like Russian pol
icy may be changing. It used
to be the iron, hand alone.
Now it's the iron hand in the
velvet glove.
Maybe the Russian big
shots have been reading the
Ladies Home Journal and are
impressed by its famous slo
gan: Never Underestimate the
Power of a Woman.
These modern Russkies are
smart operators.
No Commercial "Courses?
To the Editor: I would like
to know why the Medford
Public school system does not
have commercial courses in
their adult evening classes.
They are offering many
courses on various subjects
but only one class in begin
ning typing.
I'm sure there are many
people who are interested in
learning business machines,
shorthand, typing, bookkeep
ing, etc., who cannot afford
the tuition for private instruc
tion. Should they be denied
an opportunity to learn a vo
cation that would provide a
livelihood while other classes
are given in profusion?
I'd like to know the reason
and I think many other peo
ple would too.
Jerry E. Howell,
2025 Sunset dr.
. Medford
Centennial Headquarters
To the Editor: When and
how will local citizens learn
that we have an attractive
Centennial Hea dquarters
building, with qualified at
tendants ready for visitors?
It is beautifully situated,
in its forest setting, and eas
ily found. '
We drove out and secured
the literature to mail to out-of-state
friends, and found
much of interest there.
It is surprising how few
residents know or seem to be
interested in visiting this
headquarters.
In answer to our inquiry,
we got one answer, "Yes, it
is on Siskiyou summit."
Perhaps this information
has been published, but
would it rate more publicity?
Also, are there highway signs
at the outskirts of town?
Signs at the northbound en
trance, and southbound en
trance would also help. By
the way, this building was
formerly the Ground Obser
ver Post on West Jackson st.
(Name on file)
Medford -
Editor's note: The Centen
nial Headquarters building is
just across from Maple Park
grove, on the county fair
grounds north of the Armory.
Visitors are always welcome.
A dedication ceremony is
planned for spring time.
Reason and Rhyme
To the Editor: The follow
ing is a little something I jot
ted down with perhaps a lit
tle more "reason" than
"rhyme:"
Now, look here, Mister! It
seems to me,
If we were meant to be
"moonfolk," that's what we
would be,
The old moon's been shin
ing for many a year
Miles away from the earth's
atmosphere.
In this age of sputniks, jets
and such
It seems to me that we'll
be in "dutch"
If we don't quit letting our
money wander,
Blowing up in the wild
blue yonder.
Better turn our tax money
to creating employment
For "down-to-earth" folks
who need some enjoyment.
If our nation, from starva
tion, is "six" feet under,"
Who'll care what's out in
the wild, blue yonder?
Mrs. Tom Robnett
2350 Meadows lane
Medford
Church It Blamed
To the Editor: Your editor
ial on what is wrong with our
Latin American neighbors
leads me to believe that you
are not a deep student of mor
ality as it exists in different
parts of our globe.
This same lack of moral
substance exists in all of
South America, Spain, Portu
gal and even in The Philip
pines yes, even France to a
lesser degree.
There is one dominating in
fluence that has molded the
moral and economic fibre of
all these nations. That influ
ence is Catholicism.
There has been controversy
over this for years, but the
evidence is so concrete as to
both moral and economic
conditions as to be indisput
able. The truth of the matter is
that Catholicism and Democ
racy cannot exist together.
Unbiased literature on the
subject is hard to find but
"From Ape to Angel" by
H. R. Hayes, pages 60-61-62
makes one more positive than
ever that we should never al
low anyone of Catholic per
suasion to attain any degree
of power in this country.
It isn't the religion I am
averse to it is the many oth
er machinations that concern
me.
R. B. Watkins
Jacksonville
Matter of Fact Bv Joseph Alsop
VOLCANO WARNING
Washington - If the Presi
dent of Venezuela briskly dis
missed the independents in
his Cabinet, and replaced
them with
C o m m unists
and allies of
the Commu
n i s t s, we
should all sit
up a n d take
notice and
and even
worry a little.
S o m e t hing
ioi'.ob Alson c i j 5UIUU1
has now happened in Iraq.
Besides being the second of
the Arab lands, next in influ
ence to Egypt, Iraq has ex
actly the same practical im
portance as Venezuela - the
importance that goes with oil
wells. Yet the same develop
ments that would focus the
whole nation's attention on
Venezuela, are treated as
quiet inconsequential in Iraq.
Maybe this is because what
has happened in Iraq is not
merely far .away, but also
obscure and confusing on the
surface. In distant' Baghdad,
one group of ministers with
doubtful affiliations and dif
ficult Arab names is replaced
by another group of ministers
with equally difficult names
and even more doubtful af
filiations. So why worry?
THE reasons to worry ,are
smiarelv rooted in the his
tory of . the revolutionary
Iraqi government of Brig.
Abdul K a r i m Kassem. In
brief, when the old regime
was overthrown last year, the
new government was com
posed of two different ele-ments-the
army officers who
had led the revolution and the
politicians of the clandestine
National Front Committee
who had led the secret agita
tion for a revolution.
The politicians' National
Front Committe was in turn
composed of representatives
of four parties, the Baath, the
Istiqlal, the National Demo
crats, and the Communists,
who had formed this grouping
after the Suez crisis. Finally,
there was a sharp distinction
betwen the first two non-Com
munist parties, the Baath, and
the Istiqlal, and the third in
the group, the National Demo
crats. Having m a d e a pact
with the Communists some
years earlier, the National
Democrats were already heav
ily infiltrated. But the Baath
and the Istiqlal parties were
not yet Communist-infiltrated,
and were closely linked to
Egypt.
ORIGINALLY, then, the new
government of Iraq in
cluded all the former opposi
tion parties, but was domin-
r ated by the army officers who
I had overthrown the old gov
ernment. A struggle soon
broke out betwen the two
most important army officers,
the head of the government,
Brig. Kassem, and his former
chief collaborator, Col. Abdel
Salem Aref. Aref, who sought
to gain support by calling for
union between Iraq and
Egypt, was eventually arrest
ed on a treason charge. He
has been tried and sentenced
to death. On the announce
ment of the death sentence of
Aref, all the ministers of the
two parties free of Commu
nist influence, the Baath and
the Istiqlal, were removed or
resigned from the govern
ment. The Communists and
National Democrats who held
office meanwhile stayed on;
and the resigning ministers
were replaced by additional
National Democrats and some
men vaguely classified as
"leftists."
This change can only mean
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an enormous increase of Com
munist influence in the Iraqi
government. In addition,
scores of persons who were
likely to oppose the growing
Communist influence have
been summarily arrested on
xague charges. Finally, the
army, which used to be at
least 90 per cent nationalist
and non-Communist, has also
been infiltrated in recent
months by more and" more
Communists and Communist
sympathizers.
DRIG. KASSEM, who is po
litically inexperienced, al
ways accepted Communist
support against Col. Aref. But
he has also made occasional
gestures towards controlling
the Communists, when they
too seemed to threaten his per
sonal authority. For example,
he suppressed the popular
militia which the Communists
were organizing in competi
tion with the army. But after
the changes in his govern,
ment, it is hard to see how
Brig. Kassem can make such
gestures in the future. His
own power depends too much
on Communist support.
In short! the surge of Arab
nationalism in Iraq destroyed
the government of old Nuri
Pasha, because he was too sub
servient to the British. But
this same nationalist surge
has now produced another
weaker man like Nuri, even
more dependent on the Krem
lin.
The story is not quite over
yet. Despite his cheerful ac
ceptance of lavish Soviet aid,
Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser
has thus far reacted with sur
prising violence to the growth
of Communist power in Iraq.
One last, desperate effort to
dislodge the new Communist
bridgehead in the Arab world
is still likely to be made by
Nasser and his friends. But
the ultimate nightmare of the
West's Middle Eastern experts
is already pretty close to com.
ing true.
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 16, 1885
The county of Morrow,
named for Jackson L. Mor
row, long-time resident of
the area and a member of
the present stale legisla
ture, was created today. A
move to substitute the
name "Gilliam" for the
name "Morrow" was de
feated. The new county
was created out of a west
ern portion of Umatilla
county. The' county seat
will be Heppner.
Honolulu-To-U.S.
Flight Record Set
Los Angeles (DPD United
Airlines reported one of its
DC7 passenger planes set a
record Sunday night by fly
ing from Honolulu to Los An
geles in 6 hours and 15 min
utes with the aid of strong tail
winds. v
The four-engine craft with
40 passengers and a crew of
seven landed at International
Airport more than two hours
ahead of schedule, chopping
six minutes off the old record
time for the 2,620-mile trip.
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