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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Vail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago. ,
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17. 1949 (Thursday)
Sen. William McAllister re
plies to the Rogue River Irri
gation association's letter
challenging his postition re
garding a bill to remove re
strictions on building a Lewis
creek dam. i
The 40 et 8 club will handle
ceremonies here for the re
ception of gifts from the
French Gratitude train.
20 YEARS AGO '
Feb. 17. 1939 (Friday)
The Oak Grove district to
receive Medford water within
about a month.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudke Pot" . column: "Al
mond blossoms are backward
this year. Ordinarily they are
out. and killed by the frost
ere now."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1929 (Sunday)
Central Point Grange holds
"cake walk," while Talent
holds a "hard time" ball.
Fire destroys the Eagle
Point Grange hall.
40 YEARS. AGO
Feb. 17. 1919 (Monday)
Jackson county' merchants
oppose a plan to raise $4,000
for a permanent livestock ex
hibit at Portland.
William Howard Taft, for
mer president, passes through
town en route to a peace meet
ing in San Francisco.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17. 1909 (Wednesday)
The Crater Lake road bill
is still hung up in committee
at Salem.
Pacific Tel and Tel defends
itself against proponents of
a dual.telephone system.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The basic commodity
used in the manufacture of
rum is m s?
2. Which two of the Great
Lakes are connected by the
Sault Sainte Marie canal?
3. The leaning tower of
Pisa was built to be used as
a campanile; what is campa
nile?
4. Name the capital of
Chile.
5. Albert G. Spalding, one
one of the founders of modern
baseball, was a pitcher, first
baseman, or catcher?
6. Which is the most mal
leable of all metals?
7. In which of these States
was Abraham Lincoln born:
Illinois. Ohio. Indiana, Ken
tucky?
' 8. For whom was "Veep'
first nickname?
9. Is Mexico's principal in
Hnstrv farming, livestock or
mining?
10. Who was the last bach
elor King of Great Britain?
Answers. 1. Molasses'. 2,
T.aVes SuDerior and Huron. 3,
Toii tower. 4. Santiago. 5. Pit
cher. 6. Gold. 7. Kentucky. 8.
:V. P. Alban Barkley. 9. Min
ing. 10. Edward VIII.
STANDING OFFER
Columbus, Ohio -fCPD State
Rep. Rhoderic G. Mills report
ed Monday that a taxpayer
sent in this suggestion to
boost state revenue: A tax on
bicycle seats "to make chil
dren pedal standing up saving
wear and tear on their pants
and correcting curved spines
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Textbook
The constitutionality
law will be tested in the quiet dignity of the
courts, rather than in the sometimes noisy and
emotional houses of the legislature.
The portion of the law which is being chal
lenged, in a court suit filed in Clackamas county
last week, is that which provides school districts
may furnish free textbooks to pupils in parochial
schools.
It is interesting to note, in a story in the Ore
gon City Enterprise-Courier, that "All parties in
the suit indicated that this was a test of the law,
and not intended to inflame or emphasize relig
ious differences."
believe the law should be tested, and that
it should be done in the manner in .which' it
is being done quietly,, with a minimum of emo
tion, and with emphasis on the legal' question,
rather than religious questions.
The test is another in
tions which over the years have tested and de
fined the limits of the
oi cnurch and state. f
As such, it is apt to take years to bring to com
pletion, as it goes through the courts, starting in
the Clackamas county circuit court and presum
ably ending in the supreme court of the United
States.
TPHE case is of interest in Medford, as it is in
every Oregon city where a parochial school
is operated in the confines of a public school dist
rict. The Medford school district, under the terms
of the state law, furnishes St. Mary's school with
some of the textbooks
St. Mary's or its pupils. Other textbooks used
there are not furnished by the district.
The procedure is for St. Mary's to make appli
cation to the district for those books it wishes,
and they are then provided on the same basis as
they are for the public schools. The books are
purchased from the school district's regular op
erating budget.
To be eligible, the parochial school must meet
all state educational standards (which it does)
except the one which sets forth the pupil-per-teacher
load.
One other free service
vides for St. Mary's is pupil transportation on the
district's buses, permitting St. Mary's students to
ride without charge on regular school bus runs.
No special runs are made for. the parochial school
students.
THE relationship between St. Mary's and the
Medford school district is friendly and co
operative, as is also the
City school district and St.
by the test case.
The case, brought in
gon City school district residents by the Oregon
chapter of the American Civil Liberties union, is
a "friendly" case, neither "anti-religion" nor
anti-church," but is rather based on a view of
the constitutional theory
church and state.
The constitutional stricture, found in the first
amendment, simply says: "Congress shall make
no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."
DUT this phrase has been the basis for a large
number of court tests, which in turn have
fleshed it out through judicial interpretation.
For one instance, the supreme court has ruled
that public schools cannot provide religious edu
cation as part of the daily curriculum.
On the other hand, it has also ruled that fur
nishing of supplemental services to parochial
schools by public school districts, in some cases,
does not violate the constitution. "
The suit seeks a final determination as to
how the textbook law conforms with or vio
lates, the differing interpretations of the consti
tution. A SIDE issue, but an interesting one, is the fact
that there are two other parochial schools in
the Clackamas county district, one a Lutheran
school and the other a Seventh-day Adventist
school. Neither of them has made application for
free textbooks under the law.
Because of this, a substantial matter of public
policy is involved whether taxpayer-purchased
supplies should go to one non-public school which
asks for them, and not to others wThich do not
ask. -
In filing the case, the chairman of the ACLU
chapter said:
"Supplying textbooks at public expense for the use
in parochial schools breaches the waU of separation be
tween church and state. Such action constitutes a form
of state aid to religious institutions. The ACLU be
- lieves that the sanctity of religion and the integrity
of the "state are both best protected when the activities
of both are kept separated.
"The constitutional requirement in both the United
States and Oregon constitutions requiring the state to
maintain neutrality between religious denominations
and between believers and non-believers is a corner
stone of democracy.
"It protects religion from interference by the state
and it protects the state from competition among re
ligious groups for public support and subsidy." -
It is to be hoped the suit will settle, once and
for all, the question of the constitutionality of the
free textbook law, and serve as another landmark
in the judicial determination of how the consti
tution shall be applied. E. A.
Law Test
of Oregon's textbook
a lone: series of legal ac
Constitutional separation
used there, at no cost to
which the district pro
case with the Oregon
John's school, covered
the name of three Ore
of the separation of
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Matter of Fact
THE DULLES SPIRIT
Washington - Why ; do so
many Western leaders regard
the illness of John Foster
Dulles - as a
major tragedy
today, when
they would
have danced
at his funeral
two years
ago? . It is an
intere sting
q u e s t i o n,
worth careful
Jospb &isop examination.
In large part, of course, this
horror aroused by the inca
pacity of a man once so hear
tily distrusted is an admis
sion of weakness. It derives
from the general feeling that
Dulles is the real backbone,
the one remaining element of
firmness, in the Eisenhower
Administration and in the
Western Alliance too. With
Dulles . gone, . what posture
will the Administration as
sume? What course will the
West take? It is curious that
the unyielding determination
of a single aging man should
have -came to mean so much,
but the fact must be faced.
rPHERE is more than this,
-- however, to the change of
attitude towards the Secre
tary of State among all the
men he chiefly worked with.
The other element, beyond
doubt, is a change in the test
these men applied to the man
himself. Perhaps the best way
to put it is to say that, in the
last two years, John Foster
Dulles came to be judged less
by his methods and more by
his spirit.
About his methods, the less
said the better. The "libera
tion" policy was a fraud. The
strategy of "massive retalia
tion" was announced at the
very moment when it was be
coming impossible. The talk
about "brinks" was deplor
able. The appeasement of Sen.
McCarthy in the early years
came close to destroying the
American Foreign Service. An
honest portrait cannot omit
the wens on the chin. But it
must be said that as the years
passed, and Foster Dulles
gained self-confidence in har
ness, he vastly improved his
way of doing business.
"MEANWHILE, as the years
pass, the spirit of Foster
Dulles also gained in value
because it became more and
more rare. It has been much
criticized, this Dulles spirit,
on the ground that he was
"moralistic." He was con
stantly accused of "seeing the
cold war too much in terms
of right and .wrong." In a
sense, moreover, this was
quite true. His view of such
a man as Anastas Mikoyan
was quite simply Shelley's
view of Castlereagh which
was,, incidentally, most unfair
to Castlereagh but produced
the best denunciatory poem in
English.
"I met Murder on the way.
He had a mask like Castle
reagh. Very smooth he looked
yet grim.
Seven bloodhounds follow
ed' him,
All were fat, and well
they might . .
Be in admirable plight;
For one by one and two
; by two, .
He tossed them human
hearts to chew."
.
"OUT surely it was better to
see Mikoyan in this way,
than to see him as the big
businessman saw him, who
were charmed by the insinu
ating Mikoyan manners, or
to see him as the people in
Chicago saw him, who mob
bed his opera box to get the
Mikoyan. autograph. Since Mi
koyan is very obviously an
immensely complex character,
necessarily mingling some
good with """evil, the Dulles
view of him was no doubt too
uncomplicated. But it was
more accurate and more hon
est than the view of those
Menace
Alsop
who found this blood-stained
little Armenian intriguer a
delightful dinner companion.
By the same token, the
Dulles vision of the cold war
as a gigantic contest between
good and evil, in which one
could not give an inch with
out being guilty of surrender
to the powers of darkness, is
immeasurably more accurate
than -the vision of the cold
war held by those who de
nounce. Dulles for "inflexibil
ity." It is true, of course, that
American and Western policy
in these last years has in
creasingly lost the vital pow
er of maneuver. With such
defense policies as we have
pursued, indeed, a bold, imag
inative and rapidly maneuver
ing foreign policy was and is
impossible.
BUT what is this "flexibil
ity" that Dulles' critics
prate about? So far as one can
see, it means the willingness
to surrender something or oth
er, every time a remorseless
enemy points a pistol (or a
missile) in our direction. If a
"flexible policy" is now to be
adopted because Foster Dulles
is no longer in charge of the
State Department, the time
will no doubt come when the
desirability of being "inflexi
ble" about Communist claims
to Staten Island will be wide
ly debated.
At bottom, moreover, the
cold war IS a gigantic con
test between good and evil,
between freedom and slavery,
between the values of the hu
man spirit and the values of
the anthill state. The best
thing about Foster Dulles was
precisely the fact that he was
the cold war in those terms.
The spirit that drove him,
forth, on that last agonizing,
stoical, marvelously coura
geous journey overseas, came
from his sense of the moral
issues in the cold war. And at
the last, this Dulles spirit
warmed men who burned with
a less intense feeling, and
they were grateful for it.
(Copyright 1S59, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 17, 1896
John Philip Souza's band,
the most pronounced musi
cal success of recent years,
will play in Portland this
evening and tomorrow. lis
coming will be a most in
teresting event to all pro
fessional musicians and mu
sic lovers. The history of
military bands shows n o
parallel to the rapid rise
to favor enjoyed by this or
ganization in the two years
of its existence. Mr. Souza
is a masterly band conduct
or. FEBRUARY 17, 1887 .
Malheur County was cre
ated today by action of the
state legislature, taken from
what were formerly -the
southern and middle por
tions of Baker county. It
is named for the Malheur
River, which runs through
it. The name, which is de
rived from the French word
meaning misfortune or dis
aster, was given the stream
by Donald McKenzie, a n
early Hudson's Bay officer,
who hid furs along its bank
only to have them discov
ered and stolen by Indians.
FEBRUARY 17. 1899
Wheeler County was to
day created by the state
legislature. It was named
for Henry H. Wheeler who
came to Oregon in '62 and
has since turned his hand
to driving a stage, farming,
and slock raising. Mr.
Wheeler was one of the
most notable of early day
drivers in this area and his
escapes from Indians and
road agents ' have become
legendary.
Cyprus Feud Hearing End; Independent
Status for
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
A feud which threatened
seriously Allied defenses of
the Eastern Mediterranean
?nd snlattered a normally
p e a c ef ul is
land with
blood, appar
ently is about
to come to an
end.
In the near
f u ture, prob
ably in Lon
don, it is ex
pected a pact
will be signed
Pill Newborn
creating an independent Cy
prus. For a black-bearded
priest of the Greek Orthodox
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 reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Words of Protest
To the Editor:. Tolerance
with the everpresent threat to
our precepts of equality, free
dom, and democracy has been
the sometimes hard-to-achieve
goal of many people. Grant
ing that this threat is always
with us in men like Dies, Jen
ner and Coughlin, the new
face of intolerance seems even
more vicious . . . Dan Smoot.
After viewing his Sunday
report on TV, I felt that this
man is following well the in
famous role of his teachers.
The half truths, the interpre
tation of unrelated facts, the
whole mass of hate, makes the
averaee intelligent, decent
person sick.
This program may have
one asset. It can stimulate
and nromote discussions, it
can be used as an example to
our students of "the other side
of the story," it is an excellent
example of intolerance, mis
information, bigotry and
suave demagogy. Somehow
my tolerance with this type
of program is wearing thin.
These are my few words of
protest. .
Lola Milhoan,
3043 Delta Waters rd.,
Medford.
Licensing Proposed
To the' Editor: Enclosed is
a copy of a letter I have writ
ten to Dr. Edwin R. Durno,
state senator, and Mrs. Eve
Nye, state representative. I
do not doubt this proposal
will meet with considerable
opposition but it would per
mit the lowering of rates for
trucks and make a much
more fair way of raising mon
ey for highway work. At
present I think the law is
very discriminatory in favor
of motorists and against those
who use trucks for making
a living.
Floyd R. McCabe
Butte Falls, Ore.
The letter follows:
It strikes the undersigned
that the laws concerning the
licensing of motor vehicles
discriminates against those
who operate vehicles primar
ily designed to move goods
to the consumer. All passen
ger automobiles pay a maxi
mum of ten dollars regardless
of weight, whereas, vehicles
designed for movement oi
goods, that is, trucks, must
pay by weight and in many
cases, these trucks' weight is
less than tie passenger ve
hicles. Would a truck weighing
5000 pounds, with no load, do
more damage to a road than
a sedan weighing 5000 pounds
without passengers? My an
swer to that is "No."
In fact, in the case of trucks
which have dual tires, the
damage would be much less,
as the weight would be dis
tributed over a greater are.
In order that laws be fair
to all, I do believe all pass
enger or other vehicles be
licensed according to weight,
whether it be a small motor
scooter or the largest trucks
on the road. -
For example, a vehicle
the SIGN of
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CHICAGO, BURLINGTON A QUINCY RAILROAD
Island Result of Compromises
church, it will be a compro
mise victory.
For the half-million inhabi
tants of Cyprus, it should
mean a return to normal agri
cultural pursuits, instead of
the crack of a sniper's rifle
or a bomb burst in a village
street.
For the armed forces of
Britain on the island and for
the forces of Greece and Tur
key it should mean a return
to their normal job of guard
ing the underbelly of Europe
and standing as a bulwark
against any southern or south
westward thrust by the So
viet Union
Reach Crisis in 1955
The dispute, over Cyprus
reached the crisis stage in
1955 . and quickly mush
roomed into international sta
tus ,out of all proportion to
the island's size.
But it brought Greece and
Turkey, two of NATO's most
dedicated members, to the
verge of war, and from April,
1955, cost nearly 600 lives
and left more than 1,200
wounded.
The difficulty stemmed
first from the island's great
strategic value in the Eastern
Mediterranean, and second
from the uncompromising de
mands of the island's 400,000
Greek Cypriots for union
with Greece.
Cyprus, about half the size
of New Jersey, lies only 40
miles off the coast of Turkey,
but 500 miles from mainland
Greece. For 300 years it had
been ruled by Turkey, and
since 1878, by Britain It nev-
weighing 100 pounds, in this
case a light motor, scooter
should pay a sum of 75 cents.
A light automobile weighing
1500 pounds would pay $11.25
and a sedan or station wagon
weighing 4000 pounds, and
a large percentage comes in
this category, would pay $30.
These weights and fees re
lating to them would be taken
minus the driver or passen
gers but with such items as
commonly would be carried
therein, such a s tools, tire
chains, spare tires, etc. Value
of the vehicle would have no
bearing on the case.
I, for one, would like very
much to see legislation intro
duced for passage. I repeat, it
would be fair to all, and
would not be discriminatory,
Floyd R. McCabe
Man and Bear
To the Editor: Many years
ago there lived a miner and
his wife at Woodville, Ore.
He was a veteran of the war
between the states by the
name of Walter Hale, a big
masculine specimen of the
early gold seekers who with
his companion traveled over
the old pack trail that led to
upper Graves creek, some 24
miles northwest of Woodville.
On one of these hazardous
trips he invariably walked
while his wife rode one of the
pack animals. He ground
sluiced with a cotton fire hose
for a number of years. Now
one day he chanced to meet
an ugly mannered adult bear
who refused to give an inch
of the narrow trail to the
couple. As Hale always car
ried a serviceable hunting
knife for any emergency, he
quickly "squared off" for a
hand-to-paw combat that last
ed fully an hour, but did not
avoid getting scathed in the
melee that left Mr. Hale shirt
less, and with a deeply
scratched chest, 'tis said, he
carried the rest of his long
life.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford.
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London - (UPD - The London
Chronicle carried the follow
ing advertisement in its lone
ly hearts column today:
"Lazv. foul - tempered vil
lain, divorced for wife-threatening,
tall, dark, 38, interests
music and photography when
o b e r, invites correspond
ence.
Gen. Robert E. Lee's army
camped at Waynesboro, Pa.,
after the battle of Gettysburg.
The Mason-Dixon line is one
and one-half miles south.
PYLE
Agent
er had belonged to Greece.
Greeks in Majority
But the Greeks were in a
heavy majority on the island,
and, under the leadership of
Archbishop Makarios II, in
1950 began demanding union
with Greece. Makarios played
heavily on national senti
ment in his campaign, and it
was not too long before,
against its official will, the
Greek government also was
drawn into the controversy.
At least one Greek govern
ment fell because the people
felt it had not taken a firm
enough stand toward annexa
tion of Cyprus.
In 1955, the Greek under
ground on Cyprus declared
war on the British,-and the
shooting began.
In the midst of it all, stood
the figure of Makarios.
In a crowded village
church, one Sunday, he told
his followers:
Cyprus has known many
conquerors in the past. Now
it is face to face with the last
of its conquerors. Your church
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
Washington - President Eis
enhower's increasingly urgent
demands for budget economy
a r e danger
- o u s 1 y likely
to produce
? what to him
will be the
wrong kind
of savings in
4he wrong
place at the
wrong time.
T h o IT 1 y r.
William S. " T-,
White equally like
ly, moreover, to result in the
reverse of savings in those
very areas where he and the
more conservative members
of his Cabinet are most de
termined to cut down.
The confidential estimates
of powerful Congressional
Democrats and of some of the
rebellious Republicans, too',
foreshadow these ultimate re
sults in the budget fight:
1. Deep . Congressional re
ductions in the Administra
tion's mutual security, or for
eign aid, program. This, above
all, the President wants to
keep intact. Of all his enter
prises this is closest to his
heart. To continue foreign aid
he has asked $3,900,000,000 or
about $800,000,000 more than
Congress allowed for the cur
rent years. The expert con
sensus at the Capitol is that
he will be very fortunate not
to lose a billion dollars, at
least, from his request here.
And this is the one place, the
President has said, where the
knife ought not to be applied.
2. Congressional increases
in domestic spending, for
housing, for welfare projects,
for various public works run
ning to many hundreds of mil
lions more than the President
wants in those categories.
rpHUS IT IS that the Presi-
dent's real argument with
Congress is not so much over
what should be the grand
total of expenditures. It is far
more over where the decreas
es and increases should come.
Congress is simply not going
to cut down on water-power
projects at home, for example,
while giving rising American
assistance to them abroad.
By necessity the President
is hitting again and again at
"spending" in his effort to
keep control of his own bud
get. But every time he does so
he weakens his own position
on foreign aid. This he wishes
to treat, for perfectly sound
reasons, with a liberality that
he wholly rejects for other
parts of the budget.
But the distinction is far
too fine and complicated to be
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has preserved the flame of
religion and nationalism
through all these centuries.
It will lead you yet to liberty
and deliver you from foreign
rule."
Shocks British
The British were shocked
at this high churchman's
"complicity with bloodshed
and intimidation."
But even exile failed to
shake Makarios, who at 37
had become the youngest
archbishop in the history of
the Greek Orthodox church.
The Turkish-Greek compro
mise which promises to lead
to Cypriot independence is
not what Makarios wanted.
Nor is the system of checks
and balances designed to pro
tect both Greek and the Tur
kish minority likely to please
anyone for very long.
The proposed new constitu
tion specifically prevents
union with Greece, but it is
unlikely that it will satisfy
Makarios or his followers for
long. It seems more likely he
merely is biding his time.
S. WHITE
effective politically. The irony
is that the more he denounces
the extravagant motives he
attributes in general to the
Democrats the more impos
sible he makes it to protect
the very large foreign aid
item for which he demands
special favors.
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THE LARGE, lumpy- con
rpnt rtf "snianHinff" Ko.
comes the only issue. It can
not practically be subdivided
into "good" and "bad" spend
ing. It all comes down to this:
well, are you a "spender," or
aren t you?
Foreign aid, nevertheless,
will not be "gutted." What
Congress at length provides
will certainly carry the pro
gram forward as a stoutly go
ing concern. And it will be an
ungenerous allocation only in
the most relative and theoret
ical sense. Nevertheless, past
experience suggests that the
reductions sure to be made
will be cried up as though
Congress had halfway repudi
ated foreign aid.
Thus, the . Administration
has now a peculiarly acute
problem. Obviously, the Pres
ident cannot simply abandon
his basic and general cam
paign against "spending." On
the other hand, he cannot
wisely be too loud in pro
claiming dire results if Con
gress does not follow his lead
completely on foreign aid.
rpHE WISE approach would
seem to begin now frank
ly to prepare" Allied opinion
by discounting the inevitable
coming foreign aid reduction
simply by putting it into prop
er perspectve.
An even more basic prob
lem, however, has no visible
solution whatever. Federal
expenditures are becoming so
vast and so diffuse in purpose
as to raise a serious question
whether any President or
Congress will be able within
a few years actually to con
trol any budget. May not in
ternal events, as for illustra
tion sudden business reces
sions, or external events in
stantly requiring vast outlays
in the cold war, become the
real future masters of the
budget?
This is the creeping night
mare of some fiscal conserv
atives. It is not so much the
level of present spending that
they fear. It is the possibility
thaf.men may lose to the robot
of circumstance the very
power effectively to control
spending at all.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.) .
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