4 Tuesday, March 17. 1959
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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
March 17. 1949 (Thursday)
Ashland voters flock to the
polls in an election for the
recall of three city council
men. A medium intensity run
way lighting system is to be
installed at Medford airport.
20 YEARS AGO
March 17, 1939 (Friday)
Medford Corporation plans
to resume logging and rail
road operations Monday with
the mill work to follow Thurs
day. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of citizens have been
noted mowing their lawns
when they could be playing
golf. They are trying to get
out of assisting with the
spring housecleaning, and not
fooling anybody, least of all
the little woman at their
house."
30 YEARS AGO
March 17. 1929 (Sunday)
The labor shortage for all
kinds of work in the valley
persists.
St. Patrick's day is ob
served in the city.
40 YEARS AGO
March 17. 1919 (Monday)
An effort is launched to
have the federal labor office
here kept open for the next
two months.
The near-beer problem is
put up to the court for a rul
ing. 50 YEARS AGO
March 17. 1909 (Wednesday)
West Seventh st. property
owners consider paying for
paving intersections as the
city lacks funds.
Desert Oil company's well
northeast of town is down to
100 feet.
What's Your !.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Is pure lead a relatively
hard, or soft, metal?
2. Does the month of Feb
ruary ever have five Sun
days?
3. Does tactile sense refer
to the sense of taste, sight,
touch, hearing, or smell?
4. Correct the following,
"If he would have come ear
lier, he would have been in
time."
5. What does the name
Nova Scotia mean?
6. Who said, "There never
was a good war or a bad
peace"? , - - -
7. In describing members
of the seal family, what is a
male, a female, and a baby
seal called, respectively?
8. On what island did
Chiang Kai-shek take refuge
when the Nationalist troops
were defeated by the Com'
munists on the China main
land?
9. What have the following
in common: John Singleton
Copley, Benjamin West, Gil
bert Stewart?
10 What is the name for a
field in which rice is grown?
Answers: 1. Soft. 2. Yes
3. Touch. 4. "If he had come
earlier." 5. New Scotland. 6
Beniamin Franklin. 7. Bull.
cow, and pup. 8. Formosa. 9
American painters. 10. Pad
KQPI I
Bad Precedent
The legislature is trying to decide whether to
approve a bond issue of $60 million to pay for a
new bridge across the Columbia at Astoria, and
for improvement of Highway 42, from Roseburg
to Coquille.
Proponents of these two projects point out
that they are badly needed. And they are.
But we object to the legislature constiuting
itself into a sort of gigantic highway commission,
and deciding on its own, hastily and while under
political pressure, which routes should be im
proved. OUR objections would be less if they approved
a bond issue for highway construction and
then turned.it over to the highway commission to
spend. Otherwise, why have a highway commis
sion? Oregon's highway department is one of the
best in the nation. It has done winders with
amounts of money far less in proportion than that
available to some other states. It has looked at
the state as a whole, balancing the needs of one
area against the needs of the rest of the state.
And it has come up with a remarkably good,
well-rounded and fair distribution of highway
construction according to the needs of the state
as a whole.
This pattern will be upset if the legislature
tells the highway department wrhat routes to
build.
WE KNOW for a fact that the commission is
aware of the call for the Columbia river
I bridge, and for the improvement of Highway 42.
r-i- i i i. -i n . i it it tili. j" 1
15UI it nas looKea at mem in uie ngut ui equai ui
more serious needs in other parts of the state. First
things first has been its operating policy.
Precedent for bonding action for one segment
of highway was set two years ago, when some $12
million was allocated to rebuild Highway 101 in
Coos and Curry counties a badly needed pro
ject. But that was "sold" to the legislature as a
one-time-only proposition.
If the policy is again abrogated, the highway
commission's orderly plan of development is apt
to go by the boards.
The commission has made its mistakes, all
right. But it is right in opposing this infringement
on its authority and its duty to plan Oregons
highways for orderly development for the benefit
of the whole state, not just part of it. E. A.
Wages of Thoughtlessness
We hope a lot of youngsters read Mary Kelly's
article in yesterday's Mail Tribune about Hugh
D'Autremont.
It is an almost rerf
ensue from one unthinking misdeed in early life.
Tt is the kind of nost scrint which could follow
anv voune- man who iust
he's getting into in trying to get by the "easy
way."
Hurii D'Autremont.
so clearly, was raised a decent boy, liked by many
people, respepted by his fellow-students and tea
chers, successful at school.
But one incident, where he was led on by two
older brothers, virtually destroyed his life. From
then on it was 61 years ot prison.
And the irony of his serious illness, just as he
was getting his first "break" in all that time, only
serves to emphasize the whole thing.
THERE are in Jackson county a lot of basically
Aaftant trrvnnrr Timrc vVir ova flirtinor wifh inst.
that kind of future.
They don't mean to do anything "really
wrong," but they are putting themselves, day
after day, in a position which could turn into
heartbreak and repentance for the rest of their
lives.
A small burglary can turn, too easily, into a
shooting scrape with police ; a few drinks before
driving can result in death or injury, either for
themselves or for others who are innocent; a
fought-out "beef" can turn into a prison record.
Hugh D'Autremont, as a youngster, wasn't
really bad. He was thoughtless, and perhaps too
easily led. And he's been paying for it ever since.
E.A.
Big
A little story in our favorite newspaper the
other day pointed out that Oregon has nearly 170
state parks more than any other state in the
nation.
Most of them are relatively small, such as
those in Jackson county TouVelle, Casey, Tubb
Springs, McLeod, Ben Hur Lampman, Laurel
hurst. And none can begin to compare with Adiron
dack State Park in New York.
This park contains 5,177 square miles of lake
and forest. It is slightly larger than Connecticut,
and is the largest state park in the nation.
IT IS also unique in that the state owns only about
half of it, and the rest of the area, which is
dedicated as park and forest preserve, is owned
by pulp or lumber companies, or by other agencies
or owners who have dedicated their ownership
for park purposes.
Despite the vast areas in the west, probably
Adirondack park will remain the only state park
of that size, for it wras developed in large part
before the forest service entered the picture. The
function of Adirondack park is served, to an ex
tent at least, in the west by the National Forests.
E.A.
ect example of what can
"doesn't realize" what
as Marv's article shows
Park
Dennis the
YOU 6ETTERGD CWAOIFT.mD! Yorffte SWRTIN'TO FEEL SQUQOSWl'
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond
reports from Washington in his absence.)
MR. ROCKEFELLER
DOES IT
Washington If Nelson
Rockefeller wants to be the
Republican Presidential nomi
nee next year and I know of
no one who says he doesn't
he is going about it the right
way.
The best possible way for
Mr. Rockefeller to get ahead
in .national politics is not to
try to get ahead in national
politics but to prove, by his
works, that he is a courageous
and skillful Governor of New
York State.
On the record of his first
2Vi months he is making a
good beginning toward remov
ing one of the persistent ques
tion marks which overhang his
future.
Sure, everyone said, he is
a charming candidate and an
ingratiating vote-getter. So
what? Doesn't that mean that
when the hard tests of public
office come, he will prove to
be only a charming and in
gratiating Governor,? issuing
Rockefeller reports and shak
ing hands very gracefully?
Mr. Rockefeller proved that
he was the kind of Republican
who could create a political
landslide in New York State
in the face of a Democratic
landslide in the nation.
The test of the election was:
Could he become Governor?
He could. The test of the post
election is: Could he govern?
:
OBVIOUSLY what has hap
pened during the first 2Vz
months is not a final answer,
but the evidence thus far is
on the side:
That Gov. Rockefeller is a
decision-maker, not a. report
maker. That he is a determined and
effective political leader cap
able of uniting his party be
hind a politically ' unpopular
program increased taxes to
pay for increased public serv
ices. That Gov. Rockefeller can
govern.
It is certainly an arguable
point whether the stand which
he has taken in Albany to
maintain and at points to up
spending for public services
hospitals, schools, roads, and
other community facilities
and for higher taxes, will help
him or hurt him in respect to
the 1960 Republican Presi
dential nomination. My in
stinct is to feel that it would
help more than hurt. What it
does is:
Show that Mr. Rockefeller
is a conservative party leader
who does not intend to neglect
the public and social-welfare
services of the government.
Prove that Mr. Rockefeller
stands for fiscal responsibility
and for a pay-as-you-go, not a
borrow-as-yougo, policy. It is
a stand for solvency which
neither Governor Harriman
nor Harriman's Republican
controlled legislature would
take.
In a word he has demon
strated that his leadership
means using conservative prin
ciples to deal with public
problems, not to brush them
under the rug.
"OUT the larger significance
of what happened in Al
bany last week when both
houses of the legislature pas
sed his budget and tax pro
gram with nearly every Re
publican voting with him and
every Democrat voting against
him is that it revealed Mr.
Rockefeller's mastery - at
least in this critical instance
of the art of political party
leadership.
He took the politically un
popular course raising taxes
in order to keep the state
solvent. He was absolutely
firm in keeping to the sub
stance of his program. He was
sufficiently yielding to his
party's legislative leaders in
making changes in some de
tails. It seems to me that this ex
hibition of successful leader
ship goes to the heart of the
Menace
question which remained un
answered by Mr. Rockefeller's
landslide election. Yes, he was
an effective candidate, but
would he be an effective Gov
ernor? In this signal test and a
very exacting test at that
Mr. Rockefeller, with the op
position Democrats lined up
unanimously against him,
proved to be an effective Gov
ernor. Obviously this isn't the ver
dict of history, but it is the
verdict of an important first
segment of the Rockefeller
record.
If there are more of these
accomplishments, Gov. Rocke
feller will not have to seek
the national spotlight. The na
tional spotlight will seek him.
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Notes on the Demise
Of True Poetry, and.
Incidentally, Bear Creek Fish
To the Editor:
Little fishie in Bear Creek
Yea, the one with rosy
cheek.
Why for ails thee little
chap?
Didst thou bite a blasting
cap, -
Or did Rode, poet supreme,
Rotenone your little
stream?
(Note to Editor: Rode is not
poet supreme, this is poetic
license.)
J. A. McCalvy,
315 Fluhrer Bldg.
Medford.
Notes, Etc.. No. 2
To the Editor:
Would-be poets on the
shore
Trouble not your brains
no more
What you thought mass
fishicide
Was nothing but insecticide.
Dean McCalvy
(6th Grade Student)
559 Hazel st.
Central Point, Ore.
Universal Language
To the Editor: Are you one
of the million and a half
Americans who this year will
journey abroad? Nothing will
add more pleasure to your
trip than a knowledge of Es
peranto, the international
language, which you can mas
ter in a few months.
As a member of the Univer
sal Esperanto Association,
you will wear the green star
which identifies you to other
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The Yearbook will give you
the address of delegates in all
principal cities whom you
may call on for assistance
with lodging or itinerary.
You will not be restricted
to the tourist districts1 nor
have to follow an English
speaking guide, but can min
gle with people in all walks
of life and talk with them
easily in your mutual second
language.
The Esperanto League,
Meadville, Pa., can furnish
titles of teach-yourself text
books. Investigate the uses of
Esperanto in your business or
profession, hobby or cultural
pursuits. You'U be glad you
did.
(Mrs.) Mary J. Gibson
P. O. Box 407
Riverdale, Calif.
Political Governor
To the Editor: "We of the
Democratic party have re
cently been researching the
campaign speeches in which
Mark Hatfield promised faith
fully how "nonpolitical" and
"nonpartisan" he would be as
our governor.
Is this why Governor Hat-
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
BEDROCK DANGER
Washington-The debate be
tween President Eisenhower
and Congress over our mili
tary prepara
tions is at last
reaching the
real point, the
true issue.
This the Ad
ministration's slow, con
scious starv
ing out of our
William S. fC ' J
White the Army and
Marine Corps.
No Congress can usefully
challenge a President on the
tactical details of his mili
tary planning as commander-
in-chief. It cannot do so even
on such immense details as
his deliberate decision to al
low the Russians to lead us
in one weapon, the intercon
tinental missile. This, of
course, the Administration is
doing in the conviction that
In the Day's Hews
Br FRANK JENKINS
More today about Hawaii.
Maybe a little more history
will do us no harm.
AS RECITED previously in
this space, the Hawiian
Islands were sighted first by
a Spaniard, Juan Gaetano, in
1555. To him, they were mere
ly some more volcanic islands
in an ocean that was full of
islands. So he made a note in
his diary and sailed on. This
diary note is the sole record
of the original discovery.
Two and a quarter centur
ies passed. Then Captain
James Cook came along. He
was on his way back to Eng
land after proving that there
was no Northwest Passage for
ships from the Pacific to the
Atlantic. He too stumbled on
to the islands
He stopped. He traded with
the natives. He liked them,
and they liked him. He re
turned a year later, and this
time trouble started. His men
got in a fight with the island'
ers (maybe, seeking the quick
buck, which was as much
sought after then as now, the
White men CHEATED a bit)
and in the ruckus Captain
Cook was killed.
His men built a monument
to him and sailed away.
rFIME marched on.
When Captain Cook made
his visit, each island had a
king.. The biggest king of the
bunch was Chief Kamehame
ha, who rulerT the island of
Hawaii. He. took the other is
land kings into camp and
ruled the roost. In 1795, he
formed a dynasty (which
means a ruling family) and
the Kamehameha dynasty
lasted through some five gen
erations, when it ran out of
male heirs and after quite a
little fighting a queen ascend
ed the Hawaiian throne in
1891.
Her name was Liliuokalani,
and she was a character.
AT THIS point, we'll have
to go back a little. The
first white man saw the is
lands in 1555. The next white
man saw them first on Janu
ary 18, 1778. From then on,
white men were numerous.
They saw the islands' possi
bilities in the way of sugar
and pineapples, and went into
tne business in a big way.
One of them was Sanford Bal
lard Dole, who founded the
Dole pineapple dynasty.
Queen Liliuokalani ascend
ed the throne in 1891, but she
didn't hit it off too well with
the American business inter
ests. She wanted to go back
to the old ways, and they
wanted to go on with the
new. So they started a. revo
lution in 1893 and overthrew
her and proclaimed a repub
lic. They sought to have their
field has appointed a Repub
lican political partisan as
state director of Selective
Service, to draft Oregon boys
into military service? Is this
why Governor Hatfield turn
ed down Colonel Francis Ma
son for the post, humiliating
this outstanding career man
who was in line to occupy the
position?
Is this why Governor Hat
field, our "nonpartisan" gov
ernor, has installed as his own
personal selection a Repub
lican state chairman who is
also an insurance company
lobbyist at the legislature?
Is this why Governor Hat
field's office has ordered the
firing of Cecil Edwards, stew
ard of the state racing com
mission, because Mr. Edwards
backed Bob Holmes for the
governorship?
Longtime observers of the
state scene tells me that Mark
Hatfield, who campaigns as a
"nonpartisan," is the most
partisan and the most politi
cal governor whom our state
has had in modern times!
Dave Epps
State Chairman of the
Democratic party
429 Governor Bldg.
Portland 4, Ore.
3j
S. WHITE
our mixture of many aircraft
and few stationary missile
launchers is best for our own
purposes.
For, right or wrone as he
may be, this kind of question
Is one for the President alone
as commander-in-chief. It
amounts to a tactical war
plan.- Congress has no means
to make tactical war nlans.
Constitutionally and in logic,
the missile decision is no dif
ferent than a commander-in-
chief decision in wartime to
commit all our forces on one
battlefront at the risk of los
ing everything on other
fronts.
ri the President is buying
few missiles, it is his busi
ness and his' responsibility
and not that of Congress,
fateful as it may be; But
year after year to reduce the
Army and Marine Corps to
the point where ultimately
they will become irrelevant
to warfare is quite another
thing. This is far more than
an exercise of a President's
traditional right to cut up
and direct the actual spending
of the defense dollar provided
by Congress.
This is not simply a proper
commander-in-chief decision;
it is a matter of the hiehest
and most urgent political con
cerns. It is a case in which
military policy is dominating
what is constitutionally a far
nigner tning, the very grand
foreign policy of the United
States of America.
For to make the ground
forces unable to guarantee
our interests anvwhere as
the President himself has said
they are unable to do now in
Germany is to paralyze
that high foreign policy. And
Congress has the most inti
mate Constitutional right to
have a hand in that kind of
policy.
When the President says,
as he did last week, that we
are "certainly not going to
fight a ground war in Eur
ope," he is foreclosing foreign
policy itself. The only possi-
Die meaning is that, assum
ing no diplomatic settlement
of the Berlin crisis can be
reached and force must be
used, that force will be
atomic-hydrogen force. It is
periectly obvious that mil.
lions of the most earnestly
anti-Communist people would
shrink in horror from such a
terrible alternative.
TN short, the progressive
decline in the ground forces
means a progressive inabilitv
to fight limited, non-atomic
wars anywhere, for any pur
pose. And that means a pro
gressive denial to Congress of
its gravest power under the
Constitution, the power to de
clare war.
For the only alternative to
limited warfare-or appease
ment is nuclear warfare.
And nobody can suppose that
in such a war there would be
even a moment to ask Con
gress anything at all before
pushing the buttons of holo
caust. It is upon this great Con
stitutional and political is
sue, surely, that Congress
should make it stand against
the President's views. It will
do no good to spread the ar
gument over those things,
new republic annexed by the
U. S., but Grover Cleveland,
then President, couldn't see it
and ordered Oueen Liliuoka
lani restored to her throne.
The pro-tem government of
the republic refused to accept
her.
SHE didn't take it without a
fight. She came to the
U. S. and put up a battle that
for color and flash and zing
was not surpassed by Mad
ame Chiang Kai-Shek in more
recent years. There was no
radio and no TV in those
days, but she was lionized by
the newspapers for whom she
made marvelous copy. She
wa3 known popularly as
Queen Lil and was a seven
day wonder.
But she lost her battle. In
1898, the U. S. took formal
possession of the islands and
in 1900 congress established
the Territory of Hawaii and
Sanford Ballard Dole became
the territory's first American
governor.
- Whence came the name
Hawaii?
It grew out of the native
word for the largest of the
islands. The word was OWY
HEE. The white man spelled
it HAWAII.
Algiers, Algeria -UPD- The
French army announced Mon
day night that the Algerian
rebels lost 830 men in clashes
with French troops last week.
French losses were set at 45 i
men killed.
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Matter of Fact By Joseph AIscp
CANDIDATE HUMPHREY
Washington Prematurely,
almost explosively, the pat
tern of the Democratic presi-
dential rari 5s
now being re
vealed. The
latest chapter
in the story is
the decision of
Sen. Hubert
Humphrey of
M i n nesota to
do or die in
the key pre-
iospb Aisoo convent ion
primaries. The decision was
really dictated by Sen. Hum
phrey s classification in the
teeming brood of Democratic
hopefuls. Like Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts,
Humphrey is an active candi
date. He cannot join the more
comfortable class of inactive
candidates, which is headed
by Sen. Stuart Symington of
Missouri, with anyone else
you may choose to accuse of
presidential ambitions trail
ing along behind.
The difference between the
active and inactive candidates
is rather simple. Kennedy and
Humphrey, the activists, are
ready to run hard for the
nomination because they know
they have to. Rightly or
wrongly, Symington and the
other inactivists . hope to be
nominated by default, because
the two activists have com
mitted mutual mayhem, or
have produced a deadlock, or
have failed to make the grade
in some other way.
TN THE present phase, there-
iore, it is aeepiy interesting
to watch President Truman
and others quietly peddling
Ssymington as the ideal com
promise choice of the Democ
racy, when the time comes to
compromise. It is downright
comic to listen to more im
probable but no less hopeful
aspirants lengthily ruling out
every other nominee but
themselves, by the familiar
reductio ad absurdum method.
But the real drama of the
present phase centers on the
Kennedy-Humphrey contest.
Neither Kennedy nor Hum
phrey has been at all anxious
to give the customers their
money's worth, by starting
slugging without undue delav
Kennedy has the proof of the
opinion polls that he is cur
rently the Democrats' biggest
potential vote-eetter. He has
all of . New England. He has
the hope of New York, of
most of Illinois and of several
other large groups of dele
gates. Normally, Kennedy
might be tempted (and he may
yet be tempted) bv the front
runner's usual plan of avoid
ing needless bloodshed.
But Kennedy is a Catholic.
More bothersome still, he is
thought of as a juvenile. (He
is actually 41, but it seems to
be dangerous in politics to
enter middle age with more
hair and less waistline than
is customary after 40.) Hence
Kennedy has to overcome
these handicaps by the sort
of commanding lead he can
only gain in the primaries. In
most primary victories, he
will not have a reallv rood
chance of being nominated.
TTUMPHREY'S Tfhtntanna
- "
start slugging has been
however important, with
which Congress has no prop
er authority. And it will only
do harm to raise in Congress
intemperate voices suggest
ing that the President is sim
ply a willful man who will
not properly arm this country
for a push-button war.
The real, the bedrock, dan
ger is far different. It is that
military policy is resting far
too much, rather than too lit
tle, on push-button preoccu
pations and thus destroying
any field" of maneuver for
what ought to be the over
riding foreign policy of the
United States.
(Copyright, 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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even greater than Kennedy's.
Only a little more than a fort
night ago, his rem.- wkably
astute partner and jtolitical
organizer. Gov. Orville Free
man of Minnesota, wus grim
ly trying to avert a W isconsin
primary. Freeman wa tried the
Wisconsin Democrats to back
a favorite son slate of dele
gates. The reason -was, quite
simply, that the Humphrey
forces have been deeply im
pressed (and not a little de
pressed too) by the evidence
of Kennedy's poweri ul appeal
to the voters.
Maybe HumDhns would
still be reluctant to. nlunee
into the fray, if Freeman's
effort to put Wisconsin on
ice had been successful. But
the Freeman effcjrt- failed.
Furthermore, primary victo
ries are very much iwore need
ed by Humphrey th an by Ken
nedy. There is litt'le evidence
as yet of Humpl irey's mass
appeal. He does n it have anv
big bloc of delegEites outside
his own bailiwick.. His nomi
nation would strongly tend to
drive many Southerners to a
tnird party tick tt. In short,
he is the kind of candidate
who can only wade to triumph
through a sea of gore.
These sanguinary facts have
now been faced "hv Humnhrnr
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himself, by Governor Free
man, and by Humphrey's able
new campaign .-idviser. Wach-
ington Lawyer James Rowe
Jr. rtowe proclaims that "We
want to fight all the primaries
we can get into." The word
want" is perhans an era?.
geration. But the Humphrey
strategy is novr based on the
acknowledgement that Hum
phrey has simply got to fight
at least the two key primaries,
Oregon and Wisconsin. Hum
phrey s decagon in turn vir
tually impogas the same deci
sion on Keranedy.
"DECAUSE Humphrey is ad
mittedljr behind, he has
laid out a .grueling plan of
campaign. As soon as the pres
ent Congressional session
ends, he will start running in
ail tne states where he has
hopes for delegates, and above
all in Wisconsin and Oregon.
He will run in all as though
he were a. Senate-candidate
in each. As. the records show,
Humphrey is a formidable
politician .and a particularly
formidable campaigner. Now
that he huts adopted this do-or-dia
strate.'gy, the Humphrey
candidacy must be regarded
as transformed.
Forroe-riy, his candidacy
was a local phenomenon, with
fringe wpport from ex-Adlai
Steverj,or.ites in states out
side Humphrey's home area.
But nsTHT the Humphrey can
didacy can easily determine
the course of the Democratic
Conven tion; and this can still
be the case, whether Hum
phrey wins or Kennedy wins.
Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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