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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 23, 1959 (Wednesday)
United Air Lines presents
Medford Mayor Diamond
Flynn with a sprig o' real
shamrock, direct from the old
od.
Fishing interests make their
last ditch stand at Salem
against dams on the upper
Rogue.
20 YEARS AGO
March 23. 1939 (Thursday)
The first bear crawls out of
hibernation and ambles into
Park headquarters at Crater
Lake for breakfast.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
lady gardeners have started
to cuss. The $7 imported pe
tunia has peeped from the
earth, and looks like a jimp
son . weed."
30 YEARS AGO
March 23, 1929 (Saturday)
A campaign is opened for
purification of the Rogue river
to aid fishing.
The state D.A.R. convention
ends here and the ladies praise
Medford's hospitality.
40 YEARS AGO
March 23, 1919 (Sunday)
Five new members join the
Commercial club, with one
woman paying dues six
months in advance.
The school board plans a
meeting for consideration of
hiring a new superintendent.
50 YEARS AGO
March 23, 1909 (Tuesday)
Medford's new gravity-con
veyed water supply from
Bradshaw drop is expected to
be available by July 1.
Desert Oil Co.'s well has
been drilled to a depth of 600
feet, and indications for sue
cess are reported brighter
than ever.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Which country has a
unit of currency bearing the
same name as our unit of
2. How many edges has a
triangular pyramid?
3. If you received, as a pres
ent, each of the following
Royal Coachman, Black Gnat,
Grayhackle-what would you
get?
4. In three and three-quarters,
how many quarters are
there?
5. Explain the difference
between the tarantula and
tarantella.
6. What river forms the
boundary between Korea
and Manchuria?
7. An elephant can untie
knots with its trunk; true or
false?
8. What is the name of the
home of Thomas Jefferson?
9. How many carats fine is
pure gold?
10. Which of "these is the
capital of Arizona: Yuma,
Tucson, Phoenix?
Answers: 1. Great Britain
(oound). 2. Six. 3. Fishing
fliss. 4. Fifteen. 5. Tarantula
is spider, tarantella is dance.
6. Yalu. 7. True. 8. Moniicello.
9. 24. 10. Phoenix.
Berrydale -
It must have been with considerable gratifica
tion that the majority of people in the Berrydale
area finally saw the Medford city council approve
the plans for a new sewer system in that area.
The fight for adequate sanitation facilities has
been a long and difficult one.
But the city manager last week was authorized
to call for bids, and if all goes well the system
should be functioning within the year.
ASA LETTER printed on this page today points
out, the entire project took untold hours of
time, both for citizens of the area who worked to
obtain the necessary authorization first as a dist
rict, and later through annexation and the use of
city procedures and for the officials who cooper
ated toward the same end.
Other forms of sacrifice are involved, too, such
as the relatively high cost of the project as it fi
nally evolved, after years of delay.
'
TPHE entire incident seems to us to constitute an
almost perfect and virtually irrefutable argu
ment in favor of planning and zoning, of looking
ahead to solve the ultimate needs of citizens be
fore an area is so far developed that it requires a
herculean effort to get what is needed.
If the area, when it first started to grow, had
been subject to the controls provided by subdiv
ision ordinances, planning regulations and zoning
controls, the long fight, culminating in an expen
sive but necessary project, would not have been
necessary.
The city and county, now considering the rea
sonable reflation of future subdivisions, could
well consider the history of Berrydale as an object
lesson.
Snp h rpcniTatfnns mnv meet with some short
sighted opposition now. But their adoption would
be a service to propertyowners throughout the
county in years to come.
Fresh View
Flying over Oregon has always been one of
our favonte ways to see our favorite state.
From the air. the billboards and srarishness of
fringe areas vanish. Mountains, farmlands, cities,
forests and valleys blend in an ever-changing and
ever-fascinating panorama ot the land, and the
people who live upon it.
One can see the immense stands of virgin tim
ber still left as well as the hundreds of thousands
of acres of once-forested land, bare and naked,
some of it tinged with the green of tiny growing
trees, some of it still barren and scarred.
TTHE West Coast airlines plane we took to Port-
land last week was one of the new F-27 turbo
jet planes, which cruise at a fast 300 miles per
hour, and convey one from Medford to Koseburg
to Coos Bay to Eugene to Corvallis to Portland
in 2V2 hours providing an amazing, vivid and
rapid glimpse of mountain and seacoast sand
dune, of forested hills and cultivated valleys, ot
winding rivers and pounding surf.
Fnr flnvnne enamnnred of Oreoon fas we have
alwavs been 'I it is a trip
it t A
view, a new perspective,
ation. Hi.a.
'Fantastic9
"Fantastic," Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson himself calls the government program of
buying and storing crop surpluses. Uncle Sam
will hold by July 1, outright or through loans, over
$9 billion worth of farm products. Of the total
$3.2 billion (35 per cent) represents wheat, $2.4
billion (27 per cent) corn, $1.2 billion (13 per
cent) cotton.
The government wheat would supply all the
nation's consumption, export and carryover needs
for a whole year if not a single new bushel were
harvested. Storage alone on all government crop
holdings is costing close to $1 billion a year.
In eveiy way he can devise Secretary Benson
tries to dispose of the hoards : Donations to school
lunch programs, institutions, persons on relief
rolls, relief programs at home and abroad barter
and sales deals with other countries barter with
U. S.' firms providing foreign strategic materials
domestic sales that won't depress market prices.
VET the surpluses grow and grow and grow. The
A chief reason is that our agriculture becomes
more productive all the time.
For only two examples : Cotton yield per acre
is ten times that of 30 years ago ; the average cow
produces one-fourth more milk than 10 years ago.
And a well-off family doesn't consume twice
as much milk (or steak or bread) if its income has
doubled.
It's all pathetic as well as fantasic. There's
pathos in the underfed peoples of the world need
ing the U. S. surplus food, and more, if only it
could be got to them feasibly. And there's pathos
in realizing that if even all our own people hsfd
adequate incomes, we'd probably consume 10 per
cent or so more food right at home. But long-range
factors don't solve an immediate crisis. E.R.R.
Object Lesson
E.A.
of Oregon
i
which provides a fresh
A .
and a renewed appreci-
Surpluses
Dennis the
VA NOTICE TrlEV NEVEf? PLAYW KXX'H ROLL?'
M after of Fact
ANOTHER SOVIET
I.C.B.M. TEST
Washington - Within recent
weeks, another Soviet test of
an international ballistic mis
sile has been
recorded by
the Western
watching sta
tions. The fact is
worth record-
rA JLs ing two
f fjH4 reasons. In the
I ". ; 8 r I ftrst place,
I this is the
lostpb Alsop nrsi surety
established Soviet I.C.B.M.
test which has been recorded
since April, 1958. (Another
rocket shoot last July may
perhaps have been an I.C.B.M.
test, but strongly believed to
have been an abortive moon
shot.) In the second place, the
American government has
built such a weighty structure
of life-and-death assumptions
on the interruption of Soviet
I.C.B.M. tests after last April.
From the first Soviet test
of a long-range missile in the
summer of 1957, testing pro
ceeded on a fairly logical pat
tern with the culminating test
last April. Ten I.C.B.M.s were
fired. Four firings were abort
ive. Six were successful. Most
were over a range of about
3,000 miles, but the reduced
range only meant that the
Soviets were flying their
I.C.B.M.s with heavy instru
mentation aboard.
IN SUM, there was a pattern
of an average of just about
one I.C.B.M. test each month.
This pattern formed the basis
of the American government's
original, alarmingly high esti
mates of Soviet long-range
missile production. Then the
pattern was broken. After
April, long-range tests ceased.
Almost entirely in conse
quence of this interruption of
testing, the national intelli
gence estimates were "de
graded" - which is Pentagon
gobbledegook for "reduced."
The alteration in the esti
mates meant that the expect
ed curve of Soviet I.C.B.M.
production was considerably
flattened out. It meant putting
off the moment when the
Soviets were predicted to
have operational I.C.B.Ms in
significant numbers. In other
words, it meant that the pro
jected dimensions of the "mis
sile gap" were greatly dimin
ished. This shrinkage of the
missile gap from its former
terrible dimensions was of
course highly convenient, in
view of the budget - first de
fense policy being pursued.
Appearances to the con
trary, however, it can be taken
as quite certain that C.I.A.
Director Allen Dulles and his
staff did not consent to alter
the national intelligence esti
mates in order to serve the
convenience of the Budget
Bureau. There were powerful
reasons for changing the esti
mates, which convinced
Dulles.
AMONG these reasons, the
most solidly based was cer
tainly the argument that you
cannot have operational mis
siles without trained missile
squadrons. The missiles them
selves can be produced, and
produced in great quantities,
without concurrent testing. If
the Soviets went into produc
tion on the basis of ten
I.C.B.M. tests, they made this
decision on the basis of more
data than the American gov
ernment possessed, when the
decision was taken here to
produce the Atlas I.C.B.M.
But you cannot produce
trained missile squadrons
without a testing program to
train the squadrons. Trained
men are needed to fire accu
rate, simultaneous salvos of
large numbers of I.C.B.M.s.
Hence the interpretation of
Soyiet I.C.B.M. tests could
quite legitimately be taken as
proof of the need for a change
in' the original American in
telligence estimates - at least
the estimates of Soviet opera
tional capabilities. Hence the
resumption of testing also has
much significance, especially
in combination with the Pent-
- , -1
Menace
Joseph AIsop
agon's recent, reluctant admis
sion that Soviet I.C.B.M. pro
duction has now begun in
deadly earnest.
NOVEMBER is the month
named in the new official
estimates, for the beginning
of Soviet I.C.B.M. output on
a considerable scale. The basis
for the November date is a
slight but significant nuance
in the language of Nikita
Khrushchev's boasts. In the
autumn, he declared the So
viet I.C.B.M. "was going into
serial production." Later on,
he said it "had gone into
serial production." Again, the
deduction from the Jaet
, seemed entirely reasonable
But after the reasonable
ness of the estimate had been
conceded, one very big ques-
tionj-emams. It is the question
whether a government is justi
fied in gambling the entire na
tional future on any mere in
telligence estimate, however
prayerfully and astutely pre
pared the estimate may be.
You may think the estimate
is very probably right, as this
reporter does - for whatever
that is worth. You may be
lieve that the chance of error
is no more than 5 or at most
10 per cent, as the estimators
believe. But if there is any
chance of error at all, basing
our entire defense policy and
strategy on a hopeful forecast
of Soviet I.C.B.M. output is
still like playing Russian rou
lette, with the whole course
of human history at stake on
the gamble.
(Copright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman it again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond
reports from Washington in his absence.)
WHAT NEXT OVER
BERLIN?
Washington Week after
week, for at least the next
five months, the biggest headline-news
will revolve around
the Berlin crisis. It isn't going
to disappear soon. It isn't go
ing to be settled quickly.
In the wake of Premier
Khrushchev's effort to force
the West out of West Berlin
as Sfalin sought to do 10
years ago; in the wake of
British Prime Minister Har
old Macmillan's reconnais
sance tour to Moscow and the
profitable conversations be
tween President Eisenhower
and Mr. Macmillan here this
past week, it seems to me we
are entering a new phase in
our relations with the Soviet
Union.
This new phase may be
better or it may end by being
worse, but it isn't going to
be the same.
HERE is what I think we
need to keep in the front
of our minds in order to read
the news now in the making:
1 For the first time since
the beginning of the cold war
12 years ago, events are so in
motion that significant ne
gotiation between the Soviet
Union and the Western allies
seems attainable. B y again
threatening West Berlin Mr.
Khrushchev has so stirred
things up that they are not
going to come to rest again
in the way they were before,
no matter what happens. This
means that some issues larger
than Berlin are going to be
in part resolved by negotia
tion or, failing, the cold war
is going to become colder and
tougher.
2 A Big-Four heads-of-gov-ernment
summit meeting
Eisenhower Macmillan, De
Gaulle, and Khrushchev is
now a certainty. Mr. Macmil
lan became convinced in Mos
cow that Premier Khrushchev
is the only Soviet .official pre
pared to make decisions in
foreign affairs and that he
is not willing to negotiate
through a mouthpiece. Presi
dent Eisenhower has for all
practical purposes embraced
this view. You will recall that
he used to talk about being
willing to go to a summit con
ference only if advance prep
aration showed that some use
How Much is U.A.R.
On U.S.S.R.? Answer
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Cairo, United Arab Repub
lic -(LTD- Is the Egyptian-Sy
rian economy mortgaged into
foreseeable future to the So
viet Union?
The Egyptians-here
say
it is not and
that, instead,
President Ga-
al Abdel Nas-
- ser nas exniD-
.-f3 : I :j
lieu cuiisiaer-
able independ-
ence of the
PUil Newsom U. . S. JK. in
his ' campaign against the Sy
rian Communists and in his
demonstrated affection for
President Tito of Yugoslavia.
There are factors to be con
sidered in each argument.
The combined Egyptian-Syrian
army is equipped top to
bottom with Soviet arms.
The list runs from Mig jet
fighters, through submarines,
the latest Russians tanks and
down to small arms. Further,
these supplies are said to have
replacement part to last five
years.
They cost in the neighbor
hood of S250 million up. The
total for both Syria and Egypt
probably is close to $500 mil
lion. Nasser Needs Dam
In the works, but already
agreed upon, are other vast
projects. They include one
which at the official rate of
four rubles to one U. S. dol
lar runs to about $100 million
for development of the first
stages of the Aswan dam.
The dam is an absolute nec
essity to Nasser, who depends
on it to increase Egypt's ar
able land by one-third.
In both Syria and Egypt,
together forming the United
Arab Republic, are industrial
ization programs calling for
construction of railroads, ir
rigation projects and wide
spread factory production.
Altogether, the figures add
up to about $1 billion.
But the figures fail to tell
the entire truth.
Most of the Soviet arms
were obtained in exchange for
Egyptian cotton which Nas
ser was unable to sell any
where else
The rise in plastics and the
consequent difficulties of the
textile industry, notably in
England, have made Egyptian
long staple cotton a drug on
the market even though it is
considered among the best in
the world.
Parties Can Withdraw
The industrialization agree
ments all are subject to fur
ther negotiation.
Not a railroad spur nor an
ful agreement could be reach
ed. In his latest report to the
nation he stated he hoped for
a summit meeting "assuming
developments justify." He did
not say that advance develop
ments would have to assure
agreement.
'TiHIS suggests to me that
Mr. Eisenhower has con
cluded that events in Eastern
and Western Europe, as they
affect both sies, are so in
flux that it is in the inter
ests of the West to Meet with
Mr. Khrushchev to explore
them at the highest level
while they remain in flux and
that a preliminary meeting
of the Foreign Ministers will
not greatly bear on the de
cision to hold a summit meet
ing. 3 We need to see clearly
the nature of the impasse
over Berlin- in order to see
through to what kind of larg
er agreement with the So
viets could remove the im
passe. The impasse is this:
the Soviets want all of the
occupying powers out of West
Berlin even if Germany re
mains dismembered. We will
not leave West Berlin until
Germany is reunited, because
the present East German re
gime is a creature of Moscow.
When President Eisenhow
er and Prime Minister Mac
millan say we will not budge
an inch on our rights of access
to West Berlin, they do not
mean that the Berlin matter
is not in any way negotiable.
They mean that we will
not be pushed out of West
Berlin by Soviet threats.
They mean that we will not
leave West Berlin on any ba
sis without protection for the
independence and freedom of
the 2,000,000 people in West
Berlin.
They mean that the Soviet
made "Berlin crisis" is not ne
gotiable by itself, that a set
tlement can be reached only
if the Soviets and the West
can find a way to reunite
Germany acceptable to both
sides.
The West wants to guard
against the resurgence of Ger
man militarism just as much
as tne Soviets ao. bo aoes
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productive negotiation. ny drug counter.
irrigation ditch will be built
until each detail is agreed
upon specifically. Either party
can withdraw at any time.
But the Egyptians say this:
Nasser is anti-Communist in
his own country but still can
not afford to be anti-U.S.S.R.
This condition will continue
until he can be certain of no-
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Sees DST Trickery
To the Editor: I invite you
to reconsider your editorial
on Daylight Saving Time. I
object particularly to your
opinion that the proposal now
in the legislature is "fair and
logical."
In light of the decisive re
jection of DST by the peo
ple of this state in the recent
past, it seems to me a very
unfair procedure for a few
political tricksters to try to
clamp it on us again as an
"emergency" measure, be
fore opposition can be mus
tered against it.
What is this "emergency?"
What is the great danger
facing the state?
The alleged inconvenience
to tourists in this Centennial
year can hardly qualify as an
emergency.
It is even more unfair to
impose DST with the pro
viso that we cannot vote
against it until 1960.
We had it during the war.
When the war ended we got
rid of it. A few years later
we had it again. We got rid
of it. Does anyone really be
lieve that we don't know
what DST is? That we don't
know how we feel about it?
This is not a contention
that DST should never be
brought up again. The
gentlemen who are so desper
ately anxious for it have a
perfect right to bring it up at
any time. But they do not
have the right to slip it over
as an emergency where no
emergency exists. Nor do they
have the right to saddle us
with it for two years and
then ask us how we like it.
I think that the "fair and
logical" way for these des
perate gentlemen to proceed
would be to try to put it on
the ballot for next fall. So
that the people can choose
whether or not they want to
try Daylight Saving Time for
two years.
Now I challenge you Mr.
Editor. My proposition is the
opposite of the one you en
dorse. If, as you say yours
is fair and logical, then mine
must be unfair and illogical.
Tell us please why it is un
fair, why it is illogical? Spell
it out.
In conclusion it is only
fair for me to say why I am
so opposed to DST. My part
ner, Jack Putney, and I are
the owners of the Lithia
Drive-In Theater. DST if in
stituted will cause us (and
all other drive-in theaters in
the state) severe financial
loss. The biggest part of our
patronage are working peo
ple, who because of the
necessity of getting up early
in the morning, cannot be
expected to attend a movie
that won't even start before
9 or 9:30 in the evening.
Jim Selleck
Lithia Drive-In Theater
Ashland
Sewer Finally Approved
To the Editor, and the citi
zens of the Berrydale com
munity: The publicity given the
criticism and the critic in
Friday's paper, in the report
of the Berrydale Sanitary
sewer approval by the Med
ford city council, disturbs
me, in view of the fact there
are so many facts, figures,
reasons and common sense
behind the project as accept
ed and recommended by the
Citizens Advisory Commit
tee. (1) The city council would
have contributed more than
$29,000 to the project if the
money had been available.
It wasn't.
(2) The city applied for
federal assistance on this
project but it was denied be
cause of lack of funds.
(3) The committee and
city officials turned down
several proposals for con
struction entirely within the
city limits because of ridi
culously high costs. The city
would not have participated
in any of these plans, nor
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Economy Dependent
Said Important
strings support from the West.
In this connection, the U-A.R.
looks wistfully toward the
Western help given Tito.
As proof of Nasser's anti
Communism, Egyptians point
to Nasser's roundup of Com
munists in Syria, risking what
ever deals he may have with
Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
would it have been possible
to apply for federal assist
ance. The project now ordered
in is $70,000 cheaper than
the next lowest proposal.
Acreage costs on two of
these declined proposals run
as high as $300 per acre.
I must sfdmit one thing.
Our critic is consistent. He
led the opposition and criti
cised the Elk City Water dis
trict, the Howard School dis
trict, the Berrydale Sanitary
district and two annexation
proposals within the past
five years. Ask yourselves,
who was responsible for the
area outside the district
boundaries, that would yield
65,000, being left out?
Let's see if our critical
mathematician can come up
with an answer for increased
construction costs and ma
terial over the past three
years. Don't you suppose that
the annexation proposal
begun in 1955 and defeated
in 1956 would have been to
great advantage, in more area
served, at less cost and earlr
er construction?
I wonder if everyone
realizes the hours and hours
spent by the Citizens Com
mittee and Mr. Thorpe and
Mr. Duff studying this proj
ect over and beyond the call
of their duties?
I want to thank you, Mr.
Editor, for your wonderful
editorials during the cam
paign for annexation to the
city. I want to thank each
and every one of you, my
friends, who worked so hard
for annexation and for the
sewer. And let's not forget a
group of our neighbors who1
started working for a sewer
10 years ago and were
beaten down by opposition
and criticism.
The only criticism I have
to offer is tragic. If it hadn't
been for opposition and
criticism, the sewer would
have been constructed sev
eral years ago.
N. F. Gier
Chairman, Berrydale
Sanitation Committee;
Chairman, Berrydale
Annexation Committee;
Citizens Advisory Com
mittee Consolidation Questions
To the Editor: Here are
some questions regarding the
Phoenix consolidation issue
some of us have been wonder
ing about.
How long can Phoenix re
main an independent grade-A
school if we vote to remain
independent?
Do we want to vote every
year with the resultant con
fusion and controversy?
What happens at the 1962
deadline for district reorgani
zation? Does our Wagner Creek
section want to go to Ash-
Reasonable Funerals
(Priced for Everyone)
Frank
Perl j3Hl
FRIENDLY.
Egyptians say the Russian
economic squeeze may go on
at any time and a publisher
here says he already is getting
vague replies to inquiries on
long-promised shipment of
newsprint.
land? Does our industrial area
want to join Medford?
Medford officials haven't
made a definite statement on
the Vocational Agriculture
program. What happens to the
students now enrolled in the
Vo-ag program? What about
the students who will want
these courses in the future?
In past years, how many
students from the outlvinff
areas have ever made the
varsity team in the various
athletic programs? How many
the main band? What would
be the chances of our Phoenix
students?
With all the proposed con-
solidations to Medford it will
increase their school district
from 22.2 square miles to
361.2 square miles. How early
will some of our students have
to leave for school? How late
before they get home? How
good will the transportation
system be and how costly?
Will our assessed evaluation
change in any way if we join
a larger district? How effic
ient and economical would a
school district of this size be,
especially with such widely
varying interests?
If we consolidzte with Tal
ent we will be able to offer
our students more courses, al
though they now have the
necessary courses for college
admission.
But more important, our
children will remain individ
ual personalities and not be
come just one more face and
name. And we will keep our
communities' interests and
money - in our communities.
Mrs. Donald Fredenburg,
341 South Stage rd.,
Medford.
Use Real Leather
To the Editor: It was Inter
esting reading an article in
your publication of the 19th
stating that "the American
hide market was in danger" of
its export 'market.
' Well, that problem could be
taken care if our shoe manu
facturers would start using
real leather in shoes and not
so much cardboard and other
imitations for which the
American public is paying a
handsome price.
E. F. Halgren,
315 Portland ave.,
Medford.
STRIKE OLD LAW
Des Moines, Iowa -IUPD- The
Iowa Senate erased from the
law books Friday a statute de
fining as vagrants "all per
sons camping on any public
highway t the purpose of
trading he f s."
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