4 Tanday, March 24, 1959
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1949 (Thursday)
An estimated 5,000 persons
attend the opening of the new
Greyhound bus terminal here.
Jack Burri3 flies fresh crabs
to Medford from the Cali
fornia coast twice weekly via
Southwest airways.
20 YEARS AGO
March 24. 1939 (Friday)
Gov. Sprague cautions
against too much stress on
partisanship in a luncheon
talk here.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" clumn: "Valley
hens are now setting, with the
usual number getting no re
sults from a white door-knob."
30 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1929 (Sunday)
Five autos, confiscated for
transportation of whiskey, are
sold by the sheriff.
Lyle Fisher's pears bring
a high price on the British
market.
40 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1919 (Monday)
Elmer T. Foss, former Med
ford city recorder, suffers a
broken' leg while riding a
horse in Seattle, Wash.
Federal bureaus promise
consumers lower food prices.
50 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1909 (Wednesday)
The Jackson county court
appropriates $50,000 for con
struction of the Crater Lake
road.
Secretary Miller announces
he will remain in the service
of the Commercial club, with
an assistant to lighten his
work load.
What's Your 1.0.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or efcjht is excellent; five or
lix is good.
1. What is the steam piano
of the circus called?
2. What classification ' of
mail is parcel post? .
3. "Proclaim liberty
inrougnout ail the land, is
part of an inscription on what
famous object?
4. In what city is famous
Downing Street?
5. If you saw a MIG-15,
would you be looking at a
submarine, airplane or Social
Security Form?
6. The Hudson River emp
ties into Hudson Bay; true or
false?
7. Are the Hawaiian Islands
near San Francisco, or Yoko
hama?
8. WU1 the mercury in a
clincial thermometer go down
if the instrument is immersed
In ice water?
9. The type of composition
of the original music of "The
Beautiful Blue Danube" is
mazurka, waltz, or polka?
10. What sweetening agent
is used by. diabetics, who can
not use sugar?
Answers: 1. Calliope. 2,
Fourth Class. 3. Liberty Bell.
4. London. England. 5. Air
plane. 6. False. 7. San Fran
cisco. 8. No. 9. Waltz. 10.
Saccharin.
REDS VISIT JAPAN
Tokyo-dTD-For the first time
since before World War II
Russian tourists began sight
seeing in Japan today. The 21
Soviet visitors, 11 of them
women, arrived Monday un
der a travel agreement signed
last year between Japan and
Russia.
Spring - and the Centennial
Spring arrived last week.
And the weatherman has certainly cooperated.
There have been a few sprinkles of rain (just
enough to keep things fresh and green the way
they should be in the spring) and a lot of sunshine
(just enough to encourage flowers, and leaves and
shrubbery).
The nights have been cool and fresh, and the
days just warm enough to be comfortable and
cool enough to be refreshing.
CPRING means that summer is coming.
And summer, particularly in this Centennial
year, means that visitors are coming coming to
enjoy our scenery, our hospitality and our Cen
tennial. We hope the state, and particularly Jackson
county, will be ready for them.
One way of getting ready is to know enough
about the state to be able to answer intelligently
whatever questions are asked by visitors.
Another is to get into a hospitable frame of
mind.
Still another is to support the efforts of the
good folk who are working to make the Centen
nial successful interesting and productive for
Oregonians and visitors alike.
"NE way in which the latter can be accomplish-
ed is to purchase (for only one dollar) the
"gold nugget" pins being sold in all parts of the
county to " '59ers."
These designate membership in the Jackson
County Centennial association, and the money
raised from the sale goes for projects of the
association such things as the Visitors' Welcom
ing Stockade on the summit of the Siskiyous.
The pins, if nothing else, will be good "ice
breakers when you run across an out-of-state visi
tor. "What's that?" he'll say, pointing at your
lapel. "Well, that's a gold nugget in a gold pan,"
you'll answer. "You see, in the early 1850's, over
in Jacksonville you should see it, by the way
they discovered gold ..."
And there you are, good host, pleasant con
versation, satisfied guest. E.A.
Little Electrics
Americans have created an automobile-borne
civilization.
In recent years, with the growth of leisure
time, an increase in suburban living, and with
larger take-home pay envelopes, more and more
families are becoming the owners of two cars.
Ihe availability of small cars, manv of them
foreign made, which are generally cheaper than
the larger "traditional" American cars, has speed
ed this trend. Used cars, too, not as prestigeous
as the "No. 1" family car, but cheaper, have play
ed a part.
DICYCLES and motor-scooters haven't "caught
on" in America for adult use as they have
in many other countries, particularly in Europe.
Jtsut now comes news
which has the potentiality
car trend to new neignts.
It is desenbed m
World, which reports the "Shopper-Commuter"
J- - Jl 1 1 i i 1 i -v i
is operated Dy electricity, weigns sou pounds,
runs 50 miles a day on one charge, will use only
$d worth of electricity per month to recharge its
batteries, and will retail at an estimated price of
$750.
THE car is now in the
zine says, and will be produced if financing
can be secured.
We could be wrong, but we have a feeling
they would go like hot-cakes if they are ever put
on the market at the indicated price and perform
according to specifications.
The body, made of reinforced plastic, would
come in two models, convertible and convention
al, on a low chassis with three -or four small
wheels using low-pressure tires.
Three or four rechargeable batteries would
provide the three to five horsepower for two
electric motors at the rear wheels, sufficient to
give speeds up to 40 miles per hour. On downhill
grades, the motors would generate current
which would automatically recharge the bat
teries. At night, a cord could be plugged into a house
hold circuit to provide the batteries with enough
energy to run the car for 50 miles.
JMTOST homes built these days come equipped
m . with two-car garages. Most families would
like two cars, whether or not they can, right now,
afford them.
If a car is offered at $750 which will do all
that anyone usually asks of a second car that is,
to take you to the grocery, or use to go to and
from work we foresee a real boom in the little
buggies.
. Might be that pop could even borrow it from
mom on Sundays and use as a golf cart from
which they have been adapted, anyway. E.A.
Standard Time GrouD
Portland-(UPD-A group call
ed the Oregon standard Time
Committee Monday charged
that daylight saving time in
the state would do "srious fi
nancial injury" to the Cen
tennial Exposition. Commit-
of a new kind of car.
of spurring the second-
the magazine, Electrical
design stage, the maga
Sees Financial Injury
tee chairman is Elmer Mc
Clure, master of the Oregon
State Grange. The fast time
bill is expected to come up
for a vote in the House at
Salem tomorrow or Wednes
day.
Dennis the
bihmoau eoTTAr
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
GOP MONEY WORRIES
Washington The Republi
can party is suffering the all
but novel experience of be-
"ling badly
short on mon
e y with
which to face
the I960 Pres
idential and
Congressional
j campaigns . .
Worse yet,
the ordinarily
William S. a"
White es are still
showing no sign of being pre
pared generously to open up.
This is perhaps the most sig
nificant single political fact
of today. It is even more im
portant, though far less dra
matic, than the slowly devel
oping personal contest be
tween Vice-President Richard
M. Nixon and Governor Nel-!
son Rockefeller of New York
for the 1960 Presidential
nomination.
For it has never been any
secret that, by and large,
raising adequate money has
not been to the Republicans
anything like the painful
problem it has usually been
to the Democrats. This has
been particularly true in
those periods when Republi
can administrations have
been in power.
VOW, however, though the
Republicans do quite un
deniably still hold the White
House, the plain fact is that
contributions to the party are
hardly above a trickle. This
can be said with total confi
dence after a good deal of
snooping about; naturally,
neither party is anxious to
discuss its cash register in
public except on occasions
where special needs overcome
all reticence.
The most-striking part of
the thing is that checks to
the GOP from the so-called
Wall Street crowd are now
just about as grudging as
those from smaller business.
This "Wall Street crowd,"
the very, very rich interna
tionalist industrialists and
bankers from the East, form
ed the financial"" core of the
original pro - Eisenhower
movement in the party. The
orthodox and predominantly
Midwestern Republican smaller-business
men for the most
part were never enthusiastic
about this Administration.
The fact that these are now
sitting on their checkbooks is
thus not so upsetting. But it
is an unkind cut, indeed, that
"the big Eastern fellows," as
sometimes they are called,
are doing much the same
thing.
' t
ALL this presents a truly
basic, and possibly a
frightening, problem to the
GOP. -
For the general readiness
of business to contribute to
the party has been in the his
torical sense its greatest fi
nancial surety just as, more
recently, the financial sheet
anchors of the Democrats
have been the vast labor
unions. And while business
money refuses these days to
move in any impressive sums
into the GOP, the Republi
can pros entertain the most
lively and gloomy suspicions
that the Democrats will feel
no equivalent drought from
their labor sources.
It is, of course, far too ear
ly to suppose that the GOP
will actually be starved out
in the 1960 campaigns. In
deed, all history suggests that
even the most worry-prone
Republican partisan need not
have anything like so ex
treme a fear. All the same, it
is a fact that those who must
raise the money are feeling
the increasing twinge of anx
iety.
WHAT, then, has happened
within the Grand Old
Party to cause so many to
Menace
S. WHITE
withhold so many contribu
tions? These are among the
explanatory factors:
1. Some are holding back
simply in exasperation and
anger at the very poor show
ing of Republican Congres
sional candidates last Novem
ber. 2. Some are playing It
close to the chest because the
GOP national committee is
essentially a pro-Nixon group.
No doube they wish to avoid
getting too close to the pres
ent Nixon-led party organiza
tion in case Governor Rocke
feller should defeat Mr. Nix
on at the 1960 convention
and thus become the new
party king.
3. Some are muttering in
anger at the Republican party
generally because of disen
chantment with the Eisen
hower Administration and
with some of its policies. Spe
cifically, a good many busi
nessmen are privately furious
at the Justice Department un
der Attorney General Wil
liam P. Rogers. They accuse
"Justice" of brandishing
threats of Federal anti-trust
suits and the like before cor
porations almost as frequent
ly as in the days of Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
"Almost as bad as the New
Deal," they growl. And this,
to them, is the ultimate in
epithets.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond
reports from Washington in his absence.)
BLURRING THE
BUDGET ISSUE
Washington-Are the Demo
cratic leaders going to be will
ing to face the Eisenhower
balance-the-budget issue head
on and soon in order that the
voters may have some say in
the outcome?
They are not doing it so far.
The effect of Democratic
speeches and Democratic ma
neuver is to blur the issue,
confuse the issue, and so de
lay the issue that it will be
difficult to determine who has
unbalanced the budget, where,
and for what reason. And it
will come so late in the ses
sion that public opinion will
have little chance to make it
self felt one way or the other!
If the Democrats are going
to meet the Eisenhower hold-the-line
budget issue and give
the voters a chance to support
or reject an alternative poli
cy, they must do two things:
1. They must quit jiggering
the budget piece-meal, adding
a hunk here, chipping off a
corner there, and, instead, of
fer Congress and the country
a coherent, total spending pro
gram which they can look at
whole and decide whether
they want it.
2. Do it soon enough so
that the consequences of the
Democrats' national budget
good or bad-can be seen and
judged in comparison with
the Eisenhower national budg
et. WHEN the President sent his
budget to Congress - pre
cariously balanced, but still
balanced, with an estimated
$70,000,000 surplus -he was
beginning to point up a real,
fundamental, and philosophi
cal difference between the
Democratic and Republican
parties.
Mr. Eisenhower, even in the
face of a $40,000,000,000 de
fense program, is proposing
to hold-the-line on a great
deal of federal spending; he
was freezing some programs,
cutting others, and proposing
little in the way of new or in
creased public services. He
emphasized balancing the
budget as a vital end in itself
and as a measure to hold in
flation. If he could get a sur
plus, his priority was to use
it either to reduce the debt or
cut taxes.
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God Bless Them Anyway
To the Editor: God bless
the padres and the swallows.
Maybe as Mr. Clifford says
the swallows did not return
to San Juan Capistrano on St.
Joseph's day, or St. Patrick's
day either.
Maybe George Washington
did not throw a dollar across
the Delaware or Teddy
Roosevelt lead the charge up
San Juan hill, or the whale
swallow Jonah or David slay
Goliath. So what?
For the sake of those good
old padres, who struggled and
suffered to build the missions
along El Camino Real as far
north as Sonoma, who tried
to bring Christianity to this
part of the world, to them I
say God bless you and the
swallows regardless of when
they return to Capistrano. .
Michele Rossi,
115 Crater Lake ave.,
Medford
Not Adversa
r To the Editor: For your
thoughtful, kind and cour
teous editorial on "versify
ing" (M-T, March 18) may we
thus express appreciation and
approval?
Not Adverse to "Versus
Verses"
We view with awe that tooth
and claw
Would be applied-woe's me!
If we send in a "versekin"
Resembling poetry.
Yet note, with pride we
cannot hide,
gave M-Ts permission
For a "rhyme"-occasion'ly.
Yes! In this life of stress and
strife- '
Eternal crisis! Gee!
We need some sign along the
line,
Of mirth and melody.
So all we bards (?)-and would
be "cards"
Received it gratefully
And with your "Versus
Verses"
Do heartily agree!
"Gold Hill Billy"
Gold Hill, Ore.
Officials Inadequate
To the Editor: For the bene
fit of any interested reader
may I quote from the edito
rial page of the Financial
World Magazine?
"Military supplies provided
by the United States to other
countries have been pilfered
and diverted to civilian uses.
"Lack of judgment has been
Here, at last, there appear
ed to be in the making a basic
party divergence of both prin
ciple and practice. Most of the
Democrats said they wanted
to spend for defense, more for
housing, health, aid to educa
tion, airports, roads, and aid
to distressed areas where un
employment is still high. At
the same time many Demo
crats argued that more feder
al spending would promote
economic growth and that an
unbalanced budget might
even be beneficial.
There is no doubt, I think,
that a pretty sizable gulf
spreads out between the two
parties on this budget-spending
issue. But so far it is being
fogged by a piece-meal ap
proach and the prospect is
that it will be cleared so late
in the session that neither
Congress nor the country will
quite know what's happening
before it is too late.
THITHER by default or by de
sign, the Democrats are
tending to conceal the issue
rather than clarify it.
Obviously the very methods
of Congressional operation
contribute to blurring the is
sue. By long habit and by the
jealously guarded division of
authority between commit
tees, Congress always consid
ers and acts upon the spend
ing side of the budget item by
item-and never in total and
never in relationship to rev
enue.
The appropriation commit
tees and the tax revenue com
mittees consider spending and
revenue separately-never to
gether.
This means that in the up
coming airport and housing
bills, which the Democrats
have somewhat cut back un
der White House pressure, the
Democratic majority is al
ready in process of unbalanc
ing the budget-but no one
will know for sure until Con
gress is nearing adjournment,
The reasons will be blurred,
responsibilitity will be blur
red. The only way Congress and
the country can intelligently
choose a Democratic party al
ternative to the Eisenhower
budget is to have a chance to
look at it whole, soon.
It seems to me that the
Democratic majority -or the
shown in ordering. One for
eign motor pool received
enough tires in a year to pro
vide 44 tires for each truck.
"Another country is erect
ing apartment houses for ci
vilians with materials sup
plied by the U.S. for military
construction.
"One country has an instal
lation equipped by the U.S. to
manufacture private airplanes
for its military officers.
"Language difficulties and
supply officers, particularly
in Asia, inadequate to their
tasks, result in situations as
stock records kept for 'so
many cases of "this side up" '
and a base supply depot with
ammunition enough to last
185 years."
In another article on the
same page it stated, "Recent
ly, we were given added cause
for worry: The caliber of the
men who are exercising this
power. It was bad enough to
read about the Congressmen
who were adding relatives to
government payrolls as soon
as they were out of swaddling
clothes. But the nadir of leg
islative dignity was reached
by a freshman Representative
from Indiana.
"Asked " about the employ
ment of his wife as an aide
and the renting of his front
porch at government expense
as an office, Rep. Randall
Harmon (D-Ind.) had this to
say:
" 'I don't care what you
write about me anyway. I
don't read newspapers. I do
have the hometown paper
sent here, but don't read any
thing in that except the funny
papers.
We hope the learned gen
tleman from Indiana is not
casting his votes relevant to
space-age decision on the ba
sis of what he learns from
Buck Rogers.
I often wonder how our
forefathers who fought for
our liberty and rights would
react to the way we are losing
them.
Mrs. Ed Canoose
55 Ross Court
Medford
Poetic Posey
To the Editor:
Just a few lines as I sit here
this morn,
From as poor a verse writer
as ever was born.
I want you to know I like
your work,
Should have said it before,
but from such tasks I
shirk.
I like your .Graham meeting
mentions.
Your police on verse might
relieve some tensions.
Your civic aspirations
man, they're real gone,
Your Thursday paper for us
is worth waitin' on.
Maybe when Harry takes
the extra chair,
We'll have lots of news,
maybe some to spare.
Of course the language
strong might be,
But we'll have real news
so why worry.
I am writing to tell you
there is no complaint,
From the pen of this would
be poet who ain't.
Kenneth Harger
741 Posse lane
Medford.
P. S. I really do like your
paper and consider the sub
scription price money well
spent.
Comments on Bill
To the Editor: Being one of
those who might benefit from
a deferral tax, I would like to
comment on the bill passed by
the mental giants in the house
as published in Friday's paper.
Anyone with an income of
$4,000 a year and a home is
rich. We are talking about old
people, understand; an income
of $1500 or less would be
much more realistic.
And then they charge inter
est how much ' they were
ashamed to say, and then
when the bill equals the ap
praised value of the home I ex
pect it's sold for taxes and this
is called helping old people to
stay off relief.
I think Governor Hatfield
had a really good idea. It
would have cut the state in
come a little but would have
saved the state many dollars
Democratic Advisory Council
-owes it to the country to
show openly what they want
the public to approve rather
than to remake the budget
piece-meal behind the cur
tains. (Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Matter of Fact
'CURIOUSER AND
CURIOUSER'
Washington - In the lan
guage of "Alice," the politi
cal situation in the Soviet
Union is get
ting curioiiser
and curious
er. It could
3h1 even turn out
jgj to have rather
J more bearing
3 on the Berlin
5
j crisis than the
ritual consui
t a t i o n s be-
Jospb Alsop iween me
President and Prime Minister
Macmillan.
The latest enigma is the
abrupt replacement of the
Chairman of the State Plan
ning Commission, Iosif Kuz
min, by his own deputy, Al
exei Kosygin. In American
terms, this is like the sudden,
unexplained replacement of
the Secretary of the Treasury
plus the Director of the Budg
et Bureau. The evidence is too
conflicting to be made clear
who has been doing what to
whom; that the Kuzmin-Kosy-gin
shift is certainly linked to
inner party politics in some
way or other.
What makes the latest enig
ma so vividly interesting,
however, is its place at the
end of a considerable list of
other enigmas. Taken togeth
er, they indicate that all sorts
of contradictory forces are
still at work within the Krem
lin, behind the facade of Niki
ta Khrushchev's seemingly
monolithic control. The proof
is plain, if the enigmas are
simply listed item by item.
TTEM: The, party secretaries
(i.e., the party bosses) of
two provincial districts and
the ultra-important Moscow
district were recently disci
plined and cashiered. These
in the long haul. I can think
of no name that will properly
fit the bill as published and
hope the governor vetoes it.
Arthur Moore
608 Terrace st.
Ashland.
They Suffer Now
To the Editor: In Monday's
communications column, it
was mentioned that the drive
in theater group would suffer
financial loss if Daylight Sav
ings Time were instituted in
Oregon.
The broadcasting industry
IS suffering financial loss,
while Oregon remains "be
hind the times"! No matter
what the outcome, it will not
please everyone, either social
ly or financially.
Tom MacLeod,
Manager,
Radio Station KYJC
Twins Separated
By Rare Surgery
London -(UPD- Ten-month-old
Siamese twin boys sep
arated by a rare operation
struggled for life today in in
dividual hospital cribs. They
were joined at the head at
birth.
Officials at St. Bartholo
mew's hospital in suburban
St. Alban's said the operation
was successful but that the
boys were in critical condi
tion. The twins were Timothy
and Jeremy Thackeray, part
of triplets born to 37-year-old
Mrs. Kathleen Thackeray
last May 2. The third child,
Peter Martin, was normal.
Their father, Hendon bank
manager Reginald Thacker
ay, said neither he nor his
wife was told beforehand of
the operation performed by
the hospital's neuro-surgical
unit.
The operation, the first of
its kind in a London hospital,
was performed by 52-year-old
neuro-surgeon J.E.A. O'Con
nell, who has written many
articles for British medical
magazines.
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men were charged with hav
ing conducted an agitation in
the party cells in their dis
trict, and especially in the
military cells of the party,
against measures to discipline
the so-called "anti-party .
group" of Khrushchev's ene
mies at the party congress in
January.
This must mean that
Khrushchev tried and failed
to get the party congress to
use really severe measures
against his enemies. It must
mean further that he was op
posed by the Red Armv. at
any rate at that time.
ITEM: At the Coneress it
self, the wicked "anti-party
group" was endlessly de
nounced, with snecial shrill
ness by the now-demoted Kuz-
min. The lesser, more lately
mentioned members of tha
group, old Nikolai Bulaanin.
Pervukhin (whom Kuzmin es
pecially attacked (and Sabur-
ov, all came before the con
gress and grovelled in proper
torm. But the key. original
members of the group, Georgl
Malenkov. Vvacheslav Molo-
tov, Kaganovich and Shepilov,
were all noteworthy absen
tees and non-grovellers. Item
two fits neatly on to Item one.
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to transfer Khrushchev's sin
gle most-influential enemy,
Vyacheslav Molotov, from his
ambassadorial post in Outer
Mongolia to tne Soviet Em
bassy to the Netherlands. In
Eulan-Bator, Molotov is be
lieved to be in close contact
with the Chinese Communists,
who are in turn believed to
take a major stand in the in
ner party intrigues in the
Kremlin. If Molotov had gone
to The Hague, the contact
with the Chinese would have
been broken. But Molotov did
not go, although the Dutch did
not object.
ITEM: Also prior to the par
ty congress, a much-touted
plenum of the Central Com
mittee of the party was held
in Moscow. After the plenum,
the absolutely unprecedented
step was taken of publishing
the transcript of the discus
sions. The main points dis
cussed were the familiar sins
of the anti-party group, and
the glories of Nikita Khrush
chev's agricultural program.
The break with precedent im
plied a desire to intimidate the
political opponents. And
again, the absentees at the
plenum were noteworthy.
Those who attended were al
most exclusively the provin
cial party leaders, who have
always been mainly pro
Khrushchev. Among the key'
people the heights in Moscow,
only Khrushchev himself ap
peared and spoke.
ALL these items combined
suggest that the enormous
power now concentrated in
Khrushchev's hands is , only
conditional power as yet. If
Khrushchev has indeed tried
and failed to discipline his en
emies more sharply, and to
ship Molotov off to The
Hague, then he cannot as yet
be the absolute master in the
Kremlin house. He must have
enough opponents, probably
old Stalinists in the main, to
prevent him from carrying all
before him in the most crucial
of all areas, the area of inner
party politics.
That fact in turn undoubt
edly has enormous meaning in
terms of the Berlin crisis. To
be sure, it may mean that
Khrushchev has threatend
Berlin because he had to con
ciliate the Stalinist advocates
of a hard line. Or it may mean
that Khrushchev is taking a
great personal gamble, in or
der to win such a victory that
no one will dare to oppose
him. Either way, however, it
may not be easy for Khrush
chev to back down in the
manner so hopefully predict
ed by the American policy
makers. (Copyright 1959. New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
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