4 Thursday, March 26, 1959
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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1949 (Saturday)
Residents of school district
40 in the Applegate area plan
a "clean up" day to clear land
recently contributed to the
Community by Ed Kubli.
The Philharmonic Society
of Southern Oregon plans a
program of spirituals.
20 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1939 (Sunday)
Gov. Charles A. Sprague ex
tends a message of hope at a
Chamber of Commerce dinner-forum
here.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
country meadows are dotted
with wobbly-legged calves and
lambs, always crying for their
Maws."
30 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1929 (Tuesday)
The Talent Grange plans a
membership drive.
A motorcycle speeder is sen
tenced in a local court to 10
days on foot,
40 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1919 (Wednesday)
Nine measures are to be
voted on in a special state
election in June. ;
The Jackson county speed
cop resigns his post.
50 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1909 (Friday)
Many purchases of automo
biles and typewriters in the
Medford area are pointed out
as barometers of local wealth.
The federal government re
ports it is standing by to con
duct surveys for the Crater
Lake road as soon as the com
mission is appointed.
.What's Yourl.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good. ?
1. - In measuring for cook
ery, is a teaspoonful 1-3 or Vz
of a tablespoonful?
2. What is the common
name for sodium chloride?
3. At Cock Robin's wedding
who was the clerk?
4. How long did George
Washington live in the White
House?
5. With what day of the
week does a month need to
start, in order to have a Fri
day the 13th?
6. In parts of the Sahara,
no rain ever ' reaches t h e j
ground; true or false? j
7. Persons born now in the
Virgin Islands are citizens
of the U. S.;. true or false?
8. Which of these is the
most valuable metal in the
world?; gold, platinum, or ra
dium? 9. What was the first name
of the composer, Chopin?
10. What leaves constitute
the diet of silkworms?
Answers: 1. One-third. 2.
Salt. 3. The Lark. 4. Not at
all. 5. Sunday. 6. True. 7.
True. 8. Radium. 9. Frederic.
10. Mulberry leaves.
QUESTION OF CLUBS
Milwaukee, Wis. - HTD -Mrs.
Zee Slater, 44. today had
a divorce from husband John,
59 on charges the right clubs
didn't belong to him. Circuit
Judge Michael T. Sullivan
accepted her compFaint that
her husband, a golf pro, quit
the game after their marriage
and, sold her clubs without
her knowledge.
School Consolidation
There are probably as many opinions on the
various school consolidation and reorganization
proposals locally as there are thinking people in
Jackson county. . .
Eveiyone is affected. But each is affected in
a slightly different way.
One may feel the proposed changes chiefly
in his pocketbook, in tax changes.
Another may feel it in the better (or vice
versa) availability of good schooling for his child.
Still another may be motivated by feelings of
local pride or prestige.
And so it goes. . -
.
"THERE have been, and there will continue to
be, disputes over what are the best solutions
to the situation facing the county's school districts.
And it should be recognized that perfectly hon
est, intelligent people can hold diametrically op
posed views, simply because they base their con
clusions on differing sets of facts.
In a county as large and diverse as Jackson,
there probably is no perfect school administrative
set-up. The best that can be hoped for is to achieve
a workable system, one which will do the best
possible job in educating the youngsters of the
county, which will cost as little as is commensur
ate with good schools, and which is fair to all
areas.
.
117ITH that much out of the way, we should add
that, based on the facts made available so
; far, we lean toward approval of the proposed con
solidation of the Medford, Jacksonville, Ruch,
Griffin Creek, Lone Pine and part of Howard
districts, even though in common with other
residents of the Medford district it will cost us
; a few cents a month more in property taxes.
Our chief concern is; for the quality of the
schools. And because of our observation of the
Medford school system over the years, we are
convinced it is a solid administrative base on
which to erect the structure of the big new school
district proposed.
But "quality" in schools means a lot more than
'just a good administrative
! nil li i 1
a wen-inougnt-out ana supervised curriculum,
adequate transportation, well-trained and effec
tive teachers who are' adequately paid, an ade
quate physical plant. v
A LL these things are possible, but only in a
"school district which has the ability, the know
how and the financial resources to supply them.
All these such a district as is proposed would
have. It could preserve even improve the gen
erally good school programs of the existing dis
tricts. There's one additional reason why we plan to
vote for the consolidation. That is because it is
proposed by school leaders in ALL the districts
involved as the best solution available.
They, rather than the state department of edu
cation, are in the best position to know. And if
consolidation is not accomplished on our own
local terms, reorganization can be imposed by
the state.
We'll take the proposal which has been
thought out here. E.A. .
No Harm Done
The Great Editorial Writers Intimidation of
1959 turned out to be a love feast or at least a
forgive-and-forget session -Monday. J
In case it had escaped' your attention, the
four members of the editorial writing staff, of the
Portland Oregonian were subpenaed by Rep.
Clarence Barton, chairman of the House taxa
tion committee, for. an appearance before the
committee Monday afternoon.
Barton issued the subpenas last week after
expressing exasperation with the advice offered
his committee by the Oregonian's editorials. The
implication was, "If they're so darned smart, let
them show us in person."
IT WAS a petty display of temper, and we have
a hunch that Barton (who is highly regarded
by those who know him) regretted the outburst
almost as soon as it was over.
However, reports of the. Monday session ap
pearing in the upstate press indicated that he at
least had the courage to go through with the thing
he'd started.
The editorial writers brought with them pre
pared statements softly reproachful about the
subpenas; Barton explained that hie wasn't try
ing to embarrass anyone or impair their dignity,
and that was that. " -'
IITE consider the subpenas to have been an out-
growth of what, for lack of a better name,
could be called "mid-session madness," ' and do
not see in them any threat, express or implied, to
the freedom of the press. It was just ill-tempered
bad judgment.
The function of an editorial column is to com
ment, to explain, to propose, occasionally to ad
vise, and once in a while admonish the same
function that any thoughtful citizen performs in
his assessment of the news of the moment.
As the individual must stand up for his opin
ions and take any consequences that come from
their expression, so the editorial writer.
If the consequences in the case of the editorial
writers' subpenas had turned out to be harrass
ment under threat of arrest, that would have been
one thing. As it' was, however, it turned out to be
nothing but an understandable, if ill-conceived,
grandstand play dramatizing the extreme diffi
culties and pressures under which the legislative
tax-writers find themselves. E.A.
organization it means
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9
Irrepressible Harold
Sets Sights
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - UPI) - Harold
Edward Stassen has lowered
his sights somewhat and
comes up
now as a Re
public a n
Candida te
for Mayor of
Philadelphia.
Stassen
was governor
of his native
Minnesota 20
years ago
.vi c. wiisan ana xne re-
after three times a candidate
for the Republican presiden
tial nomination.
Politics, like truth, is
stranger than fiction. Stassen
proves that. He will be 52
years of age on April 13, a
youngish man still, but old
politically before his time.
If Stassen fails this time in
his move for the mayoralty,
your corespondent and others
would not be astonished if
he tried to seize a lower rung
of the political ladder, county
attorney maybe, municipal
judge or councilman.
Firmly fixed in Stassen's
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond
reports from Washington in his absence.)
ANTI-FARM REVOLT
IN THE MAKING
Washington - If - Congress
doesn'.t soon rescue the Ameri
can people from an irrational,
unworkable, extravagant, and
deteriorating mess of a farm
program-the third most costly
in the whole budget-something
is going to happen.
That, I think, is putting it
mildly.
What is going to happen if
the farm bloc doesn't join with
the rest of Congress to halt
the Frankensteinian monster
of mounting surplusses, aggra
vated by price supports which
pile up bigger surplusses, is
that, as sure as a hangover
follows a "lost week end,"
there will be a massive politi
cal revolt by the voting con
sumer. And then watch out. It won't
be good. It won't be good for
the farmer. It won't be good
for the country. It will be a
furious revolt against an evil
too long tolerated. The effect
will, be to strike down what
is wrong-a nearly $9 billion
agricultural budget which is
making matters worse, not
better-with little likelihood of
putting something worthwhile
and reasonable in its place.
THE key fact to bear in mind
is that the policy of paying
farmers-mostly wheat, cotton,
and corn farmers-to grow
more crops they can't sell ex
cept to the government which
already has to spend a billion
dollars a year just to keep
them, is a failure.
It is a failure because it
is not solving the farm prob
lem; it is aggravating it.
It is a failure because those
parts of the agricultural econ
omy which are not living in
the -oxygen tent of govern
ment subsidy, are better off
than those which are and
they may soon be poisoned
by the same medicine.
It is a failure because, un
less every American farmer
is to be put in the vise of
Federal control, high rigid
price supports will continue
to bring larger crops, more
surplusses, more drain on the
Treasury, and will keep more
uneconomic farms farming.
It is a failure because the
bulk of the farm payments
do not go to the little farmer,
to the neediest farmer, or
even to the bulk of all farm
ers. Take the wheat subsidy,
the biggest of all. The bulk of
Federal payments go to 10
per cent of those who grow
wheat. Those who least need
the subsidy inevitably earn
the most of it.-
Menace
on Mayorality
big, blond head is the idea
that he will, sometime, be
nominated and elected Presi
dent of the United States.
Others have had that idea be
fore him and failed.' Few,
however, have pursued the
rainbow with greater enthus
iasm. Three times elected
governor of Minnesota, Stas
sen resigned with most of a
third term still to serve.
He resigned for Naval serv
ice, 1943-45 in World War II.
Stassen's service was distin
guished administratively and
in combat.
The young governor had
identified himself with the
maverick, unbranded ele
ments of the Republican Par
ty in 1940 when he floor
managed the national conven
tion forces which licked the
party regulars and made the
late Wendell L. Willkie the
Republican presdential nomi
nee. In 1944, aged 37, Stassen
was a candidate for the nomi
nation himself and again in
1948 and 1952. His great de
cision, however, was that
which shifted his voting resi-
THIS is not going to go on
forever. The American peo
ple are going to call a halt
to it and they will call a halt
with a crash if Congress
doesn't replace it soon with
something rational.
. No sensible persons wants
to see' all Federal assistance
to agriculture thrown out the
window. That's not the an
swer. But that will almost
certainly be the consequence
before long unless Congress
begins to put some sense and
sanity into the program.
I hope we don't waste much
time trying to point the fin
ger at who's to blame. Both
major parties have a large
responsibility for the plight
we are in and there are still
some cynical politicians who
suggest that there is perhaps
one more election to be won
-at least in their districts-by
perpetuating the present un
savory, unsatisfactory, and in
solvent mess.
TT IS
well that Secretary
A
Benson is beginning to
speak out more bluntly, as
he did at Cornell University
this week. Obviously he has
been pained beyond endur
ance by the crack that he
has become the most expen
sive Secretary of Agriculture
in history. It hurts because
it is true and it hurts more
because, as some may not
realize, he has been faithfully
administering a set of laws
and price formulas which this
and other Congresses framed
and w,hich neither the Presi
dent nor he has ever had the
power to change.
I would like to see Secre
tary Benson be given, for
once, a chance to administer
a farm problem he believes
in. and which would adjust
price supports to levels lead
ing to the market place, not
to storage bins.
The premises of such a pro
gram would be: (A) it mustn't
cost more than the present
program, preferably less; (B)
should give the farmer great
er freedom, not less; (C) should
reduce, not increase, farm
surplusses.
Secretary Benson believes
that a billion dollars can be
saved and farmers greatly
benefited by adjusting wheat
supports alone to a point
w'hich would lead to sales.
My own conviction is that
unless a workable and toler
able program is forthcoming
soon, a political rebellion
hurtful to the farmer will be
fanned into flames.
Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
vayjiuau, iidvj jdiu viiy ur y luicnte,
Dust, Fear; Controlled by Communists
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Baghdad, Iraq - flitt) - This
is a city of dust, violence and
fear.
An Iraqui armored car
cariric pt the walled entrance
to the United
States Em
bassy. Iraqi sol
diers lounge
S on either side
-4 of the gate,
tneir rmes at
the ready. An
Iraqi civilian,
LI Tka .f!pr!!enJ,a
i'tul rseusom wive i iuc
Iraq government, examines
passports of all visitors and
carefully notes their names.
The government says it is
a necessary precaution for the
safety of the embassy.
Necessary or not, Iraqi
troops are camped on what
technically is U. S. soil.
Guard Baghdad Radio
Several miles away, and on
the opposite side of the Tigris,
Stassen
dence from Minnesota to the
East where in 1948 he became
President of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is a big, in
dustrial state, a power in the
Republican Party which Min
nesota is not. Stassen's pur
pose in making Pennsylvania
his base' of political opera
tions was clear, reasonable
and hazardous. The hazard
was that the Pennsylvania
regulars would not accept
him, and they did not.
Stassen did not figure much
in the Republican polities' of
1951-52 which was centered
largely on draft-Ike, stop-Taft
maneuvers. Appointive office
in and about the White House
and the state department af
ter 1952 failed to provide
Stassen with the political
springboard and identity
He achieved that identity
Matter of Fact aiop
"LIBERATION"
SIX YEARS LATER
Washington - Although the
Eisenhower - Macmillan talks
explored many a byway, one
question was
central and
f u ndamental.
In blunter lan
guage than
the high-level
talkers prob-
tM ably used, this
was me ques
tion of wheth
er to sanctify
4ns-ph Alson ulu quu
in Eastern Europe, including
the division of Germany.
It has been pretty obvious
from the outset that obtain
ing the sanctification of the
Eastern European status quo
was the immediate , goal of
Nikita Khrushchev's pressure
on Berlin.
While West Berlin exists as
an island of freedom in the
surrounding wasteland of ty
ranny, East Germany's Com
munist regime can never
achieve true stability. East
Germany's instability in turn
affects all the other Soviet
satellites in Eastern Europe.
But let the light of freedom
be dimmed out on the Kurfur
stendamm. Then the slimy
Walter Ulbricht will have no
great difficulty in transform
ing Eastern Germany into a
tidy, profitable, dependable
satellite, rather like Czecho
slovakia, and the Kremlin's
European problem -will be
solved
IZ'HRUSHCHEV said all this
quite bluntly and plainly
to the British Prime Minister,
during the Macmillan "recon
naissance" in Moscow. Natu
rally, the language used by
Khrushchev was of a rather
different sort. He demanded
the abandonment of "the pol
icy of rollback" (which is
Kremlinese for -what John
Foster Dulles calls "libera
tion"). He insisted that the
political "facts of life" in
Eastern Europe must be "rec
ognized" and accepted. He in
dicated that the situation in
Berlin was intolerable to the
Kremlin, because Free Berlin
was a symbol and an instru
ment of the "policy of roll
back." Khrushchev has been hold
ing forth on the same theme
to this reporter among many
others, on- aU sorts -of occa
sions during the last two
years. ,He has now gone on
from words to deeds, as he
indicated to Macmillan, be
cause he thinks he is justified
in doing so by the changes
in East-West balance of mili
tary power.
THE Khrushchev complaints
about Berlin, and his de
mands that the West face the
political "facts of life" were
in fact sharply seasoned .with
boasts about new Soviet of
fensive weapons of immense
destructive power. On this
point, Macmillan is reported
is an even more heavily
guarded building.
It houses the studio of
Baghdad radio, center of the
propaganda war being waged
with Cairo. It also houses the
office of the chief censor, the
office which aU news corres
pondents must visit at one
time or another.
Here also soldiers stand
with rifles grimly at the
ready.
And here, the visitor is told
by gruff gestures to raise his
arms and submit to search
for hidden weapons.
A bulging card tfase in Sa
hip pocket brings on a tense
moment and the visitor pro
duces the case quickly to
prove it is nothing lethal.
There is little laughter and
much fear in this police state.
And the mood of depression
Is heightened by the dust.
It hangs in a yellow pall
over the city, clogging the
throat and irritating the eyes.
It drifts in with the wind
from the surrounding desert,
and even the green of the
palms and hedges fades be
neath it.
This is a state divided. On
the one side are those Arab
nationalists who, if they
could, would be followers of
in 1955-56, however, by head
ing up the public operation
designed to prevent Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
from succeeding ' President
Eisenhower in the White
House or of being nominated
if Eisenhower ran .again. Stas
sen took a bruising beating
on that one. .
, Last year Stassen bid for
Pennsylvania's gubernatorial
nomination. P e n n sylvania's
party leaders cut him down.
Chose, instead, a political un
known named Arthur T. Mc
Goniele. The Democrats all
but ran the Republicans out
of the state on election day.
That was Stassen's good luck.
If he can now be elected
mayor of Philadelphia, the
man from Minnesota will be
on his way again and the
party leaders will be tipping
their hats.
.to have concluded that Khru
shchev still greatly hoped and
desired to avoid war. But Mac
millan also got the impression
that war would probably en
sue if the Berlin crisis were
ever allowed to reach the
stage of the blocking of the
West Berlin access routes, fol
lowed by a Western attempt
to open the access routes by
force. - v
Since these were the , re
sults of the Macmillan "recon
naissance, ' and since me
President had agreed in ad
vance to go to a summit meet
ing, the pros and cons of
sanctifying the status quo in
Eastern Europe were bound
to dominate the Eisenhower
Macmillan meeting. The prob
lem had to be explored, if
only because it is also bound
to dominate the future sum
mit conference.
- Even after the Anglo-American
Summit at Camp David,
howeverit is by no means de
cided what the final Western
line will be. For one thing,
the British Prime Minister got
a fairly sharp reaction from
Gen. de Gaulle when he raised
the question in Paris; and in
Bonn, with Chancellor Ade
nauer, he hardly raised the
question at all. Adenauer is
likely to react fairly violently
to any sort of compromise
proposal that would conceiv
ably satisfy Khrushchev. For
another thing, it is still an
even bet that John Foster
Dulles will resume his duties
in April. If Dulles indeed
comes back, Adenauer will
have a powerful supporter.
EISENHOWER'S and Mac
millan's failure to agree on
what to do at the summit was
rather plainly revealed by the
cheerful but exclusive empha
sis placed on their agreement
about going to the summit
a point which had been con
ceded by Eisenhower, for all
practical purposes, even be
fore Macmillan came to Amer
ica. But these talks have at
least revealed what the Brit
ish would LIKE to do at the
summit.
They would like to leave
the Western forces in Berlin
and to fulfill the West's moral
commitment to Berliners. But
they would also like to pro
pose a contraption giving de
facto recognition to East Ger
many and to the whole status
quo in Eastern Europe. They
believe that such a contrap
tion can be devised. They
cherish this belief, in part,
because Khrushchev specific
ally admitted to Macmillan
that the West could not for
mally recognize East Germany'
-which seemed to suggest that
a contraption would be ac
cepted in the end.
Only a little more than six
years after John Fester
Dulles's famous Senate testi
mony on the moral compul
sion of the "liberation" pol
icy, this is where we now
stand.
- (c) New York .
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Egypt's President Gamal Ab-
del Nasser. Arrayed with
them, by necessity, are devout
Moslem groups who have no
liking for Communism and
now have no liking for the
direction taken by the regime
of Maj. Gen. Abdel Karim
Kassem.
Commies Surround Kassem
Against them are the Com
munists and the "front" or
ganizations who have sur-
Communications
Students' View
To the Editor, and parents
and voters of Jacksonville
district.
Subject: Consolidation with
Medford.
We the undersigned would
like to caU to your attention
the following basic facts.
The individual attention
given to each of us as we need
it plus the good advice and
encouragement by our teach
ers cannot be maintained in a
large school.
At any time in our school
you as parents can come down
and discuss any problem that
occurs with your children
and work out a solution with
our teachers. This of course
will be next 'to impossible in
a large school.
Wouldn't we be segregated
by the other students and
maybe by the teachers and
made to feel we weren't want
ed in the school which will
cause skipping or even fail
ure to graduate?
Won't you still have high,
if not higher taxes? Who will
pay for the new junior high?
The possibility of any of us
participating in any sport
over there is out, we just
won't make it.
Do you want to lose your
center of recreation for your
selves as well as for us, which
is our school?
Do you want to do away
with our spirit of companion
ship and neighborhness by
splitting us up? The parents
do too little with their chil
dren as it is. Think of how it
will be if the school is moved.
Who is going to take time to
go to Medford to see a game
with their, children when they
aren'J even participating in
it?
Haven't the students who
have graduated before us,
who have gone to college, not
only passed the entrance ex
amination but continued to
keep up with their classes
with a base of education from
right here?
, Are the few mills you think
you will save, which you
won't in the long run, so im
portant as to do away with
our school? Are you putting
a price on your child's happi
ness?
Please consider, and re
consider before we lose our
school. We are your children
and your neighbors children.
Joyce Hawkins
Kathleen Davell
and 15 other Jacksonville
students.
Re Pride of Opinion
To the Editor: It is a well
known fact that one never has
the last word in any argu
ment with a newspaper editor,
and I should know, but some
of my friends insist, that I
make some sort of comment
because of your editorial. So-
Your statement that "It
must have been with con
siderable gratification that the
majority of people in the
Berrydale area finally saw
the Medford city council ap
prove the plans for a new
sewer system in that area,"
was, 1 believe, just wisnrui
Aoom from
FRANK MORGAN HAROU)
DAY OR NIGHT
W if c j
m
rounded Kassem.
In the Middle East it is
said that whoever controls
Baghdad, also controls Iraq.
Baghdad's streets are control
led by the Reds.
Communist monitors con
trol the movements of the
mobs. At their word, a mob's
whole fury can be directed
against a single victim. Or at
their word, the mobs silenUy
disappear as if they never
were.
There are few anti-American
or anti-Western signs in
Baghdad today. The fury
mostly is directed against
Egypt. But Iraqi propaganda
now links Nasser with the
West, and at night, when the
youthful home guards take
over the streets, it is better
to be inside.
thinking. No gratification was
evident at that time. I wish it
could have been otherwise,
but the ruinous high assess
ments make for an unhappy
feeling for all concerned. It
appears that the council was
not aware of the large number
of hardship cases the high
assessments will cause.
Coercion is proper in our
present society in order to
provide for the common
health and welfare of com
munities and to regulate for
the peace and happiness of
all concerned. The main re
quirement in its use is that
it must be fair, equitable and
just. If not, we have a situa
tion much like the present.
Berrydale is not the only area
affected; the island which ap
pears on the new city map in
the northern part of the city,
businesses outside of the pres
ent city limits and commun
ities which dump their wastes
into Bear creek, subdivisions
which provide low cost hous
ing for those who can afford
no better, are all affected by
the present city policies which
deny water and sewage fa
cilities unless annexed.
The time comes, as it must,
when people can 6ee what the
results are and they are most
unhappy because they have
been fooled. Perhaps it is for
the best if it is the only way
to make people realize that
the time comes when toler
ance should give way to a
good hard look coupled with
action to replace the status
quo.
Criticism can be" step to
ward betterment and that is
what my criticism is meant to
be. Usually, persons holding
the upper hand in any con
troversy think that they have
the wisdom of a higher being,
and have the utmost faith in
their own judgment. Pride of
opinion seems to be his dom
inant characteristic. Small
wonder Berrydale is in a
bind. This letter is meant to
be offensive to no one, but
to appeal to the better side
of the persons involved.
William Doernbach,
143 Mace rd,
Medford
Yep, We're Slill Herel
Mr. Editor, are you still
there?
Sitting in that M.T. chair?
Or are you lost somewhere
in the goo
That Mr. Harger just poured
through?
My paper I must have on
time, . -
Whether it be in prose or
rhyme.
Editorials, comics it must
all be there;
So please get back in that
M.T. chair.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
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SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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