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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
April 1, 1949 (Friday) .
John Richards, Jackso.i
county juvenile officer, stress
es the need for a female pro
bation officer and for a ,-
tention home.
MedforJ building permits
In March topped the half-million
dollar mark in assessed
valuations, setting a new city
record.
20 YEARS AGO
April 1, 1939 (Saturday)
A taxpayers' league is
formed' to fight for lower
taxes in Jackson county, its
organizational meeting spon
sored by the Medford Realty
board.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
horse-chestnut trees, that have
escaped destruction to make
way for a service station, are
behind with their blooming."
30 YEARS AGO
April 1, 1929 (Monday)
There was light heating last
night in local orchards.
April Fools day passes
quietly, neither excitement
nor exceptional tall tales be
ing reported.
40 YEARS AGO
April 1, 1919 (Tuesday)
A campaign is to be
launched to compel property
owners to repair wooden side
walks.
The county votes $50 a
month to finance band con
certs in Medford city park.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1, 1909 (Thursday)
Central Point starts a 54-
member commercial club.
Ladies of the Greater Med
ford club plan a dancing
party.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good
1. Who succeeded Neville
Chamberlain as Prime Minis
ter of Great Britain?
2. Do Shamrocks have
three, four, or five leaflets?
3. January 1 is observed as
a legal holiday in all States;
true or false?
4. If an actor wore mutton
chops, would that be spats,
tide whiskers, or a swallow
tail coat?
5. Where is the body of the
late F.D. Roosevelt buried?
6. On which, denomination
of U. S. currency is depicted
George Washington's like-
r ness?
' 7. Feathers of what color
. denote cowardice?
- 8. Cashmere is the soft wool
; of a type of sheep, goat, or
: rabbit?
: 9. Who is the Supreme Be-
ing of the Mohammedans?
1 10. What is the birthstone
for January? .
; Answers:-1. Winston Chur-
chill. 2. Three. 3. True. 4.
t Side-whiskers. 5. Hyde Park,
I N.Y. 6. One dollar. 7. White.
S 8. Goat. 9. Allah. 10. Garnet.
t EXTEND INVITATIONS
; Paris-flJPD-To mark the oc
2 casion of the Eiffel tower's
5 70th birthday, an open invi
r tation has been extended to
" persons born in France dur
ing May, 1889, to come to
Junch May 16 in the tower's
famed restaurant. .
Lion and Lamb
March of 1959 arrived like a soft and cuddly
lamb, warm and bright.
It left in grayness and drizzles a lion, per
haps, but a tame and friendly one. E.A.
Dimly Lit Book
What is history?
. It is, we are told, the record of what has hap
pened in the past. Viewed in a narrow sense, it is
the dates of battles, coronations and assasina
tions; of elections and discoveries; of the births
and deaths of the notables.
In a broader sense, however, history is the
record of people of what they do and how they
do it; of their hopes and aspirations and despairs ;
of their way of life ; of their religions and political
beliefs. ..."
And writing this kind of history is a difficult
thing to do; a well-nigh impossible thing to do
really well.
I70R each historian, no matter how dedicated
r and informed and objective, approaches his
subject with a certain bias, a set of prejudices,
predispositions in certain areas, which inevitably
are reflected in the chronicles he prepares.
. Add to this the fact that he works with" docu
ments prepared by equally-fallible human beings
in the past, men who sometimes had an ax to
grind or a special point to make. Sorting the wheat
from this chaff is difficult, demanding, and sub
ject to many honest errors, both of commission
and omission.
TPWO men, equally well - prepared, then, can
each write a history of a certain nation or
period, and come out with two entirely different
kinds of articles, each of them perfectly honest in
method and effect, but giving totally different
impressions.
One of them, for instance, can unconsciously
inject into his treatment facts which tend to cor
roborate his own., private "theory" of history,
whereas the other may view the period in an en
tirely different light, and choose as "significant"
points which, while just as valid and honest as
tb.e first man's, tend to emphasize other facets of
the period under discussion.
Each will contribute something to an under
standing of the period. Yet in reading history it is
necessary to recognize these drawbacks and limi
tations under which historians work.
MEWSPAPER writers sometimes consider them-
selves to be the chroniclers of current history
of "history-in-the-making." And in a sense,
this is true. r. -
Consider the broad scope which newspapers
today cover not only the wars and the elec
tions, but the habits and mores and beliefs of
people; how they change and how they remain
the same. , ..
And even newspapers do not cover the entire
field. They are not, cannot be, complete in their
coverage of all the facets of life today some
times facets of considerable long-range impor
tance. IF NEWSPAPERS cannot do it, what a task
1 confronts the historian attempting tQ probe
beneath the surface of a by-gone society.
How to find the significant facts of a past era?
How to weigh which is important and which
merely window-dressing? And, when this is done,
how to condense all the facts into a manageable
chronicle, leaving out nothing that is important,
yet not overburdening it with such a plethora of
issues that the reader is lost in a maze of trivia?
HTHERE are, indeed, lessons to be learned from
history.
One can learn from it the mistakes of the past.
But one cannot read from it the right course for
the future. For if the past is a. dimly lit book, the
future is a book still unopened.
History may, and sometimes does, repeat it
self. But only in limited ways and in special cases.
The lessons of history may tell us negatively,
what not to do. But they cannot tell us, affirma
tively, what must be done.
That remains for each generation to decide.
E.A.
Multi-Colored State
"Oregon," our farm editor philosophized in
print recently, "is a many-colored state.
He is right, and April Fools Day is a good day
to prove the point.
It is the delicate green of newly - budding
trees; the brilliant yellow of daffodils; the pink
of quince ; the white of cherry.
There is still the light brown of winter-leached
grass which has not yet been covered with green.
There is the black of the rich earth turned by
building machines, and the browns and tans of
sandier soil. And there is the blue and purple of
the far hills.
jMAN-niade colors are impossible to ignore, too.
lfl - There is the faded red of brick; the rain
bow hues of the constant stream of automobiles;
the flashing red and blue and green of neon.
From the air there are the great black or gray
scars of highway and railroad, the muddy brown
or green of reservoirs, the checkerboards of green
and black and brown of the tilled or sprouting
fields. '
The colors, rich and varied, and either excit
ing or soothing, add depth and texture to the
pleasant land. E.A.
Dennis the
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
On Dog Licensing
To the Editor: According to
the April Farm Journal, a per
son earning $4,500 per year
has to work 2 hours and 29
minutes of his 8 hour day to
pay his taxes.
If we want to reduce our
taxes, we must weigh well
our wants and watch our
elected official who wants to
make a good name for himself
by giving us some big thing
for us to pay taxes on.
March 19 Mail Tribune
headline reads "7000 licenses
bought for dogs." If they were
all male dogs it would be $-10,-500.
That is a -lot of tax
money. Then there are the
female dogs and the late ones,
which will swell that fund a
great deal more.
So what happens? Money,
and quickly spend it. First
hire eight deputies with cars
to canvass the county.
These deputies stop at
homes where they find a
peaceful old dog on the front
porch waiting for its master.
Said master is a service
man, and probably overseas.
That dog which stays home
must be licensed to the full ex
tent of the law or else.
Then there is the tiny house
dog that is too small to chase
any livestock and sleeps in a
basket in "Ma Ladies Bou
doir." They get it too. And
then the faithful watchdog
whose job it is to stay with
the child in the yard. It too
must have a tag.
There are plenty of loose
dogs which neither have a
home or the owner does not
claim it, and the habitual
tramp dog. Who is paying
their license fee? Those are
the dogs the deputies neither
look for nor see.
I think somewhere there is
a provision made for farmers
to protect their livestock
from molesting dogs and it is
not a license tag on the dogs
collar. Deer-chasing dogs get
taken care of on the spot, li
cense or no license.
A good citizen does not ob
ject to a reasonable and just
tax for his faithful dog.
It is the excessive tax col
lected from many and un
wisely and selfishly spent to
satisfy the wants of so few
that the general public ob
jects to. .
Delia A. Littlefield
Box 3
Shady Cove, Ore.
Against Bill
To the Editor: A short time
ago there was an article in the
Tribune about a bill that was
before the legislature pro
posing an application to defer
the property- taxes on the
homes of the senior citizens
that drew less than $4,000 per
year, said taxes together with
interest would be collectible
at the death of senior citizen.
If these taxes were com
pletely erased from the tax
roll, until the death of the
senior citizen, then put back
on the tax rolls, that would
be a great relief to the senior
citizens, and in the long run
would be a very worthwhile
economy measure, but as it
is set up it is one of the most
vicious pieces of legislation
that I have ever seen.
For example, say Grandpa
is unable to work or is on a
pension, his income is from
$750 to at best $3000 per year,
and so he applies for defer
ment of taxes on their home,
and it is granted, so he lives
for 10 years, the taxes pile
up, say for easy figures, $75
per year. At the end of 10
years he owes $750, then he
passes on. Immediately the
state takes steps to collect "the
$750 plus interest.
Now Grandma is left alone
to carry on. She has not been
able to save any money or
sh wouldn't have let the
Menace
1 1
taxes be deferred. So the
property is sold out from un
der her for taxes. To say
nothing about the "heartaches
of losing Grandpa, she is fac
ed with the shock and the tor
ture of being thrust out of
her own home, and if she is
able to survive the shock
something has to be done
about housing.
Probably the state will
have to pick up the check,
and with rents the way they
are, you couldn't figure to
find anything to rent for less
than $50 per month, which
adds up to $300 or better
per year. So Grandma: lives
for another 10 years, the state
puts out $3000 for rent. A pret
ty expensive saving on $750
to begin with, to say nothing
about the heartaches and an
guish at her losses.
I think everyone should
write the Governor asking
him to veto any such bil.
Larry Turner,
Route 1, Box 383,
Central Point, Ore.
Are They Worth Saving?
To the Editor: This is to all
areas who are considering
school consolidation:
Before you vote please read
"Are Small High Schools
Worth Saving?" by Richard
C. Davids in the April issue of
the Farm Journal. Don't be
pushed into something before
you investigate what you
could do for your own school
to bring up its scholastic rat
ing without bringing up taxes.
Work at your own problem.
You don't have to consolidate!
And please read the article.
H. M. von Stein Sr.,
Post Office Box 609,
Medford.
Licenses
To the Editor: With the con
clusion of a recent trial in
Medford, it can bo presumed
from the verdict derived, that
it is now open season on hus
bands of rather dubious char
acter, with the license require
ments very slim.
For those women who apply
for a spouse shooting license,
they should, first of all, bring
forth witnesses who will testi
fy before the twelve man
board of license directors that
the license seekers' husbands
are not only of doubtful char
acter, but that, as a whole, so
ciety would be benefited by
their extermination. It would
also be advantageous to have
the women's children give af
firmation as to the austere
traits of the proposed game.
If the appeals are properly
presented, the permits will
undoubtedly be granted, for
the licensers are a compas
sionate lot, as evidenced by
their recent dealings with a
woman who neglected to ap
ply for . her warrant before
she went spouse shooting.
Donald S. Wolfe,
322 Benson st.,
Medford.
Other Factors, Too
To the Editor: In a few days
we will vote for or against the
consolidation of our entire
Jacksonville school system,
buildings, property, equip
ment and administration, into
a large district centered in
Medford. This is being done
purely as a voluntary venture.
Many of the facts and issues
involved have been becloud
ed. Probably the worst is that
of taxes. The tabluations in
dicate a millage levy reduc
tion for Jacksonville, and an
increase for Medford.
But no tax cut wiil occur,
the authorities hasten to state.
With all costs rising, they say,
such a saving would be large
ly set aside for improvements
or expansion.
The tax picture is changing
rapidly. In our state legisla
ture right now, our 90 legisla
tors are considering a bill to
reduce property taxes, they
Newsom Completes
Losing in Mid-East,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
London OJPD The United
States is losing the battle for
th- Middle East. In Berlin, the
chances still
may be a little
better than 50
50. That is the
capsule im
pression of a
correspondent
who in the last
five weeks has
travelled close
to 20,000 miles
i'tnl iNewsom
and in the course of it visited
the principal pressure points
of the Middle East and Europe
and talked to scores of gov
ernment officials, editors and
members of American em
bassies. These are ancient battle
grounds, both for reak estate
and for control of men's
minds. Techniques have
are considering an increase in
state aid from $105 to $150 per
child year, they are discussing
a 3 per cent sales tax to
finance this. A change is in
evitable. Our sister states have
long since made such a
change. The federal govern
ment is giving attention to
school legislation.
Our authorities estimate we
will need a new building in
three to five years. With all
the attention being given
schools, with education in the
cold war limelight, outright
building grants could be ex
pected. State andor federal
funds could be made avail
able. Don't force waste with
haste.
Jacksonville graduates are
currently attending Lewis and
Clark, Linfield, Eugtne, Cor
vallis, Ashland and others.
Don't offer to sell Jackson
ville short on basics.
Our small number of votes
would stand a slim chance of
giving us any representation
in the government of such a
consolidated unit.
Property devaluation is a
real threat. We sorely need in
creased valuation and more
building to provide it.
Consolidation will mean
added costs to every high
school student.
Economywise, every busi
ness in Jacksonville, even the
post office, would suffer. The
positions of at least 13 of our
instructors would be removed
to Medford. Their residences
will gravitate in that direc
tion. Their annual salary rep
resents about $65,000. Their
cultural influence, as citizens,
must not be underestimated.
Consider the facts, remem
bering the haste with which
this project has been present
ed, inevitable tax changes, our
need for community develop
ment, impact on students los
ing their community identity,
make a democratic decision
and vote for the best interests
of our children and our com
munity, uninfluenced by the
word "taxes" which are but a
tool and will always be with
us.
Fred Edens
303 East F st.
Jacksonville, Ore.
How Come?
To the Editor: On the front
page of the Tribune Sunday,.
March 29, there was an article
about a request made from
the Welfare Commission to
the state legislature for an ap
propriation of $1,900,000 to
care for the needy for the
next three months of the fis
cal year, so the joint ways
and means committee ap
proved an appropriation of
$1,200,000 instead, making
necessary an all around cut of
at least 5 per cent by the wel
fare commission to the aged,
the blind, dependent children,
the disabled and as well as a
general cut on all of their ac
tivities. It is understandable that
the wish of the house and sen
ate is to keep taxes down, and
as one member from Jose
phine county remarked last
year in the tax hassle, that the
little people would have to
carry the load, "because there
were so many of the little peo
ple," and we realize it is gen
erally the little people that
take the rap.
But it is hard, very hard, to
understand why the joint
ways and means committee
should see fit to take away
from the old, the blind, help
less kids and so on, and yet
here a very short time ago
the same outfit saw fit to
vote themselves a substantial
raise in pay. How come?
I am 30 years old and have
no interest in this other than
I hate to see helpless people
forced to suffer needlessly. "
Jack E. Aldrich,
Route 1, Box 382,
Central Point, Ore.
If Shoe on Other Foot
To the Editor: I just read
your editorial on school con
solidation and decided it was
well thought out and present
ed, but I think you are taking
a little too idealistic a view
point when you give the im
pression that the members of
the school boards of the dis
tricts proposing consolidation
with the Medford district are
working so unstintingly for
changed, but not the objec
tives.
East, West Divided
In Berlin, the Brandenburg
Gate divides East and West
Berlin and stands as a monu
ment to man's destructive
abilities as demonstrated by
World War II. Camel trails
and an occasional automobile
track cut the desert between
Damascus and Baghdad. Here,
in this vast desert, civilization
came to a halt 600 years ago
when Tamerlane destroyed
the fabulous canals which
made the Tigris and Eu
phrates valleys the Garden of
Eden.
Between Berlin and Bagh
dad, the airplane is the link
and the persistently cheerful
air and ground crews "the
guides in a journey that runs
back in time but never es
capes the conflicts that are
strictly 20th Century.
In Berlin, it is steadfast de
Michigan's
Dims Williams Future Plans
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-rtlPD-For Michi
gan's six-time Governor G.
Mennen Williams this could
be the end of
road.
Will iams'
state of Michi
gan is coming
to be known
as the State
of B a nkrupt
cy. That is
bad for a poli
t i c i a n who
.vi r. wiisnn nas n a a mi
eye on the White House.
The state of Michigan is
broke. For 2Vi months the
newspapers and news maga
zines have been telling their
readers about that. It is bad
advertising, so bad that it
could and probably will be
deadly to Williams' political
ambitions. Deadly, at least, to
his political ambitions outside
the state.
Stories of the financial ca
tastrophe which is overtaking
Michigan never fail to identi
fy Williams with the bad
news. Much less emphasis is
put on the fact that the legis
lature of Michigan is Republi
can controlled and, further,
that the immediate problem
in Michigan adds up to a gov
ernor vs. legislature dispute
on how to solve it.
Solution Could Be Found
Governor and legislature
pulling together toward a
common objective doubtless
could find quickly a tempo
rary solution to Michigan's
difficulties. The Republican
legislature wants to raise
Michigan's sales tax by 1 per
cent. A friendly on-the-scene
reporter calls that proposal
the one big solution offered
by the Republican legislative
leaders. This reporter adds:
"To Williams, a self-labeled
New Dealer, and to his big
supporters in Walter P. Reu
ther's United Auto Workers
Union, a boost in the sales tax
is just about as tasty as a dose
of castor oil."
Another on-the-scene report
had this to say:
"Probably in all the United
States there is no more bitter
feud between legislature and
governor than in Michigan."
Trying to Stem Tide
Paul Weber is Williams'
press secretary. He is attempt
ing to turn the tide of bad
publicity which threatens to
overwhelm his boss. Weber
mails friendly or merely fair
news accounts of affairs in
Michigan to political writers
around the country, accom
panied by little notes explain
ing that they are offered "in
view of the many distorted
this deal solely for the good of
the students.
I can't help but think if the
shoe was on the other foot,
and Medford was asking these
districts to raise their taxes
substantially to pay off their
indebtedness, and they knew
they would have to build new
school buildings, buy many
new busses, hire more person
nel, and all of the other ex
penses that would further
raise their taxes, as Medford
will have to do, that there
would be quite a few dissent
ing votes.
I can assure you that if con
solidation would increase the
taxes of the outlying districts,
as it will Medford, consolida
tion would be badly defeated,
for we of Jacksonville are not
as foolish as we are asking
Medford voters to be.
D. C. Stoner,
204 South Oregon st.,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Nov.- Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Little Worry
Eat. talk, laugh or sneeze without
fear of Insecure false teeth dropping,
slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH
holds plates nrme? and more com
fortably. This pleasant powder has no
gummy gooey, pasty taste or feeling.
Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline
(non-acid). Checks "plate odor"
(denture breath). Get FASTEETH at
any drug counter.
Tour, Finds Allies
Even in Berlin
termination of the people,
backed by an equally stead
fast military," that gives the
west its best chance against
further Communist encroach
ment. Prosperous West Berliners
give no indication or surren
der, whatever Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev's threats.
Stockpiles against blockade
have been laid up for months
to come. And American mili
tary commanders there make
clear their determination to
retreat only under specific or
ders from Washington. If Ber
liners and fighting men have
their way, there will be no
surrender in Berlin.
But as of now, no such op
timism can be expressed for
the Middle East.
The Middle East itself is
split. It is Arab nationalism
divided by the ambitions of
Egypt's President Abdel Ga-
Financial
versions of Michigan's finan
cial problems."
Editorial comment has been
severe on Williams. For ex
ample, this on how Michigan
got into the mess:
"The state spent more than
it took in, and kept on spend
ing more and more. In 10
years it almost has doubled
its spending." 4
Williams' friends insist that
Republican state legislators
consistently have gone along
with this six term spending
programs. The Republicans
argue that things would be
much worse if they had not
cut the governor's spending
programs all along the line.
Important Question
However that may be, Mich
igan comes up now multi-millions
of dollars short in pay
In the Day's News
By FRANK
I suppose you have been
following with at least a cer
tain amount of sentimental
interest the anti - communist
revolution in Tibet.
In itself, it is insignificant.
There are only a few hundred
thousand of these Tibetans.
If they persist in their revolt
against Red China, which is
based on their desire to live
their own lives in their own
way, they will be trampled
into the bloody mud by the
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
of Chinese communists, and
that will be that.'
It will be hardly more than
an incident in the march of
communism toward its objec
tive of world conquest.
.
BUT
In its impact on India, and
on Jawaharlal Nehru, who is
India's premier, and who for
all practical purposes IS IN
DIA, it might be very signifi
cant indeed.
Nehru has been posing as
the Great Neutral. His atti
tude so far has been that
communism is probably bad
but everybody else in the
world outside Asia is WORSE.
Especially the Western Pow
ers, which are allied with
Britain, which for a long time
held India in colonial slavery.
So
Nehru has been preaching
Asia should stand off to
one side and not bother the
communists. As long as they
don't bother us, the burden
of his comment has been, why
should we bother them?
'
WELL
All the Tibetans wanted
was to be LEFT ALONE to
live their rather peculiar lives
in their own rather peculiar
way. It wasn't until the Chi
nese communists said NO,
YOU HAVE TO LIVE YOUR
LIVES IN OUR WAY that
they revolted.
So
Following the example of
our own immortal Patrick
Henry, they are saying GIVE
US LIBERTY TO LIVE OUR
PERSONAL
CONDUCT
C M. Litwiller
Rendering a service of reverence and dignity as though the
departed were a loved one of our own . .. . this is our calling.
"Service measured not by gold, but by rhe Golden Rule.'
LITWILLER
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than
mal Nasser on the one hand
and by the creeping Commu
nism in Iraq, which maintains
Prime Minister Abdel Karim
Kassem as its figurehead.
Ike Doctrine Failed?
Worst of all, from the U. S.
standpoint, is the failure of
the Eisenhower Doctrine in
the Middle East. Arab nation
alism revolted against any at
tempt to line the Arab states
up. East versus West.
Too late, the West recog
nized the reality of Nasser's
positive neutrality and too
late the Arabs themselves re
alized their headlong flight
from Western colonialism was
leading them directly into the
Communist trap.
Today, Iraq is all but Com
munist controlled, Western
prestige in other Arab nations
is at an all time low. And, as
of today, there is in existence
no Western policy which
might reverse the trend.
Plight
ments for public schooling,
for old age and children's aid.
The state is facing a $110 mil
lion deficit by July 1. Big
business, the auto companies,
paid $35 million recently in
advance taxes. That has been
swallowed up in the financial
crisis.
The big political fact in all
of this is that, fair or not, the
shame of it is rubbing off on
Soapy Williams and already
must have removed him from
the national political stage.
The big political question is
whether all of this will rub
off, too, on Reuther who com
mands the union manpower
nd union funds which put
Williams in office and kept
him there. That is a very in
teresting and important ques
tion. JENKINS
LIVES UN OUR OWN WAY
OR GIVE US DEATH.
THAT must come with a
considerable jolt to Neu
tralist Nehru.
It will be interesting to see
what he does.
It will be particularly in
teresting because India is the
unq uestioned intellectual
leader of non-communist Asia
and Nehru is the unquestion
ed leader of India.
Alcorn Reported
To Be Resigning
Hartford, Conn. - (UPD - The
Hartford Courant said today
Meade Alcorn is resigning as
GOP national chairman and
returning to his private law
practice here.
"An announcement is ex
pected in Washington by Al
corn, probably today, that he
is submitting his resignation
as a national GOP leader at a
meeting of the party's nation
al committee next week" in
Washington.
The Courant said he will
continue for a short period as
national chairman until a suc
cessor is chosen.
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