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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1949 (Sunday)
Local Red Cross officials
seek the reason why their
drive has bogged down some
25 per cent short of its goal.
Spring term enrollment at
Southern Oregon college to
tals 587.
20 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1939 (Monday)
Residents of the Dark Hol
low district are up in arms
against refuse dumpers.
From. Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of residential gerani
um beds were tracked up over
the week end, by dogs wear
ing roller skates."
30 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1929 (Wednesday)
Medford voters approve the
airport bonds by a rousing
margin of 2,243 to 182.
Work on the Lake Creek
road is scheduled to start next
week.
40 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1919 (Thursday)
The first auto of the year
to cross the Siskiyous report
edly had a rough journey.
A Southern Pacific railroad
porter is fined $250 for boot
legging. 50 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1909 (Saturday)
Local car owners appear to
be dodging taxes, as only 80
of an estimated 150 vehicles
have been registered.
Medford School Superin
tendent U. G. Smith recom
mends including manual train
ing, domestic science, draw
ing and music In the curricu
lum. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Complete the expression,
"one rotten apple can spoil a
?,
2. The Coast Guard is now
under the jurisdiction of the
Department of the Navy,
Treasury, or Commerce?
3. Exclusive of allowances,
does the Speaker of the U- S.
House of Representatives re
ceive more, less, or the same
salary as the Vice President
of the U. S.?
' 4. Was a submarine first
used in the Revolutionary,
Civil or Spanish American
War?
5. For what was Jack the
Ripper noted - tailoring
stitches, surgery, or murders?
6. What does a pedometer
record? .
7. In what novel was Long
John Silver a character?
8. Name the States of the
Union whose names begin
with the letter P.
9. Was Jefferson Davis, of
the Confederate States, a
graduate of West Point.
10. Do the Xurile Islands
extend north or south from
Japan?
Answors: 1. Barrel. 2.
Treasury. 3. Same. 4. Revolu
tionary War. 5. Murders. 6.
Walking steps. 7. "Treasure
Island." 8. Pennsylvania. 9.
Yes. 10. North.
Elizabethtown, Tenn.- (UPD -Four
persons were killed
Thursday night in a head-on
collision near the North Caro
lina border. The victims were
identified as Marshall Forbes,
50 Brown Daniels, 38, and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris.
Monstrosity Whittled Down
The house highway committee chopped a
monstrosity of a bill down to a smaller monster
this week. But it's still a monster.
It reduced the measure which called for the
issuance of $60 million in bonds for construction
of a Columbia river bridge at Astoria, improve
ment of Highway 42 from Winston to Coquille,
and improvement of other highways as funds per
mitted. In doing so it eliminated everything ex
cept $24 million for the Columbia river bridge.
This is some better, but it would be better
still if the bill is killed altogether.
THE measure, as pointed out here previously,
1 violates the "whole state" concept of highway
development, with funds allocated on the basis
of the welfare of the entire state, not just a por
tion of it.
There was precedent. Most of Oregon's beau
tiful bridges on Highway 101 along the coast
were built with bond money in the '30s. And part
of 101 along the southern coast is even now being
improved by a $12 million bond issue approved
by the legislature in 1957..
But the precedent isn't a good one. .
If highway bonding
done for the state as a
allocated and administered by Oregon s outstand
ing highway commission. i
I OCAL pride will suffer if the bill is killed.
, It already has, down
provement of Highway
agitation.
But local pride is less important than a bal
anced highway development plan.
If the bill is allowed
strengthen the precedent
stituting itself as an on -
commission of 90 members, and Oregon s whole
highway program could go down the drain.
If the Columbia bridge is to be built (and,
eventually, it will), it must be as part of a state
wide program, not as a legislative pork-barrel
rush job. E.A.
Portland vs. The Sticks
We've never been quite sure why it is, but
oyer the years we have noticed a subdued sus
picion of each other between metropolitan areas
and the "downstate" (or is it "upstate?") areas.
' Once in a while this breaks out into the open,
resulting in a few recriminations, salty and other
wise. Nothing is accomplished, and pretty soon
the exchange dies down again.
One such outbreak of modest dimensions
came to the surface recently when Giles French,
the outspoken editor of the Sherman County
Journal in Moro, wrote a
The Bend Bulletin picked up b rench s piece
and elaborated on it, taking the "big town" to task
for a multitude of sins
omission.
"MOW we have no great love for Portland. We
A once lived there. We visit there occasionally,
as do most Medfordites, but we're always de
lighted to get home again.
But we do not hold that it is peopled exclu
sively by crooks, nor is it consciously a parasite
on the productivity of non-metropolitan Orgeon.
As cities go, it's ok. It's not as glamorous as San
Francisco, but it wins over Los Angeles, hands
down.
Anyway, the Bulletin editorial tore the city
to pieces, and ended up this way:
"It is true that Portlanders like our dollars.
"And it is true that many of them look down their
noses from their ivory towers, and may even feel a
little sorry that they have to deal with us to get their
hands on those same dollars.
"Perhaps it is true that the rest of the state doesn't
like Portland. '
"If so, the Portlanders have only themselves to
blame."
HTHE OREGON JOURNAL of Portland, in ruf-
fled dignity, replied with an editorial entitled
"A Canard Repeated Too Often," a canard, the
Journal declared, "we have been fighting for
years," adding:
"Most Portlanders, in fact, have roots in or con
nections with some other parts of Oregon . ; . They are
among the state's most ardent boosters for Oregon's
mountains, lakes, forests, rivers, seashore and waving
fields of grain."
This is quite true, but entirely beside the
point. The fact is, we believe, most people in
more-favored parts of the state find it difficult
to understand how Portlanders can bear to live
in Portland, and most Portlanders can't believe
that anyone would actually prefer to live in "the
sticks."
"PHIS is a lack of understanding which probably
will never be erased as witness the letter a
Portland man wrote to the Bulletin, which said :
."Undoubtedly the reason the State of Oregon is
the possessor of the reputation of being one of the most
backward states in the Union is the fact that we have
too few big cities and too many miserable little stodgy
hick places, like the town of Bend, and too many small
time hick editors, like yourself.
"You upstate farmers have been holding Portland
and the whole State of Oregon back for so many years
that it isn't funny.
"Crawl back in your hole, hayseed."
That, of course, is the attitude which makes
upstaters just love the big city, and its enlight
ened, lovable and forward-looking residents.
E.A.
is necessary, it should be
whole, with the money
Coos Bay way where im
42 is a subject of much
to pass, it will simply
of the legislature con
again - off - again highway
piece about Portland.
of commission and
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Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE HEALTH STRUGGLE
Washington-For more than
a year a profound struggle
has been going on between
hT two govern-
x ment agencies
over which
should have
final author
ity for pro-
i jTJ tecting the
American
sl people from
s-a raaiaxion ana
3a i a
nnr? atomic
William S. . .
White fall-OUt.
The great question touches
our lives as could no other
except the issue of war or
peace itself. On one side is
the Atomic Energy Commis
sion. On the other side is the
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
The only umpire presently
available is the Bureau of the
Budget. "Budget," which is
essentially a lofty bookkeep
ing instrument for the Presi
dent to determine what out
lays should be arked of Con
gress for what departments, is
not eager to make the hard
decision.
.
PRESIDENT E is e n hower
himself, this correspondent
is told, on good authority, is
"staying out of it" - though
to an onlooker it is difficult
to see why. In the meantime,
Congress is going to be asked
to step in and decide what the
Administration seems unable
or unwilling to decide. Both
sides even now are cautiously
seeking Congressional sup
port; some extremely high
principled lobbying and counter-lobbying
is going on.
The first and basic question
comes to this: Should an
agency primarily interested
in developing atomic weapons
and atomic power, the Atomic
Energy Commission, continue
to decide how much rediation
and fall-out is tolerable? Or,
should this responsibility now
be passed to the Federal Pub
lic Health Service a division
of H-E-W whose sole interest
is simply in the public's
health?
But a second great question
is bound up in the first. For
much more than health is
involved here. True, radiation
and fall-out, when the human
intake passes a certain point,
become deadly poisons to
those alive and those yet un
born. But radiation and fall
out are unavoidable accom
paniments to the immensely
useful development of atomic
power and to the necessary
continued development of
v, nm:
Editorial Comment
BILL SHOULDN'T PASS
Last Wednesday by a vote
of 32 to 23 the Oregon House
ed to bargain collectively
Passed HB 138, under which
the state and all local units
of government are "authoriz
with organizations of the em
ployee's own, choosing." This
was organized labor's payoff
for its support of legislative
candidates, chiefly Democrats.
As introduced the bill read
"authorized ' and directed"
which would have compelled
governing boards to "bargain
collectively" with employee
organizations. The "and direc
ted" wording was deleted be
fore final passage in the
House. The bill now goes to
the Senate, and if passed there
to the governor.
This bill should not pass.
There is not now any law or
regulation which prohibits
public employees from joining
a labor organization. Many
do, joining not only unions af
filiated with AFL-CIO but
with other organizations such
as the Oregon Education As
sociation and Oregon State
Employees' Association. Rep
resentatives of these bodies do
appear before governing
Menace
S. WHITE
atomic power and to the nec
essary continued development
of atomic weapons in an era
of unceasing danger from the
Soviet Union.
THUS, this government must
maintain a desperate bal
ance between the demands of
the people's health, and the
demands of military safety
for the whole free world.
Ordinarily, when two Fed
eral agencies are contesting
for jurisdiction it can be put
down simply that two top
bureaucrats are engaged in
rival empire-building. So to
define the present controversy
would be too crude. The
Atomic Energy Commission
has strong claims to maintain
an authority in the health
field it has held from the very
start. And it cannot rationally
be charged with a lack of
concern for public health.
And H-E-W on its side is
not simply seeking to enlarge
its vast bureaucracy. It mere
ly holds the less-than-revolu-tionary
view that the best
place to protect the public
health by setting the safety
standards is the Public
Health Service.
. H-E-W seems to have the
better case. For the Atomic
Energy Commission would be
more than human if it did
not tend to play down any
factor, including health, that
would retard atomic develop
ment. Moreover, the commis
sion's medical units, superb
though they are, are far down
in the commission's hierarchy.
AND the commission's de
termination to continue to
be the final authority on what
atomic work, is safe, and
where, might understandably
rest most of all upon this
factor: a fear that public con
cern over atomic dangers to
health could become public
hysteria if evaluations of that
danger were handed over to
some wholly independent
source like the Public Health
Service.
Such a hysteria might con
ceivably rise high enough to
force limitations on the whole
program that would be mili
tarily unacceptable in the
kind of world this is. But it
increasingly appears that the
conclusive point is this: right
or wrong, commission esti
mates of radiation and fall
out perils will never be con
vincing to millions. It would
be worth taking great risk to
put an end to this skepticism
once and for all.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
boards and speak in behalf
of their members. But there
is no "collective bargaining"
or contracts as is. common in
private business.
There are reasons why la
bor contracts are out of place
in public employment. Gov
ernment is basic for our politi
cal, social and economic order
and its continuity must not
be contingent on mass pres
sures by employees. Also, gov
erning boards are not free
agents, like a private employ
er. They are bound by laws
and by provisions of funds. In
state departments, the Legis
lature must make appropri
ations and each department is
under the restrictions impos
ed by the appropriation made.
In local units of government
the budget law must be fol
lowed, with its six per cent
constitutional limitation and
the requirement of hearings
and adoption of the operating
budget. Neither a schoolboard
nor a city council is free, to
enter into wage agreements
save within terms of the budg
ets under which they operate.
The prevailing practice is
for employee representatives
to make presentations to the
Communications
Letten to the Editor mutt
bear the name and address of
the writer although nder cer
tain circumstances tne use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letter with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Sales Tax Suggestion
To the Editor: It is very in
teresting that 19 senators and
18 representatives in Salem
have signed a measure calling
for a vote of the people in
1960 on a 3 per cent sales
tax. I am sure that these
legislators are in dead earnest
regarding this matter or else,
in view of their previous rec
ords, they would not have per
mitted the use of their names
on a sales tax measure. I am
not championing a sales tax,
but I do wish to offer some
sensible, realistic suggestions.
The purpose of this meas
ure, so far as a sales tax goes,
seems to be well thought out
and as sensible a sales tax
law as could be devised. How
ever, I feel that these well
intentioned legislators have
overlooked the most import
ant point in connection with
this proposed law and are
missing the boat to the an
swer of a lot of problems that
are troubling the people of
the State of Oregon at this
time. Instead of keeping this
matter up in the air until No
vember, 1960, and letting the
biggest parade of tourists that
has ever come to Oregon go
through our state for free, the
legislature could just as well
pass the bill right now and let
it go into force in late July
and thereby derive enough
revenue to take care of our
building program for our
schools, and at the same time
meet the other provisions re
garding the reduction of in
come taxes and property
taxes as provided in the pro
posed bill.
If this bill was introduced
and passed by the legislature,
it would go into effect in 90
days, as I do not believe that
under the present circum
stances the Governor would
veto it, or the people refer it
Even if they did do . so, it
would have exactly the same
effect as the present proposal
would by putting it on the No
vember, 1960, ballot.
I would suggest that the law
itself somehow provide that
people on welfare and old age
assistance receive the small
additional amount of money it
would take to pay the 3 per
cent sales tax on whatever
their monthly allotment might
be.
This law, if desired, could
be made effective for one
year only and give the peo
ple of Oregon a real sample
of what a sales tax is, and by
limiting the time to one
year, it certainly could not do
too much damage if it was
found unsatisfactory, but at
the same time we would en
Legislature when appropria
tions are being considered, to
department heads or the
Board of Control after appro
priations are made, and to
budget committees of subord
inate units of government
when budgets are being fram
ed. There is no restriction on
this freedom of representa
tion and should be none.
As far as working condi
tions are concerned the civil
service law protects most state
employees and the tenure law
protects many public school
teachers from discharge with
out cause.
This drive for authority for
bargaining contracts is made
by unions affiliated with AFL
CIO. The bill is not supported
by the two largest organiza
tions of public employees in
the state, the OSEA and OEA.
It is an attempt of the affil
iated unions to gain prestige
and status, and so to build
up membership.
Not long ago Teamsters'
Union officials announced
they were going to organize
the New York police force.
This brought immediate con
demnation from Police Chief
Kennedy and Mayor Wagner.
The latter took prompt steps
looking to the possible remov
al from city employment of a
unionist who was promoting
the effort. The move quickly
collapsed. HB 138 makes no
exceptions, either of local po
lice or the state police. Yet
it is generally recognized that
police and military forces
have as their primary obliga
tion performance of their duty
under the law with which la
bor union affiliation might
be in conflict.
I hope the Senate will take
a second look at this bill and
defeat . it. Where public em
ployment is concerned union
ization and bargaining con
tracts are out of place. While
the legislative mandate for
bargaining has been removed,
the word "authorized" is re
tained, which defines collec
tive bargaining with unions
of public employees as public
policy for Oregon, I am con
fident that does not reflect the
sentiment of the majority of
the people of Oregon. State
senators now must stand up
and be counted. Their votes
will show whether they wear
the union collar of not.-Ore-gon
Statesman, Salem.
Dalai Lama's Escape, Revolt
One of Real Suspense Stories
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Man of the week! The Dalai
Lama.
The olace:
Tibet.
The time: The
last two
Just two
weeks ago out
of the high
Him a 1 a y a s
separating Ti
bet from In
dia came word
to New Delhi
that open re
volt had bro
Phil Kewsom
ken out against the Red Chi
nese in Lhasa, seat of Tibet's
spiritual and temporal ruler,
the Dalai Lama.
Casualty reports were enor
mous 50,000 Chinese killed
in several months of guerrilla
warfare as against spme Ti
betans, mostly fierce Khamba
tribesmen.
Rallying figure in the re
volt was the 25-year-old Dalai
Lama, reincarnation of the
great Buddha. And, while
guerrilla warfare against the
Chinese had smouldered for
months' and years a Red Chi
nese attempt to arrest the
young Dalai Lama was report
ed the spark that changed
smouldering guerrilla war
fare into the full-scale" con
flagration of revolt.
In the succeeding two
weeks, the Dalai Lama's
whereabouts remained a mystery.
Lies About Age Now Coming
Out, As Retirements Sought
By FRANK KLEAZER
Washington (UPD Some-
how a lot of women who,
back in 1936, signed on for
3 social secur
' i t y coverage
at a professed
age of 30 or
35 are turning
out now to be
62 and there
fore ready to
retire.
The way the
govern ment
Frank Eleazer counts Dirin
A T ! J-t
days, these ladies still have
rich our coffers by millions of
dollars, much of which would
not be from the pockets of
our present over-burdened
taxpayers. Remember, the
Centennial will not pass this
way again. , : ,
Lew Wallace,
1430 S.W. Clay st.
Portland 1, Ore.
License Questions
To the Editor: An interest
ing question was raised by-D.
A. Littlefield on dog licensing.
Just what is done with the
license monies collected? In
trying to track down the an
swer I have been told it goes
into the general fund. And
why should it go into the G.F.
to be used for roads, etc.,
when a decent pound is need
ed? Also, since it comes from
dog owners, why should it not
be used to help the Humane
Society - if there is one?
Another question is, who
inspects the sheep killed-sup-posedly
by dogs? - before the
people's tax money is paid
over to the sneep owners.'.
Farmers in officialdom just
might find it hard to say "no"
to other farmers (perhaps
their friends?) putting in a
claim. And just who decides
the cost of sheep these days?
- off the hoof that is.
Tom Sheldon,
Crater Lake highway,
Prospect, Ore.
Historical Recollections
To the Editor: Enjoyed the
editorial on "Dimly Lit Book"
very much. I imagine, as the
writer mentioned, there were
many prejudices and human
theory that went into the writ
ing. As a child I can remember
one spring day sitting in a
class room gazing out of the
window dreaming when I
should have been studying
history. Wrote a verse which
went something like this:
How I despise the look
Of that old history book.
It all happened long before
I was born,
So what do I care about the
old powder horn.
I should be studying history
now,
But I would rather be out
watching daddy plow.
I would play with my dog
who is black and white,
And run down the hills with
all my might.
But the teacher is looking
at me in a scornful way,
So I might just as well
study history as think about
play.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 388,
Central. Point, Ore.
Garden Sawdust
McGinly Fuel Go.
Ph. SP 3-6297
The Red Chinese say he is
a "kidnap" victim of the
rebels. And Red Chinese
troops and warplanes have
fanned out over Tibet in a
500,000-square mile searcji to
find him.
Rebel reports reaching the
Indian borber town of Kalim
pong say he has retreated into
the mountain fastness of Tibet
either to make his way to a
border crossing into India or
Nepal or to remain in those
impassable mountains to con
tinue to lead some thousands
of his followers against ths
Chinese.
Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru's announce
ment in New Delhi today the
Dalai Lama had reached In
dia and asked for asylum pro
vided the answer to one of
the suspense stories of the
Tibetan revolution.
The Communist radio Pei
ping reported the Dalai Lama
actually had escaped into In
dia. Neutrals Express Unhappiness
The cost to the Reds has
been more than loss of man
power and Oriental loss of
face. ,
Just as the Hungarian re
volt opened the eyes of the
innocent to the ruthlessness
of the Moscow regime, so did
the Tibetan revolt open the
eyes of others to the ruthless
ness of the Peiping regime.
From Jakarta to New Delhi,
the Asian neutrals have ex
. from 4 to 9 years to go be-
fore starting to collect their
retirement pay. So now they
are faced not only with ad
mitting they lied about their
ages originally, but with prov
ing it.
Sometimes this is tough.
One youngish looking lady
in some such fix is reported
to have told a social security
agent who asked for proof of
her birth date: .
wen, I don't have any
papers or anything, but I've
lied so much about being 41
I probably have some friends
who will swear they have
heard me saying it for the
last 30 years."
Jobs Hard To Find
Women apparently have
been fibbing about their ages
since Eve, who very likely
tried to justify her conduct
on the grounds she was too
young to know any better.
And the advent of the social
security program in the late
30's certainly was no incen
tive for the girls to turn hon
est. Jobs were hard to come by
then, especially for people 40
or over. Women and men too
in those days were giving
themselves every benefit of
the doubt. ,
Job applicants couldn't be
lieve then, and some still
can't, that employers can't
check on ages as listed with
social security. The govern
ment doesn't care, and won't
tell, if you lie to your boss.
It does wish though you
would level with your Uncle
Sam.
Cites Sampling
A recent sampling by the
Social Security Administra
II 1959 GENERAL ELECTRIC
3
Hurry! There's Only One!
Saturday and Monday Only
st the
303 S. FRONT STREET
pressed their unhappiness
with Peiping.
For Peiping's action against
the supposedly autonomous
state of Tibet destroyed the
last illusions of the neutrals
that the Reds respected the
independence of any nation.
There is little hope of any
effective outside help for the
embattled Tibetans. On the
other hand, it seems clear the
Red Chinese have committed
themselves to a struggle they
may never win and which
could spread.
Take Risks Knowingly
Outside the battle area,
there is a theory that a Red
Chinese plan to quell the Ti
betan uprising without fan
fare went awry somewhere
and that the Dalai Lama and
his lieutenants learned that he
was to be used as a pawn.
Thus is became Imperative
that the Reds recapture the
young man before he could
expose the final lie that the
Dalai Lama himself opposed
the uprising. But the Dalai
Lama got away and may now
tell the world the truth about
the Red plans for Tibet.
This theory also holds that
the Red Chinese knew the
risks and chose to take them.
It was better to risk world
censure than to have a repeti
tion of revolutionary fires
that broke out a year ago in
the provinces of Sinkiang,
Chinghai and others in West
ern China.
tion showed maybe one per
son in every 10 had substan
tially understated his (or her)
age in applying for a social
security number.
The agency claims not to
have noticed which sex was
the worse offender. It says
men as well as women have
been caught shaving their
ages. It does happen though
that many of the case his
tories the agency cites involve
perfidious women.
When the showdown comes,
a lot of these ladies imme
diatelj think of their mar
riage licenses as a good place
to look for proof of their age.
But in the experience of some
social security experts, that
is probably the worst place
of all. If ever a woman is go
ing to downgrade her age,
apparently, she. does it when
about to get wed.
Birth Certificate Best
All sorts of evidence of
actual age is available to most
people though. A birth certifi
cate is the best of all, but
these weren't generally in use
62 (or in the case of men, 65)
years ago.
Family Bibles, baptismal
certificates, insurance . poli
cies, and even gravestones
are frequently helpful.
One worrisome possibility
is that some people may be
denying themselves benefits
to which they are entitled
rather than admit they orig
inally understated their ages.
This is one case though where
lying to the government is
not an offense.
Uncle Sam says come in,
and come clean, and he will
bend every effort to help you
prove you weren't honest.
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