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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 18, 1949 (Friday)
The State board of health
approves final plans and spe
cifications for the proposed
sewage treatment plant at
Camp White.
Medford school district offi
cials apply for a building per
mit to erect a $71,000 addition
to Lincoln elementary school
20 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1939 (Saturday)
Medford High school musi
cians win four first prizes and
a third prize at the state solo
ist contest at Corvallis.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
city Lawns are pretty well
messed up with dandelions,
and the country fields with
mild mustard, both adding a
touch of yellow to the land
scape. 30 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1929 (Monday)
Logging operations start in
the Butte Falls district.
School heads ponder the se
lection of a coach to succeed
Prink Callison.
40 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1919 (Tuesday)
Carl Bowman, who sold his
barber shop a week ago, has
bought the Nash hotel shop.
Pears have emerged un
scathed from frost to date.
50 YEARS AGO
April 8. 1909 (Thursday)
A Medford city councilman
and the fire department
square off over the size of
feed bills for. the department's
horsepower.
Klamath Falls residents are
excited by word that the
Southern Pacific . roadbed is
about complete and trains
will be running through with
in 20 days.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or tan correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
5
1. Is the dessert most fre
quently ordered in American
restaurants, ice cream, pie or
cake?
2. A city in Wyoming is
named for "Buffalo Bill,"
name it. '
3. For whom is Rhodesia
named?
4. Complete the following:
"Tall oaks from little "
5. Two "Presidents of the
U.S., having the same sur
name, were born in Massa
chusetts; who were they?
6. Is 'a clap of thunder
heard before, after, or simul
taneously with observance of
lightning? -
7. Enlisted men of the Army
are eligible to sit on courts
martial; true or false?
8. In the central part of
which large European city is
there a district known as Pic
adilly Circus?
9 Was the War of 1812 be
tween the U.S. and Britain
largely land or naval war
fare' 10 When a flag is furled, is
it such that it will float in the
breeze, or is it d
Answers: 1. CoY
a Cecil Rhodes. 4. acorns
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This Dt
is uecision ts wrong
Readers of these columns may recall that we
have been generally pleased with the tenor of
recent Supreme Court decisions.
We believed the desegregation decision was
the only one possible under the circumstances of
today; and that many of the subsequent deci
sions showed an awareness on the part of the
majority of the court of the importance of human
and individual rights, as defined in the U.S.
Constitution.
It was for this reason that a decision within
the past week or so, which seems to fly in the
face of this tendency toward an open and progres
sive approach to the Constitution, came as a
surprise.
1X7E REFER to the cases in which the court
''''construed that part of the- Bill of Rights
which prohibits double jeopardy as being not
applicable to situations where state and federal
jurisdictions overlap.
The Constitutional phrase in question reads:
". . . nor shall any person be subject for the same
offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or
limb . . It is part of the Fifth Amendment.
This is the provision which protects a person
who has been tried for an offense from having
to stand trial again for the same offense.
But in the recent decision, the court ruled that
a man found innocent of an offense in a state
court could then be tried for the same offense
in a federal court.
. '
IXE HAVE not studied the reasoning of the
court's majority in coming to this startling
and revolutionary conclusion.
But we have read parts of the vehement dis
senting opinions of Chief Justice Warren and
Justices Douglas and Black, who believe that the
decision is wrong, both morally and constitu
tionally. The Wall Street Journal comments :
"We are as aware as anyone that the 'double
jeopardy' prohibition sometimes lets the guilty go free;
under it a man once acquitted of murder can there
after admit he murder with impunity. But if the
Constitutional provision has any moral basis it is in
weighing this danger against the danger of continued
. and remorseless prosecution of a citizen in one trial
after another ... '
"Trying a man twice for the same offense is either
the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do. But it
cannot possibly be both."
We hope, and with some optimism, that the
court eventually will reverse itself on this deci
sion, which we believe to be untenable under
our system of law. E.A.
Who is Happy?
Is "happiness" an absence of worry or sor
row? Is it a state of nerveless euphoria? Is it a
negative state 'created by
making for 'imhappiness : ...
No, by jingo not in our book, it isn't. '
If it were, the idiot or the drunk is "happy,"
while he who is active
cerned and hard-working
pmess. rnooey.
- -
OAPPINESS, in its best sense, is accomplish
meht. It is an earned sense of satisfaction. It
is the feeling of challenges met and conquered;
a feeling of competence m what one is doing;
a belief in one's own abilities; a sense of "be
longing." Unhappiness, conversely, stems from frustra
tion, a sense of uselessness or inadequacy, a con
viction that one doesn't measure up to one's own
standards -and, sometimes, a simple lack of
standards to begin with.
A ND it may well be that a mistaken idea of
."what constitutes happiness is at the heart of
what is so wrong with many people these days.
It has, perhaps, been stimulated by advertis
ing which seeks to convince one that a prety
face, or a lack of body odor, or the ownership of
a particular kind of car or house or labor saving
home appliance, will result in that elusive sense
of "happiness." There's nothing wrong with these
things as such, but they don't make for happiness.
Similarly, the emphasis these days on ease,
on the absence of strife or controversy or hard
work, has been used to sell us on the belief that
happiness is defined in these terms.
MO, HAPPINESS is not the lack of something.
A It isn't a negative quality. Nor is it directly
associated with possessions.
The happiest people we know are those who
are doing a job they believe to be worth-while;
who have made a success of their marriage
(which isn't automatic in the sense of "living hap
pily ever after," either; one-has to work at it);
who are active and interested in many things.
Their happiness is a positive thing, for they
have 'earned it for themselves. .
We feel sorry for those who think happiness
is something someone else should hand them on
a silver platter. E.A.
Billboard Bill Killed
The Oregon senate's committee on roads and
highways has tabled a bill which would have
regulated billboards on Highways 99 and 30
the "interstate" routes of the federal system.
In doing so they have opened the doors to
the erection of advertising signs on these scenic
routes, provided by the taxpayers, and offering,
in effect, a subsidized "captive audience."
Unless the committee
legislature acts on this or some similar measure,
the solution would seem to be a vote of the people,
proposed through initiative petition. We believe
the majority of Oregon voters do not want their
freeways cluttered by, billboards. E.A. ,
the absence of things
and thoughtful and con
is in a state of unhap-
reverses itself, and the
Dennis the
Hex if he's hungry; my don't he have lunch with
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Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
Editor's note: Waller
Lippmann has just return
ed from Europe, where he
has taken a first-hand look
at the Berlin crisis. This is
the third of a four-part re
port on the siluation.
THE TWO GERMANYS
AND BERLIN
III
The preceding articles have
made the point that for the
indefinite future the two Ger
man states
cannot be re
united in one
German state
with its capi
tal in Berlin
There will be
the German
F e d e ral Re
public of the
Walter -
Lippmann capital at
Bonn. And there will be the
German Democratic Republic
of the East with its capital at
Pankow, which is a ?art of
East Berlin. These two Ger
man states now deal with one
another in many economic
and technical matters. Thus,
for example, for some consid
erable ' time West German
traffic to West Berlin has been
controlled by the East German
government. With the assent
of Bonn it exercises the right
not only to stamp the identifi
cation papers but actually to
inspect the cargos.
There is every reason to
suppose that there will be an
increasing intercourse and
communication between the
two German states. But they
do not recognize each other
as legal and legitimate sov
ereign states.
We must, therefore, accept
the fact that for years to come
-it might be for a generation
or more-these two German
states will have to live side
by side with a frontier on the
line fixed by the armistice
which ended World War II.
From the frontier of East Ger
many to the city of Berlin is
a distance of 110 miles. The
basic problem is how to pro
tect the future of the West
Berlin community, which con
sists of two and a half million
people. They must expect to
live for an indefinite future,
perhaps for the rest of their
lives, in the heart of a Com
munist state.
IN' MY view, the future of
West Berlin cannot be se
cured adequately by a determ
ination to stand firm on .a
policy of standing pat. No
doubt, we can prevent the
Soviet Union and the East
German government from
blockading West Berlin. We
can threaten to go to war if
they do. But that is not good
enough. West Berlin lies in a
strategic trap, and its security
cannot be protected adequate
ly by military measures alone.
It can be secured against
blockade and outright aggres
sion. But it cannot be made
secure against harrassment
and a perpetual war of nerves
and the feeling that there is
no hope.
West Berlin is a highly com
plicated economic and politi
cal community. It enjoys the
institution of private property.
There is free enterprise in in
vestment and in banking and
in the management of capital.
If the division of Germany is
to last for the indefinite fu
ture, we must find ways to
provide the West Berlin com
munity with a dependable
order of things. We cannot ex
pect the West Berliners to de
pend for their whole security
upon what over the course of
a generation or more we may
be able and willing to do with
our Strategic Air Force.
The West Berliners cannot
go on for. years waiting to
hear what the Pentagon will
say about going to war when
ever an East German official
Menace
4-8 76
Lippmann
harasses them. There has al
ready been some considerable
flight of capital since the
Khrushchev note of last No
vember, and the economy of
West Berlin will wither if,
whenever there is a sign of
trouble, the best we can do
for it is to threaten World
War III.
TVTY Conviction is that the
future of West Berlin must
be protected, not by standing
pat but our insisting that West
Berlin needs and is entitled
to have a new status. When
Mr. K. tells us that the present
status of Berlin is obsolete,
it is a mistake for the West
to act as if any departure from
the status quo would be a de
feat and surrender. It might
be a nimprovement. At pres
ent the status quo is from our
point of view extremely un
satisfactory. The right answer
to Mr. K. is to propose that
we negotiate a new charter
or statute in which West Ber
lin is guaranteed an ordered
future by the presence of
Western troops acting under
international auspices.
A new statute for Berlin
is needed because the existing
arrangements were impro
vised, rather incompetently,
by men who regarded them
as temporary. Nobody planned
them for a long future. No
body supposed that there
would be two German states
with Berlin in the middle of
one of them. Only last week
we had an example of how
ramshackle are our agree
ments about access to Berlin,
when Soviet fighters buzzed
an American plane, which was
flying, apparently for the first
time, above the customary
ceiling of 10,000 feet; '
TN Negotiating a new statute,
we should begin by estab
lishing the principles under
which we have a right to be
present in West Berlin and to
participate in determining its
future. For some extraordin
ary reason we have chosen to
argue that our rights in Berlin
rest upon the right of con
quest. That is, if I may say
so, a poor reason for the de
fenders of civilization to in
voke. If we choose to stand
on the right of conquest, we
s"hall live to regret it. It will
boomerang. For where would
we be if the Soviet Union,
which is also a conqueror of
Germany, chose to invoke for
itself the right of conquest?
The whole of Germany was
surrendered to the conquer
ors, and if there is a right of
conquest, it is not limited to
West Berlin.
There is no need for us to
resort to so primitive and
brutal and repellant a prin
ciple as the right of conquest.
We have a good and sufficient
civilized reasons for being in
Berlin and for remaining
there. We are in Berlin be
cause it is the capital of Ger
many. We are entitled to stay
there until it is once again
the seat of a united German
government. During our stay
in Berlin we have in the
course of time acquired a spe
cial moral obligation to the
2V2 million inhabitants of
West Berlin. This obligation5
we intend to honor and we
could well say to Mr. K. that
he would despise us as we
would ourselves if we did not
honor it.
UKDR us, negotiations must
start from these two funda
mentals: the need for a long
future of steadfastness and
stability, and the need for a
change which reflects the new
realities. This can best be done
if a new statute is negotiated
in which the future of Berlin
is put in trust with the United
Nations. The new charter or
statute should begin with an
explicit declaration that the
United Nations trust will last
Scientist Eyes Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide
Imbalance of Today; Asks More Trees
By
DR. CHAUNCEY D. LEAKE
President-Elecl
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
The vast advances in trans
portation, the millions of au
tomobiles, trucks and air
planes, which we now have
running all over the earth,
burn up oxygen.
This is a great danger. Oxy
gen has accumulated on the
earth as a result of the photo
synthesis of plants. In this
process the carbon dioxide
which accumulated during
the days when volcanoes
blew off all over the earth,
was converted by sunlight to
sugar and oxygen. It is this
oxygen that makes possible
the land animals such as our
selves. We cannot live with
out oxygen, and we get in
trouble if we produce too
much carbon dioxide.
Carbon Dioxide Made
All modern transportation
moves on combustion; that is,
the burning of fuel with oxy
gen to produce carbon diox
ide. Incidentally, a lot of oth
er poisonous materials are
produced also, but let's just
stick to the carbon dioxide
picture.
For millions of years the
earth has been in a whole
some balance between oxygen
and carbon dioxide; the plants
use up the carbon dioxide that
comes into the air from burn
ing, or from the breathing of
animals, and produce sugars
and oxygen, so that animals
can live. This is a very deli-
until the two German states
agree to restore Berlin as the
capital of a reunited Ger
many. Then, in the new statute the
right of access, the conditions
of co-existence, the relations
between the two Berlins and
the two Germanys, the pres
ence of Allied and United Na
tions token military forces,
should be spelled out. Though
it is a complicated ' thing to
do, it is not an impossible
thing to establish a city with
in a city and within a foreign
state. The most striking ex
ample, which could Well be
used as a suggestive model,
is the treaty signed in 1929
between the Holy See and the
Kingdom of Italy. This was
the Lateran Treaty which
established Vatican City.
The State of the Vatican is
a quite separate sovereign
juridical entity although it is
in fact entirely surrounded
by the Italian city of Rome.
The treaty regulates the whole
problem of access across Ital
ian territory, and it does so
with a precision which any
one must envy who knows
something of the fuzziness of
our position 111 Berlin.
I think I have reason to say
that a solution of this sort
would be acceptable in West
Berlin. Whether the Russians
would accept it there is no
way of knowing until we try
to negotiate it in concrete
terms. But the signs are not
altogether unfavorable. Mr. K,
nas mentioned me u. im. m
connection with Berlin, he has
acknowledged that the West
has rights and obligations in
Berlin, and he has not reject
ed the idea of a Western mili
tary presence.
BOTH sides have much to
gain from such a settle
ment. For us it would mean
that the West Berlin commun
ity was guaranteed physical
security under a new and
much more authoritative sta
tute than exists today. It
would mean also that the fu
ture vras not foreclosed, and
that the prospect of Berlin's
becoming again the capital of
Germany would be reaffirmed
with the sanction of the world
society. The West Berliners
would have a reason for carry
ing on. For they would have
hope, which, in affairs of this
sort, is as important as- hydro
gen bombs.
The Russians for their part
would get a good deal too.
They would get, as we would
get, the relief that comes from
straightening out a dangerous
muddle. They would get a pro
visional but durable accept
ance of the fact that there are
two Germanys. Since a United
Nations statute would have to
be agreed to both by the So
viet Union and by the Pan
kow government, they would
get a de facto recognition of
the East German state by the
U. N. This might mean much
to them in that it would help
to stabilize their situation in
Eastern Europe.
Neither side would "win."
But neither would "lose."
Each side would hold within
its sphere of influence what
it now holds, and neither
would surrender to the other
any territory or any people.
But we would get a new legal,
political, and moral founda
tion and framework which
takes account of the hard facts
of life - that there will long
be two Germanys and that
Berlin must be protected in
a special way while Germany
remains divided.
(To be continued.)
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
cate balance. It is involved in
maintaining the stability of
weather. It is important ' in
keeping just the right balance
for heat capture from the sun
and for the preservation of a
balance in our water, distribu
tion, between the ice caps on
the poles and the water vapor
in the air. If this exquisite
balance is disturbed, things
can go bad.
We are disturbing this bal
ance in a sudden and startling
way. We are dumping tons of
carbon dioxide, along with a
lot of other poisonous mate
rial, into the air from the en
gines that run our automo
biles, trucks and airplanes.
Meanwhile, we are also cut
ting down our trees and mak
ing deserts in our cities. We
are in a fair way to get out
of balance before we know it.
Carbon dioxide helps to
build heat. With only a slight
increase in the over all car
bon dioxide of our atmos
phere, wi might add just that
bit more heat that could up
set our weather balance.
Think what might happen if
the polar ice caps were really
to melt away!
Plant Trees
Before it's too late, let's
start planting trees. Certainly
for every automobile we pro
duce, we should have at least
a dozen trees planted to take
care of - the carbon dioxide
that we produce and to put
back the oxygen that we need.
SEATO Still Weak, But Alive,
5 Years After Dien Bien Phu
By PHIL NEWSOM .
UPI Foreign News Editor
Five years ago today the
heroic defenders of Dien Bien
Phu were entering the fourth
veek of siege
by the Indo
Chinese Reds.
It was a siege
that was to
last 55 days,
with Red artil
lery zeroed in
from the sur
rounding hills
and the de
fenders bat-
Pail Newsom
tling disease and starvation as
well as enemy guns.
It was the climax to a war
that raged for more than five
years previously. For the
French it was a fight for sur
vival in Asia, for survival in
an area in which during 80
years of occupation they had
invested about $2 billion but
had been slow to permit any
degree of independence.
For the most of the re
mainder of the Western
World, the war in Indo-China
was a localized affair which
stirred little interest. But it
was, in fact, a war between
the free world and Commu
nism, with an import which
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Analysis of Education
To the Editor: The climax
of another phase of education
is nearing its goal. High school
graduation exercises will soon
be at hand. This is just a pre
paratory stage for advanced
education to our universities
and colleges throughout the
nation. The choice of special
ized education is dependant on
the individual's choice.
Our world of induced fer
ment is moving so rapidly that
before the century is finish
ed, today's civilization may
seem almost primitive.
How can we equip ourselves
for the trials of adaptation
ahead? Given peace we must
still look to a decisive con
flict. This is a contest of ideas
and of intellectual achieve
ment and performance, in
which the "blood, sweat and
tears" will be shed in the
classrooms, libraries and la
boratories.
The ideological war with
the Communists has begun
silpntlv. and I fear, while we
were complacently distracted
with, our material pleasures
and somewhat indifferent to
the need for constant nourish
ment of our liberties.
It will end gradually, with
out signal, and perhaps with
out the defeated knowing it
for a long time.
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amination of some of our val
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"plate odor" (denture breath). Get
For every truck, we need
probably a hundred or more
trees to keep the balance. For
every airplane, and now for
jets, we probably need several
hundred more trees. Let's
start planting them; let's keep
our balance!
Meanwhile, our cities are
becoming more ugly, our
landscapes are becoming more
barren, our whole civilization
is losing the natural beauty
that belongs to all of us in
the good regions of the earth.
Let's get the trees back to pre
serve our watersheds, to give
us the oxygen we need to
breathe, to remove the car
bon dioxide, dusts, and other
poisonous materials from the
air, and let's get trees back
into our cities to hide the ug
liness of our buildings.
Ugliness Visible
One has only to take a little
stroll about any one of our
big cities to see the ugliness
we tolerate. Maybe our libido
for ugliness is unconscious,
but it certainly is there, -or
else we would try to bring
some beauty into our cities.
This can best be done by
trees. Trees can be planted
and maintained along our
main 'streets, in our business
areas, in our commercial and
industrial areas, as well as in
our residential sections. We
need lots more trees, green
places and parks in our cities.
Trees and shrubs would
help enormously in our motor
equalled the stakes in Korea
and the present stakes in the
Middle East and Europe.
The siege of Dien Bien Phu
captured the imagination of
the West and finally it be
came likened to the siege of
Bataan in which Americans
fought and died to delay the
southward surge of the Jap
anese early in World War II.
Out of it also came the
birth of a new organization
for the defense against Com
munist encroachment.
It was the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SEATO)
another brainchild of Secre
tary of State John Foster
Dulles. Its birth came about
like this:
Under pressure of the stead
ily deteriorating French posi
tion in Indo-China, the West
ern powers agreed to a con
ference in Geneva beginning
April 26, 1954, to negotiate an
armistice in Indo-China and a
political settlement for Korea.
Agree on Split
Geneva failed to produce a
political settlement for Korea
but it did agree on a geo
graphical split in Indo-China,
the principal effects of which
were to divide Vietnam, larg
est of the Indo-Chinese states,
ues and of an awareness of
the "reality of the non-military
trials that lie ahead."
Much of this job lies with
the universities. The upward
movement of the educational
level of the whole population
must be accelerated. We must
search out and stimulate the
fullest development of gifted
young , people in all creative
fields: we must impart the
conviction that education is a
lifelong job, and we must seek
a balance in educational con
tent that will equip the intel
lect of the World of Change.
We as a nation can shrink
from adequate support of ed
ucation only at our peril. The
bill may seem high,, but we
have a pioneering tradition
of finding ways to support the
development of our frontiers.
We gave away free lands
in the West. We have subsi
dized the railroads, the air
lines, the shipping industry.
We cannot fail, in our great
wealth and our equally great
need, to find the means to
develop our brainpower, the
critical resource of our age.
I do hope that every gradu
ate that this article reaches
can absorb and analyze the
contents thoroughly.
George T. Salvo,
Camp White, Ore.
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age. Planted along our high
ways in the medians, they
might reduce head-on colli
sions; they certainly would
relieve monotony and lessen
fatigue; they can cushion the
impact of cars that go off the
road; the restore natural beau
ty; they help maintain the
roadside, particularly in the
prevention of erosion and
they are thus economical; they
reduce noise, dust, and take
our carbon dioxide from the
air; they can effectively
screen off the ugliness of in
dustrial areas, and they can
afford rest places for safety
and recreation.
Trees in Cities
More importantly are trees
needed in the cities. Here
they can help in reducing
noise and dust, in providing
cool shade in the summer, and
in hiding the ugliness of our
buildings both in summer and
winter.
Certainly if we are to pre
serve our balance in connec
tion with our wasteful use of
oxygen from the air, and with
our appalling increase in the
amount of carbon dioxide we
are dumping into it, it can
best be done by planting
trees; at least ten trees for
every automobile, at least a
hundred trees for every truck.
This would promote beauty,
stabilize our weather pattern
and help maintain : our land
in the beautiful natural way
that we all enjoy.
into north and south, the
north going to the Commu
nists under Ho Chi Minn and
the south becoming the re
public of Vietnam. Dulles ab
stained from the Geneva
agreement but two days after
its conclusion called for col
lecting arrangements for the
security of the "free peoples
of Southeast Asia."
On Sept. 8, 1954, SEATO
came into being in Manila.
In its membership were the
the United States, Britain,
France, Pakistan, Thailand,
The Philippines, Australia
and New Zealand.
It was both an alliance
against expanding Commu
nism and against the imperial
ist ambitions of Red China.
Unfortunately, the weak
nesses it had then, it suffers
from still.
Continues to Function
It never was a cohesive mili
tary organization such as the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation (NATO) in Europe. And
of its membership, only The
Philippines and Thailand truly
were Southeast Asian. It ex
cluded Nationalist China on
Formosa and it was looked
upon with suspicion by Indo
nesia, Burma and India.
Nor could it operate as an
economic aid because that
field already was covered by
the 18-nation Colombo Plan.
Its first attempt at joint
military maneuvers came
close to being a fiasco.
But with all its weaknesses,
SEATO has continued to func
tion and perhaps to act as a
deterrent against Communist
aggression. This week in Well
ington, N. Z., SEATO meets
again. A heartening report
will say that Communism has
been reduced materially in
The Philippines and Pakistan.
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