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4 Wednesday, April 15, 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
April 15, 1949 (Friday)
Ashland and Butte Falls are
listed by the civil aeronau
tics administration as cities
that should have airports.
A preliminary petition to
refer the Rogue river dam
bill, authorizing a dam at
Lewis creek, is filed with the
secretary of state.
20 YEARS AGO
April 15. 1939 (Saturday)
A silver tea and pioneer
exhibit is planned at the
Birdseye home on Pacific
highway north of Foots creek.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
fishing season opens Satur
day. Rumors persist several
will keep on working when
they should be fishing."
30 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1929 (Monday)
High school students discov
er Superintendent E. H. Hed
rick is fond of candy.
Jack Hughes wins prizes at
the high school as most popu-
lar and most bashful.
40 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1919 (Tuesday)
Harry Manning, the Caruso
of Medford, will sing three
songs at the Liberty next
week.
The Elks minstrels will per
form at Grants Pass.
50 YEARS AGO
April 15. 1909 (Thursday)
Lillian Russell, famous
beauty, songstress and actress,
is pleased with her reception
in Medford.
The State Supreme court
orders that the Putnam libel
case be put on the Jackson
county court records and that
$45 in court chargesbe as
sessed against the county.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct if superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good. ' .
1. Identify the movie ac
tress who was featured in the
production "The Outlaw."
2. Which of these wrote the
music and lyrics for the
Broadway musical, "Kiss Me
Kate;" Hammerstein, Porter,
Berlin?
3. Berlitz is a name best
known for its courses in paint
ing, languages, or dancing?
4. In tennis, a game won
without loss of a point is call
ed what?
5. Which English king be
headed two of his six queens?
6. Which vegetable was once
called "love apple"?
7. A goat is the Navy's mas
cot; what is the Army's?
8. Bock beer usually is
available at which season of
the year?
9. Upon retirement, Justices
of the U.S. Supreme Court re
ceive one-half, one-fourth or
full pay?
c
10. Will a 100-watt electric
bulb yield about 15 per cent
more light than two 50-watt
bulbs, or the same amount?
Answers: 1. Jane Russell. 2.
Cole Porter. 3. Languages. 4.
A love game. 5. Henry VIII. 6.
Tomato. 7. Mule. 8. Spring. 9.
Full pay. 10. 15 per cent more.
Cultural Center
Through American history, almost from the
very beginning, the school and the library were
the focus of small-town cultural life.
This is no longer universally true, because of
ever-expanding sources of information and enter
tainment motion pictures, magazines, news
papers, television, and so on.
But school and library still function as irre
placable centers of our intellectual lives.
The public library, in particular, is the reposi
tory of the accumulated wisdom of the ages, all
readily available on request. -
DUT in addition it serves other needs for
practical information, for entertainment, for
factual data. There's scarcely a question one can
think of that can't be answered by some volume
or other in the labrary.
The slogan for National Library Week (April
12 to 18) is "Wake Up and Read," which is neith
er better nor worse than most such slogans. But it
does make the point that too many Americans fail
to take advantage of the stored and available re
source's of the library. E.A.
Visit Your Library
The Medford Public Library (which, by con
tract, is also the Jackson County Public Library)
is observing National Library Week. ,
An open house will be held at the library
building between 3 and 6 p.m. on Friday, at
which time all patrons (and, more particularly,,
might-be patrons) are invited to visit the library,
inspect its facilities, and see just what it is that is
offered to the literate public of this' area.
As a matter of fact, the library holds "open
house" every day it is open, year-around, welcom
ing anyone to come in and sample its wares. But
the Friday hours will be graced by hostesses,
guides and explanations of the library and its
functions.
.
OPERATING a good public library is not the
- V-dCUQU Llllllg 111 111 G VV KJL 1VI J UU.
The staff is pinched -between the limits of
available funds, on one hand, and requests for in
creased service, on the other.
For instance, there is substantial demand for
such things as record loan collections, books in
Braille, story hours, meeting rooms,' reading
nooks, bookmobile service, home deliveries, mail
service, reference service, and personal assistance
in finding a particular book, or a book on a par
ticular subject.
Some of these the Medford library is equipped
to furnish ; others it is not.
t
117'HAT the labrary board has endeavored over
" the years to do is to furnish the maximum
possible service within the available funds.
With the support of
times-grudging support of the county, budgets
have slowly increased, making possible additional
books and additional services.
m It has been slow going, sometimes. But it has
paid off in increased patron - acceptance of the
library and what it is trying to do and this de
spite criticisms based on a wide range of factors,
real or fancied. ' ,
As a public agency, and one which is intimate
ly close to those it serves, the library is -under
constant close scrutiny, and any deviation from
practices which are universally accepted brings
instant criticism.
SOMETIMES, indeed,
cedure are attacked because they do not happen
to coincide with what a patron believes .should
be done.
And there is always
understandings si attempts to improve adminis
trative procedures. The Medford library, in its
capacity as the Jackson county library, has had
its share of these, in large part because patrons in
some of the surrounding communities it serves
through its branches are unfamiliar with the limi
tations under which it operates.
Some of these can be and have been settled by
a mutual discussion, conducted with honesty and
good will, of the problems involved. Others have
resulted in an unfortunate rupture of relations, as
was the case in Rogue River last year.
.
DESPITE such occasional misunderstandings
n-nA mn'fi'mVn. ' M. Jf ... J T 1
emu. tnuusm, me lueinuiu J-iiurary nas con
tinued a steady progress. Its patronage has in
creased rapidly. Its book collection is larger and
more diversified now than at any time in the past.
For the first time, it has three professionally
trained people on the staff, as well as the other
staff members, who because of long service, on-the-spot
training, and loyalty, offer friendly, effi
cient and helpful service to patrons.
The growth and development has paid off
both in acceptance of the library, and its use. ,
For those who are unfamiliar with it, and who
would like to know niore about its services, we'd
suggest a visit at any time. They are particu
larly invited, however, between 3 and 6 p.m.
Friday. E.A.
the citv. and the some
the very practices which
the possibility of mis-
Dennis the
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rfare in Alqeria
solved
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
It was just short of a year
ago that the dissident French
forces in Algeria rebelled
planet, a weak and vacillat
ing govern
ment in Paris
and star ted
the revolt that
brought Gen
(Charles de
Gaulle to
s power.
Their aim
Total integra
tion of Algeria
run ftewsom
with France
and an end
by whatever
means to the war by which
Algerian Moslems sought to
sever their connections with
France and set upa free and
independent Algeria.
On June 1, De Gaulle took
office as premier with three
special powers. They were:1
To govern France by de
cree for six months.
To revise the constitution.
To deal with the situation
in Algeria.
Fails in Algeria
Whatever else his successes
may have been, his record in
Algeria to date has been noth
ing but failure.
He has not been able to
halt the Algerian war which
costs France nearly three mil
lion dollars per day, nor has
he been able to satisfy the ex
treme right French in Alge
ria who started the revolt a
year ago.
The situation in Algeria re
mains distressingly similar to
that which existed before the
final French defeat in Indo
china some five years ago.
French occupation of Alge
ria began more than 100
years ago. Since World War
II the French have given lip
service to increased Algerian
independence but have shown
few real evidences of doing
anything about it.
Terrorism Unending
The rub results from the
fact that in Algeria there are
about eight million Moslems
against one million French
The French in Algeria, many
of whose families have been
there for generations and re
gard it as their permanent
home, fear that all the gains
of years would be wiped out
in the event of Algerian inde
pendence.
Their complaint now against
De Gaulle is the same as it
was against the Fourth Re-public-that
his policy is "soft"
and "equivocal" towards the
Nationalist rebels and appears
to be drifting toward some
sort of political settlement
with them.
Terrorism is unending in
Algeria under the present cir
cumstances, but now three
new dates for possible dem
onstrations and even more
than the usual amount of
bloodshed have beeli pre
dicted. They , are April 19 to 26,
when the Algerian municipal
elections will be held, the
April 28 opening of Parlia
ment in Paris at which 66 Al
gerian deputies intend to go
all out for integration, and
May .13, the anniversary of
last year's revolution.
Settlers Barricade Homes
In Constantine, Algeria, to
day wire netting cuts off the
little side streets from the
main thoroughfares to protect
passersby against bomb throw
ers.
An electric wire divides Al
geria from neighboring sym
pathetic Tunisia, to prevent
infiltration of rebel forces
and the shipment of supplies
to the rebels.
, On remote French farms,
settlers barricade themselves
at night.
These are conditions of life
in Algeria today conditions
which De Gaulle by his own
pronouncement is bound to
change.
In Algeria, a French army
of 450,000 men -more than
half of all France's armed
v7 1
Menace
mm
sot thj? fvns,twd
e
Problem for France
forces-fights a shadow rebel
army of less than 50,000 men
-a guerrilla army which
strikes and then fades away
into the mountains or among
the civilian population.
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia'
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the ridht tc
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. J-etters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case
Family's Role
To the Editor: Those forces
in opposition to the American
system of government long
ago changed their strategy
from that of outright revolu
tion, because the American
people would not listen to
them. Instead they described
their idea of government as
the "American Way." This
being so, one would be fool
ish to believe the written or
spoken word because it has
been labeled "American."
Concerning your condensed
column on April 13, 1959.
Either the heart has been re
moved or. the document pos
sessed no real substance in its
entirety.
The name of God has been
conspicuously left out of your
condensation, and the family
has.been relegated to a secon
dary place.
Remove God from your
mind and the state will take
His place.
It is the prevalent false
hood of modern philosophy
long taught in the schools
that the individual and family
exist for the state, and receive
from the state all their rights.
Yet the individual, the family
is anterior both in idea and
fact to the state, and must nec
essarily have rights and du
ties which are prior to those
of the state.
Truly the family is the ba
sic institution of our society.
The family is a society unto
itself. This role must not be
changed.
Robert J. Howard,
828B West 14th st.,
Medford.
Supports Humane Bill
To the Editor: Reference is
made to House Bill No. 629,
the humane slaughter bill in
the Oregon legislature. It is
very necessary that this bill
be passed to stop the back
alley slaughtering in the state
of Oregon.
If those interested in the
public health and welfare as
well as the humanitarians
would write to members of
Public Health and Welfare
Committee asking that . this
bill be gotten out of Commit
tee and on the Floor for a
vote, we would be most ap
preciative. Members of the Commit
tee above mentioned are: Rep
resentatives Peck, Atiyeh,
Heider, Van Hoomissen and
Wilderman and Senators
Chapman and Grenfell.
Southern Oregon Humane
Society,
2902 Table Rock rd.,
Medford.
Spring Scourge
To the Editor: I am sure
each year at this time many
housewives have some very
unpleasant thoughts about our
valley orchardists. It seems to
me m this day and age oi
progress, with rockets to the
moon and all the other un
heard of inventions, some sim
ple device could perhaps take
the place of these smoking,
smelly, monsters the
SMUDGE POTS.
I realize they have to pro
tect their crops and I'm sure
when fruit harvest and mar
ket time roll around they re-
Senator Durno Explains Plans
Of Mentally HI, Retarded, in Oregon
(Editor's note: The Mail Tribune
printed an article by District Judge
Paul Thalhofer of Umatilla county,
alleging the legislature is not pro-
Tiding sufficient care lor retarded
children, at Fairview home, and
suggesting that the present tuber
culosis hospital at The Dalles be
utilized for this purpose. The fol
lowing reply is by Dr. Edwin Dur
no, state senator from Jackson
county, a member of the Senate
committee on public health, who
also serves on the ways and means
committee.)
By DR. EDWIN DURNO
Slate Senator
Jackson County
This is in answer and expla
nation to the recent rather
widely circulated letter sent
to various newspapers of the
state by Judge Paul Thalho
fer of Umatilla county.
I have been a member of
the subcommittee of ways and
means working on the diffi
cult problem involving . the
care of the mentally ill and
mentally deficient patients.
Although we do not claim to
have solved the problem in
its entirety, we feel that we
have made substantial prog
ress in that direction.
Remains
. The French army is confi
dent today that it can win.
But there are others who be
lieve that the situation in Al-geria-as
it vas in Indochina
now has gone too far to be
retrieved.
gain the money spent in
smudging - but it is the every
day homeowner I'm speaking
of, our furniture, drapes, car
pets and clothing that we
spend thousands of dollars on
cannot be regained, half of it
is ruined and the other part
is cleaned and restored as best
we can, but the sparkle of
newness that we took so much
pride in seems to be lost.
I hope this letter will be
food for thought and some
day some arrangement will
take the place of the Rogue
Valley's Spring Scourge the
Smudge r Pot.
Mrs. Thomas Lewis,
1456 South Ivy st.,
Medford.
Minimum Protection
To the Editor: May I con
gratulate you on your two ed
itorials in Sunday's Mail Trib
une, with reference to com
pulsory automobile insurance
and the uninsured motorists
coverage.
I believe however, you
could see the situation from a
little different viewpoint if
you would put to yourself
three questions: (
1. What percentage of the
vehicles on the highways of
Oregon are from out of State?
2. Would you propose to
stop every out of. State vehi
cle at the border and require
them to furnish evidence on
insurance before entering the
State?
3. Does not the "uninsured
motorists" bill recently passed
provide at least a minimum
of protection against such per
sons?
It has always been felt that
where the individual fails,
the Government must step in
to compel " the individual to
provide the means of taking
care of himself. I am thinking
of State Workmen's Compen
sation, Social Security, and
such legislation.
Perhaps the above may
change your attitude slightly
as to the advisability of com
pulsory automobile insurance,
or your objections to the un
insured motorists coverage.
Cole Holmes, manager,
The R. A. Holmes
Agency, Medford.
Return U.S. Citizens
To the Editor: In trying to
keep up with the crowded
agenda of our legislators at
Salem, I came to the conclu
sion "that their compensation
is pitifully inadequate, that it
should be at least doubled.
And the task of trying to de
cide which of the many im
portant' bills required my
personal concern and action
with limited time and oppor
tunity for study, makes it ex
tremely difficult for the av
erage citizen to lend his sup
port pro or con on many of
these matters.
But one that I recently
heard about, was a memorial
to be addressed to our Presi
dent, House and Senate Joint
Memorial 5, calling for nego
tiations with the Communist
government of Red China for
a trade treaty. Congressman
Charles O. Porter has come
out in favor of such a treaty,
upon what grounds I am not
quite sure, but under the cir-1
cumstances I cannot agree'
For purposes of orientation,
Fairview Home has a waiting
list of approximately 530. Pro
jection of figures, indicate
that there will be 160 new ap
plicants yearly to that facil
ity. The Oregon State Hospi
tal which was 59 per - cent
overcrowded two years ago, is
now 32 per cent overcrowded
and the Eastern Oregon Hos
pital exceeds the standards set
by the American Psychiatric
Association by 29 per cent.
The members of the sub
committee of ways and means
have", during the past three
months, visited these institu
tions, as well as the Eastern
Oregon Tuberculosis Hospital
at The Dalles. We have made
a careful study and evaluation
of the needs of the state and
the potentialities of the insti
tutions involved and have ar
rived at the conclusion that
these patients should be re
deployed in the following
manner:
1. FAIRVIEW HOME. This
institution will soon have
available 400 additional new
modern beds. We further pro
pose to transfer approximate
ly 75 of these patients to the
Mid-Columbia Home and an
additional 50 to the Cottage
Farms Annex at Fairview. We
have recently approved the
construction of two pavilions
to house 215 additional pa
tients at Fairview. With the
530 on the waiting list and the
20 anticipated in the next bi
ennium, these measures would
adequately care for the now
serious problem existing with
respect to our institutionalized
mentally deficient.
2. COTTAGE FARM is an
institution in the Salem area
already constructed, which
will house approximately 330
mentally deficient and will be
an annex to Fairview and
under that institution's admin
istrative control. The patients
there would be 40 mentally
deficient now in the Eastern
Oregon State Hospital, 280
mentally deficient now
housed at the Oregon State
Hospital, and any remaining
beds would be transferees
from the Fairview Home it
self. 3. T h e MI D-COLUMBIA
HOME for the chronically ill
will receive patients over the
age of 50 who are institution
alized in our several mental
institutions. The home is de
signed to take care of the pe
diatric patient, be he mentally
ill or mentally retarded, who
will not benefit from intensive
treatment and who will not
be a problem with respect to
custodial or security care. It
will be a home of rest for our
aging who do need attention
with him this time.
i base my reasoning on
these grounds, that if I were
a credit manager, examining
Red China's standing and po
tentiality of carrying out its
obligations under any trade
agreement, I would have to
observe that to date it has not
yet lived up to a pledge made
on Sept. 10, 1954 to release
five Americans innocent of the
alleged crime of espionage
All efforts made by the De
partment of State have proven
fruitless, and no further offi
cial word has been received
concerning their fate except
off the record" assertions
made in unofficial circles,
that they are being held for
ransom .and would be released
when a trade treaty has been
negotiated. These five Ameri
cans are Richard Fecteau and
Charles Downey, both civili
an army employes; Robert
McCann and Hugh Redmond,
both business men; and Bishop
James Walsh, a Catholic mis
sionary. The first two were
captured in 1952, the business
men arrested in 1951, and the
missionary in 1958.
A prime requisite of any
signer to a trade agreement
is the reliability of the
signatories, how they carry
out their pledges. From the
evidence, Red China has no
conscience as to how they
would use any tactics to gain
their ends. Let them return
our citizens, then negotiate
aboveboard for a trade treaty.
It is highly dishonorable for
us to imply a trade treaty
might be obtainable being
pressured by commercial in
terests here, while our State
Department is trying to effect
the release of our citizens on
purely moral grounds. That is
not fair to the Slate Depart
ment or to the victims of in
justice, and would place this
country in a morally indefen
sible position.
The next move is up to the
Red Chinese Government to
establish itself in a better
light before the nations of the
world.
R. V. MacDowell
1027 West Broadway
Eugene, Ore.
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and supervision. The beauti
ful site with the adequate
buildings at The Dalles pro
vides a rare opportunity for a
home for those people in this
aging group.
4. OREGON STATE HOS
PITAL. Turning to the men
tally ill, our first considera
tion is the Oregon State Hos
pital which is 32 per cent
overcrowded. Two hundred
eighty of these patients would
be transferred to the Cottage
Farm, approximately 100 to
the Mid-Columbia Home, and
an unknown number to the
new Dammasch hospital upon
the completion of that insti
tution. 5. EASTERN OREGON
HOSPITAL is 29 per cent
overcrowded and approxi
mately 40 patients would be
eligible to transfer to the Mid
Columbia Home.
6. DAMMASCH HOSPITAL.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I
Chit chat from London:
Garage attendant Alfred
Holmes has quite a vocabu
lary. When four bandits held
him up early today, he swore
at them so effectively they
ran off confused and empty
handed. H
MMMMMM.
Swearing is a bad habit.
Nobody doubts that. It is
frowned upon in all the best
circles-as it should be.
Yet-
Here's a man who obviously
swears like the proverbial
trooper. The evidence in
dicates that he swears even
like a mule skinner.
And-
Bandits, hearing him,
abandon their banditry and
take to their heels, confused
and empty-handed. Thus the
commisison of a crime is pre
vented and a measure of good.
comes out of evil.
It's a strange world, full of
strange hapenings.
jyjO.RE news from the tight
The Town Council of Mar
gate became so convinced that
the town hall staff was in
efficient that it called in an
efficiency expert to change
things. . The expert made two
suggestions:
1. Give some of the staff
a raise. '
2. Fire 14 of the 30 coun
cilors.
I
HAVE an-idea that if we
followed that suggestion
here in our own great coun
try, starting at the top and
going cleas down to the bot
tom, the taxpayer might get
quite a little relief and gov
vernment might be just as
efficient as it is now - per
haps even MORE efficient.
One trouble with govern
ment is that it tends to pro
liferate.
W
HAT'S proliferation?
It's a biological term -
meaning, in dictionary langu
age, "to grow by the rapid pro
duction of new parts, or new
cells or buds. Developing a
leafy shoot from normally
TERMINAL organ, as a flower
or fruit In the case of corals,
producing a cluster of branch
lets from a branch."
HOW does government pro
liferate? It's a simple process.
A new government depart
ment is started. It requires a
head - say a bureau chief. In
a little while, the bureau chief
requires - an assistant bureau
chief. Then, in time, the as
sistant bureau chief requires
an assistant. After that, the
assistant assistant requires an
assistant. All the assistant
bureau chiefs require secre
taries. In time, the secretaries
require stenographers. Eventu
ally assistant stenographers
are required. After that comes
the need for assistants to the
assistant stenographers.
And so on-ad infinitum."
That's government prolife
ration.
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WHO CALL
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C. M. Litwiller
Recognized as a leader
in the funeral profes
sion, Litwiller's has served Jackson Co. since 1935.
Constantly striving to-bring you that better funeral
and ambulance service at the lowest possible cost.
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
7
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
for Care
The first phase of v Dammasch
Hospital will be completed
this biennium, and at that
time there will be further
transfer of patients from the
other mental hospitals.
It is noteworthy that there
is no increase in the mentally
ill population at the present
time, due to modern intensive
therapy and to the improve
ment in follow-up and outpa
tient techniques.
I believe that an analysis
and comprehension of ' the
above factual information will
pretty well demonstrate that
we have the problem of the
mentally ill and mentally de
ficient patient well in hand."
Befqre concluding these re
marks, I think it would ,be
well to also consider the pro
gram that is being presented
to the Legislature which has
every likelihood of meeting
with their approval.
1. New money has been ap
propriated for the expansion
of the Out-patient Department
of Eastern Oregon State Hos
pital. Occupational and recrea
tional therapy facilities will
be developed in the Intensive
Treatment Building there.
2. A similar program is in
force at Oregon State Hospi
tal. 3. The Intensive Treatment
Unit of Mental Disease, a pilot
program, is in full operation
at the University of Oregon
Hospital at Portland.
4. The Dammasch Intensive
Treatment Section, with every
component of modern therapy, '
will be in operation this bi
ennium. 5. . There is a mental reha
bilitation project going at the
present time with the Oregon
State Hospital and participat
ing home county.
6. There is an increased ap
propriation from $230,000 to
$704,000 for the teaching of
our mentally retarded in the
public schools.
7. Appropriations have
been authorized for 100 schol
arships for teachers of the
mentally retarded that they
may qualify and thus the dist
ricts will be able to receive
these reimbursable funds. ,
8. Thre is a further appro
priation of $250,000 being
considered for the gifted child.
While this represents the oth
er end of the rainbow, we feel
that it is most important that
we make it possible for the
development of these talents
which have been neglected to
date. Oregon has 5.6 per cent
of its children who have IQ's
of over 135. The national ave
rage is between 2 and 3 per
cent. We feel that these chil
dren should be kept in their
normal environment but
should be given the opportu
nity to develop their' special
talents with extra programs
and extra opportunities out
side of the regular school
room.
We further believe that the
creation of the Mid-Columbia
Home, the creation of new fa
cilities at Fairview, and the
shifting of our mentally ill
and mentally retarded popula
tion, will result in the satis
factory care, treatment and
development of the unused po
tential in our youthful and
older citizens.
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