4 Thursday, April 1, 1939
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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 16. 1949 (Saturday)
The Ashland Junior Cham
ber of Commerce plans an
Easter sunrise service in the
Shakespeare theater.
Oregon's longest Legislative
session closes after 97 days.
20 YEARS AGO
April 16, 1939 (Sunday)
The Medford High school
class B band and the trumpet
quartet ensemble win first di
vision ratings in competition
her.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: 'Taxes
are still the subject of consid
erable informal and impromp
tu cussing, . and vitriolic at
tacks to whack."
30 YEARS AGO
April 16, 1929 (Tuesday)
Local dog owners rush to
buy licenses.
The probable sale of the
Blue Ledge mine is reported.
40 YEARS AGO
April 16, 1919 (Wednesday)
An Easter egg hunt for chil
dren is to be held in the city
park.
Nine lawn mowers are sto
len from local lawns.
50 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1909 (Friday)
A syndicate purchases the
Moore hotel property on Main
St.
Swift and company starts to
erect a warehouse here .as a
distribution point for southern
Oregon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
eve or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. A young mare is called
a f ?
2. A precocious child is one
who is bashful; true or false?
3. If your car is stuck in
the mud, would you get more
traction if you further inflat
ed your tires, or if you slight
ly deflated them?
4. How many baseball
teams are in each major
league?
5. 'What colors are the silk
fibers in U. S. currency paper?
6. The young of elephants
are called what?
7. Name the'U. S. general
who organized the "Flying
Tigers" for the Chinese gov
ernment? 8. The . Atlantic ocean is
saltier than the Pacific; true
or false?
9. Which two principal
powers fought "The Hundred
Years War"?
10. In the Bible story, what
did Esau sell?
Answers: 1. Filly. 2. Fake.
3. Deflate. 4. Eight. 5. Red
and blue. 6. Calves. 7. Claire
L. Chennauli. 8. True; 9. Brit
ain and France. 10. His birth
right. Teacher Liability
Insurance Defeated
Salem -(UPD- A bill which
would have required school
boards to buy liability insur
ance to protect teachers and
other employees from damage
suits was defeated by .the Sen
ate Wednesday, 16-14.
. Lawyers argued that the
bill would add to school costs,
result in nuisance suits and
constitute legislation for a
special suit.
Lets Go Slow
We hope that the disturbing reports from
Salem, to the effect that there is a legislative plan
afoot to let the state run into a serious deficit sit
uation during the coming biennium, are un
founded. There is evidence to indicate they are not.
Dr. Edwin Durno, Jackson county's state sen
ator, makes a passing reference to this possibility
in a letter which appeal's elsewhere on this page.
He confirmed this in a telephone conversation
yesterday afternoon.
Members of the chamber of commerce's com
mittee on governmental operations ran across the
same report during a visit to Salem Tuesday.
IF THESE reports are correct, the Democratic
majority simply plans to pass the appropria
tions measures it feels are essential to the bed
rock needs of the state, let taxes continue much
as they are at present, and make no provision for
the increased needs of the state, nor for inflation
ary trends and natural increases in costs due to
population growth.
Thus, if the figures of some members of the
ways and means committee are correct, the state
will be broke or worse by the end of the bi
ennium. IF THESE reports are correct if, indeed, the
A legislature is going to put the state into a posi
tion of running into debt it is fiscal irresponsi
bility of the worst kind.
It is, in fact, a higher degree of irresponsibility
than letting many of the state's pressing needs go
hang. '
Dr. Dumo reports that appropriation measures
which have come, or are still, before the ways
and means committee, contain spending requests
totaling some $369 million, compared to n con
templated budget of $300 to $305 million.
Many of these are necessary to the continued
well-being of the state. He cites some of the more
important ones in his letter on this page.
DRESSURES for the legislature to adjourn are
mounting.
An "official" report on expected state expen
ditures is not due until this week end, according
to Sen. Alfred Corbett, co-chairman of the ways
and means committee.
" Governor: Hatfield is being asked about his
attitude toward increasing basic school support
funds (and .thus holding down local property
taxes;.
The House taxation
yes, no or "boo" about what sort of a tax program,
if any, it will present.
I he sales tax proposal, calling for a vote of
the people in 1960, whipped through the senate,
and may come to a dead end in the house. .
-,.,
THE picture, in short, is one of confusion ; of
lack of direction; of a scatter-brained, piece
meal, breath-taking and jittery conclusion to the
session, without anyone knowing exactly what is
happening, or why.
We concur with Charles A. Sprague, editor of
the Oregon Statesman and former governor of
Oresron. who this week advised the leo-islaturfi not
' '
to make a paramount issue
get nome, and to conclude its labors m a reso
lute and unhurried manner." '
In the closing days of a session, the pressure
can get so great that discretion and horse sense
can fly out the window.
We've seen it harmen.
We'd like to suggest
down a bit, and ponder
to a growing state in its
The Tax
If the needs of the state are to be met, and
the state is not to run into debt, that means new
taxes.
No one likes taxes. But they are necessaiy. If
services are to be rendered, they must be paid for.
We have always contended that taxpayers will
pay, if not happily at least willingly, if they know
where their money goes, and if they approve the
purpose. "
The sales tax proposal, even if it is not killed
in the house, cannot become effective for another
twro' years.
What happens in the meantime?
..
"THE state can use up the "surplus" of some $30
million plus what it will have ori hand at the
end of the biennium. It can collect an added esti
mated $8 million within the biennium by the
bookkeeping expedient of permittine- no install
ment payments of 1959"s
inis mucn probably will serve to support the
"bed-rock" budget of some $300 nlns millions
without providing anv "cushion." anv allnwnnfP
for increasing costs, or
4-1, J j?
uii uie ueeus lor more ouiiamgs, added scnool
support, other badlv-needed educational m As
sures, or perhaps even the
oi me puonc wenare program.
.A NYTHING beyond this presumablywill re
" quire an increase in income taxes, by hiking
rates, lowering exemptions, or by similar devices.
mi. Till-. "
inis snoma De done. c
' The Mail Tribune traditionally has nnnnspn a
sales tax. It is not yet ready to endorse one. But
the time may come, and in the foreseeable future,
when a sales tax will be neeessarv fnr fisrl
integrity and the needs of
Hint to the weatherman: We REALLY could
use some rain. E.A.
v .
committee hasn't said
o
out of how quickly they
that the legislature slow
on their responsibilities
Centerinial year. E.A.
Dilemma
taxes come next April.
for any material inroads
i ;i t t i i ,
increased requirements
a growing state. E.A.
Dennis the
If''
THAT CX CHAIR i'
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE UNREADY ALLIES
Only a month remains be
fore the Foreign Ministers
are obliged to meet in Geneva,
nana there is
much to be
done before
the Western
powers have
anything like
a sound nego
tiating posi
tion. We are
in fact not
ready for seri
O u s npffntin.
Walter
Lippmann
tions at the level of the For
eign Ministers or at the sum
mit. If we could do what
would be most convenient, we
would postpone these v meet
ings for a better day.
This is, however, not pos
sible. For while May 27 is not
the deadline of an ultimatum
demanding that we accept
the Soviet terms, it is never
theless a deadline which the
Western governments
not thought it ' prudent to ig
nore. They have realized that
if serious negotiations about
the two Germanys and Berlin
are not under way during the
summer, the Soviet govern
ment is almost certain to take
measures which would dam
age severely the Western posi
tion. rpHIS does not mean that the
Soviet government is like
ly to blockade West Berlin or
that it is likely to use military
force to oust us from West
Berlin. They are playing
chess and they will not sweep
all the pieces off the board.
They are likely to make a
move which it is very diffi
cult to reply to. Most" likely
they will do what they have
threatened to do, which is to
sign a separate peace treaty
with East Germany, and to let
the East German government
administer the whole problem
of access to West Berlin. This
would be a very baffling but
a very powerful move. It
would be powerful because
once the East German state
has a peace treaty it will be,
whatever we may think of it
a sovereign state. Very quick
ly it will receive diplomatic
recognition by all the govern
ments of the Communist orbit,
and almost certainly also from
many of the governments
which take the line of "posi
tive neutrality"
This would seal publicly
and formally the partition of
Germany. ;
Yet it would be a baffling
move for us. There is nothing
that we can do to prevent it.
Most of the talk about how
firm we are going to stand is
addressed to the notion that
the Communists may blockade
West Berlin. What we must
be thinking about is what we
wiu do supposmg they, do not
blockade Berlin, not now.nnr
in the probable future. How
then do we stand firm against
a measure which, without anv
physical action on their part,
deprives the people of West
Berlin of confidence in their
own future, which derjrivps
th people of West Germany of
hope that the western powers
can reunite the two Ger
manys?
: '
rpHE basic reason why the
Western powers are not
now ready for a serious nego
tiation is that they are faced
with an ugly reality the par
tition of Germany and they
have not yet been able to ad
just their policies and their in
ternal politics to this ugly
fact'. The public tragedy of Mr. j
Dulles's illness- is that . he is
uniquely qualified to lead the
Western coalition in adjusting
itself to the ugly reality.
It is in this context that Dr.
Adenauer's 'decision to seek
the Presidency can most plau
sibly be explained. When I
was in Paris before I went to
Bonn, several people in the
know said somewhat crypti
cally that the Chancellor was
Menace
o
'tuw.iimt:
Lippmann
a sad man and needed to be
reassured about his future and
his place in history.
In Bonn it was evident that
there was great anxiety in
high quarters about the out
come of the German elections
the Presidential elections
this year and the parliamen
tary elections in 1961.
The anxiety arose from the
fact that there is a powerful
tide of opinion running
against Dr. Adenauer's policy.
The tide is not only among the
Socialists but also within his
own party and on the right of
it. There was a chance that
the Social Democrat Carlo
Schmid, who is a popular fi
gure, might, win the Presi
dency against any of the
available Christian Democrats
and there was a chance that
Dr. Adenauer might not ob
tain a reliable majority in the
next parliamentary elections.
ANY public demonstration
that Germany will not be
reunified might prove to be
decisive against Dr. Adenau
er's party. By accepting the
Presidency now, he is insur
ing the continuation of his po
litical influence against what
might happen in the elections
of 1961.
Seen this way, Dr. Adenau
er's decision is a wise one. It
is ' like battening down the
hatches and reefing in the
sails for the storms which are
ahead. His decision will make
it less dangerous to the West
ern alliance to work out a pol
icy which is based on the real
ity that Europe and the two
Germanys and Western Ber
lin must find a way to live for
a long time without a settle
ment which restores the old
German Reich.
Now that Dr. Adenauer has
taken out insurance for the
political future, the unity of
the Western alliance on a
firm policy which is negoti
able depends on this country.
Germany, France, and Great
Britain cannot achieve this
unity among .themselves. To
tell the truth, there is too
much jealousy and suspicion
among them and when the
leaders "are candid, they are at
one in saying that there will
be no Western policy unless
and until Washington speaks
again in a clear and confident
voice.
(c) 1959 New Yofk Herald
Tribune Inc.
Coslello's Health
Declared Improved
Atlanta - (UPD - Gambler
Frank Costello "is in better
health here than when he be
gan serving his sentence,"
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Warden Fred Wilkinson said
Wednesday night.
.Costello, who began serv
ing time here Oct. 21, 1958,
on an income tax evasion
conviction, is assigned a mod
erate duty job because of a
heart condition.
The w a r d e n ' s statement
came after reports that the
gambler was "very sick."
Lumbermen's Group
To Meet Monday
R. E. Mahaffay, general
manager of West Coast' Lum
berman's association, will dis
cuss the proposed moisture
content amendment to the
Southern Standard Building
code at a district meeting of
the association at the Jackson
hotel Monday.
There will be a no-host din
ner with a social hour start
ing at 6 p.m. Other matters of
industry interest will be dis
cussed.' Also expected to attend are
Emmett Stoddard and Harry
Fimmel, field staff members
of the association.
Senator Durno Gives
Tax; Sees
To the Editor: It was my
pleasure Tuesday morning to
discuss Senate Bill 495 (the
sales tax measure) on the
floor of the Senate. I present
ed in detail my feelings on
this matter, in the following
manner.
I arise to support Senate
Bill 495. 1 think that you will
have observed that in the in
frequent times that I have
arisen to speak, I have not
been the mouthpiece of labor,
industry, education, or even
the thinking of a committee.
I have spoken as an individ
ual, and that is the manner in
which I speak now.
Some of my contemporaries
might say that I am no author
ity on taxes. They would be
right. However, I did cam
paign on the issue of the sales
tax in the primary and in the
general election. This issue
today so nearly coincides with
my concept of taxation that
I expressed as long as one
year ago, that I think my
reasoning then applies now.
I said then, while the abil
ity to pay should always be
a dominant factor:
1. That the property tax
payer was paying more than
his share.
2. That the personal income
taxes in Oregon could not be
raised substantially without
the law of diminishing returns
setting in.
3. That we were going to
reach a point in the economy
of this high service state,
when we were going to have
to seek a new tax base, name
ly the sales tax.
4. That I was in favor of a
sales tax providing it was not
just another tax, but one
which would effectively re
duce the other tax bases.
I admitted a sales tax to be
somewhat regressive, but I
submitted
1. That we already had a
selective sale tax in many cat
egories. 2. That a sales tax eliminat
ing drugs and food would not
place an undue hardship on
those people of moderate and
fixed incomes.
3. That I believe all people
should have a part in govern
ment, whether they exercise
their right of franchise or not.
That I further believe that all
people should pay something
for the services of government
that they, receive. It is a fact
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although nnder 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 letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Consideration Needed
To The Editor: I would ap
preciate your publishing this
appeal to those people who
are subscribers in telephone
party lines, who so obviously
feel the phones were installed
solely for their own pleasures
and no one else.
Because no other lines are
available, I am on a 10 party
line. It's almost impossible to
get a business call through
to us, or ts get on the line
to call out. My husband tried
all day Thursday to call me
from his army camp, to let
me know he was on his way
home on a three day pass.
After trying at each available
stop, and 17 hours travel, he
finally reached me, when he
was within 50 miles of Med
ford, to meet his bus.
All day Sunday and Mon
day, my daughter in a distant
state tried to call me. She
finally got in on this line late
Tuesday. If we need to run
an advertisement in your
paper, and give our phone
number, no one can reach us,
so our money is wasted.
No, I realize full well the
job of housewife can get very
monotonous and boring,
which is mainly the reason
women sit and talk for hours
at a time, regardless of the
fact they are tying up the
line.
These "bored" housewives
might give the above facts
some serious consideration. If
she feels like a visit, she
could go to the home of the
person she so likes to talk
to, for no doubt, that person
would appreciate a visit, and
p"!ease not tie up the lines for
hours, as the other nine of
us do hope to make a call
occasionally. We all expect
our loved ones to be able to
reach us, from a distance.
Too, if we place an ad we
trust the answerer may be
able to reach us for inquiries.
Won't you please use a little
consideration and think of
these things?
The phone company has
asked repeatedly that its sub
scribers limit their conversa
tion to 5 minutes. They have
tried, in every courteous way,
to appeal to its customers.
But it just seems as if the
"talkers" take a special de
light in tying up the lines
and resent being reminded of
being such poor sports.
I so often think of this fact,
Possibility
that those who receive most
pay little or nothing in income
or property taxes.
4. I further submit, as a
part of the second or third in
dustry in our state, the tour
ist visiting our state should
pay something for the conduct
of our government beyond the
selective sales taxes that we
already impose. We would col
lect many millions of dollars
which remain in the pockets
of our tourist friends as they
pass to the North or the
South and start to collect the
pennies in their pockets from
business transactions there.
I further submitted that the
sales tax is simple, the admin
istration and collection is rel
atively inexpensive, and its
enforcement is not difficult. I
do not like earmarking of
taxes, but I do approve of
equality of participation of
state and local government
in education, and I do not see
how we will achieve that
without a new tax base.
There has been a continu
ing pressure on Ways and
Means for the appropriation
of moneysfor many projects.
To enumerate a few, I could
mention House Bill 514 or
Senate Bill 94 which would
appropriate $20,000,000 for
the Basic School Support
fund; educational television,
$450,000; a request for an in
terim study of the whole prob
lem of secondary education,
$150,000; an open-end appro
priation for the establishment
of community colleges; a cor
oners' bill that would cost in
the neighborhood of $200,000
biennially; a bill for the aid
to the blind which will cost
between $280,000 and $350,
000; a measure to aid the gift
ed child program, $250,000; a
measure appropriating money
for an improved county health
program of $838,000; the cre
ation of an interdepartmental
agency for the study of men
tal retardation $200,000.
These are just a few. We do
not have the money and the
pressure has been growing
for these services of state gov
ernment. I am asking the Democratic
majority of this Senate to in
itiate legislation in the form
of income taxes which would
provide for at least some of
these services which we need
so much. I am asking that
"If our appeals to God for
help in our problems had to
be made via a 10-party line,
how very seldom they would
reach Him, or He us."
You people who are so
thoughtless might consider
that.
Please, let's show our true
American spirits, and grati
tude to the phone company
and to our friends and neigh
bors, by being more consider
ate to our fellow man.
Your neighbor,
Mary A. Williams,
357 Orr dr.,
Central Point.
Tim Will TeU
. To the Editor: In Tuesday's
"Communications," Fra n c i s
Ray of Ralston, Wash., won
ders if Christianity is real.
Without disputing the senti
ments expressed, I must take
exception to his test of re
ality. The reality of the Chris
tian faith depends on whether
Jesus Christ rose from a tomb
bodily over 1900 years ago.
Either He was killed and that
was that, or He rose, is alive
today at the right hand of
God, witnesses by His spirit
to His children, and will re
turn soon to prove His divin
ity and put a stop to what
Mr. Ralston is talking about.
Either this is a historical
fact and a reasonable hope
or the whole thing is a fairy
tale. If Jesus did not rise
bodily, whatever He taught
means nothing, since it is
merely what some people
call a good way of life. While
it is easy to see who believes
it and who just puts on a
show by observing lives, this
means nothing if Jesus Christ
is dead.
If Jesus was killed 1900
years ago, He was really fool
ish to stick His neck out, and
we who trust Him as Savior
are bigger fools to believe
any fine morals will save our
necks, either in this world or
one to come if such there be.
Time soon will tell if Jesus
is alive.
Parker Bailey,
542Vi "A" st.,
Ashland.
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they extend this income tax
legislation to help solve the
problems of the 1961 session
which will undoubtedly leave
us with a deficit of $60,000,
000 unless steps are taken to
correct it. I firmly believe
that if such legislation is en
acted and the income taxes
are increased that such taxes
will be so onerous to the peo
ple of the state, that they will
be very happy to consider the
feasibility of a sales tax. They
will have almost two years to
Matter of Fact
THEIR HEARTS BELONG
TO ADLAI
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-The
first thing one learns from
a political safari through stra-
tpirallv cru
cial Wisconsin
is the present
strength of
Sen. John F.
Kennedy's
D e m o c ratic
P r e s idential
Candida cy.
This Kennedy
strength may
wane. Or the
los-ph Alsop
Massachusetts Senator may be
overtaken here by the other
hard-running Democratic can
didate, Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey of Minnesota, who plans
to cultivate Wisconsin before
next year's primary as no
political vineyard has been
cultivated in recent memory.
As of today, however, the
Kennedy strength is highly
impressive.
Almost equally impressive,
it must be added, is what
may be called the second
line strength of Adlai Ste
venson. Since the two active
Democratic candidates, Ken
nedy and Humphrey, are al
most certainly coming into
Wisconsin to fight the key
primary here, the local Demo
crats are making their first-
line choices between these
two. Barring unforeseen de
velopments, Wisconsin can
therefore be expected to send
either a Humphrey delegation
or a Kennedy delegation to
the Democratic convention in
Los Angeles.
DUT whether it is a Hum-
phrey delegation or a Ken
nedy delegation, the band
from Wisconsin will also, in
a quite important sense, be
a Stevenson delegation. In this
respect, a minor episode of the
mid-Western Democratic con
ference, at Milwaukee some
weeks ago is usefully illus
trativer In brief, virtually all the
grandees of the Wisconsin
Democracy had gathered for
a late drink after the wind-up
of oner of the Milwaukee ral
lies' evening sessions. The lo
cal party organization is by
no means united, being di
vided both into adherents of
Gov. Gaylord Nelson and ad
herents of Sen. William Prox
mire, and into a pro-Hum
phrey and pro-Kennedy group.
All the same, the gathering
was amiable, and the argu
ment about potential . Demo
cratic candidates was friendly.
Finally, one of those pres
ent said, "Come on, tell the
honest truth. Leaving practi
cal politics on one side, which
Democrat would you really
like to see nominated?" The
whole room was polled, and
Adlai Stevenson's name was
heard on every lip.
THIS strong residual senti
ment for Stevenson will
have no effect, of course, if
one of the active Democratic
candidates wins nomination
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ruaL '
on Sales
Deficit
study the philosophy of this
line of reasoning and can so
advise their Representatives
and Senators before we meet
again.
Dr. Sly so wisely said, "The
people of the State of Oregon
will know when they need a
new tax."
I ubmit that this legisla
ture should determine and
talte into consideration the
will of the people.
Edwin R. Durno, M.D.,
State Senator.
By Joseph Alsop
oh an early ballot But sup
pose . the kind of situation
arises that it so hopefully en
visioned by the supporter of
Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis
souri. Suppose Kennedy and
Humphrey cannot make it,
and the convention is thrown
wide open. In that case, so
far "as Wisconsin is concern
ed, the Stevenson sentiment
will become most important.
This reporter found no Wis
consin Democrat, among a
large number confidentially
queried, who did not mean to
go for Stevenson in the situa
tion above-outlined. For Sym
ington, in contrast, there is
no discoverable enthusiasm
in any quarter here in Wis
consin. This sharp contrast between
the unanimity of the Wiscon
sinites' second choice of Ste
venson, and their marked lack
of enthusiasm for Symington,
would seem to raise a question
that goes beyond Wisconsin
borders. How much basis in
political reality does the Sym
ington preconvention strategy
actually have? If there is a
deadlock, is not the conven
tion just as likely to turn to
Stevenson?
ONE can think of a very
large number of key states
where the position favors Ste
venson rather than Symington
at present. California is a
notable example. Minnesota,
Michigan, the Northwestern
states, and some of the Rocky.
Mountain states also come to
mind; and New England, too,
will lean to Stevenson rather
than Symington. Even in New
York, where Carmine DeSapio
has been making Symington
like noises, the Tammy chief
tain will have an ugly fight
on his hands with the numer
ous Stevensonites in the state.
In short, despite the bitter
opposition of President Harry
S. Truman and many others
among the older professionals,
Stevenson is going to be a
hard candidate to stop if the
front-runners fall by the way
side. He may be a two-timt
loser, but he still commands
much affection. Even among
those who think he would
make a good President "if I
could only name the Presi
dent myself," as one Wiscon
sin leader put it.
For Symington, all this per
haps means that he has not
gone far enough, by going
from inactive to active-inactive
candidate status. He
might have to get out and
beat the bushes like a fully
active candidate, if his strate
gy is to have a serious chance
of working.
Copyright 1959. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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