4 Friday, April 17, 1959
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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 ACO
April 17. 1949 (Sunday)
A recital by Claudio Arrau,
internationally famous pianist,
concludes the Jackson County
Civic Music association's sea
son. ,
Some 700 children
"scramble" for eggs in the
Kiwanis club's annual Easter
hunt.
20 YEARS AGO
April 17. 1939 (Monday)
Tomorrow is the deadline
for local young men interest
ed in signing up for the spring
quarter of the CCC.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Flam
ing youth hereabouts has
started burning the new fam
ily auto at both ends."
30 YEARS AGO
April 17. 1929 (Wednesday)
A California syndicate buys
the Blue Ledge mine and
plans its operations.
Orchardists urge the Jack
son county court to publish a
county booklet.
40 YEARS AGO
April 17. 1919 (Thursday)
Local bakeries call off the
one cent per loaf boost in the
price of bread.
One hundred Jackson coun
ty boys see the Al G. Barnes
circus as guests of Ed G.
Brown.
50 YEARS AGO
April 17. 1909 (Saturday;
Work on the Desert Oil com
pany's well northeast of town
stops temporarily pending the
arrival of a bottom reamer.
Klamath Falls business men
favor a big celebration to
meet the first Southern Pa
cific train to arrive there.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Do you associate the
name of the Arab ruler Ibn
Saud with Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
or Yemen?
2. Did President Truman
ever have a face to face con
ference with Stalin?
3. In Great Britain, what is
the B.B.C.?
4. When the President ve
toes a bill, what majority vote
by the Congress is required to
over-ride the veto?
5. What part of speech must
always agree in number and
person with its subject?
6. Of these three islands in
the Mediterranean, which is
the largest: Sicily, Sardinia,
Crete?
7. Is the recognized name
for Persia now Iraq or Iran?
8. What is the v common
name for sodium chloride in
white crystalline form?
9. Name the famous Kansas
newspaper editor who was
' long known as "the sage of
Emporia."
10. Correct the following:
i "Each of us have our prob
lems." Answers: 1. Saudi Arabia.
2. Yes. (Potsdam) 3. British
Broadcasting Co. 4. 23 in
each house. 5. Verb. 8. Sicily.
7. Iran. 8. Salt. 9. William
Allen While, 10. . . has his
problems." J
TO
Abominable
The time is drawing
earth-movers and chainsaws, to say nothing of
trucks, power shovels and jack - hammers, will
move into the middle of Medford to carve out the
route of the freeway down the east bank of Bear
creek.
This is scheduled for
We have never- made any secret of the fact
that we don't like the idea, and there are a lot of
people who agree.
However, we have
idea that there is anything to be done about it
barring a popular uprising of Medford people who
can see far enough ahead to realize the blight it
will put on our city.
A FRIEND now visiting in San Francisco clip-
ped an editorial from the Chronicle of last
Wednesday, which we reproduce herewith :
"San Francisco's outright rejection of seven free
ways and $87 million in state and federal funds avail
able for their construction has attracted national notice.
In a leading editorial, Architectural Forum says of the
action: "This is the first concerted revolt against the
highwaymen's single-minded' urge to drive freeways
through a city by the most convenient engineering
routes without regard for the city's tissue and fabric
of life.' .
"In listing causes for this community uprising, the
magazine says the decisive one was 'a tremendous
groundswell of protests from plain citizens, business
men, architects and civic cultural groups who, finding
pride in the native character of their city, did not want
to see San Francisco go the way of Los Angeles . . .'
"The editorial notes that the regional chapter of
i the American Institute of Architects has proposed that
architects be consulted in the preparation of designs
for freeways that traverse the city. It concludes: 'San
Francisco may be ready to accept sunken highways
or any other alternative, but it is adamant in not want
ing the seven freeways in prominent view.'
"The conclusion is sound. Tardily and at great cost
the city has learned the bitter lesson of the Embar
cadero Freeway. It will tolerate no more of these
abominable autobahns."
No further comment
Make It
A man who once raised oranges in southern
California called us yesterday morning before the
black, oily smudge smoke
He is a man sympathetic to the problems of
the orchardists. He recognizes their need to pro
tect the crop which is, after all, one of the main
stays of our economy. He knows they hate orchard
heating as much as anyone else and probably
more, for the cost mounts to some $15,000 per
nour, valleywide, during
.But our ex-orange grower is also a realist. He
knows that the people pf southern California
arose in wrath some years ago at the continued
smudge problem, and forced the orchardists to do
something about it. And
J t--. i- 1 4 -
ion l uune cu cuiiuui
which has been visited
the same thing is going
COME growers are bending every effort to find
a solution which is within the realm of eco
nomic feasibility.
Attempts havebeen
wood. Presto-Logs have been tried. Each, up to
this point, has its drawbacks, either in cost or
efficiency.
Some orchardists have gone to the expense of
purchasing the so-called hot-stack heaters which,
when operated properly, burn hotter, and use a
higher percentage of the fuel, thus lessening the
I output 'of the smoke which in common usage is
caned smudge.
The cost of such heaters, which runs in the $15
to $18 range, with thousands of them needed to
protect the fruit, runs into a major investment.
. .
Qur ex-orange growing friend has a suggestion,
however.
He's been reading about the population
growth in southern California, and how thousands
upon thousands of acres of orange orchards have
been taken out to provide room for subdivisions.
Would there not be, he asks, a substantial sup
ply of USED return stack heaters, the owners of
which would be glad toet rid of them at a price
far below the brand-new price?
And would it not be a good investment for
local orchardists to obtain them if they're avail
able, before the people of the valley get so irri
tated by the smudge smoke that they force some
such action?
IXfE DON'T know of anyone who is "anti-or-
chardist" as such. Nor do we know anyone
who does not recognize the need for orchard
heating.
But we do know a lot of reasonable people
who feel that something has to be done, and who
believe that it is the responsibility of the orchard
ists to do something more than has been done to
relieve the situation.
. No one asks or expects a miracle. No one ex
pects the smoke to be eliminated overnight. But
there are plenty who ask that some effort be
made to.cut it down progressively to a point where
it is bearable. E.A. .
A Small Truth
An upstate newspaper (The Oregon City Enterprise-Courier),
in niminating about some of
the oddities of Oregon, remarks :
"'. . . What Other state could have elected
a wild Democratic legislature which is acting like
Republicans?" '
lheres an element
too. E.A.
Autobahns
near when the bulldozers,
next year.
long since given up the
appeal's necessary. E.A.
Bearable
rolled away.
a general heating.
he believes if something
1. - -1 I Ul1
uie siciveiiiiig uiacfuieso
upon us this past week,
to happen here. ,
made to use bundled
of truth in that. veivhVt.
Dennis the
.
'SURE, TU 7BLLYA WW I NEED A NEW CAR. 'CAlBB 1 JUST
SOT BEAT AmCy&! TWS WHY
Communications
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for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
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,
Ode to Spring
To the Editor:
Smudgie, smudgie on the wall
What's the smudgiest of all?
The den, the kitchen, bed
room, hall?
Drapes, rugs, the painting
on the wall?
Doctor, lawyer, the man on
the street?
Milkman, mailman, the
friends we meet?
The farmer, the merchant,
the cop on the beat?
The teacher, the waitress,
the tourist we greet?
It's our dear smudgie children
with faces Once fair,
And our good smudgie pets
looking far worse for
wear.
Each year it's a burden that
we must all share,
for the sake of the
Rogue Valley pear.
Mrs. C. A. Williams,
189 Vashti way,
Medford.
All
Do Somethingl
To the Editor: I decided to
write my letter in green ink
because as I look out the
window into the smoke-filled
air, I see nothing green, the
budding trees, the new green
grass, even the birds are
dirty.
If a number of us good,
law abiding, taxpaying citi
zens should go out into the
orchards and uproot some
trees or tip over those ugly
little smudge pots, what
would happen? Well, we'd be
arrested. But our orchard
owners get by with ruining
our homes, clothes and our
health, and no one does a
thing about it. Do you sup
pose they would like to pay
each year for having our
homes done over and our
rugs and drapes cleaned, not
forgetting the clothes and the
illnesses brought on by
breathing this mess!
So come on people, espec
ially the ones that work so
hard for "Keeping Medford
Beautiful," and let's do some
thing about it before another
year. Let's hear from some
of the merchants, furniture
stores and other people who
are really interested in clean
ing up this needless scourge
of our beautiful valley.
Mrs. M. Cooley,
424 Melrose
Also signed by:
Mrs. William E. Rose,
434 Melrose
Mrs. Tom Marier,
- 411 Melrose
Mrs. Warren Parke,
430 Melrose,
Medford.
Price Hike Seen
To the Editor: The antici
pated rise in wholesale prices
of shoes is far more serious
than shoes with paper pad
ding.
Advance fall listings by
manufacturers will mean a
10 per cent increase in retail
prices, which will be rough
on large families.
See interview of Dr. Saul-
nier, chairman of President s
Council of Economic Advisers,
April 20 issue U.S. News.
Jonn ti. rioitz
2121 East Jackson st.
Medford
Women. Arise!
Tc the Editor: There is an
old quotation, "Hell hath no
fury like a woman scorned,"
which I would like to change
to "Hell hath no fury like a
housewife scrubbing smudge."
Why, I would like to know,
must the people of this valley
meekly submit year after
year to the uncontrolled burn
ing of open smudge pots? The
orchardists say they cannot
afford to install smokeless
burners (the only type allow
ed in California). Surely the
homeowner is in no better
Menace
financial condition to bear
the expense of repairing the
damage done by smudge.
In my hdme alone it will
cost well over $100 for pro
fessional cleaning, plus many
hours of scrubbing and re
painting on my part. Multiply
this by all the homes in Med
ford and then let the orchard
ist tell you what HE cannot
afford. And no one knows the
damage done to the health of
our families by breathing the
filth.
It is quite apparent to me
that the city and county of
ficials are afraid to act, the
men who in the long run foot
the cleaning bill will not act,
so the only answer is for the
women to put down their
scrub brushes for live min
utes and write letters to
Senator Durno and Represen
tative Duncan, State Legisla
ture, Salem, Ore., requesting
that they take action on the
state level.
These men are well aware
of the number of women
voters and if we flood their
offices with letters of protest
perhaps they - will take heed
of our plight here in beauti
ful (?) Rogue River valley.
Mrs. Mary Knox,
1425 South Ivy st.,
Medford.
Dislikes Sales Tax
To the Editor: The present
legislators , in Salem were
elected to office to carry out
the wishes of the majority of
the voters, and the voters of
Oregon voted overwhelming
ly on six different occasions
to keep the sales tax out of
Oregon.
The recent action of the
legislature in attempting to
ram a sales tax bill down our
throats, points up the fact
that these so-called "brains"
regard most Oregon voters as
idiotic and stupid.
Some of these legislators
are even now launching their
oily propaganda on the 1961
sales tax bill to be put before
the voters propaganda such
as our neighboring states
launched to put this vicious
tax in operation, promises of
drastic lowering of income,
property and other taxes.
Shortly after the sales tax
is on the books, they slyly
bring these lowered or sus
pended taxes back into force
again and the poor sucker1
taxpayer is soaked at double
and triple the rates before
the sales tax.
I predict that at the next
election, regardless of the out
come of present action on this
sales tax bill, we "stupid"
voters will show these knot
heads the door if they have
the gall to run for office
again.
M. J. Olsen,
Route 4, Box 325,
Medford.
Oregon Ahead in
Interstate Roads
Salem-(UPD-The U.S. Bureau
of Public Roads Thursday
said that Oregon is ahead of
all other states in the per
centage of miles it has com
pleted or has underway in
the federal interstate and de
fense highway system.
The Bureau message re
ceived by the state highway
commission here said that
Oregon led the runnerup by a
wide margin.
Oregon has completed or
has under construction 68.7
per cent of the total mileage
of the Pacific highway, U.S.
99, and the Columbia river
highway, U.S. 30.
New York was in seconds
place.
Mao Tse-tung, Ruler of Red China, Will
Continue in Power, But Under New Title
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Man of the week: Mao Tse-
tung, ruler of Communist
China.
The place:
Peiping.
The time:
April 17,
1959.
Today, t o -morrow,
some
time within
the next few
days, Mao
Tse-tung steps
Fhu Newsom down as chair
man (president) of Red China.
The title he vacates is
chairman of the Central
People's government of the
Chinese People's . Republic.
But it is neither the end of
an era nor the end of a career
for this peasant's son who is
Congressmen Seek Gradual
Tax Decrease; Benefit Seen
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPD - This be
ing Income Tax Week, you and
your neighbor and your boss
should be in
terested in a
tax cut. If so,
may I present
Reps. A. S.
H e r 1 ong (D
Fla.) and Ho
ward H. Baker
(R-Tenn.).
Reps. Her
1 o n g and
Lyio c. Wilson waiter want, xo
cut your taxes and your boss
taxes. They want to cut your
taxes right now instead of
sometime in the vague and
distant future.
Reps. Herlong and Baker
have a five-point tax cut plan,
as follows:
-Reduce the 20 per cent
basic income tax rate one per
cent a year for five years to
15 per cent; reduce the top
rate from 91 to 47 per cent
with other rates in consistent
pattern.
-Similarly, reduce the cor
porate rates five per cent by
means of annual one per cent
reductions.
-Over the same five year
period, redube by about 25
per cent the maximum re
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
Washington One desperate
blow shook the Eisenhower
Administration at its begin-
1 ning. Another
is now falling
4 as that Admin-
listration
a' Hraure tftwarH
-js?
i- the end.
n J1. j;
ters had a
common
source-cancer.
RntVi rlpnipd in
white the President
the devoted, if highly inde
pendent, services of irreplace
able men.
The first was Senator Rob
ert A. Taft of Ohio, who died
on the last day of July, 1953.
Taft was Mr. Eisenhower's in
dispensable guide and mentor
on all domestic matters. And
now, with tragic timing in
this season of brief remem
brance of Taft-to whom a
monument at the capitol has
just been dedicated there is
yet more tragic news.
The long struggle of Secre
tary of State John Foster Dul
les to recover his health has
suffered a grave setback. No
one can doubt that Dulles will
fight on with the courage that
has moved men everywhere
who value valor and sacrifice.
It is possible, as. so many hope,
that Dulles will yet defeat the
antagonist to which he has
never surrendered.
TT IS not possible, however,
to avoid the reality: The
Administration is bereft of his
foreign-policy leadership pre
cisely at the time when the
Western position must be
drawn up, in all its gravity,
for the May foreign ministers
meeting leading up to a sum
mit conference with the Rus
sians. History will say that blind
misfortune took from the
President's Administration at
critical moments the advice of
the two men who most of all
had given that Administration
its strength.
To recall them at the onset
of this Administration six
years ago is to recall two
tough,- strong - headed and
sometimes wrong-headed old
pros. For all their faults, they
were, nevertheless, determin
ed, each in his own field, to
make another man's tenure a
success. (Arid, indeed deter
mined to do a good deal more
leading than following).
They were very different
men in some ways. Dulles was
cautious and often legalistic.
Taft was impatient and harsh
ly candid. Sometimes he was
even reckless in his resolve to
guarantee to the country what
self-made in nearly every de
gree, who controls the destiny
of more than 600 million
Chinese, who lays claims to
day to being the world's fore
most Marxist and who has
contributed to changes in
world history probably as
much as any man alive.
Mao still is chairman of the
People's Revolutionary Mili
tary Council, chairman of the
People's ' Political Consulta
tive Conference (legislature),
chairman of the political bu
reaus of the Central Commit
tee of the Chinese Communist
Party.
And those titles, particular
ly the last one, make him still
the most powerful man in
Red China.
Mao's announced reason for
quitting his job as President
is to devote more time to
quired time for writing off
new property for depreciation
purposes.
-Provide tax-free transfer
of capital by individuals -not
for corporations-from one in
vestment to another. Subject
to a time element - no capital
gains on such.
-Reduce top estate tax rates
from 77 to 47 per cent, gift
tax rates from 57.75 to 35.25
per cent with intermediate
rates in proportion.
Larger Revenues Seen
Reps. Herlong and Baker
believe their tax cut plan
would not diminish govern
ment revenues. Might even
increase the annual tax take.
If that reads like a contradic
tion in terms, a fairy tale or
just plain baloney, hear this
from Reps. Herlong and
Baker:
"We believe . . . economic
growth over the next five
years would be adequate to
offset the revenue effect of
the legislation with a com
fortable margin left over. It
is roughly calculated that
each 1 per. cent annual in
crease in the rate of economic
growth . . . will-produce $1
billion in additional federal
revenues. The revenue effect
of our bills would average out
S. WHITE
he considered to be a proper
ly Republican Administration.
He looked with skepticism on
the "modern" Republicans
who had put General Eisen
hower rather than Robert A.
Taft into the White House,
but he faithfully served all
the same. '
TULLES, on his side, sought
'J the cooperation of the
Democratic opposition which
Taft so grandly spurned. But
Dulles himself never forgot,
actually, that this was a Re
publican Administration. And
he was comfortable in Taft'i
company, and Taft in his.
True, they had often disagreed
while both were members of
the Senate, and Dulles in the
past has been in the anti-Taft
wing of the GOP. .
But these divisions became
more superficial than real.
Taft was delighted when Dul
les was appointed to the sec
retaryship. He told this cor
respondent, in his lat way:
"Most satisfactory! Most satis
factory! Foster will do the
job." For the laconic Taft,
this amounted to the issurance
of an accolade.
For, underneath, there was
much in common between
Taft and Dulles. Each set out
to be a strong, and not neces
sarily a popular, public man.
Taft all but courted the dis
like of the crowd.
TTE DID so, first, because his
-H great shyness made 'him,
by necessity, an anti-crowd
man. And he did so because
he reckoned, rightly as it
turned out, that his whole
public record at length would
speak for him better than he
could speak for himself. He
became "Mr. Integrity." ' And
it was an earned title, even
if one never agred with him
for a single moment.
Dulles, too, until lately has
been unpopular with many in
this country and with a great
many among our allies over
seas. Unlike Taft, he has nev
er ignored unpopularity. But,
like Taft, unpopularity for
years came to him partly be
cause in his preoccupation
with what he was doing, he
often did not concern himself
much with his manner of do
ing it.
It is only since prolonged
illness took him out of the
active arena that many have
become aware that the ideas
of Foster Dulles, like them
all or not, have made a unique
contribution to the coherence
the essential strength of
all the West.
(Copyrights 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.) 1
party affairs. Since party af
fairs can mean almost any
thing in a Communist state,
his announcement must be
taken at face value.
Right now, internally, the
most important party affairs
probably deal with the suc
cessful organization and func
tioning of the communes
which are destroying Chinese
family life in favor of a reg
imented existence which has
engulfed more than 500 mil
lion Chinese in a vast effort
to revolutionize both Chinese
agriculture and industry.
It is a monumental task -one
which, if successful,
could make Red China one
of the most powerful nations
on earth, dwarfing even the
Soviet Union. It is an attempt
at communization which even
Russia still is reluctant to
at less. than $3.5 billion an
nually, or the equivalent of
revenue inciease which would
come from roughly a 3.5 per
cent rate of economic growth.
Thus, if with enactment of
this 'legislation economic
growth should average 5 per
cent annually over the next
five years, there would be an
average annual surplus of
revenue increase of at least
$1.5 bilion over requirements
for effectuating the reforms
provided."
What the gentlemen were
trying to say was that the pre
sent tax rates are chewing up
the national economy, consum
ing and frustrating investment
capital and, thereby, putting
the brakes on hard against
economic growth. They would
reduce rates to loster eco
nomic growth.
Their bill is before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee. Reps. Herlong and
Baker hope you will write
your Congressman about it.
'BUILD A BETTER
CHERRY-FUDGE ICE
CREAM AND THE
WORLD WILL BEAT
A PATH TO YOUR ,
DOOR.
STOP, WORLD!
We did make it better, for darned
sure, but we didn't plan on having any
world beating a path to our door like
this.
Working far into the night, we can
make it just about fast enough to satisfy
the ice cream hungry appetites of our own
Southern Oregon folks. This means that
the rest of the world will just simply have
to get in line and wait its turn.
We figure it might be as much as 17
years (not including leap year's) before
we can catch up enough on our Cherry
Fudge ice cream making to take care of
the Western Hemisphere. Most likely,
South Africans will NEVER get to taste our
Cherry-Fudge ice cream and we flatly re
fuse to answer cablegrams from Russia
If you can prove that you didn't move
to Southern Oregon just because you didn't
want to wait years for it, you are eligible
to buy at least one quart of our Cherry
Fudge ice cream.
undertake.
Success or failure, the com
munes will be a monument to
Mao Tse-tung, the peasant's
son.
Mao was born Nov. 19,
1893, in Hunan Province in
southern China.
At the age of 13, he left
the village school to work in
the rice paddies for his par
ents. But three years later, he
resumed his education and by
1918 was assistant librarian
at Peiping National Univer
sity. There, under the tutelage
of Lee Ta-chao, one of the
founders of the Communist
Party, he became a full-fledg-ed
Red.
By 1931, he was the recog
nized leader of the Com
munist Party in China.
He is a man of many tal
ents. Writes Own Speeches
He has composed nosms In
classical Chinese and is adept
with the writing brush. He
writes his own speeches and
political essays in " flawless.
classical prose.
And he is a man of patience.
He outwitted or outlived all
his political foes and never
has wavered either from his
Communist beliefs or his
ruthlessness. Under his re
gime, at least 15 million Chi
nese have been purged, ban
ished or executed.
As a military tactician, he
defeated the best Nationalist
Chinese Generalissimo
Chiang Kai shek and his
American advisers had to of
fer. With all his other talents,
Mao Tse-tung also is a master
at political camouflage. Be
fore the Reds took over all
of Mainland China in 1949,
he had convinced much of the
world that his movement was
not real Communism at all -merely
a movement of agrar
ian reform.
And he has not hesitated
to change the rules. Where
the Russian Communists mov
ed out from the cities, he
moved in from the land. .
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