4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Thursday, April 20, 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 AGO
April 30, 1949 (Saturday)
The Jackson county court
turns down a chance to buy
the military bridge across the
Rogue on the old Camp White
reservation for $1.
Seven Medford light instal
lations are scheduled for op
eration next week if needed
parts arrive on time.
20 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1939 (Sunday)
The Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce expects to
open a tourist bureau soon
at Riverside ave. and Fifth st.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot'? column: "The
turbidity of the Rogue has
been determined, so if the fish
will bite there will be nothing
the matter with the fishing."
30 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1929 (Tuesday)
Fishermen file a complaint
with the state game commis
sion alleging a lack of fish
in the Rogue river.
Scott Davis and John John
son are expected home this
week from their world tour.
40 YEARS AGO'
April 30, 1919 (Wednesday)
Glenn Eddings, Gold Hill,
credited with: bringing down
27 planes in France, is ex
pected home soon.
A tag day for the orphan
girls home Is to be held here.
50 YEARS AGO
April 30. 1909 (Friday)
Laying a wood-stave main
from the reservoir to down
town Medford for. the new
water supply gets under way,
with the work expected to
progress at 1,500 feet a day.
Mayor W. H. Canon explains
a proposed charter amend
ment providing for the city's
new water system.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is goed.
1. In what country is Port-u-Prince?
2. How many cubic feet are
in one cord of wood?
3. What is the 4th Com
mandment? 4. What sort of research
goes on at Oak Ridge, Tenn.?
5. On which Japanese city
was the second atomic bomb
dropped in 1945?
6. Correct the following:
"Six and two make eight."
7. Is red alder a soft wood,
or a hard wood?
8. How often is a census of
population taken in the U. S.?
9. With what industry in
the U. S. do you associate the
names of Andrew Carnegie
and Henry Clay Frick?
10. In baseball, what is the
term for a legally batted ball,
not swung at, but met with
the bat and tapped slowly
within the infield?
Answers: 1. Haiti. 2. 128.
3. Honor thy father and thy
mother. 4. Atomic. 5. Naga
saki. 6. ". . . makes eight." 7.
Hard. 8. Every ten years. 9.
Steel. 10. Bunt.
About 75 per cent of Con
necticut's total population is
concentrated in three of the
state's eight counties, point
ing to urban trends.
Average temperatures in
Canada are rising at a rate
of about three degrees within
70-year cycles.
Over-Professionalism
"Professionalism" is a good, solid word; a
word which connotes a high degree of ability, an
adherance to a code of ethical behavior, a self
confident competence in any of a number of
fields.
Professionalism, then, is a virtue. But like al
most any other virtue one can name, it can be car
ried to a point where it becomes, if not a vice, at
least a drawback. ' .
An excess of professionalism can convert self-
confidence into cocksure dmplacency; ethical
behavior into a holier-than-thou withdrawal, com
petence and ability into attitudes of don't-touch-me
superiority.
.
TTHESE are generalities.
But any thinking person, observing the pro
fessional and service fields, can name individuals
who have let their sense of professional zeal carry
them beyond the realm of common humanity and
common sense.
A recent "Library Week" issue of the Satur
day Review contained complaints that some li
brarians in the east had removed books of the
"Oz" series from their shelves, simply because
they apparently did not meet the "standards" set
up by librarians for books.
Now there is always a legitimate debate as to
whether such-and-such a book is suited for library
use. We personally don't think the "Torn Swift"
or "Rover Boys" series have any place in a li
brary. t But we are inclined to agree that the gentle,
fantastic tales of the Wizard of Oz, so popular
with young people for generations, do belong.
And isn't their exclusion an excess of "profession
alism"? COME physicians suffer from the same malady.
Because of their hard-won and specialized
knowledge, it is a temptation for physicians to
come to the belief that their superiority in one
field carries over into others, which in turn leads
to an intellectual arrogance or, in less severe
cases, an attitude of "What you don't know won't
hurt you."
It is an attitude which the ordinary intelligent
patient finds infuriating.
It is also one of the tilings which have led to a
widespread disenchantment with the medical pro
fession as such a disenchantment which medi
cal leaders recognize, and are seeking ways to
combat.
IT IS one of the factors, for instance, in the weak
but growing demands for a higher degree of
governmental participation in medical .care
something which doctors regard with abhorrence
as "Socialized Medicine."
(We suggest they read an article entitled
"Socialized Medicine, 10 Years Old," in the cur
rent Harper's -.magazine, which reports on the
British government's national health program
a program which now receives almost universal
support in the British Isles.)
Excessive "professionalism" also may well
motivate some (certainly not all) physicians to
dislike pre-paid health insurance plans, or to re
fuse to discuss with patients such things as fees,
delays in waiting rooms, the nature of prescrip
tions, or the reasons why a particular course of
treatment is recommended.
.
T AWYERS, too, are susceptible to over- pro-
f essionalism. Again, this cannot be a blanket
indictment, by any means. But, again, anyone can
name one or more attorneys who glory in the
obfuscations of legal language, who treat juries
politely though with thinly-disguised impatience
at their lack of understanding at the ins and outs
of the procedures of. jurisprudence; who may,
even, seek to convert a simple court action into an
arcane mystery.
. Lawyers are the great acc'ommodators of our
society; the professionals who seek compromise
or settlement, and who handle the prosecutions
and defenses and conflicts of a dynamic society.
As such they are public servants. The malady
of over-professionalism can convert them, in their
own minds, to public masters.
TTHE illness can strike wherever a profession
or trade or craft is perf ormed which has its
own tricks, its own traditions, its own skills and
special knowledge.
We have seen overweening newspaper re
porters and editors in the last stages of the dis
ease of over-professionalism. It has caused them
to glory in the "power of the press," the while
forgetting about the responsibilities of the press.
dome legislators, congressmen and senators
suffer from the ailment, as do other office-holders
who, because of their position and experience,
believe they have a corner on wisdom and com
petence.
DOLICE officers are not immune. In their case,
when over-professionalism strikes, it usually
takes the form of an over-suspicious nature, of a
f orgetfullness of the rights of everyday citizens,
and of a tendency to take the quick and easy way,
instead of the right way, in their job of crime pre
vention and detection.
Happily; true professionalism in police serv
ices is more and more overcoming over-professionalism,
which creates a false image of what a
competent police officer should be.
Is there a remedy for over-professionalism?
Of course. It is the same remedy that could cure
most other human foibles. A decent sense of
humility," a feeling of sympathetic interest toward
one's fellows, and a sense of humor, will do the
trick. E.A.
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paper; in fact trte contrary is often tha case.
Hatfield Also To Blame
To the Editor: One evening,
at a late night session at the
Capitol, I read your editorial
of April 19 entitled "Marijane
Hits Back" as well as Mrs.
Duncan's lively defense of the
current legislative session.
I am inclined to agree with
you that the Legislature ought
to have enacted some new
taxes and to have kept abreast
of the programs now being
allowed to lag.
Yet, I wonder how much of
the blame for this actually
rests with Governor Mark
Hatfield and the reckless type
of campaign he conducted in
1958, when he specifically
claimed he could reduce taxes
and trim the budget?
I am conscious of all this
because I have been trying,
in my feeble way, to create
sentiment for budget-balancing
tax increases at the Fed
eral level. I find that one of
the state Governors who has
urged us NOT to follow the
President's recommendation
for higher motor -fuel taxes
is Mark Hatfield. Yet Hatfield
also wants the Interstate
Highway program kept on
schedule, and the Federal gov
ernment is putting up 90 per
cent of the 539 billion .this
vast road - building project
will cost in the 49 states.
I thought Marijne Duncan
had a valid point when she
emphasized that there was a
great difference between the
Rockefeller and Hatfield ap
proaches, in New York and
Oregon respectively. Gover
nor Rockefeller candidly said
that New York state had cer
tain essential needs to fulfill
and he was going to collect
taxes to finance these needs.
Mr. Hatfield, by contrast,
campaigned with a theme of
ridicule against Governor
Holmes as "high-tax Holmes"
and he even said, at several
places, that the only real
issue in the campaign was
that of high taxes and reck
less state spending!
I agree with your editorial
thoroughly that government
must undertake the necessary
services regarding education
and other needs, and that poli
ticians must have the politi
cal courage to levy the taxes
to provide the required rev
enues. But certainly Mark
Hatfield has been about as far
from that as any Governor
could, especially in the way
he attained his high office.
Richard L. Neuberger
United States Senator
Nutshell Opinion
To the Editor: Like too
many already, I can't hold my
opinion on the smudge "prob
lem" any longer. Just two
sentences directed to H. W.
Van Hise will give my opinion
in a nutshell.
Pear trees have been here
much longer than he; how
about his pulling up his roots
and moving? If millions live
unaided by pears, billions live
unaided by Mr. Van Hise!
Ernest R. Hook
947 Manzanita st.
Central Point, Ore.
Slow Down
To the Editor: This little
incident requires attention I
believe, as we read in the
paper quite often where a
Camp Whiter was hit by a
car, and as the story goes, he
just walked out in front.
Well, from my point of
view it seems that everyone
is in a real big hurry to get
somewhere, and where they
are going I wouldn't know,
they don't even have the time
to stop and give a helping
hand, or as far as that goes,
slow down.
I had just made the turn
off of Eighth st. on to King
st. going south, and from
there I could clearly see a
Menace
,
little old man with a white
cane groping his way across
the street, you could tell that
he was confused, and couldn't
see a thing. By the time I
reached him he was in the
center of the street, and the
cars just zoomed by him, they
didn't even slow down, and
were going' faster then I do
when I see a dog in the street.
I stopped and asked him if
I could help him across. He
told me he thought he was
on the side walk. There is no
curb on 10th st., and that's
where he got mixed up, as
he couldn't see, just feel his
way through.
Well, the payment was
great, the look of gratitude on
the little old man's face, and
even though it was raining
I felt a wonderful glow in
side, and the sun never did
shine so bright.
Try it some time. Slow
down, or even stop. We aren't
in that big of a hurry.
Mrs. Irma L. Henderson,
729 Dakota ave.
Medford.
'Thanks' From Hawaii
To the Editor: Before the
Hawaii Statehood Commis
sion folds up and becomes
just an incident in history, I
would like to say "thank you
for the wonderful support
which the cause of Hawaiian
Statehood received from the
majority of the press of the
nation.
During the eventful days
before and after March 11
and 12, I had the opportunity
of talking to many members
of Congress. One senator
made this statement to me:
"Never in my life has any
legislation come over my
desk that had such united
editorial support of the Am
erican Press." Only your help
made such a statement pos
sible. It hardly seems possible
that our battle for Statehood
is now over. We are busily
engaged in the problem of
finding good candidates for
the United States Senate, and
the House, and our primary
election has been set for June
26, to be followed by the gen
eral election a month later.
We have no fear that the three
plebiscite vote questions will
not be answered with a re-
sounding YES!
Inquiries on every phase of
business, economic, social,
and educational opportunities
in Hawaii are pyramiding
each week. The advent of jet
air service this fall, which
will cut travel time to Ha
waii in half, is going to fur
ther increase this great inter
est.
We in Hawaii believe that
our new State is destined to
play an increasingly import
ant part in the problem of
earning and keeping friends
for the United States through
out the entire Pacific area.
To that end we will dedicate
ourselves as good Americans.
We will indeed try to so
conduct ourselves as to earn
your continued friendship and
support.
Come and see Hawaii some
day. We know you will like
what you find.
Lorrin P. Thurston,
Publisher, The Honolulu
Advertiser,
Chairman,- Hawaii State
' hood Commission.
,YMCA-SOS
To the Editor: Medford's
YMCA (and' this is your or
ganization) is calling for your
support in its Ninth Annual
Auction to be held May 5
at 7 p.m.
If you have any articles
of no further use to you, they
can be of great value to your
YMCA. A small donation can
become a big boost toward
the well-being of your com
munity, your children and
Unrest Stirs in Western Provinces and
Red China's Neighbors in Tibet's Wake
. By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Scattered among the sober
ly dressed government offi
cials and the oeasants in blue
tunics and
pants at the
Red Chinese
National Peo
ple's Congress
in Peiping this
week were oth
er deleg a t e s
clad in the
u m e s of
Phil Newsom trioesmen
from Central Asia. They were
representatives of minority
groups which have no rela
tionship to the Chinese except
by conquest but to whom toe
Communists give a certain
amount of lip service with no
more meaning than the au
tonomy promised to Tibet.
And just as unrest stirred
in Tibet, so it has been stirring
in other outward areas of Red
China.
And as Communist speak
ers hammered away at charges
of Indian "expansionist" am
bitions in Tibet, they also had
reason to eye uneasily events
in the neighboring Sinkiang
Uighur autonomous region
and the next-door province of
Chinghai.
Like "Wild West"
Sinkiang and Chinghai are
Red China's "Wild West," a
land of desert wastes and sky-
high mountain ranges which
together comprise one-fourth
of China's total territory but
with only one-hundreth of her
population.
In Sinkiang and Chinghai,
weapons are the blunderbuss,
spear and bow and arrow.
Nomadic tribes bear such
names Uighur, Kazakhs, Uz
beks. In the region are more
Turkestani than Chinese and
more Tibetans than there are
in Tibet.
As in Tibet, opposition to
the Chinese springs from reli
gious and nationalistic sources,
with the added hatred among
the nomads for any central
authority. Whereas in Tibet
the religion is Buddhist, among
the Turkestani it is Moslem.
A dream of the Moslems has
been an Islamic state.
Marco Polo was among the
early explorers of Sinkiang
through which ran the old silk
road from India to China.
Since the 16th century, the
area has been a bone of con
tention between China and
Russia.
Rich in Minerals
The region supposedly is in
credibly rich in minerals. Two
yourself.
Radios, clothing, furniture,
even shrubs and plants for
the auction can be instrumeh
tal in maintaining the YMCA
building and camps. The
sparkle of unused glassware
or jewelry can be just the
thing to put a brighter sparkle
on some kids' face. These are
the things toward which the
auction proceeds go every
year.
Take about five minutes of
your spare time and dig
around in the attic or base
ment. Find that "whatever-it-
is" that you no longer need
and someone else can use. It's
much better that it gather
lots of satisfaction at the "Y1
auction than dust where it
is now.
It's the little that you give
that helps the "Y" give so
much year after year. So
come on, answer the SOS
Time is growing short and
the YMCA needs your sup
port now. If you can't take
your articles to them, call SP
2-6295 for pick-up, but DO
IT.
The whole town's pointing
toward the Auction on May
5. The whole town wants the
YMCA. So let's see that the
whole town doesn't let them
down.
Mrs. Gig Farfan.
723 South Newtown st.,
Medford.
Editorial Comment
SMALL MARK
OF 'PROGRESS
Mississippi's lynching of a
Negro prisoner, by a mob of
White men in the grand,
bloody manner, strangely
enough is a mark of "prog
ress" in civil rights cases.
Small comfort that it gives
anybody, the lynching receiv
ed nationwide publicity and
nationwide shudders of hor
ror that it had occurred, and
nationwide revulsion toward
the men who did it and the
system that allowed it.
Not 'so many years ago, this
would not have been the case.
The incident would have
been scarcely noticed. In fact,
local newsmen might not
have thought it newsworthy
enough to file
Today it is something dif
ferent. The nation has done
much deep thinking about the
problems of civil rights and a
majority of the people believe
the status quo of minority
group economic and educa
tional discrimination has to
be changed.
Small comfort But at least
some comfort. - Coos Bay
World.
of China's greatest oil strikes
were reported there. Two vast
coal fields are supposed to
have reserves of one billion
tons of coking coal each. And
there also are reports of rich
deposits of tungsten, antimony,
copper and perhaps uranium.
To tap these rich resources
the Reds are building rail
roads into the area and have
sent in thousands of troops
to double as settlers and in
emergency to quell the rebel
lious local populace.
The influx of such Chinese
"settlers" was one of the trig
Matter of Fact
THE FALSE ACCOUNTING j
Washington - Last week, in
the semi-final stage of the
Berlin crisis, the Secretary of
Defense of the
United States
of f e r e d the
country an ac
an account
ing. It was a
false account
ing. That does
not mean that
Neil McElroy
4ospb ajsod is a aisnonest
man. In the stock market
boom of the late '20s, the vi
sion of many honest men was
irresistibly deformed by the
atmosphere of the times. Their
eyes were blind to debits and
credulous towards credits; and
so these wholly honest men
published wholly misleading
balance sheets. In the same
fashion, in the atmosphere
generated by the President's
budget -mania, blindnefs to
debits and extreme credulity
towards credit now prevail in
the Pentagon.
The McElroy balance sheet,
offered to the American Asso
ciation of Newspaper Publish
ers, was first of all mislead
ing about the priorities gov
erning the current defense
budget. "National security,"
he declared, had been the only
test; and he denied that the
defense program had been
"determined by budgetary
considerations." He forgot to
relate the famous episode in
the National Security Coun
cil, when Under Secretary of
Defense Donald Quarles tim
idly urged that the national
security demanded larger de
fense investments.
TH E President responded
with the famous flush-faced
anger which so frightens his
subordinates - but markedly
fails to intimidate the enemies
of this republic. Budget-balancing,
he told Quarles, "was
national security." That set
tled the matter.
Worse still, the McElroy
balance sheet was misleading
about the condition of the nu
clear deterrent, on which the
whole Western strategic con
cept entirely depends. Speak
ing primarily of the Strategic
Air Command, McElroy
smoothly promised that "the
bomber forces will be kept in
any status of alert required
to insure their ability to de
liver unacceptable punish
ment to any nation which
might attack us."
In contrast, the brilliant
Strategic Air Commander,
Gen. Thomas Power, has given
sworn testimony that in its
nresent alert status, SAC
could conceivably be "knocked
out." With no missile-seeing
radars as yet in position, SAC
has zero warning against a
Soviet missile strike, wnn
zero warning, SAC has only
been authorized to maintain
a 15-minute alert. Such an
ic ntterlv valueless if
the Soviets simply acquire a
few hundred more long range
missiles than the national in
telligence estimates allow.
When and if this happens, un
less SAC has meanwhile been
authorized to maintain an air
borne alert, it will in fact be
possible to "knock out" SAC.
IirORST of all, the McElroy
accounting was shocking
ly misleading on the key mat
ter of the Soviet missile capa
bility. Our own admittedly
imperfect long range missile,
the Atlas, now has a claimed
"circular probable error" of
one mile. In other words, it
can be relied on to hit within
one mile of its target, ine
Soviets have been in the mis
sile business much longer than
we have, and they have
worked much harder at it.
Thus their long range missile
mnct Vi pxnected to be at
least as good as the Atlas.
If that is so, they need a
verv small number of missiles
indeed - in the extremely low
hundreds - to knock out both
SAC and the United States in
our present completely sou
condition of no warning, no
air-borne alert, and no coun
ter-striking weapons in 'hard
emplacements. The current
Atlas output of six missiles
rer month could be immed
iately raised to 18 per month,
and it could be quite rapidly
raised to 23 per month. By
the measuring stick of this
American capability, an all
gers of the Tibetan revolt
Proof of Chinese troubles
in the region came this week
with disclosure that the Com
munists recently removed five
opposition leaders from gov
ernment posts in Sinkiang
and that more than 300 other
persons were assigned to man
ual labor and further ideologi
cal reeducation.
The latter phrase, reduced
from typical Communist ter
minology, simply means a pe
riod of brainwashing at the
end of a pick and shovel.
The rebels of Tibet, Sinki-
By Joseph Alsop
out Soviet production effort
could give the Kremlin its
long range missile require
ment in a frightening small
number of months.
THE national intelligence es
timates, perhaps reflecting
the present blue sky atmo
sphere of the Pentagon, do not
concede the Soviets a fatally
dangerous missile capability
at any early date. McElroy's
assertions were squarely based
upon the estimates. But the
central point that McElroy
omitted concerned these esti
mates. We are now risking
the whole future of this coun
try on the single assumption
that the vast and secret Soviet
tyranny has not managed to
produce a few hundred weap
ons, which the Kremlin has
long been working all-out to
produce. This is like a cor
poration assuming its liabil
ities are only $100,000, when
the liabilities may well be
$100,000,000. s
What the intelligence es
timators call a "strategic
warning" has already been
given to us, in the form of
the Berlin crisis, which this
reporter is now going abroad
to cover on the spot. The con
viction of the masters of the
Kremlin, that they have
achieved a great upset of the
world balance of military
power, is the obvious reason
why they are threatening Ber
lin at this time.
You may believe, as this re
porter happens to believe,
that there is no immediate
danger of war. But if McEl-
roy-style accounting contmues
to prevail, and nothing more
is done to redress the military
balance, the future danger
may be very great indeed.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Six Americans
Killed in France
Chateuroux, France
-UPD-
Six Americans including three
children were killed Wednes
day when their car hit a
truck on a highway near here
Air Force officials announced
today
The Americans were iden
tified as S-Sgt. Decker w.
McQuillan, 25, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., his wife, Carolyn, 22,
their children, Helen, 4, Wan
da, 3, and Decker Jr., 1, and
a friend, Mrs.. Mary Lou Cur
tis, 29, of Detroit, Mich.
Air Force officials said tne
six were driving back to this
Air Force base in. central
France when they ran into
the back of a slow-moving
truck.
Sugar cane, bauxite and
rice now are three major pro
ducts of British Guiana, an
area of 83,000 miles, with
500,000 people.
'
all unhurried, and with.
deepest understanding
Avon bat
FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD
DAY OR NIGHT
ang and Chinghai can hav
little hope of help in their
struggle, but the fact that they
continue to fight is further
proof that personal liberties
died hard.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Sacramento the other day.
a senate committee charged
that unscrupulous bill collec
tors, often using strongarm
tactics or posing as police, arc
preying on businessmen and
the public.
Beatings, embezzlement and
impersonation of law enforce
ment officers by thugs wer
cited in a 64-page report pre
pared by the senate interim
committee on collection agen
cies, private dectectives and
debt liquidators. The report
adds that auto repossessions,
which are free from state con
trol, have provided a hunting
ground for petty racketeers,
ex-convicts and musclemen.
The committee's report is
based on two years of hear
ings held all over the state
of California.
IT IS AN interesting report.
It is interesting for a variety
of reasons. Among other
things, it provides an exam
ple of what can happen when
our lawmakers get so busy
with providing the services
that go along with the mod
ern welfare state that they
forget to provide the protec
tions that the general run of
people are entitled to receive
as a part of the legitimate
police powers of government.
The conditions described by
the report are bad. The con
clusion is inevitable that steps
must be taken to protect peo
ple against that kind of har
rying. Providing that wind of pro
tection is what government is
for.
I CAN'T help hoping, though,
that in taking steps to
remedy injustices such as ara
described in this interim com
mittee report to the California
legislature we don't go to the
opposite extreme and make it
TOO easy to avoid the pay
ment of legitimate bills.
We mustn't permit our
selves to fall into the delusion
that bills shouldn't be paid
-that collection of legitimate
bills is bad business and that
avoiding payment of legiti
mate bills is something to be
excused.
If you want to get anywhere
in the world, KEEP YOUR
CREDIT GOOD. That is one
law of sound business to
which there are few excep
tions. If you want an easy
mind, as well as a good repu
tation, see to it that your bills
are paid at the earliest possi
ble moment.
ALSO-
If you are a creditor- .
Be as tolerant and as help
ful as possible to your debtors.
Remember that when you
sold them the goods you will
ingly took a chance in order
to increase your volume.
This business of credit is
one of the important institu
tions of the modern world. It
deserves thoughtful and intel
ligent handling.
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