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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 '
May 7. 1949 (Saturday)
O. S. Moore, Jackson coun
ty sanitarian, reports an im
provement in restaurant sani
tation in the county's eateries.
The Butte Falls-Fish lake
road to Lake of the Woods is
reported still blocked by
now.
20 YEARS AGO
May 7, 1939 (Sunday)
National Guardsmen plan
a "largest ever" parade later
this month in Ashland.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Rogue river fish question "was
settled again last week, until
the next time, which is ex
pected to be soon."
SO YEARS AGO
May 7. 1929 (Tuesday)
The state convention of Odd
Fellows is scheduled here la
ter this month.
Southern Pacific railroad
grants a pear rate extension
for shipments to the east.
40 YEARS AGO -
May 7. 1919 (Wednesday)
Charles A. King of Ashland
Normal school is named the
high school coach. '
The Commercial club may
publish a weekly journal.
50 YEARS AGO
May 7. 1909 (Friday)
President Taft announces
his intention of visiting Cra
ter Lake and Medford this
summer.
Epworth leaguers arrive
here for a convention.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Harry F. Byrd represents
which state in the U. S. Sen
ate? 4
2. What is the correct title
of the presiding justice of the
Supreme Court of the U. S.?
3. Name the crazed actor
who 93 vears ago fired the
bullet that ended the life of
Abraham Lincoln.
. 4. What was the name of
the American Commodore
who first opened the port of
, Tokyo in 1853?
5. Who is the King of Spain?
6. Port-of-Spain is a city in
the Bahamas, Trinidad, or
Spain?
7. Is the estimated total
population of the world in
excess of two billion, or under
two billion?
8. Does the name "Ralph
Roister Doister" suggest to
you trickery, bragging, or de
bauchery?
9. Is the temperature of
boiling water at the top of a
mountain higher, lower, or
the same as. that of boiling
water at sea level? .
10. Is it east or west Berlin
that is under control of the
Soviet?
Answers: 1. Virginia; 2.
Chief Justice of the U. S.s 3.
John Wilkes Booth; 4. Com
xnodore Perry; 5. Spain has
no kin?; 6. Trinidad; 7. Ex
cess; 8. Bragging; 9. Lowtr;
10. East.
There are 30 million in this
country who are, in aggregate,
600-700 million pounds overweight
Safety
American motorists and that means just
about all of us are reminded constantly of their
responsibility to drive safely. No one should be
little such reminders, for
But the whole truth
the only ones at fault for
ular, for the injuries and
them
" A CCLDENTS just don't happen they are
x caused," is a favorite slogan of traffic safety
officials, and it is a good one except that-the ad
monishing finger points
A traffic law was disobeyed, or a gaze was
distracted by a pretty view, or perhaps the brakes
or the windshield wipers were not inspected on
schedule. In short, "human error" gets all the
blame.
"Speed kills." Yes,
what about turning from
to the accelerator pedal
that jet-jowled,
poor man was talked into
fore the wreck?
riANIEL Moynihan,
f New York State Traffic Safety Policy; Coord
ination committee, writes in the current issue of
The Reporter magazine :
"Aside from evidence that certain features of auto
mobile design increase the chances of injury in acci
. dents, there are also a number of indications that auto
mobiles themselves may be causing a number of acci
dents." ' "
Moynihan states that a prominent research
group recently found one low-priced American
car had an accident rate
another, a difference "directly attributable to au
tomobile design properties. -. . .
He suggests that the
impartial research and
could rate new models
or unsafe design features, might succeed in stir
ring the competitive blood of the auto industry
and mane saiety a more
THE National Safety
as the obvious private organization to take
on such a job," Moynihan reports. But he adds,
"The reaction of the Safety Council top brass
to this proposal was as prompt as it was horri
fied." The alternative, he believes, is federal legis
lation. Rep. Kenneth A. Robert (D-Ala.) has in
troduced in Congress a measure that would es
tablish safety standards for automobiles and bar
those not meeting the standards from shipment in
interstate commerce.
The Roberts bill, we understand, languishes
in the legislative hopper for lack of lobby sup
port. We are not sure we would support it our
selvesyet V ' ' ''
OOWEVER, while harnessing motorists with
1 1 sole responsibility for traffic safety has un
doubtedly kept the accident toll from climbine
far higher than it has, there seems little hope
snorc oi inserting uny raaios unaer our skuhs
for influencing our behavior on the highways suf
ficiently to effect any sharp reductions.
bome system for remote control operation of
the vehicles themselves has been discussed as a
possibility in the distant future. But, today, surely
efforts at improving design safety offer the best
hope of tangible results.
The industry and the safety council, may de
serve a little more time to see the light, although
every hour that passes brings death to four
more persons on our highways. If federal legisla
tion does prove to be the only means to halt this
inhumane slaughter of our fellow citizens, we will
endorse it and we trust we won't be alone.
- E.W.
Basic
While . on the subject of traffic safety,
it might be worth noting that Oregon's "basic
rule" lawwhich sets no flat limit on automo
bile speed, but places the responsibility on the
driver to drive safely, considerirg all factors
has been under attack.
One suggested modification was that it re
main applicable on open highways, but that flat
maximum speed limits be imposed in cities. This
has been supported by police officers.
Another is to impose a maximum limit of 70
miles per hour, with the basic rule operating at
speeds below that maximum.
v So confused have been the final dying days
of the legislature that we are still unsure of the
final fate of these proposals.
B
UT Judge J. J. Quillin of the Portland munici
pal c.mrrt. snpnks nn sfrnrtD-lv in dpfense.nf
the basic rule, pointing out that both Washing
ton and California, with fixed maximum speed
laws, have higher accident rates than does Ore
gon, with its basic rule.
The basic rule has always appealed to ns as
a reasonable rule. And Judge Quillin, a member
of the executive committee of the traffic section
of the National Safety Council, declares that it
takes some 25,years for a law really to be.tested
as to its effectiveness, He adds, "The basic rule
hasn't even had a chance yet."
Experience may dictate a change or modifica
tion in the future. But we'd like to see the basic
rule given a few more years of testing. The idea
behind it is good. Only added experience can
show whether it is working well in practice.
. E.A.
Counsel
they are a part-truth.
is this: Motorists are not
accidents and, in partic
deaths that result from
'
always in one direction.
we all know that But
the heavy-footed driver
itself, linked as it is to
gravel-scratching behemdth the
buying a few weeks be
former chairman of the
50 per cent higher than
continuing efforts of "an
testing operation," that
on the basis of their safe
positive attribute.
Council was approached
Rule
Dennis the
'Dflfr XXI HAVE A HUS&WD WHO
PURPLE WHEN KIDS JUMP THROUGH HIS HEDGE?
Matter of Fact
ALONG THE SUMMIT ROAD
London - Secretary of State
Christian Herter returned to
Washington still talking about
f the need for
the Soviets to
prove their
"readiness to
negotiate" be
fore any meet
ing at the
summit. Yet
the Western
Foreign Min
isters at Paris
lnfih Alsun actuaxijr
- J. - Ilir
talked about the best place
and time to meet at the sum
mit. They inclined towards
San Francisco in late July.
Nothing could better illus
trate the essentially ritual
character of the forthcoming
Geneva conference. This rally
on the Foreign Ministers'
level is being held primarily
for the sake of appearances.
It is intended to cover the fact
that the American policy mak
ers have abandoned their for
mer opposition to the larger
rally at the summit.
Prime Minister Harold Mac-
millan has been the chief
Western advocate of the jour
ney to the summit, and he
played a leading role in forc
ing the American policymakers-
to change their minds
about this journey. In this and
other ways, Macmillan pas
had much to do with shaping
the initial Western response
to the challenge at Berlin. In
short, the loud claims of the
British press, that Macmillan
has seized the leadership of
the West, have more truth
than the State Department
and White House like to ad
mit. ,
FTHE testing times that lie
ahead, moreover. Macmil
lan clearly intends to go on
asserting his own viewpoint
with great energy and fervor.
The "package" that Secretary
Herter and his colleagues
agreed in Paris to take to
Geneva has the same ritual
character as the Geneva meet
ing itself. In other words
everyone agreed about what
they would say to the Soviets
at the outset-which was easy.
But no agreement was reached
on the difficult point-how
everyone would act when the
going got rough. The principal
factor behind this lack of
agreement was Macmillan's
determination to keep his
hands free.
In these circumstances, it
is important to know just how
the viewpoint of Harold Mac
millan differs from the view
point of the other Western
allies. The difference is
marked. It has even caused
Macmillan to be called an ap
peaser by certain fairly highly
placed persons in Paris, Bonn,
and even Washington which
has angered the Prime .Min
ister very deeply indeed.
PERHAPS the best clew to
. the Macmillan viewpoint
is the Prime Minister's talk
about "evacuating 20 million
women and children from the
British Isles," which so sur
prised the Senators in Wash
ington. This was not idle talk.
Before his Washington jour
ney, Macmillan took the same
lurid line about what he
would have to do if the going
got rough at Berlin, both with
General de Gaulle in Paris
and with Chancellor Adenauer
in Bonn. ...
There are two reasons why
Macmillan strikes this note
that, no other Western leader
strikes. In the first' place, he
and the other British policy
makers take the Soviet threat
to Berlin very ' much more
seriously than their American,
French, or German ..opposite
numbers. They think that Ni
kita Khrushchev will take
much graver risks than the
others think. They do not be
lieve that the Berlin crisis
will conveniently-subside "if
we all just stand firm."
Yet there is another, deep
er reason, too, for the differ
ence in viewpoint between
Macmillan and his allies. Here
Menace
SHAKES HIS FIST -AMD TURNS
Joseph AIsop
in Britain, in brief,, both the
policymakers and the people
are very much more AWARE
of the new weapons of total
destruction than people or
policymakers elsewhere
IN AMERICA, the thought of
H-bombs still tends to gen
erate a false confidence, as
though America's former
atomic monopoly still persist
ed. In France and Germany,
no one thinks about such sub
jects.
Macmillan, on contrast, has
often on his lips the small
number of bombs needed to
destroy the British Isles. If
the Eisenhower administration
had made the needed efforts
to maintain a Western nuclear
lead, the situation here in
Britain would be very differ
ent. But those efforts were
not made. If the resulting
change in the world balance
of power has affected British
opinion, no one should be sur
prised. .
Furthermore, Macmillan's
accusers had better wait to
judge whether the Prime Min
ister is an appeaser, or wheth
er President Eisenhower is an
appeaser, until the going gets
really rough. Before then, the
other Western leaders might
weU ask themselves whether
Macmillan may not after all
be right in his judgment of the
risks at Berlin,
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On Kindness
To the Editor: As part of
"Be Kind to Animals Week,"
let us learn to sympathize
with the animals about us.
We must learn that they love
life just as we do, they suf
fer just as we do, that they
are hurt by harshness and
threats as we are hurt by
them, and they love kindly
treatment and that they ap
preciate it as we do ourselves,
and that they love and form
attachments just as we do.
One of the most beautiful
and valuable features of the
kindergarten education, which
comes nearer the true educa
tion than any we have yet
seen, is the, constantly recur
ring love, sympathy kindness
and care for the animal world.
All fellowships thus fos
tered, and the humane senti
ments thus inculcated, will
return to soften and enrich
the child's and-'later the man's
or woman's life, for we must
always bear in mind that
every kindness shown, every
service done to either a fellow
human being or a so-called
dumb creature, does us more
good than the one for whom
or that for which we do it.
The strongest and noblest
types of men and women are
never devoid of tender, hu
mane sympathy which is ever
quick to manifest itself in
kindness and care for every
living creature.
R. W. Trine,
Shady Cove.
Puliin'
To the Editor: Every year
for 5 years, the State of Ore
gon is sending me 20 tags for
puttin' on salmon, but I ain't
puttin' them on salmon. I'm
puttin' them in my. wallet. I
ain t got no more room in my
wallet for puttin' them. When
this fishing season ends, I'm
puttin' the whole works down
the fishladder. I hope to choke
a salmon.
I ain't no better puttin'
stamps on a duck than I am
puttin'. tags on salmon. The
only thing I ever puttin my
frigidaire is jackrabbits and
they re the only things we
don't have to be puttin' stamps
or tags on. I'm eatin' mine
Hope for Anti-Communist- Iraq Remains
A Hope, As British Arms Request Made
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
There is a saying that in
the Middle East nothing is as
it apDears. So there are those
who say that
no matter how
things appear
on the surface,
it is wrong
now to say
that Iraq is go
ing or has gone
Communist.
Center of the
argument is
pun Newsom rnme Minis
ter Abdel Karim Kassem who,
as an obscure brigadier gen
eral in the Iraqi army, led
last summer's revolt which'
overthrew King Faisal's gov
ernment and led to the killing
LA --OfcJ
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
ON SUCCESS AND '
FAILURE -
In commenting on the ap
proaches to Geneva and to the
summit, there is a temptation
to which all
of us are sub
ject. It is to
apply too soon
and too often
the test of suc
cess or fail
ure. The nego
tiations which
have now be
gun will last
Walter
Lippmann
for a long
time. They could last for a
generation. In the course of
that time there wiU be many
changes which cannot now be
foreseen clearly. For what is
being begun now by the
statesmen of the older Ben
eration will probably not be
concluded until there is a new
generation.
There is no present pros
pect that the negotiations will
"succeed," if by that it meant
that they will produce a final
settlement of the German
problem. On the other hand,
there is no prospect, it seems
to me, that they will "fail," if
by that is meant that there
will be no more negotiations
and that this will be followed
by some sort of mobilization
for war. We must rid our
selves of the, rubber stamp no
tions oi success ana , xaiiure.
The . German problem is at
present insoluble. No theoreti
cal solution of it would be
worth a great war to either
side, and both sides know that
the question could not be set
tled by a war. The world has
to live with the German ques
tion, producing as best it can
before we do. Yesterday I
went down to . Rogue River
and watched the State Police
puttin' their initials on my
salmon tags. That's all I use
my salmon card for, is for
State Police to puttin' their
initials on. Last year I went
down to the Applegate and
was fishing without tags. The
Game Warden is suspicious.
He wants to know, "WHY?"
I'm fishing on an I.O.U: from
the State of Oregon. I paid
for the tags, but they ain't
got 'em .in January. I come
closer to being puttin' jail
than I ever come close to
puttin' a tag on a salmon or
a stamp' on a duck.
Just once, I come close to.
puttin' a tag on a salmon. He
missed my boat and jumped
into a California Tourist's
boat. To-morrow I'm puttin'
some gas in my car and try
puttin' a tag on a salmon. It
ain't easy. My salmon card
looks like my old. High School
report card. I never got a
zero on my. report card, but
I come closer than I ever did
puttin' a stamp on a duck.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland
Inconsistent?
To the Editor: How incon
sistent can you be? In your
Sunday editorial you state you
do not go along with the ob
jectives of the anti-cruelty
people such as their anti-vivisection
protests. Then you
claim that animal experi
mentation is done under strict
rules for preventing pain.
One of the main objectives
of the "anti-cruelty people"
has been the enforcement of
just such rules. Now the ani
mals are tortured much more
gently-ask any doctor. With
the sincere hope that this
semi - accomplished obj ective
does not seem too unreason
able to you.
B. A. Lanberg,
: 3017 Diane,
Medford.
Editor's note: Our corres
pondent misquotes the edito
rial, which said "We do not
go along with ALL of the ob
jectives of SOME of the anti
cruelty people . . " Many
humane people have sought to
improve anti -cruelty proce
dures in animal experimenta
tion; others, however, have
sought to ban such scientific
activities outright. We agree
whole-heartedly with the for
mer, disagree with the latter.
both ' of Faisal and Nuri Es
Said, his tough, pro-Western
premier.
In the intervening months,
Kassem has confounded his
critics and at the same time
shown no signs of losing his
popularity with the Iraqi peo
ple. This last, despite the fact
that he has done little for
them and that living condi
tions now probably are worse
than before. '
Ask Britain for Arms
Latest development has been
the disclosure that the Kassem
government has asked Britain
for arms and military sup
plies. When the Baghdad govern
ment put down the Mosul re
volt last March, it did so with
British-built warplanes and
Lippmann
and from time to time a
modus vivendi without any
serious expectation of a set
tlement.
.
rpHE German question lies
in the fact that the Ger
man Reich, as founded by
Bismark in 1871, has been
partitioned as a result of the
defeat of Hitler. Berlin, which
was the capital of the old
German Reich, has itself been
partitioned. The partition of
Germany is the consequence
of the second World War, and
it could become the cause of
the third World War.
We ask ourselves, could the
partition of Germany have
been avoided? No one knows
the answer. For this is just
about the iffiest question in
world affairs. What we can
say is that" the partition of
Germany arises from the fact
that the Red Army coming
from the East, the Allied
army coming from the West,
met in the middle of Ger
many. They would not have
met if Hitler had not attacked
Russia and brought her into
the war. They would not have
met if the Allies, including
the United States; had been
strong enough to occupy the
whole of Germany before the
Russians got there. The fact
is, however, that they did get
there and that the West got
there and that that was how
Hitler's Reich was conquered,
WAS partition the necessary
and the inevitable result?
Here again all is iffiness. Was
it from the beginning the So
viet intention to dismember
Germany? Or would the So
viet Union once upon a time
have settled for a neutralized
and lightly armed united Ger
many, hoping, of course, that
the German Communists
would infiltrate the German
socialists, and eventually rule
the whole of Germany?
On the other hand, were
the Western Allies wise in
thinking that this risk was so
great that, instead of working
for an evacuation by the Red
Army, they insisted upon the
rearmament of Western Ger
many in alliance with their
own forces?
Questions such as these are
no longer real questions. Eu
rope has out-lived them and
what we are now facing is the
historic fact that there are
two Germanys and two Ber
lins. The German crisis of to
day is the crisis of the adjust
ment of the great powers to
the partition of Germany.
THE adjustments will be a
vprv rnmnlinoto . .vnari.
ence. For the partition of
German is as great an historic
event as was the unification
of Germany under Bismark.
The adjustment to this his
toric fact involves on both
sides of the Iron Curtain some
kind of recognition of most
unpalatable facts. On the
Western side it involves a
recognition that there are
two German states. On the
Russion side it involves a re
cognition 'that there are two
Berlins, and that West Berlin
must remain a part of the
Western community.
The acceptance of these un
palatable facts, and their rec
ognition in legal instruments
which are enforcible, will be
the core of the coming nego
tiations. The object of the ne
gotiations will be a modus
vivendi which, while it recog
nizes that there is in fact a
partition of Germany, keeps
alive the right and the hope
of .an eventual reunion,
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Tribune Inc.
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with soldiers wearing British-
supplied uniforms.
But those were remnants
from an imperial past, with
only an incidental connection
with Kassem's revolutionary
government which was im
porting Russian arms by the
boatload and which contemp
tuously had ignored U.S. F86
Sabrejets shipped to the old
Nuri Es Said government and
now left rusting in a field.
Making the request for Brit
ish arms doubly suprising is
the fact that Britain, along
with the United States and
President Abdel Carnal Nas
ser's United Arab Republic, is
under daily attack in the
Baghdad press.
Rejects Execution Requests
The surprised British took
the request under advisement,
wondering what this latest de
velopment might portend for
the mysterious Middle East.
There have been other in
dications that Kassem has not
given himself wholly over
to Communist arms or to
Communist philosophy.
He steadfastly has refused
Communist requests for th
immediate execution of for
mer officials of the old regime
or of those convicted of oppo
sition to the new. He has re
sisted demands for the restora
tion of political parties, which
would have meant legalization
of the Communist party, and
he also has resisted demands
for more and far-reaching
purges of the army and ad
ministration.
And, so far, he has not
given in to demands for arms
for the "people's resistance"
forces which in effect consti
tute a Red militia.
Red Influence Strong
Western observers do not
believe that Kassem himself
is a Communist.
aui iney, ana tnis corre
spondent has been among
tnem, have seen Baghdad
street gangs in action and
Editorial Comment
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The time has come when
we must candidly and regret
fully admit, at last, that our
high esteem and hopes for
this legislature were mis
placed. What could have been,
and should have been from all
indications when it started, a
harmonious and productive
legislative assembly has de
generated into a disgusting
spectacle of selfish jockeying
for political advantage.
Only four or five of the
recognized leaders of this ses
sion have, remained steadfast
in dedicating their efforts to
bringing about the best pos
sible government for the peo
ple of Oregon. We think it is
only fair to the voters of this
state that the worth of these
men should be given recog
nition. Any list of outstanding ex
amples would have to be
headed - by Bob Duncan,
Speaker of the House. It has
been a real pleasure to watch
this young man's capacity for
real statesmanship develop
during this session. .
Robert Elfstrom, minority
leader of the House, ultra
conservative, but sincere, is
considerate and courteous to
everyone and is really giving
the best of his abilities to get
ting a good job done for his
state.
Senator Alf Corbett, quiet,
calm, with a firm conviction
that cultural values and hu
man dignity are of paramount '
importance to the state, has!
also an objectivity and a prac
ticality in his makeup so that
Y0b
Tne beauty and
rienness of our service,
in your behalf,
is almost Leyond words.
Across (rem
RANK MORGAN . HAROLD
DAV OR NIGHT
realized the potent power of
the Reds among them.
Red influence inside the
govern ment admittedly is
strong and there have been
persistent reports of Red ef
forts to infiltrate the Iraqi
army.
U.S. reports have said the
Reds now are so strong they
are already in a position to
make a grab for total power.
The army and Kassem's
own position remain the keys.
Kassem's ( sympathizers have
said that once he is sure of
his position against Nasser's
supporters and from the enmi
ty of the UAR, he also will
turn against the Communists.
There may be a hope that
Iraq has not or will not go
communist. But so far it is
just a hope.
Senate Override
Of Vetoes Beaten
Salem (UPD Democratic
senators aided by Republican
Francis Ziegler of Corvallis
overrode the veto of Gov.
Mark Hatfield on two bills
Wednesday' but the House
failed to go along with Sen
ate action, thus killing the
bills.
Senate bill 446 would have
required any resignation of
any public official to contain
nothing but the date and hour
of his resignation.
The other dead bill,- Senate
bill 549, provided that a pub
lic officer elected to another
office be required to resign
by Dec. 31 of the year of his
election.
The bills were inspired by
confusion over Hatfield's ap
pointment of Howell Appling
as secretary of state and the
validity of Hatfield's resigna-.
tion from the same post.
he keeps the whole state pro
gram in true perspective.
Senator Monroe Sweetland,
who, for so long, was so' ex
clusively concerned with so
cial" inequities that he re
mained fuzzy headed about
the financial and economic
facets of state government,
has broadened his concept of
government to include an ap
preciation Of sound financing
for state programs. This man
consistently places the good
of the whole above self in
terest. There are many others, in
both House and Senate, who
are just as sincere and serve
just as loyally and faithfully
in the interest of the people
of their state, as do these four
we have named, but they have
not, yet, been chosen by their
fellow legislators to wear the
mantle of leadership. Oregon
is very fortunate to have
them. They are the tether by
which our "prima donnas" are
tied , to some semblance of
constructive legislating.nOre
gon Grange Bulletin. -
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