MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Friday, May 15, 1959
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History from the files of The
Mai! Tribune" 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10' YEARS AGO
Mn 15. 1949 (Sunday) -
Tinn Whalen. of Timber
'Products, Medford, is named
to the board of directors of tne
. Willamette Valley Loggers
Southern Oregon Historical
society officers, plan a visit to
th old Jacksonville court
house to study its possibilities
' as a museum.
20 YEARS AGO
Mav 15, 1939 (Monday)
Grants Pass carries off top
honors in the third annual
Emigrant lake national catfish
derby.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
'Smudge Pot" column: ."Record
heat marks are being estab
. lished by the Chamber of
Commerce thermometers, out
side the orbit of courthouse
lawn .sprinklers."
30 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1929 (Wednesday)
Owen-Oregon company
plans to extend the Butte Falls
railroad into Klamath county.
, Medford Ice and Storage
plans to erect its $80,000 addi
tion in time to accommodate
this year's fruit crop.
40 YEARS AGO
.May 15, 1919 (Thursday)
The Elks lodge buys 12 acres
of land along the Rogue river
for a picnic grounds.
A shortage of labor in the
valley for farm and fruit
work continues.
50 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1909
The Medford city council
receives petitions from all
parts of town for water mains.
Business and building grow
rapidly in Ashland.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or -ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Name the capital of Ar
kansas. . ' . :
2. Are ocean tides caused
by gravitational pull of the
sun, or of the moon?.
3. Name the White House
Press Secretary.
4. The sum of 20 cents can
be made up from seven U.S.
coins, name them.
5. A U. S. citizen who mar
ries a foreign 'national auto
matically confers American
citizenship upon the spouse;
true or false?
. 6."Gopher State," is a nick
name for which State?
7. Women's nylon 'stockings
were first placed on sale na
tionally about 15, 20 or 25
years ago?
8. Judas Iscariot received
how many pieces of silver for
the betrayal of Jesus? .
9. Mary Baker Eddy found
ed whaV religious organiza
tion? 10. Who wrote the lines,
"Oh, East is East and West is
West, and "never the twain
snail meet"?
Answers. 1. Litlle Rock.
2. Both. 3. Jim Hagerty. 4.
Dime, nickel, five pennies. 5.
False. 6. Minnesota. 7. 20. 8.
Thirty. 9. Christian Science
Church. 10. Rudyard Kipling.
FORMER EDITOR DIES
Philadelphia - (CPU - John A.
Lutz, a former president of
the Poor Richard club, died
at 80 here on Wednesday. For
many years, he edited the
club's Poor Richard Alma
Buttonholing
The Army, Navy and
at the drop of a hat over defense department re
organization or who is to develop what missile,
may well wax hot under the collar at a recent
proposal to standardize buttonholes, and buttons,
in military uniforms.
But we hasten to salute it. The Pentagon pur
chasing agents who told Congress of this scheme
presumably have as their object some long-range
saving in uniform costs. It may, however, prove
a far greater blessing on another front.
We refer to its potential effect on the honor
able art of buttonholing, defined by Webster's
dictionary simply as "to detain in talk."
THIS practice, also known vulgarly and incor-
rectly as "collaring," derives from the Roman
tradition of the togahold. In the Ancient Forum
any man, however noble or ignoble, could by the
simple act of snatching a section of another's
toga, preferably at a point near his ears, gain for
himself a captive audience to whom he might de
liver anything from a fenatch of soothing verse to
a tip on the chariot races.
Down through the centuries, the term has
changed with the times, or, more exactly, with
the apparel of the times.
Each time the apparel changed radically, the
results were usually disastrous. Take the Roman
Empire. When the Goths swarmed across its
northern frontier, swathed in bear skins, the
Romans were at a' loss to know which was the
appropriate part of this foreign garment to grasp.
Soon afterward, Rome was sacked,
t
117E SUSPECT the reason for this phenomenon
may be that extended human communica
tion at close range, such as buttonholing affords,
has proved an effective deterrent to strife. When
buttonholing is made difficult or impossible, dis
chord inevitably results.
How many times have you heard someone
say, "He disagreed with me at the meeting, but I
buttonholed him afterward and now we see eye-to-eye."
Secretary of -State, Dulles, and now Herter,
have found a skill at buttonholing their counter
parts in Great Britain, France and West Germany
indispensable to their efforts at Western' unity,
and, ultimately, world peace. The current foreign
ministers' meeting at Geneva is, in fact, nothing
but a four-way buttonhole job.
And students of buttonholing see a singular
ray of hope in Nikita Khrushchev's taste for
Italian suits, which brings him sartorially closer
to the West and thus, theoretically at leastmakes
him a better target for
the summit
rHESE are troubled times, and we must tread
cautiously. After all, about the time this na
tion was shifting from double-breasted to single
breasted suits, with the resultant chance in but
tonhole arrangement, the
We realize that altering military buttonholes
may cause minor disruptions in current routine.
A lew Washington lobbyists may feel "all
thumbs" for a while.
' But if by unif ormitv
to-heart exchanges between leaders of our armed
services, and thus advance toward an ultimate
cease-fire in the interservice rivalry that has
hampered our defense administration and at
times hamstrung our missile programs, then we
are ior it.
And if you disagree with us, why, we'll but
tonhole you on Main street tomorrow. You'll see
the light. E.W.
The Merits of Moonlighting
Moonlighting, the holding of outside jobs by
city and county employees, was challenged re
cently by organized labor in Multnomah county
and threatened with eclipse by the Multnomah
county sheriff. . ; . .
This week, moonlighting won a court reprieve
pending a decision on the merits of the issue via
a suit brought against the sheriff by three county
employees.
Labor spokesmen touched off the exchanges
leading to this lunar litigation by asserting that
public employees who took spare time work rep
resented unfair competition in the labor market.
.
THE controversy's apparent center of gravity
lighting, which according to the Multnomah
county district attorney's office still applies. The
sheriff set about enforcing it, even against parti
cipation in military reserve units. But Attorney
General Robert Thornton replied that moonlight
ing, was a constitutional right.
It should go without saying that anyone en
terprising enough to carry a double work load,
with its attendant sacrifices, should be permitted
to do so. Employees on public payrolls so long
as no conflict of interest arises, and so long as
their efficiency is not impaired should certainly
be allowed to supplement in this manner their
generally modest incomes.
'.
JF MOONLIGHTING were prohibited, valuable
workers might well be lost entirely to other,
more lucrative employment. As for applying such
a prohibition to military training, this would be
sheer lunacy,
We appreciate, the extent of America's unem
ployment problem. But we believe it is begging
the issue, . or should we say baying the moon, to
seek a solution by denying public employees their
constitutional rights. E.W
Air Force, who quarrel
peaceful persuasion at
Korean War broke out.
we can simDlif v heart-
Dennis the
J'll PUT THE COVfdW TO 6SD. Hg
COULD PICK VPHISTO&S
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
NOT FAIR
Washington - There is a
heavy political fall-out in the
Senate's current row over
"1 wnether Presi-
hower's eight-months-old
ap
pointment o f
Xj e w x a
L.
-1 4. 1
0UBUSS LO UC
Secretary o f
Commerce
should be at
last confirm
William S.
White
ed.
Indeed, one can readily see
in imagination an ominous
mushroom cloud rather like
those that rose over the hy
drogen bomb tests which
Strauss pressed when he was
chairman of the Atomic En
ergy Commission.
Unpleasant a n d possibly
noxious political matter is
raining down upon the
Senate Republicans in gen
eral, but most of all upon the
modern - liberal Republicans.
The Strauss nomination is
under the most serious attack
ever levelled by the Senate
at an Eisenhower Cabinet
choice.
Many Democrats are hap
pily .pounding away at the
nominee, and are not being
too choosy about their weap
ons. Old Guard Republicans
are defending him without a
backward glance. Well they
might, for this is the most
authentic "regular" Republi
can ever to hold high place
in the Eisenhower Adminis-
Editorial
Comment
DRIVING BUSINESS AWAY
One hopes the Interstate
Commerce Commission's per
mission for reduction of
Shasta Daylight streamliner
service between Portland and
San Francisco to three times
a week during the winter
slack period is not the first
step toward cancellation of
this train through scenic Ore
gon and northern California.
But it could turn out that it
is.
The Southern Pacific has
been trying to curtail service
on the run since 1956, con
tending it has lost large sums
of money through lack of
patronage during the winter
months. The California Pub
lic Utilities Commission re
fused the . request once, but
the ICC now has given it
under the Smathers Act of
1958, which gives the federal
agency superior jurisdiction
in railroad service cutback
cases.
One cannot see how the
curtailment will save the
railroad money, If one wishes
to go to San Francisco today
and the train doesn't go until
tomorrow one can take the
night train, which is com
fortable and fast, or go by
bus or air. Coach passengers
find the daylight ride more
interesting than the night
train, for at night they can
not see the truly magnificent
scenery on the route. The
result of curtailment can only
be to drive more passengers
from the railroad to other
forms of transportation: Al
m o s t certain consequences
will be more loss of revenue
and new request for addition
al cutbacks.
The S.P. has shown a de
sire to get rid of passenger
service to facilitate the more
lucrative hauling of freight.
One revelation of this desire
was the recent closing of its
downtown street-level ticket
office in Portland, which was
immediately occupied by an
air line. In contrast, four
other railroads maintain tick
et offices on two of the most
prominent downtown corners.
A railroad has a duty to at
least attempt to make a pub
lic service pay out. Portland
Ortgonian. '
Menace
FELL ASLEEP HE
S. WHITE
tration. Not the last of
Strauss' troubles, in a word,
is that he himself is a wholly
unapologetic Qld Guardist.
THE liberal - modern Re
publicans, too, are coming
to Strauss' support. But this
is with a troubled lack of en
thusiasm rather similar to
that of some young men in
receiving those well - known
"greetings" from the Presi
dent of the United States
which draft them, for military
service. For Strauss repre
sents much for which these
moderns do not care at all.
' Many moderate to conserv
ative Democrats are troubled,
too, but in a different sense
They, too, are on the whole
less than mad about Lewis
Strauss, as a public man, that
is. But they do not relish the
outwardly genteel but basic
ally tough roughing-up he is
receiving.
What the attacking Demo
crats are doing is to try Mr
Strauss not so much for his
actions as for his ideas. They
are pursuing him for his
philosophy; they . are indict
ing him for his thoughts. "At
bottom they are seeking
mightily to prove what is al
ready self-evident and self-
proclaimed that he is a
Herbert Hoover Republican,
,
THEIR charge that on many
issues he is politically
"wrong" is to many - includ
ing this observer profound
ly strong. But their case that
he should therefore be denied
confirmation is, to this one
observer at least, profoundly
weak. For, all Philadelphia
lawyers to the contrary, the
custom has been that any
President is entitled to pick
his Cabinet and that the Sen
ate will not refuse confirma
tion without overpowering
reason.
Tnere is no such reason
here. True, this is not remote
ly the brutal persecution di
rected in the past by Senate
Republicans to accused left-
wingers of various hues.
There is no need to weep
overmuch at the cries of these
Republicans that the Demo
crats are pushing them
around, as well as Strauss,
All the same the Strauss af
fair, too, is a persecution, if
a far less savage one. This
time the victim is a right
winger. The objections to him
have nothing really to do with
the President's right to. have
his services.
Strauss' spare, bristling and
perhaps unwisely unterrified
frame (tact and the soft an
swer come hard to him) is
simply being used to hang up
to public view certain pre-
1960 political garments.
HERE, the opposition Demo
crats are saying, is a Her
bert Hoover man, an ultra
conservative who .does not
like public power, a big busi
ness type. And he is, in fact,
quite all of that. Here, they
are saying, is an "anti-intellectual,"
a man who demand
ed atomic weapons develop
ment first and thought of
fall-out and disarmament sec
ond. This latter, he is. Harsh
or not, he fought with cour
age and strength to protect
this country in the atomic
race. Maybe he is unwise at
times. But he was also indis
pensible. And "anti-intellectual" he
is not. The odd truth is that
he himself is an egghead, but
- rarest of things - a Repub
lican Old Guard egghead. The
shaking up being given to
him, and to the issues he
typifies, is entirely, under
standable. It is probably good
politics as well. But it does
have this one shortcoming: it
is not fair. .
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Conservation of Resources
To the Editor: For far too
long, far too much of Amer-j
ica s natural resources . ana
too many of Tennyson's chat
tering "forever" brooks-part
of one and the same-nave
been nonexistant. However, if
interest shown, expressions
and actions by so many citi
zens through Conservation
Week, (some of program car
ried over to the big attend
ance Monday evening, May 11,
at the IWL meeting, Cham
ber of Commerce meeting the
13th, etc.) are shadows cast
of coming events, then we
may hope.
If some far-sighted planning
for Jackson county's future
can and will be carried out,
when most of the yet intact
valley floor may be fields of
waving, nourishing food view
ed from surrounding home-
studded hillsides; Bear creek
a clean, pure stream where
children may wade and
splash, bordered by tree
shaded camping grounds, then
this part of the valley some
of us have visualized may
come true; and better plan
ning lies ahead.
Active cooperation on the
Conservation Week program
was shared by just about ev
ery group; federal, state, coun
ty," city. Local groups and
many individuals over the
county did much to make
aware the public of our needs,
and some accomplishments.
IWL men in Ashland carried
the baU. Howard Hopkins of
the U.S. Forest Service and
Ross Youngblood of Bureau
of ."Land Management, city and
county school superintendents'
offices and the county court
participated, in field trips, of
which you may read more
fully soon. The, ministerial
association, through our many
churches, reminded us that
"The Earth is The Lord's,
we soil stewards, briefly. Are
we - trustworthy?
To all those who made
themselves available to speak
on a special phase of natural
resources at civic clubs or
other gatherings, those who
wrote special articles for our
county newspapers; editors of
the Medford Mail . Tribune,
Ashland Tidings, Rogue River
Times, to managers of KBES-
TV and our radio station man
agers; to the Boy and Girl
Scouts and other school stu
dents; to . all who cooperated
in this worthwhile program,
we are deeply thankful.
By woods trips and observ
ing truckloads of punky white
fir and dry-rot incense cedar
logs-"worthless' a few years
ago-now salvaged from "in
accessible" and high moun
tain places, we see vast
changes in man's estimate of
values of our forest resources;
and soil, water, wildlife and
other natural resources are
being more and more appre
ciated.
Jackson County Conserva
tion of Natural Resources
Week Committee,
John E. Gribble, Chairman
Dogs at Large
To the Editor: After becom
ing a new resident on Vancou
ver ave., in this city I have no
ticed how many owners of
dogs on that street allow their
dogs to run out and bark and
snarl at peaceful citizens in
cluding postmen and school
children who try to walk
along the sidewalks.
It seems as though the own
ers of these dogs are just
too lazy or indifferent to call
or whistle their dogs back on
their own grounds or to train
them to better manners. Dogs
can be easily trained to good
manners if their owners so
desire it enough not to allow
their animals to threaten
everyone passing on the
street. Dogs do not knpw any
better until they are trained,
but their owners should know
better.
(Name on File)
Medford
Like YCC Idea
To the Editor: I read that
Interior Secretary Fred Seaton
had written a letter opposing
the revival of the pre-World
War II Civilian Conservation
Corps. Personally I think
Fred Seaton is way off in his
attitude.
I put in one year in one of
those camps 20 years ago. And
I've never regretted doing so.
I usually vote a Republican
ticket but I do consider the
C.C.C. one of the best pro
grams ever to have been start
ed. I do, however, have one
thing to say in regard to ad
ministration of the program,
leave the Army and Navy out
of it, and with it the practice
of honorable and dishonorable
discharges. I favor a simple
hire and fire arrangement
such as is used in industry.
AUow each man an allotment
for clothing and allow him to
purchase such clothing as he
prefers to use. I also oppose
the requirement that he give
his life history. I'd OK a re-
quirement that ha tell of the
Andrei Gromyko Man-of-Week
With Quote-of-Week
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
The man-of-the-week: So
viet Foreign Minister Andre
Gromyko.
Quote - of-the - week "From
the moment of its creation.
the Soviet
state is a prin
c i p 1 e d and
consistent fol
lower of the
peaceful coex
istence with
all states irre
spective of
differences in
social systems
or political or
Phil Newsom
ganization that may exist be
tween them."
The place: Geneva.
Soviet Russia's Andrei Gro-
V'itiH
Ike's Attitude
In Dealing With
Congress
By RAYMOND LAHR
' UPI Correspondent
Washington -(UPD- President
Eisenhower's belligerent
stance in dealing with Con
gress this year finds him close
to 180 degrees from the posi
tion he took in the earlier
years of his administration.
Whereas he used to propose
and let Congress dispose, he
now appears more willing to
fight at a time when the
Democrats have gained top-
heavy majorities in the House
and Senate. And while he has
lost some skirmishes this
year, he has not yet lost the
war.
There is evidence that the
new Republican congressional
leaders - Rep. Charles A. Hal
leek and Sen. Everett M. Dirk-
sen - have had a hand in
prodding the President into
more aggressive opposition to
the Democrats in Congress.
Message To Congress
Thus he sent his extra
ordinary message to Congress
this week scolding the legis
lative branch for inaction on
his recommendations for deal
ing with the highway pro
gram, the wheat surplus, and
housing. It was the sort of
thing that Harry S. Truman
might have enjoyed,
Six months ago, Republican
professionals nursing their
wounds after 1958 election
defeats were lamenting that
there were not enough votes
in advocating a balanced
budget. Democrats felt the
same way when the Senate
passed bills early this year
with housing, depressed area
and airport programs more
liberal than Eisenhower pro
posed.
. But now under Eisen
hower's lead, the GOP is act
past two years but no more
than that. Also for infraction
of rules a system similiar to
a jury and judge be used,
nothing resembling a court
martial would be permitted.
I have given considerable
thought to the system in use
at present and how it might
be improved. In place of our
Department of Agriculture
we should have a Department
of Conservation, this would
include the C.C.C, O & C
lands, Game and Fisheries,
Soil Conservation Service, and
other programs connected
with conservation of our na
tural resources.
I do believe, that of all the
programs started and used
during the Roosevelt admin
istrations and since, the Civil
ian Conservation Corps one of
the best, in the lasting results.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pift Star Rt.
Butte Falls, Ore.
Dogs Need Care
To the Editor: There have
been so many items in the
paper lately of people being
hittpn bv does, something
must be said in defense of
dogs.
It is a known fact that dogs
ar the most loval and friend
liest of creatures if given half
a chance. When treated harsn
lv and especially when dealt
an unsuspected blow or, kick,
. ' 1 - A -
his instincts are io reiauaie.
NHne times out of ten when a
puppy bites a child the puppy
has been hurt or teased be
yond endurance.
Parents must remember
that kittens and puppies are
not toys but baby animals that
need tender care and training
and common sense' should tell
us that it is unwise and in
humane to provide a child
with small animals. Older,
placid animals are better, but
even then it is a responsibility
and children must be taught
that to tease or torment a dog
is likely to make him ill-tem-Dered.
but treated with kind
ness and consideration he will
become a trusted friend and
playmate.
Mrs. Harper Winston,
2922 South Ivy St.,
Medford,
myko took the honors at the
Geneva foreign ministers'
conference this week on two
counts.
On one, he followed the
footsteps of such distinguished
predecessors as V. M. Molo
tov and Andrei Vishinsky. In
most of the 15 foreign minis
ters' conferences held since
VE day, the Soviets have been
experts at stalling tactics.
Gromyko this week proved
himself an apt pupil.
Emerges as Champion
On the other, he emerged
as a champion in a field in
which heretofore he has not
been distinguished. He ' has
been sporting a homburg hat,
which among the other hat
less foreign ministers, auto
matically has qualified him as
Changes
ing as if there were hardly
an issue worth mentioning
after a balanced budget. It
could be that, the fading of
the recession made the issue
more popular.
Republicans in the House
also discovered that they
could capitalize on the rules
- and the Rules Committee -
of that chamber to apply
brakes to the Democratic pro
gram. The situation looked
ripe for rebuilding the coali
tion of Republicans and con
servative Democrats which
dominated Congress only
few years ago. .
Liberals Puxrled .
At .the same time, the
Democrats began to smart
under the "big spender"
label that Eisenhower and
other Republicans were try
ing to paste on them.
AU this back and forth has
produced a prolonged lull on
Capital Hill before Congress
moves into the final, frantic
weeks of its 1959 session. And
the liberal Democrats are won
dering what happened to what
they interpreted as a 1958
election mandate for a revival
of the New Deal,
Spokesmen for the liberal
Americans for Democratic
Action could grumble 'last
week end about a "do-noth
ing" Congress frittering away
the gams claimed by the
liberal wing in the elections
last year,
Congressonal leaders in
both parties, however, will be
more interested in assessing
the political impact of this
Congress after it has adjourn
ed this summer and most in
terested in the judgment in
dicated by the 1960 election
after next year's session,
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at Geneva
the clothes horse of the con
ference. Gromyko, now near ing 50
years of age, bulbous nosed
but darkly handsome, was a
boy wonder of the Soviet for
eign office.
At the age of 34 he was
Soviet ambassador to Wash
ington. As were his predecessors,
he has been able to turn the
charm off and on, depending
on the will of the Kremlin.
This week in Geneva ihe
was playing well a familiar
role.
First he demanded that
East Germany be seated at
the foreign ministers confer
ence as an equal. Failing in
that, he switched to similar
demands for Poland and Cze
choslovakia. Expected to Fail
That he expected to fall in
his demands is certain. But
that he also had an objective
in mind also is certain.
The objectives had their
ironies but they also had a
place in the Soviet scheme.
It long has been accepted
that among aU the Soviet sat
ellites, not one can be consid
ered wholly reliable. There
fore, a primary objective in
Gromyko's campaign was to
stir in satellite minds the be
lief that Russia acted in then
behalf. Headlines in satellite
newspapers would be an aid.
A second objective would
be to set up, on the basis of
minor concessions to Western
powers, a groundwork for de
mands for major concessions
from the West later on.
One of the ironies of his po
sition was his argument that
Poland and Czechoslovakia
should be seated because they
were the first victims of ag
gression by Nazi Germany.
Overlooks Important Fact
He overlooked the fact that
the German attack on Poland
was cleared first by the pact
reached by Molotov and the
then foreign minister of Ger
many, Joachim Von Ribben-
trop. The pact, in effect neu
tralizing Russia, cleared the
way for Hitler'a Polish inva
sion. As for first victims, he
might also have included
Yugoslavia and Austria.
Throughout the Geneva
conference to date, Gromyko
has been the picture of an
amiable and correct diplo
mat. He even has cracked a
heavy joke or two about the
initial controversy over
whether the conference should
be held at a round or square
table.
But, as former diplomat Er
nest Davies said about him:
"His policy will be made
in Moscow by whatever clique
reigns in the Kremlin, and he
will faithfully carry it out,
ably and painstakingly."
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