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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 TEARS AGO
May 19, 1949 (Thursday)
Sgt. Clyde Fichtner, Med
ford police officer in charge
of traffic, warns citizens that
the city's jay-walking ordi
nance may be enforced unless
violations decrease.
Mayor Diamond Flynn re
.ceives word that Sears Roe
buck has no immediate plans
for constructing a store on
its property here.
20 YEARS AGO
May 19. 1939 (Friday)
Medford CCC district offi
cials launch a safety campaign
to reduce injuries and subse
quent loss of work-days.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Straw
hats are now the fashionable
order of the day among the
stronger sex. Some of the
modes show the fatigue
other summers."
of
SO YEARS AGO
May 19, 1929 (Sunday)
The State Odd , Fellows
convention is to be held here
next week.
Sportsmen of the county
plan a banquet to discuss the
Rogue river fish issue.
40 YEARS AGO
May 19, 1919 (Monday)
Floyd Young, frost obser
ver, leaves for the south, indi
cating official closure of the
frost season.
Klamath Orchards employs
18 ladies as thinners because
of the labor shortage.
50 YEARS AGO
May 19, 1909 (Wednesday)
Medford is offered a $17,000
incinerator for burning gar
bage. L. M. McMahan, Salem at-
torne. attacks the Crater Lake
road appropriations, and re
taliation locally is swift.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eijht is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The name for molten
rock extruded in a volcanic
eruption is Ij .
2. Has the U.S. Government
ever issued a $3 bill?
3. Did Switzerland main
tain neutrality during World
War n?
4. Human hair grows more
rapidly in summer than in
winter; true or false?
5. In parliamentary law,
what is the cutting off or lim
itation of debate called?
6. Correct the following:
"Our team was badly beat
in its recent' game."
7. .Esperanto is a city in
Spain, a species of bird, or a
universal language?
8. Who wrote the novel,
"Great Expectations"?
9. What U.S. President's
names do the following
scrambled words spell:
MANURT, S ARID A, LOCN-
NIL?
10. If the ends of a chain,
hanging loosely between two
posts, were extended, would
they form a circle?
Answers: 1. Lava. 2. No,
9. Yes. 4. True. S. Cloture.
6., "Our team was badly beai
e . . .' 7. Universal language.
8. Charles Dickens. 9. Truman,
Adams. Lincoln. 10. No.
The Phoenix
Which ever wav the
district consolidation election turns out tomorrow,
the children of the areas
an education.
We have taken no postion on the proposal,
and do not plan to do so
But we might point
statements made have been in the heat of argu
ment, and from a special point of view. They
have been heated, and in some cases misleading.
-
THE alternatives are these: ,
1 Vnto fn inin trip PhnPTllY artrl Tfllpnt. rllS-
tricts into a new, larger district, one just barely
meeting the minimum size recommended -by Dr.
James Conant in his survey of American high
schools. , . x
2. Reject consolidation.
In the latter event, the recommendations of
the county reorganization committee will have
to be considered namely, that the northern part
of the Phoenix district be joined with Medford,
and that Talent and the Wagner creek portion of
the Phoenix district be joined with Ashland.
The recommendations of the committee are
neither final nor binding, but it will take a pretty
determined majority to turn them aside.
AS AN interested and sympathetic bystander,
" our hope is that each voter will ask himself
"How will these alternatives affect the education
of the students?" "How will it affect my taxes?"
"How will it affect the efficiency and effective
ness of the district administration ?"
Only on the basis of these questions, honestly
answered in the privacy of the voting booth,
should the decision be made.
And we also hope that those who are on the
"losing" side will accept the verdict of the ma
jority with good grace. That's how democracy
works best. E.A.
The Business
It was our privilege
meeting of the state parks advisory committee in
Roseburg. Also attending were representatives
of Jackson, Josephine,
Lane and Klamath counties.
The subject under discussion vwas, obviously,
parks and recreation both state and county.
Nothing was settled
the fact that parks and
big business these days,
vastly important as factors in the third largest
industry in Oregon, the care, feeding and enter
tainment of tourists.
HERE are some of the
Item The state spends thousands of dollars
annually attracting tourists to Oregon. It does so
because the state has ample tourist attractions,
and because when they
state's economy (to say nothing of paying over
and over again the advertising money spent
through the gasoline tax).
Item The problem
ists than it is to encourage them to remain a day
or two or three longer;
they want to see and do
do. The problem is becoming aggravated by the
construction of fine new
danger of becoming "flyways, channelling tour
ists through the state in one or two days.
i
TEM As one phase
courage tourists to stay and enjoy Oregon, the
state parks program is being expanded as rapidly
as funds allow, but ample room remains for co
operation and extended parks activity on the part
of the counties, which also stand to benefit.
Item There is a need to re-study the differ
ing responsibilities of the
park programs, with added emphasis by the state
going to areas of more
added emphasis by the counties on less-outstanding
but nonetheless important local park areas.
Item In the overall parks and recreation pro
grams, there is an opportunity to make Oregon a
"family vacation" state, where - parents and
youngsters alike can find
ITEM Some counties
in the development of
las counties each are spending m the neighbor
hood of $80,000 to $100,000 annually, and are
reaping rich rewards as
Item There is professional help available
to counties in setting up a well-rounded program.
Item The rewards for such a program will be
great Not only will the people of Oregon be
servea a major consideration; , out u each tour
ing family can be pursuaded to spend an addi
tional day in Oregon,
will mean an added
"new money" in,the state's economy on top of
the $150,000,000 now coming from that source.
DOTH the city of Medford and Jackson county
are just now bedimine; to "sret their feet wet"
in the field of parks and
behind comparable cities and counties.
But this year, for the first time, it appears ap
parent that a real effort
a well-thought-out and
In doing this, the citv
ing, not only to what we
desires of their people,
io provide a major investment which, through the
tsM-iOTnJ- JJ..,,4. Ml U I - 1 I 1 -11. .
tuuiiau muu&uy, win result m a stimulant to tne
economy, and the satisfaction of knowinsr tha
Oregon is a good host
Dors.
- Talent Vote
Phoenix - Talent school
will continue to receive j
at this late date.
out that many ot-the:
, .
of Pleasure
last week to attend a
Coos, Curry, Douglas,
at the meeting except
recreation are becoming
will get bigger, and are
points brought out dur-
come, they bolster the
now is less to attract tour
to really see the things
the things they want to
freeways which are in
of the campaign to en
state and counties for
than local interest, and
wholesome recreation.
are far ahead of others
parks. Lane and Doug
a result.
rather than elsewhere, it
$35,000,000 annuallv in
recreation. Both are far
is being made to provide
rounded prosram. . . . .
and countv are resDond
believe are the needs and
but they are also serving
to its friends and neigh
Dennis the
M fiABy SITTING THE UTTl BO
AND 1 THOUGHT. . . ..OH,
Testy Admiral Tells Committee
About U.S.
By FRANK ELEAZAR
Washington -(UPD- Usually
when the House Space Com
mittee calls in some expert as
a witness, it
seeks testimo
ny in the ex
pert's field.
Yesterday,
though it got
off on the sub
ject of going
to hell, I guess
i n a subma
rine. Frank Eieazer J.ne witness
was Vice Adm. Hyman G.
Rickover, who, prodded the
Matter of Fact
NOT UNDER THREAT
Geneva - A small yet dra
matic episode of Andrei Gro
myko's dinner for his col-
W leagues at the
Geneva con
ference is
worth describ
ing, for the
modest hope it
offers.
At this Gro
myko party,
held last
week, Secre-
Jospb Alsop i-arjr
Christian A. Herter was as
usual disinclined to self-asser
tion. Foreign Secretary Sel-
wyn Lloyd led the talk, which
was friendly. At a certain
moment, however, the Soviet
host chose to expatiate on his
own restaraint and amiabili
ty, pointing out that he had
never yet tried to get his way
by repeating Nikita' Khrush
chev's threat to sign a peace
treaty with the East Germans
without further delay.
Thus Gromyko exhibited,
without exactly brandishing,
the Soviets' weapon-in-reverse
for bringing the Berlin crisis
to an immediate head. After
signature of such a treaty, for
instance, East German high
way controls would at once
replace Soviet controls on the
access routes to Berlin.
TURNING to Herter with a
seemins - friendly smile.
Gromyko added that he hoped
the Western allies would be
careful not to force him to
abandon his remarkable self
restraint. There was a moment
of silence, until Herter an
swered, unsmiling:
"I cannot decide what oth
ers do or say, but I wish to
make one point absolutely
clear. The United States will
not go onwards to a confer
ence at . the summit under any
sort of threat."
As the, story is told by
those who should know, there
was another moment of si
lence, and the conversation
was then resumed in another
tone and on other topics. Thus,
in a single short exchange,
Gromyko and Herter summed
up the reasons for compara
tive optimism that the past
week has produced.
The Soviets' omission of
their usual open menaces,
noted by Gromyko, is one of
several encouraging omis
sions. The failure to insist at
great length on full admission
of the Czechs and JPoies is
another sign of the same sort.
Still another is Gromyko's
own relatively human de
meanor. (Two years ago, Ni
kita Khrushchev told this re
porter with a grin, "Even our
glum comrade Gromyko can
be taught to smile on ocas-
ion." And here is Gromyko,
no doubt after many a pain
ful lesson, grinning away like
a novice candidate for Con
gress.) rpHESE signs are of course
far from decisive. Yet
perhaps too hopefully, the
Western representatives most
expert in dealings with the
Soviets have now begun to
rule out the very worst possi
bilities.
That may not sound par
2T
Menace
NEXT DOOR . ONLY HE'S WT.
OU ARB
- USSR 'Race To Hell'
Navy into building the
world's first atom sub. The
committee didn't s u b p e n a
Rickover to talk about either
subs or hell. It heard he had
some ideas on schools, and the
members wanted to hear
them. WeU, he sure didn't
disappoint them.
"It is estimated that we
have hundreds of thousands
of teachers in this country
teaching useless subjects," the
admiral said. "Like how to tie
a tie. How to catch fish. How
to find and love a mate."
He said 10 per cent of us
are what he called functional
Joseph Alsop
ticularly optimistic. Yet the
Soviets began the Berlin crisis
on a note of naked military
menace. This Geneva conier-
ence itself opened to the echo
of Nikita Khrushchev's latest
bout of bomb - rattling. The
differences of viewpoint be
tween the British and the oth
er Western allies still consti
tute a standing temptation to
the Soviets, to try to divide
the alliance by creating an at
mosphere of tension and
alarm. If this method is not to
be used, the outlook is at least
considerably brighter than it
might have been.
This rather negative im
provement in the outlook is
coupled with something more
positive. In brief, the Western
experts are more and more
inclined to think that the .So
viets plan to pave the road to
the summit with something
that can at least be taken as
evidence of good intentions.
even if it is not very strong
evidence.
Last time, the price the
Kremlin paid for a summit
conference was the liberation
of Austria, which was a good,
hard, solid price indeed. In
the new world situation, noth
ing like that can be 'dimly
hoped for. But the Soviets
may perhaps make the con
cessions that would lead to an
accord in principle on halting
nuclear tests an accord
much wanted by the Kremlin,
much loathed and feared byj
lien, ae uaune, wisnruuy de
sired by British public opin
ion, and tepidly regarded in
Washington.
TF THE Soviets merely give
1
way a little on nuclear
test controls, in order to get
the accord they have always
wanted, they can count on
strongly fayorable reaction in
the present state of world op
inion. Maybe, so the experts
say, Gromyko will go even
further. Maybe he will create
the conditions for an accept
able solution of the crucial
desperately dangerous Berlin
problem. The principle al
ready laid down by John Fos
ter Dulles, the principle of
recognition by the Soviets of
the East Germans as their
"agents," in an obvious key
to a possible solution.
If these hopeful forecasts
prove halfway correct, how
ever, it will also prove that
Nikita Khrushchev has other
subjects he wants to talk
about at the summit besides
Berlin and the division of
Germany. The Berlin crisis
will have partly served as
lever, in fact, to force discus
sion of these other subjects,
The American Ambassador to
Moscow, the able Llewellyn
Thompson, has long maintain
ed that Khrushchev had some
thing to say of great import
ance, which he wished to say
only in person and only to
the President of the United
States.
This special thing- that
Khrushchev wishes to say to
Eisenhower could turn out to
be the central topic at the
summit. Whatever it may be,
it is worth hearing, but it will
probably not be pleasant to
hear.
(C) 1953 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Argentine
And Contradictions,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
President Arturo Frondizi
of Argentina is a man of con
tradictions and many prob
lems. He is re
lying on his
to solve
his problems.
Should he fail,
Argentina, be
set by gallop
ing inflation
and labor
strife, could
sink into chaos
Phil Newsom
even worse than that left by
the defunct regime of Juan
Peron. A new dictatorship
then would seem to be the
only recourse.
His contradictions are these:
For nearly 30 years he fought
dictators and was a champion
of civil liberties. Yet as presi
dent, he has used troops
against labor unions.
Politically he has leaned to
the left, yet his government
is tending more and more to-
illiterates. Three per cent
can't read or write, he said,
and I think what he meant
was that another seven ner
cents can, but can't under
stand what they've read or
written.
European Term Longer
Rickover said while our
boys and girls attend school
maybe five hours a day for
180 days each year, with little
or no work to take home,
school kppns students in Rus
sia and Europe as long as 280
days yearly, with classes most
of the day and long hours of
homework.
Rickover, who is an engi
neer by profession, said he got
interested in all this is his
own scientific endeavors. He
said when he discovered our
lag behind Russia in schools,
he figured this could be more
serious than lagging behind
her in missiles.
"I am quite sure that the
greatest secret weapon Rus
sia has is our progresive edu
cation system," he said.
Not all the members agreed.
Rep. Victor Anfuso (D-N. Y.),
who was born in Italy, con
tended American school are
the best in the world. Rep.
Ken Hechler (D-W. Va.), a for
mer coUege professor, . said
anyway the fact is that Con
gress wUl spend billions for
weapons but is reluctant to
spend thousands on schools.
No Stand Taken
That's true, said Rickover,
and this is how they got into
the journey to hell.
"If the Russians announced
today they were going to send
a man to hell, there would be
at least two government agen
cies before the appropriations
committee of Congress tomor
row, with their public rela
tions men, asking for money
on the ground we've got to
get there first," Rickover
said.
And what he can't under
stand, Rickover added, is that
Congress would give them the
money.
Well, it's just like the ad
miral said, explained Rep.
George P. Miller (D-Calif.).
We wanttto be the first ones
to burn. " ' '
"Education," replied the
admiral, sternly, "is a lot
more important . than being
the first one in hell."
The committee then had to
adjourn. It never did take a
stand, either on going to hell
ourselves, or .making sure our
schools don't.
McElroy Postpones
Retirement Plans
Washington (UPD Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy,
whose Pentagon team has
been weakened by death and
illness, has decided to post
pone his return to private
business until early next year.
Informed sources said to
day McElroy is about ready to
announce he now expects to
stay on the job at least until
the 1961 defense budget has
been completed.
He has so advised key Re
publicans in the Eisenhower
administration and Congress.
McElroy had been expected
to return to his Cincinnati
soap company post this fall.
But the sudden death of Dep
uty Secretary Donald A.
Quarles and illness of Gen.
Nathan F. Twining, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
caused him to reconsider. .
Martians Disappoint
'Flying Saucer' Group
East Grinstead, England -(UPD-
"Flying Saucer Contact
Week" failed to get off the
ground Monday when 30 per
sons waited in a forest hoping
to see some Martians and none
appeared.
President
ward the conservative right
He passionately supported
nationalization of the Argen
tine oil industry and then
overrode his countrymen's sus
picions of foreign investments
to negotiate a billion dollars
worth of development . con
tracts with foreigners.
Overcame Suspicions
He overcame U.S. suspicions
of his regime, originally back
ed by Peronistas and Commu
nists, and obtained a phe
nomenal loan of 329 million
dollars from the U.S. to fight
inflation.
Among the nations of the
world he is held in the high
est regard, yet at home he
often must feel he is fighting
his nation's battles almost sin
gle handed.
Once regarded as a political
softie" who could not possi
bly last out the constitutional
six years of his regime, he
has shown himself steel-willed
in dealing with boiling oppo
sition to the austerity cam-
r . ....
paign Dy wnich he hopes to
restore Argentina to its nature-given
prosperity.
But the task before him
continues to be of vast pro
portions.
In the last 12 months, the
cost of living in Argentina
has risen 115 per cent. Gaso
line prices have trebeled. Pow
er tariffs have doubled. Credit
is tight and available only
at ruinous interest rates which
sometimes go up to 25 per
cent.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
CRUMBLING INFLUENCE
Washington Our principal
ally, Britain, is negotiating in
j the foreign
minisrers con
ference at Ge
neva under
the cruel pres
sure of stead
ily increasing
dangers to vi
tar British in
terests in the
TVTifJHlo East
William S. -,. . .
White It- IS not
merely the Berlin crisis which
Britain must face, along with
the rest of the West. Beyond
the Mediterranean, Iraq
which both the United States
and the British have so long
sought to keep in the pro-
West camp-has now seeming
ly gone all the way into inter
national communism. Moscow
has turned the Middle Eastern
screw at a brutally apt mom-
ment.
Responsible informants in
Washington therefore assume,
as they must, that British pol
icy at Geneva over Germany
is bound to be softened by
British concern as to what the
Russians might further do in
the Middle East.
A CHIEF Western negotia
tor at Geneva is thus be
ing distracted and weakened
by , fears as to what might
happen a long way from Ber
lin. The long story of declin
ing British power in what
used to be a great sphere of
British influence, the Valley
of the Nile, is developing a
sad new chapter.
At this present Big Four
conference, America will not
be similarly bedevilled and
enfeebled by perils elsewhere
to American interests." But
there is a rising possibility
that one day, in some other
Big Four meeting over Eu
rope, we, too, will have to
fight with one hand while the
other hand gropes for solu
tions of problems far away.
For United States influence
in the vast 21-nation area of
Pan America is . crumbling
away, all but unnoticed, in
our preoccupation with the
Old World. This vast Pan
American expense is our tra
ditional sphere of influence,
as the Middle East used to be
to the British. And it is the
source of much of our real I
economic strength, though i
few realize it and most of
these few forget it.
VfEITHER the Eisenhower j
A1 Administration nor Con
gress is paying great heed to
this slow erosion in the West
ern Hemisphere. But a . few
quiet men are pressing con
stantly for facing up to the
realities in Latin America be
fore it is too late for us, as it
is too late for the British in
the Middle East. .
One of these men is Sena
tor George Smathers of Flori
da, whose awareness of Latin
America is sharpened by his
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In Seeking
Despite outside help, Fron
dizi has been able so far to
halt the inflation spiral.
Each month the . govern
ment-' pumps from five to
seven billion . pesos of new
printed money into circula
tion. It is printing press money
only, and the pesos mean
while has slipped from ap
proximately 30 to the U.S.
dollar to about 85 to the dol
lar or to about one-third of
its former value.
The cost of the paper upon
which Argentine newspapers
are printed has nearly qua
drupled in the lost month.
In the year that Frondizi
has been in office, his govern
ment" has skipped from one
crisis to another.
A few days ago, he sur
vived two more.
Strike Fails
A 24-hour general strike
called by Peronist and Com
munist labor unions proved
a total failure in the face of
a government warning of
"very harsh repression" in the
event of disorders. Life in
Buenos Aires continued prac
tically normal.
At the same time, Frondizi
was battling an upheaval with
in his own cabinet. Four
cabinet members quit.
But through it all Frondizi
has remained firm.
There would be new faces
in his cabinet, he said, but not
new ideas.
A bright spot in an other
wise gloomy picture has been
S. WHITE
political location. Smathers
for years has been telling the
Administration and Congress
that things are not good for
us south of the border. He
knows, because he goes there
periodically to. make fresh
checks and because he has
thoroughly reliable private
sources of intelligence.
Communism is an icreasing
force. Anti-Americanism (U.S
style) is growing, partly be
cause of our own faults. But
most of all, economic prob
lems aside, the danger in Lat
in America comes from the
absence of restrained mili
tary power..
Smathers has highly reli
able information, for example.
that the recent, invasion- of
Panama from ' Cuba would
have succeeded had it in
volved as many as 250
repeat 250 well-armed men
They may seem a comic
opera thing, but it is far from
that.
A REVOLUTIONARY over
turn in Panama would in
tolerably threaten us if it en
dangered the Panama Canal,
as almost certainly it would.
In such an event, we should
be compelled to intervene
with with troops and then
the cry of "Yankee imperial
ism" would resound from the
Rio Grande to the bottom tip
of South America.
What is the answer? It is
to supply what is now absent
a real and collective mili
tary power in Latin America
which the Latin Americans
themselves would respect, and
not suspect. Smathers and
others, therefore, are working
for the establishment of an
all-American international po
lice force, made up of volun
teers from all the 21 Pan
American nations.
Such a force might one day
avoid in the New World the
chaos now gripping the an
cient Middle East. And it
might avert the clear possibil
ity of an ultimate loss of prac
tical United States influence
right here in the Western
Hemisphere.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP 3-7343
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
Stability
the oil industry. Each month,
oil output has been exceeding
the estimates.
But Frondizi's reward so
far has been only to lose evert
the loyalty of his own party,
and for stability he must count
on the loyalty of the military.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Kisenhower an
nounced the other day that
he will ask congress to com
mit funds to build what may
become the world's most pow
erful atom smasher. He sug
gested 100 million dollars as
the sum to be committed by
the congress.
If and when built, It will
be located and operated on
the Stanford campus at Palo
Alto (Stanford scientists are
proposing its construction). It
will be two miles long.
It will take about six years
to complete it.
WHAT will it do?
The answer is frightfully
technical. The scientists who
are proposing its construction
say the huge new atom smash
er should boost electrons to a
speed just short of the speed
of light (the speed of light in
a vacuum is 186,284 miles per
second) which scientists be
lieve cannot be exceeded.
These speeding electrons
are expected to release new
particles and anti-particles as
their energy bombards the
nuclei of atoms. All this, of
course, is over our heads-a
startling new idea clothed in
language we do not under
stand. This is the heart of the
proposal:
This bombardment of the
nuclei of atoms will provide
facts leading to further un
derstanding of the NATURE
OF MATTER AND THE
FORCES WHICH HOLD IT
TOGETHER.
PUT it this way:
You pick up a piece of
matter-say a chunk of iron.
What's it made of? It's made
of a lot of small pieces called
atoms. For purposes of illus
tration, these atoms can be
compared to the bricks that
go together to make a house.
The big question:
WHAT HOLDS THEM TO
GETHER? Tins DON'T know-any more
" than we know WHY the
chunk of iron in your hand,
if dropped, will fall down "to
the earth instead of going up
to the sky, or floating in
space. We have a name for
the force that causes the
chunk of iron to fall. We call
it the force of gravity. But we
don't know (yet) what it is,
or how to control it. ?
It's the same with the force
that holds matter together.
We know there is such a force,
but we don't know how to
control it. This huge atom
smasher is designed to help us
to LEARN how to control it.
This we do know:
Unlocking the secret of the
force that holds matter to
gether will lead us to limit
less energy-which is another
word for power. With limit
less power at our command,
there will be practically
nothing we can't do. We can
level mountains. We can di
vert rivers. We can tap the
mineral resources that are
contained in sea water-taking
the minerals out for our
use and leaving the FRESH
WATER for our further use.
And so on.
HOW to get the $100 mil
lion? If we went at it in
telligently and determinedly?
it would be SO EASY to save
100 million UTTERLY WAST
ED dollars. The federal gov
ernment of the U. S. probably
wastes 100 million dollars ev
ery hour or so-not to mention
the wastage in our state gov
ernments. THINK A-BOAT
THIS!
You may not own a boat but
what happens if an accident
occures when your children are
using a borrowed boat? Personal
liability will cover part of it.
We'll gladly explain how to pro
tect yourself on the rest.
Bill Fish