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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of Th
Mail Tribuna 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 21. 1949 (Saturday)
The Ashland city council
hears discussions of the smoke
and soot problem there.
The Southern Oregon col
lege production of Tennessee
"Williams' "Glass Menagerie"
draws general acclaim.
20 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1939 (Sunday)
Interest grows in the Girl
Scouts' day camps in the new
Medford park on Bear creek
south of town.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Min
ing experts report there is
not enough gold around
J'ville. This is a very common
fault."
30 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1929 (Tuesday)
L. A. Banks, California
fruitman, prints an ad in the
papers declaring "smudging
is waste of money."
Rogue River cannery is to
start as soon as cherries are
ready for canning.
40 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1919 (Wednesday)
Summer water regulations
are put in force by the city
council.
Local Methodists partici
pate in a nationwide drive by
the church to raise $105,
000. 50 YEARS AGO
May 21. 1909 (Friday)
John R. Allen, of Wall st.,
becomes new owner of the
P. and E. railroad.
A local attorney rebutts L.
M. McMahan, the Salem law
yer who has declared the
Crater Lake road appropria
tion illegal.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct ia superier;
seven or eight is excellent; five Of
six is good.
l.'The late F.D.R. was a
philatelist; what is a philate
list?
" 2. What river in the United
States is known as "Father of
Waters"?
3. .What great painter was
also an inventor and an ex
pert anatomist?
4. In World War II, which
American General was nick
named "Old Blood and Guts"?
5. Which State is nicknam
ed "Sunshine State"?
6. A fork is to a plate as a
spoon is to a platter, knife.
tray, or cup?
7. What is the length of a
"hand" in measuring horses?
8. What is the unit of
weight for diamonds?
9. What is the name for a
triangle having two equal
sides?
10. What is the capital of
Wyoming?
.Answers: 1. Stamp collect
or. 2. Mississippi. 3. Leonardo
da Vinci. 4. Gen. George S.
Patton Jr. 5. New Mexico.
6. Cup. 7. Four inches. 8.
Carah. 9. Isosceles. 10.
Cheyenne.
23
5 Deathless Years in
t Hermosa Beach Traffic
Hermosa Beach, Calif.-flJPfl-Hermosa
Beach, a Los Angeles
county city of 16,000 persons,
this week celebrated its fifth
anniversary or no iramc ia-talities.
Hail Research
It is possible that the
are dome: now what should have been done some
years ago, namely, finding out more about hail
before embarking on a
But, back in the days
assured that hail suppression worked, there was
no way of knowing this.
comes easy.
At any rate, the research program now being
undertaken is a fascinating project, which holds
great promise. It is of much more than local im
portance, too, for hail is one of the major threats
to crops of all kinds in many parts of the country.
DUT HAIL, oddly enough, is one meteorological
phenomenon about which little is known.
We know what it is frozen rain.
But how it is formed, in what manner, exactly
where and under what conditions, and a number
of other questions, remain unanswered, or an
swered only in part.
If the answers are found, then a hail suppres
sion program stands a far greater chance of suc
cess. It is a logical approach, and one for which the
orchardists (who have taken a beating in other
areas) are to be commended.
f)NE ASPECT of the research which we expect
to find interesting will be the statistical com
parison of hail incidence before, during and after
the now-abandoned hail suppression program.
Perhaps it will not be conclusive. And there
was sufficient damage to the orchards last year,
during the program, to add weight to doubts about
its efficacy. . ,
Yet our own purely unscientific observations
would seem to indicate that hail was reduced by
the suppression program. 1
In any event, we wish the greatest possible
success to the fruit men, and their scientific col
leagues, in finding out more about hail, and how
to prevent it. E.A.
Eliminates the Swallows
If the average citizen were confronted with
the phrase that follows,
baffled:
"NE 14 of the NE
SW 14, Sect. 31, T37S,
A surveyor, however,
culty in reading it.
It is simply a sort of
of a hypothetical piece of
up, then checked on the map to see where it is.
It is located approximately on Highway 238 just
west of Jacksonville.)
THIS system ot land description grew up within
idians and base lines. (There is a Meridian road
in the Antelope valley;
Base Line road.)
A meridian is a north
trarily on a map. A base line is the same, on an
east-west basis. These serve as points of depart
ure for more detailed measurements.
Measurements from
ranges, each six miles wide; those from a. base
line in townships, each six miles deep. Thus T37S,
R2W, simply means the 37th township south from
the baseline (or 222 miles), and two ranges (12
miles) west of the meridian.
I7ACH township contains 36 sections, each one
mile square. They are numbered, in east-west
rows, starting at the northeast corner, with alter
nate rows of sections numbered west to east. Sec
tion 31 (in the example above) is thus the extreme
southwestern section in the township.
bections, m turn, are
and quarters of quarters, and so on. So the ex
ample describes what is probably an imaginary
piece of property l-256th of a square mile.
(Note to surveyors: If
blame our ninth grade mathematics teacher).
THE system works pretty well, and enables one
" to locate a piece of property on a properly
marked map rapidly, so long as the "shorthand"
is understood, as it is
ioresiers, miners, ana real estate salesmen.
It's better, anyway, than some earlier systems.
Ila Grant, Bend Bulletin columnist, gives a hypo
thetical example, as follows:
"Located in the middle of Effie Hokum's dowry
grant, beginning 60 revolutions of a wagon wheel north
of the old spruce tree on the hill, thence west for as
long as it takes to smoke three Mexican cigarets,
thence south to the coyote carcass on the rock pile,
thence east to the willow tree where the swallow nests,
thence north along the old path to the still, to the point
of beginning."
This sort of thing has its drawbacks, as is ob
vious. The newer' way, while it leaves something
to be desired, is better, for, as Ila says, "you don't
have to allow for differences in wagon wheel cir
cumference, the time it takes to smoke a cigaret,
or the whims of nesting swallows." E.A.
I00F Installs
Banks Man Master
Roseburg-(nPD-Vernon Hahn
of Banks Wednesday night
was installed as grand master
of the Grand Lodge of Ore
gon of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.
He was elected at the 103rd
annual session of the grand
lodge here.
Mrs. Arno Vose, Portland,
was installed as president of
the Rebekah Assembly of Oregon.
orchardists of the valley
hail suppression program.
when they were being
Hindsight, as they say,
'he probably would be
14 of the SE 14 of the
R2W."
would have little diffi
"shorthand descnption
property. (We made it
near Portland there is a
- south line marked arbi
a meridian are done in
subdivided into quarters,
there s an error m this,
by surveyors, engineers,
Oregon Wagon Train
At Lewellen, Neb.
Lewellen, Neb. (UPD The
On to Oregon Centennial Ca
valcade camped at the Lloyd
Graves farm about six miles
east of here after traveling 22
miles Wednesday in chilly
weather.
Today the seven wagons
headed for Oshkosh, Neb.
Tuesday night in the com
munity of Ogallala, the 59ers
celebrated with a "30 days on
the trail" banquet.
Dennis the
THAt OME OF MY OlD CRATES. 1 COULD
FLY TM4TOHB 'FORB I COUUHYAIK
Matter of Fact
THE RUSSIAN TACTICS
Geneva' - With the Soviet
and Western plans at last on
the table, the Geneva confer
ence has en
tered what
may be called
the minuet
stage. The
strange con
ven t i o n s of
such rallies
require the
participants to
perform a sort
-I - 1
4os-pn Also? "A
dance, miming negotiation,
before they really come to
grips and seek results.
This seems a good moment,
therefore, to take a sharp look
at the peculiar . Russian tac
tics which have produced this
meeting and are being used
here. Soviet diplomatic meth
ods badly need to be better
understood, precisely because
they are so foreign to Western
methods.
"Never forget that one of
the main Russian techniques
of negotiation is to create an
artificial state of tension, in
order to be able to seem to
give way later on, when they
are really only diminishing
the tension they themselves
have created."
THIS FIRST rule, laid down
long ago by one of the wis
est observers of the Soviet
Union, has been faithfully fol
lowed in the present case.
The status of Berlin had
remained unchanged since
1949, when Khrushchev last
November suddenly an
nounced that this situation, al
ready endured for close to a
decade, was absolutely unen
durable and intolerable. As
the Khrushchev announce
ment was larded with the
most naked military menaces,
a state of extreme tension -im
mediately resulted.
Remembering these men
aces, a great many Western
ers, including even some
skilled Western diplomats,
are inclined to regard the
smiles that Andrei Gromyko
is now painfully distributing
as solid and substantial con
cessions. The smiles will not
secure the maximum Soviet
objective, Western abandon
ment of Free Berlin. But even
though Berlin's freedom is not
to be sacrificed, the Soviets
will get certain changes in
Germany which will import
antly benefit their East Ger
man puppets. And they will
also get a summit meeting.
IT IS a very nice trick indeed,
to get so much for so little,
by the simple device of bel
lowing menaces and then put
ting on a false grin. It will
also be a , nice trick of the
Soviets to smooth the road to
the summit by making the
concessions needed for an ac
cord in principle on control
of nuclear tests. They have al
ways been more eager for
such an accord, most Western
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
THE CRUSTY EDITOR of a famous newspaper has these
cardinal "House Rules" conspicuously posted at strategic
points for the edification of his staff:
1. Opinions- change.
Therefore entertain none of
your own. "
2. Belief is for the idle
rich. When I ask you,
KNOW.
3. Act happy. The world
will learn to love you some
day. 4. Report facts. Fiction
pays less than crime.
5. To err is human, to for
give divine. Don't count
on it.
6. I rarely do favors.
When I fire you, thank me.
There's a junior up at Smith college whose face is very red these
days. "Remember that backless, low cut little dress I knocked 'em
dead with at the Yale prom?" she prodded her roommate.
"How could I forget it?" grinned the roommate.
Confessed the junior, "I just discovered it's a belt!"
" 1959. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate,
Menace
Bv Joseph AIsop
ers will happily conclude that
"the Kremlin is at last in the
mood for serious negotia
tions." Great patience, the habit of
bazaar bargaining, and totali
tarian control of their coun
tries, are all required by na
tional leaders desiring to use
these methods of getting
something for nothing. The
Czars of the past used these
methods, just as much as the
present masters of the Krem
lin. But another Soviet meth
od that has been used in the
Berlin crisis is decidedly more
modern.
Even two years ago, when
Nikita Khrushchev accurately
warned this reporter that
"even our glum Comrade
Gromyko could be taught to
smile on occasion," he also
said something else of much
greater import. He forecast
that the other. Western allies
would cease 'to be "cpmfort
able" about the American
bases on their territories,
when they began to realize
that those bases made them
"natural targets" for Soviet
H-bombs.
rpHAT realization has been
industriously promoted by
Khrushchev, ever since the
Berlin crisis began. The naked
military menaces of the earl
ier period have now-been suc
ceeded by thoughtful little
lectures crammed with useful
facts apd figures. On the eve
of this conference, West Ger
man Socialist editors visiting
Moscow were told by Khrush
chev, for instance, that "only
eight H-bombs" would utterly
destroy West Germany. There
was a reprise of the same
theme in Khrushchev's Kiev
speech, and more reprises
are to be expected later on.
It should be clearly under
stood, moreover, that this
Soviet H-bomb rattling is al
ready having some of the de
sired effects on the Western
alliance. The British, for in
stance, are already frankly
"uncomfortable" because they
regard the British Isles as
"natural targets." This dis
comfort has' enormously influ
enced British policy from the
beginning of the Berlin crisis.
No one can predict how far
such influences may carry
later on, if the American gov
ernment continues to neglect
the world balance of military
power.
"
THERE, in truth, is the cen
tral fact of the Berlin cri
sis. This fact is already too
easy to ignore. It will no doubt
be blandly forgotten if we
turn the Berlin corner with
out being frightened out of
our wits. But it is still a fact
that there would have been no
Berlin crisis, if the Eisen
hower administration had
made the needed efforts to
maintain the Western nuclear
lead. And it is also a fact
that worse crises have to be
expected later on, if the mili-
Stop Me
5-21
. f . , .t'Oe
Venezuela Moves Away From Reds,
Bui- They Still Pose Threat to Nation
n DWTT nTwcnM ln . I . - .. . . ,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Communist callers at Vene
zuela's presiden tial place
are'nt welcome any more.
A year ago
the Reds ap
peared to be
V e n e zuela's
only disci
plined politi
cal force. In
April, 1958,
only the quick
action of Se
c r e t Service
phii Newsom men saved
Vice President and Mrs. Rich
ard Nixon from death or ser
ious injury at the hands of
Communist-incited mobs.
It was the ugly climax to
what had been intended to be
a good will visit.
It was the success of this
incident, embarrassing both to
the United States and Vene
zuela, that led many observers
to predict a Communist Party
take-over of Venezuela, thus
gaining a long-sought Red foot
hold in Latin America plus
control of the world's largest
petroleum exporter.
Those pessimistic predic
tions now are being revised.
Picture of Serenity
The main reasons center
around the actions of Presi
dent Romulo Betancourt, who
won office last December after
Venezuela's first free elections
in 12 years.
Betancourt is a leftist Red
hater. He is a short, stocky man ot
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
Washington " There is a
Washington disease which
might be called Pentagonitis.
1 The symptoms
I are these: a
p rogressively
i swelling of the
W whole body
J (and of the
spending
budget.) A
curious thick
ening of the
tongue which
soon results in
the abandonment of the Eng
lish language in favor of a
loud, brisk, multisyllabic dia
lect. This dialect only the true
natives of Pentagonia, plus
those whose own culture has
long ago been overrun by the
Pentagonians, can manage.
When, in . this odd patois,
they wish to say, for example,
that they are going to do some
thing or end something they
bark the word or rather the
sound - "finalize."
And as English is rejected
as the ordinary form of com
munication, other no less
fundamental changes also
occur. Pentagonitis will re
quire, say, the space of seven
rooms for doing, the hard
way, what could be done
quicker in the space of one
room.
PENTAGONITIS means the
introduction of vast num
bers of "labor saving" devices.
These devices to reduce per
sonnel will always wind up
proving that this is indeed a
healthy growing country. For
they will require more peo
ple to operate the cutting
down plans than the number
of people who are in fact thus
to be cut down.
It would be extreme4to say
that the machine, the push
button, the automatic gadget,
is the god of Pentangonia.
But it certainly would be cor
rect to say that this is Penta
gonia's unique gift to the art
of government.
Pentagonia, of course, is
the great principality whose
tary balance is allowed to de
teriorate further.
The plain truth is that their
form of society give the Sov
iets certain important negoti
ating advantages, such as the
freedom to use military men
aces almost at will. If the
Western- nations must also
come to the negotiating table
without real confidence in
their own strength, then the
Western cause will be doomed
in the end.
(Copyright 1959. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Congregafionalists
Elect Moderator
Portland -(UPD- Dr. Perry D.
Avery, Corvallis, was elected
moderator of the Congrega
tional Conference of Oregon
here Wednesday. He is pastor
of the Federated Presbyterian
Congregational church.
Dr. Avery succeeds Mrs. F.
L. Van Doozer, Portland.
Others elected included Rol
and Calkins, Parkrose, assist
ant moderator; Dr. Wesley
Nicholson, pastor of the First
Congregational Church, Eu
g e n e, conference preacher,
and The Rev. W. J. McGetti
gan, Cedar Hills, secretary.
William s.
White
50 who wears thick horn-rim
med glasses and puffs con
tinually at a pipe. He is the
picture of serenity and sta
bility. But he has spent 20 of
his 30 years in public life
either in exile or in the under
ground. His history has been one of
a long series of fights against
Venezuelan dictatorships. His
political philosophy favoring
government programs aeainst
unemployment, illiteracy, bad
sanitation, insufficient public
housing and backward agri
cultural practices now is gen
erally accepted by almost all
Western nations.
Forced To Flee
This is not Betancourt's
first time as Venezuelan presi
dent. An army-backed coup
first put him into office in
1945. Anciner army-backed
coup forced him to flee the
country. He had pushed his re
forms too hard. Eventually, he
settled in a small hotel in New
York.
"Betancourt returned to
Venezuela a year ago after the
overthrow of the Marcos Perez
Jiminez dictatorship to resume
control of the Democratic Ac
tion Party he had founded
years ago.
Meanwhile, a new govern
mental junta under Rear Adm.
Wolfgang Larra'zabel had
cleared the way for new elec
tions. In another climax to his up-and-down
career, Betancourt
won. Larrazabel, a 1 1 h o u gh
S. WHITE
capital is the Pentagon - the
home, across the Potomac, in
Virginia, of our military htgh
commands. In terms of years
Pentagonia is a Jbhnny-come-lately
in Washington. But in
its relatively short existence
Pentagonitis has moved across
the river like a slow, massive
tidal wave.
Other government depart
ments have been infected, one
by one, with Pentagonitis. (In
deed, one can even observe
some of its effects on what
used to be the completely de
tached island of the White
House itself.)
The last of the bureaucratic
strongholds to maintain all-out
resistance was the State De
partment. For a time "State,"
perhaps immunized by its own
peculiar brand of local bureau
cratic fevers, threw off the in
fection of creeping gadgetry,
the principle of subtraction
by multiplication, which
typifies Pentagonia.
BUT "STATE" has long since
fallen, too. To what used
to be its "new" building in
Foggy Bottom - a building
quite like the parent building
6f Pentagonia across the river
-now is being added another
of precisely the same kind. It
is a duplicate of a duplicate,
except that-this second one
seems, if anything, even big
ger, and glossier, and colder
than the first.
Then, after "State" had sue-'
cumbed, the very ultimate
fortress of . non-Pentagonia
was Congress. And the heart
of this fortress was the United
States Senate. For a long time,
the Senate persisted in main
taining quarters small enough
to be traversed in less than a
single day. For a long time, it
had a telephone system that
was the very model of old
fashioned simplicity. You
simply picked up the phone,
asked for Senator Jone's of
fice, and got it straightaway.
For a long time, you could go
right up to a small postoffice
in the Senate wing of the
Capitol and buy a stamp from
a live hand.
But now, what with a new
office building of staggering
bulk, automatic elevators,
artifical light and all the rest,
the Senate itself looks like
Pentagonia. Progress in com
munication has come, too.
Now, there are not one but
three telephone dial systems
Gadgetry has come tri
umphantly to the Senate, too.
And now to buy a stamp you
must put a coin into a ma
chine and then dial - yes, dial
-a number or a series of num
bers. Thus, this is the sad end of
the tale: the final victory has
been finalized for Pentagonia
and its system for more and
more efficiency that is less
and less efficient.
(Copyright. 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Communist-supported in the
elections, nonetheless saw to
it that Betancourt took office
over the opposition of Communist-incited
street gangs.
In his inaugural address,
Beatancourt gave warning to
his Communist opponents.
Communists Promintnt
He said Communists would
not be included in his govern
ment because "Communist in
terests are not in the best in
terests of Venezuela."
While the Communists no
longer call freely at the presi
dential palace, their power
still cannnot be estimated.
They still have two out of
51 senators in Congress and
seven out of 135 deputies. The
two Communist senators are
among the most frequent of
congressional speakers.
Communists are prominent
in journalistic groups, and a
Communist is a vice president
of the Caracas University Stu
dent Federation. Reds also are
prominent in the school's
journalism school and in the
science faculty. '
Informed opinion ,is the
Communications
Letten to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although "ader cer
. tain circumstances tne use ot a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Venugovishin'
To the Editor: The Republl
cans are starting to think like
Democrats, if you call that
think! n The Republicans
thought of a tax, the Demo
crats missed. No matter how
good the Democrats were,
they couldn t think of every'
thing. No matter, how. good
the Republicans are, they
can't miss everything, but
they tried. The Democrats
quit thinkin' in 1952 and the
Republicans started in 1959.
When they started thinkin',
they thought of taxes, what
else is there! The Republicans
thought of a tax on hotel
rooms. If you are bothered
with taxes,, this tax should
make you sleep, like sleepin'
in a blanket of spun glass
full of cracker crumbs.
I went busted on the. tem
porary, emergency, inflation
ary, and non-inflationary tax
es passed by the New Deal in
1932 and we still have. - I'm
20 years behind on my tem
porary taxes and I ain't start
ed on my emergency taxes.
It's a good thing the house
ain't burnin up. A non-infla
tionary . tax, I ain't never
seen.
I ain't worried about hotel
taxes, if I had a hotel I'd lost
it with taxes. I'm sleepin
under a picnic table on some
vobbestones, waitin' for a sal
mon to come up the river and
knock his brains out on the
fishladder. Without brains, I
should catch a salmon.
In Limoges, France, I slept
under the kitchen sink on
some cobblestones. Cobble
stones is the same thing as
vobblestones,' only they don't
vobble. Do I think everyone
should sleep on cobblestones,
under the kitchen sink? No!
I believe everyone should
think for himself, but if you
don't vant to look like a vaf
fleiron in the morning, you
should vant to sleep in a big
pile uv pine needles, VENU
GOVISHIN'. ' Everett Acklin,
Box 233,
Ashland.
A fnm
WANK MCOAN . HAJtOlD
DAY OR MGrfT
Still "are cfmn. m .
move
"6. Aiicy
cautiouslv torlav h.,..
they
-.bc
Still ar nn x
- or a
head-on collision.
In the Day's Hews
Br FRANK JENKINS
Let'S tallr 1 .
- -.x TOunj aooui art
- imig SUDjeci.
The subject I'm referring to
: lias interested
mankind as long as history
has been written.
WHY TALK about it now?
Well cnmotV,.' . .
pening.
The IT s T.. ,
STOCK IS snrmlriita A
day of last week, the Treas
ury had about 2014 billion
dollars worth of the yellow
on nana. That is about
u miuion dollars worth
LESS than it had only six
weeks ago. In one day, May
12. the TI. S
, - . tcv lca mil
lion dollars worth of gold
abroad.
In all of 1958. two Kill inn
300 million .dollars worth of
gota movea out of the United
States to other countries. r lat
is a record movement for one
year.
AS OF NOW. th monty
xx situation is safe enough.
According to law, the Treas
ury must have enough gold
to cover at least 25 per cent
of the money supply. Last
year, -there was enough on
hand to cover 47 per cent. As
of NOW, there is only enough
to coverW2 per cent.
But
The trend is DOWNWARD.
If this down-trend continues,
something will hav to be
done about it.
"TUHY THE down-trend?
" The experts put it this
Way: .International trade ac
counts for the shift of gold.
The United States has been
IMPORTING large amounts
of goods and services (forties
automobiles are the most in-
teresting item.) At the same
time, there has been big
drop in our EXPORTS of
goods and services.
The drop is continuing.
IlfHY THIS situation?
It's perfectly simple.
American goods and serv
ices are getting COSTLIER.
They are getting costlier be
cause our costs of production
are rising. As our costs get
higher and higher, foreigners
are enabled to undersell us.
They are able to undersell us
here in our own domestic
markets (no'te the rising vol
ume of foreign automobile
sales) and they are also able
to undersell us in world mar
kets. Hence the drop in our ex
ports. WHY ARE our prices rising?
Inflation lies at the root
of it. There are two major
causes of inflation:
1. Government deficits.
2. The wage-price spiral.
This fact stares us in the
face: If government goes on
spending more than it takes
in and borrowing the differ
ence and if the wage-price
spiral goes on spiraling, the
time will come when we will
price ourselves out of the
markets - both at home and
abroad.
That would be bad.
It would mean that FAR
FEWER JOBS will be avail
able in America.
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