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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 22. 1349 (Sunday)
The state sanitary authority
has approved final plans and
specifications - for Central
Point's sewage disposal sys
tem. Medford youngsters flood
the editor with letters urging
approval of the bond issue
for completion of Medford's
municipal swimming pool.
20 YEARS AGO
May 22, 1939 (Monday)
The county agent's office
announces peach thinning
demonstrations.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Straw
berries are now plentiful.
They no longer cost . more
than the tail of a Siberian
mink, and taste like one."
30 YEARS AGO
Mar 22, 1929 (Wednesday)
Medford airport bonds are
to be sold soon at par, the
city council reports.
Reports that Hill lines are
contemplating a line into the
Rogue River valley are de
nied. 40 YEARS AGO
May 22. 1919 (Thursday)
A shortage of workers in
the valley delays thinning of
pears.
The first cutting of alfalfa
In the Table Rock district is
to start next week.
50 YEARS AGO
May 22, 1909 (Saturday)
Gov. Benson names Dr. J.
M. Keene and J. E. Enyard as
Medford ' representatives on
the Crater Lake Road com
mission. Five juniors at Ashland
Normal school return from a
hike up Ashland butte with a
large brown bear they shot,
What's Yourl.Q.?
Nina or fen correct i superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
Six is good.
1. A dying man left the
youngest of five children
$4,800 and each other child
half again as much as the next
younger child; how much did
he leave?
2. What book is the best
telling volume of all times?
3. Was Jerome Kern a fa
mous actor, song composer,
circus performer, or novelist?
4. Moles have no eyes; true
or false?
5. The Federal law, enacted
48 years ago, designed to con
trol the "white slave" traffic
Is known as the Act?
6. A 21-gun salute is ac
corded the President of the
U.S.; how many guns are fired
for the vice President?
7. The age of a deer can be
determined accurately by the
number of points on the ant
lers; true or false?
8. Did the signing of the
draft of the U.S. Constitution
take place in Boston, New
York, or Philadelphia?
9. The part of a sentence
which makes an assertion
about the subject is called
what?
10. From whom did Jack
Dempsey win the world's
heavyweight title?
A n s w r : 1. $63,300. 2.
Bible. 3. Composer. 4. False.
5. Mann Ad. 6. 19 guns. 7.
False. 8. Philadelphia. 9.
predicate. 10. Jtsi Willaxd,
Billboard
The Oregon Motorist, publication of the state
affiliate of the American Automobile Associ
ation, reports that steps are being taken to put a
billboard regulation measure on the ballot in
1960, via initiative petition.
There's no question but that this can be done.
Some 42,0p0 signatures would be necessary, but
our guess is that these can easily be obtained.
We are convinced that a majority of Oregon
ians desire to be protected from unregulated bill
boards on their super-highways. As an example,
members of the Oregon State Motor association
who answered a poll on the matter, voted 88 per
cent in favor of such regulation.
IT MAY also be, as the Bend Bulletin pointed
out not long ago, that the billboard lobby
which was successful in killing a bill, regulating
billboards on Highways 99 and 30 at the recent
session of the legislature, may have done them
selves no favor.
That bill was a moderate one. But an initia
tive bill will be whatever its sponsors want it to
be, and chances are it will be a lot tougher than
the legislative measure.
Among the sponsors will be the OSMA, the
Oregon Roadside Council, the Oregon Garden
Clubs and others.
THE OREGON Motorist predicts that the'bill
will restrict outdoor advertising along the
interstate routes (90 and 30), except for road
side businesses offering services to travelers,
which woujd be allowed to advertise under cer
tain conditions and not more than 12 miles away.
If such a measure is passed, it may qualify
the state to receive the one-half of lper cent
additional in federal funds for interstate high
way construction. But presumably much of that
income has already been lost, due to the failure
of the legislature to act. E.A.
1
Another Long Ballot
The ballot in November, 1960, will be a good
sized one.
In addition to whatever initiative measures
which mav be Dut on it bv Detition. it will also
have 14 measures which
of the people by the legislature.
Much will be heard of several of them dur
ing" the next 17Vo months, and a considerable
hassle can be expected over two or three of them.
ROBABLY the most controversial, or at least
of greatest interest to the. greatest number of
voters, will be proposal
ngnt saving, lime aunng tne summer months.
We foresee long discussions of the fact that
cows can't read clocks, that it's nice to have an
extra hour of daylight in the evening, etc., etc.
As stated previously, we only hope that the
Almighty isn't dragged into the argument. After
all, He didn't invent clocks.
THERE WILL be plenty of talk, too, about the
pupuaaj w icuoe me pay uj. legislators lium
$600 to $2,100 per year. The outcome of this
vote may be affected by the outcome of a legal
test of a measure passed by the legislature to
raise its own pay, based on the theory that the
$600 is a "minimum," rather than a flat amount.
Another one which will draw attention is the
proposal to authorize issuance of $40,000,000 in
state bonds to construct buildings for state
institutions, including institutions of higher edu
cation. Still another is a plan to increase the
bonding limit for veterans home and farm loans
from $155,000,000 to $216,000,000.
A third related proposal would increase the
bonding authority for self -liquidating buildings
on Oregon campuses from $29,000,000 to
$54,000,000. .
QNE MEASURE which may meet some opposi
tion is the one to allow the legislature 'to
revise the constitution, prior to a vote of the
people, rather than calling a constitutional con
vention to do it.
Another .would permit district attorneys to
bring criminal charges on the basis of informa
tion, thus by-passing a grand jury. While this
has eminent legal support, we cannot justify it
in light of the U.- S, Constitutional provision
which says, "No person shall be held to answer
for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless
on a presentment or indictment of a grand
jury "
QTHERS, which may or may not generate con
troversy, are these:
To permit counties to issue bonds for im
provements, if they have taken advantage of the
recent "home rule" amendment.
To permit the increased tax yield resulting
from urban renewal projects be used to pay off
bonds issued to pay for the projects.
To make legislators' terms begin at the
start of a new legislative session.
To permit the legislature by law to .require
officials to resign when elected to another office.
(This one is aimed at Governor Hatfield, who
kept office as secretary of state until sworn in
as governor. We're agin' it.)
To permit the legislature' to provide for
local and state government continuance in case
of attack. , . ...
To require judges to retire at age 75.
To permit voters, otherwise qualified, to
vote for President, even though' they lave less
than six months residence in the state. .
It looks like another interesting election next
year. E.A.
Initiative
were ref erred to a vote
to return Oregon to Day-
Dennis the
OFF MY FACE FOR A OtfG
Collusive
Discredit
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -(UPD- "Man suf
fers stroke," it says here, "af
ter lynching quiz."
"FBI under fire," it says on
T another page,
1 1 -
on cnarjje ui
tough tac
tics." The forego-
1 ing is a head-
1 in e style
summation of
reports from
Poplarville,
Miss., on the
Lyle C. Wilson eiiorts 01 xne
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion to snare the lynchers of
a Negro named Mack Charles
Parker.
Mighty near everyone
wishes Director J. Edgar
Hoover and the FBI well in
their effort to put the law on
the Mississippi lynchings. It
was a chilling crime, regard
less of Parker's guilt about
which law enforcement offi
cials have no doubt; Neither
did the FBI doubt its own
ability to net the nine white
men who murdered Parker.
The reasoning of lawmen
that they would take the
lynchers into custody went
like this: There were nine of
them and the community- is
small. Among nine conspira
tors in such an event, one, at
least, is bound to talk. The
talk wiU get around and in
time it will get around enough
so that the lynchers will be
come known by name.
Collusion Among Residents
That seems to be what is
taking place now in and
around Poplarville. This is ac
companied, however, by what
seems to be a collusive effort
among some of the Mississip
pians on the scene to discred
it the FBI. If the FBI could
be sufficiently discredited it
might be that the lynchers
would get off unharmed, even
if their names became known.
The implications, of the
news reports out of Poplar
ville are that the FBI is doing
a rubber-hose r bare-knuckle
job bn the suspects. No one
says that, precisely, but the
shadow of doubt and suspicion
is put upon FBI methods by
such reports as that one which
said a Mississippiari involved
had suffered a cerebral hem
orrhage after questioning by
the FBI. "FBI agents took him,
from his home," the' story re
lated. ;
The agents were described
as putting the suspects under
day-and-night observation and
so thereby shattering their
health and mental processes.
Sensitive Psyche
The wife of another suspect
was reported . under medical
care, the soul-scorching treat
ment of her husband by the
Try and
S ksMP"B?S")sl
1 Affil
-By BENNETT CERF-
A 70-YEAR-OLD BANKER defiantly faced his board of
directors and announced he was going to marry an 18-year-old
telephone operator.
"But J.B.," protested the
vice-president, ."isn't she
just a wee bit on the young
side for you?"
"Ridiculous!" snorted the
banker. "Women of my own
age are bossy, extravagant,
and always dragging me off
somewhere."
"Young girls are the
same," persisted the vice
president. "Sure they are," agreed
the banker. "But who
cares?"
Two an pry young1 members
of the downbeat generation went to the desert to see the flight of an
experimental jet plane. In the course of same, the button was
pressed on a new ejection seat, and the co-pilot floated lazily to
earth by parachute.
"JeepersI" exclaimed one of the downbeaU, "dig that craiy toast
master!" . . '
C 195. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kin Features Syndicate, .
Menace
TIME
Rumors Attempt To
FBI on Lynch Case
alien federal agents having
rubbed off harmfully on her
psyche. Then, after wide
spread circulation of the re
port that one suspect had suf
fered a cerebral hemorrhage
after FBI questioning, the di
agnosing physician said well,
maybe the man didn't suffer
such an attack at all. The yarn
was on its way, however, and
the nation's FBI haters had
another scrap of scrambled
evidence to support their de
masd that the organization be
dismantled.
There is a smell of collusion
in the developments reported
from Poplarville a smell of
collusion among some of the
Editorial Comment
BENTON'S START IN
COUNTY PARKS
Benton has joined the grow
ing list of counties which is
getting into the park business.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times
expresses some impatience
that, although Benton has had
a park board for a year, with
a budget of $5,000, the county
has no parks and has seen
very little action.
The G-T recognizes that
very little can be done with
$5,000, but it pins its hopes
on the public spirit of some
of Benton's citizens who will
be willing to donate land for
park purposes, if the park
board will only get out and
ask.
This .is a. situation which
does not exist in Multnomah
county, where the board of
commissioners is paying sub
stantial prices for small acre
ages which will be developed
adjacent to schools for year
around park use. We might
point out to the G-T that Mult
nomah, although it has been
at this for several years, has
yet to open a single park for
public use. We concur with
the commissioners, however,
that the important thing now
is acquisition before land
prices zoom out of sight. The
county was much later getting
into the park field than it
should have been. It is trying
to make up for lost time,
.though at what seems to the
outsider an extremely slow
pace. It has actually purchased
eight sites, and is negotiating
for half a dozen others. The
planning commission is pre
paring reports on 11 more.
It has taken no action on
larger area-type parks but has
this in mind, several potential
ly good areas have been dis
cussed. Be it noted that Benton at
least has a park board. Mult
nomah has none. Park matters
are scattered among several
departments. All maintenance
now. required is in the hands
Stop Me
EastGerman Foreign Minister Makes Good
Supporter for Russians at Geneva Parley
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Ednor
The man-of-the-week: East
German Foreign Minister
Lothar-Bolz.
The place, Geneva:
The quote: "Our delegation
is unable even to discuss pro
posals whicn
constitute in
terference in
the internal
affairs of the
East German
D e m o c r atic
Republic, and
infringe its
s o v e r eignty
and territorial
Phil Newsom integrity.
Fifty-five-year-old Lot h-a r
Bolz, lover of good food and
fine wines, has learned his
lesson well as a satellite to
Moscow leadership.
He heads the East German
delegation to the Geneva for
eign ministers conference, and
he ably takes the cues thrown
to him by Soviet Foreign Min-
townspeople to discredit the
FBI quickly before the agents
can bring to justice the lynch
ers of Parker. The newsmen
on the scene are quoting the
various local spokesmen ac
curately, no doubt. Perhaps
to keep the record straight
the reporters should probe
deeper and demand to know
whether FBI agents actually
have abused their authority
and responsibility to investi
gate. Events will prove the
FBI clean of brutal tactics.
Hoover and. the FBI have
been very reluctant to answer
these accusations which, in
fact,' are mere insinuations -a
nasty kind of double talk.
of the cemetery department,
There is no intention to be
little the latter, which, inci
dentally, has done a good job
in cleaning up some old, for
merly neglected cemeteries.
But the time is coming when
Multnomah must have a park
department.
Let Benton profit by Mult
nomah's experience and not
wait until park lands are hard
to come by. The G-T is quite
right when it says, "The long
er we wait the. more valuable
the property will become and
the more difficult to obtain,
-Oregon Journal, Portland.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Speaking the other day at
Brownsville, Texas, to the
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast
district convention of the
Longshoremen's Ass ociation
(Harry Bridges), James Hoffa,
boss man of the Teamsters,
threatens a nationwide strike
of all transportation labor if
the congress "harnesses un
ions" with antitrust laws.
He told his audience that
organized labor's answer to
such legislation should be to
have all its collective bargain
ing contracts expire on the
same date and then STRIKE.
He added:
"We can call a PRIMARY
strike all across the nation
that will straighten out the
employers once and for all."
WELL
It could "straighten out"
our COUNTRY once and for
all, too.
With the economy of our
nation completely tied up by
a strike such as Hoffa sug
gests, the Russians could hit
up with everything they have
and that would be that.
THAT
I think
Is TOO MUCH POWER TO
BE HELD IN ONE PAIR OF
POWER-HUNGRY HANDS.
IN CONCLUSION ,
I think it should be added
here that no one suspects the
INDIVIDUAL teamsters of the
rank and file of seeking to
amass power enough to shut
down the whole United States.
Individually, they are our
neighbors and friends. Indi
vidually, they are good citi
zens of this and every other
community. Individually, they
are the thoughtful and cour
teous pilots of the huge trucks
who signal to us when it is
safe to pass and who when
ever possible pull over to one
side to let a string of us in
faster automobiles get by
their slower vehicles and be
on our way.
They are the people to
whom we like to show a
counter-courtesy by stopping
at a left-turn to enable them
to get around a corner with
out bringing their huge trucks
to a complete stop and wasting
maybe gallons of fuel in get
ting them under way again.
Individually, they are fine
people.
ister Andrei Gromyko.
Soviets Pull Strings -
East and West Germany are
represented at the Geneva
conference by observers, Rus
sia having failed in its propa
ganda, attempt to obtain;,a seat
at the conference table for
East Germany as an equal
member of the conference.
But even though there as
an observer only, CJromyko
gave Bolz the honor of being
the first formally to reject
the Western peace package
for Germany.
The East Germans walk and
talk like men, but no one
knows better than they that
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Carnation Sale
To the Editor: The members
of Colonel Sargent Auxiliary,
United Spanish War Veter
ans, wish to thank the staff
of the Medford Mail Tribune
for the publicity given the
Auxiliary's recent Carnation
Sale;
We also wish 'to thank the
Coast-to-Coast Store and Cou
ey's Appliance Store who gra
ciously permitted us to have
our headquarters in their
stores.
We are especially grateful
for the cooperation and many
kindnesses of Mayor John Sni
der, City Manager Robert
Duff and the Medford city po
lice department, and above
all, we are most grateful for
the great generosity and
cheerfulness of the citizens of
Jackson county. I
Hazel; Anderson,
Publicity Chairman
He Has the Answer
To the Editor: As a parent,
I'm often appalled by articles,
editorials, and news stories
about youthful violence, crime
and other juvenile delinquen
cy. My reactions, like most
people, are, "What is this
younger generation coming
to?" and "Why don't more
parents take an active inter
est in their children's activi
ties?" .
I have recently had the op
portunity to have these ques
tions answered. -
Having just completed serv
ing as chairman of the 1959
Boy Scout Circus, "Scouten-
nial," I knpw that the young
er generation as a whole is
coming into a finer state of
manhood and citizenship.
When you watch some 3,000
boys from our' area standing
together pledging allegiance
to our flag or kneeling in rev
erence, you suddenly realize
that the bulk of our youth are
growing and developing in
the right direction. Only a
very small per cent are ju
venile delinquents.
As you see an hour and a
half show, involving 3,000
boys, unfold before you with
out rehearsai-you know for
sure that there are interested
parents and leaders who are
contributing to the growth
and development of our youth.
Don t get me wrong. All
these Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts
and Explorers may not be lit
tle angels with halos. They all
like fun, action and adven
ture. The adult western
doesn't exist with a wilder
bunch of Indians than the
Cub Scouts in the second act
of the show. '
Having thus served as chair
man, I realize more than most
the countless hours of work
that thousands of interested
parents and Boy Scout leaders
invested in this single project.
This could be multiplied by
other equally important
events, such as summer camp
ing, Camporees, training of
leaders, etc.
Sure we have juvenile de
linquency. But I say it's time
we gave a vote of confidence
and thanks to the millions of
dedicated youth leaden and
interested parents who sup
port, encourage, and lead such
fine programs for our youth
like the Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca. I think these people need
our support, cooperation and
recognition as they carry for
ward their work to give our
youth citizenship training,
character building, and physi
cal fitness. I'm certainly
thankful that I had this op
portunity and experience of
working with the many fine
leaders and parents in the re
cent Scoutennial.
Billy D. Blackstone, D.M.D.
801 East Main st.
Medford.
CHRISTIAN A CANNIBAL?
New York -(UPD The New
York Daily News put this
headline today on its Geneva
summit meeting story: "Her
ter Roasts Gromy, Has Him
for Dinner."
IN THIS particular situation,
they are pawns in a game
of power TOO MUCH POW
ER IN TOO FEW HANDS for
the public good.
the Soviets pull the strings
and supply the words.
So, at the Geneva confer
ence, Bolz's words had spe
cial irony.
He compounded the irony
with this further quote:
"If the East German Demo
cratic Republic is not recog
nized by one power or an
other, it shares that with its
ally, the 680 million popula
tion of the Chinese People's
Republic."
But Bolz did help to make
one thing clear. Even more
than a settlement in Berlin,
the Soviets want international
recognition for the so-called
East German Republic, and
intend to see to it that there
shall forever be two Ger
manys, or, if only one, then
that a Communist one run
from Moscow.
Bolt It Typical
He also helped to emphasize
the futility 'of the present ne
gotiations in which agreement
can be reached only on Com
munist terms and on terms
which finally seal half of Eu
rope behind the Iron Curtain.
Bolz is typical of other satel
lite leaders and is evidence
of Communist long-range plot
ting against the West from
long before the. beginning of
Summit Seen Help
In Getting Bomb
Ban Talks On Way
By LORNA MORLEY
Washington-If the present
foreign ministers' conference
at Geneva leads on to the
summit, chances may be im
proved for finally bringing
an older Geneva parley to a
successful wind-up.
Representatives of the Unit
ed States,, Great Britain, and
Soviet Russia have been strug
gling in the Swiss city since
last October with the prob
lem of banning the testing
of nuclear weapons. Although
it took a conference of scien
tific experts only seven weeks
last summer to agree on the
outline of a system for en
forcing a test ban, the politi
cal conferees have been un
able to settle any of the key
issues in nearly seven months.
Nor have President Eisen
hower and Prime . Minister
Macmillan succed in breaking
the deadlock by correspond
ence with Premier Khrush
chev. But there are signs that
face-to-face discussion might
produce results.
Agreement Reached
Agreement has been reach
ed on a seven-member control
commission to oversee en
forcement of a test ban agree
ment. Each of the three nu
clear -powers - the United
States, Great Britain, and the
Soviet Union-would have a
man on the commission. Two
of the other four members
would be citizens of countries
designated by the Western
members of the nuclear club,
and two would be citizens of
countries designated by the
Soviet Union.
The chief stumbling blocks
now are how to staff the 180
monitoring stations to be set
up to detect forbidden nuclear
explosions, and how to deal
with Soviet demands for the
veto power.
Each control post would
be manned by 30 technicians.
Moscow says that all except
four or five of them should
be citizens of the country in
which the post is located. The
Western powers insist, on the
contrary, that few of them
should be citizens of that
country. They would put
American and British techni
cians in one-half of the jobs
at stations on Soviet terri
tory and fill the other half
with members of an interna
tionally recruited force; sim
ilarly, one-half of the per
sonnel at posts in American
and British territory would
be Russians.
Mobile Teams Opposed
The Soviets have been un
enthusiastic about proposals
to have mobile teams stand
by at control posts to make
immediate on-the-spot inspec
tions in case of suspected vio
lations. The West believes
World War II.
In West Germany, Bolz is
referred to as a Soviet citi
zen. Like other leaders in
satellite states, he had many
years of training in Moscow
for his present post. His wife
is Russian, and he speaks Rus
sian and German with equal
fluency. But when he uses the
words "liberty" or "freedom"
he does so in the Soviet sense.
Even his political enemies,
however, recognize him as a
talented lawyer. '
Defended Communists
It was as a lawyer that he
German regime in 1933,
through his defense of arrest
ed Communists. He fled then
to Russia, returning to Ger
many on the heels of the vic
torious Russian army in 1945.
He is a stout man of about
5 feet, 8 inches, bespectacled
and dark-haired. He was born
in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia,
Sept. 3, 1903.
In Moscow, Bolz taught, and '
among other jobs was a lec
turer at the Marx-Engels-Lenin
Institute. He has been
a member of the East German
government since its inception
in 1949, and so far has shown
little difficulty in following
the twists and turns of Com
munist policy.
such inspections necessary
when it is uncertain whether
what shows on a seismograph
is an earthquake or an under
ground nuclear explosion. To
have an inspection obstructed
by a veto would only magnify
suspicion.
Taking up a suggestion
originally advanced by Mac
millan, the Soviet Union pro-,
posed recently that a defiite,
but as yet . unspecified, num
ber of inspections be allowed
annually without veto on the
territory of each nuclear pow
er. Whether the Soviets would
agree to a large enough num
ber of veto-free inspections,
and whether inspection teams
would be free to go where
they chose, are still unanswer
ed questions.
The United States has
sought to avoid this Issue for
the time being, and get the
conference off dead center, by
adopting a step-by-step ap
proach to a complete ban on
nuclear testing. As the first
step, it proposed for now to
ban only nuclear explosions
under water and in the earth's
atmosphere up to 30 miles.
That would avoid the contro
versial question of on-the-spot
inspections, needed to verify
underground explosions, and
also the present difficulty of
detecting explosions in outer
space. However, Moscow so
far has not taken to the idea.
Advantages Seen
Letting underground tests
continue, for now at any
rate, would have advantages
for the Western powers. Al
though the expressed aim is
a ban on all weapons tests,
it is no secret that the mili
tary people have doubt about
the idea. Failure of persistent
efforts to attain a general dis
armament agreement has led
to increasing Western depend
ence on nuclear weapons
atomic and hydrogen bombs
and missile warheads as a de
terrent, and small nuclear
weapons for battlefield use
to offset superior Soviet troop
strength.
Testing of small nuclear
weapons can now be carrried
out adequately underground,
so that the main purpose of
continued testing improve
ment of such weapons-could
be met if an exemption were
allowed for explosions be- .
neath the surface of the earth.
Banning atomic explosions in
the e a r t h's matmosphere,
moreover, would virtually do
away with the threat of dam
age to the human race from
fall out of radioactive debris
from test firings. Explosions
in outer space are not believ
ed to offer serious fallout
risks, and there is no such
risk from underground explo-sions.-Editorial
Research Re
ports.
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