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Monday, June 8, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Juna 8, 1949 (Wednesday)
Planting of trees on Med
ford street rights of way is
forbidden by legislation pass
ed by the city council.
Jackson county landlords
ask the Medford city council
to request rent decontrol.
20 YEARS AGO
June 8, 1939 (Thursday)
Mrs. Lora M. Pernoll is
namedrApplegate postmaster,
succeeding her late husband.
From Arthur Perry's "Yt
Smudge Pot" column: "Cher
ries are ripening faster than
the birds can eat them up,
as the farmers claim. It be
gins to look as if there would
be enough for all, and then
some."
80 YEARS AGO
June 8, 1929 (Saturday)
A cannon is to boom to
night as Sixth st.'s next light
ing system is turned on. .
Reports show the U.S. pear
" crop to be short this year.
.
40 YEARtf AGO
June 8. 1919 (Sunday)
The arrival of six Army
planes thrills Medford, the
entire populace turning out
for the spectacle.
B Aches in Medf ord' city
park are given a new coat of
paint.
50 YEARS AGO .. :
June 8, 1909 (Tuesday)
Ladies of th? Greater Med
ford club undertake develop
ment of a new park on the
vacant sauare west of - the
present city park pnf which
the old water tower now
stands. . -
Medford High school sen
iors refuse to attend com
mencement and ask a teach
er's resignation.
What's Your I.Q
1
S a
Nina er ten correct is superior
seven or eight it excellent; five et
six is good.
1. Who ate "curds and
whey"?
2. In what agricultural
commodity did colonial Vir
ginia pay thfe salaries of pub
lic officials and clergymen?
3. With what sport is the
Walker Cup associated?
4. Correct the following:
"Has either you or your sister
eaten?" .V
5. What Is the principal ore
from which aluminum is ob
tained? o
6. What is- the price per
plate which Democrats pay at
the annual Jefferson-Jackson
dinner in Washington?
7. Which is the Hoosier
state? '
8. Which elected President
of the U.S. held that office
for the shortest length of
time? ....
9. Who invented the pen
dulum? . ; ; : . .
What organ of the human
body consists of a four-chambered,
conical flattened, mus
cular bag, located in the cav
ity of the thorax?
Answers: 1. . Little Miss
Muffei. 2. Tobacco. 3. Golf.
4. "Have either you. . .' . 5.
Bauxite. 8. .$100-per plate.
7 Indiana. 8. William Henry
Harrison. 9. G a 1 i 1 e o. 10.
Heart ,
Their Own Worst Enemies
Alabama segregationists have forced, the re
moval of "The Rabbits' Wedding," a harmless
little fantasy written for pre-school youngsters,
from open library shelves in Montgomery. The
book is, they claim, propaganda for integrationsts.
The reason?
Because the book shows that the romance is
between a white rabbit and horrors a bjack
rabbit.
p ARTH WILLIAMS, the author and illustrator.
of the little book, says he made the rabbits
different colors for pictorial reasons.
Williams said the book Vas written for chil
dren from two to five who will understand it
perfectly. It was not written for adults who will
not understand it because it is only about a soft,
furry love and has no hidden messages of hate,"
CTUP1D complaints of this nature do more to
, hurt the segregationist cause than all the high
sounding phrases which can be put together by
all the writers and speakers on the subject.
(This is as bad as the complaints of the super
super - anti - Communists that "Robin Hood"
should be removed from library shelves because
it was Communistic in that Robin took from the
rich and gave to the poor.)
These people are their own worst enemies.
Bend Bulletin. ,
Good Reappointment
Gov. Mark Hatfield is to be commended for
reappointing H. G. Maison to another four-year
term as superintendent of state police. In express
ing: nis confidence in
servant, the governor is
ne will not be swayed by the pique of some legis
lators who aDnarentlv want a Dolice chief who
grants special favors to politicians.
In the recent legislative session the superin
tendent took the kind of a beating no public of
ficial should have to put up with a beating from
those who themselves had had their fingers
pinched in the machinery of the law; But reap
pointing him in the face of opposition, Governor
Hatfield shows that he understands that cops,
especially boss cops, aren't hired to be every
body's friend. Eugene Register-Guard.
No Forest Merger
At least for another year the Bureau of Land
Management will administer the O&C lands. An
executive order to make the change as of July
1st next should have been entered before this
time, and it wasn't The Budget Bureau which
was studying the question and poised to recom
mend the order of transfer has kept its silence,
but the objectors to. the change seem to have
prevailed, ior the Budget office has stayed its
hand. ' ' - ' ' '
The Bend Bulletin thinks it makes no sense
to have two agencies administering federal
forest lands some of which are intermingled. It
comments that most people prefer to have the
Forest Service "win" in this duel and asserts:
"On the whole, although it has not been perfect,
Forest Service direction of timber and range resources
has been far superior to that of the Bureau of Land
Management."
X7E deplore such invidious comparison. As to
. . UAfv AAACftXJ.CIrgV'AAXWAJ.W Y C Ci i.M. 1 XXi
tion to comment, but have an idea that part of
BLM's failure to accelerate range improvement
is due m part to the laws under which it mt
operate.
As far as forest management goes, the prob
lems of each agency are somewhat different.
Most of the national forest lands are in a big bulk,
while the O&C lands arefii checkerboard pattern,
intermingled chiefly with private lands. O&C
management has been
its own problems, chief of which have been re
ciprocal rights to use of access roads, sales in
smaller operations, sales on a cruise rather than
scale basis made more practical because of the
scattered ownership and sales, and speeding up
reioresiauon 01 lis cuiover lanos.
IT IS not necessary to claim one is better than
the other we have great respect for each
agency. Each has worked out its own solutions
for its special problems.
Finally there is something to be said in favor
of a division so there is not a monopoly, agency
in tne torrn of a federal bureau managing the
most of the remaining stands of timber. :That is
one reason why logging and lumbering interests
prefer to keep the division. Oregon Statesman,
baiem.
Tycoons
The New York Stock
I ing securities to June brides and is supplying its
member firms with sales kits to promote such
giving. The aim of course
holding base, but the
truistically, that it wants to rescue young brides
from a mass of pickle f orks." Well, the program
doesn't seem likely to create any June tycoons
. ' n -v 1 m o m
alter an, now many snares 01 a. i. 01 1. can you
buy for the price of a picxle fork.'
Incidentally, if the trend keeps up, the tradi
tional month of marriage will see more brides
marching to the altar this year than last June's
184,000. Marriages were more frequent in the
first three months of 1959 than last year, and with
good times returning, the trend should continue.
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
New Mouse Trap
To the Editor: What do you
think of our new mouse trap?
We used to chase mices around
the kitchen with a broom.
Now, we don't have to. Send
your mices to Cape Cana
veral, let the Army put them
in a satellite and shoot them
to the moon.
Everett Acklin,
P.O. Box 233,
Ashland
Poll Watchers
To the Editor: . Let's have
some poll watchers at the next
school district election. It was
evident at the Phoenix-Talent
consolidation election that
since there was no political
party involved, there was no
authorization needed to vali
date the presence of the poll
watcher.
So pull your chairs, up to
the election board table,
folks, let's all be self-styled
poU watchers and share,
under the protection of the
sheriffs office.
Pauline Baker
1526 Camp Baker rd.
Medford.
You Be The Judge
To the Editor: We people
who have worked for and sup
ported the Phoenix-Talent
Consolidation, in the sincere
belief that it was the best
way of perpetuating an in
dependent school system in
pur areas, concede the recent
election to the wishes of the
majority of our people.
We feel that many people
have made us a promise in
statements, verbal, signed
and by way of T.V., that we
can ' stand alone" or "stay as
we are." Such statements in
clude all of the district from
Barnett rd. to Wagner Creek.
Can we hope that all of
these people will continue to
exert every effort to attain
this end?
There are several matters
that need consideration. You
be- the judge as to whether
these things are coincidence,
or a deliberate plan to deceive
the voters of,- the Phoenix
school district.
1. Many people who earlier
favored a Medford consolida
tion, voiced the opinion that
we could stay alone. Yes, this
is legally possible, but in
formed sources emphasize
that it would be very im
probable for more than 2 or
3 years. During that time our
boundaries could be petition
ed into other districts and a
great deal of our more'valu-
able property transferred,
then financial difficulties
would force us to join with
Medford. '
2. Before and during the
election, some who were in
sisting that "we could "stay
alone" were circulating a peti
tion to the reorganization com'
mittee to take part of the
Phoenix district into Medford
This petition was presented to
the committee just one week
after the consolidation vote.
3. Was it a coincidence that
on the evening before elec
tion day, a man by the name
of 'Mr. James' was seen on
T.V. urging us to "Think it
over, and stay alone"? Many
voters did not realize that
this was not our Superinten
dent James. Also did Mr,
Prentice and Mrs. 'Nye make
definite statements that 'we
could "stay alone" or were
those statements merely at
tributed to them?
To some these might seem
like acts of better citizens,
but others are wondering, is
it possible that this is politi
cal deceit?
You be the judge.
Mrs. Oscar Gysin
Route 3, Box 198,
Medford, Ore.
Mrs. J. Lester Harris
Route 3, Box 192B,
MediordVOre.
Menace
Misg Webster Praised
To the Editor: The news of
Miss Webster's leaving occas
ions me to consider some of
the achievements of her ad
ministration as librarian of
the Jackson County Library.
One of her outstanding ef
forts was in the area of weed
ing, discarding and generally
revamping a collection that
had r become outdated and
cluttered. This task alone was
herculean. With her knowl
edge and experience she de
veloped an attractive, useful
collection of ijooks on a mo
dest budget.
SeveraT innovations such
as the charging machines, the
McNaughton rental plan and
the increased use of profes
sional binding of worthy ma
terial, have appreciably add
ed to the efficiency of the
library.
The hiring and use of part-
time and full-time profession
al librarians and the analysis
of clerical jobs has also in
creased the library's effec
tiveness. The introduction of
standard library purchasing
methods in buying supplies,
equipment and books is an
other example of her organi
zational ability.
The results, of Miss Web
ster's foresight and profes
sional excellence are a more
coordinated, better balanced,
efficient and useful library
Miss, Webster is an excel
lent librarian and has done
the people of Jackson county
a real service. We wish her
the best of luck for the fu
ture. Mrs. Harry Fuller,
909 Stevens st.,
Medford.
From Cancer Unit
To the Editor: On behalf of
the American Cancer Society,
wish to thank you for the
space and time allotted to the
American Cancer Society dur
ing the recent crusade.
You gave us an opportunity
to reach thousands of people,
making the campaign a suc
cess educationally as well as
financially. Your cooperation
is deeply appreciated.
Robert H. Buck, M. v.
President
Jackson County Unit
American Cancer So
ciety.
Vandal Mars
Masterpieces
San Francisco (DPD Eight
paintings with an estimated
total value of more than
25n noO were marred by a
vandal at the M. H. de Young
museum Friday.
Police speculated tne van
rial was mentally deranged
Only the faces of the subjects
in tha naintinss were marxea.
Ian McAlpine, secretary of
the museum's board of trus
tees, said no price could be
placed on the paintings. How
ever, an art expert estimated
the eight were valued at more
than $250,000.
Included among the dam
aged paintings was one of the
best known works of the
Flemish master. Peter Paul
Rubens. It depicted a religious
scene of Christ and Mary
Magdelene. A long scar was
rlrawn across the face of
Christ.
McAlpine said the vandal
apparently used a blunt in
strument, possibly a key, to
deface the paintings, ne saia
the canvases were not slashed
and all could be restored.
Londan (DPD American en
tertainer Liberace today sued
the mass - circulation Daily
Mirror and columnist Bill
Connor for calling him, among
other things, "the biggest sen
timental vomit of all time."
Foreign Assignment
French Parliament's
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's as
signment book:
Shot in the economic armi
The Chilean government is
putting the finishing touches
on a plan which it hopes will
help to revitalize Chile's stag
nant economy. The plan, here-
tofore unpublished, involves
construction of 45,000 n e w
homes each year. Banks will I
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
SOLEMN ROLE
Washington - The Senate,
in its great debate on whether
to confirm President Eisen
hower's nomi
nee tion of
Lewis L.
Strauss to be
Secretary of
Commerce, is
sitting in the
most solemn
of all its roles
as a high tri
bunal of this
republic.
It is putting
a man's public career on trial.
It is a career reaching across
more than 40 years of service
in nearly every national Ad
ministration beginning with
that of Woodrow Wilson.
When the vote is cast, it will
determine whether this
career is now to end in re
pudiation and in wreckage.
This is no light task. The
verdict, if unfavorable, will
not take away Lewis Strauss'
life or liberty. But it will be
cloud the reputation of an
American citizen in his 65th
year.
The blocs that are forming
are mainly partisan blocs,
with the Democrats general
ly against confirmation and
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is about AIR news.
It has nothing to do with
rocket ships. Or missiles. Or
getting to the moon. It was
made by a 56-year-old grand
father who climbed into a
single - engine glorified pud
dle-jumper in Casablanca, in
northern A f r i c a, and 58V4
hours and 6850 miles later set
it down in Los Angejes.
He climbed out of the cock
pit and phdned his family in
San Francisco, much as you
and I would phone back after
arrival by automobile at a
destination 100 miles or so
away from home.
rphe only unusual thing
X about his trip is that he
broke a world record.
He h a d his problems, of
course - just as you or I might
have had a puncture. His
greatest problem, he said,
arose out of the fact that the
Arabs in Casablanca flavored
his tea with mint. As a re
sult, it turned rancid on nun
and he got terribly thirsty -
and a little sickish because he
tried to quench his thirst with
the rancid tea.
Does that forecast a time
when you and I will climb
into our" nuddle-jumpers and
take off for the other side of
the world for a week ena
outing?
I'm afraid not.
There are TOO MANY of
us. If we all took off at once,
we'd clog the airways - as
we clog the highways. H one
has a fender-bashing incident
up in the air, one has so far
to fall.
The air COULD get just as
congested as the highways,
From Washington: -A
four-nation committee
representing the Organization
of American States (OAS in
alphabetese) began an investi
gation to determine whether
the armed conflict in Nicar
agua threatens the peace of
the Western Hemisphere.
Hmmmmmm.
What VISIONS that opens
up.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if
whenever trouble brews ANY
WHERE IN THE WORLD
a committee composed of in
telligent and enlightened peo
ple representing intelligent
and enlightened nations could
get together and SETTLE the
trouble in an enlightened and
intelligent manner?
That COULD happen, too, if,
there were enough intelli
gent and enlightened people
in the world - and if NO NA
TION EVER ITCHED FOR
TOO MUCH POWER.
The itch for power lies at
the root of most of our trou
bles. Hollywood -flJPD- Comedian
Jerry Lewis has signed a
seven-year contract with Para
mount Pictures for a "mini
mum sum in excess of $10
million," it was announced to
day. ,-. .... .
; Hi
y
William S.
Whita
be asked to provide loans for
the project. Chile's construc
tion industry has been semi
paralyzed for the last four
years.
On Chile's political front,
observers see the possibility of
a split between Socialists and
Communists now joined in a
"popular front." The Social
ists oppose the Moscow-organ-
ized peace conferences and
voted to prohibit members in
Congress from attending any
S. WHITE
the Republicans very general
ly for it. But the real division
is between those who deeply
value tradition and those who
can take tradition or leave it
alone.
THE TRADITION itself is
absolutely clear: His
torically, the Senate will not
refuse to ratify a Cabinet ap
pointment without overpower
ing reason. Heretofore, the
appointee has not been turn
ed back unless shown to be
unfit beyond all reasonable
doubt. Only seven times in a
century and three-quarters, in
deed, has the Senate said "No"
to a presidential choice for
such an office.
So. the scene here on the
Senate floor is very-grave-
though the drama is for the
most part dry and under
played. The Old Guard Re
publicans - Strauss himself is
one, and this is at the heart
of his trouble now - are mov
ing with stolidly hidden pas
sion to his defense. Beyond
their leader in this matter,
the bear-like Senator Andrew
Schoeppel of Kansas, they
are making ready to go with
Strauss "clear across the
bridge," meaning to the end,
The modern-liberal Repub
licans do not greatly like
Strauss or his ideas. They are
standing with him mainly in
defense of the President's
right to have a Cabinet of his
own choosing.
a
rnHE Democrats are more
A nearly divided on the in
side than they appear on the
outside. It is they, generally.
who like Strauss least of all.
For to them, of all men, his
policies and ideas are the
most unpleasing. But many of
them know, too, that to dis
like a man s viewpoint is no
justification for convicting
that man in a lofty court such
as this.
Strauss' public personality
has been endlessly described-
a right-wing Republican,
very rich big-business type
and so on. But what of Strauss
simply as a human person?
Here he is, warts and all.
as seen by one correspondent
who has rarely agreed witn
him but believes justice ought
to be done in any trial:
This is a spare, fit, tanned
man of quick, nervous move
ments - sometime! harshly
impatient movements. His
gray, semi-bald head darts
about angrily when he is an
noyed. And this is not infre
quently; he is not a patient
roan, and in this long contest
he has not hidden his disdain
for some of his Senate prose
cutors. HE IS an able and even bril
liant man, and so he has
plenty of confidence in Lewis
L. Strauss. It comes hard to
him to put on a humble face
or to return the soft answer.
He does not seek sympathy;
all during this business his
large, restless brown eyes
have had no surrender in
them.
Still, he is also a man of
sentiment, and even of sen
timentality. For he is not
fighting here only for Strauss;
he is also fighting for his ulti
mate hero, Herbert Hoover,
who himself held the Com
merce post long ago and looks
upon "Lewis" as his natural
successor. To Strauss, Mr.
Hoover is still "my chief."
Strauss, in a word, is a
hard man to defend because
he so personifies an era that
is even harder to defend -the
lost, profundly unpopular era
of Herbert Hoover. He is one
of the last, and surely one of
the most faithful, of the
Hoover Republicans.
All the same, Strauss' trial
is not the only one going on
in this small, almost intimate
chamber of vast power. The
Senate, too, is on trial. Is it
big enough to be fair, even to
the wrong-headed, even .to a
past that not many, surely,
would want to see return?
. (Copyright, 1959, by United
Features Syndicate,' Inc.)
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Book: Chilean Plan;'
Resentment; Tunnel
of them. Infuriated Commun
ists now threaten to sabotage
Socialist hopes for creation of
Latin American common
market.
Broken to harness:
The French Parliament is
chafing under the rules of the
5th Republic's new constitu
tion and for more than a
month has been waging a bit
ter behind-the-scenes battle to
win greater powers. De
Gaulle - appointed Premier
Michael Lebre ruled flatly
against assembly demands for
permission to vote on govern
ment policies, arguing that
such votes merely would re
establish past "harassments"
of the cabinet by political
groups. Resulting bitterness
may be long in fading away.
Many groups complain the
new regime wants the as
sembly to be a figurehead
body only.
Transmission belt:
The 100-year-old dream of
tunnel under the English
Channel linking Britain and
France is the closest to reality
it ever has been. With money
from the old Suez Canal Com
pany now being pumped into
the project, there are fore
casts the tunnel may be ready
in another six years. Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle of
France has taken an active
interest in the idea and to
have British leaders. From an
Acheson's
Published Fiction
Gets Mixed Press
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington (DPD Dean G.
Acheson, the well-known law
yer, rhetorician, and former
secretary of
state, is in
print with his
first piece of
fiction. What
every body
wants to
know, he com
plains, is who
wrote it for
him.
Frank Eleazer Weil, n e
wrote it himself, while rest
ing of an evening from his
labors before the Supreme
Court and other lofty tribun
als. It runs about 1,650 words
and you can read it under the
title, "The Great Fish of
Como," in the current Harp
ers magazine.
For those In a hurry, there
was this fisherman, and he
hooked a big one, but lost it.
And I gather that anybody
who tries to make more than
that out of this piece is wast
ing his time.
Critics Differ
"It's just a light little story,
based on an incident which I
happened to witness," Ache
son said. "There is no deep
hidden meaning."
Mary McGrory, who pond
ers such literary efforts for
the Washington Star, in Sun
day's paper announced it a
charming story, and express
ed a desire- to see more of
the same. Tom Donnelly, lit
erary critic, for the Washing
ton Daily News, advised that
Acheson said more indeed are
in prospect, commented, "I
think I can wait."
This is not the first time
Acheson's public endeavors
have prompted certain dif
ferences of opinion. He was
Harry Truman's secretary of
state from 1949 on, and criti
cism leveled at the late John
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engineering standpoint, the
tunnel is practical. Those
most actively opposed are
Britons who fear the tunnel
would end Britain's tradition
al and historic aloofness from
the continent.
So far, all talk:
Asian observers expect ne
open military attempt by
Communist China to aid the
hard-pressed Communist Pat
het Lao forces in the tiny
Southeast Asia nation of Laos.
The Peiping regime is still
wincing from adverse reac
tion over most of Asia to its
suppression of the Tibetan
revolt. Red China will, how
ever, continue its propaganda
campaign, accusing the Uni
ted States of setting up a
"base of aggression" in. Laos.
Simon pure: 1 -
A battle royal already has
started between two groups
over source of funds to fi
nance the 1964 Olympic
games in Tokyo. One group,
wants to accept donations
from professional Japanese
sports, the other group is op
posed to it. It was pointed
out that Japan's large delega
tion to the Melbourne games
in 1956 was financed partly
by $225,000 received from
professional cycling, sumo
and horse racing associations.
After the smoke clears, the
same arrangement is expect
ed again.
First
Foster Dulles prior to his fa
tal Illness was mild compared
to some of the comments
made about Acheson in hi
day.
Enjoys Revival of Esteem
He currently is enjoying,
however, along with Truman,
John L. Lewis and possibly
others, a great revival of pub
lic esteem. People lately have
been so nice to Acheson, in
fact, I suspect he's beginning
to worry. But his health so
far seems to be good.
, Still, he's 66, and claims
he's no longer up to the kind
of fishing - for trout - that
he used to like. That's prob
ably why he has turned to
story telling in print, in this
case about the wait-and-see
kind of fishing he never did
care for.
- "I've always done a little
of this sort of writing, for
relaxation," Acheson said.
"Mostly it was just for the
amusement of my family and
friends."
Friend Of Editor
This one, though, he show
ed to his friend John Fischer,
editor of Harper's, and I sup
pose if you have in mind sell
ing pieces to Harper's there
are very few handier people
to know.
Anyway, to get back to the
story, Acheson's angler is
found standing on a jetty at
the edge of an Italian lake
noted more its gmshine and
somnolence than for its
catches. 1 He latches onto
what could fee an old auto
tire but proves to be a fish
of 'some several pounds. Nat
urally, landing a fish Is some
thing he isn't prepared for.
He, finally attempts this feat
with an upended umbrella.
This fails to work, leaving
both Acheson and me, I
thought, without very much
of a kicker..
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