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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
4
)ind 50 years ago.
!J YEARS AGO
tfuu 15, 1949 (Wednesday)
Miss Irene Walker of Ap-
niffiyate is named aueen of
the eighth annual Rogue Riv
er Roundup.
Delegates gather at Ashland
. for the statewide Methodist
conference.
20 YEARS AGO "
June 15, 1939 (Thursday)
The Jackson county health
department states Bear creek
is not suitable for swimming.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
wearers of straw hats are in
creasing in the ranks of those
financially able to stay in the
hade."
80 YEARS AGO
Jun 15, 1929 (Saturday)
A legal battle looms over
whether a dance at Gold Hill
can remain open to 2 a.m.
Portland boosters arrive by
airplane.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 15. 1919 (Sunday)
An Army DeHaviland air
plane passes over Medford en
route south.
The county court starts
work on graveling the road
from Table Rock to TraiL
50 YEARS AGO
Jun 15. 1909 (Tuesday)
A new oil well on the local
desert is proposed, as efforts
to get rid of water in the
present well fail.
The Crater Lake road ap
propriation dispute goes to
court in Salem. ,
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ee
in is good.
1. In mythology, what
Greek youth fell in love with
. hfe- own reflection in the
water? ;
2. Cold water will freeze
. more quickly that hot water;
true or false?
3. Name ..the other place
hat you associate with: Alsace
ana .
Correct the following:
"H read it like you said."
$ The entrance to the har
bor of San Francisco is called
th what?
9. Who said: "You may fire
when you are ready. Grid-
ley"?
Who wrote "For Whom
the Bell Tolls"?
9. How many watts In a
kilowatt?
3. Which of the planets is
farthest from the sun?
10. What General won the
Battl of New Orleans in
1819?
&rwers: 1. Narcissus. 2.
True . Lorraine. 4. "He read
it as . . ." 5. Golden Gale. 6.
Commodore Dewey. (Manilla
Bay.) 7. Ernest Hemingway.
8. 1000 walls. 9. Pluto 10. Au
drey Jackson.
v
local Foresters Set
Friday Evening Meet
The Siskiyou chapter, So
ciety of American Foresters,
will hold a meeting at the
Jajson hotel Friday, June 19.
Sam Taylor of the Elk Lum
ber company will show col
ored slides and give a talk
on "Forest Practices in the
Southern Pine Region."
ft. social hour will be helot
at . 6:45 pan. with dinner
scheduled for 7:30 pan.
The Gold Balance
In 1958 other countries withdrew $2,275 mil
lion of their balances here in the form of gold.
Through May of this year they had drawn down
another $346 million. By the time we have set
aside the gold required for our new subscription
to the International Monetary Fund our gold
stocks may well have fallen below $20 billion for
the first time since 1940.
. Model, Roland & Stone, a New York Stock
Exchange firm, has just made public a study,
"The International Position of the U.S. Dollar'
which was prepared for it by one of our leading
authorities on the subject, Edward M. Bernstein,
until recently head of the research department
of the International Monetary Fund.
Mr. Bernstein shows
fall in exports in 1958
' i
ly&y was a reaction irom tne aonormai ana imper
manent rise of 1956 and 1957 as a consequence
of the Suez crisis. He goes on to show that talk
of a loss of our domestic markets and talk of a
flight from the dollar are equally wild shots in
the dark.
ASA matter of fact, while it has remained for
the outflow of gold to dramatize that fact,
we have been running
balance of payments since as far back as 1950,
Mr.' Bernstein emphasizes
any weakness in our trade position or of the dol
lar. Our commercial trade
able in every year since
we suffered our severest
positive balance m commercial accounts of $5.
billion, i
The answer is to be
shows, in two items namely, Umted States pn
vate foreign investments,
ernment expenditures and transfers abroad. Ihe
former has increased from $1,265 million in 1950
to an average of around $3 billion since 1956,
or by $1,735 millions, but the latter has expanded
from $4,742 million to $8,449 million, or by $3,707
million.
.
OOWEVER, to Mr. Bernstein the fact that our
unfavorable payments balance arises, para
doxically, from the strength of our position
doesn't mean that there is no problem.
"Policies that were bold and essential a dec
ade ago," he believes, "must be modified to con
form to the needs of a world that is now radically
different. The United States . . . cannot continue
to provide aid to countries merely to enable them
to acquire reserves of gold and United States dol
lars. With an international-payments policy that
recognizes the realities of the economic world
today there need be no fear of the capacty of the
United States to maintain its economic leadership
among the great trading nations." New York
Times. ,
Life Sentence for Hunt
The outlopk must seem very grim for Richard
Allen Hunt. '
At age 26 he is confined in the state peniten
tiary with a life sentence. Hunt is the chap who
shot and gravely wounded the police chief of
Brownsville and then escaped the net of police
and deputized civilians thrown out to apprehend
him. His time of freedom was short, however, for
he was arrested on a Wyoming stock ranch and
brought back to Albany where he plead guilty to
the crime of assault with intent to kill. Judge
Victor Oliver imposed the life sentence.
IT IS true that Hunt had a previous record of
criminality, and was known to be subject to
fits of rage; His success in eluding early capture
and his being listed as one oi tne nations lop
Ten wanted by the FBI gave his case wide publi
city. He's a bad man, no doubt, but still the life
sentence seems pretty heavy. For at age 26 one
ought to have some hope left, and a life-termer's
hope is slim. ,
There is some hope, however, for after eight
years he will be eligible
-w M
parole, judge- u liver evidently reasoned tnat
Hunt's previous career showed a set toward crim
inality, and that he should not be released unless
he showed positive signs of reformation.
MOW it is up to Hunt himself. He will have to
rebuild his character and demonstrate in the
coming years his rehabilitation. If he does this,
the parole board will deal with him intelligently,
tempering justice with mercy.
And Hunt has some good qualities, by the
testimony of his former employers. The life sen
tence is not final. By his-own performance he may
shorten his term. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Louisiana Urges
Cancer Research
Washington - (DPD - The
Louisiana state legislature, in
a concurrent resolution pre
sented ; to Congress by Rep.
Overton Brooks (D-La.), urged
congressional support of a
drive . to mcrease cancer re
search appropriations pro
posed by Sen. Richard Neu
berger (D-Ore.). ,
The resolution said the "leg
islature and the people of the
state of Louisiana are in ac
cord with the efforts of Sen.
Neuberger to increase the
amount of federal funds for
cancer research," according
to a report by Neuberger. .
The resolution urged Con
gress to "support the efforts
of Sen. Neuberger to increase
funds for cancer research."
that the much discussed
and the first quarter of
if 1 1 t
an over-all deficit m our
that this doesn't reflect
balance has been favor
1950, and in 1958, when
gold drain, we had a
found, Mr. Bernstein
and United States Gov
for consideration fori
1 11 1 il .
Castro Sharpening
Readiness of Army
Havana - (DPD- Premier Fi
del Castro's government is
tighening security and sharp
ening the combat readiness of
the army to 'meet the possi
bility of an armed attack or
uprising.
Authorities said the week
end arrest of 12 men who
served in the army under
ousted Dictator Fulgencio Ba
tista confirmed the existence
of an organized, armed cam
paign aimed at overthrowing f
the Castro government.
It brought to 71 the total
number of persons arrested in
the past week on charges of
plotting against the govern
ment. A quantity of arms, am
munition and explosives also
was seized.
Dennis the
:
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
MODERATION SEEN
Washington-The Eisenhow
er Administration and the
controlling minds in both
parties in Con
gres.s have
taken separate
but related de
cisions of pro
found import
ance on civil
rights. .They
expect and in
tend to go into
William S. ""' "
White p a i g n year
with only moderate additions
to the present civil rights
laws.
Specifically, the now-settled
purpose both in the Adminis
tration and among the con
trolling bipartisan power
groups in Congress is this:
not to seek now and maybe
not even later - further Fed
eral legal weapons to force
school integration directly on
the government's own initia
tive. The belief is that the pro
gressive retreat from "massive
resistance" in Virginia, the
intellectual and traditional
leader of he Old South, will
make any harsh legislation
both unnecessary and unwise.
HOWEVER, the reopen
ing of the schools in Sep
tember produces grave dis
orders anywhere in the South
all bets will be off. In such an
event the year 1960, full of
Presidential politicking as it
will be, will produce irresist
ible demands for "hard" ac
tion. These demands will rise
notably in Congress but also
in the civil rights planks of
the two party conventions.
(To be sure, such demands
will no doubt come anyhow
-from the extremist liberals
in both parties. But these ex
tremists wiU be about as ef
fective isolated next year as
now if the South happily is
able in the meantime to avoid
tragedies such as that of Little
Rock two years ago.)
President Eisenhower rou
tinely supports the compara
tively middle-road broaden
ing of the civil rights act that
has been asked of Congress
by his Attorney General, Wil
liam P. Rogers. This the Presi
dent does, however, without
passionate advocacy; actually
he remains convmced under
neath that persuasion and not
law is the answer to racial
discrimination.
MR. ROGERS, for his part,
has convinced a good
many skeptical observers that
he reaUy wants a solution of
this dilemma more than he
wants a strictly campaign is
sue for the GOP. All the same,
though, he is willing to wait
a while, he is at heart a much
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
THE MONTREALER reports a ticklish moment in the busy
life of one of the city's leading lights. He had taken his son
to lunch at a newly-opened oyster bar, and after they had
exited, asked the boy, "Well, '
how did you like your first
taste of oysters on the-half-shell?"
The boy admitted
they had looked so uninvit
ing to him he hadn't eaten
any. "But your plate was
empty when the waiter took
it away," the father pointed
out
"I didn't want to hurt
your feelings," explained
the boy, "so I slipped them
into my pocket when you
weren't looking. Pm trying
to find a place now to get
rid of them." Then a look
of horror came over his face.
"I must have put them in' the
tome!"
Silently, father and son quickened their pace and slipped
around a corner. .
You must have heard about the cowardly counterfeiter. He still
has the first dollar he ever made.
; 1359, by Bennett Crf. Piatnbutad by Xto Tmtma gyadicatfc
Menace
Owy if i eneAmev
S. WHITE
stronger believer in legal so
lutions than is ms chief, the
President.
This circumstance may have
great significance at next
year's GOP national conven
tion. Rogers is Vice President
Nixon's closest friend within
the Administration. It may be
put down now as certain that
he will have an unsurpassed
role in the forces that wiU
seek the Presidential nomina
tion for Mr. Nixon.
This role is very likely to
find Rogers speaking for the
Vice President in the GOP
Platform Committee, among
other places. The Attorney
General's present view - and
it should be emphasized that
he lays no claim to speaking
now for Nixon and has not
nominated himself to do so
at the convention - is this:
THE Republican plank, as
suming a largely un
troubled coming school year,
need not and should not pro
pose Federal force actions to
speed integration. If, however,
there is major school trouble,
that plank will beyond doubt
insist upon such force actions.
The corresponding Democratic
plank will surely do no less
In short, we are entering a
summer period of twilight and
pause on a severe national
problem. If reasonable and
moderate men can use this
breathing space in fruitful and
effective planning to control
the immoderates on both
sides, it is even conceivable
that the .1960 Presidential
campaign can be fought out
without hopelessly inflaming
tne issue.
The alternative is all too
clear an era of destructive
national bitterness and divis
ion in a time of rarely
matched world peril.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
- Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
French Unions End
Threat of Strike
Paris -flJPD- French labor
unions avoided a showdown
clash with President Charles
de Gaulle's government on his
wage-freezing austerity pro
gram today by calling off a
threatened general strike set
for Tuesday.
The unions agreed to with
draw the strike order follow
ing a last-minute conference
with Public Works Minister
Robert Buron.
Acting on behalf of the
government, which owns the
rail network, Buron proposed
to open a new round of wage
talks with the union.
All major unions, Catholic,
Socialist and Communist,
agreed to the truce offer and
issued a stay on the job order.
Stop Me
"They aren't here," he groaned.
pocket of the man sitting next
Foreign Assignment:
Icelandic 'War'; Fighting in Indonesia
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
assignment book:
Power play:
Gen. Charles de Gaulle has
gone beyond his original de-
mands that
France, the
United States
and Britain
have final say
in aU NATO
military deci
sions. Should
he be success
ful in his la-
Phil Newsom test demands,
he alone would have the final
say. De Gaulle already has
announced the French Medi
terranean fleet would not be
answerable to NATO com
mand in wartime. Now, he re
fuses to permit stockpiling of
U.S. atomic warheads in
Communications
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View of Russia
To the Editor: This Foreign
Ministers' meeting in Geneva
is a wonderful vacation for a
lot of people. Why any one
should expect more of this
wrangle is difficult to under
stand. Russia acquired peace
able possession of East Ger
many, and possession is nine
points in law. The fact that
the American army withdrew
a distance of 11 miles in order
to allow the Russians to oc
cupy this territory is evidence
we intended for them to do
so.
We do not seem to be con
cerned about Poland, Hun
gary, Rumania, or Bulgaria;
neither are we concerned
about North Korea. The Rus
sians are not going to under
stand our concern about East
Germany (so' called) which
they have definitely incorpor
ated into the Soviet Union.
They designate it as East Ger
many only for the reason for
dissension. Some people are
beginning to wonder if this
country didn't venture a bit
too far when it undertook to
settle the affairs of the world.
We have long been the
richest nation on earth. Back
in the thirties our livestock
got out of hand; we sent firing
squads through the country to
slaughter cattle and pigs.
About that time we discovered
we had more money than was
good for us, so its value was
reduced to one half. Our farm
ers were in a bad way too, so
we hired them to grow wheat.
A dam is being built to divert
the Colorado river so the can
yon can be used for a wheat
pit.
We have been doing a lot
of things in a Wg way in re
cent years, but another, war
or two and Russia will not
ask to meet with us in Swit
zerland; they wiU be asking
us to send delegates to meet
with them in Washington, D.C.
While tney are moving on
India, they will continue to
wrangle with us over (East)
Germany.
Joseph J. Hall,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Bear Creek Work Needed
To the Editor: I feel the
time has come for action by
tne wry or Medford for re
habilitating the Bear Creek
area upstream and down
stream from East Main st. In
its present condition the view
of Medford's splendid park in
that section is obstructed from
all points west of the stream.
This is a loss to the city that
should not be.
More urgent possibly, is the
unsanitary state of affairs that
exist. It is a well known
breeding place for all kinds
of pests, winged and crawling,
and the odor emitted from
the often stagnant water is
not of the character this other
wise fair and healthful com
munity manifests. The re
moval of the mass of under
growth that covers this area
would tend to increase the
safety of all citizens, most
especially of the younger
members of the city.
Contrary to recurring
rumor of a vast public high
way system that is presum
ably planned for this basin,
there is not, I am reliably in
formed, even the remotest
chance for Medford realizing
this development. It is alto
gether time and past time the
people of Medford and the of
ficials responsible take action
for themselves to turn this
wilderness area into a real
asset for the city of Medford.
This problem is not new
to me, nor the growth of Med
ford a novel experience for
me. I have been in touch with
this for over 50 years. It will
be your good fortune, citizens
of Medford, if this action Js
taken for you.
Fee Clifford Esteb,
153 North Oakdale ave.,
Medford.
'A " n
it ' fi
France unless lie controls
their use and unless he re
ceives a share in atomic se
crets. Advance military plan
ning is based on the absolute
certainty of cooperation of all
NATO members. Therefore,
what De Gaulle is saying is
that unless he is captain of
the team he won't play. It is
one of the thorniest problems
NATO has had to face.
Troubled waters:
Diplomats believe Britain
would like to find a way out
of its present strained rela
tions with Iceland. Britain has
refused to recognize Iceland's
12-mile limit and has sent na
val vessels to protect British
fishing boats operating in the
area. Icelandic Communists
are making hay out of the
fish war and are urging
that Iceland withdraw from
NATO and kick out the Amer
ican air base., Iceland's Scan
dinavian NATO partners
Norway and Denmark -also
are concerned and hope that
now is the time for mediation,
possibly by the United States,
Feelers already are being put
out.
Unhappy Merchants:
The late Pope Pius XB.
spent most of the summer at
Castel Gondolfo which also
brought tourists and the Ro
man Catholic faithful there
What with the sale of food,
lodgmg and relics, the rest
dents made a good living dur
ing the summer. Now it ap
pears that, Pope John XXII
plans to spend only long week
ends there and possibly the
month of August. The villag-
In the Day's News
By FtANK JENKINS
Politics:
Governor Nelson Rockefel
ler of New York is visiting
friends and old acquaintances
in Washington. A Washington
reporter with a gift for vivid
words puts it this way:
"Rockefeller says he isn't
running for the Presidency,
but he's pumping high octane
charm at Republicans during
his visit here.
WATCH him. j
He has charm-an inde
scribable charm that draws
people to him. But he also
has. a lot of ability, consider
able knowledge of the reali
ties of life and a reasonable
amount of common sense.;
He can't be laughed off as
a rich man s son.
VICE PRESIDENT Nix on
who is presently assumed
to have the inside track for
the GOP presidential nomina
tion next year, is also young
and also has personal charm
Plenty of it. He handles him
self well in the pinches-and
there have been plenty of
pinches.
He has plenty of ability.
TELSON ROCKEFELLER
was born with the tradi
tional silver spoon in his
mouth.
Richard Nixon was born
poor and has had to make his
own way.
There was a time in our his
tory when the son of a rich
man and the grandson of a ty
coon wouldn't have had a
chance in a race for the Presi
dency. Our country is changing.
No longer is it necessary, in
order to be President, to have
been born in a log cabin. '
rpODAY'S inflation sermon:
Tax Foundation, Inc., a
non-partisan tax research or
ganization, says in its current
bulletin:
"The average U.S. produc
tion worker's gross weekly
earnings increased from just
under $54 in 1948 to about
$83 in 1958 . . . but a somber
companion set of statistics
shows how in this period of
inflation, like the coin-clippers
of old, has steadily taken
its toll of these paycheck in
creases." UtOR example:
From the end of the war,
wages rose constantly, in
1951, the average production
worker's pay had risen from
$57.85 in 1950 to $62.13 in
1951-a gain of $4.28 a week
in dollar wages.
But-
In that year inflation (in
the form of steadily increas
ing PRICES) had taken from
the BUYING POWER of the
worker's paycheck a total of
$4.59-leaving him with a NET
LOSS of 31 cents per week in
the buying power of his
wages. '
By 1958, the average pro
duction worker's paycheck
FALSE TEETH
That Loosen
Need Not Embarrass
Many wearers of false teeth hr
Buffered real embarrassment because
their plate dropped, supped or wob
bled at just the wrong time. Do not
Uve In fear of this happening to tou.
Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH, the
aiaanne ( non-acia ) powaer, on your
plates. Hold false teeth more firmlv.
so they feel more comfortable. Does
not sour. Checks plate odor' (den
ture breath) . Get FAS TEETH at an
Crag counter.
De Gaulle
ers fear it may cut their in
comes in half.
Shooting War:
It has been kept quiet in
Jakarta but army .troops and
civilian police engaged in a
small shooting war at Jakar
ta's Tandjung Priok harbor
in late March when the Rus
sian ambassador to Indonesia
complained that police were
pillaging rice brought in by
a Russian vessel. Troops sent
by the army were denied en
trance to the port area by po
lice ana a tierce gun battle
followed. The toll: five dead,
tnree wounded.
Incidentally, there are new
rumors that the central gov
Various 'Lobbies7
Exert Influence
Through Mailings
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington- (DPff -President
Eisenhower is worried about
the munitions lobby. He says
there is a pos
sibility it may
be influencing
i ,
sumeuuuy
So far though
Ike hasn't said
a word about
the oyster lob
by, and I know
for a fact it
influenced
Frank Eleazer number of
girls in the House and Senate
office buildings the other day
to scream when they opened
the mail.
What popped, out of each
letter from the Long Island
bnelltish Farmers Assn. was
a couple of starfish.
When order was restored,
and the starfish were retriev
ed from far corners, behind
bookcases, etc;, everybody was
relieved to find they were
dead, mere was further re
lief when it was ascertained
they hadn't been dead but
so long, .or possibly that they
had been pickled.
Starfish Relish Oysters
some congressional secre
taries, and maybe some mem
bers of Congress, later got
around to reading the letter
that came with the starfish.
It said starfish, like people,
Seattle Man Loses
Legs Under Train
Salem -(DPD- Modris Rutkis,
35, Seattle, whose legs were
amputated by a moving train
here Saturday when he fell
beneath it, today was reported
in "satisfactory" condition at
Salem Memorial hospital.
The man was discovered by
an engineer, J. E. Davis, Sa
lem police said.
Washington Bankers
Elect Yakima Man
Seattle (DPD Joseph H.
Dietzen, vice-president of the
Yakima Valley branch of the
National Bank of Washington,
Yakima, Saturday was elected
president of the Washington
Bankers' Association at the
close of the 63rd annual ses
sion here.
had risen to $83.15, a gain of
$2.17 a week over 1957. But,
during this period of a year,
the BUYING POWER of his
paycheck DROPPED by $2.23
leaving him six cents a week
worse off than he had been
the year before in spite of
his up in pay.
That's inflation for you.
11
Keasona
(Priced for Everyone)
FRIENDLY,
a
Problem;
ernment is readying another
attempt to terminate the long
smouldering Sumatra-Celebes
revolt. Singapore, Tokyo and
Cairo have been suggested as
possible sites for talks be
tween government and rebel
spokesmen. Official reactfbn
to the rumors is negative. "
Koreans vs. Koreans: ,
The Republic of Korea navy
has issued new warnings that
Red gunboats may renew
shelling of South Korean fish
ing fleets in the Yellow sea
near the western end of the
Korean truce line. Several
times in recent years, the
Reds have abducted ROK fish
ermen in these .waters.
think oysters taste great.
It said they hold to this
view so firmly m fact that
that they ate $50 million
worth of 'em last year on
the . bottom of Long Island
Sound.
What the oyster men want,
of course, is for Uncle Sam
to spend such sums as may
be necessary to wipe out the
starfish. It remains to be seen
what comes o'f that.
Earlier" this year each of
our lawmakers got a Douglas
fir tree in the mail. This do-it-yourself
reforestation kit
came from .an Oregon firm,
through Rep. Charles O. Por
ter (D-Ore.), and each mem
ber was left to judge for him
self what" ax this outfit was
trying to grind.
If Watered, It'll Grow
What Porter said was that
the tree, if watered and tend
ed for the next 100 years,
was guaranteed to grow into
a giant.
Most members accepted the
gift at face value, though one
demanded assurance the fir
wasn't now, and would never
become, a mink. Many of the
trees were planted and ap
parently Porter was right;
some are already two inches
high.
In another influence at
tempt overlooked so far by
the President, every con
gressman awhile back re
ceived in the mail three nice
tuna fish cans, courtesy of
Rep. Bob Wilson (R-Calif.).
The only thing was, they were
empty. k ,
Wilson got some phone
calls about that, mighty quick,
and would have got a lot more
except that some of the re
cipients read the letter that
came with the cans. Wilson
said in the letter that if for
eign competition didn't let up
his district's tuna packers
would have to quit packing.
To mollify everybody, lest
they start eating creamed
chicken instead, Wilson later-
sent each member another
package just like the first one.
Most of the recipients detected
the difference in weight and
refrained from throwing the
shipment back at the mail
man, rnese cans were run.
Maybe they got there too
late, though. Anyway, Wil
son's bill to curb tuna imports
never got out of committee.
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