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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
June 16, 1949 (Thursday)
Medford Water Superin
tendent Robert A. Duff an
nounces lawn and garden wa
tering restrictions, involving
a schedule of alternate days.
Medford 20-30 club mem
bers sport black derby hats
to promote the catfish derby.
20 YEARS AGO
June, 16. 1939 (Friday)
Jack Bearss, Ashland resi
dent, becomes a state police
man.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "This
is National Iced Coffee week.
For all the local observance
bestowed it might as well
have been Suez Canal Week."
30 YEARS AGO
June 16, 1929 (Sunday)
City Attorney Carkin rules
the city has no right to sell
water to Jacksonville.
Pear growers launch a cam
paign to sell more Boscs in
the East.
40 YEARS AGO
Juno 16, 1919 (Monday)
Everett Y. Carkin returns
home from the war.
Pacific highway from Port
land to the California line is
to be completed by the end
of the year. ;
50 YEARS AGO
June 16, 1909 (Wednesday)
E. A. Marsh, general man
ager of Citizens Telephone
company, asks the city council
for permission to sell out to
Bell Telephone company, and
is refused.
The Crater lake road appro
priation decision is expected
next week. '
Vhai's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eKjht is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Was Ethan Allen an
American clergyman, soldier,
.statesman or playwright?
2. Of what material is the
home plate on a ljaseball dia
mond made?
3. What was the most fa
mous statement of policy pre
sented to Congress by Presi
dent Monroe?
4. In what country have
, Hukbalahap guerillas been ac
tive? 5. Of what country was
Cleopatra the ruler?
6. If you wished to visit
BunkerHill, would you go to
Philadelphia, Providence, or
Boston?
7. Who regretted that he
had but one life to lose for
hid country? -
8. Which State in the U. S.
j divided into parishes in
d of counties or town
ships? 4. In Alice' Adventures,
Hkio incessantly stood on his
iad?
10. Is asbestos a manufact
Jed product, a vegetable pro
tfuct, or a natural mineral?
answers: 1. Soldier; 2. Rub
&r; 3. Monroe Doctrine; 4.
Sepublic of The Philippines; 5.
gypl; 6. Boston; 7. Nathan
ftale; 8. Louisiana; 9. Father
William; 10. Natural Mineral.
K3.FERING PEDDLERS ,
Chicago-(UP&-Police warned
housewives today that a team
gf burglars have been looting
Sotth Side apartment houses
while disguised as deliveriers
of pizza pies.
I
. Communicating
.We have reported in these columns previously
our conviction that the problem of communica
tions is one of the big ones of the 20th Century.
The problem is not because of the lack of in
formation; to the contrary. It is, it seems to us, a
dual one:
1. The impossibility of assimilating all the ma
terial available, and
2. The lack of a universally understood medi
um of communications.
""THE first of these is obvious to anyone who is at
all familiar with the tremendous array of
books, magazines and special publications which
deal with every facet of life, and with many spe
cialized functions.
The second resolves
language. Even in English, one of the most varied
and flexible of languages, what one man writes or
says may have different meanings for different
readers or listeners.
When this is multiplied by the number of lan
guages, and is again multiplied by the number of
"sub-languages" such as the specialized argots
of the s c i e n c e s and many of the professions,
trades and callings one begins to realize the
magnitude of the difficulty.
.
TTHE frst part of this dual problem is illustrated
.by, say, a physician, who finds' it difficult to
keep up on just the medical literature of the day,
the reports of new discoveries and new methods,
as reported in his professional magazines to
say nothing of keeping abreast of world and na
tional affairs, the stock market, and the scientific
fields such as biology and chemistry which are
related to his specialty.
The same problem is faced by any intelligent
man who makes an effort to keep "well inform
ed," not only in general, but also in specific fields
of interest. ,-
It is a problem of finding time, of course, but
it is more than that : it is also a problem of special
ized vocabularies and usages, which verges into
the second part of the problem.
XJLTE SUGGEST no answer. It is up to each indi-
" vidual to decide for himself the limits of his
time and. comprehension, and to guide himself ac
cordingly. And it is up to those in the "communications
industry" to perform their part as ably, clearly and
concisely as possible ; to report as fully as possible
what they are equipped to report, and to make
whatever comments they feel to be helpful or im
portant or necessary in the process.
The American people are probably better-informed
on what is going on in the world than at
any time in history, both actually and potentially.
But the extent of that information is still far be
low the ideal of universal understanding an
ideal no one can ever reach.
Everyone, as the saying goes, is ignorant, only
about different things. And to a greater or lesser
degree, will remain so at least as long as hu
man beings are limited human beings. E.A.
What About Pools?
Medford city councilmen are studying a pro
posed ordinance requiring fences or other pro
tection for private swimming pools.
Ihe ordinance as drafted covers excavated
and portable pools, fish ponds and other artificial
bodies where water is 18 inches or more in depth.
It sets forth as public policy that without
proper precautions these- bodies of water are
severe hazards, especially for small children.
.
HTHERE is no doubt that pools can be hazardous.
Certainly a case in point was the drowning
in Eugene last Saturday of a 2-year-old girl
who fell into an unprotected pool next door to
her home and was found, face-down, in three
feet of rainwater at the bottom. .
The proposed Medford ordinance would re
quire a fence or wall with self-closing, self -latching
gate, an adequate pool cover or some other
protective device approved by the council.'
Adopting and enforcing this ordinance would
of course serve the interests of safety though
at considerable expense to the pool owner. But
there are other considerations.
IITHAT about parental responsibility, for ex-
ample? We question whether small children
like the girl in Eugene should be allowed to toddle
about unwatched in the first place.
Children old enough to wander on their own
should be clearly instructed not to venture near
swimming pools unless an older person is present.
Another thought is that private pools or ponds
after all are on private property, and neighbor
hood children should stay away unless invited.
Pool owners, on the other, hand, have definite
responsibilities too. A number in Medford have
provided fences or other protective devices on
their own initiative. They should establish safety
rules and make sure any child that comes to the
pool abides by them.;
Many of them, of course, do exactly this, ac
cepting fully their responsibility.
,. . -. . '
A NOTHER consideratibn is that pools are hard
"Iy more dangerous than the bie- irris-ation
ditches that pass through
ter, 5ear creek. If safeguards were required by
ordinance for private pools, shouldn't these be
fenced off or covered too?
The proposed ordinance mav be necessarv.
But first we would like to see an intensive cam
paign to remind parents and poohowners in no
uncertain terms of their responsibilities. E.W.
itself into a problem of
town, or for that mat
Dennis the
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YOU HEAR? E0NAI
Matter of Fact
GETTING 'ROUND THE
CORNER
Washington The scene
was the Embassy of a neutral
country with exceptional ex-
p e r i ence of
the Kremlin's
ways, in one
of the capi
t a 1 s behind
the Iron Cur
tain where
the mood in
the Kremlin
makes the
daily political
j.t ml
4nsph aisod weamer. ine
topic of conversation was the
Berlin crisis.
The ' remarkably shrewd
Ambassador had asked, with
ostentatious casualness, what
American . intentions really
were. He was reminded of
the President's declaration
that he "would not give an
inch." At this he laughed
lightly, and remarked that he
was not asking about the an
nounced American policy,
but about the real American
policy. The President cer
tainly meant what he said,
was the reply. Whereupon
the Ambassador genuinely
blanched with alarm, and
burst out:
"But if your President real
ly means what he says, in
God's name why. does he not
act as though he meant it? In
the Kremlin, they judge by
acts, not words. They may
misunderstand. They may go
too far. And then there wiU
be a real danger of war that
can destroy us all."
THE foregoing is this report
ers sinelp most vivirl mem
ory of i a European journey
not lacking in vivid experi
ences. What was implied by
the Ambassador's sharp reac
tion to a seeming statement
of the obvious was in turn
confirmed by many other ob
servations. From Poland's
Foreign Minister Rapacki and
Hungary's Communist boss,
Janos Kadar, on down, the
Hungarian and Polish leaders
and officials I was permitted
to see made it plain that they
did not believe for one in
stant that President Eisen
hower was in earnest about
"not giving an inch" at Ber
lin. The smug, superior, in
credulous smiles- of the two
or three Soviet diplomats I
was able to talk to, said the
same thing in a rather more
infuriating manner.
Maybe all these , indicators
point in the wrong direction.
All the same, they seem to be
confirmed by Nikita Khrush
chev's disturbing recent
speech in Riga. Speaking spe
cifically of Secretary of State
Christian R. Herter's refusal
to give away the Western po
sition at Berlin on Andrei
Gromyko's word of command,
Khrushchev said angrily:
"Even if the policy of po
sitions of strength is irrevo
cably suffering defeat after
defeat, the Western powers
continue to stick to this pol
icy. They wish to shun de
cisions on urgent questions
aimed at relaxing internation
al tensions and strengthening
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
THREE MEN who had indulged rather freely at a convention
banquet were driving home together through the pitch
black night. Two were in the front seat, the other in the back.
Suddenly the driver asked
the man in the back to look
out and see who the crazy
driver was behind them.
fHe's too close on my tail;
he ignores my waving to
let him pass. Besides, he
only has one headlight on.'
The man looked out the
back, then almost jumped
out of his seat. "No wonder
he can't pass you," he cried.
"He's i tracks!"
Confided Asa Jennings:
Our family is so cordial, everyone says hello.
The dinner table crackles with a live and friendly glow.
Parlor games are started, the latest news discussed,
. The same as other homes in which the TV set is bust!
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Menace
epnai Getaway fim mb.
By Joseph Alsop
peace. But however these
gentlemen may try, they are
not able to blow a brave spirit
into this'bankrupt policy, of
positions of strength."
rTHAT was simply another
way of saying that Presi
dent Eisenhower was faking
about "not giving an inch"
which of course means, if
it it means anything, that the
President will risk war rather
than surrender Berlin's free
dom. By the same token, it is
fairly obvious that Khrush
chev thinks the President is
faking for two reasons. The
first and major reason is the
great, unfavorable change in
the world balance of military
power which has been flaccid
ly accepted by the President
and his administration. The
second and more, immediate
reason is the President's total
failure, to date, to take any
of the precautionary meas
ures, either military or politi
cal, which the Berlin crisis
logically demands.
All this does not mean that
the Berlin crisis itself, or even
the melancholy meeting at
Geneva, will necessarily end
in disaster. By seeming not to
be serious about Berlin, by
encouraging a mood . of un
corsetted complacency in the
United States, by taking no
military precautions of any
kind, by going on with business-as-usual
and budget-as-usual,
the American govern
ment is certainly multiplying
the risks very greatly. If you
seem not to be in earnest in a
situation like the Berlin crisis,
you really invite your enemy
to occupy positions which you
cannot tolerate, and from
which he cannot easily re
treat. VET this reporter still has a
feeling in his elbow, for
the very little this may be
worth, that the Western allies
will somehow get 'round the
immediate Berlin corner. At
the moment, the feeling is not
based on much more than the
old rule, "God takes care of
drunkards, children and the
United States."
Nonetheless, one can still
hope and believe that the fact
that the President really does
mean what he says about Ber
lin will dawn on the Soviets
before it is too late. Maybe,
indeed, they have been chang
ing their minds over the
week end at Geneva. If they
begin to take the President
seriously, one can also hope
an accommodation will be
found this time.
That makes the question of
the next time, and the tune
after that, however. The bal
ance of power is still shifting
in the Kremlin's favor. It
will continue to do so until
some years have passed and
the missile gap is closed. If
we go on through all this pe
riod not seeming to be seri
ous, the old rule about drunk
ards, and the United States
will hardly hold good for
ever. (c) 19S9 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
Potentially-Rich Brazil Struggling To
Keep Out of Poor House; Varqas Blamed
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Brazil, potentially one of
South America's richest na
tions, once more is struggling
desperately to
keep out of the
poor house. It
was on Aug.
24, 1954, that
President Ge
tulio Var gas,
for 25 years
the "strong
L zil, retired to
Phu Mensom nis room and
fired a bullet into his heart
after first writing a bitter
last will and testament. In it
he said: ' "
I can give nothing else
but my blood ... I bequeath
my death to the . hatred of
my enemies. I regreat that I
was unable to do all I wanted
for the humble . .
What Vargas had done for
"the humble" was to bequeath
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
It sometimes seems to me
that two threads of thinking
are beginning to show up
rather prominently in the
warp and the woof of the
news:
1. Profit is a sinful thing.
2. Conservation is some
thing to be ashamed of.
TWO questions: ;
IS profit wrong? -'..
IS coservation shameful? -In
an effort to find answers
to these questions, let's turn
to the Book of Matthew (Chap
ter 25), which contains the
parable of the talents and the
parable of the wise and the
foolish virgins.
T ET'S deal first with the
M parable of the talents, for
it has to do with the subject
of profits.
Matthew relates that a man
who was traveling into a far
, country called his servants
and delivered to them his
goods. To one, he gave five
talents, to another two talents
and to another, one talent. In
the ancient world, a talent
was a weight and money unit.
A Hebrew gold talent would
be equivalent in these days to
about $32,000; a Hebrew sil
ver .talent would today repre
sent about $2,200. So, you see,
it wasn't as mail change trans
action. He divided his money ac
cording to his judgment of the
ABILITIES of his servants.
Having done so, he departed
on his journey.
rpHE first servant took his
five talents and went into
business and made five other
talents. The second servant
took his two talents and went
into business and made two
other talents. The third took
his one talent and BURIED it.
When the master returned,
he called them together. To
the two who had doubled their
original capital he said:
"Well done, ye good and
faithful servants; ye have been
faithful pver a few things; I
will make ye ruler over many
things."
As to the one who had
buried his money and taken
no risks, the master directed
that his one talent be taken
away from him and given to
the one who had doubled his
five talents in profitable
trade and commerce. .
That was a firm endorse
ment of the profit principle.
llfHAT of the virgins?
" There were ten of them.
They all took their lamps and
went forth to meet the bride
groom. Before starting, the
wise ones filled their lamps
with oil. The foolish ones left
their lamps empty, trusting to
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them today's financial ills
Since World War II, Brazil
has passed through a succes
sion of economic crises, each
one more grave than the last.
In the first 10 years after
the war, she received some
$600 million in American
loans. In the last 10 years,
prices have risen 1,000 per
cent. The Cruzeiro, Brazil's
unit of currency, has slipped
to a value of only about three
quarters of a U.S. cent.
Coffee Economy Slips
Despite her other riches,
Brazil's has been a coffee
economy.
And as coffee prices slipped
so did Brazil's economy.
The single act of the Vargas
administration which is blam
ed for touching off Brazil's
vicious inflationary spiral oc
curred on May 1, 1954. It was
a decree doubling minimum
wages. Prices, already high,
shot skyward.
At almost the same time,
Congress Probes Securities
Market To Protect Suckers
Washington-njPB-There is an1
old law to the effect that a
fool and his money are soon
parted, and it
wUl be a long
time before
that one is re
pealed. How
ever, Congress
is being asked
to amend it a
little.
Edward N.
Gadsby, chair-
Frank Eleazer man oi tne
Securities & Exchange Com
mission, didn't exactly use the
word "fool" in his testimony
for a Senate banking subcom
mittee. He spoke of the "un
sophisticated investor" and
the fellow "lured by spurious
get-rich-quick schemes.
Gadsby said he and his help
ers have discovered some
loopholes in , the laws Con
gress passed in 1933 and 1934
to protect investors from a
repetition of some of the
things that happened to them
in 1929. ,
Things like maybe another
big break in the market. Sen.
Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D
N.Y.) . wondered hopefully,
running over the list of pro-
Oregon Trio To Attend
Library Conference
Salenv-TOPD- Three delegates
will represent Oregon at the
78th annual conference of the
American Library Association
June '21-27 in Washington,
D.C. They are Nathan Berk
man of Portland, member of
the Oregon State Library
Board; Eloise Ebert, Oregon
state librarian, and Loretta
Fisher, reference and circula
tion chief of the state library.
the future to take care of the
situation.
vThe bridegroom tarried, and
while they were waiting they
all went to sleep. Finally, at
midnight, the bridegroom
came and they awoke and
went out to meet him. The
wise ones had oil in their
lamps. The foolish ones didn't.
They had said: "The heck with
paying now: we'll leave pay
ing the bill to the future."
While the foolish and impro
vident virgins were getting
the oil merchants out of bed
and buying oil for their lamps,
the wise virgins went in with
the bridegroom to the mar
riage, and the door was shut.
The foolish virgins missed the
party.
THAT is a pretty firm en
dorsement of - the conser
vative principle that it is wise
to PAY AS YOU GO and be
ready for whatever happens.
A GREAT STATE
has opened it's Centennial
celebration and we urge
you to attend. We also re
mind you that a GREAT
STATE of mind is to know
that you're adequately
INSURED.
Bill Fish
sW
Brazil set a minimum price
on coffee of 87 cents a pound.
Vargas' attempt to extort from
world coffee drinkers the
price of industrial expansion
at home boomeranged.
The .coffee market broke
and Vargas was dead, leaving
behind his bitter legacy. ; .
' Vargas, a strongman for 20
years, had become Brazil's
legally elected president in
1950.
From the start he courted
the working classes, regard
less of the effect on the coun
try's economy. He found a
willing audience. For in the
cities, many lived in misery
within sight of riches, and in
the rural areas other lacked
even the necessities.
Makes FieldNfor Reds
1 1 They also provided a fer
tile field for Communism.
' There was another set of
circumstances which con
tributed to today's ills, cre
ated by leaders who found it
posed amendments to the ex
isting securities laws.
No Repeal Seen
Unfortunately not, Gadsby
said. Market prices, which re
cently have hit record highs,
come under the law of sup
ply and demand, it appear,
and that's' one law that can't
be repealed.
"I think it's fair to say
that the ingenuity of a large
number of talented persons
has been employed since 1929
to design proper statutes re
garding the sale of securities,"
Gadsby told Williams. "We
have been unable to picture
any statute to do what you
imply - prevent a fall in the
market price."
What he does want Con
gress to do, Gadsby said, is
amend the securities laws to
make it a little bit harder fcr
us to be'suckers.
"The need for. added in
vestor protections and the
strengthening of our enforce
ment hand," he said, "is par
ticularly imperative today in
view of the current extreme
ly active securities market."
What he meant here, I de
duced, is that with all the
money being made in the mar
ket these days, just about
everybody is getting in, and
that inevitably a certain num
ber of crooks are standing
ready to fleece anybody they
can.
Action Is Hampered
Already there have been
some complaints, and Gadsby
said his helpers can't always
take the steps that are, need
ed. - :
For example, one registered
investment adviser said cross
his heart he hadn't done any
thing wrong. But when ' the
SEC men asked for his books
so they could see for them
selves, he didn't have any.
Eventually, his clients lost
$600,000.
Under one of the many
amendments sought by SEC,
people like that would have
to keep books, and also let
SEC see them.
Neither Williams nor Sen.
Prescott Bush (R-Conn.), the
other senator present, asked
Godsby for advice on the mar
ket. I guess they knew he
wouldn't supply it.
However, there's one addi
tional old law I wish they had
John Duffy
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j politically profitable to pro
mote a questionable sort of
nationalism.
It was this that led to Petro
bras, Brazil's state-owned oil
monopoly in which no for
eigners are permitted to hold
shares. Brazil is estimated to
have enormous oil reserves,
yet while petroleum imports
soar, her oil lies idle in the
ground because Brazil has
neither the low-how nor the
money to get it out. '
Now President Juscelino
Kubitschek once moe is look
ing for money.
It is probable that once
more the U.S. will bail him
out. - -
Meanwhile, the basic ills
remain uncured. The govern
ment has shown no disposi
tion to undertake any such
drastic "austerity" campaign
as has aroused the ire of la
bor in Argentina and France.
It probably could not remain
in office. '
asked him about. This one
says whatever goes up must
come down. If that's been re
pealed, I'd sure like to know
it.
Communications
Ants and Honey
To the Editor: We Califor
nians have an antbird in our
flicker. After a hal century
study of this anteating wood
pecker, writer feels he has
hardly begun. To really find,
however, a- variety of ant
birds, one must go to the
tropics with their umbrella
ants, their soldier ants, and
even "white" ants. Dr. Beebe
describes "The . Ant's Mas
sacre" in his "Jungle Peace".
Birding, a half a century
ago, in the state of Vera Cruz,
this writer found his first ant
birds, the anttangers. As one
proceeds toward the equator
more ants -and more kinds of
antbirds. There are also an$
wrens, antthrushes, antpittas,
antshrikes, antvireos.
Then, too, the tropics have
many "honey-birds". Just "as
the tropics have an impressive
list of antbirds, so it has nu
merous "honey" birds, honey
eaters, honeycreepers, and the
remarkable honeyguides. Mex
ico has four honeycreepers,
the Blue, the Green, the Cinnamon-bellied
and the Bana
naquit. These birds are almost
"cousins" to our California
vireos. All are birds of tropic
Mexico, as in its State of
Chiapas. The honeycreepers
have a highly specialized
tongue, similiar to that of the .
hummingbirds. These are re
markably adjusted quickly to
sucking honey or netting in
sects. Thus a varied diet that
would please the most exact
ing dietician.
Male honeycreepers often
are as brilliant as many other
jungle birds. Their mates are
Quaker garbed, excellent
camouflage for nesting. If the
teenage Audubonier in Cali
fornia conscientiously studies
his birds, he later will be pre
pared for observations in
tropics. The airplane has
brought them to within almost
an overnight journey.
C. M. Goethe
Seventh and J sts.
Sacramento 14, Calif.
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