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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 18. 1949 (Saturday)
Harold E. Goffar is named
new principal of Rogue River
academy.
Lenore Zapell is outstand
ing in the Medford Civic the
ater's production of "Angel
Street."
20 YEARS AGO
June 18. 1939 (Sunday)
Medford wins first place in
a statewide traffic safety con
tt. from Arthur Perry's "Ye
Jmudge Pot" column: "A ma
Jgority of the speeders, assist
g& by Providence, managed to
ejap out of each other's way
gal till the leading corners, the
feek." "
$ ttARS AGO
tle 18. 1929 (Tuesday)
The OSC regents express
aftrjtisfgetion with the work of
sfrof. Reimer at the Talent ex
periment station. .
D. S. E. Green and Carl A.
fwigtrt are elected to the
schopl board unopposed. .
41 ilARS AGO
Jaa 18, 1919 (Wednesday)
A tourist who has been liv-
injet tht city auto camp since
March is told to move on.
gusstll Sherwood leaves for
Oaflfnd, Ore., where he has
t it with a concrete con
fer
f I4RS AGO
Ifca 181909 (Friday)
Hfw fishways are ordered
for innent and - Gold Ray
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IVUi St OLCXL US VU fcUC AiC W
drinking fountain near the
Medford National bank build
ing being sponsored by ladies
of th Greater Medford club.
Vhst'c Your I.Q.?
Nina ar tan correct is superior,
sevan ar eight is excellent; five ar
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WW.
' lis is gooe.
l. Did Pochantas marry
John Smith, John Alden, or
John Rolfe?
2. Itdequires approximate
ly minutes, 18 minutes, 28
minutes for the sun's rays to
reach the earth?
3. What part of the rubber
tree furnishes the material
from which rubber is made?
4. Who said "Walk softly
and carry a big stick."
' 3.QWhat animal do you
identify as "Harvey"?
6. Fill in the associated
words in the following; Alad
din's ; Gresham's
Hobson's
7. What flag was known as
"the Stars and Bars"?
8. What famous football
star was called "the gallop
ing ghost"?
9. Do you associate the
name Andrew Carnegie with
steelmaking, public libraries,
or Scotland?
10. Which State is repre
sented in the U.S. Senate by
Estes Kefauver?
Answers: K John Rolfe. 2.
8 minutes. 3. Latex (milk).
4. President T. Roosevelt. 5.
r Rabbit. 6. Lamp, law, choice,
7. The flag of the Confederate
States of America. 8. Red
GrangejQP. All three. 10. Ten
nessee.
Thanks to its soldiers and
sailors, Portugal has a colon
ial empire 3 times the area
-of the homeland. . - j
Will Would Like It
If advance signs are any criteria, the 1959
season of the Oregon Shakespearean festival is
going to be the best one in its 24-year history.
The big new stage house is nearing comple
tion, and is recognizable for what it will be open
ing night, July 28, despite the litter and debris
of construction, sail surrounding it.
It is an impressive structure, and a credit
to its designer, architect and builders to say
nothing of the thousands of people who gave
generously so that it might become a reality.
THHE grounds have been changed considerably,
but with taste and good sense. For instance,
the tiers of seats in the rear are on a much sHarper
rise than before, making them far better for
viewing and acoustical purposes than the former
somewhat flat seat bowl.
The greensward in the rear is slightly smaller
in area than in past years, but still will be ample
for the pre-performance entertainments. New,
attractive booths, build in the Tudor manner,
will add to the rear-area atmosphere.
The two big light-poles, which in the past
stood amidst the seats and blocked the view of
many patrons, are being removed. They will be
replaced by light-towers off . to tjie.side. (It is
hoped this will be a temporary expedient; it is
planned, eventually, to have all the non-stage
lighting come from the new control booth in the
rear.) "'
,
TTHE new stage itself towers higher than the
old one. And (at least to the untutored eve)
it appears to capture the spirit of the Eliza
bethan age better than did the former stage.
The technical crew members are certain that
it will be far more flexible and usable and con
venient, thus adding to the excellence of the
plays, not only through its own presence, but
by improved technical facilities.
. By opening night, landscaping will be com
pleted, lighting in place, andr barring a few last
minute bobbles (which insist on plaguing any
theatrical opening, new stage or not), it will
open impressively and on time.
(Parenthetically, and in a thoroughly practi
cal vein, it should be mentioned that for the first
time the theater will be equipped with toilet
f acilites. This has been a
aenciency.j
COMPLEMENTING the physical plant, the
Festival has assembled for this year what
may well be should be
pany ever.
bpecial grants from
the. Oregon Centennial
it possible to arrange for the return of a num
ber of actors and actresses who have been fa
vorites in past years men and women who have
accumulated experierfce not only in Ashland but
in all parts, of the United States and Europe.
. ihese, together with
of actors, new to the festival, and with the veteran
direction of Angira Bowmer and James Sandoe,
and the untested but promising directing of Rich
ard Risso, promise good things.
. .
PIE Festival production is a tremendous un-
grasped except by watching the behind-the-scenes
work, and the organizational and plan
ning work which goes on the year around, as
well as the show itself.
It involves the trained skills of hundreds of
people in dozens of J different fields. Much of it
is performed by volunteers, and more by people
who do their jobs more for the love of it, and for
the experience, than for the small financial re
turns they receive. .
It was more than interesting, it was to a de
gree inspiring, the other night during the "cast
ing dinner," to watch the faces of the young
L - il il i n
cumpany most oi mem m ineir. eany zus as
they renewed acquaintances, or made new ones,
or animatedly discussed previous festivals, or
the forthcoming one.
Une could sense excitement, anticipation,
veiled worries, and determination as they faced
this new summer adventure.
. . .
OO W the directors can take their young casts
1,1 and, in little more than a month, turn them
from an assortment or individualists (many of
them quite obviously non-conformists) into an
integrated, trained, disciplined and polished act
ing company, is beyond the comprehension of the
mere bystander.
But do it they do.
Tensions and problems will mount between
now and opening night;. differences of opinion,
arguments, disputes will arise and be settled.
Lines, will be memorized, actions drilled, tech
nical problems solved.
And, on opening night, f ollowing the festive
dinner in the park, the 19th season will begin
with color, pageantry and excitement.
William Shakespeare should be around to
see it. He'd approve. E.A. -
The Answer Is Rather Simple
Bud Forrester, editor of the East Oregonian
in Pendleton, is trying to figure something out.
In a recent column he put it this way :
"We read last week that the bid of the Teamsters
Union to represent workers in a wood products manu
facturing plant has been rejected. And we wondered
what possible connection the Teamsters' could have
with wood products manufacturing. Can somebody
enlighten us?"
Well, shucks, that really isn't much of a
problem. . - ,
Teamsters used to drive wagons. And the
wagons were all made of wood Bend Bulletin.
much-complained-about
the best acting com
the Ford Foundation and
Commission have made
the finest young talents
Dennis the
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WANT THAT Ci' UYBR SfAcLL
Matter of Fact a.
THE DOWNWARD SLOPE
Washington This is a bad
moment to try to sum up the
impressions of a European trip
mainly devot
ed to the Ge
n e v a confer
ence; for the
out come at
Geneva hangs
in the balance
as these words
are written. It
may be mod
est and un-
los-ob Aisop . exciung, or 11
may be very terrible indeed.
This reporter still clings to
the hope that something
modest will be done, in the
way of clearing the road to
the summit without any sacri
fice of the essential Western
position at Berlin. But this is
the best result that can reas
onably be expected. And pre
cisely there, in turn, is the best
measure of the decline in the
American and Western posi
tion in the last six years. .
In order to see the extent
of the decline, you only have
to compare the previous So
viet attempt to secure a sum
mit meeting with the present
one. Last time, it is now
pretty clear, the Kremlin high
command took the road to the
summit after the fall of Beria,
after the displacement of
Georgi Malenkov, and after
the emergence of Khrushchev
and Bulganin as the Soviet
Union's ruling partnership. ..
....
THE real first step on the
road, taken by Khrushchev
over bitter opposition from
Molotov and others, was the
"normalization" of relations
between the Soviet Union and
Yugoslavia. That, in itself,
was enough to stimulate pres
sures or a meeting at the sum
mit in Britain and France.
But it was by no means
enough to overcome the deter
mined opposition of John Fos
ter Dulles. In his grim way,
Dulles stonewalled, the proj
ect, resisting all the wishful
outcry at home and abroad,
until Khrushchev had taken
a vital further step.
Quite suddenly, after years
of fruitless negotiation, Khru
shchev granted a state treaty
to Austria. After the long de
layed liberation of Austria had
been promised by the Kremlin,
Dulles could no longer resist
the drive to the summit. The
arguments that the masters of
the Kremlin really might be
seeking some sort of general
accommodation then became
too . strong, converting even
President Eisenhower.
AS it turned out, Dulles's
fears were well justified.
The main consequence of that
first phoney rally on the
heights in the spring of 1955
was the sudden Soviet intru
sion into the troubled affairs
of the Middle East. The fact
will be worth remembering, if
we have another summit. But
above all, at this moment, it
is worth remembering that
Khrushchev felt that it was
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A SPECTACULARLY gowned actress sidled up to Groucho
Marx and confided that he was a man after her own heart.
Groucho assured her with one of his familiar leers, "And that's
not alL Baby!"
The actress then intro
duced her escort. "He's a
member of the House of
Representatives, a congress
man," she explained proud
ly. ' "Wonderful," Groucho
assured the escort. "How
long have you been incon
gruous?" As Howard Diets once
said, "An evening with
Groucho is like a month of
television."; -
A teen-aga baby-titter was
discharging her duties reason
ably well when her boy friend, arrived to offer his inspired com
panionship. "Don't you try to kiss me in front of this little brat," warned the
baby sitter in a conspiratorial whisper. "He's pretty B-R-I-T-E."
. O IMS, by Beaaett Cert Butributsd br Kins Tettuns Sydieatt.
Menace
INfty FOCYA'.
necessary and worthwhile to
pay a solid price to get to the
summit in 1955. The price was
Austria. .
The contrast between 1955
and 1959 could hardly be
more sharp. This time no
price whatever has been paid
to clear the summit road. In
stead, Khrushchev has bran
dished his H-bombs and bal
listic missiles.' He has de
nounced the status quo at Ber
lin, guaranteed by the Soviets
only ten years ago, as "intol
erable" and a "danger to
peace." He has threatened to
take action to which the West
can only respond by open sur
render or direct use of mili
tary force.
Such were the tactics that
produced the Geneva confer
ence, if we are honest with
ourselves. The President may
say that he is not going to the
summit "under threat of
force": but he only means
that he is not going to negoti
ate under the shadow of a
naked Soviet ultimatum, with
a time limit attached. If he
goes to the summit in the end,
he win make the journey, in
the last analysis, because
Khrushchev's threats of imfce
created a new climate in
which this journey was un
avoidable. '
rpHERE is the simplest, plain-
est proof that this country
and the Western alliance have
been on a downward slope for
the last six years, and especi
ally since 1955. The main rea
son for the decline of Western
position is obvious enough.
The President has persistent
ly refused to make the neces
sary efforts to. maintain the
world balance of military
power. So the power balance
has tilted sharply in the Krem
lin's favor.
But this reporter has re
turned from Europe with a
strong conviction that there
is still another, even more ba
sic reason for the decline of
the Western position. At Gene
va, particularly, it was like
listening to. a much-worn old
gramophone record. New
themes, new departures, new
ideas, were conspicuous by
their absence. They are now
desperately needed. They must
come from this country, be
cause no other Western ally
has the power or resources to
sustain a major new depart
ure or carry out a major new
idea.
In politics and economics,
strategy and foreign relations,
the United States government
has not produced a single ma
jor new idea since the end of
the first Truman administra
tion in 1948. Meanwhile the
old methods, the old ideas
have increasingly lost their
former value. If the next
American administration does
not achieve a great jet of new
ideas, the downward slope
will continue indefinitely,
perhaps into the abyss,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
Stop Me
India's Red Leader Has Never
Leaders Considered Friends of
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The leader of India's Com
munists has one great embar
rassment.
He has never met such
party dignitaries as Nikita
Khrushchev. Mao Tse Tung or
Chou En-lai,
whom Prime
Minister Jawa
harlal Nehru
counts among
his friends.
"Of course,"
he says, "I
have seen
them."
He was
especially irk
rmi roewsom
ed by an article in the of
ficial Soviet magazine New
Times which said that India
now is "taking the path of
socialism by peaceful methods
-that path has been advocated
for many years by Jawaharlal
Nehru."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What about Geneva?
Well, it's a good deal like
an old-fashioned Wild West
poker game where each play
er kept a .45 within easy
reach on the table.
Only, in the case of the Ge
neva session, it's a nuclear
bomb instead of a .45.
SPEAKING of meetings
In Oarv. Indiana a mace
meeting . of citizens, angered
by revelations of vice and cor
ruption in their city, gave of
ficials two weeks to clean up
the town or else. The meet
ing was called by the Gary
crime commission and the
Gary Women's Citizens Com
mittee. The ultimatum to clean up
came after Cornelius Ver-
plank, crime commission
chairman, charged that the
"entire situation in Lake
county (in which Gary is lo
cated) is rotten and an abso
lute mess."
The dispatches report that
the 600 persons present at the
meeting shouted approval of
the action.
F IS interesting. It is per
haps significant.
But this question occurs:
How did Gary get that way?
IT'S A fair guess that it got
that way because the good
citizens of Gary and Lake
county NEGLECTED THEIR
DUTY and failed to vote FOR
good officials and AGAINST
bad officials.
That's the kernel of the
nut.
E MUST never forget that
if we are to have good
government (including eco
nomical government) in this
country where the people
CAN run their governmental
affairs if they are willing to,
the people must ACCEPT.
THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
A river can't rise above its
source.
In .the United State of
America, the people are the
SOURCE of government.
T ET'S go back to the Good
J Book (Matthew 5-13):
"Ye are the salt of the
earth: but if the salt have
lost his savor, wherewith
shall it be salted?"
Paraphrasing these words-
If the people have lost their
willingness to see to it that
government in our country is
sood. HOW SHALL WE
HAVE GOOD GOVERN
MENT?
Prime Minister
Of Ireland Quils
Dublin-(DPD-Eamon de Va
lera resiened as, Ireland's
prime minister Wednesday
night without waiting to find
out whether his countrymen
had elected him president.
The 77-year-old de Valera
will find out this evening
whether the voters picked
him or Gen. Sean McEoin,
with whom he battled the
English for Irish independ
ence. ..
After the balloting closed
Wednesday, de Valera, who
has dominated Irish pontics
for four decades, submitted
his formal resignation as the
prime minister to outgoing
president Sean T. 0'is.euy.
Other members of the cabi
net were expected to follow
his lead although tney an
wil continue in office until a
new cabinet is formed.
PETTY LARCENY
Houston, Tex. - (UPD - David
Alexander, 6, complained that
two young rowdies robbed
him in broad daylight while
he was on his way home from
school-and then added insult
to' injury.
"What makes me so mad,"
said David, was that "when
they turned me loose, they
went right across the street
to a candy store and spent
my whole six cents right
there."
To Ajoy Ghosh it seemed a
final slur.
As leader of Indian Com
munism, Ghosh has had to
undergo more than one em
barrassment. He made no at
tempt to defend Soviet bru
tality in crushing the Hun
garian revolt. Instead, he de
plored it in terms stronger
than Nehru's.
Party Under Fire
Especially embarrassing and
almost reducing him to silence
was Red China's 'crushing of
the revolt in Tibet.
Now his party is under ser
ious fire in Kerala, the south
ern state where it has had ,its
greatest success in India.
Socialist and Congress
Party leaders have seized upon
Communist attempts to gain
control of private schools to
launch a - passive resistance
campaign whose ultimate goal
is to force the communist gov
ernment's resignation. It has
Nehru's sympathy if not ap
proval. Communist Party figures
for India never have been
published but are believed to
run anywhere from 60,000 to
Wright's Plan to Pay
Finished by 'Good Question
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington- (DPD -Federico
Bigi, secretary of state of San
Marino, said his 15,000 coun
trymen are in debt about two
million dollars. So naturally
we have been helping them
out.
We are building a new
aqueduct for this smallest and
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Who's Kwazy?
To the Editor: Some
monkeys is kwazy, some peo
ple is kwazy, but there is
more kwazy peoples than
kwazy monkeys.
When the Army put me on
the S.S. Mauritania, I got in
the Captain's stateroom on a
phony slip of paper. I wasn't
in it long. You can say that
again. Before we got away
from the docks, I ain't in it
I .went down 26 flights of
stairs in 2 minutes and 19
seconds. You couldn't beat
that on roller skates. When I
reached the coal bins, an Eng
lishman handed me a new slip
of paper, it read: "Lifeboat
No. 13, (SECOND TRIP)".
Them Englishmen thought I
was so far from lifeboat No.
13, they'd have time to make
a round trip to Ireland before
I could get on deck. I had to
get on deck for the first trip
or go to the bottom of the
ocean in an iron bean kettle.
I found out life boats don't
have second trips. I practiced
runnin' upstairs all the way
from Hoboken to Liverpool.
I got to be world's champion
at runnin' upstairs. I got so
fast I could run upstairs fast
er than I could fall downstairs
on roller skates.
We was lucky monkeys, the
Mauritania wasn't torpedoed.
Them 2 monkeys which went
up in that satellite was lucky
too. They was kwazy for get
tin' into a satellite in the
first place, and they was lucky
the Army didn't dump them
in the English Channel. How
lucky can monkeys get? One
of them monkeys quit being
kwazy, he died. He is still
lucky, we are going to find
out what he died from, so the
other monkeys won't die from
the same thing.
Everett Acklin
Box 233
Ashland
On High Desert
To the' Editor: Your de
scription of the "High Desert"
was accurate but not very
glowing.
One must spend some time
over there to get the "feel
ing." There are many factors that
enter into the "feel," such as
the absence of smoke and
haze, clear, clean air, plus
crisp nights, the nearness and
brilliance of the stars, the
magnificent sunsets, the sheet
lightning during a thunder
storm, the lack of hustle and
bustle, no traffic, the pun
gent odor of the sage brush,
the howl of the coyote, the
chatter of the magpies, and
on and on.
Last but not least the wak
ing in the morning from a
night of the most refreshing
sleep one ever had.
Oh yes, and if one knows
where to find them there are
some streams in some of the
mountains" in the area, excel
lent camping outside of hunt
ing season.
Carol Maple,
1416 Ross Lane,
Medford.
100,000.
But with this small core
they were able to capture 27
seats in the parliamentary
elections of. 1957 and to be
come the largest and most
vocal opposition group. '
. Nor have the aims of In
dian communism ever been
very clearly defined beyond
the general terms of land for
the landless, nationalization
of large industries, confisca
tion of foreign business inter
ests and severance of ties with
the British Commonwealth.
Inroads in Labor
In recent years it has modi
fied its policy of violence and
sabotage which prior to 1950
bordered on open revolt
But while small in numbers,
the Communists have been a
consistent thorn in the flesh
of Nehru's Congress Party and
their recent gains have forced
Congress Party leaders to
assess their own weaknesses.
Some of the Red gains have
come through disillusionment.
For millions of India's impov
erished, national freedom was
not what they expected. They
still had to pay taxes and
oldest republic in the world,
and I guess the $850,000 this
costs won't add very much to
our own national debt, which
at latest count stood at $285,-
863,636,373.05.
Happily, Mr. Bigi is here
not to ask for additional help
but to say thanks for what
he's already got. On the other
hand, he hasn't specifically of
fered us any help either.
But he'll be around for a
couple of weeks yet and may
be if it is put to him right
he will suggest something.
Meantime Congress is tack
ling our budget problem on
its own. What it is doing is
amending the law to let us
go deeper in debt.
Sees No Alternative
Have to do it, said Rep.
Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), chair
man of the House Ways and
Means committee. Mills told
the House Rules committee
there's no alternative, except
maybe to quit spending more
than we take in. Nobody, ap
parently, saw any immediate
prospect of that.
Rules members agreed with
Mills that this was bad. So
did Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.),
who proposed furthermore
that something be done about
it.
Wright has in a bill to mate
annual payments on the debt
What he wanted was permis
sion of the rules committee
to offer his bill on the House
floor as an amendment to one
from ways and means, raising
the legal limit on how far we
can go into the red. .
Under Wright's plan, at
least 1 per cent of the debt
would be paid off each year,
And he proved conclusively
una ougnt to be done.
Others Back Plan
SpecificaUy, Wright said if
we just keep on payine the
interest, like we've been do
ing, for the next 100 vears.
this wiU cost 485 billion dol
lars more than would be need
ed, for interest and principal,
to pay off the debt in that
period.
Furthermore, at the end of
that time we'U still owe the
whole sum.
Wright said 20 other House
members are backing his plan,
and that people everywhere,
especially newspaper editors,
have praised it.
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To achieve it
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is our aim
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HtHK MORGAN . HAXOID SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY OR NIGHT
Met Party
Nehru
rent, they stiU had to pay
railroad fares and prices con
tinued their upward spiral.
Communism's greatest
strength in India lies in the
south where failure of the
monsoons for five straight
years brought mass starva
tion, in the big industrial
cities of Calcutta, Bombay and
Cawnpore, and in West Bengal
in the northeast.
They made heavy inroads
into the unions, especially
railroad.
But despite all this, when
measured against India's total
population of roughly 400
million people, Communism's
gains have been relatively
small in the 25 years It has
been organized in India. -
But Nehru and his leaders
know the ingredients are
there.
The government is striving
desperately to increase both
its industrial and its agricul
tural output to feed one of
the world's fastest growing
populations.
Should the government fail,
then Communism is there
ready to step in.
on Debt
Rules Chairman Howard W.
Smtfh (D-Va.) said count him
with Wright, in principle any
way. Rep. William M. Colmer
(D-Miss.), said he liked the
idea. Rep. Clarence J. Brown
(R-Ohio) was for it too, if it
would work.
As usual though, there were
questions.
Raises Good Question
Rep. Leo E. AUen (R-Ill.)
figured the first year's pay
ment on debt, under Wright's
bill, would be about 3 billion
dollars. Now suppose we were
already in the red 4?r the
year, AUen said. Then where
would Wright get the money?
; "That," said Wright, "is a
very good question."
Smith thought it was too.
He asked the . same thing.
Wright said he assumed if
this was put up to Congress
at the start of the year, in
the President's budget, Con
gress would figure it out. He
said maybe we just wouldn't
spend so much money.
Colmer said more likely
Congress would get the debt
payment the same way it gets
money now when the govern
ment runs in the hole.
"That's by borrowing," said
Colmer as if everybody, by
now, didn't know.
And that finished the
Wright plan, at least for the
moment. The rules committee,
a few minutes later, said it
couldn't, at this time, be
brought to the floor.
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