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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
July 1. 1949 (Saturday)
Mr. ar.d Mrs. W. L. Walls
ell the Medford hotel to A. I.
Arnsberg of Portland.
Al Bradford Is elected presi
dent of the Medford Active
club.
SO YEARS AGO
July 2, 1939 (Sunday)
Harry Thurman, Richard
Mole and Reed Cox are in
business with their diving hel
met made from an old hot
water tank.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Nu
merous reports of gold in the
hills, where the prospectors
h'aint are filtering into these
diggings dally."
SO YEARS AGO
July 2. 1929 (Tuesday)
Three auto wrecks occur on
Main st. within a single hour.
Grants Pass is agog over
sews of a rich mine strike.
40 YEARS AGO
July 2, 1919 (Wednesday)
Local telephone girls plan
to go on strike.
Mayor Gates is feted as
guest of honor at the Ashland
rodeo.
SO YEARS AGO
July 2. 1909 (Friday)
Work is to start soon on the
new hotel at Crater Lake.
Plans are being completed
for access to the top of Mt.
Ashland via wheels and
burros.
Vhsfs Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
is is good.
1. On ships, is the port light
red, or green?
2. Quote the first three
words of Genesis, the first
book of the Bible.
3. What is another name for
Leonardo da Vinci's painting
"La Gioconda"?
4. What does the phrase
"Vmna flr1" imparl?
5. What do these men have
in common: Grover Alexan
der, Denton Cy Young, Chris
ty Mathewson, and Walter
Johnson?
6. What military decoration
is conferred for conspicuous
gallantry and intrepedity in
action, at the risk of life,
above and beyond the call of
dutv?
7. Was the District of Co
lumbia ever larger than it is
now?
8. What did the ancient
Egyptians use for stationery?
9. Who was the first Presi
dent to take his inaugural ride
in an automobile?
10. Which of these animals
is largest American moose,
caribou, or reindeer?
Answers: 1. Red. 2. "In the
beginning." 3. Mona Lisa. 4. In
good faith. 5. All famous base
ball pitchers. 6. Congressional
Medal of Honor. 7. Yes. (A
portion was ceded to Virginia).
7. Papyrus. 9. Woodrow Wil
son. 10. American Moose.
INS CO-FOUNDER DIES
Washington (DPD - Arnold
Kruckman, a co-founder of
the International News Serv
ice, died at 78 here on Tues
day. He helped William Ran
dolph Hearst organize the INS
in 1908. The wire service was
consolidated with, the United
Press into United Press Inter
national year ago last May. 1
Notes'
on
IV Seattle and Puget Sound
Downtown Seattle,
narrow strip of land between Puget Sound and
Lake Washington, has
to speak. As a result it
proportion of fairly tall
Pacific Coast city except ban Francisco-r-which
also has similar limitations on its spread.
As a result, Seattle's
of Puget Sound, is an impressive one, and attrac
tive. For some reason we've never been able to
define, however, it somehow lacks the same
glamor, the same elan, the same sense of sophis
tication as San Francisco.
But Seattle is growing and how it is. grow
ing! With statehood achieved by Alaska, it will
continue to grow, and
ZOOMING down from
cannot but notice
the narrow valley floor, all the way to Lake
Washington and on to Mercer Island, where we
were the guests of relatives.
The famed floating
into Seattle, built some
cism that it was too ambitious a project, now is
barely adequate to handle the traffic load, and
there is much talk about one, or possibly two
new such bndges.
The lake itself is now almost entirely ringed
with communities. At its
where Boeing makes the big 707 jet transport
planes. They take off from there with a roar,
circle on their first flight, and then land for final
outfitting at Boeing field m south Seattle.
......
ZITHER lakeside communities have mush-
roomed out into what amounts to one con
tinuous settlement around the lake. Everywhere
one finds huge shopping centers, with acres of
parking, where one may buy everything from a.
new sports car to a bottle of whisky (the latter
without a state license for the first time, effective
last month, we were told). ,
Mercer Island itself,
ong and perhaps a mile
choice residential sites
rimmed mostly with private homes, constructed
in the privacy of groves of trees, and reached by
winding lanes. But in the center part of the island,
big subdivisions are going
The island, now, with
ation, has its growing
lon, sewer and water problems, and so on. lhey
are complicated due to
dents have refused to
into a city, which could
these services than can
FROM our host's home on the west side of the
island, .we had a magnificent view of the lake,
of the hilly ridge separating the lake from the
business district of Seattle, and, in the far dis
tance on clear days, the magnificent, snow
crested peaks of the Olympic range across the
sound. y ' '.
One day we took one of the state-operated
ferries from the city to Bainbridge island across
an arm of the sound, which despite the 30 or 40
minute voyage is largely a "bedroom" community
for Seattle, particularly
family comes to loaf and swim, and father com
mutes to the office on the ferry.
. Much of Bainbridge
state, as the summer and year-around homes
mostly cling to the wooded shores. But much of
it, too, is agricultural, as
for dinner, purchased in
small, shy Indian girl at
where they were picked,
.
DO ATS, of course, have long held sway on
Puget Sound. But even here there is evidence
of the nationwide boom in boating. We saw
everything from a six-foot dingy to a 60-foot
yacht capable of sea voyages. '
.tsacK on Lake Washington we watched (and
listened) in fascination as the hydroplanes tuned
up a mile or so away, skimming the water, throw
ing up great "rooster-tails" of foam behind them,
and deluging the lake with noise from their pow
erful motors. Billboards boast of Seattle as the
"home of the hydros," as of course it is, during
the Gold Cup races in August.
Some day we hope to find the time to explore
the Olympic Peninsula to the west 6f the sound,
including Olympic National park, and the romantic-sounding
towns which rim the sound and the
Straits of Juan de Fuca.
V Seattle, to Portland
DUT the limits of a vacation are not readily
expandable, and we headed south for Port
land and a visit to the Centennial. 1
Through Tacoma, and almost as far as Olym
pia, one is still caught up in the confusing cross
patching of street traffic, but before long one
hits the limited-access freeway, and away you
scoot, by-passing cities and making enough
progress at a steady 60-miles-per-hour to get to
Portland in little more than four hours.
The trip was broker, only by gawking at jets
swooshing through the air near McChord field,
at the thousands of acres and buildings at Ft.
Lewis adjacent to the highway, and by a visit to
the spotless, and interesting, brewery at Olympia.
- For the rest, the four-lane highway carried us
through green fields and forests, over slight hills,
back to the Columbia, through Vancouver, and
across the new bridge into Oregon.
It was only 2 p.m., and we had no difficulty
finding motel space a mile or so from the Cen
tennial grounds. E.A.
- lo De continued
Trip
a
located on a relatively
nowhere to go but up, so
appears to have a higher
buildings than any other
sky line, from the waters
probably faster.
the Snoqualmie pass one
the signs of growth along
bndge from Mercer Island
years ago under the criti
southern tip is Kenton,
about six or seven miles
wide, is now one of the
of the Seattle area. It is
up, one after the other.
several thousand popu-
pains school construc-
the fact that the resi
incorporate themselves
better provide many of
the special districts.
in the summer, when the
is still in its natural
the huge strawberries
the afternoon from a
the side of the field
attested. j
Dennis the
I DON'T CALL RHUBARB PJ
Matter of Fact
BOB ANDERSON'S
HEADACHE
Washington - Secretary of
the Treasury Robert Ander
son has again proved that he
is the Eisen
aower admin
.stration's sole
fully effective
1 o b b y ist on
Capitol Hill.
The proof is
the House
Ways , a n d
Means Com
mittee's com-
losph ajsod promise on
the interest rate problem, an
obscure but burning issue
which is likely to cause this
Congressional session's hot
test, longest legislative row.
Anderson can accomplish
more on Tne Hill tnan any
other Eisenhower Cabinet
member because of his warm
relations with three men,
Speaker of the -House Sam
Fayburn, . Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson, and
the Chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
Rep. Wilbur Mills. In the pres
ent case, the real architect of
the interest rate compromise
was .the able Mills. Yet even
Mills, with all his sense of
responsibility, would surely
have been tempted to thumb
his nose at anyone but Ander
son.
npHE point directly at issue
. was the interest rate the
Treasury is permitted to offer
on Federal bonds. For dec
ades, a maximum rate of 4V4
per cent has been fixed by
law, even for the longest term
issue. In the present market,
the Treasury is quite unable
to sell Jong term paper bear
ing the statutory rate of in
terest. With many tens of
billions of government debt
to re-finance, Secretary An
derson therefore asked for re
moval of the ceiling on the
interest rate.
The Anderson request was
a political hot potato of the
worst sort, because any rise
in the Federal interest rate
automatically affects all in
terest rates. The grass roots
voters could hardly have been
less interested. But the con
struction industry; the sav
ings and loan associations, all
marginal small businessmen
needing regular lines of credit
for their operations, and many
other locally powerful special
groups, were immediately up
in arms. Reprisals were
threatened against any one
voting for Anderson "and the
bankers," (who of course bene
fit from higher interest rates).
IF MONEY were less tight,
the debate that still looms
ahead would be less passion
ate. No less than ten Senators
have told the Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board, Wil
liam McChesney Martin,
"Give us easier money, and
we'll give Anderson his new
interest rate right away."
But Martin will not ease cred
it for fear of price inflation,
and he will not support the
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A MINISTER was dismayed to hear that a girl for whom he
ii-had. performed the wedding ceremony only three months
previous was contemplating a divorce. "What's wrong?" he in
quired anxiously. "That fool
I married," said the young
bride bitterly, "can't play
cards."
"Is that a fault?" queried
the minister. "I wish that
none of our young men
could play, cards."
"You don't understand,"
continued the bride. "My
husband CANT, but he
DOES." . .
"Two mysteries hinder all
efforts to end smog in Los
Angeles," writes Ray Duncan.
"Nobody knows exactly what
smog is, and nobody knows exactly what Los Angeles is."
-
Jack Benny's definition of a true patriot: a citizen who can whistle
"The Star-Spangled Banner'' while paying his income tax."
1939, by Bennett CetX. Distributed by Kiss features Syndicate.
Menace
p
Joseph Alsop
government bond market
either, both because of infla-tion-fearsand
because he does
not believe that the expedient
would work for long.
In these circumstances, An
derson had to make the most
sobering sort of plea to get
anywhere at all on Capitol
Hill. He had to point out that
approximately three-quarters
of the gigantic U. S. gold re
serve - about $16,000,000,000
in all is callable in one way
or another by foreign govern
ments and financial interests
overseas.
Hence a run on the dollar
could in theory leave the
Treasury with much less than
half the $11,000,000,000 of
gold in hand that the law
requires as a base for the cur
rency in circulation. Ander
son warned the House Ways
and Means Committee, in
bleak terms, that there was a
serious risk of a real run on
the dollar, if he continued to
have to do all his re-financing
with very short term, paper
as at present.
UNDER the compromise
evolved in the Ways and
Means Committee, Anderson
will be able to issue long
term bonds at higher rates of
interest, but only when the
President makes a special
finding of national necessity,
Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Mills insisted upon
centering political responsi
bility on the President, be
cause he blames the Eisen
hower administration for his
friend Anderson's great head
ache, the persistent difficulty
of selling long term bonds.
, "Fiscal soundness" has been
a great Republican cry. But
there would be no budget-
balancing problem today, as
there would be much less in
flationary pressure too, if
former Secretary of the Treas
ury George M. Humphrey had
not opened the ball with a
profligate $7,000,000,000 tax
cut. Thereafter, Humphrey
sought to solve the budgetary
problem by' nibbling away at
the national defense. Mean
while Humphrey's Under Sec
retary, Randolph Burgess, im
potently allowed the average
term of government paper to
grow shorter and shorter.
Nothing was done to reform
the tax structure by elimin
ating loopholes. Nothing was
done, either, about the tax ex
emption . on state and muni
cipal bonds, so useful to very
rich men, and so fatal to the
Federal bond market. If all
these matters had been differ
ently handled, Mills argues
with great cogency, Anderson
would have no bond-headache
today. As matters stand, how
ever, no comprehensive at
tack on the roots of trouble
can be attempted until there
is a new President, with new
ideas and . new authority.
Hence the Mills-Anderson
compromise seemed the best
and indeed the only way out.
(Copyright 1959. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Stop Me
Air Force Defensive About Operations;
Congressmen Eye Unused A.F. Hospital
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington (UPD - The Air
Force says it's not true some
body goofed in building the
new Air Academy. In fact,
the generals proudly told
Congress the
other day, this
project has
been handled
just like Air
Force work
everywhere.
That, ap
parently, was
just what the
con gressmen
Frank Eleazer iearea.
Take, for example, the fine
new hospital in the country
side of Normandy, France.
Rep. Melvln R. Laird (R
Wis.) recalled that in 1955
this 1,000-bed hospital turned
up among top priority pro-
Radio Free
Gromyko's Complaints Indicate
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
At Geneva, Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko
made as one of his major
points a demand that Western
broadcasts to
listeners be-,
hind the Iron
Curtain be
stilled.
: It was a nign
compliment to
the Western
radio voices
which supply
virtually the
only news to
Phil Newsom
Iron Curtain peoples not sub-
.
Today fir Tomorrow
By Walter
POLITICAL GUESSING
The latest returns in the
Gallop poll continue to show
a big majority for President
E i s e n hower
in the, White
House and al
most as big a
majority for
the Democrats
in Congress.
E i senhower's
popu 1 a r i t y,
which is 62
Walter c 1 lt1'
Lippmann would mean
in an election a huge land
slide. The Democratic party's
majority for Congress, which
is 59 per cent, would be suf
ficient on election day to give
it an evep bigger majority in
both Houses than the big ma
jority it already has today.
The Gallop poll is not infal
lible. But in forecasting elec
tions its range of error is
never nearly so big that it
would change the general con
clusions. The country would
vote now, as it did in 1956,
for Eisenhower and a Demo
cratic Congress.
FOR 1960, the first question
then is whether Eisen
hower's popularity is personal
and special to him, or whether
it is, so to speak, "Republi
can" and can be inherited by
Nixon or Rockefeller. There is
no sure answer. One can only
guess. My guess is that for the
Presidency there may well be
a Republican majority
brought together by two main
popular beliefs and one politi'
cal tradition. A majority of
the people may think that the
Republicans are more likely to
avoid war than are the Demo
crats. The second popular be
lief is that with business
booming, the Republicans are
more likely to resist the in
flation of prices and to keep
taxes from rising.
The third is the circum
stance that because the Demo
cratic party consists of several
different factions, it has a sure
majority only in Congres
sional elections. For in them
each faction can vote sepa
rately for example for segre
gation in Mississippi and
against segregation in New
York. These separate votes for
factional representatives,
when combined in Congress,
are a large majority, cut
when all the factions have to
unite on one candidate for
President, it is not at all cer
tain that there is a sure Demo
cratic majority.
IF there is in fact some such
Republican majority in the
Presidential contest it is obvi
ously a fragile and precarious
majority. There are many
more Democrats than there
are Republicans, and this
means that the Republican
candidate must attract while
the Democratic candidate re
pels a great many Democrats
something on the order of
10 per cent. This is not easy
for the Republican candidate
to do if the Democrats are able
to compromise their worst
differences on civil rights, are
able to present a candidate
who creates confidence in his
ability to conduct foreign af
fairs and who does not fright
jects for the Air Force. Con
gress put up the necessary
millions, and about a year ago
the hospital was finished.
They built a nurses' home,
barracks, and service clubs.
They brought in the latest sur
gical gear, X-ray machines,
and other fancy equipment.
Hospital Never Opened
So Laird, on a tour of over
seas bases a few weeks ago,
dropped by to see how it
worked out. He could hardly
see the place for the weeds.
"Do you mean the grass
needed to be cut, or the build
ing was unoccupied?" asked
Rep. Charles R. Jones (R-N.C.)
Both, Laird replied. There
was nobody there but a few
fellows manning a fire truck.
The hospital had never been
opened.
"I tried to get some infor
Europe Effective,
ject to previous doctoring by
Communist propagandists.
For if the broadcasts had
not been effective, Gromyko
would not have been so insist
ent in his demands.
One of the most effective
voices is Radio Free Europe
which on July 4 goes into its
10th year as an organization
devoted wholly to broadcasts
18 hours a day to Czechoslo
vakia, Hungary, Poland, Ro
mania and Bulgaria.
Supported By Public
RFE is a non-profit organ
ization, a division of the Free
Europe Committee, Inc., sup
ported by public contributions
lippmann
en the taxpayers and those
living on fixed incomes in
cluding fixed salaries and
wages.
For while there may be a
Republican majority for the
Presidency, it can exist only
when the Republican candi
date can, like General Eisen
hower, attract Democrats.
This is critical for the choice
between Nixon and llocke
feller.
NIXON's greatest weakness
is that, having been a bit
ter fighter against the Demo
crats, he has acquired so many
bitter enemies among the
Democrats. Unless by a turn
of fate he becomes President
long enough before the elec
tion to establish a new image
of himself, he is the Republi
can who most surely unites
the Democrats. That is why
the Democratic politicians so
generally are hoping that Nix
on will be nominated and are
so deeply afraid that Rocke
feller will be. What they fear
in Rockefeller is, of course,
his appeal, as shown in New
York in 1958, to the Demo
crats.
In estimating Rockefeller's
chances of being nominated,
we must, however, bear in
mind that Nixon has one enor
mous advantage. It is very
dangerous for the Republican
professionals to oppose Nixon,
dangerous for them even to
wait too long to come out in
favor of him. That is because
of the possibility that Nixon
may be President with all the
patronage and the power of
the White House at his dis
posal.
rrtflE main problem of the
Democrats is an old one in
American politics. It is that
the leadership of the party is
in Congress, and when that is
the case, the capture of the
Presidency is secondary to
the holding on to the control
of Congress. As a matter of
fact, without being cynical
about it, the Congressional
leaders not only Senator
Johnson and Speaker Ray
burn, but the old gentlemen
who are chairmen of most of
the committees are much
more important and powerful
with a Republican in the
White House than they would
be with a Democrat. There is
in them no urgency and pas
sion about the Presidency.
They can hear with tranquility
the cries of the activist North
ern Democrats who want to
make a record in order to
carry the Northern states for
the Democratic candidate.
What the- Congressional
leaders will want in the Presi
dential candidate of the Demo
cratic party is first of all a
man who will not be a liabil
ity in any of the regions where
Democrats are elected to Con
gress. After that paramount
consideration they will be
looking for a winner. It is
here that the national leaders
outside of Congress will have
to exert themselves to over
come the bias of the Congres
sional politicians, and to con
verge on a candidate who
could win because he is fitted
to be President.
(C) 1959. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
mation as to whether there
were any plans to use it dur
ing this calendar year," Laird
reported, "and there were no
plans to use it during this cal
endar, year and no plans to
use it next year as far as any
one knew."
Brig. Gen. John K. Cullen,
explaining things for the Air
Force, said the trouble was,
troop strength in France "has
been markedly reduced" since
the hospital plans were made.
Reduced by how many
men? asked Laird.
Reduction Is Small
He didn't know, Cullen said
but he would find out. Later,
he supplied this memo:
"At the time construction
contract for the hospital at
Evreaux, France, was award
ed, the existing Air Force
military strength for France
to Crusade For Freedom. The
annual goal is $10 million,
much of which comes through
heavy contributions from
American industry.
An interesting phase of the
operation not previously un
derstood by this layman is
RFE's check on its own audi
ence reception.
RFE people estimate that
Soviet Russia and its satellites
attempt to jam out their
broadcasts from 225 different
locations behind the Iron Cur
tain, using between 1,500 and
2,000 transmitters.
To overcome Soviet jam
ming, RFE uses 28 transmit
ters operating from Munich in
West Germany and Lisbon in
Portugal, beaming the pro
grams in on some of the most
powerful signals in the world.
Most programs are availa
ble at seven different points
on the dial and all are re
peated at least four times so
that if one is missed it may
be picked up again.
Monitors Evalute Reception
Monitors situated close to
the Iron Curtain listen
throughout the day and night,
evaluating reception for each
country. From these reoorts.
RFE says it has been deter
mined that 90 per cent of its
programs can be heard satis
factorily on one or more short
wave frequencies.
News is RFE's most import
ant commodity
Nearly 20 per cent of its'
time is devoted to news com
piled from such organizations
as11 United Press International,
and to commentaries by ex
perts on the five countries to
which the broadcasts are
beamed.
Other standard fare include
disc jockeys and a theater pro
gram whose efforts have
ranged from "Sunrise at
Campobello" to "My Fair
Lady" and "Carousel."
Labor programs analyze de
velopments in the Soviet orbit
from the point of view of the
worker. Past and present ex
periences of the labor move
ment in the West are reported.
WON'T HALT BROADCAST
.London (DPD - The British
government Wednesday re
fused to halt a scheduled
broadcast supporting birth
control, despite protests from
Roman Catholic leaders. The
bishop of Southwark was to
make the broadcast Aug. 23
to appeal for, funds for the
Family Planning Asociation.
Aoom from
FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD
DAY OR NIGHT
u
. . . was 19,851. The existing
Air Force military strength
in France as of March, 1959,
was 19,766."
Laird figured a difference
of 85 persons.
But Cullen said the hospital
wouldn't be wasted. The Air
Force now has a "tentative"
plan to open it up, maybe
even this summer or fall, for
use of 150 beds.
Meantime, we are keeping
the fire engine ready.
Rep. Harry R. Sheppard
(R-Calif.) said let's talk some
more .about the Air Force
Academy, where the work has
been handled like Air Force
work everywhere."
Academy Cost Soars "
First he put in the record
a report from government
auditors, who claimed event
ual cost of the academy, orig
inally set at $125 million, has
soared to $269,813,637.
For this there were numer
ous reasons, including, be
sides rising prices, a golf
course ($121,000); a display
model, to show visitors before
tne buildings were built ($98,
560); and aluminum shoe
racks for the cadets $9,218).
Sheppard, like Laird, has
a long memory. Last year he
asked about the big dining
hall, -with glass walls on three
sides. He wondered if the sun
wouldn't keep the cadets in a
sweat both morning and eve
ning and if Congress wouldn't
be asked later for thousands
of dollars for drapes.
Air Secretary James H.
Douglas, he recalled, said
there'd be no problem at all.
A 21-foot overhang was to
be built on the roof and drap
eries would never be needed.
So a year has passed, and
Sheppard learns that $2,500
has been spent on drapes, with
another $2,000 committed.
And that's to cover only one
wall.
"Taking the testimony that
we have had, and to which I
have just referred," Sheppard
said, "it makes me wonder
just where we can hang our
hats. . ."
Look through that report
again, Congressman Sheppard.
Maybe it will show they've
got hat racks.
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Wants Reunion
To the Editor: Attention
Class of '46.
Oh where are the "grads"
of '46?!
They passed thru the doors of
Medford High
To opportunities wide as
the sky.
Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants,
Chiefs,
Tailor, Ranchman, Sailor,
Chemist,
Airman too, these titles name
a paltry few '
But scattered are last names
we knew.
Where's our class spirit? Let's
show 'em howl
We need a Reunion, Now!
Now! Now!
(These lines are from your
own class poet,
Who doesn't rhyme much and
"Yes," she knows it.)
C. Hawkins,
formerly,
C. Brault (Bro),
208 Summit ave.,
Medford.
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