MA It TRIBUNE, MatfforJ, Or.
Wetfncselay, July S, 195
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
arid 50 years ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1949 (Friday)
The issue of rent decontrol
comes before the Medford city
council tonight with propo
nents and opponents ready
with testimony.
George W. Kellington, Med
ford attorney, is appointed to
the Medford area rent advis
ory board.
20 YEARS AGO
July 8. 1939 (Saturday)
The Medford city council
votes to ask the PWA for
funds to help reconstruction
of paved streets.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Wood
piles have started to shrink
mysteriously, in the rural
areas. This Is viewed as a good
sign of winter, and that some
body without an ax has been
round."
80 YEARS AGO
July 8. 1929 (Monday)
Night air mail beacons are
to be installed soon at Med
ford airport.
Incendiary forest fires are
started in the Coker butte
area.
40 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1919 (Tuesday)
A large crowd gathers at
Gore field to see an airplane
that fails to appear.
Medford churches plan to
hold the first summer union
service In the city park next
Sunday.
50 YEARS AGO
July 8. 1909 (Thursday)
Rogue valley orchardists
plan massive retaliation
against insect crop spoilers.
Repairs begin for the Gold
Ray dam fishway.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
sis is igood.
1. "White Plague," is anoth
er name for eczema, leprosy,
pneumonia or tuberculosis?
2. Where ,was Napoleon
Bonaparte born?
3. Who said, "Liberty and
Union, now and forever, one
and inseparable?"
4. How many ciphers must
be added to the figure one to
make a quintillion?
5. Which of these metals is
heaviest-iron, gold, lead, cop
per? 6. Was the original con
struction of the Panama Canal
begun by the French, Dutch,
English, or Americans?
7. Alligators lay eggs; true
or false?
8. Which U. S. President
was nicknamed "Little Ma
gician"? 9. Which of these tools
would be most suggestive of
Abraham Lincoln scythe,
hammer, ax, monkey wrench?
10. What name is given to
a remedy for counteracting a
poison and stopping its action?
Answers: 1. Tuberculosis.
2. Island of Corsica. 3 .Dan
iel Webster. 4. Eighteen.
5. Gold. 6. French. 7. True.
8 Martin Van Buxen. 9. Ax.
10. Antidote.
IRRELEVANT
Rutland, Vt. - (CPU - Super
ior Judge Natt DivoU ruled
that the attitude of a bull
whose owners were being
sued for $100,000 because he
gored a doctor was irrelevant
to the cast.
Dr. Merkel Leaving
A public health officer is, in many ways, in
a unique position.
He is the one member of the medical pro
fession who, because of
but must, speak out on matters of health, for
quotation, without the private physician's qualms
about what the ethics committee may say.
His concern is not with the individual patient;
it is with the health of the entire community. And
it is not limited to a single field, but covers all
threats to health, both
A MONG the nation's
in this field is Dr.
many years has served
public health officer. He has, on more than one
occasion, turned down attractive offers elsewhere
to remain in the service
community.
. Now, however, he
greater responsibility,
tion i California. And Jackson county will be
the loser, no matter what the ability of his suc
cessor.
Quietly, modestly, efficiently, courteously. Dr.
Merkel has guided the
for more than two decades. This county, which
had an outstanding public health program when
he to over, still has one of the best small-county
health services in the nation.
MEMBERS of the medical profession probably
has also worked effectively, with other public
office holders, with the press, and with the public
at large.
He has worked untiringly at a job which has
its share of frustrations and defeats. And he
will leave southern Oregon a better place than
ne iound it.
It is our hope that
satisfaction and inner rewards in his new work,
and we congratulate the
obtaining an outstanding physician, public offi
cer, and gentleman. E.A.
They 're
It probably won't do
a .weight off our chest,
loudly, that we think people who toss their trash
alongside a road, or on
camp area, are a bunch
1 hey increase taxes
several million dollars a
up after them) ; they create hazards for others
(paper trash is a fire hazard; discarded garbage
is a health hazard; bottles and cans are a threat
to feet, bare hands, and auto tires) ; and they
destroy much enjoyment for others. No one likes
to be confronted with the messes left by others.
IT IS our impression that Oregonians are, very
gradually, losing some of their litterbug tend
encies. On a recent trip we noticed that the way
sides and road shoulders seemed neater and
cleaner than in the past.
The highway department must be thanked for
at least part of this, both because it provides
litter cans at frequent intervals, and because it
als cleans up the roadsides periodically.
In any event, the tendency is a good one. But
it does serve to point out the remaining litterbugs
for the slobs they are. E.A.
50,000 Pleasure Seekers
Rogue River National forest personnel esti
mated that somewhere around 50,p00 people
swarmed into the forests of this area over the
July 4 week end, to take advantage of its recrea
tional facilities. X
Fifty thousand people is a lot of people. It
is the population of two Medfords, or six Ash
lands. It is five-sevenths of the entire population
of Jackson county.
Even if some of them were counted twice, it
still is a tremendous number of people to descend
on the lakes, streams and camps of the region in
a two-day period. It is as many as attended the
Centennial exposition in Portland during the
same two days.
MOW isn't this just about the best argument
A anyone can give in support of more emphasis
on recreational preparations in this, or any
other, forest? - '
Doesn't it mean that Americans, who after
all own the forests, are using them in increasing
thousands? .
Doesn't it also mean that, to conserve other
forest values, such as watershed management,
timber harvesting, fish and. wildlife, and so on,
provisions must be made to accommodate these
outdoor pleasure-seekers so that in their enthu
siasm and their thousands, they won't damage
the forests irreparably? "
We think it means just those things.
TTHE forest service is acutely aware of these
things, and is doing everything it can to do
the job that must be done. But it must work
within the framework of laws and budgets pro
vided by congress.-
A realistic program has been prepared, and
is receiving a favorable reaction in Washington.
There is a question, however, as to whether con
gressmen, generally, and the administration itself,
feel a sufficient sense of urgency about it
We think maybe they should be invited to
Lake of the Woods' som6 July 4 week end and
then see if their sense of urgency isn't given a
shot in the arm. E.A. -
his job, not only can,
physical and mental.
outstanding practitioners
A. Erin Merkel, who for
Jackson county as its
of the people of this
has accepted a post of
challenge and remunera
.. . :
county health department
he will continue to find
people of San Diego for
Slobs
any good, except to get
but we'd like to say,
the ground in a public'
of disgusting slobs.
(it costs public agencies
year, nationally, to clean
Dennis the
PlQSOHS, GOTTA VKH fOO, KNOW.'
Matter of Fact
WITH PINBOARD
PROGRAMMING TOO!
Fisher Island, N.Y. - "It ac
cepts signals from thermo
couples, flow, pressure and
other trans-
vi ducers. It
measures
these signals,
digitizes them
and prints
their values.
A th er mo-
couple refer
ence oven can
also be sup-
-Ins-oh AIsoo puea, 10 per
mit IT to accomodate three
types of inputs, which are
automatically linearized over
their entire range to within
0.1 per'cent of accuracy."
The foregoing specimen of
prose is NOT a visiting Mar
tian's first murderous attack
on the English language.
These secret sentences do NOT
come, either, from any deep
and abstruse work of science.
These sentences were pen
ned on Madison Avenue, in
fact, by a hard-selling man in
a gray flannel suit. Their pub
lication was paid for with a
great corporation's carefully
budgeted advertising dollars.
The IT of their mad drama is
.something called a logger-
scanner. IT also has pinboard
programming. IT can log all
variables automatically. And
IT can scan off-normal alarm
points between logging cycles.
ALL these remarkable facts
are here recorded because
it really ought to be news
when even advertisements be
come hermetic and incom
prehensible. To be sure, the
intended audience of this par
ticular advertisement is rath
er special. In an increasingly
vain effort to keep abreast
of our complicated times, this
reporter reads "The Scientific
American." Catching up on
the most recent issues during
the holiday week end, the
reporter found the gem of
prose quoted above, which
was aimed at scientists and
technicians with an itch to
have their variables auto
matically logged.
Maybe it is a bit rediculous
moreover, to be surprised be
cause even the advertising
men have begun to speak a
secret language. If you have
read "The Scientific Amen-
1 1 i x.
can ' reguiany m xnese iasi
years, there are two things
you le,arn. On the one hand,
there is no end to the beauty
and surprise of the strange
world of modern science. But
on the other hand, as the
years go by, more and more
provinces of this strange
world are passing beyond the
ken of ordinary men.
The beauty and surprise are
the sufficient rewards of the
unchained explorer of. this
strange world. The riddle of
an ancient lump of bronze,
sea-corroded by more than
20 centuries in the Aegean,
is'read at last. And from this
lump of bronze it is discov
ered that the old Greeks
could also make computers.
OR orphaned monkeys are
offered the odd choice
between a bleak, wire - made
imitation mother with breasts
that give real milk, or a milk
less but soft and warm imi
tation mother made of heated
towelling. And so it is dis
covered that the psychologists
Rex Putnam Goes
Home From Hospital
Salem-(CPD-Dr. Rex Putnam,
Oregon state superintendent
of public instruction hospital
ized here after a heart attack
last month, returned home
Tuesday and doctors reported
his condition as "good."
A physician said, however,
that Putnam would not be
able to have visitors for some
time.
. s
Of the ten Canadian prov
inces, British Columbia has
the largest accessible stands of
I -
coniferous trees. .
Menace
Joseph Alsop
have been wrong all along:
an infant's love of mother
does not deprive from the ma
terial need for nourishment,
but from some deeper need,.
to be cuddled and softly re
assured. Or rockets bear telescopes
and spectroscopes aloft, to
acquire new data on the in
ner make-up of the sun that
warms pur earth. Or other
telescopes, soaring in balloons
bring back the somehow cozy
news that the sun's gaseous
inferno boils with the surface
pattern of paraffin headed in
a shallow dish. Or someone
mingles disassociated cells
from mouse embryos and
chick embryos. And thus it
is learned that despite the
most unexpected mixture,
cells meant to build kidneys
and cells meant to make carti
lage will obstinately go on
doing their kidney - forming
and cartilage forming duties.
Even to the layman, there
is something wonderfully stir
ring in this unending, pains
taking, fantastic exploration
of all the many universes we
simultaneously inhabit, from
the infinitely great universe
of the cosmos to the infinitely
tiny universe of the life pro
cess itself. But to the layman,
there is also something genu
inely upsetting in the tend
ency ludicrously illustrated
by the advertisement of the
logger - scanner whatever
that may be.
Fis
a tendency which has
also caused grave concern
among a few wise men of
science, like Sir C. P. Snow
and Dr. J. Robert Oppenhei
mer. It is the tendency of our
once united culture to break
up into two quite separate
cultures.
First, there is the culture
of ordinary men, who may
learn to read archaic Latin
or ancient Chinese, but can
hardly hope to read the scien
tists writing in their own
language. And then, increas
ingly set apart, there is also
the culture of the scientists,
who write and think and work
for one another, and even
have their own advertising
copywriters nowadays, with
a; special hard sell couched in
the scientists' jargon.
The separation of the cul
ture Would not be so disquiet
ing, if each did not blindly
use the other. Left to them
selves, the scientists would
only use their rockets to ex
plore the cosmos. Left to them
selves, the ordinary men
conld not make intercontin
ental ballistic missiles, or any
of the other instruments , we
now possess to change the
balance of nature itself.
But rather than think any
longer about the blind inter
action of the two cultures, it
is probably better to go swim
ming.
Copyright. 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
ASIDfc r'ROM STRONG entertainment values, Bill Ballan
tine's Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas provides some invalu
able hints to people who may have cause to enter deep woods
or jungles or who crave to
join a circus.
Remember, warns Ballan
tine, that one should beware
of all four sides of a camel;
that one should never pat
an elephant on its trunk;
that those cute sea lions
have a devastating bite; and
that, aside from even better
reasons for not putting one's
head in a lion's mouth, the
king of beasts has the worst
case of, halitosis in the en
tire jungle.
"It is not safe," continues
Ballantine, "to back up and run from an attacking tiger. Better
just stand pat and speak sharply enough." We'll try to re
member that, Mr. B.!
"My wife," boasted a Wall Street broker, "is endowed with a very
athletic figure. She's shaped like a medicine ball:"
D 1959. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Formosa Strait Flare
Diversionary Tactics,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The hot war that breaks out
from time to time over the
Formosa Strait seems to . be
sort of a push
button affair,
dependent
during certain
seasons of the
year on whims
of the weath
er and at oth
ers fcn the
whims of the
Communists.
pan Newsom The weather
is fairly constant, and it is
now accepted that from the
fall of the year until early
spring, the choppy waters of
the strait will provide a nat
ural barrier to any attempt by
Red China to mount a direct
attack against President Chi
ang Kai Shek's bastion on
Formosa.
The Red Chinese are less
constant. For example, no one
ever has satisfactorily ex
plained the Red decision to
bombard only on every other
day the Nationalist-held off
shore islands of Quemoy.
There have been occasional
suspicions that the Reds, in
cooperation with their Soviet
allies, use their push-button
tactics in the Formosa Strait
area as an artificial, crisis-creating
instrument to divert
Western eyes from a budding
crisis elsewhere in the world,
or to shield a sudden switch
in world Communism's global
plans.
Planes Clash
So, this week Soviet-built
MIG jet fighters sallied out
from the Red Chinese main
land, and clashed over the
Matsu islands with National
ist pilots flying American
built Sabrejets. .
The Nationalist report said
it was a one-sided 5-0 victory
for the Sabres.
The Matsus also lie just off
the Red Chinese mainland,
about 120 miles north of the
Quemoys
Together they are in a posi
tion effectively to block the
Red ports of Foochow and
Amoy.
i Until the Reds obtained
longer range artillery across
from the Matsus, the Que
moys were the favorite tar
gets of Red gunners who last
August dumped more than
40,000 shells on the latter in
one record day.
Activity Picks Up
In recent days there has
been a noticeable pickup of
Red activity against both the
Quemoys and the. Matsus
which in addition to being
able to harass Red shipping,
also are the outermost defense
posts for Formosa.
It is perhaps coincidence
that the recent attacks have a
parallel in the Red offensive
mounted against the offshore
islands last year.
Then, as now, Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev was
pressing for a summit confer
ence. There was speculation then
that Khrushchev had per
suaded the Red Chinese to
step up their attacks as a
means of impressing upon
Western leaders the imminent
need of a summit conference
on world problems ranging
from the future of Formosa
to the future of Berlin.
Pressure Suspected
Shortly after that Khrush
chevs desire for a summit
meeting chilled, and the spec
ulation then was that he did
so under pressure of the Chi
nese Reds who were irked be
caus they had not been in
cluded in the summit invita
tion.
Before the Big Four foreign
ministers met in Geneva this
year, there were predictions
that the Reds would stage a
diversionary maneuver some
where. The Formosa area was
one of the sites mentioned.
Present Red intentions still
are vague. Last year's diver
Stop Me
v 5r
sionary attacks against the Na -
tiwnalists island outposts re- cisive action by the U. S. Sev- Fleet would not act just as de
sulted in Oriental loss of face enth Fleet. The Reds have no cisively again.
Congressmen Eye Auto Safety
Measures
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington (DPD They've
got a crash pad now so ab
sorbent it will stop an egg
traveling 55
miles an hour
without crack
ing it. And
the' question
was, why
won't this pad
do the same
thing for our
skulls?
It will, said
Frank Eleszer -Dr. Jiorace 1L.
Campbell, who works on mat
ters like this for the Ameri
can Medical Association. He
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the C3e.
Protests Liquor Plan
To the Editor: A. few days
ago we drove down to the
new recreational area at the
Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. One
does not have to go to Swit
zerland to find Alpine scenes.
They are at our doorstep.
The new 14 mile mountain
road takes you to the ski tow
and ultra modern cafeteria
and shelter. The Mt. Shasta
Ski Bowl corporation has
provided a fine place for the
lovers of the great out-of-doors.
They tell us that close
to 5,000 people have been up
there in one day.
However, a notice posted
on the north door . arrested
our attention. The corpora
tion has applied for a liquor
license and it states that any
one -wishing to protest this
action can do so by filing his
protest with the State Board
of Liquor Control at Sacra
mento. A deadline has been
set but there is still time. The
notice did not say that Ore
gonians could not protest. If
they are gracious enough to
let us spend our money per
haps they will lend an ear to
our protest.
At any rate a flood of let
ters to both the liquor com
mission and the Ski Bowl
corporation would not hurt?
I'm not trying to belittle
any legitimate business. If in
any way we can avert the
loss of life or limb, we should
do it. If individuals insist on
defiling their soul temples
with intoxicating beverages
that is their own problem
Why in the name of decency
do they have to create a haz
ard to the rest of us? There
is a brand new undertaking
parlor down at the foot of the
mountain on the same roaa.
I'm not trying to starve him
out. I believe he gets a rea
sonable amount of business
already.
If it "is the water," as one
beverage bottler states, then
there is plenty of it, freely
available from Shasta's gur
gling mountain streams and
springs.
Henry Johnson Jr.
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
The Old "Oregon"
To the Editor: "Oh say can
you see?" For the sun is just
up. on this Fourth - of - July
morning, with water from the
well wetting the thirsty gar
dens as we try for an answer
to Ross Flanigan's indignant
letter, why we fail to chal
lenge Russia and the world to
a nuclear disarmament race?
His letter and this answer
would have been unneeded
had he remembered that past
experiences make our best
guide-post for the future. For
memory takes us back to the
west bank of the Willamette
river in downtown Portland
where was berthed the old
"piggy bank" battleship Ore
gon. My 5-year-old grandson
had been told how the pen
nies, nickles and dimes of
America's children had helped
to build the grand old battle
wagon, how her mighty en
gine drove her on the long
run down around the Horn
and up to help finish off the
Spanish battle-fleet and break
that nation's hold on the westr
em hemisphere.
So, the boy's face lit up
with, great joy and pride as
we trod the steel deck to gaze
at the big turret-gun's sky
ward challenge to the world.
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because of loose, wobbly false
teeth. PASTEETH. an Unproved alka
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- Ups Viewed as Red
To Mask
1 for the Reds because of de -
Not Now Being Used
said the only problem is to
get the auto industry to install
the stuff on the instrument
panels of all new cars.
Dr. Campbell said the num
ber one health problem today
-counting both deaths and disabilities-is
not cancer or heart
disease or polio. It is automo
bile accidents.
He was among a number of
witnesses before a House sub
committee which is seeking
advice on a cure.
Rep. Abraham Multer (D
N.Y.) said he's heard of cases
where a wheel fell off a new
car, or the steering gear pulled
out by the roots. His prescrip-
But what a shock it was to us
inside the heavy armored tur
rets and down the steel ladder
to the engine-room to see
where the torch had sliced out
big chunks of engine, turret,
guns and other parts. It was a
sickening shock to me even
though reading about the
U.S.A. challenge to the world
for universal disarmament.
But my grandson's tragic cry
was harder to bear, "Grand
pa, for what did they do it?"
It seemed best to- defend
the powers that be in their
naive belief that other na
tions would follow suit. And
my lack of courage to tell him
how Germany, Russia, Japan
and others kept their battle
ships intact and secretly built
more, bigger, better and more
powerful. What could be said
to his endless searching ques
tions, for I was too sick at
heart, sick deep down in my
stomach over the sorry, tragic
blunder, sorry I ever took my
grandson aboard. Stranger
still was his demand to be
taken back as if to be sure of
what he had seen. I was se
cretly glad when they towed
the ruined battleship to the
scrap heap, her hulk across
the Pacific to rust and rot on
a' south sea beach. But still
from the rusting deck, mute
token of pennies and nickles
of children's piggy bank, the
tragic cry still rings in my old
ears, "Grandpa for why did
they do it?"
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, box 200F,
Central Point, Ore.
Red Statutes
To the Editor: I suggest the
people, that is, the Ameri
cans, read the first 10 amend
ments of the U.S. Constitution,
and enforce them by arms, if
need be, as the Constitution
states is to be done when any
state usurps the rights and the
powers of the people, their lib
erty, their freedom from
search and seizure.-
Do you know Communist
statutes are drawn up for so-
called health officers, known
as Gestapo in Europe, to run
through your homes? Do you
know taxation laws are drawn
up to destroy all property
owners, large and small? Do
you know assessors or fire
men have no right to enter
anyones home unless you say
so? Do you know the police
are overriding the Bill of
Rights by using Communist
state statutes to interfere wjth
your liberty, your rights, your
freedom? And, last of all, are
the last of the Americans so
yellow that they won't wake
up out of their day-dreams and
destroy the Gestapo tactics of
their public servants that are
fattening on your blood?
In five years you will have
no more home than a rabbit if
you dont clean up the reds in
this state. American news
you can't get it -is censored
THE
MEMORIAL
SERVICE
c
M. Litwiller
Will long be remembered as one of dignity, reverence
and beauty, when conducted by us in Mountain View
Chapel. To merit your confidence is our sincere desire.
LITWILLER
Funeral
. Home
Mountain View Chapel
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Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
Activities
1 reason to believe the Seventh
tion was a law under which,
as I got it, new cars couldn't
be driven until road tested
100 miles. The subcommittee
seemed to think Multer's law
might be hard to apply.
Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D-
Fla.) said put governors on
our cars, so they can't go fast
er, say, than 80 miles an hour.
The subcommittee said some
of its members nearly not
wrecked once in a test car
equipped with a governor.
when they needed some pow
er and couldn't find it.
Rep. Kenneth A. Roberts
(D-Ala.), the . subcommittee
chairman, proposed to let the
Bureau of Standards set up.
federal safety requirements
for cars, covering such things
as seat belts and padded in
strument panels. And that's
the direction inwhich the sub
committee seemed to be driv
ing. I regret to say that there
is a certain air of indifference,
a so-what attitude on the part
of many who should be con
cerned," Roberts said.
Dr. Campbell, who is vice
chairman of the AMA's com
mittee on deaths and injuries
from auto accidents, said the
AMA for years has been
badgering the auto makers to
build more safety into their
cars. He said the recessed
steering wheels and safety
steering door latches of 1956
helped a lot, but that not much
has been happening since.
Dr. Campbell, who comes
from Denver, said AMA . re
search shows that seat belts
and safety padding in cars
would prevent many of the
38,000 deaths and 5,000,000
injuries suffered each year.
He held up a small pad of
something called ensolite. He
said he laid some of this on
the floor of the Colorado State
Capitol and had a state patrol
man drop an egg from the
dome. The egg did not splat
ter, or even break. It bounced.
"We think there. might be
an analogy between the egg
and the human head," he testis
fied. "We think a human head
traveling as the egg. (at 55
miles an hour) might with im
punity strike an auto surface
covered with this." "
He said padded instrument
panels and sun visors ought
to be standard equipment on
cars, since head damage is in
volved in 70 per cent of the
more serious crashes.
And he brought in here an
other telling parallel with the
egg.
Once you break it, he said,
a head is mighty hard to re
pair. by reds in the editorial offices
of newspapers. Red propa
ganda, you can get carloads
of it. Take the speed laws.
Any speed over 35 miles per
hour is a short cut to the bone-
yard, but death is big busi
ness. Anything over that
should be in a plane, but
there's big money in the death
racket.
Study the first 10 amend
ments and enforce them or
be destroyed by traitors.
G. S. Reilly,
338 North Laurel st,
Ashland. Ore.
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