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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years, ago
10 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1949 (Thursday)
Fire danger is high in south
ern Oregon with Medford's
maximum temperature 104
degrees; new restrictions
ordered on water use. .
A three-point one-year trial
program is established by the
Jackson county juvenile court
committee to provide proper
personnel and facilities for
"tremendous case overload"
of Juvenile Officer John
Richards.
20 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1939 (Friday)
John Colley family of 10
loses home in fire on Hillcrest-
. Phoenix rd." " '
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
rich are still getting richer,
and the poor pcorer many of
the latter in new autos."
30 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1929 (Sunday)
Rogue River Traffic associ
ation is assured of fast car
shipments to eastern markets,
new route via Alturas cut-off
to take only 11 days.
One hundred and fifty Busi
ness and professional, women
and families hold . picnic at
Grants Pass park.
40 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1919 (Monday)
George Vilas returns from
service with Army in France.
Brush and grass fire burns
1,500 acres on Anderson
creek;
50 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1909 (Wednesday)
"Art Work of Oregon" by
W. D. Harnev. featuring pho
tos and history of state, is dis
tributed locally.
Automobile drivers repair
TAD H in Crater lake, begin
ning with construction of
bridge across Union creek.
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nina or fan correct is superior;
seven or eight is seallent; five
six is good.
1. Complete the proverb,
"All roads lead to-.'
2. Was Peru once ruled by
Aztecs, Mayans, or Incas?
3. Which organ of the hu--man
body contains four
chambers known as right and
left auricle and right and left
ventricle? .
4. To what did veterans of
World War n refer as the
"ruptured duck"?
5. Persimmons are ripened
by frost; true or false?
6. The Strait of Dover sep
arates what two countries?
7. In what sport was Red
Grange ah outstanding star?
8. A rattlesnake will not
cross a rope made of horse
hair; true or false?
9. The body of what revo
lutionary leader has been
kept open to -view since his
death?.
10. Supply the missing
name: "Elementary, my dear
Answers: 1. Rome. 2. Ia-
cas.
3. Heart. 4. Honorable
Discharge button. 5. False.
6. England and France. 7.
Football. 8. False. 9. Lenin.
10. Watson.
New York -4CPD- Ninety-five
out of 100 beer drinkers con
at least some of their
beer at home and three out of
four now drink an or most of
it there, according to an
American Can Co. survey.
Fish and Dams
Hank DeVoss, who writes the "Woods,
Water, Wildlife" column for the Mail Tribune,
is an ardent fisherman and conservationist.
He's a man who thinks few things can com
pare in importance or pleasure with fishing.
(And who's to say he's wrong?)
But Hank is also smart, and as able as the
next man to see the handwriting on the wall.
And the handwriting which Hank sees these days
is the need for the end of the "blind opposition"
to dams on the part of fishermen. '
THE day when conservationists (and we use the
word in the narrow sense, rather than the
broad one) can, simply by opposing a dam on
the basis of its threat to the fishery, kill it, is
rapidly ending. He believes that those who' ap
preciate the fishery s
another look, and work
He is, in effect, arguing for a compromise
with the inevitable.
Last Friday, he said in his column:
"There have been too many dams built over our
blind opposition, and they have been built with no
facilities and no planning as to what values could
be saved." ,
And hp. declares that, instead, the fishing en
thusiasts had better change their emphasis to a
balanced, cooperative approach, and make sure
that the dams that are, built (and will oe ount,
regardless), are built with an eye to the protec
tion of the fishery resource.
IT WAS largely the fishery people (notably the
Izaak Walton League, which caned, on its co
horts across the nation) that defeated the Rogue
T?nsin dp.veloriment Dlan as Dresented in 1948.
(After that, it should be added, they coop
erated or. rather, agreed not to ODiect wnen
the.Talent division, a part of the larger plan, was
proposed and approved.)
Things remained unchanged up until Decem
ber, 1955, and January, 1956, when one of the
worst floods in the modern history of the Rogue
occurred. -
This woke up the people of the valley to the
fact that the original Rogue Basin plan would
have prevented, or at least much mitigated, the
flood. Damage to property was immense, and the
threat to life was serious, although fortunately
no one lost his life that time.
THE resulting discussions led to -a new consid-
eration of the Rogue and what should be done,
not only in flood prevention, but also in other
areas of potential good for irrigation, power,
recreation, fish and wildlife, and municipal and
industrial water supplies.
Now, the time is again nearing for a' decision
by the people of the valley as to what they want
in the way of water resources development. The
Oregon water resources board has completed its
study of the basin, the bureau of reclamation has
conducted further studies, and the corps of engi
neers is nearing completion of a large-scale study
of the entire problem.
A! public, hearing: on
which take into consideration the factors pre
sented by other agencies, will be held, probably,
in September.
OANK'S column was based on a resolution
adopted, by conservation groups with re
gard to a proposed privately-built dam on the
Deschutes. It asked for studies by all agencies
concerned, and for formulation of a program of
the entire basin.
We don't want to misinterpret Hank's atti
tude. But it seems to us that this approach is one
which can also be applied to the Rogue basin.
The engineers' report, and those of the other
agencies involved, will provide a thoughtful,
overall program for development And they
should provide protection for the Rogue fishery.
If they do not, they should be revised.
But if the fishing enthusiasts fail to realize
the necessity for a cooperative approach, and are
led again into "blind opposition" based on an
all-or-nothing attitude, the valley stands to lose.
TTHE classic fishing on the Rogue is a valuable
resource. But so would be the new recreational,
power, flood control, irrigation, fish and wildlife,
and water supply benefits of an integrated plan.
(As to recreation, let it be noted, the situation
has changed markedly since 1948. Then fisher
men outnumbered boaters. Today, boaters prob
ably outnumber the "classic" fishermen. on the
order of 20 to 1. And the impoundments proposed
in the engineers' report would provide a tremen
dous resource for this type of recreation. One
needs only to. look at the use given other lakes,
new and old, in the area.)
It is another case where "the greatest good
for the greatest number" should be the govern
ing consideration. E.A.
Eternal Complaint
We are indebted to a Medford physician for
a clipping containing the following quotation:
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad
manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for
older people. Children nowadays are tyrants.
They no longer rise when their elders enter the
rodm..They contradict their parents, chatter be
fore company, gobble their food, and tyrannize
their teachers." " " -
Sounds familiar, doesn't it? The kind of thing
one hears frequently these days?
It is a quotation from Socrates, written in
the fifth century B.C. E.A.
value had better take
out a new approach.
'
the engineers' plans,
Dennis the
l NEVER KEWD s9Atm
Nam
Free World on Red
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
As of the end of 1958, the
United States had poured some
$800 million into aid for South
Viet Nam -an
i n d e pendent
republic born
of the Geneva
conference of
1954 and an
other of the
Southeast
Asia outposts
guarding
Newsom " 6 " 1 " new
n rr ,
encroachment by communism.
It. was there last week that
terrorists, officially identified
as Communists, burst from
the jungle and killed two
American military advisers.
The Americans were addi
tional victims of an undeclar
ed shooting war which ex
tends along a vast periphery
reaching from the 38th Paral
ley in Korea-to the Branden
burg Gate in Berlin.
This is the boundary set up
years ago to "contain" com
munism. And it is the result
of international communism's
unceasing efforts . to burst
through this area of contain
ment that Americans die over
the China seas and in Indo
china and run the risk that
they will be the center of a
new world war in Berlin.
Nine Year Civil War
South Viet Nam is about
twice the size of Maine and
contains more than 10 million
people. It is the southern part
of. the former French Indo
Chinese colonial ' empire in
which the French invested
more than $2 billion over a
period of 80 years only to lose
it after World War II.
Civil war raged in Indo
china for nine years after the
end of World War II in 1945.
Ostensibly it arose because of
French foot-dragging in grant
ing any kind of independence
to the Vietnamese.
But as much as that, it
arose from international com
munism's insatiable appetite
which could only be satisfied
with larger and larger chunks
of the free world. ,
Indo-chinese Communist
leader was Ho Chi Mmh, a
man with a wispy: mustache,
a slender physique and a
mighty constitution.
Ho Chi Minh today rules
Communist North Viet Nam,
and presumably last week's
raiders against the billet in
which two Americans died.
were under his orders.
Split in Two
The 1954 Geneva confer
ence split Viet Nam at the
17th Parallel into two sec-
tors-non-Communist and Com.
munist
The situation was much like
that in Korea. The Commu
nists in the north control
mines, raw materials and in
dustries but are short on ara
ble land. The anti-Commu
Try and
Phil
By BENNETT CERF-
GEORGE OPPENHELMER tells of two typical stage mothers
who met after a Broadway producer had given a wild
party. One show girl had been persuaded, as a rlimax. to
QLsroDe ana aive lnio a pool
filled with champagne. "It's
a blot on the theater,"
fumed one of the , moms.
"No daughter is safe in this
town any : longer. ;What
more, I hear theyneverpaid
the poor girl the $500 they
promised her." "That's'the
worst part of all," gasped
the other mom. "Where was
her mother?" ; .
Teachers told their pupils
for years that the geographi
cal center of the United States
was in Kansas. Now that Al
aska and Hawaii are states, however, there's been some, drastic re
calculation! The new geographical center of the U. S. is Pondosa,
Oregon!
"Everybody is aware," notes Dan Kidney, "that a little knowledge
is a dangerous thing and that's why so many people don't fool
with it"
C1SW, by Bennett Cert, stttrtboted by Bag Xmham SrulteU.
Menace
Among Outposts of
nists control a rich agricul
tural area but have little in
the way of resources and
power. '
At the head of South Viet
Nam is Ngo Dinh Diem.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
HERTER'S APPROACH
Washington - The return to
Geneva of Secretary of State
Christian Herter for the re
sumed foreign
ministers con
ference over
Berlin is a
great book
marker in the
unfolding
story of his
tory. v
For the Her-
Williams. . .
whit 1 1 c 1 pates in
Phase 2 at Geneva embodies
the end of one chapter and
the opening of another in
United States diplomacy. For
the first time, he is strictly
and wholly his own man. . The
grip of his : powerful '.dead
predecessor, John Foster Dul
les, upon our affairs is now
finally and forever relaxed.
The line between the old
Dulles approach and the new
Herter approach was drawn,
by seemingly casual but skill-
ful suggestion, by Mr. Herter
even before departing Wash
ington. He never announced
in so many words, of course,
that any alteration was, at
hand. But he made it 'plain,
nevertheless, to those who
cared to listen attentively.
.
1ITHAT, specifically, is the
nature of the change? It
is . not the abandonment, m
whole or in part, of the de
termined American line to
ward the Russians. It does
not suggest that Christian
Herter will be easily open to
compromises which Foster
Dulles would have stonily
spurned. It does not mean an
alteration of principle at all.
; But it does mean an alter
ation of method and manner.
And method and manner
sometimes are almost as sig
nificant as substance itself. If
any country, antagonistic or
allied, supposes that Mr. Her
ter will be "soft" where Mr.
Dulles was "hard," that coun
try will be very wrong. It
can be safely assumed, how
ever, that Secretary Herter
will negotiate with . rriuch
more flexibility, with more
grace and with a less stiff
sense of unbending lightness.
MR. HERTER, indeed, has
already taken steps that
Stpp Me
Senators
Nothing Appears Likely To Happen Soon
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington-(DPD-It is gen
erally conceded that U. S.
senators talk more, and are
heard less, than the members
of any other
legi s 1 a t i v e
body. For a
while there
was hope
something was
about to be
done about
this.
No curb ever
was thought
Frank Eleazsr n-ciy uu uic
senators' wordage, of course.
But serious consideration was
given by Senate leaders to
installing an amplifying sys
tem so visiting taxpayers
could hear what the lawmak
ers were saying.
Sen. Alexander Wiley (R
Wis.) reminded the Senate
just the other day that noth
ing has come of this. And it
looks now like nothing will,
Periphery
He has headed the republic
since its birth and his main
job has been reconstruction
and resettlement of one bil
lion refugees from commu
nism who poured south.
S. WHITE
have these inner, meanings:
1. Concede to the Soviet
Union, "for negotiating pur
poses at any rate, a larger de
gree of sincerity or at least
a sometimes-and-maybe sin-
cerity-than Mr. Dulles would
have conceded.
2. To move the United
States just a faint fraction
away from the almost ' total
and automatic deference it
showed under Mr. Dulles to
the desires of old Konrad Ade
nauer of West Germany. This
does not mean for a moment
that Mr. Herter has broken
the American - Free German
front. It only means that he is
seeking a measure of freedom
of movement that Mr. DuHes
never sought.
3. Thus to edge closer to the
position of the British,, to
bring to the Anglo - American
alliance a more sympathetic
touch.
4. To put the State Depart
ment even more solidly into
thegood books of the Demo
cratic foreign policy leaders
in Congress. These were al
ready more truly behind Mr.
Herter than they ever were
behind. Mr. Dulles, largely for
human reasons- - again, large
ly because of matters of man
ner. Mr. Herter, a long-time
former member of Congress,
understands the Capitol much
better than Mr. Dulles could
or did. He is, moreover, per
sonally more nearly- in -tune
with the Democrats, for he
never was much of a partisan
Republican.
.. . .
rfiHUS, Cliristian Herter has
-- carried subtle but impor
tant things back to Geneva in
his crested dispatch case.
There was a notice that the
United States has in true fact
a new Secretary of State with
a new approach designed to
maintain old principles. There
was a frank desire to deal
with the Russians, if only they
will permit it, with greater
trust than in the past. .
And, finally, here was evi
dence, for all who may trouble
to see, that if Christian Her
ter is not outwardly as "hard"
as Foster Dulles, his softer
tones overlie the very reverse
of a soft political backing at
home.
(Copyright. 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.) -
2,500 Acres of
Grazing Land Burns
Boardman -(DPD- Some 2,500
acres of grazing land were
blackened by a wind whipped
range fire near here Sunday.
The blaze was under control
Monday.
John Hunt, bureau of land
management fire control offi
cer, said the fire was appar
pntlv started when a pickup
truck overturned and burned
in a ditch four miles west of
Boardman on Highway 30.
A ranch house and several
smaller buildings were de
stroyed. The ranch was unoc
cupied, according to officials.
Pondosa, ghost town geo
graphical center of the U. S.,
erunted into flames again
Monday from timbers which
had smoldered when the small
one-time lumber town burned
month ago.
TTnnt said that fire danger
remained critical in most of
eastern Oregon with thunder
storms predicted.
Find Need
at least not anytime soon,
Senators have been polled
by the rules committee on
whether microphones and am
plifiers should be installed in
the Senate. One third voted
aye. One third said maybe so,
maybe not.
Makes Own Decision
. So the rules committee has
made its own decision, sort
of.
No public address system
will, be installed in the Sen
ate unless it's the best in the
world. The $25,000 system re
cently proposed by the Capi
tol' architect-the same sys
tem which House members,
for years, have found reason
ably satisfactory-wasn't near
good enough, it was ruled.
So now they have ordered
a "study." And I guess this
means that 20-20 vision, plus
lipreading ability, will con
tinue a principal requirement
for reporters trying to cover
the Senate. .
Wiley noted that those in
the press and public galleries
aren't the only ones who often
can't hear a word of what's
said in the Senate. He said
the members can't hear each
other, and that things lately
have gotten so bad they often
can't even catch the opening
prayer of the chaplain.
Can't Mist Prayer
Although Wiley didn't press
this point any further, his
implication was clear that if
they don't hear anything else,
the senators can't afford to be
left out on the prayer.
Senate debate often con
sists of a private chat between
two members standing three
feet apart, and what got
Wiley worked up this time
was that so often the two
members are Senators Lyn
den B. Johnson (D-Tex.) and
Everett McKinley Dirksen
(R-Ill.)
They are the majority and
minority leaders respectively,
and it behooves all right
thinking senators to have in
mind at all times what they
are talking about.
Except when he gets his
dander up about something,
Johnson is among tne better
known whispering senators.
Dirksen usually addresses the
Senate in the soft, pearshaped
tones of a senior partner in
an eld and dignified firm of
undertakers.
Shocks Senate
Wiley sits right behind
Dirksen, and if he can't hear
the exchanges between the
two leaders it stands to reason
the 90 or so senators further
removed from the posts of
command might as well have
renamed in their offices,
Some of them, it turned
out the other day, have been
doing just that, though not
intentionally. "This was
brought to light by Sen. Barry
Goldwater (R-Ariz.), who
shocked Senate sensibilities
by Interrupting a roll call on
the TVA bill to pose a par
liamentary inquiry.
Nuclear Surface
Ship Christened
Quincy, ,Mass.-(UPD-The na
tion's first nuclear - powered
surface ship; the guided mis
sile cruiser Long Beach, was
christened today.
More than 7,000 persons,
headed by principal speaker
Harold S. Vance, a member
of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, attended the christen
ing at the Bethlehem Steel
company shipyard.
The 721-foot ship, boasting
the latest developments in re
actor technology in a two-reactor
power plant, was chris
tened by Mrs. Craig Hosmer,
Long Beach, Calif., wife of
Rep. Craig Hosmer (R-Calif.).
Secretary of the Navy Wil
liam B. Franke headed the
official Navy delegation at the
christening.
'i
Hanford Projects
Picketed by Union
Richland-OIPD-Some 500 men
were off their jobs at Hanford
Atomic Works construction
projects Monday as a labor
union put up pickets in the
area.
An Atomic Energy Commis
sion spokesman said members
of Local 77 of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers set up picket
lines across roads leading into
the Hanford Works plant here
and that other unions refused
to cross them.
The spokesman said the
protest was against a $9,415
contract awarded by the AEC
to Estep Construction Co.,
Yakima, which employed non
union labor. The company was
contracted to build about six
miles of transmission line a.t
Hanford.
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for Amplifiers, But
Goldwater said the bells
by which senators live weren't
functioning in the new ofiice
building. He wondered what
would be the parliamentary
situation when a , senator
failed to answer the roll call
because he wasu't warned by
the bells that a vote was in
progress.
Sen. B. Everett Jordan (D
N.C.), who was presiding, re
minded Goldwater that one
does net interrupt Senate roll
calls for anything, least of all
a parliamentary inquiry.
Reopens Question
The; voting continued, and
Matter of Fact
JIM'S MAN-AND GEORGE'S
: Washington - Five short
years ago, in 1854, Kep.
George H. Bender of Ohio
was chosen by the Ohio Re
publican's to run for the un
expired Sen
ate term . of
the greatest
Repub 1 i c a n
Sena.tor of
modern times,
Robert A.
Taft.
As Bender
said himself
at the time,
1
4osDb Alsoo ne maiiiij
owed his nomination to the
other great satrap of Ohio
Republicanism, Secretary of
the Treasury George M. Hum
phrey. He had served for
years as chairman of the
Cuyahoga Country Republi
can v Organization, in which
Humphrey was (and is) the
great influence behind the
scenes. Bender was in fact
George Humphrey's man.
But George Bender had
some interesting additional
supporters in 1954, according
to the record newly made by
Sen. McClellan's sub-commit
tee on improper labor prac
tices. .
TN the election year, the re-
- cord shows, Bender was
chairman of a House sub
committee. This body went
into Ohio during the cam
paign to investigate, among
others, William Presser and
Louis "Babe" Triscaro. These
men are Jimmy Hoffa's local
bosses of the Teamsters Union.
Early in October, Bender,
Presser and Triscaro were
glaring at one another across
the committee table. But just
before election day, Presser
told an executive board meet
ing of the Ohio conference
of teamsters that the union s
support was to be switched
to the grand inquisitor.
One of those present, who
had been hard at work for
Bender's Democratic oppon
ent, has testified to. his ex
treme surprise. None-the-less,
by Presser's command, the
Ohio teamsters were briskly
transformed into Bender vot
ers. Shortly after election,
Presser and Triscaro went to
Washington to make their
final appearances before the
Bender anti-racketeering sub
committee. After that, Pres
ser happily boasted, in a pub
lic speech, that the hearings
were "over" without anyone
being "cited for any contempts
. no perjuries!"
Fthe same speech Presser
generously declared that
especially during the latter
portion of the hearings", he
had found "a friend" on the
anti - racketeering sub - com
mittee. "His name," said Pres
ser, was George Bender." Al
most concurrently, Presser's
asked the local teamster's
spokesman i n Cincinnati
joint council for a donation,
to help meet the expenses of
the Presser and Triscaro de
fense before the Bender sub
committee.
An anti-Presser, anti-Hoffa
teamster's leader, the head of
tot;
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when it was done, Ser, Frank
J. Lauhche (D Ohio) re -pened
the question. He said the bell
didn't ring in his office, and
that he missed the roll call.
What was his status, he want,
ed to know.
"Tbe.. chair u informed by.
the parliameotarian," Jordan
replied, "that the question is
not germane to the issue. It's
a matrer for the electrician."
So the bill was passed, a
fact of which most of the ear
rtrainers present probably.
eren't aware until t -icy read
it next day . in the Congres
sional Record.
Bv Joseph Alsep
local milk union, James
Luken, thereupon objected,
that the lawyers for Presser
and Triscaro had already been
paid out of union funds in the
regular manner. To this the
Presser spokesman, George
Starling, made a fascinating
reply. As sworn to by Luken, ,
Starling explained that "other
money was spent to pull cer
tain strings to see that these
charges were dropped."
A little later still, some
quite remarkable things be
gan happening to the bank ac
count of the finance commit
tee of the Bender for Senator
committee. This finance com
mittee, headed by business
men of the most gilt - edge
type, filed an official report
disclosing contributions o f
$95,000. The record now
shows that the real receipts
were greater than those offici
ally disclosed by no less than
3iuo,ao.vo. Ana at ieasi adu,-
000 of this delightful margin
was accounted for by a series
of large deposits, all in .cur
rency, that began to be made
in December, 1954.
THE Senatorial glory paid
for in this manner did not
last long. Poor Bender, beaten
in the 1956 election,-, then
found new employment as
chairman of the special com
mission named by Jimmy Hof
f a to whitewash the Teamsters
ice, he has received $58,000
to date.
Last week, his jowls wob
bling with self-righteousness,
this aging politician who used
to be George Humphrey's
man is now Jimmy Hoffa's
man, made his extraordinary
appearance before Senator
iviuviexian s suu - committee.
The other dicta are worth pre-
of naming a prostitute as Re
publican precinct captain in
her red light district. He then
added genially, "You don't
have to become a prostitute
yourself, but you have to get
their votes."
But the purpose of his ap
pearance was not to give
these little tips on politics,
but to deny that the facts
cord had any meaning at alL
He did not challenge the facts
themselves. He just said it
was "a damnable lie" that he
had received a payoff from
the teamsters. .
Such is this strange story,
which is worth bringing to
gether in one plate for two
mam reasons. First, one can
imagine the kind of hullaba
loo that would now be going
on if a former henchman of
a super-respectable Democrat
say Adlai Stevenson . , .
were revealed in the same pos
ture as this former henchman
of the most super-respectable
Republican. What is sauce for
the Stevenson - goose ought
to be sauce for the Humphrey
gander. And second, the story
hints at one of the main ills
of the Republican partv.
which is the peculiar taste in
politicians of many very big,
very important American
businessmen.
(c) 1959. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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