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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 20, 1949 (Wednesday)
Rent decontrol in Medford
was unanimously approved by
city councilmen at city coun
cil meeting.
Norris K. Porter's low bid
of $20,140 accepted by city
council for construction of
new swimming pool building.
20 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1939 (Thursday)
Two United Mainliners at
Medford airport were delayed
until a mechanic could arrive
from Oakland, Calif., to re
pair ignition trouble. '
From. Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
phone company . has advised
the city council it intends 10
eliminate poles on South Riv
erside ave. Speed-idiots will
have to be content to crash
into trees, as best they can,
at no late date." '
30 YEARS AGO . '
July 20, 1929 (Saturday)
William J. Hutchinson, new
head of the local . weather
station, to show that a new
boss is on the job, forecasts
a change in the waether.
Construction .work on the
installation of power lines to
sites for beacon lights for air
mail night flying between
Delta, Calif., and Drain, Ore.,
begins.
40 YEARS AGO
July 20. 1919 (Sunday) "
Medford employment office
of the federal employment
service to close doors as it
can't make ends meet on $47
a month donated it by county
court.
Pacific coast is urged to
boost tourist travel.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ot
six is good.
1. Name the Biblical char
acter who guided the Israel
ites in their exodus from
Egypt.
2. The likeness of which U.
s. President is on the U. S.
$10 bill? ,
3. To whom is the speaker
referring in the following.
"Brothers and sisters have I
none. but. that man's father
is mv father's son"?
4. Both the male and female
kangaroo have pouches; true
or false?
5. Is a fathom a distance of
four. five, or six, feet?
6. Astrologers assert that
persons born between Janu
ary 20 and February 18 are
influenced by which zodiacal
sign?
7. Do bananas grow with
the end of the fruit pointed
upward, or downward?
8. Radio waves travel at a
speed of approximately 1,860,
18,600, or 186,000 miles per
second?
. 9. Complete the quotation
from Alexander Pope, "To
err is human, "
10. Name the former Army
Chief of Staff whose recent
book is titled "Crusade in Eu
rope."
Answers: 1. Moses; 2. Nona
(Alexander Hamilton); 3. His
own son; 4. False; 5. Six;
B. Acruarius; 7. Upward; 8.
186.000; 9. " forgive.
divine;" 10. Dwignt D. Eisenhower.
Don't Kill the Path Bill
The Saturday Evening Post assails Oregon
Sen. Richard Neuberger's Senate Bill 2010 au
thorizing the Interior Department to set aside up
to 100,000 acres in any
which the secretary may
park.
It is this bill which
at Florence, around which one of the areas Sen
ator Neuberger contemplates as a national park
centers. It has also aroused opposition at Cape
Cod, Mass., where another park is proposed.
The Post criticizes the measure on the ground
that it gives the Interior Department arbitrary
powers, enabling it to bypass Congress and estab
lish parks without congressional sanction; that
it provides no means whereby wishes of property
owners and residents of designated park areas
can be officially heard, and that the areas now
tentatively considered for park purposes are not
national monuments, like Yellowstone and Gla
cier National Parks, and are already adequately
protected by states from despoliation by com
mercial interests.
IT IS Cape Cod with which the Post is chiefly
nnrrUt if rviATitinns ales 4-Vt r "Oi-a.
gon dunes."
That the bill may contain such flaws as the
Post points out need not
carded, as the Post would have Congress do. To
amend ifr in such a manner that local preferences
could be given some weight and that Congress
would have something
nations would not necessarily divert it from its
intent to rob it of its effectiveness. To ask that
Congress be given some recognition is not
unreasonable, since Congress must provide the
funds for financing national park programs.
But the bill should be given full consideration.
We need all reasonable legislation which will
preserve for public use all areas whose value for
public recreation purposes outweighs their eco
nomic value. But it should
Department to ride rough-shod over established
communities. Albany Democrat-Herald.
Nobel Scientists on Secrecy
The best place to find out the effects of
government secrecy on scientific progress is
among those scientists with outstanding reputa
tions who have worked under federal security
rules. The Senate Constitutional Rights Subcom
mittee adopted this course and obtained some
illuminating lniormauon.
In general, the views
prize-winning scientists
secrecy rules were most
in basic research; They were less harmful and
to some extent justified in the development field.
PRACTICALLY all the scientists felt that Amer-
ican personnel should
to all fundamental scientific results. Government
restrictions in private companies with govern
ment contracts have, .according to a consensus
of the replies, caused much duplication of effort.
As for the old bromide that a scientist who
can show "a need to know" can generally cut
through the secrecy swaddling, several of the
scientists agreed that this was not so. How, they
asked, can a need to know be shown when it is
not known what the other fellow is working on?
Thus more impressive evidence has been
added to the mass of data which shows that over
repressive security measures stifle science. Scien
tists engaged in government projects need the
fullest possible measure
Post-Dispatch.
Weather Prediction Progress
Almost everyone is concerned in a personal
if not also in a business way with what the
weather is going to be.
This makes it seem strange that predicting
the weather has not been given as much support,
both in talent and money, as, say, guided missiles
or the exploration of outer space. Now, however,
there are increasing signs of change, witness the
announcement of a contract for developing a
system that will step up both accuracy and speed
in prophesying the weather. Involved, besides the
Weather Bureau, are the. Air Force and the Fed
eral Aviation Agency.1 '"
117EATHER Bureau forecasting calls for five
'" distinct operations: getting information on
present conditions from its 330 stations all over
the country; collating the data in a systematic
way; picturing it on a weather map; figuring out
the prediction and making widely known both
the forecast and the facts on which it is based.
The new system will do all of this by auto
matic devices except the actual forecast, which
will still call for the use of human experience,
judgment and even, we suspect, a bit of mtuition.
COME progress.has already been made in the
use of such devices for example, the "amos"
or automatic meteorological observation station,
the mechanical computer and the chart drafting
machines. But even with these, in their present
state of development, it requires about four hours
to take all the steps in useful weather prediction.
When the new system is in operation it will all
be done in from thirty minutes to an hour which
can mean a lot when a hurricane or a blizzard is
roaring up the coast or a tornado is building up
out West. '
This will be progress indeed. But conditions
in the far upper air, which largely determine
those below, are still to be explored and put to
human use. New York Times. - :
three areas of the country
designate as a national
has stirred up controversy
mean it should be dis
to say about park desig
not enable the Interior
of 17 American Nobel
were to the effect that
narmiui ana senseless
have unrestricted access
of freedom. St. Louis
Dennis the Menace
'1 WAS HElPIN'MR.WllJN WATCR
Strengthening FBI in Arson,
Bombing Cases, Seen Likely
By LYLE C. WILSON
wasmngton - lura.- xnere
seems to be
chance, and a
pretty good
one, that the
strong arm of
the FBI will
be raised by
Congress
against good
squads who
bombing and
arson in labor
and racial dis
putes. This does
not mean that
yla C. Wilson
local law enforcement agen
cies will be relieved of their
responsibilities. Far from it.
Neither does it mean that, in
each instance of arson or the
bombing of premises, the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop
ON A MOOSE EMERGING
Washington - With all the
shy hesitation of a moose in
the' rutting season, the Presi
dential candi
dacy of Sen.
Hubert Hum
phrey .has
now crashed
out of the se
cret glades in
to the open
glare of day.
The Minne
sota Senator's
" I g f day
V-l I 1116 Minne
jh-J soa Senator's
4ospn Aisop , campaign was
formally launched by his two
leading Minnesota collaborat
ors, Gov. OrviUe Freeman
and Sen. Eugene McCarthy,
who announced, the formation
of a Humphrey - for - Presi
dent committee. That makes
it official, although Senator
Humphrey has promised to
add his own formal announce
ment later on. This will be
awaited with the breathless
interest usually accorded to
last week's weather bulletins.
Whoever makes the grand,
time - hallowed gestures, the
ritual of American politics is
always wonderfuUy comic,
precisely because it is so
transparently phoney. In
Humphrey's case, however,
there was a serious side to
the elaborate, conventional
ized disclosure of what had
long been transparently obvi
ous. I",
plain terms, there are
reasons for thinking that
the Humphrey announcement
was made so early because the
more demure tactics of his
rivals have not been working
very well for Humphrey. Polls
and other indices have been
suggesting that something
big and bold was needed to
get the show on the road. But
why should this be so?
Logically, the . Humphrey
candidacy should have won
much support in its earlier,
unannounced phase. After all,
Humphrey is a brilliantly
clever and fearsomely ener
getic politician. Few men to
day are more effective on the
platform. He has warmth and
humor that even his enemies
admire. His record may be
disliked by many Southern
Democrats and by all conser
vative Republicans. Yet it is
a record that ought to com
mand great Northern Demo
cratic enthusiasm What, then
is his handicap?.
"There's nothing wrong
with the Humphrey campaign
that wouldn't be cured by
your assassination." This gen
ially blunt remark was made
to Adlai Stevenson by Hum
phrey's able campaign advis
or, the Washington lawyer,
James Rowe Jr. It answers
the question about Humphrey.
The; plain truth is that the
natural Humphrey-ites among
the Northtern Democrats are
also the loyal Stevenson-ites.
They are not yet plugging for
Humphrey because they still
hope Stevenson will make a
third Presidential try.
I mm .
j
!SWlW,&ITHRREfl Ml'
1 would be comneUed to eallOD
in to investigate the crime.
What it does mean, is this:
That Congress has pending
several bins covering the sub
ject, among which are some
good ones which would ap
proach the problem by amend
ing what is known as the
Fugitive Felons Act.
Such amendment, for ex
ample, is the purpose of Title
2 of the civil rights bill pend
ing now before the House Ju
diciary Committee. The
amendment would establish
as a federal crime, punishable
in federal courts, any flight
across a state line to avoid
prosecution for destruction of
educational or religious struc
tures by arson or explosives.
Fleeing witnesses also would
TTUMPHREY himself has not
H directly pressed Stevenson
to stop blocking the road. He
has only intimated that a time
may come when he will ask
for Stevenson's support. Rowe
who worked hard and long
for Stevenson in 1952 and
1956, has gone somewhat
further than Humphrey. In
particular, Rowe has pointed
out that Stevenson is going
tn have to snpalr his minH
eventually, unless he wishes
to be entangled once again
m the experience he most
loathes, which is a Presiden
tial primary.
. This is because all generally
mentioned potential candi
dates, announced or unan
nounced, are automatically
entered in the primary in
Oregon. When confronted
with the grisly thought fot
Oregon, Stevenson asked
Rowe to find out how he could
keep out of the primary there.
Rowe thereupon secured a
letter from the National Com
mitteeman from Oregon, C. V.
Girard Davidson.
Davidson wrote that unless
Stevenson was entered on pe
tition, he could escape the
primary by filing, an affidav
it that he "is not now and
does not intend to become a
candidate" in the forthcom
ing Presidential election. The
letter, which is in Steven
son's hands, has not yet
evoked any answering affi
davit. STEVENSON remains
sphnix-like. One or two of
his immediate entourage favor
plumping for Humphrey. At
least two more favor doing
business with Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts.
The rest, allegedly including
the former candidate's clos
est advisor, William Blair,
favor a wait - and - see policy.
Under the circumstances,
therefore, it seems doubtful
that Humphrey will get the
thing he needs most, which is
Stevenson's early and active
backing.
Thus Humphrey's present
hope is the strategy of trying
to defeat the Democratic front
runner, Senator Kennedy, in
the primaries that have not
been foreclosed by favorite
sons. More than half serious
ly, Humphrey-advisor Rowe
has sugested an unprecedent
ed gentleman's understanding
with Kennedy. "Whoever wins
two out of three primaries
will win the ball game, and
the beaten candidate will
back the winner." That is
the essence of the bargain. -The
bargain is probably
too common - sensible to be
quite feasible. For who would
say which primary Humphrey
and Kennedy were to enter?
And what guarantees would
be given that the bargain
would be kept? But at least
the proposed bargain is some
thing new in the frenzied his
tory of our Presidential poli
tics, and its simple common
sense makes it worth record
ing.
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Foreign Assignment: Indonesian Trouble;
Elections Soon in Japan, Great Britain
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Cherchei La Femmet
Look for more trouble with
in the Indonesian military
at least part of it caused by
a . woman.
Army Chief
of Staff Lt.
Gen. Abdul
4 Haris N a s u-
ti5n, finally
has gotten
control of the
entire armed
forces as de
fense chief in
President Su
Phil Newsom
karno's new cabinet. But Air
Force Chief of Staff Vice
Marshal Suryadarma is fight
ing hard to maintain the whip
hand over his service. And, it
is said, he is being pushed
strongly by his wife who is
said to be friendly to the
Communists.
be covered.
The language in this pro
posed amendment is signifi
cant in two respects. First, it
limits the area covered to any
building, structure, facility or
vehicle used primarily for re
ligious or public or private
educational purposes. Furth
er action would be needed to
cover labor violence. Second,
the amendment says that vio
lations may be prosecuted in
a federal court. It does not
say that it is mandatory for
the FBI to investigate. Wheth
er the FBI did or did not in
vestigate would be a matter
for determination by the at
torney general or by FBI Di
rector J. Edgar Hoover. This
permissive rather than man
datory authority to investi
gate suits the FBI fine,
The record win show that,
in practice, the FBI is not
slow to undertake within the
limits of its permissive juris
diction what, are called pre
liminary investigations. These
are undertaken to determine
whether, in fact, the circum
stances of the given crime are
such that the FBI has juris
diction to act. The last thing
the FBI would want would be
any requirement that it move
in on and supplant local en
forcement agencies.
No Hoarding Of Evidence
If preliminary investigation
fails to establish FBI jth-isdic-
tion, the routine is to with
draw, but only after handing
all evidence and other per
tinent information to '.local
authorities. The FBI, although
it may withdraw for lack of
jurisdiction, remains ready
and eager to handle out-of-
state leads for local authori
ties. FBI laboratory facilities
always are available to the
local officers
This is the way the FBI
hopes it "wUl be with respect
to the new field of inquiry
brought on by racial and la
bor difficulties. Arson and
bombing in labor disputes al
so would be reached by
amendment of the Fugitives
Felons Act. United Press In
ternational was informed that
such amendment is likely at
this session of Congress,' al
though probably not by ex
panding the language of the
pending civil rights bill.
It has been suggested that
Congress would make a bad
mistake if it moved in either
area much beyond the scope
of the FFA.
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Something Else, Please
Mr. Editor: I ask
you,
please:
No more letters on missiles
or monkeys.
The writers are wearing that
subject so thin .
I think rigor mortis must have
set in.
Hot weather must affect their
brain,
Or surely from this they
would refrain.
Why not tell about Uncle
Charley's hat?
Or won't the Editor print
about that?
Or tell of Clarabelle's new
false teeth.
Any other subject would be
a relief.
Please, Mr. Editor, if more
monkeys or missiles come
your way,
Toss them in the waste basket,
and caU it a day.
Mrs. Delbert Casey,
Route 1, Box 358,
' Central Point, Ore.
Bear Creek Pollution
. To the Editor: I have heard
some people say, " A monkey
General elections are in the
offing for both Japan and
Great Britain both staunch
friends of the United States, '
and key issues for both will
revolve around relations with
the U.S. in Japan. The new
security treaty with the U.S.
will be up for ratification by
Parliament early next year.
Socialist opposition is expect
ed to be so stiff that Prime
Minister Kishi will dissolve
the Diet and call for general
elections, which he is sure to
win. But he would welcome
the challenge because it
would prolong his regime. In
Britain, there is strong oppo
sition within the Labor Party
to U.S. missile bases. The split
could become so deep as to
reduce labor's election
chances.
Fifty-Fifty:
Speaking of Prime Minister
Kishi, he was on a good will
visit to Bonn last "week and
said agreement . had been
reached between Japan and
West Germany on aid to un
der-developed nations in
southeast Asia. Behind this
announcement, informed cir
cles see agreement between
the two nations to divide As
ian markets and thus elimin
ate cutthroat competition over
sale of such goods as cameras,
radios and optical applian
ces which both manufacture.
West Germany realizes that
low wages and high produc
tivity give the Japanese an
edge in many markets.
Long Summer:
The West German delega
tion is resigned" to the idea
that the present four-power
Foreign Ministers' Conference
may run on toward fall. The
delegation quietly has warn
ed its staff in Geneva that it
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Houston, Texas:
FOREIGN steel poured into
Texas through the port of
Houston as the nation's steel
strike entered its second day,
About 21,000 tons of the
metal from Belgium and Ja
ships here Wednesday. Two
other ships were waiting for
empty berths (at which to un
load more foreign steel).
Why is that interesting?
Well, Houston is only ONE
of the many; many American
ports at which, presumably,
foreign steel will be pouring
in to replace the steel that
won't be made in America
while the strike lasts.
1I7HAT does that mean?
" Well, it means that pres
ently many, many JOBS are
being created in the steel
centers of foreign countries
And
It MIGHT mean that while
America's great steel mills
are idle these foreign steel
makers may get a foothold
in America's steel markets
from which it will be hard to
displace them. Foreign pro
duction costs are now admit
tedly lower than ours.
T7ROM New York:
- B$- the end of the first
week of the strike, steelwork
ers will have lost about 62
million dollars in wages and
the STEEL INDUSTRY will
have lost about 248 million
dollars in business.
THAT raises this question:
WHO IS INDUSTRY?
are traditionally in
clined to think of Big
Business as a FEW portly
characters wearing plug hats
and Prince Albert coats and
smoking fat Havana cigars.
That once was true.
It isn't true now.
For example:
U.S. Steel Corporation, the
giant of the steel industry,
has 223,490 employees. It has
331,229 stockholders (the fig-.
ures are for 1958.)
I
S that an unusual situation?
By way of answer, here are
some more figures:
Eleven of the nation's larg
est manufacturing corpora
tions including steel, mo
tors, foods, electrical appli
ances, oil and chemicals
have, according to the latest
figures available, 1,741,550
EMPLOYEES and 2,778,679
STOCKHOLDERS.
That is to say:
These 11 big American cor
porations have approximately
50 per cent more OWNERS
than EMPLOYEES.
is kwazy." Maybe he is, but
he don't dam a creek, then try
to swim in it.
Everett Acklin,
. Ashland, Ore.
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well may remain there until
Aug. 31-if not longer. The
general feeling in Bonn is
that the second round of Gen
eva also may be recessed or
perhaps downgraded to dep
uties' level while Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Grom-
yko goes off to Scandinavia
for Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's tour beginning Aug. 9.
It might also give U.S. Sec
retary of State Christian Her
ter a chance to attend a meet
ing of the organization of
American States in Santiago,
Chile. The OAS will take up
troubles in the Caribbean, an
area of vital interest to the
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
FACE TO THE STORM
Washington-You may fair
ly charge this or that real
shortcoming to most any poli
tician, but if
he is a genu
ine big-timer
you have got
to give him
two things.
He is cap
able - of total
self candor.
And when it
William S. , , ,
white solutely neces
sary he will look at reality
head-on and with the air of a
man ready, if he must, to
spit in the eye of fate.
His may not be the kind
of courage that wins battle
medals. But it is a sort of
courage all the same, the
valor of a fellow who certain
ly is not looking for a fight
but nevertheless doesn t go
around telling himself when
he is in trouble that he really
isn't in trouble at all.
To get to the top in his
profession, in short, often re
quires almost the exact re
verse of those mealy-mouthed
qualities which safer men
tend to associate automatical
ly with the very word "poli
tician." rpHE latest example to prove
A this unwritten law of pub
lic life is Sen. Hubert Horatio
Humphrey of Minnesota
Humphrey, one of the Sen
ate's Democratic Presidential
"possibilities," has coolly re
assessed his situation and
found it far from reassuring
. His close political associate.
Gov. Orville Freeman of Min
nesota, has been running into
painful difficulties. These are
difficulties of the kind that
beset many very liberal poli
ticians when they find that
even liberal programs have
got to be paid for. At this
point some of their most mad
ly "liberal" followers, who
loved them when they were
dishing out the public money,
turn a bit cool when these
leaders begin by necessity to
scoop some of it back , into
the-public till.
Public opinion polls : of
proved past reliability, con
ducted by the Minneapolis
Tribune, have indicated that
'Ole Hubert" may be going
down a little, rather than up,
in the affections even of his
home state. "Ole Hubert" and
his people know, moreover,
and do not deny, that perhaps
his principal Presidential
rival- Sen. John F. Kennedy
of Massachusetts, is getting a
long lead and showing few
signs of weakening.
THERE are three things a
politician can do in such
an unhappy state of affairs:
Reasonable Funerals
(Priced for Everyone)
FRIENDLY,
' A- 3
Perl jg
U.S.
"There goes a million dol
lars worth of publicity and
good wiU." That was the re
action of at least one promi
nent Japanese and it sum
med up the thoughts of some
others to the announcement
that crown Prince Akihito's
princess Michiko is pregnant.
There had been plans for the
young couple to promote Jap
an on an international good
will tour which now must be
postponed. And by the time
the trip can be made, the
bloom wiU be off the romance,
at least so far as the interna
tional public is concerned.
S. WHITE
1. Just give up; 2. Say it
isn't so; 3. Resolve not to run
from the storm but to turn
around and head right into
it. .
Humphrey has taken course
No. 3. He has suddenly be
come the only flatly an
nounced Democratic Presi
dential candidate. He has
done this by "authorizing"
bis Midwestern associates to
throw his modishly eastern-
styled hat into that well
known ring. Maybe it can be
argued that he should have
hurled in the homburg him
self. But criticism carried
that far would seem a bit
carping and extreme.
Humphrey does, after ell
and understandably, hope to
keep his present place in the
Senate if the big place turns
out to be absolutely unat
tainable. And even the most
candid of men "will not go so
far as entirely to throw away
an existing job while out
looking for another. So he
has allowed himself this small
hedge: he has retained free
dom to withdraw from the
big race and concentrate on
reelection to the Senate next
year if after a great deal of
campaign work now ahead1 he
finds he simply can't "go"
for the top nomination. Not
even total honesty requires
a worker voluntarily to join
the totally unemployed.
AND, having taken his basic
decision, Humphrey has
taken still another. On the
very day after his announce
ment he went to New York
to proclaim himself the one
true candidate of the " ultra
liberals, particularly those on
civil rights. (It was also the
very day after local elections
in Virginia had resulted in
general victory for moder
ates who wish to bring about
a common sense solution of
the school integration issue.)
This Humphrey step was
risky, indeed. For what he is
really saying is that he has
gone all the way over to
those immoderates who will
never accept any civil rights
settlement on anything but
their own immoderate; tee
total, terms. The Senate, at
least, is not a tee-total place.
Humphrey thus has cast to
the winds the last, small
chance he ever had for any
convention support from the
moderates, let along the con
servatives. But he has also done this,
at any rate: he has stood up
to be counted. This is not to
say he ought to be either nom
inated or elected. It is to say,
however, that he has, indeed,
turned his face straight into
the storm.
(Copyright. 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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