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ThurMljy, July 30, 1939
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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
Shady Cove school district
voters turn down a proposed
bond issue to finance a gym
nasium and auditorium.
Frank Ivanhoe and Donald
McKay, Medford thespians,
are newcomers to the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival stage
this summer.
20 YEARS AGO
The Oregon National Guard
is to discard its breeches, and
wrapped leggings and will
don long pants instead.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of citizens are fixing
their roofs, as if it was going
to rain some time in the fu
ture." 30 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1929 (Tuesday)
Scores of Medford people
take to the hills and lakes to
avoid the Valley's heat.
The state plans importations
of parasites to combat the al
falfa weevil here.
40 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1919 (Wednesday)
The Bear Creek orchard
starts picking its Bartletts.
The second community sing
is slated in Medford's city
park.
50 YEARS AGO .
July 30, 1909 (Friday)
Medford's new telephone
system, being installed by Pa
cific Telephone and Tele
graph, is to be completed in
the next few days.
Irrigation water for Big
Butte district orchardists and
ranchers is the objective for
a dam currently being con
structed in that area.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
sis is good.
1. Ireland is to a jaunting
car as Russia is to a samovar,
drosky, dial, Bolshevik or Tor
gsin? 2. The boundaries of Penn
sylvania touch six other
States; name them.
3. Are the five stars of the
insignia of a General of the
Army arranged in a square,
circle, or single line? v.
4. An amendment to the
U. S. Constitution requires as
sent by two-thirds vote of each
house of Congress, and rati
fication by what part of the
States?
5. A Vice President and a
President of the U. S. most
have the same qualifications;
true or false?
6. Is Tunisia on the Mediter
ranean, or the Atlantic coast
of Africa?
7. Would you say it requires
45, 55, or 65, seconds for the
blood to circulate completely
through the human body?
8. Is the tradition that Bttsy
Ross made the first Stars and
Stripes Flag affirmed, or de
nied, by historians?
9. Which of these was" the
48th State Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Arizona?
10. What State does Hubert
H. Humphrey represent in the
U. S. Senate?
Answers: 1. Drosky. 2.
New York, New Jersey.
Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia, Ohio. 3. Circle. 4.
Three-fourths. 5. True. 6.
Mediterranean. 7. 45 sec
onds. 8. Denied. 9. Ari-
zona 10. Minnesota.'
What Do 'Tourists 9 Want?
l ne tfend .Bulletin wants .someone to maKe a
study of trends in tourist habits. .
It thinks they're changing. We're inclined to
agree.
The Bulletin remarks that time was when a
"tourist" went to a "big city" to "see the sights."
Now, however, the chances are that he's from the
"big city" himself (or, perhaps, from a suburbia
close to one) and that the smog, traffic and gen
eral congestion hold no charms for him.
LIE'S much more apt to be heading for the wide
open spaces the beaches, the lakes, the for
ests and mountains where he can "get away
from it all" in peace and quietude;
The Bulletin's theory goes on to explain why
the Oregon Centennial Exposition and Trade Fair
in Portland is not having the expected influx of
visitors. The reasoning is the same : Tourists see
the widespread publicity for the exposition, come
to the conclusion that there will be too many peo
ple for comfort, that accommodations will be dif
ficult to find, and then go elsewhere.
The paper makes the point that the British
Columbia Centennial last year didn't draw as ex
pected, but that this year, with the Centennial
over, British Columbia is "experiencing a fine in
flow of visitors."
THHIS theory may have holes in it, but there is
' evidence to indicate it is, at least in part, on
the right track.
Such evidence was provided by a trip to Har
ris Beach State Park, just north of Brookings on
the Oregon coast, last week end. The Medford
party arrived about 10:30 a.m., found a fine
campsite, pitched the tent, and went down, to
splash in the surf.
When they returned, they found vi?:tually ev
ery trailer space full, and only a handful of tent
spaces still available. By mid-afternoon on Fri
day, the camp was full, and disconsolate cars of
would-be campers were turned away in numbers.
The same thing happened, only earlier in the
day, on Saturday.
1MOST of the cars were from out-of-state (prin
"1 cipally California perhaps two-thirds of
them), but there was also a goodly sprinkling of
Oregon, Washington and British Columbia cars,
and a few from further east.
These people may have been attracted by the
Centennial Exposition, but it's doubtful. They
were much more likely to have been attracted by
the coolness (daytimes were in the 70s, with
bright sunshine and a pleasant breeze), "and by
the magnificence of Oregon's coastline.
The Centennial may be a side attraction for
many of them, who are going through Portland
anyway.
But we go along with the Bulletin in the sneak
ing .hunch that, rather than the Centennial at
tracting people to the state, the state is attracting
a lot of people, some of whom, more or less inci
dentally, are attending the Centennial. E.A.
Smokers Can 't Win
The conversation the other night turned to the
new "tobacco-less" cigarettes.
Produced under the brand name of "Van
guard," they are being test-marketed in the east,
largely on the basis of the lung cancer "scare"
in connection with cigarette smoking.
Delos Smith, the United Press International
science writer, reports that scientists are. going to
watch the sales, of Vanguards closely, hoping that
it might give them some clue as to whether cigar
ette addicts are caught by the tobacco-nicotine of
cigarettes, or whether cigarette smoking is large
ly a nervous habit. :
WE'D like to find out, too, for in common with
1 Iif r- T-l OO TTTT cmnlrOWl TT'a'tTA V nsA.. J&
u vyj. iitatjr Diuuaus we C MCC11 BCiUCU UV
the cancer talk, but not scared enough to give up
the nastv. harmful (but deenlv inerained and at.
times gratifying) habit.
And we don't know
is. either. All we know
impossible to quit. (We've been envious of those
iormiaaoie cnaracters wno nave stopped, and
then go around bragging how they did it, how
tough it was the first month, etc., etc., ad naus
eum.) So we'll await with interest the advent of the
Vanguards, and plan to try one when and if they
become available here.
. aA
IT MAY be that they'll sweep the country.
Or it may be that they'll have a small but
steady sale comparable to the anti-asthma "Cu
beb" cigarettes sold by :drug stores which have
never been among the top 10 brands.
If they are tasty and satisfying enough, they
could, as Senator Neuberger, a prominent anti
cigarette man, predicts, change the smoking hab
its of the country, end tobacco as one of the major
crops, and save countless lives which otherwise
would be lost to lung cancer.
That's too much to expect, though. It would
probably turn out that the tars generated by the
non-tobacco "vegetable fibers" of Vanguards are
just as carcinogenetic as the tobacco tars.
Smokers just can't win. E.A.
. Postscript: Vanguards also sell at about the
same price as regular cigarettes, BUT are not
subject to the federal tobacco tax which means
a difference of 8 cents per package. That's an
incentive, all right. E.A.
just what the attraction
is that it's darnpd npur
Dennis the Menace
YOU GUYS BETTER LISTEN 7D
Today fir Tomorrow
By Walter
NIXON IN RUSSIA
Mr. Nixon's trip behind the
iron curtain has, as everyone
knows, been planned and pre-
pared as a
triple wager.
It is a flyer
i n propagan
da, a flyer in
dipl omacy,
and a flyer in
his own per
personal Pres
idential p o 1 i
tics. As of the
LS2
Walter
lippmann
moment, with
the Moscow visit concluded,
it appears that there has been
no triumph, and no disaster,
and that no money need be
paid.
This is not due to the charm
or to-the failings of Mr. Nix
on. The real situation of the
U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R.
has long since passed the
point where an amateur dip
lomat can alter it by word
and gestures. Yet all that Mr.
Nixon took with him in his
briefcase were a collection of
words and gestures.
At the best he might per
suade Mr. K. that the Presi
dent wants to go on talking.
At the worst, he may still say
or do something, perhaps
when he goes to Poland, per
haps because he has been
needled, which for a while
will put the Russians in a
worse humor than they are
in most of the time anyway.
But the substance of things
will not be changed.
AS REGARDS propaganda,
mir PYnnsitinn in Mncnnw
and the Soviet exposition in
New York undoubtedly have
an influence on those who
visit them or who hear about
them from their friends. The
main influence lies, I think,
in dissolving nightmares -
which are compounded of dis
tance, fear, and verbal excite
ment and in replacing them
with more familiar objects
seen by daylight. There is
something disarming in the
spectacle of the two nuclear
giants going to - so much
trouble to show each other
what lovely kitchens they
manufacture. This kind of
contact does undoubtedly re
lax popular tension and act
as a kind of wet blanket on
the fire-eaters.
But these results are not
much affected one way or the
other by what Mr. Kozlov and
Mr. Nixon say and do in open
ing the expositions. That is
because the Soviet Union and
the United States are both
much too large and too 3et to
be influenced by a propagan
da of words and gestures,
such as patting babies in
American super markets or
handing out chewing gum in
Moscow's streets. There may
be some who wait breathless
ly to hear whether . in their
tit-for-tatf Nixon gives better
than he gets.
But trying to measure the
effect on Soviet and American
public opinion would be like
measuring how much lower is
the level of the ocean after
drawing out of it a bucket of
water.
AS REGARDS diplomacy,
we are in a deadlock over
Berlin because the Soviets
will not give us what we want
except at a price that the
Western allies, if united, will
not pay. We want to have the
status quo in Berlin guaran
teed to us until that distant
day when the two Germanys
are reunited. It is not entirely-clear
whether the Soviet
Union will give us that guar
antee at any price. But -her
present position appears to be
that she might negotiate such
a guarantee if in effect the
East German state is recog
nized as juridically and po
litically equal to the West
German state.
WSJOO. M VOtft YELL AT
Lippmann
Neither side is prepared to
concede what the other wants.
But neither side looks for
ward with anything but reluc7
tance and anxiety to what
would happen if the negotia
tions were broken off. The
U. S. S. R. has made certain
commitments to East Ger
many which involve risks that
neither of us wishes to take.
As we may not be able to
agree on the settlement, and
as we want to avoid or at
least postpone a showdown, it
may be that we shall take
refuge in a protracted series
of conferences and negotia
tions. It may be that here Mr.
Nixon and Mr. , Khrushchev
are not too far apart.
"'
AS FOR the Presidential
politics of it all, my view
is that Mr. Nixon should feel
well satisfied if he can depart
from behind the iron curtain
without making any serious
blunders. The trip as such can
do nothing whatever to prove
that he ought to be President
of the United States, or that
he possesses any peculiar
magic for dealing with the
Russians. Nothing he can do
will make anyone believe that
he knows more about how to
conduct foreign relations than
do, let us say, Governor
Rockefeller or Governor
Stevenson. And indeed, if
anyone in his circle thinks
that it might be possible to
prove his superiority by a
flying visit of this kind, the
Vice President badly needs to
find more adult advisors.
His greatest chance to make
a bad blunder, and to prove
that we have sent a boy on a
man's errand, is in his un
expected, and in the nature
of things his not carefully
considered, decision to visit
Poland. This cannot do any
positive good and it can do
much harm. For the position
of Poland is in the highest de
gree delicate, and, given the
fact that Poland is surrounded
by the Red Army, the most
tactless thing that, the United
States, can do is to make an
ostentatious public display of
its friendship for Poland and
of its sympathy with the
grievances of the Polish na
tion. WHAT COMPLICATES the
matter seriously is that
the Vice President is a poli
tician running for office, and
no matter what he does, he is
certain to be charged with
caring not so much about the
fate of the Poles in Poland
but about the votes of the
Polish Americans in Illinois,
Michigan,1 New York, and else
where. Mr. Nixon will be all
the more open to this charge
after the absent-minded bum
ble of Congress and the Presi
dent in proclaiming this week,
of all weeks, "Captive Nation
Week."
The resolution on the cap
tive nations was adopted with
out debate by the Senate on
July & The resolution had
not come to the Senate from
the Foreign Relations Com
mittee which would be con
cerned with such matters. The
resolution came from the
Committee on the Judiciary,
of which the chairman is that
notorious lover of liberty, Mr.
EasUand of Mississippi. Mr.
Eastland had promoted a
resolution, believe it or not,
which says among other
things that the United States
has "been able, through the
democratic process, to achieve
a harmonious national unity
of its people, even though they
stem from the most diverse of
racial, religious, and ethnic
backgrounds." -
The hypocrisy of the resolu
tion is embarrassing to this
country. But what is worse, is
the irresponsibility of Con
gress which, without consider
ation, without debate, votes a
Communications
How Do You Feel About
Monkeys? ' !
To . the Editor: I liked the
poem the lady from Gold Hill
wrote about me. The only
poem I ever wrote was when
I was in high school. It wasn't
my idea, it was my English
teacher's. "You'll write some
poetry, so help me, or you
won't graduate from high
school," she says. "I can't
write poetry, what shall I
write about?" I asked her. "Go
write about some monkeys,
anything, so it's different,"
she replied. I sat right down
and wrote my first and only
poem about monkeys. I nam
ed it; .:-.-
10 MONKEYS IN A
HUPMOBILE.
It has never been printed in
a western newspaper, so here
goes. .
10 kwazy monkeys started
to Crater Lake or bust.
They all got there, but old
man rust.
He got lost in the pumice
dust.
9 kwazy monkeys tried to
cross the railroad track.
Everybody made it, but old
Sad Sack.
He was the one who went
down the old smokestack.
8 kwazy monkeys cranked
the car with the spark in
. advance.
Jake didn't watch his
stance,
And got kicked in the seat
of his pants.
7 kwazy monkeys, some
went here, some went
thar.
Thar was monkeys every-
whar, .
When, the driver went to
sleep in the car. '
6 kwazy monkeys went
through the signal light.
It was a very foggy night,
They turned left, then turn
ed right.
5 kwazy monkeys went on
a spree. '
They seen the bee,
Just before they hit the syc-
. .' amore tree.
4 kwazy monkeys went for
a spin in the plane Jupi
ter built.
They didn't like it, when it
started to tilt
Why should they, they all
, got kilt.
My English teacher read the
poem, then turned to the prin
cipal and said, "That guy is
going to graduate or I am go
ing to resign.'Mt. pays to write
poetry sometimes.
The fan letter I got the oth
er day said: "You're letters to
the Tribune ain't funny." I
never said they were. They
certainly are not educational
and the Tribune readers are
not getting any benefit out of
them, but all is not lost. I am
getting a swell list of people
who don t like monkeys,
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
What? No Neon Lights?
To the Editor: I believe the
'tram lift' idea as proposed
by the Fourth District of Ore
gon Congressman Charles O
Porter deserves a second look
and an "about face" upon the
part of our people and, of
course, the editor. This con
cerns Crater ' Lake from
which", at present, the view
must be had by visitors from
the 'rim. People visiting this
seventh wonder of nature in
our world, have earned the
right to touch these magic
wafers, and to behold from
their surface the grandilo
quent landscape that sur
rounds them from "down
under."
But let us drop the word,
"chair lift!" It obscures the
landscape. 'Tram lift', is the
right word, and describes
what would be a car capable
of carrying passengers from
the crest of the surrounding
walls to the very presence of
the lake itself. Mr. Porter,
take notice.
The world is ours, the poet
says, and we know it is ours.
The moon is not yet ours, hu
manly speaking, as yet. We
must yet lay hold of it. Before
we have done so, let us cre
ate a new 'lure' that will draw
tourists, students and scien
tists to our wondrous wonder
land. We could even go far
ther. To add to the "tram
lift" or "descent," what would
be so wrong about an atomic
powered craft to ply the wa
ters of the lake, and so per
mit visitors to partake of the
sense of feeling themselves in
the presence of not only the
seventh, but the eighth won
der of the world, also. It
could pay its own way, too,
given a chance!
Fee Clifford Esteb,
P.O. Box 1413,
Medford.
resolution that it has no in
tention of doing anything
about. This insincerity is a
cruel hoax on the captive
peoplesjwho may not yet have
learned when to take serious
ly the Congress of the United
States.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
After Geneva What? Unsolved
Problems Still Face Germany
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
After Geneva what?
As plainly as it can be put
into words, U. S. Secretary
of State Christian Herter has
jjjIWk I told Moscow
and its iast
German satel
lite: The U. S.
S. promise to de-
rffend West
Berlin is "a
binding com
mitment and
the U. S. will
pwi Newsom abide by it.
In words just as unequivo
cal, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev has said the West
can rely upon the fact that
& cl
Matter of Fact
REDUCTION TO
SYMINGTON
Harrisburg, Pa. - Along
with Louisiana delegates, if
Gov. Earl Long still has any-
thing to say
about them,
Sen. Stuart
Symington of
Missouri can
pretty well
count on the
massive Penn
sylvania dele
gation, if Gov.
David Law-
Jos-ph Alsnp rence nas any
thing to sav about it. And
Governor Lawrence will have
almost everythmg to say
about it.
Such is the inescapable con
clusion here, although Gov
ernor Lawrence is one of the
really professional veiled
prophets of American politics
Hence he is very far from
solidly committing himself at
this stage in the Democratic
Presidential contest.
In a technical sense, Gov
ernor Long's commitment,
which is unqualified, gives the
unavowed Symington candi
dacy an ornament that none of
the horde of other Democratic
candidates can boast. Syming
ton is the first to have got
the clear promise of a fairly
big state delegation by the
state's governor.
rpHE promise was given over
y- the week end, after the
ailing Louisiana Governor
wildly bustled off to see Sen
ator Symington's real backer,
former President Harry S,
Truman. Very likely, Govern
or Long "only did it to annoy
because he knew it teased
his nephew, Sen. Russell
Long, who is backing the even
more unavowed candidacy of
Senate Majority Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas.
Moreover, it is at least doubt
ful whether Governor Long
wUl be there to keep his
promise at convention time.
In a practical sense, there
fore, the favorable inclination
of Governor Lawrence is
much more important to Sen
ator Symington than the
promise of Governor Long.
The reasoning behind the in
clination is both interesting
and revealing.
In brief, Governor Law
rence arrives at Symington
by a kind of elimination con
test-by a system or reduction
to Symington after finding fa
tal flaws in all Symington's
rivals. As he has said in pub
lic, the Governor believes
ttiat Adlai E. Stevenson is
"the best man the Democratic
party has." But he considers
that Stevenson's vote-getting
record as a two-time loser just
about scratches him from the
list.
AFTER Stevenson, Governor
Lawrence makes no bones
about considering Senate Ma
jority Leader Johnson his par
ty's "biggest figure." But the
Negro vote, so important in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
is said to be hopelessly hostile
to Johnson. The Democratic
party organization is also said
to be hostile, which this re
porter can testify to be true.
Hence Johnson is crossed
off, unless the Senator can
overcome this double hostil
ity. This would require the
kind of action in the field of
civil rights that Johnson is
hardly able to take.
Having ruled out the two
men considered to be much
the ablest potential candi
dates, Governor Lawrence is
then left with the junior Sena
torial trio, Stuart Symington,
Hubert Humphrey of Minne
sota, and John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts. Neither Gover
nor Lawrence nor any other
Two Indicted by
Malheur Grand Jury
Vale, Ore.-(UPD-The Malheur
county grand jury Wednesday
indicted Homer Mitchell, 50,
on a charge of first degree
murder in the shotgun slaying
a week ago of Victor An
thony, 19, Ontario.
The grand jury also indict
ed Evelyn Buford, 24, who
told police she witnessed the
shooting. She was charged
with taking personal property
off Anthony's body without
the consent of the coroner, au
thorities said. She admitted
taking the dead man's wallet.
he never will consent to any
German reunification except
one that assures a German
Socialist (Communist) state.
' Therein spokesmen for the
world's two most powerful
nations thumbnailed the posi
tions which have made the
Foreign Ministers'. Confer
ence at Geneva a useless
round of oratory.
Gives Breathing Space
What has come out of the
Geneva conference so far has
been another .brief breathing
space for the 2,200,000 West
Berliners who . stiU manage
to relax" under conditions of
maximum tension and with
the knowledge that 200 Rus
sian tanks and 22 Russian
divisions stand just outside
Joseph AIsop
Pennsylvania D e m o c r atic
leader feels any. visible en
thusiasm for the Humphrey
candidacy. That leaves Sym
ington and Kennedy.
If the choice were left to
the majority of the Pennsyl
vania organization, it is pret
ty clear that Kennedy would
get the nod. Besides the Gov
ernor, Symington undoubted
ly has other important friends
here. Most important among
them is the somewhat tarnish
ed Philadelphia boss, William
Green, who organized the big
dinner that introduced Sym
ington to the Pennsylvania
Democracy. But most of the
lesser organization people
lean to Kennedy, because they
feel he has strong mass sup
port. GOVERNOR Lawrence's ob
jection to Kennedy, which
appears to be decisive, is sim
ply his Catholicism. The ob
jection is highly unlikely to
be overcome. The Governor's
old friend, Joseph P. Kenne
dy, has tried and failed to ov
ercome' it-which is the only
known political intervention
of the father on the son's be
half. The objection is founded
on Governor Lawrence's own
experience in the last election.
when he feels that he, as a
Catholic, lost great numbers of
Protestant votes.
On the face of the record,
the Governor's view cannot be
proven. He ran about 200,000
votes ahead of the Democratic
Senatorial candidate, former
Governor George Leader, who
was defeated. While Leader
led Lawrence in some rural
counties, Lawrence himself
admits that in other, more urr
ban areas, he gained extra
votes because of his Catholi
cism. The unpopularity of the
previous Democratic state ad
ministration ought to be
enough to explain Lawrence's
relatively narrow margin of
victory.
But the Governor has made
his own investigation and is
convinced his Catholicism was
largely responsible for his
winning by less than 100,000
votes, whereas he expected to
win by 300,000. So Kennedy
too is ruled out; and this leav
es only Symington, to whom
"there is no objection."
Senator Symington is an
able man of much charm, who
has courageously dealt with
the great issue of national de
fense. But in this dangerous
year of doubtful grace, it
seems a bit odd to pick a
Presidential candidate because
"there is no objection" to him.
It is a fair prediction that
more positive reasons will
eventually have to be found
if Governor Lawrence is go
ing to ride a Symington band
wagon to victory.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. I
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their isolated city.
Last February, this corre
spondent talked at length .
with West German officials.
There was certainty in ,
West Berlin then, just as there
is certainty there now, that a
Khrushchev driven far
enough is capable of signing
his separate peace treaty with
East Germany and turning
the land and air controls for
West Berlin over to the
mercies of the East German
Communists. The Jesuit could
be another Berlin blockade. .
Against such an eventual
ity, West Berlin is stockpiled
and ready for siege.
West Berlin a Pawn
West Berlin is a pawn but
not the chief prize in a plot
of vast international compli
cations. The immediate prize is an
internationally r e c o g nized
Communist East Germany un
troubled by thoughts of free
dom. However, failure now at
Geneva does not necessarily
mean an end to negotiations
nor to immediate pressure on
Berlin.
Khrushchev's recent petu
lance in Poland, his public
arguments with ;Vice Presi
dent Nixon and his cancella
tion of his visit to the Scandi
navian nations, all indicate
dissatisfaction with recent .
events. .
He also needs a breathing
spell. So it is possible he al
ready is preparing a new
price tag on Berlin. It could
come in the Geneva Confer
ence to ban nuclear weapons.
It also could come in a re
newed drive for increased
trade with the United States,
which he needs if his own
economic plan is to be a suc
cess. IN LIEU OF FRIENDS .
Little Rock, ArkUPD-Traf-fic
Judge Robert -W. Laster
wore two .45 caliber six-shooters
on his hips in court Wed
nesday. Laster, who was oust
ed recently as a member of
the school board and beaten
Wednesday in a bid for re
election as traffic judge, ex
plained: "If a man doesn't
have any more friends than I
do he is entitled to wear two
guns." -
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