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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
Julv 31. 1949 (Sunday)
A brush and timber fire on
the left fork of Foots creek
showers ashes and charred
leaves on Medford.
Medford is designated head
quarters for a volunteer air
reserve training group.
20 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1939 (Monday)
Some 100 Red Cross swim
ming and lifesaving school
members stage a water car
nical at the Medford nata
torium. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Re
ports continue to come in of
people seeing meteors, and
public officials and politicians
beholding great white lights.
The last is due to the voters
never being more than a jump
way from a telegraph office."
SO YEARS AGO
July 31, 1929 (Wednesday)
Bait for the local earwig
killing is reported ready for
use.
A war is started on the old
shacks in Medford's business
district.
40 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1919 (Thursday)
The Medford plane flies to
Grants Pass in 23 minutes,
according to Pilot Floyd Hart.
A sermon Sunday is to be
preached from the rim of Cra
ter lake. v
50 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1909 (Saturday)
The Medford Elks lodge
may be instituted about Sept.
15.
A Chicago syndicate looks
cer the lay of the land with
an eye to raising grapes on
local hillsides.
Yhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten comet is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five oi
six is good.
1. Is the earth a sphere,
or a spheroid?
2. Name the man who de
bated with Lincoln in a fam
ous forensic series before Lin
coln became a candidate for
President?
3. After World War I, did
the U. S. withdraw from the
League of Nations?
4. What are perennial
plants?
5. Is oil a good conductor
of electricity?
6. Do both male and female
rattlesnakes have rattles?
7. Are sheep bo vines,
ovines, or equines?
8. Which is greater in area
-the land surface or the water
surface of the earth?
9. Name the popular movie
actor of the lS20's whose
"Sheik" roles brought him
world-wide fame.
10. Which is larger in area,
Africa or South America?
Answers: 1. Spheroid. . 2.
Stephen A. Douglas. 3. No
(never joined). 4. Those that
live several years. 5. No. 6.
Yes. 7. Ovines. 8. Water sur
face. 9. Rudolph Valentino.
10. Africa.
OUT OF TUNE
Copenhagen -TCPD- Two 17-year-old
boys were arrested
Thursday tor stealing two or
gan pipes from St. Augustin's
church to use for exhaust
pipes on their, motorcycles.
WW
Isn 't This
Jackson county is a delightful place to live.
But it's not as delightful as it once was.
Medford is ,a beautiful and pleasant town.
But not as pretty and nice as it used to be.
Much the same can be said of Ashland, Tal
ent, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Central Point, Shady
Cove, Gold Hill and Rogue River.
Even Prospect and Butte Falls, removed as
they are from the valley floor and surrounded by
natural beauty, have some of the same problem.
117HY is this?
It is because of the "growth" of the valley.
More people, more automobiles, more houses,
more industry, more smoke, more sewage, more
traffic congestion, more noise. Similarly, less
freshness and greenery, less privacy, less peace
and quiet, less beauty.
Some hundreds; or perhaps even thousands,
of people in the valley are aware of this, and are
doing what little they can, as individuals, to slow
down this deterioration
serve some of the natural
lish islands of beauty m
phalt, billboards, shacks
IS THIS growth, then,
cious, pleasant living?
It need not be.
And what is the price we will have, to pay
for a return to something resembling the beau
ties' of the past?
The .price is this :
The willingness to. plan ahead; the willing
ness to give up some of
do anything one wants,
on others; the willingness
money in taxes to permit
are supppsed to serve us
llTORE specifically:
It means minimum
to prevent the development of slum -like areas,
either urban or rural.
It means planning commissions which really
plan, which look ahead realistically, which have
the resources to lay out a plan and then to stick
to it, with only sufficient flexibility to adjust to
special situations.
It means zoning county-wide zoning to pro
tect property .rights, to tie into the plans worked
but by the planning commissions.
It means working out, and then enforcing,
measures to protect the valley against air pollu
tion and water pollution from whatever source.
It means heavier emphasis on parks and rec
reation areas, on "green
shrubbery.
A START has been made.
But it is a woefully, inadequate one up to
this point. It is painfully evident that these meas
ures are not even holding
This county has grown helter-skelter.
It can't afford to do so much longer.
For every day that passes, for every week,
for every month, the population increases.
No individual can be
do as he pleases when he
But if Jackson county
table on the same terms it has been in the past,
minimum controls are going to HAVE to, be in
stituted.
IF THEY aren't, the fringes of this valley's com-
munities, and many rural areas, are going to
go the same way as some of the cities in Cali
fornia nothing but great expanses of treeless
dreariness, packed with sub-standard housing,
and granting nothing to the graces and niceties
which, after all, are what make life worth living.
The responsibility for seeing that this does
not happen lies with everyone who gives a tink
er's dam about the Rogue valley and its future
as a place to live.
Call your city councilman, your mayor, your
city manager, your county judge or commissioner,
your planning commission member.
Tell them how you feel. Demand they take
action not in some distant tomorrow, but now.
Or, if you agree with what is said here, clip
this editorial and mail it to them, and sign it.
It is only with this demand, this evidence of
backing and support, that they can take the steps
necessary. E.A.
'Aspirin' For Dr. Schweitzer
A 13-year-old Negro
States Army sergeant stationed in Italy, read
about Dr. Schweitzer's hospital in Africa. He de
cided to send the hospital a bottle of aspirin and
asked the Allied Air Forces commander in South
ern Europe if "one of
drop the bottle at the hospital. An Italian radio
station heard about the incident and told the
story on the air.
Last week the boy, Robert Hill, flew into Dr.
Schweitzer's hospital with four and a half tons
of medical supplies worth $400,000, earned in
planes provided by the
ernments. There were a
wished to give "aspirin"
I his is an excellent
that the human heart is essentially warm and re
sponsive. If a need can be made known or an
appeal dramatized there is almost always a re
sponse. It was Robert's own simple human
warmth that'brought about this happy result. Dr.
ocnweitzer saia: l never thought a child could
do so much for my hospital." Perhaps in this case
only a child could have. New York Times.
Important?
of pleasant living, to pre
features, and to estab
the growing sea of as
and dirt.
incompatible with gra-
the unfettered liberty to
regardless of its effect
to pay out a little extra
the governments which
to do the necessary work.
subdivision ordinances
strips' on trees and
the line.
blamed for wanting to
arrives.
is going to remain habi
bov, son of a United
your planes" could iust
French and Italian Gov
great many persons who
for Dr. Schweitzer.
illustration of the fact
Dennis the Menace
... and Kuff could slbbp
Nixon Wins Favor for Quick,
Apt Arguments With Nikita
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man-of-the-wek: Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
The placer The Soviet
Union.
The quote: "The moment
we place either one of these
powerful nations (the U.S.
and Russia), in
a position
where it has
no choice but
accept dicta
tion or fight,
then you are
playing with
the most de
structive force
in the world."
pwi Newsom in ever in
the history of the Soviet
Union had the Ursisan people
been treated to such a spec
tacle. Here on quick-tdngued Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev's own
totalitarian grounds, a visitor
was trading verbal punch for
1 yd
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often
How To Become Famous
To the Editor: Do you ever
dream of being a great actor
or actress? Of. smiling gra
ciously when you are recog
nized as a star or relative of a
star?
Perhaps it makes you feel
good inside to be able to con
tribute to a worthy cause and
make others happy.
If so, here s a great oppor
tunity! The Footlighters' new
production "On the Bridge at
Midnight" will be presented
Aug. 18-29. We need costumes
and furniture of the late 19th
century and in return for the
loan, we promise you the
happiest, tear jerkiest vil-
lian-booingest evening of a
lifetime! starring members
of your own household.
So if you're able and will
ing to be a Good Samaritan
and a star, please contact Mrs.
Shirley Quincy, SP-3-1665.
Mrs. Jack W. Ruch,
(SP-3-5008)
30 Hawthorne st.,
Medford.
Air Pollution
To the Editor: We read with
great deal, of interest the
article on air pollution in
Tuesday night's paper, which
brings us to voice a complaint
about another case of flagrant
disregard to air pollution
laws.
Dirt, soot and oil boil into
the sky from an asphalt plant
operating on Bear Creek near
the Airport. This filth cas
cades into our open windows,
creating a distinct health haz
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A . BUXOM DRIVER became involved in a minor accident and
had a few million words lo say about it to the motorcycle
cop who arove up to investigate.
her harangue, "but tell me
this: Did you manage to
take down the other cars
license number?"
"Did I!" crowed the mad
madam and whipped out a
battered license plate for his
approval.
Have you heard about the
two fish who met in a Gulf
Stream bar to discuss business
conditions? Said one, "I hope
the- current will reverse itself
soon. As it is, I'm barely
keeping my head under
water!" (Oh, yes, the speaker
was a sale fish).
- Precautionary ad in a fashion page: "Bargain saJe in slacks but
be sure your end justifies your jeans'"
O 1959, by BennettCert, Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
down tuezbi'
punch with him and arguing
the American case as Ivan,
the Russian man in the street,
had never heard it before.
Khrushchev Seems Pleased
S t r a n g e ly, Khrushchev
seemed to like it
And Nixon was on the way
to becoming a popular Rus
sian hero.
The start of Nixon's Russia
visit had not been so aus
picious. Khrushchev had won
dered publicly what his mo
tives were in making the trip
The welcoming crowd at Mos
cow's airport was thin and
the reception cool. Moscow
newspapers had buried the
news of his visit so that few
actually were aware of his
coming.
At the moment of Nixon's
arrival, Khrushchev was at a
mass meeting denouncing the
U.S.'s "Captive Nations
Week."
It was, he said, "provoca
tive" interference in "our in-
the case.
ard, to say nothing of ruined
rugs, drapes, and furniture.
Requests to correct the situ
ation made- directly to the
owner by various residents
has met with complete indif
ference. Maybe some of these
people will voice their opin
ions on this matter by writing
letters to your paper.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dungey
3558 Table Rock rd.
Medford. ,
Editor's note: The Oregon
State Air Pollution authority,
State Office Building, Port
land, Ore., is interested in re
ceiving complaints of air pol
lution conditions.
Name Confusion '
To the Editor: Recently, lo
cal telephone solicitations for
the sale of magazines have
been made in a name that is
being confused with mine,
Bob Boyer.
During my years of resi
dence, professional practice,
and political activity in Jack
son county, I have learned to
know and deeply respect a
multitude of our population.
It causes me grave concern
that some of my friends and
clients may be misled due to
the possibility of mistaken
identity over the telephone. I
should like to take this occa
sion to assert that I am not
now, have not been, and do
not anticipate soliciting mag
azine subscriptions in Jackson
county.
Robert A. (Bob) Boyer,
Attorney at Law,
28 North Oakdale ave.,
- Medford.
Stop Me
"Yes, yes," the cop interrupted
GOP 'Operator' Credited With Victories
For Republicans in Recent Hawaiian Vote
Rir T.Vf.F f WTT.SOW
Washington- (DPD -Margaret
Johnston sat up night-long
and far beyond the dawn of
Wednesday listening to the
e 1 eicltion re-
turns from
Hawaii.
- Margaret is
Mrs. Victor A.
Johnston. Vic
I Johnstonlis the
wise political
s h a rpshooter
who master-
in i n d e d the
campaign in the fiftieth state.
He achieved the impossible.
Vic is a notable loser. Mar
garet stayed up in their hand
some suburban home on elec
tion night because she couldn't
possibly sleep. The Republi
can camDaien in Hawaii was
the best chance Vic Johnston
ever had to prove something
which your correspondent and
some other political buffs
around Washington well know
to be a fact. It is that inside
ternal affairs."
The debate begun in the
kitchen of the model home in
the American exhibit in Mos
cow through the formal open
ing of the exhibit, through a
roast beef dinner hosted by
Nixon for Khrushchev at the
U.S. Embassy and through
long private talks at the
latter's dacha or summer
house.
Longest High-Level Talk
It was the longest, highest
level talk ever held between
a member of the U.S. govern
ment and Khrushchev.
Whether either man actual
ly won the debate or had
succeeded in getting the other
to change any of his ideas
would be doubtful.
In general, as Nixon pro
ceeded to Leningrad, to No
vosibirsk in Siberia and to
Sverdlovsk, he attracted
crowds which were both large
and friendly. Occasionally, he
ran into hecklers who appear
ed obviously to have been
primed.
" From Russia Nixon was to
proceed to " Poland where an
other study in contrasts was
possible. Khrushchev was
there last week and his recep
tion was polite but less than
enthusiastic. ''..
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
The house ways and means
committee votes for a slow
down on construction of the
interstate highway system.
This would mean sharply re
duced annual allocations of
federal funds to the states.
Rejecting the administration's
demands for an increase in
the federal gasoline tax, the
committee proposed that the
current financial emergency
be met in this fashion:
1. Issue up to a billion dol
lars of highway revenue
bonds.
2. Extend the program four
years beyond the present 1972
termination date.
A S TO PROPOSAL No. 1:
It means writing it on the
cuff and adding it to the na
tional debt.
The effect of Proposal No.
2 would be to STRETCH OUT
the program, so that less
money would be required each
year.
Note, please, that the com
mittee's proposals don't seem
to provide a choice. The idea
is to go deeper in debt and
at the same time extend the
construction period.
The probable result would
be to spend MORE money
and go deeper into debt.
II7TIV TVTrvr raico tha rrasnlinp
" tax - if the roads MUST
be built?
The answer is rather simple
The politicians don't think
that a tax increase even
for building roads would be
popular in an election year.
MORE.ffom Washington:
The house of representa
tives today passed a $3,186,
500,000 foreign aid bill that,
if finally enacted into law,
will cut about 700 million
dollars from the President's
request for foreign aid money.
The President says at his
news conference that the re
duction would damage the for
eign aid program seriously.
WOULD IT?
It MIGHT.
But
There can be little doubt
that if anrjroached seriously
and purposefully the problem
could be solved by cutting 700
million dollars of WASTE out
of the foreign aid program.
THAT PROMPTS a thought:
If ALL the waste could.be
cut out of government spend
ing, taxes could be reduced
materially and the huge na
tional debt could be paid off
in a reasonable period oi
time, - - i
Vic Johnston's bushy-haired
head are the smartest politi
cal brains in the Republican
party.
Smart But Unlucky
The Hawaiian election re
turns are pretty good evidence
that Vic Johnston is a smart
operator, if unlucky hereto
fore. Hawaii had been expect
ed to follow the lead of
Editorial
Comment
RELIGION AND THE PRESS
Harold E. Fey, editor of
"Christian Century," takes the
secular press to task for its
failure to attack the "hard
questions" about religion in
this day and age..He does this
in an article in "Quill," a mag
azine for journalists put, out
by Sigma Delta Chi, profes
sional journalistic fraternity.
Writing in the July number
Dr. Fey criticizes the press for
failing to challenge the "vul
garization of religion." He
brands the current "religios
ity" as "the greatest single
peril faced by valid religion,"
and lists among its forms:
"They include the peace of
mind cult, the 'Man Upstairs'
king of sentimentality, the na
tionalistic notion that God is
Uncle Sam in a different set
of whiskers, the superstition
mongers, the psychologizers
and the mass revivalists.
"They include the men who
try to fasten a Christopher
medal to a space missile as
well as the men who urge sol
diers to carry New Testaments
over their hearts, not because
they read them, but because
they may magically stop a
bullet.
"T h e current American
fashion of religiosity has been
created in part by the press
and should be ventilated by
the press ... It spreads a thin
veneer of piety over millions
whose church membership is
nothing more than social con
formity. It throws its approval
over a statistically intoxicated
revivalism whose standard of
success is the number of card-
signing conversions it makes
of people who are already
church members .in most
cases.
Dr. Fey clearly has in mind
the ample publicity given to
the Billy Graham meetings,
and . says that "the only ob
servable effect of one of the
emotional balls is more peo
pie clamoring for the same
kind of excitement. The press
did go overboard on Billy
Graham. He got his first big
push from , the Hearst press,
then Time magazine saw him
'as "feature" material. His
meetings revive the old con
troversy over religious "re
vivals." The results follow
the same pattern as the Billy
Sunday meetings, though per
haps are less enduring, simply
because religion has become
so much of a veneer even for
regular church members.
But Dr. Fey is wrong if he
expects the secular press to
venture very far in debates
over religion. This topic is
probably the most clearly
marked "Keep Off of any in
a newsman's rulebook. It is
simply that questions of re
ligion become so involved
with emotions that lay edi
tors leave them alone. Sports
editors may discourse at
length on issues of competi
tive athletics, and political
writers may debate political
issues freely - though in both
cases they often excite violent
disagreement. But religion is
so deeply personal and at the
same time so powerfully insti
tutionalized that the secular
press confines itself largely to
a reporting job - and exer
cises little selectivity in the
church news it handles. Free
dom of religion is guaranteed
under the constitution, and the
free press leaves it free by
avoiding it.
And is it not better that
way? The press is at fault in
giving too much space to what
Dr. Fey calls "religiosity,'
which is really an affectation
of religion; but, since it ap
peals to a mass audience of
varying religious beliefs and
of none, and since it attempts'
to deal more with what are
called public affairs, political
social, economic, it avoids this
very sensitive area of human
interest, leaving that to the
protagonists of creeds and of
ideas on the subject, and they
seem to have no lack of means
for getting their messages cir
culated.
What the press has done,
however, is to uphold the
principle of religious freedom
which allows ideas to circu
late and creeds to claim their
converts. The Statesman tries
not to neglect important news
in this field, but it indulges in
no form of religiosity itself,
such as printing a daily Bible
verse. It regards religion as
intensely personal and not
something for press exploita
tion. - Charles A. Sprague in
Oregon Statesman, Salem
Alaska. The forty-ninth stale
went Democratic in a big way
in its first election. Johnston
is executive director of the
Republican Senatorial Cam
paign Committee. He was sent
to Hawaii to head off another
Republican calamity.
Hawaii this week elected a
Democratic U. S. Senator and
a Democratic member of the
House. But the new governor,
lieutenant governor and the
other senator are Republicans.
That outcome was close to a
political miracle. It should
boom Johnston's stock with
the Republican party leader
ship. His stock doesn't need
any booming with Republican
senators. They know about
Vic. .
The country is likely to
know more about Vic after
the 1960 presidential cam
paign. He is a high-ranking
member of the Richard M.
Nixon board of strategy in
addition to his committee
duties. If the vice president
is elected next year to the
White House, Vic Johnston
surely will go with him. And
there will be no more of the
White House political boo-boos
with which the Eisenhower
administration on occasion
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
NIXON IN RUSSIA
Washington - The striped
pants set, as the old career dip
lomats are called, tend to tut-
tut Vice Presi
d e n t Richard
Nixon's . bare
kniickled "p o litician's"
a p p r oach in
Russia. But
the truly re
sponsible chiefs at the
State Depart
William S.
Whit
who, under
ment - those
the President,
actually run our foreign poli
cy-are delighted by his per
formance in the first, or Mos
cow, phase of his mission.
Indeed, it can be stated re
sponsibly, these controlling
heads believe that if Nixon
is able to wind up his trip
without a major mistake, he
will have done well all he
went to the Soviet Union to
do.
Three circumstances have
confused many estimates as to
the effectiveness cf the Vice
President's trip. There is the
nnitft unhidden fact of his
fierce ambition. Of course, he
wants to be President after
1960-as do some of his critics,
too. There is the fact that,
partly because of his past
partisan savageries, he has
enemies who will never credit
him with doing anything weil.
And, most important of all,
there is this: Some have never
understood what his assign
ment was and was not.
IF THE real purposes of his
journey are understood, this
much can be said with com
plete confidence: It is not nec
essary to be for Nixon for
President, or to "like" him
or "approve" of him in the
smallest possible way, to dem
onstrate that the Moscow
phase has gone very well.
The complaint has been
made that Nixon is "not a
diplomat" and has not acted
like one. This is absolutely
correct-and absolutely irrele
vant. The complaint has been
made that he has been trading
some tough and highly un
reserved words with Nikita
Khrushchev. That he has. But
there was no mistake in this;
quite the contrary.
For to trade such words
with Khrushchev and other
Soviet leaders was one of the
two main reasons Nixon was
sent to Moscow by the Admin
istration. His other main pur
pose was to set at rest, if he
could, what ' our top people
are willing to concede were
some honest misconceptions
by Khrushchev about the
United States.
THE State Department was
fed to the teeth with a
series of easy world propa
ganda victories Khrushchev
had scored in his previous
conversations with unofficial
envoys like former Gov. Aver
ell Harriman of New York
and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
of Minnesota. State Depart
ment leaders had no criticism
of the motives of such envoys.
The department felt, all the
same, that they were not in
a position to do full justice
to our side of the world argu
ment. And the department want-i
has offended practical po
liticos. Never Ran For Office
If Johnston were not such
a swell guy all around and
so obviously a master of the
political art, he probably
would have been out of the
political business long ago. He
never ran for office nor will
he. Johnston is a political op
erator, despite a heartbreak
ing history of lost elections.
When Johnston loses, he
loses big. He lost with Harold
E. Stassen back there in the
1940s when the young man
from Minnesota tried to bull
his way to the Republican
presidential nomination.
Thomas E. Dewey borrowed
Johnston from the opposition
stable in 1948, and Vic's man
lost again.
Despite association with
Stassen and Dewey, Vic John
ston's true political love affair
was with the late Robert A.
Taft. Losing that one in 1952
hurt.
There has not been much
good news for Republicans of
late. Election returns from
Hawaii may be a good omen.
If Vic Johnston's luck has
turned, things will be picking
up soon for the GOP.
S. WHITE
ed some person of great pow-er-Nixon-not
only to put our
side to the world but to warn
the Russians against miscal
culating our basic determina
tion. The Vice President was
briefed "up to the neck" by
departmental experts on these
points. He knew just what
he was going to do and why.
For example, his decision to
come home by way of Poland
was not "sudden," though it
looked to be. It was, in fact,
a decision made here weeks
ago.
For the bottomtruth about
the Nixon mission is simply
this: The time had come when
the cold war was too impor
tant to be left to the diplo-mats-as
old Premier Clemen
ceau of France once said that
hot war was too important to
be left to the generals.
THE views of career diplo
mats and their followers to
the contrary, it is "politici
ans" and not diplomats who
in the end control our system
-and the Soviet system, too.
Secretary of State Christian
Herter, for example, is a "poli
tician," and a good one.
Diplomats, after all, are
employees, if elevated ones.
"Politicians," however dread
ful the word, still maka the
policy-and run the show. This
they do because the Constitu
tion gives them the right and
because they represent the
facts of life, which are the
facts of power.
Certainly Nixon is running
hard for President. But the
very fact he might one day
be President of the United
States was the very ultimate
reason why he was sent to
Russia in the first place. This
was done not to assist Richard
Nixon but to assist the high
policy of this country. If it
all helps him politically, as '
well it might, everybody con
cerned will just have to live
with that fact.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Consfrucfion to
Start on Launchers
Corvallis- (UPD -Construction
is expected to start next
month on 28 launcher shel
ters and support facilities for
Bomarc missile base at
Camp Adair north of here.
The Bomarc base will be
in 'addition to the SjAuj;.
(Semi-Automatic Ground En
vironment) facility at the
Adair site.
The Air Force Wednesday
released $5,300,000 for con
struction of the missle base,
according to Rep. Walter Nor
blad (R-Ore.)
Apparently low, bidder for
initial construction of the mis
sile facility is the Donald M.
Drake company of Portland.
The firm bid $2,496,758.
Norblad said in Washing
ton. D. C, that original cost
of the entire missile base was
estimated at $9,500,000 but
that newer and more efficient
models of the Bomarc would
require fewer facilities.
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