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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
Aug. 18, 1949 (Thursday)
Jackson county's h u c k 1 e
berry crop is reported to be
extremely poor this year.
Some 120 airborne artillery
men and infantrymen are to
"attack" Medford airport
Sept. 18 as part of the city's
aviation fair.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1939 (Friday)
Edward G. Brown, who
came to Medford in 1909 and
soon afterwards established a
food and drink emporium by
that name at Main and Front
st., announces that he and his
wife are retiring.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column (By
Claude E. Ingalls): "As I grow
older I find that my notion of
nothing to see is the initiation
of a candidate for membership
into a lodge."
30 YEARS AGO v
Aug. 18, 1929 (Sunday)
Fire Chief Elliott holds a
party for all boys of the city.
The model plant of South
ern Oregon Sales, Inc., will
open Thursday.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1919 (Monday)
Fifteen firefighters are dis
patched to Foots creek to com
bat a brush fire.
Local Bartletts are now
selling in New York for $3.71
a box.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1909 (Wednesday)
Picking at the Gore orch
ard this year confirms that
this tract is "the best Bartlett
pear orchard in the world."
The bleached bones of a
man with a bullet in the skull
are discovered along Trail
creek, and are believed to be
the remains of Will King, who
disappeared mysteriously four
years ago.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five et
is is good.
1. When it is autumn in the
Rockies, what season is it in
the Andes?
2. What is the most abund
ant metallic element in the
world?
3. What valuable medicine
is obtained from the bark of
the cinchona tree?
4. What seven letters are
used in the Roman system of
numerals?
5. What famous New York
State prison is located at Os-
sining?
6. Which of these is heav
iest; irridium, osmium, platin
um? i
7. Does the law require that
an inventor hire a patent at
torney to obtain a patent?
8. With what New Eng
land town do you associate
John Harvard?
9. Is a moppet a baby, a
long-haired dog, or a mop used
for cleaning a cannon?
10. Which was the older
son, Cain or Abel?
Answers. 1. Spring. 2.
Aluminum. 3. Quinine. 4.
I V X L C D M. 5. Sing Sing.
" 6. Osmium. 7. No. 8. Cam
bridge, Mass. 9. All three.
10. Cain.
KEEPS OFF HIS FEET
Waterbury, Vt. (DPD Mail
man L F. Marchi wen an
award from the National Safe
ty Council for 24 years of
safe driving.
Rocky s 'Platform9
Like charting the skips and jumps in an eve
ning's conversation, tracking public opinion to
its source is nearly always a hopeless task. By
the same token, it's futile to seek a cause-and-effect
relation between a single formulation of
opinion and events which follow.
Nonetheless, it may be useful to try to see
what's happened to the block-buster reports is
sued during 1958 by the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund.
These reports were the work of a high octane
combination of scholars, opinion-makers and
political insiders. But the policies advocated
seem, whether rightly or wrongly, to have be
come identified in the public mind with the
personality and political fortunes of Nelson A.
Rockefeller.
a
HTO DATE, there have been four reports. The
first dealt with defense, the second with do
mestic economics, the third with foreign eco
nomic policy and the fourth with education. All
were long and packed with specifics. Only a few
of the main policy recommendations can be
cited here.
The military report, : prepared by Henry A.
Kissinger (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Pol
icy), called for increasing the defense budget at
a rate of $3 billion a year for the "next several
fiscal years," tightening lines of authority in the
defense department to reduce inter-service rival
ries, and revising strategy to prepare for "the full
gamut of possible limited wars." '
The defense department was, of course, reor
ganized in 1958, with President Eisenhower
himself leading the fight. No doubt the Rocke
feller report helped drum up support. However,
the President stopped a long way short of the re
port's recommendations, and Congress wouldn't
go even that far.
The creation of the Strategic Army Corps in
May, 1958, was a tiny step along the path of the
last recommendation. As for the first: much of
the $2 billion tacked on to the defense budget
in the past two years has gone for purposes which
the report seemed to disapprove.
THE tally sheet on domestic economics is
equally spotty. Congress speeded up the public
works program, as recommended to fight the
recession. But there was no general tax cut, nor,
since the recession ended, has there been any
move to develop a shelf of programs for emer
gencies. Detailed suggestions on tax reform, agri
culture, metropolitan problems, economic growth
and welfare matters have simply added to the
volume of debate. '
The same can be said for the education re
port, least specific of the four. Federal aid to
which the report saw no alternative short of a
"painful . . . overhaul of state and local tax sys
tems' is up again in
is perennial.
In terms of results, the foreiem economic uol-
icy report seems to have
Steps have been taken to
with Latin America, and
shift toward longer-haul development programs
and away from short-term aid.
PERHAPS it's too much to suggest that these
rntrrv4- -rv.s,. 4-Vt n ln.. a1..m T.1.
efeller's skyrocket political rise. But they cer
tainly gave him jet assistance on the takeoff.
And, along with several reports yet to be pub-
lisned, tney could furnish similar aid if, after
consulting the oracles, Rockefeller decides this
November to enter the' lists against Nixon.
Obviously the gap between the goals set forth
in the reports and achievement is wide enough so
that any journeyman politician, let alone Rocke
feller, ought to be able to throw together, a serv
iceable platf orm out of leftover pianks. E.R.R.
U.S. Industrial Colonization
Results of a new survey of spending abroad
by American private industry show that outlays
for new plant, expanding as had been foreseen,
are taking a new and significant turn. A McGraw-Hill
study discloses that new money for
plant, equipment, and property outside the United
States this year will run to $2,143,600,000 up
5 per cent from 1958 investment. A like expendi
ture is expected for 1960.
Even. more important, U. S. manufacturers
next year expect to spend more on new facilities
in Europe than in Canada and Latin America
combined. This is a reversal of a long-term trend
and must certainly be attributable to new. condi
tions brought about by the European common
market. In contrast, in 1957, about 92 per cent
of the capital of American industry invested in
manufacturing abroad was in these regions 44.4
per cent in Canada, 21.3 per cent in Latin Amer
ica, and 25.3 per cent in western Europe.
IN SEARCH of a better basis of competition
with foreign firms, U. S. companies are push
ing sales by foreign subsidiaries to such an extent
that they are expected to increase faster than
U. S. exports. Total exports are reversing a down
ward trend this year and are expected to continue
upward next year. Even so, the new figures
support the contention of Sen. William Proxmire
(D-Wis.), April 21, that "the export of American
jobs has just begun." American capital invested
abroad, American automation and know-how, on
top of lower foreign wages, Proxmire holds, are
a combination "not only cutting a terrible swath
in the export market for American factories," but
also ''beginning to cost them some of their do
mestic U. S. markets." E.R.R.
Congress. But the issue
been the most fruitful.
imrjrove economic ties
there has been a definite
Dennis the
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Dunes Opposition Reasons
To the Editor: I am inter
ested in your editorial on
Cape Hatteras in which you
mentioned the proposed Ore
gon Dunes National Seashore,
implying that what was good
for the outer banks of North
Carolina would be good here.
Let me point out a few
differences:
(1) There: not a single home
was taken. Here: About 250
year-around homes in the pro
posed area. Conrad L. Wirth,
director of the national parks,
has stated, "We hope eventu
ally to eliminate all housing."
(2) There: no recreational
areas. Here: the 522-acre
Honeyman State Park, county
parks, five U. S. Forest Serv
ice camps in the 12,000 acres
along the coast next to the
state-owned beaches with
more planned. Ample access
to dunes, lakes and beaches
no "vanishing shoreline."
(3) There: little industry
some fishing. Here: dairies,
resorts, lumbering, tree
farms, etc., with good pros
pects for vast amounts of
water under dunes which
could not be used under park
regulations, we have been in
formed. (4) There: a mild climate
for year-around tourist trade.
Here: much rain. .
These are just a few of the
differences. Finally, it should
be undestood that opposition
to the proposed seashore is
not confined to the Florence
area.
Judging from our clipping
service; about half the news
papers which have taken a
stand editorially are opposed.
The Lane County Chamber
of Commerce, the Baker
County Chamber of Com
merce and, we have reason
to believe, the Seaside and
the Grants Pass chambers are
opposed. The latter two have
not passed resolutions, as yet,
but members have expressed
strong opposition. The State
Grange, at its annual con
vention opposed the project.
So did the Northwest Council
of Indians after a thorough
investigation.
The current issue of "Liv
ing Lands," published by the
Oregon Association of Soil
Conservation Districts, in its
leading editorial, declares
that the association "has
backed the Siuslaw board in
opposing the proposal."
Assistant Secretary of .Ag
riculture Ervin L. Peterson,
in speaking before the Port
land Chamber of Commerce,
expressed strong opposition,
obviously reflecting the atti
tude of the agriculture de
partment. Sen. Wayne Morse and
Congresswoman Edith Green
do not favor the seashore.
Charles O. Porter appears to
be doubtful and is making an
investigation. A committee of
the Oregon legislature tabled
a memorial recommending
the project.
It is true that at first op
position was largely from
this area but as our fellow
Oregonians have obtained
accurate . information more
and more of them are reject
ing the ill-conceived proposal.
John S. Parker,
Committee on
Infomation,
Western Lane Taxpay
ers Association,
Box 25,
Florence, Ore.
Let's Go Along
To the Editor: About "Air
Pollution Again": As we all
know, the two major indus
tries in this valley are timber
and pears. We all in this val
ley depend on them for a live
lihood: It is good and well to keep
our valley pure. I suppose
it. is well to do away with
every kind of pollution. But
Menace
if we must have pollution
(which is disagreeable at
times) let's go along with it
until there is some kind of
solution to stop it.
I'm not really smart enough
to figure it out, but of course
I have my solutions and the
ories.
In the first place, as long
as we make our livjng from
pears and lumber, let's co-operate
with them (the people
who operate and own them).
I suppose if the sawmill peo
ple could find a suitable mar
ket for their sawdust and
trimmings that would do
away with the burners, there
fore no smoke from the mills.
Let's hope they find some
kind of market for their waste
products. If they cannot find a
market for their waste prod
ucts what do you say? Let's
go along with them until they
do.
Now about pears. The fruit
growers (that is the peach and
pear people) have found that
smudging is of the very most
importance. Without it fruit
in this valley would be almost
a failure.
Let's don't do away with
the fruit just because of
smudge smoke.
The fruit people in the past
years have used the open pot,
which is really the best heater
to protect young fruit from
frost. Then there are the
stack heaters, but they pollute
the air about as much as the
open heaters. The fruit peo
ple have one more way to
protect their peaches and
pears and whatever fruit
they have, and that is with the
smokeless, air - circulating
heaters.
Let me make this clear to
you folks who are hollering
the loudest. The cost of chang
ing from smoking heaters to
smokeless would cost thou
sands of dollars.
Let's go along with the
lumbermen and the fruit
grower until we can find a
way.
Clifford Alden Trask,
P. O. Box 405,
Phoenix, Ore.
Sauce For the Goose
To the Editor:
Girls and women wearing
shorts,
Have Mr. Bulman out of sorts.
What about men, with their
j bellies bare?
Don't you think that might
make a woman stare?
And those hairy limbs hang
ing below,
They do not seem ashamed
to show.
Pick- on your own sex, Mr.
Bulman,
And leave clothes-choosing
to us women.
Mrs. Delbert Casey,
Central Point, Ore.
Darndest Letters
To the Editor: The fire is
out in Ashland and I'm" get
ting some of the darndest
letters you ever did see. I got
one this morning, it said; We
read all your letters in the
Tribune and enjoyed them
very much and if we only
knowed what you wuz writ
in' about, they might be in
terestin' too. Signed, Goofy.
I got three letters in one
envelope from three guys
who were in the Army with
me. The first one said: "If
you don't quit writin' letters
about monkeys, we is going
to sue the pants of'n you."
The second one said: "If you
don't quit writin' letters about
people, we is going to sue the
pants of'n you." The last one
from my old "fat sergeant
said: "If you don't quit writ
in' letters about us monkeys
who made you wash all them
dishes in the Army, we is
Confusing Indonesia Celebrating Tenth
Anniversary of Achieving Independence
By ARNOLD DIBBLE
Tokyo - (DPD - The most
puzzling, misunderstood and
one of the potentially most
powerful nations in Asia is
Indonesia, which has just
celebrated its first decade of
sovereignty.
To the above it might be
added that Indonesia is con
fusing, frustrating, ugly,
beautiful, rich, poor, and just
about any other adjective that
might come to mind. One ob
server described Indonesia as;
"Three thousand islands look
ing for a nation."
On Aug. 17, 1949, The
Netherlands finally gave up
going to ' sue the pants off n
you."
YIPES! The Army has al
ready got my pants. They
got them in 1917. The Army
ran out of pants, but that
didn't stop them from taking
me. They came up to my
house, went into the clothes
closet, came out with two
pair of pants, put me in them
and took me with two pair of
pants. When I arrived at Ft.
Stevens, I got 19 months on
kitchen police for saluting a
colonel with fishhooks in my
own hat.
Another letter I received
from California said: "We
liked your stories about ser
geants, you are the world's
champion kwazy writer,
Anyhow, my sponsors and I
are getting some of the darn
dest letters.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Tunnel-Not Chairlift 1
To the Editor: A relative
sent me your editorial about
the "Abominable Chairlift'
which appeared in your paper
last month. In regard to this
matter I wish to propose that
Congressman Charles O. Por
ter drop his pursuit of his
chairlift into the inner slope
of the crater at Crater Lake
and take up the more worth
while project of tunneling an
elevator shaft to the gates of
Hades.
This would of course neces
sitate un-meltable steel tow
ers, but at least there wouldn't
be much beauty marred along
the way. His object is to per
mit more people to see the
crater from the lake view as
the view is less spectacular
from the top. My proposed
project would certainly offer
a spectacular view at the bot
tom too.
But if no other reason will
change the congressman's
mind, surely the practical as
pects will. After all, the sea
son is a year-around affair
and the traffic is probably
terrific.
I hope Mr. Porter will con
duct a poll in his district
about this new recommenda
tion and publish the results
as soon as possible.
Mrs. John Pendleton
(a native Oregonian)
2446 Walnut ave.,
Venice Calif.
Radio Fire Coverage
To the Editor: Is there any
law, rule, or reason why local
radio stations would not sup
ply local people with local
news? I refer to the sadely in
adequate coverage of the fire
in the Ashland area during its
later stages. Repeatedly dur
ing the second and third days
of the blaze, we tuned in local
stations including the one in
Ashland,, in hopes of getting
news of its progress and the
valiant battle to subdue it,
and only once, on the second
day, were we successful.
At almost any hour of the
day one could hear all about
the steel strike, the stock
market decline, the debate
over pending labor legisla
tion, what Mr. Hoover thinks
about world affairs, how
many rounds of golf the Presi
dent had completed on that
particular day, and news of
the brush fire at Elsinore,
Calif.! Conceivably if Califor
nia station announcers behav
ed in a similar manner, one
might have had news of the
Ashland fire by tuning in El
sinore. Unfortunately our ra
dio reception was inadequate
to find out.
Every able-bodied man in
the families of our nearest
neighbors were on the fire
line, and since most of their
households are not equipped
with television, it was im
possible to get any news of
them except for the very rare
and inadequate reports which
dribbled through the endless
sequence of drivel via radio.
We all felt the public was de
serving of better treatment.
(Name on File)
Jacksonville, Ore.
and ended nearly 500 years
of rule over the world's larg
est archipelago, stretching al
most from India to Australia.
Indonesia proclaimed its in
dependence four years earlier,
in 1945. As to whether the
Indonesians were ready for
self-government - and, if not,
why not is an argument
Matter of Fact
THEY ROCKED,
THEY ROLLED
Washington Every sensi
ble person has a favorite ref
uge, remote from the dusty
concerns o f
his daily life.
It may be par
akeet training,
or big-g a m e
hunting, or
just the opium
of television,
but it serves a
necessary pur
pose. This re-
4 - -
JoseoH AIsod P"''s lc x
uge happens to be the past.
This confession and or seu-
justification is in order, be
cause China in the miuenium
of Our Lord has no business
creeping into a political col
umn, and the ancient Chinese
musical criticism is even more
out of place.
All the same the knowledge
that the old Chinese had a se
rious rock 'n roll problem
niav console parents alarmed
by the wild ways of their off
spring, moralists wno connect
rock 'n roll with juvenile de
linquency, and even the
"P r a v d a" editorial writers
who are so horrified by young
Communists' taste for West
ern jazz. The evidence was
discovered in the "Record of
Music", a section of the "Li
Chih" or "Book of Rites",
which was reputedly compil
ed by Confucius himself.
THE Marquis Wen of Wei,"
reports the "Record", "ask
ed (Confucius's disciple) Tzu
hsia: 'When ... I listen to
the ancient music, I am only
afraid that I shall go to sleep.
When I listen" to the music of
Cheng and Wei, I do not feel
tired. Let me inquire why I
should feel so differently un
der the old and new music?
"Tzu-hsia replied: 'In the
old music (all) is harmonius,
correct and in large volumn
... In (it) the superior man
speaks of and follows the
wavs of antiquity. The char
acter is cultivated; the family
is regulated; 'and peace and
order are secured througnout
the kingdom. This is the man
ner of the old music.
" 'But now in the new mu
sic, (the performers) advance
and retire witnout any regu
lar order. The music is cor
rupt to excess. There is no
end to its vileness. Among
the players . . . boys and girls
are mixed together, and there
Halsey Military
Funeral Thursday
Washington-fDPD-Fleet Adm.
William F. (Bull) Halsey will
be buried with full military
honors Thursday at Arlington
National cemetery, final rest
ing place for the nr. Lion's
heroes.
Halsey, 76, died in his sleep
Sunday during a vacation on
Fishers island off the Connec
ticut shore.
The Navy said that the
body of the famed World War
II fleet commander would be
flown from Fisher island to
nearly Anacpstia, Md., Naval
Air Station Wednesday.
The body will lie in state
in the Bethlehem chapel of
the Washington Cathedral
from noon Wednesday until
noon Thursday, with final fu
neral services conducted at
Arlington.
The late Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles was the
last national figure to be
buried with full honors at
Arlington.-
TAXI RIOT QUELLED
Kampala, Uganda (UPD- Po
lice broke up an unruly dem
onstration by about 1,000 per
sons at the bus terminal here
Monday. The crowd had gath
ered to protest slow taxi serv
ice from the terminal caused
by a police crackdown on il
legal parking. There were no
casualties and no arrests.
BUREAU FOUNDER DIES
Weston Conn.-UPD-Lee Kee
dick, 79, founder of the na
tion's oldelt lecture bureau,
died Monday in a hospital at
Fairfield, Conn. Keedick had
founded the Lee Keedick Lec
ture bureau in 1907.
Non-Fat
Milk
nider's
Quality DAIRY FOODS
that still rages bitterly be
tween . Jakarta and The
Hague.
Dutch Position Untenable
But it was all academic be
cause the harassment of In
donesian guerillas plus the
machinations of internation
al diplomacy made the
Dutch position untenable; and
By Joseph AIsop
is no distinction between fa
ther and son . . . this is the
fashion of the new music.
"What you ask about is mu
sic; and what you like is
sound. Now music and sound
are akin, but they are not the
same."
'
rpzU-HSIA, a square if ever
-- there was one, then finish
ed off the poor, cornered" Mar
quis by classifying the particu
lar horrors of different types
of the new music, as one
might label different rock 'n
roll singers and bands. "Those
of Sune tell of slothful in
dulgence and women . .
those of Wei are vehement
and rapid . . . and those of
Ch'u are violent and deprav
ed, and make the mind arro
gant. . . . All stimulate libidi
nous desire and' are injurious
to virtue. They should there
fore not be used."
Presumably these stern
words convinced the Marquis
Wen, 'though perhaps without
correcting his sad tendency to
doze off during performances
of classical music. He un
doubtedly agreed with "Tza
hsia's reminder that "a ruler
has to be careful what he
likes and dislikes." Presum
ably, too, he was a conscien
tious overlord of his small cor
ner of Old China. Otherwise,
he would just have ordered
out the dancing girls and boys,
without nervously asking Tzu
hsia about it.
One likes to think of the
Marquis's court, happily purg
ed of libidinous sounds, firm
ly restored to complete decor
um, with Tzu-hsia smugly tri
umphant in his corner. But it
is even more enjoyable to
realize that this kind of argu
ment may really have oc
curred in 500 or 600 or 700
B.C. Maybe it did not occur
exactly as reported in the
"Record of Music." As the
Chinese classics are also Chi
nese puzzles, their literal ac
curacy is not dependable, but
there certainly was a general
debate about old music and
new, which is duly reflected
in the "Record." In this de
bate, furthermore, persons
like Tzu-hsia certainly felt
just as violently as he is rep
resented as feeling. They had
even better reason to feel vio
lently, after all, than the
"Pravda" editorial writers
who clearly feel very violent
ly indeed. For this was sacred
and magical music the Old
Chinese were debating about.
IT W A S performed at the
sacrifices to the spirits of
the ancestors and the spirits of
the land and the gram. It was
thought to help the seasons
and encourage the crops and
strengthen the government
and improve public order. No
wonder, then, that rock 'n
roll-ish tendencies before the
holy altars caused fussbudgets
to fuss.
To be sure, if one may
judge by surviving and very
much later old music of China
and Japan, even the music
that left Marquis Wen "not
tired" would have caused
snores at the most respectable
church social. But that is only
another proof of the first rule
one learns by taking refuge
in the past, the rule that ev
erything is relative. And the
story of Marquis Wen also
proves the second rule, that
eternal change and eternal
continuity are the sole con
stants in the life of men.
(c) 1959, Nev York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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on the personal level, tragic,
as thousands of Dutch citi
zens, many of whom had
never seen their homeland,
were forced to flee this lush
tropical land which many
argue was the site of the
biblical garden of Eden.
Today, the situation in In
donesia is not dissimilar to
the United States ten years
after it 4iad shaken the yoke
of George LH, except that in
many years of Indonesia liv
ing conditions of the rulers
and the ruled are more primi
tive than America 170 years
ago. Hard to believe, but
true.
President Sukarno has just
ordered a return to his fa
vorite political philosophy.
guided democracy " abolish
ed political parties within his
government, and cracked
down on public political de
bate on the street corners
and in the press.
This has led to charges of
"dictatorship."
Open to Question
But like just about every
other conclusion drawn of In
donesia, this charge of "dic
tatorship" might be open to
question. Certainly, in most
other nations such action
would constitute dictatorship,
pure and simple.
But Indonesia, like the orig
inal American states, is more
under the control of local
political and military leaders
in many areas than it is un
der the control of Jakarta, the
central 'government's capital.
Army commanders, in many
areas, carry out their, own
foreign trade negotiations,
levy their own taxes, and in
general run little kingdoms
that are thousands of miles
away from Jakarta - in spirit
as well as in actuality.
Further, there appears to
be such a delicate balance
within the central govern
ment itself that no one can
actually aspire to dictator
ship. Someday, perhaps,, but
not now.
U. S. Backs Nasution ?
The two main players are,
of course, Sukarno and his
chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Abdul
Haris Nasution. The best in
formed observers, of Indo
nesia doubt that either could
survive without the other.
The United States has given
strong backing to Nasution,
who is known to be strongly ,
anti-Communist. And under
the able, low-pressure am
bassadorship of Howard P.
Jones, : America's stock has
been going up steadily .since
its low point in the spring
of last year.
But Nasution can scarcely
risk making any bid for pow
er before he has gotten the
armed forces, including his
far-flung regional command
ers, under firm control - and
that seems to be a long way
off.
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