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Wednesday, Ang. 19. 1959
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History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aua. 19. 194S (Friday)
Nine persons post bail and
two others nav fines at Med
ford's police department con
tinues its crackdown on jay
walkers.
The Rev. George R. V. Bol
ster accepts the call to be
rector of St. Mark s Episcopal
church here.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19, 1939 (Saturday)
Eight international jitterbug
champions are scheduled" to
appear on the Craterian the
ater stage next week.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
latest Rogue river fishing
Issue has fizzled out, like 1,
687,943,294 previous vital fish
problems. Fishermen shouldn't
worry - there'll be another
one along before snow flies."
SO YEARS GO
Aug. 19, 1929 (Monday)
Sixteen cars of Bartletts
were shipped east last week.
Thirteen graduates of Med
ford High will enter the Uni
versity of Oregon this fall.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19, 1919 (Tuesday)
Hot weather continues, with
the mercury brushing 105 de
grees. Local Bartletts are bringing
$4.15 a box in New York City.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 19, 1909 (Thursday)
The Medford Commercial
club protests the poor mail
service in the Rogue valley.
A total of 53 cars of pears
are shipped to New York fol
lowing the first week of pick
ing. :
Yhal's Yoor l.Q.7
Nina er ten correct is mparts;
even er eijht is excellent; five et
six is good.
1. In the nursery rhyme,
"Sing a Song of Sixpence,!
what was in the dish set be
fore the king?
2. In the Biblical story, who
offered to cut a child in two
in a dispute between two wo
men over the motherhood of
the child?
3. On what continent is Mo
rocco?
4. What is the . name of the
great mountain range of South
America?
5. In which large South Am
erican country are beef cattle
extensively raised?
6. Did kindergarten educa
tion originate in England, Ger
many or France?
7. Is writing paper called
stationery or stationary?
8. Are duck eggs suitable
for human food?
9. In what State was the
fabulously rich Comstock lode
of gold and silver discovered?
10. The military tank was
first used in combat in 1916
during W.W.I- was it first
used by England, U.S., France
or Russia?
Answers: 1. Four-and-twaa
tr blackbirds. 2. King Solo
mon. 3. Africa. 4. ' Andes. 5.
Argentina. 6. Germany. 7. Sta
tionery. 8. Yes. 9. Nevada. 10.
England. ,
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Ewald's Valedictory
We hate to see Bill Ewald leave United Press
International and thereby the columns of the
Mail Tribune.
Ewald has been a caustic critic of what he
has dubbed the "boob tube" that is, the little
box, TV. He has done so out of conviction. And
we're glad the top brass of the UPI saw fit to
give him his head.
For, as he said in his valedictory column last
week, television, as a whole, "is falling down
on the job badly, succumbing to the tyranny of
majority tastelessness, land - sliding us under
with garbage. TV should be scolded constantly
and severely. So should you who sit and accept."
117E HAVE disagreed often with Ewald's as-
sessments of particular programs in par
ticular the fairy-tale Westerns, to which we are
addicted simply because they offer nonsensical
relaxation and "escape."
But such disagreements are only on particu
lars, not on the general worth and quality of
television today.
We do agree with Ewald that television has
such a tremendous potential "for expanding the
horizons of all of us" that it is in the nature of
tragedy that it has so miserably failed to live up
to a fraction of the potential.
When it is good, television can be fantastical
ly good, but, like the little girl with the curl in
the middle of her forehead, w7hen it is bad, it is
horrid. E.A.
Outdoors in Oregon
- 1 1
Each time it is our good fortune to travel
through a part of Oregon, we come home rein
forced and refreshed in our belief that we live
in a particularly favored part of the world.
Much of the face of this state is being
changed so rapidly that it is difficult to compre
hend. There are the wide freeways and the acres
of asphalt parking lots; the burgeoning "fringe"
business sections on the approaches to cities ; the
smoke and stink of growing industry; the blight
of billboards and the scars of logging (which, it
is to be hoped, will be cured with time and re
forestation). But there are many thousands of square miles
of Oregon which remain relatively untouched,
and which are beautiful beyond description.
TTHE Cascades the "backbone" of Oregon
-rWvm trio droart Rru-innrc to trio PnllTrYlVlin
Gorge, offer one long "panorama of wooded hills,
gem-like lakes and rocky
peaks.
To the west, , the
green grandeur to the
and to the tucked-m valleys of the Umpqua and
Rogue. -
To the east the high
thousands of acres of jack pine gradually changes
into the sagebrush desert with only rimrocks,
junipers and gullies to break the somehow-fascinating
monotony.
.
IN INCREASING numbers, Oregonians and
fit aim Tnoifnvc nrn fnvninrr trlflii OVC infr. til POO
almost-unspoiled areas for rest and relaxation.
New products have made camping so easy and
pleasant, that thousands'upon thousands of peo
ple now are roughing it with tents, sleeping
bags and gas (or electric) lanterns and stoves.
And those who are willing to drag trailers
along the highway have an evjen higher standard
of luxury, but still can get the feeling of "living
in the out of doors." ;
This pressure has made the facilities for the
campers' accommodation sadly out of date and
totally inadequate. And the best efforts of the
state, county and federal governments have not
been enough to meet the demand.
CTEPS are being taken to solve this problem.
But , it cannot be solved on any one level
of government (or, for that matter, by private
enterprise) alone.
Congress has taken cognizance of the prob
lem to the extent of approving somewhat higher
expenditures for forest service and national parks
recreational use. But to date the amounts avail
able are pitifully inadequate to, do the job
needed.
The state of Oregon is far ahead of some
other states in the development of- state parks.
But here, too, the demand is in excess of the job
being done.
And the counties of Oregon are just now
getting a good grip on the problem. Douglas and
Lane counties in particular have made a start.
Jackson is in the beginning stages, and sort of
feeling its way. v
All of these efforts need to be stepped up
and intensified, for this
tion is not only popular and growing more so,
but it is also one of the most wholesome forms
of recreation possible. E.A.
YCC Takes a Step
The Senate last week passed the "Youth Con
servation Corps" bill, providing for a new organ
ization patterned somewhat on the (JCU ot the
19308.
It is to be hoped, the House will also approve
it. ; . .
Among other benefits (and they are many),
such an organization could do much to alleviate
the deteriorated and inadequate recreational
facilities mentioned above. E.A.
and often snow-crested
hills descend m rolling,
lush Willamette valley,
plateau covered with
kind of outdoor recrea
Dennis the Menace
'See how
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the cae.
Can't "Go Along" Any More
To the Editor: "Go along
with them," Mr. Trask says in
his communication Tuesday.
What have we been doing the
past several years? You can
"go along" just so far, then
you begin to realize that noth
ing is going to be accomplish
ed as long as you have that
attitude.
With the help of a very
capable man in charge of air
pollution abatement, Eugene's
lumber industry got down to
brass tacks,. and solved their
problem successfully. I see no
reason why Medford can't do
the same. "
As I understand it -if a
burner is in good repair, has
tangential inlets for overfire
air, and the excess air is held
between 300 and 500 per cent,
it would greatly reduce
smoke and cinder emission.
Now, the question arises,
are all the burners in the val
ley in good repair? Are they
all being operated in the man
ner prescribed for more com
plete combustion?
If not, why not?
Mr. Trask mentions the
high cost of replacing orchard
heaters.1 (No mention, of
course, of the practice of
burning old tires still used
by some orchardists.)
What about t'e cost to mer
chants and householders be
cause of soil (or should I say
oil) damage to merchandise
and home- furnishings? You
would think cleaning estab
lishments would be the only
ones -to gain-but I've been
told that even "they didn't
profit from the smudge-ev-erything
that had been clean
ed, when the Big Black Cloud
came -had to be cleaned
again!
We had a bad smudge five
years ago too, remember? I
believe the Fruit Growers as
sociation said then that the
orchardists would replace
their heaters at the rate of 20.
per cent a year. According to
my figures -it should have
been 100 per cent .by last
spring.
I'm sure some orchardists
have cooperated in this pro
gram, and, we thank them.
But. for those who haven't
we can no longer afford to go
along with them."
Mrs. Leonard Matheus,
1124 West 10th St.,
Medford.
Suggests Controlled Burning
To the Editor: Let's Keep
Oregon Green. But the cau
tion about throwing cigarettes
out of the window doesn't
seem to have the desired ef
fect. So let's try- some other
remedy. - ;
The fire at Ashland alone
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
T HERE'S A TALL, tall tale told out Louisville way about
a red-headed farmer named Stewart who married a gal
whose hair was even redder than his. In time they were blessed
with eight red-headed chil-
dren. Asked bv the countv
sheriff how he was getting
along, Stewart admitted, "I
got no cause for complaint.
But ef it warn't for the
woodpeckers, f eedin' - the
young uns might be a prob
lem. Ye see, them danged
birds think everything's that
got a red head is another
woodpecker. -So we just set
the young'uns out on the
rail fence and go in and take
a nap. When we get back,
them danged peckers have
fed 'em all day!"
. --
The letter "E" has been thus eloquently described: , '
i The beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space,
The beginning of every end,
- . . Then end of every place.
0 ly BtauHt CerX. Distributed by King Feature SjiwUcte.
they STRETCfV
cost some half-million dollars
in . labor . and other damage.
My suggestion is this: Begin
ning New Years, 1960, com
mence burning the forest
lends as soon as any place is
dry enough to burn; keep this
up as fast as the woods get
dry enough to burn. Don't let
the woods pile up in same
shape as it always has, so
when a fire gets started, which
it will, the devil and all his
ai gls could not get it out.i
Give the forest ranger all
the help he needs to keep all
dry spots burned oft, and to
protect all the new planting
of trees that has cost so much,
to preserve the forest.
These fires can and must be
prevented, . only by beating
the fire to it. Commence say
in May or June 1960 depend
ing on weather and how soon
woods get dry enough to burn,
Don't let it pile up again, and
have these repeated disaster
fires. Cost too much? Well,
compare with what we now
have. Besides we save our tim
ber and the new plants now
planted.
This is just a gist of what I
would like to say. I've been in
t-ie Oregon country some 60
years; my coming birthday I
will be 93.
Let's hear more on this sub
ject. We know what we now
have is not working and is not
workable.
C.C.Harper
P. O. Box 174
Talent, Ore.
Two Cents Worth
To the Editor: I want to put
my two cents worth in on the
subject of air pollution.
Ya ain't seen or smelt any
thing yet. Wait until the free
way goes over the city. Mrs
Matheus, you will just have
to move to a mountain top. As
for the smudging, I'm willing
to put up with the five or six
times on normal years so we
can earn the $1,000 in wages
in the fall, and so say my
friends. At least it isn't a con
stant poison, as cars.
G. J. Homester
2641 Jacksonville . Hwy.
Medford
Spider ts. Wasp
To the Editor: When Com
stock L o d e was producing,
Virginia City had a bit of his
tory about a duel between Kit
Carson and . an Apache. He
told the yarn in a Boston ho
tel to some New England spin
sters. '
Carson rode too far ahead
of the cavalry detachment for
which he was scouting. A band
of Apache isolated him, drove
him into the Superstition
Mountains. With his two six-
shooters, he dropped one pur
suer after another. The 13th
Stop Me
FIVE MOKE.
Vk. TO FEED
Wheel at
Win Congressional Battles; Veto Helps
By RAYMOND LAHR
. Washington - (UPD - When
President Eisenhower starts
to win congressional battles
over labor, housing and high
ways the political wheel has
taken just about one full turn.
A year ago, with the slim
mest of majorities, the Demo
crats had the Eisenhower Ad
ministration and the GOP on
the defensive. Senate Demo
cratic Leader Lyndon B. John
son, for example, seemed to be
dragging the Republican Ad
ministration into an admission
that unemployment was high
and that something had to be
done about it.
With nothing but overcon-
fidence to worry about, the
Democrats felt they had the
congressional elections won
before the first votes were
counted.
Now they are on the de
fensive. Triumphant Week for Ike
Last week was a triumphant
and perhaps symbolic one for
President Eisenhower in . his
relations with the Democratic
Congress.
Over the opposition of the
Democratic leadership and ' a
majority of. the Democratic
members, the House approved
a tough labor reform legisla
tion which carried his en
dorsement. And the Senate
sustained his veto of the hous
ing bill.
The labor vote apparently
resulted from a public clamor
to support Ike when he asked
De Gaulle,
Paris Soon
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
Paris - (UPD - Gen. Charles
de Gaulle and President Ei
senhower will meet here on
Sept. 2.
: It will be their first meet
ing since 1951 when Eisen
hower was supreme command
er of the allied powers in Eu
rope. It will mean more to De
Gaulle than an opportunity to
discuss what Eisenhower plans
to talk about with Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev.
For it also will give the
French President a chance to
sound out the American Presi
dent on how the U. S. will
vote in the Algeria debate in
the United Nations this fall.
August was the time orig
inally suggested for meeting
De Gaulle, It should have
been simple enough for De
Gaulle to put his Algeria date
forward or back to accommo
date Eisenhower.
Insists on Trio
. But he insisted on going to
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cations are now being accept
ed for pharmacologist posi
tions and for biological re
search assistant positions.
' The positions are located
principally in the National
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may be obtained from the U.S.
Civil Service commission,
Washington, 25, D.C.
crowded his wounded horse
into a box canyon. His horse
dropped.' He ran on foot. As
he felt the A p a c h e's hot
breath, he swung around with
his Bowie knife. Unfortunate
ly he hit an overhanging rock,
broke it at the hilt. His spell
bound listeners asked:-"What
happened then?" He remained
thoughtful a moment and
then said: "Why that was
when I died." ,
One can frequently see an
equally exciting duel on a
California trail this month.
Once we watched for more
than an hour one between a
good sized spider and a shiny
black wasp. The mother wasp
seemed to know that the spi
der could be as dangerous to
her as a rattlesnake to a hu
man.' Finally she succeeded in
stinging him at the very nerve
ganglion that produces the de
sired paralysis. When she was
satisfied that the spider was
in a proper coma, she carried
him off to her cell, deposited
her egg. Thus the reproduc
tion cycle was arranged tor. A
new generation could be ex
pected after next winter's ice.
This ability of wasps to
paralyze a spider, and then
put it in cold storage instead
of killing it outright, which
would result in its decompo
sition, is one of 100,000 mira
cles observable when a child
is led. to "read a trailside like
a book."
C. M. Goethe
Seventh and J sts.
Sacramento 14, Calif.
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Full Turn;
compromise and keeps his
own counsel about a veto
rfor more stringent controls on
unions. The veto threat has
been even more effective.
A majority of the Senate
voted to override the housing
veto but the move failed when
less than, the required two
thirds supported it.
Less Bashful Now
Eisenhower seemed unable
or unwilling to wave the veto
threat last year. But now he
is less bashful.
The veto gives him the
equivalent of 16 votes in the
Senate and 72 in the House.
As he has said, the constitu
tion makes him part of the
legislative process.
What has happened to the
union-supported labor bill
which Sen. John F. Kennedy
Washington Post Gets Co r re ct
Version of Rogue River Name
A Rogue by any other
name would smell as sweet to
Rep. Charles O. Porter (D
Ore.), who found himself yes
terday in' the unseemly posi
tion (for a Congressman) of
admitting candidly: "I was
wrong."
The admission came in a
letter to this newspaper con
ceding that its account of how
the Rogue River in Oregon
won its name was correct: be
Ike to Meet in
for Discussions
Algeria first. Eisenhower read
ily agreed. ,
Reports immediately blos
somed that De Gaulle was
going to do something spec
tacular. One rumor was that
France would explode her
first atomic bomb in the Sa
hara desert during De Gaulle's
Algerian trip. The French gov
ernment took pains to deny
that any such test was
planned.
The more persistent word
has been that De Gaulle may
come out with a new plan for
Algeria - either a new ap
peal to the Algerian rebels to
lay down their arms, or an
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Sad news:
Fleet Admiral William F.
Bull Halsey, commander of
the Third Fleet in the Pacific
during World War II and lead
er of America's first offensive
move after Pearl Harbor, died
Sunday in his sleep. .
"DULL HALSEY had what it
takes to win wars.
His strategy in the Pacific
was simple. It was based on
this formula: "Kill Japs.. Kill
more Japs. Sink ships, sink
more ships. Hit hard. Hit fast.
Hit often."
It sounds brutal. It IS bru
tal. War is brutal. General
Sherman said it all when he
said WAR IS HELL. But the
best motto js GET IT OVER
AND GET IT DONE WITH.
That was Halsey's motto.
TTE HAD grim stick-to-it-ive-ness
as have all great
field generals.
Also he had color. He swore
he would ride the Emperor's
white horse in Tokyo. HexDID
ride a white horse in Tokyo.
It wasn't the emperor's. The
First Cavalry division scour
ed Japan, but couldn't find
the Emperor's horse. It
couldn't even find an all-white
horse. The nearest it could
come was a white horse with
a dark mane and fetlocks.
Bull Halsey RODE IT in
the outskirts of Tokyo. Japan
is now perhaps our most trust
ed ally. GREAT soldiers are
admired even by the enemy.
GENERAL George Patton
was one of these greats.
They tell this story of him:
In the fighting that followed
the junction of our Normandy
forces and our army that came
up from the Mediterranean, a
tank battalion that had come
up from the south was going
into action with sand-bagged
tanks - a trick they had learn
ed as they fought their way
up the Rhone valley.
Suddenly, over the brow of
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as Ike Starts To
(D-Mass.) brought from the
Senate committee last spring?
It was toughened on the Sen
ate floor and rewritten in ad
ministration language on the
house floor. - -
What of the-, scornful re
ception. Democratic leaders
gave to Eisenhower's requests
for a gasoline tax increase to
help solve the highway fi
nancing crisis? i The House
Ways & Means Committee is
caving in, at least in part,
because a majority of its mem
bers knows -of no other way
to keep the highway program
going. ...
Housing Bill Still in Doubt :
On housing, Senate Demo
crats backed, up. a little but
only a' little. Eisenhower calls
part of the new bill objection
able but admits legislation is
cause the roguish Indians liv
ing along the stream stole
from the pioneers.
On July 28, Porter took The
Washington Post to task in a
letter to the editor for sug
gesting that any .rogues,' In
dian or otherwise, may have
given the river its name. In
stead, he explained, French
trappers first came upon the
river at a rare flood time
when the waters were muddy,
enlargement of his "Constan
tine" plan for Algeria's eco
nomic regeneration..
However, the present Con-
stantine plan is already an
economic mouthful. De Gaulle
himself is understood to feel
that it is too much for France
to chew as long as the war
drags on.
As to any cease-fire appeal,
the potent "French Algeria"
bloc is as opposed to any con
cessions to the rebels.
Yet if De Gaulle offers no
concessions, the rebels are ex
tremely-unlikely to heed any
new appeal until after the
U. N. debate is finished.
JENKINS
a rolling hill and down the
other side a command car
roared into view. Standing
erect in it was a general offi
cer, his long hair streaming
in the wind. He was yelling at
the top of his voice: "Get
those - bags off those
tanks, you so-and-so's.
Do you want to live forever?"
They took off the bags. They
grumbled and they cursed.
But they LOVED the crazy
general - who was GEORGE
PATTON. They'd have follow
ed him to hell and back.
GENERAL Phil Sheridan
was that kind of soldier.
In the bloody and terrible
campaign perhaps the blood
iest and most terrible in the
history of war - that broke
the back of General Lee's Ar
my of Virginia and ended the
War between the States, Gen
eral Sheridan came time and
again upon a stricken field,
with his men streaming back
in defeat and confusion.
The mere sight of him was
enough to turn the day. Back
ed by the magic of his pres
ence - on his black horse,
wearing his civilian derby
hat - men who were fleeing
in terror turned around and
went back into battle and
snatched victory from defeat.
Men like that are LEAD
ERS. Born leaders. As long as
we have them we'll be invinci
ble. SOMEWHERE in Valhalla -Or
in Avalon - .
Wherever it may be that
the heroes will live forever -There
will be a little corner
where the spirits of Halsey
and Patton and Sheridan and
all the men of their kind will
get together and live on in
the glory they deservel
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than
while the outcome is in doubt,'
In a minor league contest,
Eisenhower objected to one
provision of the TVA pond
financing bill. But he finally
signed it. In what looked like
a deal, Congress promptly
passed, a separate bill to re
peal the offensive section. -
His heavy commitment for
balanced budget and against
inflation underlies most; but
not all of Eisenhower's argu
ments with Congress. He is
said to object to talk about
the "new Eisenhower'' but
has been persuaded or has
persuaded himself to take a
more belligerent stand. ".
But if the political wheel
has turned once, it can turn
again. The votes in 1960 will
not be counted for more than
14 months.
a sort of red.
So they called it 'rouge
which in French means 'red.
Then along came the more or
less untutored pioneers who
mispronounced 'rouge' by
saying 'rogue'," wrote Porter.
Back in Porter's district the
editor of the Medford Mail
Tribune, in a roguish mood
himself, chided the Congress
man. "Tut, tut Charlie," the
paper editorialized, "You who
have fished the Rogue.
camped beside it, and who
are attempting to harness it to
better purposes, should know
better."
With a flourish of author
ity; the newspaper cited Lew
is A. McArthur's "Oregon
Geographic Names," the de
finitive work on such matters.
The book confirms that the
French trappers found the In
dians "a peculiarly trouble
some lot" and hence called
them "Les Coquins" (the
rogues) and the stream "La
Riviere aux Coquins" - (the
Rogue River).
The spurious account, it ap
pears, originated in a letter
by one Max Pracht ' to the
Portland Oregonian on Dec.
20, 1904, and was refuted the
same day by Harvey W.
Scott, the Oregonian's famous
editor.
"Rogue it was, Rogue it has
been, and Rogue it is," the
Mail Tribune's squelching ed
itorial concluded with just a
touch of contented , smugness.
But the last word remained
with Potter, who sits in-"a
chamber where mere, age
counts for much:
"I offer m yapology and
point, in mitigation, that my
explanation goes back at least
55 years.'-Washington (D.C.)
Post.
Canada Enters Into :
Woodworker Strike
Vancouver, B. C.-OJPD-Talks
began here Tuesday in a gov
ernment bid to end a six-week-old
strike of British Co
lumbia woodworkers.
. Mediator Dr. John Leutsch
said he would call both sides
together as soon as possible
and work out procedure for
negotiations.
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