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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28, 1949 (Sunday)
Articles of incorporation
for Mercy Flights, Inc. are
filed with Jackson county
clerk.
The Medford Prop Nuts
hold a free flight tournament
today on the Agate desert
west of Camp White.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1939 (Monday)
One of the richest free gold
strikes in Oregon in years is
reported on a 54-acre tract
next to the city park in Rogue
River.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Mem
bers of the fair sex are
getting ready to enter OSC
and the U. with 27 dresses
for the four books they will
study."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1929 (Wednesday)
A total of 150,000 visitors
are expected at Crater Lake
this year.
L. A. Banks from Cali
fornia leases the Illihee
orchard.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28, 1919 (Thursday)
Chester Fitch buys a Ford
son tractor.
The finding of a human
bone unravels a murder mys
tery in Jacksonville.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28, 1909 (Saturday)
Huge crowds flock to Med
ford to see the performance
of Ringling Brothers circus.
An exhibit of exceptional
needlework by students at St.
Mary's academy is planned.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five er
sis is good.
1. What is a horse's with
ers? 2. In what small country
on the Mediterranean is the
famous gambling casino of
Monte Carlo?
3. Name the largest island
group in the Malay Archi
pelago. 4. What is the capital of
West Virginia?
5. When President William
McKinley was assassinated,
who succeeded to the Presi
dency? 6. In Printing books, are
even numbered pages on the
left or right?
7. From what is snuff
made?
8. What American person
is credited with inventing the
sewing machine?
9. Who is the author of the
book, "I Led Three Lives"?
10. When copper and zinc
are mixed, what alloy results?
Answers: 1. Ridge between
shoulder bones. 2. Monaco.
3. Philippine Islands. 4
Charleston. 5. Theodore Roo
sevelt. 6. Left. 7. Tobacco.
8. Ellas Howe. 9. Herbert A.
Philbrick. 10. Brass.
BETTER LATE . . .
Knoxville, Term. - (UPD -John
Chester Bowling, 42,
told police they were a little
late when they arrested him
Thursday and found S750
worth of counterfeit $20 bills
in his pocket. "I don't care
about these bills," he said.
"I've already passed $140,000
worth."
Lighthouse Dreams
Shall we dream a little? Let's.
Off the, Oregon coast near Tillamook stands
the Tillamook light. Built in the last century, for
decades it guided ships in the area. More recently,
however, it was superseded by more modern
navigational aids, and was left standing, dark
and lonely on its rock m tne ocean.
Efforts to have it converted into some sort of
public park or monument were unavailing, and
this month it was put up for public auction.
'THE rock on which it stands is rugged, and the
surf is more often rough than not, making
access to it extremely difficult.
But this, apparently, was one of the attrac
tions which led 61 people or organizations to
submit bids for its purchase. They ranged from
$2 to the winning bid of $5,600.
The dream we mentioned must have been
shared by many of a completely isolated spot
where one could get away from everything in
peace and solitude, one's own "desert island,"
so to speak, but with substantial buildings and
facilities.
TTHERE'S another sort of dreamy situation in-
volved in the apparent purchasers of the light
house on the rock.
The purchasing firm has the unlikely name of
Academic Economic Coordinators (AEC). And
it has the unlikely home base of Las Vegas, Ne
vada. Its members, apparently, are largely en
gaged in the construction business and related
trades, although one of them is president of an
engineering and electric company.
The firm's representatives won't say for what
precise purpose they want the offshore rock and
lighthouse, except that will be used for "research"
which they say is "classified."
")NE is tempted to dream again.
Are the Las Vegans involved in research as
to how to beat the gambling odds in Las Vegas?
. Or is the research in some esoteric line of
endeavor? Are they working toward anti-gravity?
Or psionic achievements? Or in the use of
magnetic forces? Or in new forms and applica
tions of nuclear energy?
And what does their
Academic Economic Coordinators? Do they co
ordinate academic economics? Or is the name
only a "blind" for some highly-secret activity?
Are they affiliated with any of the major re
search organizations of the nation? Are they
doing defense research?
TTHEY won't say, yet
So about all we can
is to wonder about the
rock, dream a bit of the vanished hope of living
in splendid isolation, and dream a bit more of
thearcane "researches" of the Las Vegas con
struction men with the oddly-named firm. E.A.
Beauty of the Land,
We are ever and always amazed and gratified
at the beauty of this land.
The other day, standing at the summit of Mt.
Ashland, we found ourself, once again, bemused
and enthralled by the ranges, the valleys, the
hills and crags of southern Oregon and northern
California.-
While the temperature was in the high 80s
on the valley floor, -the wind which whipped
across the summit on which we stood was brisk
perhaps in the low 60s or
tude, more than 7,000 feet, caused us to breathe
rapidly from the slightest exertion.
7AR to the northeast, almost obscured by drift-
ing smoke from the Medford area's mills, was
the sharp point of Mt. Thielsen. Slightly to-the
right were the irregularities of the rim of Crater
Lake. Still further south, Mt. McLoughlin loomed,
smooth, black and snowless. And to its right were
the tumbled hills of the Mountain Lakes Wild
area, just this side of Klamath lake.
To the east were the peaks of the Green
Springs area, and further south the dry, brown
and green valleys near the Klamath river.
Just to the east of south was the monumental
Mt. Shasta, still bearing some of its everlasting
snow, but far, far less than during a usual August.
Just to its right, Black Butte could be discerned.
COUTH and slightly to the wests were the Trin-
ity Alps, and, closer, the long Haystack ridge,
barren and stark in its blackness caused by the
disastrous fire of 1955.
Further to the west were, the rolling peaks
and ridges of the coastal ranges. (Legend has it
that, on a clear day, one can see the ocean from
Mt. Ashland. This we have always doubted, and
we have also heard it refuted by competent au
thority. Haze and clouds on the horizon prevented
eye-witness proof the day we were there.)
Directly west loomed the ridges of Wagner
Butte and the Dutchman. And in the distance
more hills and valleys.
,
TPO THE north, spreading out in its beauty, lay
the Rogue valley a brown expanse of hills
dotted with green trees (almost blue at a dis
tance), stretching down to green and brown
fields, intermingled with the colors of buildings
and cities and roads and highways.
Roxy Ann is the most familiar landmark in
the area, standing guard just to the east of
Medford.
Medford itself could only dimly be seen
through the haze. But directly below part of
Ashland, and the brown scars of the recent fire,
showed up clearly.
It is a vista of peace and loveliness, and we
could have spent hours just staling at it. E.A.
strange name mean
anyway.
do, until we know more,
"research," look at the
high 50s. And the alti
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Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
TRUMAN AND
EISENHOWER
The day before the Presi
dent left for Western Europe
Mr. Truman published an ar
ticle which
began by say
ing, "I serious
ly question the
wisdom of
President Ei
senhower's go
ing to Mos
cow." Later
on in the ar
ticle Mr. Tru
man remind
ed us that he is in favor of
the visit by Mr. Khrushchev
to Washington.
This separates him from
those who object to receiving
the Soviet dictator in the
United States, who argue that
this will constitute an endorse
ment of the history of the
Soviet Union, that it will con
stitute an appeasement of the
Communist revolution, and
that it will produce a dibilitat
ing complacency in the West
ern world. Mr. Truman is in
favor of the Khrushchev visit,
thinking that on balance it
may do more good than harm.
What he disapproves of is the
President's decision to return
the visit.
Mr. Truman, who is a jeal
ous guardian of his conception
of the traditions of the Presi
dential office, cannot be ig
nored when he speaks his
mind about what is wise and
not wise for a President to do.
NEVERTHELESS, Mr. Tru
man's reasoning is weaker
than his instinct. His instinct
tells him that when a Presi
dent "leaves the country it
should be a momentous oc
casion in the exercise of the
unique authority of his office.
The power and leadership of
the Presidency should not be
dissipated in ceremonial visits
. . ." For my own part, I think
that at bottom this is a sound
view. But for compelling prac
tical reasons it cannot any
longer be applied absolutely.
Thus Mr. Truman, writing the
day before the President was
leaving for Bonn, Paris, and
London, did not object, and
by implication at least gave
these visits which are not so
very "momentous" his bless
ing. To be sure, the visit of an
American . President to Mos
cow is an unprecedented and
spectacular event. Mr. Tru
man is afraid that this jour
ney may lead "the world to
expect that peace can be ad
vanced by the mere exchange
of visits between heads of
government." But is the
"world" all that stupid? There
is no reason why what Mr.
Truman fears should happen
if the heads of government
are sober, serious, and candid
ly prosaic in what they make
known to the world news
paper press. There is no need
Try and
Walter
LlpDmann
-By BENNETT CERF-
AT THE LAMBS Club, they tell about a killer who was
sentenced to be hanged twelve hours before election day.
On the way to the gallows he was informed, "You have ten
minutes to make a farewell
speech."
"I got nuttin' to say,"
snarled the condemned man.
Whereupon a spectator
stepped forward and beam
ed, "In that case I hope
you'll let me speak instead.
I'm running for sheriff to
morrow." "Talk your fool head off,"
conceded -the condemned
man, "but hang me first"'
Dr. Adiel Moncrlef, pastor"
of the- First Baptist Church
in St. Joseph, Mo., cites three slight errors made by very little boys
trying very hard to recite the Lord's Prayer:
1. Harold be Thy iame.
2. Give us this day our jelly bread.
3. Lead us not into Perm Station.
& 12i3, bj eaaeU Cer, Distributed by King Features Sjaditala. .
Menace
lippmann
to suppose that we shall all
lose our heads?
A SSUMING, as Mr. Truman
does, that there were good
reasons for inviting Mr. K. to
Washington, then there are
very good reasons for the
President's returning the visit
by going to Moscow. For if
the talks are to produce use
ful results, they must in the
nature of things take place
in two installments with a
considerable interval between
In the Washington visit the
utmost that is possible is that
propositions can be formulat
ed by tentative agreement
which, on our side, will then
call for serious examination
by the Western allies and for
free discussion in the demo
cratic world. After that, they
will in amended, edited form
need to be discussed again
with the Soviet government,
and for that discussion the
visit to Moscow would offer
a suitable occasion. Then, if
the talks prosper, the final
negotiations might take place
at a summit meetmg.
In any event, there are
good reasons for thinking that
if the President is to talk
with Mr. K., the two of them
should talk twice, with an in
terval for consultation and
deliberation and for second
thought.
TITR. TRUMAN deplores
these "ceremonial visits"
which are to him "so remin
iscent of the days when diplo
mats and rulers traveled back
and forth on their 'balance of
power' visits which marked
this the bloodiest century of
history." It is not clear to me
what Mr. Truman is trying to
say. But if he means that
meetings by the heads of gov
ernment are a new invention
in this century, he is mistaken
What is new is that the
American Presidents, begin
ning with Wilson in 1918.
have felt it necessary to par
ticipate personally in these
meetings of the heads of gov
ernment. The reason for this
is very obvious. Before the
first World War the United
States was not a world power.
Since the first World War it
has been a world power, and
as such the President is bound
to participate responsibly and
personally in all the great
decisions affecting the peace
of the world.
.
rpHE most serious objection
-- to personal Presidential
diplomacy in foreign countries
is that when the President
himself is the negotiator, he
has no backstop who can in
struct him, warn him, and
overrule him. That was the
main source of the trouble in
Wilson's experience at Paris
in 1918, that as negotiator in
Paris he agreed to things
which as President in the
White House and with final
Stop Me
Republican Leaders
Dragging Feet on C
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press International
Washington (UPD Republi
can leaders in Congress are
insisting that they are drag
ging their feet or making
deals to prevent the passage
of a civil rights bill.
GOP leader Everett M.
Dirksen of Illinois told the
Senate this week there was
no truth to a newspaper re
port that the administration
was not interested in passing
a bill now because it felt it
could get a better one in the
1960 election year.
The Democrats, he remind
ed, are in control of Congress.
And House Republican lead
er Charles A. Halleck of Indi
ana, using the White House
as a forum, has denied that
House Republicans would
help stave off a civil rights
bill this year in exchange for
Southern Democratic votes on
the labor reform bill.
When asked if the Republi
cans on the rules committee
would vote to send the bill
to the floor, he said he didn't
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, President
Eisenhower is speeding across
the Atlantic in a super jet
plane that is fitted up with all
the conveniences of a con
venient age and all the luxur
ies of a luxurious age.
He will have no worries as
to how the bills are to be paid.
It's an all-expenses-paid trip.
And . . . the best will be none
too good.
U'EATHERPATES will envy
-- him.
More thoughtful people,
aware of the tremendous re
sponsibilities that rest upon
the back of bis neck, will pray
for him and hope him luck.
GOVERNOR Earl K. Long of
Louisiana (the natives pro
nounce it Loozyana) celebrates
his 64th birthday with the
hope that his presents may in
clude "a little campaign
money."
The dispatches inform us
that "the volatile governor
barreled into New Orleans last
night claiming he would win
his bid for an unprecedented
fourth term in the FIRST pri
mary." (Louisiana is a one
party state. If he wins a ma
jority of the votes in the pri
mary election, he's in. If he
fails to get a majority of all
the votes cast, there will have
to be a run-off primary.)
He told the reporters:
"I'm here to see. a few
friends and maybe raise a lit
tle campaign money. I may
even go to Bourbon Street."
(Bourbon Street is New Or
leans' Wan Street.)
'
HMMMMMMMM.
What Governor Long is
saying is that when he's ap
pealing for votes he's against
anything Bourbon Street
might want.
But when he's looking for
campaign funds money is
money.
A THOUGHT:
Wouldn't it be rather won
derful if we could have a
political campaign in which
there would be no baUyhoo,
no whoop-te-doo, no playing to
the galleries, no appeals to
prejudice? Just a plain, sim
ple, sincere statement from
each candidate as to what he
wiU stand for and what he
wUl DO if elected.
UTTERLY foolish?
Fantastically idealistic?
Impossible of achievement?
Well, you can't stop a guy
from dreamin.
authority, he would have re
jected. Secretary Dulles, who was
in Paris in 1918, had acquired
from that experience his deep
distaste for summit diplomacy.
I have always thought he was
right. But why then was he
being driven in the months
before he died, why has the
President now been driven, to
accept the hazards of summit
diplomacy?
Because, so it seems to me,
normal diplomacy through
Foreign Ministers and Am
bassadors -has become frozen
and sterile. Yet, as the Presi
dent said on Tuesday, the race
of armaments goes on and
nothing is being done to pre
vent an explosion. That is
why the President has gone
off on his venture because
there was no visible alterna
tive to going off on it.
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Laos Mercy Man
In Good Condition
New York-(UPD-Dr. Thomas
A. Dooley, who returned here
from his jungle hospital in
Red-threatened Laos for a
cancer operation "that may
save my life," was reported
in good condition today at the
Memorial Center for Cancer
and Allied Diseases.
know but pointed out that the
committee is 8 to 4 Demo
cratic.
Revival of Coalition
Regardless of a "deal,"
spoken or unspoken, the
House vote for the administration-backed
bill was the
best evidence yet of revival
of the coalition of Republi
cans and Southern Democrats
which once plagued Presi
dents Roosevelt and Truman.
Now it plagues the liberal
Democrats who .up to a few
months ago had thought the
1958 election had put them
back in the saddle.
There was ample evidence
last winter that House GOP
leaders were in no mood to
crusade for a civil rights bill
this year. It could be that they
wanted help from Southern
conservatives to keep the
Democratic new dealers from
running the show. In any case,
Baseball Box Score Printed in
Congressional Record 1st Time
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - Rep.
Samuel S. Stratton (D-N.Y.)
favored readers of the Con-
gressional
Record the
-: other day
with a report
on the Little
League Base-
ball team of
S c henectady,
N.Y., which
had just clob
ered Bridge-
Frank Eleazer port, wnn., o
to 2, for the right to play in
the Little League World
Series this week in Williams
port, Pa.
In the memory of some old
congressional hands this
marked the first time that a
baseball box score had been
printed in Congress' own daily
paper, which does not as a
rule carry sports.
The Record carries nothing
formaUy labeled as comics,
either, but this is considered
a mere technicality. It does
include almost everything
:!: s
it..... - m
Britian Wondering
When Next General
Election Will Be
By GREGORY JENSEN
United Press International
London -(UPD Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan and
the rest of Britain currently
is occupied with international
afairs as epitomized by Presi
dent Eisenhower's visit.
But in the background
looms the closer - to - home
question of when the next
general elections will be held,
a question that has become
something of a national guess
ing game.
It has been decades since
the game was played with
anything like the present sus-
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tain circumstances trie use of a
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clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
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M-T Chastised
To. the Editor: I subscribed
to your paper on' the first of
this month and have found it
to be an exceptionally poor
paper for such a town as Med
ford. In my opinion it is very
poorly planned, arranged, etc.
I had decided to drop your
paper at the end of the month
as I have been unable to find
very much enjoyment in read
ing it.
Your edito.rial regarding
the American Mercury maga
zine has very definitely con
vinced me that my subscrip
tion money has been very
much wasted. It is in my opin
ion as much of a misinforming
editorial as I have had the
chance of reading. To me it
smells of the Old Commie
line if any article ever has.
Apparently it would do you a
lot of good if you could read
some of the sayings of Old
Abe Lincoln. The one that is
so impressive to our times is:
"America will never fall from
without, but from within." In
my opinion it will pay you to
wake up along with a lot of
others before it is too late.
Earl W. Temple,
Route 1, Box 258,
Rogue River, Ore.
Editor's note: We subscribe
to another of Lincoln's state
ments: "I shall try to correct
errors where shown to be
errors, and I shall adopt new
views as fast as they shall ap
pear to be true views."
Insist They Are Not
ivil Rights
they have had most of the
help they needed.
Provided Good Football
Until 1957 when the Sen
ate and Congress-passed the
first civil rights bill since the
reconstruction years, the civil
rights issue provided a good
footbaU.
With Southern Democrats
dissenting, each party de
clared itself against racial
discrimination, but few in
Congress took the commit
ment very seriously. Among
men who had to live with
each other on dozens of other
issues, it was easy to lose a
civil rights bill in the cum
bersome machinery of Con
gress. Now the pressure has grown
greater and the racial and la
bor groups demanding civil
rights legislation seem more
aware of how the congres
sional machinery is used.
else, and lately there have
been indications it even may
have to start a letters to the
editor column, to carry com
plaints from the readers.
Some Readers Unhappy
There are about 43,000 of
these, but the only ones whose
complaints carry much
weight around here are the
536 members of House and
Senate whose daily activities
the Record purports to relate.
Some of these readers have
been pretty unhappy lately at
the way their own remarks
were, or were not, reported;
at the way the remarks of
some others have been
magically improved in the
printing; and at the way
pretty near everybody has
been littering the Record with
not clearly revelant to the bus
iness at hand.
Nobody has specifically
mentioned box scores as fall-
ing in the later catgory.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) reported to the Sen
ate recently his discovery that
history was being rewritten,
or at least heavily edited, in
pense. Cliff-hanging tension
has been building up for al
most a solid year. By today,
everyone was about ready to
burst with it.
This is the way the game
works:
British governments are
elected for five-year terms.
But they are not required to
serve the whole period. They
can call a general election at
any time.
Select Own Time
Naturally, those in power
call their elections at the time
most advantageous to them.
If they've ben in office only
three years but see a dead
sure win at the polls, they'll
pop a new election and win
a new five-year lease on No.
10 Downing Street. If there's
any doubt, they'll postpone
the poll until the omens set
fair.
Macmillan has been "it" in
this little game since late last
summer. It was about then
that the possibility of a quick
general election began to be
bruited about.
And it was right then, al
most a year ago, that the op
position Labor Party began
to feel the suspenseful squeeze
of this election guessing
game.
The opposition's dilemma
is easy to understand.
Macmillan will pick the
moment when he thinks he
holds all the cards. After his
formal announcement of the
election date, labor will have
only a few scant weeks to or
ganize its election campaign
and do its electioneering.
Prepare in Advance
Therefore, it has to prepare
in advance. Plans must be
drawn up, speakers mobil
ized, campaign material de
signed and prepared, posters
printed and space for them
rented - and all this without
a definite date to go by.
If the opposition organizes
too well around a specific
date, it may march the public
right up to the polls and then
discover the election isn't for
another six months.
If it organizes not well
enough, the lack of prepara
tion can cost it the election.
Right now, the best edu
cated guess is polling will
come Oct. 22. Most observers
have settled on that date as
the most likely.
Only Macmillan can act
Under the rules of Britain's
election guessing' game, he
alone knows the answer to the
question all Britain has been
asking for a full year: When
will the election be?
Passage
William F. Knowland, th
Senate Republican leader,
forced the 1957 showdown in
the Senate, where all civil
rights bills had died for years
although he later had to yield
management of the bill to
Democratic leader Lyndon B.
Johnson.
In his Senate speech this
week, Dirksen applauded
Knowland for his ' "daring
step" in 1957. Yet he has con
tented himself so far this year
with applying the needle on
Democrats rather than taking
the lead to force a showdown.
' President Eisenhower re
peatedly has listed a civil
rights bill as an essential part
of the legislative program for
this year. But he has not ap
plied the pressure on Congress
like that used on such issues
as the budget, labor, reform,
housing, highways, the wheat
surplus and interest rates.
the pages of the Congressional
Record.
ReDartee. according to Neu
berger, consists of the bright
remarks you would have
made if you had thought of .
them at the time. And in Con
gress, he points out, you still
can make them, risht ud until
press time of the Con
gressional Record, which is
usually some time around
midnight.
Can Delete Remarks
If Neuberger was dismayed
at what happens to the pur
portedly verbatim account of
what goes on in the Senate,
he ought to see the way things
go in the House. House mem
bers not only can edit their
remarks before publication,
as can the senators. They also
can take 'em out of the Rec
ord entirely, or insert state
ments never actually made.
Senators aren't supposed to
do that. Just this week,
though, Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
(D.-Tex.) had to patch up a
dispute in which Sen. Wallace
F. Bennett (R-Utah) accused
Sen. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D
Pa.) of having censored out
of the Record four pages of
transcript including remarks
not only by Clark but also by
Bennett and others.
Clark pleaded not guilty and
Johnson was able to restore
harmony by establishing that
a helpful clerk was to blame.
The four pages of censored
transcript were duly inserted
in the Record two days late,
a clear vindication of history
but one calculated to baffle
any historians who . may try
to figure what happened.
Neuberger has proposed to
stop this kind of thing with a
new rule under which Sena
tors would have to say what
they mean And they wouldn't
be allowed to change their
minds later.
No Outcome Expected
Although Neuberger has
been joined by Clark and Sen.
Gordon Allott (R-Colo.) in
sponsoring this proposed
change in the rules, nothing is
expected to come of it. Mean
time several House, resolu
tions to clean up the Record
also have been assigned to a
proper committee for burial.
These are aimed at cutting
down on the volume of re
cipes, poetry, newpaper edi
torials, jokes, unmade
speeches, letters from home
and other such matter that al
ready this year has filled
7,431 printed pages in a sec
tion of the Record appropri
ately labeled "appendix."
Rep. Paul M. Jones (D-Mo.)
and others have in bills to
limit such insertions to a
handful per member per ses
sion. Some members put 'em
in now by the hundreds.
Another 15,682 pages of the
Record have been filled this
year with what passes for
actual proceedings of House
and Senate, for a total of
23,113 printed pages, a new
all-time high in wordage for
a single congressional year.
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