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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune JO, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years age.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1949 (Wednesday)
First - day enrollment at
Southern Oregon college this
week stands at 572, including
378 men and 194 women stu
dents. Local women proceed with
plans to raise funds for pur
chasing the first Mercy Flights
air ambulance plane. ,
20 YEARS AGO .
Sept. 28. 1939 (Thursday) .
Dean Wayne Morse of ..the
U. of O. law school, acting as
coast maritime labor arbi
trator, confirms an order to
longshoremen in San Fran
Cisco to load pears on a ship
in the Bay City's harbor.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Idle
rumors have kept the corner
military strategists busy
thinking up idler ones, most
flf the week." -
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1929 (Saturday)
- Jackson county is to receive
$92,994 from the federal gov
ernment as an O and C timber
land tax refund,
i Apple-picking starts in Ta
ble Rock orchards.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1919 (Sunday)
The Man Tribune will be
taken to Eagle -Point every
night by jitney. ; -'
Medford's Mayor Gates re
turns from a trip to the Mid
dle West.
fco YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1909 (Tuesday)
Ladies of the Greater. Med
ford club plan to develop a
park - on the Sage donation
tract on North Central ave.
I E. C strumbaugh an
nounces that operations in the
Cascade Coal mine win be re
sumed.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight b excellent; five et
fix is good.
1. Rhode Island is the small
est state in area; what is the
next smallest?
2. What is the square root
of one?
i 3. Did the Lewis and Clark
expedition explore California,
the Great Lakes or the Orgeon
Country?
s 4. Is the U. S. Secret Serv
ice a division of the Depart
ment of Justice?
i 5. "Are Yosemite Falls in
Wyoming, Colorado, or Cali
fornia? C 6 According to Benj. Frank
lin, what effect will "early to
ed and early to rise," have
on one's fortunes?
7. An object can never be
wider than it is long; true or
false? . .
r 8. According to a proverb,
what kind of a stone gathers
no moss?
. 9. Which of these South
American countries has the
greater area Brazil or Ar
gentina? I 10. What is another name
for the flower, "Rose of Shar
?n"? Answers: 1. Delaware. 2.
tne. 3. Oregon Country. 4.
Jfo; (Treasury Dep't.) 5. Cali
fornia. 6. Make one "healthy,
wealthy and wise. 7. True. 8.
A rolling stone. 9. BrasU. 13.
Allhea.
There are 159 counties in
Georgia, second only to Texas
fwhich nas 254. .
Who's
Elsewhere on this page is a letter which far
exceeds our 400 word limit on "Communications.
We are making this exception because the letter
is critical of the Mail Tribune, and for that reason
only.
This does not mean that very letter critical
of the M-T will be permitted to exceed that arbi
trary 400-word limitation. But the exception is
made because the author of the letter has, we
think, a point It is a point with which we strongly
disagree, but, nonetheless, a point.
The letter discusses the ethics of the news
paper business, and generally, the division of
opinion (in the editorial
reporting (m the news columns) .
TTHE letter indicates that the news stories were
written from a biased standpoint which jibes
with the editorial view
It so happens that
reporter who wrote the
the paper's editorial viewpoint on the situation
was, or might be. His
the story, factually, as
(And a competent job it
As for the editorial
about 9 cases out of
the facts presented in
case of which we are
been the other wav around.
It i3 for this reason that this letter is presented
in full. And we leave to knowlegeable readers
of the M-T, both of the
umns, the "ethics" of the
ing to kid whom. E. A.
Crummy
COME words are easy enough to use in casua
conversation. They move along briskly, with
out a stutter, in the
communication but under the closer, more rigid
application of the typewriter or editors pencil
they cause the mind to stammer, the typing fin
gers to falter.
Take the word "crummy .
It's use came up for
ent logging tragedy, and in such a context, it
sounded downright irreverent and disrespectful,
once" it reached the news column. Between re
porter and source, such
: 1 1 j .
sounaea an ngni to say uiai me injured vicum
was brought out of the woods in a crummy. But in
type, the word loomed
symbolized, and somehow exuded some of the
implications in the dictionary definition of the
word in. its established
inferior, mean, shabby."
.
JO ANYONE living in
vehicle for transporting
jobs in the woods. It s inclined to be an expend
able, dilapidated vehicle large enough to accom
modate a number of men.
The use of the work
tin pants, caulk boots, stag shirts, tin hats, with
lunch . boxes tucked under arms, scrambling
aboard an old station wagon, school bus or panel
truck of uncertain origin and bouncing over
rough logging roads. They are a familiar sight
in any community wnere timber pays for the
bread and spreads the
like the pigs of the
tration, who were called
so piggish, the crummy
cause . . . well, can anyone think of a better
word? Coos Bay World.
i4 T)eath at Kappa Sig
A USC student choked to death Thursday
on, of all things, a quarter-pound, oiled piece of
raw liver. Why was he trying to swallow a piece
of raw liver? It was part of his initiation into
Kappa Sigma fraternity.
These days more people recognize the value
of a college education than ever before. Students
work harder, and the education being put out is
better. In the midst of all this serious effort it
is strange to find fraternities which still make
stupid and dangerous initiations their stock in
trade.
The episode at Kappa. Sigma gives a black
eye to the whole fraternity system. We're sure
that fraternities, properly organized, can pro
mote, rather than retard, the development of in
telligent and responsible citizens our universities
seek. Yet all we get from USC's Kappa Sigma
is this juvenile humiliating and tragic per
formance. Bend Bulletin.
Hoo-Hoo Club fo
Hold Initiation
Initiation of members and
election of officers for the
Rogue VaUey Hoo-Hoo club
will be held Tuesday, Sept.
29, at the Rogue Valley Coun
try club.
The meeting will be the
final stage of reorganization
efforts by the local club and
degree teams from both Eu
gene and Redding win con
duct the ritual work.
The local club is a member
of the International Conca
tenated Order of Hoo-Hoo and
is a fraternal order for lum
bermen and closely allied
forest products industries..
Au eligible men wishing to
Kidding?
columns) and of straigh
of the paper.
this is utterly false. The
story did not know wha
instructions were to write
ne saw it. This he did,
was, too.)
position of the paper, in
100, that is derived from
news stories. And in no
aware has the situation
news and editorial col
matter, and who's try
day - to - day necessities of
discussion during a rec
as a police officer, it
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larger than the thing
meaning: "Slang; very
. . -
a logging community,
loggers to and from their
evokes images of men in
butter on it
semanticits classic illus
pigs because they were
is called a crummy be
HEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS
New York (UPD - Alaska and
Hawaii may have been slow in
joining the Union, but there's
nothing backward about their
bright young men and women.
Students from the two new
states won six of the 402
Health Scholarships offered
this . year by the National
Foundation. The scholarships
are worth $2,000 for four
years of coUege training in
medicine, f nursing, physical
therapy, occupational therapy,
or medical social work.
be initiated at the Tuesday
meeting may pick up applica
tion blanks at the door. This
includes new members and
those who wish to be rein
stated. A cocktail hour will pre
cede the 6:59 pjn, dinner.
Dennis the Menace
yoi SURE rWE TO SEE A 8OCMlG0KJ?flXfi?!4
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A Matter of Ethics
To the Editor: Your edi
torial of September 17th, en
titled "Ethics of Public De
bate", as related to the Phoe
nix - Talent School consolida
tion raises a number of worth
while points. These are par
ticularly commended for your
personal study and guidance,
Particularly is this so in
view of another recent editori
al of your paper expressing
self satisfaction to the effect
that your readers are general
ly satisfied with your news
paper. I would be the first to
commend you on the makeup
of your paper and wish that
the substance measured up
equaUywelL
Ethics in journalism,
should think, are no less im
portant than the ethics of par
ents, children and taxpayers
of these districts. Seemingly
these persons are not entitled
to the privilege of free ex
pression or the right to have
the courts pass upon, the le
gality of a particular question.
Many of your readers deplore,.
others resent, your thinly dis
guised and readily transparent
use of your "news ' columns to
advance your personal view
point. AU should recognize
your right to express your per
sonal views editorially.
Your "news stones' cover-
ine i this election offended
what I would conceive to oe
two important journalistic
ethics - integrity in reporting
the news impartiaUy, as facts
and accuracy. To demon
strate: in a "news" story re
porting the suit filed by me,
you referred to it as an
eleventh hour attempt to
scuttle the election". The quiet
forum of a law court should
be a better arena to resolve
the legal merits of an issue
than can be done in a news
column. You interpret my suit
as an effort to block the elec
tion. It was and is not. Your
news staff badly confused a
suit to stop an election with
declaratory legal action
Your own ethics did not pre
vent your checking the views
of an elected judge on my
complaint before he had ever
seen it. Nor did your editorial
admission that you knew
nothing of the merits of my
suit prevent your resorting to
brainwashing adjectives in
reporting it. Likewise, your
ethics did -not interfere with
your electioneering news
story on the day of this elec
tion. You should again read
the election law to save you
the embarrassment of some
one, some day, insisting that
you, too, comply with the
electioneering laV. Many of
your readers still recall your
ethical standards in securing
and reporting a secret grand
jury report before it was legal
ly returned to the court. Your
editorial readers are frequent-
ly reminded, however, of their
personal duty to follow and
respect the law.
Your ethics did not permit
you to comment on the "gerry
mandering approved by the
boundary board to affect the
outcome of this election. You
did carefully speculate in a
'news" story that the voters
thereby disenfranchised could
not have changed the result.
You overlooked the support,
as well as the votes, of these
people. You express no con
cern that the democratic pro
cess might be endangered by
repeatedly calling elections on
the same issue when certain
persons determined to secure
personal result did not get
what they wanted the first
time. Your desire that we "ac
cept the results in good grace"
seems to have had no applica
tion to the first and larger
election. Some might say that
the last election was not very
American and establishes a
dangerous pattern in this
county to keep hacking at the
the name and address of the writer
the case.
voters until they finaUy give
up.
in "news ' stories v o u
sought to discredit the "keep
rnoenix independent" view
by reporting that the Reor
ganization Board refused to
say whether Phoenix can re
main independent. I challenge
you and the Reorganization
Board to show any law which
says a school district cannot
remain independent if its vot
ers so desire.
. Your account of my suit
completely failed to mention
the principal point which , is
that the Reorganization Board
can call a consolidation elec
tion only if it found and. rec
ommended such consolidation
as being desirable and not in
conflict with an overaU plan
of reorganization. It did not do
so, as shown by your own
quotation of the secretary of
the board on the day of the
election to the effect that the
board was not recommending
anything as to how people
should vote. If this were a cor
rect quotation it should be of
interest to the court in decid
ing the legal question.
If the results of this election
stand, the Phoenix School Dis
trict, which is of about aver
age means, will find it is
saddled with the poorest dis
trict in Jackson county as well
as the fastest growing sub
division in Jackson county
with a high pupil attendance
and low assessed valuation.
Because of your apparent
concern with school issues,
hope you will let your readers
know of the glaring mistake of
the Legislature m permitting
the County School Superin
tendent to set his own admin
istration budget outside the
6 per cent limitation and with
out any vote of the taxpayers,
The results of that law are sen
sational. That administrative
budget has increased 106 per
cent in a single year and the
action of the Superintendent
on his own salary is interest
ing. I believe it now exceeds
any school salary in Jackson
county, including Medford
Any law which permits em
pire building by even the most
dedicated public officials is
not in the public interest.
As a monopoly newspaper,
yours is a greater tnan or
dinary journalistic responsi
bility to report the local news
accurately and with integrity.
Perhaps a person of your jour
nalistic talents should exam
ine his own conscience and
ethics before commenting
upon those of others.
Bertha W. Gammill
r -. : Route 1, Box 428
. Medford
Prices v- .
To the Editor: In the sum
mer of 1920 in Grants Pass, I
purchased a 1918 vintage car.
After a few months owner
ship I chanced to find under
the front seat cushion a com
plimentary paperback account
book sent out by the Hamilton
Carhartt Manufacturer of De
troit, Mich. There was no per-:
sonal name in the ledger, but
on page 13 there .was this en
try of Nov., 1916: "Flour, 4
bags, $9.75; one box apples,
$1.20; one can oil, $1.50; 50
feet rope, $1.05;. 500 pounds
wheat, $10; paid for box at
box social, $5.75. Stayed over
night in town Oct. 21, 1916,
$1.65.
The box social date was Oct.
21, .1916. Except for a few
miscellany items without the
unit cost there was no further
entry. At top of page was:
Cash, on hand, Oct. 20, 1916,
sum of $18. .
This account was perhaps
made by some single person,
probably a miner, anyhow it
is only a wild guess, although
it does give us a clue to prices
paid in 1916, 43 years ago.
. . Bert Kissinger,
- 520 Boardman,
' Medford.
Political Lynching of Nixon's Ambit-ion
Seems To Be Abandoned, Wilson Notes
Br LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington (DPD - A politi
cal lynching which seemed in
evitable only a few months
ago has been
postponed by
now and, like
ly, abandoned.
To be lynch
ed were Vice
President
Richard M.
NixonV presi
dential. ambi
tion s. N o t
with . a rone
over a tree limb, you under
stand, but by equaUy deadly
means.
The, method would have
been to imolant deet and
widely in the United States
tne idea that Nlxon-can't-win.
This is a method with a bright
ly successful past as in 1952
wnen it nasned the late Rob
ert A. Taft's final bid for the
Republican presidential nom
ination. There were contributing
factors to the political destruc
tion of Taft such as the holy
war waged against him by a
holy man. This holy man was
Sherman Adams, who came to
know in time the destructive
impact of a holy war which
was waged against him. The.
holy war- against Adams cost
himhis job whereas Adams'
holy war against Taft merely
helped bar the S nator from
Vyle C. Wilson -
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE RACE OF
ARMAMENTS
Mr. K.'s schedule calls for
his arrival at CamD David be
fore dinner on Friday and for
his return to
Washing t o n
on Sunday
afterno o n.
There is time
enough here
for some talk'
ing. But it is
not nearly
enough time
4T
e. rw.,.-.. a
Walter
Uppmann
for talking
out thorough
ly
any., of the
great issues.
much less aU of them. There
wul.be time enough, how
ever, to talk about how to go
on talking, and if there is
agreement . on this noint. it
be a very considerable ain.
FOr until the President m-o-
posed this exchange of visits.
the lines of communication be
tween the two governments
were for all- practical our
poses closed. They could not
or would not communicate
through their Ambassadors or
through their Foreign, Minis
ters. Because of this stoDDaee
both countries are beset with
problems which they cannot
resolve and about which thev
do not want to fight. There
is the German problem which
becomes more tangled and
more menacing the longer the
division of Germany lasts.
And there is the race of arm
aments which with its mount
ing costs weigh so heavily on
the social progress of both
countries.
For various complicated
reasons the President was un
able to' reopen the communi
cations which had become
closed. So he made a break
through by entering into di
rect conversations with Mr. K.
.
fN HIS TRAVELS Mr. K.
has made a convincing case
for the proposition that the
Soviet Union wants and needs
to avoid war and that it wants
and needs a slowdown in the
race of armaments. The Soviet
Union is spending on arma
ments a large proportion of a
smaller national product than
we are spending. The Soviet
government is able to do this
because in the Soviet system
the government has the power
to allocate capital and labor
to public purposes. But in the
Soviet Union, as elsewhere,
things have to be paid ,for.
The Soviet Union is paying
for its armaments by a slow
ing down in the rise of the
popular standard of life.
There is no doubt, it seems to
me, that Mr. K. wants, pro
vided that he is not afraid of
the conditions, to slow down
the race of armaments.
We know from the Presi
dent's last press conference
before Mr. K.'s arrival that
an important, perhaps the de
cisive, consideration . in his
mind has been the expendi
ture for armaments and its
effects on the American
economy. -We are, to be sure.
paying for our armaments and
are at the same tune enjoying,
comparatively speak ing, a
very high standard of life.
But in order to enjoy our
great output of ; consumer
goods and still support the
military establishments, we
too are paying a price. The
price is the neglect of the fu
ture, the neglect of the needs
of our expanding population.
We have guns and we have
a job he wanted.
However that may be, the
most deadly of the shots fired
at Taft in 1952 were three
little words: Taft-can't-win!
Republicans, especially the
fat cat Republicans, the
stuffed shirt party big shots,
repeated the phrase among
themselves and to themselves
until they believed it. That
was the end of Taft.
Something like that was in
the works for Nixon. Harold
E. Stassen began it in 1955-56
when he . tried to prevent
Nixon's renomination for vice
president. Stassen has per
formed several political belly
whoppers of which the stop
Nixon effort of 1955-56 was
the gaudiest and splashiest to
date.
Stassen's effort could have
some carry-over, effect, how
ever, into 1960, and it is far
too soon in this September of
1959 to say that it will not
carry over at aU. The anti
Nixon politkos have a bright
new face going f orthem now
and into 1960 just as the Taft
lynching party had a bright
new face going for them in
1951-52. That face, of course,
belonged to Dwight D. Eisen
hower. The bright new face is
the smiling trade mark of
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
of New York.
Smile Would Fade
; Rockefeller did not stick to
his. November in deciding
Uppmann
butter. But we do this by
economizing on our public
facilities, beginning with our
schools and hospitals and go
ing on to our railroads and
airports and the development
of our cities. -' ,
LR. K'S PROJECT for slow
ing down the race of arm
aments - I omit the Utopian
future - faces us with a na
tional question wnicn we
ought" to examine and to de
bate and to decide. It is pos
sible to argue, although I do
not agree with the argument,
that it is to our national, in
terest not to slow down but
in fact to speed up the' race of
armaments. The. argument is
that in order to be secure we
must restorewhiat we had un
til 1949 - absolute supremacy
in .the .great weapons. The
military budget should, it is
said, be enlarged and the in
crease paid for by a reduction
in the social services and by
an increase of taxes. .
The counter - argument is
that absolute supremacy is an
ever-receding goal which can
never be reached, and that
provided we keep and protect
powerful forces in being, we
shaU have the maximum se
curity which is attainable,
Moreover, if we decide to step
up the race of armaments, the
Soviet Union, which is quite
able to impose austerity on its
people, win respond.
In such an accelerated race
of armaments, there will be
ever greater insecurity. For
the tempo cannot be increased
indefinitely without reaching
a breaking point.. Therefore,
if we decided to speed up the
race of armaments, the only
sane policy would be to put
the American economy and
the American people . in a
state of mobilization.
..'
rr IS NOT- CLEAR to me
what Americans, who de
plore the President's contact
with Mr. K., think we ought
to do if we do not find a
modus vivehdi. I wonder very
much whether they have re
alized and then have prepar
ed themselves to face the con
sequences of a failure.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. - -
Medford Men Found
Guilty in Ashland
Ashland Three Medford
men were found guilty of dis
orderly conduct Friday fol
lowing trial in Ashland muni
cipal court.
Sentenced to two days in
jail each, according to Ash
land police, were Jimmy How
ard Day, 22, and Jack Marion
Day; 19, both of ilVt King
St., and James C. DeWeerd,
18, fo 628 Palm st. They were
released by today, police said.
The trio and a fourth man
were arrested last Tuesday,
and aU four received jail sen
tences on other charges Wed
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whether to run next year. If
he had stuck to that plan, his
smile would be fading now
and fast. The polls are doing
a job for Nixon right now
which he, least of all, could
do for himself.
The polls are refuting the
Nixon-can't-win idea. They
plug the idea that Nixon can
win. There is nothing dearer
to the heart of a. party fat
cat, stuffed shirt or plain po
litico than a winner.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
Washington Two men
from two worlds-worlds that
will never meet in mind and
spirit through
3 they may in
deed "co-exist"
have ad
dressed the
National Press
in succession.
And both have
made signific
ant news.
Williams. ,. ,V,
white these was Nik-
ita Khrushchev. He used this
forum for his first major ad
dress to the United States in
his strange cold war mission
here. He spoke of power, for
a way of life based not upon
compassion but upon an evil
of highly "practical'' compul
sion. The second man to appear
before the press, club, is a
newspaperman. And ordinar
ily newspapermen are not sup
posed to write about other
newspapermen. But this
speaker, too, is a public fig
ure indeed a high l- public
figure, though he holds no of
fice and never did. . . '
He is Walter Lippmann, the
great commentator. He ' is
more than this, really; he is
a public institution. And so
are two of those who sat at
the head table with him,
Arthur Krock of The New
York Times and David Lawr
ence, whose work includes
running the U.S. News and
World Report and writing a
syndicated column.
No other profession and no
other country has. three such
persons as Lippmann and
Lawrence and Krock. . One
may often disagree with each
and aU of them this corres
pondent often does. But no
one can escape the fact that
they are monumental men,
hardly less important to this
country and its intellectual
life than is a President or a
famous Senator.
rpHE press club luncheon at
- :which Mr. Lippmann ap
peared, speaking : with shy
brUlance of our times and of
the' work of men like him in
these times, was no. less a
celebrated affair than the one
before . for " Nikita .Khrush
chev-. ActuaUy, more report
ers attended the Lippmann
talk than that of Mr. Khrush
chev. '
And because of what Lip
pmann is and because of what
his life has been, some of the
most powerful men in the
United States were also at
that luncheon to listen. There
was .. . Vice-President..' Nixon.
There were members of the
Cabinet. There were men from
Congress. And there -were the
principal figures of Washing
ton's principal 'papers, - Ben
jamin McKelway of the Star
and Philip Graham of the
Post.
What, then, did Lippmann1
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All of this is pleasing to
Nixon's friends and advisers.
Friends and advisors, how
ever, often are a nervous lot.
They are counting their bless
ings as the polls come in, but
they have their worries, too.
Their principal worry is that
it may not last, that some
thing may happen before con
vention time to put 'Volume
into a chorus of: Dick's a fine
fella, of course, but he cant
win.
S. WHITE
say? He made no great head
lines, it is true. Nor did he
disclose in Jovian majesty
any plan for saving the
world, or any part of it. But
what he did do and say was
to offer a personality that has
enriched our times and a mes
sage of value. .
" -TTERE
stood and spoke. In
'"'this thinl erect unobtrus
ive man, the authentic figure
and voice of the Western tra
dition. It is a tradidtion of
freedom, of the rieht of : in
quiry the tradition, in short.
of the humane and. liberal
point of view.
And what is this point of
view? It is an affirmation, of
the strength and power and
rights of individual men.. It
is an affirmation of man's
long search not simply for the
pleasant truth . but all the
truth.
Mr. Khrushchev had made
this hot and smoky room at
the press club ring with chal
lenge and with - the strong
hint of danger. Mr.- Lippmann
did not make , it ring at all.
He filled it, instead, with the
serenity of his age he is now
70 and this was the occasion
for honoring him and with
the depth of free philosophy.
"
TJE MADE it clear,' without
-seeming at-all to try o
do anything of the kind, that
there is still hope for the
West, for all of us in this era
of peril to mankind. . -
How did he make it clear?
Why, only by the civilized
speech of a civilized represent
ative of all which the ; West
has and is. . It would not be
fitting here and it would
not be interesting to the gen
eral public to attempt to, re"
repoduce all of this., speech.
Some of it .was plain , news
paper shop talk. AU of it was
whoUy without . . that ... shock
value for which nearly -all
politicians strive when they
talk.in public.
: And one other- thing he
made clear and this, certain
ly,' without the slightest In
tention to do so.
He made it clear by his
thought and presence that the
older generation, in news
paper work as perhaps in all
else, has something rarely
found among the newer men.
This is a peculiar, a special,
a living faith that, at the very
end the best in our country.
in our . tradition, wfll yet
somehow survive.
(Copyright 1959, By United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.) .
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