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Medford and JacksoTi County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13. 1949 (Thursday)
The first fall frost is noted
in ame areas of the valley.
Central Point calls an elec
tion Octo 25 on a $100,000
bond issue for sewer improve
ments.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13. 1939 (Friday)
Retail merchants in Med
ford establish a parking lot
between Main and Sixth sts.
facing Fir st. for the use of
shoppers and business people.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot"0 column: "Sam
Richardson celebrates the
birthday that makes him old
enough to vote this week. It
is hoped he does it right, at
least the first time." ;
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1929 (Sunday)
Hob Deuel is installed as
American Legion commander.
Russian trans-Paeific fliers
may drop in at Medford air
port. 40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13. 1919 (Monday)
A cannery in Talent is mak
ing apple juice.
A Table Rock hen lays a
monster egg.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1909 (Wednesday)
Another compromise afc-
O tempt will be made in the
city of Medford's hassle with
M. F. Hanley over the right
of way for a gravity water
line across Haaley's ranch.
Gold Hill Recorder Harvey
tangles with a yellowjacket
and shows up at council meet
ing with his left eye about
puffed shut.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five e
six is good.
1. In the average human
being, one ieg is longer and
stronger than the other; true
or false?
2. With vhat man in Ameri
man political life do you as
sociate a brown derby?
3. "White Plague" is a term
applied to leprosy, tubercu
losis. or malaria?
4. Which President of the
United States had three Vice
Presidents?
5. Pierre is the State capital
of which State?
6. Are sugar beets and sug
ar cane both grown in tne
TTnited States?
7. SuddIv the line which
recedes "Whence all but him
all fled."
8. In what city was W. M.
Tweed a political boss?
9. Correct the following:
"He spoke to my wife and
myself about gomg.
10. Is euthanasia a new
wonder drug, a form of am
nesia, or a mercy killing of
an incurable nerson?
Answers: 1. True. 2. Alfred
E. Smith. 3. Tuberculosis. 4.
Franklin D. Rooievelt. 5.
S8uth - Dakota. 6. Yes. , 7.
"The boy stood on the burn
ing deck." 8. New York City.
9. "He spoke to my wife and
me . . ." 10. Mercy killing.
More than 16,973,000 acres,
or 89 per cent of the total
area of Maine, are forest
lands. The state also has 2,465
lakes and ponds.
Twice, in recent years,
municipal parking has
Medford people.
Twice, they voted it down.
Both times this newspaper supported the
proposal.
It is now becoming evident that we were
wrong, and that the majority of the voters was
right.
At least that is what we are coming to be
lieve in noting the apparent success of the "Park
& Shop" plan put into effect by the downtown
merchants.
rjON McNEIL, the chamber of commerce man
ager here, and Bill Barr, the dynamic spark
plug of the nationwide Park & Shop movement,
both are exceedingly encouraged by the record
of the Park & Shop plan in Medford so far.
, A story in this paper last Sunday detailed
now the plan is working: some 6,000 "shopping
hours' financed by merchants, creation of 975
parldng spaces, with more planned, 71 merchants
and professional people now participating com
pared to the 34 at the start of the program, plans
being laid for a "Hide & Shop" program of bus
transportation.
And all this is being done by the merchants
themselves, and not out of tax revenues.
'THIS 'last was one of the objections raised to
the program by leaders of the opposition to
municipal parking.
They said at' the time they had no objection
to off-street parking as such, so long as it was
financed by the merchants (and, indirectly, by
those using the parking spaces). But they did
object to the use of the city's credit for initial
financing, and to its administration by the city
as such.
So, they were right, we were wrong, and "pri
vate enterprise'' is showing that it is capable of
doing the job which, before, few seemed to
think could be done. E. A.
Black Eye for Hunters
More people are killed by automobile acci
dents than are killed by gunfire during hunting
seasons.
We've always thought that one reason for
this is the fact that everyone thinks of a rule
as a weapon, and treat it with respect, but few
think of a car as a weapon.
But this year, we re inclined to wonder.
What gets into some people when they feel
a high powered rifle, or a shotgun, in their
hands? What makes ordinarily law-abiding
men violate both the laws of the state and the
laws of common sense when it comes to weapons?
1I4EN who usually respect the property of
others, go merrily trespassing, leaving. gates
open and terrorizing people and livestock.
Houses, signs, barns
targets.
"Hunters ' (and we
a true hunter is a sportsman) fire from roads and
across roads, spotlight
limits, violate licensing and tagging laws de
signed for the protection of their own sport, and
generally act like irresponsible juveniles.
9
CTATE police in this
worst season in memory as far as hunting
and shooting violations are concerned. And the
advertisement printed
sports page, notifying
are not welcome on certain properties, is a direct
outgrowth of such offensive behavior.
Ana an tnis aespite repeated warnings, nay,
pleas, from police authorities and. sportsmen's
organizations.
Ked Hat Days, observed during the hunt
ing season, is a measure designed by true sports
men -in an attempt to direct public disapproval
at acts of vandalism, irresponsibility and crun
inality on the part of some hunters. ,
COR real sportsmen
danger to the sport
who won t use his head
If anything can rouse
mand, stricter laws, it
of men with guns.
They aren't giving
a cheap thrill with a weapon. But they will assur
edly bring an end to
and honest sport. And
most cases of this nature,
ity of the hunters who
eye. E. A. . ' ' ' - -: - , . - .
Who s Killing the Dunes?
Despite all the clamor and dispute about the
proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore, one
thine: is becoming; more
This is, that if there never is a great National
Park area on the Oregon coast, it will be the
fault of Gov. Mark Hatfield.
The' governor has hemmed and hawed. But
he has never made his
has subscribed to an adverse committee recom
rendation, then said
open. .
Os West is remembered as the governor who
saved Oregon's beaches for the people. Will
Hatfield be remembered as the governor who
did the state out of a National Seashore? We'd
not want to be remembered that way if we were
in Jus shoes. h.A.
the matter of off-street
been put to a vote of
and fence-posts become
use quotation marks, for
their quarry, exceed bag
m - , .
area declare this is the
in recent days on our
prospective hunters they
know that the greatest
they love lies in the jerk
and abide by the rules
up public opinion to de
is such asinine behavior
themselves anything but
hunting as a respectable
the sad thing is, as in
that it is a small minor
give all of them a black
and more evident.
position really clear. He
faintly the "door is still
Dennis the
(3ee. HoweaHE fix onions if ihbmws ya svo?'
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
PRO-WATCHING 1
Washington Some fellows
are construction-watchers, or
sidewalk superintendents.
Some fellows
are bird
watchers, star
ing always
through then
glasses for the
sight of the
long- billed
watyoucallem.
Neither hob-
Wtm2 " stitutional nor
even against the law, not yet
at any rate. But, to one fel
low, both leave something to
be desired. One bulldozer in
action, after all, is pretty
much like another. And one
good, long look at a single
purple-spotted pheasant is, for
him, quit enought in the way
of pheasant-peering.
For this one fellow, the fel
low who writes this column,
is a professional - watcner.
Here, surely, is a view end
lessley arresting and needless
ly changing. For the proper
study of the pros is the proper
study of mankind. Life in all
its forms of the tiros is the
proper study of mankind. Life
in all its forms is lived more
fully, and considerably more
gracefully, among the pros.
-
THESE, indeed, are a band
of brothers, a good com
pany of men. No matter how
diverse their fields of profes
sionalism basebaU or poli
tics or whatnot they are the
world's true kinf oik and com
rades. And recent days have
brought before the eyes a rich
panorama of the pro in action.
In the World Series any qual
ified professional watcher
could easily find several au
thentic members of the spe
cies.
There was, for example,
Nelson Fox of the Chicago
White Sox. This sturdy, un
terrified, immensely able lit
tle second baseman illustrated
the first and greatest of the
qualities of the pro: he never,
never gave up. He kept cooly
hitting that ball, whether his
team was two runs ahead or
eight runs behind.
There were Duke Snider
and Gil Hodges and Carl Fur
illo of the Los Angeles Dodg
ers. They had been big men
in the old, old days back when
the Dodgers were based in
Brooklyn. They now showed
that they had triumphantly
surmounted the obstacles of
advancing age and of a rough
transplanting, in the evening
of their careers, clear across
the continent.
.
rpHEY exhibited another
-J- onalitv of the nrnr a whnl-
Iy untheatrical efficiency.
Tl X "
Again, there was the mas
Try and
Sy BENNETT CERF--
LYRICIST IRA GERSHWIN once was importuned by a
I Wall Street customers man to take a big position in art
improved mining stock. 'It doesn't look safe to me," de
murred Gershwin. 'Ira,"
the Wall Street man as
sured him earnestly,
"you'll make so much
money on this stock,
you'll go broke!"
-,".
' The fellow who used to
dream up names for new
Pullman cars must have
witched his activities this
year to chorus girls and
models. Popping up in
Broadway agencies recent
ly have been such lovely
creatures as Berths Cay
Suit, Eyeful Tower, - Zsa
Zsa Ginsberg, and Tutu Divine.
.'"
A Detroit man noticed road sign on the island of Nantucket
that read," "2 miles to Nobadeer Field." "Why is that field named
Kobadeer?" he asked his driver. "The Indians named it," the
driver explained. "Nobadeer is Indian for airport."
C 1959, by Bennett Celt, Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate.
Menace
S. WHITE
sive Early Wynn, the Chicago
pitcher who so steadfastly
faced his responsibility for
the ultimate defeat of the
White' Sox. Wynn, the most-
winning pitcher in baseball
when the series opened, be
came in that severe test about
the most-losing pitcher of all.
What did he do, in mani
festing the third great qual
ity of the pro? Why, he stood
up like a man and offered no
alibi at all, though surely a
small one would have been
humanly understandable.
"I goofed it up good." That
is what he said.
And, finaUy, there was the
nolitical pro, Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan of Britain,
As it turned out, he was a win
ning, rather than a losing pro,
But, before the votes had been
counted and his Conservative
party had returned to power.
many men and many circum
stances had pressed him very
hard. His back had looked to
be against the wall. Our own
White House, for one, did this
old friend no good by issuing
an oddly petulant statement
plainly suggesting that per
haps he had phomed up- the
issue of the summit meeting.
(Maybe this was done because
Macmillan had been tactless
enough to intimate that it was
he who had really brought
about negotiations with. the
Russians as indeed he had).
rPHE non-pro under such
-- cruel and unexpected pres
sures would have screamed
against his opposition" and
against fate. The non-pro
would have driven himself
and his associates into unwise
and thus unprofessional
extremes. But old pro Mac
millan tried to do and did do
what the Dodger veterans did
so "well: when he found him
self unable to hit safely to
one field he turned calmly
about and hit soundly to an
other field.
To paraphrase, it is not
what game you are in that
counts, it is how you play the
game.
(Copyright. 1959. by Unit
ed Feautre Syndicate, Inc.)
Washington FFA
Youth Wins Test
Kansas City,-Mo. -UPD- Phil
Rousseau, Franklin, Wash.,
Monday night won the Future
Farmers of America national
public speaking contest and
the $250 award that goes with
it. "Food for Our Nation" was
the topic of his 10-minute ad
dress. Tonight, the National Star
Farmer of America will be
named.
Ahnnt 1ft nnn FFA members
from all over the United States
are in Kansas City for tne
convention.
Stop Me
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Eisenhower sets
in motion the Taft-Hartley
law machinery to end the
steel strike for 80 days.
Did he do right?
Or did he do wrong?
rpo THOSE of us who neither
own steel stocks nor be
long to unions concerned in
the strike, it appears that a
settlement would be better for
everybody. The employees
now out of work would start
getting paychecks aHain. The
steel mills would start mak
ing steel again. Steel would
again become available to
those who use steel as a raw
material and they would start
making their products again.
lhese products would again
be available in good supply
for the merchants to sell and
their customers to buy.
The steel companies would
go on paying dividends to
their stockholders who, by
the way, outnumber the work
ers in the steel industry (for
eacn steel worker there are
roughly one and a quarter
owners of steel stocks.) '
But the unions concerned
in the strike can't see it that
way. They say the President
has intervened on the side of
the steel operators - which,
they say, is wrong.
O IS RIGHT?
Who is wrong?
What should be done about
it?
- ..
IN AN EFFORT to answer
tlnaea Jill Aef-inmn Ta4-
icia ima
gine a neighborhood rowf
Two or more families are
fighting with each other over
some situation that concerns
them acutely but doesn't con
cern the rest of us much. The
ruckus goes on and on. It
makes life miserable for the
whole neighborhood.
What shall the rest of us
do?
Shall we stand by and take
it- ad infinitum?
Or shall we GO TO LAW?
rTHE CHANCES are that
-- when we get so fed up
with the row that we can't
take it any longer we'll go to
law. The law will then pro
ceed to adjudicate the rights
that are involved our right
to live our lives undisturbed
by somebody else's quarrel
and the right of the '"ruckus
raisers to go on with their
ruckus.
In the end, the law will de
cide it on the basis of the
greatest good to the greatest
number following the Amer
ican principle that the rights
of each individual or group of
individuals are LIMITED BY
THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.
That's the American way.
TlfHAT ABOUT the numbers
' involved?
Let's put it this way: .
It is generally stated that
about 500,000 steel workers
are out on strike. Using the
ratio of one and a quarter to
one, that would mean about
625,000 owners of steel stocks
- or a total of 1,125,000. Mul
tiplying that by four (assulff
ing that each worker and each
stockholder have three de
pendents) gives us a total of
four and a half million per
sons directly concerned in the
steel strike.
The rest of us number about
170 MILLION.
That's where the principle
of the greatest good to the
greatest number comes in.
Attorney General
Due Minor Surgery
Washington (DPD Attorney
General William P. Rogers en
ters the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center today for an
operation to remove a small
growth from his vocal cords.
Rogers, who was in his of
fice Monday, said he probably
would be in the hospital only
overnight. He said he felt fine,
A Justice department
spokesman said the operation
was local, and not serious.
Rogers was scheduled to con
valesce at home for two or
three weeks. The spokesman
said home convalescence was
called for because Rogers
would not be able to talk.
1 Deputy Attorney General
Lawrence E. Walsh will serve
as head of the Justice depart
ment until Rogers returns.
Portland Polio Cases
Reach 35 for Year
Portland (UPD Portland's
1959 polio toll has increased
to 35 with three more cases
last week, according to the
City Health Bureau.
In 1958 at this time Port
land had only five polio cases
reported.
BUY DRINKING WATER
Frankfurst, Germany UPD
The drought that has parched
Germany for 10 weeks has de
pleted water resources to such
an extent that m a-n y north
German villagers are buying
drinking water for 5 to 20
cents a bucket, it was reported
today. .
British Conservatives7 Win
Suits Russian Summit Aims
By PHIL NEWSON
UPI Foreign Editor
It is a quirk of the times
that the Soviet Union, having
long since taken credit for al
most everything from inven
tion of the bi
cycle to the
steamboat,
now also is
taking partial
credit for the
Conservative
election vic
tory in Brit
ain. Moscow Ra
dio shed not
Phil Newsom
a tear for the defeat suffered
by British - Socialists, and
seemingly -wasted not , a sec
ond thought on the fact that
Communist candidates fared
even less well than they did
in 1955. - . '
If the Soviet Communists
seem to be changing their
choice of political bed-fellows,
it may be traced to the
tremendous pressure Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev is
building up for a summit con
ference. Had Summit Plank
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan took as a plank in his
campaign platform the -fact
that it was he who first made
the . trip to Moscow to. see
Khrushchev during the Ber
lin crisis, and the claim that
it was he who instituted the
thaw leading to Khrushchev's
U.S. visit. ,
Noted the Moscow Radio:
"It was driven home to the
British voters that . the Con
servatives had the greatest de
sire and a special knack for
Communications
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More on Dunes ....
To the Editor: I was inter
ested in your long editorial of
Oct. 4 in which you supported
the establishment of the pro
posed Oregon Dunes National
Seashore south of Florence.
Much of your editorial was
a matter of opinion, but your
statements regarding the
Western Lane Taxpayers As
sociation were supposed to be
factual. We take exception to
two statements:
We are not well - financed.
Our contributions have come
from individuals, the largest
being a donation of $100. Our
secretary, Howard Ragan, a
respected motel owner, re
ports that during the past six
months we have spent exactly
$690.25," not much more than
$100 a month. This took care
of postage, telephone and tele
gram charges, secretarial help
and traveling expenses.
The association, you , state,
is composed of a group of real
estate men and property own
ers, thereby . giving the . im
pression that their motiva
tions are primarily mercen
ary. One real estate man has
been interested but so far as
I know has not been too ac-.
tive in our campaign,
i Finally, let me quote from
Senator Neuberger. At the
conclusion of the hearings in
Eugene he said, "The opposi
tion of the Western Lane Tax
payers Association has been
imaginative and effective. If
I had been in the Florence
area I would have been a
member of the Western Lane
Taxpayers Association." We
take this to mean he thought
we were right in objecting to
the creation of the seashore.
John S. Parker
Committee on Information
Western Lane Taxpayers
Ass'n
Box 1033
Florence, Ore.
Newsboys and Oldsters
To the Editor: Isn't it won
derful that next Saturday is
to be Newspaperboy day?
As we haven't a paper that
day, shouldn't we watch for
our boy Friday and give him
a few words of appreciation,
or some little gift to show him
that he hasn't been getting up
early, going to school, hurry
ing home to deliver our paper,
then doing his home work -all
unnoticed. That young
businessman is worthy of no
tice. Also we musn't forget the
oldsters. The Fifty Plus club
should be getting .their white
elephants ready for their rum
mage sale, and let's pin the
prices on our articles, huh?
The members should be fig
uring out how to look their
"worstest" at a Halloween
party. You'll hear more about
both projects at the usual
meeting at 12:30 p.m. next
Friday, Oct. 16, at Fifth and
Oakdale.
Pearl Spackman
Box 33
. . .. Jacksonville, Ore.
u-Sf IklU OeJ
dealing with the Soviets." It
added:
"Nor must it be forgotten
that Macmillan and these oth
er Conservative leaders have
lately been advocating .the
early calling of a summit con
ference.", ' .
No matter how much the
masters of Communism may
detest the capitalistic roots of
Britain's Conservative govern
ment, itwas obvious that at
this time, the Kremlin be
lieved the Conservatives' re
election to their advantage.
Macmillan has been the
West's strongest advocate of a
summit conference in the
quest for world peace. Had
Matter of Fact
THE FRIENDLY GUY
San Francisco t As he' says
himself, Gov. Pat Brown of
California is "a; very friendly
guy," amiable and not easily
annoyed. But
in a reany
; long, iranK
i talk with him,
you discover
i that there is
one thought
- which visibly
annoys him
every time it
forms in his
Jns-ph Alsnp mma.
"In this country," he says
bitterly, "the news moves
from east to west. So nobody
outside of California has ever
heard of Pat Brown. And if
nobody's ever heard of you,
how the hell do you become
a serious Presidential candi
date?" . ;
, Or again, half an hour later,
he declares, at once grimly
and wistfully: "If I were the
Democratic governor of a big
state in the East, With my vic
tory in the last election and
my record since I've been in
office, I'd be a leading Demo
cratic candidate for the Presi
dency this minute!"
Or again, yet another hour
later, he remarks sadly: "If
only I could change places
with Nelson Rockefeller!"
. . -
rNE cannot blame the gov
ernor for being unable to
brush this particular crumb
out of his mental bed. He is
right. If he were the governor
of a big Eastern or mid-Western
state, the more enthusias
tic supporters of Senators
Kennedy and Humphrey
would still not be for him
The group that will wait and
hope for Adlai Stevenson un
til the last trump sounds,
would still be waiting and
hoping. But ' Brown would
be a leading contender all the
same. Most of the kind of peo
ple formed up behind Sen.
Stuart Symington of Missouri
and many: others besides
would would instead be form
ing up behind Governor
Brown. .
His brilliant victory in 195&Y
his excellent administrative
and legislative record at Sac
ramento, ought to attract
widespread support. Yet they
have not. But when one tries
to answer the question about
whether Brown can ever over
come this unjust handicap,
one also has to note that
Brown himself bears some of
the political phenomenon he
complains about.
A S California politics has
just begun to be intermit
tently watched by the nation,
so too California politics are
extremely inward looking and
preoccupied with local issues.
By the same token Brown can
discouse impressively for half
an hour on end on the state's
complex water problem,
which he is so effectively try
ing to solve.
But ask Brown how the
Democrats ought to meet what
the Republicans call the peace
issue, and he looks vaguely
towards the ceiling and pious
in
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the victory scales been re
versed, it had been assumed
the British foreign mirlistrj
would be taken over by fhm
fiery Aneurin Bevarf, a Social-
ist whose thinking might no,
mally be considered closer to
Moscow's own.
Actually, it was this, plus
Bevan's frequent anti-American
blasts, which would make
him a liability to Khru
shchev's summit hopes. '
A British government whose
thinking did not parallel
Washingtin's own might well
be a factor in hardening U. S. '
caution toward a summit
meeting into outright opposi
tion. That, Khrushchev did
not want.
Bv Joseph AIsop
ly replies:
"We must try to contince
the people that we can bettes
consummate the good begin-
ning that was made when
Khrushchev was here." Then
show him the horrifying f jg
ures of the oncoming missile
gap, and inquire whether
these do not also have some
bearing on the "peace issue."
And his eyes flash in the prfc- -tised
platform way, and h
soundingly declares: "America
will never tolerate being sec
ond best. We should regain tha o
lead at all costs."
The truth seems to be, in
short, that the California erra-
ernor is a most astute politi
cian and a distinctly able mn
who has given a lot of thought0
to California s problems but
has few settled ideas about
national problems. As a re
sult, as he remarked, he is
just a good governor and a
friendly guy, a good average
guy, who may be pretty hard
to picture as President of Vie
United States."
THESE are the reasons why
the Brown Presidential
candidacy had not got off the
ground. The failure is not for
want of trying. Brown sent
two henchmen through the
Western states to drum up
support a month or so ago.
He then tried to rally West
ern Democratic governors
around himself in order to
give the Brown candidacy a
kind of minimal regional sta
ture. Even this logical , first
attempt ended in complete
frustration.
In these circumstances, it
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wui ue iiara to taice me
Brown candidacy really seTi-
uuaijr luucsa mi Diowu cma
achieve the kind of self
transformation that Harry .
Truman achieved after qnte
ing the White House. Bro
will at once be taken seriously
if he ever manages to 1qp$
ready for "this President
thing," as he calls it. Remee
bering Truman, one ctnnotcq
elude the possibility. - 0
As to the ViCe Preifle4f.
the other contenders Vhe 9S
hoping to win Brown ft
promises of segond pltcV.
pecially Senator Symingtaeare
seem to be due for t ail
appointment. Brown genuian
ly does not seem to veafc b
leave the governorshif Jfcf
the Vice Presidency. Hi tie
twice solemnly promitf fl tj
California Democratic leifier
the last time only a fortnijh
ago, that he will make ng dM&
to get the Vice Presidency.
And if Bj-own attempted t
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mane auui a ucai, 11c cuuiu xiuv
deliver his own delegation.
Yet even if Pat Brown hiff
not much hope at present tern
the first place, and even if he
does not want the seconfe
place, he at least "wants t to
a. factor," as he frankly atl
mits. With the big California
delegation at his back, ke
ought to be a major factor.
And if one can judge ran
on the basis of three hours
talk, he will be a sane and
decent factor too.
(c) 1959 New, York Herald
Tribune Inc.
,Only a Quarttjrbc
Can direct the team from the
field. But when you TEAAA up
with us on a dividend fjaying
insurance contract you'll git
much more than a QUARTtg
BACK.
Bill Fish