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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO -Oct.
15. 1949 (Saturday)
A total of nearly 10,000
sqhool and pre-school children
in Jackson county nave Been
immunized against diphther
ia rlurin? the past week.
Zonta International holds
its annual fall confernce here
this week end.
20 YEARS AGO
e Oct. 15, 1939 (Sunday)
Helen Hedrick, well-known
Medford writer, is having a
short story published in the
Oct. 21 Colliers magazine.
Frem Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Business & Professional "Wom
en's association celebrated its
100th birthday last week and
all members admitted the age
their organization without
stalling, and blushing."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15. 1929 (Tuesday)
The Newtown apple pack in
the valley this year is only
half of last year's crop.
The American Legion drum
corps here will get. new bu
gles. 40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15. 1919 (Wednesday)
The Medford band will give
an "old folks concert" in city
park Friday evening.
Refrigerator cars are in
short supply, and only three
carloads of apples left tne
valley yesterday. . -,
50 YEARS AGO -Oct.
15, 1909 (Friday)
Merriman and Elliott,
blacksmiths and horseshoers,
move into new, modern quar
tprs here. ."
Miss Arra Harmon " will
Vinrlerearten next
vvu
week at 1009 East Main st.
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
I. IT nwrmr ia aUDWioTi
niin 9w ------- - -
seven or eight is excellent; five ot
sis is good.
1. What Spanish explorer
discovered . the territory of
TTlnrirla?
2. Iceland is noted for its
ha.t snrines: true or false?
3. In what country is An-
Irara?
4. How many yards are in
a mile?
5 According to the prov
erb, what two things never
it fnr anv man?
fi. At the close of which
war did the United States ac-
nmrp the island oz Guam?
7. What European explorer
. s ar
discovered tne Straus oi
oollan? , .
Tn mvtholoey. who fell
in love with his own reflec
tion?
q What is an abattoir?
o 10. In what war did a naval
commander say, "Damn the
nrrvrloes: full speed ahead!"?
Answers: 1. Juan Ponea da
Loon. 2. Trua. 3. Turkoy. 4.
17B0. 5. Time and liae. o.
Spanish-American. 7. Fernan
da Maaellan. 8. Narcissus. 9.
Slaughter house. 10. War Be
tween the Stales.
Indianapolis, Ind.-(DPD-Evan-
gelist Billy uranam iuuajr as
sured his followers they need
not worrv because he plays
it no mi a his usual com-
ment when he muffs a shot is
"Oh no."
Robert W. Sawyer
One measure of the stature of Robert W.
Sawyer, who diet this
declaration by Ex-Gov.
Sawyer was Oregon s outstanding citizen of the
half-century' "
Mr. Sawyer combined m his person many
traits and talents. He
instance, great affection among those who
worked for him. And yet many of them continued
to refer to him, even when he wasn't around, as
"Mr. Sawyer, rather than Bob," as he was
called by a few close friends. y
He was a demanding taskmaster, but meticu
lously fair.
He had a passion for accuracy, both in his
own newspaper, and in the publications of others.
''
AS THE long-time editoi and publisher of the
"Bend Bulletin, he would tolerate no slipshod
reporting from his staff, nor from the United
Press, which served his paper for many years.
We served an apprenticeship as a reporter on
the Bulletin under Mr. Sawyer, and later, served
as lited Press correspondent at the state capi
tol. In both capacities, we often received terse
but polite little memos from Mr. Sawyer, either
pointing out an error of omission or commission,
or asking for greater elaboration on what ap
peared to be an obscure point, but which in re
ality was a significant part of the story.
During his years as
his retirement, it was not
a friendly note to the Bulletin, of to other papers
or magazines, correcting
CTANDING straight, with snow white,, immacu-
late hair, Mr. Sawyer
and usually with a warm
ner and unhurried appearance belied the scope
of his interests and activities.
The list of his public
and distinguished, ranging from .those of a pure
ly local nature, to those
importance.
Oregon has lost one
zens. But it is a far better place because Robert
W . Sawyer chose it as his home. h.A.
New Approach
In a news story yesterday, it was reported that
the Medford school board has approved "a group
therapy program for high school behavior devi
ants." This is, of course, gobbledegook, and can be
roughly translated into something, like "a pro
gram where attempts will be made to talk a group
of youngsters out of their tendencies toward de
linquency." ; , ;
At least we hope this
tion. We certainly don't
of youngsters just because their, behavior is "de
viant" from the norm. (The word "deviant," in
cidentally,1 doesn't appear in the office diction
ary, even the big one,-either as a noun or verb,
so one assumes it is a new word spawned by so
ciology, meaning one who behavior deviates from
the norm.) . ; " ' .' . '
NOW one must assume
good" ones as well as "bad" ones.
And presumably, the new program will go
after the bad ones.
- So much for gobbledegook and semantics.
The program offers potentialities for impor
tant accomplishment, if it can spot youngsters
who are headed for trouble, and steer them right.
(Significantly, during
similar to this in Ashland last year", not one of
the boys involved got into trouble, despite earlier
symptoms.) J s V
IF IT WORKS as hoped, it will pay for itself a
hundred times over, for the cost of delinquen
cy (and, too often, later
Even if it is only partially successful, even if
only two or three boys are channeled away from
trouble, the money saved in police, court and in
stitutional costs (to say nothing of social costs
and the toll of crime) would more than justify
the effort. ;
And this approach is one answer to the prob
lem of preventing delinquency, getting at it be-
fore it really starts, which has been such a serious
roadblock in the past. E. A.
O.K.?
Nikita Khrushchev was entranced, during his
visit to this country, with the American word (or
phrase?) "O.K."
But we doubt that the Russian Premier ever
explored the nuances of meaning possible in the
use of O.K. '
It can mean simple, passive agreement.
It can connote agreement under protest.
"-It can mean enthusiastic agreement.
It can mean acceptance of an order. -
It can mean, simply, that a message is under
stood. It can acknowledge the loss of an argument.
It can be an assessment of an individual.
("She's O.K." can mean anything from grudging
approval to something in the neighborhood of a
wolf whistle.) '""'::- ' ?' f ;
It can be a question (O.K.?) and an answer
(O.K.!)
It can be the acceptance of a challenge, V,
As a matter of fact, it would be difficult to
get along without the phrase in American speech.
It's O.K. E.A. :
week, was in the 1953
Charles A. Sprague that
was able to inspire, for
an editor, and even after
unusual for him to drop
or expanding on articles.
spoke gently and softly,
smile. His quiet man
service activities is long
of statewide and national
of its most useful' citi
is an accurate transla
want any brain-washing
that if there are "be-
a pilot program" test
adult crime) is appalling.
Dennis the
Look what i found A FULL
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
FIASCO IN STEEL
At the beginning of the
steel strike in July, the Presi
dent declared that he would
not intervene
because "I be
lieve that we
have got thor
oughly to test
out and use
the method of
free bargain
ing." When
Mr. K. arriv
ed here two
months later,
one of the things the Presi
dent wanted to have him see
was the steel strike. It would
show the visitor an example
of free bargaining between
unions and management.
Now three weeks later he
has set in motion the machin
ery of the Taft-Hartley Act,
and everyone is hoping that
board of inquiry under the
Act will somehow succeed in
avoiding the need to invoke
the Act, and that it will some
how be able to mediate a set
tlement. If the board does not
succeed, the steel strike will
be suspended for 80 days and
then may be resumed at the
onset of winter.
IT IS A dreary outcome for
what was to have been- a
test of "the method of free
bargaining." The test has
gone on since July, and the
method of free bargaining has
failed in the task. Why did it?
It failed because the issues of
the steel strike were not ones
to which the method of free
bargaining applies. The Presi
dent did not understand the
nature of the steel strike. He
failed to see that the issues
were not those which collec
tive bargaining can resolve.
On the side of labor the
ultimate issue is its right to
share in the larger profits of
the companies. On the side
of management the ultimate
issue is to put a stop to the
spiral of wage increases since
the Second World War and to
recover some of the ground
lost to labor since that time.
Here then is a case of in
dustrial warfare between gi
ant business and giant labor
It is a test of power and of
will in which the two parties
are not bargaining and will
not compromise their differ
ences. IITHEN the President chose
" to regard the steel strike
as one which could be settled
by "free bargaining," there
was not involved a true prin
ciple based on the reality of
things but a sentimental illu
sion.
Nor was it a feature of
American life which we could
show off proudly to Mr. K
On the contrary, the s t e e 1
strike is a spectacular exam
ple of the fact that, far from
being a completed and per
fected society, there' is in our
society much that is primi
tive, irrational, and increas
ingly intolerable. It is not a
jolly thing to have the basic
industry of the country close
down for three months with
no settlement in sight just be
cause we have not learned
how to substitute law and or
der for unconditional indus
trial warfare. .
The claim that a strike of
these dimensions and of such
consequences is a private af
fair, not a proper subject of
national intervention, is en
tirely; untenable. It was un
tenable in July when the Ad
ministration approved the
claim that this was a private
affair and it is untenable in
October when the Adminis
tration has had to intervene.-
TVHE NATIONAL interest is
not only "that a settlement
should be reached and pro
duction resumed. There is a
prime national interest in the
terms on which the strike is
settled. The day is past when
Walter
Lippmann
Menace
e
LENGTH Mi&ofii
Lippmann
this country can tolerate
"free" bargaining by which
labor gets higher wages and
management puts up the pric
es. The national interest de
mands that the major indus
trial conflicts be settled under
conditions which are good for
the economy as a whole. That
being the case, some agency
has to have the authority to
speak for the national inter
est when a conflict arises.
In the last analysis what
this means is that the great
basic industrial settlements,
though they are reached by
the method of voluntary bar
gaining, must be in harmony
with the verdict that would
be reached by arbitration by
an authoritative national
agency charged with the
health of the economy as a
whole. This will, I suppose,
horrify a great many. But I
have put it bluntly and bru
tally because only in that way
do we get away from senti
mentality and double-talk and
down to the hard realities.
THE LESSON of the strike
is that the country needs
to make a new advance into
the region where the govern
ment can impose peaceful set
tlements in accordance with
the national interest upon' the
giant corporations and the gi
ant unions. The government
should have full power to ar
bitrate and to impose a" settle
ment.
If it has that power, it can
use it best to promote, to in
duce and to persuade, labor
and management to write in
to their contracts rules for
settling their : differences, by
bargaining if possible, by vol
untary arbitration if neces
sary. In the end, however, if
they fail to do this, there
must be the possibility of a
resort to compulsory arbitra
tion. The big stick should be in
the government's possession.
If it is there, it will except on
the rarest occasions be left
in the closet,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk today about
whooping cranes.
It's an interesting subject
because this spring the last
32 of them supposed to be left
on earth departed from their
wintering ground at Aransas
wildlife refuge in Texas for
their summ nesting grounds
up in the neighborhood of
Great Slave Lake in Canada.
Up to this morning, only
TWO of them had arrived
back at Aransas refuge.
Question:
What happened to the other
30, along with their possible
progeny of 1959? Are they loi
tering somewhere along the
way? Or have they been
popped down by hunters who
know only that they're shoot
ing at a big piece of flying
meat? " "
TWO more questions:
What is a whooping
crane?
Why is it so called?
I
T IS THE largest crane in
North America. It is about
four or five feet high when
standing erect on the ground.
It can spread its wings to a
width of six or eight feet. Its
feathers, are white and the
wings are tipped with black.
Its tribe once ranged from
Canada to Mexico.
It is called a whooping
crane because its loud, deep
call can be heard a mile or
more away. The loudness of
its call is aided by its large
windpipe, which is nearly
five feet long and is partly
coiled in its breastbone. Pre
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Design for Humanity
To the Editor: Here's a
point to ponder:
A recent issue of a maga
zine dealing principally with
interior decorating and archi
tecture describes architectu
ral integration as "the art of
knitting everything together
into one stronger whole." Ac
cording to this concept, the
smallest, seemingly most un
important detail contributes
to the over-all effect.
Why can't we apply this to
human ' relationships?
To' illustrate what I mean,
there is bad design its parts
clashing, fighting against one
another, each striving indi
vidually for attention. Here
are the blacks, the whites, the
Jews, the Christians, the Mos
lems, society, "commoners."
On the other hand, good de
sign is each part harmonizing
with each other, contributing
to the effect of the others, yet
with its own effect, in turn
heightened by the harmonious
presence of the other parts.
This is mankind as it
should be, its groups individ
ual but not separate, contrib
uting something to the good
of the whole, and receiving in
turn, contributions by the rest
of mankind.
Think about it. It's not hard
to see that the best of man's
designs has much in common
with the way God intended
man to be.
Miss Dayle Ann Stratton
1 804 Bennett ave.
' Mecford
Conservation Concept
To the Editor: Amazing
was the wealth of unused bio
logical material when writer
was in Curacao. The WiUem
stad government now has ta
ken steps to investigate. Am
sterdam scientists have been
invited to make- the survey of
the bird life, half in, the dry,
half in the rainy season. This,
to determine, ; among other
items the migratory habits of
the birds.
Rare species will be pro
vided protection. Study will
be to determine the relation
ship bet een the birds of
these islands and the bird
life of nearby Venezuela,
When writer was in Venezue
la he found young anacondas
used as mousers where our
domestic cat did not thrive in
tropic heat.
Thus 'the' conservation con
cept catches, worldwide the
imagination of ever more
leaders. :
C. M. Goethe
3731 Tea st.
Sacramento 16, Calif.
Elephant Swallow er
To the Editor: I see from
yesterday's paper that Repre
sentative Porter is trying to
raise quite a disturbance be
cause' General Musset sent
a government plane to trans
port an injured son to Denver
for treatment.
Does Mr. Porter know that
government equipment is con
stantly being used to assist
victims of disaster and per
sons in distress? True, it costs
money, and it is wonderful
in Mr. Porter to be so
thoughtful of the tax payers'
interests. I suppose if the
plane had been sent to take
sumably its vocal apparatus
acts something like a tuba
horn.
THIS final question:
What will the world be
like if and when the whoop
ing crane is a goner?
W
ELL
a large part of
habited by dinosaurs. The di
nosaur, must have been an in
teresting creature. Looking at
its skeleton in the museums,
the thought occurs that it
might have been useful in its
day. At least, its skeletal
structure suggests that it must
have carried a lot of meat.
But -
For reasons too complicated
to be gone into here the dino
saur became extinct. Its ex
tinction occurred hundreds of
thousands of years ago. Yet
. . . some way or other . . .
the world has managed to
wag on.
It may continue to do so if
worse comes to worst and the
whooping crane becomes ex
tinct.; -
SO MUCH for the whooping
crane. Let's talk now
about swans. The beautiful
birds that fly at this season
over the marshes of central
Oregon - and all too - often
get shot down by ignorant
hunters who know only that
there's a big piece of meat up
in . the air, so close that it
can hardly be missed, and
cut loose with their scatter-
guns. ' "
They are protected by law,
Revolution Again Threatens
In Venezuela; Causes Cited
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Venezuelan President Rom-
ulo Betancourt, a veteran rev
olutionary, today finds him
self threaten
ed by a revo
lution against
his own eight
months - old
regime.
Off i c i a 1
T: s J state m e n t s
blame the
new wave of
violence
pnii Newton sweeping tne
Venezuelan capital of Caracas
upon ousted one-time dictator
President Marcos Perez Jim
enez and his supporters and
upon Dominican dictator Leo
nidas Rafael Trujillo Molinas.
Matter of Fact ai,p;
PURGATORIAL THOUGHTS
Tokyo - Any airplane
crossing any ocean always
seems to tnis reporter tne
nearest thing
thing to Pur
gatory that a
man can
know until
the end of
life gives him
the final an
HW1
swers.
Thus some
discount
-iospn Aisop should per
haps be made - by anyone
who troubles to read the fol
lowing minority' report. For
it comprises the thoughts this
reporter could not banish
from-his mind on the long air
flight to begin another jour
ney of inquiry in the turbu
lent Far East.
As background, I should
say that I first touched home
base in Connecticut. There I
found that this normally
doubtful state had been vir
tually clinched for Vice Pres
ident Nixon, because of the
meteoric rise in the polls that
has resulted from Nixon's trip
to Russia and his association
with the so-called "peace isr
sue." There 'did not seem to
be a single handhold left for
the rival candidacy of New
York's Gov. Nelson Rockefel
ler.
rpHEN in California, I found
-- the whole state transform
ed by the "peace issue.". The
Republicans, who had been so
far down, are riding the crest
of the wave. The Democrats,
who. had, triumphed so bril
liantly in 1958, now" accept
the evidence of the 7 opinion
testers that the "peace issue"
has put them in second place.
Judging by Gov. Pati Brown,
moreover, the Democrats
hardly seem to know, what to
do about it.:- '
Then, too, there was the
key member of Governor
Brown's staff, who remarked
that he, feared the rival can
didacy of Sen. John F. Ken
nedy because "Kennedy
would start up the old hate
Russia stuff again." There was
the national magazine for
business executives, which a
San Francisco business lead
er was excited about. The
cover emphatically asked
"What Would Peace Do To
care "of Mr. Porter or a mem
ber of his family, he would
have declined to use it, say
ing that the American people
could not afford the expense.
The money spent in this
operation was mere "chicken
feed" compared with the sum
spent to guard and entertain
the world's champion arch
murderer, Khrushchev. Did
Mr. Porter raise any howl
about this expense? If so, I
have not seen it reported in
the paper. Did Mr. Porter
raise any voice of protest
against sending billions of
dollars . of our tax money
abroad to assist, our enemies,
or potential enemies? If so,
his voice was not heard out
here in Oregon. He is report
ed to have favored, and voted
for, these measures. -
I have heard of people
straining at a gnat and swal
lowing a camel, but I think
Mr. Porter has swallowed an
elephant.
John C. Stille
Shady Cove, Ore.
of course - but, unfortunate
ly, there are so many slips in
the law's protective screen.
There are so many places that
a warden can't be when these
lovely and musical birds come
winging over. And there are
so many -hunters who aren't
sportsmen.
THERE'S something to wor
ry -bout Think of going
through Bend with no stately
swans to be seen on its Mir
ror Pool.
I suppose the world will
wag on if and when these
swans follow the whooping
crane into extinction ... as
it wagged on when the dino
saur came to the end of its
chapter.
But ... if and when that
happens . . . something lovely
and soul-satisfying will be
gone from our high country.
There is no doubt that eith
er Perez Jimenez or Trujillo
would be most happy to see
Betancourt's government fall,
and it weU may be that Betan
court's days in office are
numbered.
But so far the wave of un
rest sweeping Caracas and the
oil city of Maracaibo seems
unorganized. It appears to be
the, result of Venezuela's .own
lopsided economy rather, than
the efforts of Betancourt's
political enemies. - - ;
Controlled By Dictators . -
Of the 10 republics on the
South . American ; continent,
Venezuela is the richest, its oil
revenues alone total more
than half a billion dollars an
nually. But for most of the last 50
You?" and this mean. "What
would a great cut in defense
expenditures do to the prof
its . of American business?"
There were many other, such
signs, as well. .
ONE had not suspected this
sort of thing in airless
Washington. One had suppos
ed that the Republicans were
gaining, simply because many
people were pleased by the
President's attempt to settle
the most acute outstanding
problems with the Russians
in face to face negotiations
with Nikita S. Khrushchev
himself. But this is not the
real nature of the "peace is
sue" at the grass roots. The
President's and the Republi
can party's real gain in fact
comes from the belief of
many people that Eisenhower
has now promised the coun
try "peace in our time"-as
Neville Chamberlain put it
when he came homelrom Mu
nich to a hysterically, tragic
ally grateful Britain. The
President himself has not en
couraged this belief. But he
certainly has not discouraged
it.
Maybe it is being a spoil
sport, to say so, but in the
form it has now taken, the
"peace issue" is both-a fraud
and a menace to aU concern-
ned. It is a fraud because
the President got nothing
from ' Khrushchev ; except a
promise of negotiations "with
out 'fixed time limit." That
is already a lot. Yet the prom
ise was qualified by the
clause stating that the talks
should not be ' unduly pro
tracted. It .is 4 still , up to
Khrushchev to decide when
the talks are being dragged
out too long.
. ..'
IT IS a fraud, too, because
the belief in "peace in our
time" must be based on the
further belief in Khrushchev's
miraculous transformation
Only a little more than a year
ago, Khrushchev gave the go
ahead to Mao Tse-Tung ior
the armed attack on Quemoy.
Only eight months ago, he
started the Berlin crisis with
the most naked threats of
force. Only two months ago,
after accepting the President's
invitation to visit this coun
try, he approved the probe in
Laos. .
Forty-eight hours in the
pure, inspiring air of Camp
David are hardly likely to-
have remolded such a man in
Eisenhower's image.
A fraud, the "peace issue"
in its "peace 5n our time"
form is a danger to the coun
try. Falling into wishfulness
is always the worst folly for
any great country. It is a
danger to the President. His
WE URGE PEOPLE TO TELL
US WHEN WE'RE WM.
"3
Asau from
RANK MOtGAN . HAKOID
" DAY OR NIGHT
M SI
years it has lived in a political
vacuum, under dictatorships
which recognized neither po
litical parties nor civil libe?
ties. A magnificent new highway
winds its way up from the
Caribbean port of La Guaira
to Caracas. In Caracas is the
beautiful 1 officers' club, the
university and the tinivartity '
hospital. These are evidences
of Venezuela's wealth.
But they take no account of
the fact that of Venezuela's to- '
tal population of a litUe more
than six million, some three -and
a half million barely eke
out an existence.
Also not taken into account -is
the 65 per cent illiteracy.
rate among the people, the
170,000 unemployed, the 600,-.
000 children without class--,
room space.
Communists Find Entry
Nor do the. outward evi
dences of Venezuela's wealth
take into account the fact that
its economic imbalance has .
provided a perfect entry fori
the Communists whose num
bers jumped from around 6,
000 a few years ago to more.
than 80,000 today. .
It was into this, situation
that Betancpurt stepped some
eight months ago, after one of
Venezuela's rare free elec
tions,' Betancourt, politically left,
announced immediately that
Communists would have no'
part in his government. He
made equally clear they were
not welcome at the presiden
tial palace.
But his Democratic Action'
Party, with labor as its back-"
bone, contains admitted Com
munists, many of them in the
oil fields.
In 1945, it was Betancourt,"
at a previous time in power,
who reached the 50-50 split
agreement with the oil com
panies which now is a stand
ard the world over. This time,
through a new tax plan, he
made it 60-0 in favor -of the
government. - ';
: At the same time, he an-
uuuutcu an ailiuiuuua ?JUr-
gram, designed to. spread
Venezuela's wealth. In the.
latter, he has not been out
standingly successful, andhe
does not have the entire supo
port of the army. That's why
his days may be numbered.
negotiations with Khrushcfiev
will be warped and hamperef
by the grave political pre
sures generated by wishful
ness at. home.
'
FINALLY although it. will
. be hard o persuade most
Republicans of the9 fact, the
"peace . issue" is the gravest
kind of long run danger to
the Republican party. Im-,
mense . short run gains can.
certainly be made by the pro-,
motion of wishfulness.
When he left office, Stan
ley Baldwin was probabjpj
th most popular Prime Min
ister Britain hSd ever had,
Baldwin's popularity was
then toppled by the wav of
adulation for Chamberlain af
ter Munich. But not long after
that, Baldwin had to be Earn
ed not to come up to London,
lest he be stoned in the
streets; and Chamberlain was,
literally hooted out of office,"
Such were the long run losses.
These are curmudgeonly re
minders, no doubt. Escape is
the-best cure for a curmudg
eon. So this reporter now pro
poses to escape into the past,
at Kyoto and Ise where one
remembers Genji and the La
dy Murasaki instead of Bald
win and Chamberlain. 1
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