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.. Monday, 0t. 19, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Tht
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19, 1949 (Wednesday)
Tne Mali Tribune an
nounces the start of a new
Washington column by Bob
Dickey, former Medford resi
dent now employed at the
U. S. Senate.
The Medford city council
recommends rejecting bids for
a proposed addition to the
public library.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19, 1939 (Thursday)
Bert Lowry protests to the
Medford city council the ex
istence of the city garbage
dump off South Pacific high
way east of the Bear Creek
orchards plant.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sur
rounded as they are by Quick
triggered bird hunters, farm
ers are more cautious than
usual about stooping over
around the barn."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19, 1929 (Saturday)
New homes are rising in
the Table Rock district.
The Sams Valley Grange
goes on record approving the
Williams Creek cut-off road.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19, 1919 (Sunday)
Medford elopers return
from California happy and
wedded, and are forgiven.
A local jeweler reports he
sold $5,000 worth of diamonds
to valley residents last week.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 19. 1909 (Tuesday)
M. F. Hanley will let the
city of Medford cross his land
to lay a water system pipeline
after all.
The Medford Hardware
store reports the sale of 15,
840 trout flies this season.
'Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five et
sis is good.
1. On what island is the
city of Palermo?
2. Do Brussels sprouts grow
singly or in clumps on one
stem?
3. Canasta is a Spanish
dance with castanets; true or
false?
4. Complete this familiar
phrase with the name of an
animal: 'The eager ."
5. An object weighing 10
pounds wUl faU at a rate ten
times as great as an object
weighing one pound; true or
false?
6. Who was the first Chief
Justice of the United States?
7. In which city is the
Metropolitan Museum of Art?
8. If you wanted to use a
ketch, would you make salad
dressing, go sailing, or play
cricket with it?
9. How many men were on
a dead man's chest? ,
10. What was George Wash
ington's middle name?
Answers: 1. Sicily. 2. In
clumps on one stem. 3. False.
(Card - game) 4. Beaver. 5.
False. 6. John Jay. 7.. New
York City. 8. Go sailing. 9.
Fifteen. 10. He had none.
EX-COMPTROLLER DIES
Orange, N.J- (DPD - Frank J.
Murray, 75, former New Jer
sey state- - comptroller r -died
Saturday.
Government Aid At Its Best
Many boys and girls
to pay society for their crimes will go to jail
many more times. They will because they haven't
a chance to overcome their environments. They
can be punished and they can be preached to by
law enforcement officers
they still won't beat the
an environment that is
morality and the squalor of the tenements. For
them there is nobody who cares, nobody to love
them.
These are the children Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey is thinking of when
government establish a
Corps. And it is precisely
has these children m mind that the Youth Con
servation Corps faces opposition. Critics declare
it is not the federal government's responsibility
to rehabilitate juvenile
TO THIS we react violently. The Youth Con-
serration Corps fits exactly our concept of
government aid. This is the government doing
for citizens what they are unable to do for them
selves. This is government aid at its best.
We not only think it is something the fed
deral government should do. We are convinced
that it would be successful. We have only to look
at the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps,
born in depression days
men, to know that the Youth Conservation Corps
would save thousands of
as they, are trapped in
can t beat the rap.
'
WE HAVE talked with young men who came
, to the west from big cities of the east as
CCC enlistees. They have told us that had not
the CCC opportunity been riven them they al
most certainly would have been criminals. They
escaped from their environments and became
useful citizens.
The cost to the taxpayers? Measure the fi
nancial load placed upon
pursues a life of crime
1 -XT il ft
mm a loum c-onservauon oorps job mat win
make him a useful citizen.
It is understandable that Sen. Humphrey's
Youth Conservation Corps has so much support
in the Congress. It is difficult to understand why
the administration gives it no support. Pendle
ton East-Oregonian.
School Tether Silly
The Portland School
service for all the state in seeking a court test
of an attorney general's rising that school district
:unds cannot be spent on travel outside the state.
-It is difficult to believe that legislators ever
had the intent so to limit
school officials. For it is
deny school boards the
bers, administrators or
study and conference.
HE attorney general's opinion is advisory
only. But school boards over the state have
not been inclined to take
enrinsr it. members would become personally
liable. The logical step is
by the Portland district,
a court ruling on the law.
If the courts disagree
eral, the way will be clear for a resumption of
the practice of permitting travel that in the judg
ment of the school board is worth the cost to the
district. If the courts uphold the ruling, the Jaw
must be changed to rive school boards discretion
ary authority to spend
geographic limit. :
All Oregonians would be the losers if the
state's public schools should be forced, by a sense
of false economy, to shut off direct communica
tions with educators of other states and countries.
Portland Oregonian.
'Phone Soliciting
Being solicited by telephone may be quite
irksome to a householder, but the Council needs
to go slow in enacting
it.
The telephone is an important instrument in
business, and its use saves time both for the
solicitor and often for the one solicited. A whole
sale produce house may have a special shipment
of fruits or vegetables or a special price for an
offering. He can reach 50 or a hundred retailers
in less time than a salesman can go by car to
ten or a dozen. Parties are served at both ends of
the line. Newspaper ad solicitors may call to find
out if a prospective advertiser will have copy
that day, making contact in a way convenient for
both parties. Security salesmen use the phone to
acquaint their customers T7ith new offerings of
desirable bonds or stocks. And what about the
PTA committee soliciting food for a school sale?
Telephone solicitation can be abused; but
after all the party called has the privilege to say
No, and the indisputable right to hang up the
receiver. Writing an ordinance that will separate
the good sheep from the bad goats in telephone
solicitation will tax the ingenuity, of the city at
torney, that is .certain. Oregon Statesman,
Salem.
who have gone to jail
and social workers and
rap. They can't overcome
a mixture of poverty, im
he asks that the federal
Youth Conservation
because Sen. Humphrey
delinquents.
to create jobs for young
young men who so long
big city environments
society by a man who
against the cost of giving
1.1 t 1 J.1 L ill
Board will perform a
the movement of local
patently ridiculous to
A V
authority to send mem
teachers on missions 01
the risk that, by chal-
that to be undertaken
a friendly suit to obtain
with the attorney gen
funds on travel, without
an ordinance prohibiting
Dennis the Menace
J" I-II isu
YANM MX A COUPLE KOIW3
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
NIXON'S 'EXPOSURE
Washington Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon's cam
paign for next year's' Repub
lican nomina
tion has enter-
ea a new
phase of de
liberate risk
taxing, going
beyond the
mere search
for delegate
strength at
the GOP con
William S.
White
Nixon is a
vention,
curious mixture
as
a politician. Basically, he
is
a slide-rule man who de
pends not on hunches but on
the dull technology of the pro
fession. But he is also capable
of acting as an icy-handed
gambler once his slide -rule
methods have informed him
that the odds of a preferred
course are not impossibly
long..
Thus, he has now set out
upon a policy of sustained
"public exposure" of his per
sonality a term coined by
his associates. He is conscious
ly pushing his luck, as the un
doubted present front-runner,
in an attempt to sew up the
nomination long before the
convention meets.
TTIS aim is to destroy the
one thing he fears in the
developing challenge of Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York. This is the tag "Nixon
can't win."
In going out to meet this
danger more than halfway,
moreover, the Vice President
is coolly picking the areas
where he is assumed to be
least popular. His theory is
that if you are going to put
on a demonstration you might
as well make it a good one.
This was the real motive of
his recent trip to more-or-less
Democratic Texas. There, he
sought out not merely the Re
publican organization leaders
who are already safely "aU
the way for Dick." He also put
himself upon the most open
public view that could be ar
ranged in the time available
to him.
It has long been assumed
among politicians that while
President Eisenhower twice
broke heavily into the erst
while "solid South," Mr.
Nixon would have a hard
time repeating.
TVflR. Eisenhower was a spe
"l cial case. He was a fa
mous general. And Texas has
an old martial tradition which
likes rather than dislikes the
so-called "brass." Mr. Eisen
hower was born in Texas,
though the White House al
ill
Try and Stop Me
: By BENNETT CERF
FRANK BROOKHAUSER claims he has a neighbor in
Philadelphia named Hubert B. WOLFESCHLEGELSTE
INHAUSENBERGERDORFF. Mr. W. (heaven forbid that
we have to repeat in
full!) is, logically enough,
a typesetter, having real
ized, no doubt, that no
body else could ever get
his name into print cor
rectly. ...
"My wife needs help bad
ly," a visibly shaken hus
band told an analyst. "She's
forever working her head
off for the children: cook
ing their meals, making
their beds, buying them
toys, blowing up balloons
for them ..."
"W h a t' s wrong with
that?" interrupted the analyst. "Lots of women sacrifice them
selves for their children"
"You miss the point," the husband assured him. "We don't
have any children."
Marcel Pagnol, French playwright, refuses point Wank to go up
in a plane. "But the boat trip to America is so much slower,"
protests his producer. "Why do 3-ou prefer it?" "Because," an
swers Pagnol patiently, "I know how to swim."
1959, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. '
'FORE BREAKFAST?
S. WHITE
ways stresses his "boyhood
home" in good old Republican
Kansas. And Mr. Eisenhower
is certainly not the eager, all
out Republican partisan Mr.
Nixon makes no bones about
being.
To come out of the Texas
sortie at least relatively hap
py, as the Vice President did,
is reckoned in the Nixon
camp to have been a con
siderable victory for the new
technique of "public expo
sure." It now probably will be
tried again in Florida and, be
yond that, possibly in Tennes
see. What is happening is this:
Nixon no longer needs to
fend off Rockefeller as an out
right delegate-hunter so much
as he needs to take out in
surance against the chant
"Nixon can't win."
His notion is this: if he can
show that he is well received
in any state - including states
where nobody could claim he
had any initial advantage -it
cannot then be argued that
he carries apy built-in handi
cap as against the Democratic
opposition.
A GAIN, as in so many other
aspects of his campaign,
he is being remarkably fore
handed. He is avoiding, or at
tempting to avoid, one by one
the mistakes that cost the late
Senator Robert A. Taft the
nomination in 1952.
If one could reach into the
most private recess of the
Vice Presidential mind he
would find no real Nixon
hope of being able to carry a
state like Texas in 1960 un
less the Democrats should
nominate an extreme liberal.
But one would also find an
acute Nixon awareness that
any competitor looks much
better on a playing field not
obviously set up for him than
on one where he would be
favored to win anyhow.
(Copyright, 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Retreat of Guards
Draws Disapproval
London (DPD For pos-'
sibly the first time, a loud
Bronx cheer was flung
through the gates of Bucking
ham palace Sunday. It came
from the lips of three girls,
all apparently teen-agers and
obviously Americans, who
did not approve of the retreat
of the palace guards behind
the palace gates.
PICTURE COUNSEL DIES
Danbury, Conn. (DPD - Wil-
.
lard S. McKay, 64, former
vice president and general
counsel of Universal Pictures
Co., Inc., died Saturday.
w m
i -art
Foreign Notebook: Macmillan,
Communists, Purge,
Tto- PHTT. NFWSnM t w-s , i,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Inside Britain:
British Prime Minister Mac
millan, his cabinet reorgani
zation completed, now plans
to devote him
self primarily
to foreign af
fairs in com
ing months.
He has not
dropped h i s
idea of mak
ing summit
meet ings a
regular part
Of ; -world Hi.
plomacy-" a continuous chain
of summits," he once called
it. Meanwhile, what happens
fan ncvinm
Communications
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submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the cat.
Toastmistresses
To the Editor: The public
relations dinner of the Med
f o r d Toastmistress club
Wednesday, Oct. 14, proved a
success with almost as many
visitors as members present.
The Toastmistress club
which aims in rlevelrm srwial
poise as well as speaking and
leadership ability in women,
is txrnwinff. There are onlv
ten vacancies at the present
time for new members. When
the club has reached the maxi
mum allowable membership,
applicants will have to remain
on a waning list lor a vacancy
or lintill there are sufficient
members to form another
club. Prospective members
are evnected to attend at
least two meetings of the club
before their applications are
given consideration.
. Are there local women in
terested in this valuable train-
in tr who have not contacted
the club? If so, they should
call Mrs. Elmer Ness, SPnng
3-4308.
(Mrs.) Ellen A. Lynner
Medford
Dislikes Commercial
To the Editor: There is a
firm in Medford, one of a
chain of manv throughout the
country, that sponsors a radio
advertisement in wmcn a laoy
entering a parking lot is told
by the attendent to "put it
right over there." In doing
so, the lady subjects the at
tendant to a smoke cloud,
making it difficult for him to
breathe andor see. He asks
her, "Where did you go, la
dy?" to which she replies,
"I'm still here, I don't know
why my car smokes so much."
He says, "Maybe it's your
muffler," etc., etc.
I, for one, object to such
misleading advertisements.
I'm certain the firm which
sponsors the ad knows it is
misleading also, or that they
know very little about an in
ternal combustion engine.
Any person who knows any
thing about a gasoline engine
Knows mat tne mumer nas
no effect whatsoever on ex
haust smoke. If they wish to
advertise their mufflers they
should emphasize the noise
reducing factor.
I hereby call on the above
mentioned firm to cease and
desist from such misleading
advertising.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star rt.
Butte Falls, Ore.
Re Basic Rule
To the Editor: Your inter
esting editorial regarding the
Basic Rule and speed limits
was reprinted in the Rose
burg News-Review.
As you state, the Basic Rule
has been a good law. Under
its provisions many hundreds
of drivers have been arrested
and have paid fines for its
violation. Many cities now
have signs at their city limits
"Speed checked by Radar".
And many a driver has been
caught and paid his fine, even
though the radar provision
was attacked in court, (and
upheld as legal).
But no law is a good law
which breeds disrespect for
itself or other laws. When this
happens, it is time to repeal
the law or amend it. No law
is a good law which penalizes
one person, or one branch of
society but lets another go
scotfree.
When a driver flaunts any
FALSE TEETH
That Loosen
Need Not Embarrass
Many wearers of false teeth h&v
suffered real embarrassment because
their plate dropped, slipped or wob
bled at lust the wrong time. Do not
live In fear of this happening to you.
Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH, the
alkaline (non-acid) powder, on your
plates. Hold false teeth more firmly,
so they feel more comfortable. Does
not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den
ture breath) . Get FAS TEETH at any
bug counter.
no wto Britain's defeated La
bor Party remains a ques
tion. Reds on the March:
West Germany's outlawed
Communist Party is expected
to start a large-scale propa
ganda . drive for readmission
to the federal republic's list
of legal political parties. Wen
informed West German intel
ligence sources said the Com
munists decided on the drive
at this time because of the
world situation created by
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev's visit to the United
States. To be used in the
propaganda drive are pam
phlets smuggled over . the
border from East Germany
and the East German press
and radio. First move: A 50-
law, and then, by virtue of
his position in society gets off
on a technicality, it is time
for a change. Such a case is
that of State Senator Groen
ing, arrested for driving at
65 miles per hour in a 45 mile
zone. He found a judge who
was able to free him without
penalty on a point which
could just as well have freed
thousands of other Oregon
drivers who have paid their
fines.
Disrespect of law is bred
by just such cases. The next
step is contempt of law, which
can lead only to anarchy.
There fortunately, is a rem
edy. Either amend the basic
rule by plugging these tech
nical loopholes, or go to a flat
speed limit, and. enforce it.
Either way would be prefer
able to the present, and you
may be certain that most
violators from now hence
forth will try to avail them
selves of the technicality that
lets a state senator go free.
Glen Wellman,
Chairman
Roseburg Highway
Lifesavers
1086 N.E. Walnut st
Roseburg, Ore.
Commander Can't Visit
To the Editor: World War I
and n and Korean veterans
will find the following letter
informative and interesting.
It is from the National Head
quarters of the American Le
gion: "In the absence of National
Commander McKneally, I am
taking the liberty of reply
ing to your letter of October
12.
"If time would permit, I am
certain that Commander Mc
Kneally would be happy to
travel to Camp White during
his visit to Oregon this month.
However, he has a very heavy
schedule during his visit in
to give the .
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Hear your favorite hymns on KMED
every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by
"Tennessee Ernie" Ford.
Aswan
year-old man threw several
hundred leaflets demanding
readmission of the Communist
Party into a Bundestag,' West
German lower house of Par
liament, sitting. ,
Purge?
Reliable sources in Vienna.
a western listening post for
events inside the Soviet Un
ion and its satellites, expect
announcement of a purge in
the Moldabian Soviet Repub
lic. D. G. Ktatsh, second sec
retary of the Moldavian Com
munist Party, already has
come out with self-criticism
of mistakes committed in con
nection with ideological party
worK. An unknown number
of journalists and officials of
cultural institutes are said to
have been relieved from duty
.
West German-Egyptian deal:
west Germany f inallv is on
th verge of signing an agree
ment to nrovide tart of the
financing of Egypt's Aswan
uam project not alreadv cov
ered by Soviet aid. The deal
almost collapsed twice be
cause Bonn suspected the
Egyptians of wooing the Com
munist East Germans. But
now it looks as if the project
to tame the waters of the
Nile will be financed, at least
in part, by West Germany.
Alienation Suit
Filed in Court
Alvin R. Hedsres. Merlfnrri
chiropractor and naturopath,
has been named defendant in
a $50,000 suit for alienation
of affections filed by Grant
R. Day of Old Stage rd., Cen
tral Point.
The suit alleges that Hedges,
who operates the Hedges
Health institute at 339 South
Central ave., alienated the af
fections of Day's wife, Wal
lena E. Day, and that on Aug.
8 of this year Hedges "en
ticed" Day's wife from him
without his consent.
. Day and his wife were mar
ried Sept. 6, 1936, according
to tne complaint.
Day is asking $25,000 gen
eral damages and $25,000 pu
nitive damages. He is repre
sented by Robert Dickey, Med
ford lawyer,
Portland and could not pos
sibly get away long enough
to visit Southern Oregon."
Signed by E. A. Blackmore.
National Adjutant, American
Legion.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
Camp White, Ore.
Word of Thanks
To the Editor: A word of
thanks to I. A. Mirick and all
responsible for bringing those
gifted musicians of the U.S.
Marine Band to Medford.
Judging from the tremendous
ovation these versatile young
men received from a thrilled
audience, I'm sure many join
me in hoping they return.
Jean K. Edson (Mrs. J.A.)
108 Geneva st.
Medford I
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In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Up in Vancouver (B. C.)
yesterday, Dr. Norman Mac
Kenzie, president of the Uni
versity of British Columbia
warned that Canada is in
danger of "becoming a na
tion of hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the
United States."
In his annual address to
students, he said it is a mat
ter of vital and personal con
cern to every Canadian to
STOP a flow of Canadian
scholastic talent across "the
border - a flow that has been
increasing in momentum. The
way to stop the flow, he said,
is to find ways and means to
ensure that the best and'
ablest of young Canadians
find opportunities for them
selves in Canada.
He added:
"We rely to such an extent
on the United States and its
people for so many things
and in such a variety of
fields that there may be little
place for the able and bril
liant young Canadian, par
ticularly in the fields of sci
ence and technology, to find
uses for his talents in his own
country."
pARDON me, sir, but I'm
A afraid you are permitting
yourself to become the vic
tim of an inferiority com.
plex - and, if so, you are risk
ing the grave danger of
PASSING IT ON to the bril
liant young minds of your
country.
That would be catastrophic.
TAOWN here in what in
Canada is often spoken
of as "The States," one seems
to sense at times the faint be
ginnings of an opposite type
of inferiority complex. One
hears talk of EXHAUSTION
of our natural resources
coupled often with the en
vious crack that CANADA
HAS EVERYTHING; we've
lived ours up.
The implication is that the
FUTURE lies in Canada.
T ET me offer a word of ad-
"vice - to Canadians and
Americans alike:
Get rid of your inferiority
complexes.
Take off your dark glasses.
Quit worrying about the
future.
TTERE in the United States
and Canada - which are
lumped together under the
broad, general geographic
term of North America - we
have a fantastically IM
MENSE body of natural re
sources.
We have a way of life that
inspires men to DO THEIR
BEST - because IF they do
their best and IF they have
what it -takes they will be
REWARDED for what they
do.
We have plenty of bright
mands. When bright minds
are coupled with ample op
portunities, the possibilities
are LIMITLESS.
"Tho n:A DnVen Bucket"
was written by poet-publisher
Samuel Woodworth in 1817.
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