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Flight 'o Time
Medford -and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
md 50 years ago.
10 TEARS AGO
Not. 3. 1949 (Thursday)
Thre lookouts manned In
Rogue River National forest
due to dry weather.
New bridge across Rogue
river at Rogue River gets
. underway,
' 20 YEARS AGO
I Nov. 3. 1939 (Friday)
Boris Karloff, spooky man
; of films, visits Medford. -
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
; Smudge Pot' column: "Farm
'ers have started praying
', again for what the windshield
wipers wipe, if they work."
: 30 YEARS AGO
:- Nov. 3, 1929 (Sunday)
I Sheriff wages war on cattle
thieves who haul cows away
In trucks.
Five hundred people visit
Crater lake under ideal wea
ther conditions. 1
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 3, 1919 (Monday)
Eggs selling for 80 cents
per dozen here owing to a
shortage.
Milk survey of city planned
by city schools.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 3. 1909 (Wednesday)
Southern Pacific to build
$40,000 passenger depot at
Medford two blocks north of
Main st. with freight depot
two blocks soutn. "Kauway
rieht of wav to be adorned
with fountains and otherwise
beautified," officials report.
Parlfic and Eastern rail
road applies to city council
'for franchise to operate elec
tric road in Medford. Fare
would be 5c.
Vhaf's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven of eight is excellent; five or
six is good. .
1. Is an enlarged, inflamed
toe joint known as a corn,
callus, or bunion?
2. Manila Bay is in what
group of Asiatic islands?
3. Which is larger in area,
Greenland, or Australia?
4. Which U. S. President
proposed a 14 point program
for peace during World War
I?
5. Was it in 1836, 1846, or
1856, that the U. S. declared
war against Mexico?
6. Which Department of the
U. S. Government has most to
do with conservation of na
tural resources?
7. Are bats classified as
birds, mammals, or crusta
ceans?
8. Name the President of
the Steelworker's Union.
9. What body of water, con
necting Long Island Sound
and New York harbor, bears
the name "river," even though
it is not a river.
10. If you should buy ten
gallons of gasoline in Canada,
would you get more or less
than if you buy ten gallons
in U.S.?
Answers: 1. Bunion. 2.
Philippines.' 3. Australia. 4.
Woodrow Wilson. 5. 1846. 6.
Department of Interior. 7.
Mammals. 8. David J. McDon
ald. 9. The East River. 10.
More.
Shimoda. Japan (DPD A
sight-seeing bus fell 45 feet
after overshooting a, curve on
a mountain road Monday, kill
ing one passenger and injur
ing 43.
The TV Aura
With Charles Van Doren's soul-baring con
fession to the committee investigating TV quiz
phonies yesterday, it becomes evident that the
shows were ridden, through and through not
with crime, exactly but with equally debilitating
temptation and lack of integrity.
If any of the 'more noted quiz contestants
should have been "above suspicion," it was Van
Doren, with his scholar's background, his eminent
family name, and his clean-cut look of honesty.
That he, too, succumbed is sad.
W!
ELL, what does one say about the moral
turpitude involved
Does one cry out against the individuals who
let a smooth line and the prospect of a lot of
money turn them away from their integrity?
Does one assail the networks, the advertising
agencies, the sponsors, without whose connivance
such events hardly could have been carried out?
Does one deplore the great sums of money
which are available to throw around, and which
are so handy to sway people into the paths that
those in charge want them to go?
,
DERHAPS some of each of these is called for.
But the fact that there has been no great
public outcry over the "TV scandals," the fact
that Americans by and large have tended to
shrug their shoulders, indicates to us that 'some
thing; else is at fault something; that is both
broader and deeper than
bility of any of those immediately involved.
That is the nature of television itself, and the
way in which it has developed over the decade
or so that it has become an integral part of 9 out
of 10 Amercian households.
It seems to us that since television has delib
erately chosen to make of itself a world of make
believe, the American public doesn't find itself
too shocked to find that part of it actually WAS
make-believe, even when pretending not to be.
THERE are a few exceptions, of course some
, of the better news shows and documentaries,
the sports events, and so on.
But other than those, who can name a pro
gram which is not essentially make believe?
Some of the make-believe is, of course, of
high caliber. But is it make-believe none the less,
from the westerns the American version of the
fairy story to serious drama. .
The fantasy extends to the commercials, too.
When one hears that a certain stomach aid "takes
care of ALL the acid' one wonders what "takes
care of" means. And, if four out of five doctors
"recommend the ingredients in . . ", isn't it
possible that they recommend aspirin and bi
carbonate of soda? And isn't this a phoney? .
..
TTELEVISION, it seems to us, is caught in a
pattern- of its own making a pattern which
leads the average viewer automatically to dis
count' the believability.of anything seen on TV.
They go to it for entertainment. And if a
quiz show gives them entertainment, why should
they cry out against it's being "fixed" any more
than they cry out against other bits of fantasy?
That one program is labled "fiction," or
make-believe, tends to blur in the overall impact
of the medium, to the point where-it all drama,
soap opera, news program, documentary or quiz
show partakes of the aura of phoniness, and is
regarded accordingly. E.A.
And "The
Motion pictures, in . contrast to television,
have not suffered from a similar fate. For their
product, at least, is labled "fiction" to begin with,
and while they strive for verisimilitude, they
don't attempt to pretend to provide anything
more than entertainment, or, in some few cases,
a stimulus to the imagination and the mind.
The resurgence of the movies the last year or
two, may, as a matter of fact, be at least in part
the result of an unexpressed but increasing dis
content with television. ;
IXTE DROPPED in to see "Anatomy of a Mur-
der" here the other day, and found it to be
first class entertainment. Fiction, of course, but
fiction which is based on the facts of human na
ture, and .thereby, in a sense, "truer' than a
documentary could be.
It was a picture intended strictly for adults,
for it dealt with a subject, and used words, which
are not the usual screen fare, to say the least,
and which conscientious parents might not wish
their children of tender years to see and hear.
For an adult, however, who has a normal
vocabulary and a normal sense of perspective,
the picture was both good entertainment and a
sensitive probing of human nature. H
, ,
FN ROUTE home, the family secretary of
health, education and welfare commented
that she wouldn't mind the family teen agers
seeing the picture IF they were in the company
of their parents, but that she hardly could wish
them to see it on a date with a contemporary.
We agreed, and so apparently does the man
agement of the theaters here, who, for pictures
such as this, have abolished the "student admis
sion" rate, charging an adult price for all.
' It seems to work, too, for there were few if
any young people in the house the other evening,
except those attending with parents.
But, sadly, the movies cannot yet earn a
blanket commendation. Not when ."The Blob,"
"Buiy the Living," and "I Married a Monster
From Outer Space" are shown on a triple bill.
E.A.
in such unsavory events?
the individual responsi
Movies
Dennis the Menace
Hl.tWDJ THOUGHT tV WATCH
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is again
reports from Washington in his absence.)
CAMPAIGN QUIZ SHOWS
Washington-It seems to me
there are two more things
which need to be said about
the TV quiz show scandals
before Congress wraps up its
remarkably effective investi
gation and says to the net'
works: Glean house, or else!
One is commendation. The
other is a friendly warning to
the politicians.
Dr. Frank Stanton, presi
dent of CBS, deserves to be
commended for instantly
sensing that the rigged per
formances using deceit and
deception to invade our homes
- constituted a crises of public
confidence for the whole TV.
industry and for initiating be
ginning reforms.
Philip Cortney, chairman of
the International Chamber of
Commerce, deserves praise
for taking a lead in focusing
responsibility on business it
self as the intended benefici
ary of the quiz show racket
and for urging all business
men to join in a "Hands-Off-Entertainment
Code."
DR. STANTON and Mr.
Cortney know that the
tigged quiz shows have been
playing with fire which could
burn up their most precious
possession, public confidence.
The networks will have noth
ing to sell and business noth
ing to buy if they alienate the
audiences they most want to
win.
Mr. Cortney, as president
of Coty, Inc., is a businessman
concerned with public atti
tudes toward selling practices
and he makes this appeal:
"We propose that, business
men who utilize television for
their advertising adopt a
Hands - Off - Entertainment
Code. : Government interfer
ence in entertainment is not
the answer- Censorship Is not
the American way. Let the
businessmen be con c e r n e d
only with honestly selling
their products and services.
Let the networks and stations
be responsible for the enter
tainment and editorial con
tent." Surely this is a policy
which the networks would
welcome. It places responsi
bility for reform where it be
longs. Most people seem to feel
that the Congressional investi
gators have done a first-rate
job, breaking through the say
nothing admit - nothing ra
diation belt with which some
key witnesses surro u n d e d
themselves when appearing
before the New York grand
jury.
. .
BUT aren't the politicians -or
many of them being
just a little smug, even a little,
too light-hearted, in a prema
ture way, at alerting millions
of viewers to the fake spon
taneity of rigged quiz shows?
Isn't this going to alert mil
lions of voters to the faked
spontaneity of a lot of rigged
campaign quiz shows?
Having persuaded the net
works and the viewers
that the entertainment quiz
shows ought not to be sur
reptitiously rehearsed and the
questioners furnished ques
tions or answers or both in
advance, isn't it just one short
step away to persuading the
voters that campaign quiz
shows ought to give up enlist
ing tame supporters as their
questioners and abandon their
answer cards?
I AM NOT referring to
"Meet the Press," "Face the
Nation," "Youth Wants to
Know" and other such press
conferences which have al
ways been on the level. I am
not suggesting that there are
candidates for public office
who are able to handle close
questioning off-the-cuff. But
there has been fancily staged
A COIPLB WM
Reports
traveling abroad.
Roscoe Drumond
fakery in campaign quiz
shows just as in the entertain
ment quiz shows and the pur
pose has been the same to
sell a product, the candidate -by
making him appear bright
er, more knowledgeable, and
more alert than reality.
If the public is going to de
mand and get realism and
honesty in the entertainment
quiz performances, isn't the
public soon likely to demand
realism and honesty from the
campaign quiz performances?
And if the political public de
mands it hard enough, it will
have to be heeded. This means
that there will be some poli
ticians who will wish that the
quiz show scandal had never
been uncovered or that radio
and TV had never been in
vented, (c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
The department of agricul
ture says next year's wheat
crop may exceed this year's
1,117,000,000-bushel crop by
about eight per cent. The re
port is based on an intention-to-plant
survey of growers
that has just been completed.
It also forecasts a reduction
of about seven per cent in
wheat exports during the
1959-60 marketmg season. In
creased competition in Eu
rope, it says, may cut into
American sales to foreign
customers.
J?ROM Seattle:
A Pacific Northwest wheat
storage stood at 177,711,000
bushels on October 1-or 22
per cent LARGER than the
same date a year ago.
Combined farm and interior
elevator stocks in the North
west were up 15 per cent and
terminal elevator stocks were
up 43 per cent over a year
ago.
THAT is to say: ,
With the warehouses
bulging and export markets
shrinking, we go on subsidiz
ing overproduction of wheat.
Sounds foolish, doesn't it?
FROM Cricklade, England:
A ram named Roger saw
a hated rival yesterday and
charged at him with the speed
of an express train. There was
a thundering crash and the
rival - Roger's reflection in
the mirror-like hubcap of a
new automobile-disappeared.
Roger was knocked out by
the impact of the collision.
FOOLISH Roger! -stm-
Do you reckon he was any
more foolish than powerful
nations that regard all other
powerful nations as enemies
and shed their blood and their
substance fighting them? That
has been going on as long as
there have been historians to
record the story.
Foolishness isn't confined to
the animals.
FROM Ancona, Italy:
Warden Eugenio Taddei
confided to reporters today
that he had just received a re
quest from a former inmate,
Francesco Tocca,n to be al
lowed to come back to the
jail. Tocca, after finishing a
14-year sentence, wanted to
return because he found life
on the outside "too difficult
and too risky."
That is to say, he discovered
that ONLY IN JAIL could he
find SECURITY.
IN conclusion
Wouldn't this be a won
derful world if we could only
get rid of all the foolishness?
Bonn, Germany -(DPD- West
Germany's first new subma
rine 'since the war will be
launched next month at the
government - owned Howaldt
shipyards in Hamburg.
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Miracles of Mercy
To the Editor: I have wit
nessed at close hand a mir
acle in modern medical prac
tice I would like to bring to
public attention. While to me
it is a miracle, and I shall al
ways consider it as such, it
was conducted as an efficient
routine job of life-saving at
the Rogue Valley Hospital,
another episode in its daily
drama of mercy.
The life of my wife was
saved by a combination of fac
tors the skill of a local sur
geon, the modern facilities
and efficient staff of the
Rogue Valley hospital, (the
blood donated by local peo
ple and the Mercy Flights air
ambulance service.
I : want - to . make three
points:
1. Commend the people of
the Medford area for estab
lishing a modern medical cen
ter, staffed with expert nurses
and technicians, and used by
skilled physicians and sur
geons. .
2. Thank the donors of
blood who were called to the
hospital at their , inconveni
ence. TO me the - giving of
blood to aid a suffering fellow
man is a true, tangible expres
sion of Christian humanity. I
urge everyone in the commu
nity to register and be typed
as members of the walking
blood bank which is used in
emergencies, and also to do
nate regularly to the Red
Cross bank which is the nor
mal source of blood used at
the hospital.
3. Emphasize the fact that
Mercy Flights is a service of
which the community should
be extremely proud. The men
who fly these missions make
many routine flights in fair
weather from good airfields.
They also - frequently risk
their lives for the sake of oth
ers by flying from dangerous
mountain airstrips and in tur
bulent stormy weather. The
service is supported by sub
scription. Address Mercy
Flights, Inc., P. O. Box 522,
Medford.
Dan B Abraham,
Gold Beach, Ore.
(Written from Rogue Valley
Memorial Hospital.)
UNICEF Workers
To the Editor: It takes a
great deal of cooperation to
successfully run a project. Co
operation is what UNICEF
has received in our Rogue
River valley.
UNICEF wishes to thank
Jorgensen's Dairy for the
hundreds of cartons donated
in which to collect the coins
for the purchase tof medicine
and food for the children's
fund. UNICEF also thanks
the service clubs of Medford.
Also appreciated are the
donations and help' given by
grocery companies ' and donut
shops.
The school children, who
go on Halloween each year to
collect coins for children who
need help more than they do,
enjoy the treats.
UNICEF and many parents
hope our growing young citi
zens will learn through this
project that it is better to give
than to receive.
The time and work donated
by the parents and teachers
who staff, the schools on Hal
loween night is also appre
ciated. UNICEF too, wishes
to thank Mrs. Laurence Clark
for the work she did on the
several thousand flyers taken
home by each school child,
and of course the Medford
Mail Tribune, and other workers.-
Mrs. John B. Lynth, for
Mrs. Morris Gibbons, Chmn.
Forever Acklin
To the Editor: After I trad
ed my 1910, wheelbarrow for
a 1903 Brush car, I started
cranking my way through
high school.. I now had a
souped-up wheelbarrow with
five horses for rny milk, pa
per, cider and raspberry
route. On week ends I could
pick up a few taxi fares from
people who didn't care if they
caught the train or not. On
my route, the milk was sour,
the. news was old, the apple
cider was vinegar and the
raspberries were over-ripe by
the time I got them delivered,
but people understood.
This Brush car was very
famous, on two occasions it
had been half way to the top
of Pike's Peak. The owner
couldtn't put it on summit,
so he shipped it to Oregon.
I made several attempts to
put it on the summit of Buck
shot Hill in Medford, but
failed in alL
On one of my successful
trips to Medford, I accidentally-got
into a football game
with this car. We came roar
ing onto the field one minute
before the game ended. Some
one tossed the ball into the
car and we took off down
center field for 90 yards, then
someone yelled, "You're go
ing the wrong direction," so I
made a U turn and started
back. I believe I am the only
person to make 210 yards in
one play and not make a
touchdown. That old Brush
ran out ot gas oil the 10 yard
line. The team threw me off
the field and some teenagers
pushed me to the old livery
stable on South Riverside.
This guy sells hay, oats and
gasoline. I used to buy oats
and hay, now, I'm buying
gasoline. Later, this guy opens
a garage. He gets rich and I
get poor, buying gas and parts
for" Brushes, Chalmers, Col
umbias, Schachts, Pullmans
and many others.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Conservative View
To the Editor: As valuable
as your time may be, your po
sition (Mail Tribune, Nov. 1,
1959, "Marching Firmly Back
Ward"), makes it imperative
you take time to investigate
the present movement for a
new maj or party in the United
States. This movement is
greatly supported by the Con
servatives in the country;
surely it must whet your curi
osity, and your awareness of
your- surroundings, to know
what could make it necessary
for a conservative group to
endorse . such an obviously
radical platform?
Not enough can be said
about a united nations organ
ization formed in good faith.
The present organization
lacks this vital good faith; its
charter was drawn up by a
convicted communist,-and the
United Nations in this coun
try is saturated, indeed, super
saturated with Red agents and
not always ignorant sympa
thizers. The downfall of virtually
all powerful nations is inti
mately linked with a pro
gressive income tax.. Our
present tax is nearing 25 per
cent of our total income. This
exceeds some countries . and
almost parallels others, and
all these nations have either
disappeared, or are working
their way back from total de
feat suffered at the hands of
their enemies.
Foreign aid to build fabu
lous hotels in otherwise very
poor countries, and filling the
private coffers of communist
countries, might easily be cut
back in light of our bulging
grain and corn elevators, as
opposed to the bitter dark
ness of still starving, suffer
ing, millions of souls.
Remove the expensive vel
vet and satin exteriors of
schools and replace them with
solid education, and there
will be no need for Federal
aid to education.
There has been a change in
our land;- our heads have
turned and we, in our post
preternatural perversity,
abandoned spiritual values,
and have taken on a smother
ing intellectual obesity. We
stuffed our jowls with the
concentrated fats of material
ism, and accepted the fallacies
of Liberalism that necessarily
perverts our freedoms. Many
of our present governmental
processes are an abuse of our
constitution. The movement
for a new major party seeks
to correct these abuses. The
conservatives seek to revital
ize this nation by injecting an
atmosphere of work, both
mental and physical effort.
They want people to practice
a little self-reliance, some
virtue, and a whole lot of 1
Christian charity. The powers
of the Kremlin will always re
main helpless in the -face of
these.
Robert J. Howard,
828B West 14th St.
Medford. ' -
Freighter Inspected
For Bottom Damage
Portland-dTD-The freighter
Lipari, which was aground for
eight days near Grayland,
Wash., was in drydock here
today for inspection of bottom
damage.
A check of the vessel show
ed a distinct Upward depres
sion centered about am idship.
Local shipping people said
repairs to Liberty ships are
expensive and that owners
might decide to replace the
Lipari with another vessel.
The Lipari was built in
1942 at Los Angeles and orig
inally was named Abraham
Clark. The ship is operated
by T. J. Stevenson & Co.,
New York.
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Matter of Fact
WHY HONG KONG?
Hong Kong - The Commu
nist attempt to remold China
is certainly the vastest, most
terrible, and most historically
r iw decisive pro-
v cess of tl
' modern world.
Compared to
ml this, our own
news of , the
President's
J ever hopeful
; , . ' purposes is a
fl SklXl chronicle of
a Joseph Aisop This is the
first of a series of reports at
tempting to describe the gi
gantic process that is going on
in' China. Yet the series re
quires a kind of preface, in
the form of an answer to the
obvious question: "How do
you dare to write about China
from Hong Kong?"
The answer lies, oddly
enough, in the story of the
greatest and most successful
crime in human history. The
story began just 30 years ago,
when Joseph Stalin surveyed
the state of the Soviet Union
with acute dissatisfaction. A
normal ruler might well have
been pleased by what Stalin
saw. By 1929, Russia had re
covered from the ravages of
war and revolution, and the
Russian people were really
beginning to live rather well.
But Stalin was not satisfied
because the Soviet Union was
not being transformed into a
military - industrial great
power fast enough to assuage
his power hunger.
STALIN therefore made as
brilliant and evil a decision
as any ruler ever made. He
would drive down the living
standard of the Russian mass
es. Thus he would save for the
state a much larger share of
the national income. And he
would invest these cruel sav
ings in a great program of
forced industrialization - the
five year plans,
i One wonders whether the
iron genius foreknew the con
sequences of his iron decision.
Certainly Stalin saw that his
first step was to collectivize
Russian agriculture. If he did
not get the peasants firmly in
his grip, he could not seize as
much as he desired of the
hard-won output of the peas
ant's fields.
But did he truly plan to
drive down the standard of
life by a ruthless 50 per cent?
Was he ready at theoutset to
massacre over 5,000,000 peas
ants, and then to go on with
the killing until the total of
the dead reached 15,000,000?
Was he in short prepared from
the beginning to ornament the
whole landscape with corpses,
as a huge human sacrifice to
the grandiose Moloch of in
dustrialization? . .
NO historian has been able
to say whether Stalin
took his new road with full
foreknowledge, or merely
followed the road grimly,
wherever it led. At any rate,
it led where Stalin wanted it
to lead. The result is the So
viet Union today - a military
industrial giant power built
on Stalin's crime.
It is apparent that some
thing of the same sort is go
ing on in China. It is even
rather Clear that this some
thing that is going on in
China has lately become much
more terrible and Stalin
influenced, though there have
been no major massacres, at
least of late.
But Stalin's crime is worth
recalling, too, because it went
almost unnoticed for such a
long period. There were a few
witnesses, to be sure, who saw
and reported what , was being
done in Russia. The great re
porter, the late H. R. Knick
erbocker, wrote rather accu
rately about the peasant mas
sacres, for instance. He was
merely derided for his pains.
Again, certain acute and
expert diplomats, like Charles
E. Bohlen and George F. Ken
nan, saw what was going on1
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clearly enough. But as late as
the war period, "Time" maga
zine haughtily rebuked Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull
for taking Bohlen along on
his negotiating trip to Mos
cow. "Time" suggested that
Bohlen's suspicious, striped
pants view of the Soviet Un
ion would impair the happy
atmosphere of the Moscow
meeting.
-
rriHE rebuke, in turn, was
--not a symptom of what
"Time" later christened "soft
ness" towards Communism.
It simply recorded the impres
sion left on most informed
people by the unending
streams of misleading twad
dle that alleged eye witnesses
had poured out of Moscow.
By any standard, the Rus
sian : scene was . infinitely
more comprehensible by a
Western eye than the present
Chinese scene. Many Western
eyes inspected the Russian
scene when Stalin's great
crime was in process. Yet
most were deceived or lied,
and the nature and dimensions
of the crime were only detect
ed by the Western world as a
whole at a moment long af ter
the second World War.
Despite these highly in
structive facts, this reporter
would of course go to Peking
and write as an eyewitness if
he were permitted to do so.
But one -must also note that
in the years of Stalin's crime,
rather more of the true facts
seem to have been available
in the city that all right think
ing liberal persons used to
call the' "Riga rumor factory."
The refugees in Riga were
not believed but they gener
ally told the truth.
By the same token, the wis
est observers with Peking ex
perience themselves say that
you cannot get the atmosphere
of China here in Hong Kong,
but you can get more Of the
true facts, from the teeming
refugees and from many other
sources, some of them highly
scientific. And that is the too
long answer to the question,
"Why Hong Kong?"
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