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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Thi
rAail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 1949 (Saturday)
Medford opens basketball
season with a 31 to 25 win
Snrinefield hish.
The nation's best blood
lines in hereford cattle will
be here next week' at the Cal
Oregon Hereford association
show and sale.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 1939 (Sunday)
County pays $245 in No
vember for bounty on coyotes
and bobcats.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
new post office is coming
along fine, though it doesn't
look like it. Neither did the
courthouse, built by the same
contractor, until he got
through."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 1929 (Tuesday)
City dog pond ordered to
move outside city limits.
Income tax reduction vot
ed by Congress on recom
mendation of President Hoov
er. 40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 1919 (Wednesday)
Jackson count to. get $180,
000 for roads next year.
-Valley hit by cold wave
with no relief in sight.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3. 1909 (Friday)
John D. Rockefeller gives
$1 million to stamp out hook
worm. If weather holds paving on
West Main st. will be com
pleted in two weeks.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior:
seven or eight is excellent; five ef
six is good.
1. What heavyweight box
er' won the world's champion
ship in Sydney, Australia, and
lost it later in Havana, Cuba?
2. Is a condiment a kind of
w'agon, seasoning, or a kind
of paint coloring?
3. "Constitution State" is
the nickname of which New
England State?
4. What Strait, named for
a famous navigator, is at the
southern t'.p of South Amer
ica? ." "
5. Wha. did the initials
W.P-A. stand for?
6. Is the Isle of Wight off
the north, or south, coast of
England?
7. Who is called "The Lib
erator" in South America?
8. In what part of the world
is the Yangtze river?
9 Do men and women have
the same number of ribs?
10. What group of islands
has been called "the cross
roads of the Pacific"?
Answers: 1. Jack Johnson.
2. Seasoning. 3. Connecticut.
4. Strait of Magellan. 5. Works
Progress Administration. 6.
South. 7. Simon Bolivar. 8.
China. 9. Yes. 10. Hawaiian
Islands.
More injuries are suffered
by Americans 15 through 24
years old than any other age
group. For every 100 per
sons in that bracket, there
were 33 injuries during a re
cent" year, according to the
Health Insurance Institute.
NATIONAL E0ITORIAI
"Time 9 and the Congressman
' We have long wished that Time magazine
would stop calling itself a "news" magazine. It
would be a lot more honest if it admitted it is a
journal of news A"ND opinion.
We read it; have for years. It is probably the
most expertly-written, slickest and most enter
taining of the weekly publications purporting to
bring the news.
But each time we pick it up we fall auto
matically into a defensive frame of mind, attemp
ting to equip ourself to sort fact from fiction,
news from necromancy, and information from
self-elected ominpotence.
..
"NE story in the Nov. 30 issue starts-out this
way: ;
"There will always be a whooping crane, Deo
volente. And there will probably always be a whoop
ing Congressman. This migratory species is recognized
by its raucus cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumb
ling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays
eggs of oddest shapes. A splendid example of this
rara avis is Charles Orlando Porter, 40, Democratic
Congressman from Oregon's Fourth District, who re
turned last week from a fact-finding flight through
the islands along the Asian littoral, a flight that cre
ated more embarrassement and consternation than a
plague of gooney birds."
Does it read well? It does. Is it amusing? It
is. Is it slick and expert? It is.
' Is it an impartial and factually-accurate news
story? It is not.
TIME makes no bones about larding its editor's
opinions into stories all the way through the
magazine.
This is both necessary and proper in those
sections which deal, for instance, with book and
motion picture reviews (although most other
publications, with a higher sense of moral obli
gation, will plainly indicate these constitute
opinion, and usally will tell whose opinion).
Also, there is much to be said for background
ing news of the day, for putting it in context, for
explaining its significance, and for giving, as
sociated information which makes the news more
meaningful.
THIS is known as interpretive reporting and
it is a valuable, though sometimes difficult,
practice in news presentation.
In doing this, it is often necessaiy to inject
the opinion or belief of the writer. This is per
missible, too when the writer is clearly identi
fied, and when his bona fides are known.
This Time does not do.
Rather, its stories are written anonymously
by a .staff of editors in the Time-Life Building in
Rockefeller Center in New York, and they read
as though they came straight from the typewriter
of an All Knowing, All Seeing, All Wise' Provi
dence, who writes The Word and expects the
hoi polloi to accept it as infallible Holy Writ.
THIS is irritating enough, to a fairly know
Irt rl inro o Vila riiQflor
But when this Holy Writ is a compound of
facts, fancy and prejudice; when loaded words
take the place of straightforward nouns and
verbs; when sarcasm and ridicule are regularly
employed ;, when pertinent facts are purposely
and deliberately omitted; when quotations are
given -out of context; when events are distorted
then it becomes insufferable.
Of all these shoddy practices Time magazine
is guilty.
And, when it attempts to masquerade as a
news magazine, it degrades a good word and
prostitutes a high calling.
DUT back to Charlie Porter.
Even his enemies will admit he has a certain"
brilliance and quick intelligence, and untiring
energy.
Even his friends will admit he sometimes
speaks too quickly, winding up, with foot in
mouth; sometimes makes snap decisions which
are not based entirely on all the facts available;
sometimes alienates people by his trenchant wit'
and forthright approach.
A balanced and impartial opinion might rate
him as aiming high and in good faith, and not
infrequently falling flat on his face through lack
of self-discipline, and a willingness to turn aside
serious matters with a wisecrack. And he some
times lets a congressman's natural desire for pub
licity warp his judgment.
BUT these assessments
of his doings?
Not in our old-fashioned book, they don t.
And in thus writiner a slanted, biased, mis
leading account of Porter's trip to the Orient
(however amusing it may be to his political de
tractors), Time has once again shown itself to be
i ai a r 1: it a
a scao on me nose ui American journalism. ej.a..
No fcis s es
Little noticed in the furore over contaminated
cranberries was the intelligence that some brands
of lipstick contain ingredients which, over a
period of years, could lead to cancer. . .
If this alarms women, we have no particular
complaint. But if it were
sad state romance would
e
Bert Kissinger says the weather the first three
days of December may forecast the weather for
December, January and February. Gosh, we hope
not! E.A.
are opinion.
to alarm men what a
be in. E. A.
Dennis the Menace .
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Children Cried
To the Editor: Many of the
children returning from the
much-anticipated visit with
jolly old Santa were crying.
Next- year could we have a
Santa who could spare a "Ho,
Ho, Ho" for the kids?
Our son was not disappoint
ed. He was delighted to have
dust and leaves blown all over
him.
Mothers and dads took time
to get the children down
there. Could Santa spare a
little more time next year?
(Mrs.) Doris Wood,
517 J St.,
Medford.
Tumbleweed Christmas
To the Editor: Everett Ack
lin, yours in Monday's Trib
une hit me right in memory's
garden.
:You don't know tumble
weeds as our little family did
about 50 years ago. We were
snowbound in the middle of a
section near Campbell, S. D.,
and Christmas was only 10
days away. The twins were
six and Opal 11 months
younger. Their father, still
weak from influenza, and I
had just shot oiir best horse
because he got his leg broken.
Something had to be done.
I nearly cracked my face just
trying to look happy.
I placed a tub in the corner
and we began "stacking" a
tumbleweed Christmas tree
wide at the bottom and taper
ing to a slender tip, graced by
a gold star made from tobacco
foil. A flock of birds made by
me (brown paper) cut out and
colored blue by the young
sters, perched among the
branches. We strung pop corn,
and fashioned flowers from
some old red crepe paper,
and draped 'among the
branches - well, you'd be sur
prised! I sprinkled the tree with
melted snow-water, then
tossed some flour on it.
Money was scarce, but I
made mittens for each (from
an old red sweater), bonnets,
caps, doll's clothing with but
tons, and a box of colored
cards and magazine pictures,
flour paste and books made of
squares of starched sheeting
were lovely gifts. All three
learned to read from those
cloth books. Their father and
the girl who - cut and pasted
the pictures, passed away long
ago; the others are scattered,
and I am happy again with
my Medford friends. ,
But I'll never forget our
evening prayer beside that
tumbleweed tree.
Friday noon is potluck
lunch time at the Fifty Plus
club, Fifth and Oakdale. If I
don't bring a dish, I'll have to
pay 50 cents. So will you.
Alexander's Hawaiian band
will be there, too.
Pearl Spackman,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Labor Dilemma
To the Editor: Through the
M.T. and other publications I
have followed with great in
terest thoughts, theories and
recommendations regard
ing the steel industry dispute
and the effect of such dead
locks on the future.
Over 50 years with and in
organized labor has taught
that the greatest threat and
obstacle to successful and
compatible relations between
labor management, as in
other human relations, are
those elements in human na
ture which outweigh all' sense
of justice, namely, avarice
asd self-aggrandizment.
By their very existence in
the human make up, they
render the establishment of
a labor court, or other simi
lar body to regulate labor
management relations, only a
I . n-5
partial answer, if any, to the
problem of economics.
I deplore the thought of
such a body, or of such pow-
ers being delegated to any
small group, without having
the same powers over other
equally important branches of
our economic structure.
If for no other reason it
would fail if not given com
plete power over the related
segments, and if endowed
with such powers it would,
by its being, abolish several
tenets of our freedom and un
dermine the American way of
life as we know it now, and if
it succeeds it would create a
system of regimentation
wherein wages, profits and
purchase prices would be set
up for all to comply with.
This would be forcing upon
the American people the very
thingwe are taught Commu
nism is forcing upon its sub
jects, and thereby render the
term Americanism meaning
less.
Laws, rules or regulations
to set the conduct of a' court
to . adjudge the relations be
tween management and labor
would be more difficult to
formulate and enforce than
the code governing a criminal
court for the reason that most
people are not criminally in
clined, whereas the thoughts
on management-labor rela
tions are more equally divid
ed, and most people stand to
gain in some manner. In
short, the trend so prevalent
in America, for each to
further his desires and ambi
tions, is the prime factor
which has given rise to the
present impasse and renders
unlikely a cure for the ills we
are considering.
. We have come to the time
when labor, production,
transportation and merchan
dizing can no longer be con
sidered sparatel'y, but must
be recognized as co-related
segments of our economic
system. If justice is to be
achieved and all branches of
society are to be served, each
component must fullfill its
individual obligations, re
ceive its just rewards.
Until this is recognized,
respected and protected,
strife, disruption and chaos
will exist or be pending.
Where do we go from here?
C. R. Burfill
122 Vilas rd. W.
Central Point, Ore.
Lights and Safety
To the Editor: I wal much
interested in the recent arti
cle in your paper about Chief
Champlin's reference to auto
mobile headlights.
The great majority of mo
torists, is very careful and
courteous in tilting their
lights when passing another
car. However I think that
the trouble with both the four
and two headlight cars is
that the motorist doesn't real
ize that, with an unloaded
car, the lights may be set
level, yet when the rear is
loaded or there are passen
gers in the rear seat, the lights
will be quite a way above
the level called for by law.
On the two headlight cars,
when the lights are tilted,
there is no doubt that they
are down and they do not
glare unless out of adjust
ment as mentioned above.
: The four headlight cars do
not have the amount of down
ward tilt that the two light
cars have. When I tilt my
lights (Westinghouse) they
not only swing way down but
very sharply to the right.
When I pass a car the prin
cipal thing I am interested in
is the right side of the road,
yet I still have a clear view
of the center line.
I expect I have been driv
ing with illegal lights for the
Khrushchev's Cynical Speech
Reminder
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
"We have been inexpres
sibly shocked ... I urge in
the name of humanity and in
the cause of
peace that the
Soviet Union
take sction to
withdraw So
viet forces
from Hungary
i m m ediately
. . . " Presi
dent Eisen
hower in a
Phil Newsom letter to ' so
viet Premier Nikolai Bulgan
in, Nov. 4, 1956.
"We shall never forego our
ideological principles. We are
waging and shall wage an
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is again
reports from Washington in his absence.)
CATHOLICS AND
THE PRESIDENCY
Washington - So far the dis
cussion of whether an Ameri
can President or other elected
official who is a Roman Cath
olic would have the moral
right or the inclination to go
against the dictates of his
church on public policy is be
ing conducted responsibly and
fair-mindedly.
past nearly 40 years for this
reason: I am interested in
safety! Here is how I have
my lights adjusted. I cover
up my right hand light and
set the left hand light to
shine on the road edge (high
beam) about 400 feet down
the road, or as far as I can be
sure of the center of the
beam. Next I cover the left
hand light and repeat the per
formance focusing the beam
about 200 feet down on the
side of the. road. NOW, when
I put the tilt beam on, both
light up tfye side of the road
very clearly. I cannot remem
ber having another car flash
its bright lights at me when
I have had ' my lights tilted
down. Of course I forget to
put them down once in a
while as everyone does.
When the lights are ad
justed as 1 above you have
wonderful . visibility- on the
side of the road on foggy
nights or in a snow storm.
Now I see some cars are
coming out with lights that
dim for passing. This is what
we had back in the early
days. Must we progress back
ward just to sell the gullible
public something different?
Why not put six lights on
cars? They would sure sell!
Safety first.
(Name on file)
Rogue River, Ore.
Music
To the Editor: We do not
wish to enter into any radio
program controversy, involv
ing the kind of music heard
over the local ' stations. But
like the old adage says, vari
ety is the spice of life. Even
a philosopher admits a
change is good, even from a
phonograph record.
One time in "the old days"
we heard a philosopher say,
"poor people had poor ways."
Of course he made the re
mark without malice toward
anyone. At that particular
time and date it fit the occa
sion, when music was made
on cornstock and cigar box
fiddles by the younger set
having a yearning for music.
Getting back to the subject
of modern music, I think ev
eryone has his special talents
regarding his taste for all
forms of music, be it one vari
ety or the entire gamut. For
one, I would vote for a
change, even though music by
any other name may sound
just as superb.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman st.
Medford, Ore.
Visit the Schools
To the Editor: The "turn
about" visit of Medford busi
nessmen to our schools re
cently, as the second phase of
Business-Education day, found
a regrettably small number of
business men able to make the
date. I say "regretably" as my
own opinion, because my trip
to the Griffin Creek school re
stored my faith in our educa
tional system in the grades.
I feel, perhaps, that I was
especially privileged to be as
signed such a "model" school
as Griffin Creek, where the
brilliance and remarkable
nersonalitv of Principal Myr-
na Frink has been an influ
ence over the years.
I was so impressed by the
experience of visiting the
classes and eating in the lunch
room with both teachers and
pupils, that I urge every busi
nessman to start clearing his
calendar right how for next
vpars' onnortiinitv tn examine
at first hand our education
system in Medford.
Thank vou. Mrs. Frink. and
the wonderful teachers at
Griffin Creek school, for a
memorable day.
Win Marks,
Radio Station KBOY ...
Medford.
of Communist Aims
implaccable struggle for the
Marxist-Leninist ideology, for
the triumph of the ideals of
Communism." S o v i e t Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev be
fore the Communist Party
Congress in Budapest, Dec. 1,
1959.
When Eisenhower wrote his
letter to Bulganin, up to 200.
000 Soviet troops with 1,600
to 4,000 tanks were laying
waste to Budapest and resist
ance centers throughout Hun
gary where a desperate peo
ple cut off from all outside aid
were fighting a losing battle
for freedom.
Makes Cynical Statement
Three years later in the
city where the bloodletting by
Soviet troops left more than
Reports
traveling abroad.'
Roseoe Drumond
This is, a notable improve
ment over the kind of public
debate and innuendo which
marked the Al Smith cam
paign for the Presidency in
1928.
Then, instead of honest and
thoughtful discussion, there
was a spate of emotional hos
tility to the Democratic nom
inee, who, like Sen. John F.
Kennedy, was a Roman Cath
olic, and there were also
charges that any raising of
the position of the Catholic
church on aspects of public
affairs was, per se, proof of
bigotry against the Catholic
religion. -
Many of us will recall the
whispering campaign which
suggested that the very elec
tion of Al Smith would mean
that the Pope could shortly
be expected to move his head
quarters to the United States.
That was poppycock for one
reason ampng many, since the
Pope is both the spiritual
head of the church and tem
poral head of Vatican City.
His Holiness would hardly
abandon the headquarters
where the church and state
are one, as in Vatican City,
and move it to a nation whose
constitution requires separa
tion of church and state.
On the other hand it was
never fair to raise the cry of
bigotry against those who
honestly questioned how
strongly an American Catholic
official would consider him
self bound by the authorita
tive stand of his church on
public policy.
fTiHE climate of public debate
in this area has obviously
improved greatly since the un
fairness and irrelevancies of
the Al Smith campaign. The
evidence of this improved cli
mate, which should be wel
comed, is the calm and ger
mane discussion which has
followed the recent statement
by the governing hierarchy
of the Catholic church in the
United States opposing the
use of U. S. public funds to
promote artificial birth con
trol anywhere in the world.
This statement conforms to
the church's conviction that
any use of artificial birth pre
vention is a sin against di
vine law.
While it is true that no
U. S. funds are now being
used for this purpose, the
subject has been considered,
particularly with reference to
countries whose explosive
birth rates are outrunning
anything which they or we
are trying to do to improve
their economic plight.
Following this statement by
the Catholic bishops, the
Right Rev. James A. Pike,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop
of San Francisco, replied that
Catholic policy would "con
demn rapidly. increasing mil
lions of people in less fortun
ate parts of the world to star
vation, bondage, misery, and
despair," and then raised the
question whether the Catholic
church statement was "bind
ing on Roman Catholic candi
dates for public office."
For the answer reporters
naturally went to Senator
Kennedy first. The Senator's
answer was:
That as a Catholic he is
personally opposed to arti
ficial birth control.
That "it would be a mis
take for the United States to
attempt to advocate the limi
tation of the population of
under-developed countries."
That, if he were President
and an agency of the Execu
tive branch advocated or Con
gress passed a law recom
mending that foreign aid be
related to the willingness of
a country to keep its popula
tion within the range of its
resources, he would base his
decision on what he deemed
to be the interests of the Unit
ed States. -
GOV. EDMUND P. BROWN
of California, running as
a "favorite son" candidate for
the Democratic nomintion,
was less responsive. He de
clined to go beyond the view
that the U. S. ought not to try
20,000 Hungarians dead,
Khrushchev announces .that
the Communist Party is "now
successfully accomplishing
the tasks of socialist recon
struction." A more cynical statement
scarcely can be imagined,
especially as it must fall on
the ears of families of the vic
tims and of Hungarians sunk
in apathy after failure of
their convulsive and courage
ous grasp at freedom.
For in Hungary today
there can be no love of the So
viet Union, nor for the Com
munist minority which rules
only with the aid of 60,000 to
80,000 Soviet troops who still
remain.
Khrushchev's speech to
Hungarians could only mean
that for them there could be
no hope.
For the world leaders who
now are expected to meet
with Khrushchev at the sum
mit next spring, it was notice
served once again that even
a comprise will have a Com
munist price tag and that
Communist aims remain as
they have been domination
not only of Hungary but of
the world as well.
History's Course Unchanged
World shock at Soviet bru
tality, as expressed by Eisen
hower's letter to Bulganin,
had its echo in the United
Nations.
A United Nations investi
gating team indicted Russia in
the most biting and bitter re
port ever made against a U.N.
member.
But it failed to change the
course of history and reports
reaching both London and
Washington continue to tell
of Communist execution of
freedom fighters. . k
Under ,-sponsorship of the
United States, the U.N. is
scheduled again to discuss
Hungary's plight, over objec
tions of the Communist bloc,
This discussion, too, is un
likely to change materially
the course of history. But at
least it can spotlight for the
Communist' leadership the
fact that the cold war thaw
and the "Camp David Spirit"
have not blinded the free
world to the crimes of "social
ist reconstruction."
Kansan Buries Roses
With Other Flowers
Howard, Kan-Edward East
wood dislikes roses, and the
sight of them rambling near
the town railroad station an
noyed him.
.So, on his way back to work
each day, Eastwood would
sprinkle a packet of seeds
among the roses.
Last summer, townspeople
couldn't see the roses for
dahlias, petunias, snapdrag
ons, poppies and a variety of
other flowers.
to impose birth control on
other nations, which is not the
point at issue.
Undoubtedly this subject,
in its broadest aspects, will
be with us for some time.
What I am seeking to say is
that the caliber of discussion
wlfich is taking place is a far
cry from 1928. There is, as
there should be, no animus in
the discussion. And it should
also be recognized that it is
fair and pertinent that voters
should weigh the moral-temporal
policies of any church
and the extent to which they
might likely influence its ad
herents who are seeking pub
lic office.
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Jin the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
An estimate that fresh wa
ter can be produced from sea
water at a cost of 42 cents
per thousand gallons in a nu
c 1 e a r-powered conversion
plant has been made public
by the Interior department.
The plant would have a caDa-
city of 50 million gallons per
day.
This cost figure (estimated
by the Fluor Corp., of Whit-
tier, cjalif.) is by far the low
est to result so far from re
search sponsored bv the de
partment's office of saline wa
ter. Current costs are in ex
cess of a dollar per thousand
gallons.
The Fluor Corp. said the es
timated cost of 42 cents is suf
ficiently low to make such a
proposal a potentially impor
tant source of supplemental
water for many areas of the:
world.
TN THIS year when it looks
like it just can't rain in the
State of Jefferson that sounds
interesting.
But-
Before going off the deep
end, let's do a little figuring.
In this part of the world we
figure irrigation water in
terms of acre feet. An acre
foot is an acre of water a foot
deep. Without getting into ex
act decimal points, there are
about 325,800 gallons in an
acre foot. At 42 cents per
thousand gallons, an acre foot
of water would cost about
$136. In the Klamath country
the average duty of water,
taking all of our crops into
consideration, is somewhere
in the neighborhood of three
acre feet.
Present cost of water In this
area is ' somewhere around
$1.50 an acre foot, or $4.50 for
enough water to irrigate an
average acre for a crop year.
At $136, three acre feet of wa
ter would cost $408.
CO.-
U You see
Irrigation water derived by
nuclear conversion from sea
water isn't just around the
corner.
STILL -There
is hope.
The first pound of plastic to
come out of the research
chemist's test tubes cost sever
al hundred dollars - presum
ably several THOUSAND dol
lars if all the costs were in
cluded and loaded onto just
one pound.
Now plastic is so cheap that
it is being used for this,' that
and the other purpose in a
wide range of industries.
When Wilbur and Orville
Wright got the first rudimen
tary puddle-jumper off the
ground for a few seconds, no
one could have imagined the
huge jet liners of today.
CO-
3 Let's hold our faith in1
the future. Maybe the West;
don't dry up and blow away "
even if J. Pluvius decides to
stay on strike.
Trucker's Nof Happy
In Present Position
Chicago, IU-This sign was
spotted on the back of a truck
which passed through here,,
apparently on a long distance
haul:
Crime doesn't pay. . .
Neither does trucking.
We Give
GREEN STAMPS
ELLIS MARKET
820 Crater Lake Avenue
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