4 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfoM, Or.
Monday, Dee. 28, 1959
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Marl Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28, 1949 (Wednesday)
Bellhop eent to prison for
five years after stealing dia
mond worth $2,200 from Jack
son hotel mail.
Governor McKay appoints
employment advisory commit
tee to counter growing unem
ployment in Oregon.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28, 1939 (Thursday)
Finns are reported to be
turning tables on Russians and
pentrating into latter's terri
tory. : From Arthur Perry's 'Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "With
only three days left in 1939,
many citizens are as full of
resolutions as a convention of
Jackson county Granges."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28. 1929 (Saturday)
City police shoot it out on
city streets with two men and
a woman accused of torturing
an aged junk dealer for his
money.
. Age limit for participants
In Oregon, high school ath
letics is set at 20 by state of
ficials. 40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28. 1919 (Monday) -
Wave of Christmas deaths
resulting from poison booze
Starts nation-wide round up
! of bootleggers.
r - Mail Tribune to broadcast
report of Oregon --Harvard
Rose Bowl game.
'50 YEARS AGO
. Dec 28. 1909 (Tuesday)
Merger of Medford, Grants
Pass, and Ashland fruitgrow
ers unions to control market
ing is under consideration.
Laying of track for Pacific
and Eastern Railroad between
Medford and Eagle Point con
tinues as good weather pre
vails. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
lis it good.
. iium
1. What is the oldest city
founded by Europeans In the
New World?
2. The names of four of the
! 13 original American colonies
begin with the letter N; what
are they?
3. Is the edible part of a
hen's egg composed of one
half, two-thirds, or three-quarters
water?
4. Are there 24, 28, 32, or 36
1 gills in one gallon?
5. Who wrote the music of
"Old Folks at Home"?
6. What is "barnyard golf?"
7. Who is the chief of the
Central Intelligence Agency?
8. Who was the President of
the U.S. between the two
terms served by Grover Cleve
land? 9. State in degrees the sum
of the angles of a triangle.
10. What angel announced
to Mary that she was to be
the Mother of Jesus?
Answers: 1. San Domingo.
2. New Hampshire, New York.
' New Jersey, North Carolina.
, 3. Three-fourths. 4. Thirty-
- two. 5. Stephen Foster. 6.
Horseshoe Pitching. 7. Allen
W. Dulles. 8. Benjamin Harri
son. 9. 180 degrees. 10. The
, Angel Gabriel.
Hot Pursuit
On two consecutive
police have chased drivers through the city at
high speeds. In both cases
one 20, wrecked the cars
also put in jeopardy the lives of innocent citizens
in their path. The officers, too, were called upon
to risk their lives in apprehending these youths
who chose to ignore the
An objection to these
Wherein lies the greater
letting speeders go or in
engaging in such wild
.
I
N AN individual case and assuming the driver
is oiiilt.v of Tinthinrr mnra than a minnr traffic
offense the greater harm could come from the
wild chase. We'd likely be safer if the speeder
If 1 J l1 .
were aiiowea 10 escape
Rut that's nnlv nnp
is the officer to know that the driver is guilty of
ii i n vn i t
notning more tnan speeding rwnen a driver does
not heed a siren, he has a reason. Has he just
puljed a stick-up? Is he a "heavy" who is wanted
fnr a mainr prime? Whv fines he flee?
This the pursuing policeman can not know
until alter tne cnase.
THO FAIL to pursue a driver who ignores a siren
is to abdicate police
We dare not, in effect, tell our citizens that
anybody who doesn t want to be arrested is free
to ignore the police siren. Police pursuit must be
regarded by criminals as a certainty, not just a
remote possibility. One speeder, left to escape, is
of relatively small moment. '
But if all speeders are
a breakdown of traffic
OR must we regard
to outrun the police
thousrh thev are usually
less driving or speeding,
more grave. Because they endanger so many lives,
they are, in a manner of speaking, guilty of as
sault. By refusing to heed the siren, they are, also
in a manner of speaking, guilty of resisting
arrest.
Far from criticizing the police who chase
these punks, the public should appreciate the
risk an officer takes in the course of his job.
Eugene Register-Guard
Attack on Old Laws
Efforts in Oregon to limit banking hours and
to forbid the selling of used cars on Sunday
makes interesting the activity in the east to do
away with so-called "blue laws" statutes pro
hibiting the sale of some merchandise and the
conduct of certain business on Sundays.
A leading opponent of New Jersey's blue law
is the American Jewish Congress, which is chal
lenging the law in federal court, too as a vio
lation of religious freedom as guaranteed by the
First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution. The Jewish Sabbath is on Saturday.
CONSTITUTIONALITY of Pennsylvania's re
cently stiffened blue laws, dating back to 1794,
now upheld by a three-judge federal court, is
being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. One
fargument in the Keystone
Jews to observe Sunday
n ji
same as compelling tnem to recognize unnstian
ity. Virginia's Sunday-rest statutes also are under
attack in both federal and state courts.
, Opponents of blue laws will have to overcome
legal precedent to win their cases. Originally de
signed to enforce observance of the Christian
Sabbath, the statutes have been legally justified
also on the basis of the State's power to protect
the moral and physical welfare of the commu
nity. So ruled the U.S. Court as far back as 1895.
AS RECENTLY as 1951,
on Sunday was upheld in state court over the
defendant's objection that it was both a prefer
ence of religion and a denial of religious freedom.
It looks as if those
restrictive selling laws in
precedence tor their ambitions, but any time the
government makes such
ly invading the field of personal liberty a zone
into which they are crowding more and more to
the detriment of the welfare of everyone,
Anyway, people in uregon should watch with
interest the new attempts to do away with these
ridiculous .laws. Corvallis Gazette-Times
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A STORY from Israel concerns rationing that is necessary
at times for bread, sugar, coffee and other essentials.
Most persons take it in stride, but one fellow suddenly went
berserk: Ive been
standing in lines now for
three weeks," he cried.
"Butcher lines. . Baker
lines. Milkman lines.
Everywhere lines. I'm
going to complain to the
prime minister."
He strode off in a rage,
but was back a couple of
hours later. "Well," said
a friend, "did you see the
prime minister?" "Oy,"
was the answer, "there's
really a line!'?
On the bar menu of a drive-In: Our special martini: 75c Mad
With your suggestions: $1.25.
Sign on the window of a taxfcab: Tm lovely. I'm engaged.
In a school ne: Drive carefullv. Amt shnrtaera tuh.it.
Jft a reducing parlor; Drop ia
days recently Eugene
the drivers, one 19 and
they were driving. They
police siren.
chases has been voiced.
harm, some ask in
endangering others by
chases?
witnout pursuit.
si'Hp nf thp cam. Hnw
authority.
left to escape, we have
control.
these speeders who seek
as minor offenders. Al
charged only with reck
their offense is really
State was that forcing
as a day of rest was the
, ' '
a New York penal law
who want to push these
Oregon have plenty of
regulations they are real
and ahoo tha fau
Dennis the Menace
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Washington Report
By WILLIAM
YEAR OF BISK
Washington For nearly
the whole field of Democratic
Presidential aspirants 1960
brings, with
the resumed
Con gress, a
year of pecu
liar risk and
danger.
Never be
fore have so
many Sena
ators been se
rious Dossibil-
WWSS- Hies for the
nomination. Four of the five
contenders sit in the Senate
Senators John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas, Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota and
Stuart Symington ot Missouri.
Thus to a degree not seen
in History wnai nappens m
Congress alone will largely
shape the Presidential pros
pects of a whole party in a na
tional election year. Of the
big five aspirants, only Adlai
E. Stevenson will not be inti
mately connected with the
record of this coming session.
And even he will not alto
gether be apart from it.
THE Republicans will be far
less affected. Their front
runner for the Presidency,
Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon, cannot expect to stay
wholly out of the line of fire.
On the whole, however, he
need not go on record except
when and where he chooses.
His chief rival, Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New YorK,
even more fortunate. Al
bany is a long way from the
national cockpit of Washing
ton.
The roor old Democratic
Senators, however, must run
a curious trial by fire. "Hap
py New Year, indeed!" they
might well be sourly mutter
ing.
Thev face a conspiracy
made not by men but by cir
cumstances beginning with
the extraordinary happen
stance that their party's
wealth in Presidential avail-
ables is so centered in a single
place, the Senate. It is so easy
there to make enemies ana
alienate neode by having to
vote all the time on this or
that issue.
This must be a short ses
sion, since the national con
ventions of both parties are
to be in July. With this in
mind, the Democratic leaders
have already laid on an ur
gent program for tne open
ing of the session, iney in
tend to go to bat at once with
Mlla rrf fairlv liberal com
nlexion Federal aid to school
construction, an increase in
the minimum wage, and so on
,
rriHE basic purpose is this:
J- to make an initial Con
gressional record of construc
tive action before facing tne
bitterly divisive issue of civil
rights which is to be brought
up in February.
The bulk of Congressional
Democrats, Southern and
Northern alike, will support
school aid and minimum wage
rises. So such early achieve
ments must be relied upon to
give at least a first impres
sion of a unified and effective
party.
Bu even granting all goes
according to plan, civil rights
from the first moment will
unceasingly scowl over the
near horizon. And once that
contest is reached nothing can
save the Democrats from
wounding North-South fight
ing. Every Senator will have to
stand up, over and over, to
b' counted. Johnson will be
under the heaviest pressure
of all." As party leader he will
be held ultimately responsi
ble, anyhow, for aU that "hap
pens in the Senate.
' - '
HIS middle position, how
ever,, can hardly satisfy
either the extremely pro or
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the extremely anti-civil-rights
people. Humphrey, as an ad'
vanced civil rights man, will
have to cut publicly and
finally whatever last thin tie
he may have with moderate
opinion.
Kennedy, who will par
ticularly need some Southern
support at the convention,
must make decisions of enor
mous difficulty. Symington
will be, in a lesser way, in
about the same position.
Worse yet, there is labor.
If the steel strike is resumed
upon the expiration on Jan.
26 of the current armistice,
Congress will certainly be
called upon for new legisla
tion. And any Democratic bill
really infuriating thei labor
leaders will be a very tricky
business in an election year,
True, neither party can
really afford to offend all of
big labor in 1960. But the
Republicans can far more
nearly get away with it, just
as they have no real civil
rights problem because the
South is, at most, a secondary
problem to them. '
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Another Guess
To the Editor: I have been
wondering just when you
would take "Windy" Pete to
task and your editorial doing
that was more than welcome.
I would like an explanation
though. 'You termed his last
letter asinine. Now I have fol
lowed gardening for years
and it's the first time I ever
heard fertilizer called by that
name. Guess. I am way behind
times in that respect but not
in how such mud slinging
strikes the voters.
Anyone who thinks the Ore
gon voters are dumbbells and
will fall for such tactics has
another guess ' coming. All
Windy is accomplishing is
creating more supporters for
Dick so let him rave. Maybe
he is getting paid for it from
the fund Nixon had to explain
when he ran for Vice Presi
dent. I have a friend who brags
that he has voted the straight
Republican ticket for 40
years. Said he would vote for
a yellow dog in preference to
Lincoln on the Democratic
ticket. Well after the, letter
and editorial mentioned, he
told me he would not only
support the Democrats next
election but would sell other
hard shells to do the same.
Claude M. Hall
2860 Hartley lane
. Grants Pass, Ore.
Kin to King
To the Editor: One of the
most eccentric travelers and
story tellers I ever met was
of Australian lineage and
claimed to be kin to the Eng
lish tea king. Sir Thomas Lip
ton. To begin with he claimed
to have received his elemen
tarv education in - Boston,
Mass.. How he emigrated to
Oregon is another unrecord
ed chaDter: orobably by a
slow process of sailing by way
of the Horn ol tne . ooum
American continent.
finne uDon a time he was
employed by various Rogue
valley corporations in con
struction work camps. One
time, it was said that inclem
ent weather made conditions
difficult for outside work and
Tetain the crew. "Shorty," as
he was nicknamed, was the
number ' one story teller
around the campfires all win
ter. His tales of adventure had
a trend for the fantastic, and
realistic, yet were not fatalis
tic "Shorty" will be remem-
Nelson Rockefeller's Withdrawal May
Put Richard Nixon on the Defensive
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington -flJPD- Gov. Nel
son A. Rockefeller's bomb
shell withdrawal from the
contest for
the Republi
can presiden
tial nomina
tion may put
Vice Presi
dent Richard
M. Nixon in a
bad spot and
on the defen
sive. "A
.i. f onimii l ne cmi-
lenging key words in Rocke
feller's week end statement
were these:
"The great majority of
those who will control the
Republican convention stand
opposed to any contest for the
presidential nomination."
"The great majority of
those who will control the
Republican convention!!!" In
other words, the Republican
pros, the Republican grass
roots and state machines, the
party bosses! The governor
said that these-a comparative
ly few men and women, at
most-have made up their
minds that they do not want
a contest. And that's that;
they want Nixon.
The governor did not say
Eisenhower Deals With Thorny
Problem While on French Visit
By PHIL NEWSON
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
THE MAN TO PLEASE:
One of the thorniest prob
lems President Eisenhower
had to deal with in Paris was
President Charles de Gaulle's
Census Forms Have
Many Questions on
Va r i e ty of
Br FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington - flJPD - Do-it-yourself
census forms for
I960 have been on public view
for several
weeks now
and the cen
sus bureau
can't believe
Its good luck.
Nobody so far
has raised
any serious
squawk.
Frank Eleazav Un, a lew
congressmen have complain
ed that the census taker these
days is getting too nosy, want
ing to know about our plumb
ing (indoors or out); our
washing machines (automatic
or not); and how we get to
work in the morning (many
a morning I wonder about
that one myself).
One lawmaker went so far
as to suspect, publicly, that
psychiatrists might have tak
en over the bureau. By and
large, though, the bureau's
final decisions on what ques
tions to include and leave out
in the 18th decennial cen
sus have been received with
resignation if not outright en
thusiasm
The bureau doesn't expect
enthusiasm. All it asks is that
you answer the questions,
ranging from your income to
your telephone number. Any
body who refuses can be fined
$100 or sent to jail for 60
days, though the bureau can't
recall a case where this ac
tually happened.
"We persuade 'em," a
Japan To Reduce
Fish Boat Number
Tokyo - (UPD - The Fishery
Board today notified fishing
firms which operate in the
North Pacific that they must
cut the number of their sal
mon catcher boats by 10 per
cent next year.
The present salmon catcher
fleet has 460 vessels.
The board said the reduc
tion in the catcher fleet was
necessary because of Japan's
reduced salmon catch quota
in Northern Pacific waters.
bered by all who had ever met
him, from Mexico to Medford,
around 40 years ago.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
Medford, Ore.
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that a great majority of the
members of the Republican
party would prefer that the
Vice President be nominated
for President without oppo
sition! A statement of that
kind would have boomed
Nixon into the nomination so
surely that it scarcely would
have been necessary to have
a convention.
There are elements in the
Republican party likely to be
resentful and aggressively op
posed to the situation now
stated by Rockefeller to be a
fact within their party -that
the grass roots and state pro
fessionals oppose a contest for
the presidential nomination.
If this resentment catches
fire there could be a go-for-broke
movement to nominate
Rockefeller anyway. The gov
ernor said his decision was
definite and final. Politicians,
however, have a certain poet
ic license.
For good or ill, Rockefel
ler's statement tagged Nixon
as the handpicked choice of
the party pros who even op
posed giving any other Repub
lican an opportunity to con
test the nomination in con
vention balloting.
Except in the instance of
the renomination of a presi
dent, that has not been the
refusal to permit integration
of French forces into NATO.
Now, as result of agreement
reached between the two,
French experts are preparing
a plan where the French Air
Force at least will "coope
rate" with the Allied Integrate
Subjects
spokesman said of the com
parative few who every 10
years can be depended on to
balk at some question or
other or even to refuse, on
religious grounds, to have any
part at all of the census.
Anyway, it's not as bad as
it might be. In 1850 the cen
sus '. taker inquired among
other things whether each
household included any pau
pers, idiots, or convicts.
There are other grounds to
be grateful. After proper deli
beration the census experts
turned down inquiries on the
color of our hair, if any (the
cosmetics makers wanted to
know); the number and kind
of our pets, (for the dog food
makers, I think); our height
and weight Xthe tailors hoped
to engineer better fits); and
whether or not we have faith,
and if so what kind (a touchy
subject on constitutional
grounds).
Even so, some of the 180
million people the nose-count
is expected to turn up are
likely to view the inquiry as
unduly inquisitive.
A basic form will be mail
ed to all householders in
March, to be filled out and
held for the census taker's
call early in April. It covers
name, age, race, marital sta
tus, etc., of all residents. It
includes a - similar inquiry
about any non-resident who
may have stayed overnight on
March 31, a question which it
is hoped won't ambarrass too
many people.
Then there's some basic
stuff about the house, includ
ing whether or not there's a
toilet that flushes.
At every fourth house will
be left an additional two pages
of questions on the house and
two extra pages for details
about each person living
therein. That's where we get
into where you work and how
much, and whether you get
there by bus, railroad, car
pool, or muleback. Also, how
many years schooling you got;
how many times you've been
married; and (for women) how
many babies you've had. To
be ready, you also may as
well count now your radios,
TV's, and automobiles.
Most of the form-filling
will be done by those being
counted. Still, 160,000 enum
erators will be hired for
about two weeks of hoofing
around. These jobs will pay
about $12 daily. To get one
you have to read, write, and
vote Republican.
American political way. Nix
on's solo position as an aspi
rant for the Republican vice
presidential nomination in
1956 was seized upon by the
Democrats as a campaign is
sue. The Democrats called
their own an open convention
in contrast to the Republican
convention which they said
was closed.
The Bosses' Man'
The Democrats could have
a better issue on open-closed
conventions in 1960. That
would be if Nixon came out
of the Republican convention
tagged by Rockefeller as the
nominee whom the party
leaders protected from all op
position; the bosses' man.
Nixon's strategists certain
ly did not foresee this Rocke
feller action. The Vice Presi
dent was on a sight-seeing
tour with a young relative
Saturday when the governor's
statement erupted from Al
bany. The Nixon camp had
been aware, however, of an
noyed intimations from Rock
efeller sources that the Vice
President was the Republican
machine choice.
The polls, for what they are
worth, indicate that Nixon is
far stronger today than Rock
efeller, not merely with party
bosses but with the rank and
file. Future polls will be es-
ed Air Command. The man
who will judge it and who is
also the man to be pleased is
Supreme Commander U.S.
Gen. Lauris N o r s t a d. The
French report is expected
about mid-February, giving
Norstad a month to study it
before reporting on it to the
allied military committee.
HAT IN THE RING:
West Berlin Mayor Willy
Brandt is said to be quietly
working behind the scenes to
become the Social Democratic
Party's nominee for West Ger
man chancellor in the 1961
elections. The socialists never
have been able to dislodge
Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer's Christian - Democratic
Party but the popular Brandt
might give Adenauer some
election-day troubles.
COMPETITION:
Reliable economic sources
in Frankfurt say West Ger
man steel firms are preparing
to step up their exports to the
United States in the event of
a new walkout by U.S. steel
workers. The West German
firms already are making
some U.S. deliveries but the
plan now is to step up these
shipments to meet a consider
able part of U.S. steel needs.
MORE TROUBLE:
Observers in Southeast Asia
expect new troubles in Laos
to break out around the mid
dle of January. Not only will
there be pressure from the
Communist North Vietnamese
border area, but it is possible
that a civil war may be touch
ed off by dissident tribal ele
ments and the outlawed Path
et Lao forces which are friend
ly to communism.
ELUSIVE MAO:
Western intelligence sourc
es admit they have lost track
completely of Mai Tse-tung,
strongman of Red China. They
haven't been able to get a
line on him since Oct.- 25. It
is surmised that he is in the
southern provinces, checking
up on the campaign to root
out the so-called "rightist op
portunists," those who have
opposed the regime's rigorous
work campaign. But even this
is not known for certain.
Decially interesting. ThT
may show whether the rank
and me will switch to Rocke-feller-the
man the party
bosses counted out.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Today's brightest news:
Man's hones for nA3p on
earth grew stronjrer tndav
after the happiest and most
relaxed Christmas the world
has known since World War
'THERE'S still some shooting.
There is a rebellion in "Al
geria. Algeria came into writ
ten history as Numidia Un
man colony with an advanced
civilization. In 440 A.D., the
vanaais swept in and ended
Numidia's prosperity. In the
600's, the Moslems conquered
the land. In 1492. Ferdinand
and Isabella drove the Moors
out of Spain and some of them
settled in Algeria, which be
came one of the Barbary
States, which were the home
of the Barbary pirates. We had
to clean up the Barbary pi
rates. The French conquered
Algeria in 1830. held it unrfpr
military rule until 1871, then
maae it a part of France. The
Algerians want to run their
own show. Hence the shoot
ing. There's a ruckus on be
tween Iran and Iran- Thprp'.t
tension along the India-China
border. The Chinese commu
nists are still shooting at the
Chinese Nationalist offshore
islands. Castro is making a
mess in Cuba.
AND so on.
But
In general
The world today is about as
peaceful as it has ever been.
That's something.
AND- '.'
All over the world, the
people WANT PEACE. Ike's
recently completed journey
gave dramatic evidence of that
fact .
Here's a thought: '
Maybe this yearning of the
PEOPLE for peace is so great
as to cause the. despots and
the would-be world conquer
ors to FEAR THE PEOPLE.
When despots and would-be
world conquerors fear the peo
ple, it is a healthy sign.
SO MUCH for peace.
What of PROSPERITY
which, history tells us, goes
hand-in-hand, with peace?
A NEWS summary that is
clicking off the wires as
this is written puts it this way:
Cash registers . jangled a
happy climax to- a SENSA
TIONAL Christmas buying
season. The ' extent of 1959
holiday shopping is indicated
by two surveys. Dun & Brad
street reports that dollar vol
ume for the pre-Christmas
week was up from 1 to 5 per
cent over a year ago.
The trade newspaper Wom
en's Wear says department
and specialty stores boosted
their sales for the season by
3 per cent over last yesr.
The Toy Manufacturers Asso
ciation says toy sales this year
topped 1958 by 15 to 20 per
cent and will exceed the all
time record set in 1957.
NOT too bad.
When people are reason
ably easy in their minds, they
tend to spend their money for
things they want. When they
are UNEASY in their minds,
they tend to hang onto their
money in preparation for the
rainy day they fear may be
coming.
& All in all, you see, things
might be worse.
Maybe we'll live through
1960.
A
Gratifying
Assurance
COURTESY
The sincerity,
kindness and
efficiency of our
staff will be of
great help to you
during this time of
distress and need.
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Funeral Home
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