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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune"" 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
; 10 YEARS AGO
Doe. 29. 1949 (Thursday)
! A committee has . been ap-
j pointed to screen', 'proposed
sited' for a building to house
a Medford branch of the sec
retary of state's office.
Mutt and Jeff will start
appearing in the Mail Trib
une's comic section . next
Tuesday.
20 TEARS AGO
Doe. 29, 1939 (Friday)
Manager of United Air Lin
es in Bedford is named state
aeronautics director.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
sales tax is again proposed as
a cure for the school financial
problems of. the state. The
sales. tax always has two out
standing faults, it works, and
nobody can get out of paying
it. This means its doom at the
polls."
30 YEARS AGO
Doe. 29. 1929 (Sunday) -
Fruitgrowers of valley pro
test "Mediterranean fly" reg
ulations. ' Senator Borah demands ac
tion from president. to end
what he calls "dry law hypo
crisy." 40 YEARS AGO -Doc
29. 1919 (Tuesday)
: January 6 is set as date for
signing peace treaty between
Allies and Germany.
Charles-- Comiskey, presi
dent, of the Chicago White
Sox, offers $25,000 for evi
dence that White Sox threw
the World series with Cincin
nati. 50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 29. 1909 (Wednesday)
Thirty-one new arc lights
have been -installed on city
streets to. make Medford a
well-lighted, city.
Local fisherman caught
four steelhead in - Rogue yes
terday using fly tackle.
What's Yosr I.Q.?
Nina or ten. correct ia superior;
tevaaY or iaht it amcelleat; five or
si is food.
v 1. Is the Commonwealth of
Australia composed of States,
or Provinces?
- 2. To which country do the
.Azores Islands belong?
3. With what university do
you associate the name of
Woodrow Wilson? -
- 4. What is the largest species
of amphibious reptiles?
5. .What colloquial or slang
term is applied in Canada to
French Canadians?
6. What does the Latin term
ad valorem mean?
7. Which has the larger
area, Pennsylvania or New
York? '
8. Upon what "two articles
of food and drink were the
Greek gods supposed to live?
9. What river flows for 1,
765 miles through Alaska?
10. What fuel has been
widely used in rural Ireland?
Answers: 1. States. 2. Portu
gal. 3. Princeton. 4. Croco
dile. 5. Canuck. 6. Accord
ing to Value. 7. New York
Stale. 8. 'Ambrosia and nec
tar. 9. The Yukon. 10. Peat.
In 1685 Only 2,000 persons
lived in Belfast, which is now
the capital of Ulster or
Northern Ireland, and has a
population of 450,000.
A Few New Starts 1
The Eisenhower Administration's announced
relaxation of its seven-year-long policy of "no
new starts" in natural-resource development is
not impressive. On the eve of the 1960 president
ial and congressional elections, it sounds too
much like deathbed repentance.
Furthermore, it obviously springs from no
unshakable conviction of the value of developing
natural resources but rather from a desire to win
votes.
It has become increasingly obvious during the
past three years that most voters do not want
their Federal Government to be negative toward
the construction and operation of power, irriga
tion, flood control and navigation projects.
IN THE 1956 elections that attitude played a
part in the defeat of Douglas McKay in Ore
gon, Senator Welker in Idaho, and other lesser
advocates of do-nothingism. Republicans were
shocked. '
They were shocked again, perhaps even mpre
violently, when "no new starts" in a public works
bill helped Democrats override an Eisenhower
veto earlier this year for the first time. Secretary
of Interior Seaton is trying to take the cure of
inactivity off of the Administration by promising
a little action, though he does not say how little.
We do not think, in view of the record of
massive apathy that has been piling up for seven
years now, that it will work. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. '
New Approach Needed?
Staff members of the U.S. Forest Service and
the Department of Agriculture, clear up to the
Secretary level, are worried.
Many of them see, in various proposals now
either before Congress or being publicly-espoused
by members of that body, a real danger to their
domain. There is a strong feeling that if all the
proposals are enacted, we will have gone a long
way toward aismemDerment oi ine iNauonai r or
est system.
No doubt, this last
such comes to pass the
many ways. The Forest
tne natural resources in
nerfect very little ever
whole it has been of relatively high quality.
I7HY, then, have these proposals been ad-
TT vanced? Whv do all
dividuals look to the. National Forests for land
to be set out from under Forest Service Manage
ment for all sorts of purposes?
There are reasons, of
est Service and Department should do some study
on them, if they are interested in retaining the
public lands now under
The Forest Service is
eral agency. And. except in the West, Alaska,
and scattered portions of the. rest of the country,
it doesn't draw much public attention. Out here,
though, it is a highly important agency and one
which will grow more important as the years go
by, unless the dismemberment it fears comes to
pass. .
PART of the pressure from various special in
' favacf rrwi-ir-o my A lnrlivirlimlc rn trio Inm-
ber industry side of the fence as well as the so
called conservationist side comes from basic
mistrust of the Forest Service.
Industry, if the off -
its leaders can be believed, feels the USFS pays
too much attention to the
And those whose primary forest interest is in
the recreation field feel that industry packs too
big a stick in the offices of rangers, supervisors,
regional foresters and in Washington. There is
a strong feeling in this group that log values are
given more weight in determinirtg land use than
any other factor.
THIS poses a difficult problem for the Forest
CAnnM ortA tVia Tionnvr-merif Hnf if srirmlrl Tint.
be insurmountable. It should be possible, with
the resources of the agency, to set f orth some long
ranee plans which can compromise the basic dif
ferences between the two silently-warring fac
tions, which can be sold
If this can be done and sold, too, to the mem
bers of the Congress, the Forest Service and the
Department could greatly relieve their worries
about eventual dismemberment of the National
Forest system. Bend Bulletin.
Quotes From the News
By United Press International
Washington Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), after
being asked which Democrat
best chance of defeating Vice
for the presidency! '
"I'm too modest to answer
Athens, Ohio Kermit Eby, professor of social sciences
at the University of Chicago, stating that automation has
made obsolete the the principle that work is the most creative
expression of man's daily life: '
"Most Amerieani went te work this morning hating it
like hell."
Chicago Judge Sigmund J. Stefanowicz, sentencing Mrs.
Minnie Pearl Hinton to five days in jail and a year probation
for slapping her son's third grade teacher:
"We're going to stop this abuse of teachers. I think the
parents should set an example for their children."
Tucson, Ariz.-Cary W. Moyer, describing the death of a
woman in the explosion of a fuel tank mat had dropped
from an Air Force B-47 jet bomber into a Tucson street:
"There was a woman riding a bicycle in the street. The
next thing I saw. she was lTiS in the center of a 50-foot
circle of flames."
statement is time. And if
public will be the loser m
Service's management of
lis cnarge nas not ueen
is perfect but on the
sorts of croups and in
course, remaps tne t or-
their jurisdiction.
a relatively small Fed
the - record statements of
conservationists.
to the members of each.
he believed would have the
President Richard M. Nixon
- T
that question."
Dennis the Menace
OUT Af f TU-VSe rV)WF2 IM
A 00G WHO'S NEVER TASTED RBSTAURAttT FOOD'
Matter of Fact Bw Joseph Alsop
CONNECTICUT:
A CASE STUDY
Hartford, Conn. This state
provides a useful case study,
showing all the . reasons for
Gov. Nelson
A. Rocke f e 1
1 e r's sensible
decision not to
enter the Re-
W puDiican presi-
1 WS dential race
Until the big
news came
over the wire,
the Connect!-
joseph alsop cut Republi
can organization was eagerly
planning to star the New
York Governor's New Year
with some thoroughly bad
news. By happy chance or
careful design, the Republican
State Central Committee is to
meet on Jan. 4, just two days
before Rockefeller was orig
inally expected to give his
decision. Since Rockefeller
was also expected to announce
his presidential candidacy, a
preface to the Rockefeller an
nouncement had been planned,
in the form of a strong en
dorsement of the candidacy
of Vice President Richard M.
Nixon.
One of the prime movers in
this plan was the Governor's
old friend and Dartmouth
classmate, former Republican
National Chairman Meade Al
corn who is also very close
to Nixon. Another organizer
of the intended Nixon endorse
ment was the Republican State
Chairman, former Representa
tive Edward May. Unless the
Vice President had actively
intervened to prevent the en
dorsement, moreover, it would
certainly have been given. For
there was literally no Con
necticut Republican of any
importance to speak up for
Gov. Rockefeller.
THIS total absence of Rocke
feller sentiment was the
key fact in the Connecticut
Republican situation, as it was
clearly the key fact in many
other state situations explored
by the New York Governor.
Soundings were taken here,
both by the Governor himself
and by his agents. There was
a long search for Connecticut
Republicans who might wish
to start a Rockefeller move
ment in 1960, like the Eisen
hower movement that swept
the state in 1952. The sound
ings met with no response
whatever, in any quarter of
real consequence.
The Governor could only
have done business with the
state's bitter-enders for the
late Sen. Robert A. Taft, who
form a faction almost entire
ly outside the state Republi
can organization. But Rocke
feller, for obvious reasons, did
not choose to do business with
Republicans of this stripe,
either in Connecticut or in the
many other states where the
same choice presented itself.
Barring a miracle, in short,
there was just no way for the
Rockefeller candidacy to get
i
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
AN OBSERVANT LAD in Brooklyn accompanied his mom
to the butcher shop. "Is that turkey you're wrapping?"
he asked. "It's lamb," corrected the butcher. "You don't see
any feathers on it, do
you?"
"I don't," admitted the
lad, but added, "I don't
see any wool on it, eith
er." ..
John Straley knows " a
bride who insists she gives
her husband balanced
meals. By that she means
he has a 50-50 chance of
recovering.
The husband has heavy
marks on his nose from
glasses. An oculist tried to
persuade him to use con
tact lenses, but he refused: said they don't hold enough for him.
.
Bliss Perry once remarked of a venerable Oxford don -who
refused to resign that he had all the Christian virtues except
resignation!
4? 1951, by Bennett Cert. Dutributed by Xing features Syndicate.
A RAfl WILL Via? T GOT
off the ground in Connecticut
a state where there should
have been support for Rocke
feller if he was going to gain
support anywhere. His candi
dacy, at best, could only offer
a vehicle for the hankerings
for revenge of various Repub
lican Adullamites a prospect,
in itself, that must have re
pelled the Governor.
rpHERE was one other way
to play the . game, to be
sure. Governor Rockefeller
could have gone in, not to
win this time, but to lose and
make a record. His grave
doubts about the foreign and
defense policies of the Eisen
hower administration are well
known. He could have become
a candidate solely id order to
voice those doubts in the most
resounding possible manner.
If he had done this, lie would
have lost all chance of nomina
tion in 1960. But he would
have made a record; and this
record would in turn have
been remembered, if and
when the weaknesses of Amer
ican foreign and defense poli
cy produce critical results.
The Governor was admitted
ly tempted to play the game
in just this way. One conse
quence, if he had done so,
would have been a stirring
and remarkable national de
bate.' But the other conse
quence would nave been a
serious split in the Republi
can party, gravely impairing
the party's chance of victory
in 1960.
It was plain here in Connec
ticut that no Republican
would have forgiven Gover
nor Rockefeller after this kind
of campaign for the nomina
tion. No amount of later jus
tification by events would
have won Connecticut's sup
port for the Governor in 1964
or 1968, if he had split the
party in I960 by speaking out
in meetings about the foreign
and defense issues now con
fronting the country. Thus the
second way of playing the
game was also self-defeating.
With his polls showing Nixon
being chosen by nearly three
out of four Republicans in the
crucial primary state of New
Hampshire, the Governor
therefore bowed out with a
good grace and just in time.
Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
STUDENTS TO EUROPE .
New York -UPD- The en
tire junior class of Lake Erie
college,. Rainesville, Ohio,
embarked on the French liner
Liberte Monday for 11 weeks
of study abroad. The 80 wom
en were accompanied by Paul
Weaver, president of the 100-
year-old college. He plans to
visit the heads of all the Eu
ropean colleges the students
will attend.
Kluane lake in the Yukon,
150 miles west of Whitehorse,
borders one of the notable
big-game hunting regions in
the territory.
n-ir
Recent Loan to Egypt Re-Emph,
Tightrope
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The recent 50 million-dollar
World Bank loan to Egypt
has served to re-emphasize
the tiehtroDe
which the
United States
is on between
Egypt and
n e i g hboring
Israel.
The Egypti
an loan was
granted as a
start tow a r d
PtaJ) Newsrnn
an expensive modernization
Communications
letters to the Edttsr must
bear 'be name and address of
the wrritei although nder cer
tain circumstances tba use of a
pen name oi initial for publica
tion is pe-misiible. Hie Mai
Tribune reserves the rirht to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification ana condensation
Letters submitted for publica.
Uon must not exceed 400 word
Two Laws
; To the Editor: The chief of
police was only quoting facts
of the law and the Bible says
if one breaks the law of its
land it is a sin. The minister
was quoting the law of God
and the words of the Bible.
The Bible does not say if
you take a drink or smoke in
moderation that you will be
cast into Hell. It is not against
man's law to smoke or to take
a drink so therefore it is not
God's law. The laws we break
from God and man are many
that can not be seen, but
which has the sting of death
as a poison snake. They are
love our neighbor as our self
regardless of color or demoni
nation. Do unto others as we
would like to be done unto us.
Give to the poor and sick and
not honor the rich who wor
ship their earthly good.
The quoting of the Bible as
this man of God had done is
not a warped conception. We
who wish to become a follow
er of Christ many times omit
the facts of the Bible and rely
on being just a good person.
We do not want any of our
misgivings out in the open,
but Jesus knows our thoughts
and it is not our neighbors
who will be our final judge.
What goeth down the throat
and cometh out the draught
does not defile the body, but
what cometh out of the
mouth.
When Jesus was in the.
desert and had 5,000 who fol
lowed him, were, fed from a
few fishes and a few loaves
of bread, and had many bas
kets left with vessels filled
with water over and he told
them to empty the water and
let them be filled with wine.
This was Jesus' way to give
added comfort so his follow
ers would not fall or faint on
their way back to their homes
I hope this will ease the mind
of many who love God, but
think one must be perfect in
order to receive the kxve of
God. Perfection was never
spoken of the flesh, but Jesus
died not to have the righteous
- but to save the sinner.
Leo A. Rifinbark,
1131 Pinecraft st.,
Medford, Ore.
Seeks Address
To the Editor: I am publish
inc a five-volume history. "En
Route to the Redoubt."
I am interested in hearing
from anyone who knows the
current address of O. D. Har
vey, who was in the 314th
FA battalion in World War
II, or anyone in the 314th or
318th infantries.
Ralph E, Pearson,
Colonel U.S.A.
19 Dyer st.
Ft. Bragg, N.C.
Thanks People
To the Editor: I wish to
take this opportunity, on be
half of the F. L. Somers Con
struction company, to thank
the people who live along and
near the city s new storm
sewer on the east side. Their
cooperation and understand
ing has made a miserable
situation, at best, tolerable
for all concerned.
In this age where people
have trouble getting along
with their immediate neigh
bors, much less the other
countries of this world, it is
heartening to behold spon
taneous friendliness without
reservation.
Once again, for every man
who works on . this project:
Thanks!
Craig F. Gates,
Project Manager,
Medford, Ore.
FREE COFFEE
. Red Bank, N.J. -fllTD- Mo
torists on the Garden State
Parkway will get more than
the use of the highway when
they pay their tolls New
Year's morning. For the third
year in a row, toll booth at
tendants will offer drivers
cards entitling them to a so
bering free cup of coffee or
tea at parkway restaurants.
The French Protestant
church in London, England,
was established about 1560 in
Threadneedle street. -
i 1
4 jJ
U.S. Walks Between
program for the Suez Canal.
It was protested by t'ae Is
raeli government which cur
rently has cargo aboard two
ships tied up in the canal be
cause of the Egyptian gov
ernment ban against transit
of Israeli ships or goods.
The fact that the loan was
granted was a further sign of
the gradually improving rela
tions between Egypt and the
Western nations. But it also
points up again the seemingly
insoluble problems confront
ing the United States and its
allies in dealing with the Mid
dle East.
With the 1956 attack by
Israel, Britain and France on
Egypt as the exception, Egypt
and Israel have lived in an
uneasy state of armistice since
1949.
Financial Drain Heavy
The financial drain on both
has been heavy.
But at the same time both
have been engaged in boot
strap operations attempting
to boost their economies.
Since Israel's inception as
FBI Sweating Out Impossible
Situation Tapping Phones
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - The FBI
has been sweating out one of
those impossible spots which
add up about
to this:
Heads you
win; tails I
lose.
Thus it is
with the FBI
and wiretap
ping. A con
s t i t u t i o nal
rights sub
c o mmittee of
fwjrle C. Wilson
the senate has been looking
into the wiretap situation.
The pattern of testimony went
about like this:
Wiretapping is a dirty busi
ness,, and the FBI engages' in
11
Russia Expected to
Pull Further Ahead
In Space Exploring
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
Washington (UPD A U.S.
space official says Russia's
"clear lead" in rocketry will
enable it to pull farther ahead
of this country in the explor
ation of outer space.
This forecast is evident in a
study of U.S. and Soviet space
programs made recently by
Dr. Homer J. iMeweii Jr., as
sistant director for space
sciences of the National Aero
nautics and Space Adminis
tration.
According to Newell, the
two countries are running
about even in scientific in
vestigation of nearby space.
But "in deep space probe
work," Newell said, "the U.S.
S.R. has definitely taken the
lead. This is directly attribut
able to their clear lead in
vehicle technology."
Similar Advancement
Russia's rocketry lead has
been variously estimated at 2
to 10 years. Newell mention
ed no time figure. But he
said:
"The side that has the more
advanced technology m the
way of payload capabilities,
guidance, etc., will have tne
distinct edge, and by virtue
of the increased flexibility
and capabilities provided by
the more advanced technology
will forge steadily ahead.
Thus, one may predict a
time lead in vehicle technol
ogy will be transformed into
a corresponding time lead in
Business Boom
Seen to Continue
Washington (UPD- A sub
stantial majority of some 200
economists attending a top
level conference here have
agreed that the business
boom will continue in 1960.
An informal poll of the eco
nomist's views was taken
Monday after Paul W. Mc-
Cracken, a former member of
President Eisenhower's Coun
cil of Economic Advisers, pre
dicted higher prices and a
drop in unemployment in
1960.
Arthur F. Burns, a former
chairman of the council, also
warned the annual meeting
of American Statistical and
Economic associations that
the economy may be in for
long-range inflationary press
ures, despite the administra
tion's effort to hold down
prices.
The poll of economists was
taken by a show of hands,
with no specific figures com
piled. It was understood that
the forecasts were contingent
upon a settlement of the steel
dispute. -
a state, an Israeli dream has
been to harness the waters
of the Jordan river for elec
tric power and irrigation. One
facet of this plan is a project
to pipe Jordan waters 100
miles southward to irrigate
the arid Negev. .
It is bitterly opposed by
the Arab nations, over Israeli
claims that no waters belong
ing to the Arab states would
be affected.
Another Israeli project has
been the building of a rail
road to the port of Aqaba,
bypassing the Suez Canal and
opening the way for ship
ments of Israeli goods in the
direction of Asia via the Red
Sea.
This also has met bitter
Arab objections who look
upon the Gulf of Aqaba as
an inland Arab sea.
President G a m a 1 Abdel
Nasser also has grandiose,
plans for development of the
United Arab Republic (Egypt
and Syria).
Modernization of the Suez
Canal is one, bringing in much
it. Or, by inference, wiretap
ping is illegal and the FBI
engages in illegal acts.
The words "dirty business"
and wire tapping became
synonymous many years ago
when the late Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes so character
ized the tapping of communi
cations wires. That made it
official. The tendency to make
the FBI the whipping boy of
the wiretap controversy " is
less easily explained. The ten
dency to assert that wiretap
ping is illegal cannot be ex
plained at all.
It's Not Illegal
The facts are that wiretap
ping is not illegal. You may
bet on that, and win. More
than 18 years ago, an attor
ney general explained the
wiretap situation when there
the exploration and investiga
tion of outer space.
Newell said the two coun
tries "appear to be at about
the same stage of advance
ment in upper air research"
and in scientific "studies of
the earth's environs," He said
their instrumentations are
roughly equivalent."
The Russians have "done
far less on solar radiations'
than the United States but
have accomplished "m u c h
more in experiments with ani
mals in space.
Sights Soviet Achievements
The United States may have
a slight edge in close-in
space investigations and in in
strument designs, but the Rus
sians are superior in rocket
power, maneuverability, and
size of their scientific pack
ages. -
U.S. exploration of the
moon "is yet to begin" where
as the Russians have "already
achieved significant steps" in
lunar investigation.
As for exploration of the
planets:
The United States, Newell
said, "has minimal capability
in this area at present, and on
the present schedule plane
tary work is proceeding at a
very low pace."
The Soviet Union, on the
other hand, "has an advanced
capability in this area and has
declared its definite interest
in planetary research."
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asizes
Nations
needed hard currency for the
Egyptian treasury.
Discuss New Loan
Another is the fabulous As
wan Dam, designed to harness
the waters of the Nile and
now in its first stages through
the aid of a loan from Russia.
U.S. Embassy sources in
Cairo have revealed that a
new U.S. loan is being dis
cussed to finance communica
tions and other projects in
Egypt. Details probably will
be completed next month.
Over a period of 10 years,
U.S. non-military aid to Is
rael has totalled in the neigh
borhood of 500 million dol
lars. Aid to Egypt has not
been so great but is sizable.
Meanwhile, in their person
al quarrel, both sides remain
adamant, and at the end of
a decade seem no closer to
peace now than in 1956 when
President Eisenhower pledged
the U.S. to seek "a fair solu
tion of the tragic dispute be
tween the Arab states and Is
rael, all of whom we wi-.nt
as our friends."
was uproar about the citizen's
right of privacy. Here is what
the late Attorney General
Robert H. Jackson wrote: "
"It would clarify the dis
cussion if those who fear that
the p r o p o se d legislation
would deprive them of their
'right to privacy' would first
learn just what 'right of pri
vacy' they now have.
"There is no federal statute
that prohibits or . punishes
wiretapping alone. The only
offense under the present law
is to "intercept any commu
nication and divulge or pub
lish' the same. Any person,
with no risk of penalty, may
tap the telephone wires and
eavesdrop on his competitor,
employer, workman or others
and act upon what he hears
or make any use of -it that
does not involve divulging or
publication.
Courts Stop Evidence
"To use evidence obtained
by wiretapping for the protec
tion of society against crimi
nals often requires that it be
divulged in open court. It is
this divulging in law enforce
ment that court decisions hold
to violate the statute. The
courts do not stop the people
from tapping wires -no one
has ever been or under pres
ent law could be convicted of
that by itself. What has been
stopped is the use of evidence
to enforce laws against crimi
nals. "Many uninformed persons,
and some who ought to know
better, are thinking that these
decisions protect their tele
phone privacy. They do noth
ing of the sort. They only pro
tect those who engage in in
criminating c o n v e r s ations
from having them reproduced
in court." .
That was the law then.
That is the law now. Yet, it
was suggested, without re
buke, before the subcommit
tee that the FBI deliberately
was failing to prosecute wire
tappers because the FBI, it
self, illegally tapped wires.
That, of course, was nonsense.
Taps Kidnaping Cases
The FBI does tap wires but
these taps can be made only
with the specific consent of
the attorney general. The FBI
uses taps only in cases involv
ing internal security or in
kidnaping cases when the vic
tim's life may be at stake.
The FBI has fewer than 80
taps in effect at this time.
The Senate subcommittee
made no effort to protect the
FBI against unfair charges
with respect to wiretapping.
It is not likely, however, that
the subcommittee would go
so far as to protest the kind
of taps the FBI makes.
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