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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files- of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 31, 1949 (Saturday)
Court decision gives two
Medford businessmen full
rights to develop rich gold de
posits near Nome, Alaska.
: Ed (Porky) Oliver, golf pro,
hurt in auto accident near
Eugene. .
20 YEARS AGO
Dae. 31, 1939 (Sunday) -.
;' Copco plans one million
dollar construction program
in coming year.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Valley
Democrats have started whis
pering to each other, and
vital matters like the fate of
the Gold Hill post office, are
t stake."
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 31, 1929 (Tuesday)
' Larry Schade wins prize
for best Christmas lighting
decorations.
4- Local woman wins state
prize for Christmas Seal pub
llcity. ; , ,; . ..
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 31, 1919 (Thursday) V
; Oregon-Harvard Rose Bowl
fame tomorrow is considered
a toss-up. r -;' -:Y'
' All Medford banks and busi
ness houses will be closed
New Year's day.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec 31, 1909 (Friday)
Pacific and Eastern rail
road has joined forces with
Southern Pacific, and two are
conducting operations as one.
Ashland grocer fined ?50
for selling butter not properly
labeled.
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
:. 1. In the Bible, who was
Solomon's mother?
2. How did Mohandas K.
Gandhi, Hindu spiritual lead
er, meet his death?
- 3. If you travel on the sur
face of the earth until your
watch registers two hours fast,
have you been traveling east
or west?
4. What Greek mythologi
cal personage fell in love with
his own reflection in a pool?
- 5. What is an intaglio?
6. Is the Continental Divide
in the area of the Rocky
Mountains or the Appalachian
Mountains?
7. In what field of art is
James Melton well known? v
8. How many ounces are to
m troy pound? 1
9. What majority of both
houses of Congress is required
to override a Presidential
veto?
1 10. Arrange in order from
west to east: British Colum
bia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba. v
Answers: 1. Baihsheba. 2.
He was assassinated. 3. West.
4. Narcissus. 5. An inset en
graving. 6. Rocky Mountains.
7. Music. (Opera singer.) 8.
Twelve. 9. Two-thirds. 10.
That is the correct order.
RE-BURY WAR VICTIMS
Warsaw-UP0-The bodies of
143 Polish and Hungarian
women shot by the Nazis dur
ing World War II have been
disinterred from a mass grave
in a forest near Usewo and re
buried in Rynbo cemetery, it
was reported Tuesday.
7 : Cuba's Year of Castro,
Fidel Castro Ruz, premier of Cuba and leader
of its revolutionary regime, seems still to com'
marid the enthusiastic support of the broad rnass
es of his people. Most of the citizens of Cuba ap
pear to feel that the benefits of the social revolu
tion outweigh the excesses condemned outside
the country. Others cling to the hope that the rev-
olutionarv government
earlier course of the July
But a growing number of moderates intel
lectuals, professionals and businessmen com
plain that the revolution
from them.
IN THE United States
farther. During the civil war against Dictator
Batista the people of this country had been lm
pressed with the apparent sincerity of Castro
and his followers ana by the professed purposes
of the revolutionists. Washington recognized the
Cuban government last Jan. 7, only six days after
Castro had installed Manuel Urrutia Lleo as pro
visional President.
But Secretary of State Christian A. Herter on
Dec. 10 voiced the alarm now felt in the United
States when he said : "We have tried to discuss
with the Cuban government a number of prob
lems that have caused that deterioration (in re
lationships) and have found that the present Cu
ban government is not anxious to talk with us, so
that we have had great
tion and very great difficulty in doing what we
would like to be able to do in alleviating that sit
uation. In countnes of Central and South Amer
ica, however, Castro's anti-gringoism and "inde
pendence" of the Colossus of the North have won
considerable sympathy.
PRESIDENT Urrutia, who publicly rejected the
support of Communists, lasted a scant six
months, resigning; last
signed as premier on the same day, giving as his
reason his "moral differences" with Urrutia,
whose actions, he said,
But in six days Castro
new. 'President, Osvaldo
nounced that the Council of Ministers had re
fused to accept Fidel's resignation.
In his year in command Castro has instituted,
suspended and restored trial by military tribunal.
Some 550 "war criminals" have died before fir
ing 'squads. Castro's extremist opponents, like
Em'lio Nunez Portuondo, former president of
the - United Nations Security Council, estimated
that'as many as 15,000 Cubans may have for
feited their lives. The recent chants of Cuban
mobs "The Wall, the Wall" may presage vio
lence on a grander scale. ' .. ;.-
f ASTRO'S followers have been implicated in
V uprisings in Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Domin
ican Republic. Meanwhile, Cuba itself has been
the target of a small airborne invasion from the
Dominican Republic and an air '"raid" from the
United States.
Within Cuba, Castro's political and economic
problems mount, and his close advisers continue
to be, drawn from leftist elements. His appoint
ment, Nov. 26, of Maj. Ernesto (Che) Guevara,
Jr., as president of the National Bank of Cuba
a position which makes him virtually an econom
ic czarwas looked upon as ominous. Guevara,
an Argentine-born physician, is described by can
did U.S. observers as "by his own words an en
emy onf 'U.S. imperialism'" and a "devoted
Marxist." E.R.R. ,
. Edgar Hoovers FBI
. The identification between J. (for John) Ed
gar Hoover and the FBI has become so complete
over the past 35 years that it perhaps would be.
well to note that Hoover is, after all, not an insti
tution but a person who on Friday will reach
his 65th birthday. The aging process, his many
admirers will be happy to learn, has been gentle ;
reports are that he plans to remain indefiniately
as chief of the FBI.
Hoover's symbolic role as the nation's top
cop has not been without its trials, particularly
during the early 1950's when federal police ac
tivity was undergoing stern scrutiny for its role
in combating subversive activities. Testifying to
the confidence in Hoover and by implication,
the FBI were the results of a Gallup poll, pub
lished Dec. 25, 1953, which indicated that only
1 out of 40 persons held an unfavorable opinion
of the G-men.
CONTRIBUTING most to the special respect,
if not affection, in which the FBI is held has
been Hoover's own theory of its role, in the na
tional life. He has stressed repeatedly the prim
acy $f the FBI's fact-finding function (the FBI
pledge obligates the special agents "to report
facte.. . . without bias or display of emotion")
and its lack of "policy-making functions.
Hoover himself remains an outspoken foe of
Communism. In a year-end report to Attorney
General William P. Rogers on Dec. 20, he warned
that "blindness and lethargy toward the threat
posed by subversive organizations" has been
largely responsible for "the optimism and confi
dence which have spread through the ranks of
the Communist Party and other subversive organ
izations in recent months." E.R.R.
FIND OLD TOOLS
', Tehran, Iran-flJPD-A team of
Chicago University archaeolo
gists have unearthed tools be
lieved to have been fashioned
100,000 years before Christ at
Kermanshah in western Iran,
according to press reports
Wednesday.
will swine: back to tne
Movement.
is being perverted, stolen
the disillusion has gone
diliiculty in communica
July 17. Castro had re
had bordered on treason.
was back in office: the
Dorticos Torrado, an
EXCHANGE ENDS FEUD
Birmingham, Ala. TuTD A
feud over a . boundary line
ended Wednesday after 21
years of legal battle. The Ala
bama By-Products Co. simply
agreed to exchange deeds
with Phillips McCarty and
K. O. Youngblood.
Dennis the
'See? 7MA7$vctHk HORN
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
ROCKEFELLER AND THE
REPUBLICANS
Gov. Rockefeller took us all
by surprise because he acted
so realistically and with such
i decision. In
politics we are
used to more
havering and
wavering on a
chance that
something will
turn up some'
how. It is a
bit surprising
to find a man
who can see
that two . and two make four
and will then say so.
Now that the governor has
announced his decision, it is
plain that it was the only
thing to do: Since the summer
it has been clear that 1960
was not 1952, and that Rocke
feller could not defeat Nixon
as Eisenhower defeated Taft.
The overriding reason for this
is the recovery and renewal
of Eisenhower's power and
influence since they touched
bottom during the election
campaign in 1958.
It was in those elections,
when there was a landslide to
the Democrats, that Nelson
Rockefeller emerged as a na
tional figure. He was shown
in a spectacular way to be
able to reunite the Republi
cans in New York and to cut
deeply' into the Democratic
strength.
If the political situation in
1958 had continued unchang
ed, it followed that Nixon,
who had run as Eisenhower's
heir, would lose in 1960 where
as Rockefeller could win. It
was this calculation that
caused Rockefeller's stock to
soar, to mark him as the man
who could do in 1960 what
Eisenhower had done in 1952.
1UT THIS past year, during
the session of Congress, it
began to transpire that Eisen
hower was no longer the semi
retired invalid who had' ab
dicated his power to Humph
rey, Sherman Adams, and
Dulles. He had recovered his
health. He judged accurately
and with great political acu
men the weakness of the
Democratic majority of Con
gress, and he was beginning
to follow his own intuition in
foreign affairs.
With these developments
Rockefeller's stock began to
sink, and by mid-summer it
was clear that Eisenhower had
won for the Republican party
a monopoly of the two master
political vote catchers which
are, here as everywhere else,
prosperity and peace. It was
then that the polls began to
show that Nixon was way
ahead of Rockefeller among
the Republicans, and also that
he was a possible winner
against any of the Democrats.
THIS left Rockefeller's can
didacy in a hopeless posi
tion. It could no longer be
claimed as in 1958 that he was
the only Republican who
could win. And it became im
possible for him to make an
issue on -which he could fight
Nixon in the primaries. For on
any issue he chose to make he
would have had to fight Ei
senhower, which for a Repub
lican would have been politi
cal suicide.
So the inexorable logic of
the situation led to the de
cision which he announced
on Saturday.
HIS statement needs to be
read twice. It savs not only
that the governor will not
contest the nomination of
Nixon. It says also that the
governor holds views which,
by implication but neverthe
less clearly, differ from those
of the Eisenhower-Nixon ad
ministration. So, while he will
support the Nixon ticket, he
must be counted on as the ral
lying point of another kind of
Republicanism.
The Governor did not say
that he wanted Nixon for
President, ' though he did say
that he will support him. He
I
Walter
Lippmann
Menace
Should sound '
Lippmann
did not even say that he is an
enthusiast about Eisenhower,
whom he did not mention.
Though the governor has with
drawn from the 1960 contest,
he has set it down that there
is and will continue to be a
Rockefeller school of Repub
licanism. MUCH will be written about
this in the future. But it
is already reasonably clear
how Rockefeller differs from
Eisenhower-N i x o n ' Republi
canism. This difference has
been indicated lightly in the
Governor's speeches. But it is
spelled out in reports of the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Leaving out details for
which, of course, the Gover
nor cannot have been respon
sible, these reports on nation
al policy for defense and for
welfare are based on a new
major premise. It is that the
existing rate of American eco
nomic growth is too low and
that it must be raised, if this
country is to hold its place in
security and influence in the
world today. This country
must be able to support a ris
ing standard of life together
with a growing expenditure
for public purposes. The Gov
ernor has shown by his ac
tions in New York that when
the public need demands it,
he is not afraid of raising
taxes.
.
IN THESE fundamental mat
ters Gov. Rockefeller is a
man of the future. Because of
this he can face the fact that
we are running behind in the
face of armaments, and be
coming dangerously satisfied
with being a second rate pow
er. This, moreover, and not
Eisenhower's willingness to
talk with Mr. K., is the real
criticism to be made of the
Eisenhower foreign policy. Be
cause, also, of Rockefeller's
realization that we have slow
ed down dangerously, he can
face our internal problems of
education, public health, and
modernization. ' He does not
have to pull the blankets over
his head, protesting that this
rich country cannot afford to
meet its public necessities.
IT IS interesting to specu
late on how Nixon will be
affected by the fact that
Rockefeller has withdrawn
but has by no means disap
peared. Logically, one would
suppose that he will move for
ward. For now the Old Guard
has nowhere else to go and
he is free to occupy some of
the ground which has belong
ed to Rockefeller.
This ground belongs also to
the Democrats, and Nixon can
not win unless he can per
suade a large number of
Democrats to vote for him or
at least to abstain. Rockefel
ler, as was shown in 1958 in
New York, exerts a strong at
traction on the Democrats be
cause they recognize him as
a modern man. Nixon is
bound, one would suppose, to
assume the role of a modern
man. For he does not have to
pay court to his old buddies
among the right wing guerril
las of his party,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Ike Plans Day
Of Golf, Loafing
Augusta, Ga.-OIPD-President
Eisenhower hoped to escape
from work today and limit his
daytime activities on the eve
of the new year to golf and
loafing.
His plans, if any, for wel
coming the arrival of 1960
and the new decade tonight
had not yet been disclosed.
It was reported, however,
that he planned to play golf
today, as he has daily since
he arrived with Mrs. Eisen?
hower last Sunday for a year
end holiday at the Augusta
National Golf Club.
Nature Causes Failure of Agricultural
Schemes
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Twin forms of nature-human
.and acts of God-have
combined to write an amazing
story of fail
ure for gran
diose agricul
tural schemes
among the
C o m munist
nations.
China's an
cient enemies
of flood and
drought have
Phil Newsnm comDineawnn
earlier failures to the point
where 'millions of its rapidly
expanding population face a
real threat of starvation.
Red China admitted it
grossly over-estimated its
1958 farm production and has
paved the way for further
such admissions in 1959. To
help take the load of com
munal kitchens set up when
the Reds herded millions of
Communications
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edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Holiday Thoughts
To the Editor: I am glad
that all those who got in
toxicated while clebrating in
remembrance of Christ's birth
are sobering up for a better
year to come, and that the
stacks of Christmas cards,
gifts and letters are listed
and shelved
"Only God can make a tree."
Man can cut the tree down,
trim it for the season's big
showpiece, then drag it away
to be burned as rubbish.
Jack Frost could have done
a better job.
My youngsters are grown
and gone, so I just spent
Christmas quietly and safely.
Unlike many others I'm
alive and figuring out resolu
tions to make so I can have
fun breaking 'em later on.
There's one good resolution
I made years ago; that was,
to never waste a tree useless
ly. As one Nature Lover to
the rest of you, I've kept that
resolution. .
I bought our Christmas
trees from good nurseries,
roots on and packed. I en
joyed them for a week then
planted them. I have ' lovely
blue Spruce trees growing in
several states. Three years
ago I saw four of them in
Texas. They were about 30
feet tall and shelting snow
birds and tender memories.
In the Tribune's potluck col
umn, there was a poem that
beat them all. If you didn't
happen to see it, be at the
Fifty Plus club at noon Fri
day at Fifth and Oakdale and
I will read it to you. I gave
it the title of "Growing Old"
and took the liberty of adding
two lines to it.
That poUuck column re
minds me the first meeting
of each month is "potluck"
lunch, so bring something
good to eat.
Also, our president, Mary
Fredericks, asks us to help
entertain by reciting, singing,
telling a joke or story or
reading something.
Pearl Spackman
Jacksonville, Ore.
Cemetery Vandalism
To the Editor: It is with
saddened hearts that we feel
it necessary at this happy
holiday season to write this
communication.
We are not a morbid fam
ily, we are a happy family
and each very dear to the oth
ers. And as God's blessed
will has taken from us, He
has left us happy memories
that we retain, thus keeping
alive in our hearts our' loved
ones.
It is a ritual with us to
regularly take flowers and
plants from our yards to keep
just a tiny reflection of our
homes at the plots of the cem
etery. So as Christmas came
the family made sprays of ev
ergreens and Christmas orna
ments, some from our past
Christmases of which they,
Dad and Ernie, were a part,
for we all share trimming our
home Christmas tree.
Now as we returned, we
find vandals have again
made their visit and took one
entire big wreath leaving
scattered holly berries and a
few wilted flowers. .
Repeatedly this has hap
pened - vases, flowers, plants,
only of small financial value
13S
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Dean & Taylor
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Among Communist Nations
Chinese peasants into vast
agricultural combines, the
government has been forced
to encourage peasants to re
sume growing their own
food. In some instances, in
dividual plots of land have
been restored.
Matter of Fact
Bv Joseph Alsep
ROCKEFELLER:
BACKGROUND STORY
Washington - The back
ground story of Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller's withdrawal
from the Re
publican Pres
idential race
has not yet
been told. It
is worth tell
ing, too, be
cause it indi
cates that
what some
Nixonites
JOSEPH ALSOP u s e a xo cm
"t h e Rockefeller problem
has not yet been completely
solved.
The simple physical facts
are sufficiently astonishing;
for this decision which had
the effect of a bombshell on
Dec. 26 had in reality been
taken more than a fortnight
earlier, before the Governor's
departure on his last barn
storming tour on Dec. 12.
Yet it can be stated on un
doubted authority that this
was just the way it happened
In the first days of December,
in brief, the practical hope
lessness of a Rockefeller bid
for the Presidency had been
proven beyond doubt. Polls in
New Hampshire and other
primary states, soundings of
Republican leaders all over
the country and many other
tests, all gave the same re
sults.
AT THIS point, the Gover-
nor called in his three
most intimate advisors, his
long-time staff member,
Frank Jamieson, the cool-
headed New York National
Committeeman, George Hin-
man, and the able "Time-Life"
contributor and fromer White
House speech-writer, Emmet
Hughes. Rockefeller revealed
to these three his inclination,
to withdraw his candidacy,
and all three agreed.
, Hughes was thereupon ask
ed to prepare the first draft
of a withdrawal statement.
The Hughes draft was even
stiffer than the final version
in its suggestions that all was
not absolutely well with
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Am
erica. Some dilutions and de
letions were in the end decid-
ed upon. It was further de
cided not to extend the circle
of those in the know beyond
New York State Chairman
Judson Morehouse, -until after
Rockefeller's return from his
seven-state political tour. And
so the Governor departed, his
statement written, his mind
made up, to go through the
exhausting motions of candi
dacy for the last time.
but it is such a desecration of
our love tokens we take there.
Perchance they who do this
may be reminded that our
loved ones are dead only
when they are gone from our
hearts. Help us keep ours
alive.
The Family of The Late
L. H. Hughes, and
Ernest Lee Beer;
I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Average Salary
Of Teachers $5,334
Portland (UPD The Oregon
Education Association says
the average salary of Oregon
teachers for 1959-60 is $5,334.
This represents an increase
of $281 over last years aver
age of $5,053, the OEA re
ported.
The average salary was de
termined through a study of
15,920 teachers and 1,344 ad
ministrators. Dr. Richard
Boyd, OEA research director,
said all school districts in the
state were represented by the
study.
Broken down, the average
for elementary teachers was
$5,207; junior high, $5,320;
and senior high, $5,626.
SET COLLECTION RECORD
Washington-dlPD-The Justice
Department civil division set
a record in collecting money
claims on behalf of the fed
eral government in 1959. In a
year-end report, the depart
ment said Wednesday the
government failed 4,157 civil
suits claiming $62,500,000 and
settled for $53 million.
Sabotage Storits Spread
The story of miscalculation,
sabotage and ravages of na
ture extends from Communist
East Berlin, through Moscow
to Peiping.
In East Berlin, a high-ranking
member of the party dis-
His success in doing so sug
gests the coolness of the cus
tomer behind the hearty hand
shaking Rockefeller facade.
As a result, security was so
well preserved that Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
flatly refused fb believe that
his rival wasreally out of
the race untiljie could read
the actual text'ef the Rocke
feller statement".' This in itself
makes the story a political cu
riosity. BUT THE STORY is signifi
cant as well as curious,
because of the grounds on
which Rockefeller made his
final decision. He did not get
out merely because he saw no
hope of beating Nixon. Rocke
feller had in fact seen almost
no hope of beating Nixon at
least from the beginning of
November onwards. He mere
ly ordered a last poll of New
Hampshire to confirm his own
estimate of the situation.
. Meanwhile, throughout No
vember, he played with the
Idea of contesting the New
Hampshire and other prima
ries with the Vice President,
not in order to win, but in
order to make a record and to
stake a claim. The record he
wished to make was the rec
ord of his view that our pres
ent foreign and defense poli
cies are sadly, unimaginative
and inadequate. The claim he
wished to stake was the claim
of the man who has the cour
age to warn against the ugly
future he foresees. Obvious
ly, this approach to the pri
mary, contests would have
brought President Eisenhow
er squarely into the struggle
on the Vice President's side.
It could never have been
reconciled with a practical at
tempt to secure the Republi
can nomination. .
HAVING "played w ith the
idea of this approach
throughout November, Rocke
feller abandoned it in early
December because he sensibly
concluded that primary con
tests were the worst arena for
making his record and stak
ing his claim. But although
the Rockefeller candidacy has
been given up, the idea of
making the record and stak
ing the claim has not been
given up. Look at the key pas
sage in his withdrawal state
ment: "The national and world is
sues before us, I deeply be
lieve, hold omen of both men
ace and hope, both danger and
opportunity. W- all know the
range of thesissues: world
Dolicy. militarii&defenses. eco
nomic growth Everyone of
mem invites .swiumiy . . .
Such a time as this calls for
a profound and continuous
act of national self-examination."
v.-
Being interpreted, those
phrases mean that if the Re
publicans seek to win the
White House on whatis called
the "peace issue," Gov. Rocke
feller wants no part of the
enterprise and intends to
make this very clear indeed.
Having this intention, the
Governor remains an impor
tant factor in the national
election, despite his abandon
ment of his candidacy,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Thai all
may Knoui
Ours is a profession
dedicated to the
serving of others
Aaou from th Coucrtwuw
HANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS. FUNfRAl DIRECTORS
DAY, pit NIGHT WONESP 24030
closed that farmers opposed
to collectivization of their
lands were setting farm prop
erty on fire, poisoning cattle,
committing other acts of sabo
tage and assaulting Commu
nist organizers. The situation,
he said, had become "alarm
ing." About half of East Ger
many's farm land now is in
cluded in the collectives.
In Moscow, where Premier
Nikila Khrushchev took per
sonal charge of the drive to
surpass United States agricul
tural production, Khrushchev
himself admitted that this
year's harvest was the worst
in four years.
Some of it he blamed on
the weather, the rest on "lead
ers who do not understand a
thing about agriculture."
Voices Perennial Complaint
He voiced a perennial com
plaint that farm machinery
was allowed to fall into dis
repair, and complained again
about the growth of bu
reaucracy. Similarly, in Poland, th
government has admitted that
agriculture has not kept pace
with industrialization, and
there, as in China, a program
of austerity has been pro
claimed. In Poland, the situa
tion might have been worse,
but for emergency shipment
of surplus wheat from th
United States.
Both Poland and Hungary
have launched vigorous cam
paigns to overcome the farm
ers' opposition to government
run collectives. The Polish
farmer would rather have ni
own horse than a government
tractor.
Hungary, which formerly
was able to export food prod
ucts, now must import
Peasants Remain Stubborn
Romania is in the midst of
a ruthless campaign to force
farm land into collectives
over the opposition of peas
ants who remain stubborn
even after nearly 15 years
of Communist rule.
In Bulgaria, the govern
ment's desperate drive for
collectivization has resulted
in a campaign whose harsh
ness has been compared to
Red China's communal sys
tem in breaking up tradition
al family patterns.
Communist leaders will not
accept these setbacks as per
manent, nor will hunger
among any people be a cause
of satisfaction in the West. "
But they illustrate that the
Kremlin's "perfect" society
still is unable to collectivize
nature, human or otherwise.'
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