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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Medford bank leaders pre
dict prosperous valley econ
omy in 1950's, with construc
tion and farming showing a
slight decline, and the fruit
and lumbering industries
showing large gains.
Mail Tribune picks search
and rescue pilot who crashed
on Little Fish lake as top
story of year with the open
ing of the VA domiciliary at
Camp White in second place.
20 YEARS AGO
Two CCC trucks collide
near Butte Falls; eight boys
are injured, two seriously.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "This is
1940, and a Happy and Pros
perous New Year, with a
awift kick where it will do
the most good for the late
"Dirty 30s', is wished."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1, 1330 (Wednesday)
Attendance in local schools
shows steady increase in past
year. .
Auto travel over Siskiyous
Is snarled by snow, ice, and
high winds.
40 YEARS AGO
Harvard defeats Oregon 7
to 6 in Rose Bowl game; Ore
gon points scored on two field
goals.
Senator McNary, irked by
peace pact delay, threatens
to join Democrats in Senate
unless action is speeded.
50 YEARS AGO
Since gold was discovered
In Jackson creek in 1851,
fully 25 million in gold has
been extracted from Jackson
county.
, Census bureau reports one
automobile to every 500 per
sons in U.S.; records prove
that Medford leads U.S. and
world in per capita car own
ership with one car to every
30 persons.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or sight is excellent; five or
lis is good.
1. Who was nicknamed
"The Rail Splitter"?
2. Where was the first per
manent English settlement in
North America, established in
1601 by the London company?
3. In Army slang, is a "top
kick" the commanding offi
cer? 4. In which of Shake
speare's plays is Ophelia the
heroine?
5. Who once denounced
Congressional investigations
into alleged Soviet spy rings
as a "red herring"?
6. Which of our States is
named for a king who made
wigs the fashion?
7. What model of the Ford
car succeeded the Model T?
8. About which Burmese
city d:.i Rudyard Kipling
write a eulogistic poem?
9. Are the words "key"
and "quay" homonyms?
10. Who wrote "The Man
Without a Country"?
Answers: I. Abraham
Lincoln. 2. Jamestown, Va.'
3. No; (First Sergeant). 4.
Hamlet. 5. Harry S. Tru
man. 6. Louisiana, for
Louis XIV. 7. Model A.
8. Mandalay. 9. Yes; (They
have the same pronouncia-
tion.) 10. Edward EvtraH
Hal.
Time
and
Negotiations at Geneva looking to a perman
ent nuclear test ban. will face a deadline of sorts
when resumed on Jan.
reached when France
over the Sahara. The shot
conscious world could
most certainly before the middle of 1960.
Nothing: in the proposals now under nesrotia'
tion among the United
Russia would forbid France, Red China or any
other non-member of the atomic club " from ex
ploding nuclear weapons.
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John
A. McCone told the Senate Disarmament Sub
committee last June 24 that the thinking was that
if the talks were successful, "a combination of
logic and world opinion
by other countries." But
be a little optimistic.
OPTIMISTIC, indeed,
w announced intention
Sahara test unless the present atomic powers re
nounce nuclear armaments. No such world-wide
adherence to a nuclear test ban is remotely pos
sible this year maybe not for another decade.
Red China's progress toward a nuclear capa
bility is less certain than that of France. Philip
Noel-Baker, winner of the 1959 Nobel Peace
Prize for his work on disarmament, thinks Com
munist China may develop an atomic bomb in the
next two years. In an
scientists had told him
plants m Red China where hundreds of Chinese
Communists scientists are being trained.
Recent evidence that
be steering a course
Kremlin raises the doubt
tion to exert the needed pressure to obtain Chi
nese compliance with any inspection procedure
that may be agreed upon at Geneva.
TTHE TEST TRUCE, now in effect for 14
months, has been a fragile thing from the
first The United States on Oct. 31, 1958, began a
voluntary one-year moratorium by joint agree
ment with Britain. Russia then fired nuclear
shots on Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 to conclude a series of
tests designed to "match" the number of U.S. and
British tests in the preceding six months.
President Eisenhower on Aug. 26, 1959, ex
tended the original Oct. 31 termination date for
the U. S. moratorium to Dec. 31, 1959. Then came
the announcement on Dec. 29 that the United
States, beginning Jan. 1, would observe a "period
of voluntary suspension.
With the .United States now free to resume
tests after prior warning to the rest of the world,
our hand at Geneva should be strengthened.
TT'HE GENEVA talks were still bogged down
over the issue of controls as the new-year be
gan. If France achieves her nuclear prowess be
fore the final agreement is reached, the negotia
tors might have to start from scratch with France
a new party to the proceedings. Another un
known quantity would be the Soviet reaction to
France's nuclear test. During United Nations de
bate on the planned Sahara test, the Russian
delegate gave a pointed
Union had agreed to suspend its nuclear tests
only so long as no further tests were made by
any member of the Western alliance.
Delegates to the Geneva talks, therefore, are
working under an ultimatum imposed by the re
lentless advance in atomic technology. Footsteps
of the seekers of atomic status can be heard out
side and soon there will be knocking at the paper
door of the "atomic club." E.R.R.
Spotlight on Latin America
Communism's propaganda is giving gleeful
publicity to the troubled relations between the
United States andsome Latin American coun
tries, apparently on the theory that still more
mischief can be stirred; up-in America's back
yard. v
Peking Radio Dec. 14J)eamed a 10-minute
commentary in Spanish to countries south of the
border entitled "The Anti-U.S. Struggle In Latin
America." It cited Cuba's refusal to let this coun
try "interfere" in its internal affairs, the Pana
manian demonstrations in Nicaragua, the Do
minican Republic, Paraguay, and other countries
against "U.S.-supported dictatorships."
.
pVEN U. S. aid to Latin America is regarded
- as a "sugar-coated cannon ball" by Peking.
In a broadcast to East Asia Dec. 15, the Red
China radio said that the increase in aid "means
a tightening of the grip of exploitation and con
trol," and that adoption of the economic stabil
ization program in Argentina "has resulted in
currency devaluation, freezing of wages, sky
rocketing commodity, prices, unbridled penetra
tion of U. S. economic and political influence,
and aggravation of internal economic and po
litical crises."
Russia's Near-Eastem Service seized on the
Panama Canal as the subject for a broadcast
beamed in Arabic Dec. 10, declaring the United
States had replied to the Panamanians' "just
demand" for nationalization of the canal "by
the bloody repression organized by the American
troops against those who took part in the dem
onstrations Nov. 3 and who tried to take the Pan
amanian national flag to the Canal Zone."
The Communists clearly regard friction in
Latin America as a handy weapon in the long
term struggle to enlist political converts among
the peoples of under-developed nations there
and elsewhere throughout the world. E. R. R.
The Bomb
12 a deadline to be
explodes its atomic bomb
heard 'round a fall-out
come at any time, but al
States, Great Britain and
would develop adherence
he added: "That may
if France sticks by its
to go ahead with the
interview, he said Soviet
they saw "vast nuclear
the Peipmg regime may
semi - independent of the
that Moscow is in posi
reminder that the Soviet
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POTATO CHIPS AH' TWO GU&&5 OF GIHGER AlS."
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
PUBLIC ELATION
Washington - Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller's ' forced retire
ment as an aspirant for the
r't-s--, R e d u b lican
P r e s idential
n o m i n ation
has given the
Democrats oc
casion for
much public
2 e 1 a t ion. But
they have
cause also for
private con
cern. The situ
ation has been clarified in one
sense, of course. The Demo
crats now know beyond rea
sonable doubt that the Repub
lican nominee will be Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
But this clarification of the
Democratic problem does not
necessarily make it simpler, pr
even easier.
True, there was widespread
Democratic opinion that
Rockefeller would be harder
to beat than Nixon. But this,
after all, was never better
than an iffy guess. Rockefel
ler's victory in New York in
1958 was extraordinary, so far
as it went. Again, nowever,
New York is not necessarily
a reliable pattern of national
thinking. Thomas E. Dewey
for many years held that state
in the palm of his hand. But
twice he was defeated nation
ally in running for President
-once, in 1948, against a sup
posed pushover, Harry S. Tru
man.
CJO THE basic fact was that
Rnrkpfpllpr harl never Pnne
to bat in the big leagues. No
body could really know how
he would fare in a world se
ries against the Democrats.
He had never really been
pushed hard. No one could
know how he would stand up
under the brutal pressures of
a nation-wide campaign. Nix
on's severest critics must con
cede him this: he can take
it, as he can dish it out.
Moreover, the mere fact
Rockefeller obediently got out
of the competition clearly
brings some bad-as well as
some possibly good-news for
the Democrats. For it proves
to the hilt what had long
been plain to all close politi
cal observers: the best secret
weapon in the Republicans
arsenal is that they know how
to maintain, and even to force,
operating unity in facing the
common Democratic enemy.
117HEN the professionals can
' simply tell a man so pow
erful as Rockefeller that he
must quietly drop out of con
tention, the profound practi
cal unity of that party cannot
be ' argued. Campaigns, of
course, are won by many fac
tors. But not the least of these
is the possession of disciplined
battalions of party fighters.
Of such practical unity the
Democrats, as of now, have
anything but. They have now
got to meet an actual Nixon,
not a theoretical Rockefeller.
And unless they can draw to
gether they are going to have
a difficult time, indeed.
Already, some Democrats
are assuming that because
Nixon is said to be "conserva
tive" (and in such matters as
civil rights he is surely not)
they must nominate a New
Deal type of liberal. No reality
of"the past eight years sup
ports such a notion. The unal
terable fact is that the New
Deal and the conditions mak
ing it necessary and successful
are long dead. The tactics of
yesterday's battles will not
win actions on today's terrain.
Nixon will give off an im
pression mainly of competence
and strength. The Democratic
nominee will surely need to
do likewise,
THE true nature of the strug
gle has been set by the Re
publicans. They are going to
offer not a rnan of fresh ideas,
Rockefeller, but a master prac
tical politician, Nixon. The
Democrats, to have a chance,
must run at least a good poli
tician against him.
"Mm
William S.
White
Menace
S. WHITE
Nixon is going to be strong
everywhere but in the South
His nomination will practical
ly hand the South over to the
Democrats if they are skilled
in the art of politics, which
is simply the art of rational
compromise. They will need
to be wise enough, in short,
to choose a standard bearer
and write a civil rights plank
not absolutely intolerable be
low the Potomac. For this
time the South they will bad
ly need.
And, as a practical matter,
Nixon's civil rights record is
so advanced that their ability
to outbid him in the North
is highly questionable any
how.
Three Democratic "possibili
ties"-Adlai E. Stevenson and
Senators Lyndon B. Johnson
and John F. Kennedy-could
honestly run on a moderate
civil rights plank. It is diffi
cult to see how any other ma
jor and now visible Demo
cratic aspirant could do so.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
Starting today, Uncle Sam
will take more from your pay
check for social security tax
es.
The 20 per cent hike, which
will be felt by virtually every
worker and employer in the
United States, is designed to
bring the government an ad
ditional $2 bunon a year m
revenue.
It will be the fourth in
crease in social security taxes
in the last three years. The
present law calls for three
more increases spread over
the next nine years.
OW come all these in
creases?
It's perfectly simple. High
er taxes are needed to cover
the swelling costs of the pro
gram, which now provides
monthly benefit checks to 13,
400,000 persons. Our popula
tion is growing. The statisti
cians like to tell us it is EX
PLODING. Each year there
are more people.
And-
Each year more people
reach the age at which they
they become eligible for so
cial security checks. Not on
ly are more people being
born. Each year MORE PEO
PLE ARE LIVING LONGER.
That explains why social
security costs are rising. It ex
plains, why they are going to
go on rising.
THERE'S another reason
why social security costs
are rising and will keep on
rising. When social security
was started, a dollar would
buy a certain amount of se
curity. Now the same dollar
buys MUCH LESS SECUR
ITY. So -
As inflation grows
Social security checks have
to be BIGGER.
Let's not complain (too
much) about the rising cost of
social security. Social security
is one of the good things of
modern life. We couldn't do
without it. No one would
want to do without it. No one
wants to go back to the cruel
days when for a large part of
our population advancing
years meant . movmg in witn
the children or being help
ed out by the neighbors . . .
or GOING TO THE POOR
HOUSE. But- '
Let's keep this in mind:
There is no such thing as
something for nothing. Social
security doesn't come for free.
It isn't manna from heaven.
It isn't something that is giv
en to us by the kind-hearted
politicians..
It has to be paid for - just
like everything else that is
worth having. '
Wilson Clarifies Statement Made by
Education Institution Associations
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - This
essay is to wag a finger at,
of all people, the executive
comm 1 1 1 e e
men of two
great associa
tions of educa
tional institu
tions. They
are:
(1) The Am
erican Associ
ation of Land
Grant College
Lyie c. Wilson and State Uni
versities and (2) the State
Universities association.
Their executive committees
jointly have issued a state
ment which - if accurate -would
be very good news, in
deed. One paragraph from
this statement was as follows:
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation,
letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Cougar Research
To the Editor: Research is
a must when writing for gen
eral public entertainment and
information, especially that
obtained afield original
source. This seems to be lack
ing in Lynn M. Watkins Small
Worlds Around Us column of
the Dec. 29 issue, where men
tion is made: "he (the cougar)
has not been known actually
to attack a human being."
Had Watkins delved into
the "graveyard files of the
Sportsman Review in Spo
kane. Wash., he would have
found there an account of
two prospectors found dead
and partly eaten near their
temporary camp. The only
tracks other than their own
in that mid-November time
of 1882 were those of a large
cougar.
Naturalist Watkins might
talk with an old-one of the
Okanogan Indian tribe who
tell of a tribesman long ago
disappearing on a wintry day,
never to be seen again. Later
on, a cougar, when dressed
out for eating, was found to
have its stomach contain in
an elongated tight roll, the
long black hair of the tribes
man and it still had certain
ornaments therein.
Ray Harnish out Eagle
Point way can give some
first-hand information on the
subject that deals with a big
husky Norwegian young com
panion who was jumped by
one of the big cats but fought
the thing off and survived
the serious blood-letting or
deal.
Watkins also might visit
the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, D. C, and find
there a cougar stomach con
taining the scalp-hair tightly
rolled with a tooth dented 32
rim-fire cartridge and patches
of an overall pocket inter
laced with human hair still
showing subcuteanous parts.
This writer helped carry
the frozen body of the boy to
the undertaker's car on the
deep crusted mountain road
35 years ago in north central
Washington.
This is not cheerful read
ing, but seems necessary to
clear up some widespread
misunder standing of the
American Puma, felis con
color, known here as the
cougar.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point
The Audubon Society
To the Editor: The Oregon
Audubon Society, 5219 SW
Cornell rd., Portland, Ore.,
was organized about 1910, in
corporated under the laws of
Oregon, has functioned as a
local group, primarily inter
ested in the spread of informa
tion about birds, animals and
the general subject of the con
servation of our natural re
sources.
The original planning call
ed for sub-districts over the
state.. Circumstances pre
vented such action at that
time.
As conditions now exist, the
local group has come to feel
that conservation throughout
the state can better be served
by the joint effort of the
various groups of the state.
With this in mind, we are
suggesting that interested per
sons and study groups make
the interest manifest by com
municating with the Audubon
society of the above address.
The Portland group has de
tailed drawings made of a
photographers blind to be
erected in Malheur lake, the
blind to be made of local
stone, the top covered with
local vegetation as a camou
flage. Apertures for camera
DANCE.
Saturday llighl
OASIS
Eagle Point
"In science and engineer
ing - critical factors in today's
world - our colleges and uni
versities have been for many
years and are now graduating
more trained young people in
Humphrey Looks
Sharp for Plain
Man's Candidate
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington -flJPD- For an
avowed plain man's candidate
for President, Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey (D-Minn.), these
days looks mighty sharp. He
turned up for his formal an
nouncement attired in a new
dark blue continental suit
with cuffs on the coat sleeves.
A fellow I know in the suit
and cloak game said he does
n't ordinarily offer these mo
dels to people like senators.
He said they're more for the
younger fellows, switching
over from the tight pants Ivy
League look.
Humphrey assured me,
though, he bought his, and
another one like it, from a
tailor back home who said it
was what he should have. So
I guess maybe that's what
they're wearing now out in
Minnesota.
Narrow Lapels
On one of the narrow la
pels which these suits feature,
Humphrey had broken out a
big jeweled pin for the occas
ion in the shape of an H; how
ever, his aides wore plain old
campaign buttons, with HHH
on them. It seems he has on
ly one homburg, and he said
it was already a little soiled.
Otherwise, I guess Hum
phrey qualified aU right. He
came out for jobs for every
viewing are to be placed on
the four sides of the building.
This project has found such
acceptance by the wild life
service that they propose to
Duiia a second Dima in a
different part of the lake.
Phil Lewis
10660 SW Walnuf st.
Tigard ,Ore.
Former President of the
Oregon Audubon Society
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
EVER WONDER about the maze of pipes, wires and cables
' strung under the pavements of a modern metropolis?
Robert Daley explains all this in a fascinating book, "The
World Beneath the City." -
In underground New
York . City, says Daley,
there are 7,000 miles of
gas mains, 5,000 miles of
sewers, 22,000 miles of
TV cables, and 15 million
miles of telephone wires
enough to circle this
planet 600 times! There
also are 19,000 miles of
electric cables and 5,500
miles of water mains.
Guarding this incredi
ble network of vital fa
cilities is an army of over
20,000 highly-trained technicians and troubleshooters ready
to jump into action (via the city's 683,000 manholes) at the
flashing of a danger signal.
A lawyer just received a letter from a stranger who obviously
has a magnanimous streak. "I know you specialize in drawing
wills," the letter began. "If the time ever comes when you
cannot think of a beneficiary, I tfant you to feel free to use
my name."
JANUARY
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proportion to population than
any other country in the
world, including Russia. The
Russians have recently ex
ceeded us in total numbers
of scientists and engineers
body, an expanding
economy
(with stable prices).
and a
'full share" of DrosDeritv for
people like farmers, workers,
and old folks, he was against
disease, poverty, hunger and
illiteracy.
And he possibly nicked n
support from some of the
plain reporters present by
showing up for his press con
ference precisely at 10
o'clock, the hour for which h
called it. But. to show von
how hazardous politics is,
this gesture curried no favor
at all with one veteran poli
tical writer who acted on the
assumption HumDhrev would
follow local custom and make
an impressive entrance, with
sideboys, at along about
10:08.
Hearing Room Packed
Nevertheless the hearing
room of the Senate Appropri
ations committee was packed.
disproving the old journalism
school maxim that news is an
account of the unexpected. If
there was anybody present
who expected Humphrey to
say he wasn't running, I did
n't see him.
But there were certain as
pects of his announcement
that we hadn't looked for.
One was that he didn't open
up with a speech. He just had
a helper hand around a mime
ographed statement, in which
he said why he had decided
to run. Then he said he would
try to answer our questions.
xmow tew senators are
known for their brevity, Sen
Humphrey is known for once
having talked eight hours to
Khrushchev. And it is said he
once protested to a radio re
porter who proposed to tape
a two-minute interview:
"Why, I can't say hello in
less than a half hour."
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graduating from their uni
versities. This is solely be
cause they have more young
people than we have." . ,
The paragraph outs an en
tirely new face on the argu
ment about scientific educa
tion now boilins in th
United States. If the associa
tions are correct, things can't
be so bad. United Press In
ternational (UPI), however,
must be pessimistic about
such good news, esneciallv
when it is controversial. So
UPI braced Washington head
quarters of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges for sup
porting evidence.
The association acknowl
edged that is simply accepted
at face value some fizures
published in a magazine
article by . Prof. Robert J.
Havighurst of the University
of Chicago. Havighurst had
calculated that about 4 nnn-
000 Russian youths reach age
zz annually and about 2,000,
000 American youths. On
that basis, he computed that
the United States had been
graduating an annual average
of 20 engineering and scien-
imc scholars per 1,000 22-year-olds
as against 17 per
1,000 Russians.
Prof. Havighurst. a re
spected scholar, emphasized
in a footnote to his article
that "the data for Russia are
not completely reliable" and
ignored this warning in its "
release.
Dr. William K. Medlin, Rus
sian specialist in the U.S.
Office of Education, told UPI
that statistical eomnarisnn.:
are virtually impossible be
cause: Official Breakdown
-Russia has not published
any official age-breakdown of
its census figures since 1939.
Projections of the 1939 age
distribution to represent cur
rent distribution are likely to
be unreliable.
-Russia asserts that it is
graduating 90,000 engineers
annually but has not pub
lished figures on how many
scientists are graduated.
Russian statistics list col
lege graduates, not by aca
demic discipline, as in the
United States, but by the field
in which they will work -agriculture,
transportat ion,
heavy industry and such.
There are no means of know
ing, for example, how msny
transportation graduates are
physicists and how many are
merely railroad dispatchers.
Medlin told UPI: "We are
evploring this question. All
indications are that their
(Russian) production rate of
scientists and engineers is
greater than ours, greater
both in absolute numbers and
in proportion to population.
We have not been able to
find enough information to
justify any definite statistical
comparisons."
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