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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 7. 1950 (Saturday)
Reduced load limit on Ore
g o n ' s secondary highways
went into effect today and
lumbermen predict that 400
to 500 men in Prospect area
alone will face immediate un
employment because of it.
Pacific Greyhound lines
agrees to license 15 pieces of
equipment in Jackson county
to give county license reve
nues. . .
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 7. 1940 (Sunday)
A woman who was brutal
Iv slain in Aberdeen. Wash.,
vpsterdav was a Medford vis
itor during Christmas holi-
davs.
from Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Some
gumption is being manifested
in Republican ranks here, but
it is rumored they will be
militant and sass the new
deal."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 7. 1930 (Tuesday)
Car driven by Medford
chief of police skids on ice
and hits parked car.
Tax levy in county to show
a decrease this year.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 7. 1920 (Thursday) '
Premier Lenin of Russia
makes peace offer to allies.
Jitney line to Jacksonville
to be established.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 7. 1910 (Friday)
Local carpenter's union
votes to raise daily minimum
wage from $3 to $3.50 for an
eieht-hour day.
Over $2V'2 million spent
for building construction in
Medford last year, and 1910
promises , to beat that.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
lis is good.
1. Complete this cliche:
"Lock, stock and
2. Are lichi nuts grown in
Italy, China, or Brazil?
3. Do members of Congress
receive extra salary for at
tendance at special sessions?
4. What continent lies en
tirely south of the Equator?
5. Correct the following
"Of the thirty plane passen
gers, none were injured."
6. In what field of art is
Rosa Ponselle well known?
7. What is the Arabic num
ber equivalent to MCDXCII?
8. What Prussian dnllmas-
ter had a great part in train
ing George Washington's
troops as fighting men?
9. Is "Mutiny on the Boun
ty" purely fictitional, or
based on iaci;
10. What arithmetic opera
tion is implied by the term
"product"?
Answcrst 1. Barrel. 2. Chi
na. 3. No. 4. Australia. 5. It
is correct. 6. Music; opera
singer. 7. 1492. 8. Baron von
Steuben. 8. Based on fact 10.
Multiplication.
REELECT PRESIDENT
Chicago-OIPD - The National
Retail Furniture association
Wednesday reelected Roscoe
R Rau executive vice presi
dent. Rau has been with the
8,000-member furniture deal
ers group since 1926.
Km
Suicide Amendment
Here's a modest proposal:
Abolish the U.S. Forest Service, and sell the
forest reserve timberland, wilderness, recrea
tion areas, grazing lands and all to Weyer
haeuser, Crown-Zellerbach or Georgia Pacific.
Ditto the Bureau of Land Management.
Wipe out the Tennessee Valley Authority,
and sell its power plants, flood-control works,
levees and transmission lines to private utilities.
Dismember the Bonneville Power Adminis
tration, and similarly dispose of its huge dams,
irrigation canals and power lines.
CND THE U.S. MARITIME Commission, and
throw the American merchant fleet onto its
own, in the face of murderous competition.
Wipe out nine-tenths of the Department of
Agriculture, including its farm program, its ex
periment stations, its soil conservation service,
and all its other vital services.
Decimate the Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, including the Social Security
Administration, with its program of old age pen
sions, and the U.S. Public Health Service, with
its watchdog role on behalf of the health and
physical welfare of the nation.
Close up the Weather Bureau. And the Nation
al Aeronautics and Space Administration. And
the Panama Canal. And the Federal Housing Ad
ministration. And the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
Wipe out the National Parks, and sell them to
private industry's recreational entrepreneurs.
THAT'S NOT ALL.
Tm-minafQ -all fnrpiorn
sistnnp p and advice which
ly countries alive and outside the Iron Curtain.
Terminate our membership in the United
Nations. End all government-sponsored cultural
or educational exchange programs.
And do all this within a period of three years.
Silly? Absurd? Asinine? Unthinkable?
Mnr. in the vi'pw of the suDDorters of a serious
ly proposed (honestly!)
U.S. Constitution. ...
This amendment would do all these things
Tt has some
resolutions 'in its support
legislatures ot two states
ONE WILLIS E. Stone of Los Angeles, selt
styled author of the amendment, has been in
Medford this week speaking on its behalf. He
has rounded up some rather voluble support, too,
and telephones have been busy bidding people to
attend his meetings.
The gimmick: The amendment also would
abolish all federal income, inheritance and gift
taxes.
This has a fine sound to it at least until
one figures out what the whole thing would do.
Tt wnnlrl do this: It would reduce the United
states nf America to a
nvern io-ht alone and without friends in the world,
bankrupt, destitute, and with its immense natural
resources at the mercy of what Teddy Roosevelt
once called "malefactors ot great weaitn.
IT WOULD have another interesting effect.
It would place the western world at the mercy
of international communism. .
If Mr. Stone didn't specifically claim author
ship of the amendment, we could have sworn it
was dreamect up during
dream in the Kremlin.
We can think of nothing, offhand, which
would so neatly remove
tive foe of totalitarianism.
And this if for no other reason than that it
would prevent its mobilizing, its great potential
i . i.:..- .en
economic ana moiai puvver miu eiiecuve luice
either military or political.
WE HAVE READ, in detail and with great m
toroot a cneenh Mv Stone made in Portland
last September, and which was reprinted in the
Congressional Record at the request of Congress
man James B. Utt of California, sponsor of the
resolution for this proposed 23rd amendment.1
- Superficially, he makes a logical case.
"Sell off all government property not specifi
cally authorized by the constitution," he says in
effect, "and end all government in business, and
the proceeds, plus the lessened burden on govern
ment finances, will make it possible to bar all
taxes except those on corporations." .
But the speech is loaded with misstatements,
half-truths and phoney arguments.
II TE ARE NOT in the
" utterly wild-hair notion ever will attain the
status of a constitutional amendment. For one
thincr. no sensible and informed person could pos
sibly take it seriously
its implications. J or another, there are too many
people with too much at stake to allow the fed
eral government to be stripped of all its functions
except the aimed forces, the bureau of the census,
and the post office. . ,
What does concern us is the fact that some
people are sufficiently credulous to take this pro
posal with any degree of seriousness.
' While it is tine that the constitution does not
snecificallv authorize manv of the government s
present activities, the founding fathers were wise
enough to make that great document. sufficiently
broad in scope to take care of unforeseen situa
tions, through the "general welfare" clause.
Perhaps the government does have a hand in
too many things which might properly be left to
private enterprise (although this is debatable).
But this amendment would be like blowing
your head off to get rid of a pimple on the end
of your nose. E.A.
nirJ thd PCnnnmiC as-
have kert manv friend
23rd amendment to the
serious supporters. And
have already passed the
Wyoming ana icxas.
fifth-rate Dower almost
someone s eupnonc day
this nation as an effec
least concerned that this
after once understanding
Dennis the
Joey stays in ihb house a tor ivhen ak SNowy He's afraio
Or POtAK BCKS.-
M after of Fact Joseph ais0P
STEEL: BACKGROUND
REPORT
" Washington-Vice President
Richard M. 'Nixon and his
friend and ally, Secretary of
,n Labor James
Mitchell, are
rightly given
most of the
credit for the
vital steel set
t 1 e m e n t .
I which pre
vents another
crippling
strike and
joseph alsop many another
misfortune besides.
The method used has not
been understood, however,
and it is certainly well worth
understanding. In brief, Nix
on and Mitchell devoted their
major efforts to convincing
the steel companies' manage
ments that the political cli
mate was hostile; and that, in
the event of another strike,
management would suffer
more than labor at the hands
of Congress.
This was no resort to emp
ty threat, either. Nixon and
Mitchell quite simply gave
the steel executives their
cool-headed and thoroughly
informed judgment of the
Congressional response to a
renewal of the steel strike,
which seemed so likely only
a few days ago. Mitchell
alone probably would not
have been believed. - Nixon
had to be believed however.
THE POLITICAL assess
ment offered by Nixon
was so important, because
there was still a considerable
spill-over from the attitudes
of last summer. At that time.
the steel managements figur
atively wrapped themselves
in Old Glory, with the stars
and : stripes re-embroidered
with the President's initials.
In this temporary toga, they
proclaimed that their sole
purpose was to fight infla
tion as the President had
commanded them to do. They
heard no hint from the White
House, either, that the line
they were taking was not al
together in accord with the
President's views.
The tactics used by Nixon
and Mitchell were as interest
ing as their strategy. In brief,
their really active interven
tion in the steel dispute only
began after the President
clothed the Vice President
with solid authority to act.
This occurred just before Ei
senhower left for his world
trip, when he asked Nixon to
"do what he could" to secure
a steel settlement.
ON DEC. 8, accordingly,
Nixon and Mitchell met
secretly in New York with
Roger Blough, of U.S. Steel,
Charles White, of Republic
Steel, Arthur Homer, of Beth
lehem, and Conrad Cooper,
the chosen negotiator for all
M . A
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
COMPLAINED ANOTHER WIFE to that same old psychia
trist, "my husband insists on banging away on a big bass
drum from early morning until late at night"
"So maybe he's a natu
ral musician," soothed
inf anx vsl i. Lfio. ut?i.
a bass drum occasionally
for relaxation."
"You do?" exclaimed
the wife. "From the IN
SIDE?" "Papa," asked a city
boy on vacation with his
folks," what makes cocks
crow so loudly every
morning?"
"My boy," answered
his weary father, "they
are merely making the
most of their opportunity before the hens wake up."
"I see you're driving' a new car," said a friend to the town'a
leading insurance salesman. "So I am," replied the insurance
salesman ruefully. "I tried to sell a policy to an automobile salea
man." -
1960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
Menace
the other companies involved
in the dispute with the United
Steelworkers. This first meet-1
ing was primarily explora
tory. The aim was to discover
the kind of settlement the
steel managements might go
along with. But Nixon and
Mitchell also warned that a
prompt settlement was cer
tainly the cheapest way out.
This first secret meeting in
New York led to three 'ther
meetings in Washington, one
between Nixon, Mitchell, and
Roger Blough of U.S. Steel,
one between Nixon, Mitchell,
Blough, and David MacDon
ald of the Steelworkers, and
one between Nixon, Mitchell,
Blough, Conrad Cooper, and
the Steelworkers' lawyer,
Arthur Goldberg.
The purpose of . all these
meetings was to use Nixon's
authority to persuade the in
dustry representatives to
come to terms. Mitchell mean
while had the task of per
suading the Union to reduce
its demands to an acceptable
level. Contrary to - report,
neither Mitchell nor Nixon
ever threatened an adminis
tration-sponsored bill to halt
or arbitrate a renewed strike.
Nixon's warnings only con
cerned Congress. Both Nixon
and Mitchell always drove
directly for a settlement.
BY THE END of December,
a settlement seemed pos
sible, although thejre was no
detailed settlement in sight
Just before flying to Califor
nia for the New Year, the
Vice President therefore held
a final secret meeting, in New
York at the Waldorf Astoria
hotel on the evening of Dec.
30, with representatives of
all the 11 steel companies in
volved in the dispute.
At this meeting, he . gave
his political judgment to the
steel executives straight from
the shoulder, causing some
anguish by so doing. The re
sult of this effort, plus Mit
chell's efforts with the Union
representatives, was to create
a true climate for bargaining
for the first time.
At that, the bargaining
went on, non-stop, for days
on end. Secretary Mitchell
had no real sleep for close to
72 hours when the settlement
was announced on Monday
morning. But in the end, the
astutely managed Nixon
Mitchell campaign paid off
handsomely. It has averted In
calculable damage to the na
tional economy.
It has also averted, by no
means incidentally, the kind
of management-labor row in
Congress that would have
done much damage to Rich
ard M. Nixon's chances of
election next November.
(Copyright 1960 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Gift Project
To the Editor: Thank you
very much for the excellent
coverage your newspaper gave
the Mental Health Association
Christmas gift project for the
patients in the state mental
hospitals. Without the sup
port of the newspapers, the
gift project could not possibly
be successful.
Mrs. J. Robert Ridehalgh,
Christmas Gift Chairman
. Mental Health
Association of Oregon,
Portland, Ore.
Foggy Taxi Fares
To the Editor: During the
recent fog, local taxicabs
doubled their fares to outly
ing zones, without advance
notice.
This happened to me, and
also to others.
Perhaps the city should
take another look at the fran
chise under which the taxi
cab firms operate as public
utilities on the streets of Med
ford.
And perhaps those who feel
as I do should call this mat
ter to the attention of their
councilmen.
(Name on file)
Medford.
Ads Helpful
To the Editor: We wish to
express our deep thinks to
you for running the Mental
Health series of ads in your
paper.
The success of these mes
sages carried by newspapers
throughout the country is
clearly shown in the number
of requests which resulted
from the ads' offer of the free
booklet, "How to Deal With
Your Tension s." For the
three-month period durirTg
which the ads appeared, 46,
927 requests for the booklet
were received, and filled.
Thank you again for your
generous contribution to the
Better Mental Health Cam
paign sponsored on our be
half by The Advertising
Council.
Lawrence J. Linck,
Executive Vice President
National Association for
Mental Health, Inc.
New York, N.Y.
Diplomacy
To the Editor: You don't
have to be a Diplomat to set
tie a strike by giving the un
ions a 40c an hour increase in
pay, but you sure would have
to use diplomacy to get the
Unions to agree to a 40c an
hour cut in pay.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Fearsome Carnivore
To the Editor: I don't know
Lynn Watkins and have no
personal interest either in
proving or disproving his in
tegrity as a naturalist or col
umnist. I don't know F. J. Clifford
either, and so have no interest
in proving anything to or
about him either.
Felis concolor, American
lion, puma, cougar, painter,
panther or whatever name he
may be using, or have used,
I know quite well, haying
hunted him with hounds,
hunted him as he hunts, by
knowledge of the ways of the
wild and innumerable nights
roaming the mountains and
deserts as a friend of nature
and as her open minded stu
dent for the last 37 years.
So, to defend my friendly
enemy, Mr. Cougar.
Mr. Clifford cites interest
ing cases of dead men being
partially or wholly eaten by
cougars.
Mr. Watkins said: "he (cou
gar) has not been known actu
ally to attack a human being."
I agree with that statement
and find no reason to change
my opinion about the deer's
best friend, the -cougar, be
cause of any instance Mr.
Clifford cites.
By his (Clifford's) logic
(stomach contents)-I attacked
and ate a turkey today! Actu
ally I found him dead and
frozen solid. One time my
stomach contained a chunk
of whale meat. -What a fear
some carnivore I must be!
Tell me where there is a
cougar who attacks humans.
I'll hunt him without weapons,
tie him up and bring him in
for trial or research.
Tim J. Horn,
Box 214,
Yreka, Calif.
Women and Hatfield
To the Editor: Women are
n't doing so well under the
Hatfield regime -. Republican
women that is. Republican
women are complaining, and
rightfully so.
Every time the governor ap
points or considers women for
major appointment he goes to
the Democratic party. For in
stance, he replaced Cecelia
Galey, Republican, with
Emily Logan, Democrat, on
the Unemployment Compensa-
tion Commission.
The governor with much
Start of Aswan Dam
Nasser's Dream Still
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Egypt sees a dream on the
way to reality this week.
President Gamal Abdel Nas-
s e r presides
over cere
monies laying
the foundation
stone of the
great Aswan
H Dam, whose
first phase is
being built
with the aid
of Soviet mon
ey and techni
Ph)l Netvsom
cians and which upon com
pletion is to increase Egypt's
cultivated land by one-third.
i" 1 -Yii mfr i
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
The Administration and TV
Mr. Rogers, the Attorney
General, has replied to ques
tions which the President put
to him when
the television
scandals broke
out: "Whether
there were
any laws vio-
VVVW I lateG
YH whether w e
C?!! should pro
pose any new
laws."
The answer
from the Department of Jus--tice
is that the laws as passed
by Congress are on the whole
adequate, that these laws have
been violated, and that the
Federal regulatory commis
sions concerned with them -the
one for communications
and the one-for trade have
in fact made no serious at
tempt to enforce the laws.
While the Attorney Gener
al, perhaps rightly, did not
deem it his business to say so,
can it be denied that if the
officials have failed to en
force the law, the remedy
would be to appoint some new
officials who will try to en
force the law?
THE REPORT itself, is, it
seems to me, a clear and
candid introduction to the TV
problem. Mr. Rogers has fixed
his main attention on the re
cent scandals on the fraud
of the quiz programs and the
corruption of the payola. But
he has opened the door, with
out going through it, to the
much greater question of na
tional policy, which is how to
deal with the consequences of
what he calls "naked commer
cial selfishness." This is the
search for larger and larger
audiences to yield larger and
larger advertising revenues
Here the broadcasting compa
nies are debasing and degrad
ing the most powerful of all
popular institutions of educa
tion, and entertainment,
Mr. Rogers believes, and no
doubt with good reason, that
the laws as passed by Con
gress,' if enforced, are ade
quate to deal with the "decep
tive and corrupt practices"
which have shocked the coun
try. Certainly it is true that
the problem here is not to
write new laws but to find
men who have the will and
the ability to enforce the laws
we have.
But there is more in the
laws than that. The rights to
use the comparatively few
air waves are valuable prop
erty. These properties belong
to the public, and the intent
of the existing . law is that
licensees to use the air waves
are pledged to treat them as
a public trust in the public
interest.
The question here is wheth
er any regulatory commission,
even a good one, can induce
or compel the broadcasting
companies to live up to a
higher,..but . less ..profitable,
standard of information, edu
cation, and entertainment.
This is at bottom of the ques
tion of what can be done by
the method of regulation. A
commission can police the in
dustry against fraud. But
what if anything can it do
to raise the intellectual and
fanfare went to the press an
nouncing that" Democratic
Senator Jean Lewis would be
a fine Multnomah county cir
cuit court judge and that he
would appoint Jier to a va
cancy - if possible.
Now he by-passes an avow
ed woman candidate, Republi
can Representative Shirley
Field, for state treasurer.
Surely the Republican par
ty isn't so impoverished for
competent female' talent in the
political field that the gover
nor can't find one Republican
of. stature to-appoint. We
Democrats should be flattered
by his recognition of Democrats-capabilities,
but some
how his gestures remind one
of the "beware of Greeks
bearing gifts" quotation.
Beulah Hand
Vice Chairman
Democratic Party
. .-. - of Oregon -
429 Governor Bldg.
Portland 4, Ore.
Walter
Lippmann
The year just past has been
a good ' one for Nasser, and
with the start of the huge
dam holding back waters of
the Nile he is able to present
the Egyptian people with tan
gible evidence of a better
future.
In the last year, friendship
with the United States has
been restored and Nasser's
United Arab Republic em
bracing Syria and Egypt has
been the recipient of $125 mil
lion in various forms of Amer
ican aid.
Diplomatic and business re
lations have been restored
with Britain, and soon maybe
with France.
Lippmann
moral and esthetic standards,
and to improve the quality of
what is broadcast?
THIS IS the door which Mr.
Rogers has opened with
out passing through it. It is
a fair inference, however,
from the general tenor of his
report that he knows quite
well that not much can be
done by way of regulations
to improve the quality of the
programs.
My own view is that it is
not possible to define in the
laws and regulations stand
ards of quality which can be
enforced. Nor do I think it
would be desirable or healthy
to have the regulating com
mission, which is essentially
a policeman, set up shop to
advise and even control the
quality of the programs.
What then? How to jut re
lying upon voluntary self im
provement by the networks?
mere appears to be some
evidence that they would like
to do better than they have
been doing, and that :they
would like to recover the -confidence
and respect .w h i c h
they lost during the recent
exposures and the public out
cry. More power to them. But
we must not forget that the
economic interest of the com
panies, which require bigger
audiences for bigger revenues
is against any serious and
lasting effort to use television
for its highest possibilities
ine companies will do as
much but not much more than
the traffic will bear.
rpHAT WILL not be enough
-a- This country needs SOME
television at the best hours
which-like schools and uni
versities, like art galleries,
like the parks, like research-
is not commercial, is produced
not because it yields private
profits but because it moves
towards truth and excellence
I say "some television." We
could not and should not have
the government run the whole
television industry. What we
need is a competitor with
commercial television, a com
petitor who has a different
motive and can have, there
fore, different standards.
The non - commercial com
petitor would have to be some
kind of public corporation or
authority, chartered by law,
governed like a university by
trustees, and operated by pro
fessionals. How could it be
financed? The best discussion
of this question has, I think,
come from Mr. John Fischer
who had been writing in
"Harper's" magazine. His the
sis is that since the air waves
are public property, the gov
ernment should charge rentals
.STj HMytgttip. -:: .mmm):!' "
Advance preparation always has,
and always will be a
sound investment.
Am Iron Ih. CeurfhouM " ,
FRANK MOtQAN HAKOIO SNOOCRASS.fUNERAl DRECTOtS
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Brings
Closer
Quarrels with Moscow and
Peiping arising from attempt
ed Communist penetration of
the U-A.R. have been healed
over, at least on the surface.
Nasser has been able to crush
communism at home while at
the same time retaining Rus
sia as a market for Egyptian
cotton.
Presumably, the Egyptian
arms lost in the 1956 Suer
crisis now have been replaced
by the Russians and Nasser
once again feels himself strong
enough to challenge Israel's
use of the canal over objec
tions of the United Nations.
Nasser's only real setback
of the year came in Iraq
where elements friendly to
him lost out steadily.
In March, Iraqi Premier
Abdel-Karim Kassem crushed
revolt in northern Iraa
which the Iraqi government
charged was fostered by the
U.A.R.
In October, Kassem escaped
an assassination attempt
which nevertheless laid him
up with wounds for most of
the remainder of the year.
struggle for Leadership
ihe struggle for leadership
of Arab nationalism between
Kassem and Nasser has been
out in the open since last
March.
Nasser still is the Middle
East's popular symbol of re
volt against colonialism but
Kassem still has not given up
the struggle.
One of the pawns is Syria.
oynan politicians persuad-
ed
XNasser to incomorate
Syria into the U.A.R. in 1958
oecause they feared a Com
munist take-over.
But Syria has Droved as
much a problem to Nasser as
it did to the French after
World War I and to the Turks
before that.
Severe drought, resentment
at economic restrictions and
balky politicians kept Syria
in such ferment that last fall
Nasser had to dispatch his
closest lieutenant to Damas
cus, to hasten the integration
process.
Kassem has played upon
Syrian unrest and has advo
cated a "fertile crescent"
which would bring Syria un
der Iraq's sway. But between
the two, Nasser seems to have
the best chance for longevity.
No one is taking bets on Kas
sem. .
for them. This is quite feasi
ble since the profits are large.
Moreover, rentals could be
charged not only in money
which would finance the non
commercial company but also
in the form of time set aside
for it on the commercial net
works. There is little doubt that
some non-commercial televi
sion could be financed. It
would be a very good thing
if an appropriate committee
of Congress would make a re
port on the economics and the
finances of the television in
dustry. THERE WILL be a tempta
tion, I realize, to treat the
uproar of the autumn as one
of those things which pass and
are lorgotten. ims country
cannot afford to do that. For
television, which is the most
powerful medium of mass
communications, is of enor
mous importance in the life
of a nation. To forget about it
because it is not in the head
lines would be frivolous, and
indeed a sign of a serious na-"
tional weakness.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
sometimes it's smart
to cross bridges
before you come to them