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Friday, Jan. 22, 1960
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 22. 1950 (Sunday)
Alger Hiss found guilty on
two perjury counts after deny
ing Communist activities.
. Reduced load limits on eight
county roads will be effective
Monday; Paul Rynning, coun
ty engineer, says reduction
will prevent damage to roads
from extra heavy trucks.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 22, 1940 (Monday)
Earl Browder. U.S. commu
nist leader, convicted of pass
port fraud and sentenced to
four years in prison.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
Finns are still chasing Rus
" sians in 56.4 degrees below
zero weather. The .4 is what
makes it seem cold."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 22. 1930 (Wednesday)
Samuel T. Mather, former
national parks director and
well-known locally, dies.
Local turkey pool is assur
ed of getting 22,000 pounds of
turkeys for shipment to Bos
ton; had been worried that
they couldn't meet demand.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 22, 1920 (Friday)
Medford Commercial club
changes name to the Chamber
of Commerce.
City council plans to re
view parking rules on city
streets since there have been
several accidents lately be
cause of cars backing out of
parking spots.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 22, 1910 (Saturday)
Work on a $1U million ir
rigation project that will
bring water to 55,000 acres of
Rogue valley land is expected
to start soon.
New $50,000 Mason build
ing will be erected on East
Main at site of old Merriman's
Blacksmith shop, local lodge
decided last night.
What's Your 1.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In what country would
you expect to find the Appian
Way?
2. In what year did Henry
Ford Sr. market his first auto
mobile?
3. The buffalo is the central
figure on the seal of which
Federal Government Depart
ment?
4. What lands or countries
were ruled by the house of
Bourbon?
5. Which planet is farthest
from the earth?
6. Is coral a plant or an ani
mal?
7. Graphology is the study
of what?
8. By what process can
fresh water be obtained from
salt water?
9. Is the nautical term
"knot" a unit of speed, or of
distance?
10. In baseball, which base
is called the "keystone sack"?
Answers: 1. Italy. 2. 1903.
3. Department of Interior. 4.
Franca and jpain. 5. Pluto. 6.
Animal. 7. Handwriting. 8.
Distillation. 9. Unit et speed.
10. Second base.
Ill-Smelling Rose
Yesterday, the Mail Tribune's Washington
correspondent, A. Robert Smith, told of Con
gressman Charles' Porter's plans to pursue tne
idea of a chairlift down the inside of the rim of
Crater Lake.
Charlie, it seems, has been playing with
semantics.
It isn't an aerial tramway any more. Not even
a chair lift. Now he calls it an "aerial gondola."
Well, Shakespeare said it. "A rose by any
other name , would smell as sweet." An aerial
tramway, no matter what you call it, is still as
outrageous an idea as it ever was, when applied
to Crater Lake.
JNDOUBTEDLY, in Congressman Porter's
fourth distnct there are some people who
strongly favor such a project, for a variety of
reasons.
Presumably, there are many citizens who
don't much care, one way or another, and who
are as apt to vote "yes" on the Congressman's
questionnaire about it as they are to vote "no"
and in neither case think the proposal through.
But there is a third group people who be
lieve strongly in the National Parks and in their
concept of minimum despoilment of scenic and
wilderness areas who are so thoroughly con
vinced that Porter is wrong dead wrong on
this issue, that their sense of outrage will color
their entire attitude toward him in this election
year. E.A.
Across the River
Eugene has crossed the river two rivers, as
a matter of fact, one of them physical, the other
one hypothetical.
The physical river is the Willamette. A recent
annexation election added 2.2 square miles of the
Oakway-Willakenzie area on the north side of
the Willamette to the rest of Eugene on the south
side.
The hypothetical river is the one dividing
"small cities" from "metropolitan" cities and
areas. Through the annexation, Eugene passes
the 50,000-population mark, and cinches its claim
to being the second-largest city m the state,' be
hind Portland.
rUGENE and Salem for the past few years have
" been engaged in a rivalry, not always too
friendly, for the second-biggest title. It was held
by Salem for many years, but last year Eugene
sneaked ahead by a few
mi i .
ine annexation now Dnngs in many more
people from 4,000 to 6,000, depending on
whose estimate you believe than Salem can
muster with any foreseeable annexation of its
own.
Salem, of course, is
It is followed (not very closely, with 26,300) by
Medford. These four cities are the only ones in
Oregon with a population
If, as is expected, Salem tops 50,000 m the
census this year, Medford will be the only one
in the 25,000-50,000 category. E.A.
One in
As noted above, Medford's population .is now
26,300.
If one person in ten
right now, extract a dollar bill, stick it in an en
velope, and mail it to Post Office Box 5000, Med
ford, the United Medford Crusade would be well
over the top.
If one person in every
drive would be close enough to success to call it
a success.
For the first time in
(or its predecessor, the
drive isn t going to be
thing happens.
W m m w
fNE MEDFORD professional man got to think
ing about this the other day and, unlike a lot
of us, did something about it. He wrote a letter
to UMC headquarters. Parts of it are quoted be
low :
"... I am quitw concerned over the difficulty,
which we have had this year in getting over the last
hummock of our goal. I earnestly wish that I were
in a "position to be of greater personal help in sur-.
mounting this last deficiency, but even if I cannof
take the entire thing in stride by myself, I do feel
that I would like to make an additional contribution
at this time, fend I accordingly enclose my check.
"The agencies involved in this United drive are,
as you and I both full well realize, of tremendous
importance in keeping this Medford of ours the won
derful place which it is, and I just cannot believe
that the many fine citizens on our board and active
ly involved in the campaign are going to rest until
the goal is reached ..."
NOW THE Boy and
mc vctmpiue vjhis, me oaivauon Army, tne
Red Cross, Rogue Valley Council on Aging, Child
Guidance Clinic not to mention the many im
nortant child welfare ore-anizatinns nf the state
are not going1 to dry up
iasi $i,4uu or so isn i ioitncommg.
But a Droud record of
such a drive will be gone. And Medford's repu
tation and record will suffer bv that. much.
I- One dollar from every
It.
Not everyone will get a license plate-.with
"Pacific Wonderland" on it this year only those
gett;ng new plates. Okay with us. The, slogan is
valueless anyway. It fits our neighbor states as
well as Oregon. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
hundred people.
now third in population.
of 25,000 or more.
Ten
would take out his wallet
100 would mail S5, tne
the history of the UMC,
Community chest) the
a success unless some
Girl Scouts, the YMCA,
and blow away if this
never havrnp- failed in
tenth person would do
Dennis the
'Hill JUSTWANTEO TD SEE IF YOU
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
EYES ON YOUTH
Washington - One of the
smallest of the states in popu
lation may well provide the
largest and most eloquent
voice at the Democratic Na
tional Convention next July
,fI Sen. Frank
Church of
Idaho - at 35
the youngest
man in the
Sen?te-is be-
i n g strongly
pushed for
keynote
speaker and
tempo rary
chairman o f
the c o n v en-
tion. The field of possibilities
also numbers Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie of Maine and Gov.
Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.
But, on balance, Church
seems to have much better
than a 1 in 3 chance of selec
tion.
A moderate liberal of the
casual Western variety, he is
representative of the broad
est single sector of his party.
His "geography" is right. The
Democrats need to pay spe
cial attention to the West,
the fastest-growing region of
the country and also the fast
est-growing section of" the
Democratic party.
rTPOO, he is perhaps the most
- widely respected of the
young Democrats of the Sen-
ate-for general ability, for
fair-mindedness, and, what is
very important here, for or
atorial powers. Half a gen
eration ago the pros consid
ered oratory to be "making
the eagle scream." His eagle
does not scream; it speaks in
stead in more muted, more
appealing, modern accents.
Finally, Church is not com
mitted to any of the Demo
cratic Presidential aspirants.
Thus he would arouse no
acute suspicion that as key
noter he might promote Jones
over Brown or Smith or
Green.
A keynoter-t emporary
chairman's task is to deliver
the convention's first major
address and so to lay down
the pattern of party policy
for the campaign. Once he
has done this, a permanent
chairman is chosen to pre
side over the convention. Rep
resentative Hale Boggs of
Louisiana is out in front for
this post.
The system of selecting the
keynoter is elaborately tra
ditional. Democratic Nation
al Chairman Paul Butler will
appoint a "Committee on Ar
rangements." This committee
will "recommend" a keynoter
to the convention. The con
vention will then elect him.
ALL this seems a dull and
dusty business, and some
times it is just that. This time,
however, it will be a good
deal more than routine. Be
cause there is so large a field
of real Democratic Presiden
tial possibilities-half a dozen
-the tone taken by the key
noter's speech will have real
meaning. What he says can
not actually bind or control
whoever is ultimately nom
inated for President. But it
can surely please or greatly
embarrass that fortunate fel
low. if Governor Nelson should
turn out to be the keynoter
he would certainly deliver a
call for far-advanced liberal-ism-a
difficult plank for a
Presidential nominee to walk
on unless he himself should
be an advanced liberal. Sen
ator Muskie, for his part, is
a moderate liberal like
Church. But Muskie is also a
Catholic.
An outstanding Presiden
tial candidate. Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts, is
a Catholic. So is Representa
tive Boggs. And so is Chair
man Butler. Therefore, there
is a fairly general, tendency
not to have a Catholic key
noter as well.
William S. "
White
Menace
HAD CHlVlES OR A BUZZEPJ
S. WHITE
ALL this has increasingly
turned attention to
Church. Then there are yet
other factors: television's im
age and the image of youth.
The Democrats want an im
pression of youthful vigor to
go out over the TV. screens
in order to compete with the
brisk youthfulness of Vice
President Nixon (42), the al
most mevitable Republican
Presidential choice. Slim and
dark, Church photographs
well-and nobody could pos
sibly confuse him with some
middle-aged chap. A happy
side point is that he is most
pleasantly reserved about
headline hunting.
The fact is that Church's
status in the race for key
noter is an interesting com
mentary on how politics is
changing. A few years ago
the young were rarely either
seen or-heard at a national
convention. Now, the old boys
are still the indispensable
men in those famous smoke
filled rooms. But out front
they are giving way to the
young.
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On a Silver Platter
To the Editor: Two items
which should be of local in
terest have appeared in the
news lately. Both are in ref
erence to adult educational
courses.
One, issued through our
school board, offers a new
series of adult classes to begm
Feb. 1. The second, which ap
peared on the f ron page of
the Jan. 20 Tribune, contains
an announcement from Ray
mond E. Petty, representative
of the college extension divi
sion. He states that an adult
course which had been pre
arranged has been cancelled
due to lack of interest. Only
one-fourth of the required
number of persons was in at
tendance. .
This is nothing new in
either the college or high
school roll-calls. It seems to
indicate, however, the general
attitude of the local gentry
and somewhere there must be
an answer as to why.
Medford and Jackson coun
ty show the least enthusiasm
for learning of any district.
Is it because the majority of
people are already so well
learned? If so, this is very
commendable. Perhaps the an
swer lies in feeling "an old
dog is incapable of learning."
(Some time ago I was privil
eged to meet a woman who
had just received her mas
ter's degree from the U. of O.
She was 86 years old and
still rarin to go.)
Finally, if the lack of inter
est involves the time element,
this is the poorest excuse of
all. Anyone who breathes
should want to find spare
hours to observe and to learn.
(Jujitsu can be educational if
it's something one doesn't al
ready know.) ,
It would be well to con
sider the time and much ef
fort put forth by the educa
tors who try to arrange and
instruct 'these courses. They
are the ones who are doing
US a favor; not the opposite.
Believe me, their satisfaction
is realized more in attention
and enthusiasm than in any
other compensation. Lack of
these, after all their work, is
pretty much a swat in the
jaw.
These " various courses of
fered can be fun as well as
educational and, surprisingly
enough, with a little dili
gence, might even develop
Democrats May Wish Mr. Sam Back After
Convention Opens; 1952 Work Recalled
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (DPD Perhaps
the Democrats will sadly re-,
gret that speaker Sam Ray-
burn has re
jected perma
nent chair
mans hip of
this year's na
tional conven
tion. Mr. Sam,
the old pro,
will sit out on
the c o n v e n
floor attempt-
Lyie c Wilson ing to maneu
ver the nomination of Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson for Presi
dent. The Democrats would have
been in bad trouble in 1952,
but for Mr. Sam. The night
of July 24-25 during the 1952
national convention could
have been deadly for the Dem
ocratic Party. That night a
left-wing, Young Turk task
force attempted to force out
of the convention and out of
the Democratic Party the
delegations of three southern
states-Louisiana, South Caro
lina and Virginia. The whole
south might have gone with
them.
This was part of a strategy
to prevent the nomination of
Adlai E. Stevenson and to
name either Averell Harri-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Trivia in the news:
The U.S. department of
commerce reports that foreign
customers are complaining
that many U.S. firms don't
answer promptly inquiries
from abroad about their prod
ucts. Some of the foreigners
quoted by the commerce de
partment say their letters and
cablegrams to American firms
go unanswered as long as two
or three months.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Maybe a lot of these in
quiries arrive during the cof
fee hour.
MORE trivia:
An upstate Oregon news
An upstate Oregon news
paper noted sapiently a while
back that business men espe
cially the upper bracket men
of what we call Big Biz-al-ways
have something to worry
about. For years, it remark
ed, they have been worrying
about reduction of defense
spending, which might result
in a decrease in orders.
Now, it added, they are
worrying about this crack
down on expense accounts
that the hold-over session of
the congress that is just as
sembling appears to be acute
ly interested in.
T ET"S put it this way:
The proposed crackdown
on big expense accounts
works on the principle that
the medical men call a COUN
TER IRRITANT.
What's a counter irritant?
It's something that makes
you hurt SOMEWHERE ELSE
to make you forget where
you've been hurting.
THERE'S always something
to worry about. Even the
politicians have their worries.
One of them is the so-called
CLEAN ELECTIONS bill that
has bobbed up in this hold
over session. One of its pur
poses is to require fuller re
porting of campaign contribu
tions. It's a hot potato. The poli
ticians want all the campaign
contributions they can get,
but it's often embarrassing
to report WHERE THEY
CAME FROM. To make the
situation even more embar
rassing, Senator Hennings of
Missouri-who is a rather in
teresting character-wants the
rigid reporting requirements
extended to the state primary
elections, as well as the gen
eral elections.
He won an unexpected vic
tory last night when the sen
ate voted 50 to 39 to approve
his amendment to bring that
about.
QUESTION:
Why shouldn't contribu
tions to primary election cam
paigns be just as fully report
ed as contributions to general i
election campaigns? i
Isn't it just as important j
to know how much candidates i
are spending in the primary
elections-and WHERE THE
MONEY IS COMING FROM
-as in the general elections?
In some ways, the pri
maries, are more important
than the general elections. If
we can't get good candidates,
how are we going to get good
officials?
into something profitable at
a later date.
I'm by no means a crusader;
nor do I care to be looked
upon as a crank. But from
where I sit, we're a pretty
fortunate bunch of people.
We are handed, on a silver
platter, what myriads of peo
ple in the world would give
their eye teeth to have-educa
tion.
Mrs. G. Farfan,
723 South Newtown st.,
Medford
ft
man of New York or Sen.
Estes Kefauver, Tennessee.
There was a political brawl
such as only Democrats can
accomplish, and that rarely.
The Young Turks were led
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jr.; his brother, James; Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey, Minne
sota; Michigan's Gov. G. Men
nen (Soapy) Williams, and the
late Sen. Blair Moody, Michi
gan. Do Wilhout South
Some of them, notably
Humphrey, said the Demo
cratic Party could do with
out the South and seemed
eager to have it that way.
They put elder statesmen of
the three southern states on
a spot from which they might
be expected to take a walk.
But the southerners refused
ti walk, preferring that the
convention throw them out, if
leave they must. The dispute
was whether leaders of the
three delegations must sign
a loyalty oath assuring that
the convention's nominees
would be on southern ballots
Strange Serenity of Senate
Hearing on Tranquilizers Ends
By DICK WEST
Washington - (UPD - The at
mosphere in the Senate caucus
room was strangely serene, as
befits a hear
ing on tran
quilizer pills.
Sen. Estes
Kefauver (D
Tenn.) was
calm and Sen.
E v e r ett M.
Dirksen (R
111.) was calm
and they en-
Dick west gaged in the
calmest 30 - minute contro
versy I ever listened to.
In a voice that was as sooth
ing as a Miltown tablet, Dirk
sen denounced the way that
Kefauver, as chairman, had
been running the anti-trust
sub-committee's investigation
of drug prices.
The burden of his protest
was that the subcommittee, in
previous hearings on anti
arthritis drugs, had exagger
ated the profit margins of
some pharmaceutical houses.
He said he hoped this would
not happen in the tranquiliz
er inquiry.
Tension Crops Up
Kefauver naturally couldn't
match the mellifluous tonal
quality of the Dirksen larynx.
But in his own mild way he
managed to suggest that Dirk
sen didn't know what he was
talking about.
The contending senators
were so tranquil, I was be
ginning to suspect that they
had sampled some of the evi
dence. But as the hearing con
tinued, little signs of tension
became apparent.
The tempo seemed to pick
up when the late-arriving Sen.
John A. Carroll (D-Colo.)
came in. He was wearing a
necktie whose bright yellow
stripes clashed with the muted
haberdashery of the other
subcommittee members. .
First I noticed that Ke
fauver, who normally can
handle one syllable words
without a bobble, had begun
to stumble over such simple
drug names as chlorproma-
zine and prochlorperazine.
Then I observed that the
witness. President Walter A.
Munns of the Smith, Kline &
French Laboratories, was fid
dling with his cigarette light
er when not actually lighting
cigarettes.
Subcommittee staff investi
gators displayed some charts
ana grapns maicaung mat
Munns' company, one of the
largest tranquilizer manufact
urers, was making healthy
profits on the nation's neuroses.
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under the symbol or the name
of the Democratic Party.
None would sign, although
all explained that state laws
guaranteed precisely what
the loyalty oath sought to im
pose. The convention had
adopted the oath which meant
that non-signers were exclud
ed. On a motion to re-estab
lish the Virginia delegation
as voting conventioneers, Vir
ginia was beaten when the
roll call ended. Everybody in
the suddenly-hushed conven
tion hall knew it especially
Mr. Sam. Then the old pro
began to move.
Voting Open
Chairman Rayburn held
the voting open. He and oth
ers who believed Moody's
oath would wreck the party
on election day were determ
ined to get all three states
back into the convention, or
else. Rayburn decided to re
verse the anti-Virginia vote.
His teeth gritting in anger,
his eyes glaring with cold
fury, Mr. Sam whacked his
gavel.
Did any state desire to be
Munns retorted that the fig'
ures were so misleading they
would "make an accountant
rather sick at his stomach."
He lit another cigarette.
The financial discussion got
pretty confusing and the sen
ators were straining to under
stand it. Kefauver twice
chewed up the end of a cigar
without lighting it.
French Army Chief
'Man to Watch' in
Algerian Dispute
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man - of the - week:
Maj. Gen. Jacques Massu.
hero of the French in Al
geria. The place: Paris.
The quote: "As to the
question of unrest in the
army, he (Massu) does not
claim to be its spokesman,
since nobody in Algeria
questions the authority of
Gen. Andre Challe."
After a little more than a
year in the job as president of
the new French Fifth Repub-
1 i c, troubles
were piling
up for Gen.
C h a r 1 e
de Gaulle
French colo
nials in Al
geria first had
hailed him as
savior. Now
the word was
Phil Newsom closer to trai
tor.
The . man to watcn was
Maj. Gen. Massu. For as Mas
su went, Algeria might also
go.
This week, De Gaulle
brusquely ordered Massu to
Paris from his Algeria post
for a showdown on whether
the hawk - nosed paratroop
general was plotting another
revolt in Algeria similar to
the one he led which on May
13, 1958, swept away the
Fourth Republic and brought
De Gaulle to power.
Specifically, De Gaulle
wanted to know about a pur
ported interview in a German
newspaper which quoted Mas
su as saying: "'
De Gaulle was the only
man at our disposition. The
army perhaps committed a
mistake." -.;
Massu denied the quote, but
whether or not he said it, the
dispatch pointed up a situa
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polled? Was there any dele
gate unrecorded? Did any
delegate or delegation desire
to change his vote? They
were questions, but they had
the cutting edge of a com
mand. Mr. Sam stalled and
milked the anti-Virginia ma
jority for wavering votes.
Vote changes rolled in by
ones, triples and more.
The old pro . triumphed.
The final result was 615 to
529 for making Virginia a
convention member. The
northern alliance of the
Democratic Party with orga
nized labor, Negroes, Ameri
cans for Democratic action
and other splinter groups had
been shellacked in as wild
and wooly a balloting as the
party ever had.
Mr. Sam gavelled down,
persuaded the convention to
vote down, or ruled down,
every strategy of the left
wing. The night of July 24-25
might have wrecked the
Democrat Party, but for old
pro Rayburn.
The democrats may wish
they had him again this year.
Carroll undertook to "clar
ify the picture" and it was
long past lunch time before
the subcommittee finally re
cessed. I stopped by the wit
ness table and counted 15
filter-tipped butts in Munns'
ash tray.
Maybe he ought to switch
to a" thinking man's tranquil
izer.
tion which was becoming
more and more apparent the
French settlers in Algeria
once more were building up
to the boiling point, and for
De Gaulle at home, the poli
tical honeymoon was over.
Pinay Resigns Cabinet
At home, De Gaulle had
come to the parting of the
ways with his finance min
ister, former Premier An
toine Pinay, opening the way
to a revolt by Pinay's Inde
pendent Party which could
whittle De Gaulle's assembly
majority to nothing.
While Pinay saw eye-to-eye
with De Gaulle on the latter's
liberalized policy in Algeria,
others in his party did not
and were capitalizing on the
settlers' unrest.
Pinay left because of dis
agreement with the govern
ment's financial and foreign
policies, particularly De
Gaulle's reluctance to partici
pate whole-heartedly in the
Atlantic pact.
These issues also gave the
Independents ammunition.
Could Dissolve Assembly
But from the politicians De
Gaulle was in no real immedi
ate danger. He could, if neces
sary, dissolve the assembly
and go to the people for
another change in the consti
tution.
The key lay with the French
army, most of which now is
in Algeria.
It was fear of an open re
bellion by the army that
finally led to dissolution of
the Fourth Republic. Should
the army also become disen
chanted with De Gaulle, then
De Gaulle also could fall.
Hence the showdown with
Massu.
In Algeria, the rally cry of
the colonists is, "Algeria is
French." And until France
can settle the Algerian ques
tion her troubles will remain.
P.M. "-ill
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