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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
Jan. 28. 1950 (Saturday)
As a result of favorable
hearings here, the state soil
conservation committee may
order elections in the county
to decide whether or not peo
ple want a soil conservation
district in Jackson county.
Portland fire captain will
be loaned to Medford's fire
department for four months
to review operations and
make forecasts, Medford May
or Diamond Flynn announces.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28, 1940 (Sunday)
Vice President Garner told
friends today that John L.
Lewis' opposition to him is
he best political asset he has.
i From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Vot
ers are now speculating on
who will run for everything,
but Mayor of Medford. He has
until next October to an
nounce he will make the sac
rifice." 30 YEARS AGO
jan. 28. 1930 (Tuesday)
i. Price of milk in city to be
reduced to 12 cents a quart
February.
Statesmen confer with
President Hoover and declare
there is no real cause for pan
ic in U.S.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28. 1920 (Thursday)
The formation of a third
Oregon political party is
planned by upstate workers.
Flu epidemic hits Portland
and the Puget Sound areas.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 28. 1910 (Friday)
Paris beset by terrible
floods, fears are that disease
and pestilence will be wide
spread. Editor of Central Point
Herald is p r a i s e d by Mail
Tribune for work he has done
to get that town on its feet.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superipr;
seven or eight is eicellent; five or
lis is good.
1. What is a glazier?
2. Does the sun revolve
around the earth; or the earth
around the sun?
3. Does the moon revolve
around the earth; or the earth
around the moon?
4. Who are more closely
related by blood; mother and
daughter, or two sisters?
5. The Attorney-General of
the U. S. is the executive head
of which Department of the
U. S. Government?
6. Does Great Britain rec
ognize the Communist gov
ernment of China?
7. Mankind is the only ani
mal that blushes; true or
false?
8. What is the name for the
container in which an archer
carries arrows?
9. How many cabinet offi
cers are in President Eisen
hower's cabinet?
10. On what island do the
descendants of the "Bounty"
mutineers live?
Answers: 1. Glass culler and
setter. 2. Earth around the
tun. 3. Moon around the earth.
4. Two listers. 5. Department
of Justice. 6. Yes. 7. True.
8. Quiver. 9. Ten. 10. Pilcairn
Island.
Dirty AirAnd the Law
Progress in alleviating some of the chief
sources of air pollution in the Rogue valley is,
in a word, amazing.
Top officials of Elk Lumber Co., Timber Prod
ucts, Medco and Kogap each gave a report on
their efforts toward that end the other night, and
the reports were heartening. They showed that a
great deal of thought, effort and money have
gone into their plans.
Greater utilization of wood by-products, in
one, way or another, accounted for almost all this
progress.
The orchardists, too, deserve commendation,
Progress is being made in seeming signatures of
a majority of orchard owners here which will
bind them to replace smoky-type smudgepots
with less smoky orchard heaters over a five-year
period. .
TP TO this point we agree whole-heartedly
with Jack Foster, who presided at Monday
evening's meeting of the. Air Pollution Control
and Abatement League, and who showered praise
on these actions.
Where we part company is where, he said he
(and presumably other members of the league
although we know for
that the progress made
eliminated any need for air pollution control leg
islation. We believe that Jack is incredibly naive if he
thinks that the problem can be solved by these
four major mills, plus the orchardists, alone. He
is incredibly naive if he thinks that other sources
of air pollution are going to be eliminated vol
untarily, and without at least the threat of control
legislation.
IT SO happens that each
mentioned above is a
with a civic conscience.
several of them mentioned the other night, that
they had seen the handwriting on the wall
handwriting which says that the rapidly grow
ing population of this valley simply will not long
put up with flagrant air pollution abuses.
There is another point which was skipped
over too quickly the other night. That is that these
four mills are not the only ones in the valley. And
some of the others have shown little nor no "vol
untary" interest in minimizing their own smoke
nuisances.
And, while we believe that most orchardists
are good citizens, we wonder just how long their
"voluntary" program of minimizing smudge
smoke would last if it were not for the threat of
legal compulsion in the background.
POSTER made a big point, during his talk,
about how much air pollution is caused by
back-yard burning of
refuse.
True enough. But does
neaiy householder is going to find some other
method of disposing of leaves unless he has to?
There are two other
lution in the valley. One
is year-around.
The first is slash-burniner in the fall. When
this is mentioned, most
heads as much as to say
we 11 just have to live.
The other is automobile exhausts.
DOTH of these are, or will be, amenable to
some degree of control. But they won't with
out some further thought and research done on
the problem.
Work is now going forward on the automobile
gasoline exhaust problem, and it is hoped that
in another year or so the engineers' will have it
licked.
There must be an answer for slash, too one
which would be economical, and effective.
We don't know the answer,
i But matching the little portable "hogging"
machine (which chews up branches and limbs
into chips) that has been following the Copco
tree-trimmers this week, gives us the impression
that even this problem could be solved if some
thought is given to it.
HTHIS much we do know:
Air pollution is a serious problem in the
Rogue valley, as it is elsewhere in the nation.
Men of good will in the lumber and fruit
industries are working (and spending hard-earned
cash)' to clean up their part of it.
m It is incumbent upon the rest of us to keep
at it and do what wre'can.
But there will always be a minority, be
they lumbermill operators, orchardists, or (like
us) leaf burners, who must face compulsion
direct or implied before they comply.
And if the Air Pollution and Abatement
League depends entirely on soft talk, and ignores
the big stick, dirty air will be with us for years
to come.
IT IS perfectly true that air pollution -is a na
1 tional problem.
But it is also a local problem. And it will
never be solved nationally until it is solved local
ly first.
Pittsburgh did it Los Angeles hasn't yet, but
it's working on it. So is Portland. So is Eugene.
And they're doing it in an organized, com
munity manner, under the laws of the state de
signed for this purpose.
U we don't follow suit, now or fairly soon,
we're simply asking that the problem be continued
into the indefinites and smoky future. E.A.
a fact not all) believes
voluntarily so far has
of the four lumber firms
well-operated company,
And it is also true, as
leaves and other yard
he think that the ordi-
maior sources of air pol
is seasonal, the other
people just shake their
it is an evil with which
Dennis the
Hi a & I
Have you seen a white rat
Matter of Fact
(The-following article is the
third in a series of six.)
THE MISSILE GAP:
OUR GAMBLE
Washington - The Eisen
hower administration is gam
bling the national future on
the assumption
that the So
viets cannot
possibly have
a number of
o perational
ICBM's equiv
alent to 10
months of ca
pacity output
at our own
Atlas missile
JOSEPH alsop plant.
The fact sounds incredible
when stated in this blunt
manner. It is a hard fact
nonetheless. The man who
should know best, the bril
liant Strategic Air Command
er, Gen. Thomas Power, has
flatly said that the Soviets
can "virtually wipe out" our
nuclear deterrent with no
more than 150 intercontinent
al ballistic missiles, plus .the
IRBMs they already have in
plenty. The Atlas plant has
long been capable of turning
out 15 ICBMs per month, if
ordered into three-shift pro
duction. Yet no serious emergency
measures are. being taken to
forestall the "wiping out" of
our nuclear deterrent, on
which our national survival
depends. According, to Sec
retary of Defense Thomas
Gates, such measures -are not
needed, because the National
Intelligence Estimates do not
give the Soviets even the very
limited number of ICBMs that
General Power says could
win the war for the Kremlin.
rpHERE are several things
to note about this gamble
on the micrometric accuracy
of the National Intelligence
Estimates.
In the first place, it is cer
tainly not justified by the
past record. This record
shows a consistent series of
gross American underesti
mates of Soviet weapons
achievements from 1946 on
wards. From the atom bomb, to the
first Soviet jet engine for air
craft, to the first Soviet long
range jet bombers, to the
ICBM itself, the estimators
went on making the same
kind of error. On average, the
Soviets were always expect
ed to make each major ad
vance a good two years later
than the actual moment when
the advance was made.
Once, and once only, there
was an over-estimate, of So
viet heavy bomber output.
But this belated correction of
previous mistakes about So
viet bomber capabilities was
only an over-estimate because
of still another gross under
estimate. At that time, the
Soviet missile program was
being all but ignored. The
Soviet change - over from
bombers to missiles was there
fore wholly unforseen.
TN THE second place, these
persistent, of ten - repeated
errors have clearly resulted
from the very nature of the
process by which the National
Intelligence Estimates are still
produced. The intelligence
collector, the Central Intel
ligence Agency, does not pro
duce the estimates. The
C.I.A. may do, and by every
feasible test the C.I.A. appar
ently does, a remarkable job
of intelligence collection. But
when data come in, say about
the " rate of Soviet missile
tests, the C.I.A. must go into
committee with the armed
services and the State Depart
ment. The committee decides
the meaning of the newly col
lected data. The committee's
interpretation of the data is
the "national" estimate, .
C.LA. director Dulles, a de
voted and exceptional public
servant, has struggled to
overcome the tendency to er
ror in the estimates. But
Dulles is not in the weapons
producing business, along
with the armed services. He
hardly has a more effective
answer t h a n -this reporter
had, long ago, when the late
I XI I
Menace
mamed Fu?yo?
By Joseph Alsop
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg
angrily insisted that the "So
viets could not possibly be
producing more than six jet
engines a month, and anyone
who says different is a damn
liar."
The former Chief of Air
Staff was angry because six
jet engines a month was the
maximum output we had then
attained in this country. The
true Soviet output at that
time is now well known to
have been above 200 jet en
gines a month.
fTHIS in turn suggests the
- main source of error in
the estimates. American ex
perience is consistently used
to measure current and future
Soviet achievements. But the
Soviet , effort to develop new
weapons has always been far
more intensive than the Amer
ican effort. In reality, the So
viet "lead time" from draw
ing board to production line
is commonly only half the
American lead time. So er
rors have obstinately occur
red. Sometimes, it must' be
added, the Pentagon major
ity really seems to prefer er
ror to truth. For example, the
late Deputy Secretary of De
fense, Donald Quarles, repre
sented the Pentagon majority
when he did everything imag
inable to obstruct the instal
lation of the missile-watching
radars in Turkey. " When in
stalled, these radars at once
revealed the. progress of the
Soviet missile program; but
even after this sharp lesson
the radar evidence has often
been, pooh-poohed. For in
stance, former Secretary of
Defense Charles Wilson pub
licly ridiculed the radars'
proofs that the Soviets were
testing their first ICBMs.
Long thereafter, the Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Gen. Nathan Twining,
continued to insist that the
Soviet ICBMs did not have
true intercontinental range. .
Such is the depressing back
ground against which it is
necessary to examine the de
tailed intelligence estimates
which are the basis of the
most hair-raising gamble a
government has ever made.
This, analysis will be at
tempted in the next article in
this series.
(c) New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
SOC Tops List
Sending Texts
Ashland - Southern Oregon
college was listed top college
in the nation in number of
text books sent to the Books
for Asian Students program
in a monthly report by the
Asia Foundation, it was an
nounced by Wayne Paulse,
president" of the Student Ore
gon Education association.
The 770 books, which will
be distributed by the minis
try of education in Seoul, Ko
rea, were a part of 21,101
books and 4,041 journals do
nated during the month by
colleges, universities, public
and private elementary and
secondary schools and pub
lishers all over the country.
Other western colleges and
universities which contrib
uted included Iowa State uni
versity, 559 books; Univer
siay of Wyoming, 700 jour
nals; Sacramento State col
lege, 68; University of Cali
fornia, 65; University of Ore
gon, 55; and Portland State
college, 42. Grants Pass High
school was also listed in the
report as having donated 248
books to the Foundation.
The Books for Asian Stu
dents program has been oper
ating for five years and has
shipped 1,341,040 books and
303,500 journals to universi
ties, colleges, schools, libra
ries, and educational, civic
professional and cultural
groups all over Asia. During
1960 the program plans to
give special attention to the
distribution of books and jour
nals to teachers and teacher
training center libraries.
De Gaulle
Forces in
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Emergency Care
To the Editor: Medford is
already a large city,, and is
still growing. We have two
well-equipped hospitals and a
great number, of wonderful
doctors in our city. Could they
arrange-by taking turns - to
spend perhaps just one-half
day at a time at the hospitals?
That way there would be a
doctor on duty at all times
to take charge of any emer
gency. Last August my father died
of a "heart attack" about 30
minutes after being taken to
the Sacred Heart hospital. His
doctor was out of town, and
it took at least 15 minutes for
another doctor to arrive. The
only treatment he received
was a small amount of oxygen
administered by a nurse, and
this was discontinued before
a doctor arrived. Also he was
moved from the emergency
room to an upstairs ward, be
fore the doctor arrived.
Did this factor help to
bring on the second attack he
had? He died at 12:30 p.m.;
just a few minutes after the
doctor arrived. Could he have
been helped, had there been a
doctor on duty at the hos
pital? Perhaps not, but possi
bly some one else might in the
future.
Why take an emergency
case to the hospital-if they
can't receive immediate med
ical treatment?
Mrs. Glenn Bowles,
1130 West 10th St.,
Medford.
He's Disgusted
To the Editor: Upon reading
the account of Harry Tru
man's speech at the Demo
cratic party's campaign kick-
off dinner, and his remarks
to the effect that "If we had
anybody with guts, the Rus
sians wouldn't be conducting
their tests where they are," a
few incidents that took place
during Mr. Truman's adminis
tration came to mind.
At this point, let us re
member that Russia is con
ducting her tests in Interna
tional waters, a practice which
we have followed in the past,
Now, let us ask, where were
Mr. Tuman's "guts" when
American forces were ordered
to hold back and allow Rus
sia to occvupy all of what to
day is referred to as East Ger
many and East Berlin? This
is one of the chief causes of
world anxiety today. Where
were Mr. Truman's "guts"
when the tragedy of Korea
took place, with loss of
thousands of American per
sonnel both killed and maimed
for life in a war we could not
win? A war in which he
stripped one of the greatest
military leaders of all time of
all his rank and honor,
simply because General Mac
Arthur knew the only way to
win a war is to cut off an
enemy's supply lines, which
in this war were "off limits"
because they originated north
of the Yalu river. Where were
Mr. Truman's "guts" when
the Communists were making
such great strides toward en
gulfment of China?
It would appear that Mr.
Truman had sufficient oppor
tunities to display his intes
tinal fortitude during his ten
ure of office.
Mr. Truman goes further
to say the Democrats .should
elect the next president, and
he should be a man "who
must know what to do besides
run around the golf course."
This remark serves to dem
onstrate that Mr. Truman not
only has a vocabulary which
is limited, for the most part,
to four letter words, but he
has an extremely short mem
ory. Has he so quickly for
gotten his frequent cruises on
the Potomac in the presiden
tial yacht?
Such asinine remarks from
an ex-president who has as
sorry a record in the White
House as Mr. Truman, about
a man who has worked as
hard as President Eisenhower
has to achieve world unity,
leaves one thoroughly dis
gusted with Harry's under
handed campaign tactics.
Glenn A. Archibald,
534 De Barr ave.,
Medford.
Good or Bad
To the Editor: The Demo
cratic Party of Oregon agrees
with Governor Mark Hatfield
in his recent statements to
the effect that Oregon has
a favorable tax climate for
new industry.
We have said this consist
ently. The tragedy is the reck
less attacks made by Gover
nor Hatfield during the 1958
campaign when he repeated
ly criticized and loosely con
demned the Oregon tax struc-
Facing Sternest Test as Rebel
Algeria Continue Opposition
ture for keeping industry out
of the state. The tax struc
ture which he now applauds
is identically the same that
he attacked so irresponsibly
during his 1958 campaign.
The tax program which
Oregon now operates under
is the result of the Demo
cratically controlled special
session of the legislature in
1957 courageously called by
Governor Robert D. Holmes.
The voters will remember
that this move was vigorous
ly opposed and condemned
by the then Secretary of State
Mark Hatfield.
Nothing that governor Hat
field has done during . his
term of office, . except now
to smile with favor, has con
tributed the slightest bit to
Oregon's favorable tax pro
gram. Robert W. Straub,
Chairman
Democratic Party of
Oregon,
Eugene Ore.
Labor and Holy Writ
To the Editor: The com
bined Sunday Journal and
Oregonian carried quite a
spread on last Saturday's hap
penings in Portland. A clerk
from whom I purchased this
Darjer said. "Oh. that's exag
gerated. Someone probably
got a bloody nose." I didn't
say much, but some serious
thoughts were running
through my mind.
It has been hinted in Port
land, that more of the same
will follow. All of us well
know that some printed
stories as well as vocal gos
sip get quite a build up. Yet
I doubt what we have read
has been too exaggerated.
The chap who was hospital
ized with broken ribs, the fel
low who got kicked in the
groin, and the insulted po
lice officers probably have a
feeling that something did
happen. It is sad indeed that
human beings find themselves
resorting to such means.
Reminds me of my school
rlavs when red headed, freck
le-faced "Johnny" punched
me in the nose for something
I wasn't even guilty of. I well
remember how a group of my
"friends" and I waited for
him in a secluded spot. My
bloodied nose had aroused a
spirit of retaliation. We would
fix Johnnv.
Some of his friends were
tipped off and with their ap
pearance our intended victim
was saved being roUed in a
Grants Pass mudhole. "How
terible," you may say. And it
was downright mean thinking
on our tiart. True. Johnny had
misbehaved and we were let
ting the same hateful spirit
rule our own thinking.
T mieht add that our school
teacher took things well in
hanri Sad to sav. our friend
Johnny, in later life found
that even police officers are
needed to take care of lawless
citizens. He had come from a
home where, as we under
stand, one of his parents had
gone through some terrible
things. The spirit of revenge
and hate had passed on to the
boy.
Someone recently dubbea
,me a religious fanatic for some
lines T had written. When my
friend who had been told
this checked up, he found this
party hadn't" even read what
wrote, but lust heard, when
he was shown the clipping,
he had nothing more to say.
Sure I make mistakes ana
stand ready to be corrected.
would think it well for those
reading these line to take
their Bibles and read the 5th
chapter of St. James. See if
DerhaDS this doesn't give a
graphic picture of our present
labor difficulties.
Let us be sure that on
whichever side we find our
selves our hearts are attuned
to the principles laid down in
God's Holy word.
Henry Johnson Jr.,
2400 Highway 66,
Ashland, Ore.
From Deserted Mother
To the Editor: I went to
see the D. A. about a warrant
for non-support. I haven't
heard from my husband for
eight months. I have a 2-year-old
child. I told him aU the
facts and to my surprise he
told me this. They neither
had the money nor time to
spend looking for him. He is
wanted by the police, so he
told me, let them find him.
The police tell me, let the
D-A. find him.
The amount of money they
pay but in assistance to de
pendent children should war
rant some time looking for
these so-caUed "fathers."
I earn $35 a week and it
just coven basic necessities.1
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Just over a year and a half
ago, Gen. Charles de Gaulle
returned as the savior of a
disintegratin g
France and
spoke words
which this
week had a
sorry echo.
Before a
French As
sembly which
was to surren
der to him all
phMfi.wsoni its authority,
he demanded "full powers to
be alSle to act in conditions of
effectiveness and speed . . .
for a period of six months,
hoping that by the end of that
term order will have been re
stored in the state, hope re
discovered in Algeria and
union remade in the nation."
That was June 1, 1958.
The fourth French Republic
was dead, largely a victim of
its own ineffectiveness in Al
geria where the "Colons"-the
European settlers - were in
open revolt with strong sup
port from the Army.
Hope Rediscovered
In his own words and by
his own choice, one of his
major tasks was that there
should be "hope rediscovered
in Algeria."
With my support money, I
could live decently.
I suppose if I had money or
was "somebody," the D. A.
might try to find my hus
band. Until you find yourself
in this situation, can ayone
really understand the prob
lem?
Thank you so much for
reading my letter.
(Name on file)
Ashland, Ore.
Ambulances and First Aid
To the Editor: In regard to
your editorial Jan. 24, 1 think
it is time to state the other
side of this matter. As for Dr.
Feves' statement that speed
ing ambulances to the hos
pitals are uncalled for, I
agree, BUT I would like to
have Dr. Feves explain to the
families of the loved ones that
are lost because the ambu
lance" can't get there in time
to give the proper first aid
that it requires to save lives
On-the-spot first aid is the
important factor. How many
cases do you have that there
is a qualified first aid person
on hand? Very few times is
there a doctor there. Yet there
are a few senators and a few
doctors like Dr. Feves who
feel that the people if this
state are not entitled to the
proper care that the trained
personnel on your ambulances
can and are willing to give
Let it be one of them or their
loved ones, believe me it will
make a difference.
I don't think they should
have the right to toy with the
most valuable thing we have,
human life. Would you be in
favor of this bill if you or
one of yours was in need of
help? I know some families
here in this valley who feel
that if the ambulance could
have arrived sooner, one mem
ber of their family would still
be with them today. This is
my feeling too.
The ambulance companies
do not care about how fast
they can get to the hospitals,
as Dr. Feves states. All they
ask is to be able to reach the
patients in time to save lives.
That much the people of this
valley and the state are en
titled to.
(Name on file)
Medford.
I -i
ANK MGftOAN - HAXOIO SNODGHASS, FUNEKAl DWfCTOW
This week de Gaulle faced
his sternest test. The "Colons'
once more were in revolt, and
for the same reason.
Their rallying cry was: "Al
geria forever French."
And just as they believed
the fourth Republic intended
to abandon them, to leave
them stateless persons in a"
Moslem state whose ties with r
France were severed, so now
they believed de Gaulle also
intended to abandon them.
De Gaulle stood firm. To
Moslem rebels and "colons" .
alike he promised that once
peace had been restored to
Algeria, then preparations
would be made for a referen
dum in which Algerians
would decide for themselves
whether to remain with
France or be independent.
To the French settlers,
many of whose families had
lived in Algeria for three or
more generations, it meant
the "suitcase or the coffin"
meaning get out or die.
De Gaulle's problem seem
ingly was insoluble. Yet there
were important differences in
the situation as it existed in
early 1960 and as it was in
May and June of 1958.
De Gaulle now is vested
with enormous power. His
government could not be top
pled at the whim of the ca
pricious French Assembly.
The Algerian settlers' revolt
was receiving scant sympathy
at home, and, so far at least,
the army was with de Gaulle-
So far as the future of Al
geria was concerned, de
Gaulle clearly hoped and be
lieved it would retain ties
with France. Algerian Mos
lem rebels who have fought
the French for more than five
years, he believed, were in
the minority.
Thus he could promise the
Colons" that their ties with
France would remain, while
at the same time promising
the Moslems a free choice.
For Algeria to remain
French was as important to
France itself as to the colons,
for French hopes of restored
greatness lie there, in the vast
new oil fields of the Sahara
and its metals.
$53 Million Said
Needed in Sewers
Portland - (UPD - T h e State
Sanitary Authority said to
day $53,393,000 should be
spent on 142 projects to con
trol sewage pollution in Ore
gon. The Authority, in a 1959
progress report, said 30 com
munities needed improvement
of existing sewage treatment
plans, 53 needed new plants,
nine needed interceptor sew
ers and 50 need entire sewer
systems.
The report said improve
ment in both domestic and in
dustrial pollution control last
year resulted in slightly bet
ter stream conditions, in the
Willamette river. But it held
out little hope for better fish
ing in the near future.
Major progress listed for
1959 included awarding of six
million dollars in sewage
works contracts by 41 com
munities, completion of 12
new treatment plants to serve
about 66,000 persons, expan
sion of other . improvements
to five existing plants, instal
lation of new or extended
sewer systems in 20 communi
ties, formation of eight sani
tary districts, improved pulp
and paper waste disposal fa
cilities, and start of the Port
land metropolitan area Tri
County sewer system.
...TO FAITHFULLY MEET
THE NEEDS OF THOSE
WHO TURN TO US
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