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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1S50 (Saturday)
Criticism of Medford'J po
lice force methods and lack of
enforcement of slot machine
laws, was voiced at a meeting
of the Jackson County Prop
erty Owners association last
night.
Petitions asking for the re
call of the Ashland mayor and
a city councilman were filed
with the county clerk.
iO YEARS AGO i '
April 8, 1940 (Monday)
A post of the Regular Vet,'
trans association is being
fnrmpH hprp former mem
bers of Army, Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard will
Vie plieihlo.
From Arthur Perry'i "Ye
Rmllrlon Pot" column: "
room apartment; completely
furnished; nice location; suit-
able for nearly married cou
pie.' - (Bridgeport (111.) Tri
bune) - Business of blushing."
30 YEARS AGO .
April 8, 1930 (Wednesday)
Frost Dredictcd tonight.
Central Point Grange has
largest meeting in history of
that chapter.
40 YEARS AGO
Aoril 8. 1920 (Friday)
First local grown spinach,
lettuce and green onions put
on market.
Orchardists prepare for first
smudging of season.
SO YEARS AGO
April 8, 1910 (Friday)
City council plans ordi
nance to establish yearly wa
ter rates for residents based
on size of families and homes.
The Sisters of Providence
plan to start work hero next
August on a $100,000 hospi
tal. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior!
seven or tight Is excellent; five oi
six is good
1. Complete this quotation:
"To err is human, to for
give . . ."
2. In what year did the
American Revolutionary War
start?
3. Is an atom made up of
molecules?
4. What is the largest pen
insula In the world?
5. In liquid measure, how
many gills arc in a pint?
6. If 5 cats catch 5 mice in
8 minutes, how many cats
will it require to catch 100
mice in 100 minutes?
7. Is a scalped the cover
ing of the skull?
8. In mythology, who was
the wife of Orpheus?
9. Do the whorls and ridges
on human finger tips change
with age and growth?
10. British biirristers have
tht initials QC after their
names; what do the Initials
signify?
Answers: 1. ". . . divine."
8. 1775. 3. No. (Molecules art
made up of atoms.) 4. Arabia.
8. Four. 6. Five cats. 7. No.
(Surgeon's knife.) 8. Eurydice.
t. No. 10. Queen's Counselor.
HOUSING PRICES UP
Washington -H'M-Tho Feder
al Housing Administration re
ports that average monthly
payments on new houses In
creased about $2 a month Inst
year, to $!)8.0B, reflecting an
Increase in prices and inter
est rates.
4
y4r Pollution Report
-I. It's always a nasty
you so!"
Sometimes the urge
And this is such a time..
The report on air pollution in Medford and
Jackson county, presented to the Medford city
council last nignt ny tne siate sanuary auinomy,
confirms what we've been saying on this page
for lo. these manv moons.
Medford DOES have
and it is now confirmed
before one had to trust
eyes, nose and cleaning
"yHE introduction and
are earned, in substance, elsewhere in to
day's paper. And the rest
report will be printed in bunaay s issue.
Essentially, it calls for:
1. Enactment of a city anti-pollution ordi
nance.
2. County and state
which may require additional legislation.
3. Continuation of the voluntary program of
heating pot conversion by orchardists.
4. Professional administration of a contin
uing pollution-control program.
X7E SINCERELY believe there is adequate
nnrilip cunnnrr. fnt
.hv..v ... i v .
It is moderate. It is
jure no one unduly, if administered with restraint
and good sense. And in
its purpose clean air in
It will, obviously, require the cooperation of
everyone involved, including the leaf burners,
or, lacking that, sufficiently tough administration
to enforce compliance.
Ihe point is this: We
with "dirty air" and now
our determination not to.
Dream
That was an interesting article Walter Lipp-
mann had on this page yesterday.
If you missed it, he came to the conclusion
that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York may
not, after all, be entirely out of the running for
the Republican presidential nomination. :
lhis thought was predicated on the rather
delicate situation which
M. Nixon faces between
vention. He must, Mr. Lippman points out, refrain
from alienating the far-right in his party, on
which his present strength is based, but at the
same time must make himselt sumcientiy attrac
tive to middle-of-the-road and liberal Republi
cans, and to independents and enough independent-minded
Democrats, so that he will not fore
close his chances for election in November.
pt
IF HE fails to walk this tightrope with sufficient
skill, there could be an upsurge of opinion
among moderate and nominal Republicans to
force the nomination of Rockefeller his "with
drawal" notwithstanding.
Coincidentally, Joe Alsop in his colmun yes
day dealt with the same general situation, point
ing out that Sen. Barry
to make hay out of Nixon s necessity to court the
liberal elements of the party.
And the Eugene Register-Guard this week
gave some advice to Nixon, which was to ignore
the advice given him
which was to ignore the
"us conservatives."
A ND so the wheels of
grind on.
But it is manifestly true that a large segment
of the Republican voters
thing less than bedazzled enchantment And it
is not outside the realm of possibility that Nixon,
shrewd as he is, will not be able to thread his
way between the booby-traps of the right wing,
and the threat of desertion from the middle.
The Guard comments:
y "Mr, Nixon must win, If he wins, ... by picking
.tip the Mugwumps and a few dissident Democrats. 1
He'll get the Republicans anyhow, even the Texas
oilmen who will be happy to support him Instead of
' any Democrat. As a place to start wooing this im
portant, floating body of voters, we suggest Mr.
Nixon start by ignoring Sonntor Goldwater."
The only thing wrong with that advice is that
if he ignores the Goldwaters, he will disaffect the
conservative "pros," who by and large control
the party machinery, and thus jeopardize his
convention "nomination by acclamation."
THE relatively quiet body of GOP voters who
still VrAA t.,;.,L (Unf 0l,,sf 1I.. U
oi.ui mini Atiiui, iiujca iiiab ivirtrtcxi'iiei tan lie-
come their man, have a counterpart body in the
Democratic party those who believe that Adlai
Stevenson is the only fully-qualified man the
Democrats have, and who nurture faint hopes
that he might come out of a deadlocked conven
tion as the party nominee for the third time.
And to a considerable body of independent
voters (it matters not what their nominal reg
istration may be), the "dream election" would
pit Rockefeller against Stevenson.
That way, they figure, the country would be
bound to have a good President, no matter who
won.
But that, right now
dream stuff. E.A.
temptation to say "I told
is irresistible, though
an air pollution problem,
scientifically, whereas
the evidence of one s own
bills.
summary of the report
of the full text of the
cooperation, some of
siiph a nrnornm
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reasonable. It would in
time it would accomplish
this valley.
do JMOr have to live
is the time to reinforce
E.R.
Stuff
Vice President Richard
now and the GOP con
Goldwater is attempting
by Senator Goldwater,
liberals and hold on to
pre-convention politics
view Nixon with some-
anyway, is nothing but
1
Dennis the
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Graduation
To the Editor: Attention,
please, all parents of upper-
classmen, all teachers, and all
principals.
As a parent of five young
men, who is greaty concerned
with how our younger genera
tion will, in the future, handle
the affairs of our nation, I am
interested in constr u c t i v e
ideas that will help these
young folks mature into think
ing individuals.
We have today an economic
situation which leaves little
time for the average parent to
devote enough time to his own
progency. It is my opinion that
the average high school
graduate of today is entering
a highly competitive world
without the proper tools - the
most important tools to carve
themselves a niche of happi
ness and peace of mind.
Too many of our children
of 18 years (and under) offer
excuses instead of reasons,
when asked why they fail to
do certain important things!
Too many of our modern
younger generation are strang
ers to tho assets termed logic,
reasoning, and initiative. If
we are going to help make
this country strong we must
build more character into our
young people, because tomor
row it will be these same
young folks who are shaping
the destiny of this nationl
Because this is Library
Week, I wish to offer one sug
gestion that parents, and
teachers, recommend certain
valuable books, or material,
for REQUIRED reading by
the upper classmen of our
high schools.
Two subjects that might
prove invaluable are: The
series of articles recently car
ried in our own Mall Tribune,
entitled "New Frontiers for
Living," and Bob Kennedy's
book called "The Enemy With
in." How many of us adults
have actually read these?
Philip L. Burns
121 Bush St.
Ashland
Reprints Planned
To the Editor: Because of
an overwhelming demand
from readers across the coun
try for reprints of "New
Frontiers In Living" by How
ard Whitman, we now have in
preparation an attrac 1 1 v e
booklet containing the com
plete series. It will sell for
50 cents.
Wo will let you know when
the bookets are ready so you
may offer them to your read
ers if you wish.
The Register and
Tribune syndicate
Des Moines 4, Iowa
Live and Let Live
To the Editor: A while back
there was an article agitating
the "dog control and uncon
trolled dog menace."
What was It we had last
year, when little Johnnie and
Mary lost their puppy dog
because their parents neglect
ed to purchase a dog license
in time?
Seems like they were pret
ty well weeded out last year.
Why so Eager Denver so soon?
Last summer wc had the
pretty centennial flower
boxes which stopped much
of the dog traffic, as they
were something new on the
street tor the dogs to Investi
gate. My Cocker Spaniel
stopped at most every one,
but he didn't bother car
wheels so much because there
is a limit, you know.
My doggy stopped at car
today, and the owner Said
"Let the car alone; don't
bother the car." The dog
didn't seem to hear, so I Just
tapped him with my handbag,
and he let the car alone be
Menace
fore any great damage was
done.
There is also the cat men
ace. Certain seasons of the
year they catawawl on your
back fence or under the
house, keeping you awake.
And if you let your little dog
gy out to clear the yard, he
chases your cat up the tree
and the fire department has
to get him down and my dog
gy is in Dutch again.
I dug a place to plant some
flowers, and fertilized it good,
so they ought to do fine. Then
the ornery thought entered
my mind, What is the use of
it, those kids next door will
just trample them down. But
I controlled myself with the
idea, maybe I can give the
children some flowers if they
are good, and let them grow.
The point of all this is, ex
ercise charity and see the
others' side of it, too.
I don't think anyone wants
their own animal to be a men
ace to gardens, tires-or boxes.
But we have to live in the
world together. So let us "live
and let live." '
Mrs. Mary Morgan
618 East Ninth st.
Medford
For Oldsters
To the Editor: This letter
Is a personal appeal to all old
sters who are interested in re
placing want and uncertainty
with a measure of peace and
comfort during their declin
ing years.
Senator Morse and Rep.
Porter are sponsoring legisla
tion that, if passed, will do
just that, as it provides each
social security retiree up to
60 days hospitalization, cer
tain medical care, and an ad
ditional 60 days rest home
care when necessary. This pre
paid insurance would be fi
nanced by a fractional in
crease in the social security
tax on employers and em
ployees. The administration, insur
ance companies and medical
associations are fighting these
bills just as bitterly as they
have all previous legislation
designed to help the retirees.
So it's necessary that these
gentlemen have a lot of sup
port from you folks when
these bills come up in com
mittee. Write Senator Wayne
Morse, Senate Office Build
ing, Washington 25, D. C. and
Rep. Charles Porter, House
Office Building, Washington
25, D.C. Not tomorrow, next
week or next month, but now,
today. And have your friends
and neighbors do the same.
Tell them in your own words
Just what it will mean to you,
emphasizing the fact that you
paid 100 cent dollars into the
fund and give them some
concrete examples as to how
the 47 cent dollars you are
receiving have lowered your
standard of living.
A closing line of sincere ap
preciation for their efforts
wouldn't be amiss, and if I
can be of any assistance tall
me, my time Is yours.
Claude M. Hall,
2860 Hartley Lane,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Valley ef the Bitten
To the Editor: I laugh out
loud every time I hear one of
the "Come to the Beautiful
Rogue Valley" and "Write
'em. Invite 'cm" slogans. Yes,
come and be eaten alive by
the mosquitoes with the rest
of us.
The valley is beautiful but
you can't enjoy, nor scarcely
see, the scenery for the
swarms ot mosquitoes. Chil
dren can't play out even dur
ing hot midday during sum
mer without being covered by
USIA Fail
Of Committee; Fights, Pay Questioned
By DICK WEST
Washington-IUPD-It's a good
thing that most employees of
the U. S. Information Agency
are peaceable
men. I don't
think we can
afford many
$20,000 fist
fights. ,
This is what
it cost us tax
payers for one
u n i dentified
info rmation
Uick west specialist to
take a swing at a colleague
during a drinking bout at
some unnamed foreign post.
Members of a House appro
priations subcommittee ran
Washington Report
By William S. White
DIRKSEN GROWS UP
Washington - If there were
any real justice in politics -as
of course there isn't - the
Republicans would now be
Senator Everett
M. Dirksen as
their legisla
tive man of
the year.
Dirksen has
now entered
tile last lap of
his first ses
sion as the
G.O.P. senale
leader. Simde
iairness compels this report,
from a correspondent who
once had no dffficutty in re
straining his admiration. This
senator is doing a good job, a
responsible job, for his party
and even for his country.
Dirksen Is actually a better
floor leader than was either
of his far more famous im
mediate predecessors, Sena
tors Robert A. Taft and Wil
liam F. Knowland.
Old cliches die htrd, per
haps because a cliche usually
only becomes one because it is
based on the truth. Dirksen
was long seen by most Wash
ington observers as a man of
few mixed convictions and
many thousands of purplish
words - an overripe Shakes
pearean actor tossing his gray-
the biting insects. People
can't go fishing, picnic, garden
nor enjoy their yards.
Away back In the dark ages
it was discovered that drain
ing and treating breeding
holes, and spraying, killed or
at least controlled mosquitoes
- and most of our misery
could be done away with thus
ly. Everywhere but here, that
is. Our Health (big joke) De
partment never heard of it
evidently, or else they live in
a little Heaven of their own
and haven't seen their chil
dren's bodies and faces swol
len and infected by mosquito
bites.
The head of the insect con
trol department should be
chopped off and a live one
that functions put in its place.
I would have enjoyed tying
him to a tree in my yard last
summer - his yelping would
have been music to my ears.
People should be able to
take it for granted that their
health department is a work
ing one. We shouldn't have to
beg for action against so com
monplace a nuisance. Many
people telephoned in last
spring asking for relief from
the mosquitoes; they got the
same old run around. I know
I called in too.
In the first place the man
that answered can't talk and
when he did say something-it
was nothing. If you follow me.
It boiled down to thls-they
like to wait and see how many
mosquitoes there are-if there's
not too many (he declined to
state just how many that was)
one can put up with them. On
the other hand if there's a lot
they can't afford to spray
them, so he sits back and goes
back to sleep (under mosquito
netting, no doubt). It stands to
reason that if there's an Intol
erable number one year
there's bound to be even
more the ncxt-or did I read
my biology wrong?
May I suggest that while we
wait for our health (?) depart
ment to waken, we change the
name of the valley to "Mos
quito Haven" or "Valley of
the Bitten" and our tourist
slogans to "Come Itch and Be
Scratched-' or "Come Have a
Happy Infection."
Mrs. Doris L. Webster,
64 Orr drive,
Central Point, Ore. ..
designating
William S.
ivhlte
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TONIGHT, 8 P.M.
To Convey
ran across the incident while
holding hearings on the new
USIA budget. They seemed a
trifle dismayed by the ex
pense of intramural fisticuffs.
According to USIA Director
George V. Allen, the agency
spent more than $4,000 train
ing the tipsy battler for an
overseas assignment and
more than $8,000 getting him
there. After the dust-up, it
ordered him home again at a
cost of almost $9,000.
"Why did you not sober
him up and teU him to apolo
gize?" asked Rep. Robert L. F.
Sikes (D-Fla.). "That is con
siderably cheaper."
Allen replied that the USIA
wanted to rehabilitate the em
ployee if possible because he
had "almost bilingual ability
in five languages." This im
pressed me as a rare ability
indeed. I have 'trouble being
Tough Russian Delegate for
Disarmament Talks Described
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man - of the weekt
Valerian A, Zorinr chief So
viet delegate to the 10-na-lion
disarmament confer
ence. The place: Geneva.
The quote: United States
disarmament policy is de
signed only to "complement
its defense policy."
It was a clumsy distortion
of a speech made three weeks
earlier by U.S. Secretary of
State Chris
tian H e r t e r
that the Soviet
delegate used
his bitter
est attack yet
against the
United States
at the Geneva
Conference.
Herter, in a
vim Newsom speech before
the National Press Club in
Washington on March 15, ac-
ing locks and skipping nim
bly about among the issues.
AS A member of the House
of ReDresentatives from Il
linois, he had been an isola
tionist and then an interna
tionalist and then an isolation
ist again through eight terms
in Congress. When in 1951, he
came to the Senate this was
the blunt but wide estimate:
his promotion could be des
cribed as the Senate's loss and
the House's gain.
Even in a body, the Senate,
which relishes a good deal of
what Is called corn, Everett
McKinley Dirksen was con
sidered to be quite too abun
dantly blessed with that com
modity. On nearly any "insid
er's" list of those new sen
ators who were not going far,
the name of Everett McKinley
Dirksen of Illiols would sure
ly have led most, if not all
the rest.
Thus when last January
the Senate Republicans set
out to make Dirksen their
new. leader there was much
shaking of heads. Both 'laft
and Knowland, whatever
might be said abort them
otherwise, had been leaders of
extraordinary strength o f
character. It was suggested,
not too delicately, that this
quality - strength of charac
ter - was notably absent in
Dirksen,
TVT WHAT has since hap-
1J pend? The Dirksen who
had so long been thought so
weak began repeatedly to
show undeniable strength,
both In his convictions and his
work. Soon the Senate, at
least, was aware that the new
G.O.P. spokesman was an ab
ler tactician than either Taft
or Knowland. Moreover, once
he had given his word he
stood with it as bravely as
either of them ever did.
The plain truth today may
seem surprising. Dirksen has
behaved with efficiency, with
courage, with honor, with
faithfulness to his partisan ob
ligations, but with a higher
faithfulness to the interests of
the United States of America.
The latest of many instan
ces was in the Senate's Civil
Rights fight. Dirksen stood
for a reasonable bill. Stoical
ly he resisted all pressure
from other Republicans for a
punitive measure for which
the south, of course, would
mostly have blamed the
Democrats. He was unwilling
to play that kind of politics
with that kind of an issue -
an issue involving the unity
t'iiisr."a
Message to
bilingual in even one lan
guage.
The subcommittee also was
disturbed over the upkeep of
some of the non-belligerents
in the USIA. It found one lady
who is being paid $14,190 a
year to spread culture in Ice
land. The job is rated at $9,093 to
$11,550 and the man she re
placed was drawing only
$8,800. Not only that, the lady
is making $2,420 a year more
than her boss.
Allen and his assistants did
their best to explain how this
came about but I don't think
those Congressmen ever un
derstood it.
They were equally unclear
as to why the USIA was pay
ing above-rated salaries to
employees in Germany, Brit
land, Italy, Austria, Canada,
France, Mexico and Brazil.
tually had argued that dis
armament complements the
American policy of keeping
the world free and secure
from aggression.
Both Reject Plans
Zorin's tirade came near
the end of the third week of
Geneva debate and before the
of the United States in a
world of peril.
WERE his detractors ever
right in the past? Having
been one of them, this colum
nist cannot with good taste at
tempt an answer.
But one thinr is sure.
Either they were wrong all
along; or Everett McKinley
Dirksen is another living ill
ustration of one of the saving
things about the American
political system. This is that
men thrown into positions of
high responsibilities have a
remarkable capacity to grow
up to those responsibilities
and ably to discharge them in
the showdown.
Such a man is Everett Mc
Kinley Dirksen. And while
the Republican party may
hardly pause this year to sa
lute him, he has this anyhow:
the awareness of the earned
respect of one of the most
acute judges of men in this
world - the collective mem
bership of the United States
Senate.
(Copyright. 1960, by Uni
ted Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
TUNNER TO RETIRE
Washington ICPD Lt. Gen.
William H. Tunner, comman
der of the Military Air Trans
pert Service who ran the 1949
Berlin airlift, will retire from
the Air Force late this spring
after 32 years' service, it was
announced.
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Members
Chairman John J. Rooney
(D-N.Y.) said he kept think
ing during the hearing about
a former subcommittee mem
ber, now dead, who had been
one of the agency's sharpest
critics.
"If that gentleman were liv
ing with us now and he were
to read this testimony this
afternoon during this past
hour, he would surely have a
heart attack and pass on once
again," Rooney said.
If the USIA wants to hire
me for one of those $14,190-a-year
Jobs, I think I can
spare it a lot of difficulty. My
plan Is to start beaming a spe
cial "Voice of America" pro
gram to Capitol Hill. ,
I mean, the agency may be
making its point overseas all
right but some of our ' con
gressmen aren't getting, the
message.
week was out both sides flat
ly had rejected each other's
disarmament proposals.
Now would follow a period
of marking time, with a re
cess a probability, and some
dramatic Soviet move a possi
bility just before the Paris
summit meeting in May.
Zorin's flat refusal to con
sider the U.S. proposal for
outlawing outer space weap
ons and his insistence that
the only plan that could be
discussed was Khrushchev's
sweeping proposal for world
disarmament in four years
marked him clearly as a man
operating under rigid orders.
When the West rejected the
Khrushchev proposal as im
practical, Zorin was left to
await new orders.
Reputation Precedes Him
Zorin, unsmiling, heavy-set
and nearlng eo, was preceded
to Geneva by his reputation.
"Butcher of Prague" was
one tag attached to him.
It came from his assign
ment as Soviet ambassador to
Czechoslovakia in 1949. He
was accused of directing the
Communist coup that led to
the Red take-over of that
once-democratic nation.
After that demonstration of
effective intrigue, he became
a deputy foreign minister in
Moscow during one of the
harshest periods of the Stalin
ist cold war.
In 1952 he became chief So
viet delegate to the United
Nations where he is remem
bered as poker-faced and un
imaginative. From the caution with
which members of his own
delegation treated him, there
also was a suspicion that he
was a member of the Soviet
Secret Police.
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