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Medford and Jeckson County
History from the tile of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1950 (Tuesday)
Central Point - Voters of
school district 6 yesterday
reaffirmed a $900,000 bond
Issue for construction of a
new high school.
Medford and local business
establishments will go on
daylight saving time next Sun
day but Jackson county of
fices say they will stick with
standard time unless the gov
ernor orders them to do other
wise. 20 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1940 (Thursday)
Seventeen second corps
CCC replacements from Ft.
Dlx, N.J., arrived here today
lor assignment to the Medford
district.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sum
mer is coming along. Want-
ads are appearing offering to
swap the family cow for
slightly used tires."
30 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1930 (Thursday)
Mayor Pipes favors com
mission plan for Mcdford's
city government.
County court asked to build
road to Hobart lake in south
eastern end of county.
40 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1920 (Saturday)
. Rising prices bring cost of
sugar to 23 cents a pound
here.
Largest moonshine still on
record is found in Clackamas
county, where 1,700 gallons
of mash is confiscated.
50 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1910 (Monday)
Medford citizens will vote
tomorrow on a $50,000 school
bond proposal for the pur
pose of building an east side
school and a Washington
school annex.
The ladies of the Greater
Medford club are collecting
contributions for a "library
fund which would be used
to build a new library.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It tuperler:
even or eight if excellent: five e
III ll good.
1. A banjo usually has how
many strings?
2. "Badger Slate" is the
nickname for which State?
3. Who renouccd a British
throne "for the woman 1
love ?
4. Which great Italian paint
cr was also a sculptor, archi
tect, musician, mechanican,
engineer and natural philos
opher? 5. Maine touches how many
oincr siHtes?
6. A book containing the
words of an opera Is called
e-o?
7. "Fritz" la a nickname for
what GormBn given name?
8. The U. S. Secret Service
is a division of which ex
ecutive department?
9. Recresence would denote
that growth has been renewed
or retarded?
10. In cattle the dewlap Is
on the hlndlegs, near the ud
der, or under the neck?
Answers: 1. Fire. 2. Wiscon
sin. 3. Edward VIII (Now
Duke of Windsor). 4. Leo
nardo da Vinci. 5. Only on -
New Hampshire, 6. Libretto.
7. Frederick. 8. Department
of ihe Treasury 9. Renewed.
10. Under tha neck.
There Are
Washington (Special) Sen. John F. Ken
nedy proved himself a bold man this past week
when he challenged American editors to see that
the Nation s press treats the religious issue
of the election campaign as fairly as Kennedy
himself was willing to
Changing topics at
eign policy to the issue of religion in politics,
Kennedy was moved to confront members of the
American Society of Newspaper Editors with the
mounting concentration of attention on the single
fact that he is a Catholic
dent.
Kennedy spoke rather bluntly about what he
considered the exaggeration of this fact in some
news reporting of the primary campaign in Wis
consin and West Virginia. The press, he said, did
not create this issue but
this issue will be kept in perspective and whether
needless fears and suspicions are stilled instead
of aroused.
IN THE view of this correspondent, Kennedy
had a justifiable complaint. Much of the news
reporting not all of it
hotly contested primary
the single contrast between Kennedy and Hum
phrey which is easiest
news stories. That is the
Protestant and Kennedy
angle that is constantly
before has a Catholic been elected president, and
what do the voters think
make it?
This is an intriguing
minor one in the host of
the Nation in 1960.
It is emphasized beyond justification because
it is often a weakness
dote upon strategy and
recent civil rights fight in the Senate, far more
space and headlines were devoted to the filibuster
effort how senators were dressed, where they
slept, how they looked at 4 a.m., and how long
each man spoke than to what they contended
about the bill itself or the substance of guaran
teeing or denying civil rights.
" e e e e
POLITICAL reporters relish fresh knowlelge of
the maneuvers that can be expected from
competing politicians; and when the battle is for
the White House each move and counter-move,
each danger or pitfall that looms ahead takes on
importance from a news standpoint because it
represents conflict or the threat of failure. Al
though the candidates may be debating larm sur
pluses, defense readiness, rocket lailures and ur
ban congestion, there is an almost irresistible
attraction away from these relative dry issues to
something with a little more of what is euphemis
tically called "reader interest."
While there has been considerable attention
in news dispatches to the big question of whether
voters will go for a Catholic presidential candi
date, there has been relatively little attention to
where the candidates all of them stand on the
substantive issues related to religion or the ques
tion of clerical power in government affairs.
Kennedy agrees there are legitimate issues
in this area such as federal assistance to paro
chial schools which he said he opposes because
"I believe it is clearly unconstitutional. I voted
against it on the Senate floor this year, when
offered by Senator (Wayne) Morse. But inter
estingly enough, I was the only announced candi
date in the Senate who did so. Nevertheless I
have not yet charged my opponents with taking
orders from Rome."
THAT vote was on Morse's proposal for federal
Inoiic tr, nriiratn cnhnnla fnr aphnnl pnnHr.lMlP-
tion. Besides Morse, Sen. Hubert Humphrey sup
ported it. Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Kennedy
opposed it. Sen. Stuart Symington didn't vote
on it.
Kennedy reiterated his opposition to sending
an ambassador to the Vatican, but noted it was
last proposed by a Baptist president, Harry S.
Truman.
"I do not speak for the Catholic Church on
issues of public policy and no one in that church
speaks for me. My record on aid to education,
aid to Tito, the Conant nomination and other
issues has displeased some prominent Catholic
clergymen and organizations; and it has been
approved by others. The fact is that the Catholic
Church is not a monolith it is committed in this
country to the principles of individual liberty
and it has no claim over my conduct as a public
officer sworn to do the public interest," Kennedy
declared.
IN ONE respect, Kennedy was in a weak position
1 to be urging that religion be shoved to the
sidelines for the remainder of the presidential
campaign. In his speech to the editors he asked :
"What, then, is the so-called relgious issue in
American politics today? It is not, it seems to me,
my actual religious convictions but a misunder
standing of what those convictions actually are.
It is not the actual existence of religious voting
blocs but a suspicion that such voting blocs may
exist. Ami when we deal with such public fears
and suspicious, the American press has a very
grave responsibility."
So, indeed, do politicians.
1X711 EN Kennedy made his first bid for a place
?? on the national ticket at the Democratic con
vention in 19515, his associates circulated the
hard-headed political analysis that a Catholic on
the ticket as Adlai Stevenson's runninsr mate
would strengthen the Democratic chances of cap-
Other Issues
meet it squarely.
the last moment from for
who is running for presi
it will determine whether
coming out of these
elections has belabored
to exploit into readable
fact that Humphrey is a
a Catholic and the
exploited is that never
about it, and will he
Question, but it is a
issues which confront
of political reporting to
neglect substance. In the
Dennis the
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Mayor io "Taxpayer"
To the Editor: In reply to
Mr. Taxpayer s' letter of
April 21.
Mr. Taxpayer, you ask for
suggestions from the Council
of Jacksonville or anyone
else regarding the betterment
of Jacksonville.
You must be new to our
town or you would realize
that the things that have been
done in the past are things
that have been set up to bene
fit the citizens now and in
the future.
Of course it is not possible
for me to contact you person
ally regarding your sugges
tions because I do not know
your name.
Please feel free to call any
member of the Council or my
self and we will be delighted
to enlighten you on many
things which we feel the citi
zens are happy for and benefit
by.
Also, Mr. Taxpayer, you are
welcome to attend all Council
and planning commission
meetings. They are open to
the public. The Council meets
every first and third Tuesday
of each month. The planning
commission meets each third
Thursday of each month.
Perhaps you were not with
us last spring and summer
when the citizens came to our
town meetings to have a cup
of coffee, visit with friends
and suggest ideas to better
our little town,
Jacksonville is a town of
friends and neighbors and no
person has ever been refused
the privilege to speak before
the Council.
May I have the privilege of
meeting you and helping with
your problems?
E. O. Graham
Mayor
Jacksonville, Ore.
Tall Tale
To the Editor: The follow
ing fantasy was one of the
stories told by nlmrods when
the old muzzle loader scatter
gun was giving way to the
newer breech-loader gun.
In that era I was only about
knee high to a Kansas grass
hopper, but the vivid picture
was a memory never to be
forgotten. The tale went
something like this:
A hunter shot all the feath
ers out of a duck on the wing,
but the scared duck kept fly
ing on, the old gun kicked the
hunter backwards near a
small river, killing a half
dozen jackrabblts In his rear
before the hunter fell in the
water, splashing out a dozen
catfish which he picked up on
the opposite bank of the
stream.
We do not recall any pre
varicators club in those days,
but tall tales were rampant
just the same. One version
was that one swashbuckler
said he could side-step a bullet
fired from the old Springfield
black powder rifle at a dis
tance of one fourth mile away
when he saw the smoke
emerge from the muzzle end
of the barrel.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman St.
Medford.
luring key states in which there are substantial
numbers of Catholic voters. The implication was
that there would be some bloc voting along re
ligious lines if Kennedy were on the ticket.
Embarrassing as this is now to Kennedy, and
true as this analysis probably remains in 1960,
the question of whether the next president is a
Protestant or a Catholic is hardly foremost
among the great decisions which will determine
whether this country, its freedom and its Chris
tianity, survive the challenge to come. A. Robert
Smith.
Menace
bear the name and address of
certain circumstances the use
publication is permissible. The
riaht to edit all letters with a
the contrary is otten the cast.
Tha Brass Rod
To the Editor: We are living
in a lawless age! Every day
an army of over 400,000 crimi
nals walks the streets of these
United States. Our "crime
wave," of which we used to
speak, has emerged into a con
tinuous crime storm.
Figures for a few years
ago show that crime costs
every inhabitant of this coun
try on the average of $100
each, or about $300 for each
family. This loss to the Ameri
can people each year would
build and furnish more than
1,700,000 middle-class homes.
It would put an automobile in
two out of every three homes
in the U. S. It would give 10,
000,000 unemployed $100 a
month the year around.
Crime and violence truly
are America's disgrace. Every
time 19 seconds tick off a very
serious crime is committed.
Each day 255 victims are as
saulted or raped. Another 150
are robbed. Every 24 hours
more than 1,000 places are
burglarized, more than 460
automobiles are stolen, be
sides 2,600 miscellaneous lar
cenies are committed. Every
day 36 persons are murdered
- that means more than 13,000
murders a yearl
These figures are for a few
years ago. The totals are high
er now. The crime bill of the
U.S. runs each year to be
tween 12 and 18 billion dol
lars, a sum in excess of Uncle
Sam's still unpaid war loans.
If 12 billion one dollar bills
were sewed end to end, they
would reach from the earth to
the moon five times. They
would make a highway nine
feet wide across the U.S. from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
High as this sum is, it is
dwarfed Into insignificance
when compared with the aw
ful toll in human life extract
ed by the criminal.
I don't know how you feet
about it, but I believe that
this terrific cost in life and
money Is too high a price to
pay simply because some peo
Dle refuse to keep the laws of
our land and the law of God.
Man was given a 10-point
golden rule by which to
measure and interpret God's
blue-print for good citizenship
upon this earth. Somehow,
somewhere, It was mislaid. In
its place man employs a brass
rod, Its warped measure read
ing: lust, greed, selfishness,
lawlessness.
Henry Johnson
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Hospital Praised
To the Editor: After read
ing so many letters In the
paper criticizing the hospitals
1 want to tell my experience
which is the other side of the
story. The kindness and care
I received at the Rogue Val
ley Memorial hospital is only
what hundreds of grateful pa
tients have received but I
guess the story needs to be
told again.
I was very sick when I
came to the hospital and I
was immediately taken to a
room, given medication which
had been prescribed by my
GSA; Jack-of-AII-Trac.es, Licked by
Problem of Licking Government's Stamps
By DICK WEST
Washington - (UPl - The
General Services Administra
tion is a federal agency whose
precise m 1 s
sion in life, if
it has one, re
mains a mys
tery to me,
As near as
I can figure
it, the GSA
acts as a tort
of govern
mental Jack of
all trades, do
ing such odd jobs as auction
ing off 40,000 pounds of duck
leathers,
The feather auction will be
held May 5 In New York
where this week the GSA
put on the block some 56,000
carats of surplus diamonds-
Let us all stand now and ex
claim in unison "What a won
derful country this is!"
I mean blondes the world
over have long regarded dia
monds as "critical and strat
egic materials." But where
else, pray tell, can you find
diamonds In government
stockpiles?
Must Dispose of Forms
Another odd job assigned
to GSA is to get rid of all of
those millions of census forms
that we have been filling out
this month. As you know, the
information on the forms is
confidential and this compli
cates the disposal problem.
But the GSA anticipates no
difficulties. When the census
doctor, and put to bed. Only
after that did my husband go
to the office to give the In
formation needed for neces
sary hospital records, for dur
ing the pressure of arrival no
one had asked him a question,
other than my name.
After being in the hospital
I realize some of the problems
that go with caring for the
patients and the administra
tion of the hospital, so that
even more if possible, I want
to say thanks to all for being
so good to me.
Alta McDougall (Mrs. J. A.)
315 Perrydale ave.
Medford.
Still Waiting
To the Editor: On Feb. 15,
1960, I went to Camp White
and contacted a Mr. Bran
nock to find out about hospit
alization. After answering the usual
form of Questions that Mr.
Brannock asked my wife and
myself, he very promptly sent
in my application.
The Portland office notmea
me by mail that -my request
had been approved.
But I am still waiting for
them to find ma a bed.
Leo J. Townsend
Route 1, Box 620,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Words of Thanks
To the Editor: There are a
few words I would like to
say, In the way of praise and
thanks, thanks to tne gooa
women that come to this con
valescent home to spread good
cheer and good will among
the patients here, mostly aged
men and women that are ap
proaching pretty close to 80,
90 and 100 years.
Some are homeless, feeble
minded; some can walk with
great difficulty, some are
about deaf and blind, one is
speechless with one leg and
useless arm.
And I, with the rest of the
patients, deeply appreciate
their visits every week, as
hands that help are better
than lips that pray.
Hope and cheer are wonder
ful words of life. Preacher
White and wife are appreci
ated by most of us Sunday
evenings. This community
should feel proud of such
people.
J. P. Wlrth
120 Laurel St.,
Medford.
Lyckol
To the Editor: While I ex
pected some kickbacks to my
letter advocating medical ben
efits for retirees, I wasn't pre
pared for the deluge of letters
I've received. Have enjoyed
them Immensely. Too many
to answer individually so am
taking this means of saying
'Thanks.
From these communications
I find myself a person of
many characters, gentleman
to knave. I can't understand,
though, why those who placed
me in the latter class 'forgot'
to sign their letters. No need
to hide, as the handle of my
old pitchfork is too weak to
stand any brush popping. The
gentleman who called me a
bum must have been in the
group who bummed our way
from Portland to LA. in De
cember, 1908. He probably
recalls the swell chicken mul
ligan we had Xmat day at
Lathrop Junction, aorta short
on vegetables due to the big
brindle dog chasing me out of
a garden before I'd gathered
enough to go around more
than four times.
In return for his amusing
denunciations all I can say is,
LYCKO!
Claude M. Hall
28 Hartley Lane
Grant Pass, Ore.
It
Pick west
people are through with them,
it will sell the forms as waste
paper and send security
agents into the pulping plants
to make cetrain that no one
peeks.
In view of this record as
a handyman de luxe, It is
with regret that I report that
the GSA has finally found
one task that Is beyond its
ken. It has thrown in the
towel on trading stamps.
Under a ruling issued last
year by the comptroller gen
eral, federal employees werelo pass
Foreign Notebook: Germany's
Refugees;
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
New Pressure on Berlin?
Even with tighter Commu
nist controls to stop the flow
of ref u gees
from East
G e r many to
West Berlin,
it is expected
that about
300 a day still
will be able to
make good
their escape
from the So-
Phll Newtom viei iou e,
adding to the three million
who have fled since 1945. The
new refugee tiow orougnt
about by collectivization of
East German farms is expect
ed to increase Communist de
termination for changes in
West Berlin's status.
South Africa Adamant
Diplomats in London do
not expect much to result
from United Nations Secre
tary General Dag Hammar-
skjold's meeting with South
African External Affairs
Minister Eric Louw during the
commonwealth conference in
London next month. Hammar-
skjold is under United Na
tions orders to do what he
can to ease the situation
brought about by South Afri
ca's white supermacy policies.
Louw will talk with Hammar
skjold to impress world
opinion but will stick to the
line that no one has a right to
interfere in his county's in
ternal affairs.
Israeli Arms
It will draw Arab protests
but you can expect Israel to
get more modern arms from
the West, particularly France
which gave it jet planes in
1956. The weapons will be
primarily defensive - radar,
anti-submarine devices and
the like. No missiles. And
there will be none in the fore
seeable future. The Arabs al
ready have warned that if
Israel gets rockets, they will
seek the same from Russia.
Red Chance
Italy's Communist
Party,
Hatfield Cites
Educational Needs
Portland -WTO- Public and
private Institutions of higher
learning must be willing to
try daring innovations to keep
up with educational needs in
the years ahead, Gov. Mark
Hatfield said Saturday night.
Hatfield, addressing the Lu
theran Education Society
here, said the new methods
should be aimed at eliminat
ing waste in curriculum,
plant and administrative and
instructional procedures.
'They must display more Im
agination, more readiness for
innovation to met the needs
before them," he said.
Cosmic Harmony
To the Editor: Your editor
ial comment on Project Ozma
la speculatiely interestl n g;
but, early contact with other
Space Travelers could end
with some sour notes.
Before we tune In on other
Cosmic Creatures and display
our cultural attainments, it is
to be hoped, we first will have
learned to Harmonize among
ourselves.
H. W. Robertson,
103 North Central ave.,
Medford.
P. S. Spacemonition:
Our Radars tune to scan
the skies.
With Cosmic Friends we'll
Ozma-tze.
Yet Space Folk must these
Clods despise,
'Til Earthlings learn to
harmonize.
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r0iiii Irpri tn turn In to tne
GSA any trading stamps they
picked up while making gov
ernment purchases.
Asks Ruling Change
For months now, the stamps
have been pouring in faster
than the GSA could lick them
and stick them into books.
Recently, In desperation, it
asked the comptroller general
to cancel the ruling.
He refused to relent en
tirely, but he did indicate it
would be okay for the GSA
along the stamps to
Africans Adamant
largest in the West, sees a
chance to upstage the ruling
Christian Democratic Party
and grab some middle class
support. The Reds already
have started a campaign to
show they are simply a for
Washington Report
By WIUIAM
GANGING UP
Washington - It is difficult
to tell who is now ganging up
most on whom in the increas
ingly bitter struggle for the
D e m o cratic
Pre sidential
nomination.
Senator
John F. Ken-
n e d y com-
plains that in
the West Vir
ginia primary
his rivals are
pnmhininff in
WwwTe tricky ways to
stop him. Only one of them,
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
of Minnesota, is openly con
testing the state with Ken
nedy. But now all these rivals -
Humphrey and Senators Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas and
Stuart Symington of Missouri
- themselves have a "heavy
beef," as they say in the po
litical trade. A new and tough
gang-upism is being practiced
on the other side by Kennedy
partisans.
The ill-masked Kennedy
backer, Democratic National
Chairman Paul Butler, is
packing the officialdom of the
Democratic National conven
tion with Kennedy men. Un
der Butler's direction one val
uable post, the chairmanship
of the platform committee, al
ready has been handed out.
This goes to Rep. Chester
Bowles of Connecticut, an old
and candid Kennedy backer.
UTLER is said to intend
also to put another Ken-
nedyite in a top spot. Gov.
Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin
is slated to be the conven
tion's keynote speaker.
The Kennedy movement,
through Butler, had already
controlled the whole complex
pre-convention machinery. It
will now control nearly the
whole tone of the convention
itself, except for the perma
nent chairmanship.
Senator Albert Gore of
Tennessee is understood to
be Butler's probable choice
for that place. Gore is uncom
mitted as among the Presi
dential candidates. A border
stater, he would normally be
put down as a partisan of
Senator Johnson, whose main
strength lies in the border
states and the South, '
But Gore can by no means
be counted upon by Johnson.
Planned with
devoted care even
modestly priced
services are
brought to a single
impression of
reverent beauty.
PERL Funeral Home
SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
government hospitals and
other institutions which may
have use for them.
Personally, I think it would
be better to turn the stamps
over to the Internal Revenue
Service. Under my plan, each
time a citizen paid his income
tax, he would receive an
equivalent batch of stamps.
This would do more than
merely solve the problem of
what to do with the stamps.
Unless I am badly mistaken,
it would virtually wipe out
tax delinquency overnight.
ward-looking bunch of Boy
Scouts and not a tool of Rus
sia at all. Watch for this cam
paign to wax stronger as the
Christian Democrats flounder
deeper in the current govern
ment crisis.
S. WHITE
He is widely believed to have
Presidential - or at least Vive
Presidential - ambitions of
his own. Nobody knows to
whom he will go in the end.
IiHUS Kennedy's fellow
seekers of the Presidency
can only hope that Butler will
overeach himself in his pur
pose to have absolute domi
nation of the convention. The
two points of real crisis for
the Butler plan to blitz the
convention for Kennedy will
be in the platform committee
and in the permanent chair
manship, Bowles himself Is an able
and tolerant man. Though lib
eral on Civil Rights, he Is not
seen even by the conserva
tives as dedicated to torment
ing a North-South Civil war
within the party.
Butler demonstrably Is so
dedicated, however. He will
surround Bowles with men
who really think the Battle
Hymn of the Republic is the
true expression of the Amer
ica of 1960.
The real question, there
fore, will be whether Bowles
and Kennedy will be able to
prevent the Butlerltes from
carrying the Civil Rights
plank so far as to injure rath
er than promote Kennedy's
interests. The Senator himself
certainly has no desire to take
a punitive line outlawing the
South and alienating all mod
erate opinion outside the
South. And he has excellent
reasons not even to seem to
do so.
THE permanent chairman
makes vital rulings on con
vention procedure. Here again
the rest of the Democratic
field will hope Butler will try
to push too hard. For one
thing, Gore does not push
easily. And here again, as one
of the other candidates puts
it, "those Kennedy fellows
can easily tear their britches"
- meaning to go so very far
as to provoke a convention
rebellion quite outside the
South.
In short, there is great ques
tion whether Kennedy will
profit from Butler's extreme
partiality, just as there is
preat question that those
ganging up on Kennedy in
West Virginia will profit
from it in the end.
(Copyright 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)