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Medford and Jickson County
History from the tile ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1950 (Tuesday)
Citv employee escapes
death yesterday when the side
of a ditch In which he was
working on South Grape st.
caved in and buried him up
to the neck.
Theodore (Daddy) Penland,
101, last and final commander
of the Grand Army of the Re
public, will be guest of honor
t National GAR day cere
monies at Camp White Sun
day. 20 YEARS AGO
Mh 23. 1940 (Thuridsy)
: Arthur E. Powell, editor
mayor of Central Point, de
feated dairyman ueorge un
man in race for county com
missioner by 139 votes.
30 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1930 (Friday)
Straw hat parade to be held
here tomorrow.
Road to Crater Lake to be
cleared of snow, and open to
travel next Sunday, the
earliest date In hltsory.
40 YEARS AGO
May 23. 1920 (Sunday)
A married couple who pas
ted a large number of cheeks
nn nnn lYinrchlintS TCCPntlV
have been apprehended in
Colorado.
Bakery prices soar locally
as In rest of nation due to
high cost of sugar, but other
food prices drop.
SO YEARS AGO
May 23. 1910 (Monday)
A total eclipse of the moon,
Haley's comet and a lightn
ing storm, treated valley res
idents to a celestial show,
seldom, if ever, seen by man
before.
Medford residents gathered
In the streets yesterday to
watch the approach of a mys
terious airplane, but it turned
out to be only a large box
kite carrying several photo
graphers who were taking
pictures of the city.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It luperier;
seven er eight li cicelltnt; five) er
lie ii good.
1. Where Is the headquar
ters of the Mormon Church?
2. What is the zodiacal sign
for persons born between
April 21 and May 21?
3. By weight, does coffee
or. tea contain more enffeinc?
4. Who is presently the Sec
. retary of Stale in the Presi
dent's cabinet?
5. A square mile consists
of how many acres?
6. Where was the first per
manent English settlement in
America?
7. What kind of edible ani
mal is sometimes called a ra
Jtorback? 8. Socrates died of old age,
by drinking a cup of poison
hemlock, or by behcnding7
9. According to the old
proverb, what plays when the
tat s away?
10. Which eastern ctly is
particularly noted for its
famed cherry blossoms in the
spring?
Amwerit 1. Salt Lake City,
Utah. 2. Taurus. 3. Tea (from
3 to 4 par cant, compared to
1V4 par cent for coffee), 4.
Christian Herler. S. 640. 6.
Jameifown, Va established
May 13, 1607. 7. Hog. 8. By
drinking a cup of poison hem
lock. 9. The mica. 10. Wash
ington, D.C.
4
Yardstick on America
Behind the cornucopia of America's industrial
abundance has been a people who cared about
their neighbor's welfare, a people who hated to
be excelled at anything, a people who were proud
of their own freedom and who traditionally
sought to help all men to greater freedom.
But over the past few years these same people
have been told and partially convinced that
clothes and cars and couches are not only the
measure of individual success but the chief pur
pose of our slowly expanding national economy.
In recent years they have seen a Republican
Administration deadlocked with Democratic
Congresses to provide the kind of unexciting gov
ernment which most of them thought they want
ed. With few exceptions they have seen issues
that might have caused dissention swept under
the mg while public relations specialists set our
national mood and purpose.
NEARLY every expert warned us that the So
viet Union had developed the technical ca
pacity to surpass us in the missile race and
in scientific and technological research. And
when they did, we were told that the Soviet
breakthrough into space was a "scientific trick"
and a "silly bauble," and that we should not get
excited.
We were hit by two recessions in five years
costing a total of $70 billion in goods and serv
ices that we could have produced but didn't. And
we were told that we were lucky to get off so
easily.
Our economic growth rate dropped to less
than half that of the Soviet Union. And we were
told that Communism nonetheless was a "gigantic
failure."
For want of funds our schools and univei-sities
have lagged behind the clear needs of our fast
growing younger generation. And we have been
told to relax because education was a "local
responsibility."
f")UR ablest housing, health, and urban experts
have pointed out that millions of Americans
were still jammed in slum tenements, that the
costs of adequate medical care were skyrocket
ing, and that the economic and cultural vitality of
our large cities was rotting away. And we were
presented with massive statistics to prove that we
had never had it so good.
As we watched Soviet foreign policy make
dramatic new inroads in the Middle East, South
American, Africa, and Asia, we were told that
American prestige was never higher; and right
there on our television sets were the President's
global good-will tours to prove it.
, On nearly every yardstick by which national
power is measured we slumped and fell behind,
while anyone who said so was dismissed as a
prophet of gloom and doom.
(The above Is an excerpt from "Agenda 1981," two
lectures presented last month at Grinnell College,
Iowa, by Chester Bowles, former Governor of Con
necticut, former U.S. Ambassador to India, now Con
gressman from Connecticut's Second district.)
Clearing the Air
A new type of odor control apparatus is be
ing installed by Western Kraft Corp. at its Al
bany plant. It's to be in service by early July, and
that surely won't be too soon for residents of the
Albany area or users of the new freeway that
passes directly by the plant.
Often blowing directly across the freeway,
the fumes from the Albany pulp and paper mill
are disagreeable, to say the very least. To some,
tney re almost sickening.
Now, Western Kraft
antee that the new equipment will work 100', r,
or even 50 ''!. However, the company has "hich
hopes." The equipment
Kind in Oregon, and its purchase will hike odor
control expenditures at the Albany plant, open
ed in 1955, to more than $250,000.
A LL this is further evidence that pulp and paper
"manufacturers who are extending their oper
ations in this state are
nuisance smells and stream-polluting wastes that
make their plants dubious additions to communi
ties which would otherwise welcome them with
open arms. Notable progress has already been
made at many plants, including the Weyer
haeuser mill at Springfield.
Now it's good to know
pnere aiso may be cleared, and through oxidation
processes, not merely by piping more pollutants
into the Willamette River. Eugene Register
Guard. Time for a Change
How ludicrous it is that votes still are counted
manually by weary counting boards.
Los Angeles is testing a ballot where, with
a soft pencil, you make a big dot in the card, in
this case on heavy paper.
Such ballots are not counted in the" precincts
but are simply stored in racks which at the end
of voting are taken to a central office where they
are fed into an electronic machine. A dot in a
certain position closes a circuit in the machine,
thus registering a vote for Joe Smith. 0
Precinct totals as well as countv totals rrmlH
be obtained within several hours rather than the
several days it now takes to complete counting.
we nope uregon election officials get par
ticulars on the experiments. As any counting
board veteran will tell you, it s time for a change.
capital Journal, balem.
reports, there's no guar
will be the first of its
working hard to reduce
that the Albany atmos-
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'Jelly doughnuts. WHATte WU twnkin' about?
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear tha name and addrees of the
writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen
name or initial for publication is permissible. Tha Mail
Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to
clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in
this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is
What He Wants
To the Editor: Having the
primary election out of the
way we must now turn to one
more important decision - the
Medford school district bud
get. We have all had our share
of going to the polls these
past few weeks but we cannot
relax. yet, an adequate number
of votes is essential on the
budget question. There should
be no hardship on this budget
vote as it is understood ade
quate voting places will be
had. Lets all get out ana
vote once more.
It is mv opinion that the
previous rejection of the bud
get was an expression by the
people demanding more econ
omy In our school systpm. The
"token' reduction 01 jomc
$28,000 off a four million dol
lar budget manes one wonur
if that is "economy."
We think, regardless 01
Information as to cost of
schools and administration,
the people are more interested
in the actual and adequate
education of the students and
in that respect do not want
inadequate financing - but,
where such a large share of
the school tax dollar goes for
things other than actual edu
caUon - to build up "prestige
for the district for instance,
and making "inducements' to
students so as to have them
interested in education seems
a waste of money and effort.
If an education is worth hav
ing it is worth an effort on
the part of the student. Why
golf and bowling lessons, ex
cessive bus service? It is such
things as these that the people
are getting tired of financing.
The "form" or "system of
education students is also a
matter of concern. Pa"ts
who try to assist their chil
dren in home work find that
the way they were taught is
not now the method used and
home assistance seems useless
to the child. How is one
schooled in the "old system
to help the present genera
tion? Adult education? More
wasted tax money.
Each of us have our right
to "Opinion" and whichever
that may be. it should be ex
pressed at the polls. Do we
give a vote of confidence in
our present system, or a de
mand for proper education
with economy? Let's have a
big turn out and let it be
known for sure what we want.
Ray O. DeMarrs
708 West Second st.
Medford.
A Tribute
To the Editor: Will you
please print this little missive
in your paper?
I lived in Medford many
years and loved It there. Was
a steady subscriber of your
dear little Tribune paper for
long time. Most of my people
still live in Medford - and
they send me all the interest
ing clippings.
The Caldwell, the Twe
dells. the Keeners, and
Cleaves are all of my family,
and I would also still be liv
ing there If my health would
permit it. However I spend
a lot of time vacationing
there. Thanking you kindly.
In Memory
(In loving memory of my
brother Elza Lee Keener, who
passed away recently.)
We do not know the reason
why
Dark clouds so often veil
the sky.
But though our faith be
smooth or rough.
The Lord knows why and
that is enough.
We do not know why death
should come
To take our loved ones
from their homes,
O
Merce
often the case.
But though our eyes from
tears be dimmed
The Lord knows why, we
trust in Him.
Saddened by his departure,
a sister,
Patsy A. Richardson
719 Poplar ave.,
Santa Cruz, Calif.
Council Praised
To the Editor: This Is in the
form of an open letter to the
Jacksonville City Council in
which I wish to compliment
them upon their prompt action
regard to questionable
quality of the water supply.
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
FACTS TO BE FACED
Paris-After the ugly scenes
of the aborted summit meet
ing, it is wise to make up a
sort of balance
sheet of facts
to be faced.
The first
that needs
facing, alas, is
the grave loss
of pres t i g e
and confi
dence that
President Els-
JOSKFH ALSOP ennuwer n a s
suffered. As Walter Lipp
mann has written, it is right
that men of all parties should
rally to the President, but it
is also wrong to be self-deluding.
The affair of the U-2
has caused America's greatest
friends in the Western Al
liance to conclude that Amer
ica's present leadership Is
bumbling and maladroit.
There is no use arguing
about the justice or injustice
of this conclusion. It is there,
like the weather; and like the
weather, it has, to be taken
inlo consideration.
The second fact to be faced
Is less painful to American
self - esteem but decidedly
more alarming. The leader
ship of the other great world
bloc is even more dangerous
and implacable than all but
the worst of pessimists had
imagined in their gloomiest
moments.
AFTER seeing Nlklta S.
Khrushchev do everything
but froth at the mouth and
chew the carpet at his incredi
ble press conference, a great
many observers in Paris be
gan to use the grim adjective,
"Hilterian." In this reporter's
opinion, the adjective is mis
applied. Khrushchev was in
tentionally making Hitler
like noises, in order to intimi
date as Hitler InMmidated.
But those who knew the man
best believe that he was doing
this from calculation, and not
because he was carried away
as the neurotic Hitler so often
used to be.
But even if Khrushchev is
not .semi-lunatic, as Adolf Hit
ler was, the consolation is
trifling. The character of his
mental processes are not very
important, after all, if he is
capable of talking as he has
talked and acting as he has
threatened to act. The Khru
shchev seen in Paris was no
jolly, proverb - quoting, de
tente - seeking peasant. This
man was a political carnivore,
cheated of his prey.
As for the third and final
fact to be faced, it flows di
rectly from the second. A
major effort to strengthen the
military defenses of the West
is now a matter of great ur
gency. This is clearly true,
even although the Incident of
the U-2 has revealed a current
balance of power that seems
to be reasonably satisfactory.
(
I I'llERE are two reasons why
a sirenginrnert nerense
fort is now urgent. On the one
"Jf ..'ajar
Summit Collapse Has
World USSR, England, France,
Er PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
After tha Summit
It is now important to keep
eyes peeled on- Soviet First
Deputy Premier Anastas Mi-
koyan. There
has been spec
ulation in the
West that he
has been de
moted. Like
K h r ushchev
L3
Mikoyan has
been a public
a d v o cate of
the theory of
Phil Kauiom Deaceful coex
istence. If Western reports are
correct, and Mikoyan is on his
way out, it undoubtedly will
be confirmation that a power
ful anti-W e s t e r n group is
heading toward power in Mos
cow. Grants Pass Man
Involved in Accident
A one-car accident occured
about 5:30 p.m. Sunday near
the Josephine-Jackson coun
ty line, state police said.
A car driven by Gifford
Ray Harvey,. 36, Grants Pass,
was travelling south on High
way 99 when it ran off the
highway and into a ditch,
state police said.
I also wish to commend
them upon the remarkable
amount of improvements and
changes made in just three
days.
If the present policy is main
tained I feel assured that the
quality of our water will be
completely satisfactory.
Mrs. Roy Clarke
Jacksonville, Ore.
Talk Louder
To the Editor: Maybe Mr.
Khruschev should talk loud
er and longer. Hitler and Mus
solini tried it, und look vere
dey vent.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
hand, no one who has watched
Khrushchev's macabre and
brutal performance in Paris
can doubt that this man is
capable of striking at the U.S.
and t'ae West with every bomb
in his arsenal, if ever he be
lieved he can do so with Im
punity. On the other hand, the
military balance, though still
a p parently satisfactory, Is
plainly tilting in Khrushchev's
favor. Later on, therefore, he
may come to believe it is safe
to strike. This is what has to
be averted at all costs.
The main things that need
doing are the same things that
were discussed during the de
bate on national defense at
the beginning of the year. Ap
propriations are needed to in
augurate a maximum airborne
alert of the Strategic Air
Command's entire force of
B-52 bombers. The airborne
alert ought to begin now, and
continue at full strength until
the U.S. striking power in
long range guided missiles has
been massively augmented.
Similarly the buildup of
the long range missiles ought
to be Increased In every way
possible, and every dollar
should be appropriated that
can be used to speed the two
reconnaissance satellite proj
ects, Midas and Semos. In ad
dition, the affair of the U-2
plainly proves the shortsight
edness of the policymakers
who have cut back production
of the B-52-H bomber almost
to zero.
1 1 ERE it a bomber with the
"range, speed, and altitude
characteristics that will allow
it to imitate the U-2's perform
ance. It can go almost where
it will in the skies above the
Soviet Union, just as the U-2
did for so long. It Is not men
aced, so far as is known, by
improvements in the Soviet
air defense system, whereas
the B-52, flying at lower
speeds and at somewhat low
er altitudes, may well be
menaced later on.
It is hard to understand
how any policymaker can
have all but slopped produc
tion of the B-52-H bomber,
with the example of the U-2
before his eyes. But this is
what was done. And tl.is is
what should now be undone
as far as possible.
More costly defense pro
grams; still deeper distrust of
the Kremlin; apologies need
ed for our own leadership's
performance - they make an
unpleasant list. But ve have
been warned. It can be very
dangerous if the warning is
ignored.
-(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Labor Party H!p4
The wreckage of the Sum
mit and the renewal of the
Cold War may have saved
British Labor Party leader
Hugh Galtskell. For months
he has been fighting a losing
battle to keep his party from
going pacifist, or at least ad
vocating unilateral renuncia
tion of nuclear weapons. With
the world situation now dras
tically changed, Gaitskell's
"keep Britain strong" policies
probably will prevail.
Trip Delayed
French President Charles
De Gaulle has not abandoned
his plans to visit Russia de
spite the Summit breakdown.
But insiders in Paris say it
will not be before the sum
mer of 1961 at the earliest.
Originally, he had planned to
go some time this summer.
Congressional Wives
Advice; West Just Blushes
By DICK WEST
Washington -d'PD- One of
the more exclusive organiza
tions here in the capital Is a
group of wo
men who call
thems elves
the congres
sional club.
All a wom
an has to do
to join the
club Is get her
husband elect
ed to Con
gress. Consid
ering the material most wo
men have to work with, this
is no easy job.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
FRESH PURPOSE
Washington- A new matur
ity, a fresh sense of strong pur.
pose, runs through Washing
ton today in
the afterlight
of the Inevit
able collapse
rt enmmUrit
S as a means of
r e c 0 nclling
the irreconcil
table. So dies the
Hrnnm-n twiv
William a. . "
wnite "
that somehow by "goodwill
and by splendid presidential
travels here and there about
thq earth all could be put
aright between Imperialist
Communism and the free wes
tern alliance.
It was a noble ideal. And
in that sense it is a pity that
itis now a broken ideal. But
in a more Important sense, It
is a good thing that the vision
has vanished. For, however
fine, it was always a cloudy
dream-and a quite irrational
one which unduly lifted men's
hopes and rejected the cen
tral lesson of this century.
THIS lesson is and has been
that free peoples cannot
negotiate with the totalitar
ians no more with Khru
shchev in the '60s than with
Hitler in the '30s unless they
negotiate not from hope and
good intentions but from hon
estly naked power.
Actually, we have for two
years put ourselves in a false
position. Our allies, and the
most articulate of our people
at home, endlessly and at last
successfully, pressed this gov
ernment to take up a line of
"flexibility" to replace what
was pictured as a bad, sterile
"inflexibility." From the
sound if admittedly negative
position of trusting Khru
shchev not an Inch and keep
ing our powder dry. we turn
ed to trusting Khrushchev far
too much while we let our
arsenal run rather low.
Those who tried to ques
tion this new policy found
the going hard and lonely.
They were held to be -at best
stupidly intensitive; at worst
to be the stooges of Wall
Street and the munitions-1
makers. And don't look for
partisan scapegroats now;
there are plenty and enough
to spare in both parties.
rpODAY, both parties and
S- their leaders at last fully
accept the facts of life and
this alone Is an Immense gain
from the tragedy of the sum
mitthat genuine settlements
with the Soviet Union will
be made If and when the
West Is on 1 rising and not
a declining arc of power rel
ative to that of the Soviet
Union. Kleig-lit top-level di
plomacy is an unrealistic de
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Effect Throughout
German Force
Watch for Germany's arm
ed forces to Increase in power
as result of the resumed Cold
War. Restrictions preventing
Germany from building de
stroyers of more than 3,000
tons have been lifted, with a
new limit of 6,000 tons set.
The tonnage limit on subma.
rines also has been raised.
Germany has just announced
the purchase from France of
20,000 antitank rockets. Fur
ther strengthening of German
forces is expected and efforts
to reach the 350,000-man arm
ed forces goal are being
stepped up.
Blame Soviet
With the out-and-out Com
munist newspapers the only
exceptions, the entire Italian
press has placed the blame
squarely on Soviet Premier
As you might Imagine, the
club is in a posiUon to exert a
certain amount of influence
in Congress. For this reason,
it is known In some circles as
the "Kitchen Lobby."
A few weeks ago, the ladies
had their husbands all primed
to pass a bill donating to
them a slice of government
owned land as a site for a new
clubhouse. Then an unfortun
ate thing happened.
Bill Disappears
News stories about the proj
ect began to appear in the
papers and the clubhouse bill
suddenly disappeared into a
pigeonhole. I assume the fact
S. WHITE
vice. There is no short ana
easy road to survival in this
sixth decade of the 20th cen
tury.
So, the country can now
confidently expect these
things:
-A concerted and full ef
fort to improve our defensive
capacities, here and all over
the world.
- A realy quite decent at
titude among the major pol
iticians in both parties to get
the country into shape before
seeking partisan gain out of
our troubles.
-Willingness to attempt new
negotiations with Khrushchev
probably not until a new
president has been inaugurat
ed in January but only after
K has shown he really wants
a cold-war easement, and only
in far more disciplined cir
cumstances than the recent
fiasco in Paris.
VTOT even the shrillest critics
''of the famous incident of
the unarmed "spy plane" over
Russia can now seriously ar
gue that, plane incident or no
plane incident, Khrushchev
would never have allowed the
summit conference to pro
ceed. He reckoned that time
was running with him and
up to this point, so it was.
The President is back in
the White House, or shortly
will be, where he belongs. He
is free at last and the next
president will be even freer-
of an unwise policy that he
never really wanted but
adopted because men's hopes
and decent instincts outrun
their grasp of harsh reality.
The Communists used to
tell "the workers" that they
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Italy
I Nikita Khrushchev for failure
of the Summit conference. The
result is expected to be a blow
to Italy's Communist Party
whose membership drive is ex
pected to suffer accordingly.
The Italian Communists have
been emphasizing their peace
ful intentions, but now even
border-line Reds are placing
the blame for the summit fias
co on Khrushchev.
Diversionary Action
In the Far East, observers
would not be surprised to sea
some "diversionary" Commu
nist action in the wake of the
Summit meeting. It could
come in a stepped-up Commu
nist attack against the Nationalist-held
islands of Quemoy
off the Red China mainland.
But it could just as well come
against South Viet Nam or
Laos.
Given
that this is an election year
had something to do with its
demise.
However much they might
fear to cross their wives, our
congressmen apparently de
cided that in this case valor
was the better part of discre
tion. After all, they don't
have to be reelected as hus
bands. At any rate, their wives
are having to make-do with
their old clubhouse. I am
pleased to report that on the
occasion of my latest visit
there, they seemed to be
bearing up very well.
Hear Performer Talk
The ladies were gathered in
the club auditorium to hear a
talk by Bess Myerson, a New
York television performer. As
I interpreted it, she was pass-,
ing along tips on fashions and
makeup which congressional
wives might find handy when
they join their husbands on
the campaign trail this sum
mer.
A candidate's wife, Miss
Myerson said, should behave
as though she were "on stage
all the time." Then she told
about the time she failed to
follow this rule.
While delivering a refrig
erator commercial, she said,,
she "went fishing for a bra
strap" in the belief that she
was off camera. As It turned
out, the cameraman had miss
ed his cue to focus on the re
frigerator door and 80 million
people saw her making the
adjustment.
Apologizes for Mentioning -Noticing
that I seemed to
be blushing as she related this
episode, Miss Myerson apolo
gized for mentioning unmen-:
tlonables, but she mistook th
reason for my crimson hue.
I always turn red when I
concentrate and in this case
I was trying to figure out why
it is that television audiences
always consist of 80,000,000
people. Some day only 79,
999,999 viewers are going to
tune in and then I think the
entire TV industry will fall
apart.
Distracted by this thought,
I missed the point Miss Myer
son was making. I don't know
whether she was warning her
audience not to trust camera
men or not to trust brassieres.
Either way, I'll bet she sold
a lot of refrigerators that day.
had nothing to lose but their
chains. We can honestly tell
ourselves this: We have noth
ing to lose but our dangerous
illusions.
(Copyright, 1960, By United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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