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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackjon County
Hiitory from the filet of The
Mall Trlbuna 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 23, 19S0 (Thursday)
Recalled Ashland Mayor
Thomas Williams quietly step
ped down from his position at
last nlght't city council meet
ing. Construction of the second
pipeline from Big Butte
springs to Medford should
start some time in August
20 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1940 (Saturday)
Public Utilities commission
hearings will be held Tuesday
and at which the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph com
pany will be called upon to
justify a recent five-cent toll
for calls between Medford and
Jacksonville.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sev
eral have reported some fifth
column workers have been in
the flower gardens."
30 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1930 (Tuesday)
California power interests
propose big power plant on
lower Rogue and fishermen
aroused.
Edison Marshall, the author,
returns from Georgia for a
visit.
40 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1920 (Wednesday)
Mayor Gates claims city
"double-crossed" in efforts to
get a sugnr beet factory here.
Baking powder and flour
advance in price here.
50 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1910 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
last night adopted fixed water
rates which for an averaged'
sued dwelling are $1.50 a
month minimum.
A Curtis aeroplane arrived
in Medford by rail today
packed in three huge crates, it
will be assembled and flown
at air show later this week by
the lamed faul Ely.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or tan correct if tuparfor:
even or eight li excellent; five or
ill li good.
1. The oil mentioned about
200 times In the Old Testa
ment is what kind?
2. Was the noted French
novelist George Sand a man
or woman?
3. Near what river is
George Washington's tomb?
4. Identify the founder of
Boys Town, a community In
eastern Nebraska for home
less and abandoned boys.
S. Mnrie Antoninetlc was
married to what French
ruler?
6. How many years does a
centennial denote?
7. According to Greek leg
end, what part of Achilles was
his one vulnerable spot?
8. Both the male and fe
male mosquito have the abil
ity to bite humans; true or
xniseT
9. What is the lingular of
aicesT
10. In the poem by Joyce
Kilmer, what line follows
"Poems are made by fooli
like me?"
Answers! 1. OIIto Oil. 2. A
woman 3. Potomac RWer. 4
Mgr. Edward J. Flanagan
(1886-1948). 5. Louis XVI. 6,
100 years. 7. His heel. S. Only
the female can do ii, 9. Di
10. "But only God can make
tree."
Youth Work Program
Over the years we have heard a number of
complaints along these lines :
"There's not much for kids to do in the sum
mer." "Why doesn't somebody (unspecified) setup
a summer work program for teen agers?"
"If kids had constructive things to do, not as
many of them would get in trouble."
"Recreation for high school students is fine
but so is a job, only they're tough for them to get"
THE welfare office for several years has been
operating under a state policy which termin
ates aid to dependent children for older boys
and girls in the summertime, under the theory
that they can get jobs during that period.
The young people, themselves, have been rest
less, and sometimes bitter, over the fact that sum
mer vacation jobs for them are limited.
Some few have "made" their own jobs, set
ting up a routine of baby-sitting, or gardening,
or lawn mowing. But for most, summer is when
there is more time than things to fill it.
THESE are some of the reasons why we hail
with real appreciation the cooperative young
people's work program, inaugurated with the co
operation of a number of people and organiza
tions, and centered in the Oregon state employ
ment service and the Medford 20-30 club.
Details of the program were outlined in a
story in this paper last Sunday, but some of the
pertinent points bear repeating. (The story, which
ordinarily would have merited Page 1, was shoved
aside by the volume of election returns. )
Young people may file their work applica
tions at the employment service office, 119 North
Oakdale ave., or at the East Side Drag Store, 264
East Main st., Ashland, whichever is nearest.
They should do so by Monday, June 20.
Prospective employers (and this means peo
ple with yard work, house-cleaning or baby-sitting
jobs, as well as business firms) may call
either of the two offices to place "orders" for
young workers. Work permits, when needed,
will be issued by the employment service.
e
THAT, in essence, is all there is to it.
"Ma Vifra if will Via cnnnnccfn 1 Tf Vi-fU V.nve
it aivjw v trial v j,
and girls who want to
plications, and if prospective employers will file
their work orders, there is no reason at all why
it should not be a resounding success.
If it is successful, it undoubtedly will be con
tinued. If it isn't, it probably won't.
It is to be hoped that it will prove just as
successful, and helpful, here as it has in other
communities where it has been tried. E.A.
"The Enemy"
Do you know who "the enemy" is?
Well, amonff others it includes the AFL-CIO,
the Episcopal church, the Catholic Interracial
Council, the Elks lodge, the U.S. Department of
Justice, the YWCA, and the U.S. Air Force.
At least, it does to the
the White Citizens' Councils of America, pub
lished in Jackson, Miss.
THESE "enemies" are
im1 viirllfa Qtii-1 ant
Villi til I It tuivl JUlivt M- ILIllt llWlli
We don't favor "anti-South legislation," but
we do favor civil rights, on the theory that one
citizen of the United States should have the same
privileges as any other.
So, as an "enemy," include us in. E.A.
What Can We Afford?
There are two schools of thought in Amer
ica today, about national spending policies.
On one hand, there are those who believe that
a balanced budget, a reduction in the national
debt, and, when possible, cuts in taxes, are vital
to the country's well-being.
On the other hand, there are those who be
lieve that the nation is not putting enough money
into its basic resources and productive facilities
into education, housing, natural resource develop
ment, slum clearance, and the stimulation of pro
duction and the minimization of unemployment.
fF THE second view, those who hold the first
will sav, "We can't afford it. Our taxes are
too high. The national debt is too' high."
This may be. If it is true, it is chiefly and di
rectly attributable to the size of our necessary de
fense expenditures, which accountior more than
half of the national budget.
But IS it tine? There is evidence to suggest
otherwise. For instance:
In 1949, the Federal debt was 93 per cent of
our gross national product, but in 1959, it was
only 62 per cent. In 1949, the national debt was
equal to 115 per cent of our national income; in
1959, it was only 71 per cent.
1MANY economists are concerned that our rate
" of growth, despite the fact that these figures
show it to be outstripping our federal growth, is
not nearly high enough.
They believe, if it is to increase to a rate above
the present 3 per cent per year to a rate more
nearly approximating
acnieveu by tne boviet
stantial investment will
Much of this must come from private enter
prise. But, at the same time, much of it must
come from federal sources.
in a nation where the
all-time high, the excuse "we can't afford :
is a pretty lam one. E.A.
Duvvuiuit uuvu wujg
work will file their ap
monthly newsletter of
damned for "favoring
iRrntV, lnrriclcit inn '
tne b per cent per year
Union, a much more sub
bo necessary.
living standard is at an
Dennis the
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
She SHU Has Questions
To the Editor: Your articles
on the "token" reduction in
the proposed school budget
seem to stress the need for
increasing the budget, but fail
to inform us as to how much
money, if any, will be left
from the current budget at
the end of this school year.
Isn't it reasonable to expect
a surplus from a school bud
get that is over $1,000,0000
more than the city budget for
the same period?
Much has been said about
the necessity of competitive
bidding for members of our
school administrative staff
and faculty. Why? Isn't it a
fact that we are already pay
ing larger salaries than a dis
trict twice the size of Med
ford? Or is that just true of
the administrative staff?
Have we really grown so
selfish that we would place
a man on the auction block
to be sold to the highest bid
der? Can we buy a man's right
to advance in his profession?
In fact isn't it downright un
fair to place a man in the
position of having to choose
between money and the pres
tige of advancement in his
career? How can we expect
to make room for the many
fine young people who are
majoring in education if we
cannot allow anyone to pro
gress beyond our own little
district?
Isn't this theory that we
must keep Dr. Mayficld here
at any cost based on pride
rather than on actual need?
For many years Medford
schools have maintained a
higher than average standard
of educational level. Hasn't
this become a matter of such
great pride that it would con
tinue if Dr. Mayfield should
decide to accept one of the
opportunities he has had for
advancement?
The school district is not
just a few select persons it
is you and me and all the
other taxpayers whose money
helps support our schools.
Can't we be gracious enough
to drop this pressure and
leave the decision to Dr. May
field? He shall be missed by
his friends if he should choose
to leave Medford, but we will
be able to take pride in every
step he makes up the ladder
of success.
Verna Flowers
355 Berrydalc ave.
Medford.
Couldn't Do Any Better
To the Editor: Of course,
no one seriously thinks that
Mr. Eisenhower should be im
peached in office. To say the
icast, his time is short enough
that it would scorn that his
most severe critics should be
able to bear with him for his
remaining stay in the White
House.
However, it is interesting to
note the press reports and the
fact that for the first time
since he has b-rn President,
the word 'impeach' has been
heard upon the Senate floor.
It was, of course, spoken by
a Republican who merely
said, "The critics of the Presi
dent should not talk about
Mr. Eisenhower unless they
are ready to try to impeach
him."
There are no doubt many
partisans on the other side
of the fence who would seize
upon the challenge if they
thought there was any chance
of success. But they are smart
enough to know that, despite
his share ot errors at home
and abroad, Mr. Eisenhower
has done his best. He simply
cannot be impeached because
he couldn t do any belter.
Fee Clifford Kutcb
P. O. Box 1022
Medford.
Menace
BARNES' TONIGHT SOW
Demon Alcohol
To the Editor: The other
day I stood by the bedside of
a friend In a Medford hospi
tal. Across the room lay an
other patient. One could plain
ly see that it would be some
time before he would be out
and around again. The visits
of many young friends, plus
the flowers, helped.
In spite of it all this young
chap was going through an
unforgettable experience. I
was told that he was there
because of a drinking driver.
The mangled limbs and
bruises he was displaying
were mute evidence that the
demon alcohol had been up to
his assigned task. The master
brewer, and I refer to the one
who has caused all the ills
and heartaches this world
knows, is intent on ruining
every boy and girl if he can.
The following facts are tak
en from the little magazine,
"Activities," a monthly publi
cation of the International
Temperance association.
I quote from the May issue.
"Of the 139,608 alcoholics
committed to civilian mental
institutions in the United
States during the years 1953
55, a total of 23,188 were diag
nosed as having chronic brain
syndrome or permanent brain
damage resulting from alco
hol, reports the National In
stitute of Mental Health."
"Alcoholism is up 250 per
cent since legalization of
liquor."
"In 1933, the last dry year
in the U.S., we had 750,000 al
coholics. Today we have more
than 5,000,000."
"The legal liquor industry
says $10,700,000,000 worth of
liquor was sold in 1958."
'Our crime bill In the Unit
ed States in 1958 was $22,
000,000,000, three times as
much as in the last dry year."
"Fifty-five per cent of
adults in U.S. drink."
"One out of four mentally
disturbed Americans is an al
coholic." "It's a fact that 60 per cent
of all arrests are alcohol re
lated." "Seventy out of every 100
alcoholics started drinking in
their teens."
"Problem drinkers in the
U.S. are increasing at the rate
of 200,000 a year."
In view of the foregoing,
plus the evidence all around
us, how can we sit comfort
ably by and let the evil one
keep plying his hellish arts?
If a murderer were at large
in this area we would be on
guard. Yet I can assure you
that a murderer is on the
loose. We coddle and fondle
him. His alluring words
spread lies through all ave
nues of communications. What
will our answer be in the day
of final judgment?
Henry Johnson Jr.
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Word From Happy Camp
To the Editor: It has been
of considerable interest
watching the Mail Tribune
capture circulation along the
road and the river of the
California Klamath. It will be
just as Interesting to lee this
foothold nailed down.
The Tribune Is the only pa
per taken by many locals
who have no interest in Gov
ernor Hatfield, and are no
longer Intrigued with Senator
Morse, since a once hoped-to-be
ambassador to Brazil told
ut why he actt the way he
dues. But we are in the main
Democrats and the Tribune
has excellent national cover
age
Would we be asking too
much for an occasional run
down on Sacramento s more
I important events; and since
Smaller, Neutral Nations Finding Bond
In U.S.-U.S.S.R. Summit Disputations
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
A tightening of the bonds
among neutral nations and an
increasing demand that they
I '-ipfZ nava a strong
er voice in ae
t e r m i n 1 n g
world events
which may de.
cide their fate
is one of the
results that
may be expec
ted from fail
ure at the
ihii Newtom summit.
World reaction over recent
events in Paris Indicates no
general fear of a new world
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk today about sum
mits. Russia's Mr. K has been
doing a lot of talking about
them - and most of his talk
is moonshine. For example:
Back in 1958, when the
U.S. sent troops into Lebanon
(in the explosive Middle East)
Mr. K demanded a summit
meeting, and finally agreed to
hold it in the United Nations
Security Council.
A week before the Security
Council session was due to
begin he called it off, giving
as his reason that the lineup
was rigged on the American
side.
THEN
Almnsl VinfnrA 41i 4nct
had settled
He started whooping it up
again for a summit session.
President Eisenhow
er somewhat unenthusiastical
ly agreed, but contended that
the foreign ministers of the
Big Four (U.S., Britain,
France and Russia) should
meet first to lay the ground
work. Mr. K said this was a
waste of time, as the Foreign
ministers were only under
lings and only the Big Shots
can settle anything. But . . .
he finally went along, grudg
ingly, and the summit meet
ing was set for Paris.
Then
Just as the top men were
assembling for the session,
Khrushchev BLEW IT UP.
His excuse for blowing up the
summit was that an American
spy plane had flown over
Russian territory and had
been so unfortunate as to get
caught.
CONCLUSION:
The only kind of summit
meeting Mr. K is interested
in is one that is DOMINATED
BY RUSSIA.
QUESTION:
How important Is a sum
mit meeting?
For an answer, let's turn to
history.
T'HE summit conference idea
isn't new. A very famous
one was held in 1815, 145
years ago. It was known as
the Congress of Vienna. It
met to fix up the mess Na
poleon Bonaparte had made
of the Old World.
To appraise the Congress of
Vienna properly, we must re
member that only 25 years
before it met the French Rev
olution had shaken the world
of that day as shatteringly as
the Bolshevik Revolution in
1917 shook the world of our
day.
Napoleon arose out of the
French Revolution much as
Stalin arose out of the Bol
shevik Revolution. For hu
manity as a whole, the French
Revolution held Immense
promise. Napoleon WRECK
ED this promise. The Bolshe
vik Revolution held similar
promise for mankind. Lenin
and Stalin wrecked it.
T ETS GET back to the Con-
AJ gress of Vienna - which
was a SUMMIT meeting.
What did it do?
All it could think of to do
was to put a Boubon king
back on the throne of France.
(It was the towering, fantastic
recklessness of the Bourbon
kings that brought on th
French Revolution, just as it
was the cruel oppressions of
the Russian czars that brought
on the Bolshevik Revolution.)
rTHE moral:
Thn fnnffrAM nf Vienna
was a summit meeting.
It FIZZLED.
The summit meeting at
Paris - which Mr. K was obvi
ously determined to RULE or
to WRECK - could well have
fizzled. So let's quit mourn
ing Its demise. We may be
much better off as it is.
ACCOMMODATING HOST
London -HTP- Marcus Guise
said today that thieves have
robbed his fish store so much
that when he locks up at night
now he always leaves a little
cash out for them.
we are all cabled in on Eure
ka's channel 3, could their
dally program, or at least
their specials, be printed?
Jack Miller .
Happy Camp, Celif.
war. But admitted U.S. spy
tactics and the violence of
Nikita Khrushchev's recation
to them reminded small na
tions forcefully that each of
these two powers has the ca
pability of destroying the
world.
It also reminded them that
Individually there is little
they can do about It.
Outside the Communist
world, Khrushchev received
most of the blame for the sum
mit conference's failure.
Neutrals Worried
In the United Arab Repub
lic it was felt that the blow-up
proved the correctness of
President Abdel Gamal Nas
ser's policy of neutrality and
that his prestige had gained
accordingly.
In Dublin, visiting Ghana
Prime Minister Kwame Nkru
mah voiced the thoughts of
Washington Nomenclature Is
Baffling, Congressman Finds
Washington - (UPD - All of
Washington is divided into
two parts "The Hill" and
"downtown."
"I was up
on the Hill to
day," a bu
reaucrat will
tell his wife
as he staggers
home In the
evening.
She will im
media tely
send the chil
dren out of
a damp cloth
Dick West
the room, put
on his forehead and pour an
extra hooker of gin into the
martini pitcher.
Truman's Article
Discouraging to
'Draft' Hopefuls
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPD - Recom
mended reading for the draft
Rockefeller operators is Har
ry S. T r u-
man's article
in the current
issue of Look
magazine.
HST's word
for all draft
ope rators
is that it is
next to impos
s i b 1 e for s
draft strategy
nominee for
Lyle C. Wilsoo
to produce
president of the United States.
Truman is not concerned in
this article with Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller of New York.
The piece is about Adlai E.
Stevenson and why Truman
believes Stevenson was licked
in 1952 and 1956. It applies,
however to Rockefeller.
Makes Two Points
Truman makes in this ar
ticle two notable points:
That Stevenson could not
have been nominated but for
Truman's intervention in the
1952 convention.
-That Stevenson's failure to
support without qualification
the record of the Truman ad
ministration assured his de
feat.
Ex-Gov. Smith
Lauds Newsboys
Eugene - (UPD - American
newsboys are perfect ex
amples of free enterprise, Ex-
Gov. Elmo Smith said Tues
day.
Smith told Pacific North
west circulation managers
meeting here that the counter
part of the newsboy is not to
be found inside the Iron Cur
tain. '
The Republican nominee
for U. S. senator said "Ameri
ca's newsboys learn early the
rights of a free American citi
zen. They learn to seek the
job of their choice. They learn
to engage in their own In
dividual business enterprise
and to earn the rewards of
their individual efforts."
He said this experience pre
pares them for responsibility
later on of participation in
government and of free Amer
ican citizens using their right
to vote.
"Behind the Iron Curtain."
he said, "there is no free
press, no freedom for people
to work as they choose, no
political or religious free
dom." 1on't NtqUct SITpplia,
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many when he said it was In
deed I "horrifying reflection
of our age that the fate of the
whole of mankind should be
left in the hands of the lead
ers of four nations."
In Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
Communits President Tito
criticized both the United
States and Russia, and said
it is clear "that countries can.
not support any actions or
policies that would be con
tray to mankind's deep striv
ings for peace."
For this, he was roundly
criticized in Moscow and at
tacked as a "revisionist" by
both the Moscow and Peiplng
radios. To be a revisionist in
Communist jargon is to ask
for the hangman's noose or
the firing squad.
India Fearful
India feared that the sum
mit blow-up might lead Red
At least, that's what she
should do. In the peculiar
parlance of the capital, he
was telling her that he had
been testifying before some
congressional committee and
had had a hard day,
"The Hill" - short for "Cap
tol Hill" - has come to mean
anything having to do with
Congress. The rest of the gov
ernment is lumped together as
"downtown." These terms
seem to imply a geographic
distinction but this does not
always follow.
For instance, the Supreme
Court is located on Capitol
"When the 1992 convention
opened, a deadlock develop
ed," Truman wrote. "I got the
leaders of the convention to
confer with me and I told
them I regarded Stevenson as
the logical candidate. As a
result, he received the nomi
nation. "Some of Stevenson's sup
porters anticipated that he
would be drafted but a draft
would not have materialized.
A draft rarely can be worked
on a convention. It required
the intervention of the Presi
dent to get Stevenson through.
"Then Stevenson went out
and conducted a campaign
that was not in support of the
program of President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and myself.
You cannot successfully run
as a Democrat with a Demo
cratic administration in pow
er, without running on the
record of the administration."
Nixon Supports Record
The foregoing expresses the
political judgment of one of
the fastest guns in politics.
HST faulted Stevenson on
other grounds, but his failure
to run on the administration
record was No. 1.
Eisenhower's interest in the
1960 Republican presidential
nomination will be more in
policies than in personalities.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon is publicly committed
to seek the nomination and
to run for President on the
Eisenhower record. Rocke
feller is not. Nixon may re
shape, but he will not repudi
ate Eisenhower policy.
All of this may be discour
aging to the draft Rockefeller
operators, especially such ex
pressions as this from Tru
man: "A lesson all candidates
should remember from the
1952 and 1956 campaigns is
that you cannot turn your
back on your party s record.
You can improve on it, but
you cannot deal with the fu
ture without tying into the
past."
AVERY IMPORTANT
SERVICE ...
Mrs. Litwiller his been our lacfy as
sistant ever slnct we came to Ash
land in 1935. In addition to regular
duties, she furnishes vocal music
when desired and is our regular
Organist. All without added cost to
our patrons. . . this has resulted in
savings of many hundreds of dollars.
This is our way of saying "Thank
You."
LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
Highway 66 at Normal Ave.,
Ashland. Dial MU 5-4541
Only local member of Oregon
China to take a tougher line
igalnit India in their border
quarrel.
The U.A.R., Ghana and In
dia are avowed neutralists.
Tito long has cultivated close
ties with both India and
Egypt In an attempt to estab
lish a neutral bloc.
Now, more than ever, it
may be expected that the
neutrals and the undecided
nations will resist attempts to
draw them Into either camp.
By the time the next U.N.
General Assembly rolls
around, seven more African
nations are expected to held
U.N. membership.
They will add their votes
and their voioes to the de
mand for a greater role in
world affairs and to the pre
vention of i war nobody
wants.
Hill but is considered "down
town." Some other "down
town" agencies are located
several miles out in the coun
try. Representative Has Problems
I don't know why I am
telling you all of this except
that it seems to fit in with
the problems that Rep. Jim
Wright (D-Tex.) has been hav
ing with our abbreviated lin
go. Recently, a lady constituent
who was visiting here tele
phoned Wright's suite in the
House Office Building and
asked to speak to the con
gressman. "Sorry," said the secretary
who answered. "He's on the
floor"."
"My land!" exclaimed the
caller. "Is he ill?"
The secretary then was
obliged to explain that "on
the floor" meant that Wright
was attending to duties in
the House chamber. When the
congressman heard about the
incident, he instructed his
staff not to use that expres
sion any more.
A short time later another
constituent called and was
told that Wright couldn't
come to the phone because he
was "in the House."
"Well," came the indignant
response, "I didn't expect him
to be out in the yard."
Wright Informs Voters
Wright reasoned that this
was no way to influence vot
ers and In a recent "newslet
ter" to the home folks he en
deavored to straighten things
out.
If you should chance to
call here at such a time," he
wrote, "be prepared to hear a
rather lengthy explanation
that I cannot be reached at
just that moment because I
am attending a session of the
House of Representatives,
which meets in the Capitol,
which is across the street from
the House office building,
which is where my office is."
Wright's only worry now is
that a constituent will try to
contact him while he is mak
ing a speech in the front part
of the chamber. If that hap
pens, the visitor is almost cer
tain to be informed by a page
boy that the congressman is
"in the well."
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