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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from tha flies of The
Mall Trlbuna 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 vears Q0.
10 YEARS AGO
May 26, 1950 (Friday)
Legal tangle evolves around
four Ashland youths who took
five cases of beer from a
Medford warehouse; youths
were caught in Ashland and
It is not known whether Ash
land, Medford or county au
thorities should prosecute.
There is still "flood" water
available in Talent and Med
ford Irrigation district canals
and orchardists should take
advantage of it.
20 YEARS AGO
May 26, 1940 (Sunday)
'. Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company tells PUC
hearing here that five-cent
toll on calls between Medford
and Jacksonville is necessary
If company is to keep from
operating at a loss between
the two cities.
' From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In the
light of events last week,
'30,000,000 Frenchmen can't
,b wrong' less 15 'purged'
Trench generals who failed
to function on the Mouse
front and were a great help
to the foe (Germans)."
SO YEARS AGO
May 26, 1930 (Tuesday)
George W. Joseph, Republi
can nominee for Oregon gov
ernor, is among attorneys re
cently barred from practice
jot law In stale following
verbal attacks on stnte su-
rreme court.
Sportsmen association will
fight plans for a power dam
on the lower Rogue river.
50 YEARS AGO
May 26, 1910 (Thursday)
In an extremely light vote,
the city voted 78-1 yesterday
to annex the territory located
west of Oakdale ave., and
youth of the Jacksonville rd.
The city council voted to
pay M. F. Hanloy $2,000 for
a right of way across his
property for a water line
from Little Butte creek; work
on the new gravity water sys
tem to resume at once.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or tan corracf Is suparior:
savan or eight is excellent; fiva or
sis is good.
1. Hoover Dam harnesses
what western river?
2. Seven generals later be
came U. S. presidents; how
many can you name?
3. What and where Is the
Matterhorn?
4. When docs the U. S. Gov
ernment's next fiscal year be
gin? 5. Who was the last Presi
dent of the United States to
be inaugurated on March 4
6. Which of these lakes I
largest in area - Michigan,
trie, superior?
7. Is the capital of Swltter.
land Zurich, nasle, Berne, Ge
neva, or Lausnnne?
8. What device on an auto
mobile has the function of
mixing gasoline with air?
9. Does a dermatologist spe
cialize In diseases of the eyes,
xeei, or sum?
10, In what part of the
world la tha Gobi desert?,
Answarst 1. Colorado rWer,
I. Washington, Jackson, Har
rison. Taylor, Grant. Garfield,
Eisenhower. 3. A steep moun
tain in the Alps (14.7(0 ft.
igh). 4. July 1. 1M. 1.
franklin D. Roosevelt. (. Lake
Superior. 7. Barn. I, Catkw
reior. a. skin. 10. Genital
What Is Prejudice?
What is prejudice?
Why do many people
what Webster defines as "preconceived judgment
or opinion; unreasonable predilection or objec
tion; esp., an opinion or leaning adverse to any
thing without just grounds or Defore sufficient
knowledge"?
Why, in particular, do
conceived adverse opinions of certain groups,
based soley on their color, or their religion, or
their racial characteristics .'
a
TNE of the best examinations of these questions
we've seen recently appeared in the May 24
issue of Look magazine, written by Dr. Marie
Jahoda, until recently associate director of the
New York University Research Center for Human
Relations.
Dr. Jahoda demolishes a lot of preconceived
notions, particularly in the field of race.
Is prejudice instinctive? No, she replies, it is
learned. ( One is reminded
Pacific : "You've got to be taught to be afraid of
people whose eyes are oddly made . . .")
What is the source of prejudice? Usually a
hate compulsion, stemming from the inadequacy
of the individual, Dr. Jahoda replies coolly.
X7HC is likely to be prejudiced? Prejudice is
mon frequent among the poorly educated,
she replies. But it also varies according to loca
tion and individual situations.
Don't intelligence tests show that Negroes are
less intelligent than whites? No, Dr. Jahoda de
clares flatly. Inherent ability differs little be
tween ethnic groups. Apparent differences are
almost always the result of environmental factors.
Can prejudices be changed? Yes, Dr. Jahoda
reports, in four ways: By social pressures against
prejudice; by public opinion and a community's
standards; by psychotherapy, and by direct per
sonal experience leading to a realization of the
fallacy of blanket judgments about groups of
people.
a a a a
IS PREJUDICE widespread? Is it "inevitable"?
Dr. Jahoda replies:
"Prejudice of one kind or another has existed for
thousands of years. Let us not forget that, two thou
and years ago, the early Christians served the Romans
as scapegoats, that Protestants were often made the
scapegoats of Catholics, that Catholics became the
scapegoats of some Protestants, and Jews the scape
goats of Nazis and Fascists.
"Tha fact that prejudice is so old and so wide
spread a social disease does not argue for Its 'inevit
ability.' Millions of people on this earth manage to
live without this ugly crutch.
"Children can Just as easily learn that no one
group of people consists entirely of saints or devils,
that there are good and bad people in all groups and
that it is wrong to judge any man, let alone con
demn him, because of his race or color or faith."
X7E COMMEND the entire article to thought
" ful readers who wish to read more than the
few short paraphrases and quotations here.
bach of us, no matter how enlightened,
probably has deep within him some dark spots
of prejudice and bigotry. We know we do, and
we're not proud of it.
It is a long, slow process for mankind to lose
its hates and fears, and the prejudices and biases
based on them.
But a readintr of history will show that, little
by little, bit by bit, here and there, prejudices
and hates can be ameliorated.
Perhaps, some day, our descendents will be
able to judge a man for what he is, not by the
color of his skin, the name of his great grand
father, or by what gods or saints he invokes.
E.A.
"Boo -
We were greatly honored the other day.
A writer on another daily newspaper devoted
a whole column to making fun of "E.A."
It may be recalled we
ploring any revival of the
marked the relationships
Ashiand, our charming
city.
And we concluded
advised comment that calling Medford "Smoggy
Bottom" doesn't change the fact that Medford
and Ashland people have been working smoothly
and amicably together for the common good iii
recent yeai-s. (Chamber Manager Don McNeil,
anyway, thinks the comment was ill-advised.)
t
X7ELL, our column-writing colleague jumped
' all over that one..
"Yes, E.A.," he said two-thirds of the way
through the column, "I believe you have pulled a
boo-boo. When I refer to Medford as Smoggy
Bottom not more than eight or ten thousand (sic)
folks read it . . . But when you print Smoggy Bot
tom down there where the condition exists, you
may have opened Pandora's box."
The fact is that for some years the Mail Trib
une has been complaining about smog and other
forms of air pollution, and has screamed to high
heaven hoping something could be done about it.
And things are being done. Slowly, to be sure,
but progress is being made.
If tht Ashland columnist would pitch in and
help, instead of wasting newsprint belaboring
"E.A.V poor judgment on nicknames, or print
ing ancient editorials fi 'oni the earlv diivs of citv
rivalry, who knows what
for the Jackson county
in this country display
many people hold pre
of the song trom bouth
Boo
wrote a little piece de
silly rivalry winch once
between Medford and
and progressive sister
with the perhaps ill-
could be accomplished
community? E. j
Dennit the
THEY HKE TO PUNISH M. MAKES 'BfA KBlBIGl
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
WHAT NEXT?
We must begin by remind
ing ourselves where we are
now. Curiously enough, if we
jaw ai look Denina
i m Iho rprnrrl It-
I self, we find
ff that both sides
proclaim their
desire to re
sume negotia-
1 inn W p
$'J find, too, that
..aV!t-Br it C C D
Walter . , " '
uppmann and the U.S.A.
have both made substantial
concessions, designed to make
possible a resumption of ne
gotiator. There is a great gap
between the action of the gov
ernments, which are on the
record, and the motions drum
med up by propaganda and
by counter-propaganda.
Thus, after Mr. Khrushchev
had insulted the President
and demanded the break-up
of the conference, the West
ern allies issued a communi
que which concludes with the
statement that "they (that is
to say, Eisenhower, de Gaulle,
and Miicmillan) remain un
shaken in their conviction
that all outstanding interna
tional questions should be set
tled not by the use or threat
of force but by peaceful means
through negotiation. They
themselves remain ready to
take part in such negotiations
at any suitable time in the
future." Mr. Khrushchev, for
his part, suggested that "the
best thing to do was to post
pone the conference for six
or eight months until the dust
has settled, so to speak."
The record shows too that
during the break-up in Paris
the President conceded that
the U-2 flights had been stop
ped and would not be re
sumed. Mr. Khrushchev, a
few days after the break-up
when he was in East Berlin,
conceded that he would not
disturb the status quo in Ger
many before the next summit
meeting.
MUCH for the record.
The first thing to be said
about it, it seems to me, is
that it won't be at all easy
to resume negotiation, and
that what has occurred is a
break-down not of diplomatic
relations but of diplomatic
communications between Mos
cow and Washington. The dif
ficulties of restoring commu
nications, although they are
not Insuperable, are very
great indeed, and until there
is communication there can
be no negotiation.
It is evident that Mr. Khru-
shchev's time-table-a summit
meeting in six or eight months
-is quite unrealistic. He docs
not seem to understand the
mechanics of the American
political system. Six months
hence Mr. Eisenhower will
still be President and the
President-elect will, of course.
have no power to do anything
Eight months hence, the new
President will just be taking
office, and it is inconceivable
that he would or could go to
a summit meeting before he
had organized his administra
tion and entered himself into
negotiations to prepare for a
meeting.
Moreover, Mr. Khrushchev
should learn to understand
that after his treatment of
Mr. Eisenhower personally no
President will go to a summit
meeting without a radical
change in the atmosphere and
without reliable assurances
that the area of negotiation
has been made precise and
that the issues have become
negotiable.
JOK these reasons, it is, I
think, conservative esti
mate to say that negotiations
t the summit, if they are
ever resumed, cannot take
place much before the sum
mer of H1.
XUw icy tit torn i
mx
Menac
I'
will rejoice in this prospect.
But the sober and responsible
view is, I submit, that with
the failure, or at least the in
definite postponement of sum
mitry, there is an urgent need
to restore communications
through quieter and more se
cured and protected means.
For the United States and the
Soviet Union cannot take the
risks of being unable to com
municate effectively for a
long period of time. This
would produce intolerable
risks of miscalculation which
would be a threat to all man
kind. What is more, it is an il
lusion to imagine that the
alliance of which we are sup
posed to be the leader will
stand fast and hold its breath
and clench Us fist indefinite
ly. The strain of watching
the two giants glowering at
each other and unable to com
municate would be greater
than the alliance could en
dure. fOMMUNICATIONS will
have to be restored by
quiet diplomacy in which our
allies will have to play a
principal part. This could,
perhaps, be supplanted by
making a new use of an old
idea.
As originally conceived
when the Charter of the Unit
ed Nations was written, the
Security Council was to be
attended regularly by the For
eign Ministers themselves
Fifteen years ago it seemed
inconvenient, and perhaps not
too important, for the Foreign
Ministers to cross the ocean
once a month to attend the
meetings of the Security
Council. This was probably
the main reason why, except
In time of crisis, they do not
attend.
By now, It might do much
good if they did come once
a month for at least a few
days. Then it would not be
necessary for them to have
so many special meetings in
various parts of the world.
When they were at the U.N.
in New York City on regular
business, they could discuss
anything they liked. The meet
ings would be normal and
routine and therefore much
quieter and more effective.
In addition, they would be
assisted by the extraordinar
ily efficient Secretariat of
the United Nations.
This would provide the
great powers with a means
and with an adequate reason
for communicating officially
and unofficially with the So
viet Foreign Minister.
IF T
Is
THE affair of the U-2
disposed of amicably,
which, as the record now
stands, it ought to be, it might
be a good idea for Secretary
Herter to go to New York,
assuming that Mr. Lloyd and
Mr. Couve de Murvllle came
too. He might go there to dis
cuss our open skies proposal
disarmament, and above all
what have you.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Body of Portland
Nurse Recovered
Lewiston, Idaho IWD The
body of a Portland, Ore.,
nurse was recovered from the
Clearwater river in east Lew
iston Wednesday, more than
a month after the small car
she was driving plunged Into
the river.
The victim was Alice Bur
kett. 27. An employee of Pot
latch Forests, Inc., saw the
body in the company's mill
pond near here.
Miss Burkett disappeared
April 17 while en route from
Kamiah in Portland following
A visit with her fiance.
Continuing Troubles
Nears Independence
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
At the end of June, the
Belgian Congo is scheduled to
emerge as the newest and
richest of
Africa's inde
pendent na
tions. It is about
one-third the
size of the
United States,
and its mines
the world's
biggest sup
pliers of co
Phil Nrwfcnm
balt, second largest suppliers
of copper, producers of tin
and manganese, and vast but
secret supplies of uranium.
Under the Belgians for 75
years its administration was
praised as a model of colonial
rule. In 1955, it was described
as a region unique in its ef
ficiency and tranquility.
But in the intervening
years, the nationalistic fires
sweeping all of Africa reached
the Congo.
The pains which accomp
anied the birth of other Afri
can nations may be especially
severe in the Congo. Nation
alist leaders rebuffed Belgian
attempts to slow the march to
ward independence until na
tive administrators could be
trained.
They are divided anions
themselves as to whether an
independent Congo should be
a federation of states or a
centrally controlled nation
with a president elected on a
nation-wide basis.
Leopoldville, the capital,
is a European city on the edge
of jungle.
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Christie School
To the Editor: I was one
of a group of men from Med
ford who met in Portland
May 12, to start a two day
tour of child care agencies.
The tour captain, Tom Ness,
asked each man to make a
brief report on a certain
agency, mine being the Chris
tie school.
This school, established in
1908, located in Marylhurst,
Ore., is operated by the Sis
ters of tile Holy Names of
Jesus and Mary. The school
offers care, protection and
education to emotionally dis
turbed girls of ages 6 to 16.
Through a group care pro
gram featuring a special
school program and extensive
social work with the girls and
their families, nearly 350
girls a year benefit from the
Christie program. Sisters who
are experienced teachers pro
vide schooling and supervision
on a 24 hour basis. Trained
social workers and a psychol
ogist give professional serv
ice. Psychiatric consultation
Is available. Any Oregon girl
in need of this type of care
is eligible, regardless of race,
creed or economic status. The
emphasis is upon gentle, un
derstanding care of each
child's special needs".
During our tour through
these different child care
homes, the thought came to
all of us-just what In the
world would we do without
these homes! It certainly is
gratifying to know we have
people so dedicated that tney
will work for so little pay
to help these unfortunate, but
very wonderful, children. In
many of the homes visited,
you suddenly found a lump
in your throat and very moist
eyes. If it were only possible
for every man and woman in
this area to go through these
same homes, it Is very likely
they would give to the Med
ford Crusade, a supporter of
these agencies, without being
asked. Yes, there are children
from our county being cared
for by these agencies.
Jack W. Mitchell,
718 King St.,
Medford
Kids In Danger
To the Editor: I always read
your communications column
and enjoy it very much, espe
cially the letters sent in by
Everett Acklin.
In regard to Chief of Police
Charles Champlin's "warnings
to motorists." I wish he would
also warn parents that streets
are not safe playgrounds for
children.
I had a frightening experi
ence today at noon which left
me angry with the laxity of
parents that let their children
play in the streets.
I was driving East on Ste
vens st. toward Marie St., at
about 10 m.p.h. There were
numerous children playing
along the street, in the street,
and all about. I was driving
carefully lest one of them
should dash in front of the
car. About half way up the
street I saw a child's wagon
across the yellow line. I step
ped on my brakes and as I
lowly : went by 1 glanced!
Under Belgian rule, troops
preserved the peace among
the tribes, but as Belgian rule
has slipped, jungle warfare
has increased. In January of
this year, Belgian colonial
troops were flown to Kasai
Province to prevent i "war of
extermination" between the
Lulua and Baluba tribes.
Scarcely a day passes with
out new reports of violence,
and without new evidence that
the Belgian Congo is far from
ready for independence.
This week returns were
coming in from voting for a
national government and pro
vincial councils.
They climaxed weeks of
campaigning in mud hut vil
lages and along crocodile-infested
rivers.
Among the campaigners
none was more active than a
reed-like man more than six
feet tall named Patrice
Emergy Lumumba.
The Belgians released him
from jail so he could attend
a recent Brussels conference
which finally determined June
30 as the independence date.
He and his leftist national
Congolese movement are the
unquestioned masters of two
of the Congo's six provinces
and he has sold himseli to his
followers as the messiah of
Congo freedom.
So strong is his hold that
he is able with impunity to
show his contempt for Belgian
administrators even before the
independence date, and even
countermand successfully the
orders of Belgian officers to
their native troops.
He once was convicted of
embezzlement and the Bel-
down and saw a boy of about
three years in it.
If I had been attending to
my own children in the car
at that particular time I might
have hit the wagon and hurt
or killed the child.
How can those mothers rest
at ease in their homes, or
wherever they may be, with
their children playing in the
strets? Do they think this is
a safe playground for chil
dren? It is the same story at al
most any hour on Stevens St.,
and all the way down Marie
st to Jackson. Can't some
thing be done about this?
Mrs. Jack Pech,
1235 Poplar dr.,
Medford.
Wants New Vote
To the Editor: Would like
to back R. L. Brantley on the
dog control "swindle."
Am a registered Republican
voter. Thinking I was voting
to have my 20-pound terrier
allowed to be my right hand
man, I voted no on dog con
trol. He (Gus) knows the
boundary of my five acres:
he does not like trespassers to
come in unannounced, and
says so.
Have had him with me
several years. He can do any
thing but talk. Have seen him
retrieve balls and sticks and
small peaches for four kids
at a time. He will climb a 10
foot ladder or a leaning tree,
and is a darn sight smarter
than the man that drew up
the bill that passed last week
The new law is going to be
crammed down our necks un
less a lot of other misguided
voters enter a protest, and
soon.
Will toss in a ten spot to
have a petition circulated to
have this thing appealed and
a new vote taken, to see how
manv of us were fooled by
this thing.
Never before have I seen a
bill passed when the voter
marked his ballot no.
They say this one did.
Enough persons protesting
and a good attorney can stop
this thing quick. Who is with
me?
Charles Edgar Rose,
643 Pierce rd..
Medford.
Confusing Dog Vote
To the Editor: The letter
in your paper published in
the May 23 issue over the sig
nature of R. L. BranUey, Route
3, Box 59B, Medford, hit the
nail on the head. I heartily
agree with him. It was confus
ing. The cities voted on the ques
tion of dog control for them
selves and the county. If the
cities wanted control, that is
their business and the rest of
the county outside of the
cities should have the same
right as to control. Then after
the vote it came out in the
paper some people were ex
empt from the law which is
discrimination, to my way of
thinking.
H. W. Steelrntn,
107 Lozier Lane,
Medford,
-u
Foreseen
as African
gians call him an opportunist I
who has used Communist I
Mat t er of Fact y joePh aimp
ON FOLK-DANCING
Paris - America's friends in
France, and throughout the
whole Western alliance, have
r"5 received t h o
'k j news of the
jjinipen aing
Congressional
i n vesication
I fi nf tho IIO ri,.
with a groan
of r e s i gned
horror.
The horror
has been tern-
oseph ai.sop pered, to be
sure, by the report that the
investigation is to be conduct
ed by Senator Fullbright. The
chairman of the Foreign Re
lations committee has a well
established reputation for
moderation and good sense.
He will, it is hoped, avoid the
worse excesses of Congress
ional inquiries into contro
versial matters in election
years. But the question is still
being asked, with a kind of
damp discouragement:
"What on earth good can
this do? Isn't the row in the
U.N. enough?"
In happier days, this would
not have mattered as much as
it matters now. In the past,
none of the Western allies
doubted the superiority of
American power. In the past,
too, there were far fewer
doubts about the good judg
ment of America's leaders. In
that period no great harm was
done, as a leading French
diplomat put It to this report
er, "par les danses folklorl
ques de votre politique inter
ieure" - "by the folk dances
of your domestic politics"!
IN OTHER WORDS, while
there was still general con
fidence in America's strength
and America's basic wisclom.
we could afford to make fools
of ourselves from time to time
in our own peculiar way. But
it cannot be too much empha
sized that the remaining West
ern reserve of confidence in
America - at least in Eisen
hower's America - has now
dropped well past the danger
point. Anything which will
cause a further drain on the
reserve of confidence is genu
inely dangerous, both to the
world position of the United
States and to the unity of the
West.
Even after making full al
lowance for the prudence of
Senator Fullbright, it is hard
to see how any investigation
of the U2 case can fail to
cause such a drain on the re-
serve of confidence. The
known facts themselves prove,
only too clearly, that further
inquiry can do no good and
may do much harm, these
facts fall into two parts.
N PART ONE, there are the
facts concerning the U2 over
flights. The overflights were
started more than four years
ago. No sensible American
can fail to admire the courage
and good sense of his fellow
citizens, as yet unnamed, who
originated this project.
For four years and more,
these flights continued with
out incident. Probably from
the beginning, and quite cer
tainly for at least two years,
the masters of the Kremlin
have known that American
planes were overflying the
Soviet Union at altitudes
above the reach of the Soviet
air defense system. Their ra
dars told them the news, and
so did their spies. At his mon
strous Paris press conference,
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Niklta S. Khrushchev himself
quite openly admitted that he
knew about the American
overflights when he met Presi.
dent Eisenhower at. Camp
David.
In all this time, the Soviets
made no protest against the
overflights because they could
not do so without an appalling
admission of weakness. They
could not say, after all:
"We know you're overflying
our territory, and we can't
stop you. But you must stop
anyway!"
After such a long record of
success without hazard, the
safety of the overflights was
obviously taken for granted.
This was perhaps an error of
judgment on the eve of the
summit. But it was not an
unnatural error, on the order
of not turning off the elec
tricity to prevent short cir
cuits when unusually inflam
mable materials are tempor
arily in a house.
THE SOVIETS captured the
- U2,' in any case, because
some sort of quite unforesee
able mechanical failure
caused the plane to lose about
half its normal operating al
titude, and thus to come with
in reach of the Soviet air de
fense system. Clearly, any
needless airing of names and
facts in this first, purely op
erational part of the U2 story
will be both fruitless and flat
ly contrary to sound prece
dent in matters having to do
with that unpleasant neces
sity, espionage.
As for part two of the U3
story, this is the part which
contains the explanation of
the American government'i
reaction to the Soviet an
nouncement that the U2 and
its pilot had been captured.
The disclosure of the U2 proj
ect, the public proof of the
overflights, did the U.S. little
harm and considerable com
pensating good abroad. But
very great harm was done by
the way the American govern
ment reacted to this disclos
ure, with a series of ill-digested
and contradictory state
ments. It may be historically inter
esting to find out who pre
pared what draft of which
statement. But public breast
beating about the sudden mal
adroitness of our own di
plomacy at a moment of acute
international importance will
certainly serve no practical
purpose. It will also greatly
increase the harm already
done.
Just as the executive branch
needs to learn that it does not
always have to make a state
ment, the Congress should
remember that it does not al
ways have to make an investi
gation. Such, at any rate, is
Uie prayer of our friends
abroad,
(c) 1960 New York Herald
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