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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO '
May 27, 1950 (Saturday)
Medford Rogues and tha
Eugene Larks battle to a 15
to 15 tie at the. fairgrounds
last night with the game call
ed at the end of 12 Innings.
The city is compiling Infor
mation and prices on various
kinds of aerial ladder fire
fighting apparatus, prepara
tory to purchasing one.
20 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1940 (Monday)
The major gasoline com
panies cut their prices on gas
oline today and In Medford
the price on ethyl dropped to
28 cents per gsllon, regular
to 21 cents and '..ilrd grade to
10 cents.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
storv and
witness now has a shirt named
after It. It has a v-snapeo
front, no buttons, and has
pockets in the tail, which are
worn outside the trousers, en
abling the wearer to appear
fashionable Instead of down
right sloppy-"
30 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1930 (Wadnaadar)
The Norther.. California
Southern Oregon association
starts work for the Crescent
city harbor plan.
County plans Improvement
to market roads during sum
mer, 40 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1920 (Thursday)
Elks to hold a big picnic on
the Rogue river Sunday.
All stores of the city will
remain closed Monday, Dec
oration Day,
50 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1910 (Friday)
A paving plant Is being
bi-oMpH in Whitman Dark In
preparation for the paving of
a number of Memora s streets.
An aviation show at Oak.
park nearly ended In tragedy
today when the Curtis aero
plane, flown by the famed
Paul ' Ely, crashed from a
height of 10 feet; little dam
age was done, and Ely was un
injured. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten eerrett Is eueerlefi
teven si elf ht It eicellentt Hre ee
ill it f oee.
1. Was it the Incas, or the
Aitecs, who anciently lived
in Mexico?
2. Is bituminous coal a hard,
or a soft, coal?
3. Is the cheetah a member
of the dog, cat, or ape family?
4. In the card game Pinoch
le, whnt Is the lowest card?
8. What was the magic pass
word used by All Baba to open
the robber's cave in the "Ara
bian NiRhts' Entertainments"?
6. An unbranded calf is
sometimes referred to as a
m r k?
7. How many persons would
be engaged in a monologue?
8. Name the legendary
Greek who had 100 eyes.
9. How many of the ten
healed lepers returned to
thank Jesus?
10. A lowest classman at
the U.S. Military Academy
is called a p e?
Anawere: 1. Allocs, t. Belt
ml. 1. Cat family. 4. Kin.
S. "Open lennel" (. Mave
rick. 7. One. t. Aroua. f. One.
It. Ptebs,
o legislative Candidates
It
An opn latter to candidates for the Oregon
legislature:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
RvnU of the lust
graphic manner, that the
fed ud to the teeth with
The 1960 legislature
a measure of tax relief for property in this state.
The property tax, at one time, was in a way
an "ability to pay" type of tax, for landowners
usually were people of substance who could af
ford the modest levies of those days.
e e e
MO more.
Today the property
people, most of them on
comes, in effect, a penalty on them for having
had the gumption and determination to purchase
their own homes over the years.
It also hits hard at young families, jufJl get
ting their financial feet on the ground, who are
trying to buy a place, send their children through
school, and establish their place in the commun
ity and all at a time before their income has
grown to . a point where these things can be
readily done.
THE property tax, at its present levels, penal
IvAi fVtrtoei urrin nan lAQaf affnt-rl if Tf (a a item.
alty for becoming a responsible home-owning
citizen.
And, equally serious, the "revolt" against the
property tax is threatening our schools, the in
tegrity of city government, and the measures
needed to keep local government abreast of its
own growth.
The defeat of the Medford district school
budget May 2, and the strong negative vote yes-
tcluelY, wcic icao ev pi vbcob Agciiiioi. uic ,auu
program than they were protests against high
property taxes.
In Eugene, two of
defeated last Friday.
feated an "austerity" city budget. Elsewhere
in the state, bonding and budget measures
some of them desperately needed have been
beaten down by voters because they all are based
on property taxation. In Portland, several meas
ures, including one for control of sewage pollu
tion of the Willamette river, lost.
e e e e e
VOU candidates, as responsible and well-in-
formed citizens, know that the services per
formed by city and county governments, by the
schools, and by other local taxing units, are vital
to the welfare of Oregon s citizens.
Yet they are being threatened by over-de
pendence on the property tax.
The elderly couple on social security, the
young couple making their first home purchase,
the couple with a bitr iamuy or children these
are the hardest hit.
May we respectfully
of the tax system to a
one of your first considerations when the legisla
ture reconvenes next January. E. A.
O & C Reforestation
Last Sunday in this
the vast deficiency in reforestation, specifically
on national forest land.
We said the situation on O&C lands was
"comparable."
That word was intended to convey the idea
that O&C lands, administered by the bureau
of land management, also were not being re
forested at an optimum rate.
What we neglected to point out (and we have
been gently taken to tesk for it) is that efforts
to reforest O&C lands needing it are far in ad
vance of the reforestation efforts permitted the
forest service even though they may still not
be wholly adequate.
THE 18 O&C counties
A allnrAri a mtllinm rtrhllgra frnm friair firiara nf
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forest receipt for reforestation, and it is being
used.
In the Medford BLM district alone, reforesta
tion of 4,300 acres was undertaken during fis
cal year 1959, and for the current fiscal year
the total is 3,007.
This action of the counties is far-sighted, for
in no small measure their future stability lies
with the forests, which, managed properly, are
an eternally renewable resource. It is far more
sensible than the tight-fisted policies of the bud
get bureau and congress when it comes to allow
ing the forest service to do necessary reforesta
tion. A ND, while on the subject, we might comment
" that the O&C counties have shown other
evidences of a forward-looking program on O&C
lands.
Not only have they allocated funds for re
forestation, but they have also allocated money
for the construction of more access roads, and
for a modest beginning on the development of
recreation centers on O&C lands.
These measures, to be sure, are in the coun
ties' own "enlightened self interest," but they
are in contrast to some levels of government
where penny-pinching today will result in far
higher costs tomorrow, or in effects which will
coat more than money in the long run. E, A.
week have shown, in a
people of Oregon are
high property taxes.
must, somehow, provide
tax hits hardest at older
fixed incomes. It be
four tax measures were
In Roseburg, voters de
suggest that a revision
more equitable basis be
space we commented on
of western Oregon have
Dennis the
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paper; in fact the contrary is
He'll Fight Again
To the Editor: I would like
to express my sincere thanks
to the thousands of people
who supported and voted for
me in the past election. I
wish I could thank each and
every one individually.
To many it seemed in
credible that an unknown
could pull such a large sup
porting vote. I believe, how
ever, that It was the prin
ciples that made America
great, which I expressed, that
the people voted for, rather
than myself.
To all those who believe in
the Constitution and Its prin
ciples of a limited federal
government which gives the
individuals the maximum
amount of freedom and to
fully reap the fruit of such
individual energies, I would
like to say:
If we, as a nation, are able
to survive this continuing in
flation, the ever increasing
taxation at all levels, the
growing enormous national
debt, the increasing regimen
tation of our lives by the
federal government and the
resulting threat of an econo
mic disaster for the next two
years, I again will come out
fighting for that belief.
Leslie Fleming
Route 1, Box 183
Springfield, Ore.
The "Tramway" Again
To the Editor: Your corres
pondent, Mr. Doug Thompson,
a student at Southern Oregon
college, writes in the Mall
Tribune for May 2 that he
thinks I have "stepped out
of bounds" in attempting "to
further commercialize Crater
Lake National Park, which Is
not even In his district . . ."
He also states that the Mail
Tribune poll showed that a
majority of the readers are
against the proposed aerial
tramway to assist visitors
from getting between the rim
and the surface of the lake.
I somehow missed seeing this
poll.
As a United States Repre
sentative I am not required to
confine my attentions fully to
matters geographically locat
ed within the bounds of the
Fourth District of Oregon.
Even if that were the rule, 1
can point out that the greater
share of the visitors to Crater
Lake come through Grants
Pass and Medford, both of
these within the Fourth Dist
rict. Moreover, the headquar
ters of the Crater Lake Na
tional Park is located In Med
ford, The idea of an aerial tram
way was only presented by me
for consideration and discus
sion by persons Interested. I
am having a model built so
that the discussion can be bet
ter based on actual facts with
respect to whether or not such
an installation would mar the
unique scenic beauty of this
wonderful area.
As for polls, the two I've
taken and the two I've heard
of all show majorities in favor
of such an Installation. How
ever, it seems to me that such
polls will be more meaning
ful when everyone (Including
myself) has a more concrete
idea about how such an aerial
tramway would actually look
Installed on a scale model
and descending diagonally
through the trees from the rim
to the lake's edge.
Charles O. Porter
Member of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Report, and Thanhs
To the Editor: The Blue
Star Mothers of Medford with
to thank tha peopla who
bought blue daisies from us
on the streets of Medford,
May 10 and 11.
We only havt two dart
Menace
often the case.
year to sell them, and the
weather didn't help us much
this year, so we are short of
the money we need, but very
thankful for what we have.
We use this money on vet
erans work, and have a
group of wheelchair members
of the White City domiciliary
that we give a games party
for each month.
We give prizes of cigarettes
and birthdays are remem
bered with a card and canteen
book.
Refreshments at these par
ties are furnished by the Blue
Star Mothers themselves.
We also do other things for
White City, such as helping
with refreshments at some of
their parties.
An occasinal bus ride, wa
termelon bust, shrubs for the
grounds and wool afghans,
attend their funerals, and do
what we can, as they are most
ly so far from their own fam
ilies. We donate to their emer
gency fund.
This month we are sending
clothing to an orphanage in
Korea that is maintained by
U. S. servicemen there.
And we also donate a little
toward New Mexico Indians,
who live in the desert and
have no government pensions.
Any mother with a son or
daughter in the Service (Army,
Navy, Airforce or Coast
Guard) is invited to join, if
she is interested in this kind
of work, and as an honor to
her children in the armed
forces.
We are called "The Blue
Star Mothers" because of the
blue stars on our service flags
during the war.
Thanks again to all who
bought a daisy. Hope to see
you again next year.
Mrs. E. P. (Grace) Kurz
President, Chapter 2,
Oregon District, Blue
Star Mothers of America,
360 De Barr ave.,
Medford.
43, Not 62
To the Editor: To whom it
may concern, 1 wisn to clear
the editor in the letter I
wrote about smoking. Where
it reads 82 years, the error
is all mine. It should have
said 43 years.
Marshall H. Waggoner,
P.O. Box 753,
Central Point, Ore.
Bi-Pariiean
To the Editor: "Foreign af
fairs to be major issue in the
coming election," they say.
If they bring up that sub
ject in the campaign, there
ain't going to be nobody
elected.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
The Ham in Mr. K
To the Editor: The big pic
ture that seems to disturb
the editorial writers and corn
mentors is, "Why did Mr. K
wish to delay his confab at
the top of diplomacy?" All of
which carries us back to that
time when comic strips were
based on humor. To wit:
Adolph asks Oscar: "Why
does a crab walk sideways?'
Oscar answers: "In the first
place he don't, and the sec
ond place why should he?"
There seems to be a differ
ence of opinion as to who
shoved who behind the eight
ball, because there has been
a lot of pushing and shoving
since Mr. K began his pilgri
mage in search of the holy
grail. He is not still the gentle
Knight In shining armour tns
he seemed to be when he
started his crusade for
"Peace and friendship."
Although wo will not argue
with his theory of economic
and social evolution, we wish
Nixon Faces Tough Role in Appearance
In North Dakota; Faces Farm Vote Test
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (I'Pli - Vice
President Richard M. Nixon's
toughest pre-convention chore
is a Farm
Belt speech
booked for
June 20.
He will
speak before
the North Da
kota State
convention of
the American
Legion. Nixon
Lilt c w ii toe agreed aooui
a week ago to appear there,
having previously refused to
go into North Dakota in June.
The vice president may have
changed his mind because he
is an organization politician
who believes in answering
distress calls when they come.
Republican distress in
to call attention to his Polly
anna viewpoint in the value
of logic and moral persuation.
Neither have much effect on
prejudice and material advan
tage. He is a good actor and
puts on an exceptionally fine
show but he should realize
that he is not the only ham in
the smokehouse as long as
there is democracy in the
U.S.A. This country has some
excellent talent; all that is
lacking is a good play in
which to star. A play such as
"Peace and Friendship" is
not suited to our style of act
ing. We like something with
more conflict, suspense and
drama. Perhaps some
shooting.
Mr. F could hardly hope to
triumph in "Peace and
Friendship" with such an un
cooperative supporting cast.
Plotting against the star be
gan with the first rehearsal.
The h o r s e-play continued
until he "blew up" in fury.
He was as much outraged as
an airplane company at find
ing a time bomb in the bag
gage compartment in the lat
est model of skyliner. He
fumed all over the place. On
regaining composure he went
to East Germany and put the
play on ice and began looking
for a new cast. In the words of
G. B. Shaw: He learned some
thing that always feels at first
that something has been lost.
To the correspondents it is
bread and butter. To the audi
ence an intermission.
Walter Reece
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Eagle Wings
To the Editor:
We, the progeny who spring
Heedless of the Russian
name,
Armed with A bombs, clad
with jets,
Shall a freer world proclaim.
We shall rise to greater
heights:
Heights the Rusians never
knewl
And our Eagle wings shall
fly
Where their cripples never
flew.
E. G. Roseborough
610 Oakdale dr.,
Medford.
A Theory of Life
To the Editor: I groanea
within myself when I read
those letters on atheism. I
suppose most of us have won
dered at some time or otner
about God's natural creation,
and how it was set into mo
tion. I believe water is the kay
to it, out of water came forth
the earth and sun, the three
elements that make up the
endless chain of reaction to
bring forth life.
Water (liquid) Sun (gas
eous) Earth (solid), out of
water comes the fire of the
sun that in turn gives life
to the earth. Each of these
is a chain of living reaction
within themselves, yet it
takes the three to make up
the perfect body to bring
forth life.
The air we breathe is water
(modified) into life giving
properties, and so on, this
modification takes place until
it reaches the sun and so on.
Each chain of reaction chang
ing into life giving properties
that draw from each other as
they in turn give off life.
This will probably be laugh
ed at by the spy-glass brain,
but I believe it anyway. There
have been some wonderful
strides made in surgery and
medicine and a few other
things, but they have carried
this machine age so far man
leans on it like a crutch.
In Gen. 1-2, "And the earth
was without form and void:
and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.
1 believe God s" spirit is a
great living magnetic power
that is made up of living cells,
not the same as natural elec
tricity, but in the similiture
of it. Remember reading
(how) He gave Moses the
commandments. I believe that
is a symbol of the living mag
netic force of His creative
Spirit. I think when God
breathed, so to speak, on the
waters it set into action
through His magnetic power
tha living chain of reaction.
I believe our spirit too is
North Dakota centers around
a June 28 special election to
name a successor to the late
Republican Sen. William
Langer. North Dakota is a
Republican state with mav
erick instincts.
Farm Vote Test
The June 28 special elec
tion will lid a valid test of
farm state voter sentiment
just a month before the Re
publican National Convention
meets in Chicago. Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben
son and the price of farm
products are the prime North
Dakota issues.
That is what makes it tough
for Nixon. It is not likely
that he can get in and out of
North Dakota without taking
a firm and public position on
farm policy. An American
Legion speech can be devoted
wholly to national defense
and related matters. But there
will be news conferences,
huddles with political leaders
and other occasions when
Nixon will be asked to speak
out.
Gov. John E. Davis is the
Republican senatorial nomi
nee; Rep. Quentin Burdick
the Democrat. If Burdick
licks Davis, the practical poli
ticians in both parties will
hold Benson responsible. Re
publican Farm Belt candi
dates for House and Senate
would judge that result to
mean that they must repudi
ate Benson to survive.
For Nixon and the Republi
can Party, the election of a
Democrat to fill Langer's
seat would be damaging to
morale. Nixon would be
further hurt by a Democratic
victory following his appear
ance in the state. The vice
president may meet this situa
tion by repudiating Benson
as, for example, by announc
ing that Benson would not be
in a Nixon cabinet.
Against Eisenhower Policy
That would be big political
news because it would repre
sent a major break with the
Eisenhower administration. If
Republican Davis is elected,
Republican chances of big
congressional gains in the
November election will im
prove. Election of Burdick
would indicate that the Demo
crats would hold their own or
better in the Farm Belt.
The vice president's de
cision to go into North Dako
ta during the senatorial cam
paign came some weeks after
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
of New York had accepted a
campaign speaking engage
ment there. That rather put
it up to Nixon.
A side-line campaign issue
is Postmaster General Arthur
E. Summerfield's Metro sys
tem to improve mail delivery.
The Metro system is for mail
pick-ups over large areas by
made up of living spirit cells
that have a magnetic contact
with our mineral or organic
flesh cells as electricity does
in mineral or water.
Helen Prevo
222 West Jackson st.
Medford
Copco't Raise
To the Editor: I for one
sick to death of the petty com
plaints about Copco which
have been recently appearing
in your column.
It's time someone spoke up
in favor of Copco, which sells
the cheapest necessary com
modity available today. Pow
er far cheaper than the tele
phones we all use every day,
and yet nobody cares to think
of it that way.
This brings up a letter of
May 20. She phoned the Cop
co office, while thanking
heaven that the phone wasn't
run on Copco's electricity. Ap
parently she had paid the
phone company, or I am sure
that they would have done
exactly as Copco had one, and
disconnected her phone.
I know for a fact that Cop
co waits at least two months
before turning off anyone's
power, although they would
be within their legal right
according to the Public Utili
ties commission, to do sc
within ten days of the first
billing. The phone company.
on the other hand, requires
payment a month in advance
of its use. Copco has, to my
knowledge, when a financial
problem was forthrightly
stated to them, waited as long
as three months to discon
tinue service, and only then
if no part of the bill had been
paid.
Even Copco employees must
pay their bills within the re
quired time limits or they,
too, find themselves faced
with the prospect of cooking
over a campfire. Also I d like
to see anyone try to buy gas
oline on a credit card if they
didn't pay their monthly bills,
for any reason!
I hope that Copco gets the
raise in rates that they are
asking for. It's about time!
Facts and figures showing the
ratio of Copco's increases to
the increases In the cost of
living are available to anyone
who cares enough to come in
and ask for them. They speak
for themselves. Nothing else
is quite so useful yet so in
expensive as electricity.
(Name withheld)
truck for sorting and rerout
ing from central stations. This
hurts the railroads and may
hasten the end of consider
able rail service in the state.
Try and Stop Mo
By BENNETT CERF
Mc
OST UNCANNILY ACCURATE putter at the Rocky
Gray Golf club was a character so myopic he couldn't '
read the top letter on an oculist's chart without a spyglass.
Asked the secret of his
success on the green, he
explained, "It's these bi
focals I wear. When I
get on the green, I see
two balls, one big, one
small, and two holes, one
big, one small. After that
it's simply a matter of
dropping the small ball
in the big hole."
e
A Parisian aristocrat who
lived right next door to
philosopher Voltaire and his
wife overheard this notable
exchange oeiween me two - - (
one evening.
Mr. Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, tut win defenf
unto death your right to say it.
Mrs. Voltaire: A-a-aw, shut up!
.
A showgirl acquaintance of Jan Murray's saw so many ply -boys'
etchings she quit the chorus and became an art critic,
C I960, by Bennett Cerf. Diatrlbutei by Kins Features Syndicate
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE ROW
Washington-There are two
difficulties about that states
manlike, nonpartisan and non-
T divisive f or-
bate now be
ing so solemn
ly promised.
It is about
as easy to con-
OUCl so iaise-
cussion in an
election year
as it would be
to get Vice President Richard
Nixon to join the Democratic
National committee or Adlai
Stevenson to praise the admin
istration. And even if such a debate
could be carried on in this
splendid fashion, it would
never really touch tne one
true issue. Our famous "spy
plane" is not and never was
the issue. Nor is the air alert
which Defense Secretary
Thomas Gates quite rightly
put on when Khrushchev was
speaking with brutal menace
amid the wreckage of the
Paris Summit conference.
The "spy plane" was simply
Khrushchev's excuse for
breaking up the conference.
That we handled it poorly is
wholly secondary; so is the
fact that the air alert was
ham-handed in its execution.
THE heart of the matter is
whether we should have
gone to the Summit at all
in the circumstances we did.
The real question is this: Was
Summitry wise? The answer
is that obviously it was not.
But this real question won t
really be debated. For both
parties had long been so deep
ly committed to "going to the
Summit"-never mind how or
in what power relationship
to the Soviet Union-that nei-
their party can now fairly
cry out, "I told you so."
Indeed, one reason for the
excessive waspishness now be
ing shown toward the Eisen
hower administration is vest
ed interest in a policy now
shown to have been a danger
ous illusion. Some devil must
be found by the new critics
the "spy plane" or the air
alert-simply because the only
alternative would be to admit
that the whole policy was
wrong in the first place.
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ONCE you open, in a time
of world tension, a parti
san row over foreign policy
in the name of free speech,
nobody can control a form
of speech that becomes very
free indeed, though the top
politicians in both parties are
trying hard to do so. Here
is where we stand now:
1. The Democratic Advisory
council's general denunciation
of the Eisenhower administra
tion, though far too extreme,
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Farmers, villagers, railway
mail clerks do not like tha
Metro idea. Political proa
think it will cost Republicans
some votes.
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was within the rules. But tha
council's specific attempt to
criticize the president for even
going to the Summit as ha
did is hypocratical nonsense.
For its most influential mem
bers have been howling for'
years for just such a meetingi
Two of its members ara
Democratic presidential candi
dates. One, Sen. John F. Ken
nedy, has publicly refused to
go along with that bit of
hypocrisy. A second, Sen. Stu
art Symington, has said noth
ing of the point. A third Dem
ocratic candidate, Sen. Lyn
don B. Johnson, simply ig-'
nores the council, as he al-,
ways has, and privately con-'
gratulates himself for having
boycotted it.
2. Most of the GOP defense
of the president has been fair
and mature. Already, how
ever, that well-known word
"appeasement" is being heard
here and there to describe tha
complaining Democrats. It is.
oi course, a wnouy unfair '
word; and it will hardly con- -tribute
to this great debate.
3. Adlai Stevenson's attack
on the administration, just ;
ahead of the Russian effort in
the United Nations to brand .
us as aggressors, was wholly
irresponsible, in its timing;
most of all. And more than
any other Democrat he has
given the Republicans the op
portunity to pass from tha
defensive to the offensive.
4. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's
belated public indication that
he was doubtful all along of
the Summit business was re
sponsibly put- and also en
tirely true, as this correspond
ent can testify on the basis
of private conversations of
last year. But Rockefeller did:
have his chance, before tha
Summit, to raise his warn
ings. They come now with a
touch of second-guessing-and
also of revived presidential
ambitions.
5. Vice President Nixon haa
so far reasonably restrained
his natural partisanship, as
have all the leading Demo
cratic presidential aspirants.
But they will find it much
harder to maintain this atti
tude as this row gets nastier
and nastier.
(Copyright. 1980, By United
Feature Syndicate, lae.)
Hatfield Predict
Industrial Expansion
Portland (UPD Gov. Mark
Hatfield predicted Thursday
that Oregon would undergo
booming industrial expansion
and 12-month payrolls through
logical and scientific plan
ning. Hatfield spoke at the month
ly meeting of the Electric club
in Oregon. Hatfield empha
sized the importance of long
range planning.
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