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Medford and Jackson County
History from the filet of Tha
Mail Tribuna 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 yaari ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 31, 19S0 (Wadnaiday)
Edward Canoose, assistant
fire chief since 1939, has been
promoted to chief of the Med
ford fire department.
A Naval Reserve electron
ics unit is being organized
here.
20 YEARS AGO
Mar 31, 1940 (Friday)
No postal money orders for
delivery in Belgium, The
Netherlands or Luxembourg
are being soid at U.S. post
offices because of the Nazi
take-over in those countries,
Medford Postmaster Frank
EeSouza has announced.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: " 'Laid
end to end, Eugene's cracked,
uneven sidewalks would inv
pede even Hitler's blitzkrieg
ers.'. (Eugene News)"
30 YEARS AGO
Mar 31, 1930 (Saturday)
A 100-year-old fifty cent
piece was found yesterday in
a Medford hotel cigar stand
till.
Petitions for closing Rogue
river to commercial fishing
are widely signed.
40 YEARS AGO
May 31, 1920 (Monday)
More than 150 persons at
tend Elks picnic on Rogue
river yesterday.
Frank Clark, Medford,
named member of Oregon
board of architects.
SO YEARSAGO
May 31. 1910 (Tutsday)
The flood which damaged
the Ainanl dam on the Rogue
river last winter destroyed
the fish way and literally mil
lions of salmon are dying in
futile attempts to make their
way up the river.
The secretary of the sec
end annual Land and lrriga
tion exposition to be held in
Chicago next November, ar
rived In Medford today to try
and convince local nrchardists
and formers that Rogue val
ley must be represented.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at ln aorroef It luperlor:
avtn ei tight it excellent; fivo at
lit ft aood.
1. From which direction is
the wind when the arrow on
weather vane points north?
2. Is the common food of a
garter or ribbon snake animal
or vegetable?
3. From whom did Joe
Louis win the world's heavy
weight boxing championship?
4. What famous document
begins "When in the course of
human events it is become
necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands
etc?
8. What body of water en
circles the North Pole?
6. Is the Panama Canal
longvr than 60 miles?
7. Where is Woodrow Wil
ton buried?
8. Who was the first woman
to swim the English Chan
ntl? t. Is nn adjective express
ing some quality called an
epitaph or an epithet?
10. What is the name of the
Jaland from which Paul es
caped after he was ship
wrecked?
Asmara: .. North. 2. An-
law). . Jim Braddoek. 4. The
Declamiion of Independence,
fi. Antic Ocean. 6. No. 50
auks . national Cathedral
Waal,iagtin. D. C. 8. Gertrude
Batarte. t. f pi that. 10. Mellla
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Dams and,
When the corps of Amy engineers pets about
planning a project, it is limited in the sorts of
benefits it can use in determining whether the
project is justifiable.
Flood control is the corps' chief business in
building river projects, but water supply, electric
power, and reclamation also can be figured in.
Now it is proposed that recreational benefits
be named as a specific consideration which the
corps can use in planning projects. And it's high
time.
THE new wildlife and recreation committee of
the National Rivers and Harbors Congress has
called for just such action.
Congressman Ed Edmondson, chairman of the
committee, noted that the engineers have not
developed, or been given, any "yardstick" by
which the dollar value of recreation can be de
termined. Several bills pending in Congress fix $1 per
person per visit as the annual value of such bene
fits. "This is an arbitrary figure," Edmondson
is quoted in the Washington Post as saying, "but
so is the engineers' estimate of flood damages
avoided by an approved project."
THE Washington Post stoiy continues:
"Edmondson said that when a reservoir floods out
part of a town . . ., the engineers located new town
sites and help the displaced persons move.
"He argued that the same responsibility exists 'when
a reservoir covers up a lot of land formerly available
for recreation . . . Otherwise the sportsmen and other
recreation seekers are short-changed.'
"The Oklahoman said it was inevitable that federal
appropriations for water resources development would
soon have to be doubled . . .
"In another resolution, the committee urged that
it be federal policy to buy enough adjacent acreage
to guarantee access and use of the recreational bene
fits by the public.
"The committee also urged continuation of the fed
eral anti pollution control program, with its provisions
for matching funds, 'so as to preserve and protect the
recreational and wildlife facilities we now enjoy'."
A NYONE with half an eye these days knows
the extent of use which recreation-seekers
give to federal river development projects.
bhasta Jake, for instance, was designed pri
marily as a reclamation project, with power gen
eration a secondary benefit. But its principal
value to thousands upon thousands of people in
northern California and southern Oregon is its
recreational potential
camping, lisning, swimming, skin-diving.
The big dams along
marily built for power generation, created reser
voirs and these have in turn resulted in a revo
lution in recreation in
where yacht clubs are
are along the ocean coast.
CVERYONE, of course, is affected by the flood
control, power and irrigation aspects of river
development.
But they are not affected as personally, nor
are they as conscious of it,
reational potential. As the amount of leisure
time Americans enjoy increases, and as the liv
ing standard continues to mount, pressures for
more recreational facilities also will mount.
Recognizing: this in the laws trovernine- nlan-
ning of new river projects would simply be rec
ognizing the needs and desires of a majority of
tne people. h. A.
Write
Human beings ate perverse creatures.
After each election, counting boards and
county clerk's deputies put in long hours not only
counting votes, but also recording written-in votes
lor Matt Union, Donald Duck, and other non
candidates, actual and fictional.
This costs money, it delays the compilation
of results, and is a practice deplored by sober
sided citizens who view the franchise as a sacred
responsibility.
But there's another side of the coin, too.
It indicates that the citizen-voter in America.
while exercising his franchise responsibility, is
not, aoove a toucn or numor now and then.
A vote for Donald Duck for, say, president,
can be construed as
on tne number, or quality, of the candidate or
candidates whose name or names appear on the
ballot,
Other write-ins, serious ones, oftentimes can
effect the outcome of
times, they can have a considerable psychological
effect. (It will, for instance, be interesting to
see the number of write-ins. when thev are all
unaiiy tallied, for Kockefeller and Stevenson
neither of them candidates on the Oregon ballots.
If the number is considerable, it could be used
to some effect at the two party conventions.)
in any event, tne write-in anoras one way
to blow off a little steam, and is the right of any
sceptical American voter.
Ei-Medford Man Gets
Donald M Bowr n u. i,l
uate of Medford High school,
has been awarded a Graduate
Fellowship from the Nation
al Science Foundation to at
tend a graduate summer in
situtitr in science and math
ematics at DePauw univers
ity, Qreencastle, lnd.
The institute will be held
between June 27 and Aug. 5.
Bowers, son of Mr snj'U-jIn. ; ..'
Mrs. Dana W. Bowers, 48 Hose
ave, Medford, was graduated
Recreation
boating, water - skiing,
the Columbia river, rjn-
the mid-Columbia area,
now as frequent as they
as they are bv the rec
- ins
a voter's wry comment
an election. At other
& A.
Fellowship
from Medford High school in
143. He is now a sixth grade
teacher at Antioch, Calif.,
where his wife also teaches.
The Graduate Fellowship
Includes a stipend sufficient
to cover all expenses for the
summer of study in the most
recent methods of teaching
science and mathematics in
the elementary school. Fol
Mrs. Bowers plan to vacation
An the east.
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' I THINK I GOT SOverHIN' ON My SHOE
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paper; in fact th contrary is often th cat.
Sunday and Sabbath
To the Editor: One thing
that I have come to learn is
not to argue religion and pol
itics. In fact it doesn t pay to
argue about any matter. That
doesn't prohibit free discus
sion of matters where differ
ences arise.
I once had a preacher
friend who entered into a
public debate with a group
opposed to his views. "I'll
hang their hide on a fence
rail," he had said. There was
hide on the fence rail, all
right, before it was over, but
I believe part of it was his.
I don't believe our Blessed
Lord went around with any
such views in mind. And His
followers are to imitate His
example.
The following is not being
brought up for the sake of
argument or debate. In the
May 1 issue of "This Week"
under "Words to Live By"
appeared a one-page spread
entitled "Isn't Sunday Won
derful." Under this heading appear
ed the following lines: "Sun
day in America is a day of
rest, worship, relaxation, a
day of sociability. It is a
round of golden hours that
form a kind of halo for a
week of busyness and care.
It is the time to stop, to re
flect, to refresh and to regain
our perspective. It is a day
apart-both an end and a be
ginning. What more is there
to say about Sunday? Here
in the words of the Bible,
writers, thinkers, poets, are
some answers.
Perhaps now some of your
Tribune readers could throw
some light on what the au
thor of the above lines meant
in what he put as answers.
He was plainly speaking of
Sunday, the general day of
worship for most people. His
first Bible text was Exodus
20, 8-10. I read it and it said
the Sabbath, referring to the
seventh day, was to be kept
holy. Then his next text was
Mark 2, 27. Here it says the
Sabbath was made for man.
These were the only two
Bible texts given and the con
fusing part for me, they did
not prove the position he was
taking.
Part of the poet's quota
tions referred to Sunday, but
not any Bible texts. Now I
know that surely among its
18.000 subscribers the Tri
bune will have some good
Bible students who can help
classify the position of the
writer of the article in "This
Week."
views.
I'd appreciate their
Henry Johnson Jr.
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Climbers Criticised
To the Editor: Since I am
an ex-Mcdford citizen, I am
sending you a copy of the edi
torial that appeared in our
paper pertaining to your Mr.
John Day
I can truthfully say that
this is the unanimous senti
ment of all of us who live
here and hive observed this
foolhardy climb.
I trust that your newspaper
will reflect some of this sen
timent rather than make a
hero of him. The real heroes
are those men who died and
those who risked death to
get these men off the moun
tain. Mrs. D. J. Bailey
Anchorage, Alaska
(formerly
2808 Cottonwood St.,
Medford)
The editorial from The An
chorage Daily Times follows:
WHAT PRICE OLORY
rOR THESE CLIMBERS?
The tragedy on Mount Mc-
Kinley last week resulted
from the antics of men moti
vated by vanity, immature.
Menace
courage or some other frivo
lous self-purpose.
A trail of death and loss of
property has been left behind.
All because a small group
of men sought fame and glory
by attempting the fastest
climb up and down the high
est peak in North America.
The tragedy is a permanent
blotch on the record of the
men involved. They should
have known better.
The members of the party
had much experience with
mountain climbing. They had
participated in rescue work
on lesser peaks in other parts
of the nation. They had seen
the bloody and often fatal re
sults that come from miscal
culations. Yet they brazenly came to
Alaska and for their own
vain purposes tried to make
the fastest climb to the top of
Mount McKinley and down
again.
Many heroes were made as
mankind responded to save
them.
The story of the rescue was,
indeed, a thrilling one. But it
should not be overlooked that
the entire episode was the re
sult of the small and selfish
thinking of the group of high
speed artists who caused it.
It is always gratifying when
man demonstrates that hu
man values are still held
high, and that one is ready
and willing to risk his life
and his property to help his
fellow man.
More than 60 persons join
ed the volunteer groups that
braved the hazards of climb
ing the mountain for the res
cue.
There was no thought in
their minds of the Heedless
ness of the incident in the
first place. There was no moti
vation such as vanity or pub
licity or some other small
purpose that prompted them
to participate. They acted in
behalf of those in trouble
without regard to themselves.
The rescuers were symbols
of the highest qualities of hu
manity. They earned the ad
miration and esteem of all
who followed their exploits.
The villians of this story
were the hot-footed climbers
who thought they would
make themselves great by set
ting a speed record for climb
ing the highest peak of North
America.
These foolhardy climbers
should blush with shame
every time it is mentioned
they were the ones who figur
ed in the mountain tragedy.
They cannot possibly com
pensate their rescuers mone
tarily for their efforts. But
worst of all, they have caused
two good men to sacrifice the
right to live on this earth.
The climbers are entitled to
no hero's welcome when they
get home from this expedi
tion. Instead of being heroes
they should be viewed as
curiosities. Fortunately, the
world has few such characters
who will pull such a stunt.
They would be more desir
able citizens of today's society
if they were to sit on flag
poles seeking publicity and
fame, rather than create a
situation where others must
pay for their frivolities.
For Ftdtral Aid
To the Editor: Your editor
ial in Friday s Mail Tribune is
noted. The opinions you ex
press concerning the property j
tax In Oregon are the same
opinions which have been ex
pressed to me repeatedly
since I filed as a candidate for
the Oregon legislature.
For the benefit of those un
familiar with the tax expen
ditures in Oregon, taxes are;
spent thus: .1 per cent for sani- j
tary districts: .2 per cent for
water districts; l.S per cent!
j Mcftcr of FflCf v
THE LOifDOK VIEWPOINT
London - As usual after a
fairly harrowing experience,
the Western leaders are mak
ing a great to
do about their
past solidari
ty and pres
ent identity of
views. The
p rostestations
are loudest in
London, per -haps
because
the views of
London are
the furtherist from being iden
tical with the views of the
other allies.
There is a single basic rea
son why Prime Minister Mac
millan's views differ from the
views of President Eisen
hower, and differ even more
widely with the views of Gen.
De Gaulle. Macmillan's calcu
lations of the risks of the
cold war is decidely more som
bre than Eisenhower's calcu
lation, and very much more
sombre than De Gaulle's.
The difference was neatly
expressed by the contrasting
French, American and Brit
ish reactions in the period of
uncertainty just prior to Nikl
ta Khrushchev's Berlin speech
announcing that he would do
nothing for six to eight
months, when another summit
conference might be conven
ed. TN
this brief moment after
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the explosion at the summit
the French were blandly un
concerned, because they were
for rural fire districts; 16.8
per cent for cities; 81.6 per
cent for schools. Please note
that four-fifths of the tax
dollar is required for the sup
port of schools, and yet, would
you vote to close public
schools in order to cut taxes?
The proposed Federal Aid
to Education program could
cut your taxes approximately
40 per cent, and under this
plan, schools would be sup
ported in a manner similar
to the Public Welfare Pro
gram. States where per capita
income is low, as it is now in
Oregon, would be supple
mented through federal funds
acquired from taxetion in all
states and paid on a basis of
ability of that state to pay.
Such a program would not
only aid our tax problem in
Oregon, but it would aid
many other states, and it
would serve to stabilize edu
cation across our nation,
guaranteeing that all chil
dren in all areas would have
the same opportunities for
public schooling.
Opponents of this plan label
it 'socialistic' It is no more
socialistic than the Public
Welfare Program, the Social
Security Act, compulsory mil
itary training and armaments
programs, or other similar
federal agencies.
As a candidate, I would like
to announce publicly that I
am in favor of Federal Aid to
schools and I plan to do every
thing in my power to see that
such aid is assured, not only
for the building of schools
and the hiring of teachers,
but for the training of more
teachers of better qualifica
tions, and the provision of
implements of learning neces
sary to the child in school. To
go further, I will also work
to bring about the facilities
for continued education for
adults on the basis of my be
lief that a better educated
America will, in the future, be
able to solve its problems and
avoid such undesirable situa
tions as we are now in, a
minor example of which is
this lax burden which we
have acquired without due
consideration to ways and
means of paying for services
we vote for.
I welcome letters to me pre
senting readers' suggestions
and any reasonable plan
which they feel might offer
a solution to this inequitable
property tax.
Inez Holcomb
P.O. Box 14S
Medford
Forsightd Man
To the Editor: It was in
1906 when I invested in a
small ranch near Medfdrd,
and for over 35 years I have
been a reader of the Medford
Mail Tribune.
I believp it would be good
if in the Mail Tribune space
could be found once in a
while to remind people God
created those mountain
springs of water that now
supply Medford, in every
home and building, for every
need, and thanks to the far-
sighted, progressive people of
Medford m the early days.
Carl J. Brommer
235 South Oakdalc ave.
Medford.
25 Quinc .
M
4ttn
just about dead carta in Khru
shchev would do nothing ugly.
The Americans thought there
was possibility that Khru
shchev, in Berlin, would pro
claim a separate peace treaty
with East Germany, and there
by start a truly warlike crisis.
But the Americans were also
nut greatly concerned because
this possibility seemed to
them very slim.
The British, in contrast,
thought there was a very
good possibility Khrushchev
would take the extreme step
he has so often threatened to
take. The professional for
eign office staff believe and
said the odds were against it,
but their estimate of the odds
was at least rather more pessi
mistic than the American esti
mate. The British Foreign Secre
tary, Selwyn Lloyd, mean
while gave even odds that
Khrushchev would proclaim
a separate peace treaty: but
added that it was also an even
bet that Khrushchev would
proclaim his treaty in a way
that would avoid a warlike
crisis. In other words, Lloyd
saw one chance in four of
the worst outcome. Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan
evidently took a darker view
than his foreign secretary, at
least just after the first ex
plosion at the summit and
before Khrushchev left Paris,
Macmillan is known to have
been deeply disturbed by the
scene at the first meeting on
Monday.
THERE was nothing new in
these divergences in cal
culating the Berlin risks. The
differences in calculation ap
peared especially clearly in
the moment of time when the
whole world waited to hear
what Khrushchev would say
in Berlin. But the same dif
ferences in calculation in fact
marked French and American
and British thinking about the
Berlin crisis, from the first
moment when Khrushchev be
gan to roar his threats against
Berlin in November, 1958.
General De Gaulle always
stood at one end of the spec
trum, stoutly asserting that
Khrushchev would not carry
out his threats if the West
merely stood firm, and Issued
the warning, "we'll fight if
you move." He did not oppose
negotiating with the Russians,
but his ideas about the right
way to negotiate were un
bending, to say the least. They
were best summed up in the
famous speech at Geneva, last
spring, when Foreign Minis
ter Maurice Couve De Mur
ville in effect told Andrei
Gromyko:
"You are the one who is
asking for changes in a Ber
lin situation which is entirely
satisfactory to us; and its
therefore up to you to pro
pose new arrangements which
will, first of all, suit us."
By the same token, Prime
Binister Macmillan always
stood at the other end of the
spectrum, warning from the
first that Khrushchev's threats
had to be taken seriously, and
pointing out the impossible
difficulty of any defense of
Berlin except by an H-bomb
war. Holding this view, the
Prime Minister was not mere
ly urgent to negotiate. He
was also ready to make con
siderable concessions at Ber
lin, in the hope of finding new
arrangements that would suit
the Russians without sacrific
ing the West Berliner's free
dom. PRESI DENT Eisenhower,
meanwhile, from the first
stood at about the middle of
the spectrum. In other words,
he thought that Khrushchev
just might mean what he kept
saying. After some initial re
luctance, he was ready and
finally eager to negotiate. And
he too was willing to make
some concessions at Berlin,
although not so many conces
sions as Prime Minister Mac
millan might have wished.
The styles of behavior, the
policy judgements and the
actions of the three Western
leaders were in truth deter
mined, throughout the Berlin
crisis, by their different risk
calculations. They worked to
gether as loyal allies, but they
approached each problem
from a different point of de
parture. It must be added that the
fact that Prime Minister Mac
millan's point of departure
was the most sombre of the
three risk-calculations by no
means implies weakness, or
timorousness, or disloyalty to
the alliance. It merely im
plies that Macmillan takes the
cold war more seriously than
either of his other partners.
In the outcome, at least thus
far, the viewpoint of Gen.
De Gaulle has been justified
Bob Ruckcr
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RESPONSIBLE INQUIRY
Washington - A man named
William Fullbright is perched
now on a high and swaying
n wire as tne
a Senate inquir
es into the col
lapse of the
summit c o n
ference. As chairman
of the investi
gating group,
the Senate
Wllllua S.
wait tions commit
tee, Fulbright carries responsi
bilities of a weight not carried
by any other senator within
a decade. The last parallel
case to the job he confronts
was in 1850 when another
senate committee headed by
Senator Richard B. Russell
of Georgia conducted an in
quest on President Truman's
recall of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur from command in the
Korean war.
Fullbright himself sees his
mission as to bring out the
facts about the abortive sum
mit but not to bring them out
in such a way as further to
divide the country or to in
flame an already harsh parti
san argument.
HIS committee's investiga
gation will, however, test
more than whether he can
prevail in this hope. It will
also test whether the right to
know can be upheld without
serious injury to national in
terest and without making
the committee room a launch
ing pad for rival Presidential
candidacies.
It is not altogether a coinci
dence that this investigation,
like the one in the MacArthur
issue, is headed by a Souther
ner. Rightly or wrongly, the
Southerners control all the
Senate's inner processes - and
set all its inner tone.
There may be many occas
ions when this circumstance
is a bad thing. In the present
set of facta it can only be des
cribed as a very good thing.
The country's purposes would
surely not be served by a
slashing, headline-happy in
quiry into this affair.
AND Southerner Fulbright
like Southerner Russell
before him - can be depended
by events. But the future real
ly depends on calculations of
risk made in the recesses of
the Kremlin; and in these cir
cumstances, it is only prudent
to take the cold war very
seriously indeed,
(c) 1860, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Try and Stop Me
ty BENNETT CERF
rpHE HEADMASTER of a Connecticut school had one st-
dent on his rails who was a hopeless addict of murder
tories and whodunits. This kid knew all about Mickey
Spillane and Raymond
Chandler, but precious
little about Shelley and
Keats.
The- exasperated head
master yanked a wild and
wooley paperback out of
the kid's hands one day
and handed him a dic
tionary. "Study this for
the remainder of the
period," he suggested
dryly. At the hour's end
the unabashed boy hand
ed the dictionary back
and remarked cheerfully,
"This is pretty corny stuff, Professor. I glanced at the las
page, and as I suspected, the zebra did it!"
A very fat, very noisy, very objectionable woman took it upon
herself to heckle night club comedian Jack B. Leonard from a,
ringside table. Leonard squelched her beautifully to the delight
of th enUr audience by having the spotlight turned on her and
asking her tenderly, "Didn't I wrestle you in Toledo last
Tuesday?"
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on not to run that sort of a
show. He is actually more
concerned with doing this
thing properly than doing it
for political gain. It is not, of
course, that he is especially
noble. It is mainly that com
ing from a one-party state,
he is able to enjoy the luxury
of operating an inquiry that
will neither make nor break
him politically. So, in this
sense, he can put politics en
tirely aside.
Many bad things have been
said about the process of in
vestigation in the Senate, and
some of those bad things have
been justified. But this cur
rent investigation is likely to
show the Senate in its best
rather than its worst light as
an agency of inquisition. It is
going to pin down whatever
this government did - in the
"spy plane" episode - which
may have been foolish or
harmful. But it is not - if Ful
bright is able to have his way
- going to become a mere
sounding board for extrava
gant charges or extravagant
counter-charges.
CH3R THE Foreign Relations
" committee, and most dis
tinguished panel in all of con
gress, really does, most of the
time and on the whole, for
get all about small partisan
ship. It operates on a biparti
san basis far more often than
not. And it takes seriously its
obligation to sit in review on
the foreign policy of the Uni
ted States.
If such an agency did no
exist it would have to be in
vented. And Fulbright's chair
manship of it is one good
practical argument for the
seniority system by which the
southerners are able to hold
so many powerful places in
the Senate. They have, singly
arid collectively, many faults.
But one fault they do not
have, either singly or collec
tively: they do not operate in
an irresponsible way in mat
ters involving this country
abroad. For them, politics
really does stop at the ocean's
edge.
(Copright. 1380, By United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
ESCORT SNAKE VICTIM
Pomona, Calif. IUPD A 17-year-old
youth got a police
escort instead of a traffic ci
tation Monday when he was
stopped for speeding and ex-plained-'Tve
been bitten by
a rattlesnake." Rickie Graci
ano of Ontario, Calif., who
said he was bitten in front of
his home, was reported in
good condition today.
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