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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1950 (Tuesday)
Secretary of Stale Earl
Newbry yesterday dedicated
the new motor vehicle office
south of Medford on Highway
89.
Thirteen pupils of Lincoln
school were neither absent or
tardy during the 1940-50
school year and have been
given special awards by the
school.
20 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1940 (Thursday)
W.P.A. funds have been ap
propriated to provide persons
with new type sanitary priv
ies and they are now available
in Medford.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
fair sex are now wearing what
they call 'briefs.' They are
just that. Some are so brief,
they Just missed being
brevity."
30 YEARS AGO
June 13. 1930 (Friday)
State horticultural board
lays down standards for can
nery pears which will go into
effect here July 21.
The county court has de
cided to Improve the road
leading to Lake of the Woods.
40 YEAns AGO
June 13. 1920 (Sunday)
Aerial patrol of Oregon
forests to start June 25.
Medford residents ordered
to boll water before drinking.
SO YEARS AGO
June 13. 1910 (Monday)
Contractors plan to have
Medford's new gravity water
system completed by July 15
A suit has been filed against
the Southern Pacific railroad
to prevent them from dump
ing oil In Gilbert creek which
empties into the Rogue river
near Grants Pass.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten correct Is superior;
even or eight is evcellentj five ei
Hi Is good.
1. What was the first mir
acle performed by Christ?
2. What position in the Nazi
regime did Paul Joseph Goeb-
bels hold?
3. The first sweet orange
was brought into Europe by
the Portuguese In 1547. Did it
come from India, China, or
Japan?
4. Which is smaller, the
greyhound or whippet?
8. Does sound travel faster
in fresh or salt water?
6. Can ice cause the explo
sion of a Jet engine, while in
flight, through strangulation?
7. The unrhymed measure
of iambic decsyllable in five
beats, common in English epic
and dramatic poetry is called
7
8. Who was the first mur
derer?
D. According to tradition,
who was saved from death by
Pocahontas?
10. Mount Rushmore is In
which mountain rang and
state?
Answers: 1. He turned wa
ter Into wine. 2. Propaganda
Minister. 3. China. 4. Whippet.
5. Sail Water. 6. Yes. Br
blocking the et intakes. 7.
Blank verse. 8. Cain. 9. Cap
tain John 8mllh. 10. Black j
nius, a, u.
They Won 't Actually Know
The possibility that the Republican Party's
presidential nomination will be withheld from
Richard Nixon is so remote that the speculative
stories that are appearing in the newspapers don't
deserve the space given them.
Mr. Nixon has many more than the necessary
number of votes pledged to him now to get the
nomination, lhat enough of those votes could be
changed before convention time to deprive the
vice president of the nomination seems incredible.
A small core of liberals would like to have
the nomination go to New York's Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller. And an even smaller number of con
servatives would like Arizona's Sen. Barry Gold
water to be the party's standard bearer. But the
vast majority of Republicans, both liberals and
conservatives, want Mr. Nixon.
THIS; it seems to us, is a most interesting com
TYlonfoi'i, nn tlio nViQl-Qfoi nf Mi' Mivnn ATornr
conservatives think he
they desire. And many
will provide a program
Thus, you see, Mr. Nixon continues to be what
he has been since his beginning in politics, an
opportunist who can shift with the political winds
as quickly as a bird in flight. There is something
in Mr. Nixon's record that assures both conserva
tives and liberals that
Few men in Washington are as fast afoot. He
plays both sides and seldom gets caught in a
comer that he can't quickly get out of. He does
occasionally, as he did last month when he tola
a meeting in Chicago that he was for federal aid
to education and less than a week later voted
against it in the Senate. But he can be excused
for that one because he could not have foreseen
that he would have to
issue.
WE WILL have an unparalleled situation if
Mr Nivnn in plppfprl Prpsifipnf..
Although he will have been on the public
stage for eight years as vice president, and prior
to that time U. S. Representative and Senator,
nobody will be able to say with assurance what
he will do as the nation's chief executive on the
big issues.
Manv on both sides of the fence liberals
and conservatives will
what he will do. But they
He has carefully written a record that doesn t
reveal much of anything.
gonian.
Crucial
Apparently lost in the
the primary election campaigning was news that
an important case nau
L i T. . 1
county circuit court.
Although it directly
land along the McKenzie River east of Armitage
Park, this case could become celebrated as one
disclosing the inadequacy of agricultural zoning
powers provided for by existing Oregon law.
Kulintr tor the defendants. Landowner lorn
Winn and the construction firm to whom he sold
gravel removal rights on his property, Circuit
Judge Frank B. Reid, in effect, has decided that
county zoning control is non-existent m agricul
tural areas.
The county planning
refused to permit the gravel removal and was up
held in its action by the board of county commis
sioners. But the gravel was removed, and Judge
Reid subsequently dismissed the county's conten
tions that this was done m violation of the law.
MOW the district attorney's office has filed
notice of appeal with the Oregon Supreme
Court and is preparing to carry this fight before
the state's highest tribunal. However, it. could
be months before a final decision is reached.
Meantime, county powers
culture and to prevent
poses seem to be suspended, if not yet entirely
nuintied.
Regardless of what the supreme court decides,
it is thus apparent that the 19(51 Oregon Legisla
ture will need to attack this problem. This should
be done to assure the orderly development of the
many Oregon communities which are quickly
changing from purely agricultural areas to ones
where agriculture, other industries and residential
subdivisions are in growing competition for land
areas.
Unless explicit agricultural zoning powers are
provided in statutes which all courts will recog
nize as subject to but one interpretation, only
helter-skelter growth can be expected in these
communities. Ultimately, all land values will be
debased within them.
THE case headed for the Supreme Court likely
U'itl lint lin rlni'i'ilnil until tifrni- tha 1 0111
legislative session has ended. It would, therefore.
be chancing too much for the lawmakers to sit
back and wait upon the court before making such
changes as might be then indicated. It would be
19(i3 before the legislature had another chance
to act.
Furthermore, while this case from Lane coun
ty is a crucial one, it may
up one possible basis of
zoning powers bestowed
1 he lybl Legislature
see that there are no other potential loopholes.
Eugene Register-Guard.
will give them a program
liberals are as certain he
that will please them,
he is their man.
vote in the Senate on the
say they think they know
won t actually know.
Pendleton East Ore-
Case
crush of events during
I -1 ? .1 J - T
oeen cieciaea in iane
involves but one tract of
commmision last vear
to zone lands for agri
their use for other pur.
be serving only to point
challenging agricultural
upon Oregon counties.
should look closely to
Dennis the
Who the heck would
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is
Temperance
To the Editor: Ever have
anyone tell you to tend to
your own business? Most of
us have, I am sure. Some 1
realize might feel that way
towards the writer of these
lines. You have a right to
your opinions. We do want to
try and be sure at all times
that our ideas are cased on a
sound, solid foundation and
not just someone else's opin
ion or heresay.
From time to time I have
tried to direct my friends to
ward what I have felt is a
true source of solid sound
reasoning. One who might be
perishing of thirst would not
want to be shown a stagnant
pool from which to obtain
life-giving water. Yet many
today find themselves grop
ing and thristing after some
thing far more important than
physical refreshment. The
cravings of the human soul
can only find refreshment at
the true source. I am sure you
know who that source is.
The other day I chanced to
be in a nearby business house
A man walked in and some
how we began visiting. I
noticed that one of the clerks
declined to even as much as
recognize this man. It didn't
take me long to realize some
thing was wrong. Then I
caught the odor of his breath.
As he made his way out to
his car I did some thinking.
He had told me that he lived
down the river about 17 miles.
I have always had due respect
for the down river route from
Yreka to Happy Camp.-
Our police officers warn us
against driving while under
the "influence." "If you drive
don't drink" and "if you drink
don't drive." Yet the same of
ficers are required to give
legal protection to businesses
which sell alcoholic beverages
to these drivers. If these drink
ing persons would go to a
hotel and sleep it off first, it
might be better. It doesn't
work that way. The moment
you approach our little city
of Ashland from the north
you find about 50 per cent
of Foster and Kleiscrs bill
board space telling which
brand of beer to serve.
The undertakers' black
hearse lias perhaps been the
true "black label" that Mable
Is called for. We've preferred
to follow Washington States
Capitals namesake and drink
the pure water. It says "Its
the Water."
If you saw a rattlesnake
ready to bite a child and could
avert the tragedy what would
you do? Nothing! The liquor
traffic poses a far greater
threat than all of the rattle
snakes in Southern Oregon.
It may seem to some that the
majority thinking Is right but
thank God the real majority
is right. The unnumbered
Heavenly beings are on the
side of true temperance. The
Sacred Scriptures show this to
be a fact.
Henry Johnson Jr.
' 2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Grim Menace
To the Editor: Organized
minorities. What a grim men
ace they can be and too often
are, not only to national econ
omy, but to survival as a na
tion. It is difficult to fathom
out which of the two is our
greatest danger today, our
highly organized and financed
labor unions or the world
power hungry and grimly org
anized Soviets of Russia.
As this is being written
this Sunday morning, our
very dependable home news
paper, the Mall Tribune, head
lines the shutdown of Con
vair, makers of our one and
only ready 1CBM Atlaa. by
striking union labor. Inter
Mene
put ah X Girxot
often the case.
national Writer Harriman in
the M-T has just warned us
that words are meaningless
and treaties less than 'scraps
of paper' to the Soviet; that
only weaponery capable of
blasting them into oblivion
is the one thing they respect.
Stalin once put this in under
standable meaning when re
plying to warning of the pow
er the Pope wields, contemp
tuously remarked: "just how
many divisions does the Pope
have?"
A musician friend took me
to task just recently for my
opinions publicly expressed
concerning our organized la
bor unions. Like the average
union devotee, he bitterly at
tacks the very ones who pro
vide jobs for workers and the
'so-and-so' capitalists who pro
vided the finances. And yet,
he is out of work save for an
occasional dance job, for he
is talented and a highly ac
complished musician. But,
though he admitted his union
helped him little or none at
all in getting work, he, like
all union members, obviously
did not want to be quoted in
criticizing his union for fear
of retaliation, quite the same
as a Russion or unfortunate
satellite citizen, dares not lift
voice against the Communist
hierarchy.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
He Told Us So
To the Editor: Now what
do you think?
I hate to be one of those
people who say "I told you
so", but we're so proud of
the Medford State Baseball
Championship Team that we
must go ahead to say that the
writer predicted their suc
cess several months ago to
the editor of the Mail Trib
une in his communications
column.
They, the baseball kids,
were great, Just simply great.
Congratulations to the club
and their coaches from all
my friends and me.
Gerald von Ting
854 East Ninth st.
Medford.
Old Bibles Requested
To the Editor: Will you
please examine and read the
following, with the thought in
mind of newspaper space, so
worded as to be interesting
news for your r.aders, letting
them know of the dire need
for old, worn, tort, or dis
carded Bibles?
One of the many services
rendered annually a our Tri
State Fair Is the one Negro
day, the one in which Negroes
have the right to attend, and
do come in from the planta
tions in these three adjoining
southern states, literally by
the hundreds and thousands,
and into this Bible booth for
their Bibles-all too often their
first Bibles.
In all too many cases, they
have big families of children,
and no Bibles. How well I
know, being born and reared
on a southern plantation my
self, and having worked with
them all through the years.
This one thing I do as my
daily job, having dedicated
my time, myself, my home,
and my all in the service of
our Lord, placing copies of
his Holy Word where needed
most, regardless of color or
anything else except the dire
need, wherever the need may
be. You would know by my
location that the need is found
mostly among the colored.
You read In your news
papers about the White Citi
zen's Councils, organized sol
idly all over our own beloved
southland, whose sole purpose '
it to keep the Negroes from I
Rockefeller No 'Rich
Wilson Finds; Sees
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-flJPI) -The word
from Capitol Hill on last
week's F.isenhower - Rockefel-
ler White
House huddle:
-Gov. Nel
son A. Rocke
feller did not
read to the
President the
text of his
c r i t icism of
Vice P r e s i
R i c h a rd M.
ilrifiitSr Nixon and of
the administration policy.
Foreign Notebook:
Skids? Oriental Red
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Political Skids
Tokyo reports say it is be
ginning to look more and
more as if Prime Minister
Nnbusuke Kishi is on the way
out. Kishi's
action in ram
ming the U.S.
Japan Mutual
Security trade
through par
liament creat
ed a political
storm, touch
ed off month-
1 o n g rioting
PHIL NKWSO.V
grave doubts
and created
about the ad-
viability of President Eisen
hower going through with his
visit to Japan June 19. Now
sources close to Kishi say
privately there is a good
chance he will resign after
the polls and white schools,
their leaders being our lead
ing citizens, church officials.
legal leaders, etc.
I am only begging for the
crumbs, and many of our
readers might be glad to know
of this God given opportunity
to thus serve Him.
Many people from far away
write me requesting Bibles.
Placing these old Bibles is
my own responsibility, and I
do trust that some will feel
some responsibility in getting
them here to me to give free
ly, regardless of the slant of
the eye, kink of the hair, or
color of the skin.
Thanking you in advance,
and in the name of Jesus
Christ.
. T. S. White
(God's delivery boy. Please
request prayers.)
Wild Wide Bible Gift
Mission
1719 Buckner St.
Shreveport, Louisiana
A Trip, and Home
To the Editor: I just return
ed from Happy Camp, Calif.,
where I went to attend the
graduation of my grandson,
Milton Riley Blackford. It
was one of the happiest mo
ments of my life to see my
grandson march at the head
of his class with his gold
honor cord and class uniform,
and then to take his place at
the head of his class and give
the welcome address. Milton
will visit in Alaska for a
while, and then take up train
ing in the air academy. Their
class motto is - "Enter to
learn - go forth to serve."
I also had another grandson
graduate at Lakeview, Ore.,
on June 7, with high honors
(Lee Riley Davis).
My daughter took us for a
drive south of Happy Camp,
and we witched several con
victs working on the highway.
They will soor be paroled.
On further down we visited
"Faccenics T e r r a c e." The
owners, Mr. and Mrs. Vlnce
Rltzinger, have made the
most beautiful scenic home I
have ever seen. Flowers,
lawns, trees, waterfalls, and
the lovely evergreen trees,
for a background. They have
also cut outs of animals, an
gels, etc., all in among this
artistic beauty.
This lovely home was built
from deep weed:, and an old
old shack, so it shows what
people can do with hard labor
and lovely artistic ideas.
Back to camp and a won
derful barbecue dinner. The
song of birds and the running
creek and the lovely cool air
that just lulls you to sleep.
Morning comes all too soon
and we hear the call "Ham
and eggs - come and get it.".
Home acain to my own un
terraced flowers, the greet
ings from my neighbors, and
the cat, "Jingles," but too late
to go to the Fifty Plus club.
But my pals phoned me
they had a very good atten
dance and a fine time.
Hope to see you next Fri
day, same time, same place.
Maud E. Arnold
112 Elm st.
Medford.
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-Rockefeller did not give
Eisenhower a clear idea of
what he had in mind other
than that he would make a
political statement.
-The Governor took advan
tage of the Presiderft by strat
egy which could give the im
pression that Eisenhower
knew what was coming but
made no effort to stop it.
-Rockefeller, not the Presi
dent, suggested last week's
meeting. The significance of
the meeting, of the fact that
Eisenhower instantly had
agreed to see Rockefeller,
the President's visit. The most
talked of dates are June 24
or 25
Red Tape
Organizing press coverage
for an Eisenhower tour is al
ways a mighty job. But in the
Orient, where red tape was
invented, the job is even
mightier. Example: Foreign
office and U.S. State Depart
ment officials were escorting
newsmen on a dress rehearsal
of the visit the other day. All
went well until the group got
to the Imperial Palace. There,
the guards wouldn't let them
through the gates despite the
show of reams of top creden
tials. Then when the party got
to Washington Heights an
armed services housing area
the State Department couldn't
get the group past the sen
tries. High Diplomacy
Disregarding Japan's po
litical turmoil, a senior Asian
member of the Tokyo diplo
matic corps is circulating a
petition among the members
asking the foreign office to
exempt foreign diplomats
from paying the 10-yen (2.8
cents) parking meter fees. A
question of diplomatic im
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
ELEPHANT REMEMBERS
Washington-The man who
six months ago would not risk
six-foot jump in daylight
over a gully
has now taken
a long leap in
the dark over
a bottoml ess
precipice.
This is the
general judg
ment of the
national poiiti-
Wllliam 8. v. W...M.UH.
Whiw ty, Democratic
as well as Republican, over
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's ex
traordinary attack on both
Vice President Nixon and
President Eisenhower,
That Rockefeller is desper
ately trying to fan the hereto
fore dying embers of a "draft
Rockefeller" movement is ac
cepted as obvious. The only
real questions are why he
now supposes this can be done
and why he is trying it so
very late in the game.
At the end of last year the
New York governor got out of
the race against Mr. Nixon
for the GOP presidential nom
ination. He said that the party
bosses had frozen him out
and so they had. In the
months since, Nixon, who al
ready had largely controlled
the regular party organiza
tion, has gone on to lock up
the nomination, barring some
thing approaching a miracle.
SIX months ago it would
have hppn hv nn ihpatir
Impossible for Rockefeller to
give Nixon a genuine contest.
And even if the challenge had
failed, the governor would
have suffered no great harm.
Today It is just short of In
conceivable that he can stop
Nixon, A Republican conven
tion that nominated Rockefel
ler would now have, among
other things, to repudiate the
Eisenhower administration.
It is not simply that Nixon
now totally masters the na
tional party machinery - and
now will also likely have Mr.
Eisenhower's total blessing
It is not simply that Rocke
feller's latest oblique chal
lenge to Nixon has plainly
failed. (This was the effort in
the California primary to run
up a "silent vote against the
vice president.)
There is also the fact that
the GOP-all the GOP-is now
in trouble, where it was not
in trouble last winter. The
collapse of the summit confer
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bled at Just the wrons time. Do not
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true counter.
Mans Stassen
1964 Election Bid
should be understood in rela
tlon to this fact: The Presi
dent feels obligated to receive
anv governor on request.
Most quoted wise crack of
the week:
"Rockefeller is the rich
man's Stassen."
About Stassen
Harold E. Stassen organized
a stop-Nixon movement be
fore the 1956 Republican na
tional convention. Like Rock
efeller, Stassen first arranged
to confer with Eisenhower at
the White House. On leaving
the President's office, Stassen
Kishi On
Tape
munity.
Harrassing Tactics
East German Communists
are drawing up plans to elim
inate elevated railway traffic
in West Berlin. The Commun
ists control elevated train
service for both sectors of the
divided city, and, according
to reliable reports, now are
working on a scheme to bypass
West Berlin. The elevated is
the city's principal means of
transportation and to halt
service to the West would be
to close a loophole for escape
from the East and reduce
East-West contacts.
Tradition Breaker
Some organizers of the
World Eucharistic Congress
opening in Munich, Germany
on July 31, are hopeful that
Pope John XXIII will break
another tradition and attend
the congress. One million
faithful are expected to at
tend the meeting and the feel
ing is that the Pope's presence
would give it a tremendous
lift. Vatican sources are not
saying and it is against tra
dition for the Pope to go from
the Vatican. In any event, the
Pope will make the final de
cision. S. WHITE
ence has made the difference.
The GOP "peace issue" is
now shaky-if the Democrats
don't throw away their poten
tial new advantage by overly
violent clamor against the
president.
rTlHE Republicans wlll 'per
mit party in-fighting, but
only to a point. Unlike the
Democarts, they won't toler
ate it when the GOP family
as a whole is in real trouble
against the Democrats. The
man who breaks ranks at such
a time is marked forever by
his own fellow partisans. One
politician in all Republican
history, Theodore Roosevelt,
has got away with such a na
tional rebellion without being
destroyed nationally.
Thus Rockefeller's new
course has brought both dis
may and puzzlement to the
Republican p r o f e s s i onals.
There is dismay because
Rockefeller's kind words for
Mr. Elsenhower's "integrity"
in no way hide Rockefeller's
indictment of the Eisenhower
administration on nearly
everything from national de
fense to civil rights.
And there is puzzlement be
cause the Republicans by and
large simply cannot under
stand what seems to them a
Rockefeller thrust of far too
much far too late. They know
that the Democrats now hold
strong anti - Republican cam
paign material handed to
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SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
fired his salvo at Nixon. This
strategy enraged some Repub
licans and annoyed others.
Rockefeller's anti-Nixon play
has had about the same effect.
There are indications that
Eisenhower bears some re
sentment against Rockefeller.
If so, the President is not
alone in that feeling. Among
the remarks -of-the -weejc
which obtained considerable
currency and concurrenca
was this, from Sen. Barry
Goldwater (R-Ariz.):
That the Senator could dis
cern no difference between
Rockefeller's approach to cur.
rent issues and the approach,
of the Democratic presiden
tial aspirants to those issues,
The Conservatives
Conservative Rep ublicans
said amen to that. The conser
vatives make a mistake, how
ever, in brushing Rockefeller
off as just anther Stassen.
Stassen's political future
was behind him in 1956 when
he sought to rally an anti
Nixon crusade. He was not
risking much because he had
little to lose. Rockefeller has
much to lose, and he has lost
some of it by offending the
party leaders who know that
they must win this year on
the Eisenhower record if they
are to win at all.
Rockefeller also has much
to gain, and he probably has
gained some of it in becoming
an anti-Nixon, left-wing Re
publican symbol. That should
make some political hay for
him among the independents
and among the Democrats.
Simple arithmetic shows
that Rockefelelr will be 58
years old in 1964, a good age
for a presidential nominee.
Consider, for example, the sit
uation in 1964 with these
"ifs":
If. No. 1: If Nixon were
nominated and defeated this
year. .
If No. 2: If Rockefeller
were reelected in November,
1862, to New Yorks gover
norship.
Given both of these eventu
alities, Rockefeller probably
could win the 1964 Republi-
can presidential nomination.
Perhaps the governor has
thought of that.
RAG PICKER DIES RICH
Milwaukee, Wis.-(UPD-An 86-
year-old rag picker who lived
in a 523-a-month, htter-laden
flat left an estate valued at
more than $741,000, it was
reported today. Authorities
who searched the tiny, three
room flat of Albert Friedrich
after his death found a gar
bage can filled with stock and
bond certificates.
them by the Republican gov
ernor of the union's biggest
state.
F NEW YORK state
L goes Democratic in
now
the
presidential election -as can
d i d Republicans privately
concede to be a heightened
possibility - Rockefeller will
be bitterly blamed by all GOP
factions. His basic theory is
that if Nixon loses for the Re
publicans this year they will
need a Rockefeller to nomi
nate in 1964.
The theory, however, is
more promising on the out
side than on the inside. Aca
demically, the word in 1964
might well be "who but Rock
feller?" but in reality the an
gry party pros-even those not
their hearts too keen on
Nixon-would far more likely
adopt quite another slogan:
"Anybody but Rockefeller."
It is said that the elephant
never forgets. And the ele
phant is not by accident tha
symbol of the GOP.
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)