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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 vesrs ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 26, 1950 (Wednesday)
Rogue valley winter pear
growers will vote soon on
proposed amendments to the
winter pear marketing agree
ment already approved by the
department of agriculture.
A banquet will precede the
first-night opening of the 10th
annual Shakespearean festi
val in Ashland, Aug. 2.
20 YEARS AGO
July 26, 1940 (Friday)
A year ago today Medford
suffered from 108 degree tem
perature but today the tem
perature reached only 73 de
grees. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
Swiss scientist has found the
92nd element, that sciente has
been looking for since 1789.
Many a man never knew the
92nd element was lost"
30 YEARS AGO
July 26, 1930 (Saturday)
Allied Industries, Inc., form
ed to develop Roxy Ann coal
beds.
Ned Sparks, the glum film
comedian, is in the area this
week to fish in the Rogue
river.
40 YEARS AGO
July 28, 1920 (Monday)
Eads storage warehouse
was destroyed here in a $100,
000 fire last night.
The local Chamber of Com
merce is putting pressure on
the state highway department
for a paved road to Crater
Lake.
SO YEARS AGO
July 28, 1910 (Tuesday
Judge K. K. Hanna, cir
cuit judge .in Jackson and
Josephine counties for the
past 25 years, died at hU home
here yesterday afternoon.
Medford has received as
surances that it will be the
site for the 1913 convention
of the Pacific Coast Associa
tion of Nurserymen.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or Ian correct Is superior:
taven or eight is excellent; five at
It la goad.
1. Who was Vice President
during Franklin D. Roose
velt's first term?
2. Does human hair grow
from the roots or from the
ends?
3. In Spanish countries, is
a short sleep at midday known
as a fiesta or a siesta?
' 4. Mindanao is part of
. Which Pacific island group?
, 5. Does the compass have
24, 28, or 32 points?
6. Does the buffalo on a
Buffalo nickel face to the left
. or to the right?
7. What is the legal docu
ment summoning a witness
into court? ......
, 8, Which type of U. S. naval
vessels bear the names of fish?
9. Character study by
means of handwriting is
known as gr y?
10. The nickname "Old Line
State" is applied to Massachu-
setts, Maryland, Missouri, or
Rhode Island?
Answers! 1. John Nance
Garner. 2. From the roots. 3,
Siesta. 4. The Philippines. 5.
32 points. 8. To the left. 7.
Subpoena. 8. Submarines 9.
Graphology. 10. Maryland,
Salem-IUPD-Francls I. Smith
of Portland Monday was re
appointed by Gov. Mark Hat
field. Ben Robinson of Imb
ler was named to the state
forestry board to succeed Ray
mond M. Kell who resigned.
NATIONAL EDITORIAI
Welcome Back, Will
Welcome back again, Will Shakespeare.
Welcome back again to Ashland, where you
have, over 20 seasons, made your mark as an
honored member of the community, as one who
has brought to us all and to our guests the joys
and moods and anguish of your comedies and
histories and tragedies.
And welcome again to your devotees, both
before and behind the footlights those who do,
and those who watch and thrill to the printed
word coming alive and colorful.
DANNERS and lights and trumpets; a sea of
"expectant faces; the greenery and the new
statuary; dancers and singers; greeters and ven
dors these are part of the scene.
And behind the scene, the great and com
plicated mechanism of the stage, only a little
of which is visible to those who come to Shake
speare for entertainment
There are lound tne Dusy seamstresses, the
prop men, the actors pacing or sitting as they
rehearse that line again; the shops and storage
rooms; the prompter's booth hidden beneath the
stage ; the vast and complicated electronic mon
sters that control the lights; the busy typewriters
of the publicists; the jungle of props and ropes
and wires all hidden from public view.
SHAKESPEARE in Ashland in the summer is
o. -fino fVoa-r'lrmmirv f hinor
But unseen, unattended, usually quite un
known, are months of quiet labor and preparation
and selection ; of planning and drawing and blue
printing; of long discussions and long-laid plans.
It is the labor of committees, and conferences,
and phone calls and letters and telegrams; of
men and women who ask no reward but to be a
part of Shakespeare in Ashland in the summer,
and work at it all fall and winter and spring.
Without all this bhakespeare in Ashland in
the summer would not be possible. But it is, and
it enables us to say, with pleasure :
Welcome back again, Will Shakespeare.
-E.A. .
Man and the Weather
Back in the days
Harvey Brandau were flying over-age warplanes
into the middle of thunderstorms, there has been
much interest in this area in the possibilities of
artifical control of the weater.
(Actually, "control" is too strong a word. Each
attempt has had a specific, and limited, purpose.)
But Jackson county and its environs has been
the site of a number of weather modification
experiments, ranging from those designed to in
crease winter precipitation, through attempts to
eliminate hail by seeding thunder-clouds, to dis
persal of fog.
CUCCESS-has been varied, and in most cases,
problematical. As a result, the last of the
experiments, conducted by the California Ore
gon Power company in
wintertime snowfall, was discontinued this year.
The valley's fruitgrowers, who first tried
planes, then ground seeding, to control hail,
abandoned their project earlier.
In each case, the statistical analyses of the
experiments did not show sufficient results to
justify the continued expense, which was con
siderable. But weather experimentation, elsewhere in
the nation, is continuing.
ITNDER a 1958 law, the National Science
Foundation was directed to conduct experi
ments in weather modification, and to keep track
of other experiments, of which there are quite
a number, conducted by other agencies of gov
ernment (including the armed forces), other
units of government, and commercial and foreign
experiments.
The first annual NSF report on weather modi
fication does little more than to describe how the
.work is proceeding, and to conclude that much
more basic research is necessary.
But it points out that the newest wrinkle in
observing weather from satellites above the
weather may well be the biggest step forward
in long-range forecasting, and in evaluating mas
sive attempts at weather modification.
THE stakes in this are high, and we sometimes
are inclined to believe that not enough ur
gency has been accorded research in meteorology,
including aspects of weather modification.
For the nation which can control, to any sig
nificant degree, the world's weather, will be in a
position of tremendous advantage, both military
and economic.
By the same token,
the weather holds the possibility of tremendous
danger as well as tremendous benefits. The "bal
ance" of the world's weather is, some scientists
believe, a delicate thing, and by tinkering too
much without sufficient facts man might, inad
vertently, bring on a new ice age, for instance.
CVER since he first invented, or put to his own
" use, fire, the lever and the wheel, man has
increasingly controlled his environment. Weather
control is simply an extension of this tendency
into a new field.
But in his advancing technology, he has reach
ed a point where his control of his environment
is capable of affecting the entire world and its
living inhabitants.
We'd feel a little more comfortable about the
whole thing if man were making progress in get
ting along with himself equal to his progress in
probing the secrets of nature. E.A,
and enlightenment.
when Gene Kooser and
an attempt to increase
massive modification of
Dennis the
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TMtTS K'HAT 1 5HOULDA SAID,"
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
CHICAGO
Chicago - An atmosphere
of remembrance, of nostalgia,
and of homecoming overhangs
the Republican national con
vention. The
con vention
o d d ly suits
(Chicago.
And Chicago
o d d ly suits
the conven
tion. For if this
s p r a w ling,
b r a w 1 ing
city itself is
traditionally an urban Demo
cratic stronghold, this is far
more than merely a city. It
is the capital of a vast area
called the American Middle
West - and it is the capital.
still, of the Republican party.
The Middle West is the
heartland of Republicanism.
the birthplace of the grand old
party and the spiritual home
of the first Republican prest
dent, Abraham Lincoln,
whose nomination occurred
just a hundred years ago.
pHICAGO, in a word, is the
more or less inevitable na
tional meeting place for the
Republicans. So it Is the seat
of many mixed memories for
them. For example, it was
here that the Republicans
marshaled in 1952, after 20
years in exile from the White
House, to begin a triumphant
march back with the nomina
tion of Gen. Dwight D. Ei
senhower. It was here also, in that
same year, that the brilliant
ly wrong-headed, the brave
and honorable "Mr. Republi
can," the late Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, suffered a last
and movingly gallant defeat
in his long and doomed ambi
tion to reach the presidency.
It is an easy writer s cliche
to proclaim that ghosts are
in such a place as this. But,
forgive the hackneyed expres
sion if you will, they do
rove here all the same. As a
" William S.
White
LUCY'S MASTERPIECE "This political
cartoon," Amercla's No. 1 Fussbudget told
Charlie Brown In the "Peanuts" comic strip
last week, "Is guaranteed to cure all of the
world's troubles!" At first glance, her claim
may seem exaggerated. But on second
thought, if G.O.P. and DEM. slopped glar
Menace
S. WHITE
bystander I, for one, can still
see, as though this were yes
terday, the frantic movements
back and forward over this
city of eight long years ago
as the massive Taft and Eiscn.
hower forces grappled in com
bat for the mind of the Re
publican party.
e
TN THE thick of action al-
ways, day and night, stood
Taft. His own commander, his
own chief of staff, he strode
caucus room and corridor, the
endless lights glinting on his
eyeglasses as he battled for
Robert Taft and Robert Taft's
concept of what the party
should be. Removed from the
public eye and from the pub
lic pit of action, Eisenhower
was operating wholly through
his advisers.
Taft's basic strength was
Middlewestern; Eisenhower's
as Eastern. So when the
smoke cleared, the losers, for
the record, were Taft and the
Middle West; the winners, El
senhower and the East. Now,
looking back on the past Chi
cago from the Chicago of the
present, one sees that the vic
tory was far from total, ine
Eastern or "modern" Repub
licans had won a great bat
tle, but not an ultimate war.
For the new Republican
nominee about to emerge
from these iess-than-frantic
present proceedings, Richard
M. Nixon, is a bridge and
blend between the Taft old
guard and the Eastern new
guard. Taft was beaten here,
yes. And Taft ' was soon to
die. But Taft Republicanism,
diluted perhaps, still lives on
here.
e e a
AND ONCE again - as al
wavH whpiv thpv are real
ly in trouble - it Is to the
Middle West that the Repub
licans have returned. They
have looked homeward to the
real capital of the GOP; they
have come home again.
The shy and gulping young
man of 1952, who had so
LUCY c
GOP Civil Rights Position Dictated Just
Bv Mathematics of 1960 Election Year
Bv LYLE C. WILSON
lntcrnntloiml Amplittliontpr,
Chlcago-UOT-Tho simple milh
metlc of the civil rights dis
pute troubling
f! I this Kepubll
i. ' lean National
u o n v uiuiuu
could bo solv
e d by any
third grade
student.
The problem
la this: Sub
tract 11 from
17. Tho an-
Drle C Wll.ee swor ,g slx, Go
to Uie head of tho class, Jun
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sir
Castro's 'Show' Impressive
But Latin Disaffection Grows
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
With Soviet Russia. Red
China and Communist North
Korea prominently represent
ed, Fidel Cas
tro returned
to the rugged
Sierra Maes
tro this week
to host a
youth con
g r e s s com
m e m orating
the annivcr-
.. , i. i
I'HIL NKWSO.M u I y -U
movement.
Not surprisingly, the con
gress was meeting under the
sogan, "for the Liberation of
Latin America" meaning
liberation from Yankee Im
perialism. It was a show consider
ably short of the one million
attendance originally adver
tised, but still an Impressive
display of the bearded Cas
tro's ability as a crowd pica
er. These were the mountains
which Castro used as his base
In his revolution against Pres
ident Fulgen Batista, and it
was from them on July 26,
1953, that he launched a
bloody but abortive attack on
Batista's Moncada barracks In
Santiago.
Campaign Springboard
Now, like the Pled Piper
of Hamlin, Castro has piped
the way to the mountains for
this youth rally which in ac
tuality Is a springboard for
his Communist-supported hate
campaign to split all of Latin
America away from the Unit
ed States.
Not all of Latin America
reacted as favorably to the
quickly leaped from obscuri
ty to a gilt-edged nomination
for vice president of the Unit
ed States, Is "Mr. Republi
can" now. To all the Republi
cans assembled, here Chica
go means much.
But to this man, Richard
Nixon, it means Incomparably
more than he could ever tell.
Chicago and fortune eight
years ago put his feet upon
a ladder reaching higher than
he had ever dreamed to reach.
What now do Chicago and
fortune hold for a man now
Infinitely more poised and
skilled as he reaches for the
very topmost rung, election
to the American presidency?
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Copyright 1960 by United
'"IsMUltJ
ing at each other, and the early American
spirit of "Don't Trend On Me" came out
from behind that rock, and Uncle Sam stop
ped standing there with his hands nt his
side, maybe . , , juut maybe , . , Well, what
do you think?
ior, and tell the Republicans
how you did It.
Simplicity, Itsolfl Thcro aro
11 states In tho ono-tlme solid
South, tho states of tho old
Confederacy.
Thero are at least 17 North
ern and Western Industrial
states-big city atates-ln which
tho Negro voto la a likely bal
ance of power in any close
election. The reasoning of
New York Gov, Nelson A,
Rockefeller mid tho other In
dustrial stnto polltlcos l quite
evident. They expect this oloc
tlon to be a cloao one and
they aro willing to bid high
rally as Castro wished.
Colombia gave him a flat
turn down. But thore were
official delegations from Mex
ico and Chile, with others ex
pected, officials or unofficial,
from such countries as Ven
ezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and
Argentina.
An official guest of tho gov
ernment was Jacobo Arbcnz
who once headed a Commun
ist regime In Guatemala until
a successful revolution drove
him out.
There is no doubt that
throughout Latin America
thero is a reservoir of deep
sympathy for Castro.
Legislators In botli Mexico
and Vcnzculca have declared
they must stand with Ca.ttro
In his economic war with the
United States.
But there also Is a growing
awareness among Latin Amer
ican governments of the ex
cesses of the Castro regime
'Shushers' Maintain
Order; West Yearns
For Greater Color
By DICK WEST
International Ampitheatre,
Chtcago-AJPD- The acoustics in
the Republican convention
hall arc pretty bad. You can
hear all the
speeches.
Otherwise,
It's a fine
show that the
GOP Is put
ting on in the
stockyards
here. If some
one -would
only invent a
bovine deo
dorant, It would be even bet
ter.
The delegates obviously are
wearing their best television
manners to make certain that
nobody mistakes them for
Democrats. If they keep It up,
they may become the first
party to have a four-year term
In the White House cut short
by time off for good behavior.
I do not mean to insinuate
that the GOP has been turned
into a group of "grumpy old
politicians." After all, attend
ance has been holding up very
well at the striptease clubs
near the downtown conven
tion headquarters.
Democrats' Behavior
But when the delegates gel
out to the convention hall.
I they remember how the Dem
ocrats recently filled the na
tion's TV screens with five
days of disorderly conduct. If
they don't remember, they
soon get reminded.
. Instead of employing ush
ers, the Republicans are using
"shushers." Consequently, the
convention thus far has been
a model of decorum.
The delegates have even
been circumspect about using
the stock broker's booth
which has been set up just off
the convention floor for their
convenience. Possibly they
fear that if the market broke
It would create a panic.
The first 30 minutes of each
session are taken up with mus
ical numbers. This tends to
lull the audience Into a false
sense of security.
Suddenly the gavel pounds
and before the delegates can
bolt for the doors, the aisles
are blocked off by the color
guard and flag-bearers. They
arc then obliged to remain
standing during the pledge of
allegiance, the National An
them and the invocation.
Everyone Sils Down
By the time this is over,
everyone Is too tired to do
anything but sit down, Hence,
the speakers are assured of a
stationary audience.
When I first heard that pro
gram director George Murphy
had drawn up a tight conven
tion schedule, I figured he
would have to build a trap
door under the podium in
order to maintain it.
I was surprised, therefore,
when the firsl session, a mat
inee, ran along generally on
time. I was even more sur
prised when Son, Karl E.
Mundl (Il-S.D,), who was
scheduled to make a gavel
presentation, failed to Bhow
up. Mundt is not ordinarily
Dirk Weil
for the Negro vole to protect
tholr party on the homo
grounds.
Nixon's Reasoning Identical
Vlco President Richard M.
Nixon's reasoning Is Idontlcal
but blonder in scope. It la
that In a national election ho
must risk or discard the
chanco to carry some of the
11 Southorn states If It Is
necessary to protect the Re
publican ticket In tho North.
Nixon also expects a close
election.
The Democrats In Los An
geles made an all-out plat
form bid for the voles of
and of the dangers along the
path down which he Is lead
ing Cuba.
Other Warnings
Argentina has warned him
against his plunge Into the
arms of the Communist pow
ers. Peru led tho way to take
the U.S.-Cuban quarrel be
fore tliu Organization of
American States to prevent
Communist Interference In
the United Nations.
The violence of Sovlot Pre
mier Khrushchev's assertions
that Russian rockets would
come to the aid of Cuba has
Increased hemisphere aware
ness of the' danger of Com
munist Infiltration.
It led Dr. Jose A. Correa
of Ecuador to warn Russia
In the United Nations Hint
Interference In Latin Amor
lean by any power, especial
ly a "far distant" one, would
earn only "animosity and pro
found dislike."
regarded as camera shy.
I checked with the senator
Inter and he explained Hint
there had been "confusion In
the marching orders." He
eventually presented the gavel
at the night session when, co
incidental, the TV audience
Is bigger.
All in all, the convention Is
operating like a clock, But
there arc times when I wish It
would operate like a conven
tion. Bethlehem Steel
Executive Dies
Bethlehem, Pb.-HIPD - Fun
eral services will be held here
Wednesday for Eugene G.
Grace, 83, retired president
of the Bethlehem Steel Co.,
who died In his home Monday
after a long illness.
Grnce wns the son of a sea
captain who turned down
templing offers to play pro
fessional baseball after hitting
a home run against the Boston
Braves in an exhibition gamo.
He chose Instead to become a
15 cents an hour crane oper
ator, and rose to the presi
dency of Bethlehem in 1916.
A leader In the industry for
more than a half a century,
his Income ranged above
$500,000 a year. In 1029 the
time of the stock market
crash -his salary and other
earnings brought him an esti
mated total of $1,560,000,
Under his direction Beth
lehem became second only to
U. S. Steel and Increased Its
annual output from 950,000 to
20,500,000 tons.
Grace retired In October
1957 and was named honor
ary corporation chairman,
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iioi-lliei-n Negroes. Domocriitlo
presidential nominee John V.
Kennedy then moved quickly
to nppcuso tho outraged South
erners by pulling Sen. Lyn
don B. Johnson of Toxus on
tho ticket in second place.
Johnson probnbly will hurt
tho Democratic ticket In the
North-nmong the Negroes, He
niny help It In tho Smitli
nmong the while folks. Hut
the hard-nosed Domocriitlo
civil rights plank Is expected
to bo attractive to norlhorn
Negroes, despite Johnson,
For the Republicans l
trump political cards such as
those will take some doing
and that la whnt they worn
trying to do Monday night
and lodny. Tho Deinoeratlo
civil rights plunk bears down
on tho assertion Unit all men
are created equal. The Rcpul.
llcuiu, of course, will go along
with that.
As between Northern Ne
groes, and Southern whiles,
some aro more equal Hum
others. Tho Southern whiles
aro caught In tho middle, hnvo
not much-It nny-lnfluonce In
either pnrty. If the Nixnn
Rockefeller forces compel this
convention to mulch thu
Democrats In a proclamation
on civil rights, the South will
have no place to go, unless
It be up In smoke.
All of this may revive
among Southern leaders tho
free elector defense agnlnst
Uie political power of tho
Nortli. litis would Involve llio
selection of presidential elec
tors who would not be pledg
ed to cither presidential can
didate. If neither candldnl)
obtained a majority of the
electoral college on the basis
of the November polling, tho
free Southern electors would
possess a balance of power.
They might make a donl
with one or the othor of tho
major pnrty candidates for a
repudiation of the more ex
tremo portions of either civil
right plank. It could hnppon
that way, but It probably
won't.
Smith, Maurine
To Appear Together
Bend-H'PH-Republican Elmo
Smith and Democrat Mnurino
Nruberger, candldnles for the)
U.S. Senate, will nppear on
the same plntform for the first
time July 30 when they an
swer questions for the Oregon
Form Bureau federntion here.
The occasion Is the bureau's
mid-summer resolutions con
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