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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Trlbun. 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1950 (Saiurday)
The Medford district of the
Southern Oregon Bar associa
tion has recommended that
the present justice's court in
Medford be replaced with a
district court.
The new Jacksonville mu
seum, which served . as the
county courthouse from 1883
to 1928, was Officially dedi
cated as a museum today
while a crowd of 2,000 look
on. '
20 YEARS AGO
S. 1940 (MondtYi
' The old Community hall at
Lake Creek was destroyed by
flro pnrlv this morning.
. From Arthur Perry'i "Ye
Rmudee Pot" column: "The
Army base pay for soldiers
f 2i ner montn, as now
provided. This is baser than
WPA base pay for leaf rak
ing." ,
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1930 (Thursday)
The Medford city council
last night adopted a new
building code for the city.
Work on the Pacific high
way south will cease during
certain hours each day to per
mit pear hauling; all packing
plants will be In operation by
the end of the week.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1920 (Tuesday)
Union church services will
be held in the city park Sun
day. : Oregon now has 75,044 pri
vately owned autos, suffi
cient to take everybody in
the state for a ride at the
same time.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1910 (Friday)
One of the owners of the
Medford hotel, on which con
struction will start in the near
future, has announced that he
will erect an opera house next
door to it if the citizens of
Medford do not object.
What's Your I Q.7
Nine or tea correct Is superior!
even or eight is excellent) five ei
ix is good.
1. Is the "g" pronounced
like a "j" In "Dinghy" and
"dingy"?
2. Which has been general
ly held to be the most magic
and the mo:el sacred number?
3. Is it possible for ice to
attain a temperature lower
than freezing?
, 4. Antioch, iconium, Lyslra,
and D(vbe belonged in Paul's
day to which province?
; 5. Is Dutchman's Pipe the
name of a musical Instrument,
large leaved vine, or beer
stain?
6. Name the first President
to live In the White House,
7. Did the kindergarten
system of education for young
children originate In Russia
Germany, or the U.S.?
8. The pioneers of Utah
were saved from the ravages
of grasshoppers by what kind
of bird?
9. Informal danciO, an In
gredient used in brewing and
the leaping of frogs, are call
.; ?
I 10. Should "honorable"
when used as part of a title
be capitalized, when preced
ed by "the," ' and followed
immediately by the given
name?
: Answers: 1, No, only in
'dingy. 2. Sevan, 3. Yes. 4,
Galsiia. 5. Vine. 8. John
Adams. 7. Germany, 8.
Cull. 9. Hops. 10. Yet.
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Nixon s Benson Burden
Political expediency almost certainly indi
cates no farm legislation at the shirt-tail post
conventions session of Congress. Sen. John F.
Kennedy, with his advantage of Democratic con
trol of both houses, says only that he is consult
ing his advisers on several proposals.
. Senate Republican Leader Evorett McK. Dirk
sen on Aug. 1 said that he would like to see a
wheat bill that would "at least meet the emer
gency" of a mounting surplus. But the Demo
crats have a "must" program of their own which
does not extend to the problems of farmers.
Besides, Kennedy made it quite clear on Aug.
1 that he wanted to keep the tag of association
with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
securely pinned on the lapel of Vice President
Richard M. Nixon.
THE sequence of events starts with Nixon, who
on July 30 dissociated himself from Benson
for whom he said he had "the highest regard
and respect" called for "new leadership," and
promised for agriculture a new "massive pro
gram." Two days later came a statement by
nine top Democratic farm leaders from the Mid
dle West, including Kennedy's likely choice for
Secretary of Agriculture, Gov. Herscnel C. Love
less, of Iowa.
These Kennedy supporters charged that as
recently as February, I960, Nixon had hailed
Benson as "the greatest Secretary of Agriculture
in our country's history." They added: "Those
in the iarm belt are acutely aware ot the failures
of the Republican policy on agriculture, a policy
to which Vice President Nixon has wholeheart
edly subscribed until yesterday." Then came the
Kennedy statement repeating the Middle West
erners' attack, again linking Nixon and Benson,
and declaring:
The Vice President cannot at one time say that in
his role in the present administration he has not had
a chance to express his own views until now and, on
the other hand, portray himself as the most powerful
Vice President in history.
MEITHER man would
parison but Benson
much the same boat as his predecessor, Charles
F. Brannan, tried to navigate in 1952. The pro
gram of neither man was wholly put into action
at any time during his incumbency. Indeed,
Brannan was so put upon
he denied authorship of
gram calling lor non-recourse loans at 100 per
cent or parity tor storable commodities and di
rect payments to tarmers on non-storable com
modities. Congress in 1949 refused Brannan even
a modified test run.
The program had been tagged the "Brannan
Plan," the Secretary alleged, by Allen Kline of
the American Farm Bureau Federation for po
litical niu-Doses. In any
in 1952 condemned the
to socialize agriculture.
campaigned aoainst the
Jitical monstrosity" amountinc to "moral bank
ruptcy." Ironically enough, the President was
to propose in his 1954 farm messace special treat
ment for wool, subsequently adopted by Con
fess, wnicn was immediately HKenea to tne
Irannan Plan. '
Benson, like Brannan, denies having a "nlan."
But Benson appears to be fated to be the same
sort of whipping boy for the Democrats in 1960
that Charles F. Brannan was for the GOP eight
years earlier. The truth seems to be that the
Secretary of Agriculture, the traditional "friend
of the farmer," is anything but his political
friend in election years unless Hiram can afford
to drive to the polls in a Cadillac E. R.R.
Victory in Malaya
The former British colonv of Mnl
independent constitutional monarchy within the
ouininonweaun, nas lormally closed the book
on the 12-year war it has waged against Commu
nist terrorists in its jungle. The end of this long
period of murder, rampage, arson, and depreda
tion by Communist guerrillas will have a positive
entxi, on tne weuare oi
barge sums ot money
government already plans greater expenditures
un luiius, unuges, water
health services, and food
tiiiiauiuinus.
When Malaya achieved its indenend
most three years ago, the guerrillas, nearly all
Chinese in oriein, lost one of their ni-inninal ml.
lying cries that they were fighting to free the
nation from the colonial yoke. The campaign of
terror had been broutrht under effective cnnb-nl
by then, at a cost to the Malays of more than
$260 million and $160 million to the British crav-
ernment. British troops stayed on, at the request
of the Federation government, to aid in mopping
up.
THE Malayan government now says 6,700 ter
1 rorists have been killed, 1,300 have been cap
tured, and 2,700 have surrendered. Federation
police lost 1,870 men and the army 520. More
than 2,400 civilians were killed.
Ahead for the Malays are prospects of bright
er days. On the occasion of his official birthday,
June 1, Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of
Selangor and the Yang diPertuan Agong, or
i-'aramount Kuler of Malaya, declared : "It is now
for our people, with equal determination, to ward
off the attempts of the Malayan Communist Party
to achieve its aims by more subtle means and
to grasp the opportunities for prosperity which
are opening up." E.R.R.
be flattered by the com-
in 1960 finds himself in
that on May 21, 1952,
the controversial pro
event, the GOP nlatform
Brannan Plan as aimine
And Gen. Jiisenhower
Brannan Plan as a "do-
tne Federation.
will be saved, and the
supply, electric power,
and clothing for rural
Dennis the
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wny didn't ya am me if i was
CMEWIN' BUBBLE GUM?"
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is on vacation,
from Washington in his absence.)
"APOLOGIZE" OR
"HEGRET":-THE FACTS
Washlngton-The purpose of
this column is to try to get
at the exact facts as to what
Sen. John F. Kennedy said
or did not say about apolo
gizing or expressing regret to
Khrushchev over the U-2
flights.
And quite apart from wheth
er Mr. Kennedy usea mis
phrase or that, what is the
substance of the controversy?
What is it really all about?
It is well to assemble the
evidence because the candi
dates are already in a maze
of conflicting argument and it
is obvious that this is going
to be a disputed matter in a
hotly contested campaign.
To make any sense out of
this controversy, it is neces
sary to fix in mind the de
mand which Khrushchev
made upon the U.S. at Paris.
He demanded that the Presi
dent apologize for ever per
mitting any of the U-2 flights
and that the fliers be pun
ished.
This blew the summit to
pieces before it ever began
But there were some here at-
home who wondered if Mr.
Eisenhower could not have
pacified Mr. K. in some way
so that the meeting could
have gone on. Mr. Kennedy
was one of these and he made
this siatement to a group of
high school students in Ore
gon in May:
"He (Khrushchev) said
there were two conditions for
continuing. One, that we apol
ogize. I think that that might
have been possible to do; and
that, second, we try those re
sponsible for the flight."
DOES this statement make
it fair to contend that
Sen. Kennedy wanted Mr. Ei
senhower to apologize for the
flights?
Vice President Nixon and,
before he became Mr. Ken
nedy's running mate, Sen.
Lyndon Johnson thought that
it did. Mr. Johnson asked
many of his pre-convention
audiences if they wanted to
have a President "who would
apologize to Khrushchev?"
But Mr. Kennedy calls this
an unfair description of his
view. He put it this way in
an exchange with other Sen
ators on the Senate floor last
May 23:
HAT I said was that if
' Mr.
proposed the first condition
alone-the apology-. . . if he
had merely asked that the
United States express regret
(Instead of demanding pun
ishment for the fliers) that
might have been a reasonable
term, and would have indi-
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
T OYAL. RESIDENTS of the Bronx will long remember
-LJ a once-thriving local newspnper, since absorbed by
a downtown daily, called "The Bronx Home News." The
News enjoyed probably
its finest hour when
Leon Trotsky, who once
toiled as motorman on
a Bronx trolley line,
came into power in Rus
sia. The Home News
banner headline was
"Bronx Boy Makes
Good."
Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld
is the creator of a charac
ter named "Sdrawkcnb."
"He's the only man In the
world," boasts Hirschfeld,
"whose name spelled back
wards is 'Backwards.' "
Dale Harrison has devised a scheme to make oysters a popular
delicacy all year round. It involves merely changing the spelling
of four calendar months: Mayr: Juner, Jurly, and Augurst.
I960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Xing Features Syndicate
Menace
Reports
Roscoe Drummond reports
cated a willingness on his part
to proceed."
A FTER looking at all the
-t- evidence, I offer these
conclusions:
1-Mr. Kennedy is, in part,
the victim of his own impre
cise slatements. He said that
if Khrushchev had asked only
for an apology, "that that
might have been possible to
do." That certainly sounded
as though he were recom
mending an apology. But later
he said that he meant that
since Mr. K. also imposed the
punishment condition, nothing
would have satisfied Khrush
chev, not even an apology.
Thus Mr. Kennedy could
argue that he never brought
forward the idea of apology
as a practical course of action.
rpHERE is another point at
which Mr. Kennedy s dis
cussion of this matter-the day
after Nixon and Dewey
brought it up at the Chicago
convention-seemed to me to
flow around but not come to
grips with the real issue.
Thus at his Ilyannis Port
press conference the Demo
cratic nominee emphasized
that he had thought it would
have been well for the Presi
dent to have "expressed his
regrets" to Khrushchev over
the timing of the U-2 flights.
But the fact is, as all who
were at the summit well
knew, the Soviet Premier was
not demanding "regrets" just
over the timing of the flights;
he was demanding an apology
from the President for having
permitted the whole four-year
sequence of the U-2 flights.
The suggested "regrets" over
the timing would have meant
absolutely nothing in light of
what was really happening at
Paris.
Some partisans have sug
gested that Sen, Kennedy has
herein shown signs N of ap
peasement. There is no sub
stance or truth in such state
ments. At most they show
that Mr. Kennedy needs to
think through a little more
fully what he wants to say.
(c) I960 New York" Herald
Tribune Inc.
Vandalism, Thefts
Probed by Police
State police are investigat
ing reports of thefts and van
dalism in the Forest ave. area
off the Jacksonville highway.
Wednesday night several
cars were rifled in a new
housing development area,
state police said. Keys were
taken from eight cars, and
one fire extinguisher is miss
ing. Two bicycles were dam
aged, they said.
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Good Substitute
To the Editor: Will Rogena
used to say, "Everybody is ig
norant. But not about the
same things."
But when it comes to the
really big mysteries of life,
we are like little children
watching TV and thinking
that people are in the box
on the TV stand.
Common sense tells us that
there must be some force or
power and a plan of some
kind or other running the uni
verse. So there must be a God.
But do we really need a
boogie man Devil? Some sort
of a Frankenstein monster
also seems to be in on the
plan.
We need a God like we need
a battery in a car. But we
need a Devil like we need
windshield wipers on subma
rines. .
Lazy minded people blame
every thing wrong on the
Devil; it saves them, from
thinking. So as an Editor said,
as a substitute for thought,
the Devil theory is a good
one.
And as all the Devil blam
ing letters to the Editor are
silly, silence would be a good
substitute for brains. .
John Reando,
Rote 1, Box 390B,
Central Point, Ore.
Thanks Ladies
To the Editor: I'd like to
thank two unknown ladies
who so kindly gave me the
telephone line last Monday
when we had an accident in
front of my home involving
a wonderful truck driver and
two dear boys.
I know I was anything but
polite when I asked for the
line, but they hung up quick
ly so I could call the police
and ambulance.
There's been more than
once I've raised the phone
and started dialing and these
women would be talking. I'd
hang up quick; so far I've
never heard these women
complain although I never lis
ten long enough to even
know who they are. I hope
they understand I've been on
an eight party line for years,
but no one but me had a
phone.
So my children and I (also
my neighbors) forget to listen
if anyone is talking. One of
the boys' mother uses my
phone to check on him when
she isn't, at his side. Once
when these two ladies were
talking she said they gave the
line to us when we needed it.
So thanks for your kind
ness. We sincerely mean it.
Mrs. Lucille Campbell,
5113 Table Rock rd.,
Central Point, Ore.
Consider Matter Further
To the Editor: Personal fi
nances should not ordinarily
be made an issue in a politi
cal campaign but since Dr.
Durno has offered his for pub
lic display in this column it
is proper, I think, to consider
the matter further.
He asks why people think
he is wealthy. The answer
may be in a palatial $100,000
type home with adjoining pri
vate swimming pool, or it may
be in Cadillac-type automo
biles or even in his self-declared
$13,000 income last
year, which, due to political
activity, was not entirely typi
cal. Nice homes and fine cars
are good things. We applaud
those who have, like Dr. Dur
no, worked long to achieve
them. But they are not the
symbols of poverty.
It is mystifying how anyone
from a position such as his
can make the incredible state
ment that elderly people on
Social Security are "financial
ly secure." Those that I know
personally receive from $40 to
$50 per month. If we assume
they can find rent for $25
(and there is little that cheap
anywhere) the funds remain
ing would hardly cover two
doctor's office calls, one day
In the hospital or a single
laboratory visit ... let alone
such luxuries as food and
clothing. It would hardly ke
a swimming jdooI filter sup
plied with hijh-grade' chlo
rine. . Social Security insurance
represents, in part, savings
from the work of an indivi
dual. The elderly (fialified in
digent without social security
receives about twice the $40-
$50 amount with some medi
cal benefits, yet it is to the
indigent that Dr. Durno would
direct all of his help, and
this, ironically, in the name of
American Enterprise.
Dr. Durno's suggestion that
the Medical association will
solve the problem apiOoaches
high-comedy. He surely knows
they hao: blocked every at
tempt to pass any sort of a
medical subsidy for the aged
for many years. It was be
cause of the vacuum their
good intentions created that
the Forand Bill was written.
Then came the counter-plan
called contributory insur
ance" seconded by Uie admin
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
MAJOR SKIRMISH
Washington - The first
major skirmish in the new
presidential campaign has
been tougnt
in the border
states. A hun
d r e d years
ago they
formed "t h e
dark and
bloody
ground" be
twixt North
and South.
The Demo
through vice
William 8.
White
cratic ticket
presidential candidate Lyndon
Johnson has fired the open
ing salvo there in a contest
of great meaning and great
subtlety.
Senator Johnson's speech
last week end at Nashville
was far fnore significant
nationally than was recogniz
ed. And it involved far great
er daring and risk. His de
cision to stand all the way in
Tennessee for the Democratic
convention platform - includ
ing by implication its ultra
liberal civil rights plank -
may be seen later as one of
the vital turns of the whole
campaign.
For It amounted to a clear
notice to the southern and
border states on the racial, the
religious and the sectional
issues of 1960. It was a chal
lenge flung into the teeth of
regional conservatives and
ultra - conservatives every
where below the Potomac.
AND it was. an invitation to
the Nixon-Lodge ticket to
take its own risks and seek
its own opportunity in the
border states and the south.
It is an invitation that surely
will be accepted.
Johnson's words were these:
"Wherever I may go I will
never speak as a southerner
to southerners or as a Protes
tant to Protestants or as a
white to whites. I will speak
only as an American to
istration and favored in his
letter by Dr. Durno.
In the only detailed account
of contributory insurance I
have seen there is a require
ment, that (a) proof of indi
gence be given ... a pauper's
oath presumably and (b) tne
person pay the first $250 him
self. Since indigents with a
spare $250 are fairly rare this
should bring the number of
recipients to a crashing zero.
Remove the requirements and
adjust the financing? Then
you have a near-duplicate of
the Forand Bill which the
medical association will not
tolerate.
There is a regrettable ten
dency in politics to call any
one who deplores our medical
care of the aged and favors an
effective system of subsidy
"left- wing," "pinko" or "so
cialist." It is regrettable be
cause the exact reverse is true.
So long as we send billions
abroad to support foreign gov
ernments (including the so
cialist and the freeloading dic
tator) and simultaneously de
clare that our economy can't
stand the strain of medical
care for the aged ... we may
not be socialist but we're a
mighty poor advertisement
for democracy.
Jane Gillaspie
636 West Fourth st
Medford, Ore.
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Not the least of Senator
Johnson's purposes in this
quick march into Tennessee
was to assist Estes Kefauver.
Kefauver was being bitterly
pressed for renomination by
an arch-conservative and all
out segregationist, Judge An
drew Taylor.
Judge Taylor attacked Ke
fauver primarily on the
charge that the senator "sold
out the south" by supporting
even moderate civil rights
legislation.
AS THIS is written the out
come of Kefauver's person
al struggle was not known.
But an observer can confi
dently say this:
Kefauver's victory would
greatly assist the Kennedy
Johnson ticket everywhere,
including the south. It would
indicate that a border state
having much of the Old South
in it was willing to tolerate,
however reluctantly, the ac
tion of the national Demo
cratic party on civil rights
because of the appeal other
wise of that party.
And a Kefauver renomi
nated in Tennessee (where
Demo cratic nomination is
equivalent to election, would
be in position to campaign
effectively for the Kennedy
Johnson ticket in those many
northern states where in two
successive presidential tries
of his own Kefauver develop
ed a large personal following.
-
THE Kefauver record In the
Senate has been similar to
that of Johnson. And on the
key thing, civil rights, it has
been practically identical.
Thus a Kefauver rejection in
Tennessee would hit the Dem
ocrats nationally a heavy
blow. It would question
Johnson's ability to "save"
the south and border states
for Kennedy. It would also
suggest that the Johnson-Ke-fauver
type of modified lib
eralism in general had little
future below the Potomac.
Once, during the Civil War,
General Hood of Texas con-
ducted Confederate oper
ations involving Tennessee.
And in the ballad, the Yel
low Hose of Texas, it was put
this way: "The gallant Hood
of Texas sure played hell in
Tennessee."
Now the question is: What
will be the final effect of
another Texan's operations in
Tennessee? Which side -moderate
or arch-conservative
- will now complain that this
other Texan "sure played hell
in Tennessee?"
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Vocosts Highlight
Lions Club Meeting
Vocalists from the Ashland
Shakespearean Festival high
lighted a meeting of the Med
ford Crater Lions club this
week.
About 50 members and
guests attended the luncheon
which also featured District
Governor A. G. (Mike) Mc
Lain, Roseburg. Gene Barlow,
program chairman, presented
the program.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Danenn nuestioned at a news
conference as to what he is
going to do in the political
campaign that is shaping up,
replied:
"I will . campaign for my .
policies as long as I have
breath. I believe solution must
ha Vincpd on sound economic
policies. For too long we have
sought political answers t eco
nomic problems."
THAT takes courage.
Mr. Benson's policies are
not supported actively and ag
gressively by Mr. Nixon be
cause they are unpopular in
an area that has a LOT of
votes. Mr. Nixon NEEDS
votes. His need for them is
GREAT, because it is general
ly conceded by the political
experts that if he wins in No
vember it will be by a narrow
margin.
So
Thus far, at least
He is giving little active
backing to Mr. Benson's ideas
as to the kind of farm pro
gram the country AS A
WHOLE needs.
IN THE face of that situa
tion, it isn't Soine to ba
easy for Mr. Benson to stand
up firmly and flatly lor what
he believes.
But nobody has ever ac
cused him of lack of courage.
MR. BENSON has written
n hnnlf Tt. is nhnnt rpflrlir
. j
for publication.
Advance advertising notices
are telling prospective CON
SUMER readers that the book
will convince them that the
price support system has
RAISED THEIR FOOD
BILLS. .
On the other side of the
picture, Mr. Benson, has often
argued that only 20 per cent
of farm production gets any
government help whatever
and that prices of UNSUP
PORTED commodities are of
ten HIGHER than prices of
supported commodities.
That argument, which is
based on the reasonably well
supported fact that guaran
teed high prices result in vast
surpluses that hang over the
markets like a dark thunder
cloud, has a lot of appeal to .
sound economic thinkers ev
erywhere.
What we are to do with our
immense surpluses of price
supported crops is . a REAL
problem. If .we start giving
them away or throwing them
on the markets of the world
for whatever they will bring,
it will break the market and
prices will plummet down
ward. TUT
" Of course
That isn't likely to happen
before the first Tuesday after?
the first Monday in Novem
ber. Politicians are a practi
cal lot. They are inclined to
reason that after the fourth
day of November, 1960, what
is to be will be - "que serat
serat," as the French say. If
they're IN, they'll be in and
that will be that until the
next election. MEANWHILE,
there's a big chunk of elec,
toral votes in the states whose
agriculture benefits from high
price supports for the so
called basic crops - wheat,
corn, cotton, etc. The politi
cian's job is to GET THE
VOTES.
Politics is a cynical trade.
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