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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1850 (Saturday)
State forest patrol crews
are battling a lightning-caused
brush and forest fire in the
Missouri Flats district of the
lower Applegate valley.
City Water Superintendent
Robert A. Duff said today
that the exchange of land be
tween the city and federal
government has nothing to do
with the building of a pipe
line from Big Butte Springs
to Medford.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1940 (Monday)
Central point Is believed to
have more men in the mili
tary branches of the country
than any other city of com
parable size.
From Arthur Perry'i "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
song of the Woodsaw, a minor
sign of fall, is heard in the
residential areas again. A
number of taxpayers protest
half past four in the morning
Is too early for a woodsaw to
tart singing."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1930 (Tuesday)
Copco has asked for per
mission to build power dams
on the Umpqua river. Fisher
men claim such projects ruin
the fishing,
Canners are offering $30 for
No. 1 Bartletts.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug, 12, 1920 (Thursday)
Medford police are striving
to break up a local epidemic
of petty thievery,
The preliminary census
count gives Jackson county a
population of 20,405.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1910 (Friday)
: The Medford Stung club, a
group of local investors who
have lost money in stock
swindles, lost another $9,000
today when the United Wire
less Telegraph company of
fices around the country were
closed up.
The Interstate Commerce
commission has given the
Southern Pacific railroad 30
days to answer a complaint
by local growers that their
freight rates are too high in
this city.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or tan correct is superior
even or slant Is ascsllanti five ei
Is is good.
1. Mercury is also known
s Q 7
2. Omega is which letter
Of the Greek alphabet?
3. Was Ralph Waldo Emer
son English, American, or
Canadian?
4. In which government de
partment is the Office of In
dian Affairs?
9. "Ah," "oh," and "lo" are
what parts of speech?
8. What does "C.O.D." sig
nify?
7. Name the legal docu
ment, used in land transac
tions, that Is spelled the same
forward and backward.
8. The Roosevelt dime was
released to the publio In 1034
1940. or 1D46?
9. How many days after
Easter is Ascension Day?
10. What relation are the
sons of first cousins to each
other?
' Answers: 1, Quicksilver. 2,
The last one. 3. American
4. Interior. 5. Interjections.
. "Collect on Delivery." 7.
Deed. 8. In 1948. 9. Forty
clays. 10. Second cousins.
r.
NATIONAL
Bi'Partisan vs. Non-Partisan
Elsewhere on this page is a letter signed by
Harper Edwards, chairman of the Democratic
Central Committee of Jackson county, taking the
county court to task for appointing three Repub
licans and only one Democrat to the home rule
study committee.
Edwards thinks the committee should be bi
partisan. We think it should be non-partisan.
And there's a world of difference.
IF THE home rule study committee gets bogged
down in partisan politics, we might just as well
wash our hands of the whole affair.
Party politics has its place. But its place is
NOT in reviewing the structure of county gov
ernment, and seeing if it can be made more el
fective and responsive to today's needs.
What the committee
as we can tell does have) is members who are
interested in the good of the county, not in the
success of a political party.
In this case a partisan label isn't wanted. A
good citizen s label is. KA.
It Sounds Odd
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Alexander Pope.
Ex-Gov. Elmo Smith is the Republican candi
date for the U. S. Senate in the fall election.
One of his stoutest supporters is, of course,
Gov. Mark O. Hatfield. Smith was one of the
leaders in Hatfield's campaign for governor, and
the two have been close politically.
How, then, does one
trom Governor HatrieJd recorded in this and
other Oregon papers by A. Robert Smith, our
Washington correspondent, who interviewed the
Governor last week?
OVERNOR Hatfield, the reporter noted,
"plans to campaign for the Republican sena
torial candidate and thinks Smith can win with
a smartly conducted, hard campaign which in
cludes getting across a new profile or image of
the GOP candidate to the voters."
Further, the governor
of Smith, "He is establishing a political person
ality and protile that perhaps he clidn t have when
he was governor ..."
1 he story indicated Hatfield ' did not contend
that Smith is well-versed
affairs" and then went on
as saying he would campaign for him "with no
reservations and with every bit of enthusiasm that
1 have because I ieel that
He may not be concerned
but I think he would do a
the state of Oregon."
THESE quotations are, of course, taken out of
the context of the whole article, which showed
Hatfield strongly favorable to Smith, while be
lieving he has an up-hill fight against his Dem
ocratic opponent, Mrs. Maurine Neuberger.
liuc if accurate (and
well-earned reputation for accuracy and depend
ability), they are o'ddly revealing of certain "res
ervations" and doubts the Governor may have,
nis disclaimer noiwunscancung.
the obliquely critical
sound strange coming from such a shrewd po-
ltical thinker as Mark O.
vete? Or honest, unthinking frankness? Or was
it something else ! E.A.
Hidden
The freeway creeps
The completed section closest to us is in the
Grants Pass-Sexton Mountain area, but it won't
be many months until we'll be driving over many
more miles or high-standard treeway hereabouts.
And this, according to Charlie Stanton of the
Roseburg News-Review, poses a hazard.
Pointing out that high-standard freeways con
stitute the safest possible driving, Stanton also
believes that the safety and ease and speed pos
sible on them will increase the hazards of driv
ing, on old highways, on county roads, and on
city streets.
PVERY driver knows that his own mental at-
titude, and his high w a y "conditioning,"
makes a great deal of difference in how he drives.
Stanton fears that, after sailing along at 65
or 70 miles per hour on a freeway in perfect safe
ty, drivers will not be able to make an easy and
immediate adjustment to the hazards of lesser
roads. i.
He sees the results already in other sections
of the freeway completed. Coming south from
Portland, drivers breeze along in fourlane com
fort past Albany. Then they hit two-lane road.
Accidents on the freeway are rare; accidents
on narrow, two-way stretches of 99 are frequent.
Stanton believes the fact that drivers do not
make the proper switch in attitude is at least in
part responsible.
yHE same is true, of course, when one leaves
a freeway for a county road, which may ap
pear deceptively straight, wide and well-paved,
put which has sharper turns, less accurate bank
ing, and is not designed for freeway speeds.
This is something to keep in mind as the free
way grows in southern Oregon.
. It will provide easy, fast, and safe driving. But
it will bring with it the hidden hazard of be
coming accustomed to ease and safety which
vanish as soon as one leaves it. E.A.
should have (and so far
explain the quotations
was quoted as saying
in national or foreign
to quote the Governor
Smith is quahhed
with national policies,
good job of working for
Reporter Smith has a
assessments of Smith
Hatfield. Was it nai
Hazard
nearer and nearer.
Dennis the
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Communications
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name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to
clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in
this column do not necossarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the eau.
Democrats Dissatisfied
To the Editor: Please find
attached a copy . of a letter
which has been sent to the
county court. Your printing
it in the Communications col
umn of the Mail Tribune
would be appreciated.
Harper Edwards.
The Hon. Earl M. Miller,
County Judge, Jackson
County,
Courthouse,
Medford, Ore.
Dear Sir:
Of the four members re
cently appointed to the home
rule committee by the county
court, three are Republicans
and one a Democrat. With
the county as equally divided
in party registration as it is,
and the committee being of
such general public interest
and concern, the Republican
members of the county court
should have laid aside their
partisan party preferences
long enough to name a bi
partisan home rule commit
tee that would be truly rep
resentative of party strength
in the county.
With Democratic registra
tion ahead in the county, on
what grounds do these over
done Republican commission
ers weigh their appointments
three to one in favor of Re
publicans? These commission
ers were warned recently in
a letter from me that Demo
crats expected and demanded
equal representation on that
committee. What has happen
ed is a good example of the
pol-tical misuse of their ap
pointive powers. They have
laid themselves open to cen
sure. It gives our county Dem
ocrats good reason for dissat
isfaction.
Harper Edwards,
Chairman,
Jackson County Demo
cratic Central Commit
tee. Editor's Note: See comment
In editorial column.
Seeds, Weeds; No Grass, Alas
To the Editor: I wonder if
this has happened to any of
your subscribers?
I've been trying to grow
grass in my front yard. I've
tried for months and I've
worked hard. I've purchased
the best fertilizer and certi
fied seeds, but all that came
up was uncertified weeds.
I don t know if the weeds
were certified or not. But
Ihey would grow, certified
or what. They came up and
grew Into a solid mass, where
I expected, of course, my cer
tified grass.
But with my neighbor, I
have a different story to tell.
He just filled up some holes,
but he raked It well. He paid
no attention to the kind of
seeds, expecting, I suppose,
just a mass of weeds.
Hover, lie must have used
a different technique. So
help-me-Hanna, in about a
week, even his backyard is as
fine as I have ever seen,
while I can't even keep the
weeds in my front yard green.
Malcmute Slim.
Section 5.
White City, Ore,
U.M.C. Audit
To the Editor: In your
Aug. 10 edition, there appear
ed a picture of Fred H.
Holmes with the announce
ment that he had been ap
pointed chairman of the au
diting committee for the
United Medford Crusade. This
Is perfectly correct.
However, some queries
have reached the U.M.C. of
fice as to whether this com
mittee was assigned the an-
Menace
nual audit of U.M.C. books.
The answer is "no." Haskins
& Sells, Certified Public Ac
countants, have made an ex
haustive yearly audit of the
UMC books for the past seven
years. Mr. William Cobb, the
new manager of the local Has
kins & Sells office, has kind
ly consented to carry on this
tradition of public service,
which is rendered on a gratis
basis.
The auditing committee.
headed by Fred H. Holmes of
Rodolph, Zamsky & company,
Certified Public Accountants,
will undertake the work of
counting the money received
at the campaign report meet
ings. Each year a similar com
mittee has been of great as
sistance in making a count of
tne contributions turned in
at each report meeting by sec
tion and division. The count
is maae quicKly so that a re
port can be made to the cam
paigners before the hour-long
meeting is over.
For the information of those
whose interest may be arous
ed by the annual audit, it
should be said that these audit
reports may be inspected ei
ther at the UMC office or at
the county clerk's office,
where additional copies are
on file.
Harold B. Cook
Executive Secretary
United Medford
Crusade
P. O. Box 5000
Medford
Bouquet
To the Editor: Recently on
a vacation trip from Califor
nia to Medford we stopped at
Shasta Dam. Arriving in Med
ford we found that my hus
band's billfold had dropped
out of tne car at the dam.
He called the Oregon state
police to see if anything could
be done about recovering it.
They immediately radioed the
California police and a patrol
car from Redding went to the
dam to see If the billfold had
been found. In an hour we re
ceived a call telling us that
the billfold had been found
and it was sent to our address
in Portland by registered
mail.
The billfold was recovered
six hours after it had been
lost. It is our opinion that
without this prompt action by
the officers it might not have
been found. Needless to say,
we are very grateful for their
help. How little the services
of the police departments are
appreciated until an incident
such ns this occurs. This is our
verbal bouquet to them.
Mrs, Donald J. Millage
3504 S.E. Harrison St.,
Portland 14, Ore.
Vote Getters
To the Editor: In re re
marks (well timed) on the mis
erable mosquito question by
Potpourri, we, the valley res
idents, join her in a very loud
"me too!!"
In my visits and talks with
the tourists who so admire
our valley and are constant
ly enticed to come here, I no
tice such remarks as "We
don't mind giving our money,
but we d-m sure resent giv
ing our blood via the 'mos
quito bank'."
With that parting shot they
make a hasty exit from the
general area.
It seems to mc, since the
politicians are literally
scratching the bottom of the
barrel for campaign issues
and vote getters, they might
give some thought to the
above mentioned menace.
With our 100 per cent mos
quito bitten population, he
(or she) would be sure of
THAT many votes.
But It should be done now,
Hamamrskjold Speaks Out, Wins Security
Vote on Congo; His
By WILLIAM J. FOX
The man of the Weeki
United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammer
skjold. The Place: United Na
tions' headquarters. New
York.
The Quote; "The immedi
ate solution of the Con.
golese problem Is a ques
tion of peace or war."
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl
Hammarskjold, second secretary-general
of the United
Nations, has been- called a
"global fireman" because of
his efforts to preserve peace
in a pugnacious world.
His way is the path of
"quiet diplomacy," the pri
vate conference, the compro
mise worked out without the
glare of publicity.
But this week ne teit im
pelled to speak out in blunt
words that warned the world
it faced a possible Armaged
don in Africa, where the
breakaway province of Katan
ga had threatened to fight the
entry of U.N. forces from oth
er parts of the Congo.
Had Effect
His public declaration had
the desired effect. The U.N.
Security council wound up a
marathon session by voting to
send a U.N. military force into
Katanga and calling upon
Belgium to withdraw its
troops "immediately."
Tension immediately eased,
and another possible flash
point for the start of World
War III was damped down.
The task of implementing
the Security council decision
was thrown back into riam-
marskjold's lap. It's a task
he'll complete, for he has a
not "in the future" promises.
We just aren't that gullible
any more.
"Another disgusted
chemical user."
Mary Williams
357 Orr dr.
Central Point, Ore.
No Hoot
To the Editor: The follow
ing are my sentiments after
driving past one of our local
pear orchards with the car
windows rolled down, while
the spray rigs were putting
out their pojson (the planes
are even worse!):
Malathion-parathion
It's the bunk and I'm not
lyin'
Spraying poison in the air
That falls to earth they
know not where.
Burning noses, running
eyes
May be some fool's PEAR
adise Good cultivation and irri
gation Produced fruit minus aggra
vation. Spray poisoning is mighty
bad
Once in your blood stream,
no cure is had.
If one must poison to get
iruit
For orchards I don't give
a hoot!
Mrs. Tom Robnett
350 Meadows Lane
Medford.
Fisherman's Dream
To the Editor:
Malemute Slim from White
City,
Your letter was clever and
witty.
You said you went fishing
with home-made flies,
And were trying to think up
some whopping big lies
To tell the fellows at the
home.
You decided this would be
uncouth,
So you made up your mind
to tell the truth.
Then all at once there were
fish everywhere,
In water, on bank, and in
the air.
Out of this spraying of
water and foam
You chose of the best to
take them home,
Now you have but one little
care,
Where and how to get back
there.
That place is on a well-
known stream;
A beautiful place called
Fisherman's Dream.
The way to get there is set
your mind free
From the cares of the
world, lie down, you see
Full length, at ease, in the '
shade of a tree.
Gaze lazily upward toward
the sky.
Let the cares of the world
all pass you by;
Don't think of this world's
greed and strife,
Just close your mind to Uie
woes of life.
These things are only a
heavy load
And will get you lost on
a dead-end road.
For Sham and Pomp are
only a show,
They make life seem sordid
and base,
They are not found at
Fisherman's Dream,
Where fish are all over'the
place.
Mrs. Paul Struck,
Prospect, Ore.
doggedness of character that
belies his quiet self-effacing
exterior. '
A mountain-climbing devo
tee in his spare time, he bor
rowed terms from his hobby
to paint a word picture of his
philosophy of statesmanship
when he took over as U.N.
chief In 1953:
"We need perseverance, pa
tience ... a clear awareness
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The Soviet news agency
Tass (the Soviet version of
our AP an dUPI) reports from
Moscow that Pilot Francis
Gary Powers has pleaded
guilty to the substance of the
charge that he spied on So
viet Union in his U2 plane.
The Tass report adds that
"the guilt of the American
flier, who is due to go on
trial in Moscow, is confirmed
by material and written evi
dence, the findings of experts
and the testimony of wit
nesses." HERE'S the
the storv:
other side of
Reports from Washington
based, of course, on diplo
matic reports from our state
department people in Moscow
and elsewhere) indicate that
Powers has been BRAIN
WASHED into confessing spy
ing activities.
The state department un
derscores the fact that Powers
has been under the exclusive
control of Soviet authorities
for more than 100 days."
WE KNOW quite a lot about
this brain washing busi
from the experiences of our
men who became prisoners of
war in Korea and were
"brain-washed" by the Red
Chinese. From these experi
ences we know that commu
nist brain washing is a ter
rible ordeal. TORTURE is
the real name for it. The fact
that it is mental torture
doesn't make it any the less
horrifying.
The victims of this savage
torture are kept half starved.
Thus their powers of resis
tance are weakened. They are
kept awake for long periods
-three,four, even five days or
more. In the intervals, when
they are briefly permitted to
try to sleep, they are forced
to lie facing strong lights,
which are thrown into their
eyes.
THEY ARE questioned con
stantly, day and night. The
same questions, over and
over. The questions all have
the same grim tenor. They
bear constantly on the things
the victims are accused of
having done. Over and over,
they are asked: "Now you
DID do this, didn't you?"
As, in their semi-delirium,
the victims give answers that
appear to concede that per
haps they did do the things
they are accused of, the pres
sure on them is temporarily
"The Truth About Air Safety
Despite hysteria and hokum, commercial
aviation is building an impressive reoord of
accident-free passenger miles with even
greater advances expected in the future. This
vitally interesting article will be found
next weekend in Family Weekly
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jadJ,JMi Also In the August 14th issue:
Next Weekend and every weekend, Don't
Medford Mail Tribune
Methods Described
of the dangers, and of the fact
that . . . the safest climber
. . . never questions his ability
to overcome all difficulties."
A native of Jonkoping, Swe
den, the ' 55-year-old Ham
marskjold comes from a fam
ily of the old Swedish aris
tocracy which for hundreds of
years has contributed to his
country's public life civil serv
ants, lawyers, soldiers and
relaxed. Thus the half-con
scious sufferers are led craft
ily toward what appear to be
confessions.
YOU WILL perhaps remem
her that at. first we were
half-inclined to condemn our
men in Korea who broke
down under this inhuman
treatment. But . . . gradually
. . . as we began to get the
real facts ... we became more
tolerant. More understanding.
Competent psychiatr 1 s t s
eventually came to the con
clusion that no living man
could be expected to be cap
able of resisting indefinitely
these brain-w ashing tech
niques.
sc
faaybe Powers DID confess.
Maybe in the agony of this
inhuman brain-washing he
did admit that he was guilty
of everything his tormentors
were accusing him of.
If so, who are we to con
demn him?
WHAT the Russian commu
nists are aiming at, of
course, is to trumpet over the
world the allegation that this
wicked American spied on
Russia in the hope of gaining
information that would en
able the U. S. A. to DESTROY
the U.S.S.R.-and finally CON
FESSED the truth.
The traditional punishment
of the spy is DEATH.
WILL THE Russian rulers
shoot Powers against a
wall?
It seems improbable.
More likely, they will com
mute his punishment to life
imprisonment, thus seeking
to gain credit for mercy in
the eyes of thoughtless people
over the world. . : .
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AND WATCH FOR
OHOTS
by Robert J. Serling
iiialTti'tifflfriilTs'i'!
"American Husbands
by Dr. Margaret Mead
"I Was Just Thinking . . ." by Patty Johnson
"My Favorite Golf Jokes" by Bob Hope
"Princess Anne Grows Up" by John Hochman:
"Take A Salad . . ." Cookbook Section
Junior Treasure Chest
Quips and Quotes
"My Life With Caryl Chessman"
by Cameron Shipp
statesmen. His father was
prime minster of Sweden dur
ing World War I, and he him
self was undersecretary of fi
nance and chairman of the
Bank of Sweden while still in
his 30s.
Hard Worker
. A bachelor, he has an apart
ment in New York and a
home in the suburbs, but is)
such an indefatigable worker
that he sometimes seems to
have little time for either.
In 1955, he made a "mission
to Peiping" and talked the
Communist Chinese regime
into freeing 15 American
fliers held in Red prisons.
A year later, he managed to
bring into being the long-discussed
but never-realized U.N.
police force that was placed in
the Middle East to preserve
peace in the wake of the Brit-ish-French-Israeli
invasion of
Egypt.
That same year he was less
successful in making an im
pact in the wake of the Hun
garian revolution, mainly be
cause the Soviet Union and its)
Hungarian puppets refused to
honor General Assembly reso
lutions.
Heavy Movement of
Grain Predicted
Salem - (UPD - An unusually
heavy movement of grain into
Portland elevators when the
new crop is harvested hai
been predicted by T. R. Har
ry, grain division head of the
Stale Department of Agricul
ture. He based his prediction or
the fact that supplies of grain
in the PorUand terminal ele.
vators have been reduced
sharply.
July grain, receipts in Port
land continued the decline
which started in May. In July
14 full shiploads of grain
moved to foreign countries.
This compared with 12 car
goes. in June and 25 in May.
DISSOLVE CONGRESS '
Chicago (UPD William L
Smith, the beatnik presiden
tial candidate, said Thursday
if elected the first thing he)
would do "would be to dis
solve Congress." Smith, who
won the nomination in a New
York Greenwich village saloon,-
admitted bravely, "Wa
don't have a chance of win
ning, but we'll present the is
sues." Today"
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Are Too Domestic"
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