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History fro.n the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1950 (Wednesday)
More than 750 persons, an
all-lime sell-out crowd, watch
ed last night's Oregon Shake
spearean festival performance
of "As You Like It."
Benson and Winston Foley,
brothers from the Howard
community, walked off with
most of the top honors at the
4-H fair.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1940 (Friday)
Postal employees of south
ern Oregon will hold their an
nual picnic at Union Creek
Sunday. -
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
nights of late have been cool
.nnnsh In use the blankets
'purchased at the August
blanket sales."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1930 (Salurday)
Governor Norblad plans to
delay the opening of deer sea
son for a month, unless it
rains; hunters protest.
Some 128,888 persons have
visited Crater Lake so far this
season.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1920 (Monday)
Pacific and Eastern rail
road, Medford, was sold to the
highest bidder for $190,000 at
an auction yesterday.
Aubrey G. Smith arrives in
Medford to assume his job as
the new superintendent of
schools.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1910 (Tuesday)
Refugees from surrounding
forest fires are pouring into
Butte Falls with only their
clothes on their bucks; the fire
situation is much improved,
but several fires in the area
are still out of control.
Another fire has been burn
ing out of control for the past
two days across the river from
Grants Pass.
What's Your I.Q.7
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loven or eight il excellent! five el
lix is good.
1. Which state of the US .
Js known as the "Blue Grass
Stite"?
2. In the Bible, what was
Paul's trade?
3. Is Iran in the Near East
or the Far East'.'
4. Which breed of cat is
famous for being tailless?
5. What is the normal tem
perature of the human body?
6. How old would an octo
genarian be?
7. Which of these animals
are mnmmals-bals, fish, bees,
whales, pigeons, horses,
bears? '
8. "Leatherneck" is the nick
name sometimes applied to
personnel of which component
of the U. S. Armed Forces?
!). Name the 5th book of
the New Testament.
10. The human body has
how many pairs of ribs?
Answers - 1, Kentucky. 2.
Tentmaker. 3. Near East. 4.
Manx. 5. 98.6 degrees. 8.
Eighty or more yean old, but
loss than ninety. 7. Bats,
whales, horses, bears. 8. Ma
rine Corps. 9, Acts of the
Apostles. 10. Twelve pairs.
Salem - HOT - All persons
. convicted of felonies would be
sentenced to jail terms of at
lease five years if the legis
lature carries out the recom
mendations of its interim com
mittee on criminal law revision.
Agonized Alcoholics
The "common drunk" has long been an object
of amused scorn.
But in recent years, scientific investigation
has shown, beyond any question, that alcoholism
is a disease a real illness, which most victims
cannot conquer, alone and unaided.
The affliction of alcoholism (which is, in
effect, one symptom of deep, underlying mental
or physical stresses) is both widespread and cost
ly, to individuals, to families, to society.
"THE statistics are frightening.
George Dimas, director of the Oregon Alcohol
Education Committee, speaking here last week,
recounted some of them.
Of the United States' total population of near
ly 180 million, about 70 million (better than a
third) use alcohol. Of these, 1 out of each 14,
on the average, is or will become a problem
drinker" one who has lost all or part of his
control over his consumption of alcohol.
This means some 5 million people for whom
alcohol constitutes a serious problem. (The num
ber in the state ot Uregon is variously estimated
at 26,000 to 31,000. If the percentages hold good,
more than 600 Medford people have a "drinking
problem.")
TKESE people cannot do their jobs as well as
they should. Some cannot work regularly at all.
They provide a higher-than-normal incidence
of unhappy homes, separations and divorces.
They are a hazard on roads and highways.
They provide a serious problem to law en
forcement officers and agencies, and to the courts
of law, and to welfare organizations.
They can bring embarrassment to themselves,
their tamilies, their friends, their organizations.
'HpO the conscientious man or woman who is
fighting a tendency toward alcoholism, and
who finally acknowledges it, this isn't funny.
He is agonized. He is scared. He writhes with
self-disgust when his compulsion overwhelms
him. On hung-over mornings he can barely live
with himself.
He needs help and he knows it, but he hesi
tates because seeking help is an admission of
weakness; because he fears the amused scorn of
others, because he doesn't REALLY want to
put behind him the blurry comfort, the temporary,
artificial peacefulness of a few drinks.'
So, in his agony of self-contempt and humili
ation, he seeks that false and short-lived solace.
DROBABLY only an alcoholic or one who has
been through this and has painfully dried
himself out can fully understand this.
Certainly the "prohis," the holier-than-thou
scorners, the tea-sipping "temperance" workers,
have little conception of
to the straggler.
They see the results, in human degredation
and misery, and call down curses on the liquor
industry; call for a return to prohibition, or for
limitation of liquor advertising, and so on.
' They are honest and sincere, according to
their own lights. But the answer can hardly be
found in legislation, or a return to the "noble ex
periment" which made law-breakers of half the
nation and introduced women to the under-the-counter
drink or home-mixed "cocktail."
"THERE is little hope for the man or woman
who is a confirmed alcoholic, and who lacks
the insight or the desire to pull out of it. One
can pity them, but, until they really want to stop
drinking, little can be done to help.
It is the individual who has the disease, who
knows it, and who desperately wants help, yet
shies away from it, who merits our real concern.
Alcoholics Anonymous has helped to salvage
many useful citizens, and continues with its good
work. So has Al Anon, the "auxiliary" to AA.
Physicians, ministers, and welfare and social
agencies also have, in some measure, assisted.
OUT until society as a whole recognizes alco
holism as a disease, susceptible to treatment,
the role of the alcoholic who wants to stop drink
ing will be a doubly difficult one.
' The Alcohol Education Committee, an official
state agency, is working to make that day come
sooner, and is organized to assist various locali
ties in the state set up groups which will be able
to bring the needed help.
Such organizations, to be successful, need the
combined efforts of many agencies, and the vol
untary assistance of those who understand, and
are willing to offer a helping hand. E. A.
Temperance Plea
. . . This is no plea for a return to prohibition.
That would produce even greater chaos than be
fore, because it does not have the support of the
former climate of opinion against liquor.
It is a plea lor temperance, for full seu-con-trol,
for developing the moral strength to limit
one's drinking or to abstain entirely if one lacks
self-control. It is a plea also to keep liquor from
young people, and discounts the idea that serv
ing cocktails is a social obligation.
While this is no plea for prohibition, it is a
warning that if conditions continue to deterior
ate, a revulsion of attitude will occur which will
point to greater restrictions on the vending of
alcoholic beverages.
Meanwhile, individuals must develop self
control, either by drinking in moderation or by
abstaining from drinking,
or naou nrag tnem aown.
This is my "temperance sermon." Charles
A. Sprague, in the Oregon Statesman, Salem.
what this struggle means
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Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Grangers
To the Editor; "This is the
forest primeval, the whisper
ing pine and hemlock, clad
in garments green, indistinct
in the twilight, stand like
Druids of Eld with beards
that rest on their bosoms."
The beautiful phrasing of
the prelude of Longfellow's
Evangline came to mind as
we wound down and around
to the Elk's hide-away be
side the swift flowing Rogue
north of Medford a couple
weeks ago. The sound of
voices in song lent an air of
elfin erie quality till we
came into view of some 300
Oregon Grangers gathered
for their summer reunion pic
nic. They wore renewing mem
ories of old-time folk-songs,
amplified with a most mod
ern PA system there for the
occasion. A most pleasing and
hunger kindling obligato was
the smell of roast-beef quar
ters on the barbecue plates.
Rancli sizes of this with other
eatables was cafcteriaed to
long white-papered tables set
in the welcome shade of an
cient pine, fir and oak trees
with an occasional cedar lend
ing its incense to the happy
gathering of the soil-tilling
and stock-herding clan. There
seemed to be little of lengthy
orations, political or other
wise, mostly light entertain
ment with introduction and
cryptic remarks by the vari
ous Grange Masters.
Late afternoon found them
hurrying away to chores that
will not wail, for Sundays
are far from days of rest on
the farm that demands a sev
en day work schedule of ten
to sixteen hours of toil each
day. This seems to be neces
sary in our national economy,
that other groups, closely or
ganized, can have their eight
hours or less work-day, with
paid vacations and various
fringe benefits.
By and large, tillers of the
soil do not mind the long
work hours, if by that they
can maintain tneir indepen
dent way of life. This, to my
way of thinking is why they
secretly despise the farm sub
sidy payments. But with the
steady lessening take of their
share of the consumer dollar,
relief must be had s o m e
where, if the farmer and
stockman is to remain sol
vent, for somehow, someway
taxes and insurance must be
paid. So when they can spare
time to gather with others
and forget farm worries a
little while, farm and ranch
homes will be welcome re
treats. F. J. Clifford
Route 2, box 200F
Central Point.
Leave the Crappiesl
To the Editor: I have been
reading the communications
and have been very much in
terested in your editorial con
cerning Hyatt lake.
We understand from the
people at Hyatt that it was
being drained to repair the
dam. Your editorial suggests,
however, that the main pur-
pose of the drainage was be-,
cause of snags and the sec-
ondary purpose was to poison
and eliminate all unwanted
fish (crappie) and restock It
with bass and bluegill. No
mention of any dam.
We have been fishing at
Hyatt for a number of years
and particularly enjoy the
crappie. They are great fun
to catch, especially for the
youngsters, and the large ones
put up a great fight for young
and old alike. The small ones
make a tasty dish and the
large ones are delicious fillet
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORB.
Menace
Besides the fishermen don't
have to quit after part of a
day because they have their
limit.
The small crappies give the
children the thrill of fishing
without great skill or tiresome
waiting, while the large ones
are as crafty as any bass.
I say, fine, to anyone who
wishes to fish for bass or blue
gill, but why not leave the
crappie so the fishing can
truly be a family affair for
"little people" as well as old
timers.
Perhaps I am alone in my
opinion, but I hardly think so,
judging from the families
we've seen on the lake, the
people we've talked to, the
youngsters who have enjoyed
themselves so tremendously,
and the good times our entire
family have had due mainly
to the crappies.
I say leave the snags in
Hyatt alone, too. The best fish
ing spots are right around the
logs-and also with them gone
-as in every other lake around
here, it will be declared open
to water skiing.
Let's have one spot for fish
ing boats and fishing only,
let's not be so tourist minded
with our money-and let's
worry about the local people
and their enjoyment and
PLEASE leave the crappies
alone.
Mrs. Joe Nelson,
1334 Spring St.,
Medford.
Likes Summer Program
To the Editor: I would like
to take this means to say
'Thank You' and to express
my appreciation of the city
recreation program, the di
rectors, and especially the
girls who so faithfully
planned, directed and played
with the youngsters at the
various schools.
I had the opportunity to ob
serve the girls al work at
three of the schools and felt
that they were doing a fine
job in helping .active minds
channel their activity along
the lines of supervised games,
quiet story hours, and crea
tive handicraft.
Ti t baseball program was
received with enthusiasm by
the boys and even proved ex
citing to my 7-year-old, who,
although too young to play,
entered into the feeling of
competition and cheered or
groaned as 'his' team won or
lost.
I would like to say a special
thanks to Mieke Noble, who
endeared herself to my son as
well as my 5-year-old daugh
ter, during the summer pro
gram at Hoover school. They
gained much, we k n o w,
through this supervised activ
ity that solved summer bore
dom. We hope the program can
be continued in the future
years.
Clifford W. Hutchins,
2424 Barnett rd.,
Medford.
Car Herders
To the Editor: To me, the
highway and street markings
within the city limits are ex
ceedingly plainly marked and
very adequate insofar as corn-
mon driving is concerned.
Yet it is a rare occasion
that I do not see at least one
car going against traffic on a
one-way street, and too often
it then makes another wrong
way trip up another street to
clear the error.
It's bad enough to be on the
same road with ever so many
"car-herders," let alone meet
them under such circum
stances. Rev. A. Gitman,
322 South Riverside ave.,
Medford.
Russia, China Each Seeking Leadership
Of Red Camp; Open Break Not Foreseen
By K. C. THALER
London - (UPD - Red China
appears to be out to assume
leadership of the Communist
I world camp.
The challenge to Russia's
hitherto uncontested leader
ship in international Commu
nism is the real issue behind
the ideological double talk
that has filled the pages of
Moscow and Peiping party or
gans. Ostensibly the Peiping re
gime still pays occasional lip
service to the Soviet leader
ship of the socalled socialist
camp.
Questions Housing Proposal
To the Editor: This is to
Judge Miller and the County
Court: The news in the Trib
une that it is proposed to re
quest money to build $12,000
units as housing for older peo
ple caused me, a taxpayer and
senior citizen, great concern
for several reasons.
1. Projects such as these al
ways cost more than esti
mated. We were told the
Juvenile Detention Home
would cost $65,000 to con
struct; completed it cost $110,
000. We were told it would
cost $10,000 a year to operate.
This year the request is for
$64,000. Also when a project
is completed the public fre
quently learns too late that it
has been short changed.
2. How many of the older
people who would occupy
these units have been living
in $12,000 homes? Have not
those who have so lived been
able to manage their affairs
so that they can continue to
live in the homes to which
they have become accustom
ed? 3. Taxes in this valley are
almost confiscatory. Many
people, not only in the older
age group, but also among
the young people who are
just beginning to own homes
and found families, are find
ing it difficult to carry on
and also meet the ever-increasing
tax burden. Would it not
be the part of wisdom to ap
ply our money from timber
sales this year to school costs
in order to reduce the tax
load? The cost of our schools
account for about 70 per cent
of our tax load. Such housing
cost would have to be paid by
our children.
4. It is a law of economics
that expenditures increase as
fast, or faster than, income.
The unusual family saves in
creases in income, at least in
part. Usually the family looks
for other reasons for spend
ing the income. A community
is only a collection of fami
lies. Is it not time our com
munity should set an example
of foresight and thrift and not
look for new reasons for
spending?
5. The fifth law of the Deca
logue reads: "Honor thy fa
ther and thy mother." To God
this law is so important that
He added: "that thy days may
be long upon the land which
the Lord thy God giveth
thee." This is the only Com
mandment which contains a
promise. We do not honor
our parents when they are
forced to accept the humili
ation of requesting public
support. Should it not be a
matter of pride on the part of
children to provide for aged
parents?
6. The organization of the
50-Plus club was very much
needed because of its social
advantages for our senior
citizens. But if this group is
to be so manipulated by others
for their advantage that it be
comes another pressure group,
its value to the community
becomes questionable.
Anna M. Streed
North Peach st.
Medford.
Against Annexation
To the Editor: I see by the
Sunday Tribune the opinion
poll on the annexation of the
South and West of Medford
is going to be presented to
the city of Medford.
Nowdays, the little people
arc forced to take a back scat
and the Big People are taking
over to do things as they
want them. We had two open
meetings for the Public. Then
the rest of the meetings were
closed.
Why? Because in the open
meetings the Little People
had a voice and the Big Peo
ple didn't like that. They
wanted no one to know what
was going on. The chairman
of the committee for annexa
tion promised my husband he
could attend these closed
meetings and would call him
and let him know when they
were to be held. Shucks! He
never called.
I hope the people will band
together and demand the right
to vote.
We are a district. We are
entitled to vote, no matter
how anxious the city of Med
ford is, trying their level best
to annex us.
If the opinion poll showed
about 450 for and 10 against
that showed the people who
took the opinion poll around
didn't want the "No's."
I took one around for Sun
set Court and only had one
But the signs have increased
lately that Red China is out
to establish herself as the true
' defender
of pure Leninism
and, behind this cloak, as
leader of the Red bloc.
The Kremlin, apparently
fully aware of this threat to
its authority and seniority, has
begun to react with marked
sharpness.
Broadcast Terse Statement
For Russia a great deal is
at stake in this controversy.
The Kremlin appears to be
looking ahead to the time
when Red China's strength
will be greater, especially
for it. The owner lives in Cali
fornia and the renter had to
do what the owner wanted
her to do.
We live 300 feet off Sunset
Court but get our mail and
paper there. We are farm land,
having 10 acres. Farm land
has no business in the city. So
we are against the annexation.
South of us is a big pear or
chard. West of us is a big
dairy and also another large
farm. In this area, there is
about 89 acres of farm land
where I live between Sunset
Court, Oak Grove rd., and
Stewart ave.
We are just Little People
in this area. The Big People
are trying to take the land
away from us by pushing us
in the city of Medford.
It isn't fair. This is America.
We are supposed to be free.
Let us have the right to vote
for or against it.
The chairman for the annex
ation said "We do not want
farm land." But the city engi
neer made up the map exact
ly like he was told to do. So
far, the map has not been
changed.
Get busy, folks. Times a'
wasting.
Lillian Green
2411 Sunset Court
Medford.
Slams & Music
To the Editor: Americans
are the most neurotic people
on earth. Why? Because for
one thing 100,000,000 doors
are being slammed every day.
Talk about American ingenu
ity and inventiveness! Why
does not someone come up
with a simple gadget that
could absorb the shock of a
banged door?
And then, why must we
have music wherever we go?
A friend writes that she dare
not sit in the lobby of her
hotel because music is being
continuously piped in. At
Memorial stadium here, the
hapless spectator is compell
ed to listen to a lot of lousy
records being played.
There is a distinct division
of the populace in this coun
try, with noise and wild ac
tivity on one side, and quiet
ness and relaxation on the
other. Which side is the more
numerous?
Quit your kidding.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Barefaced Boy
To the Editor: With apol
ogies to John Greenleaf
Whittier:
Blessings on thee, little
heir,
Barefaced boy, with cheek
to spare;
With thy tailored, costly
coat
(Did it indeed come here
by boat?)
And altered hairdo; Oh,
are you sure
It makes you look much
more mature?
From my heart I wish
you joy,
For I was once a barefaced
boy.
Prince thou art -
grown-up man
Only is Republican.
the
Let the millton-dollared
ride
Barefaced, with Lyndon
at his side,
For I have more than
than you can buy
In reach of voters'
ear and eye.
My voting record brings
me joy.
Blessings on thee,
barefaced boy.
Run forth with brothers
Bob and Ted,
For too soon summer's
days have fled.
And when" the leaves turn
brown and sere.
You'll wake to find the
fall is near.
If from your lofty perch
you've slipped
Your wings, like falcon's
have been clipped,
You still have daddy,
and, oh joy!
You will still be a
barefaced boy.
Mrs. Mary Ragland
3182 South
Pacific Highway,
Medford.
once she has the nuclear
bomb.
Last week Moscow radio,
for no obvious reason, broad
cast the terse statement that
"The Soviet Union is the lead
ing power in the socialist
camp."
This loaded reminder was
accompanied by the implicit
warning to China to keep in
step with Russia's form of
Communism and to abandon
her attempts to reach the Com
munist Utopia through her
communes ahead of the So
viet. Moscow added that all
socialist countries will make
the transition to Communism
"simultaneously."
Another warning against
Red China's aspiration to
leadership of the Communist
camp has come from Yugo
slavia's Vice President, Ed
vard Kardelj, one of the lead
ers of international Commu
nism. Makes Accusations
In a new book he accuses
the Peiping regime of aiming
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
LITTLE PEARL HARBOR
Washington - Is it a "mis
sile lag" or a "space lag" that
shnnld most frnuhle us as we
C-V- -aHfel confront the'tral Intelligence Agency.
massive and
brooding hos
tility of the
Soviet Union
across the
world?
Or is it, in
stead, really a
lag in our na-
white ter, a decline
in our standards of personal
guts and personal responsibil
ity? What value all our prog
ress in the weapons we pro
duce if we are to produce
fewer and fewer strong,
grown-up men? What price
the old words like "duty" and
"honor"? Has a sophomoric
pseudo-sophistication snicker
ed these words out of our na
tional language?
These melancholy questions
arise in this correspondent's
mind in the afterlight of the
Moscow trial of Francis Pow
ers, the pilot of the American
"spy plane." It is not a com
fortable thing for a man who
works in safety to pass judg
ment on another man caught
up far from home in an alien,
so-called "court" for a "crim
inal mission" on which his
superiors had sent him.
HPHE easy, the sentimental
A way would be to sympa
thize with Powers - to say
that, after all, he had his life
to save and so why should
he not have cooperated with
his Russian accusers?
But this would be a view
as stickily dishonest as it
would be superficially com
passionate. For Powers was cooperating
not so much with his own
accusers as with the accusers
of his government and his
country. He was not, in the
language of the American
criminal courts, simply "cop
ping a plea" for himself. He
was copping a plea for the
United States of America.
First, he had saved his own
life by permitting his aircraft
and its secrets to fall into en
emy hands, at the expense of
his own country's vital inter
ests and in violation of his
duty.
Next, in the trial itself, he
again saved his life by join
ing his country's assailants in
slandering that country, in
violation of his responsibili
ty as an American citizen.
T)UT he was more than a
"private citizen who had
got into difficulty abroad. He
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A.
PHONE SP 3-7343
MEDFORD INSURANCE
Agency
27 North Holly Street
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1960
at "hegemony" over other
members of the Communist
camp and of trying "to impose
its own political monopoly."
The Sino-Russian relation
ship is still shrouded in mys
tery. Much that is happening
has left little doubt, however,
that the Moscow-Peiping axis
is under a strain.
Nevertheless, Western ex
perts firmly hold that there
is no question of an outright
break between the two Com
munist giants, because neither
can afford it for some time to
come.
The Soviets cannot tolerate
a break-up of the Red camp
which would weaken Mos
cow's political influence tremendously-far
more than the
break with Titoite Yugoslavia
did in 1948.
Red China may be less wor
ried about an ideological
break. But for some time to
come-maybe years-she needs
Soviet material and political
backing, unless her leaders
rashly overestimate her pres
ent strength.
S. WHITE
was a soldier, if not in uni
form, of the United States -specifically
of its most urgent
I ami 111 Hie C
arm in the cold war, the Cen-
When he accepted his job
-and at $30,000 a year it was
an infinitely better job than
his background could ever
otherwise have found for him
-he took his chances. Here
was no little boy who had
lost his way in the Soviet lab
yrinths. Here was a man on
a high mission who knew in
advance of its risks-and of its
privileges.
Was he entitled then, upon
capture-a capture which it
was bluntly his duty to avoid
at every cost, including the
final cost of death itself - to
save himself in the way he
did? Is a ship's officer on a
raft flung from a sinking liner
entitled to kick off the pas-
sengers if the raft, loo, begins
io sinK.' iiis duly is tar more
than theirs; for he is a part
of the ship's responsible com
mand. NOW I know it is seeming
ly a cruel thing to say
that another man should die,
if dying is the only way to pro
tect his country. But millions
of men, far less favored than
Powers, have died when they
had to die to maintain their
duty. Many of us have seen
hundreds of our friends so
die, not gladly but stoically,
in the infantry outfits of the
United States Army.
An intelligence officer has
no more immunity from death,
when death is required of
him, than any exhausted pla
toon leader, in Normandy, or
Iwo Jima, or wherever.
With no wish to persecute
one man, it is still sadly neces
sary to say it: In that Moscow
courtroom we have suffered
a small, an intimate, a per
sonal Pearl Harbor-but not,
unhappily, an insignificant
one.
(Copyright, 19B0, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Pendleton Couple
Killed in Wreck
Yakima (UPII A 59-year-old
man and his wife were
killed Monday night when
their car was struck by a
southbound passenger train at
a highway railroad crossing
near here.
They were identified as
Emmett Edward Murphy and
his wife Gladys, ages un
third is located within three
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