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History from the files ot The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1950 (Thursday)
Final arrangements were
being completed this afternoon
for tonight's fall opening
event in Medford's business
district.
A threatened nation -wide
railroad strike set for Monday
would do untold damage to
the Rogue valley's pear, apple
and peach crops which are
just now starting to be har
vested. 30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1940 (Saturday)
Senator Charles McNary
(R-Ore.), candidate for vice
president, said he will leave
the major campaigning to his
running mate, Wendell n
Wlllkie.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A par
ty headed by H. Flewher, the
demon baker, journeyed to tne
top of the Cascades over tne
week-end. Dock Durno went
along."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24. 1930 (Monday)
The entire town of Prospect
was threatened for a while by
an early morning fire that
destroyed a sawmill.
The new Holly theater will
hold lis grand opening next
Friday.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1920 (Wednesday) '
Ton Army planes were on
hand yesterday at the dedica
tion of the fairgrounds field.
Governor Olcott has named
a committee to investigate
conditions at Crater Lake
lodge.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1910 (Wednesday)
The winds suddenly chang
ed their direction and increas
ed in velocity yesterday and
are now driving a raging for
est fire towards Ashland.
Hikers yesterday discovered
a caved-in gold mine near
Gold Ray and it is thought to
contain the body of a missing
miner.
What's Your 10-7
Nine er ten correct Is superie
mven er eight it excellent; He i
tin (a geod.
1. Was Solomon's throne
made of gold, ivory, or silver?
2. Is Louisville or Lexing
ton the capital of Kentucky?
3. Name the Indian princess
who married John Rolfe
4. Name the five senses.
5. Name the strings on a
violin.
6. Is asphalt insoluble in
water, or gasoline?
7. Rabbits belong to the ro
dent family; true or false?
8. Genuine Roquefort
cheese is made principally
from the milk of cows, ewes,
or goats?
P. Which U.S. President is
sued the emancipation procla
mation? .
10. Name the author of the
novel, "Oliver Twist"?
Answers: 1. Ivory. 2. Nei
ther, Frankfort is the Capital.,
3. Pocohontai. 4. Sight, smell,
hearing, taste, touch, 5, 1
E. A. D. C. 6. Water. 7. True.
Ewes' 9.' Abraham' Lincoln.'
10. Charles Dickens.
V rtyJA PUll$HE$
m JA-SSOCIATION
NATIONAL EDITORIAI
Three
Thi 'ee men died this week, and the loss of
each is a loss to people
tnem, or wno nad enjoyed or profited by their
work.
They lived and worked in entirely unrelated
tields, and only by the
all reported within two
ment on tnem togetner.
One was Oscar Hammerstein II, 65, the giant
ox tne entertainment worm, wnose musical come
dies and songs have had Americans whistling for
years,
Another was Oswald West, 87, governor of
uregon irom 1911 to 1915.
The third was E. B. MacNaughton, 79, one
of Oregon's most distinguished businessmen and
men ot atiairs
LJOW many brighter
homa!" "South Pacific."
And a dozen others,
beloved, and played and
sung,
His was a touch of
tnat ereat artists are
stein has achived immortality through his songs
Music is magic, and
entitled to our humble
"S WEST made no music. But his work in one
short term of office wrought benefits to the
people of Oregon which will be enjoyed for
decades, or centuries, yet
Best-known of his achievements was the Ore
gon law, which he pushed and bullied through
the legislature, which placed in public ownership
forever almost all of Oregon's 400 miles of mag
nificent Ocean beaches.
His, too, was the
brought to public ownership the streambeds of
most of, Oregon's rivers.
And the list of his
ments goes on and on
governor contending with a legislature of another
party.
At Os West State Park, just north of the
Neah-Kah-Nie headland, a sign reads:
"If Sight of Sand and Sky and Sea has Given
Respite From Your Daily Cares Then Pause to
Thank Oswald West'
AI7HENEVER we visit the coast we do so.
' And we recall with joy our few personal
contacts with the man. On one occasion in 1946
or 1947, we drove the car which took him to the
races at the State Fair in Salem.
Years later we dropped him a note and recal
led that incident, saying we didn't suppose he
would remember it. His reply was typical. He
said:
"I never forgot anyone that drove me to the
races.
rRNEST Boyd MacNaughton was never a pub--
lie figure in the same sense as were the other
men. But he played a big
of Oregon over the past half-century.
A builder, banker, newspaperman, educator,
philanthropist, churchman,
1 1 i - , -pi- t;
me use oi nts aeiiteveiiienus anu awviuieo guea
on and on.
Everv area of human
interest. And when he
unique combination of talents took him to the top.
. i . it. i. -i l- -1
He was president ana later Doara cnatrman
of the First National Bank, president of the Ore-
gonian Publishing company for some years, presi
dent of Keed college ior a aniicuii interim
period, head of the Blue Cross in Oregon, moder
ator of the Unitarian church in the United States.
And a list of his lesser
fill columns of type.
THESE three men musician, public official,
onrl ViiioinoBsman nnrl piviV sprvHnt. nf mnnv
talents will be missed.
Their honors came to them, not through no
toriety nor money nor flashy short-lived achieve
ment, but through honesty of purpose.
Each was touched by a genius of a different
sort, and backed it up
and lntecrnty.
The world is much richer because they lived.
And that is the most that can be said of any
man. E.A.
Powers Condemned
Francis Gary Powers,
the Uz plane shot down by Russia last May, has
come in for considerable criticism lately.
"Why did he have to go and plead guilty?"
is one question heard.
The answer is, he had no other choice. He had
already been pleaded guilty, and by his own
government, no less.
QN MONDAY, May 16, the Mail Tribune car
ried a story by Lvle Wilson, United Press In
ternational writer and vice
a good thumb-nail sketch
"incident." Wilson said :
"The first (U.S.) policy was to deny that such
espionage had taken place. The second policy whs to
admit it and to insist that It was essential for national
defense, and therefore, might be continued.
"The third policy ... is that espionage flights over
the Soviet Union have been suspended and will not
oc resumed . . .
With this sorrv record of confusion, what
else coultl Pilt Powers do? He was already con-
demned. E.A.
Deaths
who knew them, or of
fact that their deaths wei
days is it possible to com.
hours has Hammerstein
"The Sound of Music."
older than these but still
replayed, sung and re-
genius, and. in the sense
trulv immortal. Hammer
those who create it are
gratitude.
to come
idea for the law which
other lasting accomplish
miraculous for a one-term
role in the development
leader in civic projects
i -. i i ,
activity engaged his
started something, his
- known activties would
by hard work, courage,
the hard-luck pilot of
president, which gave
of the events of the
Dennis the Menace
' U goHHAGSTA J06 0.64NIN' SWlvVWIN POOLS.
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Agriculture and Prayer
To the Editor: In 1934, Sec
retary of Agriculture Henry
Agard Wallace expressed his
philosophy regarding agricul
ture in his published book,
entitled the "New Frontiers."
Secretary Wallace was in
terested primarily in agricul
tural experimentation, such as
hybrid corn, rather than eco-
omics.
News reporters remember
the Chicago convention in
1944, when the "Reds" were
the Chicago stadium
pledged to Mr. Wallace for
the second term as vice presi
dent. However, the "voice of
the sewers" began to holler,
We want Truman," and Sen
ator Harry Truman was nomi
nated in place of Mr. Wal
lace.
On March 1, 1945, Mr. Wal
lace was named Secretary of
Commerce by President
Roosevelt. Speaking in New
York, on Sept. 12, 1946, Sec
retary Wallace castigated
President Truman's foreign
policy, urging a contrary pol
icy of "appeasing Russia."
President Truman requested
and accepted Mr. Wallace's
resignation.
In July, 1948, Mr. Wallace
was nominated by the new
third party, the Progressive
party, receiving only 1,116,-
379 votes in the November
election.
The "farm problem" has
not been solved by either
party. Many "constitutional
lawyers believe the farm
problem" will not be solved
until Congress returns agri
culture - the "farm problem"
- to the states where it con
stitutionally belongs.
The 13 original sovereign
stales, in granting the "ex
pressed powers" to Congress
in Ariclc I, section 8, listed
18 "expressed powers" sur
rendered to Congress.
The Tenth Amendment of
the Bill of Rights expressly
reads: "The powers not dele
gated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibit
ed by it to the states, are
reserved to the states respect
ively, or to the people."
The late Will Rogers offer
ed a solution to the "farm
problem": "Plow under every
other farm politician."
Domestic and world prob
lems may be solved when we
acknowledge the Supreme
Absolute, such as:
"Lord make me an instru
ment of Thy peace; where
there is hatred, let me sow
love; where there is injury,
pardon; where there is doubt,
faith; where there is despair,
hope; where there is dark
ness, light; and where there
is sadness, Joy."
"O Divine Master, grant
that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to under
stand; to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we
receive, it is in pardoning that
we arc pardoned, and it is in
dying that we are born to
eternal life."
( Francis of Assissi. 1273)
Stephen E. Gillis
White City, Ore.
Welfare Drug Plan
To the Editor: It was with
considerable surprise that I
read in your paper of Aug. 7,
I960, the statements by Mr.
Gordon Hudson regarding the
list of basic drugs recently
adopted for welfare use.
This drug plan was devel
oped in close cooperation with
representatives of the Oregon
State Pharmaceutical Assoeia-
lion, the Oregon State Medical
Society, the University of Ore
gon Medical School, the Ore
gon State College of Pharm
acy, and members of the prac-
the name and address of the
often the case.
ticing professions of pharm
acy and medicine.
We nave been assured by
these able and responsible rep
resentatives that:
1. These drugs without ex
ception are available on the
shelves of most pharmacies in
Oregon. They are regularly
used in filling prescriptions
for quality materials where
no special trade name require
ment 'is included in the phy
sician's prescription. To refer
to them as cheap or untrust
worthy is a serious reflection
on the integrity of a large
part of the pharmacy profes
sion in Oregon and on the
business ethics of several well
established and highly regard
ed wholesale drug outlets.
2. With regard to prices, it
was the purpose of the State
Public Welfare Commission to
set up a price schedule which
would permit a fair return
to e s t a b li s lied pharmacies
when providing drugs of re
liable quality to welfare pa
tients. The prices are not
based on wholesale quotations
from fly-by-night sources, but
on wholesale costs of reliable
drug materials available from
Oregon wholesalers of estab
lished reputation who have
been in business in our state
for many years and who have
always, been known to stand
behind the quality of their
drugs. Pharmacists developed
the price schedule, and repre
sentative members of the
pharmacy profession have re
peatedly assured us of its fair
ness and adequacy.
3. It should also be pointed
out that the door is open for
provision of a drug outside the
basic list whenever a physi
cian establishes by clinical
findings that his patient re
quires an exception to the
Basic List. All the doctor has
to do is send to the reviewing
physician in the Welfare De
partment a brief clinical state
ment demonstrating his pa
tient's special reauirement
and the reasons for it.
Finally let me say that (he
present plan for drugs was de
veloped solely for the purpose
of making the limited welfare
budget do a good iob of Dro-
viding for the essential drug
needs of all the aeed and un
fortunate sick who must look
to public welfare to pay for
(heir necessary medical care.
It is particularly distressing
to think that the statements
against the plan may have the
effect of arousinc noedlpss
fear and anxiety In the hearts
of those for whose benefit
the program was developed
State Public Welfare
Commission
By (Miss) Jeanne Jew-
ett, Administrator
State Office Building
Portland 1, Ore.
The Devil's Tools ,
to the, Editor: I want to
share with you and your read
ers a few helpful paragraphs
that a very dear friend has
had put down in print. This
well known radio pastor has
put out a little booklet en
titled, "Be Not Afraid." Here
are a few lines that have been
especially helpful to me.
"You say you are discour
aged? Has somebody disap
pointed you? Have you had
reverses in business? Has your
health failed? Has your dear
est earthly tie been severed
by the cruel hand of death?
Have you tried and failed in
living the victorious life?
Have the cares of life seemed
to overwhelm you? Does ev
erything seem to go wrong?
"Discouragement is one of
the Devil's most successful
methods of keeping men and
women from the joys of fel
lowship with God.
"There is an old story that
tells of an announcement that
Red China
Exchanges; Trade Proposals Said Lagging
I . - At.: ,J nan. i irncs urtth nin firm
By PETER CRAIGMOE
Tokyo - (UPD - Communist It is trying to capture the
China is vigorously trying to imagination of the Japanese
woo Japan away from her ties masses through two popular
with the West, particularly appeals: travel and cultural
the United States. Already exchange.
Peiping has offered some The new trend, in sharp
tempting bait. contrast to the days when
Peiping still has not madeNobusuke Kishi was premier,
any concrete economic or has been interpreted here as
trade proposals-which would an attempt to gain willing
Editorial Comment
Os West Never Another Like Him
Once in a century, perhaps, comes a man so colorful,
so courageous, so wise in the ways of his fellows and
so mindful of their welfare that the memory of his
deeds and wit-spiced sayings stands out like a beacon
in the history of his state.
Such a man was Os West, whose turbulent yet pro
ductive career ended quietly-ironically so-in his bed
with his boots off-Monday morning. He was 87.
So much has been written and said about Os West,
so many adjectives have been used to describe his
characteristics and accomplishments, that one hardly
knows where to begin in paying tribute to this man.
" Inimitable. Indomitable. Bizarre. Tragic. Heroic.
Lovable. Great friend of the people. They all fit Os
. West and the Os West saga.
But to describe him adequately, his purple prose,
his crusty exterior which partly concealed his abiding
faith in his state and the eternal verities to which he
clung, you have to judge him by his pet hates. They
represented in reverse the things and people he ad
mired and loved and fought for all his life.
For Os West, you see, devoted almost all of his
career to fighting the stuffed shirts, the spoilers, the
fakers, the racketeers, the hypocrites and the all
around bums of his era.
Largely self-educated, from grammar school to his
bar exams, he never forgot the tribulations of his
youth, poverty, hardships, a drunken father, nor the
inspiration of his sainted mother.
This accounts for his abiding haired of liquor and
the two promises he made his mother-never to drink,
and some day to become governor of Oregon.
These promises he kept. But the other promise he
made in his youth, half serious, half jest-to shoot a
bartender-he did not live to fulfill.
Oregon will remember Os West for the history
making term he served as Democratic governor-four
hectic years in which he jammed widespread reforms
through an unwilling Republican legislature.
And while Gov. West always derided "the do-gooders"
of his time, he became one of the really great
do-gooders of Oregon history-prison reform, improve
ment of state institutions, saving Oregon's beaches for
the people for all time, protection of women and chil
dren in industry, creation of the state board of control,
the state game commission and the office of state
printer, to name a few.
And no one will forget his single-handed expose of
the school land grabbers and the recovery for his
state of almost a million acres of valuable timber land.
But we shall remember Os West as a friend who
made history live, whose worldly wise advice and
pithy comment inspired and enlivened our days. Like
' thousands of others, we are proud to have known Os
West, the incomparable. There will never be another.
-Oregon Journal,- Portland
the devil was going out of
business, and would offer all
his tools for sale to whosoever
would pay his price.
"On the night of the sale
they were all attra-clivcly dis
played, and a bad looking lot
they were. Malice, hatred,
envy, jealousy, sensuality, and
deceit, and all the other im
plements of evil were spread
out, each marked with its
price. Apart from the rest lay
a harmless looking, wedge
shaped tool, much worn, and
priced higher than any of
them.
"Some one asked the devil
what it was. 'That's discour
agement,' was the reply,
"Why do you have it priced
so high?'
" Because,' replied the devil,
'it is more useful to me than
any of the others. I can pry
open and get inside a man's
consciousness with that when
I would not get near him with
any of the others; and when
once inside, I can use him in
whatever way suits me best.
It is much worn because I
use it with nearly everybody,
since few persons yet know
it belongs to me.'
'It hardly need be added
that the devil's price for dis
couragement was so high that
it was never sold. He still
owns it, and is slill using it."
wen, l thought these lines
would be appreciated by some
of you readers. If any desire
a free copy of the complete
little booklet, a non-sectarian
compilation, you can se
cure it by calling me or writ
ing direct to Pastor Tucker
Box 323, Redlands. Calif.
Henry Johnson Jr.
2400 Highway 66
vsmnnci. ore.
Social Production
To the Editor; Who furnish
es the food for the poor, the
helpless, the blind, the aged,
even the criminals? How
much, what kind.' Their
clothing, the bedding, iheir
care, etc.? Does the county,
state, or the federal govern
ment? No doubt all contribute
a portion, but in what propor
tion? It doesn't matter too much
but it's all paid bv thr.
DISCOUNTS UP TO 35
ON NATIONALLY ADVERTISED
MEN'S CLOTHING
BARKER'S Main-Central
Wooing Japan With
aDoeal lareely to big business.
dollar. Well, you say, I don't
pay any taxes. Well, let s see
Every time you eat, every
time you wear out your old
clothes, every time your wife
buys a new dress or a pair of
new shoes, every time your
wife becomes pregnant and
goes to the hospital, or you
get sick or meet with an acci
dent, you pay a form of profit
in the shape of taxes.
Well, of course you don't
like to pay taxes, neither do
I, but how are you going to
avoid them? There is no pro
vision made under this old
capitalistic sun to keep up the
expenses of this government,
except by taxation. And there
fore, the thrifty and the able
must pay them on the basis
of their wealth that they are
supposed to own.
There is only one solution
to the problem, and that is
social means of production
and distribution of the means
of life democratically man
aged, and then the labor time
or hours could be regulated
according to the needs or de
sires of the people s social
production needs. Then I
would trust that the people
would see that all the people's
needs would be adequately
taken care of. Even the crim
inals, which would be rapidly
reduced under a just social
system, when everyone that is
able and willing to work for
the full product of his toil,
could be employed, as labor
time could be reduced so as
to employ every person that
wanted to or could work.
Friends: I'm not able to
walk yet without crutches,
said it might be a year yet,
Ihen it might require another
operation. Yet, I manage to
do my own cooking, under
stress.'
John P. Wirth,
3022 Butte st.
Klamath Falls, Ore.
(Formerly 120
Laurel St., Medford)
Amateur Preachers
To the Editor: To the few
would-be preachers, who bab
ble on about the existence of
a devil, and religion, we do
have too many devil-explaining,
devil-blaming and Bible
friends for China and cap
italize on anti-American prop
aganda in recent months.
Agreement Signed
An agreement signed in
Peiping last week- between
the Japanese and Communist
Chinese cultural exchange as
sociations received major bill
ing over Radio Peiping. Red
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai
even welcomed Japanese cul
tural delegate Kenzo Naka
jima at a luncheon, a relative
ly rare tribute to a non-diplomatic
officials.
The exchange provides for
a Japanese chorus to give per
formances and for exhibitions
of Japanese arts, photography
and calligraphy (artistic writ
ing) in Hed China.
Peiping's price for this is a
series of exhibitions in Japan
of Red Chinese workers and
peasants, Communists Chinese
cartoons and grapnic arts,
children's paintings and pho
tography and calligraphy
These exhibits will likely
be undisguised propaganda
This was admitted in a meet
ing of Red Chinese writers
and artists earlier this month
when Peiping emphasized that
art and literature were to be
expressions of the Communist
party line,
Observers here feel the
Peiping propaganda campaign
will have little immediate ef
fect. Until Red China comes
quoting letters to the Editor.
Of course, there must be a
devil, imps and all, because
who else could be responsible
for such foolishness?
Without the Bible to quote
from, you all would be
tongue-tied and helpless, be
cause you can't think for your
selves at all.
With your preacher's itch,
and for the want of a church,
you use the Mail Tribune to
do your preaching by quoting
from the Bible in letters to
the Editor.
No, we don't have to read
it. But it takes up good space
that could be used for letters
that belong in that part of the
paper.
You are in the right paper,
but the wrong page. There's
a special page in the paper for
religious news.
So, whatever church you
belong to, stay in your seat
where you belong, and do the
listening, not the preaching.
You amateur preachers do
more harm than good. Why
don't you let your pastors do
the preaching?
William Helpher
co Addie D. Train
Route 2, Box 312-A
Gold Hill, Ore.
Gold Tales
To the Editor: Perseverance
was rewarded by finding ex
cerpts and numerous personal
records of the successful early
day miner and prospector in
southern Oregon, dating
around 60 to 70 years ago.
His way of living was not al
ways a customary, easy one.
Sometimes before striking
"pay dirt" his food supply
would almost become nil. One
old timer we knew personally
said he and his brother had
cooked the last pot of beans
only minutes before they un
covered a $10,000 pocket near
the Applegate river divide.
Another old placer miner sub
sisted on grey squirrels before
he could make the i'irst riffle
"clean up."
One pocket hunter told me
all he had for a week was
canned tomatoes to eat before
he made a strike in five fig
ures. That was in compara
tively recent years.
Here is a true one about a
Josephine county prospector.
After making a fabulous gold
pocket strike, he breezed into
Grants Pass, to a high toned
restaurant, and ordered a
dozen chicken gizzards fried
in the best style of a con
noisseur, 70 years ago.
An old recluse miner in
Fiddlers gulch, or Joe gulch,
collected live rattlesnakes
and kept them in a box under
his bunk in a cabin near
Woodville, Ore., one time.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman st.
Medford.
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across with some firm offers
of multi-million dollar trade,
most responsible officials art
going to continue to virtually
ignore Mao Tse-tung's scraps'
of bait.
But if the Communists can
plant seeds of good will for
their regime, while continu
ing to pick away at Japanese
ties with the United States,
the venture might have soma
success.
Attack U. S. Policy
They will renew their at
tacks on the U. S.-Japan Se
curity Treaty and continue to
link the United States with'
the imperialism and war mon
gering, observers here pre
dicted. They will try to create
doubt in the minds of young
sters regarding advantages of
domocracy and capitalism,
then attempt to prove that
Communism is a better way
of life.
The Communists have con
sistently used culture as a,
selling point and made not
able inroads in Asia with this
policy. .
They ridicule the United
States, meanwhile, by distrib
uting cartoons of President
Eisenhower climbing up a
rope ladder from a convert
ible into a helicopter.. Th
reference (incorrect) it to
Eisenhower's June 19 Old-,
nawa visit when 2,000 demon
strators threatened to block
his motorcade.
View of Valley
To the Editor: I thought"
perhaps some of the Rogue
valley residents would get as
much of a chuckle out of this
as we did. Our son Rodney
clipped it out of the San Gab
riel Valley News. At least
this Californian is honest, if
not so loyal, don't you think?,
Mrs. Ross Twedell
809 Beekman st.
Medford.
The column sent by Mrs.
Twedell was written by Dave1
Swaim, and follows:
One great valley salutes an
other. Here are a few words about
the almost identical beauties
and virtues of the San Gabriel
Valley and the Rogue River
Valley in Oregon.
Even similar, as they wend
through these lush green
lands, are the two great
rivers, the San Gabriel and
the Rogue. . ;
Except for one minor difr'
ference-the Rogue has water.
And fish. ;
And, for a brief time, me. :
The tall, shadowy stands,
of trees are the same here.aa
there. ;
Only here (in Oregon)'
they're called fir and pine,
instead of palm and scrub'
oak. ;
And what a grand view of
the mountains from each
valley floor. Here on the
Rogue you clearly see the
glaciered Cascades many,
many miles away. '.
There (at home) it s the,
same. As far away as Sierra
Madre is from the valley, if'
you stand on the northern;
edge and wipe your eyes you
can see a firebreak.
Even culture. Here in the'
pleasant little town of Ash-:
land one of America's great
Shakespearean festivals is in
progress. :
Here one finds a whole
summerful of fine Elizabethan!
acting. ; ;
There in the San Gabriel
Valley ... :
Well, I'll think of some-;
thing. ;
Why, then, if these two val
leys are so similar, did I com;
here, instead of staying horn'
for vacation?
Are you kidding? :
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