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Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40
and 50 veara 0-
10 YEAHS AGO
Sept. 23. 1950 (Saturday)
' Methods at the Oregon
state penitentiary are 50 years
behind the times, according
to Austin Flegel, democratic
candidate for governor who
gpoke here, last night.
Medford High school open
: ed Its 1950 football season
' last night with a 27 to 6 vie
'tory over Tillamook.
- 20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1940 (Monday)
- Ex Governor of Hawaii
Lawrence M. Judd spoke in
Medford yesterday and urged
acceptance , of that territory
as the 49th state ,of the Union.
. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sev
eral woodpiles for campaign
colored gentlemen to crawl
Into, and make an Issue, have
appeared In the residential
areas."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23, 1930 (Tuesday)
. The Jackson county court
has refused to grant aid to
.California indigents working
" here so they can conserve
funds for home use.
Winter weather yesterday
brought rain to the valley
and snow to the higher ele
vations. .
40 YEARS-AGO
Sept. 23, 1920 (Thursday)
The state game commission
has said it will stock no
', streams with trout unless the
streams have .first been
screened.
Firemen are now circulat
ing additional petitions seek
ing a special election that
would determine whether or
not the county courthouse
should be transferred from
Jacksonville to Medford.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23, 1910 (Friday)
State Railroad Commission
er Oswald West is expected
to be almost the unanimous
choice of Democrats as their
party's candidate for the gov
ernorship of Oregon as a re
sult of tomorrow's primaries.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina et ten correct Is tupeiiari
en ei slight Is excallint; five ei
ila It food.
I 1. Name the first Secretary
. General of the United Na
tions.
2. Necrophobia is the exag
' Berated fear of what?
. 3. Are Trupplsts Alaskan
hunters, geometrical figures,
or an order of monks?
. 4. In the Bible, why did
Jesus come "from Galilee to
Jordan, unto John"?
5. Was Al Capone convlct-
"ed for hijacking, beer run.
ning, murder or evasion of
income tax?
6. At the time of the South
African Boer War, who was
on the British throne?
7. In what Pacific naval
action in WW II was the air
craft carrier "Lexington"
sunk?
8. After assassination was
Mohandas K. Gandhi's body
embalmed and scaled in a
. crypt?
, 9. Name the Inventor of the
. telephone.
10. The young of elephants,
whales, moose and hippopo
tami are all called what?
Answerii 1. Trygvle Lit. 2.
Of dtath or horror of in
dead. 3. Order of Monks. 4.
To 1m baptised, t. Tax evas
ion. 6. Quaan Victoria. 7. Bat
II of tht Coral Sea. (. No.
(Cremated.) S. Alexander
Graham 811. 10. Calves.
Hopeful Signs
Is the American public beginning to wake
up to the unsavory menace not to say incon
venience, cost, and unpleasantness of growing
air pollution?
There are signs that it is.
Locally, the Medford city council is holding
a series of meetings with various groups in prep
aration for submitting a city air pollution control
ordinance.
A statewide conference on air pollution con
trol, sponsored by the board of health and the
bureau of municipal research, will be held at the
University of Oregon next month. City represent
atives are invited to attend.
MATIONAL magazines have, at last, ceased
poking fun at poor old Los Angeles alone, and
waked up to the fact that air pollution is a wide
spread, national problem, ana not limited to just
a few areas.
Some cities have been remarkably successful
(Pittsburgh, for instance) in eradicating the
worst of their problem.
Other cities are finding that it will take some
work to find out exactly
and how it can be best
, Industrial firms are
advantage to spend time and money cleaning up
their own operations, before an 'aroused public
forces them to do so.
SOME steps are being
fn plotil' fVio nit TVfni -
moving awfully slowly, and meanwhile, as this
is written, the smoke-laden air permits a visi
bility of less than two miles on the valley floor.
From a distant mountaintop, the air above is
pure and clean, but the valleys are hidden by a
blue-gray pall all of it man-made.
And in Medford, the fall and winter bring
the constant threat of a cold-air inversion, when
all the smoke and cinders are held down under
a blanket of warmer air above, and sometimes
mixed with fog, to provide a dirty, sticky, foul
smelling atmosphere in which we must all live
and breath.
THERE'S a new ray of
Two big companies Weyerhaeuser and
Georgia-Pacific are actually making money by
cleaning up the air. They're .putting out a new
mill product charcoal briquets, made from fly-
ash and cinders.
We quote from a memo on the situation which
crossed our desk:
r ". . , Weyerhaeuser mills at Springfield and Kla
' math Falls, in Oregon, and at Everett and Longview,'
Washington, cinders that would otherwise go up the"
smokestacks are bringing new income to the com
munity. The collectors are catching cinders at mill
power-houses where hog-fuel is burned to make steam
and create electricity.
"It. Is understood that Georgia-Pacific mill at Toledo
Is trapping and collecting their cinders from stacks
and selling them to the Oak Knoll Charcoal company,
Corvallis."
A ND finally, of much
"Rogue valley, with
springtime smudge, the
"Inadvertently, Weyerhaeuser is also helping
Los Angeles, over a thousand miles away, to re
duce its air pollution problem, since California
orchardists . are coming to prefer the smokeless
briquets over smog-making oil for their smudge
fires.
Things, air pollution control-wise, seem hope
ful. E.A.
No. 6 "Free and Helpful
"For once in their lives, taxpayers of Oregon
can strike a blow for education without costing
them a cent.
"They can do it by voting for measure No. 6
on the state ballot Nov. 8."
This quote, from an Oregon Journal editorial,
tells the essentials of the story in a nutshell.
. The details take a few more words.
TOR many years, Oregon's colleges and uni-
vprsit.u have hnrrowpri mnnfiv to hnild dormi
tories, cafeterias, sports
It has repaid the borrowed money by charg
ing fees for their use. No tax money is used for
their construction. About half of all the campus
buildings are built with non-tax money.
But there is a limit on how much they can
borrow (in the form of self-liquidating bonds).
They have just about reached that limit.
And, because enrollment is going to increase
by more than 60 per cent in the next 10 years,
they are going to need more dormitories, cafe
terias, sports facilities, and other non-tax build
ings. .....
SO the limitation must be raised.
Or else tax funds will have to be used to
build the needed buildings.
Ballot measure No. 6 will increase that bond
ing limitation, so that more pay-for-themselves
buildings can be built, to accommodate the many
additional students.
So, when you go to the polls Nov. 8, just re
member this:
. . "For once in your life,
for education and it won't cost you a cent.
"You can do it by voting for measure No. b
on the state ballot."
Remember it "State
cation." It's No. 6. E.A.
what their problem is,
countered.
finding it to their own
taken in Jackson county
o unll a falron Rnfr ir'a
hope, though, in addi-
more significance to the
its pears, peaches, and
memo added:
facilities, and so on.
you can strike a blow
Bonds for Higher Edu
Dennis the Menace
'But n's all rismt fopto have a SConb
HAHGMS OVTS THE FIREPLACE
... Communications ...
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The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper) in fact the
contrary is often trie case.
Seeking Friendship
To the Editor: If you can
spare a little of your precious
time I would be appreciated
it very much.
What I want is this: I al
ways wanted to make some
friends of about my age your
country through letter-writings.
But I did not know how
to do it. Recently, however, I
am writing this letter as I
have learned the name of your
paper through an organiza
tion. '
I have been prompted to
write this letter to you by a
sincere desire to do my share
toward strengthening even
further the ties of friendship
that keep your nation and
mine united as brothers.
I am interested in American
life, how Americans live at
home, how they think, the
books they read, the hobbies
they pursue, etc. I sincerely
beseech you to help me in my
quest for knowledge, as Well
as in my attempt to improve
my knowledge of the English
language.
If you can publish this let
ter in your paper I would
more than appreciate it. In
the event of receiving so many
answers as a result of that
publication It will be no prob
lem for me, because our or
ganization has so many mem
bers and I can divide those
answers among the members.
Perhaps you can not afford
any space. In that case I like
to ask your favor to pass this
letter to some youth clubs and
urge them to cooperate with
me.
I hope this did not cause
you any Inconvenient.
Yours very truly,
Noriko Sumida
P.S. Let me introduce my
self briefly. I am 21 years old
and graduated from Mihara
High school three years ago,
and be working a large school
work organization. Attending
to a dressmaking school at
night. I am S feet 2 inches tall
and my hobbies are ping pong,
Ikcbana, and dressmaking. I
can to reckon on the abacus.
My address
Miss Noriko Sumida,
112 of 3 Hlgashi-machl,
Mihara city
Hiroshima-prefecture,
Japan.
My sister Jeruml Sumida
very anxious to have someone
to write to In the United
States, too me. She is In the
2nd years class of Mihara
High school. We thank you
for your kind attention in ad
vance. Everything OK?
To the Editor: Mr. Richard
Nixon made a speech, said in
effect that he would stand
squarely on the platform of
"What Is right with Amer
ica". There Just couldn't be
anything wrong. Haven't wc
reached the desired level of
unemployment? And haven't
we reached the desired level
of Interest rates? Haven't wc
made money scarce? The rich
get1 richer.
Nixon allowed, quote, "It
Is the duty of the opposition
I
party to point out what is
wrong with America .
1 Ah! But those pesky wrongs
he would take care of. if
elected, by giving them the
old Republican treatments.
He would talk them down,
sweep them under the rug,
veto them all, or he could
just ignore them into oblivion.
Nixon, the fair haired boy
of the internal conquering
empires of high finance, of
interst gougers, give him
your vote and he will reward
you by running you through
their money wringers, that he
will do as sure as the Nixon
ian money policies are tai
lored to their greed. '
But red blooded Ameri
cans, not wanting to slink in
to Nixon-publican slumber,
they have a better choice:
Kennedy, the man who is
owned by nobody, who is not
a negative null, no Goldwat-
er in vein, he has the will and
the courage to remove the
stumbling blocks to Ameri
ca's progress at home and
abroad.
Sulen Drangen
. 417 Lane St.
Yreka, Calif.
Niks?
To the Editor: Maybe some
of the UFOs in -the sky, now
appearing, are - "Barbecue
niks". H. W. Robertson
103 North Central Ave.
Medford
Jacksonville .
To the Editor: Having read
several communications in
your paper, I thought it about
time for me to make remarks
about Jacksonville, as I was
born here almost 88 years
ago-Dee. 13, 1960 will be my
birthday.
My mother, Mollie Boss
Stanley, was the first white
girl born here, and my grand
parents-Col. John E. and
Elizabeth Ross-were the sec
ond white couple to be mar
ried here. They lived and
thrived on the donation land
claim, now divided into many
smaller tracts and homes.
Some of the most influen
tial people were born here.
Many are on the hill, asleep
In death, but 1 have been
spared,
There are some things
greater than money, though it
takes money to make the
show.
The trees and hills, the
quiet and peace-pheasant and
quail come to the dooryard.
There are some beautiful
yards. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd
March have a yard all built
with human hands. They live
on the White place, a son-in-law
of the late Thomas
Reames.
Evan Reames was married
to my mother's sister, Jennie
Ross.
If you want to meet fine,
good people, come to Jack
sonville. I go away, and come
back. It's home to me.
Winifred Cantrall
Jacksonville, Ore.
SOC and Southern Oregon
To the Editor: Last Thurs
day E. H. Slngmastcr request
ed additional help in raising
money for athletic scholar
ships at Southern Oregon col
lege. Tuesday, Robert Brant
ley discussed construction of
a new grandstand at Medford
high school.
Many Ashlandcrs have long
considered Southern Oregon
college 'theirs'. No doubt this
misconception dates back to
the old 'Normal School'. It
evolved Into Southern Oregon
College of Education. Recent
ly It has been authorized to
grant degrees in academic
fields other than education:
thus the name Southern Ore
gon college.
Ai the college grows (about
Hammarskjold's Smashing Victory Gives
Him New
By PHIL NEWSOM
' UPI Foreign Editor
The man of iha week)
United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammers
kjold. The place: U.N. headquar
ters. New York.
The quote: "... My rec
ord is on the table with
such completeness that it is
unnecessary for me to add
to it or to' explain anything. .
I stand by it.
There was an unaccustom
ed biting edge to Hammars
kjold's voice as he replied to
vicious at
tack by Soviet
Deputy For
eign Minister
United Na
tions Security
Council.
Zorin had
accused the
U. N. Secre
tariat of put
PHIL NEWSOM
ting out false information
15 per cent each year) so do
the needs of the school and
its students. The people 'of
Ashland have failed in part
to meet these needs and
thereby have no right to re
fer to the college as 'theirs'.
The time has come when a
portion of the SOC activities
should be taken into the com
munities where the students'
homes are; especially to Med
ford and Grants Pass. Ash
land is a city of many elderly
retired citizens and these peo
ple are not particularly inter
ested in the problems of the
college.
Mr. Singmastcr cites . the
problem encountered by the
Red Raiders' Booster club in
raising money for athletic
scholarships. Each year there
are more students who need
help, and this coupled with
steadily rising tuition costs
(up over 100 per cent in past
10 years) has caused an acute
problem. If the businessmen
and merchants of Ashland
can't raise the money needed
for . scholarships, . then they
must look elsewhere for help
Mr. Brantley suggests we
Medfordites invite the SOC
football team to play all their
home football games in the
MHS stadium. Many people
have no doubt had this same
idea in mind as a' starting
point for better relationships
and understandings between
the people of Medford and
SOC. A few of the more evi
dent reasons for such an
agreement would be:
1. The physical features of
MHS field are far better than
those of the SOC field in Ash
land.
2. Roughly one-half of the
students enrolled at SOC are
from the greater Medford
area. Wouldn't these students,
who commute to classes at
SOC each day, rather see the
Red Raiders play their home
games at MHS until such a
time as SOC can construct an
adequate football stadium?
3. Many people in the Med
ford area are sports-minded
and would turn out to see the
Raiders in action on the home
town field.
4. Financially, the college
could do better by playing in
Medford.
Should Southern Oregon
College take a more active
interest in the Medford area
is it not possible they might
get some of their badly need
ed backing from the citizens
of this city?
As the school grows beyond
the capabilities of home-town
support, it should stretch its
arms to other communities in
Southern Oregon, for which
Southern Oregon College is
so aptly named.
Dick Simonson
538-A Haven St.
Medford.
Questions for Charlie
To the Editor: Most Amer
icans agree that the most im
portant problem with which
our nation is confronted is
the menace of the growth of
communism both abroad and
at home. If the progressive
implementation of the com
munist Blueprint for World
Conquest" which was first
drawn up at the Second Con
gress of the Communist In
ternational in 1920 is not soon
stopped and finally reversed.
the years for any of us to live
as free men are few.
Because I am sure Con
gressman Porter agrees the
problem Is a vital one, and be
cause he, as the leader of our
congressional district, has
more opportunity to do battle
against communist cold war
aggressions, I ask him the
following questions. When an
swered, we should have a bet
ter basis for determining if
l i A
Power, Adds to U.N.
about the Congo, of seeking
to "undermine" the govern
ment of Premier Patrice Lu
mumba and' of siding with
the "colonial powers" to pre
vent the Congo from attain
ing full independence. '
U. S. With Dag.
Hammarskjold proved he
could take care of himself in
oratorial in-fighting, and the
United States moved quickly
to his side.
Said U. S. Ambassador
James J. Wadsworth:
''The Soviet Union does not
want the United Nations to
succeed in Africa. A strong
United Nations means stabil
ity and 'order ... the verbal
attempts to discredit the Secretary-General
- who enjoys
our full confidence - and the
United Nations would be se
rious enough.
"But it is ominous when we
add to this the record of So
Election Memo: Political
Parties, Platforms, Phoney
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington OJPH - Some an
gles the voters should con
sider with a national election
coming up are
these:
The political
nnrtips solicit-
T ing their votes
are' irrespon
sible and more
r a u d u lent
than real.
The politi
cal platforms
.".T Ti-iuSr are phony
more often than not' and their
promises are not binding.
Neither can platform pledges
Often be enforced by party
discipline. ,
The dividing line defining
the two-party system in the
United States is mostly imag
inary. It isn't there.
Easily Demonstrated
The fraudulent nature of
political parties easily is dem
onstrated. For example: Try
to define the purpose of the
Democratic party in specific
terms mutually acceptable to
Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Vir
ginia and Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota. Dit
to the Republican party in
terms which would embrace
Sen. Barry Goldwater of
Arizona and Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller of New York.
Platforms are phony in
proportion to the extent to
which party members in of
fice ignore them. Presidents
usually stick close to the plat
forms on which they sought
election. Many members of
Congress more often are irre
sponsible, refusing to make
good the platform promises.
The platforms themselves us
ually are the product of cyni
cal compromise and-or pure
bait to attract various minor
ity voting blocs. -
we want him to continue rep
resenting us.
First, Congressman Porter,
you have advocated for some
time that we grant diplomatic
recognition to Red China, pro
pose its admission to the Unit
ed Nations and trade with it
in non-strategic goods.
Question: In what way
would such action decrease
the threat of world commu
nism? And, conversely, in
what way would recognition
and interchange promote the
cause of freedom as we know
it in the United States?
Second, Congressman Por
ter, as late as Nov. 1, 1959,
you advised that Castro was,
in- your words, "not a dic
tator," that he was not
"against the American peo
ple," and that he "has a large
belief in human freedoms"
and by inference from the
foregoing that Castro was not
a communist or sympathizer
with the communist cause.
Question: In what way has
Castro's rise to power and his
subsequent actions promoted
the growth of "human free
doms" for Cubans or for
Americans in Cuba?
Do you still believe Castro
is not a communist or a sym
pathizer with the communist
cause?
Third, Congressman Porter,
according to articles in the
Eugene Register Guard, you
have accepted money from
Cyrus Eaton, winner of the
Lenin Peace Prize, to pay
your round-trip expenses to
three disarmament confer
ences in Europe.
Question: In what way will
the meetings you have attend
ed serve to deter the commu
nists from their goal of world
domination, and did your at
tendance equip you to better
aid in the ultimate defeat of
world communism?
Dick Christiansen
1369 Forrester way
Eugene, Ore.
viet efforts to penetrate the
Congo physically."
Whatever Zorin had hoped
to accomplish, he failed.
Instead of reprimanding
Hammarskjold, the U. N.'s
full General Assembly met
and instructed him to con
tinue his "vigorous" action in
the Congo. The count was 70
0, including the important
Afro-Asian nations.
Prestige For U, N.
Hammarskjold had done
more than win a personal vic
tory. He had pushed the au
thority of the Secretary Gen
eral to unprecedented heights.
In its earlier concept, the
U. N. would be called upon to
act only In situations which
threatened int e r n a t i o n a 1
peace.
In the Congo, it was inter
vening to establish internal
peace.
The dividing line between
the major parties is unreal
because neither party has a
solid policy foundation ac
ceptable to its national mem
bership. A conservative South
ern Democrat most likely
would become a registered
Republican if he moved north,
for example, to Michigan or
New York. ,
All Mixed Up '
American politics is a crazy,
mixed-up thing. But better
times are coming. How fast
depends mostly on political
developments in the South.
When Southerners have a
two-party system of their
own, a chance to vote radical
or conservative without wast
In the Day's News
By FRANK
A reader of this column
mailed in the other day a
clipping from it in which a
reference was made to "the
Russian ship which was
launched into the wild yon
der" and a comment in par
entheses to the effect that it
"ISN'T BLUE out there in
space, you know."
Enclosed with : it. was a
clipping from one of the cur
rent news magazines quoting
Air Force Major Robert
While, who recently flew his
X-15 rocket ship higher than
man had ever flown before.
This paragraph from the mag
azine was heavily under
scored: What did Major White see?
He says: "It was a VERY
DEEP BLUE, but not exactly
like night. There was a dis
tinct contrast. Your view en
compasses three distinct bands
-the earth, the light BLUE of
the sky and then the very
DEEP BLUE of extreme alti
tude." Hmmmmmmm.
How come?
Did somebody goof?
WELL, it's like this:
Major White flew high
cr than man had ever flown
before, but he didn't fly out
of the earth's atmosphere. At
his highest point, he was up
about 25 miles above the
surface. The earth's atmos
phere is somewhat more than
100 miles thick. Major
White was only about a quar
ter of the way up through, the
atmosphere.
And- ,
It is the light passing
through the gases that com
pose the earth's atmosphere
that make the blue.
THIS is what happens:
The earth's atmosphere
Try and Stop Me
- By BENNETT CERF
pEORGE HOXIE, famed photographer, known as "Hocus.
y Focus" In his home bailiwick of Oxford, Ohio, has been
studying the names of some of tlie settlements in the Na
tional Parks' Camp
ground Directory,- and
calls our attention to the
following: Detachment
Meadow, Frog Hollow,
Hobo Gulch, Honeymoon,
Virgin's Bath, Pink Beds,
Graveyard, and Purga
tory. It would be fun
sending : friends picture
cards with pdstmarks of
some of these communi
ties thereon.
e
" Musea Walter Tumulty,
just back from Reno: "A
man never really knows his
wife's true value until a judge tells him what she's going tl
nick him for alimony." .
;
Mourns a poetic father of a Princeton (Dphomoret "
"I worked my way through college I
Am heroe often do.
Now rm right back where I started: '
Working my eon's way through." '
Prestige
If, Hammarskjold reasoned,
the Congo and other emerg
ing African nations were to
be saved from the push and
pull of the big power Cold
War struggle, they first must
be assured ol stability within.
This was preventive diplo
macy which Hammarskjold
believed to be within the lim
its of his assignment.
Hammarskjold had foreseen
the dangers as far back as
1953 when he first took over
his job.
He traveled in Africa,
studying the problem at first
hand. Long before the Congo
crisis erupted, he was ready
with plans for assistance for
these new nations, both eco
nomic and administrative'.
This week the quiet Swede
had won a massive vote of
confidence and a new concept
was being written into tho
U.N. charter.
ing their ballots, the realign
ment of political parties will
move along quickly.
Presidential elections ' in
1928-'48-'52-'56-four of tha
last' eight-proved that tha
Solid South isn't solid any
more. President Eisenhower
in 1952 carried Virginia, Ten
nessee, Florida and Texas. In
1956 he carried those four
plus Louisiana. Vice President
Richard M. Nixon has a good
chance to break into the South
this year.
More significant than Eisen
hower's score in Southern
states was his popular vote,
Southwide. In 1952 he polled
47.7 per cent of the vote in
10 Southern states to Adlai
E, Steve.nson's 52.3.
JENKINS
is made up of nitrogen, oxy
gen, hydrogen, neon, helium
and other gases. When light
passes through these gases,
all the different rays are scat
tered. Some are scattered
more than others. The shorter
the wave length of the light,
the more it is scattered. Blue
is scattered the most, red the
least. Therefore, the greatest
part of the sky appears to be
blue, as these scattered rays
are reflected back to us from
all parts of the sky. . ..
If there were no atmos
phere around the earth, part
of the light from the sun
would hit us directly, and the
rest would simply go past.
The sky would always LOOK
BLACK with the sun, moon
and stars shining in a GREAT
BLACK CURTAIN.
This is the point:
If and when man GOES
BEYOND the earth's atmos
phere, he will find himself
whizzing through the BLACK
VOID of outer space. . '
WE of course have to tak
that for granted.
No man born of woman has
as yet seen outer space and
returned to tell the tale.
But wait!
It probably won't be long.
TN fact-
- George M. Low, an offi
cial of the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administra
tion, told a bunch of editors
and publishers in Washington
the other day that Russia in
ready to send a man into or
bit around the earth and
MAY PICK U.S. ELECTION
DAY FOR THE SHOT!
So- '
If and wheTi this Russky
gets back, he'll be able to
give us eye-witness testimony
as to whether outer space-is
black or blue.