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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 4. 1952 (Wednesday)
Opening day for the sum
mer season at Hawthorne
swimming pool had 429 swim
mers use the pool, according
to Park Director Darell Hu
son. Petitions for C. W. (Bill)
A n h o r n as candidate for
school board director in dis
trict 6C have been filed with
the school office in Central
Point.
20 YEARS AGO
June 4, 1942 (Thursday)
Jackson county residents
start campaign to purchase
$250,000 in war bonds to be
used for purchase of lour
motored bomber.
From Arthur Perry's "Yo
Smudge Pot" column: "It now
appears the Honorable Japa
nese fleet prowling around
Midway island had the Hon.
Hell shot out of it."
30 YEARS AGO
June 4, 1932 (Saturday)
Marble and Terrazza floor
ing being installed in new
Jackson county courthouse at
Main st. and Oakdale ave.
Crowd of more than 1,000
people watches at Medford
airport as flight of 33 Army
airplanes arrives here.
40 YEARS AGO
June 4, 1922 (Sunday)
Commencement exercises
for Medford High school sen
ior class of 51 students held
at Page theater.
Mcdtord building records
disclose building worth more
than $250,000 started here
during first six months of
year for biggest building
boom In city's history.
50 YEARS AGO
June 4, 1912 (Monday)
From Kane Creek Items:
Whillie Foley Is taking eighth
grade examinations this week
at the Dardanclls school
house. We wish him success.
Medford city council asks
for bids for moving old East
Main street bridge across Bear
creek to new location on
Jackson st.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nin or ten correct U superior;
seven or eight Is excellent) live or
six ii good.
1. What heavyweight boxer
won the world's title in Sid
ney, Australia and lost It
luk-r In Havana, Cuba?
2. Is a condiment a kind
of wagon, seasoning, or a, kind
of paint coloring?
3. "Constitution State" Is
the nickname of which New
Knnlnnd state?
4. What strait, named for
a famous navigator, is at the
southern tip of South Amcri-
5. Name the vessel which
hit an Iceberg In 1912 and
sank with a loss of 1503 liver.
8. Is the Isle of Wight oft
the north or south coast of
Englnnd?
7. Who Is called "The Liber
.tor" In South America?
8. In what part of the world
Is the Yangtze River?
9. Do men and women have
the same number of ribs?
10. What group of islands
has been called "the cross
roads of the Pacific?"
Answersi 1, Jack Johnson.
2. Seasoning. 3. Connecticut.
4. Blralt of Magellan. 5. Ti
tanic, t. South. 7, Bimon Bo
livar. 8. China. 9. Yet. 10
Hawaiian Islands.
MONDAY. JUNE 4. 1962
A Narrow Image
Isn't it funny how life will hand you a bonus
or dividend in the most unexpected places, when
you are least prepared for it?
We hope we don't sound too priggish in say
ing this but we seldom watch television with the
expectation that something intellectually or emo
tionally rewarding will result.
It's actually quite a good attitude to have:
we're never disappointed that way, and occasion
allyas was the case last Tuesday night we get
a really pleasant surprise.
WE HAPPENED to catch a program called
"Naked City," an hour length cops-and-robbers
production with an unusually realistic style
that often permits it to show more violence and
sordidness than is customary on other shows of
its type.
But Tuesday night it was different. The plot
concerned a man who felt that his life as an
accounts executive in a big New York city firm
was too narrow and confining. So, without bring
ing harm to anyone, and managing at the same
time to help a variety of other people, he adopted
several new identities.
He became a sort of beatnik poet, an Episco
palian minister who cared for a rescue mission for
down-and-outers, a truck farm owner, and a
neighborhood ping pong champion who took on
all comers.
Understandably, the police eventually be
came interested in his activities, but after a
thorough investigation,
while the whole matter
maybe the man had a point.
At the end of the story, one of the detectives
who had been working
partner and confessed,
expression on his face, that he had always want
ed to teach English literature at Harvard.
IT WAS a good script, and it neatly underscored
one of the most frustrating aspects of contem
porary living the virtual necessity of develop
ing a single special skill and then practicing it
the rest of one's life.
This is an age of specializiation, and it is
not likely ever again to be any different. Living
is too complex, our technology has become too
i; .i l I l
complicated, ana most, proiessions require nam
ing that is too rigorous and intensive, for one
man to hope to master more than one vocation
in his span on earth.
As with all generalizations, there are many
prominent exceptions, but we think the truth of
the matter is obvious.
The Renaissance Man, with all his amazing
versatility and accomplishments, is dead, and
we will see his like no more. Trained to be equally
at ease on the battlefield
as proficient with the sword as with the sonnet,
as skilled in gentle soft-spoken courtesy as he
was efficient in bloody
an historical reminder of
and still potentially is.
MODERN man's makeup has not changed ; he
still has it within him to be many more things
than the single functionary the times now permit
him to be.
And there's the rub.
For how many of us
which most of us as youngsters took for granted,
seem to have evaporated and disappeared?
For how many of us
the morning an increasingly irritating sound,
calling us to a job that
ot relict-giving variety, become less and less re
warding and satisfying as the days go by?
For how many of us
existence simply getting
we, in 1. S. Lhot s words,
in cotice spoons.
For how many of us is a diversion almost
any diversion rapidly becoming our raison
d'etre, the lure and promise of a change from the
drudgery of our daily routine that keeps us going?
A!
ND perhaps isn't that
tent, or at least a minor factor in it?
The cliche has it that "Variety is the spice
of life," but perhaps it is the substance of life
too. We are not all the things we should be, we
allow our potential for diversification to wither
in neglect, and, as a consequence, we suffer from
it.
The late James Thuiber put his finger on it
in I he becret Life ot Walter Mitty. All of-us
in our daydreams have yearned not to be some
thing other than what we are. but more and big-
gel- than what We are.
j Hobbies and recreational mirsuits for which
Americans spend billions of dollars each year,
give us some outlet, but they aren't enough. They
usually lack the vital factor of productiveness.
GET all this down as immaturity or lack of a
sense of responsibility if you like, but we
think it is a dilemma which is apt to pinch harder
as time goes on.
The irony of the whole matter is, of course,
that though we now have more and more free
time, we are using it less and less in a way which
is calculated to ease the bind.
The potential for varied accomplishments, for
development of latent and innate skills, continues
to be stifled, and the image of modern man con
tinues to be a narrow one. G.H.B.
I. K
they had to admit that
was pretty unorthodox,
the case turned to his
with a wistful, sheepish
as in milady's boudoir,
brutality, he stands as
what man once was
does the zest of life,
is the alarm clock in
has, bit by bit, for lack
is the narrow rut of our
deeper and deeper, as
measure out our lives
the root of our discon
"What Do You Think Of Der Junge?"
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What Happened?
To the Editor: "What hap
pened?" is the question that
the economic experts ask as
they rub their eyes and
scratch their heads. All of
which demonstrates how ig
norant our economists are of
the nature of our economy.
Our economy is tied up in our
social system. Wall Street is
but one segment of our social
system. Our social system ex
tends throughout the entire
"free world." And strange as
it may seem, our social and
economic system, also our fi
nancial structure, has a sex
angle.
As a rule the female spouse
outlives her mate, she often
buys security with her life
insurance check as well as
becoming owner of what prop
erty is inherited in the form
of stocks and bonds. Thus we
see the vital Influence wield
ed by women on the stock
market.
There is another factor of
influence on Wall Street and
that is the question of Time.
People grow old and eventu
ally die. Doctor bills, hospi
tals, nursing homes and fu
nerals often demand that
property of all kinds, Includ
ing stocks, to be sold to de
fray expenses. Senility and
death has a bearish effect on
Wall Street, enough to cause
the gradual sag since the
first of the year. People have
been -selling stocks for the
purpose of living and dying.
Then there are other fac
tors not of a "bullish" nature
such as the White House, the
Congress, growth of Social
ism, the Communist threat,
the Berlin crisis and the gen
eral instability of the econom
ic and social condition of the
"free world."
Then when spring came
with a desire for new clothes
and garden seed-well that did
It. Stockholders went to cash
ing in. Both men and women
went to selling stocks, spend
ing money and enjoying life.
A biological pattern followed
by the ancient Sunworshlp-
ers. Life is for the living.
Walter Reece
77 Manzanita st.
Ashland, Ore.
Lemurians?
To the Editor: One of the
mysteries connected with sup
posed phenomena of the Sar
ln the Day's News
By FRANK
From New York:
Reacting front the gains
made In Its big iccovery, the
stock market swung iowor
early Friday af'.jrnoon (East
ern Daylight Time) In heavy
trading.
Key stocks fell from frac
tions to one or two points. The
volatile "growth" stocks and
other high priced Issues show
ed losses ranging to about a
half dozen points.
That was about the situa
tion at mid-morning Friday
(Pacific Standard Time.)
TTERE is a quickie break
'down on the situation up
to Thursday night as summar
ized by Jesse Boguc. UPI's
financial editor. It is based on
Standard and Poor's indexes:
Monday's loss was about
$208 billion. Tuesday's and
Thursday's gains (Wednesday
was a holiday, with the ex
change closed) amounted to
about $21 8 billion.
So far, it has been a big
bust followed by a big re
covery. ll'HAT Is happening?
" Well, people are Jittery.
Why arc they Jittery?
THIS iriMitj to be the an-
swer:
A decade and half ago,
the case.
dine creek House of Mystery
commonly known to most of
the earlier citizens still sur
viving in and around Gold
Hill, was the fact that the old
building was used for a lab
oratory and assay office for
the famous Corporal "G"
mine nearby, operated in the
1890s. There was formerly a
trap door in the assay office
floor where the metalurgist
dumped the concentrates
which were principally mag
netite.
The story as was told to this
writer by the old gold miners
who worked at the mine ex
plained that all operations
ceased because all instru
ments used v.'lthin a certain
radius of the mine and assay
office would not function in
a normal manner any longer.
On the opposite side of
Sardine creek is Drummond
gulch where the bed-rock is
exposed on the surface that
clearly shows deep lines or
tracks made in some pre
historic age.
When we view those pecu
liar indelible markings it
seems to fill our imaginations
with the thought: Did the
former Lemurians once leave
any evidence that they may
perhaps have occupied this
port of scenic wonderland of
which is now part of south
west Oregon?
Bert Kissinger
320 Boardman st.
Medford
Cold Storage
To the Editor:
The Eskimos are "Jolly
Joes,"
They live where lots of
nothing grows,
Adhere to ancient tribal
laws,
Love dogs, papooses and
their squaws.
When dotage comes, they
have a way
To help their tribes, sans
A.M.A.
When Paw and Maw can't
grub aroun'
They haul them off and Ice
'cm down.
No fuss, no muss as you
can see:
It's "Eskimo Social
Security."
George Distell
158 Vashti Way
Medford.
JENKINS
stocks (meaning shares in
American corporate business)
were selling on the average at
about seven times their aver
age earnings per share.
When the big bust came on
Monday, they were selling at
nearly TWENTY TIMES their
average earnings per share.
ITOW did all
this come
"r
about?
Inflation appears to have
been the principal cause of it.
As costs of production rose,
PRICES rose in response. We
called it the wage-price spiral.
It looked to a lot of people
like the way to heat the spiral
ing inflation was to buy
shares in American industry.
As inflation Increased, share
prices rose. The rise In share
prices tended to offset the
erosion in the purchasing
power of the dollar. The rise
in stock prices offered at the
same time the Intriguing pos
sibility of paper profits.
OO-
Share prices kept on rising
IN SPITE OF THE FACT that
the profits of American cor
porate business were not
rising rapidly enough to jus
tify the increase In the price
of shares.
.That appears to be about
what has happened.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Foreign News: Docile Refugees; Cool
East German-Yugoslav Relationships
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign
cables:
Refugee Docility
The recent influx of refu
gees into Hong Kong from the
Communist controlled China
mainland pro
vlded the
most visible
evide nee to
date of the
numbing ef
fect of more
than a dozen
years of Red
rule. Observ
ers in Hong
LmJ
Newiom is. o n g notea
that most of the 62,000 who
EH
Washington Report
By William
;cl United Feature Syndicate
THE VETERANS
Washington- Speaking of
Wall Street and all that, the
most sensitive economic fac
tor of all is
never men
tloned in writ
ing by the fl
n a n c 1 a 1
experts or
measured on
the brokers'
charts. This
factor X is
middle - aged
American
male. Old
Wblt
enough to recall in the most
personal way the great de
pression of the 'thirties, he
is forever marked by his mem
ories and forever scarred by
his nightmare.
He is like an ex soldier
(which is often exactly what
he is, too) who nearly 17 years
after the war's end still
wakes sometimes at night to
hear the howl of a dive bomb
er that is not there and the
flat, burring whistle af a
sniper's rifle long since lost
and rusted in the silent dust
of peace. . '
ALL THE
large it
same, by and
is middle-aged
American male who largely
controls investment in this
country. He represents that
class which has the most mon
ey and the most of manage
ment. His state of morale is
thus at the vital center of our
business affairs. The point of
special delicacy, to put it as
gently as possible, is that his
responses to any break in
stock prices, large or small,
are likely to be ridden by an
anxiety that is irrationally
keen.
Let him hear that the tick
er tape is running 15 minutes
behind and his mind, in spite
of himself, begins to cry hav
oc, even if his voice does not.
For, you, see, he is suffering
from economic combat fa
tigue, and will until he dies.
Bluntly, it is a pity, for all
these reasons, that he does
so largely control our eco
nomic affairs. For his counsel
is usually the counsel of ex
treme timidity. And his view,
in spite of himself, is the view
of a man who knows too well
what it is to be hit by shrap
nel.
IT IS NOT that his fears are
always unworthily and
selfishly personal. It is sim
ply that some button In his
head presses itself and there
unrolls before his conscious
ness a panorama of 30 years
ago. Even If he had and kept
a good job or income then,
ne, too, was one of the vic
tims. Granted any decent hu
man compassion and this
he usually had he remem
bers his sense of guilt toward
the older and quite often bet
ter men who would drop by
in gallant hopelessness to (ook
for a job that was not there.
Or if he himself was one
of the jobless, he remembers
the flat, gray dreariness of
it all, when every day of the
year was November and ev
ery day of the year, however
blazing the sky, was filled
with falling rain.
Indeed, and come to th'nk
of it. this fellow, this mirirllp.
aged American male, de-Keal th theological ignorance
serves not merely this small at the core of their belief,
understanding biit also some j They really think that God
small salute. If ever there I should be a kind of divine
was truly a "lost generation" j thermostat to automatically
it was. and is, his. A long regulate the moral tempera
time ago he came, thin of bcl-' ture of the universe,
ly and high of hope, from j St. Thomas tells us that all
college into a world which . wc can TeMy "know" about
thereupon broke around his God are negative things, not
eager nead. positive things. We can know
S,,r,,,,. . .... . . . what He is NOT, rather than
OMEHOW. by 1941. he had j what ,. and'tnis is what
w"rd h!f passage,,,,, science 0( tncoiogv can
through the endless years and ' hclp us find out, s0 that our
uc wm .ning cailea success
nd a "little wife and per-
haps a child or two. But then
Hitlerism struck and off he
went to some Camp Cornponc
and then upward from some ! oftcn closer to the truth than
foreign foxhole and forward i so-called believers, as many
into the blasts of many fires ' theologians will sadly admit.
and having to command j The man who denies the exist
men who were really boys'ence of this magical god is
to go with him. I nearer reality than the man
At last he came home to a ' who affirms it. Where the
country which was no long-' atheists and agnostics go
er quite his and to a society wrong Is In assuming that the
which was rather uglier than god of superstitution is also
he had remembered and the god of theology. In reli
sometimes, too, to learn that gion, we cannot even agree
the "little wife'' was his no j,nnevhat we are disagreeing
longer, either. I about.
crossed the border were so
docile that when they were
being returned to the main
land they made no organized
effort to remain in free soil.
This, observers pointed out,
is one reason why the "spon
taneous uprising" long pre
dicted by the Chinese Nation
alists is not considered very
likely.
East Germany-Yugoslavia
Look for a further cooling
off of East German-Yugoslavia
relations. These have been
far from cordial in recent
months, and they are slated
to get worse. Yugoslavia's
leaders obviously have come
to the conclusion that their
move in extending diplomatic
S. White
So, don't blame him too
much that he is more gunshy
now than he really ought to
be. His generation has had a
good deal, one way or an
other, in its time. And so the
smallest, vaguest thread of a
threat of yet another war, a
war of privation at home, puts
him into a private panic which
it is not good to know or
show.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
GOD'S LIMITATIONS
"I wish I were God," said
Michael the other day. I asked
him why. "Because God can
do anything,
he said. "And
I'd like to be
a b 1 e. to do
anything
I wanted to.
Of course
every child
wishes to be
omnipo tent,
Harris us never get
over the desire. But what in
terested me in my son's re
mark was not the common
place desire but the utter mis
understanding we have about
God not only among child'
ren, but among most adults
as well,
It would shock the great
majority of Christians (and
other believers as well) to be
told that God has no free
will, while people have. But
this is absolutely the case.
God cannot do evil and free
will is the power to do good
OR evil.
He cannot be involved in
a contradiction. He cannot
be less than perfect. He
cannot change the past. He
cannot relinquish His
power. He cannot change
His mind. There are a thou
sand things a child can do
that God cannot do. He is
permanently and irrevoc
able bound by His nature.
There is no point, of
course, in telling any of
this to a child. But most
adults are not aware of it.
They look upon God as a
super-magician, performing
feats with the utmost free
dom. This is a superstitious
view of deity, not a rellg
gious one.
Michael's God for all
young people are pagans
at first is an old man with
a long white beard who
lives in Heaven and has un
limited power. He can
create and destroy. He can
change whatever He likes
in the universe. This re
mains, at bottom, the God
of most people, no matter
what they call themselves.
And when such people, in
moments of grief, exclaim,
"How could God allow such
a thing to happen?" they re.
i be,ipf5 will nol be mer. ..
.,i,i.nl j ,,ii !,.,
Hons.
Atheists and agnostics are
relations to include the East
German Communists has not
paid off - particularly in the
economic field.
Relations between the two
Communist lands took a sharp
drop downward shortly after
the anti-refugee wall was
built in Berlin last Aug. 13.
Belgrade authorities recently
have granted political asylum
to discontented East Germans
vacationing in Yugoslavia.
Tough De Gaulle
Officials in Paris predict
some tough talking from Pres
ident Charles de Gaulle when
he addresses the French na
tion June 8. He is likely to
stress again his determination
to carry through his Algerian
policies regardless of criticism
and to take near-dictatorial
powers if necessary to do so.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
"WHEN THE LATE Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward,
W Angel" became a big best seller, his publisher, Scrib
ners, received a request from a VIP for an autographed
copy. Wolfe paced up
and down the Seribner
office for a full half hour
pondering what to say.
Finally his face bright
ened, he seized a pen,
and wrote in the book,
"Sincerely yours., Thomas
Wolfe."
An ambitious book sales
man was endeavoring to
sell a Los Angeles retailer
a hundred copies of a hand
some new gift edition of
Elizabeth Browning's "Son
nets from the Portuguese."
The retailer snorted, "What do I want an item Ilka that fort
There aren't a hundred Portuguese in this whole neighborhood!
Two venerable gentlemen met on the verandah of a New
England inn one summer's day in the 1880s. One of them spiced
his conversation with to many elaborate quotations that th
other grew curious and Interrupted with, "What did you say
your name was, my good sir?" "BarUett," was the answer.
"John Bartletf
O 1963. by Bennett Cert. Distributed bi- Else Features STBSleat
Heavy Construction
industry Accuses
Building Trades
Washington-ll'PD-The heavy
construction industry has ac
cused building trades unions
of making exorbitant wage de
mands and has appealed to
the Kennedy administration to
fight them.
William E. Dunn, executive
director of the Associated
General Contractors of Amer
ica Inc., said Sunday the gov
ernment should tell the unions
that "the guidelines develop
ed by the President's Coun
cil of Economic Advisers were
Slock Price Skid
PossibleWarning,
Graham Declares
Chicago (LTD Evangelist
Billy Graham Sunday said he
saw warnings of doomsday in
last week's stock market skid
and crisis In Southeast Asia.
Graham was to speak to
night on "Problems of the
American Home" when he be
gins the sixth night of his
Chicago Crusade, which he
called one of the most success
ful ever. The revival meetings
are being held at the giant
McCormick Place Convention
Hall.
An afternoon session Sun
day drew an overflow crowd
of 44,000, of which 913 step
ped forward to make "de
cisions for Christ."
The first five days of the
crusade have drawn a total
of 166.000 persons and result
ed in 4,650 decisions.
Warning Seen
Graham said Sunday that
God may be warning men
that "the end of our age is
near."
Graham pointed to last
week's sharp drop in the
stock market, the crisis in
Southeast Asia and Russia's
possession of the hydrogen
bomb as possible warnings
from God.
"As God destroyed the an
cient city of Sodom because
of Its sins," He may be warn
ing us we could suffer the
same fate, Graham said.
"God could be saying
Re-
pent before it is too late'.'
Resorf Hotel at
Seaside Planned
Portland - C?ti - Plans for a
200-unit resort hotel at Sea
side have been announced
heie b a rui iland group, the
Promenade Corp.
The corporation said it has
purchased all the Louis Albert
property at the Turnaround.
Pakistan Policies
President Mohammad Ayub
Khan of Pakistan and his top
foreign policy advisers nre
taking a long, hard look at
their country's foreign policy.
They are considering the nec
essity of adjusting relations
with Communist and neutral
ist countries, which would
mean less devotion to the
SEATO and CENTO alliances.
Many newspapers have
been criticizing Pakistan's
membership in these military
alliances and urging stronger
ties with Red China and Rus
sia. Sources in Karachi say
that Red Chinese Premier
Chou en-Iai - or some other
high Peiping official - may
be expected to go to the Pak
istan capital to settle out
standing problems on the
Kashmir border question.
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meant to apply to them the
same as to anybody else."
Dunn told a news confer
ence that higher prices in
evitably would result if pend
ing negotiations ended in set
tlements calling for wage and
tringe benefit increases of
more than 4 per cent a year.
ne said the unions were
engaging in a tactic of "di
vide and conquer" by signing
with one or two construction
firms at a time. "We can see
that happening all across the
country," he said. "If this goes
on another month they (con
tractors) will fold or go
broke."
Asks for Statement
Dunn said that Labor Sec
retary Arthur J. Goldberg or
waiter W. Heller, cha rman
of the Council of Economic
-v
Advisers, should reiterate the
administration's wage - price
guidelines to the unions.
A spokesman for Goldberg
said the secretary had deliver
ed such a message to the
building trades in statements
applicable to all unions and
industries.
The Labor Department
spokesman declined to say if
Goldberg , would issue a new
statement aimed specifically
at the building trades. Heller
could not be reached for com
ment. Dunn's request could be a
source of discomfort to the
administration. Since the in
tensive federal 'ntervention In
steel contract talks and the
President's assault on the
the short-lived steel price in
crease, the administration has
been trying to avoid overt in
volvement in specific labor
management situations.
The guidelines referred to .
by Dunn declare that contract
settlements should be limited
by increases in productivity,
so that increased output per
man-hour is sufficient to pay
for higher wages without rais
ing prices.
West Coast Strikes
Dunn estimated that about
250,000 construction workers
are now on strike or out of
work because of strikes. Most
of these stoppages are on the
West Coast, he said, especial
ly in Northern California,
Arizona, Tocoma-Seattle, Spo
kane, and Portland.
Of 62 contracts being nego
tiated in mid-May, Dunn said,
20 per cent involved union
demands which would cost
more than 50 cents an hour
each year. In another 45 per
cent, he said, unions sought
from 20 to 50 cents an hour
in the balance less than 20
20 cents.
"Anything over 20 cents
could be considered unreason
able," he said.
The Associated General
Contractors is composed of
7.500 builders of highways,
big buildings snd other heavy
engineering work.
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