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History from the tiles of The
Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Dac. It, 1952 (Wednesday)
Donnie Cook, 4 -year. old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cook,
Is flown to Portland by Air
Force rescue plane for emer
gency treatment of a kidney
ailment.
Approximately 88.1 per
cent of Medford residents own
or are buying their own
homes, according to recent
census report.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. IS, 1942 (Saturday)
Medlord High, school s
"revolutionary milita r 1 z e d
physical education program"
featured in article entitled
"Mayhem in Medford" appear
ing in Time magazine.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudce Pot" column: "Stock
men have started pitching $25
per day hay at steers."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 18, 1932 (Monday)
Officials of Medford school
district announce proposed
budget of $179,703 for coming
year. .
Blizzard leaves 24 Inches of
now in Crater Lake National
park In 22 hours, closing high
ways for. winter.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. IS. 1922 (Tuesday)
Efforts to gain post-season
football game for Medford
High school with Scott High
school of Toledo, Ohio, end
when Scott signs for game
with Corvallis.
Carl Y. Tengwald elected
commander of Medford
American Legion post.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 18. 1912 (Thursday)
Medford city streets sanded
to save horses from falls on
Icy pavement.
Turkeys reported tn be
plentiful on local market for
25 cents a pound.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine er tea correct h tuperlei!
even er eight It oicellant,- five er
til it good.
1. How many faces
thrrc on a cube?
are
2. In the nursery rhyme
,whal did the dish run away
: with?
.1 The drink made from the
Juice of apples is cider; what
is the drink made from pears
called'
4. Do trade winds always
blow In the same direction?
3. How many pawns does
a chess set contain?
6. How much fencing is
needed to enclose field ten
feet long. If It Is twice as
long as it is wide?
7. How did Mohammed die?
8. What is another name
for mercury?
9. In what body of water
Is the Isle of Man?
10. Are hard or soft woods
heller for coals in a camp
fire? Answers: 1, Six, 2, The
spoon. 3. Perry. 4. Yet, from
east toward the Equator. S.
Sixteen. 8. 30 feet. 7. He was
poisoned. I. Quicksilver. I.
The Irish Sea. 10. Hardwoedt,
Portlandtr Appointed
To Iran University
Portland - OTP - Dr. Ken
nelh . Livingston of Port
land has been appointed medi
cal educator at Shlrez uni
versity fn Iran for the IT 3.
Agency for International De
velopment. Livingston, a neurosurgeon,
will leave for Iran after jx
weeks of orientation In Wash
incton. D C.
4 A
DECEMBER II. 1S2
Muddy
The Grants Pass Courier recently asked edi
torially, "Why drain the lake at Savage Rapids?"
We thought it was a good question and set
out to find the answer.
An irrigation district official said there are
five reasons why the level of the Rogue above
the dam is lowered in the wintertime. They are
these
1. ' To help alleviate high water during periods
of flooding.
2. To permit work to be done on equipment.
3. To save wear and tear on the dam.
4. To minimize downstream muddiness and
siltation. .
5. Because "we've always done it.
NUMBER five is, of course, no reason at all.
Numbers 1 and 2 are valid, but would hardly
seem to necessitate low water all winter long.
Number 3 may or may not be valid, although
how serious wear and tear would be is question
able. ,
Number -4 is also questionable.
We suspect that the real reason is that the
irrigation district has little or no interest in the
esthetics of the river, or in whatever recreational
value it may have in the winter, and is chiefly
interested in convenience, and in how "we've
always done it."
THUS, despite the reasons cited by the district,
we are inclined to agree with the Courier.
It said:
"... It is ridiculous that (the lake) must be drained
every fall to remain a mass of messy muddy banks,
jagged scars and altogether an unsightly place when
it is such a beautiful expanse in the irrigation season.
When the river ebbs to its normal expanse and depth
for the non-irrigation months, it's pretty much of an
eyesore at the otherwise beauty spot in the summer
season."
We think the district needs more substantial
reasons than those given for permitting the mud
dy mess to remain all winter. E.A.
Tough
Speaking of irrigation districts, they are
among the most important governmental sub
divisions in this "semi-arid" part of the state, and
also perhaps among the least understood units
of government.
The job their officials
difficult and touchy one,
engineering ability and know-how, but also con
siderable amounts of diplomacy and political
savvy, a working knowledge of the weather, ad
ministrative competence,
ality which can get along
bosses and clients.
It is our view that the
well served by its irrigation district managers.
e
AIUCH of the credit for the approval and con
struction of the Talent project troes to the
managers of the valley's irrigation districts. The
same is true of the successful attempt for author
ization of the much larger Rogue Basin project,
of the much smaller. Agate Dam project, and of
the rehabilitation work.
These men must see that available water is
distributed equitably and fairly, must see to the
maintenance and improvement of the water dis
tribution systems, must contend with a rising tide
of recreation-seekers.
AH this adds up to a difficult, demanding job.
which, in the main, has been well performed
locally. E.A.
Diverse Traditions
Christmas is such a firmly-fixed event in the
lives and habits of Americans it is a bit difficult
to realize that the holiday today, with its mix
ture of the religious and pagan, and its vast com
mercialization, is a relatively new development.
Its celebration was actually forbidden by law
in colonial New England, because the Puritans
believed that such activities were wholly pagan.
So many differing traditions enter into Christ
mas celebrations that sometimes it is difficult to
sort them out.
""THERE is first, of course, the religious observ-
vance the celebration of the birth of the
Christ Child. Although there is considerable
doubt that Dec. 25 actually is the proper day,
there is no doubt of the sincerity of most Christ
mas worshippers.
But there are also the traditions of Turkish
St. Nicholas, who, by the way of Holland and
Germany, eventually became the strictly Ameri
can Santa Claus; of the Yule log and mistletoe
and hollv wreaths and decorated trees and was
sail bowis all of them blending into a curiously
homogenous type of celebration dispite the di
versity of their origins.
And it would seem that the commercialization
is simply a logical outgrowth of these diverse tra
ditions, combined with the easy affluence of the
richest and most spendthrift nation on earth.
THERE is a question as to whether the vast
sums spent on Christmas advertising, and on
the development and merchandising of an
astounding variety of goods, is the result or the
cause of the flood of Christmas sentiment and
spending.
Terhaps a little of both.
Whatever and however it has become, it is
America's most beloved holiday, and it is a
Scrooge indeed who does not feel a little kind
lier toward his fellows during its season. E.A.
Mess
Job
do is an exceedingly
and requires not only
and the kind of person
with a wide variety or
Rogue Valley has been
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contrary is often the case.
Teener's Christmas Wish
To the Editor:
Dear Santa:
This Christmas I don't want
candy or a toy.
I d like to have a gift wrap
ped boy!
I prefer eyes of brown but
I'll take blue,
Hair that's light or dark
will do.
Have him stand about six
feet tall,
Sweet, considerate, a living
doll.
A good sense of humor and
full of romance.
A real slick dresser and be
able to dance.
I want my guy near IS or
17.
Loves sports and on the
basketball team.
The guy of my dreams is
real neat.
Hope my wishes aren't too
hard to meet.
But what I've described is
my ideal.
Oh - and Santa, make sure
he is real!
A Lonely Teen
(Name on File)
Central Point, Ore.
Who's Confuted?
To the Editor: Well, Mr.
Jenny, here I am, one of the
repeaters, reflecting the same
appearance with Insane fear.
After translating your know
how in journalism, and the
"key" words, I decided you
feel you have us "nuts all in
one shell."
Guess I'm a crazy idiot, too
stupid, and ignorant to shut
up. because you have spoken.
When you arrived in Med
ford the red carpet was put
out for you.
Twenty years ago, when I
arrived there also was a red
carpet laid out for all of us,
only it was soaked with blood
from the boys that were fight
ing overseas, with death,
broken bodies and minds
(Camp White is a good ex
ample). So these boys didn't
die in vain, and for those that
are living with broken bodies,
and spirit, I'll keep writing.
As far as confusing the two
(chlorinatinn or fluoridation),
I know they are Halosens
(salt form), and belong to the
same group according to the
periodic law. Fluorine is
more poisonous than chlorine.
Now, I could be wrong, and
I hope I am. But. Isn't the
main issue to make the people
believe the water is contami
nated, so when election comes
around they'll vole for fluoii
dalion? What ever happened
to the theory that when water
runs so msny feet it purifies
itself?
We do have a spring, don't
we?
After fluoridation went
down, chlorinaijon rushed 'n
neatly packed, and labeled
"mandatory."
Mrs. Irma Henderson
729 Dakota ave.
Medford.
For and Against
To the Editor: Recently we
have had two interesting com
munications concerning agin
ners and other. James K.
Shafer and Arnold E. Jenny
voice some interesting paral
lels and divergencies As
Shafer says our different
opinions make us all aginners.
Both gentlemen seem to be
both for and again.it certain
things. For Instance, nudinn
is right for some folks and
wrong for others.
Patty Johnson save men
have to wear pants to hide
knobby knees and hairy legs:
ladies with beautiful nether
extremities may Justifiably
reveal more or lew, usually
more, and still be a lady.
Even so, a female human be
ing, showing a rumble seat
construction that would do
Justice to a beef sieer. is ot
a good argument for nudum
And the sme goes for a male
middle age paunch topping t
pair of hairy pipe stems.
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREOOM
Also, the two scribes agree
they do not smoke. Of course,
that makes them both Chris
tians. Seriously however, re
fraining from these or some
other of the so called small
vices does not make a Chris
tian, but Christians are less
likely to fall a prey to lung
cancer or heart failure in
duced by the practice.
As for the aginners; May
the Lord have pity on the
weak and flacid worm that
has not the back bone or
moral grit to be against the
evils of his time. Whether you
agree or disagree with the
aglnner, he is fighting against
what he believes is a great
evil of his day.
An history reveals there is
the Tory who worships the
Status Quo and is therefore
against the aginner. The pages
of history also reveal a long
list of great men and women
who were aginners. To list a
few: Moses. Elijah, Jesus,
Luther, Wesley, Dickens, Pat
rick Henry, George Washing
ton and his Rebels, Lincoln,
Woodrow Wilson, W. J. Bryan
and more. These were all agin
ners fighting the evils of their
day.
Of course where there are
aginners there are Tories to
oppose them. By police power,
hy perseuction, by torture or
death, the Tories ha e tried
to kill the movements spon
sored by the aginners. Many
times that generation passed
away while the issue was still
in doubt. But history has a
strange way of some times
righting a lost cause. Fre
quently the very statues or
monuments erected by the
Tories to honor their heroes
of the Status Quo, are pulled
down by the next generation
to be cast Into guns or Lib
erty Bells to celebrate the
victory of the aginners.
So, call us aginners if you
wish. We may be travelling
in a glorious company. You
cannot be seriously for some
thing without being against
its opposite.
L. G. Weaver,
301 Haven St.,
Medford
Humane Education
To the Editor: Through edu
cation and daily contact with
our environment, certain civic
and moral standards are set
to live by. These customs or
rules are flexible to a degree,
but in general, there is main
tained a more or less stable
margin of obligation to our
society.
Of all the subjects taught.
none is more ignored than
the humane treatment of our
animal friends. I'm sure it
is from a lack of humane
education that many of these
cruelties exist. For instance,
many a person who abandons
an animal along a highway
or country road might reason
that these pets would be
adopted by neighboring farms
and thus given homes. How
ever, this, too. often, is not
the case. Instead, these crea
ture.", bewildered and con
fused, ere left to fend for
themselves.
Every day scores of these
cases come into our humane
societies and county pounds.
Others remain out in a world
in which they cannot live
healthy and happy lives with
out assistance from us. Some
come in diseased and hurt,
others so emaciated and
weak lhat they can barely
stand. In the naive of com
mon decency
we surely owe !
them more than this I'm con-ileal
vlnced much of this could be'
righted hv prooer education
The other liiv, a puppvi
which had been literally j
thrown from a moving t-l
hide, was brouzht Into the
humane society. People come
in trying to get rauv to train the Earth Its surface tern-! onautics and Space Admini
their hounds with, of course j perature j a sizzling 600 de-lstration are ready to reveal
without success. Then therejgrees much too hot for I what Mariner told them.
British, Despite Loss
Power, Still Retain Responsibilities
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI rereign News Analyst
When former Secretary of
State Dean Acheson asserted
that Britain's role as a great
world power
was "about
played o u t,"
he drew a
roar of pre
tests from
London.
From the
standpoint of
empire, Ache
ion had a
point. And
LSSJ
ewtoBj
whether, as Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan said, Ache
son was misunderstanding the
role of Britain and the com
monwealth, could be a matter
for debate.
While Albion may have lost
most of his empire, he occa
sionally shows that he has a
bite as well as a roar.
One such time came in
swift British military reaction
when the Yemen revolt threat
ened to spread into the Aden
are cases of extreme cruelty,
such as dogs on very short
chains, left for days with
neither food, water oi proper
shelter, and of course, no op
portunity for exercise.
Bring your unwanted pets
to the local humane society.
The address is 2902 Table
Rock Road (telephone is 664
2406). We will be happy to
show you our facilities and
give you pamphlets on prop
er care of your pels. Our ad
mitting hours for visitors are
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. At other
times, pets can be brought
and deposited in the self
service cages whenever con
venient. Charles "Chuck" Irion,
Humane Officer,
2902 Table Rock rd.,
Medford
Christmas Story
To the Editor: Every Christ
mas my husband and I re
mind our children of the real
meaning of this the greatest
of all holidays. In the rush
of getting all the gifts bought
and wrapped it is easy to for
get why we have this celebra
tion and therefore it was heart
warming for us to find the
following story In the type
writer one day. It was writ
ten by our eight year old
daughter. We would like to
share it with all those who
find themselves too busy to
remember the hirth of Christ.
"Now it is Christmas time
all over the world. We cele
brate Christmas because of
Jesus's birth. It is not Just
toys at all.
"Santa Claus is really a
very nice man. Santa Claus
brings toys because he loves
children. ' Some people say
he is a fake but he is really
a man.
"This is my story."
Anna-Kare Morgan.
We wish everyone a very
lovely Christmas.
inga Morgan
211 Vancouver ave.
Medford.
In the Day's News
ly FRANK JENKINS
Question:
How, on this 15th day of
December, 19B2, is one to sit
down at a typewriter and
write a piece on politics, ec
onomics or what have you?
It can't be done.
As this is written, our Mari
ner II spaceship has Just
flown past Venus, some 36
million miles from us but still
our nearest neighbor out in
space, and in response to com
mands transmitted to it from
here on earth has sent back
a report on what it saw as it
whined by.
IF YOU were listening Fri
1 day night you HEARD THE
REPORT. You were not, of
course, able to understand
what it was saying in Its high
pitched, rasping, curiously un
musical voice.
Nor were the listening sci
entists able to give an imme
diate report. The voice that
we heard over radio and TV
night before last will have to
be fed Into computers that
will translate the messages
that Mariner II was sending
back to us across the millions
of miles of space.
But, when translated, these
noises are expected to pro
vide us with a mass of highly
precise scientific data that
may solve scores of astronom-
mysteries.
THE bil mystery, of rourse.
'"': CAN THERE BE
LIFE ON VENUS'
Many astronomers believe
although the planet's
mass and sue are much like
protectorate on the south
coast of the Arabian penin
sula. Another and more re-
Strictly
Personal
ly Sydney J. Htrrii
( MtltJ Inttrprlm Int.
ART AND IDEALISM
Watching the great Pablo
Casals conduct a chamber or
chestra in a Bach suite (in the
closed televi
sion - circuit
program for
the National
Cultural Cen-
t e r last
month), I was
fore i b 1 y re
minded again
that the world
of performers
Harris ana artists is
in many ways a model of what
the outer world ought to be.
collectivism.
Despite the back-bltlng and
envy and childishness of so
many performers, there is an
immense respect for talent
and ability, skill and disci
pline, imagination and inter
pretation. The world of the artist is
supremely the world of the
individual; compared to it,
business and trade (which use
the word "individualism" too
often as a synonym for mak
ing more money without re
straint) are impersonal and
anti-individualistic. The mod
ern corporation, indeed, is a.
prime example of high-level
cellectivism.
In the arts, a man er
woman is judged solely and
wholly by what he can ds
and how well he can do it.
There is a true democracy
of merit, whieh means that
there is also a true aristoc
racy made up of those
who have proved them
selves as individuals, re
gardless of their biek
greund. their national orig
in, their private fallings.
The veneration given to
Casals by his fellow musi
cians is a moving example
of what the entire human
family was meant to be.
This dumpy, bald, hobbling,
ailing eld man, without
money, without power,
without even a country of
his own, commands the ut
most respect of artists
throughout the world be
cause of his vast ability and
his fierce dedication to the
highest goals of his craft.
What an artist (if he is
really an artist) wants to
be is the best not the big
gest or the rici.est or the
most famous. His end is a
value net a commodity; and
true civilisation can survive
only when we piece values
above commodities. The
least practical, and most de
structive, thing a society
can do is to enshrine the
practical above the "ideal
istic." What Is immensely appeal
ing, in a deep human sense,
about the arts is that they re
main one of the few areas in
which true individualism can
flourish; in which the creator
and the performer is a per
son directly communicating
with other persons; in which
his ancestors, language, con
nections, and superficial traits
are totally subordinated to his
professional skill.
A state which cannot pro
duce and sustain such art is
doomed, however tall Its
buildings or powerful its ar
maments; and both "democ
racy" and individualism" can
be measured by the ways in
which those who are gifted
In other areas shape their lives
to give fuller expression to
the higher parts of their na
ture, and not merely to the
appetitive part we share with
all animals.
life as we know it. But, these
scientists add. the tempera
ture readings by instruments
here on earth may come from
an electronically charged ion
osphere far above what AP
PEARS at this distance to be
the surface of Venus
The planet's TRUE surface,
these scientists theorize,
COULD be a lush jungle, a
wind-swept desert, a bound
less ocean or a furnace. The
a ,rm Mariner when un-
raveled, mav solve this Fut
ile. That is why this moment
is such an exciting moment.
I 'TODAY'S big question:
When will we know what
! Mariner II was reporting Fri
day night when we heard its
voice coming to us over the
air w aves?
The answer seems to be that
we will know whenever the
scientists of the National Aer-
of Empire
cent example, came when
Britain rushed tough Gurkha
troops and commandos into
revolt-threatened Brunei and
Sarawak on the northwest
coast of Borneo, half a world
away from London.
True, compared to the epic
stands of empire these were
piddling actions.
This was not the thin red
line of Rudyard Kipling, nor
yet the British charge against
the whirling dervishes of the
Sudan as once described by
war correspondent Winston
Churchill.
But in a changing world
Britain still has and maintains
its global commitments.
Brunei, a sultanate under
British protection, and Sara
wak and British North Bor
neo, crown colonies, together
make up the northern portion
of the island of Borneo. The
remainder is held by Indo
nesia. At various times, both the
Philippines and Indonesia
have laid claim to the British
held portions.
Denying the legitimacy of
both claims, Britain intends
that eventually North Borneo,
Matter of Fact 1 Joseph Altop
(el New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE COMING RUPTURE
Paris The Soviet Union
and the Chinese Communists
are now quite clearly on the
very brink of
a final, open
rupture which
will split the
world Com-
ring camps.
The West
ern experts on
Communist af
fairs, once so
unanimous that nothing of the
sort would ever happen, are
now nearly as unanimous that
the final rupture can hardly
be avoided. The stages in the
macabre, wordy but crucially
significant Journey towards
the brink of rupture are well
worth summarizing.
First, the Chinese were vi
ciously denounced but not
by name at the Bulgarian
and Hungarian party congress
es. They responded with
equally vicious denunciations
of the Soviets not by name
to which they added that
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia,
then about to be received in
Moscow with open arms, was
a "traitor." !
Second, the denunciations
of the Chinese continued at
the Italian and Chechoslovak
ian party congresses; but now
they were openly named, both
by the Czech parly boss An
tonin Novotny and some of
the Italians. These speeches
naming the Chinese were then
printed in Moscow, thus put
ting the Soviet man in the
street on notice of the depth
of the trouble.
Third, the attack on the
Chinese was continued with
mounting vigor by Khrush
chev himself, in the presence
of the "traitor" Tito, at the
recent session of the Supreme
Soviet. In part, Khrushchev
said his say about the Chinese
by talking about the Alba
nians. . a
lHRUSHCHEV added to
this passage of his speech,
however, that the Albanians
were like nasty little boys
who took money from even
nastier grown men who
thought it a good joke for
the boys to shout dirty words
at respectable people. He also
twitted the Chinese bv name
for permitting "fragments of
imperialism" to "remain in
tact" at Hong Kong and Ma
cao.
The Supreme Soviet heard
shots directed at the Chinese
from subsequent speakers, and
it was further edified hy an
"Thal'i rleM, dear. Take
ltst anel put Tits back en .
put Cestre en the gift lilt
tf-vji PT. move"
ri. . lr 1 into two war-
aTine
and
Sarawak and Brunei shall be
joined with Singapore a nil
Malaysia which would be an
independent member of the
commonwealth of nations.
It was to prevent establish
ment of this federation that
early this month a revolt
broke out In Brunei and
spread quickly to Sarawak.
Self-proclaimed leader of
the revolt was a man named
A. M. Azahari, leader of the
dominant People's party
which is aligned with pro.
Communists in Singapore and
reportedly receives heavy fi
nancial aid from Red China.
Oil makes Brunei . the)
wealthiest of the Borneo ter
ritories. It has no personal
income tax and interest from
investments pays most of the
government's expenses. There
are free schools, free medical
benefits and old age pensions
for all.
Rebel leader Azahari, beat
en this time, professes to want
an autonomous Borneo state
linked loosely with a Malay
sian union. For the British
it is a problem of accomplish
ing peaceful evolution in act
vance of violent revolution.
address from the "traitor"
Tito. The Chinese thereupon
replied by openly publishing
a secret inter-party letter to
the Czech party congress, bit
terly complaining about the
attacks on them and on the
Albanians, and angrily de
manding a world meeting of
Communist leaders from all
countries.
There is no likelihood that
the Soviets will agree to such
a meeting. The Chinese want
it, solely because It would
serve to show they have some
support, from the North Ko
reans, perhaps from the North
Vietnamese, and from certain
Communist parties in the free
half of the world, in Latin
America and elsewhere.
The precise pattern of the
next stage of this ferocious
slanging match is in fact far
from clear. It is abundantly
clear, however, that plaster
ing over the cracks once again
has become all but impossible.
The relationship cannot be im
proved except by the surren
der of one of the two disput
ants. And since such a sur
render is highly unlikely, the
relationship is almost bound
to deteriorate still further.
Hence the predictions of final
rupture. i
TN THESE circumstances, it
begins tb be needful to ask
what the consequences of a
final rupture may be. For the
Chinese, one consequence will
be increased economic diffi
culties; lor the Soviets will
almost certainly cut off their
crucial oil shipments to China.
Another consequence for
the Chinese will be their total
liberation from any slight re
straining influence from Mos
cow. Depending on the degree
of megalomania in Peking,
this can have pretty dramatic
results in Korea, In Viet Nam.
and elsewhere along China's
borders.
In Moscow, meanwhile, sev
erence of the last link with
Peking will almost surely
mean a much stronger drift
towards "revisionism" the
more pragmatic, less repres
sive Communism the Chinese
hate so much.
Overall, this vast develop
ment will also mean great op
portunities and perhaps seri
ous challenges for the West.
That fact, in turn, makes it
all the more regrettable that
the West's annual NATO rally
here was not more fruitful
and constructive and there
fore more worth writing
about. A meeting that is mere
ly more cordial than its pred
ecessor is hardly good enough.
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