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History from the files of Th
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yeara ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Doc. 21, 1852 (Saturday)
Radio station KW1N, Ash
land, sold to M. S. Hamaker,
Ashland, at public auction;
price was $20,000.
Heavy fog layer over Med
ford municipal airport breaks
up when seeded with dry ice
and chemicals.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 21, 1942 (Wednesday)
Public opening of new
United Service Organizations
unit at West Main t. sched
uled In Medford.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
new governor may not be
Inaugurated Bt Salem In time
because the legislature may
not be organized on Monday,
January 11. The slate can get
along without a legislature
better than it can a govern
or." 30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 21, 1932 (Friday)
Petition circulated in Rogue
valley favoring abolishment
of Oregon state game com
mission. Search started for airplane
believed to have crashed Into
mountain side In Dead Indian
area after residents report
seeing it flying at "extremely
low level."
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 21, 1922 (Saturday)
Christmas rush heaviest in
history of Medford post of
fice; total volume expected to
be about 20 per cent above
any previous year.
Tho isands of Rogue valley
residents attend party at com
m u n 1 1 y Christmas tree on
front lawn of city library.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 21. 1912 (Monday)
Two men sentenced to hang
for Medford murder allowed
to receive Christmas gifts and
visitors In county jail at
Jacksonville.
Local businessmen suggest
that four candidates for
mayor of Medford roll dice
1o determine which two of
the four shall remain In the
race.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Does a knot in pine logs
decay more or less quickly
than the rest of the lug?
2. How many years was Cas
ey Stcnglc the manager of the
Yankees?
3. Ill which city is the Uni
versity of Southern California
(USC) located?
4. The professional football
teiiin, the Forty-niners, head
quarters in which city?
5. What is the greatest
source of Internal Revenue
collections in the U.S.?
H. What is meant by the
"distaff" and tile "spear"
sides of a family?
7. What whs tlie name of
the Indian Chief who led the
lndinn forces that wiped out
Custer's loiniuand?
H. Was MKK the goddess of
flight or victory?
0. Where Is the largest for
mnlion of coral?
10. What is the substance In
blood which stops bleeding.'
Answers: 1. Less, 2. 12
years. 3. Los Angeles, Calif.
4. San Francisco, Calif. 5. In
come fax. 6. Female and male
respectively. 7. Sitting Bull.
6. Victory. 9. Great Barrier
reef N.E. Australia. 10. Ft-brinogin.
DtOhMutH ill, labi
Recreational Assault
A massive assault is being mounted on the
needs present and future of outdoor recre
ation in Oregon.
The state already has much in the way of
such development; much more will be forthcom
ing over the next few years.
This was plainly evident at the first meeting
this week of the new Oregon Outdoor Recreation
Council, appointed recently by Gov. Mark Hat
field to keep an eye on the needs of recreation,
and to serve as a coordinating body for all the
various agencies involved
ment and administration.
"THE LIST of organizations engaged in the
recreation field, to a greater or lesser extent,
is an impressive one.
In the federal government alone, there are
the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management,
Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Sports Fisher
ies and Wildlife, Corps of Army Engineers, Na
tional Park Service, Bureau of Outdoor Recre
ation, Federal Power
Guard.
Within state government there are the parks
division of the Highway department, the Fish
and Game commissions, the Marine Board, Fores
try department, Department of Planning and De
velopment, and the Committee on Natural Re
sources, the parent body to the new council.
P'lTIES and counties throughout the state are
also in the field of recreation in a big way.
In the "private sector," there are many firms
and individuals involved, including utilities and
lumber firms, resort operators, concessioners,
and others, including guides and packers. -.
Many associations, clubs and other types of
organization have a stake in recreational oppor
tunities from the Izaak Walton League to the
Oregon Coast Association, and trade associations
in a number of industries and occupations.
A pattern of cooperative endeavor and the
exchange of information among these differing
groups and agencies is gradually developing, but
it has not been fast enough to keep up with the
need. The new council is, among other things,
designed to assist in this trend.
A NUMBER of important gains have been
iiiruc in it,v,t,im wioi
The counties, which
to the recreational wants
now in the parks and recreation business. Many
of them budget substantial amounts for the
purpose.
City park and recreation programs have
grown rapidly.
Federal agencies have begun to receive con
siderably larger appropriations for recreational
purposes. The Forest Service in Oregon has had
its recreational funds more than doubled in the
past few years, and if proposals already approved
by the bureau of the budget are adopted, the cur
rent amount will nearly
Ihe Bureau ot Land
ation with the O&C counties, is putting increas
ing emphasis on recreation, and spending far
more money doing it.
1MANY federal agencies, which never before
have been authorized to pay any attention
to recreational needs, now are being instructed
to do so.
At the state level, the
centrating on acquisition of new sites, and on
developing those already owned. It has made
great strides, both in its philosophy of park ad
ministration, and in physical accomplishment.
The division is recognized as one of the really
great ones in the nation, and the state park sys
tem is classed as one ot the best, it not among
the largest, anywhere.
Forward looking and progressive companies,
such as Portland General Klectric, Pacific Power
and Light, Weyerhaeuser, and others, have done
much to provide additional facilities, usually at
little or no cost to the user.
A LL THESE things are good.
But they are not enough. Demand for outdoor
recreation has overwhelmed all efforts to keep
up with it. And every projection indicates that
this rising tide of outdoor recreation seekers is
going to go higher, with no tapering off in sight.
What is needed is a state recreational policy,
and a plan designed to tie all these things to
gether, to relate them into a meaningful pattern,
and to point out the areas where more work is
needed.
Representatives of most of the interested
groups and agencies serve on the new Outdoor
Recreation Council, and it will be their job to
come up with such a plan.
IN SPEAKING to the first meeting of the coun
' cil. Governor Hatfield put it this way:
"The economic value of outdoor recreation is surely
of sufficient Importance that enunciation of such a
policy Is in the public interest. With the addition of
less tangible values which are of tremendous social and
moral significance, outdoor recreation is indeed vital
to the well-being of all our citizens."
That sums it up well.
New efforts arc needed, not only because of
the intrinsic benefits and enjoyment to be do
rived from wholesome outdoor recreation, but
also because of the very substantial dollars-and-cents
return to the state ami its people which
tourism much of it based on o'i- outdoor recre
ational attractions bring here.
It makes plain good sense both ways. E.A.
in recreation develop
Commission, and Coast
'
once paid no attention
of their citizens, are
triple by next year.
Management, m cooper
parks division is con
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... 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 the case.
Meanest Thief
To the Editor: Seems hard
to realize there are people
who would steal Christmas
presents from beside a mail
box, but that is just what hap
pened. I hope the person who took
it will have a conscience and
return it. It was presents to
our sons from their cousins
in Montana.
Maybe this will alert some
others to be on guard for such
things. Three neighbors saw
the package before it was
stolen.
Mrs. W. B. Nylander
1817 Minear rd.
Medford.
Socialistic Drivel
To the Editor: Who said
there isn't a Santa Claus?
Three thousand miles away in
New York City a newspaper
strike has given us a much
needed respite from the re
prints of the socialistic drivel
spewed forth by the New
York Times. It should happen
to the St. Louis Post Dispatch
also.
M. J. Olson
Route 4, Box 325
Medford.
O
Editor's note: The western
edition of the New York
Times, printed in Los Angeles,
still arrives regularly.
Fine Punning
To the Editor. Though the
pun is considered to be the
iowest form of humor, I
would appreciate it if you
would let Bennett Cerf know
how much we enjoyed his
"play" on the Pythagorean
theorem printed last week.
I think he should change
his nomination from worst to
best of the year.
Marriettc E. Muller
P. O. Box 755
Ashland, Ore.
-O-
Editor's note: We agree. It's
even worth reprinting for
those who may have missed
it:
Nominated for the worst
of the year: the story of three
Indian squaws who were ad
mitted to the maternity ward
at the same time. Chief Wam
pum, head obstetrician, as
signed one to a btiaffalo hide,
the second to an elk hide, nod
the third to a hippopol onus
hide mow where did he got
hold of THAT one?). At any
rate, the squaws on the elk
and buffalo hides caoh nro-
duced a B pound son. But the!
squaw on the hippotamus hide
mothered healthy, 6-pound
twins. All of which proves, of
course, that the sons of the
suiuiw of the hinnonotatmis
equal the sons of Ihe squaws I 'ngness to help people with
of the other two hides. ! pot problems is most sincere,
j as I know from a recent ex-
periencc.
Good Music During Saturday's dense
To the Editor: Whv not have j cv,ninS f"S my dog became
more musical programs dur-1 "nd was r"c pV " -c-inir
those winter months, orl11"' conscientious driver
even through the year,
there is nothing so uplifting
as music, good music of course
jas our schools, all or most of
! them, have their orchestras
or bands, and those students
study hard to get the most
out of it.
And let's have these groups
make plans for a place where
they can play, put on a real
show, where everyone can
walk, or easy to get to, and
enjoy this grand music. Our
city park by the library is a
good place for a permanent
stand Make it a real music
! center. So let s hope for such
i an undertaking in the future '
, as these patents spend a lot
itif tunc and money on these
children hoping it w ill pay ;
off. Even in parades thoy do ;
, not play enough to suit mc
jas I love that band music. j
I So it s my great hope that '
MAIL TH1BUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
our city people will take time
out to see to it that these
young players can have a per
manent place, and each school
can come out and show what
can be done, as most every
one loves music, good music.
So let's hear how others
think on this subject.
Nevah Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Stop Killing Does
To the Editor: To the true
sportsman of Jackson and
Josephine counties. Are you
one who is dissatisfied with
the way the Oregon State
Game Commission is handling
our game herds? I feel as
many true sportsman feel,
that we can't keep on killing
off our docs each year and
have a herd left for you and
me to enjoy the sport of hunt
ing. The Game Commission
would have us to believe that
there is a big herd in Oregon.
Every hunter knows this is
not the case. We all know
what they are doing this for.
They are doing away with the
big game herds in Oregon. All
you have to do is enter the
woods to see that they are
getting the job done. If we
as sportsmen want to enjoy
the sport of hunting for years
to come, then we better do
something about the laws that
the State Game Commission
hand each year.
We here in Jackson and
Josephine counties can help
the rest of the counties in the
state put an end to the killing
of our does.
Let's stop killing off the
does in Oregon. The commit
tees of eastern Oregon have
placed In my hands petitions
to be signed by the hunters
that would like this killing of
the does stopped. Sportsmen
in other parts of the slate
have been signing these pe
titions since last October. Let
the sportsman of Jackson and
Josephine counties have a
hand in seeing that the irre
sponsible Oregon State Game
Commission is stopped in re
gards to killing off our big
game herds. Let's get these
signed petitions to our Rep
resentatives and to the State
Senators. You sign them, I'll
see that they get there. You
can contact me, I'll give you
the petitions.
Walter Craig
1523 Bryant
Medford
Phone 772-8334
Humane Society Help
To the Editor: The letter
written by the Humane Offi
cer and printed in Tuesday's
communications column was
most informative. Their will-
! notified the "Humane Soci
j ety", who immediately pickc.-i
up the injured dog. traced his
ownership and within 45
j minutes was at our door in
1 quiring as to the veterinary
: hospital we patronize,
i Dukie is home now and rc
! covering from his injuries.
Thank you. to a fine organiza
tion the "Humane Society".
Mrs. George Kaiser
32 South Holly st.
Medford
Hospital Comments
To the Editor: I have Just
read an article in the "Pa
rade" magazine, from the Sun
day "Oresonian", dated Dec,
9. 1BH2. and entitled "What's
Wrong W'th Our Hospitals""
by Or Martin Ohoricashry.
director of Montcfiore hos
pital in Now York.
I feel that both of our hos-
Radio Free Europe Will Carry Christmas
Storv to People of Iron Curtain Lands
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
This is the wek end of
Christmas parties, of a long
holiday and finally an ob
servance of a
holy day in
which man
has hb oppor
tunity for self
lessness and a
moment to re
gret his inhu
m a n i t y to
man. There is
much of the
latter in this
4
i
ml
Mewium
world, as the daily news col
umns will attest.
Christmas is a joyous day
into which Christians are
born by virtue of their relig
ion. But it also represents a
philosophy which may be
shared by others.
For too many in this world
it will be a day with little
reason for joy.
Not much for those living
pitals are represented by this
article.
As a mother, I have had
need to make use of the chil
dren's ward in the Rogue
Valley hospital, and found it
to be exceptionally good. The
warmth and consideration
shown was very reassuring,
and the policy of allowing the
mother to stay with the child,
I feel, is a very good one.
However, in making use of
the hospital as an individual,
needing care myself, 1 found
it to be cold, impersonal, and
almost to the point of ignoring
a patient. Also, common-sense
consideration of other people
in the hospital was not shown.
As an example, I was left
sitting in the waiting room,
following an injury, bleeding
all over myself and the floor,
not having even been offered
a band-aid. Surely, if I were
to be left sitting, the emergen
cy ward was a more appropri
ate place. '
At least the personnel isn't
cold enough to allow children
to be left unattended or un
reassured, but I wonder if
that isn't because their crying
would upset the personnel
themselves.
As the article stales, and I
quote, "Nursing, for instance,
must be radically reoriented.
Understanding care of the pa
tient at the bedside, once the
hallmark of good nursing, has
atrophied in the past 15 years.
Today goals in nursing are
distorted."
At least this isn't just a
local problem, but here, in
our own community, is a good
place to begin solving this
problem.
Mrs. Carole Johnson
2024 Kings Highway
Medford.
Legislative Pay
To the Editor: I will be
among the first to admit that
times change and that individ
uals and stales and nations
must progress, for if you stand
still or even hesitate you are
left behind.
We could see that our state
legislators were very much
underpaid at the S600 per
year level, and that if the
wages were to remain at that
low level, we would suffer
because only the rich, retired
or payola types could afford
to be in the state legislature.
During the primary cam
paign I heard some of the rep
resentative and senate candi
dates s-ay, not once, but sev
eral times, "This raise in pay
is a necessary and good thing,
not for us. because we are
willing and know that the
scale is low. The raise means
nothing to us because we arc
prepared and able to serve as
it now stands."
Now here we are, the legis
lature hasn't as yet begun its
session. What, I ask you,
makes the first headline?
What is the first considera
tion? Schools? Taxes? Consti
tutional Revision? State insti
tutions? No sir! StiOO a month
expense money (tax free) and
based on a six month session).
I S3H)
a month salary - that
comes to $1,100 per month.
I'm sure glad we elected
follows who weren't interest
ed in the money. Our public
spirited servants left the sub
ject of a raise wait till first on
the list.
Now here is something else
to ponder. What State has al
ready ordered 200 machines !
to affix and meter cigarette i
tax stamps when no such taxi
has as yet been passed by the '
legislature or approved by the
people?
Could it be a choice like :
daylight time? i
Vote for ONE j
Tax stamp on end
of package
Tax stamp on back
of package .
Tim J. Horn, i
F.ox 14.
White City, Ore. 1
on the east side of the wall
in Berlin.
And not much for th, Hun
garians who revolted against
their atheistic Communist
overlords only to fail when
victory seemed within their
grasp.
These particular thoughts
were evoked by a session this
week with some of the men
who are responsible for Ra
dio Free Europe, a publicly
supported institution, whose
28 transmitters in West Ger
many and Portugal are broad
casting up to 18 hours a day
events of the free world to
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hun
gary, Romania and Bulgaria.
That these broadcasts break
through the Iron Curtain was
attested to recently with the
return to Warsaw of Cardinal
Wyszynskl from the Ecumen
ical Council in Rome.
While the official Polish
press and radio remained si
lent, RFE broadcast th car
dinal's arrival time in War
saw, and as result an enthusi
astic throng was there to
greet him at the railway sta
tion. Despite the Kremlin's anti
church campaign, Communist
failure is evidenced this year
by open observance of Christ
mag throughout East Europe.
RFE will help it along.
Pope John XXIIIY Christ
mas mass and message will
be broadcast.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
The two things that no
man will believe of himself
are that he is not desirable
to women and that he doesn't,
in some deep and mystic way,
really have a
1 quite nice
singing voice.
He may pre-
5. f S tend to depre-
A'! rate his voice
in public, but
the sancti
ty of the bath-
4,s j room, with
s , ... the shower
Harris running full,
when he opens up those vocal
cords, he is privately con
vinced that, given the proper
training, he would have made
Caruso sound like a sick
canary.
This is why I returned so
chagrined from New York.
Strolling through Central
Park with a lovely lyric so
prano from the Met, I had
the audacity to burst out with
the "O Quel Amore" aria
from "La Traviata."
She listened patiently for
a few moments, and then
during a pause while I was
gasping for breath, she
said, "You have absolutely
ihe most horrible vibrato I
have ever heard emanate
from a human throat." Just
like that, cold, bitter, and
final.
I laughed shakily and
pretended to agree with
her, but secretly I was
wounded to Ihe quick-and
I have a pretty slow quick.
Although I abstractly know
what my voice sounds like
to other people, to me it
sounds wonderfully mov
ing. There are days in ihe
shower when I dazzle my
self with my vocal bril
liance and bravura.
Now, this profound and
perpetual inability to hear
oneself is, I am convinced,
the reason so many would
be artists in all fields per
sist in their futile endeav
ors. There are ooets, alas,
who have no ear for their
poetry, and painters who
have no eye for their can
vases. Mv voice sounds beautiful
inside mc, but I am forced to
recognize that it comes out
somewhat mangled. The beau
ty is felt, but not expressed.
With defective artists, their
grave sin is lack of insight
more than lack of talent. They
think that because they "feel"
a poem or a painting that they
have therefore expressed
their feelings adequately.
Ihe worst artists are al
ways the most passionately
sincere. As John Ciardi wrote
in a recent issue of the "Sat
urday Review", most of the
bad poems he receives come
with appended letters saying,
"This is really true: this is
what happened; this is what
I experienced." But translat
ing the truth of feeling into
the truth of art is quite an
other matter - and sincerity
plays only a minor part in it.
Art is the most treacherous
of mistresses, the most con
stantly self-deceiving. Luck
ily. I do not have to depend
upon my singing for a liveli
hood, but if I had I could
never allow myself to believe
that my vibrato is "horrible."
In fact, I don't even believe
it now. After all. what does
lyric soprano from the Met
really know about singing?
There will be carols, and
a new play by children of
Hungarian refugees in Ger
many will let Hungerians
know that their language is
not lost to new generations
now living outside the country.
Washington Report
By William
United Feature Syndicate
THE STRUELENS CASE
Washington - There is an
unpleasant pettiness in the
moves of the unitea siaies
government to kick Michel
J Struelens, a
j frank propa-
ganaisi ior
SV'va s e c e s sionisi
ince in the
Congo, out oi
this country.
But something
far uglier is
involved here.
In this epi
sode there are inescapable im
plications that the United
Nations is beginning 'to dom
inate the domestic policies of
the United States, specifically
our immigration policies, In
such a way as Jo make a kind
of high crime of any active
disagreement with the U. N.
attitudes in Africa.
If Struelens - who is, after
all, an alien - were being
deported simply because his
activities displeased the Uni
ted States, this would be tol
erable - if hardly a wise or
big - action. But the evidence
is strong that this nation is
moving against him not so
much on its own decision but
rather at the demand of the
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What about Cuba?
And . . . especially . . . what
about the Cuban people?
ARE THEY happy with com
munism? Do they regard
it as the answer to their pray
ers during the nearly 400
years when they have yearned
for liberty but haven't had
much of it?
And what of Castro?
1?OR A possible answer to
these questions, let's turn
today to a neutral reporter
a Turk, Goskin Sipahioglu, a
free lance writer from Istan
bul, who was in Havana
throughout the whole Soviet
American missile crisis.
Interviewed in New York
yesterday, he said the whole
island is "seething with sullen
anger against Fidel Castro and
the Communist party." He
added: "I am sure that at least
90 per cent of the Cuban
people are AGAINST the
communists, and against
Castro, too. Even the lowly
campesinos (peasants), who
have been an important
source of support for the revo
lution, are angrily, although
passively, resisting the com
munists." HE SAYS he was told by
Cubans that probably
9.000 Cuban peasants have
been sent to prisons for re
fusing to work in the fields.
Their anger is all the great
er, he says, "because they feel
Castro broke his promises to
give them THEIR OWN lands
but instead nationalized the
land after the Soviet pattern."
WHAT WILL WE DO if
and when the Cubans rise in
rebellion?
We ought to be doing some
thinking about that. We need
to know our own minds and
our own purposes so that we
will be ready to act decisively
if tile Cuban people, sick and
weary of communists and
communism, should RISE
AGAINST CASTRO again
laying their lives on the line
in a desperate move to get rid
of him.
,0-:.Atii.l:sii.
"Can't you quick wash
I green
81
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A Romanian jazz band that
escaped through East Berlin
in September also will be on
the air.
On Jan. 1, the RFE will
start its annual drive in
which it seeks to raise $11
million to continue its operation.
S. White
United Nations that we si
lence this inconveniently hos
tile voice against U. N. efforts
to force Katanga to submit to
the Central Congo govern
ment's authority.
fTiHIS Pressure upon Ka.
tanEra whirh u.o m im
porting, is undoubtedly back-
ed by us in good faith. Our
government fears that unless
mineral-rich Katanga can be
incorporated into the Central
Congo government, that gov.
ernment will fall and be suc
ceeded by a pro-Communist
regime. Such a regime, it is
argued, might "invite" So
viet military assistance, rath
er as Fidel Castro did in
Cuba.
The objective of strength
ening the Central Congo gov
ernment is undoubtedly wise.
The means - including vari
ous U. N. ultimatums and
threats of renewed U. N. mili
tary force - are at least de
batable. In any event, how
ever, all this is beside tha
present point.
For the moment, this col
umn raises only two ques
tions: Has the vilification and pur
suit of Struelens by the Slate
Department been worthy o
a great government? A bi
partisan, nine-man Senate in
vestigating committee has just
said it has not.
AN WE properly allow the
United Nations to cause
us to reverse our historic na
tional tolerance to all points
of view, so long as they are
not seditious or subversive?
Struelens, a citizen of a
western ally, Belgium, has
been subjected to a campaign
of smear and innuendos - of
"Katanga slush funds" and so
on - by State Department and
United Nations officials that
has had no parallel. But the
Senate committee has now
found that the authors of
these excited charges have
been unable to furnish any
evidence whatever of the im
proper use of money. Indeed
they have admitted - in pri
vate testimony - that they
"had not meant to imply"
that sort of thing.
Nevertheless, the same Uni
ted States government which
now prepares to throw out
pro -western Struelens has
given shelter to other foreign
propagandists - including
spokesmen for the left-wing
terrorist movement which
seeks to wrest Angola from
another American western
ally, Portugal. The suspicion
will not down that these lat
ter were not bothered here
because the United Nations
liked their views, and that
Struelens is being ousted be
cause the U. N. does not like
his views.
A KIND of striped - pants
McCarthyism within the
U. N. has for some time been
observable. True friends of
the U. N. must hope that this
perversion of its functions
will not continue. If it does,
the American Congress will
check it in the end, if the ad
ministration does not, by the
simple process of withholding
the funds upon which the
U.N. lives.
One of the Senate investi
gators who have just de
nounced the action against
Struelens is the very man
who most of all brought about
Congressional approval of tho
last U. N. loan. Senator Ever
ett Dirksen of Illinois, the Re
publican leader of the Senate.
it off? The guy wants
treel"