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Flight o' Time
Mcdlord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 6, 1953 (Sunday)
District attorney explains
gambling control policies to
county law enforcement offi
cers. ;
Local Shrincrs arc named
lo high offices of Temple at
annual meeting in Ashland.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 6. 1943 (Friday)
Republicans in United
Stales senate reelect Oregon
Sen. Charles McNary as sen
ate floor leader.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "There
Is a shortage of Young Demo
crats in these parts. Many of
the old arc no longer young,
or Democrats."
90 YEARS AGO
Jan. 6, 1933 (Sunday)
Former county Judge and
former counly commissioner
each fined $1 by county judge
for "mutilation of county rec
ords" involving signatures
placed on court journal; the
two former officials state that
they will appeal case.
State fire marshal's office
Starts Investigation of fire
which destroyed bain on for
mer Dai (our, Guthrie ranch
near Ashland.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 6. 1923 (Monday)
Annual report shows that
nearly 5,000 automobiles vis
ited Lithia park in Ashland
during 11)22.
New officers installed
by Hillah temple of the shrine
Include Emil Brill, Jackson
ville, and Jerry Jerome, Med
ford. SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 6, 1913 (Wednesday)
County Judge Frank Ton
Vcllc performs his first wed
ding ceremony since taking
office; oilier members of
court attend wedding.
Ex-llghlwclght boxing
champion Ad Wolgust leaves
San Francisco for Medford,
where he says he will pur
chase a $50,000 ranch.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is ticellent; five or
sis Is good.
1. What is Ihc largest coun
try, according to area?
2. What type of joint is the
knee Joint'.'
3. How many degree's is the
equator from each of the
poles?
4. Name three of the four
prominent European moun
tain chains.
5. Rome is credited willi
(teveral contributions to mod
ern limes; name Hie three
great est.
8. Stars seem lo give off
three colors; yellow, red and
blue-while; list these in order
of heal.
7. Was Paris, or was It not,
declared an open city during
the Allied advance in WW'l?
8. Name the capital of Mis
souri. 9. Who was the first Post
master General under Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
10. Is the spoils system com
monly connected with gov
ernment, mold druiis, or pro
cessing of mash fur alcoholic
beverages?
Answers: 1. Canada. 2.
Hinge Joint. 3. Ninety. 4. Alps,
Apennines. Pyrenees. Urals. 5.
Law, roads and governmenl.
S. Blue-while, yellow, red. 7.
Was. 8. Jefferson City. 9.
James A. Parity. 10. Government.
Lane County Home Rule
i
Lane county last week became the first Ore
gon "home rule" county. Washington county to
morrow will become the second.
In Lane county, the changes will, in essentials,
boil down to two major ones:
1. The board of county commissioners (three
members) will be given considerable legislative
power within the county;
2. The administrative functions of the county
will be reorganized into seven departments: Fi
nance and Auditing; Assessment and Taxation;
Records and Elections; Health and Sanitation;
Public Works; Public Safety, and General Administration.
I ANE county retained an elected sheriff and
assessor, as well as the commissioners, but it
eliminated the elective positions of surveyor,
treasurer, clerk and constable.
The commissioners are going slowly in put
ting the changes in to effect, and have given
themselves a July 1 deadline to complete the
shift. Meanwhile, existing county organization
will continue to operate.
One of the first changes will be the setting
up of the Departments of Public Works and
Public Safety.
THE commissioners held their first meeting un
der the new system, Thursday, and will meet
again next Wednesday. The charter requires reg
ular public meetings one of the features which
should be most beneficial, so that the public will
know when the county governing body meets.
These changes will and should be watch
ed closely in other Oregon counties.
It is our belief that the several defeats inflict
ed on home rule charters so far proposed have
been the result of two things, first, objection to
specific proposals, in the charters, and second,
fear of the unknown and untried. The second we
believe the more important.
It home rule in Lane and Washington coun
ties is a success, there should be less resistance
to its adoption elsewhere.
THE Lane county charter contained fewer un-
familiar changes than did the one proposed
for Jackson county last spring. It retains a three-
man board of commissioners, and retains two of-
the more important elective officials.
The administrative changes should make for
greater efficiency, but in essence, they are simply
organizational changes, not changes of real sub
stance. The most significant the only REALLY im
portant change is, in our opinion, the fact that
Lane county is, for the first time, enabled to
enact its own legislation without either taking
minor matters to a vote of the people, or taking
them to the legislature.
Cities have had this power for decades. Why
not counties? E.A.
Glenn Jackson s Role
"Come On, Come On Don't Be A Coward"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
) 1063. The Washington Post
51
Upptiiann
Glenn Jackson is the sort of man who hates
in son liio riumn in fJm minni' Tlmrn wiw n thnn
when he'd go to great lengths to keep it out of a
news siory, even to me extent oi giving someone
else the credit for something he himself had done.
T-Jnf in i-nnnnt vnnea il line Imnn hurrlor itnrl
harder for him to hide his light under a bushel,
oecau.se oi the lact tnat his many activities nave
brought him more and more into the public eye
in particular his chairmanship of the Oregon
State Highway Commission.
To Medford people, of course, his accomplish
ments are most familiar his many-term presi
dency of the Chamber of Commerce, his active
interest in almost every civic-betterment program
that has come along in the past 20 years, too
numerous to mention.
DUT, more recently, Jackson has become an in-
fluence in many statewide matters, not only
in highways and in Pacific Power & Light, of
which he is vice chairman of the board.
This widening role recently was recognized
bv the Oregon Journal, in an editorial entitled
"Medford Man's Wide Influence."
It read as follows:
Medford and Portland are separated almost by the
width of the stale, but two things have been happening
recently to bring them closed together.
One Is the completion of new segments of the free
way, U.S. Interstale No. 5, which .substantially reduces
the driving time between the two cities.
The oilier is the interest in Portland of one of Med
ford's most distinguished citizens, Glenn L. Jackson,
an officer of the organization, Portland Metropolitan
Future Unlimited, which is working for a recreational
development at Delta Park and aiming (or the Olympic
Games here in 1972.
Jackson's business interests keep him here part of
the lime. Mis responsibility as chairman of the State
Highway Commission takes him In all pails of the
state, including Portland.
lie is keenly aware of the interrelationship of
Portland and the rest of the stale. Last week he lolil
a Portland audience that those who live upstate look
on Ihc progress of the city of Portland as an indicator
of I he progress of the stale of Oregon, lie said that
Portland's lack of major athletic facilities was robbing
the slate of dollars and that it is the responsibility
of Portland to provide these facilities.
So big is the Delta Park program that Portland
may need some help. It is likely that the plan soon
lo be unveiled by PMFU will call for a cooperative
approach beyond the boundaries of Portland. The
Oregon Legislature may be asked to take specific
action to help expedite the project.
Jackson, who is reallv a eitien of Oregon, not
of Medtord alone, should be a key man in the rallying
of such support.
Jackson probably will be after us with a buggy
whip for printing the above, but it is an acknowl
edgement of the role he plays in the development
of the sUite, anil his Medford neighbors are en
titled to know about it. E.A.
THE CONGO
We know from experience
that in the Congo a settlement,
which looks as if it were just
around the
corner, usual
ly turns out to
be a long way
off. So it is
with the Unit
ed Nations po-
1 i c e action
which Tshom
be or perhaps
his subbordi
nates pro
voked before the United Na
tions had completed the mili
tary buildup planned for Jan
uary. Though the immediate
result was an easy success in
the capital of Katanga at
Elisabethville and at the big
base at Kamina, the most mod
cm mining properties at
Jadotville and Kolwczc along
the rail line to Portuguese
Angola arc still in the hands
of European mercenary
troops.
The secession, therefore, Is
not yet defeated, and if
Tshombe enters into new
negotiations with the Cpntral
Govermcnl at Lcopoldvillc, he
may still be able to do what
he has always done in the
past, to evade and procrasti
nate. For Tshombc's objective
is to avoid a settlement in the
hope that the United Nations
will go bankrupt, abandon
the operation and resign it
self to the secession of
Katanga.
riMIE MINERAL wealth of
the province of Katanga
is very great. Mr. Colin
Legum says that Katanga pro
duces some 8 per cent of the
world's copper, 60 per cent
of the uranium of the West
ern World, 7;i per cent of the
world's cobalt, 80 per cent of
its industrial diamonds, as
well as important quantities
of gold, zinc, manganese and
many other rare metals. Al
though Katanga has only 12
per cent of the population of
tile Congo, il produces B0 per
cent of the revenues. The min
ing wealth of Katanga is con
trolled in the main by Belgian
and British interests, though
there are some American
shareholders.
The central fact In the prob
lem of Ihc Congo is that,
without the revenues from
Katanga, the rest of the Congo
is doomed to misery and back
wardness and lo the savagery
thai they will produce.
The international signifi
cance of Katanga can best
be appreciated by looking at
the map which shows that
the richest part of Katanga
borders on Northern Rhodesia
and Portuguese Angola. If
Katanga is able lo secede, il
will become a theater of
si niggle between that region
of Africa which is still under
the control of white men and
Black Africa which is now
composed of independent
states. '
rjMIESE ARE facts which
have to be kept ill mind
when we think about the
United Nations operation and
the backing of that operation
by the United Slates. In I960,
with the blessing of President
Eisenhower, the United Na
tions under the leadership of
Dag llanimarskjold made the
hard and dangerous decision
lo intervene with United Na
lions troops drawn from
countries which were not
aligned with NATO, the War
saw Pact or Red China.
The Congo had been "lib
erated." In fact cast off. before
any serious effort had been
made to prepare the Congo
lose for self-government. The
immediate result of this pre
mature independence was
chaos and massacre. Who
should restore order? Bel
gium, Britain, France and the
United States'.' There is no
doubt that the Soviet Union
would base insisted on inter
vening also.
So. although Lumumba's
go eminent appealed lo Presi
dent Eisenhower for military
aid. we turned to the United
Nations as Ihc lest hope ol
restoring order and of keep
ing the Congo from becoming
a cockpit of the cold war.
This initial task was caricd
out successfully. But it was
at once plain that the Congo
would fall into chais unless a
reasonably strong govern
ment, using European techni
cians, was established. It
was evident, however, that
such a strong government
was impossible if Katanga,
with its riches, seceded from
the Congo and in effect joined
the White Rhodesians, the
Portuguese and the South
Africans.
For this would make the
rest of the Congo ungovern
able. It would provoke a race
war in Africa. It would invite
Soviet or Chinese interven
tion. It would bring the Unit
ed States to the brink of a
nasty tropical war. Both
Eisenhower and Kennedy
have taken the position that,
in the circumstances, the best
hope and the best bet lay in
the United Nations.
IT IS TRUE that, in taking
this position, we find our
selves somewhat at odds with
certain of our European allies.
There is total disagreement
with General De Gaulle, Who
has no use for the United Na
tions and would gladly see it
dissolved. There is partial
disagreement with Great
Britain, more specifically
willi a wing of the Conserva
tive - Party which has great
influence in the Macmillan
government and is responsive
to British financial interests
in Katanga and elsewhere in
Africa. But we are not at odds
with the Belgium of Mr.
Spaak; indeed, we are in
substantial agreement with
it, and we know with what
selfless courage Mr. Spaak
is acting.
It is painful lo differ with
allies. But, in my view, there
is no tolerable alternative to
what Eisenhower and Ken
nedy have done, which is to
support the United Nations.
We cannot afford to see the
Congo in chaos. We do not
want a Communist logement
In the heart of Africa. We do
not want to become engaged
ourselves with American
troops.
No doubt Ihere have been
mistakes in the administra
tion of the United Nations
operation. But what else
could we have done but wish
it lo succeed?
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Catching up on the news legislation to take care of the
as this is written, one's eye situation.
falls on this headline sen
tence:
RED GUNNERS DOWN
FLEET OF U. S. HELICOPTERS
?OR the moment, your hair
4 stands on end. Is this IT?
Then . . . you note that it
happened in SAIGON where
our military lorccs have rel
atively little business to be.
So
You relax.
rpHAT brings up the Congo.
How much Business do we
have there?
WELL
" United Nations forces,
supported by U. S. dollars and
U. S. men and materials, are
said to be racing to protect
three huge and critical hydro
electric power dams upon
which the economy of n o t
only the single province of
Katanga but the whole Congo
as well more or less depends.
If they are destroyed
BLOWN UP by whatever fac
tion might take a notion to
blow them up the big min
ing operations upon which the
economy of the entire Congo
rests would have to shut down
for lack of power. That would
push the Congo still farther
over toward utter anarchy.
That encourages us to hope
that we may be doing some
good in this mixed-up Congo
lese situation in Central Africa.
ODDITY in the news:
In Salem, the Oregon Leg
islative Interim committee
says there is apparently no
specific law against DRIVING
THE WRONG WAY on a di
vided highway.
The committee recommends
UMMMMMMMM.
11 There may be no STAT
UTE law forbidding the wrong
way on a divided highway,
but it is forbidden by the law
of common sense and the
penalty for violation of it is
very likely to be death.
That is a capital penalty
no governor can commute.
INCIDENTALLY
The commiltce says that
police have faced the question
of what offense to charge a
person with who has been
found driving along a freeway
IN OPPOSITION TO THE
TRAFFIC.
It's a problem, sure enough.
How are you going to go
about arresting somebody for
violating a law that doesn't
exist? But. isn't there some
kind of law on the books
against insane persons run
ning loose?
Only an insane person or
a person pie-eyed drunk
would deliberately drive the
wrong way on a crowded
modern freeway.
4 A A T
o 1 h Hi 1
iw3rtuie5
"Okay, '62 was the turning point in East West relations,
but the official policy in Washington it not cocky
optimism!"
UROM Los Gatos:
Ed Braschini, 57, of Salinas,
survived two days in the San
ta Cruz mountains because of
his knowledge of woodlore.
He was hunting with an aunt
and uncle, but became sep
arated from them. Two days
later, he found his way to a
small country store by follow
ing a stream. He explained:
"Once you find running wa
ter, never leave it. I found
this stream and knew enough
to stay with it."
WELL
It's a good rule. But If
it's the only rule you know,
you'd better stay out of the
woods - especially at this sea
son of the year.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
TYWIGHT TAYLOR, son of Laurette and Charles A. Tay
L' lor, tells ot the days when his father traveled with a
carnival and sponsored a trained rat show. For the climax,
uue rat snot, on a cannon,
and another, labeled
"President Garfield"
raised his tail with the
American flag tied there
to. The' catch was that
carnival crowds didn't
seem to appreciate
trained rats.
The concession next
door was faring even
worse. It was a replica
of Lincoln's birthplace.
One day Mr. Taylor sug
gested that the historical
appeal of the Lincoln ex
hibit be enhanced by doing the rat circus insidi
cabin. The rats had never before performed indoors, so when
the cannon shot went off, "President Garfield" hoisted his
flag all right, but, terrified by the noise, leaped into the
audience and disappeared into a rat hole.
Mr. Taylor never ceased wondering about the fate of a
poor rat with an American flag attached to his tail.
Dumkopfs friends convinced him that his wife was spending
too much money. "I'll read her the riot act tonight," swore
Dumkopf. "For the rest of this fiscal year at least she's going
to do a little cutting down."
The next morning- they asked him how he had made out.
"Great," he said. "I'm giving up poker, liquor, and tobacco."
Herb Stein knows a susceptible film lovely who solved her
closet-space problem by throwing out all her old bridal gowns.
C 1961. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
de the log
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
BEHIND THE RULES
FIGHT
Washington Speaker of
the House John W. McCor
mack has returned to his
office and
picked up
the reins of
power. His
Demo
cratic Whip
Hale Boggs,
has just be
gun the head
count for the
Aimp critical fight
over the House rules.
On the other side, the pow
erful, arch-conservative chau
man of the House Rules Com
mittee, Rep. Howard W.
Smith, began an all-out ef
fort to muster maximum sup
port some time ago. The word
has gone out, perhaps pre
maturely, that House Repub
lican Leader Charles Hallcck
is with Smith "all the way.''
In short, the battle is engagcJ
even before the formal open
ing of the Congressional
session.
The issue is, quite simply,
whether the members of the
Republican - Southern Demo
cratic coalition on the House
Rules Committee will have a
total veto, or only a partial
veto, on legislation proposed
to the House. As in 1960, the
outcome hangs upon Republi
can votes. For there are not
enough Democrats who favor
Rules-liberalization to carry
the day, without the support
of about a score of Republi
can members.
fFHUS a major, though un
seen, influence on the
Rules fight will be the in
creasing Republican inclina
tion towards the "Southern
strategy" of Sen. Barry Gold
water. This is the strategy of
saying farewell forever to
the Negro and other minority
group voters in the North,
and gambling for decisive Re
publican gains in the South
by taking a strong conserva
tive and "state's rights" position.
Support for "state's rights."
in this case, of course implies
support for the Southern op
position to extended civil
rights. Hence the way the
The Special Strength of the Shameless
By ERIC SEVAREID
New York - Anger is a
couiit"i part of joy, and, since
this is supposedly the "cool"
and "beat
age of joyless
ncss, it is
logical to as
sume that the
last a n g r v
the school doors after a three
day blizzard, it was only be
cause they couldn't find them.
The other night 'i landed at
Idlewild airport in a gentle
snowfall. The passenger's bags
were dumped just anywhere;
there was no order; there were
no directions. Five hundred
people milled about in ex
ilian expired hausted confusion, eventually
with the wan- recovered their belongings.
ing notes of
the last hur
rah. Around
Srvarrlil M a nha ttan,
one encounter's his ghost oc
casionally, in the form of a
brief I'lw pitchcd whine, but
that is the closest approxima
tion of what used lo be known
as indignation, not to mention
the "richteous wrath of the
citicns." These lerms now
scent so archaic and arcane
that one puis them down,
even though fenced in by quo
tation marks, with some em
barrassment. We are by no means a na
tion of sheep in relation to
oilier people, however big and
formidable, as Khrush c h e v
discovered in the case of his
Cuban missiles; but we are
truly sheeplike in our encoun
ters with bigness within our
own society. We sputter and
that is all.
It is my fortune or mistor
tune to have been conditioned
in the cohc-uvc. unitary cell
of the small town. An emer
gency meant that everybody
tinned out with extra efforts
lo make filings work. If the
men of the town did nol open
only lo discover that most
taxi-drivers, those paragons of
fictional ruggedness and bon
homie, had quit for the night.
"Takes too long to make a
buck." as one of them ex
plained. We are now in the third
week of the typographers'
strike which has. directly and
indirectly, closed down every
major newspaper in the coun
try's biggesl city. It is a strike
which comes as close lo tiller
senselessness as any that I can
recall offhand From the evi
dence available it is mostly
a bid for greater power and
prestige within the labor
movement on the part of one
local and its leaders - very
little more. Literally hundreds
of thousands of people have
been hurt by this strike: many
hundreds will lose their jobs
for good if one or more papers
fail to survive this blow; the
country's createt community
is without information save
what it can gel from the
heroic extra cflorts of radio
and tcle ision; but there is no
evidence that Ihc strike lead
ers give a solitary damn.
Nor is any bubbling of
wrath among the citizenry
even faintly discernible. The
stale of communal masochism
is astounding. Either nobody
dares say anything for fear
of that dread label, "anti-labor,"
or everybody feels that
no effort of his can possibly
affect the situation.
And from the political lead
ership, municipal, state or fed-
1 oral - silence. No one, abso
i lulcly no one, is saying to the
strike leaders what President
Kennedy said to the leaders of
Big Steel last spring: that
they were showing contempt
for the American people.
Big Labor has come full
circle from the terrible days
of the thirties when it won in
sorrow and blood labor's over
due charter of liberties. Then,
wealth did approximately
equate with power, but now
the managerial revolution and
the diffusion of ownership
have left wealth with responsi
bility half-shorn of power. It
is an intellectual and emo
tional exertion, but one is
obliged lo revise Roosevelt's
phrase, "malefactors of great
wealth": one is obliged to
think about malefactors of
great power and to apply it
to Big Labor.
The laws are bound to fol
low suit, one day. and check
this turning of the screw. Ir
responsible power in a democ
racy is as dangerous when
used by workers as by man
agement. In any case, the day of the
owner-manager, the "entre
preneur" of the economics
House Republicans vote 'will
have all sorts of secondary
effects, for instance, on the
Presidential candidacy of
Gov Nelson Rockefeller of
New York, who can hardly
seek the White House as a
neo-segregationist.
Yet the crucial character of
the Republican choice in the
Rules fight is not the only
hidden factor that gives spe
cial interest to this contest.
Consider, for example, the
long term implications of the
Republican gains in the
House in the November elec
tion, which are the main rea
son for the stronger tempta
tion now being exerted by the
"Southern strategy."
OESIDES making an impres
" sively good showing in
several contests like the Ala
bama Senate race, Republi.
cans won four additional
Southern House seats. Of the
106 House scats allotted to
the 11 Southern States, no
less than 11 are now held by
Republicans; and this is the
highwatcr-mark since the
Reconstruction era.
These Republican successes
in the South caused the
White House political strate
gists to make a careful study
of all the Southern contesls
in which Republicans did
well, with special emphasis
on the House races in which
incumbent Democrats were
beaten.
What Ihc study revealed
was simple and somewhat un
expected. In brief, the defeat- .
ed Democratic incumbents
were all members, of the
Howard W. Smith school of
Southern conservatism. But
although they were professed
enemies of the Democratic
administration in Washington
they were lost when Republi
cans took the field against
them. Their conservatism was
their assets, and they could
not out-conservative their Re
publican opponents.
The conclusion of the While
House study was that the vie-'
torious Republicans would
have had far harder going
against Democrats of a more
moderate stripe, who would
not have been driven to dis
avow their own party at
every turn.
fPHIS may sound self-scrv-
- in
conclusion is not very far
from the conclusion independ '
ently reached by the most as
tute political leader among
Ihc Democratic Southerners,
Sen. Herman Talmade of
Georgia. Senator Talmadge is.
a Southern bellwether, and.
his independence of the Whit
House hardly needs underlin
ing. Talmadge is known to
think that Republican gains
in the South will continue in
subsequent elections, until
perhaps as many as 30 Hous
seats are i n Republican
hands. But he has also point
ed out that increasingly ef
fective Republican opposition
will tend to promote greater
party loyalty among South
ern Democrats.
In sum, it was easy for a
Southerner to be an ultra
conservative, yet retain his
Democratic label, when his
fate was decided by the Dcm-1
ocratic primary. It will not
be so easy when the actual
election has ceased to be a
mere formality in wider and.
w ider regions of the Soc'.ii. ;
Survival will require more
and more Democrats to take
a position like that of Sen.,
Russell Long of Louisiana.'
who Is first of all a Southern
er on any question involving
civil rights, but a moderate
Democrat on most other
questions.
In the long run. therefore.
the famous coalition of Re-
. publicans and Southern Dcm
' ocrats may well be threatened
i by the same Republican gains
textbook, is vanishing. Man
agers are increasingly "wage
slaves" like the other ranks of
employes within a big com
pany. The labor movement, or
what Jimmy Hoffa frankly
calls the "labor business,"
was based on a class concept
that steadily loses its validity.
The division is increasingly a
false one. The ultimate result
surely ought to be a common
ality of interest among all
ranks within a firm or an in
dustry, with stock ownership
widely distributed among all
ranks.
No doubt many union lead
ers would lose power, and
many union bureaucracies
would be checked in their own
kind of empire building. No
doubt, also, this would be a
happy improvement over con
ditions of the kind that now
prevail in New York's publish
ing industry where the great
est and best newspapers,
which both mold and express
the fire of the community and
provide its spirit and mean
ing, arc now obliged to face
the question of whether, after
generations, they can carry on
at all in the biggest and
wealthiest city of the land.
This strike is a scandal to
nearly everyone, apparcntlv.
save the men who called it.
j They possess what is known
I as the special strength of the
! shameless.
i iDistrihui.d 1963 h. Th. H.ii ; ln south which arc now
Svndical Inc 1 1 affecting the Republican po.
Syndicate. Inc.) u,r. ,n lhj ba(cr Hou
(AH Rights Restrvid) Rules fight.