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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
A Self-Renewing Society
From Babylon to Egypt to Rome; from the
Aztecs to the Great Khans; from Napoleon to
Hitler all great societies of the past have,
sooner, or later, disintegrated, and been succeed
ed by something else.
Will that be the fate of our industrialized,
electrified, science-oriented, and "open" society
of mid-20th Century America? Will it, too, fall
apart and be succeeded by something else?
History would tend to indicate the answer
is yes. But history also teaches that, while many
things have happened before, there is always
time and space for something new. Ihere LAN
be something new under the sun.
IOHN W. GARDNER, president of the Car
negie Corp. of New York, speculates along
ii i; ; j - l : .... o..t
inese lines in an article in a icceiib jbouc uj. oai-
urday Review.
What, he asks, is needed for a society to be
self-renewing, to be able to survive the flux and
pull of radical change, to reshape itself to new
needs and cnanenges witnoui losing lis essential
form and continuity?
He concludes thus:
"The ever-renewing society will be a free society.
It will understand that the only stability possible today
is stability in motion. It will foster a climate in which
the seedlings of new Ideas can survive and the dead
wood of obsolete Ideas be hacked out. Above all, it will
recognize that its capacity for renewal depends on the
Individuals who make it up. It will foster innovative.,
versatile and self-renewing men and women, and give
them room to breathe."
"That's Going A Little Too Far"
10 YEARS AGO
Jin. 18, 1953 (Friday)
District Attorney Waller
Nunlcy's recent statement of
policy with regard to gamb
ling enforcement in Jackson
county has been challenged as
"untenable" by Medford Law
yer Edward C. Kelly. -
Medford's City Superintend
ent Robert A. Duff has been
authorized by the city council
to complete an engineering
study of needed storm sewer
Improvements and give each
project a priority rating.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18. 1943 (Wednesday)
F. Wilson Waid dies; was
Medford High school band in
structor for 17 years and a
former leader in local Elks
imino nnrf American Legion.
From Arthur Ferry s ue
Smudge Pot" column: ."Signs
are now mounting that the
insisiuinrc now in august as-
. .... i .. ik.
aemblv, will do over smim u
.i 1 1. n ..,- it
same lime aa
30 YEARS AGO
Jin. 18, 1933 (Friday)
Medford grocery stores ad
vertise three one-pound
loaves of bread for 13 cents,
coffee for 17 cents a pound,
prime beef pot roasts at 8
cents a pound, and flour at
$3.49 a barrel.
Grand jury reports liquor,
confiscated by police, is miss
ing from vault in city hall.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18, 1923 (Saturday)
Slate fire marshal recom
mends construction of rail
road underpass Ht Sixth st.
crossing in Medford.
E. W. Barnaul. Medford
trapper, found, suiting from
frost bite, after being lost for
eight days in Klamaln mountains.
the
on
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. la. 1913 (Monday)
Medford's Muyor-clcct Elf'
ert receives series ol anony
mous threatening letters; mat
tcrs Investigated by poslul au
thorities.
Hot contest develops for
presidency of Medford city
council; Jack Summerville
and J. W. Mitchell said to be
leading contenders.
A ND WHAT, Mr. Gardner continues, are
" characteristics of the self-renewing man,
whom a self-renewing, dynamic society must de
pend? As he sees it, there are three chief char
acteristics :
1. The self-renewing man is versatile and
adaptive ;
2. The self-renewing man is highly motivated
and respects the sources of his own energy and
motivation ;
3. For the self-renewing man the, develop
ment of his own potentialities and the process
of self-discovery never end.
Given men of this type, and by giving them
"room to breathe," Mr. Gardner believes that
we can shape our future and control our destiny
as a society, to the end that we can meet all chal
lenges and serve our own needs.
DUT IF this is to be achieved, it must be in an
atmosphere of freedom, where argument, dis
sent, criticism are not only permitted, but en
couraged, so that the fullest and widest public
dialogue on the problems lacing us can be heard.
Name-calling, intimidation and suppression
of opposing views cannot be permitted if we are
to retain our open, pluralistic society. And no
society today which is not open and pluralistic
can have the pre-requisites for self-renewal.
Our society today is challenged, not only by
an opposing ideology, but also by technological
and social change change which is increasing
in speed and tempo; change which has been
more radical in the last century than in all the
preceding millennia of human history.
OUR POLITICAL society, which is among the
i-Jrlicf oni'mnrrr renvrn'tiiYionta in ia ttnvA
has lasted as long as it has only because it has
been flexible enough to change with the times,
while still retaining the basic principles of free
dom and justice.
We must retain and expand that flexibility,
and retain and strengthen the freedoms which
permit us to remain open and pluralistic.
It is for these reasons that we must oppose,
with all our strength, the forces of repression,
of constriction, or conformity and mediocrity,
which constantly are at work. It is, and will re
main, an eternal struggle, and it is one that we
cannot afford to lose. E.A.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct U superior;
seven or eight is eacollenti tive or
St K aoe-d.
1. On what day in February,
1732, was George Washington
born?
2. Which book of the Bible
concerns the "beginnings"?
3. Who called Alfred E.
Smith "The Happy Warrior"?
4. Statuary Hall is In which
government building In Wash
ington, D.C.I
8. Who was Henry Irving?
6. The Greek Goddess Athe
na corresponds to which Ro
man Goddess?
7. Cotton is grown commer
cially in California; true or
false?
8. What was the nickname
of Ivan, Czar of Russia?
9. Ranks in the Marine
Corps bear the same designa
tions as those in the Navy;
true or false?
10. Which lnxl is the par
ticular enemy of cotton?
Answers: 1. February 11.
(Old calendar.) 2. Genesis. 3.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 4. The
Capiiol. S. English writer. 6.
Minerva. 7. True. 8. Ivan the
Terrible,
weevil.
Flying Start
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paper, in fact the contrary is often the case.
W.T.C.U. Horn
To the Editor: In a recent
issue of the Roscburg News-
Review, dated Dec. 28, 1962,
was a very interesting article
which I'm sure many of your
readers will be glad to read.
It tells about a gift of an
800-acre ranch nea- Myrtle
Creek, Ore., which has re
cently been given to the Ore
gon Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union, to be used for
developing a home for de
pendent boys from 5 to 18
years, inclusive. The donors
are a brother and sister, Mr.
Mac Arnhur Wixson and Miss
Frances Wixson of Myrtle
Creek.
These two are the onV sur
viving members of a family
of five children of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Wixson, and all
the children and their father
have done many years of
teaching schools and main
tained a keen interest in
children.
The deed to this transac
tion has been signed and it
la hoped that work on this
development can be started
in the near future. The Chil
dren's Farm Home Board of
Trustees plan to create a
"workshop" where boys with
the inclination will have an
opportunity for training in
reforestation and an oppor
tunity to take part in devel
opment in a stock ranch.
The children's home pro
gram is one aspect of W.C.T.U.
activities. Nationally,
W.C.T.U. is organized in a
fight against the use of alco
holic beverages. Operating un
der the slogan "organized
mother love," W.C.T.U. en
deavors to help children, the
home and destitute, officers
point out.
Mrs. G. O. Sanden,
Route 2, Box 443-A,
Medford
or 3, of course disclaiming any
responsibility.
Since I had no idea to whom
I should address my plaint at
the network I let the matter
drop. But we surely feel bad
ly that such a really fine show
is being dropped.
Mrs. Gene Tceling,
666 Pittview,
Central Point, Ore.
Do Deer Mealing
To the Editor: Important to
the sportsmen of this county:
Since I put our petitions in
the hands of you sportsmen
here, concerning the killing
of doe deer in this state, we
have been gaining ground in
all parts of the state. We are
at the point now where we
can do something for you, the
deer hunter. We have a state
president, we have state sen
ators working at this time
for you and me to see if we
can get some of our game
laws changed.
Come Saturday, Jan. 26, we
are going to have an open
meeting for anyone that
would like to come. The meet
ing will take place at the
Upper Applegate Grange hall.
Dinner will be served at 6,
the meeting will lake up at
8. Our state president, Mr. C.
E. Milhorn, and the chairman
fronv Klamath county, Mr.
Robert Pyle, -will be here.
Come one, come all, I feel
you will have an interesting
evening and I feel you will
better understand why we
have to do something about
the killing of the does in this
state.
If any of you haven't signed
a petition as yet, contact me,
I'll see that you get one.
Please remember the date,
Jan. 26, and come to this
meeting. We will be glad to
see all of you.
Walter Craig,
1523 Bryant,
Medford.
For a freshman congressman, Bob Duncan is
oil to a Hying start.
There are 36 new Democratic conirressmen
in the House of Representatives. Only seven of
them were assigned to more than one committee.
Duncan was one of them.
Not only that, but both assignments are to
major committees, ones that have a tremendous
impact on the Fourth District the committees
on Agriculture (which includes the Forest Serv
ice) and Interior (which includes the Bureau of
Land Management and the Park Service, among
other things).
IT IS THE nature of the Washington political
1 jungle that these committee assignments did
not come automatically, or without any effort.
A major factor is the fact that Al Ullnian, rep
resentative from Oregon's Second District across
the mountains, is on the House committee on
committees.
Duncan, an independent and aggressive think
er, will be a major factor in legislation affecting
the Fourth District, Oregon, and the entire west
ern part of the nation.
Too, he well may be a unifying factor in the
sometimes-squabbling Oregon delegation. It is
to the interests of the entire state that the dele
gation work in harmony, and as Duncan arrives
with no prior commitments nor animosities, he
may be of considerable assistance in smoothing
9. False." io. Boil i the relationships of the two senators and the
yer Agreement
To the Editor: I am in com
plete agreement with your
recent editorial on prayer in
the classrooms. Although my
husband and I are proud to
be members of a Medford
church, we have, nevertheless
in our life time attended serv-
cics of many denominations in
various cities fn this country
and abroad, where we found
slight variations in the pray
ers, and in one instance a
fundamental difference.
Recognizing the deep re
ligious basis on which this
country was founded, it seems
a great pity that no prayers
can be used in the class rooms.
However, a far worse alterna
tive would be "an insipid, of
ficial state - written prayer
which was recited by rote
in school classrooms, whether
or not the student wanted it."
Why not set aside a brief
moment of silence to be used
by each boy and girl accord
ing to the dictates of their
conscience?
Rence B. Houston
215 Eric st.
Medford
other two Democratic congressmen. E.A.
Man's World
To the Editor: I felt com
pelled to write since I found
myself in such complete agree
ment with the views ex
pressed by "G.H.B." in the ed
itorial re: "Man's World."
As a common garden vari
ety hnmcmaker, it is not often
I aspire to power. However
when NBC announced the can
cellation of Man's World, I felt
akin to a small child whose
favorite toy had been snatched
by the neighborhood bully. A
feeling shared, 1 might add,
by my entire family. 1 surely
wished then for the power to
reverse that decision by NBC.
I did write to the program
expressing my appreciation
and regrets. I received a hand
written reply from the lady
who plays the part of Nora.
She included a list of sponsors
to whom I might write. I did
so, receiving a reply from 2
AWOL in Eden
To the Editor: The merri
ment over Fry's flying phe
nomena having subsided,
readers may enjoy a little
adventure of true mystic val
ue. (Flying saucers are mere
ly very minor miracles of the
devil.)
The prelude, action of and
immediate aftermath of World
War Two were times of awe
some and wondrous spiritual
import particularly in a
section of Oregon. One Spring
evening I escaped the vigilant
attendants at the V.A. Hospi
tal, Roscburg, and started for
my home town In Nevada. I
walked for hours until I
came to a deep valley where.
In the full moon, I witnessed
a great chain of maidens
strolling gracefully north
wards through the verdant
vale.
I courteously queried the
nearest vestal. She graciously
told me they were the hand
maids of Spring, "guardian
angels" of our wild flowers
and that their presence car
peted our meadows and moun
tains in natural beauty. She
revealed they were girls gift
ed with special grace for these
vernal ventures and with
their passing the earth burst
into bloom. I forgot my rc
portorial know-how in the
pleasure of this simple vision
and never inquired from
whence they came.
I wandered on down the
road wondering whether the
spirit which moved over the
deep when Life was born
continued to touch the earth
with sororities like this or
whether I had witnessed a
little moment In the Eternal
Victory we had won in World
War Two. It may be some
neighborly mystic in our own
Oregon Garden Clubs has the
answer.
It began to rain. Hours
later bespattered by the
traffic 1 sought refuge In
a Grants pass hotel and then,
Frances Near-Rejection of Britain in
Common Market Stirring Other Nations
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
President Charles De
Gaulle's virtual rejection of
Britain as a member of the
European
siewsoaa
Common Mar.
ket hit Britain
like a dash
of cold wa
ter and arous
ed resent-
I tV I ment among
I !af) I France's part-
i All i J ncrs in the
European
c o m m unity.
The result might easily be
a crisis not only for Britain
but for the European com
munity as well.
Lord Privy Seal Edward
Heath, Britain's chief repre
sentative in the market nego
tiations at Brussels, responded
with what has come to be re
garded as typical British bull
dog tenacity. His actions
clearly Indicated that, far
from accepting defeat, Brit
ain now will redouble its ef
forts. In Rome, Budget Minister
Ugo La Malfa responded acid
ly that De Gaulle "cannot
treat Italy and other common
market countries like a col
ony." Netherlands officials at The
Hague attacked De Gaulle's
view as outmoded national
ism. Belgium, the Netherlands
and Italy all have suggested
that if French stubbornness
bars Britain from the Euro
pean community, then they al
so might be forced to reassess
their position.
In Britain and among
France's aroused partners was
a feeling that De Gaulle, by
his unyielding stand on terms
of British entry, deliberately
was setting a trap, that he
hoped thereby to goad Brit
ain into breaking off negotia
tions. There were bitter refer
ences to 1958, the year the
common market came into be
ing, when Britain did slam the
door on free trade talks be
cause of terms largely dicta
ted by France.
The question now is how
far the European partners can
push De Gaulle who never
has changed his mind easily
away from his concept of a
tightly knit Europe, and to
ward the idea of a commun
ity open to compromise, large
enough to admit Britain and
with ever closer ties to the
Atlantic community, includ
ing the United States.
At least partly responsible
for De Gaulle's opposition to
Britain and his rejection of a
nuclear force for NATO is his
abiding suspicion of the Unit
ed States.
High up in his thinking is
a conviction that the Euro
pean economic community
never must lose its identity
in a "colossal Atlantic com
munity" controlled by the
United States.
No one. he contends, can
know "if. how, or where," the
United States might elect to
use its nuclear might in de
fense of Its own interests
which some day might con
flict with those in Europe.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises, Inc.
snem sPs-m At!
CHILDREN
Ihappenedto overhear
three women at a luncheon
table next to
mine discuss
ing a childless
couple they
knew. One of
the women
wondered
why the cou
ple hadn't had
children, and
the second wo-
Harris man suggest
ed that perhaps they couldn't.
"And maybe they don't
want to," chimed in the third.
"Don't assume that every cou
ple wants children-some cou
ples shouldn't have them, and
are smart enough to know it."
Her comment (with which I
fully agreed) reminded me of
a passage in a Robert Louis
Stevenson story, in which a
doctor is congratulating him
self and his wife that their
marital state has not been
"marred" by the presence of
children.
Looking up the passage
later, I found that this was
what the husband said lo
his wife:
"I think of it more and
more at the years go on,
and with more and mora
gratitude toward the Pow
ers that dispense such af
flictions. Your health, my
darling, my studious quiet,
our little kitchen delicacies,
how they would all have
been tacrificedl And for
what?
"Children," he went on,
"are the last word of human
imperfection; health flees
before their face. They cry,
my dear; they put vexatious
questions: they demand to
be fed. to be washed, to be
educated; and then, when
the time comes, the break
our hearts, at I break thit
piece of sugar. A pair of
profetted egoist! like you
and me should avoid off
spring like an infidelity."
How many other "professed
ogosists" are so candid and
self-discerning? How many
others of this type delude
themselves that they want a
child, when all they really
want is the abstract idea of a
child? How many have chil
dren because it seems the
thing to do, but would be far
happier without such encumbrances?
Many childless couples gen
uinely yearn for offspring and
would be excellent parents;
but just as many prefer their
childless stale, knowing
eithcr consciously or uncon
sciously - that they lack the
patience or the interest requir
ed for rearing a child properly.
The world is full of couples
who should not have had chil
dren, who resent the obliga
tions it imposes upon them,
and who turn the resentment
upon the children in obvious
or subtle forms. How much
more clean and honest to ad
mit that two professed egoists
have no room in their lives
for another personality, and
thus to spare themselves, the
child and society from the
damaging consequences of this
twisted relationship.
noticing I was an object of
peculiar interest in a tavern
where I was Immediately ar
rested as a suspicious charac
tcr.
I was the only prisoner In
the Josephine county jail for
a full week. The Judge re
manded me back into V.A
custody at Roscburg to my
great sorrow, for 1 took great
pleasure in my meditations
and prayers in the quiet peace
of my cell after the terribly
disturbed and wicked wards
of what was then the most
evil place in our military his
tory. Generals Eisenhower
and Omar Bradley changed
all that, humanizing these
psychiatric prisons, one as
president, the other as head
of the Veterans Administra
lion.
I had a stub of pencil and
remember the few notes I
made in my cell and thus I
here herald the Sorority of
Spring from God's own
College and may they all
become Saints on graduation.
And remember this is a true
story and not a fairy talc.
Williams Thomas Cuddy
V.A. Domiciliary,
White City, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
Although the House of Rep
resentatives has' been in ses
sion only about six hours,
some TWO THOUSAND bills
have been introduced. They
deal with almost every sub-
J e c t imaginable including
using Social Security records
to locate runaway parents.
That one was dropped in
the hopper by Representa
tive Abraham J. Multner,
(Demo.), of New York. He had
already introduced 172 bills,
and that one was his 173rd.
He obviously believes in earn
ing his $22,500 salary.
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
TfTHEN IT COMES to state pride, not even the Texans can
W top Colorado's Oren Arnold. "Colorado," insists Arnold,
"causes more dissatisfied Americans than any other state.,
Nearly six million out- t ' ' "- i -
siders visit Colorado each
season, thereby becoming
miserable over conditions
back home." "For scenic
advantages," he adds, "a
lot of beautiful Colorado
runs up and down. If
you roll off the road into
one of our canyons, it.
won't hurt you a bit:
you'll starve to death be
fore you hit bottom."
One of La Rochefou
cauld's most famous max
ims contends, "As it is the
mark of great minds to Bay many things in a few words, so it
la that of little minds to use many words to say nothing."
This Is a maxim. Incidentally, that few TV announcers and
MC's seem to have heard.
Shortly before his lonely death In Italy, Sinclair Lewis was
asked why, In his various novels, he never had pictured a happy
husband. "For the same reason," replied Lewis, "that I never
have portrayed a five-footed elephant who could fly."
Steve Allen, who has learned by experience, contends that the.
best way to make your children heed your advice is to find out
exactly what they want and then tell them to do it
O 1983. by Bennett Cert. DUtrlbuted by Kins; Features Syndicate
t
Washington Report
By William S. White
(c) United Feature Syndicate
THEN
T h p r p ic RpnrpupnlaHvp
Samuel S. Stratton, also of
New York and, incidentally.
also a Democrat. He wants
more holidays to fall on Mon
day. So he drops into the hop
per a bill requiring Wash
ington's Birthday, Memorial
Day, Independence Day and
Veterans Day holiday to fall
on the nearest Monday.
This morning's dispatches
report that bills are in the
making to add to the holidays
we already have others call
ing for tiic observance of
Grandmothers Day. Shut-Ins
Day, Purple Heart Day, Chil
dren's Day and Senior Citi
zens Day.
NO "HATE - KENNEDY"
Washington - Wherever it
may ultimately lead, Presi
dent Kennedy's relationship
w; llgaa. ", to the new
congress has
begun with
moderate sat
i s faction
among the
c o nt rolling
centrist Dem
ocrats and a
certain wary
amiability to-
Hhite ward h I m
even among the Republicans.
Nobody is really angry at
him - as yet - except the
doctrinaire ulti-liberal Demo
crats. These excitable fellows
-who actually gave him more
trouble, in the old congress
on the truly important things
than did any other faction -are
fretfully unhappy.
They are petulant that he
has not demanded violently
extreme reforms in civil
rights which would tie this
congress up for many weeks
in angry and futile knots, so
that in not accomplishing
these unattainable reforms it
would not be able to accom
plish much of anything else,
either.
rTHEY are pettish with him
for not throwing himself
headlong into their fore
doomed effort, already open
ing in the senate, to alter the
rules of the game so that all
debate could be shut off
whenever they could rally
some bare majority to put on
the gag.
And many of them are irri
tated with him for asking a
big tax cut, accompanied by
some cutback in domestic
ypending. This rejects a cen
tral article of their true
faith, which is that prosperity
is really reached only by
government spending of the
most vast and energetic
kind.
One Presidential message
docs not make a session of
Congress: and it may well be
that other? to come will sig
nificantly alter Mr. Kennedy's
apparent purposes for this
Congress. At the present,
however, and on the showing
of his state of the union ad
dress, he has entered the
second half of his first term
conciliatory and not a
divisive national leader.
His program is, on the
whole, moderate. Though
certainly not wholly accept-
4ND-
Besides all that
Representative L 1 n d I c y
Beckworth, of Texas (A Dem
ocrat, incidentally) is afraid
the new and higher postal
rates will prevent elderly
pensioners from communicat
ing with their families.
So
He proposes a special col
ored penny postcard for
strictly personal messages
from these and similarly un
fortunate persons who cannot
afford the higher price.
UESTION:
Isn't democracy wonder-
Q
ful?
Especially, in these days,
the kind of democracy that is
spelled with capital D.
able to traditional conserva
tive thinking, it is also cer
tainly nowhere an abomina
tion to the conservative view.
fFHE sum of it, on all pres-
ent indications, is that very
probably this will be a mod
erate session of Congress,
striking out here and there
beyond where the conserva
tive would really like to go,
but also keeping well short
of those wild blue yonder
stretches of innovation which
the Democratic left would
like to enter.
The Republicans will fight
the President when they think
they should: but there is no
G.O.P. disposition to run an
opposition srmply for oppo
sition's sake. The truth is
that the Republicans arc mora
relieved than otherwise by
the state of the union mes
sage. It is not, of course, that
they expect to go along with
all he has asked. Rather, it
is that since the next election
year - 1964 - is a Presiden
tial election year, they had
been sorely afraid he would
go so much further with his
legislative demands than ha
has in fact gone.
SO, putting aside the unim
portant left-wing Demo
cratic extremists, the collec
tive attitude of the new Con
gress toward the President
is one of general liking and
respect for him and fairly
general approval of his hand
ling of most - though not all
- of the harsh problems of
the cold war. He is infinitely
stronger than he would have
been had he not stood up in
Cuba; his foreign policy
leadership is thus not likely
to be seriously challenged,
as otherwise it would surely
have been.
The controlling center - in
both parties - has no wish
to humble him; there is no
hate-Kennedy bloc at the
capiiol any more than thcra
was a hate-Eisenhower bloc.
The Presiaent will have his
troubles, of course, with the
single exception of foreign
aid.
Much difficulty is arising
for that program, and only
a thorough-going administra
tion determination to make it
a more rational instrumcntal-
ity can save it from very deep
I and damaging cuts.
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