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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 19S3 (Sunday)
Construction of a multiple
purpose Field House by the
Medford school district has
been proposed by a group of
. citizens headed by Dr. Edwin
R. Durno.
Bagley Canning company,
Ashland, this week announced
plans to lengthen its packing
' season by processing specialty
items such as jams, jellies,
preserves and pickles.
20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 3, 1943 (Friday)
State Representative Frank
Van Dyke, Ashland, takes seat
in legislature following hon-
; orable discharge from Army
officers training school in Cal
ifornia.. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
; Smudge Pot" column: "Old
Sol beamed today. It is badly
needed to make things grow
; and sive all a chance to have
spring lever."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1933 (Sunday)
Famed Aviatrix Amelia
Earhart stops briefly at Med
ford municipal airport on
flight down coast.
Ted Baker resigns as secre
tary of Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3. 1923 (Monday)
F. P. Farrell, president of
Jackson County Lincoln club.
announces that the Rev. Wil
liam Gilbert, Astoria, will be
featured speaker at Lincoln
day dinner here.
W. L. Lewis, manager of
Inlcrurban Autocar company,
announces plan to run dally
singe route between Medford
and Portland.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 3. 1913 (Wednesday)
Mcdford's Mayor Eifcrt
chamed with "sidestepping
election promises" after lie
asks time to investigate GO
foot long petition requesting
retention of E. J. Runyard as
muster of Medford public
market.
Ross Kline and Harry H
Kicks assume management of
Vsr. thpater. "nionccr nhoto
play house of Medford."
iMtcnt'a. Vam
I ft 1
iiyi i
Nine tn er-! Is superler;
seven ar eight Is excellent; five er
sii is good.
1. Is Alaska about two,
thrcr, nr four times the size
of Texas?
2. NHine the author of the
book "Grapes of Wrath."
3. Which cities In Minneso
ta are nicknamed the "Twin
Cities"?
4. Was Japan atom-bombed
, once, twice, or thrice?
5. What does the German
word "verboten'1 mean?
6. Who was the composer
of llie opera Carmen?
1. Do automobile tires lose
sir faster in winter or sum
mer?
8. Is the Tropic of Capri.
corn norin or south of the
Equator?
9. What is ethnology?
10. The capital of Maine is
Lewiston, Augusta, Portland
or Bangor7
' Answers: 1. Twice. 2. John
Steinbeck. 3. St. Paul end
Minneapolis. 4. Twice. 5. For
bidden, t. Biiel. 7. Summer.
8. South. 9. Science of recce
of man. 10. Augusta.
The Public
Elsewhere in this issue is a report on a survey
of the Phoenix-Talent school district by the Bu
reau of Educational Research at the University
of Oregon.
There also is a statement from the Phoenix-
Talent school board, expressing its opposition,
and its reasons therefore, to the proposed con
solidation of that district
The board's statement uses some of the ma
terial from the report of the Bureau's survey of
the district, material which points out the excel
lence of the program offered in the Phoenix-Tal
ent district.
THE statement outlines
iha Vinui-rl nnnnwc tho
This it should do.
But the report by the
Research contains material which has not been
brought to the attention
although the report has
fice since summer.
At the recent public
tion proposal, a question
the report and whether it
Phoenix district officials
district's office.
But the attorney for
dation objected to the
that there was no reason for the school board
to make the report public." The objection was
sustained by the rural school board, a procedure
which usually is limited to a court of law, and
rather uncommon, to say the least, at a public
hearing.
DERHAPS there is no reason why the board
should make the report public. But we be
lieve there is.
The board, elected by district patrons, is ob
ligated to keep its patrons informed of district
affairs. The board authorized the survey by the
Bureau of Educational Research, and since it did,
the board should let its
of the survey.
We do not in anv wav auestion the motives
of the school officials who have kept the report
from general knowledge. But we do question,
seriously, the propriety of such action, and be
lieve that an official body which keeps informa
tion from the knowledge of its constituents is sow
ing the seeds ol suspicion
THE REPORT is based on fact, with reasonable
conclusions and recommendations by the
Bureau. It contains some material which is not
at this time favorable. But it also contains much
material that is favorable.
Many of the recommendations for improving
panc iacuiues, we are
iously considered by the Phoenix board on a
"pay-as-you-go" basis. Part of the improvements
probably will be in the next fiscal year's budget.
which is now in the preparation stages.
Information in the Bureau's report should be
made public, and made public prior to the forth
coming election on the consolidation proposal.
ine people who support the schools through
property taxes should know all of the aspects
which have to be considered in such a proposal.
umy it all ol the lacts are made readily avail
able and considered by the voter will the voter
be able to make an intelligent decision. E.H.A.
Points To
Previously in these columns we reviewed two
points which voters of Phoenix-Talent and Med
ford districts should consider in deciding the con
solidation proposal. They are:
1. Welfare of the students involved, and
whether the educational opportunities for them
will be. improved.
2. The economic value of such a consolidation,
and whether it will be more economical for the
taxpayers of the districts involved.
Information on both points is available. Much
ui u, uie must important
has been published at various tunes: other infoi
mation is available from
county and district levels
mation is available from
T'HE PRESENT consolidation issue started
some years ago in the Barnelt i d. area of the
Phoenix district, an area within the Medford
city limits.
The Bureau of Educational Research, in its
conclusions, has this to offer:
"The election of an elementary school In the Ar
gonnc Avenue site would do much to dispel any dis
salisfaclion which patrons of that area feel and which
may cause tlicin to want to become a part of the
Medford district.
"In conclusion, it is our opinion thin no further
cession of territory to the Medford district should be
made unless the Phoenix disl-iet as whole wants to
consolidate witii Medford. This may, in the future,
prove to be a desirable arrangement. Some who look
at the development of the Medford area would say
thai it is inevitable that eventually Phoi-nlx a:?d
Medford will be pari of the same municipality. In
litis event, it would be highly desirable for the two
systems to be merged. Until that time, however.
Phoenix should hold to its present boundaries while
providing all of its people, wherever they live, with
the best facilities possible, considering the financial
ability of the district."
These, then, are some of the noints which
should be considered before votinrr on the con
solidation proposal. They are points which could
have a bearing on the future of the community,
both educationally and financially. E.H.A.
Should Know
with Medford.
the major reasons why
rrmttnlirlatinn nrnnnsal
Bureau of Educational
of patrons of the district,
been in the district s or
hearing on the consolida.
was asked concerning
had been made public.
noted that it was in the
the opponents of consoli
question on the grounds
patrons know the results
and distrust.
sure, are now oeing ser
Consider
as-.pecis 01 11, we nope,
school officials on ihc'cna "ww.8 T
HtUtUHU
"We Can't Burden
Deficit
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(c) V.W.I. The
THE GENERAL AS
PROPHET
General De Gaulle has
made it quite plain that, in
excluding Britain from the
Common Mar
ket, he means
to cut way
down the po
litical i n flu-
ence of the
United States
in Europe. We
shall delude
our selves if
we think his
action i s a
Lippmann
mere episode which will be
washed away by the stream
of history.
We shall delude ourselves
also if we regard the general
as a relic of the past, say as
an imitation Napoleon. For
however irritation he my be,
General Dc Gaulle is not and
NEVER has been a fool, and
though his roots are deep in
the past, again and again it
has been shown that he is en
dowed with second-sight about
the future.
HE IS confronting this
rnuntrv with need to make
a difficult and momentous re
appraisal of our post-war
foreign policy as it has been
developed by Roosevelt, Tru
man, Eisenhower and Ken
nedy. The policy has grown
out of the demonstrated fact
that in the first World War,
again in the second World
War and again in the cold
war, the European members
of the Atlantic Community
have not been able to defend
themselves without the inter
vention of the United Slates.
This is what brought the
American people out of their
historic isolation and took
them into Europe, from which
the general would now wish
to expel them. Why does he
wish to expel them? No
doubt, in part, because we
have tiresome habits, and it
would be more agreeable if
we were not there. But the
substantial reason for expel
ling us is Unit, in the judg
ment of the general, we are at
the end of that post-war situa
tion in which the United
States has been the defender
and the banker of Western
Europe.
For one thing, the Russian
menace is no longer, he
assumes, a military matter,
and even if it is, the United
States connot be relied upon
to risk thermonuclear v;ir fur
the sake ot a European inter
est. Moreover, not only has
Western Europe recovered,
but the United States, with its
heavily-mortgaged and vulner
ablo gold is. relatively speak
ing, no longer the paramount
")UR PROBLEM, therefore,
' is, ! submit, to rcsppi dic 1
r?..rfr i. Li .
C,, M.i a A njs r,iS,
"It's the way all nations do It, Chico. First you have
the arms build up, then you turn them into plow,
shares and pruning hooks, 1 Iheenkl"
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lippmann
Washington Post
our ideas and our policies
and to readjust them to the
passing of the post-war era.
We are not dealing with a
wicked man who can be or
should bo slapped down. We
are dealing, I believe, with a
prophetic man who is acting
as if the future, which is prob
ably coming, has already
arrived.
Just as he would not give
Britain a few years to read
just its agriculture to the
Common Market, so now he
is not giving us the time to
reappraise and revise our
policies. What makes him so
difficut is that he presents us
not with a diplomatic argu
ment, but with an accomplish
ed fact. It is only fair to add
that this has often been the
one euective way lo mane
people change their minds.
Thus, while it is true mat
the post-war role of the Unit
ed States in the defense ot
Europe is bound to come to
an end, there are great risks
in bringing this about so
abruptly. Americans in their
heart of hearts do not like be
ing involved in Europe. There
is a serious risk, which should
not lo be overlooked, that they
will discount too quickly the
future which the general
foresees. The Mansfield Com
mittee report is a signpost
pointing toward withdrawal
and isolation.
WHERE IS a serious risk al
so that such an abrupt
turn in Europe will provoke
a protectionist reaction in
this country. With Europeans
holding a mortgage on such
a very large portion of our
dwindling gold reserves, a
reaction would be only too
easy to start, and it may be
very difficult to prevent many
u n d e s i r able protectionist
measures. France and the
rest of the Common Market
countries are mistaken if they
think that the United States
can be excluded from Euro
pean affairs and at the same
time will continue to provide
the non - Communist world
with its reserve currency.
That will seem to a host of
Americans a lot more trouble
than it is worth.
There is also the question of
ho wMoscow will react to the
violent shaking up of the
Western Alliance. I hope Mr.
Khrushchev will react to it
as we arc reacting to the vio
lent shaking up of his alliance
with Red China-that is to say,
by doing nothing about it ex
cept perhaps lo sit back and
enjoy it.
It will be tempting to him,
of course, to do some fishing
in the troubled waters of the
Atlantic Community. But it
would not be profitable to do
so. For nothing thai is now
i happening In Europe changes
the fact that the peace of the
world will be made or lost bv
the U. S. S. P.. and the U. S. A.
1 Vi l n
mm
Matter of Fact y jo..Ph aiW(
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
(Edilor'a nolet The fellow,
ing column was written
prior to Friday's unexpect
ed break-oifof test ban ne
gotiations by the Russians.)
THE TWO Kj AND
DE GAULLE
Washington-Outimism i s
rising about the negotiations
for a nuclear test ban, which
were given a
new start by
the post-Cuba
c o r r e spond
ence between
P r e s i d e nt
Kennedy and
N i kita S.
K h r ushchev.
The source of
the optimism
is largely at
i
Alsnp
mospheric. There has been no
give in the Foviet position
since the first Khrushchev
letter suggesting that the
Soviets might agree to two or
three on-site inspections, in
order to give some insurance
against cheating by under
ground tests.
Yet a compromise is clear
ly possible, the gap is so small
between this minimal offer by
Khruschev and the stated
American requirement for
eight to ten on-site inspec
tions. As the numbers cited
indicate, agreeing to a com
promise ought to be easy for
Khrushchev, assuming that
his move to get the negotia
tions going again really means
that he sincerely desires a
ban.
AS FOR THE American
government, P r e s i d e nt
Kennedy's freedom of action
is rather strictly limited,
both by national security
considerations and by the feel
ings of the U. S. Senate. But
it is quite clear that the
President is willing and even
eager to reach a compromise,
providing the Soviets will
approve a serious and work
able inspection system and
accept an intermediate num
ber of on-site checks.
Such a compromise is
thought to be consistent with
national security, in turn, for
several different reasons. First
of all, the Defense Depart
ment's Project Vela has made
considerable advances in the
art of detecting hidden nu
clear events. The position has
changed materially since the
period when the U. S. govern
ment felt it necessary to de
mand really large numbers
of on-site checks.
Then, loo, the President
has gone through a somewhat
disillusioning e x p e r i e n ce.
When we resumed testing, he
heard the same scientists who
used to warn most loudly
against cheating, just as loud
ly swearing that underground
tests were no real substitute
for atmospheric tests. For
these and other reasons, gov
ernment opinion is all but
unanimous that the risks of a
reasonably policed test ban
will be far less than the po
tential gains.
THE QUESTION is, there
fore, whether Khrushchev
will also compromise. Accord
ing to report, a prediction
that he will do so has been
made by the President's offic
ial Kremlinologist, former
Ambassador to Moscow
Llewellyn Thompson. Thomp
son is said to consider that
the test ban negotiations to
date exactly resemble the
tedious haggling which finally
produced the Austrian peace
treaty.
In these circumstances, it is
Where There Is No
BY ERIC SEVAREID
Key West-This is where
freedom comes to a point.
The southeastern lip of this
soul hermosl
frag mcnt of
iMf!.-! Stales is a low
J?) stone seawall
as? , I curving
f rrtl-M
the Na'vv
. v-ssrn ,nst llaiion-
fclf-aBSk JgSlGeorgc Smath-
31 Sr, g na V " V I I c
Sfvareid beach, past
the Howard Johnson empor
ium, the long row of stabled
fishing boats and the food fair
until RoosevcU Boulevard be
comes Truman Avenue. At the
corner of Truman Avenue
Margaret Street stands the
Margaret Truman Launder
ette. t
Key Wp;:t. pari Spanish,
part Angle-American, is an
architectural miah-mash o f
lovely, baiconied New Orleans
style frime houses lost in a
neon-lighii'd nightmare of gas
stations, shops and Joints. The
tourists are few, middle-aged
and middle-western Youth
consists of pair and trios of
bored U. S. sailors drifting
along Duval Street under the
eye of the shore patrol. The
cars move al sedate speeds.
the pelicans glide very slow
ly and even the gulls seem
rarely to scram. It is the fre
quent jet fighter planes on
not too early to look ahead a
little, and to ask what will
happen if a test ban is agreed
upon. One thing that will
certainly happen is a Soviet
move to open talks on other
subjects. CorrlmunUt leaders
have quite frankly said that
Khrushchev needs a test ban,
both to prove that fruitful
agreements with the U. S. are
really possible, and as a pre
lude to other negotiations,
about Berlin for example.
Then the question of
China's nuclear effort will
quite unavoidably arise after
Soviet-American agreement
on a test ban. The long await
ed Chinese test of an atomic
device can in theory occur,
according to the U. S. an
alysts, at any time this year
or thereafter.
In reality, a later date
seems to be more likely. It is
known, for instance, that even
the relatively small experi
mental reactor given to the
Chinese by the Soviets is not
now being operated at max
imum capacity, for want of
adequate supplies of heavy
water. But soon or late, it is
plainly necessary to anticipate
a Chinese test in defiance of
the Soviet-American test ban
if such a ban exists.
DERHAPS o p t i mistically,
many of the American
policy-makers hope that the
existence of the ban will give
Moscow and Washington the
needed leverage to cope with
the Chinese. A cynical minor
ity suspects that this is rather
like planning to fumigate the
largest imaginable elephant
with the smallest possible per
fume atomizer, unless, to be
sure, Moscow is willing to
use military sanctions against
Peking.
Some leverage will clearly
be gained, however, and the
dangerous proliferation of nu
clear powers will also be hald
ed by a test ban, providing
that one other problem can
also be solved. The final prob
lem is summed up as so often
nowadays, in the alarming
person of Gen. de Gaulle.
It will not be at all easy to
put pressure on Peking, even
of the mild sort that is un
likely to bear fruit, if France
is still conducting nuclear
tests without let or hindrance.
There is talk, therefore, of
buying off the General, by
giving the French the thermo
nuclear warheads they so
conspicuously lack at present.
In view of the impotence
of the French delivery system,
Khrushchev should not be ex
cessively upset by an improve
ment in French warhead type.
But buying off de Gaulle is
easier said than done.
Editorial
BRAVO, CLEMSON1
They did not want him.
They were, in fact, petitioning
the Supreme Court for author
ity to reject him at the very
moment when he reached the
campus. In what was happen
ing here there was no aban
donment of adherence to the
old idea of the "all while"
school, no conversion to the
new idea of segregation, and
this must be clearly under
stood. Nevertheless
Once the issue was drawn,
once all present legal means
of delay had been exhausted,
Clemson and its sponsors and
the authorities of South Car
olina faced up to the issue
honorably. For weeks in ad
vance of this ultimate denoue
ment Governor Russell had
conducted an effective cam
patrol that supply the vigor
and the sound.
The tip of freedom points
toward Cuba which is closer
than Miami, and easily pene-
I sea and sky. One has only to
switch the television knob to!
channel five anJ Castro, Com
unism and the new songs of
old Cuba, lyrics by ideologues,
suddenly fill one's motel bed
doom wil'n clamor and tense
reality. Nothing but the sea
and sky separates this place
from the tragedy, ever present
in the faces and the conversa
tions of Cuban waiters, Cham
bermaids, drivers and fisher
men all ovor this riddled spit
of land.
From here the refugees arc
scattered, all the way up the
keys, through and to the north
of Miami, their Mecca of
desperation, their gathering
and their festering place.
There the complete agony is
assembcld out of its tens of
thousands of human parls-the
pride, tnc soui-iickncss, t!ie
blind but urgent hopes, the
shapeless plans to somehow
plan. The joy over the re
turned heroes of the Bay of
Pigs was short-lived: the firry,
promising words ef President
Kennedy in the Miami Stad
ium fade from the conversa
tion or arc repealed In Ironic
echoes. The demurrer of the
Attorney General on the
question of the air support
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A PROMINENT literary critic came back- frorrj a ladies'
club meeting in New Jersey last week in a rather
chastened mood. He had lectured on the influence- ex
erted on current litera
ture by Faulkner, Hem
ingway, and O'Hara, and
done rather well, too, he
thought that is until the
president of the club con
fided to him, "You were
wonderful today, Mr. P.,
wonderful! Your literary
criticisms were as wel
come as water to a
drowning man!"
Tongue - In - cheek news
Item in the Dublin, Ireland,
Free Post: "A man arrested
on O'Connell Street yester
day was found to possess a loaded revolver, three sticks of dyna.
mite, a fuse, and a number of detonators. He Is suspected of be
ing a politician." .
"Little Willie" poems the "sick Jokes" of forty years age
are making the rounds again.
Three examples:
1. Little Willie, oh so bright,
Bought a stick of dynamite.
Curiosity seldom pays:
It rained Willie for seven days.
2. Into the oven Little Willie
Pushed his baby sister Lillle.
Mother took one sniff and said
"Really, Willie, that's not well bred."
3. Willie, bored with pinching cars.
Stole a rocket and flew to Mars.
He there pursued his normal pattern
So all the Martians moved to Saturn.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Question:
What's this THIRD FORCE
President De Gaulle keeps
talking about as his objective
for the France of today?
The usual term for it is
BALANCE OF POWER.
AS De Gaulle sees it, there
are TWO FORCES in the
world of today:
1. The Western Alliance.
2. The Soviet Union.
It might be more accurate
to say that the TWO FORCES
of today's world are commu
nism and the free way of life,
but De Gaulle, who is a real
istic thinker, probably dis
cards Red China as too weak
to count for much, at this crit
ical moment, and sees only
the Soviet Union and the
Western Alliance.
WHAT, he is playing for,
one must, presume, is to
pull Franco out of the West
ern Alliance, then to stand in
the MIDDLE, and by threat
ening to go over to ONE SIDE
if the other side doesn't toe
his mark, to make himself, as
Comment
paign for obedience to nation
al law.
On the decisive day the stu
dent body itself behaved ad
mirably. Resentment and re
luctance there may have been;
but there was none of the vi
olence and threats of violence,
none of the open flaunting of
racial hatred, none of the row
dyism wearing the mask of
white supremacy that have
characterized events of this
kind elsewhere. Instead, there
was an encouraging display of
order and self restraint.
What a contrast to Missis-sippi!-New
York Times.
Back east they get 70 inches
of snow and we can't get more
than five per cent of that.
That's discrimination and a
committee should be appoint-cd.-Sherman
County Journal.
Vision, People Perish
came like a whiplash in their
faces.
The fact thai they may be
truly lost is beginning lo pene
trate. They are a passionate
j terness
as readily as
their eratitudc.
they
The
spoke
b,5ie ol i lOriua &im Ine iea
eral government have a n
enormous and growing pro
blem on their hands. Every
living Cuban here asks him
self and his friends the daily
question, spoken or unspoken:
Are we going back?
There is no answer. If an
official answer does come and
it is affirmative, with evi
dence to support it, they will
remain together nnd live only
for the day of their return.
If the answer is negative, they
would explode, but sooner or
later they would becin to dull
the pain and to think in terms
of assimiliation to North
American life. One way or
another, their life would go on
with some meaning and pur
pose. But today they exist in
a state of suspension, their
feet not on the ground nor
their heads in the clouds. Pro
longed, this will prove unen
durable The other side of this coin is
the dilemma of the U. S. Gov
ernment. It can issue general
assurances, as the President
did in Miami, but it cannot
support the assurance wilh
public proof of specific plans.
Stop Mo
the leader o France, ALL
POWERFUL.
Thus he would become a
second Napoleon.
DE GAULLE has much in
common with Napoleon.
Napoleon had a brilliant
mind. So has De Gaulle.
Napoleon had delusions o(
grandeur. So, apparently, has
De Gaulle. These delusions
outweigh their good points.
Napoleon, after saving France
from the consequences of
the Revolution, RUINED
FRANCE by his ambition to
run Europe.
SUMMING up:
Napoleon wound up in
exile on the island of Elba.
Where will De Gaulle wind
up?
One can't help wondering.
"IIIORE about
this third
ill
force.
It isn't original with De
Gaulle.
It is an ancient device. For
centuries, it was the founda
tion of Britain's foreign
policy.
rTHE essence of this third
-- force idea, as Britain saw
it, was never to let ANY
BODY get too strong in
Europe. Whenever, over the
centuries, Britain saw any
body getting too strong, she
lined up with the OPPOSI
TION. By means of that device,
the little island of Britain
not a great deal bigger in area
than the not-too-big state of
Oregon was able to make
herself top dog in Europe and
stay that way for hundreds of
years.
WILL De Gaulle be able io
copy Britain's formula
for POWER and get away
with it?
One wonders.
Also one has doubls.
This is a " quite different
world from the world that
Britain was able to rule so
long by means of the third
force device.
There is a difference between
an official attitude and an
official policy. For this slowly
festering pool nf displaced
humanity there in Florida an
attitude very coon will not
be enough. A positive policy,
even if short of armed inva
sion, but promising a specific
schedule of pressures severe
enough to realistically fore
shadow Castro's downfall,
would seem to justify the idea
of a Cuban government in
exile, for a host of useful
purposes, including Cuban co
hesion in Florida now and
limiting the anarchy and
fraternal violence in Cuba
later.
It would also permit and
inspire serious advance think
ing here' about the nature nf
the post-Castro Cuban polit
ical and social order. It is
a new vision of Cuban life in
liberty and social Justice,
Ihuueiil out in some detail,
that ought to be crackling
through the air waves now,
to the ears of all within that
island fortress. Tiiey uugiil lo
hear it night after night, as
they now hear the mechanical
drumbeat o f Communism's
slogans, insults and alibis.
Whpre the vision is unstated,
as where there is no vision,
people perish, whether in
their homes or abroad and
seeking to find their homes.
(Distributed 1963. by The
Hall Syndicate. Inc.)
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