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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22. 1953 (Friday)
Three juvenile boys from
the slale of Washington were
in custody at Medford today
after admitting stealing two
cars and burglarizing Faber's
market in Central Point.
The retail price of cigar
ettes will go up three cents a
pack next week in this area.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22. 1943 (Wednesday)
Dr. Howell Williams, of
University of California, com
pletes studies on origin of
Crater Lake.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Shoe
rationing has caused people
to quit wishing they were 'in
Henry Ford's shoes,' due to
concentrating on staying
their own."
in
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 22, 1933 (Friday)
Grand Jury Foreman Wil
liam T. Grieve, Prospect, Is-
sued report recommending
that position of probation offi
cer and deputy Jailer "be dis
pensed with Immediately."
Air line inaugurates direct
air service between Medford
and Sacramento.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22, 1923 (Saturday)
Complaint charges federal
Investigator in Jackson coun
ty "night riding" cases with
violation of prohibitions laws.
Medford mill operator In
dicted in Portland for "using
the mails to defraud;" case
Involves effort to open up oil
development In Antelope val
ley basin east of Medford.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22. 1913 (Monday)
Bill submitted to Oregon
stale legislature would In
increase salary of Jackson
county district attorney to
S2.100 a year.
Dispute over proposed $10,-
0U0 bond issue to improve
Eagle Point streets results in
list fight between Eagle Point
mayor and spectator at coun
cil meeting.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ll superior;
seven or eight li excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Where is the dial that
marks Zero degrees longi
tude? 2. i: the image a person
fees focuses in front of the
retina of his eye is he near
sighted or farsightcd?
A. who were Known as
"The Great Commoner" in
American History?
4. Jesus was a carpenter,
but what was Mohammed's
profession?
5. The brown tail, codling
and gypsy arc all varieties of
what Insect?
6. In 1017 the U.S. pur
chased what Islands (or
525.000.000?
7. If an object goes 300
yards In 10 seconds, how
many feet does it go in 15th
tecond?
8. Name two European
capitals thai start with P.
9. One of the Greek Alpha
be I letters is a triangle;
which?
10. In what city did the
3888 Haymarket rinli occur?
A n I w r li 1. Greenwich,
England. 2. Nearsighted. 3.
Henry Clay and William Jen
nings Bryan. 4. Camel driver.
S. Moth. 6. Virgin Island. 7.
18 (eel. 8. Paris and Prague.
8. Delta. 10. Chicago.
4
FEBRUARY 22, 1883
Let's End
In his inaugural message, Gov. Mark Hatfield
said :
"To augment local efforts to eliminate air and
water pollution, the State Sanitary Authority should
be given summary abatement power , . .
"County government should be given authority to
establish community air pollution control programs in
unincorporated areas and to contract with cities andor
other counties.
This recommendation came because the Sani
tary Authority now lacks sufficient power to com-
pel the abatement of pollution without long and
complex procedures, and
Impatience among the
mounting nuisance and
water.
THE Medford area is
ortA iirntfli r-a11iif iriri
ailU TV 11,1,1 JUiJUlilUlls i.b 1IOO Aly ilJ " e
(Our contemporary to the south delights in
calling Medford "Smoggy Bottom," and the sad
fact is that he's about right a good part of the
time.)
Driving south earlier this week, we came
down from the fresh, clean air of Mt. Sexton
onto the Freeway, whisked by the smoky valley
of Grants Pass, emerged again into clean air all
the way to the top of Blackwell hill, and there
saw the dirty pall of smoke lying over the valley,
obscuring the view of Mt. McLoughlin and Roxy
Ann, and, between Central Point and Medford,
cutting visibility to less
The following day, parking in the downtown
area during the morning, we got in our car at
noon, only to find it covered with a layer of soot
and fly-ash. And remember the dirty log of
earlier this winter? When the dirt-laden moisture
would blacken a car in a few minutes' time?
WE HAVE been told, time and time again,
that wo t'Pullu shntiifin'r. wnrw. "Vnlnntarv
- "w . . . . . . . j . , j
cooperation" would eliminate most of the mill
smoke nuisance, we have been told.
(It is true that some mills have put consider
able funds into smoke abatement equipment. It
is equally true that others haven't done any
thing.) '
We have been told
tion" of what is now wood waste would auto
matically solve the problem. Yeah? When? In
19847 Or 19947
We have been told
situation would improve.
gotten worse.
lyiUCH, too, has been said about water pollu
tion and in particular the sorry mess which
is Bear Creek.
Yes, indeed. Much has been said, but darned
little has been clone.
Isn't it about the time
you and me, friends got a little mad about it,
and demanded that all these promises and predic
tions begin to come true?
Isn't it about time that we stopped trusting to
"voluntary cooperation," and believing vague
promises of better conditions, and see to it that
this nuisance, this health menace, this danger to
eyes and lungs to say nothing of one's esthetic
sensibilities be ended? Now?
THE other clay State Sen. Ted Hallock (D-Port-
land) introduced Senate Bill 259, at the re
quest of the State Sanitary Authority.
According to the mil
would:
"Permit Sanitary Authority to institute suit at law
or in equity to abate or restrain threatened or existing
pollution o( air or water, without necessity of prior
administrative procedures or hearing; permit cities and
counties to enter into cooperative contracts relating
to air pollution program, and to provide for proper
body to manage such a program."
The bill should pass. Those who agree should
write to their senator and
ator Hallock, and to Governor Hatheld.
Only such supporting opinion will give the
measure a chance for passage.
COR a long time now we have put our faith in
the good will and good intentions of the lum
ber interest in the area, in the persuasive powers
of the county government, and in the enforcement
power which the city council could if it would
exorcise.
No more.
The mills (most of them, anyway) continue
to spout out their sickening pall of smoke and
soot and cinders. The county calls meetings and
calls for a "voluntary" program. The city stalls,
month after month after month, in enacting an
air pollution control ordinance. Bear Creek gets
filthier with its load of
chemicals.
TMIEUE is always a great hue and cry about
state and federal government "usurping" the
powers of local government.
Well, this is a perfect example of why the
state and federal government step in. When local
government can't or won't act in an area of urgent
need, the state or federal government often will.
This is a case where local government has fail
edutterly, completely and shamefully.
So now we must call upon the resources of
the state and, if need be, the federal govern
ment to do the job.
If you, too, are tired, tired, tired of filth in
the air and filth in the water, you can do so vc
thing about it. You can demand DEMAND,
mind you, not ask humbly effective state
action, and the first step is passage of Senate Bill
259.-E.A.
This Filth
because of a growing
state s residents over tne
menace of dirty air and
not "threatened by" air
Tf Uqcj if -.
than a mile.
that "increased utiliza
that, year by year, the
Year by year it has
that the public that's
Digest, the measure
representatives, to Sen
sewage and agricultural
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contrary Is eiten the case.
Language in Schools
To the Editor: The other
day in class at Medford Senior
High school, we discussed the
rules and regulations by
which the school is to abide.
These rules are made by the
state for each school in the
state. One of these laws, that
agree with and abide by.
states: "Obscene or vulgar lan
guage used in or out of class
will not be tolerated; each of
fense of this rule will be pun
ished by temporary suspen
sion." But, one student asked,
What about the teacher?"
Are the teachers permitted to
break the rules?
1 can name several teachers
at the school that use obscene
language in the classroom.
Many students use their teach
ers as educated examples.
They get the Idea that if the
teacher can use it, why can t
the student? Is this reasoning
so wrong? Just exactly what
Is the difference between
teachers using it and students
using It? It is a school rule,
so why can't all the school
abide by it? Maybe the state
education system needs a set
of rules and regulations for
teachers also.
The teacher that uses this
language loses the respect of
his students. This loss of re
spect make it very hard to
learn the subject this teacher
is teaching. My hope is that in
the future this can be prevent
ed andor cured.
David Gaines,
2191 Kings Hwy.,
Medford.
Bill Opposed
To the Editor: Please print
the following letter:
John Dellcnback
State Representative
Capitol Building,
Salem, Ore.
Dear Sir: In regard to Bill
103: I wish to state that I am
very much against the passage
of this bill.
1 have a small pasture and
keep one or more cattle for
my own beef. Until we were
given the privilege of having
a truck come to my place to
butcher my animals, it was
necessary tor me to take them
to a slaughter house where
they stood for some time in
the open, bothered by ani
mals with horns and worried
until butchered. Then 1 had
to have the meat cut up long
before it was properly aged
as they did not have sufficient
space for the aging of beef.
Now the butcher comes and
my animals arc killed before
they are frightened and I con
tend that this is one reason
my beef is very tender. Then
after killing, the carcass is
taken to clean lockers where
it is properly aged.
This bill will benefit only
large companies who want to
freeze out the small operating
butcher. As long as my butch
er is state inspected and han
dles my beef in a clean man
ner, I much prefer him to
handle my butchering and
meat cutting. The large com
panies cannot do it any better
and it would be very incon
venient for me to haul my
beef to them to have It butch
ered, cut and wrapped.
My local butcher has about
$10,000 invested in a refriger
ated, butchering truck. Surely
you wouldn't want him to lose
one of his sources of making
his living.
I label this Bill 103 as bi
ased In favor cf the big meat
packing companies and a com
plete freeic out of the little
operator.
Mrs Mildred Duntord.
V. O. Box 2!H.
Eagle Point, Ore.
PS. - Anyone who feels
strongly about this issue
piea.se write lo the lullnwing
Slate Representatives: Delicti
back, Uranchfu-UI. Redden,
and State Sen. Lyn Ncwbry.
This must be done Immediate-
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
ly as the final vote will be in
a few days.
Scenic Row
To the Editor: "Travel our
new modern freeway through
Medford and see our beautiful
scenic row of billboards!"
Jerry R. Troxel
633 Cherry st.
Medford.
Indeed!
To the Editor: At one time
the names of Lincoln, Wash
ington, Ben Franklin were
revered and honored in Amer
ica. At one time patriotism
was respected, the flag was
honored. But now, these are
made light of and dishonored.
Today these names are used
as advertising. ,
I, for one, am hereby tell
ing all of Medford that I will
not trade with anyone who
puts their store under this
banner this year and the year
to come. Washington's Birth
day Sale Indeed!
Ella Powell
Box 621
Central Point, Ore.
Stray Cats
To the Editor: I've read sev
eral articles in Communica
tions on cats and of some los
ing their loved pets. I like
cats too and have three (all
altered). This only costs $3
and is so well worth it, as it
makes such excellent pets
that don't have a tendency
to go wandering and yowling
under someone's bedroom
window all night, irritating
them to the point of hitting
them with something besides
the broom.
I have counted eight cats
in my yard in the past three
weeks and they are without a
doubt the most bedraggled,
torn up, beat up messes I have
ever seen. There has been one
in particular that I noticed.
He's real cute, is white with
a grayish tail and face, looks
almost as if someone dipped
the front and back in ashes.
He's been around for about
two weeks and I assumed he
lived somewhere in this
neighborhood, but this morn
ing I saw him out here drool
ing considerably from tne
mouth and I got as close to
him as he would allow and
he evidently has something
lodged in his mouth, so that
he can neither open nor close
it. He doesn't look very good
at all. If his owner should
read this maybe they could
see that he does get care.
And please remember, you
people, that do you lose your
pets, it could be that you arc
at fault inasmuch that you
did not keep them home.
B. J. Wyatt
1122 West Eighth st.
Medford.
Flag Respect
'lo the Editor: Patriotism in
action was exhibited at a spe
cial flag raising ceremony at
McLoughlin Junior High
school this week.
A 50 star flag, one of the
first to fly over the White
House, and then sent to Mc
Loughlin P.T.A., was used for
the cerrinony.
it was a 'thrill to watch the
student body officers and cab
inet of McLoughlin Junior
High stand quietly at atten
tion as the Boy Scouts of
Troop 103 respectfully and
carefully unfolded and raised
the flag as the bugle sounded.
There before us stood the
loaders of tomorrow showing
utmost respect for their flag
and country.
Thanks! Principal Berl Cox.
parents, teachers and Scout
leaders who have had a part
in the training of our young
people in llicir patriotism.
Mrs. Don Mincar.
1996 Griffin Creek rd.,
Medford.
Japan Hoping for New Economic Boom,
Based on Added China, Russia Trade
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Japan, whose economy has
enjoyed sensational growth
since the end of World War
II, is hoping
for another
boom. Some
of it, Japanese
bus inessmen
hope, will
come from in
creased trade
with the So
viet Union
and Red Chi
ft
LfeaJ
na. There are
bugs in both cases.
A new treaty with the So
viet Union provides for two.
way trade totalling about $670
million and means an increase
in Japanese-Soviet trade of
almost 50 per cent.
For trade with Red China
the prospects are for about
$100 million in 1063 as com
pared with $75 million in
1962 and $55 million in 1961.
Obstacles are anxieties over
Not a Yard
To the Editor: In January.
1961, the President said: "The
New Frontiah is going fahwad
with great vigah." Wot hap
pened? They ran out of vine
gah on the 50 yard line. They
have spent 225 billion dollars
and haven't gained a yard.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Sinking The Hook
, To the Editor: A bill now
before the Legislature would
extend the "blessings" of
"d.s.t." through the month of
September. This writer is
heartily in favor and urges
its passage.
It will open a lot of eyes
to what they really voted in
last November, thanks to $38,
000 worth of billboard propa
ganda and the services of ef
ficient public relations brains.
Could be that there was a fear
that parents of school chil
dren, who will have to use
electricity to conserve a con
tinually lessening amount of
evening daylight, would have
voted the other way.
A lot of voters were hooked,
but including September is
really sinking the hook. Next
time around there will be a
different outcome. .
John Q. Stewart,
933 NE 12th st.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Birth Pangs
To the Editor: How infinite
ly much the average devotee
of the Holy Bible misses by
accepting only the literal.
exoteric meanings and com
pletely ignoring the deeper,
esoteric message!
Jesus taught in two ways.
To the masses he taught the
lesser, or outer mysteries; to
his disciples and the more
highly evolved among his
followers he revealed the
greater, inner mysteries.
As a result of my last letter
it seems I have inadvertantly
arrived on certain prayer
lists. While these good people
undoubtedly have only the
best intentions. 1 must hasten
to assure them that my soul
is not lost. Therefore, they
will realize that their time
and efforts could be used to
better advantage on those
who are convinced that their
souls are lost-perhaps their
own. For some, 1 understand,
this could be a full time job.
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus
said "Thine is the power";
some among us have taken
him at his word. To accept
the belief in a devil, one
would of necessity have to be
lieve in a power apart from
God's. This I will never do,
for I believe with all my
heart that Jesus was correct.
God's is the only power but
it is often misused and
abused.
Our planet is presently in
the process of leaving the
darkness of the Pisccan Age
and entering into the light of
the Aquarian Age. As yet, we
arc on the cusp although we
are in Aquarius, the stigma
of Pisces is with us for yet a
little while. Earth is experi
encing the death-groans of an
old age, and the birth-pangs
of a new one: hence, the tur
moil. As Earth moves further
into Aquarius, it and all upon
and within it will receive a
new vibration-a higher and
steadily increasing frequcn v
Those who are attuned to the
greater acceleration and truly
yearn for and seek God's
truth and light will surely
find it. Those who are not
attuned will not be able to
withstand the new frequency.
The Aquarian Age will be
one of illumination. Those
lost in the wilderness of lit
eral interpretations and false
concepts shall find themselves
in darkness still but not
here.
This is In accord with
Biblical prophesy, astrology
and cosmic law. These are, iri-
reaction of the United States
and a desire on the part of
both Red China and the So
viet Union to do business on
credit.
Since Japan recognizes the
Nationalist Chinese regime on
Formosa and not the Peking
regime, trade with the Red
Chinese is conducted on a
"friendly" basis with firms
who do not trade with those
on Formosa.
Among other things, the
Chinese want special steels
and agricultural tools.
The Japanese steel industry
is especially eager for such
a market because it faces a
glutted market at home,
Japanese steel, shipbuilding
and machine tool industries
also are eager to expand trade
with the Soviet union.
Japanese exports to the So
viet Union in 1960 were val
ued at $59 million. Last year
they surged to $118 million.
A Russian lure to increased
Soviet trade is possible Jap
anese participation in vast Si
berian development plans.
Japanese economic growth
In 1962 amounted to around
5 per cent, about double the
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises. Inc.
RELATIVE TIME
It is a truism by now that
what we call "time" is rel
ative to the position and speed
of the observ
er. In handl
ing children,
we have to
recognize also
that "time" is
relative to the
age and ex
perience o f
the observer.
Barrt- There is an
important psychological di
mension to time.
.When a child promises to
come in the house at the end
of ten minutes, and is still out
after an hour, this is usually
not willful disobedience.
Children cannot be judged on
the same time-scale as adults,
for their reveries and dawdl
ing are geared to a different
clock than ours. Twenty min
utes spent in tying a shoelace
may pass like a second when
the fantasy of the spaceship
is more compelling than the
reality of the school bus.
At the age of five, my boy
wanted to know if I had lived
in the era of the cavemen,
and seemed disappointed that
I had never met any person
ally. At the age of six, he
knew a great time gulf existed
between the cavemen and me,
but he still wanted to know if
I had ever met Abraham
Lincoln.
To a child, a father in his
40s might as well be ISO
years old. The difference
between a father and a
grandfather, which seems
so pronounced to us, is
nothing at all to a child.
Years, decades and cen
turies are all blurred in the
short focus of the child's
mind. What happened two
years ago might have been
yesterday, and next Friday
is a million years away.
Understanding the rela
tivity of time, in this psy
chological dimension, is
absolutely essential if we
are to cope with the world
of children. It is a long and
laborout process for them
lo acquire the time-sense of
adulthood and some peo
ple, it is true, never seem
to acquire it.
The habitually unprompl,
the inept planners, and last
minuters, are really cling
ing to emotional vestiges of
their childhood, and are un
consciously reliving i h e
past, reluctant to break
with their fantasies.
On the other hand, t'.iosc
persons with an over aculc
sense of time (and I happen to
be one of them) have perhaps
relinquished too much of their
childhood capacity for taking
the present as it comes and
enjoying it. They are forever
planning ahead, living in the
next hour, the next day. the
next month, and the present
is swallowed up by the future.
If the habitually unprompt
are self-indulgent, the com
pulsively prompt arc self
punishing; and it certainly
seems to be true that the per
son who is late for an engage
ment is generally more charm
ing than the one who gets
there early.
This is what makes the
punctual person so angry: he
feels that people who are la;c
have no right to be so pleas
ant. Maybe this is what we
resent in our dawdling chil
dren.
deed, the latter days; not
heralding the end of the
world, as some believe, but of
n age. The Golden Dawn of
Aquarius draws near!
Louise Wopschall
Route 1. Box 408
Eagle Point, Ore.
U.S. growth but below what
the Japanese have been led
to expect in the years since
World War II. Since 1950, the
Japanese growth rate has av
eraged better than 8 per cent.
Now, however, the steels,
textile oil refining and coal
mining industries drastically
Washington Report
By William
(cl United Featura Syndicate
RELUCTANT TAX CUT
Washington - Never has the
prospect of voting for a tax
cut been so unwelcome to so
many politi
cians. Never
has the chance
of "g e 1 1 i n g
from the gov
e r n m e n t"
been appeal
ing to so few
among the
public. These
are the extra
ordinary real-
i t i e s confronting President
Kennedy's tax reduction - tax
reform bill. They run straight
against the oldest cliches in
public life - that congressmen
always are thirsting to give
the people "a tax break" and
that the people are forever
demanding just that.
Nevertheless, and in spite
of the fact that the tax bill is
now being hit at for one rea
son or another alike by labor
and business, and seemingly
by almost everybody else, the
best guess now is that con
gress will pass something.
IT PROBABLY will vote
some across-the-board but
not large tax reduction. It
probably will stay well away
from tax reform - from clos
ing those "loopholes" which
in one point of view are un
fair boons to favored groups
but in another point of view
are fair recognition of the
special problem of some in
dustries and interests.
And almost certainly it will
rewrite the President's bill to
give more generous treatment
to the one class which would
be the least rewarded by the
measure, the middle income
people.
In a word, congress ap
proaches this whole problem
with a rare hesitancy. A pow
erful senator says wryly:
"The way we are going at this
supposedly jolly thing of tax
reduction reminds me of the
story of the traveling sales
man in Maine who met a
farmer angrily whipping his
horse from his seat in the
buggy. 'Where you going,
friend?' asked the salesman.
'Goin' up to Bangor to go on
a spree - and, gosh, how I
dread it.' "
IF CONGRESS acts at all to
cut taxes, it will do so not
because it wants to but simply
because it dare not do other
wise. The President has hard
ly left congress with any al
ternative. The administration's insis
tent claim that tax reduction
is essential to ginger up the
national economy - coupled
with its invocation of the
threat of a recession other
wise - is very hard to stand
against within the controlling
center of congress.
The classical and crusty old
conservatives have no prob
lem with which to wrestle in
the nighttime. Their philoso
phy is simple and untroubled.
They just don't believe in tax
cuts in a time of heavy fed
eral deficits, and they will not
budge. Certainly they will not
budge at this odd moment in
history in which congressional
mail - and apparently the ad
ministration's mail, too, to
judge from White House re
luctance to disclose its tone -is
on balance more skeptical
of tax cuts than pfeading tor
tnem.
TUT the congressional cen--
tcr will not in the end be
willing to pit its economic
judgment against the Presi
raaa
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are reducing output.
The Japanese also are press
ing hard in other parts of
Asia. They hope for expanded
trade soon with Korea, and
are using war reparations and
grant and loan agreements to
push Japanese products elsewhere.
S. White
dent's. It will tend to go along
with tax reduction because
it fears that otherwise that
feared recession might in fact
develop. Still, it will be the
most reluctant tax cut of our
time; for there is another con
gressional fear, too.
This is that tax reduction
may not after all bring off
the contemplated spur to busi
ness and that this, plus a fed
eral deficit rising in those cir
cumstances far above present
estimates, would put every
body concerned in political
peril in 1964.
In the meantime, the Ameri
can public deserves a special
salute for its obvious willing
ness to forgo tax relief in
order to reduce, or at any
rate to hold in check, the fed
eral debt. If this is not a strik
ing evidence of national ma
turity, it is surely something
very close to that.
In .he Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
Russia has informed the
United States that "severel
thousand" Soviet troops will
be withdrawn from Cuba in
the next three weeks, diplo
matic informants reported.
T'HAT prompts two ques
tions: 1. How many thousands are
"several" thousands?
2. How many Russians are
in Cuba now? '
AS TO Question No. 1, the
dispatches from Washing
ton say:
The number of troops which
would be withdrawn under
the new Kremlin assurance
was not precisely known, but
speculation turned on the
point that SEVERAL thou
sand would mean at least
3,000.
As to question No. 2, the
Washington dispatch says;
"Official administration esti
mates are that there are
about 17,000 Russians in
Cuba now."
WHICH is to say:
" There are 17,000 Rus
sians in Cuba now.
It is "speculated" that sev
eral thousand would mean at
least 3,000.
In other words:
It is presumed, or at least
hoped, that the number of
Russian troops in Cuba will
soon be reduced from 17,000
to 14,000.
ET'S put it this way:
" From the standpoint of
the safety of the Western
Hemisphere, which includes
the U.S.A., that is 14,000
TOO MANY.
NE more question: .
Why are these Russian
troops in Cuba?
There is, of course, no
guaranteed answer to that
question. Only the Soviet
Union KNOWS why they are
there and why they were
sent there in the first place.
But it is assumed that the
purpose is to make of Cuba
a training ground where com
munists from all over Latin
America may be sent to re
ceive instruction in the latest
methods of infiltration and
sabotage.
The purpose of such a pro
gram would be the eventual
winning of ALL OF LATIN
AMERICA for communism.
That appears to be about
the long and the short of it.