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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
Fab. 25, 1953 (Monday)
Water will start flowing to
homes in the Maple Park Wa
ter district for the first time
this week.
Leon McDougall, Medford
High school student, has won
the local American Legion
oratorical contest.
20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 25, 1943 (Saturday)
Navy announces that Don
ald Casebolt, Medford, was
among survivors of sinking of
USS Chicago in the Solomon
island area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "March
will Drobably come in like a
motorist with two hind-tircs
ready to blow out and no gas
left on his A-card.
90 YEARS AGO
Feb. 25. 1953 (Monday)
Jackson county relief com
mittee appointed by Gov. Ju
lius Meier; group includes
James H. Owen, Mrs. R. E.
Green and Alfred S. V. Car
penter, Medford, and George
Dunn, Ashland.
Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce announces plHns
to invite retiring Army offi
cers to visit In Rogue valley
and enjoy fishing and hunt
ing facilities.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 25, 1923 (Tuesday)
William Brown, witness for
the state in county's "night
riding" case, tells Sheriff Tcr
rill he was "advised to get out
of town."
George W. Wlmcr, 80, Cen
tral Point, and Saruh Eliza
beth Norton, 73, Ashhiiul,
botli pioneers of the Rogue
valley, die.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 25, 1913 (Wednesday)
Medford city police round
up seven juvenile boys for
being out alter curfew hours
Bud Anderson, 'much-tout'
ed Medford lightweight," goes
into training at Los Angeles
for fight with Knockout
Brown in Vernon, Calif.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten cortacl it superior;
seven er eight is eicsllenl; five or
sil is good.
1. What nation came into
being on May 14. 1048?
2. For what did Prcsidcnl
Theodore Roosevelt win the
Nobel Peace Prize?
3. Give the word usrd to
describe our radio detecting
and ranging device.
4. In 1609 Galileo built a
forerunner of what is now on
Mt. Palomar; what is it?
5. A portion of a curved
line is called what?
6. Who was the king with
the golden touch?
7. What is a triangle having
unequal sides and angles
called?
8. Give the name for a
highly accurate clock used on
ships.
9. What unit docs an Army
Infantry Colonel usually com
mand? 10. Taught is to teach as
wrought is to what?
Answers: 1. Israel. 2. Medi
ation in Russo-Japanese War
of 1904-5. 3. Radar 4. Tele
scope. 6. Arc. (. Midas. Sca
lene. S. Chronometer. 9. Reg
iment or baltlegroup. 10.
Work.
FEMUARY 2$. 1M3
The Calendar Lies
The calendar tells us
spring is still almost a month away. This is win
ter, it says.
Still
When the frogs croak their sonorous chorus
at night
When birds set up a
dawn
When the grass turns from brown to green
When the buds on the Japanese flowering
quince open in their bright scarlet dress
When the pussy willows don their little fur
jackets
All these prove the calendar is a genial liar.
E.A.
For All Outdoors
The Kennedy administration is working on
a new recreation bill in
palatable to Congress.
And why should a
gram be unpalatable in
have shown, already is short of recreational ta
cilities but can expect the demand on them to
triple in the next few decades.'
One answer may be that in a nation taxing
itself for defense and essential domestic serv
ices, no sense of urgency attaches to recreation
al programs. Yet Congress was fairly receptive
to the President's program last year. It delayed
action partly because of some special and spe
cific objections.
1 AST year's proposal included an eight-year
half-billion-dollar land conservation fund, to
be used by the federal government and the states
to acquire new recreational space. The fund was
to be kept filled with a federal boat use tax,
receipts from sale of surplus federal non-military
property, user fees in recreational areas and
parks, and the refundable portion (2 cents a
gallon) of the federal tax on gasoline used in
boating. Boating interests objected vociferous
ly to the tax on boats.
Consequently, the administration s new bill
is expected to avoid the boat tax, and to shift
the major share of the cost to the users of federal
areas and of boat fuels. As to the latter, the en
tire 4 cents a gallon tax
into the conservation fund.
fYTHERWISE the administration has not scaled
down its program sharply. The treasury
would advance the conservation fund $480,000,
000, rather than $500,000,000, to be repaid from
the fees. The government would offer matching
funds rather than outright grants to the states
for recreational planning.
But the long-range coal is no less ambitious
than before: to spend possibly four billion dol
lars, divided between federal and state expendi
tures, on expanding the nation's recreational
facilities in the next ten years.
Is this too ambitious? More than 90 per
cent of all Americans engage in some form of
outdoor recreation and their total number is
growing. But the land and water resources po
tentially available for them are being swallowed
up by industrialization and urbanization at an
increasingly rapid space in 15 years as much
new land has been put to such uses as in all
past national history.
I JRBANIZATION particularly is influencing
recreational habits. For urbanization brings
more leisure time, more
of it and fewer readily available facilities
for it. By the year 2000,
the population will be living m metropolitan
areas. But for most of these metropolises, open
spaces will be distant,
cult to reach.
That snacc has vet
recreational use, as a recent Rockefeller Com
mission report observed, and the most urgent
recreational need remains dependent upon in
creasing water resources.
For the nation the recreational demand can
not grow while resources diminish without an
eventual end to public recreation. The answer has
to be a public program.
an answer must be put up
at. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Automotive
There arc more Americans than ever, and
more of them get around the country than at any
time in history.
They can sec the beauty of the open county
as they drive about. And untold numbers must
have been given some pause as they reached
the outskirts of city or town and were greeted
first by an array of "automobile graveyards."
These unsightly dump heaps of abandoned
cars have been a blight on urban and occasion
ally rural landscape for long years.
Now a California state lawmaker rises up to
suggest that abandoned automobiles should be
classed as "garbage" and disposed of according
ly. He offers a bill to this effect in Sacramento.
We arc with him. No people with even a
minimum sense of pride
long with such wily housekeeping. Coos Bay
I World.
that the first day of
mad chatter in the early
hopes of making it more
federal recreation pro
a nation which, surveys
on gasoline would go
affluence for the use
some 73 per cent of
and water areas dun
to be assured for nublic
Whether there is to be
to Congress once more.
"Garbage"
WOUld care to persist
1
MEDFORD
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... Communications ...
Letters to the Editor must
certain circumstances the use
The Mail Tribune reserves the
condensation. Letters submitted
printed in this column do not
contrary is often the case.
Fish and Game
To the Editor: We, through
the Oregon Fish and Game
Council, have a bill in the
Senate, S.J.R.-7 by Senator
Harry Boivin. This bill calls
for an interim committee con
sisting of seven members, to
study the management 01
wildlife resources. Feb. 28
ai 7:30 p.m. in room 6, Capi
tol bldg., there will be an op
en meeting concerning this
bill. The Council has four bus
loads from around the state
going, and many members in
their own cars. We urge any
of you here in Jackson coun
ty to be at this meeting it at
all possible.
We of the Oregon Fish and
Game Council feel this bill is
a must. We started a chapter
In Douglas county last Satur
day, Feb. 16, and in Josephine
county Wednesday, Feb. 20.
We have a meeting coming up
in Coos and Lake counties
within the next two weeks.
This Oregon Fish and Game
Council is becoming very
large within the state. We can
and will get something done
about the killing of doe deer
if all of us join together.
Please remember Feb. 28 at
Salem.
Walter Craig, President
Jackson Coumy Chapter
Oregon Fish ant Game
Council,
1523 Bryant
Medford
New Stage
To the Editor: I read your
editorial in the Feb. 12 issue.
"A World We Have Never
Seen," on the subject of the
problems of automation, with
considerable interest.
The basic cause of the prob
lems is private ownership of
industry and its operation for
private profit. Mankind's evo
lution from savagery to con
temporary c i v i I i z a t ion is
mainly the result of a suc
cession of technical conquests.
These conquests caused im
portant changes in man's'
mode of dealing with nature
to satisfy his 'He's wants. The
changes in the mode of pro
duction dicialcd (and eventu
ally culminated in) corres
ponding changes in man's so
cial way of life.
This, obedient to a long
scries of interacting economic
and social developments, the
race has moved from primi
tive communion, through an
cient slavery and feudalism,
up to capitalism. And each
stage of the evolution has
been marked by the formation
of institutions suitable to the
prevailing mode of produc
tion. Today we arc summoned
to enter a new social stage-
to build a modern society
that will fit our modern in
dustry. Why is this ncccssa. :
Why have capitalist institu
tions utterly ceased to fil?
For the reason that these in
stitutions have remained bas
ically static while industry
has undergone a vast trans
formation.
Let us consider the matter
very carefully. There isn't
t lie faintest re.-cniblciicc be
tween early capitalist indus
try and industry in our times.
During early capitalism the
tools of production were rela
tively simple and readily at
tainable by the vast malorit .
Accordingly, ihc industries
then were small. Under such
circumstances private owner
ship of the industries and the
tools of production, and pro
duction for prol were social
ly practical and srrved the in
terests of the vast majority.
But then the compulsions of
capitalist economics got busy,
and what a diffc --nee they
have made'
Industry has now grown
i dimension, that are glar-
Innlv inrnnilMhhlA will, rani.
talist ownership. Now indus
try has become I social t.n-
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
bear the name and address of
of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
dcrtaking in virtually every
respect. It is a social in scale.
Its operation involves a social
effort. It produces for society
wide consumption. Yet this
SOCIAL industry remains
private property, and our so
cial production is directeJ pri
marily to the amassing of
profits for a parasitic owning
few.
Technological progress docs
not by itself suffice to insure
human progress. The action
plainly demanded by our pres
ent circumstances is a funda
mental social reconstruction
that will bring society's super
structure into line with its
modern industrial base. Long
before automation came along
Industrial improvements had
made capitalism unmistaka
bly obsolete. The Initiation of
automatic industry adds a fin-
I emphasis to the insanity
of continuing to produce for
private profit.
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne St.
Prcscott, Arizona
Co-existence?
To the Editor: Co-existence
we ain't got. Whatever be
came of the age-old tradition
of the fighting Irish? With
our Cuban neighbors shooting
at our shrimp boats, surely
Saint Patrick, the Patron
Saint of Ireland, must be
squirming in his grave as
March 17, the day set aside
to honor him, approaches -and
he contemplates the in
action of one of his best
known parishioners, our Pres
ident. Ireland would still be
full of snakes, as the United
States will soon be, if that
worthy Saint had not set the
pattern for the fighting Irish.
Sure, and more's the pity
our President seems to have
forgotten the noble example
he set!
Bruce Y. KlcinSmid
1719 Portola dr.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Printing the News
To the Editor: Why should
the might of the Russian be
stressed so much on Washing
ton's birthday? It seems us
though some of America's
might and ability should be
featured.
And that disgraceful moth
eaten statue of the Father of
our country. Did you have to
print that? Surely you could
have found a better picture
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Last Friday was Feb. 22.
1963.
So let's talk about George
Washington.
Friday was the 23 1st anni
versary of his birth. This year
is the 174th anniversary of his
election a. our first President.
The World Book Encyclopedia
says of him:
"In the history of the
world, no man has done more
to help ANY country than
Washington did to help the
United States."
WHAT kind of
man was
" Washington"
The Parson Wcems cherry
tree story and the Gilbert
Stuart portrait perhaps over
idealize the Father of His
Country. The portrait of him
that hangs in the old Masonic
lodge hall in Alexandria pos
sibly comes nearer to the
actual Washington as careful
historians picture him. The
Washington of that picture
could have been a good Ro
tary or Kiwanis club member.
He loved horses and dog
and he had a good scat in the
aaddle, as became a
gentleman. Stuart
Virginia
reported
that when Washington vaaj better political thinkers
sitting for the famous portrait
he had great difficulty in get -
i
OREGON
Foreign News: Economic Troubles Plague
Britain, France; Chinese Classification
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Economic Ttroubles
The economic facts of life
are causing some intense soul
searching on the part of gov-
e r n m e n t
leaders in
Britain and
France. In
Britain, t h e
trouble is un
employment -growing
con
tinually and
threatening to
s.wse. b.ome P
litical time
bomb. In France, it is the
soaring cost of living-which
has gone up more than five
per cent in the past year and
is threatening the stability of
the new "hard" franc.
Total unemployment in
Great Britain - including
Northern Ireland - was more
than 932,000 in February. It
the writer, although under
than that to print. It was dis
graceful and should not be
allowed in print any more
than the flag should be dis
figured. And the only reference to
our forces was a small article,
stating that two crises at once
may be too many for our air
force. This kind of news will
undermine the faith and con
fidence of our citizens in our
own government. This ought
not to be.
Carroll Powell
Box 621
Central Point, Ore.
Time and Space
To the Editor:
I walked and walked and
walked and walked.
To reach that darned cafe
The sign read, "Just twelve
minutes
But it took me half a day
I was so tired and hungry,
from all of that there walkin ,
That I ate it all in "fifteen
miles", while the waitress
stood a-gawkin'.
Paul F. Wilson
107 Sixth st.
Ashland, Ore.
The Last First
To the Editor: The masters
of old asserted, "The first
shall be the last, and the last
shall be first." We hope that
applies to the editor's surplus
communications too?
A cheerful philosopher also
adds, "there is always room
for more." As one humorist
noted, "All good tidings come
in bunches like grapes."
Thought For The Day-may
the editor's volumes of the
many facetious letter subjects
continue through the Medford
Mail Tribune columns as reg
ular as the day. We enjoyed
reading the Editorial of Fri
day, Feb. 15, '63.
Bert Kissinger
322 South Riverside avc.
Medford
Kennedy Commended
To the Editor: Jackson
County chapter, Oregon Uni
ted Nations association, has
sent the following wire to
President Kennedy.
"We commend your labors
to conclude the lest ban. We
believe it is step toward law
and order in nuclear affairs."
Jackson County Chapter
Oregon United Nations
Association
Medford
JENKINS
ling him to relax and look na
tural. He succeeded best, he
said, when they talked of
horses and farming.
1VASH1NGTON came of an
" aristocratic colonial fam
ily that was well-to-do but not
filthy rich He inherited the
lovely Mount Vernon estate
from his half-brother Law
rence, who hud married into
the rich Fairfax family, from
u.h, c-.... .
whom ltnely Fairfax county
ti-. ,i. . a. .1.. '.
tintltv . ,11 HIV flC 1,1
27. he married a rich widow,
Martha Dandridgc Custis.
They lived first in dream
ily beautiful old Williams
burg. When Lawrence died,
they moved to Mount Vernon,
and the Custis money helped
to make it what it was and
still is.
t! Washington, the sol
' it isn't necessary to s;
ldicr,
peak
here. His military record is
w ritten on the tablets of his -
lory Nothing can ever erase
it Of Washington the Presi
dent. Hie wise administrator,
one needs only to mention
i that he chose tor his cabinet
I two men whom he retarded
than he - Thomas Jefferson
1 and Alexander Hamilton. Jet-
I
is the basis of growing un
rest and could be a major
factor in the return of the La
bor Party to power in the
general election which must
be held before the fall of
1964.
For France, the increasing
cost of living is bringing de
mands from the powerful la
bor unions for new wage
boosts. These demands have
caused President Charles de
Gaulle personal concern, and
he has ordered the govern
ment to hold the line at all
costs.
Family Backgrounds
In most places in the world,
a man can rise above his
background. But in class-con
scious Communist China,
things are different. Accord
ing to the Peking newspaper
Chung-Kuo, Chaing-Nine Pau,
every citizen must fill in on
II registration forms and
identity cards his "family
background," such as "land
lord or "poor peasant." This
classification then is un
changeable throughout the
person's life time. The pur
pose of this, the newspaper
Mg2Jtftf,Q r;a, its Ariitis ?ms
, , f UJjL 1 if-
It! W
"I hope the new tax cut means we can have that
A-frame cabin in the mountains for 'get-away-from-it-all'
week ends!"
Washington Report
By William
lc) United Feature Syndicate
G.O.P QUICKENING .
Washington The Ken
ncdy administration's mani
fold present troubles, in a
world in which it must bear
ultimate re
s p o risibility,
arc immense
ly quickening
the peace of
Rcpubli can
p r e s i den
t i a 1 politics
for 1964. The
reason is sim
ple. For t h c
first time, re
alistic national politicians in
both parties are beginning to
see as possible what until re
cently had been thought to
be substantially impossible
President Kennedy's defeat
for reelection.
The GOP nomination, in
a word, is commencing to
look as though it might have
a practical and not merely
an honorary value.
'PHIS is the undoubted ex-
planatioii, an important
part at any rate, of the now
stepped up and quite open
campaign of the front-runner
for that nomination. Gov. Nel
son Rockefeller of New York.
The heightened tempo is
manifested in Mr. Rockefel
ler's insistent efforts to pro
voke a running national de
bate on taxes and general eco
nomic matters with Mr. Ken
nedy. (This is the one tield
of issues in which the gover
nor can with perfect logic pre
sume to speak for all Republi
can wings, for on this point
alone there is little real dif
ference as among all shades
of Republicans.)
It is manifested also in cur
rent speculation that under
sonic circumsiani
i ... -ij.,,
feller - Goldwat
sonic circumstances a Rocke-
ticket in
19K4 might not be so unthink
able as it would only recent
ly have appeared to be.
While it would be far too
much to suggest that Gover
nor Rockefeller at this early
date would be prepared to
welcome Sen. Barry Goldwa-
ferson argued that the com-
nion people should be given
i large share in the govern-
'uent. Hamilton wanted the
1 wealthy, highly educated pco-
pic to run the country because
lie believed thev were best
fitted to do the job.
Washington thought this
combination was perfect to
found the new nation that
had just come into being
Time proved that he was
right.
explains, "is to understand
the influence of family on a
person, ideologically and po
litically, before he acnieves
the status of nconomic inde
pendence, so that he may be
understood completely."
Diplomatic Revival
The word from Eonn is that
there may be a revival of dip
lomatic activity soon between
West Germany on one hand
and Hungary and Czechoslo
vakia on the other. Poland
finally has agreed to let Ger
many establish a trade mis
sion in Warsaw, and Bonn is
angling for permission to do
the same in Budapest and
Prague. Up to now, the satel
lite nations have demanded
all-out diplomatic recognition
or nothing. Bonn's policy has
been to refuse such recogni
tion since the satellites recog
nize the puppet Communist
East German regime. Bonn's
policy is to have no diplo
matic relations with any na
tion - except the Soviet Un
ion - that gives such recog
nition. But the value of mu
tual trade between Bonn and
the satellites is another mat-
ter,
S. While
ter as his running-mate, it is
perfectly clear that some
Rockefeller backers are not
now excluding such a possi
bility.
CENATOR Goldwatcr him-
self is not at all ready to
consider the second place, es
pecially since the top place is
still wide ope. Moreover, he
has a livelier appreciation
than have many others of how
odd it might look to see a
ticket which joined such a
thoroughgoing conservative
as himself with Rockefeller.
The governor himself, how
ever, has long since reject
ed the liberal label along
with all other ideological la
bels and for months in fact
has been acting rather con
servative himself. And it is
not impossible that by t h c
summer of 1964 there will be
much less visible difference
between the two than there
used to be.
But there is another, and a
far stronger, reason not to
consider some important
Rockefeller Goldwatcr rela
tionship to be out of all ques
tion. Goldwatcr's people now
privately declare that the Ei
senhower wing of the parly
and notably former Presi
dent Eisenhower himself is
moving toward Michigan Gov.
George Romney at its prob
able presidential choice for
1964.
rpHlS is not only manifestly
A against the interests of
Rockefeller; it is also not
pleasing to the Goldwatcr peo
ple. They never really ap
proved of Eisenhower Repub
licanism, which they regard
ed as only vaguely "Republi
can" and so destructive of the
longer interests of the par
ty. And they quite definite
ly do not wish to see Eisen
hower control extended in'.o
the party beyond 1964.
All this leads in turn to the
conclusion that Senator Cold
water will be a most impor
tant factor at the next Re
publican convention. While
his own nomination for the
presidency may be put down
as highly unlikely, it is high
ly likely that his acceptance
of. or at least his tolerance
of whoever seeks that nomi
nation may become an ab
solute indispensable.
Others will go to the con-
vention with more delegate
votes, of a somewhat iffy
nature, in hand. But none
will go with so great and so
unshakeahlc a personal influ
ence among the old guard Republicans.
Emilio Aguinaldo
The Philippine government
is expected to heed the re.
quest of the nation's grand
old man for payment of back
pension due him for the years
1939 to 1957. Gen. Emilio
Aguinaldo has made the re
quest from his bed in the Vet
erans Memorial hospital in
Manila, not as a matter of
need but as a matter of right.
Aguinaldo, now 93 and ail
ing, is the man who proclaim
ed - Philippine independence
from Spain in 1889, and then
went on to battle the United
States until he was captured.
A national hero, the Philip,
pine legislature voted him a
lifetime pension of 1,000 pesos
(then worth $500) a month in
1919. He received it regular
ly until 1939, when he ran
for president and lost. The
pension stopped and no ex
planation ever was given, but
the reason apparently was pol
itics. At the personal inter
vention of the late President
Ramon Magsaysay the pension
was restored in 1957. Now
Aguinaldo who comes
from a solid middle class fam
ily and whose wife's family
is wealthy doesn't need
the money previously with
held, but he wants it on prin
ciple.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises, Inc.
MALADJUSTED MAN
The cult of adjustment in
our time urges us to adjust to
our environment and our so-
c i e t y, as
r5''Bi?m?i though adjust-
ment were a
good thing in
Yjy r -f ascii. tsui II
v -fi we are asked
V- 4 fn "ariinst" In
s o m e t h ing
bad, then the
better we ad
adjust, the
aarri worse we be.
come.
A persuasive a r g u ment
might be made, indeed, that
man should be called the Mal
adjusted Animal. It is because
man is basically maladjusted
that he is unique in nature,
and dominates the natural
world.
The antcatcr, the beaver,
the bird, the insect - all are
perfectly adjusted to their en
vironment and their society.
This is why animals have no
history, but only a repetitive
biological process. The ant is
a thousand times more effi
cient, and better adjusted,
than we are - but no ant
knows anything more, nor can
do anything differently, than
his grandfather.
In the introduction to his
interesting new Pelican
book, "Personal Values in
the Modern World," Prof.
M.V.C. Jeffries tersely and
effectively brings out this
point: "If we take effici
ency, pertinacity, fortitude,
dexterity, as the measures
of excellence, we cannot
claim any natural pre-eminence
for man. It is, in
fact, not success but failure
that marks man off from
the rest of the animal cre
ation." The author then goes on
to say: "It is because man it
maladjusted - which is evi
dent in the chasm between
aspiration and capacity, vis
ion and performance - have
there arisen all the distinc
tively human activities: sci
entific inquiry, artistic cre
ation, philosophical specula
tion, and (the supporting
condition of them all), his
torical experience."
Historical change. Profes
sor Jeffries reminds us, is
peculiar to man, and lilts
human life on a plane of its
own. "When Caesar landed
in Britain, when the Phar
oahs built their tombs,
when men first learnt to
make fire - ants' nests were
no worse and no better or
ganized communities than
they are now,"
We are concerned with ed
ucation precisely because wa
are a maladjusted animal, be
cause we arc not determined
by our structure and environ
ment but arc able to change
and adapt external circum
stances. Rather than "adjusting" to
the earth, we have adjusted
it to us. This is both our glory
and our despair. We have the
power to learn, which other
animals do not. hut also tho
power to fail, while other an.
imals do not.
Each new plateau reached
by the human race has been
the result of some maladjust
ment - and it is no accident
that pei-onally maladjusted
individuals have usually been
responsioie lor our asceni to
a higher level of comprehen
sion and ability. Society has
a right to ask that we cooper
ate for the common good, but
not that we acquiesce in the
common beliefs.
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