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Flight o' Time
Mediord and Jackeoa County Mfcv
tory from rho (ilea at rka Mas)
Tribe no 10. 20 and 14 yean at
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 23. 1940
(It Was Saturday)
Farmers and Fruitgrowers
bank, Medford, purchased by
United States National bank.
F. L. TouVelle, Jacksonville,
named to Garner-for-president
committee in state.
Beta Sigma Phi sorority elects
Mary Peterson president.
Nearly 300 youngsters take
part in first all city Easter eRg
hunt sponsored by local Kiwanis
club.
Lao Williams and Shirley
Croucher take over operation of
General Petroleum company ita
tlon in Mediord.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 23. 1930
(It Was Saturday)
Ward Howell. Ashland high
Acer, named center on all-state
Second team.
Blue Ledga directors plan erec
tion of concentrator and aeriai
tramway at mine.
Groceteria to open second store
at Sixth and urape streets.
B. H. Conkle resigns as prin
cipal of high school; Glenn Smith
takes position.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 23. 1916
Grammar school teacher sal
ary minimum placed at $65 and
maximum at ?8U, wnue nign
school teachers to get $85 and
$100 respectively.
Medford baseball team re
elects R. L. Ewing president and
names Dick Antle treasurer and
L. S. Bcvcrldge secretary.
Miss Bruce Putnam and Miss
Naomi Hemphill to play piano
duet at Roosevelt P.T.A. meeting
tomorrow night.
State Production
Workers Receive
Average $65.86
Salem, Ore., Mar. 23 u.R)
Production workers In Oregon
received an average weekly pav
check of $H5.86 during the final
quarter of 1940, the state unem
ployment compensation commis
sion and the United States
bureau of labor statistics said in
a Joint report today.
About 4 0 0 representative
manufacturers In all parts of
the state are reporting employ
ment and nav rolls each month
In building up the new earnings
iigiires, ine report said. An
average working week of nearly
39 hours at $1.09 an hour was
indicated in the report.
Second Highest
Oregon's average is second
highest among 27 states now re-
Corting In cooperation with the
nited States bureau of labor
statistics. Wyoming, with a
work week of more than 41
hours reported $f8, although the
hourly rate was only $1.64.
Washington was third. Just un
der S(15. California followed at
. less than $62. The average for
, reporting stales was $55.47.
Although printing and pub
; llshing led all manufacturing
croups with an average of more
than f.7fl far mlri.rWitmKni
I most of Oregon's high figure was
, credited to lumber and logging.
The lumber and logging Inrius
I trv, with earnings of more than
' $70 a week, represented about
60 per cent of Oregon's 125.000
production workers. This com
, pared with an average of $66.85
for northern sawmill and log
ging workers and $37.02 for
those In the touth.
A Letter From Norway
Some weeks ago we commented hre on the rec
reational value of hosteling as practiced in some coun
tries and to a less extent in parts of the United States,
We suggested that because of its scenic attractions,
the Rogue River valley holds great possibilities for
such organized hiking, particularly tor the younger
folk.
THE editorial was forwarded by Mrs. Fred C. San-
der of Medford to her son, Fred Cyril Sander,
who with his wife, and son, Fred C.III, are presently
living; in Oslo, Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Sander were
teaching in Long Beach, Cal., last year when they
won a Fulbright scholarship covering a year's study
at the University of Oslo, lhere they are engaged in
research, he in education and she in psychology.
On receipt of the editorial, the former Medford
man sent The Mail Tribune the following interesting
letter:
I was very happy to read your recent editorial on
"hosteling" and the American Youth Hostels. I hope that
It attracted local attention and that some able and public
spirited citizen will take it upon himself to begin this type
of recreation in the Rogue River valley. The valley is quite
Ideal for all types of hosteling, winter' and summer.
I would like to add that hosteling is no longer confined
just to the east coast, but local chapters are springing up
rapidly on our west coast. I believe both Seattle and Port
land have groups and there are quite a number in Cali
fornia. Something over a year ago, a group of us in Long
Beach started a chapter which has within a few months
blossomed into a sizeable group with regularly scheduled
tours almost every week-end. Arranging such outing amidst
the traffic of Los Angeles County is not an easy thing!
Here in Norway, where ray family and I have been
spending the past year, almost the entire population partici
pates in some form of hosteling or outdoor activity. Now
during the winter, cross-country skiing is the sport almost
everyone takes part In. The entire nation is literally criss
crossed with a network of well-marked ski trails, and it is
possible to go out for a few hours or a few weeks depend
ing on the time and energy available.
Within the city limits of Oslo itself, there are probably
at least a hundred miles of marked ski trails (Oslo is the
largest city in the world in area), and it is possible for
many of the citizens to ski from their front doors right out
into the midst of the forest and mountains. Or if you wish
you may board one of the electric trolleys and in 20 to 30
minutes be in wonderful ski country complete with trails,
many slalom courses, jumps, etc.
On an ordinary Sunday, the trolleys carry over 40.000
people with their skis, to the woods and recently on "Hol
menkollen Day" (the day the experts use the famous Hoi
menkollen ski Jump) over 100,000 were carried.
Perhaps even more wonderful than the numbers involved
ii the range of age of the participants. The children start
learning here when they're three or four and many times we
have encountered both men and women skiers on the trails
with packs on their backs, that were well along in their
seventies!
In the spring, summer and fall, the people continue to
take to the mountains, hiking, cycling or boating. And it is
not unusual for office secretaries and the like, to spend their
entire three week vacation (with pay and guaranteed by
national law) hiking from one mountain to the next, either
sleeping out or using the huts maintained by the hiking
clubs. We have tried a bit of this hiking In the fall and
skiing in the winter and even a week of such outdoor ac
tivity changes your entire outlook on life. You begin to feel
that it is only during such times that you really live.
We are looking forward to returning to the West Coast
this summer and we hope we find other people that are also
Interested in developing the magnificent possibilities that
our country offers for this type of recreation. I hope you
will encourage such activities in the Rogue River valley.
E.C.F.
There's Many a Tax Slip
Now that our federal tax returns are in the in
ternal revenue collector's mill many of us are wonder
ing if, and when, they will be returned with a demand
for additional details, explanation or more money.
e e e
fXF course, each of the 53,000,000 individual income
tax returns is given a routine check for arithmetic
and apparent reasonableness of claimed deductions
and exemptions, further than that, however, the scru
tiny is not so close.
If you are among those lucky enough to have had
income over $100,000, the chances are only 68 out of
100 that your tax return will be given a thorough
audit. For those in the $25,000 to $100,000 bracket
the chances for a minute going over are 48 out of 100 ;
for those making $7,000 to $25,000, 18 out of 100, and
for those with income below $7000 the chances are
only four out of 100.
"THE number sending in deliberately falsified tax
reports, or returns which for one reason or an
other are not correct is very large. The internal rev
enue bureau figures about one return out of each four
is faulty, and of those which are detected and refer
red back to the taxpayer, it is noted that the errors
are hardly ever in favor of Uncle Sam.
CO large is the number of faulty or fraudulent re
turns that the internal revenue commissioner fig
ures a vast amount of tax money is lost through inabil
ity of his limited staff of auditors to make a more
thorough check. He cites the fact that although only
4.5 per cent of all returns in 1947 were given a thor
ough audit, nearly $750,000,000 in additional taxes
was recovered thereby. E.C.F.
Crosstown
by Roland Com
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Washington Report
By Bob Dickey
Washington Report STNDG ..
wasnington. Mar. 23 me
key to low cost power for the
Pacific northwest lies in
the O'Mahoney
amendment to
the rivers and
harbors bill
(H. R. 5472),
says the bu
reau of recla
mation. This is the
ame n d m e n t
which author
izes the con
struction of 13
Columbia ba
ft i n reclama
tion projects
Dasin account.
Bob Dicker
Market Costs Absorb
Most Of Food Income
The average consumer paid
$215, retail value, for the farm
food products in the market bas
ket in 1949, according to the
weekly farm price report pre
pared by the Oregon State col-
ege extension service.
Farmers received $103 of (hat
amount or 48 per cent, the re
port said, and the balance, $112
52 per cent, went toward
marketing charges At the end
of the year, the retail cost rate
to consumers was down to $207
person per year, but mnrket-
ng charges were still $112:
farmers were getting only 48
per cent, compared with 49 per
cent In December, 1848.
The extension service pointed
out that In addition to the farm
food products, consumers also
huy Imported foods, fishery pro
duets, and other foods not from
United States farms. Therefore,
the service claimed, farmers
actually received a smaller per
centage of the consumers' total
food dollars than is Indicated by
the figures.
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Jet Pilots Killed
As Planes Hit Home
Emmons, W. Va Mar. 23 (U.R
Two air force Jet pilots crashed
to their deaths today five min
utes after taking off from the
Charleston airport where they
were grounded when they rani
out of fuel.
The fivers were Identified at
Lt. Col. A. F. Relnhardt and
Capt. George Fans.
The sabre-type jets smashed
into a home in this tiny Coal
river mountain town ahortly aft
er taking off from the Kanawha
airport on their way to Klrtland
field In Albuquerque, N. M.,
their home base.
and sets up
(Basin account is just the trade
name for the proposal to keep
one set of books for all the fed
eral water projects of the Colum
bia basin.)
It is this basin account Droviso
that will herald the maintaining
of low cost power rates, accord
ing to the Bu-Rec officials. Here
is the way they arrive at such
conclusion.
Public power In the northwest
Is now furnished chiefly by Bon
neville and Grand Coulee dams.
Even though the power revenues
lor these two dams are computed
differently, by sheer coincidence
the power rates are approximate
ly me same, consequently, pub
lic power in the area is now
selling at a uniform rate.
High Cost Dams
In a few years this situation
is going to change. The new pow
er producing dams sucn as Mc-
Nary. Detroit and Hunarv
Horse, are going to cost more
and as a result rates will have
to be higher. These dams are go
ing to be more expensive be
cause they are being built with
present day high cost labor, in
stead of depression labor which
was available for Bonneville and
Grand Coulee.
The question then becomes:
How will the rates rise? Will
they be kept at a uniform rate
but Keyed to the highest priced
dam of the area? Or will they be
sold at different prices at differ
ent dams? Still another possible
mctnod is to have the power
soio at a uniform rate through
out the area representing the av
erage of the different rates from
the dams.
This is the scheme contem
plated by the basin account. By
its provisions all power rates
would be averaged and from it
they would establish the uniform
power rate for the area. This,
the Bu-Rec people say, is the
key to maintaining the cheapest
possible power rate for the
northwest.
The basin account proviso has
several other significant aspects
dealing with highly technical
features of project pay-out and
rngation project feasibility.
which will not be dealt with
here.
Cordon Amendment
Sen. Guy Cordon does not sub
scribe to the changes proposed
by basin account. But he does
support the authorization of the
3 reclamation projects in the
O'Mahoney amendment. Cordon
has. therefore, introduced his
own amendment to supplant the
O'Mahoney version.
In so far as the authorization
of the projects Is concerned, the
two amendments are Identical.
But in the Cordon amendment
all of the provisions for the ba
sin account are stricken.
What the Cordon amendment
provides is a little basin account
for the purpose of paying the ir
rigation subsidy from the inter
est component of Hell's Canyon
dam.
In contrast, the basin account
uses the interest component on
all the dams of the area, includ
ing both engineers and Bu-Rec
dams, for an irrigation subsidy.
It was Sen. Cordon's aim to
curtail as much as possible any
changes in the existing recla
mation laws and still provide an
irrigation subsidy for the proj
ects authorized. So he just tied
the other 12 projects authorized
to Hell's Canyon dam for the
purpose of the necessary irriga
tion subsidy.
Criticism
The main objection to Cordon's
amendment is that it does not
deal with the coming uneven
power rates. In his measure he
has left out the basin account
which sets up the uniform system.
Cordon s answer to this criti
cism is that it will be three years
before any new power will be
available in the area and he feels
the problem should be studied
at length before any new
schemes are adopted.
I he age-old scrap between the
army engineers and the bureau
of reclamation has flared up
again. This time it is over the
building of the Eklutna power
project in Alaska.
On Jan. 7, 1949, Bu-Rec sub
mitted a two-inch thick report
to the secretary of the interior,
recommending that they be per
mitted to build the project.
Now, over a year later, the en
gineers have come out with a
like proposal. On Mar. 6, 1950,
the Portland, Ore., office of the
engineers announced by public
notice that they had made an
interim report on various Alaska
projects. Included is a recom
mendation that they be author
ized to construct the Eklutna
project.
The engineers and Bu-Rec pro-
.... AROUND HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood, Mar. 23 (U.R
That new fashion note from
Paris fingertip nighties "for
men only"
got an indig
nant brush-off
today from
Hollywood he
men, who think
spring is a
heckuva time
to start dress
ing for bed.
How they
drape their
torsos between
w mi bys bellowed,
"eeTiare is their own
blankety-blank business. It might
be in pajam tops and it might
not, dependirig upon a number of
things.
A Parisian haberdasher an
nounced yesterday he had de
signed bottomless pajamas for
his customers along the Champs
Elysees.
They are, reported haber
dasher Nick Levy, tailored nif
ties, draped to a point four
inches above the masculine knee.
posals are practically identical.
The location of the project
would be in the same place, the
dams would be alike and the
amount of power produced would
oe approximately the same.
It VIRGINIA MkPHIRSON
Uaitoe) taaa Cemsaaaaeat
And the boys are snapping 'em
up. 1
"A man in a fingerlength
nightie reminds me of a bargain
basement sale," Red Skelton
quipped. "Half off."
Even thinking about it, shud
dered Dennis O'Keefe, gives him
insomnia.
Wouldn't Ba Caught Dead
"I wouldn't be caught dead In
one of the things. I wouldn't
even keep 'em handy in case of
fire."
Lex "Tarzan" Barker, who
swings through the movie jun
gles in six inches of strategically
placed leather, just snorted.
"You're supposed to 'undress'
for bed aren't you? Why should
I put on more clothes to sleep in
than I do to work in? Confiden
tially, I'm an 'in-the-raw' man,
myself."
Howard Duff and Robert Ryan
said they were, too.
"If this report is true," Ryan
said, "it marks the first time in
history 50,000,000 Frenchman
can be wrong."
Johnny Lewis, the funny-faced
half of the comedy team of Mar
tin and Lewis, says these skimpy
sleepers would wreak havoc on
Hollywood's bed habits.
It'd Ba Murder
"It'd be murder." he groaned.
"How could we ever eat crackers
Norman Thomas Not
To Seek Presidency
Salem, Ore., Mar. 23. (U.Ri
Norman Thomas, who has been
socialist nominee for president
six times, won't run again. He
told a press conference here
Tuesday that "no one should
seek public office when he is as
old as I am."
Asked how he rates Sen. Way
ne Morse, Oregon republican,
Thomas said:
"I think enough of him not to
give him the kiss of death by
praising him too highly. He and
I disagree on a lot of things, but
Morse is an able man."
Of Oregon's other republican
senator, Guy Cordon, Thomas
said: "If you ever wanted a neut
er person in congress Cordon is
your man. He is so neuter that
you never even know he's in the
senate."
be fatal, y'know."
The ladies couldn't get ex
cited about 'em, either.
Marie" Wilson said she's afraid
If France forces those exposed
male knees on America it'll set
the Marshall Plan back 10 years.
"Obviously," she lisped, "this
guy has never spent a crowded
Sunday at the beach."
Corinne Calvet, a French
beauty, refused to stand up for
ner countryman.
"Masculine legs sticking out
like a sack like bones? she
In bed? A thing like that could gasped. "Nevairel"
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