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10 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 27. 1940
(It Was Wednesday)
O. H. Benctson, local attor-
ney, decides not to enter repub
lican primary lor district attor
ney post.
Midget auto races to be held
at fairgrounds this summer.
Fifteen republicans and five
democrats filed to date for coun
ty positions.
County tax collections to date
total $520,754 or about the same
as last year.
High water halts search for
Louis R. Loesch, Table Rock
district, believed to have drown
ed in Rogue river.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 27. 1930
(It was Thursday)
Sams Valley high wins
Southern Oregon Normal school
basketball tournament.
Valley orchardtsts urged to
soak trees with present irriga
tion water overflow.
Pear acreage here increased
with 1,200 new plantings.
Only 280 dog licenses issued
In county so far this year.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 27. 1916
(It Was Monday)
Ladles' Aid of Presbyterian
church elects Mrs. Volney Dixon
as president.
E. M. Wilson, Medford, an
nounces candidncy for assessor
on republican ticket.
Albert Glenn Hewitt, Med
ford, and Miss Bertha Alice
Martin married at Grants Pass.
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New York City, N. Y.. March 22 As predicted shortly after
the Hiss verdict, the Republicans are going to make communism
onp of thp mHlor issues of this venr's campaign.
Last night Senator Wherry of Nebraska again demanded the
resignation ol secretary 01 state Acneson; wnue mr, uaoneison,
cnairman 01 xne kjkjt nmiunai uuuumiii-i-, uimcu me iemu
cratic administration is honeycombed by Reds and fellow-travel
ers, while President Truman did everything In his power to pre
vent Alger Hiss coming to trial which makes, according to the
UUP theory of guilt by association -mriruman at least a r-inn.
Perharxt this is smart oolitics. PoDular feeling against Russian
Communism is running high and ve Republicans might be miss
ing a bet if they failed to try to capitalize on it.
But if the issue should be handled exclusively by Republicans
of the Wherry. Gabriclson (and McCarthy) type the effort
miffht well nrove n honmerane.
For there is a limit to what the American people as a whole
will take. And no political dodge is more threadbare than the
ancient and discredited one ot Duucnng up a straw man ana men
knocking it down.
Factually that is what this attempt to pin the communist label
on the Democratic party would be that and nothing else.
e
No informed or sane person, regardless of party, believes for
a minute that President Trumnn, or his administration, have any
interest or sympathy with Russian communism, totalitarianism or
any other "ism."
The Democratic party is and for a generation has been
more to the left than the Republican party.
And there have been fellow travelers like Alger Hiss and
Miss Coplon, in the Truman administration.
But what country in the world has been entirely free from
communist infiltration during the past, quarter century? Not one.
And there is no question there has been less in this country
than anywhere else in the world.
Moreover, if the Wherry-Gabrielson-McCarthy line is followed
the Democrats might be given material for a counter-attack, that
could be devastating.
At the present writing, for example, senator McLartny nas
failed to sustain a single one of his chaws against the administra
tion and particularly the state department. Unless something very
unexpected develons he promises to bo one of the most thoroughly
discredited muck rakers and irresponsible mud slingers the coun
try has ever produced. Such a record won t bring in any votes.
When he tries to prove President Truman did everything in
his power to prevent Alger Hiss being brought to trial, Gabriclson
isn't much better.
Does Gabrielson maintain that had President Truman wished
to aid Hiss, he could not have done so? Unless the GOP chairman
has some evidence which has not been produced, there is every
reason to believe that the White House in no way interfered with
the energetic prosecution of Hiss. Throughout the trial, it was ap
parent in innumerable ways that the U. S. Attorney General, ap
pointed by the President, was fioing all out to get his man.
A far better issue for the Republicans would be federal econ
omy, an end to deficit-financing, a determination to balance the
budget. Here the Democrats have a poor record and there appears
to be slight chance of a better one. In this area the Republicans
as the "better business men's" party would bo on solid ground,
e e
There were the Horse Show, the Dog Show, the Auto Show,
the Sportsmen's Show, and now comes the annual Flower Show.
A marvelous exhibition, like those preceding, but one serious de
fect regarding all or nearly all New York offerings of this
kind too many people, too crowded and therefore difficult to see
anything without shoving or pushing, and as a result getting
shoved and pushed. A periscope would come in handy or a step
ladder packed around by a caddy!
e e e e
The amazing feature of the Flower Show was the so-called
"cottage gardens." To the writer they looked more like "palace
gardens," with real grass lawns, babbling brooks, stone walls,
growing flowers and shrubs of "infinite variety" and color. Most
extraordinary of all were the flowering trees, some reaching near
ly to the mezzanine floor. Imagine the labor and money involved,
and everything will have to be taken out during the coming week
end. As before stated this town never does anything by halves.
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We note the house appropriations committee has given J. Ed
gar Hoover a $4000 boost In snlnry bringing his annual salary to
$20,000 and has also allowed him 700 mure FBI operatives. A
food investment! And when one tnniKs liaseoan commissioner
lappy Chandler gets $65,000 a year for what he does and doesn't
do Edgar H. seems sorely underpaid.
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We are surprised that King Leopold of Belgium should hesi
tate about abdicating in favor of his son. Being a king these days
is tough enough under the best circumstances. But when a country
is divided as Belgium is, it is difficult to understand how any
person of intelligence would wish to force his way onto the throne.
Such course is not only dumb but extremely dangerous not
only for the king but for his country. R.W.R.
Crosstown
by Roland Com
I II II . z7- eP;
"I don't like toeless. My feet koop slipping through thm ndi."
In the Day's News
Out of theVJqods
By J'n feeis
To the Editor: I was surprised
with the result of the amateur
contest. Mnybc If our boy could
have sung as flat in spots as the
winner tooted on his cornet, he
would have registered a notch
highrr on the applause meter.
In Portland it will be the same
coronet, perhaps the same ap
plause meter mu what about the
audience? Gonna take them
along too?
Mrs. Mae McElhoe
Shady Cove, Ore.
Two Construction Men
Die In Alaska Mishap
Anchorage, Alaska. Mar. 27
(U.P.) Two construction men
were killed and 12 others were
injured when a special passenger
train plowed into a four-car
speeder hauling them back to
camp after the day's work.
The dead were Wesley Ben
zlen. 36, Dawson, Mont., and
Patrick A. O'Brien, 42, formerly
of Storrlc, Cel.
The Amazon River syslem ti
the largest In the world. The
amount of land drained by this
system is equal to an area about
88 the size of the United States.
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From Jersey; Woods
i nave a reader in New Jersey,
where much west coast lumber
is sold. His name is Don Stetson
and he is a woodsman of Allen
dale, who commutes to New
York for his dally labor. You
may be Interested in what he's
doing with a partition that was
built Into his home originally;
between living room and dining
room.
Like millions of others. Don
and his spouse and the family
pup grew themselves an appe
tite for more space and more
light. The idea of L-shnpcd liv
ing room with dining spnee at
one end, an Increasingly popular
feature of new homes, took
strong hold with them.
So the Stetsons, in the way of
free and enterprising Americans
in all quarters of the country,
began to spend their spare time
with the homes and gardens mag
azines and the newspaper build
ing pagts. What they came up
with was a simple dcnl of com
bining a wood brum dutigliis
fir, of course, from a New Jersey
retail lumber yard with steel
plates to modernize their living
and dining rooms for more light
and more space, and to do It
beautifully and economically. A
teamwork Job of steel and
lumber.
The missus and 1 have a sim
ilar problem. So have four
neighbors. Maybe you
Your Money's Worth
But first, there's another point
to be made on anything that has
to do with home repairs and re
modeling and where wood li the
material of the lob. It came to
mind In the reading of a recent
it eel industry advertisement
which declared that steel costs
the consumer five cents a pound,
on an average. What else comes
at so low a cost? That was the
question of the ad.
My answer, after a rough sur
vey, Is that at today's retail costs,
the lumber in Ihe average home
that lj going up today costs (our
cents a pound or less.
I'd say less, brcause back in
1039 I had it carefully worked
out that lumber cost the retail
consumer less than a penny a
pound. I then urged the adver
tising of lumber on that basis.
Instead of the old way of mer
chandising It at so many dollars
per thousand feet, even when the
consumer was taking only 30
feet or so away under him arm.
Maybe It was fair idea. Any-
how, the steel people are using It.
In any case, this lumber, once
It is logged, milled, transported
to retail yard and building site,
and then framed and otherwise
brought into the being of a fam
ily residential dwelling then
this lumber is worth real money.
It is the bones, flesh, muscle,
skin, scalp, of the average home.
Maintain its health, and its val
ues last.
Most of anil, the values can be
increased, through remodeling.
As Done in Jersey
The Stetsons decided on a big,
beautiful modem living-room
layout. First thing was to place
temporary jacl -osts on the first
floor and below in the basement.
The partition came out. Then the
problem was to make a strong
enough bridge across that new
open space for the second floor
load.
A steel I-beam was first con
sidered. But that was costly, dif
ficult to install, and tough to rig
up for good appearance and gra
cious living. The Stetsons kept
thinking. Eventually they came
up with the Idea of a steel plate
on each side of a wood beam,
the whole boxed in with trim.
An iron works was called up.
"Okay." was the answer. "Flitch
plates is what wo call such a rig.
They're standard practice."
And so weight and bulk were
avoided, as was excessive cost
and poor appearance. The
strength of steel on edge, bolted
flatwise to two sides of a wood
beam, makes a secure bridge
support for the second door, and
the Stetsons have a more than
modern living room with dining
space. The ceiling Joist open
ings above the beam arc filled in
with falsework boards to make
recessed shadow boxes for minia
ture china and other charming
doodads- all mighty, mighty
pretty.
What It cost. Don hasn't told,
or what appraised value the Job
may add to the house. He Just
wrote me about it, as my New
Jersey reader, along with 'telling
how wonderfully douglas fir
takes orange shellac to produce
handsome wood interiors.
More fun In spring.
The first basketball game was
played in 18!U with a peach
basket and a soccer bull. Todav.
this fast-moving sport attracts
more spectators each vear than
any other sport in tlie United'
alalia.
By FRANK JENKINS
General Eisenhower (who. by
the way, is one man in public
life whom I personally trust un
qualifiedly) says in New York:
America nas already dis
armed to the extent ir some di
rections EVEN BEYOND THE
EXTENT that I, with a deep
concern for her present safety,
could possibly advise."
Me added:
"This has happened in spite of
the fact that a war of aggression
remains of constant threat to
peaceful nations."
S Ike too scary?
Listen to this:
"Taipeh, Formosa This Chin
ese Nationalist capital stirred
uneasily today over reports that
Russian experts are siKfcAivi
ING TO THE AID OF RED
CHINA.
"Nationalist rcoorts tell of an
influx of Russians into mainland
areas opposite here."
THE Chinese Nationalists, con
centrated for a last stand on
the big island of Formosa, using
the remnant of Ihe air force we
helped them build up, have
been battering the Chinese reds
pretty Daaiy in recent wet-no.
That can go on ONLY AS
LONG AS RUSSIA IS WILLING
TO PERMIT IT TO UU UIN
Whenever Russia decides to
come to the military aid of her
Chinese communist brothers, ine
remnant of Nationalist China
that still holds out on Formosa
will be crushed as easily as we
crush a spider underfoot.
IF, as and when Russia decides
to do that, shooting war will
start. Things like that are what
Eisenhower is talking aDOut.
'J'HE latest in flying saucers:
In Rome. Giuseppe Belluzzo,
one of Italy's best-known scien
tists, savs:
"Types of flying discs were de
signed and studied in Germany
and Italy as early as 1942
Ariolph Hitler and Benito Mus
solini were interested in these
instruments . . . there is nothing
supernatural or Martian about
flying discs . . . they are simply
rational application of recent
technique."
He added:
"It is mv ODinion that SOME
GREAT POWER IS LAUNCH
ING DISCS TO STUDY THEM.
IpAKE it or leave it.
That's about all we can do
with most of the stuff we get
these days.
back
IN conclusion, let's flash
for a moment to Eisenhower
After mentioning the "constant
It Timber Tracts
To Be Sold In
Area This April
Seven tracts of timber in Jack
son county, two in Josephine
county and two in southern
Douglas county are among the
40 parcels of timber from O. and
C. and public domain lands in
western Oregon which the bu
reau of land management will of
fer for sale from April 17 to 20,
according to E. K. Peterson, Med
ford district forester.
Two of the tracts in Jackson
county will be sold by oral auc
tion at the district office in the
city hall, Medford, on April 17.
One of these, which is located
at the end of Cobleigh road
north and west of Butte Falls,
includes seven million board
A-Bomb Tests May Be Delayed
Until 1951; H-Bomb Seen Ready
threat of a war of aggression,"
ne said: "This threat will con
tinue as long as ONE POWER
(obviously Russia) builds and
maintains a military machine
beyond the recognized needs of
reasonable security."
Then he added:
"IT IS FAR BETTER (for us)
TO RISK A WAR OF POSSIBLE
ANNIHILATION THAN TO
GRASP PEACE WHICH
WOULD BE THE CERTAIN EX
TINCTION OF FREE MAN'S
IDEAS AND IDEALS."
DO you go along with him on
that?
I do. As between living under
such a thing as Russian com
unmism and being dead and done
with it, I'll take being dead.
Washington, Mar. 27 OJ.PJ
The Eniwetok A-bomb tests
probably will not be held until
the spring of 1951, congressional
sources said today, raising the
possibility that the firs. United
States hydrogen bomb may be
ready for trial when the tests
finally are staged at the western
Pacific proving ground.
In announcing the forthcom
ing tests last November 29, the
atomic energy commission did
not say when they would be con
ducted. It said merely that:
"The department of defense
and the atomic energy commis
sion have advised the president
that a new series of tests of
atomic weapons is planned at
the commission's proving ground
at Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall
islands."
Not Till Next Year
Reporters were told then that
the tests probaoly could not De
held before this spring. Appar
ently, however, they will not be
neia until next spring.
Whether an H-bomb will be
ready by then cannot, in the
total absence of official informa
tion, be stated. But private scien
tists laminar with atomic tecn
nology have told the United
Press they see no reason why
the first crude version of the
hydrogen weapon could not be
put together this year.
In its November announce
ment, the AEC said the new Eni
wetok tests will be carried out
by joint task force three, com
manded by Lt. Gen. Elwood R.
Quesada for the air force. It is
composed of army, navy, air
force, and commission personnel.
Small Staff
feet, mostly douglas fir, ap
praised at S64.500. The other
tract, which includes three mil
lion board feet of sugar pine and
yellow pine, two million board
feet of douglas fir and one and
one-half million board feet of
white fir, is located in the Jenny
creek area north of Lincoln, and
is appraised at $70,000.
Sealed Bids Due
On Anril 1A palprt Wrts will
be accepted in the regional office !
on five additional tracts in Jack
son county. Two of these, mostly
ponderosa pine, are located
along Jenny cicek south of the
Greensprings highway; one tract
is appraised at $13,500 and the
other at $12,400. A tract of 100.
000 pine and 90,000 douglas fir,
which Is offered for $1,500, is lo
cated a few miles north of Rogue
River. Another, consisting of
665,000 incense cedar only, ap
praised at $2,000, is located on a
section of land in the Butte
Falls area. The other tract, con
sisting of 110,000, half pine and
half fir, is on the Upper Big Ap
plegate. The two tracts in Josephine
county which will be open for
sealed bids include approximate
ly 650,000 pine and fir on Swede
Basin road north of Haves hill,
and 275,000 fire-killed pine and
fir in the Blue creek area along
the Redwood highway adjacent
to the California-Oregon line.
Ouesada has assembled a small
staff which is headquartered in
the old wartime navy building
on Constitution avenue. His dep
uties are Brig. Gen. Herbert
Loper of the army, Rear Adm.
Tom B. Hill, and Dr. Alvin C.
Graves of the Los Alamos, N.M.,
bomb science laboratory.
Brig. Gen. John K. Gerhart
of the air force is Quesada's chief
of staff, and Maj. Gen. Robert
M. Lee, tactical air commander,
will be in charge of air opera
tions at Eniwetok.
A private construction firm is
now at work building new and
improving old installations at
Eniwetok, and the army has sent
a detachment to prepare com
munications, housing and other
facilities at the atoll in advance
of the task force.
Navy Participating
The navy,' too, has been par
ticipating in the preparations a
fact which was spectacularly
brought to light last week by an
explosion and fire aboard a net
tender en route to Eniwetok.
But there has been no indica
tion that joint task force three
is anywhere near ready for the
big push to the Marshalls, and
one Washington source said the
tests could not be held in the
next month or so, even if they
had been scheduled for this
spring.
And if they cannot be held this
spring, the task force would
have to wait a year to be sure of
getting the best possible weath
er conditions.
First In 1948
The first tests at Eniwetok
were held in April and May of
1948 when A-bombs Nos. 6, 7
and 8 were exploded. Out of
those tests, it has been reported,
emerged an atomic weapon six
times more powerful than the
wartime models.
The conventional A-bomb has
since been further improved, and
scientists have expressed the pri
vate opinion that it may be near
ly 10 times as violent as the 1945
version.
The first H-bomb is expected
to be two to 10 times as powerful
as the most potent existing uran
ium or plutonium bomb. If it
works at all, that is and com
petent scientists feel sure it will.
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What is rieeded most . . . needed quickly . . .
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But, many tiroea, there isn't enough blood
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it. That is why Hie goal of your Red Cross is
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where, who needs it.
More than thirty regional Red Cross Blood
Programs now supply hospitals in areas having
a total of more than 40,000,000 population.
But there are nearly four times that many peo
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