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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1953)
FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) -Everyone in Southern Oretoa .... n.. M.1I Tribune' Published Daily ur.nroRD it Saturday by 10 CO S-l1 ROBERV W BUHL, Editor KRNEST R. GILSTHAP. Manager J C. rfcRGUSON Manasint aVttur ERIC ALLEN JIU City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph CdltS RICHARD JEWITT Sport Mitor OLIVE ST ARCHER. JSoeietJF Mrtor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MT. An Independent Ncwapaper " Entered aa aeooml daae matter aj Medford. Oregon, under Act aaarrn wi SUBSCRIPTION RATI By Mall in Honra: -Daily and Sunday on jrw 1J0 Daily and Sunday eta month S.SO Drily and Sunday thra moj. 140 Di.Uy and Sunday or aMotb 13 By Carrier - In Adrane Madtord Ashland. Central Point lac la Print Jacksonville Cold HUL PnoenU. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Taienl and en motor route: Daily and Sunday one year $19 SO Daily and Sunday On month 1-J3 All itrna Clan " i-w Affinal Pun af the Clt at McJIor Ofnettl Paper f Jaeksen Cemty ""United Pre Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative mcT nni i tniv rnlfP INC Offieci to New Tar. Chicago De troit San rranaeeo. Loa AnMlea Seattle. Portland, at Loot. Atlanta Vancouver, B. C NATIONAL EDITORIAL "JHIIIM NEWSPAPER PURIISHERS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ana Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Trirune 10. 20. 10 and 40 yw. ago. 10 TEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1943 at Was Wednesday) Supplementary fire fighting equipment received here from federal government. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Reports from the rural regions say some newlyweds were caught un wares recently and ruthlessly hivareed by friends. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1933 at Was Friday) L. A. Banks, local Agitator convicted of murder, to be sen tenced Monday. Motion for new trial is denied. Price for early tomatoes fixed at six cents per pound here. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1923' at Was Saturday) Ice cream wagon horse stages runaway on Riverside ave. Fair and warmer. High 95. low 34 degrees. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1913 at Was Monday) Assistant state highway en gineer here to head survey work for new road over Siskiyou mountains. Chris Hanson appointed county sealer of weights and measures. Spectacular Auto Crash Kills Seven In So. California San Luis Obispo, Calif. U.PJ A spectacular auto collision that killed seven persons and injured one seriously was de scribed today as one of the worst accidents in this" area's history. California Highway Patrol of ficers said it was one of the worst in the history of Santa Barbara county and also rated as "severe' in southern California records. Four women, two children and one man were killed last night when two cars met head on along U.S. 101, 22 miles south of here and four miles south of Los Ala mos. Dead Identified The dead were identified as Mrs. Norma Haynie Ragel, 20, of El Monte, Calif.; her mother, Mrs. Jessie Haynie Colburn, bout 41. El Monte; Gloria Haynia, 16; Pauline Colburn, 9; William Joseph Wolburn, 7, Richard Bernard Colburn, 2, and Monte B. Myers, 29, Santa Maria. Ctlif. In critical condition was Mrs. Ragle's sifter, Carol Haynie, 13. Myers iras alone in one car and the other victims were in Mrs. Ragle's auto. HOME HAZARDS Stratford. Conn. (U.R) After a safe motoring trip in heavy holiday traffic, Peter V. Bedgio and his family had a rousing homecoming. As he drew to a stop, Bedgio was startled when his excited cocker spaniel leaped from the back seat into his lap. His foot jammed down the accel erator and the car plunged through the garage door, out through the rear wall and into a second garage, smashing into another machine. All escaped injury. MAIL TRIBUNE While There's 'Ike9 There's Hope ( And now the Portland Oregonian no longer can take it! This excellent, though extremely orthodox Repub lican newspaper, refuses to follow the line prescribed by Senator Cordon who thinks it doesn't matter who owns and operates electric-power lines they will be "operated just the same." - THE Oregonian greatly fears they won't be "ope- rated the same." In a vigorous and convincing editorial on August 8th, "our favorite morning paper" stated that a recent decision, handing over construction of a Bonneville line from Chemult to Klamath Falls to the California Oregon Power company, may foreshadow a break up of the entire Northwest "BPA grid." IT NOT only "may" but "will" unless as has been advised in this department several times, the voters wake up and get busy. - For as Senator Cordon remarks, this is all quote : "In line with the thought that private industry should be allowed to do what it can for itself." He should have added with the aid of an administration tnat intenas 10 turn over all public-power projects to private power in terests, as far as this can be done. And with public apathy what it is, it doesn't look as though much could be saved, not only in public power, but in land, water and mineral conservation the latter including federal Tidelands oil. . BUT who cares? The administration thinks no one does or at least not enough of the voters to make any difference at the next general election. , As General Eisenhower's personal popularity was a deciding factor in his great victory, the "wise-boys" are confident that same popularity will insure a similar GOP landslide a year hence regardless of what is done regarding the public vs private power issue. (F COURSE the worm MIGHT turn. Politically stranger things have happened. And there is one very puzzling feature about this business. Only a few days ago in a special message, Presi dent Eisenhower explaining why his administration has no definite power policy, as yet, remarked as fol lows, quote: "Our basic problem is to carry forward the tradition of conservation, improvement and wise use and 'development of our land and water resources a policy initiated SO years ago under the leadership of President Theodore Roosevelt." " ANGELS and Ministers of Grace defend us!" Can it be that General Eisenhower doesn't know what TR's conservation policy was, and what were its inherent and inescapable implications? Colonel Roosevelt's entire purpose was to con serve national resources for the benefit of his own and future generations, and to prevent precisely what the powers-that-be in Washington are determined to do today turn everything that isn't nailed down over for the exploitation and profit of private busi ness. That is the accepted program. No informed ob server in Washington, D.C., or elsewhere, for a mo ment denies it. WE grant it is a pretty forlorn hope but it might be please underline the "MIGHT" that Presi dent Eisenhower does understand the true meaning of TR's conservation policies, and when it comes to a show-down he will take, as he has on several other important issues, the enlightened and essentially democratic (with a small "d") view. We hope so. And not only for the sake of the country, but for what we are convinced will ultimately be for his own self-interest and that of his party. R.W.R. What Is a 'Scapegoat'? In the recent testimonial to our police department, and its chief, one objection to any disciplinary action was the deep seated aversion to making the head of the department a "scapegoat." A scapegoat is defined as follows: "One who is made to bear the blame of the misdeeds of others." But if to censure, or remove, the responsible head of a department in the public service or in private BUSINESS for that matter should be generally ac cepted as improper, then surely this country, or any other, would be in a terrible fix. For that is the accepted practice in all lines of activity, political, business, administrative and other wise. - The heads of the departments are ALWAYS held accountable for what goes on in their departments or doesn't. Not the individuals below them. It's up to the heads to produce, or get out That isn't making them "scapegoats." That is merely making them responsible. This sort of talk, like so. much that was circulated during the recent excitement is just nonsense. It misses the point entirely. The point isn't how long Chief McCredie has been in office, or how nice and courteous he is or what "a nice guy!" But how efficient he is and whether or not so long as he is re tained, the people of Medford can get the sort of po lice' administration they are entitled to, and should have. That is the milk in this coconut and nothing else. -R.W.B, Tuesday. August 11. IMS "all it can do for ITSELF Crosstovn - wi ii lajm i n'm ' "One blase is Matter of Fact MALENKOVS BOMBSHELL Washington Georgi Malen kov has told the world that "the United States no longer has a monopoly of the hydrogen bomb." The first question is whether Malenkov was telling the truth. The an- swer is condi tional. If he was lying, he is a bigger fool than he looks. The earlier Joseph Alsop atomk bombs the first In September, 1949, and the second and third in October, 1952 were first an nounced here in Washington and only confirmed in Moscow. The Washington announcements were possible because . of the American long-range detection project, first established in 1948 at the behest of the present chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Admiral Lewis Strauss. The principle, if not the prac tice, of long-range detection is fairly simple. The famous bomb clouds of the weapons of total destruction rapidly ascend into the upper air, and circle the earth in the stratospheric winds. The powerfully radioactive par ticles that the clouds contain can be detected by Geiger counters. Air samples, taken by patrol planes, tell much about, the bombs that produced the clouds. Even the scene of the explosions can be located, by seismographic and other evidence. It is almost inconceivable that the explosion of a Soviet hydro gen bomb has escaped this sys tem of long-range detection. Atomic explosions can in theory be concealed if the bomb is de tonated underground in a mine, for example. But the essential component of a hydrogen bomb, the very heavy hydrogen, trit ium, is a volatile gas which would escape into the air some how. A method for detecting the most minute particles of tritium in the atmosphere has already been published by Dr. W. F. Libby of Chicago Univer sity. Thus concealment seems out of the question. ON THE other hand, the radio active cloud takes some days to circle the earth. Analysis of the data produced by long-range detection takes a much longer time probably two weeks or more. In short, we ought to know whether Malenkov was lying before very" long, but our government may not know now. Since long-range detection is also understood by the Soviets, it has to be assumed for the present that Malenkov was not lying. The next question, there fore, is whether his news is as serious as it looks. Here the answer is again conditional. Un less past American government estimates of the scale and speed of Soviet atomic development have been ludicrously wrong, Malenkov's news Is deadly ser ious, certainly; but it does not justify despair. Here again, tritium is the key to the problem. The chief lim iting factor on an atomic pro gram is the incredibly costly, massive and time-consuming pro cess of uranium separation. How many atomic bombs you have is ultimately determined by how fast you can separate fissionable uranium-235 from the far more common isotope, inert uranium 238. By the same token, the chief limiting factor on a hydro gen bomb program Is the need for the very heavy-hydrogen, tritium. How many hydrogen bombs can you have is deter mined by your supply of tritium, which plays the part in a nyaro gen bomb of the paper and kind ling in a dampish log fire. So far as Western scientists know, tritium can only be made in the same reactors which also make the atomic bomb compon ent, plutonium. Furthermore, the manufacture of tritium is fan tastically slow and fantastically expensive. Above all, tritium has only about one-tenth the ex ill By Roland Co enough, men!" plosive potential, on an atom for atom basis, that plutonium has. mm rpRITIUM is not the only com ponent of hydrogen bomb, to be sure. It is mixed- with the other heavy hydrogen, deuter ium, which contributes explo sive power too. The whole con traption has to be triggered by an atomic bomb of great site, which produces the sunlike heats and pressures in which hydro gen fusion takes place. For these and other reasons, the explosive potential of the tritium that goes into the bomb is not an accurate measure of the explo sive potential of the completed hydrogen bomb. The fact remains, however, that inordinately heavy sacri fices have to be made to get the tritium for a hydrogen bomb. You may gain one hydrogen bomb with the power of two megatons', or 2,000,000 tons of TNT. But by using your re actors to produce tritium in stead of plutonium, you will lose a large number of atomic bombs with a much greater ex plosive power. Very crudely and approximately, one .hydrogen bomb of two megatons, might cause the loss of 100 plutonium bombs with a total power of ten megatons, or 10,000,000 tons of TNT. This is a poor exchange at best; for a big atomic bomb is quite big enough to destroy all but a very small number of targets. A nation like the United States, which already has an ample atomic stockpile, can af ford to make this exchange of large numbers of atomic bombs for one hydrogen bomb. But a nation whose atomic stockpile ts not ample already, will be distinctly short-sighted to make this exchange. FOUR intelligence has not ridiculously under-rated the speed of Soviet atomic build-up, the emmediate effect of this first Soviet bomb may not be wholly unfavorable to this coun try. It will allow the Kremlin to boast about its new terror weapon, but it may also delay the over-all Soviet atomic build up. The "if" above is a very big one; and the problem needs fur ther exploration. Meanwhile, there is no escap ing one point. Malenkov's hydro gen bomb is the final warning. Whatever else it means, it most certainly means that we can no longer be complacent about So viet air-atomic power. And if we abandon this suicidal compla cency, if we face the hard facts of our national situation, the next phase will be a drastic change of national policy. (Copyr't 1S51, N.Y. Herald Trie, lac.) cuius i) mm... aren't subject to foreclosure, bos houses on the ground may be lost through sudden adversity. An inexpensive Sun Life tnorW rage policy will free your home from any debt remaining a death. iTotect your loveo. borne ... call me toaay. SUN UPI ASSURANCE COMPANY of CANADA local A aeat Charles E. K JONES I PHONI 2-9772 .05 COMMUIIICAMiS Letters to the editor mint bear the name and addrea of the writer although under certain etrcum etance the ua of a pen name or Initial for publication 1 pennl Ibl. The Mall Tribune me rye the right to edit all letter with an eye to clarification and eonden utlonT Latter submitted for ..pub lication aiust no exceed 400-word. Wants Railroad to Coast To the Editor: Our legislative body, along with the Highway Commission, all seem to be very interested In a new highway be tween Klamath Falls and Med ford. Which is a very good idea. But for a real benefit for both Kla math Falls and Medford, why don't they think of a real bene fit for both. We need either a railroad or a good highway to the coast, and a good harbor. Our government made a complete survey, which I worked on, of what is known as the Chetco cove, at the mouth of the Chetco river, for a har bor. It was at that time proven very satisfactory. There have been surveys from the valley down the Chetco riv er which would keep from going through bug stations and anoth er state to a could-be wonderful harbor. Also, it would make a wonderful outlet for timber, fruit, etc. Again, it would open up a lot of mining and timber country. Things may get pretty tough around here, even this winter. Wish our Chamber of Commerce or somebody capable, would try and work on said idea. The cost of both imports and exports are. great at present. In dustries cannot operate under present conditions. Let's everybody study our present conditions, also future prospects. Frances (Shorty) Hibbard 1302 Saling st Medford. Skid Row is Blamed To the Editor Can a commun ity operate and maintain a skid row for the benefit of the veter ans and then expect to pass the buck to a few policemen because things don't go right. Why not get to the root of the matter and do away with the booze Joints. A more efficient way to take care of the drunks, ts not the an swer. , , C. W, Powell, Rt 1. Box 86 Central Point. LOUNGER MEDFORD am I Treachery To Blame If Russia Really Has Developed By PHIL HEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst For two hours Saturday, Rus sia's Premier Georgi M. Malen kov devoted himself to the theme: "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Or in this case, "who's afraid of the big bad United States?" Male nkov said he wasn't, because now Russia also has the hydro gen bomb, hardened per- Phil News It would be St. Laurant Scores Landslide Victory In Canada Election Ottawa (U.R) The middle of the road Liberal administra tion of Prime Minister Louis St Laurent was back in office for a history making fifth term today. The administration, Little changed since it took office in 1935, won another landslide victory yesterday, the second in four years. It elected a power house of at least 168 seats in a new Parliament of 265 members. Conservatives Fail The Conservatives failed to make the gains even their most pessimistic supporters expected. What losses the government sus tained went as victories for the C.C.F. and Social Credit parties. But the balance of power in the Commons will be virtually unchanged in the new house. The standings early today gave the Liberals 168 seats and the lead in 4 undecided contests. The Conservatives had won SO seats, the Cooperative Common wealth Federation C.C.F. 20 with leads in 3 contests, and the Social Credit party 13 with leads in 2 contests. Independent candi dates had won five seats. away. CHAIRS Here's REAL COMFORT in these lounger chairs for yard and terrace. Aluminum for light Veight and strength canvas or nylon covers a complete selection of bright colors to choose from! -5 if' if Ltinttiinrre GRANTS PASS H-Bomb sonality, indeed, who did not receive sucn news with a chiU of apprehension. Or pause and reflect that if Russia really has the "H"-bomb, it was born of treachery. rf.fith.el.?nd,JuIlu8 Rosenberg died in the electric chair a few weeks ago because they were atomic spies for Russia. The Disappearance A brilliant, naturalized Brit ish scientist is serving a prison sentence, because he, too, was a spy for Russia. He is Klaus Fuchs. Another, and probably the most brilliant of them all, Bruno Pontecorvo. disappeared from his British laboratory in 1950 and is widely believed to have gone to Russia. Pontecorvo is believed to have given the Communists a sample of the H-bomb's main ingredient And then, of course, there is the final agony. The man who superintended Russia's atomic energy program, Lavrenti Beria. now also has been dubbed traitor,n and has been deposed and already may have been liquidated. Important Speech The Supreme Soviet which heard Malenkov's announce ment of the bomb, had first heard officially and approved Beria's ouster. It was, far and away, Malen kov's most important speech, but world leaders who study it may pay more attention to other ele ments of it than his claim to the H-bomb which, ofter all, had been anticipated. It was one of his most bel ligerent pronouncements and seemed to reflect a switch back to Josef Stalin's "hard line1 against the United States. It also contained the flat an nouncement that Russia never will permit a rearmed Germany, a clear implication that she will keep Germany divided indefi nitely unless unification . also means complete neutrality. GOOD SCRAP Keene, N. H. (U.R) The Rotary Club here has collected 25 tons of scrap aluminum to finance scholarship loans. Nearly one ton of the scrap was obtained from wrecked planes at the local airport FOLDING STEEL CHAIRS Here's just the chair for your patio and lawn . . . a fine selection of colors to brighten up your yard comfortable and easy to pack EASY TERMS ASHLAND V
