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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22. 1944
(It was Friday)
Jerry Ross scores field goal in
closing seconds to give Medford
high school basketball team a
86-35 victory over North Bend.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It will soon
be another year, with all its in
evitable trials and tribulations,
and a session of the legislature,
also inevitable.
20 YEARS AGO
Dee. 22. 1934
Gecarge Codding, Medford,
elected vice-president of Oregon
District Attorneys' association.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Christmas
shopping was the order of the
week, citizens rushing around all
week spending money, the de
pression to the contrary notwith
standing. '
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22. 1924
Dick McElhose elected com
mander of Medford American
Legion post.
City of Medford buys Davis
lot so Sixth st. can be . extended
to Main st. 4
40 YEARS AGO v ,
Dec. 22. 1914
J. C. Barnes nominated for
mayor of Medford by local So
cialists. May Robson to appear at Med
ford's Page theater in "Martha
by the Day."
What's the Answer?
, (Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
1. The U.S. public schools
have less or more than a mil
lion teachers?
2. Adlai E. Stevenson was Vice
President under President Grant.
Cleveland, McKinley, Taft or
Wilson?
3. Has any amendment to the
U.S. Constitution ever been re
pealed? '
4. The territory called "Se
ward's Folly" when the U.S. an-
nexed it was Alaska, Hawaii,
Panama Canal Zone, Puerto
Rico or the .Virgin Islands?
N5. Capricornus, sign of the
Zodiac, is represented by a crab,
goat, bull, ram, pair of twins, or
6. That ?God helps those who
help themseilves" was first said
by an Old Testament prophet,
St Paul, Shakespeare, Benjamin
Franklin or Abraham Lincoln?
7. An Annie Oakley is an old
gray mare, an outdoor privy, a
sawed-off shotgun, a pass for ad
mission, or a prostitute?
The answers: 1. More than a
million. 2. Cleveland. 3. One, the
18th (Prohibition). 4. Alaska. 5.
Goat. 6. Franklin. 7. A pass.
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$4,205 to $5,940. .
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plication forms may be obtained
at Silliman's office in the Med
ford post office building.
ITOIIAL
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Mining Not Entirely Dead
Gold mining in this general region as in the rest
of the nation, has suffered some almost death dealing
blows but the industry isn't, completely dead and in
deed there are signs here and there that it may be
trying to stage a comeback.- .tV .-;
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T. r , "J.
IN the immediate Medford region there have been
1 rymors lately that dry-land dredge operators have
been looking over the land lying along the Old Stage
road north. Although much of the ground is iri small
farms it is believed to hold fairly rich gold values in
places and without too much overburden.
Mining this land would mess up the landscape for
the time being but the soil removed to get at the gold
bearing gravel could later be pushed back and the
general appearance and agricultural usefulness re
stored. ' . - , .
In the meantime the mining and stockpiling of
chrome ore is continuing in the region constituting
about the only actual activity in the mining line close
at hand. , ' ' . .. ;:. v
THE first severe setback for gold mining came in
1934 when, under terms of the Gold :Act, the gold
weight of the dollar was reduced by around forty per
cent. In 1935, the price of gold was fixed by President
Roosevelt at $35 an ounce, an increase from the pre
vious $20 plus.
Most devastating of all, however, was the war
time order suspending all dredging and placer mining
as nonessential.
Recovery from this last wound has been slow
principally because inflation has boosted operating
costs to a point where only the very richest properties
can be worked profitably.
LMONG the very few fairly large properties in the
southern Oregon-northern California region of
sufficient richness to warrant operation is the Siskon
mine in the Happy Camp neighborhood. Happy Camp
is situated on the Klamath river in Siskiyou. county,
California, and lies south and west of Medford.
The Siskon mine, owned by the Siskon Corpora
tion of Reno, Nev., shipped approximately $313,000
worth of gold and silver bullion to the U.S. Mint in
San Francisco as a result of six and one-quarter
months of operation this year. .;
Development work was also carried on during
the past summer and in a report to the stockholders
the Siskon corporation officials stated that explora
tion will be started next year in 'the "Billy's Mine"
area, a mineralized one not yet properly investigated
but which is believed to contain a large body of cop
per pre. . : . .. ;"
Also in the . copper ore zone is the Gray Eagle
mine, which the corporation has leased with option
to buy. During World War II the Gray Eagle pro
duced and milled approximately 465,000 tons of cop
per ore for another company but acquisition of. the
mine was spurred because of gold deposits which
were found there. The gold can be mined with a
power shovel, the Siskon officials Relieve.
MO REAL revival of gold mining is expected for the
immediate Medford vicinity unless something
should come of the long-continued ef forts to secure
a raise in the government price, or permission for
dealing in the metal on the free market."
..On numerous world markets the open price for
gold has often ranged considerably higher than the
price fixed in this country. United States producers
could not legally make sales in those markets, how
ever. E.CJY V
The Robe
: It now develops that some of Oregon's circuit
judges are not exactly enthusiastic about donning a
long black robe while presiding over their courts.
At the annual meeting of the Circuit Judges Asso
ciation of Oregon held recently in Portland it was
decided that among other things needed to add
dignity to court procedure
ot tne sombre vestments Jong associated witn me
higher judicial branches. -v
- - -
SINCE the association meeting one' of Marion coun
ty's judges has said it would be cumbersome for
him to wear a robe, another declared he would not
wear one while hearing juvenile cases and a third
indicated he had not made up his mind whether to
follow the association's recommendation or not.
The black robe which found its way to this
country from England, where courts are nothing, if
not dignified undoubtedly lends something to the
formal atmosphere. But we cannot help feeling that
if he goes along with the majority, Jackson county's
Judge Hanna, besides whatever dignity he may add,
will be in for some pretty stuffy sessions, come sum
mer time.
; It gets right down warmish in the court room here
during July and August and even though the robe be
made of thin material its long swaddling folds would
do nothing to promote the judge's comfort.
He hasn't expressed himself publicly as to adop
tion of, the judicial habiliment but we bet he, and
some of the other judges, particularly those in the
eastern part of the state, will hand down an opinion
not altogether complimentary when the mercury reg
isters around 95. E.C.F. - -
Log Pierces Truck Cab; Kills Crescent City Man
Oeswmt City. Calif. Aaron
Walker, Crescent City, was kill
ed yesterday when the top log
on his loaded truck pierced the
cab as the truck hit a tree on a
logging road in the south fork
Smith river area. v v
Wednesday, Dteomber 22, . 1954
in this state is the wearing 1
Walker, according to examin
ing physicians, died of a broken
neck and crushed chest. Howard
Moody, also. Crescent City, a
passenger in the truck, leaped
from' the cab before it struck,
the tree and was unhurt.
SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING
; The American Bible .-. So
ciety, the Medford Ministerial
Association and the Medford
Council- of Church "Women
are cooperating in sponsoring
daily Bible reading in the
period between Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
The suggested scripture
reading for today is:
Philippians 4
In the Day's News
V' . By FRANK JENKINS
I came down to the office this
morning (a bit late, this being
the Christmas season), walked
briskly up to the robot that we
caU a teletype, tore from it an
armful of the paper tape it was
industriously spitting out and
sat down at the typewriter.
"Oh, Boy!" I said after a
glance at the stuff the machine
had been grinding out. "This is
going to be duck soup."
THERE were murders three
of them, on the juicy side.
There were fatal traffic acci
dents galore.
There was a tale that .Russia
has told Britain to lay off this
NATO business or we'll cancel
the mutual assistance . pact we
now have with you. v
. Old Hatoyama, Japan's new
premier, had just decided to do
something he d told the voters
before4 his election he wouldn't
do.
T1LENTY of raw material," I
told. myself, rolling iip my
sleeves. .v. .'
AT that moment, it occurred to
me that the Klamath Falls
Herald and News (in whose of
fice this is written) had announc
ed that in this week before
Christmas it would print 'on its
front page only the good news,
the constructve news, the news
having to do with the BETTER
qualities of human beings rather
than the WORSE qualities.
And this stuff goes on' the
Herald and News front page!
S
O I started scratching.
I turned up a tale about wind
storms that have caused more
than a million dollars damage to
winter wheat crops in Eastern
Colorado (by blowing the wheat
plants out of the. dry, dusty soil.)
"Well," I said, "maybe that
will help to cut down the. vast
mountain of subsidized wheat
we have piled up and thus will
help to get us back to the time
when supply and demand for
wheat wUl again be in balance.
That ' COULD be constructive
news." ' ,
'. But no,' the poor devils in
Eastern Colorado will be too
hard hit in comparison with the
rest of us. So that won t do.
THERE was a tale about a
-- Greek who came to this coun
try 47 years ago, made his pile,
went back to the Greek village
where he was borri, used quite
a wad of his money to finance
school improvements, built some
new roads, rebuilt the bell tower
of a ruined church and as a re
sult GOT ELECTED MAYOR by
his native town's grateful citi-
Z6X1S ' r
Surely, I thought, this is the
kind of stuff I'm looking for.
B
UT
I read on.
It developed ' that the former
Greek, pleased and honored,
asked the U.S. consulate, in Ath
ens for just a few months! as
mayor of a foreign town while
he finished up some more im
provements. THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA NOTIFIED HIM
THAT IF HE DOES ANYTHING
OF THAT SORT HE'LL LOSE
HIS U.S. CITIZENSHIP. .
AND so it went, all down
through the long roll of tele
type tape. In every promising
bit of ointment there was. a fly.
In each case-the fly was some
aspect of the story that had to
do with the WORSE qualities of
human beings rather than the
BETTER qualities. V
rjTCEN .
Just as I was losing hope
And also faith in the news-
I came upon this one:' .
In the town of Greenfield, in
Massachusetts, the Red Cross is
holding a Christmas party on
Dec. 29. There'U be favors. There
will be door prizes and refresh
ments. The ticket of admission
will be - - -
ONE PINT OF BLOOD.
THAT fixed everything up.
Giving one's blood, so that
some other human being- who
might otherwise die may have a
chance to live, -most certainly
has to do with the better aspects
of human beings rather than 'the
worse aspects.-
. There ARE people who follow
the GOLDEN RULE.
SAFE DRIVING URGED
Salem (U.R) Secretary of
State Earl T.iNewbry appealed
to motorists today for concerted
individual effort to prevent hol
iday accidents, noting that Ore
gon's 1954 traffic death toll is
already pushing dangerously to
ward 400. ..
15 N. CENTRAL PH. 2-2970
mat
Will Democrats or Right-Wing
Give lite Roughest Time in
By LYLE C. WILSON
, . United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) It is
an open question right now
whether President Eisenhower
will have more trouble in the
84th Congress with Democrats
or with the right wing of his
own Republican party.
It could be that he will have
serious trouble with both. If
so, Mr. Eisenhower will be a
bruised and angry man before
the end of the congressional ses
sion which begins next Jan. 5.
Teamed, the right wingers of
his own. party and the vote
minded Democratic opposition
could give the President such
a drubbing as none has taken
siuuc loox-d wnen congress
undertook to make Herbert
Hoover the goat for all the ills
since creation. - . "
Mr. Eisenhower has a hole
card, however, which former
President Hoover did not have
when the 72nd Congress con
vened midwav in his White
LHouse term. His card is the ace
The first thing Mr. Eisenhow
er did after his party was lick
ed in last November's election
Is That So?
SOME BUTTERFLIES SPEND
WINTER IN LOW SHRUBBERY
The cold months are usually
considered the quiet season, and
wild life asleep but, actually,
even on the bitterest winter day,
life is pulsing in woods and
fields,, even for some of our
smallest cold-blooded insects.
To carry through, some insects
pass these m o n t h s as larvae
grubs or caterpillars; some as
pupae in' hardened shells; some
as eggs; while not a few continue
their life cycle right through
freezing temperatures,
To withstand the rigors of
their other chemical contents
winter, some adults decrease
their body water and "increase
their other ' chemical contents
with the results that they can be
supercooled and resist below-
zero temperatures. -.
A few migrate, notably the
monarch butterfly . which may
make a 3,000 mile round-trip to
warmer climes. But with most,
the migration is confined to just
a short distance,' perhaps only
from exposed tree tops to pro
tected habitats. Most astonish
ing, some fragile-seeming but
terflies live the winter through
in low shrubbery, perhaps com
pletely enveloped as long as 4
months in snow and ice.
Queen wasps hide under
leaves in the forests; female
ants, likewise, live. through the
winter and start new colonies
the following season. The potato
bug buries itself several inches
underground.
House flies, like many other
insects, become exceedingly slug
gish at about 50 degrees and to
them a prolonged below-zero
temperature is usually fatal. As
a result, every faU, they die by
the millions, and billions. Only
a tiny remnant puUs through in
sheltered areas under bark and
fallen leaves, although in warm
barns, and attics they may re
main active the year 'round. Of
.the small group, of survivors,
curiously, the vast majority are
fertilized females.
Clothes' moths remain in
warm buildings until spring;
cockroaches seek out dark base
ments. .
Common as this overwintering
method may seem, many more
survive cold winter in the larva
and pupae stage some begin
ning as larvae and ending as
pupae.
The methods are diverse: Eu
ropean corn borers go into corn
stalks: the "maggot" of the Hes
sian fly hides in joints of wheat
stalks;
the 'larva of coddling
LITTLE JACK HORNER
- CORNERS mOBUZtA
MY CHRISTMAS PIE ,
WAS MIGHTY GOOD
BUT JUST LOOK AT MY.SHIRT
was to take back some of the
hard things he had said about
the Democrats. He followed up
with friendlier gestures, includ
ing conferences and a ' pledge
that Republican cabinet officers
would confer with the Democra
tic leadership before fixing cer
tain policy targets next year.
Moreover, the President ham
mers away at his favorite politi
cal theme that the Republican
party must be a party of moderate-minded
men and women,
considerably to . the left of the
old-line Republican leadership
symbolized by. such men as the
late Robert A. Taft, Speaker
Joseph W. Martin Jr., and per
haps Senate Republican" Leader
William F. Knowland.
Small Comfort There
There is small comfort for the
conservative elements of the Re
publican party in Mr. Eisenhow
er's5 determined effort to shape
up a 1955 legislative program
with which a considerable num
ber of Democrats ' might go
along. Republican conservatives
likely will be the first to bolt
the administration program
when it comes to Congress.
The President can get along
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
moth if it is not in some juicy
apple, spins a cocoon of silk in
the digestive . tract of a" horse;
the ox-warbler larvae feed be
neath the hide of cattle. The
army worm, . cutworm, tomato
worm, cabbage worm all lar
vae and many others bore into
the ground in the fall and be
come pupae, then emerging in
spring as adult flies, beetles or
moths. (The 17-year locusts,o of
course, take 17 years to emerge.)
Other insects pass the entire
winter as pupae, in the "cocoon"
or chrysalis there are innum
erable kinds, some beautifully
marked, . under the protective
shaggy bark of trees or in hol-lowed-out
chambers, in the froz
en ground. Look inside and the.
contents may seem dormant, yet
wonderful changes are going on
from these, in spring, will
emerge beautiful, winged crea
tures, v .!
- Another common way for in
sects to' pass the winter is by
egg. Ampng these, grasshoppers
deposit their eggs in packet
like masses an inch or more be
neath the ground. The tent cata
pillar moth fastens its eggs, on
twigs in fruit trees. Eggs of
plant lice are glued to various
plants. Gypsy moths hide their
eggs under stones, or under bark
or the sides of buildings. .
As for the egg's survival qual
ities, grasshopper's eggs actual
ly develop more rapidly when
kept in wintry below-freezing
temperatures! v
- Finally, some insects continue
to . reproduce throughout ,the
year, even during January , and
February. Among these, are
many stone flies fully a third
of that numerous family, : cock
roaches, chicken lice, sheep ticks.
And there is one cave- beetle
which is so well-adjusted to cold
life that it lives its entire exist
ence in ice grottoes where the
weather never warms up beyond
one degree ibove freezing! t ,
' .(Copyright, 1954 by ;.;
Eugene Burns)
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ENGINEER DIES
Vancouver, Wash. (U.R)
Vancouver City Engineer Carl
it. Skooglund, 46, died yesterday
at a Vancouver hospital follow
ing a heart attack at a city hall
Christmas party. Skooglund had
been city engineer for 2V& years.
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.'LIST A PLACE
TO WASH AWAY THE DIRT
i
Used by 9 outcf tOpccplssa ulds io ticss rtho sell or serve
without them provided a sub
stanial number of Democrats
stay hitched. But the Democrats
are up against the political facts
of life. These include the fact
that the Democrats will need
in 1956 a program of their own
about which to brag in urging
voters to return, a Democrat to
the White House. V . . ;
If Mr. Eisenhower should run
again, it would be embarrassing
for Democrats , to oppose him
if during the 84th Congress
they had been whooping it up
and enacting a Republican
President's legislative program.
Shelved Hoover's Program
In 1931-32 when , Democrats
were intent on destroying Mr.
Visits To Red China
By Nehru,
Beneficial
By CHARLES M. McCANN
- United Press Correspondent
The visits which Prime Minis
ters Jawaharlal Nehru of India
and U Nu of Burma paid to
Communist China recently prom
ise, surprising-;
ly, to prove
beneficial and
not harmful
from the West
ern viewpoint.
In fact, dis
patches i n d i
cate that the
United States
might have
been justified
in paying the
cbaries Mctann travelling ex
penses of the two East Asian
leaders. - -
Both Nehru and U Nu seem
to have seen some of the flaws
in the Red Chinese system.
Nehru's tone toward the
United States has been much
more friendly since he returned
home, and more sharply critical
of Indian Communists.
U Nu praised the . United
States, it is reported, even while
he was in Peiping, and is think
ing of visiting this country.
Nehru and U . Nu are "neu
tralists" and "Asia for 'the
Asians" men. .
They regard the Chinese Com
munists as fellow Asians, and
the big Western countries as
"colonial", powers, which want
to keep Asian and African
peoples, in bondage.
Both Anti-Communist
'; But both are decidedly anti-
Communists as regards the Reds
in their own countries. .
.Nehru, as soon as he returned
from China, commented on. the
way the Chinese Reds have iso
lated their . people f r o m the
world.. -;He said that while he
was in Peiping he had to depend
on news bulletins from" the; In
dian Embassy to keep in touch
with world developments, be
cause Chinese newspapers were
so rigidly censored.
Dispatches from New .Delhi
report that Nehru and the num
erous Indian newspaper men
who accompanied him to China
have been more critical of Com
munism and , more friendly to
ward the United States since
their return. The dispatches say
that better American-Indian re
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nstmas
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Singles ahd: Boxecl Assortments.
Wrap and
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YdUUfUO frfA$ritlWYBU0VPA6S
Republicans
flew Congress?
Hoover, they simply pigeon
holed his recommendations and
produced a program of their
own. That strategy obtained the
election of a Democratic presi
dent after two. years and kept
the party in power for 20, bar
ring a momentary Republican
recovery in the 80th Congress.
Four other presidents within
the past 45 years have faced
an opposition Congress in one or
both - houses. They: were Taft,
Wilson, Hoover and Truman.
' The. only man able to beat
the rap was Harry S. Truman,
the: little man . from Independ
ence, Mo. Mr. Truman began
the practice ' of politics where
all the others left off. -
U N u Seen
To West
lations are likely.
Discussing his visit to Peiping
in Parliament, Nehru said that
there had been international
crises in March and September
when war on a big scale ap
peared to be near."
Nehru referred presumably to
the Indochina crisis and the
fighting between the National
ists and Communists along the
China Coast.
Praises Eisenhower
; He praised President Eisen
hower warmly for the part. he-
played "in the avoidance of war.'.' .
Twice since he returned home
Nehru has .angrily denounced the
Indian Communist party. He ac
cused it of trying to foment an
insurrection and called a Red at-
tack on the speaker of Parlia-.
ment "a vicious thing" which
showed the "extraordinary in
competence" and "lack of any
sense of responsibility" of, the
Communist party.
U Nu was quoted as saying, in
a banquet in his honor in Peip
ing, that Americans are "very
generous and brave" people. He "
criticized Red Chinese leaders
for their poor relations with the
United States. .
U Nu was reported also to
have told the Chinese hosts that
he hopes to visit the United
States- soon. .
Latest reports indicate that U
Nu is quietly interceding with
the Peiping regime to free the 11
American Air Force men im
prisoned on fake spy charges.
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