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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 9. 1945
(It was Friday) -
J. M. Spencer, Ashland,
named secretary - manager of
Medford Irrigation district, and
W. D. Steadman, Phoenix, named
to same position with Rogue
River Irrigation district. Both
succeed Ed N. Judd, who served
. ixt J. Ji A2A f - -
- wim two districts lor xa years.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column:. Schools
started last week on the last half
of their terms. Many-kids, were
vaccinated, at the end of the
semester, v
20 YEARS AGO v
Feb. 9, 1935
(It was Saturday)
Gold Hill cement plant
officials announce their firm will
operate Grants Pass railroad.
- Townsend pension meeting at
Medford .High school draws
crowd of 1,100, with collection
amounting to $103. Telegram re
ceived from ; Dr. Townsend,
founder of organization. .
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 9, 1925
(It was Monday)
Story in the Mail Tribune re
ports that cigarette smoking
among women , in Medford is
gaining by leaps and bounds,
both at home and in public.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 9, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Fire destroys Tavern hotel.
owned by James Vogeli, at Eagle
Point with damage estimated at
between $6,000 and $7,000.
Eagle Point fire department and
bucket brigade saves surround
ing property.
From the Local and Personal
column: As yet no trace has been
found of Chester Nelson, the
youthful trapper who disap
peared from his cabin in the
Evans Creek district a week ago
Sunday. The recent heavy rains
have swollen Evans creek con
siderably and "fears are enter
tained that the young, man was
drowned while attempting to
C cross. Alarmed by his absence
searching . parties have been
formed and the entire section is
being hunted over.
What's f he Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report.
1. Ten years ago U.S. forces
captured a capital that had been
held by the enemy: Berlin, Paris,
Rome, Manila, Brussels or War
saw? 2. The Last Supper, famous
painting by Leonardo de Vinci,
is in Rome, New York,' Paris,
Milan? London or Venice?
3. Which of these national
parks is the largest: Everglades,
Glacier, Mt. McKinley,- Yellow
stone, Yosemite?
4. The Seventh Commandment
deals with adultery, killing,
bearing false witness, or honor
ing parents?
5. The Kremlin says that of
the 200,000,000 people in Russia,
about 6, 16, 36 or 60,000,000 are
Communist party members.
6. The name "Palestine" does
or doesn't come from the Philis
tines who once lived there?
7. A man nicknamed "Soapy"
Oast name: Williams) is gover
nor of Illinois. Michigan, Ohio,
Tennessee or Texas? -
The Answers: 1. Manila. 2.
Milan. 3. Yellowstone. 4. Adul
tery. 5. About six out of the
200.000.000. 6. Does. 7. Michi
gan. - ; ' " '"' : !: - "'
MAIL TRIBUNE
Leave The Park Setup Alone
The only fault one can find with Oregon's state
parks, in this region at least, is that there are not
enough of them. Those we have are well located,
excellently maintained, the larger ones are delightful
places for family picnics and roup gatherings and
they and the highway wayside parks are visited by
throngs throughout the summer season.
At one such place alone, TouVelle park on the
Rogue river near Medford, the traffic counting tape
registered 26,014 cars last year. Figuring an average
of 314 persons to the car, the tape indicates the park
accommodated 84,545 visitors, probably a low esti
mate as many go to the spot in buses and there are
also some who enter on horseback or afoot and these
latter would not trip the
Total visitation at the
during the past year has
mately 5,800,000.
"llHILE it would be nice to have more such spots
for enjoyment by. the public, it must be consid
ered that any extensive expansion of the program
would entail heavy spending, and the park expense
is already fairly large, $1,195,000 having been budg
eted for development, maintenance and operation
this year.
.
IN view of the fact that the State Highway Commis
.sion has done a good job in selecting such park
sites as we now have, and in developing and main
taining them, and that the state's financial condition
does not warrant large outlays, for expansion of the
system at this time, we cannot see what benefit might
be expected from the bill now before the legislature
seeking to take the parks from the jurisdiction of the
highway commission and place them under a new
and separate commission to be set up.
Creation of any new commission would be certain
to mean additional overhead expenses. This is par
ticularly true with reference to this situation as the
State Highway Department now, does many things
for the State Parks Department at actual cost. Among
these are services of various kinds, including special
ties in soil analysis, pavement construction, geological
determinations, right of way acquisition, legal coun
sel and advice, design of buildings, roads, and other
facilities, specification writing, laboratory techni
cians and the availability of a comprehensive engi
neering laboratory.
While it might be said that the State Highway
Department could do the same things for a special
park commission, the history of such relations points
to the fact that every commission wants to control its
operations in full and sooner or later they will dupli
cate many of these facilities and services.
Many of the present state parks are, in reality,
highway waysides and should be so classed, because
they are intimately a part of the highway system
simply a widened right of
park commission take them
tion is bound to arise.
The highway commission maintains a far-flung
crew of workers' with the skills' and machinery re
quired to maintain the roadways. These men are able
to give a certain amount of time and attention to
park maintenance with much less expense than would
be the case should a new commission set up an en
tirely different crew.
TT is proposed to finance the parks entirely with'
road user funds. The proponents of a separate com
mission favor the spending of around three times the
amount now being laid out. Since the road user,
funds are insufficient to care for current deprecia
tion of highway facilities with current revenues,
thereby causing an increase" each year in critical high
way deficiencies, the diversion of more funds to park
purposes would have an extremely adverse effect
upon the state's economy.
The highway commission has tentatively ap
proved a five-year development and budgetary pro
gram for the state parks.' - The plan calte for, among
other things, acquisition of some 720 additional acres
to take care of increasing use.
The present operation and the planning for the
future of Oregon's park system appear to be well in
hand under the State' Highway commission. We can
not see now more, efficiency or economy would be
obtained through a change of administration at this
time. E.C.F. '
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Mexican Labor
As a result of recommendations developed at the
Mexican farm labor meeting held recently in Dal
las, Texas, the American Farm Bureau Federation's
board of directors has voted to support changes and
additions to the Mexican farm labor program which
are expected to benefit both employer and employee.
The AFBF directors have announced tnat they
favor the principle that individual employers should
not be responsible for determining the citizenship or
legal entry of workers. And the board also feels that
present penalties for transporting aliens not properly
admitted to the United States are adequate.
In the . matter of wages the board favors the re
quirement -that Mexican workers receive the same
pay as domestic workers at the same time, for the
same work; under the same conditions and in the same
area. ... ' " -
"NE recommendation of special interest in this area
would help farmers when hail or other disaster
ends the need for the number of workers contracted.
In such cases the board believes, the law should re-i
quire only that the unneeded workers be returned to
Mexico or to other eligible employers. E.C.F.
Wednesday, February 9, 19 55
counter.
state's 156 separate parks
been reported at approxi
way. Should a separate
over, conflict of jurisdic
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The Electronic Oracle
To the Editor: Editor Ruhl's
query (Feb. 6) "What Is Cooking.
Anyway?" aptly -illustrates the
bewilderment of most of us
when we contemplate Washing
ton, D. C. We can all agree it has
been too long a mess, where hu
man brains are at a premium or
totally absent, while common
sense gave place to hysteria and
government-by - confusion away
back when.
Robert Jungk, in his "Tomor-
row Is Already Here," has a de
lightful tale about what he calls
"The Electronic Oracle:" the
Washington official calculator or
electronic "brain" which Was
used to make the final decision
to fire General McArthur. Amus
ing? Very. And instructive, but
not surprising, me electronic
oracle is no doubt an -improve
ment, as a substitute for human
brains, over other and more fa
miliar devices; so perhaps it
should not be condemned off
hand? Formerly it was the custom (so
we are informed) among our
Washington bigshots - to consult
seeresses, fortune-tellers, swamis,
omja boards, crystal balls, and
suchlike, for their answers. In
fact, Baghdad-on -the-Potomac
was always a goldmine for priests
and priestesses of the occult.
Which may explain many of the
confusing policies so long extant
The electronic calculator was
designed as a time-saver in large
business and public offices, and
to compute problems in higher
mathematics: a legitimate use
You throw in certain equations
and formulas here, the electrodes
go round-and-round and come out
here with the answer. And there
you are. At least you hope so,
Because the machine cannot ac
tually think as many naive peo
ple believe and the answers
must depend entirely on the
stuff fed into its maw. If the
formulas you feed the machine
be erroneous, the answers must
be just as wrong.
When it comes to computing
human factors, the machine is of
course worthless. No matter what
array of statistics or dope-by-
guess-or-by-occultism you may
feed the monster, the answers
can be no better than your
premises, and interpretations of
tne answers away off base. One
may well ask: what's cookin'?
Government by oracle is, not
new in the world it dates from
ancient times. So lone as we un
derstand this, we need not fret
too much about public para
doxes? It ain't good for the
ulcers.
J. E. F., Ashland,
(name on file).
Room Needed
To the Editor: The Medford
Prop Nuts, a model, airplane
ciub, is in desperate need of a
room to hold their bi-monthlv
business meetings. Ages of our
present 10 members range from
9 to 39. We were wondering if
some business or service organ
ization had a room that we could
use. -, .
Model airplane building, and
nying is a. useful hobby in that
it not only keeps the boys off the
streets and out of trouble, but is
educational. Many aeronautical
engineers and pilots start, their
careers by build in e - mod
els. I met an 18-year-old model
flyer in Dallas, Texas, in 1951
whose salary from Chance
Vaught Aircraft was. $400 per
month. His work was building
small scale models for wind
tunnel tests. .
The taxpayers of Jackson
county have shown their willing
ness to take care of delinquent
children , by voting money to
build a Juvenile Detention
Home. Now if someone in Med
ford is interested in helping to
prevent juvenile delinquency,
we are sure they will open a
room for the Medford: Prop
Nuts, a responsible group.
Please phone Bob Ottoman,
2-7962.
Bob Ottoman,
Route 2, Box. 358,
Medford, Ore. .. ' - '
Footlighters Play Praised
To the Editor: While the Foot-
lighters are taking Mr. Allen's
criticism of the play he didn't
see, except for the first act, very
nicely, I would like to add my
comments about the play which
I did see.
The play seems to have been
written for England in 1933 but
the situation might very easily
come up here in these . United
States today and points up what
very unhappy situations can oc
cur and presents a situation
which demands thought. . Of
course we much prefer plays
that do not demand thought but
amuse. So perhaps the question
should ' be . whether we ought
fever be asked to do any think
ing when we go to the theater.
As to the acting of the play
it was beautifully done. Each
one of the actors stepped out
of themselves and became the
part he was playing. -This is
somethmg that I never saw
very well known actors do, such
as George Arliss or Maude
Adams. They should be ; very
heartily congratulated.
Florence Dean,
265 Janney Lane,
Medford, Ore. ; ':' ,
Bulganin Respected
By NATO Leaders for
M i I itary K n
Ait fir' Tint- Til fnllnurin znaM.l
dispatch is a substitute for Charles M.
McCann's foreitn news commentary.
By WILBUR G. LANDREY
United Press Correspondent
Paris U.R) Western military
leaders the men who head the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zationhave considerable re
spect for the military know
how of Russia's new head man,
Premier Nikolai Bulganin.
They know him as the man
who was architect of the Soviet
Union's highly trained armed
force of jnore than 6,000,000
men streamlined and strength
ened since the end of World
War II.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, su
preme Allied commander in Eu
rope, had no comment on Bul
ganin's appointment. But other
officers acknowledged that he
was following developments in
Moscow "with the greatest pos
sible interest."
He's No Soldier
. While Bulganin is not himself
a professional soldier, he was
charged by the late Josef Stalin
in 1947 with the post-war build
up of Soviet forces. Bulganin
became minister of armed
forces.
Today . Western intelligence
sources in Paris credited Bul
ganin with doing a good job in
that post.
In his recent book, "NATO
The First Five Years, 1949
1954," Secretary-general of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
In the critical area of the East
China Sea, whose southern bas
tion is the island , of Formosa, a
powerful American fleet is
evacuating 30,000 Chinese Na
tionalist soldiers and civilians
from the Tachen islands.
On the nearby Asian main
land, a powerful Communist
Chinese army is looking on.
This army is reputed to have a
fairly considerable air force.
These islands are only a few
minutes by plane from the Com
munist airfields.
.Suppose some trigger-happy
Communist general should or
der an attack on our fleet.
The result COULD be World
War III.
IT'S improbable that such an
attack will h ordered.
After all, we're EVACUAT
ING the Nationalist Chinese
from these Tachen islands.
When they are evacuated, the
Chinese Communists will take
them over.
But it must irk them to see us
getting away with the evacua
tion and thus saving 30,000 Na
tionalist Chinese from ex
tinction.
And experience tells us there
are trigger-happy Communists,.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK isn't be
ing any too helpful.
In a written statement issued
at his Formosa headquarters, he
says .the decision to evacuate
was a painful one but the latest
military developments have
made the Tachens lose their
military value. He expresses
gratitude for the aid given to
the evacuation plan by . the
United States.
But
He says in his statement that
the evacuation of the Tachens is
the positive preparation for the
counterattack 'against the Red
mainland and he adds that the
most important task of the Chin
ese Nationalist government and
its military forces is to counter
attack the Communists and re
cover the Chinese mainland.
HE'S saving his face, of
course.
He must know that as of now
the comparative handful of For
mosa. Chinese can no more sally
forth and reconquer the Chinese
mainland than they "can ; fly to
the moon on the tail of a kite.
The ' reconquest of the. Chinese
mainland could be accomplish
ed now only with the full miU-
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ow-How
tion Lord Ismay- placed Soviet
strength, including East Ger
many and the East European
satellites,, at "over 6,000,000
men."
Ismay said:
"The USSR has a ready-made
spearhead for a rapid advance
into Western Germany. This is
composed of 22 Soviet divisions
in East Germany. The bulk of
these are armoured divisions
with nearly a complete comple
ment of tanks and self-propelled
guns. Behind this spearhead
there are an additional 60 So
viet divisions located in the
Eastern European satellites and
along the USSR border.
These are the forces built up
by Bulganin.
Allies Outnumbered
In Western Europe Gruenther,
according to a NATO . spokes
man, has "90 to 100 divisions in
varying degrees of readiness."
The spokesman explained
that that number includes re
serve divisions and divisions
earmarked for, early mobiliza
tion. Western military observers
here expect a renewed empha
sis on the military to be accom
panied by a return to emphasis
on heavy industry and parma
ments production, under Bul
ganin's premiership.
Now, it is believed here, the
Soviet and satellite forces will
be seen better supplied and the
Russian stockpiles of arms will
grow bigger.
News
tary backing of the United
States and all its allies. ,
We must keep in mind that
there is nothing Chiang would
like more than to precipitate
just such a conflict because it is
his only chance to get back into
power. His statement is as pro
vocative as he dares to make it.
THE situation is pretty well
summed up in a statement
by Australia's foreign minister
Richard Casey. He says in- Can
berra, Australia's capital:
"I believe war in China can
be averted as long as each side
clearly understands the other's
intentions. I have full faith in
President Eisenhower's , han
dling of the dispute, and I'm
sure the American chief execu
tive can be relied on to do all
that is possible to avert hostili
ties." v
That just about sizes it up. We
must sit tight and hope that no
body rocks the boat.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Federal Tax Evasion
' Letting off a self - admitted
federal income tax dodger with
a year's probation is an inexcus
able, miscarriage of justice.
Yet that is what a federal
judge did at Portland Friday in
the case of U. S. Balentine, . a
prominent Klamath Falls attor
ney who confessed that he did
not file federal income tax re
turns in 1950, 1951 and 1952.
What is even more surprising
is the "reason" given by U. S
Judge Chase Clark of Idaho in
putting Balentine on probation
for one year. "I:, haven't the
heart to take him away from
you," the judge was quoted as
telling the family. -. . .
News accounts of the court
action do not: declare whether
Balentine was fined or the judge
recommended , that . the attorney
be disbarred from practice.
.-
In other words, Judge Clark
let off with a "sentence" of little
consequence a man who con
fessed that he had violated a
law. that applies to most every
one in a most direct and per
sonal manner.
A fair question to ask in con
nection, with the Balentine case
is whether a self-confessed tax
evader who wasn't an attorney
would' have been given a mere
one year's probation?
Even more serious is the atti-
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Is That So?
With Valentine's .Day just
around the corner, let's talk
about the heart. -.-
It weighs a little over 11
ounces and beats on the aver
age of about 72 times a minute,
pumping each day from 9 to 10
tons of blood through abrut 12,-
000 miles of .vein and artery
bloodways.
The circulation time required
for the six quarts of blood to
leave the heart and circulate
through the body and return is
about 60 seconds.
In one year, the heart pumps
from 777,000 to more than 1,-
600,000 gallons enough to fill
97 to 200 tank cars of 8,000 gal
lons each.
From unborn babe to ' late
adult, the heart beat changes
drastically; the fetal heart trips
along around 145 a minute;, at
seven years about 90; at adult
hood from 70 to 80, give or take
some 20 beats per minute..
In wild animals, the heart
beat varies tremendously. With
in a species, a small individual
has a faster heartbeat than a
large one; also, as with humans,
it beats faster in the young.
A mouse, at rest, has a heart
beat of around 700 a minute
10 times as fast as man's; a jack
rabbit is around 205 (but a do-
tude than can be fostered in the
public mind when income tax
evasion is treated as an indiscre
tion not calling for substantial
punishment. The honest citizen
is tempted to follow in the foot
steps of the income tax dodger.
Although the Balentine case
involves a federal offense, the
Oregon Supreme court has dis
ciplinary powers over attorneys
who practice in this state. It will
be interesting to see what the
Oregon Supreme court does to
uphold the good name of the
legal profession.
The Dalles Chronicle
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By Eugene Burnt
- Ranger-Naturalist
mesticated rabbit's only 64); a
cat's around 129 a minute; a
dog's, 85-126 a horse or cow,
from 35 to 45; an elephant's has
a slow and easy beat of 25 or so,
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while a smaii one-ion wnale
thumps along at a leisurely 15
times a minute.
Frog's Beat Slow ,
Cold blooded animals have a
slow heartbeat. A frog's, for in
stance, ker-thumps . along at
about 20 a minute.
Birds, like animals, have four
chambered hearts and those of
small birds beat excessively
high, especially when the bird
is excited or exercises vigorous
1. Normally, the song sparrow's
beats at 350, the chicadee's at
480, the canary's at 514. Under
excitement, all of these birds'
beats go up well over 1,000 a
minute! ;
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