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fOWR MID! UK) (OREGON) ItaTOKDUiwTRIBUKS "ivtrybcxly in Southern Oregon Biaflf Tbr Mail Tribune" VubSshed Deiif Xxcept Saturday by MiQTOpD PRINTING CO. - Rorth ir St. Phone 2-141 BOBERT W. RUHL, Editor fiOTV Us n a am t. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor IC ALLIS JR CltV Editor lRRY CHIP MAN. TeleeraDh Editor ICHAiUJ JEWETT. Sports Editor ITV OT1 DrUTQ Cnmatv FHitnr JATX JACKSON. fiundav Editor OERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon. . under Act ot Marcn 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Xlw Vail In AilvifiM' PftdV 1 flf Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily ana sunaay une momn Sunday cnuy vne year mju. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. i&AvarHiiA rirxTA Will Phtvniit. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Uaiiy ana sunaay une monui Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms lasn in jvavance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF C1HCUIA11UH WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York, tnicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EOITOIIAI ASVOCHTllON ZJ S WHg.'JM:HJ NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford' Aid Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mprch 2, 1945 (It was Friday) Jimmie Bolton fires a score of 239 to take high honors in Med ford pistol shoot; other top scorers are S. M. Tuttle, Gene Thomas, Roy Hewitt, and Mrs. S. M. Tuttle. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The legis lature is now engrossed trying to get the straight of the pur chase of 29,377 barrels of straight whisky, upon which it is expected the state will make a profit of $4,500,000 eventual ly. 20 YEARS AGO March 2. 1935 (It was Saturday) Gold Hill residents use dyna mite to kill more than 1,000 crows on roost in vicinity of town. Plowing of snow from roads In Crater Lake National park scheduled to start on April 1. 30 YEARS AGO March 2. 1925 (It was Monday) Medford city council request ed to improve road to Sacred Heart hospital. Medford High school to play Franklin High school of Port land in first game of state high school basketball tournament. 40 YEARS AGO March 2. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Oregon supreme court rules election creating Jefferson coun ty from portion of Crook county was valid. R. H. Whitehead, "Rogue Riv er capitalist," returns from at tending world's fair in San Francisco. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. More U.S. armed forces personnel aie stationed over seas or within the U.S., or is it about 50-50? Y 2. The Government is giving away at home or abroad much more of its dairy products than at this time last year; right or wrong? 3. Which has the highest total sales in dollars: the Grant, Kresge, Murphy, or Woolworth group of stores? 4. The average bath in a shower uses less or more water than the average tub bath, or about the same amount? 5. Does the Treasury get more from the taxes on liquor and beer or from those on cig arettes, cigars and tobacco? 6. More American Indians live in Arizona, California, New Mexico, New York or Okla homa? 7. A martini cocktail contains more gin than vermouth, more vermouth than gin, or equal parts of each? The Answers: 1. Less than half overseas. 2. Right. 3. Woolworth. 4. One-third less, says a big water supply company. 5. Al most twice es much from taxes en liquor. 6. Arizona. 7. More gin than vermouth. National Guard units made up two-fifths of the 1917 American Expeditionary Force. MAIL TRIBUNE Bypasses and Business Oregon cities and towns which have been by passed, or are facing that situation, as a result of recent or contemplated highway construction, will find some comfort in the experience of cities of other states. - A study by the transportation department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States has revealed that examples of bypasses hurting business are scarce and that if proper forethought, planning and design are given the highway project proves not only a boon to through traffic but to local businesses as well. THE U. S. Chamber questioned officials and busi- nessmen of thirty cities at random over the nation as to what changes had been noted as a result of their bypassing. In eight cities, all under 100,000, business was reported to have improved after opening of the by pass; 13 cities, ranging from 2,000 to 800,000 popu lation, reported no noticeable effects on business ; and businessmen in two cities, under 50,000 popula tion, felt they had suffered as a result of the change. Of the remaining seven, with no answer concern ing effect on business, five were favorable to the by pass and two were unfavorable in their comment. All of those polled cited improved traffic condi tions in the bypass area. A typical response was that from Santa Rosa, Calif, (population 18,000), where the chamber of commerce manager reported that the businessmen in general feel the bypass has been a distinct advantage in bringing shoppers to the downtown district, par ticularly those from adjacent counties. "Local busi ness would never want to go back to the old system of heavy trucks and tourists whizzing through our main streets," he added. TOM EDWARDS, southwest Oregon district engi naaii -frvr fin r TiirrVnuroir nnTnmi'ooi'nn TTil4 o rrofVt QvinfT iic-cii lux tut ingii a, j ji.i.i.i.i.xxjjxjii.j bviu c AAig of motor court owners in Roseburg last week that the freeway bypassing Roseburg will be opened after October 1, and that the freeway from Eugene to Myr tle creek, about 100 miles, end of 1956. The engineer said a California survey had shown that business bypassed by a new highway may even show an increase rather than a drop and that in one bypassed area surveyed in the sister state, business had increased from eight to ten per cent. Edwards stated that available from bypassed areas in Oregon as yet but that on the Eugene to Goshen stretch of highway peo ple say their business has improved. ii.UF. Forest Return Difficult Reforestation, the artificial reproduction of for ests, is hardly as simple a ine. Once the forests have land by fire or saw, man's places are opposed by rodents, bugs, worms, fungi and competing vegetation to an extent which makes growth difficult for either the seeds or tender trees which may be planted. A REPORT on the results All VL tlXAVACil XIUUUUUU VX XU1 OU3 All lyllt; interior of southwestern Oregon, conducted by the U. S. Forest Service's Siskiyou-Cascade Research Center at Roseburg, reveals will not restock by natural time and that planting of Douglas fir has often proved unsatisfactory. The research was conducted in the area lying south of Roseburg and between the Coast and the Cascade ranges of mountains where it is estimated that 60,000 acres of forest land are cut over annually. Survival of trees planted on the national forests has averaged less than 50 per cent. Survival on the west side of the Coast range has been much better. Planted ponderosa pines have survived considerably better, averaging more than 70 per cent. FOREST Service scientists have found that estab lishing a new tree crop directly from seed promises to be cheaper, but the success of direct seeding de pends upon overcoming certain obstacles, especially rodents and insects. Direct seeding of sugar pine and ponderosa pine have been most promising. Ro dent control has been achieved in several tests by using poison baits to kill the rodents or through using repellents on the tree seed. Crews of men can plant the seeds in the woods about four times faster than they can plant trees. A research device that has proved very success ful in protecting seed in the woods from rodents is known, as the K-screen. It consists of a cylinder of ordinary window screen about V2 inches in diameter and 5 inches long. Soil and seeds can be loaded in these cylinders and planted, the screen preventing rodents from chewing up the young seedlings. Al though this method has been useful for research pur poses, it is too slow for general purposes. In southwest Oregon in addition to rodents, cut worms and vegetation, reforestation efforts have to contend with ground surface heat, a condition which kills large numbers of Douglas fir seedlings. JVfOST important thing to consider in seeking arti ficial reproduction of forest stands is prompt action after the land has been cut over, the research proved. All the enemies of the young trees are at their lowest concentration immediately after a tract has been logged and burned. Each succeeding year increases the difficulties that must be overcome. E.C.F. Wtdattday, Mardt 1, 1953 will be completed by the no parallel information is matter as some may imag been removed from the efforts to reclothe the bare of five years of research that much cut-over land means, within a reasonable COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Freeway Over Bear Creek? To the Editor: I have read var ious articles regarding the pro posed freeway through Medford and I am greatly interested in seeing such a project get under way as soon as possible. I feel that such a project is well worth doing right. We have all done a lot of temporary work, and in the last analysis it cost more money than it would have to have done a good job to begin with. Here is my suggestion: We have a natural right-of-way fol lowing the creek channel straight through the business dis trict. A concrete canal would cost less and would gain many, many advantages. First, the Freeway could go on top of the canal with a sav ing of space. Second, the added increase of valuable property should pay almost the cost of the project. Third, it would fit in perfectly with other parts of the City - this new airport road for instance. Fourth, it would save the city costly rehabilita tion and damages. By dredging the flow of water deeper and us ing the gravel for filler, a small canal with the natural grade would carry all the water that ever came down possibly 15 to 20 feet would be ample. Then only a slight raise for cross streets would be necessary. The Freeway could be a few feet below the banks. The pres ent condition is very unsightly and the cost of the entire project would be . offset by saving of property which would otherwise be damaged, and which could result in possible law suits. There would be no valuable pro perty nor buildings to buy or destroy, no chance for argument with dissatisfied taxpayers. This would eliminate . open sewers flowing into the creek and eliminate the mosquito and frog ponds. I would roughly es timate the cost of such a project to be 50 per cent less than pres ent plans to buy property priv ately owned and converted to a Freeway. A concrete canal would be M to 13 of the width of the natural creek bed. I believe such a project would be approved by every taxpayer and it would go a long way to overcome any objections and to prove the effectiveness of such a plan. It would be possible to drop the creek bed low enough, and divide the canal so that a Free way could pass under the pres ent Main st. and Jackson st. bridges in order to eliminate the necessity of bulding overpasses. E. M. Tucker, President, Tucker Sno-Cat Corp. South Pacific Highway, Medford, Oregon. Need Help Home To the Editor: A woman's ter rified screams for help from a night-shrouded street is a most unnerving sound. When we got to her, about 8:15 p.m., she was standing a little west of Hamil ton on the south side of Main, staring wide-eyed every way, crying and screaming so hys terically it was hard to know what happened. We got her to our home and phoned the po lice. Our next door neighbor took off in his car where her would-be assailant had fled, quickly followed by the police cruising the area, but the de praved supposed-to-be human was likely hiding in some back building. Quieted down, the young wo man told of her husband a way at a trade school and she sup porting herself where her work kept her at a city-center place till near 8 p.m. She had always felt safe walking home to Co lumbus' st., save when guys of fered her a ride which she al ways refused. And she wasn't too concerned when this heavy set, light haired, sport-clothed man about .30 came from the side, tiU he spoke indecently and made to lay hands on her. She eluded him and ran scream ing for help as the man fled back south. It seems so strange that nearer residents did not hear her, only we and our good neighbors next door, and their watch-dog who set up excited barking. The friendly police called, questioned her at length and saw her safely home. Now, what to do? She said a taxi would take a whole hour of her slim earnings and the taxi people teU me with their rates, frozen at the 1943 level, prices of cars and supplies up, they are barely able to keep going. She will be just as frightened getting off the bus at Columbus and walking the lonely street home. City fi nances seem unable to supply needed police protection and with taxes taking a third of our earnings, it seems unfair to ask more of the employers. But, to my carefully consid ered judgment, employers who require female help till after dark should bear a part of their cost getting home if in or near city limits. We do hope to hear no more such agonized scream ing for help, for sleep gets more and more fitful as we get older. F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st Medford i S.521 Support Urged .To the Editor: Recently Sen ator Richard Neuberger from Oregon and ten of his colleagues including Sen. Wayne Morse, in troduced a bill, S.521, in the United States Senate that mer its the full support of all per sons who wish to improve our present social security program. At the same time, Representa tive Edith Green from Oregon, introduced a companion bill in the House. . These two bills would "Am end title 11 of the Social Secur ity act so as to reduce from sixty five to sixty years of age at which women may qualify for old-age and survivors insurance benefits" and still allow these women to earn $1200 & year as permitted by the present social security program. These bills are not a cure-all for the many defects in the so cial security act. However, many years of hard work and exper ience have proven that when we ask congress for too much at one time we get very little or nothing. We should now all concen trate our, efforts on one progres sive pension step at a time. The Neuberger-Green bills not only contain this forward step but already have much valuable sup port in congress. In this manner we can improve our social se curity program more rapidly and beneficially. Charles F. Martin, 126 So. 12th St., Minneapolis 3, Minn. Less Graft in Russia To the Editor: What is the difference in government financ ed industry in Russia and the United States? Judging by our housing project we would say less graft in Russia. Maybe that is because they don't have so much to graft from. The idea is the same in both countries. One is a few smart alecs handling people like sheep. The other is giving them the dignity of indi vidual human beings, with free dom of individual enterprise and self-determination, masters of their own soul. Too much government power always leads to corruption and destruction. History is strewn with wrecks of once great na tions, wrecked by corruption in government. Prosperity seems to create en vy, jealousy, and hatred, with passion for robbing the rich. The sole motive behind Com munism, Socialism, New Deal ism and labor party organiza tions is divvy up, divide the spoils. . Truman's last speech before his last election said "The issue is clear it is we, the people, against big business, monopoly, Wall street . . . wealth." That took like wildfire, yet aU rec ords show when they rob the rich they are killing the goose that lays the golden egg. With England's record just before us why should we want govern ment industry? Taxing the east to build up tax-free industries in the west, making unfair competition, - robbing Peter to pay Paul. Building a corrupting power and depriving individ uals of their rights of free en terprise ' and fair competition. Demagogues are always try ing to build up power that they can control. That invariably re sults in corruption. I. C. Jones, 2325 Stewart ave. Mailmen Need Humor To .the Editor: "Urgent: Letter carrier wishes to trade position with any underpaid congress man." A radio announcer had seen this ad in a newspaper and it amused him so much that he. read it to his audience. It amus ed me too, and I couldn't resist commenting about it. This letter carrier certainly had a sense of humor, which is the best thing for him to have, since he probably doesn't have much else. His uniform is no doubt so ragged by this time he has to have a sense of humor or go mad. Let's see. How many times has he asked his congressman for a pay raise or uniform allow ance? Well, at least enough times to let them know he's still "kicking." They pat him on the back and tell him they'll "keep him in mind," and to continue his good work and be sure and vote for them and etc. So, with his broken down arches, game leg and sagging back, he keeps plugging along and his wife keeps patching his uniform until they can scrape up enough out of the "old sug ar bowl" to buy the regulation winter uniform that costs any where from thirty to fifty dol lors, not counting shoes, over shoes, rain coat, hat and etc. Oh yes, and the summer uniform which costs less, but still enough that his family has to skimp for a couple months to pay for it. No, I'm not complaining. I'm past getting all worked up and having a strait jacket slapped on me. I developed a sense of hu mor as the letter carrier who wrote the ad. In fact I won't be surprised if all letter car- Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Hair, for some curious reason, seems to inspire errors widely believed and repeated. To dis pose of some, here's a helping of Facts vs. Fallacies on hair. FALLACY: Because of some horrendous, nightmarish exper ience, a person's hair may turn snow-white overnight. Surely every reader has heard of "authentic" accounts of hunters waking up with a grizzly staring them in the face, of men in the sea fighting sharks, and turning white over night ("Overday turning" is not so popular.) Many writers have boosted this lrauci diong tor plausibil ity their heroes usually "grey" overnight. But such greying or turning v.hite overnight is an anatomi cal impossibility. One skin doc tor told me that it can be due only to the removal of artificial colorations or the application of a good bleach, job. FALLACY: A gorilla has hair on his chest hence in man, it supposedly is a mark of unusual strength and virility. FACT: Most humans have a great deal of hair on their body although it is usually very fine and covers everything except the lips, palms of hands and soles of feet In some areas, of course, it is coarser and more prominent But as for the go rilla actually, he has little coarse, heavv hair on his chest In fact it looks bare hence the basis of the human belief doesn't even exist Further, some doc tors today say that the absence of heavy hair is actually a sign of masculinity FALLACY: Hair keeps grow ing in the grave FACT: Despite highly color ful descriptions in which a man's top hair and beard have been said to grow several feet after death virtually making hair mattresses no proof exists that hair grows appreciably after death. Separate hair cells, true, may continue' in an independent ex istence, occasionally, after the body as a whole has ceased to live but these individual cells cannot maintain life, at most, beyond three hours. What gives the impression of a slight after-death growth is the shrinking of spfter tissues around the base of the hair which may cause it to stick out beyond the surface of .the skin as though it had grown slightly. (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana,' my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraf t binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SO! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sau- salito, Calif. riers end up soon with a horse and buggy to go with their pay check. With this simple device (horse and buggy) maybe the letter carrier's could save the government some money by of fering free transportation for our congressmen. Don't get me wrong. I really think that our congressmen are entitled to an adequate salary. It just seems so easy for them to OK themselves a pay raise. They go through so little to get themselves so much, while let ter carriers and others go through so much to get so little. Well, maybe I'm overdoing this a bit, but I'm still laughing. How about you? A Letter Carrier's wife, Mrs. C. A. Williams, 189 Vashti Way, Medford, Ore. Are You Going? TEMPLE BAPTIST REVIVAL New Auditorium, 794 Lozier Lane March 6 to 20 Floyd Merrill, Evangelist Floyd Yeats, Pastor Two Services Daily: 10 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. "Christ is the Answer to Your Problem" - Come and Find Him in These Services Matter of Fact THE THREATENED PARTNERSHIP Washington The brilliant physicist, Dr Edward Teller, has done a decent and generous thing, which is also a major c o n t r ibution to national se curityJ In an article called "The Work of Many People" Teller has scotched the poisonous myths which have grown up around the his Stewart JLlsop tory of the hydrogen bomb. The nublication of Teller's article last week was an event of real national importance, al though it did not attract great attention. For in these days, American survival depends on American science. As Teller remarks in his article. "Disunity of the scien tists is one of the greatest dan gers for our country." An even greater danger is a breakdown of the Daitnershin between American science and the Amer ican government. Within the laSi 12 months, this vital partnership has been threatened, while a bit ter division has grown up with in the American scientific com munity. The trouble started, of course, with the government's action in labeling Dr. Robert Oppenhei- mer a "securitv risk." an action which most scientists considered a national disgrace. Atomic Energy Chairman Lewis Strauss was, of course, the chief insti gator of this action, while Dr. Tetter was the only f eally distin guished American scientist to testifv against Dr. Oopenheimer, The trouble became mucn more serious, when the Oppen heimer case was used to propa gate a whole mythology about American science and the hydro gen bomb. This mythology was disseminated chiefly in a book bv James Shepley and Clay Blair. The twin heroes of this book were Strauss and Teller, who were named by the authors among their sources. VirtuaUy all other American scientists, conspicuously including the staff of the A.E.C.'s great Los Ala mos Laboratory, were pictured as leagued in a sinister plot against Adm. Strauss, Dr. Teller and the hydrogen bomb. DR. TELLER has now thor oughly exploded this myth ology. He gives the lion's share of the credit for the hydrogen bomb to the Los Alamos Labora tory. He disposes completely of the notion that there was any plot to delay the bomb. He speaks generously of many other scientists, including Dr. oppen- heimer. Teller also says that he "re spects and understands" the view that it would have been "better never to develop this in strument" and Dr. Oppenhei- mer's doubts about making the bomb, which were shared by many scientists, of course con stituted one of the main counts against him. The background of Dr. Tell er's generous gesture is signifi cant. Particularly after the pub lication of the Shepley-Blair book, it became obvious that the dangerous bitterness in the sci entific community could be dealt with in only one way by persuading the heroes of the new mythology, Dr. Teller and Adm. Strauss, themselves to ex plode the myth. , For ,some time, while Adm. Strauss reportedly urged him to say nothing, Teller resisted the efforts at persuasion of his fel low scientists. Shortly before he died, however, the late, great Dr. Enrico Fermi succeeded in persuading Teller that he had a duty to speak out. As for Strauss, great efforts were made to get him to stand up for the A.E.C. scientists by repudiating the mythology. Gor don Dean, Strauss' predecessor as A.E.C. chairman, wrote him a very strong letter urging on him his responsibility to set the record straight. Dr. Norris Brad bury, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, made a similar re quest Finally, all of the Los Alamos Laboratory, made a sim ilar request. Finally, aU the Los Alamos division chiefs wrote Strauss a round robin asking for an official disavowal. Aside from empty assurances By Stewart Alsep of high regard for the scientists. Strauss did nothing, ostensibly on the ground that as a public official, he could not disavow a private publication. But a little later Strauss himself made mincemeat of this argument when his personal publicity man widely circulated a long official memorandum attacking another book (which happened to be by this reporter and his partner) in which Strauss was criticized. STRAUSS is said to have com plained privately that he could not understand the un friendly attitude toward him in the scientific community. But it is not really much to be won dered at. when Strauss himself was criticized, the resources, of the A.E.C. were marshaled in his defense; - but when the A.E.C.'s scientists were pictured as fools at the best, or traitors at the worst, not an official fin- ger was lifted in their behalf. In short, Dr. Teller's generous gesture has undone half the harm that has been done but only half. His article has done much to end the bitter internal division which has threatened the American scientific commu nity. But the acrid aftertaste of the events of the last 12 months still threatens the partnership beween science and the govern ment and it is going to take more than empty assurances to restore and maintain it. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) IN THE FAMILY . Martin, Tenn. (U.R) Joe McKnight of Bemis, Tenn., broke a 26-year basketball scor ing record at the University of Tennessee, Martin branch, when he scored 460 points in the 1953 54 season. The former record of 363 points was set by Marvin McKnight, his father. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, accomplish ed the feat on Dec. 14, 1911. r-Adrienne's-i KNIT SUITS By Bradley NEW ARRIVALS! Fashionable Kni In Lovely New Wool and . Orion that go Anywhere ... 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