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Thursday. March 10, 1953
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
March 10, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Clarence A. Winetrout pur
chases property at Main and Fir
sts. as site for future home of
Crater Lake Motors.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The legis
lature will wind up by mid-week.
This will give them a chance to
clear off their desks, attend
championship basketball games
at Salem and Eugene, and be
home in time to start a new
week.
20 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Miss Fryne Wood, Portland,
and Sam G. Colton, Medford,
married in ceremonies at home
of bride's parents.
Fire, believed to have been of
Incendiary origin, destroys barn
and pumphouse at Will Hansen
orchard on Pacific highway
south of Medford.
30 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Mrs. D. Perozzi, Ashland,
named chairman of committee
for celebration of reestablish
ment of state normal school
there.
Robbers take Sll saved for
trip to state basketball tourna
ment from Woody Archer, Med
ford High school student; home
of Dr. Jud Rickert entered.
40 YEARS AGO
March 10, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
College Women's club meets
at home of Mrs. E. E. Kelly.
Mt. Lassen, in northern Cali
fornia, erupts for 80th time.
What's the Answer.
(Can You Get 4 ef the 71)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
k
1. Germany surrendered one,
two, three, four or five months
after ' U. S. troops crossed the
Rhine March 7 10 years ago?
2. More auto insurance is now
written by Allstate (Sears Roe
buck) than by any other U.S.
company; right or wrong?
3. Needy aged are cared for
at lower cost in a hospital or
Home for Old Persons?
.4 Total U.S. tarm mortgage
debt over the last five years in
creased or decreased steadily, or
stayed about the same?
5. It is further by car from
Chicago to Mexico City or from
Chicago to Los Angeles?
6. The Federal Communica
tions Commission does or doesn't
want all applicants for radio
transmissing licenses to sign a
loyalty oath?
7. Which of these human or
gans has the greatest average
weight: brain, heart, kidneys,
liver, lungs?
The Answers: 1. Two months.
2. Right, says Allstate. 3. Home
for 'Old Persons. 4. Increased
steadily. 5. Slightly further lo
Los Angeles. 6. Does. 7. Brain.
Unduly Alarmed
In his letter of March 10th to his constituents,
Congressman Harris Ellsworth really goes to town
He not only claims credit by his "hard work with
out fanfare" and his honest and "straightforward"
methods for most of the federal flood-control and
harbor improvements that have been installed in the
state, but he wades into the Democratic members of
the Oregon delegation with both feet, for threatening
his "partnership power program" in the Willamette
Valley by the "injection of partisan politics."
THESE wicked Democrats, he claims, are now ad
vancing the reactionary theoiy that hydroelectric
power m the great dams of the northwest must be
developed by federal power or not at all, this attitude
being particularly damaging in his 4th district for the
"Green Peter" dam on the Santiam, and the "Cougar
dam on the McKenzie are not federal but partner
ship proposals and sorely needed particularly for
flood control.
"It is" cries our Congressman a "mean and tragic
situation" and he intends to do something about it,
as well as talk about it.
Moreover continues Mr. Ellsworth if the partner
ship measures are passed it may be possible for con
struction to get started during the fiscal year but
with the Democratic members of the Oregon delega
tion opposed the bills may be defeated and construc
tion of the dams "indefinitely postponed."
It is really a fiery and impassioned communica
tion compared to most of the epistolary offerings of
the representative from this district, which for many
years have been factual mild and rather placid in
manner.
OOWEVER, isn't our congressman getting unduly
excited and isn't he ascribing more power to the
3 or 4 Democratic members of the Oregon delegation
than they possess?
If his bills are as desirable and urgent as he
claims, we fail to see how the small Democratic mi
nority from this state can do much about it.
As for injecting "partisan politics" into the power
situation partisan politics has been in that situation
for decades, it is too late to INJECT it.
THE Democrats have in general been champions
rf rMiVi1i nnnTOi- tho Pomihlioono of nvivafo nnwPV
The opposition of the Democrats to private power
or the partnership plan, no more marks the injection
of political partisanship than does the opposition of
Republicans to public power. These are, and for a
long time have been party issues and important ones
Such issues are matters of opinion, differences in be
lief, something to accept in good grace, nothing to
get mad about.
WE CAN'T speak for the Oregon delegation any
more than we can for the Democratic party, but
are quite sure, that the Oregon Democrats in Congress
have never maintained that hydroelectric power
"must be developed by the government or not de
veloped at all." The country would be in a bad fix if
that proposal were ever earned out.
The Democrats are fighting for a high dam in
Hells Canyon, as opposed to the Idaho Power com
pany low dam project, and m the opinion of this
paper they are right. But that doesn't mean they wish
to put all electric power in the hands oi the govern
ment in this state or anywhere else and it is plainly
unjust and untrue to claim they do.
As for a government power monopoly, or anything
approaching it, that is ridiculous. From 80 to 85 per
cent of the electric power production in this country
is privately owned, and for several years no large
federal project has been authorized there is no
reason to believe, under the present administration,
there will be. So why all the agitation and . excitement?
Matter of Fact
Stewart Alsop
NICE NISEI Marian Ta
gawa, 21, poses in her new
uniform before one of the
Clippers she will fly as a stew
ardess on runs to Japan.
Marian is the first Nisei (U. S.
citizen of Japanese parents)
to be enlisted by Pan Ameri
can Airways for the West
Coast-Tokyo flights.
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The biggest atomic weapon of
the current test series was
touched off in Nevada the other
morning. Its flash was seen 700
miles to the north in Portland,
Ore., and Missoula, Mont. It was
seen at Albuquerque, 650 miles
to the east.
In Southern California, it
took on the vast yellow flush of
sunrise. It rattled windows in
Salt Lake City, 360 miles to the
northeast, and in Fresno, 250
miles to the west, the jolt of it
felt like a minor earthquake
shock.
NORTHERN MARDI GRAS
Woonsocket, R, I. (U.R) This
old textile city is planning for
3 a bigger and better Mardi Gras
celebration this year in its fight
k for the title of "New Orleans
of the North." Some 300,000 per
. sons are expected to crowd the
predominantly French city dur
ing Mardi Gras week Feb. 16
22. i
AS FOR the "Green Peter" and Cougar dam proj
ects our Congressman declares "local interests"
are ready to finance the power facilities. There is also
$3,000,000 available in the government budget. The
Pacific Light & Power has offered to contribute $29,
000,000 provided, we presume, it has exclusive right
to the sale of the power! Also the city of Eugene
lis given the privilege of contributing $11,000,000 out
of the $37,000,000 total for Cougar dam.
With all this money available one wonders what
are we waiting for?
"IXTE REALIZE some members of the Oregon dele
gation don't like the partnership plan,
whereby the power company gets the power, and the
people through their governments, local or national,
pay for the collateral costs. But after all with the
money as outlined obtainable, and with the popular
support of the people of Oregon he always enjoys,
we fail to see how Congressman Ellisworth is faced
by such a dilemma as he claims.
Certainly he should not be so alarmed and agi
tated by the fact that there are 3 or 4 Democrats on
the Oregon delegation who may or as far as we
know may not oppose these particular proposals.
Say they do oppose them. . What can they DO!
about it i
It looks like easy-goinp- with a down-hill pull for
Congressman Ellsworth.
We fear the fact that the Oregon delegation to
congress is no longer 100 per cent Republican, has
aroused unwarranted fears, resentments and appre
hensions in the mind of our perennial and immove
able representative in the Lower House. R.W.R.
r? was only a PRACTICE shot,
intended to find out more
things about atomic weapons
than are presently known.
BECAUSE it enabled man to
strike his enemy FROM A
DISTANCE, the bow and arrow
was probably in its day as revo
lutionary a weapon as are
atomic and hydrogen bombs to
day. Before the bow and arrow,
man had to get close enough to
his enemy to transfix him with
a javelin, thrown by hand and
if he missed with a javelin he
had to close in to arm's reach to
strike him down with an ax or
a club.
THE bow and arrow didn't
stop war, terrifying as it
must have been, when it was
first used.
But
One arrow from one mans
bow could strike down only
ONE opponent. One hydrogen
bomb, released by ONE man in
ONE plane (with the plane man
ned at most by a couple of dozen
men) can strike down MIL
LIONS over a circle whose dia
meter is measured in miles.
There's quite a difference.
Vf ARSHAL TITO, speaking to
XTA the Yugoslav parliament,
asserts that an ample supply of
atomic raw materials has been
found in Yugoslavia, and adds
that efforts will soon be made to
start using nuclear power in his
country.
He calls for the destruction of
all nuclear weapons.
But
He adds
EFFICIENT INTERNATION
AL CONTROL WILL BE NEED
ED TO PREVENT MISUSE OF
NUCLEAR POWER.
rjiRUE enough.
But efficient international con
trol of nuclear power (which in
cludes nuclear weapons (will re
quire honest international cooperation.
pROBLEM:
How are we going to get all
mankind (including ambitious
despots grasping for world
power) to co-operate "sincerely,
intelligently and honestly for
the benefit of all mankind?
WE have developed the tech
niques of dispute and con
flict to a very high degree.
Somehow (frankly, I don t
know how) we must find a way
to develop the techniques of co
operation and agreement to a
much higher degree than they
have as yet achieved.
That's the BIG problem.
AND NOW THE SATELLITE
Washington ABout two
years from now provided all
goes according to plan the
United States
should be
ready to
launch Into
space the
world's first
artificial earth
satellite.
The satellite
which is now
being planned
will be very
different from
the elaborate
space ships usually envisioned.
It is likely to be hardly larger
than a soft ball, and it will
probably weigh well under a
hundred pounds. This small ob
ject will be hurled into space
by means of a two - or - three -staged
rocket, reaching an "es
cape velocity" of just under
eight miles a second in its final
stage.
Thereafter, the tiny satellite
will circle the earth, at an alti
tude of 250 miles or more, like
a ball at the end of a string,
completing each circle in less
than two hours. After some
weeks, it will probably drift
earthward as a result of slight
atmospheric drag, and eventual
ly it will disintegrate when it
hits the denser atmosphere be
low. Telemetering and other de
vices which can be built into
such a tiny man-made moon
can tell technicians on the
earth below much about the
great unknowns of space. Thus
it will have very great scientific
value. But, it should be under
stood, it will have no military
application at all it could not
be used to kill anybody, or even
to spy on-anybody.
It is for precisely this reason
that no serious effort to get a
satellite into space has hereto
fore been made, even though
seven or eight years ago the
technicians of the Air Force's
Rand Project ruled that a sat
ellite was technically feasible.
Opponents of the satellite pro
ject have hitherto argued sue-,
cessfully that first priority must
be given to weapons with real
military value above all to
the decisive weapon, the inter
continental ballistic missile, or
IBM.
There are two main reasons
why it has now nevertheless
been decided to make a serious
effort to achieve a satellite. In
the first place, as the missile art
has matured, it has become clear
that a satellite is a way-station
on the road to the IBM, and
can be .achieved without any
great diversion of funds or man
power from the decisive wea
pon. ONE might suppose that the
problem of creating a 5,000-mile-range
baUistic missile
would be far easier than the
problem of creating an artificial
heavenly body. Actually, the
sateUite or such a crude, pre
liminary satellite as that de
scribed above is much eas
ier.
The two worst headaches for
the intercontinental missile de
signer how to guide the mis
sile accurately to its target half
a world away, and how to pre
vent its disintegrating like a
comet when it re-enters the at
mosphere do not exist for
the designer of a satellite. The
problem of design is also very
much simplified because a small
satellite like that described
above weighs far less than the
bulky hydrogen warhead of an
inter-continental missile.
The total cost of getting such
a small object into space nas
recently been estimated as low
as $20,000,000 peanuts in the
Pentagon as against previous
estimates of $1 billion or more
And intelligence analyses of So-
viet progress in missiles have
made a $20,000,000 investment
in a satellite project seem ur
gently desirable.
In recent months the Soviet
press has been filled with boasts
about future Soviet triumphs in
space. Prof. Nesmeyanov, presi
dent of the august Soviet Acad
emy of Sciences, passed the
word: "Science has reached a
point where it is realistic for us
to speak of . . . creating an arti
ficial satellite of the earth." Nes
meyanov's words have been ech
oed by numerous confident pre
dictions by other Soviet scien
tists.
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By Stewart Alsop
i The -intelligence experts have
learned from sad experience, no
tably with both the atomic and
the hydrogen bombs, that this
sort of Soviet chest-thumping
must be taken very seriously in
deed. The prospect of permit
ting the Soviets to get the first
satellite into space seemed more
intolerable the more the prob
lem was considered.
The Russians would gain en
ormous prestige in the scientif
ic world, as well as registering
a huge propaganda victory, if
they were the first to break the
bonds of gravity. But that is by
no means all. Even assuming
that the first Soviet satellite
missile lacked a practical mili
tary application, it would rep
resent a great first step into an
unknowable future.
TR- Walter Dornberger, crea
tor of the German V-2, which
is the ancestor of all missiles,
has said that the first nation to
take this step will "lead man
kind into the future." This
may be an exaggeration. But
the time may and almost certain
ly will come when future ver
sions of a satellite will have
great, military value for recon
naisance, for missile guidance,
and for other purposes yet un-
guessed at.
Thus the decision to make a
serious effort to get the first
crude satellite into space is not
the hair-brained fantasy it may
seem at first blush. It is nlain
common sense, in these days
when our technological lead over
the Soviets represents all the
security we have left.
(Copyright, 1955, New
York Herald Tribune. Inc.)
Aneurin Be van Seen'
Heading for Trouble
In British Politics
By CHARLES M. McCANN '
United Press Foreign Analyst
Britain's combative Aneurin
Bevan has been asking for trou
ble for a long time, and appar
ently he is go
ing to get it at
last.
There is a
good chance
that Bevan
will be thrown
out of the La
bor Party soon
as a rebel and
a trouble
maker.
The only
Charles McCann question
is whether Bevan will be a big
ger nuisance outside the party
than he is in it. "
As leader of the left wing fac
tion of the Labor Party "Nye"
Bevan has been notable chiefly
as a hater. He hates his fellow
Labor leaders. He hates to see
Britain spending money for arms
against Communist aggression,
and he hates the idea of rearm
ing Western Germany. He does
not want Britain to make hyro
gen bombs.
Bevan is not a pro-Communist.
He is a British Socialist. -But
unfortunately his political views
especially on defense, make him
a valuable asset to the Kremlin
in the cold war.
Quiet, unassuming Labor Par
ty leader Clement R. Attlee has
put up with Bevan for a long
Magnuson Profesis Restriction on Pears
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)
complained to three Cabinet of
ficers today that foreign coun
tries are imposing discriminatory
trade restrictions against Ameri
can apples and pears.
Magnuson, chairman oi the
Senate Commerce Committee,
sent letters of protest to Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles, Secretary of Commerce
Sinclair Weeks and Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson. He
asked them to give him all the
information they have about the
trade barriers.
He cited the United Kingdom,
France, Belgium, Holland, Ger
many and Sweden as principal
offenders. He said the Oregon
Washington fruit industry has
been hit hard by the record exports.
HABIT
Boston (U.R) Two gunmen
walked into Bedro's Asadarian's
variety store and robbed him of
$05. But that one incident wasn't
what made Asadarian angry. It
was the 30th time in 20 years
that he had been a robbery victim.
time rather than face a definite
party split.
' But on March 2, Bevan and
61 other Labor members ab
stained from a House of Com
mons vote on a party motion of
censure against the Churchill
government for alleged defense
deficiencies. . . '
To make it worse, Bevan in
debate sarcastically criticized
Attlee.
The 17 Labor leaders in Com
mons who are called the shad
ow cabinet ' the men who
would form the government if
Labor returned to power met
Tuesday to consider the Bevan
situation...
They decided that they would
recommend to a party caucus,
to be held next Wednesday, that
Bevan be boycotted in Com
mons technically, that he be
denied the party "whip" by
means of which voting orders
are given.
It is forecast that the recom
mendations will be approved and
that the executive committee of
the entire Labor Party, which
meets March 23, will be asked
to expel Bevan.
That would mean splitting the
Labor Party into right and left
wing factions.
It would mean also that Prime
Minister Winston Churchill prob
ably would call a general parlia
mentary election within the next
few months, hoping to increase
his party's present majority to
27 in Commons.
Outlook Serious One
The outlook is a serious one
for the Laborites, but the Bevan
situation could not last forever.
It is reported that long-suffering
Attlee told the shadow cab
inet that he would quit the lead
ership unless Bevan was thrown
out.
The only wonder is that an
open break did not come sooner.
Attlee and Bevan are certainly
contrasting figures. AtUee, a
graduate of Oxford, is a Labor
intellectual who is a great factor
in party unity. Bevan, a one
time coal miner, burly and blus
tering, is a man who doesn't
seem able to put up with unity.
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