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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedpordJtribuxi "tveryioa w auuuiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RL'HL. Editor H.hB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraoh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sundav Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 115 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City ot Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coupty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAt assocTatiIon lO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 31, 1945 (It was Sunday) Jackson county men enlisting in the Navy include Delbert Clark, Herbert Gifford, Wayne Dye, George Goolsby, John "Wood, and Frank Hall. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Moscow hears Messrs. Hitler, Himmler, and Mussolini plan to seek ref uge in Japan.. This would serve them right, but is a bit more punishment than Japan has com ing. 20 YEARS AGO March 31, 1935 (It was Monday) .. H. E. Armstrong and J. V. Watson finish in tie for Medford Elks club billiards championship and slate playoff match. Medford firemen give farewell party for Fire Chief and Mrs. Roy Elliott, who are leaving on a six-weeks trip to the midwest. 30 YEARS AGO March 31, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Floyd C. Young, frost warning expert, speaker at Medford Ki wanis club banquet. Peter Oard, ranger at Crater Lcke National park, reports snow depth is 18 feet at Crater Lake rim and 11 feet at Annie Spring. 40 YEARS AGO March 31, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Medford High school debate team, composed of F. C. Purkey pile, Hugo Lundberg and Earl Hubbard, defeated by Bandon high school in state meet being conducted at Eugene. From them Local and Person al column: Earl Fisher of the Gates garage has instituted a new Ford service whereby an auto is rented out by the hour the same as a horse and buggy. The owner furnishes everything but a driver. By this means people with auto driving incli nations but with no machine can be accommodated. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The Soviet government does or doesn't allow a U. S. Catholic priest to hold religious services in Moscow now? 2. Are there more women members of the U. S. Congress or of the British House of Com mons, or the same number in each? 3. Most of the 48 states do or don't require tests for venereal disease before issuing marriage licenses? 4. St. Helena, where Napoleon died in exile, is in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Medi terranean or Indian ocean? 5. Revenues from submerged oil lands under the federal gov ernment are earmarked for edu cation in states; right or wrong? 6. Most first-class letters are business or personal, or it i about half and half? 7. The U.S. bought the Virgin Islands from Napoleon of France early in the 19th century; right or wrong? '.The Answers: . 1. Doesn'i. 2. Several mors in Commons. 3. Most do. 4. South Atlantic. 5. Wrong. 6. Most are business. 7. Wrong, it was from Denmark in the 20th century. MAIL TRIBUNE Is Morse a "Grasshopper"? When it comes to calling Senator Morse names we thought we had heard everything. But the old reliable Oregonian comes up with something new. It calls the senior Senator from Ore gon a "grass-hopper." That is, the former dean of the Oregon Law School is as hard to pin down on any issue, as it is to "catch a grasshopper in a thimble." This is particularly true, says the Portland paper, regarding the power issue. It seems that in an address at The Dalles a few nights ago Senator Morse "patted himself on the back" for his opposition to the con struction of the Priest Rapids dam in the state of Washington, when that was the only partnership power proposal cleared by the congress at the last session. Ok, where is the inconsistency? Senator Morse, 'we believe, has always opposed the administration's partnership program of power development. The fact that in spite of his opposition the proposal was passed, hardly convicts him of in consistency. Quite the reverse in fact. Nor does his opposition to the Cougar and Green Peter dams. They too are partnership proposals between the government and the private power companies. They may be as desirable as the Oregonian main tains. Or they may not be. But to oppose them was the only thing Senator Morse could do, consistent with his opposition to any such arrangement, as a proper solution of the power problem in the north west. DUT our highly respected Portland contemporary can't see this. ' It . claims in fact the senatorial "grasshopper" doesn't stand still long enough for even his "loyal supporters" to tell where he stands, and what are his motivations. Well, as stated this is surely something NEW, as far as Senator Morse is concerned. We have heard Senator Morse called all sorts of things, but never before heard even his worst enemy express any doubt as to WHERE he stands on the power issue or any other important national issue, ANYwhere or ANYtime. In fact this quality of steadfastness and out spoken frankness, has been one of the chief counts against our senator and controversial representative in the Upper House. He has been too frank, and expressed his con victions on all sorts of subjects too many times, to suit most of his critics. And incidently some of his friends. They have compla doubt as to where he stood, but because of the lack of any doubt, and the fact that they disagreed with him' as he kept on stating with courage and clarity just what his position was and is. THE Mail Tribune has observed the characters and careers of many representatives of this state, at home and outside, and with the possible exception of the late Governor Martin, there have been none to even come close to Wayne Morse in the matter of taking a definite stand on every issue of any importance and in free argument meeting all-comers who might agree or disagree with him. ' THIS isn't, of course, to imply ihat he has always uccii ngnu -uomg iiuuiau lie naa aiiu auimto lie has made mistakes and been wrong. But he HAS always faced the music whether it has been in har mony with his convictions or against them, and ex plained to his constituents exactly why he had come to the conclusions he had reached. We don't believe there is a voter in the state, regardless of party who, having had any dealings with Senator Morse in this direction, would deny the truth of this statement. They might disagree violently with the mans political beliefs, but we can't believe there would be any who would claim there was any doubt about what those beliefs were and why, after they had talked with him. IN fact this quality has been the main source of Senator Morse's strength, and also a source of weakness, from the standpoint of votes and political expediency. For the senior senator has been too eager to lead with his chin at times when keeping a discreet silence would have been far more desirable from "a political standpoint. However in this matter as in so many others we can't have our cake and eat it too. We; can't have a person in public office who not only has strong convictions about what is best for his country, but insists upon expressing and explaining them far and wide and AT THE SAME TIME have a very discreet, affable and diplomatic representative who makes a strong point of shaking hands, smacking the babies, and saying nothing of a controversial nature if it can possibly be avoided. We prefer the Morse type, as we have often stated. Some of our readers don't as they have even more often stated. Which is all to be expected. But we never did expect to hear the Oregonian or any other opponent of the senior Senator, accuse him of being the grasshopper type and an irrespon sible and unpredictable grasshopper at that. For that is so clearly what he ISN'T. R4W.R. Silicon Crystals At New Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) General Electric Company re search scientists have reached a new level, of perfection in the production of pure silicon cryst als, a material useful for transis tors, those tiny electronic de vices that can Be made to do the work of vacuum tubes. Silicon, as contained in com Thursday, March 31, IS55 - ned not because of any Perfection mon sand, is one of the most abundant elements. But in its pure state it is a rare and in valuable materkl. The GE scien tists have learned to produce sizeable amounts of the crystals of near-perfect purity. They ex pect it may perform better in certain transistors than the more common germanium. Ellsworth Planning Trip To District Early During April By CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH Washington, D. C. Unless there is a last minute change of schedule, I expect to spend a few days in Oregon the first week in April. There is a rather im portant reason under the head ing of "official business" why I need to spend a few days in our Congressional District right now. I have just learned from the Chairman of the Flood Con trol Subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works that he will set my bill H.R. 4662 for hearing here in Washington along about May.1. That is the bill which, if passed by Con gress, would make it possible for the construction of the Green Peter and Cougar Flood Control Dams to be started this year. I hope to get together in Ore gon with the Linn county and Lane county Flood Control Com mittees and make plans for tes timony to be presented at the hearing. Interest In Bill Those who work in the lum bering, plywood and logging in dustries have a special interest in an appropriations bill recent ly passed by the House. The bill makes appropriations for the "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies" and provides money for timber access roads Matter of Fact BA CUT Saigon, Indo-China From behind the slatted screen that shaded th courtyard pavilion, with the un earthly, silent suddenness of the barefooted he came among us like an apparition. Silky black hair falling be low his shoul d e r s framed his still youth ful, strangely Joseph Aisop intense face. In his loose white cotton pajamas he seemed improbably slender. He spoke no word, but glided with a cat's grace to a seat at the table: and fixed thf nartv with a burning, deep-eyed gaze.' in mis prosaic modern world, such an entrance ought to have been ludicrous. But it was the very opposite of ludicrous, and this fact in itself is a good index of the difficulty of the problem here in Indo-China. TROM the man who made this entrance was no cheap phony. He was Gen. Ba Cut, veteran of a thousand guerrilla combats, and newly made field comman der of the 20,000 or more armed men of the Hoa Hao sect, and the most inveterate and daneer- ous enemy of the shaky govern ment that America has been desperately propping up here in South Viet Nam. Three days earlier, Ba Cut and the other sect leaders had sent President Neo Dinh Di pm an ultimatum. It read, in effect, knuckle under or get out." And it was backed up by the private armies of the sects, which now possess more real military power than the demoralized and dis organized Vietnamese national army: A small group of newspaper men had therefore made their way southwards, over roads clogged with aimlessly menacing military movements, to the Hoa Hao headquarters 'at Caivon. npHE religious chieftain of the --Hoa Hao is the "Sainted Fa ther" of the peasant mystic who invented this debased form of Budhism. But the Hoa Hao are also a feudal-militarv organiza tion, not only having their own armies but also ruling their own provinces. And Caivon is the stronghold of the senior Hoa Hao warlord, mustachioed, pot bel lied old Gen. Tran Van Soai. Here the old man lives in a house of many pavilions, crowd ed to the doors with smttoons. Mother of Pearl inlaid furniture, life sized tinted photographs and other art objects. Shabby but grim looking Hoa Hao soldiers lounge, gossip, pick their noses and polish their guns in the courtyards, and poultry and live stock wander in the dusty gar dens. Such was the setting for the rendezvous with Ba Cut, whose wild, magnetic power has now forced Tran Van Soai to accent an elder statesman's role. fFHE problem to be discussed was simple enough. The French had encouraged the sects, and had even helned to nav thoir private armies, as a useful form oi competition for the Communist-led Viet Minh. But on March 1, French pay for 'the Hoa Hao, Cao Dai and other sect tmnns was stopped. Meanwhile their feudal power was also threat ened by the reform program of American backed President Ngo Dinh Diem. And so the sects united to bring Ngo Dinh Diem lo terms. In these circumstances with all South Indo-China in disorder, with Viet Minh infiltration steadily increasing, with Ho Chi Minh continually building up his military power in the North, Ba -ui ana iran van Soai solemnly in both National Forest and O & C areas. This means that more timber will be opened up. Acces sible timber areas have become more and more limited until more roads must be built or many logging operations and mills will shut down. It is a pleasure to report that the full budget request of $24, 000,000 for Forest Service access roads was approved. This, by the way, is about twice as much as was appropriated for this pur pose annually up to about three years ago. Since then, and I hope my constant agitation on the sub ject has helped bring it about, the amounts have been in creased. This last bill, I believe, carries the largest appropriation yet approved in a regular bill. The O & C Administration will be able to spend $2,300,000 on access roads also. The total of the two items will mean a vastly improved logging road situation in our area during the next fiscal year. To go along with the access road program is an increase of $800,000 for the Forest Service to use in making additional tim ber sales. The Appropriations Committee also restored a little more than a million dollars for the federal-state cooperative fire control program which had been reduced in the budget. By Joseph Alsop put forward a program that might have made sense in the 13th century. All Southern Indo-China was to be divided up into a system of huge dukedoms, one for the Hoa Hao, one for the Cao Dai and so on. Within their dukedoms, the power of the sects was to be un challenged. The national army was largely to consist of the sum of the sects armies. And above the dukedoms there was to be an impotent government and a pow erless general staff in Saigon, with Ngo Dinh Diem at the head of the government if he liked to stay on, to keep the always use ful American dollars still flow ing in. Ba Cut was fiercely indignant that this singular program did not command American support. The leaders of the sects were the true anti-Communists, he in sisted. Had not they driven the Viet Minh from their provinces? Were not they alone close enough to the- simple people in the vil lages to ward off the real dan ger to stop the Communist in filtration at the base which the Ngo Diem government was hope lessly unable to halt? A CUT was not a stupid man. One searched in vain for the reason for the blindness that would meet armed communism with primitive feudalism, until he related his personal history at the vast dinner that was the climax of the meeting. He is only 30, the son of a landless peasant, with no more than four years education. At 17, he vowed to fight to the death against French rule, and cut off one joint of his index finger to reinforce the vow. At 21, when the View Minh rising also beginning, he formed the men of his village into a local Hoa Hao guerrilla group. Since then, through combat, his following has grown, continuous ly. And now he has vowed again, never to cut his hair until he has upset the Geneva treaty, de feated the Viet Minh, and united all of Indo-China. At the climax of the recital, he rose at his place and showed his wounds the double 'wound of the bullet through the throat fired by one of his rivals of the sects; the fearsome double wound of a bullet through the lungs from the French; the wounds in head and leg from the Viet Minh. His strange eyes glowed fiercely, and one sudden ly grasped the central fact about the man, that egoism, supersti tion and experience have com bined to give him the conviction of immunity to death and cer tainty of victory. IT WAS curious to find such an echo from the Asian past as a key figure in a crisis that may well determine the fate of more than one great nation. One thought at once of the "Heaven ly King," the leader of -the Taiping rebellion, in China, who also thought himself immune to death and called himself "the younger brother of Jesus Christ." But with hardly more than 12 months left to glue something together that can resist the Com munist advance in South Viet Nam, and with the job not even well begun, this significant ir ruption of the irrational was also a little discouraging. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) WALTONS SEEK SUPPORT Portland U.R) Portland chap ter of the Izaak Walton league today sent letters to state organ- j izations and agencies seeking support of its "Red Hat Day" program. The hunting safety campaign has already been en dorsed by the state Izaak Wal ton league, Oregon Wildlife fed eration, the state game commis sion, the U. S. forest service and other groups, chapter president Don Statler revealed. !n The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In this space yesterday, I de scribed the city of Phoenix, in Arizona, which in a surprisingly short space of time grew from a village in a hot cactus desert to a city of near-metropolitan rank. I'd like to talk today of Al buquergue, in New Mexico, which sits also in a wide, hot desert and is also a city of near metropolitan rank probably a little larger than Phoenix. TN THE backgrounds . and the back country of these cities, there are interesting sim ilarities. There are also interest ing contrasts. ... For example: " Phoenix rose to its present rank in a relatively short space of time as time goes here in the dreamy Spanish South west. It took Albuquerque, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Why? To the Editor: There is Chris tianity, and then there is some thing that passes for Christianity. How can we say that Christianity has failed when all we practice is a very poor substitute? Mrs. Margarete Tokar, 716 Vz West Main st. Why Talk With the Devil? To the Editor: The people have been told for thousands of years that they must serve either the Lord or the Devil. The rulers of Russia want noth ing to do with religion, so they must be of the Devil. I understand Great Britain, France and the U. S. are going to try to arrange a meeting to sit down and talk to the Devil. I wonder where is Hell they think they are going to get? Anonymous, Talent, Oregon. A Question Is Asked 10 ine n,aitor: l nave a ques tion to ask of Mr. Krauss in re gard to his letter of March 27 Mr. Krauss how do you propose that "law" will solve the deep rooted evils in the heart of man? Let me illustrate my question. We read in the March 27 Trib une, that a Negro Navy man met with rebuffs from real estate agents and residents of areas in which his family attempted to move. Let us suppose the "law" could provide a, home for this Negro in that hostile neighbor hood. Could you honestly say that this; "law" would , create peace and understanding in the hearts and minds of the individ uals involved in this precarious situation? "Law" may tempor arily bind the evil, but will never destroy it. A person that has evil intentions will always find loopholes to the most rigid laws, history has proven that time and time again. True Christianity has never yet failed. When I say Christian ity, I'm not particularly referring to "churchgoers." There are thousands of churchgoers but alas, too few real Christians! My interpretation of a Christian, is an individual who knows the reality of God, and daily lives in the conscious presence of God. The fruits of such a Christianity would.be a genuine love and service to all mankind regardless of race, color, or creed. That kind of Christianity would solve the problem of the Navy man, and it would eventually remove the evils that are inherent in man. "Law" will never remove hat red, prejudice, jealousy, and the love of self. Where the seed of Godly love has taken root, it eventually chokes out the weeds of evil. Let us wait with patience for the precious fruit of the earth! Mrs. Helga Mitchell, Rt. 1, Box 7B, Jacksonville, Ore. 5" WSW ; ?1 Frank Morgan I (f. " A- CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD News named for a Spanish duke and still calling itself the "Duke city," some three centuries to make the grade. It was first seen by white men when Coro nado made his fabulous trek up through here in search for the mythical Seven Cities of Cibola, whose streets were supposed to be paved with gold. It should be added that for the first two and a half of its three centuries Albuguergue slept in the sun, growing very little for the simple reason that it could grow only as fast as food could be provided for the babies that were born. TN THOSE primitive two and - a half centuries of Albuquer que's half Indian, half Spanish past mass production of food was unknown and in the dry cycles when the Rio Grande ran low transportation facilities were not such as to make possible the shipping in of food from somewhere else. So, in those tragic years of drought, the babies starved along with a lot of the elders. That held the population down. There are still dry years and it certainly looks now like this is going to be one of them. But in the meantime the miracle of modern transportation has come to pass and Albuquerque SHIPS IN its food from somewhere else. t As a matter of fact, dry years and wet years as wet years go here in the desert make little difference in Albuquerque's life, because if it had to depend on the food produced in its imme diate vicinity about 98 per cent of the population would die off. Agriculture, other than cattle grazing, plays only a microscop ic part in Albuquerque's eco nomy. In the economy . of Phoenix agriculture looms large, and will continue to do so. I'd say that the future of Phoenix de pends wholly upon the amount of water that can be found and CONSERVED to put more acres of land. on WHAT DOES keep Albuquer- T 1 que going? (Goodness knows, it KEEPS GOING. Every time you see it, it is bigger and busier than it was before.) I swear I don't know. I've put that question to quite a number of New Mexicans, and they hesitate before answering. Then they mention the military posts that are so numerous in the citys vicinity. They add a word about the Atomic Energy Commission, which spends a lot of money in these parts, and points out that Albuquerque is the business capital of New Mex ico and New Mexico is a big state with a lot of raw resour ces, including oil and gas. After that, they speak with enthusiasm of the future of atomic energy. New Mexico, they say, is a great future store house of uranium, which is al ready adding quite a little to the state's wealth. They don't seem to be much worried about the water situa tion which enters so GREATLY into the future of the rest of the Southwest. One reason may be that New Mexico never has had much water and so has learned to get along without it A NYWAY one finds no pessi- mism in Albuquerque or, for that matter, anywhere else in New Mexico. They're all quite sure their state has a great fu ture, water or no water. About their only use for water is for drinking and bathing pur poses. Green lawns are so scarce that they practically "just ain't." Agriculture isn't a ma jor industry. Maybe, in building an economy in which water plays only a minor part, New Mexico has been smarter than the rest of the Southwest, in which the water situation is a growing worry. Baker (U.PJ The State De partment of Geology plans to in stall a radioassay machine here to take care of the unexpectedly heavy demand for assays by uranium prospectors, Director Hollis Dole said today. A 4 4 Harold Snodgrass 1 KING STREET 3 HIT ' 4 '.ff A 1 1 2LJ Mayor of Lebanon Back From Lebanon Lebanon, Ore. (U.R) The mayor of Lebanon, Ore., was back at his desk today after a rousing reception and parade staged Wednesday to welcome him back from a visit to the Re public of Lebanon.1 Mayor Ralph Scroggins was one of seven mayors of U.S. cities similarly named who were invited to be guests of the tiny Republic. Scroggins said he was award ed the Gold Medal of Merit, highest honor the country could bestow. The visit ended official ly March 15 but the mayor and his wife visited Egypt, Rome, Paris and London as guests of the president of the Republic. , Mayor Scroggins, who arrived . at Portland airport 5'esterday morning by plane from New York, was given a rousing recep tion by Lebanon residents, in cluding a parade through city streets. Portland roses, a myrtlewood gavel, state flag and examples of Oregon painting were among the gifts Scroggins presented to Leb non officials. He brought back handmade laces and other locally-produced objects. - Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. rAdrienne'sn NOW you CAN Dress Up For . . . IN See What Your $ Will Buyl (Plus federal tax) Squirrel Belly Stole Squirrel Belly Cape Marmot Stole Kid Skin Cape Baum Martin Scarf 4-Skin Mink Scarf THE FUR YOU WANT AT A PRICE YOU WANT TO PAY! 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