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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDPORDwwTSIBUIfl "Everytxay in boutnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RL'HL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday 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 Dailv and Sunday One month 125 Sunday Only One year S3.50. 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper of Jackson Courty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or tiKCULAiiua WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASSOCkATIION V U O O NIWSPAPft PUtllSHIKS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 15, 1945 (It was Sunday) The Medf ord-Sams Valley-Deb- enger gap project on Rogue river, costing about $13,740,000, was among 20 Oregon irrigation, flood control and power projects Included in post-war construction plans of the reclamation bureau. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Com mercial club building is in a fine state' of demolishment, and, the civic water trough alongside awaits the same fate. The struc ture in its prime was the center of the 1910 boom, and commun ity oratory. 20 YEARS AGO April 15. 1935 (It was Monday) Work on improvements to Butte Falls water system begins. Twelve complaints, charging failure to procure a dog license, have been filed, and defendants are reported to be asking for jury trials to provide a test case of dog license law penalty pro visions. SO YEARS AGO April 15, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Court Hall, making his annual guess of the fruit crop, predicts there will be 2,500 cars of pears and apples shipped out of the Rogue River valley this year. The city council sets May 16 as date for an election for vot ing on annexation of certain areas. 40 YEARS AGO April 15. 1915 (It was Thursday) From the Local and Personal column: Flowers are in bloom throughout the city, and flower thieves are active, several lilac bushes being stripped by van dals. From the Ashland and Vicin ity column: A benevolent- old lady, while expatiating in a local hardware store recently on the merits of aluminum ware, de clared, in the way of cooking utensils, she used nothing but "linoleum." What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt at his death 10 years ago was in his 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th term as President? 2. The 11-member U.N. Secu rity Council was unanimous or divided recently in condemning Israel for attacking Egyptians in the Gaza strip? 3. There are one, two, three, four or more common types of polio? 4. An estimated 120, 1200, 12,- 000 or 120,000 light skinned Ne groes "pass over" permanently into the "White" ranks 'each year? 5. Blood stains are best re moved by hot or cold water? 6. Catholics are a higher ratio of the population in West Ger manv or in Soviet - controlled EastGermany, or about the same ratio in each? 7. Caviar is a bird, fish, agri cultural or animal product? The Answers: 1. Fourth. 2. Unanimous. 3. Three common , a Estimated 12.000. 5. Cold." 6. Higher in West Ger many. 7. Fish proaucx. MAIL TRIBUNE Trees Bring Tall Prices Oregon's tall trees are bringing tall prices these days. Only a few weeks ago the high bidders on tracts of Douglas fir offered by the Medford office of the Bureau of Land Management paid record prices for this species of timber. fNE tract, located on Upper Cow creek, and con- taining 4,000,000 board feet, went for $44 per thousand; another,, on Powell creek, with 1,307,000 board feet, was knocked down at $33.75 per thous and, and the Medford corporation bought 1,500,000 board feet north of Butte Falls with a high bid of $26.50. Last week the Roseburg office of the B.L.M. sold 22,700,000 board feet of timber in nine tracts with even higher returns. Bids, which went far over the expected figures, ranged from $29.1.0 to $47.75 per thousand feet, while the appraisers had valued the trees at $12.70 to $21.45. UMBERMEN say the skyrocketing prices being " paid for logs are principally due to two fairly re cent developments the current building splurge which is creating a heavy demand for all kinds of lumber, and the rapidly expanding manufacture and use of plywood. More and more ply makers are getting away from the former idea that only the very best logs should be used for their product. Now they are turning to timber which while not so perfect makes plyboard suitable for the new building practices and brings a price far better than would lumber. CINCE the end of World War II per capita consump- tion of fir plywood has jumped from about 10 feet to 23 feet. The gain is significant when considered along with the rapid increase in population during the same period, and the evidence it carries as to the in roads fir plywood is making against competitive ma terials in the building field. Those in the plywood industry are confident that 1955 will see far greater production than the record breaking 3,828,629,000 feet turned out last year. E.C.F. Greater Use For Trees While the value of Oregon's forests continues to climb because of the growing' demand for lumber and wood products, continual and substantial efforts are being made to promote even greater returns from each acre of forest land by developing economic out lets for more mill residues, lower-grade logs and little used timber species. A great deal has been accomplished in the way of perfecting methods for greater utilization of our timber resources. Much of the success in this work to date can be credited to the Oregon Forest Products Laboratory at Corvallis. The. laboratory, maintained by the State Board of Forestry and supported by a nominal severance tax, has the cooperation of the West Coast Lumbermen's association and the more progressive lumber mill and remanufacturing con cerns of the region. ' A LABORATORY spokesman is authority for the statement that between 1944 and 1953 the use of sawmill residues for purposes, other than fuel in creased sixteen times in western Oregon. The spokes man points out that next to the growth of the pulp chip market, now supplying 31 per cent of the region's pulpwood requirements, the development of the hard board industry in the Pacific Northwest has been of major importance. The seven Oregon and two Wash ington plants utilize approximately 700 dry tons of sawmill and veneer residues per day. A MONG significant studies now being carried on are those looking to the production of wood pulp in less complicated and lower cost plants. Sawdust, one of the major waste products of lum ber manufacture, has been the subject of varied study and experiment. Since the war there has been con siderable progress in development of gas turbines utilizing sawdust which has been partially dried be fore firing. - Other important possible uses for sawdust include the making of pulp. One Pacific Northwest plant is presently making pulp out of the particles and others are investigating this source of short-fibered filler pulp for blending. The laboratory is studying the production of char coal briquettes from sawdust, compression into bri quettes for use in orchard heating; agricultural use as a mulch and even as livestock feed. Bark too is gaining attention. There is an average of 500 pounds of bark in each thousand board feet log scale and it is estimated that the Douglas fir region provides 2,500,000 tons of this raw material annually. DROGRESS in making greater use of Oregon's trees has come slowly up to. the last few years, mainly because logs have been cheap and simply sawing them into lumber has been the easiest and most profit able way of processing them. . As the cost of stumpage has increased and the amount of privately owned timber has decreased the manufacturing picture has changed, rapidly. The var ious new installations in Jackson county, particularly in the Camp White area, furnish a striking example of this change. Sawlogs now provide far greater em ployment and dollar return as they are made into ply wood, panels, doors, moulding, broomhandles, huge spools for wire and cable shipment, shoe heels and many other articles. If timber costs continue the upward spiral it is a safe guess that we shall see many more plants install ed and, . ultimately, extraction of the last possible ounce of value from our logs before they leave here. ... Eajv Friday, April 15, 1955 Eisenhower's Order To Share Know-How On Vaccine Tops News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: THE GOOD 1. President Eisenhower in structed the State Department to send to all 75 nations with which the United States has diplomatic r e 1 a tions in formation that enable them to produce tne life - -giving Salk anti-polio vaccine. The P r e s ident also instructed gov ernmen- Charles McCann tal agencies to find out how far the United States can go to make the vac cine itself available. Russia and its Eastern European satellites will share the benefits of the President's gesture of good will to the world. 2. President Eisenhower ap proved an agreement by which the United States will share with its 13 partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation information on the use of atomic weapons. The Presi dent called the agreement a great step forward in the strengthening of our common defense." Under a separate agreement new being negotiated the United States, Canada and Britain will increase their co operation in the atomic field. 3. Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, returning from a tour of the Far East, said he did not believe the Chinese Commun Babson . . . Real 'Gold Mine' By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune)- This week we will forget the stock market and consider some thing much more import a n t, namely, some very valuable brain power which is going to waste. I have in mind es pecially the Soger w. Babson brains of some of . the so-called "physically handicapped." There are 165,000,000 people in the U.S. I estimate that about 500,000 of these are handicapped from polio and other diseases; 1,500,000 are living disabled veterans from World Wars I and II; over 1,000,000 are crippled from accidents; and about 150, 000 are totally blind. There are many more suffering from total deafness and even inability to speak. These add up to 3,150,000, of which at least 1,000,000 have not the opportunity to majte full use of their inherent talents. Although they have pretty much been supplied with jobs of a kind, these 1,000,000 have not as a rule such jobs as will enable them to use their brains as they would like. This especi ally applies to those in wheel chairs and on crutches because quoting an employer: "A wheel chair messes up the rou tine of the office or factory." In these days of keen competition management fears anything which might interfere with the flow of products or sales. Money Versus Opportunities For Physically Handicapped The situation is becoming worse every year due to increas ing automobile accidents, of which 36,000 resulted last year in deaths for which there were total awards of perhaps $400, 000,000. Some will say that the non-fatal accidents and even polio can be offset by insurance, as are certain veteran incapaci ties, but there is no insurance which gives new limbs, new eyes, or even a fair chance to use one's brain. Yet, our brains are our most wonderful and valuable asset. It is not more government money these physically handi capped need, but more opportu nity to do creative intellectual work. Remember that in the above figures I am not includ ing any medical or emotional mental cases. I am interested here in those who have distinct talents. Although the many un selfish agents and cousellors of the federal and state govern ments are' doing excellent work with the funds available, they deserve much more help. Let Us Save Over $2,000,000,000 Per Year I estimate that of the above groups, 1,000,000 adults are to day able to use fully their brains and talents. However, much of this creative brain power and special talent is being over looked. This is unfair to the na tion, as well as to these people. Just think, with 1,000,000 of these brains now idle, 8,000,000 working hours are lost daily, or more than 2,000,000,000 are lost each year. Based on only $1 per hour this means a loss of over $2,000,000,000 per year. . ... To understand what the loss of these 1,000,000 adult work ers means, consider any city of about 3,000,000 population, such ists planned any immediate at tack in the Formosa area. Some high military authorities had predicted an attack by mid April today. In Europe, Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, comman er of United States forces, said his 7th Army was now so strong that it would defend all its terri tory in Western Germany against any Russian attack in stead of starting with a strategic retreat to the Rhine river. THE BAD 1. Troops of rebellious sects 5n Southern Viet Nam in Indo china bombarded a city held by forces of Premier Ngo Dinh Biem and started a blockade of his capital, Saigon. The danger of civil war was so serious that Gen. J. Lawton Collins, special American envoy, postponed his planned departure for the Uni ted States. 2. The West German govern ment, fearing an imminent Com muist blockade of West Berlin, called on the United States, Britain and France to demand that Russia guarantee free ac cess to the city. In their latest move the Reds alleged that West Berlin was a spy center and in timated that they might isolate it. 3. Afghanistan, the rugged mountain kingdom which lies between Pakistan and the So viet Union, threatened to be come a trouble spot. Afghanis tan angrily protested a Pakistan plan to incorporate the north west frontier province area into a new administrative district. It was reported that Russia, capi talizing on the dispute, offered Afghaniston armed aid against Pakistan-America's ally. as Detroit, Boston, San Fran cisco, or Pittsburgh, any one of which has 1,000,000 adult work ers. This means the loss of as much creative brain power as is now engaged in the entire pro duction work of one of the above citfes. In saying this, I include bankers, merchants, professional men, as well as wageworkers. Praise Given For Private Organizations Let me applaud all those pri vate organizations now engaged in helping unfortunates. I par ticularly have in mind certain Societies to Help the Blind, the National T. B. Association, the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, the National So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults, the American Heart As sociation, the American Hear ing Society, the Disabled Vet erans Organizations, the U.S. and State Employment Services, and the Goodwill Industries of America, founded on a shoe string by a personal friend of mine, and now distributing an nually the equivalent of $25, 000,000 in useful work. The pub lic little realizes, the rewards which would come to the natioi by activating these 1,000,000 creative brains and submerged talents. I forecast that these sub merged physically handicapped, who are mentally talented and alert, can truly become "gold mines." I only wish I were younger and could devote my life to harnessing these brains, talents, imaginatios, and visions. Many of them could become in ventors of great note, from which the nation as a whole would benefit. Two Arrested in KF Manslaughter Klamath Falls (U.R) Two men have been arrested, one in California and one in Oregon, following their indictments Wednesday by a Klamath coun ty grand 'jury on a charge of manslaughter. Leon Gail Pearson, 28, was arrested in Oroville, Calif., and Melvin Chiloquin, 26, was ar rested in Portland. Charges against the pair grew out of the death of John Madrue no, a 25-year-old Southern Pa cific road worker whose frozen and beaten body was found on a ranch near Chiloquin junction last February. Sheriff Murray Britton said Madrueno's clothing had been ripped off with knives, his hair clipped down to the skull, his nose broken and other injuries inflicted. Pearson was acquitted last October by a Circuit Court jury of the first degree murder of Gene Ericks, 29, a local mould ing company employee, at the same ranch. Pearson claimed Fricks pulled a pistol on him and that he shot in self defense. Last month a charge of arson against Pearson was dismissed in a Portland Federal Court. MEN! It's Easy to or over. r Ostrex Tonic Tablet put younr pep, energy in body weak, rundown just because low in iron; conditions you may call "old". For both sexes. Try Ostrex for Cet-acqu4ioted" aiza 50f. At all druggists Measures in Oregon Legislature Salem (U.R) The House has passed by a vote of 42 to 16 a measure legalizing the use of ra dar speed detection devices by police departments in Oregon. The bill was an amended ver sion of the Senate-passed bill and would have to be returned to the upper house for concur rence in the House changes. Members also voted to recon sider the vote by which they de feated a bill that would require counties and cities to pay their employees overtime. The bill was placed for third reading and final passage tomorrow. Debate has been opened on a bill that would force Portland to abandon its present business tax based on gross or net income. Rep. Pat Dooley (D-Portland) said cities should be kept out of the income tax field since the state was doing its best to stay out of the property tax field. He said that if other cities of the state should enact a tax on the Portland pattern, businesses with statewide operations could be faced with dozens of different income taxes. He said he had no objection to business taxes, pro vided they were based on other measures besides income. Is That So? By Eugene Bum Ranger-Naturalist Mail Call. "Please settle a campf ire argument," writes S. A. O. "Is a steelhead a rainbow trout?" "What does a chipmunk do with the dirt it digs out of its burrow?" asks Mrs. T. E. D. "Is there any mammal's young which can get 'along without its mother immediately upon birth?" asks D.E.S. Believe me those chipmunks are cagey. You see, Mrs. T.E.D., they dig a regular burrow and when at the end of it come slantingly to the surface, usually somewhere in the deep grass, Then the little trickster scamp ers back to the original entrance and stuff the loose dirt back into the hole tamping it firmly with his paws and nose and scattering what remains. This done, he approaches his new front door with bouncy jumps and from different direc tions, thereby avoiding the mak ing of any tattletale trail. Tricky customer, our chipmunk! Self-sufficiency: Yes, there is a warm-blooded, suckling mam mal which can take care of itself if necessary, when born. It's the agouti, a rabbit-like, taiUess ro dent, which lives in the Ameri can tropics. At birth, its eyes are wide open, it is fully furred and it can move about and be gin nibbling on leaves, roots and fallen fruit from the very first. Steelhead: All steelhead are sea-going rainbow trout, but not all rainbows are steelhead. Simply put, a steelhead is a sea-going rainbow returning to sweet water almost any time of the year, sometimes only to feed. It resembles a rainbow trout, too, except for color, be ing silvery with a bluish head and back when fresh in from the sea, but as it dwells in fresh water and approaches spawning time, its gill covers turn red as well as the lateral stripe along its side. However, there are resident rainbows which never become steelhead - they remain in fresh water their whole lives even when they have easy ac cess to the sea. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special ar- -sment 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 refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply -can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO: Care of Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. 231 OXTAILS II' i i IT" LB. Salem (U.R) Funds to begin construction of a general state mental hospital in Portland have been included in the recommen dations of a ways and means sub committee sent to the full com mittee. The joint committee failed to act on the building program yes terday but indicated action would be definitely taken at the next meeting, probably today. The mental hospital, twice ap proved by the voters, was in cluded in a building program of some $14,744,558. The mental hospital recommendation of the subcommittee was for some $6, 330,000. Another $1,250,000 would go for initial construction of an intermediate correctional institution. Balance would go for Fairview home for retarded children, blind and deaf schools. The Board of Control requests for institutional funds was not changed by the subcommittee. The Board of Higher Education requests were sharply cut but included $3,975,000 for new cam pus structures, plus $414,000 for In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS More today on polio: The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis hopes that BEFORE THE END OF THIS SUMMER 57,000,000 youngsters will' have received the FREE preliminary shots of the Salk vaccine. Health authorities hope that by the fall of 1956 EVERY AMERICAN UNDER 21 will have received the vaccine's pro tection against polio. Enlight ened nations all over the world are planning to bring protection against the dreaded scourge of polio to their people as rapidly as possible. The modern world moves fast, doesn't it? TT WASN'T always that way. Let's take the case of small pox. In its day it was far more terrible than polio , for it mowed down children and adults alike. In those days, no mother counted her children safe until all of them had passed through smallpox and survived. The im munity provided by the disease itself to those who survived was the only known protection. In the 18th century (the 1700s) smallpox destroyed 60,000,000 human beings. HTHE small dox vaccine was dis covered in 1796 by a British physician named Edward Jen- ner. On a small scale, he proved its efficacy in the same year. At this point, I'd like to de scribe an incident that occurred nearly a century and a quarter after Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine. In a small town in the Mississippi valley in the early years of the present century a colored boy came home from the nearby city with a bad case of smallpox. It threw the town into a panic The section in which the boy lived was roped off and hastily recruited sheriff's deputies pa trolled the boundaries . of the roped-off areas. They were armed with shotguns and had orders to SHOOT, if necessary, anyone crossmg the ropes out ward bound. The town and county author ities acted promptly to provide what we now call an isolation hospital but which was then known .as a pest-house. The problem was where to locate it. Wherever health authorities ap peared, armed with condemna tion powers, they were met by citizens armed with shotguns and were driven off. The upshot of it was that no pest-house was established. For tunately, no epidemic followed. But the incident illustrates the terror in which smallpox was held more than 100 years after the discovery of the preventive vaccine. WE'RE doing better now. " This modern world IS a better world to live in, you see. We ARE learning how to act to gether in concert to protect our selves against dangers. T'D LIKE to close this piece with a word on the VALUE OF AN IDEA. Edward Jenner, practicing medicine in his native Glouces tershire, was aware of a local belief to the affect that dairy maids who caught COWPOX couldn't have SMALLPOX. It started him thinking. Then he started experimenting. He took matter from the hand of a dairy EAST PURE LARD SIXTH ST. BEEF ROAST LB. 3S3 LB. Oregon Technical Institute and $50,298 for the State Fish Commission. Salem (U.R) A bill to allow an election recount on demand of a candidate or party official has been passed by the Senate with no opposing votes and sent to the House. Under the measure, a person seeking a recount would have to put up $10 for each precinct in volved in the recount up to $8000 and would have to make his demand within seven days of the election. The recount would have to be completed within 24 days. If the recount changed the election the person demanding it would get his money back. If not he would be liable for any addi tional expenses plus the money posted. At present, those contesting an election must charge fraud, vio lation of some part of the cor rupt practices act or that the . candidate was not eligible. The court must find that one or more of these charges is true. News maid who had been pricked by a thorn and had become infected with cowpox while milking the cows. He made two cuts on the arm of a healthy boy of eight, and in serted the matter from one of the infected dairymaid's sores. Smallpox matter, which would ordinarily have proved fatal, was introduced into the boy's arm six weeks later. It had no effect, BECAUSE THE BOY WAS VACCINATED. That is what comes of THINK ING. Warren Not Candidate Washington U.R) Chief Jus tice Earl Warren said today that under no circumstances or con ditions will he ever be a candi-, date for the presidency. In a short statement issued at the Supreme Court, the former Republican governor of Califor nia said that the remaining years of his life will be spent on the high court. He said his decision is "irrevocable." Warren has been mentioned as a possible candidate in 1956 if President Eisenhower chose not to run. SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with caving. Have the thing you want through systematic sav ing. Don't just dream ... or wish, but have the things you want in life by saving for them. Start with any amount. o FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save Fast, On-the-Spot Relief for Acid Stomach Millions of Americans carry handy roll of Turns as religious ly as they carry their driver's license and keys. Because yoo never know when heartburn and acid indigestion will strike. Turns neutralize excess stomach acid almost before it starts. No water, no mixing needed. Be prepared always carry Turn si 3-ro ntts. S4 ' TIMS rot TM TUMMY . SLICED BACON LB. (llever ForgeO to Carry Turns! j 0.