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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Aorll 27, 1953 "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" fublihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JH Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER, 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 Tt iw.il In AHran: Per CODV IOC Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Snnriav On.lv One vear (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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday une montn Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy, All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper oi JscKion county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: ' 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 assocTatiIon s .'..'.MJ: THE NEWSPAPER PUILISHSRS 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 27, 1945 (It was Friday) Medford residents hear OPA officials explain new 10-point program to equalize distribution of meat. , From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The post war period will see wide use by civilians of "walkie-talkies." The contraption will enable a pedes trian to start a rumor and not believe it when he gets to the bank corner. tO YEARS AGO April 27, 1935 (It was Saturday) Maj. Clare H. Armstrong, commander of Medford CCC dis trict, enters command school at Ft. Leavenworth. Charles W, Austin, Medford milk inspector, urged citizens to kill flies early and prevent Irdlk contamination. 30 YEARS AGO April 27. 1925 (It was Monday) Medford' s new pupmer truck extinguishes fire on Front it. which threatened whole block. Trom Local and Personal col umn There is much favorable comment upon the improvement In the singing of the boy's choir at St. Mark's Episcopal church. The choir consists of twenty-five voices, the members ranging in age from six to fifteen years, and is the only vested boys' choir on ihe Pacific coast. 40 YEARS AGO April 27. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Medford Merchants club de cides to hold Community Day May 8. Lumber Picture Changing Increasing costs and diminishing supplies of the better grade of timber together with new techniques in building are bringing some interesting and some what revolutionary changes in Oregon's lumber industry. XT Dallas, in the Willamette valley, it was announ ced last week that construction will start there im mediately on a $1,000,000 sheathing plant in order to gain greater recovery from every ounce of timber that is cut m that vicinity. Sheathing is an industrial grade of plywood, manufactured from the less desir able logs. . ; A spokesman for the company which will install the new mill explained that due to the increasing shortage of logs some of the valley lumber mills are going to have to go out of business and they will be replaced with sheathing mills and the like." The same man cited the paper plant which is to be built soon near Albany as another example of greater utilization of. timber. The Dallas mill, he said, will supply wood chips to the Albany paper plant., r EFT-OVER material from lumber and plywood "mills now furnishes 31 per cent of the pulpwood requirements in the northwest and is the equivalent of 750,000,000 board feet. Left-overs from the same source, being converted into hardboard and soft board, are estimated at 100,000,000 board feet. This means 885,000 tons of pulp and 560,000,000 square feet of boards are produced without the fall ing of a single tree for those specific uses. LOSE on the heels of the Dallas announcement came the word from San Francisco that Crown Zellerbach corporation, one of the country's largest lumbering concerns, intends to start construction soon of a $750,000 green veneer mill in the Columbia river area near Portland, When completed the new mill will be Zellerbach's first plywood production plant in the United States. It is the first step toward a full-fledged plywood operation, which will eventually run into several million dollars, according to the company president. The move, he said, is a signifi cant development toward diversification of operations calculated to bring maximum utilization of forest re sources in the Pacific Northwest. Zellerbach is presently manufacturing plywood at a plant owned by a subsidiary, near New Westmini ster, B.C. A NNOUNCEMENT of plans for the new up-state "plywood mills came almost simultaneously with the word from the Empire Plywood company here that a new rough-sheathing plywood plant is to be built in the White City industrial site north of Med ford. -.. The local mill, which will have an estimated an nual payroll of $250,000 to $300,000, is the third large plywood plant authorized in this vicinity in recent months. The first, Fir-Ply Inc., and the second, Ore eon Veneer company, are now under construction. A fourth plywood operation, Medford Veneer and Ply wood, has been operating here for some months. The fact that all the new mills to be installed in the Willamette valley and in the Medford vicinity will be turning out products not m very general use for building just a few years ago, indicates the extent to which the lumber industry is taking on a new look." . - . The change is all to the good for in making some types of plywood poorer grades of timber can be used and more men can be given employment. E.C.F. Is a Steelhead a Trout? Lady Lloyd-George's Political Switch Ends Last Liberal Family By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The decision of Lady Megan Lloyd-George to join the Labor Party marks the political break up of Britain s last great lib eral family. It emphasizes also the break up of the Lib e r a 1 Party, which domi nated British politics for the better part of a century. David Lloyd- chariei McCann George was the last Liberal prime minister. His elder son, who inherited his title of Earl Lloyd-George, is a Liberal still. But, a civil en gineer, he is entirely inactive in politics. In fact, Lloyd-George disinherited him because he re fused to enter politics. He could not, however, be deprived of the title. Gwilym Lloyd-George, the younger son, is home secretary a major post in the Conser vative government of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Began As Liberal He started out as a Liberal. But he has served in both coali tion and Conservative govern ments.' He has swung increas ingly to the right. In the 1951 general election he ran on both Conservative and Liberal tickets. And now Lady Megan has turned finally to the left, toward which" she has tended for several years. j Defeated in the 1951 election after serving 22 years in the House of Commons, she resigned Greater Medford club appoints committee to investigate fly con What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955., Editorial Research Rpwt 1 If a G.I. in Germany com mits a crime off-duty, he is us ually tried, in the first instance by a U.S. or a German court? 2. Total unemployment today amounts to much more or much less than 10 per cent of the labor force, or about 10 per cent? 3. The Chinese Reds do or don't favor a referendum on For mosa to decide its future status? 4 More than 5 per cent of the common stocks listed on the N. Y. Stock Exchange paid no divi dends in 1954; right or wrong? 5. The wholesale value of the beer produced in the U.S, is higher than that of the hard liquor; right or wrong? 6. The Eisenhower adminis tration has. increased or de creased the number, of small post-offices in operation, or kept it the same? 7. Leslie Townes Hope is bet ter known as ? The Answers: I. German court- 2. Much less. 3. Don't. 4. Right. 5. Right. 6. Decreased. 7. Bob Hope. BOY SCOUTS Phoenix Troop Cub Scout troop 15 of Phoenix will hold their monthly pack meeting April 28 at 7:30 pjn. at Phoenix Presbyterian church. Refreshments will be served. Eugene Burns, writer of the interesting and in formative column "Is That So?" which appears on this page four times a week, is an authority on nature matters naturally, he being a naturalist but it seems to us he disposee of a subscriber's question: "Is, or isn't a steelhead a rainbow trout?" a little too abruptly with the mere statement that "all steelheads are sea-going rainbows, but not all rainbows become steelhead. They remain in fresh water their whole lives even when they have access to the sea." THE Rogue river being a steelhead stream, one of those fortunate enough to be especially favored by the great game fish, the question which Naturalist Burns disposes of somewhat didactically has been a favorite subject for campfire debate by sportsmen hereabouts, probably since the first fisherman hooked one of the fighting specimens. Burns claims that a steelhead is a sea-going trout, returning to sweet water almost any time of the year, sometimes only to feed. They enter salt water when a year or more old and then grow phenomenally fast, and return to the "parent stream": when three to six years old. - COMEONE is sure to wonder why the naturalist didn't say something about the steelies which' come into the Rogue and remain in its turbulent waters even though apparently not driven by the reproductive urge.- ' - Maybe the steelheads which leave the ocean for the Rogue and "decide to make the river their perma nent home, just happen to be more set in their ways than their fellow fish. They have their counterparts among the rainbows, you know, for Naturalist Burns asserts that some of the latter refuse to heed the ocean's call. They never leave the river for the limit less reaches of the Pacific. This peculiarity is regret able too, for a stay in the saline depths would have improved the health and flavor of many of those we havetasted. E.C.F.. Scout Bob Glover Gets Eagle Award At Court of Honor Bob Glover, a member of Boy Scout Troop 8, Medford, was pre sented with the eagle award at a court of honor last night. He is the 19th member of the troop to earn - the rank, , highest in scouting, in the past 10 years. Presentation was made by Dr. Elmo Stevenson and Harry Bar neburg. The award ceremony followed the annual charter dinner of the troop, held in the Guild hall of St. Mark's Episcopal church, which sponsors the troop. Other features of the program included a history of the troop, given by Harry Barneburg, a tenderfoot investiture during which eight new members of the troop were accepted into membership, pre sentation of the court renewed charter by W. J. Cox, the court of honor and the eagle court. . First Scoutmaster James Grigsby, who was "first scoutmaster of the troop when it was organized in 1928. was a guest of honor with Mrs, Grigsby. More than 200 persons attended. . Other awards included, to sec ond class scouts, Jim Burke and Doug Williams; to first class, Richard Connolly; to star, Neil Philliber, and to life, Gerry Es pey, Delbert Harvey, Pat Con nolly, Gene Harvey and Charles Robertson. Thirteen- boys re ceived merit badges. her position of vice chairman of the Liberal Party two years ago "The official Liberal Party of 1805 seems to me to have lost all touch with the radical tradi tion which Inspired it," ' she wrote Labor Party leader Clem ent R. Attlee In announcing her adherence to the Laborites. "It is only in the Labor Party that I can be true to the radical tra dition." The story of the Lloyd Georges tells the story of the Liberal Party, which grew in the 1830s out of the Whig Party whose history goes back to the reign of King James H in the 17th Century. Once Dominant Party In the- general election of 1906, the Liberal Party won 513 seats in the House of Commons out of a total of 670. When Prime Minister Eden on April 15 called for the elec tion which is to be held May 26 the Liberals had but six Com mons seats out of 625. They intend to run 85 candi dates in the election, but will be lucky to keep the seats they have. What has happened is that the Liberal Party has been crushed between the Conservative and Labor-Socialist parties. Lloyd-George once was re garded as a radical and practi cally a revolutionist. The Lib eral Party was the "radical' party. But in British politics "radicalism" changed its mean ing. The Liberal Party really was what is now called a middle- of-the-road party. It was weak ened by internal feuds, and with the years the people who wanted leftist rule shifted to the Laborites. Is That So? ... By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist Soma things should be taken with a grain of salt; other not at all! To help determine the classification, ihere's another helping of facts vs. fallacies. FALLACY: There are land- dwelling, fur-bearing mammals within th Antarctic "circle, in cluding bears. ' .,-" . FACT: In the Antarctic there is more warm-blooded life, in- Hilton Chain Said Anti-Trust Violators Washington U.R) The Jus tice Department charged the Hilton Hotel Corporation today with violating anti-trust laws by buying the 10-hotel Statler chain. It . asked for a court order forcing the Hilton Corporation to get rid of the newly pur chased Statler hotels in. Wash ington, New York City, St. Louis, Los Angeles "and in what ever other cities competition has been affected by the' merger." The suit was filed in U.S. Dis trict Court here. It charged that the Hilton chain, by buying the Statler ho tels, eliminated competition for convention business. It said that prior to the Au gust 1954, merger, Hilton and Statler hotels were "in direct competition in Washington. St. Louis, Los . Angeles and New York City" and this competition has now been eliminated. Court Awards, Woman Possession of Husband Laurel, Miss.' (U.R) Mrs. Charlie McDonald went to court to get her husband back from bis mother. She testified that her mother-in-law insisted on caring for Mc Donald while he recovers from injuries suffered in a fall. The court- gave-the younger Mrs. McDonald "possession and cus tody" of her husband. MOTORISTS PROTEST Monroe, Wis. 4U.R) Motorists threatened to storm city hall aft er officials decided to raise the fine for parking violations to $1. It formerly was 10 cents. eluding numerous whales, a few species of seals and birds. But there are no warm-blooded land - dwelling mammals, , al though the French government which claimed a slice of the Antarctic, issued a proclamation against . shooting polar bears there. , ; , ' FALLACY: The best bananas are those which ripen naturally on the stalk.. FACT: Many fruits are picked green to preserve them during shipment and storage and are then ripened and they are de licious. Despite this, many fruits are better if ripened on the tree. : As for the banana, if it is al lowed to ripen on the stalk, that is, turn yellow, it loses its char acteristic good flavor;-the skin breaks open, bacteria . and in sects enter, the fruit rots rather than ripens, making it complete ly unpalatable and worthless for human consumption. Only when bananas are picked green will the starch in them turn into sugar and " become desirable. Sometimes the sun turns ba nanas dark brown on the plant before they ripen such sun burned bananas are edible. FALLACY: Cane ; sugar is sweeter than beet sugar. FACT: Contrary to popular belief, pure ane sugar and beet sugar do not differ in sweetness. There is no chemical difference whatsoever. For that matter, corn sugar or maple sugar aren't any sweeter, either. FALLACY: Oranges are picked when they are golden. FACT: Our uniformly golden oranges do not come that way naturally. When picked to pre serve them for shipment and storage they are partly green. A golden dye job does the trick. (Released by McClure Newspaper 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 refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions wiil be considered. Sorry, I sim ply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Over the week-end, Red China's premier made two moves that caused quite a flurry: 1. He told the closing session of the Asian-African conference that his government is anxious to relax tension in the Formosa area. 2. He repeated his offer the next day (after the conference had adjourned) but added that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL RED CHINA GIVE UP ITS RIGHT TO LIBERATE FORMOSA. ; ' OMMENT? Here's all I can think of: "Off ag'in. On ag'in. Finne gan." I suspect that for a long, long time our relations with Commu nist China and with Commu nist Russia wUl continue on this "off ag'in, on ag'in" basis. OLD CHINA hands inform us that the name Chou En-Lai is pronounced JOE un LIE. That brings to memory another Joe Joe Stalin. Remember, back during the early days of the war, when he needed our help badly to stop Hitler? He knew we were sus picious of Communists (with good reason, it has turned out.) So, about every so often, he would call in some high-ranking American correspondent and let fly with an interview telling how he loved his American al lies and how he was going to hobble Communism so it couldn't ever, EVER bother us any more with spies and sabo teurs and such cattle. Then he would go right on plotting to cut our throats just as soon as we had helped Com munism out of its hole. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi 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. Many Things Wrong rTo the. Editor:' Congressmen should not think only of them selves, as this is a representative government. But they do just about as 'they please. .They stay on' the job a few months out of the. year and chase around the rest of the time. But when they get ready they raise their pay thousands of dollars per year while our mail carriers ask for 80c a day more and don't get it. ' '. . . - . Congress also gives away bil lions to other countries while this country needs-schools and many, other things, highways, water for landj etc., so bad. Will men in public off ice ever learn that they are public ser vants, not bosses? - And I think it is wrong for our President or any high officer to go to any country and make agreements or treaties without the 100 per cent approval of congress. The President should have his rights but what do we have a congress for has been a puzzle to me as I am in my 55th year of voting and am nearing 78 years of age. You said to cut out "any more writings on religious matters. The press is supposed to be free, but it is not. Editors write what they wish. Of course it is their paper and laymen should keep out, only if they wish to put in pa'd for ads. It can be a fine way to forever lose a real customer and I. mean just that. I wrote a number of letters to the Oregon Journal and Oregon ian but if J ever said anything about religious matters they did not print it. But anything else they did so I think there is tod much scare going on. No one is going to attack this country from outside. We should just look from the inside. If it be Russia she has taken other countries without a shot fired. This country today has too many men that would turn this coun try over to Russia, and as gov ernment knows a lot why doesn't it do something. Our country would be too much of a prize to destroy it. Just think it over. William Ross Sharp -v 26 Portland Ave., Medford, Ore. WANT TERM EXTENDED Portland (U.R) School Su perintendent J. W. Edwards said today officials are considering ex tending the school year to make up time lost in evacuating build ings where bomb threats have been received. INVESTIGATE whether you are earmarking your savings to provide security for later life, extra cash income now, or are just starting to accumulate an emergency fund, it will pay you to investigate here. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS A LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save DO YOU remember Virgil and his Aeneid that you strug gled with back in your high school or early college years? He gave us some good advice. Telling of the wooden horse that Ulysses left as a gift before the walls of Troy tvhen he and his Greeks pretended to give up the siege of the city, Virgil ob served sagely: "I fear the Greeks, even when they come bearing gifts." TPHE -Trojans, you know, A jumped to . the conclusion that the Greeks ' had changed their minds about capturing Troy and putting its defenders to the sword, and as evidence of their change had. left the horse as an offering of peace and good will. So they dragged the animal inside their walls. It was filled with Greeks who, as soon as night fell, came out of the horse and opened the city's gates to Ulysses' men, who had come back under the cover of dark ness. They poured through the opened gates and took the town.) THESE Communist Joes both old Joe Stalin and old Joe un Lie seem to be determinedly following Ulysses' tactics before the walls of Troy. If. we let ourselves fall for it, we'll suffer the fate that was suffered by the too credulous Trojans. Ike Corresponds : With Zhukov Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower confirmed today, he has been in personal correspon dence with Russian Marshal Georgi Khukov. But he would not give any details. Mr. Eisenhower told reporters it was a personal correspondence and he would respect the Rus sian leader's confidence. The President was questioned at his news conference about a report that Zhukov had indir -cated to him directly that Rus sia is eager to end cold war tensions. - .--.,.. ; Mr. Eisenhower cut off ques-' tions on the subject by suggest ing that no one would want to jeopardize any possibility that such a correspondence might im prove relations between the United States and Russia. The President said he did not know whether the exchange of letters with Zhukov, who has been his friend since the close of World War n, would do any good. But he said he considers it at least a slim hope. Salem (U.R) Mrs. Maria Es tigoy, 41, of Eugene, a patient at the' State Tuberculosis hospital here, gave birth to triplet daugh ters at Salem general hospital Monday. ' ' ' ' There Is Nothing "Finer , Than A Stromberg Carlson! . 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