rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Aorll 27, 1953
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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.
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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
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the name and address oi the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
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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
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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.
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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. ' ' ' '
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