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Medlord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 5. 1945
at was Saturday)
Extensive program of street
improvements starts in Medford.
.From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Rain is
needed, but none is expected
until the first cutting of alfala
is down. ' t
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 5, 1935
Ot was Sunday)
More than 200 Grangers at
tend second in rally series at
Talent Grange.
Medford water commission
asks residents to observe regu
lations in using water.
SO YEARS AGO
Mar 5, 1925
Ot was Tuesday)
Paul Clagstone, manager of
western division of U.S. Cham
ber of Commerce, participates in
forum of local chamber.
From the Local and Personal
column: Trout fishing in the
Rogue is now attracting a large
number of fishermen with some
fair catches being made.
40 YEARS AGO
May 5, 1915
at was Wednesday)
Medford city council grants
merchants permission to use city
park for their Community Day.
About 500 Elks attend meet
ing opening new clubrooms.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Gel 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Ten years ago .Mussolini
was shot: by Americans, Ger
mans, Italians, Yugoslavs or the
British?
2. The term "nymphomaniac"
is applied only to a man, only
to a woman, or to either?
3. Average earnings of all U.S.
factory workers today are con
siderably more or less than $75
a week, or about $75?
4. Which is the only state now
represented in the Senate by a
woman?
5. U. S. Government land
makes up about 5, 10, 15, 20 or
25 per . cent of the total land
area of the U.S.?
6. Federal, state, and local
payments to and for veterans
are now much larger or much
smaller than in the first year
after World War II, or about
the same?
7. The real name of which
movie star is Judy Tuvim?
The answers: 1. Italians. 2.
Onlr a woman. 3. About $75.
a national average. 4. Maine (by
Mrs. Smith). 5. About 20 per
cent. 6. Much smaller. 7. Judy
Holliday.
BOY SCOUTS
Troop 8 .
Troop 8 held its regular meet
ing May 4. We talked about
Camporee and about the things
that we should improve. We
then talked about the patrols
and their patrol flags. The patrol
with the best flag will get to
go to a show. We talked about
scout camp and the number of
boys that are going. Then the
meeting was closed by Bruce
Hanson, senior patrol leader,
and we played one game,
ana w v G Harveyf
Scribe.
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"Colorado Mystery" Explained
We are indebted to the Salem Statesman for an
explanation of the administration's support of the
Colorado basin "billion dollar" power project, and
its opposition to a high dam at Hells Canyon. ' .
It seems a private company is willing to build 2
or 3 small dams in Hells Canyon while no private
company would be so foolhardy as to build any dams
in the Upper Colorado wilderness.
In other words, the administration doesn't object
to federal power displacing private power where the
tax payers have to foot the bills, PROVIDED the ven
tures cost so much they can't pay out; but where
they can, then Uncle Sam should keep his distance,
and let private industry have a monopoly, and skim
off the cream !
j .
"117ELL, it is something to have the mystery solved
" by such a recognized and reliable authority as
the Statesman. . '
Carried to its logical conclusion does this mean
that federal ventures like TVA, Grand Coulee, Bon
neville, etc., etc., should be wiped out, and replaced
byi the 'private power companies, while new federal
projects like Hells Canyon, should be defeated be
cause Idaho Power company wants Hells Canyon,
where there is a profit to be madejand where Uncle
Sam therefore has no rights that is, unless we wish
to destroy free enterprise and hand Washington over
to the Socialists?
Whether the answer is 'yes' or 'no' the theory isn't
new.
- In fact it is pretty much in harmony with Secre
tary of the Interior McKay's views of the private vs.
public power controversy.
IN THIS particular case however, the Statement ex
nlnnnfinn rJrtoon'f rt1oa Procirlont FliconVlflWPr With
his demand for a strictly business-like administration,
100 per cent economy, and reduction of the national
debt in a very favorable light.
If the costs of this venture a billion and a half
is a conservative estimate are so far in excess of
any possible public benefits
posal shocks even the JNew iorK limes, one oi ine
administration's strongest suDDorters. and alarms
Wall Street and the U.S. Treasury why doesn't the
President follow the NY Times advice and use these
millions elsewhere, or even better, apply them to
a reduction of the national debt?
That would seem to be
tion's program instead of directly against it as
suming of course the economy program was advanced
in good faith, and it is hard for this department at
least, to believe that as tar
wasn't. R.W.R. ....
Why Not Be Reasonable?
As is usual in such heated controversies as that
over public vs. private power there are extremists on
both sides.
The nrivate-nower hovs.
the people by raising the spectre of "creeping Social
ism fhn nnmor -fanntips talk nf 9 return t.n the
days of Samuel Insull and
WE don't believe the American people as a whole
ara :orroatlw lmrirosseH Vv . either "scarecrow "
There is no more dancer
honey and smog! going socialisticthan there is of
Mr. Sam Insull, or Boss Tweed for that matter
returning to lead the revolution. "Them days," as the
saying goes, "has gone forever.
BUT there are situations and Hells Canyon is one
vP Vi rym titVi ova Vi a alvantaoroc nf a ornvprtlTtlPtlt
nrnieet are so clearlv suoerior to those of any private
project, from the standpoint of the public welfare
cheaper power and the greatest gooa to tne greatest
number that the first named should be adopted.
For no one denies there is ereat need in the entire
northwest for more power, more water for irrigation,
more development for more people and most experts
agree that a high dam on the Snake would furnish
2 or 3 million more kilowatts, than the three small
dams as proposed by the Idaho Power company, bucn
a project would also benefit the Columbia River de
vplnnm ent in Orecon. whereas the Idaho Power com
pany proposal would contribute nothing in that di
rection.
THIS of course doesn t mean private power devel
onto clirvnlrl slwavfi Via nnnnspH nr
partnership projects for that matter, where they are
feasible. Tt merelv "means that at Hells Canyon, as at
Bonneville, or Grand Coulee or the Tennessee river
valley, a large federal project would advance the
public welfare so much more than any proposal that
nrivate capital would or could make and finance,
that the former. should be
only one reason, because
the minimum benefits to
volved, would be obtained, and the entire country
would proiit thereby ana tnereirom.
TO maintain support of this high dam on the Snake
or any other river, means approval of socialism or
some wicked conspiracy to drive private power out of
business, is just silly.
Private power now furnishes about 80 per cent of
the power in the country and there is every reason to
believe it will continue to" do so in about that ratio.
In fact the public power proponents of the reasonable
type admit that there are not many places in the
country left, where a super public power develop
ment would be "justified" the high canyons of the
Snake happens to be one of them. R.W.R. .
Thursday, May 8 19SS
or profits, that the pro
in line with the administra
as "iKe , is concerned, n
for examnle. trv to scare
a private power trust.
of this land of milk-and-
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selected and again for
the maximum rather tnan
the people of the areas in
Matter of Fact
TOKYO DEPENDS ON SAIGON
Tokyo According to report,
President Eisenhower and the
Nationalist 'Security Council
have recently
been re-examining
the fun
damentals o f
the Japanese
American rela
tionship. The
re - examina
tion was over
due, in view of
the President's
official classi
fication of Ja
Joseph Alsop
pan as "the
bastion of American defense in
the Pacific."
Under the new policy line laid
down by the N.S.C., the more
glaring follies of our dealings
with the Japanese since the sig
nature of the peace treaty are
apparently to be corrected.
Yet our highest policy makers
still began their work by writing
down, as assumption number
one, that the Japanese - Ameri
can alliance could in effect be
taken for granted for an indefi
nite term of years. The Ameri
can representatives here, who
are in daily contact with the
hard, on-the-spot facts, protested
sharply that taking Japan for
granted was profoundly unwise.
Even so, the complacency and
lack of political realism in pres
ent day Washington is such that
the National Security Council's
first assumption has only been
diluted rather than corrected. It
cannot have been corrected for
a very simple reason. America's
"island chain" strategy in the Pa
cific is stUl squarely based on the
Japanese alliance. And this im
plied taking Japan for granted,
even although the Nation Securi
ty Council may state the posi
tion somewhat more cautiously.
On any realistic assessment,
therefore, the whole American
defense system in the Pacific
must now be regarded as in
peril. Our strategy is threatened,
not directly in Japan proper, or
even in the Formosa Strait, but
indirectly in Southeast Asia. Un
less the Communist advance in
Southeast Asia can somehow be
halted, we are probably due to
wake up one day to the unpleas
ant discovery that . Tokyo de
pends on Saigon.
This danger was clearly recog
nized by the National Security
Council itself in the early stages
of the Dienbienphu crisis last
year. For a while, it was the offi
cial doctrine that a Viet Minh
victory in Indochina could not
be permitted because such a vic
tory would open the gates of
South Asia to the Communists,
and because the loss of South
Asia would in turn involve Ja
pan and India.
rrms "domino chain" theory
- was later abandoned, and
even scornfully condemned,
when the Eisenhower adminis
tration found it more comfor
table and poetically expedient to
duck the grim challenge of Dien
Bien Phu. Unfortunately, how
ever, there is every reason to be
lieve that the domino chain
theory is still correct, even al
though it is now officially
frowned upon in Washington.
" The man reason is onlj too
obvious. Japan must trade to
live. Every Japanese business
man, vithout exception, regards
Southeast Asia as Japan's most
promising future trading area.
Japan must almost import huge
annual tonnages of rice to live.
And two Southeast Asian coun
tries, Thailand and Burma, are
currently supplying Japan with
just under 600,000 tons of rice
a year, or rather more than half
of Japan's whole annual rice im
port. In these circumstances, what
happens in Southeast Asia has
life .and death significance for
the Japanese people. As yet, to
be sure, the ugly process of de
cay that . presently centers in
Saigon has hardly been noticed
by the great majority of Japan
ese. People here have, been lulled,
like people in America", by the
bold promises of SEATO. Then
too, the Japanese are intensely
preoccupied with their own in
ternal problems, and since the
war they have had poor means
of learning about the outside
world. And above all, the Jap
anese conviction that America is
a sure winner .. in any world
struggle has not yet been really
shaken.
But .this conviction, born of
Japan's own defeat by America,
will surely not survive a shat
tering series of free world de
feats in the area of Asia that is
most important to Japan. In Jap
anese eyes, America and the
other Western nations will look
like hopeless losers, not sure
winners, if the Communist ad
vance in Southeast Asia contin
ues unchecked. And to the tre
mendous political impact of this j
changed psychology, will be add
ed the tremendous economic im
pact of the extension of Com
munist control into Japan's most
MATTER OF FACT Gal (2)
vital trading area and rice
source! t
r' JAPAN is exposed to this
double seismic shock, the al
ready strong ferment of anti
Americanism here can be ex
pected to become uncontrollable.
Being passionately independent
(which is the reason they are
now anti-American) the Japan
By Joseph Alsep
ese are not likely, to make a
complete reversal of alliances.
There is no visible liklihood that
they will actually join the Com
munist bloc.
But if Southeast Asia is lost
to communism, there is the
greatest possible liklihood that
the Japanese will abandon the
American alliance and move in
to a strictly neutral position.
And that in itself will mean the
utter collapse of the current of
ficial defense plan in the Pacific,
plus some other unpleasant
things too.
If Japan chooses neutralism,
American forces will obviously
have to be withdrawn from these
islands unless President Eisen
hower wishes to try to hold our
bases here by naked force. Thus
the island chain will be de
cisively broken.
At the v same time, the other
great Pacific nightmare of the
American Chiefs of Staff wiU
also come true. Japan's indus
trial potential will automatically
become available to Communist
Chine. Southeast Asian rice and
rubber and tin and Chinese coal
and iron will then pay for the
ships, steel, machine tools and
all the other commodities that
China needs to build herself
rapidly up to the status of a full
scale military-industrial great
power.
In short the central fact that
the Washington policy makers
now ought to be facing, is the
fact that Asia is a seamless web.
If the web is too badly torn any
where, it will unravel every
where. And it is tearing now.
Copyright, 1955, J
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.
Central Point Rural
Firemen Make 214
Inspection Calls
. Central Point The Central
Point Rural Fire department has
made 214 calls on residences in
the area it protects from fire so
far this week, according to Chief
Dick Krupp. 4
The volunteer members of the
department have made calls dur
ing the afternoon and evening
hours Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The residents at 66 of the
homes were away when firemen
called, and 10 householders re
fused the free inspection offer.
Firemen pointed out 169 com
mon fire hazards to residents of
the 138 homes where they were
admitted.
Krupp said it will probably
take the rest of the month to
complete the inspection job, but
that it is planned to call at every
residence in the rural protection
area. The calls will continue this
week in ihe evenings, all day
Saturday, and Sunday afternoon
and evening.
Krupp again pointed out that
the new-alarm telephone num
ber for the rural department (it
also serves the Central Point de
partment) is NOrmandy 4-1234.
Residents in the protection area
served by the Medford telephone
exchange can call the number by
dialing 3, and then the rest of
the number.
Eagle Point City
Councilman Resigns
Eagle Point The city council
this week accepted the resigna
tion of councilman Art C. Kent,
and adopted an ordinance to call
for bids for oiling several Eagle
Point streets'.
No appointment was made fill
ing the vacancy created by the
resignation of Kent, who resign
ed for health reasons.
Residents of Eagle Point were
reminded by the council that
dogs should be kept tied during
April, May and June, the garden
ing season, or be subject to fine.
The Eagle Point budget com
mittee will meet next Tuesday
night to draft the budget for the
coming year. ,
Frank! Morgan
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
If you want tangible evidence
of the screwball nature of this
(alleged) spring on the Pacific
Coast, take a look at the tem
perature tables printed in the
newspapers Monday night
The maximum temperatures
in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the
preceding day was 40 degrees.
On the same day, the maxi
mum temperature in Fresno,
Calif., was 51 degrees!
FAIRBANKS is only two
whoops and a holler south
of the Arctic Circle.
Fresno is about midway of the
San Joaquin valley, where at
this season it ought to be hot
enough to fry eggs on a concrete
sidewalk. ., .
A S to the why of this freakish
snrinp. therp arp two th-
ories: I
1. The ' atom oomb tests are
responsible.
2. The atom bomb tests
AREN'T responsible.
THEORY NO. 1 is supported
chiefly by members of the
numerous clan that predicts the
weather by the goose bone, the
tilt of the moon, the industry or
the lack of it displayed by the
squirrels in storing away nuts,
the thickness of the fur on
snowshoe rabbits and the Farm
ers Almanac.
Theory No. 2 is upheld by the
Atomic Energy Commission,
which in the past has taken the
position that atomic tests HAVE
NO BEARING on the weather.
IT IS my duty to report that
the august and scholarly AEC
has had to take a look at its
hole card.
It came about like this:
A week or so ago, there was
a freak cold spell that ruined
the cherry crop down in the
Banning Beaumont area of Cal
ifornia. Growers in the San Gor
gonia pass took a look at the
blighted blossoms on their trees
and began to get hot under the
collar.
It seems they have been doing
some weather research of their
own, and they assert that over
the past three years their data
shows a definite relationship be
tween atomic tests and frost
conditions in their region.
rpHEY went a. little farther
than mere talk. They TOOK
IT UP WITH THEIR CON
GRESSMAN.
Their congressman is John
Phillips. He lives in Banning.
He is a college graduate (Haver-
ford College in ' Pennsylvania)
and he holds a teachers fellow
ship from Haverford. He fought
in the first world war. He
served for years in the Calif
ornia legislature. He belongs to
a string of good clubs as long as
your arm.
Not only that. He's a Republi
can. He s a Republican who got
elected to" Congress away back
in 1943 when it was generally
regarded as a crime against the
public welfare to elect a Repub
lican to Congress. On top of all
the rest of it, John is an able
citizen.
HE took up the frost business
with the AEC.
The AEC, after talking to
John, says it will MAKE AN IN
VESTIGATION to see if atomic
tests DO have anything to do
with the weather especially
the BAD weather.
S
there the matter rests.
We'U see what we'll see.
'Civil War' Averted
Princeton, N.Y. (U.R) -"Mike".
Kopliner, Princeton
University's head proctor, avert
ed a possible re-enactment of
the war between the states
Wednesday.
The near engagement occur
red when seven Southern-born
Princeton students waving the
Stars and Bars from a broom
stick, marched on a 300-man pa
rade of the school's "Yank"
ROTC unit as it was being re
viewed by former New, York
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
Kopliner halted the displaced
Southerners, clad in Confede
rate grey, 150 yards shy of their
apparent objective.
Harold Snod grass
Directors
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Opposes Military Bill
To the Editor: I was pleased to
read several days ago in the
MAIL TRIBUNE concerning the
response of the people of Oregon
to the proposed Compulsory Re
serve Plan which has just been
reported out of committee in the
House of Representatives. I hope
there is a ground-swell of opin
ion expressed against this piece
of proposed legislation. It is def
initely a form of Universal Mili
tary Training as can be seen in
its principal parts:
1. Each person who volun
teers or is drafted into the
Armed Forces or their Reserve
Components must serve a total
period of eight years.' '
2. Those serving two years
in the "army, must serve three
years in the Ready Reserve,'
attending weekly drill and.
summer military camp, and
spend three years in the Stand
by Reserve.
3. Anyone who is under the
age of 19 years and who has
not received notice to report
for induction "may volunteer"
for a total of eight years and
shall within two years of en
listment be ordered to active
duty for 24 months of active
training and service. After his
initial 6 months of active duty
he will be deferred from the
rest of his active duty for so
long as he serves satisfactorily
as a member of the national
Guard of a reserve component
A minimum of 100,000 and a
maximum of 250,000 may en
list in this program. (This is
what some call voluntary UMT
but which is simply an option
within a compulsory military
system.)
I hope all the people of Oregon
are awake to the danger to the
"American way of life" which
this encroaching militarism
means. It is imperative that we
write, telegraph, or telephone
our Representative in Congress.
Harris Ellsworth, to awaken him
to vote against this measure,
House Bill No. '5297. Two other
representatives from Oregon are
against it. Mr. Ellsworth needs
our prodding and positive think
ing to help him decide.
At a time when our country
needs to be acting constructively
toward disarmament, and back
ing Harold Stassen in the leader
ship of this task, we should not
Exclusively at Swem's
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the "Continental"
tax
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purse with the French accent
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double-cross our peace efforts by
saddling ourselves with a com
pulsory military system. It may
be long years before we rid our
selves of militarism, if once UMT
gets in. . .
You may address your mail to
Mr. Ellsworth at the 'following
address: '
The Honorable Harris Ellsworth
House Office Building, , .
Washington 25, D. C.
Act Now! For this measure
will be presented on the floor of '
the House within the next week,
or possibly within the next 10
days.
William O. Walker, '
' Boston University, "
745 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston Mass.
(Walker is a resident of Med
ford and expects to return her
for his summer vacation.)
State Motto
To the Editor: To the people
who appreciate our beautiful
state of Oregon.
xMay I suggest a motto for
our license plates.
On behalf of the beauty that
the Creator saw fit to bless with
in the boundaries of our wonder
ful state of Oregon, may we
pause and be thankful for such
beauty. Our state motto none.
Why? - '
May I suggest in three words
the way I feel, "Beauty by Na
ture." Other states have their mot
tos which we all enjoy reading.
If you agree we should have
one, let's all write to our bov
ernor and suggest such.
Grady A. Conner,
724 Victory No. 6
Medford, Ore.
Cascade Plywood
Increases Directors
Portland (U.R) Stockhold
ers of Cascade Plywood company
increased the number of direc
tors from seven to nine, at an
annual meeting here, yesterday.
A. E. Anderson, a vice-president,
and Paul L. Boley, a Port
land attorney, will fill the new
ly created positions.
Directors reelected all officers,
headed by president Charles W.
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