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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordJTribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-J9 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor FRTf? ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor -HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph 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. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 83.50. By Carrier In Advance Medferd. 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 of Medford Official Paper oi jacKson loumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIHCULATIUJ WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New yotk. tmcawo. v troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL CDITOIIAl ASSOC1-ATHO.N J J J NIWSPAPII PU11ISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune id. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 9, 1945 (It was Wednesday) Rogue Transit company grant ed permit to operate between Ashland and Grants Pass. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; Experts and researchers are now prowl ing for the "basic causes of the war." Offhand, one would guess, the "basic causes" were too many guns, and too much shooting. 20 YEARS AGO May 9. 1935 (It was Thursday) Medford invited to participate In National Housing show in Portland. A record tourist flow predict ed for southern Oregon this year. 30 YEARS AGO May 9. 1925 (It was Saturday) The annual De Molay conven tion holds last session. Medford scnool board asks residents to visit prospective sites for new high scnool. 40 YEARS AGO May 9, 1915 (It was Sunday) Members of Greater Gold Hill club to hold annual mining cele bration. The county court authorizes bridge across the Applegate at Middl Fork and Elliot creek costing $1,000. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapert 1. The proposed and contro versial Echo Park Dam would be in the basin cf the Missouri, Snake, St. Lawrence, Colorado or Tennessee river? 2. Most states give new driv ing tests on renewing driving permits; right or wrong? 3. Are there many more wid ows than widowers in the U. S.. or many more widowers, or about the same number of each? 4. When a U.S. representative dies, the Governor of his state appoints a successor-;until a new election is held: right or wrong? 5. Mossadegh is" or isn't prime minister of Iran now? 6. Kansas City, Mo., is larger or smaller than Kansas City, Kan., or are they about the same size? 7. The wife of which of our recent Presidents was named Grace. The answer: 1. Colorado river. 2. Wrono. 3. Manv mora widows. 4. Wrong (but true when a Senator diet). 5. Isn t. 6. Kans&s City. Mo., i much larger. 7 Coolidge. WOT APPRECIATED Knoxville, Tenn. (UPJ Landlord Kenneth Ownby com plained to civic clubs sponsoring "Operation Facelift" slum-clearing projects that toilets and bathtubs he put in four homes at their urging had been ripped out by the tenants and sold to a junk dealer. ROCKY GOING Anderson, Ind. flJ.R) Sewer diggers found a huge granite like rock 14 feet ' across and seven feet high several feet un derground. They estimated its weight at 14 tons and figured it was part of a glacial - deposit pushed here ages ago. . MAIL TRIBUNE Not Best, Not Worst The legistlature which adjourned last week was far from the best in the history of Oregon legislatures. Neither was it the worst, as some rather shallow com ments on its labor would indicate. The press of Oregon has arrived at a surprising variety of verdicts about the legislature and its work, ranging from praise to condemnation. Most of the more extreme comments were motivated by the writ er's stand on one or two specific issues. DUT, as with most legislatures, there was much ac complished that was good, some that was bad. Some of the bills which the legislature did not pass were junked justifiably; others had merit. As in so many other fields of human endeavor, the picture is neither black nor white, but composed of varying shades of grey. ONE of the big credit items, and it is a major one, was the passage of House Bills 25 a-d 26, setting up a water resources board and organizing a ground water code for western Oregon. This was no easy task, for in attempting to organ ize the use of water, the legislature ran the danger of treading on the toes of practically everybody in the state. Charles A. Sprague, editor of the Salem States man and a former governor, one of the most know- ledgable observers in the state, comments : AS Governor Sprague also points out, Oregon is "again pioneering, as it has in the past, with this legislation. Other states have made some gestures toward conservation and administration of their wa ter resources, but as far as we are informed at the moment, Oregon is the first one to do so on such a broad scale. The bills were drawn after a two-year study con ducted by an especially appointed committee, which issued a report which ran to volume length. (Much of it was written by the committee's executive secre tary, Don Lane, known.here as a former chamber of commerce manager. The chances are excellent that Don may get a bid to serve the new board in one cap acity or other). Governor Sprague adds tohis comments: It is safe to hail this as one of the major achievements of this session of the Legislative Assembly. That it has been approved in both houses by very large majorities testifies not only to the general recognition of need for such legisla tion but to the ability of the sponsors of the biU to recon cile differences and to allay fears of such diverse groups as irrigationists and those interested in fishing. . NOTHER major accomplishment, at least as far as Jackson county is concerned, is the passage of Senate Bill 434 the sanitary authority bill. The measure was written by Sen. Phil Lowry and his associates expressely to meet Jackson county needs, although the measure is, of course, applicable elsewhere. It will permit unincorporated areas to ex plore the possibility of forming one big sanitary dis trict to furnish the financial stability and the en gineering skills necessary to age disposal and sanitation. That the bill was passed at all is a tribute to the hard work and newly-learned legislative skills of . - j i Senator Lowry, who earned an enviaoie reputation as a legislator of stature during his first session. THE freshman senator figured in many another lorrialotivo hatrlo anA noma nut if Tint. lwVS KUP- . w " cessful, at least respected. He was a non-partisan co sponsor of the measure (passed) to ban wiretapping in Oregon except under orders of a court. He was one of a hardy minority who fought a difficult and losing battle to place a sales tax measure before the voters of Oregon, a proposal he sincerely f elf was a prelude to the establishment of a sound, long-range program of fiscal stability for the state, rather than the admit tedly "stop-gap" plan finally adopted. He was a member of another minority who voted against the rather absurd ban on women wrestlers, and the "em ergency" clause which put it into effect immediately. Ke received an unofficial accolade from members of the press, who declared him to be the outstanding freshman senator. It appears that 'the judgment of Jackson county voters, who elected him without op position, was justified. THE difficulty of commenting on the legislature is caused by the same reason that it is difficult to "cover" it completely in the press there's just too much going on. The session lasted for 115 days, and passed 774 new laws, some of them important, some vastly un important. (One of the legislature's "achievements" was the congratulating of the Turkish government on the valor of its troops in Korea). The true value of much of the legislation will be come known only as it becomes law and is applied to the e very-day lives of Oregon's citizens. In the meantime, we can be grateful that 90 men and women are willing to make sacrifices of time, money and strength to do their best to represent us. If they fail, it oftentimes is our fault as much as it is theirs. E.A. Portland Fires Kill One; Hurt Two Portland (U.PJ- One man died and two others were hos pitalized by a series of fires which swept the Portland area Saturday night and early Sun day. ' The dead man was identified as Joseph D. Gurley, 65, of Ore gon City. He perished early Sun day as flames destroyed his house on Thayer road. Cause of the fire was believed to be . a cigarette near his- bed. - - - -" - - Twe other persona were ia- Monday, May 9. 1953 solve the problem of sew jured when a Portland fire truck speeding to a fire call and a pas senger car, collided. Both car occupants were pin ned in the wreckage by the im pact. The driver, 41 - year - old Peter Lucas, and his passenger, James Eugene Watterud, 38, were taken to Emmanuel hospi tal where they were listed in "fair" condition. Another fire earily Sunday caused, several thousand dollars damage to the Kay Manufactur ing company in Portland. " Matter of Fact WHY PEACE TALK? Washington The change of atmosphere in Washington in the last few weeks is astonishing. Hardly a month : ago there was more war talk than at any time since the Korean war. Now the talk is all of peace, with President E i s e n hower and ; Secretary of State Dulles both on record Stewart Alsop with optimistic remarks about the prospects. Why the change? Partly, perhaps, it is wishful thinking induced by handsome spring weather. Partly, certain ly, it is because of the carefully hedged Chinese Communist of fer to negotiate on the Formosa crisis. Even more, it is because of the apparent willingness of the Soviets to withdraw their troops from Austria the first post-war withdrawal of Soviet troops from Soviet occupied territory. But in -addition, there has also been a steadily grow ing belief in the Eisenhower ad ministration that the Soviet re gime may genuinely wish a per iod of relaxation of war tension. There have been seemingly re liable reports that the Soviets restrained their Chinese Com munist aUies at the height of the Formosan crisis. But the be lief that the Soviets may want a breathing . spell, which is of course, still very tentative, is also based on the following fac tors: First, there is no doubt that Soviet agriculture is faced with a most serious crisis. Careful analysis suggests that the Rus sian urban population is growing at a rate of 4V4 per cent a year, while food production is largely confirmed by Communist party boss Krushchev himself, and by other party leaders, who have made no bones about , the . ser iousness of the crisis. , Population growing at double the rate of food production is a formula for eventual famine, as any child can see. The Khrush chev plan for averting this dis aster envisages heavily mechan ized agriculture in the arid, vir gin lands of the Soviet Far East. So far, this solution has proved a cosUy failure. But the attempt is continuing, and it places an extremely heavy strain on the Soviet economy for tractors, transport of all kinds, and other hard goods. CJECOND, there is also a heavy. & growing and directly com-1 petitive strain on the Soviet economy, arising from the de mand for military hard 'goods. The satellite ground forces are still equipped with Soviet war surpluses and -captured Ger man arms, now rapidly becoming obsolete. With the Kremlin es tablishing a "unified command" in the satellites, to counter NATO, there is a real need to re equip the satellite armies. At the same time there is also in creasing pressure to re-equip ;the Red Army itself. The tactical doctrine of the Red Army,, which calls for en ormous concentrations of foot soldiers and! material to achieve a break-through, has been made obsolete by the tactical atomic bomb. The Red Army leaders are aware of transport, com munications equipment and so on required to provide disper sion and mobility as protection against atomic attacks. To add what may be the last straw, promised Soviet delivery of military hard goods to the Chinese Communists has fallen far behind schedule, and, ac cording to intelligence reports considered reliable, the Chinese are angrily pressing for the pro mised arms. For political reasons it is immensely important to the Soviets to make good their pro mises to the Chinese. Thus a picture emerges of the already over-strained Soviet economy being subjected to enormous- demands from .two dif ferent directions, agricultural and military. Now add to the picture the further evidence of the steadily growing political influence of the Red Army. Mar shal Zhukov's initiative in writ ing to his "old comrade in arms" President Eisenhower, is only the latest of many small signs that .the army is becoming a de cisive influence, as it never was under Stalin. One such sign, for example, was a recent promotion list for Red . Army generals. Always in the past, there was a careful balance between the political, or party generals, and the pro fessional soldiers. This time, ac cording to a careful analysis by U.S. Army G-2, every single man promoted was a soldier with a good war record and some had decidedly doubtful party records. Such signs clear ly suggest that the Red Army is very much more independent of the Communist party, and thus very much more powerful, than ever before. r SEEMS to be a law of na ture that professional sold iers at least ground soldiers are cautious about political ad ventures and over-extended com mitments (President Eisenhow er and Gen. Ridgwajr seem to By Stewart Alsop be obeying this law here In the United States.) It may be that the Red Army leaders, faced with an over-strained economy at home and ris,ky commitments abroad, really are eager for a period of relaxation . and re trenchment, perhaps even, for the kind of "you stay in. your back yard and I'll stay in my back yard" arrangement , that soldiers like. That, at least, is the theory. It may be dead wrong. There are those who believe instead that the Soviets and the Chinese Communists are now . making a brilliant double play, the object being to chloroform the Western alliance in Europe, and then kill it outright in Asia. But at least the theory outlined above is worth testing, and this the Eisen hower ; administration is now preparing to do. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Over the Canadian Arctic, With S.A.S. (Delayed) While cruising in comfort over this north polar area at five miles a minute, I am looking down at one of the world's most fascinat ing and misrepresented lands. The popular conception is that it is bleak; that it contains precious little animal life; and vegetation is nonexistent. . Actually, it is one of the world's richest lands as for the Arctic Ocean, polar experts tell me, it is more prolific of life than any other in the world! First, let's consider the plant life. Indeed it is not taU, but it is luxuriant. Although covered with snow in winter, during the summer the land is green with dwarf shrubs, moss cushions over one foot in depth, lichens in great abundance, and many grasses including cotton grass. Beyond this, there are myriads of, wild flowers, all vividly bril liant much more so than their counterpart in our. temparte zones. This heayy plant growth, in areas which are free from snow in summer is due to the long daylight hours. In fact, during the three months of Arctic sum mer there are as many hours of growing sunshine as in a tropical summer of five months' dura tion. Among the animals feeding on these plants are the hare and the lemming which are most abund ant. Another plant eater is the musk or ox which takes its name from the musk flavor of its flesh. (The apparent size pf the creature is a fraud it looks larger than its actual size be cause of the extreme thickness of its shaggy coat). Not to be overlooked are the enormous herds of reindeer and their close relatives, the caribou, who dweU well above the Arctic circle. Where there are herb eaters, there are flesh-eaters. Monarch of them is the polar bear whose long neck and small snake-like head distinguishes it from aU other species of bear. He preys over the whole of the Arctic, eating seal and fish principaUy. Wolves and Wolverines, too, are both circumpolar, And such fur-bearing mammals as the well known ermine exist but the er mine is not so plentif ul now due to current fashions. But prettier than these, to my way of thinking, is the short muzzled Arctic fox which in habits almost all of the Arctic lands. It is often quite gentle and unafraid. (In fact, when our SAS plane taxied to the ramp in Greenland, we saw Arctic foxes from our windows.) As for the waters, they abound with life. There are seals in large numbers which live off marine life; and many walruses a full-grown male may weigh over a ton and a half and measure 12 feet in length a formidable an tagonist to all animals, even the polar bear. The whalebone almost depleted by commercial whalers once common, has been slaughtered but it can be found in the open waters in the far thest navigable north. Fish, shrimps and other ma rine forms are abundant, to gether with bird life. So for those people who bring an understanding to the Arctic, polar explorer friends have told me, the northland holds no fears there is plant and animal life in profusion, and the land is not hostile, but friendly. (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 questions on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work is. a handsome Stair In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS This is National Conservation Week. So Since the whole future of the West depends upon INTELLI GENT conservation of the West's natural resources This newspaper, along with other Western newspapers, has been devoting a great deal of space to the subject of INTELLI GENT conservation. CONSERVATION of our natu ral resources is a big subject. Looked at in its entirety, it is so big that it is ant to terrify us. So let's see if we can break it down into a segment that will be small enough. for us to see. Let's use the forest lands of the Klamath Indian reservation as such a segment. Fortunately, over most of the period during which timber has been harvested from them, these lands have been handled under an intelli gent program of forestry man agement. Within recent weeks, this oro- gram and its results have been described for us by Earl Wilcox. forest officer on the Klamath reservation, in a series of talks at various points in Oregon. It is a fascinating story. TtlR. Wilcox says: iT1 "On Dec. 31, 1954, 42 years of intensive logging activi ties on the Klamath reservation had been completed. During that period a total of 4,674,000,- 000 board feet of sawlogs had been removed under contract by private operators f r o m approximately 538,000 acres of tribal and allotted for est lands, bringing to the Klam ath Indians a gross stumpage of about $32,750,000. "The average volume cut each year for the 42-year period has been over 111,000,000 board feet. The average volume cut per acre has been almost 8,700 board feet of sawlogs." WHAT is more lumber than most of us can visualize readi ly, so Mr. Wilcox gives us an example by which we can judge it. He tells us that the 4,500,000, 000 feet of sawlogs harvested from Klamath reservation would furnish lumber enough to HOUSE ALL THE PEOPLE IN SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE AND PORTLAND! HE then says: "We have found that, de spite the removal of over 4,000, 000,000 board feet of sawtimber from these tribally-owned lands, there is NOW a stand of more than 2,500,000,000 board feet re maining on them. "We have measured the past growth, and have predicted fu ture growth, on a sufficiently conservative basis to be confi dent that under good forest man agement there will be CON SIDERABLY IN EXCESS OF 3,500,000,000 BOARD FEET OF TIMBER REMAINGING ON THESE CUTOVER TRIBAL LANDS AT THE END OF THE FIRST (50 - year) CUTTING CYCLE, APPROXIMATELY TEN YEARS HENCE." He adds: "We feel certain that this land will continue to grow timber at an average gross rate exceeding 140 board feet per acre per year if sustained yield management ) is continued." T ET me summarize: In 50 years, around 5,000, 000,000 board feet of sawtimber will have been harvested from these lands. At the END of the 50 years, somewhere in excess of 3,500, 000,000 board feet of sawtimber WILL STILL BE THERE to be harvested in the future. That's intelligent conserva tion. T WANT to close this piece with some food for grave and ser ious thought on the part not only of the Klamath Basin and Southern Oregon but the whole state of Oregon. Under a law passed by the last congress, federal administration of the Klamath Indian reserva tion is to be terminated. In order to carry out the provisions of this law as it was enacted, it is pos sible that these tribal lands may have to be sold off to the highest bidder. rpHAT would be a CALAMITY because it could result in taking these lands out from un der intelligent forest manage ment and throwing them on the market for IMMEDIATE, UN RESTRICTED cutting. The result of that could be a temporary, WILD boom in rough lumber cutting. But such a boom would result in exhaustion of a reserve of timber that if IN TELLIGENTLY managed will supply us with adequate raw material for GENERATIONS TO COME.. ' T THINK I'm safe in saying that -"- we mustn't let that happen. But it CAN happen unless in telligent steps are taken to pre vent it. 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! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 975, Sausalito, Calif. v, A t? r L ijsi TURNS DOWN WAITING OFFERS-General of the Army George C. Marshall poses with his wife, Kathenne, at their Leesburg, Va., home in one of very few photos penmttea to be taken in commemoration of his 75th birthday uus year. In recent Look magazine article, General Marshall revealed that he turned down offers of "up to a million dollars" to write his intimate memoirs. I ndia-China Talks May Lead To Parley On Formosa Situation By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The visit which. India's pep pery Vengalil Krishman Krishna Menon is paying to Chinese Com- munist Pre meir Chou En lai this week may make him a diplomatic hero. It is entirely possible -that the Krishna Menon -Chou talks, starting today in the Red Chinese ping, may lead to United" States- Communist negotiations on a Formosa cease fire. v They also may have important bearing on the suddenly intensi fied effort of United Nations Missing Girl's Berkeley, Calif. U.R) The distraught parents of 14 year old Stephanie Bryan, missing from her home for 11 days, said today "All we can do is hope." Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bryan still insisted their daughter must have been . , kidnaped as she walked home from school on April 28, although no definite clue to bear out their belief has turned up. ( A search of 32 square miles' of. desolate back country by 1200 volunteers failed yesterday to' yield any clues. A brief ripple of excitement came when Contra Costa county sheriff's reserves found a blood spattered bed spread one mile from the Broad way tunneL It was on the tunnel road that eight witnesses told of seeing a male auto driver beating a girl on April 29 a girl that could have been Stephanie. .However, a preliminary labor atory examination indicated the bed spread was apparently a discarded dog's bed and had nothing to do with the case. Frank Perl Parents Keep Hop ' La. FINER FUNERAL SERVICES wiy price' 4 " Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold to win the release of American and other Korean war prisoners held by the Reds in violation of the armistice. ' State Department Cool The State department does not often care much for the diplo matic activities of Indian Prime . Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon, who is chief delegate to the UJf. and chief diplomatic adviser. " Nehru and Krishna Menon can not fairly be called fellow travelers of the Reds., But too often, in the United States view point, they and the Communists happen to be going the same way diplomatically, . i - j . . This time it is difficult to see how Krishna Menon can do any harm. He could do much good. Here is the situation: . Chou En-lai made the dramat ic announcement on April 23, at the Asia African conference in Bandung, Indonesia, that Red China was ready to negotiate directly with the United States on the Formosa situation and Far Eastern issue in general Ever since then, there has been a bubbling under-current of secret diplomatic negotiations involving countries which have diplomatic relations with both the United States : and Red China. Formosa Discussed Nehru announced in New Del hi on April 30 that during the Bandung conference Krishna Menon and Chou had discussed "certain aspects" of the For mosa situation. As the result, Nehru said, Chou invited Krishna Menon to Peiping to continue the talks. "We have known for some time that Red China was ready to enter direct talks with Ameri ca on Formosa," Nehru said. Krishna Menon took off for Peiping Saturday. Before he left, he had some long talks with John Sherman Cooper, the new United States ambassador. It happened, interestingly, that Hammarskjold's stimulated at tempt to get the American pris oners in China freed coincided with Krishna Menon's visit. Since 1900 Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 rfle. PERL
