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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-
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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