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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Central Point Grange joins
Jacksonville chapter favoring
Highway 99 as inter-regional
highway.
From Arthur Perry's
Ye Smudge Pot column: Former
eagle-eyed Minnesotans, adults
and adolescents, rose as one man
when this col. located Dulutfa
erroneously in Wisconsin, in
stead of their own home state.
Even the Wisconsinians were
mad about it. It is the most
diabolical, geographical atrocity
since the Sacramento Bee yanked
Crater Lake into California.
20 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
The Medford Gleemen plan
annual spring concert to be held
soon.
Camp Wimer CCC firemen
bring forest fire near Sexton
mountain under control in three
hours.
30 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1925
(It was Friday)
Residents of Medford and
nearby districts vote on annexa
tion of small areas to city.
Jackson county sheriff seizes
four-gallon "transformer," two
barrels of mash and arrested
three men in raid on moonshine
still in Applegate section.
40 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1915
(It was Saturday)
Jackson county road depart
ment resurfacing roads . with
buckshot gravel.
Route of Pacific highway from
Central Point to Josephine coun
ty line approved with three rail
road crossings.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The Supreme Court says
the Federal Power Commission
must or mustn't set prices of
natural gas sold by producers
to pipe-lines?
2. . President Eisenhower has
been corresponding with a Soviet
leader: Malenkov, Bulganin,
Molotov, Zhukov, or Khrush
chev? 3. The Harry S. Truman
Library is to be in Kansas City,
Washington, Independence (Mo.),
New York City, or Key West?
4. Lawyers now are or aren't
eligible for federal social secur
ity coverage?
3. Number of shares traded
annually on the N.Y. Stock Ex
change has gone up sharply, or
down sharply, or stayed about
the same in the last 10 years?
6. The United Nations char
tei was completed and signed
before or after Germany sur
rendered in World War II?
7. A "ghost writer" writes
ghost stories, right or wrong?
The Answers: 1. Says it must.
2. Marshal Zhukov. 3. Independ
ence. Mo. 4. Aren't. 5. Stayed
about the same. 6. After. 7.
Wrong, something for somebody
else to sign or speak.
MINNESOTA'S GROWTH
Minneapolis (U.R) Minneso
ta's 1955 population is estimated
at 3,138,872 by the state regis
trar of vital statistics, Dr. A. J.
Chesley. The 1950 federal cen
sus placed the state's popula
tion at 2,982,483.
MAIL TRIBUNE
. Both Sides Get A Laugh
There appears to be considerable humor in the
fight over Hells Canyon within the Oregon dele
gation. At least Congressman; Ellsworth, stalwart cham
pion of the private-power interests, declares, in his
latest communication to his constituents that remarks
by Senator Morse regarding this question makes it im
possible for him to suppress a chuckle.
The particular item in one of the home letters that
so stimulated our Congressman's risibilities follows,
quote:
"But do not be misled. Don't let yourselves be fooled."
It is, we assume, Mr. Ellsworth's contention that
Oregon's senior senator is in some way misleading his
constituents regarding this important question.
In searching around the Ellsworth offering for
evidence of this we found the following statement by
our congressman, quote:
"The Federal government does not make any profit
from any power dam."
Could this be advanced as a refutation of the
claim by Oregon's senior Senator that government
power projects don't cost the tax payers anything be
cause they are eventually "self liquidating."
If so then Senator Morse should also get a laugh.
POR while it is true the government does not make
a profit from its power-projects, as a private pow
er company does in the shape of dividends, it does
make money millions in fact said millions being
paid back to the US Treasury until the original gov
ernment loan is liquidated on behalf of the tax-payers.
To claim this is "not making a profit," would be
like claiming that a man who pays back a bank loan
out of his salary, isn't making a profit. Obviously if
he were not mking a profit he could not keep up his
payments.
CO the debate goes on and on.
And it does have its amusing features as well as
its exasperating ones.
Among the latter Is the reiterated claim that no
matter how desirable federal projects may be, there
is no chance of congress, as now constituted approv
ing them. As the need for more power is critical and
time is the essence, the only practical "out" therefore,
they claim, is a compromise
ship plan, for example, whereby the private company
pays for the power construction and gets the profits
therefrom while the government pays for the collat
eral benefits, such as flood control and transportation
improvements, which pay no profits.
1X7ELL, no one can blame the private power com-
panies for favoring such an arrangement tak
ing the cream while .the tax payers pay the freight
and a generous subsidy.
DUT how can the private power advocates be so
sure that congress would not approve any 100
federal project at this time Hells Canyon for ex
ample.? ,
Only a few days ago the Senate, with the admin
istration's approval and support, approved a far
larger 100 federal project on the Upper Colorado,
which will cost the taxpayers two or three times as
much as the Snake river proposal.
If Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado
can do it, why can't Idaho, Oregon, and Washington,
particularly when power can be produced on the
Snake at about one third the cost?
(XF course the House may defeat the Colorado pro-
posal. But to date it hasn't.
Certainly the possibility of failure in Congress did
not deter the delegations from the -Colorado Basin
area from trying. Why should it deter the represent
atives of Oregon, Idaho and Washington from doing
the same?
TTHE point in both cases is whether or not a federal
power project will serve the people of the areas
concerned better from all angles than any private
power or partnership project and at less cost.
If this is true then it should be done. If it isn't
true then it should be abandoned.
The facts should determine the decision, not the
wishful thinking of those who oppose federal power
on any basis and at the moment on the pretext "it
can't be done." R.W.R.
Can They Beat Morse?
If the above is a fair example of what the strategy
of the Republican High command will be a year hence
in its effort to defeat Senator Morse then we fear it
is doomed to a rude awakening.
For if there is one charge against Oregon's senior
Senator that can't stand up it is that of "double-talk"
any effort on his part, at any place or any time, to
"fool the people."
fF all the representatives Oregon has sent to Wash
ington in its entire history, we believe Wayne
would rank first in the direction of absolute candor,
frankness and forthrightness. Like all other humans
he is not infallible, he has his faults, he makes his
mistakes, but he never side-steps an issue, he never
equivocates, he never tries to fool anyone, he never
fails to take the Deonle all the neonle into his con
fidence, and whether they
1 SB m mm m
ne never iails to put all his cards on the table and
face up.
Many don't agree with 'him. But not even his
worst enemy we feel sure would deny that there is
never any doubt as to JUST WHERE HE STANDS.
CO this sort of talk intimating that our senior Sen
ator is misleading and trying to fool the people
Sunder. May IS, 1955
adoption of the partner
agree with him or don't,
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Matter of Fact
FEELING OUT THE RUSSIANS
Washington "Operation Feeling-Out"
is now about to begin.
The purpose is to test Soviet in
tentions to
i l n a o u i
whether there
is any thing
real and solid
behind the
small signs
and portents
suggesting that
the Soviets
may actually
want a relaxa
tion of ten-
...
Stewart Alsop sions.
"Operation Feeling-Out" is of
ficial American policy, duly ap
proved by the National Security
Council and President Eisen
hower. But it should be under
stood that it is a testing opera
tion and no more.
With the long heralded "meet
ing at the summit" apparently
in prospect, and with optimistic
talk suddenly being heard all
over the place, a lot of" people
are beginning to think that an
actual settlement of major East
West issues may be in sight. No
such settlement is at all likely
or at least no informed official
believes so.
What is apparently in pros
pect instead is a long period of
"intense diplomatic activity,"
which means that both sides will
go on for a long time sniffing
at each other, like suspicious
dogs. The meeting at the summit,
if it takes place, will be hardly
more than a particularly high
level sniff.. One lawyer-official
compares the meeting to an in
troduction between principals in
a legal case, before the princi
pals' solicitors get down to
business.
It is no secret that President
Eisenhower and Secretary Dul
les only agreed to this curious
ceremony as an election present
to the hard-pressed British Con
servatives. Both previously be
lieved that there should be a top
level meeting only if "Operation
Feeling-Out" were a success, and
some real area of agreement had
first been established.
Instead, in order to satisfy the
supposed hankerings of, the Brit
ish electorate, the meeting at the
summit will precede the feeling
out process rather than the other
way round. The meeting may
turn out to be a useful high
level sniff. But it is nonsense to
supose that a real settlement
of major issues above all the
German issue could emerge
from a few days of guarded talk
between the chiefs of state.
TNDEED, there is very little ex-
pectation that a real settle
ment is likely to result even
when the solicitor-Foreign Min
isters get down to business. The
heart and soul of any general
agreement would be, of course,
an agreement on Germany
without such an agreement the
cold war cannot possibly , end.
And there is no sign that either
Russia or the Western Allies are
prepared for the kind of drastic
policy change a German settle
ment would require.
For ten years, both East and
West have shared a nightmare
that a reunited Germany
might become allied to the other
side. The Russians are not likely
to agree to a German settlement
which would leave Germany in
NATO and American troops on
German soil. And this country
is equally unlikely to accept any
settlement which would leave
Germany ostensibly neutralized,
with American forces with
drawn across the Atlantic. Any
such settlement would knock the
Western alliance into a cocked
hat. . '
There is no visible reason for
supposing that any new way out
of this ancient stalemate is
about to be found. There is, to
be sure, a new element in the
equation, West Germany, a pros
perous nation of 50,000,000 sov
ereign again, and getting ready
to rearm.
It has long been a second
nightmare in Washington that
the Russians might offer the
Germans the sort of deal no
German government could turn
down.. The formula might be an
offer of reunification on the
basis of free elections, in return
for a German promise to aban
don NATO and tell the Ameri
cans to get out. The former Ger
m a n territories behind the
Oder-Neisse line might be
thrown . into the pot, to make
the bargain more tempting.
If the Germans accepted such
an offer, or even looked like ac
cepting it, this country and its
allies would be faced with an
enormously threatening crisis.
The Austrian negotiations have
made this second nightmare par
ticularly vivid. The Soviets may
conceivably have something of
the sort in mind. But always be
fore and with good reason
they have stopped short of the
kind of offer which would really
of Oregon on the public vs. private power issue or
anything else can't get to first base because it is
100 untrue.
And the people of Oregon regardless of party
will know it before election day if they don't know
it now. -
Senator Morse has plenty of enemies, and in next
year's election he will have very strong and generous
ly financed opposition the strongest the Republican
party can assemble but if Congressman Ellsworth's
tack is to be followed, on the public-power issue, or
anything else, as the spear-head of the opposition,
our prediction is Morse will win in a walk. R.W.R.
By Stewart Alsop
tempt the West Germans.
THE Soviet Communist pup
pets would be overwhelm
ingly defeated in any free elec
tion in East Germany, thus pub
licly exposing world commu
nism as a fraud perpetrated by
a tiny minority. The abandon
ment of the German puppet
would hardly encourage others.
The loss of East Germany would
mean the loss of important uran
ium mines. It would give restless
Poland a common border with
freedom. For such reasons, if the
Russians do make the kind of
offer Washington has long
feared, it will mark a truly revo
lutionary change in Soviet
policy.
For the same reasons, any
such dramatic Soviet initiative
is believed improbable. Indeed,
most officials doubt that the
coming period of mutual sniff
ing will produce any great
drama at all. Abut the most
that "Operation Feeling-Out"
might produce is a tacit agree
ment not to commit mutual sui
cide. But even this would be a
considerable step forward.
(Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Portland has been having a
rash of bombing threats one
being at a place called Johnny's
Tavern, where a message found
at the door warned the proprie
tor to come across with a pay
ment of several hundred dol
lars or else!
Otherwise, the note said, the
tavern would be bombed and its
proprietor would be shot. Police
say they think it's a hoax.
WOULDN'T it be wonderful if
people would only follow a
GOOD EXAMPLE as readily, as
quickly and with as much fun
as they seem to follow a bad one?
AT THE present moment in his
tory, the United States has as
its President the foremost sol
dier in the world. The business
of reducing army, navy and Ma
rine corps forces being a purely
military decision, I think I'd
rather trust Ike's judgment.
THIS comes from Japan:
Japanese villagers are con
tinuing to protest the firing (at
practice targets) of American
guns on the slopes of Mt. Fuji.
The Japanese don't like the idea
of guns firing on the sacred
mountain. They object, also, to
the fact that the shells pass over
two trails used by pilgrims on
the way up Fuji.
I THINK we'd better do our tar
get shooting somewhere else. -In
these critical days when we
need REAL ALLIES WHO
MEAN BUSINESS, winning
friends and influencing peole is
tremendously important.
TELLING about the weather in
the West, the teletype (which
is often an amusing robot) re
marked: "A scattering of low pressure
centers in the Far West is caus
ing rather widespread cLOUSI
NESS." The context of the story
indicated that it meant to say
CLOUDINESS.
Let's let it stand.
It's accurate AS IS in this
freakish spring season in the
West.
WALL STREET report:
The stock market declined
today FOR THE SECOND
STRAIGHT DAY. Losses of one
to three points were widespread
at noon, but strength was shown
by some individual issues.
IS THAT good?
Or is it bad?
It all depends, I think, on your
point of view. If you're interested
chiefly in the long-term welfare
and prosperity of our country,
you'll hope the stock market
desn't climb too much and too
rapidly from here on for a while.
If it keeps on going up and looks
like it never would come down,
it will lead too many peole to
quit working and saving and
start pursuing the fast buck.
If, on the other hand, you're
already pursuing the quick buck
along the speculative trail, you'll
be sure that any break in stock
prices is bad.
OVER on the other side of the
mountains, short-sighted peo
ple are doubtless hoping secretly
that Public Law 587 WILL force
Klamath reservation timber on
the market for immediate cut
ting, thus precipitating a big
rough lumber boom even
though such a boom would in
evitably be followed by a bust.
Those who look forward to
the long future DREAD the
thought of a quickie boom that
would be followed by an inevit
able bust.
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Is It a Renaissance?.
To the Editor: Is Oregon to
emerge from 150 years of
medieval waste and destruction?
It is indeed good to know that
a state-wide effort is being made
to bring about at least a
semblance of conservation of our
forests and other natural re
sources. Pledgings and warnings
were made through all those
years for sane and sound use;
but heeded not. UnequaUed, un
controlled greed and vandalism
raged unchecked.
No longer can we fool our
selves, or be fooled into believ
ing America's forests "inexhaus
tible," "Timber-r-r forever--r-r-r,"
"We'll never run short
of timber," and other false slo
gans. Had the West Coast Lumber
Assn., which includes the Weyer
haeuser Timber Co., and a score
of other big timber and logging
outfits heeded the warnings
thru the past 100 years, and es
pecially the last 50 years, there'd
be no timber shortage now. Had
the Federal Govt, and the states
exercised the warnings of Pres.
Cleveland, Pres. Theodore Roose
velt, and America's first Chief
Forester, who brought our U.S.
Forest Service and National For
ests into being, or even if for
est conservation urged at the
October, 1946 American Forest
Congress by Lyle Watts, and
through his period as Chief For
ester, been heeded by private
lumbermen and loggers, the
crisis we are now in would at
least have been delayed.
Gifford Pinchot and some
other far-sighted, public-spirited
men worked tirelessly to bring
about forest practices by which
America might have forestry al
w a y s, protected watersheds,
streams, soil, wildlife, and other
resources dependent upon for
ests, including labor.
Working with Mr. Pinchot,
president T. R." called a congress
of all state Governors, and oth
ers, in May, 1908, to whom he
said in part: "We are over the
verge of a timber famine in this
country and it is unpardonable
for the Nation or the states to
permit any further cutting of our
timber save in accordance with
a system which will provide that
the next generation shall see the
timber increased instead of
diminished." Those were the for
estry teachings and practices of
our first Chief Forester, Gifford
Pinchot.
' More power to every conser
vation movement that will bring
the greatest good to the largest
number for the longest time.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.
It's Skid Road
To the Editor G r a t e f u 1
thanks to the United Press or
was it the Mail Tribune that de
serves the credit for spelling it
out, Skid Road, insead of the
meaningless term, Skid Row.
Can't remember when it was
last spelled right as it was in
Friday's issue of the Mail Trib
une,, front pages, col. 4 next to
the bottom item. It would have
been good reading to the late ed
itors of the Timberman, Geo. M.
and Geo. F. Corwall who fought
doggedly to have it spelled Skid
Road. So has Jim Stevens, col
umnist in the MT and other pa
pers, also that profilic writer of
logging lore, Stewart Holbrook.
Just why the Skid Road term
was applied to off color or more
correctly too much color streets,
is hard to know. For the skid
road was where the moaning,
tongue-lolling ox-teams came
dragging the string of logs down
the swamped out roadway,
crossed with peeled-top logs,
greased on the upgrade, sanded
on the down, the simplest, best
way to get them to the water
landing where the big sticks
could be handled.
How the early settler and log
ger wished the big Douglas firs
were smaller like trees back
east. . For they had to be axed
down and into log lengths.
That's how come the spring
board that enabled a faller to
go up two or three boards high
so the chips would come out
better from the up to two feet
or more deep cut.
The skid-road term seems to
have been born in the roaring
days of logging in the Puget
Sound area. That was when the
big Swede grabbed up the saloon
heating stove and hurled it at
some heckler but missed and
smashed through the front door.
This and much more attracted
some brainless wonder writer to
come out to Seattle and write it
all up, using the moron term,
skid-row. And the confounded
thing stuck, even to this day.
Some reason for the skid
road term was the fly-by-night
saloons and their female satel
lites that located on or near long
used skid-roads to wangle what
they could from loggers on their
way out to "celebrate," or as an
old timer told me, "to give my
brains a rest."
F. J. Clifford,
1211 W. Main,
Medford, Ore.
On the basis of their March
1 intentions, Canadian farmers
plan substantial increases over
1954 in the acreage of oats, bar
ley and flaxseed this year. .
POT LUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The picture above is a scoop.
It is the only known existing
picture of the pilot of a Martian
flying saucer.
How it was taken, when the
saucer landed, whatever com
munications were undertaken
between the photographer and
the pilot are a secret of pho
tographer a Camp White mem
ber who wishes to remain uni
dentified. The reports indicate, however,
that the saucer landed on Table
Editorial Comment
STATE MEAT INSPECTION
he Grants Pass Courier notes
that after five legislative ses
sions in a row had turned down
state meat inspection the recent
session, the 48th, set up a pilot
program. An appropriation of
$75,000 was made which will
be supplenmted by fees collected
from packers and meat dealers,
his will enable the State Depart
ment of Agriculture to make a
start in inspection of meats for
human consumption, a service
now performed by federal in
spectors only in th efew plants
in the state electing it, and by
inspectors from some cities.
The Courier credits Southern
Oregon packers with heading the
campaign for the bUl. That part
of the state has suffered from
dumping of meats that would not
pass California inspection. One
person who deserves a major
share of the credit for this initial
elgislation is Mrs. Marie Bos-
worth of the Medford League
of Women Voters. She gathered
petitions, came to Salem with
them and lobbied energetically
for this consumer protection.
Salem (Oregon) Statesman
(Editor's note: It should per
haps be added that Mrs. Frank
Fairweather has been chairman
of the Medford league's commit
tee supporting meat inspection,
and that both Mrs. Fairweather
and Mrs. Bosworth have spent
a great deal of time and effort,
over a period of years, in behalf
of the measure.)
Coon Says Debate
May Not Be Needed
Washington (U.R) Rep. Sam
Coon (R-Ore.) told Sen. Itich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) Fri
day that a debate on "partner
ship" development of John Day
dam may not be necessary.
Neuberger proposed a debate
to be staged in Oregon in Sep
tember on a bill Coon intro
duced to allow private power
companies to participate with
the government in building the
dam. He said Friday the Pendle
ton, Ore., Junior Chamber of
Commerce had offered to spon
sor the meeting.
"Senator," Coon wrote Neu
berger, "I want you to know
that I shall be very happy to
meet you in public debate on the
merits or demerits of any timely
subject. However,' as seems to
be your habit, you have pre
sumptuously jumped to the con
elusion that H.R. 5789 the part
nership bill will not have be
come law by September."
Coon said he had not intro
duced the bill for publicity or
"facetious" purposes and said he
would work "tirelessly" for its
passage.
Cortisone Flown to
Aid Burns Woman
.
Portland (U.R)' A mercy
shipment of cortisone was flown
to Burns, Ore., Friday to aid a
woman critically ill with an
abdominal ailment.
The woman was Mrs. Agnes
Kennedy, wife of Donald Ken
nedy, special assistant to the U.
S. Ambassador to India.
The air force made the flight.
Two relays of Oregon State
police and a Boise, Idaho, Red
Cross car teamed up Thursday
to rush blood from Boise to
Burns. The hospital's weekly
quota had been exhausted.
Mrs.- Kennedy, who returned
to Burns to live with her sister,
Mrs. Jessie Richey, last week
because she found the Indian cli
mate unbearable, had been re
ported as improving Saturday
after receiving the transfusion.
WEATHER By United Press
Northern California: Fair Sun
day; warmer extreme north
Sunday; northwest winds 20-35
MPH near coast and windy over
interior.
Rock, and the pilot made his way
to a neighborhood tavern, after
which he boarded the Camp
White bus in an hilarious condi
tion. We are assured that the Mar
tian's resemblance to an oak puff
ball is purely coincidental.
Mr. Oo, a Burmese, Is sched
uled to spend the next few
days as the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. John Ousterhout of Eagle
Point.
The possibilities for bad
puns are positively fantastic.
We restrain ourselves with
with great difficulty, leaving
the temptation to the Ouster
houts. who can probably do all
right for themselves.
Maybe he was left over from
Easter, and maybe not, but any
way, a large gray rabbit showed
up Friday morning at Doctor'
clinic on West Main st.
He (or she) wandered around
under the feet of the caretaker,
and in and around the clinic all
day. One of the girls who works
there took him (or her) home Fri
day night so she (or he) wouldn't
get run over or lost , or some
thing. . i
It is still unknown where he
(or she) came from and if his
(or her) owner can identify and
claim the rabbit, we have a hunch
a bunch of doctors and their
helpers would be grateful.
With the number of doctors
recently domiciled on a cer
tain street in a new section of
east Medford, the suggestion
has been made that the area
be renamed "Verde Pills."
Butte Falls,
May 6, 1955
Potluck Editor:
In regard to the stranse nlac
names in your column a few
days ago, I lived near the town
of Ono, Shasta County, Calif.,
for several years. The story I
have heard in regard to naming
Ono and Igo was this:
"There were several hundred
Chinese mining about half a mile
from what is now Igo, and evi
dently were enjoying a bit of
success. A large group of whites
were banded together, and de
cided to run the Chinese out.
One Chinaman was a bit more
stubborn than the others, but fin
ally he said 'Igo, Igo. Perhaps he
and others later started mining
near Ono anyway white men
decided to run the Chinese out
of there too, and one of them
said 'Ono, Ono me washee."
I assume he decided to run a
laundry.
As for the other towns, can
someone give excuses for towns
such as Happy Camp and Hum
bug on the Klamath River? Knob,
Shasta county, was named for a
nob-shaped peak nearby. Also
Hat Creek, Shingletown, Shasta
county; Fiddletown, east of Sac
ramento; Yankee Jim's near Col
fax; Rough and Ready near Grass
Valley; Shilling (post office),
more generally known as
Whisky town in Shasta county;
Birds Landing near Vallejo (pro
nounced Valley Ho); Long Barn
east of Stockton; Fair Play, east
of Sacramento; Fallen Leaf near
Lake Tahoe.
Perhaps that will keep Pot
luck busy for a few days and
provide some food for thought.
Respectfully yours,
Floyd H. McCabe
Fish Packer Wants
Central Authority
Portland (U.R) An official
of one of the Pacific Northwest's
largest fish packing concerns
Saturday recommended that sol
responsibility for management
of Oregon's salmon and steel
head resources be given th
Oregon Fish Commission.
Thomas R. Sandoz. president
of the Columbia River Packers-
Association at Astoria, told th
Izaak Walton League In Port
land that under the nresent set
up jurisdiction over regulation
of the salmon and steelhead re
sources is divided between th
Fish Commission and th Ore
gon State Game Commission.
He said this divided authority
had led to confusion in regula
tions and conservation activities.
Sandoz called for a return to
the original concent which he
said was "to center the respon
sibility for management of our
salmon resource in the Oregon
Fish Commission."
Morse Requests Hearing
On Hillsboro Air Bdse
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Saturday
said he has requested the Navy
to hold a public hearing at Hills
boro, Ore., on the establishment
of a naval air reserve training
school there.
Morse said he made the re
quest because of many pro and
con letters he had received from
Hillsboro residents.
Congress has been asked for
initial 'construction funds for
the project
BEND MAN DROWNS
Biloxi, Miss. (U.R) The Air
Force announced here Saturday
that A3-C Donald E. Stucky,
Bend, Ore., drowned Thursday
at Keesler Air Force Base here.
He failed to come to the surface
of the water after divine? into si
swimming pool.