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History from the files of The
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10 TEARS AGO
May 17, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Seven Jackson county rural
schools close for summer vaca
tions. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The rains
were a boon to all crops. On the
other end of the argument, they
did no harm to the weeds.
20 YEARS AGO
May 17, 1935
(It was Friday)
Eighth annual convention
of
Federation of Garden clubs in
Oregon opens in Medford.
Ample irrigation water as
sured by Medford and Talent dis
trict manager for maturing of
crops.
30 YEARS AGO
May 17, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Medford annexation proposals
loses 121 to 74 in recent election.
Migratory worker problem dis
cused by group of interested
citizens.
40 YEARS AGO
May 17, 1915
Buffalo Bill, accompanying a
circus, arrives in Medford for
two appearances at the ball park.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The bridge across the Ap
plegate at the junction of middle
fork and Elliott creek is now
ready for foot passengers, and
will be open for heavier traffic
in a week or ten days.
What's the Answer?
(Cam You Get 4 of th 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Five, ten, 15, 20 or 25 thou
sand men a month will be draft
ed into the armed forces this
summer?
2. Adlai E.s Stevenson in 1956
will be younger or older than
Gen. Eisenhower when elected
President in 1952, or the same
age?
3. The U.S. bicycle industry
complains of large imports from
abroad or says it can meet for
eign competition unaided?
4. Which one of these states is
not in the new dust bowl of
1955: Arkansas, Colorado, Kan
sas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Tex
as, Wyoming?
5. Net income of over $5,000,
000 was reported by 5, 15, 50
or 150 individuals in 1951 (lat
est year of income-tax statistics)?
6. Most Poles are Roman Cath
olics, Orthodox (Greek) Catho
lics, Lutherans, or Jews?
7. Gov. Williams of Michigan,
is called "Soapy" because of col
or of his hair, cleanness of his
administration, or descent from
family of shaving soap makers?
The answers: 1. Ten thousand
a month. 2. Younger. 3. Com
plains. 4. Arkansas. 5. By five
individuals. 6. Roman Catholics.
7. Descent from shaving soap
family.
AIRSTRIP STARTED
Prineville (U.R) Construc
tion has begun on a 400 - foot
airstrip on' Big Summit prairie
in the Ochoco mountains which
will enable planes to take off at
high altitude in the spraying of
230,000 acres of Ochoco forest
timber being attacked by the
spruce budworm. The spraying
will begin about the middle of
June, when the spruce budworm
caterpillars begin to xtoa.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How Much Is "Much "?
There appears to be general agreement among
the experts that the Four-Power meeting now sched
uled for July will not amount to much.
Well, as we see it, that depends upon what is
meant by "much."
If "much" means an end to the cold-war, or a
treaty of peace between Russia and the USA, or even
any radical change in the attitude of Soviet Russia
as far as its desire to have its political doctrines spread
over the world is concerned, then the expectation of
failure will probably be realized.
MOTHING of that kind is in the cards.
A But that is not our definition of the term in this
context.
We believe the mere fact that Soviet Russia has
agreed to talk things over with England and the
United States, is extremely promising.
That this talk will be on the highest level the
so called "summit" is important, for in the final
analysis, the leaders of the four countries will have
to make the decisions in matters of policy. This could
not be done by their subordinates.
MOST important of all we believe such a meeting
can hardly fail to give these national leaders
and therefore the people of their countries a better
and clearer understanding of their contemporaries
and opponents and their policies, than they have
had before.
And that better understanding, it is our belief,
should go far toward removing fear, and fear is the
one element that must be removed or at least ma
terially reduced before there can be' any real im
provement in the world situation. .
t
11E grant the USA and England have greater
T T cause to fear Russia and Red China that is the
communist countries than Russia and China have
cause to fear the free democratic world.
But the great trouble is Russia and China don't
know it!
They have a great and real fear of military and
naval aggression from the free world, particularly
the United States, and can produce remarks by mili
tary and political leaders in this country to 'support
such apprehensions.
In short what was true
of Roosevelt's first term is
we have to fear most is fear itself.
XXTELL it would be too much to expect to remove
this mutual fear entirely in the few days that
this 4-Power conference
it is not too much to expect that as a result of this
gathering and exchange
fear can be, and will be,
And if that should be
only be all to the good in
dire predictions of the experts into a cocked-hat for
it would be a great accomplishment, it might oe one
that would prevent any Third World war in the near
future, and might even result via the breathing spell
allowed in the elimination
least with atomic weapons
eration, i
In other words while the tangible and immediate
results of this conference promise to result in no
great political revolution or dramatic world trans
formations, there is, in our -judgment, an excellent
chance that it will so reduce the fears and tensions
and increase the understanding between the free
world and the totalitarian world, that the danger
of any outbreak of a general war, will be greatly re
duced. If that should be the result, that would be as we
see it, to accomplish "much." R.W.R.
Fear as Cause of War
A well-known South African guide once remarked
that he did not fear lions because they were vicious
but because they were cowards.
What he meant by that was that most animals
attack human beings not because they are man eaters
on the prowl or blood-thirsty, but because they are
afraid. like certain nations they only fight in self
defense, or when they fear if they don't attack their
opponent will.
There is, we believe, a lot of truth to this. And
there is also a fact -to be remembered, that the genus
homo is still, broadly speaking, a member of the ani
mal kingdom.
TF Soviet Russia or Red China did not fear an at-
tack by the United States, and the USA had no
fear of an aggressive war from these two countries
singly or together, there would be no war no war
on a world scale at least in the foreseeable future.
In fact it is a fairly safe guess that Russia cer
tainly, and China probably don't want war, and in
spite of all the bluff and bluster don't intend to risk
one unless they are attacked. They hope to achieve
their goals by infiltration without war.
The trouble is this is only a "guess." And as long
as it is a guess and not a known fact, the free world,
and particularly this country, can't take a chance
and so the armament race goes on and on.
However there is one ray of light and hope in the
picture.
The longer the preparations for war go on without
war, the better the chances of there being none.
R.W.R.
Tuesday, May 17, 1953
in this country at the time
time today: the one thing
promises to function, but
of ideas face-to-face, that
reduced.
the result, then it would not
itself but would knock the
of another world war at
for at least another gen
Peace Offensive of
Russia Seen Attempt
To Form Neutral Belt
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Soviet Russia has embarked on
a big program of aggressive di
plomacy. The Austrian
treaty, the
Warsaw mili
tary alliance,
the impending
visit by -a top
ranking Krem
lin team to
Yugoslavia, the
new disarma
ment plan and
the approach
ing R u s si a n
Japanese trea
Charles AlcCartn
ty negotiations are all the result
of Russian initiative.
In addition, the Soviet govern
ment has just accepted the pro
posal of the Western Allies for
a Big Four meeting "at the sum
mit." In all, it looks on the surface
as if the Kremlin is right on top
of the situation in the field of
foreign affairs.
What is actually adds up to,
of course, is that the Kremlin
has been compelled to change its
foreign policy drastically be
cause of the ratification of the
West German armament trea
ties. Defeat Suffered
It has suffered a big deieat. As
the result it must assume the ag
gressive. Russian decided to sign the
Austrian treaty, after 10 years
of obstruction, in an attempt to
impede the actual rearming of
the West German Republic.
The idea is to say to the Ger
mans that they, too, can have a
peace treaty and see their coun
try reunited, if they will be neu
tral. The Warsaw alliance of the
Matter of Fact
BALANCE SHEET
Washington The Russians
are talking peace. But they are
preparing for war. And their
prep arations
are not only
more intensive
than ours.
They are also
hard as this
is for Ameri
cans to believe
technically
far ahead of us
in many im
portant ways.
That was the
real meaning
Stewart Alsop
of last Friday's cryptic Penta
gon announcement about "new
aircraft developments in air pa
rade formations over Moscow."
In a final reduction to absurdity
of the secrecy nonsense, the Pen
tagon at first tried to keep the
details about the flights over
Moscow witnessed by some
6,000,000 Russians secret. But
of course the facts came out.
Briefly, they are as follows.
There were a. number of
flights over Moscow before and
after May Day. The most im
portant were: one flight of 10
and another of eight Type 37s
(comparable to our heavy B-52);
one flight of 36 Type 39s (com
parable to our medium B-47); a
low altitude flight of a big, very
fast pursuit, from its configura
tion, an all-weather fighter; a
flight of a large turbo-prop
plane, comparable to our K-99
refuelling plane.
These facts sound dry enough
when recited. But they were
enough to throw the Pentagon
into one of the worst flops in re
cent years. For they make it ne
cessary to recast all previous
estimates of the American-Rus-sion
air-atomic balance. The bal
ance sheet now reads, in the
light of the Moscow air show,
about as follows:
Our atomic stockpile is still
several times as large as the So
viet' stockpile. But this is ceas
ing to matter very much, since
the Soviets are reaching the
point where they will have
enough atomic and thermonu
clear weapons for all needed tar
gets. Therefore delivery and de
fense capabilities are now the
decisive factors.
Overall, the Soviets have sev
eral times more jet fighters than
we do, and, more surprisingly,
about twice as many jet bomb
ers. This is somewhat deceptive,
however, since the bulk of the
Soviet jet bombers are two-
engined IL-28s which can reach
all targets in Europe or off the
"China coast, but cannot reach
this country.
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THE bulk of our jet bombers
are medium B47s, of which
we have well over a thousand.
With air refuelling, the B-47 can
reach Soviet targets and return.
The flight of 36 Type 39s indi
cates the Soviets are catching ud
fast with the B-47. And the flight
of the turbo-prop tanker indi
cates that they are learning air
refuelling techniques too. Yet,
assuming that the Soviets have
not produced more than a hun
dred or so of these medium
planes, we still have a big lead
in this field. It is quite literally
the only real lead we have left.
For what really shook the
Pentagon was the two formation
flights of apparently fully opera
Soviet Union and its satellites is
mere window dressing, a weak
retort to the admission of West
Germany to the North Atlantic
Treaty Alliance.
Russia always has had control
of the armed forces of its satel
lites. Further, these armed forces
might turn into a liability instead
of an asset in the event of a big
war.
Promoting 'Neutral Belt.
The decision of the Kremlin
team to visit President Tito of
Yugoslavia is an attempt to pro
mote the new "neutral belt" idea.
This is the formation of a
group of nations extending from
the Arctic Ocean to the Adriatic
Sea Finland, Sweden, Ger
many, Austria, Switzerland and
Yugoslavia which would be
neutral in the cold war.
They would make it harder for
the West to get propaganda
through the Iron Curtain. But
Russian propaganda and subver
sion would continue unimpeded
through Communist parties in
Western countries.
The new Russian disarmament
plan seems to be an advance over
those of the preceding years.
The big idea still seems to be a
treaty that would limit the grow
ing armed forces of the Western
Allies, and ban nuclear wea
pons, without providing ade
quate safeguards against Rus
sian cheating.
The Kremlin's two great fears
are United States superiority in
atomic weapons and the rearma
ment of Germany.
Finally, Russia proposed treaty
negotiations with Japan because
it had suffered another cold war
threat the decision of Japan to
arm as an ally of the West. It
wants to make Japan neutral.
Thus, on analysis, Russia's big
diplomatic offensive proves to
be defensive.
By Stewart Alsop
tional B-52-type heavy bombers.
This means that we are at best
neck-and-neck in race for the
intercontinental jet bomber,
which will certainly be the de
cisive factor in the air-atomic
balance until the arrival of the
intercontinental missile. And
what shook the Pentagon even
more was the appearance of the
entirely new all-weather fighter.
For the existence of such a
plane argues the existence of the
immensely complex weapons
system of which an all-weather
fighter is-only a part, including
early warning and ground con
trol systems. The intelligence
confirms the probable existence
of a fully mature Soviet air de
fense (which this country will
not have at least until the sum
mer of 1957). Against a Soviet
air defense, built around all-
weather fighters, this country's
reserves of comparatively slow
B-36 heavy bombers must be vir
tually written off as a factor in
the air-atomic balance.
This leaves our 1,200 or so B
47s as our only genuine element
of superiority over the Russians
in the air. The B-47s can be oper
ated efficiently only from for
eign bases. It is no wonder that
the Soviet peace proposal called
for "dismantling of military
bases on foreign territories."
TMJT the most disturbing
aspect of the situation is the
technical brilliance displayed by
the Soviet air engineers. Both
the Type 39 and the Type 37 do
the same jobs as our B-47s and
B-52s with half the number of
engines. This means that the So
viet engineers have developed
jet engines with twice the thrust
of any yet achieved in this coun
try. Moreover, their B-52 type
plane took just four years from
drawing board to operational
unit, whereas our B-52 took six
and a half years.
Their new K-99 type tanker
plane appears to have greater
fuel capacity than the K99.
Those who have studied the pho
tographs and performance rec
ords of the new fighter assert
that it is a brilliant achievement,
perhaps' even superior to our
newest supersonic fighters in the
"hundred series." Finally, con
trary to recent sunny Wilsonian
emanations from the Pentagon
there are very strong indications
that the Soviets are ahead in the
race for the intercontinental mis
sile, which will certainly deter
mine the air-atomic balance in
the end.
Perhaps President Eisenhow
er's sixth sense is right, and
things reaUy are "on the way
up." Perhaps peace is just
around the corner. But surely,
in view of the above, it would
be unwise to act blindly on this
assumption.
(Copyright, 1951,
New York Herald Tribune Ins.)
Animals Inherit
Million Dollar Estate
Framingham, Mass. (U.R)
The bulk of a $1,000,000 estate
was the legacy today of the
horses, dogs and birds owned by
an elderly bachelor who died last
week.
John R. Macomber, 79, left the
money in trut to take care of
me animals on his 220-acre coun
try estate known as "Raceland.'.'
His will was probated Monday.
L""
HYDROGEN THREAT
Czechoslovakian Defense
Minister Alexej Cepicka
(above) said that Soviet East
ern European satellites are
ready to use hydrogen bombs
against West if war comes.
Tibe threat was made at
biggest military demonstra
tion in Czechoslovakia since
World Warn.
Khrushchev Plans To
Attend Big 4 Meeting
London U.R) Communist
Party Boss Nikita Krushchev,
and not Soviet Premier Nikolai
Bulganin, may represent Russia
at the forthcoming meeting of
Big Four heads of state, a Lon
don newspaper suggested today.
The liberal News Chronicle
said "this is to be a meeting at
the summit and everyone cer
tainly everyone in Moscow
knows that the man now stand
ing alone at the summit in Rus
sia is Nikita Khrushchev, boss of
the Communist Party."
The article, signed by diplo
matic correspondent William
Forrest, noted that Khruschev
was named to lead the forth
coming visit of Soviet leaders to
Yugoslavia, and Bulganin was
listed only as another member
of the delegation.
Snowfall Assisting
Talent Wafer Picture
Talent About 12 inches of
snow fell at Hiatt reservoir in
the Talent Irrigation district
over the week end.
The district office said about
three inches fell before snow
started staying on the ground,
and that nine inches remained
on the ground. About three
inches was reported oh the
ground yesterday afternoon, and
rain was falling.
Stored water use has been cut
back and both Emigrant reser
voir and Hiatt reservoir are
maintaining about an even level,
the office said.
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In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Misery-loves-company note:
Britain is getting all sorts of
weather. The other day London
office workers shed their packets
and strolled in the warm sun
shinewhich is SOMETHING in
London. But in Scotland, only a
little to the north (the "big"
British Isle, you know, is very
small) it snowed seven inches.
In the Channel islands, only a
few miles, comparatively speak
ing, from London, there was a
freeze that damaged the new po
tato crop.
rpHERE has been a lot of talk
about overproduction of au
tomobiles, but Ford Motor Com
pany's marketing research mana
ger says it isn't as bad as it
sounds. The number of two-car
families in the United States, he
says, has TRIPLED in the past
ten years and is expected to
DOUBLE i nthe next ten.
That trend, he thinks, will pro
vide a continuing large market
for automobiles.
WHERE is always something, of
course, to worry about.
As of now, there are some 50,
000,000 passenger cars and about
10,000,000 trucks and buses in
our most fortunate of all coun
tries. If the number keeps on
.growing, as this two car trend
suggests, where are we going to
find space to park 'em all?
Not to mention roads to drive
'em on.
IS ANYONE in the State of
Jefferson old enough to re
member when the politicians
were basing their campaigns on
the slogan: "A CHICKEN IN
EVERY POT?"
The opposition promptly went
them one better and promised
TWO chickens in every pot.
Now we're talking of two cars
in every garage.
The world moves.
TIMELY thought:
More or less everywhere in
the world, except in the United
States, the trend is toward so
cialism in a greater or less de
gree.
: But-
Only in the United States is
anyone worrying about WHERE
TO PUT THE AUTOMOBILES
THAT THE PEOPLE ARE ABLE
TO BUY.
rpHAT brings up another
thought:
.The politicians strive unceas
ingly to make us believe that
THEY are responsible for all the
prosperity that comes to the peo
ple.
They aren't.
Cyrus McCormick, who In
vented tne iirst successful me
chanical reaper and thus started
American agriculture on the
road to MECHANIZATION, did
more for the American farmer
than all the politicians who have
beaten the brush for votes in
the century since McCormick
was born. .
THE POLITICIAN'S job is to
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GRANGE
Gold Hill Grange
Gold Hill Grange is again in
debted to Conger-Morris for the
showing of another film at the
meeting May 12. This picturo
showed Honduras in all its his
toric and modern splendor, with
its beautiful scenery and many
products, also the natives in
tribal costumes in festivities and
dances. '
Master Herman Kamping con
ducted the meeting, which re
ports were given by the HEC
chairman, Juvenile matron, agri
culture, legislative and ways and
means chairmen.
Present in the meeting was a
member living now in CarmeL
Calif., but visiting here a few
days, the Grange's former chap
lain, Iola Beman, was at tho
HEC meeting the preceding day
Sadie Frink Cyphers was a guest.
Delightful refreshments were
served by Mrs. Nina Dusenberry
and Mildred Wright. At the next
meeting, on May 19, the Pages,
Grays and Governors will serve.
At the Juvenile Grange meet
ing, plans were discussed to send
the Master, Delmer Suntle and
Overseer, Steven Gustafson, to
State Grange at Klamath Falls,
June 6-11. Refreshments were
served by Toni Morrow and a
display table was provided by
Luida Walker with her group
of Storybook dolls. These were
also shown at the Subordinate
meeting later. Next Juvenile
meeting is May 26.
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