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FOUR MEDF-ORD (OREGON) Medfordv&Tribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager I. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. 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 Dailv and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three raos. 3.50 Sundav Onlv One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central i-oim. caine ruini Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent am vsn mii toe Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 carrier ana ueaiers ci All Terms casn in avance dfficial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or jacKson t-ouniy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: uircT.Hni I inAV rOMPASY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeies, Seattle. Portland. St, Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL IDITOIIAl I aVocIi-atiIon Cvpfly fUitlMIt VJASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 19. 1945 (It was Saturday) State Sen. Earl T. Newbry of Ashland named as member of Tax Study commission. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A special city election will be held June 12, and a special state election June 22. There is some doubt the tired voters will make it to both. 20 YEARS AGO Mar 19. 193S (It was Sunday) Large crowds watch Medford sisters, Golda and Deab Higdon, perform with Barnes circus here. More than 80 artists enter Chamber of Commerce spon sored art exhibit here. 30 YEARS AGO May 19' 1925 (it was Tuesday) From Local and Personal col umn: The county court by reso lution has reduced the load limit to 450 pounds per inch of tire and all police and highway of ficers have been instructed to arrest drivers hauling loads in excess of the limit. West Virginia couple, hiking across country, arrive in Med ford after being on road 14 months. 40 YEARS AGO May 19. 1915 (It was Wednesday) Women's delegation appeals to Medford city council for police matron. Governor J. F. Fielder of New Jersey and Governor Phil ips Lee Goldsborough of Mary land to visit Medford. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rtpert 1. Strikes in public utilities are forbidden by law in all, no, or some states? 2. New York City has many more or slightly more persons of Jewish than Protestant back ground, or many more or slight ly more of Protestant back ground? 3. Claret is red wine from southwestern France, northeast ern France, the Rhine valley or Germany or northern Italy? 4. In what game is the term "eagle" used? 5. There is land at -both the North and South poles, at neither, only at the North or only at the South Pole? 6. Okinawa, one West Pacific island under full U.S. armed forces control, is now unforti fied, or lightly or heavily forti fied? 7. Tula Finklea is the real name of which dancer and screen star? The Answers: 1. Some states. 2. Slightly more of Jewish. 3. Southwestern France. 4. Golf. 5. Only at the South Pole. 6. Heav ily fortified. 7. Cyd Charisse. Jacksonville School To Wecome Newcomers Jacksonville First graders at Jacksonville school will be hosts at visiting day tomorrow for district students who will be entering first grade next year. The visiting hours will be be tween 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. A program demonstrating ac tivities and games learned dur ing the past year is being ar ranged by the first graders. , MAIL TRIBUNE Has The Climate Changed? The weather is always "unusual" because so few have good memories. Even fewer people keep weather records. And those who do so often fail to look them up. This is especially true in the spring and early summer, April, May and June. Most of us mortals in the winter look forward to these vernal months as the end of snow and ice and frost, to the warm and happy reign of old King Sol a few April show ers, of course, but nothing to really mar the frolic some season of the great and salubrious out-of-doors, just enough to make the garden and the wild flowers and the new babies grow. "THEN when it comes to frost, worse than that when it freezes and snows, the long-suffering citizen, swears and curses, wants to lynch the weatherman and is absolutely certain of one thing the climate is changing and "the good old days" of his particular "Garden of Eden," have gone forever never to return. It would be helpful at such a time, and save con siderable wear and tear on the human frame of Mr. Citizen if he would call up the Weather Bureau and get a few facts. He would then find that through the years on the average, the frost season seldom ends here until around the first week in May that at least is the seasonal average, over the years. He would also discover that there have been kill ing frosts in June and there have been snow-flumes in the hills as late as the Fourth of July. In fact seldom do we have unusual weather in the sense of unprecedented weather, and as far as the climate changing is concerned, the weather rec ords in contrast with certain "old wives tales," fail to furnish the slightest supporting evidence. Weather on the average is and has been, as far as the records show, much the same year after year. . THIS comment may not be particularly timely, as the weather man is doing a wonderful job out side as this is being written. However there might be a blizzard on Mt. Ash land, and hail in the valley with mercury falling like a stricken sparrow, tomorrow it probably won't happen, but it could. It has in the past. In which case those who have bothered to read this offering would be better prepared, than if they had not, and would refuse to get mad about it and claim the good old climate had gone, never to re turn ! R.W.R. Better Late Than Never Better late than never, and better to close the door after the horse has been stolen than not to close it at all, one reason being there might be other horses, therein. But it is regrettable that over 2,000,000 acres of timberland here in the Far West, have been secured via false mining claims when the wooded areas should have been conserved by the government for future generations, or sold at a operators for the timber thereon. In a majority of cases, lators have never produced mercial scale, have sold off the timber for large sums for which they paid practically nothing. It has been a bunco game from the start, and the pity is, that a stop to the flim-flam procedure was not ac complished many years ago. However that is, as the saying goes, "water over the dam." CEVERAL bills have now been introduced into Con- gress, one of them by Congressman Ellsworth, to plug, what the Oregonian calls, "the gaping holes" in our federal mining laws. The committee hearings are now on, the bills have the backing of both conservationists, the mining in dustry as well as the American Forestry Association, which is something. Needless to say Senators Morse and Neuberger are on the side of the proponents of this greatly needed reform, although some criticism has been made of certain details of the Ellsworth measure, and in the El Serena case Mr. Ellsworth was on the side of the mineral claimants, he maintains prop erly so. OOWEVER that too is "water over the dam." The Mail Tribune called attention to this piratical practice several years ago, but nothing was done about it. As of today we don't care what the bill is called or who gets credit for it, so long as the highway robbery by fraudulent mining claims here in Oregon is stopped and stopped completely and without delay. R.W.R. What Is "Playing Politics? When is opposition to a political action or meas ure legitimate and when does it come under the op probrious title of "playing politics?" We note that criticism of the "administration's administration of the polio vaccine distribution, is sharply criticized as "playing politics." . WE agree it should be a TlOrflCOTIC'llin Villf Anna aiiwoiioiu, uut uuco Lliab 111 tail llldl It ally method adopted, is not as effective from the stand point of the public welfare and nartiwilariv trm health of the children, as trie tormer should not be criticized? That, as we see it would not be nlavino- nnlitfrs. but merely taking proper people ana tnis would be true whether the critics happen to be members of the opposition or not. R.W.R. Thursday, Mar 19. I9SS fair price, to legitimate the mining claim specu any minerals on a com 99 problem above political tVi4- 1 L some other method, that action on behalf of the Japan To Australia Flight Gives Soviet Food for Thought Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The flight of four American fighter-bomber planes from Ja pan to Australia points up the amazing prog ress of Allied Defense organ ization in that part of the World. It was a dra matic illustra tion of Ameri can striking power and it ought to make both the -ii- Charles McCann cninese com munists and the Russian Com munists do some thinking. Dispatches emphasized that the planes could have carried atom bombs. The Thunderjets flew 4,820 miles from Tokyo to a . point near Sydney, Australia. Though they were refuelled three times in the air by tanker planes, it is still interesting to In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More about water: Clarence Davis, undersecre tary of the interior department, tells the Omaha chamber of com merce that the great long range problem with which the United States is confronted is the supply of water. HE SAYS we have lived for 200 years on this continent without knowing that a water problem exists. But He adds The tremendous growth of the last 75 years, or even the last 25 years, has brought to the fore the FUNDAMENTAL FACT THAT WATER IS THE ONE GREAT BASIC RESOURCE ON WHICH ALL ELSE DEPENDS. THAT IS to say The time is at hand when NO AREA no matter how great may be the total of its other re sources can develop and ex pand UNLESS IT HAS WATER ENOUGH. THAT FOCUSES the spotlight on another situation. J: D. Zellerbach, head of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation, tells the Portland chamber of commerce that a bright future lies ahead for wood products in dustries in the Pacific North west. He says paper production should increase 55 per cent IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, pro viding the Northwest with a pay roll of $175,000,000 per year. WHAT DOES that mean? " First let me point out what it DOESN'T mean. It doesn't necessarily mean that the areas that have plenty of wood have a guaranteed fu ture in the way of pulp and paper development. Wood is only ONE essential ingredient of pulp and paper products including wallboard and fibreboard con tainers and rayon and all the other fascinating things that can be made of wood fiber. THE OTHER essential ingre dient of pulp and paper de velopment is WATER. It takes PLENTY OF WATER to make pulp and paper. No area that lacks water is going to get exten sive pulp and paper products plants. Its wood fiber will be shipped to some place that HAS PLENTY OF WATER. HERE IN Southern Oregon and Northern California we have PRESENTLY plenty of water. But The fact that we have enough water NOW doesn't mean that our future is guaranteed. Cal ifornia is full of projects to ship water from the North to the South. The Feather River proj ect is one of them. The Trinity project is another. It seems quite likely that in California the counties-of-origin law, which has given the counties in which the water originates priority in the use of their water, may be re pealed. . The demand for water in Cen tral and Southern California is practically unlimited. If the Feather and the Trinity projects do not provide enough, the water of the Klamath river will be next in line for exportation to the south. After the Klamath is tapped if water exportation continues the headwaters of the Rogue and the Umpqua will be under con sideration as an export source. r THE West, at least, water is the PRICELESS ingredient. Without it, all other resources will be valueless. Water, in the future, is going to be sought wherever it can be found, and whenever an UNUSED water resource is found exportation of it will be sought. TTOW SHALL we of Southern "Oregon and Far Northern California protect our water? There is only one answer. WE MUST PUT IT TO USE. We must put it to COMPLETE USE. And we must commit it to complete use as rapidly as pos sible . note that the distance from New York to Moscow is 4,665 miles. Pearl Harbor day found the defenses of the Western world in the vast Pacific ocean area woe fully weak and completely unor ganized. Australians and New Zealand ers then and also Americans and Canadians on the Pacific coast had long been alert to what was then called the YeUow Peril. Now we have the more dan gerous Red peril of Communism. But the defenses of the free world are no longer either weak or disorganized. The Pacific area is so great that a compact organization like that of the North Atlantic Treaty is not practicable. The European defense prob lem is one of land warfare. That of the Pacific is one of covering enormous expanses of water. In the Pacific, there are the "ANZUS" pact and the "SEATO" pact, binding together eight free countries against aggression. Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed the United States signed the ANZUS defense treaty in September, 1951, after the signing of the Japanese peace treaty. These three countries are now allied with Britain, France, the Philippine Islands, Thailand and Pakistan in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization pact, con cluded last September. Eighty-six military experts of the eight countries met late last month at Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines, to organize their defense plans. Power which the Tokyo-Sydney jets illustrated has been shown also by the 7th Fleet. In the evacuation of the Chi nese Nationalist garrison and thousands of civilians from the Tachen islands, and in the evac uation of Indochinese civilians from Communist northern Viet Nam, the 7th Fleet showed what it can do in a cold war. It was certainly not because he thought the United States was weak in that area that Chi nese Communist Premier Chou En-lai made his offer at the Asia-Africa conference at Ban dung to negotiate directly on problems which are causing ten sion. The jet flight should make Chou and his fellow Reds less in clined to start anything. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addreia of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication ia Dermis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Wrens In the Radio Set To the Editor: Undoubtedly everyone has heard of "bats in your belfry," and "bees in your bonnet," and now, how about "wrens in your radio?'" The dwelling of the senior von Steins, west of Eagle Point on Long Mountain was, they felt sure, mouse proof. Yet early last year the family became aware of the indoor presence of a small critter which occupied it's energy primarily in disappearing 'flashes of movement which prevented identification. Soon, however, the mysterious beastie lost' it's wilderness suffi ciently to be identified as a wren. She perched upon the teacups and bugged the flowers in the picture-window box, and at night took up sleeping quarters in a fold of the sleeve of a coat hang ing in a closet, which was thence forth left undisturbed for that purpose. Came the spring. What with nearly everybody building houses with new ideas and all, Jenny became enthused. Henry Wren appeared at this point. Henry disapproved with a valedictorian vehemence it was entirely unnecessary to be a wren to understand. While Jen ny stuck like a burr to the arm of the dining room chair and extolled the color scheme of what she saw in the interior of the radio, Henry stood spraddle legged on the carpet refusing to come up and look. He had prom ised "for better- or worse," but not for anything like this! To the discerning eye, how ever, it was obvious aU that was needed was three, or perhaps four, last year's oak leaves; some of those long black hairs which the saddle-mare had rubbed off on the oak post out at the corral; some snips of yarn from Edna's knitting, and a few mouthfuls of down from that white goose's nest, from which she had now departed with her goslings. Henry appeared, during con struction of the nest, with an oc casional wisp of dried grass, limply in his unwilling beak, and Jenny made over him as though he were doing all the work. Now she appears most fre quently with Martin Agronsky, to go out for . a breath of un tainted air, returning to the busi ness of hatching five infinitesi- Rosalind Russell, star "Wonderful Town,' with her son, Lanct If you have, then surely you've felt that surge of warm feeling spread over you ... as I have. "Maybe it's hii wide-eyedj . absorbed expression 1 1 1 perhaps it's the happy feeling I get just at being in church with Lance and my husband, Fred and knowing we've already introduced our son to God. As we attend church each week with Lance, we see his heart grow bigger with the qualities of love, friendship and tolerance. Because Faith has made our lives so much richer we want Lance to grow up in its wisdom." Rosalind Russell Light their life with Paith ffflsK . ; Contributed to The Religion in American Life Program by Naming of Trustees for Old Cemetery Opens Future Use Recent action by the county court in appointing a board of trustees for the Rock Point Cemetery has paved the way for reestablishment of the historic old burying ground, supporters of the project reported today. The cemetery is located two miles north of Gold Hill. On Saturday, May 28. a clean up day will be held at the ceme tery, and anyone interested is invited to attend. They may lo cate lots in which ancesters may be buried, and can help in iden tifying unnamed graves. Those attending should bring clean-up tools and their lunches. Coffee will be served by the committee in charge, of which Mrs. A. A. Walker, Gold Hill, is chairman. A business meeting to discuss future plans will be held at noon. The cemetery property was mal beads of eggs when Frank Goss has disposed of his last gal lant Seventy Six Hundred, at which time a click of the switch brings soothing silence instead of the troubles of a confused world. . H. M. Von Sten Box 609, Medford Frank Morgan CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD . bring them to worship this week Medford Mai deeded by J. B. White of Rock Point to three trustees, Ben Hay mond, Fred Birdseye and J. L. White, on Feb. 9, 1874, for inter ment purposes. Birdseye later resigned and George Lance Jj. was named to succeed him. . The trustees later died, and no successors were appointed. For years the cemetery was a sort of "no-man's land," until interest in it was revived recent ly, and a petition to the county court was circulated among pio neer families who have relatives buried there. The completed petition was presented to the court, together with an application requesting the appointment of new trustees to fill the old vacancies, and re establishing proper cemetery reg-. ulations. The court cited favorably on the petition, and named W. L. Wright and Mrs. Nora Wait, both of Sardine creek, and Charles E. White, Rogue River, as trus tees. They will have charge of all future burials, surveying and re plotting of the grounds, and will work toward the establishment of a fund for maintenance of the cemetery. , Harold Snod grass Directors 1 KING STREET l Tribune
