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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 29. 1945
(It was Friday)
Eugene Thorndike, manager
of Medford branch of First wa
tional Bank of Portland, reports
Rogue Valley business volume
still far above normal.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The beef
shortage situation in Oregon is
nearing a crisis. In some sections
the waitress can't hear the cus
tomers order a steak above the
bawling of the steers at the
kitchen door of the beanery.
20 YEARS AGO
June 29. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Oregon state game commis
eion plans to restock Squaw
lake with trout in fall.
Medford civic groups plan pos
sible municipal swimming pool.
30 YEARS AGO ,
June 29, 1925
(It was Monday)
Movies of Oregon. National
Guard's automobile trip to Cra
ter Lake shown in newsreels at
Craterian theatre.
Medford and Jackson county
residents express concern over
relatives living in and near
Santa Barbara, scene of recent
earthquake.
40 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Deer, bear and jackrabbits,
more plentiful in Rogue valley
this year, damage small grain
crops and orchards- near foot
hills. From Local and Personal col
umn: Bids have been called for
by the Grants Pass-Crescent City
railroad for the supplying of
16,000 ties. Bids will be open
until July 8. The call Is issued
by Chief Engineer W. W.
Harmon.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Coir. 195S. Editorial ReMatch ft
1. Auto insurance companies
charge less or more for collision
insurance on a new car than on
an old one, or about the same?
2. Who was Vice-President un
der Harding?
3. The highest mountains in
the world after the Hilalayas
are the Alps, Andes, Canadian
Rockies, Caucasus, or Sierra Ne
vadas of California?
4. What the British call petrol
the U.S. calls kerosene, natural
gas, lubricating oil, gasoline or
benzine?
5. The only state that touches
but one other is California, Del
aware. Florida, Maine or Rhode
Island?
6. Lincoln was succeeded as
President by Gen. Grant; right
or wrong?
7. The Antilles are small ani
mals, a class of Navy vessels,
certain islands, African tribes
man, or female relatives?
The answers: 1. More. 2. Cal
vin Coolidge. 3. Andes. 4. Gaso
line. 5. Maine. 6. Wrong (Andrew
Johnson came between). 7. W.
Indies Islands.
There is no positive proof
that Mount Rainier has been ac
tive as a volcano within historic
time, according to the National
Park service, although there are
reports that clouds of smoke
were seen over the crater in the
late 1800s.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Uses of Lodgepole Pine
The straight, green lodgepole pine which grows
so prolifically in the higher reaches of the Cascades,
particularly on the east slopes, has an interesting
Latin name, "pinus contorta," which means "con
torted pine." .
We asked Forester John Carnegie why the clean,
straight little trees are called contorted. He explained
that the species was named from the first the early
naturalists saw, which grew along the coast. These
are stunted and twisted by the constant ocean winds,
and, although of the same variety, don't at all re
semble their mountain brethren.
1X7E USED to wonder, driving the highway be
tween Bend and Klamath Falls and along the
east entrance to Crater Lake, why loggers have not
moved in on the thousands of acres of lodgepole, as
they have among the bigger sawlogs of douglas and
shasta fir, and ponderosa and sugar pine.
The answer to our question is in two parts. This
particular pine is heavy in pitch and resins from
which it is difficult to obtain clear-grain lumber.
And, secondly, it almost never grows to what most
lumbermen consider to be sawlog size. A few individ
ual trees may get as large as a foot in diameter, but
these are few, and most are considerably smaller
than this.
llITH timber sources declining, however, it may
become economically feasible to harvest the little
pines. Some steps are being taken in this direction.
One small step was taken in Jackson county re
cently, when the Pik-Pak organization purchased a
tract of some 200 board feet a tiny sale as Bureau
of Land Management sales go for experimentation
in whether or not lodgepole pine will make good
toothpicks, which are manufactured in an original
package by the local firm.
Another was made recently in the Pendleton
area, where the Blue Mountain Chip Co. has set up a
"chipper" in the woods. The small lodgepole logs
are fed into the chipper which slices them up into
small particles and dumps them in big truck-trailers.
They are then carted away to the Oregon Fibre
Products plant at Pilot Rock to be made into hard
and soft board, used more
construction.
THIS concern moved its
woods, because it found this operation more eco
nomical than to transport the logs themselves.
This idea is somewhat reminiscent of experiments
conducted in Jackson county a few years ago with
a "field-hogger," designed to, convert timber slash
such as limbs and log-ends into hog fuel, rather than
leave it lying in the woods waiting for slash burning
time. Slash burning has always been wasteful, but
no one has yet figured out
these sub-marginal products at a cost which is not
prohibitive.
CRANK Jenkins of the Klamath Falls Herald and
News recently commented on the potential uses of
lodgepole pine (which he calls jackpine) in the man
ufacture of paper and newsprint.
Getting his inspiration
Street Journal, Jenkins quoted that paper as Saying
that 26 of the nation's 51 kraft (pulp and paper)
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mins are locatea m tne soutn.
One of the plants sprawls overrsix city blocks and
employs 3,300 people. It uses southern pine from a
122,000-acre forest. The southern pine, according to
the Journal's source, can grow a new crop in 20 to
40 years.
"COMPETENT and well-informed opinion among
practical foresters," Jenkins continues, "who
had occasion to watch jackpine closely, is that it,will
grow a crop of pulpwood about every two years."
And he points oitf that jackpine (lodgepole, or
pinus contorta) has fibers just as long as those of
southern (or loblolly) pine, which is an important
factor in its use as paper pulp.
Jenkins concludes:
In its jackpine forests regarded for a century as worth
lesssouthern Oregon has a perpetual source of raw
material out of which an important industry can be built
here.
THE Bend Bulletin joins in pointing out the poten
tial uses of lodgepole pine, discussing its use in
particle board.
Particle board, it explains, requires smaller
amounts of water in the manufacturing process, and
there are many uses, in paneling, in sheathing and
subflooring, and as the core for plywood.
The Bulletin calls it "a good bet" in the pine
region, and points out that Bend mills have been
carrying on research into the products for some time,
all in the interest of greater timber utilization.
IT GOES without saying that all this is of immediate
importance in Jackson county, for there are many
acres of these small potentially-useful trees on Forest
Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in
Jackson county, as well as further to the east but
still in Medf ord's area of economic interest.
It is to be hoped that we will not 'be "scooped"
when it comes to the establishment of such enter
prises, for they will be established somewhere in the
state, that's for certain. E.A.
South Africa Women
Protest Apartheid
Pretoria, South Africa (U.R)
Hundreds of women braved
the chilliest weather of the year
Tuesday night to stage a protest
sitdown strike against apartheid,
or total segregation.
The women, fortified with
blankets, rallied on the grounds
Wednesday, June 29, 1955
and more widely in interior
machinery right into the
a way of making use of
from a storv m the Wall
of the government buildings.
They were demonstrating against
a new law enlarging the ISenate
so the Nationalists can finalize
apartheid.
The strike followed a proces
sion of 1,000 women to Prime
Minister J. G. Strijdom's office
where they presented a petition
with 90,000 signatures in oppo
sition to the act.
In the. Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Chancellor Addpauer of the
West German republic, in a
statement made public this mor
ning, cautions the Western pow
ers to use PATIENCE AND
FIRMNESS in dealing with the
Russians.
He says:
'Quick results should not be
expected . . Much hard and
long work faces the negotiators
in these future conferences."
He added:
"The Soviet Union needs a
long pause in order to settle its
economic problems . . . The out
look for an international under
standing is better now AS A RE
SULT OF THE ATOMIC AND
HYDROGEN BOMBS."
IITHAT does he mean when he
says the Soviet Union needs
a "long pause" in which to set
tle its economic problems?
He means, I think, that the
bosses of the Soviet Union are
beginning to realize that com
munism is basically so FOUL
that in time it must fall of its
own foulness. They want time
in which to make it SEEM that
communism is less foul.
They're afraid that if they go
to war now they'll have trouble
with their own oppressed people.
117HAT of his statement that
" atom and hydrogen bombs
are working toward a better in
ternational understanding?
He thinks, I'd say, the Krem
lin bosses are aware that the
U.S. has more of them now and
will be able (with its great in
dustrial machine) to MAKE
MORE OF THEM IN THE FU
TURE. That causes them to stop and
think.
ANYWAY, Chancellor Aden
auer is a wise old man (he's
79 and still going strong). We'd
better give heed to his words of
wisdom.
TN THE refendum vote on Sat-
urday wheat growers in 36
states (where the bulk of the
wheat is grown) voted nearly 78
per cent in favor of continuing
market quotas based on acreage
restrictions.
This is the situation they fac
ed: The present (high parity) sup
port price of wheat is $2.06 per
bushel. Under the flexible sup
port policy that is presently the
law, the support price (under
the acreage quota system) will
be $1.81 per bushel. ,
If the wheat farmers had dis
approved quotas, the support
price would have dropped to 50
per cent of parity, or $1.19 per
bushel, next year.
THAT IS to say:
The wheat farmers gave
strong approval to the principle
of HIGHER prices for LESS
wheat.
Let's put it this way:
If you were a wheat grower,
what would YOU have done?
SO MUCH for the wheat states.
Let's talk now for a moment
about Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California where very
little wheat is grown. Since we
grow little wheat, WE think it
would be better if the surplus
wheat could be fed to livestock
at prices competitive with corn,
instead of storing it away at
great cost.
The West grows little corn.
It grows a LOT of wheat. If we
are to finish-feed our livestock,
we need more feed grains that
are competitive with corn. We
are tiring of a raw-material econ
omy under which our feeder
livestock are sent back East to
be corn-fed.
BUT
Under present political the
ories prices are set BY THOSE
HAVING THE MOST VOTES.
Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California have re
latively few votes.
SO MUCH for the present.
Let's now take a look at the
future.
Senator Barry Goldwater of
Arizona has introduced in the
congress a bill proposing a long
term program of price supports
FOR CERTAIN MINERALS.
Arizona grows little wheat. It
produces a LOT of minerals.
Senator Goldwater thinks
(perhaps not unreasonably) that
if wheat is to be supported at
high prices MINERALS should
be supported at high prices.
QUESTION:
Just where will that theory
lead us to?
Federal Aid Sought
For Bridge Proecf
Washington (U.R) Rep. Edith
Green (D-Ore.) and Russell v.
Mack (R-Ore.) said today they
are seeking to have the federal
government pay half the cost of
elevating and improving a high
way bridge between Portland,
Ore., and Vancouver, Wash.
Increased river boat traffic
on the Columbia made possible
by" upstream dams makes the
raising of the bridge necessary,
the representatives said. They
asked that the government con
tribute $1,155,000 of the $2,310,
000 project.
The U.S. navy operates about
29 hospital establishments.
Today and
By Walter
MCCARTHY'S DAY DREAM
For the first time since last
autumn when it voted to con
demn McCarthy's conduct, the
Senate was confronted last week
with an attempt to revive Mc
Carthyism. In the attempt the
Senator used all the elements
of his old formula. But this
time is was evident to all but a
handful of Senators that the ope
ration was a hoax, effective only
if they fell for it.
The role for which the Sena
tor cast himself was that of the
sole remaining but the daunUess
champion of the captive and
satellite nations. In his melo
dramatic dav dream they had
been betrayed into bondage by
the Democrats and they were
about to be abandoned by Presi
dent Eisenhower and the Repub
licans. For Mr. Dulles was in
San Francisco negotiating with
Mr. Molotov about the arrange
ment for the meeting at Geneva
which the President is to attend.
It had been agreed that each of
the participants at Geneva was
free "to take up any subject
which is believed to be a contri
buting cause of world tensions."
But no participant was under
compulsion there being no
agenda to take up what some
other participants brought up.
President Eisenhower was free,
therefore, to take up the sub
ject of the Soviet domination of
Eastern Europe.
But Marshal Bulganin was
free not to take up that subject
or any other one. "Pravda,"
moreover, had said that the!
U.S.S.R. would not discuss the
satellites hot even if we dis
cuss them. McCarthy thought he
saw an opening. He would ride
to the rescue of the satellites.
He would prevent the President
from taking up any subject, in
cluding the subject of the satel
lites, unless the Soviet Union
agreed to take up the satellites
also.
So on Monday of last week, as
the United Nations meeting was
beginning, McCarthy introduced
a resolution which was to put the
Senator on record as opposed to
the President's going to Geneva
unless Secretary Dulles could
first "secure the agreement of
the Soviet Union" to discuss the
satellites.
It was plan not only from the
text of the resolution but also
from the way McCarthy tried to
handle it that his purpose was
to throw a bombshell into the
San Francisco meeting. He wish
ed to show all the world in the
most spectacular way possible
that the President is not in con
trol of U.S. foreign policy, that
the President's master in foreign
affairs is the Senate and that
the boss of the Senate is Joseph
R. McCarthy.
THIS IS the essential formula
of McCarthyism! An aggres
sive demagogue intimidates the
Congress by arousing a misled
public opinion; he then proceeds
tn iisp this demagogic power to
oisurp the prerogatives of the
other branches or tne govern
ment. Once again McCarthy applied
his old formula. He hoped to
intimidate the Senate, indeed to
stampede it, into adopting his
resolution without even letting
it be submitted to the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations.
But McCarthy, it was quite
evident, had lost touch with
reality since he was condemned
last autumn, and he is now
living in a dream world of his
own dazzling past.
He thought that he could stam
pede the Senate because the Re
publicans would not dare to vote
against any resolution which ap
peared to reaffirm their own
1952 platform, and because many
Democrats concerned with voters
who have connections behind
the iron curtain, would not feel
that they could afford to be
counted against the resolution.
The events showed that he
had not realized how well the
Senators had learned the les
sons which he had taught them
by rubbing their noses in the
dirt of humiliation.
The Senate was no longer
afraid of McCarthy even when
he was playing tricks with so
sensitive a subject as the captive
nations. The Senate was ashamed
of having fawned upon him and
truckled to him so much too
long, and it was more than ready
to get back some of its own
dignity and self-respect.
Within forty-eight hours his
resolution was defeated unani
mously in committee, and then
by a vote of 77 to 4 by the Sen
ate. At the end, on Wednesday
afternoon, Sen. McCarthy was
not fighting to pass that resolu
tion but was begging the Sena
tors to let him withdraw it be
fore the crushing vote was re
corded. But they gave him what he
had demanded on Monday, and
they did their duty, not without
pleasure to almost all of them,
which was to administer the
punishment that fitted the crime.
THE WHOLE affair was
handled so neatly that it is
fair to say that no important
damage has been done to our
own position and policy in re
Tomorrow
Lippmann
gard to the satellite nations. Mc
Carthy tried to make it appear
that voting against his resolution
was equivalent to abandoning
the satellites. It was not that.
It could not have been, and if
the Senate having dealt with
McCarthy would feel better by
saying so, no harm though not
much good will be done by it.
The status of the European na
tions lying between the iron
curtain and the Western fron
tier of the Soviet Union is in
separably connected with any
settlement of the German prob
lem, with any agreement on
armaments and a Eureopan secu
rity pact. The question is not
whether their status , is to be
considered in the coming ne
gotiations but when and how.
The Soviet Union knows that
as well as we do. It has been cer
tain since the pilgrimage to Bel
grade placed Moscow on record
as recognizing that national in
dependence is no longer heresy
to Communism. What we must
not expect is that the Soviet
Union will do anything about
the satellites which would make
it look like a surrender to our
demands.
That is understandable
enough. We are in a similar sit
uation in the Far East on the
question of Red China and the
United Nations. We know, every
one who counts in Washington
knows, that the question is not
whether Peiping is to be seated
in the U.N. but when and under
what conditions. When we are
faced with a flat demand about
China from Mr. Molotov, our
back stiffens. His back stiffens
when he is faced with a flat
demand about the satellites from
Mr. Dulles. But neither back is
incapable of bending and re
laxing, t
'
THE PROSPECTS of achieve
ment have improved very
considerably during the U.N
meeting in San Francisco. It
is not only that the arrange
ments for Geneva are very sen
sibly thought out. It appears too
that both sides have resisted the
temptation to play for too high
stakes for all or nothing, for
a settlement or a crushing divi
sion. They seem to have adopted
the gradualist approach the
policy of doing only a little bit
at a time to relax the tension
but of doing something, all the
time to relax the tension. This
is the best possible approach
to deal with the easier issues
before the harder ones, and so
by taking a few steps to learn
how far we can walk together.
(Copyright. 1955. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Portland U. Gets
New President
South Bend, Ind. (U.R) Ap
pointment of Rev. Howard J.
Kenna as president of the Uni
versity of Portland - was an
nounced yesterday by Rev. Theo
dore J. Mehling, Indiana pro
vincial at Notre Dame.
Rev. Kenna, now president of
Holy Cross College at Washing
ton, D.C., was a former vice
president of . Notre Dame. He
will succeed Rev. Michael J.
Gavin who has been president
for three years.
The provincial chapter, meet
ing at Notre Dame since June
17, also named Rev. Paul D.
Waldschmidt of Holy Cross to
succeed Rev. James G. Ander
son as vice-president at Port
land. Both Father Gavin and Father
Anderson will continue to teach
at the University of Portland.
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27 North Holly
Is That So?
Over Greenland, With SAS
Sudden thoughts while air cruis
ing. Late last night we left Co
penhagen, city of tulips. Early
this afternoon our Scandinavian
Airlines System plane will let
down in Los Angeles, city of
roses. Elapsed time 22 hours,
only we gain nine hours because
we are speeding with the sun.
That's hustling.
The Norwegian coast and that
of Labrador are, in a sense, mir
ror twins. Each has a fiorded
coast, higher land sloping away
from the sea, and rivers flowing
against the regional slope of the
land.
Four of the ten largest river
systems in the world drain into
the Arctic the Yenisei-Selenga,
which is fifth; the Ob'-Irtish,
sixth; the Lena, eighth; and the
McKenzie. tenth.
Many Canadian islands have
yet to be trodden by a scientific
party for that matter, a 10,000
foot mountain range was dis
covered in the northland between
World Wars I and II.
No country in the world has
such numerous lakes as the
northland. And of these, thou
sands over which our SAS plane
is now cruising are still un
mapped, unnamed, and unfished!
By far the most important fish
in the Arctic as far as native
economy is concerned is the Arc
tic char, a member in good stand
ing of the salmon family and a
close and dear relative to our
Eastern brook trout also known
as the square tail or speckled
trout. It averages 7 to 8 pounds.
And me? I'm sitting here three
miles up with a two-ounce Win
ston split-bamboo fly rod. And
drooling.
While in Norway, I slept be
tween soft eiderdown feather
Editorial Comment
SHAKESPEARE AT ASHLAND
Ashland will present its
Shakespearean festival again
through August this year.
Characters have been chosen and
rehearsals are in progress. In
spite of the fact that a' recent
book sets out to prove that Bill
Shapespeare ' was none other
than Christopher Marlowe, the
'festival still credits Shapespeare
witn authorship of the plays that
long have borne his name.
The Marlowe angle is a new
one. Marlowe was a playwright
and poet of promise and prom
inence in the Elizabethan period,
but he got killed in a tavern
brawl in 1595. To make him out
the writer of the Shakespeare
plays, the author contrives that
he -survived the brawl and
thenceforth attached Bill Shake
speare's name to his writings.
Many have -wrestled with rea
son in trying to explain Shake
speare, who is usually described
as ill-educated, quite incompe
tent of writing all these plays
with their innumerable allusions
to mythology, literature and his
tory, and assigning the credit to
others such as Francis Bacon,
the Duke of Oxford and now
Christopher Marlowe. The plays
manage to retain the name of
Shakespeare in spite of all this
campaigning against him.
The main fact of the plays is
themselves. They are the work
of a literary genuis, no matter
what his name was, an inexhaus
tible mine of riches. Ashland de
serves great credit for bringing
these plays in authentic dress to
modern audiences. SALEM,
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