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J MTOTOBP (OREGON) itoyocnwOITiiBUKi "Bwrybedy la touthara Oraaoa as sua asau rnmiM Published Daily Except Saturday by MKOFOBD PRINTING COT 17-TO Worth rir St. Phona 2-911 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertlslnc laanagar E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. CitT Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telagraph Editor XICHAKD jswm. sporta Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. Aa Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at' Medford. Oregon, under Act of; - aurcn 3, ib ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hi M.llTn Arlniuw Per codv 10c. Daily and Sunday Ona year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo. tM Sunday Only Ona year $350. ' By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday Ona year tlS.00 Daily ana sunaay una muniu Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy &ii Tmrmm rath In Advance Official Paper of Ike City of Medfora" . otiiciai gaper at acmm v"v . United Preas Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION iJ..laaa- TTaiiil aTlteHnT' mt'SV ffilv roMPAKt . INC. Offices In New York. Chics s De troit. San Francisco. Los Angelas. Seattle. Portland. St Louia. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. umnuiL.. EDITORIAL AlSOdrATtoM Z7 Z MIWIfAUt rUBtlSNIIt "ASSOCIATION 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 July 14. 1945 Floyd K. Dover of Rogue River named temporary presi dent of Jackson County Mining association. t From Arthur Perry's 'Ye Smudge Pot column: People with enough gasoline and luck to get to the timber are urged to be careful with fire, put it out, or they will be put out. 20 YEARS AGO July 14, 1935 Mercury reaches 97 In Med ford; 105 at Portland; 108 at The Dalles; and 110 at Newberg as fire hazard increases. Beaver Creek - Siskiyou sum mit loop suggested for those who desire cooler air. 30 YEARS AGO July 14, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Rogue River Bridge Group fathering of American Sunday School union votes against "evo lution being taught in Oregon Public schools. From Local and Personal column: The fire department re sponded to the third grass fire alarm of the month yesterday near the end of East Main street. Although the fire was not ser ious, five gallons, of chemicals were used before it was put under control. 40 YEARS AGO July 14. 1915 (It was Wednesday) California Oregon Power com pany offers to sell plant to Med ford; - company would furnish power wholesale which city could sell retail. . From Local - and Personal column: A special motorcycle speed cop on duty for the city reported last night an auto speed ing on West Main at 22 miles an hour and another auto speeding on North Riverside at 25 miles an hour. The numbers of the autos were taken and investigation showed that the West Main auto belonged to County Judge Tou veiie, and the North Riverside auto to County Commissioner Frank Madden. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cop. 1955, Editorial Research Re part 1. Most ideas in the Declara tion of Independence originated with Thomas Jefferson, or were widespread at the time? 2. President Eisenhower does or doesn't want an anti-segrega tion clause put in the bill to create a new Army reserve, or doesn t care? 3. Twice as many men as wo men smoke cigarettes regularly, or twice as many women as men, or about the same ' number of each? 4. Average age of employees in the iron and steel industry is around 30, 40, or 50 years? 5. Sender of a letter in the new cerunea mail does or doesn't get a receipt without pay ing, extra' 6. What used to be the com mon name for the country now called Thailand? 7. Democratic ' national chair man is Stephen A. Mitchell; right or wrong? The Answers: 1. Were wide spread. 2. Doesn't want, as like ly to defeat the bill. S.Twice as many men. 4. Around 40. 5. Doesn't. 6. Siam. 7. Wrong, it's smw Paul M. Butler. MAIL TrUBUlTg Why Have According to Charles H. Heltzel, State public utility .commissioner, there is some doubt as to whether or not he or his department has jurisdiction in the question of depriving southern Oregon of al. railroad passenger service, He also believes the Southern Pacific will declare he hasn't. We trust the Southern Pacific position in the matter will not be a determining factor in the public utility commission's final decfsion, as has been the case all too often with sors. COR it is the main job of .the position he occupies to protect the interests of the people, not the util ities. This is especially true where a monopoly is involved as in the case of the S.P. TN this controversy we have yet to hear anyone deny, not even some of the SP "press agents" that if the SP had a competing would be solved in 24 hours, in fact there would be no problem. : But because .the SP service, and has been allowed to do much as it pleases. through so many years, there is a fixed opinion in the SP upper brackets that they can commit murder eco nomically speaking let the public be damned and get away with it IT IS up to the Public Service Commissioner to show they CAN'T! We don't mean it is his job to fight the SP or any other utilities, or have any prejudices against them, nor do we legitimate legal rights which should always be up held. But we do mean that the battle FOR the utilities, they have the best lawyers obtainable to do that for them. He is the one, to see that the people are protected, that the people who have - to dig into their pockets to get service, get the sort of service to which they are entitled at a reasonable price and a quality the condi tions justify. IIHEN the question of senger service south decision, the Mail Tribune public utility commissioner's office for help but was told that office had no jurisdiction. This was because the problem involved interstate commerce and was up to the Interstate Commerce Commission. That was understandable. But now if in this case does not cross the state lines, the state public utility commissioner also has no jurisdiction, then why have such a commission at all? Might as well abolish money! K.WJC. Too Bad You To some of the old timers around here the claims of the S.P. and its journalistic satellites, will come as a surprise, and considerable comic relief, if and when a hearing is held. For according to the SP apparently does not Medford owes everything existence. For had it not been for spirited billion dollar corporation the city would never have been "plotted." At least the chivalrous SP did the job for the community when it was started. And, the timber boom of plies "most of our pay rolls," would never have come about, but for the O&C release of timber, which "the b formerly owned!" . How silly can we get? IT WAS Mr. Young of merly of the C&O, who got through passenger act vice lu new iuia anu return via imcago, witnoui changing cars. He accomplished this bv advertisine the truth, namely: a hog human being couldn't. - Perhaps someone could get Mr. Young out here to get similar results, for rail service to Portland and San FranciscoMs available now if you are a hog, but if you belong to the genus homo it isn't or won't be after August 7, if the SP has its way. 4 a a a e a - CPEAKLNG of SP freight service we. are indebted to the Ashland Tidings for the following pertinent observation, quote:. . (Ashland). Freight car loadings are considered one re liable index of the prosperity and traffic which a railroad enjoys and in this connection, a recent week's figures for car orders on the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon is illuminating. - , , . The orders forfreight cars for one week on the Siskiyou line,' Ashland to Eugene, reached the astounding total of 2,241 cars and the state public utilities commissioner re-- . ports that the SP provided 2,024 cars that week, or 90 per cent of those ordered. .. On the Cascade line, between Eugene, Westfir, and Oak ridge, and we must assume that it also includes as far south as Klamath Falls, cars ordered for the same week were ONLY 281. Percentagewise, the Cascade line car orders were only a little more than 12 per cent of the total required for the Siskiyou line. We believe the figures highly pertinent in that they clearly show that a major source of revenue for the South ern Pacific in Oregon is the territory between Eugene and Ashland. Yet the railroad has set August 7th as the termina- tion date for the last passenger service on the Siskiyou - route. :' - ' '. Certainly the SP can quote substantial sums as claimed losses for the passenger service, but the passenger loss is a small percentage of the freight revenues enjoyd from this -territory. We have heard no suggestion so far that the rail road proposes to reduce freight charges in this area as a re- suit of its planned saving on passenger train curtailment. And there will be none! R.W.R. . J Thandar, July 14. 19331 a RUC? north and south. so many of his predeces railroad here the problem - has no competition: in rai suggest they haven t their he is NOT the one to fight discontinuing all rail pas to Dunsmuir was up for appealed to the Oregon which is INTRA state and the office and! save the t . Aren 't a Hog Salem Capital Journal the owe anything to Medford, to the SP in fact its very this big-hearted, public today which it seems sup , the N.Y. Central'and for- could get this service but a Russia Still Europeans I n S la ve La By CHARLES M. MeCANlf United Pre$s Foreign Analyst Soviet Russia still is holding men from- countries all over Europe as prisoners 10 years after the end of World War II These are in addition to the thou sands of German. Japa nese and Aus trian war pris oners still held in Russian slave labor camps, Charles MeCana Italians, Bel gians, uuicnmen, Danes and Norwegians are among the pris oners. Some of these were traitors who fpught voluntarily with the Germans against their own coun tries. But others were impressed into the German army. All, traitors or victims, should of course have been sent back to their own countries. But the Russian Communists make no distinction in their ruthless search for slaves to bol ster their economic system. , The United States, for in stance, sent notes to the Soviet and. polish Communist govern ments in April asking about 16 Polish underground leaders whom the Red Army seized dur ing the war. Norway is trying to win free dom for at least two Norwegian resistance leaders men who fought the Nazis whom the Russians hold. And there was a disturbing report recently that four United States airmen were being , held in a slave labor camp in the Karaganda area of Siberia, over by Red China's Sinkiang prov ince. These airmen might be Air Force or Navy men shot down by Russian fighter planes while on patrol over international wa ters in the Pacific Ocean or the Baltic Sea Or is it possible that they were among the American fliers whose planes were forced down in Siberia during the war when the United States was fighting Japan and Russia was not? As was mentioned recently, Russia used these planes as models for some, of its own mili tary aircraft. : The fact that these Americans were held was disclosed by some of the Austrian prisoners who are being repatriated in batches of hundreds. As has been reported, the Aus- trians have told of many Ameri Photographer Learns Of Security Rules Geneva, Switzerland OJ.R) An American news photograph er found out today that security restrictions will be tight at next week's summit parley - of vt h e Big Four. He received this message from his New York office: 'Shoot fastest, four pictures of the baths the Big Four will bathe in, four pictures of the beds the Big Four will sleep in, and four pictures of the breakfast tables the Big Four will eat from." ' He checked with Swiss secur ity officials and replied: G-men sitting in bathtubs, po lice covering breakfast tables, security blackout on beds." Stevenson To Reveal Presidential Plans Chicago (U.R) Adlai Steven son will announce his presiden tial plans "well before the end of the year." The 1952 Democratic presi dential candidate told this to re porters yesterday after a private visit with former President Tru man, who was attending the Shriners' convention. Asked if the two leading Democrats talked about victory prospects in 1956, Mr. Truman replied: ..; "There arent any prospects to talk aboutf We know what will happen. We will win." Frank Morgan - (I "The Chapel of Cherished Memories" CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Holding Prisoners bo r Ca m ps cans seized by the Russians since the end of the war. Some of these had wandered into the Soviet occupation zone of Germany by mistake. Others, it is reported, were kidnaped in West . Berlin and sentenced as "spies." The Russians have played no favorites in seeking slaves they have imprisoned European and American civilians as well as soldiers, and European women. - A German woman, Just re leased with a batch of Austrians, told how the Russians kidnaped her in Vienna in 1945. and sen tenced her to 10 years on the charge of plotting against Soviet occupation troops. Austrians reported also the death in a prison camp of Aus trian archduke, arrested in 1947. His .crime was that he fought against the Bolsheviks after the 1947 revolution. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis tible. 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. Romulo Defended To the Editor: Carlos P. Romu lo does not need, perhaps, this small voice raised in his behalf, However, I am impelled, by his own insistence oh the importance of small voices, to register the concern caused by a remark at tributed, in Sunday's Mail' Trib une, to Mrs. Gage-Colby, before the July 8 meeting or ine mea ford chapter, Oregon United Na tions association. I refer to her stated opinion that General Ro mulo seemed determined to keep the cold war alive. ; This may seem an insignificant remark, but it reflects an attitude found too often among the represent atives and citizens of the "Great Powers," i.e. a rather embarrass ed indifference to the passion for the right to be heard of the world's smaU nations. General Romulo himself has warned us against the inherent danger - in this attitude. In his "Crusade in Asia" (John Day Co., 1955) he relates the Philip pine experience with Commun ism to the problem of Asia as a whole. The attitudes and policies of the United States play a vital role in the means these people use to search for the better life and self-determination for which they long. This, I feel, is also the basic concern of R.W.R. in his July 7 editorial, "Asia is the Big Problem." The effort to make this 10th Anniversary Session of the UN one of harmony is understand able and commendable. The Un ited Nations is our strongest hu man means of attaining peace. It does inspire hope to see the member nations peaceful in con ference. Possibly the accounts we received "played down" the harmony that truly existed. The facts suggest, nonetheless, thaw Dr. Nunez-Portuonde and Gen eral Romulo were not the only gentlemen rapped by the pre siding officer for "naming names, ' contrary to the conven tion ground rules. According to Newsweek, July 4, 1955, Nation alist China's foreign minister, G. K. C. Yek, received the same treatment when he charged that the Red China regime "is . not based on peace but war." It is possible also to suppose that France's Antoine Pinay and John Foster Dulles escaped the gavel simply because they spoke ' of Red aggression in general, rather than specific, terms. In hex short television appear ance while in Medford, Mrs. Gage-Colby seemed sincerely en thusiastic about the possibilities of peace through the United Na tions. After his years of unstint ing, often frustrated, labor- for world peace, it seems impossible to suppose that Carlos P. Romulo is less sincere than Mrs. Gage Colby.. Her reported comment, therefore, seems inconsistent with her humanitarian interests. (Mrs.) Lenore ZapeU Rt. 1, Box 482 Talent, Oregon Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS Good times note: , Oregon employers paid out a record $298,000,000 in wages in the first : three months of this year. (The figures aren't guess work. They come from the state unemployment compens a t i o n commission.) ..- It was the largest first-quarter payroll in Oregon's history. VS OF NOW, and over all the years ' of. the past, Oregon's biggest payroll is that which comes from its timber industry. Historically, the timber industry has tended to be a temporary in dustry. As the virgin forests have been cut, the industry has moved on. That causes many people to wonder if Oregon's present pros perity is permanent. This thought - has . been in people's minds: ... What will happen when Ore gon's virgin forests . have been cut? :-: . UfELL . Something new has been added to the forest picture. This new ingredient is TIM BER GROWTH. QREGON is presently cutting um average of about 8,300, 000,000 board feet per yean Cur j r rt V! Fancy, Green Crisp, ReM Grown , Ipeppeirs (SwcwGifllte Urge Size LEMOHS doz. Lots of Juice Golden Ripe Brains ik We Now Have a Large Assortment of Fancy Fruits , Arriving Fresh Daily. We hope you will come in and see our display. ACME CLIPPER BROOM H&D SMALL GREEN LIMA BEANS No. 2 tin L I with coupon on page U. S. CHOICE Mac News rent annual growth is estimated to be about 3,300,000,000 feet. On the face of it, that doesn't look too good. We seem to be cutting our timber almost three times as fast as new timber is growing. But " We seem to have been under estimating our possibilities in the way of timber growth. In a new study of Oregon's forest products industry which has just been issued under the aus pices of Lewis and Clark col lege and Reed college in Port land, this interesting statement occurs: A COMPARISON of the esti mated current annual growth (3,300,000,000 feet) with an average annual cut of 8,300, 000,000 board feet may result in an entirely ERRONEOUS im pression. The 3,300,000,000 board feet is calculated on the basis - tf experience in areas which include a large propor tion of mature forests in which there is little NET growth. "The 3,300,000,000 board feet annual growth does not repre sent the capacity of Oregon's forest lands to produce wood fiber. Furthermore, growth on timber BELOW 11 INCHES IN DIAMETER has been ignored in S&H GREEN STAMPS-ALL DEPTS. Tin Giant Pkg. n 1st Section 54l MorrelPt Eastern SLICED DACON . Large Juicy FRANKS LB FRESH J US. GROUND DEEF or K CO PORK SAUSAGE U 526 SO. RIVEXSDE (he 3,300,000,000 board foot calculation." rpHE REPORT goes on: "The capacity of Oregon's forest lands to produce wood fiber will not become evident until a large proportion of the : virgin old-growth material is removed. Loss from fire,, insects, ! disease and windthrow may ar ! tually offset or exceed growth within an area of virgin old-; growth timber. "When this mature and over mature timber is used and re placed with young growing-' trees of sawtimber size, then the ; annual growth of ; wood fiber should EXCEED the present cut ; of 8,300,000,000 board feet an- i nually." - . . vv;:C -J rpHE REPORT adds that under --proper management, taking into consideration existing eco nomic - conditions, a reasonable forecast would indicate an an nual growth in tb future of 9,450,000,000 board feet. That would be over a billion: feet MORE THAN WE ARB NOW CUTTING. , . A : . Under intelligent manage ment, Oregon's forest lanas wiu (rmw sverv vear in the future as much timber as we are now cutting from them. That -changes the wnoie pic tures doesn't it? ; .J . Bumble Bee TUNA Chunk Style-No. Vi 4 ,W Finer Shortening 3-lb. 77(P)e U MODESS Fkff. I2's....3 2fcr.,......77e Fkg. O't . . . I.O SPIC 4 SPAN Mb. Pkg... 25' BEGMORE DOG CAT FOOD 15c Tin . . LD
