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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 -
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"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
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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
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(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 ;
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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.
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