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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
July 15' 1945
at was Sunday)
Ashland restaurants to ob
serve "butteries' Tuesdays, and
"meatless Fridays.
' r.Am Arthur Perrv's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Cowmen
have started driving meir Det
steaks in the original package
from the low ranges to the high
ranges, where the grass Is green
er, the weather cooler, and the
fishing better.
SO YEARS AGO
July 15. 1935
(It was Monday)
Rains, breezes cool Rogue
Valley; lightning sets 11 fires in
mountain areas.
Chamber of Commerce mem
bers hold meeting to discuss de
tails of campaign for member
ship which starts Tuesday.
10 YEARS AGO
July IS. 1925
at was Wednesday)
New York, July 15 More
legs and less neck will be on
view next fall if the conception
of autumn modes for women
prevails as revealed at the show
ing of the National Garment Re
tailers' association.
San Francisco Elks and wives
returning to homes from con
vention in Portland stoo in Med-
ford and tour Crater Lake Na
tional park..
40 YEARS AGO"
July 15. 1915
- ttt was Thursday)
state Hiehwav advisory com
mission, after touring Jackson
Countv hiehwavs. endorses bono
issue to finance building trunk
highways throughout state.
The Liberty Bell, on nation
wide tour, to arrive in Medford
1:45 a.m. on special train.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7T
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Reseat
1. About 2Vt, 5, IV. or 10 per
cent of all families with incomes
between $5,000 and $7,500 have
more than one car?
2. Eisenhower did or didn't
carry all six New England states
in 1952?
3. About 5. 15. 25 or 35 per
cent of all domestic servants in
the U.S. "live in?"
4. A quorum to do business in
ither house of Conzress is 100,
a majority or two-thirds of all
5. Most Americans protected
against hospital expenses carry
protection also against surgical
rawncM! right or wrong?
6. Number of American! tak
ing pleasure trips to Europe last
year was over half a million,
riefht or wrone?
7. Brucellosis, affecting dairy
rattle is better known as what?
The Answers: 1. About 10 per
cent. 2. Did. 3. About 15 per
cent. 4. A majority. 5. Right.
S. Wrong. 7. Bang's disease.
4-HCiublew
wrsTsrnE 4-H CLUB
We are having our annual
weighing of animals July 17. we
will start at Dannv Gilmans on
Ross Lane between 8 and 8:30
a.m. After weighing of all the
stock, parents and members will
meet at TouVelle park around
2 p.m. for a picnic and regular
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meeting.
' - Marie Swearingen,-
Reporter. .
mail tribuhe
Centennial Pros and Cons ,
It appears evident that a rather grandiose plan to
hold a "world's fair" in 1959 in connection with Ore
on's 100th anniversary celebration, which has -been
under discussion for some time, will not go through.
A comprehensive study, conducted by the Stan
ford Research Institute, has indicated that it would be
neither wise nor feasible to undertake such an ambi
tious project in Oregon four years from now.
INSTEAD, the Institute recommended that some sort
of regional affair be worked out to attract people
to the northwest, to broadcast Oregon's virtues and
attractions, and to display for the world the advan
tages which Oregon offers.
Even this more limited endeavor would be a tre
mendous job, as is indicated by the estimate that it
would cost in the neighborhood of $10,000,000, ex
clusive of real estate and allied facilities.
THE overall operation would be a $14,000,000 or
$15,000,000 undertaking, and the SRI suggests
that funds come from the following sources:
Multnomah county (where, presumably,-the event
would be located) $300,000,; Portland Exposition
Recreation Commission $8,000,000; State of Oregon,
$3,000,000; operating profit, $3,500,000.
As the Oregon Statesman points out, this plan
"will draw fire from several quarters if it proceeds
as presently constituted. One objection would sur
round the proposal that the state fair, for the year in
question, be cancelled out. Another would pertain
to the proposed state-government investment of $3,
000,000 in the development of a Portland exposition
recreation center toward which Multnomah county
already has approved expenditure of $8,000,000 the
major part of the $15,000,000 it is estimated the cen
tennial would cost."
THE benefits cited by the
ever. The basic motive
economic activity, up to 4,uuu,uuu out-oi-town
guests would visit Portland and other portions of the
state, (at an averace $6 exDenditure daily per capita.)
Total receipts of the exposition itself might go as high
as $20,000,000 or more, ana an aaaitionai $ju,uuu,uuu
could be expected to be spent in the Portland area.
"The state will receive broad national
publicity and an exposition
$15,000,000 would remain
THE effects would be felt
for a goodly percentage 01 tne visitors attracted
from nnt-nf-statA would come from California. The
hotel, motel, restaurant and
tries hereabouts would stand to gain consiaeraDiy Dy
such an attraction to the north.
It. would take a tremendous amount of work to
do the job. It would take a whale of a lot of money,
frnm rmhlir- coffers, fronr' private capital stock
from industrv.
mvmwmam. M v
to underwrite much of the
of exhibit space.
THE OREGONIAN isn't clicking its heels in joy
nvar the nrrmnsnl Tn an editorial entitled "Prob
lems of Centennial Fair,"
points out:
"A great deal of project planning and negotiation with
governmental agencies and big advertisers will be required,
however, before it can definitely be said that a 1$59 exposi
tion, in the size considered feasible by the Stanford research
team, will be possible or desirable."
We are inclined to agree with the Oregonian's
"fat it. asv" armroach.
we hope the Centennial
the necessary preliminary studies, now mat &ki nas
lairl the orouTidwork. for if such a proiect is feasible,
it might emulate the Lewis
1905, which sparked two decades 01 unpreceaenieu
development for the Oregon country. E.A.
Flies
The fly season (alas, alas) is hard upon us. One
is buzjng around as this is
Flies are worse, if possible, than mosquitos, wmcn
the county is undertaking
" But flies, because of their unpleasant breeding
habits, are more difficult for organizations to fight,
and are -susceptible only to the mass efforts of the
citizenry, which is you and me, neighbor.
A RECENT release from the American Medical As
"sociation quotes one health educator as saying
"there isn't the slightest need to permit this public
health menace to continue in American cities and
towns.
Fly swatters, flypaper, screening even DDT
have been tried and found less than perfectly effec
tive. The secret, the AM A confides, is in under
standing the breeding habits of the nasty, dirty little
beasts.
OERE are hints on how they may be combatted,
always remembering that your own good work
may be undermined by your next-door-neighbor, and
vice versa:
Grass cuttings provide an excellent breeding place for ,
flies to breed. Spread cuttings thinly for drying. Flies need
moisture to breed.
Manure is an exceUent fertilizer for lawns, but it should
be composted and dried. Dog droppings should be buried or
flushed away. v '
' Clean garbage pails thoroughly after ' each collection.
. Make sure covers fit tightly and pails are not corroded.
If garbage is buried, it should be at least two feet deep,
and dead animals should be buried three feet under.
Dishwater and kitchen wastes thrown in the yard create ' '
breeding grounds for flies:
Fruit under trees should be raked and disposed of as
' garbage.
Friday July 15. "55
SRI are substantial, how-
proDaoiy is to stimulate
park with a value of about
...
even in southern Oregon,
automotive service indus-
which would be expected
cost through guarantees
the Oregonian cautiously
At the same time, however.
Committee will undertake
and Clark exposition of
written.
to fight on our behalf .
Matter of Fact ey JoPh am
SAC'S ACHILLES HEEL
Washington In a previous re
port in this space, two grave
facts were revealed. First, the
American Air Force take twice
as long to go
from the idea
of an aircraft
to production
of the aircraft,
if one can judge
by the com
parative per
form ance in
production the
B-52 and "Bi
son" bombers.
Second, cur
rent production
Joseph Alsop
of the Soviet "Bison" is consider
ably larger than current produc
tion of the American B-52. And
the Soviets wiU stiU be turning
out a few more intercontinental
jet bombers each month than we
turn out in America, even after
the recently ordered increase of
B-52 production finally gets re
sults.
These are facts so deeply dis
quieting that they may properly
be called scandalous. Secretary
of Defense Charles E. Wilson
has tried to make light of these
and other facts that indicate
America is now losing her lead
in the air to the Soviets. The ex
isting power of the Strategic Air
Command, he has said in effect,
gives this country a lead in the
air that can never be overcome.
Meanwhile, however Soviet air
progress has also radically affect
ed the power of SAC.
Consider, first, the status of
SAC's long range groups, which
are presently equipped with 350
B-36s. The B-36 and the B-52 are
the only American bombers able
to do the round trip from Ameri
can bases to Soviet targets and
home again. EventuaUy, SAC's
long range groups are to be
wholly reequipped with B-25s
but for at least two more years,
the lumbering B-36 will continue
to be SAC's . intercontinental
work horse. .
Unfortunately, this slow,
heavy, rotary engined bomber
was already classed as obsoles
cent against a Soviet air defense
equipped with Mig 15s and Mig
17s. More unfortunately still, the
Moscow overflights have now
shown that the Soviets are pro
ducing the even speedier "Farm
er" dayfighter and a remarkably
fast and impressive twin-jet
nigbtfighter. Against an air de
fense equipped with these new
aircraft the chances of the B-36
have to be marked down almost
to zero. It is still SAC's inter
continental work horse, but the
B-36 is now passing from the
"obsolescent" into the "obso
lete" category.
- a
rpHAT is bad enough. But the
R more honest airplanners fur
ther admit that the Moscow over
flights have indirectly but im
portantly devalued the 1500
B-47s that make up the balance
of SAC's offensive power.
The Soviets have a very prac
tical motive for being so ostenta
tious about their new airpower,
This wish to intimidate our trans
Atlantic allies, who control
SAC s most important overseas
airbases. Moreover, this tactic
of intimidation is plainly work
ing only too well. Whatever the
treaties may say, the British, the
Spaniards, the French and the
others will go to almost any
lengths to avoid. inviting a visit
from "Bisons" and "Badgers"
carrying H-bombs in their bel
lies. As a practical matter, there
fore, the trans-Atlantic airbases
are now virtually certain to be
denied to SAC, unless the coun
tries where those bases are sit
uated are already directly threat
ened with direct attack by the
Soviets.. In any showdown that
starts in Asia, for instance, SAC
cannot reasonably hope to use
bases beyond the line Azores-Iceland-Greenland
Alaska Okinawa-Philippines.
In these circumstances, all
SAC's B-47s will have to be double-refuelled
to reach the more
important Soviet targets. This
means that each B-47 will have
to be air-refuelled on the way
home..
The tanker fleet that SAC has
for this purpose is largely com
posed of about 600 KC-97s, a
slow, rotary-engined aircraft
with pqor altitude characteris
tics. The process of refuelling is
inordinately inefficient, since the
speedy, high-flying B-47 must
sacrifice half its cruising alti
tude and slow down almost to
stalling speed in order to get gas
from a KC-97 tanker. And if the
tankers maintain the rate of one
air-refuelling mission per day,
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BEEF
ROAST
they
well.
will be doing unusually
CONSIDER, then, the situation
when all B-47s flying to So
viet targets have to be double
refuelled. With approximately
600 KC-97s capable of flying one
refuelling mission daily, and
with each B-47 needing two re
fuelling missions to complete its
round trip, the size of the tank
erfleet will place an appallingly
low ceiling on B-47 offensive
sorties. In any one day, it will
only be possible to use about 300
of SAC's great force of 1500
B-47s In other words, General
Curtis Lemay either has five
times as many B-47s as he needs
to do his job, or he has one-fifth
oi tne number of tankers he
will need to do his job without
the overseas airbases which he
should no longer count on using,
This is one of the central politi
cal-strategic facts in the modern
world. And it is another proof
that the trend of the air bal
ance between this country and
rtussia ail out amounts to a na
tional scandal.
Copyright, 195S. N.T. Herald Trlb. Ine.
Babson . . .Guaranteed Wage
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
to Mail Tribune) Supporting
the principle of some form of
so-called guar
anteed annual
wage, or an ex
tended form of
unemployment
compensation,
spreads to a
large number
of companies,
will mostwork
ers really bene
fit? Baser w. Batsea Many work
ers think that somehow or other
life can be made secure by legis
lation or labor union agreement.
Higher wages, shorter hours,
and unemployment benefits may
temporarily raise their standard
of living. Most of their victories,
however, so increase, their cost
of living that the wage earner
would have little more left at
the end of the year were it not
for the inventions of labor-saving
devices-
Capital (employers) end wage
earners are like two tanks of
water connected at the bottom
I by a pipe. The pipe represents
the channels of trade. The water
represents income. The Capital
tank is big and holds lots of
water: The labor .tank is smaller
and holds less water. Because,
however, both tanks stand at the
same level, and because water
always seeks its own level, the
water in both tanks will reach
the same level, no matter' how
much is poured into either tank,
This applies to the so-called
"guaranteed wage." i "
Let's Not Fool Ourselves
By Labor Tank Increase
If a Labor Union "wins'
strike for a guaranteed wage,
this is like pouring water into
the little tank from the big tank,
For only a moment does the
Labor Union have the increase
in its tank. The . benefit soon
flows back to the big tank" by
way of higher rents, higher
prices, and greater interest rates,
The "water" is constantly ad
justing itself by means, of the
connecting pipe, which is trade.
So you see the proportion of the
money Union Labor retains is
not really an increase. There are
two ways to get healthy in
creases in wages. One is through
producing more by .working
harder and longer. The other
is -through new inventions and
products that cut costs and in
crease output. The greatest value
of Labor Unions to the wage
workers is that the Unions force
Capital to spend money on re
search, inventions, and adver
tising which reduces costs and
increases production. A healthy
economy is dependent upon good
business, which is the operation
of an enterprise profitably and
efficiently.
. To do this the employer must
be free to buy his raw materials
and labor only in the amount
needed and at the lowest reason
able price. Long-term contracts
should be entered into only if
they assure the most economical
use of resources. In our private
enterprise systenvan employer
benefits his wageworjeers most
when he minimizes his costs and
maximizes his returns. We have
real prosperity only when there
are more jobs and more oppor
tunities for more people. .
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SUCCEEDS' OVETA Marion
R. Folsom, above, Undersec
retary of Treasury, appointed
Secretary of Health, Educa
tion and welfare. He succeeds
Oveta Culp Hobby.
What Does Increase
Security and Wages?
To say that we shaU stabilize
our economy by a guaranteed
annual wage, rather than by the
operation of business efficiently
and profitably, is to misunder
stand what makes our private
enterprise system work. It is
hard-headed business sense and
new inventions that have given
us more refrigerators, more au
tomobiles, and more homes. This
is the kind of system which bene
fits wageworkers in the long
run.
The great mass of wagework
ers can obtain a greater propor
tion of the world's wealth only
by . increasing their real effi
ciency by means of their heads,
hands, or inventions. To go back
to my tank illustration, wage
workers can get a greater pro
portion of the total water in
their tank only by increasing
the capacity of their tank that
its length, breadth, or depth,
as zast as sucn an - increase in
capacity (or efficiency) takes
place, the water wiU flow into
the Union Labor's tank auto
matically, and no wealth or pow
er can prevent it. Only legisla
tion which truly increases the
efficiency and savings of the
wageworkers is sure to make
them richer, stronger, and more
invincible
Days Sell Acreage
In Sams Valley
To California Man
The sale of 640 acres of prop
erty in the Sams Valley area,
owned by former State Sen. Ben
Day and his father, former Coun
ty Judge Earl Day, was reported
this week..
i Purchaser of the property is
Argus G. Brown, Redwood City,
Calif.
The sale includes three tracts
of property. Largest is the "home
place" of the ranch, the former
Moon property in Sams valley,
totaling 360 acres. Another is a
200-acre tract in the Meadows
district, and the third is an 80
acre area used for growing hay
and seed.
Retain Orchard
The Days retained 40 acres of
orchard property in Sams VaUey.
The sale did not include the
crops growing on the land, and
they will be harvested before the
transaction is complete, Ben Day
reported. . He has been in Salem
the past' year, studying law at
Willamette university and is in
the valley during summer vaca
tion. . -
His family will join him in
Salem this fall, where .they will
remain until Day receives his
law degree in 1957. He said he
plans to return then to Medford
to open an office for the prac
tice of law.
Medford Man Files
Bankruptcy-Petition
. Portland (U.PJ Merton Har
ry Shook, owner of the OK Mar
ket on Merriman road in Med
ford, has reported assets of $28,
542 and debts of $59,301. He
filed a bankruptcy petition in
Federal Court here.
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SP Fares Too High
To the Editor: Thank you
for your editorial regarding the
"friendly," or rather 9eedy
Southern Pacific, and their deci
sion in taking trains 329 and 330
off the raiis.
The S. P. complains of their
losses in revenue. Much of the
fault lies in the difference in
fares between bus and train over
the Portland-Ashland route. Bus
fare is $5.85. Train fare is $10.47.
That in itself is an inducement
to most people to either drive,
or take a bus. As for myself, I
find great enjoyment in travel
ing to Portland by the "Rogue
River," and satisfied with the
equipment; but as regards the
schedule, that, to a railroad of
the standing of the S. P., is a
disgrace.
On my way to Seattle last Sat
urday, I was forced to go by bus,
because of time convenience.
The bus on which I traveled took
eight hours and five minutes
from Ashland to Portland. The
"Rogue River" train takes 12
hours, 55 minutes, which is an
other reason why people shun
theS. P.
On returning to Ashland last
Sunday, I traveled by "Rogue
River." : We left Portland with
seven head-end cars (that is, mail
and express) then the usual one
chair car, a lounge car, and a
sleeper. Three head-end cars
were set out at Eugene, leaving
seven for the Siskiyou- line.
which is a sizable train.. .
It is very obvious, even to
layman, that i they wanted to
make the Portland-Ashland trip
more attractive, they could leave
these three cars for train 19,
which leaves Portland for San
Francisco at 10:05 p.m.. and is
a purely local run. This would
allow the "Rogue River" to
make faster time to Eugene, and
stop only for passengers.
The time table stop at Eugene
is 18 minutes. I got out pur
posely o watch the loading and
unloading of mail -and express,
To say it is casual is to put it
mildly. Station work through
out the whole trip is extremely
slow.
I think it is a disgrace to leave
cities of ' the size of Medford,
Ashland, Grants Pass and Rose
burg without railroad passenger
service.
Apparently there is much moss
on the backs of the officials
the S. P. traffic department
Given the same young, aggres
sive personnel which the bus
and airlines have, we would stUl
enjoy railroad services, even to
the extent of a Budd lightweight.
The press is powerful. Can'
something be done to make the
fnendly(?) line see the light?
I bavt made at least fifty
journeys by S. P. over the years,
between Ashland and Portland,
so I feel very strongly on the
subject
R. A. Barker
92 Church st
Rshland.
Support .is Appreciated
To the Editor: I have learned
with great interest and apprecia
tion of your radio station's con
tribution of effort and broadcast
time over the past several
months to the Crusade for Free
dom. This splendid cooperation
by you and your fellow editors
is of inestimable value in en
listing the support of the Ameri-
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I can people for the operations the
Crusade makes possible Raoio
Free Europe and its companion
balloon operation, the Fret Eu
rope Press.
The war for men's minds must
t won if our nation is to go
forward in peace and freedom
in the years ahead. - May I, both
for myself and for the board of
directors, thank you and your
staff most warmly for your val
ued interest and support
Henry Ford II
Crusade for Freedom, ,
345 E. 46th, N.Y.C
Sees Lowry as President
To the Editor: Denton G. Bur-
dick, who represented the 21st
district in the lower house of the
Oregon Legislature from 1917
1931 inclusive which com
prised the counties of Klamath,
Lake, Jefferson, Deschutes and
Crook in speaking of Stat Sen
ator Philip B. Lowry said: . .
Jackson county's state sena
tor, young Phil Lowry, made the
outstanding record of the 1955
session, and he no doubt will be
heard from, and will, in my opin
ion, go places in Oregon politics
with his first step as President
of the State Senate."
Linn W. Nesmith,
Box 31, .
Camp White, Oregon.
Crown-Zellerbach
Plans Veneer Plant
Portland (U.PJ Crown Zel-
lerbach announced today it will
build a green veneer plant at
St Helens, Ore., as the first step
in a multi-million-dollar ply
wood program.
Company Vice President K. P.
Stamm said the decision came
after months of investigating
other sites along the -Columbia
river from its mouth to Camas,
Wash.
Stamm ' said the mill, which
will produce 87,000,000 square
'feet of plywood annually.
was CZ's first venture into the
plywood - field.' Plant- construc
tion was scheduled to be com
pleted early next year.'
The company's expansion pro
gram, which is scheduled to cost
$160,000,000 by the end of this
year, includes plywood presses
and other phases of a complete
plywood operation.
Crown Zellerbach announced
it planned to construct a pilot
plant - at - Camas, to produce
2,000,000 pounds of dimethyl
sulphide annually.
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