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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 20. 1945
It was Friday)
More than 150 attended Jack
son County Red Cross chapter
annual luncheon when new di
rectors are named.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A number
of farmers report their tractors
are worn out, and they are think
ing of getting a new one, or
using something that has colts.
20 YEARS AGO
Julr 20. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Jackson county court author
izes use of old lumber in Cam
eron bridge in Big Applegate
to be used for new bridge on
Taylor ranch.
Recent thunderstorms start 21
forest fires; all under control be
fore extensive damage caused.
30 YEARS AGO
Julr 20, 1925
(It was Monday)
Medford and Jackson county
women warned that fishing li
censes are necessary if over 14
years old.
Josephine county chapter of
American Sunday School union,
during Murphy meeting, protests
evolution taught in Oregon
schools.
40 YEARS AGO
Julr 20. 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Jackson County Water Users
league opens downtown office
In campaign to obtain irrigation
ior Rogue Valley.
From Local and Personal col
umn: An emmissary of the Eng
lish government has quartered
at the Helms' barns In this city
25 mules, born and raised in
the Rogue river valley, that will
be shipped to the western front
of the European battle line this
week. They will never bray
again on the home range, and
the prospects are bright that
most of them have but a short
time to bray anywhere. The
' mules will be shipped to Kansas
City, thence to New Orleans,
and thence across the Atlantic
and into the "Great Slaughter."
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cope, 1955.. Editorial Research Report
1 Almost 4 all states Impose
state personal incomes taxes;
right or wrong?
2. The Battle of the Little Big
Horn is better known as what?
3. President Eisenhower says
he wants foreign bicycles to pay
higher tariff duties or the same
as now, or he'll decide later?
. 4. Most states in U.N. have
ratified the anti-genocide treaty.
The U.S. is or isn't one of them?
. 5. "Queen .Anne legs" are
found in burlesque houses, furni
ture, bridge matches between
women, or women's relay races?
6. Clare Boothe Luce is or
isn't the U.S. ambassador to the
Vatican as well as to Italy?
, 7. "Chukker" is a term in bas
ketball, lacrosse, horse racing,
polo, cricket or soccer?
- The Answers: 1. 'Wrong; about
one-third don't. 2. Caster Mas
sacre. 3. Hell decide later. 4.
Isn't. 5. Furniture. S. Isn't. 7.
Polo.
The original forest .area of the
United States was estimated to
be 820,0000,000 acres, one-half
the land area.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Clearing the Air
Most of us have had the unpleasant experience of
getting a cinder lodged painfully in the eye". It's even
common enough to have become a standard boy-meets-girl
gambit
But a minor cinder-in-the-eye incident pales when
it is considered that in Medford, during an average
month, 38,000 pounds of cinders, flyash and other
airborne particles drop out of the sky over each square
mile of the city.
Some months the total goes as high as 68,000
pounds. -
IS IT anv wonder, then, that we not only get cinders
. in our eyes, but that we
covered with sooty particles; that some of those witn
respiratory infections find
housewives bemoan the
curtains end clothing?
TN THE morning, after a
less weather, it is possible to see a skim of haze be
tween the citv and the mountains to the west.
All of this is what is known as air pollution. It has
not yet reached major proportions m the Rogue Val
ley, but it has become enough of a nuisance to be
considered seriously and before it grows to the
proportions of the major municipal problem which
it has in other areas.
THE. figures about Medford's air pollution quoted
above are from the first biennial report of the
Oregon state air pollution authority, which was creat
ed as a part of the state board of health by the 1951
legislature.
The agency was established because, to quote the
report:
"In view of the fact that'the industrial population
growth in Oregon may be expected to continue at
even a more rapid rate it is essential that plans be
made now for a cooperative program of air pollution
control that will prove reasonable and acceptable to
those responsible for unsatisfactory, air conditions as
well as to the citizens of the state."
TTHIS approach by way of cooperative and volun
1 tary endeavor is a sound one, provided those who
are responsible recognize and assume their responsi
bility. If this does not work, sterner measures will
have to be taken. i
Not only does air pollution work hardship against
the individual citizen, , it is also damaging to the
state's No. 3 industry tourists. The Roseburg News
Review recently pointed out:
I is seldom, for instance, that the Three Sisters can be
seen from the Eugene and Corvallis areas. A friend from a
distant state .'. . was sending his wife picture postcards of
- Mt. Hood, a glorious peak he had not seen during his Port
land stay. Air pollution is impairing one of Oregon's most
important tourist attractions. Every few miles along our
major highways vantage points offer scenes of great beauty,
provided the atmosphere is clear. But aU too often haze,
bordering on smog, hides the view. The tourist passes by,
unimpressed, with no desire to return to Oregon at some
future date to make further exploration of scenic resources.
.
THE Oregon Journal also recently commented on
the situation, saying it came as a surprise to find
that only Cincinnati and Kansas City, of municipali
ties of comparable size have worse air pollution
problems than Portland.
"Certainly now is the time to do something about
it, and apparently efforts are being made toward this
end," the Journal said. "Oregon waited too long to
clean up its rivers and thus found the job doubly dif
ficult. We should proceed vigorously to clear up our
air pollution problem, which apparently is much
worse than most of us thought. We simply can't afford
to have any such problem as that which Los Angeles
faces."
As for Los Angeles, the Stanford Research Insti
tute recently found that the smog could lift somewhat
and that motorists would save money through re
search being done there.
Automotive exhausts are tagged as one of the ma
jor sources of Los Angeles' unhappy smog conditions,
coupled with industrial and private sources. Improv
ed carburetors and afterburners would not only save
on gasoline costs (up to $1,000,000,000 annually
throughout the nation) but would do much to clean
up the pollution of the air.
IN southern Oregon, our problem is created more
from the wastes sent into the air by lumber mills
or remanufacturing companies.
Under the encouragement of the air pollution au
thority, the Associated Forest Industries of Oregon
has appointed an industry air pollution' committee,
which has met several times and is in the process of
assembling data regarding successful measures taken
in other areas to reduce cinder and flyash problems
at individual plants. - - '
They are also contacting the manufacturers of
waste burners to obtain their recommendations for
effective control equipment. The staff of the state
authority has met with the committee to discuss the
problem and to furnish information and data with
particular reference to the lumber industry.
THE authority is feeling its way along, as it should,
for it is the first statewide organization of its kind
in the nation. But while its chief emphasis is on in
vestigation, research, education and planning, de
signed to encourage an awareness of the problem
and a local approach, the law under which it operates
also has teeth, if they are ever needed.
As further studies are conducted, and as the whole
field becomes better known it can be hoped the au
thority, and the local governments which in the long
run will have to accept the chief responsibility for
clearing the air, literally, will be able to come up with
practical and universally acceptable solutions. E.A.
Wednesday. July SO, 1953
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TOP-LEVEL STUFF President Eisenhower gestures as he
talks to Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin, left, as they
pose for photographers outside the Palace of Nations in
Geneva during second day of "meeting at the summit,"
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
The Columbia river gorge,
from Portland to The Dalles, is
a fabulous scenic area. It is also
one of the world's great trans'
portation routes. Here where
the mighty River of the West
broke through the mountain
barrier that separates the Pacific
coastal plain - from the wide
hinterlands one can see, often
in one sweeping glance, ALL the
forms of transportation that man
has used from the beginnings of
time to get himself from here to
there,
First there is the river itself
man's first important highway.
It was by the Great River that
the Indians came down from the
interior to Astoria, at the Co
lumbia's mouth. Boats stil ply its
waters. You can see them chug
ging up and whooshing down.
On both sides there are paved
highways, the modern descend
ants of man's first trails which,
wherever possible, followed the
rivers to avoid too much climb
ing up and down the ridges.
On both sides of the Columbia
there are railroads which came
into the transportation picture
when man learned to make a
Bridges Hearing
Expected To End
Late Tomorrow
San Francisco (U P) The
fourth denaturalization trial of
longshore leader Harry Bridges,
exDected to nack aU the exnlo.
sive power of the first three.
moved into its imai stages today
without causing so much as a
sputter.
Defense Attorney Richard
Gladstein said the defense would
rest its case today after calling
two more character witnesses.
and attorneys for both sides
agreed to present final argu
ments tomorrow.
Heard Without Jury
The 13-day-old civU suit, in
which the government seeks to
divest Bridges of his citizenship
and deport him to his native
Australia, is expected to be tak
en under submission by Federal
Judge Louis E. Goodman late
tomorrow. It is be ins heard with-
out a jury.
The government charges that
the president of the Internation
al Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's union obtained his
citizenship through fraud by
falsely denying that he had been
affiliated with the Communist
party.
Witness Hedges
Yesterday Carlton Melin, an
admitted ex-Communist count
ered government testimony that
Bridges attempted to recruit
members into the Communist
party, but hedged when asked
aDout nis own party member
ship.
Melin. a San Francisco long
shoreman, testified he was pres
ent at a meeting in the home of
Jack Shaw in Seattle, Wash., at
the time prosecution witness
John Schomaker said Bridges
attempted to recruit members
for the party.
Melin said Bridges was pres
ent at the meeting, but talked
only of union matters.
Most wood used for oulnwood
is peeled in the woods by log
gers or at mills using special
equipment.
Although one-half of Mexico
lies within the tropic zone, only
its coastal regions and the pen
insula of Yucatan have a tropical
climate.
Dead line Sundav OanlflMl Is at
noon Saturday- in a m Unnrf.v 4nr
Monday; other days 5 JO previous day.
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steam engine that would move
on wheels.
AND-
Up in the air
The PLANES, man's latest in
strument of transport, buzz back
and" forth like giant dragonflies,
taking advantage of the gap in
the mountains.
F'S
is
"S NO wonder that Portland
it isn't the Pacific coast's great
est city.
I think it may be when the
basin of the Columbia river
which, for aU practical purposes,
is the Pacific Northwest comes
finally into its own.
HERE'S a picture of water
transport they're already
seeing up there.
The Columbia is navigable
now to Bonneville dam. Bonne
ville dam slacks the water to
The Dalles dam. The Dalles dam
wiU slack it to the proposed
John Day dam, which will slack
it to McNary dam.
And so on. Eventually, if all
the plans go through, there wUl
be navigable water all the way
to Lewiston, on the Snake. '
VLULL inland water transpor
" tation be an important fac
tor m the world of the future?
Who can say?
There is the Mississippi, which
once was the great artery of
commerce for the whole vast
Mississippi valley," but DE
CLINED in importance when the
railroads came, with SWIFTER
transport.
But now the Mississippi is
coming back into the picture.
.And ocean ships come up the St
Lawrence into the Great Lakes.
Because of that fact, Chicago
hopes to take New York's place
as America's No. 1 city.
And look at Europe, which is
very old. The volume of its com
merce that moves on its rivers
and its canals is immense. Who
knows what river transport on
the Columbia may mean in the
generations of the future?
A WORD more as to these
dams that 'are slacking the
Columbia's waters to Lewiston
and perhaps farther.
They are pouring out an in
creasing volume of kilowatts,
Whatever we may say of water
transport, we can be flatly cer
tain that POWER wiU be the
dominant factor in the industrial
developments of the future. .
All along the Columbia, the
skyline is laced with the tracery
of. electric power lines. These
power lines are feeding POWER
down into the Lower Columbia
area and the Puget Sound area.
Where power is in abundance,
INDUSTRY GOES.
HERE in Southern Oregon we
are rich in raw material re
sources saw timber, pulp tim
ber, strategic metals, crops, etc.
These resources will require
POWER for their full develop
ment. If we have power enough, our
resources can be developed. -If
we don't have power enough,
they won't be developed and
ours wiU remain a semi-peasant
economy shipping the bulk of
our raw materials away to be
processed somewhere else.
In our rivers, the Umpqua,
the Rogue and the Klamath, we
have plenty of power for the
processing and the fabricating
of our raw materials. We'd bet
ter develop the full potential of
our failing water. .
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. ! About time, isn't it that we're
havjng a Factors. Fallacy in our
favorite fish, the trout?
Fancyt Ounce for ounce, the
trout is the world's scrappiest
game fish. Hooked, he rushes up
stream with "express - train
speed"; downstream, he is faster
than a "greased stroke of light
ning." ,
Fact: a trout, as fish go, is not
a track speedster. The top burst
of speed of a 14-inch Rainbow
trout is just under eight miles
an hour.. He can just hold his
own in water traveling 11.4 feet
per second (7.77 miles per hour).
In comparison a western sucker,
bane of anglers, has been locked
at 10.8 feet per second (7.22
mph).
Going downstream, the speed
of the current must be added
say, with swift water about four
miles an hour. So, to the eight
miles an hour, add four.
Larger trout go somewhat
faster. but they are seldom
caught. In comparison to the
trout, the grown salmon goes
considerably faster. From 18-22
miles an hour; tarpon will slice
the water at 35; a tuna at 44;
and the swordfish has been
clocked at 60. It is claimed that
a sailfish will go 68.
The trout's powers of accelera
tion are another matter. From a
film of a nine-inch trout in a
tank, it was estimated that al
though its maximum speed was
only five miles an hour, none
theless it could attain this speed
within l20th of a second. This
is equal to an acceleration of
100 miles an hour in one second
Fancy: Sometimes a trout will
leap clear of the water and-take
the dry fly on his way down.
Fact: When a trout takes a
dry fly on the way down mak
ing a rambow arched dive on
the fly brother, that's mostly
artistic license.
As the artist shows it, this
happens all the time and with
deadly' accuracy, the-bouncing
action of the current or the dis
turbance of his own rise out of
the water notwithstanding!
But trout just naturally don't
like to get their food the hard
way. This doesn't mean that
trout won't come clear out of
the water for a fly particular
ly a rainbow trout A more like
ly explanation however is that
the trout comes at the fly with
such a vicious rush that his own
momentum carries him well be
yond the surface of the water
and he carries the fly with him
on his upward surge. Or should
he have missed, it is not beyond
the realm of possibility that in
coming down he may be snagged
in the mouth. But rarely.
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India's Nehru Says
Russia May Abandon
Notorious Cominform
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru, the "neutralist" leader
of India, has made the surprising
prediction that
Soviet Russia
may abandon
its notorious
"Cominform."
If that hap
pened, it cer
tainly would
be a . step to
ward reducing
the world ten
sions which
the Big Four
cuariM Mccaaa neaas oz gov
ernment are discussing in the
Geneva "summit" conference.
Nehru said in a press confer
ence in New Delhi, the Indian
capital, that the Cominform
the Communist Bureau of In
formation did not fit in with
the Russian-neutralist idea of
'co-existence" between East and
West. Hence, he added, the logi
cal conclusion is that the "Corn-
inform will "automatically go."
Nehru is just back from a long
visit to Moscow, and he may
know something.
World Tension
President Eisenhower, in his
opening statement at the Geneva
conference, named Communist
subversion as one of the chief
causes of world tension which
ought to be discussed.
The Cominform, which the
Kremlin formed in October,
1947, is one of its chief instru-
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While a few birds have be
come extinct and many have
dwindled in numbers since the
discovery of America, stiU oth
ers have greatly increased.
Exclusive of the Great Lakes,
the water area of the United
States was estimated to be 45,
259 square miles.
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ments of subversion. It replaced
the old "Communist Interna
tional" which Russia abandoned
during World War II as a sup
posed sign of good faith.
Another of the issues which
President Eisenhower suggested
for discussion in the freeing of
the Soviet satellite countries.
He even received some mild
support from Nehru on this ques
tion. Admitting that the satellite
problem did exist Nehru said
that each country should be
treated separately, in a peaceful
manner and in accordance with
the wishes of the peoples con
cerned. He added that the ques
tions could be considered better
when other cold war tensions
had faded. .
Nehru undoubtedly was right
about that The President made
it plain that all he wanted to do '
was to discuss this issue among
others, not to negotiate on it
Won't Forget
But it is evident that . the
United States government is not
going to let the Kremlin forget
the satellites.
Further, the United States re
gards as satellites Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia as well as the
other Communist-ruled countries
of Eastern Europe.
Russia occupied these little
Baltic republics in 1940, by
agreement with Nazi Germany,
and incorporated them into the
Soviet Union. But the United
States never recognized the Rus
sian grab. It still recognizes dip
lomatic and consular representa
tives of the three countries in
the United States.
President Eisenhower, in a
statement made in June, 1954, to
a rally of Lithuanians, Latvians .
and Estonians in New York, said
that the United States is "re
solved to continue to do all that
we can to establish in the world
conditions under which these
countries win regain and retain
their freedom."
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