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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
August 15. 1945
(It was Wednesday)
Cheney brothers Central Point
mill destroyed by fire.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Due to the
people not planting as many as
they should, when the fish were
reported biting last spring, a po
ctato shortage looms next winter.
20 YEARS AGO
August 15, 1935
(It was Thursday)
Mann's new store to hold gala
open house tonight.
Packing plants to begin opera
tion this afternoon.
SO YEARS AGO
August 15, 1925
(It was Saturday)
Bids being received for new
high school.
Seventh Day Adventists con
sidering opening a valley board
ing school.
40 YEARS AGO
August 15, 1915
Firebugs in Butte Falls area
set 25 fires.
Samples of sugar beets grown
in valley sent for testing in con
templation of $600,000 sugar
beet plant construction here.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 71
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. The Government's deficit
for fiscal year ending June 30
was $1.4, $4, $14 or $40 billion.
2. Which of these cars are
made by American Motors Corp.:
Hudson, Imperial, Nash, Pack
ard, Studebaker?
3. This bull market in stocks
has or hasn't lasted longer than
any other in U. S. history?
4. Total 1955 farm production
is expected to be highest on rec
ord, second highest, about the
same as 1954, or lowest in five
years?
5. The Hambletonian trotting
race is run in Illinois, Kentucky,
N.Y. state, New England, Ohio
or Maryland?
6. Which baseball team was
long managed by Miller Hug
gins? 7 Theodor Koerner is presi
dent of Austria, Czechoslovakia,
National Broadcasting Corp.,
National Football League, Notre
Dame Univ., or West German
Republic?
The Answers: 1. A little over
$4 billion. 2. Hudson and Nash.
3. Has. 4. Second highest on rec
ord. 5. In southeastern N.Y. 6.
N. Y. Yankees. 7. Austria.
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TRACTOR SHOVEL STOLEN .
JerseyCity, N. J. (U.R) Vic
tor De Santis, of Bayonne, N.J.,
Ocomplained to police that some
one stole his eight-ton tractor
ahovel, valued at $7,500. Police
said the thieves apparently
loaded the big piece of equip
ment on a truck and hauled it
away.
FOUNTAIN SPOUTS BEER
Lubeck, Germany (U.R) Lu
beck celebrated its second an
nual beer festival in a big way
today with a beer-spouting foun
tain. The fountain, donated by
a brewery, poured fourth some
6.600 quarts of beer Sunday to
37,000 celebrants.
Thirty-six states now have
tree farm programs under way.
Eittai i z) -J
MAIL TRIBUNE
What's Ahead in Lumber? -
The lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest is
on the verge of a new era.
That is a large-sized statement which sums up a
large-sized fact a fact with considerable import to
residents of Jackson county who are dependent on
lumber and its processing for more than 50 cents in
each dollar of over-all income.
WHETHER this new era will be good or bad is de
pendent on how wisely the industry reacts to
changing economics, and on how it answers the ques
tion, "Is lumber a renewable resource a crop or is
it something that can be taken, and when it's gone,
it's just too bad?"
The forest products industry is large and diversi
fied. Each of many aspects has some bearing on the
problem of whether or not the industry itself will
survive. It cannot survive as we know it.
It is going to change. Whether that change will
be beneficial, or will plunge the area into a period of
depression, is yet unknown.
IT IS a fact that in Jackson county alone since World
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iy ai ii, luuiuci 110.0 wwi v,iu cu c v-
hundred million board feet each year. In two of the
postwar years, the total
000,000 board feet.
Tt. is another fact that
to be continued, it would
crop would be gone.
When the rate of cutting- is decreased (as it soon
must be), some of the existing; sawmills will have to
go out of business. There
logs for them.
'HESE facts, of themselves, are neither good nor
bad. It is what is done to solve the problem they
present that has potentialities for good or evil.
One potential answer lies in increased utilization
of forest products the bark, the limbs, the small butt
ends, the sawdust and other mill residues that now
usually go up in smoke.'
On this subject, the industry magazine, "The Tim
berman," has this to say:
The transition to multi-product integration is setting a
more rapid pace than may be generally realized, and each
operator has need to evaluate his present position in terms
of long-life available resources. We can no longer .open our
forests as raw material for lumber alone. They are also
material for plywood, pulp and paper, cellulose, fibre
board, bark products, hardboard, chipboard, chemicals and
others yet to be developed.
Emerging patterns are clearly evident today. There is a
strong trend toward multi-product, integrated centers.
Whether it be built up from the basic sawmill or "backed
into" from a pulp operation, the concept is economic, that
of securing the most realization from every tree without
substantially increasing the total harvest.
TN yesterday's Mail Tribune a feature story on the
-- White City industrial area told of a development
resembling greatly the concept described by "The
Timberman." There is no paper mill there, nor is
there a hardboard plant, nor is there a chemical
production factoiy.
But the idea is there remanufacture of forest
products, greater utilization of what we have. For a
manufacturing center not yet 10 years old, the list is
already fairly impressive, and there is good reason
to believe that it will be increased.
Forest products technology, is not exactly a new
science, and has made considerable strides in the de
velopment of such things as hardboards and fibre
boards. Waxes of superior quality can be made from
tree bark. The laboratories are at work on other ad
vances, including the reduction of costs.
Up to this point, some of these things have not
been susceptible to manufacture on a scale which
would allow producers to make a profit or even
avoid a loss on them. But the time is coming when
they will, particularly in the complex, integrated for
est products manuf acturing units of the future, where
a larger gross product will result from the same
amount of raw material.
DUT what of markets?
The Stanford Research Institute has made an ex
tensive study of demand for forest products and has
projected it to 1975, based on present demands, on
technological developments, on trends in woods pro
ducts use, and on population forecasts.
It comes to several conclusions, among which are
the following:
Despite higher lumber prices, there should be a market
for all the lumber produced in the United States, plus in
creased imports and increased re-use of salvaged lumber.
Major increases are expected in the domestic production
and consumption of pulp, paper and paperboard products,
plywood and veneer, and hardboard and insulating board.
A major decline is probable in fuel wood consumption.
Only moderate changes are forecast in consumption and
production of other forest products.
The major increases in timber use in the West will be
for softwood lumber and plywood production, with mill
residuals providing material for increased pulp and hard
board production.
A continuing market for forest products seems as
"sured. It also seems evident that the industry must
place greater emphasis on higher utilization of what
are now waste products, and on a greater degree of
processing.
Still unanswered is the question of supply, which
is, perhaps, the most vital one of all. This will be dis
cussed in this space Wednesday. E.A.
BANK TO BUILD
Portland (U.R) First Na
tional Bank of Portland has an
nounced plans to construct a
$1,000,000 building on Port
land's west side. The proposed
bank structure would be three
stories tall. Its facilities includes
a 30-car underground parking
area, and drive-in banking facil
ities. '
Monday, August 15, 1955
has been more than 700,-
if this rate of cutting: were
not be many years until the
simply will not be enough
DEVELOPMENT
CONFERENCE
Portland (U.R) The second
annual Western area develop
ment conference to be held here
Sept. 8 and 9 will feature dis
cussions of atomic power, indus
trial development, markets and
financing. '
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday.
1AA
r--f , t
Now in August, many people
head for the cooler northern
states, knowing full well that
the average temperature for
August in Maine will be about 20
degrees cooler than in Louisi
ana; Western Oregon about 25
degrees cooler than Southern
Texas.
But it ain't necessarily so. For
brief periods the nothern states
can be hotter: Maine can be hot
ter than Florida; parts of Alaska
can be warmer than Portland,
Me.
If you find that "difficult to be
lieve, let's look at the record:
During the past 40 years, the
hottest recorded day for Miami,
Fla., is 96. For Millinocket, Me.,
the record stands 10 degrees
higher, 106. Same for interior
states: the hottest recorded in
Birmingham is 107 which is
exactly seven degrees lower than
that recorded for Bismarck, N.D.
West of the Mississippi there
is little to choose among the 120
IS-SS
degrees recoraed for Texas, the
116 for New Mexico, the 119 for
Oregon, and the 118 for Wash
ington.
For that matter, temperatures
exceeding 100 degrees have been
reported for every one of the
states and provinces. In Fort Yu
kon, Alaska, north of the Arctic
circle, the summer months of
July and August are regularly
warmer than those in Portland,
Me., and considerably hotter
than in San Francisco. In fact; 50
of the 62 days during these
months will register 70 and high
er. That 'higher' includes 100 in
the shade.
As for the hottest spot in
North America, that dubious dis
tinction goes to California
Death Valley, where at Green
land Ranch on July 10, the air
temperature soared to 134 which
is within three degrees of the
hottest ever officially recorded
on the face of this earth. That
scorcher, incidentally, occurred
in Tripoli, with a searing 137.
Not Whole Story
The mere official temperature
reading however doesn't tell the
whole story. This 137 was re
corded at a height of four feet
above the ground official read
ings call for this. On the ground
itself, the temperature was hot
ter, much hotter. In fact, at the
very spot where this world's
record was established, the des
ert floor was an additional 43
degrees hotter, making 180! a
mere 32 degrees below the ordin
ary boiling point of water.
Now, perhaps, you are ready
to go somewhere where summer
heat never, ever bothers. Come
along. In the Canadian Arctic,
north of the slot made by Mc-
Clure strait Melville sound, Bar
row strait, and Lancaster sound,
the air temperature is likely to
hover only eight degrees above
freezing in July and August. And
snowfalls are common the year
round.
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Top Air Force Leader
Praises Harold Talbot t
San Francisco (U.R) A top
Air Force official Saturday de
scribed resigned Air Secretary
Harold E. Talbott as a person
who "is honest, forthright, and
acted always as he thought en
tirely proper."
Talbott resigned after a Sen
ate subcommittee questioned
whether he was violating the
conflict of interest law. Until
a short time before his resigna
tion, Talbott had retained his
interest in a business manage
ment partnership which did bus
iness with firms seeking gov
ernment contracts.
Roger Lewis, Assistant Secre
tary of the Air Force under Tal
bott, praised the resigned offic
ial as an "outstanding secretary"
in a speech before the Air Force
Association convention.
London U.R) Lieutenant
General A. E. Percival, who sur
rendered Singapore to the Jap
anese in 1942, said Saturday the
western powers should beware
of the danger of an alliance be
tween Japan and Comunist China.
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Catchy Phrase Seen Immediate
Need for Republican Campaign
By LYLE WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) What
the Republican Party needs
right new is an inspired crack
by a skilled
some
thing to
match FDR's
s o c k o inven
tion: A New
Deal.
Such a
phrase bright
ly identifying
the scope and
Lyle C. Wilson objectives of
the Eisenhower administration
would help 1956 candidates in
the field to stick aboard the
President's coat tails. That is,
of course, assuming that he runs
again, which is being about
equally assumed and prayed
against by Republicans and
Democrats, respectively.
Keep cool with Collidge,
Harding's normalcy, McKinley's
full dinner pail, Wilson's he-kept-us-out-of-war
may have
been corny or, even, phony. But
they all had political sock which
paid off at the polls.
Mr. Eisenhower has come up
with some catchword descrip
tions of his own administration.
They didn't take. For an early
dynamic conservatism" he sub
stituted last Jan. 20 "progressive
moderation" as the basic de
scription of his objectives and
principles. Beginning his third
year in office, the President said
his administration sought to be:
"Liberal in its human con
cerns, conservative in . its eco
nomic proposals, constructively
dynamic and optimistic in its
appraisal of the future."
Middle of Road Man
That resounding statement,
likewise, failed to find a place
in the common language of the
people. The President sharply
protested earlier - when others
Matter of
JOHNSON'S COMEBACK
Washington One of the real
ly significant current political
developments is primarily medi
cal in nature.
In brief, Lyn
don Johnson's
recovery is
proceeding so
well and so
rapidly that he I
is now plan
ning to resume
his post as
Senate Demo
cratic leader
next January.
Joseph Also
A setback
may of course change his plans.
But the Texas Senator s large ar
ray of doctors do not expect a
setback. On the contrary, they
are now forecasting effective
healing of his damaged heart,
which will permit him to lead
an entirely normal life
In a myocardial attack, such
as Johnson had a few weeks ago,
effective healing is possible and
not uncommon. The attack takes
the form of failure of a blood
vessel serving the heart, which
in turn damages the heart tissue.
The healing process is double.
The wound in the heart heals,
and other blood vessels increase
their work to restore the heart
to normal functioning.
Myocardial cases are on rec
ord in which healing has been so
complete that the victims have
lived, worked hard and even ex
ercised within reason for 30
years and more after the attack.
His doctors think that Johnson,
who is barely middle-aged and
has the constitution of an ox, is
going to turn out to be one of
these cases. Johnson thinks so
too.
Even a complete recovery will
not absolutely eliminate the ele
ment of risk in resuming the
leadership burden. Being Senate
Majority Leader is not without
risk even to a man who had
never suffered a myocardial at
tack,1 for the burden is a heavy
one. But Johnson is sure he can
carry the' burden if his recovery
progresses satisfactorily, and if
he moderates a little the killing
pace that brought on his attack.
And he is perfectly ready to ac
cept the slight risk in order to
get on with his work.
THE strong probability is,
thprefore. that Johnson will
be back at the old stand when
the Senate reconvenes just after
the new year. Until now, al
though the rapidity of his recov
ery has been widely commented
on, this likelihood of a full John
sonian comeback has not been
grasped. If the likelihood be
comes reality, it will alter all
kinds of political calculations,
both Democratic and Republi
can.
It is a bad augury, for instance,
for the extreme right-wing of the
Republican party, and by the
same token it is a good augury
for President Eisenhower, who
can count on the continuation of
bipartisanship in foreign policy
with Lyndon Johnson at the
helm.
Very few people realize howl
much Johnson's shrewdness and
determination have contributed
to the progressive isolation and
erosion , of the Republican . ex
tremist group, that has been one
of the really dramatic features of
sought to tag his administration
as new deal. Not so, he said.
Best description to date, per
haps, is that Mr. Eisenhower is a
middle of the road man, and is
busily widening the same. He's
been over to the left, or Demo
cratic side, of the road with his
foreign program, taking most
of his party with him. The old
isolationist wing is now but a
fistful of feathers. But, for ex
ample, in carrying on the New
Deal reciprocal trade policies,
Mr. Eisenhower accepted some
of the safeguarding compromises
demanded by the protectionists.
Mr. Eisenhower's effort to see
restrictions of the Refugee Act
was a left-of-center maneuver.
But he went to the right with
his hydro-electric power pro
gram, on tidelands, taxes, and
wage-price controls. He was
down the middle on public hous
ing asked for 35,000 units an
nually for two years, settled,
finaUy, for 45,000 units in one
year. The Democratic opposition
wanted 135,000 units annually
for four years.
The President was a bit left
of the- old Republican Party line
with a health reinsurance plan
for financing catastrophic ill
ness. But he was far to the right
of former President Tuman's
payroll tax plan of compulsory
health insurance which was bor
rowed largely from the recent
Sociatist government of Britain.
Widens Middle Road
He widened the middle road
a bit with a request that min
imum wages be boosted to 90
cents from 75 cents an hour. The
Democrats struck for one buck,
25 cents short of the $1.25
sought by organized labor.
Mr. Eisenhower has fostered
expanded Social Security but
successfully opposed Democratic
efforts to expand further this
year. The Eisenhower adminis
tration school construction pro
gram is more a leave-it-up-to-
Fact iy Joseph m
this session of Congress. His first
slight intimation of his heart at
tack came, in fact, during a bit
ter argument with Sen. William
Knowland, in the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, when Johnson
was insisting that Sen. Joseph R
McCarthy's anti-Eisenhower pre-
Geneva resolution should be re
ported unfavorably to the Senate
floor.
The resolution was reported
as Johnson desired. The complete
lack of support for McCarthy
and by implication the all-but-
unanimous support for the Presi
dent, was publicly demonstrated
as Johnson planned. The humili
ating defeat brought the anti
Eisenhower group in the Repub
lican party to its low point to
date.
So far as domestic politics are
concerned, however, Johnson's
comeback will probably not be
a very happy event for the White
House. Quarrels among Demo
crats are what Republicans most
enjoy in an election year, and
preventing quarrels among Dem
ocrats is Johnson's great spec
ialty. He has been busy during
his leadership building a bridge
between the liberal North and
the conservativ South. Without
Johnson to keep it in repair, the
bridge might break; but with
Johnson in the leadership again,
the Democrats ought to go to
their convention as near a band
of brothers as they are ever
likely to be.
FURTHERMORE, Johnson quite
franklv rinpc -nnt intnl
so uniformly amiable in his deal
ings with the Administration in
the next session as he was in the
last. He has built a record of
political moderation and de
cency. The magic of the Adminis-
xraiion is Beginning to wear
markedly thin in certain areas-
in the area of the Defense De
partment, for instance, where
Johnson's close friend, former
Under Secretary Robert Ander
son, is no longer on the job to
protect Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson from the Con
gress. In these areas, where Johnson
now judges that the time is ripe
for the Democrats to take the of
fensive, a strong offensive will
be taken. The effort will be
made, by committee investiga
tions and other means, to high
light the "big business" label
that the Democrats think is hurt
ing the Administration politi
cally.
Meanwhile, Johnson proposes
to stick to his rule of "construc
tive opposition" on the big policy
questions and however he han
dles matters, it will be exciting
for students of the legislative
processes to see the ablest leader
the Senate has had in many dec
ades back on the job agam.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
KLAMATH SURVEY DUE
Klamath Falls (U.R) John
Nelson, a Stanford Research In
stitute field man, will begin
the' first phase of a survey of
Klamath Indian reservation this
veek. Nelson will study the
human resources of the reserva
tion. Both human and economic
resources will be surveyed at
the request of reservation man
agement specialists to prepare
preliminary plan for federal
control of the reservation, , ,
local communities than it is a
federal program.
The Presidents recommen
dations on the Taft-Hartley Act
pleased neither side. His ap
proach to public road building
was new, as were the approaches
to public power develoment,
health reinsurance and the
building of schools.
There remains within the Re
publican Party a core of opposi
tion to Mr. Eisenhower and
there are those who spurn him
as a New Dealer. He may get
some comfort from the fact that
many a builder and real estate
operator called the late Sen.
Robert A. Taft, most effective
sponsor of public housing, a
Socialist.
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A Motel Diogenes
To the Editor: Recently my
family and I had a quick trip
through Medford on our way to
the Oregon Caves, and I must
say that the courtesy, and
friendliness of the Oregonians
really impressed us. I would es
pecially like to publicly express
my appreciation to Mr. and Mrs.
Rauber at whose motel (Cave
Park Motel, Cave Junction) we
stayed, and for this reason.
After spending a comfortable
night at Cave Park Motel we
left (about 10:30 a.m.) for the
caves. However, we found (to
our dismay) on arriving at the
caves that my husband had left
his wallet under his pillow. In
the wallet were our total cash,
(to get back home), credit cards,
identification, and other import
ant items, so you can see the im
portance of retrieving the wal
let. We had no choice but to re
turn to the motel at once (with
out seeing the caves). Upon our
arrival there Mr. Rauber smil
ingly told us he was expecting
us, and handed my husband his
wallet with everything intact,
He even declined a token of
my husband's appreciation.
(Diogenes please note!)
Mrs. William P. Falvey
3853 20th St.
S. F.f Calif.
P.S. I will stUl see the Caves
if I have to wait years.
GRANGE
Butte Falls Grange
The Butte Falls Grange met
in regular session with Master
Ted Fredenburg presiding. It
was visitation night and there
were 50 visiting Grange mem
bers representing nine Granges
present.
The Phoenix Grange lecturer,
Mrs. A. Floyd, had charge of the
program, and the officers of that
Grange closed the meeting. Hon
ored guests were Roscoe Rob
erts, Medford; and Herb Carl
ton, Prospect.
The H.E.C. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Roy Green,
Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 8 p.m.
The next Grange meeting will
be Sept. 5. The serving commit
tee will be Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Green and Mr. and Mrs. Les
Casey.
The social night will be Aug.
19.
EGYPT, RUSSIA TO TRADE
Cairo, Egypt (U.R) Finance
Minister Abdel Moneim Elkai
souni announced today that
Egypt has reached trade agree
ments with Russia and Romania
to exchange oil for Egyptian
cotton. He said the pacts were
renewals and extensions of pres
ent trade accords.
FAIR RECORDS BROKEN
Gresham (U.R) Multnomah
county fair officials said yester
day afternoon that the 1955 fair
had been attended by 71,789
persons, breaking all previous
attendance records.
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Connie still dominates the
news at the hour this is put to
gether. There are signs that the lady
is getting older and a bit more
feeble. But her tantrum (jp't
over. Meanwhile her younger
sister Diane is growing up and
getting wickeder.
Personally, I'm glad they both
play in somebody else's yard.
SPEAKING of play, I saw an
interesting sight as I was
coming to work the otherSmorn
ing. Three children were having
a whale of a time with the dis
carded inner tube of an old trucK
tire.
It was about half inflated, and
they were jumping up and down
on it in high glee, laughing and
shouting. Every now and then
one would jump a little too high
and come a mild cropper. Every
time that happened, it would
set the three of them into new
gales of laughter.
It was a pleasant sigM.
0
TT TAKES so LITTLE to amuse
'em at that age.
When they GROW UP itwill
be different. In their grovwi-up
life, the necessities will cost them
little, in comparison with their
earning power, but THEIR AM
USEMENTS WILL BE FANTAS
TICALLY EXPENSIVE.
Instead of the discarded inner
tube of an old truck tfire, they'll
then require a shining new auto
mobile before they can even GO
TO THE PLACES where the kind
of amusement they will insist
upon can be had.
rpHAT recalls a good smart
crack back in the Gay Nine
ties:
"It isn't so much the high cost
of living that bankrupts us as
the COST OF HIGH LIVING."
I reckon that always has been
true.
AS has often been remarked,
this is a queer world, and
the people who live in it are
queerer still. One never can tell
where they will find pleasure.
There's the case of George
Shepherd, who is now ajrosper
ous lumber dealer in the British
crown colony of Sarawak. He
has just made a 10,000-mile trip
to London for ONE sole purpose
to drop a one-pound note (pres
ently worth0 $2.80) on the side
walk in Bayswater square.
Why?
"Well, he hopes it will be found
by some down-and-outer. He
explains that when he was broke
back during the Great Depres
sion, he found a pound note' in
Bayswater square and it chang
ed his luck. From that moment,
he ceased to go from bad to
worse and began to go from good
to better.
Now he's sitting pretty. So
he's going half around the
world to drop a pound note on
the sidewalk in the hope that
somebody else can do likewfca.
TT'S A pious impulse, and I
hope he isn't kiddfiig himself
about his reasons for making
his long trek from Sarawak
(which is a little bit of Old Eng
land that still stretches along
the coast of the big and still wild
island of Borneo in the East In
dian archipellago) to London.
But I can't help wondering.
The excuses that people can
dream up for TAKING A TRIP
are fabulous.
Ike Gives Go-Ahead
On Reserve Program
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower Saturday gave
the Army and Marines the go
ahead to enlist reserves under
the new reserve program, and
urged young Americans to re
spond to their country's calL
"No time should be lost in
moving toward the goal or
stronger reserves as rapidly as
the law permits," the president
said.
"It is mv sincere hope that
young Americans will respond
to this volunteer program in such
a measure as to insure its sue-
PERL'S every family
may make funeral arrangements-which
are in
keeping with its means. A
selection of services in
every price range is of
fered to satisfy individual
preferences and to meet
all financial circumstances.
Convenient Terms?
Certainly!