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FOOT MTOrORD (OREGOff) "Iverybody In Southern Oragoa iUads Thn MaJJ Trtbuns Published Daily Except Saturday bj MEDFOSX) PRINTING CO. 17-28 North Fir St. Phone MH1 ROBERT W.'RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JB, City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor iUCHABD JEWETT. S ports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second daai matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol Marcn a. icai SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. DaUy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos. SJO Sunday Only One year 30. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle 'Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $13 .00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 3A Carrier ana ueaier "r y AU Terms Cash in Aovanc ClfUUl Paper of the City oi Official Paper of Jackson County united Press Full Leased Wlre mtmrb OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCUIATION Advertising KeOTesentattve: WBST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Office, in New York. piao De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS?C5TI5N "7 NSWSPAMt Ip'XtSOCIATtON 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 Oct., 1945 (It was Friday) Miss Lydia McCall of Ashland succeeds Mrs. Hattie Beames White of Medford as president of the Jackson County Pioneer association at Jacksonville meet ing. o From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Plans for control of next year's weed are now being mapped. The noxious growths will be sprayed with chemicals and exterminated, it Is hoped. Ten days after Nagas aki was flattened by an atomic bomb dandelions were bloom ing amid the ruins. The odds favor the weeds. G SO YEARS AGO o V "- Oct. 3. 1935 (It was Saturday) Forest service reports almost Ideal conditions for deer hunt ing in Rogue River National forest. Mrs. Augusta McCormick of Ashland elected president of WCTU at bi-county institute at Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 5. 1925 (It was Monday) Jackson County Bar associa tion, Rawles Moore, president, advocates changing county seat from Jacksonville to Medford, the business center. Members of Ashland Minis terial association confer with Billy Sunday in Portland on pos sibilities of evangelistic cam paign in Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 5. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Jackson county pears in Pan ama-Pacific exposition recog nized as some of best in exhibit, From Local and Personal col umn: The Misses Myrtle Vincent, Vera Hutchins, and Freda Davis went to Phoenix Sunday by the unique and novel method of roller skates. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 71 Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rart 1. The Federal Reserve Board does or doesn't have power now to restrict auto credit terms di rectly? 2. First inauguration of a U.S President was in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, or Annapolis, Md.? 3. About 25,000, 50,000, 100, 000, 200,000 or 300,000 U.S. busi nesses go out of existence every year? 4. Robert E. iX.ee was born in Lexington, Ky.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Richmond, Va.; or elsewhere m Virginia? 5. Which of these is outselling all other foreign cars in the U.S.: Austin, Consul, Fiat, Hillman, MG, Volkswagen? 6. Delegates from Hawaii and Alaska and a Commissioner from Puerto Rico sit in the U.S. House of Representatives. Do they have yotes there? 7. Tod Sloan was a famous jockey, pugilist, baseball pitcher, football player, golfer, or tennis champion? The Answers: 1. Doesn't. 2. New York. 3. About 300.000. 4. Elsewhere in Va. (Westmoreland county). 5. Volkswagen. 6. No. 7. Jockey. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at Boon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for lasadayj ethei sw tM previous day. i MAIL TRIBUNE Speed For Fires t Barring a long, warm, dry spell, it would be safe to say that the danger of major forest fires is over for this season. So this might be a good time to review the season a bit, for it was a "bad" forest fire year in southern Oregon. It was not the worst, however. During several oth er seasons larger areas of forest, range and brush land went up in smoke. But the potential during those anxious days in early Stepember was as explosive as anything experienced here for a long time. CTATEWIDE, 1955 was far from the worst season, although here again the potential danger was ex tremely high for several weeks. In 1955, a total of about 20,946 state-protected acres was burned oyer, according to State Forester Dwight Phipps, .compared to 132,000 acres in 1951. The really '"big burns" were even earlier. We re call particularly the years 1933, 1936, and 1939, when hundreds of thousands of acres went up in smoke. The Tillamook burn flared in those years, as did the famed Bandon fire. Each year the threat of fire, here and now, makes the past blazes fade into seeming unimportance, and we are apt to forget how bad they were. Actually, Oregon's fire record is improving. This may be due in part to a greater awareness of the fire danger on the part of the woods-using public, and it may . be due in part to better protection services lookouts, radio communications, trained firefighters, better equip ment better deployed, and more roads, which mean better access to isolated blazes. "NE of the things which gave added drama to the 1955 fires in Jackson county, which started Labor day week end, was the suddenness with which the situation developed. We are indebted to the state de partment of forestry for a run-down on how fast it happened. Condensed excerpts from the report fol low: On Sept. 5 at approximately 3 p.m. high winds twisted a treetop loose, blowing it into a power line near Church ' of the Pines on the west side of Blackwell hill. This fire was reported at about 3:04, and a pumper crew from Medford reached the scene at 3:27 p.m. A few minutes after this, the game high winds again hit and the warden in charge requested an additional crew. At about 3:40 gale force winds caused the fire to spot across the old highway. Four pumpers and about 40 men were trying to hold it, but were unable to do so, and it crossed in so many places it seemed . to have a solid front. At about 3:45 p.m. the crew on the Nugget Butte fire (near Gold HU1, controlled two days earlier) reported that fire coming to life at several points and spreading. They asked for help. At about 3:48 p.m., smoke was seen west of Jackson ville, and at 4 p.m. was reported to the forest patrol. Two wardens were dispatched within the next six minutes. At 4:20 p.m. Medford requested a crew from Grants Pass for the fire. It left within a few minutes. At 4:55 the size was estimated at 100 acres. Up to this time all crews and equipment from Medford, Applegate, Rogue River and Wimer, and one of two crews from Grants Pass were dispatched to the three going fires. Some time between 3:30 and 4 p.m. a similar wind re suited in a tree falling across a power line at the mouth of Sykes Creek, setting fire to a pile of slab and edgings. The same accident caused a telephone failure, so it could not be reported at first. Visibility during the day was from one to two miles, and lookouts in the area could not see any smoke. At about 4:20 p.m., a Woman reported a "fire in Evans creek" to the Grants Pass office with no other .particulars given. Attempts to check the report were unsuccessful, but at 4:25 p.m. the last Grants Pass crew was dispatched. About 4:30 p.m. high winds started to clear the air and at 4:35 p.m. the Wimer guard station reported smoke to a lookout, which still could not see it. It was finally spotted and reported -fb Medford by the lookout at 4:50 p.m. The Grants Pass crew, hearing the radioed report, asked for directions. The crew arrived about 5 p.m. and found a number of local people trying to fight the blaze. However, high winds, along with intense heat from the edging pile, caused it to spot north of the road. " At 5:08 p.m. the crew estimated the size at 20 acres; by 5:25 it was, reported growing rapidly and had roared over the ridge. Right after the first official word came from the Sykes Creek fire, overhead (supervisory personnel) and a 20-man crew were requested from Salem, plus a 500-man tool sup ply. They started arriving in Medford by air at 9 p.m. IT CAN be seen from this that the whole situation, caused mainly by gale-force winds, combined with tinder-dry conditions, "blew up" in only about three hours stretching the f iref ightirig equipment and per sonnel to the utmost. Generally the same sort of thing happened else where, too, requiring fast action on the part of sup pression men. One of the most spectacular aspects is the use of "smokejumpers." Catherine Worth, of the Grants Pass Courier staff, recently wrote an interest ing article about these men stationed at Cave Junc tion, who parachute in to put out remote fires. Jumps are made from 1,000 feet or less, she says, and must be made to terrain visible from the air. Most of the fires are spot blazes which ground crews would take hours or days to reach. Two men ordinarily go in and spend an average of a day and a night to get the fire out, and then hike out as best they can. MOst of them are college students. Between jumps they get one night's sleep before taking off again. Parachute riggers trained by the CAA do all the 'chute packing. Equip ment carried on a jump is food, fire tools, first aid equip ment, and sometimes radios, as well as heavy protective clothing and other gear. Men getting ready for a jump pick their own food from canned and packaged goods. WERY largely, it is speed which pays off in fire Y fighting in the woods. It's easier to control a one acre fire than one of 100 acres. But regardless of equipment, it's still men who have to do most of the back-breaking job of putting them out, and trained men will always be needed. E.A. Korean Stowaways On Portland (U.R) Three stow away K o re a n longshoremen were on their way back to their home port of Inchon today after being discovered on the U. S. ship Young America en route to Portland. About all they got for their trouble was a smallpox vaccina. Wednesday, October S, 19SS Way Back Home tion from the Public Health Serv ice'. Ca'pt. John F. Cesterle, master of the Waterman line ship, said he spotted one of the men in the ship's bridge at sea and or dered a search which produced the other two Koreans, one of them a wounded war veteran. In ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In these recent days, when agriculture is going through the period of readjustment to the ba sic law 'of supply and demand that ALWAYS FOLLOWS WARS, it is popular specially in the East to plan irrigation development. At the present moment, loud outcries are going up in the area east of the Mississippi against spending so much money for re clamation in the 17 Western states. Why spend money to put wat er on more arid and semi-arid land when the consuming mar kets won't absorb the crops grown on the land already in production! ' Let's CUT IT OUT and spend the money on something else! And so on. BEFORE going off the deep end in support of the argu ments of those who would LIM IT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST, let's take a look at some figures. The federal reclamation bu reau points out in a recent statement that once-arid West ern lands have flourished to such an extent that they have paid more than four billion dol lars in U.S. income taxes since 1916. With the magic touch of water, the statement adds, these re claimed lands now produce crops worth $800,000,000 per year some 25,000,000 tons an nually of prime fruit, vegetables, meat, grains, dairy products, etc. THAT isn't hay in any sense of the word. And , It should be added With aU this production from lands that once were desert and would be desert still but for the magic of irrigation, the West sparked by the development that has followed the reclamation of its arid lands has grown so rapidly that it still CAN'T FEED ITSELF FROM ITS OWN PRO DUCTION. It has to IMPORT staple foods meat is a shining example from the East and the Middle West. Marketwise, the East is better off agriculturally than it would be if the West had never been touched by the magic wand of reclamation. FDUSTRIALLY Well, industrially the story is wholly one-sided. Let's consider .automobiles, which are bought and used in the West in fabulous numbers. Automobile ownership per thousand of population is higher in the West than in any other part of our country. Automobiles are MADE IN THE EAST. Their manufacture gives employment to hundreds of thousands of Eastern workers, whose payrolls feed the economies of the East ern towns and cities in which the factories -are located. Without the Western market, which has been made possible by the reclamation and irriga tion of the arid lands of the West, the market for automo biles would be far smaller than it is. And automobiles are only one item in the long list of East ern manufactured products that find a market in the West. When the East makes cynical cracks about Western irrigation development,' it is stepping on its own feet. , -t-. . 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 Derm j tible. The Hail 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. Taxing the Tree To the Editor; The shade tree is a thing of beauty, and is gen erally grown for its beauty and shade. These two qualities are both of intangible value. Now, if the tree has no mone tary value, and just the shade is taxed, why should not the shade of my neighbor's barn be taxed as it is of better quality than mine, as my oak shade has holes in it? My crabapple tree, when in full bloom, is like one huge snowball, but it is just as beauti ful on my neighbor's side as on mine, so why should he not share in its tax as he gets half of the beauty? My wife says that my logic has Christmas NOTICE to Residents of Central Point I will be calling at your home soon with a real good deal on VITAMINS CARROLL W. POWELL Your Rawleigh Dealer 162 No. Pacific Phone Hwy., Central Point . No. 4-2278 Greece in Political Turmoil After Death Of Long-Sick Premier : By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Field Marshall Alexander Papagos, Greece's national hero, died fighting for his job as pre mier yesterday. The 72-year-old soldier statesman had been ailing how seriously was long a mys tery and his enemies were saying Greece had a headless government. Papagos had caanes Mccann been confined to his home outside of Athens for six months. There had been no cabinet meeting for three months. The cabinet was torn by inter nal dissensions. It was reported last week-end that King Paul I, with whom Editorial Comment HIGHWAY CHANGE Through traffic is now bypass ing Roseburg as a result of opening of the reconstructed Highway 99' section between Winchester and Shady Point Many old-timers doubtless are thinking back to the uproar cre ated by the State Highway Com mission when it opened Stephens street and took the highway off Jackson and Cass streets. Mer chants and property owners in the business district fought the change to the last ditch. They predicted the roof would fall in on Roseburg's economy. Prop erty on Cass and Jackson, some declared, wouldn't be worth ten cents per front foot. But think of the mess we would be in now if highway traf fic still followed Jackson and Cass streets! Few people are worried about the highway bypass. Naturally, some persons, engaged in busi nesses catering to through traf fic, will be adversely affected. But, just as the change to Ste phens Street enlarged the city's business district, bringing many benefits to the city as a whole, with little damage to other prop erty, the change being made to day is expected to be generally beneficial. Protect Approaches One of the principal advan tages in the change will be found in the impression gained of the city of Roseburg by people pass ing over the new route. I doubt if any city in Oregon will have a more scenic approach than on Ihe new highway between Shady Point and the city. Every through highway traveler, I am sure, will be thrilled by that sight. And the higher road ele vation affords an excellent view into the city's residential and business districts. The approach from the north also is impressive, though less scenic. But while the approach from the south is one of rare beauty, the approach from the north affords a view of the mu nicipal airport, industrial activ ity, schools, hospitals, and a fine glimpse of the city in general. In all, no. city could ask for a more favorable location for a highway as a means of attract ing attention and interest on the part of the through traveler.; Should Protect Beauty Every effort should be made to protect the beauty of these approaches, to remove any un sightly spots, and to add to the scenic values.- " Some localities have been greaUy disturbed concerning the possible effect of highway relo cation. It is possible, of course, that adverse effects will be experienced in these areas left at considerable distance from the route. Roseburg, however, with its critical traffic congestion, undoubtedly will find the change to be of much benefit. If we can keep the approaches as attrac tive as they now are, it should not be long until this city is one of the favored tourist stops on the highway, Roseburg News Review. holes in it like the shade of the oak. . Anyway, it would give Bob Fowler something to think about. Howard Work, Wagner Creek. Cards P&pagos had feuded over a pe riod of years, had asked him to resign. Papagos was said to have re plied with a request that he be permitted to name an acting pre mier, who might replace him at some indefinite future time. Advices from Athens said that two of Papagos chief cabinet aides were fighting each other for the right to succeed him. They were Foreign Minister Stephen Stephanopoulos and De fense Minister Panayotis Kanel lopoulos, both deputy premiers. Some Resignations Minister Without Portfolio Emmanuel Tsouderos resigned Monday, with the explanation that . "in the "present circum stances" he considered it "inop portune" to serve any longer. It is indicated that other res ignation might follow. Just before the news of Papa gos' death was released last night, an official statement said he had designated Foreign Min ister Stephanopoulos as acting premier. ' Apparently King Paul had gone along with him in his de sire to stick to his post to the end. Papagos' death leaves Greece in a troublous situation. Its inter nal situation is bad. To make the situation worse Greece is embroiled in a serious quarrel with Great Britain and Turkey, both fellow members of the North Atlantic Alliance, over its claim to the island of Cy pins. It is angry with the United Nations because that bodv re fused last week to put the Cy prus issue on its program for debate, .It " is angry with the United States for joining in the reiusai vote. ' Altogether, it looks as if Greece may face a Deriod of political turmoil after enjoying us longest period of stable gov ernment three years next month since the end of World War II. Papagos was swept into of- nce on Nov. 17, 1952, by a land slide vote. Tremendous Victory Mis "Greek Rally" party, wnicn ne had formed, won 239 of the 300 seats in the single- cnamtier Parliament. It has won eight more since. Son of a general, Papagos was virtually born a soldier. He en tered the army as a cavalrv of ficer. He fought in- the Balkan wars and in World War I. 4 Slim, six feet one inch tall, aristocratic looking, with deep set eyes and neatly-clipped mus tache, Papagos was a picture of a soldier. He was proclaimed his coun try's national hero when the lit tle Greek army under him rout ed the vaunted "7,000,000 'bayo nets" of the Italian Fascist forces after Mussolini's unpro voked attack in 1940. ' Mussolini, jealous of the vic tories of his friend Hitler, want ed a cheap victory to raise his prestige. He suffered a shameful defeat instead. Hitler came to Mussolini's res cue. Papagos, captured, spent two years in a concentration camp. ' He was proclaimed a national hero again when after the war be crushed .the Communists '- in the civil war. But all that seemed forgotten when the old soldier died. GEORGE TO SPEAK ' San Juan, Puerto Rico (U.R) Sen. Walter George (D-Ga.) will address the closing banquet of the Exchange Club national con vention which opens here Thurs day. Invtitmants mad by the 10th of ths month e r dividends as f the First. I 1 vx. Is That So? Animals have an intricate alarm system which can spread through the forest like wildfire. At times,' to send the warning they will risk their lives not only to warn of an Impending enemy but to drive out the intruder if they can. An ' example of this mutual aid was brought" to me by a letter from Barbara Bower man of Eugene, Oregon, and it is through such observations that an understanding of the wild life about us becomes known, (Inci dentally, this True-Life Nature Adventure won for her a 30-vol- ume set of the Encyclopedia Cily-Wide Strike By Unions Expected New Castle, Ind. (U.R) New Castle officials feared that every union member in the city would walk out today in protest of the firing of 35 striking employees of the Perfect Circle Corp. foundry. , "l Mayor Paul McCormack said leaflets have been passed out asking the 4,000 employees of a Chrysler Corp. plant to stay away from work in a sympathy demonstration. . Unions . in other ' plants are considering similar moves, he said, and it was even possible that the walkout might spread to the neighboring Indiana cities of Muncie, Anderson, and Rich mond. He feared that every union employee in New Castle might take part in the walkout. In Indianapolis, Gov. George Craig's office assured McCor mack "that state officials were on the alert in case serious trou ble breaks out. " The CIO Auto Workers have been on strike3 against the Per fect Circle Corp. since July 25, The walkout has been frequent ly marked by violence and Mc Cormack said the 35 dismissals "seemed to build a fire" under the mounting tension. Pacific Islanders Want To Return Home Tokyo (U.R) The almost forgotten islanders of , a small Pacific chain including historic I wo Jima will ask the United States this month to "let us re turn to the homes of our ances tors." ' Some 8,000 "displaced" na tives of the Bonin islands want to "go heme to our islands to live and bury the ashes of our dead." . The Japanese evacuated them to Japan more than 10 years ago during the closing days of the Pacific war. The United States has held on to the islands for strategic rea sons just as it has occupied Ok inawa and other Pacific posses sions captured during the bitter island-hopping Pacific fight TAX REDUCED Lyons, Kan. (U.R) For the second straight year, the city of Lyons has reduced its municipal tax levy. Latest cut was -1.25 mills, made possible through increased outside revenue", carry over surplus and a hike in total property valuation. ARE OUR SPECIALTY. 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Gradually it became appar ent that there was a sort of pat tern to all of the birds' activ ities. Each was taking turns fly ing down, hovering over the top of a nearby rose bush, then re turning to the fir while all of the dozen or so birds on the ground continued to iaake all the noise they possibly could. - "We walked up quietly and be- ' fore we knew it were practically on top of a chipping sparrow's nest and a bull snake was -coiled around it, trying to swallow one of the baby birds. "Now surely, all those birds . had not planned to attract us humans to help. But perhaps they had instinctively banded ft together to bring some predator, perhaps a hawk, who would e delighted with a fat snake for his lunch! "Still the most remarkable thing to us was the variety of birds which had gathered to aid the chipping sparrow: juncoes , which are ground-nesters, tana gers who build high in the tops of firs, and the gay little hum- . ming bird whose nest is always -at least shoulder high." 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