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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1955)
In The Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS I suppose yo're at least causal ly aware of the ruckus that has risen over the alleged demand of three U.S. senators that mil itary planes be sent over to bring them and their wives back from a junket in Europe. The point of it is that if they ad returned by regular civilian passenger planes the cost would have been PEANUTS whereas the cost of getting them home by special military planes would have to be reckoned in FOLD ING MONEY. where in a few years more they will be SUPPLYING ALL THE COTTON THE WORLD NEEDS. In that event, all that would be left to do with our cotton surplus (above our domestic needs) would be to pile it up in government warehouses. rpHE PENTAGON said the oth er , day that special planes had to be dispatched to Europe to bring the senatorial globe' trotters back at a cost of $20,- 000. Two of the senators say it AIN'ToSO that they're return ing to Washington on a reguiarly scheduled military flight. WHO'S right? " I wouldn't know. The senators could have call ed for the special planes (which, of course, would be a nice way to return from Europe)' and then, when they heard the po litical uproar which COULD threaten their political future, they could have claimed they - didn't do any such thing. And We must- keep in mind the fact that our federal govern ment has become so immense and sprawling that no human mind can handle all its details. -Someone among the tens of thousands who werk in the Pent agon building could have pulled an unintentional boner. f ARKET news note: Cotton future prices . broke sharply on the New York cot ton exchange, with some con tracts down more than $7 a bale in early trading. Brokers said the severe break followed a wave of selling on the Liverpool (England cotton exchange, triggered by authorita tive forecasts of xising cotton production in areas other than the United States. The International Cotton Ad visory Committee said that if foreign, cotton production main tains its Dresent rising trend THE WORLD IN A FEW YEARS MAY BECOME WHOLLY IN DEPENDENT OF U.S. COTTON ITHAT is to say: Continued high parity sup port has kept American cotton pricey so HIGH that foreign na tions have increased their cot ton production to the . point T HATE to keep harping on this farm price support string.. But it is so TERRIBLY important to the future of American agri culture. If the political farmers succeed in doing what they so obviously have in mind which is to buy farm state votes by the process of pledging themselves to con tinued high price support for American farm products, regard less of supply and demand they will destroy our agricultur al economy. We can't go on FOREVER piling up surplus ctops in gov ernment wareshouses at taxpay er expense. TT ISN'T just a political Issue in which the Republicans line1 up on one side and the Dem ocrats on the other. Unfortunate ly, there are Republican poli ticians who are not above dab- Win? their tres in this business of selling the long-term agn cultural economy to their coun try down the river for a mess of political pottage. Mi. Shasta Survey Contract Signed Mt. Shasta, Calif . U.R) A contract for survey and prelimi nary engineering work on a pro posed ski resort development on Mt. Shasta has been signed. The Heron Engineering Co., Denver, Colo., will make a thor ough engineering survey of the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl terrain, in cluding location of possible ski lift lines, snow depth, slides, weather conditions, and . other data pertinent to construction of a major lift in the area. A $1,000 deposit accompanied the contract, which was mailed to the Denver firm last week end. The money was raised by the Mt. Shasta Chair Lift De velopment committee from mer chants in Mt. Shasta, Dunsmuir, Weed, Yreka and Redding. Total costs of the preliminary work are estimated at $5,000, and some $4,000 has already been raised, according to George R. Schrader, executive secretary of the committee. 1 , rtEangk -rfcji 'S948 IjjhffJIP l '" f S s down j : ' vsr J t . JEST'S - .. . MUM 10U3S lrT'V. Kg-Famllyize Capacity Holds 350 lbs. Frozen Food True Super-Speed Freezing all 4 shelves made of Refrigerant Tubing! "Circulating Cold Air" Design insures cooling on all sides of food packages Takes No Mere Floo Space Than a 9 co. ft. Refrigerator "eYOUR ADMIRAL DEALER" 220 West Main St. Phone 2-4922 OPEN WED. EVE., 'TIL 9 P.M. Sen. Morse Has First Grandchild Portland !U.R) Sen. and Mrs. Wayne Morse received word here yesterday that they had be come grandparents for the first time. The Senator got a telegram from his eldest daughter, Nancy, in Hartesville, S.C., which read: "Dear Grandfather. How are you. I am fine. Weigh seven pounds. Mother, daddy and grandmother fine. All my love. Signed Melanie Campbell." Mrs. Campbell, the former Nancy- Morse, is married to a pulp-and-paper business execu tive in Hartsville. Morse said he will fly to South Carolina in No vember to see his granddaughter. Is That So? Many" popular notions about the world around us have been in circulation so long that we re gard them as basic truths. To dissipate some of , .these en trenched old, guides' tales, here another helping of ' facts vs fal lacies. Fallacy: Snow is frozen rain. Fact: Sleet, not snow, is frozen rain. Snow., which is formed by the condensation of moisture at temperatures below freezing, falls directly as snow from the clouds. Fallacy: In our northern hem isphere, summer is warmer than winter beccftise the earth is near er to the sun. . ' Fact: Quite the contrary we're actually nearest the sun on Jan. 2, during the height of By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturjliit winter. Because of the tilting of the earth on its axis, the sun's rays are more slanting and the aays are shorter so we fail to get the full benefit of the sun's heat Fallacy: A shark always turns belly-up to bite its victim. Fact: True enough, a shark Wednesday, October 28. 1955 MEDFORD 'OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE often does turn over in order to attack or grip its prey more advantageously in its undershot jaws but don't count on it it can bite most effectively while in a normal position. ; ; , Fallacy: Moss grows thickest on the north side of trees. Fact: Drugstore woodsmen to the contrary, moss need not grow on the north side of the tree. Moss growth depends chiefly on two other things: the exposure of the land and the direction of the prevailing winds. Fallacy: The beaver frequent ly uses its tail as a trowel to carry mud end to plaster the face of its dam or the interior of its lodge., Fact: Although I have seen artist's renditions, of this, it is a wholly false belief. He does no plastering with ' it and he does not cull it ud under nis body to carry loads. Nonethe less, he does put the tail, to many uses: 't is a rudder while swimming, . a prop when stand ing on his hind feet particul arly when gnawing down tree; pnd by whacking it smartly up on the water, a signal. (Released by Mclure Newsaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the En cylopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week tc the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-votume set of this world-famous refer ence work in' a handsome Seal craft binding Each week new Submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. 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