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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 22, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Willard Eberhart, former city
editor of Ashland Daily- Tidings,
named manager of United Press
in Honolulu.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Leading ed
itorials of the day in the upstate
press, deal with "The Big Burn."
This concerns a forest fire in
Tillamook county, and has noth
ing to do with the way the gen
eral public feels about the strike
situation.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 22, 1935
fTt. was Friday)
Dr. L. D. Inskeep, city health
offirpr. savs doIio epidemic pos
sibility diminishes with no new
cases reported in three days.
Fre Chief Roy Elliott an
nounces that George Dayton's
eight-piece orchestra will play
for annual firemen's ball.
30 YEARS' AGO
Nov. 22, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Robert D. Lytle of Vale, grand
chancellor of Knights of Pythias,
to visit Medford lodge.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The ballroom of the old
United States hotel at Jackson
ville will again resound with
dancing feet and laughter when
a Thanksgiving ball is held there
next week, if plans materialize.
Arrangements have been in prog
ress for several weeks past for
the laying of a new dance floor
over the old and worn one.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 22, 1915
(It was Monday)
J. A. Westerlund returns from
National Apple show at Spo
kane; announces plans for na
tional advertising campaign for
western apples.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Senator H. Von der Hellen
of Wellen returned Monday from
Eugene where he witnessed the
football game.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapert
1. The state of Israel now
does or doesn't have a security
treaty with the U. S. for mutual
defense?
2. An old car is traded in on
less than one-third of all used
car purchases, or about one-half
or two-thirds, or more than
three-fourths?
3. The proportion of persons
over 65 on relief has risen or
fallen or stayed about the same
in the last five years?
4. Drinking on planes is or
isn't regulated by the govern
ment through the Civil Aeronau
tics Board?
5. The Washington, D. C, In
ternational race was run on Vet
erans day at the Belmont Park,
Laurel Park, Garden State, Pim
lico or Washington Park track?
6. Polar bears inhabit the Ant
arctic as well as the Arctic; right
or wrong?.
7. A tutu is found in a French
grammar, jazz band, laws on in
heritance by minors, ice cream
parlor, or ballerina's dressing
room?
The Answers: 1. Doesn't. 2.
"About one-half. 3. Fallen consid
erably. 4. Isn'i. 5. Laurel Park.
6. Wrong. 7. Ballerina's dressing
room (it's a ballet costume).
MAIL TRIBUNE
Speed versus Safety
According to report the F.B.I, and certain federal
airplane experts are getting together to devise ways
and means to protect airplane passengers against
bomb explosions. That ghastly and inhuman crime in
Colorado a few days ago, is the cause.
The comment of a great many people will be "It's
about time."
THE airplane industry has made sensational ad
A vances in making airplanes faster, but little, if any,
in making them safer.
We think it is high time the airplane company ex
perts and researchers paid more attention to safety
and less to size, luxury and speed.
A CCORDING to army and navy officials thousands
of lives both in peace and war have been saved
by making parachutes attached to flying personnel
compulsory.
Whv not dve civilian air-passengers at least the
privilege of parachutes if they wish same.
It has alscbeen suggested that huge parachute
attachments for planes, would save many lives when
a plane for some reason is forced down out of control.
f!ertinlv some annliance could be perfected that
would nrevent a passenger
hitting the top of a mountain peak when 25 miles off
its course as was the case a short time ago near Den-
i ii .-i
ver a radar-alarm contrivance wouia appear to be a
possibility as a protection and preventive.
We have no "Rube Goldberg" gadgets of our own
to offer, and alonsr with a majority of the public, don't
know the answer to! attaining greater safety. But we
do think the airplane companies are concentrating too
much on greater speed and not enough on greater
safety to a lesser degree
are doing the same thing.
IF these companies refuse to do something about
makinc travel on land and in the air, less hazard
ous, in the direction of devising safety equipment,
safer designs, etc., on their own initiative, tnen laws
should be passed to make them do so.
WE grant the human factor is the most important
cin ale olom pnt. rn the in creased casualtv lists.
"Rut that is no excuse for
panies in both fields, failing to do everything that
r.AN hp done, mechanically with the inventive eenius
and huge financial resources at their command, to
make both the airplane and motor car less letnai
weapons of destruction and more and more, mediums
of reasonably safe, sane and expeditious transporta
tion. K.W.K.
Is Adlai a Demagogue?
As usual praise for ex-Governor Stevenson's
speech at' the recent Democratic banquet did not pro
ceed from Republicans. And some of the Democrats
did not sound particularly enthusiastic. But none of
them termed the effort demagogic. Nearly all the Re
publican critics directly or indirectly did so.
This reaction was predicted m this department
several months ago. And the Democrats might as well
get used to it for there will
time goes on.
"HE reason for the demagogic charge is of course
1 that Mr. Stevenson dared to suggest the Republi
can party is the party of Big Business while the Dem
ocratic party is more interested in ALL business in
cluding big, little business and the "little man."
There is nothing demagogic aoout mis, it just nap-
pens to be the truth.
And anyone who has spent any time m wasnmg
ton during the present administration will agree, that
except during a campaign, many of the Republican
leaders will not only admit it, but take pride in their
admission.
They don't see anything to apologize for m the
fact the Republican cabinet for example consisted of
"nine millionaires and one plumber," or that the bal
ance of power was and is held by outstanding
representatives of Big Business. As one of the most
prominent of them remarked "This government is big
business the biggest in the world why shouldn't
Big Business men be' in charge of it?
WELL, why SH OULDN'T they ?
One reason is there are times when the interests
of Big Business and the interest of the people are not
identical. In fact they sharply conflict as was true in
the tidelands oil case. And naturally a government
led by Big Business will go the Big Business way re
gardless of that general welfare clause in the consti
tution. jVIR. STEVENSON doesn't like that. And a great
'''many other citizens don't. Feeling as he does he
wall no doubt make this GOP doctrine one of the ma
jor targets of his campaign.
Why shouldn't he?
The voters of the countiy may agree or disagree
with that position. But there is nothing DEMAGOG
IC about it. '
It is merely calling attention to a difference in the
economic doctrines of the two major parties which
any discerning and impartial observer of the Ameri
can political scene, would admit. It is not a matter of
partisanship, but a matter of FACT. RWR.
Ward Employees Vote
Portland (U.R) Employees
of Montgomery Ward in McMinn
ville have voted in favor of un
ion representation but em
ployees of the same firm in Al
bany have voted against it, the
National Labor Relations Board
said today.
The McMinnville vote was 21
Tuesday, November 22, 1955
airplane in broad daylight
the automobiles companies
the manuf acturinsr com
be more and more of it as
on Bargaining
to 12 in favor of collective bar
gaining jointly by the AFL Re
tail Clerks and Teamsters un
ions. The vote in Albany was
30-13 against representation.
The NLRB said employees of
the Firestone Tire company re
tread shop in Eugene voted 6 to
1 in favor of representation by
the teamsters. L
Rhee Not Softening
With Advancing Age
But Getting Tougher
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Advancing age does not seem
to be softening up President
Syngman Rhee of South Korea.
'mZMPvm Rhee was fifl
years old last
March. He has
been active in
politics since
he was 19.
It might be
thought that
by now, he
would be get
ing into a phil
osophical state
i.narles AlcCauu ui 1I1111U-
On the contrary, he seems to
be getting tougher and tougher.
Many Allied leaders fear that
some day he will start to back
up his frequently angry words
with deeds. That might mean
involving the United States, am
ong other countries, in a big
war.
Every now and then Rhee de
mands that the United Nations
cancel the Korean armistice and
start the war again.
In fact, he threatens to at
tack North Korea himself,
knowing that he would, bring in
Communist China against him
and taking it for granted that
the United States would have
to go to his support.
Now Rhee is involved in an
increasingly bitter dispute with
Japan.
It was announced last Thurs
day that South Korean naval
vessels would fire on any Jap
anese fishing craft that violated
what is called the Rhee Line of
territorial waters. If the Japan
ese boats are accompanied by
vessels of the new Japanese navy
so much the worse it was
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Out of a week of hearings con
ducted in Southern Oregon and
Northern California by a con
gressional investigating commit
tee this interesting, if not too
palatable, fact has been devel
oped: The capacity of our exist
ing sawmills exceeds the supply
of mature sawtimber that is
readily available..
We were dimly aware, of
course, of this situation, but the
week of public hearings has
brought it more forcibly to our
attention. It is quite apparent
that f rqrn here on out there will
be active competition for the re
maining supply of .virgin trees.
yyHAT should be done about
That is a most important ques
tion, and no pat answer is at
hand. But it does seem clear
that the . federal, government,
which owns a large share of the
remaining supply of virgin tim
ber, should proceed without de
lay, to get a more up-to-date in
ventory of the merchantable
timber it has on hand and should
then take steps to make its tim
ber that is ready for market more
accessible. Otherwise, a lot of
mills now operating and provid
ing payrolls in the communities
in which they are located are go
ing to have to close down.
That won't be relished by any
of us.
HOW can the supply of mar
ketable timber in the posses
sion of various government agen
cies be made more readily avail
able to the mills that need it?
The answer to that question
seems to be MORE ACCESS
ROADS. The government owns
the timber. Before the timber in
the more inaccessible areas can
be brought out, roads must be
built. There are two ways to get
them built. .
One way is for the government
itself, which owns the timber, to
build the roads. That, of course,
will require money, and the
money will have to be appropri
ated by the congress. The bulk
of this government-owned timber
is located in the West, and it
hasn't been too easy to convince
members of congress from the
Eastern states that the govern
ment should put up the money
to make the timber accessible to
market.
rpHE other way to get access
-- roads built is to sell govern
ment stumpage cheap enough to
make it profitable for potential
purchasers to build the roads to
get at the timber.
That method, in general, has
been favored by Eastern mem
bers of congress.
FROM the standpoint of the
Western communities in which
the mills that need the timber
are located, selling government
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE
added.
The Rhee Line was set about
three years ago to protect Kor
ean fishing "rights." It extends
from 60 to 75 miles off the coast
of South Korea. It is aimed spec
ifically against Japan, Korea's
neighbor across the 100-mile
Korea strait.
The Japanese are both alarm
ed and angry over the threat.
Japanese Foreign Minister Ma
moru Shigemitsu has announced
that he wUl appeal to the United
Nations if the threat is actually
carried out.
Rhee is a valuable ally in that
he bitterly hates Communism.
He hardly can be blamed for
hating Japan, too. He underwent
imprisonment and torture, in
fighting Japanese domination of
Korea, and was an exile for 35
years until Korea was freed in
1945.
The white-haired, quick-tempered,
diminutive Rhee is Korea's
No. 1 patriot.
May Be Building Trouble
But it seems fair to suggest
that Rhee is a little too tough,
and that he may be building up
trouble for Korea in the years
to come.
He rules a population of 25,
000,000. His army of about 650,
000 men ranks among the larg
est half-dozen fighting forces in
the world.
But Communist China has a
population of 580,000,000 and an
army numbering in the millions.
Japan, which has 90,000,000 peo
ple, is just starting to rearm
with the blessing and support of
the United States.
South Korea is never going
to be the dominant power in
East Asia. Maybe Rhee ought
to make Japan a friend instead
of an enemy.
News
timber cheap enough to make it
profitable for operators to build
their own access roads has a seri
ous drawback.
The drawback is this:
Such a policy would tend too
much to limit the sale of govern
ment timber to large concerns
that can command the capital
necessary to build the access
roads.
nriHE mills that will be forced
- out first by scarcity of availa
ble saw timber will be the small
mills. These small mills are scat
tered all through Southern Ore
gon and Northern California
They provide the payroll back
bone of the communities in
which they are located.
Generally speaking, they are
unable to finance the building
of their own roads to get at the
timber they need. If they are
forced to close down,- through
inability to get timber enough,
the result will be calamitous to
the communities in which they
are presently operating.
TT SEEMS to me that the situa
tion, from the government's
standpoint, is as broad as it is
long. If Uncle Sam builds the
roads to make the timber more
accessible, it can get a higher
price for its stumpage. If it
doesn't build the roads, it will
have to sell the timber cheaper.
If the joint committee that has
been investigating the timber sit
uation in this area has been able
through the testimony it has
brought out at its various hear
ings to get a better understand
ing of this access problem, it
may be possible to get needed
money for access roads. -
Court Records
POLICE COURT
William Kirk McLaren, violation of
basic rule, $10; no Oregon driver's
license. S10.
Oscar Thordur Hayerman. violation
of basic rule. 51U.
George Allen Graves, violation of
basic rule, S10.
DISTRICT COURT
Ralph Hale, reckless driving, S40.
Joseph Campbell Whitsett, violation
of basic rule, S15.
Chadwick Oliver Leaf, failure to
dim lights for oncoming traffic. S6.
Orville Alvin Koch, no operator's
license, S10.
Samuel Clifford Hatfield, four per
sons over 12 years old in the driver's
seat, $11.
Bruce Edward Pringle Jr. violation
of basic rule, S15.
Harvey Skyler Bell, overload, $38.
Ted Richard Davison, exceeding bag
limit of dark geese, S30.
Camille Sanford Lloyd, failure to
stop before entering a through high
way, S10.
Edwin Leroy Neeley; violation of
basic rule, $15.
Eugene Ray Arnold, overload. $25.
Robert William Varney, truck speed
ing. $12.50.
Byron Lloyd Herbert, failure to
stop at stop light, $10.
Carl William Garner, violation of
basic rule. S20.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATION'S
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box 153, Ashland, and Patricia Carol
Haynes, 16. route 1, box 500. Ashland.
Perry Allen Skeeters, 26. Talent, and
Wilma Pearl Sharp. 18, of 116 Ajax
St., Camp White.
WISHING rV6W7MAKEITS0
The future independence and leisure you are
hoping for will be yours only if you prepare
. for it. It is never too early to make provision
for a happy retirement. Don't let it become
too lata. How about today?
CHARLES E. JONES Local Agent
Phone 2-9772
COMPANY OF CANADA
Matter of Fact ey
MOST ORArTGES ARE
ROUND" a
Chicago This reporter's non-
journalistic younger brother,
who invented the repellent po
litical epithet
"egg - head,"
and who has a
good deal
more practical
political e x
perience than
the authors of
t h is column,
developed an
i n t e r e sting
theory during
the 1952 cam-
Stewart Alsop
paign.
His theory was that the real
popular appeal of any politician
could be measured by his man
ner of saying some such mean
ingless phrase as "most oranges
are round." If he could, say
'"most oranges are round" with
obvious sincerity and a sort of
determined earnestness, how
ever brilliant his qualifications
and eloquent his oratory.
During Adlai Stevenson's
press conference here on Wed
nesday, this theory kept coming
to mind. No one who witnessed
Stevenson's performance could
doubt that he has a first class
intelligence. He was nervous at
first and who can blame him?
For the press conference, in
which a man can inadvertently
destroy himself with a few ill
chosen words, is surely a more
cruel institution than the rack
or the thumb-screw.
But he soon- relaxed, and he
deftly and shrewdly avoided a
number of perilous pitfalls, in
cluding a question by a corre
spondent from Communist Po
land, and another about politics
ana heart attacks. And, espe
cially when he made one of his
small jokes, and smiled his wry
smile, the human likableness of
the man shone through those
who have been advising him to
wear a mask of permanent sol
emnity must be secret agents
of the Republicans.
Yet something was lacking.
What was lacking may be sug
gested by a comparison between
Stevenson's press conference
performance and President Eis
enhower's. Stevenson expressed
himself well, in grammatical
sentences. The President's
grammar is often totally non
existent, and he is capable of
saying almost nothing at all at
considerable length.
.
VET when the President says
- what he has to say, even if
it is only the equivalent of "most
oranges are round," he does it
with a sort of explosive sincer
ity and earnestness. When Ste
venson has to say the equivalent
of "most oranges are round," he
does it as though he were quite
sure that most oranges really
are round (and strictly speaking,
of course, they're not).
Politically,- his inability to ex
press the accepted banalities
with table-thumping earnestness
is the curse of Adlai Stevenson.
His friends argue that it is also
one of the great strengths of his
character and in a way, this is
true.
Take his press conference re
ply to a question about farm pol
icy. He said, in effect, that
neither flexible supports nor
high fixed supports were the
complete answer, and went to
great pains to demonstrate that
his essential position on the is
sue had not changed.
All very true, no doubt, but
hardly the sort of response that
makes political hay in the farm
belt. As anyone who has -spent
even a few days there can testi
fy, there are great mounds of
political hay to be made in the
farm belt. A real instinctive
politician a Harry Truman, if
TONIGHT!
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Featuring the Missionary, JACK ANDERSON, who since the age of 12 has
lived with these tribesmen. The film dramatically depicts the everyday life
of these natives including their savage dances, making and shooting of the
largest arrows in the world. Come tonight at 7:30, to the G
FOURSQUARE CHURCH sJlETs
Stewart AIsop
you will would have been in
there pitching as soon as . he
heard the word "farm," blasting
the Administration for niggard
ly incompetence and promising
the farmers a new deal all down
the line..
Or take Stevenson's perform
ance at the "Bonds of Israel"
dinner here last week, which
still has his supporters wringing
their hands. Sens. Everett Dirk
sen, Hubert Humphrey, and
Estes Kefauver spoke at length
first, and they all took the line
obviously appropriate to such
an occasion that Israel is the
bastion of democracy in the Mid
dle East, to be defended at all
costs.
Stevenson then got. up and
spoke only a couple of sen
tences, to the effect that the
American strategic interest in
the Middle East demanded sta
bility, and that the United
States must therefore use all its
influence to make certain that
the Arabs do not attack the Jews,
nor the Jews the Arabs. These
remarks notably failed to bring
his audience to its feet, cheer
ing wildly.
WO a remarkable extent Ste
venson lacks the political in
stinct for saying the things his
audience wants to hear. One
feels, instead, that his audience
is inside his own head, and that
he is saying the things that Adlai
Stevenson wants to hear. This is
no doubt admirable. But one
also has the feeling that Steven
son, an honorable man in an
uncertain age, is not very sure
what he wants to hear Stevenson
saying.
Perhaps it would help if Ste
venson were to practice saying
most oranges are round," with
great earnestness and sincerity
every night before he goes to
bed.
(C) 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc
Russian Leaders
Visit Bhakra Dam
Nangal, India (U.R) Two of
the Soviet Union's top leaders
today visited the site of the Bha
kra Dam and discussed the mer
its of peaceful competition with
a California engineer helping
build the giant structure.
Premier Nikolai Bulganin and
Communist party -chief Nikita
S Khruschev arrived here from
New Delhi by private train and
walked over the site of the dam
which will be the second largest
in the world when it is com
pleted in 1969.
The two Soviet leaders, escort
ed by Punjab Governor C. P. N.
Singh and S. D. Khungar, gen
eral manager of the dam, were
introduced to American En
gineer Harvey Slocum of Alham
bra, Calif.
Grateful To America
"We at one time had Ameri
can aid," Khruschev told Slo
cum. "We are grateful to the
Americans for helping us build
our country. Now we are build
ing ourselves. We are in compe
tition with you and will soon
pass you."
''Competition breeds friend- j
ship," Slocum replied.
"That is a good idea," Khrush
chev said, "and it brings peace."
Slocum is the chief American
consultant at the dam and has
been working on the project for
five years. Sixty other Ameri
cans alse work on the dam but
none were seen in the party
greeting the Russians.
The cement industry in 1954
used almost one-third of a ton of
coal for every ton of cement
produced.
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Lost Cabin Mine
To the Editor: We were much
enthused to read Mr. Nealon's
item Sunday concerning the Lost
Cabin mine, estimated to be
around 90 miles northeast of
Jacksonville. Thirty-five years
ago the Portland Oregonian ran
a story and fair description in
its Sunday supplement of the
Lost Cabin mine. It is' a well
known fact, the Klamath county
Indians hgd access and packed
considerable quantities of the
gold nuggets and traded it off
to friends from time to time, that
was from the seventies and late
as 1911.
We think the distance of 99 '
miles is nearer the actual loca
tion, according to some informa
tion that has been given out.
These mountain miles are twice
as long, and chances are when
the discovery is made, it will be
in a mineralized belt of Douglas
county, yet unknown to present
day prospectors. The terrain isr
rugged and probably has changed
in appearance the past 45 years.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
oMedford, Ore.
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