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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25. 1945
(It was Sunday)
Reports circulate that 2,000
enlisted men and officers will be
transferred to Camp White for
specialized training.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Signs of
peace keep popping up. A man
refused to sell his house, and
French fried potatoes, appeared
on local menus the past week.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25, 1935
(It was Monday)
Fred Einkopf elected presi
dent of Southern Oregon Art as
sociation. '
County supervisors approve
$16,000 for improvements at
Yreka, Calif., airport.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25, 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Claude C. Cate, county agent,
resigns; to establish at Glendale,
Calif.
State irrigation securities
commission delays in action on
request from Eagle Point Irriga
tion district to extend 400,000
credit.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25, 1915
(It was Thursday)
Landslide pours thousands of
tons of dirt into Panama canal;
dredges continue work on the
channel.
New five - passenger Briscoe
touring car, with 38 horsepower
engine, sells, for $850 lob Med
ford. What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of th 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Reiaaich Raport
1. Gov. Harriman of N.Y. is
two years older than President
Eisenhower, or one year, four
years or seven years younger?
2. The average U.S. factory
production worker has gross
earnings these days of about
S65. S80. S95. $110 or $125 a
week?
3. Most insurance policies on
damage to homes or household
goods do or don't cover damage
from flood?
4. Electricity is now found on
less than one-third, about one-
half or two-thirds, or more than
three-fourths of all U.S. farms?
5. Third smallest state, after
Rhode Island and Delaware, is
Idaho, Maryland, Oregon, Con
necticut or South Carolina?
6. More women's shoes are sold
every year of AAA, AA, B or C
width?
7. '"Disparity" means about the
same thing as (a) affinity, (b)
difference, (c) obsolescence, (d)
reduction, (e) pungency?
The Answers: 1. One year
vounoer. 2. About S80. 3. Most
don't. 4. More than three-fourths.
5. Connecticut. 6. B width. 7,
Difference.
Portland Urban League
Secretary Transfers
Portland CU.R) Edwin C
Berry, executive secretary of the
Urban League of Portland, today
confirmed reports that he has ac
cepted appointment as executive
secretary of the Urban League
in Chicago.
Berry has been head of the
Portland interracial organization
for 10 year and will head a com
plete reorganization of the 39-
vpar-old Chicaao leasue. lie
was chosen from 15 applicants,
Nuclear
The chief engineer of the Bonneville Power ad
ministration believes that atomic power will become
a factor in the Pacific northwest in about 20 years,
and after that time will play an increasingly larger
role in the area's power development.
In a recent long-range forecast, he also predicted
that the demand for power by the year 2000, less than
45 years away, wrill be about eight times what it is
today.
.
THE present power demand, the forecast shows, is
more than half filled by the Columbia river power
system. A smaller portion is provided by non-federal
and a few federal projects not in the Columbia sys
tem. A still smaller portion is provided by steam elec
tric plants, and a small part of the total demand is
not filled during adverse conditions for hydro-power
generation.
Columbia river power will increase slightly during
the period between now and 1960, according to this
look ahead. But so will the load which cannot, be
served during adverse conditions.
Between 1960 and 1965, the Columbia system and
other hydro-generating plants will remain fairly
static, according to the prediction. Principal changes
will be as other major new hydroelectric projects
now under active consideration come on to the line.
These, and an increase in conventional steam elec
tric generation and additional "marginal" hydro
electric plans, will fairly well fill the demand for
power now unsatisfied.
COR the period between 1965 and 1975, the engineer
predicts that present means of generation will re
main fairly static, but that big increase will come
from new major hydro projects.
But by 1975, he states, nuclear energy will first
enter the picture. As hydro and conventional steam
generation facilities gradually level out their growth
curves, nuclear energy applied to electric generation
will absorb a larger and larger proportion of the
energy requirements, until by the year 2000, it will
furnish nearly half of all the electric power in the
area.
THE total electric load for the area (which excludes
the California Oregon Power company and Utah
Power and Light company areas) is now just under
5,000,000 kilowatts. By about 1967, only 12 years
away, this will have doubled to 10,000,000 kilowatts.
It will have doubled again, to 20,000,000, by 1980 or
1981. And in the last 20 years of the century it will
double again to 40,000,000 kilowatts.
These estimates of demand were made by the
Federal Power commission, and only time will tell
how accurate they may be. But even if the details
may be off a bit, it is an inescapable conclusion that
power demands are going to increase astronomically,
and that the power of the atom will be called upon to
help fill them.
And, considering the fact that nuclear energy was
unheard of to all but a few scientists until about 10
years ago, new developments in this field may change
the entire picture practically overnight. E.A.
Vaccine Apathy?
The state board of health, according to news re
ports from Portland, has scored the people of Oregon
for their "apathy" in regard to the Salk anti-polio
vaccine.
It was pointed out that the experience of this
year has shown the vaccine
tive; that ample quantities
of normal demand; that some other states would like
to have the supplies of vaccine which in Oregon are
just waiting to be used, and that incidence of polio
in Oregon remains at a fairly high rate, but could be
cut down by more extended
THE board said that 1955 could be Oregon's last
polio "epidemic" year, if a sufficient number of
shots are given before the start of the disease year
next spring. There were 20 new cases reported last
week, bringing the total for
Doctors of Jackson county also have pointed out
that they are ready and willing to provide the shots
for their patients, and at
TT SEEMS to us that "apathy" may.be a bit too
Strang: a word to use here. "Confused" may be a bet
ter one, for the memory of
the introduction and first
faded from memoiy, and
twice shy" still applies.
The fact remains that the vaccine HAS been
proven safe, potent and suitable for mass production
and use. It is being further refined '(which may be a
factor among those parents who have decided to
"wait and see" if a better
able.)
.
fNE government scientist is quoted as saying that
he would be willing to wager that, provided suf
ficient vaccine shots are given, there would be only
1,000 cases of polio throughout the nation in 1957,
and that the rate would remain at about 1,000 a year
a tinv fraction of the
average number has ranged from 15 to 26 times that
number m recent years.
But this wall not be accomplished unless parents
permit greater use of the vaccine for the immediate
protection of their children. And now7, the state board
i ill -1 . j - 1 'J. "Tl A
ol neaitn says, is a gooa
Korea Orphans Dine On
Creswell, Ore. (U.PJ The
eight Korean orphans adopted
by the Harry Holt family of Cres
well had their first Thanksgiving
Friday, November 25, 1955
Power
to be both safe and effec
are on nana to taKe care
use ot the vaccine.
the year to 376.
nominal cost.
the foul-up which greeted
use of the vaccine has not
the old cliche "Once bitten,
product will become avail
population thereafter. The
time 10 ao it. hi.a.
Turkey at Creswell
dinner yesterday complete with
turkey and the trimmings,
All the children, brought here
lJi months ago, have upt on sev
eral pounds,
Babson and Christmas Business
By ROGER W. BABSQN .
Babson Park, Mass. (Special to
Mail Tribune) There are sever
al reasons why we all buyers,
clerks, store
keepers, and
manufacturers
sh o u 1 d be
greatly inter
e s t e d in
Christmas
buying.
Chris t m a s
buying is a
good barome-
Boier w. Babioa ter of the na
tion's feelings. When I was
younger, I thought that the na
tion's business was ruled by sta
tistics certainly statistics on
the wages and credit available.
Now I am older I have learned
that it is ruled not alone by fig
ures but by feelings. I am happy
to report that an impartial study
of the outlook for Christmas busi-
nessness shows our people are
feeling good.
May I comment further on the
above. I have just read the an
nual report for 1955 of my great
In the Day's News
'By FRANK JENKINS
In a strictly party speech at
Milwaukie (a suburb of Port
land) New York's Democratic
governor Averell Harriman at
tacks what he describes as the
"Republican partnership be
tween big business and govern
ment." He criticized a number of
GOP domestic policies, partic
ularly the administration's re
source development and conser
vation program.
TACK in New Jersey a Re
" publican senator takes a
crack at the Democrats.
He accuses them of playing
politics with foreign .policy by
destructive criticism of the Re
publican administration's for
eign policies.
?????
The art of politics is the art
of getting votes. The art of get
ting votes is a necessary adjunct
of democracy and democracy
(government of the- people by
the people for the people) is
mankind's most precious posses
sion. .
Here in America we HAVE
government of the people by the
people for the people, and when
we look around over the world
at the areas that DON'T have it
we, know we have something
wonderful.
So I suppose we should accept
without too much complaint the
tommyrot that goes along with
the practice of the art of poll
tics.
1) Y the way
-- rlmiornn,- TX-..: t,
gives the impression that he
would be willing to accept the
Democratic nomination if it is
forced on him, but said the oth
er day he isn't going to work
for it) is in Oregon to support
the reelection campaign of (now)
Democratic Senator Morse. .
In introducing him at Mil-
waukie, Senator Morse describ
ed Harriman "having all the
qualifications to LEAD THE
NATION in 1956."
I suppose that's a case of "you
scratch my back and I'll scratch
yours."
TUT-
Let's get away from politics
for the moment and take a look
at diplomacy.
At Camp David, the Presiden-
tialtial retreat in the Maryland
mountains near the city of Wash
ington, Ike presided at his first
cabinet meeting since his heart
attack. The session lasted for
just under two hours.
Secretary of State Dulles re
ported on what took place at
the recent Big Four foreign min
isters conference at Geneva
which, he admitted, ended in a
deadlock,, with the East and
West still far apart on world is
sues. WAS that bad?
" I wonder.
Let's take a look at the cir
cumstances. Russia, as now gov
erned, stands for totalitarian
despotism, with the few on the
top exploiting and operating the
many at the bottom. When some
body threatens the power and
the perquisites of those who sit
at the top of the heap, they get
rid of the threateners by means
of a blood purge as happened
a while back in the so-called
"republic" of Georgia.
Question!
How can dealings between
people of our sort and people of
that sort end in ANYTHING
BUT A DEADLOCK?
T CAN'T help feeling that this ;
Big Four meeting in Geneva ;
which ended in a deadlock ;
turned out all right..
It gave us a good, straight
look at the situation, uncolored
by rosy hopes.
Relieve Suffering
Fast-Effectively
with
Children's
friend Dr. Edward B. Hinck
ley, president of the Babson In
stitute. In this report, he speaks
of two kinds of income which he
must give to his professors. One
of these, of course, is Cash
Money with which they can pay
their bills and lay up some sav
ings. The other income which
they must get he calls "Psychic
Income." This is largely a mat
ter of feeling secure, happy, and
contented. I think every reader
of this column, from the hum
blest worker to the highest-paid
executive, might ask himself:
"What is my Psychic Income?"
Determines Employment
Christmas buying also means
much in a tangible sense. When
you buy a present for a friend,
you start a most important busi
ness cycle. First, you cause a
gift to go to a friend or relative
or best of all to someone in
need. Second, you give help to
the retailer, providing him with
pay for his very important work
of distribution. But remember
that he gets his small portion,
two or three cents from your
dollar, only after he has paid for
the goods, paid the wages of his
clerks, paid his rent, advertising,
and other bills.
Then there is a third part to
the Christmas Cycle. In paying
for the goods, the storekeeper
enables the manufacturer to em
ploy people. These people bring
most of their wages back to the
store and buy more goods thus
completing the cycle. When the
cycle works as described above,
the nation enjoys prosperity.
When the cycle is broken at any
point, employment and business
(they always go up and.1 down
together) fall off. Then unless
the break is repaired the nation
suffers a depression.
Outlook for 1956
Christmas buying thus far in
dicates a good 1956; but some
thing could happen during the
next few weeks to change the
1956 outlook. Readers of this
column will get my detailed
"Outlook for 1956" in this paper
the last week of December. It
will treat of Business, Inflation,
Retail Trade, Wages, , Employ
ment, Politics, and the Stock
Market. From what I see now,
this Forecast should give you a
Merry Christmas.
Of course, all sections of the
country will not be equally hap
py this Christmas. The thousands
of families in New England,
Pennsylvania, and other areas
which have had their homes
washed away by floods cannot
forget their losses. On the other
hand, states which for three
years have suffered from
droughts are rejoicing over the
good 1955 rains. In fact, the
weather for the balance of 1955
could be a factor in this year's
Christmas buying. We are all
inclined to give too little thought
to weather, epidemics, threat of
war, and even to possible earth
quakes. What President Eisen
hower's heart attack did to the
markets in September could be
repeated for the same or other
reasons.
What Would Jesus Say?
What Jesus would say to the
present-day celebration of His
Birthday. I . do not know. It
seems to me that He would be
unhappy about the way it is be
ing commercialized. Jesus, how
ever, was liberal, as is shown by
the lesson He gave during His
walk through the corn field. On
the other hand, anything can be
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By
O SjmoaoJIbrtumlM
Maybe it's the cold winter
weather coming along . . . any
way, there has been an unusual
increase in letters asking about
animal's clothing. "Which animal
has the thickest hair, which the
finest? And what about the ele
phant s?" writes Mrs. R.E.T
"Is it reallv tru that tho cari
bou has hollow hair.'If so, our
scout troop would like to know
if there are other animals with
sucn nair," writes Tommy R., Jr.
Our scout master
articles each meeting and in
the discussions we have learned
a lot of new facts about nature.
Keep them up, Ranger." ' '
Ihere is a great difference in
the thickness of animals' hair.
Some hairs can be 500 times as
thick as others. As far as I know.
the largest single hairs in the
world are those of the whale.
The dozen or so bristles around
its big mouth may be a quarter
men tnrougn. On the other end
of the scale, there is the sheers
wool the fine kinkv hair frnm
which scales project and tangle
11-25-55
with the scales of other hairs to
form mats. It is the finest of all
hair some individual hairs
measuring only .500 of an inch
across.
Singed with Blowtorch
Just how thick through the in
dividual hairs on an elephant's
back are, I do not know (but I'm
sure I'll hear from my readers
on this!). But I have been told
by circus performers that the
bristle-like hairs on their backs
are so stiff and sharp that they
must be singed off with a blow
torch before the animals can be
ridden bareback with any degree
of comfort.
As for the hollow hair, yes
Tommy, the caribou does have
hollow hair. As for others, moose
and deer are similarly equipped
Many other animals have air
pockets within the hair itself.
Your scout troop may like to
know that the hollow hair helps
keep these animals warm and it
helps the animal float better m
water. In fact, the caribou skin
makes a good life preserver it
will easily support a man on the
water like a raft.
A trick of the north land is
overdone; everything can be ei
ther used or abused.
Let us so use Christmas -that
there will never be an unfavor
able reaction. Let us make gifts
to those who need them. Let us
keep in mind what good we can
do for others rather than what
profit the gifts may bring to us.
To help keep me on the right
road I have put up a Holiday sign
near the Great Babson Globe
(the largest revolving Globe in
the world) with these words
thereon: "For what is a man
profited, if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own
soul?"
ess
100 NEW
DRIVE IN TODAY -
Middle East Treaty
Formation Headlines
Good News of Week
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad news ;
on the international balance
sheet:
THE GOOD
1. Delegates of Great Britain.
Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan,
meeting in the Iraqi capital of
B a g h dad, es
tablished a new
Middle East
Treaty Organ
i z a t ion. The
Baghdad Pact,
under which
the METO was
set up, creates
a defe n s i v e
arc of free na
t i o n s extend
ing from the
-narles MrCann JtSlack Sea to
the Himalaya Mountains along
the southwestern borders of the
Soviet Union. The United States
was represented at the confer
ence only by observers. But it
pledged full cooperation in the
alliance. Later, the United States
may join it. Lebanon, Jordan
and Libya also are being asked
to join.
2. Tough, leatherly old Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer made a
remarkable comeback from his
serious illness. The 79-year-old
leader of the Federal Republic
of West Germany was stricken
with pneumonia on Oct. 7. It
was announced two weeks ago
tnat he faced a long period of
convalescense, at a time when
his leadership is vitally needed.
But Adenauer disagreed. He won
the consent of his physicians to
resume work this week end.
o. icniro naioyama was re
elected Premier of Japan as the
leader of the newly merged
Japan Democratic and Liberal
parties. The merger strengthens
Japan's political position and is
expected to bring a stiffened at
titude toward Russia and Red
China. ,
THE BAD
1. Political turmoil increased
steadily in Brazil, the largest
country in Latin America. Presi
to spread a caribou skin under
your sleeping bag when, the
ground is cold. Works mighty
fine. Incidentally Tommy, I
think your scout troop .would
enjoy reading the new book Ani
mal Clothing by George F. Ma
son. (William Morrow & Co., 425
4th Ave., New York City, $2.)
And thanks for the kind words
about my column. EB.
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WOOL FILLED
LIMITED QUANTITY
dent Jose Cafe Filho withdrew
"temporarily" on Nov. 8 after
a heart attack. Now he wants
his job back. Congress, con
trolled by his opponents, balked.
As the result, the Congress at
the request of acting President
Nereu Ramos voted to put the
country under a state of siege,
with the Army in charge, for
30 days. There were strong indi
cations that the crisis would con
tinue for weeks, with the threat
of revolution hanging over the
country.
2. The return of Sultan Sidi
Mohammed Ben Youssef to his
throne in Morocco was followed
by serious . riots. Extreme Na
tionalists, who support Youssef,
opened a campaign of retaliation
against his enemies. Fourteen
persons were killed in one day
of the disorders. France, which
had hoped to stand aside, was
compelled to put troops into ac
tion to aid in restoring order.
3. Soviet Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin and Communist Party
cniet JMikita S. Khrushchev, on
a state visit to Prime Minister "
Jawaharlal Nehru of India, took
tne opportunity to attack the
United States and its Allies as
saboteurs of peace efforts. Bul
ganin, addressing the Indian
Parliament, said that the latest
American proposals, offered at
tne recent meeting of . the Big
uour foreign ministers in Ge
neva, had set disarmament back
10 years.
Chicago Motorist
Gets 'Sinking Feeling'
Chicago (U.P.) A motorist
looking for a parking place on
a crowded south side street ex
perienced a "sinking feeling."
For 'Alfred Udovich ' and his
wife Doris it was more than the
usual frustration at not find
ing a parking place.
Their car sank to bumper-lev
el in the street which iaparently
had weakened because of a wa
ter main break.
YANK ROOSTER
Bombay U.R) Soviet
Communist party chief Nikita S.
Khrushchev was so impresesd
with a rooster he saw during a
farm visit Wednesday he pick
ed it up to examine . it more
closely. It was a" Rhode Island
Red.
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