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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
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Dec. 28. 1945
at was Friday)
TTlrvvrl Hart. S. M.
T...n: nionn .Tarksnn. Diamond
jauiiis. """" ,T .
Flynn, John Moffat, B. L. Nut
ting, Tom Wray and Mark
oldy elected to Jackson Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce board
of director.
From Artftur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Midget
washing machines are promised
the public nsxt month. Older
girls fer tftey will get them
likthj di8 nylons for Christ
mas. G
20 fsa. G
(,11 was .jc..
Medford area has unusual
weaker; ednse fog, clearing, 45-mile-per-hour
winds, heavy rain
and snow in foothills during
day.
Great Britain's luxury liner
Queen Mary being readied for
maiden voyage to New York
soon.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 8. 1335
(It was Silonday)
he Mail Trgjune will start
republishing seven days a week
beginning Jan. 3, 1926, when
the Sunday Sun is discontinued.
New Medford High school
Gnow under construction antici
pated to be ready May 1.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Eastern and western divisions
of state teachers association
merge during annual conven
tion here. o .
From Local and Personal col
numn: "Town politics" has begun
v - Y" t i i 1 AT
to effervesce a nuie on me
ciropt rnrners. but nothing tan-
pihle has so far developed in
the way of an interesting cam-
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What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of th 7?
Ocopr. 1955. Editorial Research Ropart
1. .Tan. 1 has been celebrated
(T) Vie Vippinnine of a new vear
nce-.shortly after the birth of
Christ; right or wrong?
2. Which man prominently
n mentioned for the Democratic
presidential nomination next
Qi.Public school teachers over
thnation call their chief prob
lem now bad spelling, discipline,
o inability t read, or absence of
n religious training
4. Many more Americans
spend a vacation in Florida or
in gurope, or is it about 50-50?
5. Pope Pius XII was crowned
shortlv before, during or shortly
O after Wgrld War II?
6. Wnich bateball manager
Owon a pennant in both major
leagues?
7. Secretary of State Dulles
is oloer or younger than Presi
dent Eisenhower, or the same
age?
The Anrers: 1. Wrong, only
for the last three or four cen
luries; . Gov. Harriman of N.Y.;
3. Discipline (national report
lag$)f ); 4. Many more in Flor
id . Shortly before; 6. Mc
Car& fCiieB5 tubs, N. Y.
YanfcewV Vfc years older.
G O By UKITID PRESS
Traffic accidents claimed five
O iives and fire iilled a sixth per
son in Washington State during
the Christmas weekend.
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Satellite Problems
A couple of million problems, more or less, must
be solved before a tiny, man-made earth satellite can
be launched some time in 1957. "
One of these, discussed along with others in a re
cent issue of the Scientific American, is getting the
basketball-sized vehicle fired off in such a manner
that it not only gets up the 300 or so miles necessary
to achieve an orbit, but that it also forms an orbit al
most exactly corresponding to the curvature of the
earth below.
OIRST, the instrument-laden satellite has to be blast-
ed free of the earth's gravity by a three-stage
rocket. As this complicated and tricky job is being
done, the angle of flight has to be inclined more, and
more to the horizontal, so that when the satellite has
reached its orbit area, it is proceeding on a circular
not eliptical course around the earth.
If the angle is too great or too little, the orbit will
be an elipse, with one end too far out in space, the
other end too close to the atmosphere, which would
create a drag and bring it down sooner than planned.
AND what, we may ask, is the purpose of it all? Who
cares whether or not we get a satellite into the
heavens above us? What's to be gained?
It is part of a cooperative research project entitled
the International Geophysical Year, to be observed
worldwide in 1957 and 1958, to gain more knowledge
about the world it origins,
in the heavens, its surroundings and habits. From
knowledge comes understanding and power. Man's
gains in material things have always been based on
a greater comprehension of his surroundings.
The satellite project,
research plans (including several Antarctic expedi
tions), are all a part of this objective. E.A.
Plans for
The Johns-Manville
tures building materials, has described plans for har
vesting lodgepole, or jack pine, on a sustained yield
basis. The tree, long regarded as useless, grows m
huge quantities on the eastern slope of the Cascades.
From time to time we have speculated on various
uses for the hardy little trees, with the thought in
mind that any resource so abundant and so easy of
access must, soCner or later, have a use found for it.
"THE possibilities revolve around the developing
processes for the use of pulp and chips, for the
jack pine is a small tree, and would not lend itself to
the production of lumber, as such.
Johns-Manville presumably would chip the wood
either for use in pressed-board manufacture or for
pulp products uses which are growing in importance
even for the larger lumber-producing trees in the
utilization of waste products.
The plan is to cut up to 60,000 cords annually,
employing some 400 people, possibly in the Klamath
Falls area which is near to vast stands of jack pine.
It is estimated that the area could produce up to
287,000 cords annually on a sustained yield basis.
THE company has not made any definite decision
on opening a big plant as yet, but whether or not
it does soon does not change the fact that use of
lodgepole pine is definitely a part of the future econ
omy of southern and central Uregon.
It is a part of the over-all timber usage picture,
which is slowly growing to the point where practically
every part ot every usable tree win ultimately una a
use : like Diss, where "everything but the squeal" is
useful. E.A.
Cranes Making Comeback
It gives us pleasure to report that the whooping
crane situation is looking up.
Early in the fail it was reported that several small
birds had hatched out in the nearly-extinct flock,
which nests in Canada in the summertime, and in
Texas in the wintertime. But the fear was that they
might not survive, the long flight southward.
MOW, it is reported, 20 adults (one less than last
' year) and eight fledgelings -(eight more than last
year) have been counted in the Aransas refuge on the
Gulf of Mexico. The missing adult may still turn up,
it is thought by bird experts.
In the year 1941-42 only 15 of the big birds were
known to exist. The most recent additions bring the
total up to at least 28, and those who are most con
cerned now think there is reason to be optimistic that
the cranes will not go the way of the dodo and the
passenger pigeon.
TN ANY materialistic scale of values the survival of
the whooping crane doesn't mean a thing, really.
But the fact that many people feel pleased that
the big white birds with the black wingtips have not
died out, and that there is a good chance they will
survive as a species, is proof that not all things can
be judged on the basis of material values for which
praise be. E.A.
Ike Confers With Dulles, Twining
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower held an unscheduled
conference yesterday with Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
and Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Nathan F. Twining.
It was the second time in two
days that the President had un
expectedly called in Dulles, his
chief foreign policy adviser.
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty told newsmen of the
conference after Dulles and Twi
Wednesday, December 28. 1955
its composition, its place
and the hundreds of other
Lodgepole
company, which manufac
ning had entered the President's
office. Hagerty said he could not
tell the reason for the meeting
or what was discussed.
Mr. Eisenhower met with
Dulles alone for about an hour
Monday to discuss "four or five
subjects" in world affairs.
The President began working
yesterday on his State of the
Union message. In this era of
global responsibility, the state of
the union hinges more and more
on the state of the world.
Russia Trying to Capitalize
On Greece's Cyprian Attitude
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is trying hard
to take advantage of the dispute
between Greece and Great Brit
ain over the
island of Cy
prus. The bitter
Greek r e sent
ment at Brit
ain's refusal to
give up the
island gives
Russia a good
chance to move
in. Advices
from Athens
Charles Met arm Say toat the
Sovier Embassay is organizing
visits of Greek politicians, scien
tists and leaders in cultural
fields to Russia.
Evidently at Russia's order,
the Communist satellites of Ro
mania and Albania are seeking
to restore their diplomatic rela
tions with Greece.
The Greek Communist party
has been outlawed since the
bloody civil war which followed
World War II, when the Com
munists might have taken over
the country had it not been for
American aid.
But that is being forgotten
now, and the Cyprus situation
is in the spotlight.
Neutralism Growing
There seems to be an increas
ing tendency toward a policy of
"neutralism" in Greece, largely
after of Fact
WHAT KIND OF WAR?
Washington Atomic bombs
about the size of a grapefruit
can be fitted as warheads to
small rockets,
baby versions
of such existing
rockets as the
"Honest John."
Three or four
of these baby
rockets with
baby atomic
warheads can
easily be car
ried in a jeep.
Thus a couple
Stewart Alsop
of G. I.s in a
jeep could have at their disposal
the firepower of 200 World War
II blockbusters. This suggests
how new weapons developments
are revolutionizing ground war
fare. It also suggests an inter
esting question: what kind of
war are we preparing to fight?
The summit meeting is sup
posed to have led to a tacit
agreement by both sides not to
resort to the nation - destroy
ing mterconti
nen t a 1 weap
ons. If so, we
should logical
ly be going all
out to prepare
our ground V
forces to fight
localized wars
with revolu
tionary means.
Are we doing
so?
The answer
Joseph Also
is that the Army is more than
ever the stepchild of the services.
Moreover, it remains essentially
a World War II Army. This is
not because the revolutionary
means are unknown. On the
contrary, some brilliant advances
have been made by Army re
searchers. For example:
rpHE "space-linked track" and
the "terradynamic vehicle"
have been developed by the
Army's Land Locomotion Re
search Laboratory in Detroit.
Enthusiasts say that the "space
linked track" is as big an ad
vance in land locomotion as the
jet engine in aviation; and that
the "science of terradynamics"
will do for movement on the sur
face of the earth what aerody
namics has done for movement
in the air. Great advances have
already been made in this field,
like the experimental "Ground
hog," which will go virtually
everywhere; and the brilliantly
successful M-59 troop carrier, an
early prototype of which was
given credit for winning the
battle of Porkchop Hill at the
end of the Korean War.
Or take "automation artillery"
and "burnable case ammuni
tion." New "automation" de
vices make it possible for a
heavy artillery piece to fire a
shell a second, and the piece is
serviced by three men, instead
of thirteen. And it is also possi
ble to make a shell whose case
is burned up in the firing, thus
immensely simplifying the sup
ply problem.
Then there are such advances
as the new gas turbine tank en-
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DECIDE NOW TO KNOW HOW
because of Cyprus.
Premier Constantin Karaman
lis, who took over the govern
ment upon the death of Marshal
Alexander Papagos last Octo
ber, is pro-Western.
But soon after he took office
his foreign minister, Spyros
Theotokis, warned that a "neu
tralist" policy might result be
cause of Greek dissatisfaction
with Western Allied policy on
the Cyprus issue.
Now an influential middle-of-the-road
party has come out for
"equal friendship with all sides"
in foreign. This is the Liberal
Democratic Union led by Sopho
cles Venizelos.
George Cartalis, mayor of
Volos and leader of the left-wing
democratic Working People's
party, recently returned from a
good-will visit to Russia with a
group of his followers.
Premier Has 10 Months
The Greek Rally party which
Karamanlis heads is nominally
in office until next November.
But there has been increasing
talk that Karamanlis might ad
vance the date of the election.
The chief reason seems to be
that his party is losing support
because of the Cyprus situation.
It was first suggested that a
parliamentary election be held
next April. Now it is reported
that Karamanlis may get King
Paul to call one as early as Feb
ruary. Greece is a member of the
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
gine developed by Cadillac,
which makes possible a tank
with a previously unprecedented
fuel range. Finally, and perhaps
most important of all, major
breakthroughs in electronics
have provided the means for
really sure communication at
very great distances, such that
a commander can maintain con
trol over even his smaller units
when they are dispersed over
hundreds of square miles.
In short, the means are already
at hand for a real atomic-age
army. An atomic age army, ac
cording to official Soviet mili
tary doctrine, must be capable
of "quick, decisive action of co
operating groups of dispersed
small units." It must also, as our
own Nevada nuclear tests proved
last spring, have maximum
armor for protection against
nuclear heat, blast and radia
tion. And, especially for an
ocean-surrounded power like the
United States, it must have max
imum mobility, not only on the
ground, but by air for long dis
tances. rpHIS is the kind of army the
1
Russians are building. They
have broken up their divisions
into six brigades capable of
fighting on their own. They
have put enormous emphasis on
armor and mobility. Nineteen of
the twenty Soviet forward di
visions in Europe, and seventy
five of the grand total of some
175 Red Army divisions have
been fully or partially "atomi
cized," or prepared for modern
war.
We are not building such an
army, except in the blueprints.
A start has been made on "atomi
cizing" two of our nineteen di
visions (of which seven are not
really fighting divisions at all).
But air transport is woefully in
adequate. During the Guata
malan crisis, for example, the
possibility arose of armed inter
vention on an emergency basis
but it turned out that there was
hardly ' transport enough for a
single regiment.
The Germans, who are no
fools about warfare, plan to
have 600 vehicles like the M59
in each of their new divisions,
the object being to give every
soldier protection from nuclear
weapons. American infantry di
visions are provided with just
seven such vehicles. And the
Army is profiting from other
technical advances only on a test
or prototype basis.
GIVEN the supremacy of this
country in the automative
and communications field, we
ought to be able to beat the Com
munist world, with its unchal
lengeable manpower superiority,
all hollow in this respect. But we
are not doing it. The main reason
is, of course, money. A rough
but expert guess is that it would
cost upwards of $3,000,000,000
to atomicize twelve divisions.
That is a lot of money.
But losing wars, even small
wars, or not being able to fight
them at all, can be very costly
too.
(C) 1955, New .York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Mon. and Thurs.
North Atlantic Treaty Alliance
and is tied with Turkey and
Yugoslavia in a Balkan" defense
alliance.
Serious Splits
But these ties have weakened
seriously. Greece is taking al
most no part in North Atlantic
Treaty activities. It is angry with
Turkey because of anti-Greek
riots in that country last Sep
tember over the Cyprus dispute.
Turkey does not want Greece
to get Cyprus.
With all this in mind, it is not
surprising that Russia is trying
to capitalize on the Greek frame
of mind, as it is trying to capital
ize on Arab enmity toward
Israel.
It is not surprising either that
Russia's activity in Greece
seems to be meeting with some
success.
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tion must not exceed 400 words.
True Santa Story
To the Editor: A lady who
lives on the Eastside of Medford
came in my shop 10 days before
Christmas and asked to rent my
Santa, who waves his hand,
motor operated. I let her have
Santa for her party. She re
turned Santa shortly after and
said he was a big hit.
She had left her address on a
card so I would know where he
was. She offered to pay for his
use, but I told her Santa never
charged for his services. So she
said many thanks, I'll remem
ber. Two days later a special
delivery came, a large box of
gift pears; addressed to Santa
Claus co Gardner's Shoe Shop.
Was Santa surprised.
Then I remembered I had
torn up the lady's name and ad
dress. So Santa stands .with a
sly grin, waving to passers-by,
and only he knows who sent the
pears and is the only Santa
Claus in Medford to receive a
gift.
W. L. Gardner,
612 East Main St.,
Medford, Ore.
Power Sale
To the Editor: We would re
spectfully invite the advocates of
public power to read U.S. News
and World Report for Dec. 9,
Page 66, where it is told how
Stevens county, Washington, aft
er 20 years trial, figured up and
found that private industry paid
$17,000 in taxes, and public
power cost them $8,000 in taxes,
making the private industry
$25,000 each year more profit
able, and voted strongly .to sell
their public power to the indi
vidual company to operate and
get better service. Notice Mr,
Wayne Morse, the terrible Ei
senhower giveaway, is on the
other foot, and no doubt would
be in every case if honestly fig
ured, not mentioning his repeat
ed charges of Eisenhower's polit
ical immorality and the honey
combed political immorality of
the Republican party, by a man
that should be authority on im
morality. Ira C. Jones
2325 Stewart Ave.
Medford, Ore.
FAMILY AFFAIR
Superior, Wis. i(U.R) Fred
Monaghan, 21, went out driving
Tuesday and collided with a car
driven by his brother, Patrick,
24. Patrick suffered head cuts
so someone called an ambu
lance. The ambulance that ar
rived on the scene was driven
by a third Monaghan brother,
Wilbur.
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In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
For days everybody on the Pa
cific Coast has been talking
about the weather (Ugh!!!). Let's
change the subject and talk for
a moment about politics not
who-gets- what-job politics but
the big political swings that af
fect our national economy.
There are some interesting
straws in the political winds.
STRAW No. 1:
Washington dispatches re
port that the congressional out
look is stormy for the Eisen
hower administration's plan to
ask five billion dollars for for
eign aid which would be a re
versal of our present policy to
keep foreign aid gradually
shrinking. So far, the proposal
has received a chilly welcome
from senators of both parties.
REPUBLICAN Senator
Charles Potter of Michigan, for
example, says he will regard a
five billion dollar foreign aid
request with a "jaundiced" eye
LET'S take a look at Senator
Potter. He enlisted in the army
in 1942 as a private, rose to the
ra.nk of major, was critically
wounded in action in 1945, re
sulting in the loss of both of his
legs. He didn't let that discour
age him, and has gone on to live
an active and useful life in pub
lic service. He is a thoughtful
conservative
T IKE. Senator Potter, I'm in-
clined to look upon IN
CREASED foreign aid spending
with a jaundiced eye. It is de
signed to buy good will for us.
I wonder if it does. AMERI
CANS ARE THE MOST PROS
PEROUS PEOPLE IN THE
WORLD. Very well-to-do people
are seldom popular.
Witness:
"It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than
for a rich man to enter into the
Kingdom of God." (Matthew
XIX 24.)
STRAW No. 2:
Congressional APROVAL
(the dispatches say) is foreseen
for a farm program containing
the administration's "soil bank"
plan for taking surplus crop
land out of production. GOP
Representative Clifford 'Hope of
Kansas says: "There will be a
farm bill at the coming session
of congress, and the soil' bank
will be an essential part of it."
Democrats; even left-wing
Democrats, are speaking with
less fervor of returning to guar
anteed high parity for basic
crops and are refraining from
speaking with severe disappro
val of the soil bank plan.
The soil bank plan is begin
ning to look to BOTH. SIDES
like a good way out of the farm
problem political dilemma.
XIFHAT of
this soil
bank
" h
business?
It's good POLITICS.
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I doubt if it's good agriKilture.
About the best that can be
said of it is that it is better than
the present subsidy system
which is building up huge sur
pluses to hang like a dark thun
dercloud over the markets of the
future.
THE West, in particular, needs
tn ctnrKr fVio cm'1 Hanlr nrn.
posal carefully.
It could result in a big tem
porary boom in the market for
grass seeds, of which the West
is a heavy producer.
But it could also result in a
huge expansion of erasslands
and GRAZING, thus bringing
heavy added competition to the
West's great livestock industry.
Insurance Firm Extends
Flood Victims' Premiums
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necticut General Life Insurance
Company announced today that
policy holders in Oregon, Cali
fornia and Nevada flood areas
would be allowed an extra 31
days in which to make premium
payments.
The premium moratorium ap
plies to all premiums falling due
between Nov. 26 and Jan. 9. The
company also said it had rein
forced its staff to aid in provid
ing loans for policy holders.
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