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yOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORlWTMBU!fl "EveryDody to Southern Oregon Steads The MaU Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROEERT W RUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAKRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at . Medford Oregon. underQ Act ot iviarcn o. ioa' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance: Per copy 10c. D'ly and Sunday One year $12.00 t-.:i:. i Ci.9V iv months 6.50 niiv and Sunday Three mos 3fc s,mH Onlv One year $3.a0. By Carrier In Advance - Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. RoRue River. Talent, and on motor routes: q .,,. Dauy and Sunday One year S15 00 DaUy and Sunday One month 2 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms t in uvo.i-- Sfflclal Paper ot the City of Medloro Official PaperotJckson County "United Prtss Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF-. AUUil vynz.v OF CIRCULATION AErStiHBOLi?DTYeANY INC. Offices in New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los ' Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocITatlqn vj O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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 Jan. 4, 1916 (It was .Friday) Rogue River National forest officials announce move of re pair shop from Grants Pass to Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The nation wide meat strike set for Jan. 16, "put the labor union cause on thin ice," a commentator claims. However, the ice won't be as thhv as the post-war steaks, cut letsr'and chops are cut. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 4. 1936 (It was Saturday) Oregon coast lashed by storm which fells trees,, wrecks houses, and causes streams to rise sud denly. E. B. McNaughton, president of the First National Bank of Portland, guest at dinner here by Chamber of Commerce and Rotary club. V 30 YEARS AGO . Jan. 4, 1926n (It was Monday) George A. Briscoe, superin tendent of schools, returns from Portland where he attended meeting of State Teachers 'assO' ciation. ' From Local and Personal col umn: The average Medford resi dent has just become adjusted to writing it "1926" instead of "1925," after having spoiled good letters cand other docu ments by-giving the wrong year in dating. 40 YEARS AGO q Jan. 4, 1916 G Local officers prepare to en force prohibition laws which went into effect Jan. 1. Rainfall for December and ag ricultural year measure about 50 per cent below normals for this time of year. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of th 7? Copr. 19S5, Editorial Research Report -1. Both major parties hold their 1956 nomination conven tions in the same month: June, July, August or September? 2. Which one of these is not a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council: Soviet Union, oreaj,1 Jbintain, u.b.A., France, Yugoslavia, China? o 3. Maximum speed listed as at tainable by 1956 cars, is, on the average, (a) 70, (b) 80, (c) 90, "(d) 100 or (e) 110 miles an hour? 4. No women now sit in the U. S. Senate; right or wrong? 5. The Government takes in moreftrom taxing alcoholic bev (gvages or cigarettes and other tobacco products, or about the same from each? 6. The island of Macao near Hongkong, 'claimed by Re-d .China, now belongs to Britain, France, Portugal. Japan, or the Chinese Nationalists? 7. Most vodka made in this country comes from potatoes; right or wrong? The answer 1 August. 2 Yugoslavia. 3. 100 mph as av erage. 4. Wrong; one Senator is Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. 5 More from alcoholic beverages. ..6. Portugal... 7. Wrong (usually from grain). Ontario UJ.R Gov. Paul Patterson is scheduled to address an annual joint meeting of the Ontario junior and senior Cham bers of Commerce next Monday. What About Flood Control? What is the answer tn the problem of controlling future floods in the Rogue basin? We've been" asking ourselves that question since the pre-Christmas floods. The answer does not come easily. We spent a good portion of last week end curled un with a 630-page volume entitled "Transcript of Public Hearing Held at Medford, Oregon, June 8 and 9, 1948, on Alternative rians lor development oi ine. Water Resources of the Rogue River Basin, Oregon." We hoped to gain an insight into what has already been proposed. AS a result, we're more confused than ever. Our confusion stems from the fact that, in 1948 anyway, few7 people were concerned with flood con trol, and discounted the disasters which some declar ed could be expected periodically from high waters of the Rogue. Several witnesses at the hearing, as a matter of fact, declared that their homes or businesses v(ere located in areas subject to flooding, that they knew it when they established them, and that they'd take their chances with floods rather than see a high dam go in across the Rogue to mar its value as an unsurpas sed recreational and fishing stream. 'IIT'E wonder if any minds have been changed in the last few weeks. We wonder if the thousands of new residents who have settled along the low-lying sections of the Rogue (many of whom were attracted by the beauties of the stream) would go along with the idea that sports and recreational values of .the river outweigh the threat to life and property. These questions will probably be answered dur ing the coming weeks and months, for a determined effort is being made to obtain a resurvey of the ques tion from those best-equipped to do so, the Army engineers. o PROPOSALS for flood control in the Rogue basin fall into three categories. ' The first is a rounded, multi-purpose plan of de velopment, including flood control, power generation and irrigation. This is best exemplified in the so-call-ed "Plan A" of the bureau of reclamation. It is a high ly controversial solution, and was strongly opposed at the 1948 hearing by sportsmen and those depend ent on the tourist trade. The second is a plan which would not place a high dam over the Rogue river (as Plan A would, at Lewis Creek), but would concentrate on control of the tribu taries. A large number of relatively small dams would be required under this plan, and while electric energy might be a by-product, it would be a secondary aim, and presumably would not project. The third plan, which has received little if any dis ussion locallv. is pure and simple flood control, mod eled after projects in the east. This would call for dams in strategic locations, but they would be inactive most of the year, permitting water to flow freely through a channel the size of which is equal to that required by average streamilow. As water rose, the dams automatically would hold bacK water in excess of high-average flow, until conditions eased and streams returned to normal. . IXTE ARE in no position to assess the relative value of these three proposals, or others which may be made. Nor are we in a position to weigh the merits of arguments in opposition to a high dam across the Rogue. . What we do know boils down to two points: 1. The Rogue can be expected to overflow its banks periodically. It did so in 1861, in 1927, and more recently, in 1948, 1950, 1953 and 1955, notably, and to lesser peaks in other years. With the loss temporary or permanent of some of the forest cover in the watershed areas, future high water periods can be expected to be even more severe. 2. A great economic loss was caused by the 1955 flood. There was no loss of life in Jackson county as a direct result of the flood, but this was only by the grace of God, the alertness of officials charged with our welfare, and the dedication and spirit of a small army of volunteers. With population and economic development increasing, it is logical to expect that future floods would do far greater damage than the high water of 1955. 1 In 1936, an Army engineer officer said in Lane county: . You have to guard against the floods which will come. You can't think of them as floods which may happen, but as events which will happen. Such a flood as the great his toric flood of 1861 may come only once in 100 years, but it . will come. If such a flood were to occur in this densely pop ulated area today, it would be a disaster almost beyond imagination. T17ITH these two points in mind, all of us home " owners, business proprietors, resort proprietors, fanners,, sportsmen; everyone can well afford to stand up and yell for a sound determination of what action is needed to prevent recurrent and esen more disastrous floods. . When this is done we can, if necessary, choose up sides and fight out the question of .whether fishing and recreation are more important than lives and pro perty. ' But such a fight may be unnecessaiy if a plan can be devised which will protect both values. E.A. Stevenson Selects California Director Chicago U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson today appointed Cali fornia Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown to direct his campaign in the California Democratic presi dential primary election. Stevenson, the 1952 Demo cratic nominee for President, Wednesday, January A. 1955 carry the major cost ot the . , said he had asked Brown to serve as chairman of his Cali fornia primary campaign and Brown had accepted. Stevenson disclosed that he plans to visit California some time next month, "within limi tations imposed by other commitments." MQttGf Of FQCt Wo Have Been Warned Washington Last Thursday, j Marshal Bulganin grimly boast ed to the meeting of the Su preme boviet in Moscow that the Soviet armed forces would soon have an inter contin enta.l baUistic mis sile, , or ICBM in current Pentagon jar gon. After this, at any rate, ho one can deny M Stewart Alsop we have been warned. To be sure, it can be rather positively stated that the Soviets have not yet tested one of these huge rockets that can carry an H-bomb warhead from a Rus sian launching site to ah Amer ican target. Firings of such rockets will unavoidably produce atmos pheric and oter after-effects. These after-effects can be de tected by appropriate devices all the way 'round the world, as firings of nuclear weapons can also be detect ed. The Amer ican detection devices have not yet regis tered the firing of a Soviet ICBM. This perhaps e x plains the curi ous mixture of private com nlarenev' and public untruth Joseph Alsop that has been the Pentagon re action to the news from Moscow But if Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and his sub ordinates are greatly re-assured by the silence of our detection devices, they must have comfort ably forgotten all the ugly les sons of the last 10 years. TlHE truth is that the Soviets have quite regularly tele graphed their weapons-develop ment punches, boasting about each new weapon as soon as they Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a oen name or initial for publication it uermis ble. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for Dublica- tion must not exceed 400 words. J Sees Money Waste To the Editor: I noticed by your paper that- the county court will ask Congress to send us the corps of engineers to make a "de tailed study of the Kogue river basin to determine what meas ures should be adopted to pre vent future floods." Some years ago the govern ment sent just such a study group here and though I can't be sure of the exact amount of money it cost them, I know it was way over $100,000. Fearing that the proposed measures would hurt the fishing the Izaak Walton league sent pe titions to their units all over the United States, asking for their signatures to block any proposal that would interfere with fishing in Rogue river. League members signed this petition that had never heard of Rogue river, and as a result, nothing was done. , I know one Izaak Walton league member in this valley that quit the league because of that high handed, unjust pro cedure. This time let us profit by the past and put a lobby in Washing ton strong enough to hold our own with the Izaak Walton league even if it costs the county some money. If not, we are simply wasting time and money, for the league will fight this again the same as before. Leila A. Morrow, 531 North Bartlett St. Medford, Ore. It's Up To Us To the Editor: We read the news in the papers and listen to the daily broadcasts on the ra dio. We (at least some of us) read the columns of those outstand ing informants and interpreters the Alsop brothers and Walter LiDDmann. Then what do we do? We go right on trying to get our taxes lowered, our subsi dies faised and out- foreign com mitments emasculated. We go on frittering away ever larger shares of our time and income on comic books, -cosmetics, and other things even more useless and more harmful. . As co-partners in this democ racy we cannot escape our share of the blame for the inadequate measures which this country is taking to cope with the world situation at this time. For whether you are a militarist or an advocate of economic aid to foreign countries in order to win the cold war (and win it we must, or we wiU lose!) then you must admit that our present ef fort is inadequate. A democratic government can hardly be more effective than the will of its constituency. We cannot sit back with equanimity and "blame the government. We must take the initiative also We must demand more effective action and stand ready to pay for it. E. Whealdon, 894 Cedar st.; Medford, Ore. - By Joe and Stewart Alsop were confident they had solved the design problem and were preparing for a test. For in stance, Vyacheslav Molotov told another Moscow audience that the Soviets already possessed an A-bomb just about a year before the first Soviet A-bomb test in September 1949. Much the same thing happen ed with the Soviet H-bomb; and it happened too, although in a more general way, with the re markable postwar development of the Soviet aircraft industry. Why the Soviets follow this strange pattern is a fascinating problem in itself; but the point here is that they have followed it to date with great faithfulness. Hence it is only prudent to ex pect that sometime within the next year or so, the Soviets wm successfully test one of these in ter-continental ballistic missiles, "which are also called, and quite properly called "The Ultimate Weapons." TIHIS will not be especially sur prising either, as readers of many anxious reports in this space will readily recognize. As previously disclosed, the official U. S. intelligence forecasts some time ago named the year 1958 as the -first probable date of a Soviet test pf the Ultimate Wea pon. But from .the time of the A-bomb .onwards, these Ameri can official forecasts have in variably under-estimated future Soviet achievements in. weapons development by at least two years. All the known facts, in short, fit together only too neat ly.. . Meanwhile where do we stand? The answer is easy. When Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson took office, he serious ly tried to concel the American long-range missile -projects, which he denounced as "vision ary." Our armed services, he de clared, were spending outrage ous sums on research and de velopment. The percentage of income that General ' Motors spent for such purposes, he point ed out, was much, much less. It may sound like a joke, but it actually happened. Fortunate ly, Wilson was finally persuaded not to cancel the long range mis sile projects altogether. Yet he caused them to be shelved, for all practical purposes, for the first two years of his adminis tration of the Pentagon. --, TUIEN more and more disturb- in, showing a wide Soviet lead in missile development. The so- called Killian Report, which was first summarized in this space, revealed an acutely dangerous situation. Some months ago, the National Security Council voted to give an over-riding first pri ority to missile development, And the Pentagon is now going all-out to build missiles; at least to the extent that the Wilson Pentagon is capable of going all- out m any field of -weapons de velopment. As a result, very important break-throughs have been made already. Yet only a few days be fore Bulganin spoke, Secretary Wilson himself publicly stated that it would probably be about five years before we could fire an ICBM. Thus, on present pros pects, there will be a gap of three to four years between the first Soviet test of the Ultimate Weapon, and the equivalent test. This fateful prospect has hard ly caused a ripple in this coun try, because of public ignorance and self-interested official pooh- poohing. Instead, the whole country ought to be up in arms. A series of reports in this space win therefore be devoted to 4he meaning of this and other cur rent, cnanges in tne vital air- atomic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. So. Oregon Flood Damage Surveyed Portland '-AM.?) A team of West Coast government housing officials was starting a survey of flood damage in southern Ore gon today to speed an emergency relief program announced by the government's housing and home finance agency. The emergency program in cludes temporary housing, speed- ed-up home financing and home loans. M. Justin Herman, regional HHFA administrator at San Francisco, said the relief would apply to several hosuing admin istration programs- Josephine, Jackson, Douglas and Coos counties will be checked first with an initial stop at Memora. Mena"ha, Wis. -tU.R) Mayor William H. Jensen said he will refuse a $180 annual raise be cause "I knew what the salary was, little as it is, when I ran. P(nfflfl Relieve Suffering Fast-Effectively WICKS V VAPORUB with Poujade's Succes in French Assembly By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The sudden rise of Pierre Poujade in French politics is an important development. It may be an ominous one. Here is a man who two years ago was unknown out side of his own home town of St. C e r e, in southwest France.' Popu lation 3,200. . JHe was eke ing out a liv Charles JUciano ing from his little bookshop-stationery store. He decided that the French tax system was unfair to the small shopkeeper and decided to do something about it. He organized an anti- tax cam paign. He started urging shop keepers to refuse to pay taxes. His movement snowballed. Before long tax collectors and assessors in - some small towns were being mobbed. Poujade's movement became a national one. He claimed 1, 000,000 supporters. The govern ment said he was exagerating. Poujade boasted in the cam paign for Monday's parliament ary election that he would win In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In the final days of 1955 a great fear was lifted from the Klamath country xt Southern Oregon and Far Northern Cali ornia. The fear was the loss of its water without which the semi - arid Klamath country would be valueless. HPHE upper basin of the Klam- -- ath river has an annrnvimatp million and a half acre feet of water per year. This water lies at a high elevation. Water runs downhill more cheaply than it can be pumped uphill. It is therefore looked upon with covetous eyes by water-short areas. ' lo the south lie vast areas that must have MORE WATER if they are to go on growing. They haven't water enough of their own. If they are to get the water they need, they must get it from somewhere else. Water is no longer a fixed im movable asset. It has become an article of commerce. It can be moved from : place to place FROM places that have it but aren't using it all TO places that lack it and WILL use it all: If you doubt that, give a thought to the fabulous Feather River Project. It is now jdefinitely proposed to move the water of the Feather River from Far Northern California to Far Southern California clear to San Diego. TF that can be done with the water of the Feather river, it can be done with the water of the Klamath river. That is the fear that has hung over the Klamath Basin during the dozen or more years since it was first proposed to divert the water of the upper Klamath river into- some tributary of the Sacramento and thence into the Central Valley project. fFHIS fear has been removed by the signing of a contract between the Bureau of Recla mation and the California Ore gon Power Company which will SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS ARE SAFE . . by Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. INVESTMENTS ARE AVAILABLE policy of this association. Investment! made by the 10th of the month earn dividends at of the 1st. 27. North Holly Vote Seen as Ominous 30 to 50 seats. Nobody in auth ority believed him. When the returns came in it proved that Poujade had obtain ed about 2,200,000 votes. He won 51 seats in the 626-seat na tional assembly . which runs France. Coalition of Coalitions Neither Premier Edgar Faure rior former Premier Pierre Men- des-France, leaders of the two big political coalitions, won any where near a majority. They are saying in Paris that it may take five weeks or more to form a government based oh a coalition of the two coalitions. One thing alone is certain the government, when it is formed, will be an unstable one. Poujade's 51 seats will be im portant in any critical vote, and this is where Poujade looms as a possibly ominous figure. . He has no policies; national or international, except that he doesn't like the tax system. "We wUl cross that bridge when we come to it," he said of his lack of a political program.- There Poujade will0be with out responsibility, ready to at tack any government legislation, ready to help overthrow any premier. Rough and Ready Poujade, 35, red-faced, hand News permit the final harnessing of the waters of the Klamath river below Keno for the production of power. When the canyon of the Klam ath river is filled with power plants developing power for the uses of our people and for in dustry to provide more payrolls, there will be no more. Klamath water running to waste. It will all be put to beneficial use. There will no longer be a sur plus. COUTHERN OREGON west of '-- the mountams has been con cerned from the beginning with proposals to export water from the Upper Klamath Basin. The most ambitious of these pro posals,- which got a lot of atten tion several years ago, included the headwaters of the Umpqua and the Rogue rivers. The idea was to drain the higher sources of these rivers into Klamath Lake, and thence on to the water-hungry south. Nowhere in Southern Oregon is there any surplus water to spare. Our whole Southern Ore gon area is going to need in the future every drop of water that falls in the upper drainage basins of its rivers. Water is already a precious re source here, and in the years to come it is going to become even more precious. January 3 WINTER TERM January 3 NEW CLASSES ARE NOW BEING ORGANIZED For People Who Want to Make a Fresh Start in the New Year Modern Facilities Are Available DAY SCHOOL 9:00 to 4:00 Mon. thru Fri. Robertson School of Business 40 N. Riverside Medford, Oregon Ph. 3-4264 DECIDE NOW TO KNOW HOW ACCEPTING INVESTMENTS through Make your investment before the 10th of January and your account 6will earn dividends from the first of the new 6 month saving period. FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford R. F. Kyle, some, athletically built, hoarse voiced, is a crowd-carrying ora tor. He affects rough-and-ready sports clothing, with a muffler round his neck. He has called the National Assembly "a heap of manure." In the campaign h;s strong-arm squads broke up election meet ings aU over France. He says he will "hang" any man elected on his own ticket who does not follow his orders. Pdtijade may turn out to be just a temporary wonder-boy. A lot of people who voted for him were just protesting against the French political mess. But other men who turned out to be dangerous started out as he has done.. Who does not remem ber the strong-arm squads who used to break up meetings in Italy and Germany? Poujade's enemies call him a Fascist and an anti-Semite. Just what he is going to do remains to be seen. But his emergence ' certainly will make the French political situation even more unstable. Knowland Warns On Soviet Ideas Washington U.R) Senate Republican Leader William E. Knowland has warned the Rus sians against thinking' they might get away with aggressions during an election year in the United States. Knowland told the Women's National Press club last night that no man can know what the Russians or their associates may be planning this year. But the California Republican added: "If they plan to take advant age of this year for some further . adventures of aggression and are . counting on our nation being so paralyzed by a great presidential election that it is unable to func tion to meet such a challenge they are making the mistake of their lives." - Knowland foresaw a constant crossing of party lines in the forthcoming session in view of the narrow party division. Senate Democratic Leader Xyndon B. Johnson told the women reporters that Russia s aggressive aims do not discrim inate against Democrats or Re publicans "but against all Amer icans, and as Americans we must respond." Portland Group Votes On Recreation Site Portland (U.P.) Bortland's exposition-recreation commission met today for another vote on where to put the city's $8,000, 000 center. An earlier decision by the five-man commission" to put the center at east Vanport was vetoed by the city council. NIGHT SCHOOL 7:00 to 10:00 Mon. and Thurs. 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