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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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