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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mau mpune Iublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. iea " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. iSeily and Sunday One year $12-00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.0O Daily and Sunday Three mns. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Panpr of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHUULAlim' WEST-HOLLID AY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOd-ATLQN vJ W tP" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 25. 1946 (It was Friday) Charlie Hoover's "battered .and dilapidated" hat nets March of Dimes $125 at auction at Mid way sales barn. 20 3fEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1936 (It was Saturday) Elk , creek area residents vote for property owned by Ace Weeks as school site. Hugh D'Autremont, youngest of three brothers involved in Siskiyou train robbery and mur der, named editor of Oregon state pen&entiary monthly maga zine, "Shadows." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1926 (It was Sunday) Medford city council decides to condemn strip of property along North Central ave. near Maple st. for street improve ments. From Local and Personal- col umn: Paul Luy of Medford, a sophomore majoring in. journal ism at the University of Oregon, named feature writer on the Oregon Daily Emerald, student newspaper. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1916 (It was Monday) J. A. Westerlund elected pres ident of Jackson County Tax payers league; other officers in clude Benton Bowers, H. D. Mills, J. H. Carkin and E. M. Wilson. From Ashland and vicinity news: An alarm of fire was turned in during Saturday night's gale 'from the Hoskin residence on Granite street. The house was a shack moved to its new location from lots pur chased in order to enlarge the park area. The loss was well nigh total, the fire department saving only the frame, a mere shell. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rep 1. President Eisenhower does or doesn't have a personal rep resentative at the Vatican, as President Roosevelt and Truman had? 2. About (a) 40, (b) 55, (c) 70 or (d) 85 of all passenger cars made in the world are made in the U.S.? 3. Almost all refugees author ized in the 1953 refugees relief act are expected to come in be fore it expires, Dec. 31, 19o6; right or wrong? . 4. The Bruins and Red Wings are teams in professional bas ketball, ice hockey, football, or baseball. 5.- The name of Palestine for the Holy Land came from Philis tines who once lived there; right or wrong? 6. More comes to the Treasury in taxes on incomes of corpora tions or of individuals, or is it about-50-50? 1 1 7. Duncan Phyfe was famous in the U.S. over a century ago as an Indian fighter, canal builder, furniture maker, U.S. Senator, or religious revivalist? The Answers: 1. Doesn't. 2, .Around 70. 3. Wrong. 4. Ice Hockey. 5. Right. 6. More on in comes of individuals. 7. Furni ture maker. " " MAIL TRIBUNE Screens for the Dam One of the features of the December flood which has received little attention, in comparison to the vast damage done to homes and farms, was the way in which the high waters dealt death and destruction to fish in the river. Huge numbers of fish were stranded after the wa ters receded, and a couple of fish and game commis sion men figure that alone they saved thousands by shoveling them back into the river. Fishermen venturing forth on the river after the flood reported poor catches, and those they did get were badly beaten up and damaged. THIS only serves to remind us again that the fish population in the Rogue constitutes one of the greatest recreational attractions the valley has. Any plan for development should by all means take fish life into consideration. The Good Lord knows that the natural beauties and attractions of unspoiled country side are vanishing fast enough as it is, and every ef fort consistent with economic realism and safety should be made to preserve the fish runs. This brings up the problem of 'another fish-destroyer, the turbines at Savage Rapids dam. , IN A REPORT compiled only about a month ago, Cole Rivers, game commission field agent at Grants Pass, declared Savage Rapids dam in its present state is believed to be the one most important contributor to. the decline of the annual runs of fish. His report goes into some detail as to how and in what manner the fish are damaged. But for our pur pose it is enough to repeat his conclusion, that as of 1947, when sampling was performed, an estimated 99,500 fish were lost in irrigation canals, and 25,000 were mutilated, for a total loss of 124,500. He says these are conservative estimates. CTUDIES have indicated that screening would do much to prevent this loss, and virtually all inter ested groups are now supporting a program of screen ing. The big drawback is the cost, which has been estimated at about $208,000. The Grants Pass Irrigation district, which operates the dam, is not financially able to undertake this ex pense, but the district is interested in the problem, and has offered its cooperation in supporting a request for federal funds to do the job. The Izaak Walton League's Oregon convention last November went on record requesting that funds be provided in the Interior department's budget. Foundations for the screens were laid during the re cent rehabilitation job at the dam, but ' the screens themselves were not erected. THE REQUEST was made in view of the federal government's acknowledged responsibility with respect to fish life, and because no other unit of gov ernment has the resources to undertake the task. Since fishing is a big factor in our third-largest in dustry, and in addition is a major recreational factor in the life of the people of the valley, the proposal has the appearance of a sound project even to a non fisherman. E. A. Incentive, Plan Safety slogans help, maybe, but nobody knows just how much. v ' Repeated warnings to assistance in preventing automobile accidents. So do well-engineered highways. Police enforcement, as has been demonstrated, is another important factor in keeping drivers in line. ' But Cecil Baumgardner, of Shady Cove, has an idea that some positive, rather than negative, form of incentive might be vastly more effective. And we're inclined to think he may have something. UE SUGGESTS that a brief summary of a driver's record could be incorporated in automobile li censes. One full year without an accident, for in stance, would give a driver the right to have a license with the prefix "1," two years "2" and so on. For five or possibly ten years of accident-free driving, a star might be put on the license plate, with the license fee reduced or eliminated. And for drivers who have a record of recent acci dents, some other form of designation might appear on the license to warn other drivers. THIS, in brief essence, is Mr. Baumgardner's plan, A and he offers it for what it may be worth. The ob stacles m the way of having it placed in effect are for midable, for it would entail a new system of issuing and manufacturing automobile licenses. But it might be worth it. And, in Oregon at least, a considerable portion of the necessary machinery for the plan that of keep ing tabs on drivers' accident records is already in effect. It may not be known generally, but the motor ve hicle division even now has a dossier on each driver who has been involved in one or more accidents. It has a quiet but fairly effective program of checking up on repeated violators, and in a number of instances, driv ers' licenses have been removed. OUT THIS process has not been greatly publicized, perhaps deliberately. And the accident record of many dangerous drivers is known but to themselves and to some civil servants in Salem. If it were printed, in capsule form, on their auto licenses for all to see, together with some form of in incentive reward for a period of safe driving, it might have a very desirable effect in the long run. E. A. SWAT JUSTIFIED Chicago (U.R) Policeman Milton Brooks explained in court Tuesday why he struck the arm of a fellow diner in a lunch room: "He reached across me for the salt and he dipped his sleeve in my soup." Wednesday, January 25, 1956 be careiul may also be 01 Brownwood, Tex. (U.R) An 18-year-old San Angelo, Tex., father was charged with theft to day. Officers found $70 from a service station hidden in the diaper worn by a three-months-old baby being carried by the thief's wife. Shah of Persia, At Outs With Soviets, May Call Off Visit By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Shah Mohammed Reza Pah levi of Iran seems to be in no hurry to make his long-planned visit to Mos cow. In fact, the word from Tehran, the Ir anian capital, is that the shah and his beauti ful young wife may not make the visit at all. Charles McCann a i r s t, Mo hammed and Premier Hussein Ala are busy at home. They are cleaning out their internal ene mies. Some are going to prison, others to death before firing squads. Most of the enemies are pro-Communist. Secondly, the Kremlin feels pretty bitter because Iran join ed the Baghdad Pact which links it with Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan Today and By Walter WHEN A PRESIDENT IS DISABLED Saying that when he was in the hospital he thought a lot about the problem of a disabled President, Mr. Eisenhower last week gave his blessing to a study by Con gress of how to resolve the doubts which exist on this question. There is, as we know, no law which says how it is to be Walter Lippman decided whether the President is disabled, or any law about how, if he recovers, he is to resume his powers. It was clearly enough the in tent of the authors of the Con stitution that Congress should lay down the rules by statute. It is clear enough, too, -that while Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis rible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Plane Spotting Necessary To the Editor: Retiring from the publishing of an Iowa small town weekly newspaper after 57 years, my wife and I came to Medford recently to visit our son, Kenneth R. Buxton and fam ily,. 2478 Sunny View dr., and are enjoying the climate of the Rogue River valley. Watching TV on our arrival, we took special notice of the ap peal of the G.O.C. for more vol unteer plane spotters at the local post. In August, 1950, we or ganized an Observers Post with about 60 volunteers. Our home was the chosen spot for the Post, and I was named as chief ob server, my wife the only woman volunteer. Our post was one of the first 15 posts to be manned and operated with the Chicago filter center in the first Iowa "Sky Watch." Remembering the trouble we had in keeping volunteers on their jobs, my wife and I decided, after seeing the TV broadcast here, that we could be of service here at the Medford post, so we contacted Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, at Jackson County's Civil Defense, who furnished us the name of Mrs. Lucile Brock, Chief Observer, 851 Palm st., and I telphoned her at 2-8217, and of fered our services. We met with Medford G.O.C. at the court house two evenings later, and be came acquainted with MSgt. Clifford C. Poulson, who is sec tor sergeant of the 4772nd G. O. C. Squadron. Too many people who could spare two hours once a week or twice a month, are indifferent or do not realize the 'absolute ne cessity of this important branch of the Air Defense Force, which will definitely prove its worth should a surprise attack be made. Those who refuse to recognize that such a danger is always an imminent - possibility, have evi dently forgotten Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Morley Lamp, mother of six children serves from 2 to 4 in the morning, twice a week; Dr. August Glutsch, prominent optometrist, finds time to' serve twice a month; and ranchers, of fice workers, mill workers, two men from the weather bureau, Junior and Senior High school students, and several grand mothers and housewives most faithfully serve the required two-hour shift, around the clock. Why more volunteer spotters are not available in a city the size of Medford, is still a source of wonder. ( Mr. and Mrs. Perry T. Buxton. P.S. Why not phone Mrs. Lu cile Brock, General Hicks, MSgt. Poulson or the G. O. Post at Jackson and McAndrews today, and have the simple meth od 'of spotting planes explained, and then volunteer? and Great Britain in an alliance against Communist aggression. Shah Mohammed and Queen Soraya were invited! to visit Russia last summer when the Geneva spirit cast a rosy glow over the world diplomatic situ ation. Invitation Accepted The invitation was accepted. It was planned that the Shah and Queen Soraya would fly to Moscow last fall. But in October the shah aban doned Iran's policy of neutrality and decided to join the Baghdad alliance. The Kremlin was enraged. It was a painful diplomatic defeat for Russia and a corresponding victory for the Western allies. The Soviet government sent threatening notes of protest to Tehran. The shah and his gov ernment stood firm. Now the official Tehran radio has started a series of broadcasts denouncing Russia's anti-Iranian Tomorrow Lippmann the founding fathers did not go into all phases of the problem, what they meant was that the President, if ill and disabled, should pass his powers but not his office to the vice-president, and that there should be no question of the President's being able, if he recovers, to take back his powers. TT IS a curious thing that Con- gress has never enacted the law which the Constitution calls for. Part of the reason for this is, no doubt, that until Presi dent Eisenhower's illness last autumn, there have been only two cases of a more or less dis abled President. The first case did not come until 90 years after the government was founded. not until 1881 when President Garfield, who was shot on July 2, lingered on in great pain and virtually unable to read or write until ne died on Sept. 19. The next case was that of President Wilson who was stricken in 1919, was for a considerable period disabled and then made a partial recovery. Congress has not acted, part ly Decause tne cases of disability nave Been, quite accidentally, so few and far between. ' There is, however, another reason. It is that men have shrunk from the notion of making it possible that a President could wrongfully be deprived of his office. The time has now come, however, when the problem, which is by no means insoluble, should be taken in hand. A T the outset, it will be a good idea not to feel that our choice is either to do nothing to regulate the problem or to find a perfect solution for the hard est conceivable case. A solu tion which would have worked in the cases of Garfield, Wilson and Eisenhower will be worth the trouble of enacting it. It is not necessary that the so lution should also work in some imaginary case which was very subtle and elusive. Probably the hardest conceivable case would be one where a Presi dent, apparently not at all dis abled, became deranged and was not in his right mind. There has never been, thanks be, such a case, and in legislating now, we can, while ' bearing it in mind, lay it aside. , 'PHERE are two cardinal ques- tions. The first is who shall determine whether or not the President is disabled? The second is who shall determine whether the President has re covered and whether, in the words of the Constitution, the disability has been removed? There are, I believe, two prin ciples which make these ques tions answerable. The first prin ciple is that the vice-president shall never be more than a tem porary acting President as long as the President is alive, that the vice-president shall never be permitted to take the oath for DAVY CROCKETT Bears Up . NOW THAT I HAVE ' V ""OT N ) SHOT THIS B'AR I '-V..' ' ' ' m I r (smmmio shift) ' propaganda and ridiculing the Kremlin references to "democ racy" in the Soviet Union. Dispatches from Tehran say that the plan for the Moscow visit has not been formally aban doned but it is unlikely it will be made. Would Rather Forget The feeling is based partly on the thought that the Kremlin would just as soon forget the whole matter. Things have changed a lot in Iran in the last few years. In August, 1953, old Moham med Mossadegh, the anti-Western premier, who ruled as dicta tor, came near overthrowing the shah. But the army overthrew Mossadegh instead and he went to prison. ., Ever since Mossadegh went to prison, the shah and his min isters have been cleaning out their many nationalistic and Communist enemies. Only last week four more anti- government conspirators were executed. Also, Sased AyatoUah Kashani, anti-Allied Moslem leader, was arrested at last. He was charged with plotting the assasination of pro-Western Pre mier Ali Razmara in 1951. Ka shani, like Mossadegh, probably wiU remain in jail. the office of President, and that the law shall be unequivocable about the vice-president's duty to step aside if the President's disability has been removed. Students of the problem will, I believe, agree that uncertainty on this point was the real stumbling block in Wilson's case to calling on the vice-president to act, and that it was a consid eration in the early days of President Eisenhower's illness Congress can and Congress should clarify once and for all the status of the vice-president, Everything will become easier when that has been done. The second principle, which ignores the hypothesis of a de ranged President, is that the President himself shall be ap pointed by the statute as the one to determine whether he is dis abled and1 whether he has re covered. rjHERE is, quite -evidently, no difficulty about this' in cases where the President, though dis abled, is conscious and is able to affirm his own inability. Nor could there be any difficulty about his recovering his powers. If he is able to reclaim them, he must be presumed able to exercise them. The somewhat more compli cated case would be the one mentioned by President Eisen hower himself when the Pres ident was unconscious and "un able to determine his own dis ability." Here someone must act for him, as a trustee. I see no need for any complicated machinery. Whether or not the president is conscious is a ques tion of fact about which it is hard to imagine any serious dif ferences of opinion. It would seem to be enough to authorize the Secretary of State, with the advice and consent of the Cabi net, to certify the President's disability. If there were any doubt about , it in the White House, how could any Secretary of State possibly conceal the doubt? The basic principle, that the President is the iudee of his own disability, would remain in that, if the President re gained consciousness and recov ered from his illness, he would still have the unequivocal right to resume his powers. A STATUTE based on these two principles that the vice-president does not become President, and that the Presi dent is the judge of his own disability would resolve a very large part of the doubt which now exists. What then about the hypothe tical case of a deranged Presi dent who refused to . admit his disability and was exercising his powers, but irrationally? It seems to me that Congress should not and need not deal with this hypothetical case in the proposed legislation. If such a case were to arise, no one can : f PERHAPS .THE A I ffOR HOISTING EQUIPMENT YELLOW PAGES IT PAYS TO LOOK ( WILL HELP ME IM THE "CLASSIFIED" PART I ccta i ict i I nc vm id tci counmc onrts I those who sell or serve ) Pacific In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Red Bluff. Arriving about dark. After a rainy day. Head for the Tremont hotel for some thing to eat as travelers in this part of the West have been do ing for nearly a hundred years. TED BLUFF is now' a' quiet, pleasant, easy-going city, where life moves in comfortable, agreeable, not too tensely ex citing ways. It wasn't always thus. When the old Tremont was built, Red Bluff was the head of navigation on the Sacramento. Here the river boats stopped and put off their cargo destined for the mines of the upper Sacramento and the Klamath river country. Here the cargo put off by the river steamers was taken over first by pack horses and mules and later by freight wagons which carried it on to its final destination. Red Bluff was then a wild and woolly town. I T WAS in those days that the Tremont got its start. It hous ed them an miners, freighters; boat hands, adventurers, gamb lers. It took care of their needs. It sheltered them. It fed them. Fire razed it once, but couldn't stop it. It was rebuilt, and went rieht on taking care of those who came. It was the center of its com munity then, as it stUl is. TT WAS in those early days A Vin rliTTorciin of th TCIa-math river was first proposed. It was quite a scheme. The idea was to dig a channel down through the lava beds southward from Tule lake and by means of this channel to carry the waters of the Klamath to the Pit river. The Pit would then carry them on to the Sacramento, where in the summer season they would reinforce the Sacramento's dwindling flow and maybe en able the boats to come- clear now foresee clearly enough just how it would arise in order to legislate intelligently about it. The case would have to be dealt with as the occasion arose, most possibly it seems to me by making use of the machinery of impeachment.1 ; TN DEALING with this whole problem we have to make a fundamental assumption: That the President, the high officials around him and the Congress, will in a matter of such import ance act with integrity and with public spirit. I say this because frequently in the discussion of the problem points are raised which imply the existence of a theoretical conspiracy to ; oust the President or to cover up his disability. ' We should be satisfied to have a statute which honest men can understand and will in good con science carry out. Copyright 1956, New York . Herald Tribune Inc. WE OTMMTEE YOU'LL IMPROVE ANY RECIPE THAT CALLS FOR FLOUR WITH KITCHEN CRAFT Wonderful for pies, cookies, cakes, breeds, too! ' II! SAFEWAY STORE Used by 9 put of Id people as a guide on. up to Redding, thus shorten ing ma teriaUy the land hauLto the mines.- - There was another string to this bow. By diversion of its waters into the Pit, the bed of the Klamath would be uncover ed and the recovery of its placer gold would be made easy. THE PROJECT was embodied in a Viill and the bill was in troduced in the first California legislature. But this first leg islative assembly was a busy- one. The lusty young state had a lot of business to be done and the session wasn't long enough to take care of all the bills that were offered. Many of them fell by the wayside, and the Klamath diversion bill was among those that fell. Here in southern Oregon we've ' been laughed at repeatedly in recent years because of our fear that the waters of our great rivers will be diverted and tak- elsewhere if .we don't see to it that they are put to com plete beneficial use. We've been told that we're seeing things-at night that no such thing can ever happen. Well' maybe not. But the; fact remains that more than a cent ury ago the idea of exporting the water of the Klamath river for use elsewhere was born. It has been revived at intervals ever since. . PERSONALLY, I'm glad we're getting' the waters of our rivers NAILED DOWN. It's high time. If, here in Southern Ore gon, and Far Northern . Cali fornia, we leave ANY of our water lying around loose and unused, the time will come when somebody will come along and take -it -away from us for use elsewhere. HUNGRY THIEVES Montreal (U.R) Police' searched today .for "sweet toohed" burglars. The burglars stole,' 168 20-pound pails - of mixed hard candies, mints hum bugs,, cutrocks and striped suck ers and 100 boxes each of salted peanuts and assorted candy fronV a candy factory.- NOW IS THE TIME to start building an Insured savings account with us. You will" find it pleasant and profitable to invest here. 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