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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Keaas me jaau jnuunc Published DaOy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 DADtTJT xr nTTTTT. F.rtitor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol . - n . arm iviarcn j. xog' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S350. 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 15o Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms casn in Aovancg Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper oi dacuson mun-j United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF cm.Uliflliua WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices m new lore. v,iukis. troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCS-ATLQN J U '6v NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1946 (It Was Tuesday) Construction reaches half-way mark on Medford's new 8,200, 000 gallon reservoir on Capital hill. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A jet pro pulsion catapulated across the country in four hours and 26 minutes, and a few seconds, at times going almost as fast as sound. Nothing on earth is of enough importance to necessit ate Man going that fast: 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1936 (It was Wednesday) From Side Glances: Frank DeSouza, postmaster, viewing with alarm the fact that ony two more days of fishing remain, and just as he was about ready to break out the fishing tackle, too. Fire Chief Elliott says all firemen- favor civil service; voters to decide issue at special elec tion Friday. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1926 (It was Friday) A total of 80,275 people is a conservative estimate Crater National forest officers made on number of visitors at forest last year. League of Oregon Cities con sider and discuss possibility of extending six per cent limita tion on tax increases to cities and other taxing bodies. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1916 (It was Saturday) Professor Charles G. Anthony tells group at Library meeting that it would be possible and valuable to pipe mineral water and gas from springs above Ash land to Medford. The Bearnard Motor compa ny has been incorporated with $25,000 capital to handle the Dodge automobile in southern Oregon. What's the Answer? 1. More states in the Solid South voted for Eisenhower in 1952 or Hoover in 1928? 2. Most new businesses start ed in 1940-45 lasted at least 10 years under their original own ers; right or wrong? 3. The "Eternal City" is Paris, Washington, D. C, Hollywood, Vienna, or Rome? 4. The Administration plans to spend on foreign aid in 1956 57 a little over $1 billion, $4 billion, $7 billion or $10 billion? 5. Which member of the Eis enhower cabinet is the son of a former cabinet member? 6. An employee out of work because disabled can draw un employment compensation in al most all, about half, only a few or no states? 7. How many sons of the late president Roosevelt are mem bers of the present Congress? The answers: 1. Hoover. 2. Wrong. 3. Rome. 4. $4 billion. 5. Secreiary of Commerce Weeks (father was Secretary of War under Harding). 6. Only a few. 7. One (James). From 1860 to 1890 the Penn sylvania oil fields were the chief source of petroleum in the United States. MAIL TRIBUNE What Is a "Smear"? Ever since the Al Sarena mining case became a burning issue Congressman "smear," for political purposes only. What is a "smear"? Apparently it is any investigation into any matter which the accuser does not If the investigation is dure is an entirely legitimate "inquiry." It depends in other words, as is so often the case m politics, upon whose ox is gored. "liniEN Senator McCarthy was enjoying great pop ularity as an investigator into Red subversion, no one ever heard Mr. Ellsworth accuse him of using the "smear" technique as a political weapon. The Wis consin Senator was then a great patriot and states man and but for him "good old Joe" would have long ago have taken over the White House. Ln fact it was then the intention to convict the Democratic administration of treason 20 years of treason and that the Representative from the Fourth District of Oregon approved. - BUT this Al Sarena case, according to Ellsworth, is and was a different kettle of fish it was merely an effort to "smear" Secretary of the Interior McKay as the leader of the GOP "give-away" brigade and thus make votes for the Democratic party and take them away from the Republicans. As a matter of fact Congressman Ellsworth claimed from the outset there was nothing irregular, illegal or even improper about the Rogue River mining - timber deal, though he never presented convincing evidence to prove it. DEMOCRATS on the Senate subcommittee on the other hand, claim and have claimed otherwise, declaring that the Interior Department refused to ornnt. thf Al Sarena mining claim in the Truman ad ministration, because there was msufficent evidence to indicate the mineral values were sufficient to justi fy same, and that the whole deal was not a legitimate minim? venture but iust another "timber grab" under the pretense of such transaction. WHO is right? Until all the evidence is in, no one can truthful ly say. But as far as the claims of Congressman Ells worth that everything connected with this deal was on the "up and up" is concerned, ne lurnisnes tne oest evidence that the contrary is true. For the issue had no sooner been publicized than our Congressman got busy, introduced a bill and se cured its passage, which now makes what the Al Sarena mine owners did illegal. If there was nothing improper in the original transaction why prohibit it by law m the future The Ellsworth measure nlrl minincr-clnim laws lone- as a result of their laxness and antiquity, scores of fraudulent mining claims in recent years have been laid out and used to secure valuable government tim ber at a slight percentage of its market value, and that this procedure has grown into a national scandal. SO WHATEVER the final verdict is this Al Sarena rasp flnH it. is rlmihtful if there is anv excent on strictly political lines it is initiated. For had no inquiry been rorvnlrl still hp nnssihlp to file in the national forests of by mineral values oi not, and cut down tne timoer as a by-product of the operation, at a mere fraction of its value to the government on the open market. If this is a "smear" then let's have a few more smears of the same type. There is no doubt the people of the country as a whole, regardless of party would approve them. R.W.R. Public Service Rendered It is somewhat amusing to observe the ardor with which Secretary McKay's loyal followers rush into the public prints to disclaim any responsibility on McKay s part for the Sarena decision. Why all this haste and emphasis on IRRESPON SIBILITY? After all. in anv government department as im portant as that of the interior, the department head is responsible for what is or isn't done by any of his subordinates whether he tails and assumed it or did Considering these facts case it would have seemed for Secretary of the Interior to at least have shared the responsibility with his suDordmate instead of al lowing the latter to assume it all. ... DEFORE the Al Sarena Mail Tribune printed racket then in full swing, whereby fake mining claims were filed on public lands, only the minimum mining requirements were observed, and those granted the patent proceeded to cut the a financial cleanup as a result. It was because of the suspicion this Al Sarena deal was essentially aiong the same line that the present inquiry was instituted. We grant that to date evidence to sustain any criminal charge has not been offered. Perhaps it never will be. As remarked above judgment should be reserved. DUT one thing is certain. . The inquiry has justified itself, not as a "smear" but needed public service, for had no investigation been! considered, nc public opinion aroused, there would be no law on the statute books, making what the Al Sarena group did, legally impossible in the future. Sunday, January 29, 1956 Ellsworth has called it a approve. approved then the proce m tact recognizes mat tne a:o became obsolete, that fortunate the inquiry was indicated, undoubtedly it a mininp claim anvwhere Oregon, whether justified himself attended to the de not. and the importance of the more natural and proper case ever became known the a news story pointing to the timber thereon and make until all the evidence is in Matter Of FtrCf By Joe and Stewart Alsop 1952 AND 1956 j Washington "The difference between 1952 and this year is very simole and pretty import ant. In 1952, the President was really re luctant to be come a candi date, because he hated the idea of getting into politics. But he had no doubt about Joseph Alsop his capacity to do the job, and when the call grew strong, he responded to it. "This time, although he often hankers for retirement, Ike is not at all reluctant to become a candidate. But he has very grave doubts about his capa city to do. the job, because of his heart at t a c k. And doubts of this kind are not going to be re- stewart Alsop solved by any call from outside, however strong. "In fact, hell make up his own mind; and the only question he will have to answer will be the question about his health OUCH is the best solution now oDiainaDie to the enormous puzzle that completely domin ates current American Dolities. It comes from one who should know the true state of the mat ter better than almost anvone else an old, close presidential mend who was intimately in volved in the draft-Eisenhower movement four years ago, and today is again intimately in volved in tne increasingly elab orate preparations to run the President for a second term "if his health permits." On the positive side, this pic ture of the President's state of mind justifies the extreme ouh- lic optimism that is now fash ionable m the highest Republi can circles. It is a vital fapt that on balance, Eisenhower wantr to be a candiaate to succeed himself. ; Furthermore, his reason for wanting to be a candidate is also vital. His task, as he sees it, is to bring to birth a new kind of American conservation, more moderate, more enlightened and more ready to meet the chal lenges of a changing world than the American conservatism of the older style. To perform this task successfully, he feels he must re-make the Republican party in a rather thorough way. . TIE THINKS, apparently, that "the transformation of his party is well started. But he also thinks that at least four more years hard work will be needed to comrlete the transformation. and to make it firm and endur ing. Very obviously, those around him who want him to run again can truthfully and convincingly argue that only Eisenhower can complete this In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS The San Francisco Chronicle carried a story this morning in which this sentence appeared: "This wiU be the 32nd day of rain in the 42 days since Dec. 15, and the seventh day of rain in the last eight days." I've heard that statement re peated today at least 40 times always in tones of deep dis gust. In northern California, the weather is beginning to get on people's nerves. It is gen erally conceded that in its prop er place and in reasonable quan tities rain is good, but the con census is that 32 days of it out of a total of 42 days is too much of a good thing. STALES of woe are forthcoming whenever two or more per sons get together. A friend down in San Mateo awoke this morn ing to find that a cottonwood tree in a neighbor's yard had let go all holds d u r i n g the night's downpour and had crashed down right in the middle of his pet plot of shrubbery. The only consolation in his hour of sorrow lay in the fact that the neighbor was in a hurry to get to work and offered to don ate the tree for fireplace wood. He figures that it will yield at least a cord, and at present prices for firewood that is some thing. .On the other hand, the cost of getting it sawed up will be something fearful to contem plate. So he's afraid he's going to have to saw it uphimself, since he was so brash as to accept his neighbor's offer. That thought isn't adding anything to the gaiety of the occasion. ANOTHER citizen who lives on Tiburon island looked out this morning and what he saws "ruined the. day for him. On the west side of his property he had planted last year a row of eight fancy imported pine trees. Dur ing the night a playful zephyr wandering in from the stormy Pacific had toppled all eight of them over on their sides. Since most of the roots on the down-wind side had remained in the ground, he thinks maybe he can prop the trees up and with luck they'll go on growing, but the prospect of getting out in task which he regards as : all- important. On the other hand, it must also be remembered that those who are so optimistic about the President's intentions have a strong, natural interest in accen tuating the positive at this time. In the main, the men who now head the Republican political re gency are the same men who headed the draft-Eisenhower movement four years ago. The leading figures are veterans of the 1952 Commodore group, like former Governor .Thomas E. Dewey, General Lucius D. Clay, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Senator James Duff of Pennsylvania. It suits the regents to have the country believe the President will probably run again for two very obvious reasons. While the impression is abroad that Eisen hower will be a candidate, the Eisenhower wing's grip on the Republican party can be and is being quietly but firmly consoli-. dated. With the potential opposi tion paralyzed, the regents are organizing " a 1956 convention that "Eisenhower can bend to his whim whether he is a candidate or not. FURTHERMORE, the ten or a dozen men who compose the political regency can agree about Eisenhower, but they can not agree about anything else. The mere opening of a discussion of alternative Republican can didates would produce not one but several immediate splits in the group. So they are literally workmg on the curious role that no alternative candidate can be discussed unless and until the time comes when the President decisively bows out. In short,' when the members of the regency authoritatively assert that the President will surely run again if his health permits, it is necessary to take the conditional chance very seriously. The members of the White House staff, who are in daily contact with Eisenhower, are far less hopeful about his final decision than the members of the regency, who are organiz ing the second term, movement with no direct authority from trie President. THERE has been at least one occasion in the past weeks when the alarm spread that the President meant to bow out im mediately. One of the Eisen hower medical advisors, Dr. Paul Dudley White, clearly feels that the presidential burden wiU not be too much for his patient. But the other two, Drs. Thomas Mat tingly and Howard Snyder, fire known to take a considerably . more, somber view. ?- - . In the circumstances, then, it is easy to understand why the President so movingly said that he "could devoutly wish there were some method by which the American people could point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer." Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. News the wet and doing the job wasn't giving him any pleasure along about the lunch hour. gUT these were minor catas trophes. Down in Redwood City a normally dry gully had gone' on a bender during the night, and come morning the waters were two feet deep in the living room of a newly built home. Not only was the furni ture floating around in a woe begone away. The room was pan elled, and the commuter who was teUing the tale was pretty certain that when the water sub sided the paneling would warp and he'd have to do the whole job over "again. What was giving him acute pain was the news, just broken to him by his insurance agent, that his policy didn't cover flood damage. rFHAT raises an interesting issue. In most of the flooded towns, little if any flood insur ance was carried. The reason is that in. the very nature of things flood insurance is expensive. If your property is located in a place where floods are like ly to occur, it is a foregone con clusion that you're going to be flooded if old Jupiter Pluvius goes on a rampage. Since insur ance rates are based on the prob ability of loss, it follows that if you live in a place that is subject to floods in times of ab normal precipitation the cost of flood insurance is going to be pretty steep.- : . It appears that down this way nearly everybody relied on Cali fornia's sunny climate and failed to take out flood insurance. The result is a lot of unhappiness in this particular year. HHHAT brings up another thought. In this campaign year which ; follows a year of rather spectacular floods in var ious parts of the country con gress is doing a lot of talking about government flood insur ance. I can see where people, living in the river valleys and the creek bottoms are going to be all for it, but I can't help wondering how the people who live on the bills will feel about it Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use oi a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted (or publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Price of Gold To the Editor: One of the rea sons that gold placer and quartz gold mining of northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon from the 1850s through the years to the 20th century paid well as an industry was because of the large amount taken from the mines, even at a price ranging from $16 to $20 troy ounce de pending on the quality of the metal. . . . Today, lower grades of ore could be mined profitably pro viding the price for all new raw gold could be sold from $75 to $100 a fine ounce.- When the product, like tim ber, becomes less, the price in variably goes higher. Mining gold should not be an exception to the rule. The probability there is enough gold yet in the hills to finance all the contemplated highways for years to come, maybe pay off the national debt. Anyway it is one of importance to think about. . 1 Bert Kissinger, y 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. and By Walter UNIQUE AND INIMITABLE The statistical notes which come with the' President's . eco nomic reports are eloquent about the success of the American economy since the end of World War H They show that in the ten years, 1946- 1955, while our population rose by 24 Walter Lippman 000,000 per sons, the gross national product measured in present buying power rose, by over a hundred billion dollars, and the money spent in personal consumption, rose by sixty billion. In spite of the first demo bilization, the Korean war, and rearmament, the people's stand ard of living Jias risen much and steadily. The President's eco nomic advisors are well justi fied in saying that in these ten years the American economy has "met severe tests with consid erable success," has been able to expand and yet to maintain full employment without severe ups and downs. I t .-;- TiHE report has, however, nbth- ing to say about the severe test that has now begun that of competition with theSoviet Union. The President's economic advisors are, judging by the re port, thinking inside the frame work of the 30s and 40s. That is to say, they are concerned with the over-riding problem posed by the great depression of 1929, which is whether a free economy can expand and pro tect itself against the violence of the business cycle. The Council of Economic Advisors was. cre ated by the Employment Act of 1946, and the act was passed in order to apply the lessons learn ed, fundamentally from the teachings of John Maynard Key nes, about the great depression. It is appropriate enough, there fore, that, the economic advisors should have much to say about our success in carrying out the directives of this act. But someone at the highest level, of the government (and why not the Council of Economic Advisors) should be examin ing the new test of Soviet com petition. For it is certain to dominate much of the world's affairs to come. This test was not foreseen, was perhaps not even foreseeable in 1946 when the Soviet economy was still small and greatly damaged by the war. The challenge of So viet competition has, in fact, come suddenly up over the horizon in the past six months. WHAT is it that is going to be " tested? It is whether the So viet Union is to become the model and is to be the principal guide and supplier in the in dustrial development of the old, densely populated and under-developed countries of Asia and North Africa. Another way : to put the question is to ask our selves whether the fabulous suc cess of our economy is something that can be imitated in, let us say, Morocco, Egypt, India, and Indonesia, or whether the Amer ican economy is something unique the product of our unique geopgraphical 'position and of our special history. If the American economy is unique, then if we are to com pete with the Soviet Union in the under-developed countries, we shall have to invent methods which are applicable to their economies, though they are not applicable to our own. rjpHE crucial problem is how the capital needed for devel Today KM POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) o - The sun (remember it?) was shining brightly Saturday, and a lady called the paper to re port that a group of youngsters were having what is probably the first picnic of the season on a lawn at the corner of Palm and Oakdale. ' . - . One of the best sad-but-funny stories to come out of the recent floods along the Rogue is the one about the couple who inno cently were sitting on their front porch, watching the water carry neighbors' furniture by, all un knowing that the river was creeping into the back part of their own house, and covered the floor of the living roonu - One of the local hospitals has a telephone number which is quite similar to that of a local grocery. The lady that answers the hospital's tele phone reported that one day someone called and asked for the meat department. It look a real effort of willpower, she" said, to refrain from connect ing them with the surgery. ' .." The Church of the Brethren had an announcement last week 1 which reminds us that the Tomorrow Lippmann opment is to be obtained. In our own formative period in the 19th century, we received capital on loan from private in vestors in Europe In the formative period of the Soviet economy capital has been built up by the forced savings of the Russian people, a process which has meant the fierce com pulsions and regimentation , of the Soviet state. The question in non-Communist Asia and Africa is at the bottom this: Assuming, as one must, that private invest ment on the early. American model will not be forthcoming on an adequate scale, nor accept able for political reasons if it were forthcoming, is there any third way that can be taken? This, I believe, is the question to which we shall have to find the answer. There is no use tell ing the Asians to imitate the United States. We shall have at the outset to accept the fact, that in iese old, crowded, politically primitive countries, the initiative in industrial development has to be taken by the government, that it cannot be expected to come from native private enter prise. ' -. We shall . have to recognize, too, that unless these countries are to follow the Russian meth od of forced industrialization, they will have to get a consider able part of their initial capital from the outer world, and as a matter of fact, from the govern ments in the outer world. ! ' IlfHAT is more, unattractive as it must sound in Congress, these under-developed countries will have to get more capital if they are turned to the West than if they turn to Moscow. For Moscow is a standing example of how to industrialize by forced savings at home and without foreign aid. So if the Western aid is so meager that there is little visible progress in raising the standard of life, the temptation to copy Moscow is bound to become very strong. For development with freedom, though ever so much better than development with coercion, is a slower and a more expensive method.. TtfEXT year's report will, we x may safely predict, have much to say about these matters on which the present report is silent. For we are drawn into a contest from which we cannot run away, a contest fought with weapons with which we are un familiar. It is a contest which the President and his advisers did not foresee when thev went to ueneva last summer. It is a contest about which they have said almost nothing to enlighten our people, perhaps because it is a contest about which they have said almost nothing to enlighten our' people, perhaps because it .is a contest which they, like, the rest Of us. have just begun to think. Copyright, 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Boy Scoufs Howard Cub Scouts Forty cub schouts who met at Howard school Monday were presented a charter and heard a talk on scouting benefits by H. S. Morris, neighborhood com missioner and member of the district training committee for cubbing. There were 73 parents and visitors at the meeting. Den five won the attendance award for having the greatest number of parents at the December meet ing. Scouts presented four pri vate skits. Refreshments were served in the Howard school cafeteria. crucial time of year is approach ing February 2. The church is planning its annual "ground hog" dinner Thursday night (One of the start members had to be convinced that the title of the dinner referred to the entree not to the season.) . One of the most interesting sounds we have heard in a long time occurred last week when a long-time and faithful employee of a well-known Medford firm gave a loud gasp as she heard a man from out- . side the firm call the distinguished-looking head of the company "You Old Buixard." in friendly fashion. -. The head of one of the depart ments of a local Sunday school last week had occasion to tele phone a Medford physician, also member of the church. The phone rang; it was answered by the doctor's wife, who promised to call him; there was a long pause, interrupted only by oc casional family-type sounds and that was all. The teacher waited and wait ed. Finally,, in desperation, she hung up. Later she tried to tele- . phone again, but got a busy sig- 4 nal. Several hours later the doc tor's wife telephoned the teacher in some confusion and embarrass ment to confess she'd been in a rush to get away to a meeting, and had ' laid the phone down, completely forgetting it and to call her husband. . On a dinner1 reservation slip at a local hotel, holding a zoom for a dinner meeting of the Christian Business Women, ap peared the notation: "No Ash, Trays." Oh, , it's a mechanized world w: live in, all right. Last week, when Copco an nounced that -the power would be off in one Medford neighbor hood for a few hours while some transmission changes were made, several housewives went into a complete decline at the thought of ATI t3l3f",fTl f1 'f"T7l ore v 4 t Couldn't cook; couldn't vacuum; couldn't wash; couldn't even read (not enough light); and, worst of all in houses with elec tric heat), no heat. One housewife we know en visioned herself bundled and huddled on the floor near the fireplace where, a small glow would come from a kindling fire. As it turned out, Copco did its work in about 40 minutes; the house hardly had gotten cooled off, and the housewife didn't even get a chance to be a pio neer. , - There's an ancient riddle which asks why firemen wear red suspenders. ' One of the wrong answers is, "To match the fire trucks." We got a reverse wrinkle on this last week, when it was seriously (or half-seriout-ly) proposed- to repaint the trucks to match the firemen's underwear. Department mem bers last week purchased longies to use as basketball uniforms, and had them dyed red, they wanted. They turn ed out to be a murky pink. . We rather like the idea of "murky pink" fire trucks rush ing by. A staff member (female) was elated last week when she got a compliment on her appearance from a total stranger. She was relating the incident with great zest when another staff member (male) inquired: "Was it from that little man with gray hair and a white cane?" Six Invited To Bid ' For Dairy Structure Bids for construction of an ice cream plant for Jorgensen's" dairy Products company, are to be opened in the Jorgensen of fice at 2 p.m'. Feb. 8. Six con tractors have been invited to submit bids. Plans for the tilt-up concrete building, covering 14,600 square feet, were drawn by Leslie Poole, Portland consulting en gineer. About 3,100 square feet will be office space. Some brick veneer is to be ; used around the? office area. Office floors will be covered with asphalt tile and some glaz ed tile block partitions will be installed in the factory portion. High pressure steam is to be used both for heat and proces sing. Bidders selected include Bes sonette and Graff, Medford; Ar min Richter and associates, Medford; Ausland Construction company, Grants Pass; D. W. Knight, Albany; H. G. Carl con struction company, Salem; and Smith-Phillips company, Port land. PETITIONS FOR ANNEXATION Grants Pass Petitions seek ing annexation of a 151-acre-tract of land in the vicinity of the new Highland school to the city of Grants Pass are being circulated in the area. The pro posed tract adjoins the city on the northwest.
