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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 2. 1946 (Wednesday)
Charges to be assessed air
plane owners for use of the mun
icipal airport were adopted by
the city council last night upon
recommendation by the airport
committee.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Metropoli
tan laundries are now using in
visible ink to mark shirts. If
the shirt don't come back, it's
just as hard to find as the mark.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct 2. 1936 (Thursday)
Final rush of Jackson county
voters to register before books
close tomorrow is under way.
The Talent pear and tomato
show, after weeks of preparation,
tarts today with large crowd.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 2, 1928 (Friday)
The first issue of the Medford
Hi Times off the press and in
circulation.
Fire lookout stations discon
tinued by Crater National Forest
headquarters office early this
month.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 2. 1916 (Monday)
Albert F. Noth, ticket agent
at the local depot, is named sta
tion agent to succeed A. S. Ro
senbaum, who resigned.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Henry Riley of the Rogue
River Hardware company of
Central Point is in Medford on
business today.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 2. 1906 (Tuesday)
Miss Cameron's division of the
second grade gave a county fair
at the school house Friday.
J. D. Heard, general manager
of the Sterling Mining company,
is in town today.
What's the Answer?
Can Too Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1935 Editorial Research
Report
1. If a TV station gives a pol
itical candidate free time, it must
by law give his opponent equal
free time to answer him; right
or wrong?
2. The Korean War cost the
U. S. more or less than World
War I. or about the same?
3. The famous water passage
that the ancient world called
the Hellespont is now called
what?
4. First U. S. President to die
in that office was Washington,
J. Q. Adams. Jackson, W. H.
Harrison or Lincoln?
5. A "captive mine" in the
coal industry is one owned by
the union, a steel company, a
bank, the government, or a news
paper. 6. Miss Lou Henry married
which of our recent presidents?
7. John L. Lewis of the coal
miners has or hasn't come out
for Stevenson for president in
1956?
The Answers: 1. Right. 2. More
3. The Dardanelles. 4. W. H.
Harrison. 5. A steel company. 6.
Hoorer. 7. Hasn't.
BOY SCOUTS
Pack 40
Cub Scout Pack 40, Central
Point, will hold a Pack meeting
Tuesday. Oct. 9 .at 7:30 p.m. at
the Central Point Junior High
school library. All boys and par
ents interested are asked to
attend.
Why?
If the sale of timber land in the US Forest Reserve
at $5 an acre that had a value of approximately $500
in trie open market, was such a virtuous and proper
transaction why does the former Secretary of the
Interior McKay spend so much time explaining and
defending it?
Why did Secretary Seaton, successor to Secretary
McKay while praising his predecessor as the "man to
beat Morse," make it clear at the same time, that
nothing like the Al Sarena case would ever happen
again, not while he heads the Interior Department
at least?
' And No. 3 : why, when a presidential election
loomed on the horizon did that 100 per cent Republi
can Congressman Ellsworth, suddenly awaken and
spring into action with a bill that would prevent any
one doing EXACTLY what the Al Sarena owners did,
but would not prevent a similar "give away" provided
there were sufficient funds available, that is enough
to do the necessary assessment work in one year in
stead of five?
It is all quite mystifying!
CANDIDATES for office high or low usually avoid
defending their actions in the past if there is noth
ing to defend, nothing questionable about them.
But Mr. McKay and his supporters keep bringing
up the subject, and explaining over and over again,
how innocent he was of any wrong doing this paper
has never so accused him, and now still on the de
fensive he goes even farther. Last week for example
in a speech at the Irvington club in Portland before
a group of the Oregon Federation of Republican Wo
men he claimed the law compelled him to do what
he had done, said that he didn't know anything about
the "give away" until after the patents had been
granted and the papers signed !
All this was done he said by "his solicitor" BUT he
had never denied he as head of the department was
"responsible" and he did not at that time.
"IXELL that makes it clear. Secretary McKay WAS
responsible for the Al Sarena deal, but he is mis
taken about there having been any legal compulsion,
either on his part of that of his subordinate. He could
as far as the law is concerned, have done exactly
what his predecessor in the Interior Department did,
refused to grant the patents. Also we admit there
was no law against his doing what he admits he did
do, standing by while his "solicitor" did take a course
of action unprecedented in the entire history of the
Department of the Interior when he refused to accept
the recommendations of both the US Forest Service
and the Bureau of Land Management that as a result
of examinations by their mineral experts, the values
in the worked-out Buzzard mine, (rechristened the
Al Sarena,) did NOT justify the granting of owner
ship of timber valued at $500 an acre for a $5 an
acre mining fee. .
'T'HERE was no such compulsion either way. There
was no law breaking on the part of the McDonald
Brothers or Solicitor Davis or they all might today be
in jail.
But there was a "GIVE AWAY" a flagrant and
an unprecedented violation of all traditions of tim
ber conservation in our national forests, and the pro
tection against securing of valuable timber lands un
der the guise of mineral rights.
J7INALLY what sort of Secretary of. the Interior
must former Governor McKay have been when
he did not check on what his subordinates were doing
but sat idly by when they put over a "give away" like
the Al Sarena deal, and when inf ormed of this insub
ordination, he not only upheld the solicitor but retain
ed him in his employ as long as he held office.
Is that the type of administrator, and anti-conservationist
the people of Oregon want to represent
them in the Upper House of congress for the next six
years?
We can't believe it. R.W.R.
Another Question
The most amusing effort of the GOP press to
alibi the Al Sarena "give away" is to place Senator
Kefauver in their phoney political scenario, as the
villian, who is now opposing the deal but back in 1952
while campaigning for the presidential nomination
they claim he endorsed it.
As a matter of fact, Senator Kefauver never
ENDORSED the Al Sarena deal, he was asked by the
owners of the mine to look into their case, and his
office assistant did so, but
enagaged as their attorney, never oked the final
plan, and took no active part in the deal at ANY time.
The GOP press knows this, but they see a chance to
raise a smoke-screen, by
from the Secretary of the
candidate for vice president, so with shouts of glee
and triumph they hop to it. Some of them call it a
great "back fire." How silly can we get?
A NYONE who knows Senator Kefauver and his
"record, the man who fought the Dixon-Yates
"give away" and refused, at a tremendous sacrifice
politically, to sign the "Southern Manifesto," knows
he would never have given his ok to any such trans
action, if he had lost every vote in Mobile, Alabama,
and the Roosevelt hotel in New Orleans ! . . . We were
surprised the Oregonian should dignify such a trans
parent hocus-pocus and illustrate the "bogus" ma
neuver with the picture of some Davy Crockett jam
boree in the latter city's leading hotel.
BUT the real humor comes from another angle to
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If the Al Sarena "give
Tuesday, October 2. 1956
Mr. Kefauver was never
shifting the responsibility
Interior to the Democratic
away" was as pure, proper,
and unavoidable, as the McKay zealots claim so fre
quently and stridently, WHY, should they now con
demn, and seek to crucify, the "gentleman from Ten
nessee," whose only crime, according to THEIR OWN
claims, was in endorsing it.
It is to laugh! R.W.R.
Al Sarena As A Symbol
The Al Sarena case is important in the senatorial
race as revealing the political philosophy and record
of the Republican candidate.
But it is also important nationally, not in itself,
but as a perfect symbol of Republican doctrine.
We believe it is correct to say that with the pos
sible exception of Secretary Seaton, Mr. McKay's
successor, there has never been the slightest criticism
of this Jackson county "give-away", by any Republic
an leader in Oregon, Washington or anywhere else.
Why? The reason we believe is clear. The GOP
doesn't believe there WAS anything illegal which
there wasn't improper or contrary to a true demo
cratic public welfare policy which there was in this
deal. No matter whether Secretary of Defense Wilson
said it or didn't, one of the comer stones of GOP be
lief as of today is that what is Good for General
Motors IS good for the countiy. Therefore when the
public welfare conflicts with private profit, as in the
Al Sarena case, it is not only good business but good
politics to sacrifice the former to the latter.
I
T was the stand on this issue so clearly revealed at
the two nartv conventions at Chicago four years
ago, that transferred this paper's allegiance from the
Republican to the Democratic ranks.
For it is this paper's strong conviction that if such
a policy is retained and carried on through the years
to its logical conclusion, it "will mean the end of dem
ocratic government as we have known it, and in its
place there will probably be a sort of Big Business
oliearchv. an entrenched plutocratic dynasty,
which will present a problem for our children and
grand children most difficult to peacefully solve.
R.W.R.
MQttQr Of FaCt By Jo and Stewart Alsop
BITTER HARVEST
Washington In the unending
Suez crisis, the American policy
makers are now reaping a bitter
harvest of al
lied anger and
ill will. This
country's chief
world - part
ners, Britain
and France
are feeling
emotions and
making charg
es th at are
Joseph Alsop with out pre
cedent in the last ten years.
Thus far, Sir Anthony Eden,
Guy Mollet and the other re
sponsible British and French
leaders have not voiced their
feelings in public. Hence no one
in this country has as yet paid
much attention . to the severe
strain that the Suez crisis is now
causing within the Western Al
liance. But the strain is there.
none, the less.
And it is worth
asking what
the trouble has
been.
The simplest
clue to the
trouble is of
fered by the
a s t o nishing
history of Sec
Stewart Alsop
retary of State
John Foster Dulles' scheme for
a Suez canal "Users Associa
tion." Its history goes back to
the ticklish moment when Egyp
tian President Gam'al Abdel Nas
ser flatly rejected the first Dulles
plan for international manage
ment of the canal.
So far as can be judged, Sec
retary Dulles concluded that the
best way to get through this
ticklish moment was to keep
everyone talking, and so to pre
vent dangerous decisions from
being taken in Paris and them
selves to take decisions after
Nasser sent Australian Prime
Minister Menzies home from
Cairo with a flea in his ear.
At this juncture and with
great urgency, the British and
French ambassadors, Sir Roger
Makins and Herve Alphand,
were called to the State Depart
ment to hear about the Users'
Association. As originally out
lined by Secretary Dulles, the
new project was very tough in
deed. What amounted to an in
ternational boycott of Suez was
to be organized. It was to be
financed by the United States.
Reinforcing the boycott with
other measures of economic
warfare was not excluded. The
declared aim was to put all pres
sure short of war on President
Nasser, and so to force him to
submit in the end.
JUST previously, the American
government had backed hasti
ly away from Secretary Dulles'
scheme for internationalizing
the Suez Canal, as soon as the
going got rough in Cairo. In
sistent questions were therefore
asked, aimed to find out whether
the Dulles plan for a Users As
sociation was another American
policy proposal subject to change
without notice. It is understood
that both Makins and Alphand
received strong assurances that
Secretary Dulles' intentions were
now unshakably firm.
As it happened, a French
parliamentary delegation was
also in Washington at the time,
and was received by Secretary
Dulles. For this large group,
whose members have of course
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broadcast the story, the Sec
retary of State put on an impos
ing display of righteous deter
mination, which strongly under
lined his assurances to the Brit
ish and French governments.
THE Suez crisis, Dulles de
clared, was the most danger
ous that the West had encounter
ed, not excluding the Berlin
blockade or the attack in Korea,
since the end of the Second
World War. The whole future of
the Western Alliance, he free
ly admitted, was now at stake.
As for President Nasser, Dulles
continued, he was a pattern dic
tator. If he were not taught his
lesson now, Nasser would go on
until a much more expensive
lesson would have to be taught
to him later on. The Users' As
sociation, the Secretary promised
the parliamentarians, was the
instrument that would teach Nas
ser his lesson without further
delay. '
In these circumstances, It is
not surprising that the hopes
of the British and French gov
ernments were running very
high when Secretary Dulles
made his last trip to London.
Opposition to a toughly con
ceived Users Association had
meanwhile been encountered in
Scandinavia, Pakistan and else
where. But the British and
French were convinced that if
this country stood by them, as
Secretary Dulles had appeared
to promise, the necessary pres
sure on Nasser could still be
organized.
TNSTEAD, Secretary Dulles
abandoned his own concept of
a really tough Users Association
within four hours of landing in
London. What emerged from the
recent London meeting was a
pious sham, which deceived no
one, least of all President Nas
ser. In addition. Secretary Dulles
himself underlined the phoney-
ness of the London result by
announcing that he had no in
tention of pressing the great
majority of American ship
owners, whose vessels fly foreign
flags, to cooperate with the
Users' Association he had him
self proposed.
In these circumstances, it is
fairly easy to see why the Brit
ish and French governments
think they have been bamboo
zled. And it is easy to see, too,
that the present soreness in
Paris and London will put even
graver strains on the Western
Alliance, in the very likely
event that the Middle Eastern
situation continues to worsen.
1956. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Suit To Seize Ranch
Under Advisement
Portland (U.R) A suit by
the internal revenue service to
seize a 1500 -acre Prineville
ranch for S2000 in unpaid tax
penalties was taken under ad
visement here yesterday by U.S.
District Judge William East.
Operator of the ranch, Mar
garet Hackleman, contends that
the lien filed against the prop
erty is illegal. The lien also is
against other of her properties
and the estate of her late hus
band. Abe Hackleman. Mrs
Hackleman bases her claim of
illegality on a contention that
she did not receive a deficiency
notice of the penalty assessment
for late filing of returns.
Tito Appears in Driver's Seat
In Talks With Russ Over Policy
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
President Tito of Yugoslavia
seems to be in the driver's seat
in his talks with Russian Com
munist leaders.
Just what is
going on in the
talks, now at
the end of
their second
week, is still
something of
a mystery. But
two things
appear to be
Chailefc Al. McLann certain.
One is that the talks have
nothing to do with relations be
tween the Communist-r u 1 e d
countries and the Western de
mocracies. They concern Com
munist Party policies.
The other is that Tito, the one
time rebel against Stalin's dicta
torship, is being consulted as an
independent Communist leader
fully equal with the highest men
in the Kremlin.
May Strengthen Prestige
It seems likely that Tito's
prestige will be strengthened as
the result of the talks.
Especially, his prestige is like
ly to be strengthened in the
Communist satellite countries.
It is no secret that Tito hopes
to make himself, some day, the
leader of a Balkan bloc of Com
munist countries which would
include Bulgaria and Albania.
His independence, and his part
in the picrent talks, are likely
to increase his prestige in other
Soviet satellite countries.
Apparently Tito himself was
surprised and not too pleased
when Nikita S. Khrushchev, the
Russian Communist chieftain,
decided to visit him.
Khrushchev arrived in Yugo
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Vote for Oregon Power
To the Editor: Are we for Ore
gon or do we fall for a lot of
foolish side talk? Both Portland
papers of Sept. 19 stated on the
top page that BPA intended to
cut off interruptible power to
large industries in October. That
will mean men laid off from
their jobs and less business. That
is Oregon's handicap lots of
power in the summer time, a
shortage of power in the winter
time. The BPA tried to seU sur
plus summer power this summer
and couldn't sell it. That means
we need winter time power
more than anything else.
Oregonians should look at
their own needs first regardless
of party and vote for those who,
if elected, will give us our win
ter time power. We should not
let them fool us with side talk,
so we won't get what we need
most.
So far the Hells Canyon high
dam is the only dam that prom
ises to give us extra winter time
power by storing the extra
spring and summer time water
of the Snake River, which can
be turned loose in the winter
time to give us added winter
power. The Idaho Power Com
pany's low dams do not give us
our badly needed storage for
winter power, so at this election
vote for Oregon by voting for
the backers of Hells Canyon
Dam. After all, our bread and
butter and jobs for our people
in Oregon should come first in
our minds.
We should demand of all can
didates that if elected they will
repeal the license of the Idaho
Power Company and vote for a
high dam. We know we don't
want Doug McKay because he
is the one most responsible for
our loss of Hells Canyon Dam
and our winter power. As Sen
ator Morse and the Democrats
are the backers of the high Hells
Canyon dam, we should all vote
Democratic this election to tell
the people in power in Washing
ton that Oregon wants its winter
power, and will not be fooled by
silly side talk about other things
which mean nothing to our pros
perity. '
And if they say our govern
ment lacks the financing, don't
be fooled remember the same
government just gave India
S350,000,000 and wants $4,000,
000,000 for foreign aid, and
have built a lot of free dams in
Europe and Asia with our
money. Our country comes first
it's our money, let foreign
countries take care of them
selves. Vote Democratic this
year and demand of the Demo
crats more winter time power.
Louis Galatz,
1639 S.E. Tacoma st.,
PorUand, Ore.
They Hatched!
To the Editor: Referring to
Sept. 27 Communication: Cath
erine (misspelled with a K) just
looked under the wrong "Ban
ty." Saturday morning my 4-year-old
little granddaughter,
Tacy, nearly dragged me from
the telephone, shouting: "Grand
pa, come quickTand see the little
chickens Run fast!" We did.
Catherine and the other chil
dren joined us. '
Sure 'nuf at least one tiny
chick was out, and more eggs
pipped, under "Alice." A mo
ment later, as Tacy was climb
ing over the fence, she yelled,
slavia on Sept. 19, on what was
called in Moscow a vacation.
That obvious fiction was soon
exposed.
Wanted To Talk -
Then it was suggested the
Suez Canal dispute and Tito's re
lations with the United States
and other Allied countries
caused the visit.
But it was soon made plain
that Khrushchev wanted to talk
to Tito about developments in
the Communist countries.
It was disclosed the Russian
Communist party, of which
Khrushchev is first secretary,
had sent out a circular letter to
Red leaders in the satellite coun
tries criticising Tito.
The complaint apparently was
that Tito, because of his rebel
lion against Stalin, is no longer
a truly orthodox Communist.
The implication was that Com
munist leaders in the satellite
countries must not follow his
independent line.
Split Reported in Kremlin
Then came reports that there
had been a split in the Kremlin
over the attitude to be taken to
ward Tito and toward the loos
ening up" of Kremlin dictatorship
in some of the satellites, notably
Poland.
Khrushchev and Premier Ni
kolai A. Bulganin were supposed
to lead one faction, which favors
good relations with Tito on a ba
sis of equality and the loosening
up of the grip on the satellites.
Former Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the chief
survivor of the Kremlin's old
Bolsheviks, was said to head the
other faction, which doesn't like
Tito and thinks Khrushchev has
gone too far in his satellite
policy.
In any event, Tito flew to
"Oh, look, here's some more.
We all went to see. Imagine the
surprise "to all hands aboard.'
"What to their wondering eyes
should appear not a nest full
of reindeer," but 10 fluffy ban
tam chicks, under "Judy." And
each appeared to me to be
marked with an M in finest
feathers and colors. Even their
lively chirps seemed to have a
"Morse, Morse" sound; and each
Lynch child had to hold one of
the little pets.
Convinced that "Henny-pen-
ny" couldn't produce by setting
on that shriveled nut, Catherine
borrowed"2 or 3 eggs from "Al
ice," and put them under "Hen-ny-penny."
We're all awaiting
results. All may turn out to be
good eggs, and as all over Ore
gon, as hard shells crack, more
Morse supporters come forth.
It really takes results to convince
some folks.
Anyhow, this just goes to
prove once more that even a
"Banty" will produce when giv
en proper underlaying.
. Now Carolyn, Johnny and
Tacy are pondering names for
all the little chicks. Any sug
gestions??? John (Dad) Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Geologic Wonderr
To the Editor: There are many
wonders in Southern Oregon, es
pecially those of geologic nature
in a changing world of natural
history.
For instance, once the short
est river was Link river con
necting the upper and lower
Klamath lakes, only 4 mile
long. Lost River in Klamath
county runs in. a circle for near
ly 90 miles and empties under
ground only about 10 miles from
its original source, in Tulelake.
One of the greatest fault forma
tions of basalt in Oregon west
of the Snake river canyon, is
the Abert rim on U.S. Highway
395 in Lake County, Oregon.'
As for semi-precious gem
rock, southern Oregon has the
distinction of having the great
est variety of semi-gem stones
found anywhere in the North
west. The gem polishing and
marketing business now in Ore
gon is rated one of the major
industries of the past 15 years.
Some of the lesser and rarer
stones are in a general demand
by collectors in many of the
states.
One time in our mineral pros
pecting trips in the Cascade
range we discovered a small
round extinct volcano about 16
feet in diameter with a molten
Hematite stained quartz lying in
the pit, and we mortared a sam
ple that showed a small trace of
free gold, not enough to get ex
cited about at least.
Our belief is that the general
mineral resources of southern
Oregon will last for many years
yet, and that all the hidden min
erals have not been found, al
most a conclusive answer- to
prospecting and mining.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st., Apt. 1,
Medford, Ore.
TO EXPORT SALK VACCINE
Washington (U.R) A substan
tially increased amount of Salk
polio vaccine will be available
for export to foreign countries
during the last three months of
the year.
Yalta, on the Russian Black Sea
coast, with Khrushchev on Sept.
27 after eight days of conference
in Yugoslavia.
Now Bulganin has joined the
conference and Ernoe Geroe,
No. 1 Hungarian Communist,
has been called in.
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
If you are an ordinary citi
zen and haven't taken the
weeks of time required to delve
into the facts of the case I sup
pose you are wondering what
this Al Serena business (that has
been filling the papers and clog
ging the air waves for months
with political charges and counter-charges)
is all about. It would
be quite reasonable if you came
to the conclusion that where
there is so much smoke there
must be some fire.
So
Let's see if we can get a real
istic look at it.
AL SERENA has been known
as mining property for half
a century. The first of the claims
involved in the present contro
versy were filed in 1897, when
some miner came alone and
thought there might be pay dirt
there and took samples and had
them assayed. The assays turned
out all right, and the patents
were issued as a matter of
routine.
Keep this in mind:
Timber was then worthless ex- '
cept for building shacks and
shoring up mining tunnels. It
was just the tail that went along
with the mineral hide.
Whatever timber there was on
the ground was useful in devel
oping the mine.
BUT
You will say
How about this scandal a few
years ago when hundreds of
mining claims in Southern Ore
gon and elsewhere were filed on
for the presumably fraudulent
purpose of getting the timber on
the claims?
TT WILL naturally occur to
you that this Al Serena busi
ness may be another project of
that sort.
How do we know it isn't?
IVELL, the fact just don't seem
'to bear out that conclusion.
These McDonalds appear to be
honest mining people, who sin
cerely believe that Al Serena
can be developed into a paying
mining property if they can find
capital enough to develop it as it
will have to be developed.
The development of it wiU be
quite a project. The ore liody
will have to be blocked out, and
it is estimated that this would
cost some $300,000 for core
drilling and such. That will have
to be done before additional
capital can be attracted.
It is not considered really
practical to operate the property,
whose ore is low grade, with less
than a mill of 10,000 tons daily
capacity. Such a plant, it is esti
mated, would cost from $3,000,
000 to $5,000,000.
The McDonalds are seeking
investors who will be willinf .o
put some such amount into the
project. They have already put
all of their own money into it,
but need more money in order
to go on. Before Al Serena be
came a national political foot
ball, they felt they had a good
chance to interest outside invest
ment. WHAT is the value of the tim
ber involved?
It is estimated ta maybe $250,
000. The stand is supposed to be
somewhere from 8 million to 10
million feet. Make your own
guess. But I'd say that a quarter
of a million dollars worth of
timber would serve a good pur
pose if it added to Southern Ore
gon's mining economy an opera
tion involving from $3 million
to $5 million new capital invest-'
ment. The original theory of the
mining law was that the timber
was an adjunct of the mining
operation.
To me, it seems a shame that
good honest people such as the
McDonalds appear to be should
be fried out in the political pan
for no better purpose than
politically smearing good men
like Douglas McKay and Harris
Ellsworth.
Phone 2-4940
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