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History from the files ol The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 6. 1946 (Wednesday) .
Mayor Clarence Meejcer re
elected; was unopposed on the
city ballot.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: From the
rural regions comes, word of the
slaying of a deer "that wore
horseshoes, and will not be avail
able for the late fall plowing..
20 YEARS AGO
Nov.'C, 1936 (Friday)
Forms to be filled out under
the federal social security act by
employers and employees being
received at Medford postoffice,
according: to Postmaster Frank
DeSouza
The annual election for irriga
tion district directors will be
held next Tuesday With voting
hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
30 YEARS AGO
Mot. 6, 1926 (Saturday
Official vota on county seat re
moval from Jacksonville to "Med
ford shows 4,761 in favor and
1,820 opposed.
Medford post of American
Legion will be host to ex-serviceman
and Medford National
Guardsmen for a dinner Armis
tice day.
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 6. 1916 (Monday) .
Mail Tribune predicts that
Wilson wiU get 2,000 vote ma--lority
in county.
Republican headquarters will
be moved, to Medford hotel Tues
day where election returns will
be received by special wire.
50 YEARS AGO -Not.
6. 1906 (Tuesday)
The "Holy. City" will be pre
sented tonight in the Medford
Opera house.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Mrs. William Lewis, of
Central Point and Ursel Lewis,
her Hon, were in Medford yes
terday. What's the Answer?
Cat You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1953 Editorial Research
Report
0 1. The results of many of the
few presidential elections have
been surprises?
G 2. The U.S. Agriculture de
partment does or doesn't" change
its figures on parity prices for
crops every month?
w3. More passenger- cars are
registered in New York, Penn
sylvania. .California, Michigan
or Texas?
4. Rose Bowl in Pasadena-'has
a smaller or larger seating capa
city than Yankee Stadium in
J.Y.,';pr about the same?
5. l(ore Americans will die
this year of auto accidents, can
cer, polio, tuberculosis or pneu
monia? ' m
6. In .some western states
mort thanhalf the land area is
owned by the federal Govern
ment: right or wrong?
7. Harold S. Vanderbilt is not
ed for having practically invent-
. ed what?
L Very few. 2. Does. 3. Cali-
O fernia. .
Larger.
5. Auto acci-
dents.
bridge.
Right.
7. Contract
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O IKE GETS KER VOTE
r Detroit (U.R) Mrs. Adell
Richardson said she would go to
th polls today and vote for
President Eisenhower. Mrs. Rich
ardson is 101 and has voted in
fjvry election since women were
jrmnted the right to vote.
mail tribune
Don 't Forget to Vote!
. As The Mail Tribune has declared year after year,
the No. 1 duty of every citizen on election day is to
vote.
"It doesn't matter how you vote, but vote!"
rURIXG' the campaign we were surprised, and
somewhat amazed,' to find the highly respected
Oregonian take exception to any such advice.
The Oregonian, it appears, prefers the slogan
"if you dont KNOW, don't VOTE."
Know WHAT? As, according to our records, the
Oregonian has never supported a candidate for high
office wearing the Democratic party label, is seems
reasonable to assume the Oregonian would prefer
that a citizen who doesn't KNOW enough to vote
the GOP ticket might better stay at home.
TT WOULD be better, no doubt, for the Republican
party and its candidates but we doubt if it would
be. better for Democracy and the perpetuation of
free democratic institutions. For the success of Amer
ican democracy, depends upon majority rule and as
far as "humanly possible, the clear cut verdict of the
majority should be obtained.-
How is that to be obtained if the vote is to be re
stricted to those who "know," according to the Ore
gonian 's definition of the term?
The "shivering" denunciation of the above slogan
is the more surprising because the Oregonian is such
an all out and devout worshipper of President Eisen
hower. Yet only a few weeks ago our President refuted
the Oregonian contention in one sentence, to-wit:
'I would rather have a
vote at alL"
not
! That is this paper's creed also, and should be that
of all Americans. We dislike to give the Ore
gonian the "shivers" again but we shall stick to the
j advice for this election day, that has been given so
regularly in the past, namely:
The important thing today is not HOW you vote but that
you DO vote.
If you haven't done so as you read this, remember
the polls don't close until 8 o'clock tonight so be
fore' it is too late
"VOTE, VOTE and VOTE!" R. W. R.
Snow
-. Mt. McLoughlin again rises in white-topped
majesty. The Siskiyous to the south last week acquired
mantles of snow. Roxy Ann for a time showed a white
background for its overcoat of brush and trees.
Wintertime, for all practical purposes, is here
early although we can still expect revisitations of
the clear, chilly, golden weather that makes fall a
time of delight in the Rogue valley.
But the snow, which
and gave skiers their" annual foretaste of winter joys,
is more than a hinderance to travel or a medium for
would-be winter Olympians. It is part of our bread
and butter.
A FORMER Rogue valley
vi Lilt. vv ui in 0 iui cuiuob tAJV,i 10 Jxi jnj vv avnui
He now works out of a Portland headquarters as
head of the snow survey and water supply forecast
section, soil conservation service, U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
His years of experience, from the earliest days of
attempts at scientific snow measurement to the present
elaborate, but still incomplete, system of surveys and
forecasts, have taught Arch just how important snow
is to the economy of America and most particularly
to the semi-arid lands of the west.
Snowpacks are the chief sources of water for
municipal use, for irrigation, both natural and arti
ficial, for the sustenance of our forests and fields,
for industrial use, and for a wide variety of recrea
tional uses.
TPHE thing . that makes the winter snowpacks of
exceptional value is that they are "equalizers" of
water flow. If it weren't for them, water would run
downhill to the ocean as soon as it fell, and leave us
without water during the long dry summer months.
As it is, the snowpacks form our greatest reser
voirs, holding and keeping vast quantities of water
in the hills until late spring and early summer, and
then releasing them gradually so that streamflow
continues through most of the summer, in average-to-good
years.
Mankind's greatest irrigation dams are puny, in
deed, when their contents are compared to the tre
mendous quantities of life-giving water held in moun
tain snows.
'"THE snow surveys over which Work presides are
' valuable for two principal reasons. First, they
make it possible to predict with a remarkable degree
of accuracy how much water will be available during
-the critical April-to-September period. Second, they
assist in the prediction of flood potential as was
proven on the Columbia last spring.
A third value, however, is becoming more and
more important. That is the role of snowpack meas
urement, or "inventor'," to build up information
which in the future will assist mankind in "water
shed management."
A number of experiments have been made along
this line notably the cloudseeding project sponsored
by 'the California Oregon Power company each winter,
to. increase snowfall.
Another is the still-untested proposal of E. M.
Tucker of Medford for the creation of artificial gla
ciers. Use of chemicals to hasten or delay snow-melt
Tuesday. November 8. 1S56
citizen vote against me than
closed mountain highways
man, Arch Work, is one
Mindszenty Said Living Symbol
Of Resistance to Communists
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
A living symbol of resistance
to Communist oppression is liv
ing under the protection of the
1
American flag
in Hungary.
Members of
Hungarian
"Titoist" Pre
mier I m r e
Nagy's govern
ment are un
der arrest, vic
t i m s of the
treachery of
Cnsrles Mctann
their Hungar-
ian Communist puppets.
But Cardinal Mindszenty, Ro
man Catholic primate of Hun
gary, escaped to the United
States Legation when the Rus
sians crushed the Hungarian re
volt Sunday.
It looks as if the Russians will
not dare to do anything about it.
The only way they could get him
would be to take, him by force.
But as long as he remains in
the embassy the Russians and
Headlines of Future
Forecast by Writers
United Press correspondents
around the world look ahead
at the news that will make the
headlines.
Birth Report
Hints that the United States
now has a baby H-bomb may be
confirmed soon. It's indicated
that the potent pigmy, with an
explosive power of 40,000 tons
of TNT, was tested in the Pacific
last spring. "Normal" H-bombs
range into the millions of tons.
The baby bomb would be "clean
er" from the fall-out standpoint.
Also cheaper. The government
says it is making cleaner H
bombs. President Eisenhower
said in a speech in Jacksonville,
Fla., last Thursday that the aim
of atomic science is to make
small as well as clean bombs.
That describes the pigmy. Wash
ington looks for an official an
nouncement. Revival Notice
Russia's mad-dog attack on
Hungary may have saved the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion. NATO had been falling
slowly apart ever since Stalin
died as the danger of Soviet ag
gression seemed to lessen and the
Allies found time to bicker
among themselves. The Hung
arian attack shows with startling
clearness what a deadly threat
Red Russia still is to any coun
try that can not meet force with
force. NATO was formed to do
that. Nothing could be better
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The U.S. bureau of the census
estimates that this year 102 mil
lion Americans were qualified to
register to vote. That is to say, if
every American falling within
the prescribed age limitations,
nationality limitations and other
limitations prescribed by law
HAD REGISTERED the total
would reach approximately 102,
000,000. How many WILL vote?
Probably not more than 60 per
cent. That would be about 61,
000,000. TN 1954 (which was what we
call an "off-year" election,
meaning that it wasn't a Presi
dential election year) about 45
million Americans voted.
In 1952, which was a hotly
contested Presidential election,
61,251,244 Americans went to
the polls and cast their ballots.
In 1948, the Truman-Dewey
year, the total vote was a shade
over 46 millions.
nPHAT suggests a personal ques---
tion:
SHOULD I vote assuming
that I am physically able to do
so?
LET me suggest an answer:
NOT UNLESS YOU KNOW
WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE
VOTING FOE, AND WHY.
I can't help thinking that only
those who are willing to THINK
should vote.
has been tried. Mechanical "ridging" and fencing of
snow to control melt and runoff have been attempted,
with some degree of success.
TTHE growth of knowledge about timber manage-
ment offers possibilities for controlling snow
packs, too, by reducing the interception of snowfall
by ground-covering vegetation, reducing evaporation,
and for slowing melt.
Some species of vegetation have greater snow
holding properties than others. And, as Work said
in a report on these factors to the Society of American
Foresters last year, "A great deal more work should
be done to find the best pattern of timber cutting
and forest management for particular locations."
Much studying remains to be done, as Work em
phasizes. But because water is our most valuable
single resource, research is important.
The day may come when management of snow
packs will be not only possible, but imperative. E.A.
the puppets are not likely to
be very happy.
The gaunt, 64-year old cardi
nal, was arrested by the Commu
nists on the day after Christmas
in 1948.
Considered Red Enemy
He had long been considered
enemy No. 1 by the Hungarian
Reds.
Mindszenty was sentenced to
life imprisonment in February,
1949, as a traitor. He shocked
those who saw him at his trial
weak, trembling, hollow-eyed.
He "confessed" to the charges
against him he had been
starved, kept almost without
sleep, by his jailors.
Mindszenty knew months be
fore his arrest that the Commu
nists were out to get him. He had
warned Catholics in published
statements not to credit any
thing he might say if he were
arrested.
Mindszenty was held in pri
son for a long time, finally re
moved to "house arrest" in a
country home 20 miles north ol
calculated than the Hungarian
attack to revive NATO.
Higher Prices
Washington experts say retail
prices probably will be higher in
the first four or five months of
1957. Supplies will be a bit lower
in 1956. Marketing charges the
middle man's take are expect
ed to be higher. Little if any of
the rise will trickle down to the
farmer. Experts predict that
despite high prices, consumer ex
penditures for food and clothing
Communications
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Placer Mining Recalled
To the Editor: According to
the local mining history we gath
ered from the old time pros
pectors around 40 years ago,
along the Rogue river, the first
ground sluicing and long-tom
workings on the Rogue was done
by the early Chinese coolies who
began placering for gold in 1849-50-51
and '52. The Chinese were
dispersed later on, by the coming
of the early white settlers. Some
of the old Chinese "land marks"
are still in evidence where the
best diggings were found. The
source of placer gold began at
the site of Ray gold dam on the
Rogue. The facts told to this
writer by miners around Gold
Hill that in a six to eight hour
waiting period, for the reservoir
to fill with water after comple
tion, a dozen or so men with
gold pans would wash out from
$5 to $18 from each pan of
gravel taken just below the Ray
dam. We remember still, quite
well, when all the richer gravel
bars were mined along the Rogue
by young men of Gold Hill and
Rogue River, mining with home
made rockers, when work was
rather slack before the year
1917. One old timer in particular
mined steady just below the
county bridge, for nearly six
years, at town of Rogue River.
A distance of 45 miles from Ray
gold to Galice on the river below
Grants Pass, was a prospector's
hope of getting a "grub stake"
to promote higher ambitions in
the way of opening up a "pock
et" trace, or a quartz gold mine
somewhere in the nearby hills.
The depression years of 1933
when the Rogue was at lowest
water mark, proved the rich
ness of the Rogue by the many
rich crevices filled with nuggets
that were worked out by the
local citizens of Jackson and
Josephine counties. Rogue river
from Ray gold dam to Galice has
been a gold panning area for new
prospectors learning how to pan
gold for the past 100 years. The
Rogue river and it's many tribu
taries producing gold and traces,
will continue to be searched for
precious minerals by individuals
inclined to prospect. We are en
tirely opposed to any land re
strictions that would withdraw
the Rogue river from mining
purposes in the area from Ray
Budapest. Hungarian rebels
freed him and escorted him to
Budapest.
Titoists Quash Charges
The "Titoist" government
quashed all charges against the
cardinal. They admitted his con
viction had been fraudulent.
Janos Kadar, now Nagy's suc
cessor as puppet premier, made
the mistake of joining in the
action.
It was a tribute to the Protes
tant United States that the Ro
man Catholic cardinal sought
Asylum at the American lega
tion when the Russian Red army
crushed the rebellion.
It was one of the many blund
ers the Russians have made in
the surge of anti-Moscow now
anti-Communist revolt in east
ern Europe that they did not
manage to arrest Mindszenty.
The stern-looking, medium
sized prelate had shown long
before the Reds took him in
Hungary at the end of World
War II that he was an enemy
of Communism, and of oppres
sion of every kind.
will continue at high levels.
Dry-up Oh The Nile?
The flow of arms from Soviet
Russia to Egypt is likely to sub
side to a trickle soon or stop
entirely. Russia has been pouring
in planes, tanks, guns for
months. Estimates of their value
range into the hundreds of mil
lions of dollars. British and
French planes smashed President
Gamal Abdel Nasser's Russian
supplied MIG15 jet fighter
planes and Ilyushin bombers,
then turned against his tank and
artillery bases. The planes, tanks
and artillery Nasser used against
the Israelis didn't do so well
cither. Money is money even to
a Red and Nasser hasn't paid
for his arms.
She's Thankful
To the Editor: This is Novemb
er, the month to pause and count
our blessings and be thankful.
I would like to write a second
letter for your communications,
but with an entirely different
feeling than I had when I last
wrote. This time, instead of feel
ing cold and empty, I feel warm
and good within. Why? Because
I am thankful, and would like
to share a small portion with
you.
I am thankful that we still
have freedom of the press and
can express our views openly.
Next, thankful for our ' Public
Health Association and its peo
ple, like Janet Guches to whom
I directed my last letter, who
can call you and discuss calmly
and intelligently all inquiries,
doubts and suspicions, and
though each is still entitled to his
own opinion, can ask for your
help and any ideas or suggestions
for a better health program.
I am thankful too that all of
these questions arose and could
be clarified before the start of
the coming Christmas Seal Sale.
I learned that all of our Seal
money goes for a better health
program with the defeat of
gold dam in Jackson county
through all of Josephine county.
Access to any mining ground
that show mineral content
should belong to all the people
as a matter of right. Thus pre
serve the heritage of a vanish
ing adventurer of the early west,
lest we forget.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman
Medford, Ore.
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DOUBLE PARALYSIS
Washington Both Washing
ton and Moscow have reacted to
the great crises which have con
fronted them
with a sort of
amazed semi
paralysis. I n
W a shington's
case, this is
not surprising.
In Moscow's,
it is.
Indeed, what
has really puz-
joieDb aisod zled and sur
prised and fascinated the ex
perts is the curious, shifting, on-again-off-again
reaction of the'
Kremlin to the direct challenge
to its power in Poland and Hun
gary. In the past, Kremlin's
practice has been to adopt a hard
"line," and then to follow it with
automaton-like
ruthlessness . .
Yet in both
Poland and
Hungary the
Kremlin has
vacillated be
tween a poli,cy
of using the
full power of
the -Red- army
to crush all
opposition, and a policy of blus
ter, appeasement, and retreat.
When Krushchev '.led his mis
sion to Warsaw, he threatened
at first to use the Red army. But
when Gomulka stood up to him,
he blustered,- appeased, and re
treated. In Hungary, Soviet pol
icy has similarly wavered be
tween giving the rebels what
they wanted, and drowning
them in a bloodbath. The Krem
lin may now at last have settled
for the bloodbath. Yet the long
period of indecision and vacilla
tion is accounted highly signifi
cant among the .experts. For it
tells a lot about certain bard,
inescapable facts of Soviet life.
INHERE is not the slightest
doubt that both the 'ferocity
and the effectiveness of the Pol
ish and especially the Hungar
ian resistance genuinely amazed
the Russian rulers. In this ab
solutely unexpected situation,
the "committee system" in the.!
Kremlin, which had worked
well enough before, began to dis
play the indecision and infernal
division which are characteristic
of committee systems. The ex
perts, while they lack .solid evir
dence, have no doubt at all that
a fierce internal conflict has de
veloped within the Kremlin's
"collective leadership."
But the meaning oi the Krem
lin's semi-paralysis goes deeper
than that. It js directly related
to the two continuing internal
crises which have been going on
in the Soviet Union since the
war. One is an agricultural cri
sis. The other is a manpower
crisis.
The nature of the agricultural
crisis can be quickly understood
in terms of the following simple
fact: fifty-four million people on
the Soviet collectives produce
only 70 per cent of' the agricul
tural output of the eight million
people on American farms. And
this 70 per cent must feed almost
30 per cent more people.
r"pHE vast over-investment in
x manpower on the collectives
in turn contributes to the man-
tuhprriilncis ac Ite 0nal
I plan to show my thankfulness
by supporting the Seal Sale when
the time comes, and I hope yqu
will too.
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Medford, Ore.
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power crisis. .For0undQ- the So
viet system, there simply aij( not
enough people to man the cgl-
at the same time to maint,Wn the
continual expansion of Soviet in
dustry which is the central ob
ject of Sovitft interna (policy. Q
The manpower crisis, inflre-
over, is now about to enter an
acute phase. For the "shadc
classes," thec generation orfi in
the war years, i now matt
ing. And the war, by cfeat6 and
starvation, cut the birth rate of-,
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the snaaow classes dv inore
then half. DThus by 58 r J99
the Soviet rnsnpfiver problem
will be really desperate.
Facts like these, rather Wan
any new found idealism, explain
both the regime s decision tout
dowi on military manpower and
to adopt a "liberalization" policy
towards fhe satellites. "Liberal
ization" was designed to permit
a partial- dismantlingf the vast
satellite apparatus of flr" im
perial control, thus freeijg man
power for industry. q
Yet now that the liberalization
policy has backfired so Explo
sively, the Soviet leaders are i
paled on the hbrns f a terrible
dilemma. For a policy ruth
less repression rrsjans an enor-
nfou in-ea3 in the apparatus
of control, including the RecJ)
army; he precise cPPpSsite of
what t.e hard facts of the Soviet
situation require. O
IT wofilci also mean that the
delicate balance between the
three main Centers of Soviet
power the party, the bureauc
racy, "and the military would '
be in f.or of the mslitary This
is another reasgidwhy WelCrem
lin's .collective leadefe'iip has
been so reluctant to order Mar
shal Zhukoy's troops todrown
the satellite oresistance in a
bloodbath. For tue bac.vash of
the bloodbath might reach back
to the men in the Krefhlin them
selves, destroying tfie collefcve
aaderthip and replacing it with
a military dictatorship.
Altogether, the' satellitresist
aiace, above all tf.- fierce and
wonSerful courage of the Hun-o
garian people, hs basically alt
ered, the world ituation, in a
way that i has not IjeeS altered
even by the invasion of Egypt.
This basic change in the world
situation calls for a basic res!Qp
ing of Western policy. Sut for
tunately for the Soviets, the par-
alyzing crisis which icis thenr
has been rftalf fied by an eqj3lly
paralyzing crisis the West.
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