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History from the tiles of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Fab. 1. 1947 (Saturday)
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce adopts policy of neu
trality in labor disputes in this
area.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The legis
lature is still deliberating, de
liberatively, and the demise of
the august body is not in sight.
SO YEARS AGO
Fab. I. 1937 (Monday)
Building permits valued at
$16,600 are issued during Janu
ary, a 300 per cent increase over
last year, according to City
Building Inspector Frank Rog
ers. Several camps of the Medford
CCC district are out of commu
nication with headquarters be
cause of disruption of telephone
service.
30 YEARS AGO
Fab. 1. 1927 (Tuesday)
No additional information is
available in connection with bill
passed by legislature; moving
county seat from Jacksonville to
Medford.
L. J. Cross, city councilman
and captain of the local Nation
al Guard, leaves for Ft. Benning,
Ga., for three months, military
course.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 1. 1917 (Thursday)
Germany's avowal to renew
unrestricted warfare on the seas
causes convulsion in stock mar
ket City council to readvertise for
bids on the refunding bond is
sue of $825,000.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nthe or ten correct Is snperlor; sev
en or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good.
1. Was Osceola, the famous
Seminole chief, captured In
Georgia or Florida?
2. Mrs. Mary A. (Evans) Lewes
authored the novel m "Adam
Bebe." under what pseudonym?
3. Bible: Which king had 700
wives?
4. Did Gershwin, Rubinstein,
or Mozart compose "Melodv in
F"?
5. The major political subdi
visions in Switzerland are called
what?
8. Which of the earth's contin
ents is largest in area?
7. Which sculptor carved the
gre statue of Moss?
8. Monrovia is the capital of
which African country?
9. Are "ride" and "drive." in
the general sense of travel, in
terchangeable? 10. "Joy and Temperance and
Repose. Slam the door on the
doctor's nose." Longfellow.
Did he refer to health or a fee?
Answers: 1. Florida (St. Augus
tine. 1837): 2. George Eliot; 3.
Solomon; 4. Rubinstein: 5. Can
tons; 6. Asia; 7. Michael Angelo;
8. Liberia; 9. No: 10. Health.
Portland (U.PJ The Oregon
Committee for Hungarian Refu
gees will end its program of
bringing Hungarians to Oregon
about Feb. 15.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Goodbye to Trees
Hooray, hooray, citizens of Medford. We have
something new to rejoice about.
It's a brand new billboard which has been erected
on the parking lot next to the Southern Pacific station.
Isn't that dandy?
And just guess 'hat used to be in the spot where
the billboard is going up? And old tree, that's al&
It was the last of the grove which once made Medj
ford's trackside area an attractive spot, instead of a
drab and bleak expanse of gravel and asphalt.
The First National Bank chopped most of them
down. Now the SP takes the-last one the last sur
vivor.
THIS, of course, is all -in the name of progress. And
far be it from the billion-dollar Southern Pacific
to stand in the way of progress, after all they've done
for this area.
"A tree? It was diseased anyway. So chop it down
and put up a billboard that may bring in a few dollars
a month."
(The city of New York, that retarded backwater
of sloth and decadence, is spending upward of $90,
000 this month to plant 1,000 trees along Third ave
nue, after the old Elevated was torn down. How
quaint they are, aren't they?)
We just hope the local representatives of that
cotton-pickirf, two-bit, two-toot railroad get driven
so crazy by protests that they'll tear down the bill
board with their bare haids. E.A.
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Upgrading Recreation '
There is good reason to hope that, at long last,
the National Forests' recreational responsibilities will
be backed by congress with what they need the
dollars and cents to do the job the Forest Service
has long wanted to do.
Interest on this need has been growing steadily
ever since the war.
Briefly, the situation is that the forests' major
recreation areas, mostly forest camps, were con
structed by the CCC during the depression of the 30si
Since that time, either congressional unwillingness
or the war prevented adequate maintenance, let alone
new construction. 0
o
AFTER the war, however, a greatly increasing popu
lnfi An rcr of ni nm nnvira lrtici n t- i wi r rvMsO
automobiles, and bfgger
checks, resulted in 331 influx of people seeking recrea
tion in the forest the like of which has never been
seen before.
(In 1950, there were 27,368,000 such visitors; by
1955 the total was 45,713,000. In Oregon the total
climbed from 1,778,000 in 1950 to 3,221,000 in 1955.)
These millions of people, coupled with deteriorat
ing and unenlarged facilities, resulted in "sylvan
slums," in dissatisfaction by forest patrons, and by
increasing pressure on congress to do something
about it.
THE Forest Service has always been aware of this
need, and has been anxious to do something about
it. And this year, it has completed "preparation of a
long-range plan, called "Operation Outdoors." It is
roughly comparable to the "Mission 66" which gives
such good promise for the future for the National
Parks. u
The recreation budget for the Forest Service for
the current fiscal year is about double that of last
year's, but it still isn't adequate to do the job which
needs to be done. 0
"Operation Outdoors" provides for a five-year
program with an ultimate cost of some $85,000,000,
of which $11,500,000 is asked for the coming fiscal
year.
This is, unquestionably, a lot of money. But recrea
tional use of the forests has nearly doubled in five
years, and the Forest Service expects it to rise to 66,
000,000 per year by 1962, and to 80,000,000 by 1966.
Something has got to be done to get ready for these
citizens and taxpayers who are, after all, the owners
of the forests.
IF it isn't done, the threat to the forests would be
terrific. For if there are no facilities, people will
find or hack out their wn, resulting in more forest
fires, stream pollution, and other f orms of irreparable
damage to these resources.
Senator Watkins of Utah has also introduced a
bill to provide for a bipartisan fact-finding commis
sion on recreation needs, multiple use of the forests,
and the extent to which states, local governments
and (private industry can be expected to cooperate.
Rep. Metcalf of Montana has introduced a bill
which would ear-mark up to 10 per cent of National
Forest receipts for improvement of recreational
facilities. 0
There have been other measures introduced, or
studied, to improve the situation. Meanwhile, we hope
the congress will go along with the careful plans of
the Forest Service as outlined in "Operation Out
doors." It's a start.
DERHAPS, in closing, it would be well to point out
that all this emphasis on the recreational aspects
of the National' Forests will in fio way threaten the
other valid and important uses of the forests. It is
merely to bring into focus
use which has been neglected too long, forestry,
timber sales, land management, grazing, watershed
protection these will remain as vital functions of
the service.
The objective is contained in the slogan, "The
greatest good for the greatest number over the longest
period of tune. L.A-
Friday. February 1, 1957
average take-home pay
this one phase of forest
King Saud's Visit, Eisenhower
Doctrine Vote, Top Week's News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The week's big news in the
foreign affairs field centered in
Washington.
King Saud of Saudi Arabia,
whose country is one of the
world's chief sources of the oil
which is the life blood of mod
ern industry, paid a state visit
to President Eisenhower.
The new Eisenhower Doctrine
for the Middle East, which was
one of the topics for Saud's con
versations in Washington, passed
the first, of its two stages through
Congress.
In Communist Europe, (the
cfiief development was "the in
creasing harshness of trg puppet
regime in Hungary. It was made
clear that Russia believes its
only hope of keeping the re
bellious people in subjection is
to resort to open oppression.
King Saud
President Eisenhower paid
King Saud the unusual honor of
going personally to the National
Airport in Washington to wel
come him.
The importance of the beard
ed, robed, turbanned king in the
Arab world is rivalled only by
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
of Egypt.
On the program for discussion
by King Saud with the President
and Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles were the EiseEhower
Doctrine, NJfcser's dangerous
Friendship with Soviet Russia
and the great American air base
at Ihahran in Saudi Arabia.
Doctrine
The House of Representatives,
after extensive committee hear
ings, approved the Eisenhower
Doctrine by a vote of 355 to 61.
Under the doctrine, the United
States would use force if neces
sary to oppose armed Commu
nist aggression in the Middle
World of the future note:
The air force wants to know
what will happen to a pilot if
he has to bail out at 90,000 feet
(17 miles) up. So Air Force Cap
tain Neilsen is going to try it
out. At some time in the not too
distant future he is going to
take to his parachute at an alti
tude of 17 miles which is a
region of blue-black night and
numbing cold that reaches down
to 70 degrees below zero.
At 17 miles up, air pressure
is so low that an UNPROTECT
ED man's blood could BOIL
AWAY in a matter of seconds.
CAPTAIN NEILSEN, of course,
will be given every protec
tion that modern science can
devise. Much experimenting has
already been done along that
line. Dummies that duplicate as
nearly as possible a human body
have been tossed out of planes
at that altitude. They carry sensi
tive instruments that record ex
actly what happens to them as
they drop into the eternal night
of space 90,000 feet above the
earth.
All the protective equipment
that can be devised out of the
knowledge gained from these ex
periments will be provided be
fore he makes his jump. But the
whole story can't be told by man-
made robots.
Before what will happen can
be known, some living human
being must try it out. Captain
Neilsen has volunteered to make
the trial.
I7HY must the experiment be
marie'
Well, the air force says it
must know how to make escape
safer IN AN EB0 IN WHICH
PLANES MAY TRAVEL ROU
TINELY 17 MILES ABOVE THE
EARTH.
TORE modern world stuff:
m Thp TT. S. government savs
nuclear weapon production is
EXPANDNG SO FAST that a
multi-million dollar plant ex
pansion program is needed.
The atomic energy commis
sion's semi-annual report, which
has just been issued, says the
commission has stockpiled nu
clear fuel and explosives at a
record rate during the past six
months.
Moscow papers please copy.
A T his press conference this
week. President Eisenhower
describes as "very unwise" De
fense Secretary Wilson's draft-
dodging statement about the Na
tional Guard. Ike tells the Wash
ington reporters that the men
who joined the National Guard
could not $ave been slackers
when they enlisted under proper
provisions of the law.
He added that he doesn't be
lieve the secretary of defense
wanted to damage the National
Guard but "crtainly made a very
unwise statement without stop
ping to think."
THERE can be little doubt by
this time that while "Engine
Charley" Wilson is a good man
he shoots off his mouth far too
often and far too readily.
I sometimes think a deaf mute
would be the ideal cabinet mem-bar.
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
East and would spend $200 mil
lion on special aid projects to
strengthen Middle Eastern coun
tries against Communist subversion.
The doctrine now goes to the
Senate for approval.
Hungary
Hungarian puppet Premier
Janos Kadar announced that he
intended to exert strict control
over the fiabor unions whose
members played the leading part
in the rebellion which broke out
in October.
Babson Sees Farmers'
Future as Improving
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. Recent
developments in American agri
culture lead me to believe that
the longer
term outlook
for our farm
ers is begin
ning to change
for the better.
While I see
nothing really
dram atic in
the shif ting
picture, I do
forecast that
Roger W. Babson
the years immediately ahead
will be somewhat happier ones
for the "folks down on the
farm."
The farmers', as well as the
government's, present agricul
tural problem stems from years
of mounting surpluses, particu
larly of cotton, wheat, and corn.
War emergency measures were
adopted by the government to
stimulate farm production, and
to safeguard farmers from price
drops resulting from any exces
sive output. Finally these meas
ures became such an integral
part of the whole economic (and
political) system that they were
continued during the postwar
years. By intensive cultivation,
farmers have been producing
bumper crops year after year,
even on reduced acreage in
some instances, with the sur
plus being siphoned into gov
ernment loans.
As of last June 30, Uncle Sam
had around $8,300,000,000 of
the taxpayers' money tied up
in loans on farm surpluses.
Huge quantities of cottpn and
wheat have been piliid t'P in
recent years. Total carryover
stocks of the white staple at the
beginning of the current crop
year last Aug. 1 amounted to a
record high of 14,500,000 bales
more than enough to cover
a year's domestic consumption
and exports at the 1956 rate of
disappearance. Most of this
mountainous reserve was in gov
ernment hands. A similar situa
tion prevails in wheat. The car
ryover last July 1 amounted to
around 1,030,000,000 bushels
also mostly government held.
Remedial Measures
The various acreage controls
applied to some important crops
in recent years have been
stymied by sharp increases in
per-acre yields. Thus, surpluses
have continued to mount. The
Soil Bank program, however,
which was first applied in a
more or less limited way last
year, may well prove to be a
major means of checking the
build-up of farm surpluses in
government hands over the next
several years. Under this pro
gram, the government compen
sates growers for acreage of
basic crops taken out of produc
tion. The program will be m
full swing this year and, if a
large number of farmers sign
up, as I expect, total 1957 plant
ed acreage should be cut
sharply.
More immediately effective,
at least in the case of cotton,
is the government's export as
sistance program, which permits
exporters to buy cotton from the
government hoard at cut-raie
prices. Foreign buyers are find
ing these prices attractive. This
is evidenced by the fact that
U.S. cotton exports thus far this
season are weU above those of
a year earlier, and may amount
to between 6,500,000 and 7,000,-
000 bales for the full season.
This would be nearly triple the
2,200,000 bales exported in 1953
1956, and the largest total in
any season since 1933. If this
prospect should be realized, the
cotton carryover next Aug. 1
may be reduced to the tune of
some 2,400,000 bales a major
achievement.
Remedies or ExpadianisT
Indications are that the gov
ernment will continue to make
every possible effort to reduce
its holdings of cotton, corn, and
wheat. As to whether this pro
gram, along with the Soil Bank,
will provide an adequate long
term solution to the farm prob
lem, I do not know. Many farm
ers, and even some government
officials, regard these various
programs as only temporary ex
pedients, rather than as basic
remedial measures. However, I
believe that they are steps in
the right direction. We are turn
ing the corner in agricultural
surpluses. The government, how
ever, will always be wise to
have some supplies in case of
war or famine.
The problem, of course, can
not be solved overnight. Years
may be required to bring the
Kadar was reported to have
started to restore "Stalinist"
Communists those who op
pose any liberalization to the
posts they held before the re
bellion. Also in Washington during
King Saud's visit was Duncan
Sandys, secretary for defense in
the new British government of
Prime Minister Harold Macmil
lan. He discussed British-American
cooperation in defense mat
ters, especially in the field of
guided missiles.
over - all supply - demand ratio
into reasonable balance. The
Soil Bank program, which ex
pires in 1959, probably will
need renewal. It may even be
come a more or less permanent
part of the government's farm
program, along with some form
of federal price support.
U.S. farmers, by and large,
are industrious and Godfearing.
While they will continue to have
their ups and downs, like the
rest of us, during the years
immediately ahead, they should
average out very well. For this
year, I forecast another moder
ate rise in net farm income.
Editorial
Comment
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FREEWAY ROUTE
Rerouting of Highway 99
through or by Medford stirred
up a great deal of local contro
versy. Various routes were pro
posed and discussed with the
local people, but each location
ran into objections. Finally the
highway commission hit on what
is called the Hawthorne line.
which according to the Medford
Mail-Tribune will "impair the
beauty and attractiveness of
Hawthorne park." The M-T also
points out that in running the
highway through the heart of
the city (much of the way on
stilts) it violates the newer idea
of avoiding the congested dis
tricts. Highway 99 is being re
designed to bypass Albany and
Eugene just at is now does
Salem. Seems too bad to cut
through Medford as proposed
though the location does spare
the pear orchards that border
the city. Oregon Statesman,
Salem.
OREGON'S THREATENED
BEACHES
Don't do it!
This is The Journal's urgent
recommendation to the Oregon
legislature concerning the pro
posal of the state highway com
mission to turn administration
of the Oregon shore lands over
to the state land board. A bill
to this end has just been intro
duced.
Take counsel with former
Gov. Oswald West, under whose
administration the shore lands
high to low water mark
were designated as a public high
way. Gov. West suggests that
the state land board with this
proposed authority would have
the "disposal of the shore lands.
Such "disposal" is just what
Oregon people do not want.
During four decades, due to
the bold and far-visioned action
taken in Gov. West's time, the
people of Oregon, represented
by the. highway commission,
have had use, enjoyment and
control of some 300 miles of
shore lands along the Oregon
coast.
Partly because of this fact, the
coast is threaded with a series
of state parks, some of them
magnificent, all of them recrea
tional assets.
If you wish by comparison
a concept of the value of these
shore lands, look at California.
There $20,000,000 is being spent,
$10,000,000 by the state, $10,
000,000 by abutting counties,
to obtain fragmentary parcels
of ocean shore in order to pro
Are
225 E.
Today and
By Walter
CONCERNING OFFICIAL
VISITS
For reasons of high policy,
the President invited King Saud
to visit Washington. For the
same kind of
reason he
would like to
invite Presi
dent Tito. But
the Mayor of
New York City
who, according
to the routine,
is the first to
receive and
waiter Lippmann greet foreign
dignitaries when they land in
tHis country, has refused to
greet King Saud and he has an
nounced that he will not greet
President Tito.
The State Department has
dealt with this problem by tak
ing over from the City of New
York the 'business of receiving
and greeting foreign dignitaries.
As far as it goes, this is the sen
sible and indeed the only thing
to do. For there is no doubt that
the Mayor of the City of New
York cannot be allowed to de
cide how cordial or how frigid
shall be the first reception to
foreigners whom the President
has decided to invite to this
country.
BUT to say this, does not dis
nnsp of thA nrnhlpm whirh
is posed when for reasons of
policy the Administration wishes
to invite a visitor who is not
popular in this country. How,
we may ask ourselves, did the
State Department ever get itself
into the position where it could
be embarrassed by the Mayor of
New York City? The answer is.
I think, that there is a custom
now taken too easily for granted,
which originated in our age of
vide access on the part of the
public.
On the Atlantic coast the situ
ation is worse. There private
ownership and control set up
an almost complete toll system
when people wish to reach the
ocean shore.
Designation as a highway of
the ocean foreshore on the Ore
gon coast has its military signi
ficance. Under state highway
administration, public use and
developments have been vir
tually uninterrupted.
We don t want to point a
finger of doubt or suspicion at
the state land board as now
constituted. But the record
which is now state history re
veals what happened to Ore
gon's school lands when the
state land board had "disposal"
of them. Oregon was mulcted.
In Washington, more prudent
and faithful administration of
state school lands produced
values that helped build the
great and beautiful capital struc
tures of that state.
The highway commission may
feel that administration of the
shore lands is a headache, we
sympathize with the commission
and its many duties, out mou
sands of people who go to the
coast get rid of their headaches,
their weariness and their wor
ries. If there is confusion in
laws, clear them up. But do
not endanger the public value
of the shore lands.
Let the legislature, its mem
bers elected to represent the
public interest, turn thumbs
down on a proposal which might
turn into a sellout. Oregon
Journal, Portland.
Tryouis Scheduled for
Life Saving Course
Tryouts for the Medford
YMCA Junior Boy Scout life
saving will start Tuesday, Feb.
5, for boys between 12 and 16
years old.
An advanced degree of swim
ming ability is necessary for the
course, officials said. The course,
when -completed, will qualify
those who pass for life saving
merit badges and for assistant
life guards in addition to giving
the necessary skills for assisting
people in water.
RAM
Coming to
6th St Medford Phone 3
Tomorrow
Lippmann
innocence, in the time now long
past, when our visitors all came
from countries with which our
people had a natural and spon
taneous sympathy.
The existing routine grew up
during the first World War
when our important visitors
were by definition, at least in
the Eastern cities, popular fig
ures. No one else was invited.
And of course no one else came.
It could be taken for granted
that the visitors would have a
popular ovation in New York be
fore they went on to Washing
ton to transact official business.
THUS a popular ovation be
came, so to speak, a reouire-
ment in an official visit by a
high dignitary. We can see how
true this is in the case of Presi
dent Tito, who is saying that he
will not come to Washington at
all if he does not receive the full
conventional public treatment.
He will feel that he is badly
treated if his visit is limited to
a few days in Washington and
is not accompanied by a popu
lar reception.
This is embarrasing to the
State Department. But the de
partment is responsible for cre
ating the teeling that a visit is
less than a visit if it is not also
a great demonstration of affec
tion and good will. Beginning
with the first World War, the
notion has gradually taken root
over here that these visits do
not merely register good will
that already exists but that they
can be used to create good will
in almost any country.
A visit, it has come to be
thought, could be used to im
press even the most skeptical of
the great men of the outer world
with the might and with the
friendliness of our people. A rit
ual was thus designed for the
treatment of dignitaries whose
good will was to be won. There
are variants. But almost always
the ritual has begun with a kind
of triumphal ride up lower
Broadway to City Hall during
which the visitor receives his
popular ovation.
THERE is no way to measure
how successful is the ritual.
But it would be fair to say that
among dignitaries from the un
committed nations of Asia and
of Africa, its success has been
very modest indeed. Some of
these dignitaries have been un
favorably impressed by the ex
cesses of the effort to impress
them.
. A dubious feature of these
visits, as they have come to be
organized, is that one visit gets
itself compared with another,
often on the basis of how big and
how demonstrative are the
crowds, rather like a popular
ity rating in the television in
dustry. THIS brings us back to Mayor
Wagner. According to the
ritual, if the President invites
King Saud or President Tito,
Mayor Wagner is supposed to
produce a popular ovation for
them on lower Bradway. But, as
we are now seeing, this ritual
will not work for visitors
against whom there is strong
popular feeling in this country.
The cure for this embarrass
ment is not to call off the visits.
The cure is to get rid of the
idea that an official visit is also
an occasion for propaganda and
for a popular demonstration.
There is no use pretending that
everybody we have to deal witli
in the outer world is naturally
beloved by the American people
or that he is prepared to be
made to faU in love with us.
Official visits should be
treated as official visits, and on
the strict understanding that
their purpose is official business
with the popular demonstra
tions, if any, entirely incidental
and indeed unorganized.
(C) New York Herald Tribune Ine.
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