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'History from the files ol The
Mali Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 'years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1947 (Thunder)
Discussion of most significant
events of 1946 highlight dinner
of Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce. '
Frorn Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudgr rot column: "NUDE
3 MAN HELD FOR OBSERVA
TION." (Headline Eustace
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20 YEARS IGO
Feb. 6, 1937 (Saturday)
The state encampment of the
United Spanish War Veterans
will fcecfield July 9-12 In Med
ford. .
R. S. FurW of Phoenix re
elected president of the Dead In
dian Stockmen's association.
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30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6. 1927 (Sunday)
Pilot Miller.of Pacific Air
Transport, flies mail plane be
tween Medford and Portland in
1 hour, 40 minutes.
' Southern Oregon Bar associa
tion of Jackson and Josephine
counties meet at the Medford
hotel.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1917 (Tuesday)
Fred N. Cummings. county
water master, reports there are
475 irrigation ditches on the
O Rogue river and. its tributaries
of which almost none have
screens to pPotect fish.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Southern Pacific will
ttart paving operations on the
station grounds late this week.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct l tnpertor; ev
en or elcht U ncellent: tin or
six Is rood
O l. Did Jedidiah Morse, pub
lisher of the first geography of
the U.S. (1789), also invent the
telegraph,
2. Is the Ivory Coast in Afri
ca or Asia?
3) Bible. Did Jesus know be
for his last feast of the Pass
over that he was sooft to depart
from the earth?
4. The wife of the mannikin
Punch. Judy, is sometimes called
"Joan"; true or false?
5. Is 'Dane's Fighting Ships"
a naval annual or a tale of fic
tion? 6. The thistle is the national
emblem of which country?
7. The scientific name for a
mercy killing is e a?
8. U.S. submarines are named
for what kind of animals?
9. What are reputable phrases
for the colloquialisms "he's no
account" and "no use"?
10. "Now he lives in Abra
ham's bosom . . J For what other
plse is there such a soul." St.
Augustine. What does "Abra
ham's soul" mean?'
Answers: 1. No. 2. Africa. 3.
Yes. 4. True. 5. Naval annual.
6. Scotland. 7. Euthanasia. 8.
Fish. 9. He's no good"; and "use
less". 10. Heaven.
BAKERIES CLOSING
Tokyo CU.R) Some 3.000 bak
eries and 37,000 bread shops
throughout Japan have closed
down since last summer because
people are shifting from bread
back to a rice diet, the National
firead Makers' association said
today.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Air Pollution
It won't be long before the sm (beg pardon!!)
orchard heating season is here again.
This, coupled with the view of Roxy Ann from
the office window, which at the moment shows the
top of that attractive hill almost obscured by haze,
makes us think of "air pollution."
Another instructive sight is to drive to the upper
reaches of the Green Springs grade, or the Siskiyou
highway, and then gaze back down the valley toward
Medford. It has an almost constant overlay of smoke,
or haze, or smog, or whatever you want to call it.
e
THIS problem is worse than it used to be. Despite
the efforts of some lumber companies to develop
more efficient burners for their wood waste, it doesn't
appear to be getting any better.
On the other hand, it has seemed to us the last
couple of early springtimes that the orchard heaters
have spewed out a slightly less obnoxious accumula
tion of smudge smoke than formerly. Some of the
orchardists have gone to great expense to experiment
with "smokeless" oil heaters, and with various types
of wood-waste fuels and with some limited success.
THERE are two ways of going about conquering air
pollution. One is for those, who pollute the air
to do voluntarily everything they can do (or afford to
do) to eliminate it from their operations. The other
is for the government (state or local) to step in and
insist that it be done.
The third alternative is to do nothing, and wind
up like Los Angeles, where "smog conditions" are
part of the daily weather forecast. (There are some
people who say we're nearly there already, and that
the danger potential is worse, because of the bowl
like valley in which we live.)
Of course, it's not exactly as neat and simple as
this three-way choice. There are other factors, like
motor vehicle exhaust fumes. (We understand some
doctors are acutely aware of a real danger here, and
one of them wonders what will be the results of ex
haust gases drifting downward from the proposed
Hawthorne park freeway.)
DUT little can be done, with bur present knowledge,
about such hazards. Much can be done about the
major smog-producer, which is industrial burning
(plus, seasonally, orchard heaters).
And as the industrial hazards increase, so does
the legitimate concern of government.
The state's sanitary authority has long worked
on water pollution, with some degree of success, but
its hand in air pollution is a relatively new departure,
and has been limited pretty much to conducting tests
and outlining areas of responsibility.
But it has come up with four governing policies,
as follows:
1. Preserve and encourage local autonomy on matters
of air pollution control to the extent that cities shall be ex
pected to carry on local control programs wherever feasible
and practical with such technical assistance and advice
from the Air Pollution Authority as may be necessary and
possible.
2. Cooperate with cities in the furtherance of local air
pollution control programs.
3. Collect and disseminate information to cities on the
prevention and control of air pollution.
4. Administer the control of air pollution sources beyond
the city boundaries in cooperation with the municipal prob
lems. A LARGE number of the sources of air pollution
in the Rogue valley are outside of any city limits,
and thus are not readily susceptible to municipal con
trol. So No. 4 above presumably places the responsi
bility, in this case, with the state.
In the case of an "area problem," however, the
state at present is limited to allocating responsibility
to the various individuals contributing to the over
all problem. It may take legislation to give it greater
authority before it would be in a position to be of
any great help.
But, of course, the best time to correct the situa
tion is now, before it gets any worse. And it seems
to us the plants responsible have two reasons for
doing so: (1) A moral responsibility to the commun
ity, and (2) the fact that if it isn't done now, volun
tarily, it will be forced on them sooner or later, likely
at much greater cost.
THE standards adopted by the state permit a "fall
out" of up to 15 tons (yes, 15 TONS) per square
mile per month in residential and commercial areas,
and ranging upward to 45 tons per month in heavy
industrial areas.
We have not yet seen the figures for Medford,
resulting from tests taken more than a year ago, but
suspect that some areas would exceed the tolerances
listed in the state standards.
It's an unscientific test, but if you'll leave a car
parked outdoors in downtown Medford for a couple
of days, particularly in foggy weather, and then run
a "white glove" inspection, you might be amazed
at the dirt just plain dirt you'll find on your
gloves. E.A.
Beer Goes Up
This is the latest report on that new billboard the
S.P. allowed to be put up on the spot where the last,
lonely maple tree stood a week ago.
Well, the billboard company has put up the bill
board, and the signs went up on it yesterday.
One side advertises one kind of beer. The other
side advertises another kind of beer.
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Wednesday. February 6. 1957
Today and
By Walter
THE SCHOOL CRISIS
In our own home affairs the
President has given top priority
to the proposal that Congress
grant t eaerai
aid to states in
order to build
public schools.
The case for
this Federal
aid rests on
the hard fact
that since the
war the num
ber of children
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ready for
schools has grown much faster
than has the construction ot
school rooms in which to teach
them.
This year the enrollment in
our schools exceeds their nor
mal capacity by more than two
million children. This means
over-cro-vding in the class rooms
to the point where great num
bers of children are being de
nied a decent education. This
denial is in the true sense of
the term an emergency. For
when a child misses an educa
tion, the loss cannot be repaired
easily later on. Children who
do not receive a decent educa
tion when they are of school
age are almost certain to go
through life without having had
a decent education.
THE critical shortage in class
rooms cannot fairly be attri
buted to a failure of the states
and localities to meet their re
sponsibilities. Here and there no
doubt there are such failures.
But the total effort made by
the states and localities is im
pressive. During the past year
they have built 63,000 new
class rooms. This is a record,
particularly when compared
with 10 years ago when the rate
of construction was 9,000 an
nually. Yet this large number
will not be enough even to re
place class rooms that have be
come obsolete and unusable and
to provide for the new enroll
ments, which are increasing
each year. Just to stand still
urhore wp are. there are needed
all the classrooms that have
been built this year, in tne
meantime, against the total ef
forts of the local authorities,
there is a backlog deficit of
150,000 class rooms.
In a recent publication of the
Department of Commerce it was
estimated that for school con
struction four billion dollars
would be needed annually for
the next 10 years. This would
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lication must not exceed 400 words.
Agrees With Secretary Wilson
To the Editor: I just finished
reading the article "Draft Dodg
er Would Be 'Fool' To Join Na
tional Guard," by Capt. Fagone.
Somehow I can't quite agree,
because countless numbers of
eligible men stayed out of active
service of their country by join
ing the Guard.
While it is true that some
Guard divisions were activated,
only two divisions ended up in
Korea, and it took 15 long
months to get them in condition
to fight. I know because I was
drafted and assigned to the Okla
homa National Guard, and it
was supposed to be one of the
better trained National Guard
Units. We had 18-year-old ser
geants trying to train us that
had earned their stripes by
going to every meeting, or their
Dad was a good friend of the
Company Commander.
I was glad to see Secretary
Wilson come out with his state
ment, because I'm sure there
are many people, particularly
ex-service men, that agree with
him.
Ernest B. Smith,
328 Mary st.,
Medford, Ore.
Spars The Farms
To the Editor: In regards to
the Freeway through Medford, I
would like to make a few re
marks. Of course I know that you
can't please every one regard
less of route. But it seems to me
that it is about time the people
in the cities give some serious
thinking to the plight the farm
ers are in. We are losing one
million acres per year, most
often the best and most fertile
land, to roads, airports and
dwelling sites.
I realize that a person does
not like to have their home re
moved or razed, but it is much
easier to find a new home site
than it is to find a new farm.
Most farm land can be bought
for $1,000 per acre down to S100,
but that is not the value per acre
to the public. The public should
value the land for what it is ca
pable of producing for the next
hundred, two hundred, or thou
sand years.
If they looked at it this way,
they would see it as a soil con
servationist does. Then I think
they would hesitate a little be
fore they proposed taking our
best soil for roads and building
sites.
C. W. Jensen,
Rt. 1, Box 45,
Rogue River, Ore.
Tomorrow
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mean that the rate of expendi
ture would have to rise 60 per
cent over the current level,
which is 2.6 billions. This in
crease would be a rise of 1.4
billions a year. The President
is asking the Federal govern
ment to contribute less than one
quarter of this amount annual
ly, hoping that by compelling
the states to match the Federal
grants, the whole need can be
met. The administration offer to
set up a fund of 750 millions,
to purchase school bonds does
not relieve the states and local
communities from raising most
of the money to pay for the new
schools. It is only a loan de
signed to protect them against
having to pay very high inter
est rates.
"rpHE need," said the Presi
dent in his message last week
"for Federal assistance in elim
inating this shortage is not
theory, but demonstrated fact.
It cannot now be said realis
tically that the states and
communities will meet the
need. The class room shortage
has been apparent for a number
of years, and the states and
communities have notably in
creased their school-building ef
forts. Each year, for several
years, they have set a new rec
ord in school construction. And
yet in the face of a vast ex-
pansion in enrollments eacR
year, many areas are making iri-
adequate progress in reducing
the shortage."
Yet the President's proposals
face formidable obstacles in
Congress. There- are those who
on the principle of state's rights
object to any Federal action in
relation to the public schools.
There are Catholic taxpayers
who feel that the parochial
schools should not be excluded
from Federal aid. There are the
Negro politicians, led by Rep
resentative Powell of New York,
who wish to have Federal aid
used as a means of coercing the
Southern states to eliminate seg
regation. And last, but by no
means least, there will be all
those who, looking for ways to
carry out Secretary Humphrey's
injunction to cut expenditures,
will be tempted to begin with
Federal aid for the schools.
TT IS often asserted that all the
subsidies and grants which ap
pear in the Federal budget are
there because of the special in
terests of pressure groups. There
is, of course, some truth in this.
But as a generalized rule, it is
untrue and grossly unfair. In
the case of Federal aid for
schools, it is truer and fairer to
say that the opposition comes
from pressure groups, whereas
the support is truly national and
public spirited. There is no spec
ial interest which is going to be
favored specially by the adop
tion of these proposals. The de
mand for them comes from tea
chers and from school super
intendents, from parents and
from civic leaders who are wor
rying about our failure to pro
vide a large part of the coming
generation with adequate school
ing. Indeed the support of educa
tion by the localities, the
states, and the Federal govern
ment is like the support of
the national defense. It is a pub
lic and patriotic duty which this
generation owes to the next. Can
we afford to support American
education? The answer is that
we cannot afford not to support
it. Do we have the money to
support it? Well, in the past 25
years the national income has
risen 300 billion dollars while
the amount we spend on educa
tion has increased by little more
than seven or eight billions.
The truth is that it is absurd
to say that the richest country
in the history of mankind can
not afford both to defend itself
and to educate its children.
(C) New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Washington (U.R) Rep.
Walter Norblad (R-Ore) said a
federal grant of $27,436 has
been approved to help the Ti
gard sanitary district in con
struction of a new sewage treat
ment plant.
Salem U.R) A memorial
calling on Congress for federal
construction of a high dam- in
Hells Canyon of the Snake river
passed the Oregon House 37-18
today.
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Western Germany Said
Critical Period for Allied Unity
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
West Germany is entering a
critical period which seems cer
tain to last for many months.
The danger of revolt in East
Germany, the threatened with
drawal of Al
lied troops as
signed to the
North Atlantic
Treaty Forces
and the pace of
Germany's
own rearma
m e nt are
among the
problems to be
Charles McCann tacea.
In addition, there is a serious
threat that Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, who comes close to
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Why our highways are dan:
gerous:
A Hollywood 19-year-old got
a reckless driving ticket yester
day for trying to drive and
SHAVE WITH AN ELECTRIC
RAZOR (run from his battery)
at the same time!
That on a Los Angeles street
where you're lucky if you can
stav alive with ALL YUUK
WITS concentrated on the job
of driving.
CERTAINLY he should have
got a ticket. And when he
comes up in court he should get
a jolt he'll remember for a long
time. '
That isn't the point. The
point is that if EVERY reckless
driver is to get a ticket EVERY
TIME he does something he
hadn't oughta it will take so
many traffic cops there won't be
room on the 'highways for the
traffic.
SOMEHOW
If we're to make our high
wavs safer
We must bring drivers to real
ize that driving a car in modern
traffic is a job so IMPORTANT
to life and limb that it calls for
complete concentration on the
job of driving.
We just can't afford to hire
cops enough to watch EVERY
driver ALL THE TIME.
CO MUCH for little things."
J . Let's take a look now at
something BIG so big that it
Editorial
Comment
MEDFORD "HALVED'
The State Highway Commis
sion has selected a route for the
relocation of U.S. 99 in South
ern Oregon that bisects the city
of Medford. The Medford Mail
Tribune and the Ashland Tidings
both lament the choice and from
this distance, we do too.
In the new development of a
four-lane freeway from border
to border in conjunction with
the new federal highway pro
gram, the object has been to by
pass the congestion in cities. It
has worked well on portions of
the route completed between
Salem and Portland and between
Eugene and Roseburg.
We don't know too much about
the geography of Medford un
fortunately. But from the sound
of the route selected through
Medford's Hawthorne Park it
would, we assume, be the same
if U.S. 99 bisected Eugene with
a big overpass flung across the
city at Broadway and Willam
ette. What stumps us, is the fact that
the highway commission agreed
to a route through the center of
a city. We'd like to know the
commission's reasons.
The commission has fought
many battles In other commun
ities to sell the idea of the by
pass. It has worked beautifully.
Even many of the opponents who
feared the loss of business have
seen the light.
Thus the great new highway
will by-pass every city except
Medford. It seems a poor decis
ion to us. And we'll guess the
people of Medford will live to
regret the bisecting of their city
by this four-lane super highway.
Eugene Register-Guard.
Mrs. Litwiller
"It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."
being an indispensable man from
the Allied viewpoint, may be
overthrown in the election to be
held next September.
The East German situation is
the most dangerous one at this
time.
Statements by East German
Communist leaders leave no
doubt that they fear a popular
uprising like those in Poland
and Hungary.
Rebel Fight Feared
West German leaders, in turn
fear that their own people might
cross the border to fight with
the rebels.
They would be fighting the
Russian Red army as well as the
East German armed forces. What
Russia might do then can only
be guessed at. The United States
and the other Allies are pledged
is coming to dominate our whole
business of making a living.
I'm referring to taxes.
TREASURY Seoretary Hum
phrey told a congressional
committee this morning that
taxes will in the ' long run (if
permitted to go increasing) ham
per our economic growth. What
he means is that taxes are taking
so much money out of the peo
ple's pockets that in time it
taxes keep on growing the peo
ple wont have enougn left in
their pockets to buy the products
of our industry.
If and when that time comes
there will be a depression that
(to use Secretary Humphrey s
recent expression) will "curl our
hair."
He added that he is opposed to
any tax cut now because we are
committed to a certain level ot
SPENDING and if we cut taxes
and still go on spending we'll
just run up our debt to a point
that eventually will mean bank
ruptcy. The only sound way to cut
taxes, he thinks, is first to CUT
SPENDING.
HOW can we cut government
spending?
There is only one way. If we
are to cut government spending
we must convince those who are
in charge of our government
that excessive spending is unpop
ular that it LOSES votes in
stead of WINNING VOTES.
As long as the people go on
voting FOR the spenders, in
stead of voting AGAINST them
government spending will re
main too high.
It's just that simple.
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Entering
to defend West Germany.
There-is little doubt that Brit
ish Prime Minister Harold Mao
millan intends to pull two of the
four British NATO divisions out
of West Germany as part of his
drastic economy program.
American military command
ers in West Germany are al
ready figuring out how to trim
their units in line with adminis
tration plans to put more em
phasis on striking power instead
of manpower.
Action Opposite Of Allies
This leaves Adenauer trying
to carry out the unpopular West
German rearmament program.
and drafting men for the armed
forces, while his Allies are re
ducing their military strength.
United Press dispatches from
Bonn, the West German capital,
say the threat that Adenauer may
be overthrown in the September
election is quite serious.
Adenauer's Christian Demo
cratic party has lost strength in
recent local elections. The So
cialist party, the principal op
position group, has gained cor
respondingly. If the election is close, the
Free Democrats, who used to be
long to Adenauer's coalition, may
hold the balance of power. They
probably would join the Social
ists to overthrow Adenauer.
The Socialists oppose rearma
ment. They have announced that
if they get into office they will
abolish the draft.
Guarantee Security Asked
Erich Ollenhauer, theOSocial
ist leader, says he wants a uni
fied Germany to be included in
a "European security system"
which would be guaranteed by
both the United States and
Soviet Russia. To this end, he
says, he would be filling to
surrender West Germany's mem
bership in NATO.
The East German Communists
opened a pre-election propa
ganda campaign against Aden
auer last week end. Like the
Russians, they hold out the
promise that German unifica
tion would be possible if Aden
auer were thrown out.
President Theodor Heuss of
West Germany is to visit Presi
dent Eisenhower in Washington
March 6. But like some other
West European presidents he is
a figurehead. Adenauer is head
man. It is pretty certain that he,
too, will go to Washington with
in the next few weeks to talk
over the situation.
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