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Newspaper Page Texto o o o O 0 o O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" (-) 'JuSlUhed Dally fxcenl Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO U -28 North F!r St. Phone 3-4141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor VCPA GREY Advertisinf Manager LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor LURRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor SC HARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE EeVCKSON, Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at " Medxord Oregon under Act Of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall 1 Advance: Per Cop? 10e. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday -Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4-20 By farrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Cold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rojrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 vmiiy ana sunaay one month 1.30 carrier and Dealers 10c per copy iii lerma uasn in Advance CtfTirlalPaper of the City of Med ford Official Haper of Jack ion County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de- trott. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland- St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocFatin NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Highf q' Time Medford and Jackson County PHgtory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1947 (Monday) ThreeO new sustained yield units under public law 73 are in the initial planning stage, accord ing to g. J. Andrews, regional forecaster of Portland. Jrom Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "VILLAGE HAS NO TAXES" (Hdline Siskiyou News) That's why it's a village. O20 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1937 (Wednesday) Cash balance in all city funds at the end of 1936 totals $209,- 423.40, accorrong to the annual treasurer's report. First government checks un der the soil conservation pro- grarrPdue to arrive next week. according to County Agent Bob Fowler. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. ft, 1927 (Thursday) John C. Mann, president, pre sides at meeting of Jackson County Red Cross at Medford hotel. Owen - Oregon Lumber com pany sponsors dance for south ern Oregon residents at Oriental Gardens. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1917 (Saturday) O City council meets in adjourn ed session with Mayor Gates pre siding and all councilmen at tending except Dr. J. J. Em mens. . County court orders examina tion of Bear creek bridge at Cen tral Pflint. n response to com pltritPafi) to its safety. 0 WJiaf s Your I.Q.? ftMne or"' ten correct Is sd&ertor; ser en or etfiit Is excellent: five or six Is food. 1. Was the world's first paid fire company established in the U. S., England, or Germany? 2. Which country introduced the world's first successful steam fireGengie? 3. Bible: When "called up in to the mountain" did both Moses and Aaron "come near the Lord?" 4. "Drisheen City," named for VPpular breakfast dish (drish erns) in Old Ireland, is the nick name for which city? o a. Is it possible to inoculate dogs againsf rabies? o 6 Is South America rich or pooj fa natural resources? 7. Was the Social Security Act established in 1935, 1937, or 1939? n 8. fcr HWn-Kiang the eastern nit province of China? 9. Is it correct to use "days" and "merits" as an adverb to mean "during the day" or "dur ing the night?" 10. "Then ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave." Is this correctly at tributed & the Bible? Answers: 1. U. S. (Cincinnati, 13S3). 2. U. S. (Cincinnati, 1853). 3. No. Only Moses. 4. Cork. 5. Yes. 6. Rich. 7. 1935. 8. Westernmost. 9. No. 10. Yes. Echoes of Al Sarena Surprised and somewhat disappointed to observe one of our favorite newspapers in the state, revives the old campaign canard regarding "Al Sarena." It is the usually judicious and fair-minded "Salem Statesman" that is guilty this time. In its editorial column it repeats all the weather beaten cliches about this deal, whereby timber in the U.S. Forest reserve was sold under the guise of a min ing claim, for $5 an acre when on the open market it would have brought $200 or more an acre to the gov ernment. THERE was, according to the Statesman, nothing improper about this. It was all according to law and to Hoyle. The Al Sarena "agitation" it further maintains, having served its "political purpose" is seldom heard of these post-election days and with good reason, for Solicitor Clarence Davis of the U.S. Department of the Interior "acted in full good faith" there was no reason for him to act "differently" and if he. erred it was only an error of judgment so, quote : "A mere revision of regulations of procedure will not insure soundness of judgment but it should prevent imput ing scandal as was freely done in the Al Sarena case." IN THE sense of corruption or lawless action there were no imputations of scandal. The Mail Tribune throughout the campaign for example kept maintain ing again and again the deal "was within the law," but was wrong. It was a question, not of morals or legality, but of PUBLIC POLICY as represented and upheld by Sec retary of the Interior McKay and carried out (he claimed without his knowledge) by Solictor Davis. There was nothing "phony" about the accusations and there was nothing cooked up for political pur poses only. It was a matter of policy and of record, defended and justified repeatedly by the Republican candidate'for the U.S. Senate, and condemned by the opposition. THE question in other words brought up for the con- sideration of the people of the state in the cam paign was a perfectly legitimate and pertinent one, namely: Did they want to be represented in the senate by a man who favored such procedures of "give away" and violations of the principles of conservation and a square deal to the purchasers of government timber, or did they want to be represented by men who opposed such practices? THAT is all there was to bxi ClllLJU..lfL)ll) bAlOly lO ail HI tit i3 bVS IV lvVXCjr ' With the campaign over and the verdict of the people of the state clear-cut and decisive against the McKay-Davis school of political thought, there is na turally no reason to continue the argument further. That doesn't mean the issue was not a valid one. THE Al Sarena owners now have their timber, and in all likelihood will be cutting it as soon as the mar ket returns to normal. The Old Buzzard mine, mean while, will undoubtedly continue to be "out of busi ness" as it was before the campaign started, although it was of course the sole justification for the granting of the timber-patents. It is in fact the talk about the "riches" of the Al Sarena mine that has served its political purpose and consequently will have little publicity now the deal has been put over, rather than as the Statesman claims, the "agitation" that apparently in its judg ment, did such injustice "Give Away" administration of Messrs. McKay and Davis, when in control of AS ANY impartial and case we think will agree no "injustice" was done, Whether Solicitor Davis acted in good or bad faith, whether he contrary to all practice nd precedent in the Department of the Interior ated with or without the knowledge of his superior, alt that sort of thing is beside the point. The point is and was in the cam paign, whether or not the people of Oregon ap proved or disapproved of the policy of "give away,' "mining for timber" as the McKay administration ment. THEY decided they did - And if any doubt existed as to the quality of that popular verdict the successor to Douglas McKay in the Department of the Interior ended it when he, Sec retary Seaton said : "As long as I am head of the Interior Department noth ing like the Al Serena case will happen again." ' We believe he is right It won't! R.W.R. "Curiouser As Alice in Wonderland remarked things are getting "curiouser and curiouser. Now Secretary Weeks of the Department of Com merce sees no danger of a Nor does he find any preparation (in his department at least) for federal controls in case there are not more self-controls on the DUT only the day before quoted as saying that serious, and if labor and eral controls w-ould have U.S.A. from disaster. In other words there would seem to be consider able disagreement between the White House and the Boston member of the Eisenhower cabinet as to the "state of the union." But Secretary Weeks the Al Sarena issue during to the proponents of the the Interior Department. - objective observer of this upheld and promoted by of the Interior Depart not. & Curiouser depression, near or distant. part of labor and capital, President Eisenhower was dangers of inflation were capital did not behave, ted to be invoked to save the denies this. He claims that Matter of Fact THE ACHIEVEMENT AND THE RISK Washington The Eisenhower Administration is about to score great technical achievement. At the same time, the Ad m 1 n istration has accepted a great r is k . The future balance of power in t h e world is deep ly involved in both the achievement Stewuc Alsop and the risk, and it is therefore worth trying to understand both. The achievement is the near prospect of a prototype test of 'the ultimate weapon," the in tercontinental ballistic missile. The prototype of the ICBM now actually exists visitors to the Convair plant in Southern Calif ornia can hardly avoid seeing the high, tover-like structure which houses the monstrous mis sile. The ICBM exists thanks to a decision, taken when Harold Talbot was Secretary of the Air Force, to give development of the weapon an absolute, over riding priority. In time, the ICBM wiU transform the nature of warfare, simply because there is no known way to intercept the terrible weapon with its hydrogen warhead. THE Administration u n q u e s tionahlv deserves credit for the technical achievement housed-in Convair's tower. But the risk the Administration is prepared to take also reserves careful scrutiny. It amounts es sentially to a decision to put all, or almost all, of this country's strategic eggs in the ICBM basket. In other words, it has been decided to abandon .or cut back sharply on attempts to find other ways to deliver nuclear weapons to the Communist side of the world, hoping to leap directly from essentially the present means of delivery to the ICBM. There are two new means 01 delivery which have been al ready tested in prototype the snark subsonic missile, and the B-58 supersonic medium bomb, er. A smaU number of snarks have been ordered for delivery to the Air Force, but after that production will be slowed down or abandoned. And the current budget envisages no major effort to produce B-58s. CJTILL untested means of deliv- J ery include the Navaho in- basically he and the President are in complete accord ! HAT has a familiar sound. A short time ago Secre- tary of the Treasury Humphrey in a special news conference was quoted as "The government is spending too much. If we don't cut down we will have a depression that will curl your hair . . . I am speaking for the treasury, I am thinking of the good of the country not of politics." t That term "politics" also has a familiar ring. In the current issue of Molev. one of the most bitter critics of the New Deal since he left it and one of President Eisenhower's strongest supporters, declared his belief and repeated it for emphasis, that the on financial needs of the but political." He wrote they did not represent what the country should do to get on a firm financial eco nomic basis, but what should do to get votes or LJOWEVER while such 1 there are serious differences of opinion regarding federal finances and the financial outlook of the coun- try between the President the one hand, and some ot his most ardent journalis tic supporters on the other, Secretary Humphrey duti fully followed the lead of Secretary Weeks and stout ly mainted he and "Ike" were and are in complete ac cord on fundamentals. We have no such assurances from Columnist Mo- ley, but we would be greatly surprised to hear him deny that he is m complete er administration "on fundamentals," and likes Ike just as completely and enthusiastically as any of the charter members of the We Like Ike club. MOW all that remains to complete the picture of per- ' feet amity and harmony between President Eisen hower and the conservatives of his party would be for Secretary of Defense Wilson to return from his If lor- ida vacation and while confirming the statement that the National Guard in the for "draft dodgers" there his "beautiful friendship" who scored that remark as out thought. In fact the that! and on all BASIC issues of the "Modem Re publicanism" are in complete harmony and accord. SO WHAT does it all add up to ? Well, briefly, to "double-talk." The Republican conservatives, both in the cabinet and without, do not see eye-to-eye with President Eisenhower's economic, fiscal and social progress principles, and fervently wish he would drop them and turn sharply to the right. But on the other hand they realize it would be political suicide to definitely break with him, and so they criticize his policies when to them thev are patently unwise but at the same time for the sake of appearances and party solidarity, they keep up the pretense of everything within the party being- sweetness and light. It isn't consistent but tical politics. R.W.R. By Stewart Alsop tercontinental r a m j et missile, the nuclear-powered bomber, and the "follow-on chemical bomber." The Navaho project has already cost the taxpayers well over $600 million. But now, perhaps after a prototype test, the Navaho project is to be cut down to a point where it is barely ticking over. The same fate awaits the nuclear-powered bomber, and, to a lesser degree, the follow-on chemical bomber as well. In short, except for the ICBM it self, 3 general policy of "off with their heads" has been adopted as regards other poten tial means of delivering "mas sive retaliation." The reason is simple. The new weapons the missiles especial ly are appallingly expensive. The total cost of missile pro grams in the current Air Force budget comes to some $3 billion, and the missile programs of the other services are also very cost ly. The cost is certain to mount sharply as new missiles reach the stage of actual production. The Administration thus had a stark choice. It could rec ognize that the new weapons in troduced a new dimension into warfare, as distinct, and ultim ately at least as expensive, as the .three traditional services. Or it could try to squeeze the new wine of the new weapons into the old service bottles, without any sharp increase in expenditures. FHE Administration has chosen A the latter course. The result has been, not only a sharp cut back in potential future means of delivery other than the ICBM, but a similar cutback in exist ing means of delivery. The B-52 jet bomber is, or soon will be, the main means of delivering atomic weapons to Soviet targets. When the In telligence confirmed that the Soviets were scheduling pro duction of 28 intercontinental jet bombers per month, the pro duction target for B-52s was raised to 20 a month. But it is most unlikely that the 20-a- month target wiU be reached under the new budget, while the previous over-all production schedule for Air Force planes has been cut back about 40 per cent. Add two more facts. First, most experts believe that ad vances in Soviet air defense techniques will make the B-52 a sitting duck in four or five years, as the older B-36 is a sit ting duck doday. Second, air force estimates are that we will follows: "News Week" Raymond President s pronouncements country were not "economic the present administration words to that effect. statements would indicate and his cabinet members on accord with the Eisenhow Korean war was a refuge is no rift none at all ! in with President Eisenhower "unwise" and talking with two are buddies just like it undoubtedly is good prac Today and By Walter THE POLITICS OF THE TJ.N. The American position in the United Nations has become very difficult, especially during the past year, we find ourselves relying more than at any time in the past on the c o m p e tence and the capac ity of the Unit ed nations to deal with great Walter Llppmsnn issues as in Eastern Europe and in the Mid dle East. When we say the Unit ed Nations, we really mean the General Assembly of 80 nations which is now the central organ of that institution. In this Gen eral Assembly, since the admis sion of so many new members from Africa and Asia, we can no longer count, as once we could, on a working majority who agree with us. From this fundamental weak ness come the confusions, the equivocation, the double stand ards of the U.N.'s dealings with the Soviet Union over Hungary, with India' over Kashmir, with Britain, France and Israel over Suez and Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba. The fundamental and controlling fact is that the para mount power in the United Nations rests in the General As sembly, and that in the General Assembly there is no effective majority which is willing to apply the same rule of law to the Soviet Union, India, Britain, France, Egypt, and Israel. 'T'HE General Assembly consists -1- of blocs, and American for eign policy is in very large measure determined by the de sire to have the United States play a leading part in a com binatin of blocs which will yield a majortity when the votes are counted. We are acting on the official belief that we must not be pushed into the opposition within the United Nations, that we must participate in the rul ing majority, The mathematics of our prob lems are worth fixing in mind. The General Assembly has 80 members. But since South Africa and Hungary are absent, there are now in fact 78 members. On any important question a two- thirds majority is needed, which means 52 votes. Now what is the maximum number of votes that we can hope to rally on an issue which is of prime importance to the western world? There are 21 inter-American states, all of the Western Hemisphere south of the Canadian border. There are in western .Europe, plus stretch of Yugoslavia, plus the so-called old commonwealth- not have an operational ICBM system before 1963, perhaps not before 1967. The nature of the risk the Administration has tacit ly accepted then becomes ap parent. It is that at some point before a truly effective ICBM system is created we shall lose the means to inflict the over whelming retaliation of "which we have boasted so much, and which is the last shield of the free world. . 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. i Communications Letters to the Editor must bear th name end address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Self-pity Deplored To the Editor: Since reading the lamentations in your column from some ot the people who will be forced to move from their homes when the new high way comes our way, I feel some one should bring a few other important factors to their minds other than feeling sorry for "poor little me". They think it is all right to chop down a few trees but ap parently they do not realize that the fruit industry in this valley is one of the two major indus tries, with a total of about $15 million dollars income. If they think they will be hurt by hav ing to move, they will find the hurt will be much more if many more of our orchards are dispos ed of. They will be hurt in the pocketbook as many of these same people who are crying the blues are living directly or in directly from the income brought in by these same trees they are so willing to chop down. Many orchards have already given away to new residential districts and, at the rate they are being destroyed, there soon will be no reason for new homes as there will be no one with money to buy them. It takes at least six years or more for a new tree to begin bearing fruit. Now surely it won't take these people that long to use the money the highway commission will pay them for their old homes in which to pur chase or build another. We purchased our home about five years ago and bad many plans for improving, however, it looks like we will be in the path of the new highway or close to it. We will be sorry to have to move but with the money we receive from - the sale of our home, we expect to be able to Tomorrow Lippmann Canada, Australia and New Zea land 20 votes. These addup'to 41 votes, which is 11 short of the required majority. llfHERE is Mr. Lodge, who Is ' the official who has to strug gle with the situation for the United States, to find the neces sary eleven votes? There are 10 Soviet votes and there are 11 Arab votes that he cannot get. That makes 21 votes that he can not get and it takes only 27 votes one more than one-third of aU votes to veto any pro posal the United States makes. There is still one more bloc of 15 votes, and it holds the bal ance of power. This is the Afro Asian bloc. In it we can count fairly reliably on four votes, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan and Nationalist China. But, as we have seen, we need 11 votes to get a majority. So we are still short seven votes. These we have to obtain "by bargaining with India, in plain fact by working out compromises with Mr. Kri shna Menon. This means that the United States, working loyally through the U.N,, can on the cruical is? sues take no positive or affirma tive position to which Mr. Men on is seriously opposed. We can not stand up for what we think is right and just unless we are willing, which we are not, to have a show-down which Droves to the world that we are no long er a part of the effective and ruling majority of the United .Nations. THIS situation means that on Assembly can vote resolutions only on one of two conditions, One is that the United States in duces the Western blocs to vote with the Arab, Soviet and Afro- Asian blocs. The first of the resolutions passed last week, the one calling Jor the withdrawal of Israel to its old frontiers, is an example. The other condition of agree ment in the General Assembly is that the real differences be tween the Westerners and East erners are befogged to the point where none of the blocs is pub licly committed, to anything specific. The second resolution, which appears to deal with the substantial issues in Palestine, is an example of an agreement by deliberate equivocation. WHAT goes on behind this " equivocation? What goes on is secret diplomacy the only kind of diplomacy that has the remotest chance of working in the conflicts of the Middle East. The general Assembly is a place where nobody can afford to stand up in public and be re- sonable. He wil be regarded at home as a traitor. It has, therefore, become nec essary in practice to circumvent the. General Assembly by let ting it speak ambiguously, and then be silent, while secretly and quietly things are talked over in- private, perhaps even agreed to in private, that could never be discussed in public. This, at least, is the experiment on which we are now embarked, and we must wish it well. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. buy another just as nice or nicer. Mrs W.-O. Beard Table Rock rd., Medford, Ore. Opposed to Bear Creek Rout To the Editor: History records how Peter the Great drew a heavy ink mark up across" the wastelands of Russia for a travel- way to what become known as St. Petersburg, also promulgat ing a decree that all those travel ing that way had to carry along amounts of road materials to improve and widen the super highway. Seems like modern "Peter the Greats" from Salem have made a heavy pencil mark that bisects Medford almost as bad as the S.P. and Central ave, with its heavy south-north travel. Those who use it are not required to piggyback materials for its construction, contributing in stead many dollars from the na tional realm. But a much heav ier toll will be required of us who live here, if and when it is built at the proposed loca tion, for the lethal monoxide and hydrocarbon gases pour ing from car and train-size trucks off the elevated structure and, being heavier than air, will creep across the city, exacting demands on health and life. This is no idle speculation, for increasing numbers of cities are prohibiting all but vitally nec essary gas burning vehicles from city-center streets during the windless days of late summer and fall. A young worker from Medford wangled a well paying job of some $2.19 per hour at General Motors in Los Angeles, Three months was aU he could take of a constant headache, burning of eyes and nostrils. His name and address can be had POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) "What," the girl reporter wanted to know, "does 'crummy mean?" She saw the word in a letter published in the editorial column last week. We don't know what the Dictionary of American Slang says about "crummy," but Webster's Collegiate says it is Scottish or North English dialect for a cow, "esp. one with crum pled horns"; also a crook or staff. Locally, a "crummy1 is a per sonnel transport vehicle, prin cipally those used to take loggers into and out of the woods. The English (?) language is an odd one, isn't it? These two young man war sitting in a theater waiting for th show to begin and on said he wondered if it was in color or in black and whit and the other said it was in black and whit. No. 1 asked him how he knew and No. 2 said he'd read tho book. "So?" said No. 1. "Well." said No. 2, "IT was in black and whit." Our society editor, who is sometimes called "Grandma" these days (just because it irri tates her, more than for any real reason), is a charming and at tractive woman whose hair is just beginning to turn gray in a few spots, and whose dignity is impeccable. So it was with some concern we heard her utter a modified sort of screech after a telephone conversation (a long one) the other day. She'd been talking to a man. She said "When we got through he said 'Well, so long. baby," and hung up." o A littl boy, about as tall as tho handl on a low door, n lerod a local food-candy-and-magazine shop last week. H doted th door, looked up at a patron nearby, said "Hi. yal" with lh utmost sang froid, than marched determinedly behind th candy case, pulled open th sliding door and. Just in time, was snatched away by his mother who dashed in from around th corner of th build ing searching for him. Every time someone proposes development of Roxy Ann park, someone else says "What about the poison oak?" On this page a year or so ago it was suggested that the city or county buy a few goats and 6et tnem at work eating the stuff up. Oh, HO!! Leave it to the Air Force (Ah, there, Comaiander Keating) to prove that suggestion was a good one. Mrs. Betty Staf ford mails us a clipping from th San Francisco Chronicle which reveals that five goats have been purchased by the boys in blue, and turned loose on Crab Island in Lake Champlain to eat the poison ivy. The Pittsburgh Air Force base recently purchase? the island for recreational pur poses. Comment heard during ' a ' gray and murky day last weekt : "Hey! Is it raining, or are ihey cleaning the streets?" for any doubters. Medford ii laeany situated with its ram part of mountains hemming in the small valley, for the smog incubus so greaUy feared today. The Oregon State Highway of ficials' alibis for saddling this thing on the one city between Portland and the south border, does not ring honest and true With me. Thev eito rloctrurtinn of pear lands if the free-way tait.es to me mils east or west. This borders the asinine a, cnrh lands are being used constantly ior Dusiness, industrial and home sites. One such has taken ex tensive holdings in Ihs ennth. west for burial purposes, taking me very finest of soil lands in the vallev Snrr.lv urp ran TfllrA some of these acres with few if any homes destroyed, so we mav remain on ton nf th pround in health anH ivi nut nnr lisp. ful and worth while days here on earth. F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st. Medford, Ore. Old Real Foot To the Editor: A typograph ical error somewhere along the line made the eighteen hundred pound bear tale to read 800, when actually the 1,800 figure was correct, according to news paper clippings I have read, owned by Ashland men, William R. Taylor and A. E. Powell. "Old reel foot" was so named because one foot was partly am putated, presumable from a trap. ' He was four feet high and mea sured 18 inches between the eyes. Was shot a number of times before being killed by an 18 year old young man named Pearl Bean along with an older companion. As to the old pro spector, it is aUeged that he was the leading character in Jack London's novel called " Burn ing Daylight," because of his ambition and luck at finding gold. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore.