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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.
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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."
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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.