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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: February has gone so fast, say the Older girls, they fear it will over-run Itself, and have 30 days this year. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 15. 1937 (Monday) Damage by winter storms to Jackson county roads will be about S2.000. County Engineer Paul B. Rynning says. Circuit Judge H. D. Norton may call the grand jury tomor row to consider several pending matters. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. IS. 1927 (Tuesday) Mrs. C. E. Bolds, president of Central Point PTA, presides at meeting. Landscape work underway at Southern Oregon Normal school in Ashland, according to J. A. Churchill, president. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 15. 1917 (Thursday) Joe Brown elected district manager for Earl Fruit com pany, Medford. Meetfhg of executive board of rirsfc Southern Oregon District Federation of Women's clubs is Silled by President Mrs. W. W. Canby, of Medford. WJiafs Your I.Q.? tfn or ten correct ! lupertor; it n or etrht t xcellent; tiv or m ! rood. 1. Anthracite coal was in trgduted in New York in 1824. It wasa then offered free of charge: true or false? St. Which State is known as the 'Mother of States?" 0 . Bible: Does the Old Test ament mention both the "little owl" and the "great owl?" 4. tentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and West Virginia were ll formerly part of which State? 5. Robert E. Sherwood wrote a play about which U. S. Pres ident? 0 6. Does it require more or less time for an egg to boil at high Attitude? 7. Revolutionary War: Did the British lose the Battle of Long IslantJ? o 8. Are there more than 21 .American Republics? 9. Is it proper to use the word "eager" as a synonym for "anx ious?" 10. "Happiness is a habit cul tivate it." E. Hubbard. Is this an epigram or epitaph? Answers: 1. True. 2. Virginia. Yes. 4. Virginia. 5. Abraham Lincoln. 6. Less time to boil, frexe time lo cook. 7. No. 8. No. p. 0o. 10. Epigram. Wyalf May Resign from State GOP Post Astoria (U.R) State Re publican Chairman Wendell Wy att said today he may resign from the post in the near fu ture. Wyatt said he did not '-consider myself a professional poli tician, an3 naturally I do not intend to continue indefinitely in mv present position." H? said his main desire was to return full lime to his law pracre here. It Happened We've been waiting for quite a while, but it finally happened. Mrs. Betty Hoskins, our Jacksonville correspond ent, did it. If you didn't happen to read the first paragraph in her dispatch from our neighbor community last Wednesday, we recommend it to you, as follows: The last few sunny days has made us think that spring Is just around the corner. In this area residents are busy pondering over seed catalogues and mail order "wish" books and out poking in the soggy ground looking for the first daffodil and crocus leaf shoots. At least two early cases of spring fever have been reported. a THIS is the kind of news that makes us forget temporarily, that state and federal income taxes are coming due soon; that spring "officially" won't be here for another five weeks yet; that a lot more rain (and just possibly some more snow) will be fall ing; that the world, the nation and the state are in one sort of turmoil or another. Seed catalogs, daffodils, crocuses! Golly, just reading about it is enough to give US spring fever. We get infected easily, anyway. E.A. Legislative This and That At latest report, the Oregon legislature had be fore it for consideration a total of 640 bills, plus a liberal scattering of resolutions, joint resolutions, con current resolutions and memorials on probably a cou ple of hundred or more different subjects. No one person can keep any sort of check on this vast accumulation of words (some important, some nonsensicial, some vicious) and expect to do anything else. But in leafing through the bills as they have come over the desk, we have picked out a few for brief com ment. ff "NE calls for printing the slogan, "Scenic Wonder- land," plus a fir tree, on our automobile license plates. A few other states have slogans on their plates, and we've always thought they were a bit absurd and of little value. The slogan would tend to clutter up the license, making identification more difficult, and the fir tree (which looks better in the forest than on a license plate anyway) would aggravate this. Another provision in the same bill (and also in a different bill) would call for the plate to be made of reflecting material so as to be readable at night. This might be advantageous. But let's do our advertising where it belongs not in our license plates. A HOUSE measure would permit the game commis sion to issue non-resident fishing license at the rate of $1 a day. This has the advantage of letting a visitor "tailor" his fishing to a brief vacation, without spending five bucks for a seven-day license. As such, it seems to be a step in the right direction, although we'd still like to see some reciprocity be tween neighboring states (perhaps using a non-resident stamp on a valid license from another state) in the matter of fishing licenses. THE Highway commission now has jurisdiction over Oregon's beaches, which are legally classed as highways. It has asked to be relieved of that respon sibility, with the beaches transf erred to the state land board. The beach "highway" designation was obtained during the administration of Gov. Oswald West (who belatedly was honored for his far-sightedness last year by having a state park named after him). Thus Ore gon, unlike many other sea-coast states, has beaches which are public property. Transferring them to the land board would not harm this public ownership status. But with the land board's sorry history of land administration in the past, and its authority to dispose of lands, this could be the first step in losing the beaches. For this reason we think it should be strongly op posed. TWO bills seek to regulate the clays of the week during which business can be conducted. One would close up all banks on Saturday. The other would close up automobile dealers on Sunday. Now, just what business is it of the legislature when people do business? And if it can limit the days that banks and auto salesmen can work, why couldn't it ban clothing sales on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or restaurant operation on Tuesday and Thursday? The crux of the problem has been approached, correctly, through wage and hour legislation. But these two attempts do not originate out of any high minded desire to protect employees. They seek to limit competition. It should not be the business of the legislature to tell anyone what he can't do on any day. A SENATE bill would authorize the highway com mission to acquire and operate state parks in areas other than those "adjacent to" or "in close prox imity to" state highways. This we favor, for some of the most suitable loca tions for present or future state parks are not now on or near state highways. (In Jackson county, one such is the area on what will be the shore of Howard Prairie lake, to be created in the next year or so when the Talent project is a little further along.) If we are to have a state park system worthy of the name, this limitation should be erased. The system now is a good one, as far as it goes, but with greater population and increased tourist trade, it will need expansion. Tridir. February 13, 1957 Conflict of Used as Challenge To By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Conflict of interest is the term used by congressional investigators to challenge government officials who maintain s u bs t a ntial links with pri vate business. The latest in stance of an al leged conflict of interest case has led to the resignation o f Assistant De Lyle C. Wilson Robert Tripp fense Secretary Ross. Ross, al though denying any violation of conflict of interest laws, gave up his post in the midst of a Senate inquiry into his relations with a Ross family firm which holds several millions of dollars worth of defense contracts. Ross said he was resigning because it would be "unfair" to the Defense Department to stay on in view of what he called "derogatory implications." When a government official maintains an outside business connection which could be fa vored or hurt by his official ac tions, the basis for a congression al conflict of interest investiga tion is present. It does not neces sarily follow that the official would or would not shape his official acts to favor his private business. How About Congressmen? These congressional investiga tions come along often. It is a In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS If you are an average Ameri can, you probably ask yourself this question: "What's this Middle East ruckus all about? Why are WE mixing up in it?" IT'S an old story too long to go into in any detail here. The simple fact of the matter is that ever since trade and com merce began what we call the Middle East has been the most strategic spot on earth. If you will get out your globe and do a little studying, the strategic importance of this Mid dle East area will become appar ent to you in a few minutes. This is what your globe will show you: ALL THE TRADE ROUTES OF THE OLD WORLD CROSS THERE. , k rpHAT is to say: ' Whoever controls this stra tegic spot can throw the world into a tizzy in a matter of hours. A large part of the Old World's history has revolved around that fundamental fact. That also is tgo long a story to go into here. To prove the point, we need only to cite the latest instance when a two-bit tyrant by the name of Nasser stood the world on its ear by seizing the Suez canal. That tells the tale. TN the big years of the British - Empire, Britain ruled the world by -the simple expedient of seizing the STRATEGIC POINTS. One of these strategic points was the Isthmus of Suez, which later was cut by the Suez canal, which made possible the passage of SHIPS from the Far East to the Atlantic. Another strategic point was the Strait of Singa pore. A minor but still very im portant strategic point was the Strait of Gibraltar. Controlling ALL of these, Britain could tell the rest of the world where to get off and quite frequently did. Your globe will tell you how all this came about. A T this point, we must cite a little more history. Ever since Russia emerged from barbarism and became a world power, she has coveted this strategic Middle East area. Rivers of blood have been shed to keep her from getting it. Again all this is too long to be gone into here. But your his tory books will confirm the story if you will take the time to dig it out. WHY have rivers of blood " shed to keep Russia out of the strategic Middle East? This is the answer: Throughout the centuries, the rest of the world has felt that Russia was NO FIT GUARDIAN FOR THIS STRATEGIC AREA which is now more strategic than ever before because of the vast oil fields that have been discovered there. The world still has the feel ing that Russia is no fit guardian of this key gateway of the world. That's the story in a nutshell. "THE only legislative bills which can become law immediately are those which cany the so-called "emergency clause." This read, "This Act being neces sary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this Act shall take effect upon its passage." It's a handy device, used sometimes to prevent the bill from being referred to a vote of the people. But if every "emergency" declared in a bill actually threat ened the public peace, health and safety, we'd be in a pretty pickle. E.A. Interest Charges matter of astonishment that some bedevilled official in the wit ness chair has not long since sought to turn the conflict of in terest searchlight on his con gressional investigators. Consider the lawyers, for ex ample. Lawyers far outnumber members of other professions in Congress. How much conflict of interest would there be in the situation of a senator or congressman whose law firm had substantial corporate patronage and who had to cast his vote on a ques tion which directly would effect the profits of one or more cor porate clients? That is a fair question but not one likely to be asked soon or often. It last was asked some 20 or 25 years ago when the late Sen. Huey Pierce (The Kingfish) Long was rampaging through the tag end of a purple career to be ended by an assassin's bullet. Long was undisputed boss of Louisiana with an overlay of in- fluence in adjoining states, not- ably Mississippi and Arkansas, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot 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. He Is Getting Tired To the Editor: I'm getting a little tired of reading the letters of complaint appearing in your columns over the decision of the Highway Department to use the Bear Creek route for the Med ford "by-pass." Let me say first that I agree in principle that a route which avoided passing through the city would be preferable and more in keeping with the by-pass theory. Several public hearings were held, however, on the three or iginally proposed routes, and as a result of dissatisfaction ex pressed two additional proposed routes were surveyed and more hearings held. Presumably, there was ample opportunity for every point of view to be heard. As I understand it, the ex treme eastern route was ruled out as entailing engineering difficulties and considerable ex tra expense. The Hillcrest and West routes were ruled out be cause of destruction of valuable orchard property. And the Bear Creek route was chosen over the Genessee because there was less private property to be acquired. The complaints seem to be of three kinds: from people whose residential property must be sac rificed, from those who think that Hawthorne Park will be "ruined," and from those who object to bisection of the city. I sympathize, but I must point out that other Oregonians and Jackson County residents have a stake in this problem also. For we are all ' sharing the 'expense of extra hearings and extra sur veys, and the orchards that some people are so glad to throw away are part of a $15 million contribution to the County's economy each year. Perhaps a little grumbling is permissible, but a decision has been made by those we employ as experts and with the desires of those most intimately con cerned adequately considered. Shouldn't we accept it? Richard Graham 288 Gresham st. Ashland, Ore. Just Mot Out To the Editor: What has Med ford to worry about? Look what they are going to do to Dunsmuir. They are going to take every thing but the friendly Southern Pacific. Well that's one way to get even with a railroad, just move out. Everett Acklin, Box 233, Ashland, Ore. p. S. Why didn't we think of that? How About the Children? To the Editor: May I ask you to write an editorial entitled, "Children vs. Cars" or "The Children Be Eliminated." Since the very thrifty Oregon State Highway Commission have decided to destroy Hawthorne Park it seems to-me such an edi torial would be quite fitting for the decision they have made. In your editorial please suggest that the Commission make a tour of all backyards (if they have a back yard) of homes where chil dren may play, and make a list of the toys they have. The list should include all old beer cans, broken beer bottles, empty cig arette packs, cigarette and cigar stubs, garbage cans, scraps of wrecked cars and other refuse. The commission should be re quested firmly to remove shoes and sox, and all other cumber- Officials It was characteristic of Long that he soon fell out with the Democratic leadership from FDR down when he came to the Senate. Senate Democratic Leader Joe T. Robinson was Long's whipping boy for the entire New Deal administration. The Kingfish shocked the Senate and jolted Robinson one day by reading into the record the name of Robinson's Arkansas law firm and list of its big clients. Long could not accuse Robin son of misdeeds or of putting private interest above the public interest, but the Kingfish bel lowed that the temptation was there. And he could quote the Bible by the yard on the hazards of temptation. Conflict of interest was what Long was talking about. It is your correspondent's recollec tion that Robinson immediately resigned his law firm connec- ' tion, not as an acknowledge- ment of wrong-doing or, even, of a conflict of interest, but simply to get the Kingfish off his back. some garments except shorts, so that they may enjoy the soft sur face of pavement and broken beer bottles. Do not allow them to pause under any shade trees (highway men dislike all trees, obstruct your vision when driv ing at 80 or 100 mi. per hour.) Have the tour last not less than 8 hours on the hottest day you can pick next summer. As I have some acquaintances that make very good time when traveling. Perhaps you should not mention my name. It might embarrass them. May I say I read and like your editorials. Inez McDonough, Cathedral City, Calif. Just a Rusty Gold Pan To the Editor: Why so many early day gold mining adven tures and exploits of interest have been lost to posterity, is for lack of recorded notes made or left for later generations. From the early discoveries made around 1852, another generation followed up in the eighteen sev enties and again in the eighteen ninties. One of the almost forgotten stories told was the prospectors who packed over Wagner Gap and down "Seven Mile Ridge" on the north slopes of Little Ap- plegate in the seventies, where they found and worked a very rich surface deposit. In later years an Ashland man made a hasty search, but all his efforts paid him,, was finding an old rusty gold pan and remains of a pick on the bank of a small dry gulch. So, the story is left only to our imagination. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. More on old "Reel-Foot To the Editor: I would like to add my knowledge to the history of Old "Reel Foot," the grizzly bear. I heard the story many times from my father, James B. Brown, and many other bear hunters. Old "Reel Foot" was caught in a bear trap, injured his foot, lost a couple of toes. His foot reeled sideways when he walked. Seven hunters surrounded him. He was shot at Russian Campaign Against Doctrine Tops Week's News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia launched a big diplomatic campaign against the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East and United States de fense policies in general. The White House an nounced that President 'Ei senhower will hold separate iTharles McCanai c o n i e rences with French Premier Guy.Mol let and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; British Defense Minister Dun can Sandys announced plans for drastic revision of defense plans. Russia Russia opened its attack on American foreign policies in notes to the United States, Great Britain and France and in a re quest for a United Nations de bale on the "question of aggres sive acts by the United States constituting a threat to peace and security." In the notes, Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov pro posed a six-point agreement on the Middle East. He called, among other things, for the abandonment of American mili tary bases in that area and for Matter of Focf im. IN POPOV'S ROOM Koustenay In this metropo lis of the new Soviet frontier in western Siberia, the presumed sanctum sanc torum is the office of the First Secre tary of the Comm u n i s t Party Com mittee, C o m rade L a z a r Ivanovich Po pov. It looks, too, Joseph Alsop as a sanctum sanctorum ought to look. By Koustenay standards, which are appropriately the standards of - Tombstone, Ari zona,, circa 1880, it is a large and handsome room. The ikons of the holy men of Communism are also large and handsome. And so is the desk at which Com rade Popov receives his callers with an expression of stern, un bending purpose. I went to call on Comrade Popov in order to ask a question that seemed to me centrally im portant. But it is perhaps better to begin by introducing Com rade Popov and his two col leagues, Second Party Secretary Yefim Andreievich Marosov and Third Party Secretary Alek sandr Vassilievich Shilov. THEY are all middle-aged men. Thev all startpH thpir rarosrt in rather humble ways Com rade Popov was a primary school teacher, for instance. But all three "took up full time par ty work a long time ago," as they put it. All have followed this specialized career since at least 1940, and none has had any higher technical training beyond that offered In the party schools. These, then, were the trio to whom I put my question. I had been greatly impressed by the boldness, size and apparent suc cess of the huge Soviet indus trial and agricultural enter prises which have been shown me in the course of this Siberian journey. I had been equally im pressed by the caliber of the leaders of these enterprises. Such men are, of course, mem bers of the Communist party. But equally, of course, having huge jobs of their own to do, they do not function primarily as Communists any more than the chairman of U. S. Steel func tions primarily as a Republican or Walter Reuther functions pri' marily as a Democrat. m m m IirHAT then was the role of the " Party itself in these enor mous and technically complex enterprises? Where exactly did Comrades Popov, Marosov and Shilov fit into the grandiose and dramatic pattern of western Si beria's agricultural and Indus' trial development? "There the role of the Party," replied Comrade Popov, with a powerful didactic scowl, "is the 36 times with 40x82 and 45x90 caliber Winchester rifles. They were closing in on him. He was headed toward a young man and his pardner, 18 years of age. The bear turned his head to look at the other men, and was shot directly in the ear with a 45.90 slug. In 1893 my aunt, Josie Hurd, told me, "Reel Foot" was at Corvallis, Ore., stuffed and well preserved. Her husband was a teacher there at the agricul tural college. The bear weighed 1.800 pounds, was 48 inches high, his forehead was 18 inches across. William E. Brown 21 Genessee st. Medford, Ore. an arms embargo to middle east ern countries. The Soviet proposal was simply a calculated attack on allied defense policies in the Middle East ' and especially against the Eisenhower Doctrine, under which American forces would be used if necessary to fight armed Communist aggres sion in the Middle East. It was announced at once that the United Stales would agree to the U.N. debate. Talks It was announced that French Premier Mollet will visit Presi- CONSTIPATED?. Hew laxative discovery un locks bowel blocks0 without gag, bloat or gripe Constipation is caused by what doc tort call a "thrifty" colon that, instead of retaining moisture as it should, does the opposite: robs the colon of so much moisture that its contents become dehydrated, so dry that they block the' bowel; so shrunken that they fail to excite or stimulate the . urge to purge that propels and expels waste fiom your body. To regain normal regularity, the dry,' shrunken, constipating contents of your colon which now block your bowel must be remoistened. Second, bulk must be brought to your colon tO S-T--E-T-C-H STIMULATE it tO action; to a normal urge to purge. And, of all laxatives, only Colonaid, the amazing new laxative discovery possesses Colonaid's great moisturiz role of leadership. For example, the colossal spaces of our steppes lay waste for centuries, but now they are being plowed. For thii purpose, it is necessary among other things to win tlte struggle to keep moisture in the soil. This is the successful offensive against nature, in which the par ty leads." In the beginning was the par ty. Comrade Popov and hii col leagues jointly explained. The party and its junior branch, the Comsomols, had the opening task of organizing the move ment of the people to work on the new lands and in the new industries. "Once again," said Comrade Shilov, pride shining through his spectacles, "the role of the party and its members was the role of leadership in ac complishing this great task. The leading role was immense." "Initially it is not easy," add ed Comrade Popov, "because we must create from nothing every thing, from housing for the peo ple who come, to needed cultural facilities. Yet it can be easily understood why our people go to such distant places. It is be cause of the care of the Cogimu nist party for the people." BUT more specifically, I asked, in a tone somewhat subdued by the flow of eloquence around me, what was the party's role in the actual management of the largest single local enterprise, the great new Sokolovsky mines? Do party officials like my kind hosts debate the com-, plex questions of open-dhst min ing on a titantic scale with the formidably capable mine man ager, who is one of the two or three leading Soviet technicians in this field? "The mine manager," replied Comrade Popov, "is a member of the collective. In this respect, our strength lies in working as one collective body. The collec tive effort of our people, . in which the leading role i played by the Communist party, is the real force that permits us to cope with our great tasks. Peo ple can solve any problems if they are well led. "Therefore the Communist party never loses its close con nection with the masses. Party members equally work together in such industrial enterprises as you have mentioned. So they help all people to solve prob lems, and so the rule is followed that the decisions taken by the collective body of the people must be fulfilled by ll means." On these lines, with the waves of eloquence rising nd falling in majestic tides, the conversa tion continued for nearly two hours. But such, in general, were the answers I received to one of the fundamental questions of Soviet society in its present stage of development. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) - Thief Kept His Word; Police Locate Him Boston (U.R) A thief took S16 from lunchroom rrasnaoer Charles Sougarides and airily told him, "If they want me. I'll be over on West Brook line it." They did. He was. Portland Police Captain Retiring Portland (U.R) Police Capt. William D. Browne, 60, said to day he was retiring on orders of his physician. He served 33 years with the police department here and for many years was chief of detectives. dent Eisenhower in Washington on Feb. 26. British Prime Minis ter Macmillan and the President will meet in Bermuda March 21. These will be the first talks by the Allied "Big Three" lead ers since the British-French at tack on the Suez Canal Zone, which strained relations ser iously. Defense Outlining defense plans in the House of Commons, Defense Minister Sandys said that the new Macmillan government in tends to end conscription as soon -as possible. 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