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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and
4QQyears ago.
10 YA AGO
JTrch 10. 1(47 (Monday)
Bread increased a cant a loaf
in rwtail stores in Msdford.
from irthur Perry'f Ye
Smudge Pot column: More val
Igt residents have returned from
wintering in the south. All ex
press Chamber of Commerce joy
at getting beet.
20 YElRi AGO
March 10. 1337 ( VedneieUy)
The packed pear crop of the
Rogue River valley for last year,
has been largely marketed, ac
cording to F. Cramer Deuel, sec
retary of the Rogue River Traf
fic association.
The first lamb tongues of the
year were picked by Mr. and
Mrs. Larkin Reynolds on their
ranch at Ruch Monday.
30 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1927 (Thursday)
Central Labor Council plans
receDtion in honor of Ben T.
Osborne, executive secretary of
the State American Federation
of Labor.
As soon as weather becomes
warmer, the unemployment sit
uation will be ereatly improved,
according to Chris Gottlieb, head
of the local branch of the United
States free employment bureau.
40 YEjEf AGO
March 10. 11 (Saturday)
R. A. Ward, biological assist
ant bureau of survey of the de
patient of agriculture, will be
in Jackson county soon to worn
with County Pathologist Claude
w C. Cate on several agriculture
demonstrations.
ie payroll at the Blue Ledge
mine now amounts to about
('i.OOO a month, owners have an
nounced. & W Tcyr IQ.?
Nine or ten correct It snpertar; seT
en or elrty Is excellent: (lye er
sim is go4
1. Was Election Dty in the
United States ,lwys on a Tuea-
day?
2. When the jecond award of
a medal for valor or achieve
ment is made to a member of
the armed force does the man
get! two medals?
3. Bible. Who baptized Saul?
4. Moyt r4rs now have graft
ed roots; trat or false?
5. The r.m of which city
means '"brotherly lov"?
6. Harriet Ln as tha niece
of a President ana served as
mistress of the White House
during her uncle's term of of
fice; name the President.
7. Is polycythemia a disease of
the red or white blood cells?
8. In what country is Narsars-
sauk?
9. Is the "ch" in "coche" pro
nounced cosh or cotch?
10. "As high as Heaven, as
deep as" what?
Answers: 1. No. 2. No. the
second award is represented by
an oak leaf cluster. 3. Ananias.
4. True. 5. Philadelphia. 6. James
Bu.-hanan. 7. Red. 8. Greenland.
9. Cosh. 10. "Hell." Young.
Washington Paying
Korean Vets Bonus
The state of Washington
paying a bonus to Korean vet
erans, Jerry V. Bianconi, county
veterans service officer, remind
ed ex-servicemen Friday.
Any Washington veterans in
Jackson county may contact Bi
anconi at the courthouse where
applications may be secured.
was slated. Deadline for apply
ing ior we tonus Is Dec. 31.
What are We Waiting For?
As memorials to congress by the State Legislature
are seldom important, so
Canyon memorial by one vote was not so important.
But as a party voting index it was significant.
Every Republican voted against this approval of
public power on the Snake, and every Democrat
voted for.
As the Democrats have a majority in the House
naturally the memorial passed by a comfortable total
there. But with a 50-50 party division in the senate
the result was a tie, 15-15, with the measure defeated
because it failed to get the necessary 16 count by
one vote.
e e e e e
THIS makes it reasonably clear that if the people
of Oregon wish to get authorized federal power
projects finished, or any new ones started, they better
vote Democratic.
We grant Hells Canyon has become extremely
controversial politically but the debate over this
memorial plainly demonstrated that in this field the
Republicans have learned nothing and forgotten noth
ing. All the old cliches about the evils of public power
from the standpoint of our cherished "American way
of life" were brought from the moth balls, shined
up and fired at the opposition with all the exaggerated
solemnity of a firing-squad delivering a salute to the
"unknown soldier."
As usual an entirely false picture of the public vs.
private power issue was presented, although the rec
ord of every federal multiple power project from TVA
Tennessee to Bonneville, Oregon, refutes this.
e
IT WAS claimed, for example, that if a high federal
dam was constructed on the Snake as recommended
by the U.S. army engineers, in place of the three
small dams by the Idaho Power company, not only
would it cost the American taxpayers six or seven
hundred millions, but the same taxpayers would lose
a million dollars a year in taxes, and after all was
said and done, the Idaho company project would,
quote: "benefit Oregon and the Pacific northwest
ALMOST as much as the high dam." (There is an
other prize winning understatement.)
e e e e e
THE only trouble with this
Even the official examiner for the Federal Power
Commission in an official report that was never over
ruled, declared "a high federal dam would be dollar-
f or-dollar the better investment and more nearly ideal
development of the Middle
Why this decision was
by the F.P.C. has never been made clear. The reason
given by one official in Washington was that Congress
wouia never vote tor another federal nroiect in the
west, so wny authorize it. But only a short time
later the Congress not only DID so vote authorizing
me upper Colorado project but at far greater cost
to the American taxpayers, for whom the Grand Old
farty has such strong sympathies, whenever Hells
canyon is the issue.
BUT just what does this
1 M -T-vrs-v?a-.1 4.
ailu wuciui jus in taxes
up to when a multiple project idea is adopted as it
was, ior example, at TVA
in the first place the
Every penny advanced by the government is over
a period of years returned to the government through
the sale and distribution of power, not directlv to the
consumer but through local cooperative distributing
systems, and ALWAYS at a low and reasonable cost.
In other words through a couple of generations
such a project doesn't cost the taxpayers of the country
one rea cent.
M0RE0VER at the end
ment that is the people of the countrv own an
extremely profitable and extensive light and power
system, the services of which they get indefinitely'at
a minimum charge. Does that promote the public wel
fare or doesn't it?
" '
AS FOR the much-advertised loss in taxes which the
Idaho Power company, for example, would pay,
if given the green light, is there anyone in the audi
ence so naive they believe the company WOULD pay
these taxes?
Of course, as everyone knows, they wouldn't. They
would merely add the tax costs to their rates, and as
always the consumers would pay via the nostrils.
A ND there one comes to the crux of the entire prob
lem. Not only is it a question of getting more power
the maximum but getting cheaper power the min
imum. And we don't believe there are many who would
deny that there is the crying need of the people of
Oregon and the people of the northwest.
riNALLY there is the multiple purpose item in the
federal project that by the nature of things, and
our established financial system CAN'T be included
in any private power development.
Again taking the "Tennessee Valley Authority"
as an example, such a trustworthy and conservative
news commentator as Marquis Childs, in the equally
trustworthy and conservative Oregonian, recently
stated that in the matter of flood control alone, this
federal T.V.A. development on the Tennessee river
saved one city Chattanooga in the recent floods
an estimated $65,000,000.
Of course there would not be a similar flood
danger on the Snake but there would be on the Co
lumbia, and on both there would be material, col
lateral benefits in the area of water storage, naviga
tion and irrigation.
Sunday. March 10, 19S7
the defeat of the Hells
argument is "it just ain't
Snake.
not accented and followed
expense in increased taxes
X 1 1 i 1 t
to local crovernments arm
on the Tennessee river?
project is self-liauidatine-,
of that period, the govern
In the Days
By FRANK
At his news conference Thurs
day morning. President Eisen
hower discussed the problem of
inflation. He said it may be nec
essary to CUT SOME FEDERAL
SPENDING in order to FIGHT
inflation.
He added that he has ordered
an intensive review of the budg
et to see where spending can be
slowed down.
LET'S put it this way:
The dancer of inflation was
present when the budget was be
ing put together Heavy govern
ment spending tends to IN
CREASE the danger of inflation.
But the budget, as presented to
the Congress still called for the
spending of nearly 72 BILLION
dollars the highest peacetime
budget in history.
The size of it scared a lot of
people, including a lot of com
mon, ordinary taxpayers with no
political axes to grind. In the up
roar over the staggering size of
the budget, it is becoming rea
sonably apparent that too much
spending isn't popular among
the VOTERS.
THIS is the moral:
It snendine is to be cut. the
VOTERS will bring it about.
Whenever it becomes apparent
that excessive spending of the
taxpayers' money LOSES votes
instead of WINNING VOTES
there will be economy in gov
ernment again.
Bi)t not before then.
TNTERESTING little tale:
-- Pnnular Science magazine
predicts that glib-tongued home-
repair swindlers will bilk Amer
icans out of half a BILLION dol
lars this year.
Hmmmmmm! Let's put it the
other way around:
AMERICANS THIS YEAR
WILL PERMIT THEMSELVES
TO BE BILKED OUT OF A
HALF BILLION DOLLARS BY
SMOOTH - TONGUED SLICK
ERS.
I
N SHORT we can think
on this issue of public
Snake or elsewhere than to quote the official exam
iner of the Federal Power commission when, after
a thorough examination of all items mvoled, declared
in his official report, quote :
"The high dam would be dollar-for-dollar the better
investment and the more ideal development of the Middle
Snake."
Why then don't we have it? What are we wait
ing for?
That, we believe, is the $64,000 question for the
present administration to answer. R.W.R.
News Tips versus News
A mildly irate subscriber phoned this office last
week and asked why we allowed the radio to best us
on important news.
"What news?" was asked.
The "important news" proved to be that Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt had broadcast the fact that her
choice for the Democratic presidential nomination in
1960 was Oregon's senior senator; the right Honorable
Wayne Morse.
We admitted that was
ised to check. The result
that Mrs. Roosevelt never
anywhere else, that Senator Morse was HER choice
for the presidential nomination.
She had declared in
"McCall's magazine" that
her three favtorites for
to an inquirer, that her
nomination would include the following:
Former Ambassador Chester Bowles.
Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon.
Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan.
Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania.
Governor Edmund Muskie of Maine.
No preferences were
indication that the order
had any special significance.
As the record sliows
any of the press associations, and, as far as known,
was not played up by any
even sent out by McCalls
However had any of
Mail Tribune, a long time and unwavering supporter
of Oregon's senior Senator, would have considered it
newsworthy and put the item under a proper head in
a proper place.
But that did not happen.
OOWEVER, the reason we mention it editorially
now, is to emphasize one of the minor headaches
in the newspaper business, namely the receipt of so
many unsolicited newrs items, that don't happen to be
true.
Mrs. Roosevelt, of course, did not choose Wayne
Morse as her favorite candidate for the Democratic
nomination three years hence, she only mentioned him
as one of five prominent Democrats she considered of
presidential timber from a news angle quite a dif
ference. But it was and is, of course, a great compli
ment to Senator Morse.
XE WELCOME news
TT would do nothing
But we do have our moments when we wish more of
the "tips" were based upon the facts rather than as
sumptions so often contrary to them. R.W.R.
News
JENKINS
TTOW?
It will all be quite simple.
These smoothies will harp on
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.
They will make it appear that
their prospects can get rich
quick with very litUe effort. All
that will be necessary will be
to bite on the bait the smoothies
are offering.
There will be a catch to it, of
course.
The catch is that there is NO
SUCH THING as something for
nothing.
Editorial
Comment
WOULD READERS TURN RED?
Secretary of State Dulles has
added absurdity to nonsense in
trying to reverse himself grace
fully on the Red China ban.
Dulles now says that he'll let
reporters go to the China main
land if he can figure out how to
keep this from opening the door
to a general "cultural exchange.
Reporters visit prisons without
encouraging readers to become
felons. Not only does such a vis
it not encourage crime, but it
deters it by showing its uncom
fortable result.
Red China is willing to admit
these reporters without demand
ing any such exchange. And if
she did send reporters to Amer
ica for a look around, nothing
but good could result.
Red China is not a nice place
the analogy to prisons was
used deliberately and we cer
tainly don't want to get chummy
with this land of Commie op
portunists. But a visit to a prison
doesn't imply love of evil-doers.
The secretary now realizes
that he's restricting two good old
American rights, freedom of
movement and information, and
we wish he'd complete his about
face more forthrightly. Albany
Democrat-Herald.
of no better summing up
vs. private power on the
"news" to us and we prom
of the "check" was to show
declared over the air, or
her personal column in
while she refused to name
such an honor, she did say
list of qualified men for the
expressed and there was no
in which the names appeared
the item was not carried by
newspapers in the state or
publicity department.
these things been done the
tips from any source, and
to discourage the practice.
Matter of Fact by
WHERE WE COME IN
Paris For the Soviet citizen,
the gradual evolution of the iron
society in which he lives and
has his being
must be a mat
ter of really
passionate con
cern. And this
same evolution
should also be
a matter of
deep interest
for Americans.
All the same,
Joseph Aisop the evolution
of Soviet society that began with
the death of Stalin has neither
softened nor deflected Soviet
foreign policy. On the contrary,
while considerably more supple
than their late master, Stalin's
heirs have actually proven some
what more adventurous. And on
the basis of a rather intense ex
perience in the Soviet Union,
this reporter is convinced that
a wholly new generation of So
viet leaders will probably have
to come to power before there
is any real change in the mean
ing of "peaceful coexistence."
Thus the fundamental West
ern problem remains unaltered
except in detail. In the satellite
area of Central Europe, to be
sure, the Soviets have recently
suffered a severe setback. But
by the ruthless use of their great
military power, they have re
covered a large part of their
losses, at least for the time be
ing. Meanwhile, the West has
also suffered severe setbacks,
especially in the troubled Mid
die East. And the Western losses
have most conspicuously not
been recovered.
AT THE present juncture,
moreover, the West has found
no effective way to exploit the
boviet setbacks. Yet the Soviets
are exploiting the Western set
backs with great darine and
astuteness. Thus Soviet world
strategy has actually gone for
ward. What then is the nature
of this Soviet strategy which the
Western allies must somehow
find means to parry?
It comes in three parts. To
wards the United States, the So
viets present a firm military
front. At the same time, they
seek bilateral negotiations be
tween the two giant powers, but
always and on strictly Soviet
terms.
In all the vulnerable ex- and
semi-colonial areas in which the
Western powers have vital inter
ests, meanwhile, the Soviets are
doing everything possible to
transform the inflamed native
nationalism into a weapon
against the West. In Stalins
time, the center of this effort
was the Far East. But the great
innovation of the Khrushchev
era has been Soviet intervention
in the Middle East, where Stalin
hardly raised a finger after his
retreat from Azerbaijan,
In his talk with me, for in
stance, Nikita Khrushchev open
ly indicated active Soviet sup
port for nationalization of the
Middle Eastern oil sources,
whence flows the economic life
blood of Britain and western
Europe. Thus he revealed the
Soviet aim. The masters of the
Kremlin do not want Commu
nist satellies in the Middle East.
They want Soviet-backed, venge-
From Washington
By Roscoe Drummond
RESISTANCE TO THE
PRESIDENT
Washington The trend of re
cent events shows that Presi
dent Eisenhower is going to
have recurring trouble with
Congress.
What is immediately visible
is that Mr. Eisenhower faces a
more critical Congress a Con
gress more resistant to his pro
posals for the conduct of foreign
policy than at any time since
his first election.
The decisive Senate approval,
72 to 19, of the Eisenhower Doc
trine in the Middle East is pro
foundly welcome to the White
House, but it would be mislead
ing to look upon this vote as
much of a Presidential victory.
It was a Presidential defeat at
several points and casts its
shadow ahead.
It would be premature to say
that anything like stalemate be
tween the White House and Con
gress is in the making. It isn't.
Neither side wants stalemate.
What is happening is this:
The Democratic leaders are
not pliantly going to say yes to
the President every time he asks
for something. This is not unex
pected. There will be no mas
sive opposition. There will be
selective opposition and now
that Mr. Eisenhower can't run
again, there is going to be a lit
tle more "politics as usual."
There is some compensation
for the President. As Democratic
opposition increases, there is a
tendency among the Republi
cans to close ranks and increase
their support. This has been evi
dent throughout the voting on
the Middle East resolution.
FIFTY-EIGHT days from pres
entation to passage cannot be
considered very responsive on
the part of Congress to the
"urgent" appeal Mr: Eisenhower
made for "prompt" concurrence
in his plan to give economic
aid and military protection to
the Middle East nations. A Re
publican Congress did better
than that in approving the "Tru
man Doctrine" for military and
economic aid to Greece and Tur
key in 1947.
Joseph Alsep
fully anti-Western Arab govern
ments which will nationalize the
oil sources and take other steps
of a similar nature.
THUS Britain, particularly, is
to be ruined. France and the
other western European powers
are to be weakened. And by this
economic flank attack, the chief
trans-AUantic partners of the
Western alliance are to be
knocked out of the great power
game.
But while they are thus en
couraging their Arab friends to
strike at the vitals of Britain,
France and the other European
nations, the Soviet leaders are
shrewdly seeking quite another
sort of success in Britain and
France. In both these countries,
the men of the political right
place the whole blame for the
setbacks in the Middle bast on
the follies of American policy,
conveniently forgetting their
own follies. And on the political
left, the American alliance has
always been a source of pro
found disquiet.
In this confused state of pub
lic opinion, the Soviet leaders
hope to make great gains with
still another weapon the cold
fear which always inspires wish
fulness and bad judgment. With
virulent anti - Americanism al
ready rampant, they are going
to brandish their new arms. (It
is a fair bet that they will short
ly make some sort of public
showing of an intermediate
range ballistic missile with an
atomic or hydrogen warhead
which will inspire very cold fear
indeed.) And they are going to
say to our partners in the West
ern alliance:
"These Americans are terrible
people anyway. If you only were
not linked with them, we should
be nice as pie to you. So why do
you run the risk of being devas
tated by these dangerous toys of
ours in a quarrel between us
and the Americans, just because
you obstinately continue to grant
the Americans bases in yaur
countries?
riNCE again, in the interview
v he granted me, Nikita Krush
chev quite discernibly hinted at
this Soviet approach. He also
quite confidently predicted that
the American overseas bases
would eventuaUy be liquidated.
By these means, in sum, the
masters of the Kremlin hope to
organize a gigantic upset of the
world balance of power, only
comparable to the upset in the
European balance of power that
occurred m the Thirties.
If you look at this Soviet for
eign policy cold bloodedly, with
out the cheap self indulgence
of easy indignation, you have
to admit that the Kremlins' mas
ters are very far from stupid or
weak. Their strategy, alas, is
prudently bold, well adjusted to
the means at their disposal, and
on the whole well calculated to
attain the aims they have set
for themselves.
In truth, the Soviet strategy
leaves only one key question un
answered. If the world balance
of power is successfully upset as
planned, how will the suddenly
aroused United States then re
act? Copyright.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
There are other manifestations
of Congressional independence
of and resistance to the Presi
dent. For reasons which were
completely arguable, the Senate
Democratic leaders re-wrote the
Eisenhower resolution to put the
full responsibility upon the Pres
ident for use of force in the
Middle East if he deems it nec
essary. At another point a Demo
cratically sponsored amendment
to empty the Middle East reso
lution of the economic aid pro
vision got 28 votes, which can
not fail to give the White House
grave concern about what may
happen to the economic aid ap
propriations which lie ahead.
Finally, there was the over
whelming upsurge of Congres
sional opposition to the prospect
that President Eisenhower
would support U.N. sanctions
against Israel. Here both parties
were united against the White
House. Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson wrote Secre
tary Dulles a strong letter say
ing that Congress would never
accept such a course and Repub
lican Senate Leader William
Knowland threatened to resign
from the American delegation to
the United Nations if sanctions
were approved by the Adminis
tration. Most correspondents doubted
that the Administration would
in the end ever have gone along
with sanctions, but the vigorous
attitude of the Senate had the
effect of striking from the Presi
dent's hands an instrument of
pressure which he was seeking
to use on Premier Ben-Gurion.
THE unusually solid Republi
can support for the President
on the Middle East resolution is
the only encouraging develop
ment which the President can
find in this whole sequence of
events. Only five Republicans
joined the 23 Democrats who
voted for the amendment delet
ing flexibility in economic aid.
Only three Republicans voted
with the 16 Democrats against
the resolution itself.
. All the public opinion polls
continue to show that the voters
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
We were told, the other day.
about the salesman driving
alone Highway 99 near Central
Point in a delivery truck, which
suddenly lost a wheel. The driv
er managed to get off to the
side of the road, and watched
as the wheel rolled on, finally
coming to rest up the highway.
As our driver waited lor tral-
fic to clear so he could hike for
ward and get the wheel, another
truck, this one a pick-up, pulled
off the side of the road by the
wheel, the driver jumped out,
grabbed the wheel, tossed it in
the pick-up, and drove off.
The first driver was so iiaD-
bergasted all he could do was
sit there and watch. Didn't even
get the other guy's license num
ber. Tha Jackson school publica
tion. Jackson Hickory Chips,
reports that "March cam in
like a lamb. That meant it will
go out like the sixth grade at
lunch lime."
Good deeds are not always ap
preciated. Just ask Cliff Cordy,
the horticultural agent here,
who last week started off to
demonstrate to a photographer
how to prune rose bushes. He
was looking for a house with
bushes needine the work, whicn
he'd perform, skillfully and eV
perUy, free.
At the first house where he
stopped, the lady declined be
cause she wanted unpruned
roses to keep the kids out of the
garden. At the next, the skepti
cal householder declined be
cause, she said, they were rent
ing and maybe the landlord
didn't want the roses pruned.
This same story showed up at
the next bouse, and again at
another some distance away. At
another two or three houses no
one answered the door.
Finally, about an hour and 20
minutes after he started, Cordy
found a lady at home who said
she'd be delighted to have the
roses pruned, and that her hus
band had been planning to do
it that afternoon.
State Sen. Howard Belton
of Canby, "dean" of the sen
ate, says that some of the new
legislators remind him of the
bottom half of a double boiler
"they put out a lot of steam,
but they never seem to know
what's cooking."
Amos Walker saw a "Flight
O' Time" item in Mail Tribune
the other day, in the 40 years
ago column, which recorded that
Mrs. Myrtle Day of Gold Hill
had been in town to buy a Saxon
Six car. Walker, who then oper
ated the Walker Auto Company
on Main street, tells us that oth
er Saxon Sixes were delivered
to other valley residents from
the same shipment. He delivered
one to Johnny Reed, then mayor
of Gold Hill, after Mrs. Day.
Reed's sister-in-law, made the
arrangements, and others went
to Richard Antle, cashier of the
Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank.
and Herman Offenbacher, of the
Applegate.
Mrs. H. H. Chapman, our
H o r n b r ook correspondent,
swears that she heard a radio
announcer the other day. in
giving a waather forecast, say
there was "a shounce of chat
tered skewers." She thinks he
probably meant a chance of
scattered showers.
Last week our sports editor
traded -in his desk for another
one,- considerably larger, aue
to a general rearrangement of
furniture now going on in con
nection with our remodeling.
After the big desk was de
livered, someone made reference
to the sports desk, whereupon
the sports editor drew himself
up and announced that, with the
changeover, "This isn't the
sports desk anymore; it's the
sports department."
McLoughlin Junior ' High
school's paper, the Junior
Quill, records a conversation
in which Jim asks Tim if he
knows how to get rid of "that
run-down feeling." Tim says,
"No. How?" Jim replies,
"Look both ways before you
cross the street."
The general fire alarm sound
ed last week in the midst of a
downpour of rain, and our pho
tographer was dispatched post
haste to the Pinnacle plant
where smoke had been reported.
No fire ensued, however, and
he came back without a picture.
Someone said they were sorry
he'd had a "dry run.'
"Well," commented the pho-
tog, shaking water from his hair
and clothes, "it wasn't exactly
dry."
decisively support the Presi
dent's conduct of foreign policy.
If this support holds and the
Republicans conclusively back
the President, then the Republi
can party may be putting itself
in an exceedingly advantageous
position for the election next
year.
But it remains to be seen
whether this Republican support
will hold. Sen. Knowland has al
ready indicated that he will try
to cut Mr. Eisenhower's foreign
aid program.
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