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Morse Rallies Public Power Advocates
In 'Last Ditch7 Fight for Federal Dam
Washington 'II P
L. Morse m-Ore (nHav TolHol!
public power advocates for a
"last ditch fight in this con
gress" for the proposed Hells
Canyon federal dam.
The Supreme Court Monday
rejected an appeal by public
power interests to prevent de
velopment by privately owned
Idaho Power Co. of the Hells
Canyon dam site of the Idaho
and Oregon border. Morse said
the court decision has no bear
ing on the public power policy
questions involved.
"The sell out by the Eisen
hower Administration" of pub
lic power should be stopped, he
said.
"Gratified At Decision'
T. E. Roach, president of Idaho
Power, said he was "gratified at
the Supreme Court's action be
cause it removes another of the
many obstacles which the 'pub
lic power or nothing' advocates
have used in their efforts to dis
courage and prevent the Idaho
Power Company from fulfilling
its responsibility to the people
of this area."
Roach, in a statement made in
Boise, Idaho, said the action'will
be a source of gratification to
the many persons throughout the
northwest who have contended
all along that the decision con
cerning Hells Canyon should be
made on an orderly fact finding
basis rather than on political
philosophy."
However, Evelyn Cooper, at
torney for the National Hells
Canyon Association, said the de
cision came as a "complete sur
prise." She said "none of us ex
pected this."
Beginning of Bailie '
Although she said it was "too
early" to tell whether another
appeal would be made, Mrs.
Cooper said the high court may
have refused to review the ap
peal because "it didn't want to
get caught in the middle of such
a hot political issue.
Clyde T. Ellis, general man
ager of the National Rural Elec
t r i c Cooperative Association,
said "tha battle for a federal
Hells Canyon dam is just warm
ing up."
In a telegram to various lead
ers of thepublic power fight for
Sen. Wayne Hells Canyon, he urged them not
to be discouraged.
"Let's give them a real battle
now," Ellis said.
Portland 'U.R C. Girard Da
vidson, former undersecretary
of interior and now aa attorney
for the National Hells Canyox
Association, said toiay that a
high federal dam in Hells Can
yon is now up to Congress.
The U.S. Supreme Court yes
terday rebuffed an association
move to oust Idaho Power Com
pany and its three low dams
from the Canyon.
Davidson said "unless Con
gress rises to the occasion and
authorizes the high dam, and
the ' Eisenhower administration
permits the bill to go through,
virtually our last chance for a
high dam will have been lost."
SLeverner Holmes Agrees
In Salem, Gov. Robert D.
Holmes agreed with Davidson
and said "our hope now lies
with Congress."
Idaho Power, which has al
ready started construction at
Brownlee, Ore., is still involved
in litigation with the state of
Oregon over its private construc
tion of the dams in Hells
Canyon.
The firm was indicted by a
Baker county grand jury for go
ing ahead with the project with
out getting permission from the
Oregon Hydroelectric Commis
s i o n. The indictment was
squashed by the Circuit Court
but an appeal to the State, Su
preme Court is pending.
OLD OFFICE An old photo reproduced
from the original by W. E. Thomas of Med
ford shows the old telephone office on North
Central ave., about 1910. To left of entrance
to the Odell Furnished rooms was the Med-
ford post office. Parked in front ef it wars
sparkling new "horseless carriage." To left of
' the two-story stone and brick structure wai
the Karnes and Ritter confectionery. -
Pacific Telephoned New Service
Improvements to Start April 27
Almost 59 years of telephone
history for the Rogue River val
ley will be in the records April
27.
On that day, according to
Manager Jack Creager, Pacific
Arend-Roland Comet
Will Be Visible To
Naked Eye in April
Brussels (U.R) .This month
; the world will be able to see
;t with the naked eye a brilliant
I star-like comet moving majest
j ically through the heavens,
j . This is a rare sight, but the
Arend-Roland comet -is even
rarer than that. It is the only
J, comet ever to have been dis-
l covered because a table tennis
-J tour collided with a revolution.
M. Roland, its co-discoverer,
'i is 33 and the table tennis champ
;j ion of Belgium.
I Last November Roland and his
; wife, Ghislaine, who is the Bel
J gian woman's table tennis champ
'I ion, took part in the Yugoslav in
:J ternatidnal championships. They
J were invited to continue on to
-J the Hungarian championships.
' "But the revolt was raging in
j Budapest so we ended our tour
2 in Belgrade and came on back
i home," Roland said.
V "I thought that since I was
J back in Brussels I might s well
C go back to work and I showed
- up at the laboratory Nov. 15,
somewhat earlier than scheduled.
. That very day my chief, Simon
Arend. asked me to examine a
- photograph of the sky taken the
1 night of Nov. 8." o
C Cornel Confirmed
3 Roland, who started at the
Royal Observatory as a calcula
j 'tor five years ago, began check-
ing the photograph for anything
out of the ordinary.
"Forty-five minutes later," he
said, "I vvas pretty sure I had
located an unknown comet on
the picture. I. rushed back to
Arend and together we started
working frantically, verifying
arid checking it thoroughly, and
soon there was no doubt left."
The Arend-Roland comet had
taken its place in astronomy.
German astronomers carefully
chacked photographs they had
takers even earlier. The path of
the comet was thus traced back
to summer of 1956, and through
an international exchange of in
formation it was possible to
establish its route or trajectory.
Will Attain Perihelion
The Arend-Roland comet is the
only one of the eight discovered
in the past year whic&.will be
visible to the naked eye. This
April it will attain its perihelion
closest approach to the sun.
"By that time in April," said
Roland with a touch of paternal
pride, "it will be as brilliant as
the big stars. I figure it will be
best visible in the southern hem
isphere, but observatories all
over the world will be able to
study it.
"I will ask to be on duty apt
the observatory every day dur
ing that period. I wouldn vat
to miss the rendezvous vfti
'our' comet."
: Social Security Program
; Explained at Roundtable
Benefits of the bureau of old-
age and survivors insurance pro
gram were discussed yesterday
by W. V. Nusbaum, manager of
the local office, U.S. department
of health, education and welfare,
social security administration.
Nusbaum spoke at the noon
luncheon of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce Round
table at the Jackson hotel.
Program Explained
The Social Security program,
established by the Social Secur
ity Act in 1935, includes un
employment insurance, public as
sistance such as old-age com
pensation, and assistance for
needy children and welfare pur
poses, he said.
. Explaining the insurance pro
gram, Nusbaum said it provides
monthly income for the worker
and his family when he retires,
and compensation for his family
when he dies. He added that 90
per cent of receipts for the pro
gram goes for benefits and only
two per cent for administration
purposes.
Chief reason an insurance pro
gram is needed, according to Nus
baum, is because the American
wav of life has shifted from an
' agricultural society to an in
dustrialized urban one. He cited
as an example that in 1790 one
Telephone will complete a $630,- fall operation of all facilities
000 service improvement and ex- in Medford, Gold Hill and Jack
pansion project. The project ; sonville, as well as Ashland,
out of every 20 people lived, im
urban areas and in 1940 six out
of every 10 lived in the city.
Therefore, he said, big families
are no longer assets and must
be provided for in some way.
Another reason ,for the progra,
he said, is that the life span ef
an individual has increased. The
amount of people over SS kas
increased 242 per cent sisoe
1900, it was reported.
Nusbaum estimated that y
1960 there would be abut 1?,'
000,000 people in the eouatry
over 65. That many pecrjie jwst ;
cannot save enough meney ;
retirement, he Said.
In Jackson county during 1S5
Nusbaum said payments irere
made to 4,145 people totalig
over S2Vi million. There gs
probably a 20 per cent increase
last year, he said. Nusbaum a-4-ed
that 1,800 applications fer !
payments were made last ysar at .
his office, which als gasras I
Josephine county. ji
includes
1. Placing in service the new
Phoenix-Talent exchange.
2. Introducing new telephone
numbers with a prefix in Med
ford, Ashland, Gold Hill, Jack
sonville and Phoenix-Talent.
3. Expanding the local calling
area of these exchanges through
an extended service program. ,
Telephone history books show
that Medford was the first tow
in the "valley to get telephone
service. That was Sept. S,
1898.
In Drug Stoe
The telephone ffice was set
up in Strang's Drug store at 206
East Main st. Charles Strang was
the telephone manager, and
Edna Eifert, the first operator.
By the end of the year there
were 22 telephones in use.
Other telephone exchanges
soon sprang up in the area. Sun
set Telephone and Telegraph
company, a subsidiary of Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph, was
extending long distance lines
between California and Oregon.
As the long distance lines prog
ressed, exchanges were estab
lished in towns along the route.
The Ashland exchange was
set up in October, 1898. Jack
sonville's was -installed the fol
lowing March and Gold Hill's
a year later.
When the long distance line
between California and Oregon
was completed, a local news
paper dispatch described it as
"the longest stretch of telephone
line in the world. It covers the
territory from Spokane Falls
(new Spokane) to San Diego and
gives connections with upwards
ef S.UHU towns."
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telejj&oH service of that time a
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there were 3,230 telephones
Medford.
Major Improvements
The years 1939 and 1949 saw
the next major improvements ef
service in the valley area. Ash
land and Gold Hill were eea-
verted to dial operation iR 1939.
Medford and Jacksonville &s1
dial telephones the following
year.
At that time, Creager was
outside telephone representative
with the company here. He later
became the assistant manager
aad thea manager.
As the 1940's'drew to a close,
Medford became a key point on
the coaxial cable route estab
lished between California and
the northwest. The cable expand
ed long distance calling facili
ties and later was also used
to carry the first television pro
grams into the northwest.
Microwave System
Now the company's new micro
wave radio relay system, placed
in service last summer, carries
TV programs, . and the cable is
used primarily for telephone
conversations. Two relay stations
in the microwave systems are
located near Medford at Baldy
Mountain and at Siskiyou Sum
mit. With almost 15,000 telephones
at the end of 1956, the Medford
telephone exchange was the
fourth largest in the state. At
the first of this year Pacific
Telephone had 252 employees
in Medford and last year had
an annual payroll of $1,165,000
in Jackson county.
Last year-, according to Crea
ger, the company paid $159,420
in property taxes -to Jackson
county and had 511,716,000
worth of telephone plant in the
county.
Medford telephone users are
making about 73,000 calls on an
average business day.
Klamath Bus Service
To Cease on April 30
Klamath Falls (U.R) ,ke
wner of the Klamath Bus cem
paay last night informed the city
council tJ-iat the company will
terminate Hs services in Uae city
en April Sft.
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ma tbai tbe eempany had beem
oporatifig jut the red fa? feur
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Burglar Posing as
Manager Robs Store
Cincinnati (U.R) A lazy bur
glar posing as an assistant store
manager hired a locksmith to
open a shore store safe for him
while two policemen kibitzed,
authorities said today.
The manager of the store,
Wayne Betz, said he found out
about the burglary Monday
when the locksmith, ' Joseph
Schmidt, called him to ask what
he "wanted done with the safe
door." Pressed for more details,
Schmidt said he was called Sun
day by a man who identified
himself as the assistant manager
of the store to fix a "stuck"
door on the safe.
Schmidt said he removed the
door while Patrolmen Ed Beck
er and Robert Ramstetter, who
knew him, stopped by to ask
"what was going on."
Schmidt said he took- the door
home and "I was going to send
them a bill for $60."
The burglar got away with
$3,698 in cash and $107 in
checks.
STAMP OF APPROVAL
Des Moines, Iowa U.R) Six
Garden Grove, Iowa, high school
students who found a package
of state-owned postage stamps
valued at $328 and turned them
in will be rewarded for their
honesty. The state will give each
of them a certificate commend
ing them for the virtue.
Scientific Accomplishment' Seen
As Aid To Overdoses of Radiation
BY DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Science now
can keep the bone marrow cells
of mice alive outside mice bodies
for three weeks. This justifies a
reasonable hope that some day
there will be a specific remedy
for the sure death results of mas
sive doses of radiation.
That's news in a world where
there is a chance of the day com
ing when large numbers of peo
ple will receive these massive
doses willy nilly from bursting
atomic bombs. ' As scientific
knowledge stands right now, no
thing could be done to save the
lives of those people.
Can Save Mice
But under laboratory condi
tions, a mouse's life can be saved
right now. First, you have a
supply of fresh mouse bone mar
row cells ready, which entailed
the sacrifice of other mice. Then
you irridiate mice with x rays in
doses- large enough to kill them
all.
Some you inject with the fresh
mouse bone marrow cells. The
others you leave alone. The lat
ter die, the former survive. Its
wonderful. No remedy could be
more specific. The radiation de
stroyed the blood making cells
of the marrow. Substitute cells
arc put into the mouse, and it
lives.
Presumably what can be done
to help mice with mouse cells,
could be done to help people;
with human cells. But when out
side the body, these cells are
extremely fragile and short lived.
Obviously if the method is ever
to become practical, there have
to be supplies available 'at all
times.
This means methods have to
be found for .culturing these cells
outside animal bodies and keep
ing them alive indefinitely.
That's why it's important that
Dr. Daniel Billen of the Oak
Ridge, Tenn., National Labor
atory, has succeeded in keeping
mouse marrow cells alive in
culture jars for three weeks.
Used Chemical 'Soup'
That's a phenomonally long
Bishop's Company to
Present Play Thursday
The Bishop's company, a na
tional church drama group, will
present the play "Cry, the Be
loved Country" Thursday, April
4, at 8 p.m. at the First Meth
odist church in Ashland.
The company, which present
ed four plays at the Medford
Presbyterian and First Meth
odist churches last year, has
played in 35 states and traveled
110,000 miles. The play will be
given by an all professional cast.
time, it gives hope that ways will
be found of keeping them alive
indefinitely. Dr. Billen did it by
working out a favorable chem
ical cultural medium or "soup"
in which to suspend them and
combining it with an incubation
temperature which helped the
medium along.
'You can see the. progress of
his laboratory work from these
figures: cells cultured for four
days in medium "C" when in
jected uito irradiated mice per
mitted 92 per cent to survive
30 days. But after nine 3ay in
the medium the cells no longer
helped any irradiated mice.
Work Continues
' But medium "E" after 14 days
of culture yielded cells which
gave 58 per cent of irradiated
mice a 30 day survival. Finally
he worked out another medium
which after 21 days still con
tained life giving cells.
There his work stands for the
moment, so far as he has re
ported on it to the scientific
world. But he is deep into two
other vital phases of the matter.
He is trying to identify the type
or types of bone marrow cells
which permit mice to recover
from lethal doses of irradiation,
and he is working on methods
of multiplyig bone marrow cells
outside animal bodies. Those
phases he will report on later.
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