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10 YEARS AGO
June 3, 19S7 (Tuesday)
Art Carlson speaks on "Ore
gon" at Monday meetinf of
Toastmasters" club, tailing of
great wealth from agriculture,
forest products and minerals.
From Arthur Parry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Sho(pers
and sllivers have causd a brfst
local demand fo' ajiirt eJsave
weather.
20 YEARS AGO
Juna 3. 1937 (Tfcumiary)
Forty-five free publie camp
grounds in the Sonne River Na
tional fore?4 will 1 available t
the vacation' this simmer.-
C. P. Johnsbn, Cas Wymore
and J. C. Collina. are nominated
for commander of Medford post
of American Legion.
30 YEARS AGO
Jun. 3. 1927 (Friday)
Cadet Hans W. Holmer of Med
ford will head the West Point
graduating class of 1927 with a
total of 2,757.05 points out of a
possible 2,975.
Work will start early next
week on the construction of
buildings for the Rogue River
Studios, Inc., according to Judge
W. E. Crews, chief counsel for
the company.
40 YEARS AGO
June 3. 1917 (Sunday)
O Claire Whiteman and James
Gregg of Medford, owners of the
patents cn the V-Plex ring, sell
out for $70,000 to a firm of east
ern businessmen.
No serious inconvenience will
be caused the public by the re
adjustment of the railroad serv
ice to meet the needs of the gov
ernment. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct la superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
Ix U good.
1. W-fere there any Japanese
in the U. S. before Perry's fleet
invaded Yedo (Tokyo) Bay in
1853?
2. How many grains are in
the usual aspirin tablets sold
commercially?
3. Bible: "Once in three years
came the navy-" which navy?
4. Do the cells of a honey
comb have four, five, or six
sides?
5. Is George S. Kaufman a
singer, actor, or playwright?
6. Do ferns thrive best In
partial shade or in full sun
light? 7. What does the radio abbre
viation FM mean?
8. Where is Mammoth Cave?
9. "Contemptible" means
worthy of contempt or scorn. Is
contemptuous a synonym of it?
10. "Food for the soul (Nutri
mentum spiritusV. This inscrip
tion first appeared on which
building in Ber'.Oi?
Answers: 1. Yes. (Manijiro. 14-year-old
castaway); 2. Fire
grains; 3. "NaTy of Tharshish";
4. Six: 5. Playwright: f. .Partial
Oshade; 7. Frequency Modula
tion; 8. Kentucky; 4. No. Means
a "feeling" of scorn; 10. Xoyal
Library.
Commitpon Approves
PurcbaSm of Station
Ashland The federal commu
nications commission has ap
proved the purchase of radio sta
tion KWIL at Albany. Ore., for
$80.0'q by the Albany Radio
corporation.
Tn Albany company is head
ed by Larry Gordon, former
manager of KWIN'. Ashland. The
station was acquired from Ralph
-1 Cronise. Albany.
MAIL TBTBUWE
Editorial Correspondence
Rice Mt. Inn, Paul Smiths, N.Y., May 30th This part of the
country has, we surmise, changed little since the Civil war. It was
essentially a summer resort area then, it is now. But in the future
there may be great changes. With the completion of the St. Law
renct Power project, in a few years, there will not only be ample
power but cheap power. There will also be greatly facilitated
ocean transportation, as well as water transportation to the great
consuming area of the Middle west. One of the largest aluminum
plants in the world is now operating at Cornwall on the northern
bank of the St. Ltwrence just across the Canadian line, and as
the country grows there will undoubtedly be others, operating in
this country for the same reason cheap power and cheap trans
portation. Such development might well have a great economic
impact on th Adirondicks.
There is another important factor. As the country grows the
demand for paper newsprint, wrapping, writing and what have
you will increase correspondingly. There is one large wood-pulp
mill now at Potsdam (no relation to Stalin's Potsdam) only a few
miles from here and there is timber galore all the way from the
St. Lawrence to Utica, N.Y. With great advances in wood pulp
production methods, with both hard and soft woods adaptable,
sdded to cheap power and cheaper transportation, a great develop
ment in this field in this section of New York, would seem highly
probable.
Before wa left home the people of Grants Pass were working
hard for a change in the state law so a pulp mill could be estab
lished on the Rogue. The sentiment in Medford appeared to be one
of indifference as to what was done for Grants Pass in this field,
but our recollection is the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce
turned pulp mill proposal down on the ground of unpleasant if
not noxious fumes. We had a chat with a former resident of Pots
dam now working on the St. Lawrence project and we asked him
regarding the fumes report. He said in the two years he lived
there the odor was so unpleasant he decided to move as soon as
he could et a job elsewhere. But he also said that this condition
r.ly existed t few weeks in the year when certain low pressure
atmospheric conditions existed. He ventured the opinion that the
people of Potsdam (as a whole) did not like the smell of the mill,
but they did like the payroll it created and the resulting increase
in prosperity. The implication was that as far as this town was
concerned, the benefits of a pulp mill exceeded the drawbacks.
As far as this department is concerned we would like to have
mora substantial information concerning both the effect of a pulp
mill on the residential assets of a community, and the effect of
loosening' the restrictions on commercializing of Rogue river be
fore w would favor EITHER.
Both tha city and the state of New York have had their crooks
nd bnodlars, but in the realm of conservation, both governments
train vary early days have been extremely enlightened. It was
around the time of the Boss Tweed regime in Manhattan for ex
ample, that Central Park was set aside as a huge recreational and
cultural canter a chunk of the Adirondacks one might say, in the
nation's largest city, to be enjoyed by future generations for all
time.
And now, a considerable section of the Adirondacks has been
t aside as state parks, the streams and the lakes and the miles
and miles of forest to be kept free from commercialism of any
kind, en4 in general preserved in a natural state for the enjoy
ment of future generations.
Oregon and other states in the Far West could profit greatly
ia this direction by following the example of this great Empire
state, and what is in some ways the most mercenary and material
istic metropolis in the country, the Borough of Manhattan.
Took a walk around the lake at the MacArthur "camp" and
was much impressed by the ruthless economy of Mother Nature.
Regretted our lack of education regarding bird life, for there were
11 sorts of birds flying about and twittering between songs. The
dirt roads were swarming with ant hills and in places the air was
swarming with little black gnats. No wonder the birds were hap
py with so much to feed on. Many Insects were dropping into the
lake and minnows were gobbling them up as they fell. As a result
the surface of some of the inlets in fact were ruffled as if by rain.
This no doubt was a field day for the minnows, but not so joyous
for the insects. With the birds attacking on land and the fish on
the water one might fear for insect-life but after a week's obser
vation we would hazard the guess that it's pretty much a stale
mate, there are many birds and many fish, but insects are legion.
It the birds and the fish should for any reason become extinct,
that old bugaboo of an insect world might not appear so fantastic
after all.
To complete the cycle, while the birds eat the Insects the in
sects eat up or try to eat up the family garden. And then the
humans who eat what the insects don't, catch the fish and eat
them, also when the season opens, shoots the birds the game ones
like grouse and quail at least and whether on toast or not how
delectable they prove to be.
9o we come to the Atomic Age, when as the King of Siam re
marked if no nation trusts any other nation, there will be nothing
left in this mad whirling cosmos but "fishes."
This problem is too complex and momentous, however, to treat
adequately in this offering, so that discourse will be reserved for
another time.
(We think we hear cheering from the gallery, but it may be
merely the soughing of the hemlocks and the pines outside.)
H.W.ft.
Who to
A wn tian who palled
the reports of the cloud
materials reported passing south ot lueaiora mat,
day "sort of bring it close to home, don't they?"
They do indeed. And someone else, referring to
the assuiances of the Atomic Energy commission
spokesman that the cloud was entirely harmless,
asked, "Do you believe that?
Well, if we don't believe the authorized spokes
man of our own responsible government agency, who
can we believe?
NONETHELESS, the entire business of atomic tests,
radioactivity, fall-out and the potential ultimate
threat to health not only in an annihilating nuclear
war but simply in the testing of nuclear and thermo
nuclear devices has made a tremendous impact on
the thinking of Americans.
And the thing which is so distressing to thought
ful people is the fact that those best-qualified to make
a decision as to public safety the scientists are far
from agreeing about it.
On the one hand, Pulizter prize winner Linus Paul
ing claims that tests already have done irredeemable
damage to thousands of people. On the other are
AEC scientists and others who claim that no one has
as yet been harmed by the tests, and none will be in
the foreseeable future.
A LL of this adds urgency, it seems to us, to the con
gressional inquiry which is now getting under
way into the matter. If we could have an impartial,
unbiased and factual account of just what the hazards
are, with substantial agreement on the points at issue,
we would be in a position to make a judgment on the
tests. E.A.
Monday, June 3, 1957
Believe?
the office Fridav said that
of radioactive fissionable
Matter of Fact Y
!KE AND 1960
Washington For the long
run, the most important out
come of President Eisenhower's
belated d r ive
to save his
program may
be his increas
ing awareness
of his immense
power. Until
very recently,
it was widely
a s s u med on
Capital Hill
Stewait AIsod mat ine t-resi-dent,
for the remainder of his
term in office, would adopt his
customary stance above the bat
tle. That is no longer a safe as
sumption. The President himself dropped
a broad hint at a recent press
conference: "Now I hope that I
will never be accused of being
so namby-pamby that 1 don't
have degrees of enthusiasm
about people that stand with
me and people that stand
against me." Much broader hints
have emerged from "reliable
White House sources."
These sources depose that the
President expects to have a lot
to say about the identity of the
candidates selected by the Re
publican convention in 1960.
The name of Richard Nixon is,
it is said, on the President's list
but the list is strictly tenta
tive. And the President's "degree
of enthusiasm" for Sen. William
Knowland is such that, for the
present at least, his name is de
cidedly not on the list.
THESE broad hints that the
President means to use his
ultimate power the power to
make or break a would-be Presi
dential candidate have im
mense political significance.
They are also good news, simply
because the American political
system does not function prop
erly if the President does not use
his power.
The theory has been much ad
vertised, of course, that Presi
dent Eisenhower has no real
power, because he is the first
President in American history
barred from succeeding himself.
The theory is nonsense. A case
could even be made for the prop
osition that, when everybody
knows that a President is not go
ing to run again, he actually has
greater power than when every
body believes he is going to run
again.
Just as much in his second
term as in his first, the Presi
dent has the power of Federal
patronage though that power
is admittedly much diminished
since the days when franklin
Roosevelt could make a Con
gressman shiver in his boots by
a gaily malicious hint that WPA
spending in his district might be
cut back. President Eisenhower
still has the power of major ap
pointments. He has the power of
unequalled access to the media
of public opinion.
TJE has, moreover, the mysteri--H-ous
power which hedges a
President as "divinity doth
hedge a king." Lesser politicians
instinctively seek a strong Presi
dent's favors as avidly as royal
courtiers. Franklin Roosevelt
could switch important votes by
a promise to appear in public
with his arm around a politi
cian's shoulder. There are plenty
of men in both houses today who
would gladly vote the Presi
dent's way for the delicious plea-,
sure of being able to say, "As
Ike was telling me the other day
But, a President who is not
going to run also has one im- j
mense source of power which a
President who is going to run
does not have. If he has a mind
to, he can choose his party's next
Presidential and even Vice- Pres
idential candidates.
Consider the record. William
Howard Taft was easily nomin-!
ated when Theodore Roosevelt
passed the word. In 1920, Wood
row Wilson was fading rapidly
but in James Cox and Franklin
Roosevelt he got the pro-League ;
of Nations ticket he wanted. Cal-1
vin Coolidge, to be sure, sat out j
the 1928 convention, but that I
was the kind of man Coolidge '
was. In 1940, if the famous ,
Stewart Alsop
"voice from the sewers" had
shouted any other name but
Roosevelt's, the owner of the
name would surely have been
nominated.
rpHE clincher is the case
of
A Harry Truman. In 1952, Tru
man was an unpopular lame
duck President. But the man he
chose, the rather obscure Gov
ernor of Illinois, would have
been nominated without any
fuss at all, if Adlai Stevenson
had not chosen to make a fuss.
Now consider the power Eisen
hower will have in 1960. The
roster of Republican national
committeemen and state chair
men, which included a majority
of Taft men in 1952, is now made
up overwhelmingly of devout Ei
senhowerites. The Republican
Governors, who have a iot more
to say at conventions than Sen
ators, are Eisenhower men al
most without exception. If Ei
senhower does not control a ma
jority of the delegates in 1960,
he will be justified in standing
his astute party chairman,
Meade Alcorn, up against a wall
and shooting him.
In short, there is no doubt
that the President can name the
ticket if he wants to do so. And
if he makes it clear that he does
want to do so, a lot of people in
the Republican party are going
to feel a sudden, strong impulse
to play the game the President's
way.
- (c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Adenauer Wins Point
On Disarmament and
Unification on Visit
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Chancellar Konrad Adenauer
of West Germany appears to
have won a big victory as the re
sult of his vis
it to Washing
ton last week.
First, he has
succeeded 1 n
establishing a
firm link be
tween the uni
fication of
Germany and
d i s armament
rharlet HcCann with Soviet
Russia.
Secondly, he has put himself
in position to block any attempt
to include West Germany in a
disarmament treaty until the So
viet government agrees to uni
fication. Key Disarmament Figure
Hence Adenauer seems clearly
to have made himself the key
figure in the attempt of the
Western Allies to reduce tension
in relations with Russia.
The joint communique which
President. Eisenhower and Aden
auer issued at the end of their
talks last week said:
" . . . The ending of the un
natural and unjust division of
Germany is a major objective
. . . of the two governments.
Germany must be united . . ."
P ending a disarmament
agreement. West Germany will
continue to rearm as rapidly as
possible.
Won't Be "First Step"
If the current disarmament
negotiations in London succeed
in providing the first step toward
a disarmament treaty, the Ger
man unification problem must
be settled before a comprehen
sive treaty is negotiated.
Brass Serpent On Pole
GEO. N. TAYLOR
"Push me up a bit; raise my head so
I can see; Yes, I see I see I live." It was
centuries before Christ. God's Chosen Peo
ple had gone deep into sin and God sent
fiery serpents among them to sting them
to death. But God would save all who had
faith to obey him. So he had a brass ser
pent put on top of a high pole and whoever
looked on it lived Numbers 21:8-9, Bible.
Christ not only died for them who then
believed but also for you who today be
lieve. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanses from all sin. Believe, have
life eternal and by daily Bible and praver,
grew up. G-N-T, 2385 87th Ave. S-W.,
Portland 1, Ore.
Republican Party in Trouble
Financially; Split Foreseen
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington IIPI This is the
season for the Republicans to
have money trouble, and bad
trouble it is.
In its strong
est form the
story is that
the Republican
National com
mittee is now
broke, or near
it, and cannot
raise more
money.
Lyi. c. wiuon others claim
the situation is bad enough, but
not that bad. Something seems
to be persuading contributors
not to contribute. It is freely
conceded that the committee is
looking for a finance chairman
and may get its man this week.
Some party men blame Presi
dent Eisenhower for the money
drought. They believe the flow
of Republican political funds
was slowed or stopped because
likely contributors object to
Eisenhower's big 1958 spending
program and to what sometimes
is called his new liberalism.
That, in turn, sometimes is
called modern Republicanism.
Answer This Week?
What the Republicans can do
U.P. Correspondents
Forecast Headlines
United Press correspond
ents around the world look
ahead at the news that will
make the headlines.
China Trade
European diplomats are inter
ested in the mildness of United
States reaction to Britain's de
cision to loosen up trade restric
tions against Communist China.
Seme of them believe the Eisen
hower administration secretely
OK'd the British move well in
advance, and protested for the
record.
Fallout
The controversial question
whether there is any "safe" dose
of radioactive strontium-90 will
be aired this week in congres
sional hearings on H-bomb fall
out. Strontium-90 is a long-lived
product of nuclear explosions
that can cause bone cancer or
leukemia. The Atomic Energy
Commission says that the
amount sprinkled on the globe
so far in bomb tests is far be-
Adenauer supplemented this
by saying at a press conference
that West Germany would not
be included in any "first step"
disarmament agreement.
Secretary of State John Fost
er Dulles acknowledged in a
press conference next day that
Adenauer was in a position to
refuse the inclusion of West Ger
many in such an agreement.
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Thanks to Hospital
To the Editor: Memorial Day
memoirs, from a patient who
was there.
Am writing this to thank all
of the medical staff and em
ployees for being so nice to me
at Rogue Valley Memorial hos
pital. This hospital has the
homey atmosphere that you sel-
dom find in a public place. It's ,
so nice that it makes you forget !
you are ill. j
I wish to thank Miss Hart for j
all of her kindness to me, also
my little roommate, Sharon
Frazier. "There was never a dull j
moment around her."
' Also wish to thank the Chev
rolet people for sending the pap-
er, "Tribune." We all enjoyed it
too. I know where to buy gas 1
now.
Mrs. Essie Egger, j
113 South Jones st., j
Grants Pass, Ore. !
about party finances may devel
op this week in political hud
dles here. It has been suggested
that the Senate and House Re
publican campaign committees
cut loose from the National com
mittee. The custom has been for
the two congressional commit
tees and the National committee
to raise funds jointly, a kind of
political united fund.
For the two congressional
campaign committees to go off
on their own fund-raising cam
paigns would have the appear
ance of a monumental vote of
no confidence in Eisenhower.
Moreover, if the congression
al committees proved capable of
getting contributions while the
National committee floundered,
the no confidence aspect of the
situation would be even more
emphatic. It would mean that
the Republican party in Con
gress could outdraw the Repub
lican party in the White House
outdraw, at least among cam
paign contributors who count.
Two Key Men
Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel
(Kan.) is chairman of the Senate
Republican Campaign commit
tee. Rep. Richard M. Simpson
(Pa.) chairs the Republican Con
gressional Campaign committee
with special responsibilities for
low the danger level. But some
authorities hold that even the
smallest amount introduced into
population may cause some in
crease in cases of bone cancer
and leukemia.
Safe Or Unsafe
In any event, safe or unsafe,
the United States will hold nu
clear tests in the Pacific next
year unless some international
agreement is reached to stop
them. The AEC and the armed
forces are preparing for new
experiments. The AEC seeks a
seven million dollar expansion
of facilities at the Eniwetok
proving ground. The armed
Services special weapons project
wants an extra $9,550,000 for
r-HL-lllc tests.
In The Bag?
The word from West Germanv
is that Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer is a sure bet to win the
national election set for Sept.
1? as the result of his success
ful visit to Washington. Aside
from that, small political groups
which had been flirting with the
opposition Socialists are swing
ing back toward Adenauer's
Christian Democrats. They don't
like the Socialist talk about na
tionalizing key industries.
Joint Command
Top Western generals are sure
that delegates to the Middle
Eastern Treaty Organization,
who opened a meeting in Kara
chi, Pakistan, today will form
a joint military command. They
are preety sure also that 37-year-old
Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlevi of Iran will be chosen
as commander in chief. His first
move would be to coordinate
defenses of member countries.
Members of METO the so
called Baghdad Pact are Pa
kistan, Iran, Turkey, Iraq and
Britain. The United States will
all but join the pact outright
at this week's meeting by ad
hering to the METO military
committee.
Hells Canyon
Washington insiders say that !
this week's Senate debate on
the Hells. Canyon dam project
will be held primarily to let the ;
Democrats record their argu- j
ments in favor of public power, i
A bill to upset the administra
tion's decision to let the Idaho
Power Co. build three dams
and to provide for a federal
project instead was defeated last
year, 51-41. A new bill is given
no more than an outside chance
in the Senate. It would meet
even rougher going in the House
and presumably Eisenhower
would veto it if it reached him.
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electing members of the House.
These two are regular Repub
licans, strong party men and
good politicians. Tifey will not
lightly go off on their own to
raise money. All the more signi
ficant, therefore, would be such
action on their part is Schoeppel
and Simpson decided finally it
had to be done.
Back there in 1956 the cam
paign funds rolled in The Na
tional committee divided the
loot and everybody was oiimpar
atively happy. Just maybe, how
ever, too much of that money
was spent on electing EisiMhow
er and not enough on helping
Republican candidates fir the
Senate and House, which re
mained Democratic after tie re
turns were in.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Following a long established
custom, the National Safety
Council made a prediction as to
the number of lives that would
be lost on America's highways
during the four-day more or less
holiday period from Thursday
morning until Sunday night.
The prediction was about 450.
Ter:
ERRIBLE?
ell, it's pret-.y rugged. If
the prediction is borne out by
the facts, it will mean an aver
age loss on our highways of
about 112 lives per day.
It gives one the shivery feel
ing that driving on our highways
during a holiday or semi-holiday
period is a good deal like
playing Russian roulette.
O
HOWEVER
Before swearing off holiday
driving, let's take a calmer look
at the situation. Traffic fatalit
ies on American highways have
been running for a long time at
the rate of about 36,000 a year.
That is a year-around average
of about 100 deaths per day.
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getting in too big a hurry, your
chances of getting to your des
tination all in one piecewill not
be too bad.
That goes for holidays as ell
as ordinary days.
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