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Newspaper Page Texto rOTO MEDFORD (OREGON) errwn m Southern Oregoo Begtfa Thsj Mail Trlbun'J Ptjblbmtd Daily Except Saturday by MfcOJORD PRINTING CO Kmrm Fir St Phone 2-3141 flOBERT W RL'HL Editor 0B GRAY Advertising ManansT LATHAM Business Maruftr ERIC aixAN JR Managing Editor juai. B ADAMS Cit Editor &ttAY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor BXCfcJAfiD JEWETT Sports Editor OUYt TSTAftCHER Society Editor PAi-& 8RICKSQN. Circulation Mgr. An kiegedgnt Newspaper titled secead class matter at Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SlEfeCRIFTION RATES By MA Advance Per Copy 10c tm.y m4 Suiy One year C15 00 Bally 4 Sunday Six month 8 00 tmy and Simoay Three moi 4.25 unsafe? Cmiy Oae Tear 14.20 By Cam In Advance Medford jMlaad Centra) Point Eagle Point. Jcawoevilie Gold Hill Phoenix. Cove Rorue River Talent Ad m motor roukea ' my and Sunday One year S18 00 ally aad Sunday One month 1 50 Carrier and Dealera 10c per copy AH Terms Cash In Advance Hflrtal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County U nited P rets F u 1 1 Lea sed Wire- MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative" WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago de trolt Snn Francisco Los Angeles FeattJe Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver R C NATIONAL EOITOIIA.. A S S 0 C-A 'I CN to Wf WSPAPEI PUBLISHERS J ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribun 10, 30, 10 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 23. 194T (Moaday) Two buildings, a store and service station, burn at Shady From Arthur Perry's Ye Cove. Smudge Pot column; News re ports from nqrthern California say the driver of a small car forced a freight truck with trail er off the highway. No effort is being made to catch the offender, and pin a medal on him. 20 YEARS AGO June 23, 1937 (Wednesday) Al Littrell. chairman, of re tail merchants committee of chamber of commerce asks all stores to close for the air carni val from 1:30 to 4:30 Friday. Oregon Fire Chiefs association holds three day convention in Medford. 30 YEARS AGO June 23. 1927 (Thursday) Seventh day for boys in Com pany A at Camp Clatsop leaves them still apprentices at digging clams. County court appoints viewers to view the proposed Cobleigh road near Butte Falls. 40 YEARS AGO June 23, 1917 (Saturday) Oregon State Motor associa tion planning trips to Crater Lake, advises tourists to plan Trip now. From Local and Personal col umn. Not only is there a short crop of cherries in southern Ore gon, but in the Willamette valley as well as in California. What's Ytur LQ.7 Nine or ten correet u Hurler: rvn or elht U exeelleat; Ave r tlx Is food 1. Did an Italian, Greek, or Moor put forth the earlist re corded theory that the earth was round, as like a sphere? 2. Gifts of wood are most ap propriate for thenfith. tenth, or fifteenth wedding anniversary: o 3. Bible: ". . .: whosoever maketh of himself a king, speak eth against Caesar." The penalty for the foregoing was death for what crime? 4. Who founded the original Standard Oil Company? 5. Is "yew" the name for a female sheep-, an evegreen tree, or a personal pronoun? 6. Is the average longevity of women in the U. S. greater or less than that of men? 7. During what war was Josephus Daniels the Secretary of the "avy? 8. On which sea is the city of Danzig? 9. Have "valuable." "valued" and "invaluable" the same spe cific meaning? 10. "And though hard be the task. ' Keep a stiff upper lip " Was this line introduced in a poem by a man, woman, or adolescent? Answers: 1. Greek (Pythagor as)). 2. Fifth. 3. Treason against the Roman Emperor. John D Rockefeller Sr. 5. Evergreen tree. 6. Greater. 7. World War I. 8. The Baltic. 9. No. It is of great value (valuable). A vauled friend. It is invaluable (above TAlue). 10. Woman. Phoebe Cary. MAIL TRIBUNE Another "Jinx" Year? The Sunset highway, from Portland to the Oregon coast, is a far more attractive route than it was in 1945, when the last of three great fires roared over the hills of the "Tillamook bum." In that year the sky was muddy with smoke. The highway wound down canyons that were bare, scorched earth and ashes. Flaming snags burned against the skyline. The charred carcasses of wild animals could be spotted occasionally. Truckload after truckload of men were carried to the firelines, and came back with grey, dirty, exhausted faces. Last week, as we drove again over the spot where 12 yeai'3 ago all was smoking ruin, we saw greenery in all directions. The only signs left from the big burns were still-uncut snags and vast reaches of small ever greens the "reproduction" so laboriously planted. HTHE Tillamook burn, as a whole, is one of the great- est areas of forest fire devastation in the world. The first of the three burns was in 1933, when the "last log out" before a dry-weather shut-down scraped over a rotten root, ignited a spark, and set the forests aflame, burning 250,000 acres. Other fires made the 1933 total on state-protected land 340,000 acres. Six years later, in 1939, fire again broke out in the burn. That vear it covered 189,000 acres. Other fires brought 1939's total to 308,000. Another six years later, in 1945, the Tillamook area caught fire again, this time with 180,000 acres covered, with a state total of 210,000. And in another six years, in 1951, while the Tilla mook burn escaped with only 35,000 acres, huge fires elsewhere brought the state total to 132,000 acres. ""THIS year, 1957, is another "jinx" year in the every-six-years pattern. The years in between, while some of them were bad fire years, were not as bad. Will the "jinx" continue? Will the six-year pat tern repeat? Will 1957 be another disaster year? These are questions which foresters are asking themselves a trifle uneasily. They are posed, among other places, in the Forest Log, publication of the state department of forestry. The Log points out, though, that from 1933 to the present, the acreage burned during the jinx years has been progressively smaller first 340,000 acres, then 308,000 acres, then 210,000 acres, then 132,000 acres. By projecting that, they calculate that if the jinx strikes again, some 65,000 acres of state-protected land is due to go up in flames. TN NON-"JINX" years, the pattern has also been one of generally decreasing acreage burned. The aver age from 1940 to 1944 was 19,000 acres; from 1946 to 1950 it was 14,000, and from 1952 to 1956 it was up again, to 17,000. These figures reflect several things : a more com plete system of access roads, to permit transportation of men and equipment to forest blazes more rapidly, improved systems of lookouts and communications, better techniques and equipment for fire-fighting. One of the most important, however, is an in creased awareness of the destruction which fire in the forests can cause. Loggers are more carefully trained and cautioned; some crucial wooded areas are closed to general use during high-hazard condi tions; and the public including campers, fishermen, hunters, tourists and picnickers is constantly re minded of the fire danger, and asked to help. TTHE sad fact is that a majority of forest fires are caused by men who are careless with logging equipment or methods; who unthinkingly toss away a match or cigarette; who leave a smoldering fire. If we get through 1957's fire season, which has already started and which will last until the heavy rains of fall, without 65,000 or more acres burning over, it will take cooperation of all the protective agencies and of every single person who enters the woods. Only in this way can we "Keep Oregon Green." E.A. The Urge To Organize Whenever an American is confronted by a prob lem, his first reaction seems to be to form an organi zation to deal with it. We are convinced that this nation has more organizations per capita than any society in the history of the world. This is either good or bad, depending upon the way one looks at it. There are organizations which we feel are wholesome and which are stupid, unnecessary or even vicious. IT IS possible that the U. Amendment of which protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble," is in part responsible for this American characteristic. This is coupled with the with others in efforts to do cannot do alone. Government in all its course, a gigantic complex of organizations through which we govern ourselves. But entirely aside from that, no American not even the lonely prospector, or isolated fanner, or skid-road bum can escape the effects of the urge to organize, which keeps America's business at work, its society in relative balance, its civilization alive, and its people busy. YHATEVER one may think of organizations in the abstract (and we often think there are too darn many of them engaged in too dam many need less and even undesirable they can and do exert tremendous influence. And much of that influence, thank the Lord, is good. It will be a sad day if Americans ever lose the urge to join forces to accomplish what they think is right and important and for the. public good E. A. Sunday, June 23. 1957 constructive, and others S. Constitution, the First age-old custom of uniting things which individuals forms and shapes is, of activities), no one can deny ' Dao savs that guy was m we Civil Wa.. THAT'S BEFORE YOU WAS BOPM.- Matter of Fact The U.S Takes the Lead Florence, Italy As this re porter seeks to sort out the gen eral jumble of i m p r e s sions left by a long Middle Eastern j o u r n ey, one fact stands out above all oth ers. Outside the close policy making circle, very few peo Joseph Alsop ple seem to have noticed it. Even among the highest American pol icy makers, one suspects that the implications have not as yet been fully thought out. None the less, this enormous fact is there, staring us all in the face so to speak. The fact is that the Unit ed States has now assumed full, direct responsibility for protect ing the vital interest of the West in the Arab lands. This vast extension of Ameri can repsonsibility is on compara bly the most important histori cal development of President Ei senhower's second term. Any sensible American, aware of our too numerous other responsibili ties, will wish it could have been avoided. But it was unavoidable, for two different kinds of rea sons. fN the one hand, the decline of British power left our allies without the strength to protect their own Middle Eastern inter ests. That began to be clear dur ing the Iranian crisis, precipitat ed by Doctor Mossadegh. It was proven to the whole world, once and for all, in the fiasco at Suez. On the other hand. President Eisenhower's special handling of the Suez fiasco made it neces sary for the United States to take up the Middle Eastern bur den without a moment's delay. By this intervention, the Presi dent in effect told our trans-Atlantic allies, my way of safe guarding your interests is better than yours! By helping Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser to trans form his humilating military de feat into a great political vic tory, the President also increased the threat to Western interests in the Arab lands to the point of extreme, immediate perii. The extremity of the peril was in turn acknowledged by the President himself, when he abruptly proclaimed the Eisen hower Doctrine. In large meas ure he was driven to do so by the shaky post-Suez situation in Iraq. Even the President's phrase about the need to fill the Middle Eastern "vacuum," seems to have been borrowed from the warnings of the Iraqi Prime Min ister, Nuri Pasha, which were transmitted to Washington last November through the American Embassy in Baghdad. rpHE very fact that the figure of - tough old Nuri Pasha is clear ly discernible behind the Eisen hower Doctrine also speaks vol umes about the way the Ameri can policy makers propose to dis charge their new responsibility in the Middle East. For Nuri Pasha had always, until Suez, been far more closely linked to Britain than to America. In the eyes of London, he was the prize "good Arab" to use Sir An thony Eden's not very fortunate phrase. In effect, the United States is now playing the "good Arab" game. American power and American influence are being lavishly used, in other words, to rally, draw together and strengthen the Arab leaders friendly to the West. And Ameri can power and influence are also beginning to be used to weaken the Arab leaders like Egypt's Nasser, who show themselves the West's enemies. In several vital respects, we are better equipped than our allies were for this game which we have now taken to playing. We are not afflicted with the vic eregal manner and outlook which too many British diplo mats and Middle Eastern policy makers conserved from the days when British policy in the Mid dle East was backed by the In dian army. We 'are not afflicted, either, with a long history of past ac tions in the Middle East which. Irjr w H I A By Joseph Alsop have generated Arab resent ment. Our share in the creation of Israel is everywhere remem bered with extreme bitterness; but at least it stands alone, in stead of being part of a long and bitter record- TTUNALLY, in the persons of King Saud of Saudi Arabia and young King Hussein of Jor dan, we have two Arab friends of cardinal importance who were not the friends of our allies. For this reason and the others above noted, the new policy we have embarked on is not inherently impractical. It can succeed. But this policy we have em barked upon runs squarely coun ter to the Nasser-style brand of Arab nationalism, which is the strongest popular force in the Arab lands today. It is also a pol icy of inordinate complexity and delicacy. It necessarily involves much secret diplomacy and many accurate judgments of character and situation. It calls for inordinate tact mingled with occasional extreme boldness. Altogether, it will afford an interesting but rather desperate test of American ability to rise to a quite new kind of political challenge. 1957 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. ornmunieations Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the write., 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 view to clarification and condensation, Lstters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Welfare Investigations To the Editor: In reference to the $6,000 per year welfare case recently reported in your paper. I just want to inquire why those cases on welfare rolls are not investigated at least every three months. Conditions change with people, and they should not pay out the peoples tax money, unless necessary. In fact accord ing to cases brought to my notice lately, there is more than one case on their rolls that needs in vestigation. Old people, and ones who are unable to work, we want to care for, but there should be a care ful investigation done, so there will not be a repetition of cases like this one. Is welfare concerned as to how well and justly they administer these funds? And can the recip ient spend this money for drink and smokes? Surely, if the staff is too small to investigate cases properly, and as often as needed, hire more and pay their wages out of mon ey that would be saved through investigation; not pay out our tax payers money needlessly or carelessly. A Tax Payer (Name on File) Medford, Oreg. Clerk Discusses Budget To the Editor: Just to "keep the record straight," your paper quoted me as saying that "farm ers are making war time profits." What I said was this "Farmers have been operat ing on inflated war time profits for many years and the time had to come when there would be a leveling off period." I think it is unfortunate that farm profits are not in line with the price of goods and services, but I am inclined to feel that with good farm management and the will to contribute a per sonal effort toward the , solu tion of the whole economic prob lem rather than concentrating on the plight of the farmer alone, we will come out with a better balanced economy for all of us. I can remember when one of the chief objectors at the budget meeting cautioned me as Republican County Vice Chairman during the early post war years to "soft pedal any criticism of the Democratic farm subsidy program because we are under the umbrella and we're doing alright." No objection was raised to the agronomy farm item nor a certain road item which raised the budget by considerable mag nitude but this gentleman felt that salary increases would raise taxes so high it would break the farmers, even though Today and By Walter Stassen and the Western Allies The role Mr. Stassen has to play in the London disarmament talks is a very difficult one ator tor a group of gov e r n m ents all with d i v e r se opinions among their own p e ople. This is the great advan Walter Lippmaou tage of. Mr. Zorin. who speaks for a government that can take quickly decisions that will not be questioned at home. It is not surprising, then, that in the give-and-take the Rcssians have got ten the initative and have the ears of the world. There is reason to think that the four leading powers on the Western side Great Britain, France, Germany and the Unit ed States have not come to a full understanding on a funda mental question- This was re vealed last week, I think, in the letter which Mr. Macmillan sent to Marshal Bulganin. Speaking of a Soviet proposal for "immediate full-scale reduc tion in the armed forces of the major powers," Mr. Macmillan said that his government could not agree to that unless it were at the same time "assured of par allel settlement in the political field" particularly a settle ment which could end on West ern terms the division of Ger many. Then at the end of his letter, after repeating that "great problems still divide us" about Germany, about Hungary, about the Middle East, Mr. Mac millan said in his last paragraph that "among the major interna tional questions the one where there is most need for progress is the field of both conventional and nuclear disarmament." llfHAT we have here are two propositions: The first, that extensive reduc tion in armaments cannot be agreed to until there are politi cal settlements of the great world problems; the second, that among all international ques tions the one where there is the most need of progress is disarma ment. My own view is that both propositions are true, and that the real, and as yet unresolved problem of disarmament is to I the small sum required for sal ary increases was infinitesimal by comparison. All I am interested in Is a square.deal and equal considera-. tion for all segments of the tax paying public. True the County Court and Budget Committee owe a great responsibility to the tax payer but they owe an equal responsibility to the elect ed and appointed county offi cials and to the personnel serv ing under them to guarantee that every one is being compen sated fairly for the service they render the people of Jackson County. Bereth P. Hopkins, County Clerk In the Days News By FRANK Down below the Tehachapi, where anything can happen (and frequently does), the Los Ange les Joint Board of Hotel and Res taurant Employees is consider ing something new in the way of bargaining objectives a pre paid legal care plan financed by employer ronmuuiiuio iu wvu a" iegai neea ul ule ,uuu memuers oi ine unions invuiveu. Presumably, assuming that you were a member, the fund thus provided would pay your lawyer and foot your court costs if somebody decided to sue you or if you decided to sue some body else. HM-M-M-M-M. It sounds inter esting. But it has ramifica tions. One of them is the possi bility that such a system would greatly increase business in the courts. As of now, it COSTS MONEY to sue people or to get sued. But what if it didn't? In that event, I'm afraid there might be a whale of a lot more lawsuits. TT'OR example: JL Suppose your neighbor has a tree growing just inside his prop erty line. Come the fall of the year, its leaves drop on your property and you have to rake them up and burn -.hem or hire them hauled off. May be it ires you, and as your ire rises throughts of suing the old so-and-so in the courts may enter your mind. But you are restrained by the sober second thought that lawyers cost money- But suppose lawyers came for free. In that event, it might be j quite different. You might then Tomorrow Lippmann work out an allied policy which reconciles them. All the major Western Powers are beset by the conflict between these two propostions. The prac tical question is how to make some progress towards disarma ment without becoming substan tially disarmed before the great political issues are settled.- On the whole, the conservatives do not want to go far towards dis armament until they feel assur ed that Germany will be reuni fied on the terms proposed by the West. British Labor and the German Social Democrats, on the other hand, want to move faster and further towards dis armament, and they are willing at the same time to modify the terms on which they would set tle political issues, like that of German reunification. TTOW much disarmament would be enough to meet the "need for progress?" How much disarmament would be too much if there is no political settle ment of the German question? These are hard questions. Yet it is not impossible- I think, to see the general principle of an an swer. What all the nations need in the near future is not so much to reduce the armaments they new have as to put some limit on expensive and nerve-wracking. The crucial fact is the the current race of armaments, which began with the Second World War, is radically differ ent not only in degree but in kind from any which has pre ceded it. For military technology is advancing so rapidly is rendering absolete today what was thought to be highly advanc ed yesterday that statesmen and people no longer understand their own armaments sufficient ly to base stable policies upon them. They cannot calculate the cost, except that they know that to stay ahead in the race they must commit themselves to ex penditures that will constantly rise. rpHE net of it all is that arma- - ments are no longer the mere reflection, as they were in the past, of the political tensions among the powers. Because of the galloping, indeed runaway, technological revolution, the race of armaments has become not a secondary but a primary problem. That is why Mr. Mac millan, we may take it, after adhering to the traditional posi tion that armaments must reflect the political situation, went on to declare that something must be done about armaments even though nothing is done about the political situation. That something, which most needs to be done is what, if have understood him correctly, the President advocated in his press conference. It is to work out an agreement with reason able guarantees which will be in the nature of a standstill in the race of nuclear armaments An agreement to suspend for a trial period the testing of nu clear weapons would be such a standstill. It would not be disarmament- It would not be a set tlement of the great issues that divide the world. But it would introduce into a competition that is becoming wildly Irrational 'the principle of reason and the qual ity of good sense. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS go ahead and sue thus disrupt ing the peace and quiet of your neighborhood and at the same time adding to the costly con gestion of the courts. THEN A There is the case of the cop who sirens us down when we do something in traffic that we hadn't oughta do. It hurts our pride to be siren ed down. We'd like to tell the cop to go jump in the lake that we'll lay our case before 12 good men and true and how does he like that. But It COSTS MONEY to hire law yers and go to court. So, more likely than not, we swallow our pride and meekly accept a tic ket and show up at the proper place and time and pay our fine. A GAIN What might happen in such cases if lawyers came for free? I'm afraid the result might be a VERY heavy increase in litiga tion with still further conges tion of our already congested court dockets. TT would all be wonderful, of course, for the law schools. They'd get a RUSH of students, eager to cash in on the now busi ness that would be created. But what about the taxpayers, who put up the money to keep the courts going? Unfortunately we're all taxpayers in one way or another. Maybe, everything considered, we'd better leave things as they j are. POTLUCIC (By M-T Staff mmi Contributors) With all the talk about radio activity and nuclear fallout these days, our proofreader found an item from an old copy of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, circa the turn of the cen tury, with the headline: "Find Radio Activity in Surface Water." The dote was only a couple of years after Mm. Marie Curie and her husband discovered ra dium, and were working on the problem of radioactivity of nat ural substances. The yellowed clipping savs. in part: 'Yale scientists have found the first signs of radio-activity ever discovered in America . . . They are confident they have shown that the presence of radio-activity can be demon strated in surface water, at least in some parts of America . . . Prof. Thomson has said thai the coal mines of the world may not be needed for either heat or energy if the new element ra dium can be utilized, as secmj a possibility." The weather last week was gorgeous there's no doubt about it. Naturally, it pro duced several cases of sun burn including one for a youngster of our acquaintance who went on a fishing trip wearing a pair of blue jeans which had two large holes, and who returned free of sun burn everywhere except on his knees. There's one of those "naming" cr;ests in progress, and the daughter of a friend of ours, who happens to be a profession al photographer, won one of the weekly contests, and receiv ed, as a prize, a certificate for a small camera, to be obtained at the shop of a competitor of her father's. Well, she blithely collected her camera (despite the fact that she has a more expensive one provided by Daddy), and then tried to sell it to Pop at the retail price. He balked, for he has identical cameras in hi? . shop, which he can obtain at the wholesale pric. All he'd of. - her was what the camera would have cost him. She de clined. So she let small brothXr shoot a roll of film, and then, since the camera worked fine, offered it to Dad again. This time he lowered his of fer. Claimed that one roll cf film made it a "used" camera. We haven't heard yet who has won this financial battle. The only reason we're sorry that John Snider got himself elected mayor is be cause he then stopped writing the "Little Daisy" ads which ran for several years In the M-T. He exercises his "sense of humor" in other ways, now. While presiding at a dinner meeting the other night, he announced, "We have a little surprise tonight. We're giring away a 1957 Thunderbird, and the winning ticket number is 2073." The 100 guests present grabbed for their tickets to check the numbers. There were no numbers. There have been several shifts in assignments for ministers in this area lately. One of them was tendered a farewell reception not long ago, and during the course of it he was presented with a gift from men of the church. The minister, in expressing his thinks, remarked that per haps it was a hint that he didn't spend enough time in preparing his sermons, but one member declared that the gift might be a reminder that the sermons weren't brief enough. The gift? A "brief" case. Civil Aeronautics Positions Available John L. Williams, Civil Aero nautics recruiting officer, will hold interviews Thursday for people interested in electronic maintenance or airways opera tions positions in Alaska. He will be stationed at the state employment service office, 119 North Oakdale ave., Med ford. The positions pay minimum gross salaries of S6.300, includ ing territorial allowance and regularly scheduled overtime. Higher salaries depend on qual ifications of applicants. Liberal vacations are allowed, in addi tion to retirement and sick leave benefits and transportation to and from Alaska and CAA sub sidized housing, officials pointed out. There are also pjssibilities of promotions and salary in creases. In addition to airways opera tions and electronics mainten ance personnel, there are also vacancies for graduate electri cal, civil and electronic engi neers. ALERT SCOUTS Omaha !W Four Minne apolis youths were convicted of petty larceny after two Boy Scouts complained that they stole their lunch and camping equipment and drove off. The Scouts, having no pencil or pa per, scratched the license num ber ot the car in the dust.