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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.
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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.