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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Xreryone In Southern Oregon Heads The Mall Tribune" PubUaftea Daily Exnct saturdaj or MEDTORD PRIM UNO CO 17-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 U HI! , OT ID nt'TTi . . . KERB GRrV AdYerUslns alanarer GERALD LATHAJe Buiinoi Manager KRIC ALiXN JR. Managing Editor KA&L H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALI ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper entered as second claaa matter et atahOlora Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES rr Mall In Advance: Per Cop? lOe Dally end Sunday one year 15 00 Dally and Sunday Six month 8.00 ally and Suneey Three mot 4.25 Sunay Only One year $4.20 ty Carrier an Advance Medford AWhland Ceaaral Point. Eagle Point Jf 'evtlle. Cold HIU. Phoenix Shady Ceue Rogue River. Talent apd on mofear aoutea. Pally ana Sanday One year SIS 00 JUS end Saaday One month 150 i ler and Dealers 10c per copy ajj terms caan In Advance lf ial Put? of the City of Medford fclss paper of Jackaon County u Uts-ted Pn -Full Lea td wire HE&aXR Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION artlslnff Representative: I'BBT-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC hace In New York Chlcaeo. da. tjapat. San Francisco. Los Angelea atattle Portland St Louia Atlanta aneouver B C RATION A I t 0 I T 0 1 1 A i. y ASSOC A'IN ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 49 fears ago. 10 rsig AGO (Tlr f. 1M7 (Monday) Qb. Ira laker, retired from tb Army air force, and Gen. Carl puts, present chief of the jktmf air corp. are fishing on he locue river today. from Arthur Perry's Ye sfauJB ot column: The first (adjO ox winter showed up last rek. Hand-picked stove wood I advertised for sale. i M TEA AS AGO nlf 7, X937 (Wednesday) City council adopts ordinances "listening regulation of carnl (ote, Increasing minimum age tat plnylng pinball machines and eiuthoTiiina sale of $50,000 in bcods for repair and reconstruc tion oi paved streets. .Charles L. MacDonald. local ijMBtvr of Foster and Kleiser, sseted commander of the Med- CSi American legion post. OH TSARS AGO JV larr (Thursday) (-Calmer Investment Company of Chlcaae, largest Individual growers of fruit in Rogue valley, urchases track on Southern Pa cific right o -way south of city. D. M.. Little, government mete orologist, will take charge of the local weather bureau July 15. 40 YEARS AGO July 7, 1917 (Saturday) C. M. Kidd, manager of the C. M. Kidd and company shoe house, 223 East Main st., pur chases Dunlap-Ritter building on East Main st. From Local and Personal col umn: City Engineer Arnspiger warns city property owners that grass must not be allowed to overhang on the sidewalks. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct H inferior; even or eltht la excellent; five or six Is good 1. Was the first settlement In Oregon, a trading post, estab lished by the Missouri Fur Co., Pacific Fur Co., or John Jacob Astor? 2. Which of the following Is not a chemical element: arsenic, bismuth, strychnine, ytterbium? 3. Bible: Was the prophet Jere miah, Daniel, or Amos "lowered In the miry pit"? 4. President Franklin D. Roose velt had three close unofficial advisors; two of them were Judge Rosenman and Barney Baruch; name the third. 5. What is the name of the ac curate time-keeping device car ried on ships for use in naviga tion? 6. Name the States that border on Lake Erie. 7. What sentence was passed upon Japanese General Yama shita by the military court that tried him? 8. In which city is the "Treaty Elm" under which Wiliam Penn negotiated a treaty with the In dians? . Whose is the possessive of who. Is it correct to use "who's" in the-ame sense? 10. TjE you lak-a me Iak I lak-a you,And we lak-a both the same. . ." Under what tree will they live? I. Missouri Fur Co. (1808). 2-Strychnine... 3. Jeremiah... 4. Harry Hopkins. 5. Chronometer. 6. Ohio, Penna.. N.Y.. Mich... 7. Death by hanging. 8. Phila delphia. 9. No. "Whose cat is it?" "Jim. who's next door?" 10. "Under th Bamboo Tree." MAIL TRIBUNE Wood Industry Changing Not too many years ago a lump of coal was a lump of coal, a barrel of cil was a barrel of oil, and a sack of sand was a sack of sand. Now, increasingly, they are raw materials for plastics, glass and ceramics, and a host of "new" ma terials obtained by breaking them down into their components, and reconstituting them as something else. The business of taking something and making something else out of it is as old a mankind, and has a long and fascinating history. But in recent years it has given rise to a whole complex of new industries. e TTODAY they're making imaginable, and shaping it into materials which have a hundred-and-one specially tailored character istics. Some are light and fluffy; others are pliable and transparent ; others are as hard and tough as steel. Some are sensitive to heat; resistant. They can be easily Oddly, wood is one of which has been little used terials. Wood has been wood except only for paper, cardboard, sawdust and a few other products. Perhaps the reason for this is that wood has had such excellent characteristics of its own, and has al ways been in such widespread use, little thought has been given to giving it different forms. a a a D ECENTLY, however, more thought has been given to the development of wood "substitutes" the ersatz products of wartime Germany, for instance. But so far has this gone that the substitutes are no longer substitutes they are full-fledged competitors with wood. Masonry, glass, aluminum, steel and now plastics are standard building materials. And as this transpired, so the relative use of wood declined. This change, much of it stimulated by the war, came to a head coincident with two other things the so-called "hard money" policy, and the catching up on the demand for housing also generated by the war. The combined result of the three was the "lumber slump" which has had so profound an effect on Ore gon's economy the past year. a a e e DECENT action to make more readily available housing credit may serve to offset the financial troubles of the housing (and thus the lumber) market. By 1961 or 1962, housing demand will shoot up again, as the "crop of war babies" grows up. .These two reasons alone give promise of a pros perous long-range future for lumber. Meanwhile, developments in the utilization of wood are moving at an accelerated pace. Long ignor ed, they have been speeded up by the present market troubles, and by the growing emphasis on the need to take advantage of each stick that comes out of the forest, and make it pay. These will pay off some day. e a e e a COR EXAMPLE: An excellent grade of wax can be made from the bark of Douglas fir trees. No major firms have yet started to produce it, but the potential is there. Industrial alcohol can be made from sawdust. Chip-board and hardboard are growing rapidly, both in quality of product and in production volume. Veneers are being produced which can provide beau tiful, hardwood interiors at a fraction of the cost of the solid native woods. Other chemical applications, taking a leaf from the plastics producers' book, are coming along. a a a CONGRESSMAN CHARLES 0. PORTER recently reported on experiments being made in producing a nylon-like fiber from lignin the chemical which binds together the fibers of the natural wood, and which is removed chemically to make pulp. Lignin has always posed a pollution problem, for in the past it has been a waste product, frequently dumped in the nearest river. But if it can be shown to have an economic importance of its own, it will pro vide two benefits, added income from the use of a once-wasted product, and decreasing pollution. Some experimenters actually believe that lignin some day will be more valuable than the wood fibers. a a a e THESE are only samples of the potentialities which lie ahead in the woods products field. Others await the experimenter's research and development. And why are they important to us in southern Oregon? Because about one-half or more of every dollar in circulation has its birth in our forest resources. It will continue to be one of the mainstays of our econ omy providing the funds which circulate and buy the bread and shoes and automobiles and services on which we all depend, and through which we earn our livings. There will always be need for lumber. But more and more we will see that the materials which are now left in the forest as slash, or which now go up in smoke in mill burners, will be of an importance equalling that of planks and studs. THREE things are needed to provide a stable, pros perous and long term future for our forest in dustry. They are : 1. Sustained yield programs in government owned forests and tree farm programs on private holdings to guarantee a perpetual supply. 2. Intensified research to find more and more ways that lumber and lumber products all of them can be used. 3. Capital investments to create the industries based on the other two. And all three legs to this tripod are needed if we are to have any real hope of a secure future for this area in particular and Oregon in general. E.A. Sunday, July 7, 1957 plastics out of everything others are strongly heat shaped and molded. the basic raw materials in this revolution in ma J. '"fewi- J-li? Ai-s i THAT WAS A PRETTY FOR A AC0. WASNT Matter of Fact stewan aiSoP THE UNCONSCIOUS SHIFT Washington The public face which the Eisenhower adminis tration presents to the world is more unchang ing than that of any admin istration in re cent history. Yet behind the public face, the Eisenhower ad minis tration has been changing in a subtle but im- Stevait Alsop portant way One way to define the change is to say that, four years after his death, the late Sen. Robert A. Taft has at least ceased to have an important influence within the Administration. A symbol of the disappearance of the Taft influence is the imminent depar ture of the two most important Taft men in the government. George Humphrey, departing Secretary of the Treasury, was Taft's Ohio treasurer in the pre Eisenhower days, and his views have continued to have a strong Taftian flavor. And John Hollis ter, also on the way out as chief of the Foreign Aid Agency, was Taft's law partner and one of his oldest personal friends. The departure of Humphrey and Hollister will write finis to the once-famous "four-H club." The other two members of the four-H club were the late Budget Director Rowland Hughes and the extremely conservative Her bert Hoover Jr., who has been replaced as Undersecretary of State by Christian Herter, an original Eisenhower man. By and large, the four-H club was the bastion of the Taftian ap proach to foreign and defense policies within the Administra tion. a a a VITITH the break-up of the four- " H rlnh thp voirp nf thp late Senator in administration affairs is muted, if not wholly stilled. By contrast, the voice of Taft's great rival, former Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, is still loud at second hand, al though Dewey himself is not of ten consulted these days. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, a Dewey man from way back, is credited with per suading the President to make civil rights a down-the-line party issue in the current session of Congress, the most important domestic political decision of the second Eisenhower administra tion. Press Secretary James Hager ty, another original Dewey man, has far more influence in the Administration than most press secretaries enjoy. And the Presi dent's special economic adviser, Gabriel Hauge, who was placed on the Eisenhower campaign train as speech writer and eco nomic specialist by Dewey, also enjoys increasing influence. Hauge has been the chief theo retician of "Modern Republican ism," and he sees the President regularly. With the departure of Humphrey, with whom he often amicably disagreed. Hruge's influence is likely to increase still more. a ALMOST every important change in the Administration has seen a movement from the Taftian right to the Deweyite center, as in the case of Robert Anderson for Humphrey in the Treasury.'Fred Seaton for Doug las McKay in Interior, ana mar ion Folsom for Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby in the Welfare Depart ment. And yet in a way it is an oversimplification to define the chanee in the Eisenhower administration in terms of Taft and Dewey or right and center. What has happened is less a shift from right to center than a sort of settling down process. We came here with fire in our eyes," one Administration ofi cial recalls ruefully. "We were going to turn everything upside down. But we found out it wasn't so easy." The settling down process has had various aspects. For one thing, hardly anybody in the Ad ministration talks about "The Eisenhower crusade" any more. The "Eisenhower train" (another phrase rarely used now) has dls- LOUD WHISTLE IT?. jovered that there is a big dif ference between crusading and the complex, often tedious busi ness of governing. a TOR another thing, any reason ably able man, given a job to do, tends to become an advocate and an enthusiast. Contact with the harsh realities also has a way of changing a man's views. Thus Hollister, for example, who was certainly no fervid ad vocate of foreign aid in former days, hotly defends an adequate foreign aid program. And Secre tary of Defense Charles Wilson, who came into the Administra tion determined to cut the de fense budget sharply, and did so, has latterly been taking a "thus far, but no further" line. And Marion Folsom, a strongly con servative man, became convinced after exposure to the facts, of the need for Federal aid to education just as Sen. Taft himself did, years before. The change within the Admin istration, in short, is less a con scious shifting to the left than a largely unconscious response to the realities of the world situ- Congressional Wishes, Ability, to Said Different Things By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CO) What Congress will do to the Supreme Court and what some of its members would like to do are two very different things. Chief Justice Earl Warren and his colleagues have been in hot water with some Congressmen since their unanimous 1954 de cision outlawing racial segrega tion in public schools. The crescendo of criticism reached a peak in the past two weeks, when the Court in a breathtaking series of decisions: Opened secret FBI files to criminal case defendants. Criticized in harsh language procedures of the House Un American Activities committee. Narrowed the range of the anti-Communist Smith Act, free ing five California Communist leaders and ordering new trials for nine others. Ia amazement or anger, Con gress lashed back. A biU was introduced that would .bar from appointment to the Federal bench anyone who in the prior five years had been a federal or state official. Its purpose, said the author, Rep. Thomas G. Ab ernethy (D-Miss.), is to "keep politicians off the court." Another measure, backed by Rep. D. R. (Billy) Matthews (D Fla.), would have Congress ad vise the justices not to run for federal office while on the bench or within two years after leav ing their robes. Would Limit Term Chairman James O. Eastland, (D-Miss.), of the Senate Judici ary committee proposed a con stitutional amendment requiring that Supreme Court justices come before the Senate every four years for reappointment. No less than seven bills are in the hopper prescribing as qualifications for future justices anywhere from 5 to 10 years prior judicial experience. Sen. Herman E. xaimaage a- Ga.), and three southern Repre sentatives have bills in to deny the Supreme Court jurisdiction over "any matter relating to" state administration of public schools. Two House bills provide sim ply that lower courts "shaU not be bound by any decision of the Supreme Court . . . which con flicts with the legal principle, ot adhering to prior decisions . . ." Furthest along the road to passage are administration-backed bills to limit the effect of the Court's June 3 decision to give defense lawyers a look at FBI reports made by government wit nesses in criminal cases. The Senate and House Judic iary committees have approved a measure to empower judges to screen the secret files before they are turned over to the de fense. Communications Lettara to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Search Group Needed To the Editor: At this early date few people from this valley need to be reminded of the grim and horrible details concerning the disappearance of 5-year-old Cheryl Lee Johnston Saturday afternoon, and the discovery of her body in the Rogue river Monday noon. I was in the search party for 24 hours, and many others had been there much longer. Strain and fatigue could be seen on the faces of every one there, but not xne word of complaint was heard. Everyone there was concerned and eager to find the girl alive, but all in all it was the most unorganized and un controlled performance I have ever seen. I ask you, the people of this valley", how many more of our children are going to die or be lost and left to the elements before we do something about it? I say that now is the time to do something about it and not the next time one of our chil dren get lost. Perhaps if we had had a trained search group out there to organize the 2,000 vol unteers Saturday night, Cheryl Lee would still be alive and Mrs. Johnston would not be faced with the grief she is now burdened with. This is a plea to the people of this valley to get busy and organize a trained search group so we will be ready the next time something like this hap pens. Jesse F. Dressier Jr., Route 2, Box 465, Medford, Ore. ation and of domestic political and economic reauirements. One sometimes wonders, indeed, whether, if Taft had become President in 1952, and survived thp course of a Taft administra tion would have differed in any really basic way from the course of the Eisenhower aaministra tinn (Copyright) 1957 New York Hearld Tribune Inc. Slap Court Also carrying administration endorsement , are bills to re-establish state jurisdiction in the field of anti-subversive legisla tion. These bills and other leg islation opposed by the admin istration to prevent the Court from making any such infer ence" about Federal preemption of any field of legislation are "the next order of business" for the -Senate Judiciary committee. an aide to Chairman Eastland told Congressional Quarterly. Congress is not powerless in its conflicts with the Court. It has a part, through its power of confirmation and impeach ment, in actually selecting and removing the justices. But any Congressional effort to . cripple the Court s power comes up against the Constitu tion's declaration, as President Eisenhower put it June 27, that the "Supreme Court is just as essential to our system 'of gov ernment as is the President or as is the Congress." (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Editorial Comment OREGON INDUCTEES GET HIGH RATING Oregon's youth and its educa tional opportunities win plaudits in statistics made available by the Surgeon General of the Army in regard to inductees dur ing the Korean War, 1950 through 1953. Minnesota .with 97.4 per cent led the nation in the ratio of its inductees passing Army educa tional tests. Oregon was next with 97 per cent and the two other Northwest states also were in the first 10 Idaho, 5th with 96.2 per cent and Washing ton, 7th with 96.1 per cent. South Carolina with 53.2 per cent trailed, with most other south ern states also near the bottom. (California with 92.3 per cent was 23rd.) The figures were cited in a letter to members of Congress from the American Veterans Committee which urged federal aid to education except in states with segregated schools. They were printed in the Congres sional Record at the request of Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.). The senator in an appendix to the letter says Oregon's achieve ment is the greater because it came when taxpayers were af fected by "great economic ad versity." We think we've been fairly generous with our schools, all right, but the years 1950-53 are not particularly recalled as-j a depression period. However, POTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contribution) T"ln vmi lrnnur what it thp "most democratic and ubiquitous food morsel of all time"? The hotdog, that's what. At least that is what Daniel J. Edelman and Associates, a public relations firm represent ing thp mpftt Inrliistrv. tells US. B ' The information is contained in a letter which proclaims July "Na tional not Dog Montn. We kind of hate to be sucked in on such an obvious play for publicity, but we can't resist the frank approach used by Edel man and Associates, who write: "We trust you have sufficient respect for the red hot tradition and sufficient loyalty to the wienie way of life to take edi torial cognizance of National Hot Dog Month". If you've derived In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Down Highway 99, the great north and south highway of the Pacific Coast, on the day before the Fourth of July, which this year falls on a Thursday and that means that in happy Ameri ca vast numbers of fortunate people in this most fortunate of nations will take the rest of the week as a long holiday. Not just the great ones of the earth. Not merely the rulers. Not the captains of industry. Not the landed titled nobility. Just the average run of the people, who will be getting into THEIR OWN cars and taking off for the seashore, or the moun tains, or the lakes, or the wide open spaces of the desert wher ever their fancv listeth. This is AMERICA. The land of the free. No passports re quired. No police permission needed. Just get in the car, step on the starter and TAKE OFF. WOULDN'T it be wonderful if the Founding Fathers, who laid the foundations upon which all this has been built, could come back and see it in all its splen dor? Maybe they are sitting some where Up Yonder, looking down on this land whose future they envisioned and regarding with satisfaction everything that has come to pass in the 181 years they drafted the Declaration of Independence and cut the orig inal 13 little colonies loose from the Old World and thus set in motion all the processes that have resulted in the America of today. I hope so. They are certainly entitled to that reward. TF THE Founding Fathers" real- " ly are sitting up there On High on this 181st anniversary of the eve of the Great Day on which they finally adopted the Declara tion of Independence and started it all off. If they have been following all that has happened in these 181 years, including the inven tion of the automobile and its development from a chugging little gas chariot' that couldn't go fast enough to get into trouble to the whizzing demons of today that if somebody permits his attention to stray even for a moment from the business of driving them can run amuck and scatter death all over the place If thev realize that the modern automobile can be restrained from scattering death and de struction on every side ONLY BY -THE SKILL AND THE CARE of those who sit behind its wheel and guide it down the smooth and fast highways of this modern day w In that event I think they would be pleased with the way such of their de scendants as I have been able to see on this third day of July of the Year of Our Lord 1957 on U.S. Highway 99 in the states of Oregon and California have been handling the grave respon sibility of driving their cars in reasonably heavy traffic. There has been no wild pass ing in places where passing should never be attempted. No roaring around the other fellow on curves or when approaching the brow of a hill. No tragic groups gathered at the scene of fatal accidents. I SUPPOSE it has just happened that way at this particular time and on this particular great artery of traffic. I assume sadly that when the figures are all in the slaughter on America's high ways on this holiday will have been about average. But at least it does go to prove what CAN happen when even for a brief space of time drivers are uniformly careful, courteous, thoughtful and considerate of the rights of others. ' we won't quibble with the re sults and are glad we ranked right there at the top . . . though we hope other states will build toward being able to provide their proportionate share of pro ductive manpower, both in war and in peace. Oregon States man, Salem. tastebud titillation from the edi ble, we'd like to have you give it the words of appreciation it de serves. Frankly, we want the frank to get its due with or without mustard." And they get paid for this sort of thing, too!! e e e A little girl, aged 5 or so, with big brown eyes, attended an evening baseball gam at the fairgrounds field last week. She sat very quietly, watch ing the gam. About midway through the third inning, in familiar baseball "chatter" started rising from players on the field and in the dugouts, and the fans. The demur lit tie girl broke her silence with a loud "SHUT UP!!" We have always been fond of cheese (even more so than hot dogs, alas) and welcomed an op portunity recently to tour a local cheese factory where blue-veined cheese, one of our favorites, is made. We learned many interesting things, including the fact that cheese is one of the oldest known foods manufactured by men; that there are 28 basic types of cheese with enough variations to produce more than 400 sepa rate varieties, and that all of them are made by approximately tne same process, only the vari able and controllable conditions being changed at ona point or another in their manufacture to give each its own distinct quality. We discovered, too, that cheese smells differently at dif ferent stages of manufacture, and that some of these smells are less pleasant than others. We have long thought the aroma of well-aged cheese is a delight, but we found that the sour-acid smell created in the earlier stages, when the curds are being sepa rated from the whey. Is some thing else again. We also found that this par ticular sour-acid smell clings to the clothes, the hair, the pores of the skin, for hours. At least it did with us, and the lingering curds - and - whey odor almost spoiled for us a luncheon which ordinarily would have been greeted with enthusiasm a lunch of dairy products. The blue cheese, the cheddar, the cot tage cheese even the milk and ice cream seemed to take on a taste similar to the acid smell we couldn't get rid of. It was days before we could look cheese in the face again, but we're now back to our normal, cheese-loving self again, we're happy to report. But we aren't going to tour a cheese factory again for a while. e a e A window in the law offic of Sam Harbison and Gen . Piaxxa was left open all night recently, and lh following morning Sam walked info th offic, infant on reading some thing, when suddenly he was startled by th flutter of flap ping wings. Two pigeons had com in th window during th night, and had spent seve ral hours there, judging by th evidence, which was sort of messy. You know how pigeons are. a We work in a labyrinth, here. We have both stairs and an ele vator to the newsroom, and downstairs there are several ways of getting to each. The paths of two news staff members, as a result of this and of differing temperaments, cross several times each day, as they use different routes between the newsroom and the street floor. One, a long-time member of the staff who works at his desk most of the day, uses the stairs almost exclusively. The other, a younger man who pounds a beat each day, consistently rides the elevator. As one journeys to the back shop and the other starts on his daily rounds, they leave their desks, which are about six feet apart, go their ways, then meet downstairs about halfway along the circulation department.coun ter. The senior of the two says he needs the exercise, and, besides, the stairs are faster. The younger feels he needs the rest he gets in the 10 to 20 seconds it takes t wait for and ride the ele vator. e e On of th supporters of the proposad new shopping crater appeared at a public hearing ' Friday night, to advocate re zoning of the area to mak th plan possible. In the cours of his statement he remarked that he didn't expect much opposi tion. Thar was a brief mo ment of stillness before one spectator commented audibly: "You don't know Medford." One of the most enjoyable things about the July 4th fire works snows inat the ymca has put on the last two years is the good-natured horseplay between the firemen and policemen. Next year, though, we hope the red-underwear-wearing fire men win the tug-o-war, which they've lost twice. We've always wanted to see what a wet police man looks like. We know what a wet fireman looks like.