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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) HZF0B9TRI UKE "Xveryone to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Pbone 2-3141 " ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager XRIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHJPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail I" Advance Per Copy 10c. DaiJy and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mm. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rosrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 CarTier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coonty United tress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPA.W tNC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBIISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOtlAt I ASSOClTA'SeN Tlial'i3. J -n-' a-.. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 11. 1947 (Sunday) Ground work for anti-jay walking campaign planned at Medford Traffic Safety council meeting. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Citizens are being urged to get their Community Chest contributions off their chests speedily." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 11. 1937 (Monday) To assist city in making sur vey of areas affected by ear wigs. City Superintendent Fred Scheffel requests all brush be burned. Onion crop harvest in Rogue valley estimated at 1,875 tons; exceeds the previous year's total. 30 YEARS AGO ;Oct. 11, 1927 (Tuesday) Cook and Chiloquin police chief tried before federal court jury here on possession and sale of liquor. County budget committee ten tatively allows the county health .unit an appropriation of $4,924. 75 for coming year. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 11. 1917 (Thursday) Company C patrols trains passing through Siskiyous to prevent gambling and drinking. Every letter outside the city will now cost three cents, city mail will cost two cents post age, postmaster reports. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Does a planetarium house exotic plant life or marine life? i 2. If you suffered from alo- .pecia would it be loss of sleep, hair, or weight? 3. Bible: Which king, during the time of Jesus, "ruled like a wild beast"? 4. Icebergs are approximately 59ths, 79ths, or 89ths under water? 5. "Whose likeness is depicted on a ten dollar bill? 6. Amyl acetate has an. odor like which fruit? 7. In which State of the U. S. did the Whiskey Rebellion oc cur? 8. Of the big game animals in the U. S., are there more moose, deer, or bear? 9. "Weary": "haggle"; "won"; "surprising": all define colloqui al expressions which include what four-letter word in com mon? 10. "To have ... for better or worse . . . till" what? Answers: 1. No. (it houses a model or representation of the planetary system). 2. Loss of hair. 3. Herod. 4. 89ths under water. 5. Alexander Hamilton. 6. Bananas. 7. Pennsylvania. 8. Deer. 9. "Beat". As "beat the Dutch" (surprising); "to beat the price down" (haggle), etc. 10. "death do us part." (From wed ding ceremony.) NEW STAMP ANNOUNCED Washington (IP) The Post Of fice Department will issue a commemorative stamp in con nection with religious freedom in the United States. The three cent stamp will go on sale at the Flushing, N.Y., post office Dec. 27 the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Flushing Re monstrance. The remonstrance was a protest signed by Flushing citizens against a new law put into effect by Gov. Peter Stuy vesant violating principles of re ligious freedom. MAIL TRIBUNE Hidden Probably everyone at one time or another has felt the undeniable fascination of tales of "buried treas ure," "lost mines," hidden caches, and other sorts of bonanzas just waiting to be discovered. Our own part of Oregon is particularly rich in such tales, for as an old-time mining district, the opportunities for such legends to grow were great. Our friend Bert Kissinger has, from time to time, told of such tales and legends in letters to the com munications column. As an "old prospector" he has a fund of them. MOW comes a new book which, for the first time, assembles many of the best-known tales and legends and some little-known ones inside one cover. It is entitled "Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest," and was written by Ruby El Hult. Binfords & Mort, Portland, are the publishers. The book runs the gamut all the way from the Spanish galleons which may, or may not, have been wrecked along the Oregon coast, to "lost mines," to hidden loot, to the possibilities of finding gem stones of value in the old placer sands of northern Idaho. The two categories which were most interesting to this reader were, naturally enough, the more famil iar ones, namely, the tales of Spanish gold and bees wax on Neahkahnie mountain, and the lost mines and booty of southern Oregon. HTHE legends of buried treasure, presumably from A either a pirate vessel or a Spanish vessel on the Manila run, and the finding of oriental beeswax, in the Neahkahnie area, "romantic" of the tales. The mysterious inscriptions carved on rocks, the beeswax with the undeciphered markings, the stories handed down from one genera tion of coast Indians to another of the men who landed, buried treasure, killed a man on the spot and then either left or were in turn killed by Indians these are the things romance are made of. The stories from southwestern Oregon, likewise, have fascination. They include the many "lost cabin mine" stories, of which there are a plentitude in this region. Many of them are from here in Jackson county. Other tales of this area involve the "Lost Soldier Mine," the "Randolph Trail Cache," the "Lost Saddle Horn Cache," and the "lost" Port Orford meteorite. THER stories and tales in the book deal with simi- lar finds and losses in the fabled "Blue Bucket Mine,") the Willamette val ley, and Washington and Idaho. The thing which gives these tales a special pi quancy is the fact that the author has assembled most of the stories from as nearly original sources as she could, and has put emphasis on the fact that most of these "lost treasures" are still unfound and are waiting for the smart or lucky treasure-hunter who can find them. She says: "Mysteriously, bafflingly lost, are those mines of gold and silver, those hoards of gold dust and silver coin, those rubies, diamonds and opals, and those buried chests full of them all gold, silver and jewels. And treasure is for the finding." This book is a "must" for anyone seriously in terested in seeking lost treasures. And it is a small treasure in itself for those who prefer to do their prospecting from an easy-chair. E.A. On the Threshhold Four hundred sixty five years ago tomorrow three tiny ships made a landfall in the western hemisphere. It was not the first time that Europeans had landed on the shores of the western world, but it was the first time that the impact of discovery moved around the world, changing it forever. The impact hit every field of human endeavor commerce, exploration, government, social structure, education. And it hit them in a way that changed them permanently. Probably the greatest change wrought hy Christo pher Columbus' discovery, however, was in the field of ideas. D URING most of the Middle Ages, and to a lesser extent in the Rennaissance, it had come to be be lieved that the world was at its ultimate stage of de velopment, that "from now on" there would be fewT if any new discoveries, inventions, or changes in the old, established patterns of life. But the news of the mysterious lands across the sea, at first thought to be Asia, changed all that. Over a period of only a few7 years commerce expanded and changed; exploration virtually exploded in every maritime nation of Europe ; governments were strain ed by new forces, and seeds of revolution were plant ed as men seeking freedom found there was a new world. A ND so it went. The IDEA was as important as the physical act of discovery itself. The world stood on the threshhold of a new age. And today, in. the week before the 465th anni versary of the discovery of a' new world, we again stand on the threshhold this time of space. The idea of mankind venturing toward the stars, we believe, will be as revolutionary as the idea which Christopher Columbus brought home with him. E.A, Friday, October II. 1957 Treasures seem to us to be the most eastern Oregon, (including I'M SORRY 1 T0L0 QZNWS YOUR HAIR HAD BLACK ROOTS, AWS. MflWELlIrWr WAS JUST TUB KITTY IN MB. 'Artificial Rivers' Of Canadian Wafer Predicted by Babson BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Some day our great Central West will blossom like a rose. That is why it is called the "Magic C i r cle." This in cludes the six states of Kan sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mis souri, Okla h o m a, a n d A r k a n sas, which have a Roger w Babson total area of about 400,000 square miles. The area has the potential owboth of which may be seen at . .11. 1 .J. a J 1 'I T" 1 T- 1 HIT. 1 11.. being the breadbasket of the en tire United States. It, has good soil, much sunshine, and, in some years, plenty of rain. Unfortun ately, however, it has very dry periods for some years,' and then a deluge which takes away good topsoil and does other harm. This lack of regulated water holds back agriculture, handi caps industry, and makes retail trade very flucating. There is much talk of some form of Fed eral insurance to offset the very dry periods, but such insurance is wholly unnecessary. Moreover, "rainmaking" by chemicals is only 'robbing Peter to pay Paul." Water Sources The western part of Canada is blessed with heavy rainfall. This rainfall collects in four lakes: Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Lake Athabaska, and Lake Winnipeg. These are part of a tremendous system carrying this fresh water into the Arctic Ocean. Here the water is not only wasted, but danger our fogs are created which af fect ocean navigation and the climate of various regions. Some day an artificial river will be constructed from these lakes, across the Canadian line southerly to the very Center of the United States. This "Center" will be near Greenwood County, of which Eureka, Kansas, is the hub. From Eureka, canals will radiate in different directions to provide water for all sections of the Magic Circle. Personal Investments I am interested in the wood lands of New Hampshire; in lake front land in Florida; and, of course, in land in Wellesley, Mass.; but the only pasture land which interests me is in this Magic Circle. I have bought such land because I believe that some day an artificial river will be constructed to utilize this run off water by sending it south erly to the Magic Circle instead of letting it be wasted in the Arctic Circle. These 400,000 square miles will be glad to pay Canada for this water, which is now of no use to Canada. Plans should immediately be made and negotiations started. We should not wait until we are in dire need of the food from the nation's breadbasket. Those who own land which will some day be irrigated by these Canad ian waters should retain their land and perhaps buy more. A Federal Authority will someday be organized to build the new river, the bonds of which should easily be paid off by 'tolls" on the increased crops. Today we have a surplus of certain crops which we are storing; but this situation will soon change be cause of population growth and export demand. Work of John W. Fowler. Jr. Really, my friend Mr. Fowler of Homewood, Alabama, de serves the credit for this idea al though it is only a portion of his grand plan. He believes that as soon as the Government com pletes its proposed national high ways and toll roads for automo biles, it will immediately start on a similar program for water. Mr. Fowler believes that there will be three North and South "toll" rivers . built: One along the east side of the Rockies, starting from Fort Peck and fol lowing the Rocky Mountains, giving sufficient water supply to Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. A second fur- ther east would feed the Magic Circle by gravity and would start from an elevation of 2,000 feet; while the third would change the flow of the Great Lakes so that instead of this fresh water run ning off through the St. Law rence into the Atlantic Ocean and being wasted, it would flow westerly and be distributed where needed. These possibilities are clearly shown on the Great Relief Map of the United States (65 by 45) and the World's Largest Revolv ing Globe (about 30 feet in dia- meter, weighing over 20 tons), Babson Park, Massachusetts. Editorial Comment "BETTER WAKE UP" On the first day of the World Series, a Yankee day, a Braves fan who lives, for the sport and who spends a good deal of time in these offices, stomped past the door. In response to our gentle needle, he retorted, "I really don't care about the Series anyhow." A more celebrated case in volved a fox who looked hung rily at some grapes across a fence too high for jumping. "Oh well," the fox said, "I don't want those grapes. They are too sour." More recently, when the Rus sians beat us in the satellite business, several have declared, "Of course, it wasn't a race any how." Maybe it wasn t. But we should have liked-to have won, as we are accustomed to win ning. For whatever the political and military ramifications of the Russian victory may be, there is no doubt that America took a licking on the prestige front. Why? Senator Stewart Sym ington wants Congress to inves tigate, as it investigated that other licking, the one at Pearl Harbor. Others see in the Rus sian success a chance to throw stones at the Eisenhower admin istration. Blame the govern ment, they say. Don't blame the government. Blame the people. Blame all Americans because we have failed to put a premium on brains. Blame all of us because we'd rather have our standard of living than the ownership of a celestial basketball. Blame our disappointment on our belief that Americans just naturally have things sooner, bigger and better than anybody else. Blame us for assuming too much, for failing to give credit to foreign ers. This Russian satellite was not "ordered" as one might order a carload of new station wagons. Rather it was developed over a period of many years, and de veloped by people whose prin cipal job was thinking. The Rus sians wanted a satellite badly enough that they employed men to think. We didn't, and perhaps don't, want one that badly. "Free science" is great and gen erally it will achieve better re sults than the "directed science" of a slave state. But "free sci ence" cannot be free as long as scientists continue waking up and realizing they must go to work and stop dreaming. Eugene Register-Guard. LUMBER FORECAST At the meeting of the Oregon Bankers Association in Portland last week Hillman Leuddemann, who manages the extensive in terests of Pope and Talbot in the Northwest, spoke with mea sured optimism about the future of the lumber market. He fore saw an increase in home build ing next year, with resulting better demand for lumber. No early bounce-back is in sight, but a progressive recovery that by 1962 should see the lumber industry going strong again. This forecast is informed and reasonable. Family formation Sputnik Leads News of Week; French, Polish Troubles Noted By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad newt on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia's Sputnik, the first earth satellite, sped steadily round the world at 18,000 miles an hour tnis week. Its launching had marked the dawn of a new era in space travel. It was a scientific rather than a military triumph. Pres Charles McCann ident Eisenhower said, for in stance, that it did not increase In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At his news conference Wed nesday morning President Eisen hower said that in his opinion, based on long conferences with American scientists, the Soviet satellite (in and of ITSELF) poses no threat to American security. But He added The rocket that shot the satel lite more than 500 miles above the earth means that the Soviet scientists have in their posession A VERY HORRIBLE THRUST. LET'S explain this term "thrust." A rocket works by spitting ex plosive gases out of its tail. These gases thrust the rocket works by pushing against the air. It works just like pushing a boat in shal low water with a pole that is braced against the mud at the bottom. What Ike means is that if the Russians have a rocket capable of thrusting a 180-pound satellite 500 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH they have a rocket capable of thrusting a guided missile WITH A NUCLEAR BOMB IN ITS NOSE a long, long way maybe as far as the United States of America. WHAT the President (who is a capable soldier) is intimat ing is that we'd better get dovfn to business and catch up with the Russian scientists. T ET'S change the subject slight ly and talk about people. Our department of defense has a new boss. He is Neil McElroy, former head of the big soap making firm of Procter & Gam ble. He took his oath of office at the White House the other morn ing. Our nation's military machine is poised for a race into outer space and missile supremacy with the Soviet Union and guiding it will be McElroy's job Let's admire his courage. Boy! What a job he's letting himself in for. VTOW for a word about the de parting head of the defense department. He has been a great man. He left the highest paying job in modern industry to accept a $25,- 000-a-year . salary working for his country. In order to qualify for the job, he sold his General Motors stock low and had to watch while it went MUCH high er. When he sold (in order to enter the service of his country) he must have known that GM stock was due for a big rise. TOURING his term, he took about all the abuse it is pos sible to heap on a man. To cite only one example, he made a speech fairly early in his career as secretary of defense in which he said that 'what is good for the U.S. is good for General Motors." His words were twisted into this: 'What is GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS is good for the United States." rTTIS crime, of course, was this -"-1. TTo HiH Kettpr fVlan mncf rf us. So he aroused our envy. But The men who know his work best say unhesitatingly that NOW, when he is leaving, our defenses are in infinitely better shape than they were when he took hold. I think the rest of us who know him and his work only by what we have read and what we have heard will concede that he is a good man who served his country well and spoke his mind plainly in the pinches. SO Frioino Chnrlov Wilunn Hail and farewell. And happy landings at your ranch in Florida where you will raise purebred cattle and have a lot of fun, free from grinding responsib llities. Let's hope America can find many more men like you . We're going to NEED them. will accelerate in the next few years. Thousands of old dwell ing houses will have to be re placed. Lumber will be in good demand again, and Oregon will be the chief supplier. In the in dustry it is not just a matter of hanging on, though that may be true for some mills. It is also a matter of tightening up on cost of operations, and continued up grading of product with better utilization of material previous ly regarded as waste for fuel. Oregon Statesman, Salem. his apprehensions over Ameri can national security "not one iota." But Russia followed up the launching by announcing that it tested a mighty new hydrogen weapon. And it announced in August of testing of the first intercontinental ballistic missile, called the "ultimate weapon." There was a tendency in of ficial Washington to minimize the importance of Russia's beat ing the United States into the air with a satellite. The United States really was not trying to be first, it was said. This view was not shared by the scientists of the United States or any other country, and little Sputnik cer tainly captured the imagination of ordinary people throughout the world. The launching of Sputnik coincided with a visit by Mar shal Georgi Zhukov, Soviet de fense minister and No. 2 man in the Kremlin, to independent Yugoslavia. Russia's success in this enterprise, along with the testing of the ICBM and of a new hydrogen weapon seemed likely to help tym in negotia tions with President Tito. Soviet Communist leader Ni- kita S. Khrushchev disclosed in an interview in Moscow with James Reston, chief of the Wash ington bureau of the New York Times, that the Soviet govern ment had tried to get Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to invite Zhukov to Washington. Khrushchev made no attempt to conceal his annoyance over Dulles' rejection of the bid. Political Troubles Said Rising for GOP By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The United States plan to begin next December the firing of test satellites into outer space is in line with urgent Repub lican political necessities. If it is a successful fir ing and it better be the U.S. Sput- I,yle C Wilson niK win oe in outer space when Congress re assembles here in the first week of January. Anything short of the success ful launching of a space satellite by the United States before Con gress reconvenes would leave the Eisenhower administration in a bad spot. Next year is an election year in which the foreseeable trouble for the Republican Party and the Eisenhower administration already is sufficent to give party men the gollywobbles. On the record of the current fiscal year to date, the Eisen hower administration is unable to hold the spending line at the point where the President in sisted that his department heads hold it. Neither the President nor the Budget Bureau offers more than faint hope and good intentions toward reducing spending and taxes in the im mediate years to come. New Figures In January JLisenhower must come up with new budget figures next January. Another spending pro gram of 70 billion dollars or more with no tax relief seems to be in the works. It will in vite all over again next year the high tax, high spending rebel lion of 1957. That would be trouble enough for any lot of politicians but there is more. Inflation is still with us making the high cost of living higher month by month. Elements of the U.S. Army re main on duty in Little Rock, Ark., and none knows how they may, finally, be got out of there. Moreover, the most severe test of the Supreme Court's order for the racial integration of public schools still is to come in the Deep South. In those states the people appear to be solidly behind the determination of their state officials to under take massive resistance. There may be some political comfort for Republicans in the possibility that the dispute over racial integration of public schools will lure northern mil lions of Negroes into the Re publican Party. Aside from that, that, the Republican prospect in next year's congressional elec tion is grimly unpleasant. GOP Voted Out Eisenhower achieved two per sonal triumphs in the presiden tial elections of 1952 and 1956. The Republicans won a scratch decision in the 1952 congres sional contest but were voted out of congressional power in 1954 and even last year, when Eisenhower was .piling up his presidential points. In the year since his reelec tion in 1956, Eisenhower's per sonal popularity has slipped. Democrats no longer fear to make personal political attacks on him. Republican . politicians are critical and the word in Washington is that the party or ganization, coast to coast, is in disrepair. 1 France's cabinet crisis seem ed as far from solution as when it started on Sept. 30. Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was ousted on a confidence vote in which he sought approval of a plan for self-rule in Algeria. President Rene Coty called first on Guy Mollet, then on Rene Pleven both former premiers to form a new gov ernment. Both men failed to get the support necessary to control a majority of the National As sembly, the controlling house of Parliament. Just one thing was certain: Until French politicians are willing to give a premier autho rity to rule, without being con stantly at the mercy of the coun try's 15 different parlimentary groups, any government that may be formed will be shaky. Student riots in Warsaw against the semi-independent government of Polish Commu nist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka flared and subsided. It had been feared that in dustrial workers, taking their key from the students who pro tested against the suppression of a newspaper, might strike for higher pay. The singular ' situation in which the bitterly anti-Communist Roman Catholic church is supporting the Gomulka regime was enphasized by an editorial in the Vatican City weekly newspaper Osservatore Delia Domanica, an unofficial publi cation. It warned against riots, sayingthey could result only in Russian intervention. The Republicans are the con gressional outs and should be on the political offensive as the off-year campaign approaches. But that is not the way the cookie crumbles. What used to be regarded widely as the Grand Old Party is back to the wall in defense of the' modern Re publican administration and of its minority position in Con gress. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and 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 Too Many Crooks To the Editor: I note in the Mail Tribune a few days ago an article regards registration of wells by individuals. I must say I think this is sure a high handed action on the part of the state engineer and the legisla ture. I note also they require a fee. Of all the ideas I ever heard of just another gimmick on the part of a bunch of crook ed politicians to rob the public. I suppose they'll want us to register the air we breathe and pay another fee on that next. Fellow citizens, I think it is high time we removed some of crooked politicians from our legislature and abolish some of the office jobs and holders In Salem, including that of the state engineer. It would sure hurt those listed above if one citizen did something he didn't Know about. Seems every year a little more of our freedom which is guaranteed by our Constitution all because another crooked politician has thought up, another way to rob the pub lic and interfere with his freedom. Floyd R. McCabe, Butte Falls, Ore. P.S. Let's include the game commission also. The Ostrich Song To the Editor: Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, The U. S. was asleep, Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, Now we are counting satellites, In place of sheep, Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, We are so bland With our head stuck in the sand, Had the world at our command, Now it's beep, beep, beep, And it's sprout neck, sprout neck, sprout neck To see what we can see, Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, The thing that worries me First there's one and now there's three, And they're too darned high to see Sprout neck, sprout neck, sprout neck They burn up, so they say, But it may help to pray Until we find another way. Now I lay me down to sleep, I hope they fall out where it's deep. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Earl McBee 401 East 12th st. Medford, Ore.