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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
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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.