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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16. 194? (Thursday)
The 965th field artillery bat
talion activated In southern Ore
gon, Brig. Gen. Raymond F. Ol
son, acting adjutant general of
Oregon's National Guard, an
nounces. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: " In Italy
they have a Communist-Chris-(fc8n
Democrat party. There is a
Cenbination for your whiskers."
20 YEARS AGO
pet. 16, 1937 (Sunday)
TVret concerts by Medford
Jaaior Symphony orchestra, di
Xttn3 by John R. Knight, are
(trrjonaored by Zonta club.
CCC worker who claims to
$av been Major Farren, combat
pilot forced down behind Ger
tntn lines during World War I,
OS reported dead here.
3 a TEARS AGO
Cx. 16, 1927 (Sunday)
Small fawn reported seen on
"Vtin st. by local businessman.
Three local men enlist for
Philippine island duty.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct.-16. 1917 (Tuesday)
All timber on ground prepara
tory to closing gates at Klamath
strait which will eventually re
claim a tract of 54,000 acres.
Formal opening of the second
liberty bond subscription cam
paign takes place at Natatorium.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good.
1. Pintail is the name of a rab
bit, western saddle horse, wild
duck, or deer?
2. In its journey around the
earth, in which direction does
the moon travel?
3. Bible: Does the New Testa
ment mark a decided develop
ment in religious thought of the
Bible?
4. How many inches are in one
. mile?
5. In what language was the
Magna Charta written?
6. Three dots and a dash in
the Morse code indicate what let
ter of the alphabet?
7. Jerry Cruncher is a charac
ter in which of Charles Dick-
ens' novels?
8. Which article of commerce
' is larsely made from chicle?
9. Should "tender" be used as
' a synonym for "give?" If not,
Y-hy not?
10. "Though women are an-
, gels, yet wedlock's the d 1."
Byron.
Answers: 1. A wild duck. 2.
. East to west. 3. Yes. 4. 63.360.
.. Latin. 6. "V". 7. "A Tale of
Two Cities." 8. Chewing gum.
O. No. It means to offer money
' r service. 10. "devil."
Russian Satellite
Said Seen at Ontario
Ontario 0? Ed Fair, about
50, Ontario theater projectionist,
said Tuesday he saw the Soviet
satellite in the sky over his home
and that three fragments were
traveling with the sphere.
Fair said the objects were sil
ver, that the fragments were
ahead of the satellite, and all
were moving in a southeast to
northeast direction.
The pieces seemed to be in a
horizontal position with, the sat
ellite, he said.
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Fight - or Compromise?
As far back as before the turn of the century,
the water available for the use of mankind in the
Rogue valley was of concern to forward looking
people here.
It has continued to be of concern. Rogue valley
people have a long record of water utilization. The
first irrigation for agriculture purposes in the state
was done here, on farmlands west of Phoenix. The
irrigation districts have long made use of water
brought long distances by man.
This concern, coupled with plans for fuller
utilization of water, came to a head in 1948, when
proposals for full, multiple-use development of the
valley's water resources were formally made.
XLY part of those plans matured, for in a hearing
that year it became evident that there were
major conflicts of interest largely between those
who believed that recreational use was paramount,
and those who advocated development for irrigation,
power and flood control purposes.
Since that time, the Talent project has been ap
proved and is now under construction. But the other
proposals have lain virtually dormant.
But once again, full-scale discussions are under
way about valley development. They were brought
up again as the partial result of two events the dis
astrous floods of December, 1955, and January and
February, 1956, which did so much damage here
abouts, and the slump in the lumber market, wrhich
emphasized the limited base on wThich our economy
rests, and the need for greater diversification, with
use of manpower in other fields and the year around.
AN agreement between diverse interests be reach-
on the best means of development?
That remains for time to tell.
But it is true that the discussions this time are on
a better organized and more thoughtful basis than
ever before. At the request of the State Water Re
sources Board, the county court has set up a commit
tee of about 110 persons, representing all water-use
interests in the valley, to compile a report on present
and future use of water in the best interests of the
majority of the people.
Study committees have completed the first phase
of the job, and have submitted preliminary reports
covering watershed management, flood control, water
pollution problems, agricultural, fish and wildlife,
industrial, recreational and municipal and domestic
uses of water.
""THERE will be conflicts in the conclusions reached
in some of the recommendations made in the re
ports. That is inevitable, and, indeed, desirable.
The big problem is whether these conflicts can be
resolved; whether compromises, in the democratic
tradition, can be found; whether one group will be
willing to. give a little in response to the giving of
another group.
If this can be done, if unified support can be
achieved for recommendations which reflect the
adage of "the greatest good for the greatest number,"
it will be an accomplishment of lasting worth.
For only with unified support would there be any
chance of obtaining multi-purpose development,
which can be done on a big scale only with the back
ing of the federal government.
IF THIS unified support is lacking, the plans would
have no more chance of approval than a snowball
in you-know-where.
pONGRESSMAN Charles O. Porter has been most
interested in this development, and most helpful in
offering his assistance to working out plans. His
bill calling for full development of the basin is the
vehicle which can be used, and he has repeatedly
declared that it can and will be changed to incorpo
rate the recommendations agreed upon by local peo
ple who know the needs best.
The crux of the controversy is the proposed high
dam across the Rogue at Lewis creek.
If a mutually satisfactory agreement can be
reached on that one point, the worst of the problems
will be solved, and the project, with its high benefit
cost ratio, will stand a good chance of approval.
If it cannot be, and a long-drawn-out fight de
velops, chances of approval of the project, and all
its benefits to all the people of the valley, will be
seriously jeopardized. E.A.
Huckstering the Subconscious
If, one day soon while watching your favorite
TV ppgram, you suddenly feel a mysterious urge to
rush out and . buy the product which sponsors the
show, it may be you are a victim of the newest gim
mick in electronic advertising.
This is "subliminal projection," also known as
the "invisible sell" a process which throws a brief
advertising message on the screen for a fraction of a
second, too short a time for it to register consciously,
but long enough to register subconsciously.
This, it is claimed, creates a predisposition on
the part of the viewer favoring the project.
THAT'S as may be.
All's fair in love and war, they say, but we
wonder if this is truly cricket. It seems sort of sneaky
to us, used as we are to honest printer's ink, and
forthright -advertising come-ons, which we have
learned to take or leave alone as suits our fancy.
Being fairly stubborn, and too-easily irritated by
electronic fol-de-rol, we eye this development with
suspicion. It may be, if we" find ourselves with an
unexplaiuable predisposition for something, we may
suppress the urge to buy, just outof spite. E.A.
Wednesday, October 16, 1957
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PUTTING P5AHUT BUTTER SM01VICH5S M MY ffiBFCASei'
Adenauer Faces Job
Of Reviewing Policy
Toward Satellites
By CHARLES M. McCANN .
United Press Correspondent
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
faces the job of reviewing West
Germany's entire policy toward
the Commu
nist states of
Eastern E u
rope. '
The review
has been forc
ed upon Ad
enauer by the
decision o f
President Tito
Of Yugoslav-
Charles m McCann ia to recog
nize the East German puppet re
gime. At present, Yugoslavia is the
only Communist country be
sides Soviet Russia itself which
West Germany recognizes diplo
matically. Adenauer always has threaten
ed to break relations with any
country which recognizes the
East German government. He
holds that such recognition will
make it harder to attain the uni
fication of Germany.
Now Must Decide
Now Adenauer must decide
whether to make good his threat,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The latest on Sputnik:
Dr. Joseph Kaplan, chairman
of the U.S. national committee
for the International Geophysi
cal Year, says there is NOT THE
REMOTEST CHANCE that it is
spying on us as it whizzes around
the earth.
Neither is it going to shoot
an atom bomb at us. It isn't big
enough to hold one.
WHAT IS Sputnik doing?
Wel-1-1-1-1-1
It's proving that Russia is a
past master of the art of propa
ganda. BUT
Let's be realistic about Sput
nik. It proves that the Russians
have a rocket with a lot of
PUSH. If their rocket can push
Sputnik 500 miles up above the
surface of the earth, it can push
a guided missile quite a long
distance.
That is something we should
not try to laugh off.
II'HAT is going on along the
' Syrian - Turkish frontier,
where a lot of military activity
is reported?
It's a good guess that Moscow
is trying to convince the Arabs
that the U. S. is AGAINST
THEM and is maybe planning
to back Israel in a drive to push
the Arabs out of the Middle East.
Moscow's objective is to make
the Arabs FEAR the United
States so they will come over
to the communist side.
THEN
When the Kremlin commies
have the Arabs in their power
They'll SKIN 'EM ALIVE and
hang thehir bleeding hides on
the fence as they have done in
the case of all other peoples who
have fallen into the communist
clutches.
LET'S take a look at the latest
example of communist meth
ods the East Germany currency
switch.
What happened there?
A lot of East Germans were
saving up their money so as to
get out of communist East Ger
many and into a better world.
The communists countered that
plan by declaring the old money
WORTHLESS and issuing new
money in its place.
IT IS a cynically brutal and
typical communist trick. It
emphasizes the long-range fact
that communism as a way of life
is so foul that in time it must
fall of the weight of its own
foulness.
If we can stave off all-out
shooting war long enough, com
munism will destroy itself.
and break relations with Yugo
slavia, or to accept Tito's deci
sion. He must also decide whether
to accord recognition to semi-independent
Communist Poland,
which also recognizes east Ger
many, and possibly later to
Czechoslovakia and other Com
munist countries.
Adenauer had been thinking
for some time about the advis
ability of recognizing Poland,
despite its own recognition of
the East Germans. One reason
for that is the possibility of es
tablishing profitable trade rela
tions with Poland.
But there is danger in the rec
ognition policy If Adenauer fails
to break relations with Yugo
slavia, it will be a backdown
from his demand that all coun
tries outside the immediate So
viet bloc maintain a boycott of
the East German regime. Some
non-Communist countries might
be tempted to follow Tito's suit.
Motive Unclear
Just what Tito's motive is in
deciding to recognize East Ger
many at this moment is not
quite clear. It -seems to have no
connection with the current vis
it of Marshal Georgi Zukov, So
viet defense minister, to Yugo
slavia. But certainly Tito's deci
sion is a victory for Russia.
Adenauer apparently intends
to take his time in deciding what
to do. Dispatches from Bonn, the
West German capital, say that he
will do nothing before the for
mal presentation of his cabinet
to the newly-elected West Ger
man Parliament next Wednes
day. The present comment in Bonn
is that Adenauer is almost cer
tain to break relations with Tito.
Longshoremen
Talk Automation -
Portland OP) The effect of
automation was the chief topic
of discussion today as the Inter
national Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's union went
into the second day of a three
day caucus here.
About 100 delegates from
ILWU locals were attending the
meeting, which was closed to
the press by a non-unanimous
vote of delegates. Before the
vote a delegate said it has been
past policy to exclude the press
from caucus meetings.
The automation discussion was
to acquaint members of "the
mechanization, palatization and
unitization which is rapidly
spreading on the waterfront,"
according to The Hook, publica
tion of Local 8. ,
Harry Bridges, president of
the union, said prior to the
meeting Tuesday he did not
want to hold a press conference.
Contract matters were expect
ed to come up later in the cau
cus. The union publication said the
caucus hoped to work out a
"workable" automation program
"that won't weaken our unions
and swell the profits of the em
ployers, but instead is put to
work to eliminate the back
breaking labor that still exists
in the industry."
SHIP BUILDER DIES
Mobile, Ala. IP) John Gris
er, 61, president of the Alabama
Dy Dock and Shipbuilding Co.,
died Tuesday.
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What's Sputnik's Significance?
Administration Spokesmen Differ
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Two men
who stand just after President
Eisenhower in the Republican
party table of
o r g a n i zation
have been talk
about Sputnik
this week.
What they said
seems some
how not to add
up.
One is Vice
President Rich-
i-yie c wtison ara M. mxon.
He spoke Tuesday night in San
Francisco before the Interna-
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ommunacations
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Owls
To the Editor: It happened on
a pitch black night. Returning
from a conference with Direc
tor Dr. Linsdale, (of U.C.'s Hast
ing's Natural History Reserve,
Carmel Valley), were Point Lo
bos Reserve Park's Superinten
dent and writer. Our auto's
lights at a curve illuminated an
owl making a "strike" at a field
mouse scurrying across the
highway.
Does not the fact that the
night was pitch-dark illustrate
how owls' food niche is night
time? If once we grasp the phil
osophy of The Niche, may we
not more intelligently do our
lawmaking?
The owls are peculiarly
worth study. Not only have
they adapted themselves to night
foraging, but in many other
ways. In the Arctic, writer no
ticed Snowy Owls have same
concealing camouflage as have
other predators. A hungry polar
bear, for example, can creep
up closer to a seal on an ice-
float because his fur is white
Western kiddies love the bur
rowing owl. They call it "billie
owl." It, of course, cannot dig
burrows, but has adapted its
housing to ground-squirrel exca
vations. Birding for the desert
dawn chorus, one hears pyjgmy
owls calling. In Arizona the elf
owl has reduced its bulk to al
most sparrow-size to find ren
tal space in old woodpecker
holes in the Sahuara cacti.
Ornithologists place owls
next to the parrot family. This"
probably for certain anatomical
similarities. The parrot's bill
does resemble the tearing bill
of the owl. Some wild parrots
hold their food owl fashion and
New Zealand has an owl-parrot.
C. M. Goethe,
Seventh & J Streets,
Sacramento 14, Calif.
"Did We Plan it That Way?"N
To the Editor: In 1943 Wen
dell Willkie in "One World"
(pags 106-107) said:
"If . . . we should witness the
creation ... of perhaps the big
gest empire in history, an em
pire composed of about a billion
people on approximately fifteen
miliion square miles of land . . .
this empire . . . would be self
sufficient, whether for peace
time industry or for war.
"I have unbounded faith in
the courage, the enterprise, and
the destiny of the American peo
ple. But I believe that if Ameri
cans were forced to live here
after face to face with an empire
of such dimensions, our way of
life would be little better than
an armed camp, and our vaunt
ed freedom would be little more
than a fond hope. We should live
in continual alarm, in endless
war, under crushing armaments
which it would be our constant
endeavor to increase. Neither
peace nor prosperity, neither
freedom nor justice, could flour
ish in such a struggle for exist
ence." Sputnik, Russia's ICBM, and
the already existing Soviet Em
pire of one billion souls cause
one to wonder whether Will
kie's "unbounded faith" in
American courage and enter
prise was warranted? Or did we
"plan it that way"?
Alfred Kohlberg
1 West 37th St.
New York 18, N.Y.
Object to Business Tax
To the Editor: This letter is
being written to correct certain
misrepresentations in a front
page article appearing in Mon
day's Mail Tribune concerning
the three Medford business men
and the Business License Ordi
nance. X
These three men have volun
tarily requested that a test case
be made concerning the validity
of the Ordinance (this having
tional Industrial Development
conference.
The other is Sherman Adams,
White House chief of staff, who
spoke his piece 24 hours earlier,
also in San Francisco, at an Eis
enhower birthday dinner spon
sored by the United San Fran
cisco Republican Finance com
mittee. Policy critics and others have
been scolding the Eisenhower
administration for what has
been regarded as complacency
in its reaction to the flight of
Sputnik.
Adams may not have been
complacent about Sputnik in
San Francisco. But he talked
been sought by them for quite
some time).
Secondly, is the statement by
Mr. Huson that the average busi
ness tax is $19.50, and that the
tax of each of the three men is
less than average. We suggest
that Mr. Huson recheck or have
a clerk recheck the three tax
figures. (His front page state
ment is false.)
Thirdly, we wish to state that
the amount of the tax is imma
terial to us. We would not have
paid it had it been fifty cents
or even less. Our main reason
for non-payment is as before
stated to test the validity of
the Ordinance. We are not and
never have been opposed to a
VALID business license tax.
The Mail Tribune article was
definitely and wrongly slanted
in favor of City Hall, (as are
most City Hall articles), and we
are publishing this letter to clear
up any misconceptions the ar
ticle may have caused.
M. J. Olsen
Ray O. DeMarrs
R. G. Shafer
Editor's note: Upon receipt of
the above letter, the Mail Tri
bune checked with City Treas
urer Darell Huson regarding the
tax figures involved. Those for
Mr. DeMarrs and Mr. Shafer
each were $13.50; that for Mr.
Olsen was $20. In all other par
ticulars the Mail Tribune stands
by the original story.
"Whistle Stopped"
To the Editor: Herewith is a
newspaper clipping from ' the
Nashville Tennessean, entitled,
"Whistle Stopped," in verse ex
pressing the trend of the times.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford, Ore.
By Paul Woolen
This was a railway station once,
And f ould be so-called now
For even yet some trains come
by,
Apologetic, humble-pie;
Somehow it seems they just
don't try
To look like trains.
Dieseled, almost riderless,
They slide through little towns
Where crowds no longer wait
to feel
The vibrant beat of steam and
steel.
To watch the plunge of shafted
wheel,
Or board the trains.
We loved them all and checked
each one.
"On time!" we said or "Late!"
We set our clocks by Number
Two;
Express and Limited and
Through
Were words that we, from child
hood, knew
Meant trains.
Today the platform's old and
bleak
The due-board almost bare:
(One chalked-in line instead of
ten!)
The main track holds two loaf
ing men,
Three pigeons and one ancient
hen
Instead of trains.
NOTRE DAME TEACHER DIES
Binghamton, N.Y. OP) Prof-
Henry Staunton, 79, an Episco
pal rector who became a Roman
Catholic and taught at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, died
Tuesday.
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We Never Close
like a man who was reasonably
content, as for instance when he
assured the Republican fund
raisers that the United States
never intended to compete "with
any other nation for first place
in a Sputnik race."
He gave a low rating to the
Sputnik as an instrument or
achievement in science and also
as a military fact.
"The serving of science,"
Adams said, "not high score in
an outer space basketball game,
has been and still is our coun
try's goal."
Democratic critics of the ad
ministration's satellite program
may be expected now to suggest
that high score in an outer space
basketball game is not the pub
lic's conception of the meaning
of a Red Russian Sputnik spin
ning overhead.
Urges Caution
If Adams gave Sputnik a
brushoff, Nixon Tuesday night
did not. Nixon said:
"Militarily the Soviet Union
is not one bit stronger today
than it was before the satellite
was launched. The free world
remains stronger than the Com
munist world.
"But," Nixon added, "we
could make no greater mistake
than to brush off this event as a
scientific stunt of more signifi
cance to the man in the moon
than to men on earth.
"We have had a grim and time
ly reminder of a truth we must
never overlook that the Soviet
Union has developed a scientific
and industrial capacity of great
magnitude.
"If the free world is to sur
vive we cannot rest on our past
achievements or our present po
sition of military superiority."
Men on earth may now pon
der the question:
Is Sputnik just a high score in
outer space basketball or a grim
and timely reminder to the peo
ple of the United States of new
life and fire in the economy of
the Soviet Union?
Frenchman Favored
For Literature Prize
Stockholm, Sweden (IP! Lit
erary critics today placed
French author Albert Camus as
the odds-on favorite to win the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
The coveted award, worth
more than $40,000 will be an
nounced Thursday.
Camus was believed to be the
front runner by far in a field
which included Japanese, Ital
ians, Greeks and other French
men. No United States writers were
reported in the running.
Camus is the author of a
novel, "L'Estranger"; a philo
sophical work, "Le Mythe de
Sisyphe," and two plays, "Le
Malentendu" and "Caligula."
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