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Newspaper Page TextyotTTi MEDfOHD (OREGOrT) tossvaJg&.TBmmi j r".-i)r. In Southern Or'foo Ra-i Th Mali Tr-.Durig" vfZDFf RD PRINTING CO J7-39 '.ortn Fir St Prong 2" 1 ROEt-.RT W RUHU Ed!t';r BT3 GREY Alvrtisir.g Manager CERAl.D LATHAM Biumeu Manaeex EUC ALLr.N JR Manaj.r.s Editor EAP.l H ADAM- Citr E-l:tor BARRY CHIP. VAN Telrsranh Editor ICICHARD JEWf.TT SW! El 1 tor OIJVI STARCHER Soci-.tv Editor PLE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. ArTjn'lf Dfri'lTit ,p'spaper " Sr.terM as scr-or.d mafer at Ji-diord Orepon -:r: :r Act of March 3 12t)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ij in Advar.'e Pt Cop 10c Dai.v and Sur.rlay One vpar II. ,fi Daii"? and Sunday S:x rr.or-tr.s 3 Daiiv and Sjndav Thrrr ti 4.25 S:;ndav Oniv Or: vrsr SI 11 8r Carrier In Advarj' - Medford Ashland Central Point Fae Po.nt Jacksonville Gol-J H-! Pfioenix Shady Cove Roi River Taient nti on motor roulea. Daily and Sunday One tr 1S TO Daiiy and Sunday One month 1.30 Carrier and Deaiera 0c oer cooy A;i T'rm Csshln Advance Bfflrfal Papf r of the Cl'tvf-MeoTofd Official Paper of Jackson County T'ni'ed Hre-jj Ful! Leaded Wire 1IEMEEr"of ACDITBjREAlF Of CIRCCLATION Xdvertfs.rip Representative- WEST-HOLIDAY COMPA.VY PfC Off'r.ea In New York Chicapo. de troit San Francisco Angeles Portland 6t Louis Atlanta Van-o:i-er P. C NIWSPAPEI fTV PUllltHIII ASSOCIATION j ATI Q HA I IDITOIIAi. If r AttOCU iei Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 21, 1947 (Tuesday) Present cif-.rts of adminfctra-; axefi reCently), and money became "tight." tiOn to socialise medicine is an: , ' , " , , , , , entering wedge for increased so-i The result was that the lumber market was great c.aiizing tf an government and ' y stimulated "artificially" f or a period: then depress- MbcilJ&e "artificially"-both by. government policy. Republican women. I From Arthur Perry's Ye ' TJIGH stumpage prices also are due, at least in part, Zuru" I to governmental procedures and policies rriuDists before a sennte investi-! The government, rightly, has set up standards of gatirg committee, in at least one j -'allowable cut" the amount which can be han'ested cViS snajeach year without threatening the sustained yield ...... ! principle. But these standards are based on outdated :0 YEARS AGO ! ' A , , ..,.., i, Oct. 21. 1937 (Thursday) j "Watchful waiting" is policy adopted by authorities in search for George O. Timothy, 87, for mer Medford police chief, miss ing since Saturday. Memorial services and dedica tion of monument in honor of Australian shepherd dog who saved the life of Shirley Mans field cf Butte Falls will be held at 2 p m. Sunday in the pet cem e'ery of the Jackson County Hu mare society. 19 YEARS AGO Oct. 21. 1927 (Friday) One of the most successful deer seasons in Years closes, ac- cordine to state Game Warden "arr or Asinand. Total of S12.000 will be ex pended by E. G. Trowbridge Jr., for construction of six dwellings on West 11th st.. according to building permits issued. 40 YEARS AGO OcJ 21 1917 (Monday) countv court receives agree- rrent from forestry service for j Would receive higher dollar returns from timber sales, h Twaf'etwer1" caVer Lake 1 These are some of the reasons the federal govern rational park and the west mcut is being called uiioii to take action to give Ore boundary of Crater lake nation al forest. Large audience attends open ing lecture of the Chatauqua balth coure in the Methodist church. What's Your I.Q.7 S'n or trn rnrrrrt Is superior; nvra or rtcht is axceUent; (iv or ix is good 1. After VE Day. for what purpose did the Army use the! point sj-Scem . 2 Were c:ent worlFa'IwS:inhistory than mply for f the Anc of man? 3 B:b: Did Methuselah die within a century or 400 ears' af'er the fiood? 4. Was Cassandra a famed Maccdnnia-i general, s Greek ' city, or art ancient prophetess? bert Hoover head in the cabinet j of Caivin cooiidge? I e Castrated roosters are ' Xno v, n as c - s? 7. Who w as the aut itnor of the tng -I Love You Trulv"? ' .,,,... , ; 8 WhisKy i :i n. a medi-, ca:!y - approved antidote for make bite'.' 9 D.-es ti li a --cord be expression .vr.ii a:was imp;y and spiritual har- e notional 10. - I- i Prtm.ns in s-'od to n.'ve com .iiser". John Gow- er. What is the more common r 1 .-. l j-iT tin.- nroi Ai-k'' Answers: 1. For the priority in demobilizing men. 2. Yes. 3. No. Befor the flood. 4. An ancient prophetess. 5. Depart- rr.tnt of Commerce. 6. Capons.' 7. crri Jacobs Bond. 8. is not A medically-approved antidote. 9. Yes. io. "Misery iove com-' pany." John Ray. ' MAIL TRIBUNE Federal Help Needed The lumber industry is in serious economic diffi culties. Oregon, as the ration's chief lumber-producing state, is suffering the most. And lumbermen hereabouts, who usually hate the idea of "running to Washington" for help with their : problems, are doing just that, with, they believe, good : reason. ' They contend that the federal go eminent and its policies have played a major role in the condition of the lumber market today, and that as a result it has an obligation to help out in the present unhappy situation. "IXHY is the lumber market depressed during a per ; iod when the rest of the economy is moving along I in high gear? ! One cannot point to any one reason and say ''This I is it." There have been many reasons, all working to jgether. Any one of them alone would have bothered ! the industry somewhat: but combined at the same time, they have been very destructive. They include: Increasincr use of "substitute'' materials in con struction. Overinstalled capacity; that is, too many mills for either the available supplies of lumber or for the slow er market. Satisfaction of the war-bred pent-up demand for housing. o "Tight" money. High prices for stumpage. IT IS in the last three of these that the federal govern ment has played a role. As George Flanagan pointed out in his letter to President Eisenhower, published in this paper a few days ago, the government encouraged the ''housing boom" after the war by making housing credit readily available through a number of different programs. Later, however, to counter the inflationary trend, credit was made more difficult to obtain, and interest rates were raised (although this has been slightly re- iUi ebl inveiiLUi aim new methods, the allowable cut lactor can saiely oe expanded many times. In addition, insufficient funds have been made available to process for sale even the allowable-cut amounts. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Manage ment budgets have been trimmed or withheld, both for administrative and for access road protection. As a result, much overmature DECAUSE most of the available privately-owned stumpage in the state is gone, more and more mills are dependent on federal timber. With limited sup plies available, competition has bid up the price. Ap- praised prices, the minimum accepted, were nigh to begin with as a result of boom-time bidding. Lumbermen believe if more federal timber were made available the price of logs would fall to a more realistic level, to the benefit of everyone. Lumbermen could better afford to operate, more men would be ..Unfit, Imlmi- cuillim Cll, titiiiui oi uhimci be harvested, and the government and the counties gon's lumber economy an Haywire Stewart Holbrook, that great Northwest particularly concerning the "glory" j days of logging reminds us, in a piece in the Ore- j gonian, of the debt we owe to haywire, invented just j OVei 100 Veai'S agO. j Haywire also known to generations of small; K-n-t. oc- Kolinrr n-'i-o h o a o fir mnvo imnnrtynt nlarp I jsays, rare indeed was the handy wire was not used hnnk nr tn hnlrl u snlif nv trousers of a "one-gallus ' OUR memories do not run oo novlr or rr T-T rl ll iTnL- OJ CfllH, UU 11U1UIUUU ollection of haywire in use to hold -Model i s and A S j together; to hold newspaper sacks on bicycles, to, mend a broken hockev-stick. "We have watched bovs 'x '-,-o1llr,Klo in o a"" " " ..e.fc ... terns, bundling wood, holding up a tent ilap, or snak- . . ,. , . ox x lg a nOI-pOl Oil Uie Hie. And who can count the den implements of the past tioned solely because tney with tightly-twisted wire? ""THE word '"haywire" ha. mean almost anything Ol'der, Wl'Ong. 01, as HoIlU'OuK piltS It, "broken, OUSted, erazv, foolish, f limsv. or almost anvthiii you think of . 71 liko r " ' tnai 111 a? Oil CI llKt h. Haywire repairs may be catcn-as-catc-n-can. but havwire. used with imagination and darir.fr. must be f i i i s . i i ' i acknowledged as one ot the natural resources used m "winning the west." E.A. Monday, October 21, 1957 it-nee iitts miuu a nicit u ilk timber still stands. M-m.pinn -Pi- nlittinn- ,i-rlllrl utcuipc iui v-ULimg uuiu assist. E.A. robustious chronicler of the baling hay. As Holbrook; logging camp wnere tne. in a variety ot ways as a tOP'Pther. or to hold UP the man. I in the same direction, nor 'c Lilt ItjvP v'vlfl VPP- C, 'Jill 'tv.. jili i . v i fish with haywire. It was fanuuito fur hano'ino- number of vard and gar- and present which func were or are held together ? entered the language, to which is tancrled, out of - jjfc VOU'ZZ CRAZY! THIS (SMTOLO FASHIONED' Tj-ilS JS A RQCtC 'N CHAIR 1 Matter of Fact b. : CONCERNING FOSTER i DULLES ' Paris If President Eisenhow - , er seriously intends to save the United States and the Western Alliance from Joseph AIsod This reporter would hesitate to blurt out such a home truth, it he did not have the precedent of November, 1950. The 1950 elections, as will be remembered, produced a Congrss amounting to a standing vote of no confid ence in Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson. Therefore, this re porter and his partner then sug gested Acheson's replacement. Th suggestion gave much per sonal offense. Yet it was based on the most wholly impersonal reasoning .In effect, a reason able measure of Congressional confidence is an essential work ing part in Secretary of Slate He may be energetic, intelligent and courageous, as Acheson was. But if he lacks this essential working part, he is like a piece of machinery that cannot do its job properly. rpHE case of Secrtary Dulles in 1957 is the obverse of the case of Secretary Acheson in 1950. His relations with Con gress are at least tolerable. But he althogether lacks the con fidence of the governments and peoples of the other nations of the Western Alliance. Indeed, this is a grave under statement. The truth is that John Foster Dulles is not only hearti ly detested. Worse still he is pas- sionately distrusted, in all the f . A countries where his job requires j construction accomplished is by him to represent and typify privatc timber operators who are American leadership of the West, j aiiowed to deduct road costs It does not matter that Sec- j from the sae price of tne tim retary Dulles has many remark- j bcr xhis materially cuts down able and valuable qualities. It is j he revcm,e obtained bv the not worth enquiring into the ; countios ,vhich receive 25 per uiies quuivs umci nave pro- ; auceu tne preseni unnappy situa tion, such as his habit of cover- ing the backs of his contracts with print so fine that it cannot be ready by any eye not trained at Sullivan and Cromwell. What matters is simply the hard, un doubted fact of total lack of confidence in Dulles. T.VF.N mors than a roawnsWo i JU ts. measure of Congressional confidence, a successful Secre- tarv nT Slalp nerrli; tn rnmmniiH a reasonable measure of confid- ! frct compared to the previous ence abroad. Once again the : 64 biHin board feet. A total of image of a piece of machinery i fi2 per cent of the commercial lacking a vital part is directly ; forest lands in the county are aplicable. To see how applicable publicly owned, all but a tiny one need only consider the pre- ' portion by the federal govern sent Soviet drive for a face-to- ment. Trie impact of federal man face dialogue with the American agement on the local economy leadership. ; can readily be seen. ' As long as Secretary Dulles is Of vital importance to future at the State Department, the : allowable cuts of timber in the American government cannot so : forests is the fact that two-fifths much as consider whether such 1 of the sawtimber is In old a dialogue will be or will not be growth trees. This means that desirable. The subject must not be whispered about in Washing- ton. it must not even be thought about. For if tr.e oiher V, estcrn gov- four-fifths of all the sawtimber ernments even begin to suspect volume is Douglas fir, the lum that Secretary Dulles i about bcr mnct used in the construe to open a dialogue with the Sov- ,jon indUstrv. So with a predict- leis, xney wia ai once conclude that Dulles intends to sell them down the river Boiling with dis-. trust, they will therefore hurry. to Moscow to seek their own deals with the Kremlin. And thus a single personality can cause the V.'e.-tern Alliance to dissolve in inc'onous ea:r. ( "Sve yourself and the d-;v:l take the hindmost.'' T THIS poin'. ot:? can rear the indignant reactions of the Dulles partisans. "Why should we care'1 If he's good enough, for u.-. he's good enough for those foreigners.'' This kind of reaction is the other side of the medal of the ever-present Amcrijun done to be liked by foreigners, which is o. r worst fauit in tiie field of foreign re lations. Many centuries ago. the Roman historial Tacitus gave the correct rule: Joseph Alsop "Let them hate us so long as j they respect us." ; The rule exactly applies in the case of Secretary Dulles. It is immaterial that he is disliked; i but it is highly material that he the d a n g ers j is neither trusted nor respected now looming Indeed, this is not merely a ma darkly ahead, ' tcrial fact. It is also a desperately he is going to ; perilous fact in the present pre; have to take j Korean atmosphere, at least one , The danger hanging over us very painful j can oniy be aVoided by the most step. He is go-1 rocklike Western unity. To be ing to have to j sure tie danger largely arises find a n e v ; from the complacant follies of Sec retary of American defense planning in State. I thf hist fivp vears. As defense pianning Was not a direct Dulles ; responsibility, it may seem un . iust to penalize him for the re- sults. But the whole ship of the West is only too likely to found er unless Western unity can be promptly restored, and there is not the faintest hope of unity while John Foster Dulles con tinues to serve as the ship's first mate. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. SAWTIMBER UP 50 The huge increase in the vol ume of sawtimbcr in Lane coun ty should mean much to the future economy of this area, if the allowable cut of this timber is made available for productive use. And therein lies one of the major problems faced by the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies in management of these vast timberlands. In order to ! sell the amount of timber avail- 1 abie under sustained vield man- agement, there is urgent need for more access road funds and funds for more forest service per sonnel to do the job. At the present time, nearly i four-fifths of the access road ccnt p , and the federal government which gets 75 per cent on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. A preliminary report by the U.S. Forest Service on timber in Lane county (presented to the Lane Chamber Tuesday) shows that the volume of sawtimber has increased more than 50 per ent since the previous inven tory in 1942. All sawtimber, in cluding public and private, is now estimated at 97 billion board only slightly more than half of n,,r" forest lands are providing! new growth for future cutting, j j;,e rrport also notes that ! cd upsurge in home construction ri.:o twin ir i; comforting to kn "that here in Lane county ' . . far mnr merchantable sawtimber that we heretofore realized. Our big effort must be j to get behind efforts to increase! 3 impropriations for the U.S. For-i ct Service so these vast forests Editorial Comment DR. LEE MELLISH, D.M.D. Announces the Removal of his office from Medical Center Building to 836 East Main St. Suite 1 U.S., U.K. End Long By CHARLES M. McCANN I United Press Correspondent The United States and Great; Britain evidently have decided! ! to end at 1 long and dan gerous lapse in Allied re la-. tion. i i ne decision ; has been fore-; ed upon them ' by Soviet Rus-; sia's successes ' in the fields of ; diplomacy and nuclear sci-; Chanes M. McCacn gnCe j It is indicated that the con ference between President Eis enhower and British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan. starting in Washington Wednesday, vill be only the first of a series of meetings of high Allied leaders in Washington and London. The threatening situation in the Middle East, where Russia has built up a big and patently false campaign against Turkey, naturally will be one topic for discussion. But undoubtedly the big topic will be Russia's success in test ing an intercontinental ballistic missile and launching the "Sput nik" earth satellite. System Aids Russia Russia' success in this field has been made possible largely! by its form of government. The big strength of a totali tarian regime is that it can con centrate the whole energy of a nation upon any project it likes instead of waiting like the de mocracies for a crisis like Pearl Harbor to wake up the government and people. Russia for years has had its scientists working together as one team on the development of nuclear weapons and of space missiles like Sputnik. All this time, the United States and Britain have been I nmrL-incr Inrlpnpnrlpntlv in this field. Britain has developed its own H-bomb and is hinting at the development soon of new and potent nuclear weapons. It is making notable progress in de veloping atomic energy for peaceful uses. can produce what they are cap able of producing under sus tained yield management. Eu gene Register-Guard. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The latest sensation: THE RUSSIANS MAY BE ABOUT TO SHOOT A ROCK ET TO THE MOON. An aviation publication, Avia tion Daily, says reliable Wash ington sources expect the event to occur on Nov. 7 the 40th an niversary of the Bolshevik revo lution. It adds that the rocket will attempt to spray the moon's sur face with red powder forming a patch visible from the earth with telescopes. HMMMMMMMM. That seems to tag it as an other propaganda enterprise designed to convince the world that Russia is invincible and so everybody better come over on Russia's side and leave the United States lonesome and alone. The red powder stain on the! moon would be visible evidence of Russia's rocket prowess. ATOP American scientist Dr. Allen Hyhek, associate director of the Smithsonian ob servatory in Cambridge, Mass. says it wouldn't be much harder to send a rocket to the moon than it was for Russia to place its earth satellite into its orbit. He says the rocket used to launch Sputnik must have had enough energy to propel it at a speed of five miles per second and goes on to say that if two more miles per second were edded it could be pushed to the moon with very little change' in technique. TUTTING the moon with a n Russian rocket would be a stunt that In itself wouldn't need to worry us much. The moon is a long way off, and be sides it isn't supposed to be in habited. But let's not be scornful. If the Russian could hit the moon with a rocket carrying a cargo of red paint in its nose, it stands to reason that they might be able to hit New York or Washington with a rocket car rying an atomic warhead. OUT let's be realistic. I) The big point is this: If the Russians had a guided Phone SP 2-9073 i;'! Vi , ' Finally Decide To Coolness in Relations In addition, in the United ' with destruction if they permit States, the Army. Navy and Air j ted their territory to be used for Force have been working not j atomic weapons bases, oniy independently but actually! These countries know now that against each other in a trasic race to take the lead. There seems hope now that all this is going to end. and that the Eisoiihower-Macmillan con - fercnoe will mark the beginning of the end insofar as interallied cooperation is concerned. Closer Cooperation Urged One tiling the United Stales lias got to do is to tighten up its tics witii its fellow members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. Months ago. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bu'ganin started sending notes to European mem bers of NATO, threatening them Third Party Possible Aid to Southerners In Keeping Influence By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington 'I? The political editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Con stitution has been pulse-feeling in the Old Con federacy and comes up with the expected finding: The race is sue now rat tling the foun dations of the D e m o c r atic Party has po litically isolat- l.yle C Wilson ed the Old South. The editor, William M. Bates, finds further that there is third party talk and prospects in the Southern air. President Eisenhower dented the Solid South in 1952 and again in 1956 but Bates reports: "There seems to be little room Traffic Figures Given As Shown By Counter Statistics from permanent automatic traffic recorders in Jackson county for September have been released by the Ore gon State Highway department. The three recorders were placd at Siskiyou on Oregon highway 66. five miles east of Ashland: Shady Cove, on Ore gon highway 62, four miles south of Shady Cove; and Tal ent on U.S. highway 99, two miles south of Talent. Average daily traffic for the month at Siskiyou was 1.084 ve hicles; Shady Cove 1,942; and Talent 8,087. Statewide figures showed a decrease of 1.4 per cent during last month compared to a year ago. Figures for 1956 in Jack son county were not available. missile (or maybe even two r three of them) capable of reach ing the United States, would they tip us off to that fact by shooting it at the moon? Or would they keep it dark until they had enough guided missiles to ANNIHILATE US before we could retaliate? rpHIS is the present situation: -B- At our bases all over the world and on our naval ships tnal s;ii the seven seas we have bombers carrying nuclear bombs that can be launched against Russia at a moment's no tice. It is generally believed that these bombers are numerous enough to destroy Russia in one all-out attack. WOULD the Russians INVITE ' such an attack before they had in their possession guided missiles enough to destroy US? Would they be tipping us off by shooting at the moon? It doesn't seem probable. Mr ' J FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home G Phone SP 2-6675 Bulganin's threat was not an empty one. They know that in the event of war between the United States and Russia they 1 micht be the first targets. But the Allied still infinitely nations ere superior in strength if they will only get toother as they did when they formed the NATO Alliance in 1040 under threat of Communist aggression. As President Eisenh at his dinner for Queen Eliza beth Thursday night: "We have the power. Tha only thing to do is to put it to gether." j in the Republican Party now for estates rights' minded - Southern Democrats. The Little Rock crisis on the other hand, cannot fail to widen the deep North-South rift within the Democratic Party." Little Room Left It seems, therefore, that there is little room in either major party now for states rights' minded Southern Democrats. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) pointed up the Democratic party situation some days ago. Doug las is of the Democratic left, a Liberal or New Deal party man, and prominent in this year's con gressional effort for all-out civil rights legislation. Douglas was asked whether the efforts of himself and other northern Democrats might not force the Southerners out to form their own party. "I would welcome it," Doug las snapped. Some oilier northern Demo crats are like-minded. The brake on Southern enthusiasm for a third party adventure in 1960 is the danger that Southern mem bers of Congress might be read out of the Demicratic Parly and thereby lose their prime and powerful committee chairman ships. In the possession of these chairmanships lies the last sub stantial political power remain ing to White Democrats in the Old Confederacy. The southerners know, of course that their third party presidential nominee could not be elected by the normal pro cess. Diversion of the electoral votes of the states of the Old Confederacy to a third party candidate might, however, pre vent any other candidate from obtaining the required majority of 266 electoral votes. The House of Representatives in that event would choose the President from among the three top winners of electoral votes. In the House each state would cast one vote. The candidate re ceiving 25 or more votes would become the next President. That magic figure, 25. represents a majority of one of the votes of all the states. Election Stalemale Possible The 11 states of the Old Con federacy or the 13 stales now sometimes listed as comprising the South would be a powerful bloc in such an election. They might bring an election in the House to absolute stalemate. Hav ing brought it to stalemate, such a bloc of states might negotiate pledges and bargains vitally af fecting the policies of winner to whom they finally swung their support. It is a tempting thing. The voice of the South can be heart no more, or faintly, in the coun cils of the national Democratic Partv. A third party operation well-timed and exnertlv man- j aged might change that to let the Southern voice be heard loud land clear. At PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which ore In keeping with its meens. A e!ection of services for every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to mef all financial circumstance. Convenient Terms? Certainly!