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o QrOTJR MBDFORD (QJREGON) "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Riblijhed Dally ExceDt Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W BUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager OERAl.D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN SR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor lARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor SrCHARD JEWETT Sports Editor CUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediard Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c " Daily and Sundays-One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 mt Carrier In Advance Medford - Ashland Central Point Eagle Point jacKsonvtlle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeue River. Talent and on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 tamer and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United tress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising RpnrAvntatiu WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. 0V NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOtlAi ASSOcllA'ieN Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Itov. 11, 1947 (Wednesday) Concerts in Central Point and Bedford will be given tomor row by a 60-piece University of Oregon band which will be en route to Palo Alto where the band will support the university football team. From Arthur Perry's Ye 'Smudge Pot column: "Oregon motorists are warned against the u0 of certain anti-freeze fluids. from itm of the driving it has lonjr; lleen luspcted the fluid jya in the driver instead of the 10 TEAM JtOO J$a?. 11. 13T (Tudy) A heavy downpour drenching the city during tht night brings total rainfalfof 1.20 inches. The Phoenix grade school will present "The Magic Beanstalk," (i operetta, in three acts with children from all grades partici (3tiQg, (St ERt GO o gofe 11. 1437 (Friday) following the firing of 11 bombs at 11 a.m. today in com memoration Armistice hour, bjfgest feature of Medford's an nual Armistice day celebration, thfi parade, marched through (Jiajdecorated streets. Among exchanges " of farm property said to be occuring in rapid order throughout the county, was the sale of Jesse Glass dairy ranch in Sams val ley. ,40 YERS AGO (Tc. 11. 1917 (Saturday) Sin enthusiastic meeting of (gie Red Cross was held at the workrooms in the Cowley buil ding: Thursday afternoon. Jrom Local and Personal coL umn: Jackson county stockmen g much interested in the new Selling rules for hogs on the Portland market that have been ordered by the food adminis tration. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Manuel Quezon was a statesman of what country? 2. What bird was portrayed as an ensign of Napoleon Bona parte's armies? 3. Bible. Acts is followed by a number of letters from Paul and other Christian leaders: what are these letters called? 4. Complete the following pairs: Romulus and ; Anth ony and ; Gog and ; Chang and . 5. Is "amnesia" a mythical food for the gods? 6. What river drains the Great Lake of North America into the Atlantic? Does a numismatist collect rare books, coins, pctage stamps or paintings? 8. Would you be pleased or displeased if you received a "Bronx cheer"? O 9- "The singer was accompa nied by a flutist. He was also accompanied with a piano." Are O "by" and'i'with" correctly used? 10. Wh'at was the chief char (gcteristic of the "miller" in the ditty that "lived on the River Dee"? Aarjwers: 1. The Philippine Commonwealth. 2. Eagle. 3. Epislles. 4. Remus; Cleopatra; Magog; Eng. 5. No, it is a mental ailment. 6. The St. Lawrence. 7. Coins. 8. Displeased. 9. Yes. 10. He was "jolly". MAIL TRIBUNE Quillpig and Fisher The quillpig (which is an alternative name for that offensive little rodent, the porcupine) is, as has been noted, in low favor with loggers, ranchers, for esters and others who object to his habits. These include chewing up anything which tastes even faintly of salt (including ax-handles, tractor seats, leather goods of all kinds, and even rubber tires and hoses) ; girdling and thus killing or maiming trees, both fruit and lumber varieties; and leaving his sharp, barbed quills in the noses of cattle, sheep or domestic pets, which can result in their death. In recent years, this has resulted in a concerted campaign to decrease their numbers in Jackson and Klamath counties, specifically by paying a bounty for porcupine noses, and by contests with prizes for the youngster with the largest kill. THIS campaign has aroused in us no great enthu siasm, largely for the reason we can think of more wholesome pursuits for young people than slaughter ing the little beasts, slicing off their noses, and drying and salting them, for 50 cents each. And, while many thousands of porcupines have met death through this plan in the two counties, their population has not decreased in any great degree. Ex perts seem to agree that the best that can be expected from this method of control is to keep the already-high numbers from mounting even further. Poisoning and trapping also have their drawbacks, and are of questionable value in controlling the quill Pigs. DUT a group of lumbermen and foresters in this area have an idea which might be worth consider ing for a "natural" means of control. One of them is 0. K. Puckett, who has a lumber operation in the Green Springs area. He recalls hear ing "old-timers" tell of the time when a weasel-like animal called a "fisher" was prevalent hereabouts. They have been gone for years, he says, but in the days when they abounded, porcupines were much rar er. His story is corroborated by an article in the Oc tober, 1957, issue of the Journal of Forestiy by a couple of men who have done considerable research on the ecological relationship of the fisher and the porcupine. " THE fisher is a natural sxyt ctiiu mo teniae utct instance ui casco where the porcupines have been numerous until fish ers move in, then decline as the fishers increase. Fishers once 1 ranged the entire northern part of the country, chiefly in coniferous forests, but their range now is limited largely to New England and the Andironack country in northern New York state. The animals are about the size of a fox, and have the bodily shape of a large weasel or a small wolverine. They are tough and fast, and suffer far less from por cupine quills than most other animals. Puckett says they can even swallow them The article concludes: "Re-establishment of the fisher in areas of the United States where porcupine control is indicated might well solve, or at least minimize, the damage caused by this ob noxious rodent. We feel that it would be well worth a try." In this area particularly, where fishers once were numerous, it might indeed be worth a try. E.A. (ST1 99 I raditions Among the two dozen or more newspapers which cross our desk daily are several college or university papers. ' Occasionally, in the latter, are items which in trigue or amuse or instruct us. Once in a while there are items which irritate us. The following, from the Daily Emerald of the University of Oregon, is an example : "The Order of the O will enforce the following tradi tions beginning today: "1. Freshmen men are to wear beanies and women are to wear ribbons every Wednesday until Homecoming. They are to be worn every day during Homecoming Week. "2. All students must speak on the hello walk and not walk on the seal. "3. No smoking on the old campus. "4. No walking on the grass. "5. During all of Homecoming week all honoraries must wear their uniforms, and everyone must wear a Homecom ing button. "All violators will be punished." TRADITION? Eyewash! Those aren't traditions. They're either just plain ordinary rules of conduct, or else tribal rites of the late-adolescent. Tradition, Webster tells us is "the oral transmis sion of information, beliefs, customs, etc., from an cestors to posterity without written memorials," or "something handed down from the past; an inherited culture, attitude, etc." One does not "violate" a tradition and get "pun ished" ; and traditions don't get printed in lists with burly lettermen wielding paddles to "enforce" them on Wednesdays. The only tradition we can escry in this business is the ancient one of college students making silly asses of themselves. And if the writer of these ill-tempered lines is sus pected of never having joined in such hi-jinks, let it be known he once was kidnapped at 5 a.m., dumped in a field 20 miles away, and hitch-hiked back in time to participate in an inter-class brawl before being pulled through a lake, fully clothed, in a tug o' war. Now THERE'S tradition for you. E.A. Monday, November 11, 1957 enemy of the quillpig, they and get away with it. 'JU 0CT YOU'RB GLAD J BRIGHT 'N EARLV EVERy Matter of Fact by AT THE EAST GATE Sahnalar, Turkey (Editor's note: This column describes the first visit to the Turkish defenses on the Soviet frontier ever permitted any Western news p a p e rman since the end of the second World War.) The high steel Soviet guard towers, exactly like Joseph Alsop the , guard towers of a prison camp, mark the Turkish-Soviet frontier; and the Soviets daily plough and harrow a broad strip between their guard towers, so that no man or beast can cross without leaving telltale prints behind. The high Anatolian plateau drops down towards tne frontier in a wild tumble of lion-tawny hills, treeless and rocky-flanked. On one high crest, the ruins of a Seljuk Castle still gauntly stand guard. And all along the lower slopes, you can see the line of modern Turkish guard posts, humble structures, but fully, watchfully manned, day and night, in bad weather and good, from year's end to year's end. Beyond the Soviet guard tow ers there is a broad valley dot ted with collective farms. Across the valley, seeming wonderfully close in the bright autumn air, there surges up the frowning, unbroken mountain wall of the Russian Caucasus. On the towering twin peaks of Alagurz, snow lies sparkling in the sun against the palid, pure-blue-of-autumn sky. 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 Grateful To Medford To the Editor: When a stranger from another state with an ex tremely serious and involved problem meets up with the warm hearted treatment such as I re ceived in Medford a few weeks ago, it should be made known this is the kind of news that lifts the hearts of all parents in -troubled times such as these. During my stay in Medford I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Judge Kelly, District Attorney Tom Reeder and his assistant A. Allen Franzke, along with Lt. Lyle C. Perkins of the City Police Department and Of ficer Austin Murray of the State Highway Patrol, also G. E. Milli gan of Mercy Flights, Inc. To gether these gentlemen handled my situation to such an extent that it was settled far above my greatest expectations. It is, with out doubt, a great asset to your community to have such men as these in office. The warm understanding and kind consid eration shown my wife and I during our ordeal will be remem bered always. About two years ago I read in the Coronet magazine about Mercy Flights, Inc. of Medford. Little did I realize then that some day I too would be bene fitted by this service. If only more cities knew the vital role that Mercy Flights, Inc. plays, I am sure that before long this would be a national organiza tion. We send our deep felt thanks to all and may God bless each and every one of you. Robert Levinson 7727 Cowan ave. Los Angeles 45, Calif. He's "Agin" the S.P. Too To the Editor: I am glad to see how you people are going after the S.P. railway gang for depriving Medford and other cities of good passenger car service. So far I have no answer to the letter I sent President Russell of the S.P. Co. at his San Francisco office. I am always anxious to get our copy of the Mail Tribune. Carl J. Brommer 8 Riverway Lane Milwaukie, Ore. VOHT HAVE TO LEAVE AWING I Joseph Alsop rpHE drama, at first glance, seems hardly worthy of this incomparable setting. As hostile tribes have often done since his tory began, the Turks and Rus sians engage in barter across their closely guarded border. There is a main barter point here at Turkey's East Gate and Russia's Red Gate. Twelve hundred baaing Turkish sheep are now waiting to be ex changed for Russian metal goods or glassware or caustic soda. Marching like automatons, thee Turkish soldiers approach the border. Another automaton, a Red Army officers, marches to meet them. The Red Gate, which is an actual structure, rather rickety but painted a bright, satisfying red, is opened after an exchange of salutes. The sheep are herded through. And salutes are again exchanged as the last nervous ewe skitters to her fate in Soviet territory. But this bucolic-military in cident does not tell the real story of this strange, wild and distant frontier. By this road, for many millenia, invaders have poured into Antatolia and thence into the Middle East and Europe. TiHE Turks themselves came this way. Driving to the bord er my escort told me with de lighted relish of the beginning of the end of Byzantium, when the great Turk, Alp Arslan, routed the Emperor Romanus Diogenes and "destroyed the whole damned army of the Greeks" at Manzikert. And now the Russians have been pressing along the same route of advance for more than three centuries. From the frontier westwards to Erzerum and beyond, the land has been repeatedly drenched with Russian and Turkish blood. A lively little gorge with craggy walls of rosy rock rising above a rushing, icy, milky bluish stream, was the approach to the frontier. At one sharp turn in the rock wall, the stolid young Turkish jeep driver broke into sudden smiles and began a lec ture. It turned out that he was happily explaining how the Turks ambushed and massacred an entire Russia cavalry division at this point in 1877. "But the next year," the boy added with sudden glumness, "the Russians took our prov inces of Kars and Ardahan and we had to wait for Ataturk to get them back." All this the Turks vividly re member. One heard the same story, without variation, from Maj. Hekmet Tura, Commander of the Sahnalar Boundary Bat talion in whose headquarters I am writing; and from Brig. Gen. Auni Okyoy, commanding the frontier screening force from Kars; and from veteran Gen. Necati Tajan, commanding all Turkey's eastern Third Army from Erzurum. rpHIS is a holiday. On the pretty meadow by the brook out side the headquarters, Maj. Tura's men have picnicked. Now the best dancers are performing to the music of drum and zorna, which is like a bagless bagpipe. But although there is no batta lion training today, every post is manned as usual, and the schedule of patrols is rather heavier than usual. It is the same with Gen Ok yoy's whole screening force. It is the same with Gen. Tajan's divisions dug in among the hills. The alert is permanent. Nikita Khrushchev's recent threats to Turkey made no difference. The Generals, the Major and all the other Turkish soldiers and of- KING'S SON DEAD Geo. N. Taylor The first-born of every family in Egypt was slain that night. The Angel of Death killed allfrom the king's son to the prison er in the cell. But in Israel, not a one was killed. Every door carried the blood of a slain lamb. This blood, the Angel saw and passed over. And your sins are no longer counted against you if you accept Christ as the Lamb of God who died for your every last sin. Then Judgment Day and Hell's Fire are out. Eternal life is then in. So God, by saving, you; tells you his eter nal love. Khrushchev Again Rebuffed in Proposal for High-Level Talks By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Nikita S. Khrushchev has been rebuffed again in his persistent attempt to arrange a high-level E a s t - W e s t meeting and on world issues. The Soviet Communist party leader has called re peatedly for a Big Four meet ing in which he and Pre- Cnaries m. McCann mier" Nikolai A. Bulganin would meet Presi dent Eisenhower and the prime ministers of Great Britain and France. He has intimated that he would like to deal directly with the United States in the absence of a Big Four meeting, and thus pas;, over the heads of British and French leaders. He has disclosed that the So viet government unsuccessfully tried to get Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, just ousted as Russia's Defense Minister, to visit Wash ington. Now Khrushchev, in his speech on the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, has called for a "high-level meeting of representatives of capitalist and socialist Communist coun tries." The meeting, Khrushchev said, would be intended to "reach an agreement based on the consideration of true reali ties and mutual understanding about the exclusion of war as a method of settling international problems." Four-Point Program Its program, he said, would be to (1) Stop the cold war, (2) Stop the armaments race, (3) Establish relations between states on the basis of co-existence, and (4) Settle disputes of an ideological nature by means of peaceful competition, Considering that Russia has maae me coia war its jno. l in strument of foreign policy, that it has blocked every attempt to reach any agreement however limited on disarmament and that its idea of co-existence is to ha rass and attempt subversion in all free countries, the program for the proposed conference seems a bit ambitious. Khrushchev's proposal is in teresting for one thing because presumably it would mean a jumbo meeting of countries of all kinds, the Western Allies, the Communists, including Red China, and the "neutralists," in cluding India. Khrushchev's new proposal follows immediately upon Rus sia's unsuccessful attempt in the United Nations to scrap the pres ent 12-member Disarmament Commission ' in favor of one which would contain all 82 members of the U.N., and ob viously would get nowhere. The proposal for the high level meeting was promptly slapped down in . Washington, London and Paris. Unhappy Despite Successes Khrushchev's p e r s i s t e nee seems to justify the suggestion that perhaps he is not too happy despite Russia's recent impres sive successes. The launching of the "Sput nik" satellites and the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile have awakened the United States to the necessity of really getting into competition. Those developments also have brought the decision that the heads of all 15 members of the North Atlantic Treaty .Organiza ficers I met all reacted to the threats in the same way. As Gen. Tajan said: "I was Chief of Staff on this frontier when we had Stalin's big threats after the war. I re member getting a government message that there might be an attack in 24 hours. We were weak then, we stood firm and nothing happened. We are strong now, and your country is our ally. So we think that if we still stand firm and are always alert, we shall be all right." Only once did a younger of ficer, perhaps moved to im politeness by his own vigorous intelligence, so much as men tion the "Sputnik" and its im plications. "Since America is our great ally," he said almost wistfully. "we have always liked to think America was far ahead of the Russians." It was unpleasant to be reminded in this manner that our self-indulgent, folly of the last five years has been a be trayal, not of ourselves alone, but of a great many other very brave people as well. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. tion shall meet in Paris next month to tighten their alliance. Khrushchev is acutely aware of the fact that bomber planes and missiles of limited range can strike the most vital parts of the Soviet Union right now In the Day's News By FRANK Today's BIG questions: How did President Eisenhow er's speech affect you? After hearing it, did you feel better? Or did you feel worse that is to say, lower in your mind? LET'S forget what he said. After all, he was dealing with highly technical issues issues that you and I can't be expect ed to understand because we are neither military strategists nor scientists. But We know how we FEEL. If Ike's speech left us feeling con fident of the future, it means Editorial Comment Oi'HER WORLDINESS Some hold man's present aspi ration to conquer space and to reach other planets a high and noble adventure Rather it is another example of the folly of man. This is "other-worldliness," m a new form. Formerly man was obsessed with the world after death. He was so concerned about the state of his soul in the next life that he neglected to learn how to live in this one Modern theologians have got him out of that. Now man is looking for other planets. We've made a ,mess of this planet. The scars of soil erosion ue seen on every continent. The damage below the surface is even greater. With the multiplied consump tion that comes from a mass pro duction system allowed to' run wild, we are using up our miner al resources at an even faster rate, with only a hope, unwar ranted by any known science, that somehow we'll find a way to replace them. A truly civilized race would reduce and use over all mater ials If for no other reason than cleanliness, but our devastated landscapes grow wider and our refuse heaps grow higher and higher. We talk gaily of a wonderful new age to come from the peace ful use of atomic energy Ig noring the fact that science does not know any method of dispo.s irp of atomic wastes safely. Now, like the old-time destruc tive farmer who wore out one f.irm and moved to another, we are looking for new planets. Our spiritual leaders have taught us to give up obsession with a future life in the sky and give our attention to the eternal life we are now living. Wise men agree that if we learn how to live o earth we'll not only find a home in heaven but feel at home there. This present obsession with other planets, this new other worldliness, is iust as unreason able. It will take all our thought to learn how to live well on this P-P.net. Any other planet we may reach will probably not prove to be a bit better than earth n.i easier to wreck, no more pleasant to live on, if we care to learn how to live. Why investigate to see wheth er man can survive in space' Why not first see whether man can survive on earth? Between uncontrolled population and the atom bomb, it's doubtful. And what's this chatter about spacemen? When we haven't yt learned to live with earthmen of different color, how couid we ever get along with inhabi tant of another planet? Let's stay home. Memphis Press-Scimitar. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 from quite a number of Allied bases. There also is the fact that the two shake-ups in the Kremlin leadership within four months are a sign of weakness, not strength. JENKINS that he possesses the qualities of great leadership our country must have if it is to maintain and improve our position in the critical months and years of the future. With inspired and capable leadership, there is NOTHING we can't do. Without it, we will be in a bad way. "VTORALE is all-Important. It is immensely important to an individual, but it is more important still to organizations of individuals. No football team whose morale is at a low ebb ever won any critical games. Morale depends to a very large extent upon confidence, or the lack of it, in the LEADER. LET me offer a little advice. Don't pay too much atten tion to world reaction to the President's speech last week. The Commies will be AGAINST it. They will pooh-pooh it. They will be against it because their job is to destroy the confidence of others in us and, if possible, to destroy our confidence in our selves. Our friends and. allies will praise it, because they will have to swim with us or SINK with us. PAY little attention to the poli ticians' estimates of the Pres ident's speech. The Republicans will have to be for it. The Democrats will have to be against it. That is politics. 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