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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
DJC. 11. 1947 (Thursday)
The Jackson county rent ad
visory board recommends rent
control be continued for a period
of one year past the date set for
explication. Q
FroB Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "A number
of the Older Boys are puffed
with pride. Between the Stork
and Santa Claus they have been
elevated to Grandpawhood."
0 YEARS AGO
Dec. 11, 1937 (Sunday)
American Red Cross 1938 en
rollment for Jackson county was
'ifinounced yesterday as 2079, a
slight increase over that of last
O yearr'
A colorful display of gift pear
boxes from the Wing orchards
Qiear this city is being featured
Othis week in the windows of Lip-man-Wolfe's
department store of
Portland, according to" Charles
A. Wing.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 11. 1927 (Sunday)
The Agricultural Council of
the Northwest Railroad Advisory
board meets at 9:30 a.m. in Port
land Dec. 16. The railroads are
giving a one-fare rate for the
round trip to members and
others interested.
Tardiness in the payment of
county taxes will be penalized
one-sixth per cent a month high
er in 1928 than it was in 1927,
according to Sheriff Ralph Jen
nings.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 11. 1917 (Tuesday)
This is the last call to fnen of
draft age who wish to escape
the draft bv enlisting as volun
teers. Enlistments in Medford
cease Dec. 12.
Ringing of the burglar alarm
in the Farmers and Fruitgrowers
bank about 8:30 p.m. yesterday
created a little excitement. It
was discovered later that a slight
ImDerfectWn in the working
mechanism set it off accidental
ly.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or e!bt Is excellent: five or
six Is Rood
1. What bird (lays the smallest
eggs?
2. Bible: Which day is general
ly held to be the most important
in Christian history?
3. What sott of plant is a
nuciferous plant?
4. Are white shelled eggs nu
tritionally better than brown
shelled eggs?
3. Codfish do or do not have
tongues?
6. Freesias reproduce from
corms or bulbs?
7. Are Leghorn hats made of
Leghorn or any kind of chicken
feathers?
8. Does egg yolk color indicate
nutritive quality?
9. Was Thomas E. Dewey a
governor of N. J. or Pa.?
10. Is India, Canada, or Aus
tralia referred to as "down
) under"?
Answers: 1. Humming bird. 2.
Day of Crucifixion. 3. One that
bears nuts. 4. No. Both are equal
ly nutritious. 5. They do. 6.
Corms. 7. No. From wheat straw,
grown in Liverno, Italy. 8. No.
o Nutrients depend on the season
j!j and hen's diet. 9. No. Of N. Y.
10. Australia.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Fusion
Is the world Tunning out of sources of power?
The answer seems to be "yes and then again,
The so-called fossil fuels oil, gas and coal will'
no.
some day, perhaps in 20 years, perhaps 100, be almost
gone. There is a limit to the supply, and that supply
is being used up at a tremendous and increasing rate.
Many scientists and engineers have given sober
thought to the problems which are presented by the
picture of a world without sources of thermal power
represented by these fuels.
TPHE long-range answer is not contained in the use
" of nuclear fuels such as uranium, either, for sup
plies of this are also finite and limited. Atomic energy,
as known today, will postpone the day of power star
vation, but cannot solve the problem. And it also poses
other problems, such as the disposal of huge quanti
ties of radioactive waste materials.
As for hydro-electric errergy, wrhich is renewed
each year by the cycle of precipitation and river flow,
this is nearly a perpetual source of power, but physical
limitations will prevent its expansion beyond a certain
point.
And it should be remembered that the world's
appetite for power is growing at a far faster rate than
population itself. It is, in fact, virtually "exploding,"
and the development of heretofore primitive nations
will add to the demand.
NE potential source of power is the sun itself, but
up to this point only limited means have been de
vised to tap it. This is a fruitful area of research, but
by its nature is apt to be limited to those parts of the
world where sunlight is freely available the year
around.
The big problem, then, is to find a source of energy
which in the centuries to come will replace the fossil
fuel power sources, and will be capable of almost in
definite expansion to meet the world's growing needs.
Many scientists think it might lie in thermonuclear
fusion. Supplies of the necessaiy fuel, deuterium, a
form of hydrogen, are virtually unlimited.
This is the energy which activates the awful power
of the H:bomb, just as atomic fission- provides the
energy for the A-bomb. Atomic energy comes from
the splitting of the atom (a sort of explosive process,
which, on the atomic level, is similar to TNT or dyna
mite, on the molecular level). Thermonuclear power,
on the other hand, comes from fusion of atoms (which,
in turn on the atomic level, is comparable to burning,
or oxidation, on the molecular level).
,
TTHE scientists themselves do not yet have all the
answers to the "why" of energy-release in these
processes, but they are learning the "how." And there
is promise that before too many more years they will
be able to harness thermonuclear power just as they
are now beginning to harness atomic power.
But the difficulties which must be surmounted are
awsome, even if they are not impossible.
An article m the current issue of the Scientific
American gives an idea of the problems, and of the
efforts being made to surmount them.
The problems are of a
tackled by mankind before, because of the tremen
dous and almost unimaginable temperatures, pressures
and velocities involved.
I70R instance, it is believed that to sustain a fusion
reaction temperatures of about 350 million degrees
centigrade will be needed. With a fuel mixture (deu
terium gas) at normal pressure heated to this level,
the pressure would build to several million times that
of the normal atmosphere.
Therefore, some of the basic problems involved
are, how to achieve this heat to sustain a self-sustaining
thermonuclear fusion reaction "without setting off
an atomic bomb, how to reduce the pressure of the
fuel-gas to about one 10,000th of an atmosphere so
that pressures are not uncontrollable at the sustained
reaction level, and how to contain both heat and pres
sure when no materials known today could last for
more than a split second in either.
There are other problems, too.
DUT the "container" problem is the most difficult,
and new and irigenious techniques are being
worked out in an attempt to solve it.
One of these is the so-called "pinch effect," which
is based on the fact that a strong magnetic field will
deflect charged particles from a straight path, and
that under proper circumstances, a high-pressure gas
could generate an internal magnetic field of its own
strong enough to exclude an externally applied field.
These forces would, in effect, form a -"magnetic
bottle" to keep the gas from touching anything else,
and "contain the reaction through magnetic effects
alone.
This, the magazine points out, is theory. The prac
tical difficulties to be overcome are tremendous. But
scientists throughout the world are at work on them.
And they are generally optimistic.
COME idea of the problems can be gathered from a
brief quotation from the article :
"One of the thorniest problems is measurement. It is
hard enough to create a hot plasma (gas) in the first place,
but to find out what it is doing, once created, is sometimes
still harder. Some new measurement techniques, have al
ready been developed. To measure the density of a plasma
there is a new 'microwave interferometer' using beams of
milimeter radio waves as probes. The temperature of the
plasma is assessed by studying its x-ray emissions, its. radio
'noise' and its escaping particles or reaction products . . .''
The author concludes that the search for fusion
power (and possibly direct creation of electric power,
by-passing the thermal transfer process) "is at once
the most fascinating, the most difficult and potentially
the most important peacetime scientific effort ever
undertaken." E.A.
Wednesday. December II, 1957
Power
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MAKING THE WORST OF IT
Beirut, Lebanon Language
that can be printed in a family
newspaper cannot possibly con
vey xne emo
tions of an
American
traveller
abroad, on re
c e i v i n g the
news of the
flat failure of
the first Amer
ican attempt to
launch an
earth satellite
Joseph Alsop
This Will so rlnwn in hictnrv
as the final, classical demonstra
tion of how to make the very
worst of a very bad business.
It is painful enough to be hu
miliated, although a little hum
ble pie may be a useful addition
to the American diet after all
the phoney, arrogant guff served
up for so long by "team" mem
bers like former Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson.
But this latest episode has not
merely made the United States
ridiculous in the eyes of the
whole world. It has also greatly
increased the dangers of a situ
ation already bristling with dan
ger. The reason why this humiliat
ing accident has had such an im
portant practical effect can only
be understood against the back
ground of the gradual loss of
faith in American leadership
during the last five years. This
is a process that cannot be easily
traced. It has gone by fits and
starts. It has not been divided
into clearly marked phases.
SOMETIMES the Eisenhower
administration has been most
loudly applauded abroad when
it was committing its worst fol
lies,, as when the President went
to Geneva with the odd purpose
of convincing the masters of the
Kremlin ,that America was re
morsely dedicated to peace at
any price. Sometimes the Ameri
can position has been under
mined in one part of the world
and somewhat strengthened in
another, as when the President's
handling of the Suez crisis all
but disrupted the Western Alli
ance while earning the extreme
ly temporary gratitude of the
Arabs.
But in one way or another,
the loss of faith in American
leadership has become more and
more widespread, until today it
may be described as total. The
bitter distrust, the really passion
ate detestation of Secretary of
State Dulles is only a part of the
story, moreover.
The American editorial writ
ers who still customarily de
scribe the President as one of
America's great foreign assets
are simDly talking through their
hats. The moral goodness of
Dwight D. Eisenhower is of
course recognized by almost
everyone. But Doctor Johnson
said that the "road to hell was
paved with good intentions." And
nine hundred and ninety nine in
every thousand of America's po
tential friends overseas are quite
openly convinced that the Presi
dent's chief contribution has been
a gigantic addition to the pave
ment of the road to hell.
rPHE loss of faith in America's
leaders, and therefore in
American world leadership, was
evident long before the launch
ing of the first Sputnik. But until
Sputnik began circling the earth,
we still retained one great re
maining advantage. The govern
ment in? Washington was regard
ed as infirm of purpose, wooly
in its judgements and distress
ingly given to pompous, empty
moral preachments. But at least
it was believed that the United
States as a nation was over
whelmingly strong. And in world
politics, strength counts more
than anything else.
The real effect of Sputnik was
to destroy this last remaining
asset. American strength, which
had been so grossly neglected
through' five long euphoric years,
was suddenly revealed as infer
ior to Soviet strength in the most
vital area. Soviet strength, which
had been underrated by all but
a few experts, was suddenly seen
to be very great indeed.
WHOEVER in Washington got
the idea of remedying this
catastrophic setback by the re
By Joseph Alsop
cent, catastrophically unsuccess
ful satellite launching ought to
haye had his head examined at
the outset. Belatedly sending up
a midget satellite could never
have underdone the harm al
ready done. Even before the
launching, even among very or
dinary people in the Middle East,
there was open mockery of the
smug, complacent advance stories
about the new American satellite
that were coming out of Wash
ington. Even then, the contrast
between what we were boasting
we were going to do and what
the Russians had already done
was only too evident.
But the failure in Florida,
after the big, slick, unconvincing
adman's buildup, has brought the
reputation of the United States
to the lowest point on remem
bered record. In addition to
everything that had been lost
already, we are now regarded
as blabbermouths and blowhards.
This is acutely dangerous for
a nation envied for its wealth,
forced by history to lead the
cause of freedom, and therefore
destined to be the chief target
of the great Soviet drive to write
"finish" to freedom's short, pre
carious chapter in human his
tory. There is no cure, there is
no way out any longer but one
alone. Only new men can restore
the old faith in America's lead
ership, the old respect for the
United States.
Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More missile fizle stuff: '
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan has decided to fly to
Paris this week in an attempt to
build confidence among pessi
mistic European NATO mem
bers. He will meet with other
NATO leaders before the summit
talks begin in an effort to allay
fears that the U. S. is going to
the Paris meeting "empty-hand
ed."
There has been GROWING
ANXIETY ON THE CONTI
NENT since the U.S. satellite
launching failure last week.
TTMMMMMMM.
AJ- There might be less appre
hension on the continent if in
the past decade Western Europe
had done more to DEFEND IT
SELF instead of relying on old
Uncle Sam to DO IT ALL, for
free.
HERE on the home front the
political battle over who
flubbed the missile business is
getting hotter by the hour. .
A while back, as you will
probably remember, GOP offi
cials charged that the delay in
the U. S. missile program was
TRUMAN'S fault because he was
President and commander-in-chief
of our armed forces from
the end of World War II until
1952 and during this period
nothing much was done in the
way of missile development.
That brought Washington's
Democratic Senator Henry
(Scoop) Jackson to his feet with
his fists swinging. He counter
charges that while General Eis
enhower was serving as army
chief-of-staff and military advi
sor to the Truman administra
tion he failed to make any rec
ommendations for missile de
velopment. He adds that during this per
iod Republicans in congress did
no pushing for a missile pro
gram. I THINK it might be well to rec
ommend to these leg-biting
politicians that they get out their
Bibles and read the first nine
verses of the eighth chapter of
the Book of John.
It was on the Mount of Olives,
and Jesus was teaching the peo
ple. The Scribes and the Phari
sees (who were among the astut
est of the politicians of those
days) were seeking to catch him
in a trap.
They brought before him a
woman taken in adultery and
pointed out that Moses in the law
commanded that such should "be
stoned. "What," they demanded
of him, "sayest thou?" John tells
the story thus:
"So when they continued ask-
Spain Determined to Keep Ifni;
More Than
By PETER KNOX
United Press Correspondent
Madrid (IP) Spain is taking
no chances in the African en
clave of Ifni. It has more at
stake than a few thousand
square miles of worthless desert
land.
Its ancient tradition of breed
ing a race of tough fighting men,
its future in Africa, its foreign
policy and, maybe, its economic
strength could all be affected by
the way the desert war goes.
Spanish officials claim it is go
ing well, and that the 700-square
mile enclave carved out of Mo
rocco on the West African coast
so'on will be firmly under their
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A Bobcat Retreat
To the Editor: Never overlook
a blind gully. A dry gulch we
had avoided exploring or pros
pecting, in a once frequented
haunt located 22 miles northwest
of Medford finally through mere
curiosity led us to an unexpect
ed discovery of a wild animal
den at the upper end of a blind
thicket of dense under brush.
There stood before us a sheer
perpendicular wall of rock prob
ably 25 to 30 feet high. At the
base was a natural vent perhaps
18 or 20 inches in diameter. On
closer observation could be
seen tufts of bobcat fur that had
been rubbed off from daily use
of the cavern. We had from time
in the past often seen bobcats
prowling the surrounding area
but had never suspected the
whereabouts of their secluded
habitation so carefully conceal
ed below a hidden rock monu
ment. Probably to this day 30
years later this well protected
stronghold is a haven yet for
bobcats, a 30-year generation of
wild cats at that.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
Medford, Ore.
The Presley Dispute
To the Editor: Thanks for the
news story on the Elvis Presley
Christmas album survey on
K-BOY. The term, "restriction,"
however, has brought us heavy
inquiry.
The purpose of confining the
play of Elvis' Christmas music
to Saturdays and late afternoon
"request programs" is to be sure
the younger people will hear it
. . . since they formed the pre
ponderant segment of the "in
favor" vote.
Although Elvis won the poll
by a clear plurality, the 633 pro
test votes tended to be of such
a violent nature that we feel
some restriction of play is indi
cated. Relatively few of the 1,490
telephoned votes were of a tem
perate nature, such as was May
or John Snider's statement on
the matter: "The only record
I have heard is 'White Christ
mas.' I found it in no way sacre
ligious, and I'm sure that Elvis
Presley fans will find it most
satisfying. If this sort of thing
will bring younger people closer
to religious appreciation, I am
for it."
Again, thank you for report
ing our findings. It helped ex
plain our difficult position,
Smack-dab between two mili
tant factions.
Station K-BOY.
Wiretap Decision May
End Case Against Hoffa
New York (IP) The govern
ment may have to drop its per
jury case against Teamsters
President-elect James R. Hoffa
as a result 'of the U.S. Supreme
Court ban on the use of state
obtained wiretap evidence in
federal court trials, it has been
learned.
The ruling handed down by
the high court Monday may also
aid kingpin gambler Frank Cos-
tello in his motion to set aside
an income tax conviction for
which he was sentenced to five
years in prison.
BANKER-PUBLISHER DIES
New York (IP! Luigi Criscu
olo, 70, investment banker and
publisher of "The Rubicon," a
monthly review of public affairs,
was found dead in his bed at his
home here Monday. The Medi
cal Examiner's Office said he
died of natural causes. :
ing him he lifted up himself and
said unto them: He that is with
out sin among you, let him cast
a stone at her."
St. John relates that "they
which heard it, being convicted
by their own conscience, went
out one by one, beginning at the
eldest, even unto the last; and
Jesus was left alone, and the
woman standing in the midst."
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Desert Area
control again, with the army of
attacking Moroccan irregulars
beaten back.
But the violence and effective
ness of the first rebel sweep
early in the morning of Satur
day, Nov. 23, will not be quickly
forgotten.
The rebels punched deep into
Spanish territory, encircling
Spanish garrison outposts and in
land villages.
The exact number of troops
or airplanes involved has never
been disclosed. Spain was be
lieved to have 2,000 to 3,000
troops in Ifni when the trouble
started. It probably has double
that number now.
Doubtful Estimate
The Spaniards said that the
first rebel attack was launched
by 1,200 men. But the rebels
spread out so far and wide many
observers believe ten times that
number joined in the advance.
But perhaps more difficult
than the military outlook is the
political aspect. Even if Spain
wins the battles, it is not likely
that the Moroccans will give up
their demands for the return of
Ifni.
Spain already has turned
down one official Morroccan re
quest for the territory earlier
this year, but said it was willing
Wilson Suggests Oath
In Conflicting Stories
On Missile
By LYLE C. WILSON ,
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) What's
wrong with the idea that politi
cians should be put under oath
before telling
the voters who,
if anyone, goof
ed on missiles?
To put it as
sweeUy as their
conflicting stor
ies will permit,
some body is
fibbing. Vice
President Rich
ard M. N i x o n
and the Republican National
Committee hold that the fibber
is former President Harry S.
Truman.
On the other hand, if Mr. T,
is not fibbing, what about Nix-
'One Large Voice'
For Agriculture
Said Oregon Need
Milton-Freewater (IP) State
Agriculture Director Robert J.
Steward said Tuesday night that
"one very large voice to speak
for all divisions of agriculture is
needed in Oregon." Steward
spoke to a Democratic Club din
ner.
Steward said two of the ideas
stressed to his board when he
took office early this year were
payroll development, and closer
liaison among the State Agricul
ture Department, Oregon State
college, U. S. Department of Ag
riculture, the Oregon administra
tion and the congressional dele
gation. He called it "the silliest
notion I've ever heard of, to op
erate the Agriculture Depart
ment as an island when the in
terests of agriculture intertwine
with those in Washington, D.C."
'Practically Nothing' Don
Steward said "practically
nothing" has been done on a co
operative basis between the State
Department of Agriculture and
USDA, much less locally, and in
Congress.
He urged programs of "self
help" to be set up in the form
of commodity groups for the
farmer and agricultural segment
of the state. He also said the
name "commission" should be
abolished in favor of "councils,"
or "market promotion agencies."
He declared the State Board of
Agriculture will recommend that
a vote of 51 per cent be needed
to affirm a commission following
a referendum, rather than the
present 66 23 majority now
needed plus one tihrd of the pro
ducers represented.
Steward said the present meth
od was "outlandish" and an "im
possible voting procedure."
Lyle C. Wilson
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at Stake
to submit the matter tv the
league court or some other in
ternational tribunal. Spain
claims Ifni as a sovereign pos
session by virtue of an 1860
treaty.
There are various reasons why
Spain does not want to yield
Ifni. If Spain loses Ifni, it would
give Morocco a boost to put on
pressure for the return of the
strategically important and
prized ports of Ceuta and Me
lilla. Oil Reports
The Spanish situation in tha
zone to the south of Morocco,
Rio de Oro, also would become
difficult. There are persistent re
ports that oil might be found
there.
There also is the question of
security. Many Spaniards feel
there is real danger of the spread
of Communism in. North Africa,
and that the West needs foot
holds there to forestall the area
coming under Red domination.
Prestige also is involved. Spain
has few possessions left.
A series of newpaper articles
recently stressed that Spain had
developed the country from a
"forgotten corner of the world"
into a country with hope for the
future.
Expenses
on and the committee whose
versions of who created the mis
sile lag are directly contrary to
those of the former president?
And, if either of the foregoing
conflicting stories is accurate,
what about Democratic National
Committee Chairman Paul M.
Butler? Butler told TV viewers
a few days ago that the missile
villain was Dr. Wernher von
Braun.
Von Braun Cites 1945-51
And, if Butler is right about
that, how about Von Braun's
public accusation that the mis
sile lag developed during the
Truman years spanning 1945-51?
Harry S. Truman is not one
to accept calmly an unwarranted
accusation, especially an accu
sation made by the vice president
or, for that matter, by any Re
publican. It just happens that,
as much as he dislikes Republi
cans' Mr. T. dislikes Nixon much
more.
Nixon and the Republican Na
tional Committee laid -whatever
is wrong with the U. S. missile
program right in Mr. T's lap.
That was about three weeks ago
and political Washington has
been waiting, since, for some
rocketry off the launching pad
at Independence, Mo. Silence is
not typical Truman under such
circumstances.
However that may be, tha
Republican National Committee
came up last month with some
defense, missile and research
spending figures which would
seem, at least, to require some
answer from a spokesman for
the Truman administration.
Defense Spending Down
The Truman administration
had pared national defense spen
ding down to $11,900,000,000 in
1950, which was the year the
Korean War began. The Repub
lican National committee toted
it up this way:
Total for the national de
fense for three Truman years be
fore Korea. $35,000,000,000.
Total for three Eisenhower
years after Korea, $110,000,000,
000. "What starved research and
development?" the committee in
quired and answered:
Total for fajr Truman years
before Korea, $2,196,000,000.
Total for four Eisenhower
years after Korea, $5,953,000,
000." "What starved the missile pro
gram?" was the next question,
answered as follows:
Four Truman budgets fiscal
1951-54 inclusive, $998,000,000.
Four Eisenhower budgets
fiscal 1955-58 inclusive, $6,530,
000,000. The foregoing are statistics. A
smart fellow with figures can do
almost anything with statistics,
such as making white look black
ad vice versa.
The public debate, doubtless,
will continue and even, the
truth may become known.
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Mrs. Lirwiller
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'It is better to know us and not need us.
than to need us and not know us."