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) FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Xveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MKDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREX Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A 1. 1 .FN JR Man-mi. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Te.eiapn Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Con 10c Daily and Sunday One year tlVOO Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4.25 bundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 umet and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advanra Official Paper of the City of Medford mnciai Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-ROLITiAV mMP47 MP Offices in New York Chicago, oe- ttou ban rTandsco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL f DITOIIAl ASSOC .N 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 Dec- 16. 1947 (Tuesday) Jackson county ranks eighth in the state in aid received from state-wide agencies, but has not met its Oregon chest quota for the past five years, an Oregon chest board member says. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Citizens have started feeling an evangel istic revival within their bosoms, and report good resolutions fer menting for the coming year." 20 YEARS AGO' Dec. 16. 1937 (Thursday) Jackson "county dog . control board fixes dog license fee for )coming year at $1.50 per dog. One of St. Nick's branch toy factories in full swing at Med ford fire hall. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 16. 1927 (Friday) Medford's living Christmas tree, obtained from the forestry department and planted in the city park across from the Uni versity club, will not be used this year. W. R. Gaylord tells Realty Board the rabbit industry growth in Medford is "sensational." 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 16. 1917 (Monday V The anti-tubercular Christmas seals are for sale at one cent each at the post office and Reddy's. Will G. Steel will become edi tor of the Daily Rogue River Courier, replacing Ben Sheldon. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is exceUent; five or six is good. 1. Tissue paper should or should (iiot be left in engraved invitations when they are mail edV 2. Bible: "Bone of my bones, and flesh of my " what? 3. The Philippine Islands are nearest to Australia, Borneo, or Hawaii? 4. Does hair grow after death? 5. Which of Longfellow's char acters married Hiawatha? 6. Does earth's surface get its heat almost entirely from the sun? 7. Perovskite is a mineral, Russian kite, or a cooking uten sil? 8. Name the U. S. President whose grandson also became President. 9. Complete the proverb, "A man is either a fool or a p - - s - n at forty." 10. Construction of the Pana ma Canal was first begun by the French, British or Ameri cans? Answers: 1. Should not. 2. "Flesh." 3. Borneo. 4. Yes. 5. Minnehaha. 6. Yes. 7. Mineral. 8. William Henry Harrison, grandfather of Menjamin Har rison. 9. Physcian. 10. French. Governor To Attend Indian Affairs Meeting Hermiston (IP) State Sen. Lee Quiring, chairman of the Legisltative Interim committee on Indian problems, said today Gov. Robert Holmes has accept ed an invitation to attend a meeting of the committee in Portland Wednesday. Quiring also said he had in vited U. S. Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger to attend. MAIL TRIBUNE Those Water A lot of hard work preceded the hearing last week on the Rogue Basin s water resources. More than 100 Jackson county citizens, organized into eight subcommittees, gave the problems involved what was probably the most spread scrutiny in the past nine years. The resulting reports and recommendations were, by and large, sound and meaningful. And the most surprising thing about the whole affair, as noted by members of the state water re sources board, was the fact that little controversy, little dispute, arose at the hearing between the "com peting" water-use interests. THIS leads one to hope that agreement can be reached on a plan for the orderly and beneficial development of the Rogue basin's water. There is always the danger that discussions could bog down into factional debates that would endanger progress, as happened in 1948. But this time, the moderate and temperate stands of all interests involved particularly that of the once- embattled fish and wildlife the Izaak Walton league League representatives any flood control programs, provided that full con sideration is given to ALL potential beneficial uses of the basin's water. That, of course, is what we all want. THERE are some water uses which, by their very nature, are more important than others. Municipal and domestic use, for instance, should have a priority over others. Stream pollution must be curbed and where possible eliminated, to protect all other water values. Beyond this, the other uses for water for agri culture, for industry, for power, for fish life and recreation each have a valid claim for consideration in developing and planning for use. The reports of the county water resources sub committees each put forward proposals for the maxi mum development of the water sources along the lines of the individual studies made, and it is in evitable that some compromises must be made. But after the hearing, than we were before that wTill be made. E.A. Reexamination Needed For manv vears the federal government has alio- cated money to the states on or leading to federally-owned forest lands. Until this year, the funds have been apportioned to the states under a formula based 50 per cent on area and 50 per cent on value. This year the formula was changed, apparently with no prior consultation with the states involved. The new formula is based 75 per cent on area and only 25 per cent on value. THIS is good for some of vvcstclll cldtcs, nucic imuai auj. cj.v, expanses of low-value trees, sagebrush, ranges and desert. But it is significantly bad for states like Ore gon, Washington and California, where the federal forests, though not as large in area, are composed of stands of valuable saw-timber. Congressman Charles O. Porter apparently was the first to spot the damage the new formula would do to Oregon, and he immediately fired off letters of protest to the Forest Service, and to the members of the Senate public roads subcommittee, which last week held public hearings in Portland. A member of the committee, Sen. Richard L. Neu berger of Oregon, took up the protest, as did Gov. Robert D. Holmes, and State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams. MEUBERGER, in commenting on the new formula, A says: "It is my opinion that this unjustified method of dis tributing forest highway funds was perpetrated by two government departments because the complete revaluation undertaken this year by the forest service has greatly in creased the appraised worth of states with major national forests specializing in commercial timber growth, such as Oregon and California. Under the new appraisals, Oregon values rise 4.7 times and California 3.1 times, but New Mexico values go up only one-tenth while Colorado drops one-tenth. A method of distributing forest highway funds which rewards area and penalizes values will also dis criminate against those states where national forests tend to collect substantial revenues helping to pay for road construction." The state highway engineer pointed out at the hearing that, under present allocations, it would take 20 years to build all the forest access roads Oregon needs. "IXTHILE the amount allocated to Oregon this year under the new formula is slightly above last year's apportionment under the old f ormula (because of the increased valuation), it is almost $2 million less than the amount would be if the old formula were applied this year. The new7 f ormula should be reexamined particu larly when it is remembered that it is from the high value states that the federal government receives the largest revenues from forests, the revenues which are the basis of the allocations in the first place. The matter is of importance to the state as a whole, and of especial importance to lumber-producing areas such as this, where better access roads are vital to the continuing economic wrell-being of the area such roads, for instance, as the proposed forest highway from Medford to Klamath Falls via Lake of the Woods. E.A. . Monday, December 16, 1957 Use Reports serious, intense and wide people, as represented by were most encouraging, stated they would support we are far more optimistic such compromises can and for construction of roads the mountain and south- 'MyVad says ub thinks rrs GET. LUCK FOPtte.HUH? Mat far of Fact ey Joseph aisoP THE KREMLIN'S CONTEMPT Beirut, Lebanon At bottom, the Kremlin's secret promise to champion the Arab cause against Israel is simply another proof of the Krem 1 i n's present contempt for the Western powers. That is the key point that must be grasped. In Josef Stalin's time, a cardinal rule Josepn ajsod of Soviet policy was "hands off the Middle East because it is too dangerous." The rule was follow ed from the moment when Rus sian troops were forced to evacu ate the Iranian province of Azer baijan in 1946 until the summit meeting at Geneva in 1955. After hearing the President and Sir Anthony Eden protesting their remorseless dedication to peace at any price, Stalin's heirs aban doned Stalin's rule. Yet the arms and economic aid which the Soviets have already offered to the Arabs are as nothing to what they have now promised. Support for the Arabs against Israel has always been the real ace in the desperate game for the Arab lands. Hence the question must be asked, why the Soviets have not played the ace long before this. IN PART, the answer is that the Soviets have considerable card sense. They seldom imitate the Dulles State Department's curious system of proudly slap ping down all possible taking cards, with maximum publicity, at the very outset of every hand. But this is really only a small part of the answer. The real an swer lies in the fact that great risks must be run to play this ace that the Soviets are now pre paring to play. The very existence of the State of Israel will be imperilled by Soviet championship of-the Arab cause, even in the form of a drive to force Israel back to the original frontiers traced by the United Nations in 1947. Whatever their other faults may be, the Israelis are singularly brave and tough. Man for man, the Israeli Army is also as good as any in the world. And this Israeli Army is almost certainly capable of defeating all the Arab armies combined, despite the Arabs' numerical superiority and their new Soviet arms. If the existence of their state seems to be imperilled, the Isra elis are very likely to fight, no matter what the odds may be and no matter what anyone else may say about it. The "mistake of the Czechs" at Munich is al ways on their lips. BECAUSE of the courage and toughness of the Israelis, the Soviets cannot take a step which may produce another Arab-Israeli war unless they are also will ing to intervene in the war in order to insure an Arab victory. But the state of Israel is covered by the Eisenhower Doctrine. If the Soviets intervene to help the Arabs crush the Israelis, the Ei senhower Doctrine will come into operation. If the famous doc trine means anything, an Arab Israeli war, sparked by Soviet support of the Arabs, can rather easily turn into a general war involving the United States as well as the Soviet Union. I Such is the risk the Soviets will run by helping the Arabs , push the Israelis to the wall. Yet j in Riyadh, this reporter was flat ly and plainly warned by the j highest Saudi Arabian author- j ities that the Soviets were al- ready committed to do just this, j It was indicated that the promise I had been given to the Egyptians by the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo. It was further indicated that the most anti-Communist of j all Arab governments, the gov ernment of King Saud, was al ready preparing to take advan tage of the Soviet promise of sup port for the Arabs. From this set of facts, only. two deductions are possible. Either the Soviets are currently deceiving the Arabs with a false promise a deception which will smez to ave than t& surely not pay them in the long run. Or, as suggested at the. out set, Nikita Khrushchev and his colleagues must now hold the United States and the West in sovereign contempt. They must think they need not worry about us. Otherwise, they would hard ly be contemplating an action theoretically likely to bring on the general war that is now the waking nightmare of the whole world. rpHAT, in turn, suggests the only practical means of escape from the appalling choice that looms ahead in the Middle East. Urgent measures are need ed to restore the respect for the United States and the Western Alliance that Khrushchev and company have lost . because of our weakness. If contempt is transformed into respect, the Soviets will soon cease playing with dynamite, not only in the Middle East but everywhere. Yet contempt will only be deepened by phoney adman's stunts like the catastrophic mid get satellite that failed. Respect can only be regained by new, vigorous and determined Ameri can leaders, with the courage to call for real effort and real sacrifice. The United States must speak with a clear voice. The United States must again present the always awe-inspiring spec tacle of a sober yet stern mobili zation of America's vast re sources to meet a great emer gency. There is no other way. Or rather, there is another way. The present American lead ership can go on floundering among the consequences of their own follies. As George F. Ken nan has strongly suggested, the Middle East can be passively sac rificed. One gigantic defeat after another can be accepted, until the decisive moment comes of final, total defeat in the cold war. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The teletypes are telling us as this is written that the na tion's Southland (meaning the Deep South, not our own West ern below-the-Tehachapi South land) is shuddering under the impact of the worst cold wave in 23 years. It was 10 above zero at Ocala in Florida Friday morning and the entire northern part of the state shivered in temperatures in the tens and twenties. Brrrrrrr!! IT'S COLD up No'th, also, in Ttfpw Vnrlr nnrJ Washinfftnn and Philadelphia and Boston. When Jack Frost begins to bite ears up there, it's the cus tom to shut up the house and turn off the water and call up the travel agent and get a res ervation on the next plane to Florida. Imagine doing all that and then getting off the plane in Open Tonight Till 9 Up To 50 Off GIFTWARES - FOSTORIA - HOUSEWARES - TOYS Thrifty Shoppers! Stretch Christmas Dollars in Our Huge Close-out Sale! Buy and Save! SPECIALISTS IN Free Parking o Pressure Building Up for End Of Benson as Agriculture Head By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The word around the White House is that it would be a bold and sorry man who would look President Ei senhower i n the eye to tell him to fire his Secretary o f Agriculture. That is what you hear from m e m b ers of I.vle c Wilson tne wnite House staff. It is reasonable to believe, therefore, that the Re publican clamor for the resigna tion of Secretary Ezra Taft Ben son has not been put directly to the President. White House chief of staff Sherman Adams has heard plenty on that subject and re cently, too. Adams occasionally hears some desk pounding on his desk as his visitors empha size their hope that Benson will not be around when next year's congressional election campaign gets going. Adams' Powers Undefined Adams exercises great if some what undefined delegated pow ers. Old timers will recognize a similarity between Adams' self less personal service to Eisen hower and the relationship which developed between FDR and the late Harry Hopkins. Hopkins told your correspond ent that his secure place in FDR's confidence had been obtained by following a policy of never of fering advice, but of being al ways prepared to give it if re quested. High though Hopkins stood in the presidential power group, he never had the oppor tunity enjoyed by Adams to shape presidential thinking. Adams, is, in effect, gate keep er to the President's office and sometimes he seems tougher than ten-above weather! rpHIS is one for the book: In the normally sunny and lovely Charleston in South Car olina, a radio ham got in touch by short wave with his brother, Nick, who is stationed at the Navy's SOUTH POLE observa tion post, and asked: "What's the weather down there?" "Nick chattered back over the air waves: "Twenty above zero What is it up home?" His Charleston brother came back with the forlorn answer ABOVE." JT ISN'T just discomfort. Temp eratures like that play hob with winter vegetable and cit rus fruit crops of which Flor ida produces about 350 million dollars worth. The teletypes report that in northern Florida heads of cab bage were frozen so hard that they could be "kicked around like footballs" (if anybody down there had been in the mood to kick a cabbage head around like a football which one doubts). "TOWN in the Deep South, un " seasonably nippy weather is destroying millions of dollars worth of winter fruits and vege tables. ;' Out here in Southern Ore gon and Far Northern California a plague of mice is destroying millions of dollars worth of po tatoes, pasture grass, alfalfa stands, etc. Elsewhere in our country, un seasonable drouth has taken a heavy toll of crops with result ing losses to the producers of these crops. A LL these calamities tend to hold down production and thus help to bring supply and demand more nearly into bal ance. But Back in Washington . The politicians are working tooth and nail to PROMOTE OVERPRODUCTION by means of subsidies. It's a queer world, isn't it? I SOMETIMES wonder if it wouldn't be better for all of us taxpayers and farmers alike if we cut out all the subsidies and used some of the money thus saved to finance a simple and workable crop insur ance system. GUALITY At Lowest Pirces HOMEWARES I Free Delivery St. Peter in his separation of the chosen from the damned. Adams not only can bar indi viduals, he can suppress bad news. Such bad news, for in stance, as the fact that a great many congressional Republicans count Benson so heavy a burden that they doubt their ability to run fast enough to win next year if they have to carry him along. The President is not much of a newspaper reader. Unless he has acquired the knowledge by newspaper reading, however, it is not likely that he has any real understanding of the breadth and depth of Republican congression al pressure for Benson to quit. Benson Needs Ike s Support However that may be, Eisen hower knows enough of the Ben son situation to have expressed the view that to boot him out of the Cabinet would be a scurvy, inglorious act. What Benson Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the rame and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Reason To Be Proud To the Editor: With the dedi cation of the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Home, a goal of the Advisory Council to the Juvenile Court of Jackson County has been achieved, and as Chairman of the Council for the past two years, I . wish to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the under standing assistance given our subcommittees on building, fur nishing, and landscaping by Judge Rodney Keating, Mr. Chester Wendt, and Mr. Ralph James, of the Jackson County Court. At all times they made their time available to us; they parti cipated in our efforts to make this building meet its unique purpose in the community. They visited and inspected similar fa cilities in many areas to secure for Jackson County features of efficiency and to eliminate waste and features of poor operation, To the County Court goes the credit for adding to the building the administrative unit housing the Juvenile Court Room and offices for the professional staff, which is approved by leaders in the field of juvenile correction as a progressive and efficient step. At all points the County Court insisted upon economy without the sacrifice of utility. Equipment and furnishings pur chased were durable but not luxurious. As a result of the close coop eration between the County Court, the Juvenile Court, and the Advisory Council, the new Detention Home for Jackson County is a facility of which the entire County may well be proud and it should serve its purpose with a maximum of ef ficiency and a minimum of re placement or repair. Jackson County may also take pride in the fact that with the exception of Multnomah County, Jackson County is the first county in the State of Oregon to build a facility especially for the pur pose of detaining children in difficulty outside a jail or lock up. H. Dewey Wilson, Chairman, Advisory Council to the Juvenile Court. Clarifies Stand To the Editor: In the Mail Tribune of Dec. 12, my testimony before the State Water Resour ces Board was so misquoted in one place that it has caused me embarrassment. The quotation was, "I'm also surprised that the very groups which were act ively in opposition last time have now shifted their stand to the other side." At the hearing I read from a text now before me and seldom departed from or ad ded to it appreciably. Nowhere in the text is there any state ment like this. It not even clear FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 needs is some bare-knuckled de fense, preferably by the Presi dent. , A lot of the clamor for Ben son's scalp comes from those same congressional Republicans who bewail Eisenhower's "mod ern Republicanism" and holler for some oldline conservatism in the GOP. Benson should be their man. Maybe, even, their candi date for President. If there is anything less modernistic and more conservative than the law of supply and demand, it does not come quickly to mind. Benson is trying to re-enact the law of supply and demand which his predecessors in the Agriculture Department repealed at great cost to the U. S. Treas ury. Perhaps he is making a mis take. If so, it is not a mistake in the direction of the welfare state, or the plowing under the piglets or of higher taxes. what the words, "Groups in opposition" referred to, whether to opponents of high dams or op ponents of our stand. We know of no groups that opposed Plans "A" and "B" that have changed; there are those who supported them formerly who do not do so now, but we are not surprised at that. I did say, "There is no disposi tion on our part to block future development of reasonable amounts of irrigation water, or reasonable flood protection, as evidenced by the support we gave the Talent Project and pro mised to give other less harmful projects in the famous compro mise agreement of several years ago now apparently disowned by many on the other side." I may have injected there some thing like the following "I am surprised that some have not seen fit to keep this agreement." The above referred to an in cident in 1951 when it was evid ent that Plan "A" had been de feated. The Rogue Valley Irriga tion Association, composed of most or all of the irrigation dis tricts of Jackson and Josephine Counties, and other groups, pro posed as a compromise that, if those who opposed Plan "A" would support an amended plan, consisting of the Talent Project then and the Cascade Gorge and Illinois Valley Projects to fol low, they would abandon sup port of Plan "A" and like pro jects, The basis of the com promise was a resolution passed by a good majority of the As sociation which read in part, " Resolved that we urge and request (names of several op ponents of dams) to support such amended plan, and in con sideration of said requested sup port this said Association does hereby agree to withdraw its support of Plan "A" or any plan having to do with the creation of dams upon the main canal of Rogue River unless said dams have the approval of fish and wildlife organizations as having no effect on fish life in the river, and will confine its efforts to the development of off-stream stor age on the tributaries of the Rogue in any effort to obtain ad ditional water for the irrigation of additional land areas in the Rogue River Basin, and to pro vide means of flood control." We believe that the Irrigation Association and all component members that approved this agreement have an obligation to carry it out, since the "considera tion" requested was received; the Talent Project was support ed, was approved, and is now building. Other less harmful projects can be found and ap proved if we all get behind them, but we would like to know that future agreements will be hon ored by all who made them. D. H. Barber, President, Preserve the Rogue Assoc. Star Route Trail, Ore. AT PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are in keeping with its means. A selection of services for every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainlyl
