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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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