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History from the fileg of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and
40 yeara ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dee. 17, 1947 (Wednesday)
A section of the city ordinance
prohibiting dancing where in
toxicating liquors are sold was
repealed during last night's
meeting of the city council.
rom Arthur Perry's Ye
nudge Pot column: "Now that
th great man-horse pull and
haul contest at Waterloo is over,
tomebody should show up will
ing to lift himself over the fence
by his own boot straps."
20 YEARS AGO
Deo. 17. 1937 (Friday)
The district attorney's office
today reported there is yule
"Stave of "NSF checks" sweeping
the city and warned merchants
and others to use caution.
Revision of the enlisted men's
club of Medford's two national
fard companies was completed
uesday evening with election
of new officers.
80 YEARS AGO
Dee. 17, 1927 (Saturday)
lrrom local and personal col
umn: A number of coasting par
ties in the old Silvia place at
Wagner creek have taken place
ince the snow came.
A number of active diphtheria
cases are reported in the Central
Point district where tests were
conducted this week by the coun
ty health department.
40 YEARS AGO
Dee. 17, 1917 (Monday)
Jackson county, with charac
teristic patriotism, got the jump
on the big Christmas drive for
Red Cross membership by start
ing its canvass a day early.
Woodmen of the World and
their friends will give a benefit
dance in the I.O.O.F. hall Wed
nesday night for the relief of a
member who was disabled sev
eral months ago.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
even or eUht ts excellent: five or
six is good
1. Is the vampire bat an actual
creature?
2. Bible: "Ye are the light of
the world. A city that is set on
a hill cannot be "-What?
3. Is condiment a pungent sea-
!51r
O t
o
0 soning, coloring in paint, or ve-
hide?
4. The British term for freight
yards is g - - ds yards?
5. Name the capital of Ameri
can Samoa.
6. Who as Food Administra
tor in World War I?
7. Is there a species of a green
rose?
8. The Tropic of Cancer is
north or south of the Equator?
9. What tree produces an en
zyme that i6 sold for tenderizing
wean
10. Is it proper to omit the
"h" sound in pronouncing
"whale"?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. "Hid".
3. Pungent seasoning. 4. Goods.
5. Pago Pago. 6. Herbert C.
Hoover. 7. Yes. 8. North. 9. Pa
Paw. 10. No.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Who Is Looney Now?
Like the late and lamented Will Rogers "we only
know what we read in the
That is true as of today,
Here is an extract from
ton, for example, reading in
"Wm. M. Holaday, Pentagon missile-boss, reaffirmed
his statement that the United States plans to and can
put a 1000-pound satellite in orbit, whenever it wishes.
He declined to disclose the information at a public
hearing however, lest it 'be helpful to the Russians.' "
MOW that the laughter has died down somewhat
A might one inquire "WHAT information?"
Heavens above and below several weeks ago
the Russians not only put a 1000-pound satellite in
orbit, but put in a dog also. As far as we know it is
still going.
What secrets do they have to get from this country
when we have not been able to get a satellite off the
ground much less in orbit.
THIS is only another example of the complacency,
wishful-thinking and plain, unadulterated ignor
ance that seems to infest so many departments of the
administration at this time.
How long is it going to take them to wake up to
the facts of life? What the Pentagon needs to worry
about is not revealing any satellite secrets to Russia,
but getting secrets of their success if possible
FROM them.
The Pentagon also needs, as soon as it can be ar
ranged, a new and a more enlightened "Missile-Boss."
R.W.R.
Back to Isolationism?
Here is another newspaper item that interested
the undersigned. Again we quote in part :
"The time is not far off when we will have intercon
tinental missiles that can be launched at Russian targets
from our own soil thus eliminating our need for American
. bases on foreign soil.
Speed the day! Personally as one American citizen I am
getting tired of paying for the privilege of defending every
body in the world against Russian communism."
'J'HIS fatigue with foreign
new.
It has been the slogan
bittered "Isolationists" ever since the end of World
War II. It was the battle cry of former President
Hnnvpr for manv months and is still enshrined in the
archives of the Philadenlphia Union League Club.
Modern Republicans under President Eisenhower,
however, rejected it.
And, as we see it, with
FOR whether we ultimately get the intercontinental
11J.1oo1.IC Ul HUH Iv, Llll VllsClJ. UOLlUii XUVlllg v-w
trv and the Free World today is not the future, but
what, to do NOW.
For the sake of argument let it be assumed that
President Hoover and his
their way half a decade ago
Fortress."
There would, of course, have been no "Nato."
There would have been no U.S. foreign aid. Millions
billions in good hard American cash would have
been saved.
BUT where would western Europe and England be
How can any thinking person deny, that the only
thing that saved Europe from sharing the fate of Po
land, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, was the realiza
tion by Soviet Russia that any such effort, would have
meant World War III with the United States leading
it.
It was fear that held Russia back. Not any change
in its determination to make this earth a communist
world.
A S noted this has cost billions and if continued will
cost billions more. It may even render a balanced
budget impossible this year and perhaps many years
to come.
But isn't it better to have an UNbalanced budget,
than have no budget to balance and no freedom or
independence, as is the case today from the Pacific
ocean to the borders of western Germany?
' We think it is.
Money is important, a balanced budget is also im
portant but "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
is more important.
IN other words we can't have our cake and eat it too.
x We can't maintain a
Communistic domination
much money as is needed,
Russia that to start World
future would spell her doom as well as the doom of
what we know as the civilized world. In short it
would be mutual suicide.
This department is convinced the people and the
leaders of Russia don't wish to risk that fate any more
than wre do.
IT would be just dandy if
drawing from Europe, cutting off all military and
civil aid, retiring behind our own "iron curtain" as we
patiently awrait the perfection of our own intercom!
nental missile ...
But facing the world as it and the facts are to
day we fail to see how it
imagination be done, and
preserved. R.W.R.
We Blow Our Horn
We have long maintained with characteristic mod
esty, that "if you don't blow your own hom no one
.will blow it for you."
Tuesday, December 17, 1957
newspapers."
at least.
a dispatch from Washing
part as follows :
entanglements is nothing
of the embattled and em
good reason.
fellow isolationists had had
reuturning to the "U.S.
democratic world free from
without spending just as
to keep the FEAR alive in
War III, now or in the near
this could be done by with-
could by any stretch of the
the free democratic world
i My do m have tosiyppsm? mvctoftwB&eooY
JUST mTS. SANTA OAUS UKg I VO"
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Hold your hat.
Things are in the wind that
may make Sputniks and trips
to the moon look like the bright
ly colored blocks that children
play with to amuse themselves.
llfHAT are these things?
' ' They have to do with NU
CLEAR POWER which means
power so abundant and so cheap
that when it becomes available
there will be no economic limits
on its use.
When will it be available?
The only answer that can pres
ently be given is SOMETIME IN
THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.
But the scientists think they are
knocking on the door behind
which the secret dwells.
IITHENCE will come this power?
From fission and fusion.
In fission (as in the case of
uranium) the atom splits apart.
In fusion (as in the case of hy
drogen) the atoms go together.
In both cases, they release
energy.
In both cases, when the split
apart atoms and the fused atoms
are weighed the fragments weigh
less after the fission and the
fusion than they did before. The
loss in weight is represented by
the ENERGY that has been re
leased. OF THE two, the hydrogen
atom is the more promising
because it is more . abundant.
The hydrogen atom that does
the business is deuterium. Deu
terium (heavy water) comes from
the sea. Most of the hydrogen in
sea water is of the ordinary type
but one hydrogen atom in every
6000 is deuterium.
This means that there is as
much energy in one gallon of sea
water (when we learn how to
release it) as in 100 gallons of
gasoline.
TTOW can we release this
" energy?
HEAT is the answer.
TREMENDOUS temperatures
will be required.
"DRITISH scientists admit that
with new -type apparatus
they have recently created tem
peratures in excess of five mil
lion centigrade 100 times hotter
than the surface of the sun,
which is 6,000 degrees centi
grade. The ultimate goal to make nu
clear power workable, the Brit
ish scientists say, is 100 million
degrees centigrade, which would
be as hot as the sun at its center.
(Perhaps we should pause
to explain what "centigrade" is.
A centigrade thermometer is a
thermometer on which the in
terval between the freezing point
and the boiling point of water
is divided into 100 parts or de
grees so that zero centigrade
corresponds to 32 degrees Fahr
enheit.) THE problem, to put it simply,
is to TAME THE POWER OF
Se we conclude today's survey with the final item
from our newspaper reading none other than the
lead editorial in last Sunday's Mail Tribune entitled
"Go After the Fog."
We may have written better editorials and cer
tainly worse ones but never have we written one be
fore that was so immediately and completely effec
tive. It was written during one of the thickest fogs in
this "Italy of America's" climatic history.
But the moment that issue came off the press Sun
day the fog lifted and as this is written the skies are
clear, the sun is shining brightly and promises to con
tinue. CO not only is "the power of the press" again dem
onstrated, but that old wheeze about a great deal
of talk concerning the weather but little done about
it, is given its "k.o."
If by chance it should be "pea soup" as this is
being READ, don't get impatient we will write an
other "Go after the Fog" and just watch the Weather
Man hustle ! R.W.R. -
'
JENKINS
THE HYDROGEN BOMB so that
it can be used as the servant of
man. .
British scientists are definite
ly in this picture. British sci
entists are GOOD. We mustn't
forget that it was the British
who discovered radar. We mere
ly took it over and developed
it. While we're at it, we might
as well remember that it was a
Scotsman who discovered the
principles of putting STEAM
POWER to work.
Our job is to work with the
British, telling them all we know
and in turn learning from them
all they know.
In that way lies progress.
In the direction of SECRECY
lies stagnation.
TN CONCLUSION
A Imagine the future of a world
with LIMITLESS cheap power
at its command. In such a world
there can be no depressions.
Out of evil, good often comes.
Even out of the envisioned hor
rors of the atom bomb and the
more horrible hydrogen bomb
great good to mankind may
spring.
Picture on Oregon
Shown at Meeting
Southern Oregon motel and
hotel operators, state travel offi
cials and press, radio, television
and chamber of commerce repre
sentatives were guests at a ' din
ner party Monday at Mon Desir
near Central Point. Hosts were
Mrs. Julie Tummers and Mr.
and Mrs. Roland Pacey, owners
and operators of Mon Desir.
The Thurstons, professional
dancing couple, arranged the
program which featured Lou
Thurston and Kathy Classick in
a "Sunday Afternoon" dance nov
elty, a Hungarian dance by
Kathy Classick,- tap dance by
Lou Thurston and "Manhattan"
with Janice Main, Crista Baker
and Allan Doan. The final num
ber was a waltz by Mr. and Mrs.
Thurston.
Following the dinner, Carl W.
Jordan, director of the travel
information division of the state
highway department, Salem, pre
sented a motion picture film in
color, "You'll Remember Ore
gon." Dennis Clark, an official
of the travel division from Sa
lem, assisted.
Mon Desir Dining Inn, recent
ly recognized by Life magazine,
occupies the mansion built in
1910 by Mr. and Mrs. A. Conro
Fiero of Chicago. Included
among the distinguished visitors
at this home in the early days
was the U. S. ambassador to
Spain, Stan Griffis. Mrs. Fiero,
who lives in Medford, achieved
fame on the New York stage
under David Belasco before be
coming the bride of the wealthy
Chicago businessman, A. Conro
Fiero.
Nuclear Weapons Base Ban May
Be Basis for New Negotiations
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
A Soviet Russian proposal to
ban nuclear weapons bases in
central Europe may lead to new
negotiations to
ease the cold
war. Premier
Nikolai A. Bul
ganin made
the proposal in
the series of
"peace and co
existence" let
ters he sent
;JL I last week to
Charles McCann week to west
ern allied governments and to
all other countries which belong
to the United Nations.
Bulganin said that if the Unit
ed States would give up the idea
of establishing the bases in West
Germany, Russia would not set
up similar bases in East Ger
many, Poland and Czechoslo
vakia. The United States believes that
it is essential to establish inter
mediate range ballistic missile
Matter of Fact
THE HAUNTED CONFERENCE
Paris Even this great confer
ence which is suppose to reassert
the unity and power of the West
is not going to
be allowed to
forget about
the desperate
ly dangerous
issue of Israel
versus the
Arabs plus the
Soviets.
The Turkish
delegation has
Joseph Aisoo come to the
NATO meeting with the inten
tion of asking the United States
and the other western powers to
support a move to force Israel
back to the frontiers laid down
in the U.N. partition of Palestine
in 1947. This amounts to a pro
posal for present Israel rather
more severe than the amputation
of Czechoslovakia at Munich.
In this manner, a chain of
events set in motion by the
Kremlin has menacingly reached
into the midst of the graniose
NATO meeting. The problems of
the Middle Ea"st may end by be
ing shoved under the rug at this
particular gathering. The Ameri
can delegation is shoving hard.
But the simple fact of the Turk-
isn intention indicates a new
tempo and a new explosiveness
in the whole world situation.
TEHIND the Turkish decision.
thereis a coplex and remark-'
able history, which may be re
constructed as follows. Not long
ago, the Soviets indicated to the
Arabs, almost certainly through
the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo,
that the Kremlin and all its
satellites were now ready to
back a move to force Israel back
to the 1947 frontiers. . In the
aftermath of their defeat in the
Israel war, which resulted in
Israel's much larger present ter
ritory, a return to the frontiers
proposed in the original U.N.
partition resolution has become
the prime Arab objective.
The Egyptian government as
tutely passed the news of this im
portant new support for the
Arabs to the Saudi Arabian gov
ernment. King Saud and his ad
visors decided to accept the
Kremlin's championship unless
the Western powers could be
persuaded to make the same of
fer as the Kremlin. For this
reason, no doubt, this reporter
was given the first news of the
Kremlin offer in King Saud's
desert capital of Riyadh not long
ago.
The explosive potentialities
of the Kremlin's maneuver were
then rather rapidly demonstrat
ed. The Saudis passed on the
news to Iraq, to the other lead
ing Arab government friendly to
the West. Emergency action was
decided upon, probably during
King Faisal of Iraq'i recent
visit to King Saud.'
HENCE the toughest and most
determined of all the pro
Western Arab leaders, Nuri Said
Pasha of Iraq, hurried off to
Washington to lay the matter
before the President and Secre
tary of State Dulles. The Ira
quis also secured a promise of
support from the Arab demands
from their fellow members of
the Baghdad Pact, the Turks;
and now the Turks have come to
Paris wanting to bring the
question up at the NATO meet
ing, i
The pro-Israel French Foreign
Minister Pineau reacted with ex
treme violence when the Turk
ish intention was disclosed by
Turkish Foreign Minister Zorlu.
The British are talking "com
promise," although a compro
mise is almost certainly impos
sible in the present Middle East
ern situation. The American aim
seems to be chiefly to avoid a
fuss at the Nato conference and
to gain time to deal with the
issue later.
But what happens to this ago
nizing issue at the NATO confer
ence is almost irrelevant, when
compared to the implications of
the sequence o events described
Sawdust
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BEDFORD FUP GO.
bases in the allied countries of
western Europe.
Principal NATO Issue
This issue is one of the prin
cipal ones at the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization conference
now meeting in Paris.
Some of the NATO countries
frankly do not want them. They
fear that they would become tar
gets for Russian nuclear missiles
if war broke out between the
United States and the Soviet
Union.
Even Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer, one of the staunchest lead
ers of the NATO allies, is hesi
tant about consenting to the
establishment of missile bases
in West Germany.
It is beginning to look now
as if the United States may be
forced into negotiations of some
kind with Russia.
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles do not believe that Bul
ganin's various "peace and co
existence" proposals of last week
were made in good faith.
By Joseph Alsop
above. The first things to note
are the speed of these events and
the insistence with which the
Arab-Israel issue is now being
pressed upon the Western pow
ers. These indicate that even if
this terrible issue is. somehow
muffled here and now in Paris,
it still cannot possibly be avoid
ed for very much longer.
rpHE issue is no longer dor-
mam, as it nas oeen tor so
many years. It has been heated
to immediate explosion point by
the Kremlin's promise of support
lor the Arabs.
In the second place, this issue
that is forcing itself upon west
ern attention involves a choice
of almost unbearable unpleasant
ness. If the Western powers do
not match the Kremlin's offer to
the Arabs, the Western nations
will almost surely lose all their
friends and all their vital posi
tions through out the Arab lands
But if the Western powers also
support a move to force Israel
back to the 1947 frontiers, this
will effectively amount to sup
porting the destruction of Israel
as a state.
In the third place, there are
also the Israelis to consider. If
they feel they are being driven
to the wall, they are highly
likely to fight. As the Soviets
know this very well, they can
hardly, have promised to help in
driving the Israelis to the wall
without making up their minds
in advance to give direct mili
tary support to the Arabs, if
need be. But if the Soviets en
ter the fighting to crush Israel,
the Eisenhower doctrine, which
Israel accepted, will presumably
come into play. And so this ugly
mess can end with a naked mili
tary confrontation of the United
States and the Soviet Union.
rriHESE are the dimensions of
the crisis that now looms
ahead in the Middle East. In a
very cureci sense, it is a com
mentary on this NATO meeting
As can be easily seen, there
are great risks in the Soviet ma
neuver that has now brought the
Turks to Paris with the slogan
"Back to the 1947 Frontiers for
Israel." In theory, at least, it
could cause a general war. The
Soviets have always had the pos
sibility . of making enormous
gains among the Arabs by prom
ising to support them against the
Israelis. They have waited so
long to do so, precisely because
it was a risky thing to do. -
Beyond doubt they are ac
cepting these risks now, because
the Kremlin is convinced that
the long neglect of the West's
defenses has made the risks
more theoretical than real. And
so this meeting, intended to
show the West's strength, is in
fact haunted by the prospect of
a gigantic Middle Eastern catas
trophe resulting from the West's
weakness.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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They are mindful of Russia's
persistent refusal to enter in
good faith into any proposals
on the banning of nuclear weap
ons, en disarmament, on the re
unification of Germany over a
long period.
Aimed at NATO Sabotage
In addition, Bulganin's letters
were too obviously aimed at
sabotaging the NATO meeting in
Paris.
But pressure for some kind
almost any kind of negotiations
to ease the strain of the cold
war, and especially to diminish
the threat of a calamitous nu
clear war, are becoming almost
irresistible.
Eisenhower, in his speech open
ing the NATO conference yester
day, spoke largely in generali
ties. He spoke of the need for
"re-dedication" and "self-sacri
fice" and emphasized the com
bined power of the 15 NATO
allies.
But at the first business meet
ing which followed, Adenauer
really got down to business.
Adenauer called on Eisen
hower and other NATO leaders
to open the way for cold war
talks with Russia. He suggested
that a start be made through
normal diplomatic channels. The
idea would be to find out just
what Bulganin meant in his
letters.
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Race With The S.P.
To the Editor: Your featur
article about the early days of
the Southern Pacific railroad
across the Siskiyous reminds m
of an incident.
The roads back in 1915 were
not the paved streets they are to
day. The one over the Siskiyou
was no exception, but with our
Model T we could skim over
them with ease.
It was after a heavy wind
storm in northern California,
which toppled some of the big
trees across our path, that we
passed all other car on the road
by "boosting" our flivver around
the road block.
When we reached the moun
tains the S.P. passenger train, all
Pullmans with two Mallet type
engines, was negotiating the
climb out of Dunsmuir. We de--cided
to race the train over the
pass.
There must have been at least
three crossings because only
once were we ahead of the train
enabling us to beat the engines.
At the last turn in the road the
"divide" was in sight and so
was the train winding around
below us and moving at a snail's
pace.
But our flivver was nearly ex
hausted, the radiator was boil
ing and steam from the cap show
ed we were in need of water as
well as gas. The little gas we had
pitched at such an angle in the
tank that the engine stalled be
cause of the lack of fuel.
It looked as if the train would
win the race. But a bright idea
occurred. Why not back lizzie
over the pass? It worked, and we
won the race gliding down .the
grade three lengths ahead of the
train now making good time into
Ashland.
Sid Hollingsworth,
Camp White, Ore.
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