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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1947 (Monday)
" A total of 170 buildings placed
on sale at Camp White by the
war assets administration; in
cluded are storehouses, mess
halls, guard shelters and towers,
administration and recreation
buildings,- latrines, sheds and
miscellaneous structures.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The tax
muddle in Oregon indicates what
the state needs is candidates for
the legislature who will put up
bonds they will not serve if
elected."
20 YEARS AGO
De. 23, 1937 (Wednesday)
O Work starts on tearing down
the residence bordered by South
O Riverside ave., 13th st. and South
Central ave. for Piggy Wiggly
supermarket.
"Old Saint Nick" is busy pre
paring for his annual visit for
children at the Salvation Army
Thursday.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1927 (Friday)
About 500 children attend an
nual Christmas tree program at
California Oregon Power com
pany. Dairy problems discussed by
experts from Oregon State col
lege at a meeting at Ashland city
hall of dairy farmers from Ash
land and nearby districts.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1917 (Monday)
About 1300 recruits added to
local Red Cross membership as
a result of recent drive in Ash
land and vicinity.
From local and personal
O column: "An Army sergeant was
taken off a train here while en
route to his home for Christmas
furlough after he became sick
with measles, according to local
medical authorities."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or 4)gnt is exceUent; five or
six is good.
. The Dneiper river is in Bul
garia, Rumania, Soviet Russia or
(Poland
X 1IBLE: Who labored 14
yearf to marry a woman of his
choice
8. Th name for a shrimplike
Csenfoodls p n?
4. ,t the close of World War
3, Alsace-Lorraine were returned
to wfct country?
R. In what Chinese province
Is the city of Harbin?
. Where did the Wright
brothers makt their first air
plan test flights?
7. What is the national flower
of England?
.8. Correct the following: "He
hadn't but one suit of clothes."
9. Wht is a "Soap Box
Derby?"
10. Was William H. Steward
Secretary of State under Jack
son, Lincoln or McKinley.
Answers: 1. Soviet Russia. 2.
Jacob. 3. Prawn. 4. France. 5.
Manchuria. 6. Kitiyhawk, N.C.
7. The rose. 8. "He had but one
suit of clothes." 9. A race of
home-built vehicles by teen-age
boys and girls. 10. Lincoln. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
No Cause for Gloom
The year 1957, somehow or other, seems to be
drawing to a close almost before it got started. Do
years always seem to go faster than the years before?
"Time," a respected editorialist reminds us, "is
neutral, indifferent to man's employment of it."
So, w7hen we attempt to characterize a year as
"good" or "bad," what we're really doing is describ
ing whether mankind made good or bad use of the
neutral and indifferent year.
QN THIS basis, 1957 hardly merits a "good" rating.
The quarrels of nations continued and got
more acrimonious. Advantage in the cold war shifted
to the Communist bloc of nations, largely because of
the giant strides made by Russian scientists in the race
for space.
The President's illness cast a pall of gloom over
the nation, not entirely dispelled by his apparently
quick recovery.
The booming economy began showing some thin
spots. Unemployment climbed, and the panicky stock
market reflected men's uncertainties.
The failure of America's much -touted "Van
guard" missile was a blow to our prestige, and caused
such a flurry of denials, accusations, claims, counter
claims and just plain, stupid comments that one wond
ers if anyone knows what's going on, or why, and is
inclined sometimes to doubt America's essential good
health and stability.
LOSER to home, the picture was somewhat better.
But here, too, there were gloomy spots.
The lumber market limped along all year, with
prices far below those of recent levels. Several small
mills closed, some of them permanently, others for
varying periods of time. The ranks of those without
jobs climbed.
But as the end of the year neared, there were a
number of more cheering developments.
The lumber market began showing its first signs of
stability in many months. It wasn't on the upgrade yet,
but forecasts for 1958, because of increasing building
activity nationwide, and other factors, were cautious
ly optimistic.
The orchards of the valley produced an excellent
crop. Not a record-breaker, exactly, but a good one,
and prices were satisfactory to good this year.
The gift pack, now nearing its end, is probably
the best in history. One major packer so described it,
and others confirmed that their chief difficulty was in
supplying the demand.
IN NOVEMBER, for the second straight month, the
sale of U.S. savings bonds in Jackson county ex
ceeded the total for the same month the preceding
year a sure sign that economic conditions are better
than lots of people think them to be. This was near the
end of a year where each other month was down.
The voters of the Medford school district express
ed their confidence in the future by overwhelmingly
approving a big bond issue for construction of new
school facilities.
The United Medford Crusade, for the fifth straight
year, exceeded its quota, and collected more than
$123,000 for the support of those agencies and organi
zations which do so much to maintain the morale and
health of a community.
After a slow start, hampered by heavy fog, Christ
mas shopping in Medford took a sharp upturn, glad
dening the hearts of merchants who otherwise had
come through a year less good in many respects than
the preceding two or three.
ND what of the future?
No one can predict
an optimist can see signs that good things lie ahead.
Irrigation water shortage problems in the three
principal irrigation districts are nearing an end, as
progress on their rehabilitation work, and on the Tal
ent project, proceed.
Valley folk are closer than ever before to agree
ment on the necessity and practicability of an over-all
development plan for the valley's water resources.
There is hope that stumpage prices will fall, and
the lumber market will pick up, enabling mills again
to make a decent profit and employ more people.
Better transportation is in prospect, with the con
tinuing improvement of Highway 99, and the proba
bility that improvement of the trans-Cascade, Lake of
the Woods road, will begin soon.
We see no cause for gloom about our future. E.A.
Bus Company Fails
Another experiment in mass transportation is fail
ing, we are sorry to note. Up in Roseburg, a bus com
pany has notified the city council it is going out of
business after only a few months of operation.
The company was organized this year to take the
place of an earlier firm, that also failed. The new one
made use of low-cost, low-maintenance Volkswagen
buses. But even with these, patronage was not heavy
enough to break even.
With growing congestion in downtown areas, tran
sit systems are a partial solution but only if people
will patronize them. E.A.
BLM May Withdraw
Portland (IB A proposed
withdrawal of 80 acres of pub
lic land in Oregon Grazing Dis
trict No. 5 in Crook county for
use by the Bureau of Land Man
agement as a source, of cinders
for road material was announc
ed today by Virgil T. Heath,
Oregon State Supervisor for the
bureau at Portland.
The land is located about sev-
! en miles west of Prineville and
is being used for grazing live
Monday, December 23, 1937
it with any accuracy, but
Land for Cinder Use
stock. The withdrawal, if effect
ed, will bar all appropriations
of the land under the public
land laws except mineral leases
and grazing.
For a period of 30 days after
pubication. of the notice of pro
posed withdrawal in the Fed
eral register, expected shortly
any interested persons may file
comments for or against the
proposed withdrawal with the
Portland office.
I 'I'M ORDEPIN'A B4LE OF HAV.
Matter of Fact
THE ICBM THAT ISN'T
Washington When is an ICBM
not an ICBM? The conumdrum
is prompted by the proud
Air iorce an
no u n c ement
that the Atlas
inter- conti
nental missile
had been suc
cessfully fired.
The firing was
certainly a no
table achieve
ment. There
stewait Aisop should be no
mistake about that Sending a
thing weighing a hundred tons,
twenty feet higher than Cleo
patra's Needle, and stuffed with
incredibly complex equipment,
through space for five hundred
miles or so, is nothing to sneeze
at. Since serious work on Atlas
started only in 1954, the Air
Force and the Convair company
which is the prime contractor
for the "beast," (as it is known
among those who work on it)
can no d.oubt take a bow.
Yet the question remains, when
is an ICBM not an ICBM? And
the answer is that the Atlas mis
sile test-fired last week is not an
ICBM. It has about the same
relationship to an operational
ICBM as a five-year-old old boy
has to a full grown man. And it
is important to understand this,
lest the Atlas firing is used to
lull the country back into the
slothful sleep which it was en
joying before the Sputniks so
rudely awakened it.
The "beast" that was fired last
Wednesday is, in the words of
one who knows, "just a helluva
big rocket." A true ICBM is a
lot more than a "helluva big
rocket." To be sure, the initial
stage of an ICBM is just
that. But getting the "helluva big
rocket" into space is only the
first, and in some ways the easi
est part of the job of creating
a true ICBM.
CONSIDER what the Air Force
and the Atlas people still have
left to do. First, they must marry
the second stage missile to the
"helluva big rocket," and what
is more difficult, they must ar
range for an amicable divorce
between the two. The divorce
must take place hundreds of
miles in space, at a speed totally
unimagineable to the finite hu
man mind. The divorce must be
so smooth and friendly that the
second stage will continue on
its predetermined course without
being deflected so much as a
hair's breadth from its predes
tined target.
The nose-cone of the second
missile, must then swoop down
from space through the atmos
phere towards its target, like a
meteor. But unlike most meteors,
it must not be burnt up on the
way by the friction of the air,
which covers our earth like a
protective blanket.
The problem of getting the
warhead in the nose-cone down
to earth without burning up is
the problem of "atmospheric re
entry," of which the President
talked in his "chins up" speech
on November 7th. The President
was conned the word is not too
harsh into claiming in that
speech that "our scientists and
engineers have solved" the re
entry problem, and into show
ing the nose-cone of a Jupiter
missile to "prove" it.
TN FACT, the problem has not I
- i i . m
really been fully solved at all,
certainly not as regards the
ICBM. The problem of re-entry
revolves entirely around the
speed at which the nose-cone re
enters. The nose-cone the Presi
dent so proudly displayed to the
television audience re-entered at
less than 10.000 miles an hour.
An intercontinental ballistic mis
sile, to achieve its vast range
of 5000 miles or more, must
travel at speeds greater than
15,000 miles an hour. It is a very
rough rule of thumb that the
problem of successful re-entry
just about doubles with every
additional thousand miles of
speed.
So that is another hurdle that
must somehow be overlept be
fore we can claim to have an
ICBM that really is an ICBM.
And perhaps the toughest of all
the hurdles ahead is truly ac
curate guidance. For the range
of destruction even of a hydro
DCNT 0U I'M
By Stewart Alsop
gen warhead is not unlimited
to be truly effective, the war
head must be brought down
within five miles of the target.
To do this, at a range of five
thousand miles, is distinctly
more difficult than, say, to hit
the exact center of home plate
with a baseball thrown from
way out in center field.
WE CANNOT be absolutely
sure that the Soviet ICBMs
already tested are wholly ac
curate, or even that their war
heads have been successfully re
entered; although we do know
that the Soviet missiles, unlike
the Atlas, are staged missiles
with an "operational configura
tion." But the available evi
dence including the astonishing
Soviet technical proficiency as
demonstrated in the Sputniks
suggest that the Soviet ICBMs
will be operational very soon,
if they are not already.
Secretary of the Air Force
James Douglas expressed a hope
which sounded more like a
slip of the tongue before the
Johnson Committee that we
should have operational ICBMs
before 1960. If Douglas' hope
comes true those closest to the
situation will be jubilantly flab
bergasted. Indeed, they are more
inclined to agree with Gen,
Curtis LeMay's doubts, also ex
pressed before the Johnson Com'
mittee, that we can ever catch
up at all. The Atlas firing last
week may be taken as evidence
that LeMay's view is very prob
ably too gloomy, if this country
has the will to roll up its sleeves
and get down to work. But the
Atlas firing was no more than
that.
Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Tribune Inc,
In ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As you may have heard, we
are supposed to be in the midst
of a business recession a kind
of catch-our-breath, get-our-sec-ond-wind
period in which people
are letting go of their money a
little less freely.
Hmmmm. Let's see.
Rose Bowl officials have just
disclosed that 3,500 . tickets of
fered in a public sale, conducted
by mail for the first time this
year, were snapped up like free
dollar bills.
Remaining ticket requests,
running into upper bracket num
bers, are being sent back to dis
appointed fans whose checks got
in too late.
JVfORE along the same line:
Forty - Niner fans who
can't get tickets for Sunday's big
play-off against Detroit will be
hitting the road Saturday. Thous
ands of Forty-Niner boosters are
expected to go to spots outside
the so-called "black-out" area to
watch the game on television.
Most of them will go to Reno
on special chartered planes and
buses. Others will journey to
Sacramento, Chico and Ukiah.
S
TILL more of the same:
It is currently reported that
the broadcast will cost the Reno
TV station $1,100 which sum
is said to have been put up by
the Reno business district.
The donors are alleged to be-
lieve that 10,000 visitors will be
attracted to the Biggest Little
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City in the World to watch the
game on television. It is estimat
ed that they will spend $100 each
over the week end.
Ten thousand times $100 totals
up to a million dollars, which is
quite a slug of new business.
THE moral seems to be that If
you offer peorjle WHAT
THEY WANT they'll buy re-
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Wilson Says Administration Is
Suppressing Important Facts
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) A fair ques
tion to President Eisenhower
right now would be: Who has a
better right to
know than the
people of the
United States
if their lives
may s o o n be
f o r f e i ted in
fiery warfare.
That is a hor
rible thought
for the Christ
mas season.
I.yle
Wilson
The question arises, however,
because of considerable evi
dence that the administration is
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Protest Against Wrecking Yard
To the Editor: Medford was
presented a Wrecking Yard for
Christmas, to last for 365 days
of 1958. Your estemed councils
men, Jones, VanSickle, Dunlevy,
Bradford and Meyers are the
ones to thank.
John Dellenback, attorney for
the citizens (with homes around
the gift) gave the council a com
plete history of this residential
area, starting early in 1952
when the adjoining property
owners had placed on county
records, restrictions reserving
their properties, (comprising
more than 100 acres) for resi
dence purposes. The area joins
the Rogue Valley Heights Sub
divisions (approximately 400
acres) at Corona Avenue, near
Highway 62. The County Court
in 1952 went on record to say
they would not approve a
wrecking yard license in this
area.
This area was annexed to the
city early in 1957 as Class I
residential, and the application
for wrecking yard was approv
ed by the council at a Novem
ber meeting, no notice of its
consideration was being given
to residents of the area. The
residents contacted Mayor Sni
der and their councilmen to
learn what had taken place, af
ter hearing a radio announce
ment reporting council action.
December 5, representative resi
dents and the attorney attend
ed the council meeting, and re
quested that the council hear
objections to the wrecking yard
in the area. The council consent
ed to hear objections at the
meeting December 19th. The
council reaffirmed their approv
al of the license application De
cember 19th. Three people at
that meeting favored the wreck
ing yard, a man, and a man and
wife. Twenty or more property
owners present objected through
their counsel, plus a petition
from the rest of the owners,
totalling over 85 residents of
the area, and 22 residents from
nearby areas.
These petitioners and resi
dents own nearly 300 acres of
land in this immediate area.
They pay taxes on their homes
as if they were in a first class
residential area. Being taxed
first class and treated as a slum
area is not very fair.
The councilmen suggested
beautifying the wrecking yard,
which was promised by the
owner since 1952, to meet the
satisfaction of residents in the
area. Do these councilmen hon
estly feel that the wrecking yard
could be beautified to satisfy
them if it had been built next
to their established homes?
Would the councilmen purchase
a home near this beautified
wrecking yard? If so, the resi
dents of this area know of many
fr sale.
Interesting to note that not
one home has been built in the
area since the wrecking yard
has been operating all were
constructed prior to that time.
Liberty vs. License????
John Benson,
Box 1175,
Medford, Ore.
cession or no recession.
TAKE it or leave it.
But '
Those of us who live in the
11 Western states shouldn't ig
nore the fact, brought out by the
census bureau, that our area is
growing TWICE AS FAST as
the rest of the country.
A fur trading post establish
ed by John Jacob Astor in 1805
at Astoria, Ore., was the first
real U. S. foothold in the Pa
cific northwest.
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suppressing . some national de
fense facts of appalling impor
tance. These facts are believed to be
contained in what is called the
Gaither report drafted by a com
mittee headed by H. Rowan Gai
ther Jr., a San Francisco attor
ney. It is a roundup on the com
parative production and strik
ing power of the United States
and the Soviet Union.
The Gaither report is top se
cret. The President has refused
to reveal its contents to the Sen
ate Preparedness subcommittee.
There has been, however, the
inevitable leak. Over the week
end, the Washington (D.C.) Post
and Times Herald printed a
copyrighted story asserting that
the Gaither report portrayed the
United States in the gravest
danger in all its history.
'Inevitable Catastrophe'
The paper said the report
foresaw inevitable catastrophe
for the United States and its
men, women and children. Ca
tastrophe is a chilling word. Its
dictionary meaning is: The final
event, usually of a calamitous
or disastrous nature. There is
something especially grim about
that phrase: The final event.
And, if the United States is,
as reported, in a period of its
gravest danger, then what great
trials and personal tragedies
does the future hold for the
American people and how soon
shall they be expected to come
to pass.
It is no reflection on the
Washington Post and Times Her
ald to report that the last satis
factory way of presenting such
complex information and ideas
to the public is through what
commonly is known as a leak.
Leaked news is unofficial. The
U.P. Correspondents
Look Ahead at Hews
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
United Press correspondents
around the world look ahead
at the news that will make the
headlines.
Inside Labor
AFL-CIO insiders report that
two or three more labor unions
may be charged with corruption
before the new year is very
old. The charges will be filed
labor sources say, after new
hearings by the Senate Rackets
committee.
Worry
Privately, American diplor
mats in London are very wor
ried about British grass-roots re
action to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization meeting in
Paris. Many Britons are asking
whether their alliance with the
United States is worth its pos
sible cost in this missile age
They fear that American mis
sile bases would draw dire Rus
sian vengeance. Left-wingers
are saying that one H-bomb
launched from East Germany
500 miles away could kill
upwards of 10 million people in
the tightly-packed London area,
Dulles Vc. Stassen ,
And by the way, Washington
reports that the results of the
Paris meeting won't reduce the
friction between Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles and
Presidential Disarmament Ad
visor Harold Stassen. Backstage
reports are that Stassen was
purposely left off the American
delegation because Dulles was
determined to put all-out emph
asis on missile bases. Stassen
bucked vainly in private for a
position combining Dulles' view
with a recommendation for new
disarmament talks. Despite Dul
les, NATO did combine missiles
and disarmament with dis
armament first.
The state of relations between
Dulles and Stassen was tinder
lined when Stassen showed up
to greet President Eisenhower
on his retura from the Paris
NATO meeting but stayed away
when Dulles, his immediate su
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reporter who obtains and writes
it usually has less than the time
desirable for study of a com
plex document.
Report Has 'Factual Flavor
More often than not, news
which leaks appears in more
extravagant terms than would
be warranted by some of the
qualifying fine print in the offi
cial document. There was a sub
stantial and factual flavor to the
leaked version of the Gaither
report, however, and the citi
zens would be warranted now
in believing the very worst of
the nation's national defense and
security posture until the situa
tion can be proven to be other
wise. The Gaither report evidently
includes statistical material, mil
itary estimates and defense data
which properly must be top se
cret in the interests of national
security. But the public which,
after all, is the proprietor of the
United States, has a right to
know the extent of its jeopardy.
The President, in his TV re
port to the nation tonight, prob
ably will proclaim new defense
spending needs accompanied by
a call for the citizens to make
sacrifices for the national de
fense. How are the voters .to pass
judgment if they do not know
the national defense score?
If the politicians who have
been running the country now
and before have put the people
in jeopardy, who has a better
right to know?
Floodwater mosquitoes of the
Mississippi river lay their eggs
on a stream bank where they
cannot hatch until floods raise
water over them. Some eggs
must wait years before the wa
ters return.
perior, flew in the following
day.
Thaw
Look for a spate of nuclear
weapons information previously
withheld from the public. Af
ter the Russians launched Sput
nik I, the Defense Department
put out non-classified informa
tion on missiles faster than it
could be digested. But the At
omic Energy commission is for
bidden by law to tell the tax
payer anything about the size,
weight, look and composition
of A bombs and H bombs. The
administration wants the law
changed to permit release of
more information.
Tito
European diplomats no long
er say that President Tito's at
tack of lumbago was diplomat
ic an excuse to keep away
from last month's Bolshevik an
niversary in Moscow. He really
is seriously ailing. His activities
have been cut to a minimum.
But fairly trustworthy reports
say that the veteran Yugoslav
leader is improving and should
be able to return to Belgrade
from his Adriatic retreat by
spring anyway.
Sports Outlook
America should win a Davis
Cup singles match from Aus
tralia for the first time in three
years in this week's play in Mel
bourne. But the huge silver tro
phy is expected to remain "Down
Under" for another year. The
Australians have shut out the
Yanks 5-0 in each of the last
two challenge rounds.
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